skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transnistria-Moldova might look like Crimea-Ukraine today but in the early 90s it looked more like Kosovo-Serbia and the Russians that intervened at the time were probably correct to do so.
Probably depends on whether the US can request the data to be transferred. I think there is a US court case on that one too.
I'm preparing for a big vote down on this one.

I don't understand why this is a blow against U.S. surveillance, isn't it in fact, the opposite? U.S. law supposedly doesn't allow the NSA to conduct domestic intercept on US citizens except through "legal" means. There is no such protection for the NSA monitoring overseas communications. Didn't the NSA and GCHQ have to get each other to spy on each other's domestic data?

But in a European datacenter, wouldn't the "gloves be off" with respect to NSA intercept? There wouldn't even be a need for a kangaroo FISA court or NSL.

To me, this all seems like a total break with the spirit of the internet. I grew up on the internet in the 80s, where we actually imagined it transcending national concerns and local politics. Remember John Perry Barlow's Cyberspace Declaration of Independence? (https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html)

The whole point around federated decentralized networking, was common carriage of data, non-discrimination, and the fact that you could host a server and serve anyone from all around the world without having to worry about hundreds of different legal regimes stepping on your toes.

Now it seems we've got the exact opposite of the internet imagined in the 80s and 90s, free of political interference. Instead, if you set up a server on the internet these days, you'll have to worry about European "rights to be forgotten" and privacy laws, Chinese or Russia censorship, Thai insults to the King, and on and on.

The simplicity of "here's my site/app, if you don't like it, please don't use it", has been replaced with "please track the geo-ip of your users, make sure you host copies of your server in the EU, Russia, China, and elsewhere, and route traffic appropriately. Be ready to comply with 50 different national internet regulations, some of them contradictory."

The internet of my teen years has become one giant bifurcated mess, and I fear what was once a kind of global village, will become a nation-by-nation silo.

Sure, there may be very good reasons to want these regulations. But it's not clear to me that the ends justifies the means. It's not even clear to me that the state snooping has been as damaging as cyberattacks by criminal gangs stealing people's data. Every week passwords, credit cards, and other information is being compromised by hackers and sold on the black market. Millions of smartphones and PCs are infected with viruses, keyloggers, backdoors. And yet, all of the focus is on the government snoops.

What's the right to privacy and data protection if your data is forced to be hosted locally in your nation, but compromised by hackers, and then sold to governments?

Is the original idea of the internet and web worth preserving, a kind of autonomous zone, a wild wild west, or do we need to lock it down, and turn it into national highways with freeway cops and political speed limits?
I would just contest the notion that "most great agents don't want to undersell their own industry." Not only does that kind of thinking assumes that compensation and customer service are tightly coupled -- even though "getting more for less" is one of the best working definitions of innovation -- it does a real disservice to the folks who have enough vision to work at a place like Redfin.

What is your definition of "great?" If you're referring to actual outcomes, check out Redfin's agent reviews -- the overall NPS rating blows any other brokerage out of the water, and is comparable to some of the best known consumer brands in the world. Equity compensation, automation of mundane tasks, a real team mentality when the agent next to you is a fellow employed colleague, not an independent contractor who happens to share a split with the same franchise -- these are all reasons a "great" agent might want to work at a place like Redfin.

Finally, many agents realize that the status quo (6% fees and asymmetric information) won't exist forever; it's all the NAR can talk about these days. The most far-sighted among them would rather work at an institution that is embracing and driving change, not resisting it.

All of this also assumes your axiom that Redfin agents are compensated less than traditional agents. Without going into too many details, I can say the opposite is true in most cases.

Disclosure: I work at Redfin.
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I am missing the part where this is a victory against U.S. surveillance. Why would U.S. surveillance care where the data sits? In fact it'd be much easier to have the allies pick up the data in their home country -- plus there are less complications. Hell, I'd call it a win.

Yep, it's a hit on operations for large companies. But it's not the end of the world. Lots of cash and severe growth mode means they'll just use lawyers to stall while they do some major re-architecture work over the next few years. Not a disaster.

The loss is for small/medium U.S. companies -- the kind of companies that go on to be Facebooks. The kind we need to make the economy grow. They're in a hell of a mess. They don't have the cash or momentum to weather the storm, and competitors overseas are now sitting pretty on a more locked-up local market.

As far as I can tell, this article has exactly nothing to do with U.S. surveillance. In fact, the results of the ruling, if anything, could be said to have exactly opposite effects of those promised in the headline. (Geesh, WP)
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>What would you build in Perl today that you wouldn't build in another language instead?

By that logic we should just stick to assembler or C. You can built anything in C, if you really wanted to.

Perl or any other language, remains relevant as long as there are system depending on it and developers who use it. I view Perl a little like Cobol, you and I might not see it every day, but for a rather large, and perhaps a little obscure, subset of people it's still the tool they use every day.

If you have 10 Perl developers employed already, it might be a wasted of effort to retrain to Python, Node, C# or what ever, and just do you next project in Perl 6.

The biggest threat to Perl 6 might be Perl 5 though.
The cool thing about the modern way of approaching natural products is that it's reaching far beyond what traditional herbal medicine is able to. Case in point, I heard of a promising new antibiotic that originated from a soil bacterium found in a random grassy field in the US somewhere. The latest edition of Foreign Policy has a good piece on these things.
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Obviously real estate and food prices are correlated at the county and/or zip code level and that is a bit of a data challenge in reviewing this linked data.

My point above is that its a hard thing to mandate people eat food X when it might be $10 for 2,000 calories vs $2 for 2,000 calories. Its also a problem if the $10 option pre-supposed you buy in bulk, have access to refrigeration, and use spreadsheets to minimize wastage which otherwsie might be as high as 30% (making it $10 for 1400 calories down the gullet). My understanding of what little research has been done in this area has highlighted that the logistics and economics of fresh fruit/veg are heavily biased towards the upper/middle classes in many ways that are not obviously apparent nor addressed stricly by "guidance" on what is a "better" mix of foods. To use an analogy that people with white priveldge may be more able to understand: if I tell you to pack a weeks worth of fresh fruit and raw meat for a hike in yosemite, which you have to carry, and forbid you from eating anything like nuts/granola/raisins/cliffbars/dried meat, you probably would have a bad time lugging around that backpack over 10,000 ft passes and what not. The reality is that rich white people in the backcountry eat the same crappy food as inner city poor people once they lose access to refrigeration/storage and frequent/convenient resupply options. It doesn matter if you look at a pro bar or a nature valley or a power bar or a snickers. They are all interchangeble in that context and do the job, despite some being up to 7x as expensive. And nobody would call a diet of 8 probars and a pack of beef jerkey a day either healthy or well rounded, but you will survive your trip. Of course, if you eat this diet in a sedentary culture, you're BMI will get out of wack. But that is the power of the explanation.
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I bought a Lumia 435 recently to test Windows 10 and see if it's worth going all in (they announced they would upgrade 435). Now MS are not going to upgrade this model. Behaviour like this is not how they will build credibility and new users.

Overall current version of Windows Mobile seems 80% there. Some things are done better than Android/iPhone, many other they don't. I was really looking forward to trying 10, but now will likely try out alternatives (Sailfish/Firefox/Ubuntu Touch?) as I can flash an existing phone.

I'd love to see a market where there are four+ OS's each with reasonable share seriously competing to be the best. It would be a consumers dream!
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Perl 5 is better than Perl 6 because in Perl 6 a lot of reinventing the wheel.
I haven't read their code or critiques of it, so I can't say if that's the case for this algorithm.

But for this class of algorithms, that doesn't have to be the case. Starting with a cryptographic hash could keep the key from being reversed to the input. There are probably other things that could help as well, like maybe not using the password in the public key at all.
So upon the actual boarding process, is the actual flight reservation checked with the name or is it susceptible to fraud?

I can see how fraud can be prevented with this schema, but I wonder if it's implemented.
I was there in 2003 and I can confirm that when people realize that you're a foreigner they just stare at you like you come from an over planet !

It was an interesting experience, people are really nice and are remarkable hosts (if you don't mind being stared at ;-).
It only shows up on posts that are dead (marked [dead], [flagged], [dupe] etc.).
Interesting the amount of HN users have been to that little shithole (including me!). I did Chisinau to Odessa and back in marshrutki, in 2014, around the time of Yumorina.

One point is that not everything is written in Russian; some is actually Romanian written in Cyrillic characters.

I secretly took some pictures of the border control with my DSLR, and when they were puzzled at my passport my then gf had the brilliant idea of taking more, like, in the open. They forced us to delete them. Tried undelete tools later to no avail, unfortunately.
While it seemed to cover more of the compiler optimizations and how to do some low level benchmarking and optimizing and wasn't really addressing when those might become obsolete, it was really interesting and informative. Thanks!
Few things to keep in mind when reviewing this type of information.

1. Most "Gun related deaths" are suicides. According to the CDC, 65% of gun related deaths in 2013 were suicides.

2. Only 1.3% of all deaths in the country were related to firearms. Including suicides.

3. Gun violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence. We're talking about the cities with the strictest gun control laws.

4. Counting only American deaths in these wars is highly misleading. Take the Iraq war for example. There were over 150K causalities. Some estimates go as high as 1 Million causalities caused by the Iraq war. This piece only counts 4,500 US causalities.
World war 2 Had over 24 million military causalities. Over 70 Million causalities if you include civilians as well.

Gun violence is a real issue, but we aren't doing public discussion about it any justice with comparisons like these.
Exactly. As a US citizen, if I run a service with data in the US, exactly one jurisdiction can attempt to demand data on my users; if I run a service with data in an EU country, at least two jurisdictions can. So unless a country wants to turn into China and try to stop all services not entirely run within their borders, they'll have to start trusting their citizens to select responsible service providers for themselves.

Of course, the best possible solution: no jurisdiction can demand data a service doesn't have.
I can't access the OP due to a firewall, is this similar to Zoopla's "time-travel" search?

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/travel-time/
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This.

I find this is a big trap that nerds tend to fall into. We invest a lot of time and effort into tools and systems that have a steep learning curve (unix, vim, emacs) because it is a source of pride to master something that is so difficult and esoteric. Being influencers, we have a strong network effect, and end up perpetuating these systems without considering whether they really are the best way of doing things or whether they can be improved in any way.

As far as Bloomberg is considered, they have a strong financial incentive to do this as well. It raises the switching cost for their users who have invested so much time into mastering their product.
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In Perl 6 a lot of reinventing the wheel and it so ugly.
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It's also a really convenient way to deflect when, and this is just a hypothetical here, you were wrong and jumped to conclusions.
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I'm not sure what you're saying. Perhaps if you could say what you mean instead of sarcastically saying something you don't mean, you could communicate more clearly.

If you're implying that a meat-heavy diet is some kind of US government conspiracy as opposed to the sort of diet which people across many cultures and eras have gravitated towards when they were able to afford it then I think a better study of history might be in order.
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Well, the reality is that there are several clusters of different migrants and they're choosing the US for several reasons:

* The very poor choose the US simple because they can; they may have the conctacts from family, they may have an idealized vision, or it's just the closest they can afford. But being able to marry or just keep their head down and avoid deportation is better than what they have, so since legal alternatives are not really a choice to begin with, they'll take what they can and not complain too much.

* The educated middle class will only go to places with exceptionally high standards of living that are comparable to any well-developed place in the world. These people are going to New York or the Bay Area, maybe Chicago or LA at best. They can ignore the US's massive inequalities because they're reaching for the best of their professions and available quality of life, and they know that if things go sour they can go to their homelands with a pile of cash and live like kings back home, which is a seriously good Plan B.

* Truly wealthy people can move around freely throughout the world and can enjoy the best that the US' global cities offer with none of their drawbacks, so long-term issues are mostly irrelevant unless we're talking business, and the laws in the country favor corporations massively.

So yeah, a lot of people in academia go to Europe, a lot of the educated middle classes in developing countries nowadays choose to stay put because they enjoy good benefits from a globalized economy and fewer of the drawbacks of their countries. And the poor who have no choice will try for whatever they can and accept it as an improvement.
For anyone confused at the title - it's a reference to a part of the epic Wagner opera "Der ring des nibelungen" called "Götterdämmerung" or "Twilight of the Gods"
In the presentation they went on about PixelSense and how they had re-engineered everything. Evidently the protocol between the pen and screen remains the same though.
Oh lord, Krav Maga and their knife disarms. You know what happens when an unarmed guy tries to fight a guy who is armed with a knife? He loses. Period.
Archive.org has the original (for the time being) - https://web.archive.org/web/20151006173818/https://www.build...
> Like the Internet itself, the project is effectively endless, containing 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news, tweets, charts, graphs, lists, and millions of individual data points, all presented in a classically-designed data visualization environment. To see and hear it all would take hours, but the viewing window is limited to around seven minutes... which induces a state of anxiety, triggers a fear of missing out, and totally frustrates any attempt at completeness.

Awesome execution and design, but a poor premise. This isn't inducing anxiety in anyone since we have no value for or attachment to your site, except maybe as an abstract statement... That is, unless the point is that humans are so fragile and confused that we will get nervous if you set a timer for something that we don't understand or have a reason to care about, which I suppose is a popular view of human nature in postmodern art, even though I think that's ridiculous and probably generates more anxiety than being helpful to others.
Besides customer segmenting, how does JIRA Core compare to the old JIRA vanilla offering? Is it missing any features?
According to Wikipedia you can have 200 people in a 737 MAX, at $69 each that makes $13'800 for a one way fare.

I'm sure that $69 guaranties you that you always travel at 100% capacity but once they pay the pilots, the flight attendants, kerosene and the cost of the plane, I'm not sure they get a substantial profit.
Then you probably are so small that you aren't in nobodies radar, not for an EU court and, hopefully, not for the NSA.
Python 3.5 will kill Perl 6 again because of Python new syntax like async/await, matrix multiplication, type hinting, and many more. HAHAHA
The NSA doesn't need any sort of court order to access domestic data on non-US citizens / residents. While it's true that offshoring the data of US citizens could make it easier for the NSA to access that data, the court case concerns the ability of the NSA to access data of non-citizens, and while there may be agreements in place with European countries to facilitate this, at the very least this forces the NSA to go through those outside channels, rather than just getting the data directly from say, Facebook.
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I wonder if there is study correlating ones overall health with number of flights he takes every month.
There's a great movie, called "Man on the Train", that I always remember because of a scene where a school teacher and a gangster are in a cafe and they get hassled by a coupe of local punks. The gangster, who is - by cinematic standards - a total, murderous bad-ass, does nothing as they get taunted by a couple of local hoodlums. Afterwards, the schoolteacher is confused and asked the gangster why he didn't react to the couple of punk kids who were bothering them - he says something like "one guy can't take on two, except in the movies."
If you make a free sample, you better include something more than just a short introduction. When I found an interesting book in a bookstore, I usually open it in the middle. This way it is easier to get idea how the author writes and what his style is.

"A brief history" and "What's new..." I can find such things on the Internet and rewrite them. Everyone can rewrite, right?

So, what I mean is, you have to win your potential readers by your style, your ability to explain things and so on.
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or

liftA2 (*) [2, 4..8] [-1, 0, 1]
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I suspect if anything, there will actually be more ways to do it in Perl 6. It can be used entirely from an object-oriented point of view, or entirely from a functional programming point of view. This is construed to be a feature of the language.

Flexibility is Perl's greatest strength and weakness. Perl forces you into dealing with other people's thought processes as a consequence of allowing your own code to be expressive and better reflect your thought processes. If this is not a tradeoff you're willing to make, Perl is most likely not for you. But I find it to be educational to see the variety in well-written Perl code (i.e. not from from Matt's Script Archive).
Scoble's press release on this manages to combine a Thomas Friedman'ism, self-congratulations, and even a registered trademark symbol: ®...And it's only available on Facebook, of course[1].

Meanwhile, this all buries the lede: Rackspace has lost to Amazon, and it's trying to pivot into becoming a consulting business before it completely implodes.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/robert-scoble/rackspace-annou...
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One aspect the author doesn't talk about is emulation: The Wii/GameCube emulator Dolphin uses JIT to translate the console's PPC machine code to x86 machine code.

I'm also not sure if "scripting languages" truly don't need a JIT. The development of LuaJIT for example has been sponsored by various companies, so there seems to be a need for the fast execution of Lua code: http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
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This is being done:

India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Knowledge_Digital_....

China: research into TCM happens a lot, even in Western laboratories

Amazonian and African plants are cataloged and analyzed for the pharmacological properties. I cannot name specific research projects, but plenty of books from respectable sources can be found. When traveling the Amazon I even met some pharmacologists who scout for plants (all but one working for pharmaceutical companies).

Unfortunately the alternative healing movement got a 20 or 30 year head-start and thus the hardest part for the interested amateur pharmacologist is filtering out all the pseudo-scientific publications in that field. It's not all bad, a lot is even useful as a starting point for serious research, but hard facts are hard to come by.
I'm curious. If the only useful thing you learned was break falling, why did you continue until 2nd kyu?
I would rather get the $1500 piece of technology that would not need the extra protection (not entirely sure this one does to be honest).