skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always worth digging into the source material:

1) http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910010317

> illegally untangling a humpback whale caught in his fishing gear.

> ... violating the federal Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Humpback whales were considered endangered species as the time. Certainly doesn't seem crazy to give extra care when handling endangered species

2) https://www.dps.texas.gov/RSD/PSB/Laws/psb_opin_sum.htm

> Computer repair or support services should be aware that if they offer to perform investigative services, such as assisting a customer with solving a computer-related crime, they must be licensed as investigators.

Sounds like the requirement applies to those who offer services that would be considered private investigation.

3) https://www.wired.com/2010/08/five-myths-about-philadelphias... provides a decent contemporaneous rebuttal.
I can also imagine that the same regulations enacted under a different administration, region, historical or technological context can have different consequences.

It's natural to imagine that for such large systems, it's controlled by a little more than a few simple variable. But unfortunately, the levers and knobs that the population sees is something along the lines of low / high government and taxes.
I saw that in the US once, as well as someone cutting off a funeral procession. In the latter case a cop almost instantly pulled them over, fortunately.
Well, what are the options for detecting the end of a statement? You can have a language where all possible statements are clear about where the end is from just the statement alone. You can have a language where each statement has to be on a separate line, and only on one line (or where you specially mark a continuation of a statement from the previous line). Or you can have a termination marker. As far as I can tell, that's pretty much the list of possible options.

Note that Lisp has taken the first approach: It's clear (by closing the opening paren) when you're done with a statement.
No instructions on the label of a pak choi, and no industry gain from suggesting recipes using it, since it would just be rice, cheap meats and/or other vegetables. Blue Apron and similar services might be superfluous for some, as well as expensive, but they at least inspire people to use more basic ingredients. I don't know where one starts to educate people in making "real" food. New/old school subject?
Amazed there's still no good permission settings on nested folders in dropbox.

Ran into this on a 4-5 year old project with multiple contributors and even on their paid versions, there's no good way to consolidate folders that have multiple "owners."

Seems like there has to be a better way to handle this - Google Drive takes care of it much better.
I'm a lisp fan, but to be fair, I don't think I know anybody who wants to live in a world in which everybody has created their own personal language syntax. Reader macros should be used very judiciously unless you don't care about anybody else being able to understand your code.
My degree is in Information Systems with a concentration in Emergency Management. OODA is one of the concepts I took away from school and internalized. I don't even think about things in terms of OODA anymore, I automatically assess and dissect the situation at hand or the information presented. Essentially, OODA is a clean framework for critical thinking. It's a gut check to ensure you take into account all known factors.

Taking OODA literally in your day to day would likely be burdensome but learning to build mental models that allow you to quickly connect dots is a huge asset. I oftentimes opt to not worry about things but I do it consciously, I have a mental model for cost (i.e. risk) and often I put things into the rounding error bucket.

A more concrete example is when I'm networking: Once I hear what a person does I quickly assess what I know about their industry, what I consider to be most niche or cutting edge about that knowledge, and then riff on it to establish that I am a person worth talking to. From there it's a constant loop of "what can I do to help this person?", "how can I leverage this connection to help my business?", with the occasional "who could I introduce this person to for some sort of mutually beneficial win?"

This mental framework for networking allows me to quickly get to meaningful dialogue, get to a point of action, and part ways. At events my contacts tends to be high quality as a result and I can work a room faster which allows me to make more connections.

Having a similar frameworks for business decisions, meeting management, sales, etc allows me to manage a lot of areas of my life relatively effortlessly.

edit: By effortlessly I mean stress free. I essentially go on auto-pilot.
I understand with class methods you can just jump to them, but how are class instances treated in Java? Where are they stored in a JVM? I assume the templates for them are stored in the constant pool, but I'm having a hard time finding exactly what is stored and then from there, how they're instantiated.

Edit: In an attempt to answer my own question, I came across this blog [0] which is helpful.

0. http://blog.jamesdbloom.com/JVMInternals.html#constant_pool
George Hebert certainly is "shredded"!
Thinking of launching a cyber-essentials course for aspiring white collar criminals. What are the easiest online training platforms.

j/k
I got so sick of that bullshit when I was in. Every damn time.
The US experience with the phasedown of lead in gasoline (2003) [pdf]
Good term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Zadie Smith's essays are tremendous. I highly recommend her earlier collection "Changing My Mind".
For me it was adderall to bootstrap getting started at finishing a college degree, eventually discontinued after building enough positive habits and getting into a position where my actions were having positive results.
The Pope’s Politics
Vuesax components for vue js
(1) I had a similar long trial-and-error process with my dog

(2) Blue Buffalo has been growing extremely quickly over the past decade. The company went IPO in 2015 IIRC. I highly suspect the cost cutting on ingredients has already begun.

(3) Blue Buffalo already sells lines which contain "grains and other irritants". I tried giving my dog "Wilderness" (the highest protein content with the least grain/filler) but it was too rich for him. For a while, I settled on a Blue Buffalo Life Protection which was cut with oatmeal, a grain.
What's to stop a maniac with a wrench "convincing" you to transfer all of your money to his bank account electronically?
Occupational licencing has grown into one of my pet peeves. I at this point cannot come up with a single example that would've get regulated by the market itself. For example nobody would go to a "surgeon" who never received actual training, no hospital would employ them and no insurance cover them. At this point I believe it's mainly a vehicle for incumbents to keep competitors out.

Great discussion as always on econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/01/dick_carpenter.html
Just wrote a little Medium article about your post, as your comments about car culture made me wonder:

Will Autonomous Cars & Mobile Gyms Help With America's Obesity Epidemic:
https://medium.com/@nicolaerusan/will-autonomous-cars-mobile...

Def, the nutritional issues are still there & so are the issues around communal activity - but I think for a lot of people I know who have long commutes to work, the opportunity to exercise in transit would be compelling.
Doesn't seem like. Facebook 2012: Wednesday, Twilio 2016: Thursday, Snap 2017: Thursday
If it's a formal equity seed round, there is very likely to be diligence. The requests are often not that different than the Series A list in original post. But, generally speaking, a seed stage company has significantly less documentation to provide. So, most of the categories of diligence items end up being inapplicable.

In a note/SAFE round, it is much less likely that there will be diligence.
Interesting. Glad to see that a security breach is called out as one of the major risk factors on an sec filing.

Our business could be damaged, and we could be subject to liability
if there is any unauthorized access to our data or our users’ content,
including through privacy and data security breaches.
Maybe the reason is that in a large part of the US, there isn't a strong home cooking culture. You can really tell the difference if you walk into a Daiso store (japanese dollar store). The variety of cooking-related gadgets and trinkets is mind boggling. In japan, they also do home economics (cooking) in school and culturally, ability to cook is often portrayed in media as one of the "checklist" qualities when looking at a romantic partner.
Yeah, I see your point.
Thanks. The joy of commenting on a mobile...
1Password actually has the same feature. You can separate the words with a hyphen, space, period, comma or underscore on generation to make it more human readable.
Friendly heads up: "its" is possessive (like his or hers) whereas "it's" is a contraction of "it" and "is".
The "n of 1" is not very useful from a statistical standpoint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_of_1_trial
Considering their service is the safekeeping of others' data, I'd probably s/interesting/obvious.

Not putting your comment down, mind you. Most would probably find an infosec inclusion as a major risk factor "interesting" in that it just doesn't feel like infosec gets that kind of respect in the C-suite, but I'd like to think it's different in this case considering the offering.
At this point for me, it's lock-in. Even if Box, Google Drive, and OneDrive offered me all the main functionality I use with Dropbox, I still couldn't muster the time/energy it takes to investigate even though I'm a paying ($99 for 100GB or whatever) user. It's not just apathy, though, in the ~10 years I've used Dropbox, I have yet to ever have an issue, while at the same time, it's been such an integral part of my computer usage and workflow.
I agree.

But if you care that strongly, you can do something about it.

(I am also kind of hoping that, by the time one gets to reader macros, they will be experienced enough, and will understand why the parentheses exist so that they will no longer care about them)
The demographics of the educated middle classes would suggest that nothing that contributes to making you middle class is under positive selection anymore.
Really, the regulators salary is paid by the bank's profits and not taxes? And the decreased supply due to regulation is also paid by the banks, not by the consumers?
Online-reader-friendly (no 2-column PDF!) paper link:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1802.06893/
Finally. I'm Polish and I've always felt that my language / location has been treated as a second class citizen since ever. Only way for me to use Google Assistant was either by switching to all English or by using some gutted version when I'm speaking Polish.
Wow, I assumed that Box would've had a higher ARPU given it's focus on enterprise.
The cloudformation designer is... Not terrible, but it's pretty bad. It requires lots of clicking and manual work for simple things and doesn't help you do the complex ones. It's a 1:1 visual representation of the generated json/yaml and it's easier to just write those directly.

To be really useful, it should have some kind of snippet options (insert a vpc with all the usual subnets, routing, etc in one go), or some "fill in the blanks" functionality.
Thank you, Mozilla.
Father and Son – FISHING
I use GDrive too, primarily because Dropbox does not have a "middle" storage tier. I do not want 1 TB of storage right now. Google offers 100 GB for $2/month which works much better for me.
Thanks for the responses! I'm always confused by which products people prefer to purchase à la carte and which they prefer to buy in bundles.
No, he says the names are fake.
Here's the Wayback archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070220080513/http://getdropbox...
>>> Psychopathy is not the reason behind this scenario

... yeah, that's why I said "So these folks are the opposite of psychopaths".
I got tired of keeping track of changes at Google, plus their programs are very heavy in power consumption. Dropbox is quick, has always worked for me, and you don't even notice it in the background.

I try not to touch Microsoft stuff because of their constant changes too, and I was annoyed at their advertisements in Windows 10. I'd rather just not deal with any of their stuff.

I would probably stop using Dropbox if Apple started offering the ability to share folders with other iCloud users.
I found buying fruits and veggies in LA to be much cheaper than Seattle, unfortunately. Both are still cheaper than Switzerland (but then...what is cheap in Switzerland?).
The risk factors section is pretty close to a good summary.
BrandonM retells his experience reading a certain now-famous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051

Dropbox's Show HN is a reminder of how dismissing designers isn't such a wise idea for engineers ;)
When a market is big enough, many people can win!
So you mean to say that you store all your users logins with just SHA1, no salt?
> In what way do you mean flattened?

Surely in the context of the episode we're talking about: the discovery of the $4M in fraudulent income claimed in the document. In the Word document, that edit would be discoverable. In PDF it is not.

You seem to be making an abstract argument about "PDF security" here. The point of the subthread is a practical point about whether Manafort was correctly generating a fraudulent document or whether he was being a technical rube. He was doing the fraud the right way.
Yet another free Git hosting service
Depends on what features you need. I don’t need unlimited storage. Dropbox’ sync is far more reliable (see my other comment). Dropbox has Paper, which supports LaTeX equations and can be exported as Markdown. Dropbox has great integration with Microsoft Office and Office Online. Dropbox supports file requests.

The only relevant feature for me that Google Apps offers over Dropbox is email. But I highly prefer FastMail, which respects standards (IMAP, CaldDAV, CardDAV) and not Googles broken implementations.
I don't pay anything to use HackerNews. How much do you pay?
> "what does this language make easy" (C: raw memory manipulation!)

Depending on what you mean by "raw memory manipulation" that can actually be surprisingly difficult with C, without running into undefined behavior, at least technically-speaking. e.g. type-punning through unions is defined by all implementations I can think of, but technically UB according to the standard.

That said, if you know the UB rules, C/C++ are still the "nicest" mainstream languages to use for that sort of super-low-level manipulation of raw object representations. The non-UB type-punning methods in C/C++ (`memcpy(3)`, casting addresses to pointer-to-`char`), finicky as they are, are still more ergonomic and, ironically, safer than Rust's poorly-designed `mem::transmute()` API.

Language-lawyering is quite the rabbit hole, BTW; for example, it was discovered a few years ago that the wording of the formal C++ memory model defined in the C++11 and later standards means all non-trivial C programs (technically-speaking, not according to any existing or sane implementation) invoke undefined behavior in C++. We'll be lucky if the bikeshedding over the fix for this gets resolved in time to make C++20.

#include <stdlib.h>

void *safe_ptr(void *p) {
if (!p) exit(1);
return p;
}

#define INIT(TYPE) safe_ptr(malloc(sizeof(TYPE)))

int *get_intbuffer(void) {
enum {N=3};
int *const intbuffer = (int*)INIT(int[N]);
int i = N;
/* Technically UB in C++; lifetime starts
* w/ declaration or initializing w/ new
* or placement-new, so reads/writes thru
* the result of malloc w/o initializing
* the objects w/ placement-new are UB */
while (i--) intbuffer[i] = i;
return intbuffer;
}
Also if memory is fairly limited, then you don't get that much of a pause time from even a fairly simplistic GC implementation.

I would also point out that modern micro controllers run faster than the old systems mentioned in TFA. (eg, Apple II, TI/99, etc.)

There are already micro controller implementations of GC languages. MicroPython. Espruino (eg, JavaScript)
I think it's worth a second try. We've been updating it quite regularly lately and we're about to release version 3.0.0 of the Community Edition, most likely next week. It introduces support for monitoring and alerting w/ Telegraf & InfluxDB, among other things. If you're anxious ( and somewhat brave ;) you can try installing it from the staging branch today.

Also, there's a Mist.io Enteprise Edition nowadays that you can install on-premises. There's more info about that at https://mist.io
Target started carrying Blue Buffalo this month.
Me too. I'm trying to find better ARPU metrics to ensure I'm not misunderstanding that vague "over 17%" statement. As a company they tend to report "Number of Paying Customers" which are businesses and only occasionally reference individual user accounts.

Though simply looking at per user per month pricing:

Dropbox for Business has $15, $25, and Enterprise
Dropbox Individual has Free, $10, and $20
Box.com has $5, $15, $25, and Enterprise

The math doesn't even really make sense though. Dropbox's ARPU is $8/user/mo whereas Box is $4/user/mo. Either the my math is wrong or Box offers some pretty steep Enterprise discounts that work out to <$5/user/mo.
My point is that I don't think he's given any advice that isn't painfully common sense. "Choose the path you think will be best for you." I read more intellectually stimulating bullsh*t on the back of a kumbucha bottle at lunch.

But mix in the letters M, I and T and people suddenly think he's tall engineer Confucious.
We as the tech community need to think really carefully about who we choose to idolize and what that says about us.
I had a major data-loss (recommended third-party element for KDE may have been responsible; was using free version), haven't used it since.

It's very similar to IMAP in the way a major data loss can be sync-ed. Would love to have "only mark remote deletions" (in both! with option to perform deletion locally on request), perhaps it's in there now, or part of the paid version.
exactly the book I was thinking of when writing my comment! (:
well, there's less chance of advertisements, and it gets to the point rather quickly

i am not an economist or lawyer and prefer it

i don't have to worry about a writer/editor injecting personal opinions that i could care less about
Librery vue js components UI
Only for the journal and hostname functionalities, it should work fine for everything else without systemd.
In a lot of ways making the world a better place is about cost-effectiveness, and honestly what is Dropbox doing? Are they the main contributor to Nextcloud? Yeah, Google isn't much better in that regard, but I can buy a descent $199 unlocked Android phone now at Costco, and have all of Google services integrated. They also provide a lot of descent open source tools. Have you tried Kubernetes? :)
I've been using the free tier of Dropbox on Linux (Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu) for years and I've never had an issue.
What's old is new again: Why the mainframe thrives
Japanese scientists invent floating 'firefly' light
You should reassess how you see the world
Aren't these attacks just proof of the fact that even deep neural networks are approximating a high dimensional function by clamping the entropy of the formula, rather than truncating the range of input/output values?

For a 32x32 image, the space of 1-pixel attacks is 0xFFFFFF * 32 * 32 = 17179868160 = e^23

Expecting an input space as large as that to not poke through the entropically deprived network is destined to fail.
45 yo, male.

I recently (about a month ago) introduced high intensity, puke-inducing, balls to the walls prowler sled pushes into my 3 times a week routine strength training sessions.

First week it felt like I could have found a new method for suicide! I kept on going, kept on pushing out those 7 rounds of 25 meters (each way).

Second week, I am sleeping better, my joint pains have all but disappeared. I can feel a huge difference in the way I walk. Walking has become faster, more deliberate such as lifting feet clear off the floor and even walking faster in public spaces without feeling shortness of breath.

Week three - I suddenly feel my mood, my speech and my thoughts have improved. Energy levels are high and I'm listening to music again, enjoying the small things again. I've phoned old friends I lost contact with many years ago for catch up coffee and I no longer have my usual thick-as-fog shameful sense of depression that I wake up with. It's there, but it doesn't intrude constantly like it used to. (I have tried meditation but I found it too difficult.)

I don't know how long this will last but I am almost certain that the high intensity blood pumping full body workout prowler sled pushes are the shit.

Highly recommended.
Some of his blending wines predated WWI. I doubt his mixture was cheap except in contrast to the $5,000+ per bottle prices he was selling them for.

Again, it's sad they destroyed his counterfeits, a blind tasting between them and the real thing would've been great fun.
I would hesitate to say never. When the Supreme Court allowed the FCC to designate cable broadband as an info service (Title I) in 2005, the majority basically said the facts at the time make it plausible to call ISPs that way because, well, they offer email and webpages, but that even then the better interpretation was Title II. (Scalia famously said it was ridiculous to think ISPs weren't Title II).

So the courts could now say that Title I doesn't fit at all because they are basically just hired pipes. Chevron deference only goes so far - an agency can't call a river an ocean, for instance. So this FCC is making as much as they can of DNS and ISP caching in its Order to argue ISPs are not just data transporters.

And finally, on Chevron deference - one thing to remember: many conservatives hate it since it hands power to agencies over Congress. If this ever got to the Supreme Court, watch out for Neil Gorsuch, who will have to face the choice of party over his principle hatred of Chevron deference.