skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months ago, I ordered some RAM from Crucial. They used UPS Mail Innovation, a service by UPS that mails packages for you. I got my package, but the tracker showed it getting delivered to another address on the other side of the country. So maybe there's a bug somewhere in the USPS system that shows you the tracking of the wrong package?
They didn't necessarily earn it. They inherited it. They got it by luck. They're not good Germans. They are a degenerate race. Their tax rate wasn't high enough. <- Excuses for taking other people's stuff.
The obvious explanation here is that the USPS fucked up. As the tweet says, you'd think the NSA program would be more subtle. Further, there isn't much in the way of intelligence presence in Alexandria. So what's more likely: that the NSA does this program in a secret location that's still right next to all the non-secret stuff, and they can't cover up the tracking data, or that the USPS accidentally sent a package to the wrong place?

Edit: I want to emphasize how incredibly stupid the article is when analyzing the tracking data. Key quote:

"From Dulles, it moved another four times around the military and intelligence belt in suburban Washington DC, finally landing in Alexandria at 11:03 am on January 23."

First of all, there is nothing significant to Dulles. It's the largest airport in the area, and this makes it the arrival point for any packages coming in by air. 90% of my packages have a "Dulles, VA" tracking entry on them by the time they get to me.

Second, it didn't move "four times". It went from Dulles to a carrier facility in Alexandria, then it went out for delivery and got delivered. That's two moves. And how many times do you expect it to move? That's how air-based package delivery works. It goes to an airport. Then it goes to a local sorting facility. Then it goes out for delivery.

Third, the phrase "military and intelligence belt" is ridiculous. Especially so when the only two locations involved are Dulles and Alexandria, neither of which has much in the way of either military nor intelligence.

The article tries way too hard to make its case, and uses a great deal of purple prose to state what comes down to, "the package got delivered to Alexandria, VA which is close to a lot of government agencies". That would actually be more convincing than the insanity they wrote, although still not very convincing. But at least it would be honest.
Red Hat

-- all of the above, except the head office is in Raleigh NC, which probably doesn't matter as you can work at home full time if you want, and there is an office in Mountain View if you prefer to work in offices.
It's kind of hard for a computer to misread 98122 as 2230* / 2231*.
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Pumping is going on in every crypto currency right now. If it isn't as straightforward as a chat log, it is being done more subtly in other ways. Alt-currencies, (i.e. not bitcoin) seem to have more pump and dump going on.
But flipped the other way around, the more impressive American absolute change is only an artifact of its larger inequality. Danes are not moving around between $15k and $40k incomes, because nobody makes a $15k income (minimum wage is $38k/yr). So that whole bit of the "American dream" mobility has just been cut off, with no loss to society...

Relative position also matters quite a bit. In Denmark, you can be born on the lower end of society, and end up as one of the country's elites, with greater probability than is the case in the US. I take this as the "Horatio Alger" myth: you are born to a dock worker, and end up President of the USA, or CEO of a Big Company, a unique trajectory only possible in America. But you are actually more likely to make this dockworker-to-PM or dockworker-to-CEO transition in Denmark, contrary to the myth! Put differently, who constitutes the elite in Denmark is less determined by parentage, whereas the American political/economic/cultural elite is more heredity-determined, because the differences from birth are too large to overcome. I think this question of which stratum of the previous generation's families this generation's CEOs/etc. come from has significant implications for society: if it's only from last generation's top-20%, this produces a multi-generational elite, which is generally bad. It could well be that one way to combat the emergence of a multi-generational elite is simply to reduce income inequality.
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is a professional machine, and the professionals it is aimed and, that are going to be buying this machine, are not interested in upgradability in the sense you talking about.

Find a good price/performance ratio, buy and use machine for 2-3 years, sell and buy a new one. The fact that this machine houses all the components you want to upgrade inside of it (CPU,GPU,RAM,PSU) and all the components you want to keep outside (NAS/RAID primarily), makes this prospect that much better, less waste.

Not to mention the usually excellent value retention on Apple hardware makes this a pretty darn good investment. Again, if you are in the target market that is.
You might wish to check out the University of Illinois's "Heterogeneous Parallel Programming" course, offered through Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

The course is already currently ongoing, but it's not too late to enroll. The course is mainly focused on CUDA (since it's easier to learn, the professor believes), but covers OpenCL as well.
You should look into Chevron. They're in San Ramon. Other than Shell, they're probably the most liberal of the major oil firms with their work policies and they have massive technical challenges to solve. The only thing I'm not sure about is if they have a software department in their San Ramon headquarters—those guys might all be in Houston.
The sad sad thing is, though, that in the '90s we made these jokes about surveillance cameras, internet taps, government-written-viruses, etc..etc...

Seemed funny then, too.
Never say never. NSA intercepting its target's purchases to install spyware is very much possible.
Not all malware can be removed the way you remove that antivirus demo. From the Der Spiegel article[1]:

> Take, for example, when they intercept shipping deliveries. If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops. The NSA calls this method interdiction. At these so-called "load stations," agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer.

Naturally, if they also load a keyboard logger or whatever, no amount of formatting that new laptop would help.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-power...
Something to remember though is that Europe is large and diverse, and while a similar map to this one would show really light areas in the Scandinavian countries, it would also have large darker parts in other regions.
Unlike my previous side project attempts, I do use http://reminderhero.com a few times a week. It's handy for things or times I need to remember.
You're right, that was a poor example.
Red Hat. You'll work on open source stuff all the time, in systems, infrastructure (Openstack), kernel development (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS), cloud stuff (Satellite, Foreman, Katello, Openshift), or even programming languages (JRuby).

- 401k match and bonuses from the start. RSUs after you've spent a significant time in the company.

- Lots of problems to solve in areas that are out of reach for a lot of startups.

- Good work/life balance in my experience.

- I am 100% remote, and I'd say 50% of my team is remote too.

- There is an office in Mountain View, but your house is probably more comfortable ;)

Again this is just my own experience, I definitely recommend it.
Looking for a well-rounded developer - Android/ JAVA with server side
ShotVibe is an early-stage startup company in the mobile photo sharing space.

We are developing both iOS and Android apps (native).
Here's a link to our apps in the stores: (Our apps are not marketed yet)
1.	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shotvibe.shotvibe
2.	https://itunes.apple.com/ro/app/shotvibe/id721122774?mt=8
3.	http://n33.co/projects/159882/presentation/shotvibe.pdf
We are looking for a well-rounded developer with strong background in Android and pure JAVA field and some level of understanding server side, including REST api etc. - Not only client oriented.
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Here are some technical details about the company:
Development Environment
• IOS: Xcode 5 and iOS 7 SDK
• android studio
• Continuous integration - Jenkins

Languages:
• REST API- Python, Django
• iPhone client : Objective C
• Android client : Java
• Web application frontend : HTML5/css3

The work will be done by you remotely, using a freelancer model, with the potential for longer term work in the near future (also remote).

please contact me at
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If you have some kind of basic income then what you said makes sense. If not, people still need food and shelter.
Not having skin in the game, this is fascinating to follow. It's like watching primitive HFT algorithm battles slowed down to meatspace actor speed. I think it's safe to say that there are some participants in crypto currencies making massive percentage gains using lessons learned on Wall Street.

Which leads to an interesting thought: has someone figured out how to judge when an emerging crypto currency gains enough traction to start attracting sharks to the pond of early adopters?
The cynical side of me suspects that the "Volvos" of the future will make this choice less often than the "Pontiacs". The rich will still have safer cars, AI style.

It seems like an interesting branch of "applied theology". Does one, in the end, have faith that these tiny entities imbued with lesser-god-like driving abilities really have one's best interests at heart?
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> they usually blame themselves more than Microsoft.

Did you not see how back with the Mac/PC ads Apple very much played on the whole aspect of Windows PCs being vulnerable to viruses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Z386vXrt4

> remember the Antennagate

I'm not saying Apple isn't capable of PR bullshit. I'm just saying that I can see why they don't see the benefit of allowing any kind of fragmentation on their platform.
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Your tone and the overall lack of tact in your post is very off putting. Which is a shame as you have a marginally good point to make.
I don't believe HIDs have the ability to install arbitrary drivers. Windows will try to identify the device and locate the driver via Windows Update, or use a generic HID driver. Or the OEM may have preinstalled drivers.

In any case, a malicious keyboard can simulate keypresses and pwn your machine that way. No evil driver needed.
Even though you're expecting it, I did want to mention Google. We're actively hiring and there are lots of really great opportunities, especially for startup / mobile folks who also have really strong fundamental CS backgrounds (e.g. algorithms, data structures).

Having come from the startup world myself, I'd encourage anyone who wants a change of scenery, even if it's only for a few years, to apply here.

* Great company culture, competitive pay, and amazing benefits
* Lots of interesting problems to work on
* Learn about developing at scale
* Good work-life balance.

And, especially if you want to go back and do a startup again in a few years:

- Expand your network of really talented people.
- Understand the kinds of products and teams the top-tier companies are looking for

Although I also wouldn't be surprised if you decided to stay for a lot longer.

One of the downsides to the hiring process is that team placement can still be a bit random. If you're a senior dev who still loves actively coding and is in the startup world, and is thinking about applying but is worried you'll end up working on something that doesn't interest you, drop me a line at the email in my profile. Especially if you're interested in mobile.

Disclaimer: I'm a hiring manager at Google.
If you're on Android, check out Hacker News 2. Much better experience.
I live in the Rust Belt and this headline reads strangely to me. My personal experience is that times are tough in the northern US too. Anecdotally, I've heard that many of the places in the US that are growing economically are in the South.
Maybe I'm missing something, but..

Doesn't this basically already happen? I would imagine retail space along main thoroughfares (e.g. "Main street" or space right next to a very popular highway exit) is substantially more expensive than one that sees 5 cars a day. Retailers already basically know what route you're likely to be taking - the one that most other people take.

Granted they don't physically stop your car and ask if you would like Krispy Kremes, but it seems like that bidding war could get expensive quickly - now Krispy Kreme has to compete for retail space along Main street, and they also have to bid against Dunkin Donuts/etc. in the traffic routing business. Further, If Krispy Kreme is routing 25% of all traffic past their store, then the municipality in question either has to:

a) Outlaw this

b) Add additional roads, etc. to the road near Krispy Kreme, thus making this road the new "Main street" anyway. It'd drive up the cost of that real estate where Krispy Kreme is.

All in all, I just don't see it being economically viable for anyone.
Maybe this is Amazon/USPS's shipping version of the warrant canary? If Apple does it...

Imagine that we're not in the US for a second and that this were a journalist? Would your opinion of what happened change?

It would have to be a mis-delivery at least instead of a "wrong tracking number". How likely is it that Amazon would ship something from a CA warehouse and it take more than 2 days to get to Seattle? Also keep in mind that USPS does Saturday delivery.

Also, nice defense of the NSA, but keep in mind this is the same intelligence agency that gave pretty much unfettered document access to independent contractor Systems Administrators.
you can have a normal distribution without poverty. poverty isn't 'having less than everyone else', poverty is struggling to survive. the american dream isn't "nobody is poor", the american dream is "work hard and you won't be in a struggle to survive."
Genuinely curious, how would you implement something like a cron web interface? Certainly it would require you to have a program execute a shell command upon some HTTP request. Granted this project focuses on displaying data but there are many, many serious web libraries that execute commands on the server depending on what the person is trying to do.

Think of all the libraries that are just abstraction layers to imagemagick or ffmpeg. Do you really think there no legitimite use case for executing commands via some web program?
Is round(x) broken?

Julia's standard library includes a host of mathematical functions, in addition to the standard operators. Complex numbers are also supported, using the built-in im unit:

round(pi)
lcm(54, 392, 232) # least common multiple
sqrt(square(100))
e^(pi * im)
log(e ^ 2) + log10(100)

When you're ready, type "next" to continue
julia> round(pi)
no method round(MathConst{:π},)
I'm pretty sure I saw hundreds of bitcoin threads on the frontpage, when it was going up in price as well.
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While I don't necessarily agree with the notion that you don't get anything in return when you give away money, let's assume that it's true for the sake of the discussion.

It tends to be difficult to get people to spend money even when they do get something in return. Many charities and projects run on donations only, and while many of them fail, so do commercial projects where you pay to get "something in return". I don't think the problem has anything to do with pledge systems.
>>I think it's safe to say that there are some participants in crypto currencies making massive percentage gains using lessons learned on Wall Street.

Understatement of the year and it's only January. ;) That's pretty much everything of crypto coins right now, especially alt-coins(any coin that isn't bitcoin). The inexperienced people prone to fear-driven reaction are getting fleeced.
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In retrospect, those might just be Greek letters written a little fancy rather than astrological symbols. For instance, the circle with a dot could easily be a theta rather than a sun symbol. Current-day astrological glyphs don't seem to be well-attested before the middle ages.
Simple string concatenation in Objective-C
Sadly is very easy to leave zombie processes. Usually I put the Pool in a with statement, but is not bulletproof.

But yeah, multiprocessing.Pool.map,imap, imap_unordered are neat.
Page 82 of the study [1] has two maps: one for absolute upward mobility and one for relative upward mobility. They look mostly the same. I guess you're talking more about comparing the U.S. to Denmark, but as the maps show (and the linked article mentions), taking the U.S. as a whole is absurd anyway.

[1] This one: http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/mobility_geo.pdf
Four people are in the car, two friends, and two people who are on the title and regs. There is no steering wheel. Whose license do the points go on?
Buy a new boxed computer with cash from a local supplier. I doubt the NSA has installed something on every single computer.
Blinds open at dawn to naturally awaken, close when you leave for work or at dusk. Windows open when it is nice out but close most or all of the way when it's about to rain. Lights only on when needed. Automatic toilets. (like at some stores) Music and videos pause when you leave room.

I will mention that one big aspect of connected technology that is so attractive to me is the technology heing built into the home itself...simple things like speakers in each room.

In a home, especially a smart house, form is function...like in Biology. It's about being surrounded by stuff that adapts to change...each person's tastes/preferences and needs of the moment.

Maybe a digital bulletin board would be a killer feature. A traditional color LCD screen would be nice but expensive. Maybe an e-ink/e-paper display would work well for that. I read that they are less than 30X the price of an LCD which would be highly affordable. This would be very large and display a calendar, daily agenda, and various reminders/notes.

Nice question. It's difficult because most of the hardware really doesn't exist yet.
I have primary responsiblity for, among other things, networking for an electric utility company. I'm sure everyone has heard of the "smart meters" that similar companies are deploying. I don't know I'd go as far as to call it a/the "killer app" but these "smart meters" have completely changed how this company operates day-to-day.

In addition, I live in the midwest and we've had some pretty good winter storms in the last month or two. One of the biggest things, I think, is that the MTTR electric service to their customers (during/after such a storm and widespread outage) has dropped to a level that they had never before experienced.
Add to this that marriage is recognized internationally. Alternative contracts will have to be translated and made legit for any other country a couple goes to.
Income doesn't have to follow a normal distribution.
Not just executions: political assassinations. They're members of Congress.
Well if you define "mediocrity" to be "most people", and "poverty" as "the bottom 15% of incomes", then you would be right.
>Register Global has been depreciated since two versions ago and even completely removed since the last version. Follow your own posted link [1] and it says it right on top with a big ass banner.

Well, the vast majority of people would not consult the documentation for register_globals when it was the default. Sure, it's deprecated now, but... what the hell, who thought it was a good idea in the first place? Oh yeah, the same people who built PHP as a hack designed for a very specific purpose that grew out of proportion too quickly.

> Register Global has been depreciated since two versions ago and even completely removed since the last version. Follow your own posted link [1] and it says it right on top with a big ass banner.

The Active Record stuff was a vulnerability in a LIBRARY. The register_globals stuff was a vulnerability in THE CORE LANGUAGE. Those are two very, very different things. Also, it's a bug rather than a design decision.

>Also, sorry for being harsh but this kind of attitude just deters people from contributing to open source unless they follow the 'elite' practices of the hivemind.

I encourage as many people as I can to contribute to open source. I also consider myself an experienced software developer, so I feel like it is my responsibility to educate people and prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot. PHP makes it very easy to do this.
ESPN has a strong online presence (gated via tradtional media subscriptions).

ESPN is Disney. There have live TV, replays , highlights streaming online already. Adding some non sports content won't be trivial, but they aren't starting from ground zero.
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Here you are: https://web.archive.org/web/20100208023751/http://www.picnik...
A large portion of lifetime earnings variation is genetic.

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46326/
That's if you get it though Verizon, its better to (byod), not buy on contract...
That's a good point, and I will have to incorporate it in my example in the future.
I think it's large enough to be considered a "big" tech company. I've enjoyed my first year at LinkedIn. Small enough to have a big impact, big enough to not need to worry about resources.
Accounting for the difference would be an advantage for Denmark: the poor in Denmark gets much more money than the poor in the US in addition to having free healthcare.

To be poor in Denmark [1]: 36 year old woman on welfare, single, 1 kid at home. She gets $2884 per month AFTER taxes, free healthcare. After paying for rent, utilities, internet, TV licence, dog food and vet bills, kids football expenses, medicine, private debts, and cigarettes, she has (by her own calculation) $917 left over each month for food, clothing and housekeeping. She has been on welfare for the last 20 years.

This example made a huge media storm in Denmark because she gets more money than those working minimum-wage jobs.

1: http://cphpost.dk/news/poverty-media-stunt-backfires.153.htm...
Side note, my company had to drop jobvite recently because they are actually terrible. Their job search interface is just as hard to use as taleo or brassring with a slightly nicer stylesheet.
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It might've been the plumfare crew. They had little issue with my working remotely as well. Of course when they attempted to pressure me to come in the office more I gave them the choice of having me less hours and in the office or more hours and working from home. Not there any more, but just adding more views on things...

I would differ with the "modern tooling" opinion though.
I think we have our answer. From the study:

Finally, the strongest predictors of upward mobility are measures of family structure such as the fraction of single parents in the area. As with race, parents' marital status does not matter purely through its e ects at the individual level. Children of married parents also have higher rates
of upward mobility if they live in communities with fewer single parents.

Here's the map of incidence of single parents by region of the country:

http://www.nccp.org/publications/images/svf04a_fig3.jpg
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You overestimate the importance of "experience". Content is all that matters.