skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The correct way to solve this for everyone involved is to reduce the amount of stress everyone is under in a meeting and to create an environment conducive to problem solving.

Sure, you can mitigate this to some extent, but you can't reliably avoid having high-stakes situations which you need a meetings which are inevitably going to be high-stakes to address, or that senior developers won't be to a certain degree on the spot in those meetings.

> The solution of hiring only people who can shout the loudest and brute force their ideas through in combative meetings is not a solution that will create value over the long term.

I haven't been arguing anything like that; particularly, I'll note that there is a big excluded middle between people who tend to freeze up in high-stress situations and "people who can shout the loudest and brute force their ideas through in combative meetings".

> EDIT: You also shouldn't be making snap judgements in a meeting that will affect the future of the company in the market. If there is a lot of tension in the meeting and the outcome is unclear, postpone the issue a short while until people can work out the issues better.

Postponing action can be a decision that will affect the future of the company in the market. You don't always have the luxury of making decisions in the way you'd prefer without paying a cost.
It makes sense with the subsea cables going to EU, Asia and Africa project, bypassing the US and hosting local information to protect itself from NSA. It's also a way to make local laws for local information which local companies having to respect the local laws. Pretty sure hosting / datacenter business will grow now in Brazil.
G+ Focuses on Territory Facebook is Not Interested In: Corporate Social Networks
I doubt that most users understand that Youtube and Google are the same company. Having a single signon between those two services makes very little sense. As for the other services, those under the Google brand, it makes more sense.

It's the attempt to push Google+ on me that I dislike.
You can do it this year for $100 for the whole season. Just buy the Madden 25th Anniversary Edition on Amazon. [1]

Before you read the fine print and conclude that it's only available to people who can't get DirecTV, please see this clarification [2] from Anthony Stevenson (Madden's director of marketing).

If the clarification turns out to be false, Amazon will be getting a return from me and a strongly worded complaint. :-)

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Madden-Anniversary-Edition-Sunday-Play...

[2] - http://kotaku.com/madden-special-edition-includes-sunday-tic...
Using C Dynamic Libraries In Go Programs
Show HN: Afternoon project, data-jurisdiction.org
Are you implying that gaining root access inside a LXC container means that you can escalate to the host system, or to sibling containers?

If yes, I would like to see an example of that (that works on systems with very minimal lockdown, i.e. using the device control group and kernel capabilities).

Otherwise, if you just mean that "0-day Linux root vulnerabilities can be used to escalate from non-root to root in a Linux Containers", that's a truism, and it also stands true for VMs or OpenVZ systems.

Just like 0-day vulnerabilities will help people to escalate from non-root to root in a FreeBSD jail or Solaris zone.
A pattern for wrapping C function calls in Rust
You want to check the small print of your contract but it depends on how related to you day job it is - the real point is could you afford to fight your employer.

And if you get caught using any of employers code like Sergey Aleynikov you are SOL
Good post, except that it's extremely misleading to use Solaris as the canonical example of non-Linux containers and then say that non-Linux containers "haven't had as much exposure" and "the source code isn't always available for peer review and auditing". Solaris containers (in Solaris first, and then illumos when Solaris became closed-source again) have been open source since 2005 and running in hostile production environments that whole time.
You realize, I assume, that you're making a lot of quixotic choices in this library, many of which appear to be different for personal (and, in some cases, I would say dubious) reasons. 1-indexed arrays? Arrays are no longer objects? An 'each' function that uses it's own way of combining what countless languages before you have split into 'map', 'filter' and 'each' functions? Etc etc.

I'm going to hazard a guess that your work has been predominately if not exclusively as a solo dev. This is effectively your personal utility library. That's cool. The problem is that virtually all software eventually ends up being a team effort, if nothing else than by the guy/gal who has to work on it after you. You may not like how JS does some things (like zero-indexing), but that guy already knows JS, he doesn't know your library. By revamping core semantics of JS, you're forcing him to learn your opinions. Are you so sure of your opinions that you can confidently say it's worth everyone else undergoing that effort? Are your opinions really so important as to break compatibility with every other piece of JS?

I gather from your comments that you intend this library as the base of a larger project. I'd encourage you to base that project on more widely known foundations -- pick your favorite module system, and use underscore.js or one of the other widely vetted and tested utility libraries.
The funny thing is that all those features work right now, without unifying your Google accounts.
>if government regulation is so problematic for people, isn't that just a market opportunity for entrepreneurs?

Yes it is. We have litigious/defensive corporate lawyers working for companies solely mitigate law suits and shut down competitions on regulation violations. We have multibillion dollar accounting industry who is paid to maneuver through impossibly complex tax code. We have millionaire lobbyists whose sole purpose is to influence politicians to create rules and regulations that favours certain companies or industries.
Might be interested in Cube that square released a few years ago. http://corner.squareup.com/2011/09/cube.html

edit: cube, not cuba :)
if you care that deeply about morals and ethics, you need to be for the complete abandonment of the Armed Forces. which is a classic pacifist position, but it should be clear that there can't be a grey area. you either have an apparatus to kill other human beings (incl. collateral damage) or you don't. insisting on clean war is hypocrisy. insisting on a clean and nice army is hypocrisy - soldiers exist to project force through violence, aka killing human beings.

policy has changed in regards to gays and females in the military, yes. but where exactly has there been policy impact when it comes to the ones of the receiving end of the military force? the US bombs people all over the world, all the time, women, children, no problemo. not a US citizen, no rights at all.

hypocrisy.
"the grace of your democracy guides the US Armed Forces".
HORSESHIT.
Science works through reducing concepts to 3 dimensions
There is just a huge divide between what any politician will say to get elected and what he believes he is compelled to actually do once elected. I don't think he's "beginning to understand" anything. I think he fully understands the crazy ass chess game he's been playing all along. Actually creating the most transparent administration in US history is - well - an extremely subjective and pretty much immeasurable / untestable sort of claim to make in the first place. TONS of wiggle room. Also it's his last term, he doesn't have to do shit except finish out and collect public speaking fees and board compensation checks for - forever.
I think all libertarians would answer yes to your question.

For example, public transport and housing is terrible in the Bay so private buses are all over SF now.
1950's advertising of modern tech
I enjoyed the article very much. Please continue with your journey of explaining Rust to programmers that are looking for new alternatives to C.
Is there a guide for these "basic steps" for the uninitiated?
Ask HN: Anyone else stuck in Apple Developer Approval Hell?
We realize the Developer portal was hacked and down for some time, but now it's back up. We have a finished app and it's not even a matter of getting it approved, we can't get our Developer application looked at. We submitted the DUNS and everything, but for over a week just sitting at

Enrollment Status:
1. Submit
2. Identity Verification

Enrollment in Review

We have received your program enrollment and are reviewing the information you submitted.

Anyone else experiencing this or know a workaround? I mean, we'd like to start selling our app to, you know, make Apple money.
I imagine most do have faith in free enterprise, but I don't think they have faith in free enterprise being a safe investment when government regulations come into play.

Taking AirBnB, Uber or even Tesla as an example. It is clear that there is an issue with the industries in which they operate, whether government imposed or new tech shifting paradigms, and those issues make for an opportunity. The problem is that, while the idea makes for a fairly sound investment, regulators greatly increase the risk involved. What comes of Tesla if their "stores" idea is ruled illegal? The same with AirBnB or Uber and their uses of private property? Unless the return compensates for the increased risk, rational investors will stick with ones that do.
"Murder" is unlawful killing. Even if you believe in the existence of international law, it's not unlawful to kill civilians in the course of a bombing campaign in a declared war.
Limit WIP Early
What happens when every soldier feels within their rights to determine who the domestic enemies of the Constitution are, and takes unprecedented action against those enemies?

Did Manning reveal anything that was prima facie unconstitutional?
Hi, docker maintainer here.

There's a reason we keep saying docker is not yet production-ready.

Right now our focus is on usability and stabilizing the management API to make deployment-centric deployment awesome. You can be sure that before we tell anyone that they can use docker to sandbox untrusted code in a shared environment (which by the way is not the only use case of docker) we will be locking down our default lxc configuration and doing a sweep of all pending security issues.

For the record, we (dotCloud) have tens of thousands of lxc containers currently running untrusted code in production on shared infrastructure, and have had to monitor and maintain them 24/7 for several years. Before that we ran openvz. And before that, we ran vserver. So while docker itself may not yet be ready for production (and indeed we don't use it in production at dotcloud either), you don't need to worry about our stance on security. We care about it just as much as you do.
Bit.ly has some similar story. Tough it was not a accidental feature.
Olive oil is something you can add to alter the macro breakdown, but I'm happy with the fat content of the whole milk as it stands. It tastes good to me, though the marmite and potassium make it taste strange to some. I always drink it immediately, and reports say it separates too much if left to sit in the fridge. Though I suppose one could use a magic bullet and reblend right before drinking.
Note that this article is one month old.
Interview skill really has nothing to do with job performance (and I'm pretty good at interviews). It's a lot like standardized testing: "this metric is completely irrelevant but at least it's testable!"
That laptop picture seems sketchy as F. Biased much? Check out my shady laptop yo! Make these guys look like anti-government hippie-hacker-drugdealers
On the Goodness of Unicode
unicode howto wiki
The PDF of the presentation in the comments censors names by putting boxes over them. Unfortunately those boxes are a separate layer and can be removed. Simply scrolling in and out makes them flash.

https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Masse-Denial-of-Servi...
You're right. As I mention in the article, the row keys are not timestamps, the columns are timestamps. We use the RandomPartitioner for rows.
Ugh. Whilst I respect Stallman and what he's done, I think he's abit out of touch with reality.

Essentially is there a way to still stay off the radar, or safe, without having to completely disband yourself from society.
Complexity and the 10,000 hour rule - Gladwell
No it doesn't. Just the regular season.
Yes, extortion. "Wouldn't want something nasty to happen to all that good will you've built up on youtube, better get a G+ profile"

That you didn't pay money to get into the trap doesn't make it less of a trap.
Also http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/
Patrick Stewart visits Twitter
RedZone is key to anyone buying Sunday ticket. You could sell RZC without Sunday Ticket though (I'd buy it).
Some quick quotes if you don't have time to read it all:

> However, the Court is unable to find that NSA's minimization procedures, as the government proposes to aply them in connection with MCTs, are "reasonably designed in light of the purpose and technique of the particular [surveillance or physical search], to minimize the acquisition and retention, and prohibit the dissemination, of nonpublicly available information concerning unconsenting United States persons consistent with the need of the United States to obtain, produce and disseminate foreign intelligence information." 50 USC 1801(h)(1) & 1821(4)(a). The Court is also unable to find that NSA's targeting and minimization procedures, as the government proposes to implement them in connection with MCTs, are consistent with the Fourth Amendment. -- Page 29

> ... the government stresse that the number of protected communications acquired is relatively small in comparison to the total number of Internet communications obtained by NSA through its upstream collection. That is true enough, given the enormous volume of Internet transactions acquired by NSA through its upstream collection (approximately 26.5 million annually). But the number is small only in that relative sense. ... In absolute terms, tens of thousands of non-target, protected communications actually is a very large number. -- Page 72

> At issue here are the personal [redacted] communications of U.S. persons and persons in the United States. A person's "papers" are among the four items that are specifically listed in the Fourth Amendment as subject to protection against unreasonable search and seizure. Whether they are transmitted by letter, telephone or e-mail, a person's private communications are akin to personal papers. Indeed, the Supreme Court has held that the parties to telephone communications and the senders and recipients of written communications generally have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of those communications. -- Page 73

> The Court concludes that one aspect of the proposed collection - the "upstream collection" of Internet transactions containing multiple communications, or MCTs - is, in some respects, deficient on statutory and constitutional grounds. -- Page 79

> NSA's targeting and minimization procedures, as the government proposes to apply them to MCTs as to which the "active user" is not known to be a tasked selector, are inconstistent with the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. -- Page 80
Hi, just to re-iterate my comment above: we absolutely care about security and welcome all security-related discussions. For example, just last week we released a hotfix to address an entirely different security concern [1]. If you feel that a particular security concern has been overlooked, I apologize and encourage you to discuss it again by irc or email, keeping in mind that we are still at version 0.5 and actively discourage using docker in production.

At the same time, saying that Docker's goal is to "sacrifices security" is untrue and unfair to the project. So yes, as long as you make these unfounded statements, you will meet resistance in the form of a constructive rebuttal by the community. Especially coming from someone who "doesn't have time" to contribute to the project or even use it.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/docker-user/P3xDLqmL...
Enough to get a sense of his thinking there was a problem, and look up his and Goodin's accounts to see what he meant. Certainly it warranted clarification, and I sppreciate that the FB support team must get a lot of nonsense/stupid requests, but that's why they get paid the big bucks.
So how do the people at the high end get there if not exclusively by becoming better Rubyists?
No, I don't, but I was trying to clarify the statement. A middle ground for this is difficult, because it basically depends upon determining after the fact whether or not you or anyone else in the home was actually threatened (or whether you could reasonably perceive it that way).
homework assignment, using the same typeface find valid strings (names of ISPs etc) that fit within the redacted blocks. Extra credit for using an NLP toolkit to ensure grammatical correctness, double extra credit for using the same grammar rules as the document.
I've tried that. The response is always, "This is how we do our interviews. If we changed it for you, it would be hard to compare you to our other applicants".
I agree, the actual content doesn't match the introduction so well.

I've been looking into Rust during the past few days and I must say I got stuck on the memory model - all the different pointers and their interaction with ownership and mutability, closures capturing their environment (variables outside the closure in the scope where the closure is defined), reference binding, and then things like std::Cell which on the one hand seems to be an alternative to std::Option but on the other hand it's using some unsafe operations in its implementation to change mutability or something... It's quite confusing and it stopped me from writing a simple example application I wanted to write because I wanted to understand what's going on a bit better first.
Probably not a good signal because company interviews tend to slip naturally into the human tradition of group initiation rites, unconsciously testing things like social hierarchy, fitness, dominance, loyalty, in addition to the stuff that really matters like problem solving. Technical jobs today simply don't require the strong social interaction and group selection that hunting for food and fending off wild animals did.
Errr, the latter is how these incidents are judged. E.g. the woman who recently ran down a man carrying a sawed off air soft shotgun; especially with the orange tip removed, she could not tell that he wasn't actually threatening in that way. Similarly, a criminal using a fake gun to commit a robbery gets a charge of armed or aggravated robbery.

This is determined after the fact all the time, presumably in the Wisconsin case, and definitely in the Zimmerman/Martin case before it was politicized.
Finding the unjustly homeless, and teaching them to code.
When information leaks, and that results in supposed harm to people, why is it appropriate to blame the leaker of the information rather than the people who committed the actual acts described by the information?
Why The Tech Industry Is Ruining SF
Thanks for the direct link to relevant cites. Oh, you say they're somewhere in a book. Not great (that said, '59 seconds' is good).

Snake oil alarm: "the keys to productivity" - maybe there's proof that this approach can work, but "THE keys"? As in there's nothing else that can work? Come on.

Good luck.
If reality propogates into infinite possibility subuniverses, would it not be accurate to assume that each of those subuniverses must come from some "tick" of state (or delta of state, rather)?
I'm considering using Cassandra for time series data. What exactly did you mean by the columns were for the "period"? What is the period here?
This is what I expected too. Thanks for responding. I keep on asking these questions to people where relevant to understand how many people have these issues, and thereby also advice other people who are plain unaware.

A majority of people who are aware of their employment contracts report having these issues and cannot legally have contributions to open source or side projects on their Github profiles [1]. I extrapolate from that that those who are unaware of these also are legally-speaking bound by their contracts for these contributions. I still see this rising use of Github profiles to tell good developers apart from bad developers. There was a huge thread I had started on "Startup Engineering" Coursera discussion forums on this topic itself that generated over 50 replies, several new data-points, and also over 20 down-votes for me ;-)

[1] Unless they have appropriately written permission from their employers of course...
I do not particularly care about having a pretty syntax, what I want is the high assurance that the program will not be wrong.
> Implications: if you run a query in production that doesn't hit an index, all traffic stops

Even if Mongo did have a global write lock, which it doesn't as has already been covered, it yields on page faults which means that other queries are minimally impacted. See: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/concurrency/#does-a-read-...
That's an anonymous function not a closure. A closure references non-local environments and can "access those non-local variables even when invoked outside of its immediate lexical scope" as Wikipedia puts.
Any local root vulnerability will also work in a container, eg this one http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1914-1/ - note that a lot of kernel vulnerabilities are never really announced, just quietly fixed.
Given that google has recently publicly denounced their own hiring methodology (that they've been using for years), I wouldn't use them as a shining example.

Also consider the fact that most companies are not google and don't have the same unlimited streams of top candidates coming in the door (is that even true for google any longer ?). A smaller operation (ie. the typical hn population) needs to work much harder to avoid false negatives. One way of doing that is to optimize the hiring process to allow a good candidate to shine vs the Google way of putting the candidate through endless abuse (I know what I speak of).
Clive Crook: Why Science and Politics Don’t Mix
Bullet journal
No, Manning's real crime to the military is disregarding orders and showing his own judgement.

Abu Ghraib was horrific, but it was close enough to what was ordered to be done by Mi, by the CIA, by special forces (water boarding, walling, stress positions, sleep deprivation) that no one thinks the soldiers really disregarded the chain of command (aside from the standing orders against prisoner treatment which others were by direct order ignoring), they just got out of hand. So from the military's point of view, it's not a discipline problem.

Abu Ghraib, as a systemic thing, is deterred by simple never issuing orders to do that kind of thing again and making it explicitly clear that it's prohibited. After all, non of the soldiers involved thought they were explicitly disobeying their superiors, they thought they were doing what everyone else did. If ordered not to torture people, they would not torture people.

Manning, on the other head, disregarded lawful orders stemming from the civilian command authority to protect information. He didn't do it because what he leaked exposed crimes against humanity(he leaked far more than leak the "collateral murder" video), he did it because he thought he knew what was best.

Soldiers don't get to decide what they think is best with in the context of lawful orders. If they could, they might decide they know what is best for the country and stage a coup, or frag their commanding officer, or any number of other things.

That's what they needed to deter.
this should be as one of ten commandments of internet.
IP is available for takeover/transfer
Stolen Photo Wins Samsung’s Live In The Moment Photo Contest