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> Given that, IMHO it comes down to a moral judgement on just how terrible the actions the company was committing.

OK, I would actually tend to agree (and for what it's worth, so would DoD and the law).

But when does the aggregate of those "minor" issues become so large that you'd feel it's a major Sit-B issue? It seems to me that if you simply scoured long enough at a large enough company that you should eventually have enough to feel that you have something major, simply by definition.

So then the question might become, why don't email providers do this (search their clients communications and files)? The threat of the law isn't the answer as everyone would simply remind you that you have a moral imperative to break the law.

I'm not trying to pose these questions to you personally at this point but they certainly bear thinking about, especially nowadays when we're trying to migrate everything to the cloud. At some point (if you're a tech at a cloud provider) you have to think that they only reason you don't see evil on your servers is because you're not looking hard enough.
Ah, you're right: looking at the patterns of the positioning of the lines, at the beginning of a flight, red lines extend left towards the scheduled departure for a late departure, green to the right for an early one. The reverse applies for arrivals. Thanks!
How does adding "no offense" to the front of a statement affect how offensive the remainder of the statement is?
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We will come up with a solution that's little more elegant long before we have the means to build one of those.
I believe the pace of change has actually increased recently. As Hague himself has noted, we have a lot of computing power to throw around now. 30 years ago, serious usage of academic languages was still restricted to "big iron" environments; today you can expect any language to do some useful work even on a smartphone. As a result we can make "softerware" that benchmarks less well, but is massively cheaper to make and maintain.

As well, there's been a cultural shift related to the hardware changes. In webdev it's become routine in some circles to make polyglot systems, or to cross-compile between different languages or runtimes. DSLs are increasingly slipping into "everyday" environments. There's a mindshare war going on there, but architecting against one language, one environment, and one toolchain is increasingly seen as the "old way". Similarly, developers who don't know how to architect towards performance increasingly get away with it - it goes hand in hand with the idea of software becoming softer, since that process moves the optimization burden towards the people making runtimes or libraries, rather than the app dev.

All of this favors a faster transition from academia.
You can always use gdb to debug. However, with type safety and proper unit tests (which are easy to write with Go's interfaces) you often don't need it.
Actually the apprenticeship model exists in Canada too. But it`s restricted to trades like electrician and plumber and does not extend to engineering or law.
So how many civilian casualties do we lay at Manning's feet, if he's responsible for the Arab Spring?
Can you give us a rundown of the codebase / language / db / size / documentation? I can likely repurpose this for my own use as well.
> commenters who repeatedly respond to replies

But isn't that the whole point of Show HN posts?
Since your essentially calling for these people to be banned, I don't think it would be impolite to name names.
He said cosmic rays, not solar flares. You're arguing against something he never said. ;)
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VSP or 'screen offset' is a technique that allows all kinds of scrolling tricks. If you offset by a single byte you get a horizontal scroll (combine with horizontal retrace timing trickery to get smooth scrolling), offset by a whole scanline and you scroll vertically, offset by a character box height*line width and you get jump character scroll, all without moving a single byte of memory, just write a few hardware registers.

Of course that only works when the screen is not divided up into windows. Tricks like these allowed many of the scrolling games on 80 bitters, and are why you could have smooth scrolled text on a 1 MHz cpu with very little software overhead. Even in the PC era these tricks were commonplace on character generator screen modes for lightning fast scrolling. Bitmapped windows are super CPU intensive if you don't have a graphic card that can move around chunks of memory quickly.
> which would do everything efficiently, properly and cheaply

Doesn't really sound like government to me...
In fact, Angry Birds is already on the Windows 8 Store! You're correct insofar as Microsoft has worked hard to get some of the major titles onto the platform. I also appreciate your advice to move off of what you call the "serial-games" model. Ultimately I would like to reach a point with my game(s) where I can offer it as a service to my players, but first I have to find a market fit...
It has nothing to do with the data, but one observation I would make is that women tend to be more style conscious than men when it comes to wearing a piece of clothing or an accessory.

I don't think Google Glass has a "women" problem so much so as they have a "style" problem (but saying "women" problem does help TC get all that juicy linkbait).
Is it conceivable that one could ever play old school Abuse on a modern OS X machine?

http://abuse.zoy.org/
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> You're obviously skilled with computing, why aren't you extracting the information you need, if it's a moral imperative?

I'm doing what I can, no need to worry. And I refused to go into the army on penalty of (significant) jailtime, got off very lucky but I would have happily gone to jail to avoid becoming someone else's tool.

No cloak of super morality here, just one guy deciding for himself.
Almost all the times I have trouble with a website on iPad it is due to idiotic things on the part of the website, such as forbidding resizing, implementing their own scrolling instead of letting the browser handle it, and other such atrocities.
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>Actually I added one about an hour ago.

What was it? I'm genuinely curious.
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The suicide watch he was placed on was a bum-standard procedure, believe it or not.

The judge in his trial has ruled that he was kept in prevention of suicide status far longer than was necessary, but they don't seem to have innovated any special procedures for Manning.

At the same time, it's not everyday that an intelligent soldier with mental issues and possible gender identity confusion on the most far-reaching modern case of deliberate information leakage comes into your brig. Manning's own lawyers admit that he joked about killing himself, and especially at first there was the real danger of being killed by one of the other prisoners. And the fallout of Manning being killed in prison would be extreme, to say the least.

Manning was not treated like a general prisoner, but at least part of that was because he wasn't just a random prisoner accused of a normal crime.
"I don't want to feel like I'm writing poetry. I'm happy to be making information machines, because that's the honest truth of the craft. The poetry lies in what those machines do; the art is in the output. To me, writing a boring program whose code is very clever is like writing a boring poem in beautiful calligraphy and arguing that the beauty of the calligraphy makes the poem better."

Speaking as someone with a bachelor in fine arts, this rings very true for me. In Dutch, when an idea isn't working out, we have a saying: "het komt niet uit de verf," which literally translates as "it doesn't leave the paint."

With the exception of certain modern and contemporary art pieces, a painting is about what is being depicted, not about the fucking paint. The paint matters of course, but it shouldn't take the spotlight (again, ignoring self-referential topics like paintings about the experience of paint).
I think that it's more useful to look at the whole paragraph that that quote comes from:

"Not that degrees matter anymore. They do not. Experience does. That is one of the things my apprenticeship and the dual education system in general taught me: experiencing and learning things quickly is the ultimate life skill. If you can do that, you can conjure up impossible situations for yourself over and over again and succeed."

This is only my opinion, but when I look at the OP's statement in that context, I think that he's arguing that a credential isn't as important as the ability to trust that you learn your way through hard problems as they come up. In that regard, I completely agree with him. I think we all know some people with great educations who, when faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem, will spend days finding literature to support the conclusion that the problem can't be solved. And conversely, we also know people with little education who look at insurmountable problems as fun projects. Personally, I suspect that this difference comes down to attitude and experience. On one hand, it takes a really great attitude to consistently stare down difficult problems. But on the other hand, I think that with experience comes confidence and solving really hard problems takes as much confidence as diligence.

That is, of course, all my opinion and there's a high probability that I'm wrong....
I wouldn't characterize his post as anti-college in the least. It's cheap to say that Tobi's post espouses only one viewpoint; rather, he's giving an anecdote that suggests there's more than one way to do it when it comes to a career.
Because you don't know what that "/anything" is, only your mailing system does, and it converts links in your email template to these mkt5371-type links right before it sends out the email.
Graphic design went through this a while back: "Woe! Our industry is flooded with people who've no aptitude." Desktop publishing resulted in a metric crapton of nasty designs for a while. But subsequently we've seen a Cambrian explosion of great looking stuff. The same thing is happening with video production right now. YouTube is overfilled with stuff no one wants to watch but already we're seeing innovative stuff come out as people with access to previously unavailable tools learn how to use them effectively.

For a while this probably means that our code repos might be filled with nasty stuff, but I'm convinced we'll be better off for it in the long run.
How did it have "poor ergonomics"? "Tons" of bugs? Can you name a few? Omitted features..like a keyboard? So it was "only" available on a top 2 carrier? I'd ont remember calling being substantial worse than other phones at the time. I still get occasional drops. I think you missed this one pretty badly.
DNS need to be more redundant. Still appreciate your explanation.
You meant to ask: "Hoe many casualties do we lay at the feet of the soldiers that were 'just following orders' firing on civilians?".

My guess is all of them.
Or perhaps Manning's profile is exactly the right profile for this kind of data. :-)
Good point. I agree those are comments we wouldn't want to trip the filter.

A simple hack might be to just turn off the Bayesian filter on post titles beginning with 'Show HN'.
I was hoping it would be a donut made in CSS (mainly because I'm hungry), but I was still quite happy with the results. This is neat, and actually something I was recently looking for! Well done! :)
Are you weighing yourself at the same time of day each time?
Very interesting, thanks. =)

I'm betting there will be a fairly sharp increase in the daily submission rate for games once Unity3D makes deployment to the Windows Store available for everyone. According to the Unity guys, they currently have 'no information' on when that will happen, but since some of their selected partners already have this option I'm guessing it'll be a matter of just a few months or so.
Another thing we don’t have is reliable, long-term data on where the guns that are actually used in crimes come from. One of the ways we legislate gun use is through registration programs and systems that limit who can buy a gun legally. But if we don’t know whether guns used in crimes are purchased legally, illegally, or purchased legally and then sold or given illegally to a third party, we have no idea how to craft those laws or even if they make any difference at all.

I consider this a huge problem. How can you have a well-regulated militia if you don't know who is in it?

How do we know any of our gun laws have any effect at all?
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If you were studying gun use, and you wanted to know how often guns were used in self-defense, how would you categorize Charles Wellford’s experience?

Preemptive gun use. Bam, done. Any other categorisations required?
I love the "reimplement the standard library" approach to learning a programming language.

When I learned C and Unix, the instructor had us reimplement libs like string.h and stdio.h, command line tools like date, ls and cut and then build tools like make.

It made me a much better C programmer.
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I can see exactly what jacquesm is talking about here actually.

I think he's talking about instability as in issues with inhibition. Kind of like how people sometimes commit the stark crime of saying what you really think when drunk,

Manning might have taken an action that others merely only think about because that little part of you that says "BAD IDEA MAN" was asleep on watch at the time. If nothing else his "instability" would be consistent with his behavior at other times, before and after he joined the Army.
Calling it Donuts.css kind of implies its done in CSS exclusively.
Awesome job. I like the design. Is it possible to customise the colours?
Here's your answer: someone submitted it and people upvoted it
It was one of the first languages (although not the first) that had a proper module system with separate compilation, implementation hiding, module nesting, and qualified exports / imports. It stops short of adding features like parameterized modules that confer significant problems for both theory and implementation.

In typical Wirth fashion it was also quite minimal; you could write a complete Modula-2 compiler as a series of undergrad assignments.

Here's a tutorial: http://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter12.php

It's kind of sad that proper module systems are not a part of more programming languages, but as the adage in the field goes, the languages most used to write modular software are the ones least suited to doing so.
Actually, that doesn't make sense - the adapter is powered from the iPhone or iPad and still has to chuck 3 Gbps down a long wire, except now you're using the iPhone's h.264 encode hardware and an entire ARM SoC in the adapter which you have to power too.
What do you mean "of course it's a team" because "uptime is a fundamental part of their business"?

That's an assumption on your part. Many negative events happen because of assumptions people make and things they take for granted. I ask a valid question. Do you know for a fact how many people monitor their network or what systems they have in place? Or whether they even simulate events like this to see if other members of the team are even reachable? Have you ever seen the constant testing that goes on at large organizations (such as the military) to make sure battle systems are ready to deploy when necessary?

Note also that cloudflare charges $3000 per month for enterprise plans (in addition to free) and that their own website was taken offline.
Interesting games, what did you make them with?
This article is an embarassing conflict of interest.
As with any consumer type app, monetization is key and unfortunately it's something I feel businesses should have a clear path to but many do not. This is part of the reason why we wanted to pivot toward a B2B type service.
Exactly. No one on the pro-gun control side looks too closely at the statistics because they don't like what they see. Namely that the odds of someone who isn't suicidal and who isn't involved in criminal activity dying from a gunshot wound are about the same as the odds of being hit by a wayward meteor.
My point is that "functional" is meaningless in this context. "Compatible with purely functional programming" maybe, but "functional" tells you nothing, especially when you can't embed computation (functions) in a git database without some extra abstraction.
Assume it was meant to be talked over. By itself the photos have no context.
I think this is a bad idea. You cannot weed out bad behavior like that. It is like bad language filters: People get past them by using asterisks, etc. Someone who is pathological will just find other ways to be a persistent asshole. I think being too controlling winds up creating more problems than it solves, especially when you are controlling via this sort of filter. Reminds me of the sitcom where "black tie" invitations got changed to "African American Tie Ball" by a PC filter intended to root out unacceptable racial language.
Oh, a Henkin sentence is a sentence that asserts its own truth: "This sentence is true" — the opposite of the Liar's Paradox. You can self-consistently treat a Henkin sentence as either true or false: it's true if it's true, and false if it's false. A circuit analogue might be a buffer connected to its own input, or two inverters wired in the fashion you describe: "This sentence is not false."

This last week I've been using the nearly-infinite input impedance of MOS transistors to use LEDs as light sensors, as described in the Yerazunis's MERL paper. I'm not getting speeds anywhere close to the speeds they were reporting, though: closer to Hz than to MHz measurements.
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Finally, something we fully agree on! :)

However you may be surprised to hear that most (on the ground at least) are not actually going around playing Let's Clean our Bayonets With Civilian Guts everyday...

I would be interested in an answer to my original question then. We do still blame Bush for "bringing democracy to Iraq" after all, seems like fair's fair.
He also mentioned using sftp, wget, etc. in his latest statement. I think he's probably a hacker. :-)
I wasn't referring specifically to solar flares either, I've made an edit to make that more clear. It's simply flat out wrong to state that ordinary cosmic rays that are dangerous to human beings penetrate through planet sized masses of matter. The only thing that does so is neutrinos and the only way you're going to get sufficient neutrino flux to be hazardous is if you're very close to a type-II supernova, which is an extraordinarily exceptional event.
It does seem a bit more forceful than bold to me; maybe you could have a separate 'bold' font and a 'really really bold' font?
Well I was in the process of upvoting you to a less faded gray and suggesting you be less rude when you're making a valid point, but "edit: downvotes? truth hurts." tips the line to where you just go ahead and keep on keeping on and get yourself banned have a nice day see you never.
This is a good problem to solve. Not sure what efforts did you put in to find the target audience, we have had good results so far in building a solution for similar problem focused on IT Infrastructure.
Wish you luck in your future endeavors.
They certainly can't go into space unshielded, so human waste & water will only be the secondary/tertiary shields.
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"As a customer you should care that their service is geographically distributed"

Don't agree. If you own the data center you have more control over it. We had a case where the UPS systems in a data center had bad batteries and equipment went down because the batteries failed to kick in. Since we don't own the data center we have no realistic way to make inspections and make sure the right thing happens or that the batteries (or the generators) are cycled and maintained. We just have to trust. [1]

Now this may or may not matter with the way they have their redundancy setup. But owning a data center does give you more control over more things.

"not whether they own the buildings where the servers are kept."

Owning the data center and owning the buildings are two different things. Owning the building is owning real estate. Owning the data center is owning the security setup, backup systems etc. Two different things.

[1] So as not to contradict myself with other things I have said I should not say "trust" because you can always put some things in place to verify the right thing is happening (inspections, logs etc.) if you want. But if you own the place it's easier. If I own my home I can decide when to replace the HVAC so it doesn't fail in the middle of the summer. If I rent that's up to the landlord.
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I wonder how aware he was of it and how much he experienced it as socially isolating. When I saw "Shallow Hal," the beautiful thin actress who wore a fat suit for the role of the fat girlfriend tried it out by going to a bar. She was used to being looked at. No one looked at her when she was the fat girl. She remarked in an interview how socially isolating it was. I know he is blind but he is not stupid. I wonder how much of that he notices.
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I made the games using MonoGame and XNA. Overall it was a very pleasant experience and let me make the games available for Windows 7 (and older) as well basically for free.

You can hear me blab about some of my process on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/From-XNA-game-to-Windows-8

You can download the source code for a project running on Windows 7 & 8 from GitHub: https://github.com/aschearer/LudumDare24
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Yeah, I wish people would stop doing this, especially since almost every example posted here is also tightly coupled to jQuery. It's a cool widget though.

It would be interesting if you could use `calc` and `attr` to do this purely with CSS, but it doesn't seem to be that flexible yet. Ie:

transform: rotate(attr(data-percentage) "deg")

EDIT: Heh, actually, as a Dojo/Python/LESS fan, I'm really not the target for that project! =D
Thank god for the Linux people innovating and replacing a perfectly functional tool that could be properly extended to add support for that configuration, and instead requiring people to learn yet another command.

It's about as bad as Solaris with their ifconfig/ipadm stuff and changing everything around so that configuration exists in multiple places and one tool doesn't handle the other. ipadm doesn't properly deal with /etc/<hostname>.<interface> files and the two will conflict. Ugh.