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I find this to be an interesting comment. Most politely, may I inquire what the 'average HN reader' is?

I find the (so it seems to me, anyway) diversity on HN to be a huge part of the appeal in reading comments.

Thoughts?
The real problem here is no value is being produced. Nothing to do with unions.
I guess all the other huge venture-funded tech companies made the same mistake?
I guess we're just going to have to disagree.
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I know it's important to do tests, but I can't help but feel the people doing this were assholes.
> Thats only one type of credit card fraud.

It's also only one type of bad act. Yet no others exist for which IP blacklisting is the only possible solution.

> There's fraud against digital goods and gift cards.

So treat gift cards as passthrough. Don't ship something to Nigeria if it was paid for with a gift card purchased with a credit card with a billing address in NYC.

And the idea that any meaningful number of people are going to use stolen credit cards to buy digital goods instead of just torrenting them is ridiculous.

> You don't have the right to use any ecommerce site while using TOR much like you don't have the right to walk into a bank with a ski mask on and get service.

Yet I can use an ATM or online banking while wearing a ski mask or using coffee house wifi with no trouble at all for either me or the bank, because we know how to solve that problem and it doesn't require IP blacklisting.
TLDR; H4H, in an effort to grow their public profile, took a federal grant to develop affordable housing in an ill-suited neighborhood with low vacancy rates which in turn forced them to acquire properties from a shady landlord who may have illegally pressured tenants to vacate. Pressure to meet the grant requirements led to disregard of objections raised by concerned parties within the group.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never understood the point of cleaning up commit history. The only time I ever look at commit history past a few days is if I want to know when something broke (in which case I WANT every part of the history, even the messy bits), or if I'm trying to refresh my memory of what I've done for the year (for performance reviews or whatever) in which case I guess it's marginally useful, but it's pretty easy to skim over "fix build" and such.
> That assumes people will accurately self-assess and honestly report their body types. And...you'd be very surprised at how few people can do that.

I don't think that matters in this case. Even if I am way off in my self-assessed body type, and so look for a ripped Hercules of a model when deciding which fit variation to order instead of the Homer Simpson model that I should be looking for...I'm likely to pick a ripped Hercules that matches my race. So, if the fit variation options are just for choosing the value of that parameter that the race question currently answers, it should work the same for most people.
So one of the patients managed to write a paper about her experience. Four pages, took months to write. That is a huge achievement...

... and yet it is behind a paywall. I'd be fine with it if I knew that, by paying, I would support her. But I'm guessing this is not the case.
Squash isn't for linear history. That's the rebase vs merge-master-downstream debate. Squash is for getting your wip commits out of history, that kind of thing.
> WUWT has no authority because nobody on this site is a climate scientist

In other words, you would rather argue from authority than look at the actual substance. Thank you for making your position clear.

> You didn't quoted anything from the IPCC

The article I linked to had direct quotes from the IPCC AR5.

> Still waiting one of those articles from climate scientists

Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer, to name just two, are climate scientists and have written skeptical papers. But there's nothing magical about the label "climate scientist" that makes what they say correct. You have to look at the actual substance. But you've already indicated you don't want to do that, so I guess we'll just have to disagree.
> Granted, it's artificial to the point of absurdity in this case, but the point is made.

That was what I was pointing out. Unfortunately it was before I had finished the article, otherwise my approach would have been different. Mea culpa.

> In real cases, we often have incomplete or obscuring documentation, and draw conclusions from that. The addition of another perspective can radically change our perception of an encounter.

And that's a really good point, and good on you for making it. The article got stronger as it went on, I juts thought it was pretty shaky in the beginning, because of that first video and how contrived it feels. Granted, I can see it may be problematic to show that situation well while including sound, but that it is possible for it to happen (large crowds, heavy traffic, malfunction, etc). I'm not sure if that calls for a different example, moving it from the first example to a later one, or both, but I think that would make for a stronger start.

As an aside, while it's a bit outside the scope of your article, I think it's very important that all the different perspectives (including participant accounts) be gathered before they've had a chance to see/hear/read others. That one participant describes the experience very differently than others is very important, and can convey a few different things. For example, beyond purposefully misconstruing events, it may just be that the state of mind (terror) of one of the participants kept them from acting rationally. That's information that may be lost if people are allowed to review other sources before giving a statement.
>Baqqer

This may be the first time I've liked a Web 2.0-style name like that :-) - since Web 2 started in 2006-odd.

I kid you not.
Yup. Happy user of Gerrit here. :)
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I guess you could say the kik was the result of a knee jerk reaction.
In the late 1970s, I worked at a small company called Aph. They did contract work developing single board computers. I did a couple myself. They built all their own tools, software, assemblers, etc., all of which were first class. One employee (the famous Hal Finney) even wrote a Basic interpreter in assembler.

In fact, they had everything they needed to build a consumer computer. It was all better than what Apple had.

The thing we lacked was vision. We coulda been billionaires! We lacked a Steve Jobs.
Lol...so true ;)
Do any VCSs have a notion of a commit of commits? If you could group a series of sequential commits into one commit on trunk it seems like you could have the best of both worlds: an overarching commit for your change and a series of how the sausage got made.
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Spying on Americans is unconstitutional but that doesn't stop this criminal government from doing it.
Something about visiting the page seems to knock my Android phone off of Verizon's data network for a short period.
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I worked on these cars this summer at GM. I can't say what model of camera sensors we used for obvious reasons, but the resolution and framerate were not too far off from what Mobileye has in that paper!
um, I was just yelled at for using a jepordy reference on hackernews! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11401408
Are you doing a startup?
There is no sham bigger than affordable housing. While ordinary folks have certain notions about what is a "housing" and what is "affordable" in government world these are terms that a defined in ways we cant comprehend.

Town admin demolished homeless shelter in Sunnyvale to build affordable housing. So many homeless people then had to find shelter in the parks. My friends who make north of 100K a year are in affordable housing units across the city. Staying in $700 p.m. for 2 bedroom apartments with utilities paid. The trick was to show "evidence of being" poor.

In short more needy people on street while the better off people live even better.
If you are using git as a distributed version control system, squashing makes complete sense. If you are using it in a master/slave sense, and are not allowed to commit locally, then yes, squashing doesn't make any sense.
So background checks for "drones"?
Thanks for posting - very interesting read for someone thinking of moving due to, well, changing times...
Ancient site spotted from space rewrites history of Vikings in North America
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A lot of folks are saying that companies don't have to raise money in the public markets. Yes, that's true, but...

I'm skeptical. Simply put, the liquidity that comes with the public markets is a huge advantage - IF your company has its financial act together, otherwise, the scrutiny offsets the liquidity advantage.

The history of financial markets is littered with examples where secrecy leads to wild overvaluations at best and fraud at worst.

Instead of hypothesizing that we've entered a magical golden era where private markets provide all the financing but never require exits, it makes more sense to assume there is an epic amount of confusion, misguided expectations, and in some cases outright fraud. Every single financial cycle in history has witnessed these behaviors. Every. Single. One. Today's Silicon Valley is no different.

In short, for all these great companies out there... How do you really know how they're doing financially? Do they even know how they're doing? Where's the evidence? Without audited books in compliance with GAAP, who can tell?
New Google Adwords UI Uses Dart
This could easily be done with about 15 lines of plain JS. No 130kb of React needed.

Edit: Why are you using Websockets? It doesn't live update over here.
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Why on earth would they do anything so complicated?

Gazillion shipping containers arrive every day and aren't inspected - too busy using resources for security theater at the airport where the people can see.
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I remember 6502 assembly fondly, so easy to learn and remember, but so full of tricks you had to learn as well.
The vacant lots on which new homes were built probably qualified as "open space". Even so, this is not a proud moment for Habitat.
But so does squashing, which is one of a handful of reasons I hate most uses of squashing.

Only squash when it removes bug that only ever existed on your machine. Everything else should be recorded in the history. Forensics are important to the long term health of your project and you impoverish yourselves by scrubbing the crime scene.
>planning to use a drone to distribute the material.

lol? Correct me if I'm wrong but drones don't exactly have good carrying capacity. Don't see them carrying a heavy amazon package let alone a dirty bomb.
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In CA, state law offers a bit of protection (on your own time, no company equipment, unrelated to company business) but still, following nostrademons' advice is probably best. I know of two ycombinator startups sued by founders' former employers just off the top of my head: adgrok by murthy nukala, who appears to be a complete dick; shred video by smule.
Can you post a source for that? I haven't heard anything to that extent.
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This is wild speculation at best. If anything, Jetbrains seem to be extremely resistant to being absorbed by larger entities.
Frankly I'm not surprised. Europe really seems to be in deep trouble from rising religious and racial tensions, slowing economy and lack of security. I would indeed emigrate if I had the cash and a wife that wasn't completely numb to what goes on in the world.
It seems to me the title chosen by the Bloomberg author just selected the most interesting part of the article, I don't see it as inaccurate. Why do you consider that a click-bait?
I agree 100%. It has gotten easier to turn a side project into a business.

My take is that it has gotten easier enough that fewer folks are pursuing VC, opting to bootstrap instead. It's not that fewer side projects are happening - more side projects are happening. Fewer of them need VC money to succeed/scale/generate meaningful revenue, so VCs are seeing fewer side projects.
Strange my numbers vary from yours. In their latest commit the minified content in their dist is 9.3kb as is and 3.2kb after gzip

https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash/blob/3cb498ca7c5776b8cadc...

curl https://rawgit.com/kenwheeler/cash/3cb498ca7c5776b8cadcce588... | wc -c # 9282

curl https://rawgit.com/kenwheeler/cash/3cb498ca7c5776b8cadcce588... | gzip | wc -c # 3225
No but I (and I suspect lots of former .net devs) am watching closely.

I'd really like to have true first class C# support on Linux.

Never really gotten on with Java so a lot of our backend stuff is in Python and PHP.
In which ways this is better than Zepto? What features would made me choose cash instead of an already well tested and hardened library which is slightly bigger (around 9kb minified and gz)?
Well, colour me surprised it is, that's awesome.
I'd say the popularity of sitcoms (in the US at least) proves that comedy scales pretty well as long as you don't stray from the formula. (Bump, set, spike!)
Oh god no. I made the mistake of moving a team to squashed commits once. The lack of individual commits poses large problems down the line. 2 nonstarters come to mind:

1: Completely ruin your ability to git bisect any bug injected in your branch. Instead of getting a 10 line commit, bisect will point you to hundreds or thousands of lines instead.

2: All code will blame to a single person. Code with 6 people on a large branch? Want to git blame the code to see who wrote the function that is weird looking so you can ask questions? Too bad.

Do not squash branches on teams. One of the biggest mistakes of my professional career.
a) Not all drones are small:

https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/obama-ad...

b) Even small amounts of radioactive material spread over some city area would probably cause blockades of that part of the city. It's also something that disrupts the life and work there. The Belgian airport remained closed for days after the attack.
To me this concept seems like https://flattr.com/ with bitcoin.

Flattr is stagnant at best, maybe Brave will do better though.
The Mikado method is sadly underemphasized.

Just because you smash away at code for hours doesn't mean that's how your commit history should look. You can revise history in ways that are beneficial instead of destructive.
> you trying to push this conversation towards it's extreme, absurd ends

I would remind you that you are the one introducing morally charged terms like "lying" when describing rebasing. The fact that you cannot conceded even that those who disagree with you are at least morally good actors is the source of the extremism in this conversation.

I would encourage you to seek hard to understand how it could be that morally good people still conclude that rewriting project commit history is a desirable thing, rather than concluding that they're engaged in self/external deception. At the very least, your conversations about the topic will become more productive.
Thanks for the nice demonstration. Looks like the speed test is running of a very random source image that might not be yours. If it isn't, you might want to look at hosting your own image for it.
Those are limitations of most drones today. At CES this year a drone that can carry a person for 30 minutes had its debut -

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/first-pass...

There's videos of radio controlled model jets on youtube that look pretty competent too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ9dSrrBN28
I've been seriously contemplating it for about a year now: is it the time to abandon Europe and find new life elsewhere? Asking for the honest HN opinion, is the old continent already the sinking ship? On one hand it is comforting to consider that there is ~1000 years of history of civilized Europe behind us, with rich culture, the discovery and development of science and, in general, prosperity. On the other, it took less than a century for the Western Roman Empire to collapse.
I disagree with the suggestion that Perl is not built with a consistent philosophy. That philosophy isn't "build from a minimal set of orthogonal features", but it's a coherent design philosophy:

http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/01-perl-ph...

Many (but not all) of the questionable decisions in Perl come from its origins in Unix philosophy and the desire to provide a comfortable migration path for system administrators away from command-line tools such as awk and shell. Where Perl's struggled in recent years to borrow features from Rakudo, it's because those features assume a different underlying philosophy.
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Does it have to, though?

Look at what 93 grams did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

> The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, at Goiânia, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, after an old radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 were found to have significant levels of radioactive material in or on their bodies.[1][2]

In the cleanup operation, topsoil had to be removed from several sites, and several houses were demolished. All the objects from within those houses were removed and examined. Time magazine has identified the accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters" and the International Atomic Energy Agency called it "one of the world's worst radiological incidents
The CU decision was over a bunch of people who made a movie that was critical of a political candidate, and paid a TV station to air that movie not long before the election. Congress had restricted spending on political advertising and it was this restriction that CU overturned. You're arguing that the cornerstone of democracy is the ability of the wealthiest to spend unlimited amounts on propaganda to convince citizens that they should vote for the candidates that benefit the wealthy the most.
I thought this was the one day I could have a sense of juvenile humor... let the downvote onslaught continue!
I agree it's not implausible, and I think they'd be remiss to not consider the possibilities in regards to using new tech in this manner. However I don't necessairly see it opening many new possibilities.

Sure a drone changes the method somewhat. But replace dark web with cash/corrupt state, and drone with small dirty bombs, and people have been talking about similar scenarios for decades.
Terrible headline, they blocked it because they were given the ability to _conduct_ surveillance.
Time is almost up to submit comments on DMCA Notice and Takedown procedure
Been on a jury with video evidence. You watch the entire video, even if nothing is happening, if one of the lawyers requests it. Selective clips are frowned upon, at least in my experience.
They can compel people to lie already with the NSL - it just depends on how the question is phrased. "Removing a warrant canary" is no different to staging a question from someone that is "Say 'no comment' if you've received an NSL". In both cases, the absence of a response has been set up to convey the forbidden information.
that's crazy. i knew about the adult industry use of VR but this part never occured to me.
What kind of help do you accept? Genuinely interested.
Here's a HN discussion about that site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539390
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DuckDuckGo crossed 10M daily direct queries threshold last June and has been growing albeit at a slower rate.

http://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/e8635882/11/
a few things that had been running reliably for a couple years in his stack

They stopped running reliably several years ago and I stopped caring.
I downloaded their cdn version: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/cash/1.0.0/cash.min.js
I don't think that's so bad: if you love photography you're likely to get at least some enjoyment from some of the other things on that list, like photo editing and messing with photo gear. And even if it's dull work you can console yourself that it's part of being a photographer, as opposed to just having to console yourself that you have your family, golf or a stiff drink waiting for you once you're finished for the day.
> Go's pragmatic decision not to have exceptions

Um, what problems do exceptions introduce that panics don't?
I'm just gonna leave these here...

https://www.fastmail.com
And a criminal check if you want the money. I'm sure China would pay more than 150k as well, probably no background check needed!
No need to add 10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and a few others...
Social security numbers?! Who the hell implemented it like THAT?

3D Secure redirects to the bank's site (not in an iframe! a real window with a visible address bar) where you enter a one-time code from SMS!
Depends on what one calls a "drone". Two reasonably small RC helis can lift a full person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77uK19KxMuI