skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a lot of experience with contract development and just not with Rails or are you still a bit green? Because there's a big difference between "I'll build a fully functional web app" and "I can guarantee a paying client that I'll build their fully functional web app to their satisfaction." It is easy to be overconfident and get in over your head when you haven't yet learned what you can and can't do in what timeframe. I've seen a lot of inexperienced developers get into that — heck, I've seen it from some developers who should know better. And I do think it's good to test your boundaries — but when there's money involved like that, it's not fun.

Also, if you're not experienced, it's hard to see how you could offer a sufficiently credible guarantee that would justify rates significantly above minimum wage. I mean, random dudes on oDesk are already considered pretty risky and are not paid well — and you can actually look at their history and see that they have successfully completed contracts before. If you can't credibly promise a lot of value, you might be better off just taking another job.
Now the states he can move to just went up.

Death penalty: Many countries, such as Australia, Canada, Macao, New Zealand, South Africa, and most European nations except Belarus, will not allow extradition if the death penalty may be imposed on the suspect unless they are assured that the death sentence will not be passed or carried out.
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If they didn't give Robert Hanssen the death penalty, I highly doubt Snowden is going to get it
Companies don't want the case to go to court at all. Even if it wins, it looks bad and a lot of embarrassing stuff is discovered. So much of the process is also around making the employee perceive that there is no recourse, or that a case should not be pursued.

For example, most of the time, a person will pursue a case if he or she perceives moral superiority over the other party. So the employer's goal is to equalize that difference, either by bringing itself up or by bringing the employee down.

Severance payments are there to make the employee feel good about the company. It didn't work out, but the company was fair and everyone can move on to a better arrangement. This is a decent way of doing because, after all, most people don't want to sue ex-employers. They want to move on with their careers.

A PIP's purpose is to make the employee feel bad about himself. PIPs actually make it easier for employees to sue, but are justified on the basis that they will be less likely to do so if they think they have less recourse. I have no idea how this works out empirically.
I listened to the podcast. So it boils down to the fact that in the past manufacturers had really rough relations with dealers, and the later passed tons of protection laws which gave them essentially a solid monopoly. And most of those reasons have no meaning today.

Though I didn't get the part that fighting that now is futile (there were not enough details in the story). If enough people will be against these laws - they'll be cancelled, no matter how much power these dealers wield.
Twenty employees at $100K each is $2M.

A popular site can easily cost $60K a month.

Office space in SF/PA/NYC is going to be about $50 per square foot.

It all adds up pretty fast.
Isn't all "this shit" in violation of the International Bill of Human Rights?

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." -- International Bill of Human Rights, article 12.

I also found interesting to read the "CCPR General Comment No. 16" [1] on the right to privacy.

[1] http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/23378a8724595410c1...
Except that the prospective franchise owners, able to see the trap you've just described, wouldn't have opened any franchises without some sort of long-term guarantee, and customers would ultimately have lost out. I'm not endorsing this particular solution, mind you...
Why is this on the front page? A basic feature every gateway has had since time immemorial.
Neither of those is ever going to happen, petition or no petition.
We created a pro-Snowden collection of shirts, stickers, and hats if you want to show your support. There's a link to donate to his cause too. http://www.wishplz.com/product-collections/bDRzO6c7Stw0vSVh2...
I haven't met a person who would be visibly shy to share his ideas with others when I already knew about these. This is of course a skewed sample.
Apart from a few cities, the nearest service center is a state and a half away. If you don't like the staff/service there, your next option is shipping your car two states away when it needs work. There are few enough car manufacturers that none of them will build out significantly more company-owned service centers than the others; you won't be able to "vote with your dollars" on better coverage now that an expansive dealer network can't be counted on for OEM service.

Dealers, right now, make a lot of money on service. Why the hell would manufacturers, in an alternative world where dealers are no longer protected by laws, skip out on that profit? There are also lots of independent auto workshops that never had anything to do with selling brand new cars.

Manufacturers can't count on bulk sales to dealers of each year's new models, so there's higher risk of a model not ramping up production fast enough to become profitable, and of the entire company going out of business in a recession.

Well yes, theres an inherent risk in running a business. Who knew.

Dealerships will be much smaller, no longer having to stock and earning a profit from new car sales; hundreds of thousands of jobs will gradually disappear. But new cars will get cheaper.

Jobs for the sake of "jobs" are not sane economic policy and will eventually be to the loss of everyone.

Comparison shopping gets much harder -- you won't be test-driving new and used cars of different makes on the same lot anymore. You probably won't be able to test-drive a new car and drive that car home the same day anymore either.

Why the hell not? Tesla offers testdrives, and you can even buy a car right now if they happen to have an orphaned one at a service center. They are still production constrained right now so thats obviously not how they can sell cars this very moment.
Other manufacturers can offer this easily.
Scrolly - A beautiful custom scrollbar for every page
I'd much rather buy a plane ticket and head to participate in a large scale event in Washington.
Hmmm... Even though index.html page was overwritten, it still displays the old index page.

Here is an updated version.

http://420.neocities.org/index.html
Greenwald/The Guardian won't release it out of fear of being brought up on similar charges. I don't know why they haven't released it already, unless it's just more of the same sort of vaguely incriminating powerpoint presentations.
Yes, quite easily. Randomly pull from somewhere like central Pennsylvania and you probably wouldn't even need to exclude anyone from your randomly picked list.
Obama meets with privacy watchdog panel … in private
I wonder which packagers the author is griping about primarily. I don't see Riak in Debian.
Iceland-Bound Jet for Edward Snowden 'Could Take Off Tomorrow'
Of course, but that is a poor reason to not make your voice heard.
This sounds like a plugin in disguise.
I have two projects which follow different ideas on this (mostly due to size).

In both cases, I've basically written "lazy python bindings" for something in C++ (lazy because I only support the features I want in pythonland). Neither of the C++ projects is on github or anything, they're just hosted out there somewhere else (one on SVN, and one only available as archives, I think.)

In the archive case, and since the codebase is small, I just included the whole codebase in my git repo, and added a few small cpp, pyx and py files around it. This library already has a fork, and has the most stars (like, 3) of all my github repos - embedding all the required code and statically linking (indeed, compiling) it as part of my `setup.py` works great, and is easy for 3rd party users too.

In the SVN case, the main project is huge, like a few hundred MB of source (and they use some crazy code generation, so that's not even the half of it.) It also comes with its own very very basic python driver. So, my approach is to give people two or three small patches, build instructions (the project is a nightmare to build correctly,) and then my python code just installs on its own and talks to the project as a normal python library. This version is useless - it's permanently out of date, I can't even get the build instructions I wrote 3 months ago to work when I'm trying to set it up for someone else, and the whole thing is a massive nightmare. If I'd forked it and provided the huge source tree myself, that would be reduced - but that project is also under active development and it'd be great to actually use their latest, least buggy version!

Each of these decisions was made the way it was for real, sensible reasons - I'd hate for a package manager to have to contend with the mess of the second project, and yet apparently that's the way they'd prefer to go with both!

Good job no one needs to use any of my code, really.
No--it seems that if you downloaded your info, you would also download email addresses and phone numbers of your friends that other people had in their address books, without your friends ever knowing Facebook had that information.
It's kind of hard to be a whistleblower without breaking some sort of secrecy law.
If your data isn't safe when someone has access to it "forever" then you haven't encrypted it good enough. I'd still prefer them not to keep it though.
Yes, I can imagine it.
This collection is awesome! Definitely gonna buy my t-shirt and donate.
For anyone else who thinks what he did was right: it's our job to make sure he gets pardoned. He did his part.
Wait what's going on with the airbus situation?

It sounds analogous to what spaceX will be up against in some coming years with US and European space companies / governments.
"Such as "On a scale of 1-10, 1 being novice, 10 being creator of said technology, how would you rate yourself?" Then based on this answer I'll ask a question at that level. I find that most people screened don't actually know the basic fundamentals of the technologies they list."

See, and I hate questions like that.

If you're going to ask candidates to rate themselves in a technology, don't ask for a number. What I think a 7 is might be different from what you think it is. Just ask the candidate how comfortable they feel in a language. Words work better than numbers.

Also, you should know that many candidates are really scared by someone asking them to rate themselves on a scale from 1 to 10. You're kicking off an interview with a degree of intimidation that's probably unnecessary.

You're right though that many people don't know the fundamentals of the technologies they list. This doesn't mean that they're bad engineers; there's just a lot of confusion around at what point you should list a technology on your resume.

Remember that a lot of companies aren't particularly looking for competency in a particular language. Thus, drilling into the specifics of a technology doesn't assess much for them.
Yes. Have you not been to America?
The U.S. would waive the death penalty to get him back from any of those countries, as they regularly do. I seriously doubt there is any chance they would seek it, anyway.
Free has nothing to do with it. Go ahead and pay for the same services, but it'll do nothing to protect your data from a search warrant.
That was might first thought too. I think that's correct.
> if you fork a project and it becomes incompatible with the upstream, rename it

I agree completely, but I'd like to take your idea further in a direction you likely didn't intend.

The fundamental observation of distributed version control systems, in my opinion, is: Every commit is essentially a fork.

When you combine these two ideas: 1) fork->rename and 2) change==fork, with the 3) identities & values from FP/Clojure/etc, you realize that version numbers are complete folly.

Coincidentally, I just wrote about this with respect to SemVer: http://www.brandonbloom.name/blog/2013/06/19/semver/

In short, if you have awesomelib and make an incompatible version, you can call it awesomelib2. Or you could call it veryawesomelib or whatever else you want. If you give up on the silly idea of being able to compare version numbers, then versioning and naming become equivalent.
So does this mean I don't have to listen to people on HN complain about Netflix/Xbox Live/Pissroulette/etc. not being available outside the US anymore? Thank God!
Atlas of early printing in Europe
May I add:

"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse. Hence spring Sophisms in all their varieties. Then, since Force is held in check, Sophistry is no longer only an evil; it is the genius of evil, and requires a check in its turn. This check must be the enlightenment of the public, which must be rendered more subtle than the subtle, as it is already stronger than the strong."

-- Bastiat, Sophisms of the Protectionists
I don't see any, offhand. Tucker was a dilettante next to Musk.
I like the idea, but GeoCities left a bad taste in my mouth. What makes this site any more maintainable than GeoCities was? The fact that it's donation based and not at the whims of a corporate entity is reassuring, but other than that it seems as if the footing would be even less stable. Am I wrong?
s/interesting/insane/
People are reactive, not proactive. Especially Singaporeans, who have been indoctrinated since birth, to seek guidance from its government instead of taking matters into their own hands.

The prime minister has already stated that the situation could last for months. In the meantime, with PM2.5 levels being hazardous, the people's health are being irreparably harmed. What PSI level would it take for people to leave the island? 500? 1000? 2000? Would anyone still be alive to make that decision?

Let me put it this way. Riau, which is downwind and part of Indonesia (the source of the fires), has already declared a state of emergency when PSI hit 300. Singapore has not done so despite PSI levels being much higher at 401. Given the content of my earlier post, you can draw your own conclusions. I'm not going to spell it out so plainly because Singapore has got broad, draconian laws and I may be treading a fine line here.
Was it one of these polls where they only call landlines? Not sure this means anything without exactly specifying how the poll was conducted.
Unrelated, but why does Slate disable pinchzoom for mobile devices?
Apple also has it's own heavily optimised version of LINPACK available in Accelerate.framework
Oracle and Salesforce.com in data sharing deal
"Why did nobody cover that" -- how can that be answered by anyone but the media the question is about, what can anyone here do other than speculate? Yet even that already happened, the first line of the first response of the other poster was "This could easily be misinformation". So much for sitting on the high horse in glass houses?
Don't read what you want the articles to say, read what the articles actually say.

Specifically (from the first article): "Thus, some Supreme Court cases have held that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in information you have 'knowingly exposed' to a third party — for example, bank records or records of telephone numbers you have dialed — even if you intended for that third party to keep the information secret."

Going on: "Records stored by others. As the Supreme Court has stated, 'The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party and conveyed by him to Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed.' This means that you will often have no Fourth Amendment protection in the records that others keep about you, because most information that a third party will have about you was either given freely to them by you, thus knowingly exposed, or was collected from other, public sources."

That's the law, that's what the Supreme Court has said, not what the ACLU hopes or believes.

From the second article: "Q: Can the police get my medical information without a warrant?

A: Yes. The HIPAA rules provide a wide variety of circumstances under which medical information can be disclosed for law enforcement-related purposes without explicitly requiring a warrant."

That's the statutory law, at this moment, based on the Congress's reasonable interpretation of the Constitutional basis above.

Of course the ACLU hopes to get the courts to go the other way, but as they tacitly admit: courts have not done so to date. E.g. http://www.law360.com/articles/376791/warrantless-seizure-of... (Warrantless Seizure Of Medical Records OK'd In Drug Case).

At this moment, it's hard to describe 4th amendment protections as applied to medical records anything other than aspirational on the part of the ACLU.
It's a blame game.

Can anyone deny that the source of the fire originates from Sumatra Indonesia? Is Indonesia a sovereign nation or not?

If Indonesia says that it is not responsible for the fires because they are started by non-Indonesian corporations operating on Indonesian soil, then either you are very naive or Singapore would be fully justified in mobilizing its armed forces to deal with the situation.
It's been years since I've bothered to listen to the chants or read the banners of (insert protest group) when the march down Market Street. For SF it's just part of the scenery for me.
"beautiful"
Climate change: A cooling consensus
Too Many Bikes
Bitcoin Foundation: Core Development Update #4
News cycle. If they release too early, it just fatigues everyone and makes them get bored of the issue. I'm guessing that Greenwald is sitting on many of the documents and waiting for people to forget about Snowden, and then he'll release another one to keep the issue (and The Guardian) in the news. He maximizes both the political impact and the eyeballs going to his employer in this way.
That won't stop Greenwald. And if you haven't noticed, they already have released even more incriminating documents, including a signed order from the Attorney General authorizing multiple exemptions to the ban on collecting and viewing data from U.S. citizens.
Why is he being charged in the Eastern District of Virginia when the alleged crime was perpetrated in Hawaii? Shouldn't any prosecution be under the original jurisdiction of the District of Hawaii/9th Circuit?

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy
and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein
the crime shall have been committed[...]
punish those who fail to report their securiy suspicions
> There are too many competitive new entry level entrants from Honda, Nissan, Ford etc.

I completely lost you there. Where are these competitive new entry level models?

e.g.: The Nissan Leaf absolutely does not compare with the Model S in range, speed, style, ecosystem, internals, etc, etc.

There really is no EV competition for Tesla. There is competition from non-EV luxury vehicles, but Tesla is beating most of them in price/performance and customer satisfaction.
Many cards don't support authorizations that last for 30 days. Kickstarter doesn't actually authorize cards for exactly this reason.
> Companies don't want the case to go to court at all.

That's not in dispute. The point you are missing is that the value of the practices I was addressing (which weren't, you'll notice, PIPs) is still the evidentiary value those practices provide in court, because that evidentiary value is itself the mechanism by which they prevent disputes from ending up in court in the first place.
> the most dangerous aggregation of personal information

Speak for yourself.
When Clinton was President, yes. I guess times may have changed.
> basically the authorities will have access to your e-mails anyway

How is this not the wide assumption being made right now? How is there ANY question remaining of whether or not they have such access?
Perhaps I am misreading your comment but "can't imagine" is a figure of speech. I meant I was excited for the possibility.

And the last statement was just referencing my ignorance about metal-air batteries working in oxygen-limited environments.
I don't think it has anything to do with "post 9/11." I think it all has to do with knowing exposure of information to third parties. If you want to keep information private, don't give it to other people.
Additionally, there is the concept of Andragogy[0] which deals with how to teach adults (or more generally, self-directed learning as compared to 'taught' learning). Which could apply more to the audience who are taking a bootcamp or accelerated course.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogy
Honestly is anyone surprised? I think we all saw this coming.

Question is, how will HK, or even China for that matter, respond?
Sorry if it's annoying. I think it may be because a lot of HN users also use Stripe and because it was a notable omission to date. We initially leaned against supporting it for a long time because we hoped it was an implementation detail we could abstract away. In many cases where we've made decisions like this, it's worked out well, but in this case, we decided we'd gone a little too far and that the additional control was valuable.
What a truly, truly, truly absurd statement. I run my own webserver and have Roundcube exposed. It's only accessible via my VPN and even then, it's HTTPS. So tell me, how are you planning to compromise that?
My previous comment was describing my best guess to what information is run up the flagpole and to what end. These people think that PRISM stops terrorists you think a couple extra hundred dollars is going to convince them its not worth the effort.

I do not mean to be critical of the poster, any involvement is better than none. However I do not think the best path forward is acting as if something is being done when it is not is not.

I think that someone who can build a website like this could make a much more useful one. Instead of preaching to the choir preach to the unconverted (Elected Officials, Mom, Dad, Grocery Clerk). Let people submit address/zip and then return a phone script and the name/numbers of your senators and your representative. Or populate a pdf file with all the information so that someone can put it in an envelope, copy the address given and add a stamp
They charged him on his birthday? Damn, that's cold. After what the NSA did to Thomas Drake (dragging him through legal hell for four years, which in the end resulted in no jail time or fines), you have to wonder how personal some of the legal maneuvering is.
Who will stay in that "new 800 room hotel" now that the middle class is going away?
Nick points out the old "the wealthy generate jobs" saw is backwards. Companies have record amounts of cash reserves but aren't hiring because of low demand. Companies hire workers only when they can't meet demand for their product. No customers = no demand.
There actually are whistleblower protections he could have taken advantage of... but it would have meant working within the system (for example, taking his concerns to Congress or the NSA's Inspector General rather than a reporter) and it only applies if he uncovered fraud or illegal activity. AFAIK there isn't any proof that he uncovered anything illegal.