skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This play is straight out of the wikileaks playbook that they used almost verbatim when the us was making a lot of noise about assange. It appeared to be effective, in that US intelligence took the threat seriously and were concerned about the ramifications of what might be included. One element of that was the belief that those docs included some kind of "kill shot" class leak that would pretty much sink Bank of America.

There were certainly elements of truth to all of these things - there was a document cache, it was encrypted, people did have split keys, it probably did include elements of what was revealed as the robosigning scandal.

But from hearing discussion about it the subject, I think that US Intelligence now more or less holds the opinion that it was a bluff. Nothing of significant harm was included in the unreleased documents, though I think that's informed speculation and not some kind of confirmed fact.

All of a sudden after Snowden was getting helped by wikileaks and he was under a lot of pressure, the revelation of a similar encrypted cache of documents distributed widely was given to a lot of news agencies, and has regularly come up at opportune times in friendly media outlets.

I haven't been told this by anyone, but I'm pretty sure the intelligence community isn't buying it. Reports by greenwald were somewhat inconsistent with idea that there is a large cache of even more damning documents left. He's been travelling internationally, was staying in hong kong where many services operate openly, and presumably under pressure from a variety of security services and states as he tries to escape moscow and secure a safe place to live. It is hard to keep secret keys and documents secure under the best of conditions, and those are about the worst conditions possible.

The only reasonable thing to assume here is that it's all burned - everything snowden walked away with is or will be in the hands of foreign states and anything particularly damning will likely end up in the press sooner or later.

So if you believe that, that there is no way to unring this bell, the last thing you're going to do is spend any time being concerned about a dead man's crypto cache.

If you're willing to do enough horse trading to close the entire european airspace to a single individual, you're pissed and you're gonna do whatever it is you want to do. That's not going to include killing him, simply because the cost is high and the benefit is low. But they are clearly going to exert an inhuman amount of resources into making him regret being born.

And that's absolutely unrelated to Mr. Snowden. That's all for the effect it will have on anyone having similar thoughts. I think he's awesome and did Americans and the world a great favor, and that's he's really brave. And yet after seeing this go down if I was ever in a position to consider doing something like this there is no fucking way I'd ever think I could handle this kind of heat. Not a chance, no question.

Problem solved.
It's not just the auto industry; Detroit was a US industrial hub, and had a diverse manufacturing employment base that included defense spending, textiles, energy, food... the whole Rust Belt got shellacked by deindustrialization. I might go out on a limb and say that if anything, the auto industry kept Detroit alive. Look what happened to Gary for a more grim example.
Did... they do that svg path overlay on the map image by hand? Or is there something that makes creating these shapes easier?
but by the time Mao died, China was a broken way-more-than-half-agrarian society, and below a lot of third world countries. Kind of like North Korea today.

The best one can say is, China was a basket case before Mao, he established a strong system of central control and a level of human development ie literacy and medical care, and those paved the way for development after Mao.
Percona Toolkit 2.1.10
You can always use a headline like "Google, Apple, Facebook and 50 others like this"
... and don't forget California's ace in the hole: the climate.
I don't quite understand why you would want him back in the states for trial. It has been said that these matters are above the DOJ and therefore held in a secret court. Is that really fair? Do you honestly believe that the US would allow for a fair and open trial?(lets say something as televised as Trayvon Martin case)
Some Linux Project
Oh that is so untrue. Not everything to do with politics is the party political system. I've worked with planning officers and researchers who work in government before, and many of them are really nice people who are honestly trying to do their best for the people around them and the places they live.

Lots of people just spend their lives trying to research how to make the world a little less crap, or planning infrastructure, or trying to keep people in housing. With limited resources, and a system that backfires on them from time to time because they've relatively little power in the grand scheme of things (depending on government structure and incentives) but that doesn't make them bad people.
Every JavaScript engine has its own implementation of the JS standard library. V8's, for example, is almost entirely implemented in JS itself, while SpiderMonkey's is implemented mostly in C++ (though is migrating to more self-hosted in JS).
It wasn't the simplicity of the installer interface. It was the actual installation. Ubuntu did the best job simply working with a large variety of hardware. You installed it and you didn't have to do a bunch of painful manual setup by modifying a dozen obscure config files. Linux had the reputation of being a pain to setup, and ubuntu addressed that.
Pickpocketing is alive and well in the UK/europe where they have entire teams of pickpockets especially around transit and subways.
Instead of wondering they should, perhaps it would be more constructive/informative to learn why they haven't.
I got pickpockets in Bryant Park (Manhattan) in the summer of 2010. It was a surreal experience, at least two people involve (one bumped).

I realised what had happened about 15 seconds afterwards, but it was too late. Just crowds.

They did an excellent job!
People want to live in the city because it is nothing short of amazing in terms of bars, restaurants, city beauty, and many other factors. The jobs are all further south.
Middle class black families don't want to (really: won't) move into a city with high crime and low employment prospects. We attribute a racial dynamic to Detroit because of the label "white flight", but it's the label that's racist; the dynamic transcends race.

You see the same thing in Oak Park, on the outskirts of the West Side of Chicago, where I live. If you can get out of Humboldt Park and North Lawndale, you do: the schools are better and the neighborhood is safer. And the move from Lawndale to Oak Park doesn't even change your employability, unlike a move out of Detroit.
Yep

http://www.iconstituent.com/constituent-gateway-crm/
What You Should Know Before Taking Your Home Loan
At least his calculator works in Chrome.
I live in Petaluma up in Sonoma county. I commuted to the city for a year on a nice direct bus-line that usually got me to/from the city in about an hour. I know that sounds long but the bus was more comfortable than bart, had wifi and I'd just code my way to/form work. Seemed better than as East Bay commute.

Best move I've ever made. Surrounded by beautiful country, better weather and a very friendly, hip community with great restaurants, bars and the like.

It may not be for the 20 year olds, but when you're ready or can work a couple days from home, there are definitely affordable alternatives other than SF and the Valley. My previous rent check now covers a house mortgage, yard, insurance and taxes. Plenty of places in northern or western Marin that are the same. It's more affordable than you think.

Almost more importantly, my neighbors and friends out here aren't all in startups. There's some actual diversity to the residents, being a mix of farmers, blue collar workers and desk job commuters.
Yup. Bankers get bailed out, everyone else must give up what they worked for.
In US style dates, 2/6/11 (February 6th, when Skype appears on Prism slide) comes before May 10th (when Skype was purchased by MSFT).

If that isn't the source of confusion, I don't understand your point.
That's actually a pretty good argument if there were a more or less constant number of robbers. In a situation where you were definitely going to be robbed - as seems to be the case if you want it to be analogous with government: Would you rather be robbed by a complete drugged out psychopath who'll kill you if you twitch or someone relatively calm who definitely won't kill you if you just hand over the money?
Ooh, more data from the Housing Inventory reports [0] by the Planning Department.

Net gain or loss of units:

* 2000: 1,797
* 2001: 1,779
* 2002: 2,408
* 2003: 2,496
* 2004: 1,487
* 2005: 1,855
* 2006: 1,914
* 2007: 2,567
* 2008: 3,263
* 2009: 3,454
* 2010: 1,230
* 2011: 269

[0] http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1663
Really..? 'Attack'?

Again: journal is already part of Fedora, enabled by default and doing its job. The whole discussion is whether a separate syslogd is going to be provided by default. Most people here _love_ Chef/Puppet etc. -> Just override the default and make sure that a syslogd is installed. Done.

Nobody 'attacks' anything. Proponents of one module want to remove a redundancy. That's not an attack.

Anecdote:
I happen to know a thing or two about Tomboy (note taking app, written for Mono). Someone thought that Mono is 'teh ev!l' and created GNote, a more or less line by line port of Tomboy to a different language. Some distributions replaced Tomboy with GNote, after being convinced that it's the better choice. That's not an attack, it's potentially lobbying - or just plainly a matter of choice.
And how is bankruptcy going to prevent this from occurring again? Will future politicians still have the ability to grant crazy pensions knowing their term won't endure its negative effects? Not sure what the solution is but I don't think bankruptcy will solve it.
I bet it's really because Glass laughed at his mustache.
And they are an unbearable menace. Something about being on a segway makes people think that it is okay to run over others.
Yeah. Sublime Text is our best plugin. There are still some issues with it on linux, but we use it every day.
I actually blame California cost of living for stagnation of database industry.

I know many smart people in SF and LA, who created great open-source projects as a hobby. After a few years this project matures, and it would be great time to turn hobby into business. But they have to keep working for large company, to support family.

Some stuff (such as DBs) is just bellow VCs radar. I guess it is good for me. My startup is all about collecting abandoned ideas and adding nice wrapping.
In a perfect world, this would be the case. Unfortunately, you end up working with people who are both secure in their position and lazy. They can do the job, and you need them to do the job, but they don't really feel like doing it.

I have such a person in my own job. She's perfectly capable, but she gives zero fucks and is happy to let it pile up until someone orders her to do her job.

My remedy? Show up, in person, with the request form in my hand and say hi. Chat with her, ask about her day, etc. She deals with idiots on the phone all day faxing things and then calling ten minutes later complaining that they aren't done. By showing up and chatting, I get my work pushed straight up to the top of the queue.

Personally, I wish that I could fax my stuff in and get my response back promptly. Instead, I make do with what I have.

Unfortunately, this leads to my boss calling her my girlfriend and joking about the hot steamy affair I'm having whenever I go over to her office.
Make it extremely convenient to travel to and from SF from a couple of directions at a distance of 25-50 miles?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
That's pretty great, I can finally use Docker for my Django apps (I didn't want to include the Postgres data in the image).
#10 Crowded is creative.
#13 Show up.

I couldn't say I agree. It flat out dismisses companies that do perfectly well while having remote teams. I guess it depends on if you have a company that focuses on discussion more than say building something.
"In San Francisco last year, only 269 new units came on the market."
on an only somewhat related note, I'm much more troubled by the fact that reporting these numbers is currently illegal, than by the fact it's occurring, and I'm surprised more people don't express a similar view.

that's because i can imagine situations (e.g., FBI identify a child trafficker) where i am okay with his privacy being compromised. but I can't for the life of me come up with a scenario where it benefits society to hide these statistics. for crying out loud, tell us how much data you're looking at!
Does anyone have any insight into how this affects residents of the suburbs like Livonia, Farmington Hills, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, etc.? I've been visiting "Detroit" since I was a kid, but in reality was always staying with people outside Detroit proper.
How about the Chicago-ization? If San Francisco were as dense as the densest 47 square miles of Chicago, it could fit 1.1 million people: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak1exuXV7898dDR....

Manhattan is a different world of density. The daytime population (which is what you think of when you think Manhattan-like density) is over 3 million people in 22 square miles. Midtown Manhattan is probably at 200k+ people per square mile in the day time.

My neighborhood in Chicago was ~50k per square mile, and it could seem pretty empty on the weekend (skyscrapers aside). If San Francisco were developed to that density uniformly, it could fit 2m+ people.
You can't really be expecting people to go against their own interests without a competing value proposition?
That's why I brought up the car analogy with the user. Most people aren't car experts either.

I haven't found the perfect answer, other than refusing to work on the ticket until more detail is provided (of course, sending them a nice note asking them to explain more).

Maybe in the ticketing system you could have 2 explicit text fields, "What are you seeing?" and "When do you see it?". The what are you seeing could let them type or upload a screenshot, since people like sending screenshots.
It is my hope, and this is unpopular I know, that Detroit successfully unburdens itself from all obligations associated with pension plans. I certainly support pensions for people who dedicate their life to public service, but seeing cities and counties decimated by poorly managed pensions is crushing. Between early qualification, and 'punching' or otherwise basting your pension salary based on your last year worked, have been policies that have robbed other pensioners and citizens alike of benefits and services. Without a reasonable discussion about what can be expected of the taxpayers to bear, and what cannot, we will see more Detroits.
> I see lots of pitchforks out and pointed at these companies, but I don't get why.

If you're working at one of these companies that handles millions of peoples data, you'd better learn more empathy for your customers.

The fact that you work at Google and can't understand this is frightening to me.
I've been using both for weird format files and codecs (anything more or less standard is streamed to the tv directly) and felt that VLC tends to try as much as possible to read everything, while MPlayerX is more tolerant towards garbage in the stream and won't bother recovering mildly invalid data.

Part of the lag in VLC when starting a stream might come from a more heavy handed init process.

This can be a curse or a blessing, I'm happy both approaches are available.
Reddit in the Red...still...
thank you sam. As you mentioned, we fixed it :)
I don't think I can ever trust any of these companies again, sorry. It's sad. I really liked their products. In my case it only matters with regards to Google. Gmail, for instance, feels creepy when I log in.

On the other hand, competitors have a chance to catch up now. Which is great news for consumers.
Related to the other thread about San Francisco housing prices, in Detroit they should have hit rock bottom. Which would be good for cash-strapped startups trying to increase their runway.

I know nothing about crime rates, transportation and other amenities which could make life difficult. Is it that bad?
Thank you, it's good to keep in mind that as far as the public has been told, the companies are claiming and the government is agreeing that all requests are legal requirements by the government on these companies. I don't understand the tone here either.

But there's a whole different discussion to be had around:

>If it's cooperation, what do they get out of it?

I'm just spit balling here, but tax breaks and favorable legislation are a reasonable first guess. Keep in mind that just like the legal justification for these user data requests, the meetings of the parties involved here (congressmen and company representatives) are not public knowledge. We don't know what benefits are or may be offered.

In fact, we don't know what benefits could be offered. Most of the public--HN included--can't even guess or imagine the benefits that a company would seek in an instance like this. Most of us simply don't have business knowledge at that level, let alone knowledge of the business interests and goals of an individual company as large as Facebook.

So the absence of any of us being able to give a good answer to 'what do they get out of it' is not a good reason to believe that they're not getting something out of it.

We all like to believe in the good of people. But it's our responsibility as the governed, in order to protect our liberty and the liberty of those who follow us, to challenge the actions of the government especially actions on this scale of importance--because we're effectively questioning if the government is already using telecommunications as telescreens.
If you click the author's name at the top it takes you here:

https://www.eff.org/about/staff/seth-schoen

Personally I'm relieved that the eff does not have public comments on articles, people find them from search engines, news site, and shouty blogs often - could you imagine the signal to noise?
The interesting stuff has always happened outside of SF. Before Google and before startups, I was interested in a bunch of programming-language theory and systems programming research. The hotbeds of that were places like Rice, Yale, INRIA, Seattle, the UK, eastern europe, etc.

What SF offers you is a combination of money, risk-taking, technical expertise, legal expertise, openness to new ideas, and experience taking ideas and turning them mass-market. Bay Area startups are built to scale, and scale fast. A lot of the interesting fundamental research happens elsewhere, but when it comes to taking a basically good idea and convincing millions of people to adopt it, there's nothing quite like the infrastructure in Silicon Valley.
They actually produce a new release every two weeks, it's just you're at a much higher risk of encountering a regression.
People are upset with Google because they trusted an ever increasing amount of their personal data to a company who's mantra is, "Don't be evil", only to discover Google was facilitating snooping from a third party whistle blower. Google has asked its users to trust their good intentions. The revelation that nobody at Google was willing to speak out before Snowden can only be viewed as a deep failure of ethics on an organization-wide level.

Trust is necessary for Google's business model. This letter represents a truly minimal attempt at self-preservation. If you truly want to regain you users' trust then you need to be transparent. Who at Google failed to tell the truth until it served their own interests? Who decided to meekly comply rather than taking a stand? Name names. What is going on that we still don't know about? Silence is support.
Can we get a warning in the title that this doesn't just link to an article?
Fixed land mass is a canard. Infill development requires little land. One Rincon Hill has almost 600 units and is built on about the size of a plot that a single-family home would have been built on, in most parts of the country.

Rent control is becoming increasingly irrelevant as anything constructed after 1978 is exempt, which is most of SOMA.
The 3 Most Exciting Words in Science Right Now: 'The Pitch Dropped'
The US leaders who started these wars had no issue making comparisons to WW2 and claiming Bush compared to Churchill. Words such as 'Crusade' were used. Good versus Evil. Crappy comparisons have been a hallmark of the campaigns. What I said was, to my knowledge, fact. I was attempting to point out that friends can become enemies, so a bit of tact and care is obviously a good idea. And of course, claiming you're on a crusade and fighting evil is just plain BS. The US deserves castigation for its role in these conflicts, it has acted appallingly, as have others. My own country, New Zealand, has troops in Afghanistan and have been involved in some controversy. The only reason I can think of for this deployment is to brown nose a few so-called allies. Making the world safer one botch job, torture and killing at a time.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bush-s-use-of-word-cru...

http://www.3news.co.nz/Govt-cant-rule-out-SAS-link-in-Afghan...
Aha. Yeah, didn't think of that. Yikes.
Naomi Wolf has argued that the first step to an authoritarian state is to conjure a terrifying internal and external enemy, such as "terrorists". Cameron Stewart seems to have bought into this idea of an eternal enemy in stating, "[US citizens] are willing to pay that price to maintain security in the era of terrorism."

An era implies a distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic: it has a beginning and an end. As Bruce Fein (of the American Freedom Agenda) noted, "there will be no defined end"... to terrorism, in part due to the expansion of the definition of terrorism itself.

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

Looking from high above, spying is an act of distrust. Distrust divides. I believe humanity should seek to unify its nations; we have much untapped potential, and spying will only delay us from reaching the stars.

People seem to forget that at present time humanity has no backup.
That's horrible.

Paying the high rents isn't that bad. It sucks to have to have sell off your prime saving years to landlords, but the high tech wages and career benefits of spending one's 20s in high-prestige companies almost sorta quasi-compensate for that.

The problem is that it's culturally devastating when rent gets that high. When rent prices go up, losing a job is a financial catastrophe (as opposed to an annoying inconvenience) and employers know they can get away with more bullshit. Adventurism goes away and you get an almost creepy deference to authority in the workplace that's unbecoming of high-talent people. That's a big part of why the New York startup scene is, while well-funded, so unimaginative and mediocre.

If Silicon Valley wants to be relevant in 25 years, it will drop some Nordic Indignation on the NIMBY assholes. New York has tons of other stuff and will be fine (as a city, if not necessarily a tech scene) when what is now called "the Series A crunch" is fully fledged and recognized as what it it is-- a post-bubble correction, the start of a bust-- but the Valley will die if it doesn't reverse course. (By the way, one might think that prices would come down and reverse the problem; that doesn't happen. Real estate prices are so sticky against downward movement that, by the time they start to seriously drop, it's too late.)