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The main problem with "climate science" is epistemological. It does not hold up to the foundational standards of the natural science which rely on falsification. With a system as complex as the earth's environment, falsification is essentially impossible. You cannot rewind the clock back 50 years, change a variable and play out what the temperature would be now. In a way, this makes climate science similar to economics. Yet climate "scientists" continue to act as if their work is as repeatable and falsifiable as a highschool lab experiment.
Exactly. The "self-contained" approach means I can't just upgrade a library once and have everything using it Just Work with the features enabled (or bugs fixed) by the new version.
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I am an iOS Developer in Los Angeles. I am thinking of moving to Bay Area if I get a job there. What is the best approach to finding a job there ? What is the "entry-level" place to live ?

Unfortunately I don't have a large social network to rely on and sites like Dice.com are infested with Cybercoders and other job farms.

Any advice / help is appreciated.
Let's assume this charge is legal and correct for a moment. Why aren't the newspapers (guardian and the post?) and their writers/editors also being charged? Why aren't the newspapers having their paypal and all their bank accounts frozen?

We live in very scary times as far as I'm concerned. The US is prosecuting its own citizens for standing up and saying "what you're doing to the rest of the world is not OK". But if you're a non-US citizen doing the same you just get thrown in Gitmo.

There's outrage about what is being done domestically, but the rest of the world seem to have no way of protesting. As an Australian I should be safe from all of this - but our Government, no doubt, is piggy-backing on everything the US is doing. No one is safe.
I've seen that the people worth connecting with, you just have to google their name, and some random bits of information that LinkedIn gives "for free" and voila, no need for linked in.
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Even if it is encrypted, I doubt it's authenticated.
They're a pioneer in key pinning, which bakes the identity of their key into the Chrome browser binary, meaning that when your Chrome browser talks to Google's mail service, it's unlikely to trust any otherwise- valid- looking certificate presented by a MITM attacker.

Chrome doesn't pin actual certificates, just public keys of CAs. If some organization had access to Verisign, Equifax or Geotrust keys, they could just create new certificates for *.google.com, which Chrome would accept.
I think you are missing the point here: My government (Germany) already grants those rights, maybe even more rights than the US. But this doesn't mean anything when I'm using a service provided by an US company over which my government doesn't have any jurisdiction. What the US government says by its position and in the age of internet and cloud computing is the following: The moment any non-US citizen is using a service provided by an US company, he is giving up any right to due process, privacy and data security (as far as this service is concerned). Which is risky and short-sighted to say the least.
So the difference is whether you started off in a full-time job, and come into the deal hoping for one? If you're a freelancer, the chance of a fulltime position is one you can take or leave at your leisure. But if you start off as a fulltimer somewhere else and come into some contract-to-hire scenario, that's what you don't like. Amirite?

Anyway, I learned. Thanks.
Why would anyone use a proprietary ad-ridden client when there would be multiple high-quality open-source clients available?

And if the protocol is sufficiently closed to prevent open-source clients, why would anyone use it at all? Wouldn't that be the same as the XMPP->Hangouts transition that infuriated everyone a few weeks ago?
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Edit

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This book: purportedly gives power to men.
50 shades of grey: describes a powerful man ceding power to a woman.
Conclusion: politics brings out the extremes in people.
We're not being clear: The Web page
'screens' I am putting up are just 800
pixels wide. I hope that usually the user's physical
screen has more pixels than 800 so that my
Web pages do not take up all of the
width of the user's physical screen.

For my Web pages, the 800 pixels is wide
enough to get the information out there
for the users to read easily. For my
Web site, that my Web pages are only
800 pixels wide and, thus, usually don't
take up the full width of the user's
physical screen helps the UI/UX.

Even if the user's screen is 4096 pixels
wide and three feet wide, I still only
need 800 pixels of their screen!

For users with tablets, phones, etc.
my Web pages should still be easy to
use.
"Going to NSA IG or the PSCI's in Congress are protected"

Protected and utterly pointless. Congress already knew what was happening. The NSA's IG is not an unbiased observer.

Unfortunately, the official channels are broken here. You have members of Congress talking about how these revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. That means that they know more, that they know details that will shock people, and that they are doing nothing about it. What good would it do to go to them with this information?
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I didn't find them very revelatory. It just seems like typical CYA spook paperwork. Regarding the government lying, I don't see how that is news, either.
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Very nice. accusing me of a logical fallacy, while playing the strawman fallacy.

I notice you didn't say my previous statement was in any way incorrect. to reiterate, I am accusing Microsoft of creating sockpuppets (now and in the past) on HN. If you would like some evidence, look at the posting histories of some of the loudest voices during the larger Windows 8 threads on HN; you'll find some awfully short (and focused) comment histories.
Chrome may be the most unsafe browser in the world just because how it gives away saved passwords in clear text with extreme ease. This is such a blatant violation of trust with users that developers who implemented this and thought this was OK shouldn't be allowed to work on anything related to security. They did not understood the simple fact that most users of Chrome do not have a clue about all these intricacies of software security. They use Chrome because they trust it to keep them safe. When they save their passwords they don't get any clear warning that many 7 year old can get all of their passwords in 30 seconds without installing or running any additional software on their machine.
"The role of the prosecutor is to prosecute the interests of the State"

One would think that, as public servants, their role is to prosecute in the interests of the public at large. That might mean going against the interests of the state, if the state is working against the public.
If you take a very narrow view of falsification, then evolution is unfalsifiable too, and therefore not science (this is actually a common argument made by anti-evolution people).
Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric.

The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system.

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The government spent the last week trying to convince the public that they never spy on U.S. citizens and do not store their data.

The documents are a direct authorization from the Attorney General for all the ways in which they are allowed to do exactly that.
If you don't have a large professional (not social) network, then you must start building one.

Have you tried

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs ??

That's how I found my dream job! and I'm hunted by in-house recruiters all the time, so I'd say that's a good place to start.

When I registered, it required an invitation, if it stills requires one, shoot me an email (see my profile) and I'll happily send one your way.
> Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century

Clever. "the warmest year of the twentieth century" is completely true. But it seems a little misleading, since there's been a few years even warmer in the 21st century.

Whenever I see the year 1998 mentioned in a discussion about climate, I am immediately suspicious. The temperature recorded in 1998 was a serious outlier.

Let's pretend the datapoint from 1998 did not exist. Then we could accurately say, "The last decade has been hotter than any previous year on record!". But with 1998, you could accurately say, "Most of the last decade has been cooler than it was in 1998!"

It's always nice to look directly at the data.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A.gif

It's true, if you take the past 10 years only, the trend is pretty flat. But if you look at a 10 year running average we're in the middle of an upslope. We can even make it look like we're in a cooling period if we pick 1998 as the first year! Fun with data.
> It's sad that it's taken so long for people to start realizing and caring about this, but better late than never.

LOL, you really think people have started caring about this? Nobody but a handful of techies and tech writers gives a shit.
It's not going to just work all the time. There are so many possible libraries and possible versions of those libraries and their sub-libraries that it is possible, even likely, that nobody in the world has ever tested that precise combination of components before. You don't know whether it's going to work until you try it, and when it doesn't work, it's up to you to figure out what went wrong and fix it. This seems like a monumental waste of time. I would rather use a complete, monolithic application built and tested by the app developer, leave it the way it came, and upgrade it when the app developer has a new, complete, built, and tested version I can use.
He'd need to get low-cost bail. To the US gov't, fair treatment is solitary confinement, waterboarding, etc.
They're hardly "programs" though, just components of a larger one.
Right, but why is that a surprise?
Cloudflare is starting to get annoying. So often they want me to solve captchas to open a site -.-
And even if they say they will not keep your data if not encrypted, how can you know for sure?
Life is too short to worry about every single detail. If you worry about everything, you will never experience anything.

I think you're doing the right thing, and as long as tax is being paid, you will more than likely be fine IMO.

Good luck and enjoy.
Because it's documented proof of their blatant lies to the public and to Congress. If that's not something big to you, I doubt there are any documents that can be released which will impress you.
As a user of the machines I use, I value consistency. I don't want to have to hunt down documentation in weird and wonderful places, I want to go to one spot and have it there.
Um, did you look at the graph you linked to? They grey line is the mean for 1979-2008. The last two years, the blue line is distinctly below the mean. I don't know much about sea ice, but this graph isn't supporting your claims.
And the opposite approach means I only need to update glibc once and flash audio is broken.
> The question I'm asking is that if both parties are expressing 'forward motion' in terms of their actions and their body language, is it necessary to have verbal consent?

Judging by romance flicks set in modern times, teen pop songs, advertising, and women’s magazines, Western culture says ‘no’ — the guy is supposed to pick up on non-verbal hints and take the wheel. (In reality, she’s already put the car into ‘Drive’, but she wants to give the guy the idea he’s in control)

Now, over time I’ve become fairly religious, and last year I’ve vowed not to have sex before marriage, but even with a girl who shares my faith, she expects me to try something (everything up to actual sex). Otherwise, she thinks I’m not into her (no sexual chemistry = no marriage).
I have a great respect towards Snowden for what he did. Knowing his life will be over, he was brave enough to continue believing in his citizen's duty and pledge to the Constitution and all American people (not to the Administration that just happened to be more tyrannical as the days go by) and decided he couldn't stand the abuse anymore. I personally believe the only reason we do not have a full speed tyranny in this country and more wars with american troops involved all over the world is because of the people like Assange, Bradley and Snowden. They put a real time breaks on internal abuse; many times before pulling the trigger those in charge ask themselves: "damn what if another 'traitor' will leak this out and my name [and crimes] will come to the light?". We have grown very dangerous government that WE founded and WE continue to pay for and we seem to forget about that...

But in NO MEANS the Government will EVER let him off the hook. Never. Its not that they are vicious or anything, its simply because the system is broken and corrupt to its inner core (by corruption I do not mean someone giving an envelope under the table to win some contract. I am talking about high ranked generals that with no serious evidence just by "believing we are protecting american people" are sending thousands on the war the they damn well know is not being waged in the name of security, but the name of satisfying Industrial Military Complex, in a monetary way). You can see military lock down of entire cities due to the riots on the streets, and yet they will not change their mind, because that would be a warm invitation to anyone else witnessing shit being done under government seal to come forward. It would be a total reboot of the system. Another 4th of July. And what they think about founding fathers [1] is not what you would assume they do.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oP1Ke70Mi8
I'd like to see more documents detailing how the system works, and specific instances of it being used to target american citizens. Something along the lines of the information eventually turned up about the Fast and Furious operation, or the Iran Contra affair. Right now it's just a powerpoint and a signed letter.
I've found that algorithms are one of those things that doesn't come up often in your daily work, but when you need them, you really need them, and otherwise you'll end up delivering a substandard product. It's very much like Joel Spolsky article on hitting the high notes:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

I've found that in my work, a tricky algorithmic problem comes up on average about once a month. It's a tiny fraction of the total work I do - but if I couldn't solve algorithmic problems, then there are whole projects that I simply couldn't tackle. We'd either do something substandard for users, or we'd throw bodies at the problem (which still happens a lot, unfortunately), or they'd need to bring in someone else to do my job.

Moreover, I've found that there's a cultural shift that happens when enough people are familiar with algorithm design within a company. A lot of other places I've worked are basically "Make the user fill out a form, dump it in a database, format it for display." When a significant fraction of your employees are capable of hitting the high notes, this becomes "Make the user interact with your system in the manner they're most comfortable with, extract meaning out of their ordinary behavior, compute interesting results, and show it to them." The complexity moves from the user to the software, and as a result, users would rather use your software. There are whole subsystems within Google Search - synonyms, spelling, refinements, authorship, snippets, ranking, translate, voice search, etc. - that would never have happened if there weren't a critical mass of people willing to dive into difficult problems.
Which scientists are you referring to? There are thousands and thousands out there and I find your sweeping generalisation a little unlikely to say the least. I don't usually see hard short term predictions, it's more often presented as ranges of temperature averaged over significant periods of time.
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You have the right to waive your right to a jury, as it turns out. There might be good reasons for this; maybe you do not believe it is possible for an unbiased jury to be assembled for your case (because it is all over the media and most people already think you are guilty). Maybe your defense hinges on highly technical details that an average juror cannot be expected to understand, but that a well-educated judge can.

As it so happens, juries are not required for a government to be legitimate, to respect the rights of its citizens, or for trials to be democratic. Quite a few legal systems in the present day and historically have a panel of judges decide criminal cases. Neither system is perfect.
I'm curious to what options we have as citizens, short of organizing militias, can really do here. I think the government play is just "wait til this blows over" and they might get away with that.
Personally, I'd prefer a library version tested by a huge number of people running a given distribution than one tested only by the developer of a single package.
You're conflating the dependency graph with the change-flow network. The first represents how projects rely on other projects; the second represents how changes must propagate to reach all users. Once you understand the difference, you'll understand why debundling is the sensible response to the sea of large-scale interdependent software-development projects that characterizes most FOSS ecosystems.
That was the next logical steps after Boeing electrifying most of the 787 functions (I'm still wondering why Airbus didn't go with bleedless engines for the 350).
And, of course, he overpacked. 90 liters is way too big. 40 liters is probably still too big, but at least realistic.

26L is possible!
Snowden is, and will forever be, a patriot in my eyes. Our government (in the US) takes away more and more of our civil liberties and constitutional rights with each passing day and I'm personally tired of it.
That's brilliant. One of the business development guys I work for was showing me a company that aggregates social media feeds for integration into your website, I asked how these get filtered, "no, they just get everything". Never understood why you want something displayed on your website you have NO control over!

This will be a good case study to present :)
The issue is that when you use Facebook connect and get the user's email it returns the email originally used to sign up for facebook. Since people signed up years ago, many no longer have that as an active address, which leads to the poor email quality.
No, it's not. Brainteasers are banned and have been forever (or at least since 2005). However, everyone has a different definition of what a brainteaser is. You think the Prisoner's Dilemma is a brainteaser, but other people (as you see in the comments below) do not.
Sysadmin here.

Authors of well packaged software know when they need fine grained library features, and include static versions of that library. Authors of well packaged software also pay attention to the distribution of commonly used libraries, and make careful decisions when using system-provided shared versions of those libraries.

The author of the article is complaining when someone downstream overrides those decisions. If you're asking how many clusters one of the primary developers of Riak has run, you may not be reading closely enough.
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That's exactly the same thing I questioned, in which country or doing what do you make 22k just like that by consulting.
Binney tried to do exactly that - and they sent the FBI to raid his house.
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I think an interesting implication of this is that people may feel satisfied having purchased something useless that seems to have enough "stuff" in it.
and you don't need any special process to manage it.

You're speaking of apt/packaging like it's a bad thing, when it's awesome. Want to download a new OSX or Win app? Open your browser, hunt it down, in the case of Win, figure out if you can trust the site, download it, open the downloaded item and do the install dance, and then have it stay sessile on your system, never updated... unless it has its own phone-home system - and now you have more crap on your system.

Want to install a package with package management? It takes literally seconds plus download time. Package management systems are all about doing away with managing complexity.
It happened in the 70s to Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Paper's leaker.

"Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Ellsberg."

"He and Russo faced charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 and other charges including theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years."

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
Charge $100/hr and work 55 hours a week. The easiest way is to do something like network engineering or "oracle financials" for a huge corporation. iOS consulting also pays that much but finding the work isn't as easy.
W.r.t. why the Guardian isn't also being charged: While the act of leaking classified information is a crime, publishing classified information leaked to you by someone else isn't a crime. Here's a law-review article discussing that: https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/ethics...
I was replying to someone who wanted to pressure the administration into firing a prosecutor for prosecuting Snowden. It seems unlikely that they will be swayed when the majority of Americans want Snowden prosecuted.
Then you fall back to this 'superior' individual packaging method. I don't see how this is a counter.
That is an alternative. Although, we have found they throttle incoming SMTP traffic pretty aggressively. I don't fault them for this - I'm sure they are bombarded by spammers.

Here's an interesting post I came across on the subject: http://www.whatcounts.com/2012/06/what-is-the-deliverability...
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It's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
Looks like this post is being flagged. 55 points in 2 hours and it sits near the bottom.

I think this is a misuse of the flag button given HN guidelines. I don't see how this post is spam or offtopic: "If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link."

I'm seeing this more and more on HN. The flag button is being used to "downvote" posts that present a point of view that some disagree with. I find this trend disturbing.
Not everyone in Congress knows everything; nor do all federal judges.

I agree the NSA IG and PSCI's are essentially insiders, but "deal with this or I will go public" would give the minority members some cover.
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Travel guides: It might not be cheaper, but books are heavy. Buy locally when you need them, it also provides some money to people much poorer than you without giving them a hand out.

Room and board: Stay in hostels where possible, they meet a lot of interesting people.

Transportation: Take ground transport where possible, you see a lot more and meet a lot of interesting people on those long journeys.

Packing: depends where you are going. Hot countries you can get away with a side bag, cold countries you need more.
Subtractive framework creation makes more sense
Reddit is planning on doing some 4th of July protesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth