skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm voting this up even though I think it's a horrendous idea. Here's why:

The problem isn't that there wasn't a crime: it certainly looks like there was. I am outraged by parts of what I've read. The problem was that the system sought to legally justify it. The problem is that we changed the system so that a good portion of people believe there was no crime. If somebody is told by the system that there is no crime, we can't then go backwards in time and declare there was one. History shows us that such legal application is always more destructive to society than the original incident.

An important concept to understand is "criminalizing politics". That's when politicians, who rotate through office and are expected to spend most of their lives as private citizens, make decisions that could be criminal but do not involve personal gain.

We elect people to make hard choices that involve results that could be construed in other contexts as criminal, especially with respect to foreign policy. We always have.

I do not like any of this, but it's very important to understand that the problems here are systemic. A different president and VP were just as likely to make the same choices. Want to go back and try people for Japanese interment? All the rendition done prior to 2000? Assassinations and coups overseas? Spying on MLK? Such an emotional attitude is understandable, but you just can't continue a government like that. If the system was acting as best as it could, and it screws up? You fix it. You don't get the firing squads out. That's banana republic territory.

So let's fix the system so it doesn't happen again. If we want somebody to hang, start a nice show trial. But since folks were acting in good faith (which is more important than "just doing their jobs"), pardon them and let's move on. There is no justice to be had here. We need to learn. This is not the time to let emotional outrage lead us into hurting each other needlessly.
Unfortunately, these things just don't have a cool factor. Here's to hoping Tesla moves forward much more quickly (and regular car manufacturers as well.)

It's something Google probably just doesn't "get" - but a lot of people's identities are tied to their cars. It's why we have colors, shapes, brands, options.

This car may be "perfect" algorithmically, but it doesn't mean it stirs the soul.
In San Francisco, average gas prices went from $4.33 to $2.92 (http://www.sanfrangasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx). That's a 33% decrease - matching quite closely the crude oil decrease of 40%.

But as someone said, crude oil prices reflect future retail prices. When you go to a gas station you get fuel that is weeks/months old, so it makes sense to pay the price that crude oil was selling at weeks/months ago.
Yes. Mars has an extremely thin atmosphere that would kill us if we did not have pressurized suits and stations.
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox

Internet Explorer, as usual, screws everything up. No support in IE8 and IE9, limited support in IE10.
Your thoughts may be true, but the scenarios you gave didn't explain how subscribing to user commit histories and pull requests comments connect to evaluating a P&L, changing the marketing and communications theme, or editing sales documents.

Instead, you require a migration to an entirely different system (which you haven't described) without MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations in order to achieve that magic.

How much time will it be until a DVCS-assisted document editor can manage the fine-grained UI presentation of something like MS's "Track Changes" for Word?
I occasionally hire on Odesk and never require or even ask that the contractor use it. I refuse to use that feature. It's degrading for the worker. Digital slavery in a way.
But that's no use if you use the default TTL of 2-3 hours that I always see whenever I configure new dns entries. Sensible TTL should be at least 24-48 hours, maybe even more for your returning users to not be affected by those kind of outages.
Eloquent Javascript[0] is a great read. It is written as an introduction but does go on a rather deep dive. My advice would be to skim through some of the earlier chapters since you're experienced.

There's also the great You Don't Know JS[1] series that takes really deep dives into various parts of the language.

[0] http://eloquentjavascript.net/

[1] https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
What I enjoyed most was this recent ad by bank of america which says "student loans are a fact of life". So instead of object to these ridiculously high tuition fees, we should just accept debt as a fact of life.
I'm admittedly naïve in this, but wouldn't it make financial sense to buy OPEC based oil stock in the coming few months? Based on whether this is true, of course - so... In theory naturally.
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Or you know, you can pay off your loans, never borrow again, and live a free life that allows you to move whenever you want to wherever you want for as long as you want without caring. Sure, you can keep those debts and ignore them while making good money. What happens if things go sour and you can't make minimum payment anymore?

Pay off your debts, and avoid being in someone else's pocket for as long as you can.
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"Whoever fights with monsters must be careful lest he become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche

Based on their actions (which ultimately may have not yielded anything useful either) the torturers and their masters are monsters of the worst kind - state sanctioned.

So now why stop at just releasing the report?
Take the next logical step & prosecute these sociopaths.
A better question might be "Is Homo Economicus a Strawman?"

To which the answer is: yes, it is. Classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner.

A more accurate premise is that groups of humans tend on average to act at least somewhat as if they were rationally well-informed. We have tools to determine what "rational" behavior might look like and that turns out to have predictive power as applied to human behavior because responding appropriately to incentives is one of the inputs that (in some contexts) shape how people act.

This idea that economists are stupidly assuming all people are rational is a myth. People who want to attack "neoclassical economics" should find some other pretext for doing so.

As an entirely separate matter, economists all the way back to Adam Smith have known that humans have "fellow feeling" - how other people feel is one input to our own utility functions. The idea suggested in OP that rational behavior must be entirely greedy with no regard for others is also not an inherent part of classical economics. If that premise is used in some strategy calculation, it's rebuttable.

To say "people aren't perfectly greedy, so economics is broken" is a bit like assuming in a physics model that bee wings don't flex, proving they can't fly given that assumption and thereby concluding not that the assumption turned out to be inaccurate in this context but rather that physics itself is broken.
This is occurring after the hacker group who claimed the attack (Guardians of Peace), sent the FBI a letter thanking them for blaming North Korea, calling the FBI the best (sic), and linked to a youtube video that called the FBI "an idiot".[1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/world/asia/north-korea-us-sony...
A spacecraft could double as living space on the planet, alongside whatever other prefab buildings they bring along. A cargo hold packed full of prefab walls could itself double as building space, once emptied. Also there would be more opportunities to leave those spaces to go outside.

It would certainly still be cramped by conventional standards, but conceivably much less so than the flight there.
can you explain this? i've always thought a CMS is a good thing to allow non-engineers to work with and edit non-critical data like this.
Pleasantly surprised to see this on HN. I've read all of DFW's work and he's such an interesting writer/human being. The biography "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" is a must-read for anyone who's interested. My favorite lines he wrote are in IJ: "you'll worry a lot less about what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."
I wonder, (and wouldn't be surprised) if the M&M factory already has something similar in place for Quality Control. Anyone working in/near the food industry know the answer to this?
Hacker News has much better tangents.
Has Route 53 actually had issues in the past? It seems like a failure there would also take down most AWS services.
You forgot to add this little bit of info about your pea sorter:

Sorting up to and beyond 20 metric tons (44,000 pounds) of processed vegetables or fruit per hour

To quote my buddy from Maine, "It's WICKED FAST!"
The issue is he is telling this story from 2009-today in a frothy market. Yes, historically markets have gone up 9.2% on average over the last 50 years in a balanced portfolio but what happens if he invests from 2003-2008. It's a little different story. It's hard to use long term data for a short term notion.

Going forward, we are in a different environment where 9% might not be the annual return. Interest rates are almost nothing and not going back to late 70's level in the foreseeable future.
we often believe we can't do anything about all the bad things we see in the world, but it's almost always necessary for people to first decide that things will change before they do.

please join others and continue fighting for the democracy you want to live in and that you want your children to live in. it's going to take all of us.
Fuel taxes are typically allocated towards road construction and maintenance. Fuel use is roughly proportional to road use, so it's roughly a tax that makes road users pay for their portion of road use.

The fact that more fuel-efficient drivers pay less taxes is a bonus, since fuel use has negative externalities.
We post publicly our XMPP Protocol for people building 3rd party addons that use XMPP (or clients): https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/wiki/display/HCDEV/HipChat+X...
I just read Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style" and found it to be an excellent resource on this topic.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sense-Style-Thinking-Person%C2%92s...
Doesn't load.

For sure Server Monitoring is dead. At least for OP.
What? nah. The number of countries that officially have no-torture policy are few. They need US for their economic growth. So, they would be silent. The other countries don't care. And I don't think USA officially feels any shame. I know many of its people do though but they are powerless and minority
Following Betteridge's Law of Headlines, the answer the article answers is "no", but it is a qualified "no".

Homo Economicus according to the article "is a creature of coldly calculated selfishness, dispassionately maximizing its best interests even if that comes at the expense of others".

The researchers concluded: "We see a person who is intelligent, driven to excel and to dominate other people, and capable of impulse control and of working toward long-term goals. In other words, Homo economicus is the prototypical member of the social and economic elite."

I wish the researchers went further and went back to the biographies of their participants to evaluate whether or not their conclusion fit the participants' social and economic standings.

Nonetheless, this is one of the few better-controlled and quantified studies I've seen about the over-representation of sociopathic and psychopathic traits in leadership. Keep this in mind the next time you work under/alongside them. Many hackers tend to have a meritocratic ideation of how the world should work, but the reality is sociopaths and borderline psychopaths are mostly the ones that rise to the top, and many a hacker is easily taken advantage of until they learn how the world really works (for now, at least).
A few low level torturers were prosecuted and put in prisons. Their bosses had the political language to endorse and encourage torture while using language vague enough to escape prosecution.
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I love the arbitrary restrictions that all these sites come up with that ultimately make them less safe. Yesterday I was setting up some stuff for somebody who knows nothing
about tech. IIRC it went like this:

* Google: no restrictions, as far as I could tell.

* Apple: password not accepted because it MUST contain at least one uppercase letter.

Of course, simply knowing that one of the characters MUST be an uppercase letter significantly decreases the number of combinations available
> Take the next logical step & prosecute these sociopaths.

But they're friends with the cronies!

So it's not going to happen. No matter how many "voters" beg daddy Govmints. Keep cheering though. Maybe something will change. Not.
I develop sort/test software for a semiconductor manufacturer. The M&M sorter looks pretty fast to me :)
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I use Alliant Credit Union, and last month they started refunding ATM fees as well (limit 8 in a month, I believe)
As a consumer, I like this - saves me some clicks and spares me from ads. Can't be good for lyrics sites though.
Oddly, their password field is limited by size, but their username isn't. I have a 30 digit random character username.
Do you have a language in mind?

If you ban (for your whole program) some components then I guess you would loose some expressiveness.

Also I don't know if you can categorize "components" as more or less readable. For some problems a "component" might be highly readable while totally inappropriate for another problem. I see some cases where using more components makes the code more readable.

This is an art of using language features (paradigms etc...) and design patterns that will be the most readable while powerful enough to solve your problem. I love doing it with Lisp or Ruby which are languages with a very modular syntax. But it's time consuming so I'm doing it only for substantial projects I really care about. It's much more efficient to use conventional well established programming style (think RoR for example) and less bug-prone (more secure etc...) because it's well tested by many.
Zero. It's called professional courtesy, from one President (or President-elect) to another.
The second example on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation_%28software%29 is a 7 line maze
that generates arbitrary length mazes. Its construction is described at http://tromp.github.io/maze.html
No offense (to any who might be vehement supporters of NK I guess, though I can't imagine there are many), but I can't imagine the NK internet is/was very big/strong/fault-tolerant.
This thing looks like a clown car. Perfect for those who think Glass is the height of fashion.
That video is ages old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRacdl02w4
What are diesel prices like?

Here in Chicago, they never dropped. There's almost a $1.00 difference in gasoline vs diesel now.
>and interestingly, Military

This may have to do with the fact that there is a bias towards veterans in hiring for the federal government.
All gov't workers take an oath to uphold the Constitution. When a law is clearly unconstitutional they have the obligation to work against it, not abide by it. So we can definitely declare that torture was illegal retroactively.
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The Etsy blogs use Wordpress, so we do use existing third-party tools where is makes sense.

Kellan might have a rule to not build a CMS but we certainly have built one to manage help page content and other knowledge base pages. That content is largely managed by our support staff.

I wrote the current tool but it is actively being replaced. We chose to to roll our own since we'd have to do some work to integrate a third party tool into our database architecture and authentication system. The tool is heavily integrated into other internal tooling and has specific workflows that also make using an existing tool challenging.

The About page content is largely static, aside from the staff photos mentioned in the above post.
Torture is not politics.
There's an easy answer in most cases: pre-announce the coming price increase and say "Anyone who signs up before then gets grandfathered in at that level for life." Boosts signups temporarily, avoids any blowback to customers who supported you early on, and has virtually no long-term impact to your pricing structure since, to a first approximation, as time approaches infinity all revenue for a SaaS company comes from people who are not currently customers.
> "Whoever fights with monsters must be careful lest he become a monster."

I believe this is one of the overlooked but very important reasons not to torture. The torturers are also damaged, in their own way. We should not require this of anyone.
They'd be getting out of the habitat regularly to do science/construction, though.
I suspect this to be the work of the US government, but out of curiosity I wonder if there would be any legal consequences were Sony or another private party to launch a DDOS attack on North Korea from the US. Obviously no one would be extradited to NK, but I'm curious if that would run afoul of US law.

If not, it might be fun to create some software or a mobile app that would keep this going indefinitely. I imagine a "CrashNK" app would get alot of downloads.
http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/t...

Where can I take you sir?
/edit: posting in wrong thread. sorry. (and stop it with the downvotes!)
Empty hopes and empty feelings. I guess that's all Stockholm syndrome victims know to do.

If this were France there would be manure inside the White House by now.

But the new Americans are so uneducated (though highly schooled) that they can't even help but defend the same slogans (democracy!) that their overlords convinced them to believe in.

Pathetic.
> The problem is that we changed the system so that a good portion of people believe there was no crime.

I don't think any of the principals in this atrocity ever really "believed" there was no crime. They decided, as Dick Cheney told Meet The Press earlier this year, "I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective." They didn't (and still don't) care whether torture is a "crime". All they cared about was making sure the system didn't get in their way.
Indeed. Looks "cute", but cute doesn't sell with cars..
Also relevant is D. Knuth's literate programming.
I am pretty sure they get made 1 color at a time, they wouldn't be combined before being inspected... Why combine then go through a new machine to uncombine?
the upload wasn't by them obviously, but they linked to it as a sort of message.
I have also been researching this topic for a while. I was using Google hangouts for a while but lately it seems to be dropping messages. Tried Skype next but it will only keep message history on the cloud for 30 days. Next evaluated Facebook. It works quite well but I want to host my own on a VPS. The top three alternatives seem to be prosody, ejabberd and openfire. I was planning to use ejabberd but the issue I have with any of the XMPP solutions is that they have issues with iOS and you need to find a way to get it to work with the push mechanism otherwise the IM clients will go offline in 10 minutes. Any suggestions for this?
Tesla doesn't quite have the R&D for this yet. They have "autopilot", but it isn't quite as complete/competent. They might want to buy that technology from Google.

Either way, the point of Google's self-driving clown car isn't to look cool, it's to get people used to the idea of robotic cars driving around on the streets, successfully not killing people. It's largely PR. They're really doing everyone a favor.
The "K" is missing in the title (goodbaset).
Probably mainframes that they can't get rid of, or systems emulating / used to working with them.
Anyone have a gif/video of the 'ballistic capture' method?
You're conflating two distinct concepts.

Certainly, code rewriting to support continuation is a factor in both C#-style await and generator functions, but they are not the same thing.

Much of the motivation behind async I/O is to reduce the number of active threads blocked on I/O. Blocked threads means stack space consumed, kernel transitions, and potentially CPU contention if too many threads become runnable at once, and then start fighting over mutexes or cache.

In this way of looking at the world, you don't want to block for any I/O. That's what the GP is getting at.
> What happens if things go sour and you can't make minimum payment anymore?

Keep paying using the money you've saved from investing. I mean, if you have no will power, aren't organized, can't save because you have a gambling problem, etc., paying off your student loans sooner might make sense.
indeed, the rule of law and rule by law are not the same thing. just because something is legal doesn't mean it's just.

i think it's important to continue fighting for justice and for people to show that they don't want to live under a legal regime that accepts these kinds of things.
From what I've read ordinary passenger vehicles put just about no strain on modern roads. Only heavy vehicles like semis do.

Tax is tax, money is fungible.
Thanks for calling attention to this. I've been frustrated by it. One thing that I did was let LastPass generate 32 random characters for the password but used it to change the username. I depend on LastPass to remember that.

It's not much but it was all I could come up with.

My wife wants to use the Schwab app to deposit checks on her phone but I don't trust their security. One lost phone could lead to our retirement funds being transferred to Belize (or wherever).
I, too, complained months ago about the poor password protection. I immediately had them send me a 2-factor FOB. While it isn't a great solution, it's one I would ask for asap.
These problems would basically all go away if you used a process monitor to handle setting up the environment for the server process, including fds 1 and 2, and then just let it log to stdout or stderr. Any halfway-decent process monitor can do this, and most of them can handle log rotation as well.
> A better question might be "Is Homo Economicus a Strawman?"

> To which the answer is: yes, it is. Classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner.

(Actually, classical economics does, in the sense that markets follow a price-demand curve rather than a wiggle as seen experimentally.)

Worst yet, though: it's sheer lunacy. In the words of Steve Keen:

> Consider, for example, your regular visit to a supermarket. The typical supermarket has between 10,000 and 50,000 items, but let’s segment them into just 100 different groups. How many different shopping trolleys could you fill if you limited your decision to simply whether to buy or not buy one item from each group? You would be able to fill two to the power of one hundred shopping trolleys with different combinations of these goods: that’s 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 trolleys in total, or in words over 1,000 million trillion trillion shopping trolleys. If you could work out the utility you gained from each trolley at a rate of 10 trillion trolleys per second, it would take you 100 billion years to locate the optimal one. Obviously you don’t do that when you go shopping.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
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A root cause of such problems is that people are free to hide behind their votes. Don't let them. Half the country effectively voted in favor of torture. That's how it was able to happen, and that's why it won't be prosecuted now. Cut those people out of your life wherever you can, especially if they are relatives. Everyone should have to pay a price for their nefarious beliefs.