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Ask HN: How to get Snowden
Would this be possible? Snowden is the transit area of the Moscow airport. Technically that is not part of Russia. If someone calls the airport police that he placed a bomb in the transit area, then usually they vacate that area. In order to vacate that area, the people in that area has to cross the border to Russia. Now that the USA invalidated his passport he cannot leave Russia and sooner or later they can extradite him.
Yeah, Obama seems to have promised more of that than he was able/willing to deliver.
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So you want to make it even easier than it already is for corporations to control govt?
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Please, tell me more about this "realistic" scenario. I'm particularly interested in:

1. How terrorists manage to refurbish such an old weapon into working condition again without access to a nuclear weapons plant.

2. How they get it into the country undetected.

3. How they defeat the warhead's PAL.

4. Where they get the rocket capable of launching the warhead into space.

5. How they actually carry out the launch without a bunch of Iowans saying, hey, what are all those crazy terrorists doing with that giant rocket?
Enjoyable article, which misses an important point: the quality of cheap wine has increased markedly in the last 30 years. It isn't that the fine old wines don't deserve their reputation; it's the difference between Gallo in the gallon jug and Charles Shaw that's remarkable.
Do you mind sharing a little bit about the market space you were (are) in? Just curious more than anything.
On a side note, there is a grand difference between ice wine and regular wine. Oh, it's a sweet wine, and there is no mistaking that taste. If you've never tried it, I'd highly recommend it.
You can set it to private.
There was also another predcessor, UML(User Mode Linux). This was widely available and offered such as by Linode before they moved to Xen.
Can you share some links to those questions that were wrongly closed? As a general policy, questions that are on topic on Stack Overflow shouldn't be closed just because they might also be on topic on another site. We're aware of the overlap, and we're supposed to allow for it.
I didn't mean to suggest that this was the norm. It is, however, the system that you seem to want to defend. And it's a system that is an artifact of how technology used to work.

Making music is fun, social, and status enhancing. People are going to keep doing it, and doing it enthusiastically, whether it's possible to make money from recordings or not.
I think this article is focusing on the high end of things. I personally had little difficulty distinguishing between a $5 wines and a $20 wine- that is, until I started to develop a taste for harsher drinks. (Now all wine, even the cheap stuff, tastes smooth as silk)

If you boycott expensive wine, should you also avoid sushi and seafood restaurants because you know that cheap fish can be just as enjoyable?

Inexpensive fish might be just as enjoyable, but what about one of the most common varieties of cheap fish- that is to say, week-old fish? Is it just as enjoyable?

Oh, and last thought- how can people be tricked into thinking a white is a red? I can see the "floral hints" and "buttery accents" being easy to confuse, but the reds I like are extremely dry, and every white I've ever had is sweet and sticky, sometimes even saccharine. Are there whites and reds that blur this boundary?
It didn't end, though its progress was slow/hurt by not meeting the targets. I think he's planning a (small) launch soon.

http://www.calyxinstitute.org/
That was the first thing that sprang to mind for me too. You don't always get a referral right. I've had wonderful friends who have made lousy coworkers, if I was even more incentivized to protect them I think you'd see a pretty stagnant workforce develop over time.
Ahh great explanation. Thank you
If I could completely answer this question, it would not be my bottleneck! ;)

What I have done: post a brochure site, promising more to come, and offering a free whitepaper/guidebook in exchange for an email subscription. Use free $100 Adwords coupon to send traffic there. Count email signups. Send out a newsletter to them, try to gauge engagement.

Other tactics I know of:

- Offer pre-sales
- Talk to business owners casually
- Go to trade shows and chat
- Offer surveys
- Ask mechanical turk for feedback
- Lurk in forums to see what people are discussing
- Surf Amazon reviews to gauge how people feel about X
lol the first thing i thought this article is about was the wine software from winehq.org :)
By Jillian York of EFF
Such questions are based on the consumer premise of "I like it, so it's good".

A connoisseur is someone who can say "I don't like it, but it's good."
Conversely, a lot of US government organizations are involved in fighting terrorism besides the NSA.

None of this answers my question: of all these possibilities, why does the government only go after one?
You haven't answered the question.

I assumed you couldn't possibly be serious when comparing Snowden's actions to those of a runaway slave.

150 years ago there was no indication that slavery was illegal in slave states.

Not remotely true. Many argued that it was unconstitutional for decades before the civil war or 13th amendment (Lysander Spooner[1] most famously).

That there are convincing arguments that the government surveillance programs are unconstitutional

That's a fair point, I would agree that the programs probably are unconstitutional, but that's a determination for the Supreme Court to make. And I'm not sure how that's relevant to Snowden avoiding arrest. It still stands that he released confidential details of programs that weren't illegal -- the difference between illegal and unconstitutional is an important one.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
Anything is worth what the purchaser will pay for it.
No one is saying that opinions aren't important. What they're saying is that their place isn't StackOverflow. Why do people find this so hard to understand? Just because SO/SE is big doesn't obligate them to become big enough to encompass all the useful questions in their domain. Let them do their thing.
I've been drinking red wine quite a bit ever since I met my wife 8 years ago (her family is Italian). I can finally, after this long, begin to taste the various flavor differences and describe them in a meaningful way.

I've had expensive bottles I thought were 'meh', and cheap bottles I thought were the greatest thing ever. So I'll agree that wine price is determined by a number of factors, the least of which is flavor.
Any idea who is responsible for coding this?
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> never allowing questions with lots of upvotes to be closed

Don't make it never, just raise the threshold?

Make it require X moderators to agree before it can be closed.

Make it so that opinion answers don't get rep.

Make it so the questions are put on hold and go to meta stack overflow.

(I don't acctually use stack overflow; apologies if you already do that.)

The closing of popular questions by a mod on a drunken power-hungry semantics trip is to the exclusion of the community is very off-putting for the regular members of the community who do the majority of the answering.
Very accurate summary! I would add

* The current best guess is that the electrical stimulation inactivates the neurons (acting as a reversible lesion). Older surgeries used to do a real lesion near that brain region.

* Parkinson's is, unfortunately, a progressive disease. So the decrease in efficacy of the stimulation is partly related to the fact that this disease itself is getting worse. We typically hear that DBS buys a patient about another decade (which is a lot).
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this seems worse than lying to me.

Well, isn't it good that I pointed it out then! ;)

There's no way to move forward on these types of discussions if we always talk past each other, words mean things and we should use them appropriately.
Here is a 2006 article about it - there is no doubt more stuff on LWN if you dig around https://lwn.net/Articles/179361/

The gist is that there were a lot of out of tree solutions (openvz is still used eg by Travis CI) but they had conflicting requirements and a lot of the suggestions were just "we need BSD jails" which is a very monolithic single purpose solution, like having a web server in the kernel (yes there was one) rather than having the kernel APIs in place so that was not needed.

What we have ended up with (mainly cgroups and namespacing basically) is much more flexible in that each piece is for a separate thing, eg you can just namespace networks without full isolation (which is really useful for eg testing network code without messing with the real config).

It did take a very very long time though.
If you let us know who you are and what company you're working on steering in the right direction, I'm very certain there are people, like me, that would love to help you in any way.

1. I work for a company that can alleviate any back-office pain you have, setting you up on the proper infrastructure, rather than startup blood-sucking solutions like BackOps, TriNet, and Algentis.

2. I have industry connections to help you find mentors, funding, or guidance of any kind.

3. I don't know you, but I am passionate about you. You're a founder and I believe you have great value to offer the world. With this startup or any other you create in your lifetime.

4. You've drummed up great awareness for you and your product with this post, so why not use it to get feedback on your product, with hopes to continue developing something customers want.

That's all I can say. I wish you the best, and hope you're not too discouraged if things don't work out with your current startup. You have the spark. Keep it alive, and build something of value.

Cheers :)
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Yes, the current spreads regardless, since everything is basically saline (so to speak). So the more distant neurons are activated at a lower level (due to the r^2 drop in current density)
I think this article is focusing on the high end of things. I personally had little difficulty distinguishing between a $5 wines and a $20 wine- that is, until I started to develop a taste for harsher drinks. (Now all wine, even the cheap stuff, tastes smooth as silk)

What do you mean by harsher drinks? I can (and do, fondly) drink whiskey straight but I can't get into the taste of red wine.
Yeah, that sort of depends on how expensive of a house you want, and whether "retired" really means "zero work and zero income" or just means you have the freedom to work on whatever you want and never need to take a full-time day job again.

If you're the "permanent vacation" type of retired then $200k / year fixed income might be low. Waterfront properties, luxury hotels and first-class plane tickets are expensive. You're at least 1-2 orders of magnitude from private jet money.

If you're the "I paid off my mortgage and cars, set aside my kids' tuition account, and now my only expenses are food, utilities and taxes, and now I have years of runway to build my next project, plus free time to do hobbies, raise my kids, and enjoy life" type, then a 2-4 million payout is probably plenty to qualify for "FU money." That's more than most people make in a lifetime, so if you get it in a lump sum, you're set.

It's all about what standard of living you want.
That's one explanation of the situation (and there is certainly an element of that).

The other element of the situation is that people use litigation and politics to protect existing bargains. Cabs are regulated, for various reasons. Cities use them as an extension of their public transit infrastructure, and impose restrictions like requiring them to service the whole city, instead of just the profitable neighborhoods. In return, the cab companies are given a monopoly.

So if the cities allow Uber to skim off all the premium business, without requiring Uber to serve the sketchy/marginal neighborhoods, then that's the city going back on its side of the bargain. The cabs can't "win on merit" when they're playing with one hand tied behind their back.

The fair thing to do is either enforce the existing monopoly and keep out Uber, or alternatively to get rid of the monopoly and the regulations too.
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You left the edit in the url which breaks it. Below is the fixed url.

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/2a6d4f7046b1/
That's an interesting thought. There is some push now to figure out if intermittent stimulation (rather than always on, as is commonly used now) works just as well. The main aim of this, however, is to make the batteries last longer.
I love wine. I am skeptical about the same things the article is skeptical about. I don't put much stock in price.

One thing I know, though, is that I am getting sick and tired of the "tinted the white wine red and fooled them all" anecdote as it has very little substance.

Any wine, white or red, can express a huge range of flavor and texture, etc., and there is absolutely no reason to suspect a "red" wine is actually a white wine. You'll note that the study does not indicate the testers thought it was a great red wine, or any particular red wine - just that they did not question it was red. That's not nearly the indictment it's made out to be. In fact, it's not an indictment at all.

Assigning too much value, or "enjoyment" to price ? Fair critique. Describing wines with bizarre descriptors like "asphalt" ? Fair critique. Dubious claims of "terroir" ? Fair critique.

But the "fooled them with white wine" test is meaningless.
Ten years at the same company sounds like a nightmare to many of us.

I'm pretty unapologetic about job hopping. Most companies just don't have enough interesting work or the right culture to make it worthwhile to stay if you're a genuine fast learner.

That said, I'd love to find a company and job where I could stay for 10 years. That would be ideal. I'm one of the first ones out of a crappy situation, but I'm also tired of this world in which one has to keep changing jobs to get a chance at the interesting work.
I thought the whole issue was that people trying to snob you were full of it and that you oughta just buy whatever you enjoy and tell 'em to ram it up their snout.
Looks like Goodboy Digital made it: http://www.goodboydigital.com/
is autistic about earning internet points

You may not realize it, but language like this is not only grammatically incorrect (you can't be autistic about something), but could be pretty offensive to people who are either autistic or have a friend or family member who is.

Why use a neural development disorder as a derogatory term?
More often than not the voting is based on opinion in addition to fact. Often the top answer is not only correct but cleaner, more elegant or adheres to some aesthetic quality that's valued by those people voting up the answer.

In software there's many ways to achieve a goal, not a single unique factual answer, thus many answers are context-sensitive and not absolute truths. Sure we can determine to some extent the correctness of the answers, but many of them are contextual and based on factors that are based on opinion/experience.

The voting system in and of itself encourages users to infuse answers with opinion.
Eisenhower certainly didn't think so, and he lived through the main example people bring up to support it:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Wine ain't bullshit, they finally managed to release a version which runs AoE2 with readable fonts! Lots of applications are working just fine, often the only thing that's broken is the copy protection scheme (they do nasty shit like installing device drivers).
Thank you Zergy!
I didn't understand your comment until I glanced at the wikipedia article for the atmosphere of Venus[1]. With a surface air pressure of 92x and carbon dioxide making 96.5% of the atmosphere, the surface of Venus is a no-go even before considering the extreme winds.

>The atmosphere of Venus is much denser and hotter than that of Earth. [...] The main atmospheric gases are carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Other chemical compounds are present only in trace amounts.

>Despite the harsh conditions on the surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature at about 50 km to 65 km above the surface of the planet is nearly the same as that of the Earth, making its upper atmosphere the most Earth-like area in the Solar System, even more so than the surface of Mars. Due to the similarity in pressure and temperature and the fact that breathable air (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen) is a lifting gas on Venus in the same way that helium is a lifting gas on Earth, the upper atmosphere has been proposed as a location for both exploration and colonization.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus
Well, when your site is titled "Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers.", people, professional and hobbyists alike, tend to think they can questions. (The nerve of those people...)
I think you/they missed my second paragraph, then. I'm not arguing against the concept of moderation, but simply that this is well-trod territory.
Rdio offers "Protected Accounts"

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2012/09/now-available-on-rdio-protec...
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If you think of how private-sector companies manage their internal divisions, sometimes the answer to problems in a division is to increase funding. For example, if your products have major safety problems, it might be because your quality-control and risk-assessment groups are understaffed, and increasing the funding you allocate to that task, rather than decreasing it, might be a rational response.
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Are we fighting a war with China?

From Wikipedia:

Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aiding or involved by such an endeavor.

The point is, if we can argue about it, then there should be a fair trial to determine whether or not it was treason. The president and other leaders saying it's treason doesn't lend itself to a fair trial in the future. The appropriate response is "He committed crimes, we will have a trial to determine the extent of those crimes and whether or not it is treason".
This site seems to have a redirect problem (or is it pushstate?). The page loads fine for me, but my history has 10 visits in a row.
While I'm not sure the article is a useful addition to this debate, there are prominent people from the intelligence community who disagree with you about the utility and legality of the surveillance programs now in place:

http://freespeechdebate.com/en/media/a-whistleblowers-argume...
This infuriates me beyond belief. How is Uber not in everybody's best interests? The end-user experience is clearly far superior, I can't find a soul who can argue with that (except for the understandable price differential which will diminish with scale). I haven't personally talked to a driver for either service, but the experience for them has to be better. Uber, as a private company, can optimize for extraneous costs, ultimately leaving a larger margin to be paid to the drivers. But I digress, why make bold claims as to which is better, I just wish municipalities would let the free market decide. Let the boys play, goddammit.

In a magical world where I could change all city cabs into Ubers, I can't imagine there would be too many complaints.

The situation reminds me of local food merchants in my parents' hometown in India. They fucking hate Walmart, and they've got every city official in their pockets to make sure Walmart (or any large grocery store) ever lays a brick there. They hate the fact that Walmart will have lower, standardized prices; better, consistently fresh produce; well-trained, honest workers. They hate that Walmart might kill their business. What they don't realize is if they just went and worked for Walmart, their life might be better than it is while running their own shitty little tomato stand. Where they have to work their ass off all summer so their wives can buy a winter jacket. Where one little tomato pest can kill their entire crop, and in turn, their kid's chance of going to school that year. Where another tomato farmer can undercut their prices and move their cart next door whenever they want.

It's a bummer that some people will always be resistant to change.
If you need that much detail to explain some of the new answers to current users, why such a focus on brevity when the actual ( responses || closes ) are generated? Also in the news today is the NSA FOIA response in which they took one bureaucratic statement "DENIED - CLASSIFIED" and softened it considerably by including a bunch of explanation in the response itself.
Congrats! We built contractor finders for several cities/states as contract work. E.g. https://energyupgradeca.org/county/los_angeles/vendors#h-v=2...
This is not our focus so we haven't pursued more like this, but I wanted to give you a heads up for potential partnerships. Governments like to put construction workers to work, especially doing environmentally friendly stuff.
I don't know about the past decade, but here is a list of recent terrorist attacks:

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

I count 339 dead in the past ten days. This only counts attacks by Islamic terrorists, not by any other type of terrorist.
Yeah, but the discussion has been bleeding into the non-NSA articles.
Programmers is more for design questions. There's a detailed list of guidelines on the Help Center. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

There's also a Computer Science site for more theoretical questions (http://cs.stackexchange.com/), and Theoretical Computer Science for research-level CS questions (http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/).
Seems like if you really cared for the contents of a textarea, for instance, you could tokenize the text client side and encrypt each token with the client side private key then you could similarly encrypt the search tokens client side and search serverside not knowing what you were searching for.

However, I take your point. Lots of work, not quite the same. It still seems like the facility should be baked in though so that application's could make the proper tradeoffs.
I'm curious how these letters are delivered. If you know something is likely to be an NSL in the envelope, what happens if you just forward it along to someone else, such as a journalist, without ever opening it.

Do people have a legal obligation to accept and read US mail?
My suggestions:

Using bootstrap or another UI Framework would surely improve many things, from the UX/UI side. At least it will help until a pro UX can work on it a lot more.

Bootstrapping also will make you code better since the foundation of the code is well done. It also works on mobile and it's easy to catch up as well to tell other developers to manage our codebase, bootstrap has good documentation online and you can do, practically, almost all kind of UI compositions with JS.

After that, I would follow Google Pagespeed recomendations to reach the 100 points and have something like my blog wich loads in 300ms-500ms.