skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few cases where there was a need to run 120VAC a thousand feet or so. The most cost effective solution being to step the voltage up to 240VAC and then back down at the load. Basically you save 75% on wires which pays for the two transformers. Bonus, you can use a tapped transformer to compensate for line loss.

120VAC -> 1.0T2.0 -> 240VAC --> line --> 220VAC --> 1.8T1.0 --> 120VAC
Tutanota

https://tutanota.com - https://github.com/tutao/tutanota - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutanota

The company is based in Germany and benefits from BDSG.
I can't quite tell if this is a satirical comment.

It's almost too peak HN to be taken seriously.
That means subject to Swiss surveillance laws as well. Not worse than other western countries but Switzerland isn't a safe haven for privacy.

"All Internet service providers must retain the following data for six months:

type of the connections [...] and if known login data, address information of the origin (MAC-address, telephone number), name, address and occupation of the user and duration of the connection from beginning to end

time of the transmission or reception of an email, header information according to the SMTP-protocol and the IP adresses of the sending and receiving email application"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retent...
I feel that those of us in the sciences need to be careful about making too much of this event in the public sphere. While I agree that this is a sign of very bad things to come, this particular calving is not likely to have any immediate impact on sea levels (since the ice is already floating). If we all jump up and down and scream and then ... nothing happens ... it's not going to help our credibility.
What was wrong with the product / team?

You didn't know what the product was when you started?
OP - do yourself a favor and read this short book (or just the first few chapters applicable to you). It's the best, most practical book on software engineering management that I've seen, and I'm only half-way through it.
"do visitors mainly go to the www or no-www version of your site?"

Visitors follow links - just checked netlify.com vs www.netlify.com and over the last 3 days around 0.5% of visits went to netlify.com instead of straight to www.netlify.com

It's generally far more important to setup your site to be as performant as possible and get the best uptime than to skip the the www - there are ways to get the best of both worlds however.
I found myself pondering this in relation to the resurgence of LPs.

I wonder if the lower dynamic range of LPs restricts music released on them from being overly loud, and thus not as fatiguing to listen to as more modern formats.
We could have by having EBU R128/ITU-R BS.1770 published before CD, and having those metadata built in to the CD standard, and perhaps requiring it.

The loudness war started before CD, but if we had this stuff back then it might have been possible to avoid these problems. As a consumer, I add BS.1770-based replaygain tags to all of my music, and set a constant gain offset for all applications which don't have loudness normalization.

I'm most annoyed by albums which have huge loudness gradients for completely different movements or independent tracks, it forces me to manually remove album replaygain tags in favour of the track values.

Notable also, this page makes no mention of loudness monitoring, which I think is outrageous. To complain about this problem without mentioning the existing solution is pretty bogus.
Facebook is building a new campus that includes 1,500 apartments
Sorry I have not dug too deeply, but I have some questions.

1. Are there controls (i.e. proof-of-stake) to enforce equitable and lasting storage of your items on others' machines?

2. What is the consensus model for marking peers as bad actors?

3. What are the redundancy guarantees? That is, how many nodes store my data?

4. What is the "currency" of sorts that I must "pay" in order to store a certain amount? Amount of hard disk I contribute back?

5. Why was the AGPL chosen? Surely adoption by any means, commercial or otherwise, would be welcome in a system that has equitable sharing guarantees. Now if I want to implement your spec in my choice license, I can't even read your reference implementation.

Maybe some fodder for the FAQ. If not answered later, I'll peruse the whitepaper.
WW3 OK LETS ALL CALM DOWN,
Fastmail. Paying $30/yr for my email hosting.
Pros:

I don't have to worry about my emails being scanned to create a profile of me.

I got my <firstname>@fastmail.com which I could not with Gmail.

As a paid customer I get support for if/when something is wrong.

Has solid Web UI that is minimal and fast. Email client for ios works great.

Cons:
Not the cool new thing. Setting it up for shared calendar with others was a bit unintuitive.

Every now and then someone sends me a Google Doc, and I need to think about how to open it without a Google account.

Spam filter is not as good as Google's. A phishing email gets to the inbox every now and then. But, I report them.
The open question for me is why did Edison even bother with DC at all? A DC generator requires a commutator. If there is anything that screams dodgy, that would be it.

Sliding friction. high current contacts. 60 times a second? Seriously?
Is there something peculiar around 14:00 beside lunch ?
I'm guessing a deep learning approach could correct those badly mastered tracks. At least, it is pretty easy to find and generate training data.

(?)
7 startups that were massively funded that died in 2017
I recently found a YouTube channel with news videos that seem generated mostly programatically with a robot voice over and a combined +44M views on the channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzhc-N5YynO_shpHhzP2zuw/vid...

I wonder who's behind these and similar channels.
This could also be a variant of a self-fulfilling prophecy. VCs tend to fund Standford/Harvard/MIT teams more and more often, because other teams from those universities produced great results previously.
10 Simple Tips to Improve User Testing
The part of the interview series about Brightwork (Greg's first startup) and their telesales process and why McAfee acquired them, is also interesting.
> Your success is entirely in your team's hands.

This isn't true. A lot of a manager's job is doing the little things that are necessary to get done. This may involve scrum master, project management, and even product management. Find the gaps and fill them!
Not exactly.

It is technically the case that vinyls have less frequency response (basically a low pass filter) than good (really effectively perfect) reproduction formats like CD. That certainly means that the maximum loudness value is lower, but dynamic range is not required for loudness, gain and frequency response are.

If anything, having less dynamic range would encourage people to make louder records.
Clinton whomped Sanders, by something like 10x the margin Obama beat Clinton by. I don't think you can reasonably draw a lesson about 2016 from the 2008 primary.

There's something tautological about saying someone "wasn't well-liked enough" to get elected. That's why everyone loses an otherwise fair election.

An equally compelling and even simpler narrative is that it's simply rare for the governing party to hold on to the White House for 3 consecutive terms. The opposition party gets to run a "change" election that the incumbent party can't. For a second term in office, where the incumbent party can run the same candidate, they can run a "continuity" election that more often than not beats "change". But they can't do it for a third term, and so the opposition simply tends to win that term.
Do they support inline images in Email now?
Last time I was using it(long ago), neither the web UI, nor the email apps supported drag & drop of images into the compose window..
I'm surprised Brendan Gregg hasn't been mentioned here yet. He's the Linux tracing/profiling god.

http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

Don't get me wrong, I respect Julia Evans as a professional, but what she mostly does is simplify other people's hard work and in-depth analysis of difficult problems in various layers of the technology stack.
Not getting <firstname>@ shouldn't really be a problem. Everyone should buy their own domain name for email. It's cheap, easy to setup (and natively supported by Fastmail), and it means that you're not locked into one mail provider ever again.

Don't be <firstname>@fastmail, be <firstname>@<lastname>.me - or whatever you prefer.
Yes, I completely agree. We should not be jumping up and down and screaming about how horrible this is. But we should also not be jumping up and down and screaming about how cool it is either. Yes, it's cool. But celebrating it is IMHO missing the broader point rather badly.
They don't support IMAP or even POP3, right?
CNAME-based hosting is really common (SaaS, GitHub Pages, ReadTheDocs, ...).
You can't perfectly preserve your culture when you let in immigrants on the scale that, say, Germany is. It's sort of a sliding scale; the more you let in, the more you change. Europe will be changed for this.

As you should be able to tell from my earlier comment, I do empathize with the migrants. It's a shitty situation, and were I in one of these war-torn country, my top priority would be getting my family out of there. But the laws and immigration policies of Western countries are crafted by the current citizens and should be moulded to their benefit, not a universal altruistic ideal. By my interpretation, that would be limiting immigration to a number that can be reasonably integrated to the host culture. Immigration to Europe currently far exceeds this.

I'm sorry if my mentioning rape offends, but I don't think we can have an encompassing discussion of migrants without at least mentioning it. I could have also mentioned migrants' attitudes towards women, LBGTs, freedom of speech, or freedom of religion. These are not views I want any sizable number of people in my democracy holding.
It's reasonably common for there to be a "first among equals" type situation where the person with a title like "technical lead" or "team lead" has technical decision-making authority within the team, but isn't formally a manager of any of the team members in the HR sense.
Pay for your email or you are the product.
so like 6 billion domains?
The thing that bums me out is that there were really good records released in the 2000's that are mastered terribly, and we may never hear a better version.

There's an excellent example of this occurring in the recent remastered re-release of Oasis's Be Here Now which had horribly thick and overdone production but has now been opened up somewhat. It's still loud, but it's Oasis after all.

I don't have an example of the before, but the 'after' is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJU2136ym4 .. interestingly, this is also an example of remastering and re-editing an old music video too.
LispWorks has been developed from 1987 onwards since 30 years. They can't update their marketing material every year just because someone changed the GUI look. ;-)

Though I'll propose it to them for the next LispWorks release...
No research on sleep requirements ? are you serious ?

Have you been sleep deprived ? There's a clear limit under which you're useless. For an extreme instance, I lost sleep for 5 days and went borderline insane.

Maybe 6h of sleep is adequate but saying 8 is arbitrary bulls$t is... exactly that.
This Plant-Based Burger Smells, Tastes, and Bleeds Like the Real Thing
Not really. Their evaluation criteria is usually only performance if there are existing established ways of doing something.
Ask HN: Is YC expanding internationally?
Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize Shortlist 2017
How “fake news” could get even worse
Huh? There is more than one TLD. .us is available for US people. Every country has a TLD. There's a whole pile of generic TLDs. Finding one for you will not be a problem.
> You don't need this much money and a true entrepreneur dies inside everytime they give away a piece of their company.

Often, you do need that much money.

Elon Musk went begging among his rich friends because he was less than 30 days from not making payroll.

Mere mortals would have to shut down.

This is what makes unicorns.
I guess thanks for not calling me evil.
The main thing that I dislike with the no-www trend is that it is hierarchically wrong:

. is ICANN root

.com is VeriSign

example.com is Example Company LLC

www.example.com, subdivision.example.com, www2.example.com are all services, subdelegations and individual hosts within example.com

I realize this is a rapidly declining way to view the DNS but it is nevertheless the way it was designed.
I think the reason it's not on by default is that so much music is already compressed to insane levels that sounds terrible - double-y compressing things doubles the terribleness.

I love music, but I wouldn't call myself an audiophile (heck, I'm listening out of my lappy's default sound card with cheap headphones) but in this case I totally agree with the audiophile's term "fatigue". Music that is over-compressed doesn't sound bad to my untrained ear, but it's just fatiguing after a while. The silence that finally comes is a pleasure!

But having it double-compress by default is like hearing those people who want to play there car stereo louder than their system can handle and it distorts like crazy: they are obviously still enjoying it - but it's not the song the artists recorded. (Ok, maybe an exaggeration... but I still don't think we should encourage it!)
They don't, but apps for iOS and Android are available.
These protocols do not guarantee end-to-end encryption, it's been a choice.
People that are thinking about selling that don't have a listing will not usually give you a very good deal (e.g. "make me move" offers).

If you're not getting market or below market rate, there isn't much point in bypassing the agent.
I know I'll get hate for not commenting on the actual content of this article, but...why is this only taking up 1/3rd of my horizontal screen space? Perhaps all that space could be used to show the images alongside the text?

> here’s what we’ll talk about: (with links if you want to jump to a specific section).

Holy smokes, it's got links! Good thing he pointed it out to me since I never could have figured that out by the visual indicators that every web browser adds to links.
Isn't that usually used just for ships and aircraft?
Existing family wealth and connections? Maybe.

But what about skill, ability, creativity, ambition, determination? Do the people doing this work deserve no credit?
Doesn't contain many "modern" features, but nevertheless, probably the best C++ code I ever saw, and it is usually hard for me to give any praise for C++.

Stockfish chess engine (currently 1st place by Elo). I am really impressed:

https://github.com/official-stockfish
Why? This is horrible. Why not just publish the raw data reporters got?
That's only for the publishing side. The reader's utility calculus matters too, and I agree with the other poster that both stories are garbage.
> customers could bring their old 50hz appliances for free adjustments and exchanges, [including] 380,000 lighting fixtures

Surely ordinary light bulbs don't care about the frequency. Do they mean the electronics for fluorescent lamps? Were those common in the 1940s?
The company store returns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
Thanks for the advice! I went ahead and did just that.
Given the source of employment law is the masters and servants act I think you might find that employers can veto outside work certainly getting permission for out side work is often required by contract.
I also like Inbox, except that the desktop experience is so utterly woeful.
Automated Insights https://automatedinsights.com - writes all the routine corporate earnings stories for Associated Press so they can cover more companies and let journalists actually investigate and write more nuanced pieces. Some earnings reports start with the software writing and get augmented by human journalists.
I have never heard any talk about there being a separate film standard for europe, beyond the needs for converting to PAL for home movie use.

And only at that point do the whole 25 frame make sense, and something that can be dealt with by inserting an extra frame ever so often.
Heard people would disassemble his bed in hotels as retaliation
Can't recommend Fastmail enough. I run a variety of services that depend upon email forwarding and it's _significantly_ better and (like it says on the tin) faster than Gmail.

This is stuff like having support@my-domain.com addresses that forward onto our Helpdesk, etc, that really need to work reliably.
I read the entire article, yes. Read it again yourself and pay attention for words like "may", and "might". Those words are used because it is inconclusive, and it is inconclusive because the government refuses to publish and often even collect the data that would be required to come to a reasonably accurate conclusion. This is crystal clear to anyone actually paying attention, but don't worry because almost no one is - the majority of Canadians are profiting from it.

Here is one example: someone that buys citizenship in Quebec and then purchases a house in Vancouver is considered non-foreign.

Here is another example: wife and kids get citizenship or permanent resident status, and the husband does not. This way, the wife can buy a house with overseas money and make tax free capital gains, plus the whole family gets free medical, dental, welfare cheques, GST rebates, and they don't even have to declare overseas income because the husband is not a citizen (not that the CRA would even check, because front line auditors have been told clearly that auditing certain people is not allowed.) To be fair, Canada does (I think) receive sales tax on the purchase of a few Mercedes, Ferraris, Porsches, etc.

This second approach is a common strategy because it's easy and foolproof - there's actually a guy on reddit that posts the various different ways around the various laws that are supposedly intended to stop this sort of thing, there is always a gigantic easy to work around loophole. Whether that is accidental or deliberate, no one knows, and there's no way of knowing.

So, any "stats" that anyone quotes might as well just be made up. They're not "wrong" or "lies", but the specific stats they quote are meaningless considering the exceptions I've noted.
Are you sure that isn't because you are redirecting? Where does https://netlify.com/blog/2016/01/12/this-weekends-ddos-attac... point? Google is going to index and show the www version if you always redirect. You have interfered with the results so the 0.5% is biased.
I have been looking for an alternative to the Google apps ecosystem, to support mailing, calendar, contacts and document editing, but most importantly it should allow me to have "guests" contributors to documents I can share with them.

Anybody knows of a company providing such a service?
I had one boss who had worked in the valley and the uk he said he got no more work out of the USA teams who worked longer hours and much less leave than he did in the UK where we where on civil service terms
CryFS – A cryptographic filesystem for the cloud
> It seems plausible that programming while tired doesn't do a whole lot of damage in itself (more than the usual amount of bugs)

I can tell you in embedded devices that simply isn't true.

In a lot of embedded programming, you can cause real damage--short out boards, crash equipment, etc.

If I have been at something for too many hours, I may simply stop. I will certainly stop if I recognize that I just did something really boneheaded and simple. That means that I'm likely to continue doing boneheaded things and cause real damage.
Note that ProtonMail paid $6000 ransom to hackers: https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/crypto-e-mail-servi...

I applaud their privacy stance, but paying ranson money to hackers is a deal-breaker for me.
I wonder if the author being a student pushing for a European PhD[1] warps his thinking about this. With a PhD all the reward is at the end. You either make or break. None of the work you do has any tangible results outside of the end goal.

Most work isn't like that. The rewards are continuous and ongoing. Meaning every task has captured value. If a loan officer closes 19 loans this month instead of 20, productivity is down 5%. BFD. Vs PhD student, complete 19 out of 20 required classes, no PhD. You totally wasted a couple of years of your life.

[1] Europeans historically are way more creditialist than Americans. Learning something isn't very helpful unless there is a credential to go along with it.
Sandstorm.io? I don't think it would cover everything... but it might work.
I'm really happy that GitHub supports rendering ipynb files so nicely. Makes it easy to glance at repos like this without cloning and firing up a Jupyter notebook.
So, just how fast are Go channels anyway?
Without going into details, the product was started 10 years ago by one of the programmers whom I suspect wanted to be a game developer, so the product is filled with gamedev patterns and due to a tech choice it's not possible to migrate to a modern architecture without rewriting the whole thing.
You are correct, but I think the original comment is more geared to the idea that you probably shouldn't revert back to what you are comfortable with and jump in and start coding when there are bugs, or tight deadlin s, etc.

I do think you should do some coding, even if you can only do it 10% of the time. It'll give you credibility with the team and you'll get to better understand what everyone deals with on a daily basis.
> I'm excited by superhuman (https://superhuman.com)

That looks like any other Electon-based email client that someone decided wasn't cool enough any more...
Not circular, just rejoins downstream after the split.
https://github.com/facebook/folly
A major Windows release is kind of a big thing in the desktop world.

Missing 5 Windows releases is just sloppy: Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10.

I'm not saying it's a bad product, just that first impressions matter. There's a reason this site is full of discussions about conversions and funnels.

As a side note, Windows is also 30+ years old. Hardly new tech these days ;)
It's kinda interesting but the US intervention in Korea wasn't in isolation. Before that was the Japanese conquest. And even before that the Chinese were messing with them.
Ironically, the Adsense "valuable inventory" policy prohibits showing Google ads on automaitcally generated content [1]. I wonder if they will follow their own rules and refuse to show ads on content generated by this tool.

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1346295?hl=en
Here's an existing compilation of such work:

https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp

A couple of my personal favourite libraries that I consider modern:

The Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library - https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL

Beast: HTTP and WebSockets in C++11 - https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast
You have to realize that the general public doesn't always understand that the internet isn't always .com.

My email is josh@josh[dot]micronesia. When someone — such as a banker, or "everyday" person — asks for my email address, I overwhelmingly hear, "josh at josh dot m n at... what? gmail dot com? yahoo dot com?"
Cost of Coupling versus Cost of De-Coupling
> since they behave poorly across library boundaries on many platforms thanks to the lack of properly standardized ABI,

The same also holds for, say, std::string. You can't pass them across library boundaries without a unified ABI.
More generally, you can't pass anything STL-ish between library boundaries.

Why make a special case for C++ exceptions?
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