skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, paid or not still doesn't have anything to do with whether or not a company will comply with a lawful order, or how much that company will push back. The incentive and willingness to push back isn't related to how much a single user pays, but considerations like the principles of the company, and the estimated aggregate losses from the perception that a company doesn't protect their user's data. Google, for instance, has a much higher potential loss from this perception than a smaller company that charges.

Also, Google does not sell information about their users. They target ads. The difference is huge.
This petition is missing Snowden's point. It's not about him, it's about the documents he released.

A better petition would ask the government to elaborate on the documents released.
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"Everything" in the context of the quote only refers (as far as I can tell) to code that accesses the database and it does not imply that the entirety of facebook needs to be transitioned simultaneously. It's a far cry from the naive "we'll rewrite the app and everything will be better" mentality that you seem to be referring to.
I always hate these self-serve product forums. The replies from enthusiasts can be very patronising. I understand it for something you're not paying for (i.e. Google Product Forums, ug) but for Office there should be some MS-paid person involved.
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Edward Snowden petition reaches critical mass. White House must now respond.
One way to correct this:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-charities-dont...
I don't like that site, the information density is too low. The gist has one resource per line, much more useful.
Specifics, please?

I was around for all of these presidents, and I don't remember even a "nattering nabobs of negativism" from Team Reagan (although I'd be happy to be corrected there), let alone declaring that opposition was inherently illegitimate and the organs of the state then acting in congruence with that.

Reagan was focused on two particularly broad things, that I'll also note were stunning successes: rescuing the economy and government fiscal situation (e.g. the prime rate was around 20%), and ending the Evil Empire. Both required working with Democrats in the Congress (Republicans only held the Senate in the beginning) and in the permanent bureaucracy.
I'm not sure if I'm correct or not, but I see 2 types of big data guys. First there are the guys who know the tools - perhaps this is the "data engineer" referenced by rdouble. This guy would know all the tools, how to map data in and out of say something like Cassandra or HBase?

Then there are the guys who can properly analyze the data and turn that into something that can save an enterprise money. This is probably where the big bucks come in.

At my weekly codeandcoffee gathering we are discussing some problems we think can be solved by big data analysis. The actual underlying technology is merely an implementation detail, the value will come from the results. Our goal is to save a target enterprise 1% a year, and given our target customer is a $40 billion company, that is a lot of money we can charge. We're just discussing what ifs at this point.
I don't think the issue is a government surveillance on its own citizens or on citizens of other countries.
And, its ridiculous if you think about it. The intelligence services are using a brute force technique of spying on everyone (own citizens and citizens of other sovereign nations) to find a handful of wrong doers. It's analogous to saying if there is a murder then the police considers everyone as a suspect instead of finding any leads and pursuing them.
It's because people mainly perceive marginal costs in the goods they buy, and they don't consider fixed costs. In extreme cases like software, news, etc, they think "this extra copy didn't cost anything to produce, therefore it should be free", even though the initial fixed cost was substantial.

This leads to some things like perceiving less competent workers' time to be worth more than more competent ones' (because they take longer to do a task, therefore they should be paid more), etc.
The petitions are a good way to gather a list of names for analysis at a later date... just saying!
I've been using Vim for years and this was the useful TIL of the day, thank you.
The sheer fact that FB was able to scale MySQL for their use till now proves that there is nothing wrong with MySQL. There are few apps of FB scale ever created. This would mean for most apps, MySQL is more than enough. This is another snake oil vendor peddling his unproven oil.
"Build jobs" isn't a good enough reason. Chairman Mao built lots of jobs by having people melt their pans to create new pans. The Great Chinese Famine came next, predictably.

If the jobs create more benefit than not, you're right. But space programs don't do that, not today anyway. Nowadays they are closer to melting pans to create new pans than they are to mining ore to make new pans.

Suppose we got our laptops today because of the Apollo program. Will we get 10X faster computers because of a Mars colony? Unlikely. And even if we could, it's more efficient to get that benefit from investment directly into computers rather than indirectly through a Mars colony. I don't buy the argument that we must have a super lofty goal to get the side benefits we really wanted.

This is all academic anyway. The US really can't afford a Mars colony, as in people won't loan us the money at sufficiently low interest. The interest rates the US pays have been creeping up. Things may seem rosy at the moment but the house of cards is actually crumbling. The US now spends $220 billion annually on interest on debt, projected to reach $1 trillion in just 7 years. Even without added debt for Mars colonization the consequences of our borrowing will surely be severe within a decade. Paying down our debt is the best big investment we can make.
>> It also would’ve blocked registrations of new vehicles bought out of state.

Doesn't this sound insane to anybody? With that kind of a clause in the law all credibility is lost for whomever is sponsoring this bill.
What is the security model behind this? Which pattern is ostel using?
I remember a phrase, something like;
We known more about the Outer Space then we do about Earth's Ocean.
Snowden's choice of Hong Kong as a hiding spot becomes more and more interesting. I suspect the timing of this particular revelation is timed deliberately just after the US files charges against him seeking his arrest by Hong Kong authorities.

A recent article suggested that China was already inclined to "solve" this problem (from a diplomatic and political standpoint) by doing what it does best: simply dragging its feet. This seems incredibly easy to do when the Hong Kong legal system is inclined to move slowly anyway, any extradition will go through a number of appeals and the process for applying for asylum is being revamped putting all such cases on hold (not that Snowden has applied for asylum yet).

It is an somewhere between widely suspected and an open secret that China engages in concerted intelligence efforts against the US government and US corporations. Many cyberattacks originate in China (and there is strong evidence that at least some are state-sponsored). And China is widely believed to have stolen nuclear secrets [1].

But this revelation goes the other way. I really can't predict how China will take this. I suspect they'll be more disinclined to hand Snowden over (or at least do it in any kind of timely fashion). To paraphrase Ned Flanders "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

Who knew in 2008 that during the Obama administration it may get to the point of people wishing for the good ol' days of George W. Bush? Well maybe not that far but it's really not that far off. The war for intellectual property, Federal prosecutorial overreach (eg the Y12 "terrorists", Aaron Swartz), the relentless pursuit of whistleblowers and the end-run around the Fourth Amendment are simply stunning, particularly from an allegedly Democratic administration.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/06/world/breach-los-alamos-sp...
How will candidates know what platform to offer if we don't tell them what matters to us? If you wait till election season it's too late, they'll be terrified of changing their positions and being a "flip flopper" or a "chameleon". Government is like a giant cruiser, you can't wait till the last minute to change its direction if there's an iceberg ahead, you have to start steering early.
I'll just leave this right here:

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeche...
I agree. Even if this sort of thing happens behind the scenes, there are repercussions that will come back to affect people and businesses, even those without direct ties to China.
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It's a website to watch video games; that's exactly what I'd expect.
Done now :).
I have issues with my sight too. And as such, I've just fixed the font, font-size, foreground and background colours in my browser, and I'm much happier for it.

Backlit screens can still play havoc on my eyes, so for longer content, I just send it over to my eReader, to read later.

I prefer light on dark text - when I'm in a dark environment, and dark on light when I'm in a bright room. It also depends on the monitor. But each to their own.

The nice thing about taking the design into your own hands - is that you can bypass most of the author's styles - and then you can quit moaning. An author can't cater for all tastes.

Each browser has different ways to customise them, and it can be a bit of a fiddle, and sometimes you might end up breaking out into another browser to read something - but it _can_ be done.

Hacker news looks horrible to me without my styles applied. I strongly recommend taking control of your browser.
Whilst I'd love to have them do a paid project for me that will actually ship, I work in a part of the programming world where a project easily runs a decade from first draft of requirements to entering maintenance. This sort of suggestion always seems to come from the world of web apps or SaaS or whatever else is hip at the moment.

I also can't imagine what HR would say if I told them I wanted to hire someone for a week just to see how they get on. "Well, then your HR system is broken and you should totally hack it to make it better." I'll get right on that, just as soon as I become Vice-President of HR. They'd tell me to do my job and hire people who can do what they're hired for.

Where this is going is the ripost that this kind of suggestion always comes from the small part of the industry where it might be practical; the are are a great many programming jobs in companies where it really, really isn't.
If you mean "everyone" including those who are persons of the country doing the spying, then, sure.

Excluding those, I think the rules mostly come down to whatever treaties are in place between the two nations.
The brave man who revealed government espionage has already been charged by the government for espionage. It is unlikely that the official White House response will deviate from that, and even if it does deviate from that, the government is no longer an entity one should choose to trust.
The technical interview is overwhelmingly the primary screening method of choice at the world's most competent software development companies. The team that builds the match engine for the electronic exchange, the team that builds the boot ROM for your smart phone, the team that builds the Google crawler and indexing, the teams building kernel SAN storage code --- these teams are hired by technical interviews.

The "audition project" is a trend story with, from what I can see, very little empirical evidence to back it up. When the most notable example of a company routinely employing audition is Treehouse --- all due respect to Treehouse, but still --- that's a red flag.

The bigger red flag is that the paid audition project method has obvious flaws. The top 20% of software developers are almost uniformly employed. Prospective new employers for these people court them actively; in fact, the problem of companies luring top developers out of other companies is so challenging that large SFBA tech companies have entered into illegal compacts to stifle the practice. Companies are so hard-up for talent that they'll "buy" startups just to get access to their teams.

In this environment, why would a top developer, who has their choice among tens of different high-paying interesting jobs, moonlight for a prospective new employer just so they can make sure the relationship's going to work?

Most technical interviews are terribly flawed. They aren't standardized and they aren't rigorous so you can't compare candidates on any apples-apples basis and you can't correlate them to job performance to make them more predictive. Most of the developers tasked with conducting them suck at interviewing; many use interviews as a sort of hazing ritual, and most use them as opportunity to project their own subjective views about how software should be built onto candidates. Many technical interviews are trivia games punctuated by awkward attempts at working through code on a whiteboard or a piece of paper in a high-pressure environment.

The solution to this problem is to improve technical interviews. It's not to pretend that the whole market for devs has suddenly embraced temp- to- perm hiring. It hasn't. It's getting harder to find good developers, not easier, and the notion that companies have the luxury of inflicting "audition projects" on candidates is counter to reality.
Not enough links.
I wouldn't know, I'm a male computer scientist.
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Obama's approval rating with any demographic is just a statistic with no implications toward his behavior or any future events at this point.
Judging by the comments and memes on that page, gaming community has some very toxic and juvenile members.
It takes all of 30 seconds to do this and does at least catch the attention of the press and the rest of us. But yes, I agree it's probably futile, exactly because of how easy it is to sign these. Petitions are neat when they have the force of law behind them, such as signing a petition to put something on the ballot to be voted upon. But, yeah, people need to be out protesting and organizing boycotts.
Although I fully support Clappers prosecution, his attorney is just going to say that he was protecting ongoing classified Government secrets, and the entire case will be dismissed.
He was served a search warrant alleging he was part of a criminal conspiracy. This is a prelude to criminal charges. Stop your semantic hysterics.
There's a huge difference between "our web site slow, so let's throw it out and rewrite the whole thing" and "our web site is slow. after profiling it seems our main bottleneck is the procedure that writes to these text file. I did a quick proof of concept where I replaced the text files with postgresql and I got a 2500% speed up. I'd like to try to implement this on our production site and see if it solves our performance problems".
I agree that what Regan attempted to do was far worse than what Snowden did. It's not even in the same category. I was just pointing out that the feds did pursue the death penalty in this case despite not pursuing it in the Hanssen case.
It would be helpful if you could provide some examples of your work. "Complex" means something different to everybody, so your claim is hard to place in context.

"Less than a day" for "complex" web sites using nothing but raw JavaScript and hand rolled HTML & CSS does sound unusual, both in terms of the result as well as the workflow. Given the verbosity of JS DOM manipulation, I can't really envision a particularly good reason to go down that route for anything but the most performance pegged web applications.
Would you care to elaborate why, if you feel like it? When I try to cognize the word "evil", I get hazy connotations in my mind. Why North Korea in particular, what are your criteria? (genuinely curious.)
It's not so much the libraries themselves as the very need for all of them. I'm a fairly new front-end developer (for anything complicated, that is), and the browser as a platform can't help but feel like what it is, some good ideas with a lot of hacks and inconsistent philosophies accreted over time. It's a pain in the butt, even something like a two-column layout without tables. And that's just to get it working in one browser. Then you try your page in Firefox, and maybe it breaks in some obscure way. That's when you start breaking out the libraries, like bootstrap.

Right now, web is the best place for my app to be (assuming I can figure out offline support), but I tear my hair out every time I run into one of these issues. Just the other day I had some bizarre issue where offsetBottom and offsetTop + height were returning contradictory values, or something like that. And that was with jquery helping me. The web platform is cool for what it enables, but stinks for what it makes you do to get there.
Or maybe not everyone agrees with you. There's been a lot of discussion about the 'means', but not much about the 'ends'. The 'ends' is the same as giving nuclear secrets to Iran or North Korea.
Neither article mentioned the humble link!
If confirmed, this would change everything about the sense of the deal...
The petition to censure or fire Carmen Ortiz ( Aaron Swartz' prosecutor ) has still not received any answer.
The prosecuters asked the jury to choose the death penalty but they declined to do so.
> Gasoline fuel tanks can explode. Google it.

They do, but it's extremely rare (thanks to modern inventions like pressure relief valves). When a fuel tank explodes, it's not because the fuel inside detonates, it's because the fuel inside is being vaporized by the heat of the external fire, and that vapor takes up a whole lot more space, resulting in a huge pressure increase, resulting in a BLEVE. If a pressure release valve can vent the pressure before that happens, no explosion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_...

That being said... I doubt there was actually an explosion. The car simply caught fire. There were certainly pops and bangs as various compressed gas cylinders (for things like air bags, doors, bumpers, seatbelts, etc) BELEVE'd, but I seriously doubt there was any major explosion. The 'bomb' sounds were simply the crash itself.
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If the government is not trusted by people anymore. Is this the success of Snowdens?
To me it seems they are going to protect him or at least prevent Us from searching him. After all he showed to the world that US is just as bad in the things as China is and you'd think China wouldn't want to just give him up for it.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42147_Hong_Kong_Want...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1012461...
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Obama has been clear about supporting the need for intelligence, but also repeatedly talked about the need to keep it constitutional and protect civil liberties -- highlighting the contrast with Bush.

And the law is so obscure (and they're soooo good at confusing the issue) that it's very hard to explain. Until this recent high-profile coverage, I don't think most Millennials (or older people for that matter) understood the scale of NSA tracking -- or how FISA's section 702's extremely broad orders, and the lack of meaningful oversight, means that particularized court orders aren't required to eavesdrop on Americans. And so on.

Now it's a lot more concrete and visceral. The NSA is tracking all your phone calls. They lied about it to Congress. They have access to all the internet metadata and content -- and if you encrypt, your communications are treated as suspicious.

So yeah, people could have known this before. Clearly they didn't -- remember this is a country where [insert favorite statistics here about the uninformed population]. But they do now, and they don't like it.
Sounds great, doesn't render on iOS Safari: fragment of border, video unsupported.

ETA: whole frame in portrait orientation, half in landscape (doesn't show on scrolling). Still no video.

Eager to use!
You're right, but don't forget to be nice too.
Yeah, I think it's a nice solution but it only works in very narrow circumstances.

Once I was given a much smaller, unpaid task as part of the interview process. It wasn't a puzzle or trick, but something actually useful. All told it took me a couple of hours one evening. You might be thinking, "How much can you learn about someone from such a small task?" It depends on the task, of course. Mine was typical network code, with a couple of non-obvious but absolutely real-world edge cases. I spent time making sure my comments were great, and then wrote a man page. I think they learned some important things about me, and on my end it was an easily paid investment.
Most of the people who'll claim not to trust the government because of this didn't trust the government to begin with.
I haven't started applying for jobs yet (I'm still in undergrad) but I know for a fact that I would choke on those "brain teaser" questions, turn bright red and everything. Admittedly, there's just too much pressure (I hate looking stupid, especially in front of strangers, especially in front of male strangers--don't we all though?).

However, I'm pretty sure that I CAN do the following (even under pressure): Work through a problem rationally, work constructively with others, pay attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture, write code. And I would much rather focus on side projects than studying variations on Towers of Hanoi.

So this whole interviewing trend makes me want to cry out of relief.
The author suggests to pay a candidate for the trail project, which makes it a reasonable deal for the candidate.

To do something small, you don't need to quit a job, just dedicate few evenings and weekends and earn some extra cash.

This method can be beneficial for candidates, that can get to know potential employers much better, and avoid ones that look interesting only on job ads.
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Really nice work. I love that the HD button stays active and loads all videos in HD. I also like the arrows shortcuts for next and previous video. Makes it much easier to skip tracks.

One minor recommendation: when the video is in full screen, the full screen arrows from the icon should be pointed inwards. Just being picky :)

Great Youtube implementation. Congrats.
Yes, currently I use hashbang instead of html5 history api. I will change this in future update. Thanks.
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