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Does the USG also have an interest in (c) the ability to prosecute and punish Snowden in such a conspicuous and forceful way that anyone else in a position similar to his would be frightened enough not to take any action similar to his?

Snowden and his informal team of assistants

Do you believe Greenwald, et al. are collaborators and therefore should be prosecuted?
> One thing I don't understand - why would the US care? Why expend resources on trying to capture Snowden?

To dishearten any future whistleblower, it's a matter of pride. He must pay and he must pay big like Manning.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6qN167wKo
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I guess my question would be, why did you have all this potentially awesome stuff on the second page instead of the first? I typically tweak my resume every time I send it out, mostly reorganizing or rewording bullet points to emphasize different things. And, of course, the "about me" section -- the very first thing after my contact details -- is basically a short cover letter, custom written to point out exactly what I want them to read.
Maybe these people weren't really smart enough to be going to college, and the problem is "circular" in nature.
literally "safer"
> Chrome devs believed it should happen in the engine (Webkit), whereas Safari devs believed it should happen in the end browser (Safari).

No, that's actually pretty much backwards. Chromium believed the sandboxing should happen at the browser level, with WebKit communicating to the trusted chrome process via the "WebKit port" named "chromium", which is basically just a set of IPC hooks that expect to be talking to Chromium on the other side. WebKit2 was designed to bring both the trusted and untrusted parts of the project under the WebKit umbrella, and as a result it had tighter integration.

The Blink fork has made this less of an issue, since now chrome and content code are under single repositories (Chromium and WebKit) in both projects. However, you still see evidence of this all over the place. For example, Blink's content code largely follows WebKit coding style as opposed to the chrome code which follows Google's corporate style, while WebKit's coding style is unified for both chrome and content.
No, I'm just giving you my justifications for ignoring the issue.
that makes zero sense. something encrypted in 2001 isn't supposed to magically become plaintext in 2016 because "attackers get better." it's fundamentally not the promise of encryption. (I thought.)
The First Amendment is still implicated even in private disputes when one party requests that a court take some action that restricts the speech of the other party. The court can't take the requested action (e.g. an injunction stopping publication) if it violates the first amendment.

This is a bit of a simplification but the name in legal circles for the concept you are talking about is the "state action" requirement.
Bingo. A lot of the 'leftist' things enacted were not things that have been successful elsewhere.

Look at Norway for instance - they've stashed a lot of their oil money in a fund for the future, rather than piss it away.

Venezuela was a terribly run place, whatever sort of economic theories the leadership espoused. Lots of stuff went on that would not have been acceptable in a country with a stronger democracy and a high regard for the rule of law.
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Regulating strong encryption out of consumer products is functionally the same as banning it. Using encryption would draw special attention. Encryption needs to be routine in order to protect the public, outside of special situations.
You don't have a single leftist politic in the US.

Come on, you've got one of the most fucked up healthcare systems in the developed world, precisely because of your right-wing policies to privatize everything - and not a single politician is planning to fix that.
I remember a case where a DMCA takedown was used to get access to the victim personal informations. I do not remember if this occured on youtube, but maybe it is related ?
There are some thoughts that an aspiring absolute monarch should be very careful not to think; and wanting to make money off a natural disaster is pretty sleazy thinking anyways. I agree, though, that imprisonment probably isn't the right response...
Really?

"Alexander Hamilton believed that a domestic debt, supported by federal taxes collected from all the states, would unify the country", a quote from

"Why the Founding Fathers Loved the National Debt"

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-25/why-the-fou...

How many times has the US collapsed?
https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
It seems to show that their boom/bust is caused by oil, not politics. Fortunately the US doesn't have a majority of its income dependent on a single state-owned company, so "creative destruction" can happen safely as long as there's a proper social safety net.
but now there are a million options that are probably just as good

Few of them have block-level sync or LAN sync. In practice, Dropbox is often much faster than alternatives, especially when syncing/modifying large files.

The only programs that are better at it are Bittorrent Sync and SyncThing. And they are specifically made for peer to peer syncing.
I can, because it was explicitly detailed in the article this thread is based on. Did you read it?
I guess that some mod intervened here (by bringing this closer to the front page), because even a few hours after posting there were only a few points and it was rather deep in HN. Thank you!

Post title has been also changed, and it's fine. I no longer remember mine, but it was maybe too clunky. But.

metastore should be written using all lowercase letters.
> The whole point of this feature is to be terse...

I get that. I don't think you understood my objection, which was that being terse is not as important to me as being elegant and easily understood. {{foo -}} is not clear looking at it what that - is gonna do. You have to already know, or look it up. There is basically no way to know from context what the desired behavior is. That's bad design IMHO.
To kids my age (lower 20s) swiping is absolutely linked with tinder.
Why do profit-seeking companies keep making profitless Android Phones?
In 1994 Adobe created an automated kerning system which outperforms humans. It's built into InDesign and Illustrator. They call it "optical kerning".
"And in personal lives: Your current job seems like an absurdly good deal? Save and cross-train for when it becomes obsolete or oversupplied."

Too true. I've talked to many successful small business owners that managed to make it through multiple recessions. This is usually the key to surviving.
"shit down" -- you're on to something there.
That's a fair point, but official libraries should be held to a higher standard, I think.
Solar panels aren't the only renewable subsidized in germany.
Can you speak to why you were behind latest on the JVM? I can think of less than a handful of breaking changes over the last 15 years. I'd say it was more stable than Go.
Dropbox really proved out how valuable "it just works" in the cloud can be. Their first few years of execution were phenomenal and the product provided a real value. I remember discovering that I could mock up iPhone apps in photoshop on my desktop, save jpgs to dropbox and open in the app to see what the screens would look like immediately on my phone. Delightful. And then... none of their acquisitions or product initiatives stuck and they added a questionable board member. Anyone have insight in the last couple years of stumble? I'm at a loss.
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What are some of the most important things you look for in a coffee grinder?
What do you want to see in future grinders that isn't on the market already?
What's one thing current grinders on the market lack/fail in?

On a similar note, how do you feel about the idea of coffee subscriptions with the grinder? And grinder portability?

Excited to hear your thoughts!!
> not a single politician is planning to fix that.

You must not pay attention to the news much.

Anyway, this whole discussion is politics, so... I have flagged the article.
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Because college students are a much higher risk. You can argue that 8% is too high, but you can't argue that college students are more likely to pay back loans than big banks.
Ditto. Pretty sure having iCloud on is actually the default in the El Capitan (latest OSX) setup.

It integrates really nicely to become the default document storage location for most (non-developer) apps as well.

The only trouble I had was to have it replace the "Documents" folder in the Dock so I could just treat it like a cloud version of the regular documents folder.
Aren't they failing because of low prices, not because of technical incompetence?
Python is entirely different; the two languages cannot be compared with regards to backwards compatibility.

Python has been around since the early 90s, while Go was conceived very recently. Sooner or later, the quirks that resulted from designing the language so long ago had to be addressed, and that's why there's Python 3. The same can be seen in Java and Ruby.

Once Go is used actively for ~9 years (Python 2.0 to 3.0) and suffers no changes that break backwards compatibility, we can compare it with Python.
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If you can contractually give up your right to a jury trial, or to a trial at all (eg. binding mediation clause), why can't you contractually give up your right to free speech.
It's very hard to be optimistic about their future when their main competitors are Google (Drive), Microsoft (OneDrive), Apple (iCloud), Amazon (CloudDrive), Box etc. Virtually every single one of big players nowadays offers cloud storage. I cannot see Dropbox succeeding in the long run, especially with the amount of innovation they've put in their product in the past two years (close to none).
I wonder what the equivalent is for developers. What do we mistakenly see as our "real value". Something we think that can't be replaced or become irrelevant.
It keeps up if you go further back, too. In 100 years and two months, we went from the first transcontinental railroad to the first man on the moon.

But as the financial people say, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results".
Even once they are in repayment, many people don't understand loans. One of my friends posted on facebook his frustration with how his principal never seemed to be going down. I was able to explain to him how amortized loans work (pay the accrued interest and then any remainder goes towards principal) and he was much less frustrated after that (I think he even started paying extra to pay down the principal).

Edit: If you search online, there is a lot of info about subsidized vs unsubsidized, income based repayments vs standard repayment, etc, but not of the (small) sample of sites I looked at explained repayment in simple terms of what does my monthly payment go towards (principal vs interest).
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> Yahoo took a write-down on Tumblr, but that doesn't mean it "lost value" post-acquisition

Can you explain the mechanics? A write-down will be reflected on YHOO's accounting statements and will lower their tax base.

If IRS allows a company to record (and carry forward) such a loss without corresponding intrinsic value loss, that seems like a pretty large loophole.
I am from Europe, where higher education is inexpensive, and have very little understanding on the implication of such loans in someone's life.

But now this thought occurred to me: how can a 20-something person go out and start a company (as I often read on stories here on HN), leaving on zero or little income for a while (until you find investors, I guess), when I'd expect people to need a steady income to at least go even with the monthly loan payments?
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It's working fine for me with Firefox 43.0.4 and Pale Moon 26.0.0 on Windows 7.
Google "dividend investing" or "annuity investing". Some investments do pay out, fairly passively.
I am not using parse's backend services. I am using its push services. Has anyone had experience with Amazon Simple Notification Service? I am thinking switch to aws sns (https://aws.amazon.com/sns/).
> I wouldn't conflate tech-savviness with being a Snowden-supporter.

I would. You will find the correlation to be extremely high.
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The language enforces simplicity (making it easy to read), the standard library is dope, and the runtime is fast/robust.
It's not crazy to think that the USG might want to relieve Snowden of that role.

The argument has been made that a crucial difference between Snowden and other recent whistleblowers is his relative freedom to participate in ongoing conversations and inspire potential future whistleblowers.

Is it crazy to think that the USG might want to relieve Snowden of that role?
No. They tried to emulate Cuba and SU Russia.
Norway and Singapore are excellent examples until you realize both their population is about 5 million.
You should spin this off into a separate thread. I think it would be very interesting.

But if you don't, I'd like to know what it was like before 2006, when oil profits were high and subsidies followed. Did you get a sense the poor were significantly improving in their standard of living at that time? What about the middle class? If not, what do you think held them back?
There are lots of reasons for this, in my experience. Firstly, entrance counselling is provided right at the beginning. That is when students are at peak optimism, and most unaware of the realities of living on their own, much less understanding their debt obligations. Secondly, I think students have already made the decision by the time it gets to entrance counselling. This should happen before or during the acceptance process, when kids are making the decisions about which school to attend (and how much it will cost them immediately and in the future). Thirdly, the online system I was in lacked specific examples and calculators to make the thing seem real. If they had given me a sliding bar to play with and see what my monthly payments would be, it might have made a big difference. Maybe not, though, because I didn't really know what to expect to pay in rent or mortgage either.
It's fun to use these situations as proof of one political belief or another, but I suggest looking deeper than "socialism" or "leftism". Chavez tapped a popular anger that was the direct result of mismanagement by the previous 30 years of government that was decidedly not leftist. The mood was so bad that Chavez was forgiven for a coup attempt and allowed to run for president. Think about that for a second. The AD-COPEI regime in power from the 60s to the 90s was so discredited that a literal traitor was elected to replace them.

Venezuela's problem is not political flavor, it's the oil curse itself. I have family there, and it is quite bad. The economy is stuck in several sorts of cleft stick: Saudi Arabia's game of chicken with the rest of OPEC, the mismanagement called out in the article, the hangover of Chavez policies (which were necessary for popular support), and of course the military-narco complex always in the wings.
Would you suggest Venezuela for a vacation right now? It looks like a dollar would go a long way.
Can we still apply if we're not from a local school?
To echo one of Shivetya's points: the dominate renewables of solar and wind both need some sort of compliment that can fill in the temporary gaps when either demand is high or supply is low. Hydroelectric is great, but there's not enough of it. We'll see how batteries do, but it's nice to have more than one horse in the race.
Although there's a strong "email sucks" sentiment in the world, I believe the truth is that email is a complex system that has actually already evolved quite well. Gmail is quite an adept tool.

The inherent issue is volume - which isn't per-se the fault of the medium. Filtering and categorization has been the primary answer there - and those things (including this post) have helped evolve those issues.
I've never heard of them before this attempt. Any PR is good PR?
> Can't you really step out a little and try to think why oil represents 95% of Venezuela's export earnings?

Yes, and it has nothing to do with leftist populism (just as the dominance of oil among Saudi Arabia's exports has nothing to do with leftist populism, and the dominance of copper among Chile's exports -- which is true now, and was under both the Allende and Pinochet regimes in the past -- has nothing to do with leftist populism.)

There have been whole shelves of books written on how the dominant international trade regime locks countries whose existing comparative advantage is in extractive industries to those sources of income in international trade and makes it difficult for most of them to successfully diversify; this problem is independent of whether the local government is left- or right-leaning, and whether it is populist or not.

> Are you really sure that pointing the cause of Venezuela's collapse on leftist policies is just a fruit of "policial leanings"?

Pointing with significant evidence to specific effects of specific policies might not be, blaming it generically on leftism or leftist populism is, OTOH, a different story.
A .vn minister said recently that toothpaste was difficult to find in stores because people were brushing their teeth 3x a day, which is "obviously too much, 1x at night is enough". It is incredible how stupid things a person allows him/herself to say when paid to do it.
My wife was subject to very confusing papers that resulted in a federal loan many years ago. To her (she is dyslexic), it appeared to be a scholarship or a grant.

1. She has no degree, yet owes money.
2. Cannot get a better job to pay off said loan.
3. Cannot get official transcript for classes she **has** paid for, because school blocks it.

Ok, so it's a perfect storm that she can never get out of, due to predatory interest (yes ~8% on a federal loan when banks get 0% IS predatory) and 'fines and fees' that exponentially compound.

Worse yet, taxes and wages are garnished. Yet any calls to find how they are taken from the bill falls on deaf ears. Tax return payments alone have at least counted up to $15k... yet Navient cannot answer for it. Nor can anyone else.

So, how do you dig out of this situation? Well, she won't take the solution I recommend: Lie about a degree. But we're looking at this haunting our retirement. But one thing is for sure: we are in it together.

I know this isn't some sort of isolated situation. I can see variants of this being played out time and again; I can only wonder how the fallout of this will affect the people.
I don't think it's entirely fair, I think the expectation is that students know they need to go to college and they understand they can only go to college via loans. Accordingly, they know that the terms are what they are, there really isn't much variation, so they just go ahead and sign the papers to get it over with.
> I see this as propaganda to push the concept that Yahoo has negative value

How is it propaganda?

YHOO has a current Market Cap of 27.7B with assets including a 25B stake in Alibaba, 8B Stake in Yahoo Japan and ~4B cash. If it wasn't for tax implications of selling their investments, Yahoo's core business clearly holds a negative value. Accounting for tax implications puts it around 0-2B.

> There is more to a corporation that just shareholder value

Shareholders are who collectively owns a Corporation of which maximizing Share Holder value is its primary purpose and what the board gets elected to do.
In Fall of 1988, I was handed a sheet with my first loan that said how many $ per month the loan payments would be starting 6 months after I graduated and lasting for 10 (15?) years. I take it that's unusual and new students don't get that information?
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Have you also looked at Transit?

https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
The real absurdity here is that we can have a discussion about student loans and not discuss the fact that non-STEM degrees offer, in nearly all cases, a poor ROI.

This completely boggles my mind. It's insanity.
You're assuming there is a fixed pie. What if the company is growing?
It's 2013. Let's say you were economically literate, had a significant pot of money to protect, and were concerned about the direction the country was taking.

What would have been the best way to protect that pot of money, and how hard would it have been to do it?
But not using a pool is not the alternative we are talking about. Rather its hand rolling your own every time. Something the JVM doesn't require.
>>I don't see a reason to bring your political leanings into a discussion of straightforward economic cause and effects.

Because political leanings are leading to economic policy decisions.
Note for anyone who was as confused as I was: this is not the same thing as Amazon's internal typed JSON format, which is also called Ion.
Countries can be small and poorly run kleptocracies too.
To me Magic Leap is an interesting test of the investment people at Google and Ali Baba. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, but if Magic Leap is a spectacular failure, I think it will be a strong signal that Google and Ali Baba's investment groups are similar to the groups at other big tech companies. i.e. full of strong political players without much industry acumen.

I'm particularly biased though. I've always been a bit skeptical of the amount of money corporate development people make ... I feel like they don't bring that much value to the table as individuals, even when the corporate development function is essential.

When you meet a good engineer, lawyer, or salesperson, you can usually pretty quickly understand what they are bringing to the table. With investment people I feel like they just make decisions, and then they aren't often measured against what the results of those decisions are.

The people that should probably actually be corporate development people ... the ones that are unsure of themselves without sufficient data. The ones that listen quietly and form measured opinions. Those awkward types ... the ones with valuable insight ... I never see that type coming to visit our offices as part of the steady stream of investors.

All I see are well put-together people, with good personalities, strong handshakes, excellently tailored clothes, good presentation skills ... and a fair understanding of the industry ... plus maybe slightly above average intelligence. They are usually warm and personable though. Its clear they have that skill.

I have no idea why the CEOs select these people for the job though. Any one of our engineers if tasked to evaluate companies like ours, would ask better questions, would be more intelligent about figuring out what is our marketing fluff, and what is actually ready to go.
This is one barrier to entry in startups. This barrier is probably lower now than any time in history due to efficiency provided by technology, but it's still there.
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