skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part about setting up special credit policies for these pharmacies so that FedEx wouldn't lose money when said pharmacies were shut down is pretty clear that they knew there was something wrong, but they turned a blind eye anyway.
welcome to the silicon valley bubble
Ben Lawsky posts on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2aycxs/hi_this_is_b...
those eye pics are beautiful
Hearts of Iron II broke my brain.
Facebook libraries and utilities for Lua
Are Extensible Effects going to displace Monad Transformers. Oleg argues they are clearly superior.
Actually for the base goal of £4,000 he's guaranteeing two days a week for 2 months. The £12,000 stretch goal has to be reached for two days a week for 6 months.
But still, he definitely deserves more.
The DEA wants to warrantlessly search all packages going through private carriers. They've done this with UPS, but FedEx was rightfully telling them to fuck off and this is the price they pay.

This has been building for a while: http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/16724/dea-targets-fedex-...
Sorry, I meant select(). Don't know where my head was when I typed that.
I created a quick, interactive visualization of the survey data here: https://www.machete.io/board/view/airbnb_logo_by_survata/50f...

You can spot some interesting (but probably not surprising) insights like there were one and half times as many women who responded as men (96 to 68), but there were twice as many men as women who saw something "sexual" (11 to 6).

You can play around with it and see if you spot any other interesting tidbits.
There's a big opportunity far beyond the relatively niche startup community we've gained traction in. I respect your skepticism and frankly I'm encouraged by these doubts. Product Hunt is early and will change.

WRT to preferential treatment, YC doesn't get special benefits and looking back on the past several months, you'll find products from other accelerators like 500 Startups, TechStars, etc. as well side projects from non-SV folks reaching the top of the board.
Thank you so much, this means a lot to both of us.
Alternatively: don't display information only on mouseover. My mouse is not tied to my eyes.
Hi I'm not sure if this is useful but here in China realtime chat function for buying stuff is commonplace. I heard a stat that something like 40% of all sales on Tmall are closed via chat - be it wechat or aliwangwang. In terms of location based and in app purchase they have moved fast too.

If you need to look at consumer behavior (which for many comments here seems to be a question) it might help to look at what they are doing.
It looked pretty heavy. Can you describe how your team uses it?
That's actually pretty standard when dealing with _any_ small business. So I wouldn't say that argument has any weight.
Shoot the messenger much
In my (admittedly limited) experience with peering I've never seen a contract. Lots of ad-hoc verbal agreements, and occasionally emails outlining a mutual understanding, but because it so often is obviously beneficial to both parties it is almost always handled in a casual way and decisions are deferred to network engineers for engineering considerations. I've never seen legal get involved. If Verizon brought it to a point where it is a contract dispute then it would be just as much of an indictment- it doesn't change the substance of the post at all.
This goes double for fancy dialogs that float over my content! (Especially the ones that follow me as I scroll!)
could it be just some half-automated "big data"-style analysis identifying clients who are at higher risk of default and thus getting special credit policies. And i'd say it is a successful analysis at that if illegal pharmacies were among the businesses put into that set.

One can imagine how any reasonable automated classificator working over previous history would put a business with 2 such attributes like "business: pharmacy" and "location: foreign" into the category with higher risk.

As a side note - we have a "reasonable person" test in courts today, and, as more and more of things are being automated, i think we'll have a "reasonable automated classificator/learning system" tomorrow :)
Fair enough, but you're thinking about checking it out now right? :) Come to the dark side. http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters

(Rambda looks neat, thanks for the link.)
Good luck finding real reasons to need them in Java or Python.
Tried notmuch-mutt, didn't work well. That was a while ago though. Anyone have good experiences with it recently?
Its only good if mobile CPC is rising to replace it and Google is hopping from the sinking ship to the rising one. Otherwise "Simpsons Paradox" is just a description of the particular nature of the death spiral
Agreed. The mobile version is also quite impressive (viewed on iPhone 4s w/ Safari). Nice work!
I'll note with the nuclear power example that they don't simply hire ex-military, they hire from a very specific subset of Navy nuclear propulsion workers.

Even being good at following orders isn't going to help you get your civilian SRO license, but sailors who have been trained on the Navy's various reactor types have easily-transferable knowledge for civilian PWR and BWR plants, and so they get picked up quite easily in the civilian sector.
The Navy has something called "COOL" which tries to map civilian certifications to equivalent Navy ratings and NECs, https://www.cool.navy.mil/

But I'm not sure how well it helps in practice, nor on whether other U.S. armed services have something similar.
ZenPayroll is hiring full-stack developers
> ad blindness

This is so true. I went to advertise on reddit the other day and was surprised when I realized that the ads I was buying were for the "Sponsored Links" at the TOP OF EVERY PAGE, but I trained myself to not see them 5-6 years ago and hadn't really seen them since. /scratches head.
I found this to be the most interesting posts on the subject.
His letter is quite anodyne. I'd written a longish critique when it was posted here about 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094262

However it's interesting to note that he's far less sanguine talking in private:

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timeson...

"Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months.

"Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

"“This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,” said the guest. “They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.”"

More:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/237yxs/gates_bi...
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There are plenty of monad tutorials in languages other than Haskell but Haskell is probably the language where the point of the article is not obscured by the syntactic ceremony of the language.

Spend some time learning the basic Haskell syntax (it's really not that hard) and you'll be able to get to the "meat" of such articles much, much faster than if the article were written in any other language.
FBI warns Google's driverless cars could be used for terrorism
Why this kitten got meow an internship
10 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions for Entrepreneurs
The more people complain and refuse to let their SSN be cusomter id, the more vendors will backoff.

OTOH, there are so many "legitimate" SSN abusers that it's a lost cause.
Any good resources on extensible effects? I'm currently reading:

http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/index.html

I also know of:

http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/posts/2014-07-15-reading-extensi...

However I was wondering if there was a "Gentle introduction to extensible effects".

Edit: I found this presentation:
http://ro-che.info/docs/2014-06-14-extensible-effects.html#1...
If FedEx is signing up these businesses under special terms like this (even if they are the same ones used for legitimate businesses), it would seem (from the outside) like they were looking closely enough at the business to recognize that something was fishy.

This is different than if FedEx was just accepting packages regularly from someone that kept dropping by at the local FedEx b&m store.

I don't have the full story, so I'll I can do is say that it raises the likelihood (even just a little bit) that FedEx could have known. I guess one of the relevant questions to ask would be: "Is it standard for FedEx to be so hands-off when signing these businesses up that they have no clue what the business even does?"
Bill Gates, good friend of Roslings, is far more candid in private than his public appearances and shareholders letters reveal:

Appearing in The London Times in May, 2009, now only available through The Internet Archive:

"Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation"

http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timeson...

"Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months.

"Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

"'This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,' said the guest. 'They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.'"

Emphasis added.

More on this by me: http://redd.it/237yxs
Malaysian Plane Crashes in Ukraine
You know my methods Watson, what can you deduce?

Well, Holmes, from the range, it appears to be a point-to-point radio rather than an ad-hoc network. The length (6 inches) favours the 40MHz ISM band, with a low-gain integrated antenna & low data rate. I daresay the device casing itself could serve as the radiator. Perhaps some proprietary signal encoding for the (very) low signal power & to handle multiple access. Hardware is probably FPGA-based DSP + ARM processor. Most of the communication smarts would be at the TCP/IP level (e.g; retransmission) rather than in the radio per se, enabling low power operation.

It's nice to see a small start-up build something like this.
Don't worry, be happy.

Me? I'm worrying.
So what if you marked it read a month ago? Do you trawl through pages and pages of emails multiple times a day to find the unread ones? Or do you filter by unread?
As I note elsewhere, he's far more candid in private.
The CPR We Don’t See on TV
Ah, a fellow GTD'er :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
A couple of days ago one of my kids asked me I could give an example of something that was illegal but not immoral. We had a nice conversation working through the difference between the two. It was interesting to break things down into categories of:

1. Immoral and should be illegal.

2. Immoral but shouldn't be illegal.

3. Moral but should be illegal.

4. Moral and shouldn't be illegal.

Stories like this seem to me to be category 4 but I can understand how some people may see it as a 1.
The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment
Elm Library Design Guidelines
I was wondering how long it would be before one of you showed up...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhimler/2014/05/06/russias-m...
I like a sense of feedback but some feedback designs are worse than no feedback. Some smart designer right now is writing "Hover feedback considered harmful."
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That's what I was looking for in the poll
So Here The Competition Begins - Pencil Vs Camera
The US was booming as one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world in the 19th century. Why?

It had tremendous untapped natural resources, a wealth of coal and oil (it was the worlds leading exporter of oil until the late 1940s), and the social structures to allow mobilization of those resources.

Population isn't enough, and can be a curse. Europe saw a tremendous economic boom following the Black Death, largely because financial and real capital was concentrated in fewer hands, and populations were reduced below carrying capacity.

Education isn't enough. Drop a highly educated individual into the heart of Africa or slums of India, and they may do well compared to the locals, but it'll be a small fraction of what they'd be able to accomplish in the US or Europe, or by being wealthy and in India.

The role of resources, particularly agriculture and energy, in economic growth, are highly discounted by contemporary economists.

Hell, you can even get an expert on poverty and a Nobel prize winner on stage saying with an absolutely straight face that economists cannot explain growth:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wf57z/econ_pau...
I agree. Even if I wasn't looking to click on some section, the mouse icon would be distracting if it was directly on top of whatever I was trying to look at.
React has Virtual DOM diffing which turns it into a very fast rendering layer over the DOM.
It's not MBAs per se that get negative attention. It's MBAs with no technical background in the companies they manage, who sound (and act) hopelessly inept(ly), all the while ignoring advice from the technical people inside the business.

One of the most obvious indicators of this is people who retreat behind the bulshit bingo, which is why it is so rightfully disparaged. Seriously, 'synthesized'?? That word doesn't mean what he thinks it does, unless he literally made up their strategic direction on the spot, in that email.

CEOs and other leaders need to consider their audience. Anyone who casts a company-wide memo to a technical audience in such terms comes off as hopelessly out-of-touch, and deserving of scorn.
They are intuitive and very easy to understand and read the code.

If you use Python you should code in Python, not trying to translate C to Python.
You filled your quota for the day?
From the indictment: http://i.imgur.com/RnLKlRk.png

The indictment doesn't seem very well-written, because it's hard to figure out precisely what their "smoking gun" evidence is. They seem to assert:

1. "FedEx employees visited the fulfillment centers of Company X, where they witnessed controlled substances being packaged."

2. "FedEx ships packages from Company X."

3. "Therefore FedEx knowingly shipped controlled substances."
This has some great pieces of information. Though, it might flow better if it was written in different posts instead of one big one.

One that talks about the ethics of changing titles and responsibilities. Another that talks about what happened with Bill's changes and interviews. A third about the ideas of why Bill was perceived differently for the two roles. Finally, a fourth that discusses the personnel issues of people making sacrifices for the company, vs. executives not doing the same.

I especially like the last one. I think far too many people today have the value of their work hours vs. non-work hours inverted. There are far more important things in life to spend your time on.
Intercepted Audio of Ukraine Separatists
Also check out boxes in scala, these are lovely to use:
https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/Box
Google's robot dog 'Cujo' goes on patrol with the Marines
I'd be interested to hear more about category 3.
Bitcoin is not "mathematically designed" to withstand regulation. The mathematical aspect of the system involves only its technical operation; it's designed to avoid certain classes of technical attacks on the system. If anything, it's more amenable to certain types of regulation than cash is—paying someone in cash doesn't make an entry in a public blockchain.
At Ruboss, we rewrote Dashcube (https://dashcube.com/) in React, after having performance issues with another JS framework. The rewrite took 4 months, and was totally worth it. We're extremely happy with React...
Haha, the only thing is that it's not exactly 'respect' but just more like how to get on well
Hmm, that's certainly a cool idea. I guess players would have to link their twitter accounts to their FunNode account, and then we can have a script monitoring tweets for moves. Certainly doable. If there's demand for it, we'll add it :) Thanks for checking out the site. Btw, we do have 24-hours-per-move matches - only for signed-in players though.
I totally agree. I wrote Python code professionally for five years and am shocked to find I was wrong about this all this time. I must have introduced quite a few bugs. :-/
In my experience (two startups ago we had many of the same seed investors as Nuzzel), the difference between seed and a proper Series A comes down to data. Our seed investors invested primarily on the "story". The Series A conversations focused on the metrics. I forget who said it first, but "nothing screws up a good story like data".
I think the real issue is that the word 'else' is ambiguous in the context. Everyone comes in with a different idea of what the 'else' is a fallback clause to. Guido obviously picked one particular case, but there are other valid meanings.

For example, I think that it's more common to want to do something like:

# mnemonic:
# for thing in list_of_things DO_SOMETHING else DO_SOMETHING_ELSE

if list_of_things:
for thing in list_of_things:
print thing
else:
print "No things!"

Than:

for thing in list_of_things:
if thing.is_awesome:
break
else:
print "No awesome things!"

And what about conditional code that you want to execute when a loop does break early?

error_found = False

for thing in list_of_things:
if thing.error_condition:
error_found = True
break

if error_found:
pass
Vigilante justice.
This is a weak argument. Internet connectivity simply is not measured as a 1-dimensional value. It is effectively infinite dimensionsal.

The marketing papers over this in misleading ways, and that is bad, but if you wanted to pay for your own dedicated bundle of wires, like a businesses office building does, you could get it.
Starting off with an admission that I'm a Google fanboy and employee...

I hate this sentiment. It's silly. Google does not sell any information to anyone. Google just shows people targeted ads.

If you can show a way to infer personal details from the mere fact that someone is shown a particular ad (or particular huge set of ads), then publish your results so Google can figure out how to not leak that information.
How to do down vote? I want to down vote your post...
I think that the title is meant to be interpreted as "(A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers) – or, (Values as Exceptions)" rather than "(A Gentle Introduction to ((Monad Transformers) – or, (Values as Exceptions)))". That is, I think that the intention is to introduce the reader to monad transformers by reifying exceptions into values (and thus arriving at monad transformers), rather than to give the reader a complete understanding of monad transformers, which are (in this hypothetical world) the same thing as exception-reifying values.
Federal Highway Administration shares some responsibility in this, as well.
That's definitely not what the indictment alleges.

beginning
in June 2004, FEDEX established an Online Pharmacy Credit Policy that applied only to its Internet
pharmacy shippers. Under this policy, all Internet pharmacy shippers had to be approved by the Credit
Department prior to opening a new account. Existing Internet pharmacies had to be reviewed by the
Credit Department to ensure that they had adequate financial security. In arguing for the Online
Pharmacy Credit Policy, FEDEX's Managing Director of Revenue Operations stated "[a]s the past few
weeks have unfolded it is becoming more apparent to us that many of these companies are fraudulent
and doing business outside Federal regulations."
This problem also can show up for people who scroll with a mouse wheel or trackpad gesture, and so do not have to have the cursor over a scroll bar to scroll. My cursor is usually near where I last clicked on the page, and it is annoying when I then scroll and things start popping in and out of existance as they scroll under the cursor.

I find it annoying to have to go find a safe spot to park after I click on something so I can scroll without triggering things.
What's more, it dances very close to something that is a super-common error for novice programmers: the early return from a loop. I grade AP exams every year, and one of the hands-down most common conceptual mistakes I've seen (on problems where this is relevant) goes something like this:

boolean lookForSomething(int parameter) {
for (Item item: list) {
if (item.matches(parameter))
return true;
else
return false;
}
}

where a correct answer would omit the "else" and put the "return false;" outside the bracketed loop (or, keep a boolean variable updated and then return that after the loop is done. Let's translate that to python:

def lookForSomething(parameter):
for item in list:
if matches(item, parameter):
return true
else:
return false

As a conceptual matter, for a beginner who is still trying to nail down the whole notion of "can stop early when found, but have to scan the whole list if not found", it is just plain nasty that the following code is not only correct but idiomatic:

def lookForSomething(parameter):
for item in list:
if matches(item, parameter):
return true
else:
return false
Awesome stack. It's exactly what I've started working on lately. I have 2 questions for you :)
1. What router do you use for react as it's necessary if you want multiple entry points into your app ? Rrouter seems promising.
2. How do you elegantly proxy client cookies from your node app to your api ? (both way: read and writes)
Thx!
> There will always be non-expert programmers of many languages. Avoiding language-specific constructs will not solve the issue.

This is a language-specific issue that occurs rarely in the wild. Yes, it's part of the language, but it's used rarely enough that it can trip up even experienced Python programmers.

For example, Perl (until more recently) allowed one to change arrays to be 1-indexed, rather than 0-indexed at runtime. Just because it's part of the language doesn't mean that it's a good thing to use it.
> Google owns mobile search

Google does not own mobile search. Infact it is struggling[1] big time in mobile search. People do not use google to search on mobile. Infact, they use specialised apps like yelp, priceline etc to search for what they need.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/technology/google-misses-e...
I think all of the problems you bring up are indeed hard problems, and important ones to work on, but they are also problems that exist already, in the current ecosystem of open source web apps, and even often in proprietary apps. About the only way you get "cohesion" on the web today is by limiting yourself entirely to services from one company (Apple; Google), and even then it's far from seamless. Yet, somehow we make progress.

So our goal is not to solve these problems, but to incrementally improve the state of the world. Clearly, the first thing that needs to happen in order for open source and decentralized web apps to be viable is there has to be a way that common, non-technical users can actually use them. Sandstorm is trying to offer a solution for that, and we think we're pretty close. As much as possible, we actually try to stay out of the question of UI or API standards. IMO that's a problem that can only be solved organically.