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Right. The American worker lost his job because he was undercut by people who'll do the job for a third-world salary in third-world conditions. The solution is to let the American migrate to the third world so he can join the fun. How could we have been so blind?
Being an asshole in this context should be criminalized. If company buys a drug (or owns one), which people need to keep them alive, and it increases prices in orders of magnitude without any business justification, other than making profit, then this should be criminalized.

As a society we should decide where to draw the line. If an executive increases price of life saving drug purely to maximize companies profit, knowing that it will lead to death of other people, he should be treated as criminal.
The same time period has also seen America's rich enjoying more wealth than they used to, which I think rains a bit on the utilitarian argument.
Top Comment Paraphrase: "I knew about this before it was cool."

When someone posts a new python/lua/lisp feature intro, no one says "I knew that already!" or "No new info here!" But if it's about security or privacy, the HN zeitgeist wants to denigrate it as "old news."
No, just plain old terminal.app in OSX.

Or local console login on a FreeBSD server at home.

Nothing special.
Did Obama ever come out and condemn pakistani actions ?

He criticized India for its backward views on women - and no words on the saudis.

I view both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to be the most vile countries with extremely vile societies - I used to think its just the govt. But having lived in the middle east and known a lot of saudis and pakistanis I am disappointed to say that the people are not much more different that the terrible views spewed by their govt.

But somehow the countries that require the most attention are Iran and Syria ?
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I have two large dogs. When I was investigating the possibility of composting their waste, I ran across several sources that said even composted dog waste should only be used for ornamentals, not food plants. This may be out of an abundance of caution, but the idea is that plants drawing up nutrients and water from the soil can become contaminated with viable bacteria as well.
If your aim is to provide a better team experience than Trello, then I don't think this qualifies as a MVP. It's not clear what those features are from this summary and trying out the product, EXCEPT the look & feel. It's definitely nicer than Trello IMHO. If that's the main differentiator you wanted to test at this stage, then I'd consider this MVP (and sounds like a great success, hitting #1 on HN). If not, I wish you would've waited a bit longer to include some of those key features.
I've had the failed to initialize problem with many keyboards, including my Kinesis. If you're using a UEFI bios it could possibly be related to fastboot being on.
It seems strange to me that the Snowden is only now mentioning the "text message" attack vector, after everyone already knows about Stagefright. Is he out of things to leak? or did he mention it before and go unnoticed?
A policy of tolerance and respect does not require being tolerant and respectful of intolerance and disrepect.
Lite-on also builds the power supply for the 4th gen AppleTV...

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/JZCBHisKVpM6G1eN.h...
People are more likely to be assholes behind the veil of anonymity.
Congress cannot delegate its powers or constitutional requirements to the executive branch :)

But reading TPA, it carefully skirts this line.
The most questionable part is the no amendments part.

The constitution says:

"All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
"

Note the "as on other bills" part, clearly implying they must be able to propose amendments on other bills, and not just bills for raising revenue.
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Ms Tu's work was done during the Cultural Revolution. While most of the scientific research and higher education activities were utterly disrupted by the politics, this research project was well protected and allocated resource because Mao needed this to help the communist side in the Vietnam war. Ms Tu does deserve the prize, and it is a great news for the country, but IMO China would have contributed much more to science if it was not "putting it's whole country's effort to make this happen".
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My feelings exactly. Right now it's Trello with a better visual design. The other features are unknown at this point.
I scanned over the product's landing page so it's possible that I missed it, but I think something that organizes task priority by color should also have some option for a color blind mode. I wish there was a way to demo the product without giving my email and company name.
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The rising popularity of anti-debt politics is having a huge impact on the amount of pork amendments that are introduced in Congress.

Meanwhile, amendments now serve the purpose of attaching valence issues (i.e. hyped up issues that turn voters into idiots) onto any significant piece of legislation. See Congress now -- having trouble deciding whether Planned Parenthood funding is worth shutting down the entire federal government.

But the solutin isn't getting rid of amendatory processes, because those processes aren't the root of any contemporary problem. Amendmory processes have been around since long before the US was even a country.
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HN regulars may well be aware of all these things, but it's good to see this on the pages of the mass media.
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It's simple most internet blocking just sinkhole's L3 traffic.
Deep packet inspection does happen but it's usually very rare on a large scale even for big operations like the "Big Firewall of China".

The most common form of internet censorship is through blocking IP addresses/ranges, and ports, the next common one is using DNS redirection for additional filtering. URL and packet inspection (keywords) happen but are quite rare, selective protocol filtering (deep packet inspection/IX) can happen but it's very rare on national scales.

Complete internet blockage is usually done simply through BGP, the government simply publishes new routes for all of their ISP's which usually just direct to a blackhole, since BGP is insecure in general an ISP can technically redirect traffic on it's own if it wants too and it did happen several times before (hacking team allegedly published rogue BGP routes to sniff traffic).
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> Mr Snowden said GCHQ could gain access to a handset by sending it an encrypted text message and use it for such things as taking pictures and listening in.

Are there hardware GCHQ keys in the phone for verifying the encrypted text? I imagine there would have to be, otherwise anybody (with enough time and research) could construct one of these messages to gain control of the phone.
I choose to think he's rolling out headlines, over time, in order to make sure this issue never fades away like so many other things do. The pace of our media and culture makes important items this NSA scandal become forgotten quickly.
You might want to fix the XSS [1] on the page and prevent the path traversal (try typing ../config in download input)

[1] XSS Example: http://demo.youtransfer.io/download/%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss...
That was the x86 line of servers. IBM still sells Power and Z systems. (I work for IBM Research, but not on any of that.)
I pay for a NY Times digital subscription. Even though I don't always agree with their editorial slant, it's better quality news in on place than you can get for "free" around the web.

People hate paying so much these days that they'll deal with poor quality information. We used to all pay for newspapers--why should they be "free" now just because there's no paper?
It's like how the Affordable Care Act had to contain mutually reinforcing requirements for insurance. You can't have insurance that covers pre-existing conditions unless you also require everybody be insured. Otherwise, people would only buy insurance when they get sick.

You have to toggle both knobs at the same time to make sure the system doesn't become unbalanced.

With trade+immigration, you can't allow the free movement of capital without also giving people the option of following their jobs to places long removed from their origins.

Is it practical? Not entirely, but the road has to flow both ways.
Holy Shit! Childish design of Perl 6 site. I think the Perl 6 dev core is not serious. Perl 6 is an ugly language!

Funny thing about Perl 6 syntax and feature are reinvented the wheel all over again like Perl 6 'gather' and 'take' syntax, Only Perl 6 have that syntax. A lot of Reinventing the wheel in syntax and feature make Perl 6 a very bad language.
The TrackPoint is God's own pointing device. If He had wanted us to use a mouse, He would have given us a third arm.
Well the position is Full-Stack, so if you don't mind do a few backend stuff you should be ok.
In this context, it's also typesafe. A lot of bugs in python can come from mixing up types in cold paths or nulls. Rust doesn't have these issues.
I'm not the GP, but I think its' not a very full-time role because movement is slow and progressive. They have the next 18 months of what the company is going to do locked down and defined. I would also suspect they have strong 2nd level exec leadership to handle day to day. Elon only needs to get involved on big strategic decisions and crises, plus routine periodic budget and financial assessments.

I'm sure he's still working more than 40 hours a week across all of his companies, but I don't think he needs to be in the room for every major meeting.
> Would Perl6 adoption in the enterprise be enhanced by compiling it to bytecode and running it on the JVM?

I doubt the JVM will be officially supported this year but Rakudo's JVM backend has been running Perl 6 code since 2013.

> it is no longer acceptable for application development at my workplace.

Presumably "it" here refers to Perl 5 and not to other languages like Haskell, Scala or Perl 6?
Too bad it doesn't have the tricolor IBM logo.
Perhaps in the house, but in the senate they're often used as a political tool rather than to address legitimate concerns with a bill. It's a shady way of making laws.

Whether the ability to add amendments prolongs or delays the passing of laws, that's a tough one.
He's the one who provided the evidence. Without evidence you're just a conspiracy theorist. (Note the theory part.)

And frankly he doesn't deserve the fame, and I don't particularly think he wants it either. But the data he provided (illegally, at continuing risk to himself) opened up a much-needed conversation.
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Nerds tend to operate in a sphere of "once I know something, nobody must ever tell me again."

So, they know something and, just by feelings, assume everybody else knows it too. They assume hearing repeated information wastes the time of everybody.

The truth is, average people don't even pick up on ideas until the 5th or 8th time they hear them.

Even the Snowden revelations weren't revelations per se. We knew about Carnivore before and about the AT&T splicing room and even in the 90s people would half joke half serious comment about how the government watched all online communications.

The Snowden documents just solidified the nerd fears. Plus, since the 90s, the Internet grew so big and so popular that people just kinda gave up on the idea that it could even be monitored or tapped en masse. The benefit of the Snowden dump was showing it is possible and it is happening (instead of just being conspiracy theories) and you can't do squat about it.
Fundamental flaw in how services like Cloudflare are architected is that they propagate route leaks from obscure places all over the world.
Then his job is find something else for Twitter to make. Facebook has launched a lot of experimental apps like Paper, Rooms, Slingshot, Messenger. And they bought Instagram which is very successful. Under Costolo Twitter bought vine and periscope, but they haven't tried to experiment with new app ideas internally.
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Anonymous people can't leave bad reviews was their plan to curtail that.

Also, anonymity means people are less likely to self-censor. So you get more honesty. Sometimes honesty isn't nice. If you want statements that are only ever nice things to say, you'll have to accept that many of them are lies.
Those are excellent and I used one for years: http://jakeseliger.com/2008/05/07/product-review-unicomp-cus... before switching to a Kinesis Advantage. Though I like the keyfeel of the Model M better, the ergonomics of the Kinesis are better.
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It's true that everyone wants to hack your device.The difference is that NSA has set the tone: Make the technology providers under your influence include exploitable flaws and back doors.

PCs are fully mature products and 99% of customers don't need performance breakthroughs. That means it should be possible to make open hardware and open software that make exploits much harder than they are today. Phones are getting there. It's time to make hardware and software that optimize for verifiable security.
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Agreed - everyone has their weak spot, but not for everything. Its like everyone has their price, but not the fellow considerably richer than you.

As for smoking, if companies were allowed to actually misstate it is good for you, there would be myriad other organizations working to prove it isn't. A reasonable person might well do his own/independent fact finding.

Someone can say eating an octopus is yucky [it is actually used with salad in many places] but for a large amount of money you can convince/bribe them to try it. But if Warren Buffet says no, good luck bribing him. You can try another [practical, not theoretical] incentive, but I'm sure he could buy that too. One can say rich people must live certain lifestyles, but Steve Jobs lived an almost monastic life [save the Mercedes and a couple of other things maybe].

That inherent need has to be present for an advertiser to target/exploit it. And the person has to actually buy the premise of the proposition. Many have the guts to go against the crowd and some even take it as a badge of honor.

Valentine's day is a manufactured custom too. Many are religious about it, many others abhor it - despite the concerted, and mostly successful, efforts to create a romantic custom out of the day. Diamonds, I agree - in many cultures, especially the US. But in many other cultures, such as the Nordic, it is less common [1 - a forum thread]. That doesn't mean de Beers doesn't try its level best to manufacture the same kind of social custom in Sweden. That need for extravagantly showing off a romantic pre-commitment just doesn't exist in that market.

Now let's reasonably assume your SO is well aware of the hiring-pretty-girls-policy, and does not prefer you buying from that store given that there are better economic alternatives, and add in a touch of reasonable jealousy. Do you still frequent that store, given that you are happy with your SO?

Could I sell you an extravagant snake-oil panacea if I were a hot bird?

[1] http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=32620
My understanding may be dated, but I have often wondered if the battle for privacy is a lost cause in the mobile phone space. Even with a ground-up open platform for the phone and OS, current regulation requires blob of 'certified' hardware and software between you and the antenna/network. Short of using my phone to acoustically-couple a 2400baud cryto-stream (the call meta-data of which still being snitched), I'm really not sure if privacy is possible.
I must be average as shit then.
He doesn't want to be a celebrity. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/648909547055239169

He gave up a cushy job in Hawaii and risked his entire life to make the government's surveillance a credible threat to everyone. Not just the people who would listen, but every single person in the world.

I agree, kill your heroes and all, but he's important and he brings up new information every time he's on the news.
> Why not make this open knowledge?

Suppose Alice tells me that Bob is flaky and can't be relied on. I need a lot of information in order to be able to evaluate that claim.

* Maybe Alice and Bob were in a relationship a few months ago, and there was a bad breakup. Alice's experience of Bob would probably be different from my experience of Bob.

* Maybe Alice also told me bad things about Carol and Dan, so I think that Alice just has a dim view of people in general, and isn't willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

* Maybe Alice heard everything from Eve, so I need to consider whether I trust Eve.

* Maybe Bob got chosen over Alice for a promotion at work, even though Alice has seniority. So Alice might have an axe to grind.

* Maybe Alice hangs out with Frank and Grace, who bully Bob. So Bob naturally wouldn't want to be friends with people who bully him, even though Alice isn't doing anything wrong.

When I get this information from Alice in person, I can ask questions or just listen to Alice's tone of voice to figure out the kind of things I want to know about Bob. Putting the information in text form in an application makes it much harder to evaluate Alice's claims, because it only make's Alice's opinion open knowledge.
India is amazing. As a ethnically hindu bangladeshi I would eat a hat to switch my passport so that I could go work in bangalore !

I do not have a problem with muslims - most of my friends are. But islam is a terrible curse in south east asia in general.

I am not sure if its the saudis spreading wahabbism - I mean pakistan was terrible even during the independence.

Pakistan needs some sort of Hiroshima moment like the Japanese to come to terms with the fact that they as a country made a grave mistake breaking away from India.
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I agree, but let's not rush to blame "the youth". "The youth" has been writing and emailing and calling Congress to tell them we care about this issue but it's not like they really listen to their constituents when so much campaign money is on the line.
Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. I was looking exactly for this kinda of advice :) I'll remember your golden words.

Management bits doesn't really interest me but knowing what are so called enterprise skills are and where should i head to was really important to me. Well answered.
I generally agree. My only hesitation is that I wish they would simplify the pricing structure -- everything's pitched around promotional rates and discounts that only apply for X weeks, so it's difficult to know at a glance exactly what a sub will end up costing you over, say, a year.

I'm sure they have their reasons for doing it that way, but to me these kind of pricing structures are a huge turn-off. Just tell me what it costs and let me pay it, you know? If you want to capitalize on the moment when I'm reading an NYT story and think "you know, this is so good I really should be paying for it," putting math problems between me and the payment form is the wrong way to do it.
Important difference though: the point of "we shouldn't be surprised by this" isn't just "why is this here, it's uninteresting"; it's about redirecting the conversation toward the important underlying questions of government surveillance, etc. The very fact that these kind of surveillance tactics are unsurprising is itself a noteworthy topic that many here consider to be made more important and noteworthy with every new insight like this that gets released.
Well, if this was a one off occasion for forcing a pasta option, it possibly cost them a customer. If I picked two meats, I was forced the pasta option. I couldn't pick 2 meats + lentil option, or 2 meats + vegetable salad option. The pasta was good, but I felt a little cheated when I was forced to get it, especially at the hypothetical price of $10 per plate.

Perhaps it seemed that I suggested you could get a healthy meal + restaurant experience for under $10, but I was more thinking take-out options. Whole Foods' hot and cold (salad) buffet bar is like $9 per pound if I remember correctly. [1] Fairway, a competitor to Whole Foods in NYC, has a deli counter or buffet bar where you can get close to 1lb of veggies + grains + meat for under $10. [2] The only way Blue Apron makes sense over Fairway and Whole Foods, to me, is if you are either looking for the experience of cooking, or if you are a variety fiend and are going to tire of the flavors that the supermarkets use.

[1] https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/department/article/daily-me...

[2] https://www.fairwaymarket.com/content/uploads/06_05_15_REDHO...
Scroll to the bottom: those build your own meal options are listed as sale prices, but they are representative for regular non-sale options too.

Bonus how-to maximize value at the salad bar: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/03/whole-foods-salad-b...
There's no such thing as a front-end that you control.
No fair! You actually included information and facts!
I’m trying as good as I can to protect myself against such attacks. My android smartphone is permanently in airplane mode and I don’t use a sim card. Do you still see a security risk?
First, look inward. What are your goals for the landing page? Conversion? Subscriptions to newsletters? Informing new customers about your SaaS? Press information? Start there and narrow it down.

Secondly, think about organizing those goals into a hierarchy. Maybe you have a primary and secondary goal and even a tertiary goal.

I'll admit it isn't the best resource out there, but here's an article for tips on organizing your SaaS landing page information. [1]

And finally, I personally believe capturing emails from users as often as you can for a newsletter is invaluable. Ask them what brought them to your landing page, and what level of interest they might have in your SaaS. Even give an option for feedback. It's a gift to receive feedback often, accept it graciously. It's an even greater gift to know your users just a little bit better.

[1] https://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-p...