skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the close reading. I guess it depends what you think "no domestic intercepts" excludes, and how much you believe that everyone in the NSA follows the rules. Even if most of them do, a few have the tools to become a very big problem --- and the rest of the organization wouldn't necessarily know, since in an organization like the NSA, people aren't supposed to know what's happening in the office down the hall.

To start with the scope of what's available: it almost certainly includes data on US persons "incidentally" acquired in taps on an authorized target. I'm not aware of anything on DEA procedures there specifically, but as for the general rules, see here: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/11/08/the-intelligence-commun...

Of course, even if NSA analysts know that they have DEA "customers" (as they apparently call the recipients of their intelligence), it might be a breach of the rules to select overseas targets which would be likely to have domestic contacts of interest to the DEA. But given that knowingly breaking the rules in pursuit of an authorized goal seems to count in NSA audits as mere "lack of due diligence", and not classed as "abuse", I'm not sure how much comfort to take from that.

Analysis of NSA audit data from Marcy Wheeler here: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/16/lack-of-due-diligence-t...

... with further notes on the audit process, and narrow definitions of "abuse" here: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/20/if-nsa-commits-database...
> They wer innovative market leaders of there time.

Since adding the "innovative" begs he question, let's rephrase it to "They were market leaders of their time." But lots of companies are market leaders. HP of today and Dell are market leaders of the PC industry, yet show almost no innovation.

My point is that competition, in the sense of the economic force that drives marginal profits towards zero, discourages innovation, at least in the short term, because it forces companies to be preoccupied with immediate survival, instead of allowing them to plan ahead to the future.
Nah, I think we can handle it without undefined behavior by telling LLVM that `﹡mut` can alias anything. In effect, we would only tell LLVM that `&mut T` cannot alias `&mut T` if there is no `﹡mut T` in scope.

Of course, if you transmute stuff into `&mut T`, then you'd better make sure that those two `&mut T`s don't overlap. But `﹡mut T` should be fine.
Please read about shareholder lawsuits. Shareholder lawsuits typically aim to show a breach of duty on the part of a corporate officer or board member, which is a completely different standard than the one you lay out. A violation of the law is unnecessary. It would be legal for Mark Zuckerberg to use his voting shares to sell Facebook to IBM for a dollar, but doing so would be a breach of his fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is also no notion of a "conviction", it is a civil suit.

In particular it is totally possible to argue that IBM directors / officers were in fact acting in the best interests of US national security, but not their shareholders, the same way that the board of Lockheed would be in breach of their fiduciary duty if they started giving away stealth fighters for free.
I think - and this is only based on my own experiences, so please do correct me - is that a lot of the problems discussed here are exacerbated by the effective geographical segregation of tech workers with families and those without.

One of the complaints here is that in the Mission tech workers aren't engaging with the local community - schools, playgrounds, and the like. But this isn't a general problem with tech, because if you walk 10 minutes to Noe Valley you'll find many tech workers actively involved in their communities because they have families that live there.

This is compounded by the fact that many people in tech who decide to start a family will often move out to the valley to take advantage of better schools, and more appropriate housing.
You're running into a textbook case of the Fallacy of Composition.

The essence is that the economy is full of feedback cycles. Your savings and spending decisions affect the size of the economy.

Now, from an individual household perspective, your spending is only a drop in the bucket. It is small compared to the size of the economy, and it is small compared to the revenue of any individual firm. Any feedback effect your behavior may have is a rounding error compared to the sum of the effects of everybody else's behaviours. Therefore, it is reasonable to disregard the feedback effects when you make individual decisions.

However, when you evaluate the economy as a whole, there is nobody else and the feedback effects are suddenly the dominant term. Disregarding those effects when making economy-wide policy decision is therefore a recipe for disaster.
not really. they make some nice hardware. wozniak was the first to realize the potential of the microprocessor.
Jackson is amazing... Housing is expensive though!
This is a tough one. I quit several years ago to work for myself so I know what a struggle this can be. I personally can't just sit and code for 8 hours every day. I'd go nuts. Some days I end up working much more than 8 hours if I have a lot to do and things are flowing, most I work less though.

Working from X to Y seems silly to me now. I try to set a goal of what I want to get done that day, and when it's done I'm done. The switching costs are so high when changing tasks, it rarely makes sense to start something new at the end of the day. Sometimes I work 2 hours, sometimes 10 hours, most of the time though it is between 4-6.

All that being said, I'm not accountable to a boss and a paycheck. I didn't do any work today and yet my stuff is still selling itself.
Right, but how does the cockpit crew know that they airspeed indicators are working correctly now? They don't.
Have not been used yet...

Bitcoin interest will increase speculators and vendor adoption and then, presumably with time, it should steady and people will likely spend some of their hordes.
Here are a couple of itches for academics that Latex scratches:

1. Templates, so you don't have to control how everything looks: If you're writing a paper, you usually target a specific journal (and retarget later if rejected). If you download that journal's templates you can work on a version of the paper that looks very close to how it will be published. You can also submit a preprint to arxiv so it will be available to others in a close-to-final form while it goes through the (sometimes lengthy) peer-review process.

2. Fine control when you need it: While templates allow latex users to primarily worry about content rather than fiddling with appearances, there are still very fine controls in Latex for sweating the fine-details, and believe me, there are plenty of those that academics sweat over. There are a lot of little things that make your text robust against the tyrannies of the template. For example, say you write "For blah blah blah, see Figure 1." in your text. Latex might decide to start a new line after "Figure", leaving "1." starting the next line. Awkward! Rewrite this as "Figure~1" and Latex will not insert a newline there. If you get into the habit of doing that all the time, and many other things, you will spend a lot less time playing whack-a-mole with things that wind up looking funny. When you get good, you truly only have to worry about content.

This war between not having to control appearance and controlling it utterly when it matters makes Latex both very powerful and very frustrating to newcomers. Proficiency delivers freedom to worry only about content, which is what academics really want.

If HTML+etc is to be an alternative to latex, those templates need to be out there. Otherwise it's a chicken and the egg problem. Nobody has time to use HTML because it would mean developing a new template to meet their target journal's spec's and convincing them to accept that format, so nobody ever develops a template. Journals won't waste time developing templates or altering their system to accept HTML documents unless submitters are interested in submitting via that route. If you truly think you've found a superior alternative to Latex, it is up to you to pick a journal, develop templates that match their format, and get them out there so people can try them.
Can't boot from a USB nor from the Debian installer cd (using USB CDROM drive)
I think it has more to do with being displaced and less with disliking people with Macbooks at coffee houses. This is gentrification, but it's the middle class being pushed out this time, not the lower class. Nobody wants to leave their favorite spot because they can no longer afford the rent.

You're right, though, that it's not new at all. This happens in most major urban cities.
It's worth it to me because I have seen significant shifts in my baseline sensory clarity, concentration, and equanimity. These improvements benefit everything I do every moment of the day.

There is a lot of scientific research on meditation underway. You might want to check out the IONS Meditation Bibliography to see if any of the studies interest you: http://noetic.org/meditation-bibliography/bibliography-info/
I'm just saying I don't think you can expect the same behavioral responses to 1 and 2.

In the case of 1, I minimize all of my purchases during periods where I perceive higher levels of appreciation.

In the case of 2, I only buy what I need of that good (which is approximately what I do anyway).

So it isn't a particularly interesting comparison to make.
I think the most hilarious backlash is the one from folks who moved here barely three years ago. Apparently, if you don't work in tech, you are somehow more of a real person and keeping it real. Bull fucking shit.
If you have any remarks, im here. What do you think about it, tell me.
This is the only instruction on how to run the examples:

"The examples are deployable via fastcgi."

A more hand-holdey approach may be appreciated.
Thanks for the info...really appreciate it. That is exactly what I was looking for.
But dollars are not being delivered to me, that's the point. Bitcoin isn't acting as a middleman here-it's the end.

If I were your employer and decided to price your bi-weekly paycheck in terms of segways (each paycheck would be the dollar equivalent of one segway), does that mean you'd be "paid in segways"? No, you're paid in dollars.

You can't really claim someone is paid in dollars unless (1) they receive actual dollars, or (2) the thing they receive instead is guaranteed to be exchangeable for that dollar amount at any point into the future. Neither of these is true of a salary that is delivered in bitcoin, regardless of how it's priced.
Say what you want about tech-workers sense of entitlement, or the local's misdirected anger, but I think we can all agree that this nonsense is great for sfgate's page views. And they clearly know it. They just keep publishing the same two stories over and over.

edit to add: I want a media backlash. That always comes, right? Maybe then we can get away from this nonsense narrative of tech-workers vs locals and focus on the actual problems at the root of housing prices.
I just mean that I wasn't told what to write by a USG PR person. The only thing I heard from the NSA about it was that I didn't have to redact anything.
As a visitor to SF I'm having a hard time trying to understand why there is so much anger directed towards 'techies' and not towards the city/mayor. Isn't it the mayor's responsibility to ensure that housing supply can meet demand and low income earners are not pushed out of the city entirely?
“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”

I'm with Ambrose Bierce on this one.
It is interesting as a view into the naive and uninformed [1] view of those inside.

I suspect the screening selects for compliance and maybe against questioning authority plus the people applying May self select in that way.

Note that this was approved by the agency and therefore may have been through a filter process that removes other reports with more critical views before publication. (I am not suggesting that this author is anything other than genuine but if it was a critical view could it have been published).

I don't doubt that storing everything helps find threats but the price is far too high, whatever difference it makes.

[1] he hadn't heard of parallel construction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6910972 (he may have deep particular knowledge in some areas but his understanding of the overall agency appears poor.
Optimizing for hello world is probably the least important thing when you have a 10+ year journey of learning ahead of you. In the end, what do you learn from python's hello world anyways?

This also happens in math quite a bit. There is a knowledge gap when teaching concepts like derivatives for the first time. So we are told to initially ignore details while learning.
24 Days of Hackage: time
dremel(where facebook's presto comes from)
bigtable(where amazon's dyanamoDB comes from)

Most tech companies have google to thank for large scale data processing. Google could have not published anything, but they chose to publish these papers. There are other papers published that other companies haven't even started copying yet, as google is 5 years ahead of the industry in terms of large scale data processing. When these companies get there, they can check out the published papers, saving years of time.
Who's denying it to you? But the same thing you complain abiut ia also ehxactly what single-sex schools are doing - its not about looking at your interests and learning style based on your home envitonment, test scores, and social proclivites to tey and find an optimum learning environmwnt for you - its about seeing if you have a penis and declaring that obviously you must 'learn competitively' and its very important we advocate you running around outside. Because clearly girls don't do those things.

I'm sadly never surprised that the cinclusions people draw about gendered education just so happen to reinforce societal gender stereotypes.
Where did the term evangelist come from, in a tech context?
You have the honor of being the first creationist I have met in Hacker News!
The trick is that the newcomers are always blamed for rising housing costs, nobody considers that their own community may be to blame for the housing shortage.

It is unreasonable to expect your community to never grow in population or wealth.

Also, I think you are underplaying the degree to which "disliking people with Macbooks at coffee houses" plays into it. There is a lot of wordage in that article dedicated to describing things other than rising rent that is bothering the "natives".

One example:

""Your whole social world is tech," Garcia, 37, said as he finished a bagel sandwich at the Creamery, a cafe at Fourth and Townsend that's a hotbed of tech deal making.

"The reality is that there are real people in San Francisco, but they're usually in neighborhoods like the Richmond or Sunset," he continued. "The wall between them and us, so to speak - not to get too postcolonial about it here - is pretty high.""

Here the "native" has decided that "tech people" are somehow less "real" because they are unlike him. People like Garcia might try to dress up their issue with "tech people" as merely a matter of rent and economics, but what it really boils down to is bigotry.
I believe the right-hand image is the feed, the left-hand is simulated. The fact that you grabbed entirely onto the simulation demonstrates exactly why it's there - a photo of a landing leg just isn't compelling.

It's China. If they know the world is watching, they'll make sure they put on a show.

(not to detract from the accomplishment at all, it's fantastic to see some movement in what's become a very routine business. But there's probably something very HN-relatable here in providing feedback when your user is expecting to see something happen)
That's pretty much an impossible task.
> Now what platforms has Google built that is changing the game for everyone else?

I don't know, maybe search? The Web as we know it functions because we have Google providing a reliable search function for all of it. I wouldn't be the person I am without Google. In that sense, Google's meant far more to me than the advent of a popular device or another medium of entertainment like Facebook.
PATCH, Idempotence, & the Importance of Standards
No, that is not the mayor's job at all. Well it shouldn't be. If a mayor tries to make it his job, he'll fail because things like "housing supply" cannot be managed by government.
There's nothing special...except for the actual commands. Empathize with the newbie.
That doesn't say anything about the situation where programmers would ever be non-exempt unless you paid them hourly instead of a salary.
Ask HN: How do you find freelance programming work?
I'm interested in how other's find work and particularly how people find work making applications or doing coding in lower level programming languages.
I am an avid volunteer in the community..i am In the tech industry..live near the mission....my wife works for a non profit..

gotta love these generalizations...
Since when do tech companies, SF or otherwise, even have a "civic image?" This seems like a bald-faced strawman by SFGate.

"Future of SFGate-funded action-sports TV sitcom in doubt."
The paragraph that starts "First, it is rational for economic agents to hold as many bitcoins as they can afford to lose" is so poorly argued that I decided the rest of the article wasn't worth reading.

There are several steps missing between the statement "Bitcoin will go up in value" and "I should invest all my investable assets in it". One big missing step is, what is the optimal way for one to allocate one's portfolio, given some set of expectations, uncertainties and correlations?

There's been a lot of work in this area (optimal portfolio construction), some of it very good. My favorite starting point for this field is the Kelly Criterion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

While I sympathize with the article's enthusiasm for Bitcoin, I wish people would shut up when they have no idea what they're talking about.

EDIT: if you want to get deep in the weeds you can read more about Modern Portfolio Theory here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory. I don't endorse every idea you'll find there, but they are all better than the notion that you should invest 100% of your investable portfolio in whatever asset has the strongest forecast, as the OP apparently believes one should.
"One of the complaints here is that in the Mission tech workers aren't engaging with the local community - schools, playgrounds, and the like. But this isn't a general problem with tech, because if you walk 10 minutes to Noe Valley you'll find many tech workers actively involved in their communities because they have families that live there."

I'm not really sure about that. SF hasn't exactly been a family-friendly place for the time that I've lived here, and I wouldn't describe the giant packs of 20-something, nerdy men who have come with this latest gold rush as engaged members of their community. But Noe is definitely a different neighborhood than SOMA, so you probably see more civic engagement there than elsewhere in the city.

However, I can say with 100% confidence that the city has become less interesting and more homogenous since 2008 -- much more white, 20-something and hipstnerd. Many of the things that I found culturally interesting in San Francisco have been pushed out by the skyrocketing costs of living here. Artisan drop coffee and bougie grilled cheese shops aside, Oakland seems like a far more interesting place than San Francisco these days -- nearly all of the art, music and counter-culture that made SF dynamic has moved to the east bay, replaced by a shallow, consumeristic version of the same.
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word "general." At any given time, especially in a low-inflation economy like that of our recent experience, prices of some goods and services will be falling. Price declines in a specific sector may occur because productivity is rising and costs are falling more quickly in that sector than elsewhere or because the demand for the output of that sector is weak relative to the demand for other goods and services. Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation. Deflation per se occurs only when price declines are so widespread that broad-based indexes of prices, such as the consumer price index, register ongoing declines.

From the Bernanke article I originally linked.
Both systems contain massive speculator involvement. Only one system contains single overarching actor with ability to manipulate values at will.

Pretty obvious which will be more stable.
It's not just yuppie hatred, nor does the article really address the big issues. Obviously inequality of money and opportunity is a big part of this. But that can be mitigated if society's fabric isn't threatened.

There are elephants in the room:
1) lack of women in the industry <--- means an increasingly out of whack male:female ratio in the city which has many problematic pile-on effects.

2) simple feelings of being left out...that's what people don't like about Google shuttles. They're mysterious. Let people in them, see what they are, see how they're really not that amazing or great: but then that would hurt recruiting.

3) Arrogance of many tech workers: anti-social intercommunication skills etc. We all know this is undeniably true. Sure we may be nicer than most finance types. But are we more out-going? Do we try to connect with our community on an emotional level? Certainly not more than most, and I'd argue a heck of a lot less than most.
Rule number one: if you're not sure what you're doing, do it in a new branch. If things go wrong, you can always delete that branch.

And you can always make a branch out of a previous situation. Gitk/gitx make this particularly easy.
This is true, and many of the problems I see in SF had like-for-like counterparts when I was living in London (replace 'tech' with 'finance', etc).

That said, I think SF has some unique circumstances that make gentrification challenging. These cause genuine problems that aren't related to simple fear of change. A few of those circumstances:

* SF has a very poor public transport system that severely limits where people can choose to live in relation to their workplace

* SF has problems with homelessness and poverty that are more visible and proportionally higher than its peers (SF has one of the highest rates of homeless people who actively refuse shelter)

* Tech workers often flee the city to have families, meaning they aren't as engaged with the community as others (this exodus also has detrimental effects on the school system in SF)
Doesn't the city effectively control housing supply by issuing permits for new buildings and controlling zoning boundaries? I can see how the city cannot produce new housing but it seems they can definitely restrict housing supply.
Huh? An intelligence officer is exactly the type of person who wouldn't "appear to be in a position where his continued employment with the government would be an issue" while actually still being a government employee. Who's to say that he isn't still working with the NSA?

I'm far from a routine skeptic but c'mon ... This post sounds like a PR message.