skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to the Jade Computer Products ad that is in the "real" magazine: Does anyone know why so many computer shops had clusters of stores in both Dallas and southern California? I remember dealing with Jade (which was in Addison, not Dallas, though I guess they had a Dallas post office address) and seeing their ad list just the one store here. SoftWarehouse/CompUSA did the same thing for awhile but in reverse; a bunch of stores in north Texas and one or two near Los Angeles. Fry's went the other way for a long time, like Jade. MicroCenter is the only computer outlet brand, off the top of my head, that didn't have that kind of store allocation in the late 1980s into the 1990s.

Just one of those oddities from when I grew up, I suppose.
Nice broad sweeping generalizations. Do you have proof all these protestors are trust-fund babies?

Otherwise, your comment is out of line. Provide light, not heat.
#1 is also the fault of conservative property owners, because building new housing lowers the prices of existing houses.
Not everybody can be part of the glorious STEM master race!
Very cool data set of over 106M domains.
The detail of the highest-ranking therapist, plus others -the need for validation, the fact that the writer declares to be keen on interpersonal connections, the general air of self-involvement, plus the simple act of dishing personal stuff in public - makes me think more of narcissism than psychopathy.

(IANA psychiatrist, needless to say)

In fact, I suspect that most people who flaunt their psychopathy on the internet are in fact narcissists. The two psychos I've met in my life couldn't have cared less for attention from the public at large or validation of their struggles. I can't really imagine them writing an open letter about their condition, an act that doesn't provide tangible control, or money, nor damages an enemy. On the other hand, narcissists needs validation and attention and writing an open letter is attention-seeking behaviour (which we are involuntarily feeding).
What do you do with food workers that are infected (eg. tb)?
And I feel the same. But here's more food for thought: when you've nothing to lose, you basically lose it. And that, sadly, is where a lot of Americans have been heading since late 2007.
An addition to great points already made in this thread- in Emacs it might take a while to set up your environment to your liking but once you have done it you can use it for _everything_. From writing code to managing your agenda to writing haikus. As a user of Dvorak keyboard layout that alone is invaluable to me since I always have my shortcuts optimized for Dvorak no matter what I'm doing.
Also, young people are much more open to not having cars.

When you realize that, in walking cities with "ultra-high" rents, you can subtract the cost of car+gas+insurance+parking (and just tack back on the cost of your MetroCard), it's a different way of thinking about it.
I believe the OP only put quotes around "traditional" because, in the very quote he lifted from the article, West Oakland is referred to as a traditionally black neighborhood. It is typical behavior to use quotes around words that relate directly back to the original source.
Skype and cheap calls give illusion of closeness, but homesickness is still real
We could do that probably. Would need your own parser

With content editable we can just parse he html. We have an example in the repo.
Wow. I don't work in the video production space, but this looks really powerful. Why did you end up making it free?
There are probably sub-conscious patterns of antipathy to transexuality that other non-traditional sexualities don't engender, because widespread sexual counterfeiting would be disruptive to society. We have certain expectations of others that we meet, and TG violates those expectations in a domain (sex and reproduction) that triggers our most ancient and visceral feelings.

If you bit into a steak and found that it tasted like chocolate, you'd be confused and disturbed. Now multiply that feeling by a large factor.
Those are the realistic paths to upward mobility in each society.
It sounds like the best approach would be more acceptance of people's choices and inclinations without forcing them into categories or drawing arbitrary lines between "X" and "Y". That way questioning individuals don't feel pressure to conform to any orientation, and can choose a lifestyle that works for them, whether or not it conforms with any existing labels. Sometimes a questioning individual might choose a traditional straight lifestyle, and that should be just as acceptable as them choosing any other lifestyle.
I picked my first Silicon Valley apartment based on the fact that it was the location mentioned in War Games.. I also purchased my house in Sunnyvale... that movie had a bit too much influence on my life ;)
"Since many black people are experiencing poverty and criminalization, I wonder if we (and they) wouldn't be better of if we were less supportive of those lifestyles".

Doesn't make much sense, does it now?
WhatsApp With That? Security Flaw in Mobile Messaging Apps
A personal branding book for developers - Out of Comfort Zone
> And if that comes at odds to feeding your family, well, maybe you can't just resign. But you certainly can look for more ethical work, or take part in internal conversations about how the organisation can become more ethical.

And we continue to be scared because of their background, previous involvement.

> a) You knew what went on, and agreed with it. Well, maybe your ethics are not what we would all like.

Not everyone is a saint and some are utilitarian and some are not. People also change they way they perceive things.
Big imposing dudes with mace would probably be sufficient. These kids are spineless bullies from entitled backgrounds, not hardened criminals.
Yes, it's sort of a de-facto alliance: conservative property owners and clueless braindead slacktivists. Remove the slactivists and their flimsy environmental arguments from the equation and the purely greed-driven NIMBYism of the property owners will become much harder to defend/justify.
How do you plan to deal with the "cold start" problem, not having enough information about the objects in the prediction? The majority of visitors will be viewing pages on a given site for the first time. In these cases there is a limited amount of information available: referring url, browser, perhaps first or third party cookies, visit time, etc. The whole point of A/B testing is to find a configuration of page elements that will appeal to the largest number of people, because there is so little information available about each individual.

I know of some cold start solutions, my personal favorite being variants of regression based latent factor models [1]. I'm not expecting you to reveal your secret sauce, but I am curious about how you plan to address the problem of having so little information about each person.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1557029
Perhaps I am not reading the article correctly, but it sounds to me like RSA products can no longer be trusted.
Correct. The "by Anti-Cyborg Conglomerate" signoff at the end was nearly too much to take.
http://vuo.org/ is the emerging successor

more info:

http://vuo.org/qc-remake
http://vuo.org/node/64
You should try tutoring math at a high school in a poor area - as I am doing. It's eye opening.
My thoughts on this are, techies are generally nice and intelligent people. Last thing they will do is to harm someone or get to a physical fight. Unionised autoworkers wouldn't be a soft target. I really hope that this is a one off incident and not beginning of some demonifying of tech sector. Incidences like this could be shocking to some people and may change their perception about poor and helpless. In this thread itself, there are so many comments with words like leeches and useless thrown in.
"Bigotry" is not sending your kids to a school because it has some low income students.

Not sending your kids to a school that's 80-90% low-income is a rational choice. See: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cps-alternatives-suburb... ("On the Program for International Student Assessment in 2009, U.S. schools with small proportions of low-income students did as well as schools anywhere in the world—while American schools whose enrollments were more than 75 percent low-income scored like schools in developing countries.", "Most important, many studies have also highlighted the importance of 'peer effects' in schools. They've shown that kids benefit from classmates whose parents have stimulated them cognitively from an early age, and who have helped them develop self-control and other social skills—the kind of parenting more common in middle-class homes than in poor homes.").

But you're totally right. Parental education, parental economic circumstances, the prevalence of two-parent households, etc, those aren't the important things when it comes to education. What really matters is that "every student in America ha[s] the same funding." That's why Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools both spend about $13,000/year per pupil, and have almost identical results to show for it...
True - but I was considering from the context of the original question, "One wonders...what is the legality of running a 'service provider' from the US but incorporated in Canada for something like this? Like, say, a scheduling/reservation app for this?"

Presumably in this context, our entrepreneurial poster is not looking to rent his or her own body out via app, but to assist others in scheduling of such assignations.
Then you'd ask a medical professional for help, not comments on a website.
I'm happy to be corrected. But my understanding is that this is a government programme introduced in their manifesto and applied by "voluntary" means by the big 4 ISPs, with a strong government understanding that the others will soon fall into line. That's what I mean by "central".

As for the "control" part, maybe I have misunderstood. Do you mean to say the ISPs have not included things like the IWF into their censorship mechanisms? Because that looks to me like a list of things to compulsorily ban.

Now, I may be putting two and two together, but to me this looks like:

a) The government at a minimum "influencing" ISPs to introduce variable-level filtering.

b) Mandatory filter lists.

c) An onward programme of debate about what should be in or out of the block.

As for the Ryan Giggs thing, that was simply my speculation. However, I'm currently finding a lot about the way that politicians see control measures goes beyond my wildest fancies - eg RIPA used for school catchment areas.
How are you handling time variations?

Behavior varies across time of day, day of week, time of month, and obviously seasonally. Any thought to more transient things like recent press releases, or the bug that happened for IE9 browsers for 3 hours?

I see graphs in the article for time of day, and day of week, are longer term cycles found and used?
There are degrees of nonsense, and knowing that something is nonsense might require some background understanding.
TLDR: "RSA's contract made Dual Elliptic Curve the default option for producing random numbers in the RSA toolkit."

Dual_EC_DRBG was a NIST standard.
I'm just mean security guards. I doubt they are allowed to carry guns.
Things change. Neighborhoods get gentrified. Neighborhoods get bombed. You adapt, or you die. Protesting progressive change is futile.

You're not homeless because rents went up in your little neighborhood in Oakland. You're homeless because you chose not to move when rents went up.

People need to take responsibility for their actions. I would like to protest the protests of today.
Congress tells DOD to consider “cyber militia” for National Guard
Yeah, I have one of those Epyx joysticks too. It's great.
Lucky Green was the first to mention this: http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septe...
The Longview comment is from the Longview, Washington Union rep, not Oakland. The driver interviewed there is also not a longshoreman, and very likely not repped by a union at all. The Occupy Oakland movement was not a monolithic group of dreadlocked, burning man, trustafarians as you implied, but it's a convenient mis-characterization, as is your implication that the Union was only interested in avoiding alienating their ideological allies out of convenience rather than in actual solidarity with their cause.

EDIT:

I was mistaken regarding the comment coming from the Longview rep, it's actually from the Union President. When viewed in full, his opinion seems to be more nuanced than simply "closing the port is bad."

http://www.ilwu40.org/docs/12-06-11-McEllrath%20Letter.pdf
Cellphones likely running Android OS. And these rioters might have found each other using some Goggle powered LBS.
Grew up on inadequate food stamps. The people with nothing to lose are busy trying to find something to lose. These thugs are not those people.
Interestingly I've been going back and forth on this lately. I have been playing around with SD cards on the STM32F4 and a typical SD Card transaction consists of 3 to 10 commands which, if any one fails, the transaction fails. I'm currently using negative conditionals of the form "Not Error" (the Error test is an affirmative, and so that seems ok to me)

A typical sequence is like the one to set the bus width.

err = sdio_select(rca);
if (! err) {
err = sdio_command(55, rca << 16);
if (! err) {
err = sdio_command(6, 2);
}
}
sdio_deslect();
return err;

I had originally done it the other way

err = sdio_select(rca);
if (err) {
return err;
}
err = sdio_command(55, rca << 16);
if (err) {
sdio_deselect();
return err;
}
err = sdio_command(6, 2);
sdio_deselect();
return err;

I find the first form more readable. It also generates
fewer branches in the generated code. The sample code I first looked at was doing Goto's to the exit code (deselect/return error) which was unacceptable :-).

In the original article the confusion arose around negative test cases and then testing for them negatively (double negatives) which I think are always bad from a readability point of view.
> Persons who engage or support the kind of behavior that the NSA is engaged in are untrustworthy and should be treated as such. You don't have to be the actual guy tapping data lines to be complicit. Shoving it off of "the employees" and onto "the NSA" is a copout.

No, that is not. You are making the same mistake that "because I work for someone evil it means I must be evil too." You are assuming every single person who have or is currently working for NSA must be evil. Just because someone accepts that having a job is important than public good at some point does not make them less untrustworthy. You can have someone who donates to good causes all the time, does a lot of community work and yet when he quits his job because he is sick of NSA or because he just want a better job and now he can't because he was with NSA.

This assumption is wrong; you are equating government to its workers. If so, should anit-war people look at our American soldiers evil too? Because people are following orders?

If I work for a Mafia boss, you know, take care of his house so that he can be comfortable and safe at home, am I supporting to the cause? If a German citizen was supplying raw materials to Nazi is that citizen a Nazi and evil when he was just making a living for his family while he absolutely hate Hitler and Nazi?
It's understandable that you'd be upset if you knew this was a case of rich white kids playing the race card, but you don't -- all we know is that some of the protesters were white. Making generalizations is counterproductive.

"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."

..because this is all obvious evidence of the article.
examples, please
And whose idea is it in the first place? A few people. The rest is what, following orders.
The point is that these people live where they chose to live. There are many reasons that they factor into their decision, but it remains their decision. Not the decision of some trust-fund professional protesters.
Assuming that the preference of which algorithm is used in an encryption standard can be influenced by $10 million, then I I'd say you read the article correctly. Very alarming...
"'Auto boys' are/were unskilled rubes."

You need a lot more skill to work in an auto plant than you need for serving up fast food. 50 years ago, auto production wasn't nearly as automated as it is today, so the guys on the assembly lines needed to know how to do welding and other skilled trades. Robots do a lot more of that stuff today.
The end of RSA (the company)? I find it absurd that a security company no less, would hear many veteran cryptographers say this is backdoored a decade ago, and still going ahead and using it - as the default! Who stakes the whole reputation of their company in the field for a meager $10 million (I assume RSA was pretty big back then, too)? It's insane.

RSA, much like NIST, can not, and should not be trusted any longer. All of their customers should be warned, and advised to quit them ASAP. Companies need to learn this is just unacceptable.
What she said:

Is it any wonder that so many high-achieving young women, despite all the happy talk about their academic success, find themselves in the early stages of their careers in chronic uncertainty or anxiety about their prospects for an emotionally fulfilled private life? When an educated culture routinely denigrates masculinity and manhood, then women will be perpetually stuck with boys, who have no incentive to mature or to honor their commitments. And without strong men as models to either embrace or (for dissident lesbians) to resist, women will never attain a centered and profound sense of themselves as women.

Emphasis added:

Definition of model:

1. a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original. "a model of St. Paul's Cathedral"

2. a system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate.

I believe she is referring to the first usage of model and emphasizing how she needs a strong men. That is she wants a well defined instance of class men so that instances of men and instances of women can have well defined interoperable and efficient interfaces. Without such well defined interfaces, instances of women are not sure what instances of men respond to or what inputs they accept and not sure what their output is. Reflection is not implemented.

You believe she is saying class men is putative parent class of class women which can smash patriarchy by choosing a different protype.

I don't believe that is what she is saying.
> He is advocating more restrictions

Not at all. What makes you think that? The only thing I'm advocating is that if your non-work life is important to you (like it is with most people), eliminating commute time is one obvious way to expand that part of your life.
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Fair enough. I think it's a solid idea, and really useful for every company.

I also think there's money in serving investors.
> I'm going to echo what I've seen in another post - you appear to be a Telegram cheerleader with a brand new account, are you associated with them at all?

Discussions on HN about Telegram were mentioned on several Russian sites (e.g. [1]). No wonder that some persons decided to pitch in.

[1] http://www.siliconrus.com/2013/12/telegram-vs-hacker-news/ Approximate translation: "How experts on Hacker News laughed at Telegram."
In Houston I, and several others who live behind the gates on Sunset, have taken to volunteering A LOT of time in Third Ward for this very reason. You're a lot tougher target when your head is raised and you have a track record of advocating for the REAL underprivileged. Because chances are, the people denigrating you would never dare go to a place like Third Ward. (Which is a shame... because the people there are quite nice actually.)
$10Mi? That's a very cheap price for trashing your companies reputation.

More importantly, it confirms that DRBD is backdoored or at least weak enough to be subverted.
1) git clone
2) launched competitor

* shit HN says
They have that option currently. The employees who do not live close to their work made the decision that commute time was not their primary concern.
Ok, i'm in :)
You guys totally mistook the issue. The issue is that from the start we are discriminate everyone who is or was a NSA employee from the start.

So a driver who drunk drive and lost their legs should have a tag "I was a killer killing fifteen people five years ago and don't build an accessible platform for me"? No of course we don't do that.
> [...] but RSA said in a statement: "RSA always acts in the best interest of its customers [...]

True, you just have to keep in mind that their customer is the NSA.
I also have a few offshoot tool prototypes and a current side project into code visualization that I'm building, also not ready for public viewing. Get in touch if you're interested.
You can't choose but you can change your exit node until get some one you want.
I'd just prefer that we stick to the main point -- that the "anarchists"' actions were basically thuggish and coercive in nature, that is to say, anything but "anarchistic." Anything else (e.g. speculation as to their education or class background) is a distraction from what should be the key takeaway here.

But overall, fair enough, and thanks for the clarifying edit.
I wonder, are you capable of recognizing the irony inherent in your being concerned that people here are not fully, ah, supportive of your particular point of view?
I agree with the others. I think it's still useful to share, because in order to implement I need to build an entire IDE just to implement my features. That's an awful lot of work to see a feature request implemented.

I do agree that implementers are good though. As I mention in the post, I do have one more idea that I didn't share that I am going to build. I'll comment here again when I'm ready to announce it.
It's obviously a balance. Usually the reason you want to live somewhere has something to do with activities you want to perform while physically being there. So if you're working 10 hours a day and commuting 2 hours a day, that leaves you four hours a day to actually be awake where you live. At some point it's not worth living somewhere you like if you're only going to actually be there a tiny portion of each day.
Where is Kindle for Android immersive mode?
Gotcha. That makes perfect sense. Thank you! :)
Yeah, but the "HF" part of "HFT" tends to make an elephant out of a fly.
> Integer/float semantics and support for large integers don't work (it seems like they didn't implement them manually, so it just falls back to doubles?)

Integers work fine up to 2^53 (9 quadrillion and some).

There is also a "throw_on_javascript_int_overflow" flag, which you can use during development.
One issue with open sourcing the code from a startup or any internal app is exposing sensitive info such as credentials. Starting a fresh repo is a way to solve that.
True, from PayScale [1] - *"The median age of Employees 31"

[1] http://www.payscale.com/top-tech-employers-compared-2012/emp...
It's a problem with ML syntax, but one that can easily be overcome with parentheses. Sort of like how a circumspect C programmer uses parentheses in complex mathematical expressions rather than relying on everyone being able to correctly remember complex order of operation rules.

OTOH, pipeline operators make a good case for currying. There really is something nice about being able to write

sliceOfBread
|> smearWith peanut-butter
|> smearWith jelly
|> topWith sliceOfBread
|> cutInHalf
|> eat

instead of

eat(cutInHalf(topWith(sliceOfBread, smearWith(jelly, smearWith(peanut-butter, sliceOfBread)))))