skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the fact they allow access to your system is.
I'm curious, which startup make you think that ?
I really find this type of news reporting refreshing. I've always found it hard to find a good feel-good-news site, it really lightens the mood. I've wondered why there was no central website that was dedicated to feel-good-news; instead, a bunch of small sites and posts scattered throughout the internet. Any reccomendations?
oh right when using public AMIs. I thought parent meant publishing AMIs. derp.
>The characterization was that Sanders is "Saturnine"

The characterization was of Obama, not Sanders. Or at least that's what the post says right now.
> Xfce with XUbuntu is very much like the olden days of Ubuntu/Gnome2

I had RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6.5 forced on me in a workplace, and it has Gnome2. Having that side-by-side with recent xubuntu on my laptop, Xfce is way ahead, much better than Gnome2.
Last time I looked on Mint there was no support for upgrading the system. It doesn't matter how easy installs are, I'm not going to tell my mother-in-law to reinstall twice per year.

This review consists of someone who clicks through an installation and tell what it looks like. That's not very interesting. You only install once, and colors are configurable, if you care about those things. Supported hardware must work without configuration or drivers, but that's mostly a solved problem.

Casual users care about longevity. Will my software stop working because of an upgrade? Will something move because of a redesign, so I don't know how to use it anymore? Are those things there for Linux Mint yet?
Ooh, please make it easy to export to a format I can load into a 3D printer.
By choosing AWS to begin with you have commited the Top 1 Mistake that will come to haunt you.
4,096 is already an abundance of caution. You might as well say people should go to 32,768 just to be sure. Then somebody else would come along and say, "why not 65,536?"
Cross Building the Linux Kernel for the Raspberry Pi
> Is the author seriously suggesting to view deliberate terror attacks against civilians the same as military strikes (drones or planes — I don't see a difference) performed against enemy combatants, by people who are trying to minimize civilian casualties as far as they can?

You are making a lot of assumptions, which Greenwald actually addresses and refutes at the beginning of the article. The targets are often not combatants; in fact, many of the targets have no known identity at all. If anybody strains to minimize civilian casualties, they're doing a piss-poor job of it. In fact, often it looks as if non-combatants and civilian structures were deliberately targeted.

But you are of course right. As long as you a priori define allied action as legitimate military strikes, and enemy action as illegal terror attacks, you will always be right. And that is the very point of the article.

Let's agree to disagree on that one. Because the discussion we should be having is, what objectives is the "War on Terror", (or, as I like to call it, because terrorism is just a method of warfare, War on War) trying to achieve, and are they worth the price?
Public keys on your host where you don't control who has the private key are.
If you'd consider something other than CloudFormation, there is also Hashicorp's Terraform. It has an AWS provider (https://terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html) which creates resources and maintains the state in a file that you can store in version control (https://terraform.io/docs/state/index.html).
I very much trust the Swedish government based on past decisions, and a general knowledge of the Swedish character (that goes beyond cultural ebbs and flows). Also, trust is easier in a small country with a good track record.

And I trust my fellow Swedes to keep electing trustworthy governments in the future.
https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere is a good option here

Also https://github.com/russellballestrini/botoform looks to be a newer solution in this space

Terraform is another option and then there's the model we're actively moving towards at work: using Ansible to abstract and completely replace calls to CloudFormation with a combination of existing and bespoke modules to dynamically spin up the infrastructure we need.
I have some good experience with qwiklab. Their self-paced lab starts with UI, then turned to aws cli. They also give a nice lesson on CF.
Because it's more than a hobby, I'd suggest looking into Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular, Elastic Beanstalk - checkout the links here for more details:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create...
Please don't post empty dismissals to Hacker News. It poisons the community, even when you're right.

Thoughtful criticism is fine, and any criticism worth making can be made thoughtfully.
Use OpsWorks if possible. It's free and provides a simple interface that allows you to deploy/upgrade your apps automatically and monitors your instances automatically using CloudWatch.
"Our US congress had the chance to fix this back in 1990s and they screwed up with enforcing it properly. We could've had a better pure fiber-based national build out but it didn't work out."

I'm not familiar enough with the industry to have an opinion on this, but it sounds very odd that a private corporation is so tied to government that it can't innovate on its own? How does this work? And how did it end up like this? I guess what I'm after is an ELI5 on this last part of your comment :)
"The Midas Touch", by Donald Trump.
The 1997 experiment is slightly different, as it involves electrons instead of just photons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit:

"Photon–photon scattering and other effects of nonlinear optics in vacuum is an active area of experimental research, with current or planned technology beginning to approach the Schwinger limit.[5] It has already been observed through inelastic channels in SLAC Experiment 144.[6][7] However, the direct effects in elastic scattering have not been observed. As of 2012, the best constraint on the elastic photon–photon scattering cross section belongs to PVLAS, which reports an upper limit far above the level predicted by the Standard Model.[8] Proposals have been made to measure elastic light-by-light scattering using the strong electromagnetic fields of the hadrons collided at the LHC.[9] Observation of a cross section larger than that predicted by the Standard Model could signify new physics such as axions, the search of which is the primary goal of PVLAS and several similar experiments. Even the planned, funded ELI–Ultra High Field Facility, which will study light at the intensity frontier, is likely to remain well below the Schwinger limit[10] although it may still be possible to observe some nonlinear optical effects.[11] Such an experiment, in which ultra-intense light causes pair production, has been described in the popular media as creating a "hernia" in spacetime.[12]"
> I'd bet most under 30s in the US do not link 'gate' with watergate

Doubt it. I'm 24. First of all, we obviously learned about Watergate in high school history. Moreover, ever since Watergate happened, people have been overusing the "gate" suffix. Just look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate...
My advice is to try your best to deliver by the deadline. You want to be able to tell future employers (and yourself!) that you did what you could, and that you didn't bail during a final push.

After that, leave. You evidently have the ability to secure good job offers. Don't gripe about this when interviewing (it's a red flag). Just focus on moving your career forward.
8 Investing Lessons from an Engineer
Hey man, I think you're off base here.

The problem is that the Moon does not have significant resources, so you can't really make anything on the Moon and then launch it from there. It may be possible to make some propellants, but not much else. As a refueling station, it could be a good idea. But for anything other than fuel, the Moon doesn't really work out as you have to lift it from LEO first. Entering Space by Robert Zubrin has more detailed technical arguments about this.
Mint also has a rolling release based on Debian.

I looked at Arch but the install looked difficult, so I ended up on Manjaro. Arch based with an easy to use installer and package manager. Works great on the laptop I am currently typing on, but its a bit crashy on my Gigabyte brix (though Mint had problems on that box as well).
Docker Containers at Scale (Our Take on Docker Swarm) – Mesosphere
Sorry for not being clear enough, you misunderstood me completely.

I was arguing about emerging behaviour which might be unavoidably complex and not at all tractable even in a very regular system with simple, relatively well understood components. Take cellular automata, or your very own example, the human brain.

As to the free will, it makes total sense as a concept when you consider it versus other intelligent actors, and indeed this is the only useful operational perspective unless you are a theist. E.g. my actions do not depend on your agenda very much, other than we have some synchronized exchange of comments here. Denying it exists is a popular but fruitless philosophic cop-out, akin to using Zeno's paradoxes to challenge general relativity.

I however used 'agency' to emphasize functional aspects of the behaviour. The emergent behaviour that might or might be not aligned with behaviour you try constrain it.

> A program, on the other hand, can be written with a very simple and straightforward goal system: maximize advertising revenue; maximize account value; maximize paperclip production.

Well no, it can't. None of the programs currently doing anything like that are simple, straightforward or put it bluntly, very good at that. All such systems today are able to operate in very narrow interval of a few controlled variables. And it's not for lack of trying.

Your quick paced but narrow minded paper clip factory would have as much chance of wiping off life on Earth as a chess computer on bringing down the electric grid.
Is local secondary indices and lower operational costs than Cassandra a good reason(s)?
Women can't oppress men because men as a group are privileged.

Don't ask me how this works but this is What (intersectional/third-wave) Feminists Actually Think.
I've been in a similar situation. There's nothing worth salvaging. It looks like your best option is to get out. Start looking for your next job immediately. It's easier to get hired when you're currently employed. Don't consider any counter-offers they might make. Leave quietly and professionally. As tempting as it might be to make a dramatic exit, there's no upside, in terms of your career. And take comfort in the fact that you'll probably one day look back on this as a valuable learning experience.
> why is SpaceX so much better at rocketry than everyone else?

Because Spacex doesn't have to deal with these things. In fact they benefit from the Nasa funding right now as a major source of revenue. They wouldn't have survived if they were just self-funded. Also they can get talent from NASA and other organizations that have already done a lot of groundbreaking work with pioneers in the field.

Just to be clear, Spacex has focused on reducing the launch costs but they haven't yet and they still have a long way to go to actually delivering people and heavier loads in a repeatable process. They've also taken about 15 years to get to the last launch so none of this was quick.
I wrote the article, what you and everyone else has said is super true. I liked the Apollo 11 missions as much as everyone else, and I think I am off base. It's not a sport.
I dont know how I feel about this one. I feel she should be the one helping/supporting you through your down period and not leaving you when stuff is messed up
I'd like to learn more about your skills and your background. First time I realize HN does not have a private messaging feature.
many fish in the sea. let her go.
Different styles have different window border widths. This aggravated me until I found out.

Settings->Appearance->Style.
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The cost to OP is all the opportunities they don't take in the mean time and whatever mental cost they're paying by persisting in a horrible environment.

It might be worth it if they had an awesome relationship with their boss, a lot of trust built up, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. If they'd a decent relationship, and decent managers, the situation would never have reached this point in the first place. Add to that the fact that the company went back on their word...

They're either liars or stunningly incompetent. Neither's worth counting with.
Most of the time I see desugaring is in a research context, at least within areas of PL adjacent to functional programming.
Bertha back on the move after 2 years of delays
Man, they didn't have sex for months. The problem comes from the OP, he needs to build his emotional maturity.
That's unreasonable. They haven't had sex in months. Anyway, OP should chalk this up as a learning experience and move on. Develop a more balanced lifestyle.
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I don't completely agree and have experienced otherwise, but it also depends on whether the manager is going against company culture and policy.
Seattle shows San Francisco and New York how to fix the housing crisis
What You Should Know About Content Marketing
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I was slightly hoping that it would be this:
https://davidlazar.github.io/PCPL/
The power of Luther’s printing press
I have yet to see any evidence of that, as systemd seems liable to blow up at the oddest of moments (thus making it unsuitable for a long term server).

It will rearrange the boot sequence on a whim, it will keel over if dbus does, it will fail to boot on the smallest of unit errors (to the point of providing no means of remote access no less).

It may work in a cattle ranch, and it may work on someones laptop, but it damn sure does not work in a rack.
The original question has perfectly satisfying explanations accessible to anyone who knows algebra and is willing to spend a few weeks studying special relativity. cynicalkane above provides a great intuitive summary.

Likewise, generally speaking, when pi comes up in physics equations it is a geometric factor, either having something to do with the bona fide geometry of the system (e.g. the capacitance of a sphere) or with normalizing some relevant probability distributions. Name one example where we struggle to understand where pi comes from in physics formula!
Package Control protects package information in transit using TLS, verifies TLS hostnames, and requires that package metadata source URLs are HTTPS. The source URLs for package information are all tracked in an open source repo on GitHub.

For the past couple of years a volunteer who goes by the handle FichteFoll does most of the review process, and I tend to fill in when he is unavailable. We check for common packaging issues, areas of confusion for users and sometimes even code suggestions.

In terms of hosting, it is all done via a private server that I run, configured to only allow TLS 1.0+ connections. I am the only user with access to the box.

All of this is to say that Package Control generally tries to vet packages to get them info the default channel, and then protects them in transport. However, packages are in no way audited, and could (obviously) be subverted by anyone with access to the original source code repo/hosting.
STS works, but I feel like multiple accounts linked is more of a hack than using a single AWS account. Of course, if you use a service that is not available in both regions, use STS.
The article seems to imply there is real malice and deliberate intent to deceive the public in the media coverage of civilian victims of Western attacks. This is one explanation, but I don't see conclusive evidence of this in the article.

More probable explanation is that viewing public's sympathy suffers from inherent biases and the media simply follows those biases. It's a well-known fact that media prefers headlines that are more likely to trigger emotional response.

Also non-Western civilian victims have been a lot more frequent and the media has a bias towards reporting events that stand out such as unintentional killing of Western hostages by a drone strike.

(Not claiming this outcome is moral - just saying that it may unfortunately arise without malicious intent on the part of the media)
Great point. Also, the pipeline you mention removes many risks related to the 'common' mistakes mentioned in the article (scaling, monitoring, provisioning it all done for you - or almost).

We're using gateway -> lambda -> dynamodb, and there are a tons of gotchas and small things that AWS need to iron out, especially with gateway -> lambda.
In the US, the job training program that doesn't "waste" your time with general education is an associate's degree.

Where bachelor's degrees are required, it should be because the additional requirements (like critical thinking and communication skills, command of English, breadth of knowledge outside your chosen field) are actually important. Perhaps it isn't, but it should be.
I wonder if the implementation of these tools will be similar to something already happening on Reddit, where users that comment/post on hate subreddits are automatically banned from many other places on the site.
There are shorter videos from Chomsky on this, but this one breaks it down thoroughly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZRsdHgxgA

The truth is, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq are colonial wars against insubordinate populations. We extract resources from those countries and their neighbors. When someone stands in the way they have to be punished so that other countries stay in line.

There is little hope of winning hearts and minds with all the civilians that have to be killed. The main goal is to punish and make examples of insubordination. The West merely needs to scare them and their neighbors to get its way within a few decades. It worked well enough with Vietnam.
The article speaks for itself ... and anyway your examples are all HFTs.

Of course, having an edge for a long time is possible, even essential. The entire argument here is about having a legitimate edge.
Not sure what you mean by 'support'. There is an extremely easy and stable upgrade process as well as guides, forum help, etc. However, it isn't necessary to upgrade frequently if you go on the LTS track.

As for 'reinstalling twice per year' again, not sure where you're getting this from. Linux mint 17.3 is supported until April 2019. That's almost 3 and a half years before you need to upgrade.

http://linux.wikia.com/wiki/Linux_Mint

And in the meantime you get continuous upgrades for software you've installed in an intuitive and easy to use UI.

You ask, 'Are those things there for Linux Mint yet?'

Yes, yes they are :)
So... if this post is inappropriate (not sure if it is or isn't) then how are you supposed to correct that?

The post is inappropriate, but it's inappropriate to bring up that fact...

Catch-22...

Edit: Just a quick look but "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports" - not sure where this falls in "most"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, I almost feel like AWS should clear the contents of authoried_keys for each user when you make an AMI public. That of course is bound to break some things, but prevents security oversights.
> Is the author seriously suggesting to view deliberate terror attacks against civilians

No. The prompt for the article is pointing out the difference in coverage & attention from the white house and press about a casualty from a US drone strike when the innocent victims were Western. Various terror attacks are mentioned, but that is not the core topic of the article.

> the same as military strikes performed against enemy combatants,

From the article: "Indeed, Obama officially re-defined the term “combatant” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone.” In other words, as The New York Times reported in 2011, all males between 18 and (roughly) 54 killed by U.S. drones are presumed to be combatants — terrorists — “unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.”"

> by people who are trying to minimize civilian casualties as far as they can?

from the article: "There are so many heinous stories of U.S. drones blowing up children and innocent adults. Obama used cruise missiles and cluster bombs to kill 14 children and 21 women in a Yemeni village (weeks after winning the Nobel Peace Prize), while a 2012 drone strike attacked a Yemeni wedding convoy and “killed 12 passengers in the vehicle, including three children and a pregnant woman.”"

And then the more recent one: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-doctors-without-borders-ameri...

...

In other words, your first sentence is a straw man. The comparison is not between terror attacks and military strikes, the military strikes are often not against enemy combatants (and they're almost never against high-ranking terrorists), and the attacks are not trying particularly hard to minimize civilian casualties. That you would try to make such a point, despite all evidence to the contrary, is the result of precisely the propaganda that the article is trying to pick apart.

EDIT: rdancer's comment probably makes this point better than mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795263
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sudo is pre-installed :-P

Seriously, none. I always go for debian, have worked on various ubuntu servers.. The only difference is that Debian is more barebones.
nota bene, as I've heard many variations on this theme in the past:

When your work causes your personal life to suffer, your manager hasn't pushed you to the limit. He's pushed you past your limit.
Something major is missing:

Running Demand instances instead of Reserved
Only when it is preinstalled. Otherwise Windows is just as much grief.
You can fix the calendar popup problem with an app called Day-O, which I agree should be the default.
Chevy Volt Sets Path for More Electric-Car Growth
Sorry man, she's gone. Get your life straightened out, and find a new one - in that order.
Detroit Becomes First City in the US to Be Named a UNESCO “City of Design”
The problem I see with all of these scanners is the lack of quality... Are they all based on the same feature tracking core? Why isn't anyone doing more innovative reconstruction like tracking edge contours, or something else... even with a depth sensor most of the scanned models I've seen are crap.
I'd like to see x2go upgraded with a mosh-like connection. I haven't looked too far into it but if QUIC isn't tied to http and can just function as a byte stream it could work.
Relationships are a two way deal. It sounds like it has been going for a while, at least several months. She has every right to put herself first if she's been in an unhappy situation for a long time.

I went through a down period a few years back, lost my gf of 5 years to it. Her leaving removed my saftey crutch and forced me to get my own shit together. Sounds like it's what the OP might need too.
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As per HN guidelines (see link at the bottom of the page), "Please submit the original source".

The original source for this graph is a report from cbinsights.com. The graph was first reproduced here:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/25/top-20-reasons-star...

But unlike the Twitter posting, that article also links to the original detailed startup post-mortems, of which the graph is only a summary:

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/

Discussion on HN from when the post-mortems were originally posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093147

But note that the collection of post-mortems was updated a few times, most recently on 12/3/15.

The submitted tweet doesn't have any information about its source (even the reference to cbinsights.com is mostly cropped from the image).
Any plans for an android version?
Oceanscrapers 3D printed from ocean garbage could house climate change refugees