skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, now that it's leaked that they were weighing it, they basically have to do it, or something similarly drastic, right? Because now expectations are lower.
Could this research platform have been sabotaged by a US submarine? The current administration is poised against climate change science, and submarines are reportedly used in clandestine operations to splice or cut communication cables. Perhaps it was generating data that was making someone unhappy.

Edit: I'm being downvoted for making a (not unreasonable?) supposition. I honestly wanted a discussion about submarines and/or intelligence community things.
Good! Slack product managers are arrogant and the product is garbage. Lots of dark patterns.
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Being an adult citizen, which is exactly what the founders meant, and is really not at all open to interpretation. In the parlance of the time, well-regulated meant well-equipped, and militia meant every armed adult male. This is crystal-clear in the federalist papers, and various writings, passages, and speeches from the exact same people who wrote the damn thing.
You need to download the files from "Manage Your Content and Devices","Actions", "Download & transfer via USB". This gives you a different format, and DeDRM can unlock these.
"Choosing a product based on the value it provides you is not the same as accepting a bribe."

Let's say I'm a professor, and it is an accepted part of my job to set homework, and provide feedback on that homework in the form of grades (or a % score) and some comments.

Assume the subject I'm teaching doesn't change much year to year (as far as undergraduates are concerned anyway). So for the last 10 years my course has been based on the same edition of the same textbook. As it's now 10 years old, there are plenty of used copies available for $20, even though new copies are $50.

Let's say a publisher approaches me with an offer that provides ME with more value: a textbook that comes with a code for online access to homework and automatic grading, good for one student for one year only. The catch? The students need to buy the textbook for $50 and, because it's the only way to get a code to allow students to submit homework, they can't buy a used copy.

If I accept, then:

- my students need to shell out $50 each for a new textbook (vs. the existing one which would have been effectively free, as they could recoup their $20 outlay by selling it at the end of the year)

- I get paid the same, but the textbook company takes over some of my work

If I'm the professor in this case, the textbook is offering me something of value (doing some work that I'm already being paid for through students' tuition fees paid to my employer) in exchange for me forcing my students to give the textbook company money.

How is this different from accepting a bribe?
It's very unlikely considering they thought about doing that a few years ago.[0] I don't think they'll rapidly push forward with adding features characteristic for Slack as well. Teams is just yet another corporate tool that is easy to sell to existing customers of Office 365.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-canceled-8-billion...
What’s happening to Patreon?
I thoroughly enjoy going through this thread every time slack updates and breaks my dark theme CSS hack (nowadays I just miserably run it in a tab with darkreader).. 2014! They're making sure that they've "upgraded their infrastructure" before they release it I believe was the last real update with substance.

https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/531941157283315712?lang=e...
Sure, but the response above was arguing that due process could NOT be used to limit access to guns. That the 2nd was absolute, or nearly so. Which is poppycock. We already limit access to machine guns. We already have age limits on access (typically 18 for long guns and 21 for handguns). And, as you mentioned, felons are prohibited.
The article is presenting a claim which needs to be backed by sound evidence, like research papers.
That's where the burden of proof lies, not on those who reject the claim on face value.
That aside, I do believe that the box does in fact contribute to reducing child mortality, though I also think that there are many more good initiatives worldwide.
Wow, I am totally wrong: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/20/dont-restrict-me.html

This is fantastic!
Never underestimate the power of workplace bureaucracy. At organizational size X, integrating with new Microsoft product Y, single sign on working and easy deploys to all office machines, support from Microsoft and Microsoft lackeys pitching new ideas to IT people, of course they're gonna pick teams.
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> Just because you can pick two things from the past that didn't turn out as expected doesn't mean the next potential danger isn't valid.

Correct, perhaps those issuing the warnings should accept the unfortunate reality that this is how average people behave and adjust their messaging. Rather than repetitive warning after warning, why not pool resources and focus on building and improving one single large educational resource that tells the whole story (including full disclosure of the uncertain and imperfect aspects, rather than having people learn of those in conspiracy forums, in order to build trust) from a variety of angles so it is approachable by people from all different intelligence and economic levels?

More of the same isn't going to work.
Why wouldn't stock based compensation count as equivalent to wage expenses? I saw similar comments about Uber/Lyft's loses being primarily made up of stock comp loss, but would all the people getting the stock still work there if they weren't getting paid stock?
There is a Kindle reader for the PC, you could try that.
Not joking at all. If you are being compensated to place a link, the reader should know. I think it's a fair law.
The problem I see with differential privacy is this: One part of the public doesn't care about privacy enough to demand things like that, the other part wouldn't trust the math and the implementation behind it.

I mean, I consider myself moderately knowledgeable about statistics, but even I have problems understanding DP. Worse, scientists who are supposed to use it will also have a harder time understanding DP over their usual methods.
Earnings run-up aside, it's only down 7% or $2 from this past Friday. That's a lot, but not in comparison to it's drop since IPO.
Staffing way too high, too!
>That's how it's done for other services like regional rail public transport.

Ask any Brit how privatized rail's working out for them.
The front page currently has articles about Finnish babies sleeping in cardboard boxes, and the benefits of sleeping with a weighted blanket. Just because there isn't something you can try, doesn't mean it's not interesting.
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What revenue and loss numbers (relative %s) would not shock you?
If they can figure out how to get cash out of the gigantic amount of people who use slack without anyone paying for anything, it'll be phenomenal.

Really hope the answer isn't ads!
I’m out of the loop. What’s happening with Patreon?
Sure, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-... makes that argument (as does https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812814). The Traitorous Eight taking Shockley's IP launched the Valley. Microsoft and Apple taking Xerox's IP (so brazenly that a movie would later call them "Pirates") launched the personal computer revolution. Google taking what the court of appeals calls Oracle's intellectual property launched Android. Illegal copies of everything from Windows to IDA Pro to Photoshop launched so many of our careers.

More specifically, the free software argument is that he should be allowed to freely take and publicize Waymo's IP even when nobody is paying him to do so, that the legitimate ends of society are better reached by not protecting software copyright at all and by encouraging work to be done in the commons. Copyright produces a reward for the first company to successfully implement some idea, but then results in that company alone being able to improve - and since they have the market cornered, they have little incentive to improve until some other company catches up with them. It is far from obvious that this produces better software, better research, or better results for society than just letting anyone build on top of anyone else's work, monetizing (if necessary) on delivering whole products with a support lifecycle instead of on code itself. Waymo and Uber will both still profit from self-driving cars even if they're not the exclusive owners of the code or research behind making them work, and even if Waymo decides to stop having their own fleet of cars, it's still valuable for others to hire the original engineering team to work on specific features.

Or, let me put this another way. Is the Levandowski case justification for software patents? Why should Uber be able to use Google's algorithms and ideas without licensing them? That's intellectual property too, isn't it?

The free software argument is neither novel nor rare in the hacker community, and I'm confused to see someone who advocates it getting such a hostile and skeptical reception here.
And what if?

If the tax is small enough to be affordable by these Nigerians, it won't have the required effect on climate.

If the tax is large enough to prevent 400m Nigerians from obtaining a better standard of living that they rightly desire, then they won't agree to it - and there's no way to force them to comply (not that it would be right to force them IMHO) other than a bloody war.

Billions of people in developing countries have justifiable, understandable, fair interests in a reasonable standard of living, achieving which unavoidably (at least in short term) involves increasing emissions, not decreasing them.
Of course it will help. It's progress. Besides that, why won't the solutions which enable the US to go to zero emissions work as well for other countries? Because those countries can't afford those solutions? Well then the rest of us are going to have to figure that out too.
> after it predicts a larger loss

IMO the bigger issue here is there expectations to lose 9c / share next quarter, which isn't explained by that $307 M last quarter.
This site loads JavaScript from a large number of sites (~6-8 domains, 20 sites in total).

This is not "tracking" per se, you can get the site working by accepting JavaScript from the "right" sites (if you know which are not for tracking).
>Not only can continuous delivery provide regulatory compliance consistency, but also more traditional human-bureaucracy approaches cannot provide it.

Ehhh... I work in a regulated environment, and think I disagree. The reason I don't know if I do is because it's really a question of definitions.

By this article, developing with our super-manual bureaucratic compliance process of 15 years ago was CD (and probably further back, I've never had to dig that far in the archives). The things we did in the name of disaster recover, control-ability and traceability fit the provided definition of "deployment pipeline."

At the very same time, I think this article is trying to say our highly automated tool-assisted compliance processes of today are not "continuous compliance" because we have manual stakeholder synchronization gates and quality-enforcing review gates on the way to production.
Even if she believed she legitimately felt threatened, she had to know her actions as a judge would paint a much huger target on her back.
This is a problem that has no single, simple solution. If every possible solution is shot down because it doesn't solve ALL the problems at once then we will never succeed.

We need to divide and conquer. The west needs to hold themselves accountable, and then hold stragglers accountable.
An excerpt from the Apple Developer Terms:

> ...In the absence of a separate written agreement to the contrary, Apple will be free to use any information, suggestions or recommendations you provide to Apple pursuant to this Agreement for any purpose, subject to any applicable patents or copyrights.

Informally, it's getting 'Sherlocked' and this has been happening for years. From the moment you sign-up to the App Store as a developer, there is nothing that can stop Apple from competing with your ideas. [0]
Another excerpt from the terms and conditions about competition:

> Nothing in this Agreement will impair Apple’s right to develop, acquire, license, market, promote or distribute products, software or technologies that perform the same or similar functions as, or otherwise compete with, any other products, software or technologies that you may develop, produce, market, or distribute.

This enables Apple to freely lift and integrate features into their OS products and even remove apps that copy their apps or features. Not only it is pointless to sue Apple, it is certain that you will instantly lose anyway.

The only way to compete is cross-platform (Web, iOS and Android), which Apple is poor at. But then again, Google...

[0] https://developer.apple.com/terms/apple-developer-agreement/...
Because the linked article inexplicably doesn't link to the Paul Graham article it references, here it is: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
The current administration is pro science.
Performance is just a requirement. If it's good enough, it's good enough to release. It's not ideal and immensely wasteful, but that's how incentives are aligned.
Slack is overrated and over priced. Its not like messenger platforms are difficult. We have had msn messneger, yahoo messenger, whatsapp, rocketchat, facebook messneger, messenger, gchat, skype. Slack doesn't do anything particularly special.
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I believe OP means the current US administration.
It's important to say that using the LSB for steganography is trivially detectable unless the image is enormous and the hidden data is small.

There's been some work of the best ratio but I can't find it at the moment.
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It looks better than you think it will. Nothing like the tack sharp backgrounds in a smartphone portrait. But not as melty as a longer lens. Ken Rockwell's [0] sample pictures are representative. His site doesn't allow hot links though. So to see a cropped portrait scroll to the fourth sample.

[0]: https://kenrockwell.com/sony/lenses/24mm-f14.htm
Maybe stolen for scrap metal (would not be that unusual, as absurd as it sounds)
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NDaaS?

(Not Dying...)
This was set in stone in DC vs Heller. Of the two dissents, the Stevens dissent is one of the poorest examples of judicial reasoning on display and nearly ensures this will never be overturned.
Okay, so it depends on the audiobook:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7572879#export_...
> Some audiobooks may not be available for export. Open the book's details page, scroll to the Additional information and check under "Export option."

Still, very good to know that Google Play is an option in some cases!
Down voting it, doesn't make it any less true. Interesting response though.
That’s like saying we should try to bail out the boat with spoons because “progress is incremental.” It’s not only pointless, but actively dangerous, because it’s a distraction.

The “Green New Deal” is a great example. A jobs program obviously won’t do anything to seriously address climate change. Worse, it wastes money and political capital on things that could have more utility. If you spent that money on nuclear energy research and gave it away to developing nations, then you could really move the needle.
Have you used Teams? I've had to once, to talk to people and Microsoft, and it was _hilariously_ bad. I don't know anyone who uses it in earnest, and I know people who have used Google Chat.

(I do most of the sales calls for Latacora, which feels like a decent representative sample of startups, and I think all but one, maybe two, of the companies we have ever spoken with used Slack. Order of magnitude a percent.)
Anything less than a profit would shock me.
Concerns about ping assume all tasks will require real-time control by the human. Realistically, a supervisory system will have the human identifying hazards and gaps in the autonomous system's sensory capacity.

Quick-reaction collision avoidance will be controlled by radar (77 GHz etc.) or lidar.
It's weird how the people who are best-informed here seem to be the latest to the party as far as that realisation goes. Why did they (by that I mean, We), even decide to kick the whole IPO process off? Surely they didn't need to do this now?
>Just say it’s an outmoded right that we are not going to enforce.

Just remove it.
What is SoftBank's angle here?

With all the financial strangeness with WeWork and inside deals and etc I would think it doesn't look like a great investment anymore ... is SoftBank just "in too deep" and as far as they're concerned they have to double down?
(differential privacy originated from independent research by Cynthia dvoark (name?) & others)

I think he was joking, referring to a recent trend where Google gets questionably broad patents on security solutions.
I always saw Intel naming their product “Core” as a cynical ploy to confuse terminology by associating their product with multi-core computers. It is as if an automaker decided to brand their new motor with the name “Engine”.
> so how will all this resentment will be targeted, exactly?

If you're a Jew who knows his or her history, you probably know the answer to this question already. Jews frequently get scapegoated by populists (and others) when people are targeting "stateless money changers" regardless of the fact that most of the key players mentioned here are English, Russian, and Chinese.
Oh oops, I forgot about the body. I bought an AR.wing, I think it was $80. I was wondering why the total only came up to about $200...
It was on HN yesterday: https://brave.com/google-gdpr-workaround/
They got a big pushback after deciding that they (wrongly) thought that they were a content provider platform and not a payment platform and started banning users with political views they didn't like.
This is such an awesome book. I read this back in the day and loved every minute of it.

I think there is a lot to learn from it still, even if you're highly unlikely to be writing the same kind of graphics code.

The book has a great balance between:
- Micro-optimization - fiddling with ASM and data structures, memory alignment and such, custom math functions that lose precision in tradeoff for great acceleration due to hardware features

- Algorithmic optimization - trying to do things in ways that are mathematically faster (computational complexity)

I work in enterprise software, not games or anything touching hardware.. it is depressing algorithmic complexity is ignored so often these days and if you give an interview question it is often greeted with blank stares and there seem to be college undergrad curriculums which don't even touch on it.

I'm in that camp that feels like software has gotten so inefficient in a lot of cases that the user experience is no faster than 20 years ago. We have acceleration & optimization for certain things but every day applications are no faster than they ever were and when you have to use a web application stuff is often a lot slower than a native app was 10-20 years ago.

There are still a lot of great college texts on computational complexity even though trade publications ignore this stuff with a vengeance.
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> I bet that changes in society will accelerate. Nothing is the same except for change, but I argue the that second derivative of change is going to exponentially skyrocket.

Whenever people talk about change, I look at my flush toilet which uses the same technology which was invented in 1592. Feeding into a sewage system built in 1866. With waste water treatment standards from 1912. This helps ground me in expectations about how quickly things change.

There are countervailing forces to change as well. Society has had the internet for 20-30 years which has changed the means with which society forms opinions (for the better and worse), but it has had little impact on the actual method of government and laws. Nor has it changed how these things change much. Why not? Should we expect more changes in these things or not? This is all a bit unknowable.

We now exist in two-three ( western/china and possibly russia) spheres of influence in the on-line world. Lack of small disconnected regions has been hypothesised as a cause of china's stagnation. Will it be the same for us?

Another countervailing tendency is energy (or lack of it). Change requires energy and energy is problematic right now. We cannot agree how it should be produced (carbon is out, but nuclear and renewables are at loggerheads a bit) and it seems like it we have some negative feedback loops in progress already (increased numbers of droughts due to climate change will decrease the amount of food energy we can capture as a whole).
I disagree. Slack is not just about chat, they are about communication. We moved from Skype to Slack and it was incredibly different for us.

Open channels meant - more transparency and anyone can join and contribute. All those hella bots are extremely handy.

Overall, i would say we became more transparent, focussed and it made communication across a single company SIMPLE.
this here is why I don't consider HN a very good place for actual discourse. What you get is a lot of overly polite people afraid of getting on the bad side of dang.

If you don't drop it he'll start to harass you, to goad you into stepping over a line that he can then use as an excuse to up the ante, as it were.

It's best to just move on and realize you can't actually speak like a normal human being on these boards.
So, minorities must remain minorities lest the currently-successful classes are affected at all? The logical conclusion is, the USA needs a poor underclass to remain fair and functional? Please tell me where I misconstrued that remark?
I've never seen a Lego brick shatter. I just threw a few of my sons Lego bricks as hard as I could at a brick wall, and they were all fine (but I nearly weren't, as I almost got a few of them back in my face).

If those are actually Lego and not counterfeit or another brand, then it sounds like a defect.

I also can't find any examples of those narrow waist sections you refer to, which makes me think maybe it's a different brand?
> it had created a new category of software

Let's check that timeline of team chat apps...

2006 - Campfire launches (now part of Basecamp)

2010 - Hipchat launches

2013 - Slack launches
I'm still stuck with Skype. Go Delphi!
Slack is nothing at all like email. It's proprietary, non-federated and has built-in data discovery/spying mechanisms to record every click/keystroke made by users.
That depends on where you want the money going: everybody involved in developing and maintaining automated systems at home and abroad (high-skilled labor) or everybody involved in controlling drones from afar (low-skilled labor). Of course, the amount going to either group will be drastically different depending on a multitude of factors.
> Two decades ago we could have solved the problem at a relatively low cost compared to what we’ll pay now, or what we’ll pay if we do nothing. Every year it gets more expensive.

This is utterly false. Two decades ago we could have solved the problem if economic growth in the rest of the world stopped. (And maybe not even then.) It was never a solution.
I grew up with Lego in the 1980s; back then they had zero or few tie-ins with branding other than Shell IIRC. There were also fewer specialized pieces, meaning greater emphasis on kids' using their imagination.
Would you be able to expand on this perspective? Is there an example of a highly profitable SaaS company which offers a super simple subscription solution and doesn't rely on data-collection based advertising?