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Do you think IRA (or one of its forks like Real IRA, Continuity IRA or one IRA extremist supporter) might have been involved?

Today US supreme court has ruled to give tapes containing testimony to Irish police: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/15/ira-tapes-police-su... .
People die and lose their limbs, and your first move is apparently crying about how the government takes away your nail clippers.
Because guilt isn't an emotion that can always be trusted.
And the best Web sites to go with them?
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Related discussion about the durability of Lego posted a few months ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5040545

PS: One of those strange and seemingly random usage differences between British and American English is the latter's use of a plural, "Legos" (or perhaps more accurate to say, use of the word "Lego" to denote "a Lego piece" with resultant plural), which is never used in the UK and always sounds odd to my ear (British Lego being like sheep ...)
For a vastly different take on the same subject… (no comment)

https://medium.com/about-work/405b2d12d213
Thoughts and prayers with the victims and their families. I just watched the movie "Four Lions" this past weekend and anyone who has seen it may have the same eery feeling I currently do.
A friend of mine from MIT was at the race. Luckily, he walked away unscathed. I hope all of your friends and family from Boston are safe and sound.

I would argue that this is not the time for political discussions.
Still finding suspicious packages around the city... Please stay safe!
Photos of the Boston Marathon Bombing
I think the 10 day figure included the time it took to build the machine.
Explosions kill people :-(

Search on this page for "civilian" and "child" for examples of "legal" murder of innocent people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Pakist...
Then perhaps that isn't the company you want to work for.

Realistically, I have not met any hiring managers who had a problem with my consulting. I have not met any recruiters that had a problem with this. I focused on describing the project/product in all of employment history rather than who employed me, or what my job description.

To be fair, software developers are generally in much greater demand. If you're a software dev looking for work, the best way is a combination of:

(1) Going to technical meetups that have a strong cross section of "developeneurs". There are generally recruiters there in addition to startup founders looking for technical founders. They usually flock to places rich with developer contacts. The recruiters at this kind of meeting are voraciously hungry for leads, with the regular members trying not to roll their eyes and ignoring the recruiters. Anyone new gets pounced upon. Just by showing up, you're pre-qualified, pre-screened. And you get free food.

(2) Participate in open source projects. Yes. You want to eat. Set aside some time while waiting for people to call back. Even things as simple as maintaining the docs. You can hear about the most active open-source projects by going to the meetups in (1).

Both of these methods builds up your network, something far more valuable than a mere job. Jobs come and go, but your contacts tend to persist over the lifetime of your career. If you're only sending out resumes, then you're not using everything that is available to you.
I watched it this weekend. Very eery feeling right now. Sadly, although they "fail" in the movie, they do take out at least a few innocent citizens.
Measuring lead indicators of good UX is a little tricky.

Ideally, you would look at frequency of repeat usage against competitors but getting their data seems to be unlikely. Net promoter might be another useful metric but I'm not sure there is a silver bullet for measuring good UX.
Government employee doesn't have to be bureaucrat. It could be street-sweeper.
Honestly, I would wait for the evidence that those were actually bombs. It sounds like it could have been terrorists, but it also sounds like it might have been a utility failure of some sort, like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_York_City_steam_explo...

Now, there are reports that the police have found additional bombs and are dismantling them; if true, then that would mean that this is an attack of some kind and not just an accident. Still, I would wait for a reliable, official statement before jumping to conclusions.

[Edit: Looks like there is now some kind of official statement from the fire department about finding additional bombs, so I guess that settles that.]
Quite a few had bigger casualty lists, and many were more specifically aimed at political targets rather than large numbers of public, but fair point that a bunch were very similar or worse-done.

Two points I would make about the comparison though, firstly the IRA campaign was very much one of fear more than one of death - deaths were an added bonus. Of course maybe that's the case in Boston as well, but it's too early to know right now. Secondly, the word used was "professional" - were the IRA professional? I guess in the context of terrorist attacks, that's probably not really a relevant term.
This is the second time you commented free parking is the main appeal.

I have to say your single sentences can get my mind racing at a hundred mph. Example, Why institute the sharing (AirBnB model) if it is less about sharing and more about not paying for parking? Does this mean there is room for a purely valet model, where one drives to the airport and a valet drives it back their home instead of parking at the airport? Is it going to be a common practice for people to be the AirBnB of "this and that", making the marketing more important than the service, especially when sharing is not the main appeal?

I take what I can from your comments, like your perspective on the sharing model above, but it makes me think getting a YC interview would be bitter-sweet because really I would want to interview you.
I listed a lot of possibilities. You ignored almost all of them.

Are you just trying to start an argument?
It better change, I really hate programming the web, I'm more interested in robots, electronics and computer hardware. But startups for those are difficult, risky and expensive.
CBS News reports - police confirm (somewhat) that these were bombs and mostly likely planted in Trash cans. Also, it appears at least 1 other unexploded bomb found and disabled by the Boston Police Bomb Squad. (may be more then 1 found)
Ignorance is bliss. My cat knows it best. Not a care in the world.
I'm just a dude facing a big stab of mental dissonance right now. I'm not trying to push a political agenda. My brother ran in and finished the marathon last year. I didn't make it out to see him and I wish I had. So the first thing I feel is dread, it takes a moment to resolve that he wasn't there, and then I think will I ever be able to get close enough to reach out my hand to him as he comes down the final stretch again or did I miss that chance forever?

Will it be all police cars, dogs and jersey walls from here on out? This sucks.
Sharing pays for the free parking.
Sounds ... expensive.
DEC was still using octal notation on the PDP-11s. Which is why we have Unix commands like "od" - "octal dump" - that are still around today. I remember that the switches for toggling address and data bits into the PDP-11's front panel were grouped (by color) in sets of three[1]. VAXes used hex, if I remember correctly. IBM was using hex at least as far back as the System/360 (1960s).

[1] Photo of PDP-11 panel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/complexify/4268116070/lightbox
I'm confused. The person you were replying to said:

> you have to find all charges going to your old CC and then deal with moving every one of those accounts to your new one when it gets there. Hopefully you don't incur any late fees while you're going through the process!
That seems unnecessarily pre-emptive, especially since you are protected as a card user and don't know your card was compromised.
Feeling bad about having a legitimate stance in the face of a tragedy isn't cause for self censorship. It might be social pariahism, but it's not cause enough for one to bite their tongue.
Our behavior is interesting, given the post I just read on how news is so rarely worth reading and watching. I see a lot of people at work looking for the latest updates. Someone’s watching TV in the next room – they’re just repeating everything over and over, mixing in the new tiny details they learn.

I’m really sad about this, but where I know no one in Boston and can’t do anything about it, I’m just going to check back tomorrow when we know more rather than working myself up looking for the latest like I usually would.
By the way, are "grades" still considered as a worthy predictor of one's performance in the workplace?

Because it's kind of strange when I think of it. I've interviewed a lot of people in my life already and I can't remember a single time grades were brought forward or mattered. Is it an US thing?
You are making political excuses for murder.
Who knows. But after every crisis there should be a post mortem and we should learn from what went wrong. And why does every change in policy and approach have to be seen as a threat to anybody's freedoms? Not that many of the short-sighted response aren't just that, but this sort of knee jerk reaction seems just as unhealthy.
> The only younger people I know that share that view are close-minded and never see the point of leaving Smalltown, USA.

To be fair, if you can find a way to make good money in a small town, you'll be living a more comfortable life than most people in big cities. If the attractions of a big city don't actually attract you, then sometimes moving to one is, economically, a bad decision.

My parents have a big house in a small town and for over a decade they owned and operated a local gas station. They were "rich," even though they didn't make a lot of money by NYC or SV standards. Do you know how much the house cost them? A little over $100k. Just let that sink in.
Are you sure you don't have survivorship bias? How much effort have you made to seek out the ones that didn't come back and ask them why?
Expect numerous false positives for the next few months.
Technically, they dominate the desktop OS and office suite markets.
North Korea does lot of evil and insane stuff and I'm quite a fan of conspiracy theories, but this just make no sense.

What is a terrorist attack? Cynically speaking a huge PR coup. A terrorist attack without a confession and a statement makes only sense if it is clear who was it and why they did it. Since the last thing is not given I'm expecting something like this anytime soon. Before there a narrative has formed. But what should NK "promote"?

But for NK this makes no sense. It would be suicide of the hole state. A false flag makes little sense since this is just too absurd to believe.
This reminded me of the Big Bang Theory episode "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification". Except in that episode, Sheldon was only using a telepresence robot because he was afraid that some mishap would kill him before the singularity.
When 9/11 hit my first thought was, "Travel is really going to suck now." When the Bali bombing hit, I thought, "I've been to that bar, holy sh*t!" This time around I'm thinking, "I know some people who were running."

Reaction to issues is tied to how much you can personally relate to the victims. It's also why 2 people dying in a stream in your neighborhood seems so much more relevant than 100,000 people dying in an earthquake halfway around the world.
Regarding the first point: those plants and lungfish etc with massive genomes aren't more phenotypically more complex. They just contain more duplication. If anything, it's likely a slight impediment to reproduction, but not enough to get selected against.
I agree with you, people need to be motivated about closing Gitmo. People won't be motivated to do anything about it as long as everyone inside Gitmo is labeled a terrorist.

If Obama et al truly felt that closing Gitmo was a priority, the news would be packed day after day with stories from the prison, humanizing the prisoners, and introduction of one legislation measure after another, all to drum up support (just like gun control). But that just isn't happening, which makes me conclude it's a lack of effort for whatever reason.

In your experience, the ground that you did lose, was it because of lack of support? Could you have tried again and how? (I don't have any political experience, so I'm kind of curious)
They police are saying, "Don't use your cellphones, as they can set off other devices."

Is there real science behind this?
If you read two resumes that were identical in every way, except that one had experience listed and the other had none, wouldn't you go for the first one? If not, what's the point of listing experience at all?
It certainly does matter. Not in terms of whether they're evil or not--they most assuredly are--but how we interpret their actions is very much going to be determined by who they are and what their goals are. If 9/11 had been committed by anti-abortionists or ecoterrorists, we would have had a very different situation on our hands than we did in our reality.
> I moved off game teams and onto shared tech stuff because it was less high-pressure, even though that wasn't ideal for my career.

By shared tech I assume you mean tools and engines? And that's worse for your career? That sad.

It's a common trend I notice that companies don't often spot and reward tool makers (policy drivers, etc), which often boost productivity for large portions of employees, instead of just themselves.
Breivik was someone pursuing a political agenda by means of spreading terror.
I'm still waiting for the part that justifies mass murder.
Perhaps they will soon conveniently find a passport
Am I the only one that was bummed out to learn that FlightCar isn't making hover cars?
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I have had nail clippers removed from my bag by the TSA recently.
The key thing (that "ryan" mentions not) is whether the private key was password-protected.
Gmail driven development
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I'm not worried about me as much as I'm worried about the poor citizens of the country these people are from, if it's a foreign group.
Yeah, but it's one thing to deal with a line of credit that is maxed out by fraud and another to deal with an empty checking account.
This has been done already (rather well, in my opinion):

http://www.builditwith.me/
This idea is completely inane. The Volunteers declared war against the England that was on their soil in 1916, that they would shift suddenly to a war against the U.S. is ridiculous. Also, purposefully killing civilians gathered en masse without warning is more along the lines of British Army terrorism (Bloody Sunday, Amritsar), not the Irish volunteers who give warnings and tend to attack military targets, back when they did so.

Also, the ruling came somewhat unexpectedly, a few hours before this happened. That's a short space of time to set up a bombing of a marathon. This bombing was obviously planned for days, if not weeks in advance.
A mixed solution seems more equitable - if there is a "rockstar programmer" invite them as a "Keynote" or some other more select engagement. Have only a small number of these speakers, and hopefully their credentials speak for themselves.

I only wish it was possible for smaller organizations to take advantage of blind review processes for speakers.
The book _the hacker crackdown_ asserts the phone company blamed a phone system crash that happened on MLK day on hackers and phreaks. Later it was determined a firmware upgrade crashed the network and the date was a co-incidence.
Not with a debit card - you don't get the same protections as a credit card and I'd rather just have a few days of hassle and then know my card is secure than be unsure and have to constantly check my account for odd transactions. Also, whilst I may get money refunded if taken from my account, if I miss bill payments as a result - that would affect my credit report and I don't know if that would be removed when I report the transactions as fraudulent.
There's no way to prevent every crisis. Just because something bad happens doesn't mean that there is something that you could have done to stop it.

Sometimes people just need to realize that things happen and we don't have to pass new laws and regulations every time something bad happens.
This should follow the doc build rules set up in each pod. For example, I maintain MapBox and have a number of specific documentation directives:

https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-ios-sdk/blob/release/MapBox...
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Sounds legit to me. Do you feel bad about the hundred of people murdered every day? I don't. Its just that they aren't on the news.
I'd feel bad for the people i remotely know, or for the families if I were to meet them, but otherwise.. it's not any different. It's bad, but doesn't make one feel bad - and that's perfectly fine.
From the comments, "Roupen Bastajian, a 35-year-old state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when they put the heat blanket wrap on him and he heard the first blast.

"I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor," he said. "We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. ... At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing."

Read more: http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat...

The #s will probably get much worse than 2 and 23.
It is a myth that taking nailclippers is TSA policy. This has not stopped them from doing it anyway.
A witness/first-responder just said he is a veteran and he said he recognised the smell as cordite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordite

PS - This is a witness who was talking to BBC News UK.
That's interesting, I don't generally think to myself, "Hm, I could go drive around for an hour or I could go for an hour long walk", I usually think "Hm, I could drive to this place or bike over there (I don't usually walk)". Although I also don't really think about the risks of everyday activities anyway, so who knows.

It's really difficult to compare the risks of walking vs driving since usually they aren't really interchangeable and they have such different use cases. But the original comment was about running a marathon vs driving the same distance.
Reports that people in the area are being advised not to use cell phones as they may trigger other devices.

Who knows is it's really being advised or if it makes sense if it is, but it's being reported as if it is.
Stories like this make me feel so LUCKY to have gone to both a high school and a university with excellent, nationally recognized publications. I learned more about writing, design, inter-office politics, management issues and how to balance a busy life than I had in class up to those points in my life. I am who I am today because of student journalism, more than perhaps anything except my parents.

My school (The University of Virginia - Wahoowa) is going through a change right now moving to digital distribution and less frequent daily issues. I think they team is doing a great job from the little I have heard as an alum, but I would miss the feeling and pressures that we went through when I was there.
To Google you're a PGO - Profit Generating Organism. The more emails the more chance for profit.
Actually, the IRA typically issued warnings beforehand -- soon enough to evacuate, but too late to find the bomb. I've heard it described as a calculation to minimize civilian deaths that might stiffen British resolve.

The best description I have seen is here:
http://exiledonline.com/wn-38-ira-vs-al-qaeda-i-was-wrong/
So you MUST be an avid fortran developer right? Have an excellent geocities/angelfire site with marquee and blinks? Still pushing java applets? This is basically the fastest changing field you can choose. I know you must have invested a lot of time in jQuery and would hate for that investment to be marginalized, but the sooner you realize that it will be, the sooner you'll accept that transitioning to the next investment is the only real investment you can make in this field.
First of all I am a Canadian, living in Canada and have no association with the actions of the US Government. Secondly I do not condone killing of innocent people in any situation, and just because there are other instances of this happening in the world doesn't minimize the fact that this attack is wrong.

I am expressing my support to the victims of this tragedy and my disgust over an attack which was clearly ment to hurt and kill innocent people. If this discussion was about a similar attack anywhere else in the world by anyone I would have the same opinion of the attack. But it's not.
Are you using ReactPHP for the ZMQ/webSocket parts or something else?
Speaking as a homeowner, we didn't buy the house as an investment asset (though naturally we hope it doesn't depreciate too much). We bought it to live in, and are not paying huge amounts or over very long periods. Of course there are risks. That's why we carry insurance.
"Logical" is not a fancy synonym for "severe" or "unforgiving", and is probably not the word you wanted here. There are sometimes good, logical arguments that you can make for cutting people some slack.
And now that kid will grow up to join Daft Punk.
SMS seems to be working better than mobile voice.
Science behind what?
The only younger people I know that share that view are close-minded and never see the point of leaving Smalltown, USA.

Only if you include metros like Atlanta in your definition of Smalltown, USA. Most American cities are geared towards home ownership.
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My field (broadly, infosec) is disproportionately favored by DARPA, and I feel like the results from DARPA-funded work have been iffy at best. There's some standout work, but it floats in a sea of mediocre (or worse) stuff.
I believe this is the most interesting comment on this thread. Almost everything else is bashing. huh.
Indeed, if I could find a very stable, long-term remote development job paying $80k-100k (which is quite a bit lower than the going rates in NYC and SV), I'd seriously consider moving to a small town and just buying a home for $100k. Pay it off completely in a few years and live a really, really comfortable life afterwards.

I'm just starting my career, but one of my big goals is to achieve the above either through a traditional remote development role or through independent consulting. The problem is stability--the most stable tech companies don't tend to hire remote devs, and consulting is inherently unstable, although I suppose if you work hard at the top of your game it wouldn't be much of an issue.
"has lost feminism a lot of formerly diehard support."

Among what, fairweather "friends"? People interested in equality don't throw a fit when their privilege(s) are questioned.
>It's because 2/3 of Americans are homeowners, so for a majority of Americans, falling house prices are bad.

Why? Those homeowners shouldn't care what the price of their house is. While they're living in it, it doesn't matter, and when they sell, presumably their next house will be cheaper too.

The only time home prices should matter is in comparison to the overall market. If your house got cheaper while other homes got more expensive, that's a problem for you. Otherwise, the price of your home is mostly irrelevant.
The sentence they gave him seemed to have been way out of proportion to the crime he committed, and the time and taxpayer dollars that the federal prosecutor spent on him could have been spent on more significant crimes that actually put citizens in danger. So yes, I think the government did do something pretty bad here.
Early bricks were cellulose acetate based.