skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently we realised that our public communication about collaboration is quite confusing ;( We mention "Cloud Services" everywhere, but the reality is that you can have an onpremise installation of our collaboration backend that you can host/control by yourself. The SAAS offer was first, that's why the current website looks how it looks. The onpremise offer is currently in a closed private-beta state, so if there is anyone willing to give it a try, we're open. We'll make it fully public in a month or two, after we polish the documentation and so on.
Already watched and loved it. Can't wait for season 2. What's funny? Before the Marine Corps I was in LA to be an actor, headshots and Dennys job and all... the irony of life eh? Now I have scars and am probably too ugly for it, but it's funny to imagine where life could have gone.
The chinese gov prints money electronically and buys the bad debt off the banks and the banks keep lending. We don't do this in the west because the government has to borrow money to create it and sticks the taxpayer with the bill. The cognitive dissonance on this is astonishing.
It’s a statistic model for epilepsy. We have GitLab running alongside dedicated NFS server for the data, build Docker images with the code, run them with access to the data, and put quality control images and reports on GitLab CI as artifacts. Each patient gets a branch, triggers CI runner generating patient reports. It took a while to figure it out but it’s really good for a dev team lacking in discipline ;)
The problem I've always had with FFTs is that it's incredibly difficult to write an optimal FFT for X size, Y direction, Z variability (X=2^4-2^64, Y=FWD,REV,BIDIR, Z=2^4-2^(log2(X)))

Does the metaprogramming element of FFTW work well, or does it boil down to "If X=2^4, Y=FWD, Z=X: build24FWDX()"?
>providing correct geo-coordinates or the target's meeting times...

Something tells me the intelligence people in the UAE were only relaying that information, not providing it.

Anyone who thinks no other intelligence agencies were involved in this is being willfully naive.
When courtroom science goes wrong – and how stats can fix it
I understand why people would want this in their home, but I don't get why they'd trust Facebook to sell it to them.
It's not the "current textbook definition" but a living consensus. This "dialogue" you want begun decades ago and is still ongoing. I'm not sure why you think otherwise. (If you want an even more difficult debate, there's the "open source" vs "free/libre software" thing: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....)

> Then the discussion Open Source ecosystem needs to have is whether "protecting users' right to resell" is net positive

Well, reselling is not the most important aspect; it's a side-effect of unrestricted users' rights. If you restrict users' rights (e.g. you forbid reselling), open source becomes less appealing and not particularly different to Microsoft's Shared Source and similar proprietary-but-you-can-see-the-source licenses.

By the way, "net positive" is a tricky concept. Open source is in my opinion a "net positive", but it involves some trade-offs. Proprietary licenses like the one you seem to favor also have trade-offs.

> it's time to review and see if we need an additional license that's net positive for the ecosystem.

Which ecosystem is that?

To be honest, it seems to me you don't want an open source license. And that's fine. Not sure why you want open source to change its meaning to what you propose (which isn't new either), instead of simply accepting the license you want/need is not open source.
> To use a more controversial phrase, the "blocklist" groups are now a cartel which gets to decide which apps work and which don't, and you have no way of appealing or even reasoning with them

As I’m one of these people who aggressively controls what I let my web browser load maybe I can answer some of your questions.

Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics and tag manager are blocked outright, all the time.

If your site needs several different CDN’s to load it’s assets, for seemingly no reason then I generally leave; unless I need something from that particular page, in which case I give it about 2 or 3 goes of playing “which CDN serves the information I actually care about?”.

Any domain you use that isn’t obviously yours or a CDN or obviously related to what’s on the page (web stores get to load shoplift for example) is blocked because assume it’s just another advertising/analytics company.

Sites that load the DOM and contents into memory, but display a blank page until I unblock a bunch of JS are my pet peeve, and I make a note to never return to them.

> I feel a lot of these tools are throwing the baby out with the bathwater here

The carté Blanche approache is used because it’s faster and easier for me to find the minimal set of domains and resources to load than it is to get every website out there to not stuff their site full of trackers and unnecessary JS.
I think Tox should be higher than Jabber. With Tox, there are no servers and contact list is stored on your device. With Jabber, it is stored on the server (and will be happily provided to NSA when needed). So unless you deploy your own Jabber server, it provides less privacy.

Regarding Wire, is not contact list stored on Wire's server? Then it is even less private than Jabber.
you mean a psychologist I think
thank you for that synopsis, i saw just like, a poster for the show, but i had zero clue what it's about. that sounds fantastic.
> 'Enhanced security guards' are fine.

I don't agree with that. Didn't these mercenary companies start out as just "enhanced security guards?" It seems like once you allow them to operate in any capacity, the rot spreads until you have assassination operations like the one in the article.

The only military career path for Americans should be within the ranks of the US military.
Show Us Your Tsundoku
Thanks for that note about the Discord server. I'd run into the same problem with the v3 documentation while participating in a few weekend game jams earlier this year. My decision was that I would simply use Phaser v2 if I were to try another game jam. I'll definitely be considering Phaser 3 again pending a quick look at the Discord server.
I think you're giving me too much credit.
(GCP Gopher)

Yes, it's beta.

You're right - if you require an SLA, don't use beta products.

As per https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages:

> Beta is the point at which we are ready to open a release for any customer to use. There are no SLA or technical support obligations in a Beta release, and charges may be waived in some cases. Products will be complete from a feature perspective, but may have some open outstanding issues. Beta releases are suitable for limited production use cases.
Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade
Conversations for Android and Monal https://monal.im/ for iOS.
The Spanish Inquisition would disagree with you. This is an area where society has slipped backwards before. I'd posit that the modern concept of privacy has only been a thinkable thought for a handful of centuries.
Take a peek at Functional, https://functional.benome.ca, a side project of mine that's in beta-testing that aims directly at your problem. Because it's also my problem, as a remote worker, and it definitely helps keep me on track.

If you're interested, I'll create a "remote-worker" group for us so we can help motivate each other from a distance.

Any other remote workers are welcome to join too, email me at steve at haxel.ca and I'll hook you up.
It said they were told that's why they were being recorded, it didn't say it was true.

It's very hard to be certain what's going on unless we install tools that monitor management. On the plus side studies show this would improve their productivity.
In all seriousness is dating as a software engineer difficult? I would've thought that with the money and consistent free time it wouldn't be that bad.
It's chrome on steroids. I use it mostly on my laptop, with chrome exclusively for google services.

While it's trying hard to please old Opera users while at the same time moving forward and introducing new ideas, it's just not feeling like home. I like that it's making "power user" features easier to access than Chrome, that's one of the things I got used to with Opera. But overall it feels a little slower, which might be attributable to the JS user interface, or just in general that it's quite fat, being based on Blink. Especially opening up new windows feels really sluggish. There isn't many pages left on the web that do that, but you run into those every now and then. I think FF and Chrome "fix" this by just opening them as new tabs, but Vivaldi tries to restore the old feel of having those simple UI-less floating popup windows; with mediocre success.

I still use Opera 12 alongside of Vivaldi and Firefox at work just for fun, it's fine for browsing status pages, cgit and similar things on our intranet, and with those simple pages it's notably faster than anything else on the market. Navigating the history is another big offender here on FF/Chrome. Clicking back multiple times in Opera will instantly restore any previous page, there is no perceieved delay or re-layouting, which just feels "right" and so much more consistent than any modern SPA that tries to achieve the same in millions of lines of Javascript.

I could come up with a bunch more examples, but that's already more rambling than anyone wants to read I guess. :-)
The OSD may not be the de-jure definition of "open source", but it is the de-facto definition. The statement above is correct in all but a trivial, pedantic sense.
Fantastic. Can I have my Samsung phone retroactively switched to a Google-free O/S, with the option to install Maps and maybe a couple other services? I'd even pay extra for it.
A notebook or a folded up sheet of paper with hints you need to remind you of your passwords but not explicitly stated. Completely invulnerable to security flaws, it's only breachable by physical access.
How about doing the 60 minutes sessions, writing it down as letters to your future self ?
You may be on to something with the heavy metals in the water. It's also possible that if she spent most of her time indoors cooking, cleaning with harsh chemicals, or tending to a stove fire she was introduced to just as much air pollution.
> run-time profiling to choose the fastest codelets (which is largely affected by the target architecture).

What's the quick overview of how this run-time profiling works?

The value of such a system seems immense but I only have seen it mentioned with reference to fftw. Have there been efforts to generalize that process to realtime DSP programming?
> I'm genuinely interested in how you think Paul Allen's untimely death should be discussed on HN.

I don't have a particular opinion on how it should be 'discussed'. People can pay whatever respect that they want. Incidentally I do like the way you posed that question. In a respectful way and not attacking as some of the other comments (as well as replies on a similar comment I made). People who say things like 'so what have you done???'. Like unless you are that great nothing you say matters you peon. I find it strange when people will defend a person like Allen and trash someone (like me) who simply states an opinion when we know that Allen would not have given any of us the time of day or cared about us in any way. On the other hand many of us here would actually do something for a random HN stranger or help if they could (don't mean jump on the railroad tracks kind of help).

The 'upvotes' don't mean much either. Most likely many of those upvotes don't know about the early days of Microsoft (sans Allen of course). Microsoft is the 'don't be evil' company that Google was talking about. They would and will do anything to squash competition (Netscape only one example) that they could. Antitrust lawsuit by government. Etc. So the money that Allen used came from that company and that way of doing business.. Fine. I don't take a position on that just to stop lionizing the guy as if he is some kind of saint. Noting also that he is being celebrated not because he died and gave money away but because he was linked to a tech company that we all know (and some of us hate). That's all. When does HN talk about this type of thing? So the irony is that he had a very small part of the money that Msft made over the years that he gave away. He didn't work there for that long. And guess what? Despite what anyone thinks he is not 10 times as great (just like Woz) than dozens of people on HN who were simply not in the right place at the right time. So we are really celebrating luck more than anything.

> How much should his post-Microsoft accomplishments be negated enough by Microsoft's bad deeds?

Once again and in particular it's this 'fawning' that people do. It's over the top.
I'd say they're reluctant allies. The article also mentions that the guy they were supposed to be assassinating found refuge in Saudi Arabia after the botched attempt, so clearly he was not the type of guy the Saudis wanted dead.

> The reason, a spokesperson for Al-Islah said in a phone interview, is that Mayo is alive — he had left the building 10 minutes before the attack and as of July was living in Saudi Arabia.
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We support custom images for the flexible runtime, but not for the standard runtime.

If you're as keen for that as I am, sign up here:
http://g.co/serverlesscontainers
`import editor from CKEditor`

or something like that ;-)
Yeah, but at least Democrats generally seem to get that you can't pair big spending increases with big tax cuts. Republicans don't seem to have figured that out yet.

McConnell is all over the news today saying the big deficit increase just announced had nothing to do with the tax cuts or the big increase in military spending. He's trying to blame it almost all on not cutting social security and medicaid.

Both parties like to drive toward cliffs, but the cliff the Democrats drive toward is farther away. I'd rather not be driving toward any cliff, but if I have to I'd prefer the farther one--that gives more time for someone to figure out a better course.
> The British empire was a parliamentary democracy

Not particularly; I mean, the Commons was democratic and Parliament largely governed the Empire, but the Commons wasn't really the sole meaningful house of Parliament during most ifthe period of the Empire.
Requiring a phone number means you have to disclose your identity (in many countries, for example in Russia) and your physical location (everywhere). This is the opposite to privacy and anonimity.

Imagine, one of your contacts is captured; attackers get his contact list that includes you; then they get your phone number from Signal; then they get your location and put you to all kinds of black lists, extremists lists, no fly lists, watch lists and so on.

Signal is nothing better than Telegram. They should be on the same position.
You can set a $0 limit on your billing account, too.
No, most people accept the OSD as the de-facto definition of "open source".
I think 4) Since this is local government debt, local governments start selling off their principal assets, land. And as land prices hit rock bottom, there begins a massive transfer of ownership of local public owned land to private individuals and companies. Initially there may be a flight of Chinese capital out of the country as land prices begin falling off a cliff. Then once they stabilize, there will be a big whooshing sound as money is repatriated and people start snapping up choice holdings?
Not if it's a warm body desk job that requires a security clearance. A lot of those jobs are fairly up front about informing all the applicants that veterans will be given preference.
Where's the fail? Android devices with the licensed software will be slightly more expensive, so competitors will have a chance to offer cheaper alternatives.

Sounds like working as intended to me.
One thing arm has which I find interesting is mbedssl, which used to be called polarssl. I feel like we could use a nice slim and efficient ssl alternative.
It's been interesting working with teams that have well-defined release management workflows and continuous integration with snapshotted npm/mvn dependencies, but still allow a third party like GA to inject JS that skips the QA queue.

Likewise with CloudFlare: Allowing a third party to proxy all your traffic is a huge liability. CloudBleed should have been a wake-up call, but it doesn't seem to have had much effect.
Honestly, this comment section is the first time I've heard about the OSI, I guess whenever I read articles that use "open source" I've assumed a definition that may not be technically correct. I would hazard a guess that my definition is probably more widely held but that could just be my personal bias.
But the early investors are less sensitive to the higher valuation volitity. I doubt GV really cares if the valuation is 59B or 100B. They were in early enough, that I suspect they’ll make a heavy profit regardless. It would be interesting to know if the final IPO values higher or lower than what SoftBank would have been offering, but even if Uber ends up lower, I’m sure there is relatively low risk to early investors.

I’d love to know the actual numbers though.
Like LineageOS + Micro G? Yes, that's possible. Requires some work though.
I would love for this to happen.
It wasn't a binary change, from absolute power to none. Those events represented shifts in degree from the crown to Parliament. AFAIK, King George III still had significant power, for example, during the American Revolution.

Also, I've never heard the UK of that era referred to as a democracy. Here it says that under Queen Victoria (1837-1901), the role of the monarch transformed from one that exercised real power to one that was purely ceremonial:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-Unite...
Not long ago a movie "120 beats per min" told the issues faced by HIV and/or gay groups regarding the start of the epidemic, but in France.
Exactly! There are more than 100 cities in China with a higher population than Detroit, and there are at least 15 cities with 10x the population of Detroit.
Magic Johnson has had HIV for the last 27 years
From the IEM's FAQ:

"The IEM is operated for research and teaching purposes. All interested participants world-wide can trade in our political markets. Other markets--such as the earnings and returns markets--are open only to academic traders."

"Trading accounts can be opened for $5 to $500."

These constraints are presumably why they got their no-action letter from the CFTC. If there's demand for markets other than political markets, or for larger accounts, then there's demand for a decentralized prediction market.
How the Finnish survive without small talk
By "they" do you mean TSA? This is not to benefit you, it's to benefit them.
Well, there's the Techempower benchmarks at: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

You can go to the filter, turn off all languages but Go and Python, and get a general idea.

There's also the old Computer Benchmark Game, which should be taken with a whole barrel of salt: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> But people are still pissed the fuck off.

It's possible that people being angry and the economy are not connected. We've never been able to communicate as fast as we have in the past. Right now we live in a culture of "what to be outraged about next". Best thing to do, is not participate in the toxic culture.
>My point wasn't that FSMs are useless.

No, but your general point was that classes aren't taught in a beneficial manner, when in fact they are and are often directly applicable to what you're doing. It may be abstracted away to the point where you think you aren't using them, but you very much are. And this illustrates the point of not needing to know the how and why something works and why its often less beneficial to do so because knowing more detail often leads to more confusion.

>While you're clearly proud of this fact, I'm not sure why that's relevant here?

It was simply an example of a direct application of something I learned in college and is thus evidence that what you learn is useful and applicable. I mentioned that it helped a senior engineer because learning such abstractions can make experience irrelevant. You were the one that seemed to bring pride into the picture.

> This is basically the exact opposite of my complaint. I was complaining that differential equation courses essentially focus on teaching a bag of tricks for solving specific types of equations.

So why even mention that things like differential equations are taught in a inadequate manner?

> the effort many students give to college is less than average

Yes, its quite possible that student effort does not follow a normal distribution. All I can say is, from my experience, it was high. Do I have data to back this up? Not rigorously, but given the numerous complaints about how college isn't teaching things right and that professors and universities aren't stupid, I'm just assuming its lack of effort, priority, or skill.

>But surely you must agree there is room for improvement, right?

Be careful with this line of thinking. You could say the same thing to assume improvement must be made in the way a course is taught, when its really another factor that's the cause of peoples complaints that isn't mentioned (i.e. effort, professor, lack of skill, etc.)

> Given that you made no attempt to substantiate your opinion - it seems to me that the logical thing to do here is to side with the majority.

You haven't done the same either. And the most logical thing is to abstain from siding with any position until more evidence is present. After all, the majority of people believe in a religion as taught from selected texts, of which such texts have numerous factually incorrect statements in them.
I don't pass judgement on Gates. It's just business. Same for Zuckerberg. Money winds up in somebody's pocket. Might as well be yours. He's doing good things with it too, so maybe his instinct was right.
I've seen scrum work and not work. My biggest beef with scrum is that people think its a batteries included thing, and its not. I've also seen a lot of things called scrum, which were not scrum. That batteries not included part is the thing scrum calls a product owner, which is just an idealization of whatever requirements process is in place. If that requirements process does not deliver decent requirements in a prioritized manner, then good luck.

I've had much more success with feature driven development (Coad).
answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481
Bikesheding. Not many know of or understand the complicated politics of the Middle East and even many of those who do might not have strong oppinions.... but everyone understands bagels.