skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you accusing the other posters who confirm similar laws in the USA and Australia of lying as well or do you concede that they exist?

Shorthand for a member of the community is just 'analyst'.

Spook/Spy is a pop culture reference to a very specific role in the intelligence community.

To give you some context about the thing that you think you know about.

>> The United States Intelligence Community (I.C.) is a federation of 17 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. It includes intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments.

>> The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.

That is just the USA. That does not take in the 5 EYES Community (UK, CAN, NZ, AUS) or the rest of Europe (FR, DEU, IT, DK etc)

And you think that none of these places legally destroy magnetic media that contains compromised classified information?

Seriously. Are you on crack?
It's under the heading "So why is that", op is the author I believe.
Sometimes it seems obvious they do. Other times you think they seem to be having an experience, but it's not really comparable to human emotions. And several times per day you doubt the presence of higher brain functions in the people around you.
I think it's mentioned in the YAML issues section; the reason one version encodes a string as a Time object is because it matches a gnarly regexp in the YAML generator.
That's what I thought so I did a second take. This is the relevant excerpt:

> This tree of strings is then converted to YAML tokens using the class Psych::ScalarScanner that internally uses regular expressions to identify YAML types. The regular expression used to identity time objects changed in the new version of Psych, which meant our nanosecond precision time was now correctly converted to a YAML Time type rather than being left as a string.

Apparently, the "hurt" mentionned in the title refers to a bug being fixed.
http://recode.net/2014/05/22/hp-shares-slip-as-q2-sales-come...
Reminds me of (forum) mafia: there's a set of heuristics for how "town" players behave. But real town players will break those heuristics occasionally, because they're trying to catch the mafia - so the players who conform exactly to the "town" heuristics all the time are actually more likely to be mafia players.
> This tree of strings is then converted to YAML tokens using the class Psych::ScalarScanner that internally uses regular expressions to identify YAML types.

It's there, but I agree it's bad editorializing. A better takeaway is that if you use YAML you will be burned, but even that is a reach since YAML for all its horrors is the best serialization format for Ruby, something for which you'd probably be equally ill-advised to roll your own.
I live here now, and while I have not really been outside yet (work work) this seems to be the case now also. Most everyone I'm talking to seems to be pretty laid back about it.
I started working in the "internet economy" around 2004, when the web was coming back. I worked on several small eccommerce projects and I read a lot of commentary. I really thought ecommerce imminent industrial revolution scale.

- Affiliate marketing was a buzzword.
Adwords ads placed by affiliates were common.
- Dropshipping was a buzzword.
It seemed like a matter of time before all factories would be dropshippers.
- Google had just made online advertising make sense
- Amazon had survived the bust
- Hosted carts were getting good.

Joel Spolsky (2001)- Indeed during the recent dotcom mania a bunch of quack business writers suggested that the company of the future would be totally virtual -- just a trendy couple sipping Chardonnay in their living room outsourcing everything. - I was one of these believers.

But, I didn't believe that there were long term businesses to be had gluing together all these things. If all the eccommerce "site" was going to be doing was paying affiliates and forwarding orders to dropshipping suppliers, that could be all automated. If all affiliate marketers were doing was pointing links to products, they could be 'eaten" by a product search engine like (the promising new Google Products).

Eventually what we would have is factories, postmen & search engines. All the intermediaries wouldn't be necessary.

What I thought I was seeing was the etherialization of the entire retail-to-manufacturing chain. When a product starts getting produced, it puts itself on the ether. People buy it. It gets shipped factory-to-consumer. The efficiencies are mind boggling.

It turned out that all the details I thought would be solved, turned out to be bigger barriers than expected. Even a small-medium retailer that wants to buy direct from factories, will have a hard time, never mind the consumer. Online transactions still suck. Shipping still sucks (in many places). The experience is still "of.f"

That kind of "etheriazation" didn't even happen for digital products.

But, I think that we are still moving in that direction. The Alibaba group IPO is a hint at steps in that direction. They are working closer to the manufacturer end of the manufacturer-consumer chain.

"Modern supply chains" is a big and hard to understand part of the transition too: H&M, Zara, Dell, Tesla. These are all examples.

I'm not sure how to wrap it all up. I think that retail is being eaten by software, but it isn't happening on the 5-10 schedule we expect from "eaten by software" revolutions.
Think POTUS election. You can cut down the country in arbitrary unit which will have an equal voting power.
The area may be an Engineered Material Arresting System. That is, an area of specially designed softness that slows an aircraft down really quickly without too much damage.

http://www.airportsinternational.com/2011/01/arresting-syste...

It also would be an blast pad - an area of pavement that is kept clean to prevent aircraft engines blowing dust and stones around when taking off.
The parent company simply writes that into the license. Companies like Intellectual Ventures set up a shell company and give that company a time limited exclusive right to some patents, including the right to sue other companies for infringement, during that time period. In exchange for this exclusive license the shell company agrees to pay, let's say, 95% of any revenue generated by sub-licensing or court settlements to the parent company.
It also links to this terrifying class:

https://github.com/tenderlove/psych/blob/b6e8b10c83720fe73ab...
No, it relies on them being able to do that, but also to be able to improve their products such that they stay relevant. Things like A/B testing require Google to know what the user is doing in order to test their effectiveness - a FHE setup would ruin that.
In any case, I'm not sure how this would stop them from tracking in the first place.
Telling folks that W3schools is awful doesn't help them find better resources. Just point people at the better resources, stop linking to W3schools, and help build a better world.

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css - for a better HTML, CSS and JavaScript reference.
The law being ignorant and stupid is no defence of the law. The whole setup desparately needs to be changed.

Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran or even East Germany back in the day

Is that on a motivational poster inside GCHQ? "Not as bad as the Stasi"? Talk about low expectations; don't you think we might aspire to something a little better than "not as bad as North Korea"?
He just means there are false positives whereas a cancer cure would only attack sick B-cells.
It was a much more painful story going from 1.8.7 to 1.9.3 in 2011. It didn't help that we decided to go from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3.0 at the same time :-/
I agree this debate is already over. However I think this simplifies the issue enormously and makes it a lot more likely that general public opinion can be mustered against animal testing. If you tell the tell the future adults of this world that animals like to play and have fun then ask them whether it is right that animals are experimented on then the answer, for good or for ill, is going to be a resounding no.
I'd happily upvote this, it's very interesting but my votes are not counted.

What I like especially is that even though he became blind at the age of 16 it does not appear to have slowed him down in the least.
Look into tarsnap, which solves exactly this problem; looking around Colin's site should give you an idea how it works without needing to delve into the code (which _may_ be ok; it's not OSS.)

Basically, generate a tarball, split that into chunks at e.g. zero bytes (tarsnap uses a smarter algorithm), upload any chunks that the server does not have.
Incredible that such a transparent strategy would not be punctured in court. Just requiring that the principal holder of a patent is the only one with standing to sue for infringement would get rid of this particular trick immediately.
ICA helps you separate a superposition of two or more signals. Assuming the speakers are not speaking at the same time, he might rather want to use speaker identification methods to find what parts to mute (e.g. train a binary classifier that operates a spectrogram of the signal).
...then Johnson was asked. "Was it a PR move?" to which he responded. "No. I wouldn't say that."
Even more complicated:

- owning a house may make it harder for you to decide to move and accept a job/opportunity elsewhere, or to travel -- the impact of which is unquantifiable

- for some people, by the time they'd finish paying off a house they'd already reasonably expect their parent's to have passed on and left wealth/property; for these people, particularly entrepreneurs, having free capital in the intervening period would turn out to be more rewarding so rental is a very sensible option

- not everybody is born where they want to end up; I've moved between 3 cities and 2 countries in my 12 years as an adult (each time increasing my earnings, opportunities and life experience significantly, like climbing rungs on a ladder), and I'm hoping to move a 4th time so that I can finally have access to the top-rung opportunities other people born in major cities and 1st world countries take for granted -- the idea of owning houses in each of these cities and somehow managing to rent them out as some propose here is absurd to me, I barely have enough time to take care of my basic needs, nevermind run a multi-national property empire, and besides which there a

Ultimately as nice as this calculator is, this is a very personal decision.
Not so long ago I posted a message I then reposted and managed a -4 Karma somehow.

I was going to take a big leap in to a post with salaries far beyond what I would pay myself. Many here told me to take the risk, go for it etc etc. But I chose my family over a fat pay-check. No regrets!
>We are just a bit more evolved than the other animals, emotion wise

his point is that we don't have a scientific way to measure emotions.

In my opinion if we have emotions we should demonstrate that other animals don't not the opposite.

Why do you assume that we are more evolved? The only evidence we have is that we are better at building and using tools. "More evolved" can be defined in a lot of different ways (why are we more evolved than a wasp?) I think the idea that humans are more evolved it's just a anthropocentric assumptions.
Pipelight: Windows Plugins in Linux Browsers
WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA
Ask HN: What is this on Google maps?
The MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is trying and I think it does a good job too. However sometimes all I need is a dumb but quick example of a specific DOM call. W3Schools does enough of a job for me. Don't hate on me.
I'm glad you do but I suspect most people don't. It takes a mental leap to realise that other people can now (unknowingly) do things that expose your information to parties you're trying to avoid sharing with. Even writing it now I feel like it's obvious but people I speak to really don't understand how things work.
There's no chance of officials dying or suffering grievous injury that way. Unless they start throwing keyboards.
Not ready to share the dev website yet because there are too many things left to do.

And to be honest the multiple VPS providers thing is a ways off and might not happen.

For now it has a command/API endpoint to deploy a VPS (Digital Ocean), another for registering a domain. The idea is that often when you want to deploy a container it is actually a web site/web application or part of one.

And then I have a run command/API endpoint that takes the server name, image or image alias name, and domain name. It will run the image and automatically create a DNS record and reverse nginx proxy (if the container exposes a port using HTTP).

I am also planning on adding a simple way to automatically run and link containers so that you can just add ENV RUNLINK elasticsearch,redis to your Dockerfile and then my run command will pull & run elasticsearch and redis and then run your container and link it. With the new feature in docker you can then access redis for example by specifying redis as the hostname (docker now adds an /etc/hosts line when you link). I will have some default image aliases which are basically a way to shorten an image name to leave out the username/repo and go with a default I have tested or an alias added by the user.

Right now I am thinking minimum of two weeks before I can start beta testing.
Not necessarily. How fast does a drone fly - will it always be faster than a moped, especially on a short, direct route? Also, more significantly, what's the maximum weight a drone can realistically carry? A moped can carry several pizzas at once for delivery to multiple addresses. Plus 'awkward' orders (litre bottle of soda?) aren't really catered for by drone, as far as I can tell.

Not totally dismissing the technology - drones obviously have great future potential and, hopefully, are ultimately far better for our environment - but not convinced that takeaway delivery is a suitable use case.
Thaksin is pro-America, his opponents sre more pro-thai?
Perhaps a more accurate statement would have been "thermostats are not common in countries where typical residential construction does not include accommodations for central heat/air." Good examples: Brazil, India & China. Sure, a window unit or ceiling mounted a/c will probably have a remote control and a digital display thermostat, but that is not nearly what this is about.
I don't think it's surprising at all. Shopify is software, off the shelf. Most retailers that fit into their model will probably get as good or better a result with shopify as they would on a sub $100k budget with custom software.

Beyond a certain scale, (a) the benefits from controlling the software get bigger and (you don't have to do shipping, promotions, inventory, UI etc in a way that is supported by shopify) (b) the cost of doing your own software is less of a barrier.

Benefits like accessibility to non technical people don't mean anything once you hire specialists to be in charge of things. T

Off the shelf software that a non specialist can use makes sense for SMBs. That's shopify's target market.
HP release $99 Android tablet
PlasticSCM [1] offers a mixed approach to handle both distributed and centralized patterns for both large files and branch-happy repositories. It's worth checking out. Some mid-size game studios are using it successfully, and I plan on a serious testdrive as soon as I can catch a breath.

[1]: http://www.plasticscm.com/home.html
The biggest problem with simplistic democracies is the lack of strong constitutional protections for individual liberty, as well as for democratic institutions themselves. It's too easy in many democracies for mob rule to advantage a slim majority, and it's even easier for a democracy to vote itself into oblivion, ending democratic institutions.

Edit: One mistake a lot of people make when they look at politics in the west, especially in the US, is to bemoan "gridlock". Gridlock is actually desired. It should be very difficult to get anything done with a 51% majority. That's not democracy, that's just mob rule. The system of checks and balances helps ensure that slim majorities don't result in massive changes.
CA Technologies release free XP migration tool
Then just take a vengeance legal actions against a parent company, not against an empty shell.
> much more to convince your friends to install

That is indeed the difficulty I referred to.

> I'm not into this existing PGP key network. What exactly do you mean by it? The key servers all around the world?

Keyservers are a small part of PGP WoT. The real magic is in the way keys are signed. I'm not going to try to explain how it works, there are many good writeups already on the net. You can start by reading the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

The simplest way GNS could use PGP would be storing PGP public key => signed zkey mappings in the DHT, so that you could look up users zkey based on their PGP key. It is bit suboptimal because it still requires users to have separate keys, but I think it would be better than nothing.
Basically geopolitics. The US only supports democracy when its convenient.
Enforcing peoples votes being their own would be a good start.

There are reports of "village leaders" collecting everyone's ID card and going to vote for them all. In exchange they have a big village BBQ.

Just like the recent "stricter" tests for thai drivers licences, the laws themselves mean nothing if they are not enforced.
I see opportunities for new ways to generate electricity :)
> owning a house may make it harder for you to decide to move and accept a job/opportunity elsewhere, or to travel -- the impact of which is unquantifiable

Why is it harder? Not sarcastic at all, by the way : it's just that I am in Hong Kong and it's actually quite common for expats here to buy a house, give it out for rent, and never come back to Hong Kong again! In fact, I know of some cases where people have bought flats without even looking at them! (In both cases, someone they know manages rent collection + maintenance, presumably for a small fees?). So I was wondering what is different about the US / wherever you are right now.

Yes, it's a very personal decision, those were the exact words I was looking for! I suppose hardcore economists would say that the Utility Function is very personal.
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code – what now?
It looks quite suspicious. Are you sure they don't just turn on the OS-provided write caching on the USB drive, which is by default turned off? No need for any additional program:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-optimize-usb-dri...

There's nothing on http://easyco.com/usb-sc.htm which would assure me they are doing something special.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis, Re-Entry and Landing – Space Mission STS-129
> They sometimes came in while I was sleeping, and while I was getting dressed.

Your country (which country is it?) seems to have very substandard legislation in these matters, if such intruding is not illegal.
If everyone agrees that it's a "con", as you put it, wouldn't it be easier to just change the rules to prevent it happening, instead of letting it still happen but criminalizing people who do it?

There's a system, there are rules. Some people have found ways to utilize those rules which many of us think are bad. The solution should be to change the system and the rules, not criminalize more people for doing something that is currently entirely legal.
This begs for a "runway designators" font - would look great for aeronautical or technical titles !
That it's a thin ad and little more probably tells us why previous submissions got little traction.
Ask HN: living and working in US
Hi everyone,

I wanted to ask for your comments. I'll try to keep this as short as I can.

I'm a 26yo enterprise Java dev and the sole provider for my little family (wife and toddler). We're EU citizens. We spent the last 8 years in UK, and have recently moved to Belgium looking for a change. And change we got, but not the good kind. So want to move again. My wife keeps saying we should move to US, perhaps California. She thinks we'll finally have some sunshine, lots of affordable fresh food, perhaps live in a house with garden, beautiful nature close enough to actually go camping for the weekends, and friendly and approachable people. And she's probably right about these, but I'm a little scared about what we'd be giving up. Namely,

40h workweek
5 weeks of holiday a year
free/cheap health insurance
free/cheap education up to university level for our daughter.

Am I being paranoid? I hear stories from both ends of the spectrum. Some say they've been working 60h/week with no holiday for 5 years, in which case all that sunshine and nature have as much value as a travel brochure. But others claim that US is developer's paradise. And while health insurance is expensive, some get it from their companies or it's offset by the substantially higher salary. Some claim that public education system is also underrated.

What's your opinion/experience with this? What would you expect re: work/life balance & health insurance in a decent (choose your own definition) company? Any comments on school education? General cost of living?

Also, I do realize US is huge, but California is the only state I get to hear about - please give a shout for your favorite place!

Thanks a lot for comments, they are important to us.
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are you coming straight from listening to Bird's Lament on /r/listentothis ?

http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/comments/269fef/moondog...
Major (consumer) ISPs in Australia offer native dual-stack.
I thought HN had moved away from calling everything an "ad hominem" but anyway - no it's not. I feel that my point is directly relevant. The Async "Manifesto" is just one person's opinion, it's not a group of thought leader's opinions. There's a huge and relevant difference.

If he had called it, "my proposed new async manifesto" or something that would have been fine.
> ... my votes are not counted.

It would seem that you have an interesting relationship with the HN algorithms. Have you considered emailing dang or some other mod, or indeed, the hn@ycombinator.com central address, and asking how you can become more "normal" in this regard?

I can understand if you really just don't care, but I was just wondering if you'd taken any steps.

And I've upvoted it for you. I had a half a mind to do so anyway, so you just tipped the balance.
> No JS, no CSS, no hints of a CMS

I'm fascinated to know what positive features you think correlate with the lack of useful development technologies and basic formatting.
I am currently living in Bangkok, was brushing off the idea of a coup being serious since the country has constantly been on the cusp of one. Ironically enough it happened 3 days into my proposed 30 day stay. I am probably going to cut my stay to 10-15 days, as soon as I sort out my visa for my next destination.

That aside, it's really tame this time too, as you mentioned. I'm not concerned for anything more than large crowds clogging up transit lines and roads when I'm trying to go someplace. The coup is indeed fairly laidback, just like the Thai people.
I remember that day with sadness, and still miss my sidekick five years later because it did so many things right. I was on BART to visit some friends, lost signal, and did what I normally did when things acted up and reset my phone...only to come back to having lost all my contacts, my emails, everything. It was very frustrating to say the least.