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>While Iceland is generally liberal on social issues, they've traditionally been quite closed on immigration.

Should they be more open, though?

They have a nice society going on, their way of life, customs and traditions, they want to keep having them. Would an influx of immigrants help?

It's not like every place is like the US (a vast country with room to spare, composed by tons of different ethnicities, living on the land of the previous inhabitants, and with a powerful enough economy to assimilate a lot of immigrants). Not to mention: the US immigrants came to the place in ages of SLOW transportation and over a period of 400 years (with some ramping up in the 20th century). Nowadays, especially in Europe, immigration ramps up in a couple of decades or less. And, given the huge numbers, they don't even need to be assimilated that much -- if you can work in a place with millions of fellow X-speaking immigrants, and easy access to websites, tv etc in your language, why bother to learn english or change your habits at all?

Consider a thought experiment: would the US be OK with an influx of 100, 200 or 300 million immigrants from islamic countries? Not terrorists, mind you. Just normal folks, that, nonetheless, would soon wish their practices and mindset be respected and reflected in laws (and, since they would be able to vote, it would be): from the right to beat their wives or persecute gays, to refusing education to their daughters? And even darker stuff like "honour killings" that would be sure to want to bring to their new country?

Now, 30% is a lot to be realistic. But if immigration was "open to all", it wouldn't be that far off. Especially since, in the US, almost 100% are immigrants anyway (just over the course of centuries, not over the course of a decade or so). There are places in Europe where the immigrant population rose to 10% or 20% in a course of a couple decades.
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Here's one reason not to use git for deploy - if you don't want your source code on production servers where clients can access it, or where it could be found by hackers.

I work on a closed source system, so we will never deploy our code via git and then build on the server. So, in this case build locally (or on a build server), and rsync from there using deploy scripts.
This is so important in today's climate.
If the executives who invented calibration scores have EE/CS degrees from Stanford, that's because they either threatened to beat nerds up, or paid them, to get their homework done.

Do a lot of engineers still have this persecution complex? This isn't an 80's sitcom. Grown people don't threaten other grown people for their lunch money.

That's how people stupid enough to bloviate about "synergizing our disruptive verticals" manage to get through elite colleges. I wish I were kidding, but something like 60% of MBA students cheat.

I would love to see your elaborations on how everyone who ends up using buzzwords is a malicious idiot.
Somewhat, but Manhattan is the more accurate example because of its geographic constraints.
From language implementer perspective your ECLM slides are lame.

Is this ECL re-packaged you charge > $ 200 for without even giving a trial whatever? :-)
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With fine print I meant answer to questions like "what do I get in a commercial license that I do not get in a personal license?" as it is written it could mean that with a personal license you are not allowed to earn money from apps, or it could mean that it would only cover a single developer (then how many developers do I get for the commercial license?)

Also by actually reading that license it seems to contradict what you promise elsewhere, it says: "All fees shall be non-refundable".
"Crooks"? Seriously, their political reporters like Kimberly Strassel are criminals, who should be in jail instead of engaging in subversive political speech?

Well, thank you for demonstrating why this up to now cold civil war is not going to be resolved peacefully, when opposition is by definition illegitimate; YOU are part of the problem.

And you don't have to take her word for it, all the incidents are trivially discoverable with your favorite search engine; I read them contemporaneously, and only cite her article now because she puts them in a neat package.

I mean, it's really a bunch of falsifiable propositions. E.g. did or did not Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama 2008 campaign, try to criminalize simple opposition to the campaign, core 1st Amendment political speech, in these specific cited examples?

Let me close with another Wall Street Journal writer's words, although she's a notorious Palin hater and is an only half-reformed Obamacon (Obama "conservative"), Peggy Nonan (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732441260457851...):

"What does it mean when half the country—literally half the country—understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them if they try to raise their heads? That is the kind of thing that can kill a country, letting half its citizens believe that they no longer have full political rights."
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What you've said doesn't even agree with the NetBSD article you linked to (which suggests 15 processor architectures).

Even if you could create figures that seem accurate, you really lose some of the nuance with a comparison like this. Questions like which OS you're better off with if you're attacking an architecture without an MMU (linux for sure) or which software distribution treats your old SPARC workstation, for example, as a first-class platform (OpenBSD or NetBSD) instead of an oddball orphan seem more interesting.

Similarly, it'd be interesting to know WHY so many new platforms are using Linux instead of *BSD for embedded stuff. Is it something inherent to Linux, just momentum, driver vendor lockin from the vendors, name recognition, or what?
I'm starting to think I'm the only one with a political science degree here.. But hey, you guys know better.
So based on your findings, men are more interested in attractive women... intriguing.
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I think we could all stand to read more fiction.

It's unfair for Jason to criticize us for not getting meaning out of things as abstract as "Do you really read?" Maybe it's just me, but the abstraction of "self-help" blog posts seem unlimited.

I think we are much more in touch with the philosophical message of a sci-fi book than the message, however briefer, of the blog post.

The big hypocrisy here is that the blog post is so vanishingly thin on concretes that it sounds like it was written by someone who's never read a good book.
I've never owned a gmail account but have sent to plenty. Gmail is like the 21st century party landline but only a relative few people can listen in.

> Because I talked to Julian Assange, all information held by Google relating to my user account with them can be handed over to US prosecutors—not just the contents of my conversations with Julian.

There it is: If you have online contact with someone that's of interest, there's a chance all of your info will be of interest also.
Difficult in what way?

Certain distros come with things like RDP and SMB bundled, and I've never met anyone who actually prefers Window's DOS shell (or whatever it is now) over bash or zsh.

There are sometimes GUIs, but for the most part it's just an extra layer of gunk (at least for me). I partially understand people's need for a GUI, but I just don't get it myself.
The key difference in this case is that the information is flowing not directly to the foreign governments themselves, as in past cases, but rather to independent journalist organizations, so that the information can be known to everyone, both world governments and their citizens, equally.
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Another fantastic resource: https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi
Can you guys provide something to look at before I pay? A free but limited version like Lispworks will be ideal and may increase your numbers.
It can be increased ... but not by a whole lot, as that means more RAM consumed by this background app .... (thats the way its currently designed ...)
I see reactions about (horrific!) internal problems of these countries, but does that begin to compare to 250.000 deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq?
I think a lot of HNers who live in Western countries (myself included) are so jaded with our respective governments subservience to the US that it's very nice for once to see a small country not immediately bend over and lube up the minute the US asks it to.
The terrorism problem is a manufactured one. You want to fight terrorism? Fine, your budget is proportional to the budget we use to solve other types of murder based on the number of lives it costs us, and you can use the same methods. If you don't agree you'll have to distinguish terrorism from other types of murder in a defensible way, otherwise we should be treating them equally.
And this is precisely what makes this guy a patriotic civil disobedient and NOT a traitor, spy or criminal.
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:) unjustifiable huh?

Feels like I am in an evangelical church questioning god.
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Rhetoric is easy.

Ironically, that itself is also rhetoric. You didn't even address anything I said, can not point what makes what I said mere rhetoric either, but just dismissed it all with that statement.

So maybe even if there are solutions, even if they get posted in plain sight of you; as long as you're trying hard to not see them, you won't.

What you're really saying is "give me solutions which keep me and my current outlook intact", and I don't see a reason to automatically assume that's possible or desirable.

Solutions please.

The solution to what, exactly? To drummed up fear? To hypocrisy and double standards? That's all just in the mind, and as Bill Hicks said, I recommend sit-ups. Or do you mean the fires that in large parts don't just get fueled, but were started by the very people who claim to protect from them?

from your other post:

The lack of solutions itself is a sign that no one has anything better to offer than what the NSA is currently upto.

Does this not also apply to your comments? Why aren't you making the comments you want to see, instead of "crying" about the problems with the discussion? Because it's not that easy, is it?

Also, this is hardly an issue everybody is completely informed about, much less in the mainstream. Talking "solutions" now, instead of simply talking and see where that leads, strikes me as premature.

You can't change a century of statism and the shrinking of the individual overnight with a "solution". We need to evolve out of consumerism and passivitiy, out of confusing symbols and things, not just consume the right change or come up with the correct symbol. We need to overcome atomization and rediscover solidarity instead of better skinner boxes, and that may take more than a generation even. If it is something you or I can fully experience in our lifetime, it is not aiming high enough IMHO. If it is something that can be explained to someone without all of attention span, intellectual honesty and passion, it is not worth a second thought.

And in a process that involves all people on the planet, I would not ever hold my breath to ever have a full explanation of the full picture, or expect a full map before I even do one step. But I can get to know myself and my immediate surroundings, see how I feel about each and act on those.

To me that is infinitely better than a full, but false explanation of how the world is, which is exactly what most people operate on, stories that cease to exist the moment they're no longer told. This leads to incredibly insecure people, who go insane as soon as the jukebox who tells them who they are goes silent, which in turn leads to all sorts of nonsense. As Voltaire said, those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Oh, the irony of complaining about "rhetoric" and then expecting a "solution, pronto".

My "solution" would be, hmmm, we all read and implement the writings of Erich Fromm and Marcus Aurelius, get to know ourselves, all 7 billion of us. Then we have a second round of discussions. If you don't like it, give me a better one.
It would run out when they 'harbor' someone for whom the USG would have no qualms violating the Ecuadoran sovereignty to eliminate.
congrats on reaching your deadline, but now you've shot yourself in the foot in another way by tarnishing the..."brand", for want of a better term. you can pat yourself on the back for hitting your target date without having to prematurely publicly release the whole thing.
Also excluding any subreddits which specifically ask not to be included. I cannot remember specific cases of this, though.
I hypothetically wonder what will come after services. Perhaps some parts of stack will be replaced by an AI of sorts.
My point was more that people wouldn't use China-made OSes or hardware because of security concerns. Even knowing what I know today, I trust US equipment and software more.
I had something like that, too.

The worst part was we were supposed to look the other way and have them come up behind us and tackle us in the water. The worst part was having a 300 lbs old guy doing who isn't a fan of making it easy.
In the past Snowden has leaked to journalists, but what happens in the following scenario?

Russia: "Snowden, the U.S. has requested that we detain you. We could hand your over to the U.S., but we'd be happy to offer you political asylyum here, or we could let you leave for Ecuador in a few hours and tell the U.S. we couldn't find you in time."

Snowden: "I'd like to leave for Ecuador, please."

Russia: "Well, then, all you have to do is tell us everything you know about programs X, Y, and Z. We're very interested in these programs, and anything you can tell us about U.S. surveillance of Russian government and military activities."

Snowden: "I don't know anything about those."

Russia: "Well, OK, I guess it's prison for you then."

Snowden: "No, wait--I'll tell you everything I know."

And boom: intelligence jackpot for Russia.
"In a free society, you can't guarantee that you will stop terror attacks."

Even a repressive government can't guarantee that it will stop terror attacks.
Who was in prison for 3 years without a charge for leaking? Charging is easy, Snowden has been charged within a short time. Why would US government omit such an obvious and easy step as charging in such a clear case as leaking? Who is the guy you are referring to?
Regardless of what it is, you’re wasting your time with all your reading if you don’t use it to drive action.

Wow, I could not disagree more.

The implication here is that the subset of 'things worth reading' are things that show up on your RSS reader. I'm absolutely positive that the vast majority of the things you read on the internet are inferior compared to other things you could be doing with your time; its important to keep abreast of trends and current events, but the advent of Read-it-Later services has, I think fetishized the blog post.

Pick up some Steinbeck or Vonnegut or something. Trust me, it'll help you a lot more than a self-help blog post or Six Ways To Engage Your Customers.
> But he said it was crucial there was accountability and transparency in the use of surveillance and interceptions by agencies such as the NSA – an area which he said was "blurry, grey and made people uncomfortable".

The un-warranted (in both senses of the word) surveillance and interception of communications by the NSA is neither blurry nor grey. It is breaks both the spirit and the word of the law.. That is why many people are uncomfortable.

Attempting to portray it as a "blurry" or "grey" only tries to hide the issue at hand and give the NSA an excuse. There is no excuse.
What could Google have done better?

(Specifically in regards to this case. And assuming they pushed back on orders like this, like they claim to do.)
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I have been using Celery in a recent python project with rabbitmq and it as a very good experience, celery works really nice and reliable. Would use it again!
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This is a very jingoistic mentality.

Perhaps Ecuador cares about human rights?
I've been using Python RQ (http://python-rq.org/) as a lightweight alternative to celery. It uses Redis as its backend so I guess that might not meet the "SQLite" qualification, but has been light weight enough for my application (e.g. no reqt for a message queue like rabbit). Really liking it so far.
This is all one hell of a distraction from what the government did.
Again with the unintended irony. If you think it's justifiable, justify it.
Have you considered the possibility that we hear about surveillance of GMail accounts only because so many people happen to use GMail? Is there any particular property of Google that makes it more likely to cooperate with government than any other email provider?

Or, if you're in the "host your own email" crowd, what makes you think your ISP won't cooperate with the government just like Google does?
I think the fact the constraints happen to be geographical is kind of moot. Brooklyn can't start assimilating the rest of Long Island any more than SF can start building octopus's gardens in the Bay or housing in Daly City.
Snowden himself is now compromised. How do we know that what he releases to the press is factual, and not tampered by a foreign entity who received the real information and his cooperation in exchange for asylum? I think this pretty well destroys the credibility of his leaked information from this point forward. What happened to him "facing the consequences" of his actions to make sure the truth would out? I certainly understand him fleeing but it severely jeopardizes any further leaks. He has made it much easier for the Obama administration to discredit damaging information rather than being forced to face it as they have been doing.
I would not be the congressman of a district full of idiots to begin with. The reaction would not be negative.
I think RQ is simpler and better. http://python-rq.org/

Celery has a lot more control and features that you probably don't need.
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sf is worse than comically mismanaged; to steal a quote from Philip Greenspun, watching san franciscans play at running a city is like watching a group of nursery school children who've stolen a Boeing 747 and are now flipping all the switches trying to get it to take off. We came from nyc and were astounded how bad muni is. Two people who very happily lived without cars were forced to buy one then two cars to live an adult life in sf. How are you supposed to get groceries, run errands, go to the gym, go to the library, etc etc on muni when every errand costs an additional 60 to 90 minutes because of muni. When we lived in Haight, we could bloody walk many places in the city faster than muni could take you there. Taxis, even to valencia at 23rd, just don't come. And muni is not only glacially slow [2], but it's fucking expensive as hell too:

For every mile Muni runs a bus in this city, it spends 9.21; comparable
agencies nationwide pay between 0 and 3. For every mile Muni runs a
light-rail vehicle, it throws down 4.37; comparable rail services spend
between 2 and 2. [1]

So -- we pay the most and get the worst services. Plus, I've ridden public transport all over the world and never before sf had I regularly felt physically unsafe on public transport.

And the housing. Walk through the mission; while there's definitely beautiful victorians there's also a bunch of cheap shit, no more than two stories, thrown together for as little money as humanly possible in the 60s and 70s that we could tear down and replace with 10 story housing. And landlords are fucking amazing; we ended up in court with multiple lawyers because, for the low low price of $2200/mo, we expected the shower not to leak into our bed and the landlord not to steal electricity from our meter. When we lived in manhattan, people had landlord problems, but it wasn't par for the course. Here, amongst personal friends, roughly 40% have had just horrific landlord problems that ended up with police or court involvement.

And the schools. There's a reason parents are driven out; it's because you either pay for private school or move to the peninsula and get good public schools for your taxes.

[1] http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-04-14/news/the-muni-death-spira...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/us/san-francisco-buses-are...
So many of these stories have disputes between what the police claim to have done and what the civilians claim. It seems that it is very difficult to prosecute the police on these matters. Would hard evidence, such as video or audio recordings make a difference in the chance of winning a lawsuit or criminal conviction? Or would that evidence get destroyed or be inadmissible in court?

In interested to know how the prevalence of always on recording devices might impact law enforcement.
Millions of our ancestors died fighting for freedom in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII. To lose freedom would to squander their sacrifice. They would not forgive us, nor would those yet to be born.

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It's especially hilarious in New York, where purchase prices are now 40-50 years' worth of rent. At that level, buying is a terrible economic decision, unless you're doing it for prestige. People are that desperate to join the owning class, I guess.
I came up with deliver https://github.com/gerhard/deliver to address this very problem. It's bash utility that automates git-based deploys and comes with pre-built strategies for the most common deployment scenarios: generated sites (think Jekyll), shared (WordPress, PHP etc.), ruby, node-js, S3 etc. I did a talk on it at my London Ruby User Group in March: https://speakerdeck.com/gerhardlazu/deliver
Right, I agree with you. Instagram didn't do that, but again there were a number of things someone can do with Instagram to monetize it and that much was clear from the beginning.
With Snapchat, it's less clear how someone could monetize it's userbase.
JPS assumes a very particular geometric structure, i.e., a grid with uniform weights, while A* is much more general and works on any graph with arbitrary edge weights. So there are lots of problems where the JPS tricks don't apply, but you can still use A*.
The title makes it seem like they did it for fun, rather than as the result of a court order.
Awesome. I tried to follow the porting of inferno to the RPi [1], but i gave up. I had issues i couldn't fix, function calls magically didn't work.

[1] http://lynxline.com/porting-inferno-os-to-raspberry-pi/