skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be good enough for somebody launching an app under a restricted budget, but Google usually tries to support all local languages, even rare ones, and Bengali is definitely not a rare language to use.

GBoard also makes it much easier to write Indic languages (transliteration from Latin etc)
WTH is a "Million dollar startup"?

Million dollar revenue? Million dollar profit? Million dollar valuation?

If you have million dollar revenue or profit but don't have control, then you're just an employee at a small business. It's better to work at a more successful company than a company you don't care about.

If you DO own the company (not just the "CTO" title but actually own shares), then it would be weird that you're asking this question.

If you're talking about a million dollar valuation...hahaha.
Actually the opposite. Being in IT, I never buy IT stocks. They're mostly everyday brands and industries.
I was in Sri Lanka in summer this year. Outside of international tourist arrivals (all at Colombo, which itself is a tiny airport), there is practically zero internal air travel. The country is so tiny that you can go across the breadth of the country (Colombo to Trincomalee) in 4-5 hours by bus. Or you can take a helicopter/private plane (which are pretty cheap) and do the same distance in like 45 minutes.

I can't even imagine any situation where an airport serving a million people outside of Colombo would even be remotely feasible.
Wait - so i could just "blast" a suitably depth adjusted copy of a face scan on a white page and get the iphone to unlock?

Basically use a surreptitious infrared camera, copy the face of a person, then project it onto a screen and I would mostly be good to go?

Alternatively, if I just plastered infrared dots on someones face, face recognition would cease to work? So 2 Iphone X could be used to interfere with each other?
Maybe filesystems do not have enough metadata to perform sensible optimisation. Do you want to treat the same way a video file, a shared library, a temporary file and a log file ?
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Let's not assume Google just decided to break the trust of billions of users just to inflate the ratings of one of their apps.

Many possible explanations: different caching, some of the 1 star comments were by people who didn't use the app, bots, etc.
I've been using Qbserve [1] to track my productivity and it has been super helpful.

It divides your time up into Productive (iTerm, AWS...), Neutral (Email, Slack...) and Distracting (Reddit, Facebook...).

I've found if I get 5 productive hours in in a work day then it's been a very productive day.

[1] https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/
No, most of that was my trying to explain how I'm concieving of monopoly-tending industries and firms -- what characteristics they have. Somewhat inchoate, I'm well aware, though attempts to describe this may help me in formulating the concepts, if not you.

I'd not addressed why journals haven't already been disrupted. I did suggest how they might become disrupted, borrowing on the model of MySpace/Facebook. See also: Newspapers/radio, cinema/television, and radio/television. It's not that the old networks fail, per se, but a new network (that is, monopoly), which delivers on the same need (or want), and does so in ways which bypass the original.

But since you raise the question of why journals haven't been disrupted, part of the point is that they'd emerged as a blocking / gatekeeping mechanism only fairly recently. Peer-review is largely a post-1970 phenomenon, and really largely since 1980.

I'm not entirely sure when journal subscription costs became an issue, though I do recall hearing buzzes about it in the 1980s. The emergence of the Web as an alternate distribution mechanism was already suggesting academic journals were obsolete by the late 1990s, and I was part of early Open Access discussions at the time. I basically see that solution still developing, which suggests there simply hasn't been sufficient time.

Sci-Hub is doing a great deal on the time-sufficiency department.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15273262
I install (iOS) and started the app, tried to verify OTP sent on SMS 7 times and it failed to verify every single time saying OTP is incorrect. Colleagues around me faced the same issue. They all gave up and I also quietly uninstalled the app. So maybe that's that.
Most negative comments are about people not able to add their bank account in the app but still getting deducted charges for verifying.

Some of the comments -

>> Edit - Moving to 3 from 1 as Google replied stating the official launch has yet to happen and the engineers are working on it. Just wondering why they made it go live publically prior actual launch. I wouldn't complain if they named it beta to begin with. Hopefully, after launch the backend will be straightened up and the app will work as expected. Crossing fingers. Unable to add bank, I just lost ₹1.5 multiple times by the app sending SMS for verification/addition of bank. Why did you pick this way of adding banks to the app when it could have been done differently?

>> Charges Rs. 5 during SMS verification. But can't even fetch bank accounts. #1 useless app for payments. Good luck if you still want to try and waste money unnecessarily
> Anyone can join the W3C, and anyone can participate in a working group / contribute to a standard.

Starting at ~10 000 USD per year, sure
There's a considerable early period (1980s, 1990s) when Renaissance was turning up amazing profits when electronic trading largely didn't exist. That would suggest other methods.
TL;DR of the implementation: every minute, the script updates the HTML page with sed, and then commits it into git and pushes it into Github...

What can one say. At least they didn't use Kubernetes for that.
If they have all the plumbing, why are they forcing us all to go through the virtual machine?

Why didn't they finish the job and produced a proper compiler which generates straight machine code, like a C compiler does?
> Sure this breaks many sites but, well, fuck those sites

I wish general population would subscribe to a similar paradigm. Web-space is probably one of few mediums where vote-with-your-wallet philosophy can have a substantial effect.
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My point is not that the law is moral. It's that, as you've just stated, it was coached in the language of morality.

Again, this is at odds with your initial statement. And again, for some quite large and significant aspects of copyright.
Thanks for all the feedback :D I like the idea of an open field very much, probably will add it quite soon.

I will consider increasing the amount of exp you respawn with (but it can't be too much or you end up with people dominating non-stop)

some nerfs/tweaks have happened since your comment but I'm always open to more input on that :)
To add: an empire they also hated for what it did to China.

One of my oldest friends went to China to study medicine. He's now a doctor in Shanghai. I visited him a while back and spent a lot of time with his Chinese colleagues.

The overwhelming sense I got was that China believes it is their destiny to be the supreme power in the world, that western dominance is an aberration of history, and that it is China's right to that status.
Captain Obvious to the rescue: because people buy stuff online all the time. Global online retail market was 1.8 trillion dollars a year.

Something tells me that having a default secure way to pay is much better than everyone implementing (often poorly) their own solutions
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What about Apple's services and 3rd party apps? I remember upgrading things like Notes with warning that they'll be unusable on old operating systems. I agree with you that for old devices like iPhone 4S, iOS 6 was the most usable iOS. I'm using iPhone 4S and it's a huge pain with iOS 9, so I'm thinking about trying to downgrade it, but I'm worried about ecosystem.

That said, I played with new iPhones at store and they are quite fast even with latest iOS. I guess I'll finally upgrade to 8, I hope that it'll last longer than 4S which became obsolete just a two years after release, when iOS 7 was released.
No not expecting gasps of horror at all! Just saying the bank can be bailed out and consumers expecting this can feel a bit safer with their deposits
With Microsoft’s Teams catching up, i think Slack need more than just funding and valuation. I have been using it for while and doesn't see much of the development happening. Only thing they have introduced is "Threads", and nothing else which is noticeable.
I would love to see few of these in Slack:

- Video calling
- Storage
- Private Sharing
- Guest member
- Meeting rooms
For your work email?

If I had a 50% response rate for emails that clearly need a response, that would severely impact my ability to do my job and would likely result in my manager taking steps to help me improve that.
The original source of this appears to be a survey performed by vouchercloud (https://www.vouchercloud.com/blog/office-worker-productivity...). Interestingly, the "2h 53m" value is claimed to be the average value reported by the 1989 "UK office workers aged 18+" surveyed.

The survey also included a list of non-work activities and asked for each activity (a) whether they were guilty of spending time on that activity, and (b) if yes, how much time they spent. For example, 19% spent time searching for new jobs, and of those who spent time searching for new jobs the average time spent was 26 minutes. These add up to a mere 94 minutes of "wasted time" per day, suggesting that either respondents severely underestimated the time they spent working, severely underestimated the time they wasted, or there's another 3.5 hours/day of time spent non-productively on things other than the 10 options listed in the survey.
Back then educators and technical writers knew about pervasive passive voice writing problems. Brad Cox (Objective-C) ran our library and formalized onboarding. These were dark ages. Blog writing was yet to be. We walked people through "Dynamics of Software Development" and handfuls of shorter articles during lengthy onboarding. We shared examples of good writing. Project kickoff automaton was still instruction based and tarball then. We ran an internal early "best practices" Wiki to let people write more. We worked in groups on special projects more than task fulfilment. Group composition was important to clients. Our developers often shared our office space with clients on daily or weekly bases. We did a good job of doing a good job possible for that era. [Edits: typos]
or store the value in a mongo instance.
I feel that extension as a medium is a werid choice here. Shouldn't it be some individual app? When computer is an relative idle state (e.g. playing a movie) it could fire up some mining.

Why would anyone want already slow javascript web to load even slower?
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What is the difference between this and Android Pay?
ES6 does not fix the left-pad issue; there is a propensity to use a package to get one small function vs using a library of common helper functions (which is somewhat what e.g. ES6 helps with...less need for underscore or similar). You pretty much don't need jquery now, but so many things depend on it for convenience / backward compatibility / because it's so insanely battle-tested that you know that it will work or at least have a StackOverflow explaining why a particular thing does a thing in a weird way.
Debian packages on average have more functionality than npm packages. Such a subset as you describe would be one (or a few) Debian package(s).
> Every single Ruby post has commentators complaining about dependency hell and steering clear of Ruby apps. This was not the case even a couple of years ago.

Strangely the problems with rubygems and related package managers were apparent five years ago (at my first contact with earnest gem development). It seems the major change is major gems get abandoned—take for example bcrypt. I wonder if the rise in distrust and the rise of abandonded but critical gems are related.
This is the sort of comment that an entitled programmer would make. (Just saying.)

Not everyone prefers a monoculture tied to proprietary software. Some prefer software freedom.
Online security has nothing to do with dystopia. Running a site over HTTPS works completely transparently to the visitor. Yes there is a little extra pain for the sysadmin setting up the service but that's what they are paid for (and I say this as a systems administrator).

Plus this isn't even the governments intervention, this is browser vendors raising the bar for online security.
This is a rehash of: https://hackernoon.com/building-a-botnet-on-pypi-be1ad280b8d...

Interestingly, my fake system packages have been downloaded about 480 000 times so far this year
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That sounds like a very general statement that could benefit from evidence such as the one that might have been provided by actual recordings of the procedures.
For a while the OCP-Permissive and OCP-Restrictive licenses seemed like they could move open hardware forward, but I don't see as much about them recently. Any idea what's happening with licensing and when OCP licenses make sense for other projects?
That's for 10.2 (the next release version, which is not, er, released yet) as opposed to the Tech Preview. They list it here:

https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
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I wonder if making the doors transparent would help in any way. I fully share the frustration of the end user. I'm a UX designer myself and appreciate the little moments that are few and far between in every day life where people have got the basics right.

My thoughts on the transparent doors are that 60-70% of people will get this trash system correct. The contents made visible will promote the correct behaviour and may reduce the question of what goes where.
I put Boost up there with PyQt in terms of my annoyance with it and how hard is had been to get it working correctly for the things which have required it. The XQuartz stuff with macOS is also pretty annoying. Bash an OpenSSL versions would be another.
This one uses an Indian method of payment called UPI which is inter-operable with other banks app.
Love this idea, but the currently supported list is pretty short (15), and adding more items will get tedious fast!
Ah, I see it now. I guess it sort of looks like a hi-tech golden ceramic material when it's presented right.
They did a 7row keyboard - thats good.
But why they had to mess with Insert key?

I want t60/t400 keyboard, not this t420ish
Try https://www.ubuntu.com/kubernetes. The video there shows an automated deployment of Kubernetes to AWS. For bare metal, choose the "MAAS" option (MAAS is Ubuntu's solution to bare metal deployments by API and replaces AWS in the stack for bare metal).

Disclosure: I work for Canonical.

Edit: I realise this isn't exactly "like" CoreOS. But I think it's useful to post about the traditional alternative for comparison :)
Not yet. Might be something I'll implement. Thanks :)!
Why not confine this number to banking, then.
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Not sure about true "bare metal" but try https://github.com/kubernetes/kops for 0-to-kubernetes on AWS, including provisioning instances, storage, etc.
I don’t think there’s any need to be. Their target market is either business who need it on-premises for regulatory reasons, or its business who don’t. The former being hacked is the fault of the business, but that’s what they pay for with on-prem deployment, the latter isn’t critical (because it’s not regulated), the business has not committed a crime mishandling data or anything, and will seek compensation for damages from Slack.

Slack being hacked is generally just not something most business need in their threat model. Same goes for Gmail, GitHub, and most other business services.
Do you have an example of one of these compounds? An article about them?
I don't have to justify that to anyone, except maybe my family. I work for myself.
That certainly depends on how the law is written. Where I live, the wording is that you are recommended (and on certain roads, required) to stick to the rightmost available lane – which means that you're certainly not breaking the law by driving at the speed limit on the leftmost lane if all the other lanes are already at full capacity, which also makes perfect sense to me. (However, exceeding the speed limit would be against the law in any situation, unless perhaps where you could avoid an accident by doing so – although that may be hard to prove.)
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What has changed in the past few years in the Ruby world that has changed dep mgmt? Bundler has been the thing to use for quite a while now, and it used a version lock for all dependencies. It took Node a little while to figure that one out, and shrinkwrap seemingly led to yarn then back into NPM improvements. Ruby is comparatively not that bad, excepting libs with e.g. C dependencies which Node has as well.
ML that helps me learn faster as a human. Let's be honest, watching videos online is suboptimal. The middle-ages method of listening to a professor in a large room is suboptimal.

Can you personalize what I learn? Can you find the exact best explanation for my current level by looking at my facial expression?
I'm guessing WeChat groups.
Which is good in theory but fails flat when we put graphics and the required performance into it, as Carmack argued about.

https://marc.info/?a=111558719100068&r=1&w=4

http://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html
HTTP 402 was made for this.
Their government's current history is measured in decades. Future historians may yet measure it in decades. Do not be so quick to praise tyranny. It will last until the economy plateaus. Only then will we see if it is resilient.
Part of is because gcp became a product much later in google's history. As a result, most of the products that were used were tied to internal google infra, and was hard to put on gcp.
> "We fired people who could not write English right alongside"

The rest of the "features" of the GP workplace aside, this one is something I wish I've seen more often.

Would you read a novel riddled with language errors? Where no sentence connects seamlessly to the next? Where there's an order of magnitude more implicit content to track than what is actually written? Where all the usual rules of orthography and punctuation are casually ignored, for no apparent reason? Where there's no structure to follow and things happen in a pretty much random order?

I wouldn't. Yet I have to read hundreds upon hundreds of pages of code written in such a fashion. It's not just about aesthetics - code like that is harder to work with and, I think, in most cases is a net loss in productivity, ie. it would be better if that code was never written. I understand not all the code can be written with sufficiently well-worded comments and docs, but there should be a limit to how bad things can get!

In other words, if you don't want to be treated like a child, please start writing like a grown-up instead of like a 5 years old who's convinced he's the best writer in the world.
> It's like saying the good thing with not having a cellphone is that you avoid a lot of fight with your girlfriend cause you can't talk as much.

I can't quite see what's wrong with that...
Just setup and use Rancher http://rancher.com/ you'll have something setup and usable in 10-15 minutes. Then your cluster can just grow as your needs grow.
Part of it is that android is used way more often, on very old hardware that is long discarded by apple users. Part of not (only) catering to the wealthy.
Wth mpm_event (which is the better choice) php is still not multi-threaded. As in this case the limit was per script as per the way php is designed to work.

Anyone still using prefork/mod_php ...well that's cute.
Yes, in the end you end up with just HTML and CSS, but the library abstracts the developer away so well, he doesn't need to know about the DOM.

I'm not saying this is a perfect situation, but the truth is that html and css skills are somewhat less valuable for a web developer nowadays.

Just an example, this UI takes 35 lines of javascript code to be created using DHTMLX:

https://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/visualDesigner/live/?previe...

for those who want to play around:

https://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/visualDesigner/live/#c403w3
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I don't think /r/slatestarcodex, and especially the blog it's related to, is that niche among HN readers :)
You see a business destined to fail, I see a line of incompetent exchanges playing Russian roulette. One of them died and the rest got lucky.

Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Cryptsy, more I've forgotten, were the competitors really more reliable?

I've been in a position to see some absolutely insane stuff happen on exchanges [most of it gets quietly buried), and I really don't think MtGox was anything remarkably different.
O, so it's not going to be Sep 23, 2017 then.

From the Christian perspective, what Newton is referring to is less about the world that's ending than what will be beginning.
But you would use the phrase the Doctor Who show. As The wasn't capitalized is how I would read it.
> Given that they steadfastly refuse to implement an ignore user feature

If you have to ignore your colleagues you have far worse problems than Slack not having an "ignore user" feature.
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I think most deployments aren't tightly integrated into CRM etc.. But I don't have the figures to back it up.
Tez means Fast or Speed in hindi.

Fun Fact: In the 1994 Keanu Reeves movie the number plate for his car is 646 TEZ.
> Packages taken over include misspelling of urllib. What exactly do you propose as an alternative here?

1. Similar way of identifying who is responsible for a package to Debian style repo - would allow those affected to identify a named person if malicious code added.

2. Fuzzy matching of package names (so taking the library name urllib also takes urilib, urlib, urllib2 and other names with a short document distance).

3. Built in mechanism to allow third party reviews within the repositories infrastructure.
If they were fine with it, there wouldn't have been quotas for China in the first place.
Oh, I apologize for misinterpreting you. So many of these threads end up with people who think they can replace government with Bitcoin, and I read it in that tone.

Incidentally, I believe that there is also a considerable amount of private insurance involved in banking.
Since you feel compelled to ask the question, I suspect that you do NOT have $1M in cash in your bank account. So you'll earn more and learn heaps at a Big 4 company ... that is if they will hire you. Calling yourself a CS engineer hints that you don't have any qualifications, because that term is never used. An engineer is somebody who has completed an accredited engineering degree. Just like a dentist is not any guy with a pair of pliers.
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Lots of countries have single (or even multiple) identifiers for every one of their citizens. It's not the end of privacy, it's business as usual.

Related, I wonder how the UK deals with their citizens not having a national ID?
I think this will gradually change. Kubernetes came out of all the internal learning after all, I would be surprised if they aren't putting new greenfield stuff on GCP and other Google Cloud products.
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