skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't know what you're talking about. I'm a WeWork customer - we rent an office at a WeWork for our small company.

We're not at WeWork because of hype, or the image of the CEO, or anything like that. We're at a WeWork because it's a cheap/easy way to get an office, that we can scale when the company grows with minimal issues since it's month to month. We shopped around a few competitors, WeWork happened to be the best combination of price vs. space vs. availability, so we went with that.

I haven't exactly done a poll, but I doubt that most WeWork customers know or care about WeWork's culture too much - they just need an office, and WeWork is providing a cost-effective solution. Maybe it's artificial because of VC money - if so, I certainly don't care - it'll be good while it lasts!

For contrast: at my previous company, we also wanted to move to an office (instead of working out of my apartment). We spent a huge amount of time looking at offices, and ended up staying put, because it was hard to find a decent office with a decent price, and signing up for a 2-year lease is a huge commitment which is not fun to make when you don't know the future size of the company - do you get lots more space than you need and pay extra? Do you get less space and are in a tough spot if you grow too fast?
I'm always curious at how these VPN providers aren't being hit with false advertising. They claim to keep basically no data about you.

"You are Invisible – Even We Cannot See What You Do Online
We DO NOT keep any record of your browsing activities, connection logs, records of the VPN IPs assigned to you, your original IPs, your connection time, the history of your browsing, the sites you visited, your outgoing traffic, the content or data you accessed, or the DNS queries generated by you." [0]

[0] https://www.purevpn.com/privacy-policy.php
Yes, you can remotely hack factory, building site cranes
That sounds really nice, albeit 10 years too late. It's a shame XS4All won't be around when/if I finally get access to fiber.
In the context I provided, I think a wantrepreneur is anyone presenting themselves at a far higher value/position than they are in reality, usually in a matter that is detrimental to others.

I know starting a business is all about "faking it until you make it", but there are tons of braggarts talking about "wielding influence and connections" (because they purchased 20,000 twitter followers) or "becoming a product visionary" (because they hopped on the instagram/twitch/dropshipping bandwagon at the right time and have no redeeming differentiation). Usually these personalities are just annoying, but sometimes these people have hostile intentions.

I personally call myself a wantrepreneur occasionally, as someone who is interested in the culture and community of founders, but who hasn't actually delivered a product yet.
After they told me over the phone it wasn't a mistake and I was on my own I'd probably have marched myself back to the company and been like "WTF?! I came all the way out here, across the entire country for this interview and now you leave me stranded here unable to get home?! I'm going to sit here until you sort this out or until you have security throw me out. If security throw me out, you can be sure you'll be hearing from my lawyer and the press when I get home!"
No one has the data for both sides of the equation. Google dominates search advertising, Amazon dominates online buying. If those companies merged, one company would have all the data needed to use deep learning to take all our money. They'd be able to distinguish products that, once purchased, means the buyer won't buy again for years, and items that are regularly bought, and they'd have the timing between seeing ads and buying. It wouldn't be perfect, because some people would buy elsewhere, but it might be frighteningly effective.
John McAfee left only a few years into the company, and then McAfee AV slowly morphed into one of the most bloated applications in the business, riddled with spyware. They were one of the first to begin selling customer data. Like Norton, AVG, Avast and others are now doing as well.

I'm sure McAfee employs a few smart people but the management is radioactive. They simply do not have a cutting-edge security culture and people are their products, not their customers. Like Norton, they employ scare tactics and Dark UI in order to coerce customers into keeping the software installed. They try to worm their way into default installations so that they can exploit a computer for its entire lifetime.

Kapersky recently released a security bulliten on crypto mining and theft, they may be Russian but they are a crack security team and I would trust them over any of the other companies I've mentioned.

https://securelist.com/kaspersky-security-bulletin-2018-stor...
Eight months after discovery, unkillable LoJax rootkit campaign remains active
Yup. For the record, after writing this comment, I read the rest of the questions and either they're more clear cut, or I'm ignorant of the ways they may not be.

Here's the paper, which isn't linked from most journalists reporting on it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3

Google "sci-hub" if you want open access to it, using it's doi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0520-3

Here's one of the surveys they used. It appears they all had the same science questions. https://osf.io/9gztf/ (Study1 Survey.pdf)

Here are the questions:

The center of the earth is very hot: True

The oxygen we breathe comes from plants: True

Antibiotics kills viruses as well as bacteria: False

All radioactivity is man made: False

Almost all food energy for living organisms comes originally from sunlight: True

All insects have eight legs: False

The earth orbits the sun: True

Men and women normally have the same number of chromosomes: True

The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move: True

Lasers work by focusing sound waves: False

Electrons are smaller than atoms: True

All plants and animals have DNA: True

Humans share a majority of their genes with chimpanzees: True

It is the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl: True
The difference is that Palm Springs is a resort city with something like 150 golf courses, is 2 hours from LA, 2.5 hours from San Diego, 1.5 hours from Orange County, and even has Big Bear ~1.5 hours away if you like to ski in the winter without having to make a weekend trip (it's not great snow, but it is a mountain).
This is where the press can be leveraged.
Sounds simple but is super complicated.

Showing that something is done purposefully and knowingly instead of negligently and recklessly is hard. It limits the practical enforcement even in the existing false reporting statutes.

Freedom of speech protects strongly from prior restraint (aka pre-publication censorship) and allows people and media to say anything, but there can be legal consequences in many cases. There are the "yelling fire in the crowded movie theater" type cases that lead to convictions when someone has been instigating panic, riots or violence in the social media.

Something like "the migrant caravan" can be safely used as a false news because the news is technically true, it's just exaggerated beyond any reason.

Proper journalism relies on anonymous sources and sometimes journalists are duped when they report something not checked from multiple sources. Legal risk from doing your work would make live unnecessarily difficult.
I'm also worried about inflation. If you give everyone $X/month to spend on essentials but the supply of those essentials doesn't change, then a very likely outcome is that the price of essentials, in aggregate, will go up by $X/month.

We already see some of this with student loans. The government decided that education is important, so it created federally-backed student loans that anyone can apply for, and effectively increased the amount of money available for education by a large amount. Some of this did go into increasing the number of kids that could go to college, but much of it just went into increasing the price of education. Plus, the supply of good jobs didn't really go up by much, so all those extra kids who went to college are now fighting over the same jobs they would've gotten in the first place, just with crushing debt burdens.
The headline might be ambiguous but they mean they could have paid every household in Afghanistan the average Afghan pay of about $2k/year.
This article is pointing a finger at the United States. Why are you pointing only at Obama?
Historically the American Cars and SUVs were different enough that it would be untenable to make them side by side. It's gotten better since the SUVs became more car-like, but they haven't invested in modularity like the Japanese automakers, sometimes the companies blame unions for the inflexibility, but I think that's a red herring. However, it may be the case that the unions make it expensive enough to build modular lines that it's just not worth pursuing.
That's not at all what that thread says, and this is an extremely weird and unwelcome addition to this thread.
I am perplexed as to why advocating for basic science is considered tantamount to trolling
Feels like preparation for going public.
For the uninformed, what is going on that is stupid/crazy?
Great job optimizing for developer productivity!
In the Shadow of the CMS
This is a great example of why we have regulations.

Regulations can be burdensome, they can entrench existing players, etc -- the disadvantages are frequently discussed. But also they can be too light. AirBnB was how inns basically used to work, and then iteratively an infrastructure built up.
Mice have fast metabolism, so 24 hours of fasting for them is more than 24 hours for us.
"Since I’ve been diagnosed with it, I’ve done everything I can to get familiar with the concept of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. I became somewhat of a specialist myself..."

Yeah...

Also, advertising.

"The fact that I did a lot of research on narcissism provides me with a side job that I make money from. I can help people that have problems related to NPD, or people being victimized by someone with NPD, and help them deal with it."
I mean, this is how we ended up where we are today: we've been iterating on the set of laws and regulations surrounding the economy finding the best tradeoffs and we're yet to find something perfect. The problem is that that discussion tends to get into rather technocratic, wonky territory pretty quickly and bores people a hell of a lot more than making crazy eyes at the audience and ranting about political revolutions.
I'm going to change it a little to the people I've met that have had a sizable impact on the world.

I've met Sam Altman briefly last year. His involvement with YC the past several years and co-founding OpenAI have directly and indirectly touched thousands of jobs.

I've also met Michael Seibel. His involvement with YC the past several years has directly and indirectly touched thousands of jobs. His co-founding of Junstin.tv allowed it to exist, it is now evolved into twitch.tv which has allowed some creators and gamers to actually earn a living streaming and has created tons of micro-communities for video games and table top fans to both play and watch.

Aside from them, I don't really know (nor have I met) anyone else that I feel has directly and indirectly had as much of an impact on society as those two although...

I have very casually known, but never met, Kate Bornstein since our mutual participation in the Save Caprica campaign. She's certainly been a bastion of hope for many LGBT persons. She's semi-active on various social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bornstein
> Fundamentally, I think authors have the right to determine how their work is used.

In my view, to think that an individual is the sole author of his intellectual product is a bit egotistic, which is sort of normal given a prevailing culture of "you are what you make". In my opinion, my intellectual product is a product of everyone and everything that's influenced me. An important part of that influence was someone sharing.
Opponents of UBI, at least in the US, will never accept it on moral and definitely not on socialist grounds - only possibly as a means of cutting Federal expenditure and reducing or deprecating existing social programs, which they disagree with on principle.

If Americans want UBI, they'll either get it with the repeal of the minimum wage, medicare, medicaid, federal student loans and the complete privatization of healthcare - basically the dismantling of the entire social safety net with the exception of programs to aid the military and agriculture - or else opponents will sabotage what futile efforts are made the way they did the ACA, and then work to repeal it as soon as possible.
I'm just shocked that my experience is so different. I use a mechanical keyboard too when I'm at a desk but I would do that with any laptop, regardless of its keyboard. I'm specifically talking about using the MacBooks keyboard compared to the keyboard on other laptops and I much prefer the MacBook keyboard.

I'm also a dev but I'm on the other side. I think it's ridiculous that devs continue to rely on function keys to do that kind of thing. Not only do you have to remember what the F9/F10/F11 keys do for each IDE but it's not consistent in any way between IDEs so you're kinda stuck. I much prefer the Touch Bar, especially where it's actually supported by the IDE, and, where it's not, I'm using Better Touch Tool to set it up exactly how I want it. Now I have dedicated buttons for each of those things that show up in context or that stay at all times, if I choose.
Them not keeping a record may be true...

But the rsyslog was delivering the logs to *.fbi.gov

And not retaining logs would still be correct. They said nothing about transporting them to the relevant feds.
It's interesting, considering my mother's side of the family tends to seemingly run a bit narcissistic. My grandmother especially, but I also see bits of it in my mother.

The best way to describe it is that her world sort of exists around her. Things only really matter if they personally affect her, and when they do it revolves around her feelings, regardless of the feelings of those around her. She clearly deeply cares about me, but the ways she shows that affection revolves around herself if that makes sense.

It does make discussing emotional matters a bit...difficult, at times. But I've long since accepted that.
You just end up with less-than-optimal solutions when you have an X developer
create something for platform Y. People end up writing C++ like C, Python like PHP,
and Javascript like BASIC.
Can anybody explain why we know there's exciting stuff at 15 orders of magnitude more power than what we currently have? I'm off today and I'd love to fall into a high-energy particle physics wikipedia wormhole.
If I were an investor in WeWork, I would be concerned about this as well. Except that I'm not an investor, and I'm assuming 99% of angry commenters aren't either.

Devil's advocate: Conflicts of interest are absolutely everywhere and can never be avoided completely. For example, here's a conflict of interest in my own job: I want my employer to pay me as much money as possible, and my employer wants to pay me as little as possible.

And if I were a manager/director/executive, I would want to hire as many people as possible to boost my stature. And the company would want to hire as few people as possible to keep their expenses low.

The fact that a conflict of interest exists, isn't in itself a irreconcilable problem. It only becomes one if one party tries to hide it from the other, and deceives them to get what they want. Presumably that isn't happening at WeWork.

If you're an investor in WeWork, I can understand your concern, and your wanting your board representatives to take a close look at these agreements. From what I hear though, the investors and board of directors are all perfectly happy with the arrangements that have been made. Perhaps a little less soapboxing from the peanut gallery is in order.
> It is a wonder their profit margin is not 100%.

This!
The article states:

>"Mr. Neumann owes his personal wealth largely to sales of WeWork stock. It is unclear how much WeWork stock he has sold, but he has told some friends it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars."

Honest question - are investors OK with this? Isn't he essentially enriching himself with VC money that has yet to see a return realized?

Couldn't this be seen as a hedge that even if investor loose their shirts he himself has managed to enrich himself with a real-estate portfolio?
Another example of software eating the world. If you want to be a successful criminal, you need to understand how to change fonts on Word!
I have never had to do this with the current MacBook keyboards so I'm at a loss as to what you all are doing to get so much crap under the keys...
Yeah, I mean, fine. Chicago's corrupt, I guess, but I've lived there 10 years and it's not like the alderman is shaking me down for protection money or whatever. Every city has advantages and disadvantages.

I'd defy you to show me another actual city (def: "owning a car is optional") in the US where my money goes anywhere near as far despite the high taxes and corruption. Do that and I'll move, but until then I'm going to sit tight and enjoy my deep dish pizza.
edit: eh, nevermind
I don't know where you're looking, if that's what the majority of Teles looks like to you. The borders are definitely fuzzy, but "Telecaster" to me means having enough Tele-like traits... the simple slab body, bolt-on neck, 6-on-side tuners, twangy single-coil bridge pickup, controls on a separate plate away from the bridge. It doesn't need to have all of these.

Most Teles made by Fender/Squier and most of their copiers follow this template. They're not just metal-oriented guitars with a Tele shape.
Well, since cumulative foreign aid to Afghanistan in the article is pegged at $103B, that would be 80 days per Afghan household, instead of 14 years.
> We might excuse a few diversions from a political/economic system, but after some point, like with anything else, capitalism is what capitalism does time and again.

And by that standard, I'll take capitalism every day of the week:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
Isn't this an example of regulations helping established players? Sure, the NYT is able to direct sell ads, but an upstart publisher can't. That doesn't necessarily mean that GDPR's pros don't outweigh the cons, but "The New York Times can direct sell ads" isn't exactly evidence of "Anyone can avoid GDPR having an impact on ad revenue"
I think VC prefer two founders because it's simply easier to have leverage on them than on a single guy.
For sure, the type of person who reads the NYT politics section in English is _already_ a fairly niche audience compared to everyone who uses the internet.
Good to know there's already been some prior thought on this topic.
I used to think this too. Then I grew older, observed more of the world around me, and realized a fundamental truth. The vast majority of the population, 95%+, when given free resources, will choose to not work or do anything productive.

In fact, their initial foray into leisure generally leads into negativity and moral ineptitude.
Dr Avi Loeb is one of those rare individuals in his field who doesn't believe in "settled science" as opposed to others in his field.
I only have anecdotal evidence but occasional 24 hour fasts seem to reset my appetite in a way that makes me less hungry throughout the day. The easiest way to do it is to start after lunch - and have a late lunch the next day.
AOC is not part of the dominant faction of the Democratic Party; both major US parties are basically broad coalition, the Republicans basically Right to Far Right (with he latter being currently dominant) while the Democrats are basically Center-Right (dominant) to Center Left. (The “Democratic Socialists” within and aligned with the Democratic Party are more Social Democrats by any non-US standard than actual Socialists.)

There is effectively no real representation of the left, beyond the center-left, in US electoral politics.
It would make a lot of sense for larger software houses to donate to open source developers who develop the tools they use. This is win-win since they get the best person to maintain the software, have the developer's ear, and don't have to deal with labor laws or office space or management. They don't even need to be in the same country or time zone.

Plus, it's a cheap way to virtue signal, and goodwill is always good for business!
Determining the etiology of a problem sounds exactly like taking responsibility. I think you wrote your post with a mean-spirited attitude.
The amazing thing is how quickly it ramps up for the top 10. tptacek is more than double the second position, with 310k karma. I'm not sure how someone gets that much. Maybe submissions used to net more karma in the past?
"The strongest opponents of Astrology know the least but think they know the most.."
It's not just that governments are dependant on the money, it's also that the gambling can then fund vast lobbying arms to the detriment of good policy.

This has certainly happened in Australia (especially NSW): two of the biggest political donors are the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) and ClubsNSW, which represent the principal beneficiaries from video gambling machines:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/machine-men-how-the-aha-...
That's more an issue with Monsanto though than GMO's as a concept. It's like being against fairytale cartoons because Disney occupies most of the market and is shitty with their copyright.
A "living" despite the fact that it's negative income. UBI is absolutely relevant to people who want to see this sort of thing become possible.
Sounds like Ray Kroc's model.
What's funny is people won't tolerate these platform-independent frameworks
on their mobile devices, but eat it up on their PC's.
I know successful companies (and the VCs that back them) look for large market inefficiencies, which create profit opportunity. I wonder if anyone has ever broken down their profit opportunity in terms of: (1) we're taking advantage of this existing inefficiency and (2) we're creating these externalities that we don't bear the cost of.

Some investors would not be dissuaded by (2), if they are purely looking for financial returns. In fact, if you could make a compelling argument that you're externalizing some of your costs, it could be attractive to financial investors because it would help prove that your business model can be profitable.
Again, its easier to buy a cheap VPS in a country that is at odds with the one you're in. Then, any intelligence the other country gets will likely not be sent to the country of residence.

Ally countries usually have extradition treaties, and have a greater chance of sharing intel.
We can have a very interesting discussion on leptin resistance, insulin, etc, as these are relevant to myriad conditions, but surely you agree that is a different discussion from thermodynamics, which is where this all begins. Gaining and losing weight is not some nebulous scientific mystery.
As an AirBNB host that manages remote properties, I think a camera that operates like this could be a good solution - provided that guests understand and trust such a system. While it wouldn't prevent a guest from trashing the place, it could be a useful property protection against theft.
As a new emacs / spacemacs user, I bounced off magit hard. Too many weird things going on, hard to tell what I can do.

A couple months later, and a bit more experience with how emacs structures things, and I've returned to Magit and _love_ it. It just feels natural to hop around in for standard tasks. Certainly a good replacement for other porcelain UIs I'd normally use.