skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DATA SCIENTIST - RALEIGH, North Carolina, United States

Responsibilities
Identify new data sources that will improve online targeting efforts
Establish links across existing data sources and find new, interesting mashups
Work closely with statisticians to identify, design and build appropriate datasets for complex experiments
Coordinate data resource requirements between analytics team and engineering team
Develop tools and libraries that will help analytics team members more efficiently interface with huge amounts of data
Help develop algorithms and predictive models to solve critical business problems
Create informative visualizations that intuitively display large amounts of data and/or complex relationships
Work with product managers, engineers and analytics team members to translate prototypes into production

Qualifications
Highly motivated individual with degree(s) in CS or applied quantitative field (math/statistics, economics, engineering).
Minimum of 3-5 years working with relational databases
Ability to write and execute complex SQL queries to extract/process data.
Strong analytical skills
Experience in programming with JAVA, Python, Perl.
Experience with statistics software (prefer R, SPlus, MatLab)
Well versed in UNIX command line utilities (Sed, awk, etc.) and experience using these tools to clean/process very large and often very messy datasets
Coursework or practical experience with data mining, machine learning, building algorithms, applied math and statistics a plus
Deep knowledge of various data sources (government, open source APIs, point-of-sale, proprietary sources, etc.) and experience in linking them
Experience with very large datasets a must. Knowledge of map/reduce framework (hive/pig other tools for accessing data in Hadoop/HBase cluster systems) a plus

Relocation offered:
$80K-$125K

Please submit resume at http://bit.ly/14tbv22
or contact Muriel Mayberry at muriel@hansenrecruiting.com
I guess you and I have a fundamentally different notion of "win". If you are radicalized, they kill you for it, and then life for everyone else carries on as it was, then for me that is not a win. That is beyond any doubt a loss, and I consider opting to do that rather than sacrifice non-violence for a hope at enacting change that others can appreciate to be a selfish act.

Nonviolence is not a goal for me. I consider it a tool with limited application. Failing to build a doghouse with a hammer, instead of successfully building the doghouse with a screwdrivers, is nothing to be proud of. The doghouse is what I am interested in, not the application of hammers.

Or to put it in more concrete terms, the world would not be a better place had the French Resistance chosen to adopt nonviolent noncompliance. Their acts of violence were, without any question, justified and "worth it".

And yes, people were absolutely putting their lives at risk during the civil rights era. People were being beaten and in many cases, killed.
MC: Rap lyric generation with Markov chains
Because you want to split your page content and main structure from your design. If you really don't care about that, mainly because you will never change the design in the future and it's a small project, then do use table.

(Look at HN's code source)

Also it's worth noting that most codes using Foundation or Bootstrap are considered bad code for the reason I just told you : You're not supposed to have elements of design in your html page.

The correct way of using Foundation/Bootstrap would be to use mixins directly in the .scss files of your site (if you're using foundation, bootstrap should use LESS files and I have no idea how it works).
I switched to a Macbook Air a few months ago after using Linux for about a year. It's just a really nice computer. It's not some big ideological decision. I had some money saved up and I was tired of using Arch. It is a damn nice experience. Using it is really easy and enjoyable, and I still get the benefits of having a unix based system.
Yeah, I was going to suggest a legal defense fund, or really just EFF donations earmarked to his case.
As a Perthan and ex-Darwinite, I don't find the reported cost of living in the Bay Area or NYC to be quite that bad.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. I'm all for Rand Paul if he'll volunteer to ride this pony.
> Did you know lying to an FBI agent is a federal offense[1]?

Holy fuck that's terrifying. I had no idea.

Time for a re-watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I find it funny that the reasons given for Snapchat's valuation are directly contradictory to the mentioned means to monetize.
Go to Mountain View?
Are you suggesting that they shouldn't have a transparency report at all unless everything is on the table? I disagree. They aren't even allowed to mention FISA so they don't, and they don't have to disclose anything.

Edit: also as someone already commented here: they do mention that the data is 'not comprehensive'.
I wouldn't be surprised if the #1 criteria for NSA grunt employees is patriotism. If he's prepared to sacrifice everything for his country than he seems to be the perfect candidate to me.
PRISM Not as Evil as Once Thought
This Time It's Real: Google-Waze Deal on the Way
There is no such thing as a jury trial in front of an appeals court; appeals court outcomes include overturned convictions, upheld convictions, and new trials in front of district courts.

This timeline does not make sense.
Lol, clearly this guy doesn't know it too well. So many rendering issues.

I'm not sure what to think. I mean, this guy clearly read the HTML spec where it pertains to page loads, but also clearly skipped the sections that pertain to basic layout.
I don't think #4 is correct; that wasn't a trial, but a review of the appellate decision. The timeline as I read it is this:

1. He is tried (in district court, with a jury) for insider trading, and convicted.

2. He appeals to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

3. A 3-judge panel of the 10th Circuit holds that the exclusion of a witness prejudiced his trial, and sets aside his conviction, ordering a new trial.

4. The prosecution appeals that holding to the en banc 10th Circuit.

5. The full 9-judge 10th Circuit re-hears the appeal, and sets aside the panel's decision (by a narrow 5-4 vote), reinstating the original conviction.

6. He petitions the Supreme Court to hear the case and overturn the en banc 10th Circuit's decision, arguing that the panel's decision overturning the conviction had been correct.

7. The Supreme Court declines to hear the case, which ends the series of appeals and leaves the original conviction in place.
I'm not scared at all....just that I need to live for my kids :/
Snowden clearly indicated that he did not want this controversy to become about him, and he indicated that he only came out to vindicate the Guardian story from being discredited.

Nobody knows his current financial situation. I think we can all appreciate the ideal, but at this point, it's probably better to donate to the EFF, EPIC and the ACLU. Not to mention, maybe even get a subscription to the Guardian US in support of investigative journalism.
I think that's a completely simplistic and disingenuous statement. The Chrome team have done a _lot_ the last few years to strengthen security on the web. And you're forgetting that the main attack vectors these days are through plugins, not the core browser itself. Chrome's decision to bundle their own secure version of Flash (that actually updates without a hassle) has probably done more good for people's computers than anything else peddled by other companies recently.
I agree, Owncloud is getting quite mature. Combined with a Raspberry Pi and BitTorrent Sync (http://blog.bittorrent.com/2013/05/23/how-i-created-my-own-p...), you got yourself well started...
>If not, and there's a very real chance that neither of these are true, then the question doesn't make sense.

Particularly since every tech company leader (and the NSA) are insisting that neither is true.
So. It's done. I'd like to also add, as I did on a previous post - that there is a network effect here. The more people contribute, the more difficult it will be for the government to round us all up and cry treason on us.
Public donations to EFF to encourage a pardon for Snowden
Would anyone (especially from a foreign country) who considers their communication security critical really be using any of those services today?
I'm not sure if I can assuage your anger, but the Transparency Report is upfront that there are reasons not all requests for user data are disclosed. The data isn't purported to be comprehensive, though we'd like it to be as comprehensive as possible.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/fa...
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/le...
I certainly don't, and I think these are important and fascinating questions.

Do you have any evidence to suggest the definition of violent crime has changed at all? I'd be very curious if that were the case. In the absence of evidence, though, I'll continue going with what I understand to be the generally-accepted theory that crime rose dramatically throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Congress: "Does the NSA intercept Americans' cellphone conversations?" NSA: "No"
The memo claims they're trying to reach out to Snowden to verify his intentions to seek asylum. I wonder how they do that?
It's my understanding that the secret court ruled the primary legal justification for PRISM (FISA Section 702) as unconstitutional. The Justice Department is trying to keep that ruling as secret as possible. [1] So, really, what would they do?

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
To The Victors Go The Spoiler Alerts
Did you not want to tell your friends a little more about who this "someone" is and what he did, rather than focus on your own actions?
Guys, hyperbole is not necessary here.

The last "spy" that the U.S. caught was not designated an "enemy of the state" or anything nearly so extreme, so at least wait for Obama to put on the anti-Christ mask before you start freaking out please. Pretty soon I'll literally be able to see out the back of my head.

Likewise, treason has a specific Constitutional definition, both on actions that constitute treason and the witnesses required to prove it.

As a civilian (contractor no less, not even a Government employee!) Snowden does not fall under UCMJ so all this crap about "Aiding the Enemy" is crap as well. You should be worried about Espionage Act, not UCMJ.

Likewise, giving "aid and comfort" to someone accused of a crime would fall under the same rules as any other person accused of a crime. If there ends up being a valid warrant for his arrest then you should not help him evade arrest. You should not help him commit further crimes or cover up evidence of previous ones. But certainly you can contribute to his legal defense fund (though be careful that those evil Fed prosecutors don't freeze those assets :P). Those cautions are nothing special about this case, it's always been a bad idea (legally speaking) to aid and abet crime. If you feel your morals will outweigh that then bon voyage, but go in forewarned.

Also, yes, it's possible your actions will be more closely scrutinized in the future if you aid Snowden, but things that are worth doing are not typically easy, otherwise they'd already be done.

I would be more worried about ensuring that you don't end up crowdsourcing or kickstarting some con man's bank account instead of Snowden's legal defense fund, but then again I've always been sort of a pessimist...
New 3-D Printing Company Is Out of This World
Follow that by:

"U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls", NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/us/us-secretly-collecting-...
Don't you have to be convicted first before you can be pardoned?
I do not understand why it is terrifying. In the case cited the person was being interviewed and knew the people he was talking to were FBI agents. It seems like misleading the police at any level should be a crime, should it not? If you are not sure about something you can say you are not sure or take the 5th, right?
While I have faith that the US government has a legal system that does a reasonably good job adhering to the principles of logic, precedence, rule of law, reasonableness - and probably a relatively excellent job (comparing to other legal systems), it is neither perfect nor immune from political pressure. Time and time again we see broad classes of situations (drug war, guantanamo) where the US sees fit to throw out what I would consider to be intelligent, rational, reasonable decisions where the matters are not really in shades of grey... It is entirely reasonable to be worried about a very unpleasant reaction by the authorities.

EDIT:
I think the likelihood of severe negative consequences is low, but there is a nonzero likelihood of being targeted for a bad experience, for varying values of "bad experiences".
> How is a "case-sensitive" filesystem more ...modern?

HFS has a case-sensitive flag. OS X works fine with it turned on. Some applications, notably games, sometimes have problems with it. You can easily create a case-sensitive development partition and have expect no problems.
We Asked For This
It's a new company, same as the old company. Perhaps with even less competent management.
if they're not idiots they can figure it out. I've been posting a lot about it on facebook. Furthermore, the point of the post is primarily a warning to protect my safety/let them know how bad it is if something happens to me, not necessarily to spread the word (which I've done plenty of). I don't want to encourage impetuous people to follow my actions unless they ask and think hard about what they are doing, because of the risk involved. Facebook is a "push" notification service, not a "pull" service.
Pro-religion, pro-life and pro-rich? This is the kind of misinformation that gives it a bad name. Libertarianism is all about personal choice and "liberty" hence the name. The point is not to tell you whether or not you should be pro-life or pro-religion but to let you decide for yourself.
Eat (lots of great restaurant)
Drink (lots of fun bars)
Hike (plenty of hiking trails in the nearby mountains, biking trails, etc)
See a movie (lots of great theaters)
Hang out (lots of great open spaces, big parks, and downtown sunnyvale is nice to just hang out).

Now, to be fair, I live in Cupertino (right next to Sunnyvale) and I would rather live in Berkeley or SF, because there is certainly MORE to do, but Sunnyvale isn't THAT bad.

If you can't find something to do, you're probably just being lazy.
Yes. Obviously not the most sensitive ones but there are a lot of government operations using their services.
And they will forget again, because just as before it's not being abused.
Ask the Guardian to put them in touch?
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Disclaimer: I work on Dart.

Yes, the point of Dart is to compile to JavaScript. That's the point of any alternative language that wants to run in today's browsers.

People are still mistaken that Dart's only road to success is via all browsers adopting the VM. Dart will be just fine even if no browser, including Chrome, uses the VM. The VM in Dartium already provides for a great developer experience, and the standalone VM means it has a great server and command-line platform, and unit-testing story. Dart will be even better off if/as browsers, mobile OSes, cloud hosting providers, etc. support it.
The Diehard tests are great, unfortunately Marsaglia is no longer with us. I recommend the Dieharder tests, which reimplement the Diehard tests but are licensed under the GPL and are actively maintained.

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
Was Eric Schmidt attempting to warn us of PRISM in 2009?
This is to completely miss the point [1]. Not everything is about compensation or reward. There are things worth doing that have nothing to do with money. To try to strap a reward onto this or some similar situation is to diminish it.

If you feel compelled to give money, give it to an organization that can effect meaningful change for those that may need it. Based on [1], it doesn't seem that Snowden is one that needs it.

1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-n...
I am shocked-- shocked!-- to learn that PHP's random number generator is seriously flawed, like everything else in PHP.
there really should be an "I don't know" answer. I hate being punished for a bad guess.
Google investing in new HTML5 development tool for advertisers
I am a patriot, a former service member, and I love my country. As much as I love talking about politics, I have never taken an active protest role in my life. I'm middle-aged, completly non-violent, and I live in a rural area. I am literally the last person in the world you would expect of being a political activist.

Hell, I'm even in favor of some SIGINT, as long as we are talking simple node-to-node analysis. But that's not what happened. What happened was a vaccum cleaner. They're sucking up every piece of meta-data they can get their hands on. And it's not because of some cost-benefit equation that the public was shown. It's simply because they can.

As a patriot, I feel that the only patriotic thing to do for all other patriots is to come out, rally and support Snowden. The government has stepped over the line here, and we all need to clearly let them know that this needs to be fixed.

And no, this case is not the same as Manning. Snowden saw one thing that he was willing to take the penalty for. He released data on one thing. Now, as the natural legislative body of the state, the people can make a choice whether to support him or not based on this one issue. I can support that kind of behavior. Manning betrayed his country by releasing everything he could get his hands on. He is truly an enemy of the system itself. Different thing entirely.
...while I found Stonemouth quite compelling and stayed up way too late reading it more than one night.
And sometimes users post links to reddit itself, and it won't be https.
Hey congratulations on doing that and thanks for shedding some light on things inside. Sometimes I actually consider applying but the SRE jobs are a but scarce in London.

Can you speak a bit more on your unique situation of before a software engineer there since you were 19? Im quite curious what led to that.
I go with OS choices.

With a Macbook and bootcamp, you can run OSX and Windows 7.

If I can't run OSX, that's a big problem.
Oh ok, I get that (I also used Arch for a bit, I wanted to put that in original post, but it got too long).

So basically build quality, the general UI, and unix-based.
There may be information leaking (as in fingerprinting) from your device (that you are not aware of) that would allow very easy correlation, like in a mac address or existing session cookie, similar address in a public open network or whatever you can imagine to compromise your anonymity, that gives an adversary any advance to successfully correlate your current session with one of your previous sessions.

At this event your anonymity becomes a pseudonym.

The next step would be to try to reproduce or predict behavior and setup a trigger for that information.

If the loss (compromise) of anonymity or pseudonymity may lead to imprisonment, torture, assassination or death this maybe an issue to consider.

If you try to obfuscate your access to porn, it is a completly different story.
Agreed, especially in light of the subject at hand thanks to the OP. UX is a consistent problem with self-managed applications and hardware. But I don't think that an approachable UX is unachievable. In fact, my belief is that if equal R&D were allocated to such an exercise as the R&D currently expended on plain cloud services, we could get there fairly quickly.

Yes, your home Internet connection is a vulnerability, in much the same way as it always has been. Later in my diatribe I mention that federated backup with friends & family would be part of the overall strategy.

On the other hand, a decentralized approach makes for thousands or millions of low-value targets rather than our current condition where every cloud vendor is a relatively hardened (but evidently not impenetrable) high-value target.
Exploring the Floating Point Performance of Modern ARM Processors
File systems are an anachronism from when stored everything in filing cabinets (the original meaning of "file system"). Search and tagging have shown us a better way forward, we should just relegate file systems to behind the scenes work as they are on phones.
I don't think they'll bother prosecuting people who donate to him, but even if they did I don't think that hiding your opinion is the correct course of action. If people see a government actively repressing its civilian citizens they'll be more likely to actually do something about it (or maybe not, who knows).
Hear hear, my friend. I just contributed $50.
We should all trust James Clapper after this, you guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhjgynfhag
These randomness discussions always remind me of Games by Email's mass dice roller Dice-o-matic: http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
I use one because sometimes I need to do iOS development.
If the company will give me a mac, I install a bunch of GNU stuff and use it. Anything else I wipe and put Ubuntu on it (for workstation OS).
This is a story about using the wrong tool for the job.

The Japanese abacus is a powerful tool for addition and subtraction. As Feynman said, a skilled user can add faster than you write the numbers down. Even today, its excellent user interface still puts it ahead of a typical pocket calculator. But for cube roots ... it sucks.

I wonder how Feynman would have fared against a slide-rule salesman?
If the US government were to take action on this, the mostly likely consequence is seizure of the funds. They'd target the site itself, which might give them a list of names (which, at the most, they'd lateral to the IRS for fun).

Otherwise, the site would disqualify the campaign and return any funds.
What undermines the tech revolution?
I doubt the OP was calling him a terrorist, just saying (perhaps jokingly) that it's possible that's how the government will try to portray him.

Did you see the article titled "How three pacifists were convicted as terrorists" currently on the front page of HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5848148
Google faces new federal antitrust probe: source
Why not run OSX on a Win7 computer(just curious)? Of course the official support bootcamp gives you is great.

Are you a really big fan of OSX? I'm assuming you prefer it so much that you prioritize it, and plus/minus windows
In the short term nothing will change for Google, Facebook etc. But i think you are underestimating the longer term reaction from members of this community. The cloud in its current form is dead. Google's goal of collecting the world's information is a dead end if everything ends up in the hands of the NSA. New user data models with better privacy will eventually be introduced by one or more startups that could be a treat to Google and co.
A pardon implies that someone broke the law. This isn't the case here.
Edward Snowden's lesson to both businesses and NSA
For you, maybe. Please don't presume to dictate to the rest of the world.
Didn't think of that, seems obvious now that you mention it
Yeah, it's really hard to find a better package than the macbook pro.
So this is one point I probably should have noted in the post, this is definitely one very compelling reason.

I've recently considered purchasing a NUC (Intel powered mini pc) and putting OSX on it for this very reason
Arch Linux developers warn of update problems