skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, just my personal opinion, but I believe they should be seen as 'tainted' and a potential threat to any employer, forever.

If we started ostracizing only long-term hires, the NSA would just have more motivation to 'turn' their short-term hires.

I feel that without a sort of "zero tolerance" policy towards NSA employment, there will always be a way for them to get around imposed restrictions.
These are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, people who graduated from great schools with useless majors, and the usual constituent of the Bay Area's overprivileged poverty tourists: 20-30 y/o white kids from middle class families.

Oh, get off it, man.

All that we "know" about the perpetrators at this point is that they were apparently (1) young and (2) non-black. As to the rest the attributes you impute to them -- as of yet we don't "know" any of these to be fact. At best all you can honestly say at this point would be:

Now I don't know for a fact, but ya know, I have a hunch these are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, etc etc ...

This is not nit-picking. The fact that you're saying that you "know" everything about their demographic / psychographic makeup when in fact you are merely speculating is what's part of the broader problem here: rather than elucidating the problem, you're subverting the discourse.

And more to the point: you're pushing people's buttons, by appealing to stereotypes and their own identity- and privilege-based insecurities.

In so many words: you're placing the race card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_card
Class warfare.
It's not what he didn't say either. The wording was poor if that wasn't his meaning.
Scary , good nobody is hurt , but this kind of attitude is really disappointing .
I think stackoverflow is just following the normal curve or market dominance - first you solve the problem, then you become the problem.

I think it is a side effect of the way some policies that were needed are now culture/institutional memory.
You mean guns? Maybe give bullet proof vest to Google employees.
It doesn't. The green ✔ indicates that you've completed the task successfully — that is, your regex does not match "crenel".
Psychopaths tend to fear negative consequences less than non-psychopaths. They are still people, but having less fear (not being literally fearless) than most is a defining trait.
I'm a bit late here but just as a heads up ARM have an officially developed Cortex-M* GCC target which hosts just fine on Linux: https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded

With OpenOCD and STLink the STM32 family of Cortex processors are easy to use with Linux (arguably easier than in Windows, actually, because the toolchain isn't as shitty).

I do agree that using them from Windows in the often-documented "beginner's path" way really sucks.
"I've put a lot of thought (about 6 years now) into a way to standardization communication between software systems and even parts of software. It's a hard problem to crack."

HTTP?

It's not perfect, but it seems to be what our industry has settled on as the universal way for pieces of software to talk to each other.

If you are thinking in terms of the payload, JSON seems to be filling that role.
I've gotten into some 'debates' with friends on facebook who are are in the 'anarchist/burner/hipster' persuasion. And It's mostly scape-goating programmers for rents going up. But I do think the Startup community in particular could do a better job interacting with the communities we live in. Especially as more and more people jump on the startup bandwagon and don't really understand the hacker/nerd ethos of protecting the little guy that most of us embrace. The recent remarks of the founder of Anglehack come to mind as something that gives the community a very bad name http://valleywag.gawker.com/happy-holidays-startup-ceo-compl...

Edit: I do realize more programmers moving to the bay means higher rents I just think its the fault of SF for not building enough housing http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francis...
Ah I didn't think of that. There's a different issue though which is that the exhaust will be pulled into the bus.
“Bus driver, what are you gonna do, man? What are you gonna do?”
“Don’t worry. It’s freedom of speech, freedom of speech.”
The kind young man then walked to the rear of the bus, saying,
“Oh my god! What’s gonna happen next?”
The same female passenger took out her phone and began filming the blockade.
“At least we’re warm in here and they’re cold out there,” she said.

The nice thing about 'journalism' like this is that when you just make shit up to improve your 'story', there's nobody to hold you accountable.
The one question I would like to know is: where can I get my hands on this kind of ink and what kind of printer does it require? Unfortunately, journalists don't think to delve into this kind of information.
In general, I try and make all of my purchases on one credit card, and only use my debit card for withdrawing cash at atm's. That way I only have to monitor one account for fraudulent activity. Where this breaks down, is a lot of the discount/cheaper gas stations will only accept cash or debit. Also, the magnetic stripe seems to wear down pretty fast on my cards, which means I often have to use my debit card when the credit card isn't swiping. I agree though, get a credit card (preferably with rewards, mine does 1% cash back) and use that for all of your purchases.
Highly rational and and self-motivated are not the only distinguishing features of a psychopath. And those are not the features, or the only features, that people are afraid of.
A Lisp Machine is a real computer which runs Lisp on the metal. One of the applications of a Lisp Machine is one or more editors written in Lisp.

GNU Emacs is an editor written and extended in a dumbed down dialect of Lisp, on top of a dumbed down Lisp runtime, on top of some kind of other operating system. It provides a relatively poor user interface (especially compared to the real Lisp Machines which existed).
Hasn't this been standard practice in the payments / banking industry for a very, very long time to verify identity?

You can get all of this on a credit report AFAIK and I'd rather go through this so they know it is me than have some dude sign up for My Choice in my name and receive any UPS packages for me.
I completely understand what you say, about the problem being in the details. For what is now one year, I have been working (on the side) on graphical code + special UI. Currently I am really happy with the prototypes that I have, and plan to continue working on it. I expect to have an actual product in some time, perhaps two years at my current work rate. I am also pondering if it would be possible to extract commercial benefit from such a product. My current plan is to release a free/open base version of the product with little restrictions. Over that, offer special enhanced versions. Perhaps a simplified educational version for kids to learn to code, a game programming version with openGL integrated, mostly targeted to young programmers, etc.

I think that for now the best way for me, to continue developing my product, is to continue working isolated from the world. At this stage is probably still early, but if anyone is interested to know more, and think that can provide something, I am open to considering possible partnership. Unfortunately at this point, I am not willing to share online any of the progress done.
As usual, the irony is at an all time high.

> "While they took their seats, several people unfurled two giant banners reading “TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here” and “FUCK OFF GOOGLE.”

People holding banners that were laser printed with materials synthesized by complex machines. People with cell phones tucked away in their pockets. People who have used Google a million times.
I'd leave it to experts to design the best syntax, because they could foresee all the possible ramifications of different choices. I think we've clearly articulated the ends and some potential means.
Yes, if only using the browser as a platform also had other benefits... Oh, wait!
Somewhat related: Some time ago I wanted to create a dyndns service for Rasperry Pi devices.

I registered the domains (my-pi.net, my-py.net, my-pi.de) but never created the actual website. So if anyone wants these domains for free, contact me.
They are an established power, but they've still had to deal with societal friction in response to their actions. This slows them down as they attempt to compete with other global factions. Hence the need to lessen societal friction by making things more "expensive" to those who gum up the works for them. And yeah, more "strategy of tension" operations wouldn't be surprising.
I made a great diagram which illustrates this here: '"Research Data and Metadata at Risk: Degradation over Time" http://zzzoot.blogspot.ca/2010/12/research-data-and-metadata...
for a paper I co-authored: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/11/0/11_11-DS3/_pdf

The diagram is based on one from an earlier paper: 'Nongeospatial Metadata for the Ecological Sciences', 1997, Michener et al. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007%5B0330:NMFTES%5...
Yikes, "First commit" is a beast! Were you using something other than git at first, or did you squash the history up to that point?

That is a really nice README, by the way.
I think the rent issue is definitely real, but isn't the fault of techies. It's the fault of several interacting factors:

(1) Anti-development mentality on the part of city councils, zoning boards, etc.

(2) Geographic containment of the area.

(3) Shitty public transit and overcrowded roads.

(4) Foreign investors driving up the price of RE.

... in roughly that order.

#1 is largely the fault of this same stereotypical bunch of braindead trustafarian hippies, since they tend to oppose building pretty much anything because it destroys the Earth, man. In so doing they play their role in the gentrification cycle, constraining supply to drive up rents and drive out the genuinely underprivileged.

As I said elsewhere: fuck these people.
Interestingly, top-earners have been saying the same for decades when confronted with tax increases, all while having enjoyed an ever increasing share of the wealth pie. Food for thought.
No sympathy for thugs and vandals. People who smash bus windows Friday morning have no place in civilized society. This has nothing to do with their employment situation. Why don't they go to the public library and learn some relevant skills? Learning opportunities that actually lead to well paid jobs are more accessible than ever. If you have the time to smash a bus window you have the time to learn skills that will uplift your spirit and place in this world.
Not not x is equivalent to x using the double negation rule (DN).

"Not signed out" can be rephrased as "not not signed in" and thus simplified to "signed in". Same for "not untrusted ip" equaling "not not trusted ip" and, after DN, simply "trusted ip".

It's completely logical, so I'm not sure what your point is. Perhaps the article should have explained this better.
Did anyone else notice that the bus in the image doesn't have a back window?
Zegats! I think I used to own that issue.
This would be a worthwhile use for the NSA datacentres, a raw scientific data repository.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-out-sundown-town...

The racial distribution of the US is neither an accident or the result of voluntary actions by individuals.
a) I have no objection to this phrase and will edit my comment thus.

b) I'm reacting to the race card being employed by people who are tokenizing and mascotifying (to coin phrase) the same people who they themselves pushed out!
The guy (or gal) above you is not marginalizing unemployment. They are trivializing the new leisure class as talked about by Thorstein Veblen. Except instead of conspicuous consumption, they are engaging in poverty tourism. Don't be fooled by these folks, they have well funded trust funds and have never worked a day in their life. Rather than buying a new car to inspire their neighbor's envy, they are trying to build credibility around their "worldliness". However, they are doing very little to actively improve the situation of those people actually struggling and disenfranchised.
UK: 37Mbps / 2.4Mbps

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3178007556
The "nice young man"?
Despite what they say, they are not upset at the corporation. The corporation is faceless and their reaction is very emotional driven with little rational thought. Hell, most of these 'professional protesters' probably have Android or Apple phones.

They actually hate the people. Why? Because they think that they are different and this is a form of entertainment for them.
I was using svn for the revision control, up until about two weeks ago.
I found Cupertino to be pretty bike friendly when I lived there many years ago, and I'm not even the typical demographic for bike commuting--I was the kind of person for whom you see and exclaim "what the fuck is that guy doing on a bike!?" Fat, and needed to have a custom rear wheel made with 48 spokes because ordinary wheels could not take my weight.

I went long stretches where I only used my car when I wanted to go to a different city or wanted to carry more cargo than would fit in my panniers.

Unless things have changed a lot (it has been quite a while) I'd expect Cupertino to be fine for the kind of people who are actually in shape for biking.
Well, I don't know that I would say chemtrails don't exist. I think there's pretty compelling evidence that they do apart from contrails (have no idea what they are or whether they matter though). I am also a proponent of labeling food so that people have the information to decide for themselves what they ingest.

I realize that you were just giving examples, and I'm not doubting that these poverty tourists exist. I am just saying that we (and many others) agree that there are enough things in the world that suck, including the state of the issues that you mentioned, like healthcare for the poor. So, my question is: if we find the current crop of activists to be lacking, then why aren't we doing better or more ourselves? Where is the "true" activism?

Reminds me of the response to Occupy. Everyone stood back and criticized their lack of organization, cleanliness, etc. Yet, nearly everyone agreed that things sucked (including banksters, bailouts, etc.). How is it that an entire potential movement was derailed by such trivial matters as where these guys were pooping? How did the collective energy of so many end up redirected away from "better" activism and into criticism of the activists?
Yet another testament the software is eating the world. What we are seeing is a proof of it - startups get real-world big data analytics. The cost of figuring out if they are really making progress compared to their own targets and compared to peers/competitors, just got slashed by 10x to 100x. I think this product has a good chance of becoming the "holy grail" in the process which Steve Blank calls"customer discovery".
Ironically we only used Targets Red debit card. Can only be used at target and has a pin. Of all our cards that was the 'best' one we could have used in this case. We just changed the pin, even though no pins were taken.
Can I transfer an aws from an amazon account to another?
I far prefer to have half the screen devoted to my editor and the other to my browser/docs/terminal/etc. Makes things way more convenient.
>I am genuinely curious why the former would be defensible while the latter not.

Because the one is (supposedly) defensive tactic, the other is offensive.

>Why would a country not have a program to enhance it's own industry through espionage?

Because the country being a superpower gives all other countries an unfair advantage. Even if you don't believe in morality and ethics, so you don't care about that, this can still get to bite its ass at some point.

Second, because it's also hypocritical with said country paying lip service to "free markets".
> I presume you have made some assumptions about me

As you have made assumptions. Many of us are quite left-wing. I would be at home in a European socialist party.

However, the escalation to violence against people like me leaves me disinclined to do anything to help you. Giving you more resources would seem to be aiding dangerous criminals.
Well the taxes don't have to do with anything. Nobody deserves to have their daily commute violently disrupted.
Can you knowingly persuade yourself? Yes you can. (e.g.,"I convinced myself of that fact.")

In one fell swoop, you are both persuader and persuadee. Victim and victimizer.

The law states "any person", which can refer back to the person of "Whoever". It does not state "another person", which would distinguish a separate person from the person of "Whoever".
Abso-fucking-lutely.

Like I said elsewhere I used to live in a "trendy" place that had a huge contingent of these obnoxious faux-radicals. They would organize this silly clownish protests of GMO foods, "chemtrails," free this, liberate that, whatever, and they'd march around looking like clowns in front of all kinds of trendy businesses catering to hippie-tourists and retired old white people.

These businesses in turn paid their workers shit wages with no benefits. How do I know? Because I was good friends with a number of these workers, who never had anything to do with the IndyMedia traustafarian clown show.

I never saw a single one of these outrage-er-tainment fuckups protests unfair wages or lack of benefits. They only protested trendy issues of no relevance to the actually underprivileged.

I propose national trustafarian beat-down day.
Putin critic Khodorkovsky in Germany after pardon
I'm one of the founders - happy to answer any questions.

I believe this sort of bandit-meets-machine-learning approach is going to have a big impact on web optimisation.
I got a notification from simple last night that said they would be sending me a new card because I shopped at Target, but that my old would still work until the new one was activated.

Great service and I didn't even have to do anything.

Cheers simple!
This "top earner" wants more tax increases. I'm not alone. What I do not want is to be subject to violent attacks for getting up and going to work in the morning, nor to be compared to Glenn Beck for having no sympathy for the violent criminals doing so.
There's a big difference, however: if your credit card is stolen, the maximum loss you have to worry about is $50 and it's usually $0. With Bitcoin there's no way to reverse theft unless you can get the entire world to rollback to a known state making it impossible to recover losses other than by suing and getting alternative payments.
Thanks for the info. The narrator of the Vice Guide episode claims that the paper version was appropriated into the electronic version so I got the impression that these experiments where related to book mentioned in the guardian article. Confusing.
Hell, I was walking through the red light district in Buenos Aires and they followed behind me grabbing my crotch.
It's a bit confusing. Ticks on the left means it did match, ticks on the right means it didn't
Wow, there is some hate in this thread. I always think it's interesting when a piece like this comes along that seems to spark a personal insult style reaction from a community.

You can draw your own conclusions. I don't feel either way about this but it's been fun reading the comments here.
Pffft. Let me tell you about this so-called refund. I applied for said refund of UK TV license after leaving the UK at the end of September. They told me they could only refund unused _quarters_ of the license, meaning that they would only refund me from the start of December (well in the _future_ at that point). Then they had the hide to tell me that because I was applying for a refund from a _past_ date (Sept) I had to prove that I was no longer in the UK. I sent them a lease, and a letter from my employer in my new country which they required by snail mail. They rejected it and told me they needed a final gas bill from the UK or something equivalent, which I again had to send by snail mail. I wrote them a letter about how the TV license was "a national disgrace, isn't it", and "should be abolished, shouldn't it". So glad to be out of Cameronland.
I have never been a John, and I have been chased down the street by prostitutes with varying degrees of aggressiveness. In one instance two of them grabbed my arms and tried to drag me
Ho Ho Ho ... Pay My Invoice
If he wasn't implicitly being derogatory about those traits (and I think he was) he's certainly not describing them as positive. The other responses echo the attitude that the problem results from these sorts with 'useless degrees.'
i wonder how much it matters how seriously you do or don't take today's activism.
I have read the book. The point of that anecdote is that the concept of "cruelty" does not apply to the authors' thinking. We say she was being cruel to the animal, but she does not see it as such.

To her, she had a problem: something was in her swimming pool, and it had to be removed from the pool so she could keep it clean. She tried to remove it, but it kept swimming away. So she drowned it, collected it, and cleaned the pool. The creature's pain never entered into the calculation for her.

The best analogy I can think of are open-world videogames. When you play Grand Theft Auto, are you being "cruel" to civilians? They aren't alive and don't have any feelings, so you may have no problem [1] doing seemingly cruel things to them to see how they react. You're not necessarily cruel, you're just curious how that world works.

Sociopaths see the world in a similar way that you see Grand Theft Auto.

[1] I'm empathetic enough that I feel empathy even for completely non-sentient characters in videogames. So I tend to be a goody-goody even in digital worlds.
In California, Google's employment contract already covers that explicitly.
What assumption did I make about your politics? You wear your politics loudly enough so as to preclude any need for assumption. Why have you characterized me as a dangerous criminal? I just very simply do not suffer fools or borderline racists.

I'm glad that you'd fit in with the European socialists, but your thinking is just so remarkably confused that it's comical. Actually, this strongly qualifies you to be a European socialist, replete with broken populist social initiatives and all, so good on you.
He is advocating more restrictions (not enforced by law or company policy, admittedly, but driven by community violence) on housing options for Google employees.

Whether the remaining options are owned by Google, or a limited set of independent corporations and landlords is of little consequence. The result is that the employee is forced to live closer to work instead of where they please, serving as a constant reminder that their life truly does revolve around their employer.

What he is suggesting is dehumanizing.

In answer to the original query: "Why not live closer to work?"

Because that is not where they fucking want to live. They should be permitted to live anywhere that they have the ability and means to live. De-facto zoning of residential areas as off limits to employees of particular companies is insanity.