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> As I understand it, it's the news media's job to sell papers to people or people to advertisers.

If you look at it from a capitalistic perspective, I suppose you're right. I meant it from a civics perspective. For "job," try substituting "importance." You can't have a functioning democracy (or representational government) without an informed electorate.

> Presently this has arguably not enough to do with informing the populace, but I don't see that this is substantially more the case now than historically.

You're right that the motives to sell papers (capitalistic goals) don't require them to fulfil their role as a watchdog (civics goals). I don't think these incentives were ever aligned, and I think that's what you meant by your last statement.

I never said that it was any different in the past. Not being "substantially [different] now than historically" doesn't preclude something from being broken. I was just explaining to the parent commenter who said, "I'm not sure how fixing the media would change that."
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They said you can't be arrested for resisting arrest alone, of which there have been many recent cases.
Europe exports more to the US then the Europe imports from the US. Basically there is a trade imbalance of roughly $100 billion dollars (the US makes up 17.3% of EU exports). You think the EU is a mess now? Take out the $100 billion dollars from the EU economy...then see what happens.
ISPs don't really care if you run servers, at least in my experience. Probably the worst that will happen is they will ask you to stop, but even that is unlikely unless you're doing naughty things.

File syncing can be a pain, but a slow running rsync --bwlimit can transfer a lot of data over a long period of time, without saturating your connection.

I run a server off my home connection using an old laptop. Works great.
Exercise Your Way to Stress Reduction
All three are forks of XBMC, to varying degrees.
One negative signal for us is if you previously programmed and then stopped (e.g., you studied CS and then become a product manager).

Interesting. Why is this a negative signal?
We have received numerous pull requests from a spectrum of communities, but the Ruby community has been fairly quiet on that front. For example, not a whole lot has changed with the Rails test since March aside from us adding implementations of the newer test types:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/commits/m...

That said, there isn't a whole lot of code that composes the test. Here's the controller:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

And here is the Python script that is used to start up nginx and Unicorn for the test:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

And JRuby on Resin:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

We'd love to get more pull requests here.
I feel that XMPP is difficult and doesn't work with mobile as well. I was more thinking on the lines of being able to support GCM and APN
As someone who pretty much never leaves the city, I'm very happy with T-Mobile. Unlimited everything for $70 a month. And there's no contract; I walked into the store, said "may I have a SIM and the unlimited everything plan", gave them a 4 digit number to use as a PIN, and walked out. I could hardly believe that this was happening to me in the United States, but hey.

Verizon may have slightly faster speeds and better coverage, but T-Mobile's user experience cannot be beat.
I looked it up, and see that my family could conveniently participate in one of the Restore the Fourth protests. So I just talked to my wife about it, and that is our plan for celebrating the Fourth of July ("Independence Day" is the holiday's official name) this year. What could be more American as a way to celebrate America than to participate in a public protest?

By the way, our friends in Taiwan, which now enjoys freedom of the press after people power pushed out a dicatorial regime, have produced one of those funny animated news videos

http://youtu.be/hjItu4SchJU

urging viewers to participate in the Restore the Fourth protests. This is why I am glad I participated in Taiwan's democracy movement[1], and why I continue to support China's democracy movement. What goes around comes around. Democracy can never have too many friends. Freedom is something for all of humankind to share and to defend and to cherish.

[1] The dictatorship in power in Taiwan when I first lived there eventually fell, after a largely peaceful people power revolution that forced a transformation to an open political system. In the years leading up to that transformation, people I know personally were imprisoned for leading peaceful protests urging free and fair elections and a stop to censorship. (For example, the father of one of my wife's high school classmates was in prison while they were in high school. The classmate is now the godmother of my son who was born in Taiwan.) Most people don't have the courage to go to prison--especially prisons like those in Taiwan at the time. But courage is what it takes to undermine a dictatorship. A successful movement for greater freedom requires great courage, and a degree of social trust among the movement participants that is not easy to find. Allow me to repeat advice I have shared here on Hacker News before. If you really want to be an idealistic but hard-headed freedom-fighter, mobilizing an effective popular movement for more freedom wherever you live, I suggest you read deeply in the free, downloadable publications of the Albert Einstein Institution,

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

remembering that the transition from dictatorship to democracy described in those publications is an actual historical process with recent examples around the world that we can all learn from. You can find publications in Arabic, Azeri, Belarusian, Burmese, Burma (Chin), Burma (Jing-paw), Burma (Karen), Burma (Mon), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, and Ukrainian there to share with your friends around the world.
Good feedback. We are running A/B tests on some of the contents. Regardless I don't think we answer the basic question "what does Factor.io do?"
What kind of opcode cache do you employ? Depending on how you set up APC for example, php-fpmcan use much more memory than running Apache mod_php with one shared segment.
What you say is true, but not at odds with what I said.
Even though they technically allow it, pro hac vice is not that common, and it takes a while for them to process out-of-state admissions usually.

They used to have an explicit rule, similar to LR 83.10 that you can find still in the northern district http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/pdf/CIVRULES.pdf
Maybe I am way off base, but I wasn't under the impression college recruiters were in a position of power when it comes to employment.
I love your wiki! I do the same on https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org . Same reasons here, note taking and knowledge outlines. Mainly for Linux, making websites and other tech, but various misc. things I'm also interested in. Fairly organic and often incomplete, but hey, that's a wiki for you. It ties in with a bit of constructivist learning theory also, helping frame things, though I know I need to refactor more to smooth out how much each article covers.
You think you are kidding, but there are days i think it would be a better use of money to just buy a football stadium for the local teams, etc
Because we live in the information age, when information is the ultimate power. Those ad networks can get to know you as well as the NSA ...
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Android flaw allows hackers to surreptitiously modify apps
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If you're arrested "for resisting arrest", there must have been some arrest in progress. I assume the claim is instead that the arrest was somehow invalid. Some states have an affirmative defense to "resisting" charges when excessive force is used, but otherwise: resisting arrest is itself a crime.

If the police try to arrest you, don't fight back.
You do not have to sell your soul to feed your family. Trust me, they can get another job. The reality is the pay is good and these people do not care what their organization does.
Many people are skeptical of Bitcoin loans since the expected rate of return of holding BTC exceeds the rate of return of almost all legitimate businesses.

To steal a tptacek line, "I hope to make the starburst of points which follow by implication rather than by explicit statement."
Quitting in disgust is one signal a person can send.

But what if that makes the problem worse rather than better, by removing from the agency those people most able to sense and push-back against secret abuses?
Doug Engelbart publications
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That's for sure.
But hindsight is 20/20, and when you are growing like a weed, like they were at the time, it's easy to be caught in the "I want more" mindset, especially when you are a younger founder.
Way back when we were just starting to think about Baydin, Xobni was one of the models for how we could build a company based on an email plugin.

Their tech was so cool -- we'd never seen anything like it. Then Bill Gates demoed Xobni on stage, they had so many downloads, and rumors about acquisitions swirled in the press. It sounded so glamorous and so exciting. And, honestly, so fast and easy.

We didn't know that Xobni had been at it for two years already when they were featured in that keynote. And we certainly weren't thinking at all about a story of 7 years of grind, improvements, and putting one foot in front of the other every day. Helicopter rides, keynotes, WSJ profiles, and closing fundraising deals get the headlines, but behind the scenes, it's releases, updates, support, and hard work.

Now that we're a few years into our own story of grind, improvements, and putting one foot in front of the other every day, we have a ton of respect for what Xobni put together over the past 7 years. Obviously, this isn't the outcome that everyone was hoping for, but it's easy to look at the numbers and forget 2008-2009, when Xobni was at the top of the world.

Thanks, Adam, Matt, and the rest of you who were early in Xobni for building something magical and inspiring us to build something of our own. And congratulations on the end of a long journey.
> That's not really a valid argument, because it depends on how they went about it.

They went about it by adding mutexes around the reference counters (as opposed to using a separate mark & sweep GC, which has it's own downsides, as displayed by the JVM). This resulted in somewhat increased performance of multi-threaded applications, at the cost of single threaded applications.

> And, from the speed and design of CPython, we know that they are not V8-level or JVM-level competent interpreter/VM writers.

The biggest problem that V8/JVM (i.e. JIT) style interpreters have, when interpreting the Python language, is that JIT compilation is not really possible (or rather, exceptionally difficult). It's simply not possible to say that any given object in Python will remain it's currently defined type, or that an underlying method will not change meaning as execution continues.

one + two

can (and does) change it's meaning dynamically during the execution of a Python script, and simply optimizing away the __add__ lookups will bite you in the ass.

PyPy is currently trying to come up with a JIT compiler, and they're having remarkably good success. Rather than ragging on Python, try supporting them instead.
Is Pandora Unfairly Undervaluding Songwriters?
I don't see why not; everybody is hiring straight from colleges these days. Who couldn't use another good recruiter?

I don't believe for one instant that these are people just desperately trying to feed their starving family. They have options, they choose to stay on.
Concurrency deals with multiple threads/processors running together, but not necessarily executing at once. So it applies everywhere, even on a single core machine.

A great example of concurrency is a gui application. Without threads, any blocking operations will make your application unresponsive. You need multiple threads so that if one thread is blocking on a syscall, the other is available to execute gui actions. This works in python, because the GIL only applies to actually executing python threads.

As far as writing general-purpose applications in python goes, most don't hammer all cores with work. In fact, they usually only require I/O concurrency, so python works as well as any other language.
This shows the importance of remaining calm as possible when dealing with the police. Especially if they're being arseholes. You sort it out later with complaints and civil litigation.

Also this reminds me of the guy who had committed 2 crimes, was wrongfully convicted of committing a third and sent to prison. This was a long sentence because of 3 strikes laws. All the appeals ran their course. He escaped from prison, gathered evidence, and had his wrongful conviction quashed. He was the re-arrested for escaping from prison and convicted and again, because of 3 strikes laws, sent away for a long time.
The F# compiler does that.
Then again, "Business Insider," and a number-of-things article.
Ask HN: What does this spying thing mean for non-Americans?
Majority of the "freedom-loving" people who are opposing the NSA snooping on their private communication seem to be okay with NSA snooping over rest of the world (non-Americans).

From what I read they are mostly using statements like "it is unconstitutional". Well, why should my communicate be subject to US constitution in first place ? I know Google, Facebook and other companies are American companies and that tells me to do less and less business with American companies.

Ancient Indian Sanskrit saying says "Vinaashkaale viparita buddhi" => While on path of destruction people lose their mind and take decisions to hurt themselves even more.

As a non-american I wonder if I should support Mozilla and Reddit or shut stay mum and watch the show ?
That is one amazing app, That George Maharis is a genius!
This is so great. This is the only thing that has made me feel some hope since all of this started.

Thank you!
Yes, the purpose of the trial itself is to determine guilt or innocence. I'm suggesting that the purpose of a legal system like ours is to ensure everyone's right to a fair trial in the first place; more generally, our goal is to ensure that innocent people are not put in jail. Defense lawyers make sure that guilt, if determined, is done legally and that sentencing is arrived at fairly.

If a defendant wants to skip the trial and admit guilt, that's a different matter.
Definitely a thorny issue... I think it comes down to weighing your potential for positive influence vs. the (in)direct damage being done by your role or the organization overall.
If only there was a climate of rampant unemployment among highly-skilled technical people. You're not talking about fast-food workers.
Indeed. Any of us as US citizens frankly are only slightly less to blame than those employees. We elected those people passing the orders. I haven't heard of a single recall vote as a result of this. Not even one riot. And we enjoy whatever fruits are the result of the surveillance.

I'm really disappointed with the actions and arguments.
So is the hypothesis that these recruiters are continuing to publicly defend and sell the NSA so that behind closed doors they can spend their time trying to rein the NSA back in? I don't buy it, and even if it were true I would not accept that is a proper tradeoff.
This is an example of a "real world" exit - where tangible products and commoditized software intersected with a knowledgable buyer.
You saying "trust me" doesn't feed their family. Looking at my Facebook page, there are dozen of people I personally know desperate for jobs. Even their belief that working for the NSA was selling their soul was taken for granted, most of them would take it.
Since things usually have to get worse before they get better, the situation you describe would merely accelerate the disease that causes the NSA to be a problem for us all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

^ Youtube link to the demo, as I can't get the video on the site to work.

EDIT: better quality version
There is no need to demonstrate that the intelligence is actively being misused. The simple fact that collecting it is unconstitutional and abusive is enough.
How do you propose that Yahoo (a US-based company, subject to US laws, just like Google) do this?
> If you're arrested "for resisting arrest", there must have been some arrest in progress.

That's exactly how a sane person would expect it to work, but it's not the case lately in America. There have been many recent examples of people being arrested and the only charge is "resisting arrest". Of course they get let out of jail 12-24 hours later, but at that point the police have removed you from what you were doing (protesting, for e.g.) and they now have your fingerprints, photo and you have a history of arrest.

A quick Google gave me:

http://www.naturalnews.com/040399_adam_kokesh_resisting_arre...

There are many more examples.
Are you actively supporting those parts of the country that do it? There's a vast gulf between simply living there, and actively recruiting new spies to spy on your own people.
Students can ask all the questions they want (of Facebook and Goldman Sachs too). At the end of the day the only question that matters is who is going to pay off those little student loans.
Conveniently forgetting the whole, "defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic," thing.
Hopefully nobody is disputing that the police sometimes arrest people for bogus reasons.
The founders are taking all the risk, getting slammed by investors, and probably have put in more hours and more capital than you ever will. Zoom out a bit and their chances of failing is 90%.

The people that are very successful today all started somewhere. Many of them started at a startup, built something, and made a name for themselves. In their 30s, they are now in demand execs who have proven track records of building out teams and products.

At the end of the day no one is going to give you 50% of a company, not test you to see if you can write code and think logically, and not check to see if you are a good cultural fit in an early stage startup. It sounds like this a huge issue for you so you have two choices:

1. Go do your own startup.
2. Turn down the job and work somewhere else.
3. Go work for some mega-corp that pays you well.

In the end, you are just spamming the board with your pointless posts.
Cash? Gold? Cocaine? The way the actual "off-the-grid" economy works?
I see nginx as more a general application server, and IIS as a specialised server you run when you need NTLM/Windows integrated authentication and ASP.NET et al.
Reflecting on the fact that this video was recorded before the unix epoch was humbling.
While many people avoided cheap cow meat products there were a few people intrigued by the idea of horse meat.

I agree the "change the organisation from within" line is weak.

But I also think that there are many people who still think "You only need to worry if you have something to hide" and who don't see a problem with what NSA does. I guess those people will believe the NSA obeys the law.

I could understand people thinking the GCHQ box is "just a cache". Collecting the data isn't a problem; looking through the data for targeted information (grepping the specific name of a terrorist, for example) is ok; it's only a problem if they start to look at everything. And those people won't think that collection is the same as looking. It's not something I believe myself, but I can see how others might.

Also, as has been mentioned, cognitive dissonance. People rationalise and justify weird things all the time. I don't see that being different when they're looking for work.

I'm not saying that not a single person has decided to not work for NSA! Obviously, there's probably many people who would have been fine with spying on foreign nations but very uncomfortable with the idea of spying on citizens.
Butterfly Labs allegedly faking CE certification, BTC miner seized in Germany.
Ask HN: How many software projects are you currently involved in?
Including open source, side projects and work. How do you balance all of them?
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As there is nothing remotely illegal or even nefarious about using a VPN, one can assume we've gone over the falls.

The United States and its financial system exist to serve the interests of some truly disgusting people.
There's a writable interface to IndexedDB files as well: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/FileHandle
How else am I suppose to get cash to these services?
It's not legally possible for a random citizen to get personal information from a license plate, so having someone's license plate number available isn't a violation of their right to privacy.
Don't get too sentimental. The AT&T of your parent's generation and mine (which may intersect) is the Ma Bell of the monopoly days. I have never trusted AT&T any further than I could throw the whole lot of them. A half a dozen name changes and buyouts since has only increased my mistrust.
This post reminds me a lot of David Thorne: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html
For those that are interested, here's a link to the docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
Think of the "Bitcoin economy" as a border-less sovereign country with a floating, fixed-supply currency. This country would still have interest rates, and those rates would still be a function of everyone else's interest rates in a way fundamentally related to the FX rate (complicated, but not insurmountably, by the lack of a low-risk Bitcoin counterparty, thereby holding back the development of Bitcoin collateral and lending markets).
"So help me God" should be omitted since it doesn't even make any coherent sense. Might as well say "So help me snorkleflurp".

Edit: The reason I say that phrase doesn't make any sense is because "God" has so many inconsistent, incoherent definitions that it seems nonsensical to request help from it. No idea what "God" even is.
Not passionate about programming 〈/guess〉
The day Torrentfreak told about the VPN payments ban from mastercard and visa.

As close to a conspiracy theory as it can get. What scares me is that there is no conspiracy and every big entity is hell bent on destroying any shreds of privacy left for fun, profit or to stop "child porn terrorists"
Why wouldn't one use a simple #?
And so it should! Apache is last millennium's technology.
Yes, it's important to note that there are not people who are simply toiling away, objecting to the work, and reluctantly carrying it out. These are people publicly advocating for the organization, and trying to get more people to join it.
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Probably not. Most airplanes are at maximum takeoff weight when the fuel tanks are full and they are loaded with passengers and cargo.
I wandered around with a sword, rifle with bayonet, bola, and grenades. Most of the tougher creatures barely put up a fight with that combination.
Sorry for the ambiguity. My intention was to communicate that I didn't think anyone would buy the idea that MS is hip and an open-standards advocate.
A license plate is already essentially encrypted. It's a random sequence of letters and numbers that correspond with a unique individual's information. It contains no personal information in itself.