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You're attempting to justify these actions with placidity?

Yes, embassies are bugged, it happens, as does rape. Things are not "standard operating procedure" just because they happen, and the lack of outrage when crimes are committed only encourages their perpetration.

Your Hanlon's razor approach would make sense had the bug not just been found recently, suggesting it was put there recently and/or not well hidden, coincidentally in a location that happens to house someone wanted by the nation with the largest "defense" budget on the planet likely targeting someone who is known to communicate with arguably the most wanted man on the planet.

Trying to brush this off as a coincidence is a bit of a stretch, given the circumstances.
I think people tend to underestimate the amount of time they spend on problems, when those are uninteresting. A single null dereference error may be trivial to fix, but the overhead around fixing any bug may be costly. For example, you might need to deploy a whole new version, rerun test suites and have a bunch of meetings. Then after all of this, you might remember that the problem only costed you 10 minutes of fixing the bug.

When you implement a red-black-tree, do you not spend any time testing your invariants? Or figuring out the bugs? That's a good example of where the Haskell type system can simply give you compile time guarantees saving you from bugs and from having to test them.

I also worry about the problems you mention, many of which Haskell indeed doesn't help much with. I don't see how these problems (which you solve once, usually by reusing a library) are what costs the majority of the time. A big, non-trivial implementation has bugs and will require testing. Haskell will have less bugs, and require less tests. This is a pretty big deal.

It's weird that you bring Twitter as an example, as they canned a dynamic language solution for a static language that is in many ways very similar to Haskell.

I've seen multiple large scale projects in dynamic languages. They all fail to scale well, both performance-wise and maintenance-wise. Statically-typed systems scale far better along both of these axis.
No. In fact, we have only heard through Bolivian officials so far. Even the Austrians relied on the Bolivian statements.
"My employers, Mint Digital, were willing to take a gamble and allowed me to start it from within the agency. I am tremendously grateful to have been given the resources, mentoring and autonomy to follow my instincts."

Always good to hear about employers encouraging employees' start-ups. Congratulations to you and your team.
> _claims_ by the US govt

Last time the US gov't claimed some stuff that turned out to be a lie, more than 100.000 civilians died as a consequence. And there are still civilians dying every day, because of that claim.
Dropbox has its own process though, doesn't it? dbfseventsd.

sudo fs_usage -w

I've been watching it recently and it seems to touch files that it shouldn't need to. I need to do more investigation. I uninstalled backblaze recently because I discovered that it manually scans the whole filesystem _all the time_.
Apart from damaging even more the already quite low international reputation of the US.

And one day some country may use this as a precedent for a more damaging action. There are international rules for a reason, and it took us centuries to get them in place and universally accepted.
So now they've upped the ante for Snowden-transport; probably the only feasible solution would be a warship. Maybe the other option would be a chartered jet with in-air refueling, flying solely over international waters (or sovereign countries, like Russia and maybe China).

You can charter a military transport (capable of refueling) from a bunch of companies, like RUS Aviation. Actual refueling services are harder, probably would need to be a military, although there are a few operators of contract aerial refueling service (e.g. Omega) -- unfortunately they have big military contracts, usually with the US, and thus wouldn't be willing to participate. You could probably take a military transport, fill it with ferry tanks, and make a decent go at it, but the problem is most of the cheap-to-charter aircraft are old inefficient aircraft like the IL-76. I guess with new engines it wouldn't be horrible, but something like a 737 in ferry mode would be better. A 777-200ER or 777-200LR would probably be the best. A 747SP is the only thing I actually know how to charter which has crazy long range (7600nm), which is almost as much as the 777-200LR (which is new, and thus highly utilized). A 7600nm range aircraft is just enough to stay in Russian airspace and then come in through the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap, down the Atlantic, to Caracas. The total cost of that mission would be far less than the $23mm Ecuador was willing to give up, but well in excess of $1mm.

A warship would probably be a lot easier, although you'd probably want to go to the Russian Far East to avoid bottlenecks -- assuming a fifth rate power like Ecuador, there could easily be "this area closed due to a military exercise" or other tricks to block it otherwise.
If you have to pay the salaries of programmers for the next 3 years to develop some solution, and know that 10% of that time will be spent learning a new technology that will make them 20%-50% more effective for the remaining 90% of the time. Would you do it or avoid it, based on the large cost of 10% of these programmers' time?
This is highly opinionated and somewhat condescending, not everyone who doesn't want to join Europe is some right-wing, Daily Mail reader type.
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I'm part of the camp that uses both Dropbox / Git for my development work. I've actually had Dropbox save me a few times due to nasty rebases. For a lot of one off scripts, I don't really commit them into git so that's where it comes in handy. The extra redundancy doesn't hurt...
I noticed this the other week when there was a link from fark.com

It's utterly ludicrous.
Presumably all communication on board is recorded on the blackbox? If so perhaps an unedited copy of the dialogue can be published?
The Spanish were denied to search the plane, for the record.

Edit: I inaccurately wrote Austrians.
And if Ecuador was caught bugging a US embassy? Off with their heads, right?
Is this not a short-sighted view?

A middle class salary they can survive on for how long? When that source of income dries up they'll be unable to continue working on their passion without spending time and effort finding an additional source of income.

Alternatively, if they open themselves up to a strategy enabling a greater income they could potentially retire in a very short time with indefinite financial security and the option to pursue their passion as long as they like.
I'm trying to gauge whether this is a genuinely strange situation by the standards of international policing.
Depends on whether his e-mail was hosted by Google or not. ;)
I don't think you'll ever find this kind of code in production.

With years of Haskell experience, I rarely encounter code that is hard for me to read. This is a good counter-example, and is not typical code.

I read 10 lines of Haskell code roughly as fast as I read 10 lines of Python code -- yet the 10 lines of Haskell code can pack much more useful information.

So Haskell is a great tool for more efficient communication between programmers, who can write shorter messages to each other to convey the same information.
As a Brit I've seen every US government since I was old enough to take notice, act like this. They go through the official media outlets saying one thing and then do completely the opposite. I've often wondered how the American people who seem so intelligent on the one hand fall for this each and every time.

Or is it rather that on the whole they have all these nice houses in nice safe places (no wars etc) with hundreds of TV channels to watch that in a way no one can be bothered to do anything about the way their leaders make them look internationally.
If you are using your suspicion as an argument to prove that Hastings was murdered. If you are saying that you are sad or afraid that you are suspicious when once you wouldn't have been, that's just a simple statement of fact.

I don't think you can ever legitimately accuse someone of a logical fallacy who isn't making an argument.
First of all, it seemed to be the only choice left apart from two self-hosted services (tt-rss and selfoss/rsslounge). But it was also a good reader, it didn't cost anything, as a google product it seemed future proof, feed update was fast and the design simple and nice enough. Before its last update, it also had nice share-features.
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For the record, Spain and France are denying that they refused the plane entry.[0]

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
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Well, that is kind of obvious. They hire you for your work, and try to extract the most out of you in a productive way without pissing you off. You really think they would give a damn about your life otherwise? This is why people should have a life outside work, with family and real friends who care for them.
Reference?

The article claims:

> Morales refuted speculation that Snowden had stowed away on the plane and allowed authorities to conduct a search.
They did search the plane according to the foreign ministry's Twitter https://twitter.com/Minoritenplatz8/status/35232163910871449...
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My guess is that the US has enough information about the illegal spying our EU governments do to us, that no elected politician here in Europe would risk to have that leaked.
Please at least read the article before you comment.

They did indeed search the plane.
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You mean they denied they searched the plane, or they tried to search the plane and were denied?
Unconfirmed audio (which was linked to in the Guardians live stream[1]): http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aer...

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
All UIs are inconsistent to some extent, like with menus, or with how the steering wheel behaves when backing a car up. All we demand is that it be done well, which is a tautology.
> I've often wondered how the American people who seem so intelligent on the one hand fall for this each and every time.

I think the same thing is true for Britain as well. We have a largely docile population in the face of grotesque abuses by governments of all political stripe.
Lol i wonder if the nsa hacked the radio freq and sent false transmissions
"It has made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate by waging wars of extermination against them"

Curious, then, how many Chinese and Russians there are yet. Is the US inefficient, or are you reaching a bit? And the US can be disgustingly good buddies with non-democratic governments: the Greek and Argentine juntas, various Middle Eastern states.
The BBC are prohibited from running certain commercial services (of which BBC.com is one) in the UK due to regulatory requirements.

It's not their decision.

You could of-course lobby your MP to get it changed, but I imagine there would be substantial opposition from both supporters and opponents of public media services to allowing BBC to run commercial services in the UK.
As a US citizen (for another couple weeks), I'm really getting tired of America's shit.
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A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: [...]

'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services.

'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208251/Global-BBC-w... (daily mail, so you have to scroll way down past the righteous indignation to get the facts)
I am not sure that makes sense anymore, considering that Spain is denying they ever denied the plane entry.[0]

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_23590259/snowden...
Nothing, absolutely nothing, will change until developers stop chasing a big payday, and follow their principles instead. Unfortunately, principles don't feed your family or put a roof over their head.

It's always easy to spout how we need to push forward open standards, but what we've seen instead is developers falling over themselves to develop for Apple and Facebook. The very people who are needed to push forward the open web are the very same people who spend their time and energy expanding the every growing empire of closed ecosystems.
I've read the reason several times and I still don't get it.
THIS!
In the last few years the BBC have produced nothing but period dramas and drivel all of it aimed at the american market. Why make quality british programming for the British market any more when you can make a 'UK series' (6 eps) and make pure profit in the US market.
I see... And this is why I love the internet. You can read something from some American magazine from 15 years ago, and talk to the author about it. All the way from Africa. If that isn't a big deal, I don't what is.
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Interesting post, but unfortunately just motorcycle riders will understand it.

PS. I'm a motorcycle rider :)
or the death-throes of a crumbling empire.
Completely agree. Dwarf Therapist kinda shows how you can improve the UI without dumbing the game in itself down
About the NSA's possible fiber lines. Maybe they use a portion of existing legit commercial bundles.
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Well it's like how can certain computer programmers be Christian fundamentalists[1]? They were taught that way as a child and have no influences that really refute what they believe. I thought USA was the bee's knees until I had a chance to interact with citizens of other countries.

[1] I think programmer implies they have critical thinking capabilities, and I think as empiricists we all must reject fundamentalism as a hypothesis.
the USA are THE bully of our age and every country practically gives in. Nobody of our spineless politicians wants a bloody nose as in an early career end.

And that is really sad. The US frightens countries, people, practically everybody.
The threats are real (e.g. the ongoing drone wars) and the US seems to be the number one terror organisation in the world.
So the BBC is no longer producing content for BBC 1 and 2 in the UK?

Don't be ridiculous.
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This comment thread sums it up very well:

http://namcookanalytics.com/high-costs-and-negative-value-of...
I think the article put the finger of something important.

I have had the fortune to work at a few places where developers treat their RCS not only as the repo, but as a tool for communication. And the efficiency of collaboration is truly impressive.

As an example I developed a new memory sub system for an embedded CPU (ASIC) and as soon as I committed the new version (and stating so in the commit message), the dev doing verification checked out the design and ran his test suite on it. (And yes, I had run my own tests before committing.)

But comminicating through the RCS hinges on having good ways of observing changes to the repo (post-commit mails etc) - and providing proper commit information.

The first example in the article looks somewhat verbose for my taste. But it states the what the commit contains, what it solves, any caveats. Very good.

When I commit a transaction that contains several related changes I usually use something like (1) ABC, (2) XYX...

The only exception to good commit messages at one of the companies I talked about was one dev that always used one of three messages: "little change", "big change", "major change". Very helpful...
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For Windows boxes, there's decrapifier.
I don't know if any of the brits here have ever browsed the BBC from abroad - when I was at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009 (being at a political gathering, I was on free wifi and news sites half the time) I was shocked to see the BBC news site with adverts on it!

I was laughed at by the Danes, Swedes and Canadians I was with, because obviously the BBC always had adverts on.

Seriously, if the law says the BBC can't show adverts in the UK, they should make ad-free versions of the sites available, not an error message.

In fact, the issue here doesn't even seem to be adverts - it's that its a bbc.com article instead of a bbc.co.uk one - i.e a commercial service that isn't allowed to receive "promotion" here. As long as they don't link to it from the UK sites, I don't see how they are "promoting" it; we all found that link from a 3rd party source (i.e. HN) and wanted to read it! :/
> But there's still someone in charge. Who polices them?

The union members vote on union matters. Do you know how unions work at all? Why are you talking as if you're an authority on unions when you don't even know this stuff?

> By this argument, we don't need anyone watching the government because it is elected by the people and so represents the will of the people.

Don't be ridiculous. The point is that a democratic organisation of workers exercising the collective political will of those members using the collective funds of those members, is quite clearly compatible with democracy, infinitely more so than companies spending billions to exercise the will of a small group of people at the top.
So this stuff we are "forced" to pay for via the TV licence, but we cannot see..

Think the BBC should be privatised.. TopGear is worth a few million for a start...
It's a little like the BBC world service news, which is pretty good (especially compared to sky and cnn and so on), except you can't get it in the UK ... it even has the same presenters that are on the normal BBC 24 News, and 10 o'clock news! It's weird to say the least.

But it gets even more weird, as programmes made by the licence pay version of the BBC appear on the world service news. I was watching it a week ago in a hotel room and noticed they were showed Click, a programme made by the BBC in the UK. So what is that doing being shown on the commercial arm of the BBC?
Just because you aren't a fan of various BBC programmes, doesn't mean that other people aren't either. Many people in the UK really enjoy all the period drama stuff that they show. That the US market also enjoys it is an added bonus.

Please don't project your own opinions onto the rest of the UK.
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there have been some "useful conversations"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23085138
Surely they can still make the content available even if they're not allowed to promote it on the public services?

e.g. I can still buy Doctor Who DVDs in the UK, even if the BBC can't advertise them between programmes.
I think it's a good letter. Up until now, I wasn't aware that Craig's List had moved in such a contentious and litigious direction. It sounds like instead of innovating and improving their service, CL is spending its time trying to squash anybody who tries to add value to their product. They have a right to do what they want as a business, but I also have a right to judge their practices and protest with my voice and my wallet. I get turned off by overly whiny and emotional complaint letters, but I found this one more factual than emotional. I will be avoiding use of Craig's List's services until I feel like they are allowing people to innovate off their platform and ceasing to try to own their users' content.
>> 'Under the BBC’s Fair Trading rules commercial websites are not allowed to receive unfair promotion from the BBC’s public services.

So don't promote it on the publicly funded sites. Done.

>> 'This prevents us from being able to provide Future content on BBC.co.uk. genres.

All that's saying is "we can't put this stuff on our UK sites".

I'm not criticising the parent post by the way, but this just sounds like more non-reasons to me.
Act of Aggression?

More like acts of obsequiousness.

Whats the world coming too when even Russia is emasculated before the United States. Its expected, though I would prefer otherwise, that the EU countries bend over, but damn its getting silly now.

As I posted in another thread, here is a fine preview of a one world government, you cannot run, you cannot hide. Truth and justice are at the whim of those who run the place.
Unless it's clear how to get from one view to the other and which view you use is optional. Then that might be a feature :)
The confusion is because of the name.

If they called their international subsidiary, "Super Mega Global Worldwide Media Corporation", it wouldn't seem any more or less ridiculous than anyone else doing geo-targeting.
I think it is more "don't throw stones if you live in a glass house" reason.
Also for the record, Evo Morales is insane. Here he is saying that eating chicken makes you gay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT3yCRjEDCI
The BBC brand is hugely valuable, letting a commercial site use it (even one owned by the BBC) is clearly promotion.
I don't, they cost a shit load of money to make, and unlike commercial companies have a guaranteed budget for the TV licence..
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If you bookmark the JS below you can create a 'button' to convert bbc.com links to bbc.com.nyud.net links as suggested by the OP:

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A better solution would be a greasemonkey script/browser extension but this does the job for now :-)
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As an european this disgusts me to no end. It can really hurt your patriotism and sense of pride in your country when you realize it's not actually a country at all, just a subservient state, willing to do anything to avoid drawing the attention of the big fat bully. In the end we're all afraid to fight for anything when life is too hard already, I guess.
Also a tad ironic in light of his subsequent invocation of "belive".
I think you mean craiglist's users' content.

Shouldn't the user have the right to do what they want with the classified ad they wrote?
You can listen to it here: http://audioboo.fm/boos/1482009-bolivia-air-force-fuerza-aer...

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
No thankyou. BBC worldwide does just fine earning from the channel's exports and otherwise the BBC maintains a fine standard of ad-free media.
PubSubHubbub is still alive and kicking though, and Google still seem to be encouraging people to use it.

The blogpost at http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pubsubhubbub-... also mentions a Feed API.

I'm confused, I guess this means that only the sync + ui for reader is dead.
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I'm biased as a long time player but with a graphics tile set I don't think the graphics are any worse than your average DOS or console game from the early 90s.

The only problem is the input system but anyone who has mastered Unix can easily master DF.
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