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How hard does the US government want him back, now that the cat is out of the bag? Obviously, the US don't want to appear "soft" on the matter - the interest of the administration is to avoid future whistleblowers by having a tough posture.

But Snowden has a pretty massive following worldwide, on a scale that Assange and Chelsea Manning don't have. Wouldn't a trial be a terrible PR move, on top of raising embarrassing question about the activities of the NSA and their legality?
Iowa can be classified as very fast battleship or very large battle-cruiser. So in a way the concept was not discredited, but expanded.

The battleships really didn't need more speed for line of battle. But Iowas needed speed to keep up with the carriers.
That is capital spending. They have lost more than $600mn (on $166mn of revenue), without including the $280mn in capex and the $145mn in stock-based compensation.
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>I've never heard that phrase used but to describe the consequences of a malevolent action.

It also applies to the consequences of reckless or negligent behavior.

Of course, "facing the music" would pretty much guarantee a life sentenced served at ADX Florence, so he'd be insane to even try it.

>I'm interested to hear a rational explanation for why anyone would think that Snowden's whistleblowing was anything but altruistic.

It could very well be narcissism masquerading as altruism. There's a small chance he's even been been working for a foreign intelligence agency the entire time.

Regardless of his intentions or motivations, the end result was massive damage to U.S. foreign policy.

Snowden facilitated the release of classified methods, capabilities and operations that fell squarely under the NSA's charter of gathering foreign intelligence. A significant portion of the operational details released didn't even relate to operations within other western democracies, but to nations or groups with questionable human rights records.

While Snowden's actions did spark a large media frenzy and subsequent debate—if only because of the dramatic circumstances surrounding the leaks, and the fact he had document proof—the revelations themselves were largely nothing new.

Numerous highly credible whistleblowers (e.g. Binney, Tice) had been advancing far more shocking revelations related to domestic wiretapping for approximately a decade prior. Despite having their careers ruined and weathering some even nastier retaliation attempts, they're still free today.
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I signed on early on, suffered slow and unreliable service and ultimately lost much of my data that they corrupted at some point. I finally cut my losses about a year ago and moved what I could still extract onto onedrive, not surprised they are closing.
For those that haven't seen the slideset: http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/download/Recruiting%20Giants.pd...

Also, a discussion on reddit from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/4faadv/prog...

At some point, I thought it had to be a parody, but apparently people like Alex St. John exist and actually believe what they say. This has to be some of the most vile stuff I've read coming from an industry veteran in a while.
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They could just use an js adblock blocker like wired&co. Sure, there are ways around that, but thats way too much trouble for the average user
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"How did interest turn into aptitude?"

Sorry, poor choice of words. I mean 'A quality which increases the likelihood of being employed as a programmer'- this is just not interest, though. But yeah, not a deeply insightful comment, given I tried to play with back of the envelope statistics and ended up with a low quality scheme myself.
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Shell script split on spaces (or the values of $IFS) by design.

For example, use null delimited values, because a variable (like IFS) cannot contain null bytes. Is this a workaround? I see it as pure logic.

Even understanding howto handle them, helps to understand the internal design of the shell and common external utilities.

Remembering is hard? not a "shell" specific issue... I use it daily and maybe that's why I don't face the same problems that other see so clear.
Apple is bringing P3 support to Safari. There is already media query to check for P3 screen, which is useful to switch between P3 and sRGB images.

https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/#color-gamut

They might also add support for css colors in P3 color space. (css colors are currently always sRGB).
In my experience, it gets too complicated very quickly. Also you need to manage your machines where the jobs run. I am not aware of any good Jenkins as a cloud service.
It's easy to convert gammas; the worst you get is banding when if you lose resolution and fa r movies this can be done offline, but when two color spaces don't align you'll have to truncate to the intersection where converting making the lager gammuts pointless. So given that nearly all big movies have been filmed and color corrected in P3 for years now, it makes sense to match their gamut, but match common display gammas, so that common sRGB content needs little conversion to be displayed.
Yeah, I think my sampling does not reflect what you originally said. I think I need to refresh on my statistics before trying any back-of-the envelope sampling next time.
Oh,it gets worse:

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/17/wage-slaves/ - he doubles down.

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/18/recruiting-giants-2/ - He triples down.

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/21/i-apologize/ - he makes sure he insults EVERYONE he can think of.

Personally, I really enjoyed the read - it is very different to my personal experience, and fascinating to me.

It is scary stuff, but I'm not really sure what I disagree with - or more accurately CAN disagree with. By that I mean that I have (would?) never work as a games dev, I have no frame of reference for how hard they work, so how can I really criticise anyone that has actually done it based on my very different experience? For all I know, it really does require the sorts of herculean effort he describes, and while it is as bad as he claims, maybe, just maybe, that is the only way to make games dev possible?
JavaScript doesn't have any int types at all. Your solution works until you need to do division...
Ask HN: Should DEV and PROD environments be segmented?
I am experiencing dissonance between developers, security, and infrastructure teams on the topic of whether to do network layer segmentation for DEV and PROD environments.

Security and Infra folks say yes and want firewalls between the environments with different levels of change control.

Developers say no and argue that different VMs/containers are sufficient and don't see value in having firewalls between DEV and PROD.

I see value on both sides of this argument but would love to know what others are doing here.
It's not the same, but it creates also nice graphs to understand the regex better

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It's good we have countries like Russia and China that the US cannot bend to their will.

Imagine if all countries in the world were stooges of America. Scary.
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This episode of Black Mirror says it all IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits_%28Blac...

That is, I think it says more true things (that are more an analogy than an exaggeration) than we're generally able to admit or even process. Our plates are so full that our tiny spoons sometimes strike me as fig leaves rather than eating utensils.
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As others have said, the agile manifesto itself is far less objectionable than most implementations of capital-A Agile Processes. However, I think we should be careful about giving it a free pass -- in particular, it's sometimes used as a counter-argument against remote work.
Don't they have to convert it back to a float to do math operations on it (if they're using JavaScript)?
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Dude (or dudette) - don't apologize for your post. I've been a lurker/reader here for a long while now, never made a single comment or had an account. Your apology triggered something in me and I couldn't help but to respond.

Your perspective adds value and insight to the conversation. We all learn from eachother..thank you for offering your perspective.

The fact you can try something for a year is a big win. Strategies I come up with to get motivated, focused and implement are usually good for a week at best. Keep on trying!
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>I'm interested to hear a rational explanation for why anyone would think that Snowden's whistleblowing was anything but altruistic.

He divulged a lot of information about America's foreign intelligence operations as well. Spying on other countries is the original and core mission of the intelligence services. There's no question as to its legal legitimacy and he directly undermined it by revealing the nature and extent of our capabilities. It also caused serious diplomatic and political problems, with Germany for example.
Wow, he sounds like the Donald Trump of tech recruiting. To be fair, there are some gems in that presentation. I especially liked the use of "giants" to refer to "10x engineers" and "Asperger's engineer (usually found
on open source forums)" was a good one too.
Just remember, becoming a manager will not necessarily lead to more automation, in fact in most cases I have seen in my career is it leads to even less autonomy. (and in many cases more unhappiness)

Middle management sucks because you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. You are expected to produce results by top management, but can't produce those results yourself, instead you are to cajole those results out of your team.

That is the ultimate in powerless, the unreasonable demands from the top and the stupid developers constantly not working fast / good / hard enough to produce those results. And constant firefighting...
Now that's a reasonably accurate analogy of computer caching systems. I sincerely doubt, however, whether this scale difference is actually optimal in real life. ;)
The emphasis on individuals is refreshing. Saying "the team decides" isn't a huge help when "teams" get thrown together with little regard to preferred working styles.
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Suppose you have an intellectual interest in some STEM field, and want to learn enough to be able to follow the leading edge of research in that field, and perhaps even advance that yourself. Let's assume you've obtained a bachelor's degree in that field.

Let's consider some options now available to you.

1. You get a job in programming or IT, perhaps at a startup, and perhaps make a ton of money. You pursue your STEM field interest in your spare time.

2. You find a job that is actually in your STEM field but that only requires a bachelor's degree. As with option #1 you pursue you advanced interests in your spare time. You probably don't make as much money compared to #1, but you are more likely to do work actually related to your STEM interest.

3. You spend, say, 7 years getting your PhD.

Let's compare these at the end of 7 years. As far as how much you know about your STEM field goes, option #3 wins by a long shot. With option #3 you've spent 7 years where basically your full time task was to learn your field at an advanced level, interrupted by the occasional undergraduate class you have to teach.

With option #1 or #2, you have something else occupying much of your time. You are going to have progressed in your STEM field nowhere near as far as you would have under option #3. For most people they will never be able to get under #1 or #2 to the point where they would have been at the end of #3...work just doesn't leave enough time. When you are trying to understand the most advanced things in a STEM field you need to be able to devote reasonably long periods of sustained concentration and study.

Financially, those who choose option #1 or #2 are generally better off after 7 years than those who choose #3.

A good PhD program in a STEM field should be fully funded. It will cover your tuition, and give you a stipend and/or teaching assignments that will cover the expenses if a modest scholarly lifestyle.

So the question you have to ask yourself is this: "if someone will cover my expenses so that I can spend 7 years devoted to my STEM interest, getting to a level of knowledge in that field that I probably will never be able to get any other way, is it worth starting the 'make a lot of money/start a family/settle down' phase of my life 7 years later than I could otherwise start it?"

The answer is yes for many people.
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> It costs nothing to produce one more unit of a digital good (or add one more customer to a digital service).

Having sold digital goods for years, I can attest that this is not true. For example, customers have questions, which consumes one's time. They do returns. Fraud costs. Accounting costs. Taxes on transactions. Bandwidth costs. Hosting costs. Transaction fees from your merchant service account. Etc.
Great article, but I want to rant a bit about this:

>Turns out science agrees on this: People want power because they want autonomy. Most of the time, folks desire to move up the career ladder not for pay, better title, or keys to the executive washroom (are those still a thing?) but because they wish to be able to exercise greater autonomy over their lives. Psychologist Daniel Pink agrees - he’s found that the three qualities that contribute most to workplace satisfaction and overall productivity are autonomy, mastery & purpose.

It's very common to cite psychology to explain human behavior. But I hate that it can often come off as dismissive of a person and their decisions. There's implied irrationality.

Often times the psychological need aligns fully with rational objectives.

If I were to program a robot to work a human job, and I wanted to maximize its generated income, I would try to program it to maintain its own autonomy in that workspace. Because without autonomy, resources are endangered.
You understand the online advertising encompasses vastly more than the standard IAB Ad Units your plugins block, right? Those barely scratch the surface of the behemoth that lies beneath. There's a reason the vast majority of display ads are so shitty these days: it's because only the bottom of the barrel still utilize them.
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But at least it's easy for the garbage collector.
Integers will do no better at pretending to be a decimal type without a library.
IMHO RosAsm was one of the more innovative assemblers available --- it came with a pretty full-featured IDE that also had a pseudo-intelligent disassembler, and allowed embedding the source code into the binary itself. Its syntax departs from the traditional one-instruction-per-line and feels somewhat more high-level.

Sadly it seems you can only find remnants of it and its history with Google, and more may still be around, but just not easily found.
>>> It really soured me against these sites to see the way they take other peoples' content and lock it behind a wall.

At least on Quora, the minute you write something, it's Quora's content. As the user, I'm welcome to put my answer on a blog instead.
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He does. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/718800782515118080
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542568
That is IMHO exaggerating a bit; yes, the arctic parts of Norway are definitely sparsely populated, but it is only a 20-minute drive or so from the Russian/Norwegian border post Storskog to the airport in Kirkenes, Norway - where you can jump on a domestic flight to wherever.

If flying is out for any reason, I agree it would be a more cumbersome undertaking getting down south.

Then again, nothing stopping the PEN and Snowden from turning it into a PR spectacle by handing over the price at the border crossing - with Snowden in Russia and the PEN crew in Norway, bridge of spies style. Would highlight the absurdity of it all.
I don't get this gripe with XML, it is meant to be used by tools not to be written by hand.

Where is the XPath and XQuery for JSON?

Do people really think that manually iterating over the whole JSON document to find the data or writing yet another parser, is better?
"If the smug [liberal] style can be reduced to a single sentence, it's, Why are [conservatives] voting against their own self-interest? But no party these past decades has effectively represented the interests of these dispossessed. Only one has made a point of openly disdaining them too."

His position is that neither party represents the economic concerns of the 99%. But only one will express open disdain for people who try to hang on to traditional values -- and generate mobs cheering and (often successfully) pushing for various sanctions against them like the imprisoning of Kim Davis (cited in this article) or the forced resignation of JavaScript creator Brendan Eich as Mozilla CEO due to his personal support of California Proposition 8.

The failure of empathy in American left is staggering, and it's something I've been quite worried about for several years now. This article is very good at expressing exactly what the problem is.

"I am suggesting that [liberals] wonder what it might be like to have little left but one's values; to wake up one day to find your whole moral order destroyed; to look around and see the representatives of a new order call you a stupid, hypocritical hick...To work with people who do not share their values or their tastes, who do not live where they live or like what they like or know their Good Facts or their jokes."
You're confused.

For one thing, the law of the excluded middle holds here just as it holds everywhere else. You've got two options:

- Smoking pot makes you cool.

- Smoking pot does not make you cool.

Those cover all cases.

But, the point I'm making is that you are incorrect to label "being cool helps you access pot" as "the contrapositive" of "smoking pot makes you cool". The concept of a contrapositive does not apply to "smoking pot makes you cool", because it is not a conditional statement.

If you want to cast the idea you're supporting as a conditional statement, you have "if you're not cool, you don't smoke pot". This actually has a contrapositive, "if you smoke pot, you're cool", and it is the same idea.

I don't believe that innovative misuse of specialized technical terms is actually a good idea. When the word you'd really like to use doesn't mean what you want it to mean, suck it up and use some different words.
"Not scalable" is a good thing! I hope the next phone costs $5m to hack.
What would they possibly gain by doing that? It's not like the trip is a secret. Uber arranged the trip in the first place. Unless they're not who they say they are, in which case Uber is glad to be rid of them.
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Actually, he could just fly to Murmansk from where there's just a few hundred kilometers to Tromso and take a plane to Oslo.
Having worked in places where each project gets handed off from specialist to specialist, waiting in a queue at each handoff point, I much prefer the cross-functional teams. You have to have accountability for the end-to-end flow of work through the process.
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It's not so much raw performance of a given language, but the stuff that "managed" languages and their runtimes do under the hood that's the problem. I've spent a lot of time debugging stuff like ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) creating hidden reference counting calls that were eating up a terrible amount of total CPU time. These hidden performance traps are much worse than having to think about (e.g.) proper memory management and data layout. I'll take manual memory management over any 'magic solution' anytime (they just increase complexity and if disaster strikes it is much more trouble to find and fix the problem).

Details: http://floooh.github.io/2016/01/14/metal-arc.html
The whole process is probably an attempt to get Norway to grant him asylum by the backdoor. I can see the rationale but I don't think I'd trust any place where the executive isn't fully committed.
I think this applies to many with a certain level of intellectual skills: they've been taught through many years of school that procrastination works because they could get away with it.
It also reminds me of the "Stealing the Network" book series. Every chapter was written by a notable IT security person and features real technology and techniques. At times it reads like Phrack or the hacking account of Phineas Fisher.

The protagonist's goal is to amass real world power. The books have subtitles like "How to Own a Country" and touch on arms dealing and small armies to protect your own illegal ass.

Although I found it quite entertaining and educating (it introduced me to htop, e.g.), the writing is not top notch and it may be quite dated now (it's over ten years old).
> ‘Monsanto is Evil’ is a marketing slogan developed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth etc. These environmental groups are actually the true evil in the industry. Their campaigning has held back progress in the industry by many years.

All of that can be true without stopping "Monsanto is Evil" from being accurate.
Didn't read, refuse to READ, won't fucking happen on my watch.
So I should take my closet, partition it into small 4k chunks, throw everything unordered in there and when I want retrieve something I look at the model of a perfect closet which I keep next to the real closet to find out in which of those 4k closet-chunks the stuff I'm looking for is? ;)
A team of Marines showing up is not very likely; while most Norwegians don't care too much about Edward Snowden (Edward who?), soldiers of a foreign power executing an operation on Norwegian soil would create an outrage that would definitely topple our government. For starters.

I really can't see our (US-friendly) government allowing such an operation, knowing full well it will make them look terribly bad and in all likelihood cost them their jobs AND their reputation.

And the US deploying Marines in Norway without the government's explicit consent? That is called an invasion, and not likely to go down well, either.
Isn't that one of the main safety features of uber? At least it is according to the drivers I talk to.

You know who's getting in the car, so if they run (in places that support cash), or if they damage your car, you know who they are, it's a safety thing.
Friend of mine worked at Apple in the period between Jobs 1.0 and Jobs 2.0. He described an environment of management 'wolf packs' slowly destroying everything. Stuff like this, guy gets promoted as a manger of a group. Proceeds to force out current employees and replace them with his associates. Then abuse the review process to boost one of those to a higher position in the company. Playing the game right they all move up in 18 to 24 months. All fun and good except the groups they pass through are trashed in the process.
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