skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call Edward Snowden a "bad enough dude", but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he is on the US governments "kill list" either.

You are confused; assuming that being put on a list has any reason or due process.
How can you define a precision drone strike as 'he wasn't targeted'?
This is not a compiler hack, there are quite a few languages out there that support this concept.

As for your Scala remark, extension methods in Scala are done via implicits.
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You're assuming he was a "bad enough dude" with no evidence to support that assertion. The burden of proof is always on the accuser. If he was accused of being worthy of death, let's see some documentation to support that.

At present there are no answers, no explanations, no reasons given besides his death and the fact he and his father were on a hit list.
It's not always obvious if a semantic change that's documented in the release notes will break your code. You might not know you use the code, the particular behaviour might not be covered by your test suite, etc. I like the fact I can upgrade to the latest Go version without having to worry things like that will happen.
The media trivialised the Trayvon Martin case by demanding moral absolutism for an incident with only two witnesses, one of whom was dead.

The whole incident is appalling, however there was never going to be a satisfactory conclusion to that trial unless a lot of solid evidence one way or the other had somehow turned up.
On kernel mailing list behavior
Has the issue with juju on LXC not surviving reboots been fixed?
The difference is between gimmicky ways one can use ambiguity to produce convoluted edge cases vs knowing enough to do actual work. Sure C being low level and and having a relatively short specification is ripe for compiler specifics and hardware specific hacks. But still think it has the basic core defined and that is pretty small.

With C++ and its typical libraries it is a bit different. It has so many features (templates, classes, streams, friends, shared pointers, unique pointers, distructors, constructors, polymorphism rules, and combination of those) that code gets complicated without using obscure features, just sticking to the standard ones gets hairy and needs someone who knows the whole spec.
This doesn't work for me in Chrome (28.0.1500.71). Other apps work fine. Is there something that needs to be done to get it to work?
You adopted "looking for custom methods" without making it part of the contract in any way as a best practice in the standard library, but it is a "mistake, plain and simple"? Doesn't it, like, illustrate a serious language and/or standard library design issue? What can possibly motivate breaking encapsulation in the standard library? Why even have interfaces if even the standard library will abuse them? Your response is not very convincing...
No explanations given by the author. Here is some general background on the father: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Edit: Note I am not defending the killing of the grandson by any means. However, I did notice that the father was tried in a court in Yemen, and the judge ordered him to be apprehended "dead or alive." http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/11/08/Cleric-say... I was just surprised that people are so suspicious of any claim that the father was anything other than an ordinary citizen minding his own business, yet accept the narrative presented in the original article at face value.

eksith asked for evidence that the father was a "bad dude." I provided some. It is perfectly fine to argue that this isn't justification for death, but that wasn't briancaw's point. This merely seems to indicate that the narrator might not be providing the most balanced perspective.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/ "In Time"

Whilst not exactly this scenario, it gives me the same feeling. The egalitarian in me seeks access to life-extending technology for all people, from janitors to data scientists.

The same way I support financially charities that bring the benefits of contraception and family planning to all people, regardless of nationality, citizenship or caste.

Edit: I just realised Google could extend this theoretical perk to their janitorial staff, which would make it the most competitive cleaning contract in the world.
I wish I could give you more than one upvote. Perhaps even a googol of them.
Ironically, you can't resize the article to read the full lines on mobile safari.
For one, it requires multiple booster shots.
> Then we'll see how happy the recruiters are to talk to you if you've been an arrogant arse in the past.

Really? We are arrogant because the following behaviours appear to imply arrogance on the part of the recruiter:

1. A recruiter constantly spams our inboxes with job descriptions that are either wildly different from our skillsets. (I get job descriptions that talk about 10 years of experience). It is not that fucking hard to read my Linkedin profile before you spam me.

2. Ask me technical questions which the person asking me has no qualification to answer. This is the one that pisses me off. It started off when I was just starting out with questions like what is Polymorphism where an answer which didn't sentence match the company answer confused them. Recently, one asked me to describe statistical graphic modes (when they should have meant statistical graphical models). The person had no idea what any of these things meant.

3. Try to play a pressure game. When I politely declined to do further interviews at one company because I had accepted another offer, the head recruiter literally harassed me, telling me I was making a bad decision, resorting to outright lying about the work I would be doing. (I knew enough about what the role would involve from talking to their engineers) and calling me twenty times or so that week.

No, this is a group of people who don't know how to do interviewing, working for broken companies. Now, not all recruiters are like that. One time, I was recruited by a company where the "technical recruiter" had a degree in Computer Science. That was a joyful experience. I felt like what I was saying was understood and they weren't looking for whether there was intonation match going on here.
If I were him, I don't think I would have particularly liked sending someone a copy of my ID and a check with my bank account and routing numbers on them.
There are things that are interesting - news of upcoming band tours, shipping updates, phone bills - but not of importance when I first check my emails in the morning.

Plus, it has the added benefit that emails which land in anything but the main inbox don't notify your phone, removing a distraction.
There are a brief description: http://yexiaobo-seeedstudio.github.io/ArduinoPhone
While it is fine to pay for dev tools, IDE, I find unacceptable that the language (a raw compiler) and libraries have a shareware ($400-$2000?) or any other commercial model.
Yeah, a real dangerous dude. All his alleged crimes basically involve talking to people; no wonder we sent some drones over there to wipe him and all his relatives out.

Note that there's not even any concrete factual accusations of him being involved with planning actual attacks, just 'he spoke to', 'was associated with', 'allegedly involved in'. You really think something that flimsy is worth murdering dozens of people with a drone?

I would certainly hope that if a few disgruntled people alleged that you were involved in crimes, you'd actually get a fair trial instead of a remote control execution. But maybe that's just not the world we live in.
Why don't you do it? That does not make sense.
Right. Because as we know American admininstration is a infalible agency that only puts horrible, horrible terrorist on its hit list. Like Snowden. Or Santa Claus.
Because precision means location, not who is at the location.

According to U.S. officials the killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a mistake; the actual target was an Egyptian, Ibrahim al-Banna.

He wasn't on the target list, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. If they knew he was there and were secretly targeting him, Obama should be impeached.
This woman's son was a bad enough dude that he got put on a terrorist kill list.

Who checks who goes on this list? Which public court checked the facts and pronounced him and his family guilty? What of the right of the accused to a fair trial, no matter which country they come from? If you're going to flagrantly violate international law and assassinate suspects and their families without trial, what confidence can we have that other laws won't be broken? What confidence can we have that this list was created and maintained in good faith and with due process when it is maintained in secret and the execution is so careless?

The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinner at an open-air restaurant in southern Yemen....The attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., said only that Abdulrahman was not “specifically targeted,” raising more questions than he answered.

This drone strike was apparently on a restaurant - I find it mind-boggling that you'd try to defend such actions by saying he was on a secret list. What about the other people in the restaurant at the time, and the innocent members of his family? Does the Obama administration consider the family of people on a kill-list fair game now? And the people who eat close to them in a restaurant too?

Regardless of whether this narrator is reliable or the victim a 'bad dude', I don't find it acceptable that the government can kill whoever they want without trial, and without public evidence. If they do this in restaurants in Yemen, why not restaurants inside the states too?
Automatic mail responders of various personalities: FAKING news
> so over the top that it's impossible for them to be completely serious.

You are completely correct:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ManagementStyle (ch. 2, but the whole thing is worth reading)
I love reading Eve stories. The world is so open and real that it's like reading good science fiction.
Let me ask again... what evidence do you have that he specifically deserved to be killed without explanation?

Let me put it in another way, since the question doesn't seem to be making sense to you: If your father happened to be Timothy McVeigh, should the government target you for death?

Edit: I just read your edit and I apologize for the tone of my post. It wasn't called for. I could blame the lack of coffee or that I was tired, but the fact is, these types of stories really bother me and I didn't think it through before posting.

I'm sorry.

Edit2: My request for evidence was for the son; not the father. The primary subject of the article was described as a typical 16-year old with the misfortune of simply being the son of an alleged terrorist. Where was the evidence that he deserved death?
It is not an article. It is an op-ed. Those are usually subjective comments.

If your son was out recruiting for Al Qaeda or preaching to the 9/11 hijackers you wouldn't want your grandson to be punished for the sins of your son. Also, note that the grandson was killed 2 weeks after a drone killed his father.
This is not the same thing. The problem with the Go implementation is essentially that the method is semantically different from the expected method.

Closing a stream is semantically different from not closing a stream. It just is. The Go method was just wrong.

The problem was not the type introspection. There's nothing wrong with us attempting to do optimization for ICollection`1 or the rest of the collection interfaces because we have exactly the same semantic effect.

If you use different methods to achieve the same semantics, that's an implementation detail. If you use any methods to produce different semantics, that's a bug.
I think you want visibility:hidden instead of display:none
I couldn't find anything in the profiler either. I did narrow it down a bit though. Most of what I was experiencing was sluggishness in scrolling around the page, not in the animations themselves. I realized that in particular, scolling around the top of the page where all the buttons for the modals are. If I hide all of the buttons, the page works great. So somehow something really bad is happening trying to render a bunch of buttons (I made a test page with a few hundred buttons on it and it hung for a few minutes when I tried to scroll). That sounds pretty crazy, so I'm going to assume this is something funky with my configuration and not with Firefox.

Once I got past that, I'm really impressed with how well these animations perform.

(By the way, I haven't used the Firefox dev tools in a while, and they've come a long way! I'll switch back from chrome soon if they keep improving at this rate)
Sorry, I left out an important detail: she had quit caffeine several times before without experiencing this benefit.
He might not have been targeted, but that doesn't justify it. Truth is there is no such thing as a precision drone strike (yet).

It's a bit like saying aiming nuke with pin point accuracy. It might have hit its goal, but it destroyed everything else.
No new C# and VB Language Features in VS 2013
I'm impressed this popped up hn.

Thanks to Sheldon my bike workshop grows and grows and I basically can do all aspects of bike maintenance myself.

He's a true DIY pioneer for real!
I'll just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
"This is bad advice" only until google decides to tweak some rules. (by problems I assume you mean problems with google)

For me it's a matter of principle: I will choose common sense over google. Sure if you're selling SEO services, you're google's b*tch, but when you're building a visionary company (yes, blah-blah), to me it's important to get a good name, and not worry about some ugly .com domain.

Zerrply
Tweekly
Songza
Vobbler.. etc

- that's what this leads to. No thanks.
I agree, and think the US suffers from not having this codified in law as it is in the EU.
Bleeding heart liberals are going bonkers!
Wait wasn't that the same reasoning Nazi's used when gassing people (i.e. why the prefer killing families). That way you are safe from Vendetta. If you have to worry about Vendetta from those you afect with your drone strikes, you are doing it wrong.
yes, I'm certainly not claiming that those needs are met by the situation that we have now.
the little i know about MMO, I'm willing to bet money that all the reverse engineered rules were in some wiki in less than 5 hours.
Theoretically, if the standard library only optimizes about interfaces whose semantics are in the standard library (i.e., standard library interfaces) that's perfectly fine.

What worries me about this approach is that Go is essentially duck-typed -- implementing an interface isn't necessary for something to appear like it implements an interface, and a method signature doesn't implicitly carry its semantic information alongside it.
The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us. But imagine the reaction if the cafe where this occurred were in the US, and the drone was controlled by a foreign government. That singular event would ignite a US invasion or possibly nuclear assault against the country responsible.

People in other countries are also people. They have the same reactions and emotions that we would when a foreign entity blows up their businesses, families, and friends. We have so far been lucky that none of our victims have had the military power and political will to retaliate in the vicious and violent manner that we would. That will not always be the case, and I do not look forward to the day when our own brutality is visited upon us.
Thanks for the clarification pg. I was inspired to start the thread by virtue of a different post altogether, but it's good to have a clearer picture of how things work behind the scenes.

When you see stories that are killed rather than comments [...]

That I've been less concerned about, as I spend a lot of time on the New page and flag there pretty frequently, so those patterns are more obvious.
The right kind of MBA?
Grab (cmd+shift+4) for capturing images.
QuickTime for video.

No 3rd party app needed.
1. Ah, that's a bug, thanks for noticing it.

2. We're not announcing a firm date because manufacturing is hard, but it's sometime in the next several months.

Thanks for your interest, and please tell your friends B-)
Indeed. And the 'regular' alternative logins do have _somewhat_ limited access, but to be usable for pop/imap/smtp they have to be of type 'full access'.

'full access' regular logins can do _everything_ but modify other alternative logins. If you happen to have domain admin rights added to your login (eg. not the main domain admin account), regular logins can even do that!

I would probably pay double for an "imap/smtp only login" feature. ;)
No, but you most likely will be labled a combatant after the fact. Even when you were a young child, that got killed in a drone attack. Only recently the US did tell its people, that the so called precision strikes (mostly from the CIA) did kill innocent people.

Until then it was: "We did only kill terrorists, enemy fighters and combatants."

Sorry, to say that, but the EX-POTUS Jimmy Carter seems to have gotten it right:

"America does not have any functioning democracy"

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

And everything above I said knowing, what is said of the killed father. Knowing him allegedly being an Al-Qaeda-Member and recruiter and so on. If the government had so much on him (and his son), why not trial him (even in absence) and let a jury decide?

Why use methods, worthy of some ruthless dictator, or the governments from humanities darkest moments?

Coming from Germany (and knowing, that our government is not one bit better, but not equipped that efficiently) I really do not understand, how any sane American official can tell the world, that the US is the democratic role-model for all to follow.
Cool, can I get a link to the public court ruling that decided that he was a terrorist and to give him the death sentence?
We have these things called transistors which allow us to turn things off these days.

It's been a long time since we had the big red IBM XT flip switch.

Even my calculator doesn't have a physical off switch.
Serverize an arbitrary shell program (especially REPLs) into a web interface
That is by design, not for the sake of convenience.
wow, that was well made and informative. I had no idea that that's where the 16:9 aspect ratio came from (the mean ratio of the two most disparate ratios in film)
Regardless if he's a bad guy or not, give me the budget those drones work with, and i can devise something that does not kill a dozen innocent, decent, civilians for every bad guy you terminate.

this is criminal. period.
Author here, I feel that Dunning-Kruger effect would be quite hyperbolic for saying that you feel that you are made for something.

I am not even to close to being "great", I am a n00b and there is no doubt in that, but I feel that I have that in me to be great and I define "great" as the people who can create things which are highly useful to others, of course, I can't be Linus but even if I can contribute considerable to these open source projects I would feel "yes! I am something now!"
Well, the US had a "prohibition on assassination" until 9/11[1]. The Clinton administration felt it was prudent to indict Bin Laden of a crime before taking any action on him[2]. We have come a long way. The tone of the article is a little off to me. Truthful portrayal of the grandfathers emotion, but...

[1]http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/04/us.assassination.poli...

[2]https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/98110602_nlt.html
Being critical is critical
Exactly. It astonishes me how few people make use of filters and labels.
That does not contradict what was said. 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.

Thus YOUR SPECIFIC CPU's instruction set may be well-defined. But if you say "your CPU" to a group of people with different CPUs, there may be no simple statement that is well-defined and generalizable across all of them.
"inafield and samstave both authored posts which were found to contain positive sentiment towards the topic 'support terrorism'"

Got it. Forever. --NSA
Frighteningly that does seem to be at least part of the official justification, as when asked in an official capacity;

"an American citizen that is being targeted without due process, without trial and, he's underage, he's a minor."

the then White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs replied,

"I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well being of their children."
> I do not look forward to the day when our own brutality is visited upon us.

Many people around the world would say that one of those days was September 11, 2001.
If this is what a large fraction of human beings are like, how are we supposed to maintain a democratic and technological society?

...yet another reason I've concluded that democracy is seriously overrated.
;_;

I actually looked for a mail service (besides google) inside the USA, because I figured spying on non-citizen services would be even more prevalent. But it came down to rackspace email (which was "just ok" but lacked any kind of two factor auth/alternative logins) and fastmail (which I found nicer).
I think it makes perfect sense. Imagine if autocorrect gets it wrong (and it often does) and puts "abortion" in the text message unintended. That could have severe consequences.

"Honey, I think we should get the Aburtium(TM) anyways"
I do not understand how these extra-judicial killings cannot be challenged in a US court of law, in a democratic republic like the USA that attempts to "promote" "democracy" around the world.

Checks and balances... and yet, in this case, there aren't any. How the hell is that supposed to work, and what can be done about it? That's not rhetorical, what can a US citizen do about this?
I love the freedom as we used to have
You guys, as good engineers, completely misses the subtle point.

They are not after you. Or the best. Those would never work for them anyway.

They are after the unwashed masses that would fall for that. That fall everyday for a car salesman pressing them for the more expensive model.

We all are just percentage error for those people. And they couldn't care less.
There are now at least seven submissions of this story:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=quadri...
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