skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And however much they do use them will be their definition of "sparingly."

This is the only time that a yes or no can be lodged. Once they start they will be allowed to do whatever they want with them, only experiencing the occasional paid suspension and press conference for overstepping. All law enforcement technologies have experieniced this history.
Soooo with a $1M they are going pave a driveway? a 1/2 mile stretch of Arizona desert?
Is there something inherently wrong with omnipresent CCTV? It's just technology, right?
We are building a product in India. We are currently working on an app that we feel will change citizen's alienation with the administration and their representatives, and the latter's perceived apathy towards the former. We are also conceptually building a framework that attempts to resolve the internet penetration vs telecom penetration anomaly in this country.

If anyone is interested in the what we're doing, or can offer to answer our stupid questions occasionally (regarding dev, growth, strategy, or life and its mysteries) drop us a line at team at merinagari dot in
I hated those things in HL2.
that's how you get a job..
It depends on what you mean by "startup" I suppose. I've worked for three and in each I've been one of the first dozen or so employees. You don't have to be a founder but I think that being a core "early employee" with a fair equity stake is the right way to get the real "startup experience". Anything else is like.. well working for an established company, and doesn't have the same vibe, or excitement.
Possibly excessive snark but I'm having a bad day so screw it.

I find it ironic that ZenPro is so quick to violence.

That said insulting people's children is never nice, but everyone is someone's child so sometimes it's a necessary evil.
Yeah, 8 days notice isn't much though at least it's better than Yahoo's shutting down Everyblock with no notice at all. I see Everyblock is back under new ownership but I'm not sure they've got the old data.
Off-topic, but speaking of spurring adoption of DNSSEC: does anyone know of any good (dumbed-down) guides on setting up DNSSEC on personal domains / using dnssec-keygen? I keep seeing it mentioned in HN threads as a Good Thing, and I know my registrar supports it, but they have a big warning:

"It is strongly recommended that you do not enable this option unless you have a good understanding of what it is and does: you could easily make your domain name inoperative."

which doesn't exactly inspire confidence, especially since most small website owners (such as myself) really don't have a good understanding of it!
Knowing what a test is going to be like is pretty useful if that test matters at all.

Knowing and understanding the subject matter is likely to be pretty useful if the test matters at all. This is why you study and understand the entire course, which is the point of the course. However, being told explicitly which portions you will be tested on goes against this goal.

which of the 5+ page proofs of theorems from the course wouldn't need to be known for our exam - it wouldn't have been very good use of my time to fully internalise all of them

What? If you're doing mathematics correctly, you are ably to derive the proofs on the fly. You don't have to memorize "five pages of proofs". You understand the concept, you understand the mechanics, and you derive the proof as necessary.

I think you just have an idealised picture of how tests work.

I'll refrain from saying what I think about your "picture of how tests work".
It depends:

Are they outfitted with cameras that can see through walls and roofs?

To me, that would constitute a violation of the 4th Amendment.
Yes, they were rejected by the citizens of Seattle, which is why they gave them to the LAPD. Maybe they figured that the approval tide would be more easily begun in LA?
> It's hard to distinguish nonsensical but enthusiastic from genuinely thoughtful.

English teachers successfully do this every day, as do history teachers and teachers in most other subjects. Why can't we let mathematics teachers do this when their students provide proofs via creative thinking? Certainly anyone with sufficient training in mathematics can do this.

But overall your comment seems to fall short of reality. Math education in the US produces students that seriously underperform compared both to other countries and in light of the skills and knowledge required for technical careers. Contrary to your belief, high school students still generally can't do algebra. In my experience teaching the subject they don't learn algebra until they take pass calculus, and even then it's because it's a cumulative learning process, not in spite of it. Even if we teach reading, writing, and arithmetic well, that's just not enough.
Why shouldn't law enforcement use drones? Law enforcement are bound by the same laws any citizen is and they are the tool what we as a society use to insure security in our lives. Why wouldn't we want to make their jobs easier?

The worse I could imagine is that drones are used to catch people smoking pot in their backyards. The people who officiate over the police are elected officials and all their practices, including data retention from surveillance is subject to judicial review and the laws our representatives write.

Use of technology like this is inevitable anyway. It seems pointless to fight it, and if you do oppose it how would you fight it anyway? Write to you congress representative? Protest? Is that really going to work?
Frankly, given the ratios of male to female residents in Seattle and other tech-heavy West Coast metro areas, nobody looking to date men (gay or straight) has any right to complain. You have your pickings!

Are they all kinda similar? Well yeah, but so are the men in all other areas whose economies are heavily mono-industrial. As a matter of fact, so are the women in areas whose economies are heavily mono-industrial with emphasis on more "feminine" professions, and the women in areas with populations more female than male.

I would say "lower your standards", but that allows you to hold on to the whole dehumanizing concept of dating-as-meat-market you've got going. In fact, you should be getting over yourself and understanding that all these "insufferable" men, of whom you have your pickings, are human beings with life histories and hopes and dreams of their own.

This mentality that everyone the natives don't like should just pack up and leave Seattle is actually (shortage of sunlight aside) a significant reason I have turned down job-offers that would have put me in Seattle.

EDIT: Seriously, normally I don't like contributing to outrage-mongering, but this is a seriously bratty article. Men are not entitled to women, and likewise, neither are women entitled to men.

EDIT EDIT: Also, all the really awesome, wonderful men are already married to the really awesome, wonderful women. This article is giving me an immense urge to call my fiancee, tell her how incredible she is just for not giving a shit about cliques and status, and then spend half an hour talking about anime and board games just to reaffirm how "insufferably" nerdy we both are.
> In other words for things like mass murder

Oh, right. Like a country's "leader" sending hundreds of thousands or millions of people to kill or be killed in a war? -That kind of mass murder?
One of the major advantages of working through an agency is that they have processes in place to asses credit risk and handle collections.

This isn't limited to startups though. I've seen a medium sized company stonewall on payments until the freelancer in question was willing to settle for 20%-30% of the agreed upon price simply to recover something for the time they invested in the project. This was a negotiating tactic for them and when it didn't work they would pay whatever interest rate was agreed upon in the contract, which was often nothing.
it has stopped working for me, what about you, it still works ?
> Asking "is this going to be on the test" shows that you have no intention of actually learning everything you're taught, which is the point of the class, and instead you're only interested in memorizing the minimum to pass a limited test, which is not the point of the class.

I think you have it backwards. The point of the class is to make kids pass tests. The fiction is that it's so that they learn the material. Learning is ancillary to the systems actual purpose. The fact that a lot of people that are part of the system are well meaning and don't realize this doesn't negate the design of the system itself.

I realize that sounds like some sort of crazy conspiracy theory, but keep in mind that "schooling" and "education" are related but separate things. Public schools are a relatively modern invention from around the industrial revolution, and the inventors of the public school system explicitly designed it to create people that were obedient. They weren't even particularly secretive about it -- a lot of the people that helped found what we think of as our modern school system said as much directly.

Not the most elegant page, but here's a good book on the subject from a former school teacher: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm (I think at one point he even won a teacher of the year award, or something along those lines, so he's not necessarily just some crackpot)
I don't share that takeaway from the article. What I took away was:

1) She's looking for someone who has confidence in a well formed personality all their own.

2) That personality is not defined by what they do for work.

3) Part of that personality includes taking an interest in the lives and personalities of other people, particularly in the context of a one-on-one social situation who's entire purpose is (arguably) to get to know one another.

Sure, I'm certain that if all of the traits you outline came by in one package they'd happily take it, but the complaint seemed to be that she's encountering men who, having any of those qualities, assume that's like having all of them and don't bother to develop the rest of the bits that make us human and tolerable to fill in the gaps.

My reasoning behind this takeaway is that I spend a fair amount of time hanging out in (apparently) the same neighborhood and same bars that she does, and I find a lot of the folks who aren't interested in talking about anything other than what they do for work similarly insufferable. That said, I'm a guy. I work in tech. In Seattle. For Google. After having gotten tired of Amazon. I routinely catch myself being part of the problem (although not the dating problem as I haven't been single in over ten years).
Hey, thanks a lot for your input!

I was planning to get a 2-month tourist visa and spend around 2 or 3 weeks in Bangkok, 4 weeks in Chiang Mai and another week or two in Krabi (they've got awesome rocks for climbing and deep water solo there!).

I was also considering staying the whole 6 months in Thailand, in which case I would have taken a language course (not only for the visa). But I figured I'd rather travel to more countries and may do that some other winter :)

Peter's blog is awesome and his post on bootstrapping in Bangkok was really encouraging to give it a try!
It is 99% marketing. For all practical and meaningful intents and purposes, there are no differences. Go with the cheapest, unless you need the features offered by wildcard/EV.
There really is an epidemic of lameness in SF and Seattle.

I'm a straight single guy. We also want interesting dude friends. I'm fortunate enough to have found many, but almost all of them are outside the tech industry or women. Many of my friends don't know what I do, let alone that I'm quite well off and successful. And if you ask me about my work and don't notice when I change the subject, I will immediately and without sympathy move you to my shitlist.

The truth is, all the pasty white faces eager to salve their insecurity by convincing me of their startup's viability are incredibly shallow and dull. Learn how to let loose and be a genuine man who doesn't need my approval. Then come talk to me.
We only used the constant indexes for illustration. The system checks, at compile time, that values that are controlled by the attacker (e.g. inputs) are properly sanitized. See this:

http://goto.ucsd.edu:8090/index.html#?demo=permalink%2F14014...

that uses Lists instead of pointers, for a short example.
> I keep seeing it mentioned in HN threads as a Good Thing,

Opinions on DNSSEC are... mixed, to say the least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5571937

As a small website owner, are you using TLS? That's the biggest single thing you should be doing - don't worry about DNSSEC.

This depends on what you mean by "small", but IMHO, you don't need DNSSEC. Depending on how small/important your website is, you probably don't even need to bother with DNSCurve either, though you might like to for the fun of it.
So why is this significant? Well, this guy’s name is John Poindexter, and he’s incidentally the guy who was found to be most responsible for the Iran-Contra scandal. He was convicted of lying to Congress but then never went to jail. And in 2001, he started a Government program called ‘Total Information Awareness’. He made a speech when he announced the program, where he said that “…data must be made available in large-scale repositories with enhanced semantic content for easy analysis”.

http://privacy-pc.com/news/changing-threats-to-privacy-moxie...
Your post isn't self-consistent.

First you say that democracy means we have nothing to fear from police with drones, then you imply it's pointless to resist because the democratic methods don't work.
نتيجة الاعدادية الصف الثالث الاعدادى ترم ثانى بني سويف 2014 برقم الجلوس
Bilderberg conference: Spies, CEOs and politicians gather
Following Mint since version 10, I always fallback on Mint 11 (XFCE) since it's the lightest non-obsolete version I can run on my old thinkpads (x40, x60).

More recent versions were often quite slower, this one (MATE desktop) is by far the slickest I've seen so far. The GUI has close to zero latency. Kudos.
Are you serious? This guy clearly never heard of modesty. Full of himself. Sounds just like the guys in the article (count the I...'s) but added the fake interest in the lady to get his d* wet.
We’re a couple months away from launching a flipping sweet new product, and despite a personal background in UI/UX, marketing & PR I need to cultivate a better mentor network to make this a smooth launch. Frankly, I need someone I can trust to validate the proper way of doing things, since as an intentionally bootstrapped venture I keep making allowances for the cheap & easy way of progressing. I just want to get better at this and give the product the launch it deserves.

Some of the specific challenges:

- Project managing a new product with a remote team member

- Achieving great UX with a limited budget

- How to capitalize on a successful launch & build relationships in the SF tech community

We just submitted our first accelerator application to Angelpad, which would be nice. Email in profile.
Police use helicopters for all sorts of things. What is problematic isn't the monitoring from above, it's that it is so cheap. A helicopter with crew costs over $1000 per hour, so we know you know we aren't being monitored indiscriminately from above. Its simply to expensive. With drones, the cost of air surveillance drops to a whole other level. A level that almost allows for mass surveillance.

The same argument can be made about drone warfare: it's not the shooting/bombing from above that is disturbing, it's that it can be performed at almost zero risk.

The same argument we saw in communications surveillance. When listening to a phone call was expensive it was one thing, when listening to communications became free we know what happened.

Cost, however, shouldn't be what limits surveillance, regulation should. If police can switch from a helicopter to a drone for sime mission, and save 90%, that should be a good thing.
Malcolm Gladwell ‘Surprised’ to Become an Amazon Bargaining Chip
"When I was compiling the list of significant packages using attoparsec, I made a guess that the Unix rev would reverse the order of lines in a file. What it does instead seems much less useful: it reverses the bytes on each line."

tac (1) - concatenate and print files in reverse
I thought about this for a second, and what it does do is take an "offline" phishing attack and make it an "online" phishing attack that presumably has logs and can be throttled.
And the LAPD has NEVER shown itself to be in contempt of the laws that govern them. I mean it is a paragon of virtuous conduct that can be trusted with advanced technology like this.
Loop YouTube videos with one click. Listen to music on repeat while working.
I used to feel this way too (knowing about a broad range of things, but thinking I was not good enough at anything specific to be "hireable"), but luckily I realised this is not necessarily bad. Generalists are ideal people to found a startup and they can be a huge asset to have at any company, especially at small companies / startups. And furthermore, don't push yourself too hard, at the end you're still a student. You can specialise later if you want.
Not to mention their inscrutable information and documentation. I was caught out trying to renew a StartSSL cert 6mos ago and could not even access the renewal site. Apparently they use personal certs (or the cert I got?) as authentication? I don't know, because there was no explanation, anywhere. I had no idea whether this is security by obscurity or what, but f-them. I wound up paying $5 to Comodo and having a somewhat more comfortable experience, at least to the degree that there's a standard user control panel and payment flow.

Looks like maybe StartSSL filled out their FAQ a little since then, but only a little:

https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#10
I am sure it is and I can understand eliminating this feature but why not give users more warning?
You should quit using them if anyone other than you ever needs to open the page in a browser. The warnings will never be good enough for partial clicking through of them. If a user (even a technical one) gets talked into clicking through an SSL error, it is likely that they have been talked into a bad habit.
As a practicing mathematician, I disagree completely. Much mathematics is done with the understanding that the ideas can be made rigorous, and the point of educating people in mathematics is to allow them to craft arguments and revise when they find holes. One can and should introduce rigor gradually over time, and get the benefits of learning to reason and doing mathematics.

When it comes to mathematics, the exact form of the outcome is extremely important. Proofs that are aesthetically pleasing are better than proofs that are not. Proofs that glean insight are better than proofs that do not. In fact, most people don't care about whether a theorem is true unless the proof provides sufficient insights.
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What seems strange to me is, if she's found a strongly predictive indicator, why does she not simply filter before going on a date? Have Amazon's employees run off all the "weirdos"? She even mocks them in the last paragraph, saying how easy they are to spot. So why continue to date them?

>but high on his newfound power drank four or five “special” drinks from the craft cocktail bar, Canon, ordered the foie gras, and racked up a $200 bill in less than two hours.

This part seemed the most curious to me. Is having a few "special" drinks a bad thing? $200 seems quite reasonable at a higher-end place. 5 cocktails alone could be nearly $100. Foie gras is like $40 or so (I didn't see it on Canon's menu)? Another few drinks and some food and you're there. Or is the subtext that he ordered in an arrogant way?

I wonder because I'd easily do this and certainly not in an arrogant way, but hey, life's short, and if a restaurant seems good and has interesting food and drinks, why not try them out? It's only money.
Ok, so it's possible to have a great experience at any huge tech company. That doesn't mean there aren't some with a better chance than others (it also doesn't mean that there are). Also, while everyone experiences things differently, I think there are probably some things that most people will agree on as good things and bad things in an employer. I will venture to name some:

The opportunity to work on hard/interesting problems; good salary/benefits relative to the industry; the company is interested in advancing your career/training you to be better when you leave than when you came in; the company places an emphasis on engineering rather than treating it like an unfortunate necessity; programmers are given some level of autonomy or self-determination, the structure is not overly hierarchical; the company tracks developer productivity in reasonable ways rather than based on LOC or ass-time in seat.

There are probably a lot of other things that could go on that list, and at some companies, I'm sure that all of these really depend on where you are in the organization. But I can't believe that these and other things can't be influenced by corporate policy and practice, and that there aren't some companies that make these sorts of things a priority when others don't.

All that being said, I asked the question because I've never worked at a big company before, and maybe I'm totally off base. I was genuinely curious. I'd be happy to hear people's impressions of different companies, or a real explanation for why all big companies are the same and none of them are any better than any others at keeping their developers happy. But just waving your hands doesn't seem any more helpful than overbroad generalizations.
I use Apiary. Very happy with them.
You've missed the point. If that's all there is, why lie about it. Their lying is becoming obsessive. They have no credibility to believe that there are no more Snowdon emails. The content of this one email isn't relevant.
I'm proudly one of the insufferable "brogrammers" who wears that new employee backpack everywhere. I spend my free time learning new web frameworks. I go to tech meetups. Strike up a conversation with me and recoil in horror at my ignorance about everything outside of tech. I'm racing against imposter syndrome here, and a reduced sex appeal isn't going to stop me.
It's worth noting that you don't have to use a virtual machine. If you're familiar with compiling basic utilities and installing Python packages, then you can run it without the overhead of a virtual machine. It's generally all on the wiki/Github.
Turkish police tear gas protesters on Taksim anniversary
Funny how a group who can't accept "normal" socioeconomic or personal success is ok with "normal" social lives.
> I think to communicate with external devices at the lowest level we were calling c code.

As someone who spent a few years maintaining the ada ->c code wrappers, our team would use I would say he's correct.

We used ada wrappers to make the system calls to c to do networking and unix ipc. While ADA can call c directly, we had to support HPUX and SUN so sometimes we had to write c code and call that (#IFDEF HPUX). This was a pain.

The package system was very good, especially at dividing work among a large team (30+ programmers).

We had a lot of fake external hardware simulators we used to test our code against. This worked well as long as our simulators worked like the actual external hardware. It did with some frustrating exceptions of course discovered during the final test.

Dealing with time is a pain in all languages (UTC vs GPS) I think sidereal time thrown in for fun.

I remember some of those procedures (design->code->integrate,formal test->ship) that DOD projects had. We counted SLOC (Lines Of Code), but thankfully our reviews never were based on them. Code reviews could be useful or just frustrating. I suspected somepeople were just difficult so they wouldn't be invited to as many of them

Interesting to hear others perspectives on it.