skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's the idea as far as I understand it, too: Rouble just dropped 4x, so it made sense that it might recover somewhat. That must have been in 1998 (I am Russian)
Yes. Children have rights enshrined in the UNCRC. People have rights in the UDHR.

Article 2 of UNRC says:

> 1. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.

> 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.

Article 7 says:

> 1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.

Article 8 says:

> 1. States Parties undertake to respect the right of the child to preserve his or her identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognized by law without unlawful interference.

> 2. Where a child is illegally deprived of some or all of the elements of his or her identity, States Parties shall provide appropriate assistance and protection, with a view to re-establishing speedily his or her identity.

Article 15 of the UNDHR says:

> (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

> (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx

https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Elevators set to take new direction
I'm a computer forensics and eDiscovery guy. The forensics part of eDiscovery is really overblown. It's the bogeyman, and not much more.
Agreed. There's just something about the pen and paper right there, ready to go, always. Even on a phone, with the app open, you'll probably have to unlock the screen first, and tap or something to bring up the keyboard and start typing.
By calling yourself an outsider, I'm assuming that you don't speak British or American English? If so, you're not really in a good position to judge grammaticality.
The following pdf is roughly the same as the one linked in the article, but has better formatting/ocr so it tends to be more effective when trolling your favorite EE friends.

http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf
Machine assistants learn to run your schedule
I wonder. It seems like Google is more interested in building out on iOS these days.

Personal story that I'm basing that statement on: when I was applying to Google, I had 2 years of Android experience and 2 years of iOS experience before that. I told them I was more comfortable with Android given it was the most recent platform I worked with. They still insisted on me applying as an iOS engineer.

This obviously could be a supply issue; maybe they have plenty of Android engineers, but not enough iOS engineers?
>is able to safely handle your money in escrow, which is what you'd require otherwise

Except you're not since no one tries to be their own bank they have their bank to safely handle the money for them. As an escrow agent I have Alice send money to me and I choose to send it to Bob or back to Alice but at no point in that am I typically holding actual cash. They are funds in my bank account which I trust to manage funds.

>For example a mediator who offers to mediate mail order sales could publish the evidence they will use to resolve the dispute, and the act of making a payment involving them would involve effectively signing a contract with them (obviously you try and set up the software and contracts such that it's pretty standardised and all done with one or two mouse clicks). Now the mediator has to produce not just a decision but also the rationale for how they arrived at that decision. If they can't do that, the mediator will quickly gain a reputation as being unreliable and to be avoided.

This doesn't remove the problem of a malicious 3rd party though. I could say "I arrived at the decision by inspecting the box from Alice and seeing the product before sending it to Bob". I have my process, I inspect the box and make sure the products in it match the order. But I am still capable of lying to you. Bitcoin still hasn't solved that problem and hasn't actually improved on the existing trust protocol.

>these techniques are quite advanced and nobody is using them today.

There is also an extremely limited range of contracts which could be solved by this type of system and none of them that I can think of that people do today.
Your take is correct, there are some insurers playing hard ball and saying "no" to patients. A few state Medicaid plans are the best example.

I should have be clearer as I was referring to private insurers. Yes, a few of them (Express Scripts is one) are saying no, initially, but appeals are getting approved.

I actually work in the HCV field and saw some data the other day that showed the vast majority of plans are reimbursing for Sovaldi. It was pretty surprising to me.

And yes, we'll have to see what Abbvie and Merck do. Rumor is they won't be competing on price although the insurance companies are hoping they do.
I loved Creative Computing. I'm very happy the issues are in archive.org.
Most developers I know buy software if they like it, or perceive it to add value to them. Stealing software, as a developer - especially if it's good, and you depend on it, makes you a massive hypocrite if you get paid to create software other people use, and I think most of us have at least one time thought "Someone's job depends on purchasing this".

But you're spot on with attorneys. Worst customers I ever had was in the legal space. Not only do they get lawsuit happy, but there are a lot of attorneys out there being paid a lot of money because a very bad paper based system is still in place, and tech is not their friend.
I thought it was a joke site, I scanned the first example and saw the single jQuery way of doing something followed by n other ways depending on the browser / IE level.
There's a long history of search/knowledge management/AI startups recognizing that eDiscovery was their last, best hope for revenue. Recommind is one example (founder invented latent semantic indexing), and Autonomy (yknow, the folks who cratered HP) is another.
I can't stand writing. It's slow and it's messy, and I can't read a lot of other people's handwriting. I write about 30 words per minute and I type 167 wpm. Perhaps there are some cognitive benefits but I'm willing to give them up in exchange for the ease of getting my thoughts down quickly.

The only case that I still prefer handwriting is doing math. It's much easier for me to write out equations and "explore" things with pencil and paper over using a program. That said, I normally find that having something like Mathematica or a Julia notebook open in addition to pencil/paper is the best combination. One tool for drafting and thinking, and another tool for testing my ideas out.
I absolutely love my beaglebone, aside from some issues with the Linux drivers for the USB host port, it's been very reliable and useful.

To date, I've used my beaglebone to

- stream live video of my baby kittens from the window well they were born in outdoors (their mom was a feral cat, I used the video stream to keep track of them until they could be rescued and brought inside)

- transparently encrypt USB drives using the client+host ports [1]

- use the onboard hardware RNG and some custom python[2] to supply entropy to other boxes on the local network

- use it as an offline environment to perform sensitive PGP and CA signing operations

And I'm toying with the idea of building some kind of open source network/USB connected hardware security module system with the BeagleBone as the reference platform to run it on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713155

[2] https://github.com/infincia/netrng
Very cool stuff - could this also be used as a (comparatively) cheap HSM?
Unlike celebrity culture, popularity in the open source world translates to actual impact on the web. As an author of a popular library, your code plays a direct part in how other developers structure their codebase, and -- depending on the library -- the end user experience.

And, yeah, impact/change/popularity (whatever you want to call it) is certainly a main reason behind releasing and maintaining open source software. Perhaps other dominant reasons include giving users differently opionionated alternatives that better suit their workflow, advancing the technical know-how of a field, and simply experimenting for expressiveness' sake.
No word on encryption.

No word on what is actually backed up, how to include or exclude files.

No word on when anything is backed up and how (cronjob, daemon?).

No word on how running services and databases are backed up that may need special procedures for a consistent snapshot.

No word on how to restore or access backups when the backed up host has failed.

All things considered I have a strong feeling you are not qualified to run a service like this. Your expertise seems to be in webdesign, not in Unix and servers.
This comment is identical to your comment from 18 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670717

You're far from the only one using HN to advertise your business, but maybe you should try to mix it up a little.

18 days ago was in November. Did a client call you a 3 am in October and also in November?
Law firms may be electronic, but sadly some courts are not.
The other thing is that lawyers don't get re-trained. Relativity has won the current generation of lawyers, and Relativity is a good product (unlike the products it replaced, Concordance and Summation). It will not be easy to displace.
You're the first person I've ever heard defend Amazon's compensation. What are your sources?
I think all apps should be given a choice to have ephimeral permission. For example I dont want someone to find an exploit in my app and steal my user's contacts.

I would only take contacts permission when I need and keep it for a short duration and then willingly give it up. User can be explicitly prompted.

Also, Camera and Microphones should have only this sort of permissions other than for those which are explictily whitelisted by Google.
On the research end of things, NIST's TREC has a legal track, and that's probably the best place to look for what's happening in the "applied research" space of the field.
Not to mention that if you're loading jQuery via a CDN, there's a good chance that your end user has it in their cache already.
Hundreds of children dead in a school attack versus millions dead because trust in vaccines is destroyed. I don't see the "but."
I'd order one.
You built a beautiful site, but I wish you provided a little more technical information. For the Linux market, you can probably wade fully into the details of how the backups work (rsync, something else?), whether the client process is going to want root (I would assume so), how the "secure" part of your service works, etc. Or maybe it's there and I'm too dumb to find it. :-)
A Job for Christmas
Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS
Sony Emails Reveal What Happened When Snapchat Turned Down Facebook Billions
Some of those are answered here: https://my.jarvys.io/docs/home
That is silly, so I see why /r/technology liked it.

Of course lots of ads are never seen. Lots of newspaper ads and magazine ads -- if you were to count each individual printing of the ad as its own entity -- are never seen by a human being before the thing ends up in the recycling bin.

This is completely separate from the old saying in marketing, "half my advertising budget is completely wasted, but I don't know which half." That's saying that half of all ad buys are completely worthless.

The only thing Google did wrong was to actually measure if their ads were viewable (for more than a second, mind you).

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2030-2050 is still early days for climate change. The real fun is probably 2100 and beyond.
Excellent News as E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Use Rises
It's built by the SSD Nodes people (https://www.ssdnodes.com/). I too would like to see more technical details on the site, but there's probably a better way to frame the criticism than "u r idiots".
1. I know it's HN and all - but not everything has a business model. Ie I'd say most important things in life are not cash-flow positive.

That's why developed (ie they're actually more developed - not just called that) countries have a massive income redistribution in place to pay for things that society needs (which lack a business model-y)

2. the H in IMHO already means humble, there's no need to explain it :)
How Putin and His Cronies Stole Russia
"To be precise, the time to start doing backups was immediately before you lost all your data", huh...
Someone should automate this process. Very nice write up.
End of an era. Sad to see this go. So many great memories from this mag.
I much prefer attic: https://attic-backup.org/
In English it is all too easy to mishear "14" as "40". Given how much of the article seemed to come from verbal sources, I imagine this is why that happened. Still, careless.
> What are the figures on fully loaded labor costs for a 27 person team?

Probably somewhere around $2mn - $4mn/year. That's a pretty big team for the amount of money raised to this point, they must be doing ok subscription-wise.
Not picking a fight.
This is a serious inquiry.

How do you determine whether your budget was wasted on click fraud or just ineffective landing pages?

Surely click fraud occurs, but how can you tell?
This assumes that you actually have a pen and paper with you at all times. I don't know about you, but there are a lot of times when I don't. Also, the amount of time it takes to unlock my phone's screen, open Evernote, and create a new note is actually less than that required to open my bag (if I have it with me), take out a notebook, open another compartment, take out a pen, close both compartments, open the notebook, uncap the pen, and start writing.
How true is this? Sure, they're technically sophisticated, but that narrative could be overwhelmed by:

1. they aren't teenagers

2. they run websites that depend on ad revenue

3. they realize content creators need to get paid
Thank you, Dr. Dobb's. Requiescat in pace.
There are several questions that I need to ask anyone who claims to provide backups as a service (Baas?):

1) Client-side encryption?

2) If the answer to 1) is "yes", are the keys managed on the client-side as well?

3) What algorithms do you use for encryption and key derivation? They're not home-grown, are they?

4) Ideally, the keys that are used to manage my account on the web should be totally unrelated to the keys that are used to encrypt my backups. Otherwise it becomes trivial for the service provider to capture my password the next time I log in, and use that to decrypt my backups.

5) In order to minimize damages when a client is compromised, clients should not be able to access/restore files backed up by other clients, except with a key that is stored elsewhere.

6) For the same reason as above, clients should not be able to modify or delete files that were previously backed up, except with a key that is stored elsewhere. In other words, snapshots should be read-only.

7) Ideally, clients should not even be able to access/restore files that were previously backed up by itself, except with a key that is stored elsewhere. This prevents previous versions of files (or deleted files) from becoming exposed in case of compromise. But this is probably too much to ask of the typical backup service...

8) Filesystem permissions and other basic metadata (e.g. mtime) should be backed up and restored, too.

9) Proper and fully configurable handling of symlinks, please.

10) Your TOS, AUP, and privacy policy should be readily accessible from your home page, and customers should be notified of any changes at least a couple of weeks in advance.

My favorite solution so far is to pull backups from another machine that I control, using rsync/rsnapshot over ssh. The snapshots are then encrypted and pushed to their final resting place, such as S3, which knows nothing about the rest of my infrastructure. It's a bit of a hassle to set up correctly, but I'm in control of all the keys, a compromised client cannot access anything (restores are pushed from the server), the intermediate server can be destroyed if necessary, and the final storage provider (Amazon) cannot decrypt anything even if someone held a gun to their head.

Unfortunately, I have yet to find a one-stop backup solution that achieves the above. I'm not even sure if it would be possible without risking serious inconvenience. Tarsnap comes close, but AFAIK it makes it too easy for a compromised client to pull down everything I ever backed up.
A company loses money when its costs exceed its revenues. If Apple has to pay Warner Brothers a sum contractually specified in dollars for each copy of "Pump Up the Volume" that it sells, it could easily lose money if the rouble falls more quickly than they can adjust prices.
Oh goodness, this press release.

> Dr. Morris
Breakthrough, a consultant on leave from Uisge Beatha, Ltd., of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

I lost it.
Thanks for raising this issue. I'm one of the founders of Clever, a former educator, & super privacy conscious. I'm really proud of the work we're doing for a few big reasons:

1. When schools adopt Clever, they often tell us about the way they were setting up software previously. It's always inefficient (i.e. teachers hand-entering class lists every week), but all too often insecure (i.e. faxing attendance sheets, or emailing XLS files to a support team). Clever improves both efficiency and security dramatically.

2. Without centralized login systems, teachers report just getting their class logged in to an app takes 25% of class time on average. The friction of using technology is preventing students from learning. Clever eliminates that friction.

3. Clever is a tool schools use to manage their applications. They manage data sharing & own any data in Clever (our TOS & Privacy Policy make this very clear).

Please let me know (dan@clever.com) if you have suggestions for how we can improve privacy or security for students. It's our top priority & one of the biggest reasons we raised this round.
Girl Brings Christmas Down Under and Proves Summer Is Best
They were definitely out of stock this summer, when I was looking at updating my BB project to BBB.
Some people can dunk a basketball with no training [1]. Some people can dunk a basketball with a little training. Some people can dunk a basketball if they make it the primary focus of their lives and train hard towards that goal. And some people will never be able to dunk a basketball no matter how hard they try [2].

But one thing is certain, if you train hard at basketball, you will get better at it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manute_Bol

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Yeah, the font-size and line-height are a bit much.
Out of curiosity, do you have an automated system that checks for duplicate comments? Did you just happen to read it before and remember it?
You'll always be able to query this data in RDF with

http://basekb.com/
Supreme Court: It's OK for Cops to Guess Wrong About What the Law Is
I wish every senior level employee/manager had this thought everyday at their workplace. That would make the organization stronger in long term and improve quality of product much better.
If every company out there try to find the best of best which is around 10% of the pool then who will take the rest and train them to bring up to a level? It just shows the shortsightedness of the organization and profit as a short term goal.
Some people in tech will lie directly to your face about pirating your software and not feel at all bad when they are caught in it.
I like you, think that ad tracking is a little "overbearing". That said, I'm interested in knowing if you have any type of rewards cards or saver-club cards (super market, clothing stores, etc) from the physical stores you shop at?
Isn't 'pity' fairly similar, or is it more commonly used in British English?
Make No Mistake: Mesosphere Is Going After OpenStack
jquery 2.x removes support for those browsers at least.
1) Incremental Authorization - let Android apps ask for permissions only as they need them. So if you never use the phone dialing feature, they never ask for the permission.

Not only incremental authorization, but the ability of denying specific permissions.
Because every older generation needs a word that they use derisively against the next generation. Hippy -> Hipster. Fortunately I don't like being on those people's lawns anyway.
While I work as a programmer, my degree is in Physics.

I always have a notebook. I carry a small one in my back-left pocket, and take care always to have a pen.

I have a regular-sized notebook that I carry in my computer bag, that has graph paper rather than just lines for text, however as you say I don't have it with me.

With scientific notebooks, what's important is not to be neat, but to write it down so it's not forgotten.

At one time, for inventors, it was crucial to record the date upon which one invented something, however the US patent law was revised a few years ago so that we have "first to file" rather than "first to invent".

I even do stuff like take notes during TV commercials, if I see a product advertised that I might like to buy.
"Lawson’s contributions too as he was a real comedian with lots of semiconductor experience. He could have invented the WOM concept. He did invent the “SCROM”. I doubt if any one else knows what that is. I’ll add later."

"SCROM" must mean Self-Clear Read-Only Memory?
Yes, partly for this reason I switch to a mixture of voice, drawings and cursive for my personal diary. I also intend to use a variant of quickscript crossed with the phonetic alfabet and shorthand techniques for speed and semi-encryption (currently using the greek alphabet)
It's amazing you got downvoted for non running ad-blocking software.

I've never run AdBlock or any "stop viewing ads" software. I have run NoScript and those variations, which sometimes kills ads as a side-effect.
Your comments are exactly what peeve me about developer entitlement and ego's. I'd be curious if you've ever tried to run a business?

Jarvys.io just launched, and their marketing site is geared toward features/benefits and not bogged down with technical details. In fact, a landing page that answers all your questions would be poor and missing the point of marketing. When dropbox launched did they go into the technical details of how it worked?

"...a strong feeling you are not qualified to run a service like this".

That really rubs me the wrong way. What do you know? Perhaps their development skills may not be the best, but if you look around at successful startups, usually the founders have a more rounded skill set other than being a pure hacker. They are designers, they are leaders, they hustle...
The act of writing on a phone is such an atrocious battle with autocorrect that I much prefer carrying around my notebook.

I transcribe to Evernote (or other note taking apps) as necessary, but this introduces a welcome step of filtering the raw output of transcribing.

YMMV.
I've been using fullcontact for about a year now -- awesome product. The only thing it's missing, IMO, is the ability to automatically pull in all google contacts -- not just the ones in 'My Contacts'.

That would be a killer feature.

This new Chrome Extension looks super useful =)