skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great for me as a Google shareholder. Bad as an Angeleno fighting SoCal traffic.

No GPS/maps system seems to offer the option for FasTrak or carpool lane.

No GPS/maps system offers a way to tell a driver in a carpool lane if they have to change several lanes to the right to merge onto another freeway, or if there is a new carpool lane opening up to your left that takes you directly onto the next freeway you way to get on.

This is what happens when you have an oligopoly (Garmin, Google/Waze, Apple) and everyone's product, design and sales people are in the Valley or Tel Aviv and not more driver-centric cities with much more traffic and orders of magnitude more route options like Los Angeles.
To be fair, pure democracy in Athens led to all kind of disasters as the crowd was easily swayed by demagogues like Alcibiades, leading to disastrous foreign adventures like the sicillian expedition in the Peloponnesian war (A war like no other is a great book on this). It's hardly a model we should emulate.

I prefer the mediated kind of democracy (in spite of the tendency to oligarchy) as at least it tempers the rule of the mob.
You guys don't seem to get sarcasm. Obviously, I realize my statement is not literal (hence, the 100 heart attacks). I'm surprised someone didn't point out that Cheney has only had 3 heart attacks.
The ever popular pro business (multi-national mega corp flavor) type solution: turn your country into a hell hole, and we'll make it a better hell hole, we promise!

Like another poster astutely put: create an underclass, and diminish their country's cultural heritage.
We switched from hand-configured boxes and a long, "full stack local" setup document to chef + vagrant at my current company (http://parse.ly).

Though it caused some kicking & screaming on the development team, the end result is that every developer has the same development environment, which pretty much matches our deployment environment (in Rackspace Cloud). I also just kicked off our summer intern class, and the interns were able to get productive with our codebase in 1 day despite not having much experience with modern Python web development, because pretty much every local setup step was automated.

I consider the tool invaluable. I don't even install any databases or tools directly on my laptop any longer. With its handy port forwarding feature, you can put all your DBs on a VM, yet still connect w/ CLI clients via your host machine. Then when you do "vagrant halt", all your DBs shut down at once and you free all those resources / memory / etc.

Also, one suggestion -- look into the debug logging level that you can set with an environmental variable. The only thing I found frustrating about Vagrant were situations where it would hang/fail but it wouldn't be clear why. It turns out their debug logging is quite good.
As far as I can tell from the wikipedia article, the US doesn't have to /get rid/ of the nuclear weapons, it just can't "proliferate" them.
It is nearly impossible to know definitively what to eat, but it seems like a reasonable approach is to: eat lots of organic vegetables, some organic fruit, limit meat intake, and perhaps take some vitamins.

It drives my wife crazy (because she is pro-vitamins) when I take specific vitamins just 2 or 3 times a week. I have a weekly pill dispenser and I randomly put in 2 or 3 each of vitamins E/D/C, and Coq10, calcium, magnesium, etc.

My thinking is that we evolved as hunter gatherers and we would not get the same nutrition every day, so why not mix it up a bit in modern times? I am fairly sure that I get what I need from my diet (I am a card-carrying food junkie; my food web site: http://cookingspace.com) but taking small random amounts of vitamins during the week maybe helps. Who knows. I think that it is as important how you eat (i.e., eat very slowly, appreciate the food) as what you eat.
From a crypto/security approach there is no difference between a self-signed certificate and from an "offical" CA.

In terms of trust, your mileage may vary.
If you've ever had to stay up all night trying to get a site back up during a DDoS attack you'd know there was more damage than just lost revenue.
I think to most people, the fact that a comment is a statement of a person's opinion is part of the face value.
On my Mac, using VMware was rougly 4 times faster than VirtualBox, particularly when running very long puppet scripts and using memory. I was very happy to pay for the VMware Fusion support and to buy VMware Fusion in the first place (it is 10x better than Parallels for the VM client drivers alone). The tricky bits for me were, at least a few months ago, some of the commands were different and of course the base OS VMs should be different given different client drivers. But it is possible to have one Vagrantfile serve both VirtualBox and VMware Fusion, so devs can choose which environment works best for them.
Except it does include North Korea. As I stated in my previous post.

Plus Tloewald's post was satire, pointing out that many countries that are not considered evil (namely USA - in his example) have committed far worse atrocities under their government than Singapore ever has has. Thus it's a bit of a stretch to call Singapore's government evil over this news item. Tloewald's point wasn't meant to be taken as a literal checklist for what constitutes as an "evil government".
Good point! Sloth and inertia usually allows me to use the work of others in this case (XML DOM, when appropriate), though, but that doesn't make it internally simply (or efficient).
Ask HN: Useful services for static websites
Disqus would be a prime example of this, but what are other interesting services that can bring static website to life?

Outside of littering the site with social iframes, that is.

Plugs welcomed! :)

EDIT:
Suggested rewording of the question - how to build feature rich dynamic services on low cost vps machines?
I didn't, but had js off. Tried again with a clean (different) browser, no plugins, still no hijack. Now I want to know what causes it :(
Why not just run a recursive grep? That would save having to invoke grep on every single file found.

findit() {
grep -iHR $1 .
}

Alternately, you could use the '+' variant of -exec in order to batch files together to be processed together.
I answered this above.

Occupation is one reason the kamikaze may feel like a cornered rat. Indirect occupation is another.

This can be because the perpetrator (USA) is giving weapons to the actual occupier (Israel), because the perpetrator is implementing a sanctions/embargo regime amounting to a mediaeval siege that killed half a million, mostly children (Iraq) or because the perpetrator has installed a "government" in your country to do the occupation for it (Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Ethiopia etc etc etc Saudi Arabia).

If you google for the jihadis' motives, you'll find that they mention all three.

Given that the actual 911 attackers were Saudis, I would have thought that US sponsored tyranny in Saudi Arabia would have been their main motive, but it appears that they were significantly motivated by fellow-feeling for Palestinians.
Likely stuff like http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/07/researchers-bypass... - basically, the encryption is fine, but you need somewhere to store your keys. "Somewhere" ends up being RAM, which is usually not very secure.
have more children and open up to immigration
I'd doubt that's possible. The NSA has the best mathematicians and cryptologists in the world. They probably also have the most.
That happend to a coworker of mine last summer where he got to take his kid into seeing the cockpit of the plane they were flying in.

Granted this plane wasn't bound for the US, but still I was very happy about that; the kid was happy.
From his wikipedia:

"Following graduation Banks chose a succession of jobs that left him free to write in the evenings. These posts supported his writing throughout his twenties and allowed him to take long breaks between contracts, during which time he travelled through Europe, Scandinavia and North America. He was an expediter analyser for IBM, a technician (for British Steel) and a costing clerk for a Chancery Lane, London law firm during this period of his life.[4]"

Kind of inspiring. Most of my generation (I am 23) want instant gratification and won't eat shit like a guy like Banks would in order to support what he really liked to do.
I'm curious about the notion of the so-called '4G lifestyle' which could be partially defined as an unhealthy fixation on technological substitutes to face-to-face communication, as Safran Foer describes in his piece. Perhaps smartphones (and now Google's Glass Project) are the most iconic manifestations of diminished substitutes fueling these robotic behaviours you mention.
OpenLoopz for Android v2.0 Released
"He is definitely an expert."

Medicine is a very big field. Indeed, so big that being a pediatrician, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and publishing 100-odd papers doesn't make someone an expert on the very specific topic of human use of antioxidants. That is, unless the 100-odd papers are related to the human use of antioxidants.
List of Countries by Incarceration Rate
I'd also imagine that it's far easier to just go after the sources (whoever is allegedly forking over the data). Not to mention that it's probably much better organized at the source than in some sort of data dump format. Just a guess, though.
"""They carried bibles, written statements, peace banners, spray paint, flower, candles, small baby bottles of blood, bread, hammers with biblical verses on them and wire cutters. Their intent was to follow the words of Isaiah 2:4: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”"""
That's what I meant. Maybe it doesn't explicitly say that's what the written statements said, though.
And trespassing and damaging fences just anywhere, sure, that'd be nuts, but this is a nuclear weapons facility! More time is to be expected for breaking into government property with questionable intentions like that. They must have known what they were possibly getting into when they did this. 10 years is a bit excessive but it's not surprising.
Yea, this also struck me rather hard.

http://xkcd.com/931/
This has been my question in this whole mess, if we assume NSA can and does subpoena the keys and certs as opposed to the direct data (and the NSA were copying data en masse, which now seems likely) would that not make HTTPS essentially useless?
> What you are attributing to superstition (e.g. consuming more leafy greens) is in fact more often than not rational decision making based on admittedly limited information.

Perhaps I have not made my case clearly. Magical thinking has two parts: the first is being wrong (although that's not essential for magical thinking; it can be accidentally true); the second -- and this is what distinguishes magical thinking and superstition from mere false belief -- is its motivation to action. People believe many things that are wrong, but superstition is the false belief that changes their behavior.

My claim is that healthy food falls under the category of superstition, or magical thinking, because people so readily turn what you call limited information into action. What we may think of as "classical superstition", say fear of black cats, was also based on limited information. I'm sure there was plenty of evidence to suggest black cats are harbingers of bad luck. So, fearing black cats could be classified as rational action.

But fear of black cats, same as the healthy-food religion, is superstition precisely because it is a belief people accept based on lower standards of evidence than they would in other aspects of their lives, and at the same time motivates them to take action. Why? Because they want to believe it. It makes them either afraid or hopeful.
This seems like something that people will look back on 100 years from now and state how bazaar and awful it was. How do we start the process of turning this around?

Is anyone on HN involved in any organization trying to stop this?
Given a massive amount of debt and a problem with deflation, isn't Japan in an ideal position for an aggressive negative income tax?

Imagine inflating by printing money and distributing equally among all citizens. Domestic price increases would be offset by the extra cash and the real debt would decrease accordingly. Why would that not work?
If you're a scientist and objective observer you publish papers on a topic. You write a book to make money on that topic.
Vagrant is a nice tool, but I don't like the closed-open source part of it. There are 289 open issues and 79 open pull requests on github right now. It feels like there is a huge community out there who want to move this project forward, but there is the bottleneck of having only one committer who wants to have too much control over it. It's fine and the author can do what he wants, but I'm wondering what the project could achieve if it was more open to contributions and more people could actively work on it.

As a user, looking at those 289 open issues with only one developer, I don't feel at all encouraged to open a new one or send a pull request, because I just see a huge pile of things that the committer will have to wade through before getting to mine.
I would strongly encourage US citizens (and citizens of liberal countries around the world) to continue to press firmly for their civil liberties. But let's not convince ourselves that the situation is (yet) anything close to the genuine authoritarian regimes (or indeed totalitarian regimes) that still abound on this planet.
Not the smartest thing to do when you give people a monetary incentive to have kids... especially people who should not have kids.

Bad kids/people cost more than no kids/people.
Creating a true REST API
I'm a yankee transplant (just to show that I didnt grow up around it) in the New Orleans area and I eat oysters 3-4 times per week (for more than 2 years). Sometimes cooked, sometimes raw. It's like bar food around here.
They can know your location, but at least no one will know what you're doing.
This abuse of the Patriot Act must end
If you don't want to deal with possible legal issues running an exit node you could get servers using an anonymous prepaid credit card and made up contact info. If LE ever subpoenas your provider you can just shut the server down and abandon it.

(IANAL, may not be legal in all countries)
"You could promote immigration of younger workers, but then you stop being a Japanese nation and inflict an underclass on all your posterity. "

Just like the way that the Jews, Irish, Italians, and Asians form an "underclass" in the United States?
Cool, I wasn't aware of a -R flag in grep for some reason. I need to go back and re-read the man pages...
If you're running secure site, you should use your certificate & signature. Even then NSA could well be capable of creating fake certificate, but it would be expensive. But that would stop others without huge computing capacity. Of course this requires that you're able to deliver your own CA information securely to your site users. Also end users should disable trust for any browser/OS build-in CAs.
The Android team has already done this: http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/hello-stack...

As has Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/545/

And perhaps others; these are not one-offs, StackOverflow has a policy of setting up these kinds of relationships.
This is sort of off-topic, but it would be nice if there was a convenient way to know if a pundit is a complete buffoon - like a score based on how many correct or incorrect predictions he's made. Points off for saying Iraq would be a cakewalk and had nuclear weapons, and that houses in Las Vegas were a good investment in 2005. You could save a few minutes of your life and a few neurons by skipping articles by people who make those kinds of predictions.

I have no idea who Mauldin is, or whether he can be expected to give a balanced view of an issue I don't know much about.
There was a sign right on the fence claiming that the maximum penalty was one year.
Such a sad day.
If that's the culture of HN then I bow to it.

However, I've never interpreted our community to be like that. On this forum I don't expect to hear

The discrepancy between how much jail time the people who upset the government get, and the people who commit real crimes is getting bigger

without evidence any more than I expect to hear

database server X is becoming faster than database server Y

without evidence.
"""For those who are saying America is worse than China or Russia, mind that the data of China and Russia's historical imprisonment data is not well-documented and they were more prone to using executions."""

Yes, but he also didn't add the massacres and concentration camps for Native Americans (of which, Hitler writes in his Main Kampf that it was an "inspiring" solution to the problem), or the enslavement (any different than prison?) of black slaves, and their executions, lynching.
Employee surveys and questionnaires
> Why would modern fruit contain "more sugar"? More sugar than when? How much more sugar? Who miraculously put the extra sugar in the fruit?

Selective breeding, of course. Modern vegetables are, in general, less bitter than in earlier times. Fruits are often sweeter---and easier to farm industrially and bring to market. Also, we live off less different kinds of fruit and vegetables than in earlier times. There used to be hundreds of different apples in widespread use for examples.

Not saying that it's necessarily bad. Just that pron's hypothetical argument isn't actually all that hypothetical.
I had the complete opposite reaction to his transcript.

Bradley Manning struck me as likely suffering from a level of mental disorder which renders him unable to discern whether or not something belonged in the 'public domain.'

"I'm in the desert, with a bunch of hyper-masculine trigger-happy ignorant rednecks as neighbors."

These are not the words of a hero. More importantly, these are not the words of someone acting rationally. These are the words of someone who leaked massive amounts of information without knowing what the information was. In some cases -- like the Baghdad airstrike video -- the information was important to bring to light; in other cases, like Cablegate, the information caused hundreds of diplomats and journalists to fear for their lives.

Bradley Manning, in my opinion, is a terrible example of a whistleblower, and if anything undermined the effort for transparency.
Blog post from the owner of that Twitter account:

Nothing to hide
http://danielsieradski.com/nothing-to-hide/14572
Even if the get better, some of them might get the power and time to do stuff that more people will consider bad.

I have no idea if Dick Cheney got better or worse with age, for example, but being VP under Bush certainly gave him a far better opportunity for stuff people disliked about him to be noticed.
I know what excuses jihadis use for their terror. I just don't think any of them are reasonable, including the ones you listed above.
24 days until death - Blog d'un condamné
The decline in Japanese fertility has been going on for 40 years now, one wonders what it would take.

Various authors I read say no society has ever recovered from their (beyond) "lowest low" fertility rate.
There is a lot of business available dealing with prisons. The prisons are open to do anything they can do to gouge the prisoners and families for money. Your ideas sound more like "slap prison on an idea", when the real process is "What do such families do, how can we impose 'taxes' on stuff they already do or need to do?"
I know it's been posted when he had 30 days until death. Not he has only 24 days...
What a shame. One of the most brilliant authors of his generation - I'd urge everyone here to read Use of Weapons, which is storytelling done right.
Not trusting Israel has as much to do with hating Jews as not trusting the Vatican has to do with hating Catholics.

Google is significantly less under the thumb of the Israeli government than any Israeli company is. If push came to shove Google could close their Tel Aviv operations rather than comply. They couldn't do the same with the US government and any Israeli company couldn't do the same with the Israeli government.
There may be people imprisoned for victimless crimes, but you would have to be very naive to think the US wasn't a genuinely more dangerous place with more victimfull crime than other developed countries.

Most US kids have been educated in government schools before, during, and after the crime wave of the 60s-early 90s.

What restrictions keep people poor and desperate? Name a specific one, if one exists.
This idea would naturally develop into personally curated site based on your voting preferences, i.e. Amazon for news.
> With the location information it is possible to correlate the exit information via pattern matching, though it would take considerable analysis, this can be done by logging volume and timing information on the two sides. I am sure there are even better techniques to analyze exit/entry correlations, especially if you're not using a secure browser.

I've thought the same. But I've also thought that if this is indeed possible, why does Silk Road still exist? Or does this analysis only apply Tor clients connecting to websites, and not Tor hidden services?
So, any time an article like this comes along, I think something like "interesting, I guess I should go out and short the Yen... but wait, if everyone is already shorting the Yen, won't that already be baked into the price?" s/Yen/Gold/g or whatnot.

I've sometimes thought that I should just bet against all seemingly persuasive investment articles like this one on the principle that the market will essentially over-indulge in said advice and have to correct in the opposite direction. (Would be interesting to test that theory with historical data.) Case in point: I bought a few silver ETF shares a while ago on the theory stated (by lots of people like SeekingAlpha and the like) that quantitative easing will cause inflation and people will rush to precious metals. (Well, that and I probably have a thing for silver/gold.) Since then, it's dropped over a third. Now I'm a little more cautious about betting on macro-economic trends...
"Vitamins A, D and E are widely known to cause hypervitaminosis."

I don't think so.

Might someone please provide me with documented cases of vitamin E hypervitaminosis (including the dosage level of course) in humans. I've never found one.

I've known persons who took 20,000 to 40,000 UI of vitamin E per day for six months and to all appearances benefited from it. Yes, you read that right, 20K-40K IU - about 100X the common 400 IU daily dose, which some consider high.

Chickens, on the other hand, seem to produce fewer eggs when given larger amounts of vitamin E.

My personal belief is that testing doesn't occur at levels high enough to show the true efficacy of vitamin E.
How proxies fail
So practically speaking, how would a normal person go about trying to capitalize on this analysis?
The question, 'can a great nation fail to inflate its own currency?', seems a little silly. I'm reminded a little bit of Brad DeLong's 'widowmaker':

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/05/the-washington-super-w...
Waze never was anything but an Israeli company, so I don't understand Salim's comment, and I've removed the part about hate, because it was to political.
"The importance of metadata for surveillance cannot be overestimated"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
Sorry, this is just too silly. No wonder you are arguing so vigorously - your ignorance is astounding.
I will bow myself out.
David Foster Wallace, Kenyon, 2005 - Top Commencement Speeches
Github has a proven business model.
ASUS Shows Off its PQ321 4K Monitor at Computex
Possibly two of the most brilliant :)

RIP writer man...