skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft Employees Question C.E.O. Over Company’s Contract with ICE
Crushing Your Competition with No Money
I have this same complaint about message boards all moving into Facebook groups. Sure it's convenient but the same content ends up recycled endlessly.

Sure phpbb is a little clunky but at least I can use it as a knowledgebase.
The Expanse Is Being Turned into an RPG Thanks to Kickstarter
Spacemacs unfortunately suffers from slow startup speed and an unnecessary "layers" abstraction.

I could never use Emacs without vim keybindings, but I don't need to install Spacemacs to get that. It's as easy as

package-install evil
package-install evil-commentary
package-install evil-leader
package-install evil-org
package-install evil-surround
A popular blog post will get you a flood of resume, no matter what you say in it as long as its not politically incorrect.
Mind-Controlled Robotic Third Arm Gives New Meaning to “Multitasking”
when you keep overlaying charts, eventually, one of them will be right.
There's new reasons for hope about improving Alzheimer's treatment – Axios
You can save the current dom you're viewing no matter how interactively it got there, to something like maff / mhtml, or print to pdf and you'll have access to the text & images.

I personally prefer mhtml, though with the recent breakage with firefox, I've been doing PDF.

Archiving something interactive.. that's a different story.
Iirc, various people wanted to build encryption etc into tcp/ip. But there was a this thing called the cold war going on, and thus encryption was treated as military hardware in the eyes of export law.

Though really one could probably put the ultimate blame on the von Neumann architecture winning the CPU design prize. Thus any data can potentially be a program...
Slack showcases the HIPAA logo on their security page, but upon closer inspection - https://slack.com/terms-of-service/supplement#healthcare - you'll see that unless you've signed a separate agreement with them, you acknowledge that Slack is not HIPAA compliant and that you are not to send them any PHI. My guess: they are signing BAAs for grid customers only (so the logo isn't a lie) and making them pay handsomely for the pleasure.

As I shamelessly disclosed upthread, we (Trillian) offer a HITRUST certified, BAA-backed solution for healthcare organizations that comes in SaaS and on-prem variants. More: https://trillian.im/uses/hipaa-compliant-texting/
Toward a Secure Electrical Grid
Would this card be used at the company cafeteria, or at local restaurants?

If it's the former, then I think it's still "free food".

If it's the latter, then it removes much of the benefit of the company providing the meal -- keeping employees on-campus and near their desks longer. I like my company's free food since it's easy to walk down the hall and eat a quick lunch between meetings, no need to take an hour to head off campus to a local restaurant. I don't care that the food is "free", but that it's fast and convenient.
Wow I bet those worms are so confused. Imagine when they showed them smart phones! Probably like that movie Encino man (when do we get Encino man 2?)
It’s a great time to be a nematode
> The only thing required to raise a seed round is to convince people who have money to give you money

One of the huge issues I see is experienced (at least a subset "prestige") investors have the terms best suited to startups succeeding.

I've seen less experienced investors have draconian (almost nonsense) terms -- crazy terms that probably hurt their investments considerably. However, these investors are less accustomed to managing risk in a technology startup.

This is much, much less common in the SFBA ecosystem. However, if you look globally the startup investor maturity can be really poor.
> What don't you guys like about it?

You cannot edit comments in Hipchat. I can talk about other issues as well but not editing comments is a deal breaker for me.
Someone finally gets it! This is exactly what I've seen as horrible as a Slack user. Zulip looks great!
Assuming that the collusion actually took place, which I don't put my bets in. I remember seeing 'long life lamps' on supermarket when bulbs were a thing, BTW.
The issue seems to be "prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices" in the spot markets.

Is stop hunting considered a manipulative practice? Because it's happening every day in bitcoin markets. But stop hunting also happens in the currency markets (which also have ETFs), albeit they are more sophisticated and tend to happen around news. I'm not talking about bucket shops, I'm talking about the real interbank market.
I sold my business (Geek Ammo) to Nate/SparkFun and spent a few months working with the team. Flying back and forth between Sydney, Australia and Boulder/Niwot every few weeks.

SparkFun is a great company with a really distinct culture that sits at the intersection of hacking and education.

Congratulations to Nate and the team for going 15 years strong!
I bought it - it’s cheaper than a coffee and Saves me time!
> living rooms converted into de-facto bedrooms

> but that still describes enough housing

At what point does it not describe enough housing? 3 bunk beds in the living room and 2 bunk beds per bedroom? Someone living in the bathtub?
Ethereum Network Architecture Analysis
I would agree with most of what you said except for the point about Linux and OSX. Yes, it used to be like that some 10+ years ago, but not anymore. However I can still find this myth repeated here and there nowadays. These days Linux works out of the box, with no more tweaking or settings up than what is required for OSX.
As a first step GitLab has implemented relationships in issues, for more context see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4058
Its free & open-source. You're not at anyone's mercy. You can fix it yourself if you like, pay someone else to fix it, or use a paid solution that pays its devs to maintain it.

Complaining about FB not prioritizing/fixing the particular issues that affect you the most seems a little bit insane to me. Of course they have their own priorities.
> I would run my own IRC server

That's nice for you personally, but how does running an inhouse bespoke IRC server have anything to do with whatever line of business your company is in?
If cities want employees to patronize local businesses, they they should start providing enough housing so employees can live near work. Stop forcing employees to live 30 miles away by restricting housing and then complain "But why won't they shop here!?"
Replacing Linux with a Database System
Fermentation and Daily Life
And then you have developers/companies/projects that end up treating JavaScript+HTML5 like "Flash but newer" or "Java but newer" or (for maximum pain) "Silverlight but newer". That sort of mentality - whether conscious or unconscious - underlies the vast majority of single-page apps in my observation/experience.
Russ Cox: community process around Go dependency management was handled poorly
A lot of articles on here are

* companies pitching a product by way of blog post

* companies recruiting by way of blog post

* individuals pitching a product by way of blog post

* individuals pitching themselves by way of blog post

Blog posts and TED talks are the new advertising mediums.
From our perspective and according to the general consensus idea that the universe is of finite age and fully in accordance with all black hole models and general relativity, blacks holes cannot exist in our universe. That does not mean what we have observed is not interesting, It is, but we don't know what it is, though we know it is not the "black hole" of theory.

There are no circumstance under the prevailing theories for which any kind of "black hole" can come into existence anywhere in our universe. Black holes are wonderful "flights of fancy" just like the Stargate and the Ancients Hyperdrive and just like the Star Trek Warp Drive.

"Black Holes" require certain assumptions for their formation in the theoretical sense and since those assumptions are not found in our universe, all models of "black holes" have an automatic failure point. All discussions about "black holes" being real, ignore those discrepancies and assume that they can exist. If you fail to agree with the "reality" of "black hole" formation, you become persona non grata.

The problem with the "black hole reality" assumption is that we cut off entire streams of investigation into what the observed phenomena may be. We are stuck in a very little corner of the universe and we cannot see many things up close. Our model assumptions colour our understanding of what we see. There are many of our observations that are anomalous to the prevailing theories that are considered "correct". Yet, if you (as an observational or experimental scientist) raise questions in relation to the consensus models, you will be quickly put in your place.

It is quite interesting that for a supposedly advanced civilisation, much of our technology and scientific endeavour is ruled by dogma. This does not lead to the advancement of our understanding of the universe around us. Just as other people have said before me and as I have said before - "There are no silly or stupid questions".

Science is one useful tool we have for investigation of the universe around us. But the outcomes we find using it in our investigations of the universe around us are predicated on the basic assumptions we bring to the table in those investigations. It is one tool among many that we have and when people use it as the only tool that has meaning, they have moved it from being a useful tool to being a dogmatic tool. they have made science into a religion.
Cray XC50 Accelerates Astrophysics in Japan
>"For example, trading in bitcoin is electronic, which facilitates competition and price transparency."

One of the main reasons this ETF was rejected is because many of the major exchanges like Bitfinex, BitMEX, Binance, and Kraken are alleged to be manipulators of spot price though wash trading, and front running their customers.

>"[23] Bitcoin are interchangeable, so that a purchaser is sure to get exactly the same thing no matter where she purchases it."

This is no longer true. Bitcoin transactions that have history tied to stolen funds, and illegal black market transactions will get your exchange account frozen and bank account flagged. ( see BTCe caught laundering MTGox funds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/russian-c... )

>[24] In addition, bitcoin mining is not geographically limited (except to the extent it migrates to places with cheap electricity), so it is not subject to geopolitical threats that plague other commodity markets.

This is a naive and incorrect risk assessment. Any large ISP is in a position to interfere, suppress, and drop traffic. Chinese based Bitmain, the largest BTC ASIC mining manufacture and the top known mining pools based in China are currently controlling over 40% of network block activity.
Zpl:  Your C99 Powerkit
Reddit's data response collecting company had its data breached
Top 5 obstacles I faced in testing 696 web components – DEV Community ‍‍
Strange Stories of Extraordinary Brains–And What We Can Learn from Them
I like the message board model, like Basecamp, myself.

* You can respond in a delayed manner and not appear rude.

* Complex stuff can be previewed before submission.

* The subject and thread organization adds more fine-grained control than you usually get with Slack channels. The #team-name channel might have discussions on several topics at once, not all of which affect you, and no easy way to filter them. On a message board, it's easy to break out a new thread even if people are subscribed to it by default.

* Slack search is ugly because you come back two months later and have to pull the info out of a tangled discussion with unrelated stuff in the middle.
Why t^2 and not t^3?
Mozilla has already crippled Firefox's extension system, so why bother?
Presumbly there would be restaurants in Shoreline in this scenario, and Google employees would walk to the restaurant to spend their money, just like in downtowns across the world. Or they'd bring lunch from home.
What benefits does Fastmail have over ProtonMail?
This is the beginning of the end for SF. Now that the techies are forced to experience the third world standards of the city, they will move to more habitable cities, like Detroit.
>Who can program anything useful with it? :)

... A person in the geek crowd raises his hand...

Me
Do you need your company to sponsor you again? Or can you move there independent of a job offer?
Competition is so real that big companies spend large amounts on market consolidation, just to escape it.
On the other hand you have to manually resize things for Slack, whereas Hipchat would autoscale and let you crop too. So annoying.~
Are you suggesting that manipulation is okay, if it has historically happened in a regulated market?
we all do!!
Interesting you bring that up. "Black hole" formation is based on a similar idea. An inversion is used for sure. But the argument used is similar. How about that. I haven't considered that example as a logical means of ruling against "black holes".
Yes, thank you, that's important info. And the pricing seems pretty reasonable as well.
Sure you can, though I stumbled on it. Type s/sub/repl and it edits.

HipChat works with Pidgin, which doesn't support edits, I imagine you'll see something similar as with the Discord edit feature when you're connected via Pidgin (you get a new message, prefixed with EDIT:).
>I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well

Oh boy! I'm so excited to tell you that YouTube Premium is the membership for you!

I just got the free trial a few weeks ago when it launched in Canada and it is FANTASTIC.

Plus, I just discovered the YouTube music app and it is AMAZING.

Not only can you download all the YouTube music you want offline, but you can easily download full videos -- right now I have a ton of Tableau and Excel tutorials to work through on my commute!

Hope I don't come off as a shill, but given that I commute 1-3 hours each way everyday, YouTube is a huge step up from torrents.
You're right that there are some regulations which make it artificially costly, but that doesn't disagree with what I'm saying.
I find clients tend to call to ask "a quick question", this is very disruptive. My experience is if they can't be bothered putting it in writing, then it's probably not very important.
I'm curious to know what sort of website layout requires a 40 x 40 grid.
Not on the list, but you might find http://interviewbit.com more structured
In 42K years, d00d :)
What a waste of time. There's not a shred of evidence in that article.
I tried mu4e before Gnus. Haven't tried Notmuch. I like reading hackernews and some mailing lists on Gnus without cluttering my inbox. Not sure if Notmuch can handle that.

Yes, I use Anki on my phone too.

I haven't thought about using Emacs as an IM, but I use w3m for browsing, which is great given all JS/CSS crap we get from websites these days. I just want text and can easily search for it within w3m.
It's true that individually most people are happier without a choice, but when you take them away you end up cutting out whole chunks of people. What if the thing that went away was accessible to people with certain types of disabilities and the new thing isn't? What if the old one wasn't a public company but the new thing is and now they have to comply with U.S. export laws and you were perfectly okay using it in Iran before but now can't? etc. There are a number of cases where most people won't want a choice, but by giving them what they want and removing one you hurt a lot of other people.
If you’re not willing to walk away, you’re going to pay retail. Good terms happen when you have multiple interested investors, bad terms happen when you don’t.

That said, investment is difficult if you’re in a place that has few exits (anywhere but Silicon Valley or Beijing/Shanghai). Investors are motivated by the percent chance of an exit, and that chance is higher in the Bay Area than in most places. The chance for exit drops off a pretty steep curve as you go down the “top cities” list (I live in Seattle so apologies to the local scene).
Am I the only one thinking of demolition man right now?
A "train of thought" is cheap. Author is doing something about the issue, not just talking. What is wrong with promoting ones work?
>Black people have more heart attacks,

Nothing to do with race, more about social standing. Black people tend to be less educated/affluent. Poor diet -> obesity -> heart attacks.
33% of whites are obese, while 48% of blacks are obese.
Much more information can be found here: https://stateofobesity.org/disparities/

>white people are more likely to develop Seasonal Affective Disorder in the same geographic region, etc.

Again, nothing to do with race. White people tend to live in places like Alaska, Maine, etc. which have long and cold (and dark) winters.
He's in Alberta, which has privately run competition in auto liability insurance. It's BC where ICBC has a government-mandated monopoly on the liability insurance. You can only buy private comprehensive in BC.
Few people have names more suited to their jobs than Ms. Shotwell...
While i am sad to see Mozilla strip even more out of Firefox, live bookmarks was perhaps a real poor take on rss support.

First of all it didn't cache old entries.

second it didn't update unless the entry on the bookmarks was expanded.

third you didn't know what was read outside of a subtle icon change.

RSS more properly belongs in a email client like ui...
"unless you're also going to chastise developers who target only one platform"

Which I tend to do, particularly since that "one platform" is almost always either Windows or macOS, neither of which I use on a daily basis (and neither of which I have any desire to use on a daily basis).

Meanwhile, there's such a thing as cross-platform GUI applications that don't try to fit an entire web browser into them. Especially if your programming language of choice doesn't require precompilation, frameworks/toolkits like Qt and GTK and Tk are perfectly viable for cross-platform development, at least on the desktop (which is usually where folks are using the likes of Electron or CEF anyway). They also tend to perform significantly better and stay much closer to the look-and-feel of the rest of the operating system (no, I don't care if you think you know better than me about my sense of style; if your app doesn't respect the look-and-feel of the rest of my system, then it sticks out like mold on a slice of Wonder Bread).
+1 for the cheeseburger analogy. I'll be using it. Thanks!
To genuinely never-ever do any kind of work I'd want at least $20M. As a European I'd be pretty worried about seizure, future taxation and the likes.

If we're talking not working for others, I guess that's more of a mindset thing. I never have and would rather not. Have enough to last ~10 years and wife is okay supporting me so I'm not particularly worried.
Show HN: A more idiomatic flags package for subcommands in Go
Free meals are considered income?

But free benefits are not considered income?

I don't see the difference between the two.
We have been using Stride for a few months and are baffled by how bad it can be and how it seems to miss key features that was in Hipchat (such as a call indicator). I used to always say "this is not the hard part of your job, stride " because it would fail to do basic things such as display images.

A colleague of mine found a security issue but had a hard time logging it and had to make it public.

Basically, I got the impression that the stride team in Atlassian was a bit of a mess.

All that said, it is sad to see it go because it was an alternative to the near monopoly of Slack. The only other alternative is rocket chat and MS teams now.
I've used Emacs for about 8 years now and before that I used vim. I think Emacs in Evil mode is the best. Emacs default keybindings were giving me the Emacs pinky.

Then again nowadays I am trying to be pragmatic with editors and more get things done. It is easy to go into endless customization in Emacs where you don't actually solve any real problems. (i.e I once used elnode https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode to build and host a website... great little project that took way too much time better used elsewhere.)

Nowadays I basically do VSCode for many things and jump onto Emacs if VSCode can't do it. Still using vim bindings though.
> I'm not the only one saying it, it was said in the article

Which article?
Isn't it more efficient to just write to the `random named person with checkwriting authority`?

I'm sure said person can see that you cold emailed the person now introducing you. And thus that intro is based on a very flimsy relationship.

Or is it all just part of the social dance? There's got to be a better way.
Another possible consequence is that food prices in vicinity of new FB office will go up and price everyone else out.
This is pretty cool. But I would like to know more about the penalty interest rate and the credit card bill payment (which the docs completely didn't mention)
To be fair Slack doesn't do this and other network related things much better (in my experience). For each complaint here about HipChat I experience the same failings in Slack, just less often. But Slack is a bit better, so people make the argument that it adds up. (We moved from HipChat to Slack several month sago, I didn't find it much of a game changer apart from getting the company to pay Slack to store history and make it searchable but I'm someone who would be content with IRC and searching local logs.)
Here's a counter argument:
It probably depends on your aspirations. If you want to be a billionaire and you make $65k/year that $11k probably has low utility because you're so far from your goal and there are social and government safety nets to help you if you fall into poverty. But at $65M, that $11M might be one of only 3 or 4 shots you have at investing in a moonshot and making your $1B.

But, if your goal is to just feed yourself and vacation every once in a while than I could see how the value of money increases logarithmically.

If you view yourself as a company or an investor though, it might increase in value as you accumulate more because it puts you in an elite group that can invest in billion+ dollar ideas that could change the world.
I thought the half life of DNA was around 400 years. Anyone know how this is possible?
Out of curiosity, have you tried Dialyzer? It sounds like almost exactly the level of static typing you're looking for (i.e. a TypeScript-like system). It's been a part of the Erlang distribution for a long time.
But, doesn't this contradict the spirit of free markets?
People in literally every where else in the world live for that hour of lunchtime away from work, so I think (hope?) you're in the minority.
> Decline and visit plaintext site

This doesn't count as opt-out by default behavour for tracking. Have any complaints been made in the EU toward NPR?

EDIT: Glad this is getting some attention, whether it be upvoting or downvoting.
One Data Science Job Doesn’t Fit All
It probably still is, since Chromium Embedded Framework (which is what Spotify uses, last I checked) is used via a C/C++ API.
Austin is not a "bit player" in the tech scene. Incredible growth is happening outside of the California bubble. Texas, the entire east coast...

Many talented people don't want to relocate for work, and companies are realizing that. Distributed offices are becoming more and more of a thing.
As I understand it, the debits come from an existing stripe balance attached to a bank account. You can’t take on a negative balance so there’s no interest rate or bill to pay (outside of the fees and whatnot associated with using the API, top ups, etc)
Any reason in particular you choose not to trust Telegram? Or you're just (rightfully) distrustful of sharing that info in general?