skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this seemed conceivable, but it's the wrong side of the pacific.

Vertical lightning bolt + thin layer of cloud + red and green glows = MIRV re-entry, underwater nuclear detonation, excited oxygen ions bashed loose from seawater.

The Russians have been bragging about their new SS-27 variants domestically and internationally quite a bit. Geopolitically everything's currently a bit up in the air.

Also, any radiation from this could be written off as Fukushima spill-over.

Just a thought. Hope I'm wrong.
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Edit: Used wrong numbers for Portland, it's metro area is over 2Million people. That's close to the ~5M population for a metro area which really starts causing major issues.

Portland Oregon is a vary low population city .6M in the middle of no where. It would have been fine without any form of public transit. The real issues show up at around 10x the population where sprawl is to low density to support office buildings and people at the edge can't reasonably commute to the center of the city even with public transport.
"because they have some business interest in it."

The business interest might be conveying a positive image of Google. So using the code club as a vehicle to paint a bad image of Google would be detrimental to the business interest. Why then should they pour more money into it?
If the lesson is "don't work for companies you don't like" I think that is a good and healthy life lesson.
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GNU/Linux and ssh is already secure enough for that. File permissions, so they cant see your files.
Just because they are not-for-profit doesn't mean that they don't need money to keep running their business. It also doesn't mean that nobody get's paid.
Thank you for the info!

I just noticed that the developer of lapis also made the itch.io marketplace. As a matter of fact, itch.io was built with lapis.
It's not clear that any of those technologies have been physically implemented? It's very different from standard CMOS.
Really? Like what? You know that that the server is based in some entirely different technology right?
In my experience, this is actually not that difficult or novel, but kudos on trying new things. Keep it up :)
Because if you don't tow the party line on HN you'll be downvoted no matter what. Frankly, go check my post history on the matter if you want. The only topic on which I manage to accumulate downvotes is Snowden/NSA related.

Doesn't much matter what the content or argument or tone is or was.

Though I do chuckle at "disprove the speculation".
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You know, I've heard the term fat-shaming, but that is a pretty damn extreme example. A stab wound was blamed on being fat?
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Cool! I wasn't aware you could do that sort of thing with LOAD DATA INFILE. Thanks :)
Yes this might be a dumb way of deciding where to work, especially because you might be able to negotiate your salary based on the competitive offers you might get.

Ask yourself:

- with which of the companies (mission and strategy, as well as customers) can you identify yourself best?

- where do you see yourself having a more pleasent work environment in regards to the people you would be working with and the working culture/environment?

- what are your future career targets and which opportunity might increase the probability to reach them? what is the potential for the role?

- what might be the goals, and can you identify with them as well as add value, of your direct reports?
The vast majority of computer programming is done in "stodgy", "boring" settings, like offices and for government projects, so this really shouldn't be a surprise for that field. The "work anywhere when you like, just get your 8 in" concept is relatively niche, even in the Valley "glamor" bubble.
I have a friend who works for a large software company (SAS), and he works 9-5 with an hour lunch in the middle.
Most of the time, no. The first packet of a given connection will hit a supernode (one of four machines run by ZeroTier) to open up the NAT ports, but after that everything is point to point.

Except in the case of an overly restrictive firewall that doesn't allow outgoing UDP on port 9993, in which case every packet is tunneled over port 443 through one of the supernodes.

That said, every packet is encrypted with NaCL so that situation is less concerning. Just slower.
The US has zero central control development. It's all local which creates huge issues.

It ends up with the worst parts of state control and capitalism by being rather corrupt at the local level. It subsidizes new development and creates barriers to redevelopment. Rent control, NIMBY, etc etc it's a mess.
Do you have links for that last part maybe? I'll be writing about the whole makerbot issue soon and that would sure come in handy!
This is a very difficult question for anyone to answer for you. It all depends on which metrics/values are most important to you. Here are a few generic ideas:

You can look on Glassdoor for company reviews but they tend to be biased negatively, as in disgruntled people are more likely to write and complain about their experiences than those who are perfectly happy.

Talk to people at both companies, preferably ones in similar positions or doing similar work.

In terms of salary, don't fixate on just the salary but consider total compensation as in salary + stock options + rsu + bonus, etc...

Finally given that you've presumably interviewed with teams at both companies, you should have a better sense about your would-be teammates and manager and which environment suits you better.
I'd go with Facebook, I imagine they're offering more money anyway. Facebook is a household name, has better perks last time I checked, and more offices.

Palantir looks hip but the work they do is very boring on the Forward-Deployed engineer side — which, being a position in New York, sounds like what you're gonna be doing.

PS I interviewed with both these companies very recently.
Some still do, I guess it largely depends on the company. Each company I've worked at the last several years were 9-5 or 10-6 with lunch break in the middle somewhere.
There are lots of accommodations I would need to do for someone who is blind, or deaf, or missing his hands. (I knew (through association) a developer who had hooks for hands.) The fact that you need to put some changes into your recruitment process for disabilities doesn't mean your recruitment process is necessarily broken.
I saw this in my RSS feed. Without seeing the text, I actually thought this post was going to be a question of which company was more evil.

Downvotes welcomed, but I stand by my point.
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http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Palantir-considered-evil

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-o...
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Palantir, by far.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/09/did-sec...
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I don't have numbers to back it up, but I suspect there are a huge number of programmers who work in mega-corps where the office is empty by 5pm.
It's not that simple (in the UK at least), you only have to stop processing information if "unwarranted and substantial damage or distress" is being caused.
I'm not clear what you're trying to say with that last sentence. I didn't look carefully (beyond the reference to NaCL) but I assume this is using Salsa20 keyed by Curve25519. Neither of those algorithms are any more "exhaustible" (to coin a term) than AES or static DH, both of which are obviously capable of providing security in normal situations more or less indefinitely.

I assume you must be referring to something other than the security longevity of a Salsa20 key.
why isn't this a trivial bash script more like it.
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In Stuttgart they are actually used a lot, though I think they would get used more if the bikes themselves weren't so hideous. In an age where bikes are the new cars, how can they ignore design?
> Every time you write '+' in a C program between two signed values, do you do an overflow check beforehand? Do you know what it takes to write that overflow check?

But UB isn't the problem here. You can make two's complement wraparound the defined behavior, and programs which fail to check their arithmetic are very likely to be wrong.

This is already the case with unsigned overflow: it's defined to wrap around. Yet many many programs are vulnerable because they do something like malloc(nitems * size) and carry on thinking they must've gotten the wanted amount of memory.

Most of the time, you really have to do the right checks whether your arithmetic is signed or not. Whether wraparound is defined or not.
Do you use Key Escrow for private key storage? How can the other receiver decrypt the file using his browser only? Where do you store the private key?
This is great! People should have better and faster ways of handling CSV -> DB interactions. We recently added native CSV loading into blaze for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLITE, https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blaze/blob/master/blaze/data/...

MongoDB is coming soon.
To be fair, the analogy is very leaky. The US has shown time and again that arming an oppressed population generally leads to terrible results. On the other hand, giving an oppressed population access to information seems to do much good. So, basically the article would be better if the author skipped the crossbow and guns portion of it and instead simply talked about access to information. I still believe that what is going to bring democracy to the Middle East is not going to be a US invasion, but Walmart and McDonalds (for better or worse).
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There is no room in a supposedly democracy (republic) for law by fiat. Either the people are ultimately in charge or we live in a dictatorship. The Constitution is not an option.
I think very few people would blame you for taking the mercenary approach here. However, you may wish to consider who it is you will be working for.

Palantir is deeply entrenched in the surveillance state. Though they may come at you with a decent offer, I believe it is ethically impermissible to use my skills in order to contribute to the deprivation of the human rights of others across the world.

I do not have much positive to say about Facebook either, except that the bulk of their revenue does not come from three letter agencies. And they have in the past and will probably continue in the future to solve some interesting challenges in scalability.
Absolutely. I did come here to do the "so what" dance but this is the simplest and most respectful comment here.

Keep on making new (to you) things, keep a good log of what you have done (GitHub) - eventually you will make new (to anyone) things.
Fantastic idea and works so well. So relevant in today's world, this is going to blow up
Very exciting, the variadic functions and argument unpacking features are both things I often use in python and really miss when using php.
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In the last poll Marina would beat Dilma. Her popularity got a huge boost after Eduardo Campos died in the plane crash earlier this month.
> Would a segregated lane make commuting on smaller vehicles safer? Undoubtedly. Would it be necessary to incentivize biking over driving larger vehicles? Probably not.

Because numbers on charts matter more than people on the streets being safe. This is sad.
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I am not putting 1TB+ per table dumps of data into a strangers website what can be done with a bit of sed or a script in ${LANGUAGE}.

Loader from Several Nines, is a tool for doing parallel loads of CSV into MySQL and MariaDB
https://github.com/severalnines/loader

Mydumper is a threaded dump and load tool for MySQL/MariaDB.
https://launchpad.net/mydumper

Tungsten Replicate can do batch load replication into any external datasource
http://docs.continuent.com/tungsten-replicator-3.0/deploymen...
So long as you have a script for it:
https://code.google.com/p/tungsten-replicator/source/browse/...

EDIT: A fun extra, https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/storage-engi...
Yes my comment assumed the path from your system to the server is secure (and from server to recipient), and that the server is trusted.
12 new accounts saying "great product" looks really spammy and does not necessarily inspire a lot of confidence in the product itself (that I have not tested).
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These kinds of things are very common for fat people. A lot of sites and forums that are frequented by fat people tell these kinds of stories. This is Thin Privilege[1] is a popular one on tumblr where people mostly submit their stories about being treated negatively for being fat and quite a lot of those stories revolve around medical and mental health care in ways that are quite horrifying.

[1] http://thisisthinprivilege.tumblr.com/
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Not really. Portland is the 19th largest MSA and 29th largest city in US. There is only one city in the US that is 10x Portland in population (NY) and there are no MSAs that are 10x the size of Portland's (not even NY's.)

You don't need to be NY for transit to make a huge difference. Portland is a squarely mid-size American city and its quality transit is a key selling point.
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I wrote an answer explaining how this attempt to summarize my beliefs was inaccurate but then decided that it was inappropriate to allow the thread to become a tangent about how I do or do not fully support gay rights. I stand by my previous answer.
I had a look at what you had greyed out, lets see...

not trusting aspects of textsecure

keeping encryption on all the time

argument about billing bad reviews on yelp

not liking lighttable

ok, whether there is a need to hide political speech from the NSA.

I don't think your claim stands up of it being the only topic.

edit - why are you bothering making claims like this in a medium where the source material is immediately available?

This kind of tactic may work in spoken discussion, but here it just seems absurd.
I would really enjoy seeing a time lapse video of this stuff. It is incredibly fascinating.
I think Merkel deserves at least a little credit for speaking out in public, even if some of it was for the elections. When visiting Germany it was amazing how much news coverage there was about Snowden & how aware everyone was... you couldn't avoid it, his face was even on digital billboards in train stations.

It was markedly different to Australia, where the politicians almost all support it, it was a minor TV news story (certainly not the lead headline like in Germany), and most people just don't care or understand. Germans are understandably cynical, but I wish Germans would have more pride in their country, there are some things that Germany does so much better than other countries right now.
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For a simple scatterplot with many points I would probably simply use Canvas directly, and perhaps borrow elements from D3 like d3.scale to plot the axis labels. It is possible to use Canvas underneath to plot the 100,000 points, and SVG on top for other stuff like tooltips and brush selecting.
Ref: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5770/lava-xolo-x900-review-the...
Two monitors -- So you can keep your editor and browser in view at the same time :)
To quote poet Carl Sandberg - "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." The problem is that screwing up the environment can happen so slowly that by the time you start to realize how bad it is to may be too late.
Curve25519, ed25519, and Salsa20 in 12-round mode: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/ZeroTier-One-Se...
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So does this work with CSV?
The last point seems to depend on a lot of assumptions. Simply making someone healthier for longer doesn't automatically save money: someone who dies of a heart attack before age 65 is actually the best financial case for Medicare, and improving their health moderately so that they still have heart disease, but it doesn't kill them until age 75, will cost more! Improving their health even more than that, so that they don't have heart disease, but die of cancer at age 85 after 9 months of chemotherapy and 3 months on life support, is more expensive still.
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It is about human rights. "All men are created equal."

Of course the US government must only bow to its own people, and only US citizens can lead its policy, that is perfectly understandable. But we all deserve basic human rights and a country that is one of their biggest champions should, for the sake of its credibility, not ignore that!

It would be ideal if some oversight existed for ALL such surveillance. With allied countries, the US should try to work with their governments. With adversaries, it's reasonable to have more relaxed rules. But just bulk collecting data of all non-citizens, treating us all with the same lack of respect of our human rights, is not cool.

Perhaps the US government actually does do all this as I described, and cooperates with allied governments. Then it is just the US media and public that leave the impression like they don't give a fuck about the human rights of anyone other than US citizens... Not cool.
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Big difference between something that is spammy and a great new idea which actually has something to contribute trying to gain some traction. Try having a look.
Kinda hard not to immediately jump to that conclusion isn't it? Both companies definitely have some trouble in the PR side of things
The very article linked to here directly contradicts your claim that "The structure of every single one of these stories is a single slide or page or quote, containing maybe less then 50 words maximum."

The article cites statements from and interviews with 9-10 separate sources, quoting several of them at length, and combines that with additional quotes from government source materials.
I can't see why he thinks his second example is any more readable than his first. The commented version explains what will happen. The second version requires at least some knowledge of the context.

There are plenty of times when I have been given bits of other peoples code and told to make them work. All I have is an error message. Usually very little context about what the program is doing or why. In these cases, comments make a world of difference.

Even in my own code, looking back on it after 6 months. Sure, I can read the code and understand it, but it will take me 5 times longer than if there is a helpful comment near each step.
10.0.0.333 <- this one is going to present a problem, I can tell you right away ^_^
One unique advantage Palantir would have over Facebook is that if you get the itch to travel, Palantir casts a much wider net throughout the world (assuming you'd be willing to work as a forward deployed engineer, which in Palantir's case is genuinely not a sales role).

Tough call, but a nice problem to have, congrats!
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They can't see the homedir, but they can still see config files and anything else that couldn't be conveniently locked down.
OPS, used wrong numbers for Portland. It's the metro area that's important not the nominal city lines.

Any way. Nominally DC has a population of 646,449, however the DC metro area is 5.8 million. The Baltimore Metropolitan Area has grown steadily to approximately 2.7 million and has fewer issues with transit, but it's getting steadily worse.

And the NY metro area is 23.5 Million people.
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Worked for Palantir from 2010-2012. Palantir will push you hard (if you let it, and are interested in doing so); it's the highest-performing team I've ever worked with, and I learned a ton both technically and culturally (how to interview, how to hire, how to productively have high expectations of your colleagues) that has served me well in the other roles -- even though it wasn't immediately obvious what I was learning when I was there.

That said, there's a lot that's rough about the place, especially as it's gotten larger. You'll likely have a little more freedom than at Facebook, but I wouldn't expect to have a significant impact on the product -- though you will absolutely see an impact on a smaller number of enterprise customers. The culture can be a little overwhelming; it's hard to get oriented as a new person. You need to take responsibility for learning things for yourself and have to think on your feet -- don't expect your colleagues to spend a lot of time training you.
AFAIK, you can express your believes as a person and don't need an endorse of your volunteer group.
The video is quite impressive, only for the call stack improvements you can get by using it. What's particularly cool is that it is framework agnostic.

So far I didn't use it, but will definitely try it out.
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I agree with the general recommendation that you should consider those factors.

I also agree with your rough assessment. Facebook is pretty sketchy as well on the privacy front but you're not really forced to use them if that's a concern.

Having worked for Facebook is probably better for the CV, too if you decide to move on (debatable depending on the specific line of work. Palantir is obviously not an unknown).
One incorrect statement: "Requiring insurance coverage on the property of at least $150k (Airbnb has this covered)"

From Airbnb directly: "The Host Guarantee is not insurance and should not be considered as a replacement or stand-in for homeowners or renters insurance."

Last I'd checked, it didn't cover anything within the building outside the rented unit. And only things within the unit owned by the renter... so no appliances, fixtures, walls, common areas, doors, hallways, etc. Airbnb's site is now very vague on what the 'guarantee' covers.
Palantir:

- Boring work since you will be an FDE if in NY (data munging, plugins, etc - no "real" coding projects)

- Below-market pay (including equity due to future dilution)

- Culture of working 80-100 hour weeks

- Corporate cult mentality (everyone constantly wearing the company clothing, living at the office, etc)

- Reputation for having a "bro culture"

Facebook:

- Higher cash comp, probably less equity upside

- No opportunity to work with customers if that interests you

- More typical "go to work and code" environment

- You will actually grow as an engineer because you will work on more substantial projects that are not throwaway code for one customer

- Your code will be reviewed

In short, if you don't really care about your life outside of work, and you see yourself enjoying a more consulting focused role that will put you on a career path away from programming in a few years, go with Palantir NYC. If you actually care about improving your software engineering skills, and you have friends/significant other/family that you care about seeing during the week, go with FB.