skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that no-one ever gives credit to Apple's marketing department, because they are very good at their job. We only get these religiose screeds about the designers.
Apologies. I'd delete my comment, but there's too many responses by now.

A lot of times we disagree, but this is not one of them. If we're off in Nazi territory, there's no constructive conversation to be had.

I knew it'd be sensitive, but I had no idea.
We went through this recently at Codeship when our provider, DNSimple, had an outage due to DDoS- https://blog.codeship.com/dnsimple-ddos-outage/
DNS is a service that often ends up as a single point of failure in infrastructures I've seen as it's non-trivial to implement redundancy. Having a repository/API approach to deploying DNS records saved us in this incident: http://blog.codeship.com/dnsimple-dns-history-continuous-dep...
The description of the opera and the sources are available online [0].

[0] http://argonov.ru/2032.html (in Russian),

google translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...
tangentially related to blog post but very relevant to cat shit – i recently bought a "top opening" cat litter box[1], and its incredible that they are not the norm.

my biggest problem with cat litter is not the shit, but having cat litter be tracked across the bathroom - this is almost entirely solved with a top opening box. additionally, my dog is unable to eat the shit.

[1]: https://www.clevercatinnovations.com/top_entry_litterbox_abo...
I had some fun moments hooking Megahal up to IRC myself :-)
You've touched on the strawman about HE, but you've misidentified the source. It is the Marxists that want you to believe the psychopath claim, in their desire to stereotype capitalism as blind greed. Good capitalists that understand economics will perfectly happily include happiness and such in the value functions they use, because it turns out economic theory stops functioning without that assumption; it's built in at the ground floor. By this, I mean, the math stops working, at the deepest and most profound level economics is built on the idea that entities have different value judgments, down at the microeconomics level where economics is actually meaningful.

And note the Marxists then wish to slide in the idea that they ought to get to set your value function, when you aren't looking. (Which is part of the silliness at the core of the whole idea when they think they can set the same valuations for everyone, because, again, the math stops making sense and, what a surprise, indeed systems that truly attempt to function in a fully Marxist manner really do break down in a horrifyingly complete manner, as if they were trying to build an economy on the proposition that 1+1=3.)

The strawman idea comes from the Marxists, who generally don't want you engaging with capitalist theory particularly fairly, since they would lose a big rhetorical weapon if you do.

You can not understand the anger about HE until you understand that Marxists desperately need humans to not behave "slightly irrationally under some circumstances" (the real scenario) but need humans to be profoundly irrational, so they can justify their handing over all sorts of power to the government so they can save everyone from themselves. Of course explaining exactly how the government will transcend being made out of irrational humans is conveniently left unexplained, since that is impossible. But, if humans were really profoundly irrational, we wouldn't be having this argument, because our species would be long dead. People who want to believe that people are profoundly irrational on a massive scale must grapple with the problem that such behaviors lead to death in the real universe, and tend to be evolved out pretty quickly. (This is where the "amusing" comes from in my other post; humans are not entirely rational, but we've been tuned to be surprisingly rational in many ways... our claimed reasons however have not been so tuned.)

So the problem with HE isn't that he's utterly, utterly nonexistent... the problem with HE is that it's a slightly imperfect model, and iterative systems like the economy being what they are, that imperfection can end up magnified in surprising nonlinear ways and have bizarre consequences, in a system that often has nonlinear and bizarre behaviors even if everyone was totally rational. So it important that science is done to determine the ways in which real humans deviate from HE... but these will generally be in relatively small ways, rather than the massive total failures of the model that the Marxists are searching for.
Not voting or voting for a third party is worse than voting for the lesser evil of the only 2 viable parties.
I don't believe it was a DDoS, but Route 53 stopped resolving records for Cloudfront distributions for a few hours on Nov 26 2014.

This affected everyone who uses CloudFront (which is a lot), including Amazon.com itself. There, all product images were timing out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665367

http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/11/26/in-response-...
>The biggest problem when your nation tortures people is you've trained people to torture

No, I disagree. I think the torturing itself and the moral failings it entails are a bigger problem than the (admittedly substantial) problem of reintegrating the individual torturers back into society.
A) The NSA told them. B) The CIA told them. Pick one.
> Half the country effectively voted in favor of torture.

> Such people rarely change their beliefs.

You honestly believe that 50% of the country rarely change their beliefs? That we are actually divided into the "rational good people" and the "religiously fevered bad people"?

Most people that voted for "the other side" did so because they thought it would be better for their jobs, better for their taxes, voted the same as the rest of their family, were misinformed, or a million other reasons that has nothing to do with them being unshakable ideologues incapable of being convinced otherwise in the next election and not deserving of your contact. The fact that you view half the population of this country that way is quite frightening.
it was either GREETING or greeting since it's case-insensitive
That's because using it with Mars is a novel concept. The mechanism, though, is the same.
As far as an ant is concerned, neither of them landed on the moon, and the moon doesn't exist.
I guess this means we should throw all the Democrats under the bus who suddenly had amnesia about knowing anything about the techniques being used too?

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/12/feinsteins-duplicity-...

The report (embedded below) shows that the CIA briefed at least 68 members of Congress on the CIA interrogation program, including "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs) . It details the dates of all congressional briefings and in most cases, the members of Congress in attendance and the specific subjects discussed. Keep in mind though, that the topic for each one of these meetings was interrogation of prisoners.

For example in April 2002 both the House (HPSCI) and Senate (SSCI) committees on intelligence were briefed on the "Ongoing Interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, who was mentioned in the Feinstein report. According to the report, at this time EITs were referenced but there is no evidence they were discussed in detail. However later meetings not only discussed but gave examples of EITs being used, (but attendees weren't mentioned). Finally near the end of 2002 we see that the most Senior members of the House and Senate committees had meetings totally devoted to EITs.
There's certainly some missing evidence in the FBI report.
Regarding the IP's used, please have a read here: http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/fauxtribution/
"This fee needs to be paid by both the parties before their service contract commences."
So I have to pay you to do work if I'm a contractor. Sounds like a great plan.

/sarcasm
Merci :)

I wonder why Google translated "huis-clos" to "camera" in the header text. Best I could find is that Sartre's Huis Clos was originally called "in camera" which means: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_camera.
Nice to see you mention a repository - I love storing DNS details in git, and setup a site to push that on to Amazon's route53 infrastructure (https://dns-api.com/).

Having revision-control is wonderful for history-tracking.
I'm not blaming you, I'm blaming your ancestors.

I'm not against letting DC vote to fix the problem at this point. But this situation is ridiculous. There was no reason to start a major city in the no-voting zone.
There is some projects that I usually do to get a feeling of the framework:

- Code snippets/tasks manager. Pure CRUD. If you want to get yourself dirty: add authentication.

- A blog (like SEJeff suggested). If you want to get yourself dirty: try to make it multilingual with SEO.

- Syllabication app. Helps me to find how business logic is best placed into app mindset.

I have to go, but if you need more examples just say! :)
I'm fully aware I'm buying into a rather risky and possibly disappointing piece of tech with Coin. That's a risk I was aware of when I paid up, because the potential gain for me is pretty big. I'm always forgetting gift cards, my card looks just like a bunch of my friends, making mix-ups common, and I like to carry as little as possible in my pocket — generally I leave the house now with my license, one card, and a twenty. A smart card helps me achieve this. I'd like to give it a shot.

Just about everything I've backed on Kickstarter and elsewhere has been delayed or had its features tweaked. I kind of assume that will be the case now! If you're not okay with that, the early adopter game is probably not for you, and that's a perfectly reasonable reason to avoid it.
I feel like that misses the point. Anyway, there's no point in arguing it I guess.
There are parser generators based on PEG and Pratt, which are very flexible and efficient.
I'm investing $10,000 into YC – here's why
Google has had much more PR about it's revolutionary tech and that has a LOT going for it. When tesla comes out with their self driving car, if it looks 100x better than this prototype, I still might pick Google. Better aesthetics with comparable functionality will win the majority of time in my book (think Android devices vs Apple devices), however when it comes times to putting my life on the line, I will go with something I feel is safer 100% of the time regardless of how it looks. And like always, Google will dominate with it's superior functionality (backed by their PR over the last couple of years) over any tesla any day.
As we are discussing the immoral actions of a government and its agents, most notably imprisonment without trial in military-run camps, in which inmates are tortured based on instructions from the top of the hierarchy - this has clear parallels with some of the actions of Nazi Germany.

To compare this behaviour is not 'degrading' the conversation at all, on the contrary it's quite relevant to compare and contrast.
So, has it been 100% confirmed that NK is behind all of this? I don't know, I realize that NK is like some hormone crazed pubescent boy, but shit just seems weird.

What if this all turns out to be some trolling by some third party, maybe even not government affiliated.
If you want to see torture prosecutions, write a letter to your editor calling out your elected officials by name (source below). I did it, so can you!

How to get your senators' and representatives' attention on any issue without being a wealthy donor | Protip from a former Senate intern[1].

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An email to your senator or representative may result in a form letter response and a phone call to the office may amount to a tally mark on an administrative assistant's notepad. But, for any given policy concern, if you want to get their attention a letter to the editor in one of your state's 5-10 biggest newspapers that mentions them specifically BY NAME is the way to go. If your message is directed to your representative, pick a newspaper that is popular in your district.

That is the crucial thing to know--the rest of this post is an explanation of why I know this is true.

I know this because, when I interned in the D.C. office of a senator one summer, one of the duties I shared was preparing a document that was distributed internally both online and in paper format. This document was made every day and comprised world news articles, national news, state news, and any letters to the editor in the 5-10 largest newspapers within the state that mentioned the senator by name. I was often the person who put that document on his desk, and it was the first thing he read every morning after arriving to the office.

I began to suspect that this was standard operating procedure because several other senators' offices share the same printer in the basement of the Russell Senate Office building, and I saw other interns doing the exact same procedures that I was involved in.

Since the internship, I've conferred with other Senate and House employees past and present and determined that most--if not all--offices use essentially the same procedure.

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[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1os8rz/how_to_get...
So, what about modern OSes, like plan9?
A one way trip is more feasible. Resources spent on supplying a base will yield more knowledge, if slightly less PR.

Furthermore, if there are indigenous biologic agents there, I don't think we want them coming back. Like the Greek expedition to Asia Minor, Mars is a burn the ships mission.
Agreed, but I'm not sure they have much of a choice.

Let's assume that the Fed is telling the truth and that they do in fact have hard evidence. As they have not presented this evidence, we have to conclude that it is classified. So, they cannot present the raw intel, but they also cannot step back and do nothing as this is a hot, national issue which is now about more than a security breach at a movie company.

So, they come forward with the accusation and assure the public that a "proportional and appropriate" response will be dealt.

Of course, this scenario paints the best possible picture of the Fed. It may or may not be the case. However, short of evidence which in no way compromises a classified source, it would be their only option.

I just don't see the motive behind framing NK for this. Given, I/we don't typically have a clue about what actually goes on at this level of international relations, but there is no obvious motive at present time.
Anyone have a cached version? I'm getting this when trying to access the page:

"The "Active Class" extension is not enabled in "404"."
What is the purpose of Google here, to develop a platform that car manufacturers want to integrate or producing driverless cars under Google brand?
> YC routinely ensures that its companies’ posts show up directly on the front page, driving extra exposure to stories that benefit their investments. That’s a significant advantage to have.

Factually incorrect: only job postings get automatic exposure on the HN front page, and nothing else. (although, there's a slight bias toward YC company announcements in terms of upvotes from other people due to the fact that other YC founders are on HN, but it's not easily discernable, and bad submissions are quickly corrected through flags)
Five years ago, these would be futuristic.

Now, compared to a pure-phone solution, they're retrograde: an extra thing to carry, perhaps useful to interface with legacy, insecure magstripe-readers. "A day late and a dollar short."
You can explain every piece of that scaffolding to a 12 year old in about half an hour and then they never really have to think about it again.
"as soon as they let me"
So it's hypothetical investment, because such an index fond doesn't exist.
True, I was thinking of this earlier. When making changes you have to do it in 2 places, which is really the only downside, but it does protect you a bit. Of course, it's still not foolproof - when the first or second DNS server gets used is implementation dependent. We got bit by this, but not too badly - RAX filtered out some residential ISPs whose IPs were part of the DDoS attack but also sent legitimate queries so it was only some people who couldn't resolve. So I might still be too lazy to implement it for all our clients' zones. I'll have to read their post-mortem and see what steps they are taking to avoid this issue in the future.
Are Nazi analogies to be rejected out of hand, even when grounded in fact? How does this hurt the conversation, in your view?
Building a scalable and available home feed at Pinterest
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y_tciYE...

There isn't much there so I'll paste:
What is Apple's secret sauce? Bono knows, and I think he's right.

Check out this quote.

“Jony Ive is himself classic Apple. Brushed steel, polished glass hardware, complicated software honed to simplicity. His genius is not just his ability to see what others cannot but also how he applies it. To watch him with his workmates in the holy of holies, Apple’s design lab, or on a night out is to observe a very rare esprit de corps. They love their boss, and he loves them. What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money. Jony is Obi-Wan. His team are Jedi whose nobility depends on the pursuit of greatness over profit, believing the latter will always follow the former, stubbornly passing up near-term good opportunities to pursue great ones in the distance. Jony’s values happen to add value — emotional and financial. It takes a unique alchemy of form and function for millions of people to feel so passionately about the robot in their pocket.”
The vision should be to replace as many drivered cars as possible with driverless and network the vehicles. I see a future without a need for stop lights.
You say on the readme:

"Iota was born out of my frustrations with existing text editors. Over the years I've tried combinations of simple text editors, IDEs and everything in between. None of them felt right to me, however. Some were too slow & bulky, others were too difficult to customise and still others were platform specific and I couldn't use them on all my machines."

So what is the advantage if Iota over Vim?
They don't need a massive cyber presence to damage others cyber presence.

And for them it's more a matter of pride than real damage done to their country.

I wouldn't be surprised if they announced that they will start to make some new missile test soon.
I want a self-driving car to free me up to do other things on my hour commute twice a day. Even if it were more cost-effective to rent (which I suspect it would not be given how much I would need to rent), I can think of 2 reasons I'd rather own:

- Don't have to worry about availability. Turns out there are a lot of people in my region who go to work in the morning and go home in the evening.

- When you spend that much time in your vehicle, it becomes and extension of your personal/living space. I don't want to spend 10 hours a week in a public box that may have a mess or an odor from the person before me.
Good point. Edited and adjusted
The sound is very rhythmic. One part of a sort machine band.
Argentina court recognizes orangutan as 'non-human person'
> You honestly believe that 50% of the country rarely change their beliefs?

What's the issue with that number? Too low? I'd probably place it around 95%.
sure appearance can convince a person of a well designed product. But I prefer, a well designed product, especially when my life is on the line over appearence. Tesla may come out with a super shiny beautiful self-driving car, but I will probably go with a dorky Google car if it has X miles (where X is a large impressive number) under its belt.
Historically, i think it made some sense. now with instant communication, it seems hard for locals to influence congress unduly.

Personally, I have no problem with adding DC as another state.

Politically, it'll never happen (imho). why would any senator give up 2% of their power to add 2 more senators? There are probably many issues blocking, but on that one at least is a monster to overcome.
"Genius". He essentially borrowed money to invest in the stock market... Hmm, that sounds familiar....
> You can not understand the anger about HE until you understand that Marxists desperately need humans to not behave "slightly irrationally under some circumstances" (the real scenario) but need humans to be profoundly irrational, so they can justify their handing over all sorts of power to the government so they can save everyone from themselves.

You had me until that sentence. I don't think the Marxists need humans to be profoundly irrational, they need humans to be profoundly exploited, and for the exploiters to be rational. That means that you can't appeal to the exploiters to stop, because continuing is in the exploiters' best interest; you can only stop them with force.

I agree with your overall conclusions (that the Marxists were/are the ones pushing the HE strawman). I just think that you're off in your next-to-last paragraph. In fact, I think that the psychopath claim (which you cite in the first paragraph) is in contradiction with your argument in the fourth paragraph.
sadly it doesn't, but this is sort of a hail mary approach to make one exist
Exclusivity isn't inherently symmetrical, neither is the interval between different relationships. The effect you are referring to doesn't come from whether the relationship is exclusive on your side, or from whether it is long term, but from whether it is exclusive on the other side, and whether there is a long gap before/after the other partner's previous/next relationship.
>>> US will have to live with the shame for decades that it's harboring war criminals, and it may even impact its dealings with other countries in the future.

Clearly not a student of history.

The US has been harboring criminals since WWII when Operation Paperclip brought Nazi scientists back here to help build the atomic bomb.

>>> US will be in the history books as a country that not only allowed, but keeps condoning torture by refusing to punish the torturers.

Just like every other country in the world. I certainly don't condone what they did, but on a relative scale, it's a pretty minor considering what other countries have done and still actively do. If they don't include the atrocities the US committed in Vietnam in history books, you can be assured they won't touch this either.

>> Maybe eventually, some new US president will decide that it's time to prosecute and imprison them so US can have a "clean start" in its international relations.

Obama already tried being nice to these people we're at war with and look what it got us. He tried to have a "clean slate" with the terrorists, even said he would negotiate with the Taliban. Yes, the same Taliban who behead criminals, do not allow women rights and approve of honor killings. Because you know, he thought you could reason with these people - right?
Vices News interview with the "Architect":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmNUi0itl-8
I still find it interesting what the major news websites and channels choose to make front page headlines with or not. In the world I want to live in, there'd be a lot more daily hammering with (apparently factual statements) like: "US Gov Violates Geneva Convention on Torture" ever since the Senate CIA report came out. The US is signatory to that, ratified it by Congress, and indeed was one of its architects in the post-WW2 landscape. They repeatedly posture themselves as one of the Good Guy nations, the ultimate White Hat lawman. They have tortured and violated international law, to which they are signatory, on basic human rights and ethical behavior.
Do something you have need for. It'll help with the motivation.
Scaling Jenkins with Mesos and Marathon
Readers may also be interested in yesterday's comments about the article, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8779532 .
I don't think a blog post will cause SEC restrictions to magically disappear.