skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more money that gets put into a company the more Confirmation Bias / Social Proof comes into play. Why would investors put so much money in if they didn't do fundamental due diligence, the thinking goes. So that means these firms can raise even more money with less scrutiny than a Series A round would get at a $2M round with a $10M valuation.

Is this company real? Who knows. Do I trust the VCs to do real due diligence and verify that it is? Nope. Not a chance in hell.

The indicators for Theranos was the lack of interest from folks like A18Z and Sequoia. Similarly the top investor here is not a household name. If this was the bees knees, I'd be expecting the big folks in this round.

Is it possible this company is on the up-and-up and this is all going to pay off handsomely for everyone? Sure, it's possible. Do I have every right and reason to be skeptical and doubt that there's something here? Based on past experience, yes.
The hypocrisy of Google embedding pixel trackers to monitor their own employees while forbidding external images in their gmail service to prevent companies trying to abuse users with pixel trackers is painfully blatant.

Do as I say, but my company is super special so we'll just do whatever we feel like.
So, here's an honest question: How do they find people to work on these products if the general consensus is that this is a bad thing to do? How do they keep word of these projects from spreading within the company?

It seems if enough people feel strongly about this, then at least one would quit after being assigned to this project, and even if there's an NDA and they can't relate the details of why they quit, it would be alarming enough to say "I felt compelled to quit because I could not in good conscience work on the project I was assigned." I'm not sure an NDA can protect against something like that.
> Practice makes perfect...

"Hmm, sounds too cliche"

> The well-known 10,000-hour principle, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, illustrates an important lesson..

"Much better, I've used more words"
Nice set of guidelines. Mostly "common sense" but given how (un)common that can be, this is likely pretty helpful for its intended audience. :)
Just today I remembered the well known fact that story telling facilitates memorization.

The other day I wondered whether story telling was the highest form of art, prompted by HN comments on the reception of art. Later I wondered how much the sequential nature of histories facilitated the development of language, and how the need to express parallel developments using a sequential medium created syntax, recursion and dialogue.

Here, the author isn't in the place of the protagonist, neither is the reader. But a story needs a hero. Especially in topics such as this it helps to remind that these could be familiar people. Naturally, in science the heroic result should be most important. In that regard this is click bait. It paints a stark contrast. It does not present a new way, just another stepping stone to high fidelity measurements. It's way over the top for entertainment purposes.

The style doesn't prohibit skim reading though. If jumping to the highly abstract abstract would be too terse ... maybe the story you are trying to compose by reading nothing in particular is highly parallel, but lacking interaction.
Just be honest with him. Tell him you want to help but at the same time, when you break off you are losing track and it's making it hard to do deep work. Tell him you want him to get the help he needs but you also need to complete your own work, and open up a dialog for ways you can both strike a balance.

If he's asking questions out of laziness, using you as a replacement for Google, next time he asks tell him to do some investigating and that you can't always give him the easy answer. It's a key programmer skill.
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Folks like yourself are one of the big draws of HN for me. It's awesome to hear the perspective of people who created aspects of the things I was in awe at growing up (in this case I'm thinking of the Jaguar).
Julia has optional typing which is static as well
Not nearly so grand but I once read a quote describing the fragility of holding state in one's head as "juggling priceless eggs in variable gravity."
Better to freeze. Credit monitoring just gives you quicker notification that you've already entered a huge world of hurt. The fraudster has successfully struck, and now you have to go to work to undo the damage, which can be a years-long nightmare. ("Well, it shows here that you bought a truck and stopped paying. Not you, you say? Prove it! Oh, and until you do, don't expect to have good credit. Maybe never, actually.")
We need more information on what dependencies your application has. Is it Silverlight? What does it target?

Our company has been moving all new stuff to .NET Core 2.1 and it has been relatively painless. We don't use things like WCF or Silverlight, however, just plain old C/F# classes that play nice with .NET Standard (the cross between full Framework and Core)
> Disclaimer: I work for Google. I also think that there is an anti-Google bias on hacker news, holding Google to a standard not applied to others and taking any excuse to roll out the same old tired rants in response to almost any Google post (DAE Google Reader etc).

I hate to break this to you, but the anti-Google bias is well beyond HN. Google is pissing off conservatives who think you censor them, civil rights activists who are being ignored, privacy activists who want Google to be accountable, regular users who simply can't figure out how to get Google to stop tracking them, developers who go unheard on your message boards, influencers who are tired of Google unilaterally imposing their will on the internet (coughAMPcough), and a ration of other people who are just tired of Google having it's nose in literally everything they touch.

Google is held to the standard it wants to be held to. You think Project Zero can just go around blackmailing competitors forever without eventually pissing someone off? When was the last time Microsoft or Apple publicly disclosed a Google Zero Day? Google does that all the time.

You can't try to maintain 99% market share in search and not expect people to hold you to a high standard. Google put itself here and now has it in it's collective head that it's "too big and important to fail."

Even you are going around the internet saying that Google can do no wrong despite being confronted with an endless stream of evidence proving otherwise. LISTEN. TO. PEOPLE.
Ah, got it. But a hardware device would still need a manual fallback :)
However the masks worn on the streets in Asia don’t do anything to stop the 2.5 particulates.
Rain also helps with reducing the air pollution
It is interesting. Theranos appointed high-profile people who were incapable of doing due diligence on their product. I wonder if this is another one of those.
use the contact form on the website for the linked article.
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I assume you are correct. I also assume you and I are somewhat safe. You have to consider the likely hood of an individual getting a hold of one of these devices in the near future. Then again you really have to ask if there is any reason you in particular will be targeted by someone with this technology.
You still didn't really answer what you think Mozilla should be doing with that money. (Besides vaguely hinting that they don't target power users anymore which suggests you're bitter about the switch to web extensions)
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The coding standard for variables in LLVM drives me nuts. Both class names and variables names must be upper camel case so if you're lucky the code looks like this:

Analyzer TheAnalyzer;

but more commonly:

Analyzer A;

with A being utterly unhelpful to read many lines later.
I also think that there is an anti-Google bias on hacker news

I think you are correct. But I don't think it's people being anti-Google because it's Google, or tribalism, or whatever. It's people being anti-bad things, and Google has evolved into a bad thing.
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A friend from Los Angeles used to say "I don't trust air I can't see."
The Law by Frédéric Bastiat [1]

Weighing in at 75 pages, you can read this 176 year old classic in a weekend. For some reason Locke's Second Treatise on Government made it into the canon as the be-and-end-all of the classical liberal political philosophy, and this masterwork was overlooked. Just read it.

[1] https://mises.org/library/law
> I think it substantially demonstrates a straightforward path to achieving the same level of memory safety in C++ as Rust.

What path is that? It's not clear to me how this is possible without breaking backwards compatibility. This statement is directly at odds with

> You don't need to completely eliminate the aliasing issue to achieve (efficient) memory safety, you just need to address it "enough"

Safe Rust isn't "enough" safe, it is 100% (proofs pending, of course) safe. A "safe enough" system is not equivalent.

Maybe if you mean that the existence of Unsafe Rust means that it's "enough", well fair. I still think it's substantially different; this proposal doesn't even get to being 100% safe.

That said, as I said above, I very much welcome any sort of incremental improvement here.
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There are always ways around the law for those creative enough. All it takes is one unregulated launch to put up a 'cold' ICBM in orbit, which would be effective insurance against any and all regulatory action. It's a vicious sort of realpolitik, but it would likely work.

Just wait until someone surreptitiously puts up a whole network of sleeper nukes into orbit. One weird trick to become world emperor, eh?

A good sci-fi plot, since it's likely do-able by private firms in the near to medium term.

That said there are more mundane ways to escape. However those come with their own risks (ask Gerald Bull how his attempt turned out).
I’m not the person you were replying to, but the single feature that keeps me out of Firefox is their lack of AppleScript support. I (and many other automators) use AppleScript daily, multiple times a day, to control aspects of Chrome and Safari. The fact that I can’t do the same with Firefox puts it completely out of consideration.
To non-Californians: The Pacific coastal waters are freezing all the way down to San Diego. Ever been swimming off the coast of Georgia or Florida and thought, "Gosh, this isn't refreshing at all, it's like bath water." You won't have that problem on the West Coast. I grew up in New England, swimming in Maine, and it doesn't hold a candle to how frigid the waters in California can be. And the wind off the water is biting, even in August. You know how Florida's coast is developed pretty much along it's entire length on both sides, and yet California and Oregon have hundreds of miles of relatively untouched coastline? That's why. It's damn cold.
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Care to enlighten ignorant me why we would want that?
I'm surprised it went for quite awhile not being discovered.
> Apple has a pretty good privacy record

All companies have a good privacy record, until they don't
Those are all very good ideas for email. Part of it could be dealt with in RFCs, part of it by changing default email client behavior.

I also agree that email should be a personal preference. I think that DFeed[1][2] shows how open discussion systems should be built. DFeed provides a unified discussion system that is simultaneously accessible through email, NNTP, a web interface, and Atom feeds. That would be a really nice way to offer a comment discussion system on a blog.

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/help#about
[2] https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
There is a company called Respro that makes masks for cyclists that make you look like you're on your way to a rave, not like you have TB.
I manage to keep my main side project (~20,000 lines of code) in my head despite not meeting conditions #1 (I'm always distracted), #2 (I work in my free time at home), and #3 (C++, woo) because I have extensive documentation about the why of code, and this helps me put myself in the same state of mind I was in when I wrote it.

It does help that all the others apply to me, though. I've rewritten it kinda twice, I already mentioned my comments, I work basically alone on it, so nobody else edits anything, and it started out very small.
I question this; "pm2.5" is a big marketing term in China. Do you think the masks are lying about what they filter, or were you under the impression that people weren't buying pm2.5 masks?
People who are intellectually curious about a range of topics, who don't immediately trust existing authorities/common knowledge about said topics and the types who are willing to experiment with new things, building themselves if necessary.

In other words, the traditional 'hacker' mindset associated with the site's title.
I know, these people have no patience. “The web was displaced by apps”, “Facebook will control our social lives forever”. “Bitcoin has failed we are permanent slaves to global financial institutions”....

If the software revolution is a year, we are in late February. Rugged winter plants are growing slowly. Most things haven’t sprouted, let alone bloomed. Megafauna are still in hibernation.

The fitness landscape in which permacode will evolve doesn’t even exist yet.
Recently My playstore account got terminated for unknown reason as none my apps suspended for copyright issues or policy violations. I got to know through various web articles that there is only 1% of chance of my account getting restored.

I have invested last two years into android app development and now all that hardwork is gone for nothing in the blink of eye just because a fucking bot figured out that there is some crazy violation that I have never committed.

Currently I am dejected don't know what to do and I don't want other developers to get affected in the same manner.

So the question why can't we have a community playstore, appstore similar to package managers eg :- npm.

Please somebody build such store and we all should force google so that It wont show a warning when we try to install apps from that store.
I agree, but I don't think that will happen
I write the docs for Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse. In the discussion for part 1 of this series I mentioned that the #1 most critical skill for creating useful docs is to know your audience. combatentropy expanded on the idea [1] to include purpose:

> I have been a tech writer, and I would say something similar, that you need to know two things to write well: audience and purpose. The road becomes a lot clearer after that. Rules on writing fill whole books, but most writing would improve tenfold if writers remembered audience and purpose.

These articles are fine, they have good tips. But, after 8 years of professional technical writing, I strongly recommend focusing on knowing your audience and their purpose. This is a superskill that you can apply to improve any communication.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839052
Would be nice if funding comes through to make c extensions fast on PyPy, then we could try out many what if scenarios descibed in other comments:

What if we wrote that in pure python instead? What if we moved the computation to a GPU c extension? What if we use a diffent GC strategy?
Here's the one I use for Android. https://f-droid.org/
Personally, i would have waited until the SafeNetwork was up and running for a few years before writing off the whole idea, but what do i know.
I wonder how far they can push it before one of the larger more open distro's just goes "yep, that was far as you are going" and we end up with the Chromed Ice Weasel.
A CEO of a phrmaceutical company ought to be able to do diligence on an FDA-trajected company in a way that a former secretary of state would not be able to evaluate a diagnostics company.
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TrueTime is more of a client side library that utilizes a service like NTPd.

You can implement a toy version of TrueTime with about 60 lines of C which uses a single ntp_gettime call for each of the TrueTime api functions (now, before, after).

If AWS's NTPd service offers drift <= 200 us/s, you could use it for TrueTime.
Actually I am not bitter. I don't really use extensions with Firefox.

I only try to give an account of general user sentiment. Of course it's very difficult to get an accurate measure of this sentiment, but I see lots of negative comments online, and lots of valid arguments.

Only Mozilla can come up with ways to spend that money.

I think I made it quite clear that it is first and foremost about innovation, and money is only a tool. But usually what you can do in such situation is hiring top people from the industry as leaders.
A bias is defined as an unfair leaning towards one opinion regardless of stimulus. If you're saying that Google is being evaluated fairly, you are disagreeing with the parent's claim that HN is biased.
> If what I read is true then this is the first thing that has truly rocked my confidence that the company generally tries to do the right thing

Officially removing "Don't be evil" wasn't enough of a hint for you?
I see, never knew they were called "pixel trackers".

I am particularly "old style", I know, but I tend to use not whenever possible email clients that load the html, so an old habit turns out to be also (at least partially) "safer".
Where are you getting that figure from? A cap is not mentioned in the article and I couldn't find it in the FCC filing either.
It's impossible to know without doing a deep dive into everything. The play with large amounts of VC usually trends towards giving a significant exit to earlier investors with new large rounds, or finally to IPO - dumping a potentially worthless (long-term) company. There are a lot of companies that fit into the later round though, off-loading the risk and unsustainable spending in order to capture/hold market share - dumping that risk onto the public, general markets, where then stock brokers etc take their cut. If smart decisions are being made with this money though, then it could play out well for these companies.
> Mozilla is basically doing nothing that makes power users say "Wow, I really want to use this browser and will recommend it to my friends and family". Instead for some reason those users are increasingly frustrated with Firefox on multiple levels.

There are a number of things Mozilla is doing that are appealing to me as a power user.

1. Rust and Firefox Quantum. Mozilla has invested a herculean amount of effort into making Firefox's internals cutting edge, and we've only just started seeing it pay off. The updated CSS rendering component alone made Firefox one of the snappiest browsers, and it's going to get even faster as additional components are rewritten.

2. Firefox is going to start blocking a lot more trackers by default in the coming months; some of this is in beta, more is in nightly. Power users can already do this with extensions, but it's easier for me to recommend a browser that does it by default.

3. Mozilla is reviewing add-ons. There were a lot of complaints about this initially, but I feel safer installing things from Firefox Add-ons than I do from the Chrome Web Store. The review process isn't perfect, but it feels like it's much harder for a Firefox addon to scoop my entire browsing history and get away with it. Allowing me to disable automatic updates for individual extensions is also good; it's a second layer of protection against situations like that Sylish fiasco where an extension suddenly, silently becomes malicious.

4. Add-on APIs. The add-on situation was dire when Mozilla killed XUL extensions and switched to a Chrome-compatible format. But now they're extending it and adding all sorts of functionality for add-ons that Chrome doesn't have, again.
"Don't be evil"

History will judge them poorly for this.
> If the satellite is overhead, the error would put you 300m into the ground so to speak.

Right, I was basically calculating where that signal would just be reaching the surface at the same time it was 300m under you. This is a circle around you with a radius of ~110km (again using the approximation of the ground as a flat plane). Thinking about it more, there's not much reason to do this (GPS isn't really tied to the surface of the Earth, it gives you 3-D coordinates). I guess my point was that the 300m of distance from 1us of light propagation should not be thought of as a horizontal distance.
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If the Earth's magnetic field flips somewhat randomly every 1/2 million years, and there is randomness in that timing, how can it be a reliable measurement mechanism at 50 million years? 500 million years? 2 billion years?
Make sure they don’t catch you doing evil
I learned how to weld well enough for a job in ~3 months of community college night courses (Welding 101, 102, 110) three nights per week. They even offered job placement if I was interested in having a job after completing those courses. Books for my courses cost ~$200 total. Total cost (books and classes) was under $1000.

Trades are fantastic. You can't offshore them, you can't easily outsource them, everyone currently doing them will retire soon, and you'll usually have union protecting compensation, benefits, and working conditions. Can't recommend them enough.
In large companies like this you rarely get a choice for which email client you are allowed to use, or a say in which software you are allowed to install.