skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He could also order due process to start tomorrow.

Maybe there are a few issues with sending people back to their countries, but certainly not in all cases.
By the way, I'd love to learn more and start using bitcoins.. transferring money with paypal or by, shrug writing paper cheques, feels so much deprecated. As an anecdote.. I'm using two different banks (One for work, one personal) but I can't share money between both accounts! Even if they both have online accounts.. I need to write the transaction on papers and go to the local bank to trade it. Thankfully I practically never do it.. or if I do it it's because it's big enough amounts that I'm happy to do it, but still..
Ask HN: How to find a good startup name?
I have never been too talented to find a good name. Which tool/technique did you use to find one?
Well, the slave holders were all-the-way wrong, like the proponents of Mexican "they will take the agricultural jobs White people won't" apologist-plantation-owners. But the segregationists, black and white alike, were absolutely right.
I am aware but it misses the point. Parallel computation is just one example. What about traversing trees? Graphs? Any functor? Any compiler directions to automagically make the for loop traverse those?

And that does not even address the issue of composability - which is even more important. Map fusion?
I seriously doubt this. Unintuitively, I think it's more likely that niche cloud services with specialized features will be able to compete better by exploiting industry-specific economies of scale that Amazon can't by being so generalized. Any of these companies that resist a buyout will have huge profit margins like Amazon doesn't.
Yes this is a great point. One thing that I don't want to fall into the habit of doing, and I got close to in my initial point, in my disgust for their hypocrisy is something I see as a problem in modern politics. Hypocrisy isn't the greatest sin in the world, but we sometimes act like it is and make the consequences of hypocrisy (or changing your mind) so great (electoral defeat) that people will hold onto a bad policy and continue bad or harmful action in favor of not flip flopping or being hypocritical. So you make a good point, and it's better that they at least attempt to remedy some of the harm they have contributed to, than hold onto a morally bankrupt position.
Gitmo was the first thing that clued me that I had made a mistake voting for Obama's promises (not that McCain would have ever gotten it instead!). It was such a complete reversal that I immediately knew his promises were completely worthless.

I appreciate that there may be anger outs people in Gitmo, but they have every right to a trial I have. The double standard of what human rights mean if you are a US citizen and if you aren't makes me physically ill.

As a country, in many ways we deserve the disdain directed at us.

That said, we are not only Gitmo, and we actually do a lot of good things for the world. We just need to get our government to respect our borders.
The events you've outlined don't require intellectual dishonesty at all. It's possible to have thought war was a prudent course of action in 2003, then to have changed one's mind by 2013.
I think the book "It's not news, it's FARK" is the best thing that Drew Curtis has ever done.

http://www.fark.com/2007/book/
This reminds me of a theory I heard of that Bitcoin was created to secretly try and crowd-source the breaking of seemingly impossible encryption protocols (encrypted files not meant for anyone other than the intended recipient). I wonder if such a theory is actually plausible though considering the client is open source, what if the block chains people are mining are actually encrypted files and the government are using people as bot-nets for breaking encryption? This is one reason I would suspect the government of creating Bitcoin.
AFAIK Stoning is from an authentic hadith. An interesting point that could be used to decrease this is Islam frowns on bitching and backbiting. So...
I hired a copyrighter.

Keep doing what you actually are good.
Parenthesis Permutation - A non recursive solution
I'd say yes, but I'm not entirely sure. I ditched TV, apart from TV news, then the TV altogether, then mainstream news on the net. I moved to digg, I moved off digg. For the last two years I read hacker news, and occasional newspaper I can get my hands on (I'm not buying them though, I firmly believe that not funding your addiction is the first step to limiting or even shedding your addiction).

I read hacker news for almost two years now. The problem is that I can't dismiss hacker news as easily as I did with all the other news sources because I strongly suspect I'm learning some valuable things here. Sure, 90% is just amusement, 9% has some conversational value but I'm afraid 1% is actually enriching for me and I'm afraid where could I get this if I ditch HN.

Best (sort-of) news addiction I had so far was being addicted to stackoverflow. Helping strangers with their problems as fast as I can was really good for me. Unfortunately I got the job, then I lost the job. That messed my mind somehow and now stackoverflow seems like too much work.
The MtGox Bitcoin exchange has an upper limit of 37 trades per second.
Seems like the approach a lot of modern day startups use is this:

1. Take the name of the niche you're targeting. For this example lets say we're a health startup wanting to revolutionise patient waiting times in hospital emergency awards.

2. See if the domain .ly is available or if not, .li; patientrocket.ly, waitzero.io

3. Profit $$$

I don't think there is a set formula. To some names are personal and to others they're just names and don't have any underlying meaning to them other than they're memorable or sound cool.
That's right, jQueryIsAwesome, jQuery is awesome in Palo Alto.

And you can do nothing about North Korea. And you don't care about North Korea, because the only thing you care about is Palo Alto, its organic restaurants, its girls, and, of course, jQuery.

But NK isn't going away. And you, American kids, can stick your heads in Palo Alto sand, and assume that all is good, and by not knowing what's out there, you will make yourself happier.

Happy happy joy joy!
The challenge for most people is to understand that less regulation results in less rent seeking. Only a large and powerful state can implement the required blocks to form monopolies. Only a powerful state can entrench the class divide between the ruled and the rulers.

The solution, then, is to reduce the size of the state and allow for less central planning and involvement.

Further to this: the size of the state and those who run it seek to gain more power. Power is delivered through votes. Thus much that passes for political debate is not based on reason, but rather emotions and feelings - people finding and leveraging biases, beliefs and BS. Virtually no modern policy making is done using reason and simple analysis - instead it is done by emotionally trying to sway the argument - the 'think of the children' model.

A triumph of reason over emotion and reduction in the size o f the state. This creates the environment where those rent-seeking cannot fool those using reason, and they lack the all-powerful controls to enforce the monopolies.
COLOURlovers (YC W10) Is A Visual Community
I'd say becoming desensitized is a problem in itself.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2042953
> In any case, Google is heavily invested in Go.

There is very little evidence of that. The language is a few years old now and the only presentations are coming not even from random Google employees but exclusively Go team members. If Rob Pike wasn't involved in this language, it would be completely invisible.

So, there's not a lot of concrete evidence that Go has made any inroads inside Google against Java and C++ and from what I can see, the language is hardly every used outside Google as well.
Good, we could use more enemies. Gitmo is a very expensive way to manufacture them. It's only effective if it pisses off a lot of people.
Yes, that's exactly it. The shared, public, distributed block chain records every transaction that has ever taken place [1], so everyone knows and agrees on the amounts that are associated with each address. As long as nobody knows what addresses you use, it's anonymous with respect to a real-world identity.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_chain
As a non-American - can I ask an American to submit a white-house petition. Perhaps as a form of the least that can be done.
Nowadays there is even Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and David Marcus of PayPal. I hope that this kind of CEO becomes more common.
I see what you're saying... It's just that the author says "news" when he means "the stuff called news that isn't news" which is hard to talk about without sounding like a hypocrite; he describes the phenomena - factoids - for example, but is ultimately participating in the proliferation of exactly the type of water-cooler/factoid/self-help pseudo-intellectual article that he's deriding. His article is filler in the "Media" section on guardiannews.com. The author might have said "too much junk 'news' makes people unhappy" and I'd have promptly carried on ignoring those types of articles. :)
Congress deserves as much or more blame for this situation. They've prevented the President from carrying out his intended solution to this problem. Without their support, he is powerless to release these people.
Aren't politics banned?
> a small fraction of one percent controls well over 2/3 of the world's assets

Citation for that? Wikipedia says that the richest 1% of adults owned 40% of global assets[1], though that figure is from 2000.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#21st_cen...
Build better proxies/tools of resistance, generally fight authority, just be a hacker and be on the lookout for ways to empower the downtrodden.

The hacker instinct is to get around the system and fight authority. There's another hacker instinct, too, which is being totally and absurdly pedantic. Maybe there is an idea here.

Sometimes the first world chooses leaders who are, at day's end, okay with a some of the horrors of barbaric legal systems (usually in exchange for increased security or the illusion thereof). One solution might be to be politically pedantic (seriously!) and not let them get away with even a bit of it.
What I need is a wallet that delivers a small electric shock any time I buy something from Amazon or iTunes. That would retrain my brain from thinking, "Oh, it's only 99 cents, why not" to "I don't need to zap myself for yet another todo list app."
Fantasy-Land: Algebraic Javascript
Weird isn't it? Posts on a new-ish, interesting programming language on a site frequented by a large number of programmers with a penchant for new, interesting languages.
I mean, there's a % taken from every bitcoin transaction as well, it's just a question of which fee is lower, BTC or dwolla.
Well somethings will always be scarce, like real estate. But other things can be made abundant.

The internet and sites like Khan Academy are the first great steps in making education abundant for instance.

Electricity is another resource that within the next decade anybody can have in abundance. Well, anybody with a roof onto which a solar panel can be placed that is.

Little by little it is happening.
We are on the same page.

I wouldn't phrase it that way, but yes, ideally negative externalities should be internalized by individuals to make the problem vasnish.

But failing that, if individual parties may engage in negotiations to achieve better outcomes (Ronald Coasce)

Less regulation are usually a 1st thing to try in that process, to cause change by voluntary association, naming and shaming. Issues can be mitigated. But regulation is a pandora box.

There are whole parts of economics studying that - public policy and industrial organisation.
First, take a gander at M0, to get a sense of how much money has been printed:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE

That shows you what actually happened to the money supply. In other words, the central factual claim made by Krugman is false:

The practical misconception here — and it’s a big one — is
the notion that we live in an era of wildly irresponsible
money printing, with runaway inflation just around the
corner. It’s true that the Federal Reserve and other
central banks have greatly expanded their balance sheets —
but they’ve done that explicitly as a temporary measure in
response to economic crisis. I know, government officials
are not to be trusted and all that, but the truth is that
Ben Bernanke’s promises that his actions wouldn’t be
inflationary have been vindicated year after year, while
goldbugs’ dire warnings of inflation keep not coming true.

As that graph shows, we are indeed in an era of out of control money printing[0]. Moreover, food[1] and energy[2] prices are through the roof, and housing is being artificially propped up by QE4 -- in which dollar holders are diluted to the tune of $85B per month[3] so that the government can take mortgage-backed securities off the hands of their favorite banks. The CPI intentionally excludes[4] the consequent energy and food price increases (ostensibly due to their "volatility") thereby systematically understating the consequences of printing 85 billion dollars per month, every month, to infinity.

[0] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=8l2

[2] http://goo.gl/R4r0f

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/12/12/qe4-is-...

[4] http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm#Question_13
>>The newspaper which did so much to whip up hysteria during the years of the Bush administration

I lived through those years, I don't recall people running around the streets of American cities in a state of hysteria.
I don't think the author was wrong (which seems to be the underlying implication of this article popping up seven years later). Sure, the housing bubble burst, but that was over a year after he wrote this article. A lot can change with the economy in a year, and obviously not everyone in 2005 thought that housing prices would fall. Indeed, if the majority of people in 2005 had thought that prices were going to fall then prices would have peaked in 2005 instead of 2006. If you look back after every downturn you will always find people who were bearish and you'll call them smart. You'll also find bulls like this guy and you'll call them dumb. But maybe it's more about being lucky or unlucky.
I think it's pretty well documented by now that the NYT advocated for positions which they knew to be false and passed on information they knew the source of but failed to notify the reader of in ways that deliberately misled readers, during this period. So, while you're right that one can hold one position then the other, I think that doesn't invalidate their mendacity.

Also hypocrisy is still a valid description of advocating a position which created this suffering then pointing out that this suffering is terrible and that someone should do something.

However, I do think (see my comment later in the thread) that it has to be remembered that hypocrisy isn't the worst sin one can commit, and if they can be as effective in moving us to the next phase in all of this as they were in pushing the agenda forward which led to this situation in the first place that's a net good thing.
I think Krugman hit the nail on the head with some comparisons here, such as of being a bit-bug is no different than being a gold-bug and how money cannot stand outside the system. That's exactly what the value of money is-- it's other people's belief in whether other people believe in it, which actually is pretty much how social networks work.

The thing I never liked about bitcoin was the whole let's prevent inflation by not allowing the 'printing' of money bit that are baked into how the bitcoin supply expands. I don't see any reason to expound on that other than to make a political, rather strongly libertarian-leaning, statement.
Not to mention the question of whether a newspaper have "a" mind...
What was his solutions? Moving the detainees to another facility? Or did he actually want to give them trials and send the innocent ones home?
Well I think he could put a bit more public pressure on them then. I really don't hear him bringing it up too often.
This is why I think a type system--at least one like Haskell's or OCaml's--isn't just a way to catch certain bugs. It's more of a different basis for programming: your program grows from the types rather than vice versa. Confusing behavior like this simply couldn't arise. And in the cases it could it wouldn't--it simply doesn't fit with the philosophy.

So the difference is not that the type system would catch this sort of behavior or even that it would prevent it--the difference is that it wouldn't arise in the first place. Sure, this is more a difference of perspective than of actual behavior or features, but I think it's incredibly important nonetheless.

Thinking about types in this different way is actually quite a deep topic; I should write a blog post about it for that blog I keep on meaning to start :P. One day. At the very least, writing it all down would help me get my own thoughts in order.
On game AI, here's a neat tidbit.

Feed your bot AI with information that is 200 ms old and force it to extrapolate 200 ms in the future for its aiming/movement/etc. logic. It will make the bot much more human-like with noticeable reaction time, so it could be tricked by sudden changes in your behaviour. Such a simple but powerful AI trick.
Type "Paul Krugman is" into Google and you'll see the how people feel about him.
The distinction is:

return [Integer] will give you [[Integer]] (if you're inside the list Monad).

$($("#some-id")) will give you the same result as $("#some-id"), because $ of a $ doesn't nest (or make sense, really).

Therefore jQuery doesn't satisfy the Monad laws :).
When I first saw the title I thought "git", this must be some derivative of git and the author didn't like it.
We all lived through those years - or anyone old enough to be commenting on here did - and I disagree. I think the media climate, which is what we're talking about when we are discussing newspapers, was absolutely one of hysteria. The march to war and the support for remedies such as Guantanamo. If the American media landscape and political climate was not one of hysteria when we made such terrible choices then it speaks far worse of us than the alternative.
They may not have a mind but they have a voice. And the NYT has or at least had a particularly influential voice.
Or I could say that you see at as not positive because you don't think it is. My point though was that, in my opinion, from my experience, people describe their children how they want to see them, or in their version of positive ways whatever those may be for each person (I'm thinking of young children here mostly). I mean can a 2 or 3 year old really be more "happy" or "rebellious" in any meaningful different degree from any other child of same age, in the aggregate? It's projection.. That's what I'm getting at.
That would be devastating hit on US gov reputation, all this people available to the press.

I think they are just hoping meteor will hit this place eventually and wipe it out without any concern on their part.
In Canada we remember with shame the WW2 Japanese internment camps. Gitmo will be this generations great shame. Marriage equalization, and reasonable pot legislation are happening... But gitmo remains a black mark. Due process should not be malleable.
I think in the case of STEM grad schools the Federal money finally goes where the best return on investment is. Professors, not government, decide whom to hire, roughly speaking.
Lots of comments here about how his minor "back alley" analogy, but so far nothing about his main point comparing bitcoiners to goldbugs.
The problem is that to close Guantanamo, you need funding to a least move the prisoners to another facility. Introducing them to the justice system would require the same.

As every American should know, Congress holds the purse strings here and has denied said request. The President has no power here.
Having attended college during the years the author did, I'm wondering if this is more of a timepiece than a reflection of today's reality.

BTW these are the exact same years Obama went to Columbia, and was apparently a bit "drifty" (read: high and bad grades)
Guantanamo Bay is like the witch hunts in the medieval ages in the sense that when somebody was accused of being a witch there was no meaningful recourse.

Gitmo is the same. Most inmates have not been tried, some have been tortured (and are hence considered "untriable").

For a country that claims to follow the "rule of law" this is a strange affair to be in.
The "rule of law" way of out this is to bring these people to the US, and try them. If they cannot be convicted they are free. I believe that the long term cost/risk of not doing this is higher than any potential damage the inmates could do.
It's been tried. Somebody should probably try again.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/close-guantanamo-d...
I understand that it looks bad if people released from custody in Gitmo return to action in 'violent non-state actor' groups.

Just for the record, if you're a victim of one of these released prisoners, it would be more serious for you than simply bad press.
I would like to see more internal Google stats as well but-

"and from what I can see, the language is hardly every used outside Google as well."

3 Months ago Go was more popular on github by number of unique committers than Lua, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, D, OCaml, Lisp/Scheme, Rust, Delphi, Prolog, F#, Ada etc [1]. Surely you consider some of those languages as being relevant? That is not a perfect metric, but those stats don't fit your narrative of Go being unused very well.

1: https://gist.github.com/igrigorik/4440674
Um, your link to gas prices show them going down. I don't consider that as "energy prices going through the roof", quite the opposite actually. By the way, a barrel of oil right now is in the same exact price range it was 5 years ago (go to Marketwatch and click 5-year price).

Furthermore, one would be hard pressed to claim a rise in food-prices resulted solely from inflation-- given the record droughts in America [1] and record fires in Russia [2] that devastated entire crops last year.

Please, for the sake of good argument, try to be factually correct when trying to claim others aren't.

[1] http://theweek.com/article/index/230673/americas-worst-droug...

AND
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_drought

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires
I totally agree with what you said, some of my coworkers are blissfully ignorant to anything that happens beyond their household and talking to them feels almost like talking to a child. Sometimes it even gives me a sense of superiority when I see I am way more "prepared" than them.

Having said that, I feel exhausted from news. Specially link bait or biased media. Almost like I have a burnout of BS and I am becoming very skeptical from almost all news source. Example, started watching CNN ditched in favor of BBC then stopped BBC in favor of Al Jazeera then... You get the point.

I must say that I have an urge that I keep coming back to check the news, every so often, to satiate this weird need to staying informed. But if I could, talking almost like an addicted person here, I would totally stop reading all this "crap".
It seems unlikely that Congress micromanages the budget of the Department of Justice to the degree that it could not initiate prosecution of detainees in the civilian legal system. Whether that would be a reasonable solution is debatable, but it's certainly within the President's authority to attempt.

There's always the nuclear option: threaten to release the detainees if Congress doesn't provide funding for another solution.