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The areas of composite art you mention hardly have a fraction of the sweeping brushstroke of influence and the ability to impress upon society, certain mores and affectations that the more established forms of art (that you refer to in the last line) have.

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that most people who patronize art in cities and wealthy donors who lavish large sums on money on museums, opera venues, orchestras and various other ventures that promote art, probably have never heard of the crossover types you mention.

Hence it is fair to say that these newer art forms barely register in terms of their influence on the popular mood of the culture of a city much less a nation.

It is no secret that berating the ills of technology is Hollywood's favorite past time.

From Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Terminator to the recent Prometheus and a million flicks between them portray in no ambiguous terms the banes of unchecked technological advancements.

Ignore that for a moment.

The scuttling of technology, even when it could greatly aid and enable a better experience, can be seen in sports as well.

FIFA is a notorious luddite. They act as if the soccer gods will strike with lightning if they so much use an instant-replay.

The overlords at the French Open won't even touch Hawkeye with a ten foot pole. Players have to resort to pointing to where the ball left an impression on the clay to argue for a point that could decide their fate.

I only know of the NHL that embraces an uncommonly high amount of technology to make better ruling decisions. Every goal of every game is reviewed remotely in Toronto just to be sure. Offside calls and a host of other decisions are still handled by a couple of on-ice referees.

All said this technology-hating nonsense and the morons who advocate such superstitious dogma are everywhere.

I pray for the day when this bullshit will be called for what it really is - a form of a hate crime, an intolerance of reason and utility.
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There have been times when I've been on the move thinking about how to solve a problem, and would look up what libs can help me.
Well only if you are incredibly ignorant or have selective amnesia.

The US is far, far from a good world citizen. They commit some of the worst human rights abuses, have rampant censorship and lest we forget their system of government is hardly democratic.

PS: apart from the achromatic base colors, nothing in life is that black and white.
I'd rather prefer they store my encrypted data forever over storing my unencrypted data for five years. Yes, they might be able to break the used cipher during my lifetime but there is at least a (good) chance that they will never see my data in plain. Therefore I have to completely disagree with the headline.
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Hello.

I'm 32 years old and I've been suffering from depression for the last few years and that coupled with lack of friends and bad career choices made an explosive cocktail so I apologize for wanting to keep this post decoupled from my main profile.

During what I would call "last depression year" I found myself devouring book after book after book. Philosophy, science, psychology books. As a result, I redefined myself, although I wish I shouldn't have to go through this transformation in this "violent" way. I've reached the point of looking at my previous self and wonder who the beep is this guy. I'm not going to dive into further details.

I'm now more confident that I love mathematics and programming. More than ever. But I'm afraid to admit it. I'm afraid because deep inside me there's a voice telling me that I loved before and there's no consistent correlation between my feelings and what I can achieve. After all, my love for programming doesn't mean a lot if there's an industry that will judge me with "rules of thumb" such as "age", "race" or even better, "sex".

Or maybe they might prefer to judge me for my "depression era". Because, switching careers after my thirties isn't hard enough (sarcasm), I'll also have to explain why am I unemployed for the last 2-3 years. And I suppose saying "I was too busy contemplating suicide and had to choose between bus or train" won't do any good.

So, the ultimate question is, is it realistic to take the chance of pursuing my newfound desires?
As a non-American, apparently I'm already fair game, so there's no harm in using encryption.
For me it´s not a theory, thats what I said in my comment and I´m pretty sure they ARE actually using these articles to discourage people from using encryption.

Your idea of seeding some /dev/random or attaching some /dev/random to emails sounds like a great idea, and also funny, to me. We should definitely do that!
I have to wonder if the US realizes the extent of the PR disaster

Is "the US" the government of the US or the people of the US? Big difference.
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Backbone-Associations allows Backbone applications to model 1:1 & 1:N associations between application models and Collections. More importantly, applications can listen to any kind of change (change, add, remove, reset, sort, destroy) in this hierarchy using standard Backbone events and respond to them. (views can re-render for example). The implementation strives to be tiny (2.2KB), easy-to-understand, light-weight and fast.
Political correctness requires that main good character should be Afroamerican and main evil character should be white. If you do the opposite you (director) are considered racist
A green / amber switch are you serious? Are you in a time machine?
Well as a foreigner, this whole entire debacle has changed
my entire outlook on the US. I don't have faith in your
institutions anymore at all.

Great! That is a step in the right direction. Distrusting the government is a great American tradition. Even the founding father did not, in a sense, have too much faith in the governmental institutions and tried to set up a system in which the latter could do less damage. Success is partial.
Does anybody know for sure that anything is actually sustainable at any price point for any number of users?

Buying into a service, either through time or money means risk on the part of a user, no matter free or paid.

Something remains open or something closes. Who knows.

I hate to sound like a god damned schmuck, but there are no guarantees in life, not the least of which when it comes to such frivolities as rss feeds.
I don't get the wifi thing. Maybe you just have a bad setup? (Are you referring to voice conversations?)
US airports don't have such a thing as a transit zone. Even if you're flying to a third country via an US airport, you need to go through immigration, collect your luggage, go through customs, re-check your luggage and then endure the whole security circus once again.

This is not the case in most any other airport on the globe, where you usually remain in the transit zone if you're travelling to a third country.

That said: I agree with you that the Russian statement is likely a cop out. If they want to arrest you they wouldn't give a shit if you're in the transit zone or not. That probably goes for every other country too.
Yeah, I've been using the free version for ages. When they added the old reader support, I bought the pro version out of gratitude, only to find a google login screen! I'm sure the pro app will get the update soon...
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I've actually tried Feedly first for a number of weeks and it drove me half insane for similar reasons to that of jwz. I switched to Newsblur and after a few buttons it goes into 'works almost like Google Reader' mode.
PG is being a little disingenuous to philosophy as a discipline.

I hold a degree in Philosophy, but play an engineer in real life.

These debates on the usefulness of philosophy are a waste of time. There is nothing that philosophy aims to teach other than critical thought and logical deduction.

The books that he is telling people to shy away from don't have practical take-aways by themselves. Critical thought into how the subject matter relates to your own experiences and the critical thinking of others (other philosophers) is where the value in reading them lies.

I can honestly say that I apply my philosophy degree EVERY SINGLE DAY at my job.

I am a Lead UI/UX Engineer & Designer.
Founding yet another tumblr-for-cats and selling ads isn't ambitious either; you can do mundane work at startups just as easily as you can in a big corporation. You can do ambitious work at both of them, too. For kids who don't come from a wealthy family, there's something to be said for building up a minimal safety net early on by doing ambitious things in a relatively stable large firm. It's not the only way, though (obviously).
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You don't have to if you don't want to. But it's by far the easiest way to understand things. It's not actually complicated.

The whole point of git is the weird database. I'd tell you to go use another system if you don't like it, but that's not really an option anymore. So I'd instead just suggest that you do yourself a favor and spend an hour learning about it; you'll be far more effective as a result.
I know you can use Ctrl+Scroll with a touchpad but does it not work with a normal mousewheel?
I am surprised to see the "work with a mentor" option having such a low score. Don't you guys learn from each other?
From the content side, having worked for a student newspaper and having been bitten by accidentally running a bunch of pictures headlined with "Inspiring 'Red Sox Win' Photo Spread Head", something we learned was to make filler text look as obtrusive as possible, so you remember it's there and fix it before you go to press. Text with lots of "@@s" and characters with deep descenders were both helpful.

That said, I'm a big fan of The Onion's "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood."
Totally. It all really seems to be about what value proposition the technology holds with regards to an artist's creativity. Some people see a synthesizer and view it as a tool to finally express some of the sounds they've been kicking around in their heads, while others might see it as diluting the craftsmanship of the instrumentation they already have. And like I said, some people see restraints as a bigger boost to creativity than others.

It's interesting though, because adoption of technology doesn't seem to be much of a big deal at all on the recording side of things. Very few are the musicians that wouldn't be interested in learning how to use a complex DAW with tons of fancy plugins nowadays...
It's only a matter of time before they get him.
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3. Snowden probably already receives paychecks from Russia
There is a nice pattern if you look for rows in the table "a" that are outside of the intersect. "select a.* from a left outer join b on a.id=b.id where b.other_column is null" Quite often it works much faster than using "minus" operation.
“Secure your data in layers of tar.” What does that even mean? They're obviously not talking about tar(1).

“Use the most advanced access control to stop digital thieves.” What does that have to do with tar?

If this has been posted because of the whole Snowdon thing: they appear to be subject to US law, so I'd be very sceptical that data stored here could not be obtained by the NSA/FBI.
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So why didn't those small independent labels ask their artists to come out swinging for them and champion their cause? Or better, why didn't the artists who (apparently) loved their labels advocate for them in the greater public media?
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sumOverSumBound80: (sigfig=3, scaler=1, upper=true) -> ([num, denom]) -> ->

The many arrows in the first line are confusing to me.
Did you say Complexity, eh? (How to reduce code complexity in Ruby)
Google does not have to delete sensitive information, says European court
Yes, I'm sure they'll be happy to endanger a $600M cloud contract to protect the data. http://qz.com/95994/amazon-is-staffing-up-for-its-600-millio...
Imagine? They actually have operation centers modeled after Hollywood movies. Complete with mood-lighting, wall-size monitors and trendy, ergonomic desks.
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I think (but am not certain) that when any part of an article moves past the orange triangle, it is marked as read.
I think they're both serious about what they're doing (being able to keep encrypted data indefinitely), and they're using these public disclosures to discourage mass adoption of encryption. As everybody here understands, the NSA very likely could not deal with large scale encryption adoption. Scare tactics it is then.
There was significant discussion when this was submitted four years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632518

It includes both unalloyed praise and contemptuous criticism - interesting to see the subject debated.
This is great! I wish every language had an intro like that :)

It was interesting to find resemblance of Lua's classes to Perl's blessing. Always meant to look into the language and this tutorial made me do it.

I also learned about the LÖVE game engine, which I'm going to play with this week. Thank you!

http://love2d.org/
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So far so good that if whistleblowers can find protection from the U.S. government, that more will come forward.
I see a lot of articles about who is or isn't Snowden, what he did, where he was and where he'll go. But I don't see anything about the NSA and what's going to change with PRISM. A lot of noise about him just to hide the fact that in the end nothing will really change?
I agree with this, especially if you keep in mind that there will probably be a large gap between being able to decrypt today's data in individual cases and being able to crunch it on a large scale.
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> They can attack an encrypted communication and probably decrypt it

Surely this is massively dependent on the kind of encryption being used?
I made a site with a similar concept but instead of "Before I die", Its "Someday I Want". The link is http://www.somedayiwant.com
> A diminished USA is going to leave a vacuum which, regardless of the current behaviour of the USA government, is not going to be a good thing as Russia and China rush in to grab what they can.

I actually view this as a good thing. Power should be balanced amongst multiple super-powers, instead of a single one.

In latest years the U.S. has been able to strong-arm other countries into laws and agreements that align with U.S. laws or that benefit the U.S. to the detriment of the countries involved, with examples being the EU Copyright Directive, ACTA, the various patents reforms, the EU data-sharing agreements after 9/11 and so on.

Right now the U.S. has the power to extend government-granted monopolies to the whole world or to squash rights that citizens of other countries could otherwise have.

This only happens because the U.S. is able to wield so much economical and military power. It's unnatural, goes against the principles of a free market and other countries can no longer develop in its shadow.
From the website:

Zotonic’s data model can be seen as a pragmatic
implementation of the Semantic Web: a mixture between
a traditional database and a triple store.

I can imagine how to create a CRUD-like webapp with simple mapping DB tables to business objects, but have no experience with triple store.

It would be great to see more sample applications made with zotonic. Not only a cms (simple blog comes pre-installed), but something involving user interaction (an issue tracker, or a HN clone).

Also, at the moment zotonic looks a bit like Zope (everything should be created through backend web forms). I am most likely wrong, but a sample app could demonstrate a workflow that a developer should use.

It's a great framework, quite eager to learn how to use it properly.
XKCD once had a very salient comic on this point: https://xkcd.com/538/

The idea being, you think they can't break your encryption, but they can just break your fingers one by one until you tell them the password.
I didn't know that, thank you for the explanation.

And yes just as you said, IMHO transit zone is not a safety zone from the hosting government, it is more just a convenience thing for the travellers.
Is getting a good global picture a particularly high priority in most historical studies, particularly more ancient civilisations?

There's little if any overlap between the two (unless you're thinking of things like the effect of steppe tribes moving from the east into Europe), so I'm not sure you'd get a better understanding of either Roman or Chinese history by treating them as a single story.

If you are personally particularly interested in that, isn't the answer to simply read both a book about Rome and one about China from a similar time period?
That would be interesting - but I wonder if it makes sense.

@btilly: what is the name of the thing with locking queries you referred to?
It might be nice to replicate the 8 x 8 pixels (on a 640 x 200 screen) of the CGA 80 x 25 characters text mode.
Very useful. Used in a Git presentation I gave.
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Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html

The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.
Thanks for the info, might check it out again this weekend then.
I'd really like to hear that talk. Will there be a Video/Audio recording for people who didn't attend?
HTTPS with perfect forward secrecy is passwordless :P Right?
One would hope that investors, on dealing with unsophisticated entrepreneurs, would tell them "Hey, it seems like you don't know the ropes of this yet, let me explain it to you" but the overwhelming number of anecdotes where I hear that have that sentence followed by advice so bad it shocks the conscience.

Most people know that when they deal with savvier and more experienced people in the upper class, they're at serious risk (okay, high probability) of getting an unfair deal, but their model of "unfair" is 60/40 or 70/30, which most people can accept in the course of getting their vision off the ground. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game

In practice, it's often more like 95/5 or even 99/1. The people who know the game and have the power take almost all of it, and leave just enough to keep people motivated to produce.
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The PHP team does this already ... it is a slow process, but I think in the right direction: http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php
The iPad version of Reeder also doesn't have Feedbin support yet.
Yeah, that's a feature that I want too, helper. We even discussed about it when we were deciding the features we would include in this initial release, and we decided not to include search at all. For now.

Full-text search is a feature that is very resource-intensive, and providing something like that for now would be like a shot in the foot: for us, that manage the servers, which would have a bad time trying to balance the things; and for you, users, which wouldn't have a good user experience.

So, yeah, it always've been on our mind, but not for now.
So you're saying: don't force the NSA to get a court order and force you to reveal the unencrypted data, just hand it over to them now so they can look at it any time they want?
I'm surprised that you interpreted it that way. You're right that my comment likely involved very little effort, but that isn't how I assess the value of comments. I thought my brief comment would be enough to communicate what I wanted to, but it wasn't.

Let's put this down to being a well-intended miscommunication and move on.
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We're working on some live streaming. If it doesn't work, we'll record the talks and make them available later.
If you cannot afford a "full-tilt startup" designer, you should question the morality of taking advantage of a teenage girl to try and get that.

> she instinctively understands the value of giving 100% as a measure of self-worth.

Instead of money, of course. She's not worth that.

> she has no education beyond high school

Completely irrelevant.

> when her skills are rounded out and the money is there, I'll pay her going rate, and glady.

No, you won't. There will always be one more skill she lacks and there will always be one more thing you need to buy "for the company" (but use yourself, of course, because it's your company).
I think the "with better hygiene" is highly debatable.
To really grasp it, you need to understand monads. See, monads are really easy if you think about it the right way...

Oh, wait, sorry!
Speaking only for myself, I'd love nothing more than to work with a mentor, but I have no idea where to find one with both the time to dedicate and the relevant skills. Nor am I sure how I would fit it into my work schedule.
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Send out robotic talking heads to spew about anything remotely relevant to the issue at hand.

IIRC Kerry was a presidential candidate, one of Reddit's favourites (meaning the most liberal of dems), now the Secretary of State, replacing Hillary Clinton. I'd say he's in a good position for next primaries.

So not exactly "robotic talking head", or I wish he wouldn't be. It's specially disappointing hearing that from him.
They just didn't underpromise enough. They should have promise only what they could deliver with half of the team working 3 days per week and overdeliver things by making 3/4 of our team working 4 days per week.

They would have happy and amazed client and lot's of spare strength.
- FizzBuzz like question to eliminate a candidate that cannot code

- Technical questions according to the seniority level of the candidate

- I ask the candidate to solve a problem we are currently working on

- During the whole process check for cultural/managerial fit
Programming? Absolutely!

There are many places in the world where programmers are in high demand, making it somewhat easier to get into than some other fields. That being said, it can be a big and complex field, so don't expect to learn everything in a year.

Don't pretend you're more experienced than you are, but stress your willingness to learn. For some people (companies, positions) lack of experience will be a problem, but not for everyone.

Go make something public (github perhaps). Start small! It's not going to be.., ehrm, that great. But that's not the point. The goal is to improve and show that you can actually do this.
Americans have no privacy left, no capacity to communicate without govt watching
We did as well. Tasted a bit buttery and I don't think we had enough vanilla extract.
I don't think you understood what "guard" meant in this scenario. The guards couldn't stop anyone from walking onto the beach. And an easement in this case means that the public can use the land without owning it. Public beach access is a requirement for building permits on the waterfront.

This isn't vigilantism. They're trying to mislead the public about their rights, not enforce some law with illegal methods. I'd be damned if any of our politicians were arrested for that, let alone some Malibu residents.
> Snowden Snowden Snowden

There should be a prize for ad hominem journalism. Whether Snowden is evil or not is as important as the president's hair color.
Not always. Nintendo usually don't rely on that for example, and the first two PlayStation did not needed that either.
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Only if you care about your fingers.