skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, they are ending the one that was exposed. They did the same thing with the TIA after 9/11 ending it in May 2003.

We need a constant stream of Edward Snowdens so we know what our own free country is up to.

On the flipside, if you were tasked with security in the US and you had everything at your disposal, you'd go as far as you could into privacy until the people noticed and pushed back. So it is important that this is a constant battle.
You got between 75-100% on all assignments and problem sets yet not sure you can get above 50% on the finals. Doesn't add up. Sounds like you're just stressed out and not really in danger of failing.
Yes, that's how free speech works.

But Eich did not have to resign. The board never even so much as asked him to step down. He chose to step down because he realized how toxic he was to his company's reputation as CEO.

The owner of Chik-Fil-A has taken a lot of flack too for his hateful views, but he sticks around anyway. And as a result, I don't eat there. Eich could have done the same if he wanted, and I would have just not used Firefox at all anymore. And now if you don't want to use Firefox because he chose to resign, then don't. That's your right. If you want to complain about others who protested his promotion, do so. That's your right. But don't claim he was fired when he clearly wasn't. Mozilla's own press release states very clearly that it was voluntary.

The tech community tends to be more progressive than fast food consumers, so the pushback was a bit louder. But Eich had plenty of bigots on his side of this, too. After all, roughly 45% of the country still believes gay people are not deserving of equal treatment under the law.
Obviously I don't have the specifics about you or this particular startup, but I can speak in general. A startup this early in the game has a 99% of being out of business in a few years, so you have to consider that. Let's take two scenarios...high salary and minimal options, say $150k and 500 options at $1 or you could go for high options and low salary, say 2000 options at $1 and $75k. Let's assume that if the company is not out of business in 4 years that it exits at a valuation 100x the current valuation. In that case, 500 options would be worth $50k, and 2000 options would be worth $200k. The guy who took the $150k salary would have made $600k in salary over 4 years, and would have a 1% chance that the options would be worth $50k. So the best case is $650k, worst case is $600k. The guy who took the options would have made $300k in salary, and a 1% chance of the options being worth $200k. The best case is $500k, but there is a 99% chance that he would get the worst case and just have the $300k of salary. In most cases it is better to just take the salary and a token amount of options. That said, there is the possibility that if the company is in the 1% that actually survives 4 years, that there is an even more remote possibility that they may go on to be a unicorn type company and make secretaries rich from options. In that case, even a token amount of options should make you fabulously wealthy.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that a legislative end to the program moots any currently running judicial challenges to it. So, if Congress shuts the program down, the Supreme Court will never get to weigh in on the constitutionality of the whole thing.

If I'm not wrong about that, I would much rather let the damn thing run for a few more years and have the Supremes kill it for good.
Ironically, the historic commons referred to there actually had customary rules that prevented overgrazing -- it wasn't the idealized "free-for-all" that this term now evokes -- and modern neighborhoods and apartment complex likewise have such rules to prevent overuse of public resources or common goods, such as limits on rentals to non-tenants (which are being flouted).
Wet clothes in GTA V is actually a shader effect rather than a geometry effect: It's just adding a specular shader to the normally diffusion-shaded surface so it looks like your suit, hoodie, or wife beater is soaked with water. I'm pretty sure the geometry stays the same.
Yeah, I'm aware of the Sony case. And there was also often copy protection on commercial VHS tapes. AFAIK, nothing similar happened with music pre-P2P sharing although RIAA never actually condoned it.

I expect part of the reason is that the genie was already so far out of the bottle with cassette tape (and even reel-to-reel) that even they probably felt that it was pointless at that point to fight. However, a number of countries did impose a fee on blank media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
Great. Great for stable v8 in node, great for a node with all the new commits in the io.js branch, great for trademarks now being owned by the community.

Mikeal has more details here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1664#issuecomment-10054...

Also great for jsdom (one of node's best features) soon running on node again!
Well, It's twisted in my opinion. I get a service, but I can't know exactly how much it costs pre-service, and the outcome would be based on "how both parties feels after".

If I don't feel the service is good, I pay less. But this means, I will not be able to get better service ever again.

Tipping should be a reward, an incentive. I'm not the employer. Waiter/waitress is not on my payroll, I should not be the one thinking about their take home pay.
I've lived in the bay area for 25 years and know PA well. Since no one else has mentioned this yet, I would suspect a high percentage of the family homes are pressure cookers. The assumption that parents are steadily accruing wealth in high pressure but highly successful jobs is erroneous: the silicon valley culture is more akin to tight rope walking. The failure rate (and suicides) of entrepreneurs is very high and it doesn't take much in a very expensive part of the world for a job loss to turn into a very stressful scramble for financial survival. Imagine being an adolescent growing up in that type of pressure cooker world...
A subscription to The Economist.
Great, so now all the people who make phone calls in the US will be safe from metadata collection of their contact graph...

...unless they make them on a smartphone OS from a PRISM partner vendor like Google or Apple.

Or call someone outside of the country that only holds 4% of humans.

Or make the call on Skype or Facebook.

Or send an email.

It's progress, I guess. But is it meaningful progress?
So the Senate will pass...this bill?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/op-ed-why-the-eff...
They still make those same gas-powered RC copters. The ones you have are designed to be slower, low powered electrics.
This is hopefully great news. The contribution pace needs to keep up though, as it was with iojs.
It's why I try to deploy xen dom0s without any QEMU installed at all; reading through past xen CVEs was enough to convince me that HVM guests seem more exposed.. If anybody knows a writeup on what you might lose in terms of isolation and protection from guest escapes by sticking to PV, please do share
Brilliant news for the entire node ecosystem! Having two competing implementations would not be ideal (even if they both support NPM). I hope under this new structure, the development will work at the speed of io.js. Well done to everyone involved!
Spot on.

If you want to get a better view of this and have Google Analytics conversion tracking setup, you can look at the Attribution reports and Path reports to understand where/how FB and social in general contributes to your conversions.

Google has a decent overview of the high-level topic [1] with a tool to see the change across various verticals/categories, but you can actually calculate a similar chart for your own business quite easily by doing the math on assisted conversions/last click conversions. The higher the number, the more that channel plays a role towards the beginning of the "intent funnel" (defined as awareness >> consideration >> purchase).

Obviously that doesn't mean that channel ALWAYS plays that role (as can be seen in the path reports in GA) but generally speaking, it is not uncommon for display and social to be very high on the assist side of things, and channels like direct, email, paid search, etc. to be stronger on the last touch side. If you discount the value of an early touch channel, you might find that the demand it generates drops off resulting in a loss of volume and/or efficiency for later touch channels.

There are some scenarios where FB and social can drive strong last click performance, but more often it is an assist channel. Being able to measure and manage it as such can easily mean the difference between perceptions of "yes this was a smart investment" vs. "what a waste of cash, FB sucks."

[1] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/tools/customer-journey-to-on...
It makes you uncompetitive with restaurants who hide the true cost of the meal and service.
Go's pretty limited in what you can encode. I couldn't go back to having to write explicit test cases for stuff I can get the Scala compiler to check.
BBC.com doesn't carry ads...
Is the Freedom act even relevant at the moment? Since a district court ruled that the bulk collection is already illegal under the current law and Rand Paul and Ron Wyden are threatening to filibuster the renewal of the expiring Patriot Act, it seems that civil rights hawks currently have the upper hand, or at least an advantageous bargaining position. Why pass another law that could be skewed to give the intelligence agencies more loopholes?
good, now they just need to shutdown the other regulation skirting companies like Uber as well.

It's not fair these companies skirt well known and age old laws to create an unfair advantage(and wealth) for themselves, by simply ignoring those laws. Play by the same rules as your competitors do and see how well you fair. Disruption by evading legalities isn't really all that impressive... the cartels and mobsters have done it for decades.
Sounds like a good outcome, for the software and community.
I'm glad the community started looking into this option. Sometimes it's hard to work together with people after all the success of finally being free from them. Not that I wanted io.js to compromise, but it looks like it will be best for everyone. Thanks for all the hard work from people like Mikeal Rogers who worked on this when they could have been working on other things.
> Home editions cannot join a domain so that rules them out for business and education.

The Home edition of Windows 10 sounds like it might be able to join Azure Active Directory. [1]

Support for modern form factors. Azure AD Join will work on devices that don't have the traditional domain join capabilities.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/05/13/azure-activ...
My first statement was admittedly ambiguous: I meant that the GP implies that the figurative "we" think it's not a big deal from his position, not that the GP themselves think that.

We are disconnected from death, and in doing so we are trying to solve its disputed problem? Doesn't seem to be the case, as human desire for immortality is quite ancient, precisely because of how visible death was.

As for the last statement, the GP contradicted themselves w.r.t. whether we are desensitized or hypersensitized in the beginning and end of their post, respectively.
I think you can still be house broke even if you own a $2m house in Palo Alto.
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I do not live in Palo Alto and I have never been to Silicon Valley either. I would like to ask what you think about this culture of over achievers telling their kids (via social pressure or directly) that they need good grades when all I can here is that you should not care about grades if you want to become a great entrepreneur.
That seems quite a paradox to me but again, I'm just hearing echoes of propaganda from SF. Could it be that people actually buy the "entrepreneur / do-it-your-way bullshit" for themselves but fear to apply it to their kids?

Also, I'd like to point out that most of the greatest scientific minds of our era did get mediocre grades in school (I'm not talking about the Gates or Jobs college dropout fairytale).
The Genome Engineering Revolution
I actually wonder what the NSA will do if this legislation will pass. I believe they used an excuse in Court before that they "can't" shut down the program (or a similar one). So would they actually shut it down or rename it and move it to a different facility? Who gets to verify that they're going to obey the new law? The Intelligence Committee members that already oppose the new laws?
What is the Job to Be Done of a web framework?
Along with the other answers here, things like distributed processing projects tend to be embarrassingly parallel. I was running distributed.net OGR for a while, and that runs quite a bit better on many modest cores. Almost all my other programs bottleneck on disk / RAM speed, or RAM size... The OGR project in particular is also far more efficient on CPUs than on GPUs, since it is an entirely integer workload.
The problem is the exam structure. The first half is written questions, but typically accounts for somewhere between 50% and 66% of the exam. The remainder is negative marking MCQs. Therefore, you can either get 100% on the first half and 0% of the second half or get relatively high marks in both.

The MCQs are normalized according to some normal distribution. Therefore, the worst you can get is 0. However, if you score > 0, but you get the lowest mark in the class, you receive 0 marks. To make matters worse, much of the questions are written in such a way that, if you have in-depth knowledge of the subject area, the questions become ambigious, because the examiner might not have fully considered all the ways in which the true/false statement can be interpreted or reasoned (I think this would require some kind of perfect human being?). In effect: mess up on the MCQ's and you're toast.

Hope that makes sense!
> the only process that seems to matter is "have someone really good in charge".

I fully agree, and would thus like to recommend this manifesto:
http://programming-motherfucker.com
Such as with gcc and egcs under the FSF.
I've been waiting for a while for server-side JS to seem a little less like the wild west. One step closer to being willing to do more than play around with it. Glad to see this.
> But I think it's important to maintain a healthy appreciation for the artifice of it all

I don't think it's artifice. If you want to get into the best universities, you have to have perfect grades and stand out. I think the culture being described in Palo Alto is a direct function of that.

You can raise happy, well-adjusted, non-jerk kids, but they won't get into good schools, because they won't sacrifice literally everything in high school.

Your choice: well-adjusted kids or getting into good universities, not both.

I think it's horrible that this is the situation---we need to reform university admissions.

My idea would be to have an over-achievement threshhold, above which students won't get accepted.

I had a perfect GPA in high school, and that's because there was something profoundly wrong with me.
> The conditions were such that staying on as CEO was not an option for him.

Why not? Plenty of companies have absolutely reviled CEOs, yet they stick around anyway.
Those looking to find a permanent residence are being pushed/priced out simply due to lack of inventory.
This is awesome! I think we have to thank Microsoft for their node fork. That scared the hell out everyone, so they decided to get back together. :P
I call a 14% tax rate for a single service abusive. Why does a hotel tax exist in the first place, where does that money go, and why is the tax rate higher than the sales tax?
Yes, here is a graph detailing that phenomenon [1]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/4TK2Hu4.gif
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Wake me when the president signs a bill into law that ends the Patriot Act, once and for all.

To be honest, we should have standards and secret courts and "national security" letters are the very thing that the constitution was designed to stop. (the fourth amendment and the like were meant to put an end to the equivalent of that era.)

Signing or voting for any continuation of the Patriot Act should be considered an unforgivable act by anyone who values freedom.
On the extinction of species, I am reminded of John Donne's note on how connected we are (ought to be?) as mankind - perhaps a sentiment that needs to be extended more into nature:

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
The big disruption already happened thirty odd years ago with Iris Printers and the widespread production of giclée canvases. It's big business selling canvas prints to hotels and office buildings etc. It's also a nice source of mailbox checks for working professional painters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e
Yeah. Part of "good faith" for me is that the person isn't being discernibly or overtly aggressive, mean, or sarcastic.

Basically, if you're being an asshole, I don't feel a need to save you from yourself.

There aren't many (if any) formal guidelines for comment voting on HN, so this is me driving at what I want out of the community. I don't speak for everyone. For my part, I want civility, and to encourage people to contribute their opinions, popular or not.

The polite responses to misinformed ideas are often some of the most educational, at least for me, and so I'd like an environment where anxiety about the chance of being wrong is low for everyone.

I also don't want any of this to sound like an indictment of hacker news. I keep coming back here because I think the community is really top notch, and the signal to noise ratio is high. Commenting systems and forums have had these problems for ages, and they're hard problems. I just wanted to add my voice to the crowd.
The concept of "elite overproduction" is very relevant here. Essentially, more aspirants for elite positions than there are slots, mixed with a declining standard of living.

Personally, this tends to lead to psychotic depression as one's aspirations are effectively slowly drowned. Socially, this isn't a good thing since lower-elite strata dis-integrated from wider society tend to be the ones who start violent revolutions. As a minor example Occupy Wall Street was in no small part driven by out-of-work grads with no realistic shot at the mainstream elite career they were preparing for.
Why men won't marry you
Nice site, it would be cool to add a section for free 3d model sites.
Great, but what about bulk collection of Internet traffic which is even more critical?
US House Votes to End NSA’ Bulk Phone Data Collection
One thing that articles like this frequently don't mention: lousy reporting makes suicide more likely.

We know that there is an element of "contagion" about suicide. We know the way it is reported can either drive rates of suicide up or down.

There's a bunch of language and imagery in this article that will increase the risk of people attempting suicide.

It is particularly frustrating when the article mentions the spike in calls after reporting of Robin Williams suicide -- they know it happens but refuse to take responsibility to reduce it.

If you want to help You could look at getting ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (yes, training training)) will give you usable skills that keep people alive.

http://www.chooselife.net/Training/asist.aspx

There's a bunch of stuff that indicates mental health provision is poor. EG:

> Lisa hasn’t found the grief counselors provided by the school to be of much help.

We know that grief counseling probably doesn't work and that it might be harmful.
is there one such thing for cisco and hp networks aswell ?
There's also the possibility this is all a Limited Hangout - COINTEL Tactic

Ignore video - read description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wApOHk92Ds

I only bring this up as it is within the realm of possibility. Especially with the massive media narrative surrounding the entire thing. Although it seems a little too conspiracy theory for people to sink their teeth into the possibility.

The sheer amount of spying operations makes me think its sincere on Snowden's part. If it were truly a limited hangout operation, why would they release so many programs? Why not only 1 or 2? What would they be trying to distract the general population from? What could their agenda be behind doing this at all?

The closest "agenda" they could be trying to push is the "necessary backdoors to circumvent encryption then we wouldn't need all these spy tools for mass surveillance" pitch that kinda flopped for obvious reasons.

E:

To clarify there can be other reasons for a limited hangout. For example, to test the water of the governments control over the population. How many people have you seen that hold the opinion Snowden is an American Traitor who should be killed?

That is a red flag to me that there are Americans who trust the government enough to forego their own privacy for promised security, even when the security has failed to be delivered. This is good testing grounds to see "how far the government can push things" to keep control over the population. Knowledge is power - and the government is collecting it en masse on its people.

We've learned enough from history that brutal dictatorships end in downfall of the leaders. What about a complacent "ownership" where the 99% slave away for the 1% in rather blissful happiness of their situation? It's not all bad, they make a decent living after all, why would they ruin it with a revolt? If I were part of the 1%, that would be my goal. Keep the 99% happy and make my life an easy one where I can do anything I like.

All speculation and philosophical thinking to spark discussion of course.
This is really cool. It could be pretty fundamental biology that people just haven't looked at.
I highly recommend arranging a screening of the documentary
"A Race to Nowhere". It was an eye opener for me and other parents in Los Alamos (a NM town with many similarities I think) and places this peer pressure into proper perspective for parents, kids, as well as teachers.

cf http://www.racetonowhere.com/about-film
Hi

This post outlines a version that doesn't start pre-trained

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/05/13/neural-slime-volleyball-evo...
It would be a fallacy to assume that every secret abusive program has a whistle blower, just because every secret abusive program we know about has had a whistleblower. It's like saying "there's no such thing as the perfect crime". Well, maybe, but if there were, we wouldn't know about it.
It is not actually true that good outcomes from Snowden's actions eliminates all his culpability. In fact: we don't even know how culpable he is --- we haven't seen the last Snowden disclosure yet --- so it's pretty difficult to come to the conclusion that he should be unconditionally pardoned.
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"Hotel Lobby" made me laugh
Fiscal accountability and negative reinforcement has always solved spiritual sickness...
That is simply not true. People eat out more today then ever before in the past 100 years in the USA based on income.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/07/19/spending-income-level_cx_lh...

Food carts are a perfect example of COGS in action. Coffee places are also an example (SBUX, stumptown, etc). Highly specialized businesses selling items at the best balance of COGS and quality.

Food carts and small specialized brick and mortar businnesses are succeeding because their COGS are far lower then your average place.

Most resturants fail because of their initial COGS at startup and because their food/service/merketing research generally sucks for where they are. Remove the service aspect, specialize, reduce cogs, make a living wage.