skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know for sure:
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-...}

Attorney-client-privilege is an English/American legal term with a lot of meanings to it shaped by the courts.

In the EU, different member states have rules regarding confidentiality between lawyers and clients. Usually, the right to confidentiality is not absolute (the lawyer may have an obligation to speak in certain situations).

For a while lawyers hoped that something like attorney-client-privilege could be interpreted into the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms. With the ruling above this seems less likely.
The only one I ever find reliable is "more of the same." It's a pretty safe bet, regardless of what you're trying to predict.
I'm sure slave owners in the South used the same slippery logic: "If we let black people free, what's next? Women with voting rights?! I can't whip my boy when he acts up?!"

Change is hard, but if you're genuinely confused, simply follow what the great mindhacker Gautama Buddha taught: compassion for all and without judgement.
Which EU regulations are applicable?

I'm asking because I work with lawyers in the EU from time to time and I've never had to provide ID etc. It was always a telephone call or email plus sometimes a retainer.
RockThePost Shares Highlights Of 2013: $23 Million For Startups
Friendly locals are usually able to get a sim card for you without any delay. I got my first one from a rickshaw driver (I actually bought his active sim card and phone) for a $10 more than it would have cost. A guesthouse owner did the same thing on another occasion. Make sure to ask nicely, because these people are on the hook if you do illegal things with those cards.

I once went through the official channels, too, and it was much easier than I thought. I didn't have a passport photo either, so I went across the street to get one taken. Then I came back the next day and picked up a working sim card. It's only a bother if you need the sim card right away.
Why don't more people post videos and articles about the mistreatment of migrant farm workers in America?

http://www.economist.com/node/17722932

My ex was a vegan. She always complained about the mistreatment of animals used for food but never thought twice about how the people were treated who picked all the vegetables she ate.

It's basically slave labor in many cases. Low pay, terrible working conditions, long hours. Imagine crawling through the dirt on your knees for 10 hours a day in the California sun, filling buckets of vegetables for $0.80 a bucket, and if you screw up your boss reports you to immigration?

I have family members who were migrant workers just a single generation ago so it hits a little closer to home than some people. But those vegetables don't make it to the store without any suffering, just like pork chops don't.
In the Netherlands it's really easy, go to any phoneshop and walk out with a pre-paid sim after paying cash.

In Germany you need ID, maximum 2 per ID at a time....
The State of Crowdfunding Today w/ Infographics
From the article :

"Disconnecting from the grid is not realistic for most people, Chung said. The current state of battery technology means they have to be replaced after a few years, he said. And putting a system with batteries on a typical house would cost $40,000 versus $25,000 for one without the storage component, he said. Moreover, the battery portion isn't eligible for the tax credits."

So population on the grid does not fall. What mostly falls is the revenue from them. 90% of the time they're not paying (or even paying negative amounts thanks to the laws the greens forced through). The company can't disconnect them, and if the greens have anything to say about it, can't charge them. They need to provide backup power though, because the solar installations can't do that (without tripling in cost).
The map of the world if every country's population matched its size
Farsightedness. Things that are too close cannot be focused on clearly.

Step back. Lets talk Ohms law and "electronics people". Some systems level folks care only about microwave RF scattering parameters and smith charts. Others just use NEC tables vaguely derived from Ohms law but all that matters to them is passing inspection. Some consider Ohms law a dumbed down version of Maxwells equations for fools. Some, believe it or not, actually use Ohms law directly. There is no "right or wrong" other than grouping them all together as "electronics people".

In a similar way its pretty dumb to lump language designers, AI researchers, CRUD frontend devs, and generic code monkeys all under "programmer". The engineering field went thru a spinoff phase over a century ago where we no longer have "engineers" we have MechEng, ChemEng, EE, etc. I suspect in a hundred years it'll be considered humorously quaint that we used to lump all these vocations together under "programmer" even though they don't fit.
Druce,

Congratulations on the re-launch, the site looks good and definitely one I'll be keeping an eye on, especially since I likely fall into being part of the target market being in the Capital Markets space.

My one main bit of feedback would be that you might want to broaden your sources to include more in-depth financial sources - right now it feels more like "business news" than it does "finance/financial markets news". To pick an example, I'd be more interested in stories like "Former HSBC Banker to Start Hedge Fund Investing Globally" than I am "Secret Handshakes Greet Frat Brothers on Wall Street" to pick two stories on Bloomberg at the moment. I want to hear the stories about what various hedge funds are up to, what's going on at Goldman's Structured Products desk, etc.

My two eurocents anyway!
The biggest problem I see in these articles is the insistence on using off the shelf systems. SAP and Oracle are always at the center of these deals, and they end up being disasters. If you have MULTIPLE billion dollar failed projects using COTS systems, maybe its time to step back and look at a custom system.
> There is little difference there, stopping eating would be a natural consequence of losing your appetite.

No, it is the difference between eating with joy and eating because you're hungry, and also the difference between getting the point and completely missing it.

> it's ridiculous to compare the actions of Eichmann to whether or not someone loses their appetite when they hear of hunger in the world

Are you even familiar with Eichmann? Your statements ("deliberate Genocide") make it clear you're simply not getting the point Fromm is making. Eichmann "just" followed his orders, he lacked empathy, but he didn't so much care about genocide as about being a good bureaucrat. To go from "Eichmann" to "Nazi" and from there to any aspect of the Nazis you equate them with, instead of going by what Fromm means in context, is such a waste of time. You're offended over your own strawman.

If you heat something by 0.5 degrees celsius, or 500000000 degrees, is the same, "in principle". Of course, one is hardly noticeable, while the other explodes the solar system or something... that's why analogies are hard to follow sometimes. If there wasn't something you could point to and claim "Preposterous! There is a difference!", there would be no way to make an analogy in the first place.

> What I do find offensive is your childish posting of links to the wikipedia page on analogies.

Childish? You said he said it's "the same", so I felt it was warranted.
Israel slams reports of U.S. spying on prime minister
witch is a little different thing.

python can sort according to a function (using the "key" parameter) or using a custom comparator function (using the
"cmp" parameter)

as a side note, Python offers also a sorted[0] function, applyable to any sequence

[0] http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#sorted
That ironic moment when you realize that the American government is an ally of the Mexican cartel (and by extension, its terrorism) when it suits them best.
The consumer version of the oculus rift, and google goggles are released ultimately overshadowing the "smart watches" that are receiving much greater publicity. The rift is underwhelming for some who expected much greater things, but to most realize its the first step in something really bit. Google goggles on the other hand is a much greater disappointment as people were expecting true augmented reality, and received a head wearable camera and a box that tells them they got a new email. Still there's enough potential in there that tech nerds are excited.

Bitcoin has a yearly bubble, but the underpinnings of a possible successor are born (but hardly noticed) that tries to embrace modern economic principals.
Price of a bitcoin rises to $10,000 by June 2014.
Joyent: Top cocks in the IT industry
Since none of the existing replies go into technical detail, I'll add a few points:

E-mail is sent via the SMTP protocol, a protocol that made perfect sense in 1982. Since then, changes have been hacked together and the protocol has been bastardized beyond recognition to achieve various goals.

For example, if you want to transmit messages via an encrypted channel, you'll use the STARTTLS mode (tacked onto the protocol in the mid 2000s). But even if you are using STARTTLS, the server is likely not actually validating the certificate, as very few really do (even Google Apps / Gmail doesn't seem to check, as far as I can tell). So a MITM attacker could just set up their system to answer with a self-signed certificate, and there's a very high chance the client sending the message is going to go ahead anyway, even if it can't verify that the server it's talking to is the real SMTP server for example.com

Additionally, we've had a serious problem verifying that the sender of an e-mail is legitimate. In 2006 SPF (Sender Policy Framework) was proposed, which allows a domain to declare what IP addresses can send mail from it. However using SPF breaks things (like Gmail's ability to allow you to send from another non-Gmail account, for example) and almost nobody uses hard-fail mode to reject mail based on SPF. In 2011 DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) was officially standardized, and this security add-on allows the message to contain an RSA-signed header vouching that the "real" example.com generated the message. DKIM is a really big step for e-mail authentication, and is really starting to see wide adoption. However, many mail providers don't check for the DKIM header on receipt, thus leaving their users susceptible.

Other grossness includes the actual message transmission schemes - using multipart messages with base64-encoded attachments, all encoded (typically) in the quoted-printable encoding. Again a great method for the late 80s, but completely, totally, 100% inappropriate for modern communications. Base64 encoding an attachment also causes the attachment to grow by roughly 33%. Client software has to be incredibly complex to deal with all of the bastardized, non-spec implementations of message boundaries, character encodings, etc. The standards are there, but are complicated and ripe for accidental or intentional abuse. And, finally, messages have to be pretty grossly constructed to support unicode (this is an example UTF-8 subject line: =?utf-8?B?Hello!?= ).

The entire protocol needs a ground-up re-write. In my opinion, a lot (perhaps all) could even be borrowed from HTTPS. Imagine just sending e-mail by using a REST API, authenticated by utilizing client-side certificates. But that's probably just a pipe dream :)
except in separations.
You really think having a slight hassle getting a SIM unofficially is going to stop actual terrorists? It's all political theatre.
Amazon delivery drones are demonstrated in limited, controlled tests.

If I'm only getting one prediction, I'll make it my wildest. ;-)
In my experience, diners always have decent coffee. They make it constantly.
I wish I could agree with your thoughtful argument. The problem is that the site makes it seem as though becoming a Vegan is the only way to solve this problem (I most certainly agree that there is a problem here). Therefore this is once again going to fall on deaf ears because some simply can't resist pushing a pet agenda. They should have left off the whole vegan concept or added home range.

We are biologically hardcoded to eat both meat and vegetables. The problem is not what our diet is: rather how we go about fulfilling such a massive demand due to our inability to curb our breeding habits.

Becoming a vegan only partially solves the problem (partially = swathes of the Amazon forest being chopped down for vegetable farming). The other solution is only purchasing home range (which I always do unless it's absolutely not available) - but that had the problem of where the animals would be farmed (probably the Amazon too).

Cut down enough of the Amazon and guess what happens, not only do you stress the wildlife as you displace them but you also rapidly cause extinctions.

The problem is lack of self control, not our diet.
5 weeks of income. Let's say that again, 5 weeks.

Now, 1.9B isn't nothing, but for a company with this type of income, and a market cap of around £130B, and profits in the 10's of billions... it approaches it.

Can you imagine an individual being arrested for this type of behavior, and in the end losing only 5 weeks of income with no jailtime?

Too big to fail. Too big to arrest. Too big to shutdown. Congrats to the banking industry, you've won.
http://predictionbook.com is a better place to do this...
You can use Pine
My prediction for 2014 is that at the end of 2014, someone on Hacker News will ask for predictions of 2015. Have a happy new year.
What is DocumentID in MongoDB?
Bitcoin to reach $10000 usd. It increased 10 times in 2013, so why not again.
I don't get the difference.
I take a small stab at this here: http://lee-phillips.org/lispmath/
In the USA there is a child care tax credit; to be eligible, the child care expenses must have enabled the taxpayer to work or to look for work.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc602.html
True, but we're putting a lot of trust in third parties in that situation, no? HTTPS requires us to say "sure Verisign [or insert authority here], I believe you." If I'm doing that, why not just trust Google? Why use email encryption at all?

SSH is more in our control, but it's still trusting a third party (a server) and it still requires a deliberate act to set up and use (unlike HTTPS).
Terrorists cannot deploy bomb blasts using chewing gums
Responding to your edit: I don't think his point was that 20,000 was too big to fail. The point is that 20,000 is too big, period.

Any company over a certain size (certainly way less than 20,000) institutes internal procedures for smaller groups within the company to coordinate. How would we not all be better off if those smaller groups were independent competing actors?
Bitcoin to collapse to under $0.1, or lower It's just a pyramid scheme anyway.
The child care tax credit covers about 2 months of daycare in a major metro area.
You don't really need a bank account to rent a home. In fact, at my first place I've only paid rent with cash or by debit card for almost one year, and it was an agency. Private landlords tend to be even more flexible, basically the ones I've had only cared about being paid on time, not how.
Probably a good call.

CEP (Complex Event Processing) has been used in trading systems since about 2004, earliest I've heard of. By about 2008, it was widely in use in the industry.

It's now considered an old technology, meaning it has to be part of your tool box but no longer gives you any competitive advantage.

I don't see it going away, but the biggest problems with it now is its speed.

Solve how to you guarantee that a signal will flow through your system in a guaranteed time and you can make some money.

Or put another way, trading systems are often like video games.
Just like how video games engines limit the time an engine has to draw a frame a trading system will limit the time it takes to make a buy/sell decision based on an input.

TL/DR CEP or streaming architectures often don't guarentee all rules will be run over an input in a guarenteed time frame.
Generally, whenever colleagues from abroad visit Bangalore, I keep a local SIM card in my name ready for them. After the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the govt of India made it ludicrously difficult for any foreigner to get a local SIM card. I found this absolutely strange since the Mumbai terrorists never used local SIM cards - they were using satellite phones. I guess some guy in national security had a checklist of security proposals to implement and this was on the list. And once a complex process gets implemented in India, due to bureaucratic inertia, it never gets simplified.
Have you done some load testing on you site.
how many users can't a single Centos machine support without issues? Have you tried to optimize your code?
Where does your stack spend the most time?
are some of your assets static?
Except that, using Chewing gum you can do next to nothing to others, putting the gum in their hair is as disastrous as you can get. Using SIM cards however, you can co-ordinate a terrorist attack. In a country of a billion people tracing a phone number that is not verified by any identity is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It can be done, but takes a lot of time. So while systems similar to SSN are put in place, the govt has made it very hard to get a SIM, until a better system is in place.
The proposal is foolish because it would impact a substantial number of businesses? I don't understand the logic: if it impacted few or no businesses, then it would be pointless. Since it is impactful, then it is foolish?

Recall that I gave a timeline of some two decades for phased implementation. Also note that a franchise model could serve many retail stores well. Subway sandwich shops are roughly as numerous as McDonalds, but the corporations themselves have nowhere near the same number of employees. A franchise model could be used for roughly half the companies in your list.

Isn't it more foolish to have dozens of companies that would destroy large parts of the country if something went really wrong with them? Haven't we learned that lesson by now?
And not just thievery, I searched the article and found nothing about secret programs. "consequences for failure" isn't the problem, the real problem is "consequences for success"

No tinfoil hat stuff needed, merely look at history, opening the books of the Manhattan project or area 51 in the stealth fighter years would not have been very wise. I suspect as a former .mil guy that a lot more money disappears into stuff like that, than is officially admitted, or is lost to corruption.

If you think a simple IT project is expensive when .mil does it, doing anything secretly insta-quadruples the cost if not more.
This whole thing feels like a way to embarrass people into accepting a filter on pornography, while including non-porn content in the filter at a later date.

Once any type of filtering is set up it opens the floodgates for what content can or will be filtered. Imagine how easy it would be to filter out anti-government content when the response is merely "oops, must be a bug with the filter".

How can you even be sure that the opting out will still truly allow you access to the full, unfiltered internet?
The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites
D3 is awesome. It was really nice when working on the post to just be able to re-run the queries to generate new CSV or JSON and not have to go through a whole separate visualization generation pipeline.
I don't believe the organizational structure has an impact until you get over a few hundred employees.

Disagree. There are 50-person companies with all the negatives of MegaCorps (bureaucracy, closed allocation). That stuff starts to matter around 15-20 people.

Even before you have actual bureaucracy, if the founders haven't set forth some strong statements on what they want the company to be, there will be political behavior very early on as people anticipate what might come about with growth. Titles are meaningless at 10 people, but people will still fight for them, knowing that (if the organization moves along the default "main sequence") they will be massively important in the future.
Dear UK government: You are putting your technological expertise against a horde bored, horny 14 year old kids. Your abject failure will amuse the world.
It's $3k for each working parent -- far, far short of typical expenses. In the end, it means that women in a 2-earner family often take a break in their career, which then further separates income difference between men/women.
This prediction seems to have limited chance of success :

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22linux%20desktop%22

(sad, really)
Banks have proven time and time again that fines are not going to stop them from doing illegal activity. If you throw a few execs in jail, well, people will start to think more about their future actions. The current system of bonuses for performance and minimal chance of a US investigation that leads to a fine, at most, encourage illegal/shady behavior. Throw in the risk of jail time and people will think twice before doing anything might be illegal. You'd also get a lot more whistleblowers trying to cover their asses.
A previous discussion[1] 11 months ago (no comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008412

There are some older submissions too, with a few comments each.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2264243 (this one later went dead)

I like the series this comes from, but I'm not competent to make an informed comment on the substance of this interesting post.

[1] Colin, you know I just had to do that whenever I see you submit something that has been submitted before.
> First of all, REST is pretty well-defined and is neither worthless, meaningless or a buzzword

Reading comprehension, you definitely don't have it. I didn't say REST wasn't well-defined or was worthless, I said most of the uses of the acronym are as a worthless and meaningless buzzword, having very little to do with REST itself. That is a very different issue.

And since most of the uses of the "REST" acronym have little to do with actually RESTful system, the rise and fall of the buzzword has no relation with the rise and fall of RESTful system (which, objectively, have had very little rise in the first place)
Really? Because it seems that feminists say men can't take care of children, particularly by so convincing the US judicial system that only women can care for children that it takes extraordinary circumstances for a father to get custody. Modern, vocal feminists have, by and large, become severely anti-men in many of their policies. From convincing the world that all men are rapists and manipulating definitions of rape to induce male perpetrators. To the lovely Tumble feministas /SJW who spread vile, hate-filled messages against men. To a court system and public that's been convinced by the feminist political machine that women need to be protected and there's no way they could possibly rape someone or lie about being raped.

There's no such thing as the patriarchy in modern culture. Feminists like using that word as a scapegoat and explanation for everything they do and don't like.
And now for my real prediction.....

VIrtual reality headsets (either Oculus, or whoever) go mainstream and become the future of gaming. If one console gets a device released significantly ahead of the other (or even exclusively via some deal) will win this generations console war.
How do you have a debit card with a bank account to attach it to?