skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think we're talking past each other a little bit here. It's understood that a company could stop offering some data that a company is dependent on altogether, but I think it's substantially less likely than a company threatening to terminate access to data that already exists (which is what happened here). I also think that if entrepreneurs know that they're free to gather any freely-available information, changes in the commercial offerings or access rules are less threatening.

Of course it's ideal to have a contract with a company that guarantees access to the data stream for a reasonable chunk of time, but the reality is that unless you're already a big shot, platform vendors like Twitter aren't going to give you the time of day for something like that.

If we take away the ability of companies to selectively allow access to data that's available for free to the general public, it gives these guys a fighting chance. The web is a publication platform. It's equally absurd to say "I'm publishing this novel and everyone except kbenson can read it" as it is to say "I'm publishing this data to the general public and everyone except kbenson can access it". You can try to stop someone from accessing your data, but certainly no court is going to consider it reasonable to assist a company in preventing kbenson from reading a widely published manuscript. Data access is substantially the same thing, and should be treated the same way. Keeping non-disruptive entrepreneurs on the same footing as everyone else makes innovation more secure.
She does seem to have something of a knack for getting things done. I watched her startup school talk just the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c
Mostly the maths just enables easy key distribution and makes encryption viable for commerce and privacy. I don't see the public benefit in restricting this. It seems more targeted at ordinary citizens than criminals or foreign powers.

If all you want to do is bring down the government then you can distribute one time pads on microsd cards and there is not much legislation can do to stop that. Any governments planning to ban xor?
> A proper Lisp-2, based on the features and limitations of the Erlang VM

What are limitations?
Dead men take secrets to the grave every day.

Brain communication interfaces aren't that far off though, so maybe we can solve this "problem" with the our minds being dark to the FBI in a decade or two.
Let me see if I understand correctly. I think we both agree that firing someone for just one accidental "micro-aggression" would not be right... possibly even stupid. And you asked me to cite a case of that happening... or "anything else even remotely like" it. But then when I cite a case (admittedly not a great one) you reject it on the grounds that it is just one company doing something fabulously stupid. I am opting to disengage at this point because I don't really think you are interested in making this discussion meaningful. We'll just have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
But WHY did so many people decide to build Slack integration? It's not like HipChat and Campfire didn't have APIs. I say follow the money. My theory is that Slack has influential investors who were extremely successful in selling hype.
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I was in the LCA2016 IRC channel and at LCA2016 in person. I really wish we could have CCC [1] levels of "audience participation" because it allows people to interact with the conference who may not normally be able to attend. The live streaming was really well done but I think there needs to be One True Chat Channel for LCA2017. Maybe that means using Slack or similar and swallowing a bit of FOSS pride for a while.

[1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Congress_Everywhere and yes, they use IRC. LCA's audience is a bit different
This.

If you can afford it, multi-cloud makes sense. Reduced risk to outages, etc.

Personally I've seen smaller companies also doing the same.
Great news! I wanted to learn BEAM/OTP, but had tried
Erlang briefly years ago, and then went back to Common Lisp. Now I can try to learn BEAM/OTP in a syntax that is more appealing to me than Elixir's Ruby-like syntax. I like Elixir, and it is very popular, but true runtime macros are available in LFE 1.0. In addition, Robert Virding was one of the co-creators of Erlang, so his devotion to bringing the best Lisp he could to the BEAM platform within its confines, comes with some authority. The Google Group Lisp Flavoured Erlang is a very responsive community and resource for getting started. Congratulations LFE on your v1.0!
OT, but I also use Extempore - the music, graphics livecoding environment with a great language, xtlang that I believe was based upon S7 scheme and has an LLVM backend [1]. There are some s-expression to WebAssembly projects floating around too. All around good news for all the choices to work with up front no matter your preferences.

[1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/
Illegal Numbers - Numberphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo19Y4tw0l8
I didn't see a comment section, but my username is the same as here.

Thanks
qmail is... specific. It does very little and does it in many different processes. That's kind of like putting a security guarantee on `cat`. In practice qmail on its own is not really usable these days (does it even compile without patches anymore?). The extensions to it are also not even standardised - it mainly happens by patching the source.

I'm not saying that software is bad, but the security guarantee is too restricted to be practical anymore.
To your point, bombs are not chemistry, bombs are the application of chemistry. Encryption is not math, encryption is the application of math.
Wow, that is one messed up creature. It's like something I'd expect from Chris Sanders if he went for freaky/creepy instead of cute and adorable in his character designs. (Sanders did Stitch from Lilo & Stitch, Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, and the animals in The Croods, if you need examples of his work)
SickBeard appears to be stale, and the replacement options for it are Sonarr[0] and SickRage[1].

There is also Headphones[2] - similar to CouchPotato and SickBeard/Rage/Sonarr but for music.

[0] https://sonarr.tv/
[1] https://github.com/SickRage/SickRage
[2] https://github.com/rembo10/headphones
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. RCTs are incredibly commonplace in medicine, but they are hardly the only way to do causal inference. They are also incredibly easy to make mistakes in; I'd more call them a bronze standard.
Did the US supreme court (in 1877) not find?:

"No law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the Postal Service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the fourth amendment of the Constitution."

(Ex parte Jackson, 96 U.S. 727, 733 (1877))

Why does this not also apply to newly invented forms of communication
Don't worry too much about metastatic optimization / pencil pushing :) Just stick a semi-memorable prefix (e.g. "get", "try") in front of the name you like
It sounds kind of inefficient though since different business types have extremely different bandwidth needs. So it's going to tax business by sector rather than by their ability to sustain it.
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I think I didn't properly communicate my thoughts in the first post. Let me try to write them out more clearly.

I wouldn't describe them as disparate logical components. The numbered points I wrote are the abstract, rough, adult-level interpretations of the messy "knowledge" that the baby develops. The baby doesn't have this type of vocabulary or even scope of understanding. But I think those would be the flavor of the pillars of knowledge the baby builds up to develop a conception of "mother".

The 2-year old's conception, when they first speak "Mama", will still be incredibly rough. It will be a faint glimmer of what we actually mean when we use the word as fully grown adults. But each additional day more understanding is built up as the network of neurons and their activation patterns, etc is being modified through further interaction. The experiential data from every additional moment of time that passes are pattern matched, integrated, and added to what it already "knows". Humans are really, really good at loose pattern matching & loose analogies. It feels to me as if most of how we think and what we know is just many, many layers of this.

Side point: I would say that even two adults never mean the exact same thing when they use the same word, as they have built an understanding of that word/concept from different life experiences. We can try to communicate to others what we think a certain word/concept means to us, however we have to use other words/concepts to do that, which makes the problem a little difficult! This is why people very often talk right past each other.

You are 100% correct, this is a lot of speculation. Hopefully we will make more progress towards knowing the hard science of how it actually works in our lifetime =)
This just the extract value before exit phase, right?
You talk about centuries, in the mid 19th century only 10% of the world could even read or write. The vast majority of what governments want to access would have previously been said face to face without any records.
In most parts of the US, no. Like the post says, "I don't like the shoes you're wearing today" is a perfectly legal reason to fire in an at-will state.

The only exception I'm aware of -- and why it's a great idea to get things in writing -- is in a couple of states it's possible to sue the employer if they said they'd do one thing and did another thing. Whether it's possible in your state, and whether it'd be worth the (both financial and emotional cost) of the legal proceedings, is something to talk to a lawyer about, though, and I am not one.

This exception is, by the way, the reason why employee handbooks and other company documents pretty much never explain specific procedures they'll use for correcting problems, other than a catch-all "may lead to termination". Putting a procedure in writing can lead to someone holding you to that procedure, and no well-advised company puts itself at that risk.
I've found the same in the US as a non-native (but white) - my ethnicity is discounted, I'm lumped into a very peculiar bucket and my opinions don't count. Pretty weird experience. Is it really diversity or just a different power trip?

Pretty cool article though. We all became developers so we can build things: we have that in common I think.
The difference is that math is an abstract concept with no physical manifestation. I can encrypt something in my head, but I can't make a physical bomb in my head.

Even when an encryption algorithm is implemented on a computer, it's still not a physical object, it's just a mathematical algorithm.

A computer simulation of explosive chemical reaction is not going to get you arrested, why should an encryption algorithm?
Oh wow. I've been out of it a while (just use Hulu / Netflix / Prime these days). I'll have to check these out. Headphones I used before but it wasn't very reliable at the time.
> We've had north of a thousand virtual machines scattered across ~6 2nd and 3rd tier providers and switching to gcloud has been a game changer for us.

All the of the success stories I've heard about Google Cloud are from companies using significant resources. Why hasn't Google gone after startups? Perhaps I'm missing something but a turnkey package of computing, analytics, and advertising seem like a no-brainer.
This is really cool Jennifer. Hope you will be in the YC core program this time. All the best.
Seems like something you could build with a Raspberry Pi. I too would like a pre-built solution though.
You and I understand that, but how many politicians understand that? We constantly ban stuff that's futile to ban and make things worse I the process.
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nice program
Maybe, but to be clear Li Haoyi writes a ton of very well typed Scala code. It just happens he used Python for this particular blog post. I did not get the feeling that this was just the perspective of a programmer working in a dynamically typed language.
I thought there was a fascinating response to a Reddit question a couple years ago by a transgendered woman that asked "How did people react to you after you transitioned?" She said that, as a man, people were much more likely to show interest in her ideas, and she was much more likely to receive praise from customers at her job (IIRC she worked at Subway). As a woman, people were much more interested to hear her talk about her emotions than when she was a man.

I thought it was very interesting, because she essentially "served as her own control." The only thing that changed in the situation was how people perceived her gender - the ideas, feelings and performance were from the exact same person. It certainly made me reflect more on unconscious biases I might have.
> * They have a positive attitude and seem appreciative of the opportunity

I wonder if you've tested the impact of higher/lower remuneration on this.
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Any time the "math cannot be illegal" argument is raised, it's time for a re-reading of "What colour are your bits?":

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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Does CloudFlare block Tor?
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Regarding your nickname, I would like to point out that there is no such thing as an "ass puppy". Juvenile asses are called foals, like the young of other equines.
Various government agencies are crooning that they should be able to knock down whichever doors they please because they're the government. Not really a sound argument but… they're the government after all.

Various government agencies are crooning that they should be able to knock down whichever doors they please because the interests of being able to have somebody find out what people are doing under certain scenarios is preferable to never being able to do it.

The fact you misrepresent the argument as simply "because they're the government" means you either don't understand the opposing side or you're willfully misrepresenting them. In either case, why would anyone who doesn't already agree with you take what you said seriously?
When Lee got up and left the table for several minutes during the second game, I actually wondered if they were going to find him in the men's restroom in the lobby with his wrists slashed.

It was genuinely kind of spooky when the camera kept returning to his empty chair, and it was a relief when he came back.
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We've been doing tests in GCE in the 60-80k core range:

What we like:

- slightly lower latency to end users in USA and Europe than AWS

- faster image builds and deployment times than AWS

- fast machines, live migrations blackouts are getting better too

- per min billing (after 10mins), and lower rates for continued uses vs. AWS RIs where you need to figure out your usage up front

- project make it easy to track costs w/o having to write scripts to tag everything like in AWS, down side is project discovery is hard since there's no master account

What we don't like:

- basic lack of maturity, AWS is far a head here e.g. we've had 100s of VMs get rebooted w/o explanation, the op log ui forces you to page through results, log search is slow enough to be unsuable, billing costs don't match our records for the number of core hours and they simply can't explain them, quota limit increases take nearly week, support takes close to an hour to get on the phone and they make you hunt down a PIN to call them

- until you buy primare support (aka a TAM), they limit the number of ppl who can open support cases, caused us terrible friction since it's so unexpected esp. when it's their bugs you're trying to report and they can mature from fixing them
Yes metadata is probably going to remain an unsolved problem for Matrix because it's not fully distributed, but I agree with the tradeoff Matrix is making here.

For now, building a great federated chat protocol that allows users to fully control their own data should take priority over just about everything else, because once users are in control of their own data, they're no longer locked to a single platform. So if another protocol comes along that does everything Matrix gets right and adds metadata protection, users can simply export their data and import it to the next great app/protocol (which is hopefully also federated). Until we have a great federated protocol that everybody is using, the friction associated with moving between chat apps/protocols is going to continuously inhibit real innovation in the messaging apps space by favoring apps that stand on the strength of their network effects over apps that stand on their own merits.

On the topic of fully distributed apps, I really like what replikativ is doing in this space:

https://github.com/replikativ/replikativ

It's a CRDT-based data replication library for building fully distributed applications. They envision replikativ being used as an open data exchange whereby users fully control their own data, and can specify any number of applications to have access to that data, instead of the status quo where user data is kept in closed, per-application silos. Their README has a much more comprehensive overview of the library and their vision.
I guess the article does say it was attributed to her, but whenever I read an executive-focused press article, I just think of the team that worked hard for months to get to this point, and suddenly the newly-hired senior executive marches in, attends a few meetings and reviews, makes a few phone calls, and then winds up getting all the credit. Seen it so many times at big companies.

Especially irksome is whenever a product launches or a deal is signed, the exec replies-all to the mass internal celebration email with a "So proud of this team!" message. Ok, thanks for smiling upon us peons with your lordly approval, after the 4 hours total you personally put into the effort.

Sorry... slightly bitter :-)
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I developed a product that connects Twitter and Facebook. I always thought that Twitter would be the enabler because of it's open street like atmosphere and Facebook would be difficult to work with because it was a walled garden. The exact opposite was true. Over time, Twitter would get more restrictive and difficult to work with while Facebook enhanced the look and feel of the stream and how the tweets appeared, emphasizing and highlighting them.

In essence I think the product spoke to the nature of the whole issue. The tweets left Twitter to seed Facebook with good interesting, connected data. Twitter would know little about the context while Facebook would get enriched context from the tweets.

Twitter doesn't want to be a dumb pipe to make apps smarter and better. They want to be the bucket like Facebook.
Actually, a rectangular card of significant size inside the experiment module will only be set on fire, not the entire cargo. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experimen...
This is a classic disagreeing comment which is a false disagreement. The parent to your comment did not claim anything about the origins of or influences upon Islamic art. At best you're talking past the post you're responding; at worst you're insulting a religion which currently has 1.6 billion followers. Please don't do either on HN. Thanks.
Any chance you have a link with that number? Would be interesting to read more about apple using such a chunk of Amazon's services.
I didn't say or imply anywhere that they were at odds, nor do I think they are in general.

Rather, the business success part of the narrative was missing in this particular case, leaving an inconclusive feeling.

I recommend that you give others the benefit of the doubt and make a real effort to understand what they are trying to say, rather than assuming they are wrong merely because the comment triggers a politically-incorrect reflex. You're comment leads to an environment where people are afraid to contribute new ideas to the discussion.
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Ask HN: How do I keep track of startup acquisitions?
for those wondering the difference between this and Meteor. Here is the blurb Feather vs Meteor

http://docs.feathersjs.com/why/vs/meteor.html
From my understanding, and I could be wrong, Apple does more on Azure than they do AWS. Also they aren't leaving AWS or Azure, but are diversifying to other cloud providers for scalability and uptime.
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Mody, 0.5.3 released
You could take a sample every month for a few years. That should be pretty informative/horrific.
It'd be nice if HN let me know when someone responds to my comments, though there are 3rd party tools for this purpose. Otherwise I'm not exactly sure what you mean.
Can I unlock the door remotely?

If not, it is just a simple security camera system with motion detect capability, right?
They have your problem now and already address it. It isn't unique to retargeting.

They lose customers. Ad networks lose websites. Walled gardens lose users.

That's why you don't see promoted dildos on Amazon, Forbes, and Facebook even now - and why your nightmare scenario is just a bad daydream about rubber cocks.
> ... or if a bizarre-seeming pattern of Go stones causes Sedol to have a seizure.

I didn't think I could have a lower opinion of Yudkowsky, but apparently I was wrong. What is this, a Gibson fan fiction?
As a sort of external observer who doesn't really 'do' big media, I'm left wondering why content providers even bother with DRM at all.

Any insiders about to provide some sort of perspective?

All of the content is all over torrent sites. The general public are 'non-savvy', or unwilling to take the risk, and seem to continue paying to netflix'n'chill.

So I don't really understand why this is even a thing. It feels like anyone savvy enough to save a HTML5 video and copy it to a USB drive would be savvy enough to open a torrent site. What gives?
"Creationists are right to reject evolution."

That came out of left field. The rest of the essay is based on rejecting what we know about evolution and species cooperation.

"In recent times our sex drive has been has been moderated by contraception, which has aged mothers (and could have led to extinction)."

Okay then. File under non-interesting and ill-informed, and (to use an old Usenet term) plonk.

P.S. dates from 2008 and/or 2012.
Here's something I thought about recently for English speaking people who want to learn French:

Sharing a screencast of me browsing the French side of the internet. Many people don't pick up a new language because they think it's difficult, but in this case they'd be able to connect a written word (since it's a screen-cast) to a pronunciation. They'd also see how many words are shared and just pronounced differently, etc. (I'd be explaining what I'm reading).

They'd also see where I go when "I stumble on a word I don't understand", what I type into Google to get the information, etc.

Think lemonde.fr, latribune.fr, lesechos.fr. Mainly Politics/Economics, but one can also find "lighter" stuff for people to learn idioms and expressions.
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