skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gave this thing a whirl. The terminal sharing is nice, however the person I paired with had a real hard time seeing any of the commands I was typing. The PS1 modification flootty makes pushes almost everything right out of their window and they claimed they were unable to scroll vertically
Not sure it would have been all that useful. You’d spend a LOT of time on the peninsula going from San Jose to San Francisco, so you’d need something like the BART bullet trains [ETA: It looks like that’s actually part of the design], and a Cupertino to San Jose connection would be nice, too.

The one thing on this map that I’m really missing in the current system, speaking for the South Bay, is light rail style service “southwest” of Caltrain, e.g. along Stevens Creek Blvd and maybe some of the expressways.
Not every employee who loses their job does because they performed poorly. There are lots of situations (especially at startups that are evolving rapidly) where you might hire someone to do a job that is no longer necessary, or has been made obsolete as your operation evolves.

Also, paying severance isn't just about doing the right thing for the departing employee. It's also about ensuring that your other employees feel good about their own jobs and don't have to worry that one day, they might be left in the cold with no cushion to help cover the search for a job (which will likely take far longer than the severance covers.)
In the Android Native SDK (NDK), you can actually choose between 4 different implementations by toggling a switch: https://github.com/flyskywhy/android-ndk-r7b/blob/master/doc...
That's how I normally load things from .emacs
Yeah, there are a lot of ways it could fail. You could probably build a pretty reasonable signal by looking at a lot of trends on Google News, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc. If you were building this in far enough in advance you could also test it by looking for high probability events besides your own death or demise.

What I like about it is that you could build a fairly hermetic system that, once you set it up, is never directly touched by you and just accesses public, high-volume websites. If you can set it up without leaving any fingerprints, that seems like a big plus.
Hi, Can you send me an email at rsingh@distelli.com and I'll set you up with an account. We have a large backlog of requests and I'm unable to connect your HN username to your email address.
Interesting. While I do not support this, there are still users who have their password set to 'Password1'?
That's what I meant by my last sentence.
Canada wasn't an independent country for any of those (particularly the first two and the beginning of the third), and wasn't a component of the country that won the first of those.
I like the all uppercase PASSWORD, like the intensity makes it more secure.
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Why was the title cropped here? If you're going to explicitly name companies don't you think all should be named? The title is implying other companies (i.e. Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.) aren't a part of this. Maybe it should've been along the lines of "major tech companies including..."

Edit: The title has since been updated.
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Complicating the "Microsoft corrupted the virtuous Skype" story is the fact that Skype appears in the PRISM slides dating to before Microsoft's purchase of it.
http://saikat.guha.cc/pub/iptps06-skype/

http://skype-open-source.blogspot.ch/2012/05/microsoft-wiret...
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> You can't believe in a system of government and also act outside of it.

People do, so obviously you can.

You may believe you shouldn't, but you haven't really presented a coherent argument as to why that is the case.
Not necessarily. He says "the thought of paying someone I was forced to fire because he (or she) is incompetent burns me up inside."

It's more the thought of paying someone more than you're legally required too when you know they don't deserve it.
I didn't get HookFeed and lost interest before I understood. So I still don't know what it is.
Some of these are really easy to match up. Using part of your name as your password is epically stupid.
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> necessary for your reputation.

Nope, no severance, no advance notice. Simple as that. If you need something after I am gone, we can negotiate the terms at that time.
I believe this was posted fairly recently:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face...

"San Francisco—one of the most expensive cities in the United States—added just 418 new housing units in 2011, the fewest since 1993. What’s more, 149 existing units were removed, leading to a nearly nonexistent increase in housing supply."
As PR moves go "calling them out" was a good one.

But even if Boeing had achieved the extremely unlikelihood of being able to get Tesla car batteries modified, fitted to their aircraft and approved by the relevant licensing bodies, it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference to the totally unrelated Honeywell bit of kit suspected of catching fire in the Ethiopian 787
Pick-pocketing is basically a form of street magic (used for evil) so I think it is understandable that it delights people in a way when they aren't the victim. IIRC one of the characters in the remake of Oceans Eleven was introduced as a pickpocket. In fiction they are like jewelry or art thieves dressed in all black repelling down into a museum.

Now when you're just trying to walk down the street and some kid gets your wallet, it becomes a wee bit harder to appreciate...
I've scanned the article two-three times and didn't find the salient point: Where did you get the 10,000-100,000 visitors required to get 1,000 signups?
To your point, here is a recent NYT op-ed precisely on those tenant laws and how landlords are keeping units off the market: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/king-of-my-castle-...
We'll have a behind the firewall installation option at some point. There are a few reasons:

1. The backend is non trivial and is getting more complex as we move forward. It sucks to make users run their own service. Running a full blown server out of a editor plugin also isn't feasible.

2. As a user, I don't want to have to deal with firewalls. As a founder, I don't want to have to deal with supporting users punching holes through their firewalls.

3. Peer to peer is very hard for this system; keep in mind, we get cascading failures with increasing latency as patches fail to get merged and instead cause conflicts. Conflicts make us drop patches, or try to do the equivalent of a rebase.

4. Accounts of some sort are required for access control.

5. Finally, we are trying to make a sustainable business.

We understand your concerns- we've also been burned by services that shut down: https://floobits.com/pledge/
"The thought of paying someone I was forced to fire because he (or she) is incompetent burns me up inside."

It was your decision to hire him, and it was your mistake that you are remedying by firing him. Incompetence is subjective. If your interview process makes it clear that your employees must live in constant fear of termination if they aren't ramping up fast enough for you, on your product with your technical debt and your team's shitty architecture choices ("fire fast" and "with little notice", you wrote), you'll find that your candidate pool vanishes.
thanks for response -- paranoid me wondered if yahoo was changing the TOS and changing passwords was a way to get agreement...
This is a great idea, not just for this case but as a truth verifier for security systems. Not that different from bit coin, actually.
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert-goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitation treaties."
D was another issue entirely.

It had a standard library, and a non-standard library that was more popular than the standard one, and they were not compatible at all.

The reason it caused the division at community is that the ones that you could not use both on the same project, this meant that for a while you had two "D" languages that were separate, libraries made with one did not worked with the other...
Business as usual here.. Google and Apple = good and people will protect anything the do, rest = meh unless they do something bad, then the pitchforks are out.
Also, the modal popups in Emacs when it breaks ("failed to apply patch") make it breaking extra annoying.
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This pains me to even mention it, but conducting yourself in a professional manner around the office, will not only help you succeed with your IT department, but the entire company! This should not be news to anyone. However, I think this advice needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I have been on the receiving end of someone trying to jump the work queue by slipping in some simple and then gradually bigger requests. Is this professional on a continuing basis? Sure, everyone wants to help people out by putting in that extra effort, but don't abuse the system. Use the golden rule once and a while ;) Do not make your lack of planning my problem! This applies to all departments.
Simply not true.

Skype appeared in the PRISM program on 2/6/11. Microsoft bought Skype on 10 May 2011. Very fishy dates? You bet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Microsoft_acquisition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
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Yes, only a single capital letter is needed to make it more secure against automatic methods. But all-caps is probably more secure against an in-person attack, way more so than just 'password'.
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They are not disincentivized from killing him. They merely are not being incentivized by a guarantee that the USA will have lots of sensitive documents released.

It should also be noted that an active dead man's switch opens the possibility that surveillance of Snowden will establish the mechanism of the switch, allowing the CIA to take over the switch and then do away with Snowden with impunity. By contrast the passive distributed key storage he likely has provides no active traffic that current surveillance can trace.
Another take on Godwin's law.
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You see, back when web applications were hopelessly inferior to native applications, we would use a mail client that ran locally on our computer to read email. We could use that same program to check mail across many different email providers... so if we wanted to change email providers, well, we could do that without changing our UI.

These mail clients used standards like pop3 or IMAP to communicate with the mail server. with IMAP, you can check email from multiple devices/computers just as easily as you can with gmail (though, for some reason, most users were confused by IMAP; pop3 was popular long after IMAP was universally available. using pop3 from multiple computers is a huge pain.)

(Of course, this was back before everyone and their dog had their own domain name, so switching email providers was still a huge pain in the ass.)

My suggestion is that everyone pick an IMAP client to handle their email, then switch between providers as-needed.
2-weeks notice is a system where an employee tells their employer "I am going to be leaving your company in 2 weeks." It's not the employer telling the employee "I want you gone in 2 weeks." Usually when someone is fired, they're swiftly removed from a company to keep sabotage at a minimum (I presume).
Except that Snowden is not in the States, which presumably makes it harder to protect him on every step.
No, all suspensions are not fluids. Amorphous rocks, for an example, often contain microcrystals in suspension. They will not flow under any circumstances. Glass can have all sorts of powders suspended in it, and is not a fluid.

Pitch can be proven to be a suspension via distillation. To prove it's a fluid, it must be observed to flow, to form a droplet, and to detach that droplet in the manner of a fluid.
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"I'm not sure he's thought this through, though. I would be more worried that someone would kill me in order to get the documents released than I would be that someone would kill me to prevent the documents from being released. "

Not that Schneier's advocating anything....
Also, middle clicking a tab closes it, which is handy.
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In this context the original discussion revolved around someone being fired for cause (extremely poor performance). That someone was a knowledge worker and fairly well compensated. There was also little reason to believe that person wouldn't have a new job by the time they walked out the door (job market being what it is).

Thus my goal was to argue for a reason why you should always pay severance even when none of those conditions you mentioned apply. Otherwise I agree with everything you wrote.
You are absolutely right. I am no expert in IP or government affairs but I would imagine that stakes in the project become an issue and even though a fully working "final" product say version 1.0 for production might be ready, the investment necessary for production of such parts are massive.

Second to that is the know how and expertise in precision manufacturing for such products that require a high degree of reliability.

In addition to this continues R&D and investing must be done for problems and improvements.

In summary I guess the people "get" their "profits" in the form of an army/navy/space marines equipped with the latest air breathing rocket engine.
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If occasionally your 99.9% system of government lets slip a tyrant during its 0.01% of failure, it's a worthless system of government.

If your 20% system of government prevents all such egregious acts, then it's more effective than your 99.9% government.
Well, some would have you believe that all the secret FEMA camp locations, and body bags, are there to detain large numbers of US citizens during times of unrest.

With the DHS purchasing billions of rounds of ammo, thousands of MRAPs etc - people are worried that the government is specifically gearing up and preparing for civil unrest.
View this one live: http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment
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Last night I listened to This American Life's follow-up on their patent troll piece from two years ago. If you haven't heard the follow-up yet, it's stunning and I highly recommend it. It's so good, in fact, that even though I really want to say what they dug up, I would feel guilty for spoiling it for anyone so I won't.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w...

The new material starts half-way in.

I admire the Carbonite CEO who (against all legal and business advice) stubbornly refused to be shaken down, which ultimately led to the breaking of the case. It's just a pity that more such sleazy cases don't get broken this way.
Interesting how one of those corridors ended up becoming the Caltrain...
Which is why employers would usually pay you for your notice period but tell you not to come to work, or at least that's the standard practice in the UK.

To my mind, notice periods are good for both sides - the employer gets peace of mind that if you choose to leave you'll still have a period of time for handover and winding your job down and the employee knows that they've got a bit of a safety net if they're let go. There are generally clauses that allow notice not to be paid in specific circumstances as well, generally for gross misconduct.
And it means they've never heard of segment.io or another analytics aggregator. So many script tags, so many TCP handshakes.
Well, there were at least two guys from the NSA who blew the whistle before, the legal way, and it got them a whole heap of trouble and nothing came of it in the media. So far, going outside the law seems to be the only tactic that garners any attention.
To answer your second question, there is some critical number, which we do not know empirically, after which pressure will separate pitch.

We could apply some higher acceleration for a shorter time, but that acceleration would have to be highly consistent, and there is no way to shorten the experiment enough to keep that equipment from being unproductive to even contemplate.

Sometimes patience really is the best answer.
Building a periodic table of programming languages; suggestions/feedback?
Hello everybody, I want to learn some front-end development/design (Angular.js, D3.js), so I am resurrecting an old project that I did to learn Rails almost three years ago.

Anything that you would want to see besides the list of all the languages (currently colored by type of language: OO, procedural, functional, etc.)? I want to plan this out a little bit before I start building, so I wanted to reach out and see anybody has suggestions on how to make this project more useful/informative as a showcase of the diversity of languages out there!
Suggestions so far: Link to wikipedia pages for languages, code samples.

Here is the project as it stands so far: http://codingtable.heroku.com

Thanks, can't wait to see how this turns out!
Your first link indicates the acquisition wasn't completed until October 2011.
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My understanding is that it's fine to have a separate /usr, it just needs to be mounted by your initrd. Trying to ensure that everything that could possibly be needed to mount /usr is in / turned out to be a lot more difficult than building an initrd with the relevant tools in it.
There are nearly 50 companies or organizations signing the letter. That would make for a pretty damn unwieldy headline.
Wine 1.6 has major improvements for OS X.

"- A native Mac OS X driver is implemented, for better integration with the Mac desktop environment. The full range of driver features are supported, including OpenGL, window management, clipboard, drag & drop, system tray, etc.

- X11 is no longer needed on Mac OS X, but the X11 driver is still supported, e.g. when running remotely."
And thats why SF is no longer relevant for startups. I work for db startup, and most of stuff is happening outside of California (Europe, Texas...).
> I always require a departing employee sign separation agreements.

How is it possible to require that?
It's a fine initiative, I guess. Except, how is it related to PRISM, which provides direct access to user data for the interested parties? There's no FISA request to be made. As I see it, they want to come out as privacy advocates while closely partnered with NSA.
wow what a beauty !
Changelog here:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6
Sorry :-(

As for traffic, we initially got retweeted a couple times by people with a few thousand followers in the design space. Both products also were on news.layervault.com as a result for some time, as well as BetaList a bit later on.

Our conversion rate to beta signups is around 30%. We've had nowhere near 10,000 or even 100,000 visits.
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Preface: I have interviewed around 300-500 people in the last 10+ years, spread between Microsoft and Amazon. This applies for finding a job with one of the Industry titans (Amazon/FB/Google/MS/Twitter etc.)

1. Prepare well. The number of interview preparation sites are way too many to mention.

2. Get your basics straight. If you are applying to a programming job, assume you are going to be grilled on Data Structures/Algorithms/Coding/Design patterns/OS.
3. Practice coding without an IDE.

4. Tune your interview preparation to the industry you are trying to get hired into as well. For example, if you are an experienced guy and plan to interview with us (AWS DynamoDB), you would be hard pressed to get by without Database Architecture/Concurrency/Distributed programming related knowledge. This also levels up or down according to your experience. If you have 10 years in the database industry the expectations are going to be very different compared to a college hire.

4.1. An addendum: We do hire a lot of people from other disciplines provided they prove that they are smart / willing to learn / can code. I switched from the Windows C++/C# shop to a linux Java/Perl/C++ shop for example. Do make your competencies clear to the interviewer at the onset.

4.2 Remember that you could be a very successful person in a different field/company, but as an interviewer if I can't relate your skills for the role I am interviewing you for in some way – I can't hire you. This starts mattering more and more as roles become senior.

5. Know what you have been doing for the past few years. Prepare for questions probing your team skills/problem solving skills etc.

6. Know what you are talking about and what's on your resume very well - I can't stress this enough. I find so many folks who have a templated 'Skills' list like Java and are not able to answer basic fizz buzz questions.

7. Read up about the company culture and see what they actually value most. (again, way too many sites out there for this information). Amazon has a list of leadership skills that people look for. These might appear broad, but usually have direct effects on the interview process.
8. Find someone inside the company who will refer you instead of cold calling.

Shameless plug: If you think you are well prepared and want a referral to AWS, contact me! We are hiring!
I wanted to edit my entry but it seems like HN won't let you edit it after a little while. I read my entry again and I think my selection of words was poorly, yet the sentiment was the same. It was in a context were he was talking about lazyness on some questions in SO (which I agree)

Here is an extract of the comment in the question on meta:

" Small sites are starved for content. SO is not. I say we should be far more restrictive at this point. We would still help users, but by guiding them to where the answer is rather than once again spending the time to write it up, vote on it, etc. It's redundant. And that's for the good questions. The bad ones just have to go"

The thing is "good" and "bad" question are relative to the person who read. The question that I am talking about here might not be a high quality question, but still it didn't deserve to be closed as "not a real question" , if any it should just get downvoted.

This is the link to the meta:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/183985/regarding-clo...

NOTE: Something happening after I check that, it seems that the question was reopened once again after the last time I check it out. I might just delete all my comments on here then :/
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But that wasn't the point I was making.

I was making the point that Anon could potentially be a puppet whos "attacks" against orgs like FEMA are used to push a stricter control of on-line-everything, and that the skills of those who wrote Stux/Duqu should be sufficiently high that they actually have no real threat to worry about from a group like Anon.