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There's nothing new here as far as I can tell. This video has been out for a while, and some of the claims made in the article are unsupported.

Also, the woman in the interview has been wrong about several things regarding the case, so personally I'd take what she says with a grain of salt. See these threads over on the popular debunking forum Metabunk:

http://metabunk.org/threads/debunked-michael-hastings-crash-...

http://metabunk.org/threads/michael-hastings-death-brings-ab...

It's still a quite mysterious case, sure, but it leaves one to wonder why some nefarious actor would choose to kill the guy after he'd already been in contact with wikileaks(among others) for some time beforehand.
the most widely known A/B tests are based on 41 shades of blue and pixel-perfection

This is not true among people who actually A/B test for a living. (The 41 shades of blue thing is a test cherry picked to suggest that testing is not material. The only reason the world knows about that test, as opposed to others conducted by Google/MSN, is because someone who believed they didn't fit in a culture of testing called out that test as the reductio ad absurdum of that culture.)

Without saying exactly what it was that the client didn't know at the time, suffice it to say that if you got five A/B testing practitioners in a room and asked them for the top five things to try on that client's site, every last one would have listed the problematic area as something to test. I mean, it wasn't the H1 on the front page, but it could have been.

This is similar to "How do we make our pages load faster?" Are there large amounts of subjectivity and risk involved here? Yes. Trying to outguess your favorite SQL query optimizer sometimes feels like reading chicken entrails. But, if you're not using gzip yet, then you should turn on gzip, because gzip always wins.
I've very much come to hate Godwin's Law. There are important lessons, perhaps the most important, to draw from that dark time of history, and we won't see them if we insist that the comparisons are only apt if every little thing is exactly the same, or as 100% evil as the Nazis. There should have been far more attention paid to the specific comparisons of the Patriot Act to pre-conditions of Nazi Germany, rather than getting distracted by "BUSH=HITLER LOL".
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Mailchimp's autoresponders can't be set for immediately, only "within an hour" because I don't think they want people using it as a transactional email / content delivery system

Good call on the 404. That's bad. Fixing now.
LinkedIn emails me weekly with a list of jobs I'd theoretically be interested in--almost all internships, because I have in the past done internships. Apparently they haven't figured out that I don't want to go from Senior Member of Technical Staff back to Intern, it's kind of a step down.
I may well be wrong, but aren't most recruiters via by commission?
What conspiracy? The US Government has the authority to assassinate US citizens.

I don't see how speculation about the circumstances of Hastings death need involve much of a conspiracy theory. It's not like we're talking about JFK here.

His life was directly threatened over and over again due to his previous writings; and it was threatened by someone close to McChrystal.
Better translation of the important parts:

> "Before forwarding, personal data belonging to German citizens is removed in a stepped process," said a spokesman of the BND.

> According to information from ZEIT ONLINE, they for instance remove all e-mail addresses ending in .de and all phone numbers with the country code 0049 [Germany]
Doesn't this vehicle have a black box. Where is it? The black box might reveal if the vehicle was hacked.
Dove distributes fake Photoshop plugin to spread body image message
Not surprising. The code example on golang.org says "Hello, 世界". Every Chinese programmer will immediately love it for this reason.
The dilution of the radioactive content by the ocean is probably high. Overall the risk is low for significant contamination due to the overall ocean volume.

The issues are so-called hot-spots which cause certain fish to be extremely radioactive and streams causing concentrations of radioactive materials highly contaminating only certain regions and fish.

That being said, there are so many pollutants in the oceans that I'm confused why people are not more outraged about ocean pollution.

Vice Documentary about garbage streams.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41rO7mL6zM

Finally, its certainly not acceptable to have on-going ocean pollution, which is probably happening in Fukushima Daiichi.
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Did you? There really aren't multiple explosions visible, it's grainy and from pretty far away(not to mention, not actually newly released surveillance video). We see one continuous light source, consistent with an explosion and a fire recorded by a grainy, B/W COTS security camera at night.
His life was repeatedly threatened. What conspiracy?

If a dozen people threaten to kill you over five years, and you die in an even remotely suspicious manner, where's the conspiracy in that? There's a line of people that apparently would have liked to kill Hastings.
Thanks! I also just found out about angular-ui-utils, where they have a generic pass-thru directive for initializing jQuery plugins. Interestingly, they opted to use $timeout inside the compile function: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-utils/blob/master/modules/j...

Wonder why that is, are there cases that would otherwise break?
Having (or, well, not having) awkward conversations is a matter of skill. If you've never had an awkward conversation, or haven't reflected on the ones you have had, you won't realize what makes a conversation awkward and won't know not to do that.

In this case the author could have answered the assumed questions rather than the asked questions, and I imagine the conversation would have gone rather differently. Unless of course he finds having awkward conversations to be amusing.
Failing to disclose having $10,000+ can get you convicted of money trafficking offenses.

Combine that with the fact that they were using the disclosure as their reason for claiming the money, and you have an impossible to escape situation.
> to have fallen out of their mothers on one side of an invisible line

It's not an invisible line. It's a line that was defended and delineated by the blood of people who wanted to establish and preserve a nation.
Wow... My father is a civil lawyer and deals with inventories regularly, but I don't think he's ever gotten a case so contrived. And I fully agree that having to prove the debt exceeds the assets is a major annoyance. Anything that puts the brazilian justice system in your back (especially in this case where the burden of proof is inverted), is a nightmare.
You've confused the cause required to initiate a traffic stop with the cause required to search the contents of the car. They are not the same.
n.b. Developer salaries are considerably lower in London than in many parts of the US. (Although that's still low for a senior role). Aside from banks, not many places will offer £40k for an entry level graduate role.

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?page=1&sortby=0&or...
If you read up on the Barry Lyndon lenses, you'll find they were customized quite a bit and actually were in danger of crashing through the film plane, so I don't think they would want to make more of these.

As for <F/1 lenses in general, you can manufacture them but the precision required and the quality of glass make it extremely expensive. Cinema primes of that quality can cost tens of thousands of dollars if they are for sale at all.
Mental health is too much of a niche market. We need people to focus on the real problems faced by everyday people, such as: Which unlicensed taxi service will get me from SOMA to the Mission the fastest? </snark>
I saw the video and it is about as clear as the videos that show "multiple explosions" during the collapse of the WTC towers. Maybe there is actually something there, but I don't think a layman can see it from the provided copy of that video.
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When is the last time the US government was so much as credibly suspected of assasinating absolutely anyone - journalist or otherwise - on American soil?
"Entry level" in the US now means 3-5 years of experience. You're expected to work those years for free (as an "intern") to get the experience.
>"Is it a case that it was always like this and we're only just finding out or are these more recent happenings ?"

As I related a few days ago, it has always been this way for some of us [0].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6142519
I'm going to preface this by saying that I am very open to the possibility that the US government is assassinating people that cause it trouble. No, I'm not open to it per se, rather I am sure it is happening.

The current US administration is already on record as acknowledging that they already kill US citizens without trial.
In a free market I doubt we'd have nuclear either.

All energy sources other than fossil fuels are the product of huge government R&D investments and huge subsidies.
In the meantime, "the latter" has well-known problems which are not being solved and which are being flat-out ignored by advocates. Those problems include the rarely-discussed (see, even you just shot right past them) "solar strip-mining" and atmospheric disruption issues.

Show me any form of serious progress on the energy storage problem, please. Tesla's $40,000 car battery is about the best there is, and that's not encouraging.
I did see the video.

I'm not trying to explain all the facts surrounding the incident, I'm just taking issue with the interpretation of one fact, and extrapolating to say none of this is obvious.

Part of the reason I felt a need to chime in, is that I used to live not far from where the accident in the OP took place (north Highland in LA), and the accident I referred to in my comment happened very close to where I live now, again in LA, and the median and curb construction are quite similar.

Just for definiteness, here is a link to the crash that I saw (http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/29/local/me-fatalcrash2... ); one other person later died from their injuries bringing the total to four from the three reported in the article.
The one with the 30-year old guy who lived at home who turned his elderly parents home into a drug house? Obvious what was going on there, but unless the kid recently paid his parents house off with 'drug money', it's easy to argue they have no right to take them home. Since they had been there since 1966 I could see it have been paid off quite a while ago.
Right, but there's 100s of kinds out there, and I could go broke buying crappy ones. To me, the article implies that the system is gamed – I am wondering if anyone knows sources / etc. for identifying those suppliers which don't game the system.

My method isn't to "fetishize the origin/process" (what, do you think I'm like 12?), but to look for oils that carry lesser-desirable (and hence less likely to be gamed) properties (e.g. sourced from outside Italy; inexpensive).
UC Davis does olive oil testing a little more systematically:

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/services/services
I've seen UI designs lately with cancel buttons disguised as text because "that's how websites do it" (according to the UI designer). Right, that's how websites A/B test users into unintentionally progressing through a sales/signup process.
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The circumstances of the crash are perfectly consistent with it being an accident, and every single article I've seen that says otherwise checks off every box of the Conspiracy Theorist Checklist (or it would if such a thing existed).

I'm going to need something more than "the USG could have assassinated him". Because even in the current climate, even with the threats, an accident is still the best explanation until shown otherwise. And none of the articles have come anywhere close to showing otherwise.
Wouldn't it be nice to have guaranteed power for the next few thousand years while you work on the 'eternal' solution? I don't see why there has to be an either-or here.
PRISM does not give NSA "direct access" to anything you store at Google; they have to file a legal request, which Google's counsel reviews.

If you believe that NSA is simply going to ignore the law to get whatever data they want --- and again, most of HN believes they will --- then moving your mail off the most secure mail provider on the Internet isn't going to make it harder for NSA to get access to it.
I'd like to see projects like this work, particularly because I haven't always been pleased with the recommendations from Goodreads.

That said, your site's going to need more information about why it's any better before I sign up for an account. What genres do you cover? How wide is your database of books? Is it possible to offer a trial w/o an account? E.g., enter some books and get recommendations -- and then ask if I want to create an account w/ these settings so I can continue to get more recommendations?
I don't understand how this could be the case. If a company pays its employees the prevailing wage, why would it be obligated to pay an H1B hire at the 90%ile?
Wow - this is amazing, "Can it really be happening in the US?" corruption. Is this also an offshoot of a no tax policy in Texas?
I got the same feeling from a couple of comments in this thread
A Windows laptop can work, but it will be a little tougher (the videos are recorded on a Mac so some of the commands are different). When you install Rails using RailsInstaller, use the Git Bash program that it comes with and most of the commands should be the same.
In a drone-ish fashion, yes.

I am sure they are doing it in a more clandestine "ricin umbrella" way too, which to my knowledge they haven't admitted to. The sort of assassination that is being suggested here is the sort that I very suspect they are doing, but I cannot say that it is clear to me that it happened here.
> Fukushima did not blow stuff into the atmosphere

Well, that is actually not right. During the accident radioactive water vapor and other gases were released into the atmosphere due to the explosions. Its correct though that, most of it was washed out by rain quickly being diminished into the ground water or carried away onto the ocean.

More importantly a significant portion of the radioactive water seeped into the groundwater, which will have unknown effects in the future.
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The Washington Post has been sold to Jeff Bezos for $250 million
Possible, yes -- but unlikely, and it doesn't really change any of the issues I brought up. I deliberately did not single out the man or the woman as being the target of the ad. :)
> In USD, those salaries currently translate to $53k - $60k. I know developers in the Bay Area who make the same

Really? I thought bay area salaries were more around 80k+ to take into account cost of living.
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I wondered why there weren't any comments and no vote-up on this post.

I don't think most people like being honey-potted.
"Sometimes callers want to connect with listeners who have had similar life experiences."

Maybe I can become an italian listener.
Do you plan to support other languages​​?
I'm not worried about the actual build step. I'm talking about that sometimes it's hard to figure out how the CoffeeScript compiler is parsing and generating the JavaScript
Absolutely agree here. Different people learn concepts in different ways, and it's hard to know that teaching something a given way will stick. That's why we have to try to reach as many people as possible until we can build a personalized education system.
Yeah, I don't understand why they make such a big deal out of being sourced from Italy. Olives grown elsewhere should make fine oil, and you could probably use the honest advertisement of non-Italian origin as a gauge for the honesty of the company.
Lol. I think my post went up less than a minute after yours. :)
Researchers find trojanized banking app that exploits critical Android bug
That was Odin32, right? I remember looking forward to that, and hoping that it would be better than the win32s extensions for 3.11 (plus the .dll whack-a-mole that entailed), but in the end I just switched from OS/2 to XP.
yes, they take society resources that could be spent otherwise on other issues, including whatever issues kill vegans
Just a thought -- this POV implies that there is a single way to explain every piece of information on your site that is optimal for each person who might be a customer. (The corollary is that all your customers are the same.) A person doesn't have to be swayed by a buzzword, color scheme, or fluff to respond to different presentation of facts. You know this is true if you've ever had to explain anything to anyone. Some examples of how different presentations of your content might affect an individual:

- English: first language?

- Country/region of origin?

- What did they read before coming to your site?

A lot of things influence human behavior, and A/B testing isn't just to tease out the fluffy bits you can use to sell to the gullible.
>This cost of living calculator shows that you would need to make over $100k in San Francisco to enjoy the same lifestyle that $60k gets you in the Motor City.

So in return for my employer having an excuse to pay me $40k less, I get the benefit of working in Detroit, ranking in at #2 on the list of "most dangerous cities in the US" the last 2 years running[1] (beaten out only by Flint, a mere hour's drive away to the north), with the additional side benefits of "people question your sanity" and a complete lack of other people in my chosen field, outside of coworkers, to meet up with locally, thus creating a situation where if I was discontent with my job I'd need to move across the country in one direction or another (after, presumably, having moved to go to Detroit in the first place).

I can't help but feel like this is a sour grapes article overall. "We can't afford to set up shop in California, but who wants to live there anyways? I'm perfectly happy here where I'm 4 times more likely to be mugged and/or murdered!"

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/p... - Violent Crime divided by Population
NSA's spy network, indefinite detention without a trial, considering anybody who reveals details of questionable government actions an enemy of the state, encouraging citizen spying and be on the lookout for "suspicious behavior", courts recently saying journalists have zero right to protect a source's anonymity, and having machines patrol the skies "for our safety" are among a few issues that kind of align us with the USSR's widespread spying. Our system is probably even more refined since most people still deny it, while it was well known in Soviet states.
Fairway in the NY area has an olive oil bar with about dozen varieties and bread for dipping. Most are domestic and labelled as such. The nuance in flavor is easily detectable. I find most supermarket brands taste about the same. The olive taste is so distinct you'd never confuse it for canola, corn or anything else.
I'd say it's ironic, considering that he stood against surveillance. I'd also say that it's interesting that his fiancee was killed in Iraq... Nah, all just coincidental, and I'm sure the reason the police won't release any information is just out of good taste.

(sarcasm intended)

If it is true that this man was killed by the state or related interests - history suggests that this could certainly be the case - that's pretty damn scary. I mean, a man is blown up in his car while driving down the highway.
Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million
this is a bit low for a senior developer, but it isn't crazy by UK standards and would actually be an extremely good salary for someone straight out of university not working in a bank. go search for experienced developer jobs outside of London if you really want to see sadistically low salaries...
"97% of people recommend One Month Rails" is also a little misleading. I'm willing to bet 97% of people don't know what One Month Rails is.
Mean wage in the UK is £29k
Median is £21k
75th percentile is £33.3k

These figures are for the UK as a whole 2012/13 from wikipedia.
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There is no way an associate in operations makes 200k and frankly that seems a bit high for engineers as well. Are you speaking in general and is your source anecdotal?

Also _most_ people do not ever make MD, let alone in 9 years.
Even being pedantic, that would be a conspiracy... now, does that mean it's the kind of conspiracy theory that belongs on David Icke forums or InfoWars? Maybe not, but right now there is no logical consistency behind the theory that he was killed in a hit given the time, place and manner it occurred.
> RECRUITER: [In the face to two good excuses the recruiter says] Ok, you have a good day.

Have you ever talked to a recruiter? In my experience they never give up that easily. We had one tell us they had "plenty of developers to offer," more than they knew what to do with. After we said we weren't interested, he then immediately turn around and ask if we knew any developers looking for a job, because they had plenty of job openings they couldn't fill. Right...
For city dwellers, something like Zipcar combined with technology where you don't have to travel to pick the car up would be ideal.
I've got a bunch of TOR originating traffic coming into a clearweb "whats-my-ip" service that I run, that's really odd (it uses a Chrome user-agent string and apears to be coming from a script, maybe even JS being executed in a Browser).

It's been going on for about 4 months now. I've posted my summery here - http://www.devside.net/blog/strange-tor-traffic-to-get-ip
Ask HN: How does Flickr know my personal friends graph?
Hi,

I have signed up to yahoo in Feb. 2011 once and never used their service again, not even yahoo.com. There are zero personal details shared with yahoo. Today I signed up to Flickr.com using Login with Yahoo (private browsing session) and it clearly showed many of my friends on the front-page for me. I never used flickr until this day, so how have they obtained my personal friend graph? Isn't that technically illegal (I live in Europe)?

The Yahoo account was never connected to my Twitter account or anything else. It's a pure yahoo account, with no relation to existing email addresses.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse? Coal does the same thing, but also directly harms innocent bystanders. Burgers harm meat eaters directly and vegans indirectly. Coal harms both, both ways.

Do you even support coal? Your other comments on this thread suggest otherwise.
I would bet that you'd have more success signing up elderly people to be listeners (giving them something worthwhile to do when they have limited mobility and their family members are busy with work/school) than to tell them to call your helpline as customer because their grandkids don't call them.
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> Indeed. Copyright is ultimately an outgrowth of the privatization of government censorship in sixteenth-century England.

So when it appeared in 15th century Venice as a means to encourage authorship, we are to presume that it was Dr. Who who brought it there?

Your history of copyright source is - I'm guessing - likely to be a little bit biased.
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