skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have some tricks on how things are placed on your personal page so you accidentally import your contacts. I've almost done so a few times.
We need that site back.
He cannot, because any sensitive data that is not in the public's interest, to be made public, has not been.
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About 40% poorer I reckon.
Atlassian is currently down 23%.
Same. LinkedIn has helped me find 2 fantastic jobs now (and leads to many other potential ones). Granted, it was through one recruiter of the many that spammed my inbox. But still, that clutter stays on LinkedIn and I only deal with it when I need it.

In another use case I've also used LinkedIn to find service providers. Instead of relying on word of mouth I can vet someone from their work history, endorsements, and recommendations.

So yeah, they have bad practices, but they're not all bad. I do have to say that what they do provide of value is easily replicable and this is probably a great opportunity for anyone who wants to start something.
I wouldn't put much trust on waiting for Labour to change things, considering their track record when they were in government. Unless they have actively made a statement in support of his situation, that is (I'm not aware of one).

I would imagine that any political party cannot outright support him. It's pretty much impossible for a government to guarantee no extradition, for example, if there hasn't been an extradition request already made, that's just not how the law works in the UK, but they could possibly make it easier for Assange to feel more trust in the legal process.
I moved to USA from Europe, here is my POV:
Citizens are mostly poorly educated relative to Europe.
Also politicians are more corrupt.

So the politicians have a free hand. For an empirical illustration :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVOuK_KB9ew
85,000 callers out of 90,000 callers to a California senator (representing among others Silicon Valley) wanted a no vote. Senator voted yes. Or http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hd981

Confidence level is 15% with media support, this is normal:
http://pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm
You have a choice of 2 parties. It is not a Euro style multi party democracy. Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

So: most people support Snowden, despite thought shaping that happens on forums. And Aaron. And Ian. Daniel. Hastings. But in age of big data, surveillance meta data can be used bayesian/predictive for internal politics (not for 'scary' external imagination). The winning move then is to be or appear passive. And anticapte tyrany. hth
I run a small one, with little effort other than what comes along with Windows - its our only Windows based system.

I would be interesting to know what the problems you have faced are.
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Thanks for the information. :)

Unfortunately, I need 2+ instances with Active/Active or failover to seriously consider anything for production which is why I've not touched InfluxDB beyond some light testing.
also the "your Lynda trial is about to end! sign up now!" emails they keep sending
Yes. And I think was a terrible decision.
Atlassian down 23%
the name is a bit annoying. seems very dude-cool-name-syndrome.
Some parts of their product ARE terrible, like their search. It almost never works. I sometimes have to go to Google to find someone on LinkedIn.
What are the other games, I'd be interested in checking out a (viable) LinkedIn competitor.
I also couldn't be happier watching linkedin fall. I recently deleted my account because of all the spam and creepy things linkedin does and they still send me emails!
The whole market is inflated with VCs & wall street pricing models. Ultimately the public pays the price of all this.
The other day I was searching about the best way to automatically detect patterns in data. Then I checked my email and I had received a "Quora Session recap" type of newsletter (I don't get or read those often). The content of the newsletter was a series of questions about machine learning with Pedro Domingos, (I didn't know him). I was amazed by his knowledge about computer science. The next day I went casually to Amazon and it recommended me Pedro Domingo's book 'The Master Algorithm'. I tried a sample and it blew me away: it's a great exposition of what machine learning is. I bought the book and keep reading. This is a bit meta, but I think machine learning helped me find information to understand machine learning better. It chose me :)
I for one am happy it got posted again - looks like a quality JS component I have not seen before.
The people that still use flip phones do.
Not everyone is on the forefront of technology.
Has LinkedIn even had any positive EPS yet?
I thought of three obvious reasons.

1. The U.S. military is ridiculously well financed and supplied. Even if every American strong enough to lift them had a battle rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition, the federal government has mobile armor, fighters and bombers, and guided explosive munitions. The average American simply does not have the means to fight toe to toe with any professional army. As guerilla fighters, it is usually more useful to build explosives and make booby traps than it is to fire rifles. And if you're close enough to hit something with a rifle, you should probably already be running away.

2. We have strong gun rights now. They have not perceptibly slowed the government's slow ratcheting towards greater power and Constitutional overreach. Whether the government is already tyrannical is a matter of opinion, but be assured that some people think that it is.

3. Guns are not the only tools required to resist government. They are neither necessary nor sufficient. Defending gun rights in preference to any of the others, such as privacy, speech, assembly, redress, and due process, is to abandon our best means of resisting government power in favor of the one least likely to yield a predictably favorable outcome. All human rights work together to produce liberty, and none are more important than the others. To prioritize them is to see them picked off one by one, back to front, like Alvin York would.
This needs to be integrated with ownCloud. I really wish I could have spreadsheets like this without google drive.
Great stuff!

One minor suggestion, completely beside the point so please forgive me: a safer and perhaps more idiomatic way to implement the multiply_safe function would be with a functional-style one-liner:

fn multiply_safe(a : Vec<f64>, b : Vec<f64>) -> Vec<f64> {
if a.len() != b.len() {
panic!("The two vectors differ in length!");
}
return a.iter().zip(b.iter()).map(|(x, y)| x * y).collect()
}

Safer because you don't manipulate indices and lengths directly like you would in C, so there is no opportunity of an off-by-one bug or things like that. Surprisingly, rustc optimizer makes sure that this performs as well as the index-wrangling implementation (according to some simple tests I just ran).
No Milpool! :(

More seriously:

1) Awesome!!!

2) It would be great if the search results page listed the quotes in addition to showing the images.
His rape charges expire in 2020 so he'll leave in 4 years.

Did you know he has 4 children? I didn't know that.
I find the big idea of brick and mortar bookstores as logistical bases for local delivery very much plausible. However, I think ground traversing drone delivery is much more likely.

It's a simple matter of weight - ratios ... A five-ounce bird could not hold a one pound coconut.

Longer run, it may also be a way for Amazon to locally broadcast in the radio spectrum with fewer dependencies on third parties in a way that recurses on it's strategy for controlling infrastructure expressed by AWS. High traffic retail space also could provide a base for selling services to nearby commercial interests.

In other words, Cringly's reading such a move by Amazon as primarily one into real-estate and driven by location is not as outrageous as the part about flying drones. Picking up your Amazon order at the local Amazon store or local third party delivery (or fourth party via Uber etc.), would decouple long distance hauling contracts from last mile contracts.
Operation Mockingbird never went away, it just got a new name...
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A friend bought a IoT lock for his house. If someone needs in he can run some app on his phone and remotely unlock the door or give them a code to punch in that's only good for a set amount of time.

He loves it.

PS: He's also got the IoT lights :P
This is why for every thing I learn in IT/computer, I angle for a skill that I can use in freelance or 1-person company. Not interested in some proprietary skill that requires expensive hardware to stay current. Such as Cisco or storage stuff.
The potential usefulness of LinkedIn only adds to the disappointment and resentment. It is sometimes useful. It could be good. Why does it have to be so intrusive and underhanded that I won't let the app on my phone?
But it's still only 5% resistant to the 95% providing electro motive force.
I'd love something similar for Instapaper. For reading in the terminal with `less` or $EDITOR.
Well it seems for atom there indeed isn't much done in the way of generating config files, but for example for zsh there's loads of things you can configure in the configuration.nix:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p...

(Found this by googling "nixpkgs zsh")

You can still override stuff in your local ~/.zsh or ~/.atom if you like of course.

I think in general it's system software that gets the full nix treatment, and user software that nix more often leaves to the users themselves.
Correct. He would be placed in permanent solitary confinement at ADX Florence in Colorado, not Guantanamo Bay.

(Guantanamo Bay, in case you weren't aware, has entered the vernacular as a metaphor, and that's how the previous commenter was using it.)
Some great screencaps compiled in this article:

https://www.inverse.com/article/11007-frinkiac-is-the-visual...
The other way to look at it is that the shares were vastly overvalued to begin with, and the latest financial statement has caused investors to overvalue them by a bit less.

I still think the value is insane, but the insanity is in the opposite direction to you :)
Doubtful - if global investors aren't putting their money into stocks, they'll just continue to buy up real estate.
Manning was:

imprisoned in solitary confinement, barred from exercising even in his cell, under constant surveillance, without pillows or sheets,

all this, before the trial.

http://www.salon.com/2010/12/15/manning_3/

http://www.mintpressnews.com/chelsea-manning-chronicles-her-...

I agree with you about all the other people in solitary confinement.
The Snowden leaks didn't demonstrate "massive violations of US Law."

Essentially one documents out of thousand upon thousands really exposed an illegal program (phone meta-data), and even that was done under a good faith legal theory. It took several court cases to find it was against the law. If he just released that FISA order, it would still be illegal, but there would at least by a good argument to not prosecute

He released tons of information about stuff that nobody would credibly think was illegal. Instead he released stuff that exposed spying on foreign countries, the raison d'être of the NSA, and he did it because he was ideologically against spyign. And that's why the DOJ has to go after him.
The same applies to dependencies. I've grown very reluctant towards introducing a dependency for the sake of deduplication. I'd rather have isolated modules than a de-duplicated Big Ball of Mud.
CLICK THE IMAGES

https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=lousy+smarch+weather&e=S07....
Many people are literally tricked into uploading their contacts. Example with screenshots.[1] The UI/UX practice is called "dark patterns".

On a monthly basis, I get LinkedIn "invites" from friends who simply didn't understand LinkedIn's hostile and deceptive user interface. They think they're just importing their contacts to conveniently++ find existing profiles but in reality, they're unwittingly giving permission to LinkenIn to spam their address book to recruit new members.

You may be good at defensive web surfing to keep your contacts private but most others are not.

Btw, there was a previous discussion from Feb 2014 about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7276032

[1]https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...

++ (understandably because they don't want to manually retype each contact name into Linkedin. Ain't nobody got time for that.)
Start small. Pose questions. Do experiments. Repeat
It does have a lot of value. My partner found some awesome contractors by doing searches on LinkedIn for the relevant keywords (it helped that they were unknown technologies with less than a dozen profiles listing them)
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No, I did not. Thanks for pointing that out.
The info graphic could at least include more sources

The rating for Android Studio vs Xcode had some arbitrary graphics with numbers attached. It took clicking around to find the original source which still vague. Also the target markets is misleading as more accurate would be income demographics as opposed to regionality.

https://www.strategyanalytics.com/strategy-analytics/news/st...
> She envisions aging banks using it to upgrade decades-old Fortran code to Ruby or any other modern language.

I know it's just an article, but...

If anyone thinks they should replace working Fortran code that does numerical analysis with Ruby, they should be fired.
Linkedin is down 38%. Tesla is down quite a bit. My guess is that some VCs were leveraged and had to liquidate positions. Free money from leverage does not look as good when equities go down... I think we are heading for a most violent year on the markets. Pharma and biothechs will most likely be the only bright spots, especially anti-anxiety drugs... :-)

Keep plugging at building great software that actually helps make this a better place. Charge for it so you can survive this downturn. It's a cycle, this will weed out the nonsense.
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Around here in the mid-atlantic states I know that's the norm - and actually can be lower than that. It's not until you start managing teams do you get near the lower mid 100s.
We solved this with https://github.com/jackfranklin/jspm-dev-builder

It's so fast now.
Even your trust could be used against you. What if a "bad actor" is defined as someone who publically spreads hostility towards a change in government policy?
Thanks for the information! I will keep this in mind next time. It was some time ago the last time I used custom compiled nginx. Seemed I used a statically linked OpenSSL (which had this downsides). I informed myself a littlebit more here https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-and-the-heartbleed-vulnerab...
Permanent solitary confinement in ADX Florence (which is assuredly what Snowden and Assange will receive if they are ever in U.S. hands) IS torture.

There is no metaphor or exaggeration or hyperbole in the above sentence.
I see the input focus lags behind the UI after cmd-tab almost every day, for AG least the last two OS releases.
They plan to finally, once and for all, settle the timeless question of if you can order beef, chicken, or tofu as the protein, and if you can order broccoli, mushrooms, or peppers as the vegetable, and if you can order white rice, brown rice, or noodles as the starch, then how many total dishes can you order?
I too (as a freelancer) find quite a bit of value out of LinkedIn, but that's orthogonal to the fact that they are a scummy company with even lower ethical standards than Facebook. That they don't have a rivaling alternative to provide competition only adds to the tragedy.
Could it also be affected by the Amazon QuickSight preview that is going live?
Really depends on the industry and position.

Mid-level executives in IT/Tech/Consulting globally are practically on LinkedIn, it is a giant job board. A self-updating and self-cleaning CV database and rolodex.

The biggest CRM system on earth. And it has gotten better recently, the product team has given up on moving into Twitter/Facebook crap features and is re-focusing on the job at hand.

If they'd add hierarchies and reporting structures, they'd be even more valuable (and dangerous). B2B sales people live in LinkedIn. HR ditto.

Yes, developers don't get the value - but it is not for you. Directors, VPs, MBAs,...more so.
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> Such a simplistic and borderline racist analysis of the economical situation of these countries.

People really need to be called out for crying racism when the things that are being discussed are cultural. Regional cultures are different. That does not have to have anything to do with race.
In Europe, xing is actually more popular than linkedin. So there is serious competition.
And then they fall 40% in a single day. That's why it's called "bursting"
That happens to me too. But you know who is a thousand times worse than Linkedin when it comes to these things? Facebook.

At this point, I honest /just/ /don't/ /know/ how to stop getting emails from them. In my entire life I've only had a facebook account for a few hours (created one out of necessity a few years ago -- closed it after just a few hours of use at that time). And I still get emails. I've clicked unsubscribed probably fifty times by now, but I still keep getting emails. I just don't know how to stop it. Incidentally this is one of the reasons I cheer for blackhats taking shots at Facebook, I'd love to see the behemoth shot down. They don't respect me or my time, I don't respect them.
I'm not sure I agree with your "bought stock in your job" example.

A better analogy would be:
- your performance is great
- your boss tells you that you'll get a promotion next year if you keep it up
- your performance takes a turn for the worse
- your boss tells you your performance is worse and lets you know that the promotion next isn't a sure thing

The stock market is a market that allows people to buy and sell stock at the price they see fit. The market should reflect all available information. I don't see any reason why LinkedIn's stock shouldn't plummet if suddenly their growth prospects went from "spectacular" to "so-so".
Splunk is down about the same today as well: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ASPLK
I'd appreciate it if someone could make an earnest answer to explain to me how on Earth one could agree with the U.N. panel.

As I understand it:

Assange has been charged in Sweden with rape, on the basis of an alleged victim's complaint. This, I would think, is clearly enough to warrant a criminal investigation and, perhaps, an arrest warrant. I know that some question the veracity of the complaint against him, but that does not change the fact that Sweden has clearly followed its own law in pursuing the complaint, including the arrest warrant. (Remember, there's a different standard for arresting someone than convicting them!)

On the basis of this arrest warrant, he is now subject to arrest in the U.K. for extradition. Again, this is totally normal.

True, there may be questions about whether the Swedish prosecutor could have/should have come to the U.K. to question Assange. But the fact of the matter, legally speaking, is that he is subject to legal arrest in Sweden and, therefore, legally subject to arrest in the U.K. regardless of how the prosecutor chooses to pursue the case. The Swedish prosecutor clearly does not legally have to come to the U.K. to interview him. That's presumably the whole reason that, under Swedish law (and also, more or less, under U.S. law), one can be arrested for questioning. So that a defendant cannot run out the clock on his or her prosecution by dodging the prosecutor.

It is often said that he is doing all this to avoid extradition to the U.S. But:
a. This is totally speculative, and not a legal basis for avoiding a duly issued arrest warrant in Sweden.
a. That didn't stop him from hanging out in Sweden before his rape charge.
b. If he is extradited to the U.S., that too will presumably be in the course of a legal process. There is, after all, a good argument that he committed a U.S. crime.

Again, one may question the merits of the prosecution in Sweden, or the hypothetical charge in the U.S., but that doesn't make what has happened so far "arbitrary."
Other particularities I've noticed are the lack of Orange Chicken in Canada and the lack of Ginger Beef in the states (they don't know what they're missing).
2% poorer?
Yeah, I would like to see someone justify the market value of LinkedIn. They seem to be losing money, and they have over 9000 employees (doing what exactly?).
A coworker (at my dayjob) and I were discussing this recently. Supposedly it already exists in products that detect smoke alarms or handclaps. I can conceive of ways to do it in software.

Part of the problem with IoT, as others have pointed out, is lack of a compelling use case for most of the products. I don't think this is a fatal flaw unless all of the also-rans and wannabes and opportunists suck all the air out of the market before someone with a compelling application (and decent reliability!) can gain traction in a non-privacy-invasive way.
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If the military [mostly] side with the revolution, civilian legal entitlement to handguns is even more unlikely to affect the outcome than if they don't.
It's clear what you meant, of course – but it's an interesting tidbit that broccoli is a "cabbage-family" vegetable!

In fact, broccoli is the same species as cabbage, which are both cultivars of Brassica oleracea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassicaceae
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Yes, I tried NixOS a few weeks ago and I found myself editing dotfiles rather quick.

Then I stopped and thought, "shouldn't NixOS do this for me?!"

My hope was, that I could configure my complete dev box with a Nix expression and then restore it on different machines.

At the moment I'm using virtual box on a USB stick that I carry around, which is much bigger than the Nix expression that I imagined :D
Interesting discussion here about whether candidates and companies should reveal their range up front. Personally I would not quit freelancing except for something really exceptional, so I lean toward talking numbers immediately. That saves my time, but I feel like it's actually pretty unreasonable. In the freelancing world, we suffer from a "market for lemons" situation where the bad freelancers hurt everyone's rates. To charge a premium rate you need prospects to trust you a priori, which probably means referrals. I suppose candidates for full-time jobs suffer the same thing: asking for an "unrealistic" salary at the beginning of the process, when you are an unknown, just gets you thrown out. I suppose the way around this is to have an insider who will vouch for you. Any other advice on being able to ask for a high salary and not be dismissed?
I do use keybase.io and will be trying this out, I just worry about depending on a company with zero revenue in the long term.
I created my account so they would stop sending me so many invite emails. At least with an account I have some control over what they send me :(
To paraphrase my Cardiologist, "Don't smoke it. The jury is still out on vaping, so you shouldn't do that either. But you can eat all you want."
That JUST happened to me.

No, auntie, I'm not celebrating my promotion tonight, but thanks for the congratulations.