skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love an app that would allow me to dynamically generate business credit cards for use with paying stuff online. Whenever one of my 20+ recurring payments get compromised, I then have to spend half a day going through all my recurring payments providers and re-issuing with a new card. I would much rather have one card for each one.

There was a startup working on this but unfortunately they closed down before they launched. I still think this is a really interesting idea and someone should implement it. I suppose you could just use the Stripe API for most of the heavy lifting. I would actually start this company, I think it's that good of an idea, but unfortunately I'm little busy at the moment.
Why Diversity Wins
Do it on an openly observable blockchain so everyone can see what’s going on in realtime
I'm willing to take that risk. I want to take a vacation on Risa.
> what are the things that Mongo excels at these days that are missing from pg?

I wouldn't say Mongo excels at these, but basic distributed stuff, like failover, sharding, rebalancing, resyncing, operations in general, etc. PostgreSQL can never get to MongoDB's level there, not even theoretically.
The advantages of MKL (or does that mean something else?) are over-sold. Indeed, I understand the relevant primitives in this context were driven by Pabst's free implementations in libxsmm. I don't know whether "dispatch optimal code for heterogeneous hardware" means chose the SIMD instructions or offload appropriately, but what's missing in whichever case it is?

Intel's free software release seems to me to be rather in their favour compared with other vendors.
This reminds me of Aaron Levie’s recent take on Kara Swisher’s podcast - on how enterprise software is going to be either about Microsoft (jack of trades) or about a collection of smaller companies (specialists in their fields) integrated with one and other. Slack and Atlassian focusing on what makes them great and working together makes a lot of sense
Bogdanov Affair
I see many recommending extensions but IMO is a good idea to minimize the number of extensions you use, if it was a Mozilla or other trustworthy entity behind the extension then it should be safer to install it.
> Do you use Uber, Apple, Github or Amazon? Because if you do you are accepting these principals as just being part of business and it comes down to money...

Not that tired pseudoargument again. "Don't you exist in the imperfect world? Therefore you must be OK with its deficiencies." With few exceptions, the inhabitants of Earth are unable to conjure bubbles perfectly isolated from contact with any of the world's imperfections. That doesn't mean we're unjustified or hypocritical for criticizing those flaws or using our limited influence to try to smooth out those we can.

Also, there's that misleading blurring between the normative, circumstantial, and explanatory again.

> Most CEOs and/or founders exhibit a significant degree of sociopathic behavior and it's clearly accepted (evidenced by the support seen in HN discussions).

It's really odd how adamant you are that we should accept corrupt or sociopathic behavior as normal, and how resistant you are to criticism of it or calls for its curtailment.

> Move fast and break things, easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, all is fair in love andwar (and business).

For the most part, those are shitty ideas used to justify shitty actions.
Would be cool if they re-released Hipchat as an on-prem Slack
Javascript enables that too and some people do it.
By extending that definition, would ~90% of Google's revenue be cloud revenue?
>> We are purchasing the IP for Hipchat Cloud and Stride

It would be nice if Slack took a leaf out of the Hipchat play book and made a native (non-electron) Mac app.
Try Elevator Saga[1] for an in-browser javascript programming game that will learn you some things about distributed queues, potentially.

[1] https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
Weren't both Slack's and Atlassian's offerings cloud-based?
That would be one of the consequences, yes. However, Turkey isn’t even remotely close to joining the EU and given the current political situation in Turkey I would not expect talks to move forward any time soon. So pretending there’s even a remote chance is disingenuous. It uses fears of foreigner not founded in reality. That’s pretty much the definition of xenophobic.
"Taking out a competitor is good for Slack, said Butterfield: “There’s fewer choices for people.”"
I am an engineering manager.

Some of the people I manage/have managed seem to think I am great. My evidence for this is two-fold:

1) multiple people that I have managed before have moved on, and yet treat me as a friend/mentor: invite me to social events, still reach out to me on a regular basis with requests for advice, etc.

2) I get regular feedback via performance reviews as a manager that some people I am managing think I am great.

Likewise, some of the people I manage seem to think I could improve. My evidence for this is likewise, two-fold:

1) Some people tell me directly what I could do to improve in my style of managing them specifically.

2) Some people only give feedback on areas where I could improve anonymously via previously mentioned performance reviews.

Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that I am a mixed bag, but I am not universally terrible, and therefore my opinion shouldn't just be dismissed as "oh, you are just one of them". With that preamble out of the way:

What do we think of someone who, for example, says "I've never had anything but bad boyfriends / bad girlfriends". Well, the common wisdom is that if you are consistently having shitty personal relationships, you are at least part of the problem.

Likewise, If someone says "I've never had anything but bad managers", I apply the same pattern: you are probably not really putting in much effort into your professional relationships with your managers.
It takes months to ramp up GPU production. Crypto booms-and-busts before the production cycle is even over.

The only way to stop that is to stockpile GPUs, which is a very, very bad idea because new GPU technology is inevitable. Even ignoring GPUs, there's also new mining equipment (see Antminer's Ethereum miner).

The GPU boom is over because Antminer made an Ethereum rig. The end, GPUs will never be as good as the ASICs. So holding onto lots of old GPUs isn't a strategy either.
The core Android team is four engineers so about double in size.

This makes some sense since on Android we have to re-write most of the stores/business logic and not just UI. We have modeled the architecture similarly to things on the Desktop/iOS side so we still are able to move fast and stay lean as a team.
Sure nothing here is "new" but its amazing how many companies/people/organizations are flabbergasted by a lack of growth whiles not not investing in themselves.
Justice is about equality before the law. It is unjust for one party to do something and be punished, while another party does something that is principly the same, and is not punished.

Citing "whataboutism" does not make this go away, it is the essence of the argument.

If Joe is disqualified from his hockey tournament for throwing his stick, but Mike receives an eye-roll from the same referee, it should not be criticized as whataboutism to say "What about Mike?" - it is a legitimate complaint, because there is injustice in the way both incidents are dealt with.
I think everyone wants phone numbers to prevent people generating billions of accounts to spam people with.
Here's some unnecessary bias it starts off with:
" behind the curtain of Facebook’s unregulated ad platform"

The word unregulated here is both unnecessary (it's not relevant to the sentence it's in) and meant specifically to get the reader to draw a negative connotation.

Even the title, where it says "finally", is doing it's best to give a negative connotation and imply facebook has been stalling turning them over.

AFAIK from the facts they list (i haven't gone looking hard, though), they were requested, they turned them over.
There is no "finally". The article does not give any fact to support it.
Same with "the company eventually did so, "
Again, this is just meant to sound as negative as possible.
As far as i can tell from the facts, they responded within the timeline they were asked to respond.

It then goes on to try to draw and invite the reader to draw tenuous inferences (or does so itself - using the meaningless phrase "linked", usually a good sign of smearing) and does its best to assassinate in a subtle way.

This article certainly has facts in it, but it is definitely not unbiased.

(and for the record, i hate facebook, i'm not defending it, i'm just trying to answer your question in as objective a way i can :P)
Brexit is more important than football – Gary Lineker
I was not surprised when I read the headline, but I was surprised when I saw the reason when I read the article.

I had expected it would be over taxes.

From the photos and description in the article and elsewhere, it looks like you can get full meals for free, meals that would cost at least $10 if bought at retail.

An employee who took two meals a day at the free company cafeteria every working day would be getting a benefit worth almost $5000/year. That's equivalent to something like an extra $8000/year salary.

I believe that food provided to employees is normally not taxable for the employee, and is actually deductible as a business expense by the employer (but I've not looked into how the recent major tax changes may have affected that), but I think that was intended for things like where employees have to remain available for emergencies during meal periods, or where meal breaks are too short to allow employees time to go get food, and things like that.

The term of art is that the meals have to be provided for the employer's convenience. In the short meal break case, for example, providing meals is for the employer's convenience because it saves them from having to offer longer meal breaks.

Meals offered for things like goodwill, morale, or attracting employees are not considered to be for the employer's convenience, but are still OK if they are de minimis. So things like donuts, soft drinks, meals when employees have to take occasional overtime, the occasional company party or picnic, and things like that are fine.

Putting in a cafeteria that offers free full meals to all employees all the time probably is not de minimis. It may not actually violate tax laws, but if it does not it is pushing the limits hard so I'd certainly not be surprised to see attempts to crack down from that angle.
List of Worker-Owned Tech Cooperatives
This comment breaks a handful of guidelines and is not civil or substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
ICML 2018 Trip Report
Can you use self host slack?
> And whether you say "can be reassigned" or "mutable" (which means exactly he same thing, BTW) it doesn't really matter.

They don't mean the same thing, so it matters.

None of your comment about booleans etc is relevant. `const` prevents reassignment and that is all, it literally has nothing to do with mutability.

If you bring mutability into the conversation you've confused something simple.
Although it reduces competition in short term, it’s likely to give more competition in the long term by creating a strong competitor to Microsoft.

And based on the numbers in the article, it seems like Atlassian had less than 4% marketshare (Slack expects single digit growth - and assuming they have around 50% of the market)

This deals seems like the last step before a full - and in competitive terms logical - merger between Slack and Atlassian.
Sorry, trade embargoes, not trade sanctions. Attempt to make their imports more expensive, regardless of who they’re importing from. As if there was a global empire attempting a trade war with them.
What's wrong with the electron app?
I think "shadow-DOM-stuff" refers to the concept of virtual DOMs. The shadow DOM isn't really a virtual DOM though, sure. It's just encapsulated parts of the regular old DOM.
Rowhammer/specter
Woah, this is huge. Atlassian is really going for the "everything a tech shop needs" gold.
Honestly as an employee it felt like a win all around. If I was tired of the office or my co workers I could go somewhere else. Tried a lot of restaurants I wouldn't have otherwise, so great for them. And the company didn't have to scale their cafeteria as fast as they might have otherwise when hiring.
This is why I've always thought manned space programs should be designed primarily for petite women.

Not even joking.
> this means that roughly half of the population is left without an effective democratic method of expressing opposition to that policy.

Since when in the UK has your ability to voice dissent been denied? Doesn't the UK have freedom of protest? Can't you just protest your government and speak against its policies without fear of repercussion?
Depends on where the application goes to. Many companies want to appear politically progressive.
A technology in this stage of immaturity is fine to trial but IBM should be paying the hospitals not the other way round. They are doing experiments with peoples lives - again just like Theranos.
That actually sounds like one of the more plausible assertions
Maybe try a not-for-profit or a social enterprise as many of them are trying earnestly to solve difficult problems (climate change, obesity crisis, opoid addiction, access to clean water, homelessness, better treatment of animals, decreasing electronic waste, etc.), and they are not bound to any particular locale.

As Martin Luther King once said: "it's always the right time, to do the right thing", and as some other commentators have stated, many 'good' people are trying to improve our world - it's just that the tech bros often have better PR teams and that all important 'network scale'.

Hang in there, the dream is definitely still alive :)
You can synthesize a useful precursor to enantiomerically pure methamphetamine from baker's yeast and benzaldehyde. It's been found in an actual clandestine drug lab at least once:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19443151

It's rare for organized crime to resort to sophisticated precursor-manufacturing because they can buy/smuggle such chemicals more easily than doing multi-stage manufacturing starting from commodity chemicals.

It's rare for solo operators[1] because most "meth cooks" are not capable bench chemists. Following simple recipes assembled by others is about all they can do.

[1] Ones that get caught, anyway.
I feel that your post is being a bit dishonest, as it ends with the following:

> UPD: The story ended well. Vulnerability is corrected, documentation and applications are updated, treasure hunters of bugs are motivated, which has already yielded results (1, 2). It is necessary to pay tribute to the developers of Telegram, who immediately reacted to the article.

It's hard to say that it's not a mistake when the author of the article itself describes their response as "immediate".

Durov and Telegram have more or less shown their mettle; there was no money or profit in standing up to Russia, but they went ahead and did it anyways when it would have been easier to buckle. Yes, it has flaws in its implementation, but so far they've proven that when push comes to shove, they're willing to fight for their politics and to keep on fighting against such regimes. Once this changes, sure, it's fine to lay into them, but right now it really looks like they're true to their word.
Put down the Infowars koolaid. That literally never happened.
Retaliation by employers for funding certain speech. Violent retaliation for funding certain speech.
No, not 1937. Very different situation. The US was slowly coming out of the Great Depression with massive Federal spending and jobs programs. Union membership had doubled in the previous five years. Complete opposite to today.
I would've gone with "LayItOut". No rude implications, and it's catchier/actually makes sense as a verb phrase. Also, to "lay it out" means to tell the truth, and this is a WYSIWYG editor.
In the US, it is illegal to use race (or gender), both of which are highly predictive of health care costs. You can use age and smoking, but that’s about it, at least on individual issuance under ACA. The age increase is about 50% of what the true actuarial cost is, so the young subsidize the old.

The result is a healthy 26mo white man gets overcharged and a pregnant, unhealthy, overweight 40yo black woman is undercharged. Usually this just means the 26yo chooses not to get insurance.

(Men are cheaper because they don’t have as many routine medical exams, they don’t go in to the doctor generally even when they should, they don’t get pregnant and their health problems seem to include sudden out-of-hospital death more than chronic conditions. That makes them substantially cheaper to insure even if not actually “healthier”.)

Pre existing conditions and known upcoming things (like, planning to get pregnant) or superior knowledge of one’s health status and risk profile make health insurance a really defective marketplace.
Pre Earnings:

- sort of anti Tesla from wallstreet perspective as only three of the 55 analysts covering the company have a hold-equivalent rating, and none recommend selling

- curious to see how ot reacts given that facebook just got beat up, self inflicted and deserved, over the past few days.

Numbers:
- Q2 revenues of $52.9 billion, up from $51.0 billion previous quarter. analysts estimates of $53.35 billion.

- EPS $5.07, Est. $2.49

- Net Sales $52.9B, Est. $53.35B

- operating income $2.98 billion, estimate $1.71 billion

- AWS net sales $6.11 billion

- Amazon Web Services net sales +49%, assume this is the market growing as Azure is really killing it right now and google cloud is doing respectible at the moment.

- smaller platform providers should at this point be considering their life span to be under 5 years and probably closer to 2 years.

Other:

- Continue to focus on Alexa, must really believe that loosing this market to Google will serverly harm the company because it can't possibly be returning any value based on what they spend on it

- Bezos just added about 5 Billion in networth to jump to $155 Billion

- probably won't mention Toronto's chances of getting HQ2, almost certainly better for city to not win and give no concessions than to win and give up alot in terms of tax and land concessions to amazon. Good chance that the city that gets HQ2 loses in the long term because of it.

- Prime membership count continue to rise. Last prime day was their largest ever.
Indeed, Anaconda is too heavy. But he is aware of Miniconda and even mentions it in his last bullet point. He then dismisses it in short order, with a vague complaint about mysterious "best practices".

If he really believes that his tool is somehow better, fine. But since Miniconda is the de facto standard tool among data scientists for this use-case, the burden is on him to spend more words on exactly why it doesn't work for him.
It looks more like a product acquisition than collusion.

> Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride products
As a user of the iOS app it used to have some admittedly frustrating problems, but pretty much every complaint I had previously has since been fixed, huge kudos on the progress you've made!

The only thing left that really bugs me is the fact that you can't paste images from the clipboard into the message field. It's made me change my entire workflow, from copying images to saving them.

Sorry to use this as a soapbox for my pet issue, but I saw the opportunity :P
I personally don't have a problem with it, but a lot of people have a problem with it taking up a bit of system resources, primarily ram.
What with a WebGL target for Unity these days, it has. The Unity plugin was deprecated versions ago and they don't even ship a target for it anymore.
Other than games, 3D visualization, modelling that is.
(I work on Issuing.) Check out https://emburse.com/ -- they do this really well (and are a user!).
> It was too entertaining trying to figure out why each board didn't pass QA

Do they have a reputation for poor quality? I bought a RedBoard Arduino clone from them last year and it was DOA, as was the replacement (different batches).
To my knowledge no. That is going to be an issue for current users of Hipchat Server/Data Center.
What gap in the market is Stripe filling? I'm not entirely sure what Stripe does.
I mean in a direct democracy, a simple majority of a quorum of voters typically counts. Establishing arbitrary criteria for which votes are valid is not a democracy, especially when the various criteria are suddenly proposed after a controversial election.
I just do it manually for now but have created some bash_aliases to help:

alias dcup='docker-compose up -d'
alias dcrestart='docker-compose down && dcup'
alias dcpull='docker-compose pull'
alias dcpullup='docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d'
The exact opposite, Atlassian is selling and retreating.
NaCL had to be largely rewritten for each no platform just to get the applications to run. WASM doesn't need that.
> "and are providing a migration path to Slack for all our customers."

Well, not all of your customers. Unless Slack is introducing a self-hosted version?

They've already nuked the page on the self-hosted hipchat offering, which now redirects to https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack

Which is a complete bummer. Slack isn't an option for us.
Insurers are legally forbidden from using race directly. Two people of different races who list identical details on their application should receive identical quotes.

The ACA provides a similar legal protection for gender in health insurance. We just need to extend that protection to car insurance.
I was thinking it should be a stacked bar chart for the top-level categorization (e.g. plants, animals, fungi, etc.) with a separate stacked bar chart for proportions within each group of interest (e.g. humans, insects, etc.).
Many protections in laws only apply to credit. See e.g. https://consumercomplianceoutlook.org/2016/first-issue/credi...

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/visa-rules... here's a 1031 page document with all the technical rules from Visa. You'll note there are entirely different sections for debit and credit.
It's less that it's bad (in my opinion) and more that on Android you have a much wider range of hardware to support ranging from quite new and recent, to basically ancient almost flip phone level.

I am hoping that in the future something like React Fiber (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1271hd9ew) will make its way to React Native and unlock a new level of performance.
Shorting and then telling the herd is exactly what’s done. Once you take the short position, you want to scream at the top of your lungs and bring about that catalyst/trigger asap. Spread rumors, write hit pieces, etc... Observe the half-baked hit pieces on TSLA by Chanos and co.

When right, these people will dampen the bubbles and falls preventing catastrophe of greater magnitudes.
Because it's not like there aren't any other options for multiplatform development...
Gender identity is one thing, power to you, but at the point we start to let males compete in females sport we've lost our minds.

How do we make it fair? Is it sufficient to lower T to get rid of the advantage? What about females who naturally have higher T levels?

What if, shockingly /s, bone density and height are relevant as an advantage in some sports?

God, I hate even thinking about it.

Transgender rights > Female rights, with the harm going to female athletes. How unsurprisingly sexist.
All laws are ultimately backed by force. Have we no gunboats?
You can actually get the desktop client connected to your Chromecast in a roundabout way. What I do is connect to my Chromecast from the Spotify app on my iPhone, and then the option will appear in the desktop client to connect. I have no idea why you have to channel through the phone first, but it works perfectly from desktop to Chromecast once it's connected.