skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a broken model for many reasons. For one is that it replacement omits or undervalues the cost to acquire and retrain a replacement to being a) competent in the context of the position, and longer term b) being truly integrated into the company and able to bring deeper value to the business.

Time to a) can be short, particularly if the candidate is a good fit, but time to b) is typically three years. Early in my career, I took a little offense when a manager once told me that it would take three years to become useful. After some discussion, that wasn't a comment about my technical ability or level of work (they were actually very happy about that), but it was just a realistic timeline to get to b), the point that they could throw about anything at me and I could reliably pull resources and people together to get things done for the company in an independent and cost-effective manner. Depending on the work, time to (b) could be shorter or longer, but it's surprisingly long - longer than many want to admit to themselves. Over the years, I've looked at people in companies through this lens, and three years is typical.

Companies with an employee "replacement cost" model often have churn rates so employees stay with the company well below (b).

The "replacement cost" model also leads unwillingness to invest in employees, either by explicit training, or on the job training anticipating increased responsibilities. After all, they might be gone soon and we just have to go shopping for a replacement.

Longer term employees (typically the mid-level management) are then stuck because they're managing details that they really wouldn't otherwise need to, masking time to take care of problems that they would otherwise should be the sole owners of.

They're both subtle outgrowths of undervaluing people, leading to company underperformance.
And to apologize: re the reflector, I assumed you were doing this, like BitSync, and that is why I question ed you in my first comment. I am glad you do not over-promise with tyour project. Good work.
Thanks. I studied a lot of economics in college, and putting things in terms of bigger pictures this way keeps my perspectives in line.
NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls
And this acquisition is brilliant - they acqui-hire, kill competition early for a relatively low price, and get to maintain their cozy duopoly with H&R Block in the tax prep market.
How Expedia turned their web expertise into mobile success
Github Emoji Cheatsheet
The NRA has had the freaking IRS audit it; I know during the Clinton Administration, I'd be surprised if that was the only time. And I'm pretty sure it has an independent auditor, it's huge, the NAGR is completely obscure and very close to being a lifestyle company/scam.

The NRA has serious credibility and no serious person doubts their 5 million cited membership number. You do realize that's only a fraction of the country's gun owning population?

OK, today the NRA is not accountable to its membership, I'll grant you that hands down. But it was during the critical period of the '70s.
NaCl, PNaCl, Flash, and PDF are not part of WebKit (unless you mean the NPAPI support needed to make it work; even if you're just talking about NPAPI, PNaCl needs Pepper, which is part of Chromium, not WebKit).
Who runs al-Qaeda
When it comes to compatibility you should think of a debian kernel based distro. Ubuntu, Mint(What I am currently using), or Debian(Stable, Testing, Unstable etc etc). If its your first time using Linux I would stick with something that is familiar to a Windows user, Mint.
Have you ever worked for a government in IT? If it's anything like the government job I used to have, they have all the equipment and policies in place to prevent breaches and data leaks, but it's poorly maintained or implemented... if it's even implemented at all. Yet, for the right people, it passes audit every year. It's all about looking good and following procedure, not being good.
'Remembering' as in 'bearing in mind' rather than 'looking back nostalgically' (i.e. as in 'remember to look both ways before you cross the road'). My first instinct on seeing the title was the same as yours.
They haven't even opened their data center in Utah, which they paid close to 2 billion dollars for, and is their largest single facility by far.

I would say that the timing suggests that it's more to do with leaks than it does infrastructure.
Just out of morbid curiosity, when do you think the U.S. became a police state? Decade-level precision is fine.
Hey hobs, it's possible some chrome plugin is interfering with Github authentication though. If you can provide a little more info, I can debug it for you.

P.S. I work for Koding.
All of the truly remarkable intelligences I met, I met at NSA. There are certainly people that aren't (as with any organization), but the NSA is probably the only meritocracy in the USG. The pipeline for advancement is one of either taking a technical route or a management route. This means that you can reach the highest levels of the organization and pay grades simply by being good at what you do in an analytical sense or a leadership sense.

The thing that the average HN reader doesn't realize is how much responsibility is on the shoulders of those who choose to spend their time in service to the country (this could be for any country). I couldn't imagine the comments that I've seen about blacklisting former government workers and publicly shaming service men and women coming from anyone who has carried this kind of responsibility.

My sidelining aside, you're definitely correct about TAO people being very skilled. I would have definitely loved to join their ranks. They wanted to swap a couple bodies to trade for me, but my division head wouldn't let me go =\
Get Webb's book: http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Pattern-Recognition-Andrew...
Play with tools like GGobi.

Be aware that most stuff in industry is waaaaay simpler than what comes out of academia. A simple linear classifier, if it works, beats a support vector machine that takes 10 times longer to implement.
Most of your day will be spent wrangling data, not dealing with fancy math.
The timeline doesn't fit, anyway:

As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.
I'm half Portuguese (Azorean). The name is from a parish in Angra do Heroismo, on Terceira.
So you see mass layoffs as a good thing generally speaking then?
3D printing tiny human livers
I agree about his actions. He was shocked that the company would ever screw him the way he screwed others. He was supposed to be different!

Unethical behavior is a funny thing. He would have been better off in pretty much every way had he taken one of those "bad" salespeople up on their offer to start a new venture.
Recall that the CIA really likes to hire Mormons for their loyalty [1]. I'd be REALLY interested in knowing what % of the remaining sys ads are Mormon.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/11-surprising-things-you-didn...
Police Taser 11 year old naked autistic girl [June 2013]
(APT = advanced persistent threat?)

I'm thinking back to the HDD firmware hack[1] that was on HN earlier this week -- if a HDD was exposed directly to a VM, that would definitely be a plausible attack vector.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347
Binney and Wiebe left NSA at what I think was the low point of the agency, after losing political battles internally and getting marginalized.

TAO, the shift to attacking IP networks, the shift to active attacks on commercial technologies (vs. spending years to defeat a decade-long-lifecycle foreign comm or cryptosystem), etc. mostly happened after they'd left.
Compared to Carter and Mondale he was OK; neither of them would have signed the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, which stopped the BATF from extinguishing the nation's gun culture.

Echoing damoncali, a lot of Republican politicians who were sent home to spend more time with their families have discovered to their dismay that the NRA doesn't give a damn about the party they belong to.
Ask HN: How do you deal with clients who keep second guessing your decisions?
I'm sure you've all encountered it but I haven't figured out how to overcome it yet even with years of freelance experience.

Let's say you have a client who wants a fairly basic "this is my business page", so you throw together a typical 10 page site and show them. They come back with "the page needs more pop", "make this word 4x larger" or "make these images twice as tall". These clients tend to have no idea how the internet works and have no experience with design or user experience decision making.

It gets under my skin because this type of behavior doesn't really exist in other trade industries. If you stood over your mechanic's shoulder and told him to use a different tool or stop everything he's doing to do it your way instead of his way he would probably punch you in the mouth yet this happens all the time with web development.

I understand that everyone thinks they have "the eye" and they want to somehow take credit for the site in some weird way. Usually these types of clients are the ones who will start blaming you if their site doesn't succeed too because they don't understand how the internet works and pretty much ignore all of the advice you give them.

Am I just unlucky to get these clients often or is it the norm? How do you deal with them? They are my biggest complaint with freelance work and honestly it's bad enough to me that it saps my will to work.

I also want to throw in that just giving into them because "the client is always right" isn't always a reasonable choice to make. Sometimes their decisions are really bad, so bad that I would no longer want to be associated with making the site. I would feel ashamed to have it in my portfolio.
There's a compiler optimization to automatically improve icache utilization by moving rarely executed code branches far out of line, so that they don't take space in the loaded cache lines when the straight line code executes. (This still leaves the wasted disk space and possibly RAM)

GCC docs sound like the trick would be -fprofile-use, -freorder-functions and -freorder-blocks-and-partition - after a representative profiling run.

A representative profiling run for a shipping binary is a problem of course, JITs win here. DEC had a dynamic binary reoptimization framework in the 90s called DYNAMO that could do it for AOT compiled binaries.
> Whenever I see something inspired by Clarke, Asimov or Roddenberry, I wonder who is inspiring the kids of today. Which movies or authors?

Even if there were parallels around (and, really, you aren't going to find an Asimov or even a Clarke every generation), the social, economic, and cultural situation of the early 21st century isn't the same as the one of the mid-20th, and doesn't lend itself to the same kind of popular reception for futurism that occurred especially during what might be described as the golden age of the American middle class from the end of WWII through about 1980, and continued later among the people that grew up in that period.
The warrant shown on Cryptome is from an earlier case in which Lavabit complied. Lavabit has received something much different in this current case, which is what led to the shut down.
Perverting Embedded devices
This has nothing to do with civil forfeiture. In rem actions are often used in cases where the owner of some property is unknown. Thus they are commonly used for domain name cybersquatting actions for example.
This is a wildly optimistic prediction. Listing some risks off the top of my head: 1) Viability of stations - cost to build/maintain stations, technical challenges for battery swap, customer acceptance of swap 2) Widespread adoption of EVs - so far they are only economical for luxury cars and with tax credits 3) Probability of competitive charging stations 4) Actual need for charging stations - really, only needed to do long trips. 5) Whether adoption of Tesla standards actually cedes any advantage.

I think control of the EV market is unlikely.
Encrypted Email service with links to Snowden Shut down
Of course, but my emphasis on "requires" was meant to deal with those cases, as it can be argued that that would constitute two languages -- one managed and one native.
This would all sound nice and all but where's the proof? Just hackers saying they will refuse government contracts doesn't mean anything.

I honestly hope they would do that but I lost hope in such a thing happening a long time ago.

Just dangle some money in front of the and they're just average suckers like the rest of humanity.
Do you really think an organization of that size and under that much political scrutiny would get away with such a lie? Not to mention the defrauding of their advertisers that would have to take place.

Even the Washington Post's fact checker column couldn't find fault with their numbers. And that's as anti-gun a newspaper as exists.
> In fact, I think it's likely that they're significantly smarter than any of us.

Bullshit. They're a pack of morons.

Unfortunately, they're a pack of morons with guns. Not that they have to resort to force. Frequently, they'll just use the legal system to beat you into submission.

Remember, while you have to pay your lawyer, they do not. Their legal funds are, for all intents and purposes, unlimited.
Blink is back
Playing with Scala Play
Online comment systems reveal multiple layers of social bias
A direct quote from my time at the Kodak call center, after pointing out how to navigate to Control Panel (via the start menu): "Start? My computer's already on!"
Short version: they are not - the real problem is that there are two values for the dollar in Argentina, the official one (highly manipulated to hide, among other things, the real value of inflation) and the unofficial one (the one everyone accepts as the real one, except of course for the government). The author is taking the "fake" dollar value and using it to prove that bitcoins are more expensive, but he could apply this approach to pretty much anything.

This is shown by the author in the second graph, btw, so I can only guess than the title has been intentionally framed in such a way that allows the author to write about economy in Argentina in a website dedicate to digital currency.
He was interesting. It's a shame how much he was ostracized by the very same people who used him to get to the atomic bomb. The book does his life and his life's work justice. It's an extremely interesting and well written account.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's COSMOS series is getting me seriously excited. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBTd9--9VMI

Not SF necessarily, but still inspiring.
Particularly interesting in the context of pg's removal of the ability to see comment scores.
Warning to anyone reading through that. The contents are horrifying.
So there aren't any people trying to latch onto every nook in order to subvert the original message? That's...intresting.

I'm mostly familar with the American Bill of Rights and the German Grundgesetz, which is much longer and contains more rights, albeit not always more solid definitions. I've been in discussions before, where I'd defend one right, and was contered with another, equally valid right that was somehow conflicting with the other. In that way, the Grundgesetz trips over itself, and it's hard to argue for a given interpretation (so are these rights equal, or is this right of a lower denomination than the other, and how far can you compromise this right so this right can be put into effect, and if everyone has a Recht auf Arbeit (Right to have work), aren't we infringing on that?).

Obviously, I'd rather have a terse, but in itself noncontradicting bill of rights than a long list of irreconcilable demands. But they're both not neccesairily optimal.
Mostly because DC20 happened a year ago, before Snowden.

I don't think GEN Alexander's PSD would have allowed him to attend Defcon this year. (not that his life would have been in danger, but enough violent/etc. heckling that people probably would have gotten hurt, which would be horrible press.)
It'd be much less of a target than any encrypted hosted mail since it wouldn't store anything, just be a pass-through filter.

Yeah, ideally we would all have our own encrypted, self hosted setup, but that's just not realistic.
This is great!

I actually learned something new from http://watchingover.us/appendix.html.
So how is this different from either having a copy of your git repository on your phone (which you can mount on your parent's computer), or accessing your own home server remotely (or an EC2 micro/free tier server instance)?
This was awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Using 3d printing to mimic the strength of bone
Amidst all the recent fervor surrounding law enforcement and privacy, I think the documents at the linked site are a good reminder that there are people in law enforcement working to protect the innocent.
A better way (than showing the passwords) to make it clear that storing the passwords is insecure was in the very next sentence after the snippet you quoted.

Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

Then tell me what's better:

- Asking users to store password, and having a menu hidden in the guts of Chrome's settings that most users will never look at.

OR

- Asking users to store password, and prompting them at the same time that doing so is insecure.

Keeping in mind that the vast majority of users of this software are average, non-techies.
Title is misleading. No one really uses the official goverment exchange rate. Also trade goes both way in Argentina, the market is illiquid so the spread is high.

Localbitcoins offers anonymized trade data from ARS, however it is somewhat crappy interface now: https://localbitcoins.com/bitcoincharts/ARS/trades.json?sinc... (iterate the since argument with tid)

https://localbitcoins.com/country/AR
SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police
> There are runtimes for NaCL, pNaCL, Flash, there's a PDF browser (some of these are plugins)

Really? While Chrome has all of those built in, the other WebKit browsers don't so why would it be in the WebKit source tree (especially after the mutual purges of the Blink/WebKit split.)

Also, all of those (except maybe the PDF viewer) in Chrome are plugins, and they are PPAPI (which was Chromium specific, not used by other WebKit browsers) not NPAPI plugins, and Flash and maybe the PDF viewer aren't bundled with Chromium (just Chrome) so its really weird that anything related to them would remain in WebKit.
I do add target="_blank" to links when you click on it. Not sure why its not opening in Safari. It used to open in safari, but not sure what happened.
tl;dr
Some reputational gain [for Canonical] is guaranteed.
Bloomberg will portray itself as a "forward-thinking company" and is actually better off not getting the 100 phones.
"To a significant degree, this episode has already succeeded in being disruptive, in proving that smaller players have new ways of tackling the status quo, and in acting as a very direct and powerful piece of market research for Canonical. "

Didn't enjoy the article. Basically wraps the actual argument in 1000 words to make it seem smarter.
The NRA is also very careful to support people who don't actually violate gun laws (whether because they are just normal people with guns for hunting/protection or people exploiting loopholes that - regardless of your feelings towards them - are codified by law), or who are at least making some attempt at a credible argument (trying to phrase this as politically neutral as possible. I'm not here to debate their policy, just observe their actions) for the legitimate need for it. The way the NRA gets support is from people who want to make it easier to legally own guns. If we are being honest, "hardened inner city thugs" are not people who care whether the gun they have is legal or not, just whether or not it's easy to get. The NRA's explicit mission is more specific than make guns easy to get. It's make them easier to get legally. Again, this supports the need for a hyperspecific single issue organization that focuses on privacy. The NRA gets a lot of traction by focusing on freedom and the Constitution. A privacy organization would be wise to take note of what plays with the NRA - worries about government databases of guns should be very easy to relate to actual government databases of communications.
The Skylon is not in the same bracket as Concorde. Concorde was largely an expensive route between London and New York, not an attempt to lower the costs to orbit, the economics of the situation are completely different.

If the Sabre engine does ever get used on a passenger plane, it will not be until after it has proven itself at getting into space, as getting into space is the job it is designed for.
There are quite a few sensor networks out there at the moment:

PressureNet: Android barometer sensors
ADS-B for flight data
AIS for ship traffic
CORS for precise GPS positioning data

It would not be out of the realm of possibility to have ~$500 software defined radios across the world with network connections, all funneling back to a data processing facility.
Gojee has released its standalone food app
'My police state is worse then your police state!'
I wonder if part of it also relates to a shift in which parts of the political spectrum people associate politically tinged, "potentially subversive" gun carrying with. In the '60s it was mainly associated with the militant left, especially groups like the Black Panthers. That may explain why conservatives of the time, like Reagan, supported gun control as part of a general strategy of supporting the police and law-and-order against armed subversives. Nowadays open carrying of guns by groups identifying as left-wing is rather rare, and instead the politics/gun association tends to be more associated with groups on the right, like the militia movement.

This is one issue on which my elderly conservative relatives almost entirely come down on the "liberal" side, though not enough to vote for Democrats. They tend to associate gun ownership with weird thugs and revolutionary communists and generally people who are up to no good. Admittedly, they are not from rural areas, where I assume views have always been quite different (the very conservative relatives I have live in suburban-conservative areas, e.g. some live in Orange County).

The move towards libertarian influence is a good point. I think of traditional conservative views being strongly pro-police (you don't find many liberals in friends-of-the-police type community organizations), but younger libertarians like Radley Balko tend to be very critical of police.
Actually, many, perhaps most gun owners don't constantly spend "serious money on guns all the time". There's a whole bunch who have one or two for self-defense in the home and almost never touch them. There are the "Fudds" who buy a few boxes of shotgun shells every year for hunting season, or a box of 20 rifle rounds every few. They're very ... there for concealed carry types, but we don't necessarily regularly spend money on them (most should, because for most skill decays rapidly, but real life gets in the way).

Plenty do, but every one of us feels threatened when we hear someone like DiFi say "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in" (even if that was technically only about "assault weapons", a politically defined category, we know what her end game is, guns for her but not for us).
Google introduces in-line ads to Maps apps
A baseball player lied to Congress and got charged with perjury. James Clapper lied to Congress, all the politicians listed in this article lied to the U.S. public, and what will they get? Industry jobs and high positions when they leave office. Capital rewards behavior benefiting capital.
Determining JavaScript test coverage with JSCover
The same thing as if you had done nothing.
So it is the same as everywhere ;)