skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't trying to protect against black swan events, it's convincing people that they are protecting them, especially those in congress writing the checks and the idiots who believe if you aren't reporting your suspicious travel mates, you are as bad as the terrorists.

An Israeli-style defense is far more likely to catch the black swan events, but it requires much more training for agents. We'd rather build an obscene list of everything you can't do and pay cloned storm troopers to go down each item on it.
I live in NZ and that was true once with some ISPs. I don't know of any companies that do it now. Some stuff is unmetered - usually stuff like on demand video which they get you to pay extra for as a package.
You mean that you hear from companies that they don't want to hire you because you have been an entrepreneur? That can't be right, it's the kind of person everyone seeks. Hack, I've paid millions in the past buying companies mostly to hire such people.
I guess a lot of first hand reports will clarify this soon.
Pretty common/normal in the sciences.
Everybody is selected in the US.
> Imagine something bad happening on your watch and next week opposition declaring you are at fault and calling for new elections because they think now the vote will swing their way.

As someone who has only lived under this system of government, I find it hilarious to see this phrased as a bad thing. Having scheduled elections with the insane run-up the US has is so, SO much more painful.

"Call an election" here means a quick, 30 day race. The US election feels like it starts the moment the previous one finishes. I would much rather have somewhat more frequent elections that are quick and painless than the scheduled, drawn out slaughter-fest that is American presidential elections.

> If the citizens are willing to accept this kind of games

I really don't see the "game" in a party stopping bad legislation from screwing things up by dissolving government. FFS it's not like it happens every time they have a little spat. Usually it is major things like the budget. I have no problem with a party being forced out because they can't collaborate on a budget.
Yes, I do suggest that. Perhaps not actually look at it as just 'volunteering' time, but 'organizing an event'. If there were actual profits (income-expenses), then sharing those profits with the people who made the event happen (organizers, speakers, crew, etc).
Follow-ups to news are so rare - thanks for posting this!

I couldn't help, but I saw/read the original thread.
Creating pages for the purpose of SEO. I hope Google comes down hard on these guys.
Really? This is no better. How about pedantic logic? Or avoiding making a real argument logic? Or cheap way to get up votes logic? Piling on logic? Uncomstructive comment logic? Pedantic logic?

If you want to disagree then do it. What you're doing here is trying to marginalize me instead of actually making an argument.

This used to be a place where we could share our opinions and have constructive conversations and debates. Now you just get downvoted if you don't support the hive mind's opinion and what used to be called an unconstructive comment is applauded (exceptions are made, however, in cases where where the herd disagrees).

Edit: Remember what I said about all intelligent discourse going out the window once the "fanboy" retort has been put out there? Well, here's the proof.
> More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday

What constitutes an "attempt"?

What information is conveyed by the number "44 million"?

None, really, since we have no way of knowing how the counting is done. In fact there's not really any information in the article, except for "Hacking attempts increase when carrying out a bombing campaign", which probably shouldn't be too surprising.
Hypercritical will also be coming to an end according to the 5by5 State of the Union.

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It's worth pointing out that you should take Gassée's views with a grain of salt. Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team, thus I'd imagine that he still has a significant amount invested in Apple (although there is a question of whether that investment is psychological or financial).

Ultimately, I think Gassée is taking the easy way out on this. It's far too easy to jump on the "Windows 8 sucks" bandwagon with the likes of people like Dvorak (who has never wrongly predicted the demise of a tech product). Far more difficult is to examine the reasons why Windows 8 is unpopular. I think a lot of the reason why Windows 8 is unpopular is simply because it's different. Was Sinofsky unfairly scapegoated for problems at Microsoft? I suspect so. Will this give Apple a chance to "finish what Sinofsky started"? I think Apple has its own set of problems to deal with that have nothing to do with what Sinofsky did at Microsoft. Thus, I think linking Sinofsky's departure to Apple is a disingenuous marketing plug.
I wish you could sue the muppets slinging mud around on Twitter etc.
I had a similar question, and looked through the docs...

Textadept does not appear to have multiple select features on par with SublimeText. But then again who does?
Are those really memory corruptions and not, say, damaged cables or bugs in network infrastructure equipment? Or, just typos in scripts (both server and client side)?
When I tried it the air raid siren seems to only come on at around the 5 second mark. Is that an accurate depiction of what happens?
>I wouldn't mind if every article submitted to HN was some founder's anecdote, big or small, keep them coming :)

In the beginning HN was called 'Startup News', if I remember correctly.
Bayes' theorem and Bayes' rule are essentially the same equation. Most people will use the two interchangeably.

Bayesianism is a perspective on how to do modelling under uncertainty. It doesn't reduce to "use Bayes' theorem", even though all Bayesian inference will do that in some fashion.
Given the typical anonymous MO, an attempt is probably submitting a form with SQL injection, scanning for a common exploit, etc.
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I doubt that. The current US political system is (or at least appear to be) super devided and unable to get anything done. But does it lack emotional arguments? It doesn't seem so.

In addition you are arguing in front of a forum where people value rational speech and good arguments. Throwing a tantrum is not the way to get anything done here.

Finally you seem to assume that there is some way to convince your opponents. I agree that it seems likely, but how is it certain? And what gives you the right to go of the rails and decide what should be considered acceptable behaviour? That seems strongly opposed to the culture of freedom that has permated the hacker culture since it first escaped the wrath of the operators back in the early sixties.
One would wish these distinctions could be forgotten with calling the Win32api from JS. However, that is a pipe dream and could have an impact on performance.
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No it's 15 seconds for 1 million citizens in the South. The site starts at 5 seconds because we don't want people to hear it the second they log on to the site.

For Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel it's longer than 15 seconds thankfully.
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Thank you so much for your reply. I think you're correct in that I'm going to need to challenge a lot of my assumptions with regards to visualizing this data.

I have a few designer friends that I'll talk this out with over beer sometime, but I also look forward to reading your book recommendations.

Thanks!
Since we're not citing any source, I'll say that population X is at least Y% of the industry.
I hope the PPA doesn't contain MSFT code and instead downloads it on first launch from MSFT servers!
Look into using theora instead of an mp3.

Searching 'HTML5 audio' OR 'audio HTML tag' will be a good start

Great use of technology, to get a point across.
I'm guessing that's for illustrative purposes. In actuality, you have 15 seconds from the sound of the first siren until you must get into a shelter.

By the way, this is dependent on where you are in Israel (how far you are from Gaza). Here in Tel Aviv, we have 2 minutes from the siren til the rocket hits.
Damn, it wants to install a thousand i386 packages on my system. Too much to ask for an x86-64 build? :D
It's tricky. I know most of the people involved on both sides and you may be surprised to learn almost all of them are decent, every day people, and not brogrammers, militant feminists, or typical 'argument on Twitter' types.

There have been a lot of crossed wires, misinterpretations, and faux pas here which probably wouldn't have occurred in real life (or even video). Online communications, especially on Twitter, is so woefully inadequate when dealing with social issues :-(
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Because you can believe everything you read online, right? It wouldn't be hard to fake that?

I tend to think there is more to this as well, including plenty of Gestapo ass-hattery from the police and the TSA. I just wonder if part of the art project included being arrested. We may be witnessing a piece of performance art.
> It seems highly unlikely that a programming community would have such a high percentage of women.

This is the problem with the programming community we need to fix.
THREAD MOVED:
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This is really well made propaganda to portray Israelis as victims. They are not victims. The world needs to pressure Israel to end their special brand of apartheid. Some may say the Palestinians have their own state so it isn't apartheid. But they do not have a state in the normal sense of the word. For example, Israel dictates what planes and ships can land.

I personally support human rights and religious freedom.
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1. Too expensive for the seller. Lots of games are played with the rating system - discerning who is honest and who isn't gets to be about reading between the lines in the comments rather than using the star system. The 'local only'function works poorly.

2. I like the auction house paradigm, but would like one that was more third party friendly so people could personalize the experience.

3. No. I don't want to be separated from that transaction.

4. Nothing that I haven't covered above, but I'm happy to answer any other market research questions.
This is powerful stuff!
Call it propaganda, but I still have missiles being fired at me and family and friends every day. Hamas is specifically trying to hit civilians. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be in my place.
Gassée is a former Apple exec who led the Mac team

Wasn't he fired from Apple?

edit: A quick wiki lookup indicates that he was "forced out" at Apple. The article also reminded me of the issues he had when Apple made some changes to Macs in the late 90's that made it difficult to dual-boot BeOS which caused difficulties for Gassée (nevermind the whole issue of Amelio choosing to acuire NeXT over Be).

I think there is just as much reason for Gassée to hold a grudge against Apple as to be "invested" in Apple.

(of course his argument may be wrong/right on other grounds, but I don't think it's certain that any allegiance to Apple really plays into the argument at this point)
Have you made a web page about the cluster bombs the IDF dropped on civilian areas (a war crime)?
I suppose a Gazan could make a similar site, but it wouldn't have a countdown or a siren so the effect wouldn't be quite the same.
Out of pure curiosity do Palestinians or individuals living in Gaza have any type of warning for impending air strikes from Israel?
Try finding a Jew in Gaza and then tell me about apartheid and religious freedom.
kind of non-technical / political for HN, no?

FWIW, number of Israelis killed by rockets in 2012: 0

here's number of total deaths by year

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html

even if there was an upsurge in nonlethal rockets seems like slim military justification for aerial/ground retaliation given the casualties and risks involved... hard not to conclude it's for political gain.
To be fair, they should have made a version from the Palestinian perspective, as well.

Something tells me the Palestinians don't have 15 seconds of air raid warnings. The missiles and strike craft probably don't give much lead time at all. Maybe a few moments of odd whirring before something randomly explodes near them, and people die.

So the Palestinian version should start on 00:02 instead of 00:15...

The joys of American-made, American-taxpayer funded advanced strike weapons.
In a nutshell, if you know the right people you can file a case that the police would normally not accept in order to further some private goal. If enough people in the line of command under the person that you have 'in your pocket' start acting out your fantasy then you may well get what you wish, even if that is a complete abuse of police power and state resources. The police then becomes a tool in one citizens fight against another and this can cause great harm to come to the person that has less power. And worst of all they can't even run to the police for protection!

Pissing off someone in a powerful position in a country like India is not a good idea. Persisting in this and getting away with it for a year or more is something that can get you in a boatload of trouble, even if you've done nothing wrong because it makes all those people look pretty silly.

After all, what use are all those connections and all your wealth if it does not achieve the goals that you've set...

In this particular case there are lots of twists and turns that make this more bizarre than what you could conclude from what is written here. Let's just leave it at that I have had the boundaries of what I thought people were capable of putting each other through thoroughly tested and subsequently breached.

There are no 'winners' in this case, only losers and some temporary reprieve. Let's hope that in the long run this whole thing can be laid to rest without any chance of repercussions or repetitions.

One of the prosecuting police officers in this case - that I've had some correspondence with - is on the record as wanting to beat me up for interfering with his case. Sucks to be him, and good for me I'm not anywhere near India. Of course if you don't get your way as an officer nothing trumps a little police brutality or the threat thereof to show who is the boss.

I guess a holiday in India is out for the moment ;)

When the police is no longer acting in the interest of every citizen of a country but structurally works at the behest of the rich and powerful you get all kinds of messed up situations.

In this case the protagonist got lucky, she knew a guy who knew a guy who happened to hang around on the same forum as she does. And the last one knew a good lawyer. Collectively that forum is a very powerful entity. If not for that this would have ended very differently. Six degrees ftw.

And for every person like this there are an untold number who are not in the possession of connections to some international community.

That's the really sad part.
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The guys on the other side don't even get a 15 seconds heads up.
That's the problem with metrics that only measure part of the situation. Maybe having cheap, insincere boilerplate does increase the number of people following through to one's Twitter page, something that is easily measured. But it can't measure the number of people who lose trust in you due to it.
Do people realise how offensive it is when they say things of the form "we shouldn't include a speaker who isn't a white male because that would just be tokenism, and tokenism is bad"?
Did the population of Gaza elect Hamas a government that hides behind it's children after shooting rockets to hit civilians in Israel?
All planes and ships can land 2 miles from Gaza in Egypt and pass their civil cargo to Gaza. Unfortunately, this doesn't stop all kind of rockets to enter Gaza strip.
Any other example, pls?
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It doesn't fail. You're assuming that one such agency would exist. In reality, violence is prohibitively expensive. No agency would stay in business for too long if it constantly engages into conflicts on behalf of its customers. Prices for its services would go up, while demand would go down. Also, savvy competitors would team up and contribute to destroying this nasty agency as well, because it hurts their peaceful business.
> "Far more difficult is to examine the reasons why Windows 8 is unpopular. I think a lot of the reason why Windows 8 is unpopular is simply because it's different."

I think we have a pretty good idea by now why windows 8 is going to fail in the marketplace. Usability professionals have already chimed in.
The moderator should change the title.

"I'm a teen" is not quite the same as "Right now I’m living in Tel Aviv, Israel and serving in the Israeli army."

http://benjaminlang.com/about-2/
Actually it's surprisingly underwhelming. Anonymous hit some small personal sites (a psychologist, some non-profits, a real estate agency, alternative medicine college) - most of which were back online within 30 mins.

The only government sites they've defaced were Israel's international aid agency (http://mashav.mfa.gov.il/) and some committee about restoring quarries or something. Compared to their incessant boasting that's pretty pathetic.
"Yes, gender equality and racial equality are important. But the team's motives were to get the best speakers who were able to make it to Manchester. Turns out, a lot of the famous Rubyists are white guys and all of the ones who said they'd like to come were, indeed, white guys.

...
It doesn't matter who speaks at a conference, as long as they're capable, interesting and relevant. That's what matters: content, not style."

Why do the speakers have to be famous? Frankly, probably a lot of what they've said and think on subjects is already known - they're famous already. Why not have that be less of a factor? It would probably have reduced costs some, assuming there was financial travel costs covered, and perhaps been able to focus on 'content', without respect to the fame of the speaker.
We'd now be defiantly raising a generation of retards to show those ragheads who's boss.

We seem to have that covered without their help.
No, but I would MUCH MUCH rather be an Israeli than a Palestinian in Gaza.
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This might as well be titled I'm a teen in Gaza. Which Israel is bombing as I type. With bombs paid for with my US tax dollars. I consider you more fortunate - you have the capability to post somewhere like here, Gaza has been under siege for five years. Zionists have the ability to play for sympathy while they're starving Gazans with a food blockade, and building settlements in the West Bank.
Not only are the weapons USA made & designed, they are given to Israel in the form of defense aid. The USA gives Israel a $2 billion dollar credit every year to buy our weapons.
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"Why do the speakers have to be famous?"

To get people to go.
A few (dissenting) points:

If you want to eat healthy at O'Hare, you can find a salad or sandwich in any terminal. If you really want to blow your calorie budget, go find one of the Goose Island bars in terminal 1 or 3. Have a Matilda. It's fantastic.

Next point: I really dislike working for bosses with a misplaced sense of paternalism. If there are risks or uncertainties facing the business, don't hide them from your employees. Transparency breeds trust, which you'll need if you expect your engineers to put in the kind of hard work that's required when a company is starting up.

Last point: look, if a life of flying around the country and working long hours is your idea of a tortured life only a special breed of men known as "entrepreneurs" can bear, then you need to pull your head out of your ass. That life is stressful and that it takes hard work to get ahead are universal truths. The rest of us aren't just coasting along in a risk-free world.

Double secret bonus last point: why all the cussing?
I believe the IDF sends out warnings to the areas they target. A big difference is also that the IDF targets military targets and civilian deaths are accidental, while the Hamas targets civilian targets.

Also, even if only a few Israelis die from the bombs that doesn't mean the bombs are OK.
I upvoted you. HN has a lot of haters. I got downvoted too before.
I'm sure he left for "personal reasons" :-) But more seriously yes he left in 1990 per Wikipedia. I disliked his marketing claims of 'firsts' for Apple things that were shipping on the Amiga but certainly respected what he tried to achieve with BeOS.
A linkbait title. From the article itself:

"However, this malware does not use any particular function unique to Windows 8 and we know that this malware existed before the launch of Windows 8."
> Something tells me the Palestinians don't have 15 seconds of air raid warnings.

You're right. They have hours. Israel frequently text-messages civilians and asks them to vacate the area.

Israel attacks military targets, not civilians. Military targets aren't as mobile as civilians.
Well put!

I really hope the responsible trolls (e.g. John Susser, James A Rosen) on Twitter reflect on what they have done with their careless and frankly ignorant comments, and also that Brit Ruby 2013 finds new sponsors as soon as possible.

I still believe there must be a chance Brit Ruby 2013 is going to be reality. Don't give up, guys.
I did read what you wrote. You just spelled out a very common fallacy.

It is racist, and/or sexist. It's just a kind of wholesale discrimination, visavis the retail, personalized kind of racism/sexism we're more accustomed to.

It's not intentionally evil, there may not be any malice behind it, but it's still… discriminatory.

As white dudes, it's especially hard to see as we're largely unaffected by it, blah blah privilege, etc.
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The Israeli policy of Palestinian suppression is to blame. Suppression and violence breeds terrorism and insurgency, and the civilian population of Israel (just like the civilian population of Gaza) suffers for it.

Change your policies. Violence breeds violence, civilian or otherwise.
Well, considering half of the population is under the age of 18, I would say no, the "population" did not elect Hamas.
It was an experiment with results that he told everyone not to blindly copy. But tons of fools copied him anyway, tweaking the wording to be more grating and obnoxious, littering the Internet with trash.
I wish people wouldn't upvote this. This is a javascript timer with some audio. People made this stuff in the 90s, probably even before that.

You're on Hackernews, not the frontpage of Reddit.
It's not either/or. Actual protection and the appearance of protection are separate problems, which is one of the reasons it is such a complex issue.

Also, Israel and the US are not easy to compare. The types of threats, population sizes, and public opinion are so different that it probably would not make sense to go for the Israel approach in the US. That said, Israel is a testbed for approaches that the US sometimes adopts.
The odd assassination aside, Israel is a democracy. You are responsible for your government just like I am for mine.

Make a real peace with the Palestinians and end these horrors!
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Glad to hear about the positive outcome, I followed the original thread and was similarly impressed by the outpouring of support.
Agreed. Thankfully, the author made a somewhat subtler point--that being included because of some identity instead of skill is to be avoided.

It's a small, but important, difference.