skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it Hangouts Chat now? I thought it was Hangouts Meet. Or was it just Meet? Or was Meet the one that replaced Allo?

Sorry, this could be the best chat app yet, I just can't take Google seriously for messaging apps anymore. I just finished archiving all my chat logs from Google Talk and Hangouts (from Takeout) and shutting it down. I use Discord now, exclusively; for person-to-person, group DMs, managed servers (company, gaming, etc), voice, video, everything. Happy with it. It even has slack-compatible webhooks.

Hey, did you know there's no way to remove a contact from Hangouts? Once you add them, they're there forever unless you block them. Because that's how you build good messaging apps, right?
Ask HN: Does creating a startup helps you get interviews in big tech companies?
I am a starting a startup. Have quit my job recently and will be working on it for next couple of months. I would like to know if someone got any jobs after failure from startups, (obviously success would mean a different story) in any big companies. The roles such as Product management etc.

Or generally how is the job scene after startup failure.
> current treatment doesn't address this progression

I myself would rather see a prevention than a treatment. But there is no money in preventative care.
Translating Developer BS
> A bizarre and unexpected failure of the market.

The consumers are, partially, buying a product they can't see: The security operations of the vendor.

Given the consumer has imperfect information, it is exceptionally profitable for a supplier to just not invest in security. The downside being the risk of compromise.

A market set up this way entirely predicts low-cost suppliers. With no way for consumers to introspect security routines, two vendors will appear to simply differ in price. The outcome is rather obvious.
Paper is dead, long live paper programming
Android update is different when compared to iOS update. You don't need latest Android to get the latest apps. Google will not withhold the latest Chrome or Maps or Gmail or Youtube from you, unless you update to latest OS release.
Both times people came to me.

My first overseas job: I had spend a few months there and enjoyed the place. When I realised they had a blooming startup scene, I built a small project to map the startups and send it to a few people. That caught the attention of the CEO of one of the startups who then proceeded to send me an email asking if we could arrange a Skype call

Second overseas job: Had been freelancing for a while. The CEO found me on angel list and asked if we could arrange a call to discuss some contract work (having some blog posts and a website played a big role in having them choose me). I got their app off the ground, helped them with a few other things and the CEO eventually asked if I would be interested in working full-time for them.

(EDIT) I guess the lesson learned here is: have an online presence no matter how small.
Uber executives have specifically stolen health records from a patient in order to attempt to create a media frenzy about how an Uber passenger who was raped by a driver was actually liar and a cheater. Uber executives went on a long-haul journey to insanely attempt to ruin the life of one of their customers, who had already been raped by one of their drivers, by stealing her medical documents and ridiculing her in public. No thanks Uber.

There is absolutely no way I would use this service.

Edit: It should also be remembered that Uber hired this driver, the rapist, as a known rapist (a recorded criminal history of being convicted for rape). Uber hired him without caring about his background or past criminal behaviour. Uber hired him with the knowledge that he could well be a rapist, since they declined to do a simple background check, presumably because it would "take too long" and they consider the occasional rape just a part of doing business. The evil behaviour and willful disregard for the safety of their normal Uber passengers - before trying to ruin their lives with deception, theft and lies - makes it 100% impossible to trust them about anything ever again, especially personal health.

#DeleteUber.
Yeah I think HN forgot to be charitable today.
I would bet they have put access restrictions on these because violating hippa can be a felony whereas in general there are 0 legal requirements to restrict access to internal data to a company generally.
We've seen 51,000x. I've personally looked at the pcaps of that.
Just make sure to always do so.
I saw no explicit mention of any healthcare training on this. I realize it's more "cabulance" than ambulance (BLS - basic life support, or ALS - advanced), but still... there's probably at least an implicit assumption that there's a modicum of first aid or other training with the drivers.

A whole host of potential liability issues, Uber's favorite thing to avoid.
Any evidence for this being “degrading”? Anecdotal evidence? It sounds farcicle, propagandistic, and at the very most an extreme rarity.

Although sure, plenty of people in any line of work will take pride in what they do, you are shaming someone for showing consideration for the plight of workers well understood to be the front line victims of market precarity. Sounds like an ignorant stance without presenting some evidence.

EDIT: HN would not let me reply to my replies so I clarified my question here.
I'm using my iPhone 4 which I bought in Jan 2011 :)
True, but housing prices reflect actual prices paid, so there are obviously enough people in that city who can afford those prices.
One thing they could do is coordinate with English NHS Trusts and the "Crisis Care Concordat" to talk about conveying people who are mentally ill, who need to go to hospital, but who don't need a fully stocked ambo.

They'd have to make sure it was free at the point of delivery to the patient. They'd have to have good governance (so, actually doing background checks) and have better training for drivers.

But a non-medical (more normal) conveyance to hospital is probably something many people want.
Ooh, I can vouch for this! :)

If you haven't seen their platform, Fahim & co have created a seriously next-generation course-creation / hands-on-coding toolkit. & in my experience they've been super friendly, generous and given great advice.

Don't hesitate to contact them if you're interested in online teaching!
Back in the days of CRTs, I had a cat named Trouble. She would sleep on top of my 15" Monitor. Friends and family would invariably remind me how I shouldn't let this happen. This monitor I got for free lasted for years being Trouble's favorite spot.

Trouble disappeared never to be seen again. And within a month the monitor stopped working.
Exactly! I had the oppsoite tragectory - first worked in a company with decent mid-management, then no management startup then Google. The lack of oversight seemed liberating at first, but man was I not impressed with the outcome by the end of it (including my own performance). In Google's case it was additionally complicated by the fact that most senior people avoid as much as possible to take on leadership roles - lower levels will have no say on their promo packet.
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The dinner that destroyed Gawker
Basically, it's like Indy Jones with the leap of faith - there's a an inordinate amount of hope in the future.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PoorImperfectAdouri-size_restricte...

Thankfully, the world is afloat with cash looking for a home, and so we can continue with this game for a while. At least, I think the portal will stay open till the round closes. Which is enough mostly.

BTW, traditional economics can well model this using advanced options equations, but the answers won't come close to justifying the valuation they got.
workatsplunk@gmail.com do you really work for splunk?
Evidence service workers take pride in their work? You need a source for that?
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Braintree - simple subscription edits take tens of seconds.
Any downsides to using the email service provided by your webhost, aside from the pain of potentially switching webhosts in the future? I've been using webfaction for hosting and email for 4 years now, and it's been great for both.
Feeding Frenzy for AI Engineers Gets More Intense
Show HN: A JavaScript n-body simulation, written in Kotlin
Transform Your Photo's with Help from a Deep Learning App
Yes and there are a lot of attacks of very, very large sizes going on. Over the last few days we've mitigated some huge attacks. Luckily, everyone is working together to rate limit and clean up this problem.
Seems to not have superior battery life according to the specs. Interesting concept though.
I think this is aimed not at ambulances but at like all those assisted care ridership services that exist. I assume they are going to need a large fleet of improved accessibility cars though (for wheel chairs, walkers, etc..)
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Do any of these bookmark archivers integrate with youtube-dl to keep copies of videos for supported sites? I especially can't stand 404s with those. I mean fuck, my best youtube playlists are littered with "[Deleted Video]" entries and I don't even have the title to figure out where to find a copy.
I like this a lot. We preach the mantra of reuse all the time, but we practice it so rarely - writing everything from the ground up every few years rather than trying to fit the existing tools to the new(er) processes.
> the ability to design large stable systems is relevant for when thinking about the question "How many O'Neil cylinders can we build in the habitable zone?".

pretty sure the answer is "as many as we can figure out how to get the mass for".

absent dismantling the gas giants themselves, you're not going to do anything very interesting do the dynamics of the solar system, regardless of what you take apart, or how you reconstitute it.

and the man-made structures can include mechanisms for closed-loop control of their position. which they'd need anyways, as they'd accumulate positional error from vehicles coming and going.
Homotopy type theory: the logic of space
I disagree, due to seperation of responsibilities. Having run both an ISP and a hosting company, you have to filter traffic at your edge that can impact external resources (just as ISPs block outbound NetBios and SMTP traffic on port 25/tcp).

Yes, the server or instance customer should be doing this. But they’re not, because poor security practices are an externality, not a cost they sustain.

Security is more important than developer velocity, but users pay the bills.
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That's not accurate — it varies from institution to institution. Most universities hire both teaching faculty and research faculty. Some universities title the teaching faculty "lecturers" or "instructors" instead of "professors." However sometimes they also receive "professor" titles. Tenure is an antiquated system, and the concern around titles is elitist. However, those are discussions for another time.
I believe you're underestimating the state-of-the-art. See [1], for example, which claims a method for saying that a sufficiently good numerical solution implies an exact periodic solution close by. (I doubt that the author of the original article did anything like this.)

[1] http://ww2.ii.uj.edu.pl/~kapela/papers/nosym.pdf
A concrete example of an expression that you have difficulty determining the type of.
My anecdote:

Macbook G4 - still works fine, boots up fast, resume/sleep very fast

Macbook Pro 2010 - battery holds about 30 minute charge

iPhone 4/4S - batteries are fine, never replaced

iPhone 5S - on my 4th battery
You raise a good point. If you look at monetary and non-monetary compensation, wages have increased significantly.

Of course, a lot of that has gone to health insurance which is not ideal.
Let me rephrase the debate, in a way that can hopefully clarify the main point of contention:

C: Your statistical models are woefully inadequate at describing language.

N: That inadequacy is related particularly to Markov models and Ngram models. More sophisticated statistical models will be adequate.

C: Then why haven't you built the more sophisticated models? Why are you still using Markov models and Ngrams?

N: Those work well enough for engineering applications.

The attitude of "it works well enough for engineering" is what Chomsky is actually criticizing. And that criticism is entirely valid: an empirical scientist would never claim that a theory is true because it can be used in engineering.

It's funny to me that Norvig holds up the PCFG as an example of a new and improved statistical model of language. The PCFG is actually terrible in many ways, the most obvious of which is that it doesn't take into account the Theta Criterion [1], one of the most fundamental phenomena of language. An example of this rule is that a noun phrase can only have one determiner. This restriction is so strong that it will never be violated in any kind of professionally composed text. But it is very awkward to try to encode this rule in a PCFG (you essentially have to split the NP symbol into DetNP vs UndetNP). I wrote a blog post describing the problems of the PCFG formalism:

https://ozoraresearch.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/chuckling-a-b...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_criterion
> Nothing stops you from creating an interface that maps that row to a file.

That's true, nothing stops you, though it is worth noting that no one actually does this, and there's a reason for that. So suppose you did this; how are you going to use that in a makefile?
> Right now, I'd put it at around a 2% chance of contagious civil unrest per calendar year in the US, and rising. Few want to start anything, but many are willing to join in.

I also feel that the country is where you describe. The rich and powerful had better be careful. If this blows up, a fair number of them won't like how it goes.

Unfortunately, it only takes one of them being egregiously provocative in just the wrong way to light the fuse. I think your 2% chance per year may even be too low.
Are you in a union? Your description sounds very similar to my father's experience in the USPS. If so, are the problems you describe related to the fact that it's a government job, or the fact that it's a union job?
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Yep. A basic diesel engine is a pretty amazing thing that, like a jet engine, can burn pretty much anything and is simple to maintain. Once you start adding all the modern gubbins in it to make it efficient and powerful, you lose that generality.

The main issue with using alternative fuels in modern diesels is the injectors: unit injectors and common rail systems are high pressure, precision components that are very sensitive to fuel quality. Used frying oil is not clean.

So your mate's BMW either had some modifications to let it use vegetable oil reliably, or it's really old!
> If people read and __actually implemented__ the stuff in Peopleware

Lol, I feel like that's too much to ask. I'd be happy with management that actually read Brooks instead of just pretending like they did.
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This works pretty well, tends to lead to constructive criticism that can be tied to actual steps to be taken to improve performance, and removes the pressure of having to work to an arbitrary metric.
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You are misreading his comments about women and democracy. He was simply saying that certain demographics aren't receptive to libertarians - he was not saying that women shouldn't have the right to vote and that democracy is bad. I daresay it's impossible to read his full writing in question and come to the conclusion one might get from simply reading an excerpt of two sentences that the Politico article wants you to see.

" It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will
be taken away or that this would solve the political
problems that vex us."

"I believe that politics is way too intense. That’s why
I’m a libertarian. Politics gets people angry, destroys
relationships, and polarizes peoples’ vision: the world
is us versus them; good people versus the other."
> Tithing is something that is largely forgotten in the post-Christian world we now find ourselves in. Peace.

That's simply not true. The 2016 World Giving Index[1] shows that their three measures of charity have all increased over time, including financial donations (page 16). Many of the top ten countries for percentage who donate money have had decreased religiosity (page 21).

1: https://www.cafonline.org/docs/default-source/about-us-publi...
Defying Pai’s FCC, Washington state passes law protecting net neutrality
You are thinking of dark energy, which is a completely different beast (also a lot more vague).

Dark energy is the "why is the universe expanding so fast"-stuff and dark matter is the "why are galaxies so heavy"-stuff of the universe.

Galaxies appear to be heavier than what you get by adding up all the visible mass (you can tell by how much a galaxy bends light coming from behind it), so it makes sense to talk about matter. It's dark because it doesn't seem to interact electromagnetically with ordinary matter.

Looking at just all the gravity (dark or not) in the universe you'd expect all the matter in the universe to slowly start clumping together, or at least slow down the expansion of the universe, but we find that things are flying apart, and increasingly quickly so. So there's some force at play, and that's dark energy.

edit: letters
It already exists, e.g. https://www.digicert.com/util/

The problem is, people who don't understand the issue will prefer a solution that doesn't require installing some software.