skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes!

We've held off on adopting Slack because Hangouts Chat seemed promising. But here we are almost 3 years since it was introduced and there's still no integration with Gmail. Argh!

To add insult to injury, while we're stuck using crusty old Google Chat, (due to its integration with Gmail), Microsoft Teams is adding features regularly and has blown by Slack in terms of DAU.

Google Sites is even worse. "New" Google Sites was introduced in June of 2016. Since then, it's received very little attention in terms of ongoing development.

Meanwhile, companies like https://www.notion.so/ are completely eating their lunch (Notion has only 27 employees last time I checked). It's hard for me to believe that Google employees use Google Sites internally in its current state when there are so many better options out there.

I've lost all hope on Sites. I'm still hopeful that Google will make Hangouts Chat competitive with Slack and M$ Teams.

All that said, Gmail, Gcal, and Google Drive are still really really good. Even Hangouts Meet has improved significantly over the past year.
> To me, the game changer was the way Biz managed to start making Twitter part of the media landscape and something everyone heard about on every half hour segment of cable news.

I've always hated those segments. It makes me strangely happy to hear that the cause and effect here was indeed backwards; cable news didn't start reading those tweets because twitter was important, twitter became important because cable news started reading those tweets!
Most communities seem to go that way. In the beginning, most people spend their time contributing first-order content. Then, as the community grows, it attracts more meta-users who are more interested in moderating the content creators. They create ever more rules and policies requiring content creators to jump through more and more hoops. Eventually the experience becomes so frustrating that people give up.

Wikipedia seem to me to be in that situation. StackOverflow is on its way there. It has exactly the same kind of problem with "deletionists" that Wikipedia has. Perfectly good questions are often closed for very arbitrary reasons.
How do we know you aren’t lying?
> Indian companies, Indian culture.

Your comment would be significantly improved if you didn't lump in some casual racism.
It’s hard to realize under the gun, but we have to put our foot down occasionally and speak up.
$800K settlement and not having to admit any wrongdoing is a joke. It's basically a token fine so the state can say they did something while still keeping everyone who benefited from this (Infosys & their clients – so all large tech companies) happy.
That's false. Webster is the dictionary that had a role in shaping American English in a distinct fashion. The quality of the work deteriorated when the Merriam brothers purchased it, and they changed the title from Webster's by the time they had begun compromising the value of English reform.
>Your job is to PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMER.

Indeed. And this is especially true in California where the employment agreements are almost always "at will". In Europe it is much harder to fire someone - or, at the very least, they have to come up with a pretext to do it.

So, I suspect that employment law has at least as much to do with the culture of saying no than anything else. The stronger job protections gives the worker space to be loyal to the company mission rather than the boss.
Much of Samsung's production happens outside SK so I don't think the influence of SK labor policies on Samsung is not as significant as one might think.

If anything, such labor policies as well as this kind of prosecution and sentencing for those powerful people would help the long term health of the country and even Samsung itself.
I think it's impossible to convince users 100% that you arent back-dooring logging under duress.
You could try building your own community and moderate it yourself, if you don't like what dang is doing.

Or maybe, an easier option could be taking some time to carefully consider what exactly you consider to be self righteous so that a discussion can be had about it. More specificity in complaints typically yields a better response.
I have never used OpenBSD, but isn't Linux getting closer to their equivalent pledge and unveil?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277067

This is great news, because I can't switch over to OpenBSD (docker, bluetooth, etc) or more folkloric distributions like VoidOS and Qubes. Going to make a bunch of Anki cards today to remember these namespaces and how to use them!
Does anyone happen to know which of those algorithms are equivalent, under the following definition of equivalent?

• Maze generation algorithms A and B are equivalent if for any maze that A can generate, it is possible for B to generate that maze too, and vice versa.

For those pairs of algorithms that are equivalent, what pairs are equivalent under this stronger definition?

• Maze generation algorithms A and B are equivalent if for any maze that A generates, B can generate it too, and vice versa, and the probability that A generates that maze on any given run is the same as the probability that B does so.
Points 1 & 2 in the RH doc linked from TFA [0] I believe were communicated to customers starting Spring 2019. Point 3 (IBM CloudPak integration) actually gives customers with CloudForms installations they care about a way to continue using CloudForms with support from IBM & RH.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/articles/4639821
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Recently I read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse quite an interesting book. In the book he tried to convey Knowledge is transferable, wisdom is not. Wisdom can only be gained from experience. The existence of buddha is debateable but literature has some good and relatable lessons we can learn.
Asians / Muslims / ?? already have this tactic beat, since many of them squat on the toilet with their feet on the seat, instead of sitting on them. The tilt could actually be more comfortable for the feet.

Mind you, people who squat tend to not dilly dally in the can anyway.
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You read the guidelines and adjust your discourse accordingly. It's not about what you're thinking; it's more about how you say it.
You're mistaking Lisp for a programming language. Which Lisp is not. Lisp is an idea (or rather a set of ideas), based on which different PLs can be implemented.
The fact that I have to open this link in private browsing mode in order to bypass the login wall because it is published on medium is nothing short of a rhetorical device considering the content.
Plus no risk of getting speeding/parking tickets, and if you are in an accident no insurance hassle to worry about (I assume the car sharing services have some sort of excess if you get into an accident).
> It's not a religion, it's a framework that other religions have taken on.

Same can be said about the Torah, the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad. Each has a plethora of religions built on top of them, that we group into big families (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) despite some members of these families having tried to kill each other for centuries.

I think that what makes Buddhism a bit apart is that it is also a framework several people use to build atheistic, humanist philosophies. It is less common (but used to be two centuries ago) to do the same with Christianity. There are also Jews who reject the belief in God and many religious parts of the Talmud but still follow many tenets of judaism for a variety of philosophical reasons.

Living in Asia, seeing the more cultish aspect traditional Buddhism can have, made it harder for me to see it as a kind of special religion, rather than one that is exotic enough to westerners so that they can transform it into a modern philosophy.
Can you at least put an apostrophe between "IBM" and "s" while trying to figure out a proper title?

Edit: this is better.
>everything
Thank you for doing this!
I'm doing several processes now and it's so unpleasant and stressful just before the interviews, that taking some weight off of it is really helpful.
To see how they respond under pressure.
Great job on the app, loved the tutorial, on the third level and the incrimination is challenging. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a react native game that didn’t suck before
Statues and idols as a form of respect and reminder, no. As a form of seeking good fortune or merit he most definitely disapproved:

"Whereas some religious men, while living of food provided by the faithful make their living by such low arts, such wrong means of livelihood as palmistry, divining by signs, interpreting dreams... bringing good or bad luck... invoking the goodness of luck... picking the lucky site for a building, the monk Gotama refrains from such low arts, such wrong means of livelihood."

D.I, 9-12
One also has to bear in mind that the Tripitakha was compiled several centuries after the Buddha is said to have lived and has several divergent versions according to the ideological predilections of its editors. Also Pali was probably not the native language of the Buddha. The vernacular of the area where he lived and taught was call Magadhi. (The Jain Agamas are transmitted in a related language called Ardhamagadhi “half Magadhi”) Pali was prevalent in Avanti in West India (the geographical base of Sthaviravadins) not Magadha. The Sarvastivadins used Sanskrit, and Mahasanghikas used yet another language for their version. All of them claimed to have “The Original Teachings of the Buddha.”

So I think attempts to find “fundamental” Buddhism are ultimately futile.
I didn't know Londres.

I heard about Durres, Albania, for the first time today, too.

I had wondered about a connection between door, Germanic \dorz, Latin forum* and port, porta, portal before (Latin f frequently corresponds to English d, e.g. inferior, En under).

Suppose -dres for Londres once meant port, which is always a good guess for any bigger city's name. I can't confirm it though.

Durres derives from Dorian Greek Durrhakhion, but Greek has thura for "door"; so if I'm correct, they would have loaned the form with d. Ironically, Albanian dere "door" has a homophone "bitter; difficult, tiresome" (from a different root if akin to Greek due "misery") and one traditional explanation of Albanias means difficult coast (although there was a historical kingdom Albania far off from the coast).

By the way: It's Londer in Albanian, too, and Londres in many Romance languages.

tl;dr: nobody really knows, and the first address for French etymology doesn't explain Londres either
This is like asking why people crash planes when one of their instruments is telling them bad information and the others are all working fine. Once you know something important isn't trustworthy, it's easy and likely to become very disoriented as to what you can trust. This is why people reflexively doubt anything particularly out of the ordinary - it might rarely be wrong, but it's far better than becoming paranoid at every drop of a hat.
I gess because there wouldn't be much of an article at all.

I mean you basically wrote the whole article in your comment above by saying: "whether the historical Buddha existed at all"

I'm betting he probably did exist, because when you take all the personal anecdotes in the scriptures, many of which are mentioned in the article, they make coherent sense as the life story of a single human being.

The little details and the personal quirks all add up.
I have a hard time imagining this is real, but it makes some twisted kind of sense.
It doesn't seem to me that this result should have been difficult to predict. Some people did, of course, but neither politicians nor the mainstream press seemed to give the argument much consideration.

There's even evidence suggesting that backpage.com was effectively railroaded, and actively aided law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting pimps and child abusers (this source has a known libertarian political bias):

https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-governme...
Notable Quotes:

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Most people are not going to buy a dedicated WiFi AP just for their home automation.

The benefit of Zigbee, even when using a hub, is that you don’t have all the actual devices on your network, calling home, and possibly opening up NAT traversal streams. You just need to worry about the hub. With WiFi devices, you need to worry about all of that for all of them.
The $800k settlement is a joke. It sounds as if our state is corrupt, or worse, just flat out incompetent. Why weren't they prosecuted for the crime?
Since we already use MS Office (and paying for Office 365 subscription), moving to MS "ecosystem" looks like more and more likely option.

The only problem there is video conferencing (Skype is awful), but we use some other solutions for that, anyways (as enterprise customers we are dealing with are really not accustomed to meet.

Can't believe that MS looks agile compared to Google when it comes to these things. It seems that Ad business is eating up all the talent over there...
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I come from Lua so I'm used to declaring local variables with "local".

Also, I like knowing which variables won't be reassigned (const), and which will (let).
Ok, let's try that. Thanks!

Submitted title was "IBMs Cannibalization of RedHat Begins". That broke the HN guidelines by editorializing (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Accounts that do that eventually lose submission rights on HN, so please don't do that.
This is really clever, but I bet there's all sorts of wacky ways that a 3d version of this could be optimized.

It would be really interesting to throw this design into a learning algorithm with an attached fluid simulation to estimate effectiveness. I wonder if anyone's done this. What learning algorithm would be most effective? And I'd love to see what a learning algorithm would come up with. I suspect an optimized version of this would be really organic looking and have lots of weird spirals and things in non-obvious ways.
Did... did... did you just admit to spamming HN just for the clicks?

wow... you're really not that smart, are you?
I have often wondered if a jet engine can be made with a fixed cavity of some sort and no moving parts. One problem seemed to be combustion pushing gasses equally to the exit and inlet. This may be the piece I have been looking for to make it possible.
Or, you realize that it was unconstitutional but that the government doesn't care anymore. And so you do the thing patriots do and sacrifice your life to make the information known.

Snowden is a patriot and an American hero. The traitors are those who didn't speak up, and those in power who allow the violations of our constitutional rights to continue.
Been there too, French in the Anglo world, same cultural clash.

I always believed having one "French" mindset person in the team is an asset as a counter balance to the "Yes everything is awesome".
Much like the UK is (was I guess) to the EU, simply because it opens up new perspectives / discussions.

Now if you have more than one (or a tiny percentage on really large teams) that's probably where the troubles start.
It absolutely fucking is. Ads infesting everything on my desktop. Pervasive tracking. Breaking updates pushed against my will. I'm happy that it doesn't bother you, but for me no f*cking thanks.
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Interesting. What do you mean when you say: "versus the authors re-applying some of same research in their own thing."

And does "code distribution" just mean to release as open source?
> If everyone starts off by saying no then there will again be no room for discussion, and no progress.

No, not at all.
Important caveat to your last point: the defendant has no access to secret exculpatory evidence
I have only one possible response to this: No. Why?

I've long ago learned that 'why?' is the most aggressive question. 'Why?' makes people defensive. 'Why?' is the start of an argument, where the other side is just 'why not?'. It's not going to help move anything forwards.

Try 'Yes, and..'. Try 'How about?'. Try 'I don't know'. Try 'Why don't we try?'. And try 'Can you show me?'
I think that’s a ramjet.
What is sad is that there are a lot of real-size social experiments in various countries that have a variety of legislation and situation and a ton of literature to guide policy there.

I have (like everybody) some opinions on how sex should work and what limits paid sex should have. I'll just say that: My preferences are totally irrelevant and should be dismissed if they have any chance of increasing human trafficking.

These policies should have a single, fact-based, evidence-based goal: fight sex slavery and human trafficking. If it leads to a system I don't like, so be it. Fighting slavery is the #1 goal there.
Ask HN: Practical ideas/cases for newer languages such as Go, Rust, Elixir?
Hi folks, I've been reading and hearing often about Rust, Go, Clojure, Elixir and so forth on here - just thought I'd ask if someone has more practical examples of projects / ideas that these would be an ideal fit / currently being used for?

Pretext - I find myself immobile for a few months and I'm looking to explore these languages and build something small / practical that plays to their strengths, and will help me learn "why" they came to be.
Remember when Windows Vista first came out, and people reviled the utterly useless intrusive UAC security dialogues that would pop up every 10 seconds? And the inexplicable confusing security model that just broke most things? And the fact that it was a waste of time because it just trained people to hit "yes" all the time?

Apparently Apple doesn't remember, because they seem intent to make all the exact same mistakes.
What else am I supposed to take into consideration? The companies marketing material? Maybe the signal in those comments is a bit biased, but it seems far less biased than the alternatives.
So it was Perl?
YouTube is still unusably slow on Safari.
And your best comments are the ones you write twice...
For those who want to know more about the Klein Bottle and mathematical side of Cliff Stoll, check out the videos featuring him on this Numberphile playlist [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...
I bet the vast majority of Apple's users don't care about thin-ness as much as their designers do.

I continue to stubbornly use a 2011 MBP because that's the last generation that is still very repairable (well, except for the LCD). It also has USB, Firewire 800, MagSafe, and an SD card slot. I really don't care that it's a bit thicker.

Thin-ness only really matters to me when I'm sitting on the front row of a Southwest flight, where all carry-ons are required to be stowed in the overhead bins on takeoff and landing. I have a 2016 MBP that fits neatly in the magazine tray against the wall, so I don't have to put it away :-)
I see the same thing, and the only way I can reconcile this is that the benefit to sr leadership in terms of treating SDEs as fungible is so massive that it is still worth the massive productivity loss from assuming exchangability.
huh no link
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Something tells me it won't work with privacy oriented systems like hass.io (https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio), but I'd be happy to be wrong.
Tech Lead Expectations for Engineering Projects (Gergely Orosz Uber)
Fundamentally, you can't do a risk assessment in response to someone telling you you're about to collide with an "unknown unknown". Most of the time, assuming the source is maliciously trying to confuse you is a better choice than doubting everything.

When arguing from an armchair on the internet, somehow people forget what actual uncertainty under stress is like.
The Register Checks in with Canonical's WSL Alternative – Multipass
re 'about' - it can have a lot more meanings than those two.

e.g. 'about his person' (carrying something with you)
'he is about' (he is close / near)
'he is out and about' (he is some distance away)

etc.
If you're criticizing comments in the vein of this (now dead) comment, your critique misses the mark:

> This is what a functioning criminal justice system looks like. Meanwhile the co-founders of the opioid epidemic, which has killed at least 150,000 people, paid a few million dollars in fines. [0]

It's really inconceivable that an outcome like this Korean judgement would ever be reached in the US. 18 months of prison time for union busting? Meanwhile, the ACLU reports that Americans are being jailed to collect on medical debts [1].

Indignation isn't shallow or boring, it's the driving force behind social progress. Indeed, lack of indignation indicates either the inability to imagine a better world or perhaps the natural satisfaction with the status quo of someone who finds themself sitting on the upper rungs of society as currently structured. The latter no doubt describes many of us here.

We could have a nuanced conversation on the comparative virtues and shortcomings of the US and Korean justice systems, or we could downvote anyone who states the obvious into grey text oblivion and poo-poo them for their "shallow" indignation.

It's not intellectual sophistication to avoid mentioning pachyderms when conversing in the company of an elephant; rather, it's obtuse.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21829200

1. https://www.aclu.org/report/pound-flesh-criminalization-priv...
I don’t get it. Isn’t that the entire point of resumes?
It's not clear that secrets are a necessary evil. They are, however, greatly desired by exactly the kind of people who definitely shouldn't be allowed them. So that's a bad sign.

Inappropriate reliance upon secrets is a recurrent security design mistake. Remember passwords? Well not so much remember, we still have passwords, and they're still terrible. Compare a FIDO Security Key. No secrets, much better.

If I'm wrong and some secrets are truly necessary we're still best served by restricting ourselves to just those secrets and not creating a Matryoshka doll of secrets kept for their own sake and little more.
Your facts are just plain wrong here.

As of a couple years ago the NSA has openly admitted to Congress it is illegally collecting certain information about Americans it isn't supposed to. It openly admits it now because Snowden leaked this. Before the leak the NSA just lied about it to their oversight committee.

The people at the top should be in prison. They violated our rights, lied about it to congress, and got caught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumsnet

- PR and relationships with (governmental or other) organisations

- Intelligent positioning

- (Arguably good timing in the market)

- Community well targeted, needs catered for well.

- Appropriate (simple, fast) technology, little barrier to entry

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

- Two way beneficial relationship with YC

- Careful / Aggressive (depending on situation and feature) moderation

- General (although arguably slipping into Eternal September) maintenance of a niche community but with steady growth

- Appropriate (simple, fast) technology, little barrier to entry