skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read,
"You will have more access to the documents we want you to see."
and
"We want to figure out how to get the American people to be OK with us violating their constitutional rights, because I'm OK with it."
I hope it helps. That lesson came from pain in my last B2B company. We built in CC payments into our SaaS - and then found out most companies paid all their vendors monthly via check.
Could have been a bit more diplomatic, but I agree that I didn't think of either of the two uses that diesellaws mentioned. Couldn't let go of my desktop mindset.

I can't believe that Apple hasn't come up with some excuse to release the hounds. Few good deeds go unpunished with those guys.
You really can't figure it out?
www.infowars.com
because there's no unsubscribe. i went through a few recruiting agencies 5 years ago to get a job and now that my contact info is in all these recruiter databases, i get emails and/or phone calls almost daily. Even if I tell one recruiter I'm not interested, there will be a different one bothering me tomorrow. The worst part is that many of them are contacting me about jobs in a city that I don't even live in anymore.
Thank your choice of profession that you even have this 'problem'.

I would literally dance on my hands if I were hounded (courted?) this way in my choice of profession (bio/pharmaceutical research)!

Hell, if someone knows where else I could put up email, phone and CV to be seen by successful recruiters, please let me know.

Quit the whining and be a bit more thankful for what you do have. Sheesh!
Well put. Taken to the extreme, I'd hate to live in a world where everyone understood what dscacheutil does, but didn't know how to play a guitar chord.

I'd like to think that the original author is referring to what happens some of the time, not all of the time. It's the growing pains that come with rapidly advancing as a society. I can't imagine that this is such a major issue that it's tearing at our ability to move forward.
This was found on a deployed instance, rather than in the main Joomla source repository or download? The article doesn't make this clear.
The problem on Reddit isn't really the existence of lighthearted comments, but the fact that they inevitably get moderated to the top of the thread, obscuring more insightful comments. That's what they're trying to prevent here, I think. I wouldn't take it personally.
Thanks mate! Appreciate the kind works and your hard work in building something great for developers, too!
So true. Someone needs to mail him a 3.5 floppy disks with management tips plastered all over it. No sense in buttering up "layoffs" as "impacts" if he can't keep his cool. Rough day I guess.
DELETE /sessions/:id
The Real Elysium
Administrations white paper on surveillance [pdf]
There are two valid reasons I can think of why the verbs need to be specified somewhere for universal agreement:

- So that proxies can potentially retry idempotent requests if the upstream fails. Retrying a partially sent GET should be ok, while retrying a partially sent POST is a terrible idea. It's nice in theory, but in practice only reverse proxies at the application endpoint really have the information necessary to make this decision, since many sites have non-idempotent GETs.

- Because it affects whether or not there's a request or response body. GETs have no request body but should have a response body. POST/PUT/etc. should have both a request and response body. HEADs have neither a request nor response body. At the moment the only way for an intermediary to know whether a request is finished is because it understands these methods, and this is also true of any extension methods (which is why proxies should generally fail on unknown methods).

Mostly it comes down to an issue of routing. And in the end, the ability to have working proxies was an important factor in the popularity of the web imo.

But really the first issue is largely moot already and the latter could be fixed in the protocol so that presence or absence of a body could be signalled in the protocol itself (probably is in http2.0 actually).

All of that aside, though, http2.0 may never fully replace http1.1. I think there may even be a large portion of the web development community that is hoping it won't. In which case, interop will keep those verbs in place forever.
I appreciate that you came back with a legitimate citation, but the rest of your comment is uncalled for. What I googled were the points that defend my position, not the other way around - the burden for that is on the opposing defense, not my own.

What about my comments appears as though I just look for self-validating information and ignore the rest? The parts where I questioned scientific rigor, sampling size, case instances, etc?
They're trying to cash in a fat bonus, not getting people a job first and foremost. At least the ones who message me after not reading my profile, just having a single buzzword match.
Yeah, we say that but I've never seen, or even heard of it, being used that way literally. When I was with $LARGE_TELECOM for 5+ yrs it was at-will but warnings+paperwork had to be done to justify firing someone. Or it had to be in a wave of layoffs.

Definitely not:

"We just got a new coffee machine in the lobby. It's great. How was your weekend Bob? That's nice. Oh by the way, did you get the news? You're fired. Extra cardboard boxes are by the printer. You don't work here anymore so don't touch the last bit of coffee; Susan's got a string of meetings this morning and hasn't had a chance to get a cup yet."
> didn't make it clear that this was a proprietary event

how do you know?
When the specific causes are not unique but are shared amongst many other experimental sets, then yes you must explain why the cause had one effect in your set but did not have that effect in the other sets.
My guess is people want to feel like coding is something meaningful and worthwhile that they do instead of a lucrative, in-demand job in which they function as an expensive but interchangeable cog.
Perhaps, I don't pay that close attention to the countries my ancestors left, although I do know there a lot more legal guns owned than you realize, check Wikipedia, plus Germans for some inexplicable reason are thought to have keep possession of ... 26 million? illegal guns. Start e.g. here and note France and Austria as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_co... ; dig around in Wikipedia or the sources for official legal vs. estimated illegal.

But irrelevant to my general point of:

Gun grabber atrocities were followed by gun owner political power.

A stark lack of privacy atrocities is correlating with no privacy political power.
AREN'T WE ALL PART OF HUMANITY? 
We are all connected in the web of life.
Execution and Result are not independent things. Firing someone in a professional, mature, tactful way is a different thing than what the CEO did. They're not just different styles: the firing of a person is an act intended to have a particular business outcome, and those different routes will have different outcomes.

To quote Steven Brust, "The relationship between ends and means isn't one of justification, it's one of proscription."
> linux is completely described by its source code.

I would say that linux is defined by the way its source code [in C] runs on machines [of various kinds]. It's also helpful to know some history, especially of unix, for context. And the communities of people that use linux. I think there's more to understanding linux, or even describing it, than the source code only.
FYI when I click on "Try the form builder" I get a 500 internal server error

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@ncrafts.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at ncrafts.net Port 80
Sen. Feinstein: 'Real' Journalists Draw Salaries
And sorry for misunderstandings on my part.
This is one of my current problems in curriculum design. I agree fully with Lockhart, and I strongly feel that requiring math is a mistake. But at the same time, you do need significant math skills in order to appreciate science with any meaningful depth, and I feel that science is a requirement.

The proper next step, it seems to me, is to figure out what bits of science we really want to teach and then figure out how to explain math through that.

> How can you teach someone to balance a checkbook?

Outside of America, no one uses checkbooks anymore. There's no reason to use exact change for tipping, either: just estimate a percentage and then round up. Or splitting the bill: the servers virtually always have a calculator at their disposal.
I completely agree! By other's perspectives my hardest semester was when I took PDEs, Geometry Space-time (Minkowski), Algorithms, P-chem (Quantum Mechanics), and Analysis. However there was so much over lap with all the materials and topics. A few weeks after midterms all the course work just fit together like a 100 piece puzzle.
Edward Snowden, patriot
YouTube "Geek Week"
Sorry, I've found that arguments based on actual real problems don't resonate. Pointing out that bees kill more people each year in the US than terrorists, that the average american has 150x more chance of being killed by lightning than by a terrorist attack -- these straightforward statistical analyses don't convince because they aren't personal the way that photo is - practically everyone in the country spent weeks looking at versions of that photo. It just isn't the same.
You might enjoy Lockhart's book, Measurement.
http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/067405755...
I would suggest that the stories about 9/11 anti terror funds and police being outgunned are mere rationalizations.

The police departments can have all of these weapons, the issue is how they are deployed and the consequences for violating the terms of engagement. If police officers were regularly sentenced to prison for killing puppies, for no knock raids, or killing innocents, then there would hardly be any controversy.
Well, the article mentions a "tipster" that described the event. This seems like important information that should have been included if it was said.
You guys need to do what we are doing in Brazil, protests every day until government change its position and create a true agenda, and a new pact with his people.. its working over here.. the government are doing now in weeks things it use to take years to do..

We live in a age where polititians are completely obtuse from the people who elect them..

we live in the age of schizophrenic democracies.. the people are much more evolved and sophisticated, and they are still doing the same sort of politics it use to work in the past..

well, we need to make them hear a clear message, they need to hear that things have changed, we changed for the better, and if they insist in not listening to us.. let them know that or they do it, or we will make it work in other ways..

but making them know we are not just that silly harmless sheap that accepts everything anymore.. and that consumism its not enough anymore.. we want and need more.. they will listen.

at least we are having a good experience overhere.. they are aware of us, of our needs and our expectations.. finally!
The alternative to flying Paris/London - New York on Concorde would be flying the same route on a regular widebody, potentially for less than $1000 return, whereas some crude maths suggests the cost of the written-off development subsidy for Concorde worked out at around $2k per passenger per flight in 2013 dollars.

It's not that developing Concorde was unusually expensive, at around $10bn in 2013 dollars. It's that because they were so hideously expensive to fly the entire programme resulted in less than 90,000 flights, including test flights (Delta has individual DC-9s approaching 70k flight cycles). That doesn't compare favourably with a $1bn engine programme that sells hundreds at $15million+ a pop and millions of dollars worth of replacement parts.

($10bn of taxpayer money across 90k flights works out at over $100k per flight. According to their stats BA carried around 50 passengers per flight - around 50% full - so assuming Air France had similar load factors that's a $2k subsidy per passenger.)
Hah, yes! I hated math in high school but wound up graduating with a BS in mathematics from the University of Chicago. It wasn't until I took my first math course at Chicago using Michael Spivak's Calculus that I thought, "Wait, if this is math, what was I studying all through high school?"
I don't hate them. I welcome recruiters to contact me.

Some developers do not welcome recruiters to contact them, but they get recruiters contacting them anyways.
NSA comment on Reddit
My cousin was in that meeting, apparently the back story is that he was responsible for a design that everyone is against.

He says he was probably going to be fired anyway.
The links okay. It's the heavy traffic from HN. Never dreamt of it. Please refresh.
You should remove it, but it's exemplary of the whole post. Bizarrely defensive and hostile over exaggerated, hypothetical or imagined slights.
Too many snide jokes to be made about "Real" Senators. Must resist...
In a lot of the discussions I'm seeing on here, it seems like a lot of the disagreement is around the question of whether it is reasonable to expect that people should be expected to know how their tools work.

I would have to take the position that people should have some in-depth knowledge of how their tools work. Why? All abstractions are leaky. Would you expect a carpenter to use a (powered) saw without knowing how it is designed and how the blade is driven (for safety and making smooth cuts)? Would you expect a radiologist to interpret x-ray photos without having an understanding of the impact that different energy (KeV) radiation and film/sensor technology has on the resulting image?
If indeed the individual was leaking company information, it would make this an even more poorly calculated move.

Firstly, you may know this individual was leaking company information, but the rest of your employees do not. So what is, to you, a righteous punishment would seem to everyone else as arbitrary and vindictive. A display of force may be a calculated move, a display of force that appears random and arbitrary, is just stupidity.

So you just rightfully fired someone while dropping morale through the floor because it looks like you're out for random blood.
Similar to the mysql-semicolon cluster:
http://jvns.ca/projects/unix-command-survey/graph.html?cente...
Well, what was his argument? Based on his second reply, he seems to think that because it only depends on your ability to reason that it should be easy. But doesn't that trivialize the matter? As long as we have mathematical models, as we do in physics and in chemistry, then it should be just as easy to learn physics and chemistry.* So then what does he consider hard to learn? Are the social sciences hard to learn? The 'it is of the mind' is a non-argument to me. And I don't think he addressed anything I said.

Anyway, this is almost irrelevant to what I was saying. Even if you assume every person can reason well, I'm saying you could still be in error unless you seek validation and guidance. It's really easy to think you've given a solid argument for something, but actually be wrong. It happens to everyone.

*By the way, there is a definite trend in physics for math, instead of experimentation, to be leading the way towards discovery.
The place I used to work at had a similar idea, just an incredibly poor execution. LocalOn has the right idea - local businesses are very skeptical of non-local companies especially startups. They're typically much more emotionally invested in their business than salespeople account for, and don't want to associate their business with a perceived loser [0].

If you're a startup trying to edge your way in to the long tail of local sales, focus on getting a sales partner with local cred. The local break/fix or MSP shop will be an excellent bet - they already resell plenty of tech products.

[0] Anything other than a winner, e.g. most startups.
CloudFlare and Free Speech
I agree that it would be foolish to trust anything Obama says at this point. But I also found a bit of solace in his paying lip service to the Constitution. Given the government's increasingly open hostility toward anything resembling liberty or reason, I had developed a foreboding about how quickly things might devolve into totalitarianism. At least for now it seems we have achieved a temporary moment of stability.
I don't think he was implying that Snowden is not as he presents himself to be, just that the outcome of all this might be apathy.
yeah,me too! I would gladly donate 0.5K to 1K rupees!(if it was as easy as paying for pizza)
That's always been the fate of true patriots. Even in Revolutionary times, my understanding is that well over half of the colonial population had a neutral or even positive attitude towards the British. Surprisingly few people wanted to rock the boat.

It's always easy to do the right thing when everybody agrees with you.
I am really sad that lavabit.com is now gone. Why? It seems like all our rights are being washed away.
Location history, however is here: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

I'm glad they kept that, I find it quite handy for several things, including as a cross check on how much time I spend at $client.
Their mental image of a mechanic is some person laying on their back under your car doing work. They can mentally see him doing some form of work even if it's not the truth.

Their mental image of a web developer is some dude sitting down in front of a computer pressing buttons and then their site just works.
“I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).” -- Derrida

Both you guys might enjoy this essay on Derrida. I've read a couple volumes of his work, and this is a very balanced view of it: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/25/derrida-exc...

I do think that Foucault's theories are quite applicable and expandable, though it's true that he can be pretty obscurantist. As the Chomsky essay notes, the history of French intellectualism that these guys come from is a very particular situation, something that even most of their non-French acolytes fail to appreciate. Most specifically, this whole generation of French theorists came of age around 1968.[1]

A whole lot can be deduced when you understand that France's intelligentsia at the time were largely structuralists who believed that history moved along rationally, according to an underlying structure. Post-structuralism as such was an attempt to reappropriate the happenings of 1968 as a "rupture", something that was new, unprecedented, unforeseen -- a real event. As Deleuze writes about it, the concept of an event is unintelligible in a structuralist sense, since a structuralist views an event as a mere surface-level phenomenon of a static underlying structure. I imagine if you went to Woodstock and told the hippies that nothing new was going on, but that their generation was the inevitable result of everything that went before them, they would similarly protest in the name of personal freedom.

It is unsurprising, then, that Derrida's work is much like the brooding of an intelligent teenager. All across the world, the Teenager came into his own in the late 1960s. Any adult of reasonable humility knows that a teenager can bring to light simple truths that the adult has grown accustomed to ignoring. And that is the value of Derrida. I agree with Chomsky that much of it is banal -- but so are most bits of wisdom.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_events_in_France

[2] The real shame of French Theory is more about the way it contributes to the already benighted state of humanities education in a professionalized capitalist society, which rewards specialization and competition and opens the way for obscurantist occultism as the easiest way to maintain a level of job security. Sigh...
considering there are still hundreds of thousands of Joomla sites running 1.5 or lower this is very scary.
They are opening messages that don't cross borders.
I should look up the discussions for this quote, but I share your view -- such achievements are not _difficult_ or unattainable, they are a _necessity._

I pay for the convenience, productivity, and in some cases _safety_ of having someone else do certain jobs -- but I _always_ make it a point to understand _what exactly_ a professional is doing for me.

I've done all sorts of things in my two decades: I've replaced garage doors, high voltage lighting fixtures, electrical panels, theatre lighting, wheel bearings, strut towers, head gaskets, automobile brakes, ignition coils, automotive and marine batteries, flat tires. I've installed car radios, 120V 10+ Amp switches and outlets, appliances, cabinets, plumbing fixtures. I've assembled computers, shortwave radios, robots [out of legos, soon arduinos], model R/C planes, cars, etc.

I don't consider any of this _unattainable_ or even _extraordinary._ -- There are many things I hope I never have to do again, and there are many things that took me ages to do: but I'm still glad I did it, and I would _never_ put an upper bound on the number of things I _still need to obtain._

That is the key. I am not done, I will _never_ be done. I will go to the grave wishing I had accomplished more.

To say that two or three of these feats is a major achievement is laughable. _These achievements are what life is about._ Not the 8-hours I spend at my desk on a weekday, not the X-hours I spend watching television series, or reading fiction. Not the Y-dollars I spend or invest.

Life is about learning, creating, experiencing. Achieving two or three of the listed feats is no major achievement, it's the mark of a boring individual who cannot claim to _truly have lived._

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I don't expect everyone to be an expert on every field of study -- but I cannot understand the lack of desire to know more. You commute every day, why _wouldn't you_ want to know more about your preferred mode of transport. (How it works, how to repair it, etc.) Even if that's _walking_, there's plenty you can learn about exercise, biology, etc.

You probably get sick several times a year: why wouldn't you want to learn about modern medicine? Hygiene? etc.

How can one turn on a radio and not be _amazed_ that the signal is being broadcast from 10s or 100s of miles away? (Even 1000s in the case of shortwave radio.) The same thought applies to using a cellphone, or a wireless internet connection.

Many of my peers grew up with dial-up -- how are you not amazed that we have speeds a hundred times faster _with no wires!?_ How can you be content with the poor broadband speeds in North America when these same people have _seen first-hand_ what happens when we increase our speeds by an order of magnitude?

tl;dr: I agree with you completely.
A peace wave ... and yet, at the same time, dramatically higher budgets and paranoia due to 9/11. Do we really need/want cops with drones?
> If you refer to a part of the company as "loserville" then you're not too worried about appearing professional.

He was citing the press they were getting, or at least that's how I took the article. This is not the type of thing you announce on a public phone call (that people may get laid off) because all of your employees are now going to be job surfing irregardless of what division they are in.
KeyMe: Keep Your Keys In The Cloud
Can anyone turn this lawyer speak into something the layman tech person can understand, please?
How does that make them seem any better? People tend not to like sales people as well.