skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work.

"Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The projector is VGA, does anyone have a laptop with VGA? How about a dongle? Great, we can see it now. Can everyone who's remote see the screen sharing? No? OK let's restart the screen sharing program. How about now? Shit, we lost Roger again! Why is the screen 640x480? Damnit, can we just use a different laptop? E-mail the presentation to Diane, we can use her laptop. Did Roger dial back in yet??"

It's almost universally an awful UX.
Believe me, we are demanding, but it is not clear we will ever know any of that. We have been fighting for 2+ years to try to get to the bottom of a case in which 43 students were murdered, apparently by the army and the federal police, and that took an intervention by the O.A.S., pressure from the E.U. and forensic investigators from other countries in Latin America going into Mexico with the backing of their own governments. So far we are starting to get a picture, but not a clear one and none of the people implicated by journalists or international organizations has been punished so far, only those people the federal government has chosen to scapegoat. This is still great progress over the incident in 1968, where the culprits of another student massacre essentially died of old age before the government recognized fault. That's Mexico for you. Keep in mind we were a de facto party dictatorship up until 2000 and the governments after that have been exceedingly corrupt and violent. That's why I am saying that governments with a functioning rule of law shouldn't be selling spyware and arms to Mexico.

Nothing above excuses the actions of the government, and be sure that activists will try all legal avenues and all protest avenues to get to the bottom of it. But if the people doing this are even remotely well connected, we won't get them, we will get 4 construction workers who will go on tv with clear torture signs to declare they did it (that was what happened with the killing of the 43 students, among other things).
Google translate has been seriously under the radar lately. I tried it recently and was pretty blown away. Using it almost daily now.
Yup.

GlobeCorp is trying to transfer risk to startup.com. So they push these types of clauses. The reality is that startup.com can't manage that level of risk if it actually materialized (they'd fold)... so GlobeCorp really hasn't managed their risk at all.
Is this more than a markdown editor with a file explorer built in?
Obviously it is that he has no special authority on this subject.
There was a similar talk[1] at FOSDEM, where the speaker describes how, as an experiment, he replaces a full ELK stack plus other monitoring tools with PostgreSQL. He even goes as far as implementing a minimal logstash equivalent (i.e. log parsing) into the database itself.

It wasn't an "we do this at scale" talk, but I'd love to see more experiments like it.

For the impatient: Skip to 17 minutes into the video, where he describes the previous architecture and what parts are replaced with Postgres.

1. https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/postgresql_infrastruc...
It's a sink only for things more dense than the water at that depth. Even the great pacific garbage patch floats.
All conferenincing systems have a limit on the number of first-class participants (people who can listen and speak). Broadcast is a different problem and there are a ton of really good solutions when you have less than 250 speakers but many listeners.

There are no conferencing products, to my knowledge, that support more than 250 first-class participants over the internet in a reliable way.

If you have an example, I'd be very curious to play with that product.
The EU is designed entirely for internal reasons: to end the cycle of great wars between France, Germany, Russia and Britain over resources and arable land. The basic idea is that you don't need to fight over coal and steel, if you can just buy it. Protectionism, by design, leads to conflict. This could be intentional, expecting to win that conflict, but for Europe, with several adjacent powers of similar strength and modern weaponry, it was obviously not working out well.

American influence has actually been instrumental in getting the project started[1]. 'Europe' doesn't have any geopolitical or military ambitions, and as so many member states are NATO members, it tends to follow American interests in these matters.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Eur...
AMD Finds Zen in Microarchitecture (David Kanter)
As an app developer, most users also seem to think developers are to blame for issues like the App Store failing to download apps, double-billing etc, so I don't think buying though Apple makes much of a difference there.
I can agree on lighter, cooler or even smaller (in length/width) but really slimmer? As I said in another thread, what does a slimmer laptop gives you in present day.
Really cool! Inspired by this I created a quick and dirty inkscape plugin as a gist here (https://gist.github.com/om-henners/8c642c87b71daa3ea68222d40...) that drops source code matching some file extension pattern as a flowing text object on the page.
This looks brilliant. How do you guarantee a fixed SLA ? I can see from your playstore app that your work force is non predictable as it is crowd-sourced ? Can you offer huge scale with limited downloads you have ?
It did not work on my computer (Ubuntu 16.04) with Firefox and Chromium: For some reason, Firefox showed about 10% more system fonts.
confidence is a feeling. there's no other way to experience confidence than to feel it.
There was at one point a tiny number of very expensive to run networks which could reasonably be supposed to bear the small cost of putting its money where its mouth was every time they showed someone on the tv.

Your concept would in fact basically either go laughably unenforced or destroy many to many communication on the internet as we know it as there would be no large channels for distributing any information of any sort as showing anything that couldn't be shown on nickalodeon would be an unacceptable risk in a world where most communication has few viewers and earns no/little money.

Once again I am at a loss to understand what is so bad about the way things are that this seems like a good solution.
> What you appear to be arguing is that developers shouldn't be compensated for their efforts unless they write custom software for commercial organizations as contractors or employees, and that if they develop novel software no one thinks to ask for, that should just be given away free for others to profit from.

I never said that this shouldn't happen, don't attribute me words that I didn't say. I said that typically it won't, since it doesn't make any sense to the users of the software.

> They should have paid the author for the right to use the software. That would normally include the right to adapt the software for their own purposes.

You didn't reply to my question, which was: why?

> The author has the right to decide on the terms of the licence under which software is released. Any user who doesn't agree to the terms shouldn't be allowed to use the software.

No one is arguing otherwise. What I'm trying to explain is that developers following that strategy will likely find themselves with very few users. In the long term, the developer who gives the users a product that better matches the user's needs will displace the one who doesn't, that's pure market behaviour.

Paying the author for the right to be locked in a closed software ecosystem is a terrible value proposition from the point of view of the client. Note that this argument applies primarily to software like the one in the article, which tries to be a development platform, not necessarily to applications.
The iPhone.

(aka Jesus Phone, aka "they're not just going to walk in") was probably one of the biggest hyped things in recent history, and it absolutely did live up to it's claims.
I wonder where the closest Zoom PoP is to you? I've had the opposite experience, Zoom worked on connections where Hangouts was terrible.
Didn't Word Lens do it before Google Translate? I mean I was demo-ing that shit in 2010 (Google probably does it much better now).
Where was Apple hyping the iPhone before it came out? There were rumors for sure, but from what I remember, Apple was secretly plugging away during this time. (Please correct me if I am wrong)
It is actually pretty absurd. If you think guns shouldn't be in the hands of most people and guns lead to bad things happening its still ridiculous to go after people for manufacturing legal products just because most of the US wont let you ban them. The desired end astoundingly unlikely and doesn't justify the nonsensical means.

Worse the lawyers involved in such things no that all it serves to do is to suck up money from suckers to enrich the lawyers.
Show HN: Ovrtt: Most relevant political tweets
Umm, CA 101 southeastward from San Jose?
You can build a lot of apartment complexes 9 stores high on both sides of Caltrain, add more stations and trains, and here you go. You can also try building on inland hills. Look at Singapore or Haifa for an example how it can look like.
> Amazon Chime works seamlessly across your devices.

> No Linux support
Hi! A friend and I have made this website that curates most relevant political tweets and related topics every hour. For the time being we added some european countries, Canada and the US but our intent is to add more countries progressively. The web is in an early stage and we will highly appreciate if you can pass by and give it a try. Thanks!
I guess I was referring to the 6 months between unveiling and release in 2007 and the several months of speculation beforehand in 2006. It was pretty frothy, and I was amazed at what they did produce.

Edit: does hype have to be first-party? Apple is king of the rumors-as-marketing hype machine.
Completely opposite experience. Where Skype and Gotomeeting would lag, Hangouts was 99% smooth. Perhaps you've got terrible firewall?

The only problem I used to have is audio would die whenever I mess with browser plugins (disabling that WebRTC feature that leaks your internal IP for privacy, and some other Googlyeish feature).
Extremist is ... not useful. Yes he supports (not 100% even) Trump, but extremist ? Be serious.

I think the point of the article is that twitter is randomized shadowbanning (visible to 1% or so of people who explicitly look at his account actually see his posts) based on political viewpoints.
we use it at work. it hooks into meeting rooms' calendars and you just have to use the chromebox remote to select the right hangout in the agenda. no typing involved (unless you were doing an ad-hoc meeting, then you'd just type one of our names as the hangout name). It works quite well.
I feel bad because I'm smart enough to answer these questions correctly in a quiz format, but if I saw any of them in production code, I would not even think twice about it.

(the quiz questions themselves lead you on, plus I read the MIT paper on undefined behavior that was posted on here back in 2013)
reddit has some benchmarks (rumored):

http://i.imgur.com/9bXzF5B.png

https://videocardz.com/65913/how-fast-is-ryzen
I refuse to use anything that requires proprietary plugin/app. AFAIK so far the only thing that works natively in the broswer is Hangouts.
So the only way to stay anonymous is now to turn off java script (and flash) entirely. Maybe runnning arbitrary code on our computers wasn't such a bright idea to begin with.
So the latest AMD cores seem like they might be more competitive... does anyone know which AMD processors are likely to support ECC memory? My one big gripe with Intel CPUs is that they currently only support ECC memory for non-consumer chips. I run a personal ZFS cluster and am more concerned about data integrity / cost than I am about pure CPU performance.
It does slow charge, i use my external Anker Powercore Plus battery pack with it, while its not able to charge it while running because the MBP draws more Power than the Anker Battery can output it EXTENDS its battery lifetime very noticeably.
Why though? At the end of the day, both are pretty C-like.
That's a nice summary. But, does that really make it an anti-pattern?
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I'd hesitate to call anything that has a chance of giving me Stevens–Johnson syndrome "safe".

This reminds me of those commercials for medications that will help you with a runny nose, but have possible side effects of kidney, liver, and respiratory failure, depression, and death.

A big fat "no thanks!" from me.
As the guy who has owned chime.tv for well over a decade, this is a bit concerning IP-wise.
Seems crazy that loan underwriters wouldn't take the type of degree into account. Shutting off the price signal of which jobs are in demand in the market seems extremely irresponsible. Reminds me of subprime lending problems that gave way to 2008.
Then why so much hullabaloo about fake news in Facebook? They are a private company and surely they can show anything to their users?

Also I don't think you'd be as nonchalant if Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders were being banned by Twitter.
our neighbor's mother in law makes 64 per hour on the internet. she has been out of work for ten months. last month her pay-check was 13214 just working on the internet 5 hours a day... check this site... http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl
I'd be surprised if the average American alive today has ever walked a few miles in his life.
AMD are also pushing their custom fabrication. I believe all the current gaming consoles use custom AMD chips.

Although I'm sure there is little profit in that business model, but it would keep the workers busy.
SDN?
That is a slightly different thing: stable is a perfectly good choice, but one can still debate the fairness or not of being compared to C-with-language-extensions i.e. not standard C (a joke which I think you missed, in one of kibwen's replies).
Engineers on Google's self-driving car project were paid so much that they quit
my friend's ex wife gets 62 every hour at home... she's been unemployed for ten months and the previous month her pay check was 19916 just working on the internet for 3 hours a day. go here to this site... http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl
Instead of a chime, you should be hearing a cha-ching!
If you aren't worried about power consumption, you're probably better off with a Xeon class processor that's a few generations old. Still very fast and capable, if a bit hot.
Amazon EBS Enables Live Volume Modifications with Elastic Volumes
Would you have said the same thing to Martin Luther King in the 60s? Or to the abolitionists during the 19th century?
There is nothing Arabic about the numerals. The numerals are pretty much Indian. May be the west learned about them from Arab travelers but Arabs haven't contributed those.
"This means you cannot have multiple HTTPS sites hosted from the same IP address."

Is that some kind of joke?

Yes you can, unless you want to support very old browsers [0] which would defeat the whole purpose of using SSL/TLS in the first place.

Maybe have a look at Mozilla Security/Server Side TLS [1]

Also SSL certs are issued for FQDN, not IP addresses (unless the IP is public and owned but still it is considered deprecated now [2]).

[0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ieinternals/2009/12/07/unde...

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS

[2]: https://www.digicert.com/internal-names.htm
> You either do AR, or you don't.

Looks like Magic Leap are opting not to do it.
Exactly. IMO doing GPGPU is actually easier than porting code to use vectorisation, since GPU cores are quite a bit more capable (allow branching/context switches, just with a performance penalty) than the CPUs vector units (vector code AFAIK completely breaks if you try to do an early return on one unit).

I'm waiting for the day when the CPU designers learn from GPU and just give us full OpenMP kernel support, such that you can use both multicore and vectorization by just scattering the OpenMP kernel call, including branching and early returns inside the kernels. I actually think that the higher core Xeons would still be quite competitive with GPUs if that was the case, but as it stands even the Intel MICs are a pain to program effectively. Doing this all with OpenMP is IMO just not good solution, it's very hard figuring out where things goes wrong.
I'm convinced this exact scenario, bad A/V at the start of a meeting, has cost billions in lost dev time.
I'm definitely going to try this (even though unusable for us because of missing Linux support). We have currently settled on Zoom and it's okay, they do have Linux support.

One problem I have with all video conferencing solutions we've tried (same for my colleagues, all Mac or Linux users, sadly no Windows users to compare) is high CPU usage. I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and when I share my screen CPU usage skyrockets to 150-200% basically pegging the whole CPU. Without sharing my screen CPU usage is at 80-100%.

I have similar problems with certain videos on the web (e.g. Ted.com and others).

Is this something everyone else here sees as well? I always assumed they must because we see it across devices and products.
is it good enough? yes. in fact, its probably an overkill for most. i think the question of good enough wouldve been perfect for sqlite.
Wow, I'm really depressed by the comments here. Looks like the HN liberals are ready to ban any conservative views. This goes on to confirm my belief that the left hates freedom of speech.
I /really/ like Swinsain which looks quite similar, the only thing it's missing is Apple Music integration but I can't imagine any third party player will integrate with Apple Music properly. My music library is 1.3TB which is fine in iTunes until you enable Apple Music which loads a lot of metadata similar to genius etc...
I'd argue that a pattern as prone to subtly (or grossly) incorrect implementation as databases-as-work-queues is qualifies, yes.
Is it a dumb decision, or a corrupt/biased one?
Because to claim that a site isn't responsible for a user's content is fine, until the site starts editing, censoring or weighting certain points of view.

I have a lot of sympathy for the idea that a neutral service should not automatically be responsible for the content it unknowingly transfers on behalf of a small minority of its users. This principle would support common carrier status for services like post delivery or phone networks.

But I also think we have to be careful not to go too far. The potential damage caused by an online distribution network in terms of sharing material that should not be shared is many orders of magnitude greater in terms of potential reach and rate of distribution than the analogous damage caused by a postal or phone service. We shouldn't assume that a reasonable balance between responsibility and safe harbour in one context is necessarily still a good balance in a different context.

Today's big IT businesses make staggering amounts of money from their online services. Some of those services, like YouTube, include significant amounts of illegal content, and sometimes that content was part of the main attraction that got the service established in the first place. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that the operators of such services shouldn't get a complete pass on facilitating substantial amounts of illegal activity just because policing their services more effectively or at least providing enough resources to respond quickly when they are actively informed of a problem would be inconvenient or cost them money.

The same goes for disruptive businesses like Airbnb and Uber. I have nothing against the disruption itself, where someone is using innovative business models that take advantage of modern technology to compete with established big players. However, I do have something against innovative business models that offer a certain advantage over incumbents only because they don't follow the same rules as everyone else. If some of those rules are no longer fit for purpose then they should be changed or removed appropriately, but then they should be changed or removed for everyone, too.
And then... what are you suggesting we do about it?
Yes, proceeded by a bang of the gavel. Kidding, kinda.
Lightweight Invariants with Full Dependent Types [pdf]
That sounds like a problem with using SQL at all more than a problem with using it for a work queue. And really it's not even a problem with SQL, it's a problem with Python's weirdass DBAPI.

Wouldn't using a basic wrapper like Celery take care of most of that for you though?
Office Loader leverages malicious macros to deliver multiple malware
Huh, I was excited until then. Onwards....
Have you considered Zim (http://zim-wiki.org)?
It seems to check all of your points.
I'm using it heavily for all kind of notes that exceed two lines. It has some amazing plugins too (e.g. For organizing Todo items across the entire notebook).
* A protocol that leaks metadata, including some message content, at the envelope layer.
Could you elaborate more on this? I don't really understand what you mean.

He means:

EHLO your.mx.example.tld
MAIL FROM:<bob@example.tld>
MAIL TO:<alice@recipient.tld>
DATA
From: Definitely Not Bob <bob@example.tld>
To: Probably Not Alice <alice@recipient.tld>
Date: Mon, 12 June 2017 16:02:43 -0500
Subject: Super Secret EMAIL! Don't let Eve see!

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
...
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
.
QUIT

Thereby leaking at minimum the sender and recipient, as well as any intermediate hosts that relayed the email. Depending on how your MTA handles email, you can also leak subject and other metadata.
Saw your comment too late and already made my own (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13641706).

I'm wondering what your CPU usage looks like in Zoom sessions when just participating vs. when you're sharing your screen.
If two participants are in EU, the latency is awful. I don't get the impression they have multiple POPs.
Security consultants don't need to engage in sabotage to keep job security. User incompetence is adequate.
“Hindu” is even somewhat misleading, as plenty of early Indian mathematicians were Jain or Buddhist. Likewise “Arabic” is misleading, considering Islamic mathematicians working with such numerals were from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, such as Al-Khwarizmi who was Persian.

Anyway, if you’re interested in Indian mathematics, check out this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HmMzhZ8zJg (Sadly I don’t know of any other good online lectures about the subject.)
This is a pretty swell announcement.

While I think I still might do an LVM for adding capacity, the biggest change here would appear the ability to scale provisioned IOPS. While gp2 disks IOPS are primarily tied to storage capacity, which often leads to overprovisvioning for peak loads, the alternatively high cost of smaller and faster storage with PIOPS often times isn't worth it when peak loads only happen occasionally. That changes with this and I am sure this will make a lot of DBAs happy.

AWS in the last year has really impressed with giving you even more knobs to turn to get exactly what you need. While it's still not quite as flexible as GCEs custom instance sizes, the GPU and now storage elasticity sort of make up for it. While it's still pretty expensive, AWS feels more and more like I can use an API to build a custom spec'ed server instead of trying to shove my workloads into only a handful of options.
The point is not to invest in sugar or corn creation in the first place simply to have it turn into fuel or sweeteners.
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