skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, 3B records/day is very impressive - and I'm a competing distributed systems database engineer!

Our tests were doing about 100M+ (100GB+) a day (this was 2 years ago), although on significantly smaller hardware, but I don't think it would've hit 3B even on the Intel Xeon you guys used. Stats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8&t=1s

Just wanted to say, really impressive work! Respect.
Freelancer, here.

Do not be fooled by fancy looking "whitepapers", professional websites, and cute mascots.

Whitepapers are bought usually from the lowest bidder who can bullshit technical keyword bingo. This person may not be involved with the company or even know much about the coin itself as often these job listings indicate the project manager themselves knows nothing about the coin they plan to offer except their own personal dreams of wealth. Same with every other part of these ICOs. The daily freelancer job listings are flooded with requests of this nature; I might estimate 1:25 to 1:50 of the offers are for ICO schemes.

Please be very careful.
Slack was fine, now it is time to move back to IRC.

Some people like slack or telegram because they provide an API for BOTs. Something IRC has been open to since the begining.

Non power users might have trouble using IRC with the usual clients (mIRC/irssi/bitchx).

Today a family member, not technical and 60+yrs asked about "that tool" that is like whatsapp however it allows users that just joined a group to read old messages. He was referring to slack. He wanted to create a group and when new users from his company joined, they would be able to read whatever was written on that group.

So with this in mind, i think what would really work (also) is to have something on the front of IRC (some bouncer) with a pretty UI that logs everything and allows new users to connect via mobile, standard irc clients, and also send pictures, and read backlog (stuff slack does). However the backend chat server should be the decentralized existing ones, efnet/freenode/etc.

So maybe its time to re-invent slack and make a pretty UI to access usual standard IRC. ie. a new slack that uses old irc networks (decentralized networks) as its backend. But also allows users to talk from mobile apps, browsers, etc
'Microsoft Was Freaking Out': An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 2
'Announcing it a full decade out also provides a chance for, potentially, two other municipal administrations to do political machinations that undo the pending change before it takes effect.'

>> Agreed. I had not thought of that scenario (which is very likely)! Maybe that's even more reason to focus on the strategy of upzoning under-utilized industrial land to ultra high density residential instead of trying to up zone existing residential neighborhoods.
This really made me anxious when I was younger. Someone would say to me “what do you even DO in your spare time?” and my first instinct would be to lie.

These days I try to be as honest as possible. Mostly I still get raised eyebrows and weird looks when I say that I spend a lot of my time learning new things and getting better at this or that, but every now and then I find people who don’t recoil or laugh, and they’re usually the ones I most enjoy talking to.

I think people would be more understanding if it was more widely known that a) it’s possible to teach yourself new things, and b) it’s one of the most satisfying things you can do for yourself. Or maybe most people just wouldn’t find it that satisfying, but I find that hard to believe.
> As we announced recently, Google Play will require all app updates to target Android Oreo (targetSdkVersion 26 or higher) by November 2018

Android Oreo is only running on 1.1% of devices [1]. Will targeting the newest API prevent the app from being available for in the market for devices running Nougat or earlier or does it just limit the functionality?

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/android-version-distributio...
Google is the new Microsoft. We all need to get comfortable with this idea, and fast.
The difference between those two is 10 years to mass market and 20 years to mass market. Considering that smart phones really came to mass market 10 years ago, that's still a window to make a lot of money.
While I appreciate the effort, I have been through the SSA gamut for years as I stated in the "novella". I know all about the system and options, and things just don't work as consistently as people believe. Trying to explain again why it's not an option to solve my issues, for several reasons outlined in the OP, just makes me look argumentative and ungrateful, but it's incredibly frustrating when I feel like people aren't hearing or believing me. I regret having made the post because it's just reinforced the hopelessness of all of this.
I remember when Slack in a Chrome tab committed 3-4 GB. Sounds like they've made improvements.

Standalone client and its helpers are sitting on ~800MB committed on my install of High Sierra. Might be worth a shot.
Matrix/Riot.
Gifs, lot of gifs
My understanding was Google supported XMPP until a few companies including Microsoft only allowed their integrations one way and then abandoned it as they felt they were opening themselves up to being exploited rather than pushing an open standard.
Would You Pay for Hustle as a Service (HaaS)?
Those using AWS ALB, how do you monitor your traffic in realtime? I want to aggregate host names, ip addresses, user agents in realtime.
I'm with them all the way until the /parking/ thing.

Cars aren't going away. At /best/ we'll get self driving cars, but we aren't there yet, and even when we get there it'll probably be a bit before they fully kill the dedicated car.

It is reasonable to assume 1 car for EVERY ADULT that MIGHT live someplace, and to then add an additional 0.2 cars for any adult that might thus visit someplace.

THAT is how much parking should be accommodated, not on the street or in front, but probably in a shared community parking garage (with some slots assigned by unit, and others for guests).

The community garage should also have a loading dock and staging area for deliveries and movers; with egress paths that make sense given use for both that and light/mid level construction activities.

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In a separate point, the building codes should be such that when I shut my windows and doors, I don't hear or smell anyone near by me in any way. Even if they're doing something noisy but normal. (Watching a film, the laundry, a shower, etc.) They should also require /specific/ areas for smoking, and anyone smoking outside of those areas (particularly in rented units) should see //HEAVY// fines. I am so sick of opening a window or door and being unable to breath.
Heads up to userbinator who posted about this in yesterday's mini Wolfenstein post BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16534119
Is there a specific list of IRC's deficiencies somewhere? Could we start on an IETF draft to address some of those rather than throw our hands in the air and build yet another walled garden?
my understanding is taxes back up other currencies. which are back up with giant armies.
Defense attorneys quit the USS Cole case because they found a microphone
Once you introduce advertising, you have to hire an army of engineers, biz devs, ad ops, revenue folks, accounting, finance, sales folks to manage that business. The ad business seems so complex with so many players.
Macy's Inc | San Francisco, CA | Android Engineers | ONSITE

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As a senior technologist, the mobile engineer is responsible for driving technology delivery and supporting operational excellence for macys.com.

We seek a candidate that is comfortable engaging all aspects of a development cycle that includes data collection, algorithm development, performance assessment, and integration into different hardware platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Design & create features for mobile Android app that satisfy business and non-functional requirements.

• Architect, design, and build software that scale on Android •	Drive adherence to mobile optimized standards, APIs

• Hands-on code contribution and delivery - libraries, API's, documentation.

• Coordinate and work closely with other product and design teams to execute solutions.

• Understanding and taking advantage of modern mobile architectures, devices and vendor solutions.

• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems.

• Understanding of mobile security protocols, analytics and social channel integration.

Qualifications: Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Hands on experience building and delivering mobile applications on Android OS.

• Experience building Android apps adhering to MVP & MVVM design patterns.

• Familiar & experienced using Android Data Binding, Rx Java 2, Dagger2 libraries.

Nice to have skills/experience:

• Building Android apps using Kotlin

• Building AR/VR apps using Google AR/VR SDKs & Unity SDKs

If interested, please forward your updated resume to the hiring manager (prasannarupan.sivagnanasooryar@macys.com) to get you setup for an interview.
XMPP support did very little to grow whatever power Google has in the chat market. Traffic to federated services and use of third party clients was low.
One of my ex-colleague build one a while ago in less that a few days so I guess not that hard.
But he is in the habit of making IRC gateway for everything he use
Well, another day of being disappointed by Slack.

Aside from missing native clients mentioned in other comments my biggest pain point is their awful implementation of threads. Every time I think: They must be kidding, they can't be serious, that's just a bad dream. A few examples:

- The only place where you get noticed about responses to threads is the "New Threads" view, which makes it easy to miss responses, when you have responses to multiple threads waiting to be read.

- While having the "New Threads" view open, new messages aren't shown automatically and you have to click a link to show them.

- "Threads" for snippets and files are displayed directly in the channel the snippet/file got posted in.

- You can't post snippets and files in Threads.

- You can't use "/me" in Threads.
I sure was using it. And it was actually nice because all of these so-called "features" that Slack has been adding are incredibly annoying and counter-productive. Not to mention that I could use my laptop without keeping the fan on maximum all the time.
It's more annoying than you'd think if your adversary anticipates this and designs around it. Fragments of the CA can be used within the codebase, effectively making you need to pull everything apart and with security canaries and embedded interpreted scripts even if you're getting close you never know if you're still black and if you're still seeing the same thing as everyone else.
I've been starting to toy around with it and Qt for a quick and dirty native app. Nothing worth sharing yet.

What route did you go?
The promotional material shows the application interpreting a screenshot of an equation, not handwriting.

I also meant noun, not verb. Thanks.
Instagram got pretty far with their initial 13 employees.
Just to confirm for the facial recognition/ detection, modern DNN algorithms outperform the 'classic' methods that took decades of continuous improvement ...
Never heard of a progressive nation that has that. I’ve lived in different countries with different approaches to zoning including the US.

US zoning rules are terrible IMHO with the possible exception of being nice for cars.

I was able to live in the most expensive area of all of Oslo while being just regular middle class. That is because there was some mix of housing not just huge villas. It meant I get to know people far outside my social class and they got to know more refular people. I think that keeps people grounded.

Outside the US what I really like is being able to walk to a local store, gym or whatever. In the Netherlands you’d find cozy cafe’s on the corner you could walk to. So many residential areas in the US are like a dessert. Nothing is going on there.

Having a bit more mix of housing, a couple of convenient local stores etc isn’t exactly like building a refinery or high rise in bel air
This sucks, but it makes sense. I'm willing to be <1% of their users use these gateways, and it's becoming an engineer burden to maintain as they try and ship new features. I don't think this will translate to any significant loss of users anyways, as their main money-making users use it in a business setting where you kinda /have/ to use it.
"I think the concept of accredited investor needs to go away though."

At least some modification of who can be an accredited investor. Keep the current 200k income or 1 million in non-residental assets. Add some kind designation where you can declare an asset set aside for more risky (accredited investor level) investments and, after a year of sitting to prevent rash decisions, you are allowed to invest those assets in the risky investments. That would at least prevent people from cashing out there IRAs into obvious bubble situations and pyramid schemes and loosing all of their retirement assets. A lot harder for a con man to keep you fooled for a whole year.
I imagine the police could easily do the same thing on a suspect lineup, or when eliciting a description.
Neither of those things.

Targeting Oreo means telling the OS to disable backwards-compatibility behaviour which would otherwise apply.
Tiangong-1 destructive re-entry frequently asked questions
Animated custom emojis seem to be a common thread, animated images in general cause my CPU and memory to spike when using slack. Our network engineer loves this dancing parrot emoji but it basically pins a core on my machine and adds 20-30% of memory to slacks process.

I've switched over to using mattermost, it can be (and is) self hosted so I'm not as worried about slack getting hacked (again) and leaking our info/taking control of our systems with chatops.

The downside is; mattermost is not a strong replacement. I wrote a bot to basically do a large part of my job for me, and coding against mattermosts websocket protocol and dealing with authentication has been messy to say the least.

Slack is a joy to code against and use from a UI perspective when compared. (sadly, as I don't like it for ideological reasons)
I can posit a few things. My work is "down the street" from them and they hired extremely quickly. From murmurs I've heard that seemed to actually work out ok. Having experienced really fast growth at my work, but not their rate of fast growth, I can trow some spaghetti on the wall that will probably hit somewhere near the mark for some set of the 100 firings.

1. Managing out.

If you hire quickly and perhaps not carefully, you'll hire people who don't necessarily perform as well as you thought (generally), don't perform well in your environment in spite of their talents (i.e. Chris Lattner's short stint at Tesla), or don't get along with the team and hurt culture.

2. Under the same fast growth, you may also hire a specialist for some technology you decide to get rid of.

While the ideal situation is finding a new role or moving them to a different team with a similar technology (i.e. one NoSQL DB to another), you may not be able to do that if you hired lots of folks all at once.

3. They simply over hired.

This can mean they don't have enough managers and people are being poorly utilized, they hired opportunistically, or they were just poorly coordinated.

4. They need to make their accounting look better.

People cost money, until you stop paying them. Not much to say here.
The Jupiter Ace is 30 (2012)
If they are fully compatible it means community updates can work better too - not needing to worry about the HAL as much.

Yes, Google might need to take one more step of saying "and we ship the security updates" before the average user benefits - but that can be done down the line if the situation merits it. Developers and power users will be able to take advantage of it even sooner. A single codebase for LineageOS? Yes please!
I'd like to see baseline Android block clipboard access from background apps a la Copperhead OS.
Everybody here is disappointed at Slack, and I like open protocols and open platforms just like everybody else, but I still have a contrarian view.

Instead of blaming Slack, why not accept that the open protocols indeed suck? IRC does not specify encoding, netsplits are a common issue, file sending sucks, etc. XMPP also has file sending problems, does not play nice with mobile, is fragmented (not every client implements desired extensions), etc.

Why not accept that there are legit technical reasons why existing open protocols are unacceptable?

We should not be blaming Slack so much. If we want to make a difference we must come up with a better open protocol that satisfies all the requirements. And it does not end there: there must also be an open client that normal people actually want to use, and there must be tons of marketing to promote it.

Stop complaining about companies not adopting open protocols and do something. Dominate the world using open protocols, then the walled garden companies will follow. It is not easy, it may even feel wrong, but it is the only way.
That page is fucking gold, thank you so much for sharing.
This is certainly an improvement over last months version, but this part is still dubious:

> Ideal candidate would have a high upper bound on potential

Who's to say everyone doesn't have this, given the right ingredients?

It would be more communicative if you instead talked about what you're up to; upcoming projects, underlying technologies, scale or other ambitions; any of those would better assist candidates in identifying if they're a fit than if they simply have "a high upper bound".
table, td, tr, etc are perfectly valid and semantic HTML elements. Are HTML5's footer and header elements broken as well, shall we expect "footer-" and "header-" CSS properties in 5 years?
No. The difference here is 99% of people holding crypto assets are doing so as (and literally calling them “Investments”). People putting money into steam are knowingly doing so for the purpose of playing games.

The former represents a significant threat to the stability of American households when a large portion of the population thinks they are “investing” in something that is also not required to follow the safeguards in place for investments. In case you didn’t realize it, there are many many people putting much more money into crypto than they can afford to lose. See credit card purchases on Coinbase for more info.

I’d just assume let stupid people be stupid people, however, when millions of those stupid people collectively lose their money together...it creates huge societal problems and strain on government services which you and I have to pay for...with US dollars of course.
We have very different viewpoints. I'm a creative person. I have worked on many things that haven't been successful (and some of which have) but people I know might find them interesting and entertaining (Stories, novel attempts, video games, board games, music, videos, etc).

I'd rather a decent amount of those survive me in some fashion. A few might, as they'll probably be included in console or flash game rom dump collections, but I wish more would. I also wish i completed more projects in my lifetime.
Added to that : Snap is running on Google App Engine which closes the door for certain kind of jobs
What did everyone expect?

Slack is a proprietary protocol created to make money on its proprietary service.

I am glad they are making it more closed as then maybe more people realise that centralising your communications on top a VC funded, for-profit company is not a good idea.
At gravitational we actually build a platform for this: https://gravitational.com/telekube/

Among other things, let's you package an app and kubernetes together into a unified installer, upgrade it, etc. No internet access required or kubernetes experience needed for end users.
These need to be sorted by publishing time, not by your database entry time. You can tell because you've recently added Percona, and it's filling up the top with backdated stuff. I'd also have preferred just a minimalist interface. We don't need anymore voting/commenting stuff at this point.
App loyalty cards, while still having some information on you, are largely about large merchants (ie starbucks) avoiding credit card interchange fees by giving rewards for people who load money to the app and purchase from there.

So, all incentives are not against consumers. The merchants avoid the credit card oligopoly fee and pass on the rewards to consumers.
Wow, you know, I never really thought about it, but this highlights the political premise that all postmortems are only expressions of either extreme shame or heroism, and perhaps only rarely honestly recount mediocre transgressions.
Maybe on features that get aborted on each change of corporate strategy (my supposition)?

It's also really easy to knock out a MVP that replicates 80% of snapchat features, but the real problem is getting the scale right, as conventional social networks are worthless without a huge pool of eyeballs for precisely targeted ads.

While I'm at it, I'd like to plant the thought that Social might be a perfect place for disruption again, but now with a non-profit/public strategy. Maybe with a huge initial donation it's more than enough as incremental user costs are minimal if we don't spend money optimizing for engagement and ads and use some decentralized tech lime swarm/ipfs, but that's for another time.

Also the weird corner cases in different platforms and the huge technical debt in most startups seem to sap a lot of energy.
From what I can see, an issue here is the default experience of going out for a meal in the US. Food is very associated with social activities pretty much everywhere, but the United States restaurant experience too often involves way too huge portions. This portion size ballooning certainly has contributed to the United States' obesity (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/news-even...).

From what I see, in New York City and other major cities, it's a lot easier to find restaurants that are more balanced in portions and/or promote healthier fare. This is not necessarily true everywhere in the United States... and even in NYC, I'm sure there are quite a number of restaurants that fall into that ballooned portion size category. If a group of folks decides that this type of restaurant is what they want, if you are on a diet, what do you do?

In this sense, I actually think the introvert has an advantage here. Heck, so many of the US social activities revolve around often junk-y food and/or alcohol... whether it be a celebratory party, a pancake breakfast, a picnic lunch, a potluck social, gathering to watch a game, etc...
Weird, my slack app on windows is currently using 54MB.
You could target Oreo but I assume you could still set minSdkVersion lower than that.
As a "little guy" who lost a lot of USD and Bitcoin in the MtGox fiasco (luckily, nothing I couldn't afford to lose, though with the price BTC is trading at now it would be really nice to still have those BTC), and any possible partial payout through the bankruptcy process is tied up in potential litigation, I'm a fan of more heavily regulated exchanges that I can actually trust.

Since the MtGox fiasco, I've never bothered trying to liquidate any more of my Bitcoin, and instead just occasionally use it to pay for things which accept direct Bitcoin payment.

I'd be a lot happier with a trustworthy, audited exchange.

If there are smaller exchanges that couldn't deal with the regulation, they probably also can't deal with security, keeping enough secure reserves to be able to pay out in the case of losses, auditing both their security and finances to ensure that they stay healthy and liquidate gracefully if they ever run into financial trouble.
Which features? Seems like an excuse to not maintain those services.