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Considering the massive immigration of Muslims and their continuing radicalization instead of assimilation, the whole of western Europe including Germany is going to turn into an "enemy" 20-30 years down the road.

Europe is an US ally today not because of the geography, but because of the Europeans. But the Europeans have mostly given up making babies and will in 1-2 generations be mostly replaced by more fertile Muslims hostile to the US.

For example the English population in the capital of the UK, has fallen below 50%. The English are already a ethnic minority in their own capital. It is just a matter of time when the people making decision about the UK nuke arsenal and military infrastructure are Muslims loyal not to the Queen but to Pakistan, Somalia or some other Jihadi US hating shithole.

It would be silly to declare a quickly dying/changing continent an perpetual ally and stop monitoring them just because they have been allies 20 years ago.
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This article seems to come from a place of frustration. My parents are recruiters, and they told me perhaps the best job advice I've ever had. They told me that I should get a degree in something that makes me happy.

Granted, I didn't have to pay as much for college as the average kid, they helped me out a lot. But I wasn't devoid of student loans and I didn't have endless money. It ended up that I would become a programmer after I began doing freelance web dev on the side to make extra beer money during college. Since there are few well-paying jobs in the market of singers and other jazz musicians, I started programming full-time.

I still believe that, if you can, you should take courses in college that are meaningful to you. You don't need a comp sci degree to be a programmer. The fact that you have a bachelor's (in ANYTHING) qualifies you for the job.
I've had people try to kick me out for various reasons - not typing a response fast enough, thinking I'm chinese, and a number of reasons I couldn't even decipher.

Due to white knight emotional impulses, we treat attacks on females in games as special. But I don't see a logical reason to do this.
The old parts of the WaPo's notes don't seem to have been revised. For example, the 'PRISM' name probably doesn't have anything to do with fibre-optic taps, since the You Should Use Both slide indicates that the PRISM name refers only to the Web-company "direct collection" operation rather than the "upstream collection" from the network. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887627 (This Washington Post page still doesn't seem to have any mention of the You Should Use Both slide, probably for the bad reason that it was the Guardian's scoop.) Similarly, the Introduction slide seems to be mostly relevant to upstream collection rather than PRISM.
In addition to the comments below, consider that these are presumably translations from an English source document. I'd be shocked if the original documents referenced by Der Spiegel used the term "military target" as opposed to simply "target".
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The current one: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-...
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A more relevant picture would be this:

http://imgur.com/F8j0Ieq
Its the government equivalent of Angies List/beenverified.com.
E-mail and the extensions and extras that make it go and make it nice /are/ duct-tape. I wouldn't advocate for /anyone/ running their own mailserver unless they're totally aware of what they're doing and on top of spam issues.

When considering if running your own mailserver is practical for you, consider the total cost of ownership; you'll most likely be paying for a dedicated server (or vps, VM, or whatever the cool kids are using these days) which will require staying on top of all the "normal" things; monitoring, backups (and you'll probably want to test them), updates, what blacklists to use, ensuring that /your/ server doesn't end up blacklisted, etc. Unless you've been a sysadmin before and know what this all entails, I wouldn't really recommend it. If you're not part of some bigger org (a hosting co or bigger company), it'll also be harder to get your one-off no-name server removed from blacklists, since this looks just like something Joe Linkfarm would do. I could show you this one really simple trick that a mother found to whiten your server reputation, but...

As far as creating a VM image that sets all this up for you, it's kinda the point that it doesn't exist; mailservers don't work well when run by people who don't really care about them. It's quite far away from a "set and forget" deal. This is why many hackers / sysadmins still use GMail; it's not the best at everything, but it's OK enough at most things that it's the least hassle to use.

That all said, I do agree that it'd be great to have a service which offers both more control for power users (I'd love a mailfilter-style config w/regex support for GMail), better privacy (easy PGP integration, etc), tag support, threading, and normal IMAP support, but I'm not quite holding my breath. This seems like a decent problem for some start-up to solve :) It's not a "sexy" problem, but it's a real one.
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I had only implemented n/p so far because that's all I used, but I've added j/k now. I'm aiming to match Google Reader's core functionality (except the social side), so I've made a note of its keyboard shortcuts, and will add more over time or as they're requested.

Thanks for your comments regarding the design! I'm going to try to keep it as minimal as possible mostly because that's how I like it, but also so that it can be drop into existing site designs without too much hassle.
I disagree on 5). You should probably be at a bare minimum familiar with different types of data structures and how they work. Knowing where to look up "theoretic bits" isn't actually useful. As a programmer, you should know when a dictionary might sace you time, just as one scratch of the surface example.
I currently do pay a premium and I'd prefer to be paying it to FastMail.

Recent revelations mean there may be a few more Australians willing to pay a premium to host mail in Australia.

Also, thanks for your work on Cyrus.
At one point you can build a steelworks and produce steel from iron and coal.
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It's easier now, in that we have good well-documented software, but the external environment has changed. While other servers used to just accept the email you sent, spam countermeasures have gotten complex enough that if you just follow the postfix installation guide you're going to have a lot of your outbound smtp filtered.
I'm continually surprised where civilized folks are coming from. I'm currently in lower tiers (silver 5) where I've met the most understanding strangers, who probably play occassionally like me and quite possibly wouldn't pay $100 to get isolated queues. On the other hand if I come across gold or higher tier players in normal games, they tend to have exactly zero tolerance for mistakes and absolutely no patience to solve situations; even if they'd be willing to spend $100 to play with curated comrads.

I'm not suggesting that commitment to the game (and therefore willingness to pay extra) is inversely proportional to the quality of behavior, but I've seen my share of anecdotal evidence. (Probably the situation is better in diamond and above, but boy I suck to ever reach it.)
The first thing I hear when I log into games is not "Oh great... a boy player? Fuck. Are you serious? Let's kick her and hope we get someone else."

I've heard various things of this nature, for various non-gendered reasons. Give a team any reason to think you are either a) a bot or b) not good and they will boot you.

Did you seriously just ask if it would be sexist to not be sexist?

Sexism is treating people differently based on their gender. So yes, I assert it would be sexist to say to men "jail rape u gayayay nigz" but to tell women "tally ho madam, you have soundly defeated me."
I believe in public education and health care.
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Hey guys, Eduardo and I started AlloyUI at Liferay back in 2009.
I'm sorry to hear about your experiences, and I completely understand. When it was just the two of us, in addition to handling the entire UI for Liferay, we also wrote 60 components in a few months, so we were pulled a little thin.
We have since expanded the team, and we've made a lot of improvements in both the documentation as well as the components themselves.

If you have a chance to check out the site, or play around, we'd love to hear any feedback :)
I am up for this. I've been working on Admin Job Log (http://www.adminjoblog.com) on and off for just over a year now. Having someone else trying to get a product out would be great motivation.
Isn't Der Spiegel a weekly release? Or when you say "front page" do you mean "of their website"?
This would be a good opportunity for Germany/EU to give Snowden asylum, if only to show US that they screwed up so much, it's EU itself, their ally, who will give him asylum.
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Nope, because of the deadly trifecta of easy loans available to literally anyone, young students with no life experience to understand the impact of debt, and parents who unwaveringly believe that a college education is the most important stepping stone to future success.
They don't get the media attention (if they are doing something at all). My biggest fear is that the Liberals (FDP) gain votes through this...
> I've often thought, in League of Legends, that I'd pay $100 for access to a special queue which matched me up with other people who had paid $100 to access it.

Do you even need a fee? I used to play Counter-Strike a lot and there was always a wide variety of servers. From "free for all" (FFA) and anything goes to private ones that required registration and had staff strictly policing skill, teamplay, language, microphone noises...

Then there were "gathers." Like pick-up games in soccer or basketball but organized via IRC. People who were annoying just wouldn't get picked.

All of that was free for the participants. Servers, channels, websites were all provided by the players themselves.

I don't really play computer games any more but is this not an option for modern games and systems? Another regression like Usenet?
Thanks for an informative post, but this bit is a little irritating:

" ... While many people blindly agree with this justification for IP laws, it's worth mentioning that many disagree, ..."

Would you also agree that many people agree with the justification and many people blindly disagree with it? Or is anyone who agrees necessarily blind and all who disagree farsighted?
Hello Zura, that is a fair comment. I don't go into a lot of depth for some topics. I introduce an idea, usually explore an idea with some code, and try to suggest possible projects. If you want a thorough and deep coverage of AI, work through http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
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Here are some reasons:

* Germany was at the frontline in the cold war. So Germany is traditionally both a target and a host of US spy activities.

* Germany hosts important US military facilities: US nuclear bombs, US central commands for Europe and Africa, military airports, military logistics, military hospitals.

* Germany was reunited with a communist part, which was under the influence of the soviet union. Thus it hosts a lot of former communists, former Stasi (East German State security, ...), a lot of KGB contacts, etc.

* from Germany it is easy to spy on East Europe

* Germany has a successful industry which is a great target. Germany has about 1500 so-called hidden champions, SMEs active in (often high-tech) niche markets and dominating them. Germany has SAP, one of the largest software companies world-wide, whose software is used at the core of the business of most of the large companies world-wide.

* Germany is a part of the EU, something which the US likes to understand and influence

* Germany has no direct border controls to neighbor countries, so there is a lot of illegal immigration to Germany, which makes it interesting for the US

* Germany is very active in high-tech and especially the Internet. Germany hosts one of the most important Internet exchange nodes.

* Germany has deep trade and diplomatic relations with Russia and China.

* Germany hosts some international relevant institutions, above all the European Central Bank.

* Germany has a relatively large military industry and exports military goods (tanks, airplanes, submarines, ships, satellites, ...).

* Germany has active left and green parties. Suspicious!

Plus Germany lost WWII and had to give up rights, some of them the US still has - so it may be still legal for the US to spy in Germany.
They should implement a "send a copy of this chat to their mom" feature for minors. I bet it would be fun.
"I haven't figured out a way to get myself to go through the pain of sorting things, throwing them away, and selling them when I'm not moving. So, things pile up...It really bothers me too."

House rule, example not so much as allowed to hang up a new piece of art in the living room until the office cleanup is completed; Exactly one room is in "redecorating" mode at any given time, no more no less. Secondary house rule not so strictly enforced is the one room undergoing redecoration must be the oldest; rotation.

Doesn't mean I'm obsessive about remodeling... due to life pressures etc I think the basement utility room once spent about two years in remodel status. Eventually I really wanted to replace the broken blinds in the living room, generating immense motivation to finish the utility room...

"Someone could profit by helping me with this problem."

I've got plenty of money. Gift economy. Everyone implementing this house rule should donate $5 to the EFF and we'll call it even.
Hi welcome to HN, I see you haven't made many posts.

I am wondering if you could compare how life in Pax Americana with life in Russia or China. I am myself from Russia and can say that Americans enjoy significantly more freedom in the real world.
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They are a strong component of the European Union which is designed to act as a large trading block and compete with the US. The Euro is a competitor to the US Dollar. As the Euro displaces the USD throug out Europe, the US loses more of its "exorbitant Privilege" in being able to print money and export the inflation to the rest of the world.
You want me to speculate about arrow direction?! alright, generally speaking the access is not "direct" because the "boxes" act as buffers. I can't say if they "pull" the boxes or they just serve subpoenas to them and get the data pushed back.
Here you go http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm.
(Click on the headings for results of previous weeks for a specific pollster.)
Piraten are fairly stable around 3%.

I think these polling results are not very meaningful in regard to the Pirate party. At the last election only one
pollster saw them at 1% all the others at NA [1].
In the end they won 2.0 %.

Pollsters still rely primarily on land line telephone interviews,
and Pirate voters are therefore
heavily underrepresented. Of course pollster know that and try to compensate for this effect but as long as they don't change the sampling method the error for the Pirates will be large. Peter Norvig's FAQ about the U.S. Presidential Election [2] has some excellent explanations of these effects.

[1] http://www.bundestagswahl-2009.de/wahlumfragen/

[2] http://norvig.com/election-faq-2012.html
He means both: http://www.spiegel.de/ and http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/titel/SP/2013/27/300/titel.j...
Yeah but it has nothing to do with your identity and it's not systematic.
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I knew trumpeter who got kicked out of his funk band because he thought he was Miles Davis. Turns out he was just too lazy to learn the fundamentals and was constantly noodling around instead of learning how to enhance the music he was playing.

Art is subjective, that doesn't mean there isn't valuable knowledge to be learnt.
And this is how the US treats its "allies".

I can see this having far-reaching consequences in international relations, all of them negative, for America.
> Yes we trash talk a lot in games, and yeah we don't see it as a big deal for the most part, because there's a part of creativity in trash talking in some ways so we can ignore all but the more original (and often laughable) insults.

No, we don't. You do. Please do not attempt to normalize the ridiculous toxic vitriol that Xbox Live and League of Legends et al. extends to the silent community at large. Trash talking is unnecessary and unhelpful. Many people actually don't enjoy that kind of conflict. There are reasons why LoL now doesn't have All chat enabled and why most people never enter public chat on Xbox Live anymore.

Trash talking is not a "gamer" trait. It's a subsection, and probably even a vocal minority, of those who play games. Just because it's not a girl on the receiving end doesn't make it any less toxic.
Yes, "Der Spiegel" is a weekly magazine. This is about "Spiegel Online", the related website.
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Are there tabletop petawatt lasers to go with this tabletop positron source?
Half this info is obvious, the other half is not well cited and it is a commercial self-promotion (spam).
A foreginer here. Would you like to elaborate why they seem unelectable?
Author of django-yarr here; I'd also found the feedreader on bitbucket, as well as http://code.google.com/p/django-reader/ - I wanted to go in a slightly different direction, and neither of them had had much activity recently.

I'd be interested to hear if you have any feedback for yarr - I'll be working on it this week to try to add in the main missing features (managing feeds, timezone stuff etc), and if people think it's missing an important feature I'll do my best to add it.
I am getting extremely weary of users who have very little post history flooding HN with PRISM related anti-American vitriol.

I recall organizations like Russia Today being caught for registering users on youtube that promoted their viewpoints, gave up-votes, and voiced extreme opinions: making their extremest lies look more legitimate.

I don't know who these new people are but the quality of their posts is well below our standard and their users names appear to be a play on words.
Do you know that people already pay $60/yr for multiplayer on Xbox Live (and PS+ on PS4)? What makes you think another $100 will change the situation?
That magazine cover is tomorrow's so that makes sense, but the way he worded it suggests that two days running it was on the "front page".

And I think that using "on their front page" when talking about the website of a magazine is misleading, in part simply because it suggests magazine not website, and in part because being on the front page of their website really means absolutely nothing when it comes to importance - or at least, it means no more than saying "Spiegel wrote a story about it". The front page of their website is just the hub where they link off content as and when it gets published, both important and less important items.
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I think this approach is cleaner and you have the added advantage of having a permanent stash of useful commands you can move around systems.

Personally, I would use the hashtags, and also use something like inotify to automatically add any hashtagged commands to seperate scripts and store them in something like ~/usr/bin/custom/
+1 for Schemaverse, and the awesome dude who made it! I was there for his launch talk at Defcon...was it 19 I want to say?
The difference is that it's not required and you can play the game still. Also, most of the vile people on XBL are just little kids whose parents pay for their subscription
If I try django-yarr I'll give you feedback (GitHub issues). I didn't feel like starting one of these myself, but I can use/contribute to an existing project.

Thanks for sharing!
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I've never used seriously used YUI, but this actually seems like a really nice library. I'm impressed with the breadth of it. The Rosetta Stone is also a great idea which really takes away a lot of the fears of using a different library.
I understand your point re: definitions of sexism, but I think EliRivers gets it right here in regards to performance versus person. And it's different to be on the receiving end when you're the threatened minority. It just is.
They are unable to settle on a real party manifesto. Also they have problems to organize themselves. Even worse, they regularly contradict each other in public. (My personal view)
In light of this, EU countries should have come forward and offer an asylum for Snowden. I'm sure there could be some legal way to do so, given the hostility of US intelligence.

Not that I'm not one bit surprised by any of this. Every government with the technical capability to spy, does so. On allies, on enemies and on civilians; everyone is a fair target. NSA was just caught red handed.
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I really hope this is a parody.. but I can't decide.

I know lots of women who played computer games all through the 80s and 90s.
If that's irony, then well played!
Like that would ever happen. Especially in a country where US runs the shop since the end of WW2.
Last time I've tried (a few months ago) it was a question of modifying a Makefile to enable Fortran and Objective-C in a custom build toolchain for Android.
> Setting up a server in any hosting environment at this point comes with the assumption that its contents can be read at any time by the operators and whoever they let in without you ever knowing about it.

Indeed. If you want to be secure, you need to keep your email server at home, or in some other location you trust, and make sure all communication on the net is encrypted. That way, if an adversary wants your secrets, they will have to burgle your house.

> That's still a lot better than Gmail.

True, because it takes effort for GCHQ/NSA/whoever to look at your server, which they probably won't do.

> Going beyond that to something with a whole lot more encryption and less of an ability for hosting providers to read your data would really require a product dedicated to that end: that is hard to get right

That's what I'm working on.
> There are wide swathes of the video game community which are absolutely toxic, in every possible way you can imagine and some which people of good will would have difficulty imagining. I wish game companies did a better job of market-based approaches to limiting this.

Microsoft tried an approach with Xbox Live on the 360 where gamers could segregate themselves into different communities. Recreation, Family, Pro, Underground. The hope was that the toxic players would stick to Pro and Underground, but there just essentially zero policing for the scale Xbox Live came to be, so trolls would enter the other areas too.

Any community enforcement is doomed to fail, because too much of the community really are a bunch of idiots and jerks. Friends lists and isolation are the only good counterpoints, and Xbox Live is a much friendlier, but much quieter place, since Party Chat came about (which lets you talk to your friends only). I don't ever use my headset without Party Chat now, and most others don't seem to either. Xbox Live was much cooler back in the Halo 2 days, you'd meet new people and have fun, before it hit it's own Eternal September.
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