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> "I've always struggled to reconcile how someone could suggest they're Christian but only choose to believe certain parts of the bible [as literal facts]"

"For who that has understanding will suppose that the first, and second, and third day, and the evening and the morning, existed without a sun, and moon, and stars? And that the first day was, as it were, also without a sky? And who is so foolish as to suppose that God, after the manner of a husbandman, planted a paradise in Eden, towards the east, and placed in it a tree of life, visible and palpable, so that one tasting of the fruit by the bodily teeth obtained life? And again, that one was a partaker of good and evil by masticating what was taken from the tree? And if God is said to walk in the paradise in the evening, and Adam to hide himself under a tree, I do not suppose that anyone doubts that these things figuratively indicate certain mysteries, the history having taken place in appearance, and not literally."

That was written by Origen of Alexandria, one of the most prolific Christian writers ever, in the early 200s. Yes, that's the right number of zeros. Those very modern sounding remarks are 18 centuries old.

The rise of Liberal Christianity in the 1800s (which decided that everything in the Bible, including Jesus, was figurative) led to the rise of Fundamentalism in the 1900s (which decided that nothing was figurative). Prior to that, most Christians understood that parts of the Bible describe real truth, but within the mold of figurative stories. They would consider it "dismissive" to treat the stories as literal and therefore to miss the real truths being communicated figuratively.

It can be quite enlightening to read ancient mythology and discover the ways some Biblical stories use the same elements but turn them on their heads. For example, the Genesis creation account uses almost all of the same elements as the Egyptian creation account -- but the things that are "gods" for Egypt, like the sun and the moon, are treated as mere objects not even worthy of being called by name in the Genesis account (read it carefully; they're just "lights".) The point isn't to communicate that the sun and moon were created approximately 6000 years ago, but that they are objects with no personality or power or claim to godhood, which God created specifically in order to shine on the earth.

I hope this illustrates how someone can be a thoughtful and serious Christian, and yet not treat every part of the Bible as literal fact.
I haven't programmed seriously in Tcl for a number of years, but found it to be very useful for prototyping. So useful, in fact, that the prototype often became the production code. The code was robust and easy-to-understand.

Still, when I recently needed to create a program for my own use (using only Tcl, not Tk), I was able to do so fairly quickly, after reviewing a few basics. I didn't need to worry about syntactic "sugar." And it was kind of nice having Tcl available on my Mac, already installed. Maybe it's there because of SQLite, I don't know. (Yes, I know Python is there too ... )

Years ago, the first time I needed to program a GUI, I recall, as part of my evaluation of the tools then available, reading Brian Kernighan's paper on his experience using Tcl/Tk . (That paper is available at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/bwk/index.html). By the way, his book (written together with Rob Pike), "The Practice of Programming" is excellent, and uses Tcl for some of the examples.

To hardwaresofton:
I think the situation you find yourself in might be a blessing in disguise. You have the opportunity to really explore and to get to know a language that seems to be despised by many. You might try coding the same thing in different languages, and comparing the experiences. Is the world of programming that much more productive with languages other than Tcl? Perhaps in certain domains and for certain uses. But by how much more would you be productive if you were able to use your language of choice? Would there be any trade-offs? I wonder. At the very least, you might find that Tcl has a niche in your set of tools.
Really? The typesetting is the only problem you noticed with it? Did you notice any typos?
Yes presumably even with voice they can still store it. Only when a human examines (sees the data on their screen, listens to the audio) then only it is considered that a "search" has occurred.

So let's assume that there are these scumbags and all they want to do is spy on everyone and there is this pesky Constitution still getting in their way, what is the strategy to eliminate the "annoyance"?

The strategy is two-pronged:

1) Don't have statutes of limitation on data gathered in a search warrant. So say you commit what someone thinks is a crime at 99 years of age, they get a search warrant for your data and now legally they have access to all your data since the day you were born.

2) Store _everything_. Presumably this is what the new NSA complex is Utah is for.

Sure enough you'd become inconvenient at some point. Let's say you spend a night too many with the Occupy crowd or your kid installs LOIC and now a search warrant is executed. The emails you sent 10 years ago now appear and well, who knows you might have written back then, but pretty sure it can be made to stick.

Now of course you would be offered a deal. Maybe collaborate or just get scared enough of them to never step outside and never touch a computer again, well they win in that case as well.

Good luck to everyone.
Also confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Hundreds of Millions of Non-Americans
For those reasons, I suggest reading online the Anatomy of Slavespeak. While longwinded, it questions the use of words we all know and use without second thought. The constitution is one of those words.
They should be outsourcing it to kaggle, problem solved.
Big Corp, that are known to have actual big data are also hardly known for being early adopters... It will take much more time than expected to see data-driven companies and I actually think the finance industry will be the first to do real, sensible big data analysis.

It will also take something more than Hadoop and the like to do something real... Don't like to be that guy, but please, stop rewriting yet another query language and try to write efficient engines instead. ;)
Voice printing all but eliminates the idea of anonymity for tracfones. All they'd need is one conversation, and they can look for you from there on using your voice. They can back trace who you are by who you talk to and so on; relatively trivial to figure out who you are from there, particularly assuming you make a few calls and or reveal any details.
And if they make them illegal, they'll have their day in court.

I'd tend to agree the right place to start is building a technological solution to the problem. One that people actually will want to use.
I think these suicide attempts are more of a "cry for help", because clearly he really sucks at committing suicide. I'm really glad he is, to be honest. Wishing him all the best.
Who are you talking about? This order is about the FBI.
Language agnostic: Yegge Strikes Back from the Grave (2010)
I wonder why they explicitly included trunk number? Or perhaps that's just boilerplate.
I've also been considering the possibilities of an OSS security focused business. Random thoughts:

* Build infrastructure necessary for other developers to build provably secure products on, license this.

* Free consumer versions, paid/managed versions for corporations and governments.

* Things like secure telephony have business models built in where you could charge per minute (or message) (and probably still be less than incumbent carrier minutes).
Why not both? As we know, D.C. isn't always reliable.
Wow, I didn't know what that link was and never bothered to find out... I assumed it was something like a suggestion box or something.
When to my surprise my creation made the front page of HN a couple years ago (and Gizmodo, Crunchgear, Engadget, ...), the second most disappointing thing was that there was no criticism on HN. Has HN become so much more critical since then?

The first most disappointing thing was that I failed to capitalize on the attention to the extent that I had hoped.
The United States used to. Remember we got FISA as a way of containing the intrusions (like that worked).
Agree with rich kids and English part totally.

Besides, it's a tradition to get high marks in an ICSE schools in India. So much that if you pass your 10 from an ICE school and go to a CBSE school for admission and have 94% marks then the kid who has 89-90% from a CBSE school or even lower from a state board school might be preferred. It was true in 2001-2003 and was till I kept track, not sure now.

Their system has(had) a lot of marks in the hands of school authority rather than the board and those marks were(are) very generously handed out.
The current state of the art for BCI ranges from 2-3 continuously valued "channels" using motor imagery (the method used in the article) or 1 channel of 2-32+ discrete choices using a sensory stimulus-based method such as event-related potentials (P300) or steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP).

It is highly unlikely that an EEG BCI will ever replace any normal task, as the performance relative to any reliable motor movement for direct control is terrible. For instance, if you have an eye tracker, you can reliably out perform the best BCI. It is really aimed at severely paralyzed people who don't have any other means of communication. The idea is undoubtedly cool and compelling, but the practicality of BCI for healthy subject use is very limited.
I do the opposite to the author; shopping online where I can not see and/or try the product because it is cheaper. Even the big supermarket like Wallmart, in the UK (ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury and Co.) often fail short of having the best offers in-store.
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Peanuts would surely be a luxury item if you had none.

Not if you were allergic to them. But I fail to see your point.

Honestly, though, doesn't using VoIP seem way harder than pressing one button on Facebook?

As someone who's never used it, I would have to go through the effort of Googling for a client or an online app, figuring out how to use it, adding my billing information and then actually paying for it, when Facebook is completely free!

Well, my point was just that phone calls aren't actually particularly expensive. I certainly don't make anything close to SV money.

Whether the one-time half hour cost of signing up for a service, plus playing for it, is too onerous compared to Facebook is your call. Personally, I have various reasons to dismiss Facebook a priori, so the question is irrelevant to me.
Who are the developers who go work on these projects for the government? I feel like this is some cutting edge technology they create, so they have to be some of the best, right? Is the money that good or is there an allure to having a security clearance.
It's not about whether citizens are law abiding, it's about whether the the government is using the data in a legitimate way.

I have middle-class friends in Istanbul fighting a authoritarian government which is arresting people because of their statements on Twitter and Facebook - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/05/turkish-police-a.... So the data can easily be abused in a very negative way.
Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won’t say why
Great interview, thanks for the pointer :)
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Yes, How are exam results secret?

Sorry but ever since exam results are being posted on the internet. You could practically Google your way to finding some one's result.
Most probably those narrow minded people have a lot of other things to do like tackling insurgency and terrorism and calculating how much commissions comes from which tender and which bank they should hide that amount too, unless the ICSE board wants to pursue it further.
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No. I tried starting with Maya once and the cornucopia of options left me stumped.
The death of PC
I agree that this is a metric that will hardly matter to anybody IRL. Maybe when it comes to mobile devices (Surface?) and limited battery life, but I'm not sure how relevant that even is (I wouldn't think that surfing the web draws most power on a Surface).
Senators warned in 2011 of secret NSA Patriot Act spying
A lot of comments in this thread area calling for the head of Verizon and recommending boycotts, but for how much of this is Verizon really at fault? If the NSA comes knocking and tells you to turn over X, you can't exactly say "no", can you?

More to the point, it's highly unlikely that this is an issue unique to Verizon; it's just the only one we've heard about so far.
You can do this anonymously, but it may take you a few tries. I've had the best luck with 3rd party T-Mobile dealers. Just give a name and decline showing an ID. Buy refills with cash at Walmart or wherever.
I actually disagree that this wouldn't help (but see below). It isn't really that easy for Congressmembers to respond to. If 1% of the population of every Congressional district called in over the next week, it would likely put real time pressure on Congressional offices.

There are two problems:

1. If we don't call in the only people talking to Congress are those with the money interest, and they can go after the easiest targets. This is why money currently trumps everything.

2. These form part of the economic structure that keeps the small elite in power.

Now, I totally agree with you when you say "The only hope is to economically empower everyone so that a small elite doesn't form." The problem is we have been running the wrong direction since the 30's (I think Roosevelt-era social democracy lead directly to Reagan-era neoliberalism) and with the over-regulation of small businesses and the under-regulation of large businesses that is a tremendous uphill battle.

If you sit down and map out the scope of corporate control over our individual lives, you will probably come to the same conclusion I have, that this is not only the vital struggle of our day, but is one we are badly loosing.
personally i work on making a little java ide using javafx
And that is one reason very few pupils in India get depressed and commit suicide or steer towards drugs because they have scored less and/or others saw it.

And I don't complain about it. However with the recent (Sibbalusque) change in education marking system this trend may change.
Right. It's a boilerplate order. Some reliable reports say there are 50 companies that are NSA data suppliers. They request these orders as legal cover.
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I'm skeptical how accurate voiceprinting can be after all the distortion/compression of a cell signal. If you have a device you use to have contacts you want to keep secret from the NSA, you probably shouldn't call your friends on it.
Favoring privacy at the expense of hypothetical benefit is a conscious decision and is a matter of principle. For instance, the freedom to kick down doors in the middle of the night without warrants and drag people out of the building would undoubtedly result in some benefit, but I think there's a reason something like that hasn't yet become standard procedure. Moreover, I believe that trust is something that's earned.
Indeed. Nothing is going to change until there is a collapse. Even then I fear what fills the power void will be worse than what you have now. The reason no one cares is because most Americans are in a comatose state. I've traveled to most US cities and some places in between and it continues to shock me just how stupid the average american is. They're drugged out on corn syrup, anti-depressants, street drugs and seemingly not educated at all about the rest of the world.

I know that sounds like I'm talking trash and being racist but this is a real problem. This should be talked about. America need to get its population healthy again, so they can think straight, be productive and create a better future. Long term it is in no ones interest to have a population of people this stupid.
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Get away from the USD that American government is using to keep it's power. Get away from the banking system.
Buy physical silver, gold (not ETF) or bitcoins.

The earlier everybody starts doing it the sooner the inevitable USD crash will happen.
I enjoy my job a lot and once in a while I think about quitting. My reasons are what you might call the first world problems of the tech world. The people I work with are great, but the organization is occasionally bonkers.

I left a defense contractor because I didn't like the way they managed projects. I found a new job and gave two weeks notice when a hole appeared in the schedule.

It is healthy to think about moving on even when you are in a stable, even great situation. If you don't, you won't make your life an adventure.

Saying all this as a generally satisfied person, I have no doubts I would be looking for an exit in your shoes.

I would find one too, because as an engineer, interviewer, and needer of engineering talent to work with, I know that good candidates are hard to come by.

You are in demand and will be for a long time.
Well, that means he is a paying github customer or mayeb the recent Gitub offer of pvt repos to students.

Ps. Any mirrors?
Wednesday Night:

I'd be tempted to sign up with Facebook and receive a reply on exactly what kind of person you'd try to connect me to, given what you glean from FB.

If you got it right, I'd be a step closer to giving you money (if you operated near me). If you got it wrong, and I freely admit that I expect you will, I'd keep my money.

Either way, I am able to determine the quality of your service. I regularly spend $75 in a bar and have no trouble meeting people, despite how busy I am. You don't provide a compelling reason to give that $75 to you instead of my friendly local bartenders.

Meeting people isn't the problem. Meeting the right person, with whom I'd be interested in more than sharing a few drinks and conversation, is the problem. My closest friends of more than a decade, who know me exceedingly better than FB, have routinely tried to connect me with someone or other. Not one has been the right fit.

Hell, just cos I'm feeling generous, I'd even give you a hint and say one of your staffers has the look. But that wears off in about 2.3 minutes.

DoubleHell, just cos I'm feeling that much more generous, let me suggest (if you haven't already thought of it) that you mesh HN activity with FB activity for an even better understanding.

Sadly, to my knowledge, we haven't yet figured out a way to determine likelihood of chemistry between superficially compatible people. Perhaps I'm just a naysayer, but until we can figure that out, online dating just isn't working. Apparently almost 75% of US single people have tried online dating. Only 20% have found committed relationships (assuming that's everyone's goal, which it isn't).[1]

We need a chemistry detector, not a compatibility detector (machine or human).

[1]: quick search leads me to stats from 2012 at http://www.statisticbrain.com/online-dating-statistics/
http://tnresults.nic.in/tncfplus/cfplus.htm is the similar site for the Tamil Nadu (southern state)'s exam. From a cursory look seems to be at least a little bit more secure - requires DOB. Still, is made with Frontpage...
That, at least, is their official mission, which is supposed to exclude Americans.
The NSA is generally viewed as not operating domestically. This order shows otherwise.
Old, but a true classic!
I'm glad we have the (remnants of) FISA, to create a audit / "paper" trail that can be used to bring these things to light.

FISA has been sorely abused, but maybe it retained enough coherence to bring us, albeit "inadvertently", one last shred of accountability -- perhaps just in time.

We'll have to see where this goes, now that one document is out.
>> ICSE schools are not normal run of the mill schools, they are populated by rich kids who can afford extra help and are kind of smart.

Around a decade back, When I joined pre university college. ICSE/CBSE fashion was its highest. I remember our college principal had put them all in a section and they often got the best faculty and privileged treatment. It was almost like they were sort of something special, so special care needs to be taken to handle them, As though they were some exotic orchids. And we were some garbage thrown across the road which would turn fertilizers for the large plants.

By the next year it was clear, they were a total disaster. In fact their only distinguishing factor was they could speak neat English, good clothes and a tremendous sense of elitism.

Its just these highly bloated syllabi, about teaching kids all sort of advanced subjects which they understand nothing of. Ultimately they learn less than others.
But they are trying to mine your personal data, to confirm that you're real, and to get to know you better so that they can match you. It's really all up there on their website.
I'm currently trying to teach myself web development by building a simple wedding organizing app. Still in its early stages though, nothing to show for it yet.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" would have at least been grammatically correct.
If the checks and balances were functioning, we wouldn't have senators warning in 2011 of the Obama administration's "secret interpretation" of the Patriot Act:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20067005-281.html

Unfortunately the senators were on the Intelligence committee and viewed themselves as unable to disclose what they learned in secret briefings. Now we know at least part of what they were talking about.
Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken:

#!/chicken/chick/chicken

chicken Chicken(chicken, chick, c):
chicken chicken >= chick:
# Chicken chicken chicken
chick chicken(chicken-c)
chick:
chick chicken
Its been a while since I looked at this but Google used to encourage cities to publish this data publicly in a structured form. If that's still the case then the "legal" issue is that the city are more interested in royalty income than efficient use of public transport. The use of the word "exclusive" supports this hypothesis.
I agree about this point, thanks for the feedback.
You have to wonder what caused this specific order to be leaked though. That suggests it is unusual and worrying to the one who leaked it.

It may be that it is the first, and there is real fear of many more to come. I don't think it is in any reason to think that it is not absolutely certain that "if this order exists, there must be similar orders whether now or in the future (assuming no change to the system in the mean time) because if the government has the internal secret legal justification to do something for one company it would for all and will use that however it finds helpful."
I don't see any way to fight it now. What are your suggestions?

If you're a Verizon customer, you have standing to sue the government in a class action and challenge the constitutionality of its actions.
That phone number has a pretty checkered history.

https://www.google.com/search?q=814-977-6066&ie=utf-8...

I'd be pretty wary of installing 3rd party stuff on my website from unverified sources, especially if the owners have previously been involved in cold calling investment schemes and 'dancing girls'.

What's also off here is that this is a brand new account and that there is no link to the website above, just a classic 'get interested parties to hook up without revealing anything in public'.
...what combo you pickin?
Is small print in online contracts enforceable?
Unfortunately according to OP the organization in question is not subject to market pressures and cannot go out of business.
Is your application completely stateless?
I'm asking because Load test tools, which are based on http replaying always support rewriting rules, because in stateful web applications the server may parse a cookie (or something similiar) to the browser, which is then used in the next requests.