skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: “Franchise a rock band.”

Some years ago I was backstage at a major rock event the day before the performance. One of the management types was explaining to me that they had two sets of everything, and three crews. One crew was at the current venue, one was at the previous venue, tearing things down, and one was at the next venue, setting up. I asked "so why not have two sets of performers and double your revenue? 'Cats' has two road companies. Barnum and Bailey circuses have two road companies. There are bands that replaced all their members over time and kept the name. It's all about the branding." A more senior manager, overhearing this, looked very thoughtful.

It's been done in Japan. AKB48 has three teams. They're organized like a sports league, with farm teams and regular turnover.
Just get a SIP account and use, for example, linphone.

Skype is dead, and I'm going to miss it.
Pact is live and in-use in enterprise settings on our permissioned blockchain platform; you can download the interpreter which when launched with "-serve" presents the RPC REST API, allowing you to write whole applications with just the interpreter; indeed there's a sample "TODO MVC" app showing just how easy this is (see https://github.com/kadena-io/pact/blob/master/README.md).

As for a public platform, stay tuned, we will have an annoucement very soon. Suffice to say for now: any work you do using Pact will have a public chain to run on in the very near future; you can use the O/S releases to develop Pact; and if you have an idea about permissioned (think "B2B only") blockchain applications, get in touch!
You still don't get it. It was unWANTED and inappropriate advances given the professional relationship and setting. It's not like asking someone out at a bar, ffs.
Yes, I am arguing it is centralised. Read about the centralised root signature system that is the way to add new TLDs to the system.

Also this is worse than the current system we have in the world because it wastes more energy in doing so!

It claims it is a decentralised naming system, though looking deeper you will find it is just clever marketing and
underneath is it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc. will only work in eth browsers, not all etc. which I have already mentioned in my OP.
Yeah, I guess so. It's had so little impact on my world that I forgot all about it.
Although it's not a core component of VS Code (although, one time it was bundled, probably) rather it's something provided through proprietary C# plugin and additional download.
For the python web folks, what web server do you tend to put in front of your Django/Flask apps and how do you typically deploy new updates with zero downtime?
I don't read Swedish, but glancing through that list I do recognize several very traditional and widely used preservatives and fining agents, which are used in traditional wine making. Plus fining agents, by design, aren't present in the finished product so I'm still not clear on what a labelling law is meant to achieve.

Example: A traditional fining agent in that list is egg albumen (aka egg whites). No detectable traces remain in the finished product. Is that a problem? Why? That list highlights it as an allergen in red, but again, it's not in the wine and (unsurprisingly) studies show they do not cause allergic reactions.

If there are specific concerns about specific additives, then 1) they should probably be banned from all products, not just wine and 2) we should be having a conversation about those specific additives. General concern about "additives", in general, just comes across as scaremongering.
1. the whole blockchain it is based on
2. root signatures in ENS
"Measure it in app downloads!"
Right.

We may also get machine learning systems which take in recordings of existing singers and generate the data needed for a singing synthesizer. Automatic cover bands, at last. It will be worth it just to really annoy the music industry.
Redux was based on Elm, not the other way around.
This seems like another strange workaround. We need to change the way the operating system behaves for the future. The problem is default allow for untrusted code to execute. Everyone recognises this as the problem, no one wants to step forward and implement the change.

We do it for mobile, mostly, the desktop needs the same shift.
This describes most freeCodeCamp articles. They tend to use click-baity titles.
Not only is this an excellent essay -- it's one on my list of "I need to write a response / answer filling in some additional bits" pile -- but Jill Lepore is pretty much on fire with most of her writing and speaking.

I strongly recommend taking a look at her New Yorker contributor page, as well as seeking out what she's written elsewhere.

Her recent (April, 2017) talk at the University of Kansas on privacy also includes several interesting, and fairly novel, concepts, well worth considering:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51G6eii4ZGk
What a typographic disaster.

Making an uppercase version of a lowercase ligature was bad idea from the get go.

I suggest to type designers who want to add this symbol to do an SZ or SS ligature.

Caveat: I studied typography in another life.
2017 Ford GT: An All-American Supercar
Functional approaches – Reader, algebra and interpreter
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691295 and marked it off-topic.
Do you have a family? (if not: would you like to start one?)
Ikutaro Kakehashi (1930-2017) and the future of MIDI
>in a given week, 23% of Americans had taken Acetaminophen

That's still wildly high though, no? So nearly a QUARTER of Americans are on that painkiller at any given time (give or take duration). Never mind A painkiller...that particular one???

The whole concept of ~25% painkiller usage just blows my mind. And that's from someone that used to take heavy grade stuff for a year straight. (Now I just take the occasional ibu for some DOMS).
From your link:

> In addition, the law allows the use of powdered or ground hops and hops extracts, as well as stabilization and fining agents such as PVPP. Top-fermented beer is subject to the same rules, with the addition that a wider variety of malted grains can be used, as well as pure sugars for flavor and coloring.

That sounds like the exact sorts of things the original commenter was upset about with wine. And many of the things in the list the guy you were replying to linked are "stabilization and fining agents".
Mission Matters
Replace "likes" with "ad impressions" and you'd get what's wrong with the media today.

The answer is money -- if a journalist no longer needs to worry about having a roof over their head, or making ends meet, then they can go try to make the world a better place, rather than just writing click-bait headlines. I don't know how that will come about -- maybe UBI, maybe a new distribution model -- but the alternative is the slow rotting of the media industry.
I hear what you are saying but I wouldn't say that stat vs stat64 is incorrect or wrong. It is due to 32 vs 64 bit fields inside of the stat struct. But yeah, it all comes down to maintaining ABI and not breaking userland.
It's amusing that people down vote comments for which no formula exists...
Woa that's an interesting blog post on licensing issues, thanks!
Annoyingly, English uses "th" for two rather different phonemes: þ ("thing") and ð ("this").

Icelandic maintains this useful distinction. I feel like English spelling would need at least half a dozen more letters to disambiguate. As it is, English is actually a not great choice for a global language because it's so unphonetic.
Have you looked at Chromebook Plus or Pro?

Much better browser, pen, and keyboard at less than half the price of iPad Pro + Keyboard + Pen.
Both my employer (120,000 employees) and our main contractor (20,000 employees) use Skype for Business. By use, I mean we've purchased it and deployed it to every employee in the world.

It's never worked, ever, for anything. Not for audio, not for screen sharing, not for chat. I now decline all meeting requests that rely on Skype for Business for some essential part of the meeting.
I am always shocked when I bump into Americans traveling.

With only two weeks, they are always stressed and rushing. When timelines do slip, they have to throw money at private taxis etc.
It is fascinating they are spending more in 2 weeks than I spend in 2 months.
There could be countries where average salary is low and prices of goods are high which causes them not to save money. Such apps could be life savers.
I don't think speakers of the language that invented Worcester Sauce are in a position to give prescriptive logical advice to other languages.

Languages are the products of a sort of evolutionary processes. Rarely do the conventions appear to be the best possible solution at first sight. But it isn't uncommon for convincing arguments to appear later, showing that some seemingly arbitrary rules are almost beautifully constructed to make languages efficient. Not only do common words tend to be shorter than uncommon ones; I've also seen examples of word pairs that would be dangerous to confuse to be further apart in spelling and pronunciation than statistics would suggest (I believe sailing was the example I saw: single words can mean life or death, and are often spoken under difficult circumstances).
I don't know whether you're a native English speaker or not, but you certainly reason like one. I started learning English when I was 6 years old and have had very few problems with it. My wife started learning it when she was 39. She's having a horrible time trying to wrap her head around all the inconsistencies, the incredible amount of stuff that has to be inferred from context and the utter lack of pronunciation rules.
No, this wouldn't solve the underlying problem which is these people don't make enough money. They either need to make more money or spend less. By paying them daily you don't solve the actual problem.
I don't right now, and I am thinking about it more and more these days.

I continually bump into people on the road with kids. It absolutely can be done. (Yes, even in Central America and West Africa!)
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This.

If I tell someone to go away and write me a project in flask or a project in django, provided they "go with the flow", the django one will almost always be nicer. A sensible `manage.py` interface. Apps that can be built to be installable, read-only python packages rather than "here's a project repo, clone it, cd into it and run ./godknows.py".

It is of course possible to design such a project in flask, but it takes some work. The gravity is strongly towards "I am the world" projects.

I've also been very surprised at how much less community support there seems to be for flask. Googling/StackOverflow-ing an issue has tended to get me significantly fewer results, and of those results I do get far fewer of them seem to have (sensible) answers. In the django world there is a much broader coverage of generally-accepted sensible ways of doing slightly obscure things.
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Shipments of 1 or 2 xeon phis constitutes a supercomputer? Pointing to a box and saying it's full of infinibands and xeon phis means that we should believe they are full of them?

There were racks too.

The small stuff you probably saw is for developers.

I find it more likely a technology person would spend a lot money than saving it. If spending millions we are talking DIY supercomputer territory.

At every turn in this saga of signings, supercomputers, and credentials there's always something sketchy going on. At some point you can no longer accept what this guy says at face value.

Name one thing about bitcoin that isn't sketchy.
That's a classic form of GUI bug. Some widget calls something which calls something else which eventually calls the original widget, which is not in a stable state. Classic bugs in this area involve using "save file", and then "new folder", and then renaming some folders in a way which invalidates something upstream.
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I use(d) Skype 4.3 on Linux. It was great.

Then my account was "accidentally" suspended and required proof of being an adult. In order to prove I'm an adult, I had to pay $0.50. So I didn't. I was using that as an excuse to finally change to something better.

...after a couple weeks and a lot of complaining, my account was un-suspended. Welp, so much for that excuse.

Now I'm getting forced to update to Skype 5. Or, at least, that's what the email said. It said Skype 4.3 would be disabled. Well it's not (yet) disabled. And, I'll keep using 4.3 until it is.

I can tell you right now that Skype 4.3 was better than Skype 5 in pretty much every way imaginable.

* It was more configurable.
-> All notification customizations? Simplified to "do you get notifications?" and "do you want sound with your notifications?"
-> It didn't bother me with system notifications for every message (really, I just want sound, not a system notification popup)
-> The new Skype sound is extremely annoying, so much that I would rather miss being notified of a message instead of being constantly bothered by the sound that I cannot change
-> Show me as 'away' when I am inactive for X amount of minutes feature is gone
-> Where's the Skype API? Is that gone too?

* It was faster.
-> Skype 5 frequently (once or twice per day) hangs for minutes at a time. I just `killall -9 skypeforlinux` and restart it.

* It crashed less often.
-> okay it doesn't actually crash often, but I consider the hang (see above) as a crash

* It actually had a window that showed file transfers and their status (although it showed them twice), instead of showing it only inline in the chat.

* You could actually search your the chat history
-> Skype 5 doesn't let you search your chat at all, let alone your chat history

* The UI didn't follow the bloated shitware that the Web seems to be moving toward
-> The list of users in chat rooms is actually usable
->-> try scrolling a chat room user list with 120 people in it? trololol no I'm serious here I can't find anyone

-> Right-click menu appeared to use the system menu widgets instead of yet another "I'm going to be different than everything else" widget that takes up half of the friggen window for no reason

-> Window scrolling (someone typed a message) didn't prevent the contextual menu from working

-> Yeah, okay, it couldn't load images that people shared. It also couldn't load those full-screen animated movies that people shared. I consider both of those to be benefits though.

At this point, Slack and Discord both seem like better communication options.

...that's just going from Skype 4.3 to Skype 5. I'd hate to see what's going on with Skype 8. Honestly, at this point, I'm very much glad that Microsoft ignores the Linux side of things.
Sure, we shouldn't have been so busy to not support our teammates.

Still, I don't consider it a big failure. A lot of people go through life using technologies without really knowing how they work. He could have very well drag-n-dropped the soap endpoint and never learned a thing about soap. Now that he knows a bit about it he may alter his decisions in the future knowing the guts e.g. 'don't do that because it won't work through soap' etc.
I never used Skype again after they stole my credit (about 9€). No excuse when they could have emailed or otherwise told me it was going to expire, I only found out when I needed to use it...
I hope Discord Video uses less resources than Camfrog. If they can, then I'd finally switch to Discord, assuming Discord can handle many hundreds of video streams at once like Camfrog can.
Well, many things are clear from context and spelling could be simplified.

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

(Attributed to Mark Twain)

About Swiss and the as: I remember one funny occurrence I had while reading a Swiss paper. It took me two paragraphs in an article "Neue Busse für $company" till I understood this wasn't about busses, but a penalty fine (Buße) Both are pronounced differently and mean different things.
< given the well known, restricted inputs;

Really? Yes there are some intervals that we have discovered/learned in our audio spectrum, but the fact that you can so confidently discredit something highlights your ignorance. Unfortunately, life ain't no engineering problemo
Skype "works" & covers a lot. That is their value proposition. The end.
Well, they do [1], but you are correct in that they currently do not support calls on their desktop client.

[1]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
I love tablet hardware -- I remember using the second-generation iPad when it came out, and I have a Pixel C now. But the software just isn't there; it's not general purpose, and you end up with a lot of crippled mobile apps that are shadows of the Desktop equivalents. Plus you can't type the symbols that coding wants {}[]();

I'm really hoping that will get better next year, with Chromebooks that can run Android apps, the 12" USB Type-C Macbook, as well as Windows x86-on-ARM emulation.
> Barnum and Bailey circuses have two road companies.

Had; Barnum and Bailey folded in May.
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I wonder how does it compare with Purescript + Pux. My experience with Pux has been pretty good. As a beginner, I find it more comfortable when the FFI is thin, the compiled JS is kind of readable, so in case if I am stuck, I can still go back to my familiar Javascript.
What a non-issue.
That jeep looks super comfy. Do you have anything for protection (I don't see anything on the list)?
lol. you have fun with that.
Camfrog (minus noise filtering) does all of that, and has Mac and PC clients.
Why is Rexmls.com on the list? They haven't even had their token sale yet.
"Sorry, this desk must be thrown out as it is now fully depreciated!"

This gave me a good laugh. With lowering interest rates and quantitative easing not pumping up the economy as expected, any bets on long before this becomes a reality?
> it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc.

The "etc" is important here, because it refers to richer resources such as content hashes. With this, you could load the entire "frontend" for a website from a decentralized datasource, e.g. Swarm. Meanwhile, the backend could be the Ethereum blockchain/smart contract methods.
Haha, that cracked me up!