skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "many otherwise intelligent people were socialists in the middle of the twentieth century."

I'm actually quite shocked PG would say something like this, the rather sneaky implication that it is a failing of intelligence to be a socialist. How is implying that socialism is a failure of intelligence not using a label (socialism) to suppress the ideas contained within that label? (critique of capitalism etc.)

So I'll take PG's discussion on the topic:

>I've thought a lot about this, actually; it was not a casual remark. I think the fundamental question is not whether the government pays for schools or medicine, but whether you allow people to get rich.

This immediately jumps to the idea that socialism is a mode of production in which people "aren't allowed to get rich". Not only is socialism being judged by capitalism's terms (getting rich being a good thing[0]) but the rest of the reply conflates all the forms of socialism with the Soviet model (which mainstream political philosophy and Marxist scholars regard as not socialist at all), and further, the idea that a state can be "much more socialist than the US" conflates Marx's idea of socialism being a qualitative break with it being merely quantitative. It would seem to PG that "the more a government does, the more socialist the country is".

I wonder if PG is aware of the critiques of Soviet socialism made in the 40s, 50s and 60s by the Frankfurt School, those who refuse Lenin's and Stalin's ideas, libertarian socialists and socialist anarchists.

On a general note on the reply, it's a little ironic that PG has failed to take into account the established literature on the topic of "what you can't say". Marcuse and Adorno linked "what you can't say" to things that are regarded as irrational, impracticable, utopian and unreasonable, and they investigate its cause and name technological rationality. Unlike PG they provided fruitful examples; the French Socialist parties of the 50s and 60s which refused to collaborate in the democratic process were shunned as being unreasonable. To be called unreasonable is a major demotivator, it seems to imply that your ideas are in conflict with the very rules of logic themselves. But PG didn't address the idea that what is rational can change, he took it for granted and looked on the peripheries, or as far as his vision would take him without hitting those "radical" ideas he so self-assuredly repudiates.

PG says he's spent a lot of time "thinking" about socialism (or at least dismissing it). If only he'd spent as much time reading about its original formulations, the critiques of socialism and the responses to the critiques.

[0] I'm not saying getting rich is bad.
YC advises founders on who they should raise money from. They also pick who to invite to demo day. It’s not all the leverage in the world, but the valley is small and, for a VC partner, deal flow is everything.

For those women who do want to take a stand — and I understand why the majority don’t, there is a massively lopsided power dynamic between founders and investors — YC is providing resources (according to the article).

Edit: Also, maybe someday they’ll be in a position to name names, but right now it risks the anonyminity of those reporting. As an alum I hold YC to a high standard — its likely the most distinguished thing on my resume — and if they’re in the position to out the bad guys someday but don’t for political reasons, I’ll be just as mad as you are.
Diplomatic Pouch
Brendan Gregg's talks on Linux performance. Scroll down to "Talks": http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
Adobe announces full Photoshop CC for iPad shipping 2019, syncs with desktop
I agree, to an extent. When people invite celebrity status, there will always follow trolls. It simply doesn't matter how great you are. And many don't have the stability and coping systems to deal with it.

In saying this, I'm definitely not saying I do... I take a lot of things far more personally than intended, and can only try to not let my instincts drive me when I do. It isn't easy to be on the receiving side of things... that said, I don't think outright censorship is the answer. Couldn't this kid report/block other users on the system giving him grief? Also, for those blocked, probably shouldn't indicate that they've been blocked.

I've always found it funny that on Twitter, when someone blocks you, you can no longer see their public profile and tweets. It'd be far better to allow you to see it, but only the blocked see their own retweets/replies. I don't think the people making decisions always think through their decisions.

The problem with something like this drawing attention and potentially reacting too quickly is the chance to make things worse is far more likely than actually approving anything.
That's just buying computing power like you would do with USD.
This actually looks interesting for a change, thank you for linking that!
It's not a crazy idea, just one that entirely limits the target audience to extremely technical people. Some people would like to make their software available to a wider audience.
At my and other FAANG companies, this is necessarily true. EM track runs parallel to SWE track in terms of total comp, but there is no EM equivalent to the junior SWE roles.
>but the tech does have some pretty exciting potential

And some terrifying consequences for bugs. Or administrative errors with contracts, or non-binding contracts that you'll need a traditional court to sort out anyway.
Im not sure what I'm saying that is getting people stuck on presumed innocence. I'm specifically talking about the right to defend yourself from accusations. I think that's fundamental to the point of being much more important than being presumed innocent.

If you don't get a right to state your side, who cares if you're presumed innocent. The only evidence seen may indicate you're guilty because not all evidence is available.
> I see that a thankful comment on this article is already flagged, so... seems like much has not changed.

I don't see a flagged comment like that. Could you link to it?
Press Release: https://news.adobe.com/press-release/creative-cloud/adobe-an...
The pool is 125, not 384.

> we helped Callisto send a survey to 125 of the 384 female founders

The pool of 125 was based on who signed up for an email list.

> Callisto chose to send the survey to the 125 founders who signed up for the YC female founder email list. They choose this group under the assumption that these founders would welcome being reached out to for the survey because they had signed up proactively to this email list.

There's certainly some room for sampling bias, but not nearly as much as you claim. I also strongly disagree that this is shocking: it's difficult to make good estimates, but various surveys are often in excess of 60% for women: http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/10906109/Sexu...

20% is below a reasonable minimum estimate: https://fairygodboss.com/articles/sexual-harassment-statisti...

Now, this is a more specific survey, not just any sexual harassment, but these numbers should not be shocking. One of the core messages of the me-too movement is that these numbers should not be shocking, this is the reality, and ignorance of this can contribute to the problem.
:-( I am sorry. I don’t know you, but you did not deserve to be sexually assaulted.
I got shadowbanned, but I still enjoy seeing other people carry on
Johns Hopkins professors offer free 12 course MOOC to learn Data Science
Yeah, I initially got the impression they were talking about the design automation software for the node, but I'm not really sure if that's the case.
I was struck reading about the Amish and their relationship to technology. We tend to think of the Amish as hopelessly backwards, but every year they convene and discuss new technologies and which ones should be allowed. As you can imagine, the process is highly selective and considers the impact both individually and for the entire community.

Negative effects from modern advancements are so common and globally threatening that it is easy to see how the cultural obsession with "new" could be replaced with "stable" as we face more and more of the fallout from this mindset.
You may have already seen this but @sdrothrock posted this interesting counter-article that defends constructionism (minimal guidance).
I'd use Shadow for game streaming. Cheaper, unlimited stream time for a fixed monthly fee and the service is actually faster.

https://shadow.tech/usen/
Fair comment. By projects, that is not limited to strictly IT. My kids may not choose IT as a career, but they will certainly understand how to do basic coding, build a computer, understand the inner working, etc., for if nothing else, they understand cause and effect and that they are capable of being makers should they choose.

I take my kids fishing and hunting, for example, things they thoroughly enjoy. We go to the cinema, bookstore to get hands on reading time, they have learned how to budget for groceries, gas, fun money, etc. I could do none of this were I chained to my desk at work pounding out code in Visual Studio.
https://bdld.blogspot.com/2011/06/five-years-later-review-of...
how would you reword it?
Ok, but it is at least a lower bound on reports. At least 4/384=1% reported unwanted sexual contact, 15/384=3.9% quid pro quo and 19/384=4.9% sexual badgering. The real number would be higher if all responded and asked.

Were these experiences as part of YC or anytime?

Did the survey have a definition of the terms sexual badgering, quid pro quo and unwanted sexual contact that we can look at?

Do we know how many men have been accused? Basically, is this a general problem or are there some sexual predators causing most of these terrible experiences.
If you want to innovate, innovate in user-facing areas. This kind of tinkering is the reason Linux didn’t take off anywhere, except for back end servers, where it won because of being free and because of Linus’ community building skills.

Android had to lock it down almost completely to gain acceptance.
I was shopping for a winter car and I started to fall in love with Jeep Wranglers.

Pros: High enough off the ground to get over the snow, look like they retain value for a long time (early 2000s still going for 6-8k USD) and they have a huge huge aftermarket meaning basically anything and everything on the car can be replaced for the most part.

Cons: they rust easily. Looked at a 2017 and it already had rust on the hinges. They may have had the crap beat out of them, they may have been well taken care of (found a few that were garage kept over winter)

Need a lot more information though...

What do you want it for? Daily driver? Winter beater? Do you get snow? Inches or feet? Budget? How old is to old? American or foreign? Luxury or bare-bones?
Tamarin: A security protocol verification tool
That doesn’t sound especially unique or interesting, I would expect API access logs to expire after a time and without more knowledge of the specifics, two weeks seems reasonable to me. I would assume that the logs themselves contain PII so increasing the retention has a risk, too. Speaking of retention, given GDPR I would expect the logs to be expired after some known amount of time just for regulatory compliance reasons.

If you go too hard towards forcing disclosures you get pathological incentives to not retain the logs in the first place, the same way people at large companies these days will keep some discussions out of email so they can’t get subpoenaed. That’s not an excuse for bad behavior, but if you force companies to retain more logs for audit purposes, and you force companies to have PII retention policies that limit the retention period, you can easily force a company into a position where the cheapest way out is to reduce the detail in the logs to the point where they’re not useful for security audits any more (if this has the primary purpose of PII retention compliance).
It's not a simple calculation. It depends whose numbers you use for the calculation. First off, do you only care about CO2, or are you interested in other by products of coal consumption like NOx? Which kind of coal plant, how efficient is it? What kind of coal is in use? Then, on the consumption side, it depends on your electric busses' efficiency, leakage of CNG into methane emissions, honestly there are too many specific parameters left unspecified in your question.
Second that these diagrams look really nice and clean- does anyone happen to know if there's an alternative that isn't Mac only?
If you enjoy that, I can totally recommend cookie clicker. http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
The woman who called them out also got fired. And swarmed with rape/death threats too.
The point is to screen out these people before they get to the investment stage. The scenario you describe is as likely (or even more likely) to happen with the system YC just put in place, since it will take at least two reports to trigger any consequences.
Well, history shows us that this kind of thing happens from time to time. No society continues upward indefinitely; they all collapse at some point, or at least regress while other societies overtake them. This happened famously to the Romans, where they lost specialization of labor and technology and turned into feudal serfs. It happened to the Hittites, whose culture we have little left from. China turned inward for centuries until around WWII. Later, under Mao, they oppressed educated people, putting them to work in the fields instead of using their talents; only recently have they recovered from that stupidity.
Britain used to be the world's most powerful empire and look what happened there.

And you're absolutely right about truly despicable people profiting from this. I think Alex Jones is a prime example of this. I know someone who's a big fan of his; it's really discouraging how even a reasonably intelligent (but fairly gullible) person can be taken by a con-artist like him and even people close to them can't sway their opinion.
I'm exactly in the same boat. I love the job when I actually get to do what the ideal product manager job should be. It's very stressful, not very rewarding and it's very unstable work because EVERY fuckup down the chain will just be absorbed by the PM. We're always the first in line to be fired if someone else decided not to do their job (can be Eng, marketing, sales... doesn't matter).
Mods don't do flagging; users do.
Your knowledge is incorrect. Snaps don't have to be statically linked. They use a mount namespace with a predictable set of libraries that are maintained and receive security updates. In addition the application can bring additional libraries but those are on the application developer to maintain (or delegate to a hosted service like build.snapcraft.io to rebuild on security updates).

Sure, you can do static linking, you just don't have to and this is not how snaps work.
How old are your kids? A word of advice: your kids will never be impressed by what you do, to them you could be POTUS and it would just be the normal set point for them. What they will remember is whether you cared more about your work than you did them.
First secure email service that uses Signal Protocol
"Support the troops" was always "Support the war" and it was designed that way. In my view the best that could be done to support the troops would be to bring them home and think twice about foreign adventures.
in my experience, the author of the code cannot (easily) see own mistakes. you actually want a different person to look at the code to find issues.

if this is not a option, write extensive tests.
TLS Client Authentication Leaks User Info (pre-TLS1.3)
Chrome 69 Paint Timing Issues
It’s Time to Drop PGP
Reminds me of a video [1] posted by Tom Scott from "Things you might not know" youbtube. He and a friend posted a photo of themselves watching the eclipse somewhere in the USA and it is scary how accurately their location was found by Internet sleuths.

I feel bad for the new generation of Twitch/Youtube people who are exposing themselves to the Internet. There are some freaky good stalkers out there.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ
Really I think the impact of technology with communication is twofold and contradictory - transparency and anonymity. It is highlighting all of the ugly truths we would rather ignore - including scarcity of critical thinking. Societal hypocrisies start to slowly fall apart - like expectations to be both social and "career friendly" or looking down on those we depend upon. Even the lies and manipulation are oddly transparent - there is nothing stopping anyone but time from making several accounts to promote absolute nonsense. As opposed to traditional sources which make claims to authenticity and can betray the trust.
Lack of trust is a growing trend related to manipulators, not wanting to understand the uncomfortable and genuine untrustworthiness.

Like always we need to adapt to changes as a society for good or ill.
> ...they are screened for such behavior, including a background check for incidents that happened before they got involved in YC

However a background check may not initially uncover anything because many of these incidences happen in private and due to the power dynamics many of the victims don't report it publicly.
> The token itself is used to facilitate trading and many investors 'park' their gains in USDT while waiting for the market to reach a certain point or just in between trades, but that means that the token's FX value is set by the open market itself so if there are more buy orders than available USDT the price goes up and if there are more sell orders than demand the price goes down.

If the USDT to USD ratio fluctuates so much, what is the point of 'parking' your money in USDT?
> There are a far fewer far right groups

Do you know of some empirical basis for that? Also, what about numbers of members?
Moderators don't flag stories off the front page, users do. The most common moderator reaction to threads on this topic is to turn off the flags, ask people in the thread who are violating the guidelines to please stop violating the guidelines (or ban them), and sometimes post a preemptive top comment asking potential commenters to please not violate the guidelines.

This is a community site and the members of this community are responsible for their own behavior, including how they relate to the community. This is why there are user moderation tools like voting and flagging.
Enterprise hardware sales is incredibly lucrative, and even more cutthroat.

The closer you are to the actual customer the more money you'll make. The sales guy at the VAR who actually knows the customer makes the most, followed by the sales guy at the manufacturer, then any SE's, then maybe inside guys.
Jonathan Chait makes a living doing that.
You have to be joking if you think banks are afraid of any new technology.
search history is the most problematic, IMO, shows intent. But combine all three and you have a problem.

I think we need a new internet rule /law:

if it's online, it will hacked /stolen soon or later.

So they should not save most of the stuff.
"oranges" is a very narrow range of colours between 585 and 620 nm wavelength. I'm not surprised wikipedia has a page on that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_orange
Aerion's supersonic business jet to meet U.S. noise standards
My point is: it boils down to someone putting power into something which then conserves that power (and can be exchanged for something else).

Another example of this is gold. To extract it out of the ground, you need to invest energy. That energy is then "stored" in the gold. You can release it by selling it for USD, then purchasing service from someone and so on.

I think it's hard to argue that the energy you put into it is lost even if that seems unintuitive at first glance.

The only currencies which exhibit that feature (no energy put in, hence no real intrinsic value) are fiat currencies, which come with their own set of unique issues.
The only thing that matters
eslint and prettier are not mutually exclusive
It will be on the next reboot/login. Due to some bugs setting up PATH is hard (harder than other variables and much harder than it should be) so we did the best we could (require a logout/reboot)
Which programming language for work? For the weekend?
Ask HN: Verifying a web app pointing to a specific deployment/commit
I've looked at ways to verify whether a specific deployment is signed and associated with a specific commit hash/deployment, but how do you verify (as a client using the web-app) that the site you are using corresponds to something that can be verified? (i.e. How can a user be sure that the code on the web-server isn't running anything else? If at all even possible)
The legal principle is that the receipts are audited and signed by a recognised/ accredited entity. If I'm not mistaken, that's how other commodities are traded in regulated markets today.
> > Try this thought experiment. A dictator takes over the US and sends all the professors to re-education camps. The physicists are told they have to learn how to write academic articles about French literature, and the French literature professors are told they have to learn how to write original physics papers. If they fail, they'll be shot. Which group is more worried?

Kind of depends on who is judging the papers.

> This is a huge problem with a lot of social-justice things. The above statement is the ultimate forbidden statement, isn't it ?

Nope.

It's not even a forbidden statement.

It's not even a statement.

Mistaking it for a statement seems to start with believing no one could possibly view the a sweet to the hypothetical question posed different than you do, and then build on that error.

> The idea that people both are different, and that that justifies different attitudes to their statements.

This is not an uncommon idea in social justice circles, though each specific versions of it is controversial with different supporting and opposing groups.

Heck, the entire idea of group privilege as a basis for distrust frequently found in such circles is exactly a form of this idea.

> Because of that, most of the social justice advocates I know would, perhaps after thinking on it for 5 minutes, have no trouble at all calling the above statement racist.

Since, on top of not being a statement, the implicit axis of differentiation (assuming an answer other than “neither” or “it depends”) in the hypothetical has nothing to do with race, that seems improbable, and may say as much about your thought processes as about theirs.
Tether (USDT) Loses Stability Amid Scares and Fake Tweets
Yup!.Been busy googling about OpenCL+FPGA && VHDL + FPGA for "Hardware Acceleration". So many awesome comments. I am extremely thankful for all these people for their insightful comments.
How Insects Prepare for Winter
Tesla Is Doing Much Better Than Headlines Suggest
The same incentive as selling on Amazon or Ebay, which overwhelmingly caters to the customer.

To attract more customers.

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Lets put it this way: its an automated, strongly provably, money-back guarantee. If you want your money back within 30 days, you can have it through this escrow service.

And I think a lot of companies would be willing to offer money-back guarantees on their services.
The Demise and Glory Days of Google+ according to early G+ influencers