skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I converted them to .mp3 (at a fairly high bitrate) so they'd play off a USB stick in the car (it doesn't know flac).

It increases my storage, having two copies like that. But I think of the .mp3 files as my "mix tapes" that I wouldn't be upset to lose since I can make another at any time. :)

Backups are a requirement, now that I've gotten rid of the physical media. Local storage is on a mirrored drive array. I also have a copy on a Truecrypt'd drive at work, and another copy at a relative's house several states away. Online backup really isn't an affordable option for 350+ gb. :/
I would be interested in knowing about the Sizes of SVG produced by this tool. Some of the SVGs converted by poppler utility tool 'pdftocairo' are just too large i.e few MB's which is absolutely unacceptable as these large SVG'S tends to crash the mobile browsers.
We weren't able to navigate it, unfortunately. So we took what we had built (a payments platform & risk engine) and applied it to a new usecase.

It feels like frequency of use is a key indicator of product success. The most successful products get used very regularly.
FYI doing this is a great way to get your mileage balance cancelled if you're a frequent flyer.
My only concern is if the app wants the value immediately. I don't want to have to make a separate GET after receiving a VALUE url to get the info. I understand why this is useful if I'm passing it along, but what if I'm not?
nDPI: Open-Source Deep Packet Inspection Library
Wow ! That's huge, I did not expect such a big difference between prices in Germany and USA . Thanks for pointing this out -

1. Are these due to local taxes in Germany ?
2. Is this price difference common in other parts of Europe as well ?
When to make a mobile website instead of a mobile app
YC is getting involved in some serious tech and markets. Long gone are the days of web apps. Deep insight, experience, and skill in today's heavyweight industries are what matter now. Really happy to see this change and very impressed with the first portion of this batch.
Within 14 days, anyone can cancel or exchange.

So, here's an overly complicated example:
1. Steal Nexus 5
2. Buy Nexus 5 from local retailer
3. Exchange the back from the stolen Nexus 5 with the clean Nexus 5
4. Return stolen Nexus 5 for full refund

What if they try to power-up or troubleshoot the stolen Nexus 5? While you're exchanging the back, damage the power leads.
Steve Ballmer Steps Down From Microsoft’s Board
Good points, though I don't see why artificial gravity makes the list. Not only is it already a solved problem (centrifuges are easy enough to make) but it is also not necessary. People already live in space without the benefits of gravity for longer than the trip to mars would take.
Worth a read, but quite infuriating: "Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?"

I sincerely hope that the vast majority of law enforcement DOES NOT HOLD an authoritarian view like that. That's just "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" from dragnet surveillance, DUI checkpoints, and stop-and-frisk, but phrased slightly differently. In short, it's a distinctly un-American and anti-Constitutional viewpoint. "Cooperate with me, I have a gun" - distinctly not a rule-of-law ethos, but more of a might-makes-right ethos, and ethos that should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Former Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe Joins Uber
You don't have to worry as, I would suppose, redirects are resolved automatically by the browser or any sane HTTP client library.
They make "book smell" scented candles.
Have you ever used Tableau?
People seem to forget that most of our tax dollars goes towards defense. Governments(particularly ours(USA)) are exceedingly good at defense and murder.

I understand we're "taking care of the bad guys", but we're still murdering them when we drop a 500 lbs pound, laser-guided bomb on them. You can call it defense or protection or whatever you want, we still have to murder them(in the most extreme cases) to achieve the goal.

We have entire apparatus set up to accomplish that end goal. We call them departments or agencies or branches. Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Marines, Army, National Guard, etc.

All to murder people. So the idea that somehow you as a protestor are going to overcome all that apparatus by throwing a molotov cocktail at a police officer(again, the terminus in a very large murder apparatus) is so appallingly stupid that I can't help but side with apparatus itself.

Governments have a monopoly on violence, you will lose. You need to find a different way to communicate your anger.

So if a cop says "I'm a cop. If you don't want to get hurt, don't challenge me." he's right. Not morally, but logically.

Also lest you forget, "Never talk to police": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I think you raise good points, but what if we look at it from a perspective where paper books are not the norm:

> it's still undoubted that the tactile feedback is much more vibrant, and engrossing than digital.

If we look for book-like feedback in digital, we'll be disappointed. However, consider that many digital works, such as web pages, games, etc. provide much more feedback than books, and digital feedback can be fine-tuned for the story being told much more than paper books' interface.

> Physical books are cognitively superior in that they allow a reader to firmly establish the progress of narrative through physical feedback. ... Digital reading however is totally abstract

Again if books are the norm, then of course they meet that standard better than digital. Perhaps a more abstract experience is better, or better in some cases and worse in others. Maybe authors unconsciously have written for books and will write differently for digital. If digital had come first and was the norm, I think we would say that books have too much feedback, and they distract from the elements in the text that tell the story.
My first thought too - had to re-read to see that he wasn't saying he'd bled it dry.
"If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me."

I don't think any of those actions except the last one could be considered a legitimate reason to "shoot, taser or pepper-spray" somebody. Isn't that exactly what this whole controversy is about?
An easier solution, it seems to me, is to just not have cops.
If a service like this could be used to renegotiate with my ISP (or any other similar service) for a better rate it could actually end up saving me money in the long run. People like me aren't very good at being aggressive and threatening to cancel or whatever it takes.

There should be a service that handles all of the phone calls and negotiations for a portion of the savings they get you every month.
That statement shows everything that wrong with accountability. It's the last stop, after common purpose, culture and sense of duty have all failed. Good luck getting accountability from Ferguson Police.
Can Someone Open A Window Please?
You just have to make sure they see the camera first.
They are very similar. Similar players in both worlds. Slightly different skills - but mostly the same basic work. just different constituents.
I mean the definition of "murder" is unlawful killing. If someone kills someone in legal self defense, it is not murder.
Yeah, Datomic returns unordered data. I use a transactor function to bump the :post/idx on post insertion. On retrieval, I naively sort by :post/idx and use `drop` (offset) and `take` (limit).

When I asked in #datomic on Freenode a while back, support for ordered data was on the roadmap.
This only works when the opener window uses target="_blank"

When posted on Twitter, the page self-closes
I've never had a very large amount of cash at my disposal, up to now it was mostly 'cash flow' and I buried as much of it as I could in stones and land.

Now that is changing and I'm back to school because I realize that managing any amount of money is a risky operation and it is too important for me to consider outsourcing the job to so called experts the majority of which appear to be at least as clueless as I am when asked some pointed questions.

So so far the lack of capital has kept me from seeing just how deficient I am in this respect, I was so focused on achieving a certain goal that I lost sight of what to do once it was achieved. Luxury problems, that's for sure, but still, they are problems and I'm fairly determined not to go down the route you sketch.

Thanks for the underlining and implicit warning.
"Finally, cops are legally prohibited from using excessive force: The moment a suspect submits and stops resisting, the officers must cease use of force."

And as we all know, this rule has never been violated before.
Nations have different laws. We call it defense they call it murder.
The Machinery of Freedom - David Friedman

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
Original PDF - 1.0M, SVGs - 7.7M, gzip'ed SVGs - 1.7M. I think the latter is a preferable format for the web, so you are looking 70% increase for this types of documents, but bare in mind that you may send only certain pages.
uBiome may be onto something. I read a study the other day that said obesity may actually be linked to gut flora, which I found very interesting. Excited to see what comes of this.
> People seem to forget that most of our tax dollars goes towards defense.

23% of the US budget is defense, intelligence, and other protection. It's not even the single largest category.
> No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed.

Not convincing. Can he argue that no people with sadistic tendencies work in police just because it offers them a "lawful" way express their cruelty?
> Data-aware” means indexing and giving storage intelligence before it is stored.

Is this like deep-packet inspection on the block driver?
Digital data is best suited for constant replication instead of long term "cold" archival. 400,000 CDs is just 320TB of data, perfectly reasonable amount to keep on live hard drives these days. And once you are handling files instead of physical discs then you can just keep changing the underlying HW as tech marches on. With checksumming and redundancy, it seems almost impossible to have bitrot eating data.
Third,

the overhead compartments are full and you have to check your bag.
Anyone who says "verbal judo" loses respect from me.
Potentially rivaled.

I submit: Howard Dean's "BYAHHHH"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc
The internationally accepted solution, it seems, when The People are facing down state security apparatus, is for the international community to arm them. Calling Vladimir Putin!
| "Cooperate with me, I have a gun"

And so do I.
Watch as MSFT's stock jumps.
"Regardless of what happened with Mike Brown, in the overwhelming majority of cases it is not the cops, but the people they stop, who can prevent detentions from turning into tragedies."

...

"Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you."

Even though I'd recommend not antagonizing cops just from a personal safety standpoint, this really rubs me the wrong way.

Most of the times this topic is broached from the point of view of the cops, it seems like there's shockingly little empathy for those on the receiving end of police violence, and that the justification for such violence is they were asking for it.
"Do what the officer tells you to and it will end safely for both of you."

If you do what the officer tells you to, 100% of the time without question, you will self-incriminate. You will surrender your rights. You will answer questions without an attorney. You will NOT answer questions, without verbally exercising your right to remain silent - and shockingly, that can be used against you as evidence. You can't answer some questions and not answer others - there is no such thing as selectively exercising your right to remain silent. (Other than your name, and probably address, etc.) If you answer some questions, and don't answer others, that can be used against you.

The jobs that cops do is impossibly hard. I mean that, impossible. It is not possible to always defend the rights of people, and always collect evidence to prosecute. Those are competing goals.

But the advice, "do what the officer tells you," is not good advice.

I am not a lawyer, and your results may vary.
What--that trying to stop an opportunistic crime with white market reason is idiotic?
"Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me."

Maybe it's the rebellious spirit still lingering, but there is only one hard cold fact in there. We DO pay their salary! The rest of the things I wouldn't say to my worst enemy. However I find it funny that when talking about law enforcement stating that specific fact turns into a threat...
Came here for this comment. Anyone who's ever hung around cops knows there are definitely cops who want to shoot "bad guys."
> "Every person stopped by a cop should feel safe instead of feeling that their wellbeing is in jeopardy. Shouldn’t the community members extend the same courtesy to their officers and project that the officer’s safety is not threatened by their actions?"

That only works if people actually believe the first sentence represents reality. Given the number of don't-talk-to-cops posts I've come across I doubt that it is.
Facebook Shuttle Drivers Speak Out – Low Pay, Long Days, “Held Hostage”
A lot of this makes sense, but it has at least, on pretty fatal flaw. While I agree, that regularly cooperating within reason with the police is helpful to both parties, he takes for granted that this is a lawful stop, or not otherwise a reasonable request the officer is making. Obviously, your choice is to comply with a questionable request or go to jail, or otherwise be molested by the officer (molested being non-sexual in this use).

So unfortunately, electing not to speak with the cops (I suggest this in most cases after volunteering basic information) or otherwise challenging them, enrages the human inside them, and not the lawful civic steward they are acting in the capacity of. Further, complaining to them about them, is impossible.

So in essence, submitting to a cop could be reasonable, however, the vast majority of these viral incidents occur when a cop is possibly over-reaching in his authority and is a single officer on the scene. This is not really addressed.
I think his background (17 years on LAPD and Prof. of Homeland Security) is representative that officers with authoritarian views are more likely to succeed. The LAPD was notorious for abuse and racial profiling during his tenure, yet he offers no expertise on the racial issues that compound the civilian behavior he laments.

Were we to take his message with a grain of salt, police officers never abuse their power without being antagonized first. So don't antagonize them.
i can't speak for all big companies, but i'm happy at google, and a large part of that is that everyone i work with cares about doing things the right way, and is willing to budget the time to do so. for another datapoint, my girlfriend works at salesforce, and she is not just supported but encouraged to work on innovative projects and big new problems.

when i was working at startups one of my largest sources of stress was having to constantly rush shoddy products out of the door because people were obsessed with beating some real or hypothetical competitor to market, never mind that any clients we did get to install our products either gave up early or tied us up with loads of support issues that we again had to fix on a quick-release, ad-hoc basis rather than systematically and correctly.

incidentally my resume says "phd dropout", so if the lack of a big-name university on your phd makes you disinclined to apply to places like google or salesforce, you should at least reconsider. in my experience these companies care a lot less about that sort of branding than they possibly did in the past.
Oh, you talk about the website. You think the website kills users motivation? The thing was that 1) my previous website wasn't like this at all (no venders signed up, I shifted my idea to neighbors who wants to sell produce to neighbors) 2) I just told them how to download the app. Like searching "buy from farm". I personally don't think your comment is trying to answer my questions because it can't be no single download. They already saw how app works.
tl;dr - Whether you're right or wrong, challenging being detained will likely turn out poorly; your recourse comes after you've been detained, not during.
This is such a ridiculous scenario that I hope it's how it actually happened.
"...if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you."

Is this satire? How can anybody hold this viewpoint and not think of themselves as human garbage.
looking good :)
lol I am the aforementioned co-founder. This is definitely a flight booking hack with costs and benefits that have to be weighed. I don't personally book this way for savings of just 10-20 bucks. When it's something like $80 in savings or more (I saved >30% on my last flight), you start to think maybe the expected value will come out positive, even with all risks considered.
This article presents a troubling view into the mind of someone within the system. His first statements essentially tell the reader that the public is his victim ("Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge."). He follows this up by admitting that he, in fact, does not have any of these powers in general ("And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion). Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave.").

This amazing cognitive disconnect is one of the main problems with the police nowadays. They think that their fears give them carte blanche to "control every encounter" and that the public should bend to their will. This is not the way of the world and, as the government in Missouri has found out, this approach to control ends in violence. If the community does not trust the police then the badge means nothing and, once the badge means nothing, the police are just a gang.
People just need to rewatch robocop.
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You're not considering the second-order effects. Sure, the law in Cali says police must do X, Y and Z before killing the phones. But the phones already have the kill switch; and, because of convenience, all phones sold in the country will have this kill switch. Now what's to prevent the police in, say, Ferguson MO to just nuke everyone's phones in a region? California law doesn't apply in MO, and the police there will be free to do whatever they want with this switch.
We need cops to record video of their interactions with the public, for everybody's protection.

Also, it's not true that if you cooperate cops won't be violent with you, just see some episodes of the tv show "cops", if that's what they do on camera, what do they do off camera?

(from what I remember: hitting and laughing at a drunk while he was already in the cell, bringing down a guy because he had priors, hitting a guy because he looked back when he was told not to etc)
> I can imagine the act of holding the book and thumbing through the pages as you go along might help embed the timing of things into your subconscious

I wonder what someone who spent their life reading only on tablets would say when first reading a book?

(I agree with you, but like you and everyone here I spent most of my life reading books.)
This theft could be eliminated today : let there be a shared registry of stolen IMEI codes. Problem solved.
Just because you legally killed someone doesn't mean it's not murder. Did Hitler murder lots of Jews? Did Stalin murder enemies of the people? Did Anglo-settlers in the USA murder countless slaves and native peoples?
Import duties may be different if you're a business doing large quantities vs. a single person buying a single thing for personal use.
This still results in increased latency at worst as you may now have two round trips for every GET.
I agree, but how does that apply in this situation? Aren't most of the battles at the municipal level?
In the recent past, the period between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance was called and considered the Dark Ages. The common assumption was that it wasn't a great time.
We follow a simple rule about technical debt:

If you are working on an issue, and technical debt is affecting your ability to create factored, testable code, then fix the debt.

It might mean a 1 hour issue takes 4 hours, or more. But we put a premium on writing tested code, such that we can push builds often to production.

However, we never make a task ' go fix technical debt X'.

That way, you don't waste time on something that really isn't a problem.

It's working for us well, so far.
It's a complicated subject:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-i-arrested-yellin...

"If you've been arrested after a confrontation with a police officer, consult a knowledgeable criminal defense attorney. That lawyer can advise you of the applicable law and your options."
What is happening at Google Ventures?
I don't understand, why does airline frown upon this practice? What do they lose from you not going to one of their flight?
What's the property law in the US? If you own a house, don't you also own the parcel where it's built? How can a city destroy a house that has an owner, or is built on a private land?
> I think that they truly believe this would be a major weapon against criminals.

Not really. They truly believe that this bill would be great for controlling people. But they can't come out and say that openly. Hence the theft strawman.

We have a national do-not-call registry. Why not have a registry of stolen IMEI codes? Problem solved. But that would be too easy.
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When talking about keeping score, we are discussing spectators, not players.
We can only hope you're right.
I think you could solve this using SPDY, which lets to send an expected follow-on request in the same stream of bytes before it has been requested - originally designed for things like CSS but it should apply equally well here (especially given the UUID URL caching semantics)
Reading all of the other comments ; this sounds pretty illegal right - Why would YC back the start up in that case ?
Fair point. Maybe I'm just not good at reading, though...I can't see how the city is benefiting financially from going after Jacquez. The article does suggest the possibility of cronyism -- the city is going after certain property owners to increase the value of properties owned by others who are either bribing city officials or friends of city officials -- but I don't see any legitimate revenue coming into the city because of actions against Jacquez versus going after legitimately vacated properties. In fact, it seems the city would be losing money (having to go to court and potentially pay settlements) by targeting people like him.

I don't know anything about anything in either politics and real estate, though.