skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence do you have that the administration had anything to do with shutting down monuments? Something like that is at the discretion of the director of a given federal agency. Now maybe the director of the National Park Service decided that he was going to shut monuments down as a matter of politics, but you have to recognize that there are good reasons to do so.

In DC in the last year we had a vandal deface the Lincoln Memorial and the National Cathedral. If during the shutdown the National Park Service just left all of the monuments unguarded and someone took a hammer to the nose of a statue of Jefferson, that'd be a humongous price to pay. In a national park, without park rangers to rescue people, if someone got themselves into trouble and died, that would be worse than ruining some people's vacations.

It is possible that the White House ordered parks and monuments closed for political reasons, but that's all speculation at this point. No different than speculating that George W. Bush allowed 9/11 to happen to justify invading Iraq.
But I think one of the main arguments is that using Google Glass for heads-up GPS navigation is safer than looking down at your dash.
I really wish I could simply buy an extra bedroom for $500 per month. But I'm afraid I'm really going to have to move.
That doesn't solve the security vulnerabilities caused by weird filenames.
I love how suddenly the NSA is the only entity out there who has an interest in private keys.
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I had these guys @reply me on Twitter when I tweeted about how it's easier to figure out what cipher suite to use compared to figuring out what SSL product I need.

They were helpful but thank god I didn't buy a cert from them: this page is a terrible, terrible idea that erodes their trust completely.
Yeah, I though it was going to be a cellphone charger.
>> It cannot query other name servers using IPv6

Thanks for pointing that use case out. I'll get support for resolving IPv6 Only hostnames added in.

Existing IPv6 Support:
AAAA Lookup - https://www.misk.com/tools/#dns/arin.net
IPv6 Reverse Dns & FCrDNS - https://www.misk.com/tools/#dns/2001:500:4:13::80
IPv6 Traceroute - https://www.misk.com/tools/#traceroute/2001:500:4:13::80
IPv6 Whois - https://www.misk.com/tools/#whois/2001:500:4:13::80
"...If that black funding was cut..."

How would you know? The answer is, essentially, "Trust".

You would trust the politicians when they say that the funding had been cut. The politicians, in their turn, would trust the functionaries when they say no funding was going into communications monitoring.

What if you don't trust the politicians or the functionaries... do you have any method of validating the elimination of the funding not based on "Trust"?

"...you can't redirect that level of funding from other projects without someone noticing..."

These are, at their core, intelligence agencies. "Redirecting that level of funding... without someone noticing..." is their job. It's what they are trained to do, among other things. I think it's a little optimistic to believe that they would not use that skill to accomplish their mission if they found it necessary.
US Taps Communications Links to Google, Yahoo Data Centers ~ ESET NOD32
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He's a lawyer and politicians whose job for many years was to reconcile the views of scientists and politicians with respect to nuclear. And in this case the political impacts of Thorium are just as important as the science, and likely the reason they asked him questions:

Because it is far harder to use it to create nuclear weapons, there are far fewer political hindrances to mining and trade in Thorium, as well as political concerns over letting potential enemies establish Thorium reactors.

The supplies are also larger, and well distributed, which is also politically beneficial.

Nuclear power is not all about the science.
It is also worth noting that most alarm clock chips not only keep time by counting AC cycles (often with fallback to 9V battery and suitably divided 32768Hz crystal) but also derive timing of all other internal functions from it. For example when LED display is multiplexed into two sections (as it often is) there are no common electrode drivers and instead the display is directly connected to two 1-way rectified taps of mains transformer. Economies of scale in AC-powered radio clocks are such that center taped (or even multi-taped as required for things like LM8562, which seems common in European clocks) transformer is significantly cheaper than two additional transistors.

And LM8562 and this timing of everything off mains is the reason why many modern alarm/radio clocks have that convoluted interface for setting time and alarm with two buttons that decrement setting by one minute and increment it really fast (ie. 50/60 minutes per second).

[Edit: 50/60 minutes per second, not 25/30, datasheet says that this rate is not dependent on rate of pulses on the setting pin, but I think that nobody really tested what will happen if the button is connected to anything other than mains frequency]
I think it is pretty hard to argue that they are not one of the most aggressive entities doing this.
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I like the idea of cooling people as opposed to whole buildings, but I don't like that this isn't actually decreasing your body's temperature, it just 'tricks' you into thinking it's colder/hotter outside. Perhaps it'll pave the way for clothes that can become cool or hot, depending on the temperature outside. I'd be very interested in those.
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I'd need to see proof that the exploit (and operation to support it) was so sophisticated that Google reasonably could not have known.

Since Google has been complicit in a good portion of Snowden's revelations, the burden of proof is on Google to satisfy its customers that it in fact drew the line at the earlier revealed level of complicity rather than the most recent one.
Very funny!! Wait, what?
Using embedded media previews to get around Twitter's 140 char limit: TwitPNG
Yes, the reactor shut down correctly. However, in a working uranium reactor, there will be large quantities of fission products that are also radioactive and are therefore spontaneously decaying in a long chain towards stable isotopes. Some of the fission products are quite short-lived, so for quite some time after the reactor is shut down they will be generating a lot of heat.

What happened at Fukushima is that the cooling system that needs to keep running for weeks after a shutdown broke. This caused the water in the reaction vessel to boil, uncovering the tops of the fuel rods, which then got so hot that they broke steam into constituent hydrogen and oxygen (which caused the subsequent explosions) and they cracked open, releasing some nasty isotopes into the coolant water. The coolant water with nasties in is what has been leaking out into the environment.
We use NewRelic and Pingdom as well. Where Rearview really shines is creating monitors like this: 1) control charts to alert when a process deviates from a range of 3 stdev above or below the mean based on historical data (e.g. purchases/logins are lower than expected, process failures are higher than expected, etc.), 2) deployment triggered monitors that automatically analyze data before and after a deploy for shifts in mean or increases in variance (e.g. do we see more login failures after this deploy, do we see more 4xx/5xx responses, did page load time increase, etc.), 3) response time monitors... while this seems straightforward enough, Rearview can not only tell you when a service or page response time has exceeded some statistical limit, it can also present you with more information regarding causes (e.g. this process is slow because of an issue with the database, redis, a dependent process/service, etc.), 4) it allows you to use SPAN as a means of monitoring load time or response time (SPAN is the 95th percentile - the 5th percentile and it give a much more accurate representation of what users experience than mean or median, 5) process efficiencies can be checked by making sure they complete on time and execute the expected number of commands (e.g. sent email, updated databases, etc.), and many more. Basically you are only limited by your imagination and coding skills. Of course the other benefit is in performing similar monitoring on business metrics and not just application performance (e.g. is funnel performing as expected/needed, are our customer tools being used on a regular basis, are our marketing campaigns paying off, etc.)
These are the ideas that make you truly appreciate what you do and could achieve with our skills! Great work guys and A+ for creativity! :)
Meteor is cool, and there's a lot that I love and is awesome about it, but it has quite a few problems, some of which are on the roadmap for 1.0:

Server side routing: a nice thing for APIs and RSS feeds.

Server side template rendering, because running phantom.js to get SEO is kinda crazy.

Can't get access to any kind of request object/info on the server side because you know, maybe HTTP still matters.

Have to do file/io to get reactivity (save to mongo). Try getting webrtc started that way, it's not fun.

Can't get direct access to who is connected without hacks. See above about webrtc.

It uses mongo, because mongo: http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

It erases event listeners on the client side with reactivity, so the vast majority of JavaScript libraries on the internet are incompatible with it.

The javascript globbing system at load time is incompatible with popular ways to manage dependencies like node'js require or require.js. Like having files load in alphabetical order? Meteor.js is for you!

There actually is a package system, which is the new way to do this, but the old system still exists and the new system while easy to use is not yet documented, last I checked, and you have to create packages just to wrap node.js packages.

Meteorite. Was created to easily hack meteor.js to fix some of the issues already listed, but now is the way to grab things from atmosphere. Meteor comes with packages, but those are all official. I never liked the idea of using Meteorite because you couldn't upgrade Meteor until packages you depended on upgraded too. Now though meteorite is this thing you have to use to import to from atmosphere which has turned into a bunch of wrappers for npm.

The built in less can't import recursively.

I love meteor and if I created a list of all the things awesome about it, it would be larger than those issues up there ^^^ and the team is working on it. They're also really smart people.
I still find the whole premise of the popsicle and redesigning microsoft - with zero parallels to a popsicle as presented - hard to grasp. But if it worked for him that's all that matters.

His design work aside (which is very strong and that I respect), I'm more impressed and intrigued about how he's leveraged the internet as a platform for his work. It reminds me of Dustin Curtis (although Kim lacks some of the disdain Dustin's managed to acccrue). And while he is very talented, it's not like there aren't designers out there with a similar talent level. Kim's managed to create a following and more importantly for him generate a demand for his work.

Microsoft's interest in pushing him on a page like this demonstrates the brand value Kim's accrued and is quite intriguing.
I made a proof-of-concept tool that's basically TwitLonger but renders the excess as an image -- basically, it takes advantage of Twitter's new in-line media previews to "break" the 140-character limit. The images show up as previews in the timeline for people who use the browser interface, thus cluttering up the timeline even more than if they'd just let users tweet longer tweets. Mostly made as a joke, though it turned into something that's almost kinda-useful. Please enjoy.
My guess is that he has a reasonably good overview, although not being a scientist: "He [...] later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on site, and lead the agency response to them." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix
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We expected abuse from the beginning so we built in a 30minute cooldown on accounts. Hopefully someone doesn't have an army of accounts out there though!
This requies only Applicative, not Monad.

Furthermore, this does not allow mixing licences without explicit conversion functions (liftGPL). Conceptually a nicer interface would be having a datatype unifying licences such as

data Licence a = GPL a | BSD a

with some Monad instance that encodes that adding GPL code to a BSD project makes everything GPL,

instance Functor Licence where
fmap f (BSD x) = BSD (f x)
fmap f (GPL x) = GPL (f x)

instance Applicative Licence where
pure = BSD
(<*>) = ap

instance Monad Licence where
join (GPL (BSD x)) = GPL x
join (GPL x ) = x
join (BSD x ) = x

but I'm not sure the Monad laws hold here.
This should be a feature on the NSA website.
It's not just a heat dispenser, it's a peltier [1] a device that can produce cold from electricity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
But has a verysign logo. It has be trustworthy.
4 months after our 2nd child was born my wife still wasn't getting enough sleep. Part of that was the child's sleeping pattern and part of it was her not being disciplined with sleep (not taking naps or staying up even later). Of course my telling her "you need more sleep" fell on deaf ears. So I recommended she get a fitbit since it claims to track one's sleep. It was a big reality check to see on her computer in a big red circle that she was only getting on average 4hrs of sleep each day. Just seeing it on the computer meant she could no longer ignore the truth. It's the same as a doctor's prognosis vs. a friends opinion. The former carries a lot more weight. She started getting more sleep the following week.

If someone can create a system that nearly automates the tracking of what you eat you'll make gazillions and help a lot of people along the way. Maybe a bluetooth food scale in conjunction with a tablet that can do "facial recognition" on a plate of food to estimate what I'm eating and the carb/protein/fat/calorie breakdown. Then based on my physical activity for the day and calorie consumption it could recommend I skip desert or have a carrot instead.
This makes me think how much I would like a HN without opinion pieces.
In Sweden the same social safety net applies to everyone, even entrepreneurs (gasp!). There is basically no more risk in starting a company than in being employed.
No, freshly mined bitcoins are never 'sent' anywhere - they just appear in the mining address. Thus, the public key is not revealed until they are sent.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

This just seems like some newbie programmer was like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if"... and built themselves a weekend project that they released on the site.

Obviously it's terrible for a site that sells SSL stuff, but concluding that this is the NSA is pretty hugely premature.

edit: Duh, didn't pick up on the sarcasm. In my defense, the parent text was way more vague at the time. :)
I'm not sure lugubrious means what you intended it to mean. :) At any rate, see my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6646402 for a sampling of things Rearview brings to the table. The tl;dr is that it's not a NOC tool, it's more for process monitoring whether that be application processes, engineering processes, or business processes. It also does provide a central location for anyone to see the state and history of an application or business unit.
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If you don't activate it, how does Google Glass require your attention just because you're wearing it?
I contacted their support:

Me: I wanted to know more about your certificate key matcher
isn't the private key always meant to remain... private?

Emanuele: Yes, it should. We offer the tool to help verify the correspondence SSL certificate it is lost.

Me: But it would be sent over HTTP and viewable to anyone along the network.

Emanuele: The page can also be accessed through HTTPS.

Me: I think it should be enforced. Also something like this should be done client side. Perhaps using crypto.js

Emanuele: OK, I will pass your comment to our General manager.
Agreed. I'm very wary about the affects of "tricking" a vital system of my body for long periods of time.
Personally, I'd go with the opinion of a nuclear engineer - I've worked on projects involving modelling nuclear power stations and the engineers who did the engineering simulations were some of the brightest and practical people I've ever met.
But wearing it is not the same as using it.
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Perhaps the diminishing interest in humanities is linked to the poor job market for humanities degrees?

From the article:

>But with the recession having helped turn college, in the popular view, into largely a tool for job preparation, administrators are concerned.

And I am concerned for the administrators. Who has the money to go to Stanford to get a degree that offers very limited career opportunities at pay levels that will never recoup your college costs? Only the most foolhardy or the richest will do this. I am concerned that the administrators apparently do not realize this.

Just for fun, here's a link to the tuition and fees page of Stanford:

http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/students/tuitio...

Now, who wants to pay upwards of 20k a semester after housing, books, tuition and expenses to get a degree in "Renaissance French literature and the philosophy of language", "German", "philosophy", or "world languages and culture"? How long will it take to pay back your student loans? 40+ years on a philosopher's salary. Will your crippling debt hinder any other aspects of your life, like getting married or buying a house? Hopefully, not.

College tuition is so high, that the decision to pursue a degree that does not virtually guarantee a decent paying job is financially and almost morally untenable, unless you already have substantial liquidity.

But the academics, as smart as they are, just don't seem to make the connection:

>“Both inside the humanities and outside, people feel that the intellectual firepower in the universities is in the sciences, that the important issues that people of all sorts care about, like inequality and climate change, are being addressed not in the English departments,” said Andrew Delbanco, a Columbia University professor who writes about higher education.

Only a very small subset of people go to college to 'change the world' or 'tackle pressing issues', most go to make a better life for themselves somewhere down the line. It's really hard to correlate study in Renaissance French literature and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt with a better life.

This article really paints the picture that people who handle administration for colleges, and professors who study college trends, really don't see the cost benefit analysis aspect of it at all. Or maybe they just value degrees far more than they are actually worth.

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Sorry, that was too long and I think I've got to cut myself off there.
Oh, there are a few more like that:

- there's a very good chance that the touch-pad in your new laptop uses the PS/2 protocol to communicate with the system

- why do I need to address cylinders/heads/sectors in a flash block device? I can understand sectors (block addressing) but cylinders and heads? It's FAT/EXT4 legacy, but the translation layer is still there in many OS-es.

- I recently wrote a driver for an LCD. I could have sworn I was accessing a CRT: front porch, h-sync pulse, back porch, v-sync, ...
This is hilarious. It needs a "Why <hugely popular thing> is dead" and a "Why I quit my job to ... "
i remember the Gäfgen v. Germany case quite well. that's because it got a ton of media coverage, here in germany. i don't recall anything of the sorts happening before, or after this case. add to that the fact that the suspect was only 'threatened' with torture, suggesting that the german police resort to torture on a weekly basis, is a very far stretch.
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There's plenty of constraints in this style. You need to have very many notes. It must be a single instrument. It should presumably sound good or otherwise have some musical value. There is a lot of exploration possible within these constraints.

Most of the criticism in this thread are just eloquent formulations of "Get off my lawn" and "your a faggot". No different from the literally tens of thousands of previous instances of situations where a new artistic medium or expression has been criticised.
Ah... I just reread, and you're correct. Apparently I shouldn't post to HN while groggy...
I just tested the form with a key+cert pair I created for this sole purpose. It actually performs as advertised - it checks if key and cert belong together.
I can imagine this being great for the winter in england, you're always moving between hot/cold environments.
Ok - now that we've had Ender's Game made into a pretty decent movie can we get Use of Weapons? :-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/11/sci_fi_poll/
Good at making decisions
We have always used Ruby for the scripting (we're predominately a Ruby shop so this was key for future adoption.) The very first mvp for this tool was individual Ruby scripts running against Graphite and being scheduled via cron. The first real backend scheduler was built in Scala, but for various reasons we've converted to Rails/Puma/Celluloid running in a VM using Jruby. The monitors themselves run in an MRI sandbox for security purposes.
Definitely. I don't think it would be that bad on a 1024x768, but widescreen it's really bright.

EDIT: By the way, you can make it readable with:

document.getElementById("wrapper").style.backgroundColor='white'
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The reason Bush is blamed for Abu Gharaib is because guidance came from the White House that torture was authorized in order to gain intelligence. Very different than if some subordinates tortured people of their own accord.

Healthcare.gov is not just a damned website. The backend has to integrate with the IRS, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, private insurance companies, and the various state exchanges. No you could not have assembled a team of 10 developers in 25% of the time for 1% of the cost. No offense but you clearly are not familiar with any of the details of why healthcare.gov failed.

Requirements came in so late that development didn't start until March, giving them at the most, 7 months of time to develop this thing. So you're saying that a team of 10 could've gotten this thing built in less than 2 months? And that this fictional team could've gotten away with 1 week of full integration testing? The government integrators (CMS) didn't make that full test happen until 1 week before launch.

I agree that there is no excuse for this level of incompetence, but a lot of that incompetence is on the part of the customer. An ill-prepared group was given systems integration responsibilities, requirements came in very late and they were changing right up to release, not enough time was allocated to integration testing, and no one sounded the alarm that this was going to be a disaster.

Now maybe the president knew, maybe he didn't. The responsibility for something like this would've fallen on Kathleen Sebelius. Did she know the project was off the rails? Did she inform the White House? If she didn't know, she didn't do her job, if she did know and didn't sound the alarm, she didn't do her job. The only scenario where she is not to blame is if she sounded the alarm to the president, and the president told her to push ahead. So far there has been no indication that this was the case.