skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hangouts once upon a time was an effective iMessage alternative and Google totally squandered what they had.

Several years back the Android version of hangouts:

* could message over hangouts, google voice and sms/mms

* could merge those methods into a thread by person

* was a required vendor pre-install app, if you knew someone’s gmail address and they had android you could reliably send a hangouts message

* it was easy to video call people because most people had hangouts installed

Sure it wasn’t as user friendly as iMessage and FaceTime but the base was there and the ui could have improved to get there.
I really don't think the general population cares about any of that enough to incite the change you are referring to. People stopped using IE because it was hilariously bad to use compared to Firefox and then Chrome. Until Chrome becomes hilariously worse for an average user to use it'll remain a near monopoly.
$40M AUD, which is ~ $29M USD
The UK is interesting because we have award winning architects like Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Terry Farrell et all yet we produce the most dismal housing for people to live in. There is a new housing estate behind my house that looks like it was designed by the foreman one Friday afternoon, everywhere I look it's the same.
Is Tumblr a product aimed towards children?
non electrek link if you're questioning the source: https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-big-battery-turns-one-cele...
This is an open letter expressing how Tumblr's decision will be harmful to a subset of its users.

As a commenter, there are several "good faith" ways to respond to this:

- I disagree, this is not harmful to these users, because ____

- I agree that this is harmful to these users, but that is outweighed by ____

- I don't know whether or not this is harmful to these users, and I'm looking to learn more about their concerns.

You seem to have taken another route, "I don't understand this concern at all, nor do I intend to educate myself on it, and instead I'm going to rant about how these people are bad for society". This doesn't strike me as productive.

(Also: you're arguing against an imaginary position. Nobody is claiming that Tumblr doesn't have the right to decide what content is allowed on their platform. The argument isn't that tumblr can't do this. This is just shedding a light on the harm this decision will cause)
While technically true, I've heard that most Swiss banks refuse to give US citizens bank accounts specifically to avoid the liability of the IRS's scheme to exfiltrate foreign bank data.
We can't conclude the US's low density cities are entirely to blame for a heavy automobile culture. The auto companies are pumping out gas guzzlers by the millions, people are buying souped-up F-150's to drive solo to their office job, they're buying shiny Escalades to take their chihuhua to the groomer, it's not just about density. There's a real problem with the consumers themselves demanding these polluting products, with around 40% of the country thinking climate change is no big deal, and with the corporations all bowing down to this carbon culture.
You say that Mozilla will be well-positioned as an alternative to Google. That sounds realistic and I hope it will be able to team up with bigger companies which would like to compete with Google (instead of helping it).

However, that made me think about Brave (https://brave.com/). What are your thoughts about it? It's also privacy oriented, but it's actually built on top of Chromium. What is even more interesting, Brave was founded by Brendan Eich (the co-founder of Mozilla).
Reading this on FireFox mobile, I think it's the best mobile browser out there (I've tried a lot of different browsers).

Sad to see it not gaining market share. That being said, there is a way for it to pick up steam. It would just require a new platform to come a long (probably competing with Google) to use FireFox
> Now to time management. When do these taps actually get done? In today’s micromanaged Agile-Scrum-Kanban environment, every minute is tracked, and tracked to JIRA tickets.

Whatever happened to Agile as "we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" ??

https://agilemanifesto.org/
Thanks for illustrating my point.
I don't understand your concern. If the attacker controls `https://example.com/.well-known/change-password` wouldn't they also control `https://example.com/my_profile/settings`?

Why bother redirecting the user to a third party site when you can just inject some password-logging JS into the _legitimate_ change password form?
I’ve been looking for something in this direction for some time, though I don’t think this quite does it. I really want something that helps me make decisions on tools as I enter into new fields of development. For example, I’ve been mostly a backend engineer the last 5-10 years and web development has changed a lot since I last did it before then. What are the tools, libraries, architectures, testing components, etc. that go into building modern web applications? What about the same for IoT devices?

My take on Stack Share has been that it’s trying to just get just enough eyeballs to be a viable recruiting tool. I’ve rediscovered it a few times and each time I leave disappointing because I don’t really find anything helpful.

After the last time I bumped into it, I started considering creating something to address what I’m looking for above, but I’m not sure what would motivate developers to help build this body of knowledge that I wish existed. What do you all think it takes to rally developers around creating something like this?
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There is a weird belief, that's particularly American, that if you're not outwardly hateful towards black people, you're not racist. Even the dictionary definition of racism often includes concepts like racial superiority. So I guess a lot of tech folk aren't really that kind of hateful, ignorant racist. But to me, you can be racist if you simply compartmentalize someone else based on their race. It's a conversation that's rarely had, and it's significant.

People can grasp hate, and violence. But they can't really see the effects of simply seeing someone as "other" based on race. And it's everywhere in the US.

It's strange. Americans just don't have deep vocabulary for ethnicity, really. It's all just race.
What a wonderful story! Glad to see such a story about China. US news doesn't do a good job humanizing the people of China.
https://betanews.com/2018/10/22/nz-chromebook-linux-kiwi-edu...
New Zealand chooses Google Chromebooks over ... - BetaNews

What are you talking about?
The thing to keep in mind about facebook is that the average user isnt a tech person.

My parents use facebook nearly constantly. That wont change anytime soon. I don't know if they could list a single facebook, "scandal" that happened this year. It's not that they are dumb people they just don't care. Their friends use it so they use it.
I'm turning 43 in a few months and estimate I have talked to some 50 companies since turning 40, the vast majority I passed on and only perceived one interview where I felt like age discrimination came into play. I landed my prior position just past 40, which was a small startup, and my current at a larger company a few months ago.

I do come off rather young in person, but my resume is clear about my work experience, graduation date and so on. Even with the one case where I suspected age discrimination was at play it was only after the fact when the recruiter said the company passed because they decided to go with someone more 'malleable' (for a sr. role, mind you) where the average engineer was probably about 25 yo.

Not saying it's not an issue, there's many reports out there of people experiencing it, but perhaps it's more restricted to the valley or not quite as common as implied. I say this as someone who was nervous about entering my 40s for this reason alone and have been pleasantly surprised to find it to be a non-issue for myself.
See also: Any international conglomerate that own a piece of the mainstream media apparatus.
I don't know if 24fps is bad as such, but it's probably what the director of photography had in mind/saw when he shot the movie.
> It's a bit like Verizon buying Hustler, then objecting to all the sex.

In this situation, it's more like Verizon buying a bookshop (Yahoo) and half the basement is erotica (Tumblr).
That is so unfair. I wish there was a way we could get over this shit.

I have a new team member joining us in a couple weeks and he's black. My intent is to try damn hard to completely ignore that fact, without appearing to be ignoring it, if that makes any sense. Where I live is predominantly white, so he definitely will stand out. As far as I can remember, there is exactly one other black employee on the entire floor.

I'm probably just worrying for nothing. We really do have a team of good people and I'm not just saying that.
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How is it robust if Go is pretty much the only widely used CSP implementation in existence. And Go itself is constantly fighting CSP deficiencies, trying to abstract it away and move closer to actors. Still not getting there, because actors cannot be properly implemented on top of CSP and CSP alone cannot be used for anything real world related.

If anyone wants to learn something from CSP, learn why it doesn't work.
If I accept your entire premise (I don't, I think there are a lot of cases you're missing here), I still don't see how you come up with a solution. You're going into the history of how we got here, but it doesn't matter to the person who just needs a parking space. They're already here and they cannot afford a parking spot that costs as much as their mortgage.

I agree that we have done a putiful job in providing public transportation and designing cities around the notion that reducing cars is a good thing, but to argue that a parking spot should cost as much as rent is ludicrous. It is completely impractical and will never happen.
>self worth immediately judged at the color of your skin is something that no other race lives with

I beg to differ. In Asia being white is a massive advantage. It's literally the reverse of what you describe. It weirds me out tbh. Sorry you have to deal with the opposite.
MS is honestly going to try again? Some things you throw in the towel and just accept you lost.
What is the recycleability of these things like? IIRC most batteries contain a bunch of rare earth metals and aren’t great for land filling. When these are worn out in 10-15 years how much environmental impact is there to replace / refurbish / recycle them?
[PREMISE:]

These scientific journals hail from a time before the web was widespread and universally accessible.

In the present day, it is technologically feasible for every scientist to self-publish on their own blog (we'd probably want some new tooling for tracking and counting citations distributed across the web, but that's just details for some programmers to work out).

[QUESTION:]

Given the premise, I wonder the following. If we were to simply disband the existing publishers today, rather than trying to regulate them, what system would emerge to fill their place? Would it be similar to the existing system? Or would it be something more free-and-webby as described in the premise? Or something else entirely?
Memories of using TECO EMACS on the TOPS-20 systems at CMU. Anybody else here?
Far left would be anarchists, black-blocs, and a few communists in there too.

Far right would be openly pro-nazi, or Vichy nostalgic small organizations like Oeuvre Française and other dissolved and then formed again groups. Add unaffiliated fascist skinheads in the mix.

Then again, almost every nuance of the spectrum between those two is represented in the protesters.
This company is toast and the next AOL. Anyone that ever compared this piece of sht to Google was comparing Apples to [choose your rotten fruit]. This is what you get for calling your users dumb fcks and while copying and pasting myspace text entry boxes and calling "technology". They can go the way of Iomega too while their at it.
> I'm afraid that it will look like a Cold War's arms race – one of the parties will invest so much that the other will just lose economically (not being able to afford that many developers).

Given all the "Safari is the new IE6" posts that have been here over the past few years, that seems to be already happening.

Apple is lagging behind quite a bit with implementing newer web standards, especially in areas where they have anticompetitive interest in doing so (PWAs cannibalising native apps). Of course, they're the only game in town on iOS, so that ensures them some captive market.
No, I don't mean statically typed. Python is dynamically typed. But it's typed nonetheless, and types in Python matter way more than it appears at first glance. There's no such thing as an untyped value in Python. This is the opposite of C, which is statically typed, but where void* opens the door to doing great and terrible things. I guess you could also call C's type system "surprising", except the surprises aren't cute and annoying like Python's. C's type system is surprising like being defrauded by an accountant is surprising -- everything seems fine for years, and then it all falls apart.
The problem is that a backdoor might not be so obvious. It can be simply a wrong chosen algorithm key size, and you need to be a cryptographic expert to know that.
People. Nobody using it. My mom is not on it. What the point?
Your comment is nothing but racism. The same sort of thing could be said about many minority groups. The point is to treat the individual fairly.
There's some stuff about it in this Sophie Wilson interview, which I found an interesting read: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746190
well i see 4 people don't support making the internet safe for women and children, we really need to get the internet censored so folks cannot post whatver they want and disrupt social order. A social credit score would be a big step forward for the US. We can't continue to have people posting whatever they want on the internet, we need make sure people can only access and interact with information that has been approved as non-offensive.

And people who refuse to get with the program in the 21st century, need to be de-platformed. This is how we got orange man in office, and from what i've read he is a very bad man. Ex Nazi, kkk member, Womanizer, Makes offensive jokes about people and steals money from social programs but not paying extra taxes.

Impeach orange man and have the UN help create laws. We need completely open orders. It is the only way to help US workers move forward and to become global citizens instead of belonging to these old fashioned ideas of countries and democracy.
FWIW It should be noted that there's already been documented cases in which tumblr has marked artwork and paintings as adult content to be removed and confirmed as such upon appeal.
Can you clarify? Are you saying that Tumblr should not be allowed to regulate porn because you took personal offense from an implication and because it’s okay for children to watch porn and so should have easy access to it? If that’s what you’re saying, I respectfully disagree
> other Five Eyes members will undoubtedly adopt similar laws soon, if they haven't already

Exactly. For those getting wound up over this in other western countries - Australia is often used as a testing ground for this kind of legislation. It will be your country next.
They don't consume their materials. It's an energy storage medium, not a fuel. From what I've read the recycling yield is quite high, though not quite 100% due to that nasty second law of thermodynamics.

I imagine big utility-scale and car-size batteries are easier to recycle than the tiny cells found in laptops and phones. The latter tend to be less standard and due to their small size and exotic packaging are going to have more packing material and plastic vs. "good stuff" like lithium.
>>The concept is called upward-suasion

If it was only just that, its actually a lot more that. You have prove that you have un-blackened yourself. Dissociate from your communities, and have renounced the community's ways(so-called).

More like the other side needs to be made to feel you are one among them.

It's a soul crushing exercise. Its undoing of one's identity. And it's very humiliating to undergo all this.
Facebook is a roach motel, the next friendster.
If they don't have a fax, they still have a mailing address. If you can print out the document, you can alter it before sending it back. But going outside the normal workflow invites human scrutiny, so anything you do there has to be above-board.

You could always add some words to your digital signature, like "this is not a contract", or "I refuse these terms", if that's the only way you could otherwise edit the document. If it's an automated system, it's likely that there is no human review until the documents are actually needed for some legal reason. By that time, you'll already have your money.

You could also try hacking the document system. The worst that could happen is that you don't get to work there. Second worst is that months or years into your new job, some HR person notices a discrepancy, and wants you to sign a fresh copy, or you're fired immediately. Try sending back a document that has lorem ipsum generated text or Markov chain text with the appropriate paragraph lengths? They're probably counting on you just clicking the buttons, maybe typing out your full legal name, and automatically filling the checkboxes with green checkmarks. Putting all of it into an automated system is already a means of cutting corners on legal paperwork. You can easily outsmart the computer, if there's no human helping it.
> A clean reinstall is easy from there: remove the .env and just repeat.

Repeat what, manually doing a bazillion `pip install`? Another nice thing about npm is the packages.json file it creates. This allows us to simply add that to version control and then all the new dev has to do is clone and run `npm install` which reads packages.json and installs everything inside of it. I'm sure there's a way to do it in python but, like everything else I bet it's a non-intuitive multistep process.

JavaScript

==========

First time installation:

npm install express --save

Subsequent times:

npm install

Starting clean:

rm -rf node_modules

Running application:

node myapp.js

Python

======

First time installation:

virtualenv .env

source .env/bin/activate

pip3 install requests

pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

Subsequent times:

virtualenv .env

source .env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Starting clean:

rm -rf .env

[exit bash to clear environment]

[start bash]

Running application:

virtualenv .env

source .env/bin/activate

python3 myapp.py

For JavaScript I typed it all out from memory. For Python I had to consult StackOverflow because I couldn't remember "pip freeze". Yes it can be made simple with use of aliases and such, but like I said in my first post, out-of-the-box cognitive burden is several times greater than, say, npm or yarn.
I grew up on island in Alaska where 40% were first generation immigrants from the Philippines. We all hung out, played sports together, traveled, graduated high school, joined the military, and now are raising our families. Maybe they received prejudice but at the same time those of who were military children weren't accepted as part of the community, seen as outsiders and treated as such. As kids we bonded and formed stronger relations with those around us and didn't let it affect us.
Is it feasible in Germany for a trade worker to take a huge corporation to court? I mean, in terms of affording a lawyer, time off from work, etc.
...if disposal is free
> better ways to use clean energy?

I'm not sure what this question is really asking? Better ways to store it to match supply to demand?

In response to edit:

> is this the path of least-resistance for renewable adoption? I.e. Renewable+energy storage for peak demands, something else for baseline production?

This is a false dichotomy. There is baseline demand; on the other side the supply can be divided into dispatchable and non-dispatchable. Renewables can't be turned on by demand, so they're non-dispatchable. Perhaps surprisingly nuclear plants go in the non-dispatchable class; they produce a constant amount of power, apart from occasional month-long shutdowns for refuelling or maintenance.

The path of least resistance is to just keep adding more wind and solar, for the time being. A certain amount of highly dispatchable gas plants are needed to cover the difference. The tricky thing is working out how they should be paid, as they run less and less often.

The battery is then just another piece of dispatchable power generation, and can be paid to cover peaks.

Eventually we reach a point where the spread on the spot market between high and low prices becomes very wide: there will be times when electricity is being given away, and times where a plant is fired up a few times a year to cover midwinter. A good market for more batteries.
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That is what I was referring to as "statistics" (that's what the subsection is titled).
Zooming in on meiosis
If I was that age again (I'm 38 now) -- I would tell myself to:
- Get into meditation. Meditate 10 minutes every day.
- Go to the gym 3x a week.
- Check out the NoFap movement - no masturbation and no porn. It requires self-discipline and believe it or not, gives your more energy and keeps you motivated (no joke).
- Don't multi-task. Focus on one thing only. Multi-tasking is bad for your brain.

All of this boils down to building self-discipline.
As a non-American outside view, my guess is that the socially-left view systemic racism as a big problem, so think about it, talk about it, and advocate policies to combat it. The socially-right believe America's meritocracy instincts are stronger than systemic racism, so don't talk or think about race as much.

It seems like it has more to do with one's views of the relative position of cultural values ("America is pretty good at equality of opportunity" vs. "America has some important systemic challenges around race that compromise equality") rather than level of racism on either side.

Unfortunately that difference seems to get misinterpreted both ways - with one side thinking (and saying) the others are racist because they don't support various race-targeted policies (or talk about systemic racism all the time), and the other side accusing the social-left of creating divides and problems by stoking race issues.
It's hard for me to take your comment seriously when you're a layman dismissing the findings of thousands of highly trained scientists. The scary reality is that views like yours are not uncommon amongst the Fox News crowd, meanwhile IF you are wrong and the 1000's of climate experts are correct, we are headed for a global catastrophe. So, there is really very little benefit to your viewpoint, and very little from qualified individuals to support its skepticism.
How convenient. A British corporation ranking British and European universities higher than America's top universities.
Of course no one will pay attention to this in the States.
Start with a compiled language, I guess? I don't operate on anywhere near that scale, but json-rust reaches 400 MB/s for me.

It doesn't parallelize, and you'd need memory enough for the entire structure, but of course Rust doesn't have GC overhead. You could trivially parse both files in parallel, at least.
> When you use UART, you have the other end of the wire terminated with another circuit. (i.e. The energy goes to into the connecting circuit.)

The other end is likely a MOSFET with an input impedance on the order of 10 GΩ...
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