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That isn't the same as "a person who doesn't do much of anything".

I think it's more in the spirit of "what hobbies do you have" / "what kind of activities do you like".
Excerpts from a random hit on the subject of enthusiastic consent, in re: Stubenville:

In the aftermath of the guilty verdict, several people observed that many of the teens at the party didn’t realize that this was rape. To them, the fact that the victim was unconscious didn’t mean anything. “I didn’t know this was rape,” said one witness. “It wasn’t violent.”

...

In many ways, the focus on “no” puts the burden – yet again – on women to rein in the libidos of men who presumably can’t control themselves… and in many ways can put them at a disadvantage. Women are often socialized to be non-direct for fear of causing offense; many women are frequently uncomfortable with being up front with saying “No, I don’t want this.” http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2013/03/enthusiastic-consent/

This is much more complex than you make it out to be, and that's precisely what obliges us to set guidelines that encourage folks not to rape rather than assuming not-rape as the default.
We can probably do this -- emailing you now
I don't think the issue is that scientists are being lobbied or directly influenced by the chemical or agricultural industries. They don't need to do that since politicians (and farmers and the public) are quite happy to ignore published science.

>nobody is turning a blind eye out of scientific ignorance

Well the UK government demonstrated scientific incompetence, if I'm begin charitable[1]. I find it hard to believe that the highly experienced senior government scientists involved in promoting this study didn't recognise how flawed it was. Of course we have an Environment minister who denies climate change so it's hard to say what his crazy motivations are on this issue; it may just be personal bias due to his background as an extremely wealthy land owner and farmer.

>Secondly, we really are not almost sure why the bees are dying. The evidence is very strong that there are many causes contributing to CCD, and it keeps getting more complex with time. What's clear is that it's not a single cause, and will not be simple to fix, and is not just about the insecticides.

This is all true, but it's not a reason to ignore the effects of pesticides that have been measured. It also needs to be remembered that this isn't just about honey bees and CCD or even just bees. Pollinators of all types are in huge decline. The media and campaigners seem to concentrate on bees a lot because they have a group of humans (bee keepers) that will lobby for them.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog...
Ah of course, respecting people's physical boundaries makes me anti-social.
Without addressing the broader question, which we are well aware of and continue to discuss internally, "not constructive" will no longer be a close reason as of next week. It's being replaced, in this case, by "primarily opinion based", which is a slightly higher bar. The result should be a small decrease in questions closed for opinion based reasons.

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/171732/help-us-make-...
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There is systemic influence by the US government on US institutions. To be clear I am only speaking to media influence and bias, not the veracity of the claim in question. Again look at the sarin example or consider how readily this would have been reported if it were about an enemy of the United States.

Your point about international media outlets is taken and it is the best evidence of how less-biased outlets feel about the story. I can't find the story on Russia Today or Al-Jazeera for example.
They lied, they listen to our phone calls and read our emails.

In the Guardian story[0] it explained it like this: "Retain and make use of "inadvertently acquired" domestic communications if they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, are encrypted, or are believed to contain any information relevant to cybersecurity;"

How can they know if it contains usable intelligence, criminal activity, etc. if they aren't examining the contents of the communication?

I think the most outrageous in that list is "make use of ... information on criminal activity". Do NSA spooks get to singlehandedly determine that you're committing a crime? Do they have AI algorithms that sift through millions of records flagging potential criminal activity? If someone is heard saying, for example, that they smoked weed are they added to a federal database of weed smokers? Why is a military program supposedly concerned with terrorism interested in domestic criminal activity?

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-w...
I think with portable it still connects to the Skype site to download the required files at initial setup.

You could install from: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/skype/
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Did I say we don't have extremely hot sex?

Of course, I realize I'm in a really fantastic relationship and most people don't have the luxury of being frank with their partners about their desires. But I'd encourage you to consider those things may not be unrelated.
I'm sure there's a small lithium inside - it's just sealed so you can't replace it.

(Simplifies the design, but makes your customers mad.)

Great for repeat business, though - if you can avoid the torches and pitchforks.
Local Motors is looking for a Front End Web Engineer
Local Motors - is a next-generation, disruptive, community-based vehicle innovation company. You can get a better sense here, as well as a sense of our culture: http://youtube.com/user/localmotors

LM Tech – is a tight team who work really well together to build game-changing web apps for Local Motors. We hire smart competent people who use current frameworks and write tight, reusable code so that we can move really quickly without compromising quality or have a coronary in the process.

LM Tech is growing but well-balanced team with separate players for UX, UI/web graphic design, front end angular development, back-end Django/Python development and a sysadmin/magician that has done really cool things with Amazon and Vagrant to make sure we have the best of environments at all times.

We are looking for the right person to multiply our angular front-end firepower so we can rock even more. This person will work closely with the entire team to build the next generation co-creation platform for vehicle development and e-commerce.

requirements:
- solid experience building web apps in angular.js
- 5+ years experience with javascript, AJAX and JSON
- advanced HTML, CSS & Foundation 4
- available to work out of our Chandler, AZ location with part time telecommuting and relocation available

plusses:
- experience with Django templating
- Grunt

If you are this person (or know this person), send a resume with a cover letter telling us about you to jobs@localmotors.com
I think you have your cause and effect backwards. Being paid 50k doesn't make you a bad developer. But bad developers tend to get paid less. At least, one would hope...
I'm happy to email over our policy. Would that reassure you? Can email us direct and insurance at easypost dot com
There is a difference between accidental contact from being in public and having someone intentionally do the kind of shit the kickstarter project was advocating. Also, being at a night club is not an automatic invitation to touch someone, saying so is implying that women deserve the unwanted contact put upon them.
This is a comment.

Any company blog is boiled down to an advertisement at some level. If your interested in learning about how we technically do a lot of these things scroll to the bottom of the article and checkout the technical companion post. This post is merely gives context of what/why. http://hack.close.io/posts/building_better_email_integration... gives you the how.

EDIT: I don't know where I got my internet license. Wrong link now fixed.
Yes but one month ago they still had plausible deniability, not anymore. In short the term it may change nothing but in the long run it will have an impact, no doubt.
> At some point the meaning of "sexual assault" will be so diluted it's meaningless.

Sexual assault is crystal clear, you can do whatever you want with your partner(s) with consent, nobody cares at that point. The minute you take past activity as a license to do what you want without someone's permission is the minute you cross the line into assault.
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What you think isn't interesting, but I would like to see a comprehensive, well formulated argument as to why you think that; indeed I have commented extensively in this thread to find such an argument, but mostly its that all the other arguments just shame language (rape culture, you have a problem. I will be sincerely please if you could provide a good argument against my position.
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I have a pretty high opinion of Al Jazeera, which has not run a story about how the NSA might have spied on pre-candidate Barack Obama, and a very very low opinion of Russia Today, which is likely to have at some point in the past run a story about how Obama is actually a space alien.
Auto dealers bill would put "Tesla out of business in NY" (with Tesla statement)
A result of the new close reasons re-factor is that closed questions will be called "on hold" for five days before they become finally closed to encourage the OP to improve the question.
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You should go to Latin America and tell them that they've been interacting in a universally inappropriate way all this time.
I'm confused as to how anyone could have believed that one of the 5 largest signals intelligence agencies in the world could not have been tapping Internet backbone cables.

Can we just resolve this right here? The Internet backbone is tapped. To whatever extent NSA isn't looking at our traffic (or is pretending not to, or pantomiming not doing it), some other foreign SIGINT agency is.

To believe otherwise is to believe that state-sponsored intelligence agencies somehow believe the Internet is off limits to surveillance because I don't know freedom and progress or something. Of course they don't believe that.
Consensus Emerging That U.S. Economy Based On Rents Not Production
It depends, you can win a trademark dispute if you have been using the mark for a sufficent period before someone else registers it. Assuming that a trademark qualifies for protection, rights to a trademark can be acquired in one of two ways: (1) by being the first to use the mark in commerce; or (2) by being the first to register the mark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"). http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm
Because they have no evidence beyond Russell Tice's statements. And no other person has stepped forward to corroborate.
Honestly, that is much better. Very nice.
> 1) I don't think so; strength imbalance maybe, but not power imbalance. In fact, when it comes to sex and intimate relationships, women are usually more trained in socializing and have the upper hand in choosing a mate, and are strongly favoured by the courts [1] and the police [2].

This is completely not accurate. Women are more likely to be murdered by their partners, men have better outcomes in family court when they pursue parental rights, men overwhelmingly commit sexual assaults (against all genders), and men do not experience sexual violence at the hands of police as often as women.
Holy nostalgia trip
Developer pay seems to be mostly based on "years worked", not on merit.
Far too many kids don't take the job seriously, and I wouldn't call it their fault. Their employer needs to keep them well trained. Unfortunately this is not nearly as common as it should be.
No, not allegedly.

Read the bill. Line 11-17 of the bill text linked to in this thread.

"The commissioner shall not issue any certificate of registration authorized by this section to any franchisor, MANUFACTURER, DISTRIBUTOR BRANCH OR FACTORY BRANCH, as such [term is] TERMS ARE defined in section four hundred sixty-two of this title, OR TO ANY SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATE OR CONTROLLED ENTITY THEREOF, except that the commissioner may renew such certificate previously issued or otherwise approved to operate to a franchisor prior to [May second, two thousand two] JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIX."

In other words, if you are a manufacturer (or subsidiary) of automobiles who wasn't in operation prior to 1 July, 2006, the Commissioner of the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles shall not authorize your registration as an auto dealer. If enacted, this bill would not allow Tesla to operate its outlets in New York.
Well, iPhones don't cost $60,000 and up (nor do they weigh 5000 pounds), so ripping one apart and voiding the warranty to see what is inside isn't nearly as much of a big deal.
I mean UK centric in that they will get picked up by the other British papers and will make some noise in London.
I guess you're not going to use any company then, because nobody I know has that in their TOS. Promising that upfront is just a bad business decision.
NSA: we can warrantlessly grab your data and keep it forever if encrypted
Looks like New Jersey and Connecticut are going to see a surge in Model S registrations.
Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet?

Because lawyers love buggy code.
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I assume you have this posted on your wall nearby? http://i.imgur.com/y7Hm9.jpg
Your link does not seem to work
I general, I find it bizarre that a law should exist, that protects some middleman position. Isn't it nonsense to protect such monopoly through the law? How can it coexist with the antitrust regulations?
Don't interrupt rant. It serves no purpose and makes them cranky.
Was there a license violation?

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE
He's the worst kind of shitty writer. He's clearly intelligent. His writing is shit because he doesn't care.

Why should I spend time reading him if he doesn't put time into the quality of his writing?
(I loved phrasing this as "You could certainly have your engineering team do this, if you want to write a $10,000 payroll check with the memo 'Reading free information on the Internet'.")

This is probably one of the best arguments for niche specialization that you'll find. Say you're a Ruby developer, but you know a lot about CPA, ARPU, LTV, churn, and other terms SaaS types care a lot about.

Yes, you might cost significantly more per week than a peer Ruby developer who might be employed by a prospective client of yours, but the cost of getting that employee's knowledge to around where yours is outweighs the difference.

Additionally, clients want to lower the risk that a project will fail (note: this doesn't mean technically fail, as in the code doesn't work.) By "leveling up" in a niche specialty, you'll lower the risk that you'll fail when a project in that niche comes your way. (Clients also have a tendency to reach deeper into their pockets when the risk of failure is lower.)
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>I suspect it's out of an honest attempt at doing the right thing.

no. It is to cover their asses. Like in the case of torture - if they just go and torture it would be one thing, instead they have been doing it according to the rules reviewed and approved by government lawyers, who declared the torture is legal. Thus people have been tortured, yet nobody can be punished for performing it. Nor people who only wrote the [illegal] rules, nor people who only followed the [illegal] rules. Using such responsibility deflection schema government can do anything as long as it follows "the rules" [which it wrote itself] and even the people with moral compass can look in the mirror easy because they only doing their job and follow the rules.

(another example - recent public outcry about drone killing of Americans was easily put down by switching attention to the alleged fact of existence of the "strict designation and targeting rules" the government follows without even publishing the rules, just a mere statement of their existence)
Not at all surprised.

In the late 1990s I worked for the UK subsidiary of a large US defence contractor. They had an international network which connected their subsidiaries to transfer documents, emails and engineering drawings. Most work was done for the US DoD. This was a typical leased ISDN system from BT.

It had cryptos at each end of a link (each in a literally a 2m by 2m room declared US soil by the then home secretary).

The biggest threat vector they had was actually listed as GCHQ and the line would suspiciously go down occasionally for a few ms resulting in the cryptos being "red buttoned" (key erasure).

A telling tale if any.
I'm yet to meet such a person.
Probably it's just uncommon in the IT crowd, which is highly open to ideas and meritocratic.
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>the federal judiciary isn't well known for its diversity.

Are you arguing that there's not profiling, or at what level the profiling begins?
Here you continue to push the same line of argument which has nothing to do with the question I asked, or even in challenging the validity of the question itself, in attempt to personalize the issue instead of discussing it. No major media outlet is taking my credibility into account before making editorial decisions.
Chuck S01E01 Laptop: PRISM :)
I just started watching Chuck, and had to chuckle when I saw the laptop was called PRISM.
Author here. You can scroll through the slides with the keyboard (press 'page down', the right arrow, or the down arrow).

(The slides were generated with go.talk/present: http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.talks/pkg/present)
Folks into BDSM are (or should be) overwhelmingly clear about consent, pre-negotiating their play and having things like safe words. That is worlds apart from what the project is advocating, which is to take actions without pre-negotiated consent and to ignore objections made by your partner. Anybody in the scene will tell you that engaging in that kind of shit without clearing it ahead of time (esp. way ahead of time in a non-sexual situation) is someone who is committing real actual rape.
> but if I got them wrong, what are your motives for defending warrantless surveillance?

If I had to bet, he probably got bored after he stopped beating his wife. When did you embark on your hobby of begging questions?
they let you read a few a month at no cost
how to do it if we are running at nodejs app?
Thank you for the feedback. I think I see a bit of our disconnect.

My main interest is in the general model of making info/entertainment available to an audience for "free" while still finding a way to monetize it. Broadcast TV and radio have done that for a long time and there are some websites that exist which do much the same. There are no membership fees. You can read/participate for free. Yet the site owner somehow makes money. Some take donations. Some use advertising to pay the bills. Some sell merchandise. (And one invests in startups, which is way more complicated than my modest goals, so not a model I am looking to emulate but it does exist.)

Perhaps I am merely a fool, tilting at windmills. But that is the general model I am shooting for. The details on how that works varies, but that model has been around for decades, both before the Internet and, in recent years, on the Internet. It can be done. It is being done. I have yet to make it work, but it is a viable model.
Ask HN: Why isn't any todo-app working?
Title explains it all. I've used many many todo-apps but neither one of them has improved my productivity.

Why is that and (I'm assuming) why does everyone have the same problem?
Excellent commercial for a plumber.  How can you make your boring business fun?
I had a time where I suddenly didn't have access to internet for 3 weeks, and I didn't get the chance to put steam properly in offline mode or anything, however it still worked completely fine during this time and didn't feel the need to phone home.

If I had an xbox one, I wouldn't be able to play my single player games after at most 24 hours.
Signs point to iOS 7 allowing users to change default Apps?
Why being intelligent about your business may not be easy, but should be simple
Or just normal scales: count out 200 bees and weigh them collectively. Divide by 200 to get the average bee weight. Now weigh all the bees collected and divide by average bee weight to get estimated number.
Why can't this all be enforced using contract law? I don't see McDonalds having burger dealerships codified into law, but rather franchise contracts that let them sell billions of pounds of beef, chicken, and potatoes through their "dealers."
That and nearly every phone/computer. Anyway my guess is they will start by tackling the low end - replacing all those candybar nokia's &c that are still everywhere in Africa and Asia with a cheap, high-quality smartphone.
It is not reasonable to think that corporate journalists advance their careers, using money and social benefits as proxies for career advancement, by speaking truth to power any more than it would be for other careers. In nearly all cases you advance your career by being conformist and supporting powerful people. There isn't any reason for corporate journalism to be different.
A (TM) mark is an indication of a trademark claim, not an actual registered trademark which would be (R). Clearly, it's not a particularly defensible claim as there's identifiable prior usage.

You don't even need to register a trademark to have common law rights. In the US at least.
Consulting, only American co's right now. Though, the local tech scene is open to American / English only folks, as it's already so diverse. I know that SoundCloud (arguably the biggest name in the Berlin tech scene, at least on the consumer web front) is hiring American developers and pulling them over. They even encourage it on their jobs page.[1]

Generally, bills aren't too bad here, I cook my own meals and live with roommates. The lifestyle is actually pretty fantastic. Cost of living is substantially less then SF was for me. Part of that is the local economy, but I've found I fundamentally socialize differently, as people aren't desiring to eat every meal out, drink expensive drinks.

Come back! You can come over for beers.

[1] http://soundcloud.com/jobs (grep non-German)
The general consensus around here seemed to be that "most" webmail providers did use encrypted SMTP, interesting to see that refuted. The "fat pipes being safe" rationale has been thrown around for a long time, definitely cast in a new light post-Room 641A, fiber tapping leaks, etc. We really do make it easy, don't we?
I would have loved to see the details too. It takes a mechanic longer than 90 seconds to change a tire, so it's pretty impressive if they can really change a very heavy battery pack in that much time.

I suppose it's probably using tech similar to what's on a factory floor. If you need to fasten/unfasten twelve bolts, and you want to do it very fast, you just use twelve separate air ratchets on a tooling. If you need to move a thousand pounds of battery, you use an arm that is designed to do just that, and only that.
The project doesn't say touch is good, it associates that any time you touch a woman and she rejects that advance or tries to distance herself, she is actually just really aroused and should totally keep going. That is: IGNORE WOMEN'S OBJECTIONS TO YOUR VIOLATING OF THEIR SPACE, CONTINUE TO VIOLATE THEIR SPACE. This is literally the mindset of rapists.
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> You are in an enviable position - have fun and make the most of it

So they openly encourage their employees to eavesdrop as they wish. Like listening in on phone sex and spying on their exes and neighbours.

This makes me sick.