skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because there isn't something you can try, doesn't mean it's not interesting.

Please don't misrepresent what I actually wrote. I did not dismiss the project as not interesting.

I made a very specific point in my reply to OP (lapinot) and the complaint of "superficial criticism":

If one structures the project's landing page text so that it makes something sound promising at the top but then later reveal that the status is actually "not even prototype" at the bottom (after ~10+ minutes of reading), that "teaser" style of slow reveal is going to invite hostile criticism from some readers. (E.g. see this thread's other comments of "vaporware", "generic introduction on something that doesn't exist", and "this page uses a lot of words to explain almost nothing.") Yes, maybe those comments are unfair but consider if the text's obfuscated style of exposition triggered those responses.

The lesson for project authors is: Yes, your project can have moral ethics, pursue ideals of privacy & decentralization, be "interesting", and other laudable goals, etc -- but you'll throw all that good will away if the project's text describing it disrespects your readers.

There's nothing wrong with an interesting project that's looking for contributors to build something real.
The motor/engine dichotomy is blurry at best.

However "reciprocating engine" has a clear usage preponderance over "reciprocating motor":

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=reciprocating%...
That text explains the goals, not what it actually is.
This was a while ago, but I think in its early days Tinder was just an app on Facebook where you would “like” people on your friends list. If they “liked” you back the app would indicate a match.

I always thought this was a really cool feature, and I wish they kept it. It felt more personal.
Ask HN: How do the Hong Kong demonstrators communicate?
China surveils. A lot. And the amount of investments they have in this area is quite immense, I imagine.

So this made me wonder: how are the Hong Kong demonstrators circumventing whatever decryption technologies China has? Do anyone know? Using 'standard methods' surely can't be enough for them to stay anonymous.

The Catalonian independence vote led to some really interesting solutions, this is similar.
AI still has poor detection of human emotions via facial expressions
There's no magic external source of resources. The wallet of "governments" is the wallet of the people. If people don't vote for a huge increase in taxes to finance mitigation or prevention (I mean, that's the whole point - the scale of resources needed for preventing climate change is very, very large, it's not like you can just increase the budget deficit by 1% and fund that), then governments can't and won't finance large scale mitigation or prevention.

Of course, people will eventually be forced to finance mitigations or suffer the consequences unmitigated - but that's not now, that's later. Prevention is likely to be much cheaper and more effective, but as the people aren't willing to pony up the enormous resources for prevention, well, then they'll pony up enormous resources (or take enormous suffering) when the time comes. But apparently not much earlier.

And the fact that causes and effects aren't equally distributed doesn't mean that countries (both governments and people) who suffer less will be willing to finance mitigations for the countries who bear the worst of the consequences.
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Author here - thanks a lot for sharing! I found myself pretty overwhelmed in my first few software jobs. I (thought I) knew how to write code, but was so overwhelmed by tools and processes, I had no idea how to effectively contribute to the codebase. This article was an attempt to sum up some things I learned transitioning from personal projects to working on a team.
I've commented on this before. It's a myth that the US constitution only protects citizens.

The constitution explicitly delineates between rules that apply to "people" and rules that apply to "citizens." Some rights apply to one group and some both.
In the good old days, you could touch your TV's rabbit ear antennas and do some weird positioning exercises to improve your service.
That's nothing unique to age. I regularly talk to people born before 1960 (and 1970, and 1980....) who don't know that email is separate from it being on a website (about the only difference is that they know of Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, etc)
Probably the best bet for Venus surface exploration is some kind of high-temperature integrated circuit. There's already some work on that sort of thing for the innards of jet engines and the like.
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They can all still be good without a guide, just like once you've learned to dive you do it on your own.

I think a huge part of having a guide the first few times is just so you experience it all being OK, so that if on a solo jaunt it's starting to not be OK you've got some understanding that it'll pass as, physiologically, so does the substance.
Nonsense. Just don't use Facebook. Send email or use iMessage/Signal whatevs. If you are "left out" -- then those people probably cared about your involvement only superficially. As far as people you want to date -- how weird would it be to actually talk to the person? You'd stand out from the crowd specifically because you aren't like everybody else. Grow a spine.
blah blah blah another yawner ... we all know where this is headed and it's cut and dried math.

wait wait, no there are some valuable insights here:

> You make decisions based on what you know, not by looking at a crystal ball.

> I didn’t want to look back. [...] To me, the possibility of missing out on a big payday wasn’t worth the cost to my psyche.
If I was an exec at Tinder what do you do here? There's nothing exactly that differentiates FB Dating from Tinder and I can't think of an USP differentiating the two, except that FB Dating may be more convenient.

Kind of an interesting precedent though that FB decided to build this in-house rather than buy Tinder as well.
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Your response is logically consistent, but doesn’t track our ordinary understanding of the world very well.

At the time students sign up for college and commit to paying tuition fees, they expect to have to fork out money for textbooks. They don’t expect professors to give them free materials that mean they don’t need to buy their own books. But they also expect that professors will provide some tuition (including grading homework), as that’s what tuition fees are for.

On your last point, if I convince my employer to pay for an expensive IDE that happens to come bundled with $30k of credits for Upwork, and I outsource part of the job I’m being paid to do, then that’s bribe-taking. And it's more similar to the scenarios I outlined than would be the purchase of an IDE without such a bundle.

EDIT: looked at your personal site, and see that you create awesome materials for your students and the world to use for free!
Heh.. This may actually work and I'm surprised it wasn't implemented sooner.

Back in the mid 2000's, I was on Hi5. So were a lot of people where I lived. Although a social network, everyone I knew was using it solely for dating. I got dozens of good dates from Hi5. It was pretty awesome.
CircleCI also use wordpress, not ideal in security aspect (as Google Analytics, too), be honest. Also found these services inside my profile page:

* cloudfront

* githubusercontent

* launchdarkly

* zendesk

* zopim

* gravatar

* optimizely

* pusher

* pusherapp

* segment

* statuspage

* wp

* zdassets (3 domains)

I use uMatrix to cut half of this crap, cause the page is too heavy to load on my laptop. Started looking for alternatives.
Unfortunately, I doubt many outside of Hacker News heard about this.
Although I don't think We is a tech company, this is still true.

https://www.venturecompany.com/blog/2009/08/the-silicon-vall...
^ Voiced the same concerns as the famous Kaufmann Foundation report, but earlier.

At best venture capital seems to be a sexier, private way to fund R&D, which is often so unprofitable it requires public funding. I think there is social benefit, most obviously when venture-backed startups offer a useful service below cost to the public, but financially there are better investments.
I suppose that Amazon, at least the retail sales part of it, is essentially a shipping company. No surprise that it would build out over time, plus you'd be silly to trust them as a single huge customer.

One sentence in that article that I like was mentioning Amazon purchasing of dead malls. I had to thump myself in the head..'of course'. I've always wondered what would happen to those facilities and mini storage and fulfillment centers are good ideas.

Maybe we could ship Amazon direct to mini storage and cut out the middle man. Making 'too much stuff' more efficient seems like a genuine plan.
I agree. My issue is the climate predictions that we do have over the last 50 years have been grossly inaccurate. We don't have any mathematical proofs for climate at this point like ideal gas law. But yet that is not how it is presented to the public.
johnnyballgame, thanks so much for chiming in. I'm thrilled to hear you are using 8base with Gatsby. The team had a call with Jason Lengstorf recently to figure out exactly how to support this! As of now, you'll need to stick with the "gatsby-source-graphql" plugin. We'll work on some example content for creating statis pages at build time asap!
Being pregnant and other pre-existing classifications were fixed by ACA aka Obamacare in 2014.

>Insurance companies can't refuse to cover treatment for your pre-existing condition or charge you more.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/pre-existing-condition/
Especially presidents in fighter jets.

I kind of wish we were facing a killer asteroid or alien invasion instead of climate change, because the former two would be much easier to deal with. What's killing us with climate is the level of global coordination it requires.
True on an ideal computer with absolutely no other software running and no cache effects, dependency chain stalls, branch prediction failures, and so on.

Software equivalent of a spherical cow.
> we took immediate action, disabling and deleting the account that was compromised

Since this was a privileged account, how can they be sure the attacker didn't use said account to setup more ways to get back in? That's the first thing Kevin Mitnick always did when he pwned a box: setup alternative routes to get in, in case his original door got closed.
> Just because I go out on a date with someone doesn't mean I want to be friends with them on Facebook.

That's true for casual dating. By the other hand on older demographics, I think they nailed it: I suspect among older people, casual dating is less relevant, so they are not afraid of adding eachother as friends. And they don't need to install anything else..
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https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/360002079527-A-guid...
You are mistaken. Free classes like this are common at hospitals in the US. Not paid by insurance... free.
Do a quick search and I’m sure you’ll find plenty. They’re typically called “community wellness” or “community education” programs.
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> How terrible of them to spread the insidious ideology of gun safety

That role has long since been dwarfed by their political advocacy for unfettered access to guns without regard for safety. Look at their budget. Safety programs are in the noise. Many gun owners have left the NRA over this exact issue. Presenting the NRA as a gun-safety organization is deeply disingenuous.
Even 2011 has it, and I am sure it wasn't the first year it was available either.
I really like the sequential passwords idea, I haven't seen that before.

Do you actually encrypt the future messages recursively? Or could I start brute forcing the last message without solving the first?

EDIT: Also, any write up about how you made it? And or code?
for anyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Thanks for the clarification! I was really scratching my head there based on the apples to oranges comparison of 'customers' to 'users' and you were right... my revenue estimate was indeed way off.

Upgrading Slack from 'WTF' to "Let's see how this plays out and if it's priced accurately' because $30m in losses on $145m in revenue for cloud enterprise chat with a long-tail of free-tier users seems pretty promising!

Thanks again!
> relatively anti-social people

anti-social networking maybe, but hardly anti-social.
The accounting standards are changing and long-term (i.e. longer than 12 months) leases are now included in the balance sheet:

https://www.iasplus.com/en/publications/global/thinking-allo...
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>Now they are actually in the process of automating the trains, which has been criticised by many as a vanity project.

The DLR has been driverless, since it was introduced in 1987 ─ it is a working example of the paradox of automation, which states: the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. This will be the unwritten hard limit for the time-being, when it comes to implementing the levels of autonomy, irrespective of the condition of the rolling stock or wage costs, which are moot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/one-picture-dlr-morning...
Co-evolving parasites

This paper strikes me as the earliest manifestation of what would later become GANs (generative adversarial networks). Yes, the mechanism is different (GAs vs NNs), but the spirit (having a competitive mechanism for speeding up local search) is similar.
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I had to look the root word up. So, you're still ahead of my game. :-)

Approbation: approval, or praise.
>They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.

they don't mind now. One of the big problems with digital transparency is that this information will be hard to get rid off if they ever wish to in the future.

Is openness about past relationships in the workplace still a good idea if it leads to some sort of office intrigue a year or two down the line?
Agreed. I'd be happy if they brought their video chat up to the standard Screen Hero set. It was one of the best pieces of software I remember in recent years.
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Yup. I've spent some time researching this and watching and contributing to a lot of conversations with technical folks.

We can't instrument websites and applications. Data, once collected, never dies and nobody can be sure of where it will end up. We have to stop. The model itself is broken. Now it's up to the public policy folks to figure a way to get us out of this mess. I am not optimistic in the short run.
A couple of points

1) "Don’t forget though, you’ll have to pay taxes, because the value of your shares is likely greater than the price you paid to buy them."

This is not true if, like most stock options, yours are ISOs and you don't hit AMT.

2) "I didn’t have enough money"

There are now places that'll loan you money secured against the value of the shares themselves. If the alternative is not exercising the shares at all, this is a pure win (these services eat into your profits, but some is better than 0)

3) "I didn’t have enough time"

It's increasingly common for startups to have much more generous time spans for exercise. The 90 day window is required by law for ISOs, but many companies now autoconvert at the 90 day mark to NQSOs with much longer time spans, up to 10 years in some cases (Stripe, Pinterest, and Flexport are examples). This is something you should ask about before joining a company.

4) "I didn’t think the company would survive"/"I have a low risk tolerance"

These are the only ones that really matter. Like any investment, you gotta weigh the ROI and risk against your preferences.
Indeed. I work in finance, and it does appear that we may already be in a place where an unhealthy amount of capital is in index funds and ETFs. How this will all play out is not really clear to me, but its somewhat concerning.

I have been favoring funds over ETFs the last few years because they have a bit more leeway in what they choose to hold and the friction in getting in/out of them should lead to less chance of pricing dislocation that could cause a lot of unnecessary drama and price volatility.

In the end though, I tend to believe that passive investing may continue to grow until it gets to the point that there is so much "dumb" money out there chasing the same companies that active investing can show real returns above passive.
Facebook has pitched this showing young people so I assumed that's their market. I guess the boomer dating market is probably underserved, maybe that's what they're actually going for.
Counterpoint: Finsta accounts.
>I genuinely don't understand your point. "Nanny state" and "welfare state" are synonymous, at least in the U.S.

The term "nanny state" typically refers to legislation that aims to protect people from their own worst impulses - laws that ban the sale of large-sized soft drinks, sin taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, and giving tickets to drivers who don't wear a seat belt would all be examples of the "nanny state". In contrast, the "welfare state" refers to redistributive social programs that aim to mitigate the effects of capitalism on vulnerable populations (i.e. Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc. ).
They aren't confusing it. It's part of the lie these companies tend to construct--if they say they are something, over time, they hope everyone believes it. "We aren't just a <boring commoditized alread-solved problem> (even though they are), we're a <fancy amalgamation of things you never thought possible>!"
>What they really need is a "secret crush for FWB only" list: what if I have a friend that I'd be happy to be FWB with, but have zero interest in a serious relationship, but don't want to broach that topic with her for fear that it would mess up our friendship? This would be a perfect use for FB.

Now there's an idea!
I've not read Cubed. It sounds interesting. But the topics you mention brought to mind similar themes in Peopleware by DiMarco and Lister. I'd add that to the list, though not related to remote working.
This company will never achieve profitability, it will have burned through literally Billions of investment money. It will have done this whilst buying its own brand off the CEO, self-dealing from the CEO and literally buying a wave machine for the CEO. It's going to absolutely crush the landlords that rented to them.

...And the CEO is going to walk away with $700m cash.
I’d imagine the system would even show the wanted person next to the person in front of you. But then again the TSA is probably using an abstraction over an Access DB built by the lowest bidder in the early 2000s.
Thanks! I mean it, THANK YOU!

We were using HipChat at a previous company (2013, I think), and I never understood the switch to Slack. I was like: Wait, but what's the difference? Everybody knew about Slack, and no one about HipChat.

I also don't think they introduced a new category of software, they just spent an absurd amount of additional money in marketing. That's it.
Also, a dark yellow nail polish should make those horrid blue leds appear green, which albeit not turning them off would make them much more gentle to the eyes.
Additionally, I have yet to ever have a driver ring the doorbell. They throw it at the house, mark it as complete, and trust that I’ll stumble across it later.
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> Privacy is always a concern no matter what the app/site/technology.

It’s not “privacy is a concern”, it’s “this thing is significantly worse for my privacy than this other thing”. Not caring about privacy because it’s “always a concern” falls to take into account that there are varying levels of privacy that services provide.
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I don't see why you have no choice. Google doesn't stop you from using all the other mechanisms that exist to promote your site. In fact, I'm not sure I found any of the sites I regularly visit through Google.
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They don't. They should have called this Instagram Dating, but Zuck doesn't want to admit that the Facebook brand is no longer "cool"
#1 is great for the cash outlay for exercising, but if the company has been even mildly successful with fundraising rounds then the spread will be significant and AMT could crush you.
This debate shows up periodically and it's perplexing. Of course the buckets are arbitrary, I’m pretty sure most people are aware of that actually.

I don’t know much of the cult like following but it was a source of amusement for me and some friends years ago. It gives you some discrete, if ultimately meaningless, classifiers to compare against. (FWIW, I am strongly in the INTP bucket.)

Better personality classifications certainly exist, but there is something amusing about being placed into buckets. Some workplace personality classification systems do this exact same thing, probably for nearly the same reason.
I’ve been reading Basecamp’s Shape Up / stop running in circles and ship work that matters.

My twitter feed showed a few shops which implemented the process and are happy with it.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup
From my reading, the author is making a case that human-centric design is taking anthropocentrism and going further, because you're not only exploiting everything besides the human, but also anyone who isn't the user (citing the examples of the negative issues with AirBNB, Uber and super-fast delivery mechanisms like Amazon Prime).

The author doesn't tie the two points together very well at the end, but there's definitely a case being made.
One of the more interesting things I’ve read on HN in awhile. Seems like this will result in a large paradigm shift for the computing industry.
The problem with the popular 'evolution of monkey-to-man chart'
Agreed! I was thinking what you would need for a manned mission. But definitely, electronics operating at that temperature is very interesting and maybe not impossible. I have heard random ideas about mechanical contraptions, too. I wonder about power though. An electronic design could maybe run on some sort of non-rechargeable battery which could deal with the temperature.

But if you wanted serious power, a molten-salt reactor would be very interesting. It would I guess "only" be extremely expensive, but maybe not impossible. The interesting thing is that you basically don't need any safety because the reactor is inert and not radiating until you start it.

All in all though, I think blimps at various depths are more practical.