skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who holds authority over this list? Isnt this a complete failure of the "Separation of powers"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
Hmmm…

Guilt by association.

The six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

The NSA archiving and cross-indexing all email metadata that traverses internet backbone unencrypted or lands in a PRISM partner's mail system.

How many social graph edges do you suppose you need to be away from Anwar al-Awlaki to be able to safely eat at open air restaurants in Yemen?

(Bonus question: How connected is "the global social graph", and does there exists a number of edges that connects everybody on the internet?)
Yes, and the Pixel and a handful of laptops from Asus and Samsung are the only 1080 px or higher small laptop options around. The mainstream has stagnated around 700-800 px for 12-13" for over a decade now, and when someone puts 900 vertical pixels in a sub-14" laptop it's still out of the ordinary. We did move up since the Portable in 1983, but we haven't advanced much past the X21 in 2001.
License or it didn't happen. :/

Looks nice though!
Google gathered wifi data to improve their location services. The capturing of unencrypted payload data was an unintended consequence of that due to poor software design. The initial wifi data collection was intentional and was designed to improve their location product (which it did - the Google Maps location service can be very speedy if it's near a wifi access point that google cars picked up - another feature likely to encourage people to use their product). The additional capture of packet data was unintentional. Numerous third parties have been involved in auditing google in their actions after it all came out and there's been no hint that they ever intended to do anything with the packet data they collected.

Facebook (and google) do "harvest" your data. They also mine it for relevent information from which they can show you adverts. There's no debate about that. It's not a conspiracy though - they state in their privacy policies that they'll use your data for targeted adverts. It's their revenue model!
You're confirming his/her point exactly - Americans don't care. But I (and probably the whole rest of the world) bet that they/you would if the wars were closer to home.
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I've recently become a Xamarin customer, and I haven't looked back yet. I'm very impressed at how mature the platform, the docs and the tooling are given that it's not from $BIGCORP.

Admittedly, there are a few bugs here and there,mostly in the build chain, but they get fixed fast and support is excellent.

The only feature request I have is to allow us to give feedback on the docs. Whille 95% are awesome, there's little mistakes here and there. I suspect customers will gladly help trace those down.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a bad man, who lured a lot of young men to their deaths by his toxic propaganda. He exchanged emails with the Fort Hood shooter, the Christmas Day bomber, the Times Square Bomber, and who knows how many others. Wikipedia has a long, long list. I feel bad for his son, but not as bad I feel for his victims.

I notice one thing that is missing in Anwar's father's article is any sense of remorse-- any sense that Anwar's actions were wrong.

Bad things happen during war. Sometimes people are killed who shouldn't be. But when the instigators of said conflict refuse to take responsibility, I have no sympathy. Save your tears for someone who deserves them-- like the women who are killed in "honor killings" by assholes like this, the countries that are third world shitholes because of theocracies, or maybe the prostitutes Anwar apparently favored. But not for people who start a war, and then whine about the casualties to their side.
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I'm always polite to recruiters and just say I'm not looking right now but please keep in touch. Occasionally someone will follow up with a meeting request and I just repeat the same thing. Usually though they just say thanks and I occasionally hear from them once in a while.

Maybe it's different in Chicago, though, I don't have people calling me every day or being rude. I just feel like it doesn't hurt to keep a positive relationship with anybody who might one day find me a job when I really need it.
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"Terse" is the best adjective I can think of for C.

Merriam-Webster definition of "Terse" :

1: smoothly elegant : polished

2: using few words : devoid of superfluity
No, Apple is praised because of the lack of option! Trust me.
> This guy's son was a bad enough dude that he got put on a terrorist kill list.

That's exactly what I responded to. I ignored your conclusion, because of your invalid premise.
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Where is that defined in the C standard?

Because you see, if it is compiler specific, it is not part of the language.
"Nationalism is the biggest disease on the planet. Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing." - Nicholas Negroponte
Also includes interior maps for train stations and other buildings, including a floor selector.
You're familiar with Senator Edward Kennedy's inclusion on the no-fly list?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug...

Personally - I'd like to see _much_ more transparency and accountability in the compilation and justification for most sorts of "government lists", and I fear the people in charge of "the kill list" which manages to kill people who are '… not “specifically targeted,”' have proven to be inadequately discriminating at the task…
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> This is not the same thing. The problem with the Go implementation is essentially that the method is semantically different from the expected method.

No-one is arguing about the Close() case. However, the io.Copy() case is comparable to the IEnumerable<T>.Count() implementation.
I've found jmpress[1] to be indispensable in this regard. Such designs have been perfectly plausible for a while, mobile friendly and everything.

[1] http://jmpressjs.github.io/jmpress.js/
I found it really amusing when I worked in the office at a tech company I would get recruiters calling me on my office phone to try to recruit me away from them.

That's where I draw the line from 'polite refusal' to 'try to string them along to figure out where they got my info'
> There is nothing ridiculous about using random.org, though that should be https.

Everything is wrong about this.

• You can not trust SSL to protect your source of entropy.

• You can not trust an external, unverified source of entropy.
Drone strikes, and assassinations were occurring before his reelection... So I'm not sure how anyone can argue "We didn't get a chance to vote him out"... as you actually did.

While I agree with you, it is more complex than I simplified it. It is that general apathy of americans that lets administrations get so out of control.
No, I'm talking about the future. The .com argument is about the past.

And I've listed tons of web centric sites that have had no problems succeeding without .com.
I'm not disputing that guy was shady, but I see they don't have much evidence against him but he got on a kill list/killed. Do all people on kill list have so little evidence against them?
The link actually points to the library he used with angular, not to his own work.

He probably used angular to create easier to use bindings to use Rickshaw.
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Bullshit.

Here is why: Yemeni government != Yemeni people. The authorities, probably, don't mind letting US drones kill people, simply because it won't be them getting killed.

Imagine the US military firing tear gas and water cannons on protesters in Turkey and saying "It's OK, your government gave us permission". The major problem in the Middle East is that, the governments can get away with not giving a fuck about the people.
I love the blur behind modal. On my Chrome the blur effect starts after the modal is displayed. I suggest that you make it progressive, inside the same animation as the background turning to gray (not sure it's possible though).
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Unless you're a kook, the people responsible for 9/11 were a group whose interests include overthrowing the Saudi government. The erstwhile Afghan "government", the Taliban, harbored them.
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> recruiting for Al Qaeda

This is not illegal.

> preaching to the 9/11 hijackers

Protected speech.

Which sins exactly do you refer to?
> recruiting for Al Qaeda, and preaching to the 9/11 hijackers

This is what awlaki said one month after 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Ofg2BacIM
Wait a second. The whole article is not about the son, it is about his grandson. No where in the article it is said that his grandson was a terrorist or has been associated with terrorism (even then, it would not have been right), quite the opposite.

Summary: stop with the red herring of talking about the known associations of his son with terrorism - we are talking about his innocent grandson.
Agree completely.

Though I'd probably prefer not to have a "kill list". Killing should be limited to military personell in wars, during 'battle'. I realise the US has framed the war on terror in order to blur those lines... but seriously firing missiles into cafes!?
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"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God" … "a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation" (Exod. 20:5)
So, it is okay if Denmark or India drop a bomb on wherever David Headley is in USA, killing him and whoever is with him. And, it is also okay if Headley's child is killed in another drone strike on US soil. As per Mr. Gibbs, the child's father should have been more responsible.
Setting -webkit-perspective can also trigger aliasing on transformed elements. 24 ways has a good intro to 3D transforms:

http://24ways.org/2010/intro-to-css-3d-transforms/
The NSA gets caught intercepting communications with the express purpose of spying on people[1], therefore all conspiracy theories are now true? What next, reptilian freemasons?

[1] You may notice that "intercepting communications with the express purpose of spying on people" is the charter of the NSA and of analogous agencies everywhere in the world.
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Fires have never before or since destroyed a steel skyscraper.

The team that investigated the collapse were kept away from the crime scene.

By the time they published their inconclusive report in May, 2002, the evidence had been destroyed.

Is any of the above untrue?

Why did the government rapidly recycle the steel from the largest and most mysterious engineering failure in world histor? [..] ?

Why indeed? That's just scraping the surface, and attacking the ones who ask the questions you kinda should ask yourself, is just being silly. It's been nearly 12 years now, there is no excuse anymore, the shock wore off; "you" accepted Gitmo, so you can deal with this. Wo/man up.
Rewind to 10 years ago.

- "Hey I'm most in a sea of spam!"

- "That's what rules and folders are about. It astonishes me how few people like to spend days constructing manual filters to weed out spam from their inbox"

Someone adds Bayesian filtering to MUAs/MDAs, classifying mail as (SPAM|NOT SPAM). The world rejoices as the intricate filter building interface got reduced to two buttons, and the complexity of combating spam went from O(n) to O(1), and email became manageable again.

Fast forward to present time

- "Hey, now that the problem of spam is solved, email is useful again. So useful in fact that I'm now lost in a sea of emails!"

- "That's what filters and labels are about. It astonishes me how few people like to spend days constructing manual filters to classify email"

Someone adds Bayesian filtering to MUAs/MDAs, classifying mail as (X|NOT X), for interesting values of X. The world rejoices as the intricate filter building interface got reduced to two buttons, and the complexity of classifying email went from O(n) to O(1), and email became manageable again.
Gesture recognition is all about the software
Nice tool from our team - Everhour. The story
Life is more than a race to see how high you can get into the upper-middle class.

That said, some of the most amazing things and friendships arise from adversity, and don't be surprised if you never have the same experiences as people who went out on the sharp end and did the hard, rushed thing.

Ultimately, do what you think you'll enjoy most--and don't regret it, whatever that turns out to be.

EDIT: Minor quibble with one thing you said--No one wants to take time to analyze a problem before pouncing on it."

Usually a thorough analysis is not worth it, especially if the assumptions and models backing the problem are based in business; these can change, and then you are left with no code and a fascinating insight into a present which no longer exists.

If you're doing a problem set or working through SICP, sure, but at the end of the day, real artists ship.
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That is one of the coolest bugs I came across lately.
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The people writing a compiler need to buy food as well.
Tent and now Flynn. You are building some foundational pillars that have the potential to empower a lot of people. Great work!
Yes, it slows Safari to a crawl and eventually the browser crashes or is killed.
I'm perfectly capable of expressing everything I might express with profanity, without profanity. I'm now conscious of the fact that I'm a lot more persuasive if I take half a second to edit myself. The whole thing was a valuable learning experience.

Of course, from a social engineering standpoint that makes complete sense. But the point is that around my peers I don't need to edit myself; I do when I have to (I for instance swear a bit less in the presence of my boss), but I always take it with a grain of salt. I don't want to edit myself, I like being free in that sense and think that freedom of speech is something that first and foremost starts with yourself.

Interesting. I'd only ever use the word to describe the kind of rude behavior that happens between strangers on the street.

Might be, I'm not a native speaker so what I'm thinking about might still fit under the label of flirting, but I can't really say that I know the terminology 'normal' people use to talk about social interaction.

I bet this never, ever happens.

I think it's pretty unlikely, but possible. The point was that while (at least from my perspective) anti-discrimination rules don't do anything to enable a safe environment for minorities there is the potential for abuse. In my eyes those rules are snake oil, I think the TSA might be a somewhat fitting analogy if you think about their efficiency.

That seems well-intentioned but entirely utopian to me.

Of course it is, but that's not reason not to use it as a guideline and strive for its implementation. If you don't try, you'll never get there. You can probably already find multiple examples of me violating this guideline in this thread, but that doesn't stop me from at least trying to make the way I communicate better. :)
Histogram so far:

http://quickhist.onloop.net/0-10=59,11-15=39,16-20=512,21-25...
I went from cassettes to CDs to MP3 all before I left high school though.
It is not the entire .NET framework.

http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility
This raises some questions which I think it's important to answer if you support this sort of drone strike, or even if you are just sympathetic to the concept of targeted assassination of suspects.

Is it legal to kill people on secret suspicion, rather than after conviction in a public court of law?

Is it legal to kill families and associates as well as the suspects themselves?

If this is legal for the US in Yemen, why is it not legal on US soil?

Is it legal and permissible for other nations to drone people in the US?
"Because precision means" … something different to what "normal people" mean when they use the word "precision", just like when we use the words "collect" and "no", and our congressional oversight somehow misunderstands us…

(or, alternatively, "because that was the least imprecise targeted attack we were capable of at the time")
The war on terror was never controversial. Iraq was controversial because it was seen to be totally irrelevant to the war on terror and because it cost American money and lives. Aside from a liberal fringe who quickly decided gay marriage and the symbolism of having a black president was more important than extraordinary rendition and torture, no one cared about anything else.
I think we're nitpicking here. I think that the probability of someone not being impartial given their son was on a kill list is greater than someone who's son wasn't...etc.

Anyway, I 100% agree that "there is a burden of proof on me to explain why, by killing that someone my action is righteous, legal and moral"
Yea but nation states have done wonders for the advancement of humanity. The conundrum...
The MvvmCross pattern they've been promoting seems promising for maximizing shared code. We've got the most benefit from sharing stuff like libs, network code, GLES, etc. I've come to the conclusion that the thin platform API is an advantage because I'm so, so tired of punching holes through crappy abstractions.
I have always been in the most crowded bucket, so I guess we're aging together HN :)
You can still play video games from 15 years ago (and earlier).
I see no reason why this would be different for app/albums.
Finland had also a ban for phone subsidies for a long time, and I guess now they're allowed in some limits.

For a customer, it's great. You use whatever phone you want, you buy it where ever you want, change operators easily, and pay way way less than in US.

My plan, with unlimited data & 3/4G speed, with 2-simcards (so I can use the plan in two devices), costs 15 euros a month. Compared that to ATT & T-mobile, $60+ a month and get an abysmal coverage which doesn't even work inside a house most of the time.
Why not? It's basically the same as developing a desktop app for Mac first, then porting it to Windows. It makes much more sense than going the other way -- you'll never get a good Mac app if the platform wasn't considered from the start.

The more closed platform has a stricter standard for user experience. It makes sense to build around that standard, then port it to the "free-for-all" platforms with necessary adaptations.
They are prized for their simplicity.

Show me simplicity which doesn't also mean a lack of options...
"Our position needs to be reiterated, and needs to be very clear. The fact that the U.S. has administered the death and homicide of over 1 million civilians in Iraq; the fact that the U.S. is supporting the deaths and killing of thousands of Palestinians, does not justify the killing of 1 U.S. civilian in New York City or Washington D.C. And the deaths of 6,000 civilians in New York and Washington D.C. does not justify the death of 1 civilian in Afghanistan." ~ Anwar Al-awlaki; October 2001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Ofg2BacIM
Perhaps for a web-savvy audience/product but thisisthefutu.re wouldn't pass the bumper sticker test for a regular user.
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As someone from a high Lyme area, this doesn't really matter, because any doctor I've met will just give you an acne antibiotic prescription to prevent Lyme if you ask.
Due to Europe's lower concentration of wild animals and higher concentration of farm animals, the role of deer for the north-American deer tick seems to be played primarily by sheep and cattle for the European Ixodes ricinus.

I suppose one way of fighting it analogously might be to reduce populations of sheep and cattle, but that seems likely to run into opposition.
I'd love to see some country in the world where voters are wise and altruistic and empathetic about people on the other side of the world, rather than self-interested and easily manipulated.
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I wonder how long it will take for people to realize that putting something as important as mail on a UI they don't control is a bad idea?

How long after that before google disables IMAP access to gmail?

hm. maybe I should start offering (paid) IMAP mail service again.
This is not about dogs on the street, it is about the police entering someones home and shooting the dog. In a lot of those cases the police was there without any good reason.
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Radical conservatives?

Tin-foil hat aside, it strikes me as oddly coincidental that the folks who use drones these days to kill around the planet with impunity are the same folks who had several allegedly drone controlled airliners carry out an attack, garnering public support for several illegal wars.

Just saying, it's all mightily convenient. As ever.

As to foreign bombers... So? Most Americans agree drone strikes are a good thing, so surely they'd still be a good thing when they start happening on US soil?
Why would you promote this so early with a site devoid of content? Maybe it would be better to delete this submission until you have something substantial to show.
Congrats, you are the Lil Wayne of the programming world.
Great, will take a look thanks.