skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Booted from the front page already?)
This is a good question, because it illuminates design decisions that Signal has made that confuse nerds. For instance: Signal only recently got user profiles --- user profiles! --- because they took their time figuring out how to deliver them without sacrificing privacy. Take some time to look at how they implemented Giphy sharing to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Any information the Signal client reveals to the server is, indeed, something the USG could make a legal claim on. Probably even if Signal's server code doesn't now even collect it. The Signal team has been sounding that alarm for years: when you look at a chat program with fancy whiz-bang features, consider what those features expose (traffic-analytically, even). "Maybe have fewer features until we figure this out", Signal says.

The market does not agree, and that has been rough for Signal, and they deserve credit for the stand they are taking on it.
"The only two critical resources China still lacks are oil and state-of-the-art electronics."

This seems like an odd thing to say.

China produces about 1/3 of the amount of oil Saudi Arabia does. So it's not the top oil producer in the world, but it is a major one.

And Intel's Fab 68, which produces 3DXPoint, is in China. Then again, I'm not sure how state-of-the-art electronics can be considered a "resource".
Is it possible to "double down" where I can pay double and get double the mac n' cheese?

Do you offer an option to lobsterate my mac n' cheese?
Racket sounds like a really exciting language, but every time I look at some code...
>When I drive daily in a sea of Prii (pl. of Prius)

Man, in Latin, prius isn't even a noun.
I believe that one thing that will happen is that we will see distributed technologies take off and they will break the marketholds of some of these massive technopolies like Uber or Amazon etc. That will not stop the commoditization of labor however or prevent those jobs from being completely replaced by robots.

I think we will need to infuse these distributed technologies into our institutions in order to create a society that works with them. For example, we need distributed databases that can give real numbers for resource availability if we are going to be able to ensure that everyone has their minimum needs met if we can't rely on wages to be adequate anymore. AIs keep getting more powerful so this isn't going to just affect an underclass. On the other hand if we have accurate resource numbers and efficient use of them then maybe we can find a way to adjust wages and perhaps even add many more jobs by finding new ways to leverage AI and automation in symbiotic ways.

To me brain computer interfaces are actually going to be critical in terms of ensuring that humans stay relevant and.. useful to other humans. It doesn't make sense to just stop all development of technology and forfeit all of the benefits. We need to adjust.
If anything, straight-out racism was replaced with passive aggression or non-textual harassment (i.e. intentionally throwing the game or screwing over your teammate)...

I'm not sure if I'd consider that a better player experience...
Thank you. Don't know why I'm being downvoted for asking.
Federal workers don't get paid particularly well, actually. There's some competition among contractors especially if you have active clearance but nothing approaching SV.
Interestingly, the screencap that's the hero image for TFA includes a comparison between a picture of Xi and Obama and a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger.

The Xi => Pooh comparison is (to my understanding) a common one in China, and one the Party tries to suppress.
It would be wonderful to have a list of all these propositions including their initial selling points, how much money they raised and where the money actually ended up.
Minor kvetch: quoting the way you did it makes long lines very difficult to read. I usually quote like this:

> I am a quote

This makes the quotation doubly-distinct, and still readable on mobile devices.

===

To the actual point I wanted to make: plenty of engineers at companies code on a whiteboard. They schedule a meeting, grab a room, and talk things out, while making notes, diagrams and sometimes even actually writing out some code on a whiteboard.

I hope nobody asks people to write compilable code on a whiteboard, but asking a person to talk through a problem and jot down some pseudocode doesn't seem like an awful thing to me. Communication is a pretty critical part of our job.
I disagree with that assertion.

I also own the domain name name quantum.ly so I may have an overwhelming bias on the matter.
You can get a pre-owned Model S right now for $43,600

Source: https://ev-cpo.com/hunter/
>> A PhD program is not a summer camp, it's a social tool and the public is paying money in order to grow the human knowledge base.

"letting scientists chase down interesting things" as per the OP's comment is how the "human knowledge base" grows in the first place.

Besides, who would decide what research is useful to pursue, other than the experts in a given field? If you don't really understand a research subject, how can you figure out whether it's useful or not?
Ask HN: Who uses GitHub Issues and How do you use them?
We've been working on some developer dashboards here at Chart.ly and have built some tooling for visualizing GitHub issues.

I'd love to get some feedback on what we've built. Here is an example of all the repos under the VueJS organization:

https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/team/vuejs/issues (top level view)

Here is a filtered view of all issues with the label bug: https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/team/vuejs/issues/label/bug

We use GitHub issues some internally, but I'd love to hear more about how the HN community uses them and if this kind of dashboard would be helpful to others.
Did you read that work? I did: I was on the review board that made the decision to accept it for Black Hat. Could you map Yogesh's research to something Signal is actually proposing to do and explain in any detail what the actual threat you're talking about is? Thanks.
I actually really like whiteboarding problems and it is a common and effective real-world problem solving skill.

I still only do OK at whiteboarding in interviews.
Interesting you mention oxygen -- this means you breath from an oxygen tank? I notice I yawn a lot when a migraine is about to occur -- I always thought this had something do with lack of oxygen.

I always have a supply of MaxAlt (rizatriptan benzoate) with me which short circuits my migraines if I take it in the correct window of time. 1 MaxAlt usually works, 2 or 3 in the worse case.
Not the prettiest, but nice and fast, and no Javascript. Nice to know I don't need the browser to process an entire framework just to load an h1 tag.
What everyone is overlooking is that of course the Prius would be a top trade-in how many have been produced in the last 20 years? It's like saying that the CAR X is the new Camry, because the number one trade-in is the Camry. The Camry being the best selling passenger car for the last 25 years...

What's number two on the list? The BMW 3 Series, which is way more in line with what you'd expect and certainly not a "green car" by any stretch of the imagination.
Because that audience didn't collectively jump ship from the last service Microsoft bought _to_ discord. They also don't have a long lasting mistrust of Microsoft due to GFWL, the Xbone attempt to stop game sharing, umpteen "We really care about PC gaming this time, honest" promises, etc.

Frankly, while programmers have benefited enough from new Microsoft that people are starting to give them a chance, gamers have not at this point a MS owned Discord would do more harm to Discord than good to MS. Users already see the Microsoft store as a flytrap to avoid, and any future Discord services would be tarred with the same brush.
You sound frustrated, like you think it’s a bad thing that the police has time to respond to these types of incidents. When you’re not in one of the big cities, it is in fact common that police has time for this type of stuff (I live in Zeist myself and could see this type of thing happening here).

I think this is rather a signal that the police in Amsterdam is underfunded, and/or the types of crimes they deal with are much more severe.

Also keep in mind that it’s not a “search a whole neighborhood” situation, they got the exact GPS coordinates.
it's interesting how a discussion about the SEC possibly investigating Musk and Tesla over Twitter comments was flagged by HN moderators and this blog post presenting a rosy view of Tesla showed up in its wake
On Windows proper it has a resolution of 15ms, which is nowhere precise enough for games.
Exactly. And there is nothing that verifies anythong gets deleted anyways. It could always just tell you it deleted it while never deleting anything.
Posting links in comment so they are easy to click:

https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/team/vuejs/issues (top level view)

https://chart.ly/github-dashboard/team/vuejs/issues/label/bu... (all issues with label of bug)
> But as long as it doesn't support federation (I miss XMPP) and as long as it does require a phone number (None of anyone's business, not required for my contacts, a baaaad way to handle identification) it is utterly broken for me.

Why not simply use XMPP then? https://conversations.im/omemo/
> I’d want a company that gives equal opportunity and benefits based on merit not sexual orientation

LGBT friendly does not mean “preference given to LGBT people.”
> One rough argument made in the book is for workers performing roles with work that can be completely specified by superiors, it's less necessary for workers to demonstrate they can conform to how their employer wants them to think, provided they do the work. For professional roles involving more intellectual work where an employee's day to day tasks cannot be completely specified in advance, it's important for such employees to demonstrate they can think how the organisation wishes them to think, so an important part of training for these roles is essentially political training.

Great summary. I guess my qualm is that this is not necessarily political. I'll admit it often is, but in my field I think people are often dedicated to bad ideas because of what I see as institutional inertia, the sunk cost fallacy, or not liking math, not just politics.
Hallmark of anxiety is warped perception of own health. Don't fall into the trap of incessant research. Instead schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist as soon as you can get enough focus to make the phone call. Or ask a friend to do that for you.
This is a great explanation and a must-read for Python developers. Once you know this stuff, you'll be a much stronger debugger.

But it's also worth throwing a warning out there: when you first learn about a new type of magic, you'll be tempted to use it everywhere. Be careful!

I can recognise a clear specific period in my Python work which was just after I had read this, and a bunch of things suddenly became implicit.
> The pain of loss is one of the most important signals that something impacted your happiness

Ehhhh kind of bullshit? And then also dangerous.

If something that impacted your happiness is no longer around, why must that result in pain? IMO, the lack of a source of happiness should not result in pain (although it often does). Maybe if it's your last one, or otherwise reduces overall happiness to below threshold values, but I'd say that's a signal you need to diversify your portfolio.

AFAIK, I know far to many people who then also equate pain with happiness, for exactly this thinking. You can stab yourself with a pen. Does that make the pen meaningful, because it can cause you pain?

I'd say the pain of loss is a strong and significant signal that something impacted your happiness, but the happiness itself should the (only) significant signal. Everything else is nuance and seasoning.
I would like to see a hosting provider who says 'all stuff we host for you is your responsibility, and we shall not police it in any way'.

I'm well aware they have the right to run their business however they choose, but I'd pay a premium to know that my hosting provider won't pull the plug on my site based on its content.
These two competing cars aim at very, very different markets. Forbes' breathless prediction of Toyota's hybrid market demise is a myopic opinion piece and a stretch of wishful thinking.

The lower-tier Prius' are profoundly less expensive than even the mythical base-model Model 3 (which the article points out, isn't available; Tesla has said they hope to offer the base model by the end of the year). A 2017/2018 Toyota Prius can be driven off the lot for $20,000. The Model 3s that have been sold are $40,000+. That makes A Prius Prime plug-in hybrid the most direct competitor. I trust the sales figures quoted are accurate.

But there's more to it: Price, availability, utility, and maintainability are big considerations once you leave the ultra-luxury price range (100k+) that is Tesla's core market. The Toyota wins in all these aspects, in my opinion. Where Toyota does not compete is the "status symbol" market.
Isn't this pretty much the definition of the "Great Firewall" ?
My current research is on retyping coding examples because I believe we don't give enough repetition (or rote memorization) in CS and that initial frustration is a primary reason for the high attrition/failure rates.

To shift the view, I don't need to be a kinesiologist or nutritionist to work out. By all means, they help, but are not necessary. The "memorization" of repeatedly going to the gym creates the motivation to get better, which motivates learning how nutrition and kinesiology impact performance. The point is there is some degree of "regurgitation of facts" that is necessary for progress.

"To memorize" vs. "To understand" is the core difference in Eastern vs. Western education styles. You need both obviously, but when and where to "memorize" and when and where to "understand" are often debated. My research idea is that more foundation of facts is needed because then you can talk about theory without worrying someone doesn't understand.

(To invoke Bloom Taxonomy) So while I'm not "just memorizing" all these different meta-cognitive theories of how people learn, I need to know them well enough that I can apply them. Once I can apply them, I can evaluate them, and eventually see enough patterns that I can create my own models and theories.
I'm leaning toward the idea that grief is a response to a shattering of a worldview. The Kübler-Ross model was developed not based on people who'd sufferred loss of a loved one, but had been informed that their own health conditions were terminal.

Having to rebuild the ordering system of your world is profoundly painful, especially when there is no clear new system to replace it with. Cultural traditions about life events, particularly loss, ease this, IMO, assist with this.

Its transitions which are unexpected and unsupported which are most painful.

Ideological ones especially.
Whoa, happy to see this here so quickly after we published. I'm one of the main authors of this tool (with lots of help from the team here at Timescale), so happy to answer any questions! Feedback welcome too :)

I'll also note that I believe the part in parentheses is either supposed to be TSBS -- our acronym for this tool -- or TimescaleDB, the company behind it.
Ayup. People should come before relationships.
You should post the link. It could be fun to compare the comments !
> Telegram

So you work for FSB?
> a lot of modern feminism starts from the assumption that there are zero differences between men and women

No, very little of modern feminism starts from this perspective. And even if it did, this is a strawman.

Regardless of the manager's goal, it is vastly inappropriate. It would have been inappropriate even if the genders in the story were reversed. Arguing that the manager was so immature that they engaged in petty political bickering to make a point at the expense of a team member's emotional well being doesn't make me feel like they were any more justified.

That's not something that should happen in a professional environment.

> My whole point was that the article is very thin on specific bad experiences

From the article: "While on a team outing, the same senior staff member messaged a new employee’s girlfriend on Facebook asking if she was “DTF” - shorthand for “down to f-ck”. He thought it was a funny joke. The new staffer didn’t feel comfortable challenging him, even though his girlfriend was very uncomfortable and called to ask why she was being harassed by his boss."

But I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why it's appropriate for a manager to abuse a power structure to hit on an employee's girlfriend that he's never met.

Seriously, the entire article is example after example after example. Employees asking personal questions about her sex life. Abusing fans - a female just got fired for being short with fans on Twitter, but sure, forcing a cosplayer to tears is just boys being boys. Trying to run blackface in a cosplay parade. Physical advances and professional retaliation against female employees.

This isn't a conversation at this point. You're mischaracterizing her story to throw doubt on her claims. You're not arguing in good faith, you're just gaslighting.
Show HN: Condenser – A database subsetting project
> It's to reward employees who may need to sell stock based compensation to pay bills and other things that require currency.

Don't spend money before you have it.

On the other hand, equity is worthless until it's fungible. Fungibility problems turn into retention problems. Otherwise, the company has to pay large bonuses to key employees who may decide to cut their losses.
> A paper by O’Gorman et al [1] describes (p. 46) the following experiment and its results. A total of 864 modules were first run on the second floor of a two-story building for 4,671 hours, during which time, 24 soft errors were detected. Then, the same 864 modules were run for 5,863 hours in a nearby vault shielded by about 20m of rock, during which time, zero soft errors were detected.

Interesting, but there's no guarantee that time moves at the same rate both inside the simulation and outside of it -- indeed there's a good chance that the simulation runs much faster than the external environment. A 25% increase in observation time seems way too low to draw any kind of conclusion.
Oh, so you are just a retard who doesn't understand anything?
Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed source software?
How can one check whether a closed source commercial software using an open source code while infringing the code's license?
"we want you to do this really complicated project"

"that sounds challenging, I think I can help!"

"jkjk there's no project, just wanted to see if you pass the Orange Juice Test ™. The project is just a WordPress site!"

"oh."

the end.

I'm glad I don't deal with people like this.

Edit: I'm unreasonably irritated with this article... this part really drives home how asinine the whole thing is:

“But surely you considered more than that? No doubt I could get workers to squeeze oranges at 5 a.m. if I paid them a thousand dollars apiece. But would you be willing to pay that much?”

“I might, or I might not, but it’s not for the banquet managers to decide that for me. That’s my job, not theirs. If your price had been too high, we would have eliminated you, too. But that’s a different test. There’s no sense in getting a low price if they can’t do the job, or if they’re going to con you and give you canned orange juice in small glasses”

so you ask for all this stupid stuff (just a prank, bro!) and then when it comes to saying, "sure, but it will be more expensive" then that's ANOTHER test?? So as a consultant I should drop everything to listen to your tall tale about things to don't actually exist just to show you that my porridge is not too hot or not too cold and MAYBE gain the distinct honor and privilege to work with you? GTFO.
Choosing a name that, inevitably, will have you informally referred-to--and thus known as--"the Pioneer fund" seems profoundly unwise.

I suggest deepening your expertise in branding and PR.
Interesting article you posted. I’d never stopped to wonder the investment bank fees for underwriting an IPO and I expected millions but ~$50M was unexpected.

Not to be that guy on HN but it would seem this is the area should leverage blockchain to do a public offering (ICO for equity) and show how blockchain/tokens could be used to cut out the investment banks and save a company $50M on a public offering.
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My statement very directly refutes the assertion that they are "bringing politics into the office", when in fact politics are already there.

Summarizing arguments is necessary when people obfuscate the true argument they are making. Dog whistles are a great example of this. If you can't all an argument out for what it is, you can't refute it at all.
OTOH, great to see the US getting off the dime after much of Europe has tackled this - with sterling results. That our regrettable resistance is ending is in itself a great success.
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There's some logic to that. It's the one of the same reasons we have high stakes exams in school: to show what the individual can do under pressure. In an interview setting you can't simulate what it's like to be at the end of a high-intensity sprint, but you can ask the candidate to answer a tough question on a whiteboard and (ideally) get a notion of how they work when the going gets tough.
Show HN: Montreal-based tech pharmacy Airix
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Some of us consider outdoor activities and nice people to be "amenities"...
I would be very interested to see a write up of what you are doing here as I have a similar problem. Any chance you could share one if you create one? Email in my profile.
We really need a word for non-romantic breakups because losing a very close friend can be just as hurtful, but it seems odd to say you "broke up" and nothing else ("falling out"?) really expresses the severity of the loss.
this is a deal breaker as it makes your plan B inviable.

if your startup fails, you will never join another as an earlier employer, which is the plan B for most failed founders. becuase now you are a toxic asset to any early stage company which you can be said to be a early founder. now you will only be able to find 9-5 jobs at big Co as your plan B.
One of the reasons to go private... no shareholders that demand a bland CEO.
It's odd the Baltimore sun even bothers paying attention to GDPR.