skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the EFF comes out an announces they won't conduct any of their business because they have no privacy, we would rightly see an issue with it (and they do need privacy for some of what they do).

Chilling effects are an argument against having surveillance. They aren't something we should encourage purely because they allow to point and go: "NSA, look what you broke".
That's what I meant about terrorism. If the you refuse to go outside because of terrorism, "the terrorists win." SImilarly, if you refuse to run your site that explains the law to people because the government twits the law to allow them to spy on you (even though you have nothing to hide in your professional capacity of operating that blog), then a different kind of terrorist wins.

Yes, if GrokLaw ran a wikileaks style legal blog which posted confidential stuff, the chilling effect would be necessary. In this case it isn't and since it's unclear when(or if) we will ever regain confidence that the NSA is not spying on us, we ought to minimize the damage.
TripAdvisor’s Curious Strategy of Buying Smaller Startups
Smashed Hard Drives, Shuttered Email Services, And The Slow Leak Of Free Speech
Indeed. Thanks a lot for the link.
> Here's hoping that the people eventually figure out that instant runoff can be implemented state-by-state.

Here's hoping that people eventually figure out that better voting systems can be implemented state by state, including non-single-winner systems where appropriate (e.g., legislative elections), and single winner systems better than IRV (which is pretty much the preference voting system that does the most to preserve the problems of majority/runoff) for the places where single winner systems are still needed, as might be the case with executive elections (or not, if you reform more than just the election system.)
The most important mobile design decision a startup faces
So you're an anarchist?

Because if you're going to pretend that anarchy or proprietarianism is somehow not politics, then I've got some news for you.
My brother had an interview for their X division. He said it was really strange. They were very very secretive. My brother has a TS clearance and he said Google was beyond the US gov.'s paranoia even. It made it a really tough interview too. He said it felt like they couldn't tell him anything so the interviewers were trying to psychicly communicate with him. Then they took him to lunch on campus which was ok and then sat him in front of another guy who was nicer but still mum. Also they apparently can't talk about the google glasses even though some lady had just walked out the door with them. Its like : 'Dude, you can see them right there.' It seems they need to get hungry again, not be complacent in their domination of our lives.
That's why I said subtle.

It would be like requiring you to recite all the marks you received on all your assignments in all your classes in your last semester of your senior year of college. I assume that if you had just graduated, this would be easy, but if you had graduated 10 years prior, this would be hard (feasible if you'd kept the paperwork--but hard).
Using Sublime as your editor for Postgres I had to add this to my ~/.zshrc:

export EDITOR='subl -w'
One of the biggest reasons for using coroutines in Haskell is when you want to mix them with effects. For example, using lazy streams to do IO can lead to unpredictable resource usage so many people use coroutine libraries to do the IO in a more predictable manner (piper / conduits / io-streams / etc).

Finally, while lazy streams go a long way, in terms of preventing the inversion of control that you usually need to use coroutines for, there are still some situations where coroutines are useful. For example try writing that consumer/producer example from the blog post he linked using only lazy streams...
I'm not exactly sure why you would equate Apple taking down their developer support subsystem with all of Facebook or Amazon coming down. Apple.com didn't go down. 99.99% of their customers never knew the difference.
I used to play a similar game called TextTwist: http://zone.msn.com/en/texttwist/. Very fun and addicting
Try the text-only version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Schedule 7 terrorism act used to harrass researchers, not just journalists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship

Does the US Government do this anymore? No, it doesn't. Period.

Historical facts fight against your argument. The US Government has permanently given up powers to respect the privacy of citizens. I can come up with more historic examples if you wish.
I agree entirely and I think the author should have actually stuck that earlier in the article where people would actually read it.
I don't know about an official answer but using a simple variation on a round-robin database (RRD) ought to do the trick. Basically:

day count = [last 23 hour buckets] + hour count
hour count = [last 59 minute buckets] + minute count
minute count = [last 59 second buckets] + second count
second count = <running count cleared every 1 second>

You end up losing a small amount of accuracy, the worst being for keeping track of the second counts. You can avoid that by using an actual list of counter values for the seconds bucket and dumping those out when they get older than a second, or maybe by introducing another subdivision -- 1/10th of a second probably is good -- so that you actually have .9 seconds worth of data and can interpolate the last bit.
It's not about field of view (a f/2.0 wide angle and telephoto shot both have the same DOF in terms of actual length - telephoto just appears to have a shallower DOF since the image is cropped.) DOF is actually a physical property of sensor size and aperture size.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/digital-camera-se...
Absolutely it's not the only answer. But it's still and always will be a critical component. It's illegal to trespass, but we still use fences and gates and locks to keep unwanted people out of our property.
This is on my 15.6" laptop. I did start with my window already maximized.
I'm afraid your link is broken. Was there POST data involved?
I feel for your friend. I went through two phone interviews, flown to Mountain View for all day interviews, and was told by the team that they wanted to hire me, but first my candidate packet had to be reviewed by three different hiring committees. I made it through the first two, but in the third hiring committee I was turned down because my GPA was not at the new 3.7+ hiring guideline.

I was heartbroken, and I am sure other people have experienced the same thing.
Purposefully Architecting your SASS
Not just a response. More like an effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
You're doing a good job, continue adding value, like you're doing. Try to take a look at what people with your experience in your type of programming are making in your location. If you are very out of whack with what the mean of that group makes then maybe after knocking another project out of the park you could go to your supervisor and say that you feel that you've been adding a lot of value to the company and would appreciate some recognition (they'll get the subtext of you being under compensated).

If you are roughly near the mean of where you should be for your experience then I would wait for your company to do something. Good companies know who their value-adders are and they reward them accordingly. If you add value like crazy for a few years without being a pain to your supervisor/bosses about compensation you will make much more in the long run then if you are constantly whining about your compensation.

In this industry what you know is only important for accomplishing "value-adds". Knowledge for knowledge sake is not something that should (or can) be rewarded with money, your ability to add value is what is being compensated. It sucks, but as far as your company is concerned, you are a black box that produces value, they really don't care what goes on inside the box. Your knowledge and pedigree is useless to them unless YOU know how to apply it to their business.

Remember that good careers are built in years. If you work hard and are lucky you might end up where you want to be in ~10 years. Immense success in shorter amounts of time than this has much more to do with being in the right place at the right time than any work you might put in. Good luck.
That's absolutely true. Although I find myself a agreeing with many normal people that government is riddled with problems in practice, they get hostile when I suggest that maybe there shouldn't be an organization with a monopoly on force that is funded by theft.
The nude pictures she texted to her boyfriend are now part of her permanent file as well.
I remember Penn Jillette describing government as a ratcheting mechanism: a situation where once a bolt is tightened, the tool only recoils to tighten it further.
State of Ohio Takes On Crowdfunding and Top Startup
Guilty as charged :-)

As an interviewee, I have, more than once, thanked my hosts for their tea and cake and left early when I detected that the interview was turning into a chat.

Would a collegiate interviewing model not work better for an intellectually driven organisation like Google? Each team interviewing for their own positions, but with some form of 'tenure track' process for the longer term?
I Like number 3. I think there's two ways this works: 1) Killer content is created and social shares quickly give signals of freshness and quality within an area. Combine that with early user metrics as the content moves up and you have a good idea of it's quality. However, if this content is not soon backed with corresponding signals (links, etc.) the ranking can fade. This is likely dependent on the industry and topic as to how it plays out.

The other possibility is a good piece of content earns links, has great user metrics for certain keywords, lives on a great site, etc. and ranks well. It then accumulates social shares on top of that, further confirming the quality of the content. Thus...you get a situation like #3. Social signals make sense for indexation, but beyond that, until you start to understand the importance of the author (cough, AuthorRank, cough) then you can't use them for much more then understanding what the "mob" is finding valuable at the moment. And it might be a very fleeting fascination on a subject that really doesn't deserve to hold a ranking.
OkCupid Security Flaw (Feature)
Or Pure, the functional programming language.

http://purelang.bitbucket.org/

(Now I feel tempted to write an app that uses all three.)
Are you sure he's not a witch?

Try asking him about cakes that can change your fate. :)
> What does that mean for the user. Do batteries today last twice what they lasted 30 years ago? Nope. Are rechargeable batteries any more viable today? Nope.

You are flat wrong on both counts. Modern batteries provide much more energy per size, weight and cost than their rechargeable predecessors. As to "viable", how can you make any kind of claim about batteries that didn't exist 30 years ago?

> Even batteries in laptops only last a year or so before they are just dead and need replacing.

Yes -- compared to no batteries and no laptops, 30 years ago. What kind of comparison do you think you're making?

> If you think battery technology has really massively improved in the last 30 years, please let me know what real world improvements there have been...

Today, batteries exist, and applications exist, that did not exist 30 years ago. Modern battery applications could not be filled by the technology that existed 30 years ago. How difficult is that to decode? Thirty years ago, the Tesla Model S could not exist, period, full stop. The battery technology didn't exist.

Chart of battery energy density by year:

http://www.akbars.net/images/battery%20energy%20density.png
Welp there goes that theory. If you don't mind me asking, what browser do you happen to be using?
I got an in-house interview and did well until the final guy. He barely spoke english, and i've worked with many foreign co-workers in the past but his english was worse than anything i've heard before. I struggled trying to understand him while he explained the problem and he was noticeably upset. I wanted to call the HR person in to talk about it but I didn't want to risk making the situation worse. Didn't get the job, likely based on this interviewer.
I'd be cynical if I assumed integrity didn't exist. Some people seem to have it, and many more strive for it.

But I'd be hopelessly naive if I ever assumed it to exist, or if I assumed public displays of "integrity" were connected to an internal state.

These latter assumptions might be true, but the cost of them being not true is too high, and the occurrence of "not true" is too frequent. Or, shorter, "Trust, but verify" :)
When I was young I always daydreamed about being a programmer/hacker in a dystopian cyberpunk future.

I don't know whether or not I should be alarmed that my daydreams and reality are converging.
Harlem Shake creator didn't make a dime while the corporations cashed in
You may have a legal case for moving expenses and lost wages. Something along the lines of fraudulent inducement -- especially in California. I'd talk to an employment lawyer if I were you.
Admittedly, sometimes the two kinds of problem combine into just-plain-silliness.

For instance, I got my first paycheck from my internship yesterday. As in, I got a physical check, because in the middle of Silicon Valley, a high-tech start-up's third-party payroll contractor is so damn backwards that they simply can't issue a direct deposit for at least one pay period if not more.

Problem being, my bank accounts are on the American East Coast and in Haifa, Israel respectively. I now have a nice, healthy paycheck and have to call the other side of the country to figure out how to deposit it, because the damn payroll system is too backwards and stupid to do an electronic transfer like the entire rest of the developed world.

And no, my bank doesn't have a mobile app that lets me deposit checks through my phone. I checked.

/just-plain-silliness
/MURRICA
Turn Gmail conversations into WebRTC video call in one click
It's just ranking the growth rates of the signals I listed in the post - not saying which company is "best". Frankly, I think a lot of these rankings differ greatly from what I think the overall potential of a company is (I saw them present yesterday at Alumni Demo Day), but potential is not what we're measuring here. Growth is certainly another data point for investors to consider, and historically has been a part of massive information asymmetry - VCs are already looking up all these metrics about companies (manually) as they research, source and diligence. We're just making that more efficient and transparent.

At the end of the day investors do have to choose one company over another, as very few can justify investing in all of them. We're trying to give them more info to go off beyond hype. All of these companies tackle large markets with varied margins, and I believe investors are smart enough to sort that out for themselves and make decisions based on their domain knowledge, relationships, and expertise.
Reading your experience I think I should be happy about what happened to us today. Could have been much worse :-)
Im actually in the process of considering exactly that. Well, I like painting, but, you know.
Now Is The Time For All Good Nerds To Come To The Aid Of The Internet
I can't really tell whether all the doors are falcon wings or just the rear doors. Anyone have more info?
It's interesting how the names of all of the security specialists and other discoverers of flaws in this list appear to be non-Anglo-American in origin. Very international.
Maybe we don't we eye-to-eye: I find your comment ridiculous.

Does the government do what exactly? You are aware they are slurping 100% of digital communications? In light of what has been confirmed by Snowden's efforts - I can't take your comment seriously.
If you feel that you'll be taking on the responsibilities of someone who was previously your boss (and I'm therefore assuming a higher paid position in the company), then I'd argue that you have every right to -- at the very least -- ask about the options. If they value your contributions so far enough to give you more responsibilities, then they should be open to increasing your compensation, too. Good luck!
It was a quote by Eric Schmidt.
As someone still in school (in a very theoretical CS program), I still like to skim over a good part of CLRS before before an interview that I expect to be over algorithmic stuff.
Please read the paragraph on Judith Miller. You must be kidding.
The choice to go full anarchist/minarchist is also a political choice. Any sort of (non-)governance/agreement of/with other people is a political choice.
Chrome 28.0.1500.95 on Linux. Actually, I did reload (same size window) and it is mostly visible now. Could definitely still use some more space though. In any case, it's a minor complaint. The game is still fun! :)
They've been trying to subvert these tools worldwide especially after the Arab spring. Just google 'Smartphone kill switch' every government is lobbying handset manufacturers for one in order to prevent theft of devices so they can push a button and brick the device with a hardware backdoor, but of course that's not the real reason they want a kill switch for every phone in their country. They want it to blackout comms during social unrest.

Same reasons why the UK would want a powerful pf filter implemented by a Chinese corporation at every single one of their ISPs. It's not to block dirty pictures, it's to shut off everything during social unrest. If they just wanted to block porno they could do simple DNS censorship, but they dropped in serious filter controls.

Currently my country is looking into regulating all wi-fi APs. They already have a kill switch for phones and ISPs, now they want to make sure you can't even make an adhoc or mesh network for social unrest. Of course it isn't to kill communications, it's to prevent crime because some criminals broadcast MITM networks inside cafes, so we need sweeping regulations to stop them.
We've ranked the current Y Combinator Summer 2013 batch by Mattermark Score – which awards points to each company on a weekly basis for increasing their website traffic, mobile downloads, inbound links, Twitter followers, Facebook likes, and LinkedIn followers.

It's hard for me to understand how this formula could be a valuable measure of growth of a startup, since most of these things can be easily purchased. I'd guess that growth of Facebook Likes, Twitter followers, LinkedIn followers and website traffic are more accurately a measure of a company's ad spend than their actual growth in revenue and users.
Why would you be pretty sure he is more familiar with C when most of his past projects were written in C++? Not to mention that he's written two blog posts explaining his reasoning...

I'm not sure the trademark is a big deal, it's probably to prevent misuse like what happened with the Linux trademark (which took a few years to resolve). I doubt he's doing it to make it more annoying to use.
Samsung doesn't like what Groklaw posted about them. Samsung makes a large donation to the Demoncratic National Commitee and receives an archive of every email, phone conversation, financial transaction Groklaw's owner has ever made. Samsung uses this information to destroy Groklaw owner's life.
Haven't tried it yet but love the idea. More generally this is the power of WebRTC - real-time communications as an embedded, integrated feature within any other app, service or workflow.
I downloaded the entire English Wikipedia for offline use. There is some software available to render it, but it doesn't do images or a lot of the formatting. However it's still readable and when the internet is down, it's useful to have.
> You are not free when you simpl cannot communicate with another human being via electronic means without the government's ability to actually be party to that comm.

That's reading a whole lot into the definition of "free." Were people "free" in 1950? If so, how do they become "not free" by introducing a new form of communication (created by the military, mind you) that is monitored more heavily than the ones they used to use?
I saw illiterate children using Youtube. If an adult (or link) open one of their favorite song or cartoon, then they can jump to another videos for a long time, using the thumbnail image (and sometimes a few words that they understand)
I had a google interview about a year ago. The thing I found strangest is that some interviewers would walk in the room and throw up a coding exercise without any introduction at all. They literally wouldn't give their names and what projects they worked on. You don't care that I've been working for almost 10 years in the real world and would rather judge me on my ability to solve a linked list problem? Really? If anything is "gameable" this is. Just spend a year playing topcoder in your spare time and you could ace any of the questions I got.

I have a good friend who works at google and compares the recruiting team to being "the hot girl in highschool" (no intended sexism). Since google recruiters are at one of the elite companies in the world, they can treat people disrespectfully. If you don't like it, there will be a million people more people to choose from. I actually didn't get this vibe from them, but I only dealt with a couple recruiters.
I thought we were just talking about DOF...
I must admit that I find it a bit depressing that creating the web site for the game looks like a more complicated job than the game itself.
Those things are easy to purchase in the short term, but it quickly becomes very expensive to purchase 10% week-over-week increase of Twitter followers, Facebook likes, web traffic, etc (I know, I've tried this before). The Mattermark Score reflects long term growth trends, short term spikes aren't enough to move the needle.
I thought the GPA requirements were done away with a while ago?
To the CEOs - It's Time to Call on US Internet Companies
Let me sum up my response to the article in 2 words: Their loss.
Metadata is most hideable (but still exists) in a crowd. At scale (i.e. millions of users) an improved version of shared shared mailboxes like alt.anonymous.messages can be effective. I reckon that it can be effective at a lesser scale if initial participants all generate enough random noise to protect anonymity of the first users to adopt the system. Once it has scaled in users, they can scale back the random noise generated.
Very true - I use Assembla!
See here:

https://twitter.com/gregburd/status/274137211706949632
The fact that this is even a question at all, let alone one that could make it on to forbes, is symptomatic of the tech industry being a giant echo chamber. Are you a bad [lawyer | accountant | civil engineer | doctor | musician] if you don't take on side projects?
Agreed. I also believe there is a sociological component. A situation such as we have is only possible when a critical mass of engineers/scientists/creatives/technicians consciously choose to work on anti-human technology. The political assholes could not develop this anti-human technology on their own.
I concur. It's more code, but it's still really easy to understand, and basically precedes Go's concurrency model.
Groklaw Articles Ending on May 16th (2001)
According to Wikipedia, the physical holdings of the Library of Congress total 33 million distinct books worth about 15 terabytes.

So quite a way to go from ~2k volumes.