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Snowden will halt the revelations abruptly. He would be a fool to break the agreement with Putin.

Putin is a man of his word, and expects the same from Snowden.

Information may continue to leak, but not from Snowden. His part of the show is finished (and luckily for him, he's not even bruised!).
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There was some religion then also, that "modes" were too much for the human brain.
How can password sharing destroy your company or cost you your job?
I would expect that China is much more interested in maintaining good relations with America than Russia is.
There's definitely been an uptick in sales. Here's my graph:

http://alexose.com/images/2013-07-24_094402.png
That makes no sense (unless perhaps they've already achieved their primary goal). If your primary goal is to improve the world in some way, you'd put all of your surplus revenue towards that goal (and by that I of course include accumulating capital in the organization for later use). There'd be nothing left for profits.
Depends on break-even point.

Even if, there is still a value in accepting pre-orders for company to be certain of an actual market size.
Humanities academics accused of being right-wingers... I've now seen it all.
Prison as punishment to force behavioral changes is really messed up, even if Weev is a scumbag.
When I was in school, only one of my friends knew how to install Quake in the PC lab (I think he used a keylogger, to get the admin password - it was back in the days when kids weren't treated like criminals for minor stunts like this). But he wasn't the only one who got to play it.
Take this one instead: "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years".
The quickies can teach basics needed to make calculators or some utility scripts even in one week. That's ok, if you only need to do some simple stuff every now and then, but to learn how thing really work, where to optimize and how to design programs structure, you have to code for years with different languages, types of programs and environments.
where are my QCoins?
First people had to watch a door and how a driveway. Live media is certainly losing its touch.
China is fairly stable politically, but they practice more active censorship and have worse human rights violations compared to Russia today. They have strict visa regulations, a strict national ID system, and they definitely spy on people's e-mails and phone conversations. Skype had to release a special, wiretapped version specifically for China. They lack even a semblance of democracy, and protests are forbidden. Just seems like a very bad fit for Snowden. Russia is at least sort of trying to be a democracy.
But imagine he violates the requiements and releases more information. Would that actually be a problem for him?

Putin already said that he won't send him to a country where he may be sentenced to death. So even in that case, he probably won't be sent to the US but to some other country than grants asylum to him.
Quoting Reuters. As far as I understand, Greenwald wouldn't make an aricle that would just involve tracking Snowden's steps like it would of some celebrity. It's exactly the distraction of talking about the messenger instead of the message.
> Putin is a man of his word

:-)
Yes, that's exactly what he was doing when one time I approached him to sign my copy of his book!
Would it stretch your moral intellect too far to identify a key distinction there? Namely, intent matters: The U.S., as far as anyone has demonstrated, does not set out to kill journalists because what they write is inconvenient.
Max sentence is unlikely. Libby and Kiriakou both got 30 months and they exposed covert agents which Snowden did not (I know Libby served no time, but he was still sentenced). If Snowden is brought home to face charges, he will probably get a worse sentence now because he fled.
Just wondering what scenarios you foresee you using the desktop feature in?

If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop.

At home and work you probably have a computer.

I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
Well those are my problems, I've been trying to get into Emacs for a pretty long time and have no gave up to use Sublime. But if I'm in a terminal I'll use Emacs, inefficiently but this is my go to.
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UCMJ. He was active duty military, not a civilian.
how to run emacs with an azerty keyboard on windows would be one :)
Previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6092485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6091261 <- Discussion
Live blog over here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/24/edward-snowden-m...
Customs can stop (or try anyway) to stop importation of illegal porn in physical form. Police can try to stop it from being sold on the high street (but they can't even stop me from being hassled by people selling poor quality pirated DVD's), but the big difference here is that while they can do that for physical objects, ever attempt at stopping this online is trivially easy to circumvent.

They can't regulate it. The cost of setting up a HTTP proxy for personal use is the cost of a tiny VPS - I can get one for a month for about the cost of one of those pirated DVD's, and for a quarter for the cost of a takeaway. Heck, if I was a teenager today, and had parents that signed up for even the optional filter, I'd spring for a VPN/VPS - it's a fraction of what most kids around here pay for smartphones already anyway.

If this filtering stops peoples access, it'll create a market for VPN accounts targeted for that type of use, or "just" encrypted http proxying.

They can try to stop the VPNs - good luck; IP hopping by spinning up cloud instances all over the place as needed and providing a browser extension to keep the list of proxies up to date will be trivial. They can try to stop people paying for these VPN's, but even if they manage to stop card payments, that'll only drive up the demand for things like Bitcoins.

In other words: The same restrictions will not apply. The restrictions will apply for those who do not care enough to sign up to (trivially simple, once more people decides to try to make money off it) ways to circumvent them. But the barrier is so much lower. And it will keep lowering, rather than rising, as each new attempt at blocking gives more of us incentives to prepare countermeasures.
In an ironic twist of fate, living like Josh Harris, with cameras live streaming him 24/7 from now on might keep him safe.
> Porn filters will be of no concern whatsoever to anyone under 40 with the most rudimentary technical chops (and appetite for porn). What else will be banned?

Nothing is banned.

The filters are voluntary for the end user.

The filters are stupid, but please argue against what they actually are.
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Because TeX corrects your mistakes. Not for any other reason.

One space is correct. It's so correct, TeX will even automatically strip spaces away if you make more than one. (Happens on the web, too, by the way.)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6091261
Man, what a bummer. Can't make a purchase without a paypal account. Guys - please enable credit card payments and you'll have a horde of buyers from India :)
Completely agree with that.
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Very interesting! I particularly like the integrated admin backend -- should save a lot of time.

What database are you using to power all of this?
I wonder if the non-disclosure is also for the Russians.
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Growth is Growth.
Correct, although CSS 3 does offer something to that effect:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#hyphenation
> institutional memory.

Yes, exactly. Thank you for this phrase. There's also a certain amount of institutional bonding (to coin another phrase) involved with these people, in that they're sort of "mother hens" who take care of everyone.

Definitely not cogs, but I'm not sure anyone is who actually belongs in a particular office. Cogs are (generally) apathetic, at least in their machine counterpart. In a team scenario, "apathetic" usually translates to some kind of burden being shifted to the group.
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In the matter of "these people" to be honest. Who cares? It's so easy to stop following them and reading what they have to say! I don't even know them and I don't even care. Live your life, be happy and stop thinking about what other have to say. Snarky people will always exist it's your choice to follow them or not.
I don't get how this is non-logical compared to what I said earlier. 24hour is the same excuse as the empirical system, you can divide 12 by 2,3,4,6 thus it makes things easier. It's a different system than the metric one, we could have said that a day lasted 100hours and week 10days. It doesn't make it non-logical though, it's like changing the basis.

But ordering makes things logical.
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A nice exhibition of Mars Direct can be seen in the documentary The Mars Underground [1]. There's also Zubrin's book [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWvsdEYSqg (I don't know the copyright status of this, but it's been on YouTube for well over a year with many views).

[2] Robert Zubrin. The Case for Mars.
The filters are voluntary OPT OUT for the end user*.

I know it seems insignificant, but it makes a big difference.

Also, I am right in thinking, this hasn't been proposed as a bill yet to the house of commons/lords? I feel as Cameron has a long history of broken promises.
There's an inch thick of delicious, buttery irony spread over a slice of Onion-tasting bread here. Asylum granted by a state that once sent 14 million people, primarily those who didn't agree with the authorities, into forced labor camps with millions meeting their deaths from malnutrition, exposure, and summary executions.. and which is still attempting to outlaw homosexuality.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire!
So Russians feel sympathetic and supporting lending a help to a mere human who just tried to help his country and now his country hunts him down like a wild animal.

But that is somehow bad, eh? o_O

P.S. Hey, Alex, why stop at Osama?! You forgot to mention Hitler! That would be more dramatic, and equally cheap brainwashing tactic.
I can't imagine why he would do something like that, in the open. After all he needs any friends he can get! But even if he was to break his promise of not releasing any more info, it would make more sense if he did it "under the radar". I think he is quite capable of that. Or maybe, he could do it while the Russians are looking the other way :)
I'd rather not need a computer at home and work (and all the syncing issues that entails).

Currently I work from two fixed locations and also from home. If I can just have a fixed screen, keyboard and mouse there and take this around with all my current working stack ready to go that'd be ace!
Just a stupid question but where did he sleep if he had to stay at the airport?
Wow this resource is awesome. I don't really write games per se, but I enjoy writing interactive visuals - and this will definitely help me get to the next level. Thanks!
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I think I am becoming trained to recognise you without seeing your name. It took me until "young, clueless talent" to flick my eyes up to see that yes, it was michealochurch.

From the votes, I am apparently the only one.
My guess is that Putin would be happy to have Snowden break the agreement, as long as he doesn't go to the press and take credit for it. Putin's government has been working constantly to undermine America's foreign influence, and these leaks go a long way towards doing that.
At this prices they will need to add financing options to their phones.

We are in the era of Ben Bernanke free money for everyone. Getting credit should not be that hard.

Financing is a top priority thing for selling phones and cars in the real world. Probably not in Mark Shutterworth's land thought.
He probably downloaded 100k accounts (perhaps a range of IDs) and then grepped them for @apple.com accounts.
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Just want to point out that what you're talking about was past, and a different government. It's like saying America is the country where black people were slaves when talking about America's decisions in recent events.
Any reasons to believe otherwise?

The only thing I hold against him is his failure, as promised, to hang Georgian president by his balls. Eating necktie is a weak substitute.
Can't agree more: tees are the real boost of crowdfounding.
I wonder the same thing. But I would be really interested in trying a small Mac Air sized screen/keyboard shell that had a port that I could slide such a phone in to. Sort of a portable docking station.
As you can see, the child pornography list is missing from that list.

It was however leaked in 2008 with a date of February 2008: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship...

And as you can tell, it contains many more sites than the official document, including a Dutch bus rental service.
I don't quite get what's going on here. Is this an idea for a major commercial product or is it a quirky fun thing for the ubuntu community? The scale they're aiming for seems to imply the former.

Usable as a desktop is a cool idea, but more of a "linux on your wristwatch" idea than one with real use. I mean, if you have a keyboard & monitor handy, how hard is it to have a PC too? Cheap micro desktops are coming out all over the place. Cheap.

Am I missing the point entirely? Is this all about Ubuntu mobile itself with android & ubuntu desktop as extras?

I hope this doesn't sound like hating. I actually want this to succeed. It's cool. Crowd funding a major player in the OS/mobile space is even cooler. Lots of potential spinoffs down the road (like the iOS laptop I've wanted to get my dad for years). That said... Can anyone explain this to me? What are they trying to do here?
> ... there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around

Interface with google glass or use a pico laser projector. MYO or one of the myriad one-handed keyboards (eg Twiddler, Kee4, CyKey) for input. It's not going to be easy at first but I'm not keen on spending the rest of my life sitting down in a stuffy office.
I'm not sure China would care. They'd just become the second superpower (which, I would argue, they already are). Their economy is much larger than Russia's, their trade relations diverse (the US isn't even their #1 trading partner), their land more habitable (though smaller), their technology better, they have a large army and nuclear arsenal, and they're in an ideal location to put up significant resistance against US incursions.
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oh. i meant by all the discounted price tiers and not including existing raised.
From banks I have worked in, I would say that is true 95% of the time, but if there is a time crunch (EG due to client commitments, regulatory deadline) they will expect you to work all the hours there are to deliver.
Semantics matter here. I really wish the title of this was "Embrace the desire to be successful," because with success usually comes money, although I think the distinction is important. One is qualitative, one is quantitative.
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If nothing else, he will probably have more luck blending in with the local population, if that is the route he wants to go.
All money put aside, I'd definitely prefer to be maintaining a startup (it's not dead since money is put aside) than carving figurines in a garage.

Everyone his hobbies. If your hobby can land you some money so you can get a roof and some food, then you're already a good way to becoming an happy man.
A living example of a title that should be re-written by the moderators. ("Siri in a Teddy")
Being president of a large country pretty much guarantees you've had to lie and cheat at least a little bit to get there.

For one random example (not being a huge student of 21st century Russia), he promised Bush that he wasn't arming Saddam's troops. Turned out they were outfitted with a lot of Russian anti-tank and night vision gear when we got there.
> The underlying goal is always money, few admit it.

I love to build cool shit. My salary does not matter to me. Of course, it is fairly high so perhaps I have the luxury to say that, but if my basic needs were taken care of, I'd be just about as happy just building things in Ruby.
Let me think... it would be... the same?
Way to handle the sitters/squatters bathroom problem. I enjoyed that.
I think good criticisms are vital, and the default in social networks is probably to discourage them. The tendency is toward social affirmation. Even siloing. Certainly criticism should [not] be the predominant mode. Far from it, but we should be open to any "yeah, but ..." It might be a good catch.
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I don't think you need to look that far into Russia's past to find more relevant ironies, just look at the Navalny case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16057045
So basically, you should code malware?
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That's quite cheap, given that you can easily pay $1,500 for a Galaxy S4 here.
The list is far from complete... many of these guys are reciprocal friends and all live nearby, it is a cultural thing mostly. It's like: we don't give a fuck and we critique everything is stupid, except they have an impressive lack of arguments and a very big focus on things they dislike. I can ensure you that unfollowing is not enough of an option... both at-messages and the search timelines are full of their tweets.

IMHO to deal with these guys the good recipe is:

1) If they have some remotely valid point, reply with arguments, try to move them into the "arguments land", and maybe they'll say something useful for a give project / community after all.

2) If they are trolling, you have two options, the wise one is ignoring them and just provide facts if it is a group-conversation on Twitter. Otherwise if you feel like that (I do), troll back. Usually this kind of personality is found in insecure people, it is not hard to find their weakness and troll back, can be quite funny actually.
I agree. I get the feeling it would look great on print. On screen it looks strange. For me zooming out helped.
May be Vatican.
The British Interplanetary Society did something similar a few years back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Boreas
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So you don't go places where there might be a display already? No hotels with a TV already in the room, never go to a friends or relatives who might have a screen that you could borrow?
I'm Russian. This is done only to annoy the US. Russian gov-t has nothing to do with freedom of speech etc. It's just to tease the White House.
This is most likely the inspiration: the company is named "Supertoy Robotics", and the A.I. movie was based on a Brian Aldiss short-story titled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long".
This presumes that the Russian government actually cares about that supposed demand.
Nah, the other half is just stupid or lazy. It's the same kind of people who will ignore screwdriver and will try to pry the bolt out with pliers unless they have been shown the benefits of using the proper tool in the past 15 minutes.

I work at a large library and the smart, non-tech people are genuinely interested in improving their and their peers' effectiveness and are willing to learn. I frequently chat with a friend who can make shoes, design and construct electrical devices, build small buildings, survive in nature and anonymously watch things he's interested in on the Internet. He frequently asks about relevant things and gives advice from his fields of knowledge.

Some people just are better than the rest.
If you're going to learn digitally, there are a lot of great free resources out there.

Check out Startup Engineering on coursera. There is a session going on now.

But, to answer the question, yes you can learn in 12 weeks from your couch.
That's a terrible fate.
The book is intended to be general; from the introduction: The ty­po­graph­ic rules in this book aren’t specific to par­tic­u­lar soft­ware. You can ap­ply these rules in just about any mod­ern page-lay­out pro­gram or word proces­sor.

To emphasise what I said above: the book is passing off a didactic point about authoring (yes, many newspapers and publishers want their journalists and authors to follow the one-space rule in their copy) into a simplistic rule of typography, one which happens to be meaningless in many contexts and is based on fallacious reasoning.
I agree with you that today there is absolutely no way, but in the last 5 years the internet changed a lot. Several Europeans countries are subsidizing the optical fiber infrastructure, so the bandwidth will not be problem. To solve the complexity issue, I think the solution could be a of "home server" or "home box", I guess it will could be even provided by your ISP (each day these home boxes come with more capabilities).
Why are they so expensive?

It’s a combination of the attention to detail that goes into a professional-quality font and the sheer scale of the work, which is multiple orders of magnitude greater than writing a good smartphone app.

I wrote about this once before if you’re interested in a deeper explanation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/zaxs1/pick_y...
I simply wish him good luck!
because

https://twitter.com/ChapmanAnna/status/352480982101798913

:)
I mostly agree.

The scary thing is the incompetence. Politicians think that paedophiles use Google Search to find images of child sexual abuse, and that all Google hasn't got "filter explicit images" working for these images.

It's idiotic - I don't know what Google do, but I'm pretty sure they aggressively detect, remove, and report to law enforcement such images.
I'm not saying there should be no tab/filter options (I used filter/folder options before tabs arrived). I'm just suggesting sticking the 3 defaults on everyone was a bad idea. Just adding the "+" and directing to a how-to would have been IMO appropriate.
Good luck - looks really cool.

A friend of mine left IB to found this: http://trotify.com/
If you were interested in the greatest profit you'd put all your surplus revenue towards producing greater profits in the future and just draw a subsistence wage rather than living in a big house or what have you.

But people don't, so I assume that goals don't work like that.

I might want to make the world a better place while still living in a nice house. Maybe that's not logical, but it seems to be the case that advancing your primary goal a short way with your money may not be as satisfying as advancing your secondary goal a long way with the same money.

I suppose a more formal way of expressing that idea would be to say that your goals are weighted as multiples of how interested you are in the results of those goals. If I value a world-changing company twice as much as I value a nice house, then all that needs to happen is that a given sum of money is twice as likely to get me a nice house as it is to get me a really nice company.

Which lines up with the idea that when your company is small and you don't have a lot of money it's probably not a good idea to be buying huge houses, but later on a few hundred k here and there probably won't make a lot of difference to the health of the company.
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