skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how any of this is a limitation of React Native and not a result of poor app architecture. If a list is too big to fit in RAM, but not too big for the device, page it from the local SQlite DB. All kinds of web and mobile apps asynchronously fetch remote data while keeping a responsive UI. There are also service workers and other ways to prioritize UI.

The vast majority of popular chat and email apps keep at least some of the data on the server by default -- Gmail, K9 mail, Outlook itself -- so I don't see where there is proof that users want something different.
That is actually pretty easy.

1. register domain at a registrar that supports email catch all (I use namecheap, not affiliated)

2. setup email catch all (https://imgur.com/a/PTlzv) with redirect to your "real" email

3. write email to foobar@example.org -> get's redirected to your "real" email

This has the big advantage that you can change your real email account (I switched away from GMail two years ago) quite easily, you can track who leaks your address and filter more easily. But be prepared to leave some people stunned, I registered at my electricity provider with electricity@example.org or at my hairdresser with hairdo@example.org
Yes. If it was set up from outside it has the feel of imposing a job hunting strategy on people without their involvement.
Reformatted for mobile users:

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has asked
Waymo to narrow its more than 100 trade secrets claims to
fewer than 10 to put in front of a jury.
Don't announce it, or it will work only for one or two years.
Cat Game Aquarium - an iPad app for cats

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cat-game-aquarium/id56449037...

I've had this iPad app up and running for about 4 and a half years - I don't think I've broken even yet on the amount I paid an artist for the graphics for the app. I did the coding for it myself.

RobotBridge PDF Conversion as a service (API)

https://market.mashape.com/jefflinwood/robotbridge-pdf-conve...

This service is pretty straightforward, and has users, but doesn't really cover the server costs. On my list of things to do is to switch it from PhantomJS to headless Chrome, and then to migrate the server.
A rant on Puppet
So now's the time to do it, in other words.
> With much of the sexual impropriety stories at Uber, is it really a good PR move for Google to go ahead with such acquisition?

Maybe; the problem is an HR/management one, which an acquisition in which upper management and HR are largely replaced and lower management is scrutinized under a microscope could probably resolve quickly to prevent any ongoing issues, and not keeping the Uber name in use would deal with most of the public image issues.
How about Google's Closure Library: https://github.com/google/closure-library

The code, imo, is some of the highest quality js I've seen. It is also incredibly comprehensive and easily as complex.

High quality != shipping fast. They are separate quantities, it is easy to have one without the other but very rare to have both.
Layoffs conversations of an indian it employee with hr manager
How Machine Learning Will Transform the Sales Function
Analog synths are a good way to differentiate though. It would be very difficult to replicate an analog synth patch even if you knew exactly how it was set up.
Ask HN: Are there any dropbox experts here?
I created a shared folder where I have read/write access. I shared this folder with 5 other users who only have read-only access.

I've upgraded my account to 1T. It is asking the 5 other users to upgrade as well in order to see everything. How come? Am I doing something wrong since I'm the only one uploading to this folder?

Thanks
With Open Listings we started flat fee on the buy side but had a couple problems.

First, it was very hard to communicate the value prop to customers. We went to market with something like "we refund the buyer's commission minus our flat fee". This brought up all kinds of questions and often buyers thought we were more expensive than realtors. Saying that we're 50% the price of a traditional realtor ended up being a more compelling message even though there's less savings in many cases.

Second, when we're acquiring customers we compete with all of the people charging a much fatter commission. If a realtor is making a 50k commission, they can afford to spend 10k on acquiring a single customer. Assuming an efficient market (which the acquisition side kind of is), a flat fee kind of caps your addressable market because you can only compete with ads at a certain price point (buyers at <400k price points in CA for instance). In some ways this is counteracted by the fact that you can save $1M buyers way more money with the flat fee, but only if you can communicate that message effectively.

That said, it looks like redfin found that there's more price elasticity on the sell side. The seller has likely been through the process before, seen how little work agents do, and feels the full agent fee more viscerally at the time of listing. For the buyer, the agent fee is this murky thing that your agent will tell you is paid for by the seller... first time buyers usually don't find out how much it is until they sign the final closing docs. The other difficulty is that the typical 2.5% being offered to the buyer's agent is essentially an advertising cost... in the existing market agents will often steer clients away from low commission listings (not ethical but it happens).
totally. My first thoughts while reading the title was "oh now that's a 90 degree turn, patents are bogus". Turn out the title is... oh well, this is kind of a fake news, it's everywhere, even on HN. What a wonderful world

edit: the title has been edited since.
do you really think the value prop of a realtor is that simple? that people willingly pay tens of thousands of dollars for a few "related details"? if it were that easy, why not just throw that business together over the weekend yourself? maybe put the thinking cap on for a few seconds before making a flippant comment about a $100B+ industry?

(just one tiny hint: you have to dismantle the MLS network in the process.)

yes, it's inefficient, but it's not a valueless middleman. yes, there is additional value that could be unlocked through greater efficiency. but there is a huge contingent of professionals vested in the continuation of the current regime. there are systemic and regulatory hurdles. which politician wants to dismantle an industry that still provides determined but not necessarily highly educated individuals the chance to break into the upper middle class?
Maybe the debt needs to be groomed on paper before it's sold.
Was it a good step for Google to buy YouTube back when it was full of (way more) pirated music, movies and tv show episodes? I remember at least one article that questioned Google for buying YouTube back then, calling them out for the piracy.
Mark Blyth is fond of observing that "The Hamptons are not a defensible position".

Here in the UK we're finally seeing signs that the political worm is starting to turn. Partly a realization, growing for a while, that permanently excluding everyone who doesn't already own a home from any kind of financial security is maaaybe not the most far-sighted electoral strategy. Partly the shock of the recent General Election where the young actually voted for once. (I don't think they voted for anything helpful, in this context, but the mere act of voting means that their problems are suddenly being taken seriously in a way they weren't before.)
You should fix the page. It says "Un petit slogan" many times.
Show HN: Bit-bundler – simplify the JavaScript bundling experience
Interesting to see a Microsoft Pixel screen in the wild. Those are pretty rare and expensive.
They would drop lyft.

>The brand seems like a liability in this case.

Cheaper to buy.
And in Democrat eyes, they were already hated villains and they are cheering for the company to hit hard.
No explanation? How is it even possible for something like this to happen?
Well, big performance win for applications whose developers let malloc be the major bottleneck.
what I would love is an app that would reformat portrait PDFs as 2-column landscape for reading on my screen
@dang/HN team: Considering how often snippets are used on HN, is there another way to format those on mobile?

Thanks for all you do!
I'm not a huge fan of landscape fabric. It works for a season or two but over time it forms holes that weeds push through. You still have to manually weed but now you are less likely to pull all the roots up.

The previous owner of my house used a ton of it as a quick solution to a weed problem so they could more easily sell the house. I've spent a lot of time ripping out their quick fix. I had a nice surprise of finding a bed of sad irises under one.
cool, it's http://colormind.io here's what my search console looks like right now: http://imgur.com/a/kWkUJ
That's a good point. There was a lot of speculation that they were opening themselves up for major lawsuits.
> they'd be literally begging for regulator's attention if they tried buying Uber

How so? Regulatory attention of mergers isn't based on prospective dominance of markets which don't yet exist, in most jurisdictions.
Tesla slams IIHS after 'Acceptable' Model S test
Looks a bit like one of JunkyXL's setups. Fortunately for mankind there is no way you can make better music with a setup like this compared to a poor man's basic setup. Most 'poor' people are lost when they happen to become 'rich'. It's a (mouse) trap. You'll see this over and over again..
I made a simple website that lets you send compliments to your friends (no negativity allowed) http://www.letskudos.com
How would Google deal with Uber's massively inflated $69 billion valuation?

Would investors who bought shares be compensated with pennies on the dollar? Would some investors get more than others?

What motivates people to put in money at these absurd valuations? The hope that they'll come true just some of the time?
what you said is not necessarily correct. they could render the opengl scene into a texture and send it over to webGL.

they never mentioned that they don't support opengl 4.5 with this webgl backend, so I guess they achieved it by rendering the opengl 4.5 context into a texture map and send that texture map content to web.

but this is just a guess.
A $600 iPhone is probably one of the best investments you can make if you want to participate in modern society.
My DNS knowledge is a bit rusty. I remember there are some issues with requiring different types of record on the same request (most servers block it), and that timeout worked differently for different types of record.

I did never try resolving HTTP services anyway, so I may be completely wrong. I've had problems with TXT and MX.
I would recommend not using Linode and realize your e-mail will be terribly unreliable if you run your own e-mail server (even if you setup DKIM, SPF and DMARC. Google/Microsoft don't give a shit about any of that). I wrote a post about this a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...

I've considered moving to Vultr since they block SMTP/25 by default and individual customers have to get it enabled (which seems like it should reduce false positive spam classification as more e-mail providers).
The better ad would market the product your friend just bought to you. The privacy concerns are enormous, but regardless, the data is there today and I'd be surprised if it isn't already at work.
Side note, in graph 5 the middle one is the "Non-Hispanic African American" category ...

... and have a look at the "data" underneath, a three line set of data with two values coming from Melissa (link to another "local" .xlsx) and a third one which is just a number.

Most probably correct calculations, but no real way to check.
But the funny thing is that lock-in is very low in this space, at least for the actual ML part. 90-99% of the work in ML is in acquiring and cleaning the data, feature engineering and so on. Once you have your training data in good shape, the ML engine is basically pluggable - the only barrier to switching from Azure, Google, AWS etc is the cost of moving the data, if you store it "in the cloud" in the first place. The winner won't be the slickest API - it will be whoever makes it easiest to migrate your data in, whether that's a traditional DW, sensor data feeds or whatever. If you keep the data on-prem you could switch with relatively minor effort.
>Can you give me a few examples of what kinds of value one gets while buying?

If a buyer is unfamiliar with the area (e.g. job relocation), a competent agent can point out the desirable & the unpublicized undesirable aspects of particular neighborhoods. The agent knows the area intimately and that knowledge can be worth paying for to avoid buying the wrong house.

If I'm living in the same house for 20 years and I see a house right down the street from me go up sale that would be perfect for my elderly parents so I could keep an eye on them, I wouldn't need a buyer's agent since I would already know more about that house/neighborhood than any agent would.
I thought the various competing interpretations of QM were all exactly equivalent when it came time to actually crank through the math in an algorithmic fashion.
I'm still really bummed about StartCom's suicide/implosion. They had by far the most sane and reasonable pricing model I've ever seen, and one I really wish someone else would do. They basically only charged for non-automatic authentication, not for what you did with that authentication, and then let each level of authentication feed into higher levels. So Level 1 machine auth (similar in spirit to LE) was entirely free, you could verify an email, domain, or whatever and then produce certs for that. If you wished you could pay money (~$60 for 2 years IIRC) to have an actual human look at your documentation and give you a call, then give you a Level 2 with your legal name. You could then use that for an unlimited number of S/MIME certs for email accounts, domains, software signing and so forth. Having gotten personal verification to level 2, you could then pay to have an organization certified. Etc.

Their UI wasn't the best, but it was functional and the overall system made a lot of sense. They didn't put an artificial price on some bits with a marginal cost of nada. It's a real shame all that got flushed, because that model of business filled a hole that has no general world solution right now (in principle authentication of their citizens should be a core role and offering of modern government, but I'm not holding my breath there).
Gmail user here: I like the fact that Gmail's spam filter just works. The false positive rate is incredibly low for me.. things rarely end up in my spam folder that don't belong there. And I didnt have to configure anything. Why should I want to struggle for so long to get the same level of functionality?
I am not so sure.

Google and uber don't directly compete in many areas.

In order for regulators to stop the deal, there would have to be a competitive concern.

The only area that they "compete" in is self driving cars. But that market literally doesn't exist yet, so it is a hard argument to make that this would be anticompetitive.
Like a check, you can write whatever value you want in the "Amount" box.
The biggest thing holding programming back is that we insist that our domain is somehow unique from hundreds of other domains that have centuries more wisdom at their disposal than we do. We reject out of hand the notion that because we've only been doing this for 60 years means that we really have no idea what we're doing yet.

We believe we are more like machines than like other people. But at the end of the day we're the same trumped-up monkeys smashing away with imperfect tools.

If you look at our fellow productive monkeys, they aren't using the prettiest tools, no. But the tools they are effective with have a certain beauty to them. They often have a single purpose, and they do it very well (the Unix model knew this 40 years ago). Nicks and dents don't matter, unless they're on the working surfaces, in which case they have to be repaired or replaced, so resilience in certain dimensions is an absolute must.

A master does learn to work with their tools instead of against them, but within reason. If a better tool is available, or they can modify the existing tool to fit them better, they won't hesitate for a second to do it. That is what is meant by 'A craftsman does not blame his tools.' If you know you're using a bad tool, that's your fault. Get better tools.
I emailed it a couple months back to complain about USPS, and got a reply and a result (all my packages arrive via UPS or some rinky dink carrier now.)
That's nonsense. if his claims were true, he could've sold the lot for nine or ten figures to somebody who was willing to deal with NHTSA.

It is exceedingly foolish to believe George Hotz's extremely obvious lies. George Hotz is a smart guy who made some big mistakes, and isn't man enough to admit that he was lying.
I was talking about the software streaming use case, not implementation details.

If you search this page, you will find my other threads mentioning my approach, which was based on video streaming.
It's not just a problem of upper management and HR. It sounds to me like a rotten culture from the bottom up. This is not the case at Alphabet (so far as I know), so what happens when a clash of cultures hits? Usually, people that can't adapt are fired or marginalized until replaced. In such a case, is the purchase of Uber worth it or necessary?
Someone set a custom fee or built a transaction manually and made a mistake. Alternatively, someone just learned an expensive programming lesson.
This is going to sound paranoid, obviously, but I was thinking if China ever wanted to start a war with North America, it has quite a sizable population in the US and Canada that could potentially contribute to that aim.
In principle, you're mostly right. And its true, there are folks who do make music entirely on their laptops, successfully, and a lot of it.

There's a visceral, physical aspect to music-making, however, that begs for tactile feedback. Some people really need that out of their instruments. That's why, in the case of electronic music, the big old modulars are making a comeback.
Most elements have a practical purpose, and the overall design serves the interior space needs. I know it's fun to call every modern big house a McMansion, but sometimes it's just a big house, and you have to pick some style for it.

DeadMau5 lives close to me, and I hope it doesn't broach any sort of rules but you can find the sales details by searching up

twiss road campbellville invidiata

Normally it would be uncool to provide an address like this, but Deadmau5 is very, very open about where he lives.
Or, Google could do nothing and let Uber fail. Lyft would probably pick out the good employees. All of the drivers would just stop using the Uber app since many use both or could easily switch. The C suite would be gone by this point.
At this point once self driving tech is perfected Lyft would just buy it from Google.
Ask HN: Which books are you reading in 2017?
I am planning to go on an academic holiday and wanted to see which interesting books have you read this year or are planning to read.
IIRC, he said (in his MasterClass series) the synth lead on Cat Thruster is an analog synth patch.
>You don't need a realtor, fyi, just a good real estate lawyer,

Lawyer prices will obviously be different in different parts of the country, (so maybe a lot cheaper where you are) but I knew someone who arranged a transaction without a realtor and paid a lawyer a lot more than $1,000 to put together all the necessary documents. One thousand seems like a good deal.

>...which you generally need anyway when buying/selling a house.

You've found it necessary to always consult a lawyer when buying/selling even though realtors were involved? Why? What value did they add?
Also, if you really hate fasting, indications are eating a moderate protein, high fat (isocaloric) ketogenic diet is almost as good without the discomfort. And if you do that you probably don't need the Metformin :)
Well analyzed, this is how real-world 'software problems' are interlocked one level to another and YES splitting problem across levels is way to go.

Here is one thing I gained from this Analysis. At times we encounter 'a Code problem' partly caused by ' a workflow problem' and partly caused by 'a Design problem' .

We may do a CODE patch fix for time being (ex. production bug), but having it documented as '40% Workflow problem, 60% Design problem' will help to consolidate all these 'contributing percentages' to come up with permanent fixes at a Later time.
Zork. In 1980. An example of a text interface that worked better then 99% of chat bots today. Chat is not a bolt on, it's a product in its own right.
I see what you mean, but I don't think the two are comparable. Granted, my morals about copyright infringement are a lot looser than sexual impropriety.
> There are marketing expenses and time invested to list and market a property

Putting a house on Zillow takes, what, 15 minutes?

Perhaps the exception is very high end real estate, but from what I've seen most of the high end realtors are just really good at networking and schmoozing.
> My previous project helped you validate your idea before you create the actual product. Apparently it was a bad idea

If this existed, you would have known not to build it
Most wallets estimate fees based on transaction size, so this did require a particular wallet or using an "advanced setting"
Show HN: RentALL helps you effortlessly create your own sharing economy platform
Facebook has a "People who liked your page and their friends" audience option for ads.

Another great one is "lookalike audience based on LTV". So you only advertise to people who are like your biggest customers.
The lack of access to chemical birth control is a major issue, I agree. However, to the best of my knowledge, condoms are still fairly universally available to members of both sexes - which, while not ideal for a number of reasons, are certainly more effective in preventing the transmission of STIs as well as being effective in preventing unwanted pregnancy. Perhaps that might be a more charitable interpretation of the grandparent post, even if it's clearly not correct on the whole.
Of course someone links to exa right as I accidentally upload a broken linux version... of course!
So when someone from HL inevitably is jailed over this, will you admit that you and your outlook are wrong?
Probably the most difficult area in the CL standard is handling pathnames. There are so many possible pitfalls. FFI is an area that, despite best efforts, is likely not a good candidate for inclusion in a standard. It would be better to have all of the implementations converge on a convention since the underlying foreign systems will change over time. Not everything that "just works" has to be in a standard.

C++ issues a "new standard" every 3 years or so which is just nonsense. Even Stroustrop said that the "new C++" is not the "old C++". They are adding ideas (e.g. Concepts) that virtually no one is asking for or knows how to use. Ten years from now that C++ maintenance job you have will be a nightmare. PL/I tried to be everything to everyone for every task and eventually disappeared. C++ is on the same long-term death march. You heard it here first.
Which one is fake?
Thinking about it, we are lucky Debian moved to Gandi instead of StartCom when they ditched the SPI CA.
When I was young before the Internet, it was impossible to book overseas travel without a travel agent. As more and more information became available and presented in a user friendly manner booking travel online became the norm.

It will take much longer for the information required to buy or sell to become easily accessible over the Internet but I have no doubt this day will come.