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We can certainly argue about the legitimacy of civil forfeiture, but your statement is absurd. The current law is the current law. When a police officer arrests someone that isn't kidnapping. When they take possession of property that someone gained through illegal means that isn't armed robbery.
>It is impossible to know the future.

That's not entirely true. If that where the case you couldn't play tennis or do any other physical task. In some sense, your brain is a "prediction machine" at least for short term physical events.
The first line of the post explicitly makes a distinction between "software" and "hard tech".

I really challenge the accepted wisdom of "build something tiny and iterate" as being the only way to build software.
I'll be with you right after we get our poor out of their straights. We have large amounts of domestic poor, both black and white --we need to help ourselves before we help anyone else.
it's fiat, not flat

smh
"400 pound man" says the exact opposite, actually. "Russian hacker" says focus on the hacker. "400 pound man" says focus on what was leaked.
I'd actually like a 'light' web browser, made for nothing else than 'web browsing'...

Some time ago I tried Lynx and I liked the idea, It was waay simpler that I'd like, but in the other hand I feel that interfaces made for web are always crippled compared with desktop interfaces (from G docs vs MS office, up to clara.io compared to blender).

For web browsing I think that something between a browser and Lynx is something that I would use, most of the time I am interested in the content more than the aesthetics or the pixel perfect alignment of visuals... and if I was interested in an application (that requires the newest tech in browsers) most of the time there is a better tool for desktop.
To your last paragraph, only relying on forgetting the keys works great, as long as you have absolute 100% confidence in the mechanism used to do that. I read your posts on HN often so I know you know you're quite familiar with defense in depth--I feel that user data is one of those areas where it's ok to do more than one thing to protect the data.

That said, there are a number of systems at FB where deleting a crypto key loses the linked data forever--but they still crunch the hard drives just to be really sure. The drive crunching is an incredibly tiny expenditure compared to the massive CapEx and OpEx required to build, stock, and run the datacenters. It's worth it if only for the peace of mind.
Looks like it will be configured like this: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/557ae05d71ca1bfa4b8...
It's always better to develop most of the software with real users using it. So although the goal may be huge, start by building a piece that does something in a month and get real users using it, so the rest of the project can proceed with a compass.
"For instance on launch day in America and Asia I would have expected insane numbers (many hundreds of million)."

Given no app had ever done this in history over the first few weeks, yet alone on launch day with no marketing, I doubt it.
Now this is really cool! Though as with all things wireless I'd worry about working and somehow the key fob getting interfered with and boom computer locks up or if a sensor thinks I'm moving the computer when it's really just an Earth quake or maybe even my cat jumping on the table and then the encryption key is deleted.

So I love the idea but not sure of the practicality. Those sensors has to essentially work perfectly at all times and I'm not convinced until it's released and reviewed.
On the other hand, the touch bar might introduce opportunities for more sophisticated and flexible interfaces.
>or else the two major parties will finally get the message and pick better candidates.

You'd think that after Bill's success in 1992, Gore's failure in 2000, Kerry's failure in 2004, and Obama's success in 2008, the DNC would finally have gotten a clue about how important it is to have a candidate who's well-liked and popular with the younger voters. But apparently not.

>(1) I suspect every voter has a threshold of evil-ness beyond which they simply can't in good conscience vote for Candidate X, even if Candidate Y is evil-er. For me, we've passed that threshold.

This is another really huge factor.
As someone in the hard tech space I can tell you that it's not completely irrational on their part. When you look at exits and probabilities of exits, the types of software companies you describe make up the bulk.

The biggest (by val) technology startups that we know of (Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Snapchat, Dropbox, Pinterest) are by no means hard tech. Even the public ones aren't hard tech (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter). So that's what these investors look to as the types of investments that make sense for them.

The question is, do hard tech companies have similar probabilities of outcomes or bigger?
Whatever OpenAI might offer, which I'd argue is a better steward of the resulting knowledge than Amazon.

If OpenAI would release an Alexa hardware competitor, I'd pay whatever it cost in a heartbeat, as I'd know it was being used to increase the data corpus of a non-profit versus Amazon.
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To be fair, BTC transfers cost a couple cents at most. If we're going to compare apples to apples.

If you do an international wire and change currencies you'll pay much more than $35.
Not to mention the additional networking opportunities provided by growing up in that environment. Even absent more formal networking events, your chances of someone at a barbecue saying "oh, you're doing X? I have a friend at BigCompany, give me your resume and I'll pass it along" are much better than someone not in that class.
We answered this on crypto nerd Slack but I'll repeat for the benefit of the class:

In Cook County, at least, you're given a time to appear in court. Everyone appears at that time. Cases are handled in alphabetical order. But: if you have a lawyer, your case is handled first --- the lawyers are on the clock, you see --- so there's about an hour and a half of waiting for lawyer after lawyer to come up and get their clients cases dismissed, while everyone else sits doing nothing.
Speaking of locations... Here's a nitpick... :)

The dot for Council Bluffs on the map in the article[0] is misplaced by hundreds of miles.

0: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mCc_hmccB3k/V-y4E1VHooI/AAAAAAAAD...
In theory, that sounds correct. But the police shouldnt be able to steal stuff and get funding from it. That's is an adverse incentive for them to follow the rules. It's very clear this is a simple thing that they do to raise money, from the many many stories about small police departments pulling over poor people fishing for cash.
What about filing a claim of ownership? If the prosecution doesn't formally charge you with a crime within some amount of time after such a filing, you get it back without any further work. If they do, then it's held until the case is over.

It seems like it would allow them to handle abandoned ocean ships or drugs, which are the classical cases. And it lets everyone else get their property back, if they're willing to take the risk of admitting to owning property possibly used in a crime.
Maybe a hackish override of document.write? Something like:

function write(str) {
var rE = /<scri.*src=['"]([\w\/]*).js/i;
if (rE.test(str)) {
var m = rE.exec(str);
// Do script injection here
} else {
document.$old_write(str);
}
}

document.$old_write = document.write;
document.write = write;

I haven't tried this. I don't even know if you can override document.write()
It's a lot smaller than Tesla's subsequent projects.

Remember, also, that the roadster was based substantially on the Lotus Elise, and Lotus built the bulk of the vehicle. Look at us as a drivetrain project rather than a car project and it looks at least a bit more manageable (which isn't, by any means, to say trivial).
How about returning it to the people? -- as in "the people vs speeding motorist".
Why does a blog page showing static content do madness like this? I'd think google engineers of all people would know better. The site doesn't even work without javascript from a 3rd-party domain.

https://my.mixtape.moe/klvzip.png

Static mirror: https://archive.fo/yyozl
"But I don't blame them, based on whom I was surrounded by. I wouldn't give an inch to the guys laughing and joking about beating up their girlfriends, her kids, the cops, etc, either."

But in jail (jail is a term for institutions that hold people no longer than one year, in most cases, a majority of a jails population is transient), how do they know who the murderers and wifebeaters are? Isn't that the point of our justice system? Everyone is treated innocent until proven guilty?
Maybe you should wait until the products are released before judging them.

Also, a VIM user that actually uses the escape key? I don't know how you tolerate that. I bound jk to escape years ago, and in the rare case where I'm ssh'd into a machine that doesn't have my vim config I still find ^[ easier to type than escape (which is probably because I bound caps lock to control so ^[ is easy to type).
This wasn't a derivation from the repo count, it was in response to the debug part of the talk where he was talking about fan out. Some app was iterating through a list of things and for each thing was making a network request, instead of figuring out what it needed up front. It's either complete laziness or incompetence, probably the later. I assume with any company that has that many services their culture is partly to blame, too.

It's interesting because this kind of technical debt will eventually open the door to competitors once Uber is under more financial pressure...i.e. they have burned through all the investor money.
What about times where it's obvious that a crime has been committed but it's not clear who committed the crime? In that case there is no one for the prosecution to formally charge.
I don't think that's the relevant point here. That's merely his opinion, and being a Russian, certainly he is more willing to give his government the benefit of the doubt.

What's more interesting is that he is willing to work with the FBI and is offering clues into uncovering the hackers, but simply nobody has contacted him or expressed interest in pursuing the hackers.
looks cool, I was thinking more along the lines of Excel functions to run Keras or sklearn off-the-shelf ML algos in TensorFlow on e.g. an AWS back end, using Excel like TensorBoard to visualize the progress of an algorithm, mapping an Excel computation graph to an TensorFlow computation graph...
Many NNs can be compressed considerably without losing much performance. The runtime of RNNs is more concerning, as is whether anyone wants to move to a new image format, but it's still interesting pure research in terms of learning to predict image contents. It's a kind of unsupervised learning, which is one of the big outstanding questions for NNs at the moment.
Building these AI systems is itself a form of hard software development.

(I disagree on the premise, BTW. I saw a number of successful machine-learning systems at Google, and the most successful were always the ones that combined machine-learned functions - sometimes many of them - with traditional algorithms. AI is a tool that extends the reach of software into new problem domains, it's not going to replace software itself.)
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> Index-only scans for partial indexes

This one is huge for my company. Almost every single query of ours could use an index-only scan, but the planner would never choose to perform one because of the weirdness around partial indexes. We expecting a several x speedup once we upgrade to 9.6. All the need to improve now is a way to keep the visibility map up to date without relying on vacuums.
Do you work at my company? This is what I experienced last year on a project being run by another team's lead developer. The system that was so poisoned with needless functional abstractions that the codebase was barely comprehensible (monoids, kleislis, higher-kinded types, dynamic types(!)). It's utter fucking rubbish. He practically mounts an invisible pulpit when he talks about why these abstractions and constructs are the "right way" and "the future." I don't know how he got "lead" in front of his title. Pretty much every junior in our group is more productive than he is.

The only consolation is that the system in question hasn't entered production yet, and probably won't for at least a year at the rate it's progressing.
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Appreciate having the premium option. I'm buying a shirt now just for kicks, mainly to test out the quality of the shirt.

If i like the fit/etc, i imagine i'll buy a few more. Thanks!
Sidenote: If you can manage this awesome UX for more complex stuff (images? designs? art? w/e), would be really cool.
America Invents Act, easy and repeatable post-grant challenges, no more injunctions, very limited punitive damages. Worst case for a patent infringer is having to buy a license.
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Arduino unleashes a serious Internet of Things system for hardware hackers
I map 'jk' to escape, but if I'm ssh'd into a machine without my config, I can also press ^[ instead (since I too map caps lock to control), that's still easier than hitting the physical escape key.
"It's always better" - words like this make me think "unchallenged accepted wisdom".

Accepted wisdom remains accepted until eventually people start to realize that it's not entirely correct.
Nice!! They should call it PiedPiper :D (I can't believe I was the 1st one with this comment)
Snowflake does have a relational database engine, it was actually founded by two Oracle engineers (who had worked at Oracle 15+ years)
Of course we aren't going to get it right 100% of the time[1], but either they are rehabilitated & "served their debt to society" or they aren't. The whole sex offender list is a half-ass way to cover the bases. We need to get over ourselves and pick: they need to be incarcerated[2] or they can rejoin society. The list is incarceration on the prisoner's dime and puts them at the fringe forever.

Lumping all of these into one pot is another foolish idea with the list.

1) heck, we don't get guilty / not guilty right which is why I'm against the death penalty

2) in some form
Only download these if you want to get harassed by Nginx sales reps. I sent the link to the Docker/Microservices one from a while ago to my entire team and they called all of us several times.
I'm not super familiar with your company. Does the approaching of building the smallest nucleus of your tech like Sam described work for Pair? A glance at Crunchbase looks like you are seed stage so maybe this is a real pain point right now.

> Very often, the first thing we do is help hard tech founders find a small project within their larger idea that fits the model of quick iteration and requires a relatively small amount of capital. This project is often the smallest subset of their technology that still matters to some user or customer. It may at first look like a detour, but it’s a starting point that lets founders build measurable momentum–for themselves, for recruiting employees, and for attracting investors.

Edit: The realtime 3D object placement in the demo video [1] is incredibly cool. I've done enough computer vision to realize you have some non-trivial technical work, but I'm not sure if I would label it hard tech personally. I think the gray area is all around the real-time constraint.

[1]: https://angel.co/pair-2
>No, the republicans made a mistake by actually letting the people's vote decide and they will correct it before the next elections. The Democrats have already made this kind of mistake in the past[1] which is why they now have superdelegates to correct for that.

What are you talking about? The superdelegates weren't even a factor in nominating Hillary; she won the popular vote in the DNC primaries even without taking into account the SDs. You can argue that media complicity and other factors like CtR had a big hand here, but in the end, it was the Democratic voters who pulled the lever for her. So just like the Republican voters managed to choose a clown, so did the Democratic voters, except it was even worse for the Dems: on the Rep side, at least they can point out that it was actually a minority of Rep voters who chose him, and he won because of vote-splitting between all the other candidates. This just isn't a case on the Dem side, where all the other candidates aside from Sanders got almost no votes at all, and Hillary won a clear majority.
This conflicts with the way he uses the term "hard tech" to differentiate from software startups, as if the two are mutually exclusive:

It’s relatively easy for a software startup to take short cycle times and low-costs to an extreme, but hard tech founders are often surprised by how effectively they can do this, too.

What I think he is really referring to as "hard tech" is the move from the consumer electronics and office automation markets to the grittier, less-visible industrial verticals: Automotive, industrial, energy & utilities, aerospace & defense, etc. Verticals which have generally been dominated by a GE/Siemens/Boeing/ABB/Schneider etc. due to the high R&D costs needed to realize a certified, generally safety-critical solution in a highly bureaucratic environment.

Dropbox is down for a few hours? We'll have a few pissed customers. The ADAS system in a customer's car failed momentarily? They'll be lucky to survive and massive lawsuits/loss of business could ensue.

As an aside he should really define key terms up front to avoid this sort of confusion and to allow us to focus on his main point: YC is trying to move into and disrupt this lucrative but hard-to-broach space.
At the same time, Niantic was spun out of Google, so their choice of using Google Cloud is highly dubious.
Go far enough left and you end up on the right (and vice versa). That would explain your experience.
The dirty secret AWS doesn't want you to know is: Provisioned IOPS is really bad value for the money. Like a lot of others, we're just using a massively overprovisioned General purpose SSD volume, but reaching IOPS limits came back to bite us multiple times. Be sure to monitor it (and no, they don't provide any convenient way to do that, had to import several metrics from Cloudwatch API to Prometheus and combine there).
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A big driver of anxiety for me is bureaucracy. Forms on top of forms, all sorts of appointments, and lack of properly aligned 9 to 5 time to attend to them.
I'm actually don't agree at all to this. Is e.g. the MillWheel software, or Kafka, or Storm/Spark inherently unreliable and non-performant because they feature strong consistency and bounds on their operations? I don't think so.
I think they'll absolutely do this (assuming there isn't a physical ESC key). But, I think the experience would suck for users that are hitting ESC all day (e.g., vim users)
I am fairly certain I successfully got binary trees deleted from the standard library. If you monsters added it back, so help me god...

(BTrees, on the other hand, thrive)
My question is why aren't there transfer companies that just use Bitcoin as an alternative to Swift? Like, you want to send $50 USD to me. You give person A $50, he sends person B $50 worth of Bitcoin, and person B gives me $50 worth of USD.

Why do you even need to know about Bitcoin at all? Why isn't it just a cheap(ish) financial resolution layer?
Not exactly a drug, but during animal testing of saccharin in the 1970s, saccharin was found to induce bladder cancer in mice in high doses. However, the mechanism of action was later found to be specific to rodents and not applicable to humans.
My idea for a startup weekend was such a hard-tech/software problem that lost out to a couple of social weekend apps. While a lot of people got behind my idea and we put together a strong presentation, the lack of a finished app sank us. How do you compete with something launched on mobile in a weekend when your at power points and mocks?
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So far so good.

The problem is they do it before convicting you of anything.
Well thought of, seriously, people can be too negative.

It's obvious that on a theoretical standpoint a RNN can help with compression...

A while ago I thought about a RNN or a NN for encryption i.e. cracking it (I had did something like post on that topic.. but saw no replies whatsoever)..

gonna try to find that if someone's interested
In order for the Management Engine to really do much, you...

...have to trust Intel's publicly available documentation. In other words, this has to be taken on pure faith that it does exactly what they say it does in exactly the way they say it does it, and no more.

The problem with ME is that it consists of unauditable code that could be doing literally anything on the computer, completely transparent to the user. Furthermore, even if there is nothing untoward happening when the chip leaves the fab (again, must be taken on faith), a documented threat is having hardware interdicted, modified, and sent on its way.
How would one go about protecting themselves from having that happen in the first place? Nightmare material for sure.
Well, sure.. it didn't run UNIX. But for for all intents and purposes you had 'root access'. You could install any BBOS you wanted, look at the entire filesystem and install any third party app (w/o signing, or appworld), and the OS exposed APIs which iOS doesn't. All of these things were out of the box and didn't rely on jailbreaking or exploiting vulnerabilities in the OS.
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I was complaining more about the sudo part. Probably should have just had that in the quote.
I suspect what you fund has an impact similar to what you vote.

Like movies? Ethical companies? Give them money.

Dislike what a corporation is doing or donates to? Don't give them money.

I'm just about to attempt switching my soap supply to Dr. Bronners. Family owned business with a 5X earning cap from the lowest paid employee to the CEO. They do some neat stuff: http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/09/dr-bronners-says-bye-bye...
Yes, to my mother. The social workers ask any family members to step outside the room so they can speak to the patient (to check if there's abuse/mistreatment at home). They also check that you have all necessary equipment (wheelchair/shower chair/a way to go up and down in a multi-story home). They check if there are any assistance programs you can apply to.
I know! I looked at it and said "Wow, what the hell? Did someone decide the dots would be too close?". All I can say is "Sorry, Diagram for conceptual purposes only".

However, it is one of our first to include the submarine cables! (So it's got that going for it)
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It is if them don't charge the person. That is my point. He knows he's not getting his money back and the officer is not going to report it because he can't. It's armed robbery, plain and simple.
The outside blue field on the pie chart has no title when you hover over it (purchases under $5000).

And having the text be upside down for half of the chart is pretty bad (another way to do it: http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2015/07/pie-chart-...)

This comment is meant in good faith, it's an important story and topic and visualizing the impact is very useful. I appreciate the work that went into it.

edit: I just noticed you can click on the fields, very cool!
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> The examples you give are all physical items that have intrinsic value because they can be used for something other than being money

One could argue that's the definition of real money - but to say Bitcoin isn't real money is to move the goal post when what you mean is Bitcoin isn't a traditional fiat currency. There's no debate there.