skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't understand what you're getting at with The Day After Tomorrow. The scientist is basically saying "WTF this sucks, what were they thinking?" but more nicely.

Have you ever seen someone express a position that you agree with, but do it so badly that you wish they hadn't, because they make you uncomfortable and just give ammunition to your opponents, while convincing nobody of the merits of your position? And then you try to formulate some sort of response to say, well, you're right, but oh how I wish you hadn't made your case so badly? That's basically this.
Has a different meaning on reddit. I wonder what that does for the relative prevalence of each usage.
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The desktop app doesn't show a lock key icon in the message bubbles, while the Android app does. I never quite understood why the Android app clutters the interface with that icon since, I assume, _all_ messages are end-to-end encrypted anyway.
My first experience with them was in London about 8 or 9 years ago. That employer was starting up a London office and wanted a nice Trafalgar Square address. It made it incredibly easy to get 7 or 8 people together and have conference rooms, etc. and it was also a lot cheaper than immediately building out an office space.

My current setup is just south of downtown Seattle. At first $850/mo for about 120 square feet with a window seems expensive until you look into the other options. Building out a space for 1 person is crazy, a 'less nice' space isn't good for having visitors and all require you to obtain your own telco and Internet. None of the other places had shared spaces and bookable conference rooms. Lastly, having the receptionists is REALLY helpful, at minimum if you have packages you don't want sitting on your doorstep.

There's also something to be said about walking in to an office every day that's just _nice_. Even older spaces that haven't been renovated yet are still classy (and not in a Donald Trump way) and nice. The brand new ones like mine are significantly better than a lot of corporate HQs I've been to.

I'm moving to Portland in a few months and the first thing I did was pull up the Regus office map and start calling- my experience has been fantastic.
It cannot be secure because the webpage has access to the chat contents and is running code that came from Whatsapp. Whatsapp could change the code so it logs the contents from your phone back to them and you would have no way to know unless you log and check the javascript that comes with the page every time you open it.

Similarly you have no way of knowing that the client is not sending your keys to the Whatsapp servers though. You just have to trust them.
I've never posted on 4chan, so I don't think so.
> it's predicated on exponential growth

Is that part even necessary? Even linear growth with a higher constant factor than humans have due to faster iterations could rapidly outgrow human capabilities if we take a hypothetical human-level AI as starting point.
Reddit really has a really hard to follow rule as to what content is or isn't allowed.
This type of nonsense from WordFence shouldn't surprise anyone. I've written of their incompetence before: http://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/2015/02/23/wordfence-real...

Laugh and move on...
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I was told that driverless cars and household androids would be commonplace by the year 2000. Different people predicted different things depending on the decade you're looking at.
I think I'm being plenty responsible by (1) finding cheaper prices outside of Amazon (2) buying few enough things that the cost of Prime amortizes to an expensive shipping rate and (3) not making impulse purchases and being patient enough that I can live with the free non-Prime shipping.
This was explained in the original announcement thread. It'd be easy for a bunch of countries to turn round to Apple/Google and say "we don't want this app in our country", especially given the... breadth of Reddit's content. They're rolling out slowly to reduce the amount of firefighting they have to do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4dqxgt/reddi...
If there is widespread snooping even a small percentage of users verifying their keys will expose it.
"If you can name it, you can tame it! Use intention revealing names!"

VITAL... ALWAYS... please?
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Interesting, do you have any customers / freelancers yet? The site does not seem to be working correctly.
I originally thought this was going to be more creepier than it actually is.
Nop. We have no service/product to pitch. We have a talk to deliver on an open source technology. We have no financial interests. We have already delivered the talk for free twice before at other conferences.
You've repeated what I wrote and I'm not sure why. I was responding to the original comment asking if rounding or similar could work and said that it still leaked data. Which is what you've written here in response to me.
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Hmm I don't see any documentation for that format code.

I chose mp3 because it's the only format my ipod accepts. The formats it downloads by default won't play, even if they might be higher quality.
There was a Mona in Starcraft too. Dota was just the game that refined the concept enough for it to become mainstream.
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Kudos thats a pretty smart affiliate idea.
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Didn't Russia ban Reddit for some mushroom thing?
Damnit! I hate it when people advertise my favorite software.
That's not the way I understand the arbitrage, you are assuming hedge funds have no impact on prices.

Say company X is getting bigger, and pretty much qualifies to get into the S&P500 at the next revision of the index, it currently trades around 100.

When it gets into the S&P500 all the ETF buyers will buy this stock, that will push the price up to 110. Some of them will buy it at 100, some will buy it at 110 and some anywhere in the middle.

Now a bunch of hedge funds anticipate the ETF will do that and start buying it ahead of the stock going to the index. The price of that stock will rise to 102, 105, perhaps 107 if you have lots of people doing this arbitrage.

When the ETFs buyers pile in, they will be picking up the stock somewhere between 105 and 110, not 100 and 110.

Now one can argue this is the problem of the bank maintaining the ETF, because as far as the ETF investors are concerned, they own something that tracks the index, if it costs more to replicate the index, it is not their problem. But the way I see it is that the new stock will enter the index at an inflated price, and the price will converge again to the fair value when all the buying is done (instead of the price going up after the stock joins the index and converge again). That means that the ETF investors will have a lower performance than what they would get if no one was arbitraging them.
Honest question: why would you want to download a video from YouTube? The main use case I can think of is you want to watch videos offline on a mobile device but don't want to pay for a YouTube Red subscription.
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Stasi called and want their infamy back.
Can't find anything for "leftpad" :(
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This is quite a big win for privacy. If you use Whisper, Tor or most of the other privacy minded communications mediums, you are in a small minority so you stand out. Because a very large part of the population is using Whatsapp this allows you to communicate privately without standing out.
Mostly offline use. It's nice to be able to include them in a presentation. Rarely archiving is useful, especially if you think a video might get taken down. Also sometimes you want to grab a clip, for example if you are including it in a larger video.

I don't do it very often (except for mobile watching without burning quite as much battery) but I see a number of use cases.
> Remember 15 years ago the way people were predicting foot to meter per year seawater rise?

No, I don't remember that. Can you provide some links for those predictions done 15 years ago?
I don't think any browser implements certificate pinning in such a manner.
Because one end in this "end-to-end" is you, and the other is Facebook's government-facing data storage.
If there any difference if people were to instead invest in a Total Market index fund vs a S&P500 one?
Makes me wonder if they got paid for reporting it to Google.
This paper's claim that finding an effective technical trading strategy is in NP relies on the search space for technical strategies being exponential in the length of history being considered (which it's not -- that's the size of a description of a single strategy) and the tacit assumption that historic performance of a strategy guarantees future performance.
Well, not wanting to pay for a Youtube Red subscription is one possibility, another is that you want to access Youtube using only open source software, and another is to bypass ads.

I actually do pay for Youtube Red, but I like to download my Youtube videos because a) my internet connection is a bit spotty, and b) I like to keep as much as I can open source.
This case points out an interesting difference between Hungary and the US: In the US, surveillance is real, and when policy-makers get briefed about what the surveillance state wants, that's based on things they have, or plan on implementing.

This law in Hungary appears to be based on a wish list. Otherwise they would have known what is practical and what isn't. So, DO governments spend all day spying on us? Only the ones that have the budget and technical means to make it real. The rest are just authoritarian wankers.
And if you don't trust FB then it is ... unsafe :)
This is the linked survey:

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/nextgen-internet

It would be really great if they receive messages from as many people as possible.

750M can do much good, but as always there is a risk that this money is "invested" into very harmful projects.
The only thing I ever struggled with in AB was trying to visit a specific subreddit. Having to go back to the menu and scroll through all of my subscribed subs (which didn't seem to be sorted in any particular order, and included many subs I used to subscribe to years ago but don't anymore) to find the "enter subreddit manually" button was not terribly intuitive.
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First off, thank you very very much for your comments and feedback. This post is amazingly on point based on everything we have seen so far. A few points to elaborate:

-They are. The folks we are developing with use one of these. We are still trying to figure out how to pull the data out of it into a portable format of some sorts, but we haven't had the time to crack the nut yet. Thankfully, our current client has expressed a willingness to run their CRM system side-by-side with our product as we launch and develop. As it currently stands the value of their data falls dramatically over time because its just not easy to get to.

-We've identified a number of constituencies within law firms (clerks, attorneys, managers as broad classes) they all have different use cases and we are doing our best to consider each of them as we progress.

-Yes.

-We think a bit more paranoia about data storage is not necessarily a bad thing. I personally enjoy explaining how this stuff works to people (its not just lawyers, most people don't have a good understanding about how and where their data is stored online).

-Yes, this was one of our biggest struggles starting out. I've been doing the research for a lot longer than we have been coding and trust building has actually been the hardest thing we've had to do.

-Yup!

-We will keep this in mind. We are currently developing it as a responsive web app (so functional on both) but we will definitely keep our eyes open for ways to enrich the mobile experience.

-This is a fascinating and ambitious thought that I will save for later.

-Again, 100% spot on. The managers are the decision makers and what they care about is record keeping and compliance.

-Will do more of this as we continue development. We have it set up for the backend currently, but I can definitely see the value for end users of being able to export bits and pieces of the data as needed.

Thanks again
How is using ChromeBook in post-Snowden world?
Meanwhile, the Burr-Feinstein draft dropped today and it's absolutely horrifying.
If there was widespread snooping, it would imply either WhatsApp collaboration or compromise, in which case the app could show whatever they wanted it to show (or they could just upload all of the private keys, which they may very well do in any case).

However I was talking about QR code versus the widely known fingerprint. The EFF seems to think the QR code is just a huge improvement, but I just don't think it will see any usage at all over the fingerprint, but instead it provides the illusion of security ala "look there's this complex thing...and some people must be validating it...so I'll just trust it."
Nitpick: Governments don't have "the right" to do anything. We the people consent to grant them abilities. I think reasonable taxation is a perfectly legitimate function of government -- not many would argue that. However, we are light years away from reasonable taxation. I'm a year out of school and already I work over 6 months of the year to pay taxes... But, I digress...

The law is the law. This notion that "the spirit of the law" is king is incredibly dangerous. Next level dangerous.

Have you ever seen the tax code printed out? To argue that you should "just close the loopholes" is absurd.

Also, the notion that if companies keep more of their earning then tax revenue will fall is a huge fallacy. If you over tax, tax revenue will fall. It's a proven fact, all over the world.

The answer is to simplify the tax code. Create economic certainty (from a tax liability standpoint) and the economy, as well as tax revenue, will surge.
Am I a fool for shampooing every day?

"Most people use shampoo twice a week" - really?
I'd prefer Go, and it seems weird they would consider Swift first but hey, as long as the JVM dies and we get native code I'm a happy man.
It isn't encrypted unless both parties have the app.
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I've never seen a documented case of such tricks actually being used, and I've seen calculations that suggest the cost/benefit outcome is no better than just paying the poor to do the menial work.

The last such analysis I paid attention to was some years ago so the situation may have changed, but I suspect the hassles of running a porn site and CAPCHA proxy still aren't worth it:

* obtaining content sufficient to attract interest

* paying for bandwidth & other resources)

* writing the authentication system

* then maintaining it (every time the CAPCHA service(s) change their process you potentially need to make and test changes to your code)

* and you need to work around rate limits (depending on the CAPCH design it may not be possible to make the relevant requests client-side so if the services has rate limits you'll have to route through something that sufficiently randomises your source address).

* providing support

* dealing with bad press
Do you understand the concept of "necessary, but not sufficient"?
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Until OP adds that, you could use this:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byDate&d...
Is that "close" as in an imperative ("close those Hungarians inside their borders") or as in a description that borders are "closed" ("the Hungarians have closed their borders")?

I have seen a lot of Orban-bashing because he wants does not accept the uncontrolled immigration policies of EU (of people from outside EU, particularly Middle East) but there the "borders are closed" is for outsiders coming in, not for Hungarians leaving (which would actually make the country a jail). Two very different things.

Right to emigrate out of a country is a fundamental human right, right to immigrate in to a particular country is not. People who advocate for the latter tend to (intentionally) confuse it with the former.
Leave money on the table?
Supporting anecdote: my wife won't use Windows Phone or Windows tablets because the Pinterest app apparently sucks on those platforms.

Counter anecdote: I refuse to use the Facebook app on iOS because it takes like 500mb and the website works about 90% the same.
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From the article: "It wasn't clear, though, when it had started"
Off-topic, but how do you guys feel when pretending to code for the camera?
Where I'm at we "shelf" ideas or issues and they most definitely get forgotten.
Yes it seems to me that the problem with open source projects on Windows is they all expect the user to figure out their often complicated installation procedure (and then the installation of all their dependencies...)
Amazon is too good at what they do. The feeling that they give too good of a value, while I spent thousands of dollars on their site was a weird kind of high. That is the end game, you spend a lot with Prime since, it shows up in two days and no shipping etc. I cancelled my Prime membership, and just that saves me a hundred or two a month, because now I have to think twice before ordering anything since shipping cost is involved and also have to bundle enough items such that I qualify for free shipping.

side note: jet.com is not collecting sales tax yet. That is 8.25% differential where I live.
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Wanted to introduce you to Eva, an AI chatbot that aims to ‘Make Banking Great Again!.’

Here’s the website: https://talktoeva.com

Eva is an AI chatbot that we have built to make it easier for people to understand banking products. So, kind of like ‘Siri’ for finance.

Problem: The problem we’re solving is that its just impossible to understand the stuff thats written on banks websites.

Banks use complex terms, thick language and jargon that only they get. And this keeps a lot of people away from buying their products. This is just a guess, but we think that if people actually understood how bank products worked, they might actually buy a LOT more of them! Because if you understand something, you trust it more (or less, in some rare cases I guess).

Solution: We solve this problem through our Ai chatbot, which explains stuff just as a human would. The chatbot can be used for 3 things: 1. getting information (find me the best mortgage, for example), 2. understanding stuff (whats an APR? explain it to me), or 3. getting jokes (tell me a joke!).

The Team: there are 2 of us, me, I’m a Harvard College graduate who moved to the UK from the US a few years back. I've spent 10 years in financial services (corporate banking, M&A, and then as an investor in banks). My co-founder, Steve, is just finishing up at Imperial College and he has built the prototype (he actually built his own natural language processor).

Although we are planning to launch this as a standalone app (thereby being able to generate revenues through affiliate fees), we think there could be a bigger opportunity to become the de facto 'chatbot' that lives on every banking website.

Why YC: We've been working on this about 6 months now.. YC would be great for us as we feel we could benefit form learning from the experiences of people who have built successful startups, and also just from the money, which would allow us to do this full time.
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I never write in books except to put my name on the first inside page. For notes, I prefer to use post-its as they can easily be removed if the book falls into someone else's ownership or if, as often happens, I wish to delete a notation.
And also, if you got to the point where that porn site was then active and usable enough for the captcha cracking service... it would probably be more profitable just to monetise the porn.
It comes from our legislature, but it's been adopted into somewhat common parlance in business. Normal people wouldn't say it in casual conversation, though.
You mean Deep Style-style ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/deepstyle/
Yes, in formal meetings, to "Table the issue" means to agree to stop talking about it until later. It then becomes part of "unfinished business" on future agendas.
We have currently ~30,000 fatalities in a year. What portion of these are trolley problems? Less than 1 in a million, I'd bet. What percentage of those trolley problems are entirely avoidable through proper defensive driving techniques?
I guess we're all waiting for browser extension to fill in captcha for us, which is sometimes hard to get right, great usability improvement.
All major airports have a perimeter of heavily armed guards these days.
WhatsApp doesn't upload your phone book. All contact info resolution is done locally.
You dodge the arbitrage of stocks getting in and out of the index but you miss the virtue on using an index, which is that the index rules are not a horrible investment strategy: buy the stocks that are on the rise, sell when stocks are on the way down.

But total markets will still have other downsides, like all the stocks become completely correlated if enough people are only making investment decisions on the total market instead of individual stocks, and prices become less meaningful.
You could, but we removed time-slice-based preemption a few versions ago b/c it doesn't make sense for fibers if you also have access to heavyweight threads, so now we only preempt on IO/sleep etc.. The thing about time-slice preemption is that it just doesn't help with lightweight threads anyway, as your machine can only support a tiny number of execution threads that require time-slice preemption while you can have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of lightweight threads. So runtimes like Erlang that don't give you direct access to kernel threads have no choice but to support time slice preemption, but on the JVM we realized that it serves no purpose, so we took it out.
This is 100% correct and something that we have considered. If you go and talk to IT managers, chief clerks, and chief judges it quickly becomes clear that the politics of these sales to court clients are tremendous obstacles to overcome. This is the main reason why we decided not to sell to courts first. Once we have a great product and happy user base then we'll take a crack at them.

Thanks for the comment!
It would be nice if there was a "shadow" version of youtube on bittorrent. So instead of using youtube-dl, you could just pull the file from bittorrent. Besides this being faster in most cases, it would also mean that a big part of our cultural heritage is no longer locked inside google's silo.
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