skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When dealing with voluntary transactions your rights are pretty much limited to (a) no violence or enslavement (b) whatever we agree to you must do and (c) if either of us break this deal, we will try to put things back the way they were before the deal.
so basically you believe God chose some people to go to hell, some people to go to heaven, there's nothing you can do to change that, and there's nothing you can do to lose that, without the part that the Elect are showered in riches here on earth.
I received this email as well and a friend recommended I donate the server uptime to boinc[1] which can make better use of it than trying to find something to use it on.

[1]: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
So they discovered that people click slightly more on unbranded images of happy women with no relevance to a product. Good work guys!

But the total difference from best to worst was < 5%. If you're doing a vast ad campaign then sure that totals up. But what's the opportunity cost of the brand awareness? Spending ~5% more per click to use a relevant, branded, image seems like a good deal.

I think it's great that they published this, but it doesn't really bear out the conclusion. Of course, given the nature of the author the conclusion was always going to be: "design is really really important and you should totally spend more money on it".
Ugh. I still don't know what thing in WordPress set this off.

fwiw I have the same content on my personal blog which shouldn't do anything with your scrolling http://ryancompton.net/2016/04/19/what-convolutional-neural-...
Reading this is hard.

It's graphic, shocking, and makes you wish you didn't read it.

I don't know what else to say.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I want to keep my general code and scientific code in the same language.

So python it is.
Oops. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/04/19/systematic-error-in-c...
I'm trying to find where tptacek defends Cisco on this page. Not seeing it. Can you provide links?
The FBI wants access to any smart phone. Even if Apple did what the FBI wanted they would have made a way to bypass any iPhone and it could be used without a warrant on anyone's iPhone.

It is like opening Pandora's box and anyone with access to that code/iOS could access anyone's iPhone.
Wasn't Alan Turing into that twisted kinky spiral phyllotaxis stuff? [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Watching_the_daisies_grow.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature#History

[3] http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop-ch4.pdf
The other side of the story, from the comments:

"Express Scripts repeatedly warned PillPack that it was violating three standards, according to Henry: it labeled itself as a “retail pharmacy” in its contract when it is in fact a “mail-order pharmacy”; it shipped medications to a state where it was not licensed to do so; and operated without a license from URAC (formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission), a nonprofit that helps promote health care quality by accrediting various medical care organizations."
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Vietnam is the only really strong story of the lot

You say that as if Vietnam did it on their own. They were as supported by China and Russia as Taiwan was by the US.

And now that China is encroaching on Vietnam's sovereignty, who do they cozy up to? The US.

It's all politics.
Grew up in this capital.

Pretty sure my comfort with ambiguity and 'agile' planning is a result.

You simply cannot plan for these eventualities. You have to become adaptive.
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When you pay the exact amount of money and benefits and sometimes even more as joining bonus and stocks awards for a H1B employee, how can this be an abuse of the system?
I can imagine this same article being written many years ago when email first became ubiquitous in the workplace.

I worked at a large company where seemingly every day we would get several "someone has left the lights on in their blue Honda" type emails sent to everyone in the company.

Thankfully now I work in a small one without a carpark.
Interesting read, will have to see how it turned out (in case you guys move back to Slack :D). Although, I'm not sure changing tools is the right answer, it sounds like you guys had everything you wanted and more. Why not modify Slack to your liking and not change tools entirely, this eliminates the need to learn a whole new set of tools to do the same work.
Thanks for making this response. Genuinely interested.

[To whomever down voted... I guess I get down voted for not showing gratitude immediately after he posted a reply? This is why I don't post here often. Quite mean people here.]
Hmmm, agreed; the title went into my "Quotations.txt" file; the article is not quite as memorable.
Hey, just an experience thing.

Looking at the "fees I wouldn't pay with 1099" I didn't read all the copy (I'm guessing 80% of us don't); I thought I'd end up paying those fees.

Might want to make it more obvious with a classic strikethrough, or something. :)
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The "contrived" scenario is something that has been played again and again. as opposed to the "no worries" attitude.

As for the same location: typically companies have so-called offices in a few locations --not individual people equally distributed around the country.

Plus, who said that their spouse is "equally likely to lose their job"? It's just an example of a thing that can happen, and does happen, not something that anyone claimed inevitable or "as likely"...
I think for a team work effectively you need differentt tools - Slack for instant communication, Basecamp for tracking project status, Trello for organising work flow and etc. It is impossible to have a tool that fits all your needs.
The one thing I've seen in the states that I'd like to see here is pre-pay at the grocery line. I know Target has this, and I imagine others. Basically while the cashier is ringing up your groceries, you go through the process of paying and basically say "I agree to pay the amount of this purchase." Then when the cashier is finished, the payment is immediately processed and you are done. Saves 30-45 seconds for each customer.
2. Meditate - 15 minutes
3. Write - I usually write "3 things that I am grateful for" and "3 things to focus on that particular day"

Muslims pray when they wake up, pray in a meditative mood, and when praying, think about the things they're grateful for, and what they hope Allah will let them achieve.

I find what you do and what they do sound similar to some degree.
The about the author section describes him as a "NSFW enthusiast". Aren't we all...
I don't think antitrust means what you think it means...
Wow really surprised to hear they broke up with Slack. It seemed like a very good long explanation of the problem, basically no mention of any attempt to fix the problem, and then dropping the tool. We are deep into Slack and still liking it, but seeing some strain. This really rings true: "some of the most positive and uplifting individuals I know come off as curt and stressed and pissed off in Slack conversations."
"Slack as the new email" is spot on. And the article identifies it too.

The problem isn't the tool. The problem is people. Giving people more and better ways to communicate creates more noise, not necessarily more signal.

Constraining communication to channels that only allow signal feels bureaucratic (complete form 31/b to request new business cards and send to purchasing no later than the second week of the month).

There's a happy medium (pun intended) somewhere between the two.
I wonder what the sum of generations of government hiring discrimination would come to.

The article doesn't delve into a possible legal basis for pursuing redress which I think is a logical next step.
You have to think of slack channels as coworking place and meeting rooms.

You need to live mainly in one channel (the equivalent of the physical open office), and go to the other channels when called in, or when you have a bit of down time to check what's going on there. Like the buildings where we used to work, you do not need to visit every room.
Thank you for your tip and contributions to open signal. I appreciate that you want to get encryption into as many hands as possible, even if circumstances may not be ideal.

My primary concern here is a long con. Everything is probably okay now, but after a while, people will stop looking and verifying. With WhatsApp keeping source closed, it makes that period of time shorter, I think. I will try to work your suggestion into my job :) If I'm paid to do it, I can keep doing it indefinitely, even working on tools to automate it.
tht makes no sense, every1 i kno is rlly good at xpressing their emotions in txt

For real though, it's amazing what core parts of human interaction people will try to replace with an app. People need to understand what they're really giving up with face-to-face or verbal communication.. thousands of years of highly developed body language, tone, etc.
I love the writing style, the detail, the example code.

This is an incredibly well-made project.

(Also, I love the Polish in-jokes. :)
2048 appeared soon after threes, and was criticized for appearing to be a quick and cheap copy of that game.

(edit: wikipedia's version of the story is more complicated still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threes#Legacy )
I suppose that is so. I meant more in the sense that all of the tech they develop makes it easier for consumers to consume other products and services. Their tech isn't an "end game". I.e. They're not making things like smart fridges, rc cars, and etc. (Yet - unless that smart fridge allows you to order the products they sell and watch their streaming video in the kitchen.) All (maybe most?) of their tech products facilitate the purchase of the products made by other companies, whether it be allowing the consumer to purchase things easier, or enhancing their fulfillment process to get the products to the consumer faster. I guess I was more debating the fact that some like to classify them as a predominantly tech company, but I neglected to actually say that.
great post - where did the training data of 500K images come from ?
Even more so. Something like 20% of Koreans are surnamed Kim. Park is another 8% or so.
According to OCZ's marketing material (http://ocz.com/consumer/ssd-guide/ssd-vs-hdd), SSDs use 2-4 watts vs 7 watts for HDDs.
I think the most important thing for anyone to understand about any sort of legal startup guide or sample agreements is that they don't replace the need for an actual attorney. If you think they're a quick and cheap alternative, it'll probably blow up in your face at some point. If you're aware of their limitations, then they can become a tool that can at least help you understand the process and the need for agreements and actions that might not seem obvious at first glance. They're references, no more and no less.

Anyhow, it looks like most of the sample documents attached to that spreadsheet are from Orrick's tech group:

https://www.orrick.com/Practices/Emerging-Companies/Pages/St...
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Pedantic but an iphone is probably a way better purchase than most things if you are low income.

For $400 you get a device that will let you watch movies, play games, check email, get phone calls, etc.

Granted you could also get a cheaper phone but this replaces your TV and computer! Smartphones are really high-value!
> We all knew how great it would be to have a repository of knowledge for people to find their answers, but Slack was simply too good at providing the quick fix we all needed.

I'm seeing this across numerous open source project communities, and it's really infuriating. B/c these communities are not paying Slack, they don't have access to archives, and of course it's all invisible to Google. So a valuable Q&A that might help thousands of people over many years were in on a public forum winds up helping...the handful of people who were in the channel on the day it happened.
fund the main domains forward a few years, give admin control to trusted friends and then trust the community to do what they want.
Well done! Great looking website.

I primarily use Erlang and is good to see it finally has a standardized package manager and that both Elixir and Erlang can use hex packages.

Rebar even moved under the main Erlang organization in Github:

https://github.com/erlang/rebar3

A nice step forward
Also, seven red lines, all perpendicular to each other, with some in transparent ink, and one shaped like a kitten . . .
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Yeah, it does - and hypocritically so. I'm currently wearing a tshirt with a Kees Van Der Westen Speedster logo on it (an espresso machine I covet badly, but am not prepared to spend $10k+ to own). I own and wear various motorcycle branded tshirts and coffee brand tshirts, as well as many many band and musician merch tshirts. So I;m just as guilty of "making a staement" with what I choose to wear. But, of course, _my_ choices are all rational and understandable. Those _other_ guys who dress up like Lance Armstrong while riding to work are _clearly_ worthy of my derision, right? ;-)
Which means they made $14 billion for developers.

Wal-Mart made $130 billion in profits in 2015 on $486 billion revenue, 27%. This is how stores work.
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It sounds like a signal to noise ratio problem. The problem is that there wasn't a sound way to filter noise (multiple channels failed) so they were forced to deal with all the noise to make sure they didn't miss anything relevant.

The constant policing they mention at the end was probably enough overhead for them to consider alternatives, though I don't understand what they mean with this quote: "Furthermore, Slack was not designed for the deep, meaningful conversations that are needed to move 1Password forward."

On the surface, it sounds like a people/culture problem, but I'm sure there were other factors at AgileBits that contributed.
can this be installed using homebrew ?
Isn't the output supposed to be identical between the C and Go versions?
> Absolutely avoid metadata. The worst thing ever is using it like how Reagent does in ClojureScript where it actually provides important program semantics.

Eh? Reagent does not require any metadata, ever. Much less metadata what provides "important program semantics". So I'm pretty puzzled by your comment. Either you have never used Reagent, or our definitions of metadata is really different, which would be odd, given ClojureScript is pretty clear on what metadata is and isn't.

Optionally, as a convenience, Reagent allows "key" to be provided as metadata but that's really a React thing (and available the same way in OM) and that's because it allows React to supply better performance in some cases, but even then you can supply key via means other than metadata if somehow that offends you. If this is somehow "the worst thing ever" I'd suggest you have lived an overly sheltered life :-)
I'm not sure how good an argument/excuse this is, but do remember that the country was technically at war with North Korea all this time, and under very real military threat.
I like the idea which they mention Massachusetts is bandying about: require cities to set aside areas (maybe proportionally 25% ?) where they will not impose cumbersome building restrictions.
What they ended is increasing their balance sheet. They are still rotating into new debt as old debt is maturing so they have not actually rolled back their old QE programs- they just have not increased them.
Did clarifai have a different company name a few years ago? I built a realtime threaded discussion app with images a few years years ago (like secret or yikyak but in 2011) and used a REST API that was capable of recognising actual body parts.

It generally worked well, with the exception of false negatives for cartoon nudity and false positives for pastrami.
We use jabber in my office, and it's definitely higher friction than slack; this made me think of it as at least slightly a positive for the first time. We also have a wiki, and a searchable database for topical mailing lists, and those get used a lot.

If someone has to send me an IM to get an answer to something about our product, and I can't link the answer to them by just searching our wiki (or documentation if it's user-visible), then I file a note to add it.

I haven't ever felt the need to berate someone for asking me about easy to find information, because someone who isn't at least slightly embarrassed to have their question answered by a link to a resource they could have found on their own in under 30 seconds is probably going to have enough problems in other areas.
Brainprints could replace passwords
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Apparently people used to buy in to more prestigious family names which lead to whittling down of Korean surnames.
I love electronic communication and Slack in particular. For a distributed team, it's an absolute must that every important chat happen on Slack. Stuff spoken in person is imprecise, secretive and easily forgotten. Slack is clear, persistent, and public. Everyone is on the same page. I too feel the need to read every conversation, but compare that to having those conversations just happening without my knowledge.

The solution to this guy's problems are to chill out.
> we should pass a federal law outlawing the knowing sale of technology for the purpose of persecuting groups of people based on their race/ethnicity/religion.

If it had any teeth, such a law would do serious damage to the US arms exports industry.
A combination of feeling guilty that I haven't been paying more attention to unethical things that US companies do abroad and being disappointed that this wasn't bigger news.
Fair point - I hate the term, too. As much as I hate that Amazon TMed the term Lambda. However, for better or worse, it is the term that as been settled on. I need a way to describe it to tell people to steer clear of it.
As my third job, when I was perhaps around 17-18, I worked in a small publicly listed company. What I saw there in terms of inefficiency, PR, gaming the system and outright corruption turned me off stocks and the market entirely.
I think you are projecting onto the comment a bit.

If the usage of the word "scarcity" was what caught your eye (as an association with women being "resources"), it was simply pulled from the article, which labels the two contrasting types of thinking as "scarcity" and "abundance".
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I didn't intend to imply that he did, apologies. I realize my original post was poorly phrased, so I edited out that part. It's the people saying either that Cisco couldn't have possibly known what China would do with tech designed specifically to track a suppressed religious group, or else doing the Werner von Braun defense[1], that I'm referring to.

[1] "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Werner von Braun." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
It is mentioned, although in only 1 tiny instance:

> With today’s announcement, the edge network also helps to accelerate data transfers in to and out of Amazon S3.
I don't think you need to be a 'hippie liberal,' nor is it necessary to make value judgements of the nation's actions.

You can simply look around the world and see that the US has hundreds of military bases in other ostensibly sovereign countries.

You can just look at the basic facts and see that there is more than a touch of imperialism at play here.
Cambodia had help from U.S. on Khmer Rouge, too. Marcinko, SEAL 6 founder, covers his time training them to fight Khmer Rouge in his book Rogue Warrior. Far as Vietnam, I agree that their resolve was impressive. I just don't recall it going the way you described with instead them splitting up with one side backing communist imperialists and the other capitalist imperialists. They fell for the games plenty enough but resisted a lot, too.

The one with most potential is probably Singapore given what they've accomplished in a short time. They just need a cultural shift to get them out of this conformist, nationalist, factory-worker mentality. They could become a hub of not only trustworthy business in Asia but innovation or quality-focused business too. The reactionaries are doing everything they can to prevent that, though, as it will threaten their power.
While I understand the motivation to move away from Slack, Basecamp, to me, seems like a worse alternative.

Most of my Basecamp interactions come from the emails that are sent on every thread change. It almost seems to be a proxy between conversation and email, which is counterproductive to its goal.

The key issue in this article is about the lacking of separation of concerns in Slack. I may be missing something, but it seems to be diametrically opposed to Slack's "always-on" structure. I would argue that Basecamp tends to devalue workplace communication through impersonal Basecamp-templated emails which often hide the original sender and thus any sense of urgency that would otherwise be generated. We have so many fantastic tools, but often email seems to be the unsung, yet essential, hopper for all of our notifications. For workplace communication and general project discussion, just email (under the right direction and guidelines - along with supplemental direct chat) strikes the perfect balance between urgency (or lack thereof), the ability to compartmentalize, and personal touch, without interfering directly with work by breaking concentration.
I agree with you about the risks of the FBI's request.

I'm just saying that the FBI would have been remiss to ignore the phone.
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Hope some of those folks are chip designers and they decide to go work on the RISC-V/lowRISC projects.
Maybe pareci is considering whether the paper's author is a convnet.
You've correctly identified the problem x.ai really solves: I want a secretary but I'm not that important.

The ridiculous thing is that doodle.com already solved this problem in a much less sexy way - just click the time you want. Problem solved in 10 seconds (vs minutes with this dumb bot).
Heh, the internet does not like having its purpose questioned. Porn must flow...
Author here, for the sake of constructive criticism, would love to hear why you don't find it useful?

The disclaimer is there because, while I tried my best to make sure all info in the guide is accurate, I don't think it's fair or necessary for me to take on legal liability if someone makes (or claims to make) a mistake by using this (free) guide. I certainly hope readers do not interpret this guide as a definitive and comprehensive substitute for proper legal counsel and research of their own--rather, it contains information which is designed to act as a supplement to those things.

In other words, it will hopefully help folks avoid false negatives in legal steps (i.e. forgot to file an 83b within 30 days or register with their city's business department), expose them to lesser-known alternatives that their own lawyers may not have told them about (using FF preferred stock to provide a small measure of founder liquidity down the road without skewing 409A valuations), and understand why it's necessary to do certain things (like adopt bylaws, file a Form D, etc).

The scope of the guide is strongly biased towards U.S. startups incorporating as a Delaware corp (a common approach, even for companies not based in Delaware itself).
Why would the author choose the same fake name (Kim) for two people? They're definitely their real names.
Has anyone seen in the documentation how they are handling pricing in the long term? I.e., if $299 is for the lifetime of 1.0 releases/upgrades, or something else?
We are 100% remote company so face-to-face is not an option. However we do use video (gotomeeting). And I've been using and enjoying Slack's new "/call" feature. I'm eager to see how they implement video and screen sharing.