skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously we don't know the details of the agreement so we can't actually know much of anything. Presumably the government itself isn't buying the flowers so I'd assume its more of free trade kind of deal so no tariffs or lesser tariffs are imposed on Ecuadorean imports.

The removal of the agreement wouldn't then be embargo/sanctions, it would mean normally trade that other countries conduct with the US. So the price for US importers would increase and so at the margin as you rightly point out there would be some loss of profit and some loss of sales. We don't know how much though, and we don't know if those could be replaced by other purchasers and if so at at what price reduction.

In any event it wouldn't be a loss of $23m a realistic estimate might be closer to 10% of that so around $2-3m. For a country with $5bn in oil exports that's chump change and given that its a leftist government any local workers that suffer will probably be have a decent social safety net in place until they get back on their feet.
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The best part:

"In a cheeky jab at the U.S. spying program that Snowden unveiled through leaks to the media, the South American nation offered $23 million per year to finance human rights training."
Oh I totally agree that they're not doing it - it falls at the fact that as much power as the NSA has in America, there's no way they're convincing Korean and Japanese phone manufacturers to add a single penny to their BOM. I was just refuting the idea that it would be impossible to do.
> okay, tell me a python library comes with consistent hashing?

Nydus uses the same Ketama algorithm that you use, but I suppose it might not have had that feature when you started to work on Redis Router.

Also, pretty much every up-to-date client library in nearly every popular language, such as PHP, Ruby, C#, and Java.

I'm not complaining about the fact that you created a neat Python library for Redis. My complaint is about the standalone server feature. I don't see why it's needed because nearly every popular language has native libraries that implement consistent hashing (not HASH MOD N), often using the exact same algorithm you're using. So I went looking for bells and whistles that might justify the standalone server, and unfortunately I found none.
My impression is that both programs rely heavily on in-network recommendations, and the programs largely have non-overlapping networks.
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"Anyone that can scale their abilities to the national/global market is going to be paid more money."

Sure, but when (as someone commented below) 40% of the profits in the US economy come from this one sector, you're going to get quite a lot of people that are able to take home the silly money, compared to other sectors.
Kubuntu plans to steer clear of Mir and switch to Wayland
> So, coding the configuration of your application is an ideal way to work. Interesting.

You're coding it one way or another; whether you do the whole thing in Python, or most of it in Java and some of it in XML (or YAML, JSON, etc.) because Java is inconvenient.

The main motivation for using XML (YAML, JSON, etc. are equivalent for this purpose) "configuration" over Java "coding" for certain pieces is that:
1. XML, unlike Java, doesn't need to be AOT compiled
2. XML is more naturally suited than Java to a succinct declarative style
3. Its easier for external tools to work with and modify XML than Java, which may be useful for configuration tools.

In many other languages, one or more of these advantages of XML over the main coding languages is less significant or entirely absent (interpreted/JIT-compiled languages avoid #1; functional and many modern multi-paradigm languages avoid #2; Lisps and other easily-parseable homoiconic languages avoid #3.) Depending on the language you are using and which of these factors is important to your use case, there may be no significant reason to bear the cost of a second language for configuration.
I bet this exposure brings more than 23 million $ in tourism to the country.

Heck, journalist alone will probably spend a million over the next several years following Snowden around
The basics of reality distortion
170k revisions and several repositories totalling half a TB, with some working directories in the high double digit GBs. Given that we have no performance or reliability problems, and our server isn't particularly beefy - just problems with branching - I wouldn't be surprised if people have an order of magnitude larger repos.

(Game development shop with art assets in SVN)
I'm ashamed to say that Menendez is my ass of a senator.

For the American people, this is also adding insult to injury. This punishment doesn't only hit the Ecuadorian people, it also hits Americans. Not only are we being spied on, but in the government's fight for its authority to spy, it's also now forbidding Americans from purchasing products that they want (or forcing us to pay higher prices).

Menendez either (a) doesn't understand economics well enough to understand that in trade both sides profit; or (b) really does view this as a war [of the US government] against the American people. Personally, I think it's likely that both are true.

I'll be writing him another letter, this time saying not only that isn't PRISM and other domestic spying unacceptable, but that the necessary remedy is, at a minimum, the repeal of USA PATRIOT and of the AUMF.

EDIT: clarify third paragraph
Better than pure white though.
Too much contrast is problematic for some people.
Did you miss the part where blaming the framework/tools was a mistake?
The world isn't in black and white; it's possible to choose something between the two extremes. Sure, don't blindly jump to the coolest new thing, but also don't stop trying/learning new things.
The US routinely bullies other countries to get what it wants, as evidenced by some of those diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks.
How does Rap Genius make money?
I have this saying that I've been telling my 19 year old son since he could talk: "Too much of anything, except love, is a bad thing." I now tell that to my daughter who is 11. I don't know it's so much taking things for granted, more than being able to quickly identify which things in life give you the greatest return on joy and focusing on those. Chances are I couldn't handle talking to her all day and all night for a solid week, but I definitely know I start missing the little PITA when she is gone for more than a few days. I miss her because I love her and she brings me joy, but that doesn't mean she doesn't drive me, my wife and my son nuts when we are around her all the time. Ying and yang, baby.
I don't understand how this works, if the client is generating the data, why can't the CSRF attacker do the same?
The settings.cfg file that I place in the instance folder is generally placed on the server during deployment. Any values in this file will override defaults. I generally do this with Chef or Fabric. Perhaps that answers your question
Yes, I'm positive that the same journalist publication that leaked news of PRISM in the first place is now working feverishly to discredit their own story.
Scala PaaS hosting in the cloud :-) // SBT, Maven, Play
Twitter and the Victimization of Goliath
So many JS frameworks, so little time
I have played around with a number of different emerging and established client side MV frameworks, but I really want to sink my teeth into one of them to learn inside out. Something that I can use in a variety of applications and that has the maturity that will let me confidently use in production, and the versatility to be able to adapt to a variety of different application requirements. So HN, got any recommendations? I'm not necessarily looking for one in particular, even a generally respectable stack works, just something that I can commit to and roll with. Thanks guys.
On my screen however, I literally couldn't read it without selecting all the text.
I'm not talking about Wikipedia, I'm talking about Wikia ;)

Wikia.com is a network of wikis that he founded. A really popular network that hosts the official Star Trek wiki among thousands of others.
http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/celery/
I could not imagine "losing" my kids for weeks at a time.

Bury yourself in work only helps for a while. Fly down more often.
Btw by large SVN repositories I also mean "many devs with checked out working copies" and "many devs which know their workflow reasonable well".

The conversion tools work well, but bringing 200 devs to a new system can be a major PITA.
Why is this on hackernews.

This is NOT news. Hackernews is NOT some asinine blog!
If working remotely is an option, I'd happily apply.
I know a number of Ecuatorians living abroad, and they're very proud of what their government is doing regardless of the short-term economic consequences. I don't know who's right and who's wrong here, but there's a huge if often intangible benefit to taking a principled stance and sticking with it.
MSX: The Japanese are coming The Japanese are coming
Kickstarter opening up to Canadian projects this summer
It's wrong because your unit tests, just like your application, should not be aware of the presence of an IoC container except at the absolute composition root.

Your unit test libraries should have their own composition roots of their own and it is at this level, in configuring the IoC "modules" (as they are often called) that special mock services would be provided.

If your test cases are littered with crap concerning your IoC container, re-binding stuff, then something is badly wrong. Sadly, pretty much all projects I've seen that use IoC end up writing their tests in this way. Someone wasn't thinking.

Your tests should be treated with the same adherence to SOLID principles as your application code. They are first class citizens of your code base. So why dirty your tests by having them coupled to your IoC container?
If you set the password hash type to something other than plaintext you also need to set the `SECURITY_PASSWORD_SALT` configuration option.
Missing from these considerations is how Internet democratized artists' access to a public. What are the numbers here? E.g. how many bands have a significant following today compared to the old days? And how many bands earn money, maybe not enough to live fully on their music but still significant, compared to the pre-Internet era?

Midlist artists maybe suffer from something akin to increased competition?
And look, the irony, I've added my aliases on github.

I'm no brain dead svn fanboy.
Amazing bead chain experiment in slow motion
Jekill with prose.io approach is quite interesting. I wonder if this approach scales, esepecially when dealing with multiple author contributors .
I've been on Kerguelen island (which isn't quite Antarctica, but not that far either, and rather isolated too with four or five ship passages per year).

You wouldn't "fall in the support vs. beaker camp", you would be firmly in the beaker camp. It's more of a "somewhat intellectual" vs. "manual" camp (also vs. "military" in our case, but it might not be the same for US stations). I was right between beakers and support myself, by the way.

In our case, alcoholism was a problem for some of the manual labourers, but it never went as far as what I read from this article (I didn't read everything though), probably in part because they had more restrictions on alcohol consumption than the others, and because they were only there for shorter (three-six months depending on available transportation) missions, while most everyone else have 12-14 months missions.
Just FYI:

Date: February 24, 2011

If they haven't given him a call by now, they probably don't care at this point.
Why Egyptian Statue Moves On its Own
You can't say "most." You can at best say "some."
I tried to switch to a standing desk and failed, so I'm taking this challenge.
The Garden v 2.0: A Parable Inspired by the Church of Emacs
He missed the part of the story where he has to get back down!
How should the US punish Ecuador? Assume you are in the government and your job is to try and get Ecuador to hand over someone? Clearly going to war is off the table.

By the way, Ecuador is a cool country. It's quite poor and they use the US dollar. I spent several weeks in Quito and everyone was quite friendly.
I'm not sure if its disrespectful or awesome that they're referring to a VC as a "baller ass Russian dude".

I suppose being able to talk like this is a privilege only available to a site like Rap Genius. I think I love it.
You Can Already Code - You Just Don't Know It Yet
The problem with Antarctica is that you cannot stay there forever. It's not an effective way to flee.
Where is this offer for human rights training? Googling only shows me references to the Reuters link.

Has anyone seen an Ecuadorian press release?
This is apparently his twitter: https://twitter.com/singi201

I wonder how the FBI agents involved feel about him going to the press, now :)
And since it worked for the Seed, they continued it with the Series A. And it worked again.

I think A16Z invested for the entertainment value.
Implications for Big Data Governance
Welcome to the new hackernews. Everyone is a dev, scratch that, sr. dev. Wrote ten lines of hipster.js? Now your a js guru. Oh, and a perfectionist, your code is now "perfect" for the sole reason you spent a lot of time on it...

Your pissing up a rope, the non-programmers and marketing-social-media-hackers have ruined this site and are running amok in the comments downvoting everyone posting anything even close to honesty.
Fantastic! Now when he's served the first 60 years of his service, medical science will have advanced to the point where we can pay to elongate his life (as a basic human right) so he can serve out the remainder of his sentence, at which point he will leave prison and die near instantly as he can't afford medical care.
In the Secret Life of The Sun (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03694kd), a popular science program, I remember they gave a range of between 10,000 and 1,000,000 years and mentioned 100,000 as the average later in the programme.
No, silly! "Finance" pays well largely (most certainly not exclusively, but largely) because the of the opportunities for smart and unscrupulous people to exploit the systems they themselves helped to create, for personal gain. Often using methods of uncertain legality. The fact that the same people have a big say in what rules they should operate under makes things worse. If you think I am overstating the case, google "Libor scandal" (eh... here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal) or read "Where are the customers' yachts?" or "The wolf of Wall Street".

There are many examples of people who matter on a national scale not being well paid (certainly not by the finance sector standard). Physicists (and other scientists) for example. Top law eforcement officials, army generals. Perhaps people like Snowden fall into the same category.

Of course I expect you to claim "That is not what I meant when I said whatever it was I said!" Well... feel free to restate your point more clearly.
It's too bad Snowden didn't go to China. The parallel would be funny: China - we don't care about our favored trade/tariff status! (as if); US Govt - up yours, import taxes then! (as if).
When does it become a not classy move? What if he kicks out all currently present US nationals from his country? What if he shuts down the US embassy in Quito? What if he takes military action against the US?

When do I stop getting excited when someone hurts my country?
Ditto for official Polish documents I've dealt with. You often have to pay a hefty sum for a certified translation, and there are almost always some very funny errors to enjoy.
I don't know, I think I can relate to the crying. I think I gained a whole metric ton of empathy since having kids and get weepy at the silliest things sometimes where nothing ever phased me before I had kids :)
The salary and bonus structure is because there is not much else to pay for other than people (and the shareholders who put up the money at risk, but they managed to get away with paying them very little, another interesting story).

If money is the product you deal with, you take some of it. If there is little competition you take a lot. The more the money passes you the more it adds up.
your best friends are the ones that are allowed to tell you what you are like. the people who don't do that, they are not your best friends.
I disagree with you that the product doesn't matter. I've worked at a few startups and it really matters if everyone can get on board with the vision of the company's leadership. It improves your concentration if you think you're actually making a positive difference in people's lives with every feature you develop or bug that you fix. And it improves team motivation and cohesion if you all think that what you're building is a really cool idea.

TL;DR Adding a feature to a product that you don't care about is harder that adding a feature to a product that you do care about.
Better understanding the filter bubble of personalized search
> In fact, Go is probably the only language that can claim to have a fully working Web server as part of its standard library.

Seriously?

Python has SimpleHTTPServer to serve a directory plus the associated, less-well-known modules BaseHTTPServer (which SimpleHTTPServer is based on) and CGIHTTPServer, and wsgiref as the reference implementation of the WSGI interface, which makes it a fully-fledged web server.

And I find it impossible to believe that there would not be many more languages with a web server in their standard libraries.
Yes, this is the obvious conclusion here. Assange is a dishonest megalomaniac. Snowden is a high school dropout. And Manning is a troubled gay. The leaks be damned.
> Do you mean "necessary to be considered civil disobedience"?

No, I mean necessary to be justified. As I've tried to make clear, I'm not interested in arguing about the semantics.

I think practitioners of civil disobedience stress that acceptance of punishment is necessary to justify disobedience because (1) the laws passed by democratic governments are valid (even if unjust) and (2) because acceptance of suffering for your cause calls the public's attention. I've never heard it argued that the mere fact that you are technically being punished for a just law (in the case of indirect disobedience) gets you off the hook for accepting the punishment. Hence my MLK traffic example.

Personally, I would add that acceptance of punishment reduces your ability to deceive yourself into thinking you're disobeying for the greater good, rather than just for your own personal gain or fame.

Being a conscientious objectors during the Vietnam war is justified if you accepted the alternate role upon being drafted, or if you accept imprisonment. But do you think fleeing to Canada is justified? After all, most people agree that the government has a right to draft soldiers in times of national emergency.
additional comment brainlessly arguing your point as it isn't positive.
A FISA order really is a warrant

Not according to the language used in this document it isn't. You can say it is similar if you want, but when they say "A warrant is not required" in this case they are not saying "no authorization is required".
I watched the whole keynote video and I have to say, those kids from CMU were absolutely the worst part of it. Steve-o would have castrated them behind the stage after that. I'd be surprised if Tim ever invites college students on stage with him again.

I found the rest of the keynote was actually really impressive. Craig has great charisma. It's not the same as Job's charisma but it is good, much better than Tim who seems to lack it utterly.

Also, Dave, the active, transitive form of "effect" you want is "affect." As in, "...will not in any way affect their ability..."
Definitely not a justification, we completely agree there. My point is that this level of surveillance is absolutely inevitable given the mandate that the government has. The only way we could have prevented this is by actively pushing back.

My comment is more about how so many people seem to be blindsided that this is what the NSA does. It should have been assumed, even expected.
Mir Display Server To Ship As Default in Ubuntu 13.10
Actually, in economic theory, trade benefits are generally seen as free and mutually advantageous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
It is really hard for me to realize how ignorant of the music industry tech people are. Maybe that's because you guys seem delighted to pontificate all day long, without mentioning you have no clue whatsoever how any of it works.

I didn't realize I need a citation to explain what is obvious to any music industry professional: performance royalties from radio play are a major source of revenue for songwriters of hit songs.

If the passle of you want to wave your opinions around for decades while literally enabling and rationalizing the destruction of an industry through targeted technology (napster, for example, originally ONLY supported mp3s) maybe you should do your own research and educate yourself, and not expect me to footnote every assertion.

Otherwise, just admit you want everyone else's IP for free and stop making up justifications.
Media is ruining the NSA debate
they don't

edit: they ask for it
This seems like an arbitrary comment. He was writing about the choices and mistakes he made. He could avoid "I" but then start blaming his problems on other people.
Why should they "reward" them? ... Because the U.S. always claims to have the moral high grounds? Because they offered asylum to people declared criminals by other countries (Russia, China, ...) many times in the past? You don't have the moral high grounds by stating you do; you do so by your actions.
...they have ads.
NYPD Investigating Secret Subway Parties
Very interesting! Thanks a ton for the tip.
Dad Sequences Daughter's Genome To Pinpoint Her Rare Syndrome
I think the design looks pretty good and the service sounds fine. The trust issues you may have are in your grammar. Because the website is written in English, I assume you want to be seen by English speakers. If that's the case, you need to clean it up.

If you don't have much copy to look through, I would be happy to clean it up for you. My email is in my profile.

I can't commit much time so if there is a lot to do you may need to ask someone else or pay someone to do it.

Edit: You can't pay me to do it. I'll do a small amount for free just to help out but I won't do a lot even for money. I don't have time.
Binding machine learning and node.js
FYI: the correct spelling is "fazed" (c.f. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze)
Are you sure? I came right into the comments and did a Command+F for "ADHD", as this is what I thought as well.

Know that all types of ADHD aren't the same, and specifically that there is ADHD without the outward hyperactivity. Look up "Inattentive ADHD" - I am 30, and up until this past year I just thought that I had issues with procrastination, lack of follow-through, and was easily distracted.

Does this sound like you?

- Underperformed in school, despite being incredibly bright.

- Frequently didn't complete homework in school.

- Easily distracted.

- Shifts from one uncompleted task to another.

- Frequently skips large sections of text when reading.

- Procrastination.

- Frequently switches jobs
Anytime I read a comment that uses "lifestyle business" as a demeaning term, I tend to think that whoever said it doesn't have a family, or is sadly missing out on them.
Ideas Are Like Sperm
There is no depth or layering in metro, not even small drop shadows and definitely not layered application screens. The panaroma metaphor is panning left or right with some disjoint movement of the background (not really parallax, very fake) and the cutting off lots of text...

Lets wait until we can judge them side by side. I have a windows phone device, but no apps (my market doesn't really have anything decent), so I'm not really sure if the metaphors have evolved much from the panaromas.