skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it is not an international "warcrime". As everybody is labled enemy combatant after the fact (as in "after the killing is done"), it is totally in line with the international war. There does not have to be an official declaration of war, to use war-like tactics (and to kill so called enemy combatants).

But what does might count as a war-crime, is the fact, that the us mostly shield their drone operators with civilian shields. The drones are for example operated from German military bases, that are embedded in civilian regions. A drone-pilot is a combatant, as he clearly fights.

So these combatants are embedded in a country, that is not part of this conflict. Shielded by (for a fact) foreign civilians. And shielding is outlawed by international law regarding war and war-like conflicts.

So the US just might use this argument in their favor, as the Al-Qaeda clearly used the 16 year-old (and the other civilians) as shields - so Al-Qaeda would be responsible for their death (or so a perverted ruling might go).

The (not so) "fun" fact here is, that this (the shielding of US drone-pilots) happens with the knowledge of the German government and that they do not only not seem to care, but nobody here in Germany does give a damn, as nearly no one (journalists) tells these facts to the people.

Some (say Afghan) combatant could just walk up to these drone pilots and shoot them in the head. It would be an act of a war like conflict (like shooting a soldier in battle). It would not be a "normal" crime. OK, but nobody would look at it this way. It would be labeled an act of terror.
Congratulations on figuring out what was wrong with your phone, seriously. A lot of people would have given up after the first time it didn't boot properly (although a lot of people haven't rooted their phone).

The thing is, and please forgive me for dismissing your achievement like this, it doesn't make you a good programmer. Programmers solve problems like this on a daily basis. You've definitely proven that you have the right mindset and determination to be a good programmer, but at the same time this sort of egotistical, superior attitude is the trait of a bad programmer. Nobody likes working with people like that.

I never wanted to be "that" guy on HN who puts down other peoples' posts, but I think the whole smugness of this rubbed me up the wrong way. Please, carry on solving real-world problems. Just, show a little modesty and humiliation.
At least they have a free version to play with. They didn't even have that a while ago.

I'm not in the mobile apps business, but if I were, I would consider the price worth it.

As a freelancer, I see a lot of people requesting Android and iOS apps. I don't see myself developing in both Objective-C and Java. With Xamarin I could cover three platforms with one language, which also happens to be my language of choice for productivity.
Android 4.3 For Google Nexus 4 Leaks
Sony drops the mic: PS4 to cost $400, no used game restrictions
9/11 was a single horrific event carried out by a small number of radicals. I don't think it holds a candle by any metric to the lives lost and damage done in an actual government-run war scenario. We don't yet have foreign bombers blowing up cafes on a regular basis because somebody on their hit list was inside, but because of our actions, we someday might.
In my analysis of this "dilemma" I refer to this example: the man who stopped the desert http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/the-man-who-...

The desert progress can be assimilate to poverty, something we beleive to be unstoppable. But the man above stopped the desert progress by planting little trees. In the long run it proved much more efficient than giving some water to the starving plants at the desert border. Kiva is like planting little trees.

On the other hand I also understand that some people want to contribute where urgent help is needed.
Sometimes I wish Americans felt what real blowback was. Americans kill so many people abroad, and then they're shocked that there's a "terrorist attack" every 10 years or so, against them. That's nothing. Imagine having these wars with a country that can really fight back. Imagine having that war close to home. I think, then, Americans would be a lot more cautious about sending over attacks to other countries without caring what happens.

That's the problem. Americans are very sheltered from the wars they start for the most part, so they let their government do whatever. Americans aren't still thinking 9/11 happened because they hated them for their freedoms, do they?
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Lack of taste & imagination, primarily.
And, as per recent discussion, lack of domain names.

I noticed myself instantly responding to a good company / startup name. It does the job to get me interested. If there's also a good logo - i'm more likely to like it. I realize i'm a picky designer though :)
Why Quora Beats LinkedIn for Finding a Job or Internship
I used to work for a biotech company that shared a somewhat similar field to 23andme, although aimed at prenatal diagnostics. We were doing the exact thing that #3 on their list claims. While I am not a scientist, my understanding is that the 23andme has a reputation for being very sloppy at science. It's perhaps useful as a source of personal information but I wouldn't trust anything they talk about, as far as research goes.

Point in case, the whole 'noninvasive prenatal diagnostics' thing was something we had down to a commercial clinical procedure... in 2011. In fact we had it down pretty good in 2009 (before I was at the company), but it takes a long time to get through certification with these sorts of tests. My understanding is that research groups had been doing that sort of thing since 2004 - I don't know when the first human fetus was sequenced but it was certainly not last October.
What's specifically your objection?

I am happy to pay for the license for a guarantee of continuing (and timely) updates.

Plus, looking at their target market, I don't think free, open source model would be as effective.

Disclaimer: I am a Xamarin customer.
Hacking crappy password resets (part 1)
Here is a sincere and important piece of advice.

The prouder you are of your abilities as a programmer, the more of a challenge it will be to accept evidence of the times that you demonstrate that you're not as good as you would like to believe. But this selective bias will in turn blind you to how to improve and become better.

I have personally known quite a few very, very good programmers. The ones I have known best and respected most, were uniformly modest about their skills. And that sincere modesty is because they knew what they had left to improve, which is key to continuing to improve. This constant awareness of current limitations keeps them from being arrogant about their existing abilities.

Ever noticed that the people you see exercising are generally the ones who don't need to? The same is true about improving. That also works if you flip it around. If you can't point to concrete improvements that you have made in the last 6 months, then you're probably not someone who is in the habit of improving. Which in turn means that you're probably nowhere near as good as you think you are.
And on that afternoon, there will be rage upon the twitters, and that evening, the news.

And on the following day, we'll bomb the everliving christ out of the people we think are responsible, and on some day hence, we will be bombed in response.

The wheel turns--might as well get into the drone and bomb business. :(
I have disable zoom turned off but it didn't help it only turns off ability to restrict zoom in not out. Apparently its for the hard if sight... Rotating the screen was OK though here.
Docker hackday in SF
Porting Udacity CS253 to Go part3
Superficial celebrity-worshiping elitism drives acceptance!
People have enough trouble remembering one password. Add another that is used only in very unusual circumstances and nearly no one will remember it.
Same here, I hope there will be a spill-on effect on Mono.

I was particularly pleased when MonoDevelop 4.0 got the new Xamarin Studio UI. A bit vain, I know.
> The paper didn't "try to discredit the MMR vaccine"

Smells like an attempt to discredit MMR to me:

According to a major investigative feature by Brian Deer, in 1996 Dr Wakefield was retained by the solicitor Richard Barr to carry out investigations on a number of children with autism and bowel problems (1). The object of these investigations was to confirm parents' claims that their children's behavioural and digestive symptoms had been caused by the MMR vaccine, so that they could claim compensation from the vaccine manufacturers.

It appears that four or five of the children included in the series of 12 cases reported in the Lancet were in the group represented by Barr.

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA40D.htm

> Thankfully, people back then weren't afraid to notice that the first generation of Polio vaccines actually gave Polio to some who took them.

I'm sure they knew. I'm sure they also knew that for children Polio caused paralysis in about 1 in 1000 cases.

They may well have feared the vaccine, but I suspect their fear of the consequences of Polio were far greater.

The simple fact is vaccination works. Just look how Polio has been effectively irradiated thanks to vaccination:

http://www.post-polio.org/ir-usa.html

Edit: Statistics below from page above

Total Polio Cases

From: 1937 - 1997 = 457,088

From: 1998 - 2008 = 1

To decide whether to use a vaccine that can eliminate 40,000 annual cases of Polio and the only side effect might be it could be harmful to a few people is a no brainer.

To use your own words, sure vaccines can harm a very small number of people, but that same vaccine will be extremely beneficial to huge numbers of people.

People need to get over it and get vaccinated.
Permutation Poetry
Difficulty of implementation isn't the issue here. This is an important feature of Android and if moxie's approach would make things better for users I think Google could get it right.
It can be appalling and trivial at the same time. It was a highly local event that the media picked up as a national story under the guise of racism. The actual trial hinged on the law as it should, as apposed to emotionally charged outrage. It is appropriate now to examine the law, but it is a Florida law. Maybe worth a passing mention in national news.

The fact that the Attorney General of the United States gives speeches about a closed court case in which he has no authority to interject (Florida's Stand Your Ground Law) instead of addressing the slew of national and international hot topics, speaks to the damage control attitude of our officials at the moment. The fact that not a single mainstream reporter is pressuring officials to focus on these other topics highlights their complacency and populist pandering. Better not ask the wrong questions or go off topic, least you be removed from the White House press corp.
It’s not like that. It makes sense in Go. Say you have a type, and you implement “Read” function for it. You don’t do anything else but now you are implementing an interface and other functions can call your “Read” function. Having a “ReadByte” function and other functions calling that isn’t that much different from your perspective. Any type that implements “Reader” may implement similar functions too. And if they do, that’s probably for a reason. If your type has a specific “ReadByte” function you want others to use that instead of the generic “Read” for reading a single byte.
How are we still allowed to be a member of the UN? If these aren't war crimes then they're surely still crimes, just you know, not-war crimes.

What boggles my mind is how these countries allow the US to run drone strikes on their citizens. I mean, Yemen has a government and they're like, "Yeah sure, target and kill innocent people and blow cafes and shit up in our country. Cos you know, terrorism and all that."
While the definition of the term 'war crime' is fairly recent, the murder of civilians (only one of many types of war crime) during times of conflict is hardly a new phenomenon. The only thing that's new to us who have not lived though World War 2 is that a few times, civilians from the West were killed within their own borders. Islamist terrorism, while inexcusable, immoral and criminal, has not erased the boundaries of the battlefield. History shows that even if there were ever any borders on the battlefield, they were erased long ago.
Design and build it yourself?
Salt Stack Module and State Examples
I'm actually pretty happy about that cover.

We need to start having a more nuanced view of people. A common thread between the three people in this discussion: Trayvon Martin, Dzhokar Tsarnev, and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki is that they are all young men who were killed and can be commonly reduced to stereotypes to fit a narrative (young black man up to no good, terrorist, terrorist).

But, when you dig a little deeper, it turns out there's a person under that sterotype! I'm happy to see the media start to see this and a national conversation grow around this; hopefully it will make us better human beings.
Nice, just saw the email go out about Wizzywig making it into the new YCombinator class!

LAUNCH has a new hackathon in early November, expect the Watchtower team to be there.
I don't recall a pro-expansion-of-governmental-power stance becoming the majority in any country after late 2005. I could be forgetting something, but my impression has been that (at least in the US) the public response to the war on terror was, for a short while, overwhelmingly positive and then, for a much longer period, in favor of more governmental restraint.
Given that Demon's Souls was conceived in Japan, I would describe it's mechanics as very fitting to the huge group of core-gamers there. The western success is surprising, I give you that, especially considering the rather meager marketing of the first.
Of course it does. Gravity holds you to that chair because the mass of the earth is attracting the mass of you. This tells us that if you were sat on a chair on the moon, the hold on you would be less. Theory with prediction, see?

That's what that page doesn't answer: Why do the galaxies appear to be moving away from us?
> Sometimes I wish Americans felt what real blowback was.

The typical reaction of a nation is not "Oh well, we better stop doing that then".
9/11 wasn't carried out by foreigners. There's no motive.

Means, motive, and opportunity: Who'd consider 3000 dead Americans a reasonable price to pay for carte blanche to make a pushbutton military coup possible in this country?

The US already controls, coerces, or mutually cooperates with a large number of other sovereign states (as we've seen with this whole Snowden airspace thing, or the global surveillance networks, et c).

Such an action would place a person or group that was able to exert leverage over the majority of US persons high in the running for "able to control the majority of humans on Earth".

Not a bad prize, that.
Also, I'm not sure about how I'd feel working for a hypothetical company where getting fired was a death sentence.
"Imagine having these wars with a country that can really fight back. Imagine having that war close to home."

My friend, have you considered the horrors of an America faced with a credible threat and given the opportunity to justify real, total war against an opponent capable of the same?

I do not wish to live in that world.
Thanks. There seems to be no public evidence that the grandson deserved death. The white house's official stance is that someone else was being targeted and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Gibb's quote "he should have a more responsible father," is pretty horrible. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/robert-gibbs-anwar-...

The author of the article makes it sound like the whole family were innocent american tourists, that the father was targeted without cause, and the grandson was specifically targeted. While the killing of the father may not have been legal, and the killing of the grandson appears to have been a horrible tragedy, the author's account of the situation is wildly misleading.
I'm sorry but I find it hard to empathize with a man who himself and his son Anwar have taken so much from this country in terms of education and opportunity and returned nothing but religious vitriol, anti-american rhetoric, and bloodshed.
Well, I don't know if you would still think that I am not modest but here is my go, I am quite honest that I stand on very tinny tiny part of programming and there is always somewhere I can improve. As The Pragmatic Programmer says, "Always think about your work". I always wish to improve but in amidst of this I encounter people like Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood who are in a way, are my idol. Seeing them, I always felt I know nothing, How can I ever be like them?

I just wanted to point out that I now feel I have the "right determination and mindset" to be like them and thought of weather I was a programmer only by chance won't reoccur again.
And probably, to some degree, because it's happening to people who aren't traditionally regarded as Americans. For example, despite having earned citizenship, a lot of people would still regard me as Chinese instead of American. And even people in China would claim I'm still Chinese, not American, because they see an American as a white male of european descent.
> C says "undefined" so that compilers are free to simply let each CPU do whatever is easiest for that CPU. On any particular CPU with a particular compiler you get consistent behavior. But when you switch CPUs, watch out.

That was how it worked in the 1990s. Nowadays, a C programmer needs to figure out which undefined behaviors are justifiable and which should be avoided at all costs because they will be used by the compiler to justify optimizations. And Signed arithmetic overflow used to be in the first category, now it is in the second one. So is the use of uninitialized variables.

Not to appeal to authority, but I worry about these things for a living:

http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2013/07/11/Arithmetic...

http://blog.frama-c.com/index.php?post/2013/05/20/Attack-by-...

If you cannot be bothered to read that much, then please simply compile int f(int x) { return x + 1 > x; } at different optimization levels with the compiler you already have, and observe the values for f(INT_MAX) in each case.
Please go somewhere else and take your tinfoil hat with you.
> A common thread between the three people in this discussion: Trayvon Martin, Dzhokar Tsarnev, and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki....

They were all also unarmed when they were murdered.
Yes, the litigation is ongoing. We object that we can not call our Glass other than glass, because that's what it is (check the dictionary). Otherwise we want be able to call any other wearable "shoe", "glove", or whatever, just because someone uses that term first.

And however, if anyone can litigate us on that name it would be my friend Steve Mann, who has been using it for about twenty years: Glass generation 1, Glass generation 2, ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
>The basic idea of terrorism is to erase the boundaries of the battlefield. The worst possible reaction to that is to do the same, but that's increasingly what we've been doing.

I disagree. That's the only effective response. bin Laden said as much in communications to his underlings. I agree we should have them arrested where it's possible, but if it isn't a drone strike is the right thing to do.
dynamic_cast only works on classes with a vtable
This isn't technically true - theoretically, you could implement C++ without vtables whatsoever. Furthermore, you could use a static_cast if the pointer had originally been cast from something lower down the hierarchy.
Something similar for highcharts here: https://github.com/pablojim/highcharts-ng

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/pablojim/Cp73s/
"undo" email does nothing else than create a false sense of security.

It probably works for the impatient that is hitting ctrl+enter (or whatever shortcut) too soon by muscle memory. but then it should be called delayed send to not give a false mental model to the user.

the current model is preventing the real mistakes for probably 1/10 of the cases it's needed. and enticing less care and probably bumping the rate in the end.
Lack of options is 'elegant' and 'just works' and 'for people who aren't nerds'.
Ok, I love how this page seems to have been swarmed with DOWN WITH THE US IMPERIALISTS, and AMERICA == TYRANNY style comments.

The parent article is incredibly slanted - the author ever so conveniently forgets to mention that his son was a senior Al-Qaeda recruiter, who was "advisor" to the 9/11 bombers, the Fort Hood shooter, the underwear bomber and a whole host of others.

Even his own Yemeni government tried him in absentia, and ordered him captured "Dead or Alive".

You can argue that the death penalty is wrong, and he should have faced a US court (although I somehow down he or say Osama Bin Laden was likely to actually show up in a US court, even if given half the chance).

However, please don't be another ignorant reader who doesn't know where Yemen is, or any of the context here.
It will be balanced by putting the battery on the right, and regulating the weights. This prototype has no battery because it's still tied to a pc, it's just for testing.
>If he wasn't a citizen and just a local goat herder. Meh, who cares. Ok, kill him. That is kind of the thought process. Quite perverse.

Well then, I'm guessing you're happy to know that isn't the thought process. Otherwise al Alwaki would be alive today.
You won't get very far figuring in general terms about "Americans." I'm an American, and I wasn't in favor of a retaliatory invasion, even in 2003.

That said, where the public stands has relatively little to do with the US's actions. the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions were knee-jerk actions made supported by people who were acting under information that later turned out to be totally false. The current drone strikes weren't ever a serious ballet issue. In fact, I daresay most conflicts in which the US has been engaged in the last 40 years were initiated with very little regard as to public consent beyond "will they riot if we do this?"
Exactly, so why does the USG think it will work in the opposite direction?
This. I spent so much time reading http://eve-pirate.com/ even after I stopped playing. Love the stories.
Actually I think you'll bomb a bunch of other random people (Iraq, Afghanistan), and continue to treat the responsible "country" (Saudi Arabia) as an ally and friend.

Just before people rewrite history, afganistan and iraq governments had nothing to do with 9/11.
The SoC datasheet has this to say about the RNG http://pastehtml.com/view/crkxyohmp.rtxt Which is not particularly helpful.

How it works is basically undocumented although I hear the RPi engineers believe it uses some sort of thermal noise as the source for entropy.

Broadcom do have HWRNG patents though...

https://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6748495
https://www.google.co.uk/patents/US8229108
The government repeatedly made accusations of terrorism against Anwar — who was also an American citizen — but never charged him with a crime. No court ever reviewed the government’s claims nor was any evidence of criminal wrongdoing ever presented to a court. He did not deserve to be deprived of his constitutional rights as an American citizen and killed.

Surprised he wasn't charged, just as a formality. At least then they would have said he "refused to answer to an arrest warrant...blah blah...plan to kill Americans." Unless the matrix is playing tricks on me, he did admit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki a lot of stuff that we call terrorism. Generally speaking, if you refuse to surrender, they can't take you in and are plotting to kill someone, the police can kill you.

But to throw a freaking bomb from 10000 feet in a cafe just to kill a person...that's a huge no-no. It just doesn't win you any friends. If it was his car, I could see it, traveling with dangerous people, is dangerous.