skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is no way for the Web site to know that it is sending the data to my program instead of a Web browser.

Except through your User-Agent string. Which can, of course, be faked, but if you are actually running a scraper or other automated tool, you're not supposed to use a browser User-Agent string.

For getting pages too fast, just write the software to get the pages more slowly. Done.

Yes, agreed; all search bots and other automated tools are supposed to do this.

But there is an issue: Just how the heck is Craigslist to know who got the data?

I don't know how Craigslist found out in this specific case; but the point was moot anyway because 3Taps admitted they had obtained the data; there was no dispute about that. The dispute was entirely over whether what 3Taps was doing with the data once they got it was "authorized".

how's Craigslist to know just what the heck the data was used for?

Because 3Taps admitted what they were using it for. There was no dispute about that either, only about whether that use was authorized.

for Craigslist to run around with lawyers and C&D letters attacking Internet users looks like a bummer.

Have they been doing that? In this particular case, as I said above, there was no dispute at all about the facts, only about the legal rights involved. I don't see any evidence that Craigslist is indiscriminately banning people and then suing them based on disputed facts; the only dispute I see is over whether Craigslist should be able to assert the rights it's asserting over its data.
I've been struggling to light up new ec2 instances via the API:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response><Errors><Error><Code>Unavailable</Code><Message>The service is unavailable. Please try again shortly.</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>d063a1f7-9fa9-41bb-8792-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx</RequestID></Response>
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
I don't think its going to happen, just too much money in too little time. I think if they really believed in their cause they would have created the phone and just started selling it.
Relying on people to pay a large amount of money for a phone they can't have RIGHT NOW seems pretty much set to fail.
Is it a proof of government inefficiency at fighting fraud? Or a call for more regulation?

We would never know that until people are allowed to decide for themselves how they want to protect themselves. Right now we have two problems: 1) we are forced to allocate huge amounts of money for various "protection" of dubious quality, so we don't have much money left for extra protection that we ourselves may choose; 2) various business models that might explore alternative ways to protect people are either prohibited or kept away from existing monopoly markets protected by the state.

In short: while there are state guns, we cannot know if they do us any good. And I very much suspect that any person who constantly coerces you "for your own good" without a good proof is always an evil sadist. (Parents may force children to take a medicine because they can then demonstrate that it was actually helping. Like you may drag me by force from under a running bus and then tell me why you did it. But constant abuse without a proof and religious brainwashing is pure sadism.)
Germany recognizes Bitcoin as private money, makes it tax-free for personal use

Here's the source article via Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
S3 bucket URL bucket access seems to be working. Just signed a certificate and downloaded a file.

Also, some twitter posts are saying it's down globally.
Amazon.com down.
Amazon down
The Modern Gentlemen’s club
Does anyone else see the humor in his last name being "Miranda"?
aws seems to be up and working fine: http://status.aws.amazon.com
Sheesh. This makes what, the fourth or fifth time this year so far.. and for an extended period of time to boot. I wonder if this is linked to how they do their deployments, or something else (Everyone has access to deploy to the live site last I heard).
all our aws services seems to be working too (I mean 'from browser'). but we cannot connect via ssh or get access via aws console to our servers.
Given the causes are myriad and well-defined (as he lists them), it sounds like this was normal exhaustion, not depression which is generally sadness without cause. Depression calls for therapy and sometimes antidepressant drugs, healthy sadness just requires removing the cause of sadness and doesn't constitute mental illness. We need to distinguish between negative feelings that are a part of mental illness, versus those warranted by an unhappy life.
What if there are 500 comments at the end of the article?
Yes and no. Even if you're accelerating at 1 g (~10 m/s), which for a car is pretty darn fast, even if it's not test-pilot fast, you're still looking at 35 seconds to get up to Mach 1 (~350 m/s). That's going to be a distance of 1/2at^2 = ~6km/4mi as the minimum length of track for acceleration, and the same again for deceleration. Add in margins for overrun and you might be looking at 10 miles, which is not something you could just plop down in Mountain View.
Admittedly if you didn't care about human comfort and were going for 3 g (which is apparently the force of the Gravitron thrill ride I remember from my youth) it would be a lot less (2km each way). It would be unpleasant, but not hazardous, and it would certainly show a margin of safety as the stresses of acceleration would be much greater than encountered in ordinary operation.
Oh, lispers use macros all the time. It's just that you're not going to solve every problem by writing a new one.

For example in Clojure, or, and, fn and cond are macros you typically use all the time.
>Wirth's law is a computing adage made popular by Niklaus Wirth in 1995.[1][2] It states that "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." - Wikipedia

There's also a related "law": “What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.”
Feudalism in service of society is a good thing. Permanent land ownership is literally the source of aristocracy and a huge problem where it exists.

http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html
"1790 Only white male adult property-owners have the right to vote."
Amazon.com is still down for me, but http://www.amazon.de is running fine.
We're unable to send emails with SES but otherwise things look ok...for now.
Minecraft can be extremely addictive. I know from personal experience. To give you an idea, I'm a freelancer and for a large percentage of last year I was playing more hours of MC a week than I was billing clients.

You sound like you may be similar to me with games so let me lay it out for you.

When you first start playing you know nothing. There's so much to do and learn. You'll be scared of nighttime and dark caves. You won't know how to craft anything. You'll probably get killed a lot and get lost. It will suck you in for the first 30-60 hours while you learn how to play single player.

At that point one of two things happen. Either you really like building structures and you keep playing a lot or you get bored. I got bored.

Then I realized I was only experiencing a small fraction of the game. The modding community is HUGE, larger than any other game I've played. There are hundreds of mods available that expand and modify gameplay making it far more interesting than "vanilla" MC. Each mod can add 5-50+ hours of interesting gameplay.

This isn't even accounting for multiplayer, which can be much different. PvP servers with clans, mod servers with large towns, creative servers with builds that take months to complete.

I'm not saying you shouldn't play. Minecraft is a great game. Just be aware of where it can lead if you don't plan your time well. I've since cut way back and don't play games as much.

One way you can get a good feel for MC is to watch some of the popular YouTubers. I primarily watch the Yogscast but there are plenty of other good ones.
Barnes & Noble: When Great Isn’t Good Enough
I don't see the ones on Medium or Youtube. I'm using Firefox on Win7.
Yes, of the infinite variety.
I wouldn't even try the "Classic" mode. It would be enough to sour me off the real game, and it's barely representative. :-)
I likewise cannot reach the Amazon homepage.
I don't understand physics to any degree, but I was under the assumption that EM fields also warped space (albeit orders of magnitude less). I found some explanations that are way above my head on Quora:

[1] http://www.quora.com/Physics/Can-a-large-energy-field-other-...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Physics/Can-a-large-energy-field-other-...

The second seems to suggest that energy fields, in general, do warp space.
Don't worry. That's just the point where you have to turn it off and on again.
This belong in a reddit post with the title "if you think your website needs this: fuck you and the horse you rode in on".

I've seen blog sites whee an idiotic spinner comes up for a few seconds while something or other is "loading". Something or other that is ultimately going to show me some text.
The problem is not that government claims to protect A against B.

The problem is that they force C, D, E, F and many others to pay for it. If I don't think the government methods really help anyone, or at least me, I'm still forced to give a part of my income. Also: didn't you notice that almost any voluntary service or product costs the same for both rich and poor, while compulsory government services are somehow priced in a portion of your wealth? Don't you feel that you are being abused?
I've had several interactions with Stephan. He's offered several times (dozens maybe) to do contract work (or otherwise) to create, update and maintain the public interfaces documentation and any supporting documents during the least 3 years. Google's stance (via its devs) has always been that v8's sole purpose (in their view) is as the JS VM for Chrome. It is not a product like GWT. Promotion of its capabilities is as of a consequence of v8 being connected to Chrome. For the most part, Stephan's offers have been completely ignored with a couple devs occasionally accusing him of grandstanding. I do feel that, however, for whatever reason, Google has demonstrated a personal affinity for certain embedders (node.js specifically, CEF maybe) vs. the lesser know embedders (v8-juice, TeaJS, SilkJS, NarwhalJS). I don't agree that Stephan has assigned himself too much self-importance. In fact, Stephan devoted significant time to identifying corner cases in the public interfaces that are beneficial to all embedders and has always chosen to make those learning experiences public, either via the GoogleCode Wiki or on the various v8 lists.
http://cloudmonitor.ca.com/en/ping.php?vtt=1376939371&vargho...
Humphrey Bogart, Panama Hats And 50¢ Roses
Which is where Scout, Honey Badger and New Relic come in. But, I agree, a more robust version for development environments would be nice.
It's still an issue...

I often wonder how far an article really goes. A lot of the times there are tons of content below the article, or perhaps just a long commenting thread twice as long as the article itself (or, as stated, a multiple page article (which you don't know about in advance)). I often scroll down for the sole purpose of finding out how long the article is.

I really like the information the New Republic conveys (but I dislike having a bar on top like that).
They do this the same way they demand taxes on payments made only in cash today. Is it foolproof? No, but it doesn't have to be, just as taxes still ended up coming in somehow even when business ran mostly on cash and cheques.

In this case the blockchain is visible for all to see, including the governments, and they only have to resolve the true identity of someone once to be right for all time.
If your purpose is to emulate your production environment fully, then yes. But if you're in the development phase weeks or months before going live, a virtual machine often has no real purpose and takes up a lot of RAM.
This is a huge loss. cvv8 has made writing nodejs native addons for large APIs much easier than the standard v8 interface. The entire nodejs community will be pretty significantly impacted - the v8 changes break all native addons for node 0.12.
Zsh. Prezto¹ has this built in.

¹ https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Well, AWS console being down is certainly more of an impact to me than amazon.com.
EC2 is ok for me SES has gone to the shitter
If you have a family and kids, you will need a bigger more expensive place, so tack on those years to the total.
Neither do the others. There are very many "central banks" out there, and the U.S. creates money out of thin air just as successfully as people mine Bitcoins out of thin air.
From the post I was replying to:

>Hum. I got a different impression with regards to the FEM graphs of the beams' stresses. Dr. Drang seemed more bothered by the fact that they were there because it was too amateur, and too much pretty graphs for their own sake, since any civil engineer could do the calculations in their sleep.

smnrchrds, you are correct that simple structures have been studied, and equations describe their characteristics very accurately; what you are missing is that the FEMs in question were used to analyse a complex structure's response to vibration. I would challenge you to find any large bridge designed in the western world last 10 years without FEA.
It's relativity; internal lighting will look the same because light in your ship will still be traveling at the speed of light relative to you (if I'm not mistaken).
I've been using various online credit card processors since 1995, and my experiences are slightly different. Worldpay is absolutely excellent - their service is amazing, and their support is absolutely top-notch. Definitely the best solution if you're in the UK.

I'm not sure what you're doing with paypal, but there haven't been any API changes that have affected us in the 7 years we've been using them. In fact I just looked at our paypal code, and it hasn't really changed at all since 2007.
This is what I want to do. I want to do smaller games that can fail. I want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

Sounds promising for him being back in Ludum Dare this weekend! :-)
How do we get this "negative vacuum energy" stuff?
This has nothing to do with NTP.
It's not, we're having issues with one of our EC2 instances. Very unnerving that their AWS Service Health Dashboard isn't reporting any problems.
"Our website is currently unavailable while we make some improvements to our service"

Huh.
Curated list of startup web apps and resources
I hope to god that Musk's next project is commercializing this tech, assuming the proof-of-concept experiment works.
Funny how there is a widely reported problem and everything is green on AWS health check site http://status.aws.amazon.com/
That would be hard to seal. The air cushion that the sled rides is also sensitive to discontinuities.
Exactly my first thought too!!!!
Icahn vs Apple: When Did Extortion Become Legal?
The console is working if you are already logged in. Although loggin requires going through www.amazon.com.
If one considers that the vast majority of people don't go through the lengths to remain pseudonymous on the web, connecting identities to wallets will (eventually) be trivial for the mainstream. However, I find it the case that as of now, that is inversely proportional to the people that use bitcoin. Not to mention all the laundry services out there or that could be placed on the front end of services used through tor (and possibly meshnets in the future).
AWS console is up for me -- very fast access.
Just reported: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia)	Increased API Error Rates

Update: AWS Management Console:	Elevated error rates as of 2:15 CST
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Strong form efficiency does not imply perfectly predictive of all future events. Such a claim would imply that no durable good could increase in price at a rate higher than the federal funds rate plus some risk premium (haircut).
Now the server is returning a 500, which is a slight bit of progress.
My understanding is that using a substance called "spice gas" you're able to enable this drive through a process called "folding."
Heights of Mountains, Lengths of Rivers – Comparative maps (2009)
Akka Persistence
The Young, Rich, & Educated: iPhone Users
Who would you drop everything for to be their assistant? Obama? Gates? Oprah?
University Pages: LinkedIn Launches New College Profiles
SpaceX is funded mostly by taxpayers. Half their direct funding came from NASA in the form of prepayments. And of course there is the 3 TRILLION dollars in NASA development that preceded it.

Silicon Valley is kicking in a few bucks at the end. (And guess who keeps all the profits.)
More info about Akka Persistence (ex eventsourced): https://github.com/eligosource/eventsourced
Well, I guess everyone might get another chance to figure out if their automatic-failover schemes really work...
I honestly think for someone like him, getting to mars would be easier than

>the kind of effort it takes to build a transport between 350 miles of California

And I'd far prefer him to do that too (the mars)
This is going to get pretty darn confusing for people running iOS7 Safari. http://imgur.com/Mv8lu1J
Ok, so how do you create an enforcement mechanism to keep the capitalistic bullshit from coming back once you've gotten rid of it?
It's not. We're having issues with one of our EC2 instances and this is clearly effecting other sites. It's very unnerving that their service health dashboard isn't reporting any issues.

EDIT: It just now reported an issue on EC2 N. Virginia. Still a little disappointed that it's not real-time.
"While Zillow’s press release doesn’t say how the acquisition will be structured, it looks like the company plans to leave StreetEasy alone."

Ah, that's rich. It's true until A) there's any sort of disagreement or B) StreetEasy doesn't hit whatever revenue targets that Zillow sets for them. Might be weeks, might be months, might even be years. But there is no world in which Zillow owns StreetEasy but doesn't impose any changes on them.
AWS management console is down
Brokers give me the same greasy vibe as finance head-hunters and used car salesmen.
Hm interesting, I wonder if bringing such rules to the bitcoin currency trading, at least in Germany would somewhat legitimize it. Stricter requirements might dissuade some but on the flip side of the coin it may well bring even more serious players to the bitcoin market thus making it more substantial and well balanced. Just guessing though.

my 2c.
Would you mind writing the question in the title(on the same line as the 'ASK HN' tag)?It becomes more visible to HNer's
Poll HN: Game Play vs Income
Go here: http://tolu.na/1bNfigp

HN is having trouble with recognising the URL, sorry for the shitty link. It's a QuickSurveys survey, owned by toluna - hence the weird link format.

NOTE: Seems to have trouble in Chrome but FF is fine :(

RESULTS ARE HERE: http://tolu.na/1bNk1yO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238877
What is it with these sites that break down articles into several pages? NYTimes is a particular culprit that annoys me. Does anyone find an article easier to read in this format? I presume it is to force more Ad views on people?
PHP JSON removed in PHP 5.5
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the wikipedia article linked above talks about this, saying that the "...This method of transport does not involve objects in motion at speeds faster than light with respect to the contents of the warp bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp bubble would still always move faster than the ship. As objects within the bubble are not moving (locally) faster than light..."
Console is not the only thing faltering. Our system is not able to send any emails using SES
I tried to recreate this effect in raw JavaScript.

http://fiddle.jshell.net/zuBDW/2/show/

It doesn't load new content with ajax, nor does it pre-fetch. It just shows a website loading bar. I think this UI element is very nice. Especially for heavier pages, showing a website loading bar might combat users leaving, as something is happening.

For Ajax-loading I think it is a nice alternative for a center-center spinner.
I learnt scala very effectively simply by delivering a program in it at my day job. I'm not sure about "should", but in my personal experience I've found that the best way to learn.
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Is this why everything seems slow? Reddit keep failing and I can't log in?
Yes "engagement ring related bookmarks".

Great idea though! Thanks.
I think that's why you still move the ship forward within the warp bubble (to borrow a Star Trek term). So you're compressing space in front of you, while moving forward into the compressed space.
You Can't Have No Process
Although this is blogspam, it's a blogspam that I can actually support...

This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn't just pay the guy. I know it wasn't about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.

(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).
Is Amazon e-com website is dependent on AWS ? I don't think so. Pointers please.
Try logging out and logging back in. The log-in process goes through amazon.com .
Actually, now I am wondering what are the others, at least the reasonable ones.

I can only think on Digital Signal Processing.
Ask HN: Who is hiring remote junior Rails devs?
I have been looking on the usual job sites but no luck. Who is hiring for a Junior Rails dev?
I've seen this on YouTube, I actually like it but it should be in the browser not the page.
Get Married First, then Focus on your Career
V8 developer says sayonara to "DOWNRIGHT SHAMEFUL" Google JavaScript engine
The scroll bar isn't enough to tell how much reading is left.

I hope you're missing a </sarc> tag there...
To paraphrase a famous xkcd strip, "2+2 = 5" isn't funny anymore when it's being stated by a US Congressman.
This whole situation is disgusting and both the US and UK are complicite in this.
At least SpaceX actually made some quite fundamental changes in their approach to many things, since their original ideas did not work. They for example talked a lot about recovering their rockets, and none of that has worked at all. They changed from ablative to regenerative cooling. They experienced many failures (I think it is actually better to launch more often and experience some failures than launch years apart, because then you can't afford to fail at any cost and your schedule and cost will explode).

So in a sense he has this "new kid on the block" serial enterpreneur attitude where he bursts into a scene, stumbles a lot but finally seems to get something done quite right. Maybe it's him learning the tricks of the trade - or that just finding the right people takes a lot of time, or something else entirely. I at least don't know that closely what happens in these organizations.

It might be cool to read a book about something like that. I don't have high hopes of anyone getting the stories right though.
Database sharding: yes, it still sucks
Obligatory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
"If 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else"

From the entire article, this stuck out the most for me. It is such a simple explanation.
Amazon.com sites experiences outage; AWS, EC2 unaffected
I only see it on medium after losing internet connection.
I'm surprised outlook.com hasn't been mentioned yet, which does a similar thing, but with flying dots.