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In context, the stuff Carter complains about is baby stuff. But then you run the risk of resting on your laurels. When I hear people complain about having their freedoms taken, I think about Braveheart when William Wallace wanted to freedom to be ruled by Scottish monarchs instead of English ones. Both of which would be tyranny to a modern American. We need to keep raising the bar every generation.
In school, Germans are taken on field trips to the concentration and death camps that their countrymen set up. As a consequence, Germans are acutely aware of the horribleness of their heritage.

Do you believe Americans, as a group, are similarly educated or aware?
Thanks. Can you provide a sample question? Or direct me to a good place to look?
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Interesting. I suspect what really happened is that the Zazzle owners feared being put on the no-fly list, or worse.
That would be an impressive feat, given that the first commit for the project was in February of 2011.
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Courage can be poison.

Determination can be poison. Curiosity, compassion, and patience, too -- all are good traits to have but will poison you from within if you start molding your entire life around them, without moderation.

I like my eggs with Sriracha, but they're gonna be pretty bad eggs if I drown them in it.
> To say it is any more or less prestigious than winning Monaco is a purely subjective manner.

Of course it's subjective, and anyone who would declare a particular race "the greatest in the world" is obviously full of it. Someone just couldn't resist stroking his own ego a little more. I know DHH has a reputation for being arrogant and opinionated, but this post was over the top.

> The idea that the opinion of motorsport fans in the southern US has any weight is laughable. They are generally the most ignorant of other forms of motorsport and least well informed motorsport fans.

I bet you couldn't walk 10 feet at a NASCAR event without tripping over someone who could fix your car. I'd be amazed if you could find a single person like that sitting in the stands of a Formula 1 Grand Prix event.
It's easy to think that you wouldn't, but in practice many companies have stack ranking systems that are effectively more or less equivalent, and encourage employees to game the system rather than just to do good work. But they are cloaked with more layers of bureaucracy which disguise their natures better.
Reminds me of this TED talk - http://www.ted.com/talks/devdutt_pattanaik.html (the difference between the East & the West)
That is false.

“Unlike works of the U.S. Government, works produced by contractors under government contracts (or submitted in anticipation of such contracts) are protected and restricted under U.S. copyright law.”

Also important: even if a federal employee made it, it may not be protected by copyright in the US but it can still be copyrighted in all other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...
Part of the problem is that the lock icon is just grey. The lock icon should be pulsing red, solid yellow or green. This would work the same way Google's anti-black-hat-SEO advisories work. Force people into security by calling attention to bad practices and reducing the prominence in search of any site that violates this.

Clicking on the pulsing red icon, would pop up a window that tells people exactly what they should be careful about.

Clicking on the certificate, should present a much clearer dialog for the layman.
> I mean, the entire nation (USA) is built upon the bodies of the Natives who's land was stolen or coerced from them and then built by enslaved peoples stolen from Africa (as the Marley song goes).

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ce3sz/why_di...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1gcb51/why_di...

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1dmbt3/how_we...
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That this argument is repeated all the time is dumbfounding. Why would it matter where a quanta of oil was drilled up? Supply and demand?
Hi, I wrote the grandparent (and later deleted it to try to save my karma).

Making the comment was an interesting experience from a meta-HN perspective: I expressed a contrarian view (basically questioning why this article is HN material). Despite getting downvoted several times, my comment generated some informative posts, like the parent -- relevant facts and opinions about the article's context and meaning, that's missing from the article itself.

Despite losing some karma to it just now, I like the downvoting system. But I don't think that we as a community want to suppress well-worded, cogently argued opinions that generate informative replies, just because they're unpopular.

So please, make an effort to not downvote things just because you disagree with them, and pro-actively upvote high-quality comments that have been downvoted without merit.

It'll make HN a better place if we, as a community, reserve downvotes to censure people who truly deserve it.
And just on the hour (9pm UK, 20:00 UTC and 1pm SF) the updated app was approved for the app store. It had been "In Review" since Friday morning (SF time). Is that normal - recent updates have spent longer in review than the initial release and earlier updates.
"Armed with the fastest and most reliable car, the best-prepared team, and two of the fastest team mates in the business"

- If all these facts are indeed true then it does not seem too ambitious to expect to win the race. And one should be meaningfully disappointed at losing. I think there's some confusion here between over achieving and under achieving.

If they were such underdogs (resources, experience, team) that a Top 25 finish seemed unlikely then I can understand how beating yourself up over 2nd would be too overly ambitious. This though seems like healthy "We kind of under achieved given what was possible going into this"

Edit: Maybe not under achieved but understandably disappointed we didn't go one spot better.
> In essence, there maybe meaning or maybe not; you probably won't find out till you are dead. By then, you are dead. This is a rabbit hole.

You've got what I'm trying to say perfectly.

> Why does it matter what you pick?

I don't think it does matter what you pick, honestly. I like to simplify it to a complex game of chess. No matter what, the game will end. If you wish to end the game early, you can choose poor moves or resign. But if you want to see the game out to the very end and possibly learn something in the process, you should choose what you feel to be the best move. It doesn't matter if you pick the best move or not, it only matters that you pick something you believe in. Similarly, in life, you do the best you can. You gather all of your facilities, your mind, your gut, your personality, etc, and you follow that path. No other path is inherently better than another and no other life is inherently worth more or less than yours. That's not to say we're all equal in life, but rather that we're indistinguishable in death.
Cryptography needs problems that are hard on average, not in the worst case. This doesn't fit well with P/NP/NP-complete, which are all about the worst-case difficulty of a problem.

For example, see the Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem [1], which is based on the subset sum problem --- a NP-complete problem! Nevertheless, it is broken. As you can see, using a NP-complete problem as a computational basis for a cryptosystem is not a silver bullet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle-Hellman
This is a talk I gave at the NYC haskell meetup last month. Feel free to ask me any questions.

Due to time limitations and trying to make it accessible to experts and non experts, its a bit broad rather than deep as such talks go.

[edit: also see reddit discussion http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1gzmw1/who_ya_gonna...]
I guess this is exactly why this is over my head. Maybe you can help me even though it's a little unfair to pick on you :) If one can decrypt the conversation that negotiates the session key and thereby obtain the session key, couldn't one also read the conversation? This must be the whole trick to the ephemeral part...
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When I hired my 18 year old designer, we talked salary come funding time (she's not getting a salary now, just token $$ I toss her way to keep her from getting a grocery store job). Even underpaying her relative to the entry level designer market, she'll be making more than her mother does.
Ok I'll bite. Why is "creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it" a subset of mathematics?
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Wonderful. So the US gov't can issue a take-down request for any of its works on the interwebs.
Have you looked into CurveCP? It would provide security and automatic bandwidth throttling with minimal effort.
Technically, putting your money in an index fund makes you dependent on future market performance.
Computer science is a big tent. It's an amalgamation of a lot of different things. If you ask "Is computer science X?" the answer is usually yes.
I don't know if what we do is technically "screencasts" but it's still in that vein -

http://www.learnitfirst.com/

I do the SQL Server relational and multidimensional videos - we do full-blown courses that are roughly equivalent to a 5-7 day in-person course so it's not quite the same, I guess.
I have no experience in this domain at all but just taking a shot at answering you. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and more I believe are all producing original content now. They're huge but I suspect they operate differently than the large networks. If you intend to really go for this and try to get in front of someone to pitch, make your effort count more by not going straight for the whales.
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I think this make sense since I can always bootcamp it when I need to do something on the Windows side. And that brings a good point, the reason I don't bootcamp now on my 2008 MacBook Unibody is that it's not that responsive when I tried a while ago. That kind of tells me that the new Air is the best option if I can justify shelling out a few hundred more dollars but I think since I'm developing for iOS as well it might be just worth it.
This happens in cases where those assets are alleged to be the product of the crime itself; most felonies don't create that circumstance.
Interesting. I hadn't realized there was an underlying federal law, since different states I've lived in have very different state laws as well. Lots of good information here: http://www.adventuresports.com/river/nors/us-law-who-owns.ht...
FYI the box to sign the petition is in the upper-right, for those that may not have seen it

I say, the more petitions (and other things of course) the better. While one petition is unlikely to force a change in course, the public making enough noise and hitting some sort of threshold has a good chance.
Why wouldn't it apply to HTTPS and SSH?
Those are indeed the practical issues the system is facing.

>> Something that's obvious to us will often be novel to them.

It should be noted though that the requirements for patentability include the invention being non-obvious to those "skilled in the prior art". The jury deciding upon a case may not be skilled in the prior art themselves, but they need to judge if those actually skilled in the prior art would have found it obvious at the time of the patent's priority date. But again, that's just theory facing the practical issues you noted.

Note: IANAL
First World Problems (tm): because the people you don't sympathize with are just playing life on easy mode.
Whoops. This wouldn't be the first time I got public/private key schemes muddled in my head.
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If you read the doc, it says also that domestic communication "reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime... may be disseminated to Federal Law Enforcement authorities".
I can relate to the unstableness of the TypeScript intellisense for VS2012, although Web Essentials 2012 does improve things.

However, I easily trade the unstableness of intellisense for the type-safety of TypeScript.
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You're right, I was projecting the idea that "work which is not in a full time setting in an office in the US is not real work" onto your comment. My mistake.
Ah, but what is frustrating is that I DID limit myself to the similarity of both being rubber stamps only (albeit, sadly, in my followup, not original, comment where I tried to be explicit about my intended meaning). I even attempted to give a passing remark on that precedent issue, but only insofar as it was precedent within FISC, not any other courts (by mentioning in my first remark on the precedence issue that nobody I know of has cited FISC decisions in non-FISC cases/actions). I reiterated that limitation how many times?

The core issue is not that I am not a lawyer (although I am not; academics were political theory; ditched law/grad school route for programming). It is, rather, that I used "operates very much like" in a way that would spur a lawyer to step in and want to quibble over words, without pausing to reflect on the context in which the "operates very much like" was made. The primary fault is mine for being vague and leaving such a wide-ranging statement open to too much misinterpretation.

That rayiner made his first statement was understandable, and is why I offered the followup explanation. That we continued to further spiral around issues of precedence, which I understand, and with which I was not disagreeing, left me wondering what was going on. Had I suggested that FISC decisions bind other courts, I could completely understand. But I did not. Because it was rayiner commenting, who I know well from his otherwise very sensible comments here, left me wondering if he was trolling me for fun or something.

Anyway, this has hit the level of absurd for me. I'll back out because I respect and upvote all three of your guys' statements on the regular (you, rayiner, & tptacek), and I had zero expectation and no remaining interest in arguing over a stupid jab I shouldn't have made in a thread about a court decision.

Thanks for feedback.
Vigilantism is based on using illegal methods to enforce the law.

Hiring a guard for land you don't own is using illegal methods to break the law. (Assuming the guard actually does anything.)

I see this as worse than vigilantism, and I find it really odd to see you explain it as less bad. I seriously doubt that the majority of these landowners are actually mistaken about who owns the beach.
Right there with ya.

He will not build interesting things and may not work with smart people.

Oh, because working at a startup guarantees he will work with smart people? Sheesh.
If that is your argument then men have equal potential to be beautiful, and you are making assumptions about my motives instead of analyzing what was said. logical fallacy. As constructive criticism (instead of avoiding and assuming anyone who has something to say about your writing is ugly, which is not a very rational approach) perhaps you could use the term inner beauty, because that is not how it came across at all. Maybe replacing beautiful with "inner beauty" and not making it gender specific would get across what you just mentioned you are trying to get across. Also, the tone and the context (though I assume you don't mean it now that you have clarified)came out as saying all these useful things and then going, oh and girls, just make them feel beautiful. It comes across as very minimalizing in my opinion. You may not feel it is important, but considering your entire article is on getting people to like you, you may want to consider how you come across to people, and assuming that anytime someone thinks you come across the wrong way is because THEY have issues instead of seeing how YOU can improve yourself, if one of the top things not to do, especially in a startup.

And lets say I'm totally wrong and being super sensitive, guess what? A lot of people are like that, especially in the workplace, so if you want people to like you, then you need to be able to understand and adapt your behavior to accommodate for other peoples sensitivities, even if they aren't yours. I do that with people of different cultures, religions and political opinions all the time. I feel that you should be the champion of this if you are writing articles about getting people to like you. Please use this information to empower yourself and learn even if you do not agree, instead of putting other people down. Other good rule in business.
Why have you chosen as your comparator China or Russia? How about choosing to contrast US policy and ethos with the current policies and civil practices of, say, other fully developed wealthy countries? (e.g., Scandinavia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, etc.)
And everytime, they tried to put on pressure or to justify their demands, by urging to "please uphold the law", an intense round of laughter filled the room...
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Agreed with the author on this: One of the most common problems with APIs is unclear/incomplete error messages. When you don't know what is causing the problem you are stuck.
Lets start with something simple here: I'm not contending in any way that anyone owes me anything. I'm asking whether it wouldn't be better to spend the money on building a simple web application instead of focusing on these two platforms.

Since you're here and you've taken the time to write such a thoughtful reply I'll address it directly. If I had donated money to the kickstarter campaign, they would indeed "owe me" an app for all senses of "owe" that matter for conversation about the apps in question. Then, if I or someone I cared about wasn't an owner of an Android or iOS device, it's reasonable to wonder why the campaigners can't achieve the same result using a technology that works for a significantly larger market of devices (including desktops).
That is good because, provided there is not some enormous leap forward in number theory in the meantime, they can keep working on trying to break 256-bit key RSA encryption "indefinitely" as well thanks to a higher law by the name of thermodynamics.
I love that DHH's unbridled awesomeness can also be a valuable lesson about life. He has much to teach us.
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I think most people use puppet to build their immutable images at present. It is still rather different from running it on production. Sure you should not start from a non reproducible point.
Sounds like that would come from Guarding The Three Treatures by Daniel Reid that I've just started reading. Loving Taoism..
PuPHPet looks really good. What's the default PHP setup? It would be great to be able to switch between and configure mod_php, fastcgi, fcgid, PHP-FPM, suPHP, suExec, etc.
Accessibility, by definition, is about accommodating as many users as possible be they impaired or otherwise.
You aren't cast into one thing for life unless you choose to be. I'm sure startups would be happy to hire someone with Microsoft experience.

Out of people I know working for startup type companies, one cut his teeth building enterprise Java stuff at a bank and the other spent time in the military.
You were concerned a lot of people were going to read this and then try to have a picnic on the beach and watch the newest BUDS class?

I don't know about Coronado but at Dam Neck there is a fence that extends at least 150+ feet into the water clearly delineating the base. If the fence is not a dead give away there are signs every 20 feet on the fence that make it crystal clear that the other side of the fence is not a public beach.
Sure, I can help you open source the project. Email me at zchlatta (at) gmail.com
Google, YouTube, and Gmail are all the same company.
Since this is HN, I was trying to point out that it's a case where latent knowledge was transformed into highly useful software.

I do pretty much assume the app wasn't totally her idea. This is because I've been aware of her work (e.g., http://west.stanford.edu/node/901) for probably 10 years now, but hey, I could be wrong. The agency that developed the app is here: http://escapeapps.com/about
I can't remember the exact wording of your original comment, however I do remember a phrase like "wall of text" regarding the inclusion of "to be or not to be" and expressing dismay over the number of positive votes it had accumulated.

In my mind I found it to be not only contrarian, but disrespectful to the author. One could concede that it did spark informative responses, but I would argue that a more serious attempt should be made to absorb the article's own message before trying to refute it.
I'm exactly like that as well.

I believe it's called "being normal". As quaint as somebody admitting to being perfectly normal might sound on the internet.
I'm not sure about obtaining location information (ie, I don't know about geo api support) but "maps on the web" are extremely robust.
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I need to take time to build code I can actually show off.

The things I build now are essentially web interfaces sitting on databases. The problem is they aren't exactly.. or at all.. legal.

Great learning projects (putting my home video library into a web interface, with episode data from a TV series API) but not something I feel I can show.
100% agree. As a member of SGA I did push for an online notes resource. It turned out to be a legal gray zone though.
Wait 25 years until Moore's Law catches up, and they can break all those 256-bit encrypted things you did back in 2013.
Default is:

* Ubuntu Precise 64 Bit (12.04.2 LTS)

* Apache

* PHP 5.4

You can switch between Apache/Nginx and PHP 5.4/5.3 (5.5 coming today!)
Um...music (information) wants to be free?

Why sign up for a system which provides almost no return?

ETA: Sorry, the first line was a "couldn't resist", presented (badly) as just raising another popular meme and invoking discussion of the conflict thereof.

The second line refers to the fact that somewhere he signed a release whereby (however obtuse, obfuscated, and nigh unto unavoidable) such financial abuse was consented to. In comparison, consider how schools are offering near-free degrees (real ones, like MIT) in retaliation to exorbitant student debt, and doctors & patients are opting out of the hideous costs of government-run healthcare by returning to cash & subscriptions (I don't mean to provoke arguments over those, just as points of comparison). Somewhere, somehow, alternatives exist where real payment is demanded and he actually would get paid (and no I don't mean "make money performing", as some music just isn't per se).
I always phrase this as, 3000 pounds of steel always has right of way over 200 pounds of flesh.
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"why DO we continue?"

How can it possibly be, in an audience like HN has, that no one mentioned sheer curiosity until this post? I know we're not all intellectually dead here.

Especially once you get old enough to have the slightest spark of nostalgia? Or the smallest ability to pattern match/model, hypothesize, test, and conclude?

How can the HN audience, of all groups, not be interested in the future solely for the future's sake if nothing else?
His failures to criticize these regimes suggests that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the United States, not to advance Internet freedom and free speech.

This kind of logic baffles me.