skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2012, the Journal reported that a man from San Leandro, California, named Michael Katz-Lacabe filed a public records request for copies of photographs taken by his local police department’s license plate scanners. He was handed more than 100 pictures of his car in various locations. One showed his daughters exiting his car, which was parked in their driveway.
Rebuilding the Build
I personally audited the entire pipeline, and code, from collection to analysis all the way to the little DAU ("daily active users") graph that informs this number. That experience, and years of working on related data sets inside Facebook, are enough to convince me that the 1B number is legit.

If that's not enough for you, well, maybe I can't help that. But I am curious what evidence leads you to believe something different. Serious question, genuinely curious.

Edit: to be clear, and IIRC, seeing a Like button is not counted. Actually Liking something, which posts to your news feed, does.
You could replace "not believing" with "being a gullible idiot" and all of what you just wrote would still be true.

Your developer will leave if they are offered a better paid position at another company. It's because that company values them more. "believing" is just more nonsense thrown at inexperienced developers who don't know they are being hoodwinked.
There's a fierce battle between the honorable Vim-ers (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim), and those scoundrel Emac-ians (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-mode). Work is ongoing to have better support for code completion (https://github.com/phildawes/racer), and I heard that there has been some preliminary work to get support into Visual Studio and JetBrains, but I'm not sure how far along that is yet.
Our Kids Don’t Belong in School
Each of these points pertain to the startup gaining leverage over the employee.

Ergo, the reason startups like their employees to believe is so that they can retain and control them more easily.

On the flip side, if a startup that "believes" is more effective (or more likely to survive) than a company that doesn't, this could benefit the employees. Whether this is the case or just ideology, I think it's difficult to know.
I don't understand why do you want to sign that UK person's key in the first place. You can't verify who they are and only communicate online. Ok - that sounds to me like you shouldn't announce "I trust this is a real name/email" in that case. You can trust it privately and still use the key anyway.

But nobody is forcing you to sign the key, or even then to publish that information on the internet. As you say - how do you know they're that person?

(I'm ignoring the part of - should we even care that the identity matches. You communicate with the (person, key) tuple - you can still trust that tuple and not care if the name matches government documents)

A bank is a slightly different case. Your key for communication with the bank is (usually) more interesting than the key you use for emails. The bank also has both interest in protecting communication and means to do something better than key signing. Some banks will actually issue you a smartcard (or some equivalent) from which you can't export the private key at all - it may even be a gpg key. The point is - that's a much better protection on average, because an average bank customer has no idea about gpg, but will likely not give the smartcard away to someone random. Finally, few people have passports and you shouldn't be required to have a passport to have a bank account.
>The only kind of tax you could collect would be a "subscription fee"

Los Zetas, and the Mafia see things differently...
Isn't this just survivor bias, though? How many startups out there really believe and still fail hard? It's very easy to look at Stripe and say "they succeeded because of X", when in reality they succeeded because of a wide variety of factors.
Customer v/s User
That's a myth. You absolutely can donate food and there's no any law forbidding or giving you any legal consequences. Stupid myth that gets tons of food wasted every day.
Check out the recent John Oliver piece about it, http://youtu.be/i8xwLWb0lLY
Microsoft Edge shows a hollow grey lock for DV certs: https://certsimple.com/blog/dv-ssl-in-microsoft-edge
I'm happy you enjoyed the post and thanks for the comment.

If I understand your comment correctly, it isn't the case that the ISR is fixed. The ISR has a minimum size, but it can change over time, so brokers can be removed from the ISR and they can rejoin later once they catch up.
Assuming you refer to Aaron's thesis? (Haven't seen the other, no offense..). I felt the same exact way. Want that template :)
Of “Free” trials and credit cards
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Under normal circumstances, maybe. The Depression, though… there’s no jobs, so why not just get in your car and hope to get a lucky fare? You’ll make more cash than sitting in an unemployment line.
Idiomatic Rust would probably avoid allocations, which means something more like

fn main() {
if let Some(arg) = std::env::args().nth(1) {
println!("{}", {
match arg.char_indices().nth(12) {
Some((idx, _)) => &arg[..idx],
None => &*arg
}
});
}
}

With the `unicode-segmentation` crate[1], you can just swap `char_indices()` with `grapheme_indices(true)`.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/unicode-segmentation
Your job as founder is to create revenue.
To me, encryption without proof of identity isn't secure. But as the other poster notes, this is semantics.
Mentioning the Vatican was my way of pointing out an (almost) existence proof. If the Vatican can be that close to a defacto distributed government, I don't see why one can't explicitly form itself.
Man found to have been shedding virulent strain of polio for 30 years
Page 9 has a TL;DR footnote. Degree granted.
Not a bad thought, though some of that 10% of the homeless who are chronically homeless probably should be allowed to just fail to go to their job with no consequences.

Ideally they'd have social services and/or psychiatric care, and some of them, after sufficient care might then be able to work. But some are just going to be chronically unemployable.
Well yeah, you could register a domain validated cert for hotmaillogin.com, or for ..company.com (and then register hotmail.com.company.com) at the time just fine, and plenty of people did.
If you really need to, I don't mind this pattern...

{conditional && (

<div>throw whatever you want</div>
<div>in here.</span>

)}
We've had protection for this for a couple years now:

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSe...

They changed the wording so that you're only guilty if you "intentionally display your handgun in plain view of another person in a public place."
That's actually the wrong way around.
Certainly a good object lesson in the bite of leverage over long periods of time. As in it's a very bad idea.
How do you go from DB Admin to Director of Technology in 2 years!? That's pretty impressive.
A Kenyan won the gold medal in javelin after learning how to throw on YouTube
> I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that I'd pay over 200 pounds a year for the privilege.

CertSimple is run from London, 150 quid a year, and delivers EV certs faster than anywhere in the world - an average of 5 hours, rather than the industry standard 7 to 10 days'. it also has an 80 second request process without software installation or terminal Q and A:

https://certsimple.com
Giant Lego-Style Bricks
How many women are comparable to a 6', 185 lb man? And we're talking averages, not Olympic competitors.
That was pretty much my point. If you don't have a particular advantage over other traders (i.e. at least that you're doing it full time, and not just after hours), stop trading and start investing.
History of DreamWorks Studios
The article appears to be making the mistake of assuming political spectrums to be linear or single-dimensional. They're not. As one of these "moderates" the article discusses, my disdain for American politics has nothing to do with trying to find a "middle ground" between a Democrat left and a Republican right because that entire line is way off into the "totalitarian corrupt police state" end of an at-least-two-dimensional spectrum.

This is why so many "nerds" swing "quasi-libertarian". Not only do they want both social and economic freedom (as a whole, both the Republicans and Democrats only seem to want one or the other), but they also tend to want individual freedom. They're tired of not actually having a voice because some big company like Comcast has better resources to bribe politicians. They're tired of being ordered around by basically the same people who were laughing at them and giving them wedgies back in the 80's. They swing libertarian because libertarianism is billed as the means of euthanizing the ugly, vicious beast that is the American political machine. Else, they simply give up, seeking to subvert the political system and exist beyond its reach. This is why candidates like Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul and Donald Trump are appealing to this particular demographic: because they promise to fight against the cruft instead of riding the status quo like quite literally every other goddamn politician in this country.

A well written article, but it's misguided if it thinks that us "nerds" are wrong for distrusting the American political system, as it seems to imply. Washington is in need of some serious percussive maintenance.
> Companies like [...] Airbnb have incredible missions

To destroy the idea of civil society and collaborative neighborhoods (even moreso than already done) and inflict the effects of negative externalities on people not involved in the transaction? If I were a cynic (and I am), I would say that belief in this "incredible mission" is a good way to undermine basic social responsibility.
Except it's really a $9M startup since it's only seeing 0.75% of that $1.2B. Still very good for a single person business but not media worthy.
Ask HN: What do you think of Cloud Computing?
I would like to keep this question open and span both technical and non-technical aspects/values/problems/doubts, gathering both direct users' and outsiders' thoughts.
That doesn't answer whether or not "Amersterdam plot" was an existing idiom. I've never heard of it personally.
They evidently don't in LA or SF (as opposed to Norway in the winter). Otherwise, we would necessarily see far lower rates of homelessness in those places.
On the contrary, his is the only one that crashes when more arguments than expected are passed. Hooray progress!
I'm using Atom, it work's really well with a few Rust plugins.
Timeful shuts down, schedules data wipe
> A company full of mercenaries is fine when things are going well, but if things go bad you will have problems.

You bet you will. I chose not so long ago to refuse to be exploited by whoever's paying me at the moment, and that makes it really hard for an employer to make me hurt myself for a company's "mission". Or for the paycheck.

It's a much, much better life for a worker, and I can understand why founders would hate it.
The proper way to help women in tech
Given that both actions require a Facebook account that you're logged in to, that seems pretty reasonable
It could be Snow Crash. Memetic hazard, avert thine eyes!
I believe the mistake is to think one can design a reserve currency. The dollar is the world's first reserve currency only because the Bretton Woods monetary system defined it as redeemable for 1/35 ounce of gold after World War II. When the Fed defaulted on its gold obligations in 1971, the world got a reserve "currency" -- before the world reserve asset was gold.

I don't think any government can create an irredeemable credit instrument and have it accepted as reserve currency. Even the dollar as reserve currency had to come in the back door.
Utah's taken a different approach, and it seems to have worked pretty well, though I'm not sure how many urban cities want to (or can) follow that lead.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-utah-housing-first-20150...
One of the weird critisisms I've heard (and reflected in your first link) is "but the reproduced study had some slight difference". If a slight difference can make an effect disappear then it's not such an interesting or general effect as the original study claimed to show! Why didn't they already test for the effect of slight differences themselves?
You are correct that Iran has always been called Iran (Eraan).

Persians refer to the sub-set of Aryanman of Eran-Zameen ["Land of Arya"] that settled in the general area of the province of Fars (Perse) and after the overthrow of the Median Aryanman (likely forefathers of the Kurds) ascended the world stage [1].

--

[1]: http://www.iranchamber.com/history/darius/darius_inscription...
The Future of Healthcare and Wearable Tech
For a second I thought PG wrote this...
I agree, but do you really think of a binary tree traversal iteratively? I won't say it's wrong, but I am extremely surprised.
Why can't Electr detect unit K form "10K + 200"? It's the only unit present in the equation.

Why kilo-ohms are denoted with "K" while milliamperes are using the proper SI unit "mA"? Why not to use "Ω" and "kΩ"? We have that symbol in high ASCII.

Probably just my ignorance of programming language design speaking but I really have to ask.
This is probably not going to be a very popular reply, but I'll say it anyway on the off-chance it'll help you: get out of the Bay Area. You don't need to live in San Francisco to be a professional software engineer. I lived there for three months, and at the end, I wanted to jump off of a fucking building. I know that many people consider it to be a great place to live (albeit expensive), but it's just not for me.

If I had to make a recommendation, I'd say go stay for a few months in Joseph, OR. It's a very small town (you can walk the entire length of it in a very short amount of time) surrounded by a lot of nature. You may remember it from a Kickstarter campaign from not too long ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/708553749/the-jennings-...

In any case, you can get away from big city life, work remotely (perhaps as a contractor? If you want, email me a resume and I'll pass along any contracting gigs that fit your skillset. I don't do any work on the side anymore, so it's good to have people that I can pass work to), enjoy nature (see http://bit.ly/1Kbk2BB and http://bit.ly/1MRBTw7), and get your depression under control. An added bonus is that it's very cheap to live in Joseph, especially compared to San Francisco: http://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/joseph_or/san_franc...

In terms of medical facilities, Joseph has very little. There's a psychiatrist about 1.5 hours away in La Grande, though, and being a small town, a lot of people make that trip once/wk, and they love splitting the cost with somebody that's going the same way.

It's really a different lifestyle to live in a small town where it's not socially unacceptable to strike up a conversation with somebody on the street and where helping one another is a common thing. The Bay Area was almost the exact opposite, and I could totally see why you'd be depressed living there.
Rant: Uber's shitty navigation is as we speak taking me on a detour through south DC trying to get from foggy bottom to union station. Second time this week (last time it was a random detour to Virginia).

I use Uber all the time, of course, because it's so cheap, but people talking about self-driving Uber cars always makes me chuckle.
So much innovation that came from one place: Bell Labs. Quite extraordinary.
I guess it would be great if there was some sort of application that let you apply these techniques and actually see the results.

Otherwise, it's like reading the theory section of documentation without getting to use the program.
Miller supports RFC4180 CSV
Release notes at
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v2.0.0

This is a follow-on to the Miller release announcement at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066742
A proposition that is logically derived from one already proved, usually immediately before.
Homeless people with addiction to alcohol in Ulan Bator

http://visura.co/user/MikeA/view/40-96
I'm a non-gunowner and frankly don't understand why open carry is seen as the more extreme version of concealed carry. It's much more worrisome to me that someone might have a hidden gun than if they have one out in the open. Then I can see who has a gun and try extra hard no to piss that guy off instead of being surprised by it.

Is all the fuss just from people who would rather remain ignorant and not think about it?
Actually, Tesla does plan on shipping an upgrade to existing Roadsters. It'll be expensive and probably later than claimed, but there you have it:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/roadster-30

http://gas2.org/2015/05/05/340-mile-tesla-roadster-upgrade-d...

I agree with your comment that it's easy to fantasize about upgrades that will never happen. Early Model S cars lack the hardware for driving assistance, and my friends who think they know about such things predict that additional computer power will be needed to achieve all that Elon is predicting for self-driving.

A better battery pack for all Model S cars, on the other hand, is likely to eventually show up. All existing cars can be upgraded to the 90 KWh battery, but Tesla is suggesting that everyone is better off waiting for a more significant upgrade later in your battery's life.
RFC4180 CSV support:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10132831
I've encountered knee-jerk negative reactions to recursion from most firmware engineers.

Then one day I got one to laugh at this byte-saving routine to do some multiplications:

X32: BSR X16
X16: BSR X8
X8: BSR X4
X4: BSR X2
X2: ADD A
RET

Recursion. In assembly language. We were six bytes shy of filling our code space, but we had gobs of stack, and I got about 60 bytes back from our stupid compiler with this. When my cow-orker saw it, he thought for a moment, smiled, said "You're one sick dude, you know that?" and we checked it in.
If you were bent on getting it all, even at 1 Gbps:

(228882 TB to Gb) sec to years = 58 yr 3 w 1 day 18 h 40 min

58 years is going to take a long time
ctrl+f'd the quote here, couldn't have said better myself
Facebook now drives more traffic to media sites than Google
Interview with M .U.L.E. The Board Game Creator Heikki Harju
Note also that there is a bus that can shuttle you back and forth between La Grande and Joseph, if you're so inclined: http://www.neotransit.org/wallowa/wallowa-link-intercity
I was thinking of Estonia and their e-citizenship system and services.

I guess the Vatican would be an example of small area, but you could also look at something like Sealand, or other small island nations.

Even though this is a terrible example and comparison, you could also look at Scientology and their offices. They may not be a established state but they work in the way I'm imagining. Global offices, schooling, protection, etc.
Free will is typically defined to mean you[n+1] != classical_function(you[n]), at least sometimes or with some probability. That does not necessarily imply anything supernatural, though if the supernatural (or any kind of dualism) exists that would explain it. It could also arise due to quantum noise or any other process that violates classical determinism.

There are those who define free will a bit differently though. It's not a precise term. Another definition is that you[n+1] cannot be computed from any function other than you or something isomorphic with you -- in other words you are not coarse-grainable or predictable using any subset of your state. Someone would have to literally make a copy of you to predict your behavior, possibly down to the atomic or quantum level.

I've heard functions/processes with this property called computationally irreducible:

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

Basically the computational irreducibility definition of free will just means nothing outside of you can predict what you're going to do unless it has an exact copy of you or something functionally equivalent (uploaded mind, etc.).

Another variation on the same idea is the "arrow of time" view put forward by Ilya Prigogine:

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Certainty-Ilya-Prigogine/dp/06...

This is IMHO very close to if not identical to Wolfram's computational irreducibility, but framed a bit differently.

Obviously humans are somewhat predictable, but somewhat predictable doesn't imply deterministic. My personal opinion is that the second theory (irreducibility/arrow of time) is almost certainly true, and the first is also probably true. So we are probably both irreducible and indeterminate. I'd say the same is likely true of any living thing and possibly other complex natural processes.
@nikanj, Gnome1 vs Gnome2 vs Gnome3 wasn't about control. "Rewrite Docker" would be a question of control. To some degree, I was publicising this issue in order to gauge intrest in such a break away project, which would solve problems with Docker and take controll away from Docker Inc. I also publicised it, because everyone loves issues like this and there is no such thing as bad press :D
Container is one approach, but it is hardly the only approach.

If your entire setup is take a base linux VM - run some ansible magic on it - and start serving webpages.. you don't care what cloud you run on (or local hardware). It is when you start building out a bunch of logic around SNS and an Amazon specific tech that you have problem. Container is not does not "fix" this problem.
I'd love to see their compute and software stack provisioning tools. Are they open source?
Since the interiors of the two cars are done in completely different styles, I can easily believe that buyers disagree about which one is better. I can assure you, however, that whenever I'm at a stop sign or light next to a Porsche Panamara, my foot is hard on the pedal if it looks safe to do so.
looks like some microsoft products have those numbers too - http://news.microsoft.com/bythenumbers/index.HTML
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking when I was reading the piece.
Ahh excellent, thank you! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28053
You're right, he shouldn't, so it's a good thing no one here or in the article tried to glorify Lenin.

In the future, it might be good for you not to attack people based on what you think they might have said, when you haven't yet bothered to read what they actually did say.
> So apparently perl6 is also "wrong" and operates on codepoints

Yes and no. Yes, because the in-development Rakudo compiler is clearly currently giving the wrong result, and no because it operates on grapheme clusters (but has bugs).

(You can work with codepoints if you really want to but the normal string/character functions that use the normal string type, Str, work -- or more accurately are supposed to work -- on the assumption that "character" == grapheme cluster; afaik it's supposed to match the Unicode default Extended Grapheme Cluster specification.)

Fwiw I've filed a bug: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125927
You don't have to "wait in line 30 minutes for it every time". Please: make your point without exaggerating.
> Our observation of a loophole-free
Bell inequality violation thus rules out all local realist theories that accept that the number generators timely produce a free random bit and that the outputs are final once recorded in the electronics.

Why should a local realist theory accept that? In determinism, there are no random events.
When you talk about services offered for a fee, okay, but how would you offer "protections"? What if one of your citizens is physically located in Europe, for example, and the local warlord tries to interfere with his right to free speech, or his right to bear arms? Will you draft an army and bust him out of prison?

What if he missed his "subscription" payment the previous month? Does he lose his fundamental human rights until he's paid up?