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> it is also unlikely that Chomsky himself is using them all correctly.

That's low hanging fruit then, go for it. After all proving Chomsky decisively wrong on a large number of things is something a lot of people would like to be able to do, by reading you I get the impression that this is easy. After all criticizing Yehudi Menuhin does not even require one to be able to play the violin.
An assault weapon is a legal term concocted by lawmakers who wanted to ban scary-looking guns. An assault rifle is a rifle designed to shoot lower-power, lower-caliber ammunition for use in assaults, as compared to the fewer, larger shots from a typical bolt-action rifle (or, as we like to call them, "Fudd" rifles :)
This is like Microsoft. It is great when it works and isn't causing troubles, but a bottomless hell when forced to look at the event viewer...
I disagree that there needs to be one syntax because Sass comes with the tools to convert between these freely. I would prefer people release code in SCSS though. There's a lot to be said for having it be a superset and maintain familiarity of code structure. Anyone starting out should almost certainly not use the legacy Sass syntax.
I would say the amoral part would depend on the situation...like the whole contractor vs. employee conversation a few comments up.

But the VPN part, totally agree...you'd think that would be common sense.
Ask HN: How to market a 2D MMORPG?
A friend of mine has been working on a 2D MMORPG for quite some time that is in the style of Tibia and Ultima Online. It's been around for years now and is quite mature. There are ~120 players online at any time, but we'd like to get the number higher than this. We're thinking of new ways to market the game and I thought to ask HN. Any ideas?

You can find the game at http://www.zezeniaonline.com/.
Now this article has been released I see it becoming more prevalent , not less.

It already happens a lot at big companies in a way, though not usually externally. Middle managers pick the parts of their job that they don't want to do and find some reason to get assigned budget to hire an extra person to do them.
Isn't that basically the corporate middle-management playbook? Only replace "outsource" with "delegate to someone lower on the totem pole."
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Chris Coyier wrote a nice article detailing some of the details http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/

The single biggest difference is in available style libraries in my opinion. I could probably never use Less because my workflow has become so heavily intertwined with Bourbon, Susy, and Compass.
As far as these categories are concerned I think they're exactly the same. Only difference is that in a commercial environment you don't want to waste much money on dumb/lazy people, unless you've got enough menial work that you can't automate.
Not really it's a good advice BUT this book is targeted at wanabee php developers. Telling them to patch Apache is a very bad idea. He should have chosen phpBB or something like that.

You could think that people are smart enough to understand that they can't patch the most used webserver in the world like that, but hey, remember that Dunning–Kruger effect ?
There's no level above GS-15 per se, but there is a higher tier of civil servant called SES (Senior Executive Service), which is approximately equivalent to Admiral/General-level rank in the military.

I believe the pay for SES and above (e.g. appointed officials) is defined by what's called the Executive Schedule.
Ah, very nice. Will definitely have play around with it.

Thank you!!!
Why should we even be trying to sugarcoat what he did? His intention was right but perhaps means weren't and thats how every rebel goes about doing their stuff. They aren't too much concerned about "confirming", and ,duh, not for nothing they are a rebel. The moment the society and the government start treating A Rebel With a Cause for the means they take than read the message they are trying to convey, it invariably shows the rot in the system. A system that doesnt like mirror being shown at. Lets please stop finding reasons for Aaron's action, instead lets accept what he did was not confirming to the system, we also need people who question and challenge the system not just those who confirms!
> Gmail would replace the US Postal Service.

How so? People still need physical mail sent around the world?
That's a different problem. Retiring a number only affects the subset of all people who actually care about the Yankees numbering system, but only has to be done once with no further upkeep.

The decision to lock down a domain name in perpetuity potentially affects everyone on the internet and more to the point, negatively affects the people responsible for maintaining the DNS servers and the content servers, etc.
All the breath & pops in the microphone is really annoying. You should re-record the audio using a pop filter or something?
I think it might have originally been the Prussian Field Marshall von Moltke:

http://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/field-mars...
Also, write lots of code! If you're stuck with legacy-code, start a hobby project that you think might be useful to someone (if you're not stuck with family that is, then there's really no hope).
I suspect its the principle that matters. If they discovered a design that hits the goal someone else can build on the concept (once patent becomes available, if not before then through licensing) and build it efficiently and properly if ABB is incapable.
The distinction is quite relevant to the narrative. If your narrative is that the laws and prosecutors unfairly put people in prison that don't belong there, then you want to compare the percentage of people who ever go to prison, not the percentage if people in prison at any given time. The latter fact is relevant to a narrative that our prison terms are too long, but that's a distinct problem.

Also, we do have higher rates of violent crime than our peers. You can't ignore that.

And while its phat to blame the lobbyists, I don't think that's the entirety if the distinction. Americans are simply more retributive than other people. Look at the death penalty. It's 2012 and half the country would be up in arms if the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. At the end of the day, prison terms are long because being "tough in crime" got a lot of votes in the 1970's and 1980's.
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This article is sweet! Sass is definitely looking more and more appealing.

Thanks for sharing!
Dang, I was hoping they were giving some out like the Chromebooks. I was the happiest man in the world when I got my free CR-48.
I don't think the camera will be always-on, just always-available. Continually recording from a camera is sure to be very draining on the battery.
Cool, thanks for the insight Max. Like I said, I have a ton to learn. Will definitely dig in more on this. But you're right, iPhoto is really well done.
If by "If by \"if by 'if by whiskey'\"" you mean you're offering me some whiskey to help with trying to comprehend this level of nesting, then yes please :-)
Through my work at Mozilla, I regularly contribute to a large number of open source projects. I do my best to follow my own advice, but I'm always working to do better. Sadly sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day!
How about roulette? Ed Thorp built a wearable with Claude Shannon (as in Information Theory) in 1961! They were using it solve for where the ball would land on the wheel.
http://monet.cs.columbia.edu/courses/mobwear/resources/thorp...
Not so much, chances are she is taking a pay cut by working for the federal government.
Choosing pricing plans was something we went back and forth with for a while. In the end we took a look at our prospective customer groups (agencies of varying sizes and freelancers).

Thanks for the feedback though it's something we'll definitely consider maybe just 2 plans a 'Freelancer' and 'Team'.
How do you kick an anonymous person off of a network? Other than blocking the MAC address, the only thing I can think of is to block non-HTTP access and redirect any HTTP requests to a page explaining what has happened with instructions for getting unblocked in case the block was due to a misunderstanding.
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I upvoted you the other day and it seems coming back today i have the upvote option again? Weird.

Either way, have an upvote!
How do you compare to the competition?
You do so shortly before nanomachines for eternal life are invented, and your second in command turns out to be a tyrant ruling over humanity for hundreds of years.
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I don't think that qualifies. I think fixing bugs in open source is a good way to become a better programmer, but if you are fixing those bugs you are a good programmer already. Fixing bugs in open source project is really not trivial. I wouldn't know where to even begin looking at the source code of some of the open source I use, for example Firefox.
The employee spent a nine-to-five workday surfing the internet.

Unprecedented.
Laziness in itself is not a virtue.

When programmers say we want 'lazy' people, what we really want are 'efficient' people. People who can get more stuff done with less effort, not people who aren't even willing to put in that effort. Some would argue that lazy people will find ways to do more for less; I would argue that a smart, hardworking person will do the same.

In that sense, lazy people are like what woodchuck64 describes.
Would this include viewing / reading .css files and .js files? As they are not exactly a public link.
As I wrote in the thread under the posting of the original source (the White House announcement),

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064137

The founders of the United States knew that a representative democracy (what they termed a "republic") has some distinct advantages over direct democracy. This fact was discussed at length in the jointly authored Federalist Papers.

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

History shows that this fact is rediscovered in each new generation through hard experience, on a bipartisan basis.
> Innocent people do not kill themselves when confronted with the possibility of a trial.

You are completely wrong. All of them have the charges dropped, so they aren't ever convicted. And as we know it everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Yep, I basically realised that after making the post. I've certainly worked in places where this wasn't too far from the truth.
Your employer is paying you to deliver things that make them money. They're not paying you for your time.
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Maybe I should have clarified, as some people obviously have forgotten that testing does not indicate the absence of bugs, and vetting is for many things.

I had hoped the addition of "not every line of code" would have made clear that I make no claim that every package in Debian is bug free. But I still insist, Debian extensively tests packages, mostly for compatibility and dependencies, not to mention bug squashing parties. They are also very careful about what's allowed in (due to being license sticklers).

Of course, all of this strays from my main point: the Debian maintainers are highly unlikely to let in crapware, as opposed to some stores that have had viruses. And that's just the stuff they (eventually) got rid of; don't start me on all the officially approved software that tracks users.

As for your opinion of the ease of use, well, you're entitled to it but it doesn't make it true. What's so hard about using apt-get or, if you can't use a keyboard, one of the graphical managers? So it asks you if you really want to install dependencies instead of just filling up your hard drive, and that's a bad thing? Does the Apple or Google way of "managing" packages even track dependencies, or are they still forcing every vender to include their own (possibly filled with security holes) copy of a library with their apps? I haven't had to answer a configuration question for years, and I've never had a dependency issue with Debian. I say this as a daily user of, developer on, and administrator of machines running Debian for the past twelve years.
The truth is that it just can't. The reasons for which a startup is lean are real (less ressources, less credibility). Behavior and strategy are affected by an organization's position and opportunities in the world. The US gov is also not a for profit corporation. Its goals are different (to serve the people), and shouldn't behave like a startup. Accountability is huge. That said, I agree that there are obviously many things the gov could be doing to be more efficient. It could take cues and learn from startups, but not necessarily work like them. Best example I could think about is use open source software to replace expensive commercial solutions. Many argue that the support just isn't there for open source products, but I disagree. I think this is a more efficient use of funds and more jobs can be created in open source support.
> As for the Polanski case, that's a tough call

If he might re-offend it's really not a tough call at all. If everyone is reasonably convinced he won't re-offend is where it gets tough.
I was fairly impressed by this article until I noticed that the author was using Python 2.6. Isn't Python 2.7 the version usually used by those who aren't ready to make the leap to Python 3?

Then I noticed that there was no mention at all of the various ways of using the R language with Python (RPy, etc.).

The easy way to solve equations in Python (or any other language for that matter) would be to take full advantage of the work that other bright people have done.
He says: "Working with others to get patches accepted and bugs closed is a crucial skill in writing good code"

This article does not tell people to patch Apache. The point, as for as I can tell, is to explore the projects you use so you can learn to write better code.

Then you say "they can't patch the most used webserver in the world like that"

What is "like that"? As far as I can tell it's "working with others". Although I've never patched Apache, I'm confident I'll need to work with others to do so.

The article gives good advice. I don't understand why you would jump to the Dunning–Kruger effect to seemingly assume that the readers are incapable of following the advice.
Just to echo the other responses, the US functions as a representative government, with those representatives (and in this case their appointees) accountable to the people. When one of those in office abuses that power for personal gain, we are absolutely supposed to take action to have that power stripped from them.

Granted it doesn't happen that way often, but this is an opportunity to do so. The laws should be changed as well, but that doesn't absolve an individual who acted irresponsibly for his own gain
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You are probably talking about the Auernheimer case:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/att-ipad-hacker-auernhei...
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Meh, the problem with this is mostly lying to your organisation and giving confidential access to external workers. If that wasn't the case, that would be a whole different story.
I think it's more realistic to do a "where are they now" style survey to see how long sentences end up being in practice. With overcrowded state prisons, not many people end up serving the max.
Well, if you are a programmer in a way you could see your entire job as "structuring tasks so that they can be outsourced to a computer".

Ultimately I guess it boils down to what other work there would be for you to do and how your employer would view your suitability for this work.
The trick is to not outsource yourself out of a job.
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An example of what the product is (screenshots, videos, etc...) would be great accompaniment to the landing page.
1. Not true. Could have been an image, or even SVG element http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/55/

2. Fair enough. It would be nice to be able to set line-height to a percentage of height.

3. Bug, my bad. http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/51/
This is huge.

Running on the emulator is good if you haven't paid the $100 to put it on device yet. After that, you better be running on your device every time. There's so much to be said for actually holding the device and using your app like your normally would, instead of pointing and clicking with a mouse. Even the pixels and text-size/color are WAY different when on the device. Seriously, do this if you aren't already.
Of course, but there are other reasons people work where they do besides money!
This is highly unlikely (but of course, courts may rule differently depending on what is put in front of them).

The closest thing that comes to mind is the 2006 incident in which a researcher from the candidate opposing Governor Schwarzenegger logged onto the governor's public FTP site and stepped-up a directory to find a bunch of private audio recordings:

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/13/local/me-audio13

A five month investigation by the CHP found that no illegal action had been done:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5145796

Of course, this involved a political campaign with millions of dollars (and publicity) behind it. The CHP arresting Arnold's opponent would not turn out well for anyone...if this had been a teenager who tried it, who knows?
I read it differently. I don't see any proof that he has any particular talent for managing entire teams of outsourced developers, but rather that he was being paid 4/5 too much for work easy and unimportant enough that he seemingly never had to communicate about it much with anybody besides his employee.
Thanks for the feedback. We've been thinking about making such changes to the landing page ourselves, and this reinforces such a need. Much appreciated.
I don't like the argument here. I mean, in the technical sense.

It seems to attempt to lever facts about a specific situation into an otherwise unsupported generalization.

A couple of things leapt out at me - a) Aaron wasn't subject to the pressures of industry in Silicon Valley. He'd chosen a different path, and b) the author offers no support for his implication that the suicide rate in tech is higher than other industries.

The article didn't hang together for me and I'm left wondering if its just opportunistic drivel or a fair portrayal of a real concern that's been poorly argued.
Like many such - I feel no compelling reason to sign up and explore.

Tell me WHY first - what problem are you solving or what opportunity are you opening up.

Then tell me WHAT - what does your product do to address the WHY

Then HOW
Some (me!) would argue rather poorly. Design by committee taken to its unfortunate logical extreme.
do people actually watch videos on landing pages?
I know I don't, I just skip them, you're right though screen caps etc would be good i think
What's the point of link-level security when governments control the CAs and global routing tables anyway? You're probably being spied on right now, and not because someone has physical access to a mop closet with some switches in it.
If this is your recruiter, tell them they are doing it wrong...
In the past few days, I have received similar emails. I've sanitized this one a little bit, but I think I am going to start referring to them as Nigerian Recruiters.

An example of how not to reach out to people:

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I wanted to reach out as I am working with the CEO of a killer new company, with great investors and team (ex <big companies here>).

They are working on building out a game changing communication platform utilizing cutting edge aspects of both cloud and mobile technologies. One
key role that I am on the hunt for is a <senior sounding "lead role"> engineer to drive the development of a core piece of their product strategy. They are developing a breakthrough cloud-enabled device that will change the way we communicate. The company are <small number> people and are going to ramp up quickly over the next 2 quarters. Please let me know if you may be interested in learning more and let's jump on a 15 minute call at your soonest convenience.
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Are we talking about the values Vint Cerf has re: the Internet, or the values society as a whole has re: the Internet? Those are two different sets or values, and I'd argue that the latter doesn't include "freedom of information" in anything but the most diluted sense.

That's why I'm being pedantic about the distinction. Vint Cerf can't imbue the Internet with his politics. Society at large has adopted a different set of politics regarding the Internet. My mom doesn't care about free information. She just doesn't want anyone to steal her credit card numbers while she's shopping on Gilt.
You are doing the same thing as woodchuck64.

The meaning in keithwarren's comment is clear enough, right up until the point you over-parse it and quibble over the exact definition of lazy.
As others have pointed out:

He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday.

This is probably the worst security violation a standard employee can commit.
Perhaps its different for me since I work in information security, but if there's someone connected to our guest network (where we have no identity information) and their computer is misbehaving, the only recourse we have to demonstrate that they are not welcome anymore is to terminate their session and block their MAC address. There's literally no other way to get in contact with them.

I would say it's safe to assume that if your MAC address gets banned, it was for a reason. It means you're not welcome on the network anymore.
I'm guessing a lot of their content has resulted in off-topic political debates in the past

That would be reason enough for a general site ban on new submissions. Most of the participants here on HN who have been here longer than I have, and especially those who have higher average comment karma than I have, are united in saying that HN is not the place for political threads. Quite a few of the experienced members of HN flag any new post that deals mostly with politics rather than with the core topics of HN, especially if the source is not a high-quality source. That gradually adds sites to the list of sites that are autokilled on submission.
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"Still, there are very, very few occasions where it is reported that innocent people plead guilty due to the reduction in risk."

Is part of the plea bargain deal not discussing your innocence? In other words, how do we know whether people taking plea bargains are innocent?
Any recommendation on what they should be doing instead?
I find it odd to provide unlimited access to a network without any further form of authentication than just the IP address. There are enough alternatives out (e.g. Shibboleth) that could have been implemented if there were a needed for closer monitoring of access to journal databases.
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there's a chinese management saying that a horse type employee is one that has great skill and integrity, this type you ride to the top, he/she will take you to far places, a dog type has integrity, but isnt smart so you keep; a monkey type is smart, but has no integrity, this type of employee you kick around, but use, and a pig type isnt smart and has no integrity, this type you get rid of as soon as possible.
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You'd outsource your job to someone else in order to work more on the off chance that your employer will pay you more in the future?

Which they probably won't as most jobs are only marginally performance based.

Seems mighty odd to me.
"An example of how not to reach out to people"

Would be helpful, for the purposes of discussion, if you added your thoughts on how you would write the same email that in your opinion would have worked.