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The reason this doesn't solve a problem is because it's an attempted technological solution to a non-technological problem.

If you're going to do business with someone, a certain amount of trust is required, and there isn't any working around that with technology. If you don't trust a vendor to refrain from stealing your credit card information, how can you trust them to actually deliver the goods, not spit in your food, honor the warranty, etc, etc? Alternatively, if you do trust them to do those things, trusting them with your credit card number isn't much of a leap, especially given that banks are actually incredibly efficient at identifying and dealing with fraud, if not preventing it outright.
>" It's not hard, it's not expensive and it's not a lot of work to maintain either"

Who wants to bet this guy is unwittingly hosting an open relay and sending spam?
It's a fun problem to think about, but I'm just going to use the date library because it's really easy to screw up.
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I think Daneel_'s point still holds true. Even though the convention in the US is that weeks start on Sunday, in natural language you can hear that people's mental model differ. For example

- "weekend" (that's "week end") includes both Saturday and Sunday

- "beginning of next week" means Monday/Tuesday

- "next week" in general seems to start on the Monday

So to me, the convention in the US seems to be more about how calendars are displayed than how we think about the week. Our two models disagree, so it's reasonable to ask why.
The immature part of me would have just done a massive url redirect to a competitor. I would say change the links on the page but that would probably get you in even more legal trouble.
> "LISTEN UP. 80% of you are building on these platforms. If you do not have a direct line to God at their HQs you ARE NOT TREATING THIS LIKE A BUSINESS. You will %(#)%#0 fail. If you are working with one of these companies, and you are not on that bus, you are dead to me."

This is why 90% of Silicon Valley Healthcare startups are ephemeral. They can't sell to Hospitals and they won't pay attention to the "dinosaurs" that try to tell them otherwise. There are some industries that you can't "disrupt" unless you're going to play by it's rules.
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The difference that springs immediately to mind is that holocaust denial is an idea, a concept, where movies and games are intellectual products not intended for free exchange. Apples and oranges.
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Nice demo. If one just needs a KV store, it's good that the engine that only does KV outperforms the more general engines ;) On top of all the engineering that goes into making LevelDB fast.
There is always a human that can make decisions and override policies. If you don't find one of these, get his or her contact, and take them out to dinner as often as possible you're a fool.

source: I worked for a company that had / was part of my job to talk to a dedicated adwords account manager. Even google has such a thing. They can ok stuff for you that virtually nobody else gets and, in the event it's later judged noncompliant with policy, forwarding that email chain makes things ok. It also ended up being part of my job to take him out drinking in sf.

Also, your api & backup api is dumb. There is no alternative to facebook. There is no serious alternative to adwords. There is no alternative to google search. For many things, there is virtually no other retailer on the internet that matters besides amazon. That's reality.
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Why can't it be both?

You're operating under a false dichotomy, and frankly, it's the type of misguided reasoning in the face of new evidence that leads to farces like the Scopes trial and decades of perceived conflict between science and humanity.
I apologize, I read the FBI part in another article and I can't seem to corroborate the claim that the FBI is involved. As such I am editing the title. Apologies for the sensationalism.

Edit: it would seem I can no longer edit the title.
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Leafblowers are vile. I would take plenty of drunks walking by at 2 AM over a horde of leafblowers at 7 AM.

I used to live in Santa Monica, and it was only upon leaving that I realized how utterly wonderful their leafblower ban was. Of course, the diesel pickups in the alley behind my apartment were less fun, but I guess you have to choose your battles.
> Harland Sanders next found work managing a Standard Oil service station in nearby Nicholasville. He made two cents profit per gallon of gasoline

That would be a pretty good deal in the present. Inflation seems to have increased the value of $0.02 in 1925 to $0.27 in 2016. For a busy station, during a busy period, if each pump is in actual use 50% of the time, and each pump is doing 5 gallons per minute (EPA restricts it to a maximum of 10 GPM[1]), that's 150 gallons an hour, and at $0.27 that's $40.50 an hour per pump. Not bad.

Although I'm sure there was much less gas being pumped back then, there were likely fewer pumps at a station, the pumps were probably slower, and it was much easier to offer a chunk of the profits because of less competition.

1: https://www3.epa.gov/otaq/regs/ld-hwy/evap/spitback.txt
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Actually, it is easy, if you had the foresight to put in versioning. Which they didn't.
500 inserts is way too small for a database benchmark. At that size point you're stressing the in-memory format of the database and not the actual IO performance. I'm guessing LevelDB just wins because it's considerably simpler and doesn't have to go through a schema layer - it's literally just a LSM tree.
Well, I would say that they might benefit from somebody reading things to them, or telling a story from a book, and if that doesn't work, I can guarantee that if it isn't reading there is definitely something that lights up this kids face, and maybe our role as adults is more to allow the child to explore what that might be than to force them to practice the skill of our choosing. And then you can show the kid how reading can be a doorway to that skill in turn.
wow. just. wow. https://www.abine.com/maskme/features/cards/
That is what they get for trying to fit in with the Europeans and whites. They remind me of the Asians in the US that try to hang out with the whites, black, etc... It is a sad sight.

That is why the Chinese in the US are doing much better than the Koreanas and the Nipponese. They are much stronger and don't need to fit in with the lesser cultures. The Koreanas and the Nipponese are just conquered Territories to the Americans. The US bombed and killed millions of civilians in their countries. No wonder they are depressed.
Or even: that's not a violation ... well then make it one!
> Free and open source software don't allow that sort of restriction. So while Rogaway's intentions are honorable, the results aren't coherent.

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but I don't think any interpretation is quite right.

* "No existing FOSS license limits military applications of its covered software." That's true, but Rogaway's license doesn't even limit military applications of covered software either.

* "If a FOSS license limited military applications of its covered software, it wouldn't qualify as a FOSS license." Also true, but Rogaway's license doesn't do that.

* "Some FOSS licenses try to make it hard to grant a patent to some of their users but not to all." Also true, but Rogaway's license probably doesn't do that (depending on how we interpret the part about "Software Implementation"), and not all licenses have this property.

* "If a patent grant is specific to a particular program, FOSS projects can't accept or rely on it as a matter of policy." Maybe true for some projects, but this concern comes up more regularly for copyright licensing rather than patent licensing, and not part of the definition of FOSS licensing, and Rogaway's license only refers to the licensing style rather than the identity of the program.

* "If a patent grant is specific to FOSS, then FOSS projects can't accept it as a matter of policy." I don't think this is true at all; I think many FOSS projects have been quite happy to rely on such licenses in the past and I think there are a number of precedents for them. (That doesn't mean that the developers or projects necessarily think that software should be patentable or that they should require a license in the first place.)

I agree with the observation that Rogaway's licensing terms have discouraged standards adoption of the technology, but I don't see how they would forbid individual free and open source projects from adopting it.

I think people may have been confused by the presence of alternative patent licenses; recall that license #1 requires only FOSS (not non-military), while license #2 requires only non-military (not FOSS). If license #1 would be sufficient for FOSS projects to benefit from in the absence of license #2, it should still be sufficient in the presence of license #2. (Edit: geofft also points out that the terms of the licenses have changed over time and that #1 used to be GPL-specific -- but I think my observations still apply in the case of GPL-covered projects.)
The Achievement Hunter guys call it "let's watch" when one of them plays the game and the others watch them play the game, and they all comment on it.
The SQLite numbers are not going to be realistic here given that "no SQLite transactions" are used and the write-ahead-log is probably not used. Assuming defaults are used, that means "PRAGMA synchronous=FULL" and "PRAGMA journal_mode=DELETE" (so no Write-Ahead-Log). This means every mutating statement is potentially going to result in multiple fsync() operations. See https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html for context.
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The Second Amendment isn't prepared for an army of nefarious wizards wielding deadly spells, either.

You can't "print drones" in any meaningful use of the word "print". Not now, probably not for decades. The solution to a fantasy threat using fictional technology is not to "gut the US constitution".
Ship camouflage, particularly "dazzle camouflage", is another example of a counterintuitive pattern at first making sense; see the first picture here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
But I don't want end to end encryption. Why are you forcing me to use encryption if I don't want it?

I'm getting a little annoyed by the folks demanding I do something I don't think is necessary. I'd rather have all the features Google gives me by not enabling end to end encryption, why must everyone have the highest possible level of security on every single thing they do?

You may think it's stupid, but I genuinely don't care if the government reads my emails (with a warrant), or if Google indexes them. I still fundamentally trust the government, and I believe that any incidental processing of my emails that the NSA might be doing is searching for what we currently consider to be terrorist activity. If the definition of "terrorist" shifts beyond reasonability, then my habits will shift as well, but we're not anywhere near that.
I guess I'm pretty often looking for purchase advice in a lot of the subreddits I frequent. Helpful to get advice from people with domain knowledge.
I gain not being affected by it. My buddy loves masacre horror movies. They used to scare him and freak him out, but now he's numb and it's just entertaining to watch someone get chopped up. Sure it's not real, but the effect it had on him was real. I can't say this for certain (though I need to test it now) but I'll bet I respond in a much different way to real world violence than he does now. Your mind is affected by what you put in just like your body is affected by what you put into it.
The issue is that we could have landed on syntax that was both more readable and allowed for elegant abstractions.
Homosexuality was once considered a psychiatric disorder. That alone tells you that it is a reflection of social norms, not objective truth, and therefore, inherently unscientific.

This is different from medicine (which also had an interesting past as it evolved) in that there's broad, objective consensus as to what's harmful and what's not, and its work is detailed and reproducible and there's few questions how the mechanisms of action work - infectious particles harm the body and cause disease, and there's no debate on that matter.

Whether or not psychiatry can help those who are a danger to themselves or others (answer: of course it can.. one way or another) is orthogonal to whether it's scientific or not.
SimCity also got rid of the bane of the US city, massive surface parking, because it made the game boring and the cities unappealing.

from http://humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-par...

"Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery store, which I don’t think of as being that big, I was blown away by how much more space was parking lot rather than actual store. That was kind of a problem, because we were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.

Manaugh: You would be making SimParkingLot, rather than SimCity."
I wrote an article about how my co-founder is pregnant and raising funding for our company, Sourcery. Investors are hesitant to bring up the issue in conversation for fear of coming off as an insensitive brute who questions a women's commitment to her company, but this is an important issue to address upfront. I try to lay out how we are preparing for this moment together.
Downvoting should come with a mandatory one-line explanation
I think it would be very valuable, if downvoting would only be possible if one at the same time writes a short explanation why they downvote.

The reason for an upvote is pretty obvious. The upvoted author usually explained his point.

But what is the meaning for a downvote? This info could be very valuable.

For example, today I posted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11361031

What do I learn from the downvotes it got? That my post was too unfriendly? That the facts are wrong? That people disagree in some other way?

I would really like to know.
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This fails for dates prior to adoption of the Gregorian calendar (~1582).
It would also be interesting to see a LevelDB vs SQLite comparison on Android, but there is some room to improve SQLite on ext4 (Journaling the Journal):

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc13/technical-sessions/p...

SQLite 4 is supposed to have a simplified K/V storage engine. That would probably be a more fair comparison.

(Hm, looking at LevelDB I don't see references to Android any more, maybe they dropped support?)
Or the data determines that they have to price outside the hypothetical early-release range, and then you have people complaining that you lied.
Doesn't it make sense to focus on contracts at a higher level of abstraction though? Wouldn't it be better to put the contracts at the level of the user rather than setting contracts for most/all of the functions in your code? If the mocked user input resulted in the correct output and there were no other side effects, wouldn't that be sufficient in many cases?
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>Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.
You don't vote on science. You vote to gauge degree of consensus.

Science would be a bunch of experts getting together, suggesting stuff, and systematically invalidating each incorrect suggestion with rigorously controlled experimentation until the remaining suggestions can be presumed to be correct at a certain degree of precision.
I mean to say, the compiler might see std::vector<a> and std::vector<b> as strictly separate types, but at their base/binary might be code that is identical (effectively std::vector<int>). I am imagining that the compiler would generate code for both, and not see the opportunity to deduplicate identical object code. Again, I suspect I am naive here.
Nice find. From some other quick research, if there is a violation, you have to report it to Visa via phone or mail.

Looks like they used to have an online form a several years ago, but it went missing. Various blog/forum posts indicate that most people have had no luck getting any sort of response from Visa via mail.
The info could be very valuable. Or it could be not valuable at all. It could be inflammatory. It could be dead wrong.

Remember, you are not your down votes. Or your up votes. Share the things you'd like to share. Hopefully, someone will appreciate it (whether they vote or not). Say the things you'd like to say. Be nice to people.
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Re 3): Ideally you'd run a linter before even getting to the code review step. Or via a CI that fails when the linter doesn't pass.
I thought that money raising is for people who put all their effort into making a fast-growing company and need money to make the growth even faster. It's about choosing not having a life in return for the possibility for creating a big company.

I have no problem with that person being a male or female. But I can't imagine any person (mom or dad) being able to put 15 hours a day to a company with the baby after the baby is born. That's the first thing the article should deal with.
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"But Amazon can..... In fairness, I believe all affiliate programs are like that."

My point is that most other companies are like that, and the difference is just the extent to which these parasitical "internet businesses" are coupled to their host.

They're not `keeping the money`, they're just not paying you stuff that's not covered by the contract, TOS etc.

It's not `without warning` by the same token; unless the warning they were expecting was to hear about other companies who play fast and loose with the rules getting caught first.
> then logistics and freight forwarding technologies have some catching up to do

Definitely, although an important question is whether they want to solve the problem and are able to solve the problem. (We still don't know how these package interdictions are done -- what induces the packages to be turned over to governments for tampering.)
Doesn't leveldb , kinda suck? Meaning every ~serious db doesn't use it or has created a fork of it ? or see the symas-lmdb benchmarks for many different usecases of different kv stores http://symas.com/mdb/#bench
http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7823/SMITH-DISSERTATION.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

As always, if something is correct, it's probably due to the good auspices of my advisor; if something's wrong, I've lost all sense of shame, long since.
Can you fundraise if you openly say that you have a time-intensive hobby that you will under no circumstances give up for working on your company?

Thanks to modern contraceptive methods getting pregnant is a choice. The same as doing a time-intense hobby. If you would not finance someone who openly says that he/she will not give up his/her time-intense hobby for the company, isn't this the same as not financing people who are pregnant?
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> Google as trustworthy as a nigirian scammer?

Google has been completely useless in protecting my data and emails.

Google has shared them with governments all over the place, including the US government and the NSA. Some parts obviously willingly, some parts out of negligence.

If Google can’t protect my emails from being read by any government, or being read by any employee or algorithm from Google that wishes to use my data for profiling, advertisements, or any other purpose that isn’t directly required to fulfill the tasks I gave it, then it is not doing what it’s supposed to do.

Also, accusing someone of being a tin foil hat wearer is just making you sound crazy in the post-snowden world.

Snowden has shown us proof that the NSA has had access to all the data from many US companies, including Google.

If you can prove otherwise, please do so – but currently, Google deserves no trust at all.
If the explanation is inflammatory, I have a much better feedback then from just a downvote. For example, an insult would tell me "Ok, it's probably not about the facts for this guy. Otherwise he would have stated the facts he objects to".
Have to admit this is pretty weird, but also genius.
This certainly falls under some people's personal preferences.
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If you think that enterprise hosted email customers want end-to-end encryption, you are seriously mislead. What most of the customers want more than anything is censorship and compliance, at delivery time. They want mails to be rejected if they have naughty words. They want viruses dropped. They want messages containing customer credit card numbers dropped.

Content analysis is the #1 feature required by enterprise email customers. They do _not_ want end-to-end encryption that would prevent content inspection by intermediaries. They do not want that at all.
A dog can be a smaller nuisance than many humans, though I do understand a concern about allergies.

That being said, I found it amusing that on a trip long ago to a German speaking place (I forget exactly; it may have been Munich?) where you had to buy a ticket for your dog, but it was at least half price.
There is no such thing as privacy in a surveillance state.
Well, there is a way: Share the whole network.

Then you combine all networks that others share with you into a new one, and use that yourself.

Continuous recombination and cross-breeding of networks is the idea.
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When you and a Google account manager go out to dinner, who picks up the tab?
I honestly think the entire idea of downvoting available only for selected users creates a mass conciousness manipulation tool. When some "authority" decides what's good and what's bad.

Why can't I use the downvote button? It either must be available to everyone, or not available at all.

And if you, HN founders, are afraid that newcomers can be smarter than you, then remove the ability to downvote altogether. Whoever dislikes a post, can just ignore it.

P.S. The entire user rating system here contradicts the resource name. Hackers do not believe in karma.
I think Popper's concept of Falsificationism is best put by Asimov in his essay The Relativity of Wrong [0]. The thesis is that Science never has the perfect model. Instead of directly arriving at The Truth, it continuously refines imperfect models by reducing error. In this view, the difference between "confirm" and "provide evidence for" is simply a matter of degree.

[0] http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
No, I'd certainly not compare a web service which nearly everyone uses - and for many is the only reason they have an internet connected device in the first place - with an encryption technology practically no-one uses.

Someone here suggested that "PGP isn't too hard - you just need to spend 30 minutes studying cryptography before you use it" which pretty much makes my case for me!