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by ims 13y ago
I think the consensus on why this happens boils down to regression to the mean, selective experimentation (exciting things over boring things like attempting to duplicate results), and selective publishing (e.g. positive results are much mo
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by ims 13y ago
The average is misleading here. Where do you think those 1 in 20 kids mostly live?
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by ims 13y ago
Goodyear and Hood blimps occasionally lurk over Boston.
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by ims 13y ago
> Coast Guard does search and rescue work nearly every day Over 100 cases every day.
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by ims 13y ago
Re: Bradley Manning -- skim through the UCMJ and the Manual for Courts Martial some time. You may be surprised what you find.
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by ims 13y ago
Wish there was a cool reason to tell you, but it was just because somebody happened to be extolling the virtues of i3 in a similar HN discussion a few months back, so I gave it a whirl. I'm sure Awesome and Xmonad are great too, but al
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by ims 13y ago
Just came here to say: i3 is really nice. It's too bad he didn't mention it, it's one of the more lightweight WMs in his bar chart. If you haven't tried it, give it a shot. Was always intrigued by tiling WMs but resisted
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by ims 13y ago
In no way did I imply that. I am responding to the central "story" of this article, which is about denied FOIA requests. My point was that FOIA is expressly not the right tool to attempt to get the USG to give you their signals in
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by ims 13y ago
The history of human civilization in general has been one of force and savagery, gradually (and not monotonically) becoming more civilized. It's an interesting idea that a country (that is, the people living in a certain country) shoul
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by ims 13y ago
One of the basic exceptions to FOIA is classified material. If that weren't the case, there would be no point in having classified material. To my knowledge, every government in the world has some sort of state secrets program. If you
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140 Characters Spell Charges and Jail(nytimes.com)
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by ims 13y ago
That could be it. Or the United States could be applying the typical measures of pressure in the diplomatic toolbox, consisting largely of economic incentives, concessions that meet other countries' policy goals, and appeals to mutua
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by ims 13y ago
> Some are speculating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
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by ims 13y ago
Google Glass, it looks like.
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by ims 13y ago
Uh, here you go: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ...
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by ims 13y ago
Gray Hat Python is not bad: http://www.amazon.com/Gray-Hat-Python-Programming-Engineers/...
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by ims 13y ago
> Should they be keeping track of all newly-passed (and rescinded) laws, as well? Largely, no, because it would be a spectacular waste of their time. Why? Because the regulations are usually microscopically focused on class of actors tha
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by ims 13y ago
> Federal laws are so numerous and complicated that even the federal government cannot NUMBER them. they literally can't even count them all. This is just a meaningless thing to say. The reason for the difficulty in answering is bec
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by ims 13y ago
> Given the current trends it's overwhelmingly likely that someone will eventually be detained, harassed or put on a no-fly list due to past comments on HN. This is sarcastic, right?
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by ims 13y ago
This paper was apparently written by an Army officer, not a defense contractor (although he may work in acquisitions). Believe it or not, many people who work in government and the defense industry spend a lot of time thinking about 9/
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by ims 13y ago
Well that's a facile statement, since the EU is only 20 years old. Individual countries in Europe absolutely do have a record of torture, abduction, and secrecy in varying degrees. Are you completely forgetting the 20th century?
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by ims 13y ago
I think OP was probably just being humble himself.
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by ims 13y ago
Interesting, was just thinking about this the other day when somebody linked to a coding challenge for Max Levchin's new company: https://affirm.com/jobs
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by ims 13y ago
FWIW, that's Jeff Daniels not Jeff Bridges ;)
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by ims 13y ago
Don't forget that investigators will sometimes let people do things for a while in order to establish a more solid case. Ethical guidelines for this kind of bystanding typically allow crimes like fraud to proceed temporarily but not murder
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by ims 13y ago
Evernote and Linux user here. Their web app is quite good, and their Android and iOS apps are fantastic. Having also messed around with their native app on Windows, I didn't feel like I was missing too much since the whole point is really t
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by ims 13y ago
> If I were to do it over again, I would rather be an Alaskan fishing boat operator than a software engineer doing 99% of the stuff that paid programmers have to do. I usually find your comments thought provoking but as somebody who is
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by ims 13y ago
I have used this fairly extensively in helping a large volunteer organization manage a staggering array of Google forms, docs, and so forth. As another commenter said, it is like VBA except you get to use JS which is nicer. You can do quite
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by ims 13y ago
You're mistaking what I mean by subsidy. I'm talking game theory, not short term shuffling of monies. You are correct in that there are transfers of money and arms, the individual value and long term wisdom of which are always debatable. Wh
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by ims 13y ago
And the rest of the Western world, like it or not, is able to spend less on defense precisely because -- thanks to some unique events in the 20th century -- the US is effectively providing a defense subsidy for all of its allies. I'm not ad

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