skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general there are two approaches to data ownership in these types of services, viz. User-owned (and typically mutable by owner) and Jointly-owned (and typically immutable).

Slack, Google Docs etc. follow the user-owned approach. For example in a Slack conversation I can modify or delete my messages but cannot modify or delete someone else's messages.

This has some interesting implications, viz. that a conversation is never quite 'done' as it can always be modified/partially deleted at a later point.

So, the question becomes what exactly is one archiving. The best one can say is that one is archiving at a snapshot in time.

For example consider:

Joe: Go ahead and Place the Order

Bob: I placed the Order. It's Order #456

Later Joe modifies his message 'Don't place the Order'. What is the implication of archiving this? Is Bob now in trouble? As you can see it is fraught with issues.

The other approach is that the data is 'jointly owned' (and immutable). For example with TMail21 (https://tmail21.com) , the data is technically and legally owned by all parties in the conversation. All changes are append-only (i.e. the past is immutable). And so, in this case there are no legal, moral or semantic hazards in archiving.

Net, net, there are not just 'moral' issues in archiving user-owned type conversations but also technical and semantic issues as well.
Its not just the universities. At least in my country, universities are are ranked based on what journals their faculty publishes in and this affects the distribution of grants and other vital research money.
This "wine-dark sea" conclusion is bullshit.
"Wine dark" is a translation of a phrase( http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sea/winelike-sea) , oínopa pónton, that fits the meter used:
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/science/homer-s-sea-wine-d... .

It's about more than color: http://www.jstor.org/stable/642564?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...
> What kind of men think this sort of behavior is ok?

The kind who think that the real world is just an extension of the school playground.
I guess this is one version of what a micro-transaction powered Web could look like. Potentially even worse forms of click-bait becoming dominant.
You can join the "Agile Release Train" right here: http://www.scaledagileframework.com/ -- all the "lead-agile leaders" are on it, and they're taking off on the "architectural runway", as soon as its "value stream" has reached the right "cadence".
Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge (No, Seriously)
> most would rather not volunteer for a handicap by publishing in other venues.

Why not publish in both places ?
Ask HN: Top univ offering an online graduate degree in pure/abstract maths?
I have looking for online graduate course/degree in abtract/pure math. While it is relatively easy to find something in computer science and the applied mathetics, i am having trouble find something around the more abstract/pure subject (eg measure theory, abstract algebra etc...).
> "Until recently, we have tiptoed cautiously around these discussions for the most part" [Mia]

Looking for feedback from women on this one: why would one tiptoe around this issue, rather than shouting it from the rooftops? It seems so counter-intuitive.
I get what you are saying; however, I have not witnessed this behaviour (perhaps, because I am male). If it was really a cultural, systemic problem in astrophysics, I feel like I would have noticed. [EDIT: I don't mean to imply that the problem is not real, only that I am surprised and disappointed]

As for the diversity of the field, I believe it is getting more diverse. The gender ratio of graduate students in astronomy is apparently about 50/50. Hopefully, over the next several years the numbers in faculty positions will improve also. I have worked with a great number of highly capable women because as a technologist, I often wind up working with the graduate students rather than the principle investigators.
So "a decade" :)
First, APCs have not been calculated with regard to the costs of publishing, but rather with the goal of maintaining the same level of profits for publishers' shareholders.

Second, I know what I said is possible because some journals already do it, and there is no scale issues at all here. Journal management is entirely decentralized. One journal = one editorial board.

Let me illustrate this with one of the possible models which is called "overlay journals".

In an overlay journal, papers are uploaded for example to arXiv, and submitted for review by giving the link to the paper on arXiv. Then the editorial board (composed of researchers) does its job as it would in a traditional journal: it sends the papers to review to other researchers of the relevant field (well, at least they try). The reviewers also do their job as they would in traditional publishing. And papers are accepted as is, with modifications, or rejected, again, as usual.

Now what constitutes an issue of the journal is a list of links to the accepted versions (repositories such as arXiv can keep track of the successive versions of a paper) of the paper in arXiv.

There, same level of scientific requirements, no publishers, literaly no costs for anyone except arXiv (which is already paid for by public institutions), and researchers time, that is already spent and not paid for in the traditional system.

If you really want double-blind peer reviews you can use one of the open journal systems free software or as people currently do, public services such as easychair or scienceconf to organize the reviewing phase.

The only thing that is still necessary for some fields, as I already said, is the proper layout work. The ideal situation is that each university or group of university hires a few professional in charge of this work and who can do it in close contact with the authors of the paper. A few salaries costs less than the millions currently spend each year by each university for journal subscriptions, and the job would be done better than it currently is by publishers who often outsource it to low-salary regions of the world to increase their profits.
Reward systems of any kind need to be very, very carefully designed, otherwise they are vulnerable to perverse incentives. Unfortunately, there can't be a single chink in the armor.
This guy started committing for this project back in November of this year [1]. This was a true labor of love if I ever saw one.

[1]: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news/commits/master?pag...
I think a closer argument is the textbook content that professors create. Writing a textbook is something that is often done on tenured professor's salaried time, essentially paid for by their university. And in the case of public universities that's public money just like research grant money. And yet you never hear the argument that all books academics write as part of their job as tenured professors should be free.
That's great, but it puts Iowa in a tiny class of rational D's of T. Most governments find roads, streets, and parking to be obviously desirable.
Yes. It uses the tools from the location currently selected as the active developer directory (via xcode-select).
c.) lie and cheat their way around the standards
Argument 1 is nontechnical and by someone who does not have a lot of experience writing userspace software.

Argument 2 is valid, but only applies to kernels, and also only applies to 1992 (it works a lot better now).
Ask HN: Is quantum computing likely to happen before strong AI?
There is a lot of excitement around AI recently, but AI is also the field that has historically over promised and under delivered. Quantum computing on the other hand is making concrete progress, consistently, for years. Which one do you think will become practical first? Quantum computers in every home or strong AI bots everywhere? My vote is for quantum computing.
I know what you mean. I look back on family holidays most fondly, even though I know I spent most of the time arguing. But the overall impression has mutated somehow to a positive one. It's a funny thing, memory.
I'm not sure about other cities, but if you own an electric car in Amsterdam, you're guaranteed to get a charging spot near your home. As long as nobody in your neighbourhood has a visitor with an electric car, this means a guaranteed parking spot, which is an enormously valuable perk in this city.
Some of my benchmarks for networking and storage (block and object) are in the middle of this deck:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B1jvWWh0ACaDv4ryEzLl...
My point is that the harassment your wife has experienced may in fact be sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is not limited to harassment of a sexual nature. If the harassment was because she is a woman, that falls under sexual harassment as well: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
Many people take advantage of others when they think they can get away with it. Not limited to workplace or men.
Why Coffee and Small Business Go Together
My advice for you would probably be, to try to work/consult anywhere to get you the "at least 2 years experience in" your chosen specialization :-)

As far as I have seen, as long as the HR thinks you have been on somebody elses payroll because of your programming for some time, they will gladly hire you.

Or you might go the 'Double your consulting rates' way, often proselytized by patio11 in HN comments :)
Marketing is about raising interest. Interest is one of the 8 basic emotions, with the other being joy, trust, fear, suprise, sadness, boredom and anger. If you can bootstrap interest into joy, you get optimism. Interest and anger bring aggression, on the other hand.

When someone say "everything some other people says about marketing is wrong", what they are really saying is "what they are saying isn't interesting to me and therefore everything they are saying is wrong", which is the well known ad hominem bias. Biases are good in this context because they bring efficiency to systems. For example, when a marketing person uses buzzwords without context to describe their business, you get the expected "bored" responses from people. Does the Intercloud interest you? What if I told you the Intercloud was a cloud of clouds and it needed a high trust federated network backed by the blockchain to operate? Does it interest you now?

To be successful at marketing X, one must ignore everything anyone is saying about X and try to understand two basic things: 1. What people (Ys) are interested in X? and 2. What makes X equally interesting to more Ys?

Keep in mind sometimes those answers fall outside what you may already know about X. This implies you must learn more about X and get to know the Ys to raise interest in them with the stuff you know they don't.

If you pour a lot of resources into #2, don't expect all the Ys to respond well. Part of what can make something interesting is others aren't interested in it as much as you are. And, if you understand that, you will begin to understand marketing.
How is, "it's wrong" effectively different from, "you will burn in hell"?

Wouldn't it make way more sense to explain why it's wrong? It has nothing to do with hurting society, but another individual.
Usually you can publish a draft version of your paper, but not the version that is edited by the journal. They should be mostly the same, though.
the retail side of Amazon is so sloppy. things like this. vendors much much worse than eBay for small items or sometimes even $600 smart phones...

it's the main reason i have never even considered AWS. I'm too conscious to depend on them.
In a more general note about the downvotes about sexism:
https://medium.com/@sh4ka/sexism-and-hacker-news-6678897fccc...
The word "brutalism" was coined from the French "béton-brut" meaning "raw concrete."
One thing to remember is that a tremendous amount of wealth was passed to the survivors, and it was actually a boon for the recovering population.
No, "throughout nearly a decade", as allannienhuis says.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520368
Weird, most of our devs are in fact in Ireland.
Pretty sure they meant $800.00
speak for yourself!

Some people like to capture moments in intricate details.
Article mentions that 77 million "households" either have no taxable income or "half get enough tax breaks to erase their tax liability." Just for reference, there are also a handful of people who qualify for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, which is a legal exemption from paying federal income taxes if you, for example, are outside of the US for more than 330 days a year.

- https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Fore...

- https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Fore...
Thanks Mitt Romney.

"Roughly half pay no federal income tax because they have no taxable income, and the other roughly half get enough tax breaks to erase their tax liability, explains Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center."

So something like 22% of households have literally 0 taxable income, and the remaining 22/23% earn so little that the standard deduction + FICA/SSI + other deductions zero out their taxable income. Those lucky duckies, earning so little money that they don't pay one type of tax!
You are making it sound like it's actually his fault that he kept asking until she actually gave a definite answer.

Worst than that, some people would call that harassment and chastise me and others for victim blaming, just stating a simple fact: She should have said no.

I wonder how many of these cases get into the statistics about harassment when it should just be considered simple human interaction up to the point she gave a definite answer: "No". It's quite simple, you can even make it nicer with: "Sorry but I'm not interested".

If after that he keeps pushing, then yes, it should be considered harassment.
Let's Have a Chat about Encryption
If only politicians in the US were capable of seeing things this way..

So many smaller cities in the US northeast have been isolated from the regional economy by railroad shutdowns, but there's so little interest in rail here anymore that I doubt local leadership even understand the severity of the problem.

Great example being the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. Commuter rail connections to NYC and Philadelphia from Allentown & Bethlehem PA were completely dismantled in the 20th century. There's large highways connecting them but the drive is 2-3 hours, lots of traffic. It's grueling by car. Yet a person could comfortably commute by rail if it was available. So this sizable metro area with tons of charm, walkable town centers and 19th century housing stock almost frozen in time, just sitting economically sluggish as the larger cities prosper around them. Very frustrating.
I think what the issue is when it comes to the male boss/female employee dynamic is those power trips frequently take on a sexual dynamic in private.

Dominance is messily tied into sexuality. This plays out in school locker rooms and boarding school dormitories.

I know one manager I used to work with who seemed nice but literally every single hire he has made has been an asian female.

So what? In itself, this shouldn't be a significant factor. Please explain this: Do you think for some reason that asian females are somehow more enticing or vulnerable? Just how large a sample size are we talking here? Is his department a dozen asian women? Twenty?
Presumably the law has the standard for all genders, though in practice they tend to not be gender neutral in their use of pronouns, and courts have expectations of what is acceptable largely defined by traditional gender roles.

I would wish that bullying that is illegal when directed at your wife is illegal when directed at you (modulo gender specific forms). In practice I'm sure it depends on how manly you are compared with her.
Show Your Best Face (Harvard Crimson on Facebook 2004)
Three-day working week 'optimal for over-40s'
Preprints offer a way forward here, allowing scientists to both publish in "prestigious" venues and disseminate their work more easily:

See for example http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologist...
This isn't about cmd or Powershell. Bash on Windows is a whole different beast, and it is early days.
Interesting point. And why isn't it? Why is the 'real world' run according to some narrow set of safe-and-happy rules that insecure people make up? Just being 'devil's advocate' here. Sales people know, you get what you negotiate, not what you deserve. Anything else is a fantasy. Extend that to every facet of the working world, and you have the 'school playground' all over again.
The end of app stores (as we know them)
In summary - Amazon pays all Kindle Unlimited authors out of a shared pot, the size of your share determined by the metric of "pages read" (and you thought your Kindle just reported that back for syncing purposes!). Enter the scammers - who make 3000 page fake books, page one containing an enticing link to the final page. This counts as having read the whole book!
the problem with that idea is that it's hard to counter abuse. in Kindle, they own everything on the device, they control it all. and still they manage to screw up.

if Amazon implants micro payments for content on the browser somehow, where they don't control the whole stack, it is sure to be a even worse disaster.

rest assured, no micro payment today is as bad and easy to scam as this joke.
Because they tend to give the message to women that "You're an outsider here."
I was just checking this out yesterday because there were some pull requests on lobsters referencing barnacles.

This is the first of many spin-offs using the lobste.rs source code and I think it's a cool initiative!!

One of my feature requests to lobsters was to incorporate Oauth provider so it becomes an alternative identity/auth source. The invite tree and the moderation log will cause it to be one of the most trusted of these providers.

My request was rejected by jcs, but it will be cool to see you incorporate this.
If the US were to pass such legislation, its not likely that right to be forgotten would apply to public figures acting publicly since that's a protected class of free speech.
More like "reserving". Clearly they're actually using the exploit in question. I would associate "stowing away" or "hoarding" with hiding or putting a later circumstance.

In any case, the original title ("FBI Is Pushing Back Against Judge's Order to Reveal Tor Browser Exploit") is more informative and less click-baity. There's a reason that's HN's preferred style.
BuzzFeed has a startlingly good line in actual serious journalism these days.
Yes, because there are special snowflakes who find anything and everything offensive/sexual harassment and the like.

I have mild autism and am less than welcome in most civil interactions. Do i get to sue everyone and bitch about everything everyday?
That would be a NO.

Disclaimer: I do not condone any really disruptive, actual harassment like touching/real verbal abuse.
Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case
I think this thread proves if nothing else that most programmers, myself included, could very much use an accountant :) We all know stuff, but not all of it is right or complete...
There's a little more to the tale - East Coast rail being nationalised when failing and then privatised once it returned to health (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/privati...) and the Govt selling off its Eurostar share prior to it becoming more valuable (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/06/eurostar-sel...). Also for some reason TfL remains in public hands - maybe because it's too important for private sector to mess up?
Good article. Also, great content marketing for that book I'm already sick of noticing at HN homepage.
The additional wear on the road.
> Those all seem to be sponsored.

Even if that is true I would rather see public money sponsoring real open access journals than spend paying author fees and subscription to closed access and hybrid journals.

> As long as their expenses are >60% of revenue,

What I truly question is the nature of these expenses. From my point of view inside academia in the field of computer science, and knowing a lot of people in other fields of academia, the actual work put by publishers in the final product that is a published scientific paper is close to zero (except for those fields where there is layout work because they do not use readymade LaTeX documentclasses).
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3 things my startup is doing on this list of 5 things not to do…
Definitely the former.

I don't go somewhere so I can take pictures to show my friends, I go there because I want to see/experience it for myself. Plus friends don't care to see more than a few pictures, anyway.
Where was this?
Yes, directly comparable when your metric is criminality, perceived imminent violence, or any other thing that the mass of the public expects cops to respond to.
Tesla scrambles for lithium as prices double
NO. Please just no.
That and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created are great reads.

One of the main points of 1491 was the evidence of disease decimating the Americas even prior to the arrival of Cortes.
I like this explanation ;)

So apply a binary search to an effect instead of a value.
What prevents Wevest from being used by trade experts as a way to scam people? It would be like giving these pump and dump people access to your Ameritrade account. They will have 2 accounts. Their real account and their Wevest account. Buy a stock for $1 with real account then use their we vest account to but the same stock. The price will go up. Then sell the stock in the real account.
I think it's the second; aesi.news is at least a few months old.
The stupid shirt controversy trivializes real issues. This article is about actual cases of sexual harassment and even assault. People don't take it as seriously because now sexism now mostly means people getting offended at silly shirts.

I clicked on the article honestly expecting it to be something trivial like that, and was alarmed at the seriousness of it.
> All tax payers on this planet (at least those living in a country with sizeable research spending) already contribute to the worldwide scientific knowledge. I believe this is a good thing.

Then you still get a free-rider problem, regarding all people that did not pay taxes for this research. You can ignore the issue but tax payers may not.
That stuff is pretty badly specified and has pretty random processes, but it seems unlikely. Some speculation:

a) officials doing things in their official role generally have by default "public interest" against them

b) She is still chancellor, making the public interest even argument stronger and weakening her case. This is all still somewhat going on, not some transgression in the past, which these rules mostly are about. And even in the future, a few years after she has left

c) the university doesn't have the personality right, and the information who has been chancellor at a specific time won't be generally removed. So even if she would win a request to remove her name, it would be trivial for sites to still make the connection, making the entire exercise pointless for her, especially since I'd expect it to require a few court cases, triggering Streisand to full effect again.

If some site published private data about her (where she lives, about her family, ...) right to be forgotten might be used against these specific instances.
I think keeping jokes about genitalia and other sexually explicit topics out of the workplace is a pretty reasonable line to draw. The problem isn't that dick jokes are categorically offensive, rather, the problem arises because, when this type of behavior is permitted, there is always someone lacking social intelligence or boundaries who takes it way too far and creates a complicated ambiguity regarding what type of dick jokes take it too far. The office isn't the place to tease out the nuance of what is appropriate comedy.

Personally, as a straight male, I'd be pretty uncomfortable if my boss was making jokes about his dick. Just sayin'