skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's out there in the way of white-label or integrated slack alternatives?
My non-tech staff are very confused by these modern UIs and ideally I'd like something I can embed into our intranet laravel site.
“... a successful cosmetics company today does sell a lipstick color it creepily calls Underage Red.”

Wow. And the company defends it as a “feminine rebellion”. I couldn’t make it though the post but the link is below.

https://m.facebook.com/katvond/posts/10155445610990454:0
On the ethical side, I fully agree, however that‘s not how things work. Investors are insured through liquidation preferences. If shit hits the fan, it‘s very probable that they will get at least their money back with a firesale or an aquihire. For all of these variants of an ordered shutdown, you‘ll need some coherency though. Nobody will buy a sinking ship with 90% of the crew already gone.

Im cases like these, founders are in a strong position, even if on paper, their shares would be worth zero. So for their service to stay on deck until the last moment and let the band play (in order to save some investor money), they are usually generously paid from the remains — the term you‘re looking for is carveout.

Punishing founders will make the investors look bad and cost big money, so both sides collude at the cost of the employees.
"google" became a verb
The original statement was, "[All] Women don't have the lower body strength to [fly any WWII-era military airplane]." This is a very strong statement, clearly too strong to be supported. (I mean, the article. And all the aircraft delivered from factories by female pilots. And those Soviet combat pilots. (But everyone knows Soviet women were big and beefy, right? Right?))

The second statement, on the other hand, "But not on average. The average woman is physically weaker than the average man. Which means, on average, women lack the body strength needed," is much easier to support (in fact, I'll accept it as true). It also looks like it offers support for the original position.

Unfortunately, it doesn't. It serves only to divert the argument from an unsupportable position to a supportable one. That is why it is a logical fallacy.
You might find it hard, but I'm sure it's not harder than to learn another language, as those people did.
Totally true; I glossed over the distinction between Bell and Bell Labs -- I suppose this might be analogous (with the full understanding that the analogy is incomplete) to separating Google[x] and Google. However, is it not the case that Bell Labs was able to undertake such ambitious research projects because it was backed by a monopoly?

Also, while Xerox PARC was also a legendary research institution in its day, I don't put it at the scale of Bell Labs, which touched a much broader array of fields. To quantify this distinction, compare the research budgets in 2018 dollars:

- Xerox PARC: ~$450 million (http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/12/business/fi-parc12)

- Bell Labs: $6 billion (https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/comparing-research-bud...)

These sources might be imperfect.
and in doing so you give equal standing to a non-existent problem and the very real problem of the ultra-right racism.
Assange pays for Snowden's flight and hotel: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-reconstructi...

Assange advises Snowden to move to Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange...

Sarah Harrison accompanies Snowden on his flight to Russia: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/offering-snowden-ai...
Raising as an outsider works just fine if you have traction. As if you don’t, why would you be trying to raise money?
>Most OSM commentary focuses on unimportant minutiae (layers, for goodness’ sake, as if it’s still 2004)

What's wrong with having layers on a digital map? I can see the problem of not having them.
I don't think it's perfect even in Seattle. My building is served exclusively by Wave and Comcast won't do hookups, but I still get their junk mail.
Since you're comparing facial recognition to guns and guns are regulated by law and have strict rules for use, perhaps facial recognition should as well?

I think there should be a discussion about laws/regulations about facial recognition use. Even if Amazon removes their service there will always be companies that don't care about the ethics as much. Strict rules instead of public shaming seems like the better approach
The democratic will of the people is being disregarded here

I would content that your personal opinion that search be a regulated utility does not reflect "the will of the people"
Why do you think vgo wasn't built on the nontechnical research carried out by dep? In fact, that's normally what I would assume would be the purpose of something branded an "official experiment" - the code will for certain be thrown away eventually, but the experiences gained will be used to create the actual final product.
Your comment highlights why phone-based 2FA is not a 2FA.
Hard to say.

The most promising variety of quantum computation currently available is D-Wave's quantum annealing approach, which isn't a "standard" quantum computer, but unlike its competitors it does actually exist in a production variety and seems to have some big customers.

From what I can tell, it could be useful for machine learning, which could then in turn (practicalities and expenses aside) theoretically be used for game AI. It's also useful for physics simulation, apparently, with people simulating quantum systems like spinglasses on their hardware. If scaled up, it could be something that gets used for interesting game physics.

Problem is, right now it's somewhat difficult and expensive to get access to these systems, so I don't think you'll see them in gaming for a long time.

Instead, you're more likely to experience quantum computing as the game itself - like http://play.quantumgame.io/

Maybe someone will take this concept further and make a quantum variant of Shenzhen I/O or something like that.
Additionally, one person's 5 star is another's 3 star. It should be the deviation from your typical ratings. If I give everyone 3s and I give someone a 2, that's less significant than if I regularly give everyone 5s and I give the person a 2. The second person likely messed up way more.

Moreover, they will ask you for the rating several days later if you don't take frequent rides and open the app again. Unless it was terrible, I probably don't remember the details.
> without the input of an entire committee of smart, reasonable people who have literally spent years diving into this specific domain.

If that is the case why the solution wasn't developed already outside of Go team's ambit. After all Go team said multiple times they don't need module system as Google does not use it.
The whole second part of the title should be in quotes. It needs an edit.
I don't think there is such thing as Euro-English, but a French-English, Spanish-English, Dutch-English, because every non-native speaker will make grammar/vocab/pronunciation mistakes depending on his/her primary language.
From this account, it sounds like “the community” was encouraged by “the core team” to work on, meet, discuss an idea and present work to “the core team” that was then ignored.

Would you really expect those people to be excited about the outcome?

This feels like an overly personal attack.
No, I don’t suppose we’re in a similar situation. In your example, the mailer would leave a paper trail or more importantly one would expect such a mailer to disclose who’s sending them.

Secondly, the scale and efficiency with which one could target was rather limited. Specifically, the candidate would have a hard time not only “targeting” the right audience but also find it rather impossible to customize the content of the mailer to individual recipient.

It is not based on the same principle - one involves human actors and associated inefficiencies and “unscalability” while other involves mindless robots over zealously bombarding “targeted” audience with deception and lies.
This is really important - Starbuck's (mostly successful) attempts to become the central third space in city centers is almost definitely leading to class divides.

Libraries are one of the few refuges left.
I think that the proper term is "Linuxカーネルネットワークサブシステム" meaning "Linux Kernel Network Subsystem".
The network effects are so insanely dominant in open source projects that forks are nowhere near an efficient market.

The market doesn't have to be anywhere near efficient. It just has to allow any escape whatsoever from a death-march/death spiral.
And, I'm sure people have heard of it before, there's a semi-conlang that proposes to remove all Romance borrowings from English called Anglish [1]. There's also "Uncleftish Beholding" which tries to explain basic atomic theory using only native words [2].

[1] http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_leaf

[2]https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
Direct link to the (scathing!) press release: http://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/ArticlesByCate...

As a consumer, this transition will be annoying to deal with, but as a resident, I'm proud of my state for pushing expansion of rural broadband where federal efforts have failed. Not sure how the transition will work though, as Spectrum/TWC own the cable infrastructure.

Spectrum has sent a veritable tree's worth of junk mail to my house in the past year, goading me to sign up for their television and landline phone bundle. Spectrum, please die quickly.
Gab is "open source Twitter". This seems like "open source reddit" which, IMO, is more needed.
Rather than a technical argument, or a clarifying point of view, all I see here is basically "we formed a committee goddammit, we're the incumbent, how dare you not listen to us?"

In my eyes, Russ is too nice here, and this committee seems like it would've been difficult to work with at an intellectual level, anyhow, judging by this type of griping.

Maybe Russ should hire Linus to deal with situations like this :-)) /s
IRC lacks history, unless you want to run a proxy some place.

With IRC, you either run your own server or trust a server run by someone with whom you probably have no commercial relationship.

IRC clients mostly suck, for the purposes of people who are not already IRC aficionados.

File transfers are, afaicr, not ideal with IRC.

Bottom line is, IRC doesn’t just work in the way most people need.

Sure, it’s branding and usability but they’re hugely important.
> Is someone who is a professed neo-nazi using your platform, but not otherwise engaging in abuse, worth banning?

You can't be a professed neo-nazi without engaging in abuse. Nazism is explicitly a genocidal ideology and calling for genocide is abuse.

> When we start going down this path of trying to get rid of "undesirables", we start engaging in censorship.

Yes. Lets get started.
I think you have to hand it to Google, that is really next level deep analytics. I feel it would be hard for most companies without huge investment to do this (or maybe not).

It is like the reverse of a "customer survey" that instead of asking and getting an arbitrary number, instead of really detailed level of service performance.
> The title is akin to saying "We bought <gun maker>'s hunting rifle, pointed it at Congress, pulled the trigger, and it shot 22 members of Congress".

Only if <gun maker> was specifically marketing their hunting rifle to be aimed at members of the public, and for the trigger to be frequently pulled. Happily, gun-makers are far more responsible than that.

> It's a tool, you're responsible for how it is used, not the manufacturer

Not so. Private businesses can refuse to offer services largely as they wish, and AWS frequently do, based on their terms of service.

For example, you are not permitted to run a web-scraper or open mail relay on EC2. You are not permitted to host bestiality on S3. None of these things are illegal. But Amazon have taken the stance that they just don't want them to happen on AWS.

I am of the view that mass facial recognition poses more problems for society than running web-scrapers.

Many civil liberties organizations have serious concerns about the use of facial recognition for law enforcement, including pro-industry organizations such as the EFF[0]. This is not some new reaction; they have had Know Your Customer guidelines about terms for ML for states since 2011[1].

Even competitors who are incentivized to sell facial recognition tech to LEAs are warning that it's a bad idea for society, with serious and likely lethal implications. Here's the CEO of facial recognition startup Kairos[2].

> ...the confidence level would be tweaked by Law Enforcement

This is a large part of the problem. If you don't think so, then we simply have very different visions of the future that we want to live in, and must agree to disagree.

[0] https://www.eff.org/wp/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/it%E2%80%99s-time-know...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/facial-recognition-softwar...
I'm actually hoping that somebody will look into this further and from many different angles and scenarios since people don't seem to realize how much of what they don't see is likely due to Google's search algorithms, not to mention the junk that is most promoted to the top of the results pile.
> Google translate does a just about acceptable job on Indo European languages. Diverge a little further and it often descends into comically poor.

Not even all Indo-European ones. It's absolutely awful at trying to translate to and from Irish, for instance.
I think people are affected about consuming fear from news papers, tv news and movies.

The Information Age has given us much more access to information than before. We are not accurately assessing how dangerous something is.

Watching fearful content on tv can affect your subconscious mind that later leads to rational avoidance of “fear”.

Why couldn’t fear and violent content on tv affect the brain? A tv Programme could be like a computer program instructions. Then you have to consume the right type of content.

Micro mort the probability of dying from an activity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
> English speakers are not snobs; we borrow nice words and turns of phrase from wherever we encounter them.

“We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” —James Nicoll
Depends on where you live, really.

The main city library is like a 10 minute walk -- though I don't like to walk so I ride my bike when I want to go up there. Costs me zero dollars to get there and library cards are free for everyone in the county.

Admittedly...I chose to live not in the suburbs so pretty much everything I need is a bike ride away.
A better example would be TERFs, and they are often worth banning because they act like terrible people.
In my experience, people tend to greatly underestimate how much it will cost them to pay both the employer and the employee part of insurance, as well as other expenses typically paid by an employer.

The rule of thumb I arrived at years ago was to start by dividing the annual rate by a factor of two, to account for the additional tax burden. Then to divide by an additional factor of two to account for the additional insurance burden.

Then you start factoring in your other costs.

Years ago, I was contracting with Apple Retail Software Engineering in Cupertino, and making $95/hr. I calculated that they would have to give me a $250,000 annual salary to be able to take home the same amount of money on a monthly basis, and virtually no one at Apple makes that kind of money unless they're an SVP.

So, I was actually quite happy when the contract ended and I got to go home to Austin.
Any idea when stackdriver is actually going to be usable for production? The latency of events is way to high to drive alerts from and the UI has basically always had issues. Clicking though any link seems to have about a 50% chance of resulting in "this page was not found" which only means you have to somehow find a different navigation path to get to that page.
In my city, the libraries post signs that, immediately after you return a book and pay any late fees, they destroy all records that you ever checked any books out.
> Person A says "fuck off and die".

That's not a death threat. That's mean and callous and rude, but it's not a threat.
Because they were never really rules at all in English, until those grammarians decided to try to make the language conform to Latin's rules.
It has literally happened before. Look into the node.js/io.js fork.
PV is growing at 30-40% per year for many years now. This year’s end-of-year forecast is 0.5 TW, extrapolating that trend gives 11.5-28.3 TW in December 2030.
What if nobody has to do anything about it. Being a monopoly is a matter of perspective.
> this statement is actually a couple of years out of date

This is the first I've heard of it, guess there's a lot of outdated information floating around.

> I think making a threading experience like Zulip's really work well is harder than you think.

Well this is HN, where you can build Dropbox yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
we all do - the difference is moving from scratching your itch to advertising your itch scratcher- find another one of your projects and show HN - worst case, you get to polish up some code
No thanks. Why should the state decide this?

There's already a basic mechanism already in place. It's called supply and demand.
As a user of dep, glide, godep and avid reader of vgo technical docs I favor vgo's solution. I've been a professional Go developer a few years now.

The notion that this committee speaks for the community seems a weak one to me and I've seen my view mirrored with many of my peers. Its good they attempted such research but it seems like confirmation bias as dep just seemed like a re-write of glide with similar fundamentals and a improved user experience. This appeal to authority by the committee to represent the Go community seems unproductive and unnecessarily divisive/misleading.

I wasn't thrilled when I saw become Sam elected to lead the implementation of the "official experiment" because I wasn't a fan of Glide at all. There was no community vote to oversee this, just one maintainer of one flavor of go pkg management was declared the expert and just re-wrote the existing Glide solution with some lesson's learned. Many other maintainers (experts) of other go pkg management solutions favor vgo.

I've navigated many thorny dependency problems in Go before and never have I ever been convinced that the solution was NP complete version constraints. MVS, good tooling, and finally SIV is enough to make this miles better then previous attempts in this space. Also hooray for GOPATH elimination and project based workflows I've always loved GB by Dave Cheney.
That's actually a liability thing though, I think (COPPA?)
As a human, social, user of Mastodon, yes that's totally fine with me. 50k followers is absurd, I have maybe in the 100's of social connections, and realistically only maintain in the dozens of meaningful conversations with people. I just want a means to have those connections that's not feeding some omnipotent beast.

I'm assuming your values are something else. Do you monetize your social media followers/follower count in some way? For some professions it's smart and necessary, but for my career it's not relevant in any way at this point.
I think that's the thrust of this whole situation. When people say "that should be illegal," it's because they're so accustomed to the idea of an all-encompassing, all-regulating government, that they can see no other outlet for their anger than to suggest new criminal laws.
I am not involved in this discussion and have no skin in the game, but from an outsider's perspective it seems that Russ laid out exactly what his concerns were about showstoppers in the dep implementation and those concerns were effectively ignored by the dep committee. What were they expecting to happen after that? Are there some other non-showstopper classified concerns that Russ should make up on the spot and have the dep committee then concentrate on? Why bother after showstoppers are effectively ignored?

It's odd to call out Russ as being disingenuous when he says his concerns were ignored when the dep committee did effectively ignore them. Adding 'effectively' as a qualifier here is somewhat important because it grants that there may have been a deliberation process and that those concerns were not outright dismissed, but the output of a deliberation process must be either in favor or against, and when a concern is deliberated against it is effectively ignored. It has never made sense to me when someone says something along the lines of "we've heard your concerns and have taken them into consideration" and yet did not heed those concerns. Obviously you haven't taken them into consideration and therefore they were effectively ignored.

In this case it seems to me that the burden of proof is on the dep committee to demonstrate that the alleged showstoppers are in fact not stopping the show. You don't get to call a committee meeting, decide to ignore showstoppers by claiming that you don't believe them to be so, and then expect nothing but smooth sailing and cooperation from there on. That makes no sense at all. All this rhetoric about community involvement and "working with us" falls on its face when the implicit terms of engagement are not adhered to.
Trump effect.
I am curious what happens to their assets in the state after their charter is revoked? This would leave large swaths of that state without TV and Internet no?
Boosting immigration isn't necessarily a desired outcome. Also, why would speaking English specifically make anyone more educated? Compared to, say, German or Chinese?

I agree with the benefit of English as the contemporary lingua franca, but these two reasons given don't make sense to me as a driver for "transitioning to English".
Apple Summit NYC
Exactly. An oversupply first according to the City. Where they get their data is a mystery. Or not, considering modern politics...
You'll be surprised how easy it is to create a simple processor once you understand basic concepts. The one I had designed had about 25 application-specific instructions and had about 2K lines of HDL code for full implementation.
Buying Oracle would be a welcome relief, but it's unlikely to happen. Oracle's culture is just too different from modern Microsoft to ever work.

Salesforce would be an interesting acquisition. Maybe they could merge that in with their Dynamics division, perhaps shunted under Azure.
If you have 1 million percent inflation then sure buy bitcoin but in the US inflation is historically 2-3% a year. So your point is moot.
Debugging React Native
There's Voat, looks like a really welcoming place with plenty of intellectual discussion.

https://voat.co/
More 'sound good' politics at play here.

When will the state start to focus on fixing problems instead of regulating solutions?
I'm positive Youtube doesn't run on AWS.
OK, so I don't use Facebook.

But can one search the Internet via Facebook?

Or wait, are you saying that they don't realize that there's anything except Facebook? And yes, I can vaguely remember when all I knew was CompuServe and Econet. And AOL, which only idiots used ;)
That's a strong accusation. Can you provide any more information (URLs) to investigate?
Just what is your definition of substantive?
Fuck Spectrum. They are just awful. The jack your rates, don't follow through, and are so awful to deal with I just am kind of resigned to it. I think Fios may be here soon. They can't be worse, can they?
Not exactly, because the hypothesis is that calories is the only (or at least primary) thing that affects body weight.
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