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> Help me understand how the exclusionary rule follows directly from the Constitution.

Without the exclusionary rule, not only would the people not be secure in the persons and property from unreasonable searches and seizure (an ideal which is impossible to attain, though obviously necessary to strive forward under the Constitution) but would be deprived, by government, of life, liberty, and property -- through the criminal process -- without due process of law, insofar as they would deprived of such as a direct result of government exercising powers which are strictly and expressly outside of those permitted to it.

> We are one of the few western countries to have it; it's an idiosyncratic response to the problem it addresses.

The United States is unusual in the world (including among "western countries") in the degree to which limited government is a foundational principle. Even other countries with a strong attachment to the idea of fundamental rights often have strong foundational attachment to ideas of governmental (e.g., parliamentary) sovereignty and supremacy, with boundaries of rights and limitations on actions of government agents being determined through the regular legislative process and not being fundamental limits on government.
Uber definitely has built some technology that allows them to scale out a real-time ride-sharing app with payment, locations, optimizations, etc, which is a real technological feat.

However, I still question: 1.) how difficult that is to do (iirc its not like Lyft is far behind and there are others as well) and 2.) does uber have patents on these developments and 3.) how much of those UberXPostgres articles are just posturing to the investment community (i.e. Uber flexing it's muscles to show how it's spending that cash) vs. serious long-term competitive advantage?

You're missing my point about Airbnb, by pivoting to Uber, which I think is in a totally different boat than Airbnb given that Uber does have greater control over some of their inventory than Airbnb and total control over some of the Uber inventory which Airbnb does not. Unless Airbnb starts buying apts and renting them out themselves, which be a better play for them, albeit politically disastrous most likely.

As others pointed out, Airbnb has not published big engineering feats (ala UberXPostgres) nor does it need to, nor likely ever will. The point about Airbnb is that Airbnb is a retailer with total lack of control over inventory. Competitors will one day create a sleeker better platform because there's no defense for Airbnb.

I think a good analogy would be dating sites. It feels like every year there's a new app: Match.com->eHarmony->OkCupid->plentyoffish->jdate->tinder->bumble, the list goes on and on.

Where's the brand loyalty in dating sites? There is none because no one cares about the brand, they care about the inventory (i.e. booty) and so if a site has a better way of finding those dates (be it faster or more curated) or just better "inventory" then people are going to use those new sites. That's how I see Airbnb going. Eventually there are going to be different sites that do the same thing, but tailored to different needs. Airbnb will still be around, but it sure as hell won't be worth $30 billion dollars.

Also, home-sharing is about as fickle as dating. People date until they find a mate and then stop. Most people don't live their home for more than 3 years, especially in popular Airbnb markets like NYC, LA, or SF. Therefore there's a lot inventory turn over that Airbnb has to deal with, just like dating sites, which makes it easier for a competitor to come in and swoop up people who new to home-sharing.
Chinese firm reports record-breaking optic fiber transmission
Things would happen much the same since we wouldn't have the experience we have today if the www hadn't already been created.

If we had to recreate it however, we'd probably try for standards from the begining. We'd probably have a half dozen completing standards trying to replace http, html, & etc since we wouldn't be limited by the choices of the past. Hopefully the best standard would win out, but more likely the most popular standard would (ex: php).

We would likely end up with a better/stronger/robuster web then we have today, but only after twenty years of squabbling. Twenty years from today, as we're already going we'll probably have those things anyways (ie wasm).
By "zero out," do you mean they were previously valuable and then dropped below their strike price after accounting for the > 1x preference? That sucks and I'm sorry it happened to you. It's still pretty unusual though.

Curious to hear - were any of the following factors in play: (i) the company was struggling to stay afloat, (ii) the company was located outside SF/NYC, (iii) the company had less-experienced founders?
Perhaps they should, but I don't think they could from an employers point of view.

I'm over 40 and would love to work a 30 hour week. But there is a cost for hiring each employee and so it's better to have fewer employees working longer. The cost includes interviewing and recruitment costs, payroll systems, management time, IT systems (email, systems access, hardware and licenses).

If we could slash all these costs and make it easier and cheaper to hire people, the 30 hour week might work. It might also make it easier for companies to fire people though, so less good for the 'youth'.
Guh. I have about the same amount of years with gmail and thats why I havent felt like switching yet. Because I'm lazy. Which is a terrible reason.

With the amount of upvotes for this article, is it safe to assume people like (and trust!) FastMail? I didnt used to care about privacy, but I have been much more interested in it lately so I would like to switch.
No it would not, you're right, but there's more too it.

Most ISPs, it's just easier to get an OCA in their data center that going through the process of throttling traffic or whatever else they want to do with it.

TLS SNI is still a way that an ISP could identify the traffic when it's routing folks on the net to an OCA in a different AS.
I disagree. Even among those who routinely write good code (all of us in our own minds) the schedule tends to pressure you to solve the problem before you, the one in the story, without checking if anyone else has solved similar problems already. What tends to happen is you write your own solution instead of finding the similar solution and generalizing it. Then, after a year you have have a dozen related tasks performed in slightly different ways. If the underlying (e.g.) data structure change, now you need to alter each of the dozen different ways
Union of numeric and character pointer.
interesting that they highlighted how ecosystem fragmentation makes patching more difficult; they didn't highlight how fragmentation makes exploitation of their headline-grabbing "900m devices" also very tricky.

This is one of the key reasons the world didn't end when the stagefright series of bugs was released.

Cool bugs nonetheless..
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You are trivializing how difficult it is to determine this. For example, is the empty mansion empty because someone is speculating with it or because a globe trotting billionaire forgot he bought it?

I'm sure there is speculation going on in the market, but we can't tell to what degree without polling the people buying real estate.
Use for home improvement. Can hang in the wall to show current weather, motivational quotes, old photos etc in a beautiful UI.
You can do fitness rituals in 15-minutes stretches, but you can't do anything that requires any kind of creativity or focus in that time.

I do my programming in chunk of twenty minutes at a time.

Complete focus, no distraction.
You're misunderstanding how taxes are calculated. If they could deduct the writeoff, they'd make back their marginal tax rate times the purchase price, so they'd still lose around $2B. (Similarly, when people deduct their mortgage interest, they don't get the mortgage "for free".)
I for one look forward to IKEA violating the GPL on copylefted furniture designs.
Well, they're exporting their pollution to China and some of the other European countries, by switching to PVs and buying coal-produced electricity, respectively.
Your definition is probably more correct than mine.
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From the article > "use my data to customise adverts around the web"

Why is this always a bad thing? Is it just an innate feeling against having your information "used"? Personalization is an ever more important and much wanted feature in everything else in life so why should ads just be generic and irrelevant?
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When Machine Learning Matters
>if the HackerNews Libertarian Army would prefer to live in a gated communities which keep the uneducated hungry masses away

Whoa, now. You mean 'covenant' communities, and they are intended to keep the masses 'physically removed (so to speak)'.
But they can add a crazy amount of friction for a lot of people
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Very cool! The Webpack equivalent: https://github.com/ericclemmons/npm-install-webpack-plugin
Stop Treating Consumers Like Idiots
It's great that we can do this, and I might have a use case sometime, but:

Am I alone in finding web-based email too slow for day to day use? The responsiveness of a local MUA w/ or w/o a fast index (notmuch, etc.), once you're used to it, is hard to live without, at least for me. I find it messes with my workflow if I click on an email or folder and have to wait for the browser to return and render the XHR result. Or did Gmail just become slower and slower with time? I haven't tried FastMail yet.
OMG. What a smart move and an amazing investment. The guy probably saw 1,000 x return.
In SRAM you get Leakage + Switching current. For cases like a cache where you're going to be constantly churning bits this can drive up power quite a bit.

I don't claim to be an expert so there are probably cases where it's lower. However when I was looking into fast RAM for storing data from an FPGA for a simple Logic Analyzer most of the SRAM was almost 2-4x what DRAM was for power consumption at the same storage size(with SRAM being a blazing fast cycle access).
> Huh? Neoliberalism started as the rejection of the pure laissez-faire policies of Mises.

I think you are confusing the mid-20th-century (1930s-1960s) use of "neoliberal" with the late-20th-century-to-current (1980s-and-later) use. The term basically fell out of use and was resurrected with a completely different meaning.
> The difference between a libertarian and a neoliberal is that a libertarian believes that markets and property rights (aka capitalism) are the end goal, and a neoliberal believes that those are powerful tools to achieve the goals of the social left.

This seems basically false. Neoliberalism is an economic philosophy (with, admittedly, social implications), and it's radically different from the economic views of libertarianism. Both are market-friendly and laissez-faire in a way that (serious) socialism and communism are not, but that's about the end of the alignment.

Neoliberalism is not appreciably a free market policy (with the caveat that two neoliberals, like any two economists, can disagree on anything). It's open to large amounts of government involvement, pushing monetarism and deregulation but not nonintervention. Nor is it strictly opposed to government taxation and spending; its objection to the Greek model is primarily one of direct government expenditure as opposed to spending via private sector contracts.

At least as actually practiced, neoliberalism is happy to use market interventionism in certain domains. Strict intellectual property laws, formally granted 'natural monopolies', and mass incarceration (for reasons other than violation of the non-aggression principle) are antithetical to libertarians, but they are the everyday fare to neoliberal politicians.

I think these are crucial differences, because they're the bulk of why 'neoliberal' is used as an insult. A look at the TPP fight clarifies the difference: libertarianism is all for free-trade agreements in principle, but opposed to the neoliberal contents of the actual document.
They're coming right for us!!! O_O
You really believe this? People lived and will continue to live in much worse conditions than the Chinese do.
Can't speak for the OP but I recently changed address. My solution was to forward mail from my old Gmail account to my new account. Any newsletters I got I either unsubscribed or hit the link to update my details with them. Anytime I logged into a website that required my old email I took a minute to update it to my new one. And after I replied to a contact from my new email they naturally just hit the reply button so started replying to my new account. I've changed emails a few times now and I just keep the forwarding going for a year or two. Then I check in and once then only stuff coming into that account is spam for a few months I feel it's safe to delete the account. The one thing you lose out on is old email (what if I want to search emails for 5 years ago for example). AFAIK FastMail has an import system that will import all your email for you. I'm not using FastMail but I found over time I'm just not going back to old emails often enough for it to matter.
Regarding using timeouts:

I recommend using deadlines established at the initiation of a workflow instead of timeouts. This allows all collaborations to be constrained instead of having the additive effect of multiple discrete timeouts.

For example, specifying:

Customer login must complete within 10 seconds of
initiation.

Is preferable to:

Read customer record within 5 seconds.
Verify passphrase within 1 second.
Update account access within 5 seconds.
Generate response within 2 seconds.

Note that the cumulative seconds in the second example exceed the 10 second threshold of the first. This is intentional as it exemplifies the very common situation of "this should never take longer than X" timeout specifications resulting in potentially violating the system response constraints. It is also indicative of developers having to pick what is considered reasonable maximums within a workflow due to not having context. By providing a deadline downstream, those components need only be concerned with the question "do I have any time left to do what I need to do?"

For an example of both deadline and timeout types, see:

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/#scala.concurrent.dura...

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/#scala.concurrent.dura...
If you mean Pomodoros, then it doesn't count - the whole idea of "Pomodoro break" is to be short and spent in such a way as to not really break you out of focus.

If you can just sit down at random times and immediately code for 20 minutes with full focus, please tell us your secret. It sounds like a superhuman skill.
1password keeps a history of edits, too. I don't know any way in which it's not a full history… hmm… maybe because they expose previous passwords, but if you change your username, they don't keep the old username unless it was a separate entry?
It looks like a bad idea to bind the concept of having fun programming with eating sweets.
> if you work in the software industry today, IP protection is part of what keeps you paid

What about software people working at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and virtually any other online service?
What do you do in between?
A post in the ongoing outage thread on FlyerTalk mentions a fire in the datacenter.

> According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27032000-post135.html
Perhaps but this could be viewed as the "no true scotsman" thing. My main objections to Scrum are a) you need to shoehorn things into user stories that are not naturally expressed that way (as a user I would like all relevant data in the database associated with standard ontology?) b) In a special domain (healthcare) it requires good developers with some level of domain expertise and I find this rare c) (and this is a management issue) people think you can remove important aspects of the methodology (e.g. colocation of resources) and have it still work
exactly... that's how the age discrimination will start again
Considering it's an airline, it's likely either a IBM i or a IBM Z System where they track everything relating to their flights (schedules, reservations, checked luggage, etc). A lot of companies (mine included) seem to thing these devices are high-availability giants and never test what happens should they go down. I know if ours ever took a dump we would be in some big trouble (though we could function for at least 24 hours).
Don't tell the kids (it keeps them feeling productive and important) but by simply ignoring all the bullshit...

We already do.
A non-alarmist article:

http://www.androidcentral.com/quadrooter-5-things-know-about...
A good rule of thumb is 3 jobs in 10 years. Other factors like contracting/projects etc matter. This could shift to 4 jobs these days as people tend to move about faster.

Upper limits depends on company and movement within the company. 10 years in a company with good reputation isnt a problem. 10 years in a staid government department with no movement wouldn't likely represent a go-getter.
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These costs are banal compared to what your usual medium to large enterprise is paying in bonuses,benefits and other.

I am coming from Europe and always admired capitalist systems but I think the americans and others are probably stressing it too much.

I have experienced large US corporations firing people that had 2-3 years till retirement, people that spent 30years with company and have been replaced with cheap offshore resources.

I think companies could keep these employees but incrementally decreasing their salaries and working hours. They could still earn more (overtime) but I would dynamically adjust the salaries.

I mean anyway...95% people are just slacking at their jobs
Not exactly -- his dad had died, and he was posting pages of his diary on a seperate blog to his, I think. His dad ( I think it was a father-son relationship) was a retired engineer, maybe something academic too. Thanks for the lead.
I will reserve judgement. This wasn't a particularly great experiment to disapprove one with a lot more scientific rigour.
Fastmail's web app is blisteringly fast. Admittedly their search is not quite instant, but I don't use that feature super frequently
It looks like switching to the backup generator may have been what caused the fire that caused the outage in the first place.

> According to the flight captain of JFK-SLC this morning, a routine scheduled switch to the backup generator this morning at 2:30am caused a fire that destroyed both the backup and the primary. Firefighters took a while to extinguish the fire. Power is now back up and 400 out of the 500 servers rebooted, still waiting for the last 100 to have the whole system fully functional.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27032000-post135.html

Update: Confirmed.

> But Georgia Power said the issue had to do with Delta's own equipment, not a larger power outage. "We believe Delta Air Lines experienced an equipment outage; other Georgia Power customers were not affected," said John Kraft, spokesperson for the utility. Georgia power has staff on site trying to assist Delta, he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/08...
The middle of last year is when it started for me. It only affects my personal Gmail account, though. My Google for Business account seems to work fine, and I get a lot more mail there. I can't imagine they use two different filters, but it seems to almost be the case. Either that or there is a bug in one platform with the Not Spam button not working properly.
and this is the niche manufacturing opportunity of the future.

I have a friend living it right now - he makes buy-it-for-your-grandkids-lives tools and sells direct via the internet to his end user. His end user is in a particular niche and my friend is an expert in it.

His stuff is expensive, niche, and his marketing consists of crappy phone videos on Facebook. He is authentic however, his stuff is super high quality, and he gives great customer service. His business has been growing at 30% a year thanks to the internet allowing him to reach the few people that care about his niche. He will surpass $1M in gross sales with a high net margin, and he has zero competitors in his micro niche - a million dollar micro niche.

And its truly micro - 200 units per year of the $800 piece of equipment, and the rest of the sales in the 14,000 accessories he has for the equipment. He is doing quite a bit better than a well paid SV engineer and is direct to 10,000 consumers. His moat is impenetrable.
While I can't disagree too much with my sibling comments, I do believe that the shift in mental model is worth the criticisms.

It's a shame his style, wordiness and pretension sometimes gets in the way of communicating a really significant and fundamental concept that I believe everyone should incorporate into their world view.
I'm 39 and I've still got student loans to pay off - I can't afford not to work full time. So no, unless the pay is enough.
Given that in npm v3 the order of installation determines where things are installed, this seems like it might cause some interesting bugs that never happen on the developer's machine. :)
Most political leaders are focused on making their problems someone else's problem. We tend to overweigh the amount of "thought" going into these things.

In this case, you had an expensive benefit that was politically unpopular with just about everyone and very expensive to local government (who provides the workforce and shares costs). Welfare to work "fixed" that, and at the end of the day, most of the people who fall off the wagon end up on the Social Security Disability rolls.

All the stakeholders are happy:

* Recipients are happy - They get their money, and deal with less bullshit once their get the benefit.

* People who get off of government supports are happy. They have a job.

* Local politicians are happy - Social Security pays for everything, their share goes away.

* Local voters are happy - "We're not paying for those freeloaders. Derp."
> Gmail only does "plus" aliasing, but that's obvious and problematic

When using Gmail with Google Apps you can set up wildcarding, I have it setup so I can put anything I like before the at symbol and it all funnels into my inbox, no plus required. I use this typically to set the email address used with a given company to their name @ my domain.
It would harm a lot of people. But the problem they are trying to solve is foreign investment driving up property prices. The best way to attack his problem is to prevent or discourage foreign investors from buying residential homes.

The good thing is this kind of law can be adjudicated, unlike the tax. Because you can go before a judge/mediator and argue that you use the home as a residence.

The current tax scheme just hurts foreigners that live and work in Canada, not the people who buy up million dollar properties (which is exactly who the law intends to target).
This is the link to their 'whitepaper'. Slightly more information

https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/resources/quadRooter-vu...
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