skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so the youtubers were just sort of teaser reviews. I do think it's disdainful, and slightly obnoxious/elitist, but I don't read it as personal bitterness.
We use Mailchimp for B2B newsletters and have several thousand subscribers in our lists. This is the first time I hear anything about this. No mails whatsoever although I am a German user.
If they can't access the data, then they shouldn't be able to moderate it.

There are plenty of things on the web where you can upload data and they don't use machine learning algorithms to decide if your content is "valid" or "invalid". It all depends on various tradeoffs.
I support this ;) Thanks!
Not if Chromium removes support for packaged apps: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
I agree, sans-sarcasm. It's better than the alternative, which is allowing Russian disinformation to determine facts.
Is Telegram as secure as Signal though?
> potentially hazardous messages

THOUGHTCRIME ALERT

Must protect fragile minds from dangerous messages...
If someone knowingly puts themselves into an unsafe position, they made a mistake. Period. If you know that cars are whipping around corners at unsafe speeds, and you choose to ride (or walk) there anyhow, then I don't have much pity if something bad happens. Are they a victim? Yes. Should some blame be put on them for putting themselves in that situation? Absolutely. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

Simultaneously, the driver knows that they're controlling a heavy machine, and that they might need to stop suddenly for various reasons. They have a responsibility to operate it safely, according to reasonable expectations of the environment that they're driving in. "I was going too fast to stop in time" isn't defensible.
Nutrion labels - would you consider them harmful? I see them as a net positive.
I mind me of the fit he pitched over Atwood et al. attempting to bring some sanity to the farrago of Markdown variants a couple years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264733

I'm glad his blog gets him paid! Everyone should have a way to make a good living. But I'm not sure why his blog getting him paid requires that I or anyone else take him as seriously as he so often seems to do.
Suppose someone will pay you one bitcoin next week, as per some private agreement.

For this discussion, let's entirely ignore credit risk (the risk this person doesn't pay) but consider market risk.

Like it or not, you carry the risk of bitcoin fluctuations. You might be comfortable receiving $6400 for your bitcoin next week. But bitcoin is volatile. Maybe bitcoin jumps to $8000. But maybe it drops to $4000.

If you're comfortable giving up the upside, for a chance to prevent that downside, this bitcoin future is for you.

You enter a future contract where you agree to sell one bitcoin in one week at a price of $6400 (if that's the going one week forward rate).

In one week, your person pays you the agreed bitcoin, which you then sell to the exchange and receive your $6400.

Meanwhile, for that week you can sleep at night knowing that if the bitcoin market crashes, you still get your $6400. And if the market rallies to a higher price, well missing out on that rally was the cost of being able to sleep at night.

This is what commodity futures were originally used for, eg farmers agreeing to sell their stocks at agreed rates without worrying about market fluctuations.

Companies do this too, eg hedging their cost of fuel to a known quantity in line with expected consumption.
Also, hi, we both used to hang out in #teensonlinux back in the day! Always good to see handles from that old place randomly pop up
There's error detection and recovery for writing files, and creating accounts, but not opening the demo, currently.
GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
It seems that when you try to talk about evolutionary psychology in relation to gender inequality outside HN it usually doesn't go so well. Still trying to articulate exactly why that is.
I can recommend Hashcat, used it myself for cracking bitcoin wallet using multiple GPUs. Great tool if you forget your password and it works with so many applications/file formats.
>Scientists develop evidence-based explanations of phenomena through experimentation using available tools.

In matters of their expertise. I'm guessing your fellow coworker is not a biologist.

If you think most scientists apply this to all their beliefs, then I think you should spend more time amongst them. Virtually every physicist I worked with in a top 10 school had some stupid belief that was easily invalidated with a few days of research. For me to judge their analytical abilities based on silly beliefs they have would be saying more about my abilities than theirs.
Signal Desktop works without having your phone turned on. It acts like a full, independent client after linking it to your smartphone app (unlike WhatsApp, which does require your phone to be turned on).
Is there ANY evidence Apple is bullying anyone? Being selective and choosing new channels isn’t bullying — it’s smart marketing. Why would any company seed a review device to a hostile outlet? That’s just stupid. All the people that want to write negative reviews shall have their opportunity.

People are “mad” because they were looking forward to cashing in on web traffic. Apple doesn’t owe anyone a preview unit.
Life will go on if the volcano erupts. It may not be human life, but it will still be life. The Yellowstone volcano is just another bogeyman that is not worth stressing over. It will happen or it won't and realistically there is nothing we can do about it.
That’s textbook bigotry, and you recognize it yourself as you gleefully assert “You don’t actually get a choice”

The burden is on you to “give him a choice”
Time to shitcan mailchimp in my mail server I guess
Is this going to affect MailChimp's deliverability? It seems like it would, my understanding is the reason most relays and blacklists are so lenient with MailChimp is exactly because of their double opt-in policy.

Looks like they're ultimately throwing their long-term business under the bus for a short burst of extra cash.
And who determines what's fact and fiction?

Is it the news agency? So they just have to say "We 100% believe aliens live on the dark side of the moon" and it gets counted as fact?

Or is it the government? And anything the government doesn't like is fake news.. and everything they do like is fact?

I think this is much more difficult than you're assuming. Impossible really.
> the notion that desktop apps have a unified look and feel is a really recent phenomenon, that happened due to Apple, OS X and the iPhone.

The Apple HIG dates as far back as the Macintosh. That’s 1987[0]. Visual and behavioral consistency have always been a staple of good design for those who cared.

[0]: https://guidebookgallery.org/books/applehumaninterfaceguidel...
Núñez is not a mathematician and claims an anti-Platonic view of maths which is totally inconsistent with the reality of practicing mathematicians over the past century. In particular, I doubt that they grok the extent to which maths and physics have collaborated, and all of the predictions in particle colliders which started out as quirks of equations on blackboards.
I also use routing code to force long layover (e.g. go from Europe to SF via London, and spend the night in London to visit friends, on the same ticket).
PrestoDB is similar to Impala, Hive and other SQL Engines. Each is designed to do distributed SQL processing. Dremio does embed an OSS distributed SQL processing engine (Sabot, built natively on Arrow) as well but we see that as only a means to an end. Our focus is much more on being a bi & data fabric/service.

At the core of this vision are: very advanced pushdowns (far beyond other OSS systems), a powerful self-service UI for managing, curating and sharing data (designed for analysts, not just engineers) and--most importantly--the first open source implementation of distributed relational caching for all types of data. You can see more details about this last part in a deck I presented at DataEngConf early today: https://www.slideshare.net/dremio/using-apache-arrow-calcite...
wow, sorry. my bad.

So I guess there is a way to use signal without having a phone nowadays! That's a great news!

I will try right now.
Why? We are only a little blip on the time scales that nature works in. Why are we so arrogant as to think that we are the only life in the universe? It is very likely that we are not and even if we are, there is always a chance that life will arise again.
Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies suicidal youth
And how would you figure out if someone was a biblical literalist or a garden variety Christian or an athiest anyway, unless it’s somehow relevant to work?
Probably drives a Mercedes, but not so bad as a BMW.
Not a user but does single opt-in "by default" imply there is a setting to flip it back to double opt-in? If so, flip the switch
Lots of valid code, won't pass the type checker. That is the problem with static type checkers. You have to adapt your code to satisfy the type checker even when you know your logic is right.

Static type checking also significantly complicated meta programming, macros and code generation.

But hey I like statically typed languages too. A big fan of Swift which has borrowed many functional ideas. I just don't think static typing is the silver bullet that many of its proponents think.

It works well for some problems, but not all. E.g. I can't think of any statically typed language which can compete with Julia for numerical work and data science.

Haskell e.g. is just terrible at doing numerical work, as it poor at mutation. You can work effectively with lots of big matrices if you don't allow easy access to mutation.
Urban Dictionary: ls
Microsoft uses WordPress?

TIL
> for the average customer, it's now starting to seem like every web service is getting hacked.

It did have a positive influence on me right away. It also established this sense of trust. Enough that I began to crawl through the other pages for more info.

I also appreciated how you managed to convey, in a single image, exactly what was encrypted (ie, both document content and filename).

The first question I had was how Google Docs handled this. Do they also encrypt? If so, do they encrypt both filename and content? Considering Google's business model, I always assumed that they did less in this regard - relying instead on other mechanisms to protect user data.

I would keep the encryption message and double-down... comparing how other services handle privacy, tracking, data-mining, encryption. It's your strongest selling point.
Are you serious? Donald is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-russia than Hilary would have been. Ex-post facto that justified it.
Actions of Donald:
1. Intense skepticism of NATO (Russia hates this).
2. attempted to remove sanctions
3. Return spy compounds
4. America turning inwards and rejecting its international role as the hegemonic power and guarantor of western institutions.
5. The russians have preferred the republicans for a few years now since they were viewed as being more real-politik.

But mostly Donald wasn't hilary. Putin HATED Hilary for complex reasons linked to
1. bill clinton's expansion of NATO
2. What putin perceived as american support for violent regime change i.e. which he viewed as an existential threat. This included Hilary speaking in public in support of Russian dissidents and her exulting in the overthrow and execution of gaddafi (while she was secretary of state)
3. Hilary was basically an anti-russia hawk in general.

It seems the active measures campaign was never expected to result in Donald winning. I think the reasonable expectation was that hilary would be discredited and ineffective after winning with no clear mandate and intense resistance by the right. It was by no means random. It is intensely idiotic to think a nation state ruled by a canny, KBG trained, dictator would invest substantial resources and risk American retaliation to cause 'randomness'. His actions had chaotic results to be sure...but he had clear goals.

"If Mueller's final report says the Russians had a major influence on the election then what happens? I can't imagine it being good for anyone."

and the alternative being we close our eyes and pretend not to see? hopefully it would result in a return to paper ballots and hardened cyber security all across the Western world.

At this point though, we all know what the Mueller report will say in its generality. YES the russians had major influence on the election. Denying that at this point is delusional! Mueller is more about what role auspices of the trump campaign violated the law in their acceptance of russian aid...that is still somewhat of an open question as to degree and the level of criminality but it is quite clear that the Trump campaign had some amount of communication and coordination with agents of the Russian government.
> Up to a certain point of course. As I pass about 1000 lines of code I start feeling a bit uncomfortable about the lack of static type checking to catch my changes.

This is indeed where statically typed languages come in to shine - refactoring and maintenance. With a powerful type system you can be much more assured that your refactors or small/big changes here and there don't break the whole system or unexercised parts of it.

> It requires far more investment than other languages to learn and I've learned plenty. Nothing has required as much effort as Haskell. Despite the effort I never felt like I could write any real and practical programs with it.

That's often attributed to the fact that Haskell isn't just another syntax slapped on an Algol-like language. It's not just different syntax (ML-style), but an entirely different approach to programming. This often leaves experienced programmers frustrated with the experience that they are starting from scratch (without realising that, that is what they are doing).

Some nice advice is giving by Gabriel Gonzales here http://www.haskellforall.com/2017/10/advice-for-haskell-begi....

> I honestly think the Haskell fan club is slightly deluded. If Haskell was truly as amazing as they think, we ought to have seen a lot more amazing software being made in Haskell

We have a lot of amazing software in Haskell already, e.g. Facebooks Haxl, Pandoc, QuickCheck, Yesod, Servant and many more.

The argument that Haskell isn't doing stuff right because we don't see it everywhere is quite silly. By that metric PHP would be the best designed language ever...
Nutrition labels treat the symptom, not the cause.

IMO the root cause is a neglected and underfunded education system, that does not adequately prepare people for the levels of psychological manipulation the will experience in the form of marketing.

Sure, a nutrition label might help, but it's kind of passing the buck - "We don't need to fix our education system, people just need to be able to count to five so they know how many truth stars this article has, then they can make up their own mind!"
Absolutely. Such institutions have never abused such power in the past and surely never will.

They would never use fear to manipulate public discourse for example.
For those that don't want to enable Javascript, these are the hidden Linux instructions:

$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop
The video makes me ponder... Since when did it become normal to run along the edges of sheer rock walls? I’ve been noticing a lot more of this stuff lately on Youtube as if it’s crossed some mainstream threshold. Extremely dangerous behavior with very low payoff to offset it.
Golang fun rants
Does anyone know if they are shutting down their legacy consumer web portal? By which I mean this: https://matrix.itasoftware.com

Please, dear lord I hope not since it's by far my favorite tool to write complex queries to figure out itineraries and pricing for trips.
B.C. doctor says Canadian-led heart valve surgery will ‘blow people’s minds’
Real friends?
The Ideal Token Sale?
Sorry, but if you don't have the courage to speak your truth, then you deserve the chains of slavery that you choose to wear and the dearth of self-respect that comes with it.
Hardly. Freud's proposition that everyone is neurotic is important, relevant, and true. Also, neurology is not the same as psychology or psychoanalysis or psychiatry.
I'd rather not denigrate a specific employer.

The reality is that they bill your time to the government a certain way based on your qualifications, and the contract specifies what qualifications you're expected to have. If you grow or change in some way the contract doesn't capture, they can't give you a raise without losing money (since the contract pays them the same).

So classically you have to switch to another job - within the same company, or at another, to advance.

Compounding this is the nature of classified work (which most DoD contracts are). You're in a windowless lab, and you can't really say what you do, or even, often, who you do it for. You get 0 visibility outside your immediate team.

There are exceptions and some ways to get around these realities, but you're really fighting against a system that strongly prefers things remain static.
I think such a section would likely be ignored or not understood, and the problem being described is that people brand you as this or that based on work experience. People may even consider it a red flag that you list skills you didn't work with in your most recent position.
Ah well, that’s a whole different kind of system. Similar to doing a docker image ship.

Still have to do the install on a deploy server.
By that logic every decision made during the hiring is a policy. Too vague to be useful imo.

Semantics aside, my point stands: it’s reasonable to hire the best person for the job. A person’s personal problems are just that, personal.
> we keep finding out just what information is actually most important to our health and revising the labels.

As long as we can, and do, revise the labels, that's exactly what we want. Not only would trying to determine the absolute best things to put on the label be time consuming and take forever to accomplish, we would still find more stuff to change later. Perfect is definitely the enemy of good in this case.
The phone has the screen of the 8+ with the size of the 8 which makes phone far easier to manage than the 8+.

The camera reviews are helpful -- tech crunch did a nice review at DisneyLand comparing the "X" camera with the 8+, including in low-light situations testing out stabilization.

But most of these reviews have never reviewed what is most important to me which is the voice quality and signal quality using it as a phone.

The iPhone X (and 8/8+) have EVS (Enhanced Voice Support) for the first time and for the moment only T-mobile supports it). How does EVS sound compared with EVS? When will Verizon/ATT, etc. be installing EVS?

The iPhone has 4 microphones. One for voice, three for ambient noise for background noise cancellation. How well does this work compared with the previous model?

Is the signal any better on this phone than preview models (My Verizon iPhone 7+ has trouble receiving LTE signal in some Manhattan office towers, dropping to 1X and 3G.
Some of the fact checking websites are just blatant partisan punditry disguised as 'fact-checking'. (Verrit is worst offender: labeling something as 'True' if someone said something verbatim, even if it is not a factual assertion).

Even the ones with decent records often display bias, ex. when someone they like says something where the thesis is correct but a supporting fact is incorrect, they'll mark it as "mostly true". But when someone they don't like does the same, they'll mark it as "mostly false".
This only affects signup forms hosted by MailChimp. If you build your own form and use their API for signups, there has never been a requirement for double opt-in.

So I don't know if this is such a dramatic change -- depends on how many people use the default forms instead of an integrated signup experience.
Right now, I've started the company, I've got most of the products done.

My biggest fear right now is that I missed something in regards to the payment process, as I've developed several SaaS applications, with recurring fees, but I've also added some upselling points in there, so I'm just hoping everything works out. In my testing, Stripe has pretty much been on point, save for a few of my own miscalculations or errors. But having Stripe work with my database and doing all the checks to make sure no one is getting the product completely free (due to a bug) has definitely wracked my nerves and caused some delays in the whole process, aside from life happenings.

How I've gotten through it is by releasing additional products, free products usually, to see how the reactions have been, and generally, it has been well received. Just working on things that take my mind off of it, but have similar functions or features has actually helped me improve my code, so I've gone back and optimized it. It is helping me to get over my fear of screwing up something beyond any point of return, as I can always go in and fix it, whether I have to make a change to the code, the database, or even in Stripe itself.

It can be pretty nerve wracking sending off products into the wild, not knowing how they will be received, if people would pay, if pricing is right, etc. But for the most part, seeing competition out there actually does help, knowing other people have already done what I am doing helps put my mind a little more at ease. I also believe that there are 2 types of people in the world of SaaS: those who give it a chance, even if it might have a bug here or there, and those who don't. The best customers are the ones who understand that no product is perfect, but as long as you're trying, and actively care about addressing their concerns, you are likely to have more success.

I think the next of my concerns.. is going to be Marketing.
The volcano erupts every 600,000 years or so. It has been 600,000 years or so since the last eruption. I don't think there's any evidence that it will happen in our lifetime, but it is due to happen soon on the geological timescale
can't I just be able to freely remove and add contacts? I'm not asking for much
I have never seen that (or even heard of it). How bizarre.
Independent fact checking firms exist, I don't think it is a stretch to distill their info into an easily comprehended badge icon. Google, according to their Counsel, is already giving anti terror groups flagging software.
You don't need soldering skills (at least for the device I use), but I agree it's not trivial. However, a nontrivial fix is still a significant improvement over a nonexistent one.
> Linux distributions supporting APT, like Ubuntu or Debian

Oh come on guys. Don't forget Fedora. Fedora means SELinux. SELinux means you are getting the people who value security.
I don't think he was against relation but he mentions in the interview what kind of regulations actually stops even starting businesses like building a hospital only if other hospitals sign that city needs another one. He had other examples too.
Is this page not designed to handle 4K displays? The tiling background is really not great to look at
You still need a phone with a registered Signal on iOS or Android initially to activate the desktop version (sorry if that wasn't clear), but you can turn your phone off after.

Edit: It actually has the option to register without smartphone, but it's only enabled in the debug versions.
>Pity he hadn't heard of Armed Bear Common Lisp (http://abcl.org/), which runs on the JVM.

First public release of ABCL seems to be after first release of clojure.