skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a teenager a friend used to send me LSD through the post, it always arrived (Royal Mail).

I've also purchased Zopiclone and Valium through Silk Road which has been shipped from the U.S. without issues (Hyperdontia, so with frequent toothache I need to know I can get to sleep at night so that I can work the next day, and I've had better experiences with the vendors on SR than I have with doctors and dentists.)
Does her husband know about it? Specially the part "(...)and says she quite enjoyed it." ?

"My wife was a prostitute and she quite enjoyed it! I'm so proud of her. She is a great example to my children."

The fact that she ended up as a doctor is enough to launder this situation? "The ends justify the means" in this situation? WTF!
It was definitely one of the more gentle big quakes I felt. I remember the Whittier Narrows quake down in socal, and that one felt more violent, but this one lasted a lot longer than that one.
Why do US carriers care so much about modifying device software and branding etc. In the UK I don't think any carriers mess with the device in anyway. At least not that I've seen. Competition is almost completely based on coverage, price, data etc.
Perhaps the people down-voting you might like to share _why_ they think you said something wrong.

FWIW, I would tend to agree - in general terms.
I carry a small travel router that I plug in to the wired network in hotels. I don't travel with my chromecast but I like that I don't have to login from my phone, tablet, Kindle and laptop. The chromecast would work in the same way and would also have the benefit of not announcing its presence to the entire hotel.
Sure, crime exist in Germany. Even racism. That's not news.

If you believe there is less racism in the US or that minorities are better off in the US, a visit to Germany could open your eyes.
Because I don't want my empire covered in paperclips ;-).
This is a silly question but as someone who lives in a place that will never experience an earthquake can someone explain to me why they are so dangerous? I get that things can fall over/collapse but in areas such as CA aren't buildings structured to survive an earthquake? Don't you secure large objects (cabinets etc.) to the walls?
I've been wondering this too. Could become a S.P.O.F. for the web's future if there's a big one.
I misunderstood the writer, thought he/she meant anyone from anywhere in the world can get a Chinese passport. But meant Chinese citizens which is a totally different story. Still wouldn't call a country's border "wide-open" because the citizens can get a passport.
Because such refactoring is not really needed. You can do easily with sed.

What's so difficult about using Elisp to configure your editor? If you know how to turn on a light switch, you already know how to configure Emacs at its basic level!!! Most of Emacs lisp configuration is like this:

(semantic-mode 1) ;; 1 means turn the feature on

If you want to turn it off:

(semantic-mode 0) ;; 0 means turn the feature off

Most of Emacs plugins work this way, with a few more Elisp code for setting key bindings and other things. Anyway, the package maintainers always give you config Elisp code. Your only work is to copy/paste into your config file and it's done.

Your IDEs appears nice at first since they hide most of the complexity in a menu item called "Options". But when you need to adjust something, and when you click the "Options" menu, things are not so nice anymore. For example, try Eclipse.
Just wondering, what is this place?
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You can go 10+ years without a big earth quake in CA, so people get lazy, stop strapping their hot water tanks to walls, stop nailing bookshelves against walls, etc...

Also - not all buildings are earthquake proof - only modern ones. Older ones can still fall down fairly easily.

Finally - when push comes to shove (pun intended), a 6.0+ is just going to do a lot of damage regardless of your precautions - particularly around store shelves, roads, etc...
Earthquakes are not that rare, really.

Here is a live map: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
Though I'm not sure how accurate it is, it only shows two earthquakes in Iceland in the last two days for example.

And this page shows some estimates for number of earthquakes of a certain magnitude per year: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqsta...

Magnitude 6-6.9 earthquakes occur about 130 times per year.
My sources say: yes.

There exists software which is designed to confuse them and convincingly plant evidence; and while that software is imperfect, they are powerless against that.
This is no privilege. It is the right of every of the 505 million EU citizens.

German border officials are usually very professional.
I read some guys higher up in this thread talk about using a RaspberryPi.
I'd really like it if you'd answer his actual question. My recurring issue with libertarians is that they make very grand claims based on untested, and frankly very simplistic, theory. Real economies have perennially made fools of those who think they operate like simple machines.
Latency and Bandwidth. You want your Data Centers to be close to improve performance. You also want to have massive amounts of bandwidth - Australia is particularly bad for both.

Also - there are a ton of data centers out in Nevada, Oregon, DC, etc...
Yes, this point was also raised by Maciej Ceglowski (hn: idlewords) in the talk that keeps circulating in HN comments:

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm#america

"And speaking of California, let me try another tack.

This festive map shows seismic hazard in Northern California, where pretty much all the large Internet companies are based, along with a zillion startups. The ones that aren't here have their headquarters in an even deadlier zone up in Cascadia.

Now of course, each company has four zillion datacenters, backed up across the world. But how much will that matter when there's a major quake, and Silicon Valley can't get to work for a month? All of these headquarters are going to be shut down for a long time when the Big One comes. You're going to notice it.

So even if you don't agree with my politics, maybe you'll agree with my geology. Let's not build a vast, distributed global network only to put everything in one place!"
Given that when I pointed out we shouldn't be building all our infrastructure in once place I got downvoted to the bottom of this thread (currently at -4) I'd imagine the answer is a big NO and most people are hoping that if they pretend hard enough it can't happen it won't.
Probability Report by the Northern California Seismic System (NCSS)
[Operated by UC Berkeley and USGS]

http://i.imgur.com/qyVI3vv.png
Why should some people get to tell other people
what they can or can't do with their own bodies?

Personally I think prostitution should be legal. But to play devil's advocate, here are some arguments:

The reasons to oppose trafficking, under age prostitution and violence against prostitutes are obvious. And it's obvious why home owners wouldn't want street walkers outside their front doors. Let's set those aside and consider indoor prostitution without slavery or violence.

1. In many places, to collect unemployment benefits you have to be searching for work, and if you're offered work you must accept it. Would you like to see your daughter or mother denied benefits because she turned down a job offer from a brothel?

2. There are a bunch of things we can't consent to. Even if I sign a contract agreeing to be sold into slavery, or agreeing a loan shark can break my legs, or agreeing to work for less than the minimum wage, that part of the contract is invalid. There's precedent for us making it impossible for people to consent to things.

3. If there's someone I wouldn't otherwise have sex with, but I have sex with them to avoid being stabbed, that's obviously rape. If I do the same thing to avoid being starved, is that so different? Oh, admittedly it's more of a grey area, but surely punters could hold themselves to higher standards and avoid things that are even a grey area?

4. Trafficking and violence are giant problems. About 90% of prostitution is one or the other, and legalising prostitution will increase demand leading to more of both. Isn't it better to sacrifice that small fraction of nonviolent prostitution to help clamp down on the much larger amount of violent prostitution? Oh, sure, the 90%/10% ratio might be a bit off, but slavery and violence are really serious, their impact should be given greater weight.

Not saying I agree with all of them, but I can understand why a politician might decide they have other changes to the law they'd like to see first.
Obviously not as drastic as that but it seems that's what Google are trying to do with Play Services. Take the core features of Android and put them in an app on the Play Store. Still a long way to go though.
For one thing Australia is pretty far from everybody.

Also, while a lot of companies are in the SV, I don't think many servers are actually there. Google wouldn't disappear from an earthquake.

An earthquake is not an endgame either. Sendai and Kobe are still on the map. Though I don't know how prepared SF is for this.
It's one reason (the other being cost) we moved out of a datacenter located in San Francisco's SoMa district.
> But how much will that matter when there's a major quake, and Silicon Valley can't get to work for a month?

Well, putting everything in the Australian outback doesn't help that much, because there are good reasons why thousands of tech workers can't work there. This is essentially an argument against having any population centers in earthquake zones.
Music to my ears! :-)

"System Requirements
A cheap Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to match the minimal requirement.
4 CPU Cores and 1GB RAM would be the baseline for teamwork."
this can be interesting: http://earthquaketrack.com/p/ireland/recent

I myself leaved in place, where I thought never can have earthquake, but at some point was woke up but 1.5 magnitude.
I think almost every place on Earth can have earthquake at some point.
Wouldn't a zero-value output trip the anti-dust rules?
I think I can imagine, but can you share your explanation?

Space exploration looks like an interesting endeavor.
Just woke up to it in city, felt a strong termor. Hope no Tsunami follows
Talk about disruptive events!
Welp, I'm sure glad that I actually bothered to anchor all my cabinets/shelves to the walls right now.
Nielsen's law means that we have to build half the pipes we have every year. It doesn't have to be Australia, just some place where natural disasters don't happen. The places you mention don't warrant much more optimism than California:

http://www.usa.com/nevada-state-natural-disasters-extremes.h...

http://www.usa.com/washington-state-natural-disasters-extrem...

http://www.usa.com/washington-dc-natural-disasters-extremes....
I didn't downvote, but it seems that all these companies would(should) have backups outside of the bay area. I can't imagine major services going down for an extended period of time. I do foresee a significant drop in overall productivity in the area for a longer period though.
Perhaps there are many Swedish and Norwegian customers in Denmark?
Which portion of the world's digital infrastructure is in the bay area? Where the companies are located doesn't really have that much to do with where their servers are. Maybe to some extent, but less than you might think.

Also, if it helps you sleep better at night, none of the root dns servers are in the bay area: http://public-root.com/root-server-locations.htm
Pretty confident if there were a 1989-level earthquake, most startups and tech companies would just decamp to somewhere else for the recovery period. The easiest is when you already have an office somewhere else (we have London and soon Asia, although SF is still far larger); I'd probably pick Hawaii or Seattle personally.

It's easy enough to find an off-season vacation destination and move everyone there; essentially anywhere is cheaper than SF, so that's easy. Not every company has to move to the same place.

It'd suck to be a service-industry worker in SFBA after an earthquake, but tech employers can just move, and hire service-industry people to fix up their offices for a few months before returning (or not).

(this might not be necessary after a 7, but after something insane like a 9, would definitely happen)
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Clear the checkboxes for each desired format.
You can read about the implications of a harder Cascadian earthquake on SF here: http://crew.org/products-programs/cascadia-subduction-zone-e....
Does this implement a git engine like Gerrit? Its worth looking at their design - they can do so much cool stuff (like rejecting badly formatted commits) because they have their own server (IIRC).
thanks just did, hope they use data wisely and share the stats later.
Maybe it's not a great idea, but it wasn't someone's "idea" or conscious decision, so there's not much you can do about it. Good luck convincing millions of people in the Bay Area to relocate to the Australian outback.
Because you'll be swapping the issue of death-by-earthquake with death-by-enough-heat-to-melt-silicon-PCBs.

Why not build it in some frozen area instead? All the same advantages and your cooling costs are ridiculously cheaper.
You would be the first person in the history of mankind to wake up to a 1.5 magnitude earthquake :)

I believe up to 2.0 they are not felt by humans, only recorded by seismographs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale
Sad Truth: No local channel has woken up to it, only 1 Breaking news banner in KPIX Channel 5 but others are busy playing late night informercials. How do people using no HN, twitter, facebook etc get updates?
"Destroyed" is an overly dramatic word, and wrong.

Earthquakes don't destroy digital infrastructure. At most they might dislodge a few things temporarily.

Historically you might note that fires have sometimes occurred as a result of earthquakes, but then it's unlikely those fires were in data centers.

Stuff does sway around a bit, but it's not a huge deal for the digital infrastructure.
It helped that my TV included a little kit (containing cords, brackets, and screws) and instructions for securing it. It felt like just another step in the physical setup of the TV, not something I had to do "eventually."
Put it next to the Svalbard seed vault in Norway, http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/svalbard-seed-bank ?
This is nothing more than a straw-man argument. You can't possibly fail to see the difference between a government providing social services on one hand and instituting a Stalinist dictatorship on the other, can you?
A Magnitude 6 earthquake hit during golden week this year in downtown Tokyo, last I checked there was a couple of injuries but that's it.

Granted a lot of infrastructure is equipped for this (gas was shut off in my apartment for example), but it's possible to be prepared for this.
There are third party tools for every language.
With go until now I haven't need any of them, so I don't know them. I read go's docs and I do fine with the official tool when I want to compile an app from source.

On the other hand, there isn't a way to not learn about gem, bundle, pip, easy_install, npm when you try to install apps written in their languages. Some times it is easy, as “gem install gollum” and some times it is difficult, as trying to install gitlab.

Haskell I really don't know because any haskell app I ever needed was in my distro's repositories. To be fair most Python packages are too.
Felt it here in lower Nob Hill! Lying half asleep wondering why my blinds were clacking against each other, then felt the entire room start to shake, very surreal.

I actually got up and walked around this time. Last time I felt an earth quake was 3 years ago in NJ and that was super weird.

Feeling a little spoiled with these Earthquakes! Only moved here a few weeks ago.
Thanks, didn't know )
Don't remember magnitude exactly, long time ago. Just was trying to say that it was low
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Convenience is a big part of it, but I don't see freedom being marketed quite as much (if at all) as security - these days, the new version of a product almost always mentions "more secure" in its list of features, while "more freedom", when it appears, seems to read more like "you can now do new things with your device that you couldn't before", than "you can have more control over it."
Ok for the general area (Alaska, north of Scandinavia, etc) for stuff that needs chilling and stable geology/politics.

But don't put anything close to the seed bank, which a crazy with a nuke (IS, Putin, Iranian ayatollahs, etc) might want to target...

Edit: Maybe not Alaska for geological stability.
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If we consider using the services of a prostitute as emotional violence - which is a reasonable case considering the mental health risks of the profession - and as violence towards weaker people - we should disallow it on a similar basis to minimum wage laws.
http://baering.github.io/
Title should say "Wine Country" or "North Bay". Silicon Valley was not the center.
Pretty sure it is. I know there's a pretty substantial trade in cuban cigars entering the US, there are plenty of websites based out of Hong Kong and Switzerland who'll send cubans into the US. Again customer service is key. If the cigars don't arrive within a certain timeframe the vendors will send again, if it's stopped again they'll give you your money back.

The vast majority do seem to make it through though although some odd things do happen, some packages appear to have been held up in customs for literally years before they're released, it's not unusual to hear stories of people receiving orders that they already received (because they were shipped a second time and those got through) a couple of years after the initial order. You've got to suspect that might be an attempt to damage the companies selling them economically by making them re-send to destroy their margins.

But the trade still thrives, not just for the US but also for high tax countries ordering from abroad is a much cheaper and practical option.
The pdf is a fairly accurate copy of the print books which I own but which are heavy things to lug about.
Artificial photosynthesis might be around the corner
Your commented helped me. I'd heard of Tor of course but I didn't know what the user interface was. When the article said that it used a Tor browser I didn't know any better.
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Out of general interest, has the state of the NHS dentists got so bad that you can't see a dentist, or do you have a fear of dentists?

FYI if you have an abcess then you should really get it seen to!

http://worldental.org/teeth/abscessed-tooth-complications-an...
This is just one of many such charts:

http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif

Unfortunately it's impossible to make a proper comparison since essentially all developed nations except for the USA have adopted some sort of socialized medicine or (i.e. Switzerland) an extremely regulated private system. So USA has essentially been alone in its experiment towards private healthcare.

Given that the one system which is much more privatized than the rest has had such poor efficency outcomes I would say that the burden of proof is on anyone who would claim that privatizing even more wouldn't just make the problem worse.
It will likely be updated in the coming hours/days. Also note these aftershock probabilities are quite crudely modeled anyway. Permalink:

[1] http://www.ncedc.org/recenteqs/QuakeAddons/NC72282711.html
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You're going to have to deal with the latency anyway. I'm not suggesting Australia (might be great for archiving stuff), but getting 20ms away from the Bay would be good for you, and if you're algorithmically tied to a close geography, better for your product.
Let me know if you have any feedback. We've developed this app to help people design / plan surveillance camera use.
Yeah, that's exactly right. Static compilation is a high priority though, so it will be possible eventually.
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I feel someone should point out that the iPhone charger uses the data lines to basically ask for the available amperage, and charger faster if the charger is "iPhone compatible". So something like this will still work for iPhone but it will force it to charge much slower then it would otherwise.

> https://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/icharging
At iOSDevCamp working on a hack in San Jose. Turned my coworker and said "Huh. That's a weird vibration."
Thanks everyone for the infos, sorry for responding so late, busy as usual :)

Well, the platform would be a good start for anyone who wants to start off with real-estates in any way in Europe. Direct competitors to a real-estate platform: yes, many, as its "only" a platform. Expendable to what the market wants - speaking of more of a real-estate management software.

Doable up to this point in less than 400 hours? Probably not significantly less. A lot of time was running into the details: e.g. Import/export to and from other portals, looking into open formats around in Europe. Legal situation. What software has to be supported, etc... As always, theory and practice are two different things. One would pretty quickly find its boundaries if coming from the US and plan to do anything in the European markets. A clear advantage when doing something here from Austria, right in the heart of the EU. Except someone has millions to invest, then it doesn't matter. Anyways.

So, basically, interesting for people who want to do something with real estates at the European markets. Who plan to extend the functionality and who are lacking the $200k+ seed money. Who do not have the time and the energy for extensive research on those markets.

the userbase: around 1k registered users (mainly estate agents) with around 1.5k active estates currently online. We clearly lacked of marketing, and the endurance to properly market the product. It was a naive idea at the beginning - no question to that - but lack of time, money and motivation let the whole thing fade away.
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All of the companies that don't already have away-from-the-Bay data centers will be begging for hardware. And if your name isn't Microsoft or Oracle or some other big ams, you'll be on the end of a product delivery pipeline measured in months. Hardware is going to be fought over.

If all your data is in your own building, you might be okay (assuming you can get at it, stuff it into a truck and move it out). Otherwise you're going to be waiting for a while.
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Curious what the experience was like for anyone living on a high floor of a tall apartment building in SF, like nema.
In 1989, most of SF was back up and working by the next Monday. Of course, that was a different era without much telecommuting, and many people suffered tragic losses, but it wasn't bad enough to "decamp" anywhere. The oldtimers seem to complain more about the world series than the quake.
Preparing Your Earthquake Survival Kit
I felt it I was awake listening to music on my phone and I felt my bed shaking and I paused then looked at my baby's crib and it was moving side to side since we have tile floor it made the crib literally move and our bed was moving the key hanger were the keys are hanging were moving hard hitting against the wall I've never felt anything before like that this was my first time feeling this and it sucked a lot because I was the only one awake at home my husband and baby were asleep 💔😲😨