skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Buchwald based his decision on the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, and required that the United States recognize Mexican land grants as long as the owner filed a claim. The original owner of the coastal property filed such a claim. The U.S. government challenged his land patent, but the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed his ownership in 1859 -- 14 years before the California Constitution was first drafted.

I can't make head nor tail of this.[1]

EDIT: OK, this[2] is clearer:

The judge's ruling skirts the fundamental conflict between the rights of private property owners and the rights of Californians to access the shoreline. Instead, Buchwald rooted his decision in the land's history during the mid-19th century. Since there was no public easement attached to the property at the time the United States acquired California from Mexico, the judge reasoned, the question of whether the California Constitution now guarantees access to the beach is immaterial.

The original owner of the property was Jose Maria Alviso, who received a provisional land grant from the Mexican government in the late 1830s. He later transferred the property to his brother, Jose Antonio Alviso, whose rights to the property were upheld under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War. The U.S. government challenged Alviso's land patent, but the Supreme Court confirmed Alviso's ownership in 1859.

[1] http://www.nbcbayarea.com/Vinod-Khosla-Can-Keep-Public-Off-B...

[2] http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24380282/vinod-k...
Time for the cuffs to come out and the trials to begin.

Finally, as recently March 12, 2013, in a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Wyden had this exchange with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was under oath:

Wyden: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?

Clapper: No sir.

Wyden: It does not?

Clapper: Not wittingly.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/seanlawson/2013/06/06/did-intell...
It's weird how the URL for this link keeps changing.
There is your problem, you think unlikely thing x came true when in truth it was likely.
The fear is pointless in the first place. Life that has been living on mars for millions of years is going to be far more adapted to the climate than anything from Earth.
Congrats Crowdtilt!
And it's not "beautiful".
Hugo Barra first public appearance since leaving Google
I strongly suspect that if you took a poll, you would find that the real shortage will be a shortage of seats on rockets, not people to fill them. Even if people with a suitable exploratory attitude are one in a million, that still gives you thousands of volunteers.
And most important of all, hold people accountable if they're wrong about the "imminent action."

Same with torture and other unethical activities. Think you can save the city from nuclear destruction by torturing the brown-skinned guy? Sure, go for it. But you'd better hope you're right, because (at least in a just world) that's the only way you're staying out of prison for the rest of your life.
At that rate, sound glitches would be in the sub-millisecond range and impossible to hear, specially with 8-bit audio.
One example is a CMS. An article these days is a title, body and 5-10 comments, and whatever other metadata that you would want to present on a page. Don't update the corresponding NoSQL record till there are writes in the RDMBS. Serve from the NoSQL system, with at least another caching layer in front. You get the best of both worlds and just one query instead of many.
You can't just complain that Amazon doesn't treat their employees well enough without explaining where you would get the money to improve their work conditions.

You can't just complain that homeopathy doesn't cure cancer well enough without explaining how you would cure cancer.
@"What in the Fourth Amendment speaks to electronic communications? The Fourth Amendment speaks to a person, their home, and their effects."

The Fourth Amendment also protects people's papers from warrantless search and the Crown's abuse of the privacy of papers when executing its "general warrants" were a huge driver in the adoption of that Amendment. Private electronic communications are "papers" in that context, a "gift" of a paper from one to another.

But more importantly, the question you ask is phrased too narrowly in context. The First Amendment protects the right to communicate privately, free from government scrutiny. And the Fifth Amendment forbids the government from taking private property without due process and just compensation.

Roll all three of those amendments together and you should begin to comprehend that Congress, in establishing criminal penalties for interception of the U.S. mail --- a topic you curiously omitted --- stood on very firm constitutional ground when it did so.

Your notion that U.S. mail is protected only by federal statute simply blinks past the fact that our federal government is a government of only limited powers, allowed only to do what is permitted by the Constitution, with all other powers and rights reserved to the States and the People; i.e., a "mail" law can not lawfully exist without Constitutional authorization for Congress to enact such a law.

Also missing from your U.S. mail analogy is any analysis of a basis for believing that eMail should have any less protection than the U.S. mail. It is a criminal act for a government official on their own decision to open a letter to read the contents except in narrow common sense situations, such as a letter that is missing or has an invalid address. Why should eMail have any less protection?

Paul E. Merrell, J.D.
Yes of course- but there is a difference between the "people" in an enterprise vs. world-facing project.

In the world-facing project there might be millions of potential decision makers (i.e. customers). You can make the technical decisions you believe make the best product knowing that if you are correct you will gain more new users than you lose of old users.

In enterprise, sometimes you have to make whacky irrational choices because there might only be hundreds of potential organizations to sell to and they might have only 1-2 decision maker(s) each.

No one wants to lose customers. But at the end of the day if you know feature x is best for your application, you might make it even if it costs you 100 customers.

In enterprise its harder to make these choices because its harder / takes longer to recover.
Yeah, 50 startups * $80,000 * 5 = $22M per batch return with "no" work involved.

But this might be an annoyance considering him aiming for $300M return/year or so in his later-stage fund.
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Decades in jail? For what? I do not like the NSA's overcollection, but decades in jail ought to be reserved for violent types and people who you can easily demonstrate have ruined people's lives (through ponzi schemes and fraud).
The NSA will adopt the mantra of "quit early, quit often," shrug off the sunk cost, and move on [1,2].

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/new-freakonomics-radio-po...

[2] http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/harvard-business-schoo...
We (Bloomberg) hired Igalia to help put some resources on implementing CSS Grid. The original MS authors didn't like the initial spec so they've been working on an improved spec w/ others (Google, Igalia) and Igalia is landing code for it in both WebKit and Blink. So it is definitely moving forward..
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We hear you on the list performance. There are significant performance improvements we've made in version 2.0, over the previous version. We’ve also identified more ways to make Pixate faster, especially for CollectionView and TableView, and will roll them out as soon as we can. Performance is our #1 priority, so expect it to continue to improve.

In addition to that, how you use Pixate and what CSS selectors and properties you use can have a big impact on performance, just like with CSS on the web. We’ll be making those kinds of issues clearer for developers through "best practices" posts, as we continue to build our product.
For linux people, this can be accomplished with: https://github.com/cmatheson/super-caps

That said, I don't use this anymore because I found that I rarely release escape (er, caps lock) before moving on to the next key. So I was getting a lot of control-n instead of <Esc>n.
What about leaving the endless discussion about FB's destiny aside and just focus on creating a __new pattern of behavior or activity__ that appeals to a mass audience if you really want to build a large network on its own?

Examples of things that worked:

- Follow updates of celebrities

- Collect nice looking things on a website

- Make even the worst picture look good

- Be the best cat gif curator

Examples of things that didn't work:

- Facebook but for ten friends

- Facebook for Google Accounts

- Facebook with open data portability

Let Zuck worry about the hype cycle and start building.
It got posted
I suppose they're trying to persuade us that Snowden is a superhuman, and only his superpowers allowed him to get access to all the information. It has nothing to do with incompetence of his coworkers and bosses, nobody could have prevented that and it's nobody's fault.
Wow, the judgement in that post. First of all, you think it is an opportunity for people to get the wrong idea, which I find preposterous, and the only way to fix that bias to show have counter-examples.

Beyond that, your personal ideas about work/family balance are not global, stop projecting what you think is "healthy" onto others, you are not the arbiter of global truth.
It generally takes at least five years for a seed investor to have a clear picture of what kind of returns they can expect. Yuri's smart enough to know that and he started doing this just under three years ago.
It would be far cheaper just to build strong bunkers than to build a long-term self-sufficient colony on another planet. Not that a nuclear war would be anywhere near enough to cause extinction in the first place.

I'm all for colonizing other planets because it's cool, but lets not pretend there is any practical reason to do it.
Why U No Talk About Bandcamp?
It's in a lot of toothpastes, and a lot of soft soaps. I've had to look hard to find brands that don't include it.
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>> Well, the simple fact is, empirical studies of minimum wages just don't show their having a macroeconomic effect on employment that overwhelms other effects

You don't get it. There's no need for "empirical studies", because it's a simple matter of reasoning.

Suppose Person A is fresh out of high school or something, and Company B might be interested in hiring him as some kind of entry level worker. Person A has basically no experience in anything, so he's worth very little to the employer. He really wants a job though, because he needs to start some kind of career to get by in life.

Suppose Company B consider's Person A's meager productivity worth $6 per hour, but the minimum wage is set to $10 per hour. Will Person A get the job?

Well, no. The minimum wage prevents Person A from getting a job, and thus, getting experience and advancing his skills and future salary potential. Everyone loses. Person A has no job and no further experience, and Company B has no employee and a task left undone.

If you still don't get it, imagine the minimum wage being set at $1000 per hour. If it's all good, then the higher you set it, the MOAR good will come out of it, right?
I agree, but what you are saying is "assuming the status-quo, let's see if we can find something good about it".
Whereas I'm saying: you might be right, but the status quo is still wrong, and we shouldn't be happy about it being wrong.

Concerning your last paragraph - while it may be true, I'm pretty sure that gaining terraforming-related knowledge plays a very minor role in NASA's research decisions, which is also something we shouldn't be happy about.
Yeah, I'm waiting for his weird porn habits or something to show up in the news cycle.
Thanks for the correction. I must be thinking of games older than Pacman then...

IIRC, Kangaroo used the old scanlines system, but its release date is after Pacman. I guess everyone was still trying to figure out how to do scanlines correctly at that time... so it must be different from arcade-game to arcade game.
First - thanks for jumping in to a contentious debate.

In terms of being tone deaf, isn't that more for politicians and corporate heads? Here we're arguing ideas, like should we support unions that strike during peak periods, and what should Amazon's response be?

While I have a general dislike for unions in some places, it is specifically their company-harming tactics that bother me the most. This can be striking during the holidays (which is the situation mentioned) and can also be protesting in front of hotels, scaring away customers. This is an attitude of, "If you don't see if my way, I'll destroy the company."

While unions have made some strides, some improvements have also been a result of unilateral action by employers. Take the Henry Ford example, of shortening days and raising wages. [1]

As a broader society, we can help those who "must accept jobs like these" by encouraging entrepreneurs to create companies that could hire people like them. Employees get better treatment when there are more people fighting to hire them.

[1] http://corporate.ford.com/news-center/press-releases-detail/...
If anyone wants a direct link to the app (which is where we'd really like the feedback) then it's on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlapse&...
You realize that this is the labour dispute version of "literally hitler" right?
This is why I am a registered independent. I have a very hard time believing that any rational person can agree with the party line 100%. Now obviously there are disagreements between members within the same party, but the minority is almost always drowned out. So, in effect, if you disagree with your party on any of these big issues you may as well switch teams if you want to do anything about it.
First, great article.

Coming across article now was quite serendipitous as I'm in the process of designing a Databus like system myself. In regards to Kafka and Databus, one thing I've been wondering about is why the Databus relay isn't implemented with Kafka? Kafka seems to provide the same semantics (at-least-once in order delivery, clients can pull from arbitrary positions in the stream, etc.). I know Databus provides transaction semantics in the stream and a few other differences, but those differences don't seem too large. Is it because Databus is to be embedded in Espresso? Or maybe even something as simple as two different teams converging on the same solutions?

Anyway, thanks again for the article.
Absolutely, just trying to point out that the original poster raised some valid points that didn't deserved to be dismissed as "ad hominem". I haven't had a chance to dissect your work (but appreciate that you have made that possible in the first place) and I believe extraordinary claims require extraordinary scrutiny :)
Make it work, make it pretty, make it fast
I guess it's ironic, but I'm not sure it's wrong.

Wikileaks was arguably worse. Assange embargoed documents and timed releases to maximize the political impact and to advance his narrative.
How do you log your system events?
How do you log your system and application events? How do you manage them in a sane way?

Do you use any saas solutions to manage this?
>Their social circle is also disproportionately made up of people they can easily see every day

Great point
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> The fact that most of the workers are not on strike proves that they're satisfied with their jobs.

What about: they are scared of being fired and their families losing roof over their head and food to eat ? Most people aren't willing to go on strike or take any risks if already bad situation. I mean, the slaves weren't on constant strike either.
It is rumored and further "confirmed"[0][1] that Google did offer to buy Snapchat for $4bn, in an effort to outbid Facebooks $3bn.

0. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5106950/google-snapchat-4...

1. "Confirmed" in quotes because Valleywag cites an unnamed source, and I typically find Valleywag, and Gawker Media on a whole, dubious and not entirely worthy of trust. However, this may have been more solidly confirmed elsewhere as well.
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Christ, you sound like such an insufferable prick
The argument is that an artist can't sell a license to a new copyright guaranteed to last longer than 35 years, i.e. sell their termination rights for money up front. Any such wording is unenforceable today. Therefore, artists are limited in the manner which they may sell their own work.
Judge: NSA phone metadata surveillance likely unconstitutional
You may believe that you have taken a principled stand on these issues, but unless your psychology is different from everyone else it's probable that your elevation of these specific issues, and the solutions you advocate, owes more to your social environment and the opinions which are considered acceptable within that milieu.
I believe this gets to the crux of the argument. Broadly, I think there are two views on why the U.S. has laws regarding "unreasonable" search and seizure:

a) Being searched all is unreasonable because it inconveniences those being searched, takes up their time and involves a degree of forced submission.

b) Being searched all the time is unreasonable because it grants the government too much power over the individual. The government should not be able to snoop into the lives of private citizens without good reason. True freedom and perfect enforcement of crime are incompatible.

You can hold (a) or (b) or both. Digital searches happen quietly and invisibly, so is it OK to be constantly searched if it involves no personal inconvenience?

I believe you hold mostly position (a), whereas those who believe this program is bad (including me) hold (a) and (b).
Constitutionally, if an end is generally within the federal government's enumerated powers, the government can take any steps "necessary and proper" to achieve that end, unless it infringes on a right. That's basic U.S. Constitutional law since 1819.

It has been long understood, since at least 1963 if not earlier, that the federal government does not violate someone's 4th amendment rights by acquiring information that a person has voluntarily disclosed to a third party, on the very reasonable grounds that if you risk someone disclosing that information by divulging it to them, then it's not really private information.

What you've seen since then is not an encroachment of the government into areas previously considered private. Instead, what's changed is people sharing "private" information in ways that were never protected: specifically by exposing them broadly to third parties.
It seems pretty obvious from this that consumers don't understand that when they are not paying for the product, they are the product themselves. It's also clear that this graph would look vastly different if given to a HN-only crowd.
Part of what he may be trying to get at is that the US population has no idea of just what the stated mission of the NSA is. Do we as a population think that spying on our allies is OK? This is a discussion that needs to happen publicly and not under a classified umbrella.
If you teleported an earth-like atmosphere to Mars, it would last somewhere in the neighborhood of upper thousands, low millions of years. That would give us a good chunk of time to figure out the whole "create a magnetosphere" problem.

Of course we don't get to just magic an atmosphere out of thin air, but there are a few more realistic proposals.
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A lot the sentiments here echo a post from Eric Ries titled: "Lessons Learned: Don't Launch": http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/dont-launch.htm...

In general, I think the lesson is that you should launch, refine your offering and target customer, and then do a big marketing launch.
>> No, property is defined by force.

Or, it's defined by property rights? But hey, why not make things more complicated than they actually need to be?
Learning from Lean Startups in the Enterprise
What does Ghost offer that can't be accomplished on Medium?
A better/easier/shorter responsive images syntax
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It looks like .git/logs contains the history. It looks like the file format is a space-separated list, with the format "$parentcommitsha1 $newcommitsha1 ... $commitmessage". That's fairly comprehensible. What are the SHA-1 sums of? Are they of the entire snapshot, or the delta? I went into objects/ and ran `sha1sum $objfile`, and the sum did not match the file name. So that remains obscure. `file $objfile` could not identify the format; it gave nonsense.

Thanks for the help.

>One of those meta-data items is "Parent Commit," so if you change one item in history, it changes the SHA-1 sum of all subsequent items (because at the very least they all need to be re-parented).

What sequence of operations would change a history item in that way?
I don't think their trademark covers names that are standard words merely similar to theirs, but it might be a point of confusion.
Is there anything that I wrote that you can show it is not true? I think I've given very specific arguments.
>Wow, the judgement in that post.

Wow, the faux outrage in that post.

I wasn't proposing to make it illegal. I just said I think it's a bad idea. And I don't like to see this kind of thing becoming "normal", because it forces people like me to conduct business after hours.
I'm not a biologist, but I would assume that bactericides for external use can be much more aggressive than antibiotics that are injected in the organism; they are expected not to kill the patient altogether the bacteria.
Thanks for the value adding clarification, genius.