skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree. Instant messaging seems to be dying out in the workplace. I used to find it a highly effective mode of collaboration, especially in large enterprises. Small shops seem to leave it off the list. We cranked up Slack for my team of 15 devs, but since we are co-located it didn't add any value. I guess if you were trying to make a buck off the cloud an IRC SaaS solution might look like a good idea. I don't think Freenode has to worry. :)
According to the article, he spent the 500-600k in the years prior to the dispute when it was open for maintenance and liability insurance.

The dispute was over a court order to also provide parking at a required rate of $2. (just repeating the article that was linked, I'm no expert on the legal details of this case)
How the compact disc lost its shine
Saw two (was it three?) decapitations in the first two minutes. One thing which distinguishes the 80s "genre" was that those things were rarely shown outside movies like The Omen. TV was deliberately sanitised, protagonists developed nice, tidy holes when they got shot, they had time for a few last-minute words, they expired with dignity.
Well if they didn't make it load fast kids would pull it out and blow all kinds of saliva into it, slowing rusting the connectors and ruining the cart. If you blow that hard on your screen it's not so bad.
This reminds me of when Apple was having financial problems late 90s, early 2000s, and the pundit's kept saying things like "license the OS!", "allow clones again and license to them!" and "stop being a proprietary platform!" etc.

To undermine your own brand like that by creating a shitty user experience and making the thing you have that is special into a cheap commodity makes no sense.

Nintendo's hardware right now isn't awesome (battery life on the Wii U GamePad is crap, etc.) but it is good enough to make the latest franchise games fun and playable for the family.
My objection is the conflation of [sloppy <---> precise] with [improvised <---> specified]. In reality they're more or less orthogonal qualities; Elvin Jones, for example, is about as close to a musical equivalent of "controlling every pixel" as I can imagine.
and once again, not built with angular. :)
I think the article is referring more to enterprise installations for firewalls - I don't think we're worried about 100G internet to domestic endpoints any time soon. Domestic use will still make sense, likely for years to come. In data centers? Not so much.
It's neat, but really just looks like a pretty primitive version of Houdini to me: http://www.sidefx.com/

Perhaps the emphasis on CAD instead of computer graphics is the primary differentiating factor, but it's really too early to tell.

Good luck.
What if you can't run slack because your company doesn't allow chat services that are externally hosted?

EDIT: This seems like something that never gets brought up in any discussion of Slack. No company I have worked for would have allowed an externally hosted chat service. Have I just been unlucky, or is it just the people in my situation never speak up?
Does uBlock work as well? I have thought about switching for the memory issues as well.
Wait, why is VC the only option? What happened to the old fashioned way of getting money, taking a business loan?
its freedom fighting
https://archive.is/IYtQX
Google ATAP: Welcome to Project Soli [video]
It's grotesque on purpose. Note the burning baby carriage and "Try cocaine" billboard in the beginning. And that goes all way through, as core of its satire.
I think they might only do live sites, the thing about Percy is that it can be integrated earlier into your feature/browser tests for all pages, even those behind logins.
Every State supports freedom fighters sometimes, depending on political and ideological interests. But when you need to create a special list as justification for economic warfare, then that name, "freedom fighter", is rebranded something less appealing. But both of these use the same means to further political or ideological goals... and States are not exempt from using these means either.
Yep -- same seam issues though.
Yes! The feedback/install our app/sign up for our newsletter popovers would be far less annoying (and, I suspect, considerably more effective) if they came at the end of the article rather than before.

With me, at least, there'd be some chance that I'd sign up in that situation, rather than no chance whatsoever.

I really wonder who these people are who will sign up before even seeing the site, and whether that group actually represents real customers. Maybe if your product is aimed at the terminally clueless?
The production quality is surprisingly good for something I found through a link that includes the text 'funded through kickstarter'.
You could save a bookmarklet that allows you to bypass the header: https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e

Or you could just skip the article when you see it. I don't see why we'd ban wsj.com just because you have trouble reading it.
Banks are still giving small business loans.
Is it though? I watched more than half of it. It is a bunch of satirical scenes full of memes copy n pasted together with almost nothing in the way of actual storytelling, which makes it less of a movie and more of a collection of youtube clips.
Nooooo! The SMS notifications are a pro-hack, lifesaver, and overlooked feature.

I get entirely too many push notifications on my lock screen, and don't check my calendar app habitually. SMS notifications get read every time. (60% of the time, it works every time.)

Sounds like a weekend project to roll a Twilio solution. The cost is well worth it for me.
I wonder what caused the 14% regression of negative value.
5 Tips for Conquering Fear
Simple JS function for generating bem-like classNames
So why aren't they shuttering Google Voice, where people use up millions of hours of speech and SMS every day?

I'm sure Calendar SMSes pale in comparison.
(I was a backer though) But I can download it from vhx.tv (an .mp4 file).
Text messages are largely free, and Google has been operating as a carrier through Google Voice for years.

I don't think they're deprecating SMS because of cost issues, I think they just want to move forward with richer notifications and don't want to spend any time working with a legacy system.
I'm a member of organisations that may not be comfortable with me giving permission by proxy.

I couldn't find a way to sign up and exclude private repos or organizations.
> Show them an implementation that works in Go, and they've said multiple times they might do it. Put up or shut up, basically.

Didn't someone fork Go and do exactly that only to get ignored? Perhaps it was a rumor, do you know? I'll see if I can find any reference to it.
Indeed. Hopefully you can make some cash selling it to others too, like the market vacuum caused by Reader's closure :-)
Looking at this step:

-from math import sin, cos, acos

+from libc.math cimport sin, cos, acos

What happens if the C math functions and the Python math functions don't take the same arguments/kinds of arguments?
Backers can, but those who buy it now - can't and I don't really see any good reason for it.
We need to work on creating robotic civilians (bystanders | peasants | victims), too. Then the circle will be complete and the war-makers can burn through their $trillions without actually killing anyone.
Good for them! I like it.
Is it only CSG? The page says it's using FRep instead of BRep. Is FRep limited to CSG operations only?
Well that or whatever they were in gets blown up and you never actually see them die. But explosions have remained a popular death to this day, so they don't really date 80s movies.
They also need to allow H1Bs for companies to exploit.
The Java 8 syntax improvement is actually shown a bit down the page https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.4.x/Highlights...
> If not touch screen activity for a long time, or when simply the screen is locked, then why is the camera on?

Face unlock, dash cams, baby monitors, live-wallpapers-that-make-your-phone-look-transparent, security apps that snap a picture when someone fails to enter the correct unlock code and emails it to you, etc...

But replace camera with GPS and it's the same thing. Or audio. Or motion detectors. Or just really frequent alarms to poll a server (see IRC apps for an example)
It's a parody, it's supposed to be like that.
Never had a GC pause in objc
There is also the possibility that it does help, but not strictly with the grammar or the mechanics of the actual language. I can imagine that learning a foreign language with any proficiency is as much about learning how to teach your brain to break free of the constraints of knowing only your first language. For most people, thoughts are directly connected to language and sentence structure. Perhaps learning another language teaches you to think more in the concepts and be more flexible with your thought structure than thinking simply within the natural constraints of your first language.

For instance, if you can't wrap your head around why a language may be missing 'basic' elements, you would never really master that language.
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This was THE KILLER Feature when it was released. I was able to Create Events with SMS which made a any phone able to use the calanders.

Now I don't need SMS for Google Calendar or Twitter or any other function besides sending messages.
The pragmatic solution is to write the critical parts of the code either completely allocation-free or using some kind of automatic memory management. To write large amounts of boilerplate and non performance sensitive code using manual memory management is likely time that could be better spent elsewhere. Similarly, tweaking a compute intensive part of a CLR/Jvm/Python/ruby program to fix GC performance is probably more work than just rewriting that particular piece of code with allocations in mind, in C if necessary.
The fact Slack is a thing is evidence of how horrible dominant IM companies are at their business.
Words like terrorism just can't be left in the hand of politicians. It's incredible how middle eastern dictators have picked it up as a name for their enemies.

This is all very Orwellian. Terrorism is currently just a euphemism for "enemy." We should just go back to using that title. It's way more honest. 'US removes Cuba from list of enemies' is what actually happened.

Can you imagine a military conflict today without at least one side accusing the other of terrorism?
It depends on your business model. For companies that require capital to build product before being able to sell, and thus don't have near term positive cash flow to pay off loans, debt is usually impossible to find. Only equity capital (i.e. VC or angel money) is willing to take that risk.
Ah I didn't really think of that - perhaps it was my own evil nature projecting onto the project!
It is satire, so enjoy it as is :)
But those aren't action movies from the 80s.
Speaking of movie patterns, I noticed that Hollywood seems to be dropping sex scenes lately. In the 90s/early 2000s had to have protagonists in romance and a sex scene. Recently, it's hard to find a popular movie with one.
Fair enough, but I think that's a limitation of Github rather than a problem imposed by Percy.
I realise that, but "80s action comedy" isn't really true. 80s action comedies include such gems as The Naked Gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

What's the referent for this movie, if it's "80s action comedy"? I can't think of anything like it, it's more like Duke Nukem frankly.
When you learn a language, you're not only learning the language itself. You're also learning how to learn languages.

It's not the language that helps, but having the experience of learning it.
One significant difference is that programming languages have a very small vocabulary, while spoken languages usually have an enormous vocabulary. A programming language might have 10-20 reserved words (plus specific meanings of tokens like "++", "\", ":=" that you need to learn). On the other hand, yesterday I realized that I didn't know the word for "brick" in any foreign language, including languages I've studied and regularly used for a long time.

That's one factor that makes it plausible that a programmer would learn a new programming language in a weekend, but somewhat implausible that someone would learn a spoken language in a weekend (although you can get surprisingly far). On the other hand, Daniel Tammet apparently learned Icelandic in one week:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet#Savantism
I miss access to the Bloomberg terminal from my time as an employee there. Wish there was a prosumer edition of the Bloomberg.
I wish they'd spend a few bucks on a head, too. That thing looks like it was just decapitated and is in its death throes, running on reflex.
I downvoted your comment for the following reasons:

1. If you had read/comprehended the article you would understand how they plan to address this concern.

2. Really, even without reading the article, your comment just shows a failure of imagination. It's really not hard to see how this early prototype might be developed into more mature, useful applications.
HN for Woodworkers
> what you're talking about sounds like halting progress

Depends on what you mean by progress. Giving someone work experience is progress for her.

I'm not talking about halting progress. I'm talking dividing the employment and subsistence problems. There will still be demand for automation. It just won't be artificially inflated by making employment more expensive than it has to be.
You have a disclaimer at the bottom of the page. I was also confused by the help/helb thing until I saw the disclaimer.
Google Calendar to no longer send SMS notifications
One would be forgiven to think a company like Facebook, with a market cap of 224.82B, would pay a little more?
GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
I'm now trying to use Buck build system with Kotlin. It looks like in the M12 kotlin-compiler.jar the annotation NotNull.class is embedded twice.
Why Chrome Thinks Your SHA-2 Certificate Chain Is “Affirmatively Insecure”
Try this. It's the URL from a Google Search for the article :)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Does it mean Cubans can now install the Oracle Java runtime?
Yes but any of that 500-600k cost which was actually required of him could have easily been known by him at time of purchasing the property. Saying you don't want to pay the required upkeep on something because it only benefits others and not you personally after you get it is pretty assholish.
Or, just as bad: they pull a Reader and sunset the service in 4 years once you've stuffed all of your photos into it.

My faith in Google's ability / willingness to support these types of projects long term is minimal at best.
Show HN: Hacker News Helper, a Firefox Extension
Hello everyone,

I enjoy reading Hacker News, as I'm sure the rest of you do too. So, I've been building a Firefox extension that integrates with this site and helps to submit web pages that haven't been submitted before.

The basic idea of the extension is that it searches whatever web page you are currently on against Hacker News. If no one has submitted that page, the extension button will give you a submission link. That way, if you come across a neat answer on Quora or Stackoverflow, or a neat article on nytimes or wsj, you won't have to manually search it on Hacker news to find out if it has been submitted before.

The other nice feature is being able to browse by site. What I mean by that is if you were to install the extension, navigate to nytimes.com, and then click the button, you would get submissions that matched that url. You can sort them by date or by comments, and page through the results.

Here is the code: https://github.com/mmcru/hackernews-helper

Here is the addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-helper/

(disclaimer: I'm still waiting for Mozilla to review my addon, which could be a while, so the second link could be taken down at any time if they find anything that they don't like)

I'm interested to see what people think of this functionality and how it could be improved. Of course, the project is open source, so feel free to take the code and adjust it as you see fit. I'm still fixing minor bugs; but I was excited to see other people's thoughts, so I thought now would be a good time to submit this here and perhaps find some inspiration for improving on the project.

Thanks!
So...don't use it. Honestly, there are other people here that will see this link and go "hey I want to add this feature in this" and the tool becomes better. Once it does I am sure you're gonna come back and leech on it.
Does the demo work for anyone? Would like to check it out, but does not load, just hangs.
What you're calling the "CyanogenMod" way is actually what Google built, it's called AppOps. All CM did was expose it. The actual capability of permission revoking and handing out dummy data instead was all done by Google as part of AppOps and I assume that M is using that same system because it'd be silly not to.
Kotlin is a really good language. I really want it to be my primary language for android development. The only problem I have now is build times. It's about twice as slow to build a Kotlin app than Java app.
It used to be a political tool for furthering potentially legitimate political or ideological interests. These days it has been corrupted to further illegitimate, religious interests. That's out of bounds. So let's make a rule to only use it in cases where it applies to illegitimate political and ideological interests. Otherwise, let's call them potential freedom fighters, depending on outcome.
I've been working on VisualReview (https://github.com/xebia/VisualReview), an open source project for visually reviewing a (web-)application as part of a pull-request, very similar to percy.io.

We're releasing our first version somewhere next week which includes a basic comparison GUI and testing api's. PR workflow planned in the release after that. Interesting to see we're not the only ones with this idea.
Apple buys German augmented-reality software maker Metaio
So because Google is currently not taking the tiny step that would allow them to collect even more data (even though their business model is all about spying on people for all the data they can get), this somehow say anything about what their actions will be in the future? Just like how Google still has the "Don't be evil" slogan?

They promise[1] not to abuse the software that just happens to require hooking into the OS in such a way that they could spy on everything. Google's pattern has been to introduce products that people find useful, then log everything they can get access too once they have a large enough market share (usually taking advantage of the general ignorance about what can be done with the modern networked computer).

To suggest that somehow this time Google will act differently is to ignore the last decade of history and their publicly stated business plan.

[1] ...actually, I haven't seen such a promise, just people assuming so. Maybe I missed something.
I'm pretty sure $15/hr and 3 weeks paid vacation is extremely good for janitorial work.
Why would market cap have anything to do with it? Walmart has a larger market cap than Facebook ($239B) and pays $9 / hour to its workers [1].

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/19/news/companies/walmart-wages...
I voted for it before reading it - it sucks. The title makes it sound like Glenn Greenwald is saying sorry - I don't see anything like that in there. His name gets a couple of mentions, but it's about some no-name former marine changing /his/ mind. I regret my upvote.

edit: Ah, I mis-read the title, I see he's saying sorry to Glenn Greenwald. No harm no foul, but I still wouldn't have upvoted.
That's the brick wall I hit too. I'm not giving them my email address for a demo, and I'm not logging in with a social media service.

I suppose I could download it myself and try it out that way, but that's a ton of effort for something I may not even want in the end.

Rocket.Chat devs, if you're listening, please provide a way to demo the program without giving up real information.
What you're saying is correct, I'm just not sure why you think it's relevant. It's entirely possible to have both personal investment and competence.
Absolutely.

https://www.google.com/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&tbm=n...
Google’s Project Vault Is a Computing Environment on a Micro SD Card
It is a parody on '80s action comedy. That's exactly how I understood it. Given that films like The Naked Gun themselves are a parody, Kung Fury came out pretty much as it did :)

References here are obviously Knight Rider and the like.
Those tools require the users windows password to decrypt the encrypted blob. So yes, it does protect against offline reading of the files.
I disagree -- undergrads at Stanford are smart -- smarter than my coevals when I was an undergrad -- and indeed more world-smart. But they are not really brilliant at identifying markets, and are not brilliant at knowing their own weaknesses. These blind spots cohere across the elite undergrad landscape. These are two things that intelligent investors can do very well.
Sorry guys.. this was just our development server.. we were planning to release it in 3 weeks time :)
An exclusive perk for backers only?
I miss the times where the term "hacker" was used differently
I don't put much stock in extreme examples. Much more useful to review common examples.
I think we called Blackberry phones and Sony Ericsson phones "smartphones", which existed before iPhones.
> Public policy should never be written to deliberately hamper productivity growth in the name of increasing human toil!

Depends on what you mean by productivity. Taken as a whole, people are working less and less.

> And by and large, much of what's "bought" with those fees and taxes just doesn't fucking work.

I disagree, but regardless, tying benefits to employment is silly and counterproductive. How many people make major employment decisions based on availability of benefits. I think there's common ground in thinking that employer-provided benefits is a broken idea.

I also think there's way to provide for the needy while letting individuals make their own decisions. Health insurance is already regulated and individually mandated.
Key point here... It would be interesting to see if they have anyone making less than that currently.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend's uncle's fate.

But look at the bright side of this announcement! This is not about Cuba supporting terrorism or not. It's about the US government taking the Cuban government off its list labeled "governments supporting terrorism". Two governments are improving their communication.

With some luck, this will help diminish state (sponsored) violence against innocent people a little bit.
Walmart also makes significantly less per worker than Facebook.
Maybe at some point the US will be able to remove itself from that list as well.
Show HN: SoundSurf – A YouTube and Soundcloud Player Similar to Grooveshark
All the hallmarks of a ‘typical’ London cycling death
Maybe.. but every militarily active country does this. IE, everyone backs non state militant organizations of one kind or another. How many countries would you estimate have sent cash, arms or consultants to non-state militant groups in Syria and Iraq? Off the top of my head: US, France, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, probably Russia. Possibly a lot more than that.

If you support one side, those who support a different side are sponsoring terror. What conflict in the last few decades did not involve "terrorists?"
Agree. They are basically trying to "monopolize" the design.
Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg would beg to differ.
Not a great replacement but might work for you: https://ifttt.com/recipes/295571-event-starts-soon-text-me-a...