skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Infact, researchers have to pay to get their paper published in most of these journals.

Is this true? Most Elsevier journals in mathematics (my field) do not have publication fees. In fact, I think of publication fees as one of the hallmarks of an open-access model.
Maybe we can prohibit drinking and drugs eventually, too!
I hope part of that comes with making sure zoning and other regulations are in-place such that it makes financial sense for developers to want to build housing in general too.
In case you miss the link to the background story:

https://www.pentagram.com/work/slack/story
What's complex is the ownership structure of any company with multiple classes of shares, especially with different voting weightings.

Simple would be "1 share = 1 vote".

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What's deceptive is the conflict of interest he created for himself that makes it unclear whether or not he is actually fulfilling his fiduciary duty.

Clear and conflict-free would be renting from someone unrelated, and renting his building out to different company.
I honestly don't believe it either. It's the perfect mix of "this is terrible and totally happened to me" and "I'm afraid to say who". If this happened to me I would absolutely start my first sentence with "I went for an interview at..."
McDonald's are basically profit engineers. There franchisee terms here is Aus:

• 20 year minimum lock-in for franchisee.

• A monthly service/royalty fee based on a percentage of the restaurant’s gross sales (currently 5%).

• A monthly rental being a fixed base rent and a percentage of the restaurant’s gross sales

• A monthly advertising contribution of not less than 4% of gross sales.

• All Outgoings including rates and utilities.

Also a metric butt-tonne of start-up costs.
I just refreshed my desktop app and I have to say I am not crazy about the new default avatars. It is entirely possible I just got accustomed to my team's collection of colors and shapes, but the current ones have much less variety resulting in them all blending together. I wonder if this is a partially intentional dark pattern to get us to move away from the default avatars.
If you do go on, I'll happily link to it in the article. There's no way I could have done everything, but I could have done a better job nodding to what's missing.
At the same time though, it normalizes the term "PT" away from piracy and that's not necessarily a bad thing either.
The victims can't press charges because they can't.

Prosecutors press charges.

The general public cannot, never has.
> I hear that sometimes a publisher will do some copy editing at the end, but in my field there's nothing beyond some simple formatting checks.

By "some copy editing", what you surely mean is "a blind search and replace that introduces last-minute errors", which is the main effect of this copy-editing that I've seen.
AirBnB never reprimanded her.

I think that's what bothers a lot of guests who have an experience so bad they have to leave. Is there any penalty for lying in a description or putting guests at the risk of their own safety?
Is this not already a problem with the current welfare system in terms of selling food stamps? In which case is there any reason to suggest that UBI would worsen the problem significantly?
Congratulations Slack!

To me, it seems a bit useless though, but I don’t have any relevant knowledge about Marketing nor Corporate Design to provide useful feedback. There’s probably some value in a re-brand even though the company is not facing any criticism for their colors, logo, and slogan.

> It was also extremely easy to get wrong. It was 11 different colors—and if placed on any color other than white, or at the wrong angle (instead of the precisely prescribed 18° rotation), or with the colors tweaked wrong, it looked terrible.

I stand corrected, these are good reasons to justify the rebrand.

That being said, I felt a bit scared this morning when I opened Slack and found that the colors were slightly different to what they used to be, I freaked and thought someone had hacked my corporate account, then I went looking for answers and found this post, my heart was immediately at peace.

I hope this change brings them more opportunities to grow.

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EDIT: Interestingly, their “Release Notes” says version 3.3.6 [1] but 3.3.3 [2] in the download page.

The :slack: emoji is also showing the old logo. I wonder if they are going to change “slackbot” avatar as well.

[1] https://slack.com/release-notes/osx

[2] https://slack.com/downloads/osx
I take it you are mainstream politically for silicon valley?

I'm not, actually. I don't live in silicon valley, and have no idea what the mainstream of silicon valley is in terms of politics.

Also, I think you may be approaching this with a lot more assumptions than is reasonable to be made here. You've made assumptions about me and my position, and instead of diverting to social media I would like to bring it back to the inherent politicality of western media and how it's distinctly more overt and telling people how to vote?
Chelsea to make Bailly move after contact confirmed
> MongoDB only needs the Linux kernel/GNU/GCC when it's running or compiling on Linux.

Good call. They should also be contributing back to those toolchains.

> No one should be forced to contribute back to open source less they be criticised by the community.

That right there is what we call irony. This is precisely what Mongo is trying to do.
Pix2Story
New AI Lab experiment from Microsoft AI

"Pix2Story"- A Neural storyteller which creates machine-generated story in several literature genre.

To learn more and source code go here- https://www.ailab.microsoft.com/experiments/7feda326-186c-494b-9b12-fbb41f1dce0c

For the experiment playground, hit launch on the above link, or go directly here- https://pix2story.azurewebsites.net/
This is the main argument for a tax on advertising. Much of it is zero-sum. It adds real costs and runs up prices while providing no real benefit to anyone.
And there's still real value in that, even if they work with law enforcement.

If you actually need a VPN, the last thing you want is for the service to create an opportunity, which wouldn't otherwise exist, for a malicious 3rd party to quietly obtain existing records of DNS queries, connections, and other traffic data.

By not storing the data in advance, the risk is reduced. A malicious actor would have to compromise the servers and either use one as a network tap to send the traffic somewhere else, or enable logging or other analytics locally.

Both are more likely to be detected than a one-time access or leak of data that was already stored.
Use regular "go test" for unit testing. If you're using metadata inside your function (e.g., to extract an event ID) you can use metadata.NewContext to pass into your function while testing:
https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/functions/metadata#New...

If you just want to execute your function, create another package main and start an HTTP server, as you'd normally do.

There are some examples on this page:
https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/testin...

We're thinking about ways to improve the local development/testing story, and are keen to hear any ideas/feedback.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, and worked on this product.
I take "seeing beyond legalities" to mean ignoring the law, not changing it of phasing it out.

I originally meant that as doing more than the law mandated.
Assuming the file uploaded to youtube was high enough quality, what you get from youtube-dl has only been compressed once.
With UBI, people can pursue what makes them happy and enriched in life, not what makes them the most productive. Is that so bad?
I also paused. I was thinking that oxygen is coming from previous stars exploding.
But not for the odd shape, or for the apparent change in acceleration with out any off-gassing.
That would be awesome, though.
PBS SpaceTime's excellent coverage of Loeb's paper: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0
>Another option is to keep living in the 00s and maintain a home music library. You ensure no songs will disappear from your library without notice, which is good. The bad thing is you are more isolated. There's no easy way to access your library in other devices, there's no easy way to integrate a personal library with a cloud service, and there's no easy way to share your experiences with friends in the same way you can do it with Spotify.

I have ~40k songs uploaded and available to stream for free anywhere with google music. I'm still the kinda of crazy that maintains my own collection locally and it stays sync'd automatically. It also serves as a free offsite backup. Agreed that there is no easy way to share but I have vastly different musical tastes from my friends so that's never been an issue for me, though for a lot of people it might be a negative.
> Laying everything on this thick just doesn't increase credibility for me. It makes me suspicious.

No doubt. But then again I see no company name mentioned, or even hinting at it. Also:

> But this portion has nothing to do with the point of the post; given the outrageous nature of the post in the first place, this smells to me like a sob element to hook more people in.

Not so sure here. Not that I ever had to eat other people's leftovers, but assuming this story is true I could absolutely see that you want to release steam and just process what happened, maybe because you can't really believe it yourself yet.
Ask HN: How to explain to customers that we’re part-time?
My co-founder and I are part-time on a new B2B SaaS side business. We’d like to remain honest and let our buyers know we are part-time but will that hurt our sales/adoption? How do people recommend we deal with this? FYI, full time is not an option as we need our primary jobs for income until side-project can support itself?
Looks like it is down. HN hug of death ?
What's next on the roadmap for cloud functions? Some things I'm curious about is work related to cold starts and future run times (specifically Ruby) but happy to hear about anything.
I never said that multi-class shares are a scam. This is a straw man argument.

EDIT: To clarify, almost every scam involves the victim doing something of their own free will. Either they do not have all the information they need, or they do something based on trust which is then betrayed.

So saying scams are okay because people can just not fall for them is completely asinine.

In this case, you could argue that WeWork's shareholders have been "scammed" because they trusted that the CEO would act in WeWork's best interest, not his own. However, one could argue that he violated his fiduciary duty in renting office space for WeWork from himself at questionable rent prices.

The reason he was interest and able to do that, profitably, was that he actually owns a relatively low % of WeWork's stock. So he can use his 65% voting power to decide to do this, WeWork loses on the rent each month, and he basically profits by over 80% of WeWork's loss.

He's in a position where if he steals $100 from WeWork, then his shares drop by less than $20. Because he has majority control, the board can't do anything about it unless they or the SEC decides he's gone too far and is into fraud territory.

What enables his insane margins there is the 10x vote weighting he gave his own shares. If it were 1 vote = 1 share then he'd steal $100 and profit $35. Still incentive, but not TRIPLE the incentive.

EDIT: To further clarify what I mean by "stealing" is this... let's say the rent would usually be $1000 a month for the space. If he's charging WeWork $1100 a month, he's stealing $100 a month from his own company.
Programmers tend to want to hack and not care about sales/marketing/everything else.

It turns out that doing "sales/marketing/everything else" is of significant value when building a business.
That's not uncommon. It's how Roy Kroc got rich with McDonalds. His real business was leasing land to franchisees.
Reminds me. After the dot-com crash I couldn't be picky, and thus interviewed at a porn company. One of the interviewers was clearly a porn star or ex porn star and had huuuge breasts for her otherwise skinny frame.

She was watching my eyes the entire time. I realized if I looked down to examine her uniquely proportioned features, I'd fail the interview. It took a lot of will-power to never even glance. She was probably there to test my will-power, since she didn't ask technical questions. (I didn't get the job for reasons not related to anatomy.)
>I don't think it's unreasonable to want to eat real food, the same we've eaten for thousands of years, or to think it's the healthiest option for us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_fallacy
That thread was "my best argument for UBI" and my best argument against UBI is off topic? Seems fishy.
I am familiar with the series, the problem with checking out new ones is that these games require a SERIOUS investment of time and energy.

They aren't your run-of-the-mill Euro game you pull out after Thanksgiving Dinner and teach to the family over coffee.
This is so so fitting, and describe me to a "T" as well.

I'd add oh-crap-I-screwed-up-so-let's-clone-the-repo-and-start-over to the list.
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If the industry abandons Spotify, and my entire music life was wrapped up in it, then I need to acquire 600+ individual music tracks from 400+ artists, if I hadn't already done it already, all to continue listening to music the same way I do now. The problem gets worse the longer I remain on the platform. And that assumes I'll be able to get my data, about which tracks I need to acquire, out when the time comes. If not then I'm really up Shit's Creek without a paddle.

I'd rather pay more in the short term, paying for individual tracks, for a solution that will work indefinitely, than set up a situation in which extreme disruption of a part of my life I'm utterly reliant on can be afflicted at a whim of a dipshit music exec who doesn't understand how people can become reliant on music or worse, understands and does it anyway because it'll make him more money.
Thanks for the response.
Would like to see more granular triggers (event types). Especially with Firebase.
Also, would like to see more examples with firestore.
I never said anything about whether or not this is justified only that I was surprised it was that expensive & that it’s more expensive than other places I’ve been to (including NYC, if you want to talk about global business/financial centers).
Pix2Story- Machine-generated story in several literature genre
As noted in the article, you most likely live in an affluent suburb. They don't have these things in Lake Forest or Barrington. On my way to work, on a short strip of road that runs through Hoffman Estates there are two Shelby's within a 1000 ft of each other. They are almost always empty apart from one or two patrons, yet they have been there for a couple of years now - I assume the few problem gamblers in the immediate area are literally supporting these places. Even if they were generating significant revenue for their municipalities, the whole enterprise is immoral.
Devang Mehta had a great essay on why he had trouble being a researcher in GMO - not due to GMO but the negative perceptions of culture/people around him about it: https://massivesci.com/articles/gmo-gm-plants-safe/
The license agreements restrict use of the work on top of the GPL, same as mongo does..
The Internet and parents ;). However, people neeed to relax, espically with the overstressed and overworked condition of the Western World.
Or the Microsoft logo with circles. I honestly think it looks terrible (the Slack logo, not the Microsoft logo.)
there's oxygen atoms, and there's O_2, which is a gas also called oxygen.

the atoms came from stars (hand wave). those atoms have probably been recently recombined to form the diatomic gas, by plants.
Why did it have to be cash? Why pointing at Obama only? Same reason everyone always points their finger at Trump/Clinton/etc. Goes both ways. Blaming the admin, not the person.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obama-iran-ter...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/7/inside-the-r...

>According to knowledgeable sources, Iran has used the funds to pay its main proxy, the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, along with the Quds Force, Iran’s main foreign intelligence and covert action arm and element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Or the fact Obama let Hezbollah off the hook. But its okay right?
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-d...

Do you want to even bring up the fact that Obama traded Bowe Bergdahl for terrorists who then rejoins the Taliban.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/gitmo-terrorists-obama-t...

>Government Accountability Office (GAO), determined that the president broke a “clear and unambiguous” law when he traded the high-level terrorists for Bergdahl, who went AWOL in Afghanistan in 2009.

I dont care how much you goons down vote me. Proves y'all are a sensitive bunch that are completely clueless of the facts. Please correct me where I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
Indeed, I freaked out a little bit as well.

Interestingly, some Slack groups that I’m part of still have the old colors.

Theme: Aubergine
*(Old)* Normal Color: #4d394b
New Background Color: #3f0e3f

Reference: https://i.imgur.com/RtUXm6V.png
Thanks for the details, but you're kind of being a dick.
...why would almost anyone using MongoDB care at all if it's included in a distro's set of default packages?!

Don't we all always install software from repositories hosted by third parties? As long as the Mongo devs keep supporting RHEL, I'd see no problem for actual direct users of it. And SSPL sounds like a pretty good and sensible thing.
We've used GCF for some production tasks and it's worked pretty well for us.

Would like to see some more runtimes/languages. I'm hoping AWS' recent layers implementation has made this more of a focus at Google. I'm curious how the implementation of Go has affected the ease of integrating other languages.
My then-girlfriend had something similar happen to her years ago. She drove around 5 hours to interview at an engineering/architecture firm and was put up at a budget hotel for the night. Although she had to pay for the room in advance, the company said they'd reimburse her for it and the mileage.
Of course they did neither and effectively ghosted her after the interview when she tried to recoup her losses.
I always wonders who benefits from these treatments other then the doctors and scientist lining their pockets, along with academics circle-jerking their way to juicy funding.

Labels like narcissism are just a way to tell a whole group of people that they're ill. In fact it's a personality trait that according to "research" is rampant in management professions.

There are so many crappy online tests that measure your tendency to "narcissism" (and any extroverted high-achiever might fall into their trap) ... but if you look at the research it gets flimsy very quickly. They quickly talk about a "spectrum" indicating they have no fucking idea what they're doing.

A bit like the current tendency to over diagnose kids on the autistic spectrum. Flimsy jargon like "spectrum" is excellent precondition for whole industries to emerge that can line their pockets.

imvho psychology / psychiatry must be one of the most fraudulent sciences of our times (check out all the research that was done by these crooks to devise better methods of interrogation and soft torture) ... something, something "medical industrial complex".

EDIT: what @zamalek describes above "My therapist has explained the biggest issue about PDs: the disorders make a person extremely unlikely to seek out help," sounds like the perfect cover for a fraudulent practice. Such language IMO is outright dangerous to anyone who may be diagnosed without their consent (e.g. by SJW's or society in general).
One important distinction could be that these were HTTP requests made on his account page or other. If he logs into the account to update billing, etc that would certainly be logged.

All of what is claimed in the statement would be possible even if we assume no logs are stored for the VPN Server they run, which makes no guarantees about access to their HTTP properties.
Is "I mean" a common preamble in Chicago/Illinois? The reason I ask is that I've seen 2 other comments that start with "I mean."
You're just going to bad hotels. Every hotel I've stayed at in the US in the past quarter (around six of them) had ~16 Mbps free Wi-Fi, complimentary water bottles in my room each day, and free parking (with the exception of hotels in Manhattan or the likes).

I'll admit that gratuity is annoying, but that's a cultural problem with the US, not something specific to hotels. We just happen to live in a country where every person who serves you is expecting a tip. And to be fair, if I was staying at an AirBnB that for whatever reason had housecleaning or other service, I'd probably have to leave a tip there too.
I've been all over as well. You are correct, they all are corrupt. That said, we generally don't care about the corruption in other places.

For instance, I recently learned that Pennsylvania has a problem with corrupt DA's the same as Wisconsin does. Now I know. Now I lament the situation of people in Pennsylvania. But all that said, I'm from Wisconsin, so I'm a little more concerned about the bent DA's we have here.

Maybe the original comment was posted by someone from Chicago? In which case, why would he care about corruption elsewhere? For instance, why would he care that people in Wisconsin are out 4 to 5 billion bucks for a Foxconn factory? Yes, he may lament our situation. He might even get a little upset by it when he hears about it on the news...

but in the end, Chicago is his concern, not some local-yokels in up in Fond du Lac, Cambria or Superior.

Whereas for me, it's infuriating maybe in the same way that all the parking tickets people are talking about seem to infuriate people from Chicago.
Technical presentation delivery notes
> Require party primaries to be as open and competitive as general elections. This is the traditional American approach, and for all of its own the failure modes that we've seen since 2013, you can't say that the problem has been beigeness enforced by party elites.

I think that an excellent argument can be made that the failure modes of American politics have been the result of too-open primaries rather than party-run caucuses. With caucuses, the party elite are able to groom mainstream candidates acceptable to the electorate; primaries (esp. plurality primaries) are susceptible to pluralist capture.

> Make heavier use of Sortition and/or policy juries, delegating decisions to randomly-selected deliberative bodies.

Now that's a great idea! I think it'd be awesome to have a third, random house in each legislature. Actually ensuring random selection, in a manner acceptable by the populace at large, would be a trick, though.
The important thing here is:

until that chunk of work is done, I'm not doing anything else.

Multitasking means you'll take longer to ship anything, though the total time spent to ship everything may be the same. By selecting smaller units of work and focusing on them to completion you can reduce the overall latency of the system.

This doesn't even mean Waterfall (big design up front). Agile workflows operate on this same principle. If you elected a Scrum-styled approach you'd select the work for the current Sprint and run it to completion. If you elected for a Kanban-styled approach, you'd look at how many things are in each stage of completion and stop inducting new work when you realize you have 20 projects that are all at the "refactor for publishing" stage.
There is not. Anyone takes care of a person with a PD would tell you that.

And the high functioning people with PDs would explain to you the all the very specific deficits they have to overcome in order to function.

And the clinical researchers would explain to you as much as we know regarding regarding the developmental and environmental causes of specific PDs.