skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a couple of reasons for the reactions here:

1. By using Einstein's name in your marketing, you're using the name of a scientist who worked for a university whose ostensible mission is to create and disseminate knowledge for the public good. By contrast, you're seem to be running a small investment firm.

2. If we accept that you're looking to make a financial investment in a company, the amount of money that you're offering is astoundingly low given the terms that you propose. Yes, if someone doesn't like your offer, they don't have to accept it. However, at the same time, you seem to be targeting people who don't know how to obtain their own money, which suggests young and naive. From that perspective, your investment seems exploitative.

Candidly, from my own personal opinion, these sort of arraignments are not OK. Learning to run a business is hard, but in my opinion, ultimately rewarding. Offers like these attempt to normalize a behavior that experienced business people would scoff at. Unfortunately, $5k is not going to pay many bills. If I'm in a position to take advantage of the networking that you imply, that means that I already need to have enough money to support myself until the business gets off the ground. If I have that much money laying around, then I'm already a good position to make a go at business and giving up that much equity is exploitative.

Further, there are details implied in the offer that are generally not good for a new business. Equity means I need to have shares, which probably means an S-corp or a C-corp. Most starting businesses should probably file as a sole-proprietorship (as an LLC or not) because the accounting is vastly easier, which means cheaper. How does your arrangement work if someone has a business structure with no shares?

In case someone else asks how to get money for a new business if not for programs like this: There are others depending on where you live. In the U.S., both government SBIR and STTR grants are, in my opinion, good sources of money and don't require equity. A phase-1 grant gives about $80-100k, phase-2 $400-500k, phase-3 low millions. In Norway, I've seen good things from Innovasjon Norge.

Certainly, I appreciate when people try to help others learn business. It just seems like this strategy isn't it.
> This just looks like another VC firm

I don't think VC firms fund poets or musicians :)

> communities that reward intellectual curiosity, encouraging the cultivation of ideas and potential businesses that provide value.

I agree! That's exactly what's we're trying to do. I think most people we fund will never start companies. I hope they'll become great researchers, civic activists or artists. For the fraction that do, I hope we'll be significant enough of a needle mover in moving them as a person from idea to product that we'll deserve the small amount of equity we ask for.
That's sharing a studio with someone or a 1BR with 3 others. When you actually factor in costs by all metrics you're better off making high 5-figures or low 6-figures in any non-urban area than you are being anything but the top 2-5% of software developers in the Bay Area.
"by the time you're concerned about 8% equity, you've basically already 'made it' in the sense that you have likely have enough capital to start "

Nope! haven't made it.

"This project seems to be clearly aiming people who have ambition and competence, but minimal to no current resources or connections; the goal being to get them to where that is no longer the case -- helping them to reach their potential"

hi, that's me!

"It's hard to call anything at all exploitative if it succeeds in getting people from that critical nothing to something point"

i see the value of taking people from nothing to critical mass i.e - YC. in case of pioneers - i might be nothing now but highly unlikely - i will be nothing for the next 8 years!

imho, this 5 + 3% won't select for the best of people! I would totally judge a person who lock herself in this 8 year contract! that's just me
If for some reason those methods fail, they can use BULLRUN, which has a much larger budget[1] and specifically tasked with "defeat[ing] the encryption used in specific network communication technologies"[2].

[1] "The funding allocated for Bullrun in top-secret budgets dwarfs the money set aside for programs like PRISM and XKeyscore. PRISM operates on about $20 million a year, according to Snowden, while Bullrun cost $254.9 million in 2013 alone. Since 2011, Bullrun has cost more than $800 million." ( https://www.ibtimes.com/edward-snowden-reveals-secret-decryp... )

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classification_guide_for_...
I'd love to trade in the Prius to get a Tesla but there's no way in hell I'm doing that when they are so expensive. You can get a used Prius for about CAD$14,000. Maybe in another 5 or 6 years.
It's not raining. There's one cab. The fare costs 5 dollars. There's one rider. Everything works great.

It's raining. There's one cab. The fare costs 5 dollars. There's two riders. The driver flips a coin. One rider pays $5, and gets a ride. The other has to wait, and then gets a ride.

It's raining. There's one cab. There's surge pricing, so the fare costs $15. There's two riders. One rider can afford to pay $15, and gets a ride. The other has to wait, until the surge dies down, and then pays $5 for a ride.

When there's a shortage of cabs, someone will have to pay with money. Under the lottery system, it's a random rider. Under the price surge system, it's the poorest rider. You haven't actually produced any more value in the third case. The same amount of time is wasted.
Ask HN: Any good sites for following product/tech legal issues?
Like new cases coming up, to be decided, etc. regarding tech, startups, antitrust, etc. from a legal perspective? Even caselaw or regulations in one place. Maybe a site or really good blog that follows/FAQs this stuff.
Sure, but the Prius has been out for almost 2 decades.

It's a lame almost-clickbait, almost contentless article, but it's not an unreasonable conclusion. The 3 is already EVERYWHERE in the bay area, it's by far the most common car I've ever owned, and in very short order it'll be more common than the S, which has been out for, what, 6 years now? Just last night I had another 3 immediately in front of me and an S immediately behind.
I know someone who does this and the discovery has been a godsend. Doesn't even take a strong dose either!
Lol, always jenkins (CI).
It’s not surprising. The people most interested in encryption want to trust nobody. That’s the goal of strong encryption, but as Ken Thompson says it’s not possible. Between the US Government and Moxie I’d trust Moxie but I’d rather trust neither.
I would have preferred this format as well.

3 weeks between each trimester, year round, maybe slightly longer in the summer (4-5 weeks)
Coalition of 40+ Tech Companies Endorse MANRS Routing Security Actions
It's an analysis of a trend, with admittedly a small sample size thus far. But it's a trend nonetheless. Prii have been produced for decades; the 3 for maybe a year?
I'm interested in (though not experienced with) SQL parsers.

I was most curious about the project to check out its test suite, but it looks like there aren't any automated tests. https://github.com/marcobambini/sqlite-createtable-parser/bl...
Hello from Lafayette.
The generalization (sum types) would be even more powerful. Fingers crossed.
Our 2010 version polled once a second to get around a lot of bugs (Intel GPUs back then would forget their color settings on standby and lots of other things).

Since our update last year (v4) f.lux stopped doing this and does a lot of other tricks to reduce impact on framerates too.
In some ways it's far more impressive that the Prius is as ubiquitous in the Bay Area as it is. People who would never buy a Corolla flocked to it.

The 3 is also a generic transportation appliance, but it's a much nicer one.
Drew DeVault doesn't trust Signal because its Android incarnation uses the Google Play Store --- the app market virtually all of its real users use --- and not F-Droid. DeVault would also like it if Signal would interoperate with other chat programs.

Instead, DeVault would prefer that you use Matrix, a system for which end-to-end encryption is (according to its own website) "in late beta", offered on a select subset of clients, and "not enabled by default"†.

This argument is clownish and we should be embarrassed it's on the front page.

There are people in the world that want to sysadmin their phones. It's a life choice they are free to make and I don't hold it against them. But the vast, overwhelming majority of users do not want to make the app market on their phone work more like Debian and less like the Play Store. Signal, to put it bluntly, does not care about the desires of the phone sysadmins. Even if they caved to the sysadmins, the application would, for virtually all its users, be no more secure. This bothers DeVault a lot, enough that he's constructed an entire psychoanalysis of Moxie Marlinspike to explain to himself how it could possibly happen that someone else on the Internet doesn't agree with him.

Also, just as a note to DeVault: the point of end-to-end encryption is that you don't have to trust Signal's server. All it does is arrange for the delivery of messages, which are secured client-to-client. Compare Signal's server to Wire's, which --- last I checked --- retains a record of every pair of users who have communicated in the past.

† When this was pointed out downthread, DeVault responded: "[o]ther alternatives (which I have not reviewed in depth) include Tox, Telegram, Wire, and Ring". Telegram is a particularly funny reference to make, because not only is E2E not the default there, but --- last I checked --- it can't even do E2E group chat. Telegram's owners are adamant that TLS is adequate for group secure chat.
I have seen some breakups. At some point or another one of the participants dehumanizes the previous partner. It's scary, it's like the propaganda bullet point that is part of the list used to qualify a genocide.

I never did that ; heartbreaks are really damaging to me.

Anecdata, of course.
This article is irresponsibly written, because the two-year term is buried in its middle.

The headline reads "will pay consultant $176,800," which will be parsed as "per year" by, what, 99.9% of readers?

The first sentence is no better: "pay $176,800 to a computer software consultant."

As others have mentioned, this is almost certainly a bargain--I can't imagine any new system being quoted without a price of 'millions.'
Lloyd Strickland's "Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation And Guide" is an excellent way to get into Leibniz.
Are you familiar with the Baltimore Police Department's RFP and procurement processes? Because companies and governments have paid a lot more for a lot less.
There are more cases, e.g. the AGP bus (evolution of the original PCI bus for graphics, pre PCI-Express). I don't know if the limitation of the PS3 graphics chip (NVidia RSX) comes because of being derivated from an AGP-based chip or because of a different reason.
That's pretty mind blowing. The top of the list there is Rüppell's vulture, which was confirmed in 1973 to have been flying at 37,000 ft, identifiable by feathers it left behind when it was ingested by a jet engine.

Unlucky bastard. You think you're safe, 7 miles above the earth, far from any predator, when WHAM. At least it was a quick death.
lol, get over yourself dude.
Yes absolutely
Origin also has Ubisoft games (https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/assassins-creed/assas... ), THQ Nordic games (https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/darksiders/darksiders...) and indie games (https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/opus-magnum/opus-magn...) though you wouldn't easily tell since the front page exclusively promotes their own games.
Or that the Baltimore Police don’t mind it running badly - given some of that department’s troubles, having the odd document vanish might be beneficial to them.
It's funny you put it that way. You're right: the server might as well be closed source. That is the point of end-to-end encryption.
To add to the comments here, it's also important to stay very humble about those compulsions, knowing that they can appear anytime in life, when you have kids, when they to go college, when you lose a parent etc, even sickness can bring it.
Maybe our entire model for romantic relationships is flawed if when they end the most helpful thing to do demonize the ex in our head.

I get the sense that people are more attached to the fantasy of a perfect relationship than they are to the imperfect person they're with who doesn't fit that mold.
During a PhD you don't have to chase funding- either you have funding (via a scholarship etc) at which point it normally lasts for the three or four years you're expected to finish your PhD, or you don't, in which case you probably don't start at all- unless you can pay the PhD fees and your expenses out of your own budget... in which case you don't need "funding" (in the sense of funds given to you from some source specifically to do research).
Contractor could make that, which is what I thought was meant by "with a bit of effort".
Pay, definitely not (I live within extended commute distance and have gotten offers for senior dev at $80k and similarly insulting numbers) but it's pretty up there in terms of COL.
I live in Fremont and my neighborhood has 3 Model 3s between 10 neighbors.
> Stay private and get loans

What if they got stuck in some scandal? IPO is also a way to shield the company from action of an evil executive.

If some politician has a beef with a private business, they can potentially cause them enormous loss.

But no politician would like to take some action which might cause public losing money because of the fear of losing their support through votes.

Not only this, it's also a feedback mechanism. A company exceeds quarterly expectations, more people jump to buy their shares as a result executives sell and profit. And large companies will have projects which might take long to profit, but they can be immediately judged on their next move post IPO. How will this work in a private company?
If only coal and gas-fired power plants factored in health & climate externalities into their levelized cost per kWh too...
Yes, I agree, a lot more to explore.

... but people who listen to a lot of music tend to simply end up in Jazz because that's where the bulk of interesting live stuff is. It's one of the only genres that is consistent in it's kind of creative-intellectual appeal.

Hence the last regular exit on the highway ...
Thanks for the tips! That link is super interesting.

I'm guessing melanopic lux is the lux output weighted over the spectral absorption curve of your eyes?

Some napkin math: I have ten 3W LEDs, and each might produce around 1000 lux when fully driven. If we drive each at half strength, and half of the generated lux is melanopic lux, that's 2500 melanopic lux.
Long time.

"Love", in whatever form or meaning you want to take, (AFAIK/IMO) involves far to many systems for anything other than a systemic approach to have an effect (without sever side effects).
This seems more like "I disagree with Moxie," not "I don't trust Moxie," unless there's some allegation that Moxie is in cahoots with Google.

I can trust people that I think made incorrect technical decisions, because I can see that they made a decision for technical reasons and have different priorities and reasoned soundly.
How is this any different to Hewlett-Packard or DuPont or thousands of other comparable companies? They sound more like objects or brands than surnames anyway.

Besides you should watch some of Rigetti's speeches, he really seems like a great guy and CEO who is passionate about quantum computing.
My financial history is proof I can provide the money and am responsible. I'd love to save more money, but this thing called life gets in the way.

Its a loan. What does it matter if I get a $250,000 or a $260,000 loan? I don't think its proof of anything. I think its sham by banks.
Watching traffic in downtown SF is a game of seeing if the total sum of non-Prius cars outnumber the Priuses or not.
Coal power plants also need peaking support as base load power is not load following. Yet, because they are cheap enough that's not been a problem in the past.

Wind/Solar is thus filling the exact same base load niche of cheap power.
I'm running f.lux on my work PC (tones down a bad otherwise VERY bright-blue monitor).

Thank you for reading/writing out your interpretation of the article so clearly (highlighting points others are likely to trip on not coming from a related background)
At least in my case, I'm tired of the endless attempts some would make to use tech to eliminate aspects of being human. Heartbreak sucks, but it also tends to be a valuable life lesson in my experience.
To be fair,they started pinni their certificates about 3 years after claiming their VoIP stuff was encrypted. So there was only A FRIGGING THREE YEAR WINDOW when someone in your root cert db could mitm your VoIP connection. So not really friendly neighbour Hacker Joe could do, but definitely a nation state or malicious employer.
Also, if the philosophical roots of computing are of interest, then check out

Martin Davis "The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing"

I'm working on an article about Norbert Wiener's cybernetic reading of Leibniz atm...
Exactly — the fact that people who buy a Tesla Model 3 are likely to be trading in a Prius doesn't mean the Model 3 is "replacing" the Prius. It means the Model 3 targets a subset of customers of the Prius and is substantially more expensive (which is why people are trading in).

I live near Palo Alto and see lots of Teslas and Prii. The Teslas might be more common in parking lots along Sand Hill Road, but Prii are more common pretty much everywhere else.

Based on the evidence cited, a better conclusion would be: Tesla Model 3 is Replacing The Prius Among Wealthy Buyers.
Introducing the Time Series Benchmark Suite (TimescaleDB)
It's nice that they are there for people who won't install 3rd party software to get the extra features, but f.lux is still better.
Maybe you could stop this attack by having an IMU in the key so it only broadcasts the unlock signal while it's being held/moved.
Probably you were down-voted because of you starting with "What you are saying is wrong." People probably didn't like your tone and the original comment was only somewhat inaccurate. There still are more features in f.lux than the built in options.

And I assume you understand that since you edited that line out.
Amazon plans primary care clinics for employees
So nothing concrete then. I've read the statement and it doesn't explain anything. Though, it appears everyone has backed away from privatization from the go-go fast days of the early aughts.

The way I see it they can either cut entitlements and piss off their retired voters or they can make the young pay more and piss off their working base.
You said said that even though you were probably uniformed (not an expert) you thought that somebody with firsthand experience was probably wrong.

So technically you learn to need learn (how) to ask.

I'm guessing you wanted to ask something along the lines of: "I would not have thought that. Could you point me to some sources that shaped that line of thinking?"
VP of Engineering at Eaze, previously CTO at Getable and engineer at Yammer.

No, not at all. Whiteboard interviews test one thing
well: How well does a candidate code on a whiteboard.
Engineers on my team never have to code on a whiteboard
(whiteboards are really bad at running code), why would I
make candidates do something that I don't ask the
engineers already on my team to do?

This comes close, but I think the real issue that most of these reasons aren't hitting on is that software development is typically done asynchronously. Whether it's a whiteboard or a computer connected to a projector or TV or a live peer coding session it doesn't matter: if done in the interview, it puts the candidate on the spot in a way that they rarely (if ever) will be on the job. Developers typically are able to take time by themselves or with trusted/known colleagues to solve a problem. There are very few opportunities to get over performance anxiety related to coding in front of others that we don't know.
This reply comes across as saying you’re preying on people too desperate or poor to have any choice but to accept your terms, and too inexperienced and naive to be able to evaluate them.
I stand corrected - though, as another reply said, it makes little difference if you can't actually use a forked server in practice.

I don't know what I could say to convince you I'm just an ordinary person concerned about my privacy, but ultimately it doesn't matter: you should definitely consider the possibility that I'm a bad actor and take nothing on faith. Equally, you shouldn't trust that Marlinspike hasn't been compromised either.

A little thought experiment: Put yourself in the NSA's position in 2013. GPG has been out there for years and, despite your best efforts, you can't break it directly when users follow proper security practices. (You have to compromise those users' computers instead, and that's vastly more expensive; every time you use one of your rootkits or exploits you run the risk of burning it, so they're reserved for high-value targets). The world is suddenly a lot more interested in privacy, and while popular culture doesn't grasp the intricacies of key exchange or forward secrecy, there are enough cryptography experts around that any obvious downgrade from GPG will be noticed and picked up on (this is just after the conclusive failure of your Dual_EC_DRBG efforts). What do you do? How do you get the public to accept something easier to compromise?

My answer is: you find a different front to attack GPG from. You talk up different kinds of attackers. You dangle a new, desirable security property that GPG doesn't have, and a theoretically clean construction - and then you compromise the metadata subtly, down in the weeds of usability features, letting you identify the higher-value targets. You get people used to using a closed-source build that auto-updates, and have a canned exploit ready (a compromised PRNG or similar) to use on those targets. And you get people to enter their phone numbers so that you can always track their location and what hardware they're running if you do have to attack their device more directly.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but it seems distinctly odd that we see such a push behind an app that compromises so many features that were previously thought essential to security, just as the move for encryption is finally gaining momentum.
> The one upside of someone else giving the direction is that you can be sure that there will be some concrete benefit from it.

Wiener argues that this often is not true, because the people with the money often have a poor understanding of what's actually important.

To give an example, in my own area of research, my impression is that most industrial folks hate math. They consistently deny the benefit of it. As a theorist who tries hard to do practical work, I find it very irritating for my work to be written off by industry for a bad reason. I went to a conference a few weeks ago, and it was clear that industry folks won't attend my talks, but when I spoke with some of them in private they seemed much more interested in what I knew. It may be mostly an advertising problem, but I still have the math barrier to break through. My mantra now is "math is cheap", which seems to resonate with people who are used to paying tons of money for new experiments which usually don't give you useful information. At the very least I can tell them what sort of experiments would be valuable based on my theoretical understanding.

Ultimately, we need a balance of input from those with money and those with more detailed knowledge. This is what I strive for. At the moment I'd say the vast majority of research is directed from above, so I'd agree with Wiener that we need to move in an individualistic direction.