skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, an additional note to your comment - remember that the Ethereum network has been backlogged for several hours to almost a day after an ICO (Bancor, Status). Now imagine one production application running on Ethereum. Now imagine several. How would they really even work?

And some projects thought Bitcoin wouldn't scale for micropayments so they should move to Ethereum because they have solved it. Oh boy.
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One of these things is not like the other. You don't have to choose and there will be cases for both where one is the vastly superior choice. For example: I'd go with Flask for microservices but django for a CMS. I'm sure some people will argue the more apposite. The nodejs thing is so fragmented and difficult by comparison. Flask's routes are better. django's admin absolutely rocks (still). I guess these face-offs are fun but I don't find them very informative, relevant or meaningful. A weird hybrid though - now that would be cool. Or a SAP killer in django.
Nope, not being sarcastic. You're radically overestimating the range of potential pop songs (much less the range of possible good songs, which is far, far, far smaller).

Human ears & taste/preferences drastically, inherently reduce the set. It's a deck of 9 or 10 cards, not 52.
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This story says:

>The article then mentions the above claim that SGI had no relationship with Craig Wright, and also attacks Wright’s academic credibility by stating he lied about his PhD degree – stating that Charles Sturt University never provided him with any PhD. But CoinGeek and I have already verified and confirmed that the degrees all do exist.

Whereas Forbes says:

> His now-wiped LinkedIn page [..] suggested he had a PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But a statement sent to FORBES today from the university said it had never handed Wright any PhD. "Mr Wright has not been awarded a PhD from CSU," the statement read. [0]

Both of these statements can not be correct, right? Maybe he could he have gotten his PhD after the Forbes article? If so this article should make it clear that the early claims he did not have a PhD from CSU were correct but that this state of affairs has changed.

This story also says:

>CoinGeek has since received mounting evidence which in fact provide strong proofs that SGI did work closely with Craig Wright. Countless emails, records, documents, training material, reference letters, including a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement by both Chris Clarkson (formerly) of SGI, and Craig Wright. Also on hand is evidence of conference video footage of the two parties in question.

However the linked article reads:

>SGI says that “Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright.” [1]

It could well be the case that Cloudcroft was not an SGI customer and that SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft and also that Cloudcroft and SGI had communications. These are not mutually exclusive claims.

[0]: Forbes: Time To Call A Hoax? Inconsistencies On 'Probable' Bitcoin Creator's PhD And Supercomputers Revealed
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitco...

[1]: Wired: New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be a Hoaxer - https://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-susp...
Signal, Join.me, FaceTime, et cetera. I no longer accept invitations to communicate via Skype.
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For one-on-one interactions, I haven't found anything better than FaceTime on Macs.
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Pretty cool. Just a thought - maybe add an endpoint directly to the shell script? Would be cool to be able to simply `curl max.io/...` and see it
FaceTime, if you're on mac.
It's really hard to find a decent, no frills video conferencing tool. FaceTime comes the closest to this, but unfortunately it can only be used on Apple products.

I'm continually frustrated by the fact Chrome constantly breaks in Hangouts.
This is just the basic set of rules devised by Osborne (and later Adams) in the 1950s-'70s. There's a rich set of literature on facilitating co-creation workshops that builds on both practical experience and formal research, and much of which goes against the original brainstorming thesis (e.g., let people generate and score concepts individually, to avoid the "tyranny of the decibel"). Current workshops tend to have a much more structured flow than the classic model, and are designed to address the specific needs of the expected output.
Good point. Although that is another reason why investing in criptocurrencies sounds sketchy: if a currency has a stable and predictable value then it is a lousy form of investment.
Having listened to the song linked in the OP I was blown away, but then:

> I ought to note that a human being is involved in all this: the French composer Benoit Carré, who took the raw data generated by the CSL and matched it to audio from existing recordings [..] Benoit then arranged, produced, and mixed the tracks that resulted from this collaboration. Carré has also written the words.

I feel like there's a big difference between "AI creating music" and "AI as an assisstive tool for creating music".
appear.in has worked fine with me too.
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> the NHS is the government).

No it isn't. For one thing health is devolved in all four UK nations, so there is a separate NHS for Scotland, NI, Wales, and England.

And for England the Department for Health is the governmental department, and that's not NHS England. And NHS England isn't "The NHS" - the NHS in England is a bunch of clinical commissioning groups, and acute trusts, and mental health trusts, and GPs, and private providers selling service to the NHS (see eg lots of secure units, or lots of eating disorder inpatient provision).

In this story one NHS Hospital Trust (10,000 people employed by that trust, vs 1.7m by the rest of the NHS) made the decision, independently of NHS England or the Department of Health.
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zoom.us is what we use at Trello with 100+ people at times.
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Question: does Skype for Business (nee Lync) mirror these same UX changes as Skype makes them, or does it do its own thing?

Because I'm guessing this is just Microsoft further differentiating their product categories: today's Skype is for consumers (ala Facebook Messenger), so it gets "cute" features at the expense of the ability to use it for productivity; while Skype for Business continues to be about efficient collaboration and productivity (ala Slack) at the expense of "fun."

The real thing that's upsetting people, I think, is that before Skype for Business existed, Skype was for both use-cases, so a lot of people used "Skype" to get things done and were satisfied with it, and it has since evolved into a product that's not for them. The product that serves those people's needs now is Skype for Business, not Skype.
Pop evolutes. With machine learning we can create, say, every single combination of reggaeton, but every decade new styles appear. AI leveraging real creation requires AGI.
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> If an app attempts to make a change to these files, and the app is blacklisted by the feature, you’ll get a notification about the attempt

So it's allow default? That sounds useless.

We need a deny default thing. Like Little Snitch but for disk. Every time an app accesses a directory it hasn't accessed before, ask. (Skip asking when files are opened using the system "Open file" dialog for a bit less annoyance.)
Hey, this is really cool!
Hangouts has worked well for me on Chromium on Linux. We use it for meetings and while I'll admit it amazes me there's not really anything better, it does the trick. If anything, I hope Google continues to improve it.
Skype for Business (a.k.a. Lync), AFAICT, still has absolutely nothing in common whatsoever with Skype. Except for the name.
From the same wikipedia article:

> English common law before the reign of Charles II permitted a man to give his wife "moderate correction", but no "rule of thumb" (whether called by this name or not) has ever been the law in England.[2][8][d]

In other words, beating of wives was historically an acceptable practice under English Common law, notwithstanding my mistakenly using a debunked anecdote.

Thank you for "moderately correcting" me.

(edit: And to further the original point that historically English Common law allowed for wife-beating, from wikipedia:

> Prior to the mid-1800s, most legal systems viewed wife beating as a valid exercise of a husband's authority over his wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence#History)
For the open source decentralised option: the Riot.im Matrix client (disclaimer, i work on it)
Frankly I cannot wait for the bubble to burst. Some good folks - old skool geeks - will get hurt I know and I'm sorry for that. But it will be worth it, and then we can go back to the important things: Star Trek, AD&D and making actual technology not just new ways to show ads or steal personal info.
WeChat, while excellent on iOS, is also a lifesaver on the desktop given that they provide true native apps for Mac and Windows (no Electron!) Video/voice calls, file sharing, group chat, stickers, everything is there, but the performance alone makes this more usable over other chat apps today.

It seems that over the years, their PM team is more confident (capable?) in keeping a good balance between core chat usability and all the "extras", perhaps because they are not playing catch-up in the market.
Five or six Google chat offerings? There's one more now, Hangouts video chat is becoming "meet".

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14864552/google-hangouts-c...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/google-quietly-launches-me...
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The worst part is that google hangout doest seem to work well anymore, the plugin crashes, etc.
Since the pill that replicates all the benefits of exercise does not exist, you need to exercise to get the benefits of exercise. The benefits of exercise are worth the personal costs.

If and when someone does invent a crazy ass pill that replicates all the benefits of exercise without the effort, I'll gladly embrace it. The self-discipline-and-enduring-suffering part of exercise is just a means to an end, not a virtue in itself.
In our case we still use Skype. It's the only native cross platform app that offers group calls and screen share for free.

I'd gladly use Slack, but group calls and screen share is a paid add on.

Hangouts has always had terrible performance in my experience.

Facetime works nice for one to one, but a lot of people don't have Macs, and again no group calls or screen share.

I liked Fuze, but then they pivoted to enterprise paid clients only.

Bluejeans is paid only and via Facebook IIRC.

What else is there?
It's hard to come to a conclusion without knowing their actual ages. If their healthy-looking elders are all of 45, and nobody seems to be much above that, then an entirely different conclusion could be drawn.
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So it is not just us Linux users which will be hit by a horrible Skype upgrade? I run the by now ancient 4.3.0.37 (they never bothered to port Skype 5.0 an later to Linux) which they will kill off by the end of the month in a favor for their half-assed beta client which is still missing many of the features which Skype 4.3 had.
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Maybe mine is a lonely voice but I like Skype because:

1. It works. Every other video chat platform I have tried is simply unreliable and crashes.
(Skype does so but with far less frequency).

2. Facetime is more reliable, true, but it is the only one and does not allow for group chat.

(I have thrown down the gauntlet, and I realize I risk major downvoting for making such a controversial statement, but I cannot sit in silence anymore).
> figure out how to navigate Intel support

Do you have a step-by-step guide for doing that or are you just assuming that there must be some magic way?
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Not sure about you, but the call quality has gone to shit the last 2 years. At least it seems like it to me.
I've used Jitsi a few times without issue, but not sure about mobile clients.
It doesn't answer all the questions I have but I think it is rational.

> Mounting evidence suggests that the richer and more diverse the community of microbes in your gut the lower your risk of disease.

So this is the main law from science pertinent to the article. My impression is that many people are interested in this law today.

> What we didn’t know is whether a healthy stable gut microbiome could be improved in just a few days.

This is the empirical question that the experiment explores. If the article is honest, then the reader has some food for thought. Science would be better served with a better study.
I can second that zoom.us is a very good alternative ... it's not really a chat application but for multiuser confcalls or video calls it's miles ahead of the competition like gotomeetings or skype.
Very cool, can we have image import feature too :)
Under many circumstances, you can also receive a credit for taxes paid to another country, which ensures you pay max(local tax, US tax). I can't imagine French taxes are lower than the US, so...you end up paying nothing.
I believe that is just header files. Actual support comes after.
i wouldn't want to use Hangouts for a chat app, but for video conferences it works well. My employer has their Chromebox or Chromebase hardware for Hangouts in almost every meeting room.

https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/video-conferencing/
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I really liked Alone, which reminded me a lot of Survivorman. The contestants are dropped off far apart, and told to survive on their own for as long as they can, while filming themselves.

The amount of effort varied hugely. Some tapped out and left on the very first night - either due to psychological issues ("oh my GOD there's a bear") or physical ("hey let's drink some of this stagnant water and throw up all night"). Some lasted a long while, but seemed to have a very, very hard time finding enough calories day to day, and at best lived on a feast-and-famine schedule (with "feast" being maybe a whole fish.)

A few contestants did so well that their biggest problem was finding things to do to entertain themselves. One completely moved his camp and rebuilt it from scratch, built himself a boat, and made a guitar. Another one made a variant on a chess set that allowed him to play a solitaire game for amusement.

And these folks were all separated by less than ten miles.
I agree about Flash/Django. But SQLAlchemy is definitely not "better". It is more powerful, more correct, more proper, more flexible. But boy is it a fucking obtuse, verbose, difficult piece of bahoo to use. Django ORM follows Django's philosophy of pragmatism. Assume sane defaults/be opinionated. Make the easy, everyday shit easy! The hard stuff can be figured out later (or just drop to raw SQL). SQLAlchemy's philosophy is to be correct, like RDBMA academic correct and proper. Make the insanely rare and/or difficult stuff possible even if it means making the common stuff a PITA.

It's like the difference between an esoteric and powerful language like Haskell which is objectively more correct. And Python, which is "who cares purity, it lets me get shit done fast and easy."

There's also, I think, a huge divide in the way developers think/reason about problems. Cause I've never seen anyone like both ORMs. Everyone likes/tolerates one and hates the other. I'm guessing some devs "think" the way SQLAlchemy works and others "think" the way DjangoORM works.

So, I do think both ORMs have their place. Just wish SQLAlchemy's place was not in code I have to write/maintain.
There has to be a good desktop alternative or at least a good browser based alternative. Perhaps with WebRTC the best alternatives are now browser based, maybe discord or riot.im?

It is sad though that basically the only desktop based chat/voice/video communications app listed at alternativeto.net[1] is LinPhone which in theory is a drop in replacement for skype, but in practice it is not =.=

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/skype/
The author doth protest too much.

Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He could have proved it a dozen ways, and has not done so.

I neither know nor care if the rest of his resume is fabricated.
Microsoft have driven Skype into the ground.
How they can release something this childish and terrible, yet also have the "Skype for Business" brand I don't understand.

If this had been released as "Skype for Fun" or "Skype for Kids" I'd almost understand. But trying to force users into this hideous mess is very frustrating, Skype was a dependable, if bloated app. Now I fear getting messages via it, it's so horrible.

Nothing will happen though. We're all upset, but Microsoft isn't going to roll back an upgrade/decision of this magnitude.
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Do you mean a Skype call? Because you absolutely can make a phone call or FaceTime video/audio call from contacts.
They also keep breaking APIs left and right: my dedicated skype phone (DECT + Skype) keeps losing features and now I can't even call people from the mobile app that have a slightly older Skype version running.

The UI is nonsense: you can't quickly hang up and you have to click several buttons to reach a core feature, the number pad.

What good alternatives are there that also allow me to call landlines?
I also thought it was magic and scary when I started using it. Then I got to understand how it all works and it's no longer magic, just python.
Yes, full lockdown and a subscription for anything useful is the new model. Hope you like it.
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FaceTime is Mac only. Join.me seems geared towards business users and pre-arranged meetings -- I want something more like an IM client where I can see who's online and ask to video chat with them. Also, join.me doesn't seem to have a free plan (only a free trial.)

Signal actually looks great, but their Mac/PC client has been in beta since 2015 and isn't linked from the homepage -- I had to dig it up on their blog. Also, video chat has been in beta since March 2017. It's not clear if their beta non-phone client supports the beta video chat. Still, I'm digging their encryption.

I don't mean to shit over your suggestions, I really am looking for something better. But so far, nothing seems like a clear winner.
What are better alternatives in terms of call quality? Hangouts is pretty bad and WhatsApp is awful in my experience. Despite the bloat and the UI Skype is still the only good experience I had.