skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its important to say what is actually being claimed. In the case of al-Awaki(Aulaqi) their claim is:

"Such considerations allow for the use of lethal force in a foreign country against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al'Qaida or its associated forces, and who is actively engaged in planning to kill Americans, in the following circumstances: (1) the U.S. government has determined, after a thorough and careful review, that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; (2) capture is not feasible; and (3) the operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles."

With regard to the other three citizens that have been killed in a drone strike, their claim is that these individuals were not specifically targeted and were collateral damage.

The document (http://www.justice.gov/slideshow/AG-letter-5-22-13.pdf) does place emphasis on foreign country. So while not making any value judgement on the policy, I think its useful to see it in full, as currently understood.

One interesting corollary to look at is the Civil War, where U.S. citizens took up arms against their government and were killed by the government, where no declaration of war took place.

This is gotten tangential, but all I'm saying is current claims the U.S. has made do not seem to extend to extra-judicial killing of targets not engaged in active warfare on U.S. soil.

Edited: to add quotation marks.
The worst part is trying to be polite replying to those £35k e-mails.
You can set up an early wake up alarm by simply googling "pressure cookers" and "backpack" simultaneously.
When I visit with hot-blooded partners ready to set the world on fire I often think of this line from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969):

Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia.

Right, Next Time.

Easier said than done.
Hmm, seems interesting = I'm currently doing the Machine Learning one also via Coursera, run by Andrew Ng, and it's good gentle introduction to the subject.

It's a shame we can't view the course content for this one earlier...haha.
> [Freedoms] are not being eroded by irresistible laws of nature.

Yes they are.

Without infusions of external energy—in this case citizens who work to keep their rights—entropy increases, complex structures rot and crumble, and order fades into disorder. If checks and balances aren't actively maintained, they slowly disappear.

It takes lots of effort to maintain a legal framework that, from the cops' perspective, mostly makes it harder to close cases where the suspect is "obviously" guilty. So first they start ignoring little bits of it to speed things up. Then they ignore bigger things, and entropy increases further. The fewer legal barriers there are to a conviction, the less ordered we can call the system. After more of this erosion, we reach the most disordered state of all: This guy has a gun, so you do what he says or else.

ΔS >= 0, in our social systems just as much as in the universe, because they can't escape the limits of the system they're embedded in.
I would rather have vegatarianism as an absolute reality than one where artificial meat is the standard. In fact, I will become a vegetarian if the latter applies.
Which I would call purposefully incompetent.

I'm not even sure what this is supposed to achieve. They can't possibly believe that anybody will accept this as an honest effort to protect the personal data of German email users.
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@untog

Hmm! Didn't notice that, interesting.
> "Liscense and registration and step out of the car"
> "Are you carryin' a weapon on you I know a lot of you are"
> I ain't steppin out of shit all my papers legit
> "Well, do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
> Well my glove compartment is locked so are the trunk in the back
> And I know my rights so you gon' need a warrant for that."
> "We'll see how smart you are when the K9's come."
After reading through this thread it appears to me that all that is stopping you from launching is a couple of bugs related to multiple Google accounts use case.

I would call that an edge case and launch the rocket. Just drop a comment about it in the FAQ.

Unless, your product is strictly about multiple Google accouncts in which case you are shafted. :)
Behind the Amazon.com smile
Sure. But a family-run, corporate business is definitely more so.
So if there was one American serving in the Wehrmacht, or the Kriegsmarine, or the Luftwaffe during WWII, the U.S. government's military would have had no authority to shoot back at him without a trial first?
You probably should check out salaries outside of southern California. It is not 'Absurdly low even for a college hire' in most of the US.
Cordless phone does DECT, WiFi, GPS on Android 4.0
Very intriguing, but this is broken for me on Chrome 28 for OSX. A while after I try to add two numbers, console gives the following:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined BigInt.js:1
expand BigInt.js:1
powMod BigInt.js:1
decryptRecAns paillier.js:70
getConsensus distribute.js:94
Honestly, I'm kind of happy that there's at least one person who knows the difference between HTML and TCP/IP helping to shape the conversation now.
During a gold rush, sell pickaxes and shovels.
Bezos goal may be to force users to more digital media. Amazon has been trying to push its publications by forcing book print companies out of the market, by cornering newspapers as well, Amazon could make it self the centralized location for e-media.
I got a CSRF verification failure on signup.
It would be naive to think that the paper will produce an article that disparages Amazon's labor and business practices, now that it is owned by the same man that is the CEO of Amazon. I'm not sure what his stake is in the company, but I assume it's significant to raise this issue.
Fully automated, mass production of synthetic beef would be an amazing feat and would definitely change nutrition for millions, if not billions of people. That being said, I don't think we'll be there in less than 50 years.

In the short term, there's already a method of producing high quality protein and fats at around 90% efficiency: insects!

Now if only the Western world would get over the stigma attached to bugs...
Not really. They're more of intersecting sets. Is a foreign mail provider as likely to succumb to PRISM? No. Is it possible for GMail to have vulnerabilities unique to GMail and not to a more standard mail setup? Of course.
Indeed. Probably that's the reason why Steve Jobs had such "smart" ideas on how to persuade people to switch to Apple.

His marketing / monopolist plan was years in the making, long before he announced it to anyone.
Governments. The reason it's so hard to weed out this sort of thing is that the business of government is so fragmented in the US due to both geographic and historical factors. I have separate and distinct relationships with the city I live in, the county that city is in, the state, and the federal government, plus quasi-governmental organizations like some utilities providers, intergovernment groups and so on.
I´m working from the air mac but I´ll give it a shot when I get home. This is exactly one of the ideas that I have been wondering with my friends (don´t worry we are with another project right now), git-like collaborative editing, but more centered on docs, as we where working on documentation. Working with several comments and version on the same document is a pain!, good luck with this.
Some questions:
-is there a version map? like a facebook timeline but with all the lines of the branches-users. Where I can see the last commits by user, but also the diff on a slide basis.

-is there a project owner, the one that accepts commits (I suppose there is one)

-I really like sigma´s idea. Be able to split between visual updates and content updates (but not a priority)

-how do you express-print the diff function on a slide? have you considered about a toogle button, or a slider to change between different versions of the different branches?.

-Is the document´s owner able to merge a single slide from a branch(user) that he likes, and then at the next slide choose from another branch(user)?

-How do you manage annotations?

I´ll defenitely check it when I´ll get home, there is a big oportunity here. Personally we have tried with google docs, office 365, and the like, they just don´t work. On a side note if you happen to need distribution for SaaS on a IT basis and want to be able to control how people uses your product (and charge accordingly), just contact us at apparly.com .
When you visit .onion sites exit nodes don't come into play.

As for controlling a bunch of nodes and figuring out who loads what is not possible, as far as I understand how the network works. How it works is that the sender decides on a path which consists of a random amount of other regular nodes. It encrypts a message with the public key of each of the nodes, and then sends it on its merry way to the first node. None of the nodes know if they're the first, the second, or the last. All the know is the address of the previous and the next node, either of which can be other nodes in the chain or the origin or the destination.
I didn't want to sign in to continue. They don't say why this is needed. Confused.
This is because success in the recruiting industry has nothing to do with industry knowledge and everything to do with sales and networking ability. Software developers like to think that their jobs are humbling because every time they make a mistake, a compiler will return an error. That's nothing compared to recruiters, who will make about 1200 phone calls for every 1 that leads to a hire. Then even if they get that hire, they are at the mercy of the consultant / employee and the employers.
I think there's a store in Chelsea Market (my brother lives there and sent me some OO) called the Filling Station which has some nice choices. I can't speak to the veracity of their origin, but that place will have a lot of choices and you will be able to get a very peppery, very strong oil (I am a big fan of Hojiblanca if you see it, but anything toward the more peppery end is my preference).
1) I don't see why. It's end to end encrypted, but still who visits what is transparent.

2) Perfect Dark is not a general purpose net, but rather a file distribution mechanism, for known hashes. Not for message exchange between peers like tor or i2p.

Tor is a mix network aswell. But a low latency mix. The adversary is a way stronger than assumed, it does not seem to be safe anymore. High latency mixes (like remailers) are unaffected.

Also, Perfect Dark is 1) broken 2) closed source, so not trustworthy to begin with.
Or, look at the Gulf of Tonkin Incident deniers. People alleged that Pres. Johnson made up his own pretext to initiate the Vietnam War.

Or, look at the people who alleged that the CIA had agents operating as journalists in domestic and foreign media.

Or, look at those loonies who said that the gov't listened to all our phone calls. They even had a name for that lunacy, they called it ECHELON.

Or, after ECHELON was disproven, the nutters continued to insist that the gov't was spying on citizens. Crazy eh?

Sure, conspiracies are rare. But, you can't dismiss them with hand-waving, and, your comment is the prototypical hand-waving ad-hom comparing anyone who dares admit consideration of a conspiracy to Flat-Earthers. It's a cheap tactic.
Maybe that. After a boom of entrepreneurs with ideas to impact their own world or their own pocket, I see more "cause-driven" entrepreneurs starting up.

Congratulations for your work, I hope you achieve great success!
Video phones also turned out to be kind of boring, once they stopped being part of the shiny future and started being part of the present.
Thanks, should be fixed if you reload.
> American prosecutors want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to be able to threaten people with "95 years in prison!"

Unless you're of the opinion that public defenders and defense lawyers are simpletons who can barely figure out how to breathe, it doesn't matter what the prosecution tries to say to the accused.

You can say it's all for show as part of a "trial by media", but defense attorneys are just as eager to do that, and such a thing has no bearing on the legal process anyways.

Foreign countries should worried about the maximum conceivable penalty (which is even higher than plausible, but still much lower than the theoretically possible).
Interestingly, I was able to view the post the first time, but loading it up again I got the "Sign in to continue" message. Which is a shame because I was about to make a comment.

Looks like someone's growth hacking.
Yeah, that's true, but it's also true that you're always building on someone else's API. I mean, even if you build a native desktop application, you're still relying on Windows, Linux or OSX APIs. Granted, those APIs tend to be more stable than the APIs for mobile clients and web clients, but it's not like there haven't been painful breaking changes on that front either.

So what's your solution? Write everything in assembly and run it on your own servers?

I think the way to proceed is to look at the stability of the API and the historical level of backwards compatibility that the API creator has provided and explicitly take that into account when you're developing an application. This is one of the things that Microsoft does very well, better than Linux (where GUI APIs, especially, seem to mutate every few years) and OSX. In general, though, any desktop API is much better, in terms of maintaining backwards compatibility and announcing breaking changes, than any mobile (iOS, Android, etc.) API, and mobile APIs, in turn, are better than web APIs. This isn't a case for never using mobile or web APIs, but it is a case for ensuring that you have enough resources (or a loose enough timeline) to deal with API churn as well as developing new features.

The only way to get away from APIs entirely is to write your own code, run it on your own OS, using custom hardware that you've designed yourself. That way lies madness, or, equivalently, game console programming ;)
A solid natural language processing API.
Clearly with a $28 billion net worth (#15 in the world), and the head of Amazon.com, he is not lacking in influence. He already has that in spades. There isn't anybody in Washington that won't take his call.

There are radically cheaper ways to have influence. He could set up a PAC, seed it with $50 million, and directly buy whatever influence he needs.

The thing about buying one of the few really national papers and slanting its coverage: your competitors will have a field day and it won't be long before your paper is a joke that nobody takes seriously.

I don't think he has much room to abuse this for influence.
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Any prove of your Android app then?

Google always sound to me as the "least" evil. No evil (their slogan) is rubbish, definatly considering the business stakes that are in Android / Google TV / Chrome OS / Youtube ( ebooks, music, movies, series, ...).

The entertainment business will always try to get some influence in the search engine as a "good-will" of Google before negotiating any contracts. To bad that's reality though.
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The recruitment industry in this country is vile but very lucrative, the people in it would probably not feel out of place as estate agents if they decided to switch careers.

I've heard tales of hapless graduates falling into recruitment and ending up earning £10k a month through commission.

Not bad for a job that's essentially just spamming emails, ringing people and lying to them a lot. But utterly soul destroying at the same time
"Go's Rising popularity is false assumption. Comparing to popularity of only modern languages..."

#1. I'm not comparing popularity, but the trend in popularity. Of the three languages you're comparing against, only Go is showing an upward trend, which might be expected since it's so new. This novelty may explain why we're seeing so many Go articles hit the front page lately.

Many of the articles are the same: "We recently switched to Go, and here are our impressions." Nothing earth shattering, but people apparently are curious. Python and Rails aren't as new, and a good portion of the HN audience are probably already quite familiar with them. The threshold required to get clicks on a Rails article will be much higher.

#2. Your metrics are flawed. Notice all the news stories related to "python" and "ruby." None of the articles are actually about the Python or Ruby programming languages (though many are about Berlusconi's underage prostitute). If you look at Scala in isolation, you'll notice almost none of its news stories relate to Scala the language either. They're about La Scala the Italian opera house, or scala the italian word, etc. GoLang only refers to Go the programming language.

Perhaps it makes more sense to view it in the context of other unique programming names, as compared here with Erlang and Node.js (http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#q=erlang%2C%20...). It looks like Go will surpass Erlang soon, but Node.js searches have been growing about 3x as fast as Go.

"practically, Go is still a niche language."

You're right, but that doesn't seem to stop it from generating a lot of traffic on HN. Which is what we're talking about, after all. And here we are, discussing it.
Show HN: Gotham
Next: Google buys New York Times.
Damn, I'm not in the States. I'd love to sign up to this and help people looking to reach out. Hopefully they scale.
Consing sounds like it's allocating bignums. My guess is that you're using a 32-bit build of SBCL. In that case, fixnums only go up to something like 2^30, and arithmetic with larger numbers will allocate memory. Can you check?

* (log most-positive-fixnum 2) ;on 64-bit

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None of your examples follow the three step process InclinedPlane outlined.
Jeff Bezos bought the Post personally - Amazon did not buy it.
I agree. Bezos is almost 50 years old now. What's the point of having $28 billion in assets if you can't do some interesting things with it (like Bezos Expeditions, the millennium clock, or retrieve the apollo engines).
Yes, the recruitment industry sucks. The author of this article works in the recruitment industry — which company, I do not know, but by association to the industry, the author also sucks.

Let's face the facts. Huge sections of the working age population either unemployed or significantly underemployed. Dozens, if not hundreds, of applicants for every vacancy.

Which recruiters win in this market? Those who spend lots of money on highly skilled staff who can woo potential candidates with their in-depth knowledge of the industry they are recruiting for when performing basic qualifying cold calls for relatively low-paid roles, or those who hire people for near-enough minimum wage to churn through a list of candidates, read from a script, and get the information you need to qualify them for vacancies?

"But good heavens!" I hear you scream, as failsafe as the latter business plan sounds, the recruitment firm has left a bad taste in the mouth of the author!

Who cares? I bet they found the perfect candidate for that vacancy that same day after a few more phone calls.
It's all a question of size. A 1Mt impact outside a city would probably not be that bad unless it hit a nuclear power plant or other nasty target. Probably a 1 in 1+ trillion risk but if all your asking is what's the worst that can happen it's on the list.
what the hell is S/J testing? never heard of it and apparently neither has the googles.
Only if it is legal to do so. In some states, recordings require the knowledge and consent of both parties.
Why would something that's plainly true be "disingenuous at best". The WP broke the story.
Plus the fact that corporations and government are merging (especially in telecom, and if the trends continue, finance). That is _literally_ the Nazi model.
The part of the Google Drive market you can make money from with our application (it's B2B) is the Google Apps for Business accounts, that means Google Apps domains accounts (not personal ones). The majority of users logged into Google Apps Domains accounts (and we measured this) are also logged into their personal account on that same browser. This means more than 50% of our target market can't share documents through our UI, can't use iOS 6 and get a confusing experience logging in elsewhere.

That's 50% of users. All we needed was one user out of however many were on the domain to remark and the feedback was "sort out the details" and these were the details.

As also mentioned, the availability of Drive documents to our apps and the app integration working correctly was also a factor.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Buys 'The Washington Post' for $250 Million
Interestingly, the Post's existing digital experimentation shop, WaPo Labs (http://www.wapolabs.com/), is specifically mentioned in the Post's official statement as one of the assets that is not included in the sale.

Update: Slashdot founder Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda (who was hired by WaPo Labs last year) confirms on Google+ that he and his team aren't going with the paper: https://plus.google.com/+CmdrTaco/posts/1V2ZpbjcgbB
Beware of 'local' oils, too. A few years back, I ran a food truck that served Belgian style fries. I tested a lot of oils and decided on olive oil, but everything I could buy at the store or farmers' markets were prohibitively expensive. After some research, I found a regional seller (I'm in Texas) that imports olive oil from throughout Europe and Africa. We ultimately settled on an African import that to me had the best flavor of the bunch.

The interesting things I took away from my meeting with this man were:

1. A lot (if not most) olive oils sold in markets are blends of oil that include cheap oils such as canola.

2. Many local producers throughout the country were unable to meet demand...so they would buy from him and then add to their "locally produced" olive oil which they would in turn sell at a huge premium on site, at farmers markets, and at grocery stores.

I don't have the business any longer, so unfortunately I don't have access to my supplier anymore. For now, I get all of my olive oil via Whole Foods...their store brand is the best priced and I assume that they have some relationships with their producers which minimizes the chance of being hoodwinked.
I'd argue the complete opposite: that is, most apps that don't work without a data connection aren't useful.

Specifically, most apps should be able to perform their functions off-line. Why? Because mobile data is expensive and unpredictable in a lot of countries. You can't expect that 3G will be on and working, and you can't expect that someone will be inside wifi.

FWIW, anecdata and all that, the majority of people I know in NZ prepay for data in chunks that roll over multiple months, and so they only turn on 3G when absolutely necessary.
Best olive oil is Greek. Italian or Spanish ones are nowhere near the quality of Greek. In Greece more than 80% of total production is extra virgin while in Italy the percentage is less than 40% and in Spain 20%. Italians buy bulk olive oil from Greece and they mix it with their own oils to raise the quality. There are small brands that offer high quality extra virgin oil and I guess you could look some of them at your local super market or grocery store. If you want top quality you should look for small privately owned brands rather than big companies, at least for Greek oil. A few well known and trusted producers are Gaea [1], Papadimitriou [2], WEP [3], Eleia [4], Moria Elea Deluce [5], Maleas [6].

[1] http://www.gaea.gr/, [2] http://www.papadim.com/en/products/extra-virgin-olive-oil/, [3] http://www.fiveoliveoil.com/five-olive-oil-from-greece/, [4] http://www.eleia.gr/index_en.html, [5] http://www.moriaelea.com/?page_id=42, [6] http://www.maleasoliveoil.gr/en/olive-oil.