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While I agree with the principle, and have severe objections to the security services being allowed to engage in that kind of surveillance because of the significant threats it poses - I would rather take the risk of extra terror as I see it as far smaller -, this does still not preclude elected officials from being terrorists or having close contact with terrorists.

Nothing says that terrorists, or their supporters, never represents the will of at least a sufficient part of the people to gain representation.

In fact, we have many prominent examples where terrorists or people with close associations with terrorist groups have been elected to public office. Some you might sympathise with, others not so much: IRA's ties to Sinn Fein, which has seats in the UK parliament, for example. Or the ANC, whose armed wing used to carry out bombings targeting civilians. Or Hamas. Or most prime ministers of Israel (most of whom were parts of terror organizations like Irgun or Haganah in their youth).
Let's wait for an independent investigation on what happened, since the police may have been involved.
g includes things like special reasoning and learning to dance not just word games.

Which is why many actual IQ tests involve 3d puzzles or images. So, this has very little to do with IQ tests as a subject just types of questions that might show up on one. Further, they use 'People' to mean a specific set of people instead of people who would do well on these tests making the paper link bait.

AKA, chess programs beat some people fairly early on, it was only really news when they could beat top players.

PS: Some validated IQ tests involve zero written words. Due to issues with language bias.
> Atomics in signal handlers - N2547 - its listed as missing here (at msdn), but listed as done here at vc blog

That was me being cautious, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/04/29/c-11-14-17... - "I previously listed "Atomics in signal handlers" as No, because despite maintaining <atomic>'s implementation, I didn't know anything about signal handlers. James McNellis, our CRT maintainer, looked into this and determined that it has always worked, going back to our original implementation of <atomic> in 2012."
I love this! Is there any way I can follow your work/progress?
You're right, I'd missed that part the first time.
gog.com is becoming really popular, and I actually had a really good experience dealing with EA Origin's support earlier this week. Sure they're not as big as Steam yet, but they're getting big enough to be competitive.
The other, largely ignored and much, much larger population of martyrs are those who died due to the growing excess of precaution and cost slowing down the development and use of new medicine. E.g. see:

http://fdareview.org/

The cost of regulatory burdens on medicine in the US has doubled in real terms in the past ten years.

http://csdd.tufts.edu/news/complete_story/pr_tufts_csdd_2014...

Much of that these days is political, driven by bureaucrats in the FDA and elsewhere whose career advancement depends of creating no news. Their every incentive is to suppress progress, because they are rewarded with bigger budgets when there is no new medicine, and punished when anything ever goes wrong and the media happens to seize upon it. No medicine is without risk. Every medical technology is involved in deaths. But successful clinical application saves lives and increases health to a much greater degree.

So long as people have choice, they should have the choice to risk themselves in the development of better medicine.
I don't think that's sufficient reason.

It's possible in the future one or more self identifies as Scottish. Alternatively, let's say Cecil Rhodes had said, I'm not English, I'm South African, would that have made him South African and not English?
Currently the iPhone Upgrade Program is more expensive than almost any network's Next/Jump!/etc program, by at least $10/month.

The 16 GB 6S is $388.92/year on Apple's plan, $260.04/year on AT&T's Next, and impossible to calculate on T-Mobile's JOD (since T-Mobile don't provide a calculator and can adjust trade-in values on a whim).

If you have the money to spare, the Apple program is the most hassle free, just also the most expensive.
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I fear that nobody will understand your reference; if only we had taken more humanities classes...
>I will not wait for somebody to be harmed before I condemn an admitted pedophile.

And by doing so, you ensure that all paedophiles are non-admitted ones. Imagine how much safer that makes your children.
The implication is the same.
i attended the university of chicago. my electives were what i wanted; my core was humanities, civ, arts, social sciences, science, language.

i haven't decried any problem. the professor who wrote this piece is a bloviating whiner, but he also happens to be mostly right.
I am very, very consciously attributing this to maliciousness. Have you not been paying attention to US politics for the last ~15 years?
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I just finished YOUR STARTUP IS BROKEN: INSIDE THE TOXIC HEART OF TECH CULTURE and found the section on management very eye-opening and full of practical advice. Highly recommended, although not project management specific.

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Because it's (possibly) a suicide we don't honor his death? Will we also prevent him from being buried in the church grounds? We don't want the holy place besmirched by a mortal sin do we?

I personally think part of it is political. I don't think HN will display a black banner when Stallman dies, for instance.
I work at a think tank full of economists. Most of the data they use is publicly available government data. And I've been working with them to get more and more code into public GitHub repos. Maybe it's different in academia, but we try to be fairly transparent.
Reasons exist.... One reason is likely that they want to keep the valuation confidential outside of the company (people talk), because as a private company that information doesn't have to be public. It's not a great reason for the employees - but it's there, nonetheless.

It's tricky to share that with employees and not have it get out.

That being said, if it were all public, I think that would be fine, I'm not sure what results that would cause if every company did that, and it might be cool if every company were required to by law (hint, hint, congress!).
The CNN report source sounds more reliable
You're right, and I had seen that tweet, I had forgotten it, and I agree that it was cruel. The actual advice was in other tweets.
That's typically not how these things work. You are bound to contracts you sign -- and the contract would indeed stipulate a 2-year agreement of some sort. Possibly, the contract could allow changes in a way that you can enter the new 'iphone upgrade peogram' agreement... but it's probably to AT&T's benefit, not yours. Point being, you can't win this game that easy. :)
I find it interesting that Wikipedia classifies [1] pedophilia as a "psychiatric disorder". Would this make homosexuality or other sexual orientations a disorder? Otherwise, what's the difference?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
Possibly, depending on what rate this is happening. I'd wager that this gets them brownie points with the public, similar to a "connect with fans" approach. Chalk it up to a form of marketing and budget it that way.
Well technically they don't think they are above the law and aren't breaking any laws because they write into legislation exceptions for themselves.

And for anybody that doesn't know about the insider trading....insider trading isn't illegal for them. That's most likely one reason they get so rich in office.
I laid the groundwork in 2015 for a new SaaS[1] for my niche vertical, building acoustics, that will include both project management and technical tools. After a few release cycles and the software matures, the subscription will transition to RaaS, or research as a service that will increase our body of knowledge in the subject and improve the calculators creating a virtuous cycle.

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I got a nice upgrade in service and a discount in cost when I made that switch. And I get to buy my phones outright so I don't have to worry about convincing AT&T to unlock them. Seems like a total win to me. I've always been dissatisfied with carriers selling phones on contract, and I'm glad to see that this whole model is dying. With the Next plan you so criticize, people still have the option of paying for their phone gradually, but now it's genuinely a choice.
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This is not hard to understand. Gov’t officials believe that the work they do is different in kind. This is a philosophical belief. The desire to be in government requires this belief to a greater or lesser degree.

So the idea that citizens should be monitored, but not gov’t officials, is intuitive from this point of view. A variation on diplomatic immunity, if you will.

It’s not irrational or uncommon. I happen to disagree with it as much as a human possibly can. But one can understand the position.
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They actually did something similar to that a couple of years ago. If you switched your family plan to Mobile Share from a contract, they gave you the off-contract $25 discount per phone immediately instead of when the contract expired. You were technically still on contract for the two years, but you essentially never paid for the rest of your phones. We made out like bandits on it.

Edit: Forgot to mention that this kind of backfired on AT&T. A lot of people got switched to the Mobile Share plan by salespeople and it cut their bill for the length of the contract, but they didn't realize that it would go back up if they got a new phone. So a lot of people started with a very negative view of Next.
In general long polling takes more browser/network resources than web sockets. “Long polling” means you keep one request always open to the server, and whenever it is answered or times out, you immediately open a new connection.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comet_(programmin... for an explanation of various ways of implementing “comet” / “push” web applications. In my opinion anyone who would consider using long polling should default to using WebSockets, with some XHR streaming implementation as a backup option, and long polling as a last resort fallback when other methods don’t work. Long polling is strictly inferior to WebSockets for modern browsers. [I’m linking to the old version of the Wikipedia page because shortly after that version a rogue editor with an axe to grind came and obliterated most of the content, and the article never really recovered.]

Maybe you just meant “polling”, with some very low poll frequency, or perhaps some kind of exponential backoff? In my experience, websites which use polling usually also take more browser resources than WebSockets would take. Almost nobody bothers to back their polling rate off to once every few minutes or slower when they are in a background window/tab, because web developers have little to no incentive to care about client-side resource use, so as a rule they don’t. If your site is polling every few seconds, that ends up being terrible for browser performance once there are many tabs open.

More properly, web applications which expect they might be opened in multiple tabs (looking at you Facebook, Gmail, etc.) should just be opening a single WebSocket connection, and then communicating among themselves across tabs to pass data where it needs to go. It’s really annoying that lazy web developers just open up several new persistent connections per tab, wasting sockets / bandwidth / battery life / etc.
It's not that they discovery the value of privacy.

They really believed nsa (and law enforcement otherwise) will only use their powers against the "bad guys" and that they would never be subjected to invasions of privacy.

They don't care if NSA violates everyone else's privacy as long as theirs isn't violated.

Just like congress gets a special pass through TSA checkpoints, they don't care as long they aren't hassled and subjugated to violations of rights.
Well, it depends. Canada and Mexico may not give a damn about the hypothetical U.S. currency export limits.
I think that this is a reasonable right to hope for.

No need for us to boot-lick and perpetuate a minor injustice against employees and labor here...especially one that is causing long-term harm to the ecosystem.
You most certainly do have the right to keep your children away from people, and not just pedophiles, but also strangers, Scientologists, or anyone you wish. Pedophiles also have the right to act within the bounds of the law.

I think you're getting downvoted because your prose looks like like noise and emotion. The framing doesn't look like it's aimed for productivity, as opposed to individual emotional expression.

People could agree to a cool-headed discussion about cool-headed policy of keeping pedophiles away from children. One may be able to gather consensus for such a discussion. You could also have a cool-headed discussion about keeping alcoholics away from bars, and you could even gather consensus among alcoholics and non-alcoholics.

But you are the wrong person to represent any such argument. You sound like noise and emotion. I hope you don't respond with saying, "Of course I respond with emotion! My disgust is just as natural! It's my parental instinct!"

I also think you totally miss the point of what this person is saying, and instead your overcharged emotional reaction justifies pedophiles hiding rather than being open. That's a shame.

It's a shame because the pedophiles who expose themselves do so with almost no expected gain, but with a tremendous amount of risk and cost. It's not like the emotions of pedophiles become any less problematic if they stay secretive. But by being open, they are more likely to seek instruments of self-regulation, such as therapy.

Not all parents lose sight of the fact that their family exists within an ecology of families and individuals. It's not like I'm going to put children in front of pedophiles, no more than I am going to tempt an alcoholic by bringing them to a bar. But I'm not going to allow myself to be overwhelmed by disgust either, so much that I would say that even self-disclosure for a pedophile is disgusting.

I can explain to my children my policy and tell them that they'll understand and be able to make their own decisions when they are adults, and I can do so without letting disgust spill all over the place. I'd rather my children understand my reasoning than simply see an unregulated display of disgust.
See my other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10818113). You're confusing "religion" (or even monotheistic religion) with Christianity. In Judaism, very early on (classical period, or middle ages at the latest) it was understood that the scriptures are not an exact description of the physical universe, and that the stories (like the creation story) must not be taken literally. In any event, once science came about, Judaism -- unlike Christianity -- didn't clash with it. But I guess I would still be branded a heretic on many other grounds...
I agree that the humanities and arts are of profound importance. I've found that the problem with these subjects is often simply how they are taught. Philosophy is a great example.

I was one credit shy of a philosophy minor in undergrad. The entire purpose of philosophy is to provide actionable guidelines for how to live life, yet none of my classes actually provided students with this information. Instead, a lecturer would drone on about academicians' opinions on various doctrines, their historical context, and critique each doctrine from a logical perspective without any group discussion or talk of application. Students were then asked to regurgitate the professor's opinions in an essay. It was boring, and eventually I quit.

Imagine if all chemistry classes were just the classroom side of organic chemistry, with people sitting in rooms memorizing syntheses and electron pushing without ever even talking about stepping into a lab. Would anyone be surprised if those students then said they thought chemistry was boring?
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The Apple program comes with AppleCare. Is that included in your calculations?
Are the fees for the phone and the service separate, such that, say, I can get a new $600 phone with minimum advertised $25/month payments over two years, but I could pay it off in 3 months at $200/month, and from then on out just pay for service?
I think it is actually moving in the opposite direction. With information so easily available, and so much of it out there being false, professors are today more important.

The days where book publishers vetted material are gone. Being in print is no guarantee of anything. The internet is full of every opinion and crackpot theory on the planet. The unguided student will find whatever information is most convenient at the time. Today more than ever students need to pay attention to someone with the experience to separate junk from the real science.
> since the police may have been involved.

Have we really reached this level of paranoia?

There are multiple police reports from each of the calls to him. Conspiricy theorists will just claim the reports have been doctored or whatever, but in reality the police wouldn't of known who it was before responding to the call, and probably still didn't know who it was after responding to the call. What is clear is Ian, very dunk at the time, did resist arrest and assaulted the officers (per the report).

Each time he was treated by a medical professional and deemed OK to be released. He didn't go to the hospital like advised, instead seemingly opting to continue drinking and running about in public at 2:40 AM banging on people's front doors.

There are many cases of real police brutality - this is not one.
I can't count the number of things I learned in college on my fingers because I didn't really learn anything. Nor did I learn good study habits, nor did I cultivate my appreciation of knowledge there.

I did all that after I dropped out of college and the ugliness of the work world drove me to cultivate my inner garden. I am exponentially smarter now than I ever was in school. I am a firm believer in the sentiment behind the phrase "Never let your schooling get in the way of your education."

The author believes in a fiction that never existed. Professors have always had to fight to earn the attention of students, iPhones weren't the only competitors. What's happened is that reality has gotten so naked that even the absurdly idealistic professors have had to acknowledge it. They were the only ones who ever really believed it. I feel like even parents, for awhile now, pay lip service to the value of schooling without actually believing in it.

Education is not, and never was, what academia seems to think it is.
Ian Murdock was arrested and released only days before his death, and he talked about police brutality in the days before his death.

In England those officers would appear before the coroner and would have to justify their actions.
> In that case you'll want to pre-hash your BCrypt-encoded passwords, otherwise you'll be imposing a silent 72 character limit.

Or just use PBKDF2 or scrypt, neither of which imposes an artificial length limitation on passwords.

Not that it really matters, since a 72-character password will have hundreds of bits of entropy as long as the alphabet is more than two characters; it's overkill.
Additionally, while I do not know in which country you reside, generally countries who fully subsidize higher education have much more stringent requirements to entry, allowing only those who are completely serious about receiving an education access.

In America, if you are willing to pony up the cash, you're pretty much guaranteed a spot. Combine that with the common idea that you will not be able to find a job without a degree and you end up with a lot of people who aren't really in it for an education, but feel like they have to be there anyway.
Just my thoughts about the things such as the web, government transparency, open source software, Internet monopolies and similar.

I've been blogging my thoughts for about two years now, but I found that blog posts are too limiting to express my thoughts about these things.

That's why I have decided to write a book that will unite my opinions on these topics, give my back story as a person who grew up in a war torn country that's not very familiar for its technological advancements and the things I've been through trying to compete with international developers and having my right to free speech jeopardized a couple of times.
Now we just need to get personal dirt on all of congress as well as the Supreme Court justices leaked...
I'd rather have the RSUs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_stock) that my company gives us, than stock options. A chunk of them vests each quarter, they allocate an appropriate fraction of that chunk to cover taxes, and the resulting shares are ours to hold or sell. No dilemma of when to exercise or whatever,
no risk of being underwater.

My father once got stock options from Nortel Networks right before the dot-com bubble bust (sometime between 2000 and 2002). He exercised them, sold some to buy a car, but held onto the rest, had to pay a hefty tax bill, and then when the price nose-dived, they were worth less than what it had cost him in taxes.
I have a logging and alerting aspect with email/SMS, as well as way more types of services than just SSH.

Mine are also easily hackable from a developer standpoint. People who buy it can easily add new alerting and logging servers of their own.
yeah, very remarkable... only 1 of your contacts is fucked up in google contacts? and you were able to figure out which one? whoa. remarkable. at least 20 of mine are like this, and i swear it isn't the same 20. google creates terrible software that breaks with every other release. deal with it.
Seems to be a slightly different concept. That seems to mainly be for shippers, whereas mine would be for receivers. Also, their pricing seems a little absurd, I'm pretty surprised they have such big name customers.

I still think my project would be viable though, since it would have a free plan with unlimited packages.

Thanks for the heads up about aftership. If nothing else, it'll be a good way to get a list of carriers I should look at supporting :)
I know Verizon lets you do this - you can pay off the phone by itself at any time.
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Yep, totally separate. Pay it off early, buy the phone outright, pay it off on schedule, however you do it the service itself stays the same.
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This is a hoax

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