skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called a "non disclosure" agreement not a non compete agreement. What you're signing up for is "I won't disclose your content to a third party" So it's fraught with risk. You have to take that conversation and bottle it away and not mention it for 3-5 years to anyone else in case they think it's a good idea and pivot or start a company to go do that.

You sign that agreement, have one coffee, never hear from the guy again. Two years later you join on as an advisor to a company that does something similar to that startup and they're claiming you must be disclosing what you learned from them to this new startup! Far fetched but if you sign 20 - 30 NDA's a year because you're actively helping people you will get bit on the butt but some neurotic founder at some point.
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Where are you now? It might be easier if you were to visit Finland first on a tourist visa and apply from here.

There's also been talk of having the Startup Life program (http://startuplife.fi/) take interns from abroad and get them to work for Finnish startups. That may be a good stepping stone for you. I'll ask around about it and get back to you via Twitter.
Just to expounded. Once you get passed Secret almost everything is compartmentalized.

To speak to the Snowden leaks, in there entirety they now are clearly, far outside the scope of any single user, unless that user was a multi-department head or higher. It is more likely that the leaks are from multiple users now. The story posted yesterday about the access level of the information lends this theory some credibility, although none to the means of access.
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Ever since it was introduced people knew that email was not private

Why is it called "mail"? Why use passwords? Both connotate very specific degrees of privacy. Social signals and technical hackability are not per-se comparable benchmarks for 'privacy expectations'.
The memory alert stuff on iOS is similar; when the phone runs low on free memory it tells the app free up as much as possible, and then only starts killing processes if there still isn't enough available.

It can be a bit finnicky to work with, but it does seem to be pretty much strictly better than just killing random processes without giving them a chance to be better behaved.
its not as easy as you picture it, especially for Syrians.

I wanted to send my sister (Syrian) to continue her education in medicine, the German embassy in Syria completely rejected the application.

I tried in Dubai, they asked me to open a bank account for her in Germany, all banks refused to do so. I had eventually to find workarounds (through some powerful friends) and I was able finally to open that account in Wiesbaden.

Now my sister has an official residency visa and she went to open an account in Berlin, but again all banks rejected her request because she is Syrian.

Racism can be really ugly.
But in this case a smaller group of humans controls the implementation of software, so it's at least a little more feasible.
the idea that an "arab/turkish name" disqualifies you from job interviews is dishonest nonsense. it's also quite separate from sarazin's book, which raises some important issues.
You may also want to read the chapter on fractal programming
in this book. Its pretty intuitive too.
Maybe it hasn't progressed as quickly as one might like, but I think it's a brilliant development: it's very good for actually reading books without notifications and beeps and whistles and all kinds of other crap popping up on the screen. Also, the devices have fantastic, stress-free battery life, weigh very little, and don't bother your eyes like LCD.

In other words,"most disappointing" seems a bit exaggerated.
This is really interesting when correlated with the arguments over WalMart wages vs Costco wages; your average WalMart shop floor employee already has a cognitive load issue "comparable to the cognitive difference that’s been observed between chronic alcoholics and normal adults."

Makes you think twice about what you pay your employees. Also it guides thinking on how employee benefits, like food available on campus, can benefit your company; especially in the information worker realm.
Thanks for the nice feedback :)

Radio based on artist is already under the works, we should have that out soon.

Variable pricing does seem like a good option. We'll have to explore this further & see how that goes well with the artists. Because they and they alone control the pricing for now. We however do a have a "pay what you want" feature right now, something people have used more often than not.

Again, thanks for the great feedback. I have your email, would like to send you free invite to preemium features once we have them out.
Both ideas can be valid at the same time. You can know how to think or be able to autonomously change your life, but at the same time you can also be severely limited or constrained by your circumstances. Humans have a degree of agency (assuming free will) but that doesn't mean they can always realistically escape the human condition.
ah ok, thanks for clarifying :)
If I'm not mistaken, and I may well be, you can actually use that code on a single book and it'll work just fine as a 50% off as well. So basically you can get 50% off at any given time, the sales are completely a marketing technique.
If you have specific articles which verify the documents he released were real, I'm pretty sure the NSA would like to see those. As far as I know, the only thing that's been verified is he took a LOT of documents. Even the NSA says they have no idea what he took:

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20108770-...

The only verification is people saying, "leaked documents confirm XYZ." There's no way to verify the documents he's releasing are in fact - REAL. It's just people saying, "Oh yeah, we thought that was true, is now confirmed with these documents." Even though all the stuff he's releasing could be total fakes and no one would be the wiser.

Makes you wonder really. . .
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According to the site he is based in Czech Republic, are the laws there the same there as in the USA? and if not, do you think that he could face extradition for this?
This is a very interesting article, but the experiment, as described, doesn't seem to back up the thesis. They show that people who have less money are more taxed by financial questions, but that could just as easily be a cause not an effect of poverty. (ie, it could back the notion that it's trying to refute.) The article did mention a similar study in India where they tested people who were seasonally poor, but it didn't mention whether their scores changed after they received their harvests. That seems like the crucial point.
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Yeah, they also bought out MailRank to get O'Sullivan.
This might be relevant:

Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience

http://uxmag.com/articles/dark-ux-the-elements-of-the-video-...

>Behind the scenes, however, they engage in all kinds of “optimizations” that encourage gamblers to spend and play more without stopping or burning out.

>How do I know this? I have something to confess.
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Except that a DropCam's footage is admissible as evidence in case of an actual robbery. You won't get that out of a fake camera with a blinking light.
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We don't have a public api yet, but we do have a messy one that we use internally. Shoot us a mail, maybe we can work something out :)
Honest question: Would you consider reaching out to foreign artists? I ask because it's damned difficult as anyone not in Japan to compensate those of the Doujin music scene in Japan- their music is traditionally sold at conventions(and then, in limited quantities), but not online, so you really only have access via piracy.

Giving their fans a way to compensate would be amazing.
Using Linux here, seems totally ordinary to me.

EDIT: Though I really don't understand why a lot of these characters even exist. I mean, what is that? The sun?

EDIT2: When I pasted into DuckDuckGo it actually told me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb
It should be noted especially clearly that the CIA is the only independent US intelligence agency[1][2], where others fall under the following:

* Defense Department

* Department of Energy

* Department of Homeland Security

* Justice Department

* State Department

* Treasury Department

Now, the above mentioned departments directly fall under the purview of the executive branch (through presidential appointment of directors, administrators, or secretaries) whereas independent agencies have a commission or a committee of some kind.

Whether or not this should concern you is up to you, and one thing to note is that the independent agency's commissions have longer appointment terms than the usual four-year presidential terms.

It should also be noted that the CIA is the go-to agency for clandestine operations that involve reconnaissance, espionage, or subversive operations -- both domestically and abroad.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community#Membe...
> Don't laws about the physical world make a distinction between trespassing and breaking & entering?

Sure. In rough terms:

Trespassing is being on real property of another without permission or legal privilege.

Breaking and entering is entering a residence or other enclosed property through the use of even the slightest amount of force (including things like pushing open a door or window that is not locked -- or even one that is not fully closed.)

Burglary is the same as B&E, but with the intent to commit any other crime on the property.

Most importantly, though, in the physical world, all of them are still illegal; Why should "unauthorized access" being punishable in the digital world should require some kind of effective security system when "unauthorized presence" (trespassing) in the phjyiscal world does not?
Dunno, I used some Mailinator-type email, signed up with some Quora-mocking name, and it seems to work. I still think it's annoying, and I'm not sure how Quora's a "business", but whatever.
The short version is: non-electric cars are heavily taxed in Norway. Electric cars are exempt from this tax, so Teslas are not particularly expensive for Norwegians.

Norway taxes traditional cars on many attributes, such as engine size, engine power, CO2/NOX emission.

This results in a top model of a Chevrolet Camaro costing 1,500,000 NKR, while e.g. the neighbors in Sweden would pay around 300,000 NKR for the same car.

The cheapest Volksvagen Golf 2012 model costs about 226,000 NKR, or about $37,000
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These companies can't detain you in an airport or throw you in prison, there are massive benefits to be had from this data for the user, not to mention that you have a contract in place with these companies that don't have with the NSA.
One (admittedly cynical and disrespectful) hypothesis could be that some of the low-income people are low-income precisely because they disliked abstract reasoning in the first place, thus making them less likely to pursue their education.

To be honest, there are dozens of different ways to interpret this data.
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I'm with you: I like good old dead tree books for so many reasons such as writing in the margins. They should follow Manning books philosophy and also discount physical books as well, a feature which has resulted in my acquiring 10+ books by them.
Sorry about that :) We'll get this done.
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I still cannot see any solution, other than total loss of privacy for all. If the NSA records were made publically accessible, then its a new Nash Equilibrium, but one where
no-one has power by dint of secrecy.

But other than that, regulation? Even if it worked in the US would the Chinese or Russians agree?

I think perhaps its all or nothing.
Flash-only? You just reduced the number of people who will read your post about how to make people read your resume.</irony>
Works when being e-mailed to an apple phone also. Especially if you're using and ActiveSync enabled account. It will immediately crash the mail app until that e-mail message is deleted from another client.
Launch prices basically are energy costs, plus a markup, so they are never going to make this work unless you could make the whole thing extremely light...
Why is this surprising? the CIA deals with people. the NSA deals with math. shipping a shitload people around the world costs way more than running a shitload of servers.
I usually sign "Chuck Norris" at the grocery store.
Excuse us for being pre-alpha: (and using Google's OpenID): Its a demo of OpenID, which can be migrated to many other providers. In Beta, you should be able to login with 100 other providers, and forget about Google :)
Try Windows.
unlike.ly and cute.sy? parked.
Hey Arnold, there are several ways and I don't know--given the current situation that you're not the only one--which works best. So let me give you a series of suggestions to follow up:

First, see the German Foreign Office's FAQ and visa regulations:

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/FAQ/Uebersicht...

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/EinreiseUndAufenthalt/Visa...

Since many are coming as refugees from Syria, it could be an idea to apply for a regular visa, either for working or studying in Germany. Note that the German mission in Damascus is closed and you have to contact any embassy or mission outside Syria. They suggest using the embassy in Beirut. Problem is that you need to translate all paper stuff to German and I can't estimate the time it takes.
Usually it's 2-10 days for visits under 90 days, it can take longer (even months) for visits over 90 days or working permits.

If you come for work, you need an invitation from an employer. But I don't know how long the handling takes with the mission (they have to okay it first), especially since the Damascus mission is down.

Perhaps you qualify for the EU Blue Card (skilled immigrants):

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/FAQ/ArbeitenLe...

http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/

If that's an option, look into the conditions for studying in Germany.

Wish you all the best. Tough times.
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Taxpayer dollars get returned to the issuer. It's like asking where all your movie tickets are going.
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This book is everything I've ever wanted in a programming text. I'm sorry that I don't have much of anything substantial to say except praise, but seriously, thank you for writing this.
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Well... this is dangerous...
Code complete is very much tied to the OOP of its time. (I can't comment on the pragmatic programmer.)
Planes that cost in the billions? Equipment for the government is never cheap, mostly because they can't get economies of scale pricing. And not to mention that year-to-year changes can give you excellent information too. For example: say last year they spent $10b, and this year they spent $20b -- holy crap they clearly expanded something or bought some crazy expensive gear.

It's an intelligence agency. Most of what they do should be classified.
The tricky thing is probably going to be that I expect the German embassy in Syria is totally swamped. If you can get a visitors' visa for Germany, it would probably be easier to apply for it in person here.

When applying in Germany, if everything goes well, you can get a Blue Card with two trips to the foreigners' office -- one to apply and another to pick it up a few weeks later.

Presumably you'd be able to get the visa to seek work pending a Blue Card with a single visit to the foreigners' office.

Salaries are much lower than the US in Berlin, where the range is roughly €35k-75k. With your experience I'd expect you to be in the €40-55k range here.
i don't think so, there's no real malicious intent there. perhaps you should consider why you don't get more signups after a demo instead, i would expect more. maybe it's a good thing to get less signups with the demo button where it was, because signups that don't actually use the service are basically the same as a demo anyway.
I know nothing of Lavabit, but let's say he did comply with the order and then months or years later the company simply isn't profitable and he needs to shut it down. Could he shut it down then? Or would he suddenly find himself hosting lots of paid government accounts - enough to make it financially viable? (But define viable... Does "I'm not pocketing $1m/year from this business, so I don't care any more. Turn it off!" count?)

Could he sell the business? If so, at what point does the new owner get to find out they have extra non-negotiable obligations to the government?
Does anyone have any examples of areas where neural networks beat out statistical based methods, other than maybe image recognition? I can't even think of another major area where they dominate.

- Search engines use algorithms, not neural nets.

- The most popular algorithm on Kaggle (data analysis competitions) is random forests

- Google's self-driving car uses statistical-based methods

I can't imagine commercial aircraft would use a neural net. What happened if one crashed? They would analyze the data and ask questions like, Q: "What happened?" A: "I don't know" Q: "Can we fix it so it doesn't happen again?" A: "I don't know".
Random usernames have a way of biting you back. Indeed I've been assigned to collect information from users, and what they want in Blib ( Did not think of the double meaning ). Just click "Register/Sign up" Button here: https://register.blib.us (Currently we only support @gmail addresses and use OpenID to authenticate). :( - I agree that was a bad choice - to pick Google as a provider. Beta should fix this.
I wish this was still on the market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_%28mobile_Internet_device...
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The design looks good, and I've been playing the music for half an hour (/hot/) and it seems to be excellent so far. Good job.

I hope there's an API or a mobile app plan in the future.
...what I disagree with is the needless "dig" at companies that store and analyze large amounts of data, as if that somehow is invalid conduct.

The argument against building systems to amass huge databases of personal information has always been that the very existence of such systems would almost inevitably lead to abuse, through inappropriate expansion of the collection activity and through inappropriate uses of the resulting database. It's simply too tempting a target to leave unmolested.

From that point of view, storing and analyzing large amounts of data is "invalid conduct."

Current events are just history proving this out yet again.
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I was just pointing out that a lot of this behavior probably is caused by quirks in windows character handling as opposed to any intrinsic strangeness of the character itself.

FWIW, copy pasting it into google does invert the justification of the search bar text.
More info on that, the press rumor that he gained access to other user credentials:

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-...
I do, but I still do not see a use case for me. When I'm on the go, I am almost always listening to music.
This is where the parents have to figure out how valuable a good education is. Some will make the sacrifices for their kids and some won't.

My parents weren't rich, but when we moved into a different school district in high school, they paid tuition to the school district we lived in so I could remain with my friends and finish at the same school I started. They drove me to and from school everyday so that I could attend the same school before we moved. They made sacrifices so I could still get a good education.
http://musicfellas.com/ryoutasato and http://musicfellas.com/nicotone

We do :) I know of at least these 2 artists from Japan.
Did they give a reason (that she was Syrian)?
interesting perspective : "entire team can become stacked with developers, pushing your energy and attention slowly but inexorably away from what you should care most about: marketing."
So, Indian organizations should stop outsourcing their IT to the US?
First, you're tossing 100% around way too much - security in this environment is a pretty huge sliding scale. But for something as basic as password resets, yes, I'd expect 100% functionality and auditing to catch it.

Second, I don't think anyone thinks it's totally trivial. But, this is the NSA we're discussing. Supposedly, their secrets are so special, the USA will collapse or something if they're compromised. If any organization in the world is set to handle an admin resetting people's passwords, it's the NSA.

Are you really arguing that it's just too hard for the NSA to notice a massive violation of policy?
What can I say? Naming is hard. We initially thought to ourselves, "Spreading science should be fun and intuitive, like an STD. And it should be hard to get rid of." Thus Authorea was born.

Have you tried our pdf exporter to check page length? We are trying to build it out to where you, as a user, don't have to worry about packages. If there is a journal you would like to submit to and we don't currently have the journal setup as an export template, please contact us and we will be happy to add it.

It's funny how authors worry so much about page length and figure placement, and then the first thing a journal does is remove all of the formatting the author has put in place.
The leaked papers offer a tiny glimpse into the tip of a gigantic hidden iceberg. We don't realy know the size of these institutions and that is cause for concern, IMO, as in a democracy all these things should be known to the public. Their activities may be confidential, but their administrative data should not. The fact that we need leaks in order to know such things means the democracy needs urgent reform.
It's been a long time since I've read either, but I can state in general that software engineering concepts don't tend to get outdated. The state of the art stuff I learned in the late 1970's is still almost entirely valid, although when it comes to low level stuff you'd want to e.g. adopt the advice about goto statements to other non-local things we are confronted with nowadays.

So reading an old classic like The Mythical Man Month isn't going to be a waste of time at all and is strongly recommended, but later really good stuff like these two books have additional lessons we've learned since then. So read the 20th anniversary version of that book (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Ann...), in which the author revisits issues and e.g. modifies his advice to "plan to throw one (version) away, because you will". The potential state of the art has gotten better, you can often get away with not doing that.
It's not at all surprising for me that the German embassy in Syria is swamped at the moment and that makes things more difficult.

However, things are pretty different when you're applying as a student vs. applying as a software developer. There's going to be a lot more scrutiny of the financial situation of a potential student from a country in crisis than for a skilled worker with a job offer. German politics have shifted in recent years because of a labor shortage to where, at least officially, there's a lot of support for qualified workers to move here.

Now, that doesn't mean that there's no racism, but while I don't have any Syrian friends here, I do have a handful of friends from Iran and I've not heard of them having problems at all with things like setting up bank accounts or managing official stuff.