skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Token Holders Don’t Give a Damn About Voting Rights and Community Governance
If you block Contacts access on your phone (iOS/Android) can Faceboook still access your contacts ? Are you aware of any loopholes that lets Facebook access someone's contacts ?
When using sine waves in a single chord the tuning is much more obvious.

I looked at the code and for the major chord it uses:

[f * 1, f * 1.2599388379204892, f * 1.4984709480122322]

With f = 440Hz it will be [440.000, 554.373, 659.327].

Equal temperament (12-TET) would be:

[f * 1, f * 1,25992104989487, f * 1,49830707687668]

With f = 440Hz it will be [440.000, 554.365, 659.255].

Since it isn't pure it will wobbly a little bit.

In this case it would be better to use "just intonation":

[f * 1, f * 1.25, f * 1.5]

With f = 440Hz it will be [ 440, 550, 660 ].
I'd just like to add that Netflix's vision and foresight and courage has been consistently amazing for years at every stage of their phenomenal growth. Hats off to their leadership.
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c'mon really? you didn't even look?

What is this? You're "interested in utility infrastructure" !?

7000 Volt lightning?

most household uses ... they want single-phase power!?
In 1910, maybe.
What am I going to do about it? Nothing, you're a grain of sand on a beach.

No one gives two shits about you furiously torrenting the shows you think you're entitled to. But we all have to suffer living in society with the idiot college students who believe they're entitled to their safe spaces, the idiot alt-right who believe they're entitled to treat other races like shit, the idiot men who believe they're entitled to treat women like sex objects, etc.

Integrity and character are distant memories, if in fact they ever existed at all (I doubt it). Everyone's entitled.
We've been using Trello for a while and I've never thought of it as bare bones. It seems quintessentially kanban, in your opinion what's missing or simplified?

Do you have any opinions on "calendar kanban's" like Sunsama: https://medium.com/@landon_46280/scrum-with-sunsama-ddb5e8e7...
Unless you are in a really remote place you have three phases. Yes. Our stoves are typically connected to it (obviously not to all phases at once).
> That’s not how Spotify played it. Spotify bet the farm on discovery and won

Spotify has a horrifically bad business. They're bleeding to death financially, having never earned a profit in their entire existence; they've burned through billions in financing and are still burning at a similarly high rate. Simultaneously Apple is likely to catch up in subscribers in the near future, diluting the leverage Spotify desperately needs to improve its bargaining situation. Apple can afford to burn billions to bury Spotify (likely force them into a sale/acquisition).

Spotify is in a no win scenario. They'll never have enough margin to earn a profit via licensing all of their most heavily listened-to content. The content owners will perpetually squeeze Spotify. This is the fate that Netflix understood to attempt to avoid, which Spotify has entirely failed to avoid. Meanwhile all of largest competitors to Spotify actually make money (Sirius as one example is very profitable). Spotify's only possible future is in the belly of one of the tech or media giants.
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HN crowd is a quite special case.

Elsewhere in the world, FB is assumed as to be the standard. My romantic life has been very disappointing, so some time ago I tried creating a Tinder account (it is the only dating [yes you read it right, dating, not hookup] app that has entered the popular consciousness in this country and thus has a significant amount of female users). Last time I checked, they still required a FB account.
The timbre of the singing isn't instantly audible from the normal Furby gibbering, but it has a unique and haunting beauty.
any vehicle with an ECU has "reflashable firmware"
> Ship of Theseus replacement

This why java seems an odd choice; I can't imagine trying to run a codebase that's a split between assembly and java (keeping behaviour the same as more and more code is shifted).

The best idea I can see for that, is start with an interpreter for the assembler in java, moving procedure calls "up" into java.

But I imagine getting the interpreter good enough to run the same as the original target machine would be a huge task in itself.

[ed: leveraging clojure on the first iteration(s) might actually make the project feasible, though...]
Flag your site's browser compatibility issues in devtools
It is a nasty dark pattern but I think in the case of iOS upgrades you can somewhat justify it - it’s important that users upgrade to avoid security issues etc. Of course really, iOS upgrades should be so pain-free that no one would ever want to say no, but that’s a different story!
We agree on that point. Only the most inept of businesspeople would ignore human nature.
Wire Chat is no longer open source
Thanks to both of you. It does seem to be a great book! I've requested it (well, the older version) from my library. Apropos this article: http://industrial-landscape.com/#/18
Ask HN: How do you actually layer a chip?
All the fab videos I could find on the internet talk about taking a single sheet of silicon, performing lithography and connecting components with copper wires. I don't see how they build 10-30 layered chips. Is it that they layout all the layers on a single sheet and form virtual layers by copper wire interconnects?
As a German I'm always amazed by the ugliness of those power and telephone poles in other countries.

There is talk here to also build phone lines with poles in the future as it is cheaper, hope this never happens.
> Now some companies have teamed up for AV1, FOSS. I guess we'll see how good it is compared to HEVC.

Here are some comparisons between AV1, VP9, HEVC, and H.264:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...

Whether or not VP9 beats HEVC, its advantages are that it beats H.264, can be used without the licensing headaches of HEVC (or H.264), and has double the decoder base of HEVC:

https://ngcodec.com/news/2017/10/21/why-we-are-supporting-vp...

You can use VP9 and Opus for video today with a view to using AV1 and Opus in the future.
You must be aware of the elephant in the room....ie your age. Yes its illegal to discriminate but that doesn't change the defacto hiring reality.
How does that work in rural areas? Microcells all the way down the highway at regular intervals?
Maybe in the U.S. I was in Asia few months ago and I came across people who were new to Facebook. Facebook still has a honeymoon period with those people who just discovered their 'new' platform. Given the massive population in Brazil and India that would be a sizable chunk of users.
> Internet was a "solution in search of a problem" too

Eh, the history of ARPANET involved practical use cases (i.e. communication between specific institutions and ballistic missile defense coordination) from the start [1]. If one includes circuit switches, i.e. the telegraph/telephone system, as a blueprint Internet then the practical application reaches back earlier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Creation
Can't they carry anything that was released commercially under the non-interactive rules if they play it in the Radio portion, or a 'Taylor Swift Fan station? I agree they wouldn't be able to play it for on demand without a bilateral agreement.
> As in right now, short of paypal, I cannot send you money easily without leaving my chair in under 1 minute regardless of where you are in the world

Venmo. Zelle. During banking hours: e-mail my banker, wire transferred within minutes.
I just checked transferwise for £1000 to about us$1400. The cost compared with google's estimate of the interbank rate was $6 and they said it would take one day. I've also recently done £ to Thai baht and most currencies are there. It's quite quick and cheap such that it would be hard for crypto transfers to compete for most stuff.
> i often find things on Apple Music that i cant get on Spotify

You are not using discovery really if you are doing the finding. It should be automatic in that just play one of the daily or weekly lists and music that you like (some old some new) should be played.

I tried Apple Music for its free trial and switched back to Spotify as I just can't be bothered to choose what I listen to myself.
MaxCDN performance is not great. Fastly charges for requests in addition to bandwidth.
Steamed Hams but it's VR
From the TechCrunch article [1]:

> What is the vast majority of “live” content on the web, stuff that needs to call home and update itself? Not articles like this one, or videos or songs — those are just resources you request. Not chats or emails. Cloud-based productivity tools like shared documents, sure, granted. But the rest — and we’re talking like 99.9 percent here — is ads.

Truer words have never been spoken. Shame on you Google.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/amp-for-email-is-a-terribl...
I guess the only question is: what type of industry do you work in?
I'm disappointed at this. If everybody ignored this AMP business, it wouldn't get mainstream attention.

I don't like the idea that some day use need to have a full blown web browser to check your mail.
> In theory with blockchains, you could replace giant companies with open-source programs that pay for their own server costs with transaction fees, without taking any profit margin off the top

Do you think these applications are viable if the token has significant monetary/speculative value attached to it?
or come back. it didn't take too many years between joking about illinois nazis and having one on the ballot.
For men they're called base layers - like long johns but made of thin nylon in manly colors.
How  to Leverage Unstructured Data for Marketing Effectiveness
Young Engineers' Satellite 2
If you read closely, you'll notice that Fastmail is not entirely dismissing AMP either
I want a room without a peeping tom. If that’s not an option, then I sincerely no longer care about my own safety.
What are your thoughts on documentaries?
Safari vs. Chrome on the Mac (2017)
You dont think that Chinese espionage does not potentially extend to our colleges? You dont think the U.S. is doing at least as much elsewhere? All this talk of collusion with Russia recently doesn't bother you either if it is true that a foreign power could have targeted our culture successfully to the point that they threw an election in their favor?

Such sentiment would be naive. Particularly in an authoritarian nation swarming with propaganda. There are plenty of children potentially willing to dedicate themselves to the interests of the party, whether for perceived virtue, or fear of retribution.
A comment from reddit where I asked the same question:

No, even if patent expired those companies won't want to surrender their income. And there's nothing preventing them for charging for their decoder if people are willing to pay for it.

And if raspberry would have to provide these keys they would have to break their security scheme which would still be like breaking DRM.

What expired patent means is that anyone else can implement their encoder/decoder legally, so perhaps future raspberry pi will have different implementation of the decoder that doesn't require keys.

This is very much the same thing as with medication, you have brand name medication which is pricy, patent expires and much cheaper versions enter the market, but even then you can still purchase the brand version and pay more. There might still be minor differences.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7xjqy5/mpeg2_patents...
That was the most interesting thing I've read in a while. The things you take for granted are designed well enough that you forget they are there.
Nice work!

I have a suggestion about the chord:

With a single chord like this I think it sounds better to tune it with "just intonation". For a major chord it is [ f * 1, f * 1.25, f * 1.5 ]. With these frequencies the chord will not wobble.
do you have any factual reason to think they're not doing both
It's sort of an new asset class - there wasn't anyone transferring crypto in Shakespeare's day. They don't have an iffy promise to pay you money like junk bonds. In traditional terms they are a bit more like assets that can cost something to mine. Whether they end up valued like gold or like sea water we shall see.
Are you saying it's kids that make a neighbourhood unsafe?
Most banks will have daily rate limiting on PayID lookups. This prevents using a banks systems as an API to PayID.
Here’s how technology shaped in 2017
Have you tried Sysdig? https://github.com/draios/sysdig
Separation of compute and storage has been around since before Google was even relevant as a company (see NFS).

If you think bigquery pioneered all of these concepts then your team did a very poor job of researching prior art. Maybe that was intentional for a good green-field design, but it's certainly not pioneering at that point.
> Eg in order to access calendars hosted on fastmail, you will have to use a third party caldav program

If using an app bothers you, stop using Android, because CalDAV is the standard for synchronizing calendars. iOS supports CalDAV natively.

That Android doesn't support it natively is yet another example of Google infecting the market with proprietary stuff.
I moved countries twice, first from Slovakia to Ireland, and then to San Francisco. While its lot of stress I dont regred it. Apart fron all other advices, try to get bank account sorted as top priority.
Lessons learned while developing Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition
This makes me realize how behind I am. The generation you mention as being bad is what I think of as latest generation. :)
Interestingly, that happened to me on my Android tablet, but not on the Netflix iOS app
> But then they seize up when they see the bill.

But that's the thing. We do pay for it in a very non transparent way. It's very convenient to never see the bill, but imagine a situation where you actually were shown your "Facebook bill". You could see exactly every nugget of information about you, traded in the financing of your facebook account. How many would seize up? How many would leave the product?
Perhaps a better question is: assume that users would be able to edit that bill - and say exactly what would be acceptable in terms of tracking/targeting/information sale. How much would people actually be paying after that? That's the "fair" price.

> I still sometimes think twice about paying for all these things.

I think we all do. But I still think I'd think twice about using Facebook too, if it was more transparent.

> How much would you pay for Facebook? $20 a month?

Around $5-10 per year I'd say.

Now: I'm not saying I believe Facebook could exist in their current form such a scheme with billions of users. But there could exist a Facebook that charged users $10 per year. Perhaps they would have 1/10th the number of users they have today, and 1/10 the number of services. And that's fine.

> I suspect you and I both have very little insight into how much it actually costs to run Facebook

Well we can only see the public numbers and extrapolate from there. The public figures are their total revenues, user numbers etc. So we have a vague guesstimation. But if users, employees and products were cut by 90%, the costs would likely be cut nearly proportionally. It's a lot of infrastructure costs.

I think my bottom line is this: I have no doubts that stricter laws and better technological defenses could and would kill many of these "internet giants". And it doesn't bother me one bit. We'll look back on the first decades of the internet as that time when we had "free" maps and "free" social networks, and I'm not so sure many will miss it.
I think it's worth pointing out that all the screenshots I've seen so far are from iMessage. I too have 2FA activated but never got spam like this via text (I have an Android phone and no FB app installed, only Messenger). So I wonder whether it's specific to an iMessage plugin or something similar?

EDIT: Apparently this is US specific.
About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by
the 'secure your account: add your phone number here'
banner

That and an obnoxious, flashing add "It seems you live in Wherever, please klick here if you live in Wherever!" were the actual reason I "deleted" my account about 3 years ago.

With all that shit they pulled during only that period it just proves that it was the right decision to make.

I never looked back.
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> Venmo. Zelle.

If you accept the limitation that the receiver can be anywhere in the world, but must be from the US or have an US bank account...
In Melbourne Australia there’s a “free tram zone” where in the centre of the city anybody can use trams to get around for free. It works pretty well, although the trams sometimes get very packed.

It’s not exactly the same idea, just a similarity from where I’m living.
I think software patents are unfair because companies claim monopoly or a license fee. Patented software will be built on previous software work so they are not unique pieces of inventions that stand on their own shoulders.

Shortly software patents wants sole right use while building on others software work. Claiming fees for previous inventions.

Software should compete on skill of implementation and not legal departments. Thus patents can also be viewed as anti competitive. Whereas big companies with legal departments/ patent trolls can go after smaller competitors.
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
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There is a transmission system in India rated for something over a million volts. The last time I looked it was only carrying about 800kV, though. Just why this was so was not explained. IIRC it was on the Wikipedia article on transmission grids.
> I don’t think watching diffs in the console is a great experience

Depends on the console and on what you're used to. If you can maximize it in full screen and especially if the diffs are colored like git's, then it's a very pleasant experience.

What I like about Atom is that it's not an IDE. It's an editor. If you want it to be an IDE, then you can add language specific plugins that turn it into an IDE. Even the integrated git/github plugin is useless to me because we're using fossil. In contrast, VS Code comes packed with features for Js/Ts which make it an IDE rather than an editor.
How production engineers support global events on Facebook
At the moment we are only listing public services APIs that are specific to each country
Walgreens (and CVS) both also sell homeopathic stuff of all kinds, all over.

Even charlatans can sell stuff and make a ton of money. "Can raise money" or "can trick people into buying" (remarkably similar, really) can not in any way be construed as a validation of a product.
Thanks for that. At work, they push site should look the same across all browsers very heavily (well, desktop = desktop, tablet = tablet, mobile = mobile). I’m going to try and share this video with one of the guys that dictates design a bit and see if I can convince to get away from all of the hacks built into it that end up breaking little edge cases which then requires browser specific hacks. It’s a longshot, but he likes bleeding edge so fingers crossed.

This is incredibly compelling stuff though. First thing in a while I’ve seen that has left me floored.
I don't think he presumed it would? The subtext (as I read it) is that his émigré Taiwanese instructor was prejudiced against the mainland government to the point of rarely mentioning any positives. The balance provided by the Confucius Institute was in providing the pro-government viewpoint, not more of the negative. Or am I misreading your question?
next time when anyone wants to complain the fact that facebook, google and twitter are all banned in China, think about this news.
You say "all in one mail server(SMTP & web & IMAP) binary". Any chance that code is open source or available somewhere online? I think we are sorely missing some more integrated e-mail solutions that are easy to manage.
The Rising Speed of Technological Adoption
Tiho (OP) here. I hear you. I went through a bad example of not taking parental time off (largely self-inflicted) at my previous startup.

One way to screen startups would be to see how founders and startup investors behave. I was greatly encouraged at LTSE by our CEO's example and saw one of our investors (Alexis Ohanian) publicly champion better and more sustainable work-effort and also take parental time off.
Ask HN: Books about building / compiling / packaging software?
Hey HN,

Lately I have been interested in packaging some C/C++ applications with multiple dependencies. They need to run in different environments / against different libs at runtime (dynamic linking to different versions of boost for example).

I've googled and found Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience but the reviews aren't the greatest.

Was looking into using CMakes for the build process.
No, it's a terrible name because your definition implies that VMware or EC2 instances would be servers since you can SSH into both. A significant portion of ops people would never refer to a VM as a server so you've already run into big problems.

Then there is the problem of who it is 'serverless' for. If the developers use a lambda like service hosted by their own org in their datacenter (operated by separate ops people), is it still serverless? If so, then it has nothing to do with actual servers and it's all about making operating system runtime specifics transparent. If not, then it's just a marketing term for letting Amazon or Google run your company's hardware.
> Netflix broadcasts all over the world using the Internet, while NBC and HBO have limited reach outside of the US

A merger of Netflix and HBO is such a face-smackingly obvious win/win I can't imagine why it hasn't happened already.

Netflix's service, reach, user data mining, and tech powering a hybrid content catalog of Netflix originals and HBOs library, which becomes a freebie/cheapie with an HBO cable subscription.

As it stands both companies are trying to become one another, with mixed results, and Disney is gonna try hard to eat both their lunches once Disneys Streaming Platform to Rule Them All is live...
Previously, the search traffic will have represented general interest plus people using it to get to the site. You'd expect a decrease as more and more people use the apps, or web browsers get better at autofilling the domain rather than it becoming a search, even if the level of general interest remains the same (anecdotally, circa 2011 most people I knew would use Facebook on a PC; now most use a mobile app).

There's probably a decline, especially given the myriad messaging apps that have come to prominence more recently, but not as sharp as the searches would suggest.
I keep debating if this is ignored, or just that we're not the target demo.

It appears ridiculous that people involved in creating this voice controlled UX are not aware of the inherent limitations involved, but it seems like there is a massive gap between it's inherently beneficial uses that have emerged and it's an area we're all trying to get right.

Personally, I never wish to have a fully voice controlled experience. I could just be old, but voice control is literally almost never an option.
The problem is that people will end up paying for what they consume even if they don’t want it; but won’t pay (or at least continue paying) for things they want but don’t bother actually consuming.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of
events/organizations that organize almost exclusively
through Facebook

And there are services that require a Facebook account in order to use them. But you know what?

If your business, event, whatever relies on the fact that I have a Facebook account then fuck you very much! I'm not interested.
Further to that, I love that he doesn't provide answers to all of the things he's wondering about.