skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The notion is not that you get sued for the hell of it. It's that you get sued for commercial advantage. You get sued to make an example of somebody, so that all the employees know they'll ruin somebody if they find out they're working for a competitor.

That somebody has decent odds of getting away with something is only relevant if the punishment not terrible. But a 95% chance of not getting sued is not great if when you are sued it's $100k in expenses and two years of incredible stress.

Will some people do it anyhow? Sure. But most people won't, and that's what bullshit noncompetes are after.
You can't ignore the gravitational force of the normal mass. The two would rapidly reach a zero-value equilibrium at some point where the repulsive force of the negative mass is perfectly cancelled out by the attractive gravity of the positive mass, so you have a net force of 0 at some distance.

For an easier to visualize example imagine placing one magnet positive pole up inside of a tube, and then you place another magnet positive pole down in the same tube. It would create a similar effect. There is a repulsive force being perfectly balanced out by an attractive force and the two reach an equilibrium where the magnet on top is 'floating' with the net of all forces in this closed system being 0.
Many are lost in technicalities here, if Canada has the right to arrest a businesswoman, if the US can stop a foreign company to do business with another country. Who cares?

I'm partial to Iran because a multi-lateral treaty was signed. Iran stopped nuclear enrichment. In exchange, western countries pledged to provide economic relief and stop sanctions.

It is said that Iran has been developing various weapons, but these weapons do not fall under the treaty, and experts and controllers all agree the nuclear program has been stopped.

It is wrong for the US to walk away from this treaty, in the same way it was wrong to walk away from the Paris accord agreement. You agree on one thing, you have to follow. That is the honourable thing to do.

A few will say that Iran is threatening Middle East Peace. What is obvious is that its Saudi Arabia who's bombing its southern neighbour or sending tanks to Bahrain. If you want peace, you have to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia as well.

What is even wrong for the US is punishing foreign companies wanting to do business in Iran. Perhaps there are technicalities to demonstrate a law in the US is broken. This makes sense for bureaucrats. For the rest of the world, it's just abuse and plain wrong. History will judge.
Signal is rather niche, so is telegram.
Looking at the top 100 funded companies: it's interesting that the majority are in the "Consumer", "Dev Tools" or "Healthcare" categories, and hardly any are in the "AI and ML" category.
Can the world produce enough cobalt for electric vehicles?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414651

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223972
I use Hangouts as a desktop messaging client to communicate with my Mom. She has a Chromebook, but no Android phone. I also use Hangouts (from my desktop) to communicate with friends via an ongoing chat stream (with the occasional video chat).

My use case seems to be falling through the cracks with Google's new approach. I guess I will be signing my Mom up with a Google Voice number and switching to Skype for for my video chats.
Google chat services have always been a big joke to me. I'd cringe any time someone said "can we Hangout" or "Google Hangout". It's like nobody at google knows what "hang out" means and how that does not apply to conversations.

Is it just me or does Google basically throw a bunch of money at a bunch of things to see what sticks, scrap the failures and repeat the process over and over again - and in the process messing with services some people actually like.

I can no longer put trust in Google's consumer product reliability knowing that at any point Google will shut the service down because it does not meet some internal quota on usage.
Google tracks you anways. Do that in a VM over a dedicated vpn. The problem is legal,your local law needs to prohibit non-consent user tracking of any form.
The only “green” people I know are google employees and my mom, who can’t afford an iPhone. The solution is simple to their problem- buy an iPhone.

It’s almost like the iPhone is a fetish or totem that grants access to iMessage (although you can message from macos or iCloud.com impractically).

It’s quite strange how this is a very simple, solved, problem for iPhone for many years. Google can fix it by literally cloning iMessage and arguing with carriers. They don’t. I suspect it’s because they want to be the only one with access to the cleartext and they aren’t willing to make a consumer-focused decision to keep all messages ciphertext.

So “most of the planet” has to suffer Google’s anti-consumer decision.
http://archive.is/gC9c5
Skype for Business and Teams are not the same app. That said, I've found Teams very lacking in exactly the way Skype is not, and Skype lacking in exactly the way Teams is not which is very frustrating.
> The proposed legislation doesn't allow them to ask for "systemic weaknesses".

My problem with this argument is that the whole "systemic weaknesses" restriction is just a word-game so that the bill can escape certain criticism.

As a hypothetical, if I implement an e2e system which is "entirely secure" and as a provider I have no method of attacking it (and let's imagine it's free software and uses reproducible builds, so users can trivially verify if their binary is backdoored) -- how can I respond to a Technical Assistance Notice? I simply cannot, without taking my existing program and making it insecure. Without creating a weakness which, by the nature of the problem, is systemic.

Do you see what happened? The government hasn't asked me to create a systemic weakness but because of the very situation I've now been forced to make one -- it's just a word-game. They can't ask you to create a systemic weakness, but they sure as hell can put you in a situation where (in order to fulfill a "completely reasonable request" under threat of exceptionally large fines and civil prosecution) you must create a systemic weakness.

Now of course, most programs are insecure and so this hypothetical isn't entirely practical. But the principle stands that there will be many situations where (in order to avoid exceptionally large fines and civil prosecution) companies will opt into creating a systemic weakness out of fear of not being able to comply with future Technical Assistance Notices.
My impression was that with the switch from (UI)Webview to WKWebKit the webview is put in a sandbox automatically. At least the rendering is now out-of-process. Do you know anything about that?
Both the stupidest and smartest project in a long while.
It's like nobody at Google uses an iPhone or has heard of Facetime. "Oh look, there's an app that lets you call and at a tap of a button turns that call into video! I wonder if we should do something similar?" "- nah, that would be too easy."
> Don't listen to advice from the internet

Strongly disagree. Don't listen to the wrong advice from the internet. Do listen to wise, earnest, un-conflicted advice from the internet (e.g., Bogleheads).
That's exactly one of the things they can do yes.
One of the stupid things about it is that they say that what they ask you to do cannot create a systematic weakness.

Which is exactly what they're asking you to do, create a weakness that is only for them.
I mean yes, it is a remarkable technical achievement.

To use the analogy of an art thief, this is as if he had simply smashed some glass and made a run for it, without dealing with security systems and whatnot. He might make it out the door, but now the museum has him on video, they have his fingerprints, and they're probably going to get the stolen art back.
Side note: There is this [0] section of the GSuite admin console. If this law passes, I can see Australia gaining a place here (but five eyes complicates that).

0: https://judge.sh/XCgDVqI0XP.png
Hah. Yes.
Somehow, I wonder if google is “just” very strong at analyzing vast amounts of data, but weak on core product development. Do they ask questions like who is this for, who will use this, for what purpose, how will they use it etc?
I’m wondering if a tin facing away from the door may be sufficient since the signal will be reflecting in the wrong direction.

Then just a metallized flap for extra protection.

Leakage is fine. As long as it’s in the right direction.
lt very well can be, both:

* Silence is consent.

* If you know what is good for you, you will be quiet.

Are political.
If you make rash decisions based on your perception of opportunity costs at that kind of sum, it's a good first step for losing it all.
I'm also surprised by the attitude of 5% gain is easy and guaranteed. It's not. Neither treasurey funds nor real estate yield anywhere near 5% and we are many years in a bull market. Expecting 5% yearly ROI in the market over the next decade is optimistic.
Are you sure it's not installed by default for at least some people? I never installed it, but it's on my Google Pixel.
This is not nearly enough money to justify a wealth manager. People always think they're special when they aren't, and salespeople are always willing to encourage their delusions.
I worked around the problem you describe by getting a google voice number and using that at the front end for my real numbers. My GV# is the face for whatsapp, telegram, whatever asks for my number. Also helps that I can send and receive sms over data or WiFi anywhere in the world.

Doesn’t work with some sms gateways that don’t y’all GV, but the best international I know.

Each country gets a new sim with a local number for data and local texts but I never give it out.
Threadified: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1070302359325151233.html
Pretty much. Maybe they'll just ask you to sign a binary they've built themselves.

They obviously won't be able to ask you to do something you technically can't. If you sell, say, IoT devices that don't phone home for updates then you'll probably be safe.
In Vancouver Canada, the government mandates taxi companies have x% accessible vehicles. I don't see why they can't do the same to Waymo, since they own the vehicles (note we still don't have Uber here.)
In some countries, they’re worth more than American MSRP.

Some luxury sellers are actively making it difficult to buy for export to arbitrage this.
Can I ask how does this compare with ProseMirror's format for rich text strings? What's the reason to not use ProseMirror's JSON structure? Can one convert between Portable Text and ProseMirror JSON?

Are there similarities between Portable Text and how rich text is represented in e.g. ProseMirror and SlateJS and DraftJS and other rich text editors?
Named vulnerabilities and their practical impact
I mean, it's obviously valid because this incident happened (and many other events that show the same validity). The logic is that the US says any transactions involving USD fall under US jurisdiction, because it's their currency--that is, the USD only has any value at all because the US government says it's legal tender.

Because the USD is the international reserve currency for a lot of countries and the US largely is pretty stable, most countries are fine with cooperating in cases like this with notable exceptions.

FWIW that's changing under Trump (i.e. people are seeing the US as less stable), and the EU is making efforts to increase the use of the Euro as an international reserve currency.
It's installed by default on most Android devices, and a large portion of Asia's handset market (India) is dominated by Android, but messaging in India is dominated by Whatsapp. So almost-a-billion is bloated download numbers of Indian smartphones coming with hangouts installed, but none of them using it.
Comparative advantage has nothing to do with it. The market price of a global commodity has the opportunity costs already priced in. It's the reason more prosperous countries have higher labor costs.

If you and some other country are producing food for the same cost (e.g. because you pay more for an hour of labor but have better automation), adding the same cost to each doesn't affect your competitiveness. You both still have the same costs as each other.

The same amount of fuel tax only affects you differently if you require a different amount of fuel to produce the same amount of food. Then the party using less fuel has the advantage and may end up producing more food while the party using more fuel produces less. But that's what we want to happen -- having the other country produce food in that case is the desired outcome, because it can do it for lower cost once the externalities of burning carbon are priced in.
> When Sun bought mysql they promptly stopped development.

This simply is not true. I personally know a bunch of engineers who worked for MySQL AB and stayed on through the Sun and then Oracle acquisitions, and worked on MySQL that entire time.

Additional source: Sun acquired MySQL AB in early 2008. MySQL 5.1 was released in late 2008, and major releases continued on a cadence of every 2 to 2.5 years to this day. You can verify this via release notes, or via Wikipedia, among other sources.

> They haven't really moved it forward

This is purely a matter of opinion. From my own perspective, as someone who has been using MySQL for 15 years, I see substantial ongoing improvement in each major release.

If MySQL was as stagnant as you claim, why would the majority of the largest internet properties continue to rely on it as their primary data store?
Ok, didn't notice that this linux app that uses plain WebKit.
Which, oddly enough, cannot be search on mobile.
Sandisk and Toshiba have been investigated for price fixing.
Sounds like libdispatch
What do 1,000 EOMA68-A20 PCBs look like?
Maybe they came across a better car?
I didn't say she cheated, it's well within the rules to skip sleeping.

It's just not something the competition has been doing, and I suspect it's largely out of self-preservation rather than a lack of ability. Sleep deprivation is not particularly good for the brain.

Now that Courtney has demonstrated this strategy, and how impossible it is for even the fastest of distance runners to beat it if they sleep, I expect ultramarathons to become a bunch of sleep-stumblers after the first day in the future.

Which makes it not really about distance running anymore. It's more like a run followed by a long tired hallucination-ridden hike.
Yeah this really bums me out because a lot of the time I just use Gmail on my laptop as my phone. Do you know any other services that have this type of functionality?
> Russia is not a superpower, its reach is regional and it has few allies.

It still has lots of nuclear weapons. And probably more tactical nuclear weapons than the US does. But yes, it has fewer allies, for sure.
It definitely seems Google is bad at Product Design, but certainly they do not lack for the best talent, so is the problem based upon the structure of the org, stakeholders, something else, both, neither?
This seems to me the start of what happened to GMail. As for Hangouts, it seems that this announcement suggests that Hangouts is moving to become a primarily G Suite brand.

Messaging:
you have what you have now,
Messages as a vanilla messaging app
Allo and Duo as flavored products focusing on particular features for messaging.

Email:
GMail as vanilla
Inbox as a GTD-flavored that is having its most used features is being folded back into GMail.
Py-heat v0.0.6 adds scroll ability to view profiled python files as a heatmap
Description: pprofile+matplotlib = Python program profiled as an awesome heatmap!

Repository Link: https://github.com/csurfer/pyheat

Demo Link : https://i.imgur.com/5IdH8AG.gif
Titles that describe poorly understood scientific phenomena as "bizarre", "mysterious" etc., hurts science, IMO. I would expect this from a journalist (though not excuse it), but an academic?

Why not something like "Negative mass dark 'fluid' halos around galaxies as an alternative to dark matter"?
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to start machine learning consulting firm?
I would like to solve machine learning problems for businesses. Is it worth to open a consulting firm with this business?
I assume you mean Technical Capability Notice where you've written Technical Assistance Notice? (the latter only requires you to use an existing capability that you have - if you don't have the capability, they can't force you to use it).

My reading of that is that the authorities would have to ask you for some specific technical solution. You lay out how your e2e system with reproducible builds works, and they ask you for something specific - like a backdoored build. It's up to them to figure out how to deal with issues like the reproducible build one.
>It isn't any different from when a law firm or bank provides its employees phones.

But the law firm and the bank aren't in the business of snooping on cell phones. Facebook is. I've had phones from both a firm and a bank. They didn't look at what someone was doing without cause and they had very strict procedures to follow to get permission to even look even though it was a company phone.
> Its executive chose to travel to Canada.

In retrospect, that was foolish.
Wait until your insurance suspends their coverage for 24 hours because the road conditions aren’t meeting their requirements, or you didn’t evacuate quickly enough, or there’s a forest fire nearby.
Wow. People actually trust those kinds of systems?

No way I'd give my corporate email to give blithe and scathing criticisms. What's their data (in)security like? Do they sell that data off? Blackmail your job if they got desperate?

Yipes.
And for the curious, our public transit system isn't anything worth writing about.
Shower thought: make a system where you unlock and start your car using your iPhone’s Face ID or Touch ID, and you can drive the car via the phone, like in Golden Eye. That would be really cool. I don’t care about security. It just sounds really cool.
Its turned into a massive joke. They can create amazing machine learning and AI systems, can't put together a consistent chat app - stuff thats been around since the beginning of the Internet.
> Why would anyone invest in a Google messaging system when Google is prone to kill it off randomly?

This is definitely where I'm at. I presume this is all about internal warring fiefdoms, because from the outside it makes no sense.
AI is an approach, not a market, so I suggest those who make bank from AI will be companies like consumer, healthcare etc..
AdoraHack: Kotlin Android Extensions
Creating a google calendar event with an embedded link to a hangouts room works pretty well in my experience.
> a hardware specific messaging app is just stupid.

What's the old phrase? If it looks stupid but it works, its not stupid. Say hello to the world's most valuable public company and what is commonly regarded as the world's highest quality messaging network.

A truth technologists hate hearing: You cannot, under any circumstances, solve problems created by code by creating more code.
Love the idea, and that it fits in 49 lines of BASIC.

But isn’t this slowing things down by shoving all the data out toward track zero? I thought that for head movement efficiency and speed the ideal was to put everything as close to track 18 as possible.
I love how they are desperately trying to capture the Slack market now... when they had a product that was perfect for it long before Slack.
YC-Funded SFOX's new charts show real-time crypto data from multiple exchanges
It has nothing to do with minimizing anything. Sometimes it's just cool to see men and women compete at things they can be equals at, e.g. business, right? So, acknowledging that men and women have biological differences, I'd still like to see more things we can equally compete in, just for the entertainment/competitive spirit if nothing else.

EDIT: Although gp did say it would be "helpful." So, yeah, I don't know what they meant by that, but this is my take on it anyhow.
A lot of the big hits from quite a while ago. I wonder if there is a trend?

How long as it been since a big, recognizable brand hit?
So i read the highlights of the statcan link you posted.

a) it's from 2011, that's 7 years ago.
b) Just being house owners doesn't mean a lot. There are non-Canadians (neither PR nor Citizens) buying condo's/houses with 35+% downpayment. Our government allows that, which is kind of mind boggling. You'll see a lot of international students living in condo's that their parents have bought.

I know this is unrelated point, but also effing Airbnb has screwed up the market for renters/first time home buyers.
Yeah, it seems there is some relationship between hip width and running efficiency. (Wider hips create an angle between knee and hip, whereas narrower hips the leg extends basically straight down in front profile.) So if you're a woman with relatively narrow hips, great, you've got a chance of keeping up with the men over 100s of miles. But many women have wider hips than most men.
I tried this a few years ago, it only worked for American customers. But it did save me some money making calls. Last I checked they basically abandoned their mobile app for a near decade...
I'm using Falkon, which it became, currently. It's pretty good. You can write plugins in C++, Python, or QML (in master).
I honestly have no idea what this means for fi. We were made to move over to Hangouts so we could sms from Gmail or something and now it seems to be going away?
Interesting that a 101 style explanation wouldn't tell you that mutex is derived from "mutually exclusive".

Otherwise, a pretty nice overview. The bar charts are helpful.
That's basically Hangouts. I sms more from my computer than my phone but it's all synced everywhere. I'm even smsing with a co-worker from my tablet right now.
Should we continue pursuing late stage VC or try an IPO?
> Do you want to hurt US market/USD ? Because thats what use of your justifications will do.

I would think that human rights, morals, and ideals of liberty and freedom are more important than a few percentages of GDP growth.
The list is charting total funding. Older companies that have raised more rounds will be at the top.
It’s hard to imagine many competitive events where biological advantages wouldn’t be important.
If women can do better with ultrarunning, than it is not an example of an activity where biological advantages are not important. Quite contrary.
I know too much about it, that I can't say exactly why it's "special", sorry. Most of it would just have to do with internal organizational details.

The below is my take on Hangouts based on it's history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts

It's interesting to remember that it was born out eating multiple existing services (GChat/GoogleTalk, Huddle, and some other things probably). When it launched, it was trying to cleanup Google's fragmented text/video messaging strategy.

One funny thing is how message history search worked. There is no in-app searching history. You can search on the Gmail desktop client and see history, but no where else (no mobile app. Not in Inbox. No-where but gmail desktop).

Along the way they added SMS support for it, which they later scrapped for everyone except Project Fi/Voice customers.

Hangouts has done a lot in the last 5.5 years (since its launch). It may have tried to do too much, which may have caused some problems (especially on usability).

Hangouts Chat and Meet seem to try to start fresh and build a good product focused on business customers. How that plays out for normal gmail consumers has yet to be seen; I'm really hoping they do a good job with it.
Yeah that is the exact strategy employed by 61 year old Cliff Young linked above, slow pace and no sleep. The article notes that is the strategy everyone uses now in that race as well. Also he was not competitive the second year.
A fun article about PostgreSQL and fsync():

"PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise"

https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
'Cheating' gorillas show clever puzzle-solving