skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socialized legal defense? Government funded legal defense, with a private choice of the law firm to reduce pro-government biasses. Similar to how certain socialized healthcare systems work.

Of course, there are some glaring issues here, such as the fact that unfortunately there's a strong correlation between socio-economic status and the odds of you needing legal counsel... Something which also occurs in healthcare but to a much lesser degree I'm inclined to believe.
Funny this crops up. I've had to quickly get to grips with a somewhat related subject: a human readable healthcare interchange format called HL7 v2 (v3 has, somewhat rightfully, replaced the custom format with XML).

Here's an example:

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EVN||200605290901||||200605290900
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OBX|1|NM|^Body Height||1.80|m^Meter^ISO+|||||F
OBX|2|NM|^Body Weight||79|kg^Kilogram^ISO+|||||F
AL1|1||^ASPIRIN
DG1|1||786.50^CHEST PAIN, UNSPECIFIED^I9|||A
I don't know the demographics of your students but I'm always intrigued when I'm able to quickly get productive with what I'm currently learning.

How about first collecting ideas on things which would actually help people (in addition to teaching)? I think Greece is a pretty high-tech society but maybe there is substantial "brain-drain" - still, I'd wager that it's mostly the economy which is broken.

I don't know if it's viable but something like a node based twitter bot that picks up on calls for help on greek facebook pages (e.g. "doctor needed!") and other twitter accounts which then gets aggregated on a website? It might be a very naive idea but I've got the feeling that setups like hackathons (where all kinds of interested people can participate, people people, idea people, technically inclined people, etc) can be more beneficial to learning than a traditional "school" like environment but maybe that's just me (and my inherent learning style).

I know of some fellow Austrians who might be interested in helping out as well, please reach out if you could need further help.

I salute you for your actions - I feel like it's all about love and solidarity in order to overcome our global problems <3
Thanks! I am also looking into using Flask soon too. I dabbled in django for a while, but too much magic was happening and I am trying to learn.
I really like those context-switches during my workday, never thought that would be a problem for other people. Thanks for the interesting post.
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I hope this is the event that the TypeScript team is waiting for to release 1.5 out of the current beta.
Years of visual studio w/C# on Windows, then moved to Linux here. I suggest you dive straight into the deep end, learn vim, and go in raw.
The lawyers may very well not take any money but that's not what you need the money for.

For a case like this with 100,000's of documents tons of witnesses and experts you need more money just for the discovery phase that any non-tv law firm will be able to put out.

The defense also needs to be able to bring their own experts which in this case might be psychologists, social liberty experts, computer security and forensic experts, anti-terror and national defense experts and more, all of those cost money and a lot of it even if they are willing to come out and testify at cost.
True, but I meant a particular subset of "owing" in which you consider which parties are directly responsible for some event. Paid out vendors are usually not considered the primary parties.
Except that their kids have better chances in life, their retirement is secure, they have a nice garden to relax in etc etc...

Money well spent if you ask me.
Are there books and/or resources you could recommend? tx
Thanks everybody! 1 day on Hacker News, 1574 uniques, 103 signups, 15% signup rate and 53% total vulnerability rate. You all have some fixing to do. If you have more feedback, let us know (or spread the love).
And miss the chance to put our flag first on Mars? I think not.
WYSIWYG sadly, hnwatch grabs the ID list to fetch from the SSE direct from firebaseio (and thus the public API). It was working a treat (and accurately reproducing everything from HN web-proper) prior to my releasing this... IDK what the proper course of action is from here... :-/
> So the overall number of useful hours is the same either way?

No, because dreaming is useful and fun. Even more so if you can cultivate lucid dreaming.
There is great sci-fi novel Voyage from Stephen Baxter which describes such minimal mission. It is alternative history where NASA landed on Mars in 1980-ties.
Ask HN: Recommended resources for someone new to Cloud IT
Hi HN-

I'm a finance major with an interest in the tech space. I'm looking at a pivot/broadening of my degree/job search to include more of a tech focus. While I know consumer tech like the back of my hand, including basic network and IT concepts, I'm looking to expand my understanding of professional IT.

I'm trying to prep for an informational interview with someone at a target firm of mine, and would love any resources for an introduction to enterprise cloud systems.

Things like Hadoop, concepts like big data, data lakes, SANs, etc are all things I'd love to learn more about.

While I've been reading what I can get from case studies and such on corporate websites, a more learning oriented resource would be really helpful.

With a internet-less period coming up, I'd especially appreciate PDF or kindle book recommendations.

Thanks!
Thanks a lot for the input! Project based learning has always worked best for me too, so I'm considering to run it as a "make x in 5 days" course. Using the Twitter API might be a good idea. Then they'll understand how to communicate with other services, which is critical. But it might be a bit too difficult for a complete beginner?

Perhaps the final 3 days can be project based, and then use the first two to cover some basics.
Please tell me that's not real data.
How does this compare to languages with built in databases such as prolog?
CLion is definitely worth checking out. The JetBrains guys know what they are doing.
How exactly is that supposed to be faster?

What will happen when I "Launch" it, and why should I give it my email address beforehand?
> But that extra time spent sleeping is time spent not being awake to do things. So the overall number of useful hours is the same either way?

Am I the only person that likes sleeping and dreaming? If I were to suddenly find sleep impossible and unnecessary, I would consider that a reduction in my quality of life.
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Anyone who said that mumps was eradicated is kidding themselves.
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It's true that economics is not amenable to experiments as reliably informative as those of, say, physics. And it's true that, all else being equal, the less reliable your experiments the less weight their results should get relative to theoretical predictions.

But it isn't only the experiments that are less reliable in economics than in physics. The theory is less reliable too. (For two reasons. Firstly, because it's so hard to do experiments whose results you can trust, the evidential basis for the theory is weaker. Secondly, because people are more complicated than, say, electrons.)

How does this cash out in the case of the minimum wage? We have some empirical evidence suggesting that minimum wage increases don't increase unemployment much if at all, but we can't trust it too much for the usual reasons (not enough data, too many confounding factors, small effect sizes). And we have some simple theoretical arguments suggesting that minimum wage increases should increase unemployment quite a bit (supply and demand from Econ 101), but we can't trust those much either because the real people involved in the labour market are not the perfectly rational perfectly selfish perfectly spherical agents with which Econ 101 is concerned. It simply isn't true that increasing cost always reduces demand: there are multiple mechanisms by which in particular circumstances it can do the reverse. It simply isn't true that the labour market behaves exactly like the market for, say, corn. People are complicated.

So I don't agree with what I take to be your argument about the minimum wage, namely that because we don't have great empirical evidence we must rely on theory and firmly believe that increasing the minimum wage will severely increase unemployment, and that this means that an honest supporter of minimum wage increases is obliged to accept that their preferred policy will increase unemployment substantially.

Incidentally, I'm not even so sure about that pebble thrown into the ocean. The sea-level rise is a tiny effect, after all, so we can't just ignore other tiny effects. For instance: a slight variation in the shape of the earth, with less mass on land and more on the ocean bottom; a tiny change in ocean currents, which might change erosion patterns and change the volume of the oceans one way or another; maybe some funny effect via disturbing local ecosystems and ultimately affecting human food supplies a little. These are all really small, but so is the obvious effect of throwing the pebble in.

For that matter, if you're on a boat when you throw the pebble in, the pebble goes from displacing its own mass of water (thank you, Archimedes) to displacing its own volume of water, which is smaller, so the immediate first-order effect is that the water level goes down.
This is quite impressive. Building an emulator is already impressive, but adding new stages and difficulties is pretty sweet. I definitely have to try this out after work!

I'm horrible at DK, so I hope I can make it through the game in one piece.

On another note, there's a potential Donkey Kong Kill Screen coming up... If anyone's interested blank stare
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aid

A better idea is common throughout the world.
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Sounds like a plan :) What would be the best way to qualitatively enhance learning during those first couple of days? One on one tutorship? The only reason why that isn't the default way of teaching is probably because it is too expensive, right?
No, I pulled it from Wikipedia. I wouldn't ever share real data, especially since it's the transmission of STI testing results.

Very telling about it's effectiveness though: you didn't spot "nickell's pickles" in there!
I'm eagerly waiting 1.6 with JSX support.
Why do I need to register? Can you not just let me add social media accounts to an empty dashboard?
As a lazy end-user, I need it to be as painless as possible to get up and running with your service, for me to even try it in the first place. That's what Permeate and TweetDeck (before they were acquired) did. Other than that I think the idea is really cool! I'm working on something similar (news feed aggregator).

Also I think this might be better off as a Show HN.
This is a fantastic idea. A great deal for both parties. Even if you have to fly United. If you're really that adverse to being in the air for a few hours on a United plane you can probably get use the miles for gifts. Get grandma a ticket to visit her grandchildren for her birthday or something.
Who said that it is suppose to be human readable?

HL7 v2 is actually fairly nice as a data structure. It's really easy to parse, compresses nicely, and is quite flexible in terms of schema. I'll grant you that the standard message schemas are terrible, but the data structure is elegant for what it needs to do.
"OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50."

Wow. I mean... why?
Disappointingly fails to link to http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM which frankly is about as credible as the idea that COBOL might be "just hitting its prime". Nothing in the article or anything it links to offers any support for that.
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> frequent one-on-ones

Doesn't that just waste people's time? The weekly google hangout as opposed to a daily one is a good decision. Less disruption to those actually doing the work.

> a) It should be all remote, or all local. You ruin the fun for people if a chunk of the team if talking, and chat is dead.

I've worked in both situations. I'm remote now on a 100% remote team, but I've also worked in the main office and communicated with two remote co-workers. With Google Hangout and Zoom, I've noticed no difference between these two setups. People who work better by talking everything through in person will just use google hangouts to have conversations with the people they need and leave the rest out. You still wind up with some people being left out of the loop and chat is still 90% dead, except for the occasional entertaining gif and water cooler talk.
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> (eg, the lawyers need to eat).

At the price they are working at, it's not about eating anymore, it's about being able to afford 3 houses, an apartment in New York, Cocaine every Friday and the Tesla or a BMW to complete the picture.

I have never seen a poor lawyer.
As I understood it, you ask the net what it sees in the image and then make it adjust the image so that it sees more of that thing.

So if a cloud looks slightly like a dog, it will make it even more doggy.
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I dunno…

I think space exploration is a great chance for human solidarity.

Funding, control, bureaucracy and such can still be challenging, but I think the scientists and engineers themselves would generally be on board. The public also, I think/hope.

Planting an earth flag instead of a national one kinda makes simple sense that I think will appeal to people. You land in a new land, you claim it for your land. Land on a new planet, claim it for your planet.
Can't see how is React winning here - FLUX won already but in new HTML's web component era React will be even less relevant. There will be no need for big frameworks since apps could be build from high level components.
>So they might have a better pension plan, pay a gardener.

>So someone earning $200k could well be less well off after expenses than someone earning $50k.

Poe's law invoked.
One to one tutorship would be great, but we wont have enough teachers for that. Too expensive yes. I'm thinking lectures and tasks, and preferably more of the latter and less of the former :)
That's what the bits and pieces of docs I read said it was. I'm fairly new to it as a format and "human readable" made me double take.
In my view, a side effect of our legal system is that it's a very generous public gift to lawyers. And there's probably a perverse incentive for lawyers to manipulate that system to make it more lucrative and exclusive (e.g., more complex, so that regular people can't take care of their own minor legal issues). As such, I see no problem with maintaining a more equitable distribution of legal support.

The ideal situation would be to establish a social norm, where successful pro bono defense work was a badge of honor. This work should include not only criminal defense, but also helping the poor deal with civil cases.
I haven't seen the email but I find that policy from MS hard to believe.

Considering the backlash they got with always-connected XBOX ONE and their subsequent backpedaling[1] after the criticism... plus the fact that many government programmers' computers cannot connect to the public internet, that type of requirement seems draconian. Does MS expect government programmers with security clearances not to be customers of VS2015?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One#Pre-release
In the US, you're already entitled to an attorney for your defense. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll get a good attorney.
Backdoor and RCE found in 8 TOTOLINK router models
Vim itself had a decent built-in tutorial, just launch vim and I think its the default prompt. People have gamified vim hot keys too, check out shortcut foo and Google 'vim' golf.
And in english too, to rob = to steal.

Still the context is important. When talking about some machine, it's obvious that it's meant for robot, not to say it's going to rob you - even if it's what it actually does.
Sadly yes. While it's not really as horrible as many people (myself included) have said, the problem is their release cycle, and iOS's lock in.

One a year means that it will probably be 2 years before any new features are "stable". (for example IndexedDB support came out and it was so buggy that it was unusable, it wasn't until ios8 that it was even somewhat usable, and it still has several game-breaking bugs)

So you run into problems like this where in 6 months every other major browser will have stable shadow DOM support, and safari will still be at least 6 months away from its first (possibly buggy) release, meaning there could be another 12 month wait after that to get a good implementation. And while any other platform can install an alternative iOS users are stuck with safari, and there is literally no way around it.
looking really nice. Specifically the toggle is something I was looking for. This looks like clean use of markup and proper setup of CSS with good docu. Will definitly embed this in the future, and looking forward to see even more components. good stuff!
Justice is indeed blind. Manning had her day in court. Nobody disputes what she did, or that is was illegal. She pled guilty and was convicted.

Now arguing that this is not fair is something else alltogether.
What? That's horrible, but seems to be the way Microsoft is moving under Nadella. Sign in to everything. Everything is a service.
Oh man, sleep paralysis is scary. After I had it happen to me a few times, these days I either go "ugh, not this again" and go back to sleep, or just panic and try to fight it, in which case I wake with a jolt after what feels like a minute (an eternity, when you're paralyzed).
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Visual Studio Code looks promising, and should feel familiar to you.
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I thought it's been known for a while that "time" isn't exactly a property of the Universe the same way as 3 dimensions are, but more something we use to help ourselves understand and explain the actions around us.

That is, "time" doesn't exist, but we created it.

I really wish I remembered where I read ideas such as this, but I think most of it came as a consequence of Relativity theory.
This is bs and you're all witches.
Only tens of thousands?
Then what does set them apart from novels with better reputations, if not style? I don't think it can be just the topic, and I don't believe it's just some arbitrary value that society assigns to what is high vs. low brow.
This brings back memories. I used to use these kind of programs during my study electrochemistry more than 20 years ago. Apparently it is still relevant.
Would say general brain storming and inquisitiveness, i.e. how does this actually work and can I improve on it.

As an example of this thinking, I looked at ghostery a while back and thought it could be cool to work out what I would have leaked and to which websites. "Would have been tracked" was born, though still got to get around to coding, feel free to take it you want.

As a few other high level project suggestions; cloning programs for different languages, play around with electronics (there's years there) or pick a few open source projects to contribute to.
What's entertaining is that MUMPS was developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, which is now paying a third party over a billion dollars to use it in the form of Epic.
You are provided counsel when defending yourself if you cannot afford it. It is when you lose and do not accept a court's verdict. Even plead guilty to a good number of the charges and was given a sentence lower than requested by the prosecution.

there is a reason why non automatic appeals are not free, else those convicted could simply keep their cases open at cost to the tax payer when guilt had been properly assessed.
This is about setting up mDNS on a Raspberry Pi to see what Eddystone notifications look like on Android. If anyone has tried this with an iPhone I'd be interested in seeing how it behaves.
Requests - https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests.

How to make a usable api. The decisions that went into each method call were fantastic. Great test coverage as well. I use package in most python development.
My friend is a criminal defense attorney for those who are usually unable to pay market rates. He's making a lot less than I was as a senior developer and not much more when I was a junior developer. Factor in law school loans and time spent in the books and he's not exactly rolling in cash.
I spoke to someone a few years ago who has an asymmetrical transit cost agreement between two companies. He joked that it may have been lucrative to just pipe /dev/random to their echo port 24/7.

I suspect that is one of the many reasons that is a dead protocol.
I also don't understand the comments that you wouldn't like 1 Million miles from United and they are saying the miles don't matter. Everyone is saying "united is shit" because they don't like the service and not because of what is being discussed in the article.
Even if the nominal value of the reward were as low as $100, it also has another positive but unstated value: it's a strong signal that you won't be prosecuted for revealing to them a flaw you've found.
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According to the twitter account of the german space agency (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt), this is the 4th time since the ISS mission began and it's just a precautionary measure.
It's more about why/what _exactly_ ? What is taking place during maintenance ?
Are you on Linux or on a Mac ?

If you are on a Mac, you should definitely give a try to XCode it is, after all, the official Apple IDE. Not even close to Visual Studio, but not as bad (for C++ at least) as many people advertise.

For Linux, Kdevelop seems nice, other Linux C++ IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, CLion.

You should also probably try Vim and Emacs at least once, start with their included tutorials.
So they put a paper ballot with an RFID chip inside into a machine which then puts your vote into the chip, then you drop the ballot into a box? How is this any different from a regular paper ballot?
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Oh, but I did :-) But given it's MUMPS, that could have been part of the file format...