skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully, the reviewers are smart enough to know that color/colour is not a typo. ^^
Between the schlocky visual design and wording and the lack of an "e" on airborne, I am having a hard time taking this product serously.

"Srsly dudes, this is what your data looks like, no one can hack it!!"

Really now?
This is a culture of fabricated hyper-competitiveness just for the sake of making a few feel special. It's completely integrated, cultural and also immature.

There is really not that much difference between people for the range of jobs available to create this mythology. The stars or 'the best' are Sergey and Larry not the people now working at Google etc. Employees could be talented, efficient but they are like the millions of other faceless people working at corporations and this is not meant to diminish them.

But the special ones usually made their own way and are know for that. And you don't have to be a billionaire. There are tons of software folks who have distinguished themselves. There is a lot of self aggrandizement and pandering to egos on among employees and hiring companies.
I understand, but your first comment was criticizing how the comparison was misleading and their are valid concerns that people who are using veracrypt on the cloud might have if their data was unauthenticated; which cryfs addresses.
My reddit use has significantly dropped off when I was faced with the horror that is their mobile site. That banner is downright offensive.
The line that's supposed to tell you what it is is: "Create and edit f​iles online​, securely​." Is that missing for you? (I admit it's smaller and less noticeable than the lines you quoted. I'll try making it more prominent.)

A bit of explanation about the name here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596668
Congress grills Facebook, Twitter, Google on shells hiding election meddlers
Deprecating doesn't necessarily mean you can't keep using what's already there. Even if it's removed from the store you should still be able to run it locally.
I think his beef is more with the vapid content of the review rather than the fact that Mike Allen got a review unit.

This new phone comes out and it’s got some new stuff that we’re really not sure about - no buttons, Face ID, the notch - and the reviewer relays a story about his nephew and an emoji. It’s hardly insightful journalism, is it?
> Honestly, why don't people keep their politics out of the workplace entirely?

Because the US is in the middle of a cold civil war that's heating up fast. Denying your enemy employment and therefore bankrupting them is remarkably effective.
> Anything that increases the destructive capacity of armed forces while lowering the manpower requirements is going to make it easier for politicians to misuse those armed forces

Anything that (a) improves peoples' lives and (b) has a logistical dependency, e.g. requires or becomes better with electricity, an Internet connection, package delivery, et cetera, improves the standing of a centralized power. This will be true as long as those logistical dependencies are subject to economies of scale.

Leaving society in the 18th century, before electricity, antibiotics or daily disposable contact lenses, wasn't easy. But you'd have to give up fewer luxuries to do that then that you would today because there are more luxuries today.

This is why saying "this will be used for evil things that centralized powers do" is so inane. It's a corollary of economic progress.
Your rush to the assumption that anyone that thinks "all conservatives" do anything as a monolith is the same class of fallacy that you suggest of others.

I think everyone realizes intuitively that there is far more nuance to the world than what we type in a small comment box. I personally don't even have a sufficient vocabulary to constantly describe the nuance -- hedging every phrase in every statement just makes for muddy reading.
Tech Titans Admit to New Levels of Russian Election Meddling
I hope your encryption scheme is a little more complicated than the blind faith in AES that the site's copy seems to imply
> 2. Apple was really making last minute hardware and software changes that prevented them from producing a large number of review units ahead of time.

Apple was not making “last minute” changes to this hardware. This hardware was locked in at least six months ago.
Lonely? Short of Friends? Try Looking at It Differently
Is there a web version available? web.whatsapp.com come in handy if you don't like electron apps.
No I haven't. And, depending on how long life turns out to be, maybe I'll get to.

But.

I have built plenty of large software systems. And the source of cost in those systems is always -- by at least a factor of a 100 -- was coupling and imprecise semantics.

These two problems are a function of the experience and training (and value system) of the programmer building them, and programming languages can do very little to save a system from these plights. (It might be that a static programming language can help here inasmuch as it slows down the programmer from producing too much code, but I realize that's arguable and also that I'm making a wicked joke.)

Still.

All computers ask is for semantic precision and you don't need a static type verification to get precision. So clearly static type verification is unnecessary for producing programs that work. And clearly statically-typed everywhere PLs are asking the programmer to do extra work. That's prima facie true. So the burden is really on the MLer/Haskeller to prove that that extra work is giving overall delivery throughput to the programming team. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But I'm waiting for the clearly thought out justification. Haven't heard it yet.
Was happy to see this as it was the only reason I had Chromium on my machine - launched it and right off the bat it uses 350MB of memory!

Inspecting the app, it appears to be just another Javascript app (Electron).
So what is your position on Russian influence on the 2016 election? That it didn't try, or did but was a good thing because Russia is good, or what?
What does this mean for ChromeOS users? Will Signal be maintained for ChromeOS or will those users no longer be able to use Signal?
It's ludicrous that you need javascript enabled to download a secure messaging app.
I wish there were one of you for every article topic on here.

Fascinating stuff and great explanations, thanks!
Here's a link: https://www.airbornos.com/images/documents-encrypted.png
> Desktop apps are supposed to be: native code

That excludes every single .NET application.

> well integrated in the OS

Don't even know what you mean by this.

> still working when the net is down

Not necessarily, a "native" app for Signal still wouldn't work if the net was down.

> and using system widgets and OS look&feel

I guess that excludes pretty much anything built with Qt.
I still think it is misleading. Once you have a veracrypt container created, an attacker can't just modify a file inside of it without you noticing because it'll just be garbage data at that point.

That is, unless they have your container password / key then it's all over anyway so that point is moot regardless.
This article is confusing and badly written, but the content is important to be aware of.
Thanks for mentioning that. I'd never heard of it; playing with it now, and it seems very nice indeed!
The tricks and treats of UX design (Halloween special)
Thinking in types. 95% of the time, the type checker silently validates my input and the remaining 5% of the time, the trouble I get is understanding valuable information.

There is no such thing as type checker puzzle once you have learned types, just like you don't stop on each word once you're literate.
All your anti-X examples are valid issues, and most of these large companies are very actively (and publicly) trying to improve those metrics. Google, Facebook, and other unicorns are going to great lengths to improve equality in hiring, compensation, and working environment. I see no reason to believe that won't continue, due in part to increased internal pressure.

However, none of those efforts are going to substantially increase their costs or reduce their market share. Their tech worker demographics may shift, but overall income inequality will remain.

"tech workers are not being paid commensurate to the profit they bring their companies"
Isn't this true of every company that's not a cooperative of some type?
That's what I thought, seemed like a really clever idea.

Good point about spatial precision.
NEW vintage ethnographic photos of West Africa
The impact of circadian phenotype and time on diurnal performance in athletes
Office 365 reads your data. They just don't advertise against it because their ad business isn't significant
Stepping Out of My Bubble: Meeting the Homeless in Silicon Valley
Halloween Costumes for Designers – The Design Team
To be fair to Gruber, I think his criticism of the PR for the X is that it displays a lack of taste. If Google picked slack-jawed YouTubers to be the first wave of press for the Pixel 2 I bet he’d have a similar, if more derisive, reaction.
How would it infer:

isOld(parseJson(json))

When parseJson may or may not produce an entity with the "age" property?
.NET is included with Windows and can't be removed.
The habitat of hardware bugs
The article states the BTCUSD rate spiked over 5% after the announcement they mention. That kind of spike is fairly common for Bitcoin, and attributing it to news seems pretty arbitrary.
The review does mention other stuff like Face ID as well, though: https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2503582568.html?rebelltitem=2...

It just leads with an aniemoji anecdote. For a lot of users it's probably every bit as important as discussion of the notch.
That doesn't fit easily into the definition. I mean I guess if you think nature / God granted you intelligence, but nature grants lot of people intelligence. The fact that you had good teachers and were impoverished is more luck than privilege.

Privileged doesn't typically mean luck, it means advantages granted to you because of social class or parents and whatnot. I mean I guess you could stretch it to mean luck.

>a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.
The bowel and beyond: the enteric nervous system in neurological disorders
Hashcat – advanced password recovery
I was confused too... Then I realised it takes about 10 seconds to appear as you animate the text in.
The fight against "fake news" and the control of social media is the beginning of pure fascism. Mark my words.

Meaningful conversations will disappear into niches where capable people use secure encryption.
I'm not saying I can't/won't/don't do that. I love discussing politics with my family, who are very conservative, and it's always nice and respectful. I just don't want to live in their society. Generally, they don't want to live in mine either. Not every liberal around me believes exactly the same thing. We'll quarrel about whether Black Lives Matter is doing good or whether UBI is actually an evil capitalist plot or whether someone like Hillary Clinton really represents what we're about. It's not as groupthink-y as the men in this article claim.

When I meet informed conservatives, I quietly rejoice because it's so interesting to talk to them. One of my best friends is also a "free market" type guy and we get along amazingly well, even when we talk politics. However, I haven't found many educated people who out-and-out support Donald Trump, and those I have found often express very caustic beliefs that get in the way of polite or fulfilling discussions. Hence, I just don't do it. There's a level of "coming to the center" that those people just won't do with me, so it ends up devolving into a series of fallacies that just don't need to happen.
People pretend it's just a disagreement in political opinion. There's obviously a line here. "Racial purity" was a political stance of the Nazis. Yet espouse Nazi beliefs in the workplace and you'll be rightfully attacked.

You can't hide behind "it's just politics" forever.
This is the first time Apple has sent youtube personalities iPhone review units. In the Steve Jobs era, they would carefully select certain tech columnists. That coupled with limiting time for reviewers seems to be a desperate attempt at convincing people to buy the phone. The verge says FaceID is inconsistent in daylight and outside when beeing used.
You're missing the distinction between legal and safe.

Is it legal to ride your bike on 101? Totally. In the same way that it's legal to go bombing down trails in a mountain bike.

Now is either of those things safe? I would argue not. The difference is that if you wipe out on the trail you just injure yourself, probably with some scrapes and the occasional broken bones.

Where I draw the line is when your actions put me or my family at risk. The chances of death or serious injury is much higher in a bike vs car(either for the cyclist, in another car crossing the double-yellow to "dodge" the cyclist or pile-up for someone following too close).
No one ever looks good complaining they didn't get invited to the dance, but I think he's earned it to the extent such a thing can be earned.
> Federal sentences are almost entirely out of the hands of the judge.

Federal sentences are almost entirely in the hands of the judge, except in the case of statutory minimum sentences. While there are Federal Sentencing Guidelines, they are not mandatory, and judges may depart from them in either direction within the range set for each offense.

Heck, even in a federal plea bargain, the parties don't usually (can't, IIRC) include a sentence; they can include an agreement on how to apply the guidelines factor and a joint recommendation to the judge on whether to depart (presumably downward) from the guidelines, but the judge still sets the sentence.
I recently visited Iceland. We toured the Krafala area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krafla

There were numerous signs about the "Krafla fires" in the late 70's & early 80's. http://earthice.hi.is/krafla_fires

The signs in the region very clearly express a possible linkage with early geothermal energy drilling. I want to be gentle with my wording- because I don't recall it exactly, but the writers had little doubt that there was a link between some of boring that was happening the week the eruptions started.

It's been interesting to return home & do google searching on the topic. I can't seem to find any references that authoritatively link the eruptions with the geothermal activity- but it seems like an anecdote worth looking into.
Well, there was a problem with CBC, where an attack exists that malicious party may flip specific bits by somehow XORing inputs (I'm not a cryptographer and haven't grokked the details properly). If attacker has a good idea what the plaintext is, they may alter it, like, replace my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with theirs - and that would be really bad. Such attacks is AFAIK not possible with XTS, though, so irrelevant to VeraCrypt. Just an example.

All I've got is that this stuff is not as simple as "it's either encrypted and safe or not". There are tons of different algorithms (cipher modes etc) with different properties, assumptions about their use and possible attack scenarios.

While this may not give much, I still don't want anyone to mess with my files without me (or, better say, my software) noticing until it's too late and backups are also corrupt. And remote storage knows exactly where I'm writing to (with block-level granularity), so the encrypted blob isn't completely opaque.
Enforcing Network Policies in Kubernetes
Again, it’s not a policy (you keep using that word). Are you a hiring manager? If so, would you really hire a person who hasn’t done anything work related for over a year over someone who has?

At the end of the day employment is a mutually beneficial deal for the employer and employee. It’s not some sort of social safety net. Performance counts.
When the senate calls you in to testify, you cover your ass.
Now I see it! I scrolled already waaay down before that text appears.

Reminder to myself that animations in your essential content are dangerous
Sure.. it is used to manage all the conversational flows and state for a chatbot. We use it for both branching conversations flows and goal based flows. Ink is simple enough that our content writers can work directly with it and we get clean separation of content and code.

The bot itself is pretty interesting. It has 350+ conversation flows, largely dealing with customer service for a business with fairly complicated products and business rules.

The bot is plumbed into 7 odd channels and has to deal with channel specific answers (eg if you are in the mobile app or the self-service portal then the answer on how to do something is different from how to do it if you are on the website's home page).

Additionally it has to handle regional specific answers, so the bots answers are country specific as well.

And it deals with logged in and not logged in states too :)

This all makes for an interesting content management problem (40k words) that our use of Ink readily solves.

Currently bot has 68% conversation success rate. E.g. 68% of the time he is able to resolve the customers issue which we think is pretty good considering the wide domain we are dealing with and the very strange edge cases the industry we are in has.
I think the contrary.
In my experience recruitment consultants will often try and "improve" the CVs they submit, even if it's just to fit into a template. I've seen many spelling mistake sneak in here.

You may well be rejecting candidates based on their recruiter.
In my experience, spellcheck leaves a lot to be desired. Even on a finished document that I've manually verified as being perfect in terms of spelling and grammar, there's usually still a sea of red and green underlines offering incoherent suggestions in English as dictated by Google Translate.

If the authors of the documents you mention are anything like me, we're so used to ignoring false positives that the net result now permits minor errors to slip through.
Any support for realtime/updating graphs on the fly?
There is a lot less ecosystem destruction than not doing it.

First, you need to consider that, in the long run, that thing is going to explode and will certainly destroy a lot of ecosystems around the world.

Second, the only ecosystem that depends on the heat are the archea on the geysers and hot vents. But the heat loss along years would be so small that their ecosystem can endure for a lot more centuries.

Third, it is very hard to find a way to generate so much energy without increasing carbon footprint and generating even more ecosystems destruction.
This is certainly true, but I suppose it's possible that they were making last minute changes to the hardware 6 months ago (or whenever was the deadline to get it locked), and as a result don't have very many review units until this week.

That said, I don't think that the numbers here are all that plausible. Maybe if they only gave out 50 or 100 review phones, we might say they were supply-constrained, but surely they can't be so supply-constrained that they could only give out a dozen.
Ditto. It takes forever to animate in the main content point.
Sometimes it comes from the top.

"Managers and supervisors can now legally require their workers to participate in politics as a condition of employment. For instance, in most states, managers have the legal right to mandate worker attendance at a political rally for a favored candidate—and fire or punish workers who decline to participate."[1]

"On August 14 th 2012, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to give a speech attacking the energy policies of opponent Barack Obama. A campaign stop such as this one might not seem that unusual in the midst of a heated presidential election. But this event was different, as the owners of the coal mine had told their workers that attendance at the rally would be both mandatory and unpaid." [2]

"Private employers can distribute materials that tell all their workers the company's positions on political issues. And if your boss were to send an email urging you to attend a rally for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton this weekend, because electing his favorite candidate is 'essential for the future of the company,' legal experts say he'd be within his rights to do it." [3]

[1] http://prospect.org/article/employer-political-coercion-grow...

[2] http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ahertel/files/empmobilpop.p...

[3] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-boss-politics-at-w...
That might be your definition of it, but it's in general wishful thinking.

For me desktop apps are apps that run on my desktop computer, requiring an installation process instead of being loaded via an URL and not subject to the browser's sandbox.

I've had access or owned desktop computers in various shapes and sizes ever since 1993 and let me tell you, since then until now 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.

Yes, even Windows 3.1 had standard widgets but historically standard widgets haven't been expressive enough and many developers did not care anyway, especially since most apps were reincarnations of former DOS apps or ports from other platforms. And then the birth of Java made it much worse.

E.g. the most popular MP3 player ever on Windows has been Winamp. Besides the file opening dialog, there was nothing standard about it. Most popular chat apps several years back? ICQ and Yahoo's Messenger. Have you been acquainted with their UIs? In terms of nativeness, let me tell you, the web-enabled Facebook Messenger and Hangouts are improvements, because at least they don't mess up the text rendering.
BTW, this is a 'solved' problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Mm, I don't see it. There's some animation at the top, I scroll down, and... it talks about editing documents, but there's no line anywhere that explicitly states what this is.