skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say the USG did assassinate him. I said they have the authority to.

What I have said however, is that Hastings was threatened with death repeatedly for his writings. I wouldn't find it the least bit surprising if someone did make an attempt on his life.

Indeed, I don't think the USG would bother with an official assassination of someone like Hastings. There are plenty of dark characters available for that type of simplistic grunt work. For example, the guy associated with McChrystal that directly threatened to murder Hastings.
Conveniently enough, the land for solar interception can be dual use with structures we already use and will build.
When did suspicion become a conspiracy theory?
Am I sensing a trend in more recent YC batches to select teams that want to help people rather than find a market? Watsi, True Link, now this.

I mean, both are about building something people want, but they are definitely different points of view of this goal. One is about what people are willing to pay for, other is about what people could benefit from.

I most wholeheartedly welcome this trend (if it is in fact a conscious one). Myself, I work very close to this new field of "social ventures/social business/impact investment", the latest labels of a model that combine, at once, social impact and profit. No judgmental ideology, just using market forces to improve people's lives. Specially people with some kind of vulnerability (in general, poor people, but as seen here, not restricted to).

Muhamad Yunus (Nobel peace laureate) is the most famous champion of this way of changing the world, but he sure put some very rigid limitations on how to manage the profit, which I think are too demanding and not particularly effective. But it is a good way to think different about creating new business: http://www.muhammadyunus.org/index.php/social-business/socia...

For an approach that I think is more effective, here are some good places to learn:

http://www.nextbillion.net/

http://businessfightspoverty.org/

http://www.thegiin.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html

http://acumen.org/
I presume this means he hasn't bought the WaPo company, and thus not other assets like Slate.
Fred Wilson On Pitching Leave The Backstory At Home
My parents retired to Italy a number of years ago, to a place with a hundred or so olive trees in the garden, and each November some of us head over to pick the olives (much to the amusement of the locals, who think we're crazy to do agricultural work in our spare time) and take them to a nearby pressing plant (where you can wander around and see the process to make sure your harvest isn't being mixed up with other, lesser olives). The end result is much spicier and harsher than anything I've ever bought. Personally I think it's delicious, but I'm hardly an unbiased judge...
Also the Microsoft one as already mentioned, I think that mail.com is a good one.
I think you mean the blood of the people who were already living here.

Isn't it enough that nationalism killed 100+m people in the 20th century, do we really need to have it hanging around our neck in the 21st?
You should study post revolution Chinese history a bit more, or at least click around on gapminder a bit. The idea that they're a lumbering ineffective bureaucracy is too simplistic to be useful.

Two examples: First, China doubled its life expectancy in a single decade, moving from one of the lowest to being at parity with the developed world. Second, in the early 1980s China implemented policies that moved them from having stagnant GDP per capita to steadily doubling it per decade, a pace it remains on since.

In fact, you could blame some of post revolutionary China's most disasterous events on the lack of bureaucratic inertia. The great leap forward was disasterous not just because the details of the plan were mistaken, but also because it was implemented so instantly and completely.

Anyhow, if you look at the data instead of repeating narratives that personify organizations, you'll see it's not quite so simple as saying that all Chinese economic decision-making can be summarily rejected as lumbering bureaucracy.
It's how it is with nuclear information everywhere in the US government. If you don't know that you can talk about it, you don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
Thanks. Ideally, I think you have both peer specialists and mental health practitioners working together. We have plenty to do, but are thinking hard about how to best work with clinicians. Insurance companies in MD, TX and CA are now processing insurance payments for online therapy, so this is definitely an option for us to expand into. If you are passionate about this space, then shoot us an email. Currently, we actually already have a # of licensed mental health professionals serving as listeners.
Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; "Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter."
That's a non sequitur. The tsunami was a natural disaster, and was probably unavoidable.

The Japanese now have a 20-year radiation-spewing money pit, which was avoidable.

My post was mostly about the future. Why build more potential multi-billion-dollar 20-year money pits when there are alternatives that are almost ready and that could be brought to readiness with what are likely comparable R&D expenditures and infrastructure costs?
It is with the government, and requests were made asking it to hand it over, the requests were ignored.
His death should be treated as suspicious because he was under regular threat by people that apparently wanted him dead, some of which were very powerful people.

What it shouldn't be treated as, is an open and shut case. Skepticism given the circumstances, is in my opinion valuable here. There's very little to be lost from making absolutely sure that this wasn't foul play.
Perhaps. Infosec is critically important to our society, and HN appears to be responsible for radicalizing a large fraction of practitioners. It is not even a radicalization of substance, but collateral damage from a forgettable unrelated political campaign.

Now it is just about too late. For the next 10-20 years, national infosec policy will be driven by the radicals' memory of their principled stand against the NSA "revelations". "Abuses" will be "curtailed" without regard for legitimate security needs.

The is no elsewhere to reserve this discussion for. If HN is credulous enough to believe staged CNN sound bites, there is no hope for other venues.
I honestly can't tell if you've RTFA. The main victims described in the article were carrying no drugs. Makes it all the more shocking.

> I have no problem with this being done with legitimate drug dealers.

Yes, well, that is the point of the War on Drugs, yes? And yet........
They include as little information as possible because they don't want you going around them to get the position.
Overconsumption of red meat has been indicted, if inconsistently, for health conditions ranging from cardiovascular disease to diabetes to obesity. I haven't seen any such studies for poultry or seafood though.
I seriously doubt it would take us thousands of years to figure out how to store power at grid scale, especially if we got more serious about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

The other solution is large-scale intelligent power grids. The wind always blow somewhere and the sun always shines somewhere. The amount of grid-scale storage backing required for uninterrupted power is probably less than 12 hours. I'm sure someone has done a solid analysis on this.
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>“There would be change with or without new ownership. But the key thing I hope people will take away from this is that the values of The Post do not need changing. The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners.”

The Washington Post is an important institution for the USA, and comments like this make it seem that Bezos will be a good steward. I hope, and am fairly certain, that this is a good thing for everyone involved.
Idiot: the guy who looks at the finger and says "fuck the sky"
If Bezos integrates this with Amazon, how could this change the newspaper with respect to the Kindle and e-publishing? Could this change daily print media?
Either the prevailing wage paid by all companies in the area, or the actual wage paid to comparable employees in that actual company.
We're talking about software engineers here. Base salary is almost meaningless in most finance and some legal firms, but not at a 30-person software consulting firm.

I looked up companies that I once worked for on h1bwage and I know for a fact that my H1B co-workers were not enjoying large bonuses.

A visa application listing a bay area senior s/w engineer prevailing wage of 78K should be outright rejected. Yet, it was accepted.
Good points willbill, my responses:

1. Learning has always been free! (Okay, almost always.) You can walk into any library and pick up a book on any subject. But most people don't do it because there are too many resources out there and they're not synthesized in a way that is catered towards a particular audience. People still pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to universities to learn topics that they could theoretically learn on their own. Why? Because text is really energy-intensive to consume. I don't feel like having a ton of low quality resources online is not the solution. That being said, I'm all about reducing the cost of learning and making it more accessible, which is why I hope that this class can provide a similar quality of education as $10-$18k intensive (like Hack Reactor or General Assembly) for people who can't afford that.

2. 95% of products are forms and the display of that information - that's correct. That's why I don't think it's so hard for beginners to learn, and that's what makes Ruby on Rails particularly powerful. It's just tools for building forms, pulling data out of databases, and displaying that data in a pretty way.
I hung up on a recruiter the other day who called me mad for not being interested in a job opportunity for an unknown bank for an unknown salary in a vague area of London.
I volunteered at a hotline, answering phones for a year. Due to the nature and potential consequences of the work, we were trained pretty thoroughly over the course of 3 months before talking to any real callers. During my conversations, I realized that many callers were lonely with no one else to connect with, and that many had varying degrees of mental health issues. It was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences I have gone through.

Your callers are probably a different profile than the ones that called our hotline, but I would be very cautious about giving out identifiable details in the answerers' profiles. Also, knowing how difficult my volunteering work was, I'd like to know more about the training process for your answerers.
Most are for XRay imaging.
> Maybe you can do something cleaner with module.value() ?

I do a simple thing like that for certain settings[0]. I imagine this could easily be done for bootstrapped model data as well.

[0] https://gist.github.com/strogonoff/6159373
It looks like it includes "affiliated publications to the Washington Post Co." (see http://www.washpostco.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=62487&p=irol-landi... for a list)

(see showherst's comment for accuracy)
So how much of your income would you like to part with in order to give the children of rural Indian farmers access to the same education as European children get?
I don't think you're required to be upset about it. In fact, your honesty is very refreshing. No CEO lobbying for this bill would ever openly state that this program dramatically reduces wages for US citizens, but that they don't care because they view US citizenship as a meaningless invisible line.
It was too literal. "Don't submit" would definitely be worse, but still not the worst possible copy.
Ipsum text just got real
What are you trying to say about people with a mental illness? Do you know the amount of illnesses which fall under 'mental disorder'? Over 400 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders
I think that you're a bit confusing about the terms, interpreted or compiled ones, they are programming languages. Even the first BASIC is one.
A palindromic "Hello World" in C
Welcome to micromanagement to its extreme
The article says that Amazon will have no role in the purchase. Time will tell if that's true, though. I'd love to have my Kindle be both my book library and an automatically updated copy of the newspaper every morning. Having tried Kindle newspapers, I've found them to be quite lacking (and pretty expensive). Some Kindle newspapers are even missing entire sections of the print version!
> Well, don't work for those companies.

That's not a solution. That's the issue. Smart people don't work for those companies. Then, said companies turn around and complain that there is a shortage of talent*

*willing to work for $80k in the Bay area.
If people threaten to kill you for years and you die in a suspicious matter that is far from proof that the two are even remotely related.

Let the evidence guide us to an understanding of what has happened, let us not put an interpretation on the events merely because we "feel" it must have happened a certain way.
Fun fact: in R, sum(1:1E07) will throw a warning; you have to use sum(as.numeric(1:1E07)) instead, which will indeed give the correct answer.
He's likely right, it's a best practice that may be wrong in some cases. Though generally, you're better off going with a best practice and then A/B testing alternatives.

The reality is that you're limited in the number of A/B tests you can do, both by traffic but also by your own time and resources. So you can run a test against something that is generally accepted (like what text works on a button) or against more important changes like headline copy or page layout.
More details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be...
Your language is rather imprecise. "Conspiracy theory" and "evidence" are not opposites. "Speculation" and "conspiracy" are not synonyms. Conspiracy is a particular act for which there may or may not be evidence. In fact, there are a variety of federal and state laws that criminalize different types of conspiracies--in order for individuals to be prosecuted under those laws, evidence of conspiracy is by definition required to be presented.

Excuse me for being pedantic, but I think that the tendency of people to equate "conspiracy theory" and "wild speculation" is too often taken advantage of by public relations types to discredit whistleblowers and critics of the status quo. Don't forget how many things we know for certain today that only five months ago would have been dismissed as "conspiracy theories".

It is good advice for people here to avoid speculation, but it's worth pointing out that if foul play were involved at all in this man's death, it most certainly would involve a criminal conspiracy. That's a very big if, though, in my opinion.
you have no clue about even the small built in library in Perl.

I've written production perl code; no doubt with less skill than many posting here, but my comments are based on experience with the language.

Moreover, I've avoided making personal attacks on anyone. That's something you might like to try. If you can.

Perl is executable directly when loading in a pre-phase

So, perl's design makes it impossible to process perl code from other languages or even with perl sans execution. OK, that's a problem...and what benefits do we get from that decision? Do we get lightning fast performance specifically from that design decision? No. Do we get more expressivity? I don't see any extra expressivity that stems from that decision; I mean, Common Lisp's load-time/compile-time eval-when constructs seem more powerful than perl's counterparts but it doesn't have this problem. I have no problem with language designers making decision decisions that I don't really care for. But some decisions that involve extra complexity for no benefit are just...wrong.

I don't like C++'s template system, but I can see what problems it is intended to solve and I can see some benefits from it. What benefits accrue from making perl impossible to parse without execution?

yeah references suck

But that's not the problem! Lots of language features suck...the question is why does perl have references that are so hard to understand? Is there any reason besides 'Larry Wall didn't know anything about programming language design when he wrote perl and eternal backwards compatability mean we can never change this'?

can you discuss list comprehension as an extra kludge people have to learn just because Python lacks multi-instruction lambdas?

Err, I don't think you understand the issue here. The problem with python lambdas is that they can only contain expressions and not statements, so you can say lambda x: x+1 but you can't incorporate a try/finally statement into a lambda. That's a language wart, no question. But that has nothing to do with list comprehensions. Comprehensions limit you to expressions and not statements just like lambdas.

With respect, I don't think you know what you're talking about here. I'm happy to discuss language design warts, including Python's, but I'd prefer to do so with people who, you know, know something about the subject.
@dxm, haha I actually want to try "don't submit". That one may backfire and actually work better.
You're looking at the site for the Washington Post Company, not the Washington Post newspaper (confusing, I know).

EDIT: Nope, just the newspapers. See the press release -

The transaction covers The Washington Post and other publishing businesses, including the Express newspaper, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, Fairfax County Times, El Tiempo Latino and Greater Washington Publishing.

Slate magazine, TheRoot.com and Foreign Policy are not part of the transaction and will remain with The Washington Post Company, as will the WaPo Labs and SocialCode businesses, the Company’s interest in Classified Ventures and certain real estate assets, including the headquarters building in downtown Washington, DC. The Washington Post Company, which also owns Kaplan, Post–Newsweek Stations and Cable ONE, will be changing its name in connection with the transaction; no new name has yet been announced
Owners who wish to contest often find that the cost of hiring a lawyer far exceeds the value of their seized goods. Washington, D.C., charges up to twenty-five hundred dollars simply for the right to challenge a police seizure in court, which can take months or even years to resolve.

Trolling seems to have become the 21st century's biggest problem facing the "rule of law". I suppose once law became expensive relative to the median income, it was inevitable, but it really seems to have become the dominant emergent behavior of today's unsavories nearly overnight.
Sorry about that scubasteve. That's not nearly fast enough.
The salaries are for investment banking and sales & trading. Not the same sort of job, obviously, but when Facebook and Google head to Stanford to do recruiting, these are the other options those kids are considering.
I took a quick look at your main.go file and have a suggestion.

I strongly recommend against using external dependencies (e.g. bitbucket.org/howeyc/fsnotify) for something important. It's fine for development, but if "howeyc" decides he's sick of bitbucket and deletes his account, you're now screwed.

If you want to use "go get" to install Hugo, make forks of the external dependencies. bitbucket.org/spf13/fsnotify and what not. You can then keep those updated at your own pace, rather than waking up to see that someone has changed their API and your code no longer compiles.

Remember the game "Haunts"? IIRC this was one of their problems--they failed to manage dependencies appropriately and got into major hell. Many C and C++ programs ship source to external libraries along with their own source for this exact reason. We've taken to doing the same.

Here's what Brian Fitzpatrick has to say about "go get":

"Go get is nice, for you know, playing around, but if you're doing something serious and you're going to deploy binaries to production, your deploy to production script should not involve fetching some random dude's stuff on Github"

We have taken to making a go "workspace" in our repos, with a bash script at the top level and a src/ directory containing all the libraries and such we've written. The bash script sets GOPATH and compiles everything in src/. It's quick and you avoid dependency hell.
You're right. I knew it was a newer re-make if the original, but forgot the name difference, and a quick google search seemed to verify I had remembered it correctly.
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Best wishes,
Tom Mueller"[0]

The only reason I quote the book's author is because on the Amazon review site, he exchanges some additional thoughts on olive oil with some Amazon users.

Here is the list, which is linked from Mueller's site: http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/great-oil

[0] http://www.amazon.com/review/R8G1CO1XY4DJ7/ref=cm_cr_rev_det...
Who was arguing that suspicion is proof?

I haven't claimed at any point that there is proof Hastings was murdered.

When someone gets an ample number of death threats, and they die in an even remotely suspicious manner, it is not a conspiracy to consider that one of those threats may have become actual. It's that simple.

McChrystal's staffer told Hastings directly: if you write something we don't like, we will kill you. Where's the conspiracy in suspecting that staffer of murder, given he threatened to murder Hastings?
Well, I think you know a lot more about this topic than me, but I would like to ask a follow up question.

Do you think Apple could have iterated as rapidly on iOS GUI applications, while keeping performance fast and resource usage low, if everything was written in C++? Java? C#? Objective C seems to hit a sweet spot for experimenting with innovative new UI concepts in a constrained hardware environment.
What you derisively call "people who were already living here" other people might call a "community."
Do you pay him a % commission or a set fee?
What does the LAPD have to gain by denying all requests for information by the reporter? Seems suspicious imo.
Developer salaries in the UK are a lot lower than even your average entry-level Silicon Valley* engineering gig.

*I haven't worked elsewhere in the US for comparison.
Great. Now it will be delivered in a 6 cubic foot box.
When you support that suspicion with wild interpretations of mundane facts, as every linked article on the subject that I have read so far has done.
My sense is that YC and the partners have always been about making peoples lives better. It might just be that entrepreneurs applying for YC are beginning to realize that YC can be a great avenue to accomplish a lot of good and also create a real business.
Etoile: the GNUStep Linux GUI
Indeed Google Analytics has added the multi-armed bandit approach in Content Experiment. It's quite slick btw, but definitely more difficult to implement than traditional split testing.
My 2 cents:

[1] the sample size calculator (How many subjects are needed for an A/B test?): http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

[2] <unashamed plug> easyAB: a jquery plugin for easily start A/B testing using Google Analytics. http://srom.github.io/easyAB/ </plug>
In this context, I think "Amazon will have no role in the purchase" just means that Bezos is buying WaPo with his own money, and he will own it personally. I don't think it precludes him from making deals between the two companies.
It still seems weirdly unix-centric to talk about "the system linker" as though all systems include development tools as a matter of course. I'm glad they are continuing to build all of the pieces they need for a truly independent toolchain.