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That is true but do the new APIs offer something that would cause some revolutionary re-think and remolding of a vast majority of apps in the app store?

Sure the new APIs might offer some great features for apps and I am sure they will definitely be used in the majority of upcoming apps, but my problem (maybe not problem just curious observation or minor annoyance) is Marco taking a completely nonobjective stance on the iOS7 changes. I am completely ok with his opinion but the blind hyperbole is a bit annoying.
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felonies per day, I assume.
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So you won't listen to, say, people convicted of minor drug crimes, or who have otherwise been disenfranchised for any of a wide variety of reasons, some good and some not-so-good?
I think Alan Colmes is just there to argue with the host or the other guests of whatever show they allow him on. It's like he doesn't even have a setting besides "disagree".
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That's a version control system. OP is talking about a deployment system. Difference is that the deployment system does something with your final code (from your your git/svn/hg/cvs/mnt etc.).

Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_deployment
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> Where are all the impeachments and swift punishments from Congress? By not punishing them, it just makes it ok for the next guy to do it.

The influential people in Congress, by and large, want to be the next guy, be appointed to a high position by the next guy, or have influence with the next guy while remaining in Congress, so this is perhaps unsurprising.

Coupled with the fact that FPTP, single-member district elections (for the legislative branch, with even strong two-party incentives in the indirecte executive elections) tend to produce a weakly ideological and more strongly tribal party system, and a greater expectation than in a multiparty system for the average legislator that "we may not like it when their guy is in charge, but we need not to cripple the office for when we get back in charge", well, the results are what should be expected.
First the GFC architects getting away with tearing down the financial system, and now the NSA carelessly violating Congress without repercussion. It disgusts me that America has come to this. Why do we, the people, allow such anarchy in the halls of power, yet relinquish all freedom in the streets and online? I'm no long-hair, but this is our government. Why do we keep installing these criminals to throne?
They are moving to a 2,048 bit RSA key used to authenticate the ECC key.
My problem is a lot of things take money too. For things like hosting, or transportation etc. Would you make so X number of hours need to be dontated for it kick in? How do you keep people to their word?
That's quite nice, but your weakness is that a single-point of failure can delay your deployment, without you noticing it early enough. Or do you have solution for that?
It's still way, way better than "Log in with Facebook" and has the potential to get even better over time.
The same could be said for people in general... Don't just complain about the issue on the internet, but actually go out to the streets and demonstrate. It's a long way from the internet to the street...
>In a sense, Americans deserve what they got. They chose to re-elect...

So if I kidnap you and give you the choice of dying from a pistol and dying from a shotgun, I'm off the hook for murder?

> there is an alternative in the libertarian party

Spoiler effect. Also, given that the party currently in control of the executive branch campaigned on the promise of stopping these surveillance programs and then went on to extend them, I question your certainty that the libertarians would actually stick to their values once in office.
That doesn't mean people will riot if it isn't available on their device. If you've got Android 2.x and can't get Vine, you likely don't really care as you haven't ever used Vine.
If you are interested in this story and comments, then you will most likely be interested in the following comment and associated dialogue as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830994
I think most people who make the "people who don't vote..." argument pretty clearly mean "people who choose not to vote", not "people who are denied the opportunity to vote".
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I know that I've used GitHub's online editor a few times in situations where I see a quick typo I need to fix or want to make a one line change without the hassle of opening up the right directory, pulling the latest code, opening up an editor, etc etc.
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Libertarians (unlike anarchists) don't "dislike government." They dislike government that has more than a specific set of responsibilities.

That said, I don't get the Rand connection here either. I will say that NSA spying isn't necessarily incompatible with a libertarian government. Libertarians don't reject the law & order or security functions of the state. Even a libertarian government would have the power to issue warrants, subpoenas, etc. Given that, something like the recent NSA incident couldn't have been prevented with a "small libertarian government." It's cheap as hell (Google, etc, do all the work!) and leverages basic powers that would exist in the "smallest" governments.
A good example of creeping featurism.
That's what a deployment system is for. It should do 1, 2 and optionally even 3 for you. You should probably look into "landscape" a canonical project.
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Couldn't some JavaScript Objects be called associative arrays?
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What about a choice? Either use the slightly more annoying signin with a captcha or the easier signin with a Google account without a captcha.
Their decision was probably based in some way (assuming it's based on available information, which is admittedly risky) in his marriage to a foreign national while expressing interest in moving to the states, and the embassy's reluctance to chance him violating his visa permissions and in some way moving here with his wife in a permanent resident-alien w/o a visa type manner.

Not claiming to know anything special, but if that really is the only perturbed variable, it most likely hinged on that. Or familial ties that are somehow inscrutable. All conjecture, but I find these single cases to be ridiculous, because there are competent individuals in government who oft do what they're supposed to, even if the whole government mechanism appears corrupt and broken. Most likely there was a legitimate reason, and of course we only have one side of the story here, by an associate professor and his PhD student.
A mesh network can't scale.

"We show that for WMNs the throughput of each node decreases as O(1/n), where n is the total number of nodes in the network."

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1241089...
As I replied to someone else, I meant Americans as a group, not the individuals. Regarding the Libertarian party, I am not certain they would stick to their values but I'm certain it would be better than status quo.
If you really want lots of papers to your name, join a large particle physics collaboration. In the four years I've been doing my Ph.D. I've been a named author on over 100 papers.
a majority of people know more about what is happening on the jersey shore than they know about prism - that is the real problem - its cool to be ignorant and apathetic these days
"No one is disputing anything he's said at all"

This was probably true when you wrote it eight hours ago, but in the past hour someone who should know[0] was interviewed on NPR, and said that there is no way that Snowden had the abilities and access that he claimed in an interview. She strongly disputed his claim that he had been able to "wiretap" anyone at will, sitting at his desk.

[0] A professor of something like national security studies, who worked for intelligence agencies for years before academia.
maybe it's not "cool", but it certainly is not "uncool"
It seems likely that Booz Allen has other contractors still working on NSA projects besides Snowden. There's a certain amount of damage control they need to do if they want to keep their client happy and keep the contracts coming.
> "FX-9590: Eight “Piledriver” cores, 5 GHz Max Turbo "

Ridiculous name. Maybe if they put a 'Go faster stripe' on the top of the chip people will believe it goes even faster!
Yes AMD, we all know you like your big numbers like core counts and clock speed. It'd, however, be just excellent if you could put out a product whose single threaded performance isn't garbage. I mean, thubans are beating your newest and greatest!

But at least you can say you got the bigger cache, clockspeed, core count, and debt than intel.
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For some (many?, most?) people pairing is just too intrusive, makes them uneasy, makes them nervous and, thus, less productive.

No amount of productivity metrics can overcome this drawback. I'm not particularly introverted, but the same moment someone tries to force me to do pair programming for longer that few minutes a day at the time convenient to me, I would start looking for another job. What's next? Trying to feed me with energy drinks to make me more durable/productive? Or giving me drugs to make me more creative/productive? Thanks, but no thanks.
In other news: PCs now even more versatile. Now also replace radiators.
> but I find these single cases to be ridiculous, because there are competent individuals in government who oft do what they're supposed to, even if the whole government mechanism appears corrupt and broken. Most likely there was a legitimate reason, and of course we only have one side of the story here, by an associate professor and his PhD student.

You'll understand only when you face it. What legitimate reasons are you applying to justify treatment of any or every person on the planet as potential threat? Without a means for recourse. And then if you're agreeable to the logic of scrutiny and transparency from others then why not apply the same logic to the individuals in the Government?
Interesting examples, I appreciate your distinction using legal terms such as "use of force". That said my use of the word "War" is not very helpful and I should have used "armed conflict".

I would not disagree with your examples, but certainly the post WWII (UN era) examples are the most useful for purpose of legal precedent. Aside from Lebanon there are similar instances of the US intervening on behalf of democratically elected governments, especially in Africa, but as you noted the US role is on a sliding scale when generally the use of force is not authorized.

The pirates is very interesting too, I know there are other instances such as Greek pirates (pre UN era) but assuming your referencing "Somali pirates", Somalia is unusual in that it is a recognized State with no recognized government, but here I would not say this is a declared war rather the authorized use of force to protect vessals on the high seas, but I have to concede it is fairly certain some missions were more target specific.

I still think the US "War on Terror" is setting all kinds of precedent as to US authorized use of force against non-state actors, but I am far from saying your position is wrong and the burden is on me to express myself more clearly and not put something in its most simple terms out of convenience, and I am happy to enjoy a spirited exchange of ideas on HN.
Asking is far too polite. Every citizen, not just Google, should be demanding the end to these secret orders and secret courts. The government is supposed to be our servant, not our master. We need to start treating it appropriately.
Apple is one of the companies that can really get away with an en-masse OS transition simply because they are basically guaranteed to get 80% on board in less than 6 months simply because they control the distribution mechanism and the device hardware itself. They can plan for these transitions.

Google and to a lesser extent Microsoft screwed up and are struggling to be able to keep their users on the latest and greatest. This is such a huge advantage for Apple that it can't be overstated.

On Android at least 36% of devices are still running Gingerbread (which is 2.5 years old). Android 4.x is finally up over 50% after being out for just over a year and a half.

So, whenever Google gets around to Android 5.0, it will probably be a whole year later (or more) before that is the mainstream targetable version of Android.

As a developer, you could argue this gives you more time to get around to building against the new api's, but at the same time that's remarkably slow user uptake compared to iOS.
Which is why the security agent is spending a lot more attention on you while you're powering stuff up and entering passwords than they are on what's happening on the screen. In TSA checks the chefs themselves, imperfect as they may be, are the point. At Tel Aviv its the responses and behaviour of the people being checked that's the real focus. Not that the checks are totally pointless, they are perfectly capable of catching amateurs or the incompetent, but don't imagine for a second that Israeli border guards are just as clueless as the average TSA agent.
No, Edward Snowden probably didn’t commit treason
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Wasn't IBM's POWER in this range already?
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I'm suggesting that it was a planned outcome (of terrorism) to make our governments to mistrust us like this.

Bin Laden wasn't the first person to predict that an increase in terrorism would lead to an increase in "Orwellian" practices.
I can understand what he's feeling as i'm in a very similar situation.

I was offered a job by a San Francisco-based startup in January. I applied for a visa at the local US embassy, the interview went fine and the consular officer said she was happy to approve it but that I had been flagged for an additional background check which should take about two weeks.

Five months later and i'm still stuck in "Administrative Processing". All enquiries have come back with a blanket "matter of national security, we can't give any more information" cover. It's extremely frustrating. What makes it even worse is just the incompetence of it all. I have been going back and forth to the US for nearly ten years to see family pretty much every summer without a problem, why am I only now subject to an extremely lengthy background check?

My wife quit her job and we gave up our house in anticipation of our move and we've effectively been in limbo since.

If anything, the way we've been treated has made me never want to step foot in the US again.
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...not sure what sort of "moral debt" (second bullet point) Omar had to the country - is there some reason he should have had to contribute anything to the US economy? Its not like the military where you commit to extra years of service for the financial inducements attached to further study. He's probably already contributed more than most Americans just in his research during the years of his PhD. As an American doing a PhD in the UK, I don't feel I owe a "moral debt" to contribute to the economy here when I am done.
The "turbo" is probably there because of the amount of air that must flow through the radiator.
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Even worse, a lot of Americans seem to see Snowden as a traitor.
Does it really qualify as a 5 GHz processor if it only runs at that speed in Turbo mode? (which I assume can only kick in for a few milliseconds...) What is the "normal" speed that it can maintain for more reasonable time periods? How come this isn't mentioned in the press release?
We are slowly losing freedoms that were once thought to be a given.
Of course it is, but it still ain't anything close to optimal.
Deploy to staging or test environment.
When I want to quickly update a readme file or comment, I find it convenient to be able to do it directly in Github (and now Bitbucket).
Research universities are phenomenally expensive and heavily subsidized creatures. This guy received $250k in government grants that paid his tuition and stipend.
It would be great to know the full story. Unfortunately, if it has to do with national security, we probably will never know.
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If his salary is over $100,000 then he is probably "earning" over $200,000 for his employer. Also, as others have pointed out, your salary is significantly less than what you actually get paid.
It has been like that for a while ... in 2000-ish we were calling Athlon Kotlon (Kotlon is stove in bulgarian)
Not long, admittedly... about 3 weeks.
He also devoted all his time and might to do research. It's not like he was sitting staring at a wall
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The CPU has different clock speeds depending on how much it is being used. The upper limit is set by thermal and power constraints. If you're using all the cores, the limit is relatively low. If you're only using one or two cores, the power management system will clock them higher. Since the higher clock speed is only available under certain workloads, it's called "Turbo".
That would be bad for blogspot then...
Either.
Facebook retains forever anything done or written on their platform and that's a well known fact.

Why anyone would use it for anything remotely confidential, is beyond me.
I remember like ~10 years ago on Slashdot some people overclocking to 7-8ghz. Of course this was on single core chips, but we've really pretty much completely stalled on the mhz progression haven't we?
Your confidence is admirable. The rest of this year is definitely going to be interesting between PRISM and the Bradley Manning trial.
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No, it's a new iOS 7 / OS X framework. Since it's an API, I think the only real discussion is in the developer docs, which are NDA'd.
In the mid 2000s I was running a Prescott oven in my room.
But since it's already been convincingly argued that our "opportunity" to vote just gets us carbon copies of the same policies, isn't that very much like being denied the opportunity to vote in the first place?
> JS maintains a special "length" property for arrays. It doesn't do that for other objects. (The same applies to JS functions and Regexes. They're objects, but they're special kinds of objects that can do things regular objects can't.)

Indeed JS functions have a special `length' property too, where one can check the # of arguments specified in the function definition.
Turbo mode is limited by heat so with cooling you can stay in turbo mode.

PS: Intel and Nvidea do the same thing. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=745&pgno=1
> What? Google are dictating your technology solution here and penalising you if you don't do exactly what they want.

Google is protecting the quality of the UX for its product (web search). If you choose to a "technical solution" that makes search results bait-and-switch for mobile users, it treats your search results as less-likely-to-be-valuable-to-users, because they are.

> This is bad news for consumers

Its good news for mobile users of Google search. What consumers are you talking about, and how is it "bad news" for them?

> and web masters

Its bad news for bad web masters, sure.

> and they're dressing it up as if it's the developers fault when a separate site is a perfectly reasonable solution.

They aren't penalizing developers for using a separate mobile site, they are penalizing you for redirecting all links to the regular site to the homepage of the mobile-specific site. Redirecting from specific pages on the regular site to the specific, relevant content on the mobile site is not penalized.

> It's not Google's job to dictate our solutions.

No, its Google's job to assure that their search engine provides relevant, quality results to their users, which is why they penalize sites that do things which would result in users not get relevant, quality results.
Nice summation of opposing forces in society, holding out hope for a future that only gradually comes into being.
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The injunction in Hedges blocked the detainment power in its entirety (on the basis of being unconstitutionally vague), not only detainment with respect to American citizens. Obama is fighting to preserve the detainment power, not for the power to detain American citizens, which would be contrary to his signing statement and the expressed intent of Congress.
Sorry to hear that your IDE totally sucks - scnr.

It just depends on how you approach it, since I prefer to work local and upstream revisions with change notes, the main reason for revision control.

Given the featureset of github, it makes somehow sense, it just contradicts revision control to work directly in the repository.
There probably won't be any prosecution because Snowden most likely defected to the Chinese government. It may have been his plan all along. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who would love to leave their families, and be considered a hero by the general public, and live their life comfortably in another country. Given all the secrets he probably has that he hasn't released, he would be a very valuable resource to China.

This is something someone in his position would know how to do, safely, and with a great reward to himself, given that he's probably read the outcomes of hundreds of informants defecting to other countries.

And given his CIA background, he knew enough about propaganda to know how to sell it to keep his family from being shamed by being related to a defector.

The idea that a guy that's smart enough to make 6 figures after not graduating high school can't plan far enough ahead to explain why he went to China is ludicrous. He's simply not telling the truth about his motives.
(number of cites) / (number of pubs * number of coauthors) has been known for a long time to the best tenure/review committees.

Second tier doesn't use it, the politics should make it obvious why.

And the gov't grant machine doesn't use it, for different kinds of political reasons.
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I have a CI server which polls for the latest. It compiles and executes tests. If something fails I get notified (e-mail, etc).

As long as you have something like this in place, it doesn't matter how the change gets committed to the repository.