skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The limitation with this type of approach is the assumption of a conventional (and, some would say, out of date) architecture, ie. single service on a single VM on a single cloud provider.

Topology specification, firewalling, resource constraints (bandwidth, IO speed/resilience... ie. RAID/backup persistence safety), service cohabitation or codependence, performance/capacity testing, cost, cloud provider abstraction, public DNS+SSL+sofware package distribution infrastructure dependencies, legal jurisdiction considerations, speed of instantiation, etc. are all realistic considerations (often requirements) for much modern infrastructure.

In short: this only gets you half-way, for relatively simple examples. But if your workload is within that space, by all means go for it.

(PS. Before anyone snaps 'you can manage multiple hosts with <tool>', sure. But the architecture of the tools begins to present issues.)
> "creepy" is just a code word for "unattractive" or "awkward"

It's not even really a code word anymore. It's just offensive. And usually when people say it, it's in a judgmental tone, which explains why everyone gets irate about it.

You might as well say someone is fat, old, ugly, or socially inept, using a typically disgusted tone, but people never say those things that way. But somehow calling someone "creepy" is O.K.?
I'm inclined to think that he acted like a douche (that is perfectly fine to assume based purely on the parts of the explanations that he has not contested), and wasn't set up but faced two women that wanted to cause him embarrassment, and that the two women got caught up in between the prosecutor and the lawyer appointed for them who both have possible political motives:

They're both known for wanting to substantially tighten rape laws in Sweden, and the lawyer in question is a partner in a law firm that also includes a former Swedish minister of justice from the time Sweden was complicit in illegal CIA renditions - as revealed by Wikileaks. Rather than a conspiracy, they might just have decided he was a convenient person to make an example of, score some political points on, and as an extra bonus he was someone they don't like.

Note that the above is not mutually exclusive with him actually being guilty of a crime. He could perfectly well be guilty and a victim of an overzealous prosecutor.

I really don't want to make a judgement either way. I do think that there's something fishy about the way the case has been pursued, though, but I'm inclined to think that a Swedish prosecutor with ambitions is sufficient - there's no need to infer outside interference.
They kicked the dog before shooting it.
Does the order book show all the "dark pool" trades? It surely cannot show all those who sit and wait (or have bots) for the price to change so they can move their ask price up.
It's a sad situation, and the officer never should have fired his sidearm at the dog, but to be fair to them, they didn't just shoot the dog with no provocation - the dog lunges 2 or 3 times at the officers with clear aggressive intent before it's shot. There are a million different things these officers could have done a lot better in this situation, like not arresting the videographer in the first place, or using pepper spray or some other nonlethal means to subdue the animal, but it wasn't like the officer walked up to the dog and shot it execution-style.

The dog's last lunge toward the officer who killed it was very fast and aggressive, and the officer had just a split second to react. He probably just reacted on a fight-or-flight instinct, and unfortunately, in this instance, it ended with lethal force.

If I was in the same situation at that split second, I might have done the same thing. I was once chased and attacked by an aggressive dog before, and I rank it as one of the most terrifying experiences in my life. Being attacked by an animal with clear intent to harm or even kill you is just so primally scary that there's no way to think and react rationally - you just do whatever you can to get away and survive.

It's a pretty crappy situation all around, and I feel terrible for the owner of the dog. I still blame the officers for initiating the situation, but I do understand why the officer reacted the way he did.
The police could have not arrested him for committing no crime. I'm pretty sure that option was on the table.
Qualifications to be a police officer:

A.) Be pretty good at football, but not enough to go pro or college.

Edit: to the comment below, my old next door neighbor's 'star football player' but C- son got fired as a prison guard after beating the pulp out of an inmate who 'insulted his mama' just 6 months after graduating HS - the stereotype is true, especially so in the southeastern USA. This is just one of many examples.
Are you suggesting that Snowden is aware of these backchannel threats then?

The US isn't in the habit of ensuring that the rule of law will be fulfilled since that is still the default posture of the government.
A couple of us played Supreme Commander and liked it, but we all went back to TA for some reason. Read the bad reviews of SC2 and never tried it.
This crap happens all the time. Really disgusting abuse of power.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2012-11-20/pet-owner-...

The penalty: one day without pay.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-04-04/officer-wh...

I used to take my son to that park. I've seen loose pit bulls out there before and I've been able to handle the situation without panicking like Barney Fife.
I'm a little late to the party, but can't believe so few people brought up the lack of availability admitted in this article. The OP is admitting that the company's official stance of availability is that it will restore from 1 hour ago ... and lose client data.

Losing client data is the worst thing you could do as a SaaS. The second worst thing you could do is to not be online - e.g., as someone pointed out; because one app (or even something out of your control) took out all your services.

MS is not really the story here. Cost of HA in typical Linux vs. MS stacks, which wasn't addressed at all in the article, is what is relevant.
Are you familiar with working dogs? I have had a rottweiler and a GSD and my vet (faculty at Cornell Vet School) and my dog trainer recommended using a pinch collar and doing corrections by snapping the leash.

That being said they also recommended against the long flexilead (i think thats the brand) leash and/or having the window down far enough that the dog could jump out. My dogs never would have walked in front of me on a leash like that.
Either answer should give a valid measure of regional hipsterdom. Is it just hipsters that use Yelp? If so, go where they're reviewing. If not, follow the hipster tag. I can certainly vouch for the validity of the London version, that's for sure.
I do credit the Three-Letter Agencies with the benefit of the doubt; they may know about dangers much scarier than shoe-bombs or even 9/11. It does not justify the overreach of authority, but is sufficient that I do want to presume on their intentions.

Having said that, given the opportunity and no legal obstacles, it's almost stupid not to soak up every last piece of data.

* If the motives are pure, they might stop a large attack, and/or avoid accusations of incompetence if an attack slips through.

* If motivated from above in the power structure, Obama or Cheney or whoever gets enough data to be ten steps ahead of political and economic foes, at home and abroad.

* If motivated from within, the agencies are able to blackmail and manipulate opponents to maintain their own budget and relevance. They might even do this out of genuine belief in their organization and mission.

* If motivated personally, a handful of powerful individuals get to maintain back-scratching relationships through selective dissemination of information, to say nothing of potential financial gains.

If I had to guess, every single one of these motives is at play at various levels. And of course, being in a position to have all this data gives one an immense amount of leverage to shut people up and hide misdeeds. Good to be the king.

Blaming the NSA for PRISM is like blaming the ocean for New Orleans. It's We The People who failed to build strong enough levees, and somebody was going to take advantage of it eventually. Time will tell if the public will accept the degree to which government institutions are openly doubling down. This is the political issue of our generation; if we accept spying as the norm, it will be very hard to undo.
I think many of us would like our police to be more like Andy Griffith. We pay their salaries and elect their bosses so I don't see why we couldn't have this kind of police force if we put in the time and effort to reform them.
I wonder if race was a factor?
Those words did not prepare me for what I saw.
I'm a bit conflicted; on the one hand I think the officers were correct to shoot the dog once it was jumping at them and was undeterred by being kicked. On the other hand killing a dog is going to get a lot more people mad at (and raise awareness of) the over-the-top reactions of officers to people videotaping cops.
They are cracking down. Just a week or two ago a new statement from the FTC came out with new ad guidelines specifficly targeting search engines.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2013/06/searchengine.shtm
Yes but animal control needs time to select the dose of the sedative and prepare the dart (or jab stick). This isn't a video game.

Also animal control traps or nets the animal before attempting to sedate it. You can't just stick the needle anywhere.
Football players, but obviously, not very good ones.
Thank you for your feedback. We certainly seem to disagree about the security of passwords in general.

With that said, our system supports far more than a possession factor. LaunchKey has a Pin and/or Digital Combo lock (your secret) on the app level for a knowledge factor and Geo-fencing available for an inherent factor. Combine these factors with possession and you have a very secure system. Reliable bio-metric factors could certainly be implemented in the future as well.

As you said Passwords are painful, especially when we don't know them any more and pass them off to a third party application. The explosion of Password Managers such as your own indicate that users are expected to carry the burden. There has to be a better experience and solution for consumers and systems alike.
A spelling error in the title is actually very easy to miss. You might read the main article an extra time before publishing, but the title is probably in a separate textfield which is not checked. It's always a bit painful to have a spelling error in the title, but don't make the assumption that the author just doesn't care enough.
Not many hotels in those areas of NYC.
I'm no lawyer, but I'd be surprised if it's legal for ETF providers to seed their own fund. The need for authorized participants is rather important.
What they could have done differently is not violate the guy's civil rights in the first place. If he wasn't handcuffed, he could have easily controlled his dog.
Those words are well below the fold, under the video.
What are you going to do? Put chloroform over its nose? Inject it with a sedative? Spray it with something?

May I ask whether you have you ever owned a dog? ;)

I can't think of any quicker and overall safer means of sedation than simply shooting it in the head. It's sad that a dog has to die, but compared to the mess an angry dog can make, its life is simply not worth much.

Not that I really want to sound like I'm defending the policepeople in question here, because that dog shouldn't have died - but it shouldn't have died because there shouldn't have been a situation where they needed to shoot it, not because shooting an attacking dog is the wrong thing to do.

(Yes, I have had a dog. I loved it very much, and it seemed to return the favour. But you have to be clear-eyed about these things.)
I think you misunderstood my comment, since I agree with every word of your reply. Cops don't have tools to capture aggressive animals because it's not their job and not what they are trained for.
That's good until your input stream exceeds 32768 lines [1]. There are better generators available from CPAN, like Math::TrulyRandom.

[1] - http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/random
I had a horrible middle school experience which led me to the opinion that primary and secondary school is a much better system.

It's not just punishing students for not sitting still, though a friend was almost flunking because he couldn't sit through a class. It's teachers eating separately from students, no time for recess, and no adult to talk to without social ostracism.

Then I went to a New England Prep school; 3 sports a year, teachers eat with and openly question students, everyone feels like members of the community and people have a stake in things, and the Headmaster knows everyone's name. I can't thank that school enough; I went from failing with almost perfect test scores to really good grades and a sense of belonging.

I don't understand why at least rural schools can't follow the same model. The teachers are paid less but get better results; the students are cared for and more disciplined, and the academics and athletics are generally better. It's not about the student body, either; we had tons of kids on scholarship that outperformed everyone.
Bring it in, Betaworks
The video is age restricted on YouTube.
> Ok, here's the thing: I don't even have huge moral problems with piracy, but it is very illegal.

Ehm. Yes, piracy, as in armed robbery on the high seas, is indeed "very illegal" [sic]. Copy-pasta culture with images is arguably very close to fair use, so close that various aspects (sampling for music, being the most prolific) have been deemed legal.

Are you saying that you know of 4chan boards dedicated to (actual) piracy?

I would think hate speech is generally held to be "more" illegal than digital piracy in most countries. Copyright infringement is largely a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

By the way, I still want that word: "piracy" back. I do not, will not, accept that the copyright lobby has gotten away with stealing it.
Correction. They PROVOKED the dog before shooting it.
My first thought was firing a gun with so many people standing very close. LEO's have other non lethal means that could work on a dog.
Edward Snowden submits asylum applications
I think he was suggesting anyone can get a hold of your inkan and use it to sign things in your name.
why would he date it d/m/y instead of m/d/y?
I hate to be "that" guy, but:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There is nothing Hacker News related here. At BEST we can tangentially relate it to our civil liberties, but that is a stretch. Let's keep things like this on Reddit and the other sites that will cover it in its entirety, and focus on technology here.
Animal control is not 10 feet away ready with tranquilizer darts. Police need to defend themselves from aggressive animals. They can't take the chance that it's "just jumping up on them a little." They certainly can't release the man under arrest so he can restrain his dog; that potentially would have been an even more dangerous situation.

Something about killing aggressive dogs makes people seem to forget that they are _aggressive_ dogs. If it had been an aggressive bull or a bear, this would have been a non-issue.

Edit to expand on my thoughts.
This is pretty interesting. You might say that anybody who doesn't want the term hipster applied to them is a hipster. And everybody else is not a hipster. So then the best thing a hipster can do to lose their hipster status is to proclaim that they are indeed a hipster after all. How ironic...
Perhaps the first line of the post would have, then?

In one of the most shocking videos I’ve seen
since launching this blog six years ago...
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I saw you got a downvote for this comment. I think the reasons for that downvote are fair and I'm not going to defend you... but, funny story regarding your point "A":

I grew up living next door to a moderately famous federal judge. She was like a grandmother to me; brilliant woman (she passed away years ago).

She was a conservative (Reagan appointee) and definitely on the side of law enforcement. To qualify this statement without naming her, let's just say she might have presided over a case that sparked some civil discontent in Miami a while back when a cop shot a guy on a motorcycle.

Nevertheless, she always joked that "police departments are filled with those dumb guys from high school that were always lifting weights but never good enough to get a football scholarship."

So, it appears you're not completely alone in your view.
No, no, no. You do not use pepper spray on a dog. Pepper spray gets everywhere. The officer using it is going to get hit with it too. Pepper spray would make the dog more aggressive and put the officers in jeopardy. Once the dog started attacking their only option was to shoot.
Thanks for sharing, I would also love to learn more about how others on HN work around not having enough ressources. Any hacks/insights to share? :)

E.g. I remember seeing a talk by Gagan of Udemy on how they used a marketplace (was it mechanical turk?) to scale bizdev dealflow (identify, contact & close people who are good fits for providing courses).
Nobody is disagreeing with you that sites that don't really need js shouldn't use js, but that's not what this is about. The browser is very fast becoming THE application platform for one single reason: accessibility. There is nothing you can do about it, you are fighting a losing battle. It doesn't matter that Javascript is a mess, or that there are security and privacy issues, that doesn't trumps accessibility. And people will want an experience that is more native like. The move to mobile has especially pushed this forward. Surfing the "old" web on mobile sucks more than that accessibility gets you most of the time. But make the web application more native-like, i.e. no round-trips, optimized for touch, responsive UI, offline caching, localstorage etc (which you CAN do even today, but will be better in the future), then the browser wins.

In conclusion, the browser is not simply a vehicle for displaying HTML content with links and simple forms anymore, it's an application platform, just get over it.
Warning: behaving like a free man in a free country will get you arrested and your dog killed.

The government power (at all levels) has become really intrusive and unchecked during the last decade i've been living in the US. You guys going the same road - 2 castes, one above the law and one under.
Yeah, that's neither fair nor reasonable. Save your vitrol for folks who deserve it.
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How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?
I often get burned by doing something like `key = "player" + playerId`. Unfortunately, playerId is an int, and I forget that even though most other languages besides C/C++ will convert that for me, Python will not, so I get a runtime exception. Same thing with `print "no space after this" + number`, because I get used to `print "space after this", number` and then sometimes I don't want the space and inevitably I forget to do `str(number)`.

Mind you, this is the sort of thing you usually discover quickly, but it's also the sort of thing that most other languages will catch at compile time.
Darts take minutes to work. Even if they had them ready it won't work in time.
You think it is a stretch that this relates to civil liberties? That's kinda interesting.
I have owned a dog in past, and I was able to calm him down when he used to get angry. And I believe that would have been the case with the dead dog and the person who was in cuffs for no reason.
It's risky to own lots of stock in your employer because you losing your job would be more likely to come at a time when your investments were worth less. It's risky to let your SO handle too much of your social life for similar reasons.

I'm very close to my wife and can't imagine getting a divorce, but I think it's healthy that we manage our own social calendars.
Excerpt from a book by Radley Balko, The Rise of the Warrior Cop (link: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...)
'Incredible strain' in relations between Ecuador and Assange over Snowden
It is easy to see how the exotic underclass can be helped by an entrepreneur: they are technologically behind in one way or another. Someone can create technology tailored to their needs and solve their problems.

By comparison, problems facing the unexotic underclass are generally much more difficult to solve through technology. Most of their problems are sociological, economic and political in nature.
Yes, I agree and said as much. Once they did begin to arrest him, and the dog did jump out -- from that point, I don't see that they had much choice but to shoot the dog.
What, taze the dog (obligatory hot-dog joke here)?

Firing a gun without knowing your backstop is generally bad, but angled down and in self-defense it's not the worst thing in the world.

The dog in question was large and probably could've done some decent damage. It's not right what the officers did, but it wasn't unreasonable either once the animal went nuts.
If the best advice in the US is to avoid the police you've got a very serious problem. It sounds like travel advice from a third-world country.
Maybe you don't know this, but there are tens of thousands of prisoners living in long-term solitary in supermax prisons in the US. Why wouldn't Snowden end up with them? What percentage chance is there that he might end up there? What percentage chance justifies an asylum request?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...

By the way you might have to click on "link" to reply; I think the thread nesting is too deep.
Most of us carry video cameras in our pockets now. Filming police needs to become ubiquitous. There should be no police officer in the United States that doesn't know that at any time they could be being filmed and held accountable for their actions by the public they are paid to protect and serve. It is one case where I think constant citizen surveillance could be useful. After a few years of it and constant court rulings that it is protected, perhaps cops would stop yelling at people and arresting them for doing nothing wrong. Yes, I'm talking to everyone on this site. If you are walking back from grabbing a burrito and see the cops "talking to" a homeless person on the street, or pulling over a driver for running a red light or detaining someone, /you/ need to stop for 5-10 minutes, get out your camera phone, and start filming. Please. For the love of a police state run amuck.
The order book would show people who are sitting on either side of the market, so if they have a bot that's adjusting their quote it would still show it - unless I'm misunderstanding your question?
>They certainly can't release the man under arrest so he can restrain his dog; that potentially would have been an even more dangerous situation.

yes, the guy they illegally arrested presented real and clear danger - he was black (notice the white girl at the end of the video - she obviously wasn't a danger and wasn't arrested)