skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not writing one of those either :-)

...although there's been some interesting work from Dan Katz at UMich summarizing progress in this area http://computationallegalstudies.com/
Right now, everyone's hiring pretty young white people as drivers

The Uber drivers I've had were old Russian men, and a middle aged Chinese guy.
There is one terrible thing which is that adding an account for a different service but with the same email will overwrite any account with the same email without prompting you.

e.g. setting up 2-factor with MS with the same email you use for Google will overwrite the Google one unless you rename it.
>>Alright, pass those costs on.

It seems rather silly and inefficient that people have to pay more for their airport coffee or airplane tickets just because rental car companies decide stop paying their fees.

>> What's the alternative? We live with a less efficient system because we're used to car renters subsidizing everyone else?

Car renters aren't "subsidizing" everyone else. The article makes clear that rentals are just one of a variety of revenue sources for airports. Looked at another way: why should public transit riders pay for the infrastructure to support rental car agencies and shuttles?

Also, assuming FlightCar is truly disruptive, they should be able to provide a more efficient and cost-effective service despite paying the airports an appropriate use fee.
> Right, those are exactly the questions that need to be asked, discussed before implementation, and then included in the law if it passes.

Legislation is not the only source of law.

That said, more structured analysis is no bad thing. But it's not a panacea either. There's an existing analytical mechanism for legislation: depending on where you are, it's called "Parliament" or "Congress".

To participate, you must first be elected to that body. Or work for someone who does.
congress needs to go through all possible interpretations and rule out the ones not in the spirit of the law one by one

lulz, that will happen when programmers put out code that never has any bugs in it.
>They try focusing on real game innovation...

I think you took the definition a tad too far.
Scenario 3: Same as scenario 1, but a month earlier a different person saw a "missing boy, reward" sign for the same child and searched them out. They received $30000 from the family.

Wouldn't you find that unfair?

Or was the post misleading and the other bounty was a different company, in which case I take it back.
I ditched memcached for redis a while ago, just because I was already using redis for my queueing, and it made sense to eliminate redundant dependencies.

I'm now using Redis clusters to distribute cache reads so that each webserver has its own local copy of the cache which it reads from, but there's a single master that accepts writes. This does occassionally mean a double-write, but since we're talking about cache data and redis is atomic, this isn't a problem, and it splits the load of my reads, so that I don't end up bottlenecking if the master is being slow.
Someone should suggest to the American public that this mass surveillance is a big threat to sports and will somehow kill Baseball and Football (the one played with hand) in the country.
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Mint facts! The reason people say to put toothpaste on a bruise or a hickey is that toothpaste is traditionally flavored with mint. It's really the peppermint oil they're after, which is a strong vasodilator.

For this same reason, peppermint oil is, at high doses, an abortificant.
If you're going to participate in the "surveillance debate" don't be so stupidly myopic to argue only the ridiculous point that this keeps anyone safe from "terrorists".

If the NSA can literally look into any electronic conversation between anyone, then why haven't they stopped a single drug cartel? Any premeditated murder? Why hasn't a single banister been brought to justice over their internal emails detailing deliberate mortgage fraud? Why weren't they able to prove Bernie Madoff was swindling billions for years and there were many warnings? What about all the illegal insider trading of pretty much every congress person?

Oh that's right, because this system has absolutely nothing to do with bringing criminals to "justice" or keeping you safe.

This is digital enslavement and every single person who approves of this bullshit is complicit.

Trying to say that trillions of dollars in stolen money from people (if the funds taken from taxes are used to build a digital prison around you, those funds were stolen from you) to prevent some singular supposed attack is justified is farking insane!
There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM

Do you really believe that or just being flippant?
I am not familiar with this story in detail. Yet on the face of it, these services are not directly equivalent. Without knowing details of their implementation, it is clear that in principle, FlightCar has the potential to be disruptive, by the usual definition of the term. This is because it utilises assets more efficiently: land, labour and vehicles. The airport's existing financial arrangement is not really relevant since FlightCar could, presumably with some operational difficulty, operate outside of the boundaries of the airport. What you see as a loophole, I view as an indicator of a business model which became broken by technology and a trend toward more responsible use of scarce resources. You may not like it, and public opinion may even be with you, but I don't see how this is not classic disruption.
As the size of a semiprime increases, the number of smooth numbers that can be discovered (the "yield") by the GNFS with polynomials selected with academically known optimal polynomial selection algorithms decreases. With a reduction in smooth candidates the GNFS sieve operation can be wholly unsuccessful. If a smooth barrier exists (such as a semiprime size where smooth yield becomes deficient) factoring time degenerates from the GNFS improved rate to old school factoring rates due to the need to pivot. Yield decay has been observed <2048bit. If 2048bit is easily factorable for the NSA, no barrier challenge is suggested.
With that in mind, you may say that rather than designing a better system, we stick to the safe that was first cracked 200 years ago.

Half the people whose valuables are in that safe find it perfectly adequate and would insist that any attempt to change the locks is just a blatant attempt to grab their money.
A regular business could not issue the tickets SFO is issuing. A regular business would also be subject to additional antitrust and fair-business-practice constraints.

So if you're suggesting the airport be privatized, and then offering services like any other "business entity… deciding what to do with its own property", I think that'd be a great plan.

But SFO is a public entity, using state power to enforce extra monopoly privileges. It doesn't get to just say "because we want to do it this way with 'our' property", even if it's silly. It's the city of San Francisco's property, and their actions should be serving the public interest.

An equitable regime of charging based on actual visit impact achieves that. On the other hand, enforcing the old formulas out of tradition is lazy and destructive - and suspiciously protective of SFO's longtime partners among the incumbent rental agencies.
I'm far into my fields. I do econometrics, computational economics, and industrial organization.
Unchecked, indiscriminate killing of civilians in Iraq. Proving that the military was over there operating outside the spirit of what we as a supposed free democratic and just society stand for.

Pretty damn simple.
It's a side effect of object pooling. If you're re-using objects, you're by necessity not using immutable objects.
One weird trick that conquered the internet.

It looks like it worked, cause I clicked and read the article only to find out that it is exactly what I thought in the first place. But still I spent a good 10 minutes on it.
SO doesn't return a server header, so I imagine the IIS count would go up if it did.
Send me a note (bio). I have a fair bit that is probably relevant to you.
Maybe if a user writes 5-10 summaries in a month, and his summary gets picked, he/she get's access for free the next month.
Can't wait to see what you do now :D
The US system of legislative development is quite flawed. There are a lot of places where changes can be made without attribution, emerging from committees without saying who added what.

In most Parliamentary democracies you can only propose amendments from one of the two chambers, so any amendment can always be traced to the Parliamentarian who moved it.
You made some very good points, here.
He stumbled across a major vulnerability that needed to be fixed, not login credentials.

>He's insulted he didn't get paid for not being an asshole, what a strange world we live in.

That's how bug bounties work, yet people don't complain there.
Preceding and throughout Standard Oil's anti-trust trial, he steadily lost market share, and he was unable to stop it.
"Well, Go 1 has some of the problems of Java 1: no generics, typecasts from interface{} here and there, simplistic GC. Reasons are probably similar: this all is good enough for version 1, and can later be improved upon."

Except I doubt we're going to see generics in Go version 2, whenever that may be. The sentiment against it has been pretty strong in the golang-nuts mailing list.
A private company couldn't write tickets, and likely couldn't discriminate against private cars that just happen to be hired (but otherwise indistinguishable from the private cars delivering other customers).

SFO has been granted a monopoly on land, waterfront, and airspace by several levels of government, and is owned by the public, so this reductionist "the owner can do as they damn well please, social welfare be damned" analysis doesn't apply.
What is the nicest thing you've ever done that no one knows about?
> I guess I should patent that invention.

Your comment above would potentially count as disclosure. I and probably others have previously used the black-box analogy too.
Under the NSA's definition of 'foreign', a 51% likeliness of foreignness (a coin flip plus 1%), they only target foreigners. Use tor, there is the 1%. Speak a language other than English, gosh that must be worth 10%.

This goes on word after word. The NSA statements are blatantly false. They can only even pretend it is true by twisting words so far they no longer resemble their actual meaning.
Read the 4th amendment.
>That the previous commenter claimed to be a "news junky" and then admitted that by news he means the mass media

Absolutely nowhere did I say, or even begin to imply that. In fact, I explicitly called out the mainstream media for being complicit and/or not reporting on this issue while indicating that much of what is being reported was already known to me. Not only did I NOT say that I get my news from the mainstream media, the implication was, if anything, that I did not. The mainstream media is about the last place I'd look for competent coverage of this issue.

You're terrible at reading comprehension. Terrible. You make a lot of assumptions, all of them wrong, then proceed to insult other people based off your incorrect assumptions.

Additionally, the only thing incontrovertible is that this is news to the vast, vast majority of people who are affected by these programs. Those are the real numbers. But I know you. You're part of the Pedestal Crowd furiously patting themselves on the back. Good for you Danny. Atta boy.
Improv came later. We released Trapeze in Jan 1987. People followed some of the ideas we did but no matter every spreadsheet ultimately failed vs Excel. I think being part of Office made Excel the only game in town. Powerpoint won vs Persuasion (another app I worked on part of) for the same reason.
He wanted to build a bomb from acetone peroxide and detonate it in the subway. His only success in this grand plan would have been blowing himself up in his apartment as he closes the lid on his explosives, the friction between the lid and TCAP residue instantly detonating the mixture.

(As always, their stupidity is our best protection, not the NSA)
That's already what FlightCar is doing: their facilities are all off-airport, in another city 5 minutes away.

The valet drop-off/pick-up service (and air-travel-related marketing) is what SFO thinks entitles them to the rental agency fees... even though the drop-off/pick-up is indistingushable, in terms of impact, from having a friend drive you.
> 2) Common cloud infrastructure is normally off limits. Running adult content from AWS or Linode is forbidden by the TOS, so you have to roll your own servers.

Where do you get this? I've worked in the porn industry for 12 years and have ran porn sites on both Linode AND AWS... They allow it.

That being said, we do things very differently in porn than in the startup world I have come to notice. Most startups scoff PHP, whereas 99% of the porn industry is based on PHP. Not to mention we handle HUGE traffic loads on single servers, and the only time we ever have more than one server (outside of the sites sub 1,000 Alexa) is just for media such as pictures and videos, which are only offloaded to handle as static content while the rest is dynamic.
Actually advertising and marketing optimization is a very critical problem that hasn't been completely solved yet, especially when privacy concerns are taken into consideration. It is critical towards keeping the Web free and create a more inter-connected economy. While this will obviously have the side-effects of "frivolous" analytics, there is indeed a dearth of enough hybrid practitioners-researchers in data science today. It will probably saturate in 5-10 years but I'm no analyst to predict that.
"Still, people who have boats have money, and iOS users especially are accustomed to higher costs."
~
Geez Miles, don't mess things up for us those poor boat owners among us. iPads, iPhones, MacBooks are super expensive and any price breaks would be much appreciated.

:)
The NSA keeps saying that no one is abusing this program. That's completely beside the point--the point is that this program shouldn't exist at all.
I like how the slogan at the bottom of the page looks like one of those "How useful did you find this article?" questionnaires on Microsoft's site:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_images/slogan.jpg

"Four stars! Would trust again!"
I visited Waterloo-Kitchener a few times before choosing, but it never felt very interesting as a place to live. People diss Ottawa for being boring, but we have a pretty good number of attractions, and it's really easy to get around without a car. Montreal makes a nice weekend trip if you want to go someplace more exciting.

Academically I do feel like I missed out on a higher quality education / more prestigious degree from Waterloo. I have to do a lot of legwork to make my co-op program work and (hopefully) graduate on time next year. Ottawa also doesn't (yet) have the startup/developer culture Waterloo has, but I think we're working on it.

On the plus side, I did all 5 of my co-op terms without leaving Ottawa, met my girlfriend of three years and have a sweet job coming out of school next year. I wouldn't have done anything differently, but it is interesting to consider.
39% apache! Amazing.

Also interesting is that nginx 1.5.x doesn't appear once. Upgrading bbot.org to it last month was a ridiculous ordeal, but you'd figure at least one other site on the front page of HN would be running nginx mainline.
Google chromecast: $35 first (tentantive) step for the living room?
Use-after-free bugs that are so blatant that they occur in normal use are rare, but real UAF bugs are discovered adversarially, and it is absolutely not simple to test them or, for that matter, avoid them.
August 4th Rallies Protest Unconstitutional Surveillance
Scams aside, it would be interesting to use some of these techniques on landing pages for legitimate, valuable SaaS apps.

"One weird trick to improve your SEO/conversions/customer satisfaction/whatver KPI" which links to a page with a crude, long-form, un-pausable video. After that, you could probably at least get them to create a trial account.

Has/would anyone try this?
You just say that the laws in force on a particular date apply locally, minus anything that physically can't apply (eg laws about particular locations).

The law of every country in the English-speaking world started that way. Australia's current system of law, for example, commenced as a branch of British law on 26 January 1788. All the laws in force in Britain at that moment were presumed to apply; laws governing institutions and issues peculiar to Britain-as-a-place just weren't of any consequence.

Periodically you go into the collection and clear it out. In Australia in the 80s and 90s there was a law reform movement and as a positive side-effect enormous research was done to discover the true coverage of "Imperial" laws still technically in force. Our various Parliaments passed various Acts to repeal and replace old laws.

For example, where I come from, in the Northern Territory, the Law of Property Act repealed laws going all the way back to shortly after the Norman conquest.
That's the problem, and that's why these programs should be terminated. An un-auditable spy agency answerable only to the President is manifestly unconstitutional, dangerous, and wrong.
Seeking Capital, Some Companies Turn to ‘Do-It-Yourself I.P.O.’s’
I loved my C64 as a kid.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write these sorts of programs without the modern IDE / Debuggers / etc.

Trying to manage concepts like text scrolling or the 8 sprite limit make my numb...
Blekko is another, which is very impressive considering they do their own indexing and serving of results.
Holy cow! Seriously? You cannot use the internet, at all, without it being tied to a real-life ID?
Amendments should be moved in the open by individual members.

Australian Parliaments do it, so clearly it's not a great impediment to lawmaking.
Ask HN: Moving to Canada, any advice?
Hello,
I am 26 years old, I currently live in Poland and I would like to move to Canada with my wife and 2 years old son. All my life I have lived in Poland but recently I felt a great need for change. While my son is 2 years this is a good time to move. I am currently in the process of selling a house and I'm going to move to a different country. I chose Canada because it is far away and would give me the opportunity to learn about other cultures.

I am a full-stack PHP developer. I have 4 years of experience at work mainly in small startups.

I would like to ask a few things about moving to Canada:

- What is the job market for developers in Canada, and will be easy to find a job in not big, friendly company?

- The best places to start looking for a job in Canada?

- Maybe you have any advice on moving to Canada?

I will appreciate your advice.

My email: vojant at gmail.com
> For a reason I can't really explain, you mostly find PHP and C# developers here

Same here in Vancouver; I always figured the C# part was just our proximity to Redmond (and then PHP because it's the only language that doesn't impinge upon C#'s niche) but I guess it's more of a Canada-wide thing. Weird.
This looks great, I signed up for Javascript and Python looking forward to either one of those.
This reminds me of a recent discussion where someone mentioned tools over process. (http://rc3.org/2013/07/29/seven-signs-of-dysfunctional-engin...)

I would say that the 'law' is just subjective manual process, and we desperately need more tools for every-day judgement and decision making.

For example, if there were a computer system that logged all corporate financial transactions including income, then we could automatically tax large corporations, rather than waiting for them to report income through loopholes.
I find it fascinating that they are essentially corroborating everything Greenwald and Snowden have said, except just being nitpicky on tone and scope. Especially this:

"One feature is the system's ability to limit what an analyst can do with a tool, based on the source of the collection and each analyst's defined responsibilities. Not every analyst can perform every function, and no analyst can operate freely."

I seem to remember almost those exact words coming from the first Snowden interview:

"Any analyst at any time can target anyone, any selector, anywhere. Where those communications will be picked up depends on the range of the sensor networks and the authorities that analyst is empowered with. Not all analysts have the ability to target everything. But I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a Federal judge to even the President if I had a personal e-mail."
Just to clarify (I'm pretty sure, but you seem knowledgeable), the quantum state is maintained when photons are absorbed/re-emitted by matter, right? Otherwise it seems like there would be a lot more vacuums involved. That was what I meant by 'the particular photons'; to my mind if you transmit your energy to an electron and are re-emitted you become a 'different' photon. It's a pretty silly point to argue about, though.
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> Users of PGP/encryption products being singled out is terrifying.

I didn't see that in the article. Do you have a citation?
Lies, lies and lies... The sad thing is everything they have already done CAN be and could have been done by respecting laws. Its just easier to break them when you are nearly untouchable.
Actually, they don't derive the same benefits. They have no cars or counter on-site.

Also, it's likely a majority of their drop-offs and pick-ups aren't even people renting cars! Instead, they're locals, who've dropped off their car at a remote lot for maybe-renting. Why should such a person be routed out through the remote rental-counter-center, when they're not a car-renter? They're most like any other local arriving via cab or limo, so that's the airport-usage-fee that should apply.
Either of your examples would involve me still technically breaking the law if I kill someone while trying to save myself from being murdered by that person, even if I do eventually receive a lenient sentence.

Of course. It's hard to deny that you killed someone if you killed them in self-defense. And that's why there is value is having law be interpreted on a case-by-case basis. The judiciary could determine, because it was self-defense per your examples, that you didn't "technically break the law" because the law as worded is weak. This is the iterative nature of developing laws. If too many people were found to not be breaking the law as written after review, then the laws, and the wording thereof, should be updated to account for that by being more explicit and producing less grey area.