skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, just because there isn't a "human" that does the search manually, doesn't mean the human doesn't benefit from the search (exactly as if he would if he did the search himself).

And another thing: the 4th Amendment clearly talks about searches and seizures, so saying "we're only collecting it, but not searching it" shouldn't work as an excuse either.

EFF should also make a case for how searching into your online Facebook accounts, Google accounts, chat accounts and so on, is the "searching through your home without a warrant and fishing for crimes of the 21st century" - or something along those lines.

A third party may hold the data for you, but people think of those accounts as "theirs", and they have an expectation of privacy for them. If you keep something in a bank deposit box, does the bank own your deposit box and everything in it? Or is that "yours", and you expect nobody but you to access that? Right now, the government much prefers to go to these companies and just ask them for what you have in those accounts, because it's so much easier for them to do that, than ask you. But I feel they are skirting an important right humans should be having here.

The "physical" protections seem to be so much better than the "digital" protections in the US law right now. It's time to change that, and make it clear that digital protections should be at least as strong as the kind of protections we benefit from in the real world.

For example, it makes no sense for email to be considered under a much lower standard than real mail. They are both exactly the same type of communication. It's just the medium that's different, but that shouldn't matter at all.
People have been screaming "The end is near" for as long as I can remember, but no one ever comes back and says "We were wrong, sorry for the inconvenience".
Founders are not second class. They generally hold way more of the company than their investors unless the company has had a down round, raised a series B/C, or went public - and in either case the founders have a disproportionate amount of control and ownership compared to the opportunity cost.
Nationalized health insurance, which is a little different.
What do you mean by real time delivery ? Instant delivery ? Real time delivery tracking ?

For Amazon Prime users, I could very well see returns piggybacking on deliveries - the delivery courier would simply pick up the return.
IIRC Fortran also allows you do to do this.

Another would be Rebol:

>> a: [0 1 2 3 4 5]
== [0 1 2 3 4 5]

>> a/1
== 0

>> a/2
== 1

>> a: next a
== [1 2 3 4 5]

>> a/1
== 1

>> a/2
== 2

>> a/0
== 0
It very well could be North Korea.

Your psychoanalysis makes sense in the world of corporations and individuals. But in the world of geopolitics, personal feelings don't matter.

This is North Korea telling the world "We still matter. We may not be able to fight you directly, but we can still hurt you."

> 1. No matter how mad you are, being angry is not enough fuel to collect 100tb of data and then leak it out in 25gb chunks. You need motivation to continue, and money is that motivation.

By leaking the data in a slow trickle, they keep the hack in the news. This attack was designed to get maximum attention in the press, because the more we talk about North Korea, the better for them.

> 2. While company security is terrible everywhere, and with enough work anyone can be hacked, it takes a measure of skill and careful planning to pull off a hack like this. This is a not a "we got lucky" hack. It was planned carefully.

You're right, but think about the kind of hack you could perpetrate if you had a $1 million budget to hack a company. You'd probably buy exploits and malware off the black market, modify them for your purposes, scout the network, then trigger your plan into action. Which is exactly what happened here. It's not like NK are cavemen beating rocks together; they are at least as competent and technically advanced as Russian organized crime syndicates (in fact, my hunch is that NK hired Russian hackers to either train their people or carry out the attacks).

> 3. The amount of data, and the selection of which data gets released when, as well as the difficulty overall of the operation, says to me that multiple people were involved in the hack.

I disagree; the data released was designed to cause maximum embarrassment (and media coverage). The hack itself was not incredibly sophisticated - it's not even as complicated as the Home Depot credit card hacks, and not even remotely in the same league as something created by a skilled state actor like Stuxnet.

> A reason why it isn't North Korea: If it was ( either intentionally or accidentally ) it is in NK best interest to either claim responsibility and embrace it, or to prove they didn't do it. They have done neither. This implies that they can't prove they did or didn't do it, because nobody under NK government control was involved.

They can't outright claim they did it; because that would be an act of aggression. They left a trail of breadcrumbs long enough to tie it to them, yet still have enough plausible deniability that countries who want to believe them because they have an ulterior motive against the US can do so. For example, Russia never admitted they shot down an airliner despite damning evidence to the contrary - who you believe simply depends on what side you support for geopolitical reasons. Realpolitik at its finest.
According to the json spec

"An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs."

So you should not be relying on ordering of json fields.
The attributes are stored and returned in sorted order. The reason for this is to allow binary search in JSON objects with many keys.
Answering your second question: "Quest for Fire".
Same as Norway, indeed. But Norway has implemented just 5,000 pieces of EU legislation in the last 22 years, whereas the UK has, on average, implemented 3,000 pieces per year. [I'm sticking to Norway, because it is the region that I have facts and figures for - I don't know the figures for Switzerland.]

The claim the Norway and Switzerland are governed remotely by the EU is therefore not true - either that, or the Norwegian law somehow pre-empts EU law, and thus complies with it before it is passed? (Which makes it sound like Norway governs the EU, and not the other way around :p).

I'm not claiming that Norway is de-coupled from the EU, just that the claim that it is governed remotely by a body in which it has no say is false.
In a shocking turn of events, presentation choices play an important role in first impressions :)
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Let us know if you have any questions.
Can you provide any link ?
How much does your doctor really make?
This will probably break down as more freeloaders enter the Scandinavian economy from outside, causing a free rider syndrome
"Only spend what you made last month".

It actually seems like extremely poor advice, conflicting heavily with the situation described just a few paragraphs earlier.

=============

In January, you collect $4,000 -> In February, you can spend $4,000.

In February, you collect $5,000 -> In March, you can spend $5,000.

Simple, right? Wonderfully so.

=============

How about... figure out what your basic needs (and some wants are) on a regular basis, and if you can't bill anywhere even close to that, find another income source that will support those needs?

Just because you earned $4k one month, then $5k the next month doesn't mean you should be spending those amounts the next month. While these aren't the OPs exact words, it's the impression that can be gleaned. "Oh, I earned $5k last month, I can spend $5k this month".

Hrmmm... you should be savvy enough to also understand that you might have $0 billable this month meaning that, in 3 weeks, you'll have $0. Following that "last month/this month" strategy, you'll be able to spend $0 next month... not a winning strategy.

I'm glad the OP woke up to some budgeting needs, but the way this advice is presented seems, in fact, dangerous.

Figure out what your bare minimums are - cut your spending to bare minimums while you work and collect income. During this time, build up enough reserve to have a minimum of 3 months of savings. Aim for 4, then 5, then 6, then keep going.

Check risk tolerance with other family members. If they're not on board with this, go get a job earning what you need in a somewhat more stable capacity.

I can only assume OP is rather young. For someone to finish a project, work on their own projects for months, then 'take a vacation', then 'come back' and somehow be surprised that there's somehow not just a bunch of client work waiting to be done... this is extremely naive, and something I typically only see in really younger folks.

Again, glad the OP is getting savvy about budgeting and cash-flow, but take take this budgeting advice as gospel.
Redfin Raises $71M
Sure, but let me go a little further out on this limb and challenge you, too: in established trading firms --- DRW, Two Sigma, that sort of place --- what percentage of the returns do you think go to non-founding engineers?
Why would this cause problems? Order is irrelevant in JSON. "An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs."[0] From a there is absolutely no difference between {"name": "Patrick", "age": 24} and {"age": 24, "name": "Patrick"}.

[0] http://json.org/

EDIT: Well, now four of us have replied at the same time saying the same thing, I'd say this topic is now well covered.
Ask HN: Is there a need for a simple wiki as JAR dependency?
For a client project of mine one requirement is to provide some sort of always up-to-date in-app documentation. The application is a Java-based web app.

The obvious solution is to use a wiki for that. For various reasons using a dedicated wiki such as Confluence is not an option.

So, my idea was to use a simple JAR dependency that provides a (very simple) in-app wiki. Unfortunately, no such solution seems to exist. All the existing solutions such as XWiki need to be run as a standalone applications.

I thought that maybe I'm not the only one with this problem so it might be a good idea to start working on an open source solution.

So, would any of you need a simple wiki as a dependency or can you imagine customers or use cases this might be interesting for?
The probability of "luck" increases with marked investment in preparation. Preparation includes understanding the market and the problem, and building a product to solve the problems identified for that market. A great product does not beget product/market fit. Rather, a product that delivers a solution, communicated well to a market that needs that solution, may result in product/market fit (growth). Hence, understanding the needs of a market are critical. Therefore, research (preparation), a marketing discipline, is a crucial precursor for the elusive luck we all seek.
Perhaps this is the one? https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests/sou...:
> we'd be in a much better place what code-archaeology is concerned.

This sounds like a great setup for a sci-fi novel. 500 years into the future, the infrastructure their distant ancestors coded has begun to fail. Now Biff Miffington, code-archaeologist, must sift through millions of forgotten messages using a mysterious tool remembered only as "git." Its interface is arcane and the remaining messages broken, tainted by the destructive influence of Mountain Dew and Cheetos. Will he unravel the mystery that's causing Candy Crush Saga MCCXXXI to kill its users?

Edit: On what OP actually said, I'd also like to say that Postgres is an awesome product.
Most of the advice in the article is a bit silly; however, the question is vitally important.

Most large cities only have 2-3 days worth of food available. If the daily deliveries stop for whatever reason, things will go bad fast.

The best three pieces of advice I ever heard: 1) Get out of the cities. 2) Get out of the cities. 3) Get out of the cities.
Drone with xmass tree as payload
I'd like to know more about the use-case and advantages here. Anyone have professional experience with the cost/difficulty of maintaining spanning forests?
NASA launches study for Skunk Works SR-72 concept
> These are reasonable design decisions. If allowing silent integer overflow is the wrong choice for Rust, it's barely the wrong choice, because the costs and benefits are clearly arguable and user-specific.

Seems reasonable to me, and I certainly didn't demand overflow-checking by default in Rust. (OTOH, twelve hours ago you were so disappointed with that decision that it undermined your confidence in the Rust team...) But I don't see what that has to with picking the definitions for desirable adjectives like 'safety' when it comes to promoting or describing a system.
that's a great point. i bet some insects would still be on the menu...
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Interesting that the "Bill of Rights" wouldn't apply universally. We're all human.
Is there another word that better (or even similarly) captures what "apocalypse" has come to mean? I don't know of one, and I think it is a useful thing to have a word for. It is almost never worth fighting a word's widely-understood meaning. (Although I was definitely disappointed when dictionaries added an alternate definition of "literally" as meaning "figuratively"...)
Isn't that the case in Germany as well?
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So how would this enforcement look in practice if a US company does not have any business location within the EU? Up until now I was under the impression that this wouldn't matter as long as you don't violate US law.

Also why should the EU be treated differently than any other of the approx. 200 other foreign countries? I'm sure lots of them have similar tax codes that require tax payment at the location of the customer. Are those countries able to enforce any tax payments from US businesses?
try http://hn.premii.com/ - Even though it relies on 3rd party for data (backend), it loads quickly.

If you have a control over backend, you can optimize it further.
Skytap Raises $35M for Its Cloud-Based Enterprise
maybe we'd be better off? so much corn (and byproducts) not a good things for us.
Watch How Open-Source OpenStreetMap Mapped the Globe in Just 7 Years
There is nothing glorious about clicking a button then watching the screen flash and slowly reload eventually revealing a tiny change. Simple I'll give you. Effective, yes, if the user can suspend reality and pretend the state change happened instantly.

How about a URL that unambiguously specifies the state of all parts of the page? Paste that in a browser and it pulls up the page with all its dynamic parts set as before.
ISRO blasts India’s biggest rocket into space
I always think this about the soda taste tests, where people say they prefer Coca-Cola, but then prefer Pepsi in the blind taste tests, as if they couldn't taste the difference. They don't taste the same at all...
A pandemic should be in there somewhere. The CDC gamed their response to one a few years ago, and results were mixed for North America.
I'd imagine for small companies in the US, if they ignore VAT nothing will happen. There is no way the US courts will get involved with enforcing EU taxes and EU enforcement is fairly laid back in that they are not going to arrest you if you go on hols. If the company has assets in the EU however the courts can go after them so Google, Amazon etc will have to pay. I fear Digital Ocean are going to start charging me VAT which they have not so far.
and we have now fully devolved into the Fox News/MSNBC comment boards
hornworms, you mean?
How is Person of Interest propagandized? The first couple of seasons are about a secret government program designed to spy on everyone in the world, a black ops unit that assassinates American citizens, and a group of corrupt NYPD officers. The later seasons don't have much at all to do with the government.
It's not unusual for a top tier game to pay up to $3-5 for a US install.

Yikes, that is much higher than I expected. I'm not really in that particular space, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I'm assuming these games are like the new and "improved" Dungeon Keeper that have ludicrous amounts of in-app purchases, so they expect to make back that $3-5 quickly.
My thoughts exactly, are there any rebuttals to this analysis?
Germany doesn't have nationalised healthcare. It's just mandatory for most of the population and the health maintenance organizations are extremely regulated (how much money they should take, in what cases they have to pay how much, ...)
Next year I really need to switch from MSSQL to Postgres. The work that the Postgres team have done in the last 2-3 years is really amazing.

They are also clearly reaping the benefits of some very smart architectural decisions, and that gives me the confidence that they will be able to continue innovating in the coming years.
Looking forward to when we move to 9.4 so I can start using "sum(foo) FILTER (WHERE bar)" instead of the ugly "sum(CASE WHEN bar THEN foo END)".
How do you feel about John Regehr's suggestion (http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154) mentioned below? His suggestion sounds reasonable to me because the instructions would optionally trap on overflow. That should avoid the cost (which I have an intuition for) for the common case.
>Are those countries able to enforce any tax payments from US businesses?

Basically no unless the companies has assets where the tax is due.
EFF joins the ranks of ACLU in my book. Donated.
It's going to force people to use marketplaces/providers. Probably a startup opportunity.
The Miraculous Money of Old People
It seems to suffer from tags being left over even after all their content has been deleted. Many editors seem to suffer this too.
Which is ironic considering how ultra casual tech dress codes are in the Bay Area.
This budgeting method is actually really dangerous.

I'd take down your blog post and rethink how you budget your money.
Show HN: Salsa – something spicy about your startup life
Looks like they have that covered here - https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/co-op - what's your concern?
Sony to Launch Google Glass Competitor Along with an SDK
Winter Roofing: Maintenance and Repairs You Can Do Now – All Roofing Solutions
Microsoft Is Irrelevant
Worth noting that if you sell shares in your own company (e.g. your start-up is acquired) you probably won't pay 28% CGT as you will qualify for some kind of tax relief - I paid 10% CGT on the sale of our company ~12 years ago because of Taper Relief, this has apparently been replaced by Entrepreneurs' Relief:

https://www.gov.uk/entrepreneurs-relief/eligibility
Salsa is an anonymous community where you can share anything about your job or company. Form big corporations to small startups, it's the perfect place for career related vent, gossip, Q&A or even confess.

Salsa also provides anonymous salary surveys where you can check salaries from similar companies or titles.
There are benefits to fasting for 10 hours: http://www.sciencealert.com/new-research-suggests-you-make-b...

The research was also summarized as "always gamble on an empty stomach."
State of Content Marketing 2015
True historical research isn't something many undergraduates do, and I can see how it would be exceptionally valuable.

Unfortunately, many undergrad courses simply have you read existing analysis, or at best present you with "primary sources" that are served up to you with no real digging around. It's not that the books you read are of low quality - often, they're really high quality. I remember reading a very elaborate history about the naval arms race between Britain and Germany prior to WWI, and I got a lot out of it. But what I never did was truly dig into the data. I believe it, but did I ever actually go to the the documents (without someone spoon feeding them to me in a way that leads to only one conclusion)? Nope.

Here's the thing - this can actually lead to big errors later in life. One amusing story I had - I worked on supply chain issues for a big manufacturing company once, and during an interview, I was talking excitedly about various mathematical approaches. The interviewer (a math PhD who eventually did hire me) stopped me and reminded me of how detailed the work really is. He said that one young engineer who worked there had spent six months digging through documents, and had discovered the source of an inefficiency. The QA tests for some components was different in Asia and Europe, so the pieces were passing in one location, getting shipped, failing in the other, getting shipped, passing… in this loop. It had nothing to do with math, it had everything to do with actually getting truly ground level with documents, tests, bits of paper, factory floors, and figuring out what exactly was actually going on in the world.

On a grimmer note, a huge factor in the banking crisis was that people used mathematical models without actually looking at the reality behind them. Yes, a package of very high quality mortgages has a low probability of collapsing, and if you take that low probability number and stick it into your model, all is well. But if you actually dig into the reality, find the documents, realize many of the documents don't exist, and realize that the ones that do are not at all the high quality loans that would typically get a strong rating, and ask why, realize that the package was rated with stronger loans that were taken out replaced with bad loans, the new ones being used to create a new package with a new high rating, over and over, and that the company that did this is now taking out insurance policies against the loan packages that they prepared because they know they have a vastly higher rate of default than the insurers think (based on the faulty rating)…

well, then you're thinking like a history major who actually dealt with true historical research. And the few people who did this were aware of what was coming long before everyone else.
Right--this was a good reminder to make my annual donation. And I'll be getting a nice T-shirt too.
How can they get to places within an hour and make a worthwhile margin of profit?
Candy Crush Saga on git? Sounds more like a fantasy novel.
It was just yesterday that I was discussing this question with some friends, ie, what do you do if shit hits the fan? Most said 'get out of the city' first so that's reassuring. But the scary part is I don't know how to build a house, cultivate food, nor do I have the property to do so.
There's a lot more to a lawsuit than just winning or losing. By the time this is over, the public will (should) know _exactly_ what is happening, and _exactly_ what the legal basis for it is (should the EFF lose). With that knowledge, we can advocate for specific legislative change.

Assuming that the NSA would continue on regardless of winning or losing is to have zero confidence in our legal system. While there may be some ground for skepticism, using all available tools is absolutely appropriate.