skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waste of effort, too?

As an air defense base, yes. As a FOB for non-wartime activities, no. As a defensible base in an all out war, yes.

That said, I can't imagine Diego Garcia's primary role is to act as a buffer/barrier so the two aren't really comparable in that way. After all, it has:

"two parallel 12,000-foot-long (3,700 m) runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep-water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the American or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a 1,340,000 barrels (213,000 m3) fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel."

Is this comparable to what the is being done by the Chinese?
Note that ZFS isn't magic. Even with ZFS's checksums on read, you should still be doing regular scrubs, just like you should be with LVM or btrfs. And once you have regular scrubs, checksums on read don't really add much.
That's only during wartime though. At present it is purely a show of force and a way to prevent the US advising "their" airspace.

If they do want to sell a couple to Turkey, then a US plane being "accidentally" being downed by one due to operator error, would make for a good advertisement. I'm such a cynic.
> Has anyone seen a way to disable this feature at a repo or org level?

Don't hand out commit rights to people?
"vertical" might be the douchiest corporate speak word I know of.
Actually, the space filling curve in the first video is called Peano Curve, not Hilbert Curve: see https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curva_di_Peano
Ah yes, I just looked quickly without reading the raw. Shoud have read the raw before writing non sense.
Prof. Steven Pinker: The Past, Present, and Future of Violence
It's not uncommon with distributed storage to err one way or another, because you have to store large amounts of data and metadata. Designing a system that does both extremely well is non-trivial. You can optimize to store a few very large files or many very small files, but doing both while scaling reliably is harder than you might think.
Indeed, it might be titled "UT Austin decides it doesn't want to lose a lawsuit", like the University of Colorado Board of Regents did in 2012.
Solving the Meta Problem
So you're saying Enron is a buy?
He's not wrong, but the FBI is mostly seeking to set a precedent. Anyone that thinks otherwise should read into the topic more and look at the last 6 months of FBI public relations efforts
Does it bother anyone else that the colored boxes on the campaign results page seem to have random widths?

That combined with the text-as-images make the whole experience rather disconcerting. I understand she's not a designer, but as a marketer her presentation needs to be polished. As it is, the visual mistakes undermine the content.
I gave a talk on delivering Rails apps behind corporate firewalls at Railsconf'2015[0], but have since migrated Coveralls Enterprise[1] from our home-baked, pre-packaged VM to Replicated.com[2]

I'd recommend checking them out too since they're Docker based and have a significant roster: Travis, NPM, Code Climate, etc.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6e_A9VzPy8

[1]: https://enterprise.coveralls.io

[2]: https://www.replicated.com
Lead and Crime: It Happened in Australia Too
TensorFlow + TensorFlow Serving + Google ReCeption model plus optionally a SVN on ReCeption features for your custom detection. All that code and the pretrained model is Open Source. There's some engineering to glue it together and some extra work for the easier, non-image classification parts.

There is also http://www.deepdetect.com
Draining the meeting bogs and how not to suffer from email overload
The F117s are quietly gathering dust in Nevada

It can't operate from a carrier though
I stopped using varnish because, after all, my site is just a blog and Nginx is just fine for my needs. It has a single backend server, so there's no load-balancing. Basically, I was already using Nginx to serve static files, and my caching logic was so simple it was actually easier to move it into Nginx.
Pretty much all Android devices fit this profile. Even the new encryption-by-default policy announced by Google was only initially applied to Nexus devices, even up until last year. Other vendors may have adopted it more recently but they originally failed to publicize this subtext. The issue apparently was most devices didn't have proper crypto hardware acceleration so it couldn't be applied uniformly across all vendors and only Nexus devices were automatically encrypted post OS install. Hopefully that has changed with newer devices.

Regarding specific hardware tied to a device cryptographically, I'm on the fence about this. This is similar to signing-keys used with kernel modules which is still widely used in Windows.

On HN people have speculated that having a manual 'switch' to toggle on the motherboard for doing firmware updates. So the device can't be tampered with remotely. That seems ideal for that threat model.

But I personally don't see a problem with what Apple is doing here even though it's with physical access. Primarily considering the product is an iPhone which is generally sold as an all-encompassing product/service by Apple. It's not a linux-y customizable device. So having the additional security via hardware locked to the Secure Enclave is a value-add if you're going the proprietary route. Apple's customer service is usually quite good, so that's not a significant barrier. There are other options on the market if you want cheap 3rd-party repairs.
Gotcha, so I then worry about a 0 ;)
How to Properly Apply Gestalt Principles to Web Design (with Examples)
Github pages is now the right way to set up a reasonably-smart-n00b-editable website, IMO.
Google's Internet balloon 'crashes' in Sri Lanka test flight
Indeed, internal communication is often treated differently. Even at my company we primarily use ZeroMQ between microservices, because it's fast and our (small) team understands it.

The movement behind the HTTP ecosystem is undeniable though, and the common practices for public APIs are moving internally. You might check out an API conference or meetup sometime to see what I mean (not that any of us are obligated to follow this trend; I'm just bringing it to light).
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As a 3 time early employee of a YC funded startup I'm going to go ahead and say that the first customers benefit is as much a problem as a benefit because it presents the illusion of having a viable business. A lot of early customers only joined because of my startup's ties to YC and it always hid a problem with acquiring new customers. In 2 out of 3 experiences it took years of our lives wasted to figure out that the company couldn't be a success all the while trying to replicate whatever growth we had initially when that really was just from that first YC based TC article.

Basically you need to know if you can be viable without YC before you want get those early YC customers because eventually you're going to need customers that come to you who don't know what YC is.
> Sure, I might be able to stop 80% of them but the US can build basically unlimited quantities of them in a serious war.

I'm not sure a U.S./Chinese war that came down to raw industrial production capacity would be as favorable a scenario for the U.S. in (say) 2020 as it would have been in 1990...
Who is the biggest Western trading partner in the region?
Animal Cruelty Videos Impact Study
> I seriously can't think of a job that Python does best.

For me personally it is the best choice for non-throwaway shell scripting once the scripts becomes more complex and/or long lived than a sequence of shell commands.

Python is part of the base install of just about every mainstream Linux distro, so in that regard its only real competitor is Perl.
$5 trillion a year in cargo passes through.
It's not just some markets and some people. They're a VC backed multinational that moves into markets and offers big discounts over local businesses. They are getting a taste of their own medicine with an improved flavour.
Does something like this exist for sound? Any open source projects worth looking at?
Certificate pinning is easy to defeat.
Apparently OTA updates don't suffer from this, so you could try soft-restoring your device (there's a Cydia tweak for that), then doing the OTA update to 9.x.
Won't happen, and the Supreme Court will shut it down. Check Congressman Tim Lieu's post on just this; it's really interesting.
Doing Mathematics Differently
If there is, I'm totally starting my audiolytics business!
Cool piece.

Do you have anymore about the RAF's cold-war Harrier plans?
Maybe for a Hacker News n00b, but a garden variety n00b has not heard of Markdown, YAML, or, for that matter, GitHub. They're going to keep using WordPress, Tumblr and Squarespace.
Works on some of my private repo's. It's being rolled out probably.
the bump in valuation you get is bigger than the 7% slice of the pie YC takes.

People often seem to get too hung up on what percent they own. While you should pay attention to this, it's more valuable to direct your effort toward how big you can make the pie.
BTRFS is still not mature, and there's a license incompatibility as well. And it's controlled by Oracle all the same. If Apple replaces the filesystem they'll likely roll their own.
> Few years back Cornell University adopted Gmail for their staff and faculty under the condition that the company wouldn't data-mine the emails. Google did anyway. Now we use Outlook.

is this site[1] old then? Sounds like they have a very explicit privacy agreement[2], which isn't surprising...Cornell isn't a small school.

(according to the wayback machine, the privacy section in [2] has been in place unchanged since February 2012)

[1] http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/cmail/index.cfm

[2] http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/cmail/faq.cfm#privacy
War is Boring had an interesting article last year basically making the same argument, that the way for the U.S. to win a war with China would be to focus on disrupting its maritime supply lines: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/to-defeat-china-in-a-confli...
How is this different from using Duplicity with a PGP key and throwing it to S3/B2?
Also, at the end they have you attest that you actually did the training under penalty of perjury. Zenefits instructed their employees to lie instead.
By re-enable your device, I meant also re-enabling TouchID (basically saying I trust the new piece of hardware as an auth. method), which this update doesn't do.
That's right, I forgot, btrfs began as an Oracle project didn't it?
True, but if you replay all events that lead to a certain state, you will end up in the same state. Of course, you will need to make wrappers around certain system functions, e.g. the clock, etc.
They could do this for free by running Puppy Linux. I use it daily on my 10-year old laptop. It's Ubuntu-based and runs completely from RAM. My hard drive inside this laptop is dead but it takes about 18 seconds to boot from a USB2 flash drive.
> Or maybe it will help them develop autonomous vehicles in some way (having already been operating a delivery service for a while might be helpful when they start rolling out new tech).

They've been operating a delivery service since 2013; this is an increase in the scope of kinds of products it includes (which brings it better in line with its Amazon competition.)
What Kayksaakian said. It was bad reasons (as opposed to good reasons) for applying. :-)

I have tons of respect for the people who make it through the process, and drop everything to try and start something great.
>The American strategy for air superiority, not just with the F-35 but also with the F-22 and other modern aircraft, is based on two fundamental technologies. The first is “stealth“: using technology to help our planes to evade detection by radar. The second is “BVR”...

While the F-35 does rely entirely on stealth, the ATF program that gave birth to the F-22 emphasized both stealth and extreme performance. High speed and high altitude complement stealth by reducing the adversary's reaction time while increasing the reach of one's own weapons.
This is indeed double sided as most ideas will take years to fully flesh out. Not everything works out immediately. So while not pivoting is a risk, I believe it's equally risky to give up to early before fully testing your product in the marketplace. I find most startups are willing to abandon products before they launched to a real audience and/or due to negative feedback from industry insiders (people in the tech bubble).

Steve Blank always spoke about testing technology in markets and using that as the feedback loop. But I've worked with and also heard of stories of founders pivoting before they get to that point or after only testing a small subset of the market.
I find it amazing at the untold strength in parents like these. Just ordinary folks who somehow find a way to keep on trying and pushing and doing their best when faced with unimaginable challenges.

They fall and get up and keep going.

Makes so many other problems many of us have to face really seem more like "problems".
thanks! I've never seen this particular one at my local stores but I'll keep an eye out. Theoretically "Tuscan Bread" should also be made with no added salt, but it's also not easy to find, and I wouldn't trust it anyways unless I knew the baker personally
They are essentially doing that right now with soccer interestingly enough
Simple question then: Does anyone run a fund based on regression to the mean for quarterly performance?
the bump in valuation you get is bigger than the 7% slice of the pie YC takes

Not sure if that's true anymore.

People often seem to get too hung up on what percent they own. While you should pay attention to this, it's more valuable to direct your effort toward how big you can make the pie.

Agreed and I tell friends that all the time. It's orthogonal to the point I'm making.
Agreed, turning on more safety features will always make you... safer :)

But it's worth noting that I've debugged corruptions in prod systems where:

- corrupted data was read from disk -- a bit flip, with no error code at the time -- by an application

- the application operated on it

- and the application then wrote the result -- still carrying the bit flip -- back to a new file on disk.

Ouch. The bitflip is now baked in and even looks like a legit block as far as the disk is concerned. The disk failed not long after, of course -- SMART status caught up, etc. But that was days later.

Checksums on read address this. I never want to run a system without them again.
If you're logged in, there's a "Vote for this issue" link next to the number of votes in the info box at the top of the issue. (The UI will strongly discourage "+1" comments unless they have something else to say.)
Here's the data, please:

http://gisha.org/graph/2387

"Completely isolated from the outside world"? Not even close. 3000 truckloads a week. And growing.

> Now, if Egypt's crossing is closed, do you think Israel would keep theirs open? Hmm.

You seem to imply something here; as if Egypt-Gaza relations should be expected to better than Israel-Gaza. Why?

> 1 million+ citizens in a confined space.

Yeah, this is called a "country". Exactly what Hamas is, if you believe it, wants. And this "barrier" would be called a "border" then. You know, like countries have.
Way to spoil the fun with thoughtful and pertinent comments.
Ingram Micro to Be Bought by Tianjin Tianhai for $6B
Last funding raise was something like $2.1B. I suspected uber's burn rate was high but this implies that they're going to be hitting some hard liquidity issues within the next 18 months if they can't perpetually raise capital.
If you've already pre labeled yourself as a "hater of X" they you're throwing away your ability to create new opinions and judgements when situations change.

This is not a healthy mentality to have about anything.
If I remember correctly, I think it was this one

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Laser-Phaser-Working-Projects/dp...
Dont worry, apple maps will navigate all my my detractors into the ocean soon enough
Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
http://clarify.io/
Naively it seems weird since metadata is just data, right? So if you can store a large amount of data in a file, you should be able to store the metadata

But I don't know shit about filesystem design, soooooo...
Is there any website where can I just upload a pic and see how it works without trying to figure out how to access their API?
Precisely correct and more eloquent than my own thoughts on the matter. Thank you for being more civil than I. :)
I think we need more detail here concerning how sensors would get provisioned and (especially) de-provisioned. Also aren't many sensors on battery power? If so, battery failure mustn't trip the system-wide alarm.

The DOS with a jammer seems like less of an issue. Sure it's a fun prank, but police seem to respond aggressively to that sort of prank.
Hi, I'm the developer of this AWS Lambda function. It is only intended to be used with the Stripe Checkout payment flow. There is no actual credit card data passed to AWS, simply a token (again, obtained from the Stripe Checkout widget). The use of AWS Lambda is for protecting one's secret key in a serverless environment, e.g., static website or mobile app. Thanks for your feedback!
Deploying missiles onto land that everyone agrees you own is one thing. Deploying missiles onto land that other people think they own, which could fire on planes flying over more land people disagree about, is clearly a different situation.

That said, I agree that the media under-reports provocative actions by groups we like.
My guess on this situation... You have a group of people sitting around the table saying, "If we do nothing, the value of the company goes to zero. We have to do something visible and credible." Conrad had to agree to jumping on his sword - as the largest shareholder, he has the most to lose if the company goes under. So he jumps on the sword, and lets everyone kick him while he's down, because it increases the likelihood that the company survives.

I have no real information though, so for all I know he could have been stabbed in the back instead.
Right now China faces an interesting social problem -- their population includes millions of military-age men who are demographically doomed to remain single.

Unfortunately, from their leadership's perspective, that means that the lives of those young men are cheap disposable resources. If the Chinese want to become belligerent, expansionistic players on the world stage, right now's the best shot at it they'll ever have.
Brave Entertainments: On Samuel Pepys
The CEO of your company is a paid sociopath. I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course, but it is literally their actual job description to place the interests of a soulless legal fiction over the needs and desires of living, breathing, human beings with actual feelings. He or she probably isn’t inherently evil. But if they can find a way to make the company 100% more profitable by firing you, they have to do it. That is exactly what their job is.

- http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs
is different from passing a multiple choice exam

Some of the classes did just have multiple choice tests that would have been easy enough to 'Cliff'. Though it's not really relevant to larger discourse.

That still doesn't change the facts of the original situation. The test is the determining factor of whether or not they 'completed' the course. Indeed, someone who 'Cliff'ed the notes, and passed the test, and watched Netflix on a second screen while pushing all of the right buttons would still be accepted. Which is the ultimate failure here. Either the time limit is necessary and can't be skipped (due to the physical limitations of some inherent process), or the time limit is artificial and the actual possession of knowledge is sufficient.

Who is served by putting an artificial time limit in place that does not actually prove knowledge of the material?
Is there anything you could do to get yourself some extra peace of mind?

When writing software, I almost always reach first for Erlang these days—not because it's the most performant platform, but because it allows for an architecture where individual Erlang processes (tasklets/green threads) can crash and be restarted producing only events in a log that I can debug at my leisure, rather than waking me up at 3AM to fight a fire.

If I were a CEO (and I have been, but only as a single founder, so I've never felt that "others depend on me to not go hungry" feeling), I'd be looking for similar wins in that dimension: fault-tolerant strategies allowing me to know that nobody's going to go hungry because of one mistaken assumption, so that I can sleep at night.

If I was doing consulting, I'd try to productize it; if I had a product, I'd try to sell it to enterprises; if I had enterprise customers, I'd try to get them on a yearly pre-payment schedule; if I was in one vertical, I'd try to "clone" my product for other verticals with their own brands and marketing; etc.

Are you looking for these? Or are you prioritizing growth: trying to, effectively, sprint for three years, rather than figuring out how to run a marathon?
Not necessarily true, just look at soccer in China in the past two weeks. Just buy all the Lebron's until you figure out the template and can mass produce it.
Missiles are ~$1.5-2 million for the top end for this role.

They are substantially cheaper than even China can build amphibious transport ships for, let alone the munitions & troops they'd carry.

Even China's manufacturing capacity isn't enough to handle the massive cost difference of a transport vs. sinking it.
This is not Apple's policy (as they informed me).
Once a device has been compromised in any way, they will no longer touch it. If you want it repaired, you either go through a 3rd party repairer or you get it replaced under insurance.
Also, Apple don't sell Authorised parts and I could not find anyone that provided genuine OEM parts.
How to get the YouTube thumbnail preview image from a video
We'll either purchase it or look for someone with access :) The crowdsourcing certainly helps!
Is the best way of sending an image still base64 encoding it in JSON?
Perhaps better a better question is why you were using Varnish in the first place?

I'm genuinely curious because I've never stood up Varnish before so maybe there's an anti-pattern / gotcha to learn from.
Nutritionists will never find out that, because it's not their job. They simply recite memorized mantra.

However, some scientists have been creating a mathematical model that should be able to predict the best diet for a particular person, given that the microbes in said person's guts are analysed first.

You can read about it here:
http://www.sciencealert.com/your-gut-bacteria-determines-whi...
And it states:

>>No. Google doesn’t assume ownership of any customer data in Google Apps for Education core services, and it says so in our contracts (under “Intellectual Property”).<<
Regression to the mean historical growth of X%, then.
There's a song that was made with the intent to bring this kind of issue closer to people, and it's approved by her parents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q4ZR_Bye_4
Affectiva offers SDKs for facial expression and emotion analysis from images that work in realtime and offline without having to send images to the cloud.

http://developer.affectiva.com

disclamer: I work for them.
Thank you, its much appreciated.
If 'best' means most compatible with varying types of systems large and small, then yes.