skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent here. I want to clarify a few points.

The issue here isn't manufacturing jobs. The issue here is that I want to live in a stable and prosperous society. Among other things, that means ordinary men and women need to have a narrative template. A basic plan for a reasonably safe and effective strategy to live a life that's productive, materially satisfying, and allows a person to independently support oneself and one's family through their work.

If the manufacturing jobs are never coming back, I'm fine with that -- as long as we get some replacement that fulfills the same social function. The function of giving ordinary folks a job they can do that allows them to make enough money to support themselves in a comfortable middle class lifestyle.
Depends on what and who you are selling to.

For business purchases, the compliance and other risk is way too high for me to do that. You get knocked off the list if you require that.
Allo, Duo, Android Messages, Hangouts, Gtalk. Oh you have 3 Gmail's because you've been an Android YouTube and Google Apps user since 2010? Good luck with that nightmare, we'll get all your personal and business contacts all jumbled together!
It'll go brown again by June. It's not called The Golden State because there was gold, it's because of the characteristically gold color of the hills in the summer.

https://www.google.com/search?q=california+hills+summer&tbm=...
>Generics would be really nice for generic data structures (heaps, trees, etc), but code generation is ok at that.

Either code generation is an implementation detail of generics, or this is an afterthought that adds incidental complexity and was almost assuredly better off being a core language feature.

>I think it's hard to quantify the massive benefit Go's simplicity is to onboarding developers

This is really only applicable to small applications using new languages where the main cognitive onboarding is learning a new language/paradigm. As soon as you reach a certain size of application, the frameworks, architecture and domain knowledge heavily outweigh the cost of learning even the most esoteric of language features.

>Any language features which increase cognitive overhead had better offer some extremely compelling benefits to outweigh an increased learning curve

I wonder what kind of language feature you're talking about? The whole idea of generics in a more functional oriented language is to reduce cognitive overhead. The beauty of parametricity is it takes things away from the developer to help them reason about the code!

Our (very large) team of engineers use this to great affect throughout our codebases. There is no such thing as a silver bullet, but this comes as close as I've seen in the 12 years I've been an engineer (from startups to a Fortune 10 company).
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This has got me thinking...

If the same GTalk was available on mobile, would I have installed WhatsApp?
Remember the first law of Google services: if it's not useful to sell you better to advertisers it's not useful.
So, what you don't get is why using an open chat protocol didn't turn into market leadership? Or...
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Ask HN: How do you keep up with local tech news?
I'm interested in tech news in big cities (New York, Chicago, Bay Area) but the noise/signal ratio always seems off on sites like Built In [...] or .streetwise.co. The focus is on who got funded and off of actual technical events. Are there better sources?
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Whatever mysterious force wipes all trace of Amazon from the earth might help Netflix find someone to run some servers.
I use one and while the text is pretty clear, it's not as good as a Retina-type display. The pixels are visible.

This matters mostly with tiny type. The difference there is astounding.
>I wonder if we can find medium-based influences on other scripts, say, Roman and Arabic.

Interesting question. Cuneiform may be one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script

Excerpt from above page:

Cuneiform script (/kjuːˈniːᵻfɔːrm/ kew-nee-i-form or /ˈkjuːnᵻfɔːrm/ kew-ni-form), one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians.[1] It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped".[2]

I remember reading about it in Social Studies in school :) - along with the Indus Valley civilization and maybe one or two others.
I feel this is a problem the government created so the government could come up with never ending "solutions".

The issue needs to be defined better. The point of health insurance is to prevent me from going bankrupt due to a catastrophic illness.

Instead of socialized health care we needed insurance reform and for the collusion between health providers and health insurers to end.

No other industry allows this sort of collusion to occur. My doctor and my insurance company should not be talking to each other.
I can understand that, but a lot of the difference to me seem like they make moving code over harder without providing any benefit. For me that makes it substantially less likely that I'll use it, but that's fine.
Google Wave was supposed to replace email.

But actually they replaced email with gmail. Now you can't send email from your own server because it will be blacklisted on gmail by default and noone on gmail will receive these emails. So you have to use "cloud email providers". On Android they changed "Email" client to "Gmail" client.
"If it’s not Paxos, it’s probably wrong."

Is Bitcoin Paxos?
Very true! Although I think op meant it tongue in cheek. The joke being that the old version could just as well have run on phones, had they tailored the app for it, instead.

In fact, that's precisely what they did. The old talk app for android worked fine, even before they terminated federation.
At this point I have no idea which Google chat client is which. A few years ago I remember having Google Talk on my android phone. Then after some random update the application disappeared from my phone and was replaced with hangouts. Now is Google Talk the same as GChat? Was Hangouts anything more than just a new branding for Google Talk? I have no idea. And what's up with this Google Allo thing? Again, it seems like Google seriously dropped the ball with branding and communicating wtf was going on. Most of my messages has moved over to FB Messenger or Whatsapp/Wechat and Google only has itself to blame for that.
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> Imagine if they thought like that about email?

Exactly :) I updated my comment above.
Not GP, but it's been publicly available long before that.
Without context, "attr_accessor" to me appears closer in meaning to what it actually means in Ruby. Maybe it's meaning in Crystal is sufficiently different to make "property" make more sense. In Ruby, after all, it literally creates accessor methods, it does not create a property.
Yup, A few people are successful in building organisations from the following.
Here's a comment by Patrick Dussud on an old blog entry explaining the LISP origins of the GC:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrick_dussud/2006/11/21/h...

I thought I knew a thing or two about .NET, having used it since beta days, I had no idea LISP was used to bootstrap the original GC code. Fascinating stuff.

I've archived it here just in case:

http://archive.is/1qk25

Patrick is also interviewed on Channel9 and he talks about the GC. Not watched it yet:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Patrick-Dussud-Ga...
This article only really addresses primary care, what about major surgery, emergency care, disease management? That's where the majority of the cost is and how can a person be expected to be able to pay for an operation that costs double or triple their yearly income? As soon as you involve some kind of public assistance for those who can't afford care, you invite regulations and we're back to where we started.

Sure starting completely over and removing all regulations sounds nice, but big money in health will always make sure they get policies they like unless we're going to also address imbalanced political influence.
previously:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949044
Lots of government websites in Spain, for instance.
Everything has consolidated, so it's all about walling off users to increase friction between the Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Apple universes.
The writing on the wall for this has been up for a long time. Raging for something that has been so predictable is not reasonable, there has been plenty of time to plan for this contingency and act accordingly.
What do you think the end-game for Google's various extensions for e-mail are?
> Now you can't send email from your own server because it will be blacklisted on gmail by default

That's not correct. I tried sending e-mails using my own local SMTP server, and it comes to Gmail just fine. Not that it's a good idea in general.
I can see it now

Required: 3+ years experience building Angular 4 apps
You can also check out cl-test-grid[1] and its results[2]. It shows every quicklisp library tested against every (?) CL distribution.

[1] https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid
[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/cl-test-grid/library/
There is the older stuff on http://dan-ball.jp/en/ but most of everything there has been ported over to javascript
Right? The Author doesn't seem to understand that the word "fittest" is meant by fit in the environment. Not as physically fit.
Was going to say this same thing. Django has been remarkably stable since shortly before 1.0, in like 2006.
You have not provided an alternate explanation for the population crash and subsequent recovery of piscivore birds. I note that DDT perfectly explains it.

The study by Rhys Green is entirely misrepresented. He studied four species of thrush. Thrush don't eat fish, nor do they eat other birds. That literally supports what I said: DDT affected specific species of birds based on whether or not they consumed environmentally-concentrated sources of DDT.

Nor have you explained why DDT alone, rather than a less-stable alternative, must be used.

I'm sorry, but you have bought into FUD. We all do that sometimes. Today was your turn. I'm not looking forward to my next turn.
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Don't know about the original poster, but there are still a ton of crappy managed switches/APs/other embedded devices that use Java applets for configuration in operation.

In a past life, I had to keep two different browser installs, each with a different JVM version in obsolete browsers, aside from my "real" browser to deal with crap like that.
Just from 4 hours ago.
Those are probably ancient corporate tools, either made in-house or by some 3rd party that won't update to newer technology without enough of a monetary incentive.
For them its a very smart move, if its a non-core part of the business that is not generating revenue, it makes sense.

From a user perspective, it is a bad play. Just like Google Reader, there were users that relied on the software. While it may save them money, it hurts them in other ways.
I don't mean to diminish the importance of working on phones, however interoperability (at least as a third party) is also important and "not losing contacts" is pretty much at the top of the priority list.

Hangouts failed both.

Google had (no longer has, IMO) the clout to design and drive a solid, open source messaging protocol with a reference implementation, sitting in the inbox of hundreds of millions of users and on hundreds of millions of phones. Instead, they created a slow, mediocre, closed source product that didn't interact well with their own video/voice calling system and fractured their own userbase between Hangouts, Google Talk, Google Voice and now even Allo.
Throw shit on the wall and see what sticks? Isn't that what pretty much everyone is doing?
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I don't know why this isn't already a meme but it should be.
>but if it's something new what can you do apart from not return?

Not returning is what you can do.

I'm not saying it's not annoying. I'm saying lumping it with telemarketing is different. Telemarketing is annoying even when you do nothing. Whereas with these popups, if you do nothing, you will not get the popups.

The popups are not invading your space. You are going to their space.
If you care about aspect ratio, your monitor is too small. On a sufficiently large and sufficiently high-resolution monitor, the edges of the display no longer define the viewport; you just draw the windows at whatever aspect ratio you like. We have pixels to burn these days.
I guess digital signature, mostly. Signing documents without your private key leaving the computer. It's not something you can do easily cross-browser.
> If reducing emissions means harming economies and impoverishing and killing people...

It doesn't. It just means shifting employment from one class of jobs to another class of jobs. Either you have people mining coal, or you have people making renewable power. Either you have people digging for oil, or you have people building batteries for elecric cars. You can steer the private sector with subsidies and incentives just as the have for the last hundred years.

Reducing emissions does not mean reducing employment. It means shifting. If you have two possible jobs that pay equally, one with high emissions and one with lower, incentivize the lower one. A carbon tax mechanism is one way to price the cost of emissions into the job and that naturally makes the lower emission one more rewarding.

> Do you use any power generated by coal?

No. We got off of coal about a decade ago. Now it's mostly nuclear, hydro-electric, and for boost, natural gas. The power company was able to phase out coal power plants ahead of schedule becaue power consumption has been declining, everything is getting more efficient.

> Do you use a car or bus?

I walk.

> Do you eat meat?

Mostly chicken, occasionally fish. Some people eat astounding amounts of red meat and they're the ones that can move the needle the most. If they cut back by 20% that's a huge shift. If I cut back by 20% it's irrelvant.
One in angular 2, two in 1, and another that was a maaasive project in react. Team sizes varied from 3 devs to 12 or 16 (I forget which)
They are critical of the Right because they believe the Right isn't "right" enough.

>I fail to see how they are "ultra-conservative".

Well let's go through it then, from your first link:

>Yet we can’t be blind to the realities of modern politics — Washington is dominated by progressive ideology in both parties.

Following that link, we get some real beauties.

>•Progressives overwhelmingly control both major political parties in the US;

>•Progressives control the federal judiciary, along with all federal departments and agencies;

>•Major corporations, both global and domestic, are run by progressives. Their boards are progressives. Their corporate branding and messaging is progressive;

>•Wall Street is progressive;

>Of course progressivism virtually always means left progressivism. While there are right-wing progressives (neoconservatives) with grandiose ideas about government and human nature, most of them came from and will comfortably return to the Left when it suits them.

>Let’s be clear about supposed conservatives like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, & company: they're all progressives. Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are progressive.

>Every realistic, potential, or actual threat to liberty in the western world today results directly from progressives policies.

This took me all of two clicks. Let's not pretend the Mises institute is something it's not.
The ballot was a bit more nuanced than it seems. 1) Browsers already require reporting of mis-issuance directly to them. Mozilla requires a public bug list and 2) There was insufficient clarity in the ballot about "mis-issuance". Plus with crt.sh, this information is already available in one general location, which made the reporting requirement of everything seem a bit redundant.
It's going to be more than twice--Nyquist-Shannon is for 1D; 2D images would have a lower resolution on the diagonals, so you'd want a minimum of twice the frequency on the diagonals.

In an ideal world, we would also be using hexagonal grids rather than square, which gives a resolution increase for the same area and a given pixel size, and also reduces off-axis aliasing.
Shielding MAC addresses from stalkers is hard and Android fails miserably at it
Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?
Well, the GP was talking about Tamil, not Sanskrit. Tamil is one of the few Indian languages which does not have (much of a) Sanskrit influence (not sure about the languages of the North-Eastern states). Also I've read that Tamil is an extremely old language, maybe as old as Sanskrit or so / more.

Bell in Hindi is घंटी (ghanti).
Google's failure to turn Talk into a market leader has absolutely nothing to do with Talk being built on top of an open source protocol.
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Aaron, I am curious if there has been any further development on bringing back the YC radio podcast?

I think that was a brilliant podcast and it offered a lot of valuable insight to others embarking down that path.
> This still doesn't describe how Angular is objectively "better."

Of course. Because it isn’t. It’s not worse either. It’s different. It’s a completely different approach to creating web applications.

Everyone has different criteria to meet. Working without JavaScript usually isn’t one with modern web applications.
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She wasn't wrong. If the honey bees die, so do many of our crops which no longer get pollinated.
> manganese nodules

Hah! Except that was a CIA cover story used when they tried to recover a sunken Russian sub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer
It's not just that standard hasn't changed in almost twenty-five years, most of it was agreed upon in the early 1980's and it was developed by consensus among a language community of working programmers and commercial interests.
"Third-party XMPP clients will continue to work with Hangouts for 1-on-1 chats."

For me, this means it basically still exists and my user experience is the same.
One example: website which uses USB crypto tokens for digital signatures. In Kazakhstan (and, I guess, many other countries) every citizen can get digital certificate, signed by government CA and use it to sign electronic documents. It's used for many government internet services, for example. But there's no API even in modern browsers, to work with USB devices, so Java applet is one way to do it.

That said, Java applets are effectively dead, so government services now require installing and running separate program which listens at localhost for connections from browser. Honestly, it doesn't look like a big win for me, more like a big loose, from a security point. But here we go.
If only that toaster had a web browser.
> we’ve evolved Hangouts to focus on two new experiences

> Google Talk launched in 2005 as a simple chat experience

To quote Inigo Montoya, 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'

> As part of our continued effort to focus Google+ around shared interests, we’re retiring two legacy Google+ features in Gmail: the ability to email Google+ profiles and the use of Google+ Circles.

Sad to see Circles die — that's what was compelling about Google+. I don't even know what it is now.
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Yes, it feels a bit like a bait and switch to me. I can understand that - I've been tempted to go down the same route myself... But the messaging around it is all over the place.

On one hand, when they explicitly state that the goal is not for Crystal to be as close to Ruby as possible, that makes me more sympathetic.

At the same time it also makes me less likely to use it anytime soon. Not out of ill will - it's an interesting project and I hope they do well - but hardly any of my Ruby code is CPU constrained, so I have little reason to switch for speed. Had they aimed as close as possible, I might have tried anyway, but every little extra difference makes it less worthwhile.

Of course that's very different for people that actually write code where speed is a major concern and that e.g. haven't been able to use Ruby for that reason.
A.I. Expert at Baidu, Andrew Ng, Resigns from Chinese Search Giant
Ubiquiti uses Java I think.
Turo is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
A makefile is just a way to group commands together conveniently (at least, that's one aspect of it). So you can just type "make run-server" or whatever you want and it's just like running a script.

It's probably not something I would do on a production server, but it wouldn't hurt either.
But they also mention that Hangouts API will stop working [1]. Which is kinda strange: if Hangouts is the new thing then why to shutdown the API?

I'm asking this more from a developer perspective: lets suppose one wants to integrate their app with google "chat / collaboration" systems (like one can integrate with Slack, Facebook, etc.). What to do?

I have feeling that Google executives are thinking something like this "lets just buy Slack and call the day".

What are you thoughts about this?

[1] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3002204/google-is-s...
Maybe it's just me, but I always avoid apps that don't integrate well with my platform. They're just not pleasant to use. I want the same look and feel, I want the same file browser, I want the same DPI scaling my desktop uses and I want the same UI standards followed, not some giant mess of whatever every individual dev decides seems nice that day.

I'm not so sure it's mitigated by the web - people may browse Facebook and a few news sites, but those aren't complex applications at all and they have very simplistic UIs that don't attempt to imitate familiar desktop controls or to show desktop concepts like files and folders.

I have far more problems with Electron app sizing than I do with proper desktop apps - see my examples above.
Depends on your definition of "with professionals". Existing outplacement services like Lee Hecht Harrison offer in-person sessions with coaches who can practice behavioral questions in a mock interview scenario.

They aren't able to do technical questions because they serve a broad audience but practicing HackerRank questions on a whiteboard or a notepad is close enough.
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The estimates are still loose on the methane situation and how that would affect the IPCC reports. Isn't it called the "methane crisis" because it's likely going to rapidly accelerate warming?
Competition is likely what doomed the Roman Republic as the fall of Rome did not happen with the barbarians at the gate. I remember that the rules stated Consulship was only suppposed to last for one year, but certain people became consul 7 times in a row, another guy 3 times, then the triumvirates formed, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, Roman soldiers were made up of warriors who had never seen Rome and didn't give an eff about the Republic or the Empire, etc.

All too often, we are taught in school the great man, big event view of history, like Alexander was some superhuman solely responsible for the creation of his empire (No one ever brings up the biggest, the Mongol Empire).
I had a roommate in college that served time for a crime. He was only able to get jobs as a short order cook or as a roofer.

But given the resources to start your own company, even if it is bootstrapped, I think you have more options today than he did back them.
When Google Talk is discontinued, folks will gravitate to the next IM message like WhatsApp, Facebook messenger or even Twitter DM.

Gmail, well there are other client to use.

Search, umm, what can we do here? DuckGoGo?