skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noted, but I was more looking at the size of the Boeing and Airbus facilities. (Hoping my math is right) At 5.8 million sq ft it should have a footprint of 540,000 m^2, which would top that list.
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> Do you have reason to think they wouldn't be representative?

The fact that they are demonstrably not representative of the general population by age, income, education, or, really, just about any other variable that has been studied makes it very unlikely that they'd be, except coincidentally, representative as far as purchasing patterns for any particular good for which a variety of options exists (unless its a good purchases nearly exclusively by college students, but that's clearly not the case here.)
Curious, I can understand not liking him for supporting/speaking at an organization you dislike, but what's wrong with the idea of population control?

So many of our problems could be fixed by limiting the population of the human race. To be clear, I'm not proposing a solution for doing so nor am I saying the ends would justify the means for how this is reached. However can you not agree that climate change, pollution, resource shortages, etc are caused by having too many people on this planet? This is especially true if people in first-world countries want to continue their lives of excess.

The only reason to keep growing in population is to add fuel to the economic fire, so to speak. This is not a sustainable trend though.
Not only that, in Germany you have universal health care, while in California (or anywhere else in the US) you will be uninsured (you can still be treated in the ER of any hospital, but that's not going to help in preventative situations).
It's legit. They're working with Neil to get some GFM funds released ASAP. He had a paypal set up , and I donated, but Paypal has frozen his funds for 30 days (nice).
It's free money for them. If someone wants to experiment on me by giving me free money, have at it.
The only time I've seen people use OneDrive is when they needed to transfer a large amount of data for free. I'd imagine they just attracted the wrong type of customers by making the biggest offering. And this is them trying to cut out the fat.
Obviously it is not line-oriented. So the selling points are? 1. custom delimiters 2. special syntax for fallback values 3. extended regular expression with Unicode support

More?
Man, now I'm really glad that I avoided OneDrive.
I suppose the ultimate compliment that can be payed to the employees at SpaceX is when the successful launch of a rocket, the successful delivery to orbit of its payload, and the subsequent successful landing of it's first stage on a remotely piloted barge in the middle of the ocean can be described as trivial.

I always knew the day would come when such things would be looked at as routine and trivial, but I honestly didn't think the day would come so soon.

Perhaps HN readers such as yourself are way ahead of the curve in this regard.
It's not protectionism; it's ignorance? ;)
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PeerStreet has had zero losses, but these are asset backed loans with first position liens, so if a borrower were to stop paying then generally the property would be foreclosed on and principal and interest would be repaid from the proceeds. That's why conservative LTV is important. Your point about the benefit of diversification is correct, previously the limited investors who had access to these investments would have to make large bets on individual loans. PeerStreet makes it much easier to invest in these loans and diversify across lender, geography and loans.
Because food is extremely cheap. It's not good food, but it's food. You can get 2,000 calories for under $4, it doesn't take long to panhandle for $4.

On top of those half of the food available is thrown away, so those who are very motivated go and take it.

And then there are lots of organizations that help people with food, religious organizations mainly but not exclusively.

Basically if someone really needs food and is not picky about it, it's available.
No, it's just incorrect.
I love using GAE as well, but I'll be damned if I can find a job using it. It is almost impossible. The few that exist are in the highest-cost locations in America.

In that sense I think it's a failure; it simply hasn't been widely adopted.

At my last job I pushed for using it, and the suggestion was shot down, on the basis that "If I left they'd never find another person who knows GAE."
I'm sure the organs of government and its bureaucratic institutions are at the front of their minds and centre of their hearts as they are chanting.
Oh my god, what the hell is that thing! For all that money, they couldn't have hired a product management/design team?
what do you mean by democratizing video editing? are users all giving little input on a larger collaboration? is this wishful buzz-speak or are these things (expression, empowerment) now synonymous with democracy? (-:

p.s. can't wait to try out what you've built when I get to my desktop.
I appreciate your realisation that spam and abuse are #1 implementation problems in commenting systems.
> Any number of dimensions could have worked equally well at this point; there wasn’t really any way to tell the difference between a universe with one dimension and a universe with seven.

What is that supposed to mean? Presumably you could still, if you were a being able to withstand the crazy physical conditions in the early universe, tell whether the universe had three or more or less dimensions? What's hindering such experiments in the early universe?
FWIW, this isn't really testing a what "Basic Income" is usually defined as in any area, since the benefit will be given to people in the target area when it starts, and follow them if they leave (and not be given to new residents of the target area that arrive during the trial). And also may include different levels in the target area. So its an experiment about giving free money to individuals, in an arrangement substantially different than a Basic Income.
softwareupdate --install 'Command Line Tools (OS X 10.11) for Xcode-7.3'
Huh. Kind of looks like ArcGIS.
Buzzfeed was also respnsible for outing tennis fixing in The Tennis Racket using statistical analysis of players' matches.
In theory, yes, but in practice, things like Chromium and Linux and probably most non-npm-microlibraries are far too large to feasibly inspect before running.

So basically be careful about who is given commit rights. Also, might be a good idea (if you're just running the software instead of working on it) to just pick a recent (signed) tag.
I don't know Neil well, but he did speak twice at my conference several years ago (2010 and 2012). In 2012, he was walking with a cane, and had had a stroke between those two times I met him. Still in good spirits, but was definitely a little physically slower.

I'm pretty sure there's more to the back story that led up to this, and I've encouraged him to write more about this at some point when he's more stable. If I were to guess, based on the few points he's made in writing, there's some family rift going on, and I might also presume that he may have been paying for things for his mother that might have otherwise gone in to savings.

He's been through a divorce, which can certainly have a financial toll on anyone, and I think it was a bit later in life, which may be harder to recover from.

A late divorce, some health problems, trying to support a family member - all of that may quickly deplete someone's funds.

As to the homeless part, I think there's a certain pride involved, and asking for help may be embarrassing, especially to have to involve friends. It may be that many of his local friends would be tied to his mother/family, and may not be as supportive as one might hope.

I sent money to paypal, but it's frozen, and I'm wondering if I can reverse it and senf via GFM and he'll get access faster. Hrmmm....
I don't mean this as a bash on Microsoft in any way (I actually like a lot of their products, don't care about OneDrive either way because I've never seriously used it).... but when your most important trademarks are incredibly generic terms like "Windows" and "Office" I'm not sure you have much of a leg to stand on when getting into trademark wars.
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"Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, Live Mesh, and Windows Live Sync"

Amazing.
So six times the price is not going to break the bank?

Sure, aganst ten times the value of other msterials per weight of battery, it's not a bank breaker, but what is that price compared to the profit margin? If the margin on a $100 cell is $15, and the value of lithium in the cell is $5, you've broken the bank by costing the entire margin and then some.
Cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ith6HIW...

The ending is the clearest part:

Although the Archivist has independent legal authority to determine the status of federal records under the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014, he remains an executive branch official and he is not politically autonomous. In the face of FOIA litigation, which takes precedence as a practical matter, it actually is “routine” (or at least unsurprising) for the Archivist to defer to the Justice Department and to abstain from unilateral action.

If the ongoing FOIA litigation ultimately led to a determination that the Senate report is a “record” for purposes of FOIA, then it would be easy for the Archivist to concur. If not, then it would be more difficult, but not altogether impossible, for the Archivist to conclude that the report is nevertheless a federal record. “The determination of record status under the FRA and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), while not identical, is similar,” the Archivist wrote.

In any event, while an immediate resolution of this dispute is foreclosed by the Archivist’s refusal to intervene, the larger question of the status of the Senate report as a federal record remains open.

Legal technicalities aside, it would be astonishing if the full Senate Committee report were not preserved for posterity one way or another, and eventually published. Even if it is not the last word on post-9/11 detention and interrogation, and even if not every word of it turns out to be true and correct, the Committee report has already become central to public discourse on the subject. If it became possible to erase it from the historical record in some kind of Stalinesque act of suppression, then we would all have bigger problems to worry about.
There are a lot of similarities to Theranos.
bait and switch?
Lambda is great. Few friends and I just put up what we call LDAN (Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurelia, and Node) aka Lieutenant Dan. Pretty cool refreshing change that is in stark contrast to our larger EC2+MongoDB stack.

http://ldan.io/
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mdfind -name git | grep -w bin/git\$
Same thing happened to Reddit. It was kind of inevitable that it would happen here, where many HN users are likely also Reddit users. Disagree button makes no sense when we already have a flag button.
A template for future news stories about scientific breakthroughs
Webdesign IMHO is be an extreme example of formatted output. I/O is a fundamental concept.
In both cases we're talking about an infusion of cash from the outside, distributed somewhat equally (as opposed to being given to banks and politicians).

This can be useful for answering questions such as:

* Will this discourage entrepreneurship?

* Will this create a culture of dependency?

* Will this boost the economy overall?

* If the economy is boosted, how sustainable is it?

These are the kinds of questions you're not going to be able to answer from a single data point, so it's worth finding similar situations to compare.
Yep, servers (especially headless) are the one case where disabling SIP really can be problematic. But in that case, you should probably just preemptively disable it on all your servers and be done with it. In its current form it doesn't provide all that much security anyway... hopefully there are plans to improve it in the future (or else it seems kind of pointless), but even then disabling it won't leave you with any less security than you had before El Capitan.

Where I fully agree with you is that Apple really needs a better release process. Releasing security fixes should take hours, not weeks. Even low priority ones.
A workshop on strace and tcpdump
One other 'thing' - there are some services that you have to enable billing before they are available on app engine. Google also typically gives you a 30 day/$XXX credit for it. That is a nice feature. The 'challenge' for me is that typically, at this point I'm still trying to test out my code and basically have no traffic so the $200 credit basically becomes a waste. It would be nice if one could be allowed to 'decide' when to use this credit. At my testing/experimenting/design phase, the free quota would be enough for me or I would be willing to pay out of pocket (since I'm still testing I would keep the amount to the barest minimum).
I regularly do low-interest loans to African entrepreneurs via Zidisha -- that's money that's helpful in a concentrated way, vs. bulk money that I'm skeptical won't have negative consequences.
> Python only (maybe also PHP?),

I think the order in which GAE added languages was Python, Java, Go, PHP.
Then why make such a big, global statement in your title if you know it is not an actual thing? No offence, but it's just hard not to see this as click-bait.
Sure it's creepy, but there's also something else I've been suspecting about all this surveillance for years: it doesn't really work.

Moral, ethical, and political problems aside is mass surveillance snake oil?

Is there really any credible evidence that mass surveillance has stopped any significant terror attacks? Can you really find needles in haystacks reliably without drowning in false positives?
Didn't know that software update was even possible from the Terminal. That's pretty cool.
It always kind of amazed me as a pick for a company name. Like, they realize palantirs are a tool of the bad guys, right? They're not a good thing! It's like naming your company "Stormtrooper", or "Dementor".
Matrix was late 90's. Same people turned a 1980's graphic novel into V for Vendetta movie. They did become hacker symbols but Anonymous rode on their fame rather than other way around. Just as they rode on, but didn't contribute to, the anonymity, privacy, and Internet tech that came before The Matrix. People owe 60's-90's computer nerds and hackers way more than Anonymous. :)
You seem to know a lot of the detail. How are you affiliated with GiveDirectly?

Also, this post also has little fact when the emotive aspects of it contain phrases like "all star cast", "very successful", "political football", "benefits so great", "would be a shame."

Where's the facts?
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html
Said the future slave.
> well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space.

Actually 18 months.

Did you actually read the announcement?

Say what you will about what they are doing, but at least they are giving people plenty of time to get their data.

(Or did you mean something else with "clear that space"?)
> Python only (maybe also PHP?)

They now support Python, PHP, Java, Go.

And in beta, "flexible environment", which is like elastic beanstalk but more sensible: Python, Java, Go, Node.js, Ruby, <random docker images>.
In response to your last paragraph, what if an organization is more good than bad and the bad they do is really bad? Does it really matter if there are also good people working there? Even if you can argue that we need the good stuff the good people are doing, that doesn't make the organization redeemable. The worst part is that reasonable-sounding people will make statements like yours, which seems to provide cover for all the bad stuff... and business continues as usual.
The Muse's Kathryn Minshew Speaks at the Female Founders Conference 2016 [video]
Raise your rates!
Idea for 'genetic software development': every n time units, run this tool, and the poor bastard who deletes a file has to rewrite it from scratch. Presupposes that on average, the rewrite will be better than the previous version.
Well that or use HN to curate for you, the extremely rare well written pieces are not worth frequenting Buzzfeed, Techcrunch etc for
Good talk! Here is the article for it http://themacro.com/articles/2016/05/kathryn-minshew-muse-fe...
Slick interface and arguably the top domain name possible. Nice!

The youtube integration and cropping is really cool as well. It took less than a minute to try it out. I can imagine this getting some heavy usage which begs the question, how do you support the costs behind this?

The video processing cpu time isn't free and the end result is an image hosting site which traditionally are impossible to monetize. What's the secret sauce for sustainability?
Thanks for the question and I hope you enjoy it!

What I meant by democratizing was opening up a capability to many more people than previously available due to needing expensive software or the knowledge and skills to use OSS.

Here is wikipedia's definition:

> Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology
> This was a swing of +$1m to -$70k.

The crazy thing is that at a 3% withdrawal rate $1m would have been $30k a year for personal expenses for the rest of your brother's life.
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Not all governments act like the typical government you know.

The German government, for example, owns several large banking groups, which act like any normal banking group – but their dividends directly go into the tax budget. (And they have to give loans at lower interest rates to the governments).

Normal bankers, in normal environment, and they’d probably never notice it was government owned.
Spies Sans Frontières? Palantir and the CIA in the Aid Industry
Debunking conspiracies is not science, although surely it uses similar methods. Few scientists question whether we landed on the moon. Being a scientist relies on the ability to see true from false accurately -- Einstein and other great scientists questioned scientific phenomena and developed hypothesis to explain them. Whether some people believe we landed on the moon is a social phenomenon, and lies entirely outside the realm of science.

Also, before you start hating on Bill Nye so hard, please compare his reported scientific contributions[1] to Jamie Hyneman's and Adam Savage's (spoiler, theirs don't seem to exist). Last point about Nye: bow ties are ok. Seriously though, people don't hate on Feynman for having long hair or being a supposed sex swinger. I know Nye doesn't have the same prestige, but it's just a bow tie; I think you should give him a break.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye#Scientific_work

Note: Bill Nye also engineered a part that was used in the 747 while he worked at Boeing
I see you, with a new account, post a lot of protective comments about the Chinese government, do you work there?
Guess, it's about time there are more developers/devops who know GAE! Google have been quietly building a fantastic product line and when they start heavily marketing, there would be tons who would want to learn and switch.
Haven't they recently cut back from free storage to like 15gb. But if you stored photos or something, they'd expand it to 50gb? And now it's 5gb?

I've been seriously using OneDrive for years now (under all of its names). Even got family members signed up so I could share photos with them because Dropbox's 2gb (I've got 20gb due to referrals) was not enough.

My wife recently reached her limit even after she deleted most of her files and was just like "Wtf is going on?"

Great, now I gotta migrate all my shit to another service. Heard Amazon's equivalent was pretty worth it but this really sucks. I've always preferred OneDrive to pretty much anything else on the market.
At Stripe, a rethink on recruitment
on https://onedrive.live.com/?v=managestorage
My 100GB bing bonus says it's valid through February 2017 (I thought the bonus was valid one year, I got it sometime in 2014 or 2015, so I'm fine with that)

I'm not a big user of Onedrive, I'm currently using only 8GB, so I don't really care about it, even when I go down to 40GB, I will still have space.
FWIW, Gawker reporters have been making FOIA requests of various agencies about their contracts with Palantir...you can see the responses on MuckRock:

https://www.muckrock.com/search/?q=palantir&models=foia.foia...

Many of those requests came back empty, here's one that produced responsive documents: the NYC Department of Finance -- $150,000 for a 6-month pilot of their "Perpetual Server Core" technology to do fraud detection:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/new-york-city-17/palantir-contr...

edit: specified that the requesters appear to be Gawker reporters doing their own investigation
You would need to provide services that were as middle class as possible and help them find real solutions to their specific problems.

I do blog a bit in hopes of helping other homeless people find viable solutions and bootstrap themselves.
http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

I have a second blog with very little content where I try to talk about What Helps The Homeless:
http://whathelpsthehomeless.blogspot.com/

A far, far better approach is to work on a) providing more
senior and student housing -- aka affordable housing, but aimed at single people and childless couples and not marketed as "affordable" because that means "Built for poor people!" and that is always a terrible idea b) promoting walkable communities and c) helping people who can't fit a "regular" job to find a means to support themselves with some kind of paid work (freelance, part time, whatever).

Homeless people are just people. Once they get off the street, they are again simply referred to as people. You wind up homeless when your problems outrun your ability to cope. The difference between a homeless person and person in housing can be as little as one more problem or one less resource. Some particular thread snaps, it all comes unraveled. Trying to reverse that after the fact is a lot harder than trying to prevent it from happening to begin with (aka "A stitch in time saves nine").

But most people don't really want to hear that. Building more affordable housing (or otherwise trying to make society work better for ordinary people) doesn't feel heroic enough. It doesn't have the same rush of adrenaline of talking about getting people off the street after their lives have gone to hell.
I don't understand why this isn't considered an absolute necessity.