skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the article as meaning that the gang was part of the cattle grazing/farming industry. They burn the land, they bring in grazers, and by the time anyone notices the grazers have "been there for a while" so it's difficult to remove them, destroy everything, and let forest regrow.

That said, I doubt removing one gang will make much difference unless they change the system that allows ranchers to stay on illegally burned land.
I actually have some code (.Net) that loads xml, csv, ... into objects.

There is also a visual drawing to help you connect the dots between the properties of the uploaded file vs. the properties of the objects.

This way, all information gets loaded into the db from a single import, in the correct table.

I could seperate it in a opensource project i suppose, if anyone is interested.
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I would be interested in looking at that if you opensource it.
There was a story like this elsewhere some while ago and I think the consensus was that the CEO was trying to stiff the guy out of shares.

Do you have options which would be rescinded if you left in a huff?
You can think about where you see yourself in x years and act accordingly. Say you're more interested in startups vs enterprises, your best bet would be Facebook and vice-versa.

On the ethical side, without knowing the role specifics, I'd have a hard time considering Palantir. I'd also have a hard time considering Facebook though (still a little better on my ethical companies ranking).

Best of luck!
What is the business model (considering the use of supernodes)?
Yeah, Marina Silva is well-known on international community as a great defender of the Amazon and North region of Brazil.

Also, these guys have a huge amount of money, so they can pay for their freedom. Just picking the right layer and the right judge to give the 'habeas corpus'.

Oh, sorry, I can't say that here. It's - what some folks say here - 'low self esteem'.
Are you limited to choosing between those two companies? If not then maybe cast your net a bit wider and go for something that is less likely to keep you up at night from a moral point of view. Of course if these are your only options I'd choose facebook as the lesser of two evils.
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Eclipse / Pydev even pulls these out and lists them in a "tasks" panel for you.
Don't promote this appalling nonsense, please. This is a site which actively promotes the idea that being overweight is healthy – which it is not.

I agree that it can be really easy to blame health problems on weight when there are more complex issues present, and the idea of blaming a stab wound on obesity is obviously ludicrous. That said, being overweight is almost always extremely unhealthy and a major cause of many illnesses. It's absolutely correct that there should be a lot of focus on that.
Good to see real numbers in these sort of articles..

But let’s face it - users are never going to tell you what they need...or what you should build.

Shouldn’t they have spent more time building a great product first - before launching it? Those retention numbers to me say the product wasn’t working.

I doubt Apple asked any users for input when coming up with the iPhone.
> Facebook is pretty sketchy as well on the privacy front but you're not really forced to use them if that's a concern.

I agree with what you're saying, but we should mention that Facebook's data collection extends far beyond what we generally think of as Facebook's users. (They collect data on friends of Facebook users as well - search for "dark profiles" to see what I mean, and they also collect data on people who simply view websites that have Facebook "share" buttons or the like).

And it's expanding even further - if Facebook has its way, parts of the developing world will use Facebook as their primary (or only!) way of accessing the Internet.

I agree that Facebook is slightly the lesser of two evils at the moment, but we're basically debating between Scylla and Charybdis[0] here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla
Your server is already publishing a public key - in the certificate. "Humans" at the CA verified it.

What you're really arguing for is some army of volunteer CAs to do it (this is the WoT model summed up). However verifying identities is not fun, takes knowledge and skill to defend your private keys, and in the absence of payment will attract only a tiny number of uber-geeks who think the word "party" is a reasonable word to describe a bulk ID verification ceremony ;) This is why the WoT is a bust and nobody developing new crypto systems cares about it anymore.
There's one aspect where China has well and truly learned from America's mistakes: public transport. Every Chinese city of any importance has a metro system that's shiny new and heavily used. In 1993, the Shanghai Metro did not exist; today it's the world's longest, and by some measures the busiest.

http://www.urbanrail.net/as/asia.htm
http://www.urbanrail.net/as/cn/shan/shanghai.htm
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Greece's island fragmentation gave them the greatest fleet of their time. Europe's languages might actually be it's strength.
Note: You can't draw rounded corners using Bezier curves. Only an approximation. ;)
As retold by Adam Curtis in the excellent BBC three-parter "The Power of Nightmares":

3a. CIA people told new director, "er, boss, that was actually us".

3b. CIA director does not believe his own people.

And of course the whole "Team B" episode (Rumsfeld etc.), where the complete lack of evidence that the Soviets had <weapon-of-choice> was reinterpreted to mean they MUST OBVIOUSLY HAVE <even-worse-than-weapon-of-choice-even-if-physically-impossible> and perfect secrecy, otherwise how could we not have found any evidence?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

http://vimeo.com/84414208

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
There are tiny organizations that smuggle in technology and media from South Korea (one bag at a time, usually). North Koreans are not universally bamboozled by their government's propaganda.

However, pervasive propaganda disorients North Koreans with respect to the rest of the world.

They have an active military only slightly smaller than the U.S. or India, and a huge paramilitary force (largest by raw count, more than twice India's second place paramilitary). Over 3 in 10 North Koreans are affiliated with the military or paramilitary. Of course, one function of the North Korean paramilitary forces is suppressing dissent, which includes keeping an eye on fellow paramilitary personnel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

For further reference: https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/home
Additionally, all stop processing / deletion regulations require a court order, which will be subject to all the usual requirements of justice.
Hong Kong's a pretty good contender too, and its public transport is arguably even better than Singapore's -- although not long on current trends, as Singapore is going all out to double or triple the existing metro network.
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PHP, Python, and PHP all have their own tracks.

I believe OSCON didn't historically had a Ruby track (but I could be wrong!) because O'Reilly had an entire conference instead, RailsConf. That was sold/given away/somehow ended up in the hands of Ruby Central a few years ago, and essentially Rubyists were used to having their own separate events by that stage anyway.
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You know what would have been a killer use for 3d printers when I was a kid? Toy soldiers and GI Joe accessories.

Maybe there's a startup idea in there :)
Of the many companies that have rejected me, Suitable Technologies (makers of Beam robot doubles) were the best. The biggest thing was that they rejected me as soon as they knew they had rejected me. Within a few hours.

Which hurt, in the short term, because I am a human being. But it was better than many other companies that would say "we'll tell you later today" and then wait a week, or wait for two weeks since my last interview and then reject me in the middle of the CTF they are running and I'm participating in (what, did my answers in the CTF suck?) and then invite me to apply for a job at the end of the CTF after rejecting me. That's really yanking my chain.
I pay my government to spy on people in other countries to make sure they are not going to hurt me. And, more to the point, they aren't going to put in motion things that are could conceivably hurt me or those I care about.

I hate the security state, but I'm okay with that. We've got hundred of millions of people here. There are billions of people in the world. It makes sense to me to spy on all the folks in other countries. I don't see how else you would honestly do a good job of governing.

Spying or digging into the affairs of the people who are voting to make choices in a democratic society? Screw that.

There is a really good reason we separate foreign intelligence from domestic intelligence. The moves the U.S. made after 9-11 to tear down the walls were extremely bad.
if you take one of this graph for the east coast and overlay it with another one 3 hours shifted for the west coast, you get the traffic graph for pretty much every US news site. thats why the founder of buzzfeed calls it the "bored at work network".
I've lived in China and studied Chinese for 13 years, much of that reading heavily (I'm a literary translator), and I'm only now, in year 13, developing the ability to scan Chinese text successfully. I'm not posing this as some objective argument about the learnability of Chinese, just that, in the case of my brain, at least, my eyes are far more able to inhale an alphabetic script than Chinese characters.

My increasing ability to scan lines hasn't slowed my increasing disability to write with a pen! Despite my occasional flirtation with wubi.
I disagree.
I’m sure Apple had plenty of user input in the prototype and test phase.. I’m guessing they a big team of engineers building the thing who were the perfect target audience, and probably had lots more to try it too.
The idea that you should build an awesome product in isolation and launch it perfectly seems like very bad advice...
I have pet servers!

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From your post you cite your contribution to the company primarily in terms of building software. Have you experience building and managing large teams of engineers? Have you experience working with finances, budgeting, forecasting? Have you planned out a solid structure that will enable teams to grow? Have you strong knowledge of technical architecture and infrastructure as well as software development? I could go on. Is this all part of your role as technical director?

Maybe you have all of these things, but the main thing you called out was that you have "built software that only a few people could have done". Being CTO of a 450 person company involves a lot more than just building software. Again I could be misreading your situation, please clarify if I am.

It sucks that your boss said he would never hire a manager for tech, but by the sounds of it the company dynamic is volatile with acquisitions. As for whether you should quit, no one here can tell you whether you should or not. Why not raise your grievance with your boss and make the case for getting what you want, and then make your decision from there. Just be sure you actually know what it is that you want - if you want to keep primarily building software a CTO role may not be for you.
> - Culture of working 80-100 hour weeks

What?
I spoke to a Palantir recruiter once, if you aren't in the Bay Area you'll be doing customisation for customers - not the core engineering stuff that's really cool. Do you know what team at FB you'd be working with? For me the job itself is the most important thing: I wouldn't want to sling PHP, but FB has amazing teams who wrote Hive, Scribe, Presto, HHVM, etc.
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> Many Americans are such complete consumers that they'll pick the higher-priced item solely because it has a higher price, "reasoning" that, if it has a higher price, then it must have a higher value.

App stores and the rush to freemium with IAPs are a counter to your point.
"my boss recruited a CTO after telling me that he would never recruit a manager for the tech"

In these sorts of situations, where your boss has lied to you, or echoing joelennon's comment, didn't first explain to you why this change needed to be made, it's hard to see an acceptable solution other than one of you leaving the company. Whatever respect you've thought you've earned doesn't see to be there, does it?

Another issue: you now have competition as a technical director, and if you are, as it sounds, great at tech and not so great at politics (you were, after all, blindsided by this), you may not like what's going to be happening at your company. E.g. one story of Netscape's decline and fall on the browser side is their acquiring an unsuccessful company and the people from that company somehow managing to wrest control of the development of the next generation browser, and abjectly failing.

I.e. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...
GinzaMetrics (YC S10) is hiring full-stack developers
We are a content analytics and intelligence platform startup based in San Francisco, but our team is distributed. We're looking for someone to join us on a full-time basis.

Our platform includes large-scale web crawling, real-time analytics across streaming, disparate data sets, and complex UI / visualization features.

Because we're a distributed team, we place a high value on communication, responsiveness and autonomy. We're a hard-working team and we solve bigger problems than our small team size would seem capable of solving.

The tools we work with:

- Ruby / Rails

- MySQL / PostgreSQL

- JavaScript

- jQuery

- Angular.js

- Highcharts

- Amazon S3

- Many different APIs (ad networks, social networks, etc.)

- Redis

- Resque

- Github

- Memcache

- Chef

- Jenkins

Technical Requirements:

We're looking for mid- to senior level, full-stack developers with experience in Ruby on Rails or similar environment (experience in other languages and frameworks such as Python / Python frameworks is fine)

- Strong understanding and experience with UNIX / Linux tools and concepts

- Familiar with web application security principles / encryption best practices

- Ability to ramp up in our environment and be productive in 1 week (we provide a comprehensive ramping-up guide)

- Solid understanding and experience in SQL and SQL optimization (indexes, queries, write-read performance, etc.)

- Solid understanding of distributed systems / architectures

- Strong knowledge of unicode / internationalization / encoding issues

Bonus / really great to have:

- Understanding / experience with large-scale ETL

- Understanding / experience large-scale data warehousing technologies

- Understanding / experience with OLAP concepts, in a more modern environment such as that provided by Storm or Spark

- Experience with web crawling, text mining and headless browser automation

Other Requirements:

- Ability / willingness to quickly ramp up on our industry and become an expert in the field

- Ability to communicate well and make recommendations in the context of an overall set of possible solutions, with benefits / tradeoffs for each

- Self-starter

http://www.ginzametrics.com
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This is only partly true. Path tracing is an embarrassingly parallel problem but only under the assumption that the entire scene description can be accessed.

When a light ray strikes the ceiling it can bounce off towards a vase that is on a diffuse table which scatters the light in all directions. So the calculation for this light ray needs to know the shape and material (BRDF) of all the objects that interact with the ray.

Before sending out the ray from the camera into the scene it is unknown what objects are going to be hit along the way - as you can imagine is a difficult problem to optimize for. The usual solution is to just distribute the entire scene.

On a single computer there is no problem, the entire scene is usually present in memory. On multiple computer it is more difficult since you will end up distributing large amounts of data (scenes can be multiple gigabytes).
I don't know how AirBnB works in San Francisco, but in other countries it IS mostly a tax-evading hotel alternative, and renting out primary residences is very, very rare.

I'm looking for rentals in a South American city, and there are quite a few owners with 10+ properties (more the norm than the exception), and I actually prefer those (I've had bad experiences with sloppy hosts, professional hosts haven't let me down yet).

Such regulation in those countries would greatly diminish the appeal of AirBnB to said hosts (they would probably look for an unregulated alternative).
"If it's poor design, one just don't use the language at all."

For greenfield development, sure. Many and maybe most of us don't work in that space.
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How do you avoid the bias of people saying one thing but doing another? I’m sceptical.
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The real issue here is that the public has no control over the spying. Imho, many would probably be fine with other people listening in on their phone calls, or going over their browsing history, if the only effect of that would be terrorists getting caught.

The problem is that currently there is too much potential for the surveilance data to be comercialized or abused for trivial legal matters.

I think much of the debate could be settled by alowing the public to scrutinize the surveillance process, and putting any abuse of the data (i.e. its usage in non-terror-related situations) under extordinarily humiliating punishments (like denationalization).
Thank you everyone for all your valuable input and feedback.
I would suggest that you go to Facebook. Why? Being an SV company, they will generally treat developers better than say Palantir. Being treated as a valuable member of the team and not a cost center is very important for job satisfaction. (And those free lunches/snacks will definitely help you save some money in NYC)

To start your career at a place where one has to solve huge scaling issues will really do you good. You may not understand everything right away but you would be trained from the beginning to think of scaling anytime you solve a problem. I don't know much about Palantir but I will doubt if they have scaling problems as big as Facebook.

Finally, brand name. Whenever you will decide to move on to the next job, you will have a much easier time if you were at Facebook v/s Palantir. Trust me, this is important. You should view each job opportunity as a stepping stone for your overall career.

So assuming that pay/perks/benefits are more or less similar, I would highly recommend that you join FB.
Having spent significant amounts of time with Replicator 2s and Ultimaker 1s & 2s, the Ultimakers have far superior print quality in my opinion. Small details typically come through better on the Ultimakers, and tolerances were held better in 95% of my tests.
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Hi, I'm the submitter of this story (but I am not the author). This article talks about the controversy the has been talked about (and sometimes silenced) in the internet for the past week and a half.

It is a long read and it is clear what the author's "side" is, but I think it is interesting for two reasons.

First, if you're a gamer and follow gaming news, you should be interested in this. Even if you don't think there is an ethical problem, you should know what is (possibly) happening behind the curtains.

Second, I really like following these kinds of things. Seeing complete strangers organize themselves is astounding. The fight against the first bouts of censorship, this regretabble flamewars and harassement, how they find dirt and connect information. I love it all in a "trashy soap-opera/reality TV" kind of way.

This whole situation has a lot to talk about, and it's not just about one thing. It relates not only to corrupt journalist but also to a sex scandal and harassement, feminism and SJW[1], and a revived indie gogo campaign about feminism being "sponsored" by 4chan.

The article has links in the end for more information.

It's been a weird week in the internet.

[1]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=social%20just...
It may not have "disproved" it, but he appears to have discarded his original hypothesis.

From linked article:
> Floating ice may sometimes be ineffective at moving rocks since stones with low profile may be over-ridden by floating ice; rocks at the edges of ice panels may fail to sufficiently engage with floating ice to be moved, and rocks may be too massive for the available force (Fig. 8d).
> A surprise is the thinness of ice involved in rock movement. Ice sheets 3–6 mm thick are insufficient to float rocks off the playa surface, as proposed in some models [8], [11], and, in any case, we observed that ice melts first around rocks. However, moving sheets of ice tens of meters in extent but only a few millimeters thick are clearly effective at moving rocks in their path. Forces on stones increase when multiple sheets of ice pile on the upstream side of a rock and increase the effective surface area of the rock exposed to stresses of wind and flowing water (Fig. 8a).

Author's 2011 publication (citation #11):
> 11. Lorenz RD, Jackson BK, Barnes JW, Spitale J, Keller JM (2011) Ice rafts not sails: Floating the rocks at Racetrack Playa. American Journal of Physics 79: 37–42. doi: 10.1119/1.3490645
Abstract:
>> We suggest that the existence of many of the rock-carved trails at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park is predominantly due to the effect of arbitrarily weak winds on rocks that are floated off the soft bed by small rafts of ice, as also occurs in arctic tidal beaches to form boulder barricades. These ice cakes need not have a particularly large surface area if the ice is adequately thick—the ice cakes allow the rocks to move by buoyantly reducing the reaction and friction forces at the bed, not by increasing the wind drag. The parameter space of ice thickness and extent versus rock size for flotation is calculated and found to be reasonable. We demonstrate the effect with a simple experiment.

Perhaps if you were reading something 1yr ago, it was in correlation to this new hypothesis, but this 2014 publication sits contrary to the 2011 publication.
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>-Limiting those under rent control provisions to not make more from home-sharing than their rent (some people are not happy about this one)

Hah. Talk about entitled. Complaining they cant rent for market rates while living at below market rates. Not surprising though coming from people who illegally rent out others property.
i'm stunned by the fact that people here seem to think that working for a national security agency seems to be the worst thing to do moraly. i remember a time when being a spy was probably the coolest thing ever.

one could argue that "spying" on people for the sake of saving lives is a much more noble cause than doing it purely for commercial purposes.

ps : i am not naive,and i am aware of the recent privacy issues raised by the snowden case. And i am a lover of private liberties. i'm just stunned to see such a large conscensus.
That seems like a dubious benefit to me. So we pass all these regulations (rent control) that end up leading to inadequate market supply. The solution to this is to... pass laws leading to inadequate market supply in temporary lodging?
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