I wasn't aware that Sean Parker was a noted expert on privacy and the implications thereof.

One does not need to be to realize there is no privacy to be expected.

The line graphs are ggplot2 in R (http://ggplot2.org/)

Yes, but calling it all "trolling" lumps it together. In the replies to your comment you can see people equating trolling to everything from slight teasing to serious harassment.

The problem with calling it all "trolling" is that it normalizes the seriously nasty things (e.g. threatening to kill someone's wife) by analogy to the less serious things ("I tease my friends all the time").

At some point, these are very different things. And they need to be treated very differently. Calling them different things (e.g. "harassment" or "hate speech" vs "trolling") helps set up that mental boundary in peoples' minds and helps them demarcate what's right and wrong.

Also known as Tall Poppy Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

It plays into the "apple-is-dying" schadenfreude that many people seem to like a lot. Apart from that, there's nothing much there beyond a laundry list of computers he's used.

Another important money quote:

    we trimmed out other personal data as, full names, cell     
    numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc. not all devices have 
    the same amount of personal data linked. some devices
    contained lot of info.

So the release "just" contains UDID's and zip codes.

Actually, it appears to only be UDID's, APNS tokens, device name, and device type.

It's elite (or 1337 if you will). It's supposed to sound cool. All the underground computer groups have talked like that since the early warez/cracking/phreaking scene.

Are you sure they're not just really bad at writing?

A lot of the "scene" traditions and symbols has a lineage back to adolescent boys in the early 80's as that's when many of the influential groups exploded onto the scene, so even if they're emulating a traditional style, they're emulating one that arose out of kids who wrote badly who tried to sound cool.

(I've some really horrible examples to my credit too, but thankfully I don't think any of it has survived)

It struck me as well-written but highly in-jokey, and targeted at a very specific audience. If they were writing for the general reader, this would be terrible. But I took it as addressing other members of the hacker scene, hoping to prompt them into similar politically-focused action.

I don't think I'd read a trend into that.

Emacs had a short burst of popularity that's reverted to the mean. Vim's had a little uptick in the last few months, but nothing to write home about.

Plot it on a different scale and you'll see that it's just noise; http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=vim%2C+emacs%2C+python

What are you doing that you need to alter your schema so often?!

Its not that I do it often, its how long it takes. An alter on a 60 gig table takes hours, during which your table is locked which is totally unacceptable.

No that's just programmer masochism. If a tool is easy to use, then I get whatever I needed it for done, and done quickly. I can then move on to doing more interesting things (e.g. programming) rather than wrestling with the tool.