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I hate working with people who send me a note after they've already sent me a meeting request, telling me that they saw an opening on my calendar and have set up an hour-long meeting with no agenda.

It's a weird combination of laziness and an unwillingness to use other tools (email, issue tracking, typing). If they just typed up an agenda (heck, Confluence has a template ready) we could probably wrap up the whole thing while I'm goofing around on HN.

Having to go through an EA/PA to schedule meetings is one of the best ways of exchanging money for time, plus you end up having one person who never makes you cringe, unless you start worrying that they're giving notice because they're starting their own company or moving across the country.
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Allow the voter access to an installer/reinstaller which you can check the md5 of?

I'm not a security expert, how effective could that be in providing this kind of verification?
Consulting everyone on every major decision isn't the best way to make decisions (who says the majority is right?). Most people wouldn't understand the issues they are voting on and would be heavily swayed by the media.
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I just took a look at Google Reader and the suggested alternatives are:

- Google Voice

- Google Contacts

- SugarSync

- Otixo

- Dropbox

Not very helpful.
NIO has significant impact on HTTP Servers not on stand alone single instance clients.

The only time you'd use a NIO client, is on a server - for example, when building a caching proxy server.

The expected benefits are higher throughput of the proxy (lower CPU/RAM consumption allows multiple clients to operate in parallel).

Individual downloads being faster was never expected to be a benefit
I think I start to get it, thank you.
So facebook basically replaces blogs/microblogging and photo sharing websites? i.e. blogs for the passive or peripheral involvement.
Regarding your second point, mailing lists and group emails combined with personal emails are a good medium of social interaction IMO.
Guess it's their property right. But is this a good thing for the web if more and more sites go down this road?

I don't think the web was built on these foundations, nor should it's future be either.
On the other hand, Mark Zuckerberg might've been told "we already have tonnes of social networks; MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, etc."

In my experience, people in a dream world usually are not very deterred by what other people tell them, anyway. It seems that they need to go through a series of realizations for themselves.
According to articles scooped up on Google Finance: "TECH STOCKS: AMD, Amazon, Microsoft Lead Tech Rally" and "Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) trading up"

We'll see if that changes, but I think the public has already moved on. The Zimmerman trial was a brilliant distraction.
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The international "no man's land" is more than just an airport terminal. You can take a bus to a hotel and still technically not be on russian soil.

Here is an article by a CNN reporter who checked it all out personally:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/russia-snowden-go...
I agree. sadly, i doubt that many people would care about privacy concerns.
Start with a neurologist, and not a psychiatrist.

While a psychiatrist can make the diagnosis, IME they're more likely to go after the secondary long-term effects as described above.
It's currently internal only, but hopefully I'll be able to release it to the public soon. I'm happy to correspond by email about it. How should I get in touch with you?
I agree with fauigerzigerk. I would say that email can, at this point, be used to "bump" stuff, to inform people, etc. without commitment or expectancy of an answer. At least, that's the way I use it.
Also read this:

http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/fast_iteration_ver...

Fast iteration wins. OpenStack is far ahead in this regard and only picking up speed.
Further, who has ever advocated for building desktop apps _without_ a framework? The comparison of client-side frameworks to server-side frameworks is the wrong comparison. If I'm going to build a sufficiently complex Mac app I'm going to use Cocoa, no question. If I just need to automate something and don't necessarily need a UI, I may look at AppleScript or even a simple shell script.

This is more of an apt comparison for web front ends. The choice of Backbone (or, in my case something that provides a little more value like Flight) vs. Ember/Angular is like choosing to build a CLI app vs. a full-on desktop app.

There are perfectly valid reasons for choosing either and in the right context, the right tool is worth its weight in gold.
Nice, I'm looking forward to USA's voting software landing on GitHub.
"now the police are charging him to cover their asses in case he becomes the next Dylan klebold. The constitution doesn't protect you from having to endure stupid shit like this and you're looking at history through rose colored glasses if you think small town Texas sheriffs ever stopped and said 'gee, this is a violation of this kid's first amendment rights.' "

Yes, the point of the Bill of Rights is to protect against exactly this sort of thing, to prevent the government from shutting people up. That it has happened before, especially based on race, doesn't at all make it right, ethical, or legal. The whole point here is that freedom of speech isn't fought at Michelangelo's David, its fought at Larry Flynt's Hustler.
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I think this is good advice with a very major footnote. You can't reach out to somebody the first time inquiring about introductions or jobs. That will piss them off and they will ignore you.

I had an acquaintance from college write me one day and ask me how I was. I wrote back to say hello, thinking he wanted to reconnect. In his next response he started asking me about connections for summer internships. I didn't respond. Not intentionally, just because I realized he was trying to leverage me for connections and I had no interest in talking further. In retrospect I could've been more helpful as I've been helped a number of times by people I did nothing for, but realize that most people don't like to feel used.

Of course you ultimately want to help yourself, but to be effective, you've got to start further upstream. Spend time getting to know the person, what their interests are, and see if you can first help them. Once their barrier is down they are going to be a lot more helpful.
Isn't this whole issue just a minor version of the problem Ruby has with monkeypatching? The fact that a Ruby guy can define `method_missing` to allow for bare strings shows how Ruby is cool (though you should never do that), but the fact that you can redefine `undefined` in JS shows how JS is stupid (despite the fact that you should never do that). I don't understand the dichotomy.
There are numerous cases just like this one going on around the country at the same time. This is not an isolated case, as such it is in fact a dire constitutional issue. Failure to properly defend against these trial balloons will see the definition of freedom of speech radically altered in the span of a single decade. Governments rarely give back ground that they take.
Since the Xbox camera is connected to the console via a cable, you can verify whether data going over the wire. If the Xbox is off, you shouldn't see traffic. It's a /bunch/ different from traffic in a data center, which is essentially untraceable and can be cloned at many points.

Frankly I'd be more concerned about the microphones contained in ubiquitous and nearly unexaminable devices such as cell phones, and to a lesser degree laptops. (I imagine that many laptop mics are USB devices, so their traffic should be visible to drivers, the drawback being that once the traffic is on the mainboard, where it goes is less traceable).
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Do you have any proof that DOM manipulation is slow? This is a common refrain that I've never seen proof of (other then anecdotally). There are folks saying that the DOM is fast, and how the JS we use to manipulate it is slow. http://blog.korynunn.com/javascript/the-dom-isnt-slow-you-ar...
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No, by the time MS acquired them they were already wiretappable (if this is an existing English word).
Probably because it only works well on Windows. I know there are ports to Unix but c'mon.
I think it's wrong to say Microsoft was "forced" into this. In a sense, they made their own bed. I have to believe that the majority of Microsoft's money is based off of serving governments and huge corporations (Windows + Office). It just makes sense that they'll want to keep those relationships.
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It would be great to have a utility that switch all the described modes automatically when docking/undocking happened
Well that puts their whole "We don't exploit your data like Google do" into perspective.
> I'd be really curious if there's actually something physiologically different between our brains?

I really, really doubt it.

Part of learning to do anything abstract is that eventually, the abstraction becomes real to you.

Money, musical notes, a "for loop", at some point, the abstraction becomes as real to you as a piece of wood you can knock on.

All human brains do this, all the time, for everything. I bet you don't know what the little sticky-up-pipe thing on the top of your house does, but plumbers do. It's a thing and it has a name.

It's hilarious to me to imagine that "online stuff" is special when the fact is that most people do not see the real world at all through the massive fog of abstractions we all live in.

Most people don't know where their water comes from or where their shit goes to either. Do we call them "on plumbing" or "off plumbing" people?

It's just practice, context, familiarity and importance.
an always on microphone, with fixed hardware and software, phoning home at regular intervals has a big target sign painted on it.
A similar service is Wuala (https://www.wuala.com/), which is owned by the French company LaCie.
They say your files are encrypted using AES-256 before they leave your system and the key stays with you. Apparently the only thing their employees see is the number of your files and their size.
Their servers are in Switzerland, France and Germany.
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I think this is a distinction borne of poor communication. I've never yet talked to a person over 60 who thinks recording their phone conversations is wise, let alone tracking their movements or assembling their social network. To them the technology is beside the point; focus on the outcomes -- the real information being collected.
I would learn Clojure. More and more major companies are picking it up and it seems to be a workhorse which you can use for a long time. It's mature, has advanced techniques for concurrency and is extremely flexible. It's made to stay.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think the idea is to force poor people to be detained. I think the purpose is to provide an incentive for the accused to show up to their court date. If the person posts the bail themselves, then they get the money back when they show up. If they use a bail bondsman, then a bounty hunter will track them down if they don't show up.
The NSA is probably looking into it right now...
All my other tools don't track everything I do with them, don't sell the information to advertisers, and don't spam me with dozens of emails.

I don't get why it's necessary to justify not using such a "tool".
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Not only that but you need to be physically present to take photos, that isn't the case where hacking is concerned.
I think Gladwell arguments about the "manner of speaking", not the language used. Some countries/cultures are way more deferent than others and view "powerful" people as someone to (almost) worship. Feeling confortable about saying "no" or disagreeing with those above you is tied to your cultural background, not the particular language you use.
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> I don't think Mir is worth the fragmentation it will create

"Fragmentation" is another name for "diversity". Diversity and selection are key factors for healthy evolution and a key advantage of open-source.
Where should this incentive come from?

There are lots of companies that simply sell you the serive and at the same time profiteering on your data.

Unless, of course, privacy is part of that service, but even then the company isn't trustworth unless it actively encourages use of end-to-end encryption wherever feasible.
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I don't think so. We just need a compelling human story to make the average person understand.

For example, "police militarisation" is a bit of an abstract idea, but once you start telling stories of how the police broke in and shot the 8-year old labrador who was sleeping on the couch, everyone gets it.
And contrary to the OP, these results don't demonstrate a reversal of the predictors (i.e., that actually being a Democrat predicts voting for the Civil Rights Act and vice versa), but rather than we're possibly using the wrong predictors.

That is, rather than demonstrating that there is a different correlation between party and vote, it demonstrates that there is a (stronger) correlation between geography and vote.
It appears that MicroSoft is actively helping the NSA, rather than just passively responding to requests for data. This is cause for some significant concern.

This concern is particularly relevant if the scope of NSA activities extends beyond counter-terrorism to the support and furtherance of American commercial interests. I.e. industrial espionage.

This does not seem too unreasonable a supposition given the history of the US security services.

It seems that, rationally, transitioning away from MS software should now be considered a priority for any non-US business in active competition against a US exporter.

At the very least, business leaders should carefully consider the consequences before storing or transmitting business-critical information using a device that has been exposed to potentially compromised software.
I find it interesting that no USA-based news source is covering this.
For all you know they've built (or something else equally advanced) already. Which would make claims that they're storing everything pretty believable.
> Also, the korean culturalism developed when the overly formal/seniority centric cockpit of Korean Airlines was identified as a key contributor to a poor safety record with some korean airlines.

identified by whom? with what credibility? The whole point of the article is refuting that hypothesis. You've done nothing but restate that thought, without adding any more weight to it.
I find it disconcerting that a significant portion of those invited are simply "too busy" to attend. Wouldn't you WANT human rights activists to stir trouble instead of avoiding it?
I use Hushmail and I like it. I have also had good experiences with Fastmail.
I think they have actual photos. Only, the government hides them from us... maybe the alien overlords don't want to reveal themselves yet?
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Online people are not "open about some parts of their life voluntarily in ways that the offline-borns wouldn’t". Given how Facebook and such services work, they're being open about everything they do online with service providers which (they hope) will only divulge what they choose to the people that they choose.

The online generation, technically speaking, is giving away their private information to third parties which (in their TOS) state that they take no responsibility for it, make no guarantees about privacy, and will comply with government requests if they believe it is in their best interests. The problem isn't that governments can require service providers to hand over the data, as many of those service providers are usually very happy to comply. The problem is that we are using services implemented in a way which does not conform to our expectations.

Chatting online with end-to-end encryption and trustworthy software and hardware is reasonably analogous to chatting in real life: you are communicating with the individual identified by the key, whom you trust not to share your conversation with the world. Chatting on Facebook has nothing to do with this: you're chatting with a third party that you assume is relaying the messages to someone you assume is the person you want to talk to.
Does it? This isn't Microsoft exploiting data for their own benefit, not comparable. (Not that I like MS sharing the data)
Going off at a tangent slightly, but what would happen if I dropped, say, 1kg steel weight on to the surface of a gas giant? Does it sink to the core? Or close to the core and then melt due to temperature and pressure?
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I am not on Facebook because I feel that they are an untrustworthy company. That said, if I felt I needed it, I would have to set up a web browser dedicated to it, or always be in Incognito mode while using it.
Bump on the complexity. I've been trying to learn Angular for months and I still don't think I am comfortable with it. The tutorials out there focus too much on basics. I found an early video on Youtube that described some of its internals (e.g. parsing your HTML/DOM), which helped.

I started looking into Backbone yesterday and found the initial curve to be so much better. There is no mystery in my mind on how to set up a basic model on top of a resty service and putting views and collections on top. I'm currently trying to decide if I should switch over to Backbone as I learn. I do realize there is a lot more code to write if I go the Backbone route. I think I can live without two-way data binding. However, I think will miss directives.
I'd never heard of Big O until this thread, but from what I can tell it'll only be when a solution is in the O(logn) that "running time will get less significant as n gets larger". This is simply the way you describe logarithmic growth, so maybe that's where you got confused. Also, wouldn't it be fair to say that a logarithm (nlogn) is a lower order term than mn? In which case your definition stands.

At any rate, I wanted to test this out, so I made a naive benchmark for running these functions. The dict solution was ten times faster (0.0011s vs 0.015s) than the list version with ~1350 words. The dict solution ran in 0.13s at ~162,000 words, while I waited a couple minutes before killing the list version on that input.
In a nutshell, the problem is that you can't really release the company you're investing in from potential liability from you not being accredited. If you decide after you invest that they ripped you off, you may be able to sue both the company and some of individuals involved, or they may be criminally liable for the manner in which they sold securities.

However, there are some situations in state and federal law where being a "sophisticated investor" with knowledge of the markets and the industry allows you to invest.

P.S. I am not a lawyer and this is only my understanding of the situation.
I was referring to Richard Feyman (not Newton, but still a great influential physicist). Unfortunately, I can't reproduce his exact words from my mind.
Drastic changes in technology happen all the time. It's not that simple to go from space travel where we could visit the moon to hyperspace one where we could reach the stars. It would take some centuries to get there and not because we're lazy or incompetent. Science has made tremendous achievements in the last 50 years. Transportation issues are not the only problem for interstellar travel, you'd also have to solve problems regarding logistics, life support systems, resources, time dilation and a few dozen more.

Even if we never manage to get past the limit of speed of light eventually we will reach out and populate other planets, even if we have to terraform them before. But our destiny lies on the stars. For all that matters let's be grateful of what we've achieved so far. In just fifty years of space exploration we've already managed to land a car on Mars and we've send some probes at the limits of our solar system. Fifty years from now we could already have a self-sustained colony on Mars or the Moon. This is huge by any measure.
"It doesn't do anything to justify the assumption that online-born people value privacy and offline-born people don't"

I think you misunderstood, and that his point is that offline-born do not understand and value privacy online. He backs it up, kind of, with the statements he then goes on to discuss.
Some citations regarding cockpit culture issues - I recall reading about them before Gladwell's book. Gladwell just put his own (somewhat hyperbolic) twist on them.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/26/business/new-standards-mea...

Here is an excellent article on the safety issues with Korean Airlines in the 1990s - much of it, btw, conflicting with the OP's description.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB933090613281869060-search.ht...
Depressing thread this....

I think this thread demonstrates why the privacy issues with the likes of google, facebook, etc are pretty much vapor complaints. Essentially, people are happy in the end to sacrifice privacy for convenience. With that mind set, we can easily see why no one really cares about NSA slurping. As far as they are concerned, all the NSA has is what facebook, gmail etc, have. So, what is the problem exactly? And you know what, I can understand the point. I disagree, but equally, I understand.

Having read about how people won't move form FB because it easy to stay there, since their "friends" are there, I now realize most people really are not committed to privacy while it means some sort of inconvenience. There is even a reply here where a friend who wont use facebook is referred to as an "outcast"... Understandable, but also says it all.

Depressing.
Then I start thinking about when Microsoft were being dragged through the competition and monopolies commission in the US, was this the US Government showing Microsoft what would happen if they didn't cooperate.