skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, my bad I understood you wrong. I thought you meant per-paper fees for people submitting papers. Indeed many journals still have a paywall for papers.
Prior to Microsoft at least, it was quite decent. And way ahead of everyone else in terms of actually-usable video/voice chatting, file transfers, etc. It all just worked, and it did so quickly.

Now.... holy cow. Use something else. It's dramatically worse in pretty much every single way.
I see scientists using them all the time. For example, Stephen Hawking has described the universe as being like the surface of a balloon.
The only authors who receive significant advances are those who previously wrote books that sold well, plus a few outliers who are already famous for other reasons. Most authors have to find other ways to support themselves prior to getting published (and often afterwards as well).
Why would anyone at this point go with Google's solutions for voice/video? Last time someone over at Arstechnica did a count they had 4 or 5 competing and largely incompatible solutions - they are NOT a serious player when it comes to producing, and perhaps more importantly - maintaining, a Skype replacement/alternative.
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Arguments against:

ß is a ligature, one of ss.
ﬄ is a ligature, but that doesn't mean FFL should have one too.

Just get rid of it. Switzerland did and they're managing just fine.

Capitalisation in Unicode for German locales is just a headache, and this really doesn't help.

How would one enter it on a keyboard?

Argument for:

ss is pretty much the same shape as SS, and Dutch has ĳ and Ĳ.

It's just an optional ruling, anyone can do whatever they want and as with the new orthography, they did. Prescriptive linguistics is useless anyway, especially over the past two decades in German-speaking regions.
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It depends on the hypervisor. XEN/AWS uses and older slower path for memory allocation then the modern KVM/Intel-EPT allows.

Every `malloc` under XEN (that can't be satisfied with unused memory already mapped into that processes userspace) requires a hyper call.

This VMM approach was _largely_ depreciated about 6 years ago when Intel created page table bits that let the bare metal OS give the VM a _range_ of memory it can virtually re-map, but AWS hasn't adopted this.
For video chat, sure.

I think video chat itself is a bit over-rated, though; for most use-cases, a combination of frequent audio chat and less-frequent face-to-face conversation works just as well, and audio chat is a very-well-solved problem at the enterprise level (that solution being: set up a PBX server local to your central office; create a conference-call room in it. Bonus: make your employees SIP accounts; get them all to install soft-phone apps; now the conference line is "local" to all of them, so jitter is zero and everyone will hear everyone else in high-bitrate digital fidelity.)

Because that "solution" exists for N:M conversations, N:M video-streaming infrastructure just doesn't get very heavily invested in by any major parties. Instead, what you do see is heavy investment in 1:N video-streaming, ala Livestream/Twitch. If only one person needs to be visible at a time, and everyone else can survive with existing in a text chat-box adjacent to the video stream, you can do fine as well.

But, like you said, for N:M streaming with "conference call" semantics, Skype is one of the only good solutions.
Wweereee
I didn't downvote, but /dev/urandom isn't a particularly large bottleneck for any recent machine. I've got a 4 generation old I5 (3570) dd of /dev/urandom gets 300MB/sec for me. SATA is only capable of twice that, so it's not a particularly large bottleneck.

I do wonder what machine you used that's 20 times slower than a 4 generation old i5.
Check out bill.com, I know several people happily using it for client billing (including for recurring payments).
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Well you'd test, which would catch that scenario. Assuming you're not testing and discover it after releasing to production you'd just use your change process.

Either way this is just part of building a system. Refector, re-test and release (or re-release). It's hardly going to be the only bug you find.
Maybe.

I think the LAMP Stack might be considered more of a workhorse than a racehorse though and I'm not sure we need a successor to the LAMP Stack.

I don't have a good acronym for my new "Stack" but it's basically a web server (I still use Apache's), CouchDB/PouchDB, BootStrap, and Javascript (I still use JQuery along with other libraries as needed).

That's an easy to learn and highly productive toolset for a lot of what needs to be done building web sites and web apps but there are a ton of other good choices out there as well.
As a german, I see this as a step in the wrong direction.

The sharp S is a PITA to begin with, so I'd rather abolish it completely.

Now there's a whole bunch of complications coming from this - how do I type this? To type lowercase "ß", I press the key above "p" (in the same position as with qwerty) and "ü" (to the right of it), which will do "?" when pressed together with shift. So do we move "?" somewhere else?

QWERTZ is already bad for e.g. programming with all its punctuation (typing "]" means holding altgr and pressing 9), so that would make it even worse.

Personally I'd rather use composing since that would mean I could continue ignoring "ß" like I already do (I use "ss" instead), only now I'll ignore both forms.

Note also that a capital "ß" is barely useful to begin with - no word begins with it, so the only reason to use it is to write a word in ALL CAPS.
> If you've dealt with the DMV in the US, imagine that for everything. You can't just walk into a bank and open an account

I know the DMV is the ultimate symbol, to a lot of Americans, of the ultimate administrative clutter. But trust me, if any 'public services' of France could run with just half the throughput and efficiency of the DMV, people would be more than happy with that :P

-> For the ultimate kafkaesque experience, just try get a car registration outside of Paris intra-murros, say, Neuf-Trois. You'll discover an alternative universe and might realize that hey, the DMV is awesome!
I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any evidence of these fees.

Coinbase charges a 1.49% fee when transferring to/from my Bank changing between USD and BTC.

GDAX, which is owned by Coinbase, does not appear to charge me this fee.

I don't see evidence of the Shift card charging it either.
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There's realistically no limit to what a country can require if an international company wants to do business within their borders. Surely, Saudi Arabia could make that requirement, and then Google would need to decide whether or not it wanted to comply, or stop doing business in Saudi Arabia.

Presumably, in your example they would likely pull out of Saudi Arabia, given the scope of the impact on everyone else versus their income from Saudi Arabia. In this case, Canada has ordered one search result, so Google obviously is going to comply rather than losing the Canadian market (and it's three offices there).

Countries have no inherent requirement to make it easy for international businesses to operate, and I don't feel they should. They should be looking out for their citizens first and foremost, and that's exactly what Canada did here.
This is a different division of the company.

I'll let them know.
Yep, fuck that guy right? I can't believe he'd even try at all!
I really like the concept, and have strongly considered such a service.

The problem is actually email. I no longer trust it as a secure and private facility.

I've thought of maintaining a local-only email archive as an alternative, which kind of works.

Alternatively, if you were willing to support PGP, and not include metadata in the subject line, that would be an option.

Other than that, I think the idea and service are excellent, and thank you for it, it's just not for me :(
> In other words, beating of wives was historically an acceptable practice under English Common law

You're assuming "moderate correction" means wife beating. In fact, if you look at the source Wikipedia cites for that phrase, it says:

>Such corrections specifically excluded beatings in favor of temporarily confining the wife to the household (like making a child sit in the corner). In fact, no British law, Common or Parliamentary, ever permitted wife beating under any circumstances.
I remember this well. Never seen smearing until then. Which included advocates of bitcoin and other coins for various reasons. Happened the week of Craig's outing by the people extorting him.

Here's some information class about he was teaching right until they scrubbed it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120430035605/http://www.itmast...

And another: https://archive.is/ttLth

This was on their youtube page: https://archive.is/gXPkX "Presented by Dr Craig Wright of Charles Sturt University and the Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research."

The SGI endorsement letter existed. I have a copy, but the web version was scrubbed. The remaining evidence is in the form of a copy of press release http://archive.is/cqI6S
This doesn't feel like a ShowHN.
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So target users are "unbanked and have no identification papers", but what exactly is the product? What problem is humaniq solving? Why are people funding their ICO?

I'm not being facetious; I just had a hard time getting answers from the website.
This reminds me of Microsoft Research's Songsmith, [1] (also known as MySong).

[1] http://songsmith.ms/
Hangouts is a good piece of tech and the has a great UX with minimal UI. The only issues with hangouts are that:

1. It is a resource hog. Laptops spit fire when they run hangouts for more than 10 minutes
2. It can be buggy and unreliable. Almost every 3rd hangout meeting, someone on my team is unable to hear others or is unable to use the mic. Fix can range anything between restarting the computer to killing audio processes.

In my experience, it is much less reliable on OS X than Linux.

If they manage to make it reliable and reduce resource usage, it'll be the perfect video conference app.

Also, it doesn't currently work on firefox which is a pain.
That makes sense about project organization done correctly.

The thing that really stands out about Flask to me (using it for small projects, I don't really get to use Python at my day job) is that the codebase is incredibly easy to understand in it's entirety. Anytime I have needed to look something up I can go to the code and usually understand it within a minute or so.

I'd classify myself as a mediocre programmer by big tech company standards and Flask is very easy for me to understand and use.
viber is great, is popular in Europe, I dont know why more Americans dont use it.
Disclaimer: I'm 24. I'm into tech. I am on instagram 24/7. Snapchat less and less.

This update actually made me open skype and talk to people. Skype became terrible, but this update interested me and now I'm actually using it for first time in months. The design is pretty straightforward and satisfying. Could be better, but this is a huge improvement over what they had. Don't know why they put in stories tho.
A lot of people would be better off. Few to no international companies could be found totally innocent of tax dodging schemes and the like.

But rather, my point is: If a company wants to do business in multiple countries, they are going to have to obey multiple countries laws. Nobody's required to do business globally, and no country is required to enable it.

And if the threat of losing access to Google search is such a risk that a country would need to capitulate to a corporation's demands, it would only be more evidence for the need to bust that monopoly up.
ENS is implemented as a set of smart contracts with some multisig management. Are you arguing that this is centralized? Also, money that is collected by the ENS contracts is only held as a deposit.
Hangouts is another one that's gotten awful.
Parts of Cook’s speech are somewhat generic, but the point I believe to be important is a CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world is pleading with our future producers to acknowledge the damage certain aspects of online culture, such as likes, have on one’s psyche. It’s a subtle, “hey, somethings wrong. We can fix it by acknowledging it.”

I, for one, am thrilled with Tim Cook and others, helping to bring these issues to light. It is a huge problem. I know someone in the other room right now that is fishing for likes and depending on her success, will determine her mood for the rest of the day, maybe week.

It's psychological slavery that many have slipped into somewhat innocently.
You can tell because the font color starts to fade out till you can barely read the text.
I look forward to the glorious future with infinite Hatsune Miku concerts featuring neural network produced music and AI written lyrics.
Measure it in emojis instead!
If you're looking for an alternative to the likes metric, check out the "time well spent" metric.

http://www.timewellspent.io/
Best part about Zoom and similar programs is that you don't have to deal with the horrible Skype search feature for everyone in the call before starting it. Why can't people find me by my username? Who knows. Why don't I see people online even though I know they are already, forcing both of us to message each other before we can start a call? Who knows.

With Zoom and other conference programs, callers just join the call (after they've downloaded the program which admittedly is an initial pain point).
> What are better alternatives in terms of call quality?

What I'll call "automatic transmission" VoIP solutions are all very similar in terms of quality. That said, there are absolutely things you can do to improve VoIP call quality and reliability: https://book.pod.guru/voip-secrets/

Beyond typical consumer/business VoIP, there are professional solutions like Source-Connect Now and ipDTL. They support selectable bitrates that go beyond what popular consumer/business solutions typically support, with commensurably better quality.

For highest quality, the solution is a "multi-ender". In a multi-ender, audio is recorded uncompressed (or losslessly compressed) at every end, then merged/sync'd after the call for a result that can sound as if everyone was in the same room. WebRTC-powered services like Zencastr, Ringr, Cast and Cleanfeed can help automate multi-enders.
As a German, I disagree with you. German's not English, even though you might prefer if it was. Others don't. It's fine that it uses the letters it ended up with historically. This change fixes an internal inconsistency, your reply seems fairly irrelevant. It feels like replying to some bugfix in, say, Ruby with something like "I never liked Ruby anyhow".
Linux /dev/random is pretty good. For anyone trying to reverse engineer the previous state of the disk it's much easier to substract out all zeros as opposed to a pseudo random sequence. Especially if the attacker doesn't have the pseudo random number generators full state.

Also keep in mind that with SSDs that have significant smarts for compression, trim, deduplication, benchmark cheating, minimizing write amplification, and related. Writing a pseudorandom sequence is more likely to actually overwrite almost 100% of the disk. Sure bad sectors that are remapped won't be, but the rest should.

Even better if you just use full disk encryption and throw away the key. Also the "secure erase" functionality is a good start, but if you aren't the trusting type it's best to wipe then overwrite.
I genuinely thought my phone had been hacked or something when I saw this update. Appalling.

I can't believe they are working on this garbage instead of making it as reliable as slack. Ridiculous.
I'd suggest maybe it should just be a ligature, but that would make it hard to type English words like crossing and German sharp-S words in the same font.
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And how do I type thiß capital sharp S?

The Unicode input seems a little complicated :-/

CTRL + SHIFT + u1E9E = ẞ
It seems like every Skype update leads to more frustration and (somehow) more bugs. Yet another product Microsoft has managed to mess up :(