skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These assassination are occurring in countries that we're not at war with (and in some cases, never have been).

Sure, but the issue is two-pronged: 1) Whether the target is considered to be "at war" with the attacker and 2) Whether the state he's in allows the military action (or at least, doesn't consider it to be a causus belli).

The issue we were discussing is the first (i.e. whether it is appropriate for the U.S. President to put an American citizen on a "kill list" without trial). Many people claim that this is unusual behavior, but it's really not in the context of the military (even in the media, e.g. Apocalypse Now). Or differently, if an American officer had defected to the Nazis during WWII and was known to be in a certain bunker you can bet he would have been facing a bunch of incoming U.S. ordnance.

However speaking towards the second point for just a bit, the U.S. assassinated a Japanese Admiral (Adm. Yamamoto) during WWII and didn't wait for him to be in Japanese-controlled areas to do so. He was killed in international waters, and not even during a battle as we think of them. He was a militarily valuable officer in a military organization fighting the U.S. and off he went. And, even if he somehow managed to overfly some nation's airspace, he would have been hit as long as the nation involved would tolerate the incursion.

> Furthermore, many the citizens being assassinated have never even been accused of a crime.

Well, they have (insofar as the process as it's been released theoretically requires some form of justification). They haven't been accused in a courtroom, perhaps, but that's a civil law matter, not military/international law.

I want to stress real quick that I'm not even personally decided for/against on this issue myself, but I'm a firm believer in garbage in == garbage out and so I just wish to point out that this issue isn't as crystal-clear as it's sometimes made out to be. If we treat this as a military affair (and AQ certainly does) then there is plenty of reason to treat the U.S. reaction under military terms as well, and those are much muddier waters than civil/criminal law.
I confess I was misled by the name "application specific" into assuming that such a binding already occurred.
I cannot wait for this. I hope it's trivial/possible to pair it with multiple devices. Either way, a year from now, I fully expect to be wearing two of these at all times. :)
That's actually a great insight. If anyone has links to anything further exploring this, please post them!
Your choice of examples actually supports the statistical nature of the distinction between circumstantial and noncircumstantial evidence. That the blood on the defendant's shoe came from the victim's body is based on a probabilistic test. That the blood on the defendant's shoe arrived through physical co-presence of the shoe and the blood's source body (whether or not it was the victim's) is also only "hard" evidence in the sense that other explanations are relatively improbable.

The difference between the probabilities involved in the above inferences, and the analogous inferences ineluctably underlying any hard evidence, and those involved in circumstantial evidence like your coat fiber, are purely quantitative. In some sense, hard evidence is that which can be accepted "beyond a reasonable doubt", while circumstantial evidence is that which does not pass such a test.

Unfortunately, "beyond a reasonable doubt" escapes precise definition. Yet, courts need to function, so we tacitly agree that sufficiently large quantitative differences are (legally) indistinguishable from qualitative differences.

(EDIT: I'm saying the same thing as mikeash, whose response appeared while I was writing my own)
What could possibly go wrong

I wonder if any of his intern developers switched career after working there :|
But jury trials are expensive, and time consuming. And no-one uses them anymore, because the system is broken (long waiting times), and there's no reason to fix it (since no-one uses them anymore).

It's much cheaper to say "confess your crimes or face much heavier penalties". It worked for the French Revolution, the Soviets and the Inquisition, why shouldn't it work in the USA?

Besides, the prosecutors are pretty even handed. They wouldn't prosecute someone if they didn't think they deserved a stiff penalty. As Carmen Ortiz says; "This is an adversarial system. We're here to prosecute."
In Guns Germs and Steel Jared Diamond states that "civilization is the result of a chain of developments, each made possible by certain preconditions." Interestingly religion never was one of those preconditions.
Soneca, you are absolutely right. In this case, we shut it down, and my co-founder decided to move on. This just wasn't meant to be. After that, I decided to team up with a different friend of mine, and we are working on LaunchBit. So, while that was the end for Parrotview, it's not the end of my startup journey. :)
>>This conclusion comes a decade or more too late, I suppose, to affect U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East for the better.

I don't want to politicize the discussion too much, but I feel compelled to ask: do you really believe Bush et al. would actually care even if they had access to this research's findings?
Check out balancedpayments.com. It's a processing, escrow, and payouts in one API. Also the founding team were early employees at Milo.com and worked on this specific issue of SKU level data cataloging & matching.

disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Balanced and this is a shameless plug for my product. :)

I was also the head of data acquisition at Milo.com and am fascinated by this problem. I have to admit I'm skeptical this scale of product matching and metadata cleaning can be done, but I'm very happy for you if you've succeeded where I failed. In either case, best of luck.
To make this more clear, here is the Network tab under Developer Tools when I log into twitter:

http://cl.ly/image/3f3x3R0N0y2W

If I had actually logged in you would see my password in the space that currently says NotActuallyMyPassword.

I don't see how Meldium could prevent that.
Clever, but doesn't behave like it does on a phone. I have a touch enabled laptop running Chrome. I visit the page. Try to Pull to Refresh. It doesn't work. It seems to be setup to watch for scrolling rather than actual Pulling to Refresh.
Also, American and Western culture are used practically interchangeably. I find this quite ironic.
If they want to talk they should invite the employes, talk looong about how they want to fix yahoo and let them do the work at home. The old management style "be productive now. 10 seconds left." don't work.
The use of "American" as a stand-alone term, for better or for worse, means a person from the United States. It persists largely because of the difficulty in producing an ajectival (demonym) from the term United States. Questioning it now, when there is clearly no real confusion (like, for example, Indian/American Indian/Native American/Indian American) is prescriptivist and hair-splitting.
I'm curious what "pop-up notice" means. I expect they simply mean a DNS redirect; anything more adds a whole new level of creepy (as if this plan needed more).

On the plus side, it's a good time to be in the VPN business. :P
This is really cool. We use 1password with the 1pass file stored in a Team dropbox, but 1pass still doesn't have any group-facilities so we have to revoke/change passes by hand when someone leaves, etc. Very much looking forward to trying this out.

One thing that groupware password things never remember is that folks like to use their personal services, too, and requiring multiple-accounts for personal stuff is not workable.

Is there support for personal (e.g. private only to my login) accounts? That way, I could store all my stuff with a single browser plugin...
My thought as well. My exposure to animals as a kid was almost exclusively through cartoons, and very occasionally through zoos or other people's pets. I had no strong opinion on vegetarianism in jr. high, though some of my friends did. But I immediately developed a strong opinion on the day I actually met a chicken and a cow.

Even as an adult, I find that real animals look strange to me. I've seen so many cartoon images of skunks and giraffes and elephants in my life, and even though I know they're cartoons, when I do a google image search and photographs dominate the results, I usually find them quite alien.

Some subconscious part of my brain is totally convinced that a giraffe looks like this . . .

http://www.moho.biz/oskar-the-giraffe/

. . . and doesn't immediately recognize this . . .

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xRmReWpJeJE/T2QxTEZ95_I/AAAAAAAABw...

. . . as the same animal.
If I were to do that all over again, I would've focused on building an audience around a pinterest-like blog or FB page with cool retail items so that we would've had people to launch to.
There are 2 distinctly different "M1" rifles.
The 1st type is known as the "M1 Garand" which fires a Winchester .308 (7.62 mm NATO) round.

The 2nd type is known as the "M1 Carbine" which fires a smaller, .30 cal. round.

The M14 fires the 7.62 mm NATO round, the same as the M! Garand.
See the studies I cited and quoted from on another branch of this thread.

""Results found that the “female” applicants were rated significantly lower than the “males” in competence, "
LastPass enterprise is pretty janky. I'd love to switch our team over to a better working version of LastPass enterprise.
Okay, so I looked more closely at that section. Apparently, my reading started on page 14, so I missed the first section.

From what I gathered, the difference is that, urban kids (why is it urban kids?) relate to animals by relating them to humans; whereas elsewhere, animals are related to other animals.

To quote the original article, "inferences are asymmetric, with inferences from human properties to mammals emerging as stronger than inference from mammals to humans, and (3) children’s inferences violate their own similarity judgments by, for example, providing stronger inference from humans to bugs than from bugs to bees (Carey 1985;1995)." emphasis mine.

If this is what the submitted link is talking about, I don't believe that's anthropomorphism.
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6+ hours to compile was the longest I've seen/worked with. The problem IIRC were the large FPGAs, not that much the large designs.
Passionating.

I see religions mostly as Conway's game of life - blips of colors fighting for territory using various ways, sometimes removing the competition, sometimes behing destroyed by competition, sometimes dying by themselves, etc.

It's like competition in a soul market :-)

But in what they do, they seem push humanity forward, to give a reason, a hope.

Yet I would be worried if a religion achieved dominant status (monopoly) in a way that could be used to eradicate newcomers and innovation.

We already have an oligopoly - see the problems it makes on a worldwide scale.
Is this a proprietary algorithm? Can desktop video editing software or plugins do it this well? I would love to have this as a quick drop in for Premier or Aftereffects.

Also, are there any plans for motion estimation for achieving super-slow motion, like Twixtor or Timewarp? That would be a neat effect for mobile video.
With all that in mind, I'd still rather that people leaned towards "that's reprehensible" as a gut reaction to first hearing of it than the alternative. I think if you ask me on most days I'd say there's legitimate military reasons to be able to combat terrorism in this fashion (especially in this brave new world of near-stateless persons) but it's still the kind of thing that I would want people to be very sensitive about.
We log in on our end and push the session to your browser, so your browser (or that of whomever you shared the app with) never sees the password.
And I would say that all of the causes of attrition are very unlikely based upon a prevailing systemic gender oppression.

See, I provided as much proof for my argument as you did for yours. Where are we now?
They could be filling in the passwords with a random string and then using the browser extension to replace it when the form is submitted.

You might be able to view the password using something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tamper-data/ provided that runs after their extension.
The one child policy does not apply to ethnic minorities.
Could you or someone else provide a detailed process of how to go ahead in implementing these protocols on a standard fios router?
Ironic that you make the HN front page when you're shutting it down.

It takes a lot of humility and courage to write such a candid post on something that was obviously the foundation of your hopes for two years. I have great respect for that.

Was it a complete failure? Absolutely not. You've picked up a great amount of technical expertise in the process. More importantly after all this is in the past you'll be able to reflect on it objectively and realise your mistakes and shortcomings - and you'll know, unemotionally, that they were to do on the marketing side.

Rob Walling said something once that stuck with me ever since. If you're looking to build something, approach it in order of "market, marketing, aesthetics, functionality." Not to paint with a broad brush, but it will at least help you realign your focus next time you jump into something like this.

Because you will jump into something like this again.
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the Egyptian Anubis statues look about as much like jackals as the fox in Pinocchio looks like a real fox
When you say "on our end" what do you mean exactly? You log in from your servers? So the password never actually gets sent to the employee? Just the session token?
Someone should make augmented reality games using fake martial-arts gestures. For older folks, there's the climactic battle scenes of "Big Trouble, Little China." For younger folks, there are the 'jutsu' from the Naruto anime/manga.

Stuff like this could revolutionize LARP.
But that won't shape history, unless these people are also having children. If atheism coincides with having <2 children, it will only be a series of disconnected blips in statistics.
Thanks for the clarification! Might want to add that to the website somewhere, I wasn't able to find it when looking for it there.
It doesn't even need to be real-time. An app/text message that asks you every three hours "been cramping up lately?: No, once or twice, several times, lots"* would collect a lot of relatively accurate information, and easily show you 'whoa, I cramped up almost every hour this week, two months ago it was once a day!'

*in my answers I'm assuming that we are tracking the incidence count, rather than duration/severity - this is easily adapted if necessary.
This looks great and is close to something I've specifically looked for in the past. My only suggestion would be that the pricing is going to be awkward for my use case.

Typically we work with many small clients and one of our issues is managing access to admin sites etc for these clients across our team. We have relatively few 'users', perhaps 5 - 10, but a large amount of shared apps. I currently have around 100 sets of login details on file in 1Password.
Doesn't this mean that if you are compromised so are all your users?
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Actually, as a game producer for over 20 years, I'd say the biggest problem with HTML5 games is audio. There isn't a solution that is universally adopted at the moment.

The article basically says, make good games, which really has nothing to do with the tech of HTML5. I've had a few of my titles featured by Apple and I am often asked what I did to get them to notice my title. The answer is extremely simple: "make good games".
That is an untrue and irresponsible thing to say.
> I don't see how the fact that Chrome was secret prior to its 9/2/08 launch matters much here.

It might not, yeah. But I've heard theories that part of the reason it never made it into WebKit was how it was developed in secret and how that annoyed Apple. Together with v8, another secretly-developed project that also did not replace it's parallel in WebKit.
A felony charge would have seriously impacted his ability to travel. This would have impacted his earning prospects both as an entrepreneur and as a researcher.

For example travel to Canada:
http://www.wikihow.com/Travel-to-Canada-with-a-Felony-Charge

From that page, it can take up to a year and $1000 to apply for the visa for entry.

The data sharing between the US and other governments means that you can't keep your convictions secret either.

For example, Canada is hooked into the US databases, and they can and do retrieve information from them.
"...and off by one errors"

:)
This is a really interesting perspective, you should write a blog post about what it's like to have never made a tiny, insignificant mistake in your life and share it with all of us.
That still doesn't fit my example which, as far as I can tell isn't an isolated one, where a coyote was seen as a trickster (among many other things), by Native Americans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism seems paints anthropomorphism as something that ALL humans have done over time, often even going so far as to anthropomorphize deities.
This can be done using SSL proxying. You can run a proxy server and send the HTTP login POST request (with a fake password) through the proxy server. The proxy server can in turn replace the fake password with the actual password and forward the POST request to the end website.

It is also possible to run the proxy server on the end user machine and use a mechanism called SSL tunneling to securely replace the password. Its hard to explain it here but it can be done. The benefit of running the proxy on the end user machine is that you don't have to route your traffic through a remote proxy.

I have a system which has this thing working - will open-source it under github soon.
Yes, this is my next question.

Regardless of your answer I think these questions make it clear that you should definitely consider adding some more detailed explanations to your website about how exactly your product works. Especially for a security related product this is pretty important.

I say this as someone who is very interested in paying someone to solve this problem for me.
Yes - by default your logins are only available to you, and they are only shared with the individuals that you explicitly add. We definitely want folks to be using the same tool for both team and individual passwords.
I live in Norway. Its not the salaries per se that is public, but how much you pay in tax. But from that you can quite accurate estimate someones salaries. Your capital assets are also public.

This is nice reading for all kinds of scammers. Thus list are actively being analysed by banks and financial institutions when soliciting potential customers, and burglars are literally driving around with thus list when looking at houses to break into.

Until two years ago thus list was publicly available on the internet, but now you have to log in at a government run portal to search them. But everyone can still search anyone.
attr() seems incredibly useful, and calc() nicely augments static calculations provided by LESS CSS et al. I'm definitely going to use these.
You don't see spending a few hundred K to a million + as a punishment all by itself? (aside from the fact that 'it wouldn't have been surprising' are weasel words for 'there is some unspecified chance that', so in other words it also wouldn't have been surprising if he had to go to jail after all, easy to say when it isn't your life that is on the line).
They would just follow the torrent swarm. If the tracker gives an address that doesn't have a client behind it, then assume it is fake. You'd also cause a lot of traffic to the spoofed addresses, which is suboptimal.
What if the session is bound to the IP address?
Thanks for your input! Just a question - what do you mean by "they are not" and "they do not"?
Excellent post. Y HN CAN HAZ NO BOOKMARKs?
They're screwing you over more, but is it worth foregoing $200+ just to make a point to a stranger?
At my corp of 40,000 souls we are, year by year, diminishing the number of full time resident workers in favour of mobile workers and home based workers, all as a way to cut costs, save office space and increase the bottom line.
The insurance companies pay long after we see the patient and most of them play about the same games. So, either we don't take any insurance (which would drastically reduce most of our incomes) or we just learn to play their games.

For the record, my wife has gotten pretty good with the billing so I usually get paid for what I do. At first it was very painful because dealing with insurance companies has a steep learning curve in the beginning, but it's not so bad now.

It's still highly inefficient billing each insurance company for each separate patient I see just to collect the amount most people pay to fill the gas tank of their car but, that's hardly the worst problem with health care in this Country.
True. That's mostly my focus for now. I think a lot of people get stuck trying to do something to big to fast. Great ideas take time to make happen.
In Texas, a few years ago, I was getting around 85%. Currently, or in other locations, I don't know. And at my current, government, contractor...I don't even want to think about it.
does threadsafe and ruby 2.0 mean we can create multiple instances with something like unicorn without forking the entire codebase?
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So what do you do if you think you're innocent?

You go to trial if you are actually factually innocent, and you are a millionaire with a bunch of expensive lawyers and a large publicity apparatus and network of friends. Aaron Swartz's problem was that he was NOT factually innocent of all the charges considered in that case. His lawyers were aware of that, and that constrained their range of options. People who keep their behavior innocent have more options.
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I think the main reason people bash the UI is because it doesn't look shiny. I think the reason people don't like the rest of it is because it forces you to use it a certain way and people don't spend the time to actually learn or get used to it. It's not perfect (speed wise), but if you give into how it wants you to use it, it works well.
Sure, but it breaks in that customers don't have to buy from the company that got them hooked -- it drives them to buy from everyone who sells that, not just the initial "pusher".[1]

It's similar to the implausibility of group selection -- doing things for (unrelated) group members doesn't give a differential advantage for the doer's genes, so it tends not to happen. Likewise, techniques that hook you on "sugar-fat foods" ("superstimuli") in general benefit all companies in the market, not just yours.

So I don't think the vendor lock-in model has the same dynamic or is representative of the incentive set that food companies have.

[1] Pushers of illegal drugs have yet another dynamic at play, in which case finding a steady source of the drug is hard, so hooking one user will likely mean they buy from that pusher, not from dealers in general, due to the difficulties of navigating an illegal market.