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How to take action outside US ? The link to Amnesty international on the Take Action page is broken.
My thoughts exactly. The question is a very good one. But the article does not really answer it.

To add to your observation, I think there is also a social aspect to it. I have often felt that being "not busy" is not socially acceptable. Or in other words being busy is somehow more respectable. So we tend to brag about being busy, and helps to perpetuate this point of view.
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"yet nobody does something."

I contribute to Mailvelope now and then. I encourage my friends to use encryption. I'm honestly not entirely sure what practical things people are supposed to do? This isn't something where you round up a bunch of volunteers to go do a beach cleanup.
Quite right. Other problems include HR is not on your side, you may need references, etc.

I'm not sure how exit interview results overlap with glassdoor reviews. Do people feel glass door offers more anonymity? Perhaps people secure their next job then write a negative review once "burning bridges" becomes less consequential ?
> top priority change of the Internet

See you in thirty years.

Also, IP authentication doesn't help you. DDOS traffic often has real IP source addresses on. It tells you that the traffic is several hundred thousand home PCs. Now what?
I’m sad about the name of applyPatches. If it’s something that should never be needed and is a security risk, it should have a dangerous name and/or value. e.g. make it a string value that needs to be exactly "No, even though I know that this is a bad idea and promotes insecurity; I have read http://example.com/ and really need this." to turn off patches.
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It's a bit crufty, but you might want to look at hg-git: http://hg-git.github.io/

It allows you to use hg as a git client. It supports git branches (mapped to hg bookmarks), tags, etc and is mostly pretty seamless, with a few rough edges where the semantics don't quite match up --- e.g., hg supports moving tags, which git doesn't like doing.

I use it with github, and have done some pretty complex stuff with it, and nearly everything has Just Worked. The biggest problem is with the bookmark-to-branch mapping, so I tend to create/delete branches via the github web UI, then pull the repository to update the client, but I'm totally willing to admit that I've never really bothered to learn much about how that works so I could just not be driving it properly.
Could the spectrum be opened up "unoficially"? i.e. Is there a "switch"the govt would need to throw or is it more that you cannot use the spectrum for fear of prosecution, so with no govt you could just decide to use the available spectrum?
Yes, this is called "social conditioning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning

To get back to being a kid, one can decondition all that (while retaining adult sensibilities).
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Actually I spend most of my time on C++ side, which also has its own share of issues regarding Android tooling.

Still checking in how Kotlin support evolves, my experience using languages like Turbo Pascal, Delphi and Oberon made me weary of using using languages that aren't directly supported by platform owners for production code.
It's because of Classic ASP stigma attached to it so whenever you tell people you're working with .NET they think about `runat=server` and *.aspx BS.

Even now when I tell some people that .NET is very simple, fast and runs on osx/linux they are like "Really!? No way bla bla."
I would call this "the risk of divided loyalties". If you spoke a foreign language, if you had relatives abroad, if you had been born abroad, if you had a distinct ethnicity, if you had a religion, if you had neighbours or friends who had anything of the above.

Any of these would make someone think that you might be disloyal to the Soviet state and loyal to something else, and therefore increase your likelihood of being arbitrarily picked up for espionage, treason or sabotage charges. And once picked up, the guilty one had been arrested, because the system does not make mistakes. At this point, it's only the crime that needs to be found.

(It is attributed to Stalin that he said "there are no innocent people, only people who haven't been properly investigated yet." Not sure if he actually said this anywhere.)

The risk of Jewish people having shared loyalties to Israel is mostly a post-1948 thing of course so it was in a different form during the Great Purges.
I'm not sure 'netflix and chill ' is allowed on mass transit to be honest...
Not yet. Will have to schedule some time for it.
Hey @mtmail!

Thanks for the find. Slipped our hands on this one. Just updated the copy.

Definitely would like your thoughts on this product.

Just a snippet from PH that we wrote their:
Bootstrap IO hosts and automatically creates your website and landing pages for all your apps in under 3 minutes.

When you’re coding for weeks, days, and hours on pushing your app live, it’s a pain to switch gears into a different language to create a website to showcase your apps. Bootstrap.io takes care of all of that for you - saving you weeks in development.

All of that extra (and we do really mean a lot of extra) time can now be allocated back into improving and iterating on your apps.
Unless the publication can prove quid-pro-quo, they would be open to charges of defamation.
Yep. There's a value to also keeping a maybe someday list but a to do list really does need to be tractable. I've known people who kept these ever-expanding multi-page to do lists and never got anything done.

I'm really not much of a productivity "system" person but David Allen has some good ideas around completing quick tasks, to do lists, breaking things up into manageable chunks, calendars being for events that are tied to a specific time/date, etc.
Trump would, in all likelihood, further attempts to hunt him down - given his stance on spying on Americans.
Yes, it's about money. Monetization of intellectual property. Whether it's entertainment, software, drugs or medical devices. Regarding EpiPen, epinephrine has been generic for many decades, but the device is still protected by patent.
Yeah, Novena will be much more usable once the etnaviv drivers are ready.
> runtime generic type erasure needs to go.

Is is part of the value type related changes.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jlss...

How it will actually look like is still WIP.
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Creating HTML and CSS with the aid of a time machine would be far easier. The problem with HTML and CSS is that we can't break the web, and much of HTML and CSS comes from a time where the kind of things we want to do now couldn't really be imagined.

Here is a list of mistakes the CSS Working Group would like to change, if we could go back in time to do so https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

I would really encourage anyone who thinks the web platform as it stands is sucky to get involved in trying to make it better. There are lots of interesting things happening - a lot of them behind browser flags.

Also, take a look at Houdini - the project to open up the APIs and let you extend CSS itself. There is an explanation of the project here https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-m...
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We should all be so lucky that some other languages are willing to break backwards compatibility. Even C++ gurus like Scott Myers advocate that language finally breaking source compatibility [0]. Often, breaking compatibility is the only way to make a language better.

[0] http://scottmeyers.blogspot.nl/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-...
In theory those are different. In practice though there hasn't been a single socialist country that hasn't at least devolved into authoritarianism or even has been so right from the start (Scandinavian Socialism and modern day German
Social Market Economy could be considered exceptions but I doubt these can really be considered socialist.).

People keep saying: "This isn't true socialism." Well, then true socialism seems to be nothing but a pipe dream that in reality can't be implemented and hence should either be revised or replaced by a better concept.
Heh, I've noticed that Western culture does put a different emphasis on work ethics. After moving to Russia, I've just noticed a different approach to how work is perceived, and my partner and her mom have often cited this proverb at me:

Работа не волк - в лес не убежит.
Work is not a wolf, it will not run to the forest.

Basically, the idea is work isn't going anywhere, so no need to worry that much about it. At my last job in the US, I couldn't understand why people were so adamant about how busy they were when most of the time people were doing what they could to look busy. It's not that they were actually burdened with work, it was that they wanted to appear like they had no time. My employees would frequently get into arguments over who had the busier and more difficult schedule. My family does the same (one of my brothers prides himself on how little free time he had)

I guess it's just this perception that important people are busy and the inverse of that is if you're not busy you're not important. Just speculation, of course, but it's my experience that once you get away from the US, you lose this mindset.

Edit: I guess in fairness I should note that I did have genuinely busy coworkers - our under-staffed programming team were constantly under pressure and in constant repair mode due to not having the time or resources to move out of a crisis state. This is a true "always busy" scenario in my mind.
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More or less true. I think a lot of the early enthusiast web-places have either disappeared or are inactive.

But this is predictable. When hordes of normal people come online, of course Facebooks, Tumblrs, Instagrams are the result. A lot of the people primarily interested in using social services such as these frankly aren't on the web to learn things or explore. They use the web insofar as it resembles or enhances the lives they have outside of it. Even some of my old IRC / BBS friends are basically Tumblr zombies today. This is the nature of things-becoming-popular.

What I'm interested in is, is there any rendezvous for the curious today or are all mediums of communication now machines for self-promotion, passive indulgence, etc.? I want to believe that there is something else, but I think the transformation that occurred, where everyone is given a voice, is something that happens once and only once.

The curious will always be able to discover new things, but for now it looks like these things will be more about the author or human source than about the content or things theirselves. And since the content we find is inextricably tied to the profit of some other personality, we may continue to find content that is less risky, controversial, dangerous, etc..

Objectivity is a precious thing that our cultures don't seem to value today.
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Try explaining rent to kids. We have to pay to exist? We have to pay how much? And they are right! I don't have a problem doing nothing. I don't care what others think. But I have to work far more than necessary because of the labour skiming rentiers. They are living off my back.

Edit: landlords of HN unite to downvote!
I think I've been pretty happy with redux-think and async functions...
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Doesn't pardoning assume convicting him first? Or does it mean there won't be open trial? I think an open and media covered trial will be more valuable to the public. Not sure about himself.
Fair enough and apologies for saying that I didn't think you read it - I wasn't trolling, I was genuinely surprised by that reading.

I don't think it is clear that Rick had money for the majority of his life, he looks like someone who grew up in modest circumstances (his mother was housekeeper!), enlisted at the age of 16, ended up eventually joining the US army, was eventually selected for OCS, and then used military benefits to go the University of Oklahoma to study literature and law. He taught for a while, then moved to do corporate security in his 40s.

That sounds to me like a relatively clever working class boy who eventually worked his way up to a pretty good professional job.

Susan is obviously from a higher social class - note in the article, the contrast is between Rick's friend and her, not between Rick and his friend - but by the time of the article she is essentially working a non-career track pink collar job. That's not unusual for an upper middle class divorced woman of her generation of course but it's a big economic step down from her previous life.
I didn't realize that was a euphemism. I guess I'm getting old. It seems obvious in retrospect.

Mass transit would be much more appealing if you could, though!
That does NOT apply to "all public employees"

That apples to Elected Officials, Judicial Officers.

Further my state has no such clause in its constitution
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AIUI petition drives are sometimes used to build mailing lists and drive further actions by signers.
Not sure it’s a fair argument to exclude dozens of the wealthiest countries in the world because they own definition of socialism —that they practice— does not meet your imagined one.

The definition is not complicated: have key industrial assets, notably transport infrastructure, owned by public authorities.
Great part of my bill comes also from the amount of HTTP requests to my buckets and having to download and analise the shitty CSV from AWS billing reports is a real pain.

Not saying storage is useless, but that it would be nice to have a tool that covers all these parts of what the billing is about without the monthly hassle.
I'd not worry too much for now. If you remove all the statements about how great this would be, it's vaporware. From the article:

> The potential to use skin cells instead of eggs remains highly speculative for now. But if researchers can overcome the remaining hurdles, of which there are many, they could in theory create embryos [...]

The experiment they describe is misleading. They took an egg of a female mouse. Read carefully, they took initially an egg not a skin cell. Then they make it look like a skin cell using some hormones. Then they took the egg that looks like a skin cell and fertilized it.

The takeaway is that it's possible to make an egg look like an skin cell and fertilize it later. Perhaps this is useful to store them, or make many copies, or something.

But to use a real skin cell directly, you have more problems, in particular you must get ride of half the chromosomes ...

I can't find a good link now, but one important property if the eggs and the sperm is that they come from a cell line that is selected in the early embryo. This group of cell try to divide as few times as possible. Each cell division may produce a mutation, and mutations are usually bad, so you want as few mutations as possible for your kids.

But skin cells don't have this problem, so they divide as much as necessary. (Actually, the skin cells use some schemes to reduce the number of divisions, because and unlucky mutation may create a cancer, so you want to skip them too. But it's more easy to get a mutation that breaks some part of the early embryo development of your child than a mutation that creates an uncontrollable cancer.)
One thing I am looking forward to in JDK 9 is the new API, called JVMCI, that lets you replace HotSpot's JIT compiler with one written in Java. Oracle Labs is working on a compiler for this called Graal. We're using this to make languages other than Java running on the JVM, like JRuby, run faster by using the JIT compiler API directly.

(I work for Oracle)
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An article on US drug prices that doesn't talk about the effect the FDA has on the market is journalist malpractice.
Yep, she was front page news on the BBC only this morning.
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It doesn't seem terribly self driving yet if they have to have an employee in the driver seat.
You can not be a strong advocate for privacy, while at the same time believing in a National Publicly accessible gun registry.

These are mutually exclusive. Pick one.
This is my single biggest justification for not doing my own laundry. I've run experiments.

If I take my laundry to a laundromat, run it through the washer, move it to the drier, (run it through the drier again because it isn't dry), fold and put it all away, it costs me about $12 in quarters. It also costs me two or three hours of time, where I'm pretty much stuck at the laundromat, unable to do anything really worthwhile.

If I drop the laundry off at the laundromat and have them do it for me, that wash-dry-fold service usually costs about $30. I toss it in a bag, stop at the laundromat on the way to work, then on the way home that night I stop in again and pick up bags of fresh, nicely folded laundry, with all my shirts on hangers. It's so much easier, and trading a little bit of money for time not spent doing something tedious is a big win.
The assumption is that he has been convicted by a secret court (FISA).
I think Snowden is a true patriot for revealing what our government was doing against us. That said, a full pardon isn't going to happen.

What they should be shooting for is a fair trial. One that isn't being prosecuted under the Espionage act which would allow his lawyers to use the "for the common good" defense. Under the espionage act it severely limits his affirmative defense options.
I was implying that we'll one day have the technology to selectively erase memories with high precision and reliability.
I am for a full pardon. The risks to our privacy are greater now than they have ever been and a lot of people think it will keep us safe. If I knew more about history I'd be tempted to compare it to something like a more insidious version of the cuban missile crisis, but it's probably a bad comparison. Any historians around here - what would you compare it to?
>What he exposed are policies of the United States by people put in power in a democracy and free country.

Voting politicians into office does not legitimize any and all potentially illegal and/or un-Constitutional activities they or Government agencies carry out.

> If you don't want that shit happening in your country, let the people in power know.

Isn't that the point of this petition?

> Sadly, American citizens and the West in general have been trained from a young age to be apathetic and those that have the audacity to fight back have been systematically beaten down. They rather create parallax websites with fancy countdowns than actually trying to change something.

Whereas you find it more productive to post brave internet messages about how other people should face off with the National Guard, while simultaneously arguing that "no matter how bad" a state behaves, someone who exposes that badness/illegality should be tried for treason.
Sure, that is bad. But on a grand scale of things the president or whether or not one man will be pardoned is not really what matters for the American people. To me it is an important issue, but things like wars, mass surveillance and so on are even more important. And you cannot fix them with a broken parliament. However the parliaments are broken, because its members are invincible [0]. Name recognition beats everything. They do not have to fear to do something wrong but for their names to not be recognized anymore. So money talks.

Hard to imagine how this could be fixed. I guess you would have to restrict the amount of money to be used, but who would shoot himself in the foot? You would need shitloads of money from a source, who does not care - rare combination. Also the topic is not as sexy as "curing X".

After that the even bigger problem would be to find a way to get the media to actually report on things and/or the people to actually pay attention to such reports. A glimmer of hope to me is Jon Stewart (and the group around him, especially Last Week Tonight).

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php
Wow, they've basically renamed the entire Standard Library, see the changeset: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

Not that I mind though. This kind of thing should be easy to auto refactor.
Depends on where you are. I have friends in Turkey who signed an online petition and (the next day) lost their jobs over it. Some of the other people who signed that petition are not allowed to leave the country anymore, and some are even being detained. Very scary.
And I disagree with all of them.

Unlike what you claim to be, I actually am a strong advocate for privacy.

The fact that the government has already violated my privacy in many ways, is not a defense or justification for more intrusion upon my privacy.

A privacy advocate should never use the justification you have
> It really does beg the question if you dislike Israel for reasons other than the moral standards to invoke from your high horse...I dont know you so I have no opinions about your own prejudices, but I think you should take a hard look in the mirror...if only to be truthful to yourself.

Talk about slippery slope! Pulling the ideological taser the way you did is not just libelous, it is intellectually dishonest.
You will never have it. As productivity increases you will have more disposable income and land prices will rise pushing up rents. See Henry George "On progress and poverty". The more advanced the more poor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty

The current system transfers gains over to land. Silicon valley being a prime example, all on their big salaries with big rents. Zuckerberg and a bunch of land owners got rich, the latter without raising a finger.
Sadly you've almost certainly been added to a list simply for commenting on this article.
do I need the Buddy to compile it?
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the number of chilling-effect style questions I have to ask myself increases every damn week.

you know what's even scarier? I'm scared to to even write about what those situations were for the same reason they arose in the first place. Now some friends tell me there is a threat to the legality of tor in the US, I'm actually starting to become a bit panicked by it.
nope, this is only gulp task. You can run it locally or on server via node. But with Buddy it will be easily ;)
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