skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is true, but the lights are still on, and the T1 line is still piped into their building (not confirmed by visual evidence but it would cost more to shut it down and restart it barring a crisis causing shutdown >1month). Either they think the shutdown is lasting a while or their CTO/CWhateverO has a sense of humor.
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Your gun permit is in the bill of rights. Why do you need a web site for that?
It's up from here. Odd.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.nsa.gov
So is your right to vote - why do we need voter registration?
The USDA agriculture arm (USDA ARS) actually does some really good work with nutrition scientific lab data (USDA SR-25)

I've also talked to several of the scientists for work, and they are quite the bright bunch and a lot do good research work.

However, I don't see why they couldn't leave the server up at least through October as I actually need to read a lot of their latest work.
Ironically, you can't straightforwardly get to the USDA contingency plans. The whitehouse.gov link on the page points to an index of all the contingency plans (across the federal government). Unfortunately, the entries for the USDA plans are just links pointing back to usda.gov...

I'd imagine you might get somewhere at archive.org (and there may well be other ways to get them from a .gov source), but still...
Ask HN: Government shutdown - what does it mean?
I am piecing together bits of information from twitter, news sources, and wikipedia, but I'm still not entirely sure what this 'government shutdown' means. How will US citizens be affected, if at all? Is there any reason to be concerned? What are the ramifications?

As always, I appreciate the knowledge, wisdom and experience of the HN community.
I was more surprised by the smaller spike in the middle of Western Australia.
"My original plan was to self-publish this book and put it up for sale - at a purely nominal price of course (ahem) - and maybe make a few pounds from the thing but there's a part of me that finds this idea just wrong"

There is nothing wrong with making a few pounds from such an interesting story. I'm sure there is more people around like me who actually find a pity not being able to easily purchase a physical copy of this book. I actually find quite convenient to pay for not having to print it ( I mean book printing ) myself. And I actually love to have physical books too, specially this sort of books :)
Reports of contamination would most likely go through the FDA for announcements.
The rest of the world isn't where the money is ... so why would he develop for a market that can't even afford a mac?
Also consider that who is furloughed depends on whether the relevant department has classified them as "excepted/essential" or "not-excepted/non-essential". Many departments are sending IT and security personnel home because it is much harder to justify employees (like support, IT, etc) considered ancillary to the department's primary function.

Depending on the requirements and scope of a cabinet website, and without necessary support personnel, it could be considered a risk to leave services running, especially if it's an agency like the USDA that relies primarily on discretionary funding, versus something like the NSA with is funded with mandatory spending and therefore has much more flexibility.
We had two similar "partial shutdowns" of the US Gov't in the 1990's. Democratic President refusing to cut healthcare-related spending vs. Republican-controlled Congress holding the debt ceiling hostage. Sound familiar? Same game, different players.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governmen...
In that case the government should stay closed down.
That IT person has 4 hours to shut-down the agency internet presence for an indeterminate amount of time. Also, their server farm may not have power in 4 days, better to set up a simple website on some "essential" box somewhere.

Especially since the USDA receives information from across the country and performs statistical analysis. It would be safer to shutdown the dynamic services rather than let it get hacked. In 4 hours they probably do not have enough time to separate dynamic and static information when they also have to do a backup and a bunch of paperwork.
I thought they shut down Geocities years ago?
I can have only one vote, and any number of firearms :)
So there are billionaire baseball coaches?
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So the USDA is largely responsible for our having some of the safest food on the planet. I mean you can mock it all you want, but if USDA meat inspectors aren't there to watch over the production; you might want to consider becoming a lot more vegetarian for a while. I mean, unless you really like eating cows infected with MRSA or Mutton with a side of scrapie...

Seriously, if meat inspection goes by the wayside for any length of time; people will die, because it won't be anybody's job to make sure the meat is safe and the folks who run meat-packing plants don't like that they can't wring every last bit of profit out of every animal they buy.
Right, who needs meat packaging standards!

Salmonella is just a government scare tactic to inflate federal budgets!
if everyone gets every message, people will store those. and at some point in the future it will be possible to decrypt them all. that makes it something I won't use.
actually... no. Companies are still pretty capitalistic considering the owners/shareholders get all the major money out of it without putting any "effort" in. Though i guess socialism would be a like an employee-owned company where everyone gets a share of the total profit etc. Or where they decide as a whole what to do with the surplus (get a pool table, or heck even an indoor POOL!)
Driving in from Portland, Oregon, and staying at a friend's place a few blocks from UC-Berkeley. Send me a message if interested. @jahnreektor on twitter! BTW, if any folks from Vancouver or Seattle wanna carpool/caravan together, I'm totally game!

I've actually never been to the bay area, so I'd love to visit the Gold Gate Bridge or the headquarters of the big companies: Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.
They have to prepare for an uncertain amount of time. I think the botnet/hacking concerns are more notable. Especially since the USDA collects information from across the country.
Maybe the loser has to donate an extra million dollars or so to the winner's favorite charity?

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/02/koch-brothers-give-m...
When was your trial? Happy to hear about the suffering and what we could do better there.

We have actually spent a lot of time trying to reduce the pain and suffering from CI. Of course, you can't please everybody: trying to do that gets you Jenkins. Rather, we try to make a wonderful experience for web apps running on Linux.

Some examples of this: scaling your CI to run more than one build at the same time is tough on Jenkins, trivial on Circle. Same with splitting long builds over multiple machines. Doing either of these on jenkins is a massive pain, and most of our converts from jenkins come over at that point in trying to scale it.

Another example is that many projects will just work out of the box, with no configuration: Ruby, node and python projects in particular (also Go, scala and clojure and a subset of Java projects). But when you do need to configure, we allow you configure a very large amount. How does that differ from jenkins? Well, we try to make that configuration as simple as possible, while still providing you with as much power as you need. See some detail in https://circleci.com/docs/configuration

Lastly, in terms of preventing suffering, we have some really cool features around debugging, such as being able to SSH into our build VMs, and fantastic customer service, manned by engineers (my day is Monday, feel free to say hi: sayhi [at] circleci.com).
TIL that scripting languages are distinct from programming languages.
The parser also does typechecking, and attempts to cover a good subset of DML, DDL and procedural SQL as well. Maybe it could be smaller!

How would you handle correlated subqueries when converting from SQL to RA?
I used to think of myself as an owl. I'd hate getting up in the mornings and my most productive hours were somewhere between 11pm and 3am.

I actively started changing my habits a few years ago, meaning I changed my diet to high-fibre+high-protein+high-(good)fat+low-carbs, stopped drinking alcohol cold turkey, get up earlier (~5am) before work to work out and go to sleep earlier (~10pm). This has worked wonders for me, I'm always energised and never drowsy during the day, sleep like a rock and needless to say am much healthier overall.

People think of me as a morning person now, which is probably right although it's weird after having lived like an owl for years. I believe for most people this boils down to habit and changing those is hard. An owl-ish life might not be bad for everybody but from my experience it's very taxing on health and social life and the mental state.

In my case having a regular job and kids certainly gave incentive (aka left not many options) to transform into a lark, but most people can probably do it - if they really want to.
So in other words, it makes the system look better.

Look, disk time counts, whether it's hadoop loading it into the memory of a given machine, or you reading it from disk and transferring it into a GPU piece by piece.

Your "hopefully it will be irrelevant" is, well, crazy.
I work for an employer with plenty of in-memory systems (very large ones in fact), and it certainly doesn't discount disk time. In fact, it matters a lot!
Actually I was wrong on that one. I took for granted that you could track changes because we have a nice "Job Config History" menu option. But that is actually the job config history plugin ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/JobConfigHistory... )

So, I step back on saying Jenkins lets you track main changes history. That has to be done manually I guess.
Perhaps those in D.C. will be affected.
Well, of course they will. Cost has no relevance, here. It's all about cutting off our noses to spite our faces. "Fine, you're going to shut us down? We're going to chop the most publicly noticeable and sympathetic things we can and make a big deal about it!"

You know, for all couple of weeks that it's shut down, before we go back to business as usual blowing the taxpayers money and using our positions to benefit from lobbyists, like the last time.
It actually looks like they withdrew their A records. anl.gov is having the same issue (Though strangely enough, not mirror.anl.gov, so thankfully my systems can still update.)
NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World
They get federal dollars for certain things, but you are correct that they are managed and largely paid for by their respective state.
A "full shutdown" would take everyone in uniform marching to the District of Criminals and throwing all the politicians in jail.
Wouldn't it be nice if the federal government were small enough that it contained no personnel who were "non-essential" ?
14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th amendments?

Took them awhile to get it spelled out. But it also took them 100 years to end slavery.

One might also suggest the freedom from searches and seizures is also fairly clear. Be sure to tell that the TSA agent that is groping your genitals. Oh and the TSA is still fully funded.
Multipath TCP doesn't magically increase the amount of bandwidth either, it just allows a single TCP-like connection to use multiple internet connections. It would allow you to use all bandwidth available on multiple connections in a single TCP connection but right now we can already use all bandwidth available over multiple separate TCP connections.
Protip to employers: Make your jobs interesting and fun, and you'll find that your employees are way more productive than you ever thought they could be.
Terrorism is a social problem. If the States would stop pursuing their plan for global dominance, and causing political tensions around the world, there will be no reason to carry terroristic attacks.
I was referring to C#, but I may have misunderstood the parent. The C# compiler isn't 64, but unfortunately it's not because of the JIT.
tsa.gov is still fully operational http://www.tsa.gov/
MPTCP does not claim to address the fundamental flaws of TCP. It allows a single TCP connection to be transmitted accross multiple TCP connections on different interfaces. No more, no less. If that's a hack for you, then a hack it is.
yeah that's not a short at all :/ that's just a long position in all the other stocks and hoping that somehow those stocks have a short position in stock D
Looks nice. But then Jenkins is an extremely low bar to jump. I've always considered it kind of hilariously bad and at this point it would be kind of sad to see it improve ... it just wouldn't feel like Jenkins any more!
No one is obligated to alter their own behaviour in order to sustain someone else's business model, that's why it's totally okay to shoplift if it's more agreeable and convenient to you.
Maybe not in the 'Bill of Rights' itself, but it's in other areas of the constitution - for example, the 15th Amendment. Or the 26th Amendment. The parent comment is correct in essence - these are all amendments to the constitution, just like the 2nd.
+1. And the flip side is true to: companies that find a way for their employees to create value while enjoying their jobs are able to hire great employees and produce excellent work.
> What the USDA is doing is called "Washington Monument Syndrome".

Where will all the school kids visit if the USDA website is down? What about all of the international tourists that finally made the trip to the USDA website?

You make a completely valid comparison, because everyone knows that after the Washington Monument, the USDA is the most beloved site.
Well that's basically just a static blog site anyway. The USDA site had dynamic information, statistics, graphs. The IT infrastructure for USDA is probably much more complicated than the TSA.
Congress and the President are both required to be paid by the Constitution (20th amendment and Art 2, Sec 1, respectively).
Interesting -- I had no idea ASP was that dependent on fast startup time that wasn't NGen compatible. My mistake!
What has a funding got to do with a website being up, the servers are still running.
Techstars has invested in a bunch of hardware startups. Romotive, Orbotix, Ubooly to name a few...
I'd be one happy vegetarian!
Instant IntroJs
In some circles yes, but theres alot of web developers that are still on Windows for whatever reason. I am from Germany and people here are less prone to brand marketing and i still see quite alot of people using Windows, even people i highly respect for their skills. Im mainly talking about coders though, not designers.
I realize you're being sarcastic, but food inspections are continuing. From http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/21778/

If the U.S. Department of Agriculture shuts down at midnight tonight,
food stamp benefits will be delivered for the month of October, forest
fires will continue to be fought, meat and poultry will still be inspected,
grain inspection will continue, laboratory animals will be fed and the
rural development division will still monitor government loans.

But USDA will not release any new production statistics, most of the
rest of USDA will shut down and its website may go dark.
Coming from LA. Super excited to see the area!
Part of these systems include surprise "fire drills", where auditors will appear and present adverse market conditions to a bank. The bank will then have 30 days to successfully respond to the simulation. Kind of like stress testing for banks...

What we've actually seen over and over is that banks without sufficient cash reserves or proper internal and external auditing get whomped in a real crisis. Then expect taxpayers to bail them out.
That ship sailed with CALEA. It's going to be relatively straightforward for the government in secret court to argue for an expansive reading of CALEA with respect to other authorized missions, and thus require individual VPN, email, etc. providers to comply with the same "lawful intercept" requirements as CALEA, I fear. It won't be a blanket thing like CALEA is for voice PSTN, but individual orders with respect to providers of interest (due to size, or like paltalk or lavabit, clientele), not very difficult.

IANAL, though.
It shouldn't be that hard right? I'm sure we can make those changes in a few days. We'll feed people idealism in the meantime until we have it all switched over.
This is a horrible title; neither the study referenced nor the body of the article itself makes the claim of a physical cause for being a morning or night person.

The study just says that there were white matter “differences in the frontal and temporal lobes, cingulate gyrus and corpus callosum” of the night owl participants compared to the rest of the study participants.

The first author suggests this might be a result of night owls suffering from “permanent jet lag” — i.e. that the cause goes exactly the opposite way the title suggests. Of course, the study doesn't say that, it's just an educated guess.
If this thing came from Adobe named Adobe Dreamweaver 2013 nobody would take notice.
Open this link in Chrome...
sort of thing a high school football coach, assigned to teach computer science over the summer, would write on the chalkboard for his students to memorize for the exam.
What the page should have been:

How is JavaScript the same as Java?

They both start with the letters J, A, V, A.
This is a very rich and high-quality dataset. I started using it to learn data visualization a few years ago and have been tinkering with it in parallel coordinates ever since.

http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/raw/3150059/
This calculation does not take into account the lifetime value of a customer. And his reviews. My grandfather told stories about a Ford lemon he got in '68 and how rotten the experience was until he died in his late 70's.
Excited to see this come to life. Looking forward to it.
Can someone elaborate on the relevance of this? I remember reading that scientists hope to find methane on Mars as an indication for life at some point in the past. How does all this petroleum/methane (now propylene) in Titan's atmosphere fit into that?
Offer them temp contracts until you know you want them, rather than giving them a job and then firing them.

Have better management processes so you can solve problems of "cultural fit" rather than just firing people.
As car is to carpet

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062/whats-the-differen...
Our your friendly neighborhood ULC minister.
"For example, research published last month suggests that night owls who cut their exposure to artificial light and boosted their exposure to sunlight found their body clocks shifted towards earlier waking and sleeping"

Where I live there is not much sunlight except for a few months in a year. So I get up at 10:40, hopefully get to work at noon, go to sleep at 2AM. And don't feel so well.
you mean 19th
At least the Javascript plugins don't want me to install the Ask Toolbar when updating.
JavaScript - Write everywhere, run once?
As long as it's being done through attorneys, that's enough for me. What I cared about was knowing this was legitimate at all, vs. someone just impersonating him, but that seems pretty clear. No member admitted to the bar is going to fuck up something as simple as a legal defense fund, and certainly not over 40k. I'd feel comfortable up to 250k or so without more documentation.
I don't know enough about the theory to argue either way. I just really like Haskell's monad libraries (as well as applicative functors and lenses). If you're able to build a library that's as general, flexible and powerful in Clojure I will be really excited!
It remembers me all those gov, or big old school corporate websites that highly suggest you to use IE. I remember one not long ago suggesting IE6 - true story.
To add to Roger's answer, I can assure you that software engineers in semiconductor companies are having a ball as well. The work often involves understanding computer architecture, registers, memory and IO. Everything cool (read: advanced OS concepts) that you learn in college is getting implemented there.

Some job profiles include programming GPUs, device drivers for a new device, writing kernel code for the processor, firmware for other chips on a motherboard.

There are also math intensive jobs such as 3d spatial programming for manufacturing simulation and nanoscale image processing for finding defects in wafers.

Compiler and language enthusiasts often enjoy working in the forefront. When Intel plans to come out with a new instruction set, it uses its own engineers to write an optimized compiler (better than gcc) for those instructions.

Same goes for Java in Oracle.
Times have changed. Back in the day all we hoped was not getting sued for reporting a bug and now we are actually defaming companies who are not giving away good enough bounties.

It's great to see that we came to this point.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't French Universities require you to have a knowledge of the French language at least at level B2 of the Common European Framework[1] in order to attend their university courses?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Re...
This plugin is actually really nice.

Thanks, this will help. :)
Two days actually makes sense. Let's say you already have a machine, and haven't set up jenkins before. You need to install ubuntu, install jenkins, and then start to configure and figure it out as you go. Its not use friendly, so I would expect this to take most of the day.

That's without installing the databases, queues, etc, that you need. In all likelyhood, you wont have this in chef (your production box doesn't run postgres or redis or rabbit), so you're going from scratch. All it takes is one pesky configuration thing you can't figure out to have it take your entire day.

And heaven forbid if you haven't got a few years of linux admining under your belt already, in which case you can write off the rest of the week.
Thank you for asking this. I haven't slept properly in over a month now and it's starting to really effect my startup (and me of course)
There are some advantages to having a purely static-HTML website, in terms of unattended maintainability.

In addition to the government, it seems many companies don't have one anymore. If servers get compromised, it's common for companies to just take the whole site down pending a fix, and replace it with a single HTML splash page. If they had a full-featured static-HTML version of the site, they could fail over to something more complete than one HTML page, but that seems uncommon.
If only it was health care cost reform instead of insurance reform.

I simply do not understand how the 80% of insurance costs being spent or refunded is going to be true.

If you pay $5000 a year for insurance and you go for one checkup that year - are they going to give you $4000 back?

Somehow I suspect not. And I doubt it covers dental.

Everyone is quick to point out you won't lose your insurance for this or that - but can't they just raise the rate to the point where you miss a payment? Last time I checked your car insurance or life insurance is quick to drop you when you miss a payment or two.

And just like student loans, I suspect costs are going to rise to the point of your maximum insurance coverage.
It's an interesting idea, but this post provides an interesting contrast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/05/obamacare-j...

Basically, if insurance coverage is really creating "Job Lock" then the potential entrepreneurs will also likely be locked in by salary needs to.
Upcoming talk - Mostly missless memory in the Mill CPU
Computing is becoming a culture of free. I wonder where the users expect we get our money from.