skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why that's surprising to you.

One characteristic that's common to both mainstream conservatives and mainstream liberals, though heavily more emphasized in the latter, is the deeply-held belief that government exists not just to create and enforce laws, but to establish and enforce social norms. Of course, one side wants to promote social norms discouraging racism and sexism, and the other side wants to promote social norms discouraging drug use, but they are on the same page about whether it's legitimate for government to be getting involved in any of that.

Libertarians almost universally reject the idea that government should be in the business of promoting social norms, which is distressing to liberals and conservatives alike. Conservatives, however, tend to get along with libertarians to the extent that even if they disagree on the function of government, they often desire the same ends. Lower taxes, less business regulation, etc.

Liberals, on the other hand, don't even share common ends with libertarians, with the exception of a few niche issues like civil liberties. Libertarians don't have a recipe for how limited government will end sexism in corporate America or fix the educational gap between black and white children. Worse of all, libertarians attack the very principles underling cherished liberal policies.

Take, for example, the Civil Rights Act. I imagine very few libertarians would disagree with the goal of eliminating racism in commerce, but the means Congress used to achieve it was pretty anti-libertarian: sweeping interpretation of the Commerce Power to regulate very personal sorts of private conduct. If you own a restaurant, and so much as a potato traded in interstate commerce end up in your soup, Congress gets to tell you who you have to invite into your private establishment.[1]

[1] Libertarians and liberals alike cite with disdain Gonzales v. Raich, where the Supreme Court held that growing marijuana fell within the Commerce Power because the drug trade involves interstate commerce. Nobody mentions Daniel v. Paul, a case where the Supreme Court held that a recreational park in Little Rock (located about as far from an interstate border as you can get in Arkansas), had to serve black people because, among other things, "three of the four food items sold at the snack bar contain ingredients originating outside of the State."
Adblock doesn't help with the layout and navigation of Tom's though, which seems to have no logical basis, unless you consider the entire goal of the site to be filtering users into ads.
It's interesting how so many on HN are making such pronouncements, and if they've made them once, their commitment to that line just gets more and more aggressive with each comment.

But seriously, on the matter of motivations -- you're a "black hat" and you decide to screw with Sony. Fun enough, really. If you're something less than mentally incompetent, though, are you then going to threaten literal terrorism? Do you really want to draw the intense attention of very, very well resourced organizations?

If the North Korea angle seems weak, the notion that "random hackers" (the term so commonly used) are doing this for the lulz seems even less likely. There is a line where your probability of remaining unincarcerated drops dramatically.

Somewhere in between are groups who will do things for money -- where the immense risks and operational costs can be made worthwhile. North Korea has the ability to sponsor such groups.
Well, at least some of this is fixed by "use strict", which will loudly error if you use a non-existent variable.
The way I understood it, the traditional land owners were all too happy to get the jobs and royalties associated, but were overruled by out-of-town activists. Is that true or false?
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One can always post-fact construct a motive for North Korea. One can certainly think about front page worth motives for Iran too if you try, and Russia, and whoever you want.

Opportunity costs are exactly as low for every country that the US decided to antagonize by placing on their evil axys list, and only marginally bigger for any other actor, because nobody will catch the hacker.

The only item of yours that can not point to anybody that you want is the evidence. Evidence-less finger pointing is not a sane sport.
>>However, there is an age old equation that works fairly well for attribution: opportunity + motive + evidence.

IMHO, SONY & USgov have more of the first 2 than N.K. and the 3rd can just be made up.
Where did I imply that you should pattern yourself after someone else? I'm working from your own complaints and behaviour. You're projecting again.

A nicely ironic reply, though - if you do actually have problems with the way they behave, why invoke their behaviour to defend your own?
Damn this comment is funny.

>Yes I'm familiar with the halting problem and limitations of formal verification on turing complete languages, but I don't believe it's an excuse.

I actually laughed aloud on the bus.
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The only controversy that exists is in the head of north koreans. You need to be part of a society to enter into its controversy. Do you see any americans protesting this? Of course not, it's a silly comedy. Trying showing a nipple, though....
They probably don't have anything to fear from North Korea. That's beyond the point though.

The point is that China can influence American pop culture to be more communist-friendly.
All the material aspects of the envisioned 'sustainable life style' depend on the current style of industrial infrastructure for their creation and distribution...heavy duty 3d printers and solar panels and components for agricultural robots don't grow from seeds and soil. They depend on materials made in factories with tooling and loading docks and forklifts.

Pastoral utopias based on technology depend on industrial dystopia.
The article says this, too, so what point are you trying to make?
You are mistaken, the US embargo with Cuba does prevent Cuba from trading with other nations, as other nations are restricted in their USA trade if they do trade with Cuba.

Iirc, any vessel that trades with Cuba is restricted from trading with the USA within some time window. So clearly most Caribbean nations choose to focus their trades with the big USA partner.

Regarding human rights, as others have mentioned, we don't embargo countries that have far worse records.

The Cuban embargo is nothing but an antiquated relic of the Cold War that hurts the citizens of Cuba without having much impact on causing change in the government. And ironically it only serves to strengthen the government by giving the people an easy scapegoat for its problems.

Have you been to Cuba? I've been twice. Incredible experience and I highly recommend it.
Plus, would terrorists offer an opt out(for personal information) for rank and file Sony personnel?
Supply and demand. There are very few items that nobody wants. You just have to make the price right for a win-win situation.
I'll check those out, thanks.
From the wiki for [Filesets](https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/wiki/Filesets)

"Build workflows necessarily involve the filesystem because it's not practical to send file contents around in memory as function arguments, and because we want to be able to leverage existing JVM tooling that generally operates on things in the class path and not on in-memory data structures."

so like unix pipes? What exactly is impractical about passing big values as function arguments? Isn't that how gulp works?
Are you kidding us? The entire world will now want to watch this film. One wonders if this isn't a hail mary pass by Sony....

With demand now through the roof to watch this film, I'd bet we'll see some innovative work by Sony to release this film that satisfies that demand in a legal way.

Or maybe not....
That's philosophical.

Is the agent being paid for effort (input) or results (output)? Either can work.

Take the case of an agent that spends twice as much effort (and has the unit vacant for twice as long). Should that agent be paid more or less than an agent that fills the vacancy quickly and efficiently?

As an engineer/executive, I'd much rather be paid for the results I generate, not the typing that I do.
Ignoring the limited predictive value of critics, the massive publicity this movie has gotten makes it hard to believe that it would not be worth showing.
Thank you for adding detail.

In this case, the bureaucracy eventually overcame institutional resistance of the wealthiest professional Americans to reform of a system that limited doctors and thus vastly expanded their incomes. I expect that same government and institutional bureaucracy to eventually increase significantly the residencies, but it will move in that typical slow motion of bureaucracy eventually doing good.

When it eventually adds to our production of new doctors, it will have a bigger impact than ten Obamacares or single payer plans or HIPAAs.

The debit of American medical students is as legendary as the vast incomes of doctors, both wildly out of proportion to the rest of the first world. Hazing practices during residency are also still crazy, though much reduced after glacial bureaucratic reforms.

I don't know if there's any better idea there than to hire and appoint good administrators to plan better. A violent revolution like the one in Cuba that built a better health care system seems too extreme.
Can you come up with a good motive for Iran or Russia?

Opportunity costs are not exactly as low for every country, as they have different capabilities, use different tactics, have different budgets and talent pools, and have different interests. Triage is going to be different for different state actors. Pure and simple. I'm not sure that an opportunity cost analysis indicts NK - and in fact I do suggest that work needs to be done there in the original comment.
And that price drop will increase consumption.

It's unfortunate, but developments in fuel efficiency will inevitably lead to higher use. This is a general principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

From this it could be argued that the "morally correct" thing to do would be to discourage research into more efficient ways of extracting bad fuels, and use those freed resources to study alternative sources of energy. You don't want to keep widening the profitability gap.
Your analogy comparing Walmart to Yahoo is weak:
1. Walmart hasn’t make any acquisitions that are out of line with there fundamental business which they later shut down.

2. People go to Walmart and Target to buy similar things, relevance doesn’t factor into the discussion.

3. I doubt many people here know who the CEO of Walmart is, whereas we are inundated with news about Marissa Mayer in Tech and Non-Tech news.

Pehaps I have to use smaller words xrange.
I also don't see how this could be taken as a realistic threat, but what are Sony's financial incentives to theaters pulling it? Weren't their costs in creating the movie?
This is not a China fearing NK. This is China using an unaffiliated hacking group to hurt a Japanese company. A small dose of payback for the conquests of the 20th century.
I agree that if you think Sony and the US government have more motive, this changes attribution (and in fact I mentioned it wrt "ulterior motive"). I'm curious about what motives you think Sony and USG have. I'm not sure what to make about the opportunity cost analysis indicting Sony or the USG - maybe you could say more about that too?
In Scala you can define stuff like <*/+-> to mean anything you want. Are you perhaps arguing over my choice of words to describe this phenomena?
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Whoa. Terrorists? Which terrorists? What terrorism are you talking about?
Sony Pictures Cancels Holiday Release of ‘The Interview’ After Threats
Why not?
They are a military first nation.

You don't think that they would have a cyberwar unit?
I've been to the Cuban interest section in Washington DC several times. It's not really an embassy in that diplomatic functions and freedoms don't exist like proper embassies.

The ambassador's freedoms are quite limited. Eg, at some point he was not allowed to leave the confines of the DC beltway. Diplomatic immunity be damned. Really sucked for us planning an event in my Baltimore uni for him to speak at, where the travel restriction came into effect just days before and we had to resort to video conf.
I've seen lots devicemapper failures running docker build on ext4 (AWS SSD EBS). Really painful to have to rebuild on failures since these issue seem to happen quite often.
for science fiction fans, it's significantly longer than a general products #4 spaceship hull (300m), though the hull being a sphere gives it a greater volume.
I can say that ZFS has worked great for me on BSD-based home servers. Haven't used ZFS with Linux yet, though it's possible to do so, it's just unpopular partly for licensing reasons. I suspect what type of RAID you do may have greater consequences than what file system you pick, particularly if your distro is already designed for serving files on the file system you choose. Oh and working out all the AFP/Samba bits are fun, because there's always something that surprises you.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm also a machinist, and I do use subtractive machining quite a bit. And I'm guessing your CNC machine is a router, not so much a mill (to make life easier, I'll classify a mill as having a much larger Z-axis movement, and built to deal with harder to machine materials (steel essentially.)) And in that case, it's much easier to get a router to hold smaller tolerances than something that's designed to handle steel. Now I could be totally wrong, and if so, props to you, you got a deal. But really, even the cheap chinese mills (again, talking about something like the Grizzly g0704, maybe the Sieg X2) I've seen that (sans CNC equipment) start at around $1000. And once you add on ball screws, servos, and all the control hardware, you're pushing $1500 easily. And like you said, then you have to actually buy the tools you need to use it.

But while prices on CNC mills are getting cheaper, I'd argue that they aren't declining in price the way that 3d printers are (my reprap cost me $400, my makerbot clone $550). A mini-mill still costs more than it did 10 years ago, with very little improvements to what it does (better motors, electronics, that's about it.)

But to put it simply, I agree with you. Subtractive machining has it's place for sure, but so does 3d printing. But to say that 3d printing sucks, period, is just silly and ignores all the benefits that 3d printing provides. I believe in using the right tool for the job. Sometimes that's old school machining, some times it's 3d printing.

I'll add two quick, somewhat off topic points. It's now (apparently at least, according to GE) easier for them to additive manufacture turbine blades made out of inconel than it is to subtractive manufacture them. I've never had to machine inconel, but from what I've heard, it's quite the difficult thing to do, and most places that machine it, try to cast the part as close to net as possible to make as little machining as possible to do so. But this is something that truly shows the advantages of 3d printing that (might) be better than the traditional way of machining.

The other anecdote is my own. The other day, I was making a part, and for shits and giggles, I took the blueprints, made the part in CAD, printed it out on my 3d printer, and just the act of holding it in my hand and looking at it really helped me think about how to go about machining it out of steel. Most people think "On, CNC is easy, you just throw the file on the machine and it makes the part." It's not that easy, and I was just doing this part on a manual machine. But having that part in my hand really helped me make better decisions on how to best machine the part itself. I thought that was a neat little aspect of 3d printing that I would have never even thought of using it for.
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The early reviews are that the movie isn't awesome [1]. Even a Sony exec said it's just not that good of a movie. They probably will do a PPV release though.

[1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_interview_2014/
It doesn't make your synced contacts encrypted in client side, though.
> Attribution in cyberwarfare is infamously difficult.

When in doubt, blame China.
Ask HN: How Relevant Is a Technical Degree/Exp to Get a Job as a Software Engg?
I did my Bachelors Degree in Arts. I got interested in Computer Science/Programming and enrolled myself in a Object Oriented Certification program at a local community college. In this program I learned VB, C/C++, Java, Android Development, Javascript & HTML/CSS. I also picked up PHP & SQL for a personal project. After completing my OO Certification I got this job where I am working on Wordpress (mostly) and sometimes VB/HTML/CSS. I am in this job since March of this year but I don't think I am learning anything. I feel as if I am wasting my time and my knowledge. I wanted to work in Java as I really liked it during my academic program at the community college. Also I would like to work on Programming projects but wherever I apply either they are asking for 2-3 years of relevant experience or a Masters/Bachelors in Computer Science.
Do I had to have a degree for sure if I would like to get a job as a software engineer/programmer? I am thinking of getting a Masters in Computer science, but again it will be an investment of both time & money. I guess I have the basic platform to start as a programmer.

Please suggest what should I do ?
Yes. It's neither an operator nor are you overloading anything.

The whole point is that everything is just a bog-standard method and infix notation is a orthogonal notion, separate from a method's name.
that was my thinking... if he calls it right, he can point back to this article. If he called it wrong, no one will probably remember this post.
Well, there are two things there: the unbounded potential size of files and the ability to coexist in the current JVM ecosystem without rewriting every bit of code that looks for things on the class path.

I think that generally the files you're dealing with will fit in memory, but you still wouldn't probably want to have everything in memory all the time, you'd need to stream them (consider an uberjar that's 10M as a JAR, but might contain contents that are 10x that size uncompressed).

This brings us to the second point. No existing JVM tools are prepared to accept files via pipes. Tooling on the JVM looks for things on the class path and in JAR files. We definitely don't want to have to rewrite every tool to use some in-memory pipe system.

The fileset and pod abstractions provided by boot work together to give you the best of both worlds--an immutable representation of the filesystem and class path combined with full interop with the existing JVM ecosystem.

Another issue with Unix pipes is that they are not awesome for tree-like things. In bash you pipe lines of text from one program to another, but tree processing is very difficult. Consider xml processing by pipes, or my jsawk library for processing JSON in the shell. These suffer from memory issues because it's hard to stream trees (if you have a 2G JSON file that is a single object jsawk can't even read it in).
Sony has “no further release plans” for The Interview
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SONY might think the movie was going to bomb anyway(I don't understand why anyone would want to watch this on xmas) and this hacking incident is probably going to cost them millions as well. Turning this likely-to-fail movie + hacking disaster into a promotional catapult generating big profits would be one option. Even I want to watch this movie now, but not on xmas.

USgov., I think they will take any chance given to them to put China, Russia and N.K. in a bad light.
I am planning to do some version of screencasts in the future. It's just I need a partner to do the voice (I am not native English speaker). As far as Supersonic, it's still not a fully web app, meaning you still have to use some sort of native code mixed in Steroid. I am not sure how it works when you have larger app with lots of plugins.
According to Variety [1], the budget was $42 million, and they have "tens of millions" more into advertising and promotion. But I think they want this whole incident to go away, and they know that even without a theatrical release, they can make money on DVD/blu-ray and PPV.

[1] https://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-weighing-premium-vod...
The author is a finance blogger at Reuters (http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/) and they asked for a 2015 prediction. You're right, I don't see anything to back up the prediction.
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"With prosthetic noses and drunken antics, Westerners are portrayed in the most unflattering light". So? Western movies also do parodies.

"perhaps the reaction to The Interview really is an expression of fear from the North Korean authorities... [that] the picture of their perfect state will gradually begin to be eroded."
Blah blah. Run of the mill decry of North Korea propaganda, and supermarket psychology analysis of mentality. Blah. The same propaganda methods that are used in the the rest of the world including the west.
> Any lunatic could have bombed any theater in the country next week and Sony would have been liable.

Source? The bomber would be liable but why would Sony be? (Provided that they informed at least law enforcement and certainly if they made the details of the threats public).
> Am I missing something here?

Yes. Facebook announced updates to their Newsfeed algorithm to reduce the amount of "promotional" content people see in their feeds.

https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-to-facebook-ne...
Wow I remember some of this class from my OS course 10 years after this was written.

We were just told about mutexes, but I never knew that it stood for Mutual Exclusion. (I did correctly intuit that a mutex was simply a specific use case of semaphore though so I'm happy and managed to pass the course in the end :D)
Maybe the author is hoping this article will go viral on Facebook? It certainly has a bit of a link-baity headline.
Well, true, there is no data to back it, so it's pure speculation. However, if your all business is based on an external service that you have no control on has that has no legal nor contractual obligation to you, then you should be ready to pivot quickly if and when they take that away from you. And you should plan to have the cushion to do so.
Not in the Go ecosystem. :-) We have a real, pure (concurrent) X client protocol implementation: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb (and of course, a WM: https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo, which is hybrid tiling and stacking, kind of like Xmonad meets Openbox). /shameless plug

Of course, it's not all moonpies and pennywhistles. XGB only supports basic extensions like RandR, Xinerama, Render and Composite. But it's missing Xinput and XKB (which are monstrous).
Yes, I have heard Americans say that it is unacceptable to make a comedy film that makes fun of a country where people are currently being oppressed, and other Americans say that it is unacceptable to joke about assassinating a current world leader (even if the leader might deserve it). Not only that, but all films from this gang tend to be rather crude and controversial even without a political angle.

I don't share the ideas, but they certainly aren't rare.
I thought it got its name from the Semaphore Flag Signalling System.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/flags/semaphore.html