skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It galls me so much because I'm usually the one arguing your position, but when it comes to civil asset forfeiture I have to say there's no possible way the SCOTUS has it right. You would honestly be hard-pressed to find too many other legal practices in such regular use today that so fly in the face of any plain or complicated reading of the 4th amendment.

It's not even a little bit wrong, it's staggeringly wrong. It's not a weird technical nuance of law. It's not something the framers never addressed, or an issue that's only come up since the drafting. Yes, the practice of it has a long history that extends long before the US but so did/does slavery, government-sanctioned torture, genocide and collective punishment but nobody's wandering around saying we should allow those because starting the 1700s someone thought they were good ideas.
Technically true, but it doesn't make sense from a business perspective. Anticipating and accounting for every scaling issue costs a lot of money. Most businesses would decide that satisfying 90% of scenarios is sufficient.
Honestly I was surprised they were able to scale as elastically as they did and we now know the reason why: they used Datastore instead of something like Postgres with sharding. That decision alone is most of the reason they made it. By contrast, my team doesn't use managed NoSQL services for our projects because they're simply too expensive to deploy before seeing considerable growth.
"We look for brains, motivation, and a sense of design. Experience is helpful but not critical.

Your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have good ideas. Most successful startups change their idea substantially."

Could you possibly be more la dee dah?
The TLD surprised me, I didn't know you could request one. The article I found that covers off on purchasing (leasing?) a TLD ironically used Google as an example. The article is from 2011.

"The process itself may be relatively straightforward. ICANN will make applications available (get the May 2011 draft of the Applicant Guidebook) from January 12, 2012 through April 12, 2012, giving companies time to develop a marketing plan and come up with justification to pay the $185,000 application fee and, if approved, the annual $25,000 fee. "

Source: http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-ba...
Identifying an accident that didn't happen isn't an easy problem.
I really appreciate your answers as it solidifies my goals -- now if only I can convince my mom to stop asking to go to medical school.
With that attitude, nobody could ever take any credit for success because there is someone else that had it harder.

"Warren Buffet didn't do anything impressive because he grew up with his parents."

What a petty way to live.
DNS-over-HTTPS
How about this - Pokemon search trend for the last 5 years: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=pokemon

If this doesn't clearly show how crazy this growth was compared to what anyone was expecting, I'm not sure we're operating in the same plane.
> We already have more nuclear waste than is currently able to be stored..

Don't you mean, "If only we had a place to externalize the waste storage problem." All the nuclear waste obviously has a place to store it, I mean it's somewhere right now isn't it?
Also in the storm it's easy to forget to ask for every possible aid. And probably avoid asking for more if you're already given some, to actually avoid being seen as more of a leech that you feel being.
Thanks for pointing those out! Indeed we have to make extra corrections to make it work correctly on Safari, but the examples left those out to try to make them easier to follow.

What version of Firefox are you using? The first example I find to definitely be choppier on Firefox, but the last one looks pretty good.
"What does God want with a starship?"

NOPASSWORD is pretty sane for remote access, my objection would be to any sudo escalation at all on the target.

> What Vuls Doesn't Do
>
> Vuls doesn't update the vulnerable packages.

...ok, so please just stick to stuff like unprivileged sha1sum/dpkg/rpm/stat etc.

If vuls absolutely needs some superuser privilege, it makes sense to grant some limited privs via setcap bits (though this would mean it would probably lose the "agentless" feature).
Sorry, person asked for a way to get around the paywall -- I'll just mail the person directly next time.
Solar + battery storage can provide base load. It already does so in parts of Hawaii.

The cost of solar will continue to crater; it is not a matter of "if" we will run entirely on solar, but only "when" at this point.
> It's bad, but it's not the apocalypse that some will have you believe.

Maybe. Your statement masks the deeply serious potential consequences.

Yes, it's not going to look like fire-and-brimstone hell on earth; volcanoes spewing ash into the darkened, lightning-filled sky, mile-high tidal waves drowning major population centers, the ground splitting open and swallowing cities whole...

But what happens if another migrant wave washes over Europe consisting of starving people whose land is inhospitable due to drought-induced crop failure? One large wave from Syria has provoked considerable social unrest and has contributed to the rise of multiple nationalist, far-right parties. How much more instability can that region take before a war occurs? What would a world war in the age of nuclear weapons look like?

Or, what if we hit the scientifically-plausible scenario of runaway climate change resulting from multiple positive feedback loops triggering melting of methane ice on the seafloor, and arctic thaw allowing decomposition of large amounts of organic matter? If the average global temperature rises by 6 degrees C, the hottest days will be so hot that they will have the potential to outright kill many staple crops. In addition to the sea-level rise, large areas of land will be uninhabitable due to heat. As with the above scenario, what happens when large groups of people are starving and can no longer survive where they are currently located? How much instability can human civilization tolerate?

...and that's not even the worst case scenario. What if the temperature really takes off and we experience an anoxic event[0], where the oxygen level in the ocean depletes and they begin emitting highly poisonous hydrogen-sulfide gas? Such an event is linked to high temperatures, high oceanic acidity and high levels of atmospheric CO2. This event would kill the majority of life in the ocean, and due to the combination of the hydrogen-sulfide gas' effect on land animals plus the damage it would cause to the ozone layer resulting in increased UV exposure, this would kill the majority of life on land, too.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
#333 on #FAFAFA passes every contrast check in existence. I don't mind the thin font, but they render really poorly on some systems, so it's definitely a weird choice.

Your widescreen monitor doesn't increase readable line-length, so it's kind of pointless unless they cram some sidebars into there — which just distracts from the main reading experience. Maybe they could have pulled out the images and made those larger with more screen real estate?
I don't fully understand how category theory terms are helpful in programming. It always feels backwards to me, that first you write the code, then you look through the code and pick out all the places where category-theory terminology might appear. Monoids are nice and all, but in the end it's just a name given to a specific design pattern: you may as well reason about it in terms of code.
It's almost like you're turning ride-share drivers into agents. How many ride-share drivers are also licensed agents, and do they need to be?

Doesn't RedFin do this with locals operating the open-houses?

It's a nice idea, I love the idea that anybody is going to disrupt the Real Estate market.

Not sure if you realized, but the video on your page is set to private, and it has a non-nonsensical title.
I feel really bad for this article. It is the Kobayashi Maru of sales pitches. Working in IT/DevOps/Servers/Software Dev/Etc all my life, I understand that even if you have the servers, scaling can be hard and time consuming. I also can't even imagine supporting the number of people they have. So they did an awesome job.

However, the Pokemon Go player in me says "Wow, even with all of Google's resources, they still couldn't manage to get this remotely stable for several weeks?".

I'm sure there was many amazing technical feats that occurred, and from a deeply technical level this is a good sales pitch. I'm sure a good sales person could spin it even better "50x your expected traffic? Google Cloud can do that!". But beyond that... most people will probably see this as a failure.
what are you suggesting positioning absolutely?
Update: it is now on ASP
You'll never know. Your partner can turn out to be damaging. Life is chaotic.
Apparently out of sheer coincidence, it landed me on a Voyager episode that I had just watched yesterday
> But selling contraband, unlike theft, doesn't have a victim that can be compensated by returning the proceeds.

The point is largely that people shouldn't legally profit from illegal activities. Whether the profit is cash or tangible goods, the principle is the same.
Enterprise organizations are like machines: They need to be serviced and maintained. That is what these "pointless jobs" are for, but they're not pointless. They're vital for the function of the organization and therefore essential to the economy. They just aren't fun or well paid, like factory jobs.
Quick question, is the illegal car sleep law universal or are there subtleties ? I can understand cities wanting to have quiet streets at night and avoid people ending up in cars after parties etc, but for a homeless person there should be a special case.
I wonder what the performance hit of something like this would be. It seems like the ssl connection would be a bottle neck for the page load.
The mentors provide excellent feedback on what you should focus on at any given time, and are great at troubleshooting problems. In addition to that, they have a great network (the YC alumni which includes some self-driving car companies as well as investors) who may be able to connect you directly to the companies you want to work with.

One of the hardest things for people that have never started a company before is to understand just how hard it will be. Having people on your side can make all the difference, if only to improve morale and help you maintain you sanity.
> create derivative works of

Interesting, seems like they could publish your source under whatever license they chose. It might be in their interest to use a BSD/GPL/MIT license to continue community contribution. Though it might hurt your ability to turn that software into a Conversational-AI-aaS business.
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But we can't know from a sample of one whether the placebo effect was in play, or whether the individual's response was atypical.
Pretty nice. Thanks, I didn't know the situation there.
Reminds me of this exchange: https://twitter.com/kobunheat/status/745332230256459776
DARPA can be ahead of the curve. A few years ago, I met a VC that worked in the wireless sector. He seemed surprised to learn DARPA had been working on what I guess you'd now call whitespace technology back in the early 2000s. Industry interest came significantly later than that.

Though that can be a bad thing. You don't want to be in a position where your DARPA project ends but VCs aren't ready to look at you yet.
1. http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/you-might-be-sex-offend... mentions a few frightening accounts of arrests (one behind a garbage bin resulting in deportation), but not in parks
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/punishment-... - mentions the matter
If you're starting a company, be prepared to lose a lot of sleep moving forward :]

Shoot me an email [redacted] and I'll help you with your application if you want.
I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog yet.

https://get.blog/
We have been using Postgres Full Text Search for about 3 years now in production. The app is an analytics dashboard, over a set of structured and unstructured data. We have about 20M documents, with hierarchies, dimensions, but also free text elements. It does work extremely well, and having the possibility to group by as one would do in SQL is a god send for tabular or graph based data. Performance are really good, in particular due to the parallel aggregations.

We tested recently to load our index to an Elasticsearch index for one particular use case (a weighted sum of the 20M rows based on a FTS critera) where postgres was underperforming in our opinion. On the same hardware, using all available RAM and CPUs, ES took 6s and PG took 0.7s.

So far, on the 30+ queries of our dashboard tool, we have yet to find a use case that Postgres didn't handle better than Lucene based solutions.
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Oh, man!! you accuse other people of having prejudices about yourself while making prejudices yourself.

Your control experiment was "we put labels and we did not put labels". That is a very weak one.

People in customs anywhere are going to stop and look at anything out of the ordinary. That is their job because drugs, diamonds and so on use to be in out of the ordinary packages.

We send 3d printer pieces around the world. We are part of an engineering NGO that promotes education using new technologies, specially in poor countries.

At first almost anything we sent was stopped, opened and inspected(and delayed). Now everything goes smooth.

Difference? We asked customs or people in other countries the actual reasons for being delivered late and the reasons made a lot of sense. Reasons like terrorism in Colombia for example.

They also teach us ways to improve our packaging so next time we send it much better. Around the world there are different conventions for putting serializing address for example. You put it in wrong order and the postman will have serious problems.

There is also people there(in customs or in the companies), when they know you it is way easier. Not because you are atheist or not, but because you can be a drug dealer and they could lose their job if they don't detect it.

Seriously, you are not that important. They have bigger problems to worry about.
Ah - thx for that.
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It's sad that you have been sucked into a life of such competitive materialism that you can't find satisfaction with a net worth less than 25m. If you grew up poor and have 20m now and are still not satisfied, there is likely no number that will ever satisfy you.
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"The Atheist post seems to imply that they only sent 1 package to Michigan."

"In my experience, more people lie or are mistaken about their package delivery than packages actually being lost."

Read more carefully: they sent exactly two packages to each person, with the only difference being the tape. This isn't affected by some random customer complaining about a package being late or lost; these are people who are each reporting the arrival times of two packages.

"So 178 items sounds like a ridiculously limited amount of shipments to consider."

If you agree that each of the 89 pairs of packages are more or less independent, then we can use p-values to determine whether the results are significant based on the sample size. They are.

There are still plenty of systematic effects that could have affected the study by invalidating the assumption of independence between the 89 "trials." For example, if the customers all knew the purpose of the study, some of them may have intentionally mis-reported their result. So I agree that you can't reach a firm conclusion based on this one study. I just wanted to point out that many of the objections you raised don't seem to apply, and that this is a pretty interesting result not to be dismissed so lightly.
Yo would love to talk shot re: shipping. Hit me up at alex@monthlyboxer.com
Senior developer is just very difficult to define. You could define it based on the amount of time worked at a certain job, your skills, your ability to mentor. The definition could be different for various businesses and their employees.
Neanderthals Fashioned 'Jewelry' Out of Animal Teeth and Shells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourth_amendment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

A particularly hilarious and brilliant take on Civil Forfeiture by John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
But they're still usually counted as such. Both Donald Trump and Bill Gates are regularly touted as "self-made" Xillionaires. And, at least in terms of that book, we don't know what definition of self made is used, or how they counted it.
I agree fully on the lame way Google rolls out (or fails to roll out) key features for Google Apps. Even when features do roll out, they are sometimes incomplete, for example, you can't set up Google Music family accounts with Google Apps accounts. Dumb. I like Google Music but Spotify is easier for me to use with my family's various google apps accounts.

However, there is one VERY important difference: data ownership and privacy. Google Apps for Work (and edu) accounts, which I use for various organizations as well as even for my own personal, single-user domain, have much better data ownership and privacy terms:

See: https://support.google.com/work/answer/6056650?hl=en

Does Google use my organization’s data in Google Apps
services or Cloud Platform for advertising purposes?

No. There are no ads in Google Apps Services or Google Cloud
Platform, and we have no plans to change this in the future.
We do not scan for advertising purposes in Gmail or other
Google Apps services. Google does not collect or use data in
Google Apps services for advertising purposes.

The process is different for our free offerings and the
consumer space. For information on our free consumer
products, be sure to check Google's Privacy and Terms page
for more consumer tools and information relating to consumer
privacy.
Cheer up, friend.

Here's a song for you:
https://youtu.be/gH476CxJxfg?t=1m
Wow that really was crazy easy for her to do that. I guess it also taps into emotions with the crying baby as well.
Thank you for the reply. Is there something in YC that is not for pure startups? Something to support R&D with a commercial goal but that do mor necessarily follow the common business path.
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Or a "public health crisis" (which it's always been, but now that it's white folks, the public have dug up some compassion).

Relevant: https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/781557015843856385
Yep, I understand the difficulties. It's bad enough trying to get decent international transit in these parts as a local customer.

But if the matter really is beyond CloudFlare's control, their support should not be encouraging people to upgrade to a plan that costs 10x as much.
10 tons lost a year. Point taken, and very interesting. But it's still small compared to 100 tons of cargo going to Mars 1000 times to build a new civilization on an uninhabitable planet.
I think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.
Warren Buffet doesn't discourage and shit on those who haven't been able to do what he has. Again, I would discount the person's success because they're an asshole, and refusing to acknowledge that they were given many privileges and benefits by pure random luck. Buffet routinely acknowledges that he had lots of help getting to where he is today.
What will you and your 7 billion fellow humans eat if all of the plants and animals die? Why do you think that conditions which would be deadly to nearly all other life on this planet won't be deadly to you?

If you're making the point that life will find a way given Earth's strong life-supporting traits, I completely agree. But it won't be human life.
Could you give a concrete example?
And thus knocking SEO firms targeting the keyword "keyword" off the top of the results. Well played, Google, you humorous bastards.
The difference is that Jewish is actually an ethnic group as well as a religious group. There is some overlap between them of course, but for example there are Asian Jews and Jewish Catholics.

The Jewish ethnic group are people historically descended from the people of Eastern Europe and the Middle East who practiced ancient Judaism (the religion). That's why 23andme can identify someone as X% Jewish.
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I argued with a friend of mine about climate change. His first instinct was to dismiss it with a shrug: "So what if sea levels rise a little, we'll just have to move inland".

We really don't know how much instability human civilization will tolerate before devolving into slinging nukes around. Why even fuck with that possibility?
The niantic people basically came to Google and left together. The interchange was minimal.
Yes, I've noticed this too. The AWS documentation and the console both say that the changes may take a long time to apply, but in fact the database is up for most of that time. I've done several big upgrades that had only a few seconds of downtime.
Oh look, Krebs rides again ! :)
While you statement is hyperbole and your logic is Tu Quoque, it's clear the US does some very bad things.

But you can be absolutely certain that anything that Putin is trying to do is absolutely guaranteed to vastly worsen that both inside and outside the country.
What happened then? Right-wing came back to the affairs?
Yeah, but borrowing it would fall under the "going from $0 to $1MM" part.
Business is irrelevant once you're sure that the service will go into production AND will have some amount of users.

It's known that some things will break from time to time (e.g. servers, hard drives, networking). If you've designed the application poorly so that a single minor failure can snowball to the entire system, it's guaranteed that your site will fall apart periodically, costing you lots of money each time.

At this point, the best technical AND business converge to "pick an option that can sustain [minor] breakages". Either you've done it like that from the start, or you're in the process of rewriting/redesigning your site.
AWS Re:Invent is coming up in early December; I wouldn't be surprised if they announced general availability by then.
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That's the point. They're saying that those 85% of self-made American millionaires aren't as "self-made" as they claim.

Like me: I could talk about starting with almost nothing in my bank accounts, getting a job, working through the ranks, buying a home, and working toward my first million... conveniently leaving out all the advantages that I've had to get me to this point (cultural expectation that I'd go to college instilled in me from a young age, a family well-off enough to support that financially, uninterrupted time to work on the hobbies that grew into a career, etc).

Quanticle seems to be relating the origins of Donald Trump and Bill Gates. Donald describes his fortune as self-made. Bill Gates has been described as self-made. It's true, if you only consider that their wealth is much greater than any gift they've ever received. It's false from the perspective that anyone could do it with enough hard work.
Dry and boring sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip.
Now add up all the runtime stuff added by whatever scripting language you use and compare. Not many would come out ahead, Lua comes to mind.

The rust generated binary is statically linked and self-contained. It is pretty neat that it takes less than 2MB. In debug mode even, by the looks of it.
No, I am referring to innodb, which has a number of known reliability problems which are "wontfix".