skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll believe bitcoin is going somewhere when the majority of it's transaction volume isn't speculation, drug dealing or money laundering.

I couldn't agree more.
How is there nothing on the front page of HN, slack being out for almost an hour now?

Given timeframe and upvotes, how is this not the top of HN?
I used Mailchimp to collect email addresses for an beta user waitlist in 2015. I eventually used a work-around to disable double opt-in because so many users had signed up, never clicked the confirmation email, and were then confused why they never received access to our product when others had.

As a user I also prefer single opt-in. If I sign up for something, I want to be signed up. Clicking confirmation links is an annoying extra step.
I happen to prefer that our species not go extinct. We spend a lot of effort on much less important things, we can afford to spend some here.
This is exactly what motivated me to build Key Values!! These are things people end up learning during the in-person interview (or during the first week). I don't see why we have to write cover letters, do phone screens, do take home tests, or go through coding challenges before learning this information. My goal is to reorder the steps and give job-seekers insight to a team's values before making the decision to apply/interview. If anything, it allows us to ask better questions when we first speak to or meet with interviewers.
Small foot wrist tattos
How strongly do you feel about the GPL2 license (edit: for the kernel pieces)? Would you be willing to dual-license it under the BSD as well?
Read the second paragraph I quoted above:

"The features used by the classifier to characterize a participant consisted of a vector of activation levels for several (discriminating) concepts in a set of (discriminating) brain locations. To determine how many and which concepts were most discriminating between ideators and controls, a reiterative procedure analogous to stepwise regression was used, first finding the single most discriminating concept and then the second most discriminating concept, reiterating until the next step reduced the accuracy. A similar procedure was used to determine the most discriminating locations (clusters)."

The features were chosen using the same data as used to assess predictive skill.
TypeScript is structurally typed and is pretty popular. The industry has discovered this. It's still more painful than ClojureScript in many ways (and less painful in other ways). To me, having written a fair bit of both, it's not clear which is best. Both are good. ClojureScript is far more elegant.

PureScript is probably the most interesting statically-typed language I've seen in a long time. But for some reason, powerful static typing never seems to gain much traction.

So, if I had to choose between the most popular statically typed languages or Clojure, Clojure wins hands down.
Thank you. Not all conservatives voted for the Cheeto nor Hil-dawg. It's not red v blue, we're all Americans and we all should want for all of us to 'win.'
the hell is this dumb shit?
1000x growth would put the total amount of bitcoin more than current world GDP.
The dark side of phosphorus
> Finally, conceptual search can also help with precision - by matching across all concepts within a document, you can help disambiguate its meaning, when you have words that have multiple meanings

Thanks! I've written up something along these lines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15592196

I'd love to hear your opinion if this is going to work.
Does anyone here have experience buying $1M+ in Facebook ads?
I am looking for large Facebook, twitter, pinterest, youtube, and adsense buyers.

Our company is working on a software that allows buyers to co-brand their national ad-campigns with local pages/brands

It would help us immensley to speak to more people on the buy-side with experience.
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016
Cost to store 1PB over 3 years (chart)
I'm curious if anyone here thinks the bay area housing market is a bubble but bitcoin is a solid investment.
9P from Bell Labs? :p
Yup! I'm halfway through the comments, and yet to see a mention of how cheap ultrasound machines would be a massive boon for healthcare in developing countries.
I'll simply quote moxie here.

On the topic of LibreSignal, a fork with the only change being that it supports notifications without relying on proprietary libraries:

> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Basically, he argues that no one but him has the right to build a client that connects to his servers.

Disclaimer: I personally am critical of Moxie's demands that he fully controls all released client builds, servers, and his use of analytics.
No. Signals okay for a drop in replacement for a phones built-in text messaging app (unfortunately really few of my contacts are using it) but once I'm on a laptop/PC there are way better messaging apps imo.

Signal feels slightly like the pigs in Animal Farm getting everyone riled up against the unjust farmers, only to take their place.
Oh I meant the original poster, who claims you need a turned-on and present phone for Signal desktop to work. The person you originally corrected.
Why not spamdecoy.net? It does the same thing and you never give your real email to anyone (though forward cat is open source so it's probably ok), and you don't have to set up anything before you use the temporary email.
Boring company tunnel should be 17 miles long in a year
My (somewhat glib) opinion:

Marketers want quantity; salespeople want quality.

It's because that's what each one is paid for -- and so companies end up paying too much for marketers to undercut their salesteams' effectiveness because they misaligned the incentives, pay for marketing they don't need (or even harms them!), and then sit there wondering why it's not translating into sales (or worse, saturates salespeople with duds and costs sales).

I used work in marketing and my (slightly exaggerated) opinion is you should fire everyone on your marketing team, hire more salespeople, a socialmedia person, and maybe a single dedicated person to track overall sales performance.

But what's the point of marketing? You should be selling from that first contact -- and if you have two teams doing the same job with differing incentive structures, no wonder your organization is inefficient and pulling at different goals.
Positions for Software Developers to SDRs to Interns
from https://www.cryfs.org/howitworks:
> The current version protects the encrypted blocks from being modified by an attacker, since it uses an authenticated encryption scheme like aes-256-gcm. However, it doesn't prevent an attacker yet from rolling back the filesystem by replacing blocks with an earlier valid version of the same block.

GCM only retains its security properties when nonce/IV & Key combinations are never repeated. If these repeat under a specific key, the algebraic ability to completely break the scheme is drastically heightened. Therefore, this implementation appears to be broken. Is there an expectation for when this will be fixed? It's very serious, and the scheme seems somewhat well-planned in other ways.

Also, with this implementation of GCM, what is the practical limit before reuse happens, given the blob/block difference and nonce size? I call this out, as this is disk encryption not file encryption.
Yeah, don't understand some of the responses which seem to assume this change will make MailChimp any more spammer-friendly. If you want to spam with MailChimp (or for that matter most other list providers) you import the long list of people you want to spam in csv form and disregard warnings about only importing emails from people if they've previously expressed interest in receiving notifications from you. Double opt in for new signups makes no difference.

MailChimp's ability to be regarded as a non-spammy mailing list provider depends mainly on them weeding out customers who import lists of people who haven't expressed any interest to indiscriminately blast mailshots, not on requiring an additional step after an individual actually visits a website, types in an email and clicks a button sending a post request to the mailing list.
Outages without any information are not intellectually interesting, and typically neither are the discussions that follow.
LOOCV can have high variance, but overfitting?
Are there actually any newsletters that you genuinely _want_ to receive?

Personally I’d be really pleased if I could tell Gmail to simply ignore anything even remotely newsletter-related, as I would never voluntarily subscribe to one.
Ask HN: Is CoinBase Support Totally MIA?
I can't get them to reply to my ticket. It's been 1 month already. And when i phone them, it rings then hangs up instantly.

Anyone else experience this lack of support?
Uh okay, but that doesn't mean the US shouldn't examine this and respond as necessary.
Ex-Facebook manager sues biz after getting 'Zucked out of overtime'
"Normal people" are right-clicking the taskbar and clearing "Show People on the taskbar" checkbox.

Or even more straightforward: Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar.
Intro to Devops on GovCloud
Towards natural language conversations about visual data
The simplest answer is that every single data point was used in some part of the training, and then later used to give test validation.

We have no idea how this result would work on a new data point that has not been used in training.

It's bad statistics, bad data science.
I've been programming for close to 20 years. I hate dynamic languages. Except Clojure.

If you enjoy programming, and you ignore Clojure, you're missing out on a fun and interesting language.
> Some SJW googler

or someone who doesn't want to live in a totalitarian hellhole.
Yes that’s correct. Email senders are informed when you mark email as spam so they can add you to an unsubscribe list automatically.
Yes, the programme is still open, and will be for tyhe foreseeable future.
Here's the thing, though.

As a user, if I start getting your mailing list emails because someone else decided to sign me up and there was no confirmation, I'm going to mark it as spam.
You could use this time to read The Slack threat https://carlchenet.com/the-slack-threat/
I have never seen a good IDE in the embedded world.

Between the impossible setup, the non existing documentation, the examples that don't work if there are any. Just kidding, there are never any example at all.

Arduino can actually run a program and do shit. You can turn on a led in your first hour. And if you are an experienced programmer you can google the name of the function and see what arguments it takes and turn the led off and on. Amazing.

Blinking a led is a 3 weeks project on a normal hardware platform. And that's when it goes well.
You must find the easy libertarians to debate. The answer is that maximizing liberty involves minimizing net aggressions, and externalities are aggressions. Therefore, a society is more free if the government proactively prevents/taxes/regulates certain types of externalities that are impractical to deal with in individual lawsuits (non-localized pollution fits this bill perfectly). In the case of smog, the most common interpretation is levying a carbon/pollutant tax such that the tax generates sufficient revenue to offset the damage. For something like mercury that has extreme, more localized effects, it would be perfectly reasonable and in-line with non-aggression-based philosophy to outright criminalize certain types of disposal.

Compare this to progressives, who want to protect the environment but have no metric or process for measuring how much environment to protect and how/why, other than what appeals to their emotions, so they deal with everything case-by-case and inconsistently. In general, this leads to broad, draconian regulations in some domains (like not allowing people to create ponds on their property) and a lack of progress in other domains (CO2 emissions and waste disposal, for example).

And yes, the carbon tax is a libertarian concept.
How about you explain it? Obviously I don't understand what he's saying.
I've literally never heard a libertarian argue that before.
I think there are similarities, but I don't think one is a special case of the other. At a very high level, they are both collection data structures that share certain properties but that are optimized for very different use cases.

There are instances where the difference can be palpable. I work with legacy MATLAB code where database type data are stored in cell arrays. They are tremendously difficult to reason with for data science work because the primitive operations are all based on positional cell coordinates. (on the other hand, arrays are much easier to work with for numerical type algorithms)

If you understand the theory of coordinatized data, choosing the right coordinate system can greatly simplify math/data manipulation. A data frame is a type of dataset where the coordinates are simply dimensions in other columns, which makes it amenable to aggregations, pivots, slicing/dicing and such on mixed categorical and numerical data.
Thanks, but no thanks! I'd keep as far away from this stinking pile as possible! It's 2017! We have instant bank transfers and everybody can get a free Square reader and accept payments. PayPal is not what used to be and you can accept global payments with no friction. It's time to end this nonsense, stop talking about Bitcoin, focus on the blockchain, and let it show its true colors when there are no disoriented people confusing blockchain with Bitcoin who keep buying fueled by their pathological greed. If I want to speculate, there's a more sophisticated method, but, wait, it requires a brain - the stock market! With Robinhood and the likes - it's scam-free and I don't rely on the Chinese miners or government for my fortune's security!
Considering that both use Envoy as a proxy, is Contour an alternative to Istio https://istio.io/ ?
I think they did.

The slack.com IP's are owned by AWS, while status.slack.com resolves to some Digital Ocean IP's.
> "Russian disinformation" is a bullshit term to describe overblown and mostly ineffective tactics used by just about all governments.

No, the particular aggressive global propaganda (approach and scale) by the Putin regime had become a wide concern even before any discussion of it being directly targeted on the US election. See, e.g., https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
I tried using it once. It did not seem solid. It didn’t support 2FA, and required my actual account username and password to send email from the server.
When your hands are shaking from adrenaline because your pre-IPO company is suffering from a global outage, you might hit an l instead of an i.
Screen readers. System themes. Keyboard shortcuts. Text rendering. Visual effects on interaction. The list of things that go into making even a simple text box is surprisingly long, and varies a lot by operating system and over time.

Browsers—well, Gecko and Edge; WebKit and Blink aren’t quite so good at it—tend to do things properly or to a remarkably high fidelity. They put enormous amounts of effort into getting it right, because it’s worth it for them. Something like Qt also puts a lot of effort into getting it right (even if it still commonly requires the developer to make certain choices to use that rightness).

But something like this, not using any GUI toolkit? Games can do it, because they aren’t trying to fit in with the everything else, but regular applications just shouldn’t do it. I have never seen a single one that was even good, let alone great. They always fail to handle various important things properly, and so tend to wind up painful to use or even unusable for many users.

If you care about your users and are not making a game, the sad truth is that drawing all the controls yourself is irresponsible.
what's your experience been writing tests for async/await code?
I'm not an expert. I've never ran a SaaS business with a freemium model (I have ran SaaS businesses with other pricing models).

But, everything I've ever read on the subject indicates 1% is either bare minimum or too low. [1,2]

>Second, why is it likely to get lower the more exposure it gets?

In my experience the more hype you get, the lower your conversion rate all other things being equal (in my case conversion rate after free trial, vs freemium) because people who had to search you out to find you are more likely to convert than people who are just checking out the hottest new thing they saw on HN.

That's obviously not always true, and it may not be true in their case, but if I were the CEO, I'd be very focused on increasing my conversion rate.

1. https://hbr.org/2014/05/making-freemium-work
2. https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/should-your-startup-go-fre...
Maybe Yellowstone could become a large crypto miner :)
I read it to mean 'already burnt or can't be burnt.' I'm aware of the definitions of 'inflammable,' but it just made the most sense in the context to interpret it that way.
Seems to be a discussion here: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/signal-desktop...
Could you please avoid drive-by ideological flamebait? The guidelines ask us not to do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does it still store all data unencrypted on the disk? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1017
Kevin Spacey is innocent
FWIW, seems to be still functioning on CrOS, for now.
which makes sense, because the market is cyclic, there's going to be a crash sooner or later. crying "it's going to crash" doesn't say anything useful.
I guess we'll agree to disagree. I'm pretty sure we can safely say that neither of us was privy to the contract negotiations between Netflix and studios. :)
I am posting this in the hope of insightful comments, and pray it doesn't incite some sort of flame war. I am not affiliated with Spiked.
That seems very good. Are you on a popular cloud (AWS/GCE/Azure), colocated, or running your own servers?
If you're a nihilist, then why do you care enough to even comment here on this matter?
Janet Yellen alt spotted
What revenue range (5 fig, 6 fig?)
You can actually get your entire domain blacklisted on Mailchimp if you want. Absolutely nothing will be sent to any email on the domain.

https://mailchimp.com/contact/

Click “legal & privacy questions”, then “access our contact form”
It's sometimes grey. One example I can give is Expedia, which provides me with a monthly 'Your [Month] Statement is Ready'-type of thing, even though I've maybe used the service once in my life to buy airplane tickets. You can't unsubscribe since it's not 'marketing' and e-mailing support didn't help either. Yet, it's marketing, because they offer promotional links ("earn free yadda yadda") and has Citi advertising below it.

Another one is 'Oh, wow, you've been getting some profile views!' that LinkedIn and other like to do. That's indirect promotion of their services. Couched as a reminder.

Today, after not logging into Facebook for a while, received an e-mail that someone commented on their profiles. Another of the same.

It can be argued that these is all a form of promotion, but this would take a less-business-friendly political climate to accomplish, if you ask me.
> Deep-learning applications are seriously energy-hungry and they're going to need exponentially more in the future.

So instead of eradicating humanity by erupting, Yellowstone will eradicate humanity by powering Skynet.
First of all, love the project. Thanks for tackling it and sticking to it.

I know that talking about a windows client is really early at this point, but is your team considering implementing it in a way that actually uses the UWP VPN provider interfaces (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Networking....) instead of (or in addition to) the OpenVPN-style system tray app? I know there's been some strides towards using UWP from rust. And if you're thinking about it, early consideration might give extra time for any necessary interactions with MS.

It would be really nice to have an open-source VPN implementation actually integrate with the OS, and I think it might provide the impetus people need to ditch OpenVPN. So even if you don't plan on directly working to integrate with the OS interfaces, please consider referencing the APIs when working on userspace libraries. Keeping the needs in mind could at least simplify any future efforts in that regard.
This is explained near the end of the article:

Changing the settings for my own mailing list (which of course, I did) isn't actually a solution. Sure, it stops toerags using my newsletter as an email bomb but it doesn't stop many more MailChimp-run mailing lists switching to a system that will increase the amount of unwanted emails flying around the internet.
what a coincidence, heroin a day reduced cancer risk 100%
I struggled with understanding it, too. Even after reading all the docs, I didn't catch on. So I hopped on irc and the next thing I know, the author patiently walked me through each obvious step. He wasn't condescending, but the whole thing goes together so simply that I felt pretty stupid about not getting it on my own. There are nice people (including the author) on irc who are very patient with people who need help grasping the obvious.

This product is drop-dead simple. Part of my problem was that I was expecting it to be much more complicated.

Major kudos to the team.
While there is certainly some amount of quantifiable risk given how centralized mining is in China, each individual mining actor is still incentivised not to participate in a 51% double spend attack as the value of bitcoin would rapidly fall towards zero if a double spend attack ever did occur, making their ASIC investments unprofitable in a hurry.
This is certainly scary for the Slack devs... Happy Halloween!
The kernel code is for Linux, which is already GPLv2, so I don't think it would help you much there.

The userspace implementation is also GPLv2 at the moment. What motivations do you have for desiring a BSD license? Plans to make non-free software?
Not a flippant response:

Curious why this isn't the default mode of operation:

- Business sends spam
- Gmail users mark spam as spam
- Gmail starts putting all emails from business as spam for all Gmail users
- Business fails
- New businesses don't send spam

I can't imagine Gmail being in bed with spammers since Gmail gets paid when spammers pay Gmail to put spam on top of all your emails, not when spam is in your emails.
I prefer blocking them so bad they go out of business. If you can't pay to host your website then you don't have a viable business model and shouldn't be on the internet in the first place.

I am not indebted to anyone to allow them to use my machine's resources for their monetary goals.

If they want to make money off of me, make it clear -- I can respect that if I value your content. But exploiting browsers that are not caught up with latest security practices is being a scum and I will not tolerate it, ever.
I don't think so... I'm awful with names though. I think the story I'm thinking of was about a lithium flow battery. There are dozens of plays in that space.

I will say though, Sadoway is a bona fide friggin genius. I'm still not anywhere close to sold on flow batteries or molten salt/metal batteries, but Sadoway's work is brilliant. He had me genuinely convinced we were about to make all of our steel electrolytically. I still really hope we end up that way.
Couldn’t care less?
Should be noted that Typescript is slower for bigger apps if you're using Webpack.

The whole Typescript & Webpack situation is very sad.
Wow, talk about realising how much we rely on Slack.. suddenly I feel so disconnected and alone.

https://www.customd.com/articles/65/slack-is-down