skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how many of those scientists realize that?
Jump to conclusions much?

full disclosure: I am not a fan of wars in the middle east either.
I tried to read this to my wife and couldn't because I laughed myself to tears. Is this original? Otherwise, where did you get this?
"Because this hypothesis doesn't explain the existence of passionate but untalented people. Such people exist. Dear god, do they exist. There are people who play a hell of a lot of guitar and are nevertheless not very good. There are people who write a lot of novels and stories but can't produce enjoyable prose, or sellable prose."

I'm kind of reminded of Malcom Gladwell's "Late Bloomers" piece[1]. Some people take very little time to become good. Some others learn by sheer trial and error, and it takes them a long time. Like as in decades.

[1] http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.html
You can scream boycott from the top of the highest mountain for all I care. Up vote every item that posts on your boycott. Just don't disrupt every other conversation on HN.
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and i was right! ;)
Amazon should add a feature for geographic load balancing that could compliment their aws locations
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SFO -> QLA takes 2 Hours, curb to curb, and costs $50 with pretty much every airline that flies the route. It costs me more for the taxi to get from Redwood City to SFO, than it does for the flight to Los Angeles.

It is neither the cost, nor the time that attracts me (neither of which are likely to be that much better on a train), but the possibility of using that 4-5 hours a day productively on a reasonably civilized train ride instead of the horrible experience one gets in the Cattle-Like experience every morning in the airport.
Note that this was published right after the attacks, and the only source for the claim that he was responsible for stuxnet cleanup was "Exclusive from DEBKAfile's [unnamed] intelligence sources".

Many blogs republished the report (of course) but no other source has emerged, and no paper of record has suggested it was true.
Those who don't know history...:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
Considering this happened after the leak, and such a short time after as well, I can't help but wonder if someone read the leak and thought "that's a great idea!"
Amazon never once mentioned copyright. (Please, help yourself to the last word.)
Justin, I have to admit, I unfollowed you a while ago for this very reason. I'm reading a lot of the same blogs and news sites as you do and was a bit annoyed by the fact that your tweets didn't had any sources ("via ..."). You could provide me with a great service providing pointers to great news sources instead of just copying their headlines. This would've helped me in search for content. The second problem is by spreading out the stories over the day, they became a bit out of date it felt a bit pivoting of information. I'm sorry.
> All those sub-page widgets can be pre-computed and, thus, cached.

That's broadly what I mean by changing the pipeline to be post-focused. When the site has a change pushed to it, the relevant parts should be re-rendered down to HTML for a fast HTTP server to dish up.

The current model works the other way. Until somebody does a GET, the system may or may not have the rendered HTML in a cache. Even if it does, it may or may not be a verifiably up-to-date copy.

This seems hit-and-miss to me.

I've sort of sketched design ideas around this area (using, for example, PostgreSQL triggers and NOTIFY to prompt rendering). Maybe I'll write a blog post, but it's basically pointless without code.
It is a nice jab, but it's a WP7 phone, so they _can't_ add a fancy animated UI anyway. Sense is relegated to being a Hub in WP7.
Thank you, Jacques. Nobody else was thinking that. Very insightful. Much better that we talk about Wikileaks... again... than discuss a programmable dynamic DNS service run by one of the largest tech companies on the Internet.
So you think that, for example, a University prof. who gets grants and funding from a countries defense department is a legitimate target?
I imagine the head of cybersecurity for Iran's nuclear systems was aware that he was the head of cybersecurity for Iran's nuclear systems.
mpd or other music servers might be useful for this.
Zuckerberg brought the use of profile-based websites into the mainstream for hundreds of millions of people. It's a massive shift in communications.
What saddens me is that people are parroting this "violated ToS" line without even thinking about it. It doesn't matter whether you support WL or not; but at least do the bare minimum and _think_ about what you're writing? Where in the ToS does it say that "site can't host classified information" ? And why hasn't NYT's access be pulled yet, because NYT is serving the _same_ documents ?

Here's a fact: US Government publications can't be copyrighted. Period.

So while Amazon tries to hide behind these lies, they're also busy making money off of books about similar "leaks", like the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, etc.
Yes. Attacking such a professor would be an act of war, but it wouldn't be particularly reprehensible as far as acts of war go.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974241
Very true... It will be fascinating to see what happens. A few additional thoughts:

- Life expectancy is an s-curve, and recently we've seen the middle get nudged to the right, creating the impression of tremendous progress. The low hanging fruit have been picked, so the trend will likely not continue.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974213
Pittsburgh, PA based Carbis Walker LLP (CPA firm) offers advice on SBJA2010 that includes this paragraph ...

Start-up expenditures.

A certain amount of qualified business start-up expenses may be deductible in the tax year in which the active trade or business begins. The new law increases the amount of start-up expenditures that a taxpayer may elect to deduct from $5,000 to $10,000 for tax years beginning in 2010. The new law also increases the deduction phase-out threshold so that the $10,000 is reduced, but not below zero, by the amount by which the cumulative cost of qualified start-up expenses exceeds $60,000.

http://www.carbis.com/tax/sbja2010.php

hth
I wonder if they will charge you a fee if the car is not two-thirds charged upon return.
I'm getting great value out of this list.

Can anybody recommend a book that has helped them become a more productive and efficient developer?
Would love to see some reliability and speed metrics in the coming weeks as adoption increases!
What annoys me most isn't the idea that anyone can do anything if they try hard enough. It's the corollary to it: if someone isn't successful, then they just aren't trying hard enough. People tend to underestimate the impact that outside influences can have.
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Google's servers are on 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 if you prefer them to OpenDNS.
That's basically as old as humanity itself.
It's not that massive. So you can send short messages to your friends that your other friends can also see. Cool, but, not exactly a rival to the birth of personal computing.
Well, I don't know about the others, but the US President can preempt any prime time program on every major network whenever he wants. That seems quite a bit more powerful than a 60 minutes interview.
I think Amazon trying to sell a mission critical service like DNS right after rolling over at the first prod from some politician (and a pretty lousy one at that) serves as a good reminder that if you want to use services from them you'd better make sure that you are not going to do anything at all that challenges the powers that be or you'll be out faster than a warrant can be served.

Service providers of all sorts should stand by their customers until a court order to the contrary is served, especially when institutions like the EFF are solidly on the side of those customers.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/amazon-and-wikileaks-fi...

Amazon releasing more critical infrastructure that can be shut-down at someone's whim is bad timing to put it very mildly.
In my experience modern ad systems use, among other things, CPC x CTR. Using CPR x CTR is good for all stakeholders:
1. Advertiser value - the better/well targeted the ad, the lower the cost
2. Publisher value - higher CTR means more clicks, means more $$$.
3. And most importantly, user value - higher CTR is generally a good indicator of better targeted ads
Debka is basically a Middle East rumor mill. Sometimes they're dead on the money and sometimes they're wildly spinning pure fiction.
If the "markets in Texas" part surprises you, you should know that Austin already has a successful car sharing program that's about to expand.

http://www.car2go.com/portal/austin/page/mybookings/mapEnlar...
Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53
Good job. I would expand on your responsibilities on each site a little more. For example, you say "Redesigned the site in HTML and CSS" Why did you do this? What were the benefits? Did it load faster? Was it easier to maintain, thereby saving money down the road?

Here is my portfolio page if you want to have a look - http://mattmccormick.ca/portfolio

Since I put that up, I have basically gotten at least an interview to every position I have applied for that matched my skills.
Oh, pelaes not again with texts of that rost!
Is there any performance reason to use this as DNS as opposed to the DNS servers on register.com for just a regular web site?
There is too much friction to build high speed rail in the US due to the democratic process. You have to get everybody along the way to agree which is pretty much impossible as you get to populated areas. In a place with a centralized government system like China, the nice thing is that things get built very quickly, but it sucks for the people who are affected negatively along the way.
Michael Scheuerer is a bargain-basement Henry Kissinger†. At no point previously in his career has he been a world champion for transparency. A rational bead on the subtext of this article is, "anything that shakes Washington up is an opportunity for me to get my face in the paper and slam the administration".

Don't believe me? Instead of reading this article, use the space-aged technology in your browser to pinpoint how many grafs in this article even mention Wikileaks.

FLAGGED.

†Scheuerer, on "extraordinary rendition", what he claims to have been the most successful anti-terrorist activity in the last 10 years: 90% of this operation was successful and only 10% could be considered as disastrous. [The disaster?] The fact that everything was made public.
Really good points. Thanks for the feedback. You still have to layout money before you make any, hence the reason why the groupon model is so enticing from an advertiser's perspective.
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Hi. I am interested in developing a media buyback website similar to http://www.mightybuyback.com/home, and explained in greater detail in this press release: http://www.1888pressrelease.com/dharne-co-designs-new-e-commerce-website-for-mighty-buyba-pr-214450.html.

I have no website design experience whatsoever. If possible, I would like to try to do this on my own. What resources would you guys suggest? I am not looking for anything fancy: I would be more than satisfied to be able to use a WordPress or Drupal template and integrate the Amazon.com Web Services API for pricing information.

Any tips (or even insults, based on how I am trying to do something rather complicated for my first website) are greatly appreciated.
According to Iran, scientists aren't working on a weapons system, they are part of a civilian program to produce nuclear power plants. Following your logic, the people who competed in the DARPA grand challenge are not civilians and are legitimate targets for assassination by another world power.
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People know more about the lives of their friends and family than they ever have before, and with far less effort. Facebook has dramatically strengthened weak social ties, and judging by the existence of cities, social ties are fairly important to our societies. The company has had significant and meaningful effects on the world, and we're only beginning to understand them.
Pedantry doesn't suit this discussion well. You are correct that the word copyright was not specified. What was specified was that they hosted content they do not own.

By this standard, I fully expect AWS to terminate services to EVERY SINGLE forum, review site, message board, webmail service, and any other site that does not explicitly state in their own terms of service that every byte of user-generated content is the exclusive property of the site itself.

In addition, I expect any AWS customer hosting IETF RFCs, software with public domain licenses, and public domain poetry to be shut down immediately.

If AWS fails to do this, they are being discriminatory and capricious in pursuing TOS violations.
They're starting there precisely because there's nothing there and hence fewer obstacles (NIMBY and otherwise). Besides, that segment will have to be constructed eventually.

Starting in SF, SJ or LA makes more sense from a population standpoint, but you run the risk of the project being delayed or facing cost-overruns because of lawsuits and environmental concerns. If the CA HSR authority can get the starter segment up and running relatively smoothly, that might create more demand in the major metro areas and grease the skids somewhat.
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I agree, definitely customers who do that, but it is a numbers game. Is enough "new" traffic generated from RetailMeNot to sustain the affiliate links? I am not sure there is any way to know for sure at the scale affiliate programs are typically used.
I think that was this way through all history:

* Main achitect of pyramid in Egypt was buried together in it(bad that I can't find link to that)

* Quite interesting story of Denis Papin (http://radian.org/notebook/boatmen-and-cyberlaw)

* Here is list in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_scientists (while not all of them were killed because of their work)
There has got to be a more readable way to display this information.
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Did anyone else see "Amazon 53" and think "Amazon S3"?
Thx for the feedback. I think it's fair to say you can't please all the people all the time. As always YMMV.
I'd like to see how far you get on the public portion of the internet with a 192.x.x.x anyway.
I would start with providing the link and naming the author
http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-P...

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh.
With a ridership of approximately....0? And no one from any major city ever even seeing it, much less riding it?

I think there has to be a better plan.
Agreed. Definitely not best for everyone. For example Jason from TZ wouldn't like to do it this way. But I'm hoping there are a few folks who find the info useful :)

I must say it's been great to have all the feedback here on HN and start this discussion. Unexpected bonus.
Same here. This would be a nice little cost saver, except it appears they don't support anycast. As such, it's a nonstarter for us.
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I agree with his "don't spam other threads" (and I think a real spamming would make any boycott less effective); I just don't think the comment amounted to spam (which is subjective of course).
It's very high. Slicehost offers the service free!
If I were writing a blog engine right now, I think I'd do something different: make the post itself static, and pull in any dynamic content via AJAX. That way old browsers still get a readable compatible page (just don't load any fancy stuff), and for everyone else the blog works like any dynamically generated one. And fine-grained caching can be had for free.
Ditto. We're making use of DME dynamic DNS updates, but it's no substitute for a real API. I'd like to be able to add/remove A records, not just adjust the IP's of existing records, which is all you can currently do with DME.

The reason I do this is so I can have the root of a zone pointed at an ELB, since you can't use a CNAME for that. So I mirror the IP address(es) of the ELB into the zone root. With DME, I rotate the IP every few minutes, but with Route 53 I could publish all its IPs. (Of course, it would be nice if Route 53 was integrated with Amazon's other services so I didn't have to do this at all…)
I'm a little scared giving Google all of that personal data, but I suppose I'd rather they have it than Comcast. Also, a quick look at their privacy policy for that service shows it being relatively respectful of my privacy, at least for now:

We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.

I did this a few months ago and my service has been a lot more reliable. (I'm in Philadelphia.)
http://wikileaks.info
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Agreed. I personally think wikileaks only possible value is if it exposes actual corruption.
Simply revealing sensitive information that weakens the US but doesn't reveal wrongdoing seems like a terrible mistake.
Mike Bayers response: http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2010/12/04/in-response-to-stupid-...

Steve Holden's response: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2010/12/templating-systems.htm...

Armin Ronacher's response: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/5/not-so-stupid-template-lan...
The best way to learn a language/skill is to design and implement it yourself. (My problem has always been that I tend to get a little too meta... But I'm enjoying myself.)
> civilian program to produce nuclear power plants

Desperately needed in a country with the world's third-largest oil reserves.
I don't disagree with you, but you can take it further: what if someone is growing potatoes, some of which go to feed weapons systems (troops)?
Ah, they just plan to build the track, not even run trains on it. They're saying they won't run trains until major metro areas are linked. Which makes it even more dubious in my mind.
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Amazon is kicking some serious cloud-based butt. I don't see how the competition will catch-up or keep-up. Great work.
Seven hours is precious little time, I would imagine, to plan for and put into motion attacks like these.
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DARPA funds the Grand Challenge so the technology can eventually be used to defend the country. I would not consider killing scientists involved in the competition to be a war crime; it would just be a garden variety act of war. I know little about the international law involved in such distinctions, but it makes logical sense to me.

In my estimation, attacking DARPA-funded scientists is more likely to be "okay" than attacking the Iranian scientists, because the latter may not actually have any involvement in weapons development if Iran is telling the truth.
Amazon as a provider is not an option if you are going to host any material that will upset politicians in Washington. A simple phone call from a senator and your site will be down. This is a big deal if you run a media organization, a political activism organization, or a disruptive startup that politicians want to regulate to death (like Paypal back in the day, and ironic that today they cooperate with Washington against those who disrupt Government's secrecy).
Debka is thought to be an Israeli counterintelligence operation, so take its writing with a grain of salt.

Of course, it's possible that the Israelis want everyone to know about their capabilities (the line about the attacks coming 12 hours after the Wikileaks cables release was interesting), but Debka's writing might not be extremely accurate.
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All sings hint at the fact that this is a classic Mossad operation. The MO of a drive-by, close range, shooting or small explosive, is classic Mossad - and has been used in the past.

That said, DEBKAfile is a dubious source of educated speculation - at best. It is not considered a news source, and it does not operate by any standard. They publish mere theories which are loosely backed by hard facts.

It does make a good read, though - I'll give them that.
"Against Love: a polemic", by Laura Kipnis.

The title is a little misleading, since the book is not against love per se, but speaks about coupledom. It does not want to give answers, but only ask questions and it's a good book to think about our love affairs.
People know more about the lives of their friends and
family than they ever have before

Wow. I couldn't disagree more. Event notifications are probably the only thing that is substantially more useful in facebook as far as I can tell. Aside from that, the only additional knowledge I've gained from facebook is that a handful of people who I barely remember from high school really like reposting stuff from r/pics. My family has been active on facebook for years, but it's had nothing remotely close to a revolutionary impact on how we communicate.
'The Master Switch' by Tim Wu, because it gave me an added perspective on how History shapes present Information Empires
you mean 192.168.X.X?? 192.0.X.X is a public ip address range
Comcast suffered a DNS outage beginning last Sunday evening on the East coast between New Hampshire and Virginia. Is the periodicity a coincidence?

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/11/3...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373542,00.asp
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Hehe, oops! You're completely right! My bad.
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If the status update is mundane like "am eating a bagel" and you have a really funny photo of eating a bagel then the photo is definitely going to win the comment competition. If you use the status update intelligently, like tweeting about something that will interest your group then you can have a good discussion going on with just a few simple lines. Like a Tweet on FB Wall.
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Thanks! An Unfollow button is the #1 thing I want to add.
I'm excited about the API available for AWS 53, but I just love the old crusty looking Zone Edit. http://legacy.zoneedit.com

If you're dealing with low volume DNS for a couple domains, Zone Edit is hard to beat.