skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find it weird for a password manager webextension to use a native binary, as password managers may be used in other contexts than browsers, and as it allows to use well-established cryptographic tools.

Of course, serializing to HTML and parsing it out of the browser seems like a very bad idea. I suppose it was made this way because their neuronal network was written for HTML.

I wonder what made Kaspersky use a neuronal network to recognize password fields. It seems over-kill to me, but I may underestimate the complexity of properly handling password fields.
Well said. I got swept up in the hype and my job suffered for it. This is a negative value.

But I do think in terms of vision and coordination, blockchain has extended the horizons of what can be achieved.
> What you need is buy-in from a bunch of old and conservatively run institutions that do not particularly like change.

They are currently paying someone to shuttle certificates/titles/deeds/bonds as a part of settlements. This involves expense and risk and probably gates outstanding trade activity and maybe even the exchange's duty cycle to some extent. There's opportunity to those institutions to save some expense here (taking on [not insignificant] new kinds of risk).
Plus Teslas (at least the S) aren't really traditional sedans. They're liftbacks (hatch with a sloping rear window) plus they have a "frunk". And they adhere to the "distinctive styling as signaling" rule of hybrids.
Riot.im makes vim's UX seem intuitive.
once the first layer is done clean, you can leave (and most people who have long running prints have video cameras watching). I do overnights all the time and rarely have problems other than running out of filament
In such a system, maybe only experienced hires would get visas and fresh graduates wouldn't.
I would believe that for Acura or infinity, but Lexus?
I've often gone out of my way to encourage people who want to message me to use hangouts in order to have a better chatting experience (versus SMS). And since I have Google Fi, the hangouts integration was perfect such that people who I couldn't convince to use hangouts would text me and I'd still have all the nice message synchronization features in the same app (which as far as I know nothing else offers - a web based client that's not dependent on the phone being available for receiving SMS). All that to say, I'll be sad to lose such nice integration with SMS. Although I can see Google still providing hangouts to Google Fi customers, I think it's probably time to jump ship at this point.

Does anybody know if Matrix supports e2e encrypted chat yet? I don't really follow the project closely, but if this issue is up to date then it's not quite there yet: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779. I realize that bug is for the web client, but I'd feel better anyway knowing one of the biggest clients is using the feature.
I guess so. I ended up with a used Tesla. I remain worried someday I'll end up with a flat too far from help...
There must be a name for this approach to software design. That is, creating a forcing function that must correctly handle the popular case which by proxy handles a majority of less common but still important cases. (I'm aghast that MySQL had this issue!)
Everyone I've ever known with a minivan has had any number of issues with the vehicle in terms of reliability. From the side door track/motors to the undersized/cramped engine with any number of design compromises.

I would NEVER recommend a minivan to anyone, ever.
Sounds a little like the NoSQL trend where everybody jumped on it only to find out that NoSQL is only applicable for a few use cases.
Really? I get excellent quality from Hangouts. HD video with enough clarity to make out individual hairs on a cat.
Funny you bring up skype, Microsoft is actually phasing it out (skype for business) and replacing it with MS Teams. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-teams-now-ready-rep...
> What about the consumer protection aspects?

Which ones specifically? If they are truly for free then I don't need to pay for them by virtue of having a credit card.
Northern China -> UK by container is like in the neighborhood of 5+ weeks.

China -> US is around 2 weeks, US -> EU is around 1 week.

So depending on where it was coming from, might make sense?

I dunno enough about the routes.
I disagree with others here saying what you’re proposing is unethical. It depends a lot on context and what kind of agreements you’ve already signed. If the client sees it as a core part of their business or you’ve signed something that limits your options, then it’s on the less ethical side. However from your description it sounds like the client see this as incidental to their business and just a tool they want. In that case I see no reason why you can’t have a conversation about other options with them. I think it would be very reasonable to offer them a much lower rate plus some kind of long term SaaS contract options in exchange for the IP and rights to sell the service to others. They may say no but you could discuss it at least.
Wire needs neither phone number nor contacts. Open-source, E2E encryption and working on IETF federation protocol with other messengers.
> The actual physical mechanism is simple

Sure. Running faster is also just increasing the power to weight ratio.

You are technically right, but nobody doubts the high level physics of it, it’s the biology part that is complex.

Even leaving aside socio-economic factors and pure behavior issues, it’s not just a “throw things in and you can predict what goes out”. Knowing how different bodies manage food intake, food processing and retention, then come up with a calory burning budget is damn hard. We’re not pipes, a lot of things happen in the body.

I know it’s so much more comfortable to think it’s simple, but I think we need the courage to accept it’s not as straightforward as motivational poster would want us to believe.
Maybe they are just prejudiced against policies they don't agree with. Just like everybody else.
Thats silly. Consumers have to learn about the thing, learn how to use it. And those seeking to transition now don't have the google replacement.

I'm looking elsewhere.
I mean a good example of the need for DLT is the fact that no one in the country can buy romaine lettuce right now. Does it really make any sense whatsoever that no one in the country can eat lettuce for the next couple months just because one farm got contaminated with E. coli?
That was launched in 2016. My question to the OP was about their product-launching abilities. They seem rather slow on the consumer software front, i.e. they don't seem to be launching new products (or even updating existing) at the same rate that they're retiring them.
My family got a Toyota minivan in 2003, and I love it. Today, we use it mostly for hauling musicians and their instruments, or for going on longer trips. A couple years ago we rented a giant Ford Expedition SUV, and it seemed like it had remarkably little interior space compared to our van.

I like being elevated from the ground, especially in bumper-to-bumper traffic. It's comfortable to sit up. But it's big and consumes gas, and we also have a subcompact. So the van mainly lives in the garage and we use our bicycles for getting around when we can.

People have told me that they got a "crossover" or SUV because the minivan carries the soccer-mom stigma. But damn, talk about utility.
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Which is why I preferer UK Investment Trusts I can vote on the board and their remuneration.
What about Hangouts calling (inbound/outbound) with your Google voice number? I'm moving from the US to the UK next month and was hoping to maintain my US number by porting it to Google Voice and using Hangouts calls. Anyone know an alternative?
That reminds me of this little onion routering thingy i made that spiraled out of control into a semi functioning project that I got hired to work on full time

(https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network)
Offices: connect people on linkedin and ask, it's surprisingly easy to get a visit to any office in SF/SV. In SF many also have public areas, for example Linkedin, Airbnb, Pinterest.

Founders: it depends. Founders of small startup, same as above. Founders of big/famous startups it's definitely harder.

Go with a more concrete ask though, like I'm doing X, I'm at this stage, I want to understand Y. Then, indirectly, you'll learn more, but otherwise your requests will likely be ignored.
If you make it easier for those folks to switch, they will switch away from Infosys to a better job after spending a month or two working for cheap, as you say. If that happens a lot Infosys will stop bringing in new people since they mostly leave early but they already paid for their immigration costs which add up. The employees also will be less inclined to work 80 hrs a week for Infosys to rake in the profits.

If they want to retain people, Infosys will have to increase their salaries to close to market rate by charging the client more, which means the client is less likely to hire from Infosys. Either way it's a win.
Please be concise and direct.

Real Salary first, no one is leaving a gig to lose 20K and work 20 more hours a week.

Job Requirements that make sense. There's less than 2,000 CS PhDs graduating in a given year. React, Angular, and Vue only reached most Devs in the last 4 years. Depth and Breadth are two different things. If you aren't Google, Tesla, or Microsoft don't pretend to be.

Juniors, mids, seniors, management, and architects are all in different places. Don't reach out to a senior with a junior role.

Try playing the long game for once: Get out to the meetups and learn the technology. Make friends by bringing value. Learn the culture.
> Depending on how you define "blockchain"

i.e.: Depending on whether the person saying "blockchain" is lying to make a quick buck from the hype-train.
Exactly. Once an index fund is making active decisions about the management of a company, it's no longer a passive investment vehicle (though they never really are in the first place, given indexes like the S&P 500 are decided by a committee).
> We have so much history in our family chat

I don't think any IM chat product has ever promised to keep your history. They all let you "scroll back" on a best-effort basis, but I don't know of any IM chat service where the availability of historical messages is part of the semantics of the service. It's just... not what they're for.

If you want the semantics of "real-time chat with history", what you actually want is a business collaboration tool, like Slack or its competitors. Businesses want records of meetings and the ability to dredge up stuff somebody said once, and are willing to pay for it, so services designed with business productivity in mind tend to have these semantics.

(And even then, I don't think Slack makes any guarantees that it'll retain the history of your private DMs, only the history of your public channels. Exporting an archive of a Slack workspace doesn't get you archives of the DMs. So it would seem that, even for a business, the semantics of one-to-one conversations are more ephemeral than not.)
>Google is terrible at this. They have no credible replacement for Hangouts, do they? I used and loved the old Google Talk. Then they shuttered it and pushed everyone to Hangouts, which is...the same? Not better, not worse, just a very similar experience, with maybe better voice/video support.

It's not even the same. It's worse. I used to be able to use XMPP.
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My business partner and I have spent the last two years building a very successful side business while holding down our side jobs. We're close to a million dollars in revenue this year.

We've been plowing almost every penny back into the business thus far and would like to take the plunge full time. We're very confident that we can grow the business at least 5x and have a very clear idea who'd be interested in acquiring us.

Unfortunately, we both have families and really need our salaries. So we're in a weird dilemma where we've kind of reached the limits of how much we can grow the business burning the midnight oil and are thinking about finding an investor to take on some funding.

Any one experienced this situation that would like to offer some advice?
… which is the reason ‘\’ was invented.
From what I could see you can’t even set the network interfaces up in text mode (which is proper text mode, not ncurses)
Does it share the cost, or does it duplicate the cost?
As my IT teacher always used to say "don't go to jail for 50 bucks, go for 50 million"
There have been no major updates to Voice in a while (thankfully), but lots of marketing and buzz around Project Fi. I can't help but think that Google will kill Google Voice in the future. Google Voice is integrated with Hangouts as well, which means one of those features will go away, assuming the OP is true. I love using Voice for the same reasons you listed out, but I dread when Google decide to make a change in this space, I'll be very disappointed.
Kudos to Black Panther...never would of been curious to read that if i never saw the movie.
This seems quite easy to fix. Just give me the option of voting my shares in the underlying companies of the index funds I own. I just want to own the market average but I'm happy to be an activist investor in the decisions I happen to care about.

Index funds may even want to differentiate themselves by having good research teams to advise me on what to decide and having convenience options where I get to set specific generic voting policies that they will then implement automatically for me.
Yeah, I get lagging and voice/video sync issues. Trying having a conversation with a person instead of a cat to experience it. :)
The UI has changed more times than I care to count. Skype itself changed ownership 3 times, the underlying communication tech went from P2P to supernodes to Azure integration. At some point I ran its Linux client that hasn't been updated for 5 years. The damn thing never stopped working and the chat is still there.
Honestly, let's just blow the planet away. USA nuke China, China will nuke every single country around it and the boom, the planet disappeared
> Make it clear that directors of index funds and other large money managers have a fiduciary duty to vote solely in the interest of the funds’ shareholders.

That's easy to say, but deciding what the shareholders interest is can be incredibly difficult. On any difficult decision, like "should this merger be approved", index funds taking any position is the same as active management.
That's what I expected. I printed "every part" of my wedding, except 90% of everything there...
> It's just an append-only log file that happens to exist in several (geographically distant) places at once.

That's the idea. Just add a proof of causality for the transactions that span more than one peer, and you've got a blockchain.
By 'possible' I meant that it's currently supported by the Go toolchain.
「 and 」are indeed used in Perl 6 when textually representing a Match object (the Match.gist). See https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_ascii for other acceptable unicode characters (and their ASCII counterparts) in Perl 6.
I've used Gentoo for a long time, and Gentoo (as the article notes) is quite similar to BSD in some ways. It too has a base system. There too the user compiles packages themselves from scratch (though precompiled binaries are available for a handful of packages) in a system like ports (called "portage" on Gentoo). It too has no systemd (unless you want it).

I like Gentoo and still use it, but my biggest problem with it is that compiling packages takes a hell of a long time (especially some monstrosities like QT or webkit, which can take me days or even a week to compile on my old, slow laptop). You really have to have relatively modern system to compile all your packages from scratch, if you don't want to have to do it non-stop, virtually 24 hours a day. It's really annoying. I have better things to dedicate my processor cycles to and my own time to than constantly compiling packages.

So maybe I'll switch. I'm not sure to what, though. I've thought of BSD, but it has the same problem. I don't really like the idea of binary distros either, because of their relative inflexibility (no choice to include/omit package features that you want/don't want), and honestly, I don't really trust binary blobs as much as compiling from source... though maybe in the end it doesn't really matter.
I'd like to understand if is there is some sort of "Literate Programming" approach to this problem? Interleaving the architecture through the (combined) code + architecture document?
First we need to put carseat-destroying subsidies in place so that hard-working American carseat-destroyers aren't put out of a job.
Urban just published a page which compares some aspects of LibrePCB to KiCAD and Eagle: https://librepcb.org/compare/
Blockchains make no sense when the "asset" they are tracking have to be imported from the outside world because they lose the trustless property which is the whole point.

For example supply line tracking blockchains. "Look this piece of beef was at place X on time Y with temperature Z, I have a hash and everything". Yes but how do I know that you didn't swap the barcodes or you didn't fiddle with the GPS or the thermometer was working or a million other things ?

Blockchain only makes sense if the asset is internal (i.e it gets created in it) because that makes it publicly auditable and you don't have to trust anyone. Cryptocurrency is the perfect use case and the reason they were invented.
This doesn’t really hold true in China —- Steve Jobs is revered there but their startup scene is heavily oriented towards iterating and pivoting
Where does he claim to care about digital preservation? And I'm pretty sure GitHub would have to remove code posted without permission, anonymous or not.
Great way to raise awareness. Now use the printers to warn people their IP cameras are exposed too.
Books are entertaining. Books in visual form are entertaining. Interactive books can be entertaining too, and that's what narrative games purport to be.

The tricky part is that they must make up for the absence of other game mechanics.

Myst, in a sense, is a narrative game with puzzles. Strip the puzzles away and it wouldn't be so hot. It's a risk to reduce a game to its story, as that story must hold on its own.
Some form of this debate has been going on since the mid-1970's when I was in your situation. The answer I got the most often back then when I asked a similar question was that company ABC does not want to train Company XYZ's future employees. From what you describe, very little has changed in terms of the mind-set of prospective employers vs. employees that are a "good fit" but not necessarily a "perfect fit".
https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_ascii for a list of Unicode characters in Perl 6 and their ASCII counterparts.
Yes, since 20 minutes :) https://github.com/LibrePCB/LibrePCB.github.io/commit/b34691...
You're talking like these are the same people ideating and then dropping products over and over.

No: the people who build each product, even at Google, certainly enter a "nurturing and responding thoughtfully to user feedback" phase with that product.

The "problem", if you want to call it that, is that there are always new product people joining the company. And what the heck are they going to do to get recognized and promoted, if they don't build a new fiefdom to call their own?

The actual question I have about Google and its business strategy, is why these new products always seem to displace old products (and their teams), rather than resulting in the internal equivalent of a merger.

I can see good reason to have four teams building four distinct web VoIP clients, if one of them is the "flagship" one and three of them are experiments. I can also imagine one of those "experiments" getting really popular. But why should that result in the "flagship" dying? Why not just merge the teams together, and put the team from the "experiment" in charge of the pooled UX design talent for a new release of the "flagship" client?
My impression is that TOR is exit node-constrained. Is this correct?
<Compose> <minus> <comma> is the shipped sequence for ‘¬’.
Dont forget it's often as simple as executives bonuses could be easily gained by offshoring (motive), everyone was doing (opportunity), and they did it purely for selfish gain in short term. What happens in long term is next executives' problem, something to hand off to PR folks, and so on.

Happens all the time.
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Chinese Scientist Says He's First to Genetically Modify Babies Using CRISPR
what?!?!?
I hope that's sarcasm.
Instagram now lets you share pics with just 'close friends' – WIRED
Any system that necessitates the "must get a job very soon / now" mindset is not very different from slavery.
I love home construction techniques that are "factory-ized" for numerous reasons: consistency, energy efficiency, assembly speed, cost, etc but I fear this has nothing to do with that. the quote:

"... gains vast insight from the Airbnb community to thoughtfully respond to changing owner or occupant needs over time"

to me suggests Airbnb believes their long-term future requires more than ignoring zoning laws and city regulations; it requires changing them to suit the company's goals.

There's nothing wrong with seeking to change laws but we should really look hard at the underlying motivation. Is it to make housing cheaper/better/more plentiful or is it to increase the number of airbnb listings?
> Which ones specifically?

In the UK it's Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, 1974.

> Under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974, the credit card company is jointly and severally liable for any breach of contract or misrepresentation by the retailer or trader.

> You don't have to reach a stalemate with the retailer or trader before you can contact your credit card provider - you can make a claim to both the retailer and credit card provider simultaneously, although you can't recover your losses from both.

> This right is particularly useful if the retailer or trader has gone bust, or it doesn't respond to your letters or phone calls.

> Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act also applies to foreign transactions as well as goods bought online, by telephone or mail order for delivery to the UK from overseas.

https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-7...

> If they are truly for free then I don't need to pay for them by virtue of having a credit card.

But law says you only get these protections if you buy on credit.
The Japanese equivalent is four grandparents in wheelchairs. (Kidding!) I don’t have kids, so I’m not sure about child seats. I was doing the mental math on how one couple could produce four kids who need child seats until I remembered twins, triplets, etc.
There could be value in Google having an E2E encrypted messaging service if for no other reason than taking users from their competitors and keeping them in the Google ecosystem.
>Live within your means.

Using a credit card does not mean living outside of your means. I have used a credit card for 20ish years and have never carried a balance.
I'd say this article probably overstates risks. US Equities are only about 30% passive, depending on how you measure it, and there probably is substantial run-rate for an even greater concentration.

Here's a pretty good article: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Alternative-Thinking/A...
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Why would they? Code from 1987 is of exactly zero interest to someone developing a game in 2013.
"The weather is different now than it was 30 years ago" is definitely something that can be judged with some level of confidence by a 40 year old, despite their possible cognitive biases that could confound this judgment. Saying "they can't tell how the weather is changing on a 20,000 year timescale" isn't relevant to that claim.