skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting -- two of the startups mentioned in this article, Homejoy and Washio, are closed.

Also, services that delivery groceries, cooked meals, or laundry/drycleaning are not new -- they were just given a facelift for a different consumer base. An article like this failing to mention that is a pretty big oversight imho -- it even trends into "back in my day..." territory.

If anything, this new economy is correcting for the car-dependent "convenience economy" that was implemented over the past 30 years or so. The milkman was replaced by milk in every corner store. Diners and luncheonettes were replaced by take out and carry away. Catalogs were replaced by "big box" stores.

It reminds me of the comparison of "head stuck in a newspaper" to "head stuck to a smartphone." Some people try and argue the latter is more egregious, but why?
The circumstantial evidence in the Podesta phishing is pretty decent, not really 'up in the air'.

https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-group-4127-targe...

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/81662155364329472...

(the second link is a lengthy thread)
To me it is a clear case Uber is being systematically attacked. Most likely by Google. They fear Uber will get credit for self driving cars before them and they are horrified. So they use the full weight of their online power to bring the narrative Uber is evil. The easiest way to do that is trot out the good old "sexist" card. That gets the ball rolling and it's all downhill from there.
I think the discourse about "rights" is part of the problem in US politics, it makes the default mode of reasoning about ideology, rather than outcomes.

The government should be in the healthcare business since the nature of the service precludes a functional market.
Now that you mention ribs, I cooked some St. Louis style ribs that came out pretty good.
Damn you said that too.
Slack Is Down
For me their status page: https://status.slack.com/ and slack itself is unavailable
for me, yes
Had the CIA's efforts been targetted towards improving encryption and security, US citizens and its government may well have had the ability to communicate safely. They may well have been able to trust new smart gadgets such as smart TVs and smart phones. Instead the CIA aided the nefarious people of the world by not reporting and exploiting security holes in devices used by the citizens it should protect. Now it has leaked said exploits and the CIA has helped their enemies in spying on every aspect of US life to a degree never seen before.
Presumably you aren't going to use it for ingredients with different cooking times?
I looked through the leak, they promised source codes, all I found was source codes from various public projects.

For the CIA tools, there was only descriptions and guides to how to get it implemented and in use, not the actual source code.
Did the Haskell programs implement the same algorithm?
> There can't be nearly as many sources as there are sites who buy from them.

Sure there can. The sources include state, county, and local governments. There are a lot of those.
Slack is down (including status page)
I am pretty excited to see where MS takes this.
I can see where you are coming from - This piece wouldn't hurt to have some recognition from Sam that YC is in a unique/fortunate position and can get great talent because of that, but at the same time, it must get old qualifying everything you're doing with 'this might not be feasible to the lay person/organization but...'

I don't think you need to read too much into it. Sam is reflecting on his personal blog about someone he sees as exceptional, and I really appreciated the piece bc it shows another path to being a successful/useful person.
So although it's the same domain, slack.com, the records still resolve which seems to rule out a DNS related issue. DNS is served by AWS Route53 in all cases and only by Route53 (which might or might not be a great idea considering what happened to Dyn late last year).

Slack.com and the API are hosted by EC2, status.slack.com points to Rackspace.

I wonder what happened to take both down.
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Sounds like we need a Co-founder basic income?
Unfortunately for this we aren't going to get some 1080p video of someone in a mask sneaking into the DNC server room, just the fact that the 17 agencies all agree based on what they've seen believe that to be the case.

Unfortunately everyone these days think everything is a conspiracy or has to have HD recordings of something they think happened as public evidence or it is false, but that's not how the world really works...
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Ask HN: Is Slack down?
I can't get slack.com or status.slack.com to resolve, and the app isn't able to connect.
Greg is the guy you need. Not necessarily the guy you want to be.

I don't think that's true. At least at the beginning, a "Greg" will be the person who has all the direct contact with mentors, investors, team, suppliers, and customers. A "Greg" will be the "business face" of things (not necessarily who the public see, but who everyone else sees). That's a very good position to be in when things fail or when the company exits.

CEOs go on to start something new. CTOs start interviewing for a new role. People who are a "Greg" find offers coming to them.
I avoid videos on mobile like the plague anyway (because of shitty data plan), so I can't comment on that, but otherwise I'm a happy user of Firefox for Android, esp. because it has uBlock Origin available.
it's keratin, just chew your fingernails.
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I use as my main browser too and I do not have specific problems with it. The greatest advantage is being able to use the same extensions as the desktop version.
Their primary error was arrogance, assuming that they were smarter than anyone challenging them even in the face of evidence to the contrary. I don't think there is a cure for that, short of US Marshals at your door with a warrant and handcuffs.
Definitely :/
Yes, it's not just you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811815
> Elon and I were both busy with day jobs ...

Epic, lovely understatement there!
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Are you open to another person's idea? Look at Snapchat and Facebook (yes extreme outliers)
Perhaps somebody should initiate a randomized clinical trial to find out the obvious, publish the results, and then it will stop.
I think he meant in the Sam->Greg direction
What was the inspiration for the dinner that kicked off OpenAI? What made you invite Greg to it?
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IMHO Haskell is not a bad "scripting language", whatever that means. My current project has lots of nice, composable blocks that get compiled in a library project and I use stacks scripting feature to just glue them together. Works for me.
Appears to be for me, across multiple teams. A quick twitter search shows other people having problems as well.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=slack&sr...

Looks like it
It implemented the same business requirements. I don't know or care what algorithm was involved (indeed I wouldn't really say there was one).
Like this?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

How should /unsafe be set with .Net CORE csproj ?
Sure, maybe, but there are very few of your kind left. ;)
It is down for me as well.
> Greg asked me questions for the first half of the drive back to San Francisco, then declared he was in, and started planning logistics for the rest of the drive.

I think he took on the risk when he bought into it.

But yeah.
Another factor here is when people abuse the word "fact" regularly. If you ever get into a discussion with somebody who claims they've proved their point by citing "facts", then actually follow up on their citations and discover that it doesn't actually say what they think it says it creates an impression of the messenger, not the message.

Enough messengers saying the same faulty message over and over and you distrust the message just because it's been repeated so often.

This is an easy thing to do with conversations on subjects like guns where the key of slanting the message is based on subtle wording changes that allow you to leave out some data or include other data. The person presenting their information thinks they have "facts" because they see numbers that support their point of view without knowing what's been left out.

I seem to remember a github repo that was posted to HN a couple of years back that did exactly that. They showed the same data set and presented 3 different ways with 3 entirely different conclusions.
There is no hard evidence where the DNC/Podesta leaks came from. However, Julian Assange has repeatedly said that the source is not the russian goverment or a affiliated state party [1] and in a other interview has hinted that the source may be Seth Rich [2], a former DNC staff member that was murdered in Washington DC.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyCOy25GdjQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7FkLBRpKg
It's only a matter of time until PORN starts thinking about using blockchains
The question also has a ham-fisted phrasing:

> Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?

My grandfather, who lost his German citizenship in the 30s and had to leave Germany for England due to the persecutions associated with Nazi Germany would technically have to answer that he was involved (as a victim).
That is surprising, that would imply that view-source isn't using the same cookies as the regular browsing experience.

Which seems like a bug.
Then it should be more like 30 seconds, 15 to put things in and 15 to take things out, or are you watching it for those 7 minutes? Just trying to point out that you should quote the actual time it takes.
> Long gone are the days when Mozilla wanted to build the best browser.

Come on. Do you really think I come into the office on weekends just for fun?

> Rust and servo have noble visions but are irrelevant to the future of the web. UX is what drives browser market share and unless Mozilla refocuses on this, they will contjnue to lose maket share.

Fortunately, Servo is experimenting with UX as well, via browser.html!
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Imagine the legal liability you'd incur if the layperson could track the source of inaccurate data, then proved in court it kept them from getting a loan.

Those are provable damages, and maybe slander if they can convince the court they're a publication

Another reason to be NDAed up.
“I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day," Assange said.

So this seems like a clear admission that they are in possession of controversial material regarding Trump, but Assange figures, why bother publishing it, it's not much more controversial than what comes out of Trump's own mouth, so we won't bother publishing it, nothing to see here.
Even their 8i6 only boosts about 60dB, though. You can work with that, but that's a little low. I shoot for -14dB to -10dB for spoken stuff, and at that point you'd basically be eating the mic.

The article you linked was using a Cloudlifter with the SM7B, which is a preamp on its own.
Right. It's about insulating yourself from the accusation that you deleted that data to cover up wrongdoing, rather than for other reasons.
Can't wait for servo to be shipped so that everyone can move back again to Firefox.
I don't think you understand the mentality of people who believe in these practices. That's like providing a mountain of scientific evidence against religions, to a devout follower.
"online trackers can’t connect your browsing in one container to another"

Yeah sure, because we all know that deleting cookies makes you totally anonymous on the internet. /s
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Do you think the antibiotics were just a placebo for you? Maybe the pain you went through while taking the drugs knocked the disease "out of your head", so-to-speak.
That's a fantastic idea. We could give it a special name to avoid confusion. How about "salary"?
"Sep 8, 2016" is the post date
It's Sam Altman; what else would you expect? He's a textbook example of the charming, successful CEO and sociopath.
The entire point of the Echo and similar devices is that it's always listening.
"Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!" :-)
Hello world in Rust is still 2.5MB if you statically compile all the libraries in since it doesn't strip unused functions. The tools and ecosystem are nowhere near what they are for C++
> I practiced not by writing Ruby on the job, but writing Ruby to scrape Craigslist apartment listings and feeding them into a spreadsheet.

On a related note, PadMapper [1] is an amazing scraper / browser for saving time apartment hunting on Craigslist.

[1]: https://www.padmapper.com
Biggest difference between the two is the cooking vessel (Teflon-coated vs. Stainless).

Also, the fact that the Power Pressure Cooker XL is "As Seen on TV!" turns me off personally, but I that may not be a universal reaction.
As the other response mentioned, at that point gaming was pretty habitual (and way more "thoughtless" than when I first started). I'd start up a game with a general plan and adjust mildly as needed, but in 4v4s it's basically 10-15 minutes of rushing an economy (which is pretty rote after a while) into massing up your army (which is pretty must just reflex APM of "select all barracks, queue up another marine/marauder in each; select all factories, queue up a few tanks/thors; select all starports, queue up a few medivacs/ravens") and then filling any empty space with random drops and harassment. I think there's a _lot_ more thought that goes into 1v1s since you're in a two-sided equilibrium and can't start losing much, but in 4v4s there's so much room for comebacks and throwing (and/or teams working together or not) that it doesn't matter nearly as much.

I couldn't listen to a podcast and code at the same time either, probably. If I'm listening to a podcast, I'm mentally trying to process it. If I'm coding, I'm mentally trying to plan/process what I've done. Any mental processing from one takes away from the other.

Podcasts, though, don't require any use of your hands. I actually feel guilty _just_ listening to podcasts (or similar) unless I'm also doing something like painting or paperwork that requires hands but not brainpower. I recognize it's kind of irrational, but it just feels like a waste of time and potential when I'm (probably) not going to live forever.

I think it's just a matter of recognizing what your potential inputs (seeing, hearing, touch, processing) and outputs (hands, voice, mental "caches" like outlines that you can context switch back into later) are and choosing activities to multitask that take advantage of the maximum amount of each without overlapping.
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The actual temperature you choose is really dependent on taste, but some, specifically meats, that shine are salmon, short ribs, steak and smokerless smoked meats like brisket and pork shoulder (hey we can't all have a smoker in our apartment). But getting the taste and texture you like takes some trials. If I had to pick one in particular, it would be short ribs at 185F for 24 hours.

Most cooks, outside of seafood, that I enjoy tend to take >12 hours. I barely use it for something like chicken thighs or pork chops.
> I know it's irrational, but I find I keep thinking about the Boston bombings.

It's worse than irrational, unless you've filled your pressure cooker with explosives and plugged the pressure relief valves it's not going to do anything except boil empty.
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Sloman and Fernbach see in this result a little candle for a dark world. If we—or our friends or the pundits on CNN—spent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we’d realize how clueless we are and moderate our views. This, they write, “may be the only form of thinking that will shatter the illusion of explanatory depth and change people’s attitudes.”
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How is one being xenophobic if they are not happy their job is going overseas?
I find discussions on this topic highly interesting. Thank you for this piece.

I myself summarized Google engineers' reasoning behind the monorepo decision. It may be found here https://www.extreg.com/blog/2017/02/googles-ultra-large-scal... and it's based on this original article http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-store...
Science isn't about why?, it's about why not!?.
This video is a great start to it

https://youtu.be/3XrGjSnPHGY
How well has that worked for climate science?
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Right, someone found a phishing link sent to Podesta that reused a GMail login page by autogenerating URLs, hundreds of hashed urls were reversed and a bunch of the target emails were people/companies of interest to Russia. I was only thinking about what the US gov released regarding the DNC leaks. I forgot about that one.

It's very possible that many people had access to Podesta's email but the timing of that phishing attempt and the Wikileaks leak was a little too convenient to ignore.
There are no strategic resources to speak of in Crimea. Black Sea fleet has no strategic importance for Russia because it is locked by Turkey, still a NATO country. All strategic ports are in the North and on the Pacific.

It was more like "Wag the Dog" play. A little war to boost morale and avoid orange revolution in Russia. Cost a lot of money due to sanctions and tanking ruble, so clearly not driven by economic considerations.
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That is a loophole!

If the fines incurred are less than margins, then you have a profitable strategy.
I do wonder how well it works with one of those Ceed Pi-Top products.
I sharpen woodworking tools so my point of view is slightly different, but I'd recommend diamond plates over water stones.

I've had great results with both but water stones need to be soaked in water before use (instructions say 10 minutes, but my experience is more like 30 minutes), they release a messy slurry when they wear and they don't stay flat for very long (flatness isn't that much of an issue with knifes I suppose, but essential for woodworking tools) and wear down as you use and re-flatten them.

Diamond plates stay dead flat, need very little maintenance, ready to use (just wet them, no soaking) and last 10 years or more in my infrequent use.

I have big 8" plates for my woodworking tools, but I intend to buy a small 1200 grit sharpener for kitchen for about $6 from here:
https://www.fine-tools.com/ezelap-diasharpener.html

1200 grit isn't super fine (compared to water stones) but is enough for basic kitchen sharpening (you don't need coarser ones unless you sharpen damaged blades and you don't need a finer one to get decent sharpness). I'd add a leather strop and some honing compound (chromium oxide) if I needed to get them sharp enough to shave (like I do with my tools).

That's about $20 for diamond plate + strop + compound, you can't get a decent water stone for that price.

But the real difference between sharp and kinda-sharp is practicing the skill of honing the blade. Sharpen a little at a time, test frequently and do it often.
Can you point to information to research about connections to the DNC hack and Russia?
It was. Happened to me in a bar once too, but I got the decline notification so went back (since it was my local haha!)
I do most of the audio work on the Wine project.

I personally think it's a bad move to drop official support for ALSA. Not everyone can or wants to use PulseAudio, for various good and bad reasons. Supporting multiple backends also keeps you "honest," so to speak, preventing you from relying on certain behaviors or features that only some platforms support.

But, I can understand the practical arguments behind dropping support for ALSA. The ALSA API really sucks to work with. There's a fair number of bugs and device quirks and whatnot that you have to take care of as an application developer. Standardizing around PulseAudio means only PulseAudio has to care about those quirks, instead of every single application. In practice, the vast majority of users use PulseAudio; there's a small (but vocal) minority that don't.

So really there's no clear winner on whether to provide support for ALSA.
> that "Russians" hacked the election

That's not the claim. In fact, multiple people have said that is not the claim.

The claim is that the Russians influenced the election in favor of Trump by promoting propaganda against Clinton.
I have one question: when I hit "." in twitter.com will the whole thing hang whilst it crunches through the updates?

I moved from chrome to firefox and so far this is my one complaint. This and I believe the CPU usage is higher for the same number of tabs open.
Lyalin, the download links seems to be broken? Tried with multiple browsers now, no download is starting :(

https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-st...
You're comparing apples to oranges.

What you should be comparing Hyperloop to is airplanes, not other land-based transport systems. Hyperloop is very fast, and is meant to compete with regional air travel. It's not likely to be cheap per-ticket, so it's not comparable to trains and cars. It's not meant to move large volumes of people cheaply, it's meant to move high fare-paying people very quickly so they don't have to deal with the problems inherent in air travel.
Copyright is an intrinsic property of a work in every legislation I have ever heard of.
This makes sense to me as a former sales engineer. There were many phonecalls and meetings where Nimble was the main competition for the customer's storage dollars, pretty much regardless of technical merits we may bring up. "We went with Nimble because it was cheaper" was heard more than once.

With Dell EMC having a large combined storage portfolio, I'm sure HPE was feeling it. Buying Nimble has multiple advantages between getting a foot in the door for more HPE equipment, or just cornering that niche in the market.
The perceived performance might not be necessarily only due to Visual Studio itself.

Could also have to do with the filesystem in newer versions of Windows (file operations seem slower in modern versions), the shell, background services and other characteristics of the OS.
Are you sure? The letter was from the USDoJ, so shouldn't they only be concerned for federal law? They surely don't spend time and money enforcing state laws. (I don't feel like combing through it a second time to be absolutely sure that CA law wasn't mentioned.)
WikiLeaks releases purported CIA spying files
Good point on the conditions. I wanted to avoid pasting prod code I'd been working on and was trying to make an example: I generally use this for things like logging.

It's best when:

1) The logic is very specific to the situation and isn't reusable
2) Isn't important to the function's api contract.
What is the difference between Instant Pot and similiar, cheaper devices? They look like one company makes them all.
And we'll be better off because of it.
Basically by not running another file sharing knockoff.
All he's done so far is send down pharma stock prices.
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WikiLeaks publishes CIA trove alleging wide scale hacking