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The law states that 501c groups are allowed to participate in politics so long as 51% of their money goes towards social welfare. For example, [1]. Would you say the same thing if planned parenthood was denied non-profit status because it is a liberal organization.

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00314617&cy...
You probably get served with it, like a court summons or a lawsuit.
I agree with your point, but have to note that this is perhaps the most literal example of survivor's bias I have ever seen.
I'm pretty convinced that design is trending towards the web circa 1995 with custom fonts, larger hit-points, better white-space control, and a more attractive color palette.
Correctly me if I'm wrong but, even if mutation is neglected, isn't shift() an O(n) operation because of array reindexing? Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of the while/do while loop since they'd be O(n^2)?
Many countries have abandoned corks and go with twist tops instead, except when they export to countries that associate corks with quality. I hate corks, I can't wait for the whole world to adopt twist tops.
The thing is, the IRS "taxes citizens who have their wealth abroad" even if they have no significant financial/business links with the U.S. (they live/work/invest entirely outside the U.S.), and even if they aren't wealthy...

I'm all for catching tax cheats when that's actually what's going on, but the IRS policies here are often just downright douchey...
Fascinating.

I didn't know about this. I've been out of this game for a while. That looks great. I wish we'd had it back when I was working on a GPU XAML renderer.

Thanks!
> if I was told I was drinking milk from a glass but it was actually filled with beer, I would probably not take more than the first drink even though I really like beer.

I had a similar mishap once with orange juice. It caused me to vomit, even though the orange juice was perfectly fine. I don't even like milk.
Fuck. Going to Russia might have been a fatal mistake.
It's not bullshit, it's a verschränkung. The answer is dictated by the consumer and market you observe.

Some consumers will say yes, it's bullshit! They will buy the cheapest bottle that tastes decent enough to drink on a regular basis. Both the budget of the average consumer and their lack of interest in becoming experts on a drink will create an expanded market of low-priced wines.

Then there will be those that say, no, it's definitely not bullshit! Their higher income combined with the belief that there's intrinsic undefinable value to wines produced a certain way will create a separate market for high-end wines. The higher prices they pay offsets the smaller market.

Wine is both bullshit and not bullshit at the same time, and it can stay that way forever because of the two separate motivations of its consumers and the two subtly distinct markets. Regardless of any other factors people are not going to stop drinking wine anytime soon (especially considering putting a different label on will change how it's observed)

I'd wager there's a whole array of products like this, for example designer clothes vs bargain clothes. At the end of the day you just need to keep from being naked.
These surveys don't/can't measure customer satisfaction. They suffer from self-selection bias. If only 2% of your visitors actually submit the form, you can only make generalizations about those 2% of your visitors. You cannot extrapolate your biased sample to the population (all your users). All you are hearing about is the vocal minority.

These can however be useful for spotting objective problems. e.g. a broken link or missing image.
The government is not making threats - they are stating their intentions. I find your stance laughable and I don't think it would work once, and certainly not twice.
Most of the software was already open source, but the pay-for version of XenServer had a few more features than the open source Xen Cloud Platform.

Somewhat to my surprise, Citrix also released the XenCenter management application under an open source license. It would be nice to see a port of that to linux.

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP/XenServer_Feature_Matrix

https://github.com/xenserver/xenadmin
There is no reason to believe that every car on the road will simultaneously be automated when it is much more likely that the transition will be gradual.

Relying on computer networks built on mesh technology, or using transponders embedded in the environment limits the reach and universal nature of the vehicle. These technologies should be augmentations of a Google car like scanning system, though hopefully using a scaled up commercial technology to reduce the cost of the scanners. Existing cars with land departure do so without requiring that every lane on every road have a radio transmitter.
after 5 minutes of loading I was left with this http://cl.ly/image/1u1K2b3i3g28
Oh man, your site is pretty but the initial summary is waaaay too intense:

> Yes, Others May Offer “Real time” RSS To Email or RSS Readers for Free. But They Do NOT Fetch The Full Articles Content. They Do NOT Send Full Content but Only The Titles with Ads. They Do Not Fetch The Content in Real Time, They Call 15-minutes Real Time. We Check Your Sources Every 30 Seconds. That IS Real Time. They Do NOT Turn Shortened RSS Feeds Into Full Text RSS Feeds. They Do NOT Support other RSS Reader , We Support ALL RSS Reader Clients And You Do NOT Need Yet Another RSS Reader When Using Our RSS to Email Feature. You Do Not Need to Signin To Yet Another RSS Reader to Read Your Favourite News Articles, Feeds And Blogs, We Bring Them To You.

Real-time isn't something I'm really worried about, RSS feeds aren't something I read in real-time, they're something I let accumulate until I have some downtime.

That said, your service is pretty useful, but not for my usage. I prefer something that doesn't clutter my inbox and just sits there with tens of unread items until I get to it. I would love it if you provided an actual IMAP mailbox I could connect to and read RSS with my email client.
Man, that 3D rotating link style is obnoxious.
If you can't make payroll, stop staring at the ceiling in your bedroom and feeling so alone, while you plan how to fire your expensive first hire.

Hold a company meeting, put the accounts up on the wall, explain that you have almost no money left and the company is about to go broke. Be willing to consider ideas, but don't string people along so you can postpone pulling the plug on them. It's possible that your employees (individually or collectively) will come up with solutions that you can't; your lack of transparency about the firm's health may be part of your problem.
Deaths from terror attacks follow a power law distribution. There is literally no such thing as a worst-case scenario. For any "justifiable" spend or effort on preventing attacks, you can guarantee that there will be an attack coming along which will justify spending more.
In what ways do you consider discussion as not helping with answers? Where does it fall short as an educational mechanism?
If you have a personal story on how a law was violated and given the fact it was on books for decades, it clearly is ineffectively enforced (taxi drivers apparently prefer to violate the law regularly with a small chance of being ticketed and I can't blame them if that's more profitable for them).

If only there was a system where you could call a cab exactly to where you are, monitor its position while it arrives in real time, and one that would drop you off exactly where you wanted to go. A system where you could comment on the quality of the driver after each ride so that the bad ones are permanently kicked off.

Wait, there is. It's called Uber.

In this case self-regulation and competition work better than government regulations. Uber has self-interest in making sure they work well or else people will move to a better system.

Having government erect and then enforce the laws is a costly externality of the taxi system - police officers are paid with your money too.
Functional programming is definitely not the best approach in every situation. Sometimes it's more useful to look at the problem from imperative, object-oriented views, logic, etc. perspective. There's no paradigm that rules them all. Paradigm's are just different ways to look and decompose the problem. You need different tools in different situations.

I'm not sure what you mean by saying that mutable state ignores time. Real world applications have state, you can't avoid it.
> A city excluding illicit competitors from using its roads "requires the use of force" no more than vindicating the right of a property owner to exclude others requires the use of force as a general matter.

They key difference is not so much the use of force itself, but rather who we consider to be legitimate purveyors of force. When it comes to property rights, obviously there are many varying philosophies and codes that people adhere to, but most people who believe in any form of personal property rights believe that the owners themselves can legitimately use force to defend that property. In other words, there is no monopoly on the legitimate use of force for enforcing property rights.

Government, on the other hand, enjoys a monopoly on the legitimate use of force for many things. If a random group of people went around to every house in a region forcefully taking money in order to fund roads, hospitals, charities, etc., the vast majority of society would not see this as legitimate. Likewise, if 9 of the 10 families on your block agreed to forcefully take and use your family's house and property as they saw fit, the vast majority of society would not see this as legitimate. The fact that the majority of people in a region agreed on the use of force would not legitimize it. So government is unique in this regard: it can and does do both of those things and more, and society sees them as the only group of people who can legitimately do that. This is the quality of government I don't care for, and what I believe leads to economic inefficiency.
I'd argue that the marginal value of yet another song is very, very low. There's far more good music already being produced than most people could possibly consume.
I liked that and the initialization screen on the "face" -- like old-school arcade machine bootup test screens. Really lends to credibility of the robot as a device.
The 1960 Snowdens, NSA Agents Who Showed Up in Moscow
Wearing a bluetooth headset is not required to use a cell phone though. It's optional. Also, how much have they really proliferated? I don't see them very often in my slice of suburbia.
The crash report backtrace can be gathered on-demand, after asking the user's permission.

On-demand user-approved crash reporting is not usually what people mean by phone-home 'analytics'.

> But you better make a throwaway account 'cuz I suspect you'll be buried into oblivion and ghost-banned.

That's pretty rude.
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glasses = nerdy

sunglasses = cool

google glasses = dorky

99% of what Google glass can do I can do on my smartphone WITHOUT THE HASSLE and WITHOUT making me look like a dork.
Very good feedback, we'll take a look at Google Pagespeeed. Thanks!
I'm finding it hard not to call this a broken window fallacy.
I'm getting the same thing here. Is this using WebSockets? The network I'm on blocks pretty much every non-essential port.
Yeah, Xen was always open source but XenServer Essentials was the premium component that people paid for - stuff like GSLB, HA, storage management, etc

Similar to how VMWare gave away View for free to eat at Citrix's XenDesktop market share, Citrix decided to do the same on the Hypervisor side.
It's all they got, and it's a time-tested technique. The US government certainly doesn't want to talk about the revelations themselves.
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They made a "joke" in written form "threatening" to not pay people if they didn't submit a picture to the company profile? Smacks of something a thud headed manager like Michael Scott would do.
Is it possible that he means that Snowden was able to extract private keys from the volitile memory of the servers he had access to?
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I think that majority of people who want to use this (or think it's a good idea) aren't the kind of people who would be able to write the code to do it.
First of all, the IRS admitted to and apologized for specifically targeting conservative groups. Denying it at this point is absurd.

Second of all, the legal definition of a "social welfare" organization is that it spends at least 51% of its money on social welfare. So legally it's allowed to spend the other 49% of its money on politics. Plenty of organizations, both liberal and conservative, take advantage of this rule.
Writing for HN is a long-standing journalistic tradition that dates back to them noticing all those free and easy pageviews.
I don't follow. I have a personal story involving witnessing a law being enforced, therefore its ineffectively enforced?
The sex ratio was 1:1.

Whenever I drink, that's the ratio I'm targeting as well :)
The musicians I pass by on the subway are evidence enough. Music is so overproduced you consume it even when you're not looking for it.
Simply put, at higher cost levels, wine is more like art in terms of value appraisal.
Question...
How do YOU choose the wines you buy?

I enjoy a good wine, but never bothered refining my taste for regions, pairings, etc. Instead, I found a good, local wine shop. When I need a bottle, I just ask for what I want... "something to go with a duck dinner", "something to drink on a hot, summer night", etc. So far, they haven't let me down. I probably average $20/bottle - certainly more than strictly necessary for a good bottle - but I figure it's almost guaranteed I'll enjoy the bottle, and it's going to a local, family business, so I'm ok with that.
There is on the fly video transforming too nowadays, though. You can make people look different, a different time of day, etc.. Instagram may not have it yet to the level it does for photos, but it will.
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My understanding of the events was that Germans were aware of the Jews being discriminated and forced out of their society, but weren't aware of these death traps until it was too late.

In fact, many Jews unknowingly got into trains having an Auschwitz concentration camp as destination, thinking that they'll be deported to other countries or that they'll get sent to work camps. A significant proportion of them came forth by themselves, wilful to leave Germany. Many of them also assumed that the destination is some kind of horrible, but survivable re-education/work camp. The propaganda at that time included commercials picturing these camps to the German public as being camps were Jews are used for the betterment of German society, while living in humane conditions, unworthy of the rodents they were considered to be.

This whole thing started and evolved in small steps. Auschwitz happened after they realised that deporting them is not feasible, due to the process taking too long due to other countries being reluctant to open their borders to such a big minority and killing them in bulk by gas was cheaper than using bullets.

If anything the German public probably viewed murders and awkward things happening in plain sight as being acts taken for security reasons against disobeying Jews or against Jews that refuse to leave their society.

Eventually the German public must have been aware of the genocide, but you also have to consider that (1) they could have been too frightened of the monster they created, with problematic individuals being in jeopardy of being classified as Jews or Jew-lovers and (2) as a species, we tend to not recognize our mistakes after enough sacrifices have been made, so it's easier to think that you are part of a revolution for the good of human kind, then it is to think of yourself as a freaking murderer that believed the words of maniacs.
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Haha, yeah, I recently lost the password to my previous handle. Read for several months before I ventured to comment as QEDTurtles.
Are there any commercial competitors for this?
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> Like lupatus mentioned in the other response, there is considerable variability in the risk from terrorism.

"Considerable variability" doesn't begin to cut it. Deaths from terror attacks follow a power law. That's why it doesn't make sense to compare them to fundamentally linear phenomena like traffic or smoking deaths. Coincidentally (or not), flood levels also follow a power law.

The thing about a power law phenomenon is that you can use it to justify an arbitrarily high prevention spend, because given the sample you have, you can guarantee an event lying outside it. Repeat ad infinitum.
You complain about poor reporting and then you continue on to make a number of claims that are completely unsupported.

- Snowden is certainly not a traitor

- His life and freedom hang in the balance.

- the surveillance programs are not evil

- they are the largely the result of people trying to defend the country from terrorism

- the primary goal of these programs is to save lives

Let's see your evidence.
I am a lot older than you and i had a scare once. That was bad enough but i can only imagine what you must be going through.
Knowing the little i do about how medicine works in my country can i just suggest that you be as assertive as you can be, do your research, ask pertinent questions and show them you're not just a number and keep them on their toes and go elsewhere if you're not satisfied.
I don't think you are selfish, I hope you get through this.
I would very much like to know how you get on, if you have
a blog or something. I'm not religious but 'God Bless' seems to say best what i want to say to you.
> Google has a very simple business strategy: make sure the web is more useful.

Nope, it is to make sure the user still needs to search for web sites.

> Almost every Google product and service has been around encouraging consumer use of the web, or fostering growth of web businesses.

Are you kidding? How do scary display ads (matching the user's recent e-mails) encourage consumer use of the web? How does going into many established business areas (product search, classifieds, insurance price comparisons, social networks ...) foster growth of web businesses?

> Make a better website, grow your visits? Google still profits.

Unless that website competes with Google ... Does Google profit from Facebook's growth? Nope, so they tried very hard to force G+ down everyone's throat.

As for why GA is still free - you must be working at Google, otherwise I can't explain your bias. GA is free because it gives Google important information, for example which websites are most popular (good for providing helpful search results).
So when I see murals on walls, that's a sign that art is overproduced?
Yet another article focused on the man instead of the issue.

The U.S.'s obsession with celebrity gossip fodder makes it far too easy for news outlets to focus on the low-hanging fruit, the story that more closely aligns with an already-determined narrative. If Snowden's story was published as a TV drama right now, you could hear the selling points: "Fugitive on the run from the state!" "Spy intrigue!" "Hero or villain?" "Man or legend?"

...None of that has to do with the issue that that Snowden exposed, the inherent secrecy of the court system that allows it to happen, and efforts to reverse what a large portion of the American public views to be unconstitutional/undemocratic behavior by a country that lectures the opposite to other nations.

There are so many interesting and important issues to unpack in this whole ordeal. I wish we could trust the media to unravel these complex issues instead of spoon-feeding us the easy story. We ingest our own ignorance as a result.
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Your hell will be plastic foam corks. And those win hands up for medium duration of storage : they have some of the properties of the classic corks and let the wine breath a little (twists tops do not), with no disadvantages.

They are used more and more in low-mid range of wines in France, and nobody complains about it.

Still it does not cut it for more than a year or two of storage.
I remember when I had my shot of Midleton (Irish Whiskey), which costs around $300 because it was aged, special brew, etc. Then I get a bottle of 12 year aged Dewars for $35 and my god was the Dewars better...

Yet my whole family was impressed with the Midelton.

Next time, I switched what was in the bottles, it was the Dewars that won.

Point, it's all in their head.
So, because you can't find fault with my main point that there are scary high-impact potential threats that the US government can and should try to protect us from, you are instead picking apart an imaginary scenario that I spent all of 30 seconds thinking up in order to illustrate my main point? Or, did I miss something?

No crap there are holes in Scenario B. Why don't you describe one that would be realistic since you seem to be good at looking at the details? I gave you all sorts of links about missing plagues and other bomb-making materials.

Or maybe the terrorist's just put up a sign at the launchpad that says "Acme Oil Drilling, Serving Des Moines since 1897!"

Regardless, Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution lists one of the duties of the federal government as "repel Invasions". An invasion occurs when someone or some group enters the land as an enemy and any activity to prevent or discontinue that situation would constitute repelling.

Additionally, Article IV Section 4 says "shall protect each of them [State in the Union] against Invasion".

I know the 4th Amendment talks about being secure in your papers and effects against searches, but this NSA surveillance (from what I've read) seems to be reasonable, warranted, and used in a limited manner (given that the real economy is still in a slump and new politicians get elected to existing posts).

Please try explaining to me again how the NSA looking for potential high-impact terrorist events is not a valid and important government function.
Done this. Totally false. A merlot in a cab bottle tastes like a cab and everyone who likes cab says how much they like that wine.
Google should be regulated like telcos and electricity companies, say rivals
Yes role based bonuses for referrals are common in the financial services sector. For example at one firm an AVP referral that was hired would be a $5K bonus whereas a VP referral would be a $10K. Unsurprisingly there is quite a push for for VP and above as a starting title for referrals. I've never heard of a firm that offers a recurring bonus though.

AVP: Assistant Vice President

VP: Vice President
Ask HN: If you were going to blog what platform would you use?
I'm fighting the urge to do what I always do when I'm considering off the shelf software... turn up my nose, mutter something about having full control to do whatever the hell I want goddammit! and write my own software... 'cause it's easy and I can do it in a couple weekends of cranking' (sure you can... sure you can I hear my say as she rolls her lovely eyes...).

So what would YOU use instead of, you know, rolling your own...
"Internet Explorer 9 and 10, for example, support DHE only in combination with obsolete DSA keys. "

"Google, for example, does not have any DHE suites in their configuration"

Please upgrade.
Clojure does not remotely hold that "mutable state is wrong." That precisely why it provides several different ways to access mutable state from concurrency primitives down to mutable arrays.

Rich's philosophy on this is "mutable code isn't needed most of the time." It's a very different argument.

As for (2), if by "real world problems" you mean "commonly occurring, trivial, day to day problems", then yes, I also solve "real world problems" every day with clojure.