skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'd prefer that all those solutions relies on standards such as XMPP better than having the NIH syndrome.

You should check on XMPP web solutions such as Movim https://movim.eu/ (P.S. I'm the author).
> On Android it's seemed stagnant for ages, but it's simple and works reliably.

"stagnant" implies it should be changing, but then you say "it works reliably". No changes for a year is 'rock solid' and 'stable', not 'needs an iteration push next month!'.
Also, if you browse /r/Lyft, you'll see multiple cases of drivers bragging about how they like to 3-star or sometimes even 1-star any rider with disabilities because they don't like having to provide accommodations as required by the ADA. I've even seen posters on that subreddit say "why don't they use a service specifically for disabled people?", which is especially awful because that's exactly what the ADA was written to stop.

Fortunately, Lyft doesn't ban riders based on ratings, but it can negatively impact your ability to get use out of the service, as a) rating someone 3 stars or below prevents you from being matched with them again thus denying them the use of your services (and if you do this because somebody is disabled, you're probably violating the ADA), and b) it makes other drivers less likely to accept requests from you. Also, I understand that if you contact Lyft to file a complaint against an abusive driver, representatives will take your rating into account when determining whether or not to believe your word over the driver's.
I've been in business for a while. Let me see a demo. Contact me via my profile info.
There's quite a few people working on the oracle problem. But there's always risk at some level.

And even oracle solutions get broken down into decentralized/centralized platforms.
Invention is not the same as assignment. You can sign away assignment, but inventorship remains with the inventor(s).
Why do they insist on putting out useful products only to cancel them? Wtf is wrong with them?
Every time someone asks this question -- and it gets asked here a lot, several people mention Learning To Learn. I always rolled my eyes.

Then I decided to check it out.

While the production quality is out of the 1990s and it starts off pretty dry, there is a lot of great content and applicable techniques here, if you stick with it a little bit.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
> when you want to build an interparty database-driven application, and cannot find a suitable place to put the database, because of business concerns or regulation

If you're operating a legal business, a centralized database hosted by an industry mutual or regulator beats a blockchain.
I drove a rental Ford Fusion Hybrid and then a Ford Expedition on my trip to Texas this summer.

The Fusion was a joy to drive; the Expedition was a chore. Squishy driver's seat, soggy handling, and of course, three times the fuel consumption of the Fusion hybrid.

If I recall properly, the North American Fusion is a slightly reworked Mondeo, which is considered a nice-ish car over here, and would also explain why I thought it was nice: we have a Fiesta and just sold my diesel Focus wagon.

Sorry to see that just when Ford seemed to have figured out that their European division designs decent small cars, they’ve given up on bringing them into the North American market.
I said this in another thread but I'll say it again here.

I am downright shocked at just how much of a failure this technology has turned out to be. How can this many brilliant people work on an area for this long and produce almost nothing of value?

I suppose it happens in areas of "pathological science" like infinite energy machines, but those are areas where the tech doesn't work and probably violates laws of physics. In this case the tech does work in the general sense but seems to have little to no utility in most cases. When you consider scams and fraud it may even have negative utility.

I'd like to be proven wrong. I keep waiting for that killer cryptocurrency app but it never arrives. Meanwhile the core use case of digital money seems almost abandoned.

It's not even that good anymore for black and grey market commerce. It was in the beginning because the authorities didn't understand it. It was security through obscurity. Now they're developing both expertise and legal frameworks for dealing with it. It's no longer a free-for-all.

I have trouble thinking of another technology that actually works that has attracted this much hype, brains, and investment and then failed this badly to deliver.

It's not like fusion, which has a very clear use case but faces so far insurmountable technical challenges. It's not like nuclear fission power which works, has a clear use, but has downsides.

I think the nearest comparison I can come up with are failed government mega-projects like the US Reagan-era "Star Wars" laser missile defense system, airplane-like space shuttles, or giant planned utopian cities that get built and then sit vacant.

I'm also shocked and a little horrified at just how much fraud there is in this space. I'd expect some, but the sheer volume of fraud is breathtaking. Almost all ICOs seem to be scams. Many exchanges are likely scams. Tether looks like a scam. It makes me disappointed in humanity that there are this many bad actors out there just waiting for a new way to fleece people.

Just... wow. What a waste.
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Quite the opposite, imho VS Code is the best piece of software Microsoft has released in a long time.
If it helps, I moved away from Google Voice a while ago by porting my number. Went to Verizon, got a new number and got a iPhone running. Then called Verizon and ported my google voice number onto the new number. Google asked for $10 for porting out. I happily obliged. My phone number moved over without any pauses in service. I’ve been using iMessage/SMS ever since and it works wonders.

Edit: spelling
I've always seen it as the following equation: is the cost of distrusting the other parties in the transaction lower than the cost of running a decentralized ledger? if yes, you shouldn't use blockchain. this is obviously oversimplification but i think you get my point.
There used to be a thing called a Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) which was pretty much what you're describing. It was repealed in 2013, however. I believe the thinking was that simply publishing on the internet was sufficient enough to achieve the same purpose. If you want to make something available as prior art, make sure it is widely available, indexable, and accessible.

You could also file a patent and let it lapse after the PgPub publishes, so for the cost of the basic filing fee you can put whatever you want into the official US Patent database. For a micro entity, that's only $75.
Android Police' headline is spot on:

"Report: Google killing Hangouts in 2020, probably launching 8 new messaging services in its place" [0].

Mayur Kamat was HO's product manager until 2015 and has posted a few updates on G+ until he left Google, probably because Hangouts was internally about to be abandoned. Thats when I realized Hangouts fate and started looking elsewhere.

I vividly remember his remark around the time of the Hangouts 4.0 release [1]:
"P.S. Unlike what the /r/Android subreddit says, the Hangouts team does come to work every morning trying to make it better :). Good stuff is coming.": Alas, it wasn't.

Edit:
Maybe adding that name was wrong, my intention was not to blame any single person.

Fact is: I liked Google Talk (and Hangouts) a lot for its superior abilities back then: Federation with XMPP, cross device compatibility, superior synch, possibly reach anyone with a G account, simultaneous login from different devices, permanent cloud based history, working search. It seemed so easy to win at that time.

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/30/report-google-killi...

[1] https://plus.google.com/+MayurKamat/posts/T1FNqgAWzgE
Yes, in this case there isn't much more platform holders can do, even if they feature his game on the front page indefinitely it will get flooded with negative reviews and sales will be low. You can't compare VR platforms with iOS especially, but even Steam or a console market, because the number of users is orders of magnitude smaller (250K-1 million VR users per platform). In this case the best a platform holder can do is fund development so he can potentially make a better game (hire a programmer and an artist for example), but it doesn't seem like a situation where the concept was amazing and he failed on execution.
Are you affiliated with ObjectBox?
If this uses os.File.Sync, it's not safe on MacOS.

Also it would benchmark artificially fast on MacOS.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26650

Many storage libraries are affected, including Bleve.
I've long thought that if I were the Chinese strategists, I'd be putting backdoors into infrastructure products shipped to the US like cable modems and routers. The moment conflict breaks out, China would brick a large percentage of the US internet. Good luck downloading clean firmware during that shitshow.
Maybe I wasn't able to use cannabis moderately enough, but as my tolerance grew and I had to take more and more to feel the effects, my depression and anxiety got much, much worse.
Occupational therapists can be particularly helpful in working out accommodations like bouncing balls for seating, balance boards, fidget devices, etc, that can provide extra stimulation that allows kids with ADHD to focus.
Alcohol is an issue mainly due to how it interacts with Gaba receptors. Alcohol (and benzodiazepienes) binding with those receptors is what causes tolerance, physical addiction and withdrawal. Nmda receptors antagonists don't cause the same kind of issues.

You generally can not physically get addicted to nmda antagonists like ketamine. In fact nmda antagonists and modulators are being studied because "research suggests that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor neurotransmission contributes to mediating the behavioural effects of alcohol and other drugs of abuse"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11060803/

I want to make clear that I mean physical in the biological sense. It is still possible to form an addiction to these drugs. I only mean to say that it's rare to have dangerous withdrawal effects, unlike with alcohol.
I played Softporn Adventure on my Apple ][, which Leisure Suit Larry was based on.

There was a casino that let you bet negative amounts at the blackjack table, then lose on purpose to make lots of money!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure

Then there was "Interlude: The Ultimate Experience". It came with a paperback book full of naughty stuff, which my pirate friend gave me a xeroxed copy of to go with the floppy disk.

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/10/sexy-video-game-from-the-a...

You'd load the game on the computer, run it, answer some questions, and it would tell you and your (probably imaginary) partner: "For a good time, turn to page 74 for Interlude No. 82 - Caveman Caper!"

Looks like this PDF has the table of contents, but it's missing all the "good" parts:

http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/syntonic/k7_sy...

And I'll never forget the HyperCard Smut Stack! ("ping!")
> That seems rough almost anywhere to support a family

Plenty of families in the UK survive off much less than that. Median income in the UK is less than it...
There's also geoengineering. While it's risky and controversial, it will become a real option if we are faced with bad enough consequences otherwise. Doomsday predictions assume we can't figure out a way to adapt or counter the climate change.
I worked on a project called GNU Ring (https://www.ring.cx) and we used a blockchain for the distributed name service (match strings to crypto signatures). By default there is a name server, but if you really, really care about getting tiny more anonymity, you can spend some CPU cycles and run your own name service locally or on a server you own.

It also share the cost of running a distributed database among those who care about privacy while letting those who care less enjoy a simpler stack. A win, win.
The patent office is trying to build that, along with MIT:

http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-prior-art-archive-aims-improve-...
Feynman's Nobel Medal sold for $1M
Imagine conflict breaking out and China disrupting most of the US's consumer network infrastructure. (read: everyone's DSL/cable modem and some amount of data center equipment.) The chaos and mayhem would be enormous.
From the release it looks like all the features of Spectrum are now free. It seems to me, the goal was to integrate slack-like features in the box for GitHub proper, and for enterprise.

I would theorize that GitHub enterprise itself may be deprecated with a migration path to "Azure DevOps" and "TFS" for hosted/internal source control respectively, with potentially better integration with public Github over time.

It may be interesting to see Spectrum integrated with MS Teams for those orgs that have internal teams, but need to interact externally, which is a story seriously lacking in Teams currently.
Distance?
Well the Elephant Memory Systems floppy disks claim to "Never Forget"!

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/s-l16...

https://youtu.be/v7AgSapZAi8?t=500
LastPass also pushes you to install some binary component for their extension.
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Heh, I like that. I tend to think of them as a surface mount jumper.
> They have no credible replacement for Hangouts, do they?

Google Duo/Allo ?
Seems like an article that was written to get purchases from people that like supporting this kind of indie development--pity sales. Which, honestly, I wouldn't mind, except that the article itself is pretty bare of any actual content. The cash figure is made up, the game itself is apparently awful, and the information in the article doesn't support the conclusion(s).
Maybe it's just me, but I find Kahneman frustrating to read and this article really demonstrates the problem: he defines a concept and then gives examples which don't meet the definition.

He defines intuition as thinking you know without knowing how you know. OK, great. Now the example: guessing someone's GPA based on the fact that they started reading early. Like most people, I guessed it would be on the high side. Kahneman calls this "intuition that is generated automatically with high confidence." And that's… just wrong.

I have very little confidence in my guess, and it certainly isn't generated automatically. It's based on a belief—which turns out to be wrong—that early reading has some relationship with college GPA.

So maybe in this example, he is using the dictionary definition of "intuition", which is basically non-conscious reasoning. He thinks this shows the problem with intuition, but again, that's just wrong.

I didn't get the answer wrong because I failed to reason consciously. It's because my belief about the relationship between early reading and GPA was wrong. If I take his advice and don't trust my intuition, and carefully and logically reason my way to the answer, guess what? I'm still wrong because my information is wrong.

His explanation of when to trust your intuition is similarly flawed. He basically says you can trust your intuition when you have good information. Well yeah. That's a generic statement that goes for almost any method of drawing conclusions about the world, and doesn't help us understand when intuition is useful or not useful.
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And I went from Atom to VS Code and then back to (Neo)Vim again. I haven't yet seen a Vim plugin which is complete enough for me to use without needing to change habits, so I just use Vim now and for some special situations VS Code.

Although now I've read that Atom is supposed to be faster than before, so I'm going to give that a try again.
If I understand your short description, this sounds more like a Merkle tree[1] than a blockchain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
These "illicit" substances work. I can only speak for myself, but the amount depression that can be caused from anxiety is enormous, and then there's MDMA, which provides a reference point for life without it -- which in turn reduces the depression. Life changing, but it was also in a therapeutic setting with all the proper controls.
Yes, that's true. But in some cases an industry mutual doesn't exist, and the regulator doesn't want to manage the database. Then what? It can be cheaper and easier to deploy a blockchain than to build the necessary organizational structure to run a central database. Like I said, it's niche but it happens.
Because a lot of people don't seem to follow that. You get paid X on the 1st, as long as you spend X-1 within the month you have no need for a credit card.

Other than showing some opaque credit agency that your ok for more credit.
If the reviews were positive, would it have made a difference? You may think so due to word of mouth. However the Steam store has hundreds of games with high reviews that still have no players. Discoverability goes beyond making a good game.
It's a fail-safe.

With a credit card, you've introduced a new failure mode where you can end up in debt. If you do it right, you won't, but the cc companies know that a lot of people will mess it up--that's their business model.

It's a bit like with alcohol. If you never drink, you can be 100% confident you'll never become an alcoholic. If you do drink, even a little bit, that chance goes up. Plenty of people are able to drink responsibly, sure, but I can understand wanting to avoid the possibility entirely.
I’ve considered leveraging this in electronic manufacturing. Send design off to be cheaply fabricated, wait for it to appear on aliexpress as a clone with all BOM cost optimisation done free. Buy bulk lots and resell in local country. Bingo!
No, I'm saying you shouldn't take the words of corporations the same way you take the words of an individual person. A corporation is not even a singular entity. Corporations can't have values because they're composed of a rotating set of minds that may not all hold those values and there is no way of guaranteeing values will be preserved into the future.
Google needs to hire Satya Nadella as the CEO.
Some time ago there was that comics about the "Chad's garage":

https://xkcd.com/1150/

The most interesting point is, "Chad" is really actively promoting his garages as something the people should definitely use... until he changes his opinion from time to time which garage and if at all the people should use this or that, and then lets people figure out what should they do next.

And "Chad" is very rich and powerful, so people are attracted. Nice shelves every time.
The risk of eviction, meanwhile, can be roughly measured by the percentage of people’s incomes that they spend on shelter each month. As of 2015, 17 percent of Americans spent half or more of their incomes on rent.

This is why we (here in the US) need to address housing. And I don't know what term to use. "Affordable housing" is the term I want to default to, but that gets misinterpreted by people and ends up being a pointless argument where we talk at cross purposes.

Historically, we had more housing appropriate for single people with not much income and childless couples with not much income, etc. We largely eliminated those options as we defaulted to a standardized expectation of a family home designed for a nuclear family and the footprint of such homes has more than doubled since the 1950s. Meanwhile, the average size of the actual nuclear family in the US has shrunk as we are having fewer kids and, simultaneously, our population has diversified away from the nuclear family towards more single people, childless couples, single parents, etc.

It also used to be more feasible to live without a car in the US. Now, we default to assuming you drive and own a car. That is in the process of changing, but it is still a pretty standard assumption baked into residential construction. Some US cities are starting to loosen parking requirements for rentals near transit stations, among other things. But we still mostly assume that you drive, you own your own car and you don't object overly much to driving fairly long distances for daily essentials like getting to work and doing the grocery shopping.

I don't have a term for the kind of housing that doesn't default to assuming you are part of a nuclear family with at least two cars. I don't know of anyone inventing terms for an alternate concept here.

But this is part of why we have terrible housing insecurity in the US. From what I gather, other countries tend to be better about having housing available that isn't a terrible burden to some large subsection of it's population -- ie everyone who isn't part of a nuclear family with either a very well paid head of household or a two career couple situation (and I say career, not job, to try to evoke something that probably pays better than minimum wage, has benefits, etc.).
If a copyright owner dies (without their IP being inherited) or the company dies (and its ip is not sold or kept by some individual of the company), then the material effectively enters the public domain. Note, this is only 'effectively' because it is still possible someone does have the IP and you were simply not aware. It's also possible the person who owns the copyright isn't even aware they own it, but it can still later be discovered and enforced.

In practice, it is very difficult to verify when either of those events occur. I expect Sierra Entertainment's IP has been kept alive, even if the company itself died at any point in the past.

It's almost always safer to just wait the full duration for copyright to expire and it to enter real public domain.

If you're unable to safely wait around 100 years to legally access the material, well, that sucks I guess. Copyright is meant to ensure the public gets access to such material, and it's not the government's fault people don't live over 100 years to enjoy material made in their lifetimes.
The biggest annoyances are the lack of exhaustive pattern matching and the lack of sum types. I say annoyances because its possible to get most of the behavior for sum types with interfaces but a lot more boilerplate must be written. And, while Go offers no exhaustive pattern matches, in practice the use of a default switch that returns an err works OK. But at the end of the day, I find my colleagues a lot less elegant and rigorous with their Go types/structs compared to their Typescript code because of the additional boilerplate, which makes me think language ergonomics around types makes a difference in code quality around data modeling. Its not an monumental chasm, but it exists.
The Bay Area is perfectly livable—much more so than Houston—if you’re rich.

Why would wealthy people want to move to a place like Houston? They are already rich. They don’t care about low taxes and regulation.

It’s like somehow you missed the whole point. Houston is very attractive to people who aren’t wealthy.
> We are a generation who will leave nothing behind.

Lucky you

I have 12Tb of backups - I don't know what to do with it
Staffing companies should get no H1 visas at all. They are the biggest abusers.
The link above is for the hardware version. If you just want the software, you can use Hangouts Meet, which is free to install and also included in G Suite.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Hangouts.
What about the consumer protection aspects? You don't get that with a debit card. I suppose you don't need it in the same way you don't need lots of things, but it's ignoring legal protection you could have for free? Plus every single time you buy on credit you are subsidising my credit card rewards.
That people looking to extort, blackmail, or kidnap you or your family can now tail you from the hotels you usually/habitually frequent during conferences you consistently attend. It lets them predict your future location so that physical surveillance or ambush can be prepared.