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The problem with this type of thinking is that it's focused on the small picture.

If you want to "solve" terrorism, first of all, you stop all the bullying, controlling, exploitative, and to summarize trouble-making, foreign policies.

In spite of what the USA agenda and propaganda dictates, terrorists attack for a logical reason (of course, this doesn't mean a reasonable one), not because they wake up one morning with the intention of bombing the population of a given country.

To answer your question more directly though: torture and grey-legal area practices are ineffective because they are already put in practice.
There's plenty of documentaries about this, and by the way, a short time ago has been posted a link to the Guantanamo prison practices here in HN.
Moxie Marlinspike always surprises me with his clear and rigorous train of thought. His example of addressing same sex relationships and how even though they were illegal at a time shows why ominous surveillance comes at the expense of people's choices in lives.
The Dutch still have parts of The Netherlands overseas, including people that can vote in the Dutch elections, along with territories that are overseen not by the Dutch government but by the King (used to be the Queen).
This is essentially what the OS does if you use the standard controls. You say "I want a title bar at the top of the screen with a back button" and iOS 6 interprets this as the shiny ones you're used to, while 7 sees this as the new version. The problem is that the amount of variation you're allowed by apple is pretty slim. You can change the tint of the bar (UINavigationBar) and the text, provide an image to be the title instead of text....and that's about it before it might start breaking when they go from one version to the next.

Because things were the same for so long (IMHO that's why anyway) we've seen a lot of devs bringing their own ui items that looked similar but slightly different to the standard elements, I assume in the attempt to stand out visually. Apps like tapBots' TweetBot will likely be OK because they most likely don't use ANY of the standard UI elements, but apps that use a little custom and a little standard stuff have a lot of work cut out for them.
"Republic" is essentially orthogonal to "representative democracy".

The United States of America has a government which is both a republic (and, more specifically, a federal republic) and a representative democracy.

There are republics that aren't any kind of democracy, and representative democracies that are not republics (e.g., the United Kingdom.)
I think Bootstrap, at least in terms of Javascript is much more modular than, for example jQuery (was when Google added it). Unless you're making the Bootstrap docs, I highly doubt many people are using all that Javascript.

I guess one way to back that view up a little would be to consider the two repositories on Github (https://github.com/jquery/jquery, https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/master/js). Both use multiple .js files and are fairly modular, only jQuery includes a built concatenation in the repo.

The biggest download button on Bootstrap gives the full javascript file, so people are surely using it, but I think in production you should be using only the plugins you need and putting the whole thing on a CDN would probably be a step backward.
The point is not what "==" should do. The point is you have even two equality operators - with subtle differences - and still no way to compare two arrays by value without boilerplate, which should be trivial.
Americans have been so distracted with US propaganda on how bad China is with human rights, they didn't notice their own freedoms being pickpocketed. Now look at how bad it is.

Snowden is a courageous, smart guy who is making a BIG point about the hypocrisy of the US government. He's making one of the biggest statements of the century, and he's put his life on the line to do it. Recognize!
There is more to life than your profession.

Or, more generally, there is more to life than one single thing. Some people let a single thing (or a very, very small number of things) define themselves, and it's a bad idea.

Think critically - how are you defined? If you asked the 5 people closest to you, how would they describe you? If they can't get much further than "good software guy", be careful.

Life is way too short to be one-dimensional.
Have OS X and iOS stopped converging?
The new OS X is kind of getting there isn't it with multiple tags for a file.
He has a twitter account, so you can do what I did and tell him not to count it :)
isn't this consistent with the conclusion that they're using "metadata" from ISPs to do network analysis and then, from the results of that, requesting targeted information from web companies? i thought that was the consensus take on all this? or am i just imagining a consensus? if so, is the above likely wrong?

[we know telecom companies cooperate (at&t, what happens to qwest when you don't). we know that the nsa is collecting metdata on everyone because they've had to redefine "collecting"[1]. we also know prism isn't rocket science because it's only $20m. and we know there's no "direct access" to servers because that was so carefully scripted in all the denials. hence network analysis of (all) calls, then targeted "legal" requests.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/22435723348/nsas-f...]
Gender is required and binary? Jeez.
I accidentally hijacked someone else's hotmail account (and subsequently their abandoned Myspace account) because I was able to register the hotmail they used for it and then use forgot password to send a reset email on Myspace. I assume the same thing could be done for other services.
The apps the author speaks of uses the file systems he claims will soon be obsolete. Maybe some enjoy not having to organize their data but I prefer having access to decide where my files are stored on my system.
The neighbors heard screams and the doctors found bruises. Also, additional witnesses came forward and testified to a history of bruises. Also, she broke her arm falling down the stairs a few months ago -- but by now the picture is coming together and everyone "knows" what that "really means". That's plenty of evidence to fit either the "abusive husband" story or the "illegal sex" story. Either way, the worst case is that you're a felon! (I'm including battery-to-which-consent-is-not-a-defense under "illegal sex" and battery can be a felony.)

I freely admit that this is a worst case scenario: a court in SF isn't likely to convict on the basis of "illegal sex", but maybe you were traveling; hotels have notoriously thin walls and some places in the USA take a much dimmer view of this kind of thing.

None of this is relevant to my original point. Even if you're acquitted your "wall of silence" will have cost you time, money, and reputation, making B worse than A UNLESS you condition your expectation on the case going to court, which you shouldn't, because the point in time when you decide B vs A happens before going to court is a foregone conclusion.
You do know you can opt-out right? They actually have forms and posters hanging up informing you of your right to opt-out.

All outbound travel to the US has to go through the porno scanners, each and every time I have flown to the US I have opted out, just like I have opted out each time I get asked to go through the porno scanner in the US...

They don't make a fuss about it either, they just ask you to stand with your legs spread wide and arms spread and do a pat down/magnetic wand.

Not as bad as the US where you get put into a sort of metal "hot box" where you are told to wait till they can find someone with a low enough IQ to grope you, followed by the question if you really want to opt-out, and the agent doing everything in his power to make it as uncomfortable for the person they are checking as possible. Only that tends to backfire on them, cause most of those idiots are giant homophobes... so playing with them while getting groped is kinda fun.
Your not counting bandwidth, cpu, facility and personnel charges required to pull this off, raw storage is a minor part of the cost.
Ask HN: Has anyone any experience on Fundable.com?
Hi,

I'm interested in hearing from anyone who's had experience on Fundable.com raising money for their project, especially if you've done so with an equity campaign.

I'd like to try it maybe, but don't want to give up a controlling stake in my startup.

If you've dealt with Fundable I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks.

-c
I get the point he is trying to make, but my problem with this
argument is that it seems to be based on an idea that the default is
that a thing is illegal until a law explicitly allows it, which is
contrary to the way I've always understood things to be.

In other words, in some (perhaps distant) past, marijuana was not
illegal until a legislator decided to pass a law prohibiting its use.
They're busy congratulating her on other people's success in apprehending the Boston Bombings suspects. She's busy prosecuting Dhhozkhar Tsarnaev. In other words, don't hold your breath.
12 months inactivity is too short. Too simple of a reason for something so aggressive.
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> For anyone that doesn't know what I'm talking about

Can you elaborate? I have no idea what you are talking about. And I already live in one of those places.
I don't have any electrical knowledge. care to elaborate?

Is that a problem with the cable, terminals on the devices, the mini-displayport dongle or either?

The problem also only seems to occur on Retina Macbook Pro's
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Perhaps the word I should have used is "private key" rather than "address". There's no reason I couldn't have a dozen private keys and wallets that I use in different locations for different reasons. As long as that private key can't be tied to me personally (i.e. by protecting my identity during transactions, transacting in varying locations from varying IPs, etc.) it should be anonymous.

That would make the protocol useless for day to day transactions like buying groceries, but at least as anonymous as cash for more sensitive transactions.
Exactly, this is analogous to your home address. Bad things can happen if people send mail to an address you don't live at anymore; it comes with the territory. I think a year is actually a bit short, but there should absolutely be some expiration date on accounts like email addresses. Five years seems like it would be more appropriate. Five years on the internet is an eternity.
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In fact, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I claimed that the Star Wars films have no substance.
As someone active in the kink scene, the current legal situation seems to be:

Sadomasochism is probably illegal in most states, but no prosecutor seems eager for the shitshow that would happen if they tried to prosecute something that was clearly consensual.
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"the actual amounts would be pretty tiny unless you've written a pretty large proportion of the book"

What proportion of the book do you expect the editors to write?
Yup - intimately familiar with the "Must obtain independent status with each employer". Every time I change an employer, new trip to the border to get a new TN.

I did not realize I could file a change in status if my old job concluded before I got a new one. In 2003, I finished up with a company, and my last, "Paid Day" as an employee was September 26th, but I wasn't required to come into the office for the last two weeks - so my last day in the office was around September 12th, a friday. By Sunday, September 14th, I had emptied my apartment, packed up all my possessions, and had returned to Canada.
1. Iraqis did it.

2. You're more likely to be in combat against DHS/ATF/FBI, not military. You're even more likely to be in combat against local cops.
> We live in a republic

Republic refers to any form of government which is not a monarchy.

The US is a republic -- specifically, a federal republic -- it is also a democracy -- specifically a representative democracy.

The whole "The US is not a democracy, its a republic" thing makes as much as saying "16 isn't a perfect square, its an even number."
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Hi,

i recently got a contracting job thru a staffing company and they are using third party background verification company to do verification. the problem is that the are asking too much details like w2's, paychecks, addresses, parent and family details, previous employment details like employee number and many other details for past 10 years.

it doesn't sound good to me. so want to know from fellow HN'ers about their experience in this scenario. what would you generally provide them. what is considered fair and what are all the details i am not supposed to give them?

thanks
"I learned that one will see this sort of problems in all large scale companies. "

The way that reads in the paragraph makes it seem as though it was thrown in as an afterthought and that it applies as a separate statement on its own - unrelated from the 8 months. It's the only line that says anything about other companies. Maybe someone read his post, and said "hey, you know it's like that everywhere right?" Or, "Hey you know higher ups might not like you hating on us like that." And so he throws in a sentence to solidify the fact that he's not trying to single out Microsoft.
Elephants can't dance.
JMBG is short for Unique Master Citizen Number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number).
"which can save far more power"

yes, right out of the equation provided.

In "CS" terms that may be better understood on HN than "EE" terms, electrical power scales O(n squared) with voltage and O(n) with frequency.

If you really wanna get people riled up and talking you can roll out the old power "EE" stuff about maximum power transfer happening when source and sink impedance are the same, and you want to get the most bang for your buck so you'd like that, right, and a transistor gate being near infinite resistance would imply ... Or if you like to think about interconnects being signal to noise level limited, then an RF analysis about noise voltage across a resistor vs preamp noise figure vs current bias from a communications standpoint would imply... But it turns out in practice most of the time, the first mental model is by far the most effective way to look at it compared to these.
It may be true that people without traditional education credentials are likely to be less conformist/more likely to cause trouble.
You don't seem to understand what's going on.

Most Opera users are on mobile, not desktop. Opera is struggling on desktop. Sites weren't working, and that was the #1 problem with the browser. Fixing that will let them grow. Opera's got nothing to lose on the desktop. They can only gain users by doing this, even if a handful of hardcore users drop them.

Most people don't need most features in Opera 12, but they're just getting started with the new Opera. Now they can create a proper foundation instead of this:

http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-the-past-the-present-the-fut...

Opera 15 is not a fork of Chrome either. It's using Chrome (Chromium) as-is, but with a new user interface on top of it.

In other words: They may alienate a small hardcore group, but fixing site compatibility will more than make up for it because other people can finally start using it.
The Metro interface works well for a phone format device. Literally everyone I know picks up my Lumia and just uses it as if they've been using it for years. It just makes sense and is really intuitive. Also, apart from a big chunk of 3rd party apps written by morons, it's 100% consistent and smooth as anything even on the shittiest of handsets.

I've had at least 4 people I know toss their iOS device in favor of a WP8 handset in the last couple of months.

Windows 8 however is a stinking turd. It doesn't work for that in the same way that your metro signs aren't 40' advertising boards. Most of the UI is empty and pointless padding resulting in no visual cues and terrible usability.

Go and play with a phone sized device for a bit and see how you get on.
Snowden has also taken "credit" for leaking the Verizon order, though there is speculation on that front. We are to believe there are many more to come.

In any event, this isn't about PRISM. This is about what the government should be allowed to keep secret, and who should be allowed to decide that.
> Anybody who supports rent control is either (a) uneducated, or (b) benefiting from it.

Wow, who would've thought that people who are being rent discriminated against support measures that help protect them from it?

Assuming that 20something males are fratboys that do drugs and trash the place is heinous discrimination. You wouldn't discriminate against a Muslim candidate because of a stereotype, thinking they'll run a terror cell from your rental?

Landlords like this make my blood boil.
In the context of China, this is a red herring. China is not a poor little country being bullied around by the United States. China is a major power and has a long history of engaging in cyber attacks against the US government and US companies, including many companies that people here work for. This is a serious PITA for the tech industry and has resulted in data being stolen from hundreds of companies. We expect our government to do something about it, and Snowden leaking the details of how they are doing it is not benevolent in any sense, in my opinion.
Well, yes, he's a politician. But not to expect that China's conducting cyber-attacks on the US anyway would just be stupid. I meant not controversial in that espionage is what governments have been doing since the dawn of civilization, it's expected behavior, even if the methods might be new. Yes, of course China's spying on us. Yes, of course they're trying to hack our systems. It's not a surprise is what I'm saying.

They're a large, modern communist nation, competing with us politically and economically. There's a lot of political capital to be made playing them up as the successor to the Soviet Union in American minds. The next Red Menace.
While there are many things hillariously bad about this article, his first mistake may be in assuming that renting his apartment is even covered by rent control. This is not an uncommon mistake either, there are some pretty dumb landlords out there.

The SF Rent board covers most of the exclusions in plain english.
First of all, the Boston marathon bombing has nothing to do with terrorism, based on the current information.

There is people indeed who does very very bad things to innocent people, and many of them are in the USA government.

Posts like yours show how effective the governments' brainwashing is.
Lots of innocent people dies in war bombings, and they're not necessary.

Do you have any idea of how many people died at the hands
There are quite a few people from Microsoft answering questions on SO with their full name. I don't think this one is a real issue. The % of people who participate in SO is probably small in the total dev population in general.
Why would Yahoo! want to add a different domain to their email service? They've practically given up on anything except being a "brand" at this point, and email is their #1 way to get their brand in front of people.
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He probably got fed that idea day in and day out while there.

I have worked for a few different large organizations and have often faced the size excuse for being unorganized and ineffective. I personally feel it is a cop out, and self fulfilling prophesy once it becomes an accepted perspective, because then people stop trying to be better.

I have also worked in big organizations on kick-ass teams who are willing to fight uphill battles against "we are too big to change" attitude. Thats what made them awesome teams.
We could increase the productivity of humanity in fabulous ways if we all knew how to use computers efficiently. Instead, we go the other way and only use them as entertainment platforms. Too bad education doesn't make big money.
"the entire web mainly uses color to differentiate between links and normal text"

I sense hyperbole, but would love to know what the actual proportion is. I suspect the majority of text links (as opposed to, e.g. menu navigation) are underlined.
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Usually though that product code will be worked on by many other people. The same is often not true of academic projects.
Try here (no affiliation): http://www.mywedding.com/seattle/photographers

Also found this discussion amongst photographers:
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Most don't want to give away RAW files as they aren't the "finished product" or they aren't a format most people can view. Many just want more money for them.
it seems to be based on an idea that the default is that a thing is illegal until a law explicitly allows it.

I didn't get that idea at all, and I think you are misreading it. Many examples are given of things that recently were or still are explicitly illegal.

If you want to read up on when Marijuana was made illegal, you can start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_th... but I'm not sure of the relevance.
Not the parent, but a personal example; My father thinks Al-jezeera is "terrorist propaganda".
You want operators for both: test if it´s the same object (identity) and test if they are equivalent (equality).
if it was so obvious, why did it turn you against him? did your delicate sensibilities get hurt or something?

I honestly don't understand how this could have change your opinion on him based on something you not only acknowledge is true, but also as "obvious".
The file system isn't going anywhere. The file system as we know it is almost effectively an extremely partitioned index organized table of BLOB information, which actually makes it more efficient when handling permission than a database would likely be. Without this hierarchical structure, permissions are nearly a nightmare to go through with.

Furthermore, a database can also be implemented in a way similar to a hierarchical file system, and in many cases have much more flexibility as you get virtually unlimited extensibility (often at a cost of performance).

Additional layers built on top of filesystems will make the way we interact with files obsolete, but the file system will not become obsolete.
Chernobyl, Challenger, and Columbia are examples of systems where engineers were constrained by politicians.

I hadn't heard of the USS Thresher before today, but I did just read a bit of the Wikipedia article.

When a disaster occurs in engineering, the lessons learned are applied to the next design. When a disaster occurs in politics, the other party gets its turn to cause the next disaster.
Specially given the fact value-ordering is also lexicographical for the ASCII set, and for Unicode it gets it wrong anyway.
> binary

Does that mean you enter "0" if you're female and "1" if you're male?
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Tell him if he doesn't give the raws, you use another photographer.

He's trying to scam you - simple.
Why not correct the article?