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> ...but I don't think it's particularly worthy of support from other engineers and makers.

Simplify might be a Stripe clone, but if it's just as reliable, cheaper and allows me to get my hands on my money faster, why shouldn't I consider it? I'm an engineer/"maker" but that doesn't mean that I select commodity services based on emotion or ideology. After all, saving money and getting my money faster supports my ability to continue making stuff.

I need to accept payments online. I am your customer. You should be trying to convince me that Stripe is the best payment solution for my business, not labeling a new competitor "lazy" and suggesting that I avoid it because it opted not to reinvent the wheel.

> We should encourage each other any time we see great, original work -- creativity is hard, and new ideas are often delicate in the early days. It'd be really cool if MasterCard did that, but Simplify unfortunately doesn't seem to have anything that's new.

I really, really like Stripe and think you have built a great service but reading this makes me cringe.

Innovation and first mover advantage do not guarantee success. In fact, sitting back and following can be a smart approach: it's less risky and less costly to let others invest in new ideas and "copy" what gains traction in the market. I know this is blasphemy in Silicon Valley, but it's the harsh reality of business.

We'll see if the market finds Simplify's lower pricing and faster payouts compelling enough, but I don't think it's fair to insinuate that the only source of legitimate, meaningful and effective differentiation comes from building something "original".
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I think I see what you might be getting at. As I to have had thoughts along these lines.
I think DylanHassinger has a point, but I can see where you are coming from. To some extent the first stage of this project exists in the time management tools that already exist, but are not well suited to the ADHD mind and a rebellious streak.
I also think this set of tools need to be embeddable (I would want them near me almost all the time, and I want them to be part of the tools I use, and the toys I play with. So they can not be abandoned.

I will take a look at github. But I think it is going to take a considerable effort to find the people who will put in the effort to be part of a team early on.

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sounds a lot like anarchosyndicalism if you leave out the economic side.
For call metadata, the pen register comparison might fly. If they are storing content, as is likely, it won't.

The beginning of the article on standing does raise questions I hadn't thought about. How would you decide the penalty for something with the potential for abuse? Just because the NSA is storing the largest ever collection of personal info with potential for blackmail, election skullduggery, stalking, identity theft, etc. doesn't mean that those things would happen. If all their data centers were hit by EMPs tomorrow, there may be no injury.

It would seem that when information which would indicate standing is itself concealed, though, that the threshold should be lower. Eh, I'll keep reading.
As opposed to the less lethal explosions of smaller stars, which are good for quick tans.
To me, deletionist culture is Wikipedia's greatest flaw. If at least two people derive value from a page existing, and it meets all the other criteria, it should be allowed to stand.
That report sounds interesting, got a link by any chance?

I would think that session resumption should greatly increase performance for clients returning to your site, because there's no need to do a complete handshake (which is - relatively speaking - resource-intensive and IIRC also requires more network round-trips).
It would be a great, fast way to get the body you always wanted :D.
It's hard to read into a tweet, but I'm pretty sure that he was not saying that the performance of a dynamically typed, garbage collected language will be equivalent to the performance of optimized, tuned C and C++.
That's your evidence against the statement made by enraged_camel. Does that mean that the statement is false? No.
I agree with this but why not take it a step further? We're hackers, working on tools/applications that facilitate the transfer of information - why don't we implement encryption from the get-go? There wouldn't be a need to 'popularize' something exists by default.

GnuPG/PGP are fairly trivial to implement; here's some apps that are ripe for production:

- Messaging application that exchanges public keys on first contact, and henceforth every back and forth message is encrypted/decrypted without the user ever knowing

- An email client that works on the same basis as the messaging application; the user doesn't need to know - they just wanted their messages sent securely.

^^ Thats probably 90% of the uses cases for the average joe covered.
If it went through one of the peering points with an NSA optical splitter, and it probably did, then it's probably sitting in an NSA data warehouse. The Utah site specifically is still being built.
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>The key, of course, is that many American students self-select out of applying to Harvard, and indeed don't self-select to submit an application to any "prestige" university.

Till 2012, AIEEE was the other most important entrance exam in India and it was the basis for admission to all national colleges other than IIT. ~1,100,000 students applied for it compared to ~500,000 who applied for IIT

Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-28/entra...
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I'll just put this here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/24/thanks-to-ios-7s-game-pad-s...

They are coming, iOS7 has gamepad support, OUYA has a game controller. This will continue.
It's not really our job to protect everyone from themselves though and adding a net not only would hurt the aesthetic of the bridge, but serve as a constant, dreary reminder of death. In addition, adding a net is simply a small measure at treating a symptom without affecting the cause. Lastly, what would adding a net solve? The people who wanted to kill themselves by jumping off now know there is a net to stop it, so they decide to kill themselves some other way instead.
Literally the whole point of the hollywoodization of a natural environment was to prevent the damage done to an actual natural environment of having 350+ people there for a wedding, something both recommended by a conservation group and then gone over in the article.
For some reason, "aute irure" is translated as "bullet train"; however, neither of them are Latin words.
May make your gmail address readable "your address is similar..."
Just discovered that I can make my gmail address a bit cleaner to read: from foobarfoo@gmail.com to foo.bar.foo@gmail.com
Not knowing what is self, and non self is called Immunity disorder than an organisation protecting people.

In Human Body it causes death, in a System it causes Death of Democracy, In a family it causes chaos.
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
But this effectively removes the chance that it'll kill you. Getting to the GG Bridge is not a simple thing to do... If you're going to kill yourself, the impulse is there, sure, but you had to go pretty far out of your way to do it. With a bottle of pills, many people have a bottle of pills from a previous surgery or something sitting around. Way easier to get wasted while depressed and make a rash decision to down the bottle than it is to make the trek all the way out to the middle of the Golden Gate.
Rewriting from scratch doesn't help run more experiments, it slows things down.
I was a part of this coaching industry as a student, it is almost inevitable if you are applying for IIT. For a two year period, I shelled out approximately Rs400,000. That is around 9000 USD at the then exchange rate of around 45 INR to a US Dollar.
This amount includes coaching, hostel charge, food, books, everything.

EDIT: And this is on the higher end of the spectrum. I had the privilege of going to one of the best IIT coaching institute.
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99.999% means roughly 30 seconds of downtime a month. If you play 4 hours a day every day, that means two periods of 30 second downtime a year. I can't imagine any game even trying to reach that sort of stability. It would be a complete waste of time and resources
It is better to take cognizance of how things really are rather than how you really, really wish them to be.

Where you start in life matters. It squares with the things I've observed in my own life; hardworking people who spend every waking hour working for the betterment of their friends and family are nevertheless constantly battered by mischance and bad fortune. I've learned to differentiate the good luck that I possess in my own life from the bad luck that others have. Despite my continued work in supporting them with financial aid, useful contacts, and marketable skills, they are still forced by circumstance to end up destitute.

At this point, some might say, "you didn't earn your brain/parent's money/etc." I say that's nonsense, because the entire idea of "earn" arises in order to distinguish real people who choose to act toward a goal from those that choose not to. And of course, that is the point. None of these things were earned. This is a basic framing problem[1], and the entire basis of chaos theory[2]. Initial conditions matter. A proper scientific experiment includes a control group measured against an experimental group, and both of these groups are impossible to meaningfully distinguish at the beginning of the observation. If this is not the case, say because one group is more intelligent by some accepted measure of intelligent, then the measurement of a variable, say the application of choice to arrive at earnings, becomes utterly nonsensical. The causative agent could be either the initial difference or the experimental variable.

Using simplistic philosophical bases for one's beliefs is tantamount to unexamined religious dogma and in no way demonstrates any kind of empirical basis. Furthermore, claiming to have surveyed "bums to billionaires" without proof is merely, in the sophistic style of javert, a logical fallacy.

But it's cute you two believe you have any grasp of epistemology, rhetoric, or logic.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)#Exper...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
Congratulations, you're an anarchist! (or at least an autonomist of some sort...)

You may really, really enjoy David Graeber's recent book, 'the Democracy Project.'
Feedly has this (gg) in a semi-fuzzy way.
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I misunderstood you, sorry.

I disagree that the problem is the government exactly. The problem tends to be administration is allowed to capture a great deal of government spending. That's the reason the free market does better in certain cases, it doesn't tolerate middlemen with no significant function (or overpriced function).

I'd like to have education be free for anyone that wants it well into the university level, but it's probably correct that having the government pass out checks isn't the right way to do it. But allowing it to be free market seems like it would exclude poor people from good opportunities, sacrificing them to improve it for the middle class.
This is exactly analogous to covering your eyes to make yourself invisible. Covering DoD's eyes will not make these revelations go away.
If there's any time to do it, it would be now while it's such a big issue.
This was my impression of him as well. I always thought he performed a uniquely valuable service both to anon and to those of us outside anon (and the media etc.).

It's sad to hear what all has happened to him. The way they treated his mother is especially shameful. Really this is just a very upsetting piece in general.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5955772
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> if ... you are caught with that material on your personal laptop, which you use to access DKO, you will be charged with a security violation

Yes, as is the same with all other classified information. How else should the government deal with it? De-classify the information? If you have a security clearance you should know that you should never have classified information on a un-classified computer system. There's nothing new about this.
Judge the article by itself, not by what else the site that has it might show

The quality of stories on the site are a very good indicator of the low editorial standards there.

Not to mention the obvious fact that you can find independent confirmations of the same story elsewhere.

No, it's all just reprints of the same RT article (and RT is well known for poor journalism). This is called churnalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism

The story itself is flawed because it misleads its readers. It doesn't include any fact-checking on California law, any link to the case, or any kind of meaningful context, like why the judge would have (correctly and appropriately) told Olson's attorney not to bring up the first amendment to the jury - because trial juries are finders of fact, not arbiters of law, and the first amendment does not confer a right to damage or destruction of other people's property, so it wasn't a valid defense.

We have a common law legal system in America. Legal questions are decided by judges (whose decisions can be appealed) and factual questions are decided by juries. A responsibly reported article would have explained why Olson's attorney had no business trying to make a first amendment argument to a jury: the law in America does not work that way, it has never worked that way, and Olson's lawyer could never have passed the bar if he actually thought it worked that way.

Like, you know, the "conspiracy theory" about Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide after facing a disgusting case of "prosecutorial discretion"?

Bullshit. He was facing a 6 month sentence, a very light penalty for actions that were obviously illegal and which he knew to be illegal. I don't know why Swartz killed himself and neither do you.

You want to a story about bad prosecutors and injustice? Try this one: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-571.ZO.html
All communists recognize personal property. Remember, communism is about communal ownership of the _means of production_, which is what 'private property' refers to. Nobody wants to share your toothbrush.
That's not how science works. Everything we "know" is a model, an approximation. Model that describes how the world works to some degree. Molecules aren't rigid balls but a model like that works on some scales. For protein folding atoms are considered rigid balls because the model works for what we need it.

All hypothesis are basically models. Later they are confirmed by experiment and they become a scientific theory. You can definitely draw conclusions from a model and then verify them with an experiment. Which is just what the Voyager is doing
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We should be doing this. The United States' organic law is based on natural rights. Defined as the innate right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our rights do not come from the Bill of Rights. If the US repealed or diminished the Fourth Amendment then we'd have the Right of Revolution to alter or abolish said government based on the organic law. (Many people will disagree with this saying the US organic law has no constitutional force.)

Every human being has the natural right to privacy regardless if they are a US citizen. It's sad and ironic that the US Government claims that foreigners have no natural rights. There should be a global agreement where countries respect the innate rights of all human beings and if not, are punished.

This is the worst aspect of globalization -- the refutation of "sacred and undeniable" rights.
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What conclusions have I made? Next time make a new post instead of editing your previous one.
V'ger made it out of Earth's orbit before we made it unsafe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris) and the rest of space is like driving from Calgary to Edmonton, but with more to look forward to.
But will all people who can be educated get education?
I was aware of this dichotomy when writing the post. And I find .NET stack much better than JVM stack.

In fact while I couldn't stomach working in Java I would be much more willing working with C#, not to mention other .NET citizens. But in general as a spectrum, the toolkits and libraries of .NET and Java share architectural and design patterns.

However the .NET stack does have built in languages (Javacript and F#) that can be used to glue together the rest of the system in a sane manner. The capability is there, however standard operating procedure is sadly still using shitload of XML's.
I would go so far as to say that no politician in Britain puts forward the case for Europe in these terms. Any pro European argues that it is in our economic interest, and mentions no other advantage. The reason for this is, they could not sell the idea that the European project is decreasing the chances of European war. Indeed, lately, as the popularity of the European project has been diminishing across Europe it looks increasingly as though the main beneficiary of the European project is Germany. Due to the Mediterranean countries keeping the Euro exchange rate low, Germany has benefited from selling it's cheap exports, for years and years. Now that the wheels have fallen off Greece and Spain and Ireland and Portugal those populations look to Germany with envy.

There is a British view, which I am unconvinced of, that the single currency, being done for political rather than economic reasons, has caused, and will continue to cause international European tension.

In short, Britain is not convinced of the economic case, it is not convinced of the moral case, it is not convinced of any benefit whatsoever.

If the Tories win power at the next election outright, which is possible, they have promised an in/out referendum on Europe. If that referendum takes place it is perfectly clear how Britain will vote, they will vote Out.

Then we will be living in interesting times.
There are non-refoulement[1] clauses in international refugee law that 181 countries around the world are bound to, I believe.

In previous cases[2] where people are deported whilst seeking asylum the UNHCR has said:

> UNHCR denounced the move as a violation of the "non-refoulement" policy that prohibits the forced return of asylum seekers to areas where they could face danger – a cornerstone of international refugee protection.

> "We cannot accept that these asylum seekers were deported without a chance to explain their case,"

In my opinion, for the rule of law to stand, the asylum process must conclude before he gets deported.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-refoulement
[2] http://www.unhcr.org/3fe98ef84.html
Richard Courant said it nicely in "What is mathematics?", my all time favourite book:

There seems to be a great danger in the prevailing overemphasis on the deductive-postulational character of mathematics. True, the element of constructive invention, of directing and motivating intuition, is apt to elude a simple philosophical formulation; but it remains the core of any mathematical achievement, even in the most abstract fields. If the crystallized deductive form is the goal, intuition and construction are at least the driving forces. A serious threat to the very life of science is implied in the assertion that mathematics is nothing but a system of conclusions drawn from definitions and postulates that must be consistent but otherwise may be created by the free will of the mathematician. If this description were accurate, mathematics could not attract any intelligent person. It would be a game with definitions, rules, and syllogisms, without motive or goal. The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic necessity, can the free mind achieve results of scientific value…To establish once again an organic union between pure and applied science and a sound balance between abstract generality and colourful individuality may well be the paramount task of mathematics in the immediate future.
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Or just send some pull requests!

I think the core of our protobuf library should support many different encoding formats. There is often no need to define and redfine types to support multiple wire formats: Protobuf, Thrift, Cap'n Proto, etc. One definition is enough for most.

https://github.com/alphaHeavy/protobuf
I'm pretty sure that this isn't the kind of mental framework most criminals use when deciding to commit crimes, but I'm no psychologist...
Documents are classified as "secret" to maintain control of who sees those documents. However, once they are available for view on the Guardian or other public sites, they are no longer secret, by definition, and thus should no longer classified as secret (because they are not).

Following that logic, why aren't leaked docs simply declassified? The cat is out of the bag...
Have been using DuckDuckGo for the last few days (because of the PRISM incident). I feel it just redirects the query to Bing and then displays the result. Can't take it seriously.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is huge - 2700 meters long and 250 meters high, with high winds and fog. That's a pretty large undertaking.
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Sony faces embarrassing breach of security, by unknown hacker who used Amazon’s EC2-Elastic Cloud Computing, service to obtain personal information of users. EC2 accounts need basic information like the company name, contact details and credit card information. Hackers used fictitious accounts, to hack into Sony PSN and obtain account information on around 100 million of its users.
Anyone used this and have a guess as to what's involved -- Bluetooth Low Energy? Geofencing? Ad-hoc/rendezvous over wifi? Ultrasonic acoustics?
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See also UWashington's 'WiSee':

http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/