skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how it's possible that a "social scientist" thinks that he has identified the great problem and its solution in every other academic discipline. Well, actually I do understand that, I've been around sociologists. I wonder if there's any chance that people that simply feel something about a tiny corner of the whole picture start speaking just for themselves. Maybe he's realized that his field is organized BS, but I don't think that makes a case for destroying modern science in order to build this society where laypersons decide what is worthwhile knowledge and what's not, in the newspapers. That's a great recipe for going back to those several centuries in which the rationale of doctorates was "improving society" as well.
Why a Freelance Editor Was a Gamechanger for My Blog
They can just provide them as-is, with no guarantees, and a big "things can and will break" disclaimer. This will be unusable for commercial usage, but will allow power users to automate their finances.
Regardless of the truth of your assertions, the article you provided as evidence does not support them. At no point does it demonstrate that a matrix server can force E2E on all communications, that synapse can be configured thus, or that riot can require that configuration.
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As announced recently by both LEEK and [UEXCHANGE](https://abcc.com/at_invitation/share?aff=b4d770), a total of 500,000 $LEEK have been set aside to reward new members and traders who joins to buy and sell $LEEK during the reward period.
There are two sets of rewards in the program:

I) Sign up Airdrop
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II) Trading Competition
Within the same period also (4th-19th August), the top 5 traders in LEEK, that is, taking the total of buys and sells, will be rewarded with a collective total of 200,000 LEEK tokens.

[UEXCHANGE](https://abcc.com/at_invitation/share?aff=b4d770) is also holding a bounty program, where you can get rewarded with DTA tokens for performing simple social media tasks. You can find more details on [This BTCTalk Thread](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4818747.msg43471832#msg43471832)
Silver lining: We're united against those other people, lol. By politicians encouraging a divided, polarized atmosphere they've created a largely 2-party system (instead of a many-party system).
What do you mean by a "connected" web interface? And what would being a desktop application bring it?

Signal Desktop is somewhat buggy, not that full-features, and doesn't integrate that well with the rest of my OS, but otherwise it's working fine, and I can use it simultaneously with my phone. (But I can also use it with my phone turned off, which I love.)
That system has already changed. Tenure tracks are largely phasing out as older professors retire. They are being replaced with part-time adjunct teaching positions, supplemented by big name researchers that bring in grant money and institutions can write marketing articles about. Those big names are not incentivized to stay by a tenure system, as they can easily accept positions at other institutions or in private industry to continue doing their research.
In Europe the norm is to do a Master after a Bachelor, some Master programmes are heavily research oriented and can give you a taste of what's to come if you choose to keep following that path. (I definitely agree with the point you're making, just pointing out that there are different possibilities)
> I don’t think so. What happens is that the price would be too low to overcome the mental barrier of whipping out a wallet to pay for yet another recurring service, something people are only willing to do for larger websites.

Why does the price have to be low? You can pay yearly, for instance.

However, the main point I was trying to make is that with Patreon people voluntarily contribute $1, $5 or whatever. It hasn't been a problem and it's done every day.

If you're not willing to put up with "whipping out a wallet for yet another recurring service", it means you don't value the product.

Again, I don't even think it's the size of the website because many community-supported projects are 1 solo content creator.
Thailand is bad too. Tourists standing on coral to take pictures etc, dead coral everywhere.
> Nintendo is possibly the most litigious game company in history,...

Genuinely curious if there is a way to know who actually is the most litigious? I was thinking it was someone more like Disney.
> By the same token, most Republicans know that they will eventually get old, likely sick and finally die; thus they are not opposed to public healthcare as long as it is efficient and does not overburden public finances. However, they think (with some justification given past national federal projects) that if the US Federal government designs such a system it will be an inefficient and super costly monster pandering to special interests. And they are dead set against it.

That's a pretty laughable statement. Tons of local government (town, city, state) projects are just as much (or more) over budget with massive special interest pandering as well. The Federal government is not unique in this aspect.
Hmm, how do you configure it? IIRC it just automatically used it because I don't have Play Services.
This is a really poor post. Lots of in-the-weeds long-running-feud grudge holding snark, but no real examination of the issues at hand. And his assertions don't make sense in any case. You can't trust the Google Play store because a malicious actor might have swapped out the trusted roots on you. But then why should we trust F-Droid's signing infrastructure?

Then he gripes that the posted APK has to be manually checksummed to use it. If you are truly paranoid, trusting a checksum you get from the same page you get a binary is as secure as ignoring the checksum altogether. But why would you trust a hidden signature process you can't see any more? How do you know your F-Droid binary was secure?

But worst of all is this pointless assertion: "Truly secure systems don’t require trust."

There are no truly secure systems. Malicious actors could replace your Matrix app with a lookalike clone. Your phone could have a hidden keylogger built into the OS. Or the hardware. The person's phone on the other end of your communication could have been compromised. You could be being monitored by all sorts of undetectable means.

Perfect security is an unattainable goal, but good security requires acknowledging and enabling trust to play a role in the protocols and systems we develop.
Seriously, if Signal become decentralized and doesn't require a phone number to use, I'd switch to it without hesitate. Call me lunatic or whatever, all the court related news, security analysis only makes me feel Signal is just another honey trap or will become one eventually, because none of these positive reviews solves trust issues existed long ago. There are better models out there, they just don't want apply, I can't stop asking why. You'd think they'll re-consider the options after so many users expressed their concerns, or at least provide multiple choices, but no, it's been years, nothing has changed.

I'd keep using Riot until then, even it's less secure and less user friendly, but it's good enough for me.
This. User experience is everything.

In my case, not Wire, but Signal. My Signal contact list is exactle two people long. Trying to get people to move from WhatsApp elsewhere is hard, especially if some of them even additionally installed Threema a few years back when Facebook bought WhatsApp.

But at least two people. With one of them I was regularly conversing on Signal, so much that she even preferred it to WhatsApp.

One day she messaged me on WhatsApp again. She said Signal had not set notifications for my messages a few times now, and she's fed up.

I never had that problem. Maybe she misunderstood or misconfigured something. But it doesn't matter. Signal is dead to her.

It's really easy to lose perspective as a developer how much this usability stuff matters. Sure, we all pay lip service to it, tell each other how bad the UI on some tool is and fake humility about our missing sense for anything design (including UI design).

But we don't really get it.
What's wrong with using Google Play Services?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume it has to do with message notifications. So, by using GCM, Signal would be leaking some metadata about when and who, etc. I assume. But wouldn't someone be able to get that same information from your ISP (with a little more work)?

You're losing the benefits of longer battery life for basically nothing.

Security isn't absolute. I don't know why this blogger has the attitude that there is such a thing.
> just not how you want it

Which is a big deal in 2018 and the era of open data, data portability (even Facebook offers data exports). Why don't banks offer data exports?
I personally reviewed Matrix before recommending it on my blog. The other alternatives I listed here are not endorsements.
>I literally possess binary memory when it comes to "what is clean" and "what isn't clean (touched the floor, public restroom, etc)" for most of my things.

after working in tissue culture where sterility matters (to put it lightly) i have developed a similar mentality. in the lab, it teaches you to be overly careful with things because a lot of the time you have to throw them out if they get dirty, and often the bar for "being dirty" can be as low as "was exposed to air while uncovered". it causes a lot of very wasteful carryovers into real life.
I dislike this too. It's like someone licensed your IP and gave it away freely to ancestry.com. The metaphor doesn't really fit if you are the derivative child, but yeah... the insurance companies would already be able to make predictions about me.
Also, before you send your DNA off...
Keep in mind that these companies are not legally allowed to delete your data.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-15/deleting-...
Wire mobile apps have been reliable through several years of daily use. Does not require a phone number and Wire is working on interoperability with other E2E messaging services, via the IETF MLS protocol.
I imagine in case of a Kernel that should be like a rule beyond any scope of discussion. And may be for any piece of software that is at the bottom layers of any stack.

You just can't break backwards compatibility.

This was a big mistake Python 3 made.
Probably, but why would anyone in your family be disclosing their genetic profile when your family knows it has these sorts of things sitting in their DNA? I mean, if you're in a family where a lot of people get certain cancers, or congenital heart defects are common - well - exercise a little common sense and forego any DNA testing that Ancestry.com offers you.
Amazon AI researchers publicly release dataset of 400,000 transliterated names
> Signal is not for state-proof encrypted communication. Not large states like the USA or Russia. If you think it is, you've been misinformed.

Ok, but in that case what does Signal offer that any random messenger with transport encryption doesn't? If your threat model doesn't include state actors then you can probably trust a) the HTTPS certificate infrastructure b) an international corporation like Facebook, so you can probably assume that no-one would tap your FB messenger messages in transit. "Not pushed to your iPad" sounds more like a bug than a feature - I want to be able to read my messages anywhere that I'm logged in as me (at least while I have my yubikey or what have you plugged into that device). Automatic deletion... eh, I would rather make a deliberate decision about when to delete things, personally.
It's not a "dilemma", you either support violence or you oppose it.

All this hemming and hawing because people want to be polite and keep their jobs is silly, just be honest with yourself about your worldview.
What's the point of gaining traction if it doesn't deliver on its fundamental promise?
> Hopefully a Trax expansion or equivalent in Utah county will happen eventually.

In Orem (Utah County) the city is building dedicated bus lanes in the center of University Parkway; my guess is that this is a precursor to Trax rails down the line (so to speak).
I'm happy for you. Buf that doesn't undo what happened to us.
Sharing genes with other people has indeed been a source of headaches since the beginning of time (take, for example, the whole Garden of Eden fiasco). Luckily, the advantages of being inside the genetic group, like say inheritance, usually outweigh the nuisance.
Wasn't there a novel, like 20 years ago, about insurance company having to hide massive profits from using DNA profiling? Does anybody remember its title? It looks like real life has catched up with fiction.
I'd say it's more due to human nature to break complicated issues down to one dimension. Cameras have megapixels, computers have Flops, countries have some sort of "index" depending on what facet you're looking at, and politics has a single left/right value. Of course it's not very accurate, but that's the idea that's easiest to consume, and thus the one that propagates the most.

The 2-dimensional Political Compass is a huge improvement, but still isn't perfect. Reality is more complex and would require an N-dimensional political matrix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
Every release I am downloading Julia and trying to wrestle through some tutorials. Every time (0.4.0, 0.6.0, 1.0.0) I get stuck at some error, usually during the pre-compiling of some dependency.

For example, I have downloaded julia-1.0.0. I try to follow this tutorial here, linked in this post by someone: http://juliadb.org/latest/manual/tutorial.html

Then I do this and get an error:

julia> using JuliaDB
[ Info: Precompiling JuliaDB [a93385a2-3734-596a-9a66-3cfbb77141e6]
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: start not defined
Stacktrace:

Every time. Even the screenshot of Julia code that julialang.org used to have was not runnable per admission of core devs.

What am I doing wrong? How are you able to run large Julia programs successfully?

Edit:

Let's try tutorial at https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/10/comprehensive-t.... First command: Pkg.add("IJulia"): command fails to install dependency Conda.

Same for the tutorial at http://ucidatascienceinitiative.github.io/IntroToJulia/Html/...

Sigh. Give up
The original autor outright dismissed the entire class of threats, which, while they may seem "lesser," are also far more common. And it's not just abusive exes, not even every state actor has access to an NSA. Neither Signal nor any other existing application based by the same protocol (which exist and are _more_ popular than Signal itself — What's App is one, for example) are sufficient, but on the other hand, it requires far less knowledge to operate.

Signal comes from recognition that very few people can practically operate high-effort tools, and if the effort to operate a fancy tool distracts them too much from the things they actually aim to do (it's rare that someone's goal in life is "using Matrix"), they'll fall back on something that doesn't distract them.

For example, even when facing a state actor — if training your cadres to securely operate an encryption tool takes away too much from the core activism of your organization, the tool is no longer helpful. Same applies if the actual overhead of using it ("both have to be online" requirements, for example, or for somewhat lower threat profiles, "no emoji") makes it impractical.

For most people the threat is going to be someone they know, or high-volume-low-effort attempts. Whether it's an ex or a boss or even most states, it's unlikely they're facing NSA. They often have a lot of other things to do, and neither their ability nor want to enforce technical solutions on others are high. That's the range Signal-backed apps generally target.
> that doesn't matter to me for the most part

I think that's key. When people really care they are the ones who ask the product/project/service how they can support them.

The truth might be that people don't value reading most articles. I know that starting a newspaper is a huge investment, but I guess people just don't care. It might be because we don't have time to read, we get "news" from Facebook, no idea--but that much seems to be true.
I don't think the winner matters; if the US had lost, economic growth would have resulted anyway, just elsewhere.
They're still on here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723104) but dropping down the front page oddly quickly. Right now it's the 160th story despite having 208 upvotes in 3 hours. Could it be getting a lot of flags?
The big Apple vs FBI high profile lawsuit for one. Granted that was a telegraphed precedent seeking exercise by "accidentally" losing access to the work phone after the terrorists destroyed their personal phones before the attack.
> But you could also flip that argument and say a good developer could write good code in any language so why bother with anything more sophisticated.

Because both inexperienced and experienced developers will be prevented from doing the wrong thing more often when using a better language.
HACKER NEWS TEXT FORMATTING
What text formatting code type is used here on HN?
Progressive enhancement with CSS Grid
Docker Container: Uncaught Kill Signal
You could always use htpd [0]. :-)

[0] http://rkeene.org/docs/oss/htp/htp.pdf
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but isn't pure math research very cheap (compared to the cost of other scientific research) and therefore could still be cost-effective?
Their USP is "security made simple", in other words: use Signal because it's as easy as the mainstream alternatives, but far more secure (but not perfect).
Have you filed a bug report on github?
There's a subset of users out in full force bravely downvoting anyone who sticks up for her or who dares to suggest that sexism might be an institutional, culturally widespread problem. Same reason this article went from the front page to the sixth in three hours.

Don't worry about it.
I disagree, the number of reporters and the diversity of them has increased greatly in the Twitter/YouTube universe. I'd much rather get my news from a 3 hour Joe Rogan podcast with a subject matter expert than a hot take from yet another person from the same small group of universities who have been manufacturing our reporters for generations.
The only mistake I understood Riot did was: recruiting a person who doesn't understand gaming culture. I know many girl gamers who use the same language as Riot employees. It's almost like going to France and getting offended that everyone is speaking French.
Traditionally the DSM categorized OCD as an anxiety disorder - apparently now it's categorized in the larger envelope "neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders", which anxiety falls under as well. There's certainly an anxiety element, as it causes a great deal of distress to fail to follow the behavior.
Keto diet done wrong may have lethal or life changing consequences for T1D patients. Done right it might have positive effects but that is afaik not backed by research at the moment.

Common sense in this case turned into potentially dangerous unqualified medical advice.
Google, APK ... if you're concerned about security, you would use Apple iOS only.
None of the ways in which women were discussed was respectful. That's the difference.

You're talking about hypothetical respectful objectification, which just isn't a thing.
Anything I do to change my lifestyle will be utterly swamped by global population growth, but forcing people to not breed is unfashionable.
rationals might be a better solution since they could use whatever divisor they want without throwing away precision. I'm not very familiar with MS apis but if they provide some facility for telling you how many 'ticks' there are per second you could use that to generate the divisor as well.

edit: I see you did link to the API!
Getting Started with Azure Event Grid
I believe this demonstrates the spectrum of pde research. You have people from both ends contributing. Since functional analysis gets used a lot in pdes especially when dealing with weak solutions it would make sense that it appeals to be pure math folks. But once you find ways to construct viable test functions it becomes the basis for writing numerical schemes. So that appeals to the applief guys and of course once you have the numerical solution this can be used for engineering. This demonstrates a good pipeline for "consuming" science (of course assuming this pipeline is indeed correct). However take any component out and the value creation wont be that high. Perhaps finding more such pipelines for pure math woulf help evaluate its valur.
Further, they don't have to look at the message to also log the time the message was received.

That's why I've always appreciated the concept of Mixmaster's ability to delay sending messages by a fixed number of hours or a random amount in a range as an attempt to stymie traffic analysis.
Via the FAQ link at the bottom of all pages...

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
It seems to me that these tariffs really do make sense regardless of political orientation. The big difference between Chinese and American labor is that we place a much higher standard on human and worker rights. Chinese workers manufacture e.g. $1000 iPhones earning literally a few dollars a day, living in on-site dormitories, all the while surrounded by suicide nets to try to deter the frequent suicides.

That's obviously not a great situation. Yet we, as in American companies, vastly incentivize such systems by shipping trillions of dollars worth of production to China. So we pride ourselves on more humane standards, yet send trillions of dollars to the lowest common denominator on labor that's a hair's breadth above slavery? This never made any sense to me.

I think free trade is a great idea when nations are comparably developed with comparable values. But when you have asymmetric value systems, you just end up greatly rewarding the lowest common denominator while hurting the nations that place a greater value on labor rights.

Anyhow, glad to see the effect of these tariffs is almost certainly going to end up favoring American interests, and perhaps even the Chinese people as well if I can be allowed a bit of optimism.
There's also trade off where the more tamper resistant/evident the system is, the more sophisticated it must be and the harder it is to understand the system.

Trust isn't just about engineering like it is for avionics or other high-reliability systems. It's also about independent verification, including by lay people. If it requires advanced cryptography or computer science knowledge to trust the election results.

I live in Canada where we do paper ballots everywhere. We also get same-night results on election day. They're just starting to experiment with vote tabulators, and this means that results come in faster now. In fact, in the latest Ontario provincial elections they had a declared winner 20 minutes after polls closed. Especially with tabulator machines I just don't get the point of electronic voting.
If you already know a little Lisp, The Joy of Clojure is a very good book to start at.

But I went through a complete journey of reading ANSI Common Lisp, The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, On Lisp and various other scheme material on the internet.

So syntax and other Lisp related stuff wasn't the problem. The Joy of Clojure book showed the Clojure way of doing things really well.

If you have to start on absolute basics of Lisp, I'd recommend watching the SICP lectures and reading PG's ANSI Common Lisp book.