skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a spy, just not aligned well with the companies they partner with. Google is doing its level best to find additional markets it can expand into. And it has a history of expanding into the markets of people that it invests in. Your typical VC won't generally invest in a second startup going after the same market as one they are already invested in, and Google Ventures is nominally "separate" from Google, but they seem to jump in when without their partner from time to time. Once, maybe twice, can be a fluke but one of the things startups always worry about is Google (or Apple or Microsoft or Facebook) jumping into their space with infinite marketing dollars and hundreds of idle staff members. One could be forgiven to think that if they were investing in you they wouldn't do that, but this sort of behavior should make startups think long and hard about taking a GV deal over an investor who wants them to be successful.

I wonder if that impacts GV's ability to participate in future deals. It seems like it should but business can be funny that way.
... and Trump, and any major party candidate for the past 75 years.

The unfortunate truth is that it's a democracy and the majority of the voting public still supports the drug war. That support in softening, but very slowly.
> I'll go a step further and say that if you're the kind of person that takes FizzBuzz as a personal insult, then you should be able to write it out in 60 seconds max, and move on with the interview.

I see your step, and raise you. :)

Asking a developer to spend five minutes to write a trivial problem is not an insult. Somebody that takes this as such is probably not going to be the type of person I, or my team, will want to work with, and we can end the interview process there.

I can totally understand balking at a one-day "homework problem" given out as part of the interview.

Not because this is an insult, but because it gives nothing to the candidate. An on-site or remote "test drive" where they spend a day working with the team is fine in my book, because that experience is valuable to the candidate in answering the question of "will I be happy and productive here?"

A company that demands a full- or half-day of time in exchange for nothing, not even information, probably does not value its employees much.

My personal policy is that the interview process can consume no more than one day of a candidate's time in total, plus an hour for a phone screen, and that at the end of the interview, both parties can make an informed decision as to whether or not they want to continue.

But five minutes to complete a trivial programming test? Writing this post took about that amount of time.
Right. It definitely looks like we could be in for a shakeup in the industry. The question still remains though; what is the total size of the market for all of those satellites? How many could we place in MEO/GEO/GSO before the market is completely saturated? I honestly have no idea. I would think the LEO satellite market will eventually be dominated by less powerful vehicles, although if SpaceX can survive long enough to open up other markets (like Mars tourism and mining), maybe those smaller rockets get cannibalized by payloads being co-launched on larger vehicles.
I don't get the point, we know exactly what they're doing, so why do it?

I wish press releases didn't make me parse what they're really saying. I know "marketing" works, but if I was a satellite company, I would expect my audience to be smarter than that.
Sounds like a good idea. If politicians were held accountable for their actions for their whole career, they might actively look for the long term better policies instead of blindly mirroring whatever nutty ideas their current round of voters want.
Imagine for a moment that you enter into an extremely complicated tax arrangement aimed to reduce your tax burden, quite aware of the risk that at a later date the authorities will judge you to owe that tax regardless and you will end up with a massive bill.

Tax judgements often don't occur immediately. Just ask any one of the 50,000 IT contractors in the UK that are facing this exact situation right now with respect to EBT arrangements. Some owe tax dating back over more than a decade.

They knew the risk, they took it, they lost. No-one is naive here, certainly not Apple.
To repeat: "as long as the whistleblowing otherwise aligns with universally accepted human values and ethics".
It's not their fault! As Heather Bresch and Martin Shkreli have been telling us, it's their fiduciary duty to their shareholders to manipulate government regulation in order to reap as much profit as possible.
Core networks do not use QoS or congestion control in the traditional sense, as they are designed to be run without congestion in normal circumstances and because QoS is too expensive compared to adding more capacity.
God, this comment just reeks of narcissism and humblebraggery. "McMansion"...yeah, you really nailed it. All us yokels in the "rust belt" just can't wait to break into those 6-figures so we can buy our stupid chunk of the American dream. You're so special. Fuck off.
May he feel safe and at home where-ever he stands.
Doesn't really matter, on the whole.

Some shady Chinese pharma lab will create an analogue that is x times more potent, and the drop shipping "legal high" e-commerce sites will start carrying it.

If anything, this will cause more deaths than prevent them.
To each their own. Besides family and stuff I don't really care to step foot in PA again.
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I believe http://qz.com/696377/y-combinator-is-running-a-basic-income-... is the future;
Ozarks comes to mind. But that isn't 2 hours away from KC in little to no traffic so I probably shouldn't mention it (it is and I did).
DANE and DNSSEC Monitoring tools
It's common with people that have only done green field work. They learn all sorts of cargo cult practices but aren't their long enough to learn their lesson.

People that have worked in brown fields are often selected out by recruiters because they think it's harder to build a system than to maintain one.
I hate to be pedantic, but strictly speaking that's half of the city.
https://weblog.siccegge.de/DANE_and_DNSSEC_Monitoring.html
Show HN: A simple fortune cookie service
I have setup a very simple service which outputs a random "fortune-cookie" text every time the url is accessed. It can be accessed via web browser, which will present proper html, and it can be also reached via `curl`, which will receive plain text.

https://coo.kie.space/ will present standard non-offensive fortune cookies;

https://coo.kie.space/a may present any fortune cookie, offensive or not;

https://coo.kie.space/o will present only offensive fortune cookies.

I appreciate any feedback, criticism and/or suggestions.

P.S.: I did this just for fun; although it seems pointless at first, think of environments where you can't install fortunes or don't have the privilege to execute it: if you can `curl`, you are good to go.

edit: now with https working.
It's such a basic mistake that I can't imagine any legitimate researcher making it. I helped out with a project that anonymously surveyed registered dietitians about their knowledge of listeria. It had to go to through the IRB before we started, and then any change to it required an IRB amendment. It is unbelievable how big and how basic of a mistake they made, it makes me question what other corners they cut.
Last time I checked Clinton promised to move marijuana to schedule II, not do anything like pledge to end the completely pointless war on drugs.

Do you have millions in donations to a campaign or millions of followers to vote for your cause? Then I wouldn't hold your breath "pushing for change" within a campaign on either side of the aisle because your opinion simply doesn't matter to them.
People who can get into uni already mostly made it into middle class. If you want to subsidize anything, do early childhood care.
What's wrong with SLAPP?
I think I saw one or two of those. Ostracized, "checked," or beat down more than most. I was still trying to fit in at the time. Wasn't a solution although great in retrospect. ;)
There doesn't need to be a separate test for 3 and 5, his example already handles it properly -- it's two separate if statements, not an if/elsif, so it'll just meet both conditions and print "fizz" then "buzz" to create "fizzbuzz". What's forgotten is printing the number alone if it's divisible by neither.

Fizzbuzz is one of those problems where there's really no clever hidden golfy solution better than the plain old first-reaction naive approach: an iteration with if/elsif/elsif/else.
It's not necessary to provide your phone number if you don't want to. It does not force you to do that, although for account recovery purposes (getting access back to an account if it's compromised), it will bother you once in a while to add your phone number as a recovery mechanism. I see this request coming with plain Gmail and Yahoo Mail too quite often, and just choose to skip it whenever asked.
Apple on par with Atari and Activision. Love it.

Note non-PC fellow in upper right - "I heard it was crawling with headhunters"!
I took a quick look at the linked FDA rule PDF, but I cannot figure out what the penalty is for not registering. For instance it is not clear what would happen to a small vape pen maker, selling into the legal marijuana states, who simply labels a product "This device NOT approved by the FDA for use with tobacco or substances containing nicotine; use with such substances may damage your health".
> I really don't think they are in the second place.

But maybe they could have been. Unfortunately, their desire not to be second place meant they did all sorts of user unfriendly things in order to rope users in to using the system and boost numbers.

Abusing users' trust might work great for short term numbers, but it's bad for the long term.
Can't we hate them and also hate the fact that they are necessary?
The bigger story here, Obama has granted clemency to 111 inmates. It looks like they are mostly drug related. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/president-obama-grants-commut...
Meh, no API for direct access to Bluetooth (they promised for the end of last year on the Pebble Time Kickstarter).

I still use a lot my Pebble because, unlike almost everything else, you can swim and sleep with it (because has enough battery life). But the Samsung Gear Fit 2 does look tempting and is the only non-Pebble that can also do both.
How race and identity became the central dividing line in American politics
Unconvincing Androids
I don't have the link handy specifically, but if you @brianjking me on Twitter I'll find it and send it to you tomorrow.
While true, that isn't even tangentially related to what's happening in this case.
Huh? I picked one at random...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mancer-l-barrington-iii/mandat...?

another

http://legaliq.com/Case/United_States_V_Quentin_C_Adams

and another

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/182/...

Those were literally the first 3 I tried.
Yep. That's the one. Thanks.
For FSM's sake, tell me about it. I don't know why in the world Google can't figure this out. All that dead space is absolutely horrid. For the love of FSM, why can't they make the middle column wide enough to use most of that space, and/or fill the rest with something useful.
lot of time passed between 199 and stripe. a little thing called paypal had a pretty huge impact on opening up credit card payments for folks too.
How much would you pay for a service screening the candidates' CVs and assessing their skills for you?
From one of the clemencies

> use of a communication facility to facilitate the commission of a felony

How exactly is this an additional crime to said felony? How does using a telephone make the crime more heinous? This seems like one of those laws that's designed to be guaranteed to add more charges, similar to such gems as "non-violently resisting arrest".
This won't be the first true ride-sharing program, but it's high enough profile to show people how ubers and lyft of the world have highjacked and distorted the meaning of that word.

Uber is not part of the "sharing" economy. This is.
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So little? They got $15 for presumably a 15 min ride? They will probably do several trips just in that hour, and most full time drivers do 25+ trips a day. It adds up.
Fascinating, here's a good demo video: https://youtu.be/psWBaxtK19g?t=1m11s
The Rise of Sales Development
President Obama to Host White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
I've had the exact opposite experience. 90% of my drivers love Uber, and I've taken ~100 rides so far.
It's a go binary, that's just how they work.
Very interesting article but I guess the scale is not for everyone. 1600 AWS GPU? I'll be lucky if my infra request for g2.8xlarge is approved.
Docker Comes To Raspberry Pi
The part of making exercise more fun is interesting. I remember growing up and being shocked that adults did not play team sports in such a team-sport obsessed country.

Also, probably could to have some sort of multiple-person activity in ones schedule that isn't work (c.f. church attendance dropping faster than religiosity).
Who Would Win Coding Olympics? Based on 300K Devs
If you're making $135k/year then you can afford the roughly $41.5k/year for a median one bedroom in SF.

Whether it's worth the opportunity cost is another question.
I don't know enough to say how these changes will affect the industry, but I've seen ecigs lumped in with tobacco in lots of ways and it's super shitty. Everything from "don't smoke or vape within 50 feet" to public-advocacy billboards warning kids not to get sucked in to this ecig thing because they're just as bad, we swear!!

I'm not going to say they're good for your health but smoking tobacco is SO bad for you that lumping them together is just disingenuous.
If you want to own a house in the Bay Area, the best time to buy is during one of the periodic recessions; but it'll be harder to get a relocation package to move to the Bay Area during a recession.

With lower house prices, you also need a lower percentage down. My credit union says you can do 3% down on up to $625k of loan. 3% down may not be the best idea, but waiting until you have 20% down can be a lot of waiting if you'd like to buy a house here. Putting a small amount down, means you do have to pay mortgage insurance (which wasn't very expensive in 2009 when I put 10% down), but it gives you a lot of flexibility.

If the recession deepens, and you lose your job and the housing market tanks, you can stop paying your mortgage, foreclosure is slower than eviction for not paying rent, and most California foreclosures are nonjudicial where the lender can take the house, but has no claim against any of your other assets. If you resume employment during the foreclosure process, you may be able to cure the default.

If you stay employed, you will hopefully at least get cost of living raises, while everyone else's housing costs are going up, yours will be flat -- you can put some of the raises into paying down your mortgage to get a more comfortable equity situation (and get the mortgage insurance removed). When the economy starts to recover and bring housing prices with it, you'll get some equity that way too.
Minio is deliberately designed this way. Cloud native applications require strict multitenancy. Minio's approach is to build just enough to meet a single tenant's requirement. Deploy one minio server per tenant or user or customer .. whichever fits you the best. This will allow you to upgrade, customize or bug fix in isolation.
To replicate for HA, use "mc mirror -watch SOURCE TARGET" command to pair them up. If you have multiple drives (JBOD), you can eliminate RAID or ZFS and use Minio's erasure code to pool them up. Distributed version is also in testing at the moment. It should be out in a month.
No but it became Terminator 1 retroactively, much in the same way that Kyle Reese retroactively become John Connor's father.
Never got it to work with anything, video, audio, images. The ChromeCast screen changes as if it's loading something, but it just sits there forever and nothing plays.
So if I'm reading you right, the tldr: that was a crazy-foolish, low probability move by the airbnb founders rather than a sound "stay alive" strategy. In which case, it should not be fetishized as a "be like them" move (at least in some respects)?

Though it does make for an awesome 'hustle' story (on that, I agree; same with startups being hard). It sounds like they were just having fun, and happened to earn some scratch along the way.
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President Obama Grants Commutations to 325 Drug Crime Inmates in August
For someone who has not been to KC, what's notable about the food outside of BBQ?
I don't see this as a ConnectBot-specific issue. Instead, it'd be nice if I had the choice of where to send my Android system backups, along with the ability to specify a key. Please note that I said 'choice', so that if one didn't really care who had their data, it could operate as it does now and default to Google's storage.
CVSS is an ouija board .. You can't make it say whatever you want. Each item has pretty well documented constraints.

It's not great, but do you have something better?
I think parts of the US have already started making coding mandatory (like Chicago: http://cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_03_19_2014.aspx) but it’s a slow uptake. I think other countries (Finland and other EU countries) allow kids to specialize in CS early on (~age 14) when American students are starting high school which gives them more of an edge.
"They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes"

"The President will continue to grant commutations through the end of this administration"
You didn't need to backtrack. Your original comment summed it up nicely: be determined, creative, and willing to do anything necessary for your business to succeed. They did so and cleverly. beambot asking if you'd recommend that specific move any other time is a red herring in the big picture where that move is specific to a moment in time and probably only works once. Point is to make the move that keeps you successful, whatever it may be.

It was a good move, probably only works once, and anyone running a startup about to die should think up something as effective. Lesson learned.

EDIT: Interesting our replies came at almost exactly the same time.
Cool! I'm mainly looking for something that can cast local content, but I'm sure I can find a use for your work as well.
I don't know if you're being facetious, but this thread of logic seems to be a feature of the system.

i.e. sunlight is the best disinfectant, PR feedback loop, etc, etc...
Well algorithms can be advanced enough to reference Google with Alphabet automatically without putting need to write Alphabet in article itself.
I don't think what you're saying is the reason to write it in the article
What's the point of a service fee on top of the cost of your meal though? Why not incorporate it into your meal, since it's non-optional.

I noticed they did this in Singapore. You'd be charged a service fee on top of your bill, I can't remember if they popped tax on top of that too. If it's non-optional, it should be included in the cost.
I don't want to run it in an external process, I want to run it in a goroutine.
This is true and a very good point.
so came here for the comments :trollface:
VICE did a documentary on Krystle Cole, a friend of Mr. Skinner's prior to his arrest. It includes a tour of the missile silo that Skinner had been using as a lab.

(NSFW - Drugs, Sex, etc.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7qliVpGEk0
India plans to launch 68 satellites
Learn Sorting Algorithms by Coding Pieces of Them
I see no reason to ever run vim as sudo. The best option in my opinion is to save files using ":w ! sudo tee %" This way you are not opening your system up to potential exploits within vim plugins. It also avoids issues such as this one.
I believe the above comment is not talking about you McMansion buying yokels, but about the relative value of money depending on where you live.

You can buy McMansions anywhere, just not with 135k.
It should surprise no one that in much of Africa there are economic and sociopolitical challenges involved in supplying antivenin. It's an economic challenge even in first world countries, and antivenin is expensive as a result.

There's no mention of what the snakes are doing in the first place when humans run across them and get bitten, or how much good those snakes are doing by saving people in those countries from a host of rodent-transmitted diseases.

The article seems to focus on two things:

1. Focus less on advanced gene-splicing antivenin R&D, and more on traditional antivenin production, because Africa has unmet demand. This is merely a coy way of saying [more] developed countries should supply and subsidize antivenin for less developed countries that can't pay.

Rather than blame developed countries for focusing on R&D that doesn't solve Africa's immediate problem, some understanding would be in order. Genetic engineering approaches, once R&D is done, probably scale better than the traditional way of producing antivenin. Furthermore, anaphylaxis is a common problem with many kinds of antivenin and other vaccines. Genetic engineering approaches, which don't rely on purification of antibodies from animal blood, lead to fewer, and perhaps not any, extraneous proteins in the antivenin. That means less risk of an allergic reaction.

I don't know if that's the entire reason, but pharma companies don't intentionally throw away money on R&D. If they're funding something, there's a good reason.

2. Improve the economics, politics, and scientific awareness of developing regions of Africa (that is to say, most of it). I'm sure nobody has thought of that before.

"Africa has an antivenin supply problem, and all we have to do to fix it is modernize, educate, and politically stabilize those countries." Oh, that's all? Why didn't someone say something before? Such an easy and obvious solution to all those untreated snakebites.
Basically their privacy policy has some very disingenuous wording which makes it sound like they are respecting your privacy, while retaining the right to sell it to third parties.

The information they collect is listed quite openly in the first few sections of their privacy policy (link: https://www.pebble.com/legal/privacy ). It's pretty reasonable that the app needs local access to some of this information, less defensible that it accesses other information (geolocation information, unique device ID numbers, time spent in other apps on your phone?!) and not defensible IMO that they need to hoover it up off your phone. At least they're open about it.

Note that they "maintain log files in identifiable form for a period of time for troubleshooting and other purposes" - this is stored in identifiable form indefinitely.

The kicker is under "3. Information sharing and disclosure."

> As we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.

Emphasis mine. Note the way this starts as if it's talking about mergers or acquisitions, then sneaks in "or we might just sell your information to anyone". This bullet point completely negates any restrictions on what they do with your data.

(Throughout an 8-email exchange with one of their lawyers, they managed to completely avoid commenting on any issue I raised, despite ample opportunity to set me straight if I was simply misinterpreting the policy. I'm left with no choice but to assume my interpretation is correct and they have no respect whatsoever for their customers' privacy.)