skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying more surveillance == worse. And I'm saying that it would not necessarily resolve his specific problem. It would resolve the problem of whoever controls the footage.
It shouldn't be insurmountably difficult and it's easily abstractable to more or less backup(uid,pass,data) restore (uid,pass,data).
Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job?
I am interested in learning what are the best practices when it comes to applying for a job. The goal is for this post to serve as a collection of ideas that members of this community (including me) can use. If possible break down your answer into the high level steps that cover your entire process - from search to acceptance or rejecting of a offer. Thanks for participating.

EDIT: Also indicate how you find jobs/listing in the first place. Would like to hear form people who have a big network and people who don't. This will help people who don't have networks tremendously.
Didn't he announce to run for moscow major?
As a Russian, maybe you can explain what exactly he did wrong?
That doesn't address all the nightmarish issues of traveling at 600-700 MPH through pressurized air.

Riding the pressure peak at exactly the speed of sound makes a lot more sense.
Headsets are a minefield. Once setup they are simple, but getting the right combination of parts is a nightmare.
How Facebook Builds a Digital Signature for You (And Your World)
A little off topic, but it will get to the point:

Remember some of the biggest issues? Exploitation (wars, colonialism, imperialism, no labour laws), racism (slavery, Jim Crow laws), overeaching government (McCarthyism, Hoover, bureaucracy, protestors shot at, , surveillance, etc), rampant private interests (banana republics, RIAA, patent law, militias shooting strikers, corporate espionage, buying legislation), religious nuttery, etc?

Those things are not solved by technology. If you're lucky, you might find some technology that can nullify one of those issues.

But in general technology is an enabler. It can help those perpatrating those things to do them 1000 times more efficiently and far scarier. Science too, is neutral. Nazi germany was choke full or good scientists -- and they are behind all messed up inventions anyway too, not just the good ones.

This, among other things, is such as case, of technology being an enabler for bad things. To really effect change you must change how people think about things -- and then, the laws.
Is dilution really a negative? Lets say I own 1/100 shares of a £100k company = £1k.

The company raises £100k in a fund raising round and 100 new shares are issued. I now own 1/200 shares of a company worth £100k + £100k cash. My share is still worth £1k.

Not only that, but if the company is good the extra capital should be utilised in a way with positive expected value, so the fund raising and subsequent dilution is actually good news for me with my 1 share.
Well said. I think that eventually a real blow will happen and of no terrorist origin, but a nation. A lot of people are aggravated by the militant attitude of the US. Even the most patient of us have their threshold.

As a side note on the Middle East. I think that the US deliberately destabilize the situation in the region, preparing the ground for the Iran takeover.
CC-BY IMO, as a content license it most closely matches the ASL that Docker is released under.
And Italy was one of the Allies during WW1 before allying itself with Germany in WW2. During the fight against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, other nations provided assistance to Italy. Individuals jumped into the fray too. Hemingway, for example, was a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy in WW1.

Beating the USA over the head post-911 with the club of having assisted anti-Soviet fighters in the 1970s and 1980s makes as much sense as castigating Italy's WW1-era allies and people like Hemingway in the late 1930s for having come to Italy's aid twenty years earlier.
Even when observing only the USA, a top 1% personal income starts at around $200K, which isn't unheard of for a developer position. A recent poll about age places the majority of HN readers early in their career where debt is usually high and assets have not had much time to accumulate, so a top 1% US income and no assets does not seem like an impossibility either.
Just trying fastmail my first response is wow this thing is fast.

Using something like this, you quickly realize gmail has become incredibly bloated. And to think gmail in its time was the "fast" solution to a bloated hotmail.

Times do change.
Yeah, it looks like this doesn't appear by default. To make it show up, select a message in your inbox and go to Message > Archive.

That should make this folder appear: http://tmp.m-n.us/m/20130718_k83emkvnc4.png. I believe it is automatically associated with INBOX.Archive on FastMail.
The reason given is that these people are designated 'enemy combatants' or 'terrorists' so a different set of rules apply to them†. Effectively since this is a War on Terror and because terror can come from anywhere and strike anywhere the entire planet is a battlefield because the reach of the US military and paramilitary apparatus is global. Glenn Greenwald has written[1] many excellent articles about this long before Mr. Snowden came along.

Once the whole world is a battlefield then everyone is on the field of battle. Interestingly enough it takes congress to declare war so in effect what we've had here is a very blatant power grab[2], an invocation of emergency procedures in the name of National Security. How aptly the National Security Agency seems named now, don't you think.

Obviously there is the TIDE[3] list that gets people restricts their right of travel (no-fly lists - (I wonder does this cover getting on a boat or is it just that specific mode of international travel - (thank you for reading this far))). But there must also be a shorter "these people are really bad and must be taken out list" and that's what these people are on. Modulo the odd innocent bystander, and error be it human operator or machine or intelligence.

So it's not murder, it's 21st century warfare and these are the enemy.

That doesn't mean it doesn't stink to high hell. And if they was any justice in the world the people who set up and enable these unjust extra-judicial killings with there oh so pat cover story and layers and layers of secrecy upon secrecy would get their just desserts in turn.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-ki...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_Identities_Datamart_E...

† it's not 'murder' when they do it
Yes, I believe another Finnish Swede active in this scene is somewhat more culturally Swedish - Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL/MariaDB.

On the other hand Linus' father is a Member of the European Parliament for Swedish People's Party of Finland, and was until 2011 the party vice chairman. But he (Nils) has been quite relaxed about things like mandatory Swedish education, which most Finnish Swedes dearly cling on to.
Plus is some cases (and countries) they treat you worse, and take advantage of loop holes to delay you seeing a lawyer as much as they can, even like several days or so.
One important aspect of "without due process" is that it means that they don't have to prove anyone is a terrorist. They don't even have to believe someone is a terrorist, they only need to pretend that they do.

I'm not sure whether this applies much in the kinds of situations where this in particular is used, but in this country people have rights such as silence that can be circumvented because suspected terrorists are treated differently and have fewer rights - those who don't cooperate will continue to be treated as terrorists.
Hi - I'm the author. It is very early. But the book won't be published until Docker is 1.0 at least. The site is there to gauge interest and provide a bookmark for people to suggest ideas on content.
>Well the argument usually heard for the government doing it is "they've always been able to watch where you go in public".

The issue is that of technology being an enabler. Always being able to watch you (with some cost), and being able to watch everybody effortelsy and automatically, with instant retrieval is a game changer.
There are size-appropriate solutions. In the beginning you have a bookkeeper and a lawyer but you are obviously not their biggest client. Then it goes up the ladder from there.
I used to run my own wormhole when I played—the threat of losing my stuff was such a thrill it kept me playing. Of course, I mostly lost my stuff due to stupidity.
I didn't know that systemd also provides a syslog functionality.
But it makes me wonder:

- the wiki pages mention that the default syslog should be removed because it makes no sense to have two solutions

- the pages also say that for more features you should install a "real" syslog solution (rsyslog, syslog-ng)

Question: Why does systemd then come with syslog functionality in the first place?!

This is a honest question, not trolling, what will i gain from systemd journal? Everything points to a) pain to switch and b) less functionality. Whatever that is..

After reading a bit, it appears that this journal is some binary data.. Call me old fashioned but i really like my easily transferable and everywhere readable plain text logs.. why is it binary?!

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSyslog

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd-journal

Edit: Thanks for the explanations on the binary format, much appreciated.
Even if someone is stupid, it is not a valid reason to put them into prison unless he commited a crime. Which Navalny didn’t, obviously.
Successful People create Religions
And? What are we supposed to do with this information?
I truly think Google's Glass will suffer a similar fate... at least in it's present incarnation.
I write mostly in Markdown using VIM or IAWriter with a scattering of LaTeX for some complex formatting. I have some Rake-based automation that hooks into pandoc to take the content and generate PDF, ePub, Mobi, HTML etc formats. You can see an example of the finished product in the sample chapter from one of my other books: http://www.logstashbook.com/TheLogStashBook_sample.pdf.
A South African gentleman once told me that New York in August was hotter than any place he knew in Africa, yet people here dressed for a northern city.

From my experience this has almost certainly reversed, at least in reference to places I've lived in East and West Africa, as most men wear 3 piece suits or at least long trousers and shirts. Meanwhile in America, most people who work outside or in a non-arctic office will wear as little as they can get away with.
This disgusts me.

Sooner or later, my public announcement of this disgust is going to place me on a list of people that are seen as dissenters, since all of our electronic communication is now being logged for posterity. That list will at some point be renamed "terrorists".

At some point in the future (as a non-American), the United States would find it legally acceptable that I can be targeted by a drone and blown up into little pieces. Should wife, my children (one a toddler and the other a baby) happen to be present, then they will be considered "collateral damage".

I love the idea of the American dream and the spirit of free speech and the glorious constitution that you have / had in America, but I'm sorry, you've just lost me. I'm like a lover you just beat up for the first time. I've lost that sparkle of first love. I'm crying inside. I'm scared to show you that emotion, because I'm afraid you'll use it against me.

You're a bully and there is no teacher to get you back in line. You scare me.

I know this will get downvoted to hell, but I just had to splurge my mind.
Love this. Would want to use it right away. Signed up.
Congrats!
I agree that it's bafflingly hard to legally use legally bought media.

> How can legal be so hard

Because rights holders have weird beliefs and think that DRM is great, and they won't sell the rights without DRM.
How about Matplotlib?

otherwise combine python web interface with javascript libraries, e.g. InfoVis [1].

[1] http://philogb.github.io/jit/demos.html
This is why terrorists, and suspected terrorists, need to be given exactly the same rights under the law as everyone else.
Python for Data Analysis: The Landscape of Tutorials
Orson Welles talks shit from beyond the grave in "My Lunches With Orson"
Nifti Launches Online Shopping Command Center with $800K of Funding
Very nice. I was looking for something similar to this a couple of days ago. This will fit the bill nicely :)
A paid-for service that will never be acquired, such that there is never any doubt about the service's future and incentives.
Introduction to FPDF - Free PDF Creation Library for PHP
I wrote the article.

I'm guessing not everyone on HN is a huge fan of “Strictly Ballroom”, as the title is a key quote for dance movie otaku. It was also a weak joke about testing for random numbers; I'm imagining a little subroutine in a constant state of surprise when it encounters the next random number.

While I'm not sure if I implemented it correctly, RANDU isn't some ‘lousy homegrown software RNG’. It was the standard RNG for IBM mainframes in the late 1960s.
Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow
How to Be an E-mail Survivalist
1996 born here (17yo), but my first computers were chucked-out old ones, so I grew up on DOS, Win3.1 and 9x and QBASIC.
The polis; an autonomous, self-governing form of city state, invented around 800 BC.
But previous articles posted to HN have had arguments by law professors that at least some of what the NSA is doing is actually illegal, even aside from questions of constitutionality.
Suspected terrorist talking to a lawyer before facing trial and being found not guilty / guilty is much worse TV[1] than Kiefer Sutherland torturing the terrorist to prevent the bomb killing lots of people.

[1] Some people think it's worse.
> The only right thing to do is to start treating terrorist suspects exactly like those suspected of any other crimes, be it murder, theft, rape etc.

Well, the US can't do that. Terrorists is the replacement for the perished Soviets. It's of an ideological matter. They're evil and must be destroyed.
It sounds like systemd journal is a good thing, especially for early boot debugging. That said, I don't get the proposal to remove the standard logger. Sure, the logs are duplicated...but having important data stored redundantly seems like a good thing. Plus, you still keep the "everything's a file" philosophy, so you can continue to access the log file in situations where accessing a binary is unfeasible or impossible.

The example of a box where /usr is hosed and you only have access to in-memory programs like the shell, is maybe not the best example. Perhaps a more practical one is the need to monitor / alert on certain log entries in a legacy or upstream system that expects to open and watch a file.

As all distros I know of include a log file rotation facility that deletes old system logs after some set period, having duplicated data in the journal and in traditional system log on disk seems like it would be a problem only in special cases.

Cost-to-benefit, it seems to me there should still be a traditional syslog provider included by default.
Thanks for the comments and upvotes. We have just had a review on TechCrunch which, we think, is very flattering http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/18/yarrly/
There was a better article somewhere, but first google result on the topic should suffice: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2284776/Can-parent...
> I think for a lot of people

This is a typo, right?
It actually sounds like state-sanctionend terrorism to me - hits people unexpectedly and for reasons they might have little control over, and fear is a major factor.
Drone Self Destructs in Florida
Hinto - A new app to keep up with your favorite sites
Hey Rahul,

Congrats on bootstrapping your product.. It looks very cool and promising. And certainly will help dev's focus more on the coding part.

Would love to test out your product...

Cheers!
That's just pan and scan from a 2.35:1 source to 16:9. It's actually quite common. "Normal" people hate seeing black bars on their TV, some even more on their fancy new widescreen HDTV. The big problem here is that pan and scan jobs look particularly shitty, as if they were just blew up the center and cropped the edges.
I didn't know that either. From reading the linked thread in OP, it seems like the idea is that the systemd journal comes in at a lower level (started from initrd? kernel module? no idea...), so it helps with debugging early boot process before /var is mounted. But I also think there should be standard syslog for reasons I just mentioned in another comment. Seems like there are good reasons to have both.
Why is fighting openly a bad move? If it's true that the case that got him in jail was fabricated, he's been detained in an unjust way and he doesn't deserve it just because he fought openly. I think he'd actually deserve even more praise for being open about his identity and fighting the system directly.
The new (binary) format is better structured and it also has a bit of extra security (signatures).
> What about the jobs that still need doing but people are not generally highly intrinsically motivated to do relative to other things they could be doing if they had free choice?

There will be luxuries some people want that are beyond the reach of those who live just on the guaranteed basic income. Those people will do the jobs that have not yet been replaced by technology to earn the extra money they need.

For instance, some people might want more living space. Some might want fancier cars than those people on the GBI can afford. Some might fancy a boat. Some might want a high end home entertainment system. Some might like expensive food and drink.
The default is private for classes and public for structs.

Section 11.2 of the C++ standard.
For one, it's much easier to maintain complicated rules in Sieve than with Gmail rules. This is just a function of having multiple lines and comments for rules.

I use Sieve to push a summary of certain messages to my phone (with https://pushover.net, another great service). This is not possible with Gmail rules (you can forward an entire message, but not selectively send just the subject and sender). See https://www.fastmail.fm/docs/sieve/fm-sieve-notify.html

Sieve also supports regular expressions: https://www.fastmail.fm/docs/sieve/draft-murchison-sieve-reg...

There are some example Sieve scripts that might give you a better idea of what Sieve can do:

http://ballz.ababa.net/jerry/sieve.txt

http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/MichaelKloseSieveScript

Note that you don't have to do all that crazy spam stuff -- the build in spam filtering seems to work fine for me. The only manual rule I added was to spam anything with common Russian characters because Russian spam was somehow slipping through the filter.
for ROFL's and LOL's open the page in IE8
Eerie, the prescience of the Cameron & the film Terminator.

The mind is a vessel of time travel.
So, if I understand US politics right, you have the choice between the side who will lie to you about going to war and curtail your civil liberties, and the side who will lie to you about curtailing your civil liberties and do it anyway? Tough choice between plague and cholera.
> Sooner or later, my public announcement of this disgust is going to place me on a list of people that are seen as dissenters

Are you sure? If half of the US citizenship also expresses public disgust at the same thing, there's not much use in making a list; that list may as well be the phone book.
> The example of a box where /usr is hosed

Separated /usr is not recommended anymore (deprecated) and Fedora at least doesn't support this setup.
Browser Tabs and Battery Life
By default it is private.

Usually private inheritance is mostly used for library code, as a way for code reuse but without exposing the inheritance relationship to the class users. Also coupled with mixins sometimes.
Twilio is erroneously over-billing and suspending accounts
The linked Wikipedia article is mistaken in stating that pan and scan applies only to 4:3. The same technique can, and often is, used to prevent letterboxing when showing a films shot at 2.35:1 on a 16:9 display.
Android closing Apple's iOS developer revenue gap
Yeah running on iOS was brutally slow on first load, reloading page fixed everything except list effects.

Still there is the elephant-in-the-room 300ms issue, but overall impressive effort, we need more of this...
The concepts aren't even opposed.

If, hypothetically, there actually is a ticking bomb somewhere (this has never happened that we know of), just break the law. You'll sort it out later. If you were right, there will be a pardon, if you were wrong, you'll go to jail.

In every other possible scenario, the law should protect rights of the accused.
This is how we get things like Reddit, HN, Digg, and N4G, even when we already had Slashdot. Trying to do old things better is a good way to go.
quick note for you:
in your hn profile you say "graduating May 2013". According to the about on your site http://www.philipithomas.com/about/ you graduated in May, but on your cv site http://cv.philipithomas.com/
you say "I graduate this month" and in education you say "expected 5/13"

If you finally graduated, it's time to update all the info :-)
It would help I you added a link with some previous work (portfolio) from you, projects that you participated or an open source project of some kind that you contributed or started perhaps (if any).
Why should he care? He cannot run again. It would be so much better if Presidents only could serve one term, make it six years if you must, but it must be only one term.

This way we don't get the unaccountable second term crap we see a lot of.
Always a reminder to myself:

Linus started Linux at 21, Martin Odersky started designing Scala at around 46, likewise James Gosling fathered Java at around 39, Joel Spolsky founded Fog Creek around 35, Jack Dorsey founded Twitter around 30.

The measurement of time is a man-made system, it does not matter if you're 20 or 65. Comparing yourself with amazing people and their achievements and age will gain you nothing but discontent.

I'm 26, I'm excited with what I'm living with right now and what I'll be taking on in the years to come.
I just had to upvote, as you so totally found the words to express my thoughts and feelings regarding the former great idea, that was called the US of A.
So, again, just a number :)
No but that is not relevant at all. I have a lot of skills and education that open a lot of doors for me.

Many people do not have the same kind of options.
According to the design document [0] the primary reason is this problem with syslog: "Binary data cannot be logged, which in some cases is essential (Examples: ATA SMART blobs or SCSI sense data, firmware dumps)"

Also, instead of lines of utf8 strings, the systemd format is extensible. This means applications can store additional meta data without some syslog-grepping script breaking.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBA...
They are both the same side. The few small areas of conflict between the two parties are amplified in order to create the illusion that the outcome will be different.