skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geoengineering might make the entire system more complex, but it sure beats the alternative. None of the more viable options that have been proposed have potential side effects worse than what we'll expect if we do nothing. And while it might just be treating the symptoms, it also gives us the time necessary for technological innovations to change the causes of those same symptoms. Electric cars, improved and more efficient power systems (fourth gen reactors, improved renewables, and better battery tech for starters), cleaner production systems, even the eventual benefits of building orbital manufacturing infrastructure will all combine to solve many of the root causes we're struggling with.
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Most likely she just prefers it that way.

Sure, could Google search, but Facebook search is right there plus she likes it.
P2P by default except on the enterprise edition, in which case it's local network only. They also claim to disable P2P if they detect your internet connection is metered (I'm not sure how that's done).
Thanks. All the author does is define the three terms?

I don't want to be lazy; I did look for some sort of thesis or argument but I'm not going to read that long paper without even knowing what it's about.
This sounds very alien to me. Only one of the factors I listed could possibly be fixed by choosing the right distro, so I must attribute the rest of your success story to extreme culture differences. Don't get me wrong: it's nice to hear this is working for you, but that outcome is nowhere near a realistic expectation where I live.

> Everything is "easy" but it'll cost you $30 to buy an app to fix your mouse and you gain no useful knowledge through the experience.

While I don't think paying for software is necessarily a deal breaker, I have never come across a situation where buying an app for $30 was necessary to "fix the mouse". What was wrong with it? I agree that just using an external tool doesn't give you knowledge, but strictly speaking, fiddling with an arbitrarily designed config file doesn't grant you any meaningful knowledge either beyond the single program it was intended to run on. For example, I would rate the knowledge of how to edit an X11 config manually as functionally equivalent to knowing how to install a GUI tool that manages your display.
Wow, I learned nothing from reading this letter. Note to CEO, if you want people to read your letters, actually have some content, not just your feelings on something vague.
It's one of the option during the first experience configuration of Windows 10. If you had another browser installed, one of the toggle is : do you want to use Edge as default browser. Hopefully, people that feel that strongly about their browser choice don't just use "Express settings" when installing a whole operating system.
Feynman explains why mirrors only reverse left and right
>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google's far worse policies

I find it shocking how hypocritical Microsoft was towards Google all these years only to find out their even worse than Google because they baked these privacy "violations" into their browser.

>Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged

Utter bullshit. I don't login to Chrome when I use it and none of my URL's are sent to Google.
Sikuli is awesome, I've used it a bunch. But developing and distributing cross platform commercial applications with it is a mess. Also interacting with other languages, to make a GUI for example, isn't fun.
Just use Windows Defender. It's built in. You're already done.
Running BitTorrent Sync on AWS or: how to get peace of mind for pennies a month
Sounds great. I always wanted a genre like this and didn't know it existed past the rational titles I've read. Got some more reading ahead of me. Thanks rayalez!
Max Levchin resigns from Yelp's board
> Regardless worth a read even for UNIX users

Especially for UNIX users, I'd say! ;)
Maybe so. But then there's a difference between a reasonable suspicion and a fishing expedition against a competitor. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.
It's an anglo-centric viewpoint, for what was (until recently it sounds) an anglo-centric company.

Glad they're growing internationally! :-)
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Drone porn? The next logical step from 'upskirt porn'?
Oh I understand it may be preferable to the alternatives. I just find paying that kind of money to effectively live in a hostel as a working professional to be pretty mind blowing. I'm glad I was never personally in that sort of situation.
Certain specific processes may be patented, but "this type of thing" cannot be patented outright. Ideas are not patentable, processes are.
Facebook and Google don't create shill organizations or hire political hitmen to create smear campaigns on the topic of privacy. Microsoft just solidified what hypocrites they really are. I guess they'll think twice about attacking Google again.
Yeah, I agree with everything you said.

I didn't agree with the tone of the article, but "Something happened" is a poor error message, and I feel bad for the devs who put so much work into an otherwise well-received launch to be stymied by their own coworker's uninformative error dialogues! ;)
>about:	https://nicky.io

make way for the 20 year old whining about political correctness
Along those lines, how dangerous is the "filter bubble" effect? Totally a reasonable social psychological/philosophical question, IMHO.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
Surprised that you are getting down-voted for saying the right thing. As I am not American, I never took any interest in American politics. So I was never aware of the right wing propaganda machine - till I subscribed to Wall Street Journal. I was shocked that it's considered to be a "good" newspaper by some - of course, I have cancelled my subscription now - it was the single most important event in my life as it made me extremely liberal and progressive (as a reaction to the pure nonsense produced by the journal).
Nor on Labor Day
Rust doesn't enforce that. Recently it was shown that Rust can leak memory. Memory safety is the real thing it guarantees, without the cost of a GC. "Easy, safe, zero overhead memory management" might be a one line pitch.
My colleague wrote his diploma thesis with a voice recognition software (the market leader) because he sucks at typing. Desktop voice recognition can't be that bad.
You'd be surprised by how many C/C++ programmers there are out there! I've already been surprised by the number of contributions. But yeah, using C wasn't a choice, it was the only option. Luckily we already have all planned features implemented in C.
The company I work for is building a near real time (web real time not real realtime) setup (a second or delayed) using AWS SQS and redshift with a custom message consumer. If you keep the message consumer as stateless as possible it's super scalable and reliable.
You misread, I said .gov is a strict TLD, as in you need to be some sort of government agency to get one. Although that's washy as well, but not to the extent that .com/net/org/io are.

Ha, let's be honest, they will always squat com and net first as long as they're the most popular TLDs, which I don't see changing anytime soon.
SF has top quality arts & entertainment? I'm from New Orleans so I'm spoiled, but the live music scene in SF is the pits. Stern Grove is cool, but it's only during a short time of the year. The SF ballet is excellent, but most other A&E things fall way, way short of other US cities.
No, they can't legally do any of the negative things you've listed, and they aren't an organization with a history of criminal action against customers. This brings the OS in line with the behavior of many applications (Chrome for example) in keeping things always up-to-date & secured, and it's done because most users are incredibly lazy and ignorant.
Goldsberry, Jr!
If crime didn't matter, New Orleans' tech scene would blow up a lot more before ballmers.
The things people seem to get upset about in Rust, the whole borrow checker thing, confuses me. Because often the reason the checker is complaining is because you're doing something wrong and would have a bug in another language. But because Rust brings these to the language/compiler level, vs leaving an exercise for the programmer, I suppose it looks more complicated.

I'd be surprised to hear that C++ is less complex than Rust (going by number of features or concepts or some reasonable complexity measurement).
It's multiple gigabytes for a single language and accent. I wasn't even talking about the full dataset across languages.

You don't seem to understand the size requirements for getting a good dataset. Don't you think Microsoft would have loaded up the dataset if it was easy and cheap? They didn't have a desktop cloud-based recognition service until literally yesterday, so they had many, many years to include this magical dataset that solves all your problems without cannibalizing another one of its products. They didn't because it's not feasible right now. In the future? Maybe, hell, probably.
That's my guess. Especially since they hold Amazon Prime Video hostage from Android users - even though we've already paid for it - until you install the Amazon App Store on your device and give it every permission under the sun.
It makes sense in this case, though. It is human nature, and has been so for who knows how long (hundreds of thousands of years?).
Finished mine half an hour after they ran out of spots...

There's always next year!
Keeping Organized
One of the things that I am always working on is my organization process. Yes, process is the correct term—for me. I see organization as a journey not a destination. There is not finality to the process. It is ongoing.

Read more here: https://ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu/info/myail/2015/07/29/keeping-organized/
60 is divisible by ... 8?
Many people said their product wasn't very good, in the last HN thread.
You walk. You don't want to work with a founder/company that isn't forthcoming and truthful.
From the article:

> Some of you, who have ventured deep into the bowels of databases, will probably point out that doing something like this in a real setup is committing concurrency suicide. All updates to the same row will essentially be executed serially which is no bueno if you're trying to build a performant data pipeline.
> Utter bullshit. I don't login to Chrome when I use it and none of my URL's are sent to Google.

Oh so that must mean Google has no way of tracking you on Chrome. You must be so privacy aware!
I wish every HN link had a separate comments section where people bitch about the page the news was served on.
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A relative of mine made the mistake of renting to a start up.
Rent has not been paid for several months.
Legal proceedings have started.
( This is in a country where evicting tenants is notoriously difficult. )
Just to clarify, all index funds are managed by Vanguard, and employees who want to choose their own investment allocation are free to do so. However, for the majority of employees that need help with their investing strategy, we use the same investing principles as Wealthfront and Betterment to make sure they're globally diversified and automatically rebalanced. Also, all funds are held in an SIPC-insured secure trust account by one of the nation's largest third party custodians that deals with billions of dollars -- we never touch the money ourselves.
What exactly would you propose should be done to place the burden on the guy with the $100,000 car? If you don't require that the guy with the beater buy insurance, all you're doing is setting him up to be bankrupted of whatever little he does have if he's at fault in an accident. And what if he crashes into another poor slob making $8 an hour at the Wal-Mart who managed to take out a loan to buy a slightly nicer car? Or what if he cripples that person for life, and they require constant medical care for decades? You're setting people up to be screwed a lot more than they need to be.

(Note that the no-fault status of PA doesn't really matter here, because it just means that if both drivers have no-fault insurance, they can't sue the other driver for minor injuries. Property damage and serious injuries are still fair game.)

If you do require insurance, but have the cost of the insurance scale neatly with the cost of the car it covers, then you'll either have a really low limit on liability which brings back all the problems above, or you'll need to subsidize the insurance somehow.

Overall, it seems unfair to say that a person is allowed to put other people at significant risk for property damage and injury without paying for what that risk actually costs. If you don't like that this is more burdensome to the poor than to the rich, I think that more general schemes to alleviate poverty, like government assistance, are the way to go, because car insurance is only one of many, many ways that life is disproportionately expensive when you're poor.
With all messaging apps that gets introduced these days, how come the only one that we all actually uses is email? Because it's decentralized! It used to be that we designed protocols for the internet, and now we instead build services on HTTP. Simply because you won't make money by writing RFCs that anyone can implement. But as we think all these new apps are moving us forward, the reality is if I really want to be sure someone can read my message, I must use a 40 year old protocol.
> 500 unaccredited share holders. The JOBS act got rid of the 500 shareholder arbitrary limit. It's now 2000 total or 500 unaccredited.
Can We Engineer Ourselves Out of the California Drought?
I hate to be that guy, but...

* Given the traffic in Dhaka, you'll forgive me for not believing your one hour delivery promise.

* The only way I can see to get around the traffic problem is to either go hyper-local (i.e. maintain warehouses in every neighborhood), or have delivery people walk/take rickshaws. Either way, this isn't going to scale to the entire city without a TON of startup capital. Which I'm not sure you have.

* How does YC feel about the inevitable "system loss" that's comes with doing business in Bangladesh?

I'm also very interested to hear how YC intends to maintain management accountability in a business halfway around the world.
The employee can make an 83b election upon grant, pay for the stock up front, and not get hit with a tax bill upon vest.

If the company is public (either via acquisition or IPO), the company will sell part of your vested stock to cover taxes.
From what I've read there are a few lessons: (1) what is your value as a middleman, and why wouldn't providers go around you? (2) Make sure customers are happy. Homejoy didn't get reliable cleaners, which hurt their brand. (3) Adjust to regulatory changes. Homejoy claims switching from workers from 1099 to employees caused them to close.

Uber does well on all these. Customers don't need a regular driver, they just need any car right now. Uber is 10X better than taxi service and customers love it. Uber aggressively crashes through regulatory hurdles. Homejoy failed, but Handy and Amazon Home Services and Thumbtack are still around. Google might jump in, too. So it might be an issue with Homejoy, not with the business model.
RDS just cleared HIPAA and BAA. See here: http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/

Working on Aurora...
The threat of force as the default way to get compliance is counterproductive. The only reason a police officer should be able to lawfully use force should be the same as it already is for everyone else. This requires both (in AZ[1] at least):

* Breaking the law.

* Immediate serious bodily harm to a person (attempted, threatened or witnessed (see law)).

Or:

* Warrent issued by a judge.

If the suspect wants to drive away, or not comply with an order, in the vast majority of cases (civil, petty crime etc), that's fine. Let them. It's counterproductive to chase someone and it's not worth shooting anyone over. Police officers and the people they serve would be safer. If a criminal warrant is issued by a judge, then the threat of force may be necessary, but it shouldn't be the first (no-knock raid for non-violent crime) reaction. Part of the problem (in addition to people who like to oppress and/or apply their racism) is that police are expected to force people to comply. Some will say "but the lawlessness!", to that I think two responses are appropriate:

Most of the laws that normal people break don't rise to the level necessary (see above) to be enforced with force.

The change in culture would have the opposite effect. There would be less crime.

I wonder what would happen if we not only elected the Sheriff, but the police too. Sheriff must have final hire/fire power, but the candidates should be required to get community support. And they should live in the community they serve. A great first step is to end the "war on drugs". Either we own ourselves or we don't.

[1] http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/13/00411.htm
Individuals are free to invest in any of the low-fee Vanguard index funds we include in our plan as they wish.
For obvious reasons, I wanted a `.md` domain but those are expensive... also for obvious reasons. This is a rather unfortunate and common result of our DNS system.
Honestly I'd just push back and have them set up MySQL, assuming they have Macs. It's pretty simple to install. If Windows, IDK if it's easy or hard.

Or you could try using a CSV plus textql

https://github.com/dinedal/textql
The GOP's position is to not let climate change be the catalyst for wealth redistribution, by any means.
The real power savings come not from the switches themsleves, but from the application and scheduling architectures it enabled.

Having full cross-sectional bandwidth between any pair of hosts means the bin packing problem is a lot easier. You don't need to (say) make sure your map reduce job is scheduled with one shard per rack because racks only have so much bandwidth. Any host on any rack will do. You can forget racks even exist.

This makes overall utilization of clusters more efficient (tighter bin packing), and the corollary is you don't need as many clusters and machines. (Not that has ever stopped Google from building more :)
It's all about total systems complexity.

For example, assembly language is very simple. It's basically just arithmetic, comparisons, i/o, and gotos, right? But building systems using assembly results in extremely complex code because it lacks the tools to manage complexity well. You end up with a rats nest of spaghetti code often, for example, unless you use structured programming macros. C++ seems "simple" but it ends up being essentially a "write-your-own-language" language with the way you can use templates, macros, and operator overrides. There's no such thing as one C++ language, there are actually hundreds of dialects that are used by different groups of people for different purposes, almost all of them effectively mutually inoperable with one another. This is a complexity nightmare.

Rust is a systems language, like C/C++, but designed from the ground up and based on modern techniques. For example, there are ways to use C++ which are particularly advantageous from a memory management aspect, such as RAII, but enforcing such uses comes down to culture/policy. Rust instead is based on different principles, specifically the idea of "borrowing", to handle memory management instead of relying on either extreme of "do what you want" or "the GC will clean up after you". There are a ton of other concepts which are baked into the Rust design which result in the ability to create programs that are easier to maintain, more likely to be correct, and more likely to be safe/secure, without sacrificing performance relative to C++ running on bare metal.
I 100% agree that Rust doesn't guarantee an absence of leaks in any formal way. I dedicated a section to this fact: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/adv-book/leaking.html

However I will say that Rust makes it a lot harder to accidentally leak resources (it's trivial adversarially -- but I don't consider that an interesting programming environment YMMV).

In e.g. Java you need to remember to `close` a File -- in Rust it will close itself as soon as you stop using it unless you do some wild things. We can't formally guarantee anything better than the Java scenario; it's equivalent to whoever you pass a file to having to call `close` on it.

However the defaults are reversed: In Java you don't close a File by default, and have to explicitly do something to close it. In Rust you close a File by default, and have to explicitly do something to not close it (mem::forget or Rc cycle).

This is a pretty general theme for the wins Rust provides: it picks the best default so simple things are simple, but gives you all the tools to bypass that default. By default you want to close files. By default you want to free memory. However you can leak these resources when it makes sense.

The most interesting case for me is our HashMap: we default to SipHash seeded with some OS entropy to prevent algorithmic complexity attacks. This is an explicit choice to protect our users against a relatively obscure problem. Honestly, it's probably not what most users of HashMap need. Determinism and speed is probably nicer. And yet the cost of not having that safety guard when you need it is pretty extreme.

However if you know what you're doing you can just grab a community crate with a different hasher and plug it into our HashMap. Easy as a single type annotation: https://github.com/shepmaster/twox-hash/blob/master/README.m...
at the very least, if you don't try to clean away the accumulated societal dead wood, you will end up with not just one bread winner and one care giver, but with women almost exclusively being pushed into the caregiver role and men almost exclusively being pushed into the breadwinner role.
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The problem with refresher grants (and the thing that people don't understand) is that they tend to be near worthless due to the strike price. If the company is doing well, and you've stuck around for several year, the price on the options is probably so high you're unlikely to make much money off of it.
I'm not here to debate that. I fervently wish we Americans were spending less money on the military and more on educating our children. I took part in the military. I understand it's a giant machine (military industrial complex) that doesn't just wind down in a couple years or even decades without sustained public pressure.

I'm here to understand the point of this article. If the author were advocating giving the .io domain fee profits to the Chagossians, I'm all for it, but I don't see that being advocated. I'm not sure what is being advocated. It's just a bad article with a lot of hand waving and emotional appeals that don't really do anything.