skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.5 MB for an app that does nothing. 1.5 million bytes for nothing. How inefficient we are these days. I really wish it were as simple as this:

$ cat > myapp.aml
<!doctype android>
<head><title>My App</title></head>
<app activity="MainActivity.java"></app>
^D

$ cat > MainActivity.java

import android;

class MainActivity extends Activity {
void main() {
android.toast("hello world");
}
}
^D

$ android compile myapp.aml

Could not find a keystore in your home directory. Would you like me to create one for you (y/n): y
Enter a keystore password: ********
Confirm password: ********
Thanks!
Compiling Java code ... done!
Zipping it up ... done!
Signing ... done!
Byte-aligning ... done!
Wrote myapp.apk. You're ready to upload to the Play Store!
$

But no. We must over-complicate things. AppCompatActivity, manifestations of manifests, layers upon layers of gradle BS, keystores, lots of stackoverflow lookups just to deal with byte aligning, signing, etc. And then Android Studio updates itself, breaking your entire project's 79+ files that for a blank app. What has the world come to?
probably to do with the current wildfires in Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Napa regions of Northern California.
Pile rocks in the corners of the lot. Maybe record good GPS of each corner. If it all dissapears, at least you know where to rebuild the fences. Don't want to argue with your neighbours on boundaries.
This dismissive attitude really pisses me off.

Babysitters don't have to get the kids to DO anything.

Saying these are the same is like saying a manager in a business is only supposed to check if employees showed up and clocked in.

Sure, some managers are that bad at their job, but it is also very clear that their job is supposed to be much more than that.

Same with teachers. Getting 30 children who did not choose to be there to actually DO something is a very different skillset than babysitting.

/rant
Time to think about your fire plan. My home one is six pages long - not joking! I had to write one when my wiff wanted to run a small bus. from here. It's actually longer than my business one ...

Anyway, this is not a joke and should be taken a bit seriously. A 2l "dry water" fire extinguisher costs about £20 a pop. They work on all fires that are likely to be encountered in the home (not rated for flamable metal). They are quite new but are certified in the EU and maybe beyond. The great thing about these is that they are safe for electrical fires as well as paper etc. So you can replace foam and CO2 with one extinguisher. I was encouraged to look into these by a member of the British Fire Brigade. Put one on each floor.

As well as that, get an escape ladder for upstairs - ~£30-40 and a blanket for the kitchen - ~£5

Fire needs three things to crack on: Something to burn, oxygen, source of ignition. It's not rocket science. No one needs to know about your little fixation about removing the towel that your sig. other leaves next to the gas hob etc.

Keep safe kids!

EDIT: Just seen a few posts whilst I was pontificating here from people who really have to deal with fire as a way of life.

You have a lot of good advice here - heed it!
The fact that you'd first have to secure employment at your destination city?
Only save lives, GET OUT
What does prevent the developer from making this new screen buffer blank/black and making the top of app's screen look exactly like that shape and style? The user won't see the difference except small top margin.
Amazing results and glad they stood up. Looking into signing up!
> High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking.

It has never been, and can't be about truth-seeking, this is exactly what it is not about.

It's always been about an intellectual game. So one learns the others view so one can attack it better, if thats ones goal and along the way learn critical thinking.

This author seems like one of those idiots when they have audience votes, who votes for the side they agree with.

That said their original thesis is correct, debating has gone absurdum and so theoretical a lot of the learning seems to be lost.
They mention in the comments that they are in northern California where there are large wildfires burning.

15 people have died and hundreds of structures have been destroyed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/california-fires.html
Are there any open source offerings that are comparable?
Can we have the title edited so it doesn't sound like a going-out-of-business post?

I'd suggest "The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case".
I'd guess he's just asking. I stress enough about whether I've packed the right stuff for vacation. If I was under the pressure of a raging forest fire coming for my home[1], I would not be able to confidently tell you that "yes, I got the necessary stuff, let's evacuate". A checklist would be great to have. (And is a great reason, I suppose, to have a plan for emergencies beforehand, though I don't intend to berate the OP here. I'm just as unprepared, I feel.)

[1]: I am presuming that the poster is north of the Bay Area; the smoke from the fires up there obscured Oakland from view of SF this morning, and the smell of the fire was all over. Eerie as heck, and I'm thankful to be on this side of the Bay. Co-workers reported accidentally leaving a window open and returning to a thin layer of ash covering stuff.
So, if I understand this right... some NSA TAO employee was doing work on their home computer (???), where they installed Kaspersky AV (reasonable), and Kaspersky promptly identified the malware they were working on as malware and uploaded it?

And then Israel hacked Kaspersky 'cause that's what they do or something, found the NSA development malware, and was like "Hey NSA, you should figure out how this got here"?

This seems like a very different story from any of the Kaspersky stuff I've been hearing. I'm sort of surprised Kaspersky had servers vulnerable to Israel, but I'm really surprised it was acceptable for NSA TAO employees to do work on their personal machines. I merely work in algorithmic trading, and everyone in the industry is paranoid about code leaving the building (at least one employer I know of straight-up doesn't have a VPN at all, from what I've heard). How is the NSA not as paranoid here?
Weird, there is no evident link to the source code in the redash.io page, but you can find it if you search: https://github.com/getredash/redash
They give you an already configured virtual machine for free, but it doesn't receive bug fixes. The install process must be a mess.

Metabase has a link to their repository in the first page of https://metabase.com/
Just based in this fact I would prefer Metabase.

How do they compare to generate high quality reports?
The Android source code isn't Google's to "give away". It is written and maintained by a huge ecosystem of hardware and software vendors and independent developers.
https://metabase.com/
Start-up Ripple has over 100 clients as mainstream finance warms to blockchain
Not having experience with disruptj20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisruptJ20

DisruptJ20 (also Disrupt J20), a Washington, D.C.-based political organization founded in July 2016 and publicly launched on November 11 of the same year, stated its initial aim as protesting and disrupting events of the presidential inauguration of the 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump, which occurred on January 20, 2017. The protests organized and encouraged by the DisruptJ20 group were a part of a wider array of protests initiated by a variety of individuals and groups, in Washington, DC and nationwide; from a more extensive initial plan, deployments by DisruptJ20 at the inauguration eventually included efforts, at least, to blockade one bridge, and to attempt to shut down security checkpoints.

---

I don't care either way about disruptj20, but I appreciate DreamHost's efforts, and the intervention by the court to curtail the overly broad demand for information.
It was written in Bliss so not so hard if you understand BCPL or C. Also I was 17 and had a lot of time on my hands...
What have they shot down recently? I hadn't heard of any of their products getting the axe in several years...
Scaling your services with AWS: Part 1
I'm sure if CircleCI had a prompt to opt-in to enabling the tracking then they might have returned the courtesy. Why is it OK for a company/project to violate the privacy of so many with no warning but bad for users to report the privacy and security violations?
My comment is a bit pithy, but the time to think about that has passed.

There are many fine suggestions in the thread, so I'm going to amend, assuming you don't mind, your statement - just a little.

"It's time for everyone else to think about their fire plan."

At this point, OP should just follow the best solutions posted in the thread that the situation safely allows for. I'd add that they should monitor local radio as that's likely the source of a rapid evacuation notice.

-

Edited to make it clear that my comment is the pithy one, not the one to which I am responding.
When I read your username I was a little taken aback. I have your python data science book and just assumed you were always a ML Software Engineer. I didn't realize you were a data scientist who transitioned into a more engineering focused role by teaching yourself CS.

I'm trying to do this myself, but it's mostly the road of failures with success somewhere out there. Seeing you did it gives me hope that I'll get there one day. Thanks!
Subroutines and the Wheeler Jump – Computerphile
Take how much extra tax you are willing to pay. Pay it to charity that best supports those ideals.

If you're not already doing this people will suggest talk is cheap and posturing has a negative value to society at large. Good luck with it!
I have no idea how this works but aren't most policies exempt from force majeure like forest fires?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisruptJ20

Also read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
I think you are right.

QBasic was only capable of 320x200 with 256 colors.
I discovered recently one of my new neighbors just retired from MSFT and was one of the original members of the QBasic team. Considering how much time I spent as a kid learning on it, I was kind of star struck.
They probably didn't hack anything, they just have people who receive these AV samples as malware researchers. Any intelligence agency worth their money should.

And yes, this is the gist of what's behind all the Kaspersky hysteria. The NSA trying to obscure another extremely embarrassing leak.

Every AV software uploads new detections for analysis. It just so happened that this fool used Kaspersky. It's abundantly clear that behind all the make believe is a mostly incompetent agency that can't keep it's secrets any better than Equifax.
I would assume OP is up on whatever local authorities are advising and is posting to HN (at least in part) as an alternative to running around flailing arms and screaming like Kermit the Frog. I approve such choices and am happy to participate in helping them try to stay calm and do something vaguely constructive in the face of this.
How long does it take you to sort a 5TB dataset on your own computer?
I use the DK2 on Windows 10, it still works. When it asks you to setup the CV1 sensors, you can skip that step. Oculus home will display a warning that your headset is not officially supported, but some games still work fine. EVE: Valkyrie works great on the DK2.
So sorry to hear this. As for documents, focus on those you'll need to prove your identity and financial position. Things that come to mind are:

Drivers licenses

Passports

Birth certificates

Social security cards (not technically ID but good to have)

Insurance documents (home, auto, health, life, anything else)

Property deeds or rental agreements for real estate, vehicles, any other major physical investments (own a boat? a tractor?)

Latest statements from bank accounts, credit cards, etc (digital copies will suffice - this is more about making sure you have account numbers, etc.)

Checkbooks

Paperwork from any corporate entities you may own or agreements such as stock option plans (digital may suffice here as well)

A digital copy (photos on phone if necessary) of your last year's tax documents

Photos of your last few pay stubs (if they're not already digital)

Any financial vehicles whose ownership depends on physical documents, such as bearer bonds

If you have documents relating to care of relatives (guardianship, power of attorney, DNR), bring those

If you have a will, make sure you have a copy (digital or otherwise).

Any other licensing documentation you might expect to want to refer to without having to ask the issuing body for a replacement (firearms licenses, medical licenses, marriage licenses, etc.)

Any documents relating to medical history or prescriptions

Contact info for everyone you know (this may already be digital, but some people do still keep Rolodexes or little black books)

Keys to any and all the things (shed, office, storage unit, safety deposit box, whatever)

You'll likely want to bring with you any laptops and external hard drives you own. If you're somewhat electronics savvy and have a desktop computer, consider extracting its drive too and taking that with you.

And of course, it's the things with sentimental value that are hardest to replace. You can always buy a new stereo system or replace a pair of jeans you left behind (even if you have to wear the jeans you did take until they fall apart and play music over a $20 pair of computer speakers while you save up to replace that tuner). You can never replace your photographs, your favorite stuffed animal from childhood, your grandmother's jewelry.

Good luck!
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Sure, there's a difference. There's also a difference between first and second degree murder, but they are both still murder.

From what I can tell, most terrorists want to achieve a more specific goal than just to maximize civilian damage. Here are some groups which are called terrorist organizations:

Earth Liberation Front: carries out property damage related to fur farming, meat packing, GMO research, logging, etc.

Army of God, a Christian anti-abortionist group: kidnapped a doctor who performed abortions, and his wife, murdered or attempted to murder abortion providers, and carried out clinic bombings and arson.

In both cases the goal was to increase the perceived costs of respectively exploiting the environment and carrying out abortions.

What is the difference between a targeted murder of a foreign scientists by the CIA and a targeted murder of an abortion provider?

(I use "murder" because I think "assassination" is a fancy name partially meant to justify murder as an aspect of state power.)
Perhaps he was doing the bidding of his employers in order to test a theory that Kaspersky was an attack vector?

I mean, this is exactly how you tell if your data has been breached or your source code leaked -- you put fake but unique records in your database then watch the dark webs for folks selling dumps containing those values; and plausible but bogus code containing unique constants then check competitors' binaries against those values.
Be careful what you hope for by way of law.

The Jevons Paradox implications of reducing the costs of litigation by one or more orders of magnitude ... terrify me. The more so as reducing costs tends to increase the level of concentration of power.
If a project looks popular, you can at least assume it isn't total rubbish though.
Hmm I'm on two minds about this, I don't know what it's like in the us, but in aus, when there's a fire we get constant updates about position and direction.

If you are unsure, I'll certainly agree, be. Fucking. Careful.

Otherwise, staying seems like a bad plan(cavet yes I know I know, but shit. If it's coming towards toh, go, if there is akm firebreak between you don't, I can't cover everything edge case)
Perhaps he/she had the data on a SAN while performing development from a more “secure” computer and one of his personal computers with AV installed was connected to the same SAN. A likely scenario as far as scenarios go.
Acceptable, no. People not following rules, it happens.
Microsoft loves to execute code from unlikely places. What possible legitimate use would this particular "feature" be good for?
EDIT2: Shit - just realized that the OP is probably from CA or somewhere else prone to current forest fire.
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This is amazing. Thank you, Dreamhost, for defending your customers' rights.
In 1954 the VP of India gave the US Senate a gavel after Nixon broke the old one
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Not exactly. In the link case the application is the browser instead of the site and there are many browsers that you can select from, in the .net case however the .net itself is the application.
Updated to be more accurate and keeping still the initial blog title.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Bret Victor has done a lot of work on visual and reactive programming - http://worrydream.com/
Happy to see the law work it out this way. Good of Dreamhost to stand up for privacy.

Unfortunately disrupt J20 is a violent group that promotes assault and anarchy against conservatives, so it's important that law enforcement officials are able to continue their investigation in some other way.

Members of this group were arrested and convicted in a plot to attack the inauguration ball using acid in the ventilation system and other alleged tactics.
Yeah, I've tried it at a few shops and it tends to be a cultural problem more than a technical one.

It's also really hard to build the right tools. It's very easy to sink 3-6mo into a tool that doesn't get a ton of usage because you either don't have partners on the other side who are invested or didn't solve the right problems.

For it to work right you need a lot of factors to go just right. When it does it's pretty incredible but feels a bit like trying to catch lightning in bottle.
This is much closer to what I have in mind then what you can expect :)

Current draft involves two monitors, two cameras, and protocol crazy enough to confuse any firmware.
Why company culture makes or breaks remote work
Basically.

I've seen what now looks like state sponsored bullshit blogs posing as tin foil hatters being posted to HN saying Kaspersky is part of the Russian intelligence apparatus, and that's why the US government pressured stores to remove Kaspersky AV from store shelves, etc etc etc.

Most likely, they did their job, and they did it correctly. The NSA can't really defeat competent AV researchers who aren't even looking at the NSA in the first place.
Do Earthquakes Have a ‘Tell’?
Yes, I suddenly realised that the OP is not worrying about the basics but a clear and present danger (see my EDIT2)

I'm not from around there ...
I suppose implied arguments fly over your head?

Also, "truism," is an elementary school word. I suppose not in your zip code.
I live in Santa Rosa. Friends have already lost houses. Family in other locations will likely get an evac order within hours. Wind is expected to pick up tonight, and the fire is coming over another hill (pics of it cresting were posted) and that area has already gotten evac orders. 2000+ structures have already burned.
The author's basic premise is that high school debate, done well, can help remedy the problems with US politics. But you might notice that the author describes traits for high school debate (technicality, attention to detail) that are unlike those of real politics, and asks for high school debate to become more like real politics.
Hmm methodical is good, just don't be too sure about how quickly a fire can move. A slight shift in the wind and a better combustible can make an amazing difference in speed.
Grab all identification you can muster, and I'd say laptop, photos, etc. that has sentimental value - but don't overdo it. I suggest also calling your insurance company now, let them know what's likely to happen, get a case opened, that way when the house is toast, things will already be moving for you.
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The 44th of that time is analogous to the 36th district today. Here's a map: https://github.com/JeffreyBLewis/congressional-district-boun...
Install process for redash doesn't look too bad (if you can give it it's own vm): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getredash/redash/master/se... [ would be easy enough to transform that in to an ansible role ]

Agree metabase wins though: apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless && curl http://downloads.metabase.com/v0.26.1/metabase.jar && java -jar metabase.jar
"which is really interesting because you have to think in a very different way." .. which is?
This would be a great movie.
As I mentioned lower, try to wear as little synthetic as possible, if worse comes to worse, it melts into flesh. Cotton at least burns. (Yes I know, lesser of two evils here).

Good call on the meds op.
Posit Arithmetic: Beating floats at their own game [pdf]
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LOL I think we might both be editing our comments in real time.

As it appears to be a real and present danger, I'm tempted to write about how to respond in an emergency situation. I'd be more concerned with it derailing the subject of the thread, however.

I'd also add that if there is real risk, moving before the traffic increase may be a wise option. I'm not able to determine their risk and, for liability reasons, would not do so.
Note an open source alternative is superset[1] (formerly Panoramix/caravel by airbnb)

[1](https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset)
Joins are not supported, although its been on the todo since its ever went public beta.
>. It’s not shocking that Country and Sector are important variables but “founding_year” is intriguing. It could mean that it may be getting easier or harder to build a sustainable business.

It should be pretty obvious that LUCK is a huge factor.

It's that age old saying... how does it go? "Success is when preparation meets opportunity." Bill Gates got rich because he was the right guy, at the right time, with the right (completely unfinished vaporware) product when IBM needed an OS.

Most of the new billionaires are techies. Techies that happened simply because the world became tech oriented. Surprising... nobody. There are entire billionaire families from previous "Rushes". The gold rush, oil rushes, wall street, RAIL ROAD TYCOONS, etc.

There is no scientific way to guarantee billion-dollar wealth, only correlations. And the only data I see from the article is: 1) There's more than one way to skin a cat. Some dropped out, some got Ph'ds, many stayed in the middle. That doesn't matter. Wherever you are now, you can start working. 2) Luck matters. You can be successful but the chances of you exploding is fractions of a fraction.
Or health insurance call center employees, whose only goal is to satisfy your query minimally to get you off the phone, including transferring you to someone they say will help you (but does not) or flat out lying to you about written communications you already have in hand.