skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I email my family and schedule videochat.

I don't have a GP. If I'm ill, I just go to a walk-in clinic. I can also schedule appointments online. When I was too sick to go out at all and due to a particular situation I didn't have web access either, I asked a neighbour to make a phone call for me. I live in a city where I can rely on the help of others.

For some official business, I use the landline at work to talk to banks or government. Most of the time I can use the web, though.

It is not a requirement for me to have a personal phone.
It’s an interesting show but really ought to be the web history podcast.
Chrome browser is only 50% of Electron. The other 50% is a complete nodejs distribution which allows access to the OS filesystem, network, anything Java or .NET can do on a desktop... So no, it's not just a browser web app. Electron is absolutely native to the OS is runs on.
I have to admit I had the same thought, but seeing it backed by System76 does give me a lot of hope that it won't be another "flash in the pan" novelty distro that will disappear off the face of the earth in 12 months' time.
I wouldn't be able to do my job or access my bank without it, so I'd say yes, I can't live without it.
Hardly worth replying, but I don't see the similarity. A 6-year-old understands perfectly well what a prime number is, and you can write a program to test for primality in half a line of Haskell (though the performance will not be good). Now what's a "free will"?
Good for genetic research and finding a cure for various diseases.

I don't understand people getting crazy scared: "oh my God! some companies have a string of letters that resembles my genome. oh my. they're gonna use it to deny me healthcare. Stop genetic research!"
Huh? Why does this suggest that? After you create a bank account for instance a unique account number is generated for you. But usually they don't create these for each citizens on birth in each bank.
>I’d like to avoid the latter going forward.

Awesome idea, thanks!
Long-time lurker of HN. Finally made an account just to chime in on this.

Most people who disagree with people using "dumbphones" or not having a phone at all seem to say it is entirely an issue with the person's self control. Do we completely blame people for getting addicted to caffeine or cigarettes? No, at least I would not think so. We all understand that those two things are addictive in nature. Why would a smartphone with all the fancy UX, apps, and ease-of-access be different? If a smartphone is geared to be exploit one's attention span and is just as addictive then why put all the blame on people's lack of self control? Sometimes it is easier to go cold turkey much like people do with quitting caffeine and cigarettes.
Sounds like an idiot to me. How can someone that dumb be inspiring?
> for a creationist a slightly different mote or bird will never be a proof of speciation

As I noted, for a Creationist nothing will ever be proof of speciation. But apparently telling such simple truths gets downvoted.

> As mentioned, a more radical event should happen to convince these people (so radical as to be impossible).

No, no event, not matter how radical, would convince them because they are ideologically committed to rejecting evolution, which they see as contrary to their entire belief system.
It's so slow and buggy that sometimes it registers clicks I do on the chat window as if I did them on the contact search one and end up sending that funny meme to a multichat I created with 30 I don't know instead of the contact/tab I selected.
I'm using the closed nVidia drivers because everything else is an act of madness. (why else would you buy a powerful graphics card if you're not going to use the drivers!?)

As a comparison, using kivy (https://kivy.org/) I'm getting constant 60 fps at 4k (I have vsync on and full compositing pipeline to avoid tearing)

Compositing in gnome2 was never a problem (once it was stable, back in late 2009) I don't see why its should be a problem with gnome.

Now I'm willing to admin that compared to a web app, its snappy. But thats still not fast enough.
Getting a seed round is a form of negotiating. If you know very little about negotiating, it would be a good idea to read up before you do anything so high stakes.

Two good books that are research based:

Getting to Yes

The mind and heart of the negotiator

The first is a quick and easy read. The second is much meatier. They were both required texts for a college class I had on the subject.
Very cool! I actually considered building something similar myself about a year ago but got pulled into other projects... definitely see a lot of value in providing a single interface.

How are you planning to handle the explosion in complexity? Once you have hundreds/thousands of different services integrated, the schema becomes rather huge, especially if a specific user only needs a fraction of it. Is the plan to toggle services on/off and then only stitch the schema for a particular user with the limited set of fields?
> My guess for why is due to the high quality of the open source Intel graphics accelerator drivers on Linux. NVIDIA and AMD do not offer this at all

Serious question: Is your opinion of AMD based on the old radeon driver, the old Catalyst driver, or the new amdgpu driver? Those are three entirely separate and vastly different experiences. I'm using amdgpu at home and have not experienced any performance issues with it at all.
Discovery playlists filled with songs I've already 'liked' or added to my library. Discovery playlists with duplicates. And in other playlists, having to 'do not play' songs I don't actually mind because they are generally popular and the algorithm thinks I want to hear it three times a day, every day. A great way to kill your love of a song.

While I love the concept of Spotify, I'm certainly not going to pay for it and eagerly waiting for competitors to be available in my regions.
I have noticed this multiple times - shaming people for recognizing they are not perfect and taking active logical steps to overcome effects of non-perfection. Re-framing the original minor and pretty normal problem as some kind of sinister all encompassing personal fault that makes you lesser.

As if everyone was expected to pretend they are super perfect in totally everything and admission of some completely normal fault that needs to be worked around or fixed deserved punishment and shame.

Sometimes people get compulsive habit and if buying flip phone or whatever helps them, it is legit to talk about it.
You need a classical information channel in combination with quantum entanglement. This is explained here for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

Because you need the classical information channel you are still limited by the speed of light and hence cannot transmit information faster than light.
Public blockchain networks registry with detailed tech specs
Time to set up an IRC server again then. Sigh.
Facebook Twitter and linkedin came pre installed on my Samsung phone, and can't be removed (or even hidden as far as i can see)
E.L.I.Z.A. Talking
ISO 9 was adopted 1954.
Depending on legislature, it can be a win-win situation.

Example: Currently living in Switzerland, which has "Lunch cheques" [0]. Employees don't pay income tax on their value, employers don't pay social security on their value, local restaurants/takeaways get more customers.

[0] https://www.lunch-check.ch/en
More details in the Google+ post [1] by its creator

[1] https://plus.google.com/+NorbertLandsteiner1/posts/Ln3iZzqXa...
Slack is best of the breed - all history search, easy code blocks that i cannot yet figure out how to in Hipchat, pictures, files.

Electron is big and bad, is it phoning back to Google? but I can understand the savings.

Hipchat have an UI, that looks like a joke, after using Slack, but on-premises, offline installs are very important for company security.

I guess Slack bought it just to kill it. No offline stuff in 2018, folks.
You need to be thinking about what's in it for them. Yes, you want money. But they don't invest out of the goodness of their heart. They want something out of it.

Don't be the one of a bazillion people with their hand out. Be the one with something that interests them.
A few years ago I took this MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/internet-history

It was great for me because it was very light in coursework and easy, so it was a good gateway drug to MOOCs, unlike the more advanced classes which I often dropped halfway due to lack of time.

The content itself is very good, includes some old videos and interviews with some of the people who worked on internet technology in the 80s and 90s, and even does a quick explanation of some concepts of computer networks(TCP/IP, ethernet, etc).
4 best tips to manage cash flows in web-design startups – SlickAccount Blog
Oh, it has history... in Outlook, that's like Edge saving your bookmarks in Excel kind of absurd.

But I agree it works like shit, half the conversations aren't there and I can't figure out a pattern or why.
Global Primary Energy Consumption
> In Wayland, they removed this shortcut.

I'm usually not one to come to Gnome's defence, but it's very likely they did not really have any choice there. In Wayland, the compositor is the parent process of the entire session, so you cannot restart it willy-nilly. That's a design choice made by the Wayland protocol, not by the Gnome devs.
I'm using Nokia 108. It's small and light, the battery lasts 2 weeks (1 week if I listen to radio often), it's a phone. I don't worry if it falls and breaks (and it doesn't break easily, I washed it with my jeans once and it still works, just had to buy a new battery).

If I need internet access I have a tablet in my backpack, it's much more convenient to browse on a bigger screen and without worrying battery will drain and I won't be able to answer calls. The hurdle of taking the tablet out is enough to discourage constant checking for notifications, but when I need gps or have to wait for 30 minutes in a queue somewhere it's there.
> in no small part driven by YC, which basically pioneered investing at scale in companies without requiring a social connection.

Here in the UK - having participated in one of the leading (in terms of exits) accelerators - it's better to have a good accent. You meet the investor then talk about which college at Cambridge you went to. Or they stare at you like you're some kind of space alien.
> I've spent 15 minutes just trying to remove superfluous newlines

I find that hard to believe but have reported it to Atlassian?

If all the problems which have mentioned are true why not move to something else?
Tierchen is surely cuter than just Animal? Like maybe like critter or beastie?
Using nets or arms seems wasteful to me, to be honest; you'd need to bring a new satellite up there for every piece of debris you want to get rid of. Wouldn't it be a lot more convenient to use something like laser ablation to slow down the debris and make it burn up in the atmosphere on its own?
Wow, this title would make a perfect fantasy book title.
There's also something amazing about seeing an area from the sky, especially one you know well at ground level. All sorts of topographical features and structures which you didn't know about are revealed.

Almost all flying clubs / schools offer "trial" or "experience" flights. Even if you have no interest in getting your own license, it's a great way to spend an hour or two!
> it makes them easier to move around with a touchscreen.

Ok, next question: Why do you need window handles the size of interstate freeways on devices without touchscreens? It's not like it's impossible to detect the current hardware configuration.
Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass
My immediate thought was more: who is getting paid? Unless something has changed 23andMe costs money (I'm assuming that it is for-profit). Are the clients getting drugs for cheaper? Are they helping in general to make drugs cheaper? Is 23andMe giving money back to clients whose data they are selling? (I know it says sharing, but let's be honest someone at 23andMe is raking in the profits).

Second would be privacy. I don't want some random drug company knowing that I might be in a risk group of getting some disease so they could target me better.

Just in general seems shitty double dipping to first ask people to pay for your product and then turn around and sell the data to someone else.
'Askerlik yapamazsın' denilen Mehmetçik hem ağladı hem ağlattı
Also even if every app on this planet supported it properly, you should still listen to the users. If they feel like it's wrong that the menu is disconnected from the applications main window, you can come along and go "but most apps have multiple windows and the actions in the menu are application specific, not window specific" and feel really smart about it, or acknowledge that this might be an artificial rule that while technically correct still leads to inferior UX. Because our simple dummy brains just get more confused by the fact that this menu seems entirely disconnected from the application than they would by the fact that the menu is arbitrarily fused to a random window of the application. Really most of the time it's not even that random because many apps have just one main window while the others are tool boxes, settings windows or other dialogs you only open occasionally for a short moment.
GB18030 is more or less Unicode, isn't it?
You don't, because slack is ephemeral.

You join/are joined to a channel because its relevant to what or who you are working _now_. If you want help, then you go to #department or #thing those are the default public channels.

For example I was in a "SRE/devop/sysadmin" role, and I would be embedded in a production/feature team. So I would be part of sre-private and sre. I would also be part of #widget #widget-private and any sub feature teams.

This means that noise is neatly compartmentalised. I don't have to sift because its already in a labelled bucket.
Is it true that the human "OS" (i.e., genome) has changed that radically?
I can't find any mention of "bad actors" or "freezing out" anybody or anything so I'm going to guess you meant just generally which middle boxes are "bad" and the answer is all of them, almost by definition.

The specifications we're dealing with here don't (and in modern protocols, this is quite deliberate) allow for any middleboxes. The only, minimal way to implement such a thing correctly in the face of that situation is to act as a full proxy, which is going to _suck_ for performance and your customers aren't going to pay for a product that throttles their connectivity badly nor for the hardware that would let you run a line speed proxy.

So, they don't, they try to make an end run around the protocol compliance, typically the idea goes something like this:

During connection setup we'll inspect everything and implement whatever rules are key to our product, but mostly we'll pass things between the real client and server transparently, only intervening as necessary for our role

Then, we can "whitelist" most connections, and let them continue at line speed without actually being inspected further.

Unlike a full proxy this design breaks, messily, when optional protocol features are understood by the client and server but not the middlebox. This is because either the middlebox pretends to understand when it doens't (so client and server seem to get their mutually agreed new feature, but if it has any impact on how the protocol is used it breaks mysteriously since the middlebox didn't know) or the middlebox squashes everything it doesn't understand then steps out of the way and expects that to work out OK even though the client and server now misunderstand each other's situation.
Since nobody mentioned Zulip's REST API yet, I'll do. There is one, and and it is really good.

There are also native language-specific wrappers for that API, for example in python[1], which lets you write a bot in 5 lines:

import zulip
client = zulip.Client()
def onmsg(m):
print ("at %d, %s said: %s" %
(m['timestamp'],
m['sender_email'],
m['content']))
client.call_on_each_message(callback=onmsg)

[1] https://pypi.org/project/zulip/
To be aware, this still uses google servers. I'm not quite sure what the benefit is then (beside it being open source).
That's the only good way of playing The Witcher 3. They put lots of ui customization, but the defaults are overbearing, you watch ui not the world.

At least disable the "?" signs on unexplored areas and the path to next quest objective, game is much more enjoyable without them and not too inconvenient.
It was legal at the time.
Supports inline linking to images on the internet like: [caption](url-to-image) and also supports uploading files.

Do feel free to give it a test drive on https://chat.zulip.org on the stream `#test here` to get a feel for it. :D
> I think your situation sounds a bit different

Even if so, that's not relevant; you said that people like me "invariably" don't exist.

> where the manager either isn't very technical or isn't technical enough. Otherwise they'd be able to see the problem for themselves.

No, that's entirely wrong. As I clearly stated, it's the programming staff who can't see the problem. They are the people who never complain about technical debt while also never reducing it, contrary to your statement. That's the point, and your "good for you" is point-missingly dismissive.

> Speaking as a manager for a sec here

Just don't; I've been developing software since 1965 and I don't need your lectures (which are based on a complete lack of knowledge and erroneous assumptions about the software manager at that firm and my relationship and interactions with him), I simply pointed out that your sweeping generalization about who reduces technical debt and who points it out is erroneous. That's all. Period. The end. I won't respond further.
+1

Also, a more beginner explanation:
http://www.warriorsofthe.net/
That makes sense if you think a world looking like Silicon Valley is a positive thing; you do, I do not. I am happy most of the world doesn't look like Silicon Valley or, in most cases, even remotely like it.
React component patterns
That's interesting - what's the process there? Do you have to provide proof that they are used? Let's say they are accepted, do you then have to convince someone to create the glyphs? Do you have to add them to a current font or do you create an entirely new one?

Is this an area you work in or is it a hobby project?
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> I'm not particularly interested in being right or wrong, but, rather, improving understanding.

Sure, I hadn't meant to seem combative.

> the whole discussion has been about kernel-supported file locking. Anything called "threading" outside of the kernel seems inapplicable, no matter how closely related conceptually or in practice

Is it necessarily inapplicable? You could write a Python program that uses file-based locking, despite that Python threads don't map to kernel threads, no?

Or in C, you could have 'fake threads' where you effectively bounce control around between a few different execution streams (something akin to coroutines or fibers). We could still reason about which 'thread' holds the file lock, despite that there's only one kernel thread. (Aside: the GNU 'Pth' library does something like this.)

> such as if userspace/green threads both significantly preceded kernel threading support and motivated its implementation

I think interpreters tend to use green threads simply for ease of implementation, more than for anything else. I suppose it helps with cross-platform concerns, but these days, it's quite possible to write multi-platform concurrent C/C++ code. Green threads aren't so popular today, now that multicore is the norm.

Long ago, processes predated (kernel) threads. Before my time, but I believe the general idea then was that if you want the kernel to orchestrate concurrent execution (including executing in parallel on multiple cores if possible) then you'd just have to bite the bullet and go multi-process.

Today we still see some use of process-level concurrency/parallelism, such as in Postgres.
So crummy that WhatsApp built a billion dollar company on it. It seems like a good-enough solution to me.
Surprised to see this posted here! As a student I had a chance to take part in e-deorbit symposium in 2014. Back then they were considering 3 methods for capturing satellites: a net, robotic arm and a harpoon of sorts.

What struck me the most from this conference is realizing how big of an issue space junk can be. From back then I remember the was no rules on disposing of satellites, the owning body could decide for a nice approach and use the fuel to put the satellite in a higher orbit, or slow it down so that it burns in Earth atmosphere. Or they could not give a shit and use the remaining fuel for operations, maximizing the profit.
I use the nvidia card for games, but intel for the desktop. It's much better.
Wow! I missed that one, thanks :)

What sort of reality it sees is a a matter for debate though, I know in radio interferometry there is much subjective processing involved.
Not in their SF.
And chain that hash to the next self-replicated individual to form a bioblockchain, to distribute copies and achieve bioconsensus. I worry though about viral 51% attacks.
I paged through 15 sets of characters (at 10 per page) in my Pinyin IME and couldn't find it, and yeah, mine also shows up as a box. Here's the info if anyone's interested: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2c386/index.htm
Slack is still to expensive :/ this merge will not help.

What we need is self hosted app like Rocket Chat, which is not the best software on the market but it's the best solution for new companies to start with something inexpensive.
WW2 military planes were at the limits of a man's strength. Flying those airplanes in combat or in an emergency is very physical.

For example, a B-17 could fly with only one outboard engine running. But the pilot could barely hold the rudder in position to do it, and would trade off with the copilot. Women don't have the lower body strength to do it. Flying a damaged B-17 is just not possible without the leg and upper body strength.

There was an episode of "Aviation Disasters" where a piston airliner had some severe damage, I don't remember just what, just that the pilot had to desperately muscle the controls for a couple hours.

This all changed, of course, with the advent of hydraulic boost. With fully powered surfaces, the "feel forces" on the stick were faked by the "feel computer". By the time I worked on the 757 flight controls, the "feel forces" had been dialed back substantially to accommodate female pilots.
Why you shouldn't use a web framework
Just chiming in here to say bvckup2 is awesome. It's one of those rare pieces of software that has rock-solid engineering. My heart warms with glee every time I think about it.

I've been using it in place of robocopy for all my Windows backup needs for a while now, with rsync for linux. It's fast.
But the light is arriving right here-now, which is the only time that really matters.

It makes absolutely no practical difference when talking about a specific event if you bother to include the time offset or not.
It has always mattered. Illegality drives up risk, businesses seek to minimize risk.

The flip side is that if something is illegal but the perceived risk of being caught is lower than the perceived gain, the laws are likely to be broken. That's why fines to businesses tend to be quite steep.

Of course in this case, there was no risk, as cartels were legal at the time.
Sony seems to provide an official way to build your own Android ROM without Google:

"For some of the Xperia™ devices, we provide Android™ Open Source Project (AOSP) device configurations on GitHub. This means that the software will be open for you as a developer to use and contribute to. This is a way for us to support the open Android community, and it is also a tool for us to facilitate and verify contributions to AOSP."

[1] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/