skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I partially agree with you, especially in the case of documentary films; and would further add that books (of literature, fiction, and non-fiction), plays, and operas are very powerful tools for understanding the world. From what I can see, these tools are generally not being used to help people "gain a different perspective on reality", as large portions of the populace do not read a book, or try to understand what any character in fiction is experiencing. As to the drugs and alcohol, I need not point out that stumbling masses of people in the streets after midnight is more indicative of their use as a soma rather than an instrument of introspection.
Celebrating Unix heroes (Slide Show)
Since we're seeing a lot more of these kind of single-page apps, it might be wise for the browser vendors to implement a JS API to trigger the loading indicator on-demand, so it would show the loading UI that users are already familiar with. Has there been any movement on this?

For browsers that also show a loading progress bar (like Safari), it could also allow the page to set a precent loaded value. XMLHttpRequest2 supports progress monitoring.
Which makes it harder to regulate how?
Clickable links:

Dedetepe Farm:

http://www.dedetepe.org

Eco Farm network:

http://www.bugday.org/bugdaygil/Tatuta/

YouTube video about Dedetepe Farm (in Turkish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUciqlokl0

Blog post about Dedetepe Farm

http://turkishjukebox.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/farming-in-ku...

Mission statement

http://ecofarmproject.wordpress.com/mission/
> Your "go out of their way" is wildly false; all that had to happen was just their electric company to drop power for one second.

So you're saying that business networks typically have completely random IPs setup by their ISP? I would hope not, as that means SSL sites could not have worked at all for most people prior to Windows Vista. Not to mention the certain problem of how Google DNS is setup for people (Hint: It uses a static IP).

In fact I think you might get even more disappointed if you consider the types of "proof" that are considered acceptable within the legal system, and commerce in general.

For instance, completing a contract by faxing over a document, having it signed, and faxing it back. That has all the same theoretical issues associated with it as blocking static IP address and yet you don't see the entire edifice of the justice system or commerce falling to bits, now do you?

> Moreover, the ISP can have assigned the banned IP address to someone else, Joe, not involved. Then Joe's usage of the Web site is no evidence against 3taps.

Why are you speaking in terms of "maybes"? 3taps themselves admitted to using a proxy to evade the ban. They knew they were blocked, and they knew why. QED

So while I would agree with you in general that an IP address is not a priori an identifier, that's not at issue in this specific case.
Amazon Down?
But how can a charged capacitor warp space? I thought only matter could warp space?
Glass So Clear The Birds Better Watch Out
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Nicely done - good luck to you sir!
Are AWS nodes/services themselves down, or just the Amazon web interface?
The trimWhitespace filter removes both leading and trailing whitespace. Ouch.
I think in cases where you are loading significant external data that may take several seconds a loading bar is appropriate; see for example the loading bar on a Youtube video. Perfectly legitimate. Or a loading indicator on a gallery of thumbnails. Appropriate uses.

But the page itself should not necessitate a page wide loading bar. That's a design flaw. Your page is bloated. Even a 768Kbit DSL should be able to load the page itself rapidly. If you're beyond that just for the basic page itself then you've failed in your job as a designer/developer, IMHO.

And I've designed web apps that never actually send you to a different page (just update the DOM), and in my experience they are extremely fast. Even making many API calls retrieving tons of records to a very modest server. That design is not in and of itself a reason to have load bars.
Same, can't get to the console or any other service. Our instances do appear to be responding however, so they aren't completely down.
Why would you assume that the founder of SpaceX and Tesla "must be a pretty decent engineer"? I'm not saying Musk isn't, because I don't know much about him, but I certainly wouldn't assume that the founder of engineering-based companies must be a decent engineer. As for leading engineers in complex domains, that's more plausible, although the founder of a company doesn't need to be the person directly managing engineering teams.
That's a built-in feature(?) of GNOME Epiphany (as visible in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFoEYkztAfY for example).
The sentence could also use a subject and verb (implied "I am").

Notch's native language isn't English, is it?
> I also designed my own cardboard Transformers that would actually transform!

Heh. I used to make paper Transformers that transformed. They were at least as fun as the real toys, and a lot more portable. I may even still have them somewhere in a box.

Later I graduated to making Lego Transformers that transformed. When I bequeathed my childhood Lego bin to my older son, it still had some Lego Transformers in it. I had to explain to him what Transformers were, because this was before the Michael Bay reboot.
The status page says that AWS is OK:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
It's the Alcubierre drive. First paper on the idea was published in 1994, and everybody seems to think it's legit according to relativity, though with large practical difficulties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
For screen scraping, it appears that
some people want to say that, because
some software in effect provided the
browser keystrokes or mouse clicks,
something was wrong.

Once I wrote a little program that
gets Web pages from a Web site;
if I handled all the details correctly,
then there is no way for the Web site
to know that it is sending the data
to my program instead of a Web browser.
Indeed, essentially I wrote a Web
browser. That my Web browser just
wrote data to files and did not
provide a graphical user interface
on my screen is none of the business
of the Web site. It can't be illegal
to write a Web browser, especially
a very simple one.

For getting pages too fast, just write
the software to get the pages more slowly.
Done. Or if want to use one computer to
get 100 pages from each of 10,000 sites,
then then get one page from each of the
10,000 sites, 100 times. Done.

> I think the issue was that Craigslist asserted copyright over their data,

Fine. But there is an issue: Just how the heck
is Craigslist to know who got the data? Not from
IP address -- that's terrible evidence. Then
how's Craigslist to know just what the heck the
data was used for? Even it it's clear that the
data was from Craigslist originally, if the person
using or misusing the data might have gotten the
data from someone else and not directly from
Craigslist.

So, to me, for Craigslist to run
around with lawyers and C&D letters attacking
Internet users looks like a bummer. If a user
does something obvious and blatant with Craigslist
data, or is dumb enough to admit getting the data
after a C&D letter, then okay. But mostly the
legal effort is a loose cannon on the deck
that can hurt a lot of people
based on really poor evidence.
I've certainly caught myself doing this.

Of course, that means nothing other than that I'm dumb sometimes, which was a known fact.
It appears that AWS SES is down right now as well.
Opiate In My InBox: Addicted to the eMail Connection
Financial fraud duping people is extremely common. You can argue about whether people should protect themselves, but at the end of the day, these laws were demanded as a response to people getting robbed.
Actually, I would be far more surprised by (2). I don't know anyone who actually believes that employment is their "purpose".
Loneliness illustrated
Locks, Actors, And STM In Pictures
4G is definitely coming to China this year.
Systems built with large teams need to have their developers negotiate API boundaries. Strict typing and intelligent getters/setters help a great deal to achieve this because the code becomes self-negotiating. A second problem with large teams is that most programmers can't write pure functional code, turning the codebase into a hybrid mess. ES6 matters most for large teams because the inefficiencies of ES5 are felt most on those kinds of scale.

I'm also doubtful how well DOM programming can be mixed with a functional approach, but i'll concede that it is at a minimum possible to do it.
I'm still looking for something that will make git file completion as nice as hg's. That is, in hg when I type hg diff <first couple characters of a modified file path> it can complete it for me. Ditto for commit, merge, etc.
> URLs are so user-unfriendly that in parts of Asia they've simply ditched them from advertising and just show a graphic of a search box+button with their brand name in it, hoping nobody will SEO snipe them.

Apparently, this has happened in the past and it sounds like there are multiple security firms discouraging this practice, but not sure if it's even stopping them.

It's partly poor word choice (e.g. generic terms) and also perhaps a big assumption that people would be using particular search engines that has more of a liberal advertisement scheme.
A Look Back At Apple Products of Old
Disturbingly addictive. I have those willpower problems, beware. I just downloaded it to try it and got captured. There's several modes of play, and lots of possibilities. So you keep coming back to it with what-ifs. I found something to take the magic out of the game: a no-clip tool that sees through the map shows all the caverns.
I've had a really similar idea (different domain, but very VERY similar) -- and this is one of the problems I ran into while implementing it: How do you pick who gets to answer? Is it only a speed thing (which might be bad because then you might get some bad answers? but it's hard for the user to know that an answer is wrong?)

That sounds pretty viable, a nice way to make a quick buck (or maybe even offer some charity contribution) for knowledgeable people.

Though, you should probably make it clear and above board that the service caters to people who are NOT looking to google for hours. I think making it clear that the service is offering an alternative to that is awesome.

Like I said, I had a really similar idea that I have actually started to flesh out, in a different domain so I think this is a good idea/something worth pursuing.
BlinkDB: Queries with Bounded Errors and Response Times on Very Large Data
If you are in the UK, let me know...
Minesweeper written in Livescript
Ehhh... One of the founding principles was that it doesn't have a central issuing authority. The supply of bitcoin can't be controlled, which makes it immune to politically-convenient devaluation or debasement, unlike government-issued fiat currency. Or in laymen's terms: The fed can't just print more bitcoins.

Starting from the above, an extended game of Telephone resulted in some people thinking that Bitcoin can't be regulated at all. This is a silly belief.
Amazon Down?
I'm trying to reach amazon (mostly aws) and I can't seem to get through...anyone else seeing this?
Woodward effect
Github https://github.com/lessandro/mines
What strikes me is that author of the article did not take into account key data about the proposed Hyperloop system which in itself is lacking data. I wonder if this article would ever have been written if the author had talked to any of the engineers that had worked on the proposal for even a few minutes to ask how they expected to work around some of the issues he's attempting to hi-light. For example the fact that it's "mostly evacuated" or that it's covered in solar panels which have been shown to keep structures cooler (http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release....) taking many small details into account could have drastic effects on his "1030 feet" of expansion estimate. I'm sorry but this article smells of intellectual laziness just for the sake of having a counter opinion* I'm looking for honest criticism and in my opinion this is not it.

*I'm not an engineer however I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.
Once the person sells euros for bitcoins, he can spend these coins much more easily anywhere. He can:

1. Mix coins with others to make it impossible to trace where he spends them.

2. Pay someone for labour.

3. Buy any digital product or service online from anyone in the world.

4. Buy something delivered to his door via postal service.

5. Pay for small purchases like with cash.

6. Buy some assets in another country.

Each of these activities are really hard to monitor or affect.

Some activities are easier to regulate. If you are going to buy some AAPL shares or a house, you'd have to tell government something about yourself or the source of your income.
> ... and even lame, non-contributing Ptacek (henceforth RSSp) are all smart guys

Ummm.. is that some inside joke or did he really call fellow security researcher "lame"?
Reading about the triggers made me think about depression as something that may have evolved as a defense/protection mechanism. It's clear he pursued far too much, especially physically, that year. Perhaps humans evolved to become depressed after long rough period in order to make us slow down a bit, allow our bodies to repair and our minds to reflect?
In the 1920s, before you could google "[company name] + scam".
"US is behind it" doesn't mean "US has sole responsibility for it, letting GB off the hook".
So it's more of an improbability drive?
So is Yahoo (or at least its Mail service) still in China or not at all? It wasn't clear from this article. Its clear Alibaba is taking over existing e-mails, but what about Yahoo itself?
After we had to bail out the banksters, there is not much love in Germany for unregulated financial entities, either established or with an unproven exchange medium.

Bafin does not seem to care if you use btc to trade with your friends, but once € are involved they make the rules. Don't know if that angers you, but I think they have a case.
Partying With Mobsters, Running for Your Life, and the Art of Meeting Anyone
I'm able to connect to amazon on port 80:

telnet amazon.com 80
Trying 205.251.242.54...
Connected to amazon.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

Connection closed by foreign host
Democracy is one was of making political power more participatory and widely distributed. Elites tried to lock it up by pretending that money is speech. But we can also play the money is speech game.
If I had to guess, literature reviews are getting longer because us researchers are quickly going through the lower-hanging fruit and thus reaching discoveries that have more and more "dependencies".
When you want to establish a business that trades between bitcoins and typical fiat, you are going to be regulated.

Yes, that is what the state does.

As an individual trading and accepting bitcoins for goods with other individuals, you would be out of the scope of regulation, and because of the nature of bitcoins, you could make it scale to business like levels.

Yeah but your chances of running such a business and, say, not collecting the sales taxes for your area just went down a few notches. Bitcoin transactions are public, more public than, say, paper currency transactions.

And to answer the gp's original question, this does contradict the original intention of bitcoins. Failed or succesful, bitcoins are losing the specialness that was their original pull. Well, suck on it. The original intention was a la, la land phantasy, a fundamentally impossible Libertarian Party wet-dream.

Bitcoinist never figured out whether their cry was "they can't stop us", "they won't (try to) stop us" or "they shouldn't stop us". The result - the state clearly can stop bitcoin but so prefers to just control it.

I had imagined the whole thing would just collapse but I suppose it may just wind-up a fully regulated cash transfer system. But money still depends on the state.
Amazon.com is DOWN
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pirateat40
absolutely, but we don't have a lot of control over that.
yep. cannot access aws console. amazon.com is down too.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/amazon.com.html
No sources cited and a bunch of uninformed sensationalist BS.

NotTheTruthAboutGMOs.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
lifeformed! I really do appreciate your work on Dustforce. It was a really great game, and work of art.

I'm looking forward to your new game. :)
Uh oh http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon.com
S3 bucket URL access seems to be working.
What about the difference between 'programming' and 'hacking'?

No doubt everyone would keep hacking if they had unlimited money, after all, it's fun.

But programming? Tediously banging away on edge cases so a random consumer doesn't get frustrated? Polishing bullshit after the fun work is done so you have a 'product'? Maybe 3% of people enjoy the sheer grunt work involved with programming. Very few people would keep that up if they had unlimited money.

Much more likely, they'd do what we see notch doing right now. jump from interesting project to interesting project, discarding as they go along.
I found this a bit confusing. Kyle's original Gist clarifies things a bit: https://gist.github.com/kneath/6185947
I find it fascinating that the (over)exercise is part of what felled him; for me at least, exercise tends to have a rejuvenating effect. Then again, I haven't run a 50 miler (yet), so maybe I'm just not hitting my limits. Many studies also back that exercise can be an effective treatment for depression. Of course, if you're used to the runner's high and stop getting it because of injuries, that could be a downer.
Glenn Greenwald's partner detained under the Terrorism Act
Pretty ugly.
Ok, that makes sense, but what happens to the light being emitted from your internal ship lighting. Are you traveling faster than that? How do you look around?
How to find short-term projects in SF?
To keep our Lyte.io app funded ourselves, we are willing to take a break to help others.

How do we find companies who need short-term full stack web development help in San Francisco?
You'll level up much faster with an IDE (IMO).

Ensime in Sublime is kinda pointless I think since it only updates on file change. The REPL and SBT integration is nice.

I use Sublime for quick examples in Scala, or as a VIM alternative for larger projects (as opposed to my main editor like with Ruby).

For most of my Scala work I use IntelliJ though. The lack of half-decent theming in Eclipse and Preferences/Settings being all over the place really puts me off ScalaIDE personally.

Going from Zero to Code in IntelliJ and SBT (on OSX) is pretty trivial. Given a command-line "Hello World" with a traditional Maven layout:

First, install IntelliJ, navigate to "Plugins" under preferences and install the Scala plugin.

Now make sure you have Homebrew installed (http://brew.sh)

$ brew update
$ brew install sbt --devel # currently 0.13.0-RC5
$ cd ~/src/
$ mkdir hello-world
$ cd hello-world
$ mkdir project
$ echo "sbt.version=0.13.0-RC5" | tee project/build.properties
$ cat <<EOS | tee project/plugins.sbt
resolvers += "Sonatype snapshots" at "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"

addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltonen" % "sbt-idea" % "1.5.0-SNAPSHOT")
EOS
$ cat <<EOS | tee build.sbt
name := "hello-world"

version := "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
EOS
$ mkdir -p src/main/scala
$ cat <<EOS | tee src/main/scala/Whatever.scala
object Whatever extends App {
println("Hello World!")
}
EOS
$ sbt
> compile
> gen-idea
> run

And there you go. It could be simpler if we were having a LOC competition, but this is actually very close to the exact setup I use for projects day in and day out, including getting a jump on the next version of SBT and best-practicey stuff like setting the SBT version in build.properties.

If this were a Play app, you might have a "project/plugins.sbt" that looked something like this (to get a jump on the upcoming Scala 2.10 version of Play, that integrates with SBT 0.13.x):

// Comment to get more information during initialization
logLevel := Level.Warn

resolvers := Seq("Maven Central" at "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/",
"Typesafe Snapshots" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/snapshots/",
"Typesafe Releases" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/",
"Sonatype snapshots" at "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/")

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.2.0-M2")

addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltonen" % "sbt-idea" % "1.5.0-SNAPSHOT")

This just adds a few more common resolvers you might use for dependencies, and locks you to the latest Play milestone snapshot. You can pretty much otherwise copy/paste files/folders from a sample Play app, like you might see with the Typesafe Activator for example.

Good luck!
If that's the case, then depression is (yet another) broken adaptation. If you've ever been depressed, you'd realize it doesn't rejuvenate - much the opposite, in fact.
Paper money is private. Bitcoins are public (connecting wallets to people is a challenge but with whole Internet tapped, maybe not a huge challenge).
Hello, as a developer based in Lagos, Nigeria (don't believe the stereotype about Nigerians and fraud), PayPal has refused to include Nigeria in her list of supported countries hence there is a gaping need for an international payment gateway in Nigeria which is the fastest growing mobile market in the world and the fastest growing economy on the continent. When does stripe intend on coming towards this neck of the woods?
You are mistaking (part of) the startup world with how the real world works at large. (And to be clear, I'm not pretending that Elon has not made any direct technical decision; that, I don't know)

So that you get a sense of what can happen in the wild world, let me copy past wikipedia for you: "As of May 2012, SpaceX has operated on total funding of approximately $1 billion in its first ten years of operation. Of this, private equity provided about $200M, with Musk investing approximately $100M and other investors having put in about $100M (Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ...)."