skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the opinion? It doesn't allow what you've suggested. Extending the stop is not allowable whether he calls at the beginning of the stop or at the end.
"Sharing" economy...
Neat idea, though the lack of an Android client is disappointing; is one in the works?
That's certainly true. However, that's only part of the equation, as the courts generally look at the totality of the circumstances, which include the officer's testimony (as I mentioned above)
Presumably, they're generating utility for whoever gave them all the money they declare as revenue. Insofar as those people are citizens of your country, a company helps citizens.

(Oddly, though, this means that it's in every government's best interests to encourage globalization, and then get their citizens to consume all their products from foreign companies, while not having to deal with having any local companies consuming local resources. Presumably, local employees would also be employed remotely by foreign companies, or by local foreign-owned corporate subsidiaries.)
Good talk. Terrible audio.
The coal miner strikes are fascinating (and the teamsters). During WW2 the continental US was bombed (pretty uneventfully) by the Japanese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Fujita
88,000 Applicants and Counting for 55 Units in ‘Poor Door’ Building
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" (Blackstone's formulation)
The problem with wealth tax is that it is much easier to dodge than income and capital gains.
Charlie Cheever can afford to give away 30k SMS verifications.
Re: Minority report. Yeah, I think there's a space in the future where utility and privacy don't have to be traded for one another.

There's another cool company doing parking called Parkifi I think.

Someone else mentioned El Farol Bar. If we're causing too many people to show up or too many to stay home... that would be an awesome problem to have.

Re: Kansas City. Friends with some of the founders / early people over at Zaarly. We're definitely keeping Kansas City in mind ;)
The best introduction I had was the back of my ZX Spectrum manual, which offered a very lucid and correct explanation of how maths really works on a binary chip.
Etsy: The Data Behind the Crafts
We're focusing on iOS initially, but certainly plan on an Android app.
Why can't a cop just call in the dog squad while he lingers going through the paperwork of a regular traffic stop?

You're saying the Supreme Court should create a loophole for the officer to dilly dally just so the dog can arrive? That seems unreasonable.
If you measure "physical phenomena in general" not by their ability to just move atoms around, but by their optimization power[1], then as far as we know, there's really only evolution (a weak optimizer) and human brainpower (a comparatively infinitely stronger optimizer) so far. Nothing else even ranks.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/va/measuring_optimization_power/
upvoted for the Look Around You link alone.
Same. I had to turn off my uBlock..
If you're maintaining that all creative works made between the stone age and the advent of blues were the sole result of nefarious intervention by the wealthy then I'm afraid I have to disagree. I don't entirely disagree with your other points but since you seem more interested in reasserting your original conjecture and I am responding via tiny touch keyboard, I don't think I'll delve into the nuances of your argument right now.
Shame this wasn't done with the latest version 3.0. Although given that improvements are scheduled for 3.1 I would imagine it might be still an issue.

Nice writeup either way though. Would like to see a similar article for Couch* and MySQL.
The most interesting lessons from the Jepsen series:

* You should never trust, and always verify, the claims made by database manufacturers.

* Especially when those claims relate to data integrity.

* Super-especially when every safety level provided by the manufacturer that includes the word "SAFE" is actually unsafe.
Getting a job at Airbnb
I'm not a fan of this kind of profiteering. Coffee + Butter is good for you? Great. Selling your own brand for a premium, I think, is awful, empty advertizing hype at it's best.

Where's the transparency and duplicate studies about coffee bean mycotoxins and toxicity levels? What's the effective dose, LD50? And how much is in a "poisoned" cup of coffee?
Nine questions about Liberland, the world's newest country
> Or the legal and technical systems enforcing the contract?

Both.

> If it's only legal, I'd argue that's a slippery slope towards a legal system of convenience and loss of absolute respect for the rule of law.

Well, as you might have guessed by my references to contract law, I'm not a huge fan of statutory law. "Rule of law" is only good if the laws are good.

> In other words "Yes, this action is illegal, but everyone does it anyway by necessity."

If people want to modify their products, then that should be a competitive advantage for firms that offer products with terms allowing modification.

> If it's both, then the technical methods for doing so become frightening pretty fast.

Why?
Within the past few days, someone commented with a link to "Floppy Disks: It's Too Late" (2011) from Jason Scott's blog.

Here's an excerpt:

It’s over. You waited too long. You procrastinated or
made excuses or otherwise didn’t think about it or care.
You didn’t do anything and it’s too late now. ...

If you still have boxes of floppies sitting in your
attic or basement or grandparents’ place or wherever
else, I’m telling you the days of it being a semi-
dependable storehouse are over. It’s been too long, too
much, and you’ve asked too much of what the floppies
were ever designed to do.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191

That's for 5 1/4" disks.

The situation sounds more hopeful for 3 1/2" disks - but if you still have some, now is the time to get that data off.
Also that stat is only measuring "websites". As far as my company goes, the vast majority of our servers are not internet facing, I'm sure this is similar elsewhere.
Why is this down voted? I don't agree with the opinion he seemingly expresses with his questions but they are legitimate questions from the other side that we can address without suppressing debate.
You could argue that, in a sense, Google already punishes sites with annoying features like in-page popups and mandatory Facebook logins, in the same way it punishes all sites with annoying features - if you load a page and then hit the back button within a few seconds, Google knows the site it sent you to probably wasn't very useful and that will affect the page's rating. Add that to myriad other signals they use to detect whether you got value out of the site or not and I'd say they do a good job of punishing sites that people genuinely don't like.

What's probable though is is that although we don't like those things, other people aren't so bothered by them and still find utility in sites that use them, so Google doesn't punish them too much.
(edit - tldr: go buy the textbook.)

I don't understand your complaint. Papers are written by researchers to each other. The 'correctness' and 'proofs' are the point of the paper. The standard is the simplest possible explanation that includes the justification for all claims made. You are asking researchers to write another, different, article for you. Maybe they would be better spending their time on more research and leave the popular writing to others who might be better at it.

If you are asking for some explanation that lies in between the extremes of original paper and a popular article, you are in luck: this is what textbooks do.

The supersmart ideas usually spread out before the textbook gets written - grad students bring them along as they go into industry, etc. Most - almost all in fact - papers are pretty boring by themselves. The ordinary case is that papers gradually build and refine ideas for a few years until we look back and say 'wow, we made some improvements on a decade ago. Cool. Now, pushing on....'

This idea:

"revolutionary papers present ideas simply and are overlooked, often because of the misguided notion that 'simple to understand' equates to a 'trivial insight'"

is popular in the imagination but I don't think it happens very often. More common is when a great new idea is expressed wonderfully simply and people skilled in the art read it and say 'holy shit that's neat'. For example Einstein in 1905 was a near-nobody that presented powerful ideas very simply and his papers were not passed over.
Microsoft _is_ good about backwards compatibility...
You are assuming he is using the full connection and not using a hosted one. There are lots of options for spreading the cost of that around. See http://www.cmegroup.com/globex/trading-cme-group-products/tr...

If you read the actual complaints you will see it is explicitly outlined that he was using FCMs and was buying the trading platform. In fact one of the pieces of evidence that is mentioned are emails asking for feature requests from the software vendor.

Even if you grant the 150k capital outlay, the complaint alleges that this was a scheme worth 40 million dollars, a business opportunity many people would jump at. Further, the amount of orders he was placing would put a much higher capital constraint against his margin and clearing risk management than on the colocation.

My main point is that people act like getting colocation is the big barrier to entry for HFT and it simply isn't. Quite the opposite it is a business where most of the technology has been commoditized and the margins are razor thin. The barrier to entry is coming up with a trading strategy that works well on a risk adjusted basis, and spoofing may be one way to accomplish that.

Firms much larger than this one have been accused of similar behavior in the past.
Certainly start with an Arduino if you want to turn it into a commercial product. If you can't get it to work with an Arduino, then a Beaglebone is probably the next step up. Stay away from Raspberry Pi, as getting the Broadcom SOC is not for the new player. Once things are working at the breadboard level, look at implementing it in a single board, eliminating all the redundancy in the schematic. While you're getting it working on a single board, work with an industrial designer to come up with a housing if you want something nice looking. Then, it's time to work on building up a batch. There are quite a few Contract Manufacturers in the US who would be happy to build your boards for you, and I'd recommend staying in the US to start with.

Think about testing in there, how are you going to test the 100 or 200 units you've build, and how are you going to handle the broken ones what people have.

I'm sure I'll think of more things later.
Thanks for your comments. #1&2 are deliberate choices for performance reasons. #3 is definitely a good point. We are looking into it. Tx
I think before, during, and after writing. I work on quality. I work on writing better. Part of that is being aware of the audience. That's the way communication works.
I think you've answered your own question; we still appreciate Shakespeare as art, even if we can't get as much from it as a contemporary listener would. But historians, etc. can help fill in the gaps (much like reading Greek plays, etc.).
Looks like they need to work on better error controls. They left DEBUG=True which produces debug stack traces on exceptions.

https://api.data.gov/nasa/planetary/earth/assets?lon=100.75&...
During a cross country bicycle trip my partner and I were camping just outside a tiny town in the middle of Colorado. I had trouble sleeping and kept getting out of the tent to look around due to what sounded like a large flag blowing in the wind, or a rabbit thumping its foot against the ground. Low, faint, slightly irregular. But there was nothing around. Lasted all night and morning. It was driving me nuts!
$5.3 Trillion of Government Bonds Now Have Negative Yields
Making sure to skip the 13th, so it would 1...19.
Nothing stops you from using Docker containers as what you describe as "system containers". The comparison you give to LXC is quite strange, given that Docker used to default to using LXC as it's backend.

My most frequently used Docker container is primarily used for me to ssh in to a development environment that I use "more or less as a VM environment" and run multiple apps in, including sshd, screen and a ton of editors.

Other differences you give such as "instances are ephemeral, persistent data is stored in bind mounts to host or data volume containers" is only true if that is how you decide to use it. Data persists in a Docker container as long as you don't destroy the container. E.g. there's nothing special about a "data volume container" other than that you decide to not destroy it. The only reason some people like to make this distinction about app and data is that it allows you to destroy the container containing the application code (e.g. to upgrade it) without destroying the data. Or, if you go the bind mount route, and set things up accordingly you can e.g. blow away the entire /var/lib/docker whenever you feel like it (just mkfs'd an entire partition containing /var/lib/docker on a server earlier to clean up some cruft - service files restarted everything again shortly after I started Docker back up).

You can do the exact same thing with LXC if you want (including using "data containers" which are nothing but bind mounting parts of one container on top of parts of another). Unsuprisingly since Docker used to do the exact same thing using LXC as the backend mechanism.

Most of what you write about LXC as a "system container" holds only if you choose to install a full OS image as an LXC container, but LXC containers can just as well be only a single application if you prefer. LXC, like Docker, doesn't care either way - it just sets up the environment and executes your specified application.

"Docker restricts the container to a single process only" is wrong, as you point out yourself, when you write that "there is no way to run php-fpm, apache and mysqld in the same container without a shell script or install a separate process manager like runit or supervisor." Running a "separate process manager" is also exactly how you run more than a single process with LXC.
I'm sure VC's are doing that calculus, but they're not chasing risk, they want to be the insurance company. They want to invest in enough risky things that the success of one or two of them is certain and more than covers the rest of the investments that didn't pan out.

The problem with this is that works great when you have a large number of relatively cheap startups all trying to be the next app fad. But that model fails miserably for anything that requires a large up-front investment that might not pay off. Nobody can afford to fund 100 Tesla's and hope that one works. The initial cost is too large and the investment payoff will never cover the rest anyway.

And that's why there aren't many Teslas and there are thousands of social apps. Is that the desirable outcome that we're trying to preserve using inequality?

Paul Graham is right in that if you tax wealthy people there will be less money for startups. But whether that's a good or bad thing considering the alternatives is another discussion.

There's a neglected factor here, and that's founder risk. If I have no money, I won't be able to start a startup unless someone else gives me some; it's too risky and I might starve quickly. But if my basic health and survival needs are met, there's a lot less risk. We don't consider health care and welfare as enabler for growth in the U.S. but maybe we should. How many college-grad founders would bootstrap companies if they didn't have to worry about how to keep the lights on, and there was a potential for a long term payoff of a few million dollars?
I have decided that all auth should be replaced by the bitcoin blockchain.

The steps for logging into a site should be the following:

1. I generate a bitcoin address using the bitcoin client.

2. I go to foo.com where I want to log in.

3. I enter my bitcoin address into the "username" field.

4. I am then presented with a newly generated bitcoin address that foo.com created.

5. I use my bitcoin address' private key to sign a message containing the new foo.com address I was shown and send the message to the same foo.com address.

6. foo.com now verifies that it received a message from my address and that it contained the address it generated.

7. foo.com then logs me in to the profile associated with the my bitcoin address.

This idea is far from being fully thought through, but I like that I don't have to let any website store my password (salted or plain text, not that I can really trust a company to use the former) so if they get hacked, all they get are my public key and potentially the private key to a now useless bitcoin addresses the website generated (and will never reuse it). I also like this better than cert auth because I don't have to upload my public key to every website I use.
Are you working with the new chief Data Scientist and his team to set this up?

Are the tools you're developing just for US government data or are you also branching out into state and international governments?
To Explain the World: 'The Discovery of Modern Science' by Steven Weinberg
What happened to software patent litigation against Google concerning Courgette?

http://lwn.net/Articles/359939/
Around here when you ask your attorney about the police they say something like "I know those guys, they're good guys." My lawyer didn't bat an eye when I described an illegal search.
Running the (half) marathon in North Korea
Path to sell to Kakao Tallk
Like I say in my reply, I think Authorea is a nice example of a useful tool to learn from like StackExchange, but even if successful wouldn't answer the central question I brought up.

http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi...
Actually the broader lesson would be to assume the worst in your application layer and try and remediate/verify wherever possible.

If you look at his articles: Redis, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch etc all had data consistency errors. And none of those have vendors making any claims.

It's pretty sobering to say the least.
Local business voicemails are the worst :)
On the Internet, Illegal Trade in Endangered Wildlife Thrives
> At first glance I thought this read "NSA data API".
If they gobble everything up on the internet, then I suppose their data API is the internet.
The problem is that wikipedia editors are not creating new knowledge, they are just organizing it. A sort of wikipedia for research would be very valuable as a separate project, but papers are necessary because they enable a technical conversation. One or more authors present their particular view of a topic, and other researchers join the discussion by writing their own papers. On the other hand, a shared page is an amorphous piece of information that is very difficult to use as a discussion medium. In this sense, wiki articles are much more primitive than traditional research papers.
Google Set to Unveil Wireless Service – WSJ
There's a lot going on here, but the summary is: "What Mongo actually does is allow stale reads: it is possible to execute a WriteConcern=MAJORITY write of a new value, wait for it to return successfully, perform a read with ReadPreference=PRIMARY, and not see the value you just wrote."

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17975?focusedCommentI...
I'm an asshole and a troll and an inflammatory writer. They come easy because I'm a natural. So instead I work on the hard stuff like improving my writing. I take downvotes as a signal that my writing is poor, except of course when I'm deliberately expressing my aforementioned natural abilities.
Git Branching Strategy
The bit about "HTTP connections being simulated by sleep()" was just a cynical hypothesis in which users might have perceived a hardness benefit (rounds of a KDF) that was actually just latency (round trip). I'll edit my post to make that more clear.

As for the offline attack: I agree, and thought I addressed it in the first point:

Adding rounds to your already existing secure hash doesn't require any SaaS assistance. It simply requires increasing your "rounds" field.
Would the use of wired tiger as a storage engine affect these results?
Sounds sort of like Our Whole Lives: http://www.uua.org/re/owl
pgaas.com

pgsafe.com

Was meant for postgres-as-a-service.
Jumping Ship: Getting Off the Titanic
Sure, &foo->bar looks like foo + offsetof(struct thingity, bar), but there is no pointer arithmetic involved since C doesn't specify how the member access ( -> or . ) is actually calculated.

It does however specify that [] operator is equivalent to pointer arithmetic. But we are talking ->,. operators and not [].
I don't think mentally ill people are especially likely to rip your face off, and by insinuating otherwise you are contributing to the stigma surrounding mental illness. See http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/about-us/reports-stud... for some scientific background on the relationship between mental illness and violence. I would vastly prefer to be in a room with a mentally ill person than a chimpanzee.
"This ruling may be a bit of a moot point, except in cases where officers don't follow the proscribed sequence of events."

The ruling explicitly disallows even a de minimus stop, for however brief the period, and not as a matter of timeliness, but as a matter of lacking cause.

Now, if a cop wants to sniff your car with a dog, they're going to have to fabricate a reason of their very own, y'know, like "I thought I smelled marijuana" or "the subject's eyes suggested intoxication".
Hey there. I'm the founder of LemonStand, a cloud-based eCommerce platform that's aimed at innovative companies who need to customize the shopping experience from end to end.

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We have a bit of a landing page for developers (more on our partner program, but it has some high level info) over here: https://lemonstand.com/developers

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It's humor, first and foremost.

But we can think of the words "two hundred forty-five" as meaning `2 * radix^2 + 4 * radix + 5`. We implicitly assume `radix` is ten in spoken English, but the implication in the clip (and the premise of the article) is that radix=16, and the implications of that are followed. There's no reason why the meaning couldn't be inferred from context.

If we were being pedantic, we'd need to come up with new words for every place value, which is way more impractical, and way less funny.
My guess is no. This is more about the behavior of the database as a distributed system and not just a storage engine.
I think you're mistaken about the quality of journals. They work most of the time, although the anomalies you mention do occur. If it was so easy to publish crap on journals as you suggest, these same journals would not be so prestigious and used as an evaluation tool by university departments worldwide.
Seattle PD is under a DOJ consent decree because of a pattern of excessive force and discriminatory policing. She is perceived to be an outsider brought in to disrupt the good old boys' club. Her status as an outsider is very relevant in this context, and female police officers have a MUCH better track record on use of excessive force.

Source:
http://womenandpolicing.com/PDF/2002_Excessive_Force.pdf