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I typically am more direct re: 1) and it's worked well so far: "Let me give that a bit of thought."

Yes, it's followed by silence - but the only person who will be uncomfortable with that is you, if you let yourself be. Personally I'm using that silence to actually think about the question, so there's no discomfort or awkwardness.
One of the characters in the sci-fi show Crusade was a pickpocket, and her first scene demonstrated her prowess...I'm thinking she was supposed to be mostly likeable.
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> I would be more worried that someone would kill me in order to get the documents released

The unstated assumption is that these documents would be particularly interesting to foreign governments. That's probably wrong.

What we've seen so far is merely evidence of actions that were long assumed to be taking place anyway. Other governments likely have their own evidence already.

These documents are important to the public, but they're of minimal value to an enemy. His intent was never malicious, so it's extremely unlikely that he's carrying the names of agents or other sensitive information of that sort.
I would argue that confirmation of the shape in 1G has some actual value.

Sometimes "silly" experiments can have value. I chatted with a physic prof once who said the very first experiment he did after gaining tenure was to investigate the isotropy of the universe in particle accelerator experiments -- in other words, do the laws of physic work the same way when the accelerator is pointed one direction, relative to distant stars, as any other.

Obviously, the likely result would be nada.

However, if he found something, it would be two possible things:
(1) He was going to earn an instant Noble prize, or
(2) There was a potential subtle systematic design error particle physicists had overlooked -- knowing how to look for this error and/or correct for it could have value.

#2 was more likely. But why not?
Well, it looks like we have at least one Chemist pitching in (no pun intended). Time to learn a thing or two. Chemistry is one of those things I wish I had devote more time to in school. Lot's of physics and math but never dove deep into chemistry beyond what was absolutely required.
The major networks pay a price for broadcast rights that is greater than what they make in just advertising during those events

...and when the major networks can no longer afford those fees, the prices will drop. It's a market, and if ESPN loses a ton of money at the same time as every other purchaser does, the leagues are going to have to change their fee models or find themselves with no coverage.
The author appears to have confused group velocity (the speed of the wave) with particle velocity (the speed of the air molecules). This is a very basic notion of how waves work -- the waves move, not the medium.

In this case, the wave (and the vehicle) would be moving at the speed of sound, but the air particles they hit wouldn't. They're basically still stationary. There is no magical force to bring them up to the speed of sound before they hit the vehicle. Hence, the drag is not reduced.

I'm a physicist, but by no means an expert on sound. There are more details on how sound actually works on this page: http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/waves/soundwav.htm. A relevant quote: "v [the particle velocity] is much less than the phase [wave] velocity of sound" (note: phase and group velocity are equal for sound in air).

Edit: This criticism is not right; see below.
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Chicago does Segway tours through the city.
Pickpocketing is wrong, but if you can't see the difference with child molestation, then you seriously have no idea about the consequences of the latter.
How can the end-user then replace the executable on their iOS device ? That is the problem.
Darn. That's the only reason I would want one...

Why would anyone want to wear glasses to see text-messages instantly?

I use to be a glass enthusiast, but this single limitation is discouraging.
What makes you think Europe has avoided the issue? They are having drug shortage problems of their own.

http://www.policymed.com/2013/02/the-european-medicines-agen...

This has nothing to do with the reimbursement system at all. Drug shortages are on the manufacturing side.
This isn't a VLC solution per se but it did solve my issue of getting files onto an iPad as I don't use spyTunes:

http://www.digidna.net/diskaid
I typically respond fairly abruptly, asking where specifically they got my contact details.

If they respond nicely, and with a plausible explaination I'll generally thank for them for their interest, but tell them I'm not interested and have a nice day.

If they're hostile about it/obviously lie I'll typically blackhole them and mark as spam/internally subscribe them to my "people I will personally ruin when I'm godking of this domain" list.
From the Wired article:

"But Snowden’s case is actually a kind of reverse dead man’s switch, says John Prados, senior research fellow for the National Security Archive and author of several books on secret wars of the CIA. [...] “In the dead man switch, my positive control is necessary in order to prevent the eventuality [of an explosion],” Prados said. “In Snowden’s information strategy, he distributed sets of the information in such a fashion that if he is taken, then other people will move to release information. In other words, his positive control of the system is not required to make the eventuality happen. In fact, it’s his negative control that applies."

I'm really surprised it was implemented like that, I think using an actual, digital "dead man's switch" would have made more sense. Why not have 100 servers around the world running jobs to email out documents to 100 journalists at all times if an env variable isn't reset every few weeks? Then if he disappears or is killed, a few weeks later the jobs complete and email out the information?
Makes the "USS Jimmy Carter" a rather ironic name for the submarine, given its mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_%28SSN-23%29
The War of 1812 was not a shining example of American military power...

The more patriotic among us refer to it as, "The Whitehouse Renovation Project of 1812".
I have. But I don't consider this the optimal solution to the problem.
I have an associate who's big into these competitions. I've never checked one out, a mutual friend did though. He said it freaked him out, that the force of sound was so powerful he felt like he couldn't breath.
Every article arguing against unbundling premium channels misses the point that people who don't want these channels will soon unbundle everything else. Without subsidization ESPN and AMC will be expensive, but it's silly to pretend there is a choice here.
This is not free, is it? There's a price list at http://blog.uber.com/2013/07/17/ubericecream/
I could use this for Rails projects, yes?
I'm very curious as to how this works at a basic level. Perhaps a 'positive-control' system in which he has to send a signal to some clandestine web service every 24 hours to prevent the keys from being released? Does he have an Arduino board strapped to his chest detecting his pulse? Or has he simply entrusted some mechanism to somebody else, who can determine whether the keys should be released depending on the nuances of the situation in which he is harmed/killed?
I wish somebody would combine these into the official Angular docs. Those are dreadful for beginners.
I am not wrong. You are obviously right that it is not a 4:3 pan & scan: it is a 16:9 pan & scan. Which is not rare. These are commonly generated for airing on HDTV channels, and are likely one of the few HD versions of the movie that the studio has lying around already.
I can't speak to Rx, but I use LINQ to objects and LINQ to XML frequently. Async/await is also supported in mono 3 and is in beta for the Xamarin tools.
And we totally had a functioning democracy when nixon 'temporarily' turned the US dollar into fiat currency... so we can finance the perpetual wars, and vastly enrich the elite...

(Actually, I'm pretty sure democracy WAS functioning quite well in that instance. democracy is inherently unstable, per Aristotle)

I'm getting to really, really dislike even seeing or hearing the word 'democracy'. No coincidence, it's one of dubya's and bummer's favorite words.
Looking for a poll, anyone think webscraping is the same thing as hacking?
Is here a big difference to http://www.freebase.com? Has maybe anyone worked with both of them?
Because unlike the places where Snowden was, Yemen is a barely functioning nation state? He was on the Yemeni government's most wanted list but was hiding in regions the government had little control over.

The places where we're conducting drone strikes are beyond the wild west. My dad was in Yemen when the Yemeni civil war broke out, and his hotel in the capital was shelled when fighting reached the city (he was ultimately evacuated with the other U.S. citizens by the U.S. military). The civil war is long over but the government has never been anything other than precarious, and the tribes have tremendous political power. One of the things Al Awlaki did was offer the protection of his powerful tribe to Al Qaeda officials against the Yemeni government.
Who cares? Life in America is great at the moment. It was great yesterday and it'll be great tomorrow. Carter is living a nice comfortable life. So can you.

How is life outside America? It's either the same or not as good. Count your blessings. Americans have it good. Land of milk and honey. Take a deep breath and breathe that glorious American air. Freedom! Love it, live it!
Given his current circumstances, it's probably better that the system run automatically without his intervention.

What if Putin decides to cut the wifi at Moscow airport? Is that an 'apocalypse' situation or not?
> Third-party cookies are an essential part of the Internet content supply chain

That's funny. Almost hilarious.
I use AdBlock Plus all the time and have not noticed anything wrong with my content supply.
Will that plugin then by default cover their other editors as well?
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I get the feeling that the point is being missed here.
Here's an fascinating article from Jan 2013 in The New Yorker about Apollo Robbins, someone for whom Pickpocketing is very much still alive. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_...
I would not mock you, that is a perfectly reasonable way to dress either way :). As long as something is over your giblets.
I know that I personally am much stronger with algebraic math than geometrical math. For me, that means that integrals, linear algebra, etc are something that I'm strong at, but I'm poor at anything that requires spatial reasoning.

That's different from your two types. For example, take your "calculating the intersection of planes." I would approach that by first writing the algebraic equations that define the two planes, then trying to find the manipulation that will let me solve for the intersection. Someone who is a geometric thinker might start by plotting the two planes, and reasoning spatially.

So, that distinction is wholly separate from your algorithmic/abstract distinction, and to me, is a distinction within the abstract realm.
As dumb as it sounds, these masters that were made for DVD are oftentimes standard definition.
Glad to see more people experimenting in this space!

Currently I'm using sqwiggle + screenhero and it'd be killer if they could somehow have a baby together.

Screenhero allows me to share my emacs (or any window). Works like a charm.
Cool, thanks. How can I sign up for notification of that feature being implemented?
I would say that it depends on humidity. If humidity is high then sweating stops working. If it's low, you want as much water evaporating off of you as possible.

Low humidity is so much better when you are living in a house with no AC. A good spray-bottle with water and a fan can keep you reasonably comfortable. Even better if you can rig up a proper swamp-cooler with a continuous spray.

Unfortunately summers in Philadelphia are too humid for swamp-coolers to work great, and in Seattle summers it doesn't work at all (there is no AC in Seattle, even though the city desperately needs it for almost two months out of the year. People will tell you it is only too hot in Seattle for 1 week out of the year... they are lying or crazy. Perhaps natives simply don't understand what it can be like to actually sleep in a cool room during the summer...)

I once spent a summer in a house with no AC in Atlanta. I honestly do not understand how areas like that ever became populated before the advent of AC in the first place.
It's not too much. This is exactly the sort of thing that concepts are designed to be. Kudos.
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My understanding is that a lot of the energy used to get to space these days is to get through the lower atmosphere. The idea of a space plane is to fly higher to the thinner atmosphere and then begin the ascent to space, avoiding the energy loss used burning through the entire troposphere. If you can fly to 5-6km you just took off a significant amount of total energy cost. Then you crank these babies up and fly to mach 5 and launch your payload or maybe the craft itself using rockets. Because you already got 1700 m/s already to start with.

And to answer the obvious question yes I have been playing entirely too much Kerbal Space Program.
>The Kiss concert in Ottawa was, says David, "17,000 times louder and ten trillion times more powerful than a heartbeat."

Can anybody convert this to libraries of congress for me? Or perhaps elephants standing on a postage stamp?
We use Floobits a few times a week to pair and it's incredible.
If there were a 100% effective vaccine against lyme's, I'd still check myself for ticks at the end of the day, and remove (and incinerate) any that I found. Ticks are nasty, whether or not they can give you diseases.
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Schneier has an excellent point there. Right now Snowden is in the eyes and minds of a lot of somewhat concerned and maybe even angry people. If he'd encounter and unexpected sudden end to his life, he'd become the modern equivalent to a martyr. From the standpoint of his adversaries this would probably be much less than desirable as it would turn up the heat even more than it is already, documents or no documents. In fact, he'd probably have much less facetime on the news if they'd just let him be in the first place. Almost makes me wonder what else is going on that's not in the news so much right now?
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My first thought when I saw that headline:

Prejudice
Because you're supposed to use all the things on every page you ever build using this, right?

I'm shocked you were able to see this in Lynx. Who needs the web gussied up with photos and colors?
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The US government is not monolithic. It's not difficult to imagine that factions or individuals within the intelligence community could act in certain circumstances without official sanction.
Why not a Google alert on "snowden arrested", "snowden killed", etc etc?
One reason could be to scare future whistleblowers "Leak government information - you're dead to us. Literally."

Of course doing it now would be incredibly stupid of the US government, as everyone will point to them, but then again they've already done some incredibly stupid things, so who knows.
Actually many users do want immediate gratification. Don't want to wait for the media get transferred to the device and play. Also there is an issue of storing large file in your mobile device and delete it afterwards.

I am a Tonido user. I am not affiliated with them anyway
We are really struggling under the load right now. Also, i noticed that you are using Vim? We have echo loop detection in Sublime, but haven't ported over that logic yet.
Voice-only is the hardest HCI problem left.

Wouldn't the hardest HCI problem be a direct cortical interface?
You don't need to remap or buy a new mouse, ctrl+click opens in a new tab as well.
The damaged nerves in the ears do not heal.
Yep, this is why I'm against min wage. When I used to pick Mexican guys up as a landscraper in college, they wouldn't even get in the truck for less than $14 per hour.

People think that employers would take advantage of workers without min wage, and it's just not true (most of the time). In fact, the min wage enables them to do just that now since real market wages are above min wage laws.
Could be a bug- the emacs support is rough around the edges.
It seems to have worked well so far. There haven't been any actions taken against him that might cause additional damage to the U.S. either through released documents or bad PR.
They've gotten away from it?? Here's a list of things they consider important, and #31 is the customer. And it's not even that strongly worded.. it's 'consider' the customer. In fact it says, "If there’s a doubt about what to do, consider your customer’s perspective." Literally saying the customer is an afterthought, only to be considered if you aren't sure what to do.

It doesn't sound like it was ever very high on their list to begin with.
> Somehow they still seem to manage to afford the big flat screen TV, iPhone, xBox etc though don't they. Funny that...

You're not serious? Are you?
That's what I have HN for.
I think this is sort of exactly why it's not more profitable for leagues to sell directly to consumers

Well yeah, forcing every cable customer to subsidize your multi-channel mandatory presence in basic packages is going to be "more profitable" to ESPN than becoming a selection that has to compete for optional package selection. I don't think the advantage of this arrangement for ESPN is any question to anybody.
The automated version results in strong incentives for enemies of the USA to kill Snowden.

Therefore the version that he did is safer for him.
I think another password manager you only log into when no carer is around could be the solution, that has all the sensitive passwords. If there are any files you want to protect you could put them in a truecrypt container.
You're assuming there's a causation there, not just a correlation.
True. In Europe we don't have TSA and yet one still would be wise to arrive at least an hour before departure (if one has checked baggage; half an hour otherwise) to an airport which is usually located 30+ minutes from the center of the city.

Times always add up like this - 0.5h to get to the airport, 1.5h on the airport, X h of flight and then up to 0.5h to leave the airport and another 0.5h to get to the city.
>These documents are important to the public, but they're of minimal value to an enemy.

I think at least some other nations would like to know what the documents contain, not because of the data itself, but because it could clue them into what kind of capabilities our intelligence departments have. It's one thing to know that the NSA is spying on its own citizens, but it's an entirely different thing to know that they can intercept and decipher X and Y forms of communications but may not yet be able or feel the need to monitor form Z.
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I'm teaching a class that involves multivariate testing and analytics. Ideally, my students will be able to setup their own tests and see the results... inevitably, the hardest thing for the students to do is to generate the traffic to see any results for the test. The best students usually top out around 50 clicks.

What would be the best way to help them generate adequate traffic, short of buying it or appealing to various social networks? Are there any site topics that are near-guaranteed traffic generators?
I dig the concept. I would surely give it a try since I am playing around with foundation framework.

One thing though, the video on the landing page is really too fast to actually see anything. Is it just me ?
I understand that this sort of thing isn't for everyone, but the level of trolling negativity in this thread is on par with Slashdot.

If you are somehow disappointed that clicking on a link to something that defines itself as CSS Effects (it's there in the name) and you ended up on a page with CSS animations...you are a clod.
It was evident well before then. A permanent US Navy was created to protect trade routes from Barbary pirates.

The Barbary threat led directly to the creation of the United States Navy in March 1794 [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Because if your adversary is monitoring all the telecoms networks and/or is reasonably capable of backdooring your laptop, you can assume that they'll be able to impersonate you to your digital lockers (and/or know where they are, because you are in regular contact with them).
It seems like the core support is there, quite nice. It disables my ability to select text though (via mark-set and moving the cursor). Love that other people's selections are highlighted though!

Is there a github repo for the individual plugins so we can track issues/possibly enhancements?
The benefit is stamplin.com gets insight on what people are viewing and reading. They get to see what the user sees. They can compile a database and use or sell that information to be used for marketing purposes.

Also, it's an "API" (looks more like a url poiting to a CGI program to me, but whatever). API's are "cool" and "fun", while running local programs that you have control over is old and boring and not the future of computing.
Its the money ESPN pays them for the right to broadcast to their viewers

What? No. The cable companies pay ESPN for the privilege of carrying them. It's a revenue share, that's why ESPN is a part of basic packages: cable companies using their billing base to increase the cable company's profit margin on the extortionate amounts they kickback to the network. You think ESPN doesn't use sports agent techniques in their business development department?
FWIW, this is the first step in trying to clean up the Persona dialog and reduce the prominence of Mozilla's branding.

Two of the largest critiques from sites were "Too much you, not enough us" and "I wish I could influence the dialog's color to match my site." Both of those are finally a step closer to reality.

The difference is particularly striking for sites with simple logos / wordmarks: http://people.mozilla.org/~dcallahan/tmp/backgroundColor-tin...
Google seems to define "customer" differently than just "user":
a. User of product that is strategically important to Google
b. User that will still be heavily using that product in the future - often superusers/heavy users that are committed

So who wouldn't be a customer?
a. Google Reader user (and similar products)
b. YouTube or Hangout user not willing to migrate towards G+
c. User not willing to migrate towards centralized, single identity

So the long version of #31 might read "consider the long-term, strategically important (to Google's future) customer"

Overall, this is a great list though.
If your name is AT&T, then the answer is yes.
That's actually really cool. I hadn't thought of it that way.
The interface looks so nice and clean and crisp. Nice work, guys!
>What is next, systemd will replace cron too, in powerpoint format?

systemd has some cron-like features: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time...
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