skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting story. Thanks for sharing!

There are so many interesting people on this site...
I finished and grimly accept that I am in prison.

It's up to God.

God says...
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pryers presence ever-present reconciliation Hereat
Anything like this for websites? I would gladly pay premium price for something that was easy to use.
Creating a kick-ass conference
I had been noticing weird things with the select menu on that page, I'll have to look into it. Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you liked the design!
$40,000 dollars sounds cheap
Some interesting files that go along with the talk/presentation:

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13...
Well, lesson learned.

> What happens next?
Hard to tell without precise context, but:
as far as I can tell, your company just needs money (paid customers I guess); you cannot be good at your (too many) jobs? Fine, if your company is B2B there is only 1 job to get done right now: business development, if you cannot do it yourself, let's find the best business dev guy you can in your industry. BTW "biz dev" is the only kind of guy I can sincerely hate and love at the same time; that's how I recognize them.

My 2 cents.
In Shocking Revelation: Airbnb is Cheaper than Hotels
Yeah, and then the organization stays completely competent on all of its action... But those actions are incoherent.

The organization acts like a completely incompetent being, despite all interations with it being competently handled.
If I am paying so much money for our awesome military industrial complex, I would AT LEAST expect them to know how to stage the house to make it look like a robbery. Or copy the hard drive and then bug the machine & router to intercept all future communications.

If the government really did break in and just stole his laptop, this is like the least cool spy thriller ever.
If it's at all true that Assange had foreknowledge of Snowden's attempt to re-penetrate NSA via B-A-H, that would be very bad news for Wikileaks IMHO.
I hated the browser plugin too. But I think they have a web-version now, cloud.feedly.com

I have a flaky experience using the cloud.feedly.com. Sometimes it logs in, sometimes it doesn't. Just tried and I am able to login. for now...
I agree, this is the hairiest, least documented part of the API. CoffeeScript makes it easier to read than the corresponding Javascript construction but then again this might be CS encouraging things that wouldn't fly in JS for good reason :)

The pivot table needs an aggregator object per cell, so we need a factory-function to provide one (this is the right-most arrow).

That function needs to know which columns to use as the numerator and denominator, without these being passed in on every invocation, so I used a function-generator that closes over those two values.

The third, almost gratuitous layer of function calls allows one to parametrically generate this function-generator with different formatting options.
I wish Greenwald would share these documents that are so shocking and revealing. I would like to see what all this fuss has really been about.
NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/business/10hack.html?_r=0

Richard Clarke says it's possible: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
Is Snowden still focused on PRISM alone? The blueprint to that is already out, it's called FISA and FISA Amendments perhaps sprinkled with a bit of Ruby on Rails and web services magic.
Well it's a bit more difficult, but you could let the organisms themselves decide who to mate with. Or you could have a smarter genetic algorithm that keeps sufficiently different organisms and tries evolving them for a few generations and see which type is superior.

There is really no advantage in speciation if you only want the single best solution, but it does make sense to try different evolutionary paths as they can end up in totally different places.
I'll work on getting something like that posted. I want to demo some of the fancier aggregation functions as well :)
I don't understand how people comprehend this shit. Not only is it malicious, it's absolutely hideous.
We're working on a browser plugin currently, and are enthusiastically watching WebRTC developments so we will certainly have a product for web down the road.
The thing that's particularly peculiar is that he's dinging you for not updating your LinkedIn profile on your own. It's one thing to make that a requirement, it's quite another to construe not doing it on your own as not "giving 100%".

On the other hand, since you're still freelancing (why do they even know that???), well, by definition you aren't giving this job 100%, e.g. even when one is not working, one thinks in the background about the various problems one is working on. I don't know how they do things in Canada or B.C., but I've never heard of such a thing in a "Maximum Effort" "startup" (although very possibly this really isn't one).

If you aren't willing to give up the freelancing, I'd bail on this company ASAP.

It doesn't sound like this job is going to last very long at all, I mean, your PM is already angry at you and it sounds like he has an idée fixe that you're not "giving 100%". You're not going to fix his stated concern in his mind, you can't fix the LinkedIn issue since that's a "failure" in the past, and
I think you'd be insane to give up the freelancing given the situation. There's a very good chance that no amount of overtime will satisfy him, especially since it will decrease your actual useful output.

Don't try to fix things, don't discuss this with any superior in the company now or in the future (that never works), obviously your company is happy with a PM with high turnover in his direct reports, and it would be unlikely they haven't realized he's a bully by now.
Java's new version numbering scheme
And from a paranoid physical security point of view it's definitely a bad idea to assume I would survive my car trip to the grocery store every week.... I do it anyways, as it's still much better than the alternatives.
GitHub CEO explains why the company took so damn long to raise venture capital
couldn't agree more. was just setting the joke up. :)
American Businessman Is Being Held Hostage At The Factory He Founded In China
I am not denying the possibility that there was fowl play.

So you think chicken sabotage is a possibility then?
I have had to do this multiple times when I was freelance consulting at manufacturing companies. I don't think it is such a big deal. If you want to work with them then you may not have a choice. But if you don't think they trust you then the job is starting out on the wrong foot.
Please don't use Wifi. Wifi doesn't refer to all radio communications, Wifi specifically refers to IEEE standard 802.11.

The TPMS systems do not use Wifi, nor do they generally transmit in the 2.4 GHz band. The system from the paper you mention sits at 315 MHz.

The paper is available here: http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~Gruteser/papers/xu_tpms10.pdf
We faced the same problem, and built an A/B Testing Framework at a Hackathon this month that allows you to just drop in a line of code and run all the experiments through a web interface without app updates.

The framework is not quite ready to ship yet, but we built a fully working proof of concept, and are looking to complete it and put it out there.

You can read more and watch a video demo at the website: http://fliptest.io
While this is an undeniably cool project from the tech side, I think it's usually a better idea to rewrite bottlenecks of the kind that this helps with as a c extension. It's a fairly easy process (MUCH easier then in Java for example) and only a small amount of code needs to be in c itself but you can get huge performance increases without changing the Cython environment. I've always thought that was one of python/ruby's greatest strength's is the easy C integration.
I'd like to also have an "intelligent design" button. You'd set the vertices and radii and compete against the evolved cars.
I just assumed he was talking about the technical, not legal, blueprint. I highly doubt a full stack web framework would be the right hammer to spy on the world's communications!
Emphatically agreed!

We routinely use this tool to summarize datasets which are, at their most disaggregated, hundreds of millions of rows. We have a server-side process which rolls those up into hundreds of thousands of rows, which are then fed to the browser via a query interface which tends to send only a few thousand at a time, which is easily handled by this tool.

Each step in this pipeline 'summarizes' to an extent, and the last mile is this interactive client-side tool, which would be less responsive if it were server-side.
This looks epic, but is awfully scant on details: eg. where the worldwide precipitation data coming from, and how current is it?
This seed: "Enter sdfsdfs string" has an almost impossible hill at the end. I've been watching for 20 mins

Edit: This app is very well put together. The "winner"(one that got the furthest) of the previous round is up front for the next and I believes becomes the zero car
Experiment 1: Do I need a hormone makeover?
you forgot the most classical one: tinfoil.
Firefox OS for developers -- the platform HTML5 deserves
My takeaway is simple, just exposing the BS from Microsoft's original stance wrt OpenGL. One thing is saying "WebGL is right now hard to secure because current OpenGL drivers are buggy, or IE's sandboxing tech is not good enough, whatever". A different thing is, "WebGL is fundamentally flawed, will never work, IE will not and should not support it ever".

Of course the same people are already changing the discourse and claiming that _now_ WebGL is safe, and IE11's WebGL will have the upper hand in security because MS controls the whole stack, etc.

This doesn't mean I don't appreciate the change, I'm really happy that IE11 is apparently going to be an awesome improvement (over IE10 which is already pretty good, even if dated).
Try the modals on this site by clicking "Sign Up," submitting without filling in the form to see the error, and closing by clicking the X.

http://canarykno.ws

Should I open source it?
It also looks really bad on a retina screen
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to dream up an amazing and popular application of WebGL, now that a majority of web browsers will be supporting it. It might not be a game. Warning: imagination required.
Good luck with the convo man. I've been through similar situations on both ends and its not easy for either side. Hopefully he has a healthy respect for you and understands the circumstances involved. No telling how he'll react but let him vent if he needs to.
http://antiprism.eu/sl
You do realize that RT is a directly funded by the Russian Government don't you? There is a great incentive for them to paint the US in a bad light.
What's Inside Cumulus Linux for Networking?
It's written on the frontpage "Weather data is recieved from global meterological broadcast services and more than 40 000 weather stations." http://openweathermap.org/sys
That seed has an amazingly difficult part at around 156
The usual move is to argue but I have seen un-patched Windows servers rooted in under 30 min on the public Internet. I made several recommendations to modify their SOP...
If you are worried about one of those people colluding with another to get the secret sauce too early, then split the secret. Give it to 50 people and require any 10 of them to release their material. Or whatever, you can tune it how you like depending on how many people you trust and how much you trust them. Automation is unnecessary.

This is, in fact, practical to do with Reed Solomon codes.
Ha! In fact, I find it rather likely that birds were involved.
curious. Do you notice decreased battery life if you do this? I would think you would chew through battery like a mofo if you block carrier, but leave the phone on. It's gonna try hard to hit a tower non-stop, I expect.
Why? The data is encrypted so unless he divulges the key, it's useless to whomever has it.

Also, we don't know what the data contains. So even if he does give out the key and the media start publishing, who's to say what comes out wont be in the public interest?

I think it's a bit early to say this strategy has massively hurt him.
No. But it is also hard to trust a frozen OS. How often should one refresh the ISO?
As a web developer, I've often heard neckbeards bickering about Python's performance, but haven't had a real point-of-reference to understand how bad it can be until recently.

I've started working on a side project that processes geo data in AppEngine. My dataset includes many long lists of numbers (lats, longs, altitudes, timestamps, etc.). A 700 route dataset is about 25MB in a sqlite database, but trying to access any significant portion of it quickly maxes out the 4GB of RAM available on either of my dev machines (which is more than I could reasonably expect to be provisioned in the cloud). I mentioned this as a potential bug to the relevant Googler at I/O this year and he basically said "that's not us, that's Python."

It's mindboggling how quickly you can burn through your RAM in CPython. Hopefully you can prove something that will eventually make its way back into CPython and lift everyone's boats. Unfortunately, even if Falcon helped on my dev machine, I can't imagine it being taken up on cloud platforms like AppEngine.
We referenced that book heavily back when we were building a real-time medical data acquisition system. I still remember some of the charts from it. Like optimizing for lowest disk latency.
Here you go: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-ca...
The bigger problem is that line of reasoning doesn't allow for any restraint whatsoever: There was nothing in the argument that wouldn't apply to stationing a police officer in your home.
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In the US, National Weather Service is free and ad free and has a staff of top notch meteorologists.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=30.267153&lon=-...

I am a huge fan the hourly weather graph:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=30.26715&lon=-9...

Also available in tabular format for your parsing pleasure:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=30.26715&lon=-9...
Do people who drive like grandmas spend bread on a 200 hp Mercedes coupe?

According to this article [1], Hastings describes himself as a "a recovering drunk/addict/screw-up." In another True/Slant piece, he says, "I have smoked crack." He crashed a car in a drunk-driving accident at 19.

It's funny how geeks, who pride themselves on rationality, throw Occam's Razor out the window at the drop of a hat.

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/21/LA-Weekly...
His work hasn't been so much in the collective consciousness in the last 25 years or so, so it isn't that surprising.
Microsoft -- damned if they do, damned if they don't...
I dare say that your vernacular is not locked to the definitions of words from several centuries ago.
The more I read about it, the more I want to learn Go before C/C++. Is there any reason not to?
This is very fun, I love playing around with genetic algorithms and watching them evolve. How exactly does the simulation work? Does it stop after a certain amount of time, or do they burn fuel or something? Are they selected for distance, or how long they survive, or what?
The People Who Support Linux: You
The VC called – Why you shouldn’t be excited
Well, obviously. How many sys admins do you know that used to work for the CIA and contract for the NSA? :)
WSJ: Open-floorplan layouts compromise employee concentration.
http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/06/24/is-your-office-making-you-unproductive/
It's going to "support" WebGL.
It's hard to dream big about the browsers getting the modern iteration of something we've had in some form since 1992.
It will certainly take a lot less time to learn Go than C, and even moreso compared to C++.
Good to know that we still have some good people in the world who care about one another.
Researchers crack iOS-generated hotspot passwords in 24 seconds
My guess is that something is up at the company that you don't know about, because no one in management talks frankly to the rank-and-file. The project manager has been put under pressure that he can't deal with, so he's lashing out with irrational and silly requests like the LinkedIn thing.

But why's he pressuring you to work more and not pressuring everyone else? Two possibilities: a) the thing he's being pressured about relates directly to your work - perhaps he promised someone the impossible on your behalf, or b) he already tried this with everybody else and knows he can't get away with it.

This is all normal enough stuff, sadly, but that still doesn't mean you should put up with it. There's better working situations out there and I'd personally begin quietly looking for one.
+1 insightful. The people doing this aren't worried about personal sacrifice, or they wouldn't be doing it. I think perhaps what they are worried about is their efforts being in vain.
Employment is a two way street. Your employer is not doing you a favor. You have an economic benefit to give to your employer. Your employer has an economic benefit to give to you. The moment that relationship stops being economically beneficial to you, it's time to move on. Period. You are not a slave, and it is not a privilege to work at a startup even if some people want you to believe that.
Canonical's Mir move doesn't sit well with some Linux developers
Can I use WebGL?
Dunno.

From a Crypto-Anarchy sort of perspective I would have thought diversity, even if it's Malibu Stacy with a new hat. The more systems the better.

Entropy I would have though is the enemy of control.

But could it weaken litecoin? Not sure. Could it allow more hedging and a stronger market, intuitively I would have though so.
Yep, I am hiring...

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The polite, gentlemanly global surveillance state. They only take what they need. They don't make a mess. How nice.

"We would be happy to replace the laptop too, but we didn't think you'd want to use the new one."
I don't know if it is the state of the art, but there is also Shamir's Secret Sharing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing

There is a nice implementation in Debian called 'ssss'.

Edit: nifty demo: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/demo.html
Why do you say that about the ports?
There's a few places around Vancouver that I would avoid and seems like you found one of them....sorry to hear that.

As others have said the Linkedin issue is ridiculous, just change it to shut him up.

The issue of overtime is something else though, if this was never mentioned before then my spidey-sense would be tingling about how the future will go at this place. I'm obviously not familiar with your exact situation (do you really need the job etc) but if you can risk moving on then I would have a honest chat with the PM...if it sounds like a no go then I would just be ready to move on.

2 of my now friends started work at a place in Vancouver (seperately) and left within 3 weeks due to the unrealistic expectations.
Tumblr chief calls Twitter ‘gross’
The bit about holding out pay was a joke to get everyone’s attention. It worked.

It was a joke. We have about a thousand jokes just like it. “If you have time to xyz, you have time to get fired.” It’s a joke about staying focused and not getting distracted.

Saying 'it was a joke' is just a lame-ass excuse for being an insensitive douche bag. Sorry but not sorry.
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at 200, there's a bloody wall!!!
Not saying it goes back that far, but referring to more recent times. Like over the past couple weeks. I don't think anybody in the world other than Snowden himself knew of his plans to penetrate BAH. But even if they did, who cares? As long as they didn't help him, I do not believe that knowledge of an impending crime is in-and-of itself a crime (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). What are they gonna do? Trump up some sexual assault charges?
I can wholeheartely recommend this tool.
With tsan I found a lot of races in parrot threads, which I didn't detect in months before. Those were all real issues.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2012/08/threadsanitizer.h...
The security claims were bullshit. For details see:

http://games.greggman.com/game/webgl-security-and-microsoft-...

tl;dr: While it was talking up the security risk of WebGL, Microsoft was allowing Silverlight to permit untrusted code to access graphics APIs in exactly the same way. Chrome validates everything before calling the actual driver APIs, so the opportunities for fuzzing are limited.
Why Can Linux Systems Sometimes Recover Data Windows Can’t?
It doesn't matter what the data is at this point, since it's encrypted, but what it says, to a disinterested observer, is that Snowden is the sort of person who would gladly wield the threat of disseminating classified US information as a way of protecting his own skin. This directly contradicts the falling-on-my-sword, leaving-my-girlfriend-and-highly-paid job martyr/hero positioning he's been going for.

Snowden is coming to light as a complex character, not some altruistic idealist who expects a pardon and a ticker-tape parade. Phrases that come to mind are "David vs. Goliath," "Catch me if you Can," and "John Le Carre." I love it because it's a more interesting story this way.
Hmmm mine just grew into giant two wheels essentially. Started with high mutation, then when I saw one reach about 160 put it to 3% mutations with 5 clones and slowly increasing every time
The support lifecycle still will be the same as far that I can tell.
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If only we could move freely in four dimensions, as to navigate around events that are difficult hurdles to overcome, such as comet strikes and nuclear holocausts.
every time I completed a level, my Safari crashed... Environment: Mac OS X 10.8
People sometimes like to watch the food being cooked, for one. At KW levels of power a few dB is still enough to do harm. Lots of nasty reports in the medical literature of this type of exposure, typically unlucky repairmen.

The eye has very poor heat dissipation mechanisms, and they showed in the 70's the RF exposure could cause cataracts in rabbits. (I think dogs were exposed too -- it was a new field, so they didn't know what would happen)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=45025...
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This is one of the reasons I can see Google Glass becoming more prevalent...security of one's well being through live streaming...even though I'm concerned about privacy, sometimes security through obscurity is not viable.
Clojure is already successful for many people. What you probably meant to say is that Clojure will never be mainstream. That's probably true, but I have been subscribed to the clojure mailing list for quite a while now and actually quite surprised how much Clojure code is in production.

That said, the two big "strikes" against clojure for "mainstream" adoption are as you pointed out, it's a Lisp, and it's dynamically typed.

I like the core concepts of Clojure. That there are a small set of primitives that have a uniform interface and how Clojure is anti-OO. Clojure actually does OO better than OO languages do, but that's another story.

If I could just get a Clojure with some optional typing, a python-like syntax, and awesome tools, I'd be a happy camper.
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