skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone help me here. What do you get if you've 'invested' in this ICO? Some kind of enforceable ownership in the company? Voting rights? Something else?
The fact that a product named, plainly, "AdBlock Plus" that doesn't make clear that the "Plus" means "Plus all ads from the 2 largest purveyors of Internet advertising" is worth pointing out.
Sorry about this. I haven't heard anything bad about Medium, but you can read the original post on my blog instead: https://sricks.com/please-stop-using-adblock/
It took me a long time to feel comfortable with the idea of building our own database. For Stream it worked out well though: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...
Tools like RocksDB and Raft give you really flexible building blocks.
It's not so much that people are paid better in the bay area, but the jobs are plentiful, more interesting, more opportunities. Endless opportunities in fact.

Bay area best case scenario is top of the world. Founder of a world-wide renowned company.

Best case scenario for being in waterloo: Founder of a huge telcom handset manufacturer until shifting markets cause massive failure written about in economics textbooks as "what not to do"
Durovs are agents of the Kremlin, not fugitives.
I’m a little curious as to why this comment, of all comments, has attracted downvotes. Is there something about the comparison between these two types of bathroom attendant positions I’m overlooking? Genuinely curious
It feels like you're missing a line somewhere in this - you talk about quitting your job, your wife getting fired, and your now-ex-boss offering you a raise to stick around, then start talking about "both jobs" without ever mentioning a new job.
It isn't clear to me from this press release what "leaning into GeForce" means. Will partners need to include the GeForce name as part of their product names, in addition to the product numbers?

Anyway, I'm a little surprised that Nvidia didn't ride out the complaints and press their current GPU advantage, but I assume they're working with a more complete picture of the landscape than I am.
Oh yes, definitely. Momentum matters. I said in another thread here a long time ago, down-voted to hell, that these electron apps would "win" purely because of the momentum. We tend to look at a technology and assess it as a snapshot now. We (people in general) don't usually treat a technology as a function of (now * momentum). I think it's pretty well proven that with technology motion is everything. There are plenty of great things that started out bad, bad things that started out great, and good things that never became great. Motion is the difference.
I'd love to make this work, Forrest - drop my name in a note to help@mapbox.com and let's see if we can get you setup with the Isochrone plugin (https://blog.mapbox.com/add-isochrones-to-your-next-applicat...) which sits on top of the Mapbox Matrix API. https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/visualizing-commute-times-3... is awesome!
Cubes are simpler than hammers, was the point.
what does privacy badger do that can't be accomplished with a custom ublock list?
Writing Elixir stubs for better testing
Could also mean that investors are covering cost, but still keeping part of their position.

Ex buy at 0.30. Price goes to 1.2, sell 25% of holdings to cover cost, but let profit ride.

As the saying goes, "Can't lose money by taking profits".
I am an European that has immigrated to both countries at different points, and my experience couldn't be farther from what you describe. And my stint in the USA was 20 years ago, which was the wild west compared to today. What do you mean by stricter here?
I think survival bias is a huge part of the problem of comparing these two groups.

You are excluding from your set the small organizations with less efficient engineers, because they can not survive with even one less efficient engineer.

Large corporations can survive with many more inefficient engineers.

Plus most of what everyone else said.
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On the contrary. It accepts '/' as a path separator for filenames in every API call. The special case that doesn't is command line parsing (cmd.exe and a few others)
From what I've seen... If you consider stock options and bonuses, you could be making at least double that in the valley.

Canadians getting a raw deal by comparison. Cost of living in Toronto is not half of that of the Bay Area. Most like 2/3rds.
> what I always wanted was a great visualization system for pointers

Look at 68000 assembly language. In particular indexed addressing modes.

In C really that's almost all they are.
“fake news” is the modern way of saying “I don’t believe it, but I’m a moron”
Except where it isn't: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroachdb-python/pull/14#is...
Sadly software is still treated as a cost center for a lot of companies. It's depressing how many forms you fill out having to say you're in "I.T."
But Pulitzer Prize committee likely don't have any experts in math, and can't verify some bold statements about math theory described in the book.
Might be obvious, but the biggest thing you'll give up in this market compared to cities like Toronto or Montréal is selection. There's some larger companies with satellite offices here (IBM, Salesforce, etc), but not too many startups.

One word of caution about real estate in the Fredericton area; don't buy any property too close to the river. There's usually flooding in the spring from the snow melt up stream and this year was especially bad. I was lucky enough not to be affected, but there's lots of homes taking flood damage right now.
I didn't say that. They weren't volunteers - they are all employees, funded by the billionaire who didn't want initially that American companies ruled the messaging space.
Another much appreciated advantage of 24 bit is that it allows so much extra headroom:- when recording, levels can be set so the peaks hit maybe -18 -- -12dB(FS) which helps eliminate any chance of clipping in unexpected circumstances.
It's the platform that has huge potential to drive mass adoption of crypto currency. Messaging platform is a natural base for payment system, just look at wechat.

Right now, most of bitcoin's liquidity comes from drugs – if you want to purchase anything, you have to go through it, or other, much less safe payment systems. However, the marketplaces move rapidly from darkweb to Telegram; and since buyers already heavily use it to connect to dealers and dealer's bots, it's an easy and natural progression to pay in the same app, too.

Out of personal experience with above points, I have no doubt that Gram will be huge on day one.
No shit. Taleb would say: "those who can, do. those who can't teach others or write about others doing it". Just look at the financial press which is the last place you should look for market analysis.
That is sadly true. I am actually going to delete my cluster tomorrow because of that.
I'd say that since this article was written well after Win7 that it's in response to your experience and other experiences like yours.
WeChat is 165MB (just the app, not including anything else) on my phone.

Don't know where you get that 60MB number.
Do Canadian companies make that much less money than American ones? Why should they get to pad their profit margins because 120k CAD is "good income"?
It was a huge dick move from the beginning.

Requiring Partners to make their gaming brands Nvidia exclusive way obviously intended to hurt AMD.

Maybe they got a serious call from the FTC about anticompetitive practices.

Also see: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/08/geforce_partner_p...
Lesson 7: when you reach webscale(TM) it gets expensive AF
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

-Warren Bennis
Despite the propaganda flying around HN for known political purposes, they can't and won't arrest you because there is no jurisdiction unless you have operations in the EU.
It’s the thinking person’s altitude training!
Essentially nothing.
chcp 65001

and bob's your uncle.
I don't think the validity of company ownership based on holding tokens has been tested in the courts yet, so we don't really know.

Will be interesting when a company sells tokens, becomes very successful, then decides they want to change the terms of their previous sale. Clearly, billions of dollars could be on the line - eventually some company is going to become very successful, get greedy and smartly raise the ambiguous question of whether they are legally bound by token sale obligations.

Have any companies that have ICO'ed reflected their token sales in their company bylaws? I think the 'legal API' between token ownership and enforcement in courts is an interesting problem.
That's a very unlikely "solution" and is not going to happen unless the EU wants retribution in some form from the rest of the world.
Realistically I don't think what you mention is possible without the company being State run.

No matter what, an organization needs income. Either donations our business revenue. In any case, because there is competition, when if the service is simply maintained costs will inevitably rise.

Arguably raising a war chest is the best way to stay smooth sailing. I think there is a false belief that there is a world where it's possible to build and maintain quality software, specifically wide scale free consumer software, that doesn't need massive scale to survive.
You're doing better than me and I'm at one of the largest communications/media companies in the country— and I'm at the head office in Toronto.

I was in Victoria last week. Arriving back here I immediately regretted coming back. :| Except for, of course, the need for the pay, and a few of my things. I love it out there.
A Lesson in Timing Attacks (or, Don’t Use MessageDigest.isEquals)
I don't understand anything at all from this press release.

Could somebody TL;DR the situation to someone who doesn't follow GPU markets?
This seems an impractical suggestion, at best. To spend $450 and fly 2000 miles, to then spend $21 on a lunch-menu salad. Made with iceberg lettuce. Instead of any of the fresh oysters on that menu that I cannot get at home.

That recipe seems to be for disappointment.

If the only way to redeem an otherwise boring and useless chunk of iceberg lettuce is to put better foods on top of it, like steak, why not just throw out the lettuce and eat the other foods instead?

Can you suggest any use for iceberg lettuce that I can test at home that would not be vastly improved by either leaving the iceberg out, or substituting Romaine, Bibb, or leaf lettuce in its place?
We wrote our own database 15 years ago - needed something embeddable into the application on both windows and linux, i386 and alpha, and the ability to do transactional schema modifications without global locking. If I recall correctly, postgresql was at 7.3 at the time and would happily dump core if you tried something like 'drop table x;rollback'.

And we didn't need full sql semantics, because we partially implemented it into our scripting language anyway and used only cursor APIs. postgresql's mvcc was still a great inspiration for how to design the actual row storage.

Served us well, but 15 years later, a bit too much of custom features make it hard to switch to a standard database.
Different times, social customs and norms. Generally they would have been trained in combat and warfare and not as merchants or craftsmen, which at the time were considered lower in the class hierarchy then the 2nd son of a lord or knight.

In essence him being a crafts-person or merchant would have been looked down on by everyone.
I didn't say they were paying "good" wages, but that they are paying market wages. The argument that Canadian software salaries aren't a market, but rather a stubborn choice by companies not to do the right thing, is curiously magical.

The question is, what would change the situation? Not some change of heart by companies to finally do the right thing, or come to their senses about what their self-interest really is. Those aren't real things. To change it would require some change in the fundamentals, such as if the government made it harder for people to leave.
I can't put this in nicer words than what a shitty article.

- Telegram might have opted to cancel the public sale due to recent events on how SEC and CTFC perceive tokens (they are more and more viewed as security) and in that case, it's better that all tokens are sold to professional investors.

- Just because there is a demand for TON tokens which will, in turn, create a secondary "gray" market doesn't mean that the ICO is a mess. It's just that they decided not to sell to the public.

- You might love or hate what Telegram is doing with the ICO (I'm more on the hate part of the spectrum), but the fact remains - Telegram just raised 1.7B without diluting and it seems that both Telegram and the speculative investors are very happy about that. How that can be construed as a mess is beyond me.

Doing a "me-too" ICO with a bunch of buzzwords thrown in is such an obvious money grab and I would prefer that they simply integrate Ethereum directly in Telegram, but you can't deny their position as the go-to communication tool of the Crypto community (Wechat being the second in line). They are just capitalizing on their position and re-positioning themselves as a Wechat clone, but built on crypto instead.

edit: formatting
I have very similar feelings in Calgary although it's improving slowly.

But I have spent a lot of time in silicon valley and it has recently felt a lot worse, dangerous and gross. I hope my next trip brightens my spirits but it's getting harder for me to love the bay area.
There are also no reclining chairs in the back of planes. These things would be incremental additions, obviously SOME changes need to be made.

Thanks!!
Pretty much. Which tells you what about those who remain behind?
Must it scream?
Not really. The vast majority of those 35 million live in 3 really small areas. Just like the vast majority of california lives on the coast. California is a physically huge state by the way, that is fairly sparsely populated in big swaths of the state.
I don't think depreciation of a currency that isn't fully convertible in a country that's a net exporter is going to be a massive crisis.

(Also, weren't people worried at one point about the huge amount of US government bonds owned by China?)
For anyone who's interested, https://proton-native.js.org/ is basically React Native but for desktop apps.
My favorite explanation of an ICO comes from Kevin Roose [1]

> If you’re having trouble picturing it: Imagine that a friend is building a casino and asks you to invest. In exchange, you get chips that can be used at the casino’s tables once it’s finished. Now imagine that the value of the chips isn’t fixed, and will instead fluctuate depending on the popularity of the casino, the number of other gamblers and the regulatory environment for casinos. Oh, and instead of a friend, imagine it’s a stranger on the internet who might be using a fake name, who might not actually know how to build a casino, and whom you probably can’t sue for fraud if he steals your money and uses it to buy a Porsche instead. That’s an I.C.O.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/cryptocurrency-b...
iOS 12 Release Date and New Rumours
just two f%cking days ago it was the other way around: developers and conventions are leaving the US to go to Canada because of Trump. Make up your mind already.
I prefer the direction it's going in now where most podcasts I listen to have an option to subscribe to pay the podcaster more directly. This does not require turning my player into spyware yet it keeps the podcasts going.
They drive a pulse of electro magnetic radiation (e.g. light) through it, and it takes a very long time to go through, perhaps the signal is altered and ideally it isn't emitted from the system until made to. That's more or less the same explanation as for magnetic and electronic memories, too.
Explained like I was five.
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
In this case you're suggesting the billionaire be the one who is the volunteer. Or rather are you considering it a charity project funded by one donor?
A lot of the tech industry is about burning through investors' money in search of new profitable ideas. I'm guessing there's much less investor money in Canada.
I have only anecdotal evidence, which is me.

Since about 3 years I've been counting calories and let various wrist watches with 24/7 heart rate trackers (fitbit, later garmin devices) estimate energy expenditure.

So I measure energy in and out (with unknown error bars). The energy balance I get as a result predicts what my body weight should do.

My control is stepping on the scale every time before I take a shower, log, and observe trends.

Result, consistent over the last three-ish years: my measured weight does almost exactly what the calorie counting and wristwatch estimating predicts. I see absolutely no systematic error in one direction or the other (measured over weeks, that is, to do away with short term fluctuations).
I don't know. Most developed countries militaries exist more to respond to aggravations from other countries than to actively stir up conflict. If a country decides not to have a military than it's at the mercy of a country that does to play nice. I'm sure it's true though that once you have a military you're more inclined to use it, but militaries do serve a useful purpose.
During my years in Vancouver last decade, crossing the border to visit my brother in Seattle was such a stark contrast... Entering the USA I always felt like I was this close to being kicked back. From the faces, tones of voice, type of questions to the general atmosphere, all seemed intended to make me feel dominated. Crossing back to Canada was always fast and efficient, half the times the guards would even joke in good taste.

I don't think it was the difference between being a visitor (to the USA) vs a resident (in Canada), because the couple of times I went abroad while I was a resident in the USA were very similar.
redis is also sometimes held up as an example of well-written C code.
I am a Canadian who lives in Michigan. Here is why a comp sci major moves to US

1. Low salary compared to US
2. High Tax
3. Cant afford a house in Toronto
4. TN Visa makes easy to get a job in US.
> I don't think the validity of company ownership based on holding tokens has been tested in the courts yet, so we don't really know.

Well, I think that if the matter of company ownership comes down to a decision by a court, then the token didn't really function as it was supposed to.

The point of (or at least, one of the points of) smart contracts is to be the enforcement agent for the terms of an ERC20 token.

Of course, we're not there yet, and for that reason, it's a silly / premature to suppose that an ERC20 token can represent true ownership.
Not entirely true.

Costs across Canada are getting pretty absurd. Air travel, mobile data, wages, shipping, consumer goods, housing, insurance https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/8gui6r/are_canadian...
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Ok, I'm not sure what it is, but when I got my first LTE device (iPhone5) it was so much faster than my 4S that I simply couldn't believe it.

Of course, I had recently switched from ATT to Tmobile, so I'm not sure whether AT&T's HSPA+ was on paper speed equivalent to TMobile's LTE, but the difference in experience was amazing (it could also have been the fact that TMO had planned additional capacity before everyone joined - AT&T was crowded/oversubscribed for sure - or maybe the iPhone4S modem was just slower in general than the iPhone5).
Could it be because you're a foreigner? I almost certainly got picked out on every ride on the Munich S-Bahn by a fare agent for a ticket-check because I was obviously not German.

Which I totally get - a tourist is way more likely to make a mistake than a local.
Definitely be aware of the current value/cost of CPP and OAS and the difference typical medical expenditures (both the normal ones things that contribute to out-of-pocket maximums, and catastrophic care risks). Not to discourage you, the pay difference might cover it and then some. Sounds like you know what you're doing, but just in case.
I can't believe how much Vancouver has changed (as far as attractiveness for recent grads) over the last twenty years.

When I turned 20 in 1997, Vancouver seemed like a personal version of heaven. Rents were more expensive than where I'm from, but that increase was easily offset by the ability to easily double my salary. Real estate was heavy, but not so heavy that it seemed unobtainable. Add in what I perceived to be real opportunity to work in an interesting field, a highly educated workforce and the natural beauty and I was completely sold.

Today, even if I were twenty again, I can't think of a single legitimate reason why I would choose Vancouver over Seattle.
A fresh start for the web. And if you look carefully on the toe-stepped-on-tune in this thread - the possibility to be your neighbors dis-raptor, when the whole gold rush starts over - this time decentralized.
Haha, that makes sense.
SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
Mea culpa is pretty common and translate similarly in Brazil (minha culpa), after all, portuguese is a language that has latin as an ancestor, but my favorite and the one that confused me the most the first time I saw is "Quod erat demonstrandum", almost all mathematical proofs that I did in college had Q.E.D. instead of the portuguese C.Q.D. at the end to indicate that that was the point where the proof was finished.
One Size Fits All solutions usually don't actually. An architecture with Kafka has overhead, like any architecture. Sometimes that overhead is more costly than the supposed benefits.

So the reason it doesn't eat the world in spite of best effort by resume-padding "architects" is that some of us successfully push back against using it to shuffle a few GB of data per day around, where a vanilla Postgres, MySQL or often even sqlite db will do.
Do you have a link to a CO2 detector that you recommend?
This says that Mozilla has been "less aggressive" in implementing PWA features, but the only API I can see missing is the speech synthesis. Have they really failed to support anything important? I mean they invented the PWA with Boot2Gecko a.k.a. Firefox OS.
Good riddance, it was a terrible anticompetitive idea and I would rather see Nvidia innovate instead of relying on such methods.