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no legislation, no change in policies, no change in diplomatic relations, no mass uprising by the public

It's only been 5-6 weeks, how fast were you expecting things to happen? The Watergate scandal took over two years to unfold even though many of the major revelations took place during a general election campaign.
Disclaimer: I’m not a C++ guy; I generally write in Ruby and PHP.

I agree with your overall point — C++ may not be a good fit for web development, and there’s a lot to be said for being able to scale across multiple servers (and choice of platform will determine how quickly you have to solve that problem).

That said, my experience is that for most projects the performance bottleneck is the framework, not the DB. On big PHP projects, loading lots of code on every page load takes a huge amount of time, and many frameworks do things like parse multiple XML files on every request.

Similarly, Rails is slow… just take a look at how much time is spent outside of the database for a typical request. It’s crazy how long it takes, considering that most requests boil down to a DB query and then some string concatenation.

Another angle on his is the common pattern of having a bunch of app servers and just a few DB servers. That implies that the DB is not the main bottleneck.

Again, I agree with your overall thesis, I just have to disagree with the common wisdom that is point 1.
Luckily, this question has been asked and answered fairly recently!

Specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955043 from last week, complete with a response from Matt Cutts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955374):

> It's not that PG has a grudge against Google (or vice versa) or anything like that. I believe that search engine bots crawl Hacker News hard enough that PG blocks most crawling by bots. In the case of Google, he does allow us to crawl from some IP addresses, but it's true that Google isn't able to crawl/index every page on Hacker News.

> Here's a link where I answered the same question about three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837004 , so this isn't a new issue. In fact, PG has been blocking various bots since 2011 or so; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661 is one of the original discussions about this.

> And to show this isn't a Google-specific issue, note that Bing's #1 result for the search [hacker news] is a completely different site, thehackernews.com: http://www.bing.com/search?q=hacker+news

> In general, I think PG's priority is to have a useful, interesting site for hackers. That takes precedence and is the reason why I believe PG blocks most bots: so that crawling doesn't overload the site.
Specifically your no longer ranking for your main
brand! That's nothing to do with your long tail search terms.
I wonder why he left Hong Kong then? Maybe he couldn't live with the writing on the wall telling him eventually the legal system there would probably hand him over.
And what is the point if you can just disable acceptable ads in Adblock plus? Doesn't it use the same list?
Or you could go camping/backpacking for basically free (minus one-time gear costs and minor fees in more developed areas).
> I think the right way to kill health insurers is just by fiat. Medicare for All.

However desirable that may be, the reason it is unlikely to happen is that the incentives are aligned the wrong way for the relevant decision makers. Insurance companies are funding congressional campaigns; as long as this goes on, Congress is unlikely to try to put insurance companies out of business.[1]

The approach discussed in the article, for all its weaknesses (which you have nailed, IMHO), at least has the incentives in the right direction. Congress may love insurance companies, but hospitals and doctors do not.

[1] Indeed, one of the primary points of "Obamacare" is that Americans are now required by law to purchase insurance companies' offerings.
Hmm, seems like Singapore is missing in the map?
Agreed. There's a key distinction here, as Snowden is under a massive global microscope.
interesting startup idea: flight search excluding flight plans and layovers in countries with extradition treaties.
At what dosage are those antifungals effective?

It appears that the highest amount of Tiabendazole found is 0.79mg/kg so I would guess on an individual rind it would be roughly 0.1mg if that. Given dosage amounts seem to be about 25mg/kg/day I would guess it would take an obscene amount of it to cause any sort of bodily reaction. Wouldn't this concern be on par with consuming things that contain deadly things but in ppb or ppt quantities?
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I think you did not post any maths or contribute anything useful to an open discussion.
The Guardian ran a pros-and-cons comparison previously of the various options Snowden might have (Venezuela and Ecuador at that time IIRC). One of the downsides of Venezuela was that the violent crime is so bad it would be relatively easy to have him killed and make it look like a robbery.
Oh, I wasn't trying to refute your points - it's outside of my area of expertise and they may very well be correct - but your style of writing gave a strong impression you were criticising the framework without even taking a closer look at it, which I wouldn't consider a proper way to criticise something or start a discussion.
lolcraft says some of my thoughts better than I could.

It is funny that after my two sentence post I am accused of being PC (whatever that even means these days) and wanting to deny that some risky behavior and drugs could lead to problems and that I think all anti-war people were angels.

In Forest Gump everyone who is anti-Vietnam war is presented as bad and the woman who choose not to stay in her home town and make house and goes to protests get aids. It does seem like a message.

Some pointed out LT Dan does get his legs blown off. True but it is from no fault of his own, its a random event not him being punished. His gets on prostitutes (who of course are shown an horrible people) drinks a ton, but yet in the end, his life turns out good and he marries an Asian women (you know 'cause he was fighting against them, so this some how is fitting). No punishment for his reckless behavior unlike that slut Jenny.
Give us a break.

The reason why ALL the news sources (liberal and otherwise) covered this is because it is newsworthy. It's human nature to want to put a face to a scandal. And to be honest it's a great face. Snowden is young, exciting, mysterious, less than perfect. Add the fact that he is jetsetting around the world, visiting exciting countries with great visuals, upsetting foreign leaders and creating lots of mini scandals just keeps his story rolling.

CNN especially is just a business. And Snowden is a money maker. No conspiracy needed to work this one out.
Just clean it up later... flag as "delete in 1 day" or something.
Well I can't no longer find the site by searching for the brand anymore and I'm sure this will dramatically change the traffic the site gets.
The death penalty is a state by state issue. Some have it as an option, others have abolished it as an option.
reminds me of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
His additional responsibilities/powers do not alter the fact that when it comes to actually deciding cases, his is one vote among 9 equal ones.

As for "lifetime, exclusive power", I think that an implicit qualifier of "under the normal course of affairs" is understood. Of course there are possibilities such as impeachment (yes, the members of the Supreme Court CAN be impeached), voluntary retirement, and change of laws. However there is no particular reason to expect it not to be for his lifetime.
Dropbox is a cloud provider that hosts critical information for many people. Given this nature of their business, I'd expect that security is actually their number one primary focus (even beyond new features I'd say).

With regards to point number 1, I don't understand how that bug could have existed uncaught. Yes, security is hard but when you're storing the most personal user data, you're obliged to make sure you actually keep it safe and protect it from unauthorized access.

Yet, with Dropbox, it appears that every so often that some time goes by, and we have yet another security issue. The worst I remember was when for a window of time, _anyone_ could login to _any_ dropbox user account without entering a valid password. No password. Just a valid username and you're in.

It's interesting to note that issue too had to do with authentication and authorization. Maybe it's time Dropbox should spend some time auditing their code to find other similar issues just waiting to be discovered?
It would not have provided such a good example of conscience and courage to humanity if he'd remained anonymous. Is it possible to have a chance to obtain justice without having revealed himself? Is it possible for us to solve these issues if we don't consciously and assertively reject them? Report the truth about hypocrites and this is what those who are afraid of the truth will do to you. Now anyone can see that the US government is not acting in the interest of the society.

Revealing himself can also give courage to those who are under the powerful illusion that the mechanisms of the US government are not able to be overcome by a living human being.

That's my take, anyway.
I've erased millions, if not billions, of information automata while working with evolutionary algorithms. How do I know I'm not killing something living, when the whole idea is that they truly live?

I don't. While in retrospect they weren't complex enough to really think, I'm so sure that they'll be unfriendly AI that I made the decision beforehand to erase them no matter what, "dead or alive."
The Forbes article is a little more informative than the SciAm one (normally I'm a fan of Scientific American, but the writer of this article just did not seem to know the right questions to ask to give an indication of just what's going on here; also, that title, jeez...), but I am still having trouble here. Do pacemakers and internal insulin pumps run old versions of Windows without security updates, or are we talking about more customary systems within the hospital (computerized equipment is so incredibly vague a descriptor)?[1] If it's the former, than that just seems like such a bad idea. Even a stripped down Linux system with GNU tools seems incredibly bad. I know that generally security through obscurity is looked down upon, but gah, you don't want common viruses looking for new botnet nodes on the least common denominator systems to have any chance of running on your pacemaker. It's much better to at least engineer the system so that these devices have to be specifically targeted, rather than being susceptible to being caught up in the most common attacks. But surely this isn't what's going on right? Surely I'm just reading that quote in an overly paranoid way, right? Right?

[1] "In hospitals around the country there has been a dangerous rise of malware infections in computerized equipment. Many of these systems are running very old versions of Windows that are susceptible to viruses from years ago. Some manufacturers will not allow their equipment to be modified, even with security updates, partially due to regulatory restrictions." http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/12/06/yes-you-c...
If the only benchmark is going to be against PHP + Wordpress, you might as well just say it's better than zero.
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'of US American adults on Internet' I can believe and is kind of established by the article. Certainly not global.
Watergate involved criminal activity. Everything the NSA has done is completely legal and vetted. Also the majority of the public support the policies, the protests have been weak to say the least and the EU is not going to do anything to upset the EU-US FTA. So it's hard to see where the drivers of change are going to come from.

I actually think the problem is the messaging. Rather than argue specific policy changes e.g. "ban monitoring of social media" or "transparent FISA courts" opponents have opted for the vague and somewhat vapid "restore the fourth".
From my outside-the-US perspective, I've got this cynical theory developing - the this "international drama" the US government is fueling is much less about Snowden, and much more about measuring just how much they can get away with in full public view - relyng on bread and circuses to keep the voting public distracted. I suspect "they" know that Snowden has almost certainly distributed all the documents in a way that means that catching and imprisoning him won't stop their release (and may well accelerate their release), and that this is all just a power play demonstratingthat "the rules" are for other people, not The US Governemnt.
> The US could repeal the first amendment, and explicitly make being a buddhist illegal, if enough congressmen got on board.

This actually ties into the anti-federalist argument against the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Where in the Constitution is Congress authorized to make laws regarding the practice of religion?
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(1) Alcohol. Availabile now, globally distributed, cheap.

(2) Genetic test. Available through specialized laboratories in certain countries only, expensive.

Marketing (2) is not exactly genius.
I've used this and didn't like it so much compared to gorilla web toolkit: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Go is so concise you can happily code without a framework.
https://youtu.be/nFZGpES-St8 << not a new "cyber" concern, a very old concern, with a new scientific american article.
You think it is attractive to accept a lifetime of exile, and fear that your physical safety could be compromised at any time by a (possibly forced) change in the government of the place where you live?

The only outcome which would encourage future whistleblowers is being allowed to live in honor in his own country, like Daniel Ellsberg has been able to. Unfortunately it does not look like any branch of the US government is willing to offer assistance, nor does there appear to be any prospect that either political party will ever embrace that idea, no matter what happens in polls (which currently are slightly against Snowden).
The most concerning part of this article are the comments which to me feel like they have been paid for.

Take this for example:

'Snidely70448 Snowden STOLE 3 NSA computers with top secret classified government documents in violation of his employment agreement with Booz Allen, theft alone is a basic crime and when the theft involves top secret government documents it’s in violation of the Espionage Act. Flight to avoid prosecution is also a crime in this country. These laws weren’t written yesterday just for Mr. Snowden. The U.S. is seeking Edward Snowden to answer to those charges. Plain and simple. He isn’t being singled out or vilified. You claim that NSA is violating the 4th Amendment (Congress and the Patriot Act disagree with you), yet you ignore that Snowden violated basic laws of the land.'
I would start looking at it as an issue of thermal capacitance. The concrete changes temperature slowly, once the mass is heated it stays warm a long time. To mitigate hydrostatic pressure, the backfill around an underground garage will be porous - i.e. not in full contact with the heat sink of the earth.

The next factor is the heat load of the cars. It is not just that they produce heat, it is that a substantial portion of that heat is latent - combustion produces hot water vapor. The elevated temperature within the garage means more water vapor and hence latent heat within the microenvironment.

Finally, the quality of the good air is relative. It is going to be drawn from an urban environment at street level. And drawn at high volumes and low velocity (to reduce noise). Human comfort in an underground parking garage is not a meaningful design consideration.

There's a positive feedback loop until the point that street-level urban air begins to provide some equilibrium. Or at least that would be my guess.
Exactly. Look at any other case like Paula Deen, or the McCann Cases or N. Holloway. They squeeze as much juice out of the stories as possible. Some are crimes deserving of _some_ attention, some are just stupidity, but they don't deserve as much coverage as they get.

Yet, other than taking advantage of people's insatiable appetitive for salaciousness, scandal and the travails of the rich or pretty or the gruesome there were no conspiracies or 'invisible hand' of the [TLA agency] coordinating any of these news cycles.
Did you try the example app on Firefox ?
I tried some of the examples, on Chrome, Opera and Firefox,
on http://127.0.0.1:8080/ , the 2 first browsers works fine but on Firefox all I see is a blank page.
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Mux routing and template management is baked into go. Really. And if you don't like it, use a lightweight library: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

I'm building a product using go and have Mux + Mustache. That's literally it. Separation of concerns is done by splitting "controllers" into separate Go files. Because it's based on Mustache, integrating Backbone is going to be a synch. Honestly, it's the fastest and easiest development I've done in a long time, and there's zero framework in sight.
The ethics of whether or not to allow independent, non-human originating agents to be built is highly debatable, for obvious reasons.

However, as to whether or not to run an emulation of someone who has volunteered their brain to such an experiment is much less murky. As long as the experiments have been agreed upon in advance, and carried out with a neutral third party observing and acting as a control, I don't see too many problems. We do that sort of experimenting with humans as a matter of course, and people being biologically based, or electronically based should not matter.
I would not expect security to rank as their number one thing. Usability is probably the primary, outranking, engineering goal. Security as a prime requirement would place client-side encryption over other goals, which they do not.

As you pointed out, dropbox has shown they're not very secure. They lied about their server-side encryption too. But no one cares. It's far more profitable to make a reasonable pass at security, then try to deliver on the user experience and marketing.
I was hoping to leave discovery as an exercise for the reader :)

but yup, low memory/cpu/ram situations are one clear place where a c++ web app makes a heap of sense.

Also things like routers, where there is an environment that doesn't change frequently (..or often at all for years..).

There is also a bunch of use cases where the fact that installing/replacing/updating the web app is as simple as replacing a single binary is a real win.

There just are a bunch of places where it makes perfect sense to use a c++ web app, and none at all to use frameworks like RoR.

Its not a big deal, there are entire worlds of requirements and use cases that look and sound nothing like 'public facing web application', where the ability to provide an HTML interface is a win, and the ability to lower resource requirements from something like RoR is a win.

The only reason I posted is that it just makes me sad when people are so utterly oblivious to the worlds that they dont know, and - because of that - are tracked into making definitive statements about things, when they should probably preface their comments with "to my knowledge..." or "Im not aware of" or even preface it with a genuine question "why is something like this useful?, I dont understand.."

There is nothing wrong with admitting you do not understand something and asking for clarification :)
Not entirely. Daft Punk had a big success with free streaming on iTunes a couple weeks before the album was officially for sale.

This got listeners onto iTunes, where Apple put up a pre-sale button. Music industry convention is that pre-sales count towards 1st week sales. The end result is artificially high opening week sales, which further builds the buzz.

I personally think this album helped the reluctant labels signup for iTunes Radio, since labels were able to see free streaming can convert into digital purchases.
Everyone knows why he is on the run, so they don't need to repeat it ad nauseam. Everybody loves a good chase and his run serves to keep the story front and center.
I believe we need to take steps now to better get a handle on what we define as "sane".

If this is a person who has been placed in a computer, it's unlikely that they'll be willing to wipe out all their friends and family on a whim.
> Congress' constituents don't want them to

That is far from clear. But either way, it's irrelevant to the matter at hand. The fact is that you are wrong about Klein. Until you acknowledge that and retract your top-level claim, there's no point in discussing anything else. Life is too short.
Yeah that's a pretty important detail that's not included in the HN headline.
> ...they could simply pay for their traffic to always be sent first. Not affecting anybody but Google then, right?

As long as others have the same option, what's the problem? The article specifically says "Google is not the only company." (at least the Google translated page does).

> Also, sponsoring Adblock is changing the market conditions

Sponsoring? Maybe you can parse the original article in the language it was written, but I cannot and the translated article doesn't seem accurate enough for me to make assertions as to exactly what Google is and isn't doing, or more specifically, what Adblock Plus is or isn't doing when Google, or possibly many others, give them money.

> To me, this is changing market conditions in the same way as my AT&T example

How is this different than Google taking out a full page add in the New York Times? In both cases Google is paying a third party which does not have complete control of the marker for some advantage (exposure in the NYT case). It's not as if they are paying for nobody else to be able to do as much (and even if they were, that's not a problem as long as a competitor could outbid them for the same right)
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It was very sobering translating the comments to that video. Generally the comments were "Good for us to stand up to the USA...oh shit, what did we just do?"
Heh, quite stylish that Maduro mentioned the US/Israel's proxy war in Syria in the same breath. Interestingly, pre-conflict Syrian relations were discussed pointedly by Assange with Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, in his The World Tomorrow interview: https://assange.rt.com/nasrallah-episode-one/ Dig the beard.
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This is true, but to only trust Firefox means that you only get features that Mozilla adds to Firefox.