skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edited in an example, perhaps after you made this comment.
I really wonder why redis hasn't implemented HMINCRBY. Have run into that issue a bunch of times and the Github issue just doesn't convince me.
It seems that each largish country has plenty of natives skilled enough and willing to do physical labor. It's the safety net at the base of the workforce. Forcing them to compete on a global labor market drives down wages and creates a bunch of social problems.

There are a ton of countries we generally view as being more "progressive" than the USA (Canada! Australia!) that have much stricter immigration standards for low-skilled labor. Consequently, the wage that the bottom of the workforce gets in those places is much higher.

Now, top intellectual talent is in scarce supply around the globe and I hope the US competes for that.
Is Google's strategy to enumerate all possible messaging / social applications ? Then either stop development on them or shut them down when they don't have more than 1 million people using them within 6 months?
Shenzhen is a very different thing. It's important but not a challenger to SV. Huge startups come out of Beijing because it's the hub where the top students, founders, investors and regulators are.

If you look at Fortune's list of unicorns, 3 of the top 10 are in Beijing. As they build, they're strengthening the founder/techie/investor ecosystem in the city even further.

http://fortune.com/unicorns/
> Your browser doesn't support Hangouts Meet

> To join this meeting, install the latest version of Google Chrome.

I guess no more meetings for me then...
The release notes make some analogy about "locking your door" which is just ridiculous. This change doesn't even give the semblance of increased security. It is totally just an excuse for the author to make this politically charged changelog entry.
It's ok, it just takes a few minutes to actually look at the articles and figure out what's fair.
Well said.

I'm afraid I had to edit my comment, my point wasn't clear and I was bordering on rambling. I tend to get a little lippy first thing in the morning, but I'm glad someone caught the point regardless.
Why even go to that length when you can interview on video?
That Google gets an unfair advantage compared to other companies, making it harder to start a new company able to compete with Google on Machine Learning? (Which is already impossible, because Google uses the knowledge from ReCaptcha, GMail, etc unfairly)
Why do Google keep rebranding their chat attempts? Why don't they iteratively improve what they have?
Yes. Of course, there are native born citizens who suck the system dry, too. But a sovereign nation can dispense with illegal aliens. (And should.) Then we must turn to, you know, growing the economy fast enough to support this massive welfare state for the people who are constitutionally entitled to it -- both native born and legally immigrated.

Or we could eviscerate the welfare state and be richer, freer, happier, and healthier! [1]

[1] Gratuitous Milton Friedman plug: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman...
Oh for fuck's sake.

Which is basically what I end up thinking after virtually every Google announcement regarding chat.
I set this up during the Beta and it works reasonably well. Cloud Libraries behave just as Shared Libraries do in the App. I didn't see a restriction on the number of Cloud Libraries you can setup and they show up as available libraries in your Plex App.

So I could see using the cloud server as a way to avoid eating up home server bandwidth if you do a lot of remote streaming. Particularly if your ISP has bandwidth caps. There might also be a performance benefit since cloud storage is faster than a lot of people's upstream connections to the internet.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831370.
I have a pretty large collection of media (double digit TB of ripped blurays and lossless music). I solved that by IP whitelisting access to my Plex port at the router level for my home. All friends who I share this with sign up for their own account, and once I share my library with that account I also set a rule that requires it to be whitelisted.
exactly. smartphones are entry level internet devices, it requires almost no knowledge to use. saying you "don't have one and can do everything just fine" is a humblebrag
You might want to dive into the physics of "sailing downwind faster than the wind"[0], then =)

[0] uh, just google it really
Google still didn't fix the damage they did by abandoning XMPP, and not supporting server to server encryption in Google Talk.
>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.
NoJS (posted few days ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13816429
YC is just the beneficiary of the status quo. If they disappeared one of the lesser players would just take their spot in line. But the real status quo edge, the real big deal here, is the ability to get rich without actually making any money, i.e. unprofitable growth at scale (minus profits). This is a real, real big deal, but you can't do it without access. You can turn an honest buck anywhere. Making a bundle without actually turning a profit is extraordinarily hard to do outside of Silicon Valley.
I think gchat always worked at least inside gmail.
Of course it's a problem, and one you solve by educating people, not scolding them from behind lace hankies.
Not controversial, just uninformed.

Being poor can lower your IQ. Read this http://theweek.com/articles/460396/how-being-poor-lower-iq
Exciting. I wonder if this is related to the 'instant app' tech?
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Rocket is not really using hyper. It takes one or two of its types, but implements HTTP itself. There's an ongoing discussion between all involved about it.
Why be specific to foreign nationals? Why not include the tens of millions of their own citizens the China gov't has killed?
Besides the fairly obvious jealousy permeating your comment one has to wonder: Were you physically present every time a homeless person came into the possession of a phone? No? Then how do you know what caused them to be able to afford it? It could be:

- a gift from a family member

- still the property of someone else, but they get to use it (possibly including a plan)

- a refurbished device

and so on.

It's a failure of intelligence to assume that just because someone has the use of something that they should not be able to afford that they are somehow making bad decisions.

You could easily argue that for some yuppie buying a car on credit but for a homeless person their phone pretty much is the only expensive thing they will own.
Because you would have to give your 1000 friends the Plex login to your paid Plex account, and this would likely be noticed and your account suspended.
Well, now you've got two problems.
I feel like this isn't even the first time we've gone full circle on Google's messaging products.
Yes, absolutely. And not just that, but flatly contradicted by science, history, and even a cursory understanding of current events.
Such a great idea! How did you get into YC via snapchat?!
H1B is currently randomized lottery, benefiting sweatshops cluttering the pipeline, Current administration is not eliminating it but at least from their talk its about restoring their original intent, to bring in extra-ordinary talent. Which might actually be good news for SV, depending on how it is implemented?
I work with the poor often, and I think this article is off a bit.

I work with a group of homeless shelters in my job, and my local religious congregation regularly volunteers at homeless shelters, food shelves, multiple times a month. And one thing I've found is that while many poor aren't lazy, some most certainly are. Some people don't want to work.

Here's one example. A man whom I've never met contacted me through my congregation. He said he had no money for groceries. We met him a few times and sure enough, he was unemployed and living bare minimum on welfare. So we helped this guy. I bought him groceries every week for a few months. All the while, we tried to help him get a job so that he could stand on his own feet.

But what we found is that this particular man always found excuses not to take a job. It didn't make enough money, it wasn't what I wanted to do, etc.

Eventually, we saw he was merely using our limited resources to live and eat for free.

When you're living on the charity of others (or the government), it's wrong to be picky and choosy about employment.

Bottom line: While not all poor are lazy, I'm absolutely convinced that some poor are poor because they don't want to work. Some are more comfortable living off the charity of others. And I wish this weren't the case.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831996
News app seeks to help users “balance their media diet”
> At the end of the day, we should have compassion and understand that many things that affect our situation are beyond our control, and yet not be afraid to consider honestly and objectively, the various causes of poverty.

Do you let people die on the street, no matter what got them there, or not? It's a simple question.
If people woke up to how unearned things like intelligence and circumstances of birth are, and how much they affect life outcomes, they'd be beset with guilt. Thus it's psychologically imperative that they can blame some other factor for poor people. They'll pick out one thing, and load it up with all the meaning.

What particularly disgusts me is judging people for their choice of resource allocation, for using their very freedom. If a poor person chooses to invest in a high-end phone, it's probably because they really really want it; because it will transform their lives more than can easily be appreciated on the outside. It's the same thing with a luxury meal; being poor doesn't mean you ought to live on water and gruel for the whole of your life with the aim of saving a small bundle of cash in case of illness - such a life would hardly be worth living. Flourishing demands peaks, local maxima of happiness, and to deny poor people that is almost inhuman.
I agree! Canada needs to continue giving depressed wages for the same/more work to its talented citizens and then just complain passive aggressively when they move down south.
Android isn't really more difficult to use than ios. And not 650 dollars more difficult.

This is just a rationalization to buy the more expensive version.

If you are poor, an iphone is a shitty use of your money when a Moto G4 exists.

Of course, this won't make or break a person, but if it's representative of their cost/benefit analysis in general, their spending could be a huge problem.
Witnessing the loss of squatter's rights across much of the industrialized world is one of the most shocking things I've experienced during my lifetime.
I walk through public housing on the way to subway every day, have not observed older than an iPhone 6 in the past couple years, including schoolkids.

Not a political judgement, just a data point. I don't think poor folks buying older or used iPhones is prevalent, in NYC at least.
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Having designed the new IR in Google's V8 is a very strong signal. The problem is that it's vanishingly rare to encounter someone who did that. The much more common case is companies just giving strong preference to anyone who has worked at Google, or graduated from a top 10 school. Again, these are real signals (the average skill of folks who have worked at Google or graduated from MIT is higher than the population at large). But, it's a very crude signal (there are plenty of bad ex-googlers, and great folks who went to a state school). In fact, because the vast majority of programmers don't have credentials, there are almost certainly more strong programmers without credentials than with. For that reason, we choose to specialize on directly identifying programming skill, without using credentials.

tl;dr Credentials carry signal, but recruiters at companies have gone overboard, giving that weight above all else. We push against that.
People are always diverse, culture is always adapting. The most immediate factor for change is the government.

On the longer term, other factors dictate the government, but they are still only indirectly linked to change.
Hope the quality of Video Chat is as good as Apple's FaceTime.
Guess you better make sure the people you hire can do what they claim to be able to do.
My idea would be something like this.

Use any tiny View Library like Preact Inferno, etc. and use the Flux Architecture without any other framework, you implement the store by hand or using some immutable lib and use a simple dispatcher. That way you have a maintainable code since Flux is pretty popular and no big framework.
Show HN: Magic Move animations for React
If the media were truly encrypted that would make transcoding at the server level essentially impossible. It would have to be decrypted client-side.
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Thank you for this. I was intending to write something similar in the next week or so and you've shaved off some time on that.

One comment - when the socket gets disconnected it will throw an exception and in the catch block the connect method is called again. Looks like this would cycle very quickly when no internet connection was available.
I saw the headline and honestly thought it was a satire piece.
this is a failed project - there was a lot of expectation when they initially started with Amazon Cloud Drive..with a technical limitation that they faced with Amazon Cloud Drive - they completely eliminated Amazon Cloud Drive from its storage options..I called it failed, because there is no way, I will pay loads of money to Dropbox or Google for the Terabyte of my Homelab videos.. Amazon Cloud Drive would definitely been an option - that I would consider, since they have a fixed 60$ for unlimited data..
I have no problem with them optimizing for impact. But they refuse to admit that is what they are doing. It disingenuous at the very least.

It's not "mistake" if PII is revealed in every single release. It is incompetence or they are acting in bad faith. There are dozens of other organizations that have strong records on this. wikileaks is not one of them.
I had an interesting experience with triplebyte which wasn't as objectively bad as yours, but it also makes me skeptical of the company.

First round was multiple choice questions, relatively straight-forward. Second-round was skype-call and just felt incredibly subjective. I was asked questions around building out memcached to support arbitrarily-sized values, and I got the same "smug" vibe you sensed.

The interview style was very
"Him: How would you do X?"
"me: Well that's not a simple problem, there are a lot of solutions each with tradeoffs."
"Him: Okay so name one"
"Me: So you could do X"
"Him: BUT THEN Y [GOTCHA!]"
"Me: Yes, that's one of the tradeoffs of X"

It wasn't clear to me what the heck he was even looking for. Was he hoping I'd list race-condition problems? Had he not even considered race-condition problems? Was he looking for a theoretical solution or a real-world solution? Also he kept going on random tangents ("That brings me to an interesting question, how would you shift a gigabyte of memory 1 bit?"). He seemed very concerned with efficiently bit-packing the header in this problem, which seems silly to me when we're talking about storing gigabytes.

My understanding was that triplebyte was seeking to be the SATs of engineering, however SATs do heavy validation with test-retest reliability and such, I had no particular reason to suspect triplebyte's interview was any more objective than any other company's.
I have no desire to argue with people like you.
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I think the reason people here don't have health care is we don't require and provide it, and we make it more expensive than any other country.

60 countries have universal health care. Some have a basic national requirement that all insurance companies are required to cover everyone with no exceptions, and that for the most basic health insurance they are not allowed to make a profit, but can offer supplemental plans. Some countries have a dual models of both state and private insurance providers. Some make non-elder care private and compulsory while elder care is provided by taxation. Some require co-pays, some are free. Some are centralized, some decentralized.

What is clear is that in the majority of modernized countries around the world, they figured out how to do universal healthcare a long time ago, and here we are looking like fucking country bumpkins who can't figure out how to give people a basic public service. One of our many national embarrassments.
Current changes proposed to US immigration policy would cost the country a small number of high-skilled individuals from the Middle East (a few thousand) and a large supply of agricultural workers from Latin America (~10 million). It's a small impact on the overall competitiveness of the US, hardly equivalent to the Nazi brain-drain.
One big problem is economies of scale. The U.S. has more than five times the combined population of these three countries. A similar problem affects the Nordic wundercountries. They are some of the richest and happiest countries in the world and have some of the best education systems in the world, but their small population sizes hinder their sheer economic potential. Finland's population is only 5.4 million and Sweden's is only 9.5 million, and yet they still gave birth to Colossal Order, Spotify, Supercell, Rovio among others. Imagine how many tech powerhouses would come out of the Nordic countries if they had larger populations and thus larger economies of scale. Same with Norway. For years its economy has been tied to O&G, but with the collapsing price in oil the Norwegian government is investing their oil billions into startups; in the coming years, Norway's startup scene will explode. And all with a population of 5 million. If their population was larger, I think Norway's startup scene could be so, so much bigger.
I hope this means that various usability and performance issues with Hangouts I've had improves.

That said, I'm having trouble not laughing out loud at this whole thing. It legitimately feels to me like they have no clue what they're doing and are spinning their wheels so that they have wheels to spin.
Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip!
So now they have:

* Gmail

* Google Talk

* Google Voice

* Allo

* Duo

* Hangouts Chat

* Hangouts Meet

Am I missing any products that compete with their own other products?
It's yet another sign that they have no clue about how much healthcare actually costs (likely having had employer-subsidized coverage before their cushy Congressional coverage).

I'm on the exchanges, and my family of four pays $2,001/month plus a $4k max out-of-pocket (that we're guaranteed to hit). That's about three iPhones a month.
Remember, these are the kind of people that conflate wealth with owning even a used refrigerator. Or having a used car or anything else that's a modern staple of industrial societies. It's all about the idea that poorness is a sign of sinfulness. And that the righteous are magically immune to the misfortunes of the corrupted material world. Essentially, it's a heretical belief that so many Christian Americans love to entertain even if they verbally denounce it. I really wish more Christians would denounce such heresy to the point of shunning even politicians from their congregations. Maybe then we'd see this nonsense dropped for good.
I have a Slackbot built with Node that I use every day, and I've been looking for a way to move it out of JS (for various reasons). Thanks for this!
To the arguments focused around "An iphone is a flagship smartphone", please consider the highly driven narrative of thus..."the iPhone is the only smartphone". I realise this perspective may appear delusional, but in reality we enforce immensely strong ideologies...with our silly marketing budgets... yet we are unable to relate with the precariat all that we have affected...When we elect a president like this it's, honestly, time for a thoroughly investigated reality check.
I'm pretty sure there's been research on the psychological effects of backlit screens versus paper. So the comfort level alone could be enough for "overcast" to eschew the Kindle.

It'd be different if these stupid companies would make color e-ink display readers, because then your argument would be very apt. But as it is, you're completely ignoring the technical detail of the backlit screen that modern e-readers all use.
Discussion at earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831996
Maybe I'm reading different parts of HN than you are, but I see surprisingly few "Facebook for X" startups mentioned here.
Poor people can't get a personal loan in America. Maybe in 2006, but not in 2017.

Maybe from some kind of loanshark, but no bank is going to give someone a loan, especially if they don't have the means to make the payments, to go out and buy a new MacBook.
This is already happening: California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac...

I don't know why its so uncomfortable for conservatives to admit that illegals play a role in our economy[1]. If they didn't they wouldn't be here as the market would choose against them. This is why Democrats have been fighting for amnesty programs for long time illegals, to keep this labor and the work it does here. Native borns aren't fighting to pick oranges for 12 hours a day at minimum wage, but these guys will and do.

On top of the moral argument that these people have kids here and are rooted in our culture and schools and dragging their parents off to Mexico and breaking up families is just inhumane.

Thus far Trump has not addressed any of this. He has a "jail and deport 'em at high noon" attitude that does no one any good. Disregarding the labor they do is foolish just as Trump supporting California farmers are starting to learn.

[1] The only people I know who are definitely employing illegals are a white wealthy couple with an illegal Mexican nanny. Funny how that works.
> Landing a job I don't know how to do 2/5ths of sounds awful.

Then don't be an engineer?

Seriously, an engineer's job is to invent new things that no one has done before, and tell other people how to reliably build more of them. If you start a project with a 100% clear vision of how to get to the end, then you are already behind your competition.

Not knowing how to do 40%, and not being intimidated by 95%, seems like about the right mix.
Interesting. Why?

What changed in the last 15 years to make this so?
That's exactly the point, why do that in Rust when it can be done without the need for compiling it? That's the explanation I want to hear. Having to recompile the whole app just to test changes in the template is absurd in my handbook.
Yes, only the technical elite know about the existence of "android" or "old computers" or "public libraries".
Very cool! I didn't know that chrome's debug tools were so powerful.
Allo

Duo

Chat

Meet

Voice

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Did I miss any?