skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes things just don’t work out. Twitter certainly can’t be blamed for trying all kinds of different ideas, either by putting their own resources to work on them, or just acquiring other companies (Vine, Periscope, and many more - see list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... ).

They have a product that is very valuable to many people, but those people are not enough, and the things Twitter tried just didn’t improve the situation.
They could expand and try to compete with Facebook, but that’s not going to work and will alienate their current core users, they could reconsider the 140characters limit (ditto), they could just stick to offering the same service in perpetuity with minor changes here and there, and hope for the best, and that’s what they are doing. They need to expand their users base and by extension increase their profits (more users, more ads served, and there is this whole network effect to consider).

The fact is, potential buyers are aware of that implicit users-base wall Twitter has hit a long time ago, and are probably not interested that much in contributing their own ideas in order to succeed where Twitter’s many leaders in the past failed to do. They should know that significant changes to the product will morph Twitter into something else, it will no longer be Twitter, and like I suggested earlier, Twitter doesn’t stand a real chance as a competitor to Facebook and other emerging/established networks.

I love Twitter, I use it every day and it provides me with a lot of value. I suppose it’d be best for me and others like me if they stay the course, so that we can all use it like we do today, and hope one of their future ideas will work out, all the while they are losing market share, and then eventually, inevitably, agree to a sale. The alternative would be someone else buys it now and Twitter will soon become something, and that will undo the company.
Does the lack of centering with the play button bother anyone else?
Deleted as I thought better than posting this retrospectively. Sorry.
And this is why twitter should allow you to hide who you follow.
You're putting words in my mouth. I said I didn't know anyone who's made a purchasing decision because of an ad on Twitter. Online ads as a larger entity—that's a completely different story. The vast majority of the online advertising spend which you speak of goes to PPC search, not the 2016 equivalent of banner ads.
Is there a mirror anywhere?
[Haskell] Respect
Ask HN: How likely is sustained national/global outage of a Google core service?
1. Do you believe a google(or >1B user company)could have a core service(or equiv.) like:

Search

Gmail

Docs/Drive/Cloud

[ other core service w/ >500m daily users ]

Could experience a global(or non-trivial subset) failure, sustained for at least 20 full minutes?

2. Why do you believe this?

3. If you answered you believe this to be possible, what do you think the cause would be [ e.g. internal error, maliscious attack, ect.]
Ask HN: What side project are you working on right now?
Not sure why your comment was downvoted.
The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence: Nature
The Constitution is a piece of paper, and might influence certain parts of Government to some degree, the same as any other piece of paper. But the beliefs of the people are what really matters. And if the people don't actually entirely agree with the Constitution to the point that they're willing to fight for it and drag their representatives out of Government over it, it's as useless as any other piece of paper.
From the article-
"In other words, your daily business is Google’s business."

From Google-
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

One thing that drives me mad about Google is how they say "the world's information", then ignore 99.9% of the worlds information, and then expect their consumers to give them a pass and not call them to account for how they privatize user information.

Looking at the information that Google organizes and makes accessible and useful I don't see things like "species extinction", "oceanic water temperature history", or say "dolphin linguistic data", equally represented when compared to "my browsing history", "my location history", "my search history", "an archive of my voice searches", "when I leave or return home via Nest", "who I associate with via Google's communication suite". Google is organizing exactly that data which Google can monetize, which is not the world's data. Not a lot of people want to buy data on deforestation so it's much more difficult to get Google to put resources into that. How many people chew pieces of gum until 100% of the flavor is gone? I'll never know, and Google isn't going to help me, because it isn't a profitable data set.

Simply stated, Google needs to stop acting benevolent and start fessing up to attempting to be omniscient in order to be all knowing about its users, not "the world's data".
I run copperheados and have completely removed google from my phone.
Moving to the far left-corner of the keyboard to reach Escape has been a major annoyance for me. On the other hand, the Caps Lock key on my keyboard is almost useless. I never use that key. Is there a way to map Caps Lock to Escape in Vim?
My sense is that we need more journalism that can relate the dangers here to everyday people. A tech company complaining about a gag order probably won't garner a lot of interest to the average joe.

Sadly, comedians seem to be the only ones that understand this. Like what John Oliver did in his interview with Snowden: explain that the NSA could read his dick pics.
> Lenet architecture was published by Jean LeCun et al. in 1998.

I believe the intended name was Yann LeCun, not Jean Lecun.
The paper it linked to: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-98.pdf
The book I mentioned, The Shape of Ancient Thought by Thomas McEvilley, is an amazing one. That's the place to start. My now vague recollection is that the influence went first from India to Greece (via various other places) not as what I would call philosophy but maybe "speculative theology" or "speculative religion" (think Vedas, Upanishads) Then more fully formed Greek philosophy influenced Indian thought via the Hellenistic world following the Alexandrine conquests (so e.g. you wind up with Buddhist philosophy like Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī that deploys some arguments familiar from sceptical schools of Hellenistic philosophy.
Why Spinnaker Matters to Google
Are there any open source/self-hosted projects that do some of what Alexa, Google Assistant, Google Now, Siri do?

Even without the manpower/big data/processing power of a big co I'm sure we could create something that's somewhat useful.
Having looked at this in some detail, my feeling is that no federated solution can work. The reason is that the underlying architecture leaks through to the user experience in unacceptable ways.

As soon as a user has to understand federation - at all - I believe the proposition is dead to most people. For example Diaspora's 'pods' are, I think, fatally confusing. (I think Zuckerberg realised this, which is why he donated money to Diaspora - a project he could see would fail, but might also crowd out other OS alternatives to Facebook.)

For sure, XMPP can be part of the tech solution, in fact I suspect there are really excellent open source tools to address many of the inherent issues (perhaps Apache Cassandra can be Twitter's contribution to democracy) but I think the real problem is a social one.

You need an institution that can credibly promise to provide a platform in the long run and which can also get critical mass in at least one community. I believe the critical mass might well follow if the institution is widely perceived as reliable and legitimate in the way a foundation like Wikimedia is.

I went into some more detail on this in a blogpost:
http://jimmytidey.co.uk/blog/building-a-better-twitter/
I'm afraid the monsters will use it on me!
​Chromecast Ultra: Getting 4K video the Google way
Does shutting down nonsense posts really require perfect civility in the reply?

It's the same pattern I see often here... made up story incoming. The original person who spouts nonsense is never hold to account, especially if what they're saying fits with the status quo.

Person1: Trump is literally a lizard person!

> Person2: You're an idiot, and here are some facts that show he's not.

> > Person3: Whoa whoa, you're probably right but be civil!
I'm trying to improve the audit logs conversion from non-BSM formats to the BSM format. See https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2016/NonBSMtoBSMConvers... for more details.
Maybe people could imagine a world where the adage "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product" would be widely relevant, sure.
But not a world where that phrase would be irrelevant, simply because today if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
From their on documentation on the "Keyword Extractor" module:

This keyword extraction algorithm employs statistical algorithms and natural language processing technology to analyze your content and identify the relevant keywords.

The source code doesn't seem to be available, but presumably by "statistical algorithms and NLP" they mean TF-IDF.

Question is -- is this what they mean by "machine learning"?

And more to their point -- do their investors know what's going on here?
Or government is absolute out of control; the system on the whole needs an enema. Wherever you stand on social/ideological issues, we need to be united in the face of this, as well as other basic issues like police with MRAP's on city streets, and the need to maintain our infrastructure.
@tptacek I had about 30 seconds of battery left when I typed the parent, so there are a few minor typos, but I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on it.
Yeah, it's just nice to have the layout in hardware. And programming your own keyboard can be fun.
They don't. And they borrow from each other at "Libor Plus" which is a variable rate. (Libor is variable)
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XCsT2e...

This PDF is a great technical overview as well: https://www.parallella.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/e5_102...
I mean, most newspapers would call lynchings today "alleged murders". The print-news standard still says alleged with witnesses, video, and a confession - until the conviction comes down, the crime is alleged.

That, I guess, was my question. Print journalism applies this rule even when taking moral stances; what's the standard here?
I'll note that my iPhone can do all those things but without my data leaving my own hardware (or at least not unencrypted). You don't _have_ to ship all your data offsite for the functions you enjoy. It's just that Google would rather examine all your data in-house, presumably for their own benefit and not for ours.
#AllAlignmentsMatter?
Your startup has over 300 million users? Operating at scale is functionality that requires a lot more work than a lot of people sometimes realize.
ct" or even ci" (or ci) ci] etc) is really useful to reset the inner contents of text delimited by ")] etc.. I use these a lot - http://fuckyeahvim.tumblr.com/image/122372862496
I thought this was familiar, and a search revealed it was posted here twice back in 2011... so, not exactly new.

http://insights.dice.com/2011/12/13/ultralight-metallic-micr...

http://newatlas.com/ultralight-micro-lattice-material/20537/
Ask HN: Adding a side project/startup to LinkedIn when employed full time
I have a side project (startup wannabe) which I've been working on part-time with my co-founder.

I'm currently employed full time for an U.S. based company which expects full dedication (in a remote office).

We're reaching a point where exposure for our startup would be very good, and I have a pretty good LinkedIn network. It would also allow me to highlight all the new technology I've been working on.

On the other side, I'm worried about any legal or personal implications - worst case scenario, the company decides to fire me and not pay me severance (I'm entitled to severance and unemployment in my country except for gross breach of contract, which this might be construed as).

Our project is far from ramen profitability, and I'm the main breadwinner for 2, so I need employment for now :) . We haven't raised any money (we tried getting some seed funding, but we were way too early and had no traction)

My co-founder can add the project to his LinkedIn project without repercussions because he has a part-time employment contract.

Should I try to be a "silent" co-founder? We're thinking of featuring in newspaper articles, should I try not to appear?

Thank you.
>"New Theft of Secrets", as if whistleblowing was a bad thing.

Thats not whistleblowing.
According to the complaint the search happened August 29th so this has been ongoing for a while. Very curious.
Your current or next partner might not like that you've signed up either :)
That's not equivalent...
For 1: ctrl-n

[ed: a little more context and detail: http://usevim.com/2012/07/06/vim101-completion/ ]
Google has 2M miles. How much does Uber have?
> shift+ctrl+left arrow x 2 + delete

Maybe I haven't understand well exactly what you wanted to delete, but if I have, then you might reconsider your emacs-fu, because there is much easier way to do that: Meta+<Backspace><Backspace>.
"Secret" arrests are fairly common, they are often used daily when you need to arrest a large group of people without them scattering.

Say you have 5 arrests warrants for members of a gang, you often can't arrest them all the once so here is where the "secret" comes into play when they are arrested and the arrest is maintained confidential for 24-48 hours depending on the jurisdiction.

This is done to prevent the rest from scattering into hiding as soon as the news of one or more of them getting arrested breaks, this also means they won't hold down somewhere and be ready for a fight, or even go and do something worse like take hostages in order to try to get out of dodge.

This also means that in some rights are withheld for the duration of the "gag order" like access to a phone or an attorney, however the police is not allowed to question or formally charge the subjects during that period either, so while there is some violation of rights it is not egregious.
Not far from the mark. People have quite different behaviors when asked "what do you want?" vs a constant stream of "do you want X?" questions.
That means they have value for the VCs (usually in the form of "exits", ie, selling to other investors), but the question was whether they'll produce profits (and consequent dividends).
Question: will it ever be possible to wrap a thin impermeable film around a structure like that, suck out the air inside and end up with a lighter-than-air solid in order to build vacuum airships?
I love Shippo as a product and even more so as an example of startups solving unsexy problems with technology.

Payments before Stripe and Square were a pain in the ass. Shipping is a similar backbone to the economy that, for businesses, just sucked.

Building one universal shipping API and taking advantage of carrier bulk discounts even for the smallest businesses makes a much more demonstrable impact than a chat bot.

Good on them. Also amazing blog name (Get Put Post.)
Except the former shows that "mass noun" is a thing. And indeed the phrase was a hyperlink to a fascinating page discussing the concept. Unfortunately, somebody took your criticism to heart and changed the page to your formulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leaf&type=revision&diff=742673936&oldid=741796479

excising the hyperlink in the process.

Your phrasing would be better were Wikipedia not a hyperlinked encyclopedia. Because Wikipedia is a hyperlinked encyclopedia, it's perfectly acceptable and even preferable to use stilted phrasing when it benefits the concise exposition of related concepts.
Well, scientists are people too, so they have feelings and are not perfect. I think there are polite ways provide criticism and corrections, hopefully without humiliating people with good intentions. If it's a simple mistake, they can email the author and suggest an erratum. If it's more serious, then it's common to write a response in the journal. I think more public forms of criticism are perceived as bullying because a general audience can't typically judge the magnitude of the error, since they're not scientists working in the field, so it can be unjustly damaging to someone's reputation.
Someone else has found the wisdom of ijkl! :D

My setup uses "u" and "o" the same way you use "h" and ";". I also extended it so you can use modifiers on I and K to get page up/page down behavior, or to navigate between indentation levels.
I never got the feeling that there was a lot of mistrust of other federation people.

for example, the Star Trek universe didnt seem like a universe where you had to shop around for a trustworthy mechanic, who wouldnt overcharge or over diagnose. (e.g. headlight fluid)

Maybe the implicit trust of other people was integral to the AI being successful in that universe.
Learning* not leaving Linux. Too late to edit. Damn you fat thumbs.
If 100 people do A after doing B and you are the 101st who does not want to do A, is it your fault or that of the algorithm? This is no "artificial intelligence" it is a fitness, a mutation and an evolution function, without any true randomness or "chaos" prediction (predicting the future...), but with added Advertising hidden between your reccomendations. Like they can not build flying cars so they reinvent the hovercraft. Aimed at the Internet of things, which will be the biggest tech bubble known to mankind. Sorry i have to vent that somewhere, but all my communication platforms have already been shut down.
Forget About the Machines: Most Humans Couldn’t Pass a Turing Test These Days
That, and the constant background hiss in the audio. I get that they are going for a windy/airy feel, but it comes off as a poor recording.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deforestation
I was pissed when Google suggested I take pictures of the restaurant I was in and submit them.
Then you haven't been paying attention to legal precedents set since the late 70's, and think that you can hide behind a devalued piece of paper that courts and politicians and LEO's have been shitting on for decades.
Lots of reference to a user's private data - but what is private? Is my zipcode, gender, and birthdate private? Those three factors can be used to uniquely identify greater than 80% of the US population. Are the GPS locations I visit private? If so, why does information about them show up on lock screens?

Third parties get my voice recordings for "improving the voice recognition service" - what if my name is mentioned in the background of one of those recordings? What if I'm not a savvy user and add private data to those recordings?

You're also talking about what's in place today. If I give Google my data, that data is probably going to stay with Google as long as they are a business (and potentially after, if Google were ever liquidated and their assets sold off). What measures are in place to protect me then?
... a price that isn't a few hundred USD above its predecessor (comparing the regular Pixel to the 5X)?
... a featurelist that doesn't start with the 'assistant' that most of us don't give a crap about?

I don't expect a removal battery anywhere anymore (although I held out til the last possible moment with the Samsung S4 Active until I got the 5X). But I was hoping for a higher-capacity battery, absolutely. But it charges quickly, they say. Great, so I still have to carry an Anker around.

The lack of water resistance is infuriating. The S4 Active had it, the IPhone has it. I guess the marketing research guys decided we didn't want that feature.

Sigh.
> Of course, from the outside it looks like he was just some Bad Man. Even the prime minister went on the news to condemn him.

This is a lot of obfuscation. What happened here? How did they smear him?

> From the external actions of the characters who oversee the legal professionals who are drafted into service in these secret systems, they definitely have their own, uh, interpretation of law and ethics.

I am friends with some ex-IC guys; from their stories they appear closed in rank more than police, and are indoctrinated to the point that they see themselves as the paladins of American values and democracy. In reality, they are usually only upholding the interests of the powerful, where corporate interest and political value coincide, and those with real power know and reinforce this. To see this is too much cognitive dissonance for the ones that aren't secretly there just because they get off on the power.

The paranoia and the power trip are good at reinforcing the "us vs. everyone" mentality that we know is pretty dangerous psychologically.
I would then say that it has momentum, not mindshare.
Still has an AMOLED screen and not an IPS, dang.
It's... 3D chicken wire? Not terribly impressed. From the video it shows that it's also super weak. You won't be building airplanes with this stuff.

This obsession with super light materials that "are strong for their weight" seems a bit useless to me. It never seems to scales to something that weighs a medium amount while maintaining its strength to form something actually useful. Supposedly, spider silk is incredibly strong. But if you can't scale that strength there is no point to it.

At least aerogel has purposes for extreme insulation, but as this is made out of metal I don't see use there either.

Nevertheless, I applaud progress.
I dunno, it's not quite that black and white. If I send someone (say) a poem I wrote, even if unsolicited, I retain the copyright and the moral rights in that poem. The recipient doesn't get carte blanche to reproduce it just because I sent it to them.

So, by the same token, does Google have the rights to profile people even if they haven't consented to that? One answer, as with copyright, is to see what the law says; and it's very possible that the law says no, especially in the EU. (I've not researched it; others will doubtless know much more than I do.)

Or Google could just seek to do the right thing and not profile people unless they've opted in. But my definition of the right thing may well be different to theirs.
Huh. Does this mean that I can open() all the numerically-named directories in /proc, in a loop, and eventually prevent the system from being able to create new processes?

Or will operations on a file descriptor corresponding to an exited process fail?
I switched to Spacemacs a few months ago and didn't look back since. Its basically Emacs+Vim+Steroids+More.

Just the leader key and layers alone are incredibly powerful concepts Spacemacs brings on top of Emacs/Vim :)
All true, but it's getting better. Also, there's a huge quality of life difference in Atlanta between living just outside city limits and living in the urban core or one of the adjacent former streetcar suburbs. Not only in terms of traffic and transit options but proximity to entertainment and cultural attractions.

Historically, most of the technology companies in the metro area were located in office parks in the northern suburbs. But momentum seems to be shifting back to in-town locations. When my firm moved to its present location in NW Midtown in 2007, we were the only tenant in our building. Since then, we've been joined by a marketing agency, Uber, Square, Worldpay, and a few others.
Have you ever tried to get a group of people to protest anything? Like seriously, the black lives matter are more effective, than people regarding the NSA, privacy, or encryption. Even though some of the stuff we know about the government is WAY scarier.
Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane
Yes absolutely - that's why we spent so long selecting leads at the weekend and on Monday, because they're the freshest and those are the ones we try to send (unless a company has got in touch through Pipeline).
Website doesn't work well on iOS devices. Can't switch between scenarios.