skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions some interesting things, but I have a few quibbles:

> But even with today’s modern communication tools, both customer experience and lawyer workflow have remained stagnant.

At a large firm, legal practice is unrecognizable compared to even 10-15 years ago. Everything is electronic: filing and docketing, document collection/scanning/OCR, legal research, document management (DMS + version control). Everyone communicates almost exclusively via e-mail, and remote work facilities are ubiquitous.

To the extent that technology is available that's not getting adopted, it's because it's not good enough. Predictive coding can be very helpful, but it also has a fixed setup and training overhead that makes it less efficient for smaller matters. That's why arguably the biggest shift in discovery in the last 15 years hasn't been to automating it, but outsourcing it to contract lawyers.

In the area of research, Westlaw and Lexis still rule because of their completeness and accuracy. If I need a copy of some statute enacted in 1873 I can not only find it, but I can get original scans so I can verify the text is free of OCR errors.

Moreover, things that are easy on the rest of the web are not easy when it comes to legal (or scientific) research. PageRank, for example, works great when everyone searching for "skiing near Tahoe" is looking for the same popular pages. But when you're doing legal research, a lower-court case that directly addresses your issue but isn't widely cited is much more valuable than a highly-cited Supreme Court case that doesn't address your issue. And computers still don't really understand either what issue you're looking for or what issue a case is about. So ancient technology (search for this word near that word) still rules the day.

> There are good reasons for this, as law firms tend to be cost agonistic (since they pass costs directly to their client)

This is oft-stated, but economically fallacious. Price is a function of supply and demand. The client cares about total cost for a particular legal service; she doesn't care about how that cost is broken down. If the client's budget for a matter is $300,000, every dollar that goes to costs is a dollar that doesn't go to the law firm. This is true even if you're billing by the hour, because in the long run, a firm will raise rates until hours x rate = client budget.
Another very readable treatment is here: http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/arms-and-aliens

Echoing your 'problematic' point, the author concludes:

"My point is simply this: if the Second Amendment protects a truly fundamental individual right, then barring any firearm possession by all illegal aliens cannot be upheld without more—a more robust judicial holding that its fundamental protections are categorically denied to a class of persons, or a more-than-cursory legislative justification for the restriction of these protections. If the statute can stand as is, then perhaps the right to bear arms is less central to the constitutional pantheon than its most zealous advocates would have us believe."

In the Preamble to the Constitution, the phrase "the people" clearly refers to the political community creating the new government, which arguably excludes illegal aliens.

This would seem to also exclude citizens who do not vote or hold office. And oddly it would imply that an undocumented drug-dealer with a fake voter ID is more protected than otherwise law abiding 'illegal alien' who dutifully supports the government with their taxes. How is that resolved?
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...and, just to back up your comment, here's The Book that tells that side of the story: http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html
I hear that argument all the time and my response is: "Just because you have a right doesn't make it right."
I was watching "Five Easy Pieces" the other day and instantly recognised the sound effect for the garbage compactor from episode IV. In this particular film it was the sound of the oil pump equipment in one of the scenes at the oil field!
Interesting. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for flagging it up!
You can argue that "undocumented immigrant" doesn't capture the actual meaning, but that doesn't make jorgeleo's point any less valid: the action is illegal, not the person.
> Is there any scientific evidence for this statement on no harmful chemical transfer below 140F.

I didn't make that statement. I simply stated that was my practice. If you have evidence that it is harmful, I would certainly like to know.

> Also, just because the food came in the very bag you're cooking it in doesn't mean it is safer.

Absolutely. There is no evidence that it doesn't leach at room temperature. Should we stop buying all food packaged in plastics? That's a tall order. Many vegetables come in plastics now and those that don't, you'll likely put in a plastic bag either in the grocery store or as you're leaving it.

Do you have evidence that any of this is harmful? Genuinely want to know.
Did this "revolutionary startup hires top SF writer" thing ever happen before? If so, how it turn out last time(s)?

I hope it doesn't end up like the whole "revolutionary CPU maker hires Linus" thing.
Also, we still pay "per rack" but prices are now a fraction of the $2,100 (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say exact numbers).
> You’d compare it to a brand or tech company—maybe Chipotle or Uber.

I get the Chipotle analogy, but Uber definitely does not make sense. Uber neither owns nor leases the cars, so they don't need the massive capital. The drivers provide that. And Uber scales pretty easily: hire a bunch of contract drivers in your new city, and then open it up. Whereas WeWork has to find office space, sign up for multi-year leases, re-architect and re-decorate it, and then can get monthly memberships.

If you break it down, WeWork is "24 Hour Fitness for Coworking" (or insert your favorite gym name).
Done! https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/192

Will be deployed soon :)
I'd personally disagree, if only because the actual text space columns were so thin that it made everything I was reading feel very, very busy. It took me weeks to get comfortable regularly going to their documentation instead of looking at SE, even though their documentation was very, very good.
The last time I remember this much hype was in the lead up to the segway.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/1019/Inventions-tha...
Since the HN guidelines ask for linkbait titles to be changed, we changed the somewhat baity title to a representative sentence from the article.
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NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
You can create an out of the box job board with SimplyHired if you want to test without building anything: http://www.simplyhired.com/partners-overview
All are fantastic. I was put off by the beginning of Snow Crash initially, as there are some tongue-in-cheek bits that struck me as too campy. But I might not say that now, having read it a few times.

The Baroque Cycle is a massive piece of work spanning 3 volumes, comprised of 8 nominally independent books. If it seems intimidating, just try the first one and see if you're not hooked. I'd love it if there was twice as much material.

Anathem is by far my favorite. Its hooks take longer to set, but for me they set much deeper. There is a lot going on in this book, and it will truly blow your mind if you let it.
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Reminds me of a guy who was responsible for sound effects in a game we're writing for Global Game Jam few years ago; he basically showed up in the middle of the contest (AFAIR he had to stay at work - university radio station, btw.), took his recorder, went around the building recording some door hinges and water faucet sounds, and came back few hours later with a complete set of sounds effects for our surreal fantasy point&click game. I have a lot of respect for his skills.
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Russian rouble suffers steepest drop in 16 years
I open sourced my c++ Guessing game generic framework,it started as away to Involve my kids in the process of game making.

they took the pictures and i recorded them saying the letters and then each of them had its own game.

the process has evolved to very generic Guessing game framework. that also include level editor.

that you can take and use as you like. when i have more time i will write tutorial.

done in cocos2d-x c++. for mobile and desktop
Also a good point. I'm trying to find the balance of somebody looking at it and saying, 'oh that's nothing I'll buy it' and relying on impulse buys without getting into the dangerous area of being viewed as cheap content
Out of curiosity, there's a Labs function that you can use to enable right side chat. Would you be using it by chance?

http://d.pr/i/1lA4M
> Serious question though, and I would like people to ignore some sort of moral or religious argument for it; but what is the long term implication if all kinds of health advances save people but humans still reproduce and impact the planet in already unsustainable rates.

> I get it, some people have a bleeding heart and want to save everyone, everywhere, at all times; but what happens when the planet is the equivalent of a cat hoarder's house because we could never say no and we could never implement policy to limit population growth because the wealthy inherently gain from unregulated population growth?

Some of the minds saved can one day solve these and other problems, pushing the envelope of human knowledge.
This list isn't actually about disruption. It's about automating the stasis quo. Smart contrasts would be genuinely disruptive.
Backblaze employee here: we try to stay on top of these annoying POODLE and other issues. One thing to realize is we encrypt all the data on the client and THEN push it through HTTPS. So many of the security issues aren't honestly affecting our customer privacy. But we stay on top of the security audits because it's a good idea and to even avoid this conversation or the questions that arise.
Thanks, now I can read the one-line disclosure buried in the middle of the article:

"News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, is a customer."
This has been fixed by andrevvm and will be deployed soon: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/192. Thanks for feedback!
Which is kind of a ripoff, dontcha think? That's about what I pay for all my internet access and triple that of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime & NY Times.
Yep that's basically it. The main process of the book will be a guide to using existing resources to learn code and in what order, then how to leverage that knowledge into creating a strong portfolio and online presence, and finally using that to contact web development agencies and land a full time job.
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That sentence from the article is - on several levels - a sad reflection on the "garbage nonsense" standards of drafting and editing within the clickbait-generating arm of the Washington Post.
This comment will have to be repeated on this thread about 50x before people realize this.

But I guess you could blame ComScore or Washington Post for not making it obvious.
As others have mentioned, Stephenson is known for his fiction. However, his nonfiction piece from 1996 for Wired magazine is my personal favorite piece. It recounts his trip around the world investigating undersea fiber-optic cables and speculating on what it all means for the future:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
I disagree. They are an immigrant to the country and they entered illegally, therefore they are an illegal immigrant. I fail to see how that's an inaccurate description.

Switching from illegal to undocumented can be attributed to the effort to downplay such people's involvement in what is essentially a crime. I have read the reasoning behind such a change, that illegal criminalizes the person and not their actions. Which seems to be what you are saying. But the term does in fact name their actions, immigrating illegally, and not just the person. The person committed an illegal act, it is not unwarranted to name them as such. It is simply an attempt to separate the person from the action, which you cannot since the person committed the action.

As for your example. I would agree that in some instances such a person could be described as an illegal driver. Not for a minor offense, but if they committed an act that the law then barred them from operating a motor vehicle then they would indeed be an illegal driver if they later drive. Much like an immigrant is barred from entering the country outside of legal means.

To reverse your logic, bank robbers can just be described as undocumented withdrawers. But somehow that doesn't seem to make sense.
Google search is so popular it's a verb amongst almost any age group, at least in the west.

I'm still struggling to believe that Yahoo beats Google even with this somewhat nebulous "web properties" definition. Does Yahoo.com (including, say, news and weather?) + Tumblr + Flickr really get more traffic than Google.com + Google Maps + YouTube?
Honestly on a backlutz screen, grey on navy is hard to beat. There's a reason all of those 80s mainframe apps looked like that. They did studies.
Interesting analogy! Specifically, which gc algorithms did you have in mind?
I wonder, does the European Space Agency have the same problem? They have the same potential for conflict of interest, but perhaps individual politicians have less say in how money is spent.
Those should be available on almost any Linux system, even on minimal installs:

Linux
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Well, close to being post-1.0. I think it is Rust 1.0 (alpha) in January (the 9th) then (beta) 6 weeks later.
So wheel is acting as expected? How is this not fixed by replacing

auth sufficient pam_wheel.so use_uid group=wheel trust

with

auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid group=wheel

in /etc/pam.d/su? Or replace all pam_wheel.so entries with something else? (i.e. pam_unix.so)

This seems like fairly standard behavior these days - are distros really shipping with wheel enabled by default?
Looks very clean. One thing I would improve is the layout when reading an article. Having further reading on the right is useful, but takes up too much space, and makes the main focus, the actual content, too cramped and difficult to read. I would make further reading a little smaller, and have latest news on the left be minimized by default.
> Copying hurts innovation and the tech world as a whole.

Whaaat? Copying only accelerates innovation. To claim that you wouldn't improve your UI because someone else might similarly improve their UI is specious - no one is going to intentionally hinder their product because they're worried that someone else might equally improve their product.

> Copying is bad for customers.

And music piracy is literally taking money out of Bono's wallet. Product evolution tends to happen in cycles, and things that were previously design decisions become design standards. That's how design works. If you think your UI is better, DocuSign, by copying your UI, has made their UI better.

> Copying is unethical.

This is purely subjective. Copying is how software works.

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DocuSign is suing SkySlope for pretty blatant trademark infringement. HelloSign is whining because the design (which looks very generic) is similar to the DocuSign design?

And from the linked article:

> When we attempted to check DocuSign’s new design ourselves, we didn’t see the potentially HelloSign-inspired design at all.

Then what the hell is Joseph Walla whining about?
This quote "I sometimes feel that the creative minds who make games have done about as much as is possible in two dimensions. It’s hard to imagine how the current crop of games, for example, could be more finely tuned to deliver that particular kind of entertainment." isn't particular inspiring coming from a Chief Futurist. I can imagine a ton of 2D (or text based, for that matter) games that haven't been attempted let alone perfected. I also feel like I play new novel 2D games all the time.

I say this as someone that is excited about VR, AR and would love to see whatever Magic Leap is cooking up, and is a huge Neal Stephenson fan.
One thing I don't understand is about Indeed.com. I think (not sure) that it was an aggregator. 2 points: 1) was/is that legal - to just scrape other sites and use it? 2) it supposedly sold to recruiter.com for $1B.
Can anyone confirm that? I was told it by someone.
A kickstarter scam by Stephenson.
Ah, of course. Assuming the close relation of knighthood and religion, I still wouldn't dismiss my unfounded theory.
In fairness, the comparison was to "cash flow statements". But even that comparison seems a stretch considering Uber's cash flow is tracking to $10b/$2b (gross/net).
yeah.. that is exactly the case. I have the right side labs plugin enabled.
Mattermark picks up $6.5M
This list is completely bias, there is no way that Facebook is behind Microsoft in 2013.

Something that looks more real:

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
Don't the writing patterns make old data tend to remain in older drives and newer data ending up in the newer devices? If that's the case, would reads to those devices become increasingly infrequent to the point it would be worth to spin them down? Are you worried about the stresses induced by spin up/down and thermal variations?
This is the most informative story I've read in this submission.
You mean "33x on projected annual revenues"! Huge difference and far worse.
A 30 sec search for "coworking toronto" shows me many coworking spaces in your city.
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Well, it's not a ripoff if the articles are worth it to you. Regardless of what other unrelated media services cost.
Do you know of any companies doing that in the Seattle area?
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What do you mean the person himself is not unlawful? The presence of that person in this country is illegal which may be used as an adjective. That person is also an immigrant which is a noun. That person is "an illegal immigrant". Am I incorrect?
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Bloggers use Glam Media as kind of an ad network. I'm guessing Glam Media counts those blogs/sites as part of their own.
It really depends on how much you value the content. I pay for the WSJ. People need to earn a living. We fight for McDonalds employees to earn a fare wage but we complain because we don't want to pay for newspapers. There's nothing wrong with "premium content".
Gmail is the most popular email service.
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You're citing a reddit thread for a legal principle. No.

> Unless the derivative work falls under fair use, the rights-holders can use it however they want.

Unless the derivative work falls under fair use, the rights-holders can stop you.

Let's make the case as clearly as possible. Microsoft incorporates some clip art into Windows without a license. Does the artist of the clip art now have a right to start selling copies of Microsoft Windows to everyone? Of course not.
For the frequent WSJ reader, several hundred dollars a year makes sense. For a casual reader, it doesn't - but they still want the opportunity to convert me to a frequent reader. That's why they offer previews via search engines, etc.
I'd argue there's a difference between shipping source code, and actually embedding it in your page via a <script> tag. Once you embed the script into your page for execution, you're building a derivative work -- not just publishing technical details.

Otherwise JS would become a universal patent loophole, which I'm pretty sure a judge would find fault with.

(IANAL also.)
does not appear to be an improvement? could he have laid it only any more clearly? you obviously are either a cop or a prosecutor... GET OFF MY LAWN. you're an idiot.
You don't need the NSA to get that info. There are plenty of companies who aggregate data from ISPs.
I want to write an article about using Trello without showing some private data. Basically I just wanted a quick way to hide text on a page before taking a screenshot -- and I don't want to install a plugin just for that.

Also, it's a nice font for mockups and this kind of works as a free CDN.
It sounds more to me like a direct projection to retina. Has this ever been attempted ? Would that be working with lasers ?
I would also highly recommend:

The Mongoliad semi-fictional view of mid-thirteenth century Mongol invasion of Europe

Reamde MMO gold farming, social networking, criminal methods of the Russian mafia, Islamic terrorists
Have you not read 'The Diamond Age'?

IMO it is one of his best works. Nanotech/Networks/Crypto for the masses to understand. I read, loved and was caught up in the VR fever of the 90's via Snow Crash, and love his other books, but TDA is the one I'll never get rid of.
It happens (sort of) in REAMDE. :P

There, it ends up precipitating a gigantic MMO war.
Isn't that mass savings mostly in the 330k$ of fuel for the first stage? The economic argument is in the reusable hardware.
Backblaze engineer here. If a file is less than 30 MBytes and it changes even 1 byte we push an entire copy to a new location in our datacenter. We preserve the old copies for 30 days so you can "roll back time" up to 30 days (like if you edit a document but want to revert).

For files larger than 30 MBytes we break them into 10 MByte chunks and only transmit the chunks that have changed. So the worst case is you insert 1 byte at the very start of the large file - this effectively changes EVERY 10 MByte chunk and we transmit it all. The best case is you append 1 byte to the end of the large file, because then we only have to transmit that one chunk.
Year of the Beagle
That is so awesome, thanks you for sharing this!
How to Get into the Flow
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Four Areas of Legal Ripe for Automation

Automating these aspects of legal practice wouldn't disrupt the way that industry functions. It would just make a lot of paralegals and young lawyers obsolete (and make legal services a lot cheaper).
I've got several Beaglebone Black boards and find them a wonderful way to drop a computer into something. My next challenge is to build a custom board with their design.
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Lots of nostalgia here. I had an HP 48G and it had it's own legitimate programming language of which I barely scratched the surface. I programmed and downloaded all sorts of games on there. Wrote basic quadratic equation solvers and graphers.

One of my favorite things about it was that it had an internal speaker. You could specify the frequency and duration of notes. I was in concert band at the time and was into "The Planets" suite by Holst. I ended up writing two programs that played the main tracks for Jupiter. I had another friend who had the calculator so I gave him one part and retained one for myself. We started both programs at the same time and listened to beautiful tinny classical music.

It was stupid easy to output sound on that thing. Like someone else mentioned it was also very easy to output to the screen. I know applications are much more complicated than they were back then but I do feel bad for kids that they might not have a sandbox environment to try to push the boundaries for their knowledge. This kind of stuff got me hooked on coding.
Fire administrators, hire teachers.