skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered contributing to organizations that make sure no single entity controls too many exits:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-Septe...

https://www.torservers.net/
No—there are many properties that cannot be decided. For example, many programs can be proven to halt in finite time. For example, you can imagine a way to prove that the program

return 0

always halts. However, testing for this property is impossible (Halting Problem). More generally, it is not possible to test a general predicate for satisfaction. Even things that are decidable in principle may not be decidable quickly (SAT).

On the other hand, there is a lot of space for simple predicates like "str.length < 10" to be decided automatically, since the proofs for these can be constructed with only forward search.
One key item:

"The suit, filed June 27 in King County Superior Court in Seattle, seeks to take advantage of a more favorable climate for non-compete deals in Washington state, where the terms of such deals have generally been allowed, if considered reasonable. Non-compete clauses have repeatedly been found invalid in California, where Google is based."

The article doesn't say Szabadi was or currently is geographically employed (is his current contract with Google in California or Seattle?), which I assume would have a bearing on the suit's strength
> Additionally having the code on GitHub gives a nice warm and fuzzy feeling that there is no vendor-lock-in, even though there is no other game in town.

What about puppet and/or ansible? Is there something chef does they don't? I haven't been keeping up with their relative capabilities, but last I checked they were somewhat comparable. I don't know how open source puppet and ansible are, either.
Are you saying Dart would run in a JavaScript virtual machine? Because that's not true.
As much as I am not a fan of non-competes, having read the complaint, it appears that this is the exact reason non-competes exist. This isn't about an Amazon SDE that worked on the amazon.com retail site moving over to work on Gmail; the guy was responsible for working with AWS partners, and now works in the exact same position for a direct competitor, in a position where external contacts and relationships are key. Google even recognized this with their own agreement not to use that information for a period of 6 months.
Not directly answering your question, but: ZeroMQ is a network programming library that uses and encourages the use of "patterns". Take a look at the (excellent) ZeroMQ manual.
> "What would you say separates the strongest and the weakest members of your team?"

It's easy to reply to this phrasing with a canned answer and very little though. "Experience, skill, and a positive attitude." If someone gave this answer to you and you're the candidate asking the question it is basically 0 information.

I think the better way to ask this question is to ask

"Has anyone been recently let go and why? Has anyone been let go or put on a performance improvement plan for not being a good enough engineer? What are specific reasons why you think they were maybe not good enough? What is your policy when programmers make big mistakes?"

I'm not sure I would ask these questions, but I still think it's a better form of phrasing. You want to know what they think makes a bad engineer.
>I did not know the phrase had commonly held definition.

"Social proof" refers to the general phenomenon of people forming opinions in alignment with what they observe others believing. I understand what you meant, but it's confusing to frame that as a social proof issue, given its common usage.

>My comment was not about a group representing the population, but rather representative of the possible solutions weighted by relevance or similar metric.

I know, but that's it's wrong: the group was representative of the typical arguments and reasoning offered regarding how to model government policy. Most people lack the understanding to articulate what's wrong with unfamiliar or "absurd" proposals; casting his net wider wouldn't have helped much, even in the internet age.

>hamburglar should have/be use heuristics that do not depend on encountering the right people to gather and judge evidence when possible.

Then what should they depend on? Again, you can't update on evidence that even interested adversaries can't find! At most, it means you should lower your confidences all around, but even then, the people he argued with should have lowered them even further, for the very same reasons.
This issue is more ethically ambiguous than the EFF acknowledged in their post. The EFF only links to the legal and health forums, while the FBI claims the sites "were used to facilitate prostitution" [0]:

advertisements for prostitutes... menus of sexual services,
hourly and nightly rates, and customer reviews of the
prostitutes’ services.

You can see an example of an advertisement here (NSFW): https://web.archive.org/web/20130521131010/http://forum.myre...

I'm not arguing for or against sex work, just illustrating that this takedown is not a clear-cut case of censoring a vulnerable community's non-commercial political speech.

Is the EFF saying the FBI should have targeted specific illegal posts instead of taking down legal material as well? I support the EFF in their important work, but they're more credible and effective when they tell the whole story, including the complicated part.

[0] http://www.fbi.gov/news/news_blog/operators-of-myredbook.com...
Were these sites only (or primarily) discussion boards? Were they also used (with or without their operators' consent) to conduct illegal sex trade? If such activities were indeed happening without a site operators knowledge or consent, did law enforcement reach out to these operators in an attempt to curtail this activity? Too little information from EFF on this.

I'll agree that seizure of a discussion forum is truly a big problem. Simply seizing one because someone disagrees with the topics under discussion is a big problem. Not informing the operator of illegal activity before seizing is potentially dirty (e.g. if the operator is not participating in or encouraging the illegal activity.) Seizure of anything without due process of law is unacceptable and must be rectified.

But doing something illegal (regardless of whether it should be), having been brought before a court, having failed to defend oneself or overturn the law, and having property seized ... well, that's how it should work.

So how did this particular case go exactly?
Hi ajiang,
This is a great initiative. Glad to see Data Science knowledge put to use for noble causes. I am a mentor in a Data science/analytics program based in Bay Area where we help professionals looking for a career change to data science. We are always hunting for interesting projects for them to work on. Would love to have them work on real projects with noble goals. Love to connect to discuss this possibility. If interested, please ping me. You can find my email in my profile. Thanks.
All Snowden Files Rumored To Be Published in July
This made me sad. i used Songza for a while and actually preferred it over Pandora. Glad for the people that cashed out, but that means that the service will either die soon or it will be Google-plusified: something I clearly don't agree with.

So for anyone looking to cancel their account as I did, it's not really advertised anywhere. Go to legacy.songza.com, log in, click on your profile->settings then you will find a big red delete button.

I only discovered this after I tried to submit feedback asking how to cancel and got an automated suggestion with the above steps.

It's interesting you have to go to a legacy site to do this.
Have you ever seen e.g. a pizza joint, bowling alley, etc shut down? You could write the letter that gets posted in the window with a Markov chain. It is practically identical to the widely satirized language used by startups.

"After 43 years in business, Joe's Pizza will be shutting down after July 10th. Thanks for your patronage over the years. We'll miss you."

Modulo individual stylistic choices, this is the appropriate level of social niceties between a business and a customer. Joe's Pizza is not obligated to say that their bookkeeper embezzled $300k, they misjudged the pizza market, or Joe's heart just isn't in pizza anymore. You paid, you got your pie, and you and Joe are even.
> Having said that, sometimes I need to remove the entry
> from /tmp to reconnect if my network settings have changed.

You can also just send the exit command to the conn.

ssh somehost -O exit

In addition, I put my controlpath in my .ssh dir. Keeps it out of the global /tmp dir. shrug

controlpath ~/.ssh/cp-%r:%h:%p
Ironically our governing powers outlaw these services, while many of them partake in them.
Yes there is a continuum and there are great Tor like projects in that sense. Where you end up on that continuum mostly depends on the reviewing process.
Cozy? Hardly, do you know how much that relationship cost comcast?
As in "the mousetrap". As in "the disingenuous reply". A class rather than an instance, but you knew that.
We are unfortunately only hiring for our SF office, no remote (and US work authorization is required).
> It is hard, perhaps, but a good attack for the NSA would be to run many of the exit nodes.

It definitely doesn't control most of the exit bandwidth, unless the TorServers and blutmagie guys have been conning us for maybe a decade now.

>TOR network

Tor, not TOR.

>This is because it is used by those trying to hide something, something which the NSA may like to know.

This is a rather strong statement about the average Tor user.
From the website:

The method is called biochronometrics and it maps behavior based on a series of complex algorithms. 5 million live tests show that bots can’t mimic human behavior when biochronometrics are applied.

That being said, yes, I would love to see some more technical details on the implementation...
"It is also important to remember that if you log into services like Google and Facebook over Tor, you will be sacrificing your anonymity to those services."

It is important to note that both Google and FB can track you on 3rd party websites through things like "Like" button. Consider disabling 3rd party cookies completely or using plugins like Ghostery.
There are, IIRC, a few of the Laundry Files novels - by Charles Stross - that mention Linux, although I'm not sure if you'd say it is featured in a "significant role".
page 4 of the suit - Szabadi worked in Washington when he was at Amazon, and still resides in Washington.
I should have limited my comments to mobile listeners with mid to low impedance headphones (which are the vast majority). I used to listen to iPhone with HD 580 (300 ohm) directly, with full volume and no amplifier/equalizer. It's loud enough for sensitive ears, and very enjoyable, better than HD 558. With amplifiers the sound is a little better, but not worth the inconvenience. For mid to low impedance headphones, amplifiers are often used to improve sound quality, not volume. Software equalizers (like those in Songza) would work well, and further shrink the market of amplifiers. Remember that in this mobile internet age, the American consumers have voted for Beats, I'm not sure what for, perhaps the overall user experience.
There's no "what they are worth" without a market, and the location is an inherent part of the market because most companies don't do remote work.
Improving the DOM
Just food for thought, not looking to spark an argument or anything -- doesn't it seem like canceling your account now is a little premature? Why not wait and see what changes actually happen, and cancel in protest to those?
It's still wrong. If Google's offering is better than Amazon's for some customers, why can't the sales guy who used to work for Amazon tell the customers they should get Google's offering? Customer wins.

Am I missing something?
Amazing to hear that. It's an exciting time. Thanks again!
Does Android Wear make Google Glass obsolete?
Thank you for posting this. EFF makes the site seem like purely a forum and it just wasn't - it doesn't change MY personal opinion of this matter (I am against the takedown STRONGLY) but it worries me when people with whom I agree seem to miss the mark on providing an accurate representation of the facts. I'm not suggesting it's intentionally misleading, but I think it doesn't get it exactly right.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers to hack education

Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 7 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-cleve...

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
I am posting this for my wife, who is looking for a QA position (manual/automated testing)

Location: San Francisco Bay area
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Java, Perl, Selenium, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Linux
Resume: http://goo.gl/2GwVTV
Email: Plz Check resume.

Previous experience: Netapp, EMC.

My wife (for whom I am posting) has 4 yrs experience in test automation. Most recently, She has learned writing Selenium test scripts in Java. She has previously worked as a software engineer in Netapp and EMC both of which are storage giants. She has worked on automating NACL file system using Perl and Java, all in Linux Environment.

She is happy to pick up new languages as needed.
They should be looking at the signal that consists of a red lamp above a yellow lamp above a green lamp. While the green lamp is lit, they should keep driving and not slam on the brakes just because the little man in the crosswalk started blinking.

Yes I know that rear-enders are at fault even when the rear-ended did something stupid. In fact many driving accidents can be attributed to the stupidity of multiple parties, and the accidents described above can also be so attributed.
Hmm...I think if you ask those questions, they might not get the best impression of you -- it would seem like you were getting ready to be a bad programmer.
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What do you think about soliciting upvotes by sending people to /newest? Among other things, as a side-effect they might upvote other stories as well.
Can someone tell me, approximately, how much will I need to spend once I arrive in London? I'm really clueless about it. I'd like to go but I'm extremely thin on budget and I'm not even sure if I was accepted (I received nothing, but I think that even if I wasn't accepted, they'd let me know by email).

I see that a 3-day InterRail ticket to England is €147, and I have no clue if it's acceptable for my budget, it all depends on how much I'm going to need in London.

Feel free to get in touch by email if you think you can give me some info, or post here so others will know. I haven't ever traveled abroad alone and am 17 so I guess it's acceptable to feel a little lost. And I'm just keeping my fingers crossed to be accepted :)

I probably didn't leave enough info here, so feel free to ask on clarification. Any help would be appreciated.
too many conspiracy undertones to take much of this seriously. The facts are correct, but the framing is very grandiose. It's like watching a BBC documentary on psychology, just missing the eerie music. On the first part (as much as I could get through) the paring of different productive functions in society to the military industrial complex has more to due with the increased importance of federal institutions than some grand movement of capitalism as the author seems to put it. I'd love to complete the article but it just seems to be a full of more leaps and assumptions as i go on.
Wouldn't the proposed function then just not compile for the instances were it would be impossible to test, as desired? It would still be useful for where it does work, like in the code you provided. Seems like a lack of meta programming to me if it's not currently possible.
My insurer does a terrible job of tracking my deductible (burn rate). And there's no integration with HSA/FSA. And no tracking of my recurring expenses like scripts.

In other words, I would LOVE a healthcare themed mint.com.
I use Tor hidden services to punch through NATs (mostly for SSH); it's also useful in that only you can access the service (since only you know its address), so a hidden service + random port is a cheap "port knocking" implementation.

I've also used Tor to debug firewalls. It's a good way of saying "put me in a random spot on the Internet."

Outside of that, I use Tor for whatever I can: downloading RSS feeds, instant messaging, downloading email, mostly. There's no reason not to have Tor on these things because they're all either batched or tolerant of bad latency, and it destroys a little bit of my personal information that would otherwise leak.
Nothing here. Still waiting.
Add a second or two, end up with <5 fewer light transitions per hour.

Perhaps this is backwards? If the problems occur mostly at transitions, shouldn't we try to minimize transitions with really long lights? Of course at some point there isn't enough room on the block to accommodate stopped traffic...
What's the point of a comment like this? It just undermines the value/integrity of your earlier one.

You're also missing that the executives personal interest dont per-se align with those of their parent. So its quite possible for an individual to undermine both the public and his employer with a single go.

Various rogue executives illustrate this point without much recourse to google. But say nick leeson at baring kind of jumps out, and then the scale of what was seen in the past 5-7 years makes that look like childs play.

You might also find this "of intellectual interest"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538921

...Or, not.

But the issues are far deeper--extending for many years and at many levels--more than just a single example taken out of context.

________

Edit: item?id={7538921}
No, I'm not sure, it's just a guess. What do you think?
Google is uncool and can't even comprehend cool. They will ruin Songza or shut it down.
MyRedBook's forums were second to its classified which were used to find and rate high-end escorts. There's no question the site was used facilitate prostitution. With that said, the site had been running since 2002. Why were they busted now?

Example classified: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RHLakOo...

Almost all ads explicitly listed the sex acts offered. People on there weren't even being discreet about it.
Don't Waste a Single Moment (2012)
I hired someone last week...but thanks for checking it out.
1000x is a bit much, but double/triple production is hugely significant when you realize that teams are constrained to only playing 11 players at once. Its not like they can make up his production with 2 average players playing together.
Technically, I believe that value types with the same layout could share implementations (though I don't believe this is implemented). In any case, if you don't have generics you have to do the same thing by hand anyway (e.g. create an IntList type, a DoubleList type, etc.), so I can't see how that's any better. More likely, I think, is that Go doesn't do JIT compilation, so there would be some challenges getting a comparable implementation built on Go's runtime. But .NET's new native toolchain solves the same problem, so it's clearly not insurmountable.
Not sure if it is ambiguous, but in my post 'our' is Fan.tv, not Soundcloud!
Check your bank account in the end of the month. It's going up!

Don't forget that if you earn less money in the same country then you'll pay proportionally less taxes. Made up numbers: CA = 120k gross -> 80k after tax. Another state: 100k gross ->70k after tax; Difference in cost of living: 10k). Now you are breaking even. Of course, totally made up numbers.

And as an extra, for every extra dollar you have in a cheaper state, you can do more with it than in CA.

Sure, I would love to make the same kind of money in the cheapest corner in the world but companies aren't there to make us rich; they are there to have a business! If you want to try to convince company to pay for what you produce instead of paying a fair salary, try contracting instead (and be good at selling yourself)
same with the PagerDuty one
Yes, but most of these companies are selling services, not products. If I was buying a downloadable software product from them, the you-got-your-pie analogy would be more apt; sure, the company went out of business, but I still have the product I bought and can continue to use it. Services don't work like that; when the company goes away, the product goes "poof" and disappears. Even if you paid in advance for long term use of it! Which makes people confused and/or resentful.

This is the downside of the Everything-As-A-Service model: services are a commitment. Customers aren't buying a product, really, so much as they're buying a relationship with you and your team. The only way you can sell a relationship is by convincing people that you're serious about it -- that you're in it for the long haul. So if the next week you announce that you really weren't...