skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this seems to be a narrative that exists only inside the HN bubble. The fact that a multi million dollar business decision is being made not by running numbers and future roadmap but by one guy in the meeting saying "wait! they shuttered Reader, my favorite RSS reader. Oh no, these other guys killed Zune, my favorite music player. Wait a minute, don't tell me these are the same people who killed Firephone. Ok, we're going with Fujitsu cloud guys" and everyone nodding their head in agreement
As I’m reading it, Mattermost (as source) is released under the AGPL, which makes it both legal and ethical (indeed, they have explicitly consented to allow you to distribute modifications) to stub out all the license checking and enable all of the enterprise functionality without any payments, tracking, or phone-home.

It seems to me this is the point of free/open source software: anyone can improve it and make it more functional and distribute those improvements. The first logical improvement, to me, is removing the unnecessary license checks that disable useful features of the software.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/master/...
No, a citation is not needed.

And since you're so hell-bent against learning Mandarin, go learn German. It won't be a complete and utter waste of time, unlike learning Esperanto.
So, what'd you think of Elon's spidertruck?
> This is not to say that working HF doesn't open up additional doors, because clearly it does.

That's basically it. Shit, I was a tech for twenty years, but never did much because I wasn't interested in club stuff or chatting on the local repeater. At some point I got an RTL-SDR, but dealing with noise and frustrating software issues killed my interest in it... Then around the time my license was up for renewal again, I studied for a week and got my extra ticket, and bought a rig that could do HF-70cm and suddenly I was able to try anything that interested me. If you've got a $500 budget, you can do the same... no reason to limit yourself.
You should buy a new hot water heater.
Prison, baby!
I was thinking maybe they discovered something on the moon. Alas, Paris.
I can't get excited about regular mice any more.

I bought a Razer Naga and mapped some buttons to [enter] and [backspace], plus others.

Having a few keyboard keys on the mouse blows everything else mouse-like out of the water, in my opinion.
Krampus
I agree, this is why a recent report has labelled Fox News as a national security risk [1] because when reporting on such topics they ignore facts and propagate sensationalist nonsense.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/fox-news-is-now-a-threat-to-nati...
I have to chime in with another recommendation for Pluto. The app is noticeably snappier than anything else on my 3 different models of Roku. (Weird since it’s free and Hulu, HBO, Sling et al should have plenty of money for development.). Sling especially has dark patterns selling DVR space and loses audio sync constantly. Pluto is rock solid by comparison.
> Rooting won't help most of these devices. They just don't have the horsepower.

If a device can "display" webpages then it's extremely likely that it can handle tls.

> Moreover, they don't run Linux

That has never stopped people before.
Interesting observation.

Kinda make me consider the comparison with the changes to Map API pricing earlier this year. Exactly the sort of sales weasel and lawyer driven revenue booster you'd expect to have come directly out of Ellison's office...
I caught a few episodes a few years ago (my youngest is 6 now) and there were a few "lessons" that I though just wrong and I didn't want my kids learning. The only one I can remember was this episode where they were stacking lots and lots of hats on somebodies head. They were banging on and on about "guessing" how many hats were on his head. Don't count, just guess. It was bugging me.
Eventually being when? Billions of humans lived and died without ever saying it, and they had plenty of related “prior input”.
Hah, I hadn't realized Karpeles was involved. That's a pretty wild CTO choice.

After all that's happened, going open source is pretty much their only option.
AFAIK, even the enterprise features of Mattermost are f/oss (agpl) and the license checks can simply be stubbed out if you don’t like them.
Not everyone can be as clever as your Mr. cwb
When I worked as a stock trader, all of our chats were logged as a matter of legality.
Hi Andrew!

Thanks for your great comment, really appreciate it!

You are right, I'm very excited on this experience! Even if it's not the first time when I publish my products here, I never had such level of attention.

Well, I'm looking right now from my personal point of view and your price looks "a little bit" high to me. I know I can do almost everything you already have in your project and maybe more, and if I would like to create my own SaaS right now, I wouldn't pay so much.

But if considers only corporate customers like established companies or well-funded startup, of course, your price is just nothing. The problem is I'm still looking for my niche, ideal customers etc. and I see this price is high for many of them.

My goal is to provide a democratic price that would be moderate for individuals and companies but would be different for them. I'm thinking to charge per seat as an individual can buy just one license and it will not be hard for him/her and companies would pay much more just because they would have more seats. But it's still plans (yet).

Thanks again for your advice and comment, good luck to you too!
Is this for your own custom domains you mean?
The US is too large to have the same uniform price. The cost of materials, rent, and labor vary radically across state lines. Second, for things like CT, they might now be immediate. Therefore you can shop around. For example I had an MRI. $200 after shopping around. Now it wasn’t an emergency, just a check for cancer. Don’t let the assumed to be perfect be the enemy of the good.
per project btw
Wow! In college my friend found it in an obsolete format (BetaMax?) in the college library. It is a comedy goldmine. ("Banzai!" coughing fit) We still occasionally laugh about it 15 years later. Highly recommended.
Chinese markets do have greater freedoms up until the point you start making money and noise. Then the gov-backed vultures start swooping in and pull their mafia moves.

Without fair representation in the courts and judicial independence this problem will never be resolved and China will always be taking 1 step back for every 2 steps forward.

Hong Kong is a better example, they consistently rank #1 in the world in economic freedom and their economy skyrocketed as a result.
Those were the days. Windows XP really was the sweet spot when it came to reliability and hackability. Sure, Windows 7 was more stable, but also much more opaque. Although I never cloned machines, I did automate the hell out of installs. When it finally worked, it felt like a miracle. Boot from PXE and enjoy the show. I was happy to discover that the most important tool I used back then can still be found on the internet: http://unattended.sourceforge.net.
> It's the undecidability that's important to his result, not arbitrariness

Undecidability is arbitrariness - to say that, for example, the axiom of choice is independent of ZF is the same thing as saying that there is a arbitrary choice[0] between ZF+C and ZF+!C. Similarly, the sequence[1] G(PA),G(PA+G(PA)),G(PA+G(PA)+G(PA+G(PA))),... requires (at least) one additional arbitrary bit per item.

0: not asserting anything about what makes that choice, though.

1: where G(X) is the Godel sentence, roughly "X cannot cannot prove G(X)"
dtach (http://dtach.sourceforge.net) is way simpler and more transparent than tmux.
This is my friend's story. He owns a company that designs and manufactures various electro-mechanical things. So he went there to check quality of his order that was getting ready for shipping. All went nice and shiny and then as he was about to head back to an airport he mentioned that he now has to find where to buy 150,000 non standard size batteries for the things being made. So the the owner said wait a min. Dials his buddy with another factory that happen to manufacture batteries and explains the task. So they set up the line and in 3 hours he had the whole amount made and put in crates.

Friend says it is insane how advanced the whole manufacturing is in China. It is engineer's paradise. Of course one has to be smart as they do not mind stealing the design and doing it themselves.
Waiting for the lawsuit ?
I may have been laying it on a little thick, but honestly, letting him become CTO of a major VPN provider... A whole sea of capable, professional tech leaders out there, and they choose a blockchain enthusiast with a criminal record and a history of incapability. I get the feeling that Kape wants someone in charge who won't say no to shady practices.
Fixed the title: "Keeping wages low for US tech companies."
This kind of model seems like an excellent way for political groups to push their agenda while staying at arm’s length.
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You’re requesting that the other side delete the message after a set period of time. The client on the other side could save the message instead, but realistically it probably won’t.

This depends on you trusting the other conversation party - but it would in any case, as there are so many ways to save a message that’s on your device. Even if you assume the most draconian, user-hostile device imaginable, all it takes is a camera pointed at the screen to defeat. It’s just not worth it.
Total BS; above poaster regurgitating some marketing crapola he read.
We know that the productivity of the very top researchers is not just some incremental percentage over others, it is often multiple times higher.

Check out the list of names under departments with publications in top AI conferences in the last three years. A large percentage, maybe even most, were not born in the US.

http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2017/toyear/2019/index?ai&v...

(Although the number of publications in top conferences is not a perfect measure, it is a pretty good one and correlates with most other measures one would think of as important.)

The world is also catching up. Among the “top 20” departments, according to this measure between 2017-2019, 10 are in the US, 9 in Asia (7 China, 2 Singapore), 1 in Israel.

Also note how many top researchers in sciences and engineering, not only AI, who helped build the US into the technological powerhouse in many fields, over the last century, were born in another country. It is not a coincidence. World population is 7.8 billion or > 20 times US population.

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Another major issue is math skills. Given that there are many technological specialties that require excellent math training and aptitude, it is possible that there are too few people growing up in the US who received that training and supportive environment during their formative years.

A conversation among many Asian students is how easy American math curriculum is. It is estimated to be 2 or 3 years behind the same grade level of many countries in Asia. The PISA 2018 results also show some concerning evidence:

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png

https://hechingerreport.org/what-2018-pisa-international-ran...

“In math, the U.S. ranks 36th out of the 79 countries and regions that participate in the test.”

“Today’s [US] scores in reading and math aren’t statistically different from when PISA started testing the subjects in the early 2000’s.”
Yeah it’s pretty abstract. One correction, you definitely do get the dividends that a company pays if you own them through a mutual fund. Funds report their net asset value (NAV) every night and when a company pays dividends it raises the fund’s NAV. US funds are required to pay out dividends to their shareholders as part of their tax status (basically a very specific type of non-profit).
Thanks for your idea! Btw I created a simple script that literally does the same - you just provide comments and it's sending to GitHub, rebuild the frontend and send command to deploy to AWS. But it's when I already set up everything. I'm thinking to automate much more - the WHOLE process of deployment, from the beginning, and actually,
I already did it partially (you can find working snippets in the book). So, stay tuned to know when I implement it :)
Giving government lots of power over healthcare is demonstrably not foolish, as evidenced by all the countries having success doing just that.

The whole “shopping around” thing sounds awful to me, but I don’t know specifically what it involved for you. So can you elaborate? How many people did you call? Did you do background research? How did you know who to call?

Where you stressed by sickness or other life things while shopping around? Do you think you found a deal somewhere near the price floor or is it possible you can get a scan for ~$100?
> I suspect as tooling matures, the industry will decompose into larger numbers of smaller firms, in which a smaller number of people will be needed to create and maintain more and more specialized applications. The differentiating factor in comp and career growth will be business domain knowledge, as opposed to deep knowledge of particular technologies. It's already the case, for example, that firms don't have to field an ops team of 5+ just to get a good deploy process going.

Why do you assume this?

There will always be more work to automate and more products to build. As processes become more complicated, you need engineers to support the systems they run on. Nothing manages itself.

We're limited in what we can do right now due to the (relatively) small number of software engineers available to throw at problems.
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>Our population is just. not. entering. the STEM graduate courses.

Probably because they import so much cheap labor it's a lot easier and more sane/lucrative to do something else.
Make sure you read the rest here: https://mobile.twitter.com/aurorastormG3/status/120611793955...

He doesn’t even know why they’ve banned him. And just like Google, there is no appeal or ability to get more info.
>Never go faster than your brakes.

Braking is not instantaneous at any speed. You will still continue to travel at least some distance while you decelerate.

Your comment makes sense if you are trying to prevent a collision with another moving vehicle in front of you, you can make sure you have enough braking distance to come to a complete stop if the other car does as well.

What if you're doing 50km/h with a pedestrian on the sidewalk 10 metres ahead of you to your right? If the pedestrian steps or falls out suddenly into the road you won't be able to avoid hitting them without swerving, most likely into the adjacent lane. That lane might have another car or a gaggle of nuns tied up by an ethics professor in it already that you will have to contact in avoiding the pedestrian.

If you maintain a safe braking distance between your vehicle and all objects, even ones you don't expect to enter your path, you would be unable to travel above 0km/h in most situations.
> they will sell it to insurance companies who will gouge you for the rest of your life

Where do you live that this would be legal?
To be honest, I don't know. Probably no - but maybe just because Java is much less popular language than Node and Python?
>(Exception being if you use the dns challenge)

Exactly. DNS challenges don't suffer from this issue.
No, they aren’t. That’s not what free speech is… at all.

The right to free speech is the right to say something without the government using force or violence to silence you. That’s it. That’s all it is. That’s what it means.
I'm not sure, but as of 2017 55 million Chromecast devices had reportedly been sold:

https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/04/google-has-sold-55-millio...

Anecdotally it's pretty popular with folks I know in Columbus, OH - admittedly they tend to be on the tech savvy side.
>Verifiable Zero Access: Start! – We’re building an internal roadmap to create a transparent and verifiable infrastructure, in which no one, including ourselves, is permitted access to the servers through which VPN traffic flows. We will keep you abreast of all progress, and moreover, this will be a community-led effort. Verifiable Zero Access proves that we cannot log or monitor your traffic.

Is this going to be "nobody can access it because we locked ourselves out (trust us)", or some sort of trusted computing solution that's cryptographically verifiable?
Regular users cannot delete other people's posts and channels, but they can indeed archive any public channel.

I run a mattermost server for a Free Software project. We have over 2000 users, but around 300 monthly active users, 100 daily. I worry about it sometimes, but trolling in our community is pretty rare.
Well, philosophically, you could convince yourself that the chip will always work if you try it enough times. One can't prove that's false. I have no interest in arguing angels on the head of a pin; what I know is that after a few failures, a cashier will tell you to swipe it, and it's obvious it isn't an unusual experience for them, seeing a ton of transactions per day. So any argument you may have based on technical, logical, or scientific grounds seems beside the point. Let alone plain incredulity.
I can see how they can open source their client side applications, and I guess they can open source their server code, but I can't wrap my head around how we can verify what exactly they are running on their servers. Like, can we ssh into them with root access and poke around running processes? I just don't get it. Anyone have a clue how else that kind of verification can happen?
Indeed. And having been around in both the SOA period and the Microservices period, and having witnessed the transition, I'm comfortable with maintaining the assertion that "Microservices" as a term was specifically introduced to demarcate the period characterized by big-vendor smart message transports and the period characterized by dumb transports we settled on as a reflection of all that we'd learned by trying to rely on messaging "magic".

It's a very similar transition to the shift from EJB to Hibernate (or EJB to Rails) or from SOAP to REST.

In the mean time, a lot of folks who don't have that background and perspective picked up on Microservices and made a lot of presumptions based on a lot of experience with web apps and web APIs. It's this that made "Microservices" a largely meaningless, muddied term. This is ironic because "Microservices" was introduced as a means to disambiguate the many competing meanings of "Service-Oriented Architecture" that had come into existence as many and vendors wanted to be seen as being involved with it without actually having been involved with it.

So, there's two meanings of "Microservices": One that comes from a background of service architectures and one that comes from a background of web development. My background is in both of them, but I hew to the meaning of "Microservices" which is closer to "SOA without big vendor smart pipes of the mid-to-late 2000s" than "The same old HTTP APIs we see the world through as web developers".

That's largely a lost battle now, just as SOA was lost to the competing interests of message tech vendors.

The term "Autonomous Services" is a much more precise and unambiguous in its intent, and conveys more specifically what's intended by "SOA done right", a.k.a.: "Microservices". And even more specifically, "Evented Autonomous Services" does an even better job of conveying the intent and the implications or the architecture than what "Microservices" can do now.

Or as Adrian Cockroft originally put it: "Loosely-coupled service oriented architecture with bounded contexts".

Knowing what the implications of all those words are, it's quite impossible to look at what is commonly asserted about the meaning of "Microservices" in 2019 and see much left of the great value of what was originally intended. Much of it still remains unlearned.
There are some issues I have with using Rust for bare metal work:

- “zero cost” abstractions end up compiling to lots of code/code that does weird things that can cause cashe thrashing and/or pipeline misprediction. In C the cost of everything is very explicit, in Rust it’s very easy to end up with an inefficient binary. The low correspondence between Rust/C++ and machine code is unattractive when doing bare metal work.

- unsafe blocks seem to defeat the purpose of Rust. It’s like building a proof on top of lemmas that are just random guesses.

- Clean builds of my test project are very slow.
I pay $3-4 (can’t remember the exact price because it’s god damned cheap) for access to all the PBS Kids content on Amazon Video, so it pretty much exists already.
The highways are actually privately operated. The privatization of highways was a big public issue back in the days, with most people against it arguing that it will lead to an increase in prices due to the profit-seeking nature of the operators.

Turns out, they were right, and in hindsight, privatization is a failure as far as the highway users are concerned.

But please, carry on with your factless dogma.
I remember taking a peek at the internal files of the PIA app in Mac back in 2013 and it looked like it was mainly ruby based? I guess it isn't anymore.
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Facebook tracks your real life purchases
Yeah, I'm always back and forth on Baofeng... At the end of the day, it's a very cheap, but (generally) functional HT.

The downside though, is that they can be very frustrating in some environments (esp with a high noise floor, or with a strong transmitter nearby - the frontend is _very_ easy to overload), and they're generally pretty bad about spurious emissions (though the newer tri-band model seems pretty good in that regard).
Indeed. Report For America's stated mandate is to fund reporters covering "under-served news issues". It seems like the honest way to spend money on this is to start your own magazine/newspaper/TV-station and talk about the issues you are interested in.

On the other hand, a large amount of the news is already repackaged corporate press releases and similar things, so there's no much further down things can go.
What are examples of Google changing their products to have lock in?
Postmodernism has been around for a long time. It appears at least some people think it's firmly historical and not contemporary...and that opinion is from almost a decade ago.
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We seem to be incapable of challenging entrenched city councils and fixing our housing problem, so we may deserve it.
> Open Sourcing the PIA Clients

Love this trend of privacy companies open sourcing clients and not servers. (sarcasm)
> Text files used ^Z character as end of file marker.

But only if the file size wasn't a multiple of the 128-byte block size. Fun!
Sorry Google, you need a time machine to fix this one.

No one trusts your products to stick around or has the confidence that you won't shut down their accounts overnight due to an automation thinking something is wrong.
Kind of, but if you want to have the highest comp at a certain time after graduating, the sooner you join FAANG (or similar places like Airbnb) the better. Because if you join at 10 YOE you will probably be downleveled compared to most people who started out there. Not that it’s a huge deal, but just something to think about.
> The suspension came after Spiers published a piece of code that created a pop up any time a Google employee visited IRI Consultants: an anti-union firm Google had hired. In December, Spiers was fired via phone call. A spokesperson from Google told The Guardian said the company had dismissed an employee who had “abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool”