skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar situation occur after taking the GRE exam, after which they ask whether they can share your contact info with interested schools. Of course this sounded like a great idea when I was still deciding where to apply, but it turned into a major annoyance when I'm still receiving spam from these backwoods colleges more than a year after accepting an offer. And like the article, there's no global unsubscribe; I have to unsub from each school's list individually. Moral of the story -- be careful because you can't unspill the milk.
In my experiences, weed simply enhances whatever you are already feeling. This seems to hold true for psychological states as well as sensory input.

If you're already anxious, you'll become more anxious. If you're relaxed, you'll become more relaxed. If you're drunk, you'll be more drunk. Food is tastier. Music is more musical.

It just makes everything more. As a once in a while thing, I find this enhancement useful.
This isn't too related to what the blog post was discussing, but just to give an example of how you're right:

If a PHP page is allowing file uploads and only verifies the content of the data, but nothing else, then no protection is offered against arbitrary code execution. It's easy to craft a JPEG header and then place `<?php ... ?>` right after it; you could even append it to a valid JPEG body, too.
The streetcars that remain mostly are still there for the Market Street Subway and the Sunset Tunnel. In other words, they are demonstrably better than an equivalent bus route in as-the-row-flies distance.
I wanted Pheanis to join me on God's temple. I want Gadwa to join me on God's temple.
Rational tax policy would levy taxes in proportion to the externalities produced by any given activity. Cars which emit air pollution generally produce more external costs than those which don't, so it would be reasonable to expect taxes on them to remain higher forever.
Careface. If you don't like the laws here, GTFO of the country.
> I am unsure how else he could handle it.

He could have complied with the Article III specific warrant issued in accordance with Constitutional guidelines, just as he did for earlier warrants, instead of electing himself President of the United States and acting like he was above the law.
I think it's absolutely fair to say he wasn't adequately represented legally -- good counsel would have warned him away from some things which ultimately screwed him, even if they respected his wishes to push the limits as much as possible.

I wouldn't be opposed to government-paid counsel for certain types of businesses facing this kind of request, or costs paid automatically attached to the request so cost-of-counsel isn't a factor.
You are trying to shift the blame to the users vs. the guy who purposefully weakened his encryption service to make it easier for end users, and also antagonized the government thus harming more users than if he wouldn't have done so. You are blaming the wrong group of people.
It's worth noting that Erlang is only a soft-realtime language. I wouldn't bet my nuclear plant and only some assembly lines on it. (There's plenty I do bet on Erlang, though.)
Valve didnt invent this tech.

Short flashy exposures of the display is pretty much standard in gaming monitors and everyone knows it is _the_ thing to do to minimize motion blur (LightBoost).

Using camera to extract absolute position instead of drifty relative mems trackers is also no brainer. This is what N originally did with Wii remote. N also got sued at least four times over this exact technology.
Interesting numbers (I live in San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marco metro). I make 3x+ the median income of my hometown in Maine, but here I only rent a single bedroom in a larger house. I'd love to own....but I've known for a while that my options are either move or make more.

Would you happen to have a source for the numbers? Thanks!
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And hence why buying here is extremely smart from a financial perspective. I don't typically advise people to invest in housing for financial means (purchasing a house is largely emotional), but given the situation and the data I've seen, it appears to be a smart move.
I don't know if agents would work - they work in movies because you shoot one, then wrap and move on to the next one. An agent can be constantly looking out for new films to work in. Unless you're exclusively seeking short-term contract positions, will you actually communicate with the agent frequently enough to build a relationship? If an agent keeps placing you in companies that either implode or make you want to leave, it doesn't seem appealing to work with them again. If they do place you in a job that you stay at for multiple years, will they be available when you want to move on?
A HIGHLY SECURE INDOOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA
A HIGHLY SECURE INDOOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO DATA
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This text describes an EXTREMELY secure indoor wireless communication system for video and audio transmissions. System and services are primarily focused on the private (non-military) sector but will not exclude certain government entities.

The system guarantees that there will not be any eavesdropping of any possible kind over the transmitted signals. System can be used to safeguard the wireless (radio or otherwise) transmission of highly sensitive, or extremely private and personal, or mission-critical information while these information are relayed from one point to another point wirelessly within the same facility or room.

This information is submitted to Y Combinator for application of a fund-raising evaluation on May 20 2014 through the Y Combinator website.

signed
Godfrey Kwan,
408-568-0280
It is 38 pages long so I have to ask. Would you mind telling me what her inferences were as to this non-linearity and gender ?
The people who grew up there don't have any extra wealth. So long as their parents continue to live in the same house, it's all just wealth "on paper".

Now, if they live with their parents, that is certainly a leg up in terms of not paying rent (or paying much less rent), but other than that...
" You have to set your own standards and do your own thinking and evaluation. This is true in all areas of life, but it's super important for self-esteem."

I agree and also struggle with this. Many times I put others opinions of me in front of my own. I need to work on it, but I don't have any clue where to start. If you know of any strategies, I'm all ears.

Do remember to watch out for recommendations though. Having an advisor that thinks little of you can and does hurt your chances at jobs. Especially for a PhD candidate, they will be looking to you as a senior role and likely will ask for recommendations. Make sure to have friends that can vouch for you that make sense to a hiring manager. You need to weave a good reason you are using some friend and not your advisor. I know it seems silly, considering what I just said about external self-esteem, but cover your bases.

I am envious of you a bit. I wish I could love programming as much as you seem to. I struggle a lot with the logic and basic concepts. I hate doing it, but since I am willing to, I get the job a lot. Also, the dyslexia makes bug finding an impossibly frustrating job. ';' and ':' look just the same to me.

Lastly, thank you for the compliment. "You are insanely good at reading between the lines." At least, I hope it was. Wait, I'll keep my self-esteem and think of it only as such.
> After all, if they can't even afford to tap the ingoing and outgoing traffic of a service that offers secure email then either they are not very good in their target selection or their resources are spent on more interesting targets and so 'little fish' like Snowden can get away with their deeds.

I suspect they got trapped up in that pesky policy requirement to not wiretap American citizens on American servers hosted in American soil. I'm sure they could have figured out the technical aspects quite easily.
Is being a homeowner really the standard situation in SF one generation back?
For all of the courts crying bankruptcy I have on simple fix:

Stop fucking charging so many people with crimes. The actual cause here is so obvious. Why not just stop putting people in jail so often and for so long? Reduce the number of felonies we arrest people for. Reduce the case-load and the cost of running a court goes down.

Magic!

This should also tell you something:

Some judges and politicians — even ones with reputations for being hard on crime — are starting to question whether the use of fines and fees has gone too far. The new law in Colorado was passed on a near-unanimous vote of Republicans and Democrats.

This is one of the most dysfunctional state-houses in the country. When two sides so ideologically opposed come together on any issue everyone else in the country should take note.
We go to war on lies, we do business on lies, what's one more? (sorry rather tired)
That's valid, hard real time problems require guarantees that erlang can't give, that was an unwarranted exaggeration on my part. But anything that needs to be very long running (years or more) will need ironclad guarantees that it won't be leaking resources and I can't prove but suspect that erlang will do a lot better than go for those applications. Let's leave the nuclear plants and the assembly lines to RTos and QnX then :).
I use an exercise ball as a chair. Really tighten up the core. "Bonus" point is that the exercise ball is so uncomfortable I'm forced to stand up and take a walk every hour or so.
The study did not use city boundaries, it used MSA boundaries, which include the outlying areas.

Here's a map of the area in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oak...
Task Death In Safety Critical Systems
Join some type of team or club sport, either one with people you already know or get to know. Going to the gym by yourself will get monotonous unless you're really motivated. Getting in shape is easy when it feels more like a social obligation than a physical burden.

I joined a small soccer team that was always struggling to get enough people to play each week. I suck at soccer, but I knew my presence was way better than playing 1 or 2 players down.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the non-ThinkPad Lenovo's. I've been on an ideapad u260 for years. It has outlasted my Macbook Air which was used half as often and cost twice as much. I run both windows and ubuntu on it without issue.

It was the first lenovo I owned, as it nears 4 years of usage, I'm only now starting to look at replacements, and I think I could definitely get away with using this for another few years.
It's a lottery process, so there's no guarantee you'd get the below market home, even if you went through all the red tape.
I'm assuming he had his loan pre-approved before hitting the market?

I take it those load deals entail some risk to deal completion due to the bank requiring due-diligence and making sure the house isn't an absolute lemon?
That same sort of thing happens in Australia, especially for coastal and beachfront properties. Where property was really cheap because it was far from major centres ended up getting really expensive over time. The only difference here is that those people tend to be squeezed out when they can no longer afford to pay the council rates (local taxes based on the value of the property). So they have to sell up, make a lot, pay a lot in income tax, and move somewhere far cheaper.
> Linux is the only modern OS I've used that doesn't have the capability to send crash reports back to the developers

I think Ubuntu has something - https://errors.ubuntu.com/
One of the interesting bits then is the differences between the common meaning of a city and the statutory boundaries.

What people mean when they say "New York City" and what it actually is are more or less the same thing (though most people are surprised at how big and diverse the 5 boroughs actually are). People don't really count the NYC Metro area in the equation. Nobody who visit Trenton or New Haven comes back home and says "I went to New York".

When people say lots of other cities, they really mean the metro area. "Washington D.C." refers colloquially to the 7th largest urban area in the country. People can make regular repeated visits to Arlington, or Fairfax or wherever and still go back home and say "I just went to D.C.".

I suspect SF is the same. People can visit anywhere in the Bay Area and go back home and credibly say "I visited San Francisco" even if they never actually stepped foot in the city proper.

edit I notice everybody who disagrees with this premise lives or is from the Bay Area where these things matter. On the other side of the country, all of California north of Monterrey is basically "San Francisco", most people think Oakland is part of L.A. and nobody could pick out SV on a map if their life depended on it.
The author works all the time, and thinks that by moving to New York, of all places, he will achieve a greater work-life balance. Having lived in both places and having struggles with the same issues: the work-life balance in both places is heavily skewed towards work, and in those places, that balance is heavily dependent on the person's ability to say "no" and to stand up for oneself. If the author had said "I am moving to a sleepy suburb in the midwest", then I'd say he's making a good choice that will require very few changes in his own ability to manage his life: the environment would impose. As is, he's just switching one high-pressure area for another.

Edit: apparently work/life balance isn't the issue, as the essay and comments here clarified. Very well.
Thanks Touche! As part of a team that has worked on this integration tirelessly (actually, maybe a little tiredly: some long nights) for a couple months now, I appreciate your compliment. AngularJS and Famo.us are pretty orthogonal in their approaches, so it did take some careful work to effectively compile the former to the latter while maintaining the benefits of both.

The fact that you were down-voted for a simple compliment is less appreciated, but I guess, 'haters gonna hate.'
Yep. Almost everyone I know who has bought in the Bay Area (including myself) has gotten help from relatives to come up with the down payment.

Nowadays, you pretty much need all cash to have a chance at a decent place; money is flowing in from China and investment firms like Blackrock, who are buying up all the properties they can get and turning them into rentals.
I could see it working with the best recruiters, like the few I mentioned. They call every six months or so, ask how things are going and chat about technology, that's fine with me. Sometimes they have something really good to discuss, and if I'm happy where I am then I am always willing to recommend someone I know. Those recruiters are acting like an agent already. They rarely collect a fee but when they do I feel they deserve it, unlike the chancers who harvest phone numbers from web sites and work the percentages.

There doesn't have to be an agent relationship. I guess what I am really saying is that the only recruiters worth talking to are the ones that do the work to find the best fit for both parties. The rest add nothing.
Half of the problem is recieving signals back, as you can't just turn up the power on the satellite. I suppose if you knew exactly what command to send, and there was no form of handshaking this might not be a problem.
thx

I've added an original jurisdiction box.

What initiated this was an interest in the pattern of flow of cases to see what patterns might emerge (e.g., like the one you described). I realized I first needed to start setting up something for the structure (and to learn more about it), which is what this is part of.
These Harvard And MIT Kids Say They've Made NSA-Proof Email
Looks awesome! I'd love to get updates.
If you want 'ease of use' and 'bullet proof encryption' you will have to leave empty handed. Even a noob like me knows that, it's always a trade off.

So, Levinson is wrong for doing what he did, his users are wrong for believing his claims. I note that Moxie Marlinspike's critique of Lavabit was written post-takedown, it is not proven in my opinion that Levinson acted maliciously, though it is very well possible that this is the case. Even if he was only negligent there is plenty of blame for him, and by the looks of it that's hitting home hard enough for what he has done and then some.

That still does not relieve his users from their own responsibility for their part in all this. Giving data that you wish to keep from the government to a service that you are not qualified to audit and that you did not pay some service that is qualified to audit is simply dumb. No matter what the guarantees such a service is making.

Consider for instance that such a service could be set up as a front or a honeypot.

I'm sure that in your book every claim made in advertising ever was always true but I'm a bit more cynical than that.
No, not exactly. The buyer will need to be credit worthy, with at least 5% down plus closing costs. Additional cash in the bank actually reduces the income qualification. The rub comes in after a buyer moves in and the HOA fees go up, or there is an assessment, but that is a risk for anyone who buys a condo.

The number of applicants for below market rate, or BMR, far outstrips the number of available properties. If a buyer is diligent and timely with all the required MOH paperwork, they can beat other applicants since the washout rate is high.

If you are interested, I suggest signing up to take the class, they are free.
I've been to couple of Donald Knuth's Christmas Tree Lectures. While he was signing my copy of 'TAOCP Volume 1', I asked him if he thought anyone in the world had read all of TAOCP, himself excluded. I didn't clarify, but he seemed to assume (correctly) that by 'read' I meant 'read and comprehended.'

His reply was yes, but not many. He mentioned a guy in Germany who goes over his books again and again looking for errors. This guy is the leading recipient of Knuth's checks.

That was the question I'd wanted to ask Knuth for several years. It was a good question for a thirty second interaction and photo.
The problem is that in the game of home ownership the situation where every couple buys a home that they can afford on the lower of their two incomes is not a Nash equilibrium. If everybody else is doing that, then you and your spouse can be the exception and use both your incomes to get a mansion. Now everybody else sees how well you're living and they mimic your approach. It doesn't take long until it is no longer possible for families to buy a house on the lesser of their incomes.
It's ironic you calling everyone here bullies, when your original post was blatantly judgmental (some might say, hating other people's life choices), and your subsequent comment called everyone chicken and an a-hat and challenged them to a fight. If you want to see a bully look in the mirror.
The Nation recently ran a story along the same lines:

http://www.thenation.com/article/178845/town-turned-poverty-...
Fred Brooks, author of No Silver Bullet[0] which GP is referring to, and the fairly famous Mythical Man Month[1].

[0] http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelat...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-Month-Engineering-Ann...
Yeah, but in this case the losses are bounded, and the upside is huge. You spend 10% (or whatever) of your coding time maintaining documentation, and your long-term expected value is much higher than that. Even if you're not able to predict what code gets re-used and what code doesn't, it's one of the highest-payoff bets you can make in software.

About the only times I accept Bill's premise is when you know that you're doing something throwaway (i.e. never gets checked in), or when you're so pressed for time that the cost of doing the documentation is the difference between success and failure (but if you're that bad off, you're doomed anyway). Most of the time, documentation doesn't get written because it isn't immediately "fun" for the coder, and nobody is enforcing it. There's no rational reason otherwise.
That's not true. Anecdotally, I had several friends buy nice places in foreclosure in 2009-2010 for roughly 50% of what they were worth at the peak of the housing bubble. On average, housing prices fell by 25%, but (note above), in the lesser known neighborhoods, it was closer to 40%.

http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby

I think the really established neighborhoods will be insulated if there is another crash -- Nob Hill, Marina, Pac. Heights, and probably the "new" neighborhoods that have gentrified quite a bit with the tech boom -- Portrero Hill, "Dolores Heights", SOMA, Mission Bay. The parts that are just getting hot now, though, could easily become less desirable and get more than a "tickle" just as they did in '08.
The chances are higher than you would think. A lot of folks who took the class and apply for a unit fail to meet the application deadlines or fill out their paperwork wrong. Others win a unit that they don't want, and drop out so they can try in another building.
The problem of buying in SF is that it is a high-risk earthquake area. If a big earthquake occur, not only you may lose your house, but you STILL have to continue to pay the mortgage... on a house that does not exist anymore.

Even if you have earthquake insurance, insurers typically go out of their way to avoid/reduce claims they have to pay (this is exactly what happened to numerous Hurricane Katrina victims: http://rt.com/usa/katrina-state-farm-insurance-fraud-596/ )

On the other hand, if you are renting and your house gets destroyed, you move to a new house and you don't have the financial liabilities a homeowner would have.
I'm sure the NSA is capable of wording their employee contracts in such a way that they would have a legal right to snoop on the communications of those in their employ.

Regular employers do this with impunity, for sure the NSA can do likewise. You have to be aware of the use of the service first and one reason why people a lot smarter than me suspect that that key was so important was in order to be able to decrypt past communications using the same service on captured traffic.
People still care about this? I thought JS was just an accepted requirement of browsing the web these days.
>I suspect SF is the same. People can visit anywhere in the Bay Area and go back home and credibly say "I visited San Francisco" even if they never actually stepped foot in the city proper.

No, no they couldn't. Residents of SF are quite prickly about what is and isn't the city. You'd say you visited the bay area or possibly silicon valley not SF.

--- Ex-resident of SF