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Murmur and Mumble[0]. I have murmur running on a little VM and can handle thousands of gamers. It's not has happy clicky as discord, but it provides end to end voice encryption with great sound quality. You could run it on a RasPi provided you have the bandwidth. Be sure to use their 1.3.0 snapshot. Major improvements on user management, echo cancellation, game overlays, positional audio, etc.

I and many gamers have been quite happy with it.

[0] https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
Excited to hear what you all think.
I understand how you feel that way. It feels like Amazon, and others, are creating a wholly atomized society. Where people exist without having to admit that other people exist. Where people are stripped away from society for profit.

But... what if I want that? What if I don't want to be coerced into social interaction, every day, just so I get get my basic physical needs met? What if I want to engage with society and humans on my terms, rather than on yours?

Who gets to decide? I welcome this because it gives me another choice. It moves me one step further away from the coerced-social-interaction experient you envision as heavenly and towards a world where I get to make one more of the choices that matters to me.
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The GOP could end the filibuster and pass the CR with a simple majority, much like they did for SC justices, and the Dems did for federal judges.
Seattle area here. All my life I remember waiting in lines 10-20 minutes if you go to a store on a busy day (fri/sat/sun). It's just simple math sometimes where there's so many people with $400+ carts trying to check out and cashiers can only scan so fast. Everyone with medium or small sized carts have to wait in this.

I've seen great strides in recent years to advance self checkout technology and its user flow. Walmart is my favorite example of this, my local one having almost half of the area devoted to self checkout. It seems to have been successful for them so far. I don't see anyone having a hard time operate them and perhaps more surprising, it's filled me with the idea that I can pop in and out of a big store on a busy day to just buy 1 item.
I'm pretty surprised to read this. I did not observe any statistically significant correlation between "creating value" and "compensation". The examples are so overwhelming I feel it's on the OP to exemplify his rather false assertion:

- Big corps pay loads of cash to research centers that provide exactly zero value to customer.
- If you don't man up and negotiate no one will bump your compensation just because you're "creating value"
- Creation of value is so vague a term it's practically meaningless

This goes on and on.
That's clearly not the case in all parts of the world. China and India often ignore patents and trade secrets to produce generic drugs for domestic use.

I often hear about how useful donating used prescription glasses are to people in need in other countries like Africa and China. I imagine this would be a similar program that would be aimed at prevention. I would think any influence of big pharma would affect prescription glasses distribution programs in the same way.
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I've grown fond of the new :term command in vim (inspired by neovim).
here I was thinking this was about bringing Go to AWS Lambda :)
I encourage you to read the original question that the author of this post is ranting about, where the question asker who's being chided in this post makes literally exactly the observation you make in your second paragraph: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7mgp1m/h...

The author of that post does understand these trade-offs and is asking the best way to maximize wrt his constraints. So this article just misses the mark.
I've been to good vegetarian restaurants around the world, they're fine but I still like meat better. Not every day, but I like to have a choice.

> If your only understanding of imitation meat is "those burgers you buy at the grocery store,"

If I was a vegetarian I would definitely end up buying stuff from the grocery store, not going to different really good restaurants every day.
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/open-source-release-of-rif...
Many words have several definitions. Some more specific and some more general as used by the public. You are right in an accounting sense, but not in the complete definitional sense.
To be honest, you have more inside information that I do, so thanks for that pricing tidbit.

(my info comes from an interview with the CEO where he didn't say the exact price, just compared it to the price of organic beef)

It looks like there's a solid premium on their "beef", good to know.

That being said, it certainly beats thousands of dollars for lab grown meat.

The important thing is that it's commercially viable at current prices.

I think Impossible Foods deserves credit for picking the right "go to market" strategy.

Kind of like Tesla started with a sports car, they started by supplying gourmet burger chains.

At $10+ per burger, the cost of raw material is clearly acceptable for the restaurant, or else they wouldn't be buying.
I was just referring to my restaurant experiences, which ranged from fine to excellent.
> Throughout history, "the marketplace" had been one of the major centers of interpersonal interaction

If you shop at Whole Foods, Target, Trader Joe's, Kroger, etc. this has never been true for you, unless by social interaction you mean handing your card to the cashier or asking someone a question. Even in my local, family owned grocery store I don't see this "marketplace" attitude. I doubt it exists anywhere outside of small communities nowadays in the US. Most people work 8 hours a day and hang out at home or in bars/coffee shops; we don't really want to hang out in a marketplace.

Note that I don't disagree with your overall point... I just don't think this is a good example.
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Even simple things like the “away” status has been removed.

I’m actively looking for a replacement for the company.
I don't bother the opposite sex while shopping. But when it comes to just normal convo about good foods that me and another shopper are both buying, it's usually a short-lived "Isn't that ice cream awesome?! Hi five!." Nothing profound but I can see the positivity from even a small event of mutual love for the small things in life. :-)

I will admit though - Whole Foods and Trader Joes' employees are some of the nicest and down to earth people I've ever met. They definitely add to the experience of shopping.

But it appears that Amazon still has those type of people that will roam the store - just not cashiers. And they are probably a lot more grumpy and treated like crap, 'cuz Amazon.
They announced support for Go in AWS Lambda a week ago
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"Who's the real customer?" often has a non-obvious answer.
Discussed a bit in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8686072
This is a very important case. If the SCOTUS rules in favor of the US then corps which are active in both the US and the EU will be stuck having to decide who’s laws to follow. Unilateral extraterritorial application of domestic laws is rarely a good idea, especially when a bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty already exists (which the US didn’t use in this case).

The following amicus briefs are a good read introduction to the case:

Brief amici curiae of Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V., Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag e.V., Ibec clg, Konfederacja Lewiatan, and Mouvement des Enterprises de France filed. (Distributed) http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/27520/20180111...

Brief amicus curiae of European Commission on Behalf of the European Union in support of neither party filed.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/23633/2017121...

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These are way to long to read completly, but already a quick browse can be enlightening:

Brief of petitioner United States filed.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/22902/2017120...

Brief of respondent Microsoft Corporation filed. (Distributed)
Jan 17 2018	https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/27619/2018011...

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HN Readers might also enjoy this one:

Brief amicus curiae of 51 COMPUTER SCIENTISTS filed:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/28101/2018011...
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Most HN users live in urban areas. Here in NYC your average check out line is people on their phones and/or with headphones on. And before you say NYC is an outlier, it was the same when I lived in semi-rural suburban Texas.
We haven't tried a paid service, although my sense is that YouTube does represent the best-of-breed in commercially available parallel transcoding (free as it is to users). I'd encourage you to try it with a paid service and see where the time-to-finished 4K output shakes out. I'd be surprised if it's better but eager to learn either way. ExCamera is doing it at 6x-30x real time (which is important if you want to make a cloud video editor); I don't think you can buy that commercially today.

Ultimately, YouTube uses chunks of 128 frames each because it's too expensive to put key frames much more frequently than that, and other transcoding services will face a similar limitation. ExCamera's purely functional encoder lets it use chunks smaller than the interval between key frames, so the effective degree of parallelism can be a lot higher.

(Obviously there's a lot of overhead from using a software codec -- we think hardware codecs should support a "save/restore state" interface too. I think we do have to prototype first in software to demonstrate the benefits before hardware people will take us seriously.)
we only eat meat because most of us haven't seen how animals are kept, what they're fed, and how they're slaughtered

This is often said, but I doubt it very much. I think it should be shown to everyone (including in school), and it would probably lead to some positive changes, but I doubt it would significantly reduce the number of meat eaters. We can look at the people working in the industry: are they all morally deficient or desperate for work? Not as far as I know.
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True. I wasn’t considering the nuclear option. I suppose that may be poor practice these days.
I think you're right, and I haven't seen the answer from our society yet. If you can sit at home and get things delivered (which is easier and addicting), you do miss out on different experiences (some good, some bad). You can imagine a world where many of our storefronts could empty out.

If you work from home, get Amazon deliveries, go to school online, etc... what will you do and what storefronts do you need? Are bars, restaurants and barbers enough?

One of my favorite anecdotes that makes me think... has our whole society evolved incorrectly?

"In 18th-century America, colonial society and Native American society sat side by side. The former was buddingly commercial; the latter was communal and tribal. As time went by, the settlers from Europe noticed something: No Indians were defecting to join colonial society, but many whites were defecting to live in the Native American one."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-great-affluen...
>What pulls the rope taut?

Ok, this seems to be a clash of intuitions explained by reference frames —

When you imagine an object in deep space or its own empty universe, you intuitively use an “inertial reference frame”, where “the physics of a system in an inertial frame have no causes external to the system”. I.e. you do not see any “fictitious” forces like the centrifugal force, so the rope would not be taut.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame_of_reference

If you are imagining the rope to be taut, you are imagining a force pulling it taut, but this force that you’re imagining is only explained by physics if you’re using a rotational (non-inertial) reference frame.

So if your system has unexplained “centrifugal” forces, those forces can be modelled as the system rotating within an inertial reference frame, without having any evidence of any “non-rotating” matter.

It just so happens that deep space is pretty close to an inertial reference frame, so your mind sort of makes that assumption.

Or, in other words, you could measure and perceive the rate of the rope’s rotation by analyzing the forces in system, without having any physical external point of reference.
> The marketplace today is hardly the place for meaningful interaction, whether with employees or other shoppers.

While I somewhat agree with you, I still think that by taking away the need for millions of people to have lots of little banal interactions, we're also erasing the possibility, on a society-wide scale, of more meaningful interactions that sometimes spring from those trivial little conversations.
Thanks for sharing your story. BMT is a surgery though, and surgery is always experimental in a sense, and has been improving at a satisfactory rate in general. Drugs are a little different. Great to hear about your friend. A close friend of mine died last year of cancer while enrolled in an immunotherapy trial. He wasn't enrolled until after he'd failed two rounds of conventional treatment, and I wonder if it might have been better to do things in a different order.

Edit: Completely wrong; thanks maxerickson.
In general this is called "freedom of panorama", and applies to lack of copyright protections [1]. Jurisdictions that has freedom of panorama will still often have national security provisions restricting specific views.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama
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Man becomes billionaire by exploiting a legal loophole, and fucking taxi drivers out of decades of investment into the taxi medallion system.. story at 11. Fuck TK
I think the standard HN reaction isn't to celebrate this, but rather to bemoan how technology takes us further from some non-existent utopian ideal where rose-tinted glasses replace reality. Like how "real social interaction" only exists at a supermarket checkout lane.

So your comment checks that box perfectly. Whining about the death of tradition is basically the "free" square in Hacker News Bingo.
> It's just simple math sometimes where there's so many people with $400+ carts trying to check out and cashiers can only scan so fast. Everyone with medium or small sized carts have to wait in this.

Why don't the customers scan the items themselves as they put them into their carts while at the shelves, rather than waiting until they get to the checkout? That's what we do where I live in the UK.
Wondering if the grand opening will lead to a spontaneous HN and Deep Neural Nets meetup at Top Pot Donuts on 5th tomorrow.
The customer pays the company for some perceived value. It may not even be real. But given that it is, the Engineer may contribute to the process, or the testing, or the coding. Which are useless to the customer and not even perceptible. Consider: if the same product were delivered without testing, would testing be valueless?

No, its the whole enchilada that the customer pays for. The Engineer is a part of the product but so is the guy on the loading dock, and in the mail room, and sweeping the floors.

No we have to look elsewhere for compensation justification. This religion (born out of the Agile process?) that only work contributing to customer needs has 'value' has got to go. Its false on the face of it.
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This may have to do with women tending to be less selfish/aggressive negotiators.
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>Seems like the total investment in this store/technology is probably in the single digit digit millions (or maybe low double digit).

It was much more than that. They bought Whole Foods which was worth 13 billion.
It says right at the beginning the concept is like a 7-11. Are there carts in a 7-11?
FWIW: I wasn't the one downvoting.
Flares shouldn‘t be uniform, but I‘m doubting that they‘d disturb a terraformed Martian ecosystem much as they are quite rare. I‘m guessing some moderate EM hardening of electronics would be enough. As we should have here btw., the next one-in-200y flare is not going to be pretty.
The main feature of org-mode I find really helpful is the org-agenda. You could just try a bit.

You don't have to learn Emacs shortcuts, arrow keys work. For navigating between files use the menubar with a mouse.

File -> Open file -> testtodo.org
Type "* Something to do", hit C-c C-t, TODO will appear, hit C-c C-t again, the state will be marked as DONE.
Hit C-c C-s, calendar will open you can select a date to schedule.
Hit C-c [ to add the file to your agenda (permanently).
Hit M-x, type "org-agenda", a menu will apear, hit a, to see all your scheduled items for the week. Hit j to select another date.
(C is control key, M is meta key, a.k.a Alt)
(C-c means ctrl+c, C-s means ctrl+s, M-x means alt+x, you get the idea)

That's all there is, it takes some getting used to, but a plain text format is really productive. You can easily search between items, transfer your files, customize it all you want. I probably use very of org-mode's capabilities, but it really helped me organize my life.
Not a lot of content in this post, outside of "maybe the Paul brothers are famous because they know what they are doing and not just lucky."
Yes. Just to hammer this point home, I release most of the code I write under a BSD license in the simple hope it'll be useful to someone. I don't care if you make money from it (Cool! Tell me about it!) and for 80% of the projects I've written I don't actually want any of your patches. I'd often much rather people fork my work and maintain their own fork.

If this isn't your jam, the MIT/BSD licenses aren't for you. Go GPL or something.
FPGA programming is easy when your problem space uses event-driven state machines even on sequential CPUs as is the case for many things besides HFT, but it is not always so obvious.
Plus--the future is in front of us now. We don't even need to speculate.

I guess the Midwest is an easy target, but it's there. They made their product in the cheapest country, analogous to automation, and look at the lovely result. Misery, and mind numbing drugs.

Even now, people love to quote the glorious unemployment number. They don't quote the, "able bodied, not working number", and they are not all students, or family members taking care of sick ones. And most people can't buy a Uber approved vechicle to carriage the wealthy ones around town.

They are displaced workers. Hell, the chit jobs are coveted by desperate immigrants. Jobs that students, and non career minded folks used to depend on are filled by people who treat the job as a career.

The tech society will feel the pain when this odd boom ends. Enjoy the cushy jobs while they last. I can easily see 90% cuts in labor at so many tech companies.

The next boom will be about complete automation, and watch that homeless number skyrocket.

I don't blame automation, or even globalization, but make those that benefit pay higher taxes to pay for the misery they are inflicting on society.
Sorry, but I think that this view is both obviously wrong and actively harmful. It's an example of where going with textbook definitions actually obfuscates reality.

Highly compensated managers are taking a share of profit, often quite literally (look at how VP and above positions are compensated). But always indirectly -- you can't tell me a 7-8 figure salary "isn't a share of profit". That's obvious BS. And if my own compensation is a share of profit in the same sense (which, a port of it literally is), then my observation that non-engineers get 99% of that share is still accurate.

Anyways, and much more importantly, this is pretty tangential to my original point. The point is that if I'm an engineer at a large firm, it is NOT my job to do the MBA thing. The entire premise of a firm is that the author of this post is wrong.
Yeah, reading stuff like this is depressing.

It's completely reasonable to understand and be cautious of the these things happening, but coming to the belief that this encompasses the whole of reality is unfortunate. (maybe that's not what gp meant…)

It's important for engineers to understand that they have options. If you're being mistreated, move on — if people are claiming credit for your work* there are places that you can go where this doesn't happen. You have a skill that is in-demand and under supplied, take advantage of that fact while you can.

* This happens on a spectrum, some engineers have a skewed view about how much credit builders should receive. It takes a wide array of skills to market, build, and sell successful products. The best leaders that I've worked publicly credit "the team" for successes and themselves for failures but this can only happen when the leader in question has high trust in their board and investors.
For bulletproofing, I do tests + mock network calls.

I use pytest with parametrize: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/parametrize.html

Then responses for mocking network stuff from requests: https://github.com/getsentry/responses

Using fixtures and writing your own factory objects to simulate scenarios: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/fixture.html. Fixtures in pytest are like setup/teardown.

I keep the code live in production, and have sentry errors email me if someone hits a snag.

Decouple generic code into separate git repositories. Split up billing / generic django / ux stuff so you don't need to repeat it with every website.

I maintain a changelog https://devel.tech/site/updates. Helps to stay motivated while you build out your own IP.

At work, when a project flops, the code tends to go to waste. When you write your own code, unencumbered by any outside agreements/conflicts, it stays with you to reuse, improve, license to others, turn into a SAAS, use in a separate website, etc.
If he did conflate "profit" with "gross revenue", I was explaining that indeed he was getting a share of it. And frankly it is impossible to have any sensible discussion about business and be confused about what profits are - the only definition that has meaning is the accounting definition.

It's like discussing newtonian mechanics and confusing momentum with energy.
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Attacks I'd like to try but would get picked up by the cops if I did:

- Carry empty bags/containers of cheaper items in the store and place products inside these before pulling them off of the shelf.

- Pull products off of the shelf and give them to a friend. Place identical empty bags/containers back to re-credit your account while your friend never has the item debited and walks out.

- Drape a blanket over yourself and remove products from the shelf and put them in your bags so the system never sees items removed from the shelf
There is no correlation between creating value and compensation, as compensation is set by a job market, where companies compete for workers with each other. It really doesn't matter how much value is created as long as the worker doesn't have a better choice.
Please don't post these. The FAQ explains why: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
The paper states "ExCamera is free software. The source code and evaluation data are available at https://ex.camera .", but there doesn't seem to be any source code at the linked site. The github has some source code, but it appears to be incomplete with regards to the binaries also present there. Am I missing something? Did the intentions on this change?