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There has been no investigation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_IRS_scandal#FBI_Investigat...

As recently as last week, the president of the Landmark Legal Foundation (Mark Levin) - the Foundation that triggered the original Treasury Inspector General's inquiry into this abuse of the IRS made the statement on his radio program that not a single Tea Party group had been interviewed by the FBI in its "investigation".

If you want to claim that the audits were balanced across political groups, you'll have to contend with the information that we have that 10 times as many conservative groups were targeted and when conservative groups were targeted they were asked 10 times as many questions.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/08/01/study-100-pe...

So there's no equivalency there. Maybe a couple of progressive groups were swept up or maybe they were even targeted so that someone could have some kind of story of fairness.
that is the point - it is basically a definition of diagnostable situation when reasoning machinery doesn't function well (i'm not a doctor of course).

I mean, was she mean and obstructing by explicit willful choice or was it a panic reaction and collapse of reasoning machinery in response to what she perceived as destruction of her world? Former is ill will, while later would seem to be a diagnostable episode.
Oh, come on, how is downvoting a comment consisting of all caps "boobs" with no explanation "white knighting"? It even breaks HN rules for style.

How white-knighting comes into this is beyond me, notwithstanding how much I hate that term in general.
Anyone know what the XBMC theme is in those screenshots? It's somewhat more appealing than Confluence..
Please consult a doctor. Do not take advice about important medical needs from strangers on Hacker News.
ADHD doesn't exist and drugs do more harm than good
>Why should it be everyone else's burden if they make a stupid decision to stay put in a place they can't afford? Is that a right?

Obviously utilities going up should be considered in rent, but in a property tax-free world, someone staying is not a burden on the owner, except in the "he could be making even more money". The owner ends up making less because they might not be market value, but considering that what he's doing is rent-seeking anyways, there's not that much moral high ground for the guy who wants to increase rent just because of "the market".

Obviously these problems are nuanced (and economists seem to all agree that rent control = bad )
Wait, the possibility of hard-to-resolve domestic disputes justifies banning that arrangement? Why not go after, say, roommates? Or marriage!
An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web
This is true on Nexus phones, but it's a mount point (not "emulated") on Samsung or other SD-card-equipped phones, which I think--not sure--is more of a majority.
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No, I believe you're thinking of the current knock-offs that are top apps. Those are created from source code found on Chupamobile.
Quite right in general, of course, but diabetics form something of a special case. Most of us know more about our condition than most doctors.
When I went to Queen's University, the web app for course registration, viewing your marks and other related tasks was rumoured to be a wrapper around a telnet interface. I never got confirmation, but the following evidence was enough for me:

- Fixed number of columns/rows output on a given page and rendered in a fixed-width font so things would align.

- The need to navigate through "pages" of information that were far smaller than what a browser could handle, but would make sense in a terminal window.

- A form-driven interface with buttons for separate actions; the buttons seemingly would map to certain keypresses in a terminal interface.

I'm guessing the original computer-based system provided a telnet interface in the '90s but this was deemed insecure/out of date as the years went by. Not wanting to significantly change the architecture, a web wrapper must have been deemed the best option.
It's ultimately the publisher's decision, although it's still an issue that affects such platforms.

In that particular case Steam itself was not disclosing this to users in those countries. So on release day in the US, when the countdown timer reached 0, those in region locked countries had the surprise of not being able to play their pre-ordered game.

It's simply another frustration that made customers wonder what they had paid for, with some trying to use a workaround like a proxy (not always successful), or even considering pirating the game in the meantime.
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'Bound by US law in any jurisdiction' is too hasty a generalization.

Some laws, tax laws, apply regardless of jurisdiction, because jurisdiction is found by some connection of yourself to the state. But if you commit murder in Canada, that's a violation of Canadian, not US law (unless you're a member of the US armed forces, in which case it's a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice).

But more importantly, it's not illegal to break a contract.

You can't even get punitive damages for a breach. One example illustrating this is US Naval Institute v. Charter Communications, 936 F. 2d 692 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 1991.

Judge Posner explains why the law favors this in "Economic Analysis and the Law" as follows:

"Suppose I sign a contract to deliver 100,000 custom-ground widgets at $.10 apiece to A, for use in his boiler factory. After I have delivered 10,000, B comes to me, explains that he desperately needs 25,000 custom-ground widgets at once since otherwise he will be forced to close his pianola factory at great cost, and offers me $.15 apiece for 25,000 widgets. I sell him the widgets and as a result do not complete timely delivery to A, who sustains $1000 in damages from my breach. Having obtained an additional profit of $1250 on the sale to B, I am better off even after reimbursing A for his loss. Society is also better off. Since B was willing to pay me $.15 per widget, it must mean that each widget was worth at least $.15 to him. But it was worth only $.14 to A – $.10, what he paid, plus $.04 ($1000 divided by 25,000), his expected profit. Thus the breach resulted in a transfer of the 25,000 widgets from a lower valued to a higher valued use."
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Looks like the forceDOMredraw is defined in their offical "Common Look and Feel Version 3.0" docs. http://gic.delaware.gov/CLF30Glossary.pdf

From the PDF:

<div id="forceDOMredraw">: A div that forces the browser to redraw the content if it is displayed incorrectly.
Chrome Exstension permission names are incredible broad and not very granular - and there's nothing that extension devs can do about it: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/186213?hl=...

For example, want to access the DOM from your extension? You'll trigger a 'Your Data on all websites' warning, whatever it is you're actually doing: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8550/why-do-chro...
I've recently switched from XBMC on a hacked ATV1 to Plex on a MacMini and been really happy with it so far. Having the Plex app on my Samsung TV and then on iPhone and iPad is a great bonus meaning it's trivial to pick up where I left off.

I always thought the "keep watching from a different device" thing was such a gimmick, but I'll go from watching a movie on the TV, then to watching a few minutes more in bed before sleeping then another few minutes over breakfast.

If my 18mo old is lazing in bed with us, I can pull up a TV show he likes, give him some headphones and snooze for a bit longer.
I suspect it would keep coming up with probably not any of them, given the likely size of the pool compared to the number of candidates available for analysis.
Really great advice. All of the points made in this article can be distilled into one maxim - LISTEN. If you actually listen to your customer instead of trying to "sell" your product the conversation will naturally lead into discussions of budget, time frame, objections, etc.

The biggest mistake I've made with sales is getting nervous and talking too much. Ask open-ended questions and let the prospect do the rest.

Can't stress getting to the top quickly enough. It's so rare for a sale to close from the bottom-up in my personal experience.
No, it's quite true. If you're running Android prior to 4.1, any app can read anything from your SD card. Starting in 4.1, apps require READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to be able to read from the card (so user has to grant app this permission upon installation)[1].

Have you never noticed this when you grant apps permissions? All of this is clearly written on the permissions list -- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is explained there in layman's terms (as in, "this app will be able to read and write files on your SD card" or something similar).

And now, in KitKat, there have been some major changes in how the SD card can be accessed by apps, which I don't fully understand (never had to develop for KitKat only). But only a small percentage of users have KitKat installed.

If you're really storing sensitive things on your SD card, you should probably look into using some type of app for encrypted file storage (there are many on the market).

1. http://source.android.com/devices/tech/storage/index.html
Its interesting that this article hit the front page on the same day as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378764

Tools like ansible allow you to do really cool things with microservices
One of my parents is Egyptian and when she was growing up they had multiple "servants" but each with a different speciality. One was the transportation (pick up/drop off) guy, one did cleaning, one was the handy man, one was the doorman/concierge type person, one did shopping, someone watched the kids, etc.

In effect, there were no errands for the family to ever run because they had one servant that specialized in one thing but that servant did it for all the families on the block resulting in a full time job. All the affluent city blocks had their own network of specialized servants.
> Just because shell scripts can do a lot of heavy lifting, doesn't mean they should.

Knowing Python or Ruby doesn't mean you should write every system administration task around it.

Who writes testing around 50-100 line shell scripts?
You're considerably understating the money artists make from Spotify and the like.

But even if those numbers were true, the fact remains that's how the artists have chosen to make their music available to you. You have no right whatsoever to work around that.
You have ignored the meat of my comments and picked a small chunk to seize upon, which is generally a bad sign for dialog. So, directly addressing your point:

http://everydaysexism.com/

http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/

Also, read the biography of any pioneering female in any profession at all.

And consider educating yourself a little further before floating hypotheticals. If I say, "Perhaps Microsoft dominated for so long just because they made a really awesome product that everybody loved," or "perhaps the intelligence agencies are really only collecting the data they need to keep us safe", people here on Hacker News would mock me for not having done the slightest homework. Yes, those are reasonable questions to ask. But they aren't good ones to offer in the middle of a serious discussion. At best, it forces other people to spoon-feed you basic facts if they want useful dialog. At worst, it makes you look like a troll.
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/

He posts more regularly on Twitter, and his tweets are pretty interesting: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green

https://www.imperialviolet.org/

http://www.cryptofails.com/

http://blog.cr.yp.to/index.html (new)

https://whispersystems.org/blog/ (good team to follow on their progress)

https://moderncrypto.org/ (new)
Looks like Xperience1080+: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=150116
The CIA starts pulling Nixon level shenanigans and the general response is ZOMG Feinstein is such a hypocrite?

The way this works is:

1) The CIA violated the law under Bush II by torturing, but was allowed to get away with it because, politics.

2) The people in Congress who want to nail them on this spend the next 5-10 years searching through 5 million records while the CIA spends as much time as they can stalling them.

3) They finally hit the mother load in a document that shows the people running the CIA know about these legal issues 5 years ahead of the committee.

4) People in the CIA freak, try to hide the documents, and then try and get to the DOJ ahead of the committee. Because, as soon as the DOJ is involved, the game is over since they either have to plead the 5th or get caught up in Obstruction of Justice charges.

This is all separate from the NSA spying stuff, which Feinstein is wrong on. But it's not even hypocritical for her to say "spying is okay, but torture is bad news for Democracy." Given a choice between the two, I'd still rather be spied on for no reason, than tortured for no reason.
I think you nailed it
Oh, huh, I didn't even realize it was doing that. Even so, the move count will still be roughly proportional to the sum of the board (plus or minus some random variation), won't it?
If you're relying heavily on your personal network I'd be worried that those 803 people were not true customers. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a great idea, but I'm wondering how you know that a 803 person sample size is big enough.

Also - could/would people click on more than one button once they found out they were non-functional? It could be that some features would be best developed in tandem with others.
I'm extremely curious in understanding why he wanted to be anonymous when publishing his idea of Bitcoin. Nobody could possibly have anticipated that Bitcoin would become the most used crypto-currency today. Many experts from the cryptography mailing list were quick at discarding his idea from the beginning, so I can't imagine Satoshi wanting to remain anonymous in case Bitcoin would become a billion dollar business and people would start going after him for his money. This is why I believe Satoshi is probably just some brilliant person who's name is actually Satoshi Nakamoto (not Dorian).
Let's be clearer: he has the money he needs to live comfortably. For some people, that's all the money they need. "But you could have even more if you gave it to an agency!" Yes, but a) that means negotiating with an agency (which includes /finding/ one) and jumping through a bunch of hoops, and b) still having to deal with being a 'maverick personality' on the internet.

Or you could just take the Bill Watterson route, shut up shop, and live the rest of your life comfortably and in private.
Facebook just broke the mobile authentication dialogs
Does any one know someone at facebook who can address this?
I was addressing your original point that said:

>"this raises questions about how representative Inge is of the evictee population. I suspect the answer is "not very."

You are correct in your fuzzy logic, I was first making the point that the author could have picked a less sympathetic individual, if the author's intent had been to malign evicted tenants. My second point was intended to state that I am not sure what type of person would be "representative" of the individuals evicted; criticizing an author for not finding a person who does not fit an undefined descriptor seems unfair to the columnist.
I loved this one:

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/02/irreducible-complex...

But any random post of his is likely to be intensely interesting, even if you don't agree with some of his conclusions.
This is the same crowd that gets out the torches and pitchforks when one website uses CSS that looks kinda like another website.
Well-done, and thank you for taking a stand against a broken system.
too close to home
Right/Down/right/Down with an Up/Right/Down thrown in when stuck has worked well for me. My first 1024 block came that way.

When I began playing I was moving around the board in an unorganized fashion, but am now finding that moving the larger numbers to one corner (bottom-right for me) is the best method. By having your block consolidation take place in one particular area, the odds that you'll have matching large numbers goes up dramatically.
It's already dead. I'm not sure it was ever alive. Companies like Google started building their own servers long before present scales were ever reached.
Does anyone know someone at Facebook who could address this issue?
This would be a better sell if Steam Machines didn't cost as much as a full gaming PC.
You've got to wonder why, once this sordid history had become well known, prospective franchisees didn't start to insist on non-compete clauses in their contracts.
"a couple days ago"

literally shows up underneath this story
The author clearly doesn't like Snowden much.
Those clients/libs aren't getting articles in Time, and for the most part aren't as slick and ready for the general (non-technical) public though.
Ask HN: How to realistically prepare for the robotization of the U.S.?
So their is a huge swath of automation coming down the pike. Automated cars, automated work force, video based education.

Many of these things still require human input although we've set ourselves up so that people don't get paid or paid very little (an example is Google translate which Jaron Lanier likes to use as an example).

I'm curious what insight people here have to mitigate being a victim of all of this. I know customer service jobs and the like will always be available but those are low paying and require a certain personality type. Mainly upbeat and happy...all the time. We seem to be moving toward a lack-of-a-middle class society. I am still convinced there are enclaves that will be well paying that don't require an MIT degree or a customer service personality that borders on senility. So feel free to respond.That is all.
I see the same problem. It is affecting all new users on iPhone since about an hour ago.
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Did you even read the blog post? He's all but daring them to sue him. I congratulate him for taking a stand -- if all of us did the same, this broken software patent business would be much less of a problem, and only worst socially-outcast patent trolls would bother suing anyone.
when do you typically have code in a google doc?
npm-shrinkwrap covers one of the main strengths of checking code into source control, without actually needing to check in to version control. It locks versions down for your direct dependencies AND their dependencies, same as checking into your own repo would.
I agree, although the quality of PD films is generally mediocre from everything I've seen. Seems mostly due to companies not bothering to perform better transfers and clean-ups as it's not very profitable.
We intentionally diversified the traffic as much as possible, exactly for this reason. Only a small portion of the traffic was from personal networks.

Repeat clicks are definitely interesting. It makes sense that once a button was clicked and found to be non-functional, that may prevent future interaction. But that first click still holds value. It'd be interesting to pull stats on how many unique visitors generated those click events.
Public assistance is offered to maintain livable conditions. It would seem that qualifying for assistance does the opposite of what you think it does- it produces a "livable salary".
I think the widespread practice of Android applications storing potentially large data in /sdcard dates to a time when /data was extremely small on most phones, and would fill up quite rapidly if you had a large number of applications installed. I don't think that's the case any longer, at least certainly not for an SMS app.
I can't help but think about Steve Yegge's rant about Amazon and its SOA architecture.

http://pastebin.com/FBbSkp2i
What startups are working to solve idea distribution?
For anyone who's interested in competitive programming, the Code Jam problem preparation guide makes for some really interesting reading. It should probably be required reading for anyone who wants to run a similar contest.

https://code.google.com/codejam/problem-preparation.html
Indeed. From the fact that we should care for the poor, it simply doesn't follow that we should give them luxury goods. We'd scoff at someone who suggested giving the poor vouchers for caviar. But do the same thing with housing instead of food, and ...
That's completely unfair. It may not be realistic to expect Valve to get the same catalog for Linux gaming as is available on Windows, but Steam Boxes cost roughly the same as similarly-equipped Windows gaming PCs, so it's the same market. It's unrealistic to expect Valve to be able to deliver the full Steam catalog on Linux now, but it's equally unrealistic to expect potential users to not care about the number of games available, particularly AAA games.
From the American Community Survey (ACS), $1,300 per month will put her in the 13% percentile in San Francisco household income. This looks like a decent safety net to me.

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
To add to that, the law favors corporations, officers, and directors over shareholders.
move fast and break things has its consequences
Would be interesting if Twitter created their own bot to make it seem like they have more active users than they actually do.
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