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I hate to call you a liar, but I've never heard Chileans blame the US for Pinochet and the resulting junta and dictatorship. If anything, the Chileans, in a rare show of Latin American maturity, have usually assumed full responsibility for the failure of their own political system. Has this changed recently?

As for the US "intervening," what post-1970 interventions can you specifically cite that you think brought about the coup? Remember that Allende nationalized the assets of foreign companies, and foreign investors subsequently pulled out of Chile. Remember also that Allende was denounced by the Chilean Supreme Court and Congress, and that he was ultimately overthrown by his own military, and that despite the constant assertions of him having been "democratically elected," he only won 36% of the vote, less than Bush in 2000 (47%), but acted as if his plurality victory gave him some sort of political mandate to transform Chile into a communist country in six years.
What's with the all seeing eye?
Update: seems her access was just reinstated. No further comments from Amazon, but their PR team did clarify that account status has nothing to do with access to your book's library" -- this is positive news, but still need further clarification. How can I download my books without my account?

"We would like to clarify our policy on this topic. Account status should not affect any customer's ability to access their library. If any customer has trouble accessing their content, he or she should contact customer service for help. Thank you for your interest in Kindle."

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-d...
HackerNews - my life is charity work. Please help me make a dream come true.
I started my clothing line which can be found here:

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We are matching every single one of these following shirts with another one which will be sent to an orphanage in a third-world country. We do this every three months, and will have a video of it on the site.

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Basically, you buy one and it shows your support. Our signature brand, (prototype), is included on it.

In addition, 5% of each sale goes directly to the charity we support for the month. We switch it up every month, so we are either helping out underprivileged kids or cancer victims.

Also, for every 25 upvotes that this thread gets, I'm going to send a hackernews member a free t-shirt. You can pick your shirt.

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> Exactly where the government was on the spectrum is open to debate, but I don't think you can say that they "weren't Communist" as though that's a boolean flag that's either true or false.

Of course I can't.

My comment was a reply. My point was that Chile was not a "communist country" as in "USSR's brand of Communism".
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One other feature I'd like to see is an "Add to Wishlist" button. Writing the book title in a new tab is quite annoying and this would definitely help me save time.
Just to clarify, you're using hacker news to advertise your clothing line, which donates 5% to a charity, and you are begging for upvotes with the promise of free t-shirts.

Very classy.

Edit: Just realized you also felt the need to include (IMPORTANT) in the title. Just no. This isn't your personal advertising board.
I can't feel that Amazon are a bit of a Cassandra (mythological not the software) when these outages occur.

They recommend that people failover to other availability zones but no one puts any effort into doing it then they get annoyed when a datacenter goes offline.

Its not Amazons fault that you didn't make your service failure tolerant - its your fault!
HN doesn't serve billions of views.
You could consider it 2 step process:

- find "small" regex that defines the language for the example — hard problem
- minimize the regex (the language stays the same) — can be solved efficiently

See the link from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682623
I had a knee-jerk reaction to this:

>It could be useful in India or African countries with not much access to energy.

It's appalling that countries located in regions where the sun tends to beat down most of the time lack energy at all.
No one said it was. I'm not sure if you read the entire post.

Yes, we're selling t-shirts.

Yes, we're donating 5% to Child's Play for the month of Oct + November combined.

Yes, we're matching each one of those shirts listed above in specific with ANOTHER shirt.

I don't make a lot of profit off of this, so I hope you don't take me the wrong way.
Purgatory is not a general theological conundrum. It's within the domain of Catholicism and those who broke off from there.

As far as you're away, the dead are dead, unless you have absolutely solved that.
Ask HN: What are some services to forward traffic to my firewalled dev machine?
I'm looking for a service that offers a publicly accessible domain name that I can have forward traffic to my laptop when my laptop behind a firewall that I don't control. (Think demoing a website to a client while working from a coffee shop.)

I know I can set this up with my own VPS and SSH -R, but I'd rather just pay somebody else to keep the VPS working and secured.

I'd prefer to use plain ssh to connect to the service and have a custom subdomain (rather than a custom port), but neither of these are deal breakers.

I know services exist for this but I can't remember the names of any of them and my google-fu is failing me.

Any links and experiences would be appreciated.
Show HN: Serve static sites on Heroku faster than you can read this title
We run gear in multiple physical locations, but both the application and data is stored/backed in S3. This allows us the redundancy of S3 without the cost and fragile nature of EC2.
That's you? I love listening to my local sheriff radio. Nicely done.
What exactly do you mean by 'rights' and what were they lacking?
What is the name of this operator: “--”?
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I'm pretty sure before the project would run out of funding before they start anything xD
wonder if anyone's been keeping and publishing statistics on exactly how often AWS US East has been down. Perhaps it's more than I thought. Of course, most failures haven't been effecting _all_ of US East, so maybe what would be interesting to look at is just _some_ customer's data on exactly how much downtime they had in the past 3 years or whatever. Without knowing what the uptime/downtime was, hard to say how terrible it was, or how it compares to other options.
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Ruby 1.9.? There is a significant difference between 1.9.1 and 1.9.3
The JDBC driver doesn't support EXPLAIN or COPY
That's what twilio + Heroku are for, abstract up another layer. There's even a site where you just give it a github location and it does the rest.
When I commented the two other comments replying to yours were taking it seriously, so I decided to take it seriously too. Text is a pretty bad medium for hearing tone, sorry I misinterpreted yours; for some reason the "the cynical side of me" bit made me think your comment wasn't entirely in jest.

Cheers
There is good reason to use the same environment. No one wants to be dealing with wacky version issues on remote servers, which is precisely what you would be signing up for.
"Just because 1 person can drive drunk, doesn't mean you should allow thousands of others to as well."

I think this is the appropriate stance to take with alcohol because there is lots of data establishing that driving while above .08 does have a greatly increased relative risk. With marijuana though there is lots of research, but it all shows that that drivers under the influence of marijuana are much less dangerous than drivers who are at the legal limit for alcohol.

What no one like talking about though is that if you want to really understand what's best from a public policy perspective, you need to understand that the absolute risk of driving while intoxicated is actually relatively small. If you drive 10 miles at a .08 your risk of dying would be ~1 in 4,000,000, as opposed to ~1 in 20,000,000 while completely sober. I'm certainly not advocating driving while intoxicated. But that being said, if you want to decrease your overall odds of dying then driving half as much in general would be much more effective than not driving while intoxicated once or twice a year. And similarly, good public transportation would be much more effective at reducing fatalities than harsher DUI penalties.

So far we've spent $1.5 trillion enforcing the war on drugs in the last 40 years, which combined with the lost tax revenue would be enough to build the entire nationwide high speed rail corridor roughly 3 times over. If we really want to reduce fatalities over the next 40 years, then we'd be much better taxing and regulating drugs and using the money to redesign our cities and nation around an internationally competitive public transportation system.
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Quoting myself (this edit happened long before your reply):

I can see the rebuttal coming: if you know 40 people's email addresses, you know 40 people's facebook names. Should be easy to add them to the special list. The point is not just that I be able to track them. It's also that we be willing to contact each other. There needs to be some momentum for us to all start caring to message each other on Facebook, otherwise the negative cycle continues. And we're too lazy to bother now. Honestly, I think anyone who tries to solve this problem doesn't realize that the problem's stakeholders don't care if it's not solved. Perhaps that's only in my case, I don't know.
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http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/ruby.php#about

or

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=nbody...

or ...
Bill Hicks would agree with you: http://youtu.be/qZqYV9KKOZQ?t=3m46s
The title is missing a >. Should be "-->"
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> This cost is negligible as well. The cost is merely the cost of providing hunting/fishing levels of food, and it is only owed to the small subset of people who would be better off as hunters. We're talking about $1-5/day here.

Only if you use an artificially narrow definition of "better off." Would you rather be a hunter/gatherer in a world of hunter/gatherers, or a hunter/gatherer in the modern world? If you consider only the value of food, the two are fungible. But if you consider the whole range of things people attach value to (social interaction, etc), the former is far preferable. This is a false objectivity that is common with approaches like yours. Just because certain sources of value are "fuzzy" does not mean they are objectively valued at zero. Also, you're ignoring all the modern findings of behavioral economics that notes that people perceive value relatively. Acknowledging that fact, simply paying for hunting/fishing levels of food does not put people in the same position as they would be otherwise.

> In addition to your wildly incorrect accounting, you seem confused as to what a public good is. Education is a private good, being rivalrous and excludible.

Sorry, I was imprecise. I meant to say that education generates large positive externalities. Though I should point out in my defense that it is not uncommon to use "public good" to refer to something that generates large positive externalities but does not meet the technical definition of public good...

> You again cite a tiny fraction of what is provided (literacy + numeracy) while ignoring the vast majority of spending (most of high school and college).

The point is that when someone gets an education, they are not the only nor even the primary beneficiaries of that education. When I buy and eat a cookie, only I enjoy that cookie. When I get an education, the marginal increase in my economic value is split between me and my employer. In many companies, the employer benefits more from the education than you do. One need only look to see how employers flock to areas with top-tier engineering schools (the Bay Area, the Research Triangle, Atlanta, Austin, etc) to see how much employers benefit from public education.
Could someone break this down and explain it to me? [1]
It looks hilariously atrocious yet interesting at the same time.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name-...
Thank you. So, I think I will migrate to wordpress then...
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It's pretty clear that a law governing the relationship between a manufacturer and its dealers, doesn't apply to a manufacturer who has no dealers.

That's a simple application of logic, with no knowledge of the "court system, lawyers, and the entire judicial branch."
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I love Miguel et al. but I tried for a long time to make a public ASP.Net (MVC2) site work. It would run fine for a few days but inevitably would become unstable where the Mono Apache process would runaway and put the CPU beyond 100% usage (how is that even possible?). After a year of doing weekly restarts I couldn't take it anymore and moved back to Windows. The extra $30 / month in Windows licensing on Racksapce more than paid for itself in the IT headaches (and expenses) it saved.

Things may have since changed - this was back in v2.12 days - and / or other stacks (like service stack) may be more stable, but it's just easier for me to stick with Windows.

With all this said, however, I have had fun trying the MonoTouch toolkit demos. I hope to find some time to build a real iOS app (one that works with the aforementioned website, in fact). Fingers crossed things will work out better this time for me and Mono.
Well the Heroku abstraction was leaking like a sieve today.
Who is ok to update hacker News website with me? shape sucks
Update Hacker News Website with me! I can do designs and frontend. If we are two: we'll go faster and creativity will be good!
Then we send them our halloween gift on Github! ready?
You don't have to force a reload, you can just suggest that the user reloads. Eg: "Please reload the page to get the latest version"
#define as ;while
...
do printf("n is %d\n", n) as ( n --> 0);

Parses to (white space adjusted for clarity):

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One term, one book.

Term: risk pool -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_pool

Book: The Social Transformation of American Medicine -- http://www.amazon.com/The-Social-Transformation-American-Med...
Nice! It takes dedication to release something like this.
The look is awesome, the atmosphere sounds creepy and intriguing. I haven't played it yet but looking forward to purchase it.
I have been obsessed with this ever since I read an article in the guardian (uk) circa 2003 of all places. If you want a better picture of the political situation check out "a promise to the dead" (by ariel dorfman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1097260/).

You can also read designing freedom (written right after the coupe) to get a solid idea of what stafford beer was driving at http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/beer/book....
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I think PG is mainly talking about how the ratio of certain personality elements and basic strengths might contribute to a higher perceived "intelligence".

i.e. Someone with a high EQ (Emotional Quotient) relative to their spatial reasoning might seem more intelligent than the person with lower EQ and higher spatial reasoning, while someone with an equally high EQ and spatial reasoning might develop some sort of personality disorder. (Hopefully not, but just an example)

This could probably be extrapolated into ratios between language skills, creativity, ability to grasp abstraction, memory, etc. etc.
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On the upside, we are now in the age when someone can build their own cell phone.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/26/2976703/mit-high-low-tech-...

So, maybe take on a project to create the phone you want.
Primarily, accepting blacks into the priesthood. Prior to 1978 they were banned.
The preprocessor replaces the macro "as" with ";while" creating a do-while loop.

do {
printf("%d",x);
} while (x-- > 0);
> Want to use Redis as a very fast bloom filter server?

Yes! You should blog about this.
95%+ of that 300,000 miles will be charged at home, or the office. Not at the long-distance interstate charging stations.

That's the key - those superchargers are for long distance travel, not local travel.
Internet traffic exchange: 2 billion users and it’s done on a handshake
Talk about company names, I thought this is pronounced cow-onder, and is a tool to communicate with cattle.
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I don't know if there are citations, but there is a very well known trend in the retail gas industry of 0% margin on the fuel, and 100% of the profit coming from the mini-store.

I have a friend who runs about a dozen gas stations in the bay area, and they literally change the price for each tanker of gas that comes in - the pricing is so dynamic - and they get charged based on the neighborhood/market that they are in. Her goal is to not lose any money on gas sales, and make it all up in the store.
I am curious about your javascript integration with the app. Did you use V8 internally with some kind of bridging for Objective-C ? It would be great if you have a blog on the subject. Thanks.
This was my first thought, and seems likely. They do several forms of analysis on their cache. It could even be some engineers running tests or queries that require rendering the page or at least bootstrapping the DOM.
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Question on marijauna and driving: how would the level be tested? I read a comment elsewhere in the thread that there's no easy way to do it like with a breathalyzer -- would someone have to be brought into the station and given a blood test? If so, the threshold seems to be a bit on the academic side, because that's a lot of effort on the part of the police and it seems like that alone would restrict it to the people driving truly terribly.

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And at the risk of being too blunt: I'm not too concerned about drunk (or high) drivers increasing their own chances of dying. (Though, yes, if everyone drove less everyone would be less likely to die.)

Though on a policy side, I imagine it would be a lot easier to lower the limit than raise it, so I'd favor erring on the "too high" side (who wants to run up against a "HE/SHE WANTS HIGHER DRIVERS ON YOUR STREETS" campaign?).
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This looks mostly like a function that sacrificed readability for brevity, to the detriment of at least one reader.
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"I tried to get it out fast and just barely tested it, but it should be stable."

So you spent 2 years developing something, but then didn't even test it for a few days because you wanted to get it out "fast"? I just don't understand this mentality.
This "six-strikes" is bound for failure, because if I were a user and I got one notification from my ISP, I would be shopping around for a new ISP.

I wonder how long ISPs would play ball if users adopted a "One stike and _you're_ out" policy.
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Exactly. We already have laws against reckless and careless driving. "There should be a law" is counterproductive--the problem is dangerous driving and it's already illegal.
What site are you running on App Engine?
Just in case anyone had any illusions about this being something other than blatant regulatory capture...
So you shop for another ISP, and your choices are all part of the "six-strikes" plan. Then what? Internet abstinence?
"It could be as simple as the person having the same name as someone who got blocked in the US."

And?! That would be a horrible reason for deleting all of a user's purchased items. More reason for these types of posts to exist. The situation itself doesn't really matter, but bringing attention to the possible dangers of DRM is important. The fact that we don't own these DRMed items is incredibly scary.

"there have definitely been cases that vary between being one side of the story to being a distortion of facts and events to being outright lies."

Okay.. but without data this is just a vague anecdote.

If all you're trying to say is "be careful", well alright. But honestly I don't care. The story itself isn't that important in these cases as long as people are thinking about what the possible dangers of DRM are. And they are really big dangers.

These types of posts are the only action an individual can take when pitted against a big company.
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The dialogue scenes are way, way, way too long. To the point where I didn't even want to play anymore since the dialogue was taking too long.
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Some of the ideas presented here look promising. But I really don't see this taking off in its current form. News and blog websites already wrap videos with the related written content and links etc.
And as one user described above, clicking links half-way through a video really breaks the user's attention to the video.
Perhaps it would be useful if YouTube used machine-intelligence to recognise the content of a video and provide links below to related Wikipedia entries or news articles?
What was your strategy when it came to marketing your game?

Also, what was your target demographic?
This type of tool could be great for education. Imagine an instructor typing the program on screen and allowing you to change the code interactively.
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can you talk about your sales so far and if it's been promising?
You need to look at the per capita GDP and per capita GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) to measure the relative economic strength of countries regardless of population disparities. Chile should have a smaller GDP; it has 16 million people compared with Brazil's 180. However, its GDP is proportionally higher:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...

Chile: 48th;
Brazil: 58th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

Chile: 53rd;
Brazil: 75th

(both taken from the World Bank list)
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My first link explains it. It's a blood test.
Wow superb. This is very attractive for a website and would love to use.

But this might not be usable for a Web App, but there may be some situations.
On the Price of the Upcoming iPad
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