skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your argument. If an American citizen wears a Nazi uniform while fighting for the Germans in Holland, it's OK that we kill him. But if an American citizen wears the garb of an al Qaeda terrorist while working for al Qaeda in lawless Shabwa Province, Yemen, the site of an ongoing armed conflict between AQAP and the government of Yemen, it's not OK that we kill him. Why not? What's the difference?

In reality, the guy in Shabwa is far, far more dangerous than the random lunatic fighting with the Nazis was in Holland. The lunatic wasn't about to coordinate the bombing of a commercial airliner filled with innocent people. But that's exactly what al-Awlaki was doing.

Meanwhile, your Holder quote doesn't rebut my argument. Holder is saying the administration can launch strikes against al Qaeda. You made a broader claim, the administration can designate people "terrorists" and kill them. You were incorrect. They cannot do that.

You also drastically oversimplify the charges against al-Awlaki. He wasn't designated a leader of al Qaeda because of "shitty Youtube videos", nor was he killed simply because he wrote articles advocating for al Qaeda. Similarly, Osama bin Laden wasn't targeted because he himself bombed an embassy in Tanzania, blew a giant hole in the USS Cole, or stabbed someone on an airplane with a box cutter.
LOL. I actually laughed IRL when I read the article title. Java is a language that's supposed to have encapsulation. Now they are wondering if developers are breaking encapsulation to the point that they need a survey? What a joke.

Java's like the language that's supposed to have encapsulation and types, but actually has neither in practice. (everyone uses reflection / casting)
IsMyQuestion lets you easily create pages with a question and its answer.
Tech Shuttle Map of SF, With Restaurant Clusters
It's the other way around. You force someone to log onto another site as your Facebook account, so you can then access all their content on the other site.

The security being breached is on the other site, not Facebook (perhaps why they are less concerned about it).
I like the way he broke things up, but something bothers me about his technique.

All his classes ended in "er".

he's not writing object oriented software, he's writing imperative software with objects.
We've built exactly what you need.

http://tribes.techendo.co/

If you're in the bay area, ping me and I'll invite you out to our SF tribe in the mission.
The 60 odd coaches should get together and rig the whole thing for 15+ million a piece.
> Courts are usually pretty flexible when it comes to showing intent, but I think a good defense lawyer might be able to argue reasonable doubt with respect to whether the guy KNEW that BTCKing's customer's were going to use the bitcoin to buy drugs.

Maybe, but operating an unlicensed money transmission business is also an illegal activity, and is specifically one of the illegal activities alleged to be furthered by the money laundering conspiracy.
Thinking about it, this is a weak variation of a much earlier failed paradigm. The original idea, document-centered UI, would not have apps at all or rather would have one huge app that was somehow powerful enough for all the users needs, light-weight enough to load quickly and flexible enough to let you link any document to any other document.

If you have that, of course you'd want to start with documents and people.

The problem is you won't find this single app, Google Wave was a failure, etc.

So if you have apps, well of course you do want to decide which to open first.
How can you possibly make this generalisation? On IRC, people can assume whatever they like. Everyone might as well be naked running around doing the tango, if that is how that person chooses to see those users.

Why would a person even give a microseconds thought on whether or not I was white, black, male, female, whatever, and even if they do -- why is it _my_ responsibility as person putting the content out there to be one or the other?

It's not.

You're right one one point - programmers do consider themselves to be rational. IRC is one place where biases simply don't exist by definition, because why would they? Nothing defining anything exists unless you explicitly want it to.

I find it extremely irking that you keep trying to insinuate that literally every person on IRC thinks of each other as a 'white male' like you describe. This reveals a problem, not systemic, but in yourself.
That's great to hear that you are on top of this. So many payment startups fail to think through or manage their compliance risk until they discover too late that it is a barrier to scaling or killer for their entire user experience. Compliance is one of the biggest challenges for creating new payment services.

You guys should also take a look at the Visa push-payment apis. In reality they are designed more for other API providers like yourselves to fold-in to their available push-payment options. Particularly handy for applications like marketing rebates, bill payment or expense reimbursements for payments already made on a card. Visa transfers do have a few advantages over straight ACH - you can push funds to a debit account, a credit card account or a reloadable prepaid account. Works across borders, in some countries works real time. Also a card number can be easier and less error-prone for consumers to enter than full bank routing info (as you probably know, handling rejects on ACH is a real pain). Downsides: only works on Visa cards, but you can mitigate that with traditional fallback options like ACH, instant-issuance prepaid, or mailing a check.

source: I don't have a stake in that service anymore, but I used to work on developing it.
Oh, and you mean these people are not on savvy enough, so the managers run the plant for their own benefit rather than the shareholders' benefit?
Are you really implying it doesn’t? So many Web “best practices” are working around the limitations of HTTP and the web 1.0 legacy we still carry around. See:

1. Concatenating resources (1 CSS file is worlds better than 50. Need it be?)

2. Inlining resources (see above)

3. Scaling, yes, is very hard! Look at all the techniques for deploying updates to web apps without breaking users' experiences.

I’m not saying HTTP2.0 will or won't solve all these problems, but clearly there is much room for improvement over HTTP 1
I like to imagine Buffet personally knocking a key player's knees in if it appears that someone is getting too close to winning -- like some Adam West Batman villain.

"Let me show you why the first three letters of my name spell 'War'."
The only fix to our information, privacy, and security pop culture is destroying the whole system, and building a new one holistically with a focus on security and education at the lowest levels of the system. This almost certainly means destroying computing as we know it as a prerequisite.

“Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you're always going to get a pop culture.” - Alan Kay
Once, maybe twice.

Each time no more than a few days. Generally to visit family.
The US has 1.5 times the number of prisoners as China, with 6.3 times as many per capita.

The US has 2.5 times the number of prisoners as Russia, with 1.2 times as many per capita.

The US has 27.5 times the number of prisoners as the UK, with 5.0 times as many per capita. (Interestingly, China has less prisoners per capita than the UK.)

So you can make a lot of points about the relative quality of those prison experiences (and they might be valid points), but in terms of sheer volume of people that are incarcerated by their own government, the US outstrips both China and Russia by a wide margin - in both absolute and per capita terms.
I read it as the opposite - that safe-mail didn't cave in. All the messages are from Shrem's work account and unencrypted private messages between BTCKing and clients on Silk Road.

The ???btc@safe-mail.net patterned addresses came from the 'cash processor'.
UGC-makers make millions of dollars
Plus, as buffet teaches, its better to reinvest the dividends. Unless the shareholders think they can do better than the management, in which case they're free to divest.
Sleight: whole-program transformations for Clojure
Five Powerful Offline SEO Tactics
Unless I'm missing something, wouldn't the child dependency be enough to prevent the unit from being dropped into another library or app? That's a good point you bring up about knowing where to "test drive" the changes from, though usually on the apps I've worked on, they've been small enough that the relevant integration test could be found without much detective work.

I guess I haven't been involved in too many 2-3 year monolithic projects. Maybe that's when a stricter symmetrical unit test policy makes the most sense.

What other levels of tests do you end up running besides your unit tests? Do you have any integrated unit tests? Functional tests? End to end tests?
Beings Not Made for Space
Anyone that thinks Linux is going to take over the consumer computer market anytime soon needs to go outside more often.
How to Automate in Your Business and Save Time and Money
that's kinda paranoid thinking given the EV of the "best" bracket is probably like $1 instead of 10 cents. A lot of work to make a dollar.

It's a pretty interesting idea haha. if only there was some way (without spending a lot of legal money) to ensure entrants into the pool all split the money.
> Coining headings like that "US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests" is criminalizing the term 'bitcoin'.

The BBC coined the headline, but last I checked, the BBC can't criminalize things -- at least not in the US.
The likelihood of Buffett actually paying this prize is even lower than that of someone actually winning it.
Is there something that $1B buys you that $500M doesn't?
I don't see that in the article. I only see 'logged in'.

And it doesn't fit with uber not even knowing if the death involved a driver until they got his name.
Will you please link to some example articles form your example topics and any others that you would be interested in seeing a Haskell analog of?
1) Because I'm sure they'd be excited to implement their idea, and see it succeed, and 2) because they'd be given more responsibility and power than they'd find elsewhere.
Consider this another "vote" for an RSS feed. RSS is essential!
Oh my god, it's a girl (2010)
Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf]
Show HN: Taplytics – Mobile A/B testing you'll actually use
1) That's a good point. They should receive direction.

2) True, but just because there are holes in your company doesn't mean your mediocre.
> iPhones are reaching saturation

I would agree Apple's current/last-generation iPhone pricing/sizing/models have hit saturation. If they offer a larger iPhone 6 and perhaps push the 5C downmarket to be a competitive unsubsidized device they will sell a ton of iPhones. I suspect we will see new iPhones (much?) earlier than Fall 2014 this time around.
> Do any married couples randomly intermix clothing, like all shirts go here, mine and yours, even the non-heteronormative couples?

Yes, and not even sorted by type. This is due more to limited space and getting bored half way through sorting things out and just shoving it all in rather than some thought through philosophy.
That while I can really easily and quickly get myself engaged with an idea I come up with, I can't come up with an idea that doesn't suck...yet
If someone wins, Buffett will pay, as he's insured away his risk (admittedly with a company he owns).
All you need to do is darken the font to the content-related links. If you want to keep it stylish and a dark gray will match with the gray-ish blue you currently have. It will be a nice contrast, and will improve readability while keeping the style intact. #222 is what I'd suggest.

I made the changes to show what I mean. Please refer to: http://imgur.com/6ombpd7,IdjJn6x#0
hipster fad? double edge safety razors have been around since at least 1930. not really a 'fad' ;)

they normally provide a better/closer shave, much much cheaper blades (compared to gillette), greater selection of blades/razors. there are probably more advantages.

http://www.dovo.com/_english/merkur.html
You could use first names as your dictionary. The US Census Bureau has lists† (in the form of frequency tables) of male and female given names.

†http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_...
Has anyone read what happens if there are multiple winners? Do they split the prize? Is one winner chosen at random? Do they all get a billion? It really affects how you should play.

For example, a common bracket might be to pick all the top seeds. In some sense that's the most likely outcome. But that may be a bad entry as there would certainly be lots of people who enter that.

In a similar way, the worst possible lottery entry is 1 2 3 4 5 6 is the most common lottery entry, and hence the worst since if it did come up, you'd have to split the prize many ways. [1]

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21573993-britons-love-...
Actually, with this vulnerability you wouldn't be able to check that page for the results of this attack because the attacker would have connected his Facebook account to your account at another website.

The attacker never linked your personal Facebook account to anything.
Lessons Learned in Telecomm – The Ready SIM story
Cute, but pretty much the opposite of how he seems to be in person.
I imagine they'll have people sign a binding agreement to participate.
GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving is kinda terrifying though, you're better off dumping the derivations from GHC and inserting them yourself after having a look-over :)

-ddump-* is great for this kind of thing.
You have a weird definition of cute.
I suspect if they had called it Architecture Driven Development (ADD) rather than Test Driven Development (TDD) it might contextualize better. Basically what the author explains is that you can design an architecture top down from simple requirements, deriving more complex requirements, and then providing an implementation strategy that lets you reason about whether or not you are "done."

But that 'test' word really puts people in the wrong frame of mind at the outset.
It's legal to sell alcohol. Do you see a lot of human trafficking related to alcohol sales?
Not necessarily, but you could get two of each something.
Image of Warren Buffet courtesy of (i.e., served from) blackmbawomen.com.

http://www.blackmbawomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/warr...

Very classy tBB.
Why Is This Year’s Flu So Dangerous for Young Adults?
> We really did declare war against al Qaeda, by name, in 2001

No, we didn't. There are no named persons or organizations in the 2001 AUMF, it is literally a blank-check declaration of war that authorizes the President to write in names. Which is one of the many reasons that people (including Barack Obama -- as President -- have said it needs to be sunsetted.)
These show up from time to time but I don't think they get the same popularity boost that the cute academic ones do. I also don't think there are as many people trying to sell Haskell internally or externally. Most of what you see with Haskell-in-practice posts is that (a) powerful static typing improves maintainability in various ways (b) training people isn't as hard as people think (c) monad transformers are really important (d) stack dumps don't really exist and that's tough sometimes (e) space leaks happen but you can learn to avoid them without too much effort (f) both robust and scripty/throwaway code is easy to write once you learn how (g) concurrency rocks (h) the awkward squad is still awkward (i) many libraries are abnormally high quality (j) there's some missing library coverage, though.

These posts exist and come up from time to time on /r/haskell as well as after the Commercial Users of Functional Programming conference each year. If you go fishing in the /r/haskell archives you'll find quite a few.
Actually at least in the UK its the inverse "wargame" tends to be applied to games with figures the AH type of game would be lumped in as a board game.
They split the prize.

"The winner will have the option of taking 40 annual payments of $25 million or a lump sum of $500 million. Multiple winners would split the money."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-buffett-basketball-bet...
This is a very cool idea. Love it.

That being said, isn't the joke that you have a really long domain name like ismycatstillalive.com and then the only content is a simple answer? I feel like ismycatstillalive.IsMyQuestion.com just isn't as funny.

I wonder if they let you point your own domain at them with an alias DNS record...
signed up for your beta, was a bit confused there was no confirmation of sign up (email, or web) as it just returns to the homepage.
This is why I've been describing untyped/uni-typed languages as tantamount to taking a pay-day loan against your own project.
No. "All the location data" was not cached. Only cell tower locations.

"Maybe apple intended this to be the case" is baseless innuendo and has no place here.

"If it's on the phone, we can get it" has separately been shown only to apply when the agencies have physical access to the device to extract data or implant malware.

You seem to want to spread the idea that spies can access the real-time location of your iPhone remotely - which is what the parent post was fearing, but for which there is no evidence. What is your motive here?
Nope. Solve a problem worth solving
Right now I pay for LastPass. However, I am having trouble deciding if I should renew. They published a blog article saying that they would fight any backdoor requests, but so did majority of the companies that Snowden revealed. The only way I would consider paying for your service is if it was open sourced. Some people do not want to be bothered to roll out their setup and would instead pay for an open sourced service.
Where I work (state government in the US), I accrue 2 vacation days per month. I have about 30 days in the bank. I'm going to take the next six months and travel the world with my wife, while working remotely. I am going to work at 50% of full-time and use my vacation days so I only work about 40 hours per month. My wife and I saved money, vacation days, and credit card points for about 2 years for this trip.
That I thrive in relatively structured work environments (as frustrating as they can be), but fall into apathy and depression in more horizontal/adhoc/Valve style places. This doesn't bode well for my potential move to SF/SV...
Interesting visualization of wind-energy across USA

http://rredc.nrel.gov/wind/pubs/atlas/maps/chap2/2-01m.html
I have developed for many years in PHP. Yes it is easy, but so is Django and Python. I just built a proof of concept app with Django because I want to start moving from PHP on side projects. Coming for no Python background it was super easy. Although I had to get much help from articles and community bloggers. I am going to focus on it more.
Apple: 80 percent of active users are now running iOS 7
The reputation loss of not paying up is far too great for him not to pay the prize.
In my mind he was kind of a 60's Penguin like character. Cute; very campy.
Yes, in that LiveMocha is free and Cambly charges you $20. Don't get me wrong, the concept is great, the design is awesome, but language exchange (tandems) is not foreign language teaching. There are other online services out there such as Iboux [1] that charges less than $20 for a private class with an actual professional teacher with an actual syllabus.

[1] http://www.iboux.com
He's insured if someone wins, it won't even be his money if I understand it correctly.

All a rich person's game. Soak the insurance rates for the next people.
I was very specific with brand/model/linking because I've had at least a dozen friends over the past two weeks texting me to find out exactly what I wear. I'm with you about staying dry and having an emergency kit.

Here in Wyoming you never know what could happen or when you may see someone!

I was just offering a basic idea of some things that worked well for me.

Thanks for adding to the conversation!
Buffett is making big money on this deal, increasing his personal brand and here is how (my guess):

Quicken is paying Buffett for the advertising exposure right before tax season.

Quicken is also taking out prize indemnity insurance[0] from National Indemnity Company[1] which Buffett owns.

Even if someone happens to beat the odds (which they won't) it's still a win-win for Buffett because he has stacked the odds in his favor.

Its 40 annual payments of $25M or a single payout of $500M. Also, they are only allowing 10M people to register.[2]

We should all take a note from his playbook on this one.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indemnity_Company

[2] http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-warren-buffet...
Forget the game theory the odds are still insane.

edit

Also consider that statistically significant deviations away from the huge list of ideal brackets they come up with are likely to happen. That's the nature of March madness, usually at least one bottom seed flips a top seed or two. Guessing which one will do so is a fools errand. So even if lots of people participated in this the idea that they would all be increasing their odds of winning could be an illusion.
I just don't recall anything official regarding that line of thought. Direct PR or otherwise. Is there any examples off the top of your head?
Berkshire Hathaway (his company) is the insurer, not the insured.

So he will lose money if someone wins (but earn a pretty good amount of money if no one does).
The value proposition of your service is generally interesting, but I don't think you are telling your story very well, and considering you are marketing "creative story and message development" as one of your core skills, you might want to take a look at that.

Also, your website looks like a product manual or internal specification document. Your target audience is not developers, but people seeking to market to developers and don't know how.

Respectfully, this wouldn't give me a great deal of confidence in your ability to do well what you say you do well.
Thanks for checking it out! You can definitely point your own DNS to it (via redirect). I'm also considering becoming a registrar affiliate so I can register non-ismyquestion.com domain names for people's questions if they like, but that's a bit further off.
How does insuring away his risk work?
Top 5 Co-working Spaces in NYC
With help from some companies:

> Three companies that like Google's approach -- Automattic, MaxCDN, and CloudFlare -- are funding Nginx developers to update its SPDY support to version 3.1, CNET has learned. Under the deal, SPDY 3.1 should arrive in Nginx 1.5 in January, a source familiar with the partnership said.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57616193-93/nginx-upgrade-f...
I think your edit is where the real story lies. Assuming a given probability of Seed_i beating Seed_j, you could make sure that multiple brackets follow that distribution, rather than just picking the likely winner. By working in concert, rather than alone, you can cover the widest possible population of brackets.
That will be primarily terrorists

Ooga-booga! TERRORISTS!!!11!!

Still waiting for a list of "terrorists" caught by this program.
It's probably not a shock for anyone who was following the controversy within the community about the Bitcoin Foundation when it was originally set up; there's several shady characters on the board.
Microsoft Research Built a Smart Elevator with AI
I think, one should carefully choose the thoughts to derive one’s actual moral standards from. We have constant access to all kinds of information with vastly varying moral standards and that certainly lowers the inhibition threshold quite a bit. In a traditional social setting it’s much more difficult to think about anything you want, because there are fewer stimulating responses.