skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The text of the blog post is very confusing at best. I consistently got the feeling we have no idea how to do messaging, and we are throwing many things to see which one sticks. In other words, the blog post felt like it was a post about telling how we have no idea what we are doing using some thousand words.

Messages app is very primitive. I like hangouts way more. I can hop from text message to video chat with family with a single click. My project fi integrates nicely too, and to me this is a pretty good value prop.

Disclaimer, google employee in an unrelated product.
Here, I'll crank it up a notch: instead of animal models, how about just gestating humans in animals? There is your artificial womb. It just requires a bit of anti-rejection drugs, or a bit of GMO effort for tissue similarity.

Whales have the right body temperature. There is enough room to do dozens of babies at once.

Cows are close enough. A cow can probably handle a half dozen babies.
I really want to know what is the plan for Project Fi. The Hangouts integration is one of the best aspects of the service
I see nothing in the word choice of the grandparent comment to imply anger.

Regarding "coming back", the poster may be in a different time zone or have an abnormal work / life schedule
Here is some more data regarding Chrome vs Safari, from https://www.zerodium.com/program.html

These are prices for 0-day exploits.

For desktops :

$250,000 - Chrome RCE + SBX (Windows) including a sandbox escape

$80,000 - Safari + SBX including a sandbox escape (it is on the graphical table below the changelog)

$100,000 - Chrome RCE without a sandbox escape

$50,000 - Edge, Safari, Firefox RCE without a sandbox escape

To me, these prices clearly indicate that Safari is a lot easier to exploit than Chrome. They also indicate that the Chrome sandbox is a lot harder to bypass (look at the relative price differences).

For mobile the payouts are similar which indicates that Apple has paid more attention to IOS security-wise. That is also the consensus amongst most security experts I know.
It burns that fuel as it flies though, reducing weight which is important for landing safely. The EV aircraft will weigh the same landing as taking off, which presents some complications.
The code is horrifying/georgeous/ingenious/insane https://www.pagetable.com/docs/defrag1541/defrag1541_source....
Ah - but if you're the one with VPs reporting to you, you best not foster an environment where taking risks (even like this) is punished, if due diligence seems like it was carried out.

And you have to be very conservative with what you consider a violation of that threshold.
A lot of issues with America's healthcare system boil down to what I call "the interception problem". A quarterback who throws an interception directly to a defender without a wide receiver in the vicinity is treated the same as someone who hit a receivers hands and was tipped to a defender when you are looking at the stat sheet. Your perception of the analysis changes drastically if you actually observe the actions going on.

I'll take an example from the real world to illustrate my point. When you look at the data, the United States clearly has the highest infant mortality rate of developed countries. On its face it would seem that the United States is clearly failing pregnant women, and that this is a terrible problem that needs to be addressed. However, if you observe the differences between the data sets and actually view how deliveries happen in real life you see a different picture.

Not all pregnancies carry the same risk, and the US has a higher percentage of high risk pregnancies than other countries. If you compare people in the same cohorts the US fares a lot better. In layman's terms, we shouldn't treat an infant death from a 25 year old mother who carried to term the same as one from a 40 year old born a month premature. The US is also the most aggressive country in the world when it comes to attempting to save prematurely born children. We try and succeed at a higher rate than anywhere else in the world. I have failed to meet a person who thinks trying to save a prematurely born child is a bad thing. Yet it's those kind of actions that skew the stats.

We need more advanced medical statistics. I hope the sabermetrics revolution makes its way into the medical field. If more people are interested, I could probably expand my thoughts further with other examples that look bad on the surface, but actually aren't as bad as you think.
Hangouts?
> telegram like experience

Surely you don't mean fast, cross-platform and saves chat? Because google talk is dead
figure 1 of that paper is virtually identical to the galaxy rotation curve of the current paper! both were N body simulations

thanks for pointing out this earlier work
RIP terry davis
https://www.templeos.org/
Laid off?  the one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
The US can't do the same. Bills of attainder are constitutionally prohibited in America.
I saw the title and thought: "Finally, they're going to admit to what a mess they've created and propose a way forward". But nope, just a PR fluff post.
I think you mean Capone
Ah the times when disc interleaving was something you could tune and see the difference in speed gain. Least early PC's that was a factor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite was born and loved by all back then.
I just switched away today. It still sucks
My guess is that the payout is partially a function of popularity, which is why the Windows exploits have higher bounties.
I really like this in concept.
The last time I used messages it made a point not to let me chose if I wanted to use SMS vs google own protocol, and I felt I was a weapon for google to bring more users to their ecosystem.

The last time I used hello and duo they needed either a phone or a smartphone or both.

For me a messaging system should not require to have a phone number and should equally well across a range of devices including Linux desktop.

Hangouts and zoom can do it, why would other apps not do it?
Will Apple Buy Tesla in 2019?
Yeah it's something like $700 to retrieve 8 TB
Shadow Rendering for Images and Different Shapes Are Enhanced inside .NET Apps
1. What is the difference between Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet? Why are they separate products?

2. What is the difference between Duo and Hangouts?
Well a good comparison, is that the same amount of weed you have in Canada will get you arrested in non-weed US states.
I may need to read that mess several more times to understand what they're doing, but from what I gather if I just want to do video chat with family with Google stuff, I'll need to use their "Duo" app. Does anyone use that and know if it also works in a browser (preferably Firefox)?
How about having only one app where i can simply use messaging and video? why do i need to install 4 different apps for it?
What do you think a (non clustered) index is? Of course it slows down writes.
What a joke of a blog post, and what a joke of a company. This isn’t “the latest.” It’s the latest deprecation, and the latest breach of implied warranty to the consumer.
use e-tokens like Bitcoin, with a mix service, then convert them to real currency in a random country.
There's a chance that some downvoters simply saw a third-world country being called "violent" and immediately mentally labeled the comment as being hateful or somehow Trumpian, despite this clearly not being the case.
Can't they trivially use your first name and/or email to correlate across apps? I'm pretty sure those are all part of the lowest permission class.
When google voice was introduced, I ported my phone number. It was nice to use the service. Before that, I had a grandstream ATA. The service was great.

Now, everyday feels worse. Last month, I was traveling abroad and had more important things to do than to confirm the cellular number linked to voice was still mine. So google decided not just to stop redirecting phonecalls, but also to stop me from calling using the dialer app.

Basically, my "phone privileges" was unilaterally revoked by google because I did not obey the phone number verification procedure.

I have previously checked companies like callcentric, but it is now one of my priority. I can't entrust google with my phone service in 2019.
So basically - "If you need to do video calling, use Duo. If you need to send messages Android to Android use Android Messaging. If you need a cross platform messaging service outside of enterprise use Hango...ooops"
I'm going to miss Hangouts. Anyone have any good alternatives for free and anonymous browser-based video calling?

For context, I use a permanent Google Hangouts link under my account and made a subdomain of my domain redirect to it (http://partytime.jmistri.com). Whenever I want to talk to someone or have an informal group call, I can tell them to "hop on partytime". It doesn't require an account and it's a great high-quality video call on-the-go.
Not as of PG 11
Facebook's business is car stealing. They tell you that upfront: we want your car, and if you park it in our garage we're going to take it.

All this anger over Facebook is ridiculous.[1] Now, if you want to talk about Android and Google's decision to make it more difficult to not only control but to know what data apps (especially theirs!) will take, that's a different matter....

[1] Especially from geeks, and particularly geeks from the 1990s and earlier when we were told that unless we promoted non-centralized publication models that we'd see the very constellation of centralized, user-antagonistic, profiteering services we now have. Whenever someone says, "but why would you want to host your own e-mail/web/chat server, my head wants to explode." It's always "why would you" (or "why would you, it'll never be as good as GMail/Facebook/Twitter/etc"; never, "maybe I should promote and help work on projects that make it easier".
>Her career was subsidised for decades and wealthy connections brought the work in when it first came.

In architecture, this is the rule rather than the exception.
There are several ways to update the root password in MySQL with zero down-time, either by manipulating the user table, using replication, or using other accounts (ie. most people grant excessive privileges to role accounts.)

https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/10/reset-mysql-root-pas...
650 mile range may not be as much as it sounds like. I'm not a pilot but I know there are regulations for reserve fuel.

So you need enough fuel (kWH in this case) for taxi, take off, the trip itself, divert to alternate airport, plus reserve for 30-45 minutes of holding, at least one missed approach/go-around, plus maybe more emergency reserve beyond that. It might add up to only 300-400 of practical travel range.
Show HN: Procedural Destruction with a Game Physics Engine (VIDEO)
And is being actively developed through the mailing list. Feel free to follow the progress. It's great to watch it happen in real time.
A fine article, but since the author singles out NPR and Wikipedia, I would just like to say a word in their defense. And then some other words.

Thank God for Wikipedia, it is a miracle. Long may it stay antifragile!

And long may NPR use its supporters' money to produce consistently archive-worthy content!

Donations to Wikimedia foundation or your location public radio station make great "solstice" gifts, if you're into that sort of thing.

So yeah, I just turned this comment into an ad, because let's not throw out the baby...

And yes, I'm old enough to remember the "good old days." There is every bit as much signal now. And every bit as much more noise.

And yes, Google's hegemony is a threat to the capital-I Internet's antifragility. (I just got Taleb's book, can you tell?) Guess who powers the analytics for crawshaw.io? It's all of a piece, people. Walk the talk.

And yes, I have a little Shakespeare site that's "better" than the top-ranked ones in many ways, but I accept that if I wanted those top spots---like any other top spots---I would have to sweat and hustle and fight for them. I don't, and no contrarian anti-Google is going to hand them to me.

I'm all for the better thing. Blue sky, every day! Step away from the machine! But c'mon, it's 2018, let's not dis NPR and Wikipedia! We're fighting the good fight!

EDIT Also, to eksemplar's point that "The blog article about rejected Disney princesses is likely the most interesting piece anyone of us read on the internet today." I picked this piece at random and it was so amazing. I emailed it to my wife who's an artist. Man. Thanks for that alone, ye OP!

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/sarah-biffin
Read the last few chapters of "the simple path to wealth". In a nutshell, invest most of it in a broad index fund and if you can live with 4% of the 8 million, you will not need to work again and you will leave your children more than enough.
Because they gave 4 different people a promotion
Linux Kernel Symbols
you should make detailed ( already public, not suggesting nefarious data snooping ) info available on founder profiles. This would allow mining what kind of founders tend to do well vs average vs poorly
> Large numbers of people have opted out of facebook in recent years

It is still a minority in my personal experience (which is what matters for me).

> Also, I've had the same cell phone number for approximately 20 years

I think you're probably a few generations above me, probably none of my friends still have the same phone number, I know I've changed a dozen of times in the last 10 years. It's easy to keep the same cellphone number if you live all your life in the same country, but that's not my life or my friends life.
No apology needed, I didn't feel your question was disrespectful. :-)

FWIW, this is a decent description of what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi#Self

> Ramana considered the Self to be permanent and enduring, surviving physical death. "The sleep, dream and waking states are mere phenomena appearing on the Self," as is the "I"-thought. Our "true nature" is "simple Being, free from thoughts".
Waymo has been driving without safety drivers for awhile though, so it appears not to really be a safety margin thing at this point.
Intern camp.
You're exaggerating what this tiny incident means to the market. Historically this doesn't show up on the list at all, it's just barely a one day top 10 business story.

The market in this context effectively means the top 30 or 40 economies. They make up the extreme majority of all global GDP.

What practical alternative to the US as an essential ally in the coming global bifurcation with China and Russia do you perceive that: EU, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, UK, etc - have? Who else is there? There is nobody else to help offset the enormity of China's looming power. The US has, on many occasions since WW2, done radically worse than arrest a Huawei executive over sanctions on a foreign nation. Mr. Market barely blinked over Snowden and the global espionage revelations for example, which was a thousand times worse than this incident. It had enormous commerce implications. For the most part the world went on with its business; and here we are years later, the US espionage system continues unabated (actually it's stronger now) and mostly unchallenged. This arrest will barely matter at all to Mr. Market.
Someone at Google just wants to make sure that people know where they can go for a consistent and stable messaging experience. I'm just not quite sure if they intend that to be Skype, Facebook, Slack or maybe Discord.
give another promotion to the person who will combine all of them.
Take a net negative mass vehicle, and accelerate it by having it collide with its propellant. Would this be an anti-rocket?
I'm sure the car in these break-ins are like that too. The remote fob is inside the car, but they have an RF relay outside the car which proxies the keycode to the one inside the car.
I agree with this. I have already worked as an individual contributor for 10 years.

I have improved a lot technically because there are a lot of programs that allowed me to learn.

But not once have I been taught to manage people.

After realizing that I am getting nowhere career wise as an individual contributor, I am currently seeking out opportunities to learn management.
we built repricing into CA and don't use anyone else's anymore. many of them are too expensive and too inflexible. we wanted to build our own external repricer, but there were too many CA dependencies (performance included) so we focused our dev efforts on.. uh.. automating parts of it.

we do use one of the SaaS tools out there for research and data though.
Safeguarding – Culture Is a Process, Not a Single Change
An Implementation Guide to Word2Vec Using NumPy and Google Sheets
According to the page (https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score), it is:

"Score between one and 100 based on an analysis of all photos on the company's homepage. Source: Snappr."
How are they still getting this wrong.

One app for consumers with video and messaging. Make it good, marry it, and shoot the others into the sun.
Can't speak for all arrangments, but with my mother's post-surgical care, it was typically different draws for different purposes.

E.g. This or that specialist wanted to run a test, so they sent someone or had a floor nurse draw. But none of this seemed to be sync'd to the regular interaction schedule.
True, but the majority of it is. The customization of Android was done in China anyways, so I'm not sure there is an argument of it being a US export.
Sew them all together and make a Google Messenger centipede.
Yes, typo :)
A more responsible headline would read "Woman escapes captivity after seven years of planning, kidnapped at gun point on the high seas, hasn't been seen since."

Princess-ness has nothing to do with the story except to minimize her humanity.
The GP said single master, not single database.
The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value.

Uhh... citation needed?

Off the top of my head, certainly Proust would disagree.
Indeed it does.

And for the sake of humanity let's hope the US is never beholden to Chinese whims.
The solution proposed is reforestation. The article mentions at the end that "There is good work being done on this front already", but fails to mention a fact that does not fit their narrative:

"Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect outbreaks, the world's tree cover actually increased by 2.24 million square kilometers—an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined—over the past 35 years"

From here: https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now-has-more-trees-...
Most people commenting here have never been to China. As a foreigner you enjoy a freedom greater than in the US.
Why IKEA Wants to Move Downtown
I wonder which one's the top scoring one!

https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score

OH BOY IT'S SNAPPR! This is probably not biased.
Was part of a hackathon for building useless things. Someone made this gem and I still love it. Flappy bird where you fly by screaming into your mic

http://glench.com/ScreamyBird/
China has a long history of disregarding United Nations and US sanctions. During the second Iraq war they defied UN sanctions by selling anti-aircraft defense systems to Iraq directly endangering US and coalition fighters.

Edit: verb tense.

https://books.google.com/books?id=grGMAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT221&lpg=...
> America is a beacon compared to the rest of the world

lol
Why not open the protocol, so I can use the one app for all my cross-service messaging needs?

e.g. Pidgin.
Are there any sci fi books that are especially good on audiobook?
which one will be built into gmail in the future?

one of the greatest advantages google has is gmail/hangouts native integration in the browser. if they lose that, i think a good bit of what makes gmail attractive goes with it.

i say this as an iOS user.
Random technology does not fall under ITAR or EAR. They are specific regulations that are pertinent to a very particular industry. If you are building military defense technology, you should probably be familiar those regulations and act accordingly.
American Bacon
US toppled democratically-elected govts in other countries, one of which indirectly created the Islamic Iran of today, its not a idealistic beacon of hope, its just the current world hegemon with 800 military bases all over the world, the British empire of its time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

I've see US soldiers in the Middle East while I was there, generically they're just people but in a way theres something strange about a US military base in another country. I was born an expat during the Gulf War period and US is really seen as a big advanced petrodollar bully in the region and has really only brought even more death and chaos to Iraq than Saddam did ironically. Kofi Annan, past UN Secretary General, himself has said that the Iraq war was unjust but then again I'm just reminiscing about something the US and US citizens no longer cares about. Iraq is now just another failed state, and the deaths there don't matter.
I have spent a total of a few months in China and have not perceived the phenomenon to which you allude.
If I understand this correctly none of these 4 products will allow you to send text based messages to another person on a desktop computer without having to create an entreprise hangout. Is that not a use case worth caring about anymore? You can’t even chat with someone else from Google’s own Chrome OS.
Slight quibble: you'd probably still want variable pitch props. Variable pitch props give you a lot of options for noise, speed, efficiency, etc that I wouldn't want to give up just because I have a different power plant. They're also extremely useful for engine-outs (you can feather them which reduces drag significantly) and for landing (you can reverse them which helps which reduces load on your brakes and lets you do questionable things if you need to get into a small strip.)
What gets me about the entire Google messaging ecosystem is how they manage to be so bad. My messaging system of choice is Signal, and it looks to be about three or four full time people that work on that. It manages to handle SMS, Grop Chat, Video Chat, and End to End encrypted chat for me. I imagine there are more Vice Presidents assigned to Allo then there are employees at Signal, and signal manages to out compete them.
Sorry! Unfortunately I don’t think that’s be fair to them or other candidates.

To be honest, I’m not even sure how they’d interview me again. It seems like it’d be a lot of work to have multiple versions of their interviews and at this point I know the answers to everything they showed me
The AI that makes decisions at Google should run for president in Madagascar[1]

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything
So many Python zealots... Whatever you do stop this non-sense Python dictatorship
>You're in IT right?

Nope

>Just book a flight to Bangkok bro are you kidding me? Go have a beer

First of all Chiang Mai is better and secondly this one-size-fits-all advise is not going to help most people get back on their feet.