skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are sites like www.helpareporter.com which do the exact same thing but the difference here is that the reporters opt-in to get the emails. I think that is a more ethical way of doing it.

HARO has like 5 requests/day, and it's for very niche topics. If you're writing for TechCrunch you expect to be pitched. That's just the way it works.

> as per AirBnB it was a rogue marketing agency which did it without telling them.

I call bullshit on that. They funded the company selling cereal for $50/box on Craigslist. They knew how to play the Craigslist game. Craigslist is incredibly difficult to mass post on, you don't do that by accident.

I don't blame them from shying away from it when they were big enough for people to care, but I bet you if you had them in private they'd admit to it.
> rules apply to you if any of the following statements apply.

> * Your average annual net income tax for the 5 years ending before the date of expatriation or termination of residency is more than a specified amount that is adjusted for inflation ($147,000 for 2011, $151,000 for 2012, $155,000 for 2013 and $157,000 for 2014).

> * Your net worth is $2 million or more on the date of your expatriation or termination of residency.

> * You fail to certify on Form 8854 that you have complied with all U.S. federal tax obligations for the 5 years preceding the date of your expatriation or termination of residency.

This applies to a tiny subset of people who are either a) Extremely wealthy, or b) Already tax deadbeats.
Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
If only the banana had some kind of built-in protective shell. :)
You can't hot plug your Chrome app into IE or your iOS app into Android either.
It is easy to put the blame on "black culture" then to look at the very complex socioeconoic factors that lead things to where we are today. You're the one oversimplifying.
The West has invented political/cultural systems that permit revolutions without violence. The transition that is happening in Canada now is a good example, as were the 2008 and 2010 elections in the U.S.

Basically, most people in rich Western countries today have a lot more to lose from violence than they do from policy disagreements. And most citizens essentially believe in the power of the political system, because they can remember popular political uprisings that had tangible impacts: the labor movement, the environmental movement, LGBT rights, etc.

If you look at the most desperate movement in the U.S. today, it has to be Black Lives Matter. Even those organizers reject violence as a means to their ends.
"This level of scale" is very trivial for some of these. E.g. for fleet, the only dependencies are systemd and etcd.

If you have a reachable etcd cluster (which you can run on a single machine, though you shouldn't) and your machines run systemd, and you have key'd ssh access between them, you can pretty much start typing "fleetctl start/stop/status" instead of "systemctl start/stop/status" and feed fleet systemd units and have your jobs spread over your servers with pretty much no effort.

For me it's an effortless way to get failover.

E.g. "fleetctl start someappserver@{1..3}" to start three instances of someappserver@.service. With the right constraint in the service file they'll be guaranteed to end up on different machines.
Teddy+Web
No freedom is or has ever been absolute, certainly not 1st amendment freedoms (e.g. fraud).
> The government builds certain services with the intent that hopefully as few people need them as possible. Such as Prisons, Hospitals, etc. The government is motivated to make an effort to ensure people don't end up there.

In practice, that isn't what happens. "Government" is not some monolithic hive mind entity, it is a bureaucracy of competing interests (and often fiefdoms) that sometimes work against each other. The representative crafting the budget might want to spend less money on prisons so he can spend it on something else, but the DA and the prison warden don't want their budgets reduced. Plus, the DA wants to be able to point to all the "dangerous criminals" she took off the streets when it comes time for re-election.
What drug-related crime would not exist? I seriously doubt the legalization of anything is going to change this (unless you get rid of our law system entirely).

The illegal drug market will always exist, regardless of legalization. Why? Anything legalized will be regulated and taxed and many people will still find it easier to go around both.
Free to Play Business Model Debate with Casey Muratori and Shawn McGrath [video]
> Wow, though as per AirBnB it was a rogue marketing agency which did it without telling them.

Plausible Deniability as a Service
Pure speculation, but perhaps they thought they were making a compromise between obfuscation and performance. I've heard this argument made in similar contexts on the theory that software implementations of 1DES should be faster than software AES-128 or other alternative algorithms. In practice, however, the performance between 1DES and AES-128 is not that large, and probably not large enough to matter.
It was joke, but thanks for the correction. I'd like to point out that leading scientists to make big bunch of inventions would be great feat in it's own right. Leadership alone is diffucult, scientists don't accept just anybody as their superior and you need expert level hunch about technology too.
> lump sum taxes on things like pensions and retirements

You mean if they've been living and working for years in the US, and taking advantage of US tax-advantaged retirement accounts?

Now we're talking about a different person than the parent commenter: "(loosely defined as people who were born in the US decades ago) who do not live or work in the US "
> Now you are arguing against closed-source, not liberal open source licenses.

Non-copyleft licenses provide no protection against proprietary derivatives. If you have no objection to proprietary derivatives, then I think that's a weak stance to take. It means you don't care if your users can be given your software but without the rights that you intended them to have, because someone between you and your users can always take that right away.

While your users might come back to you to get the same software with the same rights you intended them to have, they might not be aware of this, or they might not want your software alone, but together with whatever else was built on top of it, which they cannot get under your original permissive terms anymore.
For the big sports, I don't think ESPN will provide the extra value. Particularly when you have the MLB able to provide expertise to other sports. I do see them providing value to second tier sports and events. The money for ESPN to pay the big contracts will just not be there.
That is what happens in practice, because communication between lawyers and investors are not protected by attorney-client privilege and neither the lawyers nor the funders want to risk compromising the suit by communicating with each other.
There's adequate support and encouragement for young men interested in science and technology, comments like the parent only serve to undermine and attack efforts to include women, you'd have to be intentionally daft (or have a massive persecution complex) not to see why it annoys people.
- Puritanism, with its emphasis on revenge and guilt and Old Testament morals (the zero tolerance thing, death penalty etc).

- Slavery and racism (and it's consequences over several generations starting out as uneducated, dead-poor, suspect below second-rate citizens when freed, and held down with several tactics, from Jim Crow laws and plain old segregation until the 70s, to lack of finance options, poorly funded school districts, employee discrimination, etc.

- Profit, from mass incarceration, the private prison complex, and the whole thing.

- Crappy laws (three strikes, drug laws, etc).

- An increasingly touchy and litigation happy society (from right wing "tough on crime" people, to P.C. advocates pushing against though crimes, etc).

- A state increasingly intervening and regulating all previously free aspects of life, down to collecting rain water in your own yard...
> The main problem they are trying to solve I imagine is people who become rich, and then all of the sudden scurry to a private islands and stop paying taxes.

Basically, this guy: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/05/11/facebook-co-founder-r...
Piping the result through TTS creates weird results (on OS X):

echo "hello world" | mimic --me-harder 100 | say
> Anyway, I'm 'incarcerated' in my cubicle for 8 hours a day.

Really? You can't go to lunch when you want? Go for a coffee break? Call in sick when you aren't well? Quit that job if you find a better one?

Anybody who lines up for the opportunity to plant potatoes in the hot sun is clearly desperate for work. Desperate people will do lots of things that "normal" people would not.
Results of experimenting with Brotli for dynamic web content
Racism is obviously very much alive, it's just no longer blatant. You can't say the n word and people rarely do (some people mistake racism with purely this blatant form of bigotry and ignore the rest), but racial profiling happens every day, even in small interactions with people. I can't count the number of times I'd get to finally know someone, consider them as a new friend, and they'd drop the 'I didn't think you were like this (like them), I thought you'd be like xyz (stereotype of my ethnicity)'. That's racial profiling and it affects a lot of things. Getting checked on an international bus or train is almost guaranteed for me, concerts or clubs? Checked, airplanes? Everyone gets checked but extra searches, taking your shoes off etc is reserved for us special few.

Anyway that doesn't even bother me, sure racial profiling for security checks are degrading but it doesn't affect me much personally in my life, it's a minor nuisance all things considered. What depresses me is, you recall that guy on HN who tried to find an apartment in Munich?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8360390

> The conclusion from this little study, is that a girl with an italian name, gets an 90% answer rate, a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets, 1% answer rate. The master of all, is the young munich guy who is around 25

That's racial profiling, too. It's based on the same principles of racial profiling, that we judge people based on their ethnicity rather than as individuals who happened to have a certain skin color, and then treat people differently. And obviously it's not just trying to find a home to rent, it's jobs etc etc.
> And yet it seems resilient enough that European countries are importing low-skilled third-world people without any concern for the frafile framework of mutual trust and playing by the rules you speak of.

Well, it's a huge issue in Europe now, creating a lot of mess. The tension between member countries of the EU has increased, and some people worry that the whole issue may actually turn into a civil war. The world isn't limited to having only one problem at a time.

> Not to mention your argument sounds suspiciously like Intelligent Design believers explaining how the universe was obviously created by god since it is built on a fragile interplay of fine tuned distances and sizes and if only they were slightly different humans wouldn't exist!

Did not see that coming... I don't see anyting but superficial similarities. The difference is, we've seen how societies big and small form and evolve over time. We've been observing it for thousands of years, and we took notes. We know what happens when the rule of law breaks, how fragile it is. It's all within-the-system, there is no need to postulate an external omnipotent actor.

EDIT to reply to 'planfaster's edit:

I don't see where I introduce government as an external actor. Government is a completely in-system being, it's something that occurs naturally whenever a society grows past certain size, when it can no longer hold together by enforcing the rules directly through day-to-day interaction between its members. It's just a more formal form of in-group coordination, and a common pattern in all human organizations - companies, churches, clubs, etc. Hell, it's even the base of multicellular life itself (also note that we have a name for cells that refuse to coordinate with the rest of the organism and instead decide to grow as much as they like - they're called cancer).

A government is something a society forms that allows it to grow beyond a very small size. I implore you to show me a thriving organization or society with more than 500 members that doesn't have a formalized set of rules and governance.

My point against Uber would work the same way if "Uber" was just a village asshole with a horse, going against the "rules that apply to everyone without exception".

But if you want to play it as religious debate, then tell me please, who paid for the roads and the schools and police? How do you call the entity that orders those projects and distributes the resources to accomplish them?
Heh, far earlier than I thought. I still hope smartphones do help kids to avoid life altering bullying in some way.
This is an important point that not that many prisoners are in for-profit prisons, but many of these groups are also lobbying to privatize existing public prisons so they're not an inconsequential influence. They also benefit at the margins a lot. (i.e. if one extra person is incarcerated they're likely to go to a private prisons since the construction of public prisons has slowed a lot).
Glad I don't work for this guy.

Being "efficient" at what you do at the cost of seeing the full picture, attention-deficit decision making, etc, is not a good thing.

A lot of people with positions of power think they are snap decision makers. They are snap decision makers because there's nobody to challenge those decisions, and often thinking a bit more and listening more, is a good thing.

As Herbert put it in Dune, "a mentat needs data".

I liked Bezos's requirement for a 6 page memo, and time to read it, before meetings. So many times meetings start and everyone wants to share an opinion, and people don't take time to listen.

Sure, inverted pyramid is nice. But so is understanding.

I really appreciate a good long-form article -- NYT and Salon or whatever - if it's somewhat focused. So much that passes for 'journalism' these days is reformatting quick summary feeds, and it loses meaning.
You'd need to show a causal relationship to make that argument.
While it's possible, in practice it's generally difficult to short IPOs because your broker needs to locate shares and underwriter restrictions in the borrow process.
This is so amazing! As I believe there is no doubt about life in a multitude of places in the Universe. I only hope I would live long enough to see any life form at all.
I don't understand how no one talks about the systemic, generational poverty that a large proportion of the US black population lives in. It's just incomprehensible to me how people can't see how this leads to crime.

A kid actually said this, "Writing is important so that when I grow up and I'm in jail I can write my kids like my dad writes me." because every man in his life is a gang member who sells drugs or is in jail. What the hell do you think he's going to grow up to be? It sure seems like he knows.

I'm certain that racist policing is a problem but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the problems we have. If it's just the police why don't you(not specifically you) go raise your family in North St Louis. You can kiss them goodnight to the sound of gunshots.

And it seems like everyone just ignores it. I don't really have a point. I'm just confused and frustrated. I don't understand why the US has a seemingly permanent underclass that gets completely ignored.
The A-10 has great marketing, almost like the Marine Corps.

The truth is a bit more complicated. Yes the A-10 would have been capable in the Fulda Gap, but it would have suffered tremendous losses against Soviet air defenses. The depth and breadth of these defenses are astonishing for the time. You would start with the SA-6 for ingress/approach, then the SA-8 Gecko for closer. Finally you would have to deal with SA-7/SA-9, and of course the ZSU-23-4 Shilka. This is just what you would have faced against a moving enemy. Fixed positions would have quite a bit of AAA as well.

You'd also have to contend with Soviet Frontal Aviation. These units weren't nearly as good as the F-4/15/16/Mirages they would have faced, but they'd still be a threat until a reliable CAP was in place.

Maverick targeting during the 80s was pretty primitive (this was way before LANTIRN/SNIPER etc), and the Maverick wasn't fire and forget at the time.

Lots of attrition.

Also, helicopters like the AH1/Lynx/B105 would have had similar fates.
Show HN: React TypeScript starter project
The terminology is not accurate. Sequencing can be a form of genotyping. What the title refers to is that sequencing makes array-based genotyping obsolete.
Show HN: Build Web App with Material UI in Structor (React UI Builder)
Can you give some examples? (To be clear, I'm not at all skeptical but would just love to hear specifics!)
Yep, everyone has high-res screens on their smartphones these days.
On big screens, the ones available in Brazil are retina MBP, and they are very expensive.
Well, yes, I see that's confusing. "As soon as it's bulk and unsolicited it meets the minimum definition for what most people would call spam", perhaps, or "as soon as it's bulk and unsolicited your hosting provider is going to think it's spam".
It's possible that the on-land shot was staged and taken pre-flight, or maybe it was a test run to show what the landing would look like.

Alternately, hiking in with 20 angry beavers is probably a PITA.
As far as I'm aware the evidence points to a correlation between sentence length and recidivism.
This will add a tremendous amount of cost to product development. This might be worthwhile if simple consumer or industry pressure doesn't work.
New Job Search Site Sorts Employers by Political Leaning
Thanks for posting, great intro! With Kubernetes just releasing the 1.0 version, things got serious :) Did you know Red Hat is the second contributor to the project? Next month I’ll touch up about Kubernets and its integration in Openshift at the Docker Randstad November Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Randstad/events/225580948/)..but you probably know that already :) see you soon!
Basic numeracy test for investment bankers
My father contracted polio as a child. His doctor told his parents that it was too advanced and that he would certainly die. That he survived was pure luck. I recently learned (from my mother) that the latent stress of the experience caused him to be unable to say the name of the disease during the first years that my parents knew each other. He would refer to it as "when he was sick," and couldn't say "when I had polio," until much later.

I'm grateful that we've made such progress in this area.
I am wondering the same thing, but perhaps they did test drops to see if the idea worked and the camera man just filmed those?
8 years, not 10, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

In 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requested Intellectual Ventures LLC to find a way to fight and eventually end malaria. Intellectual Ventures resurrected the idea of using lasers to kill mosquitoes and now has a working prototype.[2] The idea has been criticized because most areas where malaria is prevalent do not have reliable electrical power.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Dotty: bootstrapped experimental compiler for Scala
A lot of theft, burglary, robbery, assault, murder, etc. would simply not exist or be marginalized just like they are currently for alcohol. It's been awhile since I heard of a shootout over booze distribution. Yes, there is still a black market for alcohol, but the crime surrounding it is a tiny fraction of what it was during prohibition. No one denies that violence related to alcohol dropped dramatically after prohibition and obviously, the same thing will happen to other drugs as they're not special.
It's not so important how many prisons are for profit, but how much lobbying money is spent furthering their goals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
This doesn't seem Unicode-aware at all. I put my cursor on the character 每 and it says:

[ASCII=2>4] [HEX=0>4]

It's not ASCII, and its hex code is 6BCF.

It also says "ASCII=252" when I put the cursor over "ü". Claiming that values over 127 are ASCII is just a malapropism.
The range of these things is inmense, the possiblities endless: I love how you guys bring this technology to everyone!
"Collect 500 emails and then email them about your startup"...that's specifically why I ended up building https://conversationlist.com (it helps you skip the step of collect 500 emails and just jump right to the email everyone you have a pre-existing relationship with step).

Amazing how well that old-school growth hack still works...
Or you film the landed beaver back where you started an a "scripted" event. Bascially drop one in the original area where a camera is set up, let it film the decent and the beaver getting out. Then you film dropping beavers from the plane as they head down. The viewer can extrapolate that to the rest of the boxes in the back country.

Most, if not all, of these films were informational but did not have the full events filmed for technical reasons. Today of course you could just strap a phone to the beaver box and have it broadcast live on YouTube or something, which would have been pretty futuristic for the beavers.
> "Jones says writing as a newspaper journalist does can help someone become a better problem-solver..."
What you should know about those 99% job placement rates at 'coding bootcamps'
Amount of total photons emitted or hitting the Planck limit, whichever comes first.
Mesos does now have early-stage support for persistent disks. See https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/docs/persistent-...

There's also technologies like flocker that will allow you do this with docker volumes (which can then be run inside mesos).

Both of these are in a pretty early stage of life, so there's some rough edges, but if you really need it, it's there.
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Limitless Energy
Really, so if your neighbor smokes pot in his home that's a safety issue for you? It's possible that as a result of policy changes we're arresting and keeping incarcerated more people who would have committed crimes, but at the same time we're likely keeping many people in prison who would likely not commit crimes. The aggregate loss of human freedom and productivity is pretty staggering for you to just wash your hands of the problem.
How you dress and how you present yourself definitely has an effect on how a person people perceives you. This is human nature and will never change.

If you are in a business suit and wearing a nice tie, regardless of skin color, you will be treated well.
And the other thing is the related factors that make them more or less likely to be caught or noticed by the law. There's counter examples I'm sure, but dealers who service more upper crust types (who in the US are more likely to be white) are frankly less likely to show up on the radar and less likely to have a dime dropped on them by a client who's bag was a little light. It's like streetwalkers vs escorts listed on TER vs companions that you'd need a gold clad personal introduction to even know they exist. The higher up the ladder you go, the more discrete all parties tend to be.
To run software with full rights of $HOME or similar, acess the network and manipulate PC contents without the user knowing about it.