skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read both articles thoroughly, but two quotes from the articles will answer your questions:

Blog post: "Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives."

This post: "Dropbox today released Smart Sync..."

So the blog post was a demo about feature in the future, while this article says it is already released.
CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
That's why you buy a domain.

Although you can argue this is still a service, it's way better then Facebook.

Also multiple personas online is a feature. Unless in rare cases, this doesn't replicate in real life.
I like the idea of using a sequence to unlock the phone, or specific finger to wipe the phone, and a different finger to load into a "clean" environment. That would be a usable mix of secret knowledge, physical security, and convienience.
The taxi drivers' strike was in poor taste anyway. "Ok, so people are going to have trouble with airport transportation because of this immigration ban, so let's make it even harder by taking away from transportation options." They not only could have made it harder for those who did eventually manage to clear CBP to get home, but they also made it harder for protesters to get to and from the airport. If I were in charge of Uber's or Lyft's ability to shut down their service for the airport, I certainly wouldn't do that.

This is a fine example of a union strike harming people.

Regarding surge, it's "damned if you do, damned if you don't": when they leave surge pricing up in these situations, they're blasted for profiteering, and now when they disable it, they're blasted for... what, exactly? Providing less of an incentive for drivers to go there?
It's a robotic arm on an already automated espresso machine that's existed for years. Calling that a barista is pretty thin...
I kind of agree and disagree I work a lot with distributed systems so I have to read a lot of papers, and I have to implement a lot of data structures myself, however I am severely lacking in formal education. While initially my lack of education was a difficult barrier I overcame it pretty quickly. I also have been writing nontrivial code in haskell just to improve my use of scala so that's more of academia I have to deal with.

But I still stand by the fact that unless you're going to stanford, CMU, or MIT, or a professor who is not strictly a theorist at an above average school takes a liking to you.

If not and you really enjoy the field you're better off teaching yourself.
Bulk website monitoring with content and screenshots tracking
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/c...
https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/United%20States/20...

~60,000 google user accounts(not just email, but all your web browsing data) were handed over to the government in 2016. And this was under the Obama administration.
Trump's Muslim ban is a distracting 'shock event'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519421
I'm dutch, which (for a variety of weird reasons) means I'll be finishing my masters.
> Do tesla's honestly not have any form of rear tow hitch/chassis/axle?

I suspect the issue is more to do with the electric drive. There is no neutral unlike a traditional ICE vehicle, so any kind of towing could potentially damage the electric motors.

I have a Prius and it's the same issue - if I need to get it taken to a garage, it's recommended to get a flatbed with a crane.
Yes, of course. A big chunk of my time at various previous companies was removing usage of such things when not necessary. It's also not "a lot" of atomic variable access but you do need a strong fence to provide the correct semantics (so it is some). To what degree "a lot" or "some" is depends obviously on what you're doing.
* Feross Aboukhadijeh (https://github.com/feross)

I've been following him since YT Instant. Always seems to be involved in some really exciting projects.
It's been 30 years, and the people are still obsessing about gerbils and Jerry Pournelle?!?
But that's precisely why they should have done a recall-and-replace. Funny error message? Intermittent fault? No worries, give it a thorough looking over. Find nothing. Okay, give it back to the customer. More weird error messages followed by a persistent fault? The prudent thing at this point is to instantly swap out the car, and this time go through it with a fine toothed comb.

Now you're not just looking for a dodgy cable. You're looking for one of three things:

1) An as-yet-unknown design flaw, which needs to be documented for maintainers and fixed in future revisions.

2) A manufacturing defect, which should be investigated by quality control and again documented in case it reoccurs.

3) Malfeasance, in which case you want to preserve any possible evidence, finger prints on parts, damaged tamper seals etc.

It's not just about good customer service, it's about finding out exactly what happened.
search-ability is not a constraint for encryption. Eq see https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf
A system like that would need to do more than provide a clean slate. It wouldn't be plausible that someone would be using a worn phone without having installed any apps on it. Also, I don't know how the phone would be able to obscure the contents of a micro-SD card, for example.
FROM START-UP TO UNICORN
Ask HN: Who owns (legally) user comments at HN?
>"there is no ethical consumption under capitailism."

Imagine there was a competitor to Uber and Lyft that was owned by the drivers themselves in the form of a cooperative, so that any new drivers would have equal say in the direction the service took. Would that not be more ethical than Uber and Lyft?
> something is seriously wrong when a candidate can win an election by several million votes and still lose the presidency

I'm not an American so the electoral college is completely alien to me but what you're saying is basically that you disagree with the entire point of having the electoral college.

Clinton lost in almost every state. The reason she won the popular vote (which, again, doesn't matter in the presidential election) is that she won in some of the states with the highest population, like California. Yes, this means she won more people over, but they still only represent a fraction of the demographics.

The electoral college has obvious flaws like swing states being the primary concern of candidates during much of their campaigns. But it's important to understand that without the electoral college there would be other problems, specifically the most populous states practically deciding the election.

So either way it's unfair: either it's unfair to a large portion of the overall population by putting states above people, or it's unfair to a large number of states by putting population above state rights.

It's really a question of what the US wants to be. Do you want to be an alliance of sovereign states united under a federal government, or do you want to be a singular nation with a central government that delegates to the individual states for bureaucratic reasons?

It seems a lot of Americans say they want the former but secretly think they have the latter. A weighted state-based system will always result in "undemocratic" results like the 2016 election, a direct vote will always be unfair to smaller states. You can't have it both ways.

In my opinion the electoral college should be abolished and the US elections (all of them) should be reformed in a way that no longer necessitates a two-party system but in practice state rights are an important issue to Americans.

The US motto may be "e pluribus unum" but that doesn't mean the political landscape can be treated as a homogeneous playing field.
Frustratingly, you can't get the kindle version if you live in the UK (I actually live in the Netherlands, which Amazon doesn't operate in at all, but my account is from the UK). The kindle version even shows up on the US site until I log in.

EDIT: I tried to use Amazon.nl (they do have a kindle store, just not regular Amazon), they have the kindle version of the book but when I log in after buying it I'm told it's not available in my country
Patents on living beings in general are as ridiculous as patents on genes.
Not the parent.

If the company can pay for fines, fine. No need to dissolve them, but the leadership responsible still needs to face a judge. Just because you're part of a corporation, shouldn't mean you get to walk from crimes.
I didn't mean to imply that. They're not related.
Medallion CDS?
That would have meant forcing other people (their drivers) to strike, and share the economic loss for it as well. Not very fair, don't you think? Being on strike with other people's money?
You mention that there are plenty of heirloom tomatoes that area easy to grow. Two sentences later you say that you can't replant the seeds because they are F1 hybrids.

I think a clarification is in order. The general consensus is that if a tomato is an heirloom it is not a hybrid, and vice versa.

I have had excellent luck with growing plants from collected seeds for any of the heirloom tomatoes I've grown. With hybrids, your mileage may vary.

That being said, I find heirloom tomatoes to be a lot more finicky to grow. Various species are sensitive to diseases. Excessive rain increases chances of diseases, and therefore, a green house or at least rain cover helps out.

That being said, I encourage anyone to try growing their own tomatoes. You will get fruit! It's hugely satisfying. Once you eat a good tomato, it feels like you are in on a secret most people don't know about.
You are ignorant. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A995

India 159m, USA 265m registered vehicles. India is the 6th largest producer of vehicles.
I'm really tired of the "virtue signaling" meme. Yeah, there are some people out there that don't really care about their cause and only want to look good. But really, the vast majority of protesters out there are not in that category. They are alarmed, they know they only have partial information but that's part of what they are alarmed about, they know they don't have a lot of power to do anything other than "call their representatives", and still just want to do something.

Nonviolent protest is an effective tool. There are academic studies done on it [1] and how it is actually more effective than violent protest - it has real efficacy. It's not merely "virtue signaling".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works-Nonviolent...
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Sure, cron is easy to use, but it also involves maintaining a sever to some degree. I use a Lambda "cronjob" to run health checks on various other servers/services- I don't have to worry about healthchecking my healthchecking machine.
MGSD: A single file GTD webapp based on TiddlyWiki
This is a really excellent idea that can do nothing but good. I would support this however I could.
A tech product called paper, how original of a skeumorph to bygone relevance in a simplistic clear name about what the product actually does!
That is how the world works. If you want to win, you have to be willing to do everything to get there. Not only for companies, but also in sport. Do you think the winners play fair?

You should really read the autobiography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, then you get an idea of what it takes to be able to win.
Would like to know how many instances have you seen where the home country got millions in this fashion.
Performant search is. Gmail wouldn't work with O(n) search times.
Volkswagens cheating was a minor infraction, notable only for the $18B fine that was handed out by the US to throw some weight around, appease the domestic car industry and satisfy protectionist instincts.

Certainly it would be easy to fine Facebook, Google in Europe for privacy/monopoly violations (i.e. things that actually matter) with huge fines?
Show HN: awk commands for `union`, `intersect`, `except`, `extra`
I'm munging text and I wrote these awk commands that may be useful to other coders. Feedback welcome.

union (https://github.com/sixarm/union): print lines in (A union B)

intersect (https://github.com/sixarm/intersect): print lines in (A intersect B)

except (https://github.com/sixarm/except): print lines in (A
except B) a.k.a. (A - B)

extra (https://github.com/sixarm/extra) : print lines in (A extra B) a.k.a. (B - A)

Examples:

$ cat 1.txt
alpha
bravo

$ cat 2.txt
alpha
charlie

$ union 1.txt 2.txt
alpha
bravo
charlie

$ intersect 1.txt 2.txt
alpha

$ except 1.txt 2.txt
bravo

$ extra 1.txt 2.txt
charlie
> It's a matter for the judiciary to determine

I'm pretty sure any oath of office, including those in the executive, include the protection of the constitution and bill of rights. To leave the defence of the constitution solely in the hands of the judiciary is terribly dangerous, especially considering how politicised that branch has become.

> It seems perfectly sensible [..] to temporarily suspend travel to/from such high-risk blocks while the vetting procedures are evaluated.

There are enough articles out there why it's not reasonable (mostly the fact that there haven't been any attacks from citizens of those countries in the US, that it would have been reasonable to continue the SQ while any review is ongoing, that the review could have been done during the transition etc.)

The acting AG's issues where not about "reasonable", but "legal". Specifically – with regards to the actual cases she would have had to defend – the legality of removing people holding permanent residency permits.

The illegality of removing green card holders is pretty obvious. To quote the Department of Homeland Security:

As a permanent resident (green card holder), you have the right to:

- Live permanently in the United States provided you do not commit any actions that would make you removable under immigration law

- Work in the United States at any legal work of your qualification and choosing. (Please note that some jobs will be limited to U.S. citizens for security reasons)

- Be protected by all laws of the United States, your state of residence and local jurisdictions

Your Responsibilities as a Permanent Resident

As a permanent resident, you are:

- Required to obey all laws of the United States the states, and localities

- Required to file your income tax returns and report your income to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities
- Expected to support the democratic form of government and not to change the government through illegal means
- Required, if you are a male age 18 through 25, to register with the Selective Service

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/ri...
Uber is a company, it is not organized in a union. I would never expect them to participate in a strike and effectively order their drivers to stop working. Just like a taxicab company doesn't participate in the strike, but the drivers do.

This is like if Coca Cola workers went on strike, and problem blamed Pespi Co of breaking strike by not sending their workers home??
Hah, never really thought of it that way. That doesn't seem quite right though, do you mean a doctor should be paid for you not needing to be seen?
Not to mention getting rid of the nonsensical anti-asian bias in the GC process. It is not really fault of Indians and Chinese that they are not trying to enter USA as refugees and instead coming as well educated special skilled individuals. The 9 year waiting period is one of the worst kind of discrimination.
"Uber broke the strike by breaking the strike"

I'm pretty sure that's not true.

If the Airport 'hired taxis' - and then hired 'other taxis' to do some work, then it might be true.

But the Airport doesn't hire them, and also Uber is not technically a taxi ...

So I think it's within the law.

As far as 'court of public opinion' - that's another matter.

I'd be interested to see what people actually think outside of our culture.
Looks like turbolinks + intercooler.js done right
I agree with all you wrote. Hence the confusion. The only thing that might be a lever to control Trump is Musk global fame as an US visionary in Space and Cars, plus the Gigafactory (which is very much Trump-ish in gigantism) with its US jobs feel.

Other than that ..
I dunno. Every time I talk to a child, an "insatiable drive" for information is exactly how I would describe their state of being. Picking up speech, social norms, fine motor control, reading, writing, learning to identify physical danger and risk, and even the speed and fluidity I see when children learn to use technology (especially compared to some adults) makes me think that insatiable information gathering (and trying to apply that information and get new pieces) is extremely foundational. The drive and necessity to do so doesn't necessarily remain as intense as we mature, but that doesn't mean the capacity to do so isn't still there for folks who wish to apply it.
Wewease Bwian!
Looks a bit like an over engineered coffee machine to me. On the other, if customers enjoy the experience, why not.
Termbin: Easiest way to copy over SSH
Interesting, does anyone have an idea how to start where the instructions leave off, and actually hook it up to a midi controller? What do you have to do to get it working?
Well, six entities: the three you mention plus each one with s/Uber/Lyft/, since Lyft was also picking up people from the airport during that time.

Your point still stands, of course. (Though I choose to avoid taking the moral high ground not by condemning all of those entities, but by refusing to condemn any of them, since I don't see any fault here.)
Can anyone recommend a European alternative for Amazon AWS?
How-To Build an NPS System That Gets Results
> I'm also confused. "API as a service" sounds to me like "service as a service"... ok, it's a service, but what does it do?

perhaps this http://rawrmaan.com/why-parse-failed/ might be a better explanation ?
"Maybe they agree with Trump"

Maybe living in NYC is very expensive, they are poor, and they need money.
He probably means the taxi drivers that would pass by my minority friends to pick me up. The look of horror in their faces as I waved my friends to come get in the cab was always some slight consolation. If it hadn't happened so regularly, it might have been funny. We now take Uber and it's never a problem.

I feel for any of the honest cab drivers that didn't pull this kinda crap, but my experience tells me that there weren't many of them.
Right, which is why the American people did not choose Trump. The electoral college did. It's not fair to point the finger at the people when the system was the most likely cause of the outcome.
I wish there was something similar on Backend development, or better, full-stack development.
"collaborating with the Trump administration on the one hand, while simultaneously trying to be seen as moral."

So is Musk, and many others.

Cook was just at dinner with Ivana a few days ago.
It sounded like they sold the loaner car that he was using at the time.
The inverted index could simply be built/live on client side. The cloud is then just a backup data storage. Encrypted email is downloaded, unencrypted and indexed on your laptop/phone etc.
Execute millions of SQL statements in milliseconds in the browser
They do not understand what drinking coffe is about.

For an oversized office coffe machine it is excellent.
Or for an iPhone a finger that says "Upload my backup to iCloud, turn on password until the backup is done, then wipe my phone."
is there an option like "i don't really care about politics, US especially" anywhere on this site?
In the same vein, very little attention is given by capitalism to the details of what is the value of things that don't have a price, like, ecosystems, or human dignity.

The assumption of perfect efficiency and that the free market magically leads to the best outcome for all is wrong. It's a very common assumption too. Even though the absurd level of inequalities or the ultra short-sighted plundering and wreaking of natural resources are often remarked about.
Shipbob(YC-S14) hiring senior .NET software engineers in Chicago
It is. Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated.
Gads: I'm ordering the parts for my first server computer and about to put my code into alpha test, and already my tools are obsolete? Gads!

Sounds like .NET Core is aimed mostly just at the Linux world or the mobile world or people who want to be able to run the same code on both Linux and Windows. But I'm staying with Windows desktop and Windows Server -- already spent too much on getting good enough with Windows.

I have to suspect that Microsoft will continue to support Windows developers, including with VB.NET. If all Microsoft does with VB.NET is fix bugs, then fine with me. I'm not sure I have yet found a bug; so, fixing bugs in VB.NET should be easy enough for Microsoft.

I'm not really a programmer; instead I'm an applied mathematician and business man who also writes software. Since this thread is about startups, the core of my startup is some applied math I derived -- and then programmed, with a Web site for the users.

I would guess that if Microsoft wants all their major languages to run on both Windows and Linux, then that will be a lot of work and something for the future that I don't have to worry about.

While I don't like the C# C-like syntax, I could use C# if I needed to. IIRC there is a source code translator from VB --> C# and, maybe, if possible, in the other direction. So, I could convert my code to C#.

I suspect that I'm not the only developer who wants to continue with VB.NET and the .NET Framework as they have been for some years now. If the .NET Core is not relevant to such developers, then so be it, and that's not a good reason for Microsoft to abandon their old developers.
If it is yourself:

Realize it is likely you feel this way for a reason, and it is a sign of health. Do an inventory of the main pieces of your life and note which situations are causing you pain:

- work life

- living/housing situation

- physical health (including movement, sunlight, eating habits and sleep)

- general social life (do you have spontaneous positive interactions with acquaintances, coworkers, baristas etc.)

- personal social life (relationships with partners/family and close friends)

If you are feeling depressed I can bet you more than one thing on this list can deserve attention. Pick one you can change for the better immediately and work on it. For instance, if you are lacking social interaction in general, go pick up a coffee someplace that is not too busy and either smile and make brief small talk with someone working there or another customer. If you don't like your apartment, put effort into finding a new one. Talk to your partner or get relationship counseling. Things are not going to magically become perfect overnight, but small things every day add up over time.

If it is someone you love:
Listen if they are talking, talk to them if they are quiet. Generally be supportive. Search for a positive thing they are doing or want to do and give them positive reinforcement for it. They are stuck in a negative thought cycle and try to encourage something in them that is working. Here is an example:
Friend: "my life sucks. I hate my job, my expenses are too much for what I make, and on top of all that, I just found out that my girlfriend is selling herself to strangers on Craigslist. I already confronted her about it, but she just says to accept her entrepreneurial polyamory and get over it. At this rate, I am never going to get a phd in deep learning or do a startup or have a stable family like I want"

You:
"cool you want to get a phd? yeah I've heard about deep learning it sounds cool... which programs would you want to do/ what projects do you want to work on etc."

Remember that scene in fight club where Durden orders the clerk to follow his dream of going to vet school? Something like that. Listen to them to figure out where they want to be headed, and encourage that.
I found it useful, I forgot what the term was and wanted to look it up.
The making of Dell's XPS 13 2-in-1