skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plausible, but you forget that Russian does not actually HAVE to extradite him.

To be honest, the guy is not a criminal. He reveled abuses of the American Government to the public, but has not done so in a way that compromises any real defense projects or puts lives in danger. He may have everything, but he has not exposed everything. He carefully put out precisely what the NSA was doing illegally, and nothing else.

The DOJ's own rules expressly forbid charging whistle-blowers with the exact charges they are using. These things need to be brought to the public with proof before things change for the better. We are supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of the scrutinized.

We have laws against wiretapping, and Constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure for a reason. Prism and the rest of the data gatherers are flat out wrong without a warrant and a very narrowly targeted subject. Transparently collecting the data they collect and having to ask a federal judge for discovery in a way that becomes public and can go to a real trial would make a major difference. Not perhaps enough to make it legal, but at least would have been much better than just hiding it all.
"According to the government, Snowden is a traitor. According to many frequent HN readers, the government is completely out of the control. Neither of these claims is true..."

Ummm, I'm not sure if you are an American, or not, but those of us who believe in the US Constitution, as well as its Bill of Rights, know that the words contained therein are the only thing stopping our government from becoming another East Germany/North Korea style police state.

The 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America plainly lays out the right of the people to be secure in their persons, papers, and effects (the communications media of the era,) and it also spells out the requirements which the government must meet in order to breach that right to privacy. The current domestic surveillance program fails to meet these requirements on many levels.

Perhaps you don't find the abrogation of our Bill of Rights to be evidence of a government gone "completely out of the control." but a vast number of "We the People" are outraged at a great many of the acts being done in our name, without our consent.

Secret courts, secret judges, secret police, secret wars, secret torture...

Does any of that sound familiar?

The terrorism excuse is flimsy at best, especially in light of the fact that exponentially fewer Americans are harmed by terrorist acts than are killed by drunk driving on an annual basis.
Prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all of the terrorist acts in the last 10 years combined.

It seems that those who would choose to marginalize the fact that our government has overstepped its mandate would rather shun the intent of the very Bill of Rights which made America the beacon of freedom and liberty for all.

History has a way of repeating itself, and those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

This "silly little game" is neither silly, nor little, this issue deals with an attack upon our Bill of Rights, which so many have fought and died for.
So given a maximally (because there is obviously a limit before it becomes gross right?) high fat ice cream, you are claiming it won't have smaller ice crystals using liquid nitrogen compared to traditional methods?
All of these arguments would also be valid for a post in the early 80's entitled "Why the Walkman Will Fail."
Uber is deliberately blurring the lines by offering "Uber Taxi" alongside the black car service; they are putting themselves directly into competition with regulated cab services. Uber Taxi isn't intended to be a market substitute for cab service; it's intended as a replacement for cab service.

Incidentally, the "on-demand" nature of taxicabs versus the "call-ahead" nature of car services is not a distinction made in every city or state. Arlington's "taxi cab" definition pretty clearly captures car services as well.
I've been running OpenVZ for years - It works very well.

LXC is built into the kernel directly, rather than a patch, which is very nice.

So far as I can see, Docker is just some nice wrapper scripts around LXC, nothing particularly revolutionary in and of itself.
I'm on a 100 mbit up/down connection, and it was still really slow.
Actually, a connoisseur is someone who can say, "I don't like it, but most other connoisseurs will also say it's good [as long as you don't blind the test]."
I hope he/she does but based on everything said so far I'm going to speculate it's something in the social media gaming space (i.e. the space Zynga plays in).

There was ridiculous money and growth to be had early on in the Facebook gaming race but I imagine it's extremely hard to get traction now.
Funny, I was literally just thinking it was incredibly snappy for all the large images, and fairly intricate styling.
I agree strongly about coloring whites red and calling foul on well-meaning participants. Sure a lot of these guys might be pretentious, smarmy jerks but that's no excuse to act like this is any sort of meaningful exercise. This could just as easily lead to the conclusion that humans taste, to some extent, based on what they're expecting.

For example, if I was told I was drinking milk from a glass but it was actually filled with beer, I would probably not take more than the first drink even though I really like beer. This example is a bit far but I'm just saying expectation means a lot.
Also, if terrorists really do avoid Gmail, Skype and cell phones because of surveillance than the surveillance has a definitive effect of making the terrorists less effective because they are using inferior communication.
Electric taxiing demo shows how existing planes can become more efficient
It is not meaningless if you are using the exact same wine in both tests as the author points out.
And still, Git, compared to most centralized VCSes, forces you to consciously design the versioning workflow. Where will the repositories be, who pushes where under what circumstances, what repo makes the golden releases, will you merge the upstream into feature branches or will you rebase, all that.

That makes it harder to introduce Git in an organization where nobody brings along enough Git experience to design all that upfront.
I guess we were both lucky then (you more so than me, but thats just opinion at this point)!

Risk compensation also applies to drunk drivers, but no one argues that driving drunk is just as risky as driving sober. Yes, it plays a part in the whole equation, but it doesnt necessarily discredit the theory!

Just because other people take bigger risks while cycling with helmets on, doesnt mean that we should write off helmets. They can be very effective when combined safe cycling practices, and perhaps thats how that information can be made useful.

'you could think more deeply about an issue that is much more complicated than "it's bad to injure your head"'

Are you about to argue that head injuries could be considered good? Please enlighten this simple thinker.
COBOL, like Star Trek, needs a new generation
Hah, that's funny, but I disagree.

The walkman delivered value I couldn't get otherwise. I wanted to carry an extra device because I wanted music, and I couldn't play music otherwise. (Unless I carried a boombox on my shoulder, which some people did in awesome rap videos).

Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone. It takes pictures...faster...but I can already take pictures with my phone.
Can we use transcranial magnetic stimulation as a substitute for deep brain stimulation? This would prevent that need to penetrate the skull, brain, etc.
I thought the conclusion was that using different language to describe wines according to color is unnecessary. Seems like a pretty good hypothesis for further testing to me.

> They described the red in language typical of reds and the white in language typical of whites.
For a second there I thought this was about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
Nope! Wine isn't bullshit. Painfully overpriced anything is bullshit, but then that usually (as in this case) ends up being a matter of opinion.

I'm a fan of Scotch whiskey, and I think Johnny Walker Blue Label is usually worth the price. Would it be worth it to someone who doesn't already enjoy Scotch? Absolutely not; it'd taste like turpentine, and turpentine is cheap.

I'm also a fan of very dark beer. Is Young's Double Chocolate Stout bullshit? Sure as hell not to me, but my girlfriend would probably tell you it's awful shit, so clearly to her it is.

So much of so many things is subjective. This is one of them, and it's one of those times where your opinion, my opinion, and everyone else's opinion is worth exactly dick (and yet they're all worth exactly the same amount of dick). If you like it as much as the person who priced it, then yeah, perhaps it's worth it to you; if not, then yeah, it's bullshit. To you. Just don't try to declare that particular amount as an objective measurement. :)
Then those people can be offended, it's their right, no? I have a cousin who is retarded but I don't wince every time someone says or writes the word.

I didn't say autistic as an insult to those people but as a way to colorfully describe behaviour that is typical of people with autism.
For cab service, Uber rides are serviced by already existing metro cab companies. The Uber cabs in here in Chicago were already licensed cabs, but now they can get dispatched via Uber. How is that any different from say, a cab company deciding to dispatch its drivers with their own in-house iPhone app? Do you think that would that be allowed under these regulations?
> Just remember being in a "habitable zone" is but one, small necessary (and by itself absolutely insufficient) condition for actually being "habitable" or sustaining life.

It's not even a necessary condition. The 'habitable zone' is based on the possible presence of water on the surface of the planet, which it is argued makes it more likely life could have evolved. But, it isn't a requirement, at least as we understand it. For example, Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is well outside the habitable zone but is believed to have a sub surface water ocean that could be capable of spawning life.
Evidence of nominative determinism?
I think it's better this way...
The articles entire point is that price does not indicate quality. You are agreeing with the author.
Unless you are specifically making a recommendation to somebody else ("I don't like this, but you might."), how does that work for any meaningful definition of "good"?

Do you mean something along the lines of "precise"? Like, "I don't like this, but it is exactly as its maker intended it to be."? I wouldn't describe such things as "good".
Somewhat related; if you accelerate at a constant 9G it would take around 3 months to reach the speed of light.
What do you mean undetected? Aren't you saying that we should ignore them and not spend energy looking for them?

You have to at least be consistent with your argument.
my CPU went from 5% to 95% after viewing though haha
the tech industry would do much better if it would circumvent VC by going B2C...
Poetic: "Antes de Morir, Yo quiero Dormir."
Here you go, straight from the "outside group": http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/14/irs-sent-confidential-info...
Some of us love both...
I thought I'm the only one who hates his color scheme. Use stylish chrome extension to fix it, because jwz will never change it.
It depends on what "goes down" means. The vast, vast majority of such issues are transient: the node panics or loses power and comes back up. There's no impact to data availability or durability unless all nodes storing a copy of the same object are down at the same time.

It's a good question. Sounds like we should document or write up a blog post about the gory details.
You speak as if the government doesn't have programs that track sharks or bedbugs.
It all takes like crap to me, the only label I look for is 'sale'.
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Correct, docker is not an implementation of linux containers. The heavy lifting is done by lxc (and alternatives like openvz).

What docker brings is a way for backend developers to package and distribute their app into portable, sandboxed containers (think "iphone apps for the server").

This is only possible now that linux has decent container support, because it means the vast majority of servers out there can potentially run a docker container unmodified.
The one I use is not on the list. Good!
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Great stuff there, I actually learnt from what I thought was an interactive tutorial for beginners. The commands (like 'reset' to go back to the beginning of a level) are not that straightforward from the beginning though. Also I haven't found how to actually see your solution yet (not that I have really searched for it, but it would be nice to have a big button).
He said that on March 30, 2012, NOM became aware that the Human Rights Campaign, the pro-gay rights group, obtained confidential information of its donors and posted the information without redacting the names. That information later appeared on websites like the Huffington Post.
NOM discovered another document with redactions that had been posted. A computer analysis, after removing the document's redaction layer, discovered the document had "originated from within the IRS itself." He said the group found the header of each page read: “THIS IS A COPY OF A LIVE RETURN FROM SMIPS. OFFICIAL USE ONLY." And that was proof that the leak originated from the IRS.

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>Why would you expect the selling price to translate to quality?

Because of the massive wine snobbery industry focused on shaping your wine preferences to match to "official" rulings?

>For an apt example, could I sit you down at a computer and have you tell me the price of a video game?

No, but there's no elite/elitist group built around convincing everyone that $60 games really are better (except the advertisers themselves, which allows you to account for the bias).

I think you're misrepresenting the criticism: it's not that "hey, more expensive wines might not be right for everyone"; rather, it's that "... so why all the puffery around convincing people otherwise?"
Yes: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9R6MI0G0.htm
Uber Cab is a relatively new addition- when people discuss "Uber" they are usually referring to the black car service.
In "eyes of the people is what justice is all about" please replace "people" with "court".

Sorry, not enough coffee.
That implies that the people who push and pay for guns and rockets would ever allocate that money to food or clothes, if it wasn't spent for the former.

As far as resourcing goes food and clothing is as easy a problem to solve as the U.S. will ever encounter; it is the will to solve it that is necessary.
Vast majority of malware attacks spawned from legit sites
Let's talk about something akin to the "malolactic fermentation" bit.

Red wines are red because when they ferment the juice, they leave the grape peels in the barrel. The peel's color is what give a wine that dark red color hue. (Try squeezing the juice out of red grapes. You'll find that the outcome doesn't have the same color as red wine!)

Now, peels have things called "tannins" which give fruit peels their bitter flavor.

If you've ever had tea which was steeped for a very long time, and is thus very bitter, you are tasting tannins.

Which is an interesting point - we would all easily tell the difference between strongly-brewed tea and mild tea. Or coffee. And we might have a preference for one versus the other.

The taste of wine - being that it is "brewed" in grape skins - is affected in an identical way! But we never ask "is tea bullshit?" because we can all very well tell the difference between certain flavors of tea.

This is why the "red food coloring" part gets to me. A red wine that was lightly steeped is likely to taste similar to a white wine! There's not enough information to know.

This is not to say that marketing, color, price, etc are not huge factors in the enjoyment of wine.

But at the end of the day, the taste of wine is affected by the same things that would affect any other fruit or leaf-based food, so the idea that wine is any more bullshit than eggs, maple syrup, or tea doesn't really coincide with our personal experiences.
You're right of course, in explaining how there are opposing interests.

That said, do you think that these granted monopolies have turned out to be a flawed model, that Uber is proof that innovation has been stifled, and now it's just entrenched money holding back progress?
I'm not jealous of San Fransisco. We've got Mardi Gras, Jeni's Splend, and Graeters within walking or driving distance. Columbus, OH is where the ice cream is.
Looks and feels pretty good (though I'm not sure how they'll keep it in business).

I believe i came across it the other day and brushed off because I didn't see a Register link (not signing up with Google or Facebook anywhere). But I logged in today and was fairly surprised to see the number of features available to the readers.

The key to any good Reader is the availability of the customizing features for the end-users, plus of course the speed and scalability. As soon as I plugged in HN feed to inoreader, I saw thousands of feeds fetched ready for me to scroll quickly. That's a first good sign.
City taxis are legally required to go where you tell them to. They may not, but you have legal recourse. Uber could quite conceivably say "nah, not interested" and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
i read rss only on desktop so i choose The Old Reader
Cars do not deliberately kill people for thinking the wrong kind of thought. The victims of random car accidents were not killed for their political viewpoint, for speaking out against the wrong candidate, for being of the wrong religion, or for the colour of their skin. Terrorism threatens the entire society by discouraging people from exercising their rights and freedoms, and replacing that society's law with the whims of whoever can muster the most violent force.
Yes, taste is subjective, it also has objective properties which can be understood and reveal meaning beyond simple "like/don't".

Wine, sushi, coffee, steak ... all certainly revel in their subjective "I like it" properties, but also have discernible properties which few have sampled & studied enough to have reliable understanding and meaningful opinions on. The better wines I've had usually correspond to higher prices. Omakase (thanks for the tip) is served by someone who knows why, objectively, it will taste better. Few people have had really good coffee (let me roast & brew you a cup), so they don't know that such flavors can even exist, why they occur, and don't consider making anything of it when experienced unexpected (beyond a momentary "hey, that's good"). Steakhouse offerings can be indistinguishable from what comes off the backyard grill ... or can be moments of enlightenment (my word that one at Stoney River 6 years ago was incredible, and the one that preceded it at the same sitting was worth sending back for replacement).

The problem with such popular "$5 and $500 wines are indistinguishable" pronouncements is they rally people around ignorance. While, sure, poor expensive wines and cheap good ones exist, most people don't understand what they're tasting enough to develop an appreciation thereof. There are objective differences, and once those are understood your whole perspective on "good" changes.
Last I looked at it, Turbolinks parsed the <head> section of the incoming request to see if any assets (which was basically...count the script/link nodes) changed. If they did, it went ahead and redirected to the requested URL, since it couldn't be sure that assets hadn't changed.

This meant that anything page-specific in your <head> caused Turbolinks to double the work your app had do to, and provided no positive benefit at all.

I'll check and see how it's behaving now.

Edit: Looks like concerned assets are now tagged with a data attribute. Glad that's in there now.
The deal Chicago has with taxi cabs is that street hails are reserved for regulated medallion taxi cabs; in exchange for that, the medallion owners are required to maintain vehicles, insurance, and coverage areas, and are required to comply with the billing procedures set up by Chicago.

Uber currently uses Chicago tax company drivers directly, but doesn't comply with the regulations the medallion owners are required to comply with --- for instance, Uber adds 20% to the fares, which is something cab companies can't do. Uber's defense for this is that using an iPhone to get a cab isn't a "street hail"; the cab companies argue that they're equivalent. We'll see who wins.
At the risk of being that ass who self promotes, you should check out the service myself and a friend launched yesterday:

http://bulletin.io is a fast, easy to use RSS reading service that has an open Google Reader lookalike API as well as our own OAuth implementation. Open to feedback from everyone.
I think Glass will be awesome in certain areas, mostly related with work than pleasure. I am not an example that represents the whole, but my guess that the work field will be the Glass' nirvana and the rest will be covered by devices less obstructives with your look.
The point being a referral based system incentivizes people to bring in quantity to stack the odds in their favor. Quality gets sidetracked, not necessarily maliciously.
Am I the only one here that think this system won't scale?
There's a huge gap between "20 years from now, we won't die as quickly as people born in 1900" and "20 years from now, people will live four times as long as they do in 2013." The former is quite likely. The latter is pretty far out there.
Something about it didn't click for me. It all felt very superficial. Sometimes the "rails way" doesn't mesh with the business logic you are required to implement.
Programming real-time computer systems (2013^h^h^h^h 1965)