skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would really prefer something other than a browser add-on for Hangouts' desktop experience, and, more importantly, receiving incoming calls.

This is the primary reason I don't use Hangouts for incoming calls, despite having reliability issues receiving incoming calls with Skype.

If I close the browser or the Hangouts window with the extension, there's no indicator to tell if it's still running in the background. With no visible feedback, like an icon in the system tray, it leaves me worrying whether it's still working.

From what I tested with it, it'll keep running silently without a tray icon after the browser profile is closed, but the alert for it is a desktop notification without a sound, which is problematic. This slent alert with the window closed disappears if you click anywhere into the notification pop-up except the 'Answer' option. And when you do click "Answer", it doesn't answer, it just opens the Google Hangouts app, which turns on sound and has you click "Answer" a second time..

The solution there, I suppose, is to always have the window open or minimized, taking up important real estate, but I'm a bit opinionated about my workspace and think unnecessary windows should stay closed.
It reminds me of an idea I've had kicking around. Basically, instead of the founders holding equity directly, they set up a trust that holds the non-investment positions and pays things out proportionally. The point is to basically have equity, but prevent individual exercise - if the founder wants to cash out, the only way to do so is to dump cash into the bonus pool. Important note would be to distribute the trust's assets when the company becomes fully liquid (acquisition, IPO + exercise window expired, etc).

It makes a lot of sense from a game-theoretic perspective, but I don't know what the tax implications would be. Like, I know that a very minor equity position will often give little-to-no negotiation power when the distribution of the company's riches gets decided. I'd much rather ride along on the founder's coattails. As it stands, I have to ask what sort of equity position the founders get and make sure it's the same, and run into complex issues when leaving the company, etc. Much easier for me to understand is "when the founder gets a million dollars, you get a thousand" or the like.
If it works properly, then it's no worse than having to install any other specific app like slack.
Bitcoin withdrawals at exchanges in China have been suspended since 9th February
I wouldn't underestimate the advantage that being on the West Coast provides.
Would Anfroid be a less shitty ecosystem if we stopped giving kids smartphones?
I like that you do code reviews of every commit, do you have any issues with getting people to spend time reviewing? Also, it looks like you have a very broad code base (backend, frontend, mobile, machine learning...), do all of your engineers review code for all of those areas? I've found that in small teams sometimes only one person really understands a particular section of code, which can result in poor quality code reviews. I'm interested to hear if you've experienced that, or if you've managed to work around it.

FYI, the title of https://www.opendoor.com is: "Opendoorflexible-dateno-repairopen-houseonline-processfair-inspectionfast-closinghome-readycustomer-supportfair-offertransparency | Sell your home the minute you're ready.", which looks like a mistake to me. Probably need to add another test ;)
Teams is neat. I looked back at Slack at first, but no more. Multiple teams, threaded conversations, mobile app (IPhone) works nicely as well. It's there to stay.
The flip side of that sentiment is calling fascism on anyone who thinks sanctuary cities are bullshit.

The lunacy is bipartisan.
A Game Where Character Creation Is the Whole Game
> The offer does not expire, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, subject to 30 days advanced notice.

How else do you communicate this concisely?
I can't tell from the docs - are server functions able to to modify or reject writes to refs in the realtime DB before they happen?
Opportunity makes opportunity.

As it is now, many low key opportunities have been taken and/or removed, it is now much harder than ever to break through for an enterprising person - need much more up front investment.

In the past, you could indeed go from a paperboy to a writer. Try doing it today.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/visulsign/e/2486abc38d2369e4b0aa911c21...
Religious flamewars aren't welcome on HN. We've banned this account.
>Let's face it, the West in general does a great job of overstating Islamic contributions to Chemistry, Algebra, Algorithms, Astronomy, the Scientific Method, etc.

More accurate.

Ironically enough, this born out of a very Western European point of view. While progress had slowed in the West during the Middle Ages, it was continuing on in the Byzantine Empire.

In the past, the Byzantines were not Christian enough to receive credit for their contributions by likes of Edward Gibbon, now it seems to have swung the other way and they are too Christian for contemporaries to go out of their way to praise.
How a coconut will save your life
Totally impossible (unless Congress or the States amend the Constitution to make it possible).
War is coming anyway so it's just a question of how it manifests.
Cool Datasets
even if protected by tls?
A family member bought me a gift subscription to Raw Spice Bar. My wife and I very much enjoy cooking, so this was a nice gift. We get a new set of spices every month.

But at the lowest price, it's $84 a year, only a few dollars less than Amazon Prime. There is no way I would buy that for myself. At $12 for an entire year of spices, I might do it.

I would buy a subscription to a service that lets me watch movies in my home on the same day as their theatrical release.
The PCMR hype seems justified for once.
Awesome, I'm glad to hear that. I still use the current mobile app despite my criticisms, but I'm definitely looking forward to the new one(s)!
> - not sure what that means, you have to pay for traffic from Australia/China? 1TB is only 19cent through:

$190 :) egress rates are per GB.

I wonder if there's an easy way to disable traffic coming from those regions.
> Have android phones ever had the problem of holding the phone blocking the signal

Yes. http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-responds-youre-holding-it...

> consistently failing power buttons

Define consistently? This is a complaint I haven't heard of, and having had four separate iPhones generations for both myself and my wife I've never had a button fail. https://www.google.com/search?q=htc+power+button+failure https://www.google.com/search?q=lg+power+button+failure

> or that bending issue?

Yep. https://www.cnet.com/news/oh-no-samsungs-new-phone-bends-jus...
While that may be true for other people, I have no trouble giving a purchased object a rating for its objective value (but I do excessive research on buying options beforehand). Even if the judgment is relative to other products, it can still be objective.

The rating may be inaccurate because you can only measure in full stars, but it'll still be objective and the inaccuracy is the fault of the rating system, not me.

Objective (adjective):

> (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
The State of State Teachers’ Pension Plans
http://hisham.hm/htop/
There's also Pit Row in Santa Clara. Search for terms like "DIY".
None of us was there. If she was belligerent drunk, how could she reliably remember everything that happened ? More likely story is she refused orders to calm down, assaulted CO's and got tazed before being restrained. That would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
"1GB indefinitely" is the case I think. The legacy GAE datastore allows you to store 1G of data for free over the course of a month. Datastore I/O is charged separately after free limits are exceeded. If I understand correctly the Cloud Datastore is the legacy GAE datastore with a different API (no NDB) and the free tier for both is essentially the same.
kind of like sysdig.
AppCode only runs on macOS and requires Xcode to be installed. It's no help to people who aren't running macOS.
But in that case it was not without replication (ie useless).
MicroVision's (MVIS) CEO on Q4 2016 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Since you are specifically looking at services that can be provided by a small team or 1 person, I'm going to answer with services that I pay for that are managed by one person/small team than adding some things that I would like. Hopefully, this will help you get a subscription business idea you want to offer.

Personal training - I pay a monthly fee to my coach. I would certainly pay a monthly fee for other services such as cleaning, laundry, cooking if I could afford it.

Headspace app - Mindfulness course that costs between €6 and €10. I am just trying it out for a few days as I am curious about the field of mindfulness. I could see other types of courses delivered in the same way. I am not sure of the size of the team, but I imagine it is small.

City Bike scheme - I pay about €30 euro a year to use my local city bikes. It is a public bike sharing system. They have 1000s of bike that you can take between different bike stops.

Grammarly - Excellent app that corrects everything I write in my browser and my blog posts.

Lastpass - a service that has all my passwords.

GoCar Car Sharing service - Like Zipcar. It's why I have not bought a car.

GoRails - Tutorials on different aspect of Rails

Egghead - Not paying at the moment but will probably start again soon.

Sidekiq - A ruby gem I have used on many projects. Great business model. Run by one man (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq)

Some I don't pay for but consider valuable.

Distrokid - I am urging my friend, who is creating an album, to give this a shot (https://news.distrokid.com/what-ive-been-up-to-for-the-past-...). I would use this service if I were making an album. I have been thinking of writing a book, and something that would distribute my book across all the different digital channels would be perfect for indie authors.

Some other subscriptions that I would pay for include,

Supplements such as Creatine, Protein, etc. . . Based on my macros or sport

Coffee but that is done to death already.

If I had a child, I would pay a subscription for different educational toys each month geared towards a certain topic (such as reading)
Because my first question was "What are the deviations from standard Postgres?":

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/features#differences-pg

It looks like there aren't many – you can't use SUPERUSER, and they enable extensions, options, and parameters one by one at request.
Is it still called a keel then? In dutch, keels are also about being a counter weight.
I can't tell if this is serious or satire.
A letter to my (your) future self
The problem is not with government or technology. The problem is people. There will always be bad actors in population of sufficient size. It is people who write malware just as it is people who run government. Both are equally subject to unethical behavior. You can defend yourself against other private bad actors with sufficient knowledge, but no amount of knowledge can protect you from a corrupt government.
Oh yah I feel you. I often tell people that AirBNB offerings come from a bunch of amateurs, amateur hoteliers that is.
Goodreads is down
I don't find them unfruitful. I find them quite fruitful and enjoy and learn from political discussions with others. The problem with them is that they are not scientific or technical questions, and this forum is populated by a lot of people who naturally tend to look at things from a science perspective -- that there is a correct answer, and we just need to arrive at it. A discussion is only 'fruitful' if it gets us closer to that goal.

There isn't a correct answer in humanities/politics but that doesn't stop some answers from being very bad, and some answers being better than others, or from some answers being interesting and insightful and valuable regardless of how 'correct' they are.

There's definitely a range of quality in politics discussions though and the barrier for entry to having an opinion is very, very low unlike technical discussions -- it's very easy for it to quickly sink to the lowest form of human interaction that you're describing -- Breitbart, 4chan, youtube comments, /r/politics, etc. I find HN is markedly better than that almost all of the time.

And your quote isn't even so horrible. Pointing out problems with a particular point of view if new can be enormously insightful and helpful.
They do explicitly address that - as you yourself quoted above, travelers "... should plan for this dilemma ahead of time", i.e. depending on their personal situation, before the trip they should either be prepared to comply (ensuring beforehand that no incriminating information is accessible and full compliance, if needed, won't endanger themselves or others) or be prepared to refuse and face the consequences; if they believe that they are likely to be inspected for some reasons (the vast majority of travelers are not) then this includes making plans on how to mitigate the effects of not getting across the border.
Can you please write an email to your Marketing Department and pass along a note?

Here's the text:

"While effective in your goal of creating Brand Recognition of 'Open Door' please be informed that the blitz campaign with the radio ad featuring the sound of a doorbell ringing, followed by the company name, 'Open Door,' was one of the most unabashedly Pavlovian ear-worm manipulation techniques I can recall. It almost makes 'Head On - apply directly to the forehead' look like high art. DING DONG - OPEN DOOR! DING DONG - OPEN DOOR!

Because of this tactic, I will never, ever reflect upon the brand of Open Door with anything but disgust. Yeah, you got market share, good for you. How you did it, however, makes me want to puke."

It might sound extreme, but I have a sensitive brain. That goddamn commercial was everywhere. And terrible.
Great. So now to join the Diagnostic Service in waste of precious battery life and memory, as well as polluting the view.

For crying out loud, make an ad-free, spy-free expensive edition if you're that strapped for money! Just do not make it $1000 Enterprise version.
I wish uuid-ossp was in there... Being able to generate type 4 and 5 UUIDs on the database side is extremely convenient, especially during migrations.
I could make a strong argument, however, that a government seeking to strip the ability of states (cities) to have "sanctuary status" is fascist, or at the very least not very republican.
I have found no correlation between the Goodreads score and my own perception of the book.

Again, novels and products are entirely different in that you're hopefully shopping for a product by its specs. You can't 'research' novels beforehand (unless you count as reading other novels by the same author as research) and they don't have any specs to go by.
What have the legalities been like for you to do this in Canada? As a mechanic in the USA (ASE a decade ago) I was told multiple times that repairs cannot be at a customer's residence due to both EPA regulations on fluid contamination and various local or state zoning ordinances.
Notably absent from that list is "Are we verifying we're doing a good job as interviewers?"

It doesn't matter how good the interviewer feels the candidate is, or whether a design was picked from a decision tree. All that matters is whether the candidate can do the work at actual companies.

I think people here are reacting to irrelevancies during the interview process -- questions which cannot possibly be reflective of a candidate's real-world competency. (When was the last time you shifted a gigabyte of memory? And even if you did, that's not what companies are going to employ people to do. So why ask the question? Are you sure it isn't trivia?)
So you add this header. And then something new comes up. What then?

If the same header automatically adds that meaning as well, your site can break essentially randomly, unless you keep tabs on the new stuff and adapt the site to handle them - in which case, you don't really need this header, you can just add the new stuff as it comes up.

If the header is fixed in meaning ("best practices as of 03/2017"), then what value was really gained over simply copy-pasting a list of the recommended headers as of that date?

It just seems like it's either mostly useless, or too dangerous to use.
Outside oil and crops, California assets are people, yea? Engineers.
To be clear, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has offered "always" free tiers on a lot of their services for a long time now. I assume there must be diffs here, or else this is just a PR move to remind devs that GCP has free tiers.

I do want to express my gratitude to GCP for their free tiers. It has enabled me to offer a various online tools to help some of my teacher friends. It makes it easy to just throw together an app like I normally do, but not incur the costs for these lightweight situations. The alternative is to spend my time finding ways to run and manage the stuff for free using local servers or something, which is usually more pain than the simple tools are worth.

The free tiers are also one of the reasons I tend to throw all my hobby projects at GCP instead of AWS. GCP services also tend to be easier to use than the equivalent AWS services. Mostly because GCP has a lot less to customize. That's both good and bad, but for hobby projects it comes out net-good.

AppEngine is also amazing, if your workload can fit within its limitations. Again, for me it's about reducing hassle so I can focus on tinkering with ideas and projects, which is what AppEngine lets me do.

All that good stuff said, I would _never_ recommend GCP for big projects, companies, etc. The platform is rife with instabilities, bugs, backwards incompatible changes, etc. This is from personal experience running a service at a small company, and from my friend's experience running a huge service at a large company.

EDIT: I should mention one of my biggest pain points for the way I currently use GCP (as a way to quickly prototype ideas and projects). Databases. There's no free tier on Cloud SQL. Without a free tier it's something like $10-$20/month to run a managed SQL server. So I end up doing everything with Datastore, which is their NoSQL offering. What a huge pain to munge all my data patterns to fit within the limitations of NoSQL. I really wish there was a similarly pay-as-you-go alternative but with real relational queries. Or, you know, a free tier on Cloud SQL... :)
I'd recommend safety for Python.

https://github.com/pyupio/safety
5 troubleshooting, unlimited bugs and feature requests -> https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/bugs-features/ there. We're on Stack Overflow/the firebase-talk google group/slack etc. as well for general questions of course!
It's way easier to get a tech visa for Europe of the UK. At the very least you don't have to wait around for an H1B lottery.
We'd happily change the HN title again if someone would suggest one that's accurate and neutral. I spent several minutes trying to figure out how to replace the original clickbait and clearly got it wrong.
This is awesome. I can finally really get into machine learning. I was afraid of the potential cost on aws + I can't afford a gpu. Game changer!
FreeNAS 10 RC1 released
Sydney!

To your note about people avoiding the US - I've already seen this for personal travel. I was planning on doing a bit of a holiday around the country, but now the US just leaves such a sour place in my mouth and I would much rather go elsewhere. A number of my friends have made the same decision.
Solution add a feature to warm up the screen to exactly 98 degrees to avoid detection. Learned this from sneakers.
If you want to do Unicode correctly, you shouldn't ask for the "length" of a string. The is no true definition of length. If want to know how many bytes it uses in storage, ask for that. If you want to know how wide it will be on the screen, ask for that. Do not iterate over strings character by character.
Faking it
I thought the point of the twist was simply to account for the wind higher up going faster.
On the other hand, a train ride to Fulong beach is 1hr and costs 1$, or you can hike Elephant Mountain or one of the millions of other mountains, or you can bike through the mountains, or climb at one of the hundreds of walls, or pay $.50 to get into a gym....

I've never been as fit as when I lived in Taiwan :P
Australia too. Their zero tolerance policy has caused teens to end up on sex offender lists. At least Australian sex offender lists are confidential (they can only be used for housing and some employment lookup. The US system is appalling)
Downside to Gluten-Free Diets: Diabetes Risk?
How to Waterproof Hardware
AirBnB is inferior now because those hosts aren't necessarily designing it for business travelers. They don't have the insight to accommodate that audience. Or maybe the places you are booking don't get a lot of biz travelers.

I'm specifically only hosting in destination places because when people are on vacation they are inherently happy. Not saying you are unrealistic or unhappy, but it's a different mindset and you have different needs.

So yes I agree with you - it takes a lot more effort for you to have a good, consistent experience as a business traveler because you have to spend time wading through listings.

But there's no reason why AirBnB can't solve that by creating a standard for what business travelers want - perhaps a business superhost designation. I don't think it's overblown for them to put a hurting on the hotel industry. All it takes is for them to take a decent chunk out of RevPAR and many will be done. Hotels typically have a 5 year cycle and they've been having record years. So it's definitely overblown as of now. But killing the investments in hotels is more about what happens when you steal share during the bad times. And also - what happens when there's a good AirBnB rewards program to lure business travelers and they can make it easier for them to book and be consistent as you mentioned?

The hotel industry will remain, but there will be a lot less inventory and operators may decide they don't need to fly the big brands or can't afford the fees.
This is just misinformation.

There are many jews living and working in Dubai.

It is true that Israeli passports are not allowed. But that is the point of multiple sites. Perhaps Cambodia would have been a better choice.