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Obviously not. If they had left the space alone it would be fine now. Instead they "googled" it: came in and undercut everyone else, got a monopoly or near-monopoly position in the space and just canned the product. It would be like Walmart coming to your 2k-person town, opening a super center and then closing it down a few weeks after the last mom-n-pop owners shut down and moved away.
Guardian is doing pretty good live reporting on this fascinating story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...
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That finding might be quite interesting and all... but I'm thoroughly confused about that guy always quoting power consumption in mAh (which is the unit for electrica charge).

I'd also check if that guy's dropbox daemon(s) are stuck in an obvious loop. I'm logged on in my private server, and when it's idle there's hardly any activity on the dropbox threads, the main CPU consumer is one servicing what I suspect to be the main select() loop. And that thread basically stat()ing the .dropbox/config.dbx file every 2 seconds, and reads 16 bytes out of it. That should hardly be measureable in terms of power consumptions on a modern CPU.
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At this point one has to ask the question: who's afraid of the big, bad USA? And the answer more and more seems to be "Everybody".

From Putin emphasising that Snowden stops hurting "Our friends the Americans", to the whole of Western Europe succumbing to their outrageous demands, not to mention the reversal of Ecuadorian President's change of stance after a talk with Biden.

Is this the States showing off it's true colours or is it the administration failing badly at handling this embarrassing situation? I honestly hope it's the latter.
Well, yes, but if you read the result of his tests even with syncing turned off Dropbox is still eating about 500 mAh.

And that is, I would say, rather strange.
Apparently our license fee means we are entitled to not view the content.

Does that mean if I abstain from paying the fee I can view it?
i'm also willing to bet that not a single CL user would understand why CL claims ownership on their ad content, when the user themselves are the ones publishing it elsewhere.

on a sidenote, the fact that the legal system makes it so expensive to defend themselves that they prefer to just obey really means the rich always get justice on their side. it's a really big issue. i wonder why there isn't any start up that tries to address it.
"Perhaps there were high, hidden costs in maintaining such a large feed database that would mean that a comparable revenue stream from Reader would not pay for itself nearly as much as GMail does."

For search, they already scrape the entire web, including RSS feeds.
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Visual Studio does have quite a few improvements, specially in what concerns debugging asynchronous code and DirectX.

Unity is now a first class citizen for development of games on Windows.

Windows 8.1 brings quite a few new APIs, better interaction with .NET projections.

JIT, GC and ASP.NET improvements.

The message is, they could have thrown a RSS Reader attitude to .NET, instead they are paying developers to fix those issues.

As for paying for stuff, welcome to the commercial world. Microsoft is not the only vendor selling developer tools, although it looks like that when reading HN.

With MSDN subscriptions you get lots of those things for "free" for the timeframe the subscription is valid.
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Why you need communication skills to get an investment?
I don't really have that. I only imagine vibrations when I'm sitting on a bike and the brakes or whatever vibrate the whole bike but I guess that doesn't count...
It wasn't a 'huge diplomatic incident' - it didn't really impact UK/Russian relations in any meaningful or long term way. It was nowhere on the scale of, say, Litvinenko, which did have diplomatic consequences.

Countries like to crow when they come across potentially rather inept attempts at espionage, but there's no real diplomatic issues raised since everyone expects espionage to be happening. It's PR more than anything else.
Agreements between these countries exists to allow them to call on the other signatories to deny specific planes airspace. Portugal could ask the USA to deny a specific plane airspace into the USA, if it felt so inclined.

I doubt this is pressure, but rather standard diplomatic channels.
No, they are probably using evanescent wave technology. Fiber optics works by reflecting the light down a channel - when light hits an interface between media with two different speed of lights, there is a reflective component and a refractive component. If you solve snell's law for a very shallow beam hitting a less dense media, you get an imaginary value for the angle of the refractive component. One way to interpret this is that zero of the light energy is reflected. But if you solve a wave function cos(x) with an complex value x, that is equivalent to a function with a complex exponential, potentially with nonzero, real preexponential.

That is what an evanescent wave is. There is light that decays exponentially "bleeding" off the reflective surface[1]. The snell's law solution is sort of a hack, what is really going on has to do with the quantum wavefunction of the photon ensembles, but the result is the same.

Biologists use evanescent waves to do microscopy - you can illuminate an area of low density underneath your coverslip, and effectively a very very thin layer of flourescence is illuminated right above the coverslip.

It would seem reasonable that the NSA would use exactly this technology to tap fiber optic cables without splicing them, and it should be nearly undetectable. There will be a nonzero loss of photons if you tap it, but it should be relatively negligible.

[1]note - the photonic energy is just 'there' as in the wavefunction has nonzero amplitude in that spatial region. It's 'bleeding' into the space outside of the fiber optic channel, but it's not actually bleeding energy, there is no energy loss from this 'spatial bleeding', unless there is something in that zone that is capable of absorbing that photonic energy.
git repo outside of dropbox to store code and changes, but use dropbox to share project files like docs etc. Works well.
>Please reference an example of a 99/1 splitter existing and usable on an optical line system.

http://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=171...

>You can't get a usable signal from 1% of the light. The levels you would need to split off would be entirely noticeable.

http://www.perkinelmer.com/CMSResources/Images/44-12462DTS_S...

Obviously, you'd need something faster. However, 1% of a microwatt is more than detectors like this need to get damned good signal. In fact, it might be enough to burn it out. If you have good control over the fusing process, splitting off much less than 1% would probably be preferable.

>This is not possible to do on a live system without it being service affecting.

Why not? The only impact on the fiber being tapped would be a brief period of heating and a temporary change in refractive index over, perhaps, a couple cm of fiber.
i've often noticed that many people claiming to be communist simply have an unhealthy love/hate relationship with money.
That's the problem with open standards, isn't it? (obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/927/)
Wait, an article on the BBC website that can't be viewed in the UK?
imagine the chinese would force Obama to land in Bolivia because they think he is carrying Ai Weiwei.
Moral of the story: before you shut down a service, run it by the PR department first.
Bring back embedding folders in folders in the bookmarks (Speed Dial) and it's a winner.
I was an Opera user for years but moved to Chrome when the odd site would break now and then.

I'd love to go back to Opera, I'm actually quite a fan of the new v15 but the lack of folders in folders in bookmarks is a dealbreaker for me.
'No shit, Sherlock' is a generic snarky expression that means 'you are stating the obvious' and only has something to do with what the fictional character did in the books in the etymological sense.
no it doesn't remove any security, but why implement a feature that doesn't add anything?
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I had this happen in the past too and found it to be the result of two issues:

1) Using dropbox to house a very large git repo with massive changes and tons of branches... Every time I switched branches, the hundreds of files would change and obviously kick off a major sync job.

2) There were a few files in a folder than had the owner set to the wrong owner and Dropbox couldn't get permission to access them. This caused it to get stuck in a loop trying to sync those files and Dropbox ended up running my CPU up to over 100% load.

Fix those issues and you shouldn't see it causing any more problems with your battery life.
To follow your parallel, let's imagine it's not the plane of the Bolivian President, but say, Airforce One, flying over South America with Barack Obama on board towards Washington. Let's say Spain has suspicion that someone that broke Spanish law is on board.

Please, honestly, tell me you believe that The President's plane would be grounded?
> We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee.

seriously?
Can't anyone build an alternative to craigslist? It may not get as famous but if it actually stood for the openness described in that article it would be a hit with most of us at least.
This sort of thing is actually one of the reasons the public stock markets bother me. I do, in fact, believe that someone who has an ownership interest in a corporation should be privy to such information (and much more).

That said, it's up to the shareholders of a company whether they will force the company to release the information, and I can't blame them for choosing not to widely disseminate information that could be useful to competitors. I can blame them for being shareholders in companies with such fractured ownership, but I must blame myself, as well, for I also own stock in such companies.

In this case, however, there is no direct competition, and the "shareholders" of the public sector have wisely decided that they shall have access to this information.
What in the email seemed "paranoid" to you?

may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news-gathering practices or related journalism issues.

"Obviously I'm not saying that's the case,"

Even saying it's likely takes sheer powers of rationalization I can't even fathom. And bringing up just that is what it is. This is like saying "no offense, but" and then saying something offensive.
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If Google want us to move from Reader to Google+, why are they not pushing it as a replacement? Do they think RSS users are a lost cause?
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I have a cron script running on my MacBook to make sure the Dropbox client priority is always set to 20 (lowest). I also pause the client manually when moving to battery power. I really wish there was a better solution, like switching to a similar service that offers decent (or at least acceptable) software, but almost everyone else uses the same setup with terrible 'universal' Java/Python/etc-based clients that absolutely suck at synchronizing large amounts of data.
Snowden should just live in the airport and continue his work.

I'm certain people would take care of him financially.

Not that I want him to be trapped but he seems more free there in the sense that he can write what he wants.
Some types of optical amplifiers are vulnerable to side channel attacks, so they might be a weak point. However, they're also probably under more scrutiny from both maintenance and security people.
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A. get a texture pack. I'm sure many people love the ASCII, but actually seeing dwarf and goblin icons removed one more thing for me to learn at the beginning.

B. download Dwarf Therapist. It's a great external UI for managing the roles of your dwarves.

C. don't be afraid to fail, because you will. Often.

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Hey, NodeJS with MongoDB are a combokill combination.
Ok, but say we use vanilla Python WSGI with a psycopg2 (C Python PostgreSQL extension) directly. Will this come close to the performance of the C++ framework thing?
Ironically, probably because servers were returning broken pages, because user agent strings are overloaded.
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That tells a lot about all these European countries that are just puppets of the US government,especially France where I come from... Maybe we should stop the hypocrisy and let Washington govern us directly, we could save a lot of money this way.
And the ability to actually kill someone you don't like and not go to jail (though you could lose your job) is quite a perk as well.
Isn't tumblr the long-form twitter? Real names gives G+ a very different tone.
Fundamentally different from other scraping sites. This is a client-side browser extension to extract your own content that you posted. I haven't read the TOS but users should retain ownership of their own content (as in, it's a good business practice that endears users). Petty move on the part of Craigslist.

Really patronizing tone though and I bet that will backfire on them.
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Sounds like they have legit grievances then.
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The article reads as if RSS itself was dead. Come on guys, I know many of you loved Google Reader, but it was just a damn client for RSS. There are millions of RSS clients out there. Just use another one.

The article got that ass backward. With Google Reader, you were locked in Google's ecosystem. Without Google Reader, you are free to use whatever RSS client you can find.

I think the role of Google Reader for RSS is truly overrated but please show me how I'm wrong.
Not nearly as common as retaliation from companies to unions. Ask Florida Daisy employees.
> Using dropbox to house a very large git repo with massive changes and tons of branches... Every time I switched branches, the hundreds of files would change and obviously kick off a major sync job.

I really have to say honestly: no shit. Sorry if i sound crass but really? When you use an arbitrary piece of software to automatically modify 100s of files the piece of software designed to detect that exact event has do do work and you are complaining? The mind boggles
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The thing that really freaks me out about this is when it happens and my phone isn't even in my pocket! I do get these phantom vibrations remarkably frequently though, having had a vibrate-capable phone in my front right pocket for at least 8 years continuously (in daytime).
Try this: separate out the git directory from the working directory so that the working directory is not in dropbox but the git directory is. That might solve some of your problems.

E.g.: git --git-dir=/home/me/dropbox/git/proj --work-tree=/home/me/proj init
We're on the same page. Honestly I'm not even that upset about Reader, I mean it's hardly a surprise.

I looked it up and they announced the motto with the IPO in 2004. Sometimes I think I compare their actions now to my expectations of the pre-IPO company; it doesn't really make sense.
I was not even aware that site exists. Pretty fascinating stuff, thx for posting.

I'm surprised Poland let him pass if Snowden was really supposed to be on board. US-Polish relations are generally pretty good.

Russia->South America without clashing with the US seems like an interesting problem. If Italy,France,Spain,Portugal is blocked you pretty much have to take a giant detour, go through Africa or try flying out east of Russia (which immediately puts you close to the US). Probably have to go on a very southeast route right away...which basically means he might have been better off going Hong Kong->Ecuador if he could have negotiated that option sooner
One solution to the whole "storing source in dropbox" problem that I liked to use previously (using bitbucket now instead) is just to have a bare git repo in dropbox + the real checkout somewhere else and just push commits to the bare dropbox repo whenever I'm about to switch machine. Could even be set up to happen more automagically since the repo isn't shared.

Syncing binaries (I mainly work in C#) and lots of small changes seems silly to me.
I think searching a government / diplomatic plane isn't allowed.
Or put gitlab on some VPS you own.
Did the US just facilitate Snowden's asylum? They seem to be locked in eternal overreach.
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Would checking the value of
[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier]
with a hardcoded value help?

It would be a bit more code, but just a few lines of verification code when the application launches and the app can refuse to start up if the value doesn't match.

Someone dedicated would still be able to crack it, but it would at least require some effort on the part of the fraudster
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Doesn't seem to happen with the latest self-updated version of dropbox and 10.8.4 to such an extreme, on a retina MBP. I get 15 extra minutes.
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As funny as that would be, I'd doubt it. Though in particular because I doubt Spain would risk calling for the closing of airspaces for Air Force One in the first place, because it would eventually mean Spain would have to face a massive diplomatic incident between them and the USA, and possibly wouldn't risk it.

It's ridiculous if the USA does not have to apologise following this incident.
"Don't get 140 characters" . . . congratulations! That's glib and dismissive.

The G+ posts are basically blog posts that are in Google's walled garden. Not much unlike Twitter or Facebook. You have the power to say what you want. For now. As long as you use their systems. And don't expect to own your data or your own online presence.

Regardless of how you separate all the food on your own personal plate so that it never touches, the problem is the proprietary lunch trays. Not everyone likes those.

I feel like Richard Stallman at lunchtime.
Does the page have adverts? That would probably be against the rules to show to people in the UK.

The real flaw is not having a redirect/transparently rendering the ad-free page.
re: "did Bolivia help spread this rumour"

No sane state president would risk his own flight safety "to test what would happen."

They president, the delegation and the crew now unnecessarily spent the whole night at the airport for chrissake!
Could he take a more circuitous route, through Russian territory up to the Far East and then across the Pacific to some friendly South American country?
Well, it's on the coat of arms. I suspect if you asked the average Scot what the national animal was they'd say Golden Eagle or Stag.
Don't use dropbox to solve a solved problem: git backups should go to another git "server" (like bitbucket or github)

But yes, the dropbox client devs should go through these bugs and hopefully fix them
"There have been a few articles that highlight the difficulty of the game but that is only in comparison to modern console games targeted at soda guzzling teens with a one second attention span"

No. Your assertion is that the only likely improvement to the UI would be a simple gamepad-mashing interface. DF is difficult even compared to programs with a complicated UI and games with a "normal" steep learning curve. Not wanting to battle through an insane UI does not equate one to a "soda guzzling teen".
It is a huge leap from the revelations of late and a world where the government goes around killing journalists.

Well, there was Putin being all concerned about Snowden hurting his American friends, so there's that :P

Seriously though, the US government killed plenty more people for minding them a lot less. So where exactly does this huge leap come into play? That it would be hard to do? Why, just look at what random comment is floating atop this discussion, completely unfounded speculation about drug abuse or nervous breakdowns, with zero argument for them given, except that it's technically possible, however unlikely.

Are you denying that it's "technically possible" that the US government "goes around killing journalists" (which is NOT what the comment you replied to said by the way, that's all yours), however unlikely? If not, why not react with the same rigour to the original comment?

This is all kinda disgusting. Yes, we don't know either way, and maybe it's pointless to speculate. But if it's okay to speculate some utter bullshit like the top comment, then it's allowed to point something out in response without that being utterly twisted into something childish, and then being patronizing about your own fucking strawman.
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The claimef violations of self evident "truths" in the declaration of independence include the right to commit genocide of the native population:

"
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Britain wasn't allowing the colonies to expand westward, and the Patriots were pissed.
Tell that to Spain:

"9.27am BST Morales said he refused a request by the Spanish authorities to inspect his plane in Vienna and has not been granted permission to use Spanish airspace, according to Reuters."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...