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I see your points but I'd note that "it's better to stay on a single platform" is actually perhaps not as good as it appears (all your eggs in one basket - for example when github went down the other weekend a lot of PHP developers where stuck without composer update for example).

The context switch is fairly minimal, underneath it is just git with a pretty web-ui.

The scenario for up-sell is absolutely fine, if you have less than 5 developers it's free, if you have more than that you start to pay based on number of developers, this is both more rational (you are paying for users not number/size of repo's) and easier to quantify.

In my opinion GitHub's cleverest move was making it free for open source repo's thereby building a good community of influential developers around their product from day one, this does give them a significant lead but it's not insurmountable (I'm old enough to remember when the first thing you did when you wanted the source code for an open project was head straight over to sourceforge) particularly as moving most (small) projects from github to bitbucket (or another competitor) is one git push.
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The worst part of such fragmentation is the "fiefdoms" that can often form.

We see this at Stack Overflow, we see it at reddit, and even at Wikipedia to some extent.

A relatively small number of users end up as moderators of one form or another, and can exert disproportionately more control over other, non-moderator users.

While this may not necessarily be a bad thing in terms of maintaining a certain minimum standard of quality, it does take responsible moderators for this to happen.

More often than not, we see people with very little power or influence in the real world using their moderation abilities on some online forum to try to compensate. They use their power just for the sake of using it, and perhaps for the emotional high it may bring them, rather than out of a sense of bettering the community.

I think that this kind of behavior is far more harmful than the fragmentation itself.
>In the largely broken analogy, you might phone the DVLA, ask to speak to a certain department (driver licenses, vehicle tax), then perform a specific task (apply for a new license). This maps to your navigation around the pages. Previously you would not really expect a third party in another country to be informed you were doing this, and I don't think it's necessary now.

But that's the point I think he's trying to make: Why is this an issue? If I open up a page on the site that say tells me what the VAT rate is and that gets timestamped and sent to google, why should it matter?

The site is purely for information. They could - as you say - get wind of the fact that I want to apply for a new passport. So what? That (at least in my mind) isn't a privacy issue.
To be fair, it might have helped some people: black people are just the same as anyone else. They can be president and they'll be the same corrupt shit bags as white men who become president.
Not to blow up my own spot but the bit about GHB being a powerful CNS depressant is just as true about alcohol and it strikes me as a bit dramatic.

There are reasons why researchers are interested in pursuing it as a potentially helpful tool for opium addicts, and focusing on the prurient aspects of a substance is exactly what makes research into _controlled_ therapeutic use of GHB or Cannabis or psilocybin so hard to do in this country.
for that matter it could be an 802.11ac problem as that is brand new with the Mac line in general.
Merkel isn't exactly a proponent of digital privacy[1][2]. It's unbelievable that the government of a country where the Stasi were operating in living memory aren't incensed by this. If anyone's interested in a film showing what life was like under the regime, The Lives of Others is a haunting exploration of that period, particularly relevant to what's happening right now.

[1]http://infowars.net/articles/september2007/050907Merkel.htm

[2]http://www.dw.de/german-chancellor-merkel-rebuffed-on-terror...
For me, the big takeaway is that information is being stored in advance of it being 'collected' (as they are [mis-]using the word). I don't think that is an interpretation that the lawmakers anticipated, and it is an incredible end-run with potentially cataclysmic effects for liberty.

We all know that information can be leaked or misused. In fact, I think it is a truism: all 'secret' information is eventually leaked or misused.

The old process, where the government had to go to court to even start to collect information about a suspect was a completely different thing with less horrific side-effects.

And yes, we learned that the government may not have direct access to servers of the social media companies, but dispelling that claim brought the issue of internet backbone access to the fore.
Can understand how come betterplace isn't mentioned even once in this article.
Hey wait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(United_States)

Seems like a stub in many ways (not the article, the party, considering the utter lack of any seats anywhere), but I think that is in line with the PP in other countries; they all learn by doing. Though in the US they might need extra love I think, to offset people being squeamish about the name :P

we have a rising fidelity stake in the politics of other nations

And vice versa. As glad as I am about some things in Europe, I would dread a world where the US actually "falls". I think it would be like the gulf stream stopping... The US could be more enlightened, sure, but it also could be much worse, and then I'd be (not) writing this from a Russian colony or something. So act local, too, you deserve it, and "we" want you to have it.
Your calculations rely on someone paying to swap out their battery every time they run low on electricity. The other person is saying that in typical use, you will end up charging the vehicle most of the time, not swapping the battery.

If you were to swap the battery every time, this would look to be a poor bargain. But if the battery is swapped only once per ten "empties", because for the other 9 it was convenient to charge it, then the calculation would be redone for 10x the distance at the same price.

So, you are both right, but talking about slightly different things (typical use for a commuter with occasional trips, vs long-distance-only users).
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>(One study found that a group of people who lost 10% of their weight through dieting had their resting metabolism decline by an average of 15%.)

Can you post a link to this study?

>We don't actually know how TDEE reacts to weight loss in general

I don't think this is something "we don't actually know." Lots of weight loss studies have been done in which energy expenditure has been carefully measured, so there's plenty of data on this.
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I guess it could be done. I was there for 6 months and working, but I easily burned through $2.5k per month. Most of it on really nice accomodation though.
Way to miss the point. This kind of pointless pedantry focused on the wrong argument is one of the most self-damaging and hateworthy features of the tech community.
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Spent a year away (2011-2012) on a budget of about €13K, itinerary was: Turkey, Iran, India, Nepal, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil. Best decision I ever made!

Edit with more details:

Choosing where to go: get a big map and an imagination!

Flights: Just booked mine as I went and that seemed to work out well costwise. In any case try to overland as much as possible, it's more interesting.

Packing: Bring as little as possible, I had a 50+10L backpack and it was more than adequate. Every litre extra you pack is more and more hassle when moving.

Visas: This obv depends on where you're from and where you're headed. I sorted visas for Iran and India before leaving home (Ireland). Generally what the article says is true, it's usually possible to throw some money at the problem and get visas while on the move if necessary. Some visas run from time of entry, some from time of issuance (particularly India) - pay attention to this!
That was very long winded given that it was promoting speed.

Would an A8 Audi owner pay more to fill up faster? Nope. Because it doesn't actually take very long.
Since I'm talking about where I prefer to host my projects I think in this case it is about my personal preferences.

Obviously GitHub is the major git hosting solution for open source projects and yes I have a github account and yes I visit the site as much as I do bitbucket but mostly to pull repo's, check issues and read documentation.
Looks like there is one already: http://uspirates.org/

Go support it?
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If they want to reach a bigger mainstream audience they'd do well to change their name and logo. The word "Pirate" isn't associated with doing good.
Yup. When you've got a system that, as implemented, gets you 99% of the way to a nifty but unrequired feature? It's dreadfully tempting to go that last 1%. But somehow that 1% balloons into being something that you have to support and the UI turns out messier than you expected and yadda yadda yadda.
What was the point, then? What exactly happened recently that we are supposed to be so upset about? If PRISM was nothing, that leaves the Verizon phone metadata leak, and nothing more.
Yeah but Ten Trillion Bytes sounds a lot bigger than 9 TB.
I'm afraid your optimism is based on fairly tales, not actual historical precedent.

Laws, Supreme Court and so on mean nothing. They who hold the force make the rules. The constitution is nothing more than a security blanket that people can hold onto and pretend it's protecting them from something. In reality, the government will do what they want to do and (possibly, if they care to) justify it later with some "interpretation" of the law.
Now you've done it, this thread is going to collapse into a binary-vs-metric data measurement flamewar.
I have little doubt. I live in Virginia, one of the states whose government (or whose county governments) has been conspiring with a cartel of car dealers to try to forbid Tesla from selling their cars. Something happened, because I was in a mall yesterday and suddenly found myself next to a Tesla store. Those cars are stunning in person, inside and out. It was low key, like an Apple store. I don't usually get excited about cars and things, but if I had had $86,000 in my pocket I would have bought one. There was an emotional attraction that was very surprising. It felt like I was looking at a better future.
If you're on the electoral register then this should help: http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/
Why would they? What do they care?
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We can't, and that's why: http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du....

And did you really think the ads on the site and the http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ job listings are free?
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I actively avoid running low on fuel in New Jersey (compulsory full-service stations). I don't mind getting out of my car to get gas; the station attendant is doing nothing of value for me. I'm neither done faster not is the fuel in some way better than if I filled the car myself.

In contrast, I do see the value in having a battery exchange (it's something they can do better for me than I could do myself). In that case, not getting out of the car is still essentialy a non-factor for me, but it does end up being a tiny perk.
Not to be confused of taking creative avenues along same lines of work. Tunnel vision helps. But walking into a post is not always necessary. So taking up and extra 'distraction' project may well be beneficial to mail line of work. Alot of painters I know do it to avoid myopic vision of work of art at hand.

There was an article here, mentioned that developer guy got involved in another project and started moving faster that before on the main project.

Ideas need 'rest time' time. Photographers take pictures and mature them for a while.
The cost is fine, about what it costs to fill a gas tank, give or take. But what about this:

"Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim their original battery on their return trip or pay the difference in cost for the new pack."

That seems... inconvenient.
I don't follow. "Information is being stored in advance of it being 'collected'" - what exactly do you mean? Your GMail e-mail is stored with Google. The government can only get it with a FISA request targeted at you or someone yo e-mailed (via a request aimed at their account).
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Pirate Parties throughout Europe have become increasingly more successful. In Iceland recently they gained 3 seats out of 63.
I heard that Flybridge was unable to raise money for another fund and that they're "on fumes."
I'm not allowed to vote in the UK unfortunately. :-(
All your posts in this thread just make you sound utterly delusional. You're presented with clear cases that prove your optimistic beliefs to be little more than prose from a romance novel and you wave it away with "was a black mark on the history of the US.". So was every other time they've ignored their own laws in the past and every time they will continue to do so in the future.
Lol, we didn't have any of those luxuries... Could only afford hotels in Cambodia (3USD per night for a double ensuite!), hostels everywhere else. Only had aircon a couple of times. Never had hot water (it's 30 degrees there all the time, I never needed it). We only had restaurant food occasionally, most of the time from street stalls, or peoples houses. We only had beg bugs in KL, but we had them for the full 15 days we were there, 5 different hostels...

PS: We got a 3 day tour of all of the Ankor Wat temples, including transport between them for $9 each. For anyone who's not been, they are incredible.
As a practicing internet commenter I will go out on a limb and say that's nonsense. Sugar tends to promote overeating because it makes foods highly palatable and rewarding to eat, but it doesn't cause fat gain independently of an energy surplus. See Surwit et al, Metabolic and behavioral effects of a high-sucrose diet during weight loss. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9094871

Obese women consuming a hypocaloric diet with 71% of their daily energy as carbohydrate and 43% of it as sucrose had no trouble losing fat. "Results showed that a high sucrose content in a hypoenergetic, low-fat diet did not adversely affect weight loss, metabolism, plasma lipids, or emotional affect."

Moreover, all carbohydrates, as well as protein, stimulate insulin release, and insulin is not in itself problematic: http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

Reducing carbohydrate intake can be an effective weight loss method, but that doesn't mean that carbohydrates intake is uniquely responsible for obesity to begin with. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...

All of the world's longest-lived populations consume carbohydrate as their primary macronutrient.
I'm a FIRM believer in quality over quantity, and I feel this large number is just to bolster investment into Foxconn.

I really do hope that this pushes further development into Firefox OS...I remember seeing a demo of the Ubuntu Mobile OS running on an Atrix, that was everything I pictured for the future of computing.
> All in all I'm jealous of the engineers at Tesla who get to work on it :)

This. I love my job, but this had me extremely jealous. This stuff is the future.
According to this article (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-tesla-swap-idUS...):

A battery pack swap will cost between $60 and $80,
about the same as filling up a 15-gallon gas tank,
Musk said. Drivers who choose to swap must reclaim
their original battery on their return trip or pay
the difference in cost for the new pack.

So, I think they're not quite tackling the battery quality problem like you're suggesting. I think your idea makes a lot more sense than coming back to reclaim your battery later, though. I find that very odd.
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Can you name a place with that level of surveillance that turned out good for anyone? Because I can point to a lot of vegans there are more obsessed than Hitler was and didn't gas a single Jew.
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How does it do that without insulin?
The point is we have renewed, solid evidence that our governments are constructing a global surveillance state. This fact has been shoved into our public awareness over the last few weeks, and hopefully will continue to be at the top of our minds until it's resolved, because the conclusion of such a process, left unchecked, is the end of individual freedom.

The fact that "some of it was known in the past" does not make it any less worthy of our attention today.
I'm pretty sure you don't realize that it's what people here in Europe have been saying about China for the last 15 years, until they started competing with us on the nuclear power plant and fast train businesses.

Then, we lost all our jobs in the industry (except for Germany, but for how long ?), and Europe now faces the biggest economical crisis it has ever known.

US still reigns the software industry, but should China decides to make that a top priority, you can be sure that it won't take long until we all start using "made in china" OSes and softwares.
I keep forgetting that Switzerland isn't part of the EU. Apologies Dan!
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I think people forget that time is really money or something like it.

Most people would never dream of taking a few pennies out of your account even if they could do it without asking. When someone spams me with an email or sends me on a detour with a link bait title, they are taking precious moments from my life "account".
Yes, I think this page could use a "how can I help?" section; that doesn't just say "vote for us", that is. Ways to help people help themselves get organized around this issue.
I've actually registered with the pirate party in the UK already, but since I can't vote, I can't do all that much for them I think...
I hope there won't be any suicide software engineers...

EDIT: Regarding downvotes - I didn't know so many Foxconn recruiters were sitting on HN...
porn. It gets transcoded enough that the stego could fly through as just another lossy transcoding. Better yet, lossy transcode it to something and back, then stego, as long as your target has a copy of the same transcoder and knows what you're using as reference. You should also be careful to strip metadata as to which transcoder you're using. They're PETABYTES of the stuff floating around.

And if you're willing to pay a few bucks for private cams, there's no way anyone else can have a copy of your screencap, so no amount of clever transcoding will get them a reference copy.
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Fibre optic splitter:
https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/presskit/ATT_onepager...

And there's this story, also on the front page of HN now:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/20/the-nsa-can-retain-...
That answers the one question I had watching that video: does this mean we just freely circulate battery packs with varying amounts of usage?
Voting with your wallet is an option.

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Indeed it is odd, especially as Merkel herself lived through this in East Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Early_life
A wild scape-goat appears!

Good ol' distractionary (although OSX thinks I mean "discrattionary" for reasons I can't fathom) tactics.
I worked remotely for years. While I like working in-office better, there were plenty of tools to help keep me connected from across the country.
We usually spent 40-60% of our budget on accommodation. Our target was 30MYR in Malaysia, 250THB in Thailand, and 3USD in Cambodia. Singapore was too expensive for us to do much, so we only stayed a week, and used our whole budget every day just on a bunkbed in a hostel...
You're confusing a few key points. 802.11n can operate on both 2.4 & 5Ghz networks. So while you state speed and range metrics the real question is the quality, capability and environmentals you're, likely, not taking into consideration.

Quality: not all antenna or radios are at all equal. Just because you have an N capable AP means nothing for client connectivity.

Capability: Is your AP MIMO? How many TX & RX? These things matter. Many of Apple's designs for Airport look pretty but are effectively junk for RF performance. This has always been a clear case of aesthetic over function. Many people often buy all in one devices to handle 30�Mbps Internet connections and also lump in 10� wireless and wired devices. These wireless 'enabled' devices are often horrible since they're often underpowered to handle the increased connection speeds as local transfer and Internet speeds increase.

Environmentals: Do you live in a shared living space with lots of neighbors contending for use of channels? Do you live in a 4000+ sqft house and have your AP in the basement? Etc...

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I look at this stuff in a lab on a daily basis. This generalization is quite bad.
Yes, but it also means that the party in power, currently the Democrats in the Senate and Executive Branch, have a stake in the status quo, as did the Republicans previously. Witness the contrast between candidate Obama in 2008, piously railing against privacy invasions and warrant-less wiretapping, and a defensive, contrite President Obama this month, smoothly reassuring us that NSA analysts won't monitor content without a warrant.

By the time the 2014 elections roll around, this issue will be all but forgotten by the vast majority of the electorate. At least, that's what both parties are probably counting on.
> Wild west, but global, I guess.

Yes, "international law" is a fiction and rightly so.
Thanks, I realized shorty after. Yeah, it needs support and awarenesa, since a party that nobody knows exists might as well not. "Support our friends in the US" with a link the the US PP would make a nice footer for antiprism.eu... !
Wait - Verizon throttling Bridezillas is bad why?
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My point is exactly that we do NOT have renewed, solid evidence that our governments are constructing a global surveillance state. All we have is sensationalism. This is not a "pedantic" point. In fact, we have explicitly learned that they do NOT have a backdoor to get your data from tech companies. We learned that to do so they must use a FISA order, which we have known since 2001.
> (except for Germany, but for how long ?)

We just work together with china and not against it. We sell them fabrication machines, together with services and skill around those.

(And in the end, we export enough weapons to not care.)
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It's the flaws of TV and radio that make them no longer work as an example. The technology advanced to the ridiculous stage - we really are living in the future!, but the licensing did not. The laws enforce restrictions, and the content owners exploit them, to a degree that's absurd to most of us.
Good call, I've just set up a £25 monthly donation. This is the first time I've ever set up a regular donation to anything.