skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Have issues w/ Slack

2. Check HN to see if Slack is down, find this post

3. Attempt to slack this post to team

4. Facepalm

5. Remove headphones and shout "Slack is down!"
http://ConvertKit.com
Maybe my brain is dead, but how can it be 5:58 PDT anywhere right now? I'm in San Diego and it's 4:22...
It's training data. There's 17 suicidal and 17 non-suicidal scans, for a total of 34 scans. They trained 34 models, leaving one scan out each time. Of those 34 models, 31 correctly predicted the left-out scan.

IANAStatistician, but this seems like a trash result.
just get a bunch of scientists who have no connection to any of the relevant fields to redirect their attentions to finding out if a thing is fact or fiction and i assure you that you will have an answer that is more honest and more accurate than otherwise

PS they'll need funding, and more time than you have to give
Are you referring to Professor Sadoway? I greatly enjoyed his Solid State Chemistry course! Always wondered what will come of his flow battery company (Ambri). Looks like they are still steadily making progress, no?
This style of communication was super common when I was in the infantry. "Sand Table Terrain Modeling" and "Rock Drills". IMO it's very effective.
LinkedIn has been one of the most infuriating CAN-SPAM violators for years. So many startups do too. "Growth hacking" is probably a net negative to society based on all the spam it produces.
"men have this urge to have sex"

Well I think there is truth in this.
I notice that some women make arguments that downplay or are unaware of how strong that urge can be in some cases.
When Australia made it harder to get a gun, their deaths by suicide dropped significantly, even moreso than gun homicides in fact.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704353/
So were you employed by one of the companies on the list I gave or were you just sharing your experience with defense contracting in general?
Some of my favourite "blogs" are only available in the form of e-mail newsletters. patio11's post-BingoCardCreator blog, for example, only existed as a newsletter (with non-indexed webpage alternates) for the longest time—though I see that there's now an index (http://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/), complete with RSS meta-tag.

In other cases, newsletters can serve as a sort of low-volume link aggregator. I'm subscribed to the http://elixirdose.com newsletter and end up with a few Elixir-related articles to read each month.

In other cases, it's just fun to follow regular company newsletters, because those companies are essentially soap operas in progress. The http://zenmagnets.com newsletter is 90% about their ongoing legal battle against the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

And, every once in a while, I appreciate getting informed that a product/service I've built something on top of—but which I'm not actively building on right now (i.e. I pay them money every month, but I never go to their website)—has new features, which might inspire me to build something else on them. I like getting announcement emails from {AWS, DigitalOcean, Twilio, etc.} for this reason.
That might work against the primitive RBLs like SpamHaus, that rely on DNS-style blacklisting.

In the world of carrier-grade email providers, they outsource spam scoring to one (or more) of a selection of about 3 vendors (Symantec, CloudMark come to mind). These systems also score against the sending domain, among a number of other factors. Source: my best friend is a lead engineer at a carrier-grade email provider.

And playing whack-a-mole with changing sending domains is ill advised as that will lose the benefit of any whitelisting occurring client side.
Quick, who can switch to matrix.org before it comes back up?
I mean, there is always email.
OP didn't say "all insight". There's a difference between being unable to see a stream of change events and not being able to see the current state of the system. The latter is completely unacceptable, whereas the former is just annoying.
I wish there was a non-consentual way to force businesses to continue needed products and services. The narrative lately (especially here on HN) has been seemingly nothing but firms watering down --if not sunsetting-- valued products and services for their own seemingly selfish ends.

"Business isn't charity" -- maybe it should be. At the least we'd get more service-oriented folks in charge, instead of the current crop of profiteering assholes that infest these lands.
At least with IRC I could connect to another server.
I wanted to post a humourous image of the comments here...on Slack. So instead I went to each of my coworkers announcing that I have a humourous image...
The "assistant" has made an appearance on really strange tasks that were in my Someday bucket. Like trying to help me by a brassiere, which is something I'd like to take care of myself.

I don't understand how to tap into the assistant from the phone app. If the assistant is evaluating my list without my request, the assistant can't make heads or tails of my tasks and so does not make an appearance.

All in all, not really all that helpful.
I'm pretty excited about Rasa Core: https://medium.com/rasa-blog/a-new-approach-to-conversationa...
The Australian gun buyback recorded only a ~30% replacement rate for suicide by guns. i.e. only 30% of predicted gun suicides were achieved through another method.
I think this applies not only at large (government) scale, but on a smaller scale, as well: from single companies to whole industrial sectors.
I personally witnessed various (non tech) companies that self-organized their tech arm in a way that was for every practical purpose impossible to innovate: "You can certainly go on with your proposal, provided that you get the authorization from depts A, B and C, and that your changes have absolutely no impact on how they operate".
For those who care about this sort of thing (NOT trying to bring up any political debates):

Learn Liberty is project of the Institute for Humane Studies, a libertarian-focused nonprofit with Charles Koch and other conservative businessmen and politicians on its Board of Directors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Humane_Studies
"I disagree with this..."

This is totally of topic, but it kind of weirds me to see this kind of response so often. I just don't get the impetus to sort things into Agree vs. Disagree bins.

Naively, we're all working with a paucity of data here and should expect a turbulence of ideas on the matter. To your point in particular, one might pithily retort, "correlation also isn't not causation." It's hard to tell either way at this point, so what exactly are we doing by agreeing or disagreeing with... what exactly?

Forgive me if that sounded like an attack. It's totally not intended that way. I've just been getting confused by the "I agree/disagree..." language recently and thought I'd throw it out there.
2 of 3 multisig would work with the user having two keys, and one key being authorized by 2 factor authentication. When the user loses their non 2 factor key, they just have the 2 factor one and the institution. The institution can authorize the transaction to move their money to a new address with new keys.
The debug version uses a different server. Will not work.
No counterparty risk on decentralised exchanges
Maybe replicating was too strong of word

What I meant was, how they plan on "replicating", constructing the index value ,in which ,they( the CME) will base the value of bitcoin to be.

It is detailed here. https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/files/bitcoin-reference-rat...

CNBC stated that it is a weighted average of 4 index's in the video, but could not find anything of the sort in the article (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/31/cme-plans-to-launch-bitcoin-...)
Might just be rhetorical at this point. I'm just thinking would this be similar to "x% of people believe they belong to the (y < x)% of people who don't have any cancerous cells in their body" and then saying cancer diagnostics are bad because information purely serves to make people sad for no reason.
Other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597431

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597387

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597382
Not open source, but I should probably clean things up and make it open source. It's just a bunch of markdown files that get rendered.

I do accept contributions, though.
Hashgraph as a replacement for blockchain?
Business Mania Board Game Is 60% Funded on Indiegogo
I guess people will actually have to get some work done
That seems like putting the cart before the horse.

Diagnosis tools could mean faster access to treatment. Currently in the UK the waiting list for access to mental health treatment is on the range of two to three years. Transforming "suicidal ideation" from a "vague human-given diagnosis" to "tool-given diagnosis" makes it politically easier to push for that.

In any case, that's not going to happen based off a single study with 91% accuracy.
It's been over 30 minutes - how does a chat app go down for this long?
If only we had distributed realtime communication tech. Walled gardens FTW!
Is the annual heatmap supposed to be empty?

Also, for the clickable charts, clicking on the popover should count as well. If the bar is really short it can be quite hard to click on, such as the 2007 entry in the first chart.
Oh good. I was going nuts trying to figure out why I suddenly couldn't communicate with my coworkers and Slack kept saying I didn't have internet when I clearly had internet.

Ah, the downside of relying on a third party for critical communication infrastructure when you're a full remote company...
> Problem is, once the user filled up the contact form to make an enquiry, he is unlikely to go to his/her inbox to confirm... a subscription link.

Or, worded another way: the user really doesn't give a damn about your subscription.

If they can't be bothered enough to take a few seconds to open one e-mail message and click on a single link, then whatever you're offering obviously isn't something that they actually want.

As a non-marketer, it seems to me that marketers would want something like double opt-in -- just so that you can ensure that those on your list are people actually interested in $product. Or is it more about the quantity of users on your list and not the quality of those users?
Yes, that also happens frequently.
Collaboration with your co-workers is work.
He's using a messenger app with lower security than he'd like, because he can't use his preferred platform.

Without having a smartphone, using Signal wasn't an option (at least previously).

Sadly, almost everything involves tradeoffs.

He (understandably) prefers to use a tool which doesn't require a phone, over one with a better security model.
Posts about slack seem to keep getting flagged away :/
I don't support larger, more intrusive governments. But I think his Twitter example is bad. Twitter has no externalities so it shouldn't need government approval which it actually didn't need. So there was no problem. The only permission needed was from investors who had to cough up the money.

Instead of railing against solar power maybe he should also rail against the massive subsidies the oil industry gets through decades long military intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere. He also doesn't touch more complex areas such as nuclear energy for example. Is it OK for everybody to do "Permissionless Innovation" on reactor designs and from time to time one of them blows up? I hope the author will move close to one of these innovation paradises.
part of the screenhero rollout perhaps?
Its almost as if you have missed 9/11, when the terrorists have won.
Nasa estimates that if a 35% increase in heat transfer could be achieved from its magma chamber, Yellowstone would no longer pose a threat. The only question is how?
Slides (coming soon) & more information: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-10/

2017 LLVM Lightning Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_R5A0lGi1ABrnDbIkbiX...
What is Fareportal's pricing? I can't find it.
Show HN: Xstatic docs – like Google Docs inside an S3 bucket
Slack's status page seems to have been in and out whilst this has been happening too (and sometimes the page loads but assets fail):

https://tkcs.in/461W2z0c1M3z

It's concerning/odd for their status page to be affected by whatever infrastructure issue they're having.
I'm surprised I have to write this, but Google is not a charity. They are pouring commercial resources into Tensorflow for a reason. That reason is Google Cloud. Tensorflow is a Trojan horse to get people to use Google Cloud and other paid Google products. How do I know this? Because Tensorflow works better on Google Cloud than anywhere else, and Google is making a concerted effort to catch up with AWS in cloud, mostly through machine learning.

I didn't compare Tensorflow to Android services. I said that Tensorflow would serve as the basis of a service bundle, much like Android did. Let's come back in a couple years and I'll tell you I told you so.
I get newsletters for a few music labels to see their new releases. I also get announcements for local music shows.
Point:

> Big Tech is broken. Suddenly, a wide range of journalists and politicians agree on this.

Counterpoint:

> According to Morning Consult, Wired reports, 88 percent of respondents view Google favorably, with slightly lower numbers for Amazon (72 percent) and Facebook (60 percent).

(https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/14/anti-tech-propaganda-based-o..., hat tip to Slate Star Codex for the link)

This reads to me like manufactured outrage, and it detracts from the valid points that might be buried behind provocative and misleading ledes like the one in the OP.
Well, I call it remaining agnostic. If you can't get a primary source on something political in nature (especially political), then you can't draw conclusions or argue about it.
From the original BBC article:

> Yellowstone currently leaks about 60-70% of the heat coming up from below into the atmosphere, via water which seeps into the magma chamber through cracks. The remainder builds up inside the magma, enabling it to dissolve more and more volatile gases and surrounding rocks. Once this heat reaches a certain threshold, then an explosive eruption is inevitable.

> But if more of the heat could be extracted, then the supervolcano would never erupt. Nasa estimates that if a 35% increase in heat transfer could be achieved from its magma chamber, Yellowstone would no longer pose a threat. The only question is how?

So, two or three GW of heat loss should be sufficient to keep the magma chamber from heating any further if NASA's estimates are accurate.
Lol keep telling yourself that.
I'm under the impression that a yellowstone eruption would devestate the whole world's economy due to the release of particulates into the atmosphere & associated global cooling
How so? Isn't there a 50% chance of getting it right by pure chance, but they got it right 91% of the time instead?
What do you mean a lot has changed?

He was referring to D-Wave not being competitive with conventional systems.

When did it become generally accepted that D-Wave has shown it could do anything useful significantly faster than a regular computer?

Last I heard it was only coming close on 1 or 2 things, but still with no convincing advantage let alone a dramatic one,
Yep. I receive newsletters from several merchants whose stuff I regularly buy. I like getting coupons and information about new products. This is stuff like coffee and chocolate, mostly foodstuffs that I consume regularly.

I delete most of them after reading, act on maybe 1 in 4.

I'd be very surprised if my behavior here was atypical for consumer behavior.
You need to pair it once with your phone for installation.
I would like to know the same, but I do have a theory. What will they do? If they start making invalid decisions, the rest of the network will fork. It won't be pretty, but btc will survive... Or is there a better explanation of risks involved?
I've been having degraded services all morning, guess it finally kicked the can and went out.
A potentially-enlightening analogy:

Is instruction pipelining a form of multiprocessing? (No.) Is hyperthreading? (Sort of, but it's limited and has a separate name for a reason.) Are hyperthreads marketed as SMP cores? (Of course.)

Is a chemist's beaker a quantum computer? (No.) Is D-Wave's device? (Sort of, but it's limited and should have a separate name.) Is D-Wave's device marketed as a quantum computer? (Of course.)
native in that it's not a web-app, sure, but it sure doesn't feel like a native citizen on the mac.

window can't be resized, standard menus are missing, standard keyboard shortcuts for text fields don't work, conversion text can't be selected, no way to cut or copy text (tho paste does seem to work).

is it implementing its own ui toolkit? qt maybe?
And yet, when these very same messages are repeated by our own media, celebrities, and universities (white people are bad, don’t stand for the National Anthem, etc.), it’s somehow... a good thing?
Unless the level of criminality by members the public in Chicago is truly mind-boggling

It is and has been for over a century. The tradition of "walking-around money"[1], where public funds are actually used for cash bribes on the streets, is one obvious example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_money
I like your examples - it helps you understand the culture of the company more. Esp if there are some strict rules or preferences. I found that I ended up learning most of these things in an in-person interview. I could tell other aspects of the culture too - if they expected late hours, or had better work/life balance in person and that has helped me.
Privacy. Privacy. Privacy. Bla, bla, bla... Now we are going to ask for your phone number.

Am I the only one who thinks this defeats the whole point?
If you get paid to do it then it’s arguably more work than is toiling at side projects or posting snarky comments on hackernews.
I believe some pretty fundamental fMRI spatial autocorrelation functions have been called into question as well (1). Sounds a bit like PowerPoint's autocontent wizard.

(1) http://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7900.abstract
Nobody uses anything related Wolfram's cellular automata. I don't think there are any robust security proofs.
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‘Grace Alone’ 500 Years Later
We need at most one story about this outage on the front page at a time. Dupes should be flagged.
Just as an example of how easy* it is for even experts to screw these things up, Viktor's followup email suggests that tools should enforce parameters.

One of his suggestions:

> exponent is unconditionally 65535 (F_4)

The value for public exponent F_4 is actually 65537 (a low hamming weight prime), not 65535.

* This comment originally read "hard" instead of "easy", which I totally did on purpose as a joke but fixed because it was confusing.
Magnus Nilsson on Tackling Long Hours Culture
The bot check is just a thing that happens more. I seem to get it every few pages when digging deep down in results.
Pulling a single code unit out to test is fine so long as interrupts and other race conditions are not involved, but you must do end-to-end system tests regardless and with extremes of voltage and temperature, corrupted IO etc. It's also good to also test your device without watchdog timers, BOR, stack overflow resets enabled to catch anything that will normally fix itself.

By the way I recommend all the BOR/Watchdog timers and bit error/stack overflow errors to POR the chip if it has the option, I still see commercial controllers and devices locking up and needing a manual power off reset, really unprofessional, so totally enable all these if your micro has them.
Same thing happened to Amazon when they had that big outage recently.
As a professional you can't just go off in a corner and produce something (no matter how fun it is). I learned this the hard way as a software engineer. In fact the hardest part of software engineering is collaborating with humans and integrating their ideas and requirements into what you're building.
Means it is most likely an outside issue.
What I don't understand.. the continuation of non-human life is an asterisk that is of no importance to us, right?
Elsewhere they said opengl, which is why all that stuff doesn't work. You are correct though, it might be native code but it's not a native app.
It might be on different infrastructure - just not stuff prepared for the onslaught of it being checked when there's a global issue.
Slacks status page also returns unminified css and four trackers (including twitter advertising).
Dissident aka Jolicloud
There wouldn't be dupes if the first submission hadn't been flagged away.
Have you tried ipop/social-vpn[0]? It uses libjingle (stun, turn, etc) to get through firewalls. I don't know much about it's security though, or if it has been audited.

[0] http://ipop-project.org/
The guidelines ask us to please not do this kind of thing:

> Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everyone is free to host their own IRC server using one of countless IRCds and connecting using one of countless clients And since it's an open protocol, you're free to write your own.

This is what happens when you decide to go with a closed, proprietary alternative.
Also known as survivorship bias. You don't see the failed companies with dropped APIs because the company disappeared.
My brand new Python IPFS pastebin for the lazy at heart
I think the point is if we as a society shoot our selves in the foot, that’s one thing, but it’s another if we let someone else do it. And the argument that we do it to others is irrelevant. If country X hacks our companies to steal trade secrets, does that mean we shouldn’t try to stop it just because we might be doing the same to others? That’s just laying down on the tracks.
Sigh... 10 minutes of cursing trying to troubleshoot the LTE connection on my phone. Sadly Slack has become a fairly critical part of our communication.
This is my first Python package - an IPFS pastebin similar to http://sprunge.us. Works wherever IPFS does and can output gateway links if your recipients don't have IPFS.

Note: For the sake of simplicity, merkleshare is not encrypted.
Members of Scientific Boards Received $77M from EPA While Advising Agency
I find that odd as after I set up my email server I haven't had any issues. I'm not trying to discredit your experience, but I just never had that issue myself. Is it possible that you've got an IP that was previously used for spam?
They all use ICQ. Deep down in their hearts, they know it is best.
> And a small number of these people might think it's worth their effort to sign up my publicly-available email addresses to hundreds, no... thousands of legitimate newsletters and mailing lists that I have no interest in.

People do that to my email, too, but they call themselves "growth hackers".
The author said yesterday that he wants to open-source it, but won't be able to do it fully (he didn't elaborate on why not): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15587970
Could we just, you know, get some examples of these stunningly effective ads that have the power to sway elections? Is that too much to ask? Or would we find out that these ads that the Dems have been hyping up are nothing more than run-of-the-mill memes?
CAN-SPAM only applies to promotional/marketing emails.
There are a two on the home page at the moment, but originally The first one was pushed right off the page.

At this time that post has 116 points in 35 minutes.
It's in the past..
Cross validation is ok if you do it once, but they repeatedly did it and chose the features based on the results. You can't keep adjusting your model/features based on cross validation performance without overfitting to the training data.
Does a non-Slack IRC channel go down less frequently?
Can service worker’s code ever be updated by the hacker? How does this actually work?