skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a couple people with businesses like this. In each case, it's because they stumbled into a business that was unexpectedly profitable, but which wasn't something that they really wanted to be in. Usually it's not something that can really be sold either - typically they're taking advantage of temporary market niches, are too small to be of strategic value to a big player, and have a geographically-distributed and lightly-attached employee base that's not a good candidate for a talent acquisition.

Under these circumstances, usually the most rational course is to treat the business like an annuity: while it lasts, milk the profits, do all the stuff you really want to do like travel the world or write a book, and save up a bunch of money. The gravy train will end eventually, but they never wanted to be in this business in the first place, so "losing the company altogether" is a plus.
Because the very meaning of work would be "accomplishment" and/or "creativity". Without the pressure you mention. I know so well what it is to work for food and housing... And it's not correlate to the "sparkling" moments of my life. What is interesting with the Dutch experiment... is that it's an experiment! Less ideology and more data!
It still demonstrated the same root problem: that the computerized systems on cars today have very little in way of basic safeguards. And there was indeed quite a bit of cracking UConnect and wirelessly spying on Dodges and Chryslers throughout the country before the experiment.

If I were an auto manufacturer, I wouldn't wait until someone finds a wireless exploit (at which point it's too late to do anything about it before people die or are maimed unless I'm lucky enough for the zero-day to be found by a white-hat or grey-hat). I'd see those earlier reports, say "holy shit if we have one wireless bug, the whole car could be pwned", and start working on a better isolation of critical systems from internet-connected systems immediately.
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Do you have any studies about humans? Because I'm not aware of many that are clear-cut (of course, there's environment-gene interplay, but that is way more murky than anything talked about in the article or in the OP's comment).

I'm not saying that those claims were false and therefore all such claims are false. I'm saying that in the West we've spent a lot of time trying to prove that non-white men are inferior in different ways. Arguments like "unconscious bias comes from evolution" ignore that long history of non-white-male qualities being judged inferior.
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"The Hacking Team" was a (supposedly) legitimate company and should be expected to abide by the license.
The "right-angle across moving traffic" that I mention. Albeit a quiet day when Google took the photo.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.511527,-0.044597,3a,75y,25...
I just wanted to throw in an anecdote I have: Friend's consulting company is run in a not so professional manner in some ways: lot's of ball busting and drinking, too many jokes and comments about gay things or gay jokes etc.

Totally not a cool environment for many people, and I don't support it, but they had one of their employees come out and they felt awful. They were just general assholes, not the kind that specifically had anything against someone's sexuality. They bent over backwards to make them feel included and cut down on most of the gay comments around the office.

I'm not suggesting you stay and I think tptacek's advice is spot on, I just wanted to share in case you do decide coming out is the best thing for your mental health while you look for a job.
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As an update, I think a lot of speakers would guess the right interpretation of

nasin sike li lon ala ('round paths are not present')

for the cycle-free condition. We could also try to say

nasin li kama tan ijo wan li tawa ijo sama la nasin ni li lon ala ('when a path comes from one object and goes to the same object, this path doesn't exist')

This kind of abstraction -- referring to conditions based on hypothetical individuals -- is very rare in toki pona. (There isn't even a grammatical way to directly form relative clauses.)
I'm personally excited to see if I can get this to allow me to persist tmux sessions over a reboot.

Thoughts?
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The more I consider the ramifications of these news reports, the more I realize we need full decentralization and total encryption.

We have the tech: Strong encryption, Tor-like relays, and the blockchain. What we need is a way to make services based on these technologies not just as easy to use but easier to use for the average Jane.

If the internet as we know it is to survive, we have to crack this nut.
Absolutely zero reporting done here...
Moldovan here. This run for quite a while in our national media and was charged in a political manner beyond what I imagined to be possible. These kind of things happen in Moldova and I got used to it after a while. I guess now the attention has something to do with European Association Agreement that put our country on someone's map and sight. It may for all this agitation to cause some real change though, at least in some limited degree, as the "actors" have to become a little bit more wary now.
Same topic, different podcast:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/03/411777635/episo...
Well, it turns out there's an extremely cheap solution to this that can sequester another 1/3rd of our carbon while making lots of plankton and restocking the oceans with fish.

http://planetsave.com/2014/07/02/ocean-fertilization-dangero...
I've been getting increasingly frustrated at Netflix, because it keeps recommended things I have already seen, or definitely do not want to see. Having to keep scrolling through unwanted content like that really reinforces just how dumb it is, despite all these claims about their intelligence.

Eventually I did figure out that on the website you can say you aren't interested in particular items, but Android/Roku etc do not have that option. Of course those Netflix employees who work on this stuff deal with the PC/web based interface all the time, but apparently don't realise that not everyone does that.

Android/Roku etc do let you set ratings on items, but to me there is a big difference between "I am not interested in this item" and "I have watched it and give it one star".
I agree with you. Thank you for the link and let's see how our Dutch friends play the game! ;-)
When that uploading includes recoding and other processing, it's plausible.

This video is probably encoded 2-3 times. The first time it is digitized in the camera. The cops might have recoded after taking it off the camera. And then youtube.

This is some low budget police department whose IT department is probably a secretary who happened to have a PC at her house in 1993 when the spot was created.

Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.
Hm, I suppose then I can exclude him in particular, since it's clearly a battle between two infosec-oriented hotheads. My point about LWN comment quality stands, though.
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A current example is video game bars, like Barcade. There are often antiquated restrictions on video game arcades in zoning law that are aimed solely at kids, to prevent truancy. They make no sense in the modern world, in a place aimed at adults. Check out this list of variances this place needs:

"Variances to allow 50 game machines were a maximum of three
are permitted, 2 game machines per 100sf of area where a maximum of 1 is permitted, no side or front clearance for game machines where 3ft and 8ft respectively are required, no attendant for 50 game machines where 4 are required and no off-street bicycle stalls where 24 stalls are required for a 100 seat Café with 50 game machines. A"
Yeah... but the purpose of the post is to explain the methodology not to point fingers. We kept the IDs because they are useful to demonstrate whether users created those accounts consecutively. Product Hunt's public API can be used to find the real names and even expand this method further.
One thing to note: the '-o ashift' option is a per-drive (vdev) attribute according to the manual. So, when replacing a vdev, be sure to specify this option again if you do not use the default:

zpool replace -o ashift=12 old new.
After he escalated things? After he dragged her out of the car? After he's cuffed her? After she's lying on the ground?
> Eventually I did figure out that on the website you can say you aren't interested in particular items

I didn't know you could do this. Looking forward to telling Netflix that no, I do not want to watch The Interview.
Not to be critical, but it is in the 1st paragraph: 8.2 (pre-industrial) to 7.8 (projected, 2100).
there is also 'truncate'. Especially nice about truncate is the ability to create sparse files. So if you want to test how big a pool would be with three 1TB disks without actually using 3TB of allocated space: 'truncate -s 1T file1.img'. voila, a 1tb file that only takes kilobytes upon creation of a zpool.
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The intent behind the original licenses doesn't matter. One of the repos[0] had two licenses the Apache License 2.0 and the LGPL v2.1. If that means it is open source then it is fair play as I don't have the time nor the expertise to go through both licenses. You know who probably didn't either, Hacking Team. They are professional hackers and even if they straight up stole the code the main way they would be caught is if their code leaked. In that scenario, an angry dev would be/currently is the least of their problems.

If it is on Github and it is worth using, it will get used. Good and bad people use open source software, it is a just a tool, totally neutral.

[0]https://github.com/crmulliner/adbi/search?p=2&q=license&type...
That is a bit over simplified. In practice more is passed, but for example the ECU ignores based on rules like RPM above X, TCM not in P, and so on. There is pressure to move to a single high speed bus and modules that pass messages based on priority and time.
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People in the US don't put their age on their resume, and many people past a certain age try to obscure data on the resume that would give their age away. It's illegal to ask in an interview, so perhaps they didn't realize until they saw the candidate in person. I remember reading somewhere the average age of google employees (that's all employees, not new hires) is below 30. A group like that isn't likely to hire someone too old for them to relate to any more than a company with an average age over 50 is going to be interested in hiring a 19 yr old. We can't relate to people of a different age, that's the way it's always been.

Where I live, if your date of birth (and in some cases recent color photograph) isn't on your resume, they'll assume you have something to hide and you'll get no response. Might as well be upfront about it.
And since this always blows up in an "omg privacy" outrage fest, let's remember that Location History is opt-in and that Google frequently sends email reminders to participants that they are opted in.
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Runes to you sound like mystical shapes, or words or something.

It's not so.

It is simply the name of an alphabet, much like you have Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Coptic, etc. You have Runic.

That's all. It's just the name for an alphabet.
This expectation is often emphasized and reinforced by LEOs themselves. Witness any time an officer refers to "civilians", as though they themselves are some extraordinary power outside normal society.
I can feel them pretty often, depending on the mood and the song. Some song may give me frisson one day and not the other.

One day, after taking an hallucinogen I put on Maggot Brain by the Funkadelic... the ordinary frissons turned into full body orgasms -- orgasm is slightly incorrect, more like pleasure waves riding up my spine and radiating through my body, nothing sexual. I'm a (mediocre) musician, I could feel physical tension when waiting a chord progression resolution, and physical pleasure when the music reached the tonic, or when the chorus started after the breakdown. My recollection is obviously a little vague, but I think I've rolled on my bed 50 times in full body orgasm for the duration of the album.

That was quite a transcendent experience.

As a little aside, I've started entering a bad trip when the album finished, stuck in the thought loop that I must stop the music at the correct point, when the melody and all the tension is resolved. But I had also ingested another substance at that point, and that's a story for another time.

EDIT: and weirdly enough, ASMR don't seem to do anything for me. I just feel mildly uncomfortable when a total stranger is whispering stuff to me.
I wonder if their programs are ... Multithreaded?
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capabilities-based approach

tame() isn't a capabilities-based approach. Don't confuse POSIX capabilities with actual capability-based security. The former hijacked an existing term to refer to a different thing.

It's pretty obviously a limited API, but it also makes privilege dropping absolutely trivial. Which is the point.
Would if affect me if I go swimming in the ocean?

No, because you're a large adult organism. But if you were a tiny crustacean, you wouldn't be able to grow a shell. This affects tiny crustaceans, but also the young of large species such as king crabs.
Others work the same amount and lose everything. Most startups fail.

What you're calling "free money" is compensation for the risk. Without it, most people would not start businesses.
More security, more usability.

Pick one. That is why we are in the mess we are in
The fact that you are a lawyer and can't describe the rules is scary. I'm not calling you an idiot, this is a comment on the stupidity of lawmakers if what you say is true.

I find it very scary that we accept a principle such as Ignorantia juris non excusat but don't bother teaching law and make it understandable to common people.

And to be clear, I'm not talking about details to be used during a trial, but just day-to-day interaction with police officer / social services / etc.

Can they really order you out of your car? Do they have to give a reason? Can they enter your home without a warrant? Can they really take your kids if you don't willingly let them in? Are they authorized to ask you about your profession?

They will always use people's ignorance to scare them and force them to comply, but that's the direct road towards a police state.
Clever. Inspired by this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic
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This doesn't apply to all projects on github, just projects managed by github.
But I really expect that simple organisms (like, you know, plankton) will evolve to survive

What makes you confident of that?
Siggraph and GDC is a mess... its hard to talk to people let alone finding good developers. I have tried to find folks but could not. Obviously we are no Oculus or Valve to afford booth or have ads yet. It would be good to reach out via those mechanisms once we grow
Both you and the other user have brought up examples of things that happened one time. The article is about something that happens repeatedly. So in order to make your comparison apt, let's pretend the coincidence of laughter happened every day for a week.

Do you see how this person might mistaken that laughter for being at their expense?
I don't disagree with you; the researchers could have taken better safety measures (most notably, better communication between themselves and the reporter would have eliminated most of the risk by allowing the reporter to cut the experiment early), and had they done so, they would have been more clearly in the right.

However, there's some usefulness to the higher speed, since it indicates that the car can be isolated among highway traffic even at high speed. The researchers were also smart to not slam brakes (which would have turned the minimal danger from unpowered coasting into the maximal danger of sudden stops).
Gymer is a mobile app and web-based service that provides a cashless system for booking instant or in-advance workout sessions on an hourly basis. Users can decide when and where to work out, with a 'pay-as-you-go' option
I think the cost of postage/fulfillment/bandwidth should be a secondary concern to how many users can Netflix attract by providing content they actually enjoy. A bad recommendation for streaming or DVD both waste n minutes of viewing time. A bad DVD recommendation additionally wastes 2-6 days of waiting on USPS.

They already have the recommendation engine built and they need every differentiation they can get to compete with the crowd of streaming providers.
I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope things work out for you.

My suggestion would be to just say that you went to the startup as it sounded interesting but with no real expectations. You tried it for a year but it wasn't really for you. If you can then say something about the new company that attracts you to it, implying a contrast, so much the better.

As others have said, the key thing is to be general and move onto something you want to talk about as soon as you can.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would seem like Ocean Acidification would be less prone to "Climate Commitment" than regular climate change. Meaning, if we just stopped emitting greenhouse gases, OA would stop increasing. The rest of Climate change would still keep continuing for a few decades.
So, even a prosecutor that knowingly gets a defendant wrongly convicted and put to death still has total immunity? Because that's borderline murder in my eyes. (Well to me, all capital punishment is, but let's not open that one)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9926865
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This is very cool, the integration of hardware, software, social and marketing is perfect. Many hours spent putting all the pieces together and testing and tweaking, but it makes me wonder if we are wasting talent?

I love what BREAKFAST does as much as the next person and they are an extremely talented team, but all of this amazing technology and innovation is going towards selling products for a brand that totally disregards factory workers wage rights so much so that F21 were "sued by the United States Department of Labor for ignoring a subpoena requesting information on how much the company’s suppliers pays the workers who make its clothes"[0]

This reminds me of the recent article posted on HN "Web Design: The First 100 Years"[1]. How many of these underpaid factory workers are the greatest minds of our time? "We live in a world now where not millions but billions of people work in rice fields, textile factories, where children grow up in appalling poverty. Of those billions, how many are the greatest minds of our time? How many deserve better than they get? What if instead of dreaming about changing the world with tomorrow's technology, we used today's technology and let the world change us? Why do we need to obsess on artificial intelligence, when we're wasting so much natural intelligence?"[1]

[0] http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15799

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920121
> developers aren’t allowed to add patches to fix issues caused by iOS 9

Apple is just nuts. This makes me glad I don't have anything to do with their ecosystem.
You are acting as though 'being racist' is a massive crime that people need to be protected from even thinking that they might be complicit in.

The evidence shows that almost all of us, including members of minorities, are conditioned to have racial prejudice.

The reason this is a problem is that it systematically puts some people at a disadvantage based on their appearance, even though the evidence also shows that within group differences are greater than between group differences.

Unconscious bias can be overcome by making it conscious.

We are all racists. We can overcome the problem if we face it.

Trying to protect people from having to consider whether their actions arise from unconscious bias is actively working to perpetuate the problem.
Wow, there is a lot of contention in this thread. So first off I want to say congratulations to the author of PostgREST. Getting 2k req/s out of a Heroku free tier is just awesome ontop of all the overhead convenience you provide. Great job, great documentation, all around looking fantastic. You deserve to be on HN homepage.

Second, I'm an author of a distributed database (VC backed, open-source), so I'd like to respond to some of opinions on databases voiced in this thread - particularly in the branched discussions. If you aren't interested in those responses, you can ignore the rest of my comment.

- "You'd have to pay me a million dollars a year to do web development." Don't worry, most webdev jobs are about a tenth of that. If inflation goes up even a little bit...

- "The problem is scaling your database", I can confirm that this is my experience as well. But there is a very specific reason for that. Most databases are designed to be Strongly Consistent (of the CAP Theorem) and thus use Master-Slave architecture. This ultimately requires having a centralized server to handle all your writes, and this becomes extraordinarily prone to failure. To solve this, I looked into Master-Master (or Peer-to-Peer / Decentralized) algorithms for my http://gunDB.io/ database. Point being, I'm siding with @3pt14159 in this thread.

- "Sorry but databases are just a hole to put your shit in when you want it out of memory", I write a database and... uh, I unfortunately kind of have to agree, probably at the cost of making fun of my own product. You see, the reason why is because most databases now a days are doing the same thing - they keep the active data set in memory and then have some fancy flush mechanism to a journal on disk and then do some cleanup/compression/reorganizing of the disk snapshot with some cool Fractal Tree or whatever. But it does not matter how well you optimize your Big O queries... if the data isn't in memory, it is going to be slow (to see why, zoom in on this photo http://i.imgur.com/X1Hi1.gif ). You just can't get the performance (or scale) without preloading things into RAM, so if your database doesn't do that... well what @batou said.

Overall, I urge you to listen to @3pt14159 and @batou. PostgreSQL is undeniably awesome, but please don't fanboy yourself into ignorance. Machines and systems have their limitations, and you can't get around them by throwing more black boxes at it - your app will still break and so will your fanboyness.