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I respect your views and comments and the above is correct and mournful and valid.

But it suffers from something too common around here - dispassion. Looking at the wider, geopolitical implications, a step back from the facts and keeping things on the level of "people" - not that person.

I read your comment first, then dived into the article. I expected to agree with you, but I just felt mounting horror, outrage and a realisation that things are beyond a line I never knew existed. So here is my comment

Jesus H Fucking Christ on a Stick! We are blowing up American Citizens sitting in cafes and legally it's "untouchable". Are we that fucking removed from reality that its ok to murder people with no trial or comeback. It seems its ok to blow away the son and grandson of other country's government ministers and not expect a war, a prison sentence, or even a mention on CNN

Are we that fragile as a civilisation that the tiny amount of damage terrorism presents is actually a threat? What did I miss - I thought we had industry, welfare, science and ingenuity. Stop murdering people.

I am writing to my MP but mostly I would like some figures - there was a twitter thing that reported gun murders. Can we do the same for drone murders?
Didn't EM say it wasn't pressurised? Could be misdirection, mind.
All this speculation reminds me of the hype surrounding the Segway launch. I recall it being being touted as a game-changer, a revolution in transportation that would change the way cities were built...

[The Segway] will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy (Dean Kamen)[1]

John Doerr, predicted Segway would rack up $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history [1]

Let's hope the Hyperloop fares better.

[1] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/segway.html
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Yep, we have our share of Apple funboys here in Russia)
The test cloud feature alone is impressive!

http://xamarin.com/test-cloud

It's also not restricted to just using their solution, any native iOS / Android / Whatever platform apps can use them.
Of course, the rogue-like scene is also as strong as it ever was -- and it's definitely got a ton of hidden content/game-play mechanics.

I wish I saw more games like one Ragdoll Invaders, though.

The reason I say this is that much of the hidden game-play/mechanics was emergent from the simple basic game-play -- you controlled a ragdoll shooting and avoiding a series of progressively more difficult enemies.

You could use the physics to, for instance, somersault gracefully through oncoming bullets (reducing your surface area), keep your body tightly curled into a ball if you moved slowly enough, continue to play with just one arm (the other would continue to shoot) so you could make the decision to lose an arm in order to survive.

This struck me as being really cool, and I wish there were more games which did allow 'special moves' as a natural side-effect of the physics they were using.
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You are comfortable relying on stalkers not being persistent enough to search a list, save some metadata, and use google maps?
I started developing about age 12-13ish so by the time I was 16 I was pretty ingrained into the whole community and naturally HN fits into that demographic perfectly.
The obvious problem with Breivik is lack of the capital punishment in Norway. Not Norway following the law and due process.

To use an analogy, it looks like in the US they would have tortured Breivik for years before letting him to go to face a Trial but without a defense attorney. It's another extreme. Taking into account that the US is the world superpower, much more concerning one.

EDIT: Now thinking about it, Breivik spent a lot of time in France. It's a stretch, but if the Norway had the US attitude, it would just invade France now, lol. My point is that they are really, really over the top with that "terrorism" thing.
Compare him to Bush.
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Yes, but that does not make it a deliberate policy of killing people. It was what it was thought at the time as necessary to bring China in the modern age. One has to ask if without it China would be what it is today -- or perhaps some broken half-aggrarian society, more third-world than one of the world's economic powers.

Same way, as one has to ask if without Stalin's forced industrialization, USSR would be able to stand to the Nazis (and, if it could not, if Europe could). Besides the tragic human aspect, one has to see these kind of events with an impartial eye, just for their long term effects.
This is a good read. Even without living in the valley, when I joined a startup during the dotboom these are all of the lessons I learned.
Looks fun, but is it really too hard to implement user login/registration? I'm not giving you my Facebook.
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There's a problem to be solved here -- is there a way to buy/sell domain names ONLY to people who will actually use them?

I have a bunch of domains that I've registered over the years, with plans for side projects that haven't yet been realized. Some of them are probably moderately valuable.

Over the years I've let some expire that I was sure I wasn't going to use, and those are all registered nowadays... but NONE of them are actually in use. Just squatted. That's not nice to see.

I've sold a few as well, for reasonable prices, once I was confident that the purchaser was going to use them -- e.g., wishmash.com. I've had offers for others where we couldn't work out a deal -- not because I was asking too much, but because I wanted to sort out a way to ensure the domain was actually used, not just resold, and that got too tricky.

I'd love a way to have a sort of long-term escrow for a domain name, so I could let someone use it for an actual project... and if they get some traction, I'll sell it automatically for a fairly low price, and if they abandon the project, the domain reverts back to me instead of going to squatters.
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The guy launches rockets and builds electric sports cars ... I tend to think he has a plan. Allowing the speculation to persist might improve that plan but I suspect it was viable on it's own (and perhaps the waiting period was simply to allow some small scale testing to occur).
>Whoa, that's way unfair, particularly to Nietzsche, who deplored anti-semitism and mocked it (along with Germans in general, for that matter—if there's any group he picked on it was them), and who would surely have been the first person to repudiate his thuggish sister's Nazification of his work. Nietzsche's sensibility was far too refined for him to deserve lumping in with Nazi intellectuals.

He had contradictory points on those issues (even besides his supposdely falsification by his sister). But the core structure of his philosophy is compatible with the idea of nazism (if not for the masses, then as it was conceived by the elites, and for themselves).
Come on. The PK government is perfectly happy to say one thing to its population, another to the US and a third to the Talibans. It's just like European governments acting incensed at the notion of extraordinary renditions (like they didn't know about before) or at NSA spying (like they don't do the same thing). It's called "hypocrisy" and it's a common policy tool.
No, he said that it is "not an evacuated tunnel".
Lennart Poettering wants to remove syslogd, use systemd journal instead
Terrorist are people too. But let's not go down that road,

The problem (one of them at least) is that they're not only killing pirates, but people who they think might be pirates.
to be fair monodevelop and xamarin studio are not equal. The first is low supported and full of bug but free ( i think that is voluntary), the second is not free (at least not if you want to do something decent) and is the main focus of xamarin.
I would say they try to "trap" you in mono with monodevelop to then oblige you to buy something more decent as xamarin studio.
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All carriers worldwide would be tough, but a sufficiently multi-band GSM phone will typically give you pretty much worldwide roaming from a variety of carriers.

I'm in Europe. The last time I had a phone I couldn't effortlessly take to the US or Asia and use roaming was probably about '99.
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We should mandate subdermal GPS tags for everyone.

Think of the children.
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That's a horrible analogy. In that case there's an imminent danger.
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> One of the nice things about not having documentation is that only those that take the time to explore and learn can exploit the feature.

Why exactly is this "nice", but having features that can only be exploited by grinding XP and equipment drops is horrible?

I mean, yes, exploration is more enjoyable than grinding, but isn't that already its own reward?

Why does it make a game better to reward one kind of massive time investment, but not another?
"All" I don't know about, but got to Aliexpress.com and search for "GSM CDMA" - you'll get a bunch of phones supporting multiple standards.

Many Chinese phones even sell with from two and up to 4 GSM SIM slots (that can be active simultaneously), so I wouldn't be surprised if you could even use both at the same time.
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Of course anyone can follow you in public, the alternative would be impossible to enforce.

The problem is that the cost of getting that data could be made unacceptably low. For example, I think most people would object having their government uploaded their coordinates to a public website. The interesting question is what is the right tradeoff between transparency and cost.
Aynbody that has worked a fair bit with ChartJS want to give their opinions on it? What are the limitations?
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These are the opposite of subtle, more like "Netflix ruins the film"
He just wants to remove syslogd from the default Fedora install, to be clear.
I guess they could let you distribute your changes but not their source code. Is there a license for this?
tl;dr:

As soon as you have created a new mail account on a BlackBerry 10 mobile, IMAP and SMTP connections are made to IP 68.171.232.33 using your mail credentials.

68.171.232.33 is part of RIM's network range, the server is located in Canada. The routing goes via the UK (GCHQ) and the US (NSA). BlackBerry has your mail credentials anyway.

BlackBerry 10 users should immediately stop using the default mail app, delete their credentials from the phone and create new passwords.
Well, now that you make me think... uh.... I guess not?? ... This just popped into my mind: "They might find sort of interesting to profile our life details out... these days... After all we are just the ones who have the mental & physical tools to turn their things upside down and less importantly to make all other people aware... ... Yeah now that you make me think, I find I am asking myself... 'If you were them and would like to maintain your dominant position, wouldn't you hunt us first?' ... Alright, I think I might be keeping these thoughts in consideration now on... .. Hey, thanks for asking! :-) "
>> Linux-powered pen that won‘t let you make errors

Makes no sense. It'll vibrate when you make a spelling mistake. Isn't that a little after the horse has bolted?
"Caves" are the informal name of the places in Argentina where you can change and receive dollars.

Ask a customer in the Fortune 500 to pay you in bitcoins...
Why should a connection from your mobile to a BlackBerry server be visible in YOUR server logs?
Yes, no worries, map us all, we
don't share private & sensible
data on FB, instead we simply
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You did not understand.
In the 'configure inbox' panel you can disable tabs you don't care for. If you only keep 'primary', it's pretty much turned off. Now google might force it on you sometime in the future, but I don't really see what would be the point... However I think it would be nice to be able to create custom tabs and associate filters/label to them. I really could see myself putting various mailing list to their own tabs.
In this context, apple forced open pandora's box. There's no going back now. Businesses can present no choice, and only a minority of people (not enough to affect business) end up caring.
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Why is e-commerce such a hot area in VC now?
The Segway hype was so generic it could have been anything: it didn't offer any concrete metric to justify it.

A system allowing to travel LA to SF in 30 minutes, without the hassle involved with air travel, WOULD be revolutionary, regardless of how good or bad is the marketing department of its company.
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Land of the free, eh?
Watch this as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp8ajGyAGO0
In my experience, the second I move something out of my inbox and into a label I never see it again. That entire left sidebar in Gmail is so messy I pretty much entirely forget about anything that gets lost in there.
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Seems to me like the horrendous part is the bit where you take a citizen, accuse them of terrorism, stick them on a "kill list" (wtf!), then execute them without further due process of law. Bear in mind that "terrorism" now covers people like an 82-year old catholic nun demonstrating at a nuclear plant.

If that's not anti-constitutional, your constitution ain't worth shit.

If it is anti-constitutional, your system of "checks and balances" ain't worth shit.

Either way something fundamental is very broken there.
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I think that this line of thinking is part of the problem in the US. The lack of capital punishment in Norway is a feature not a bug, and if you look at the results it's a good feature. Norway has very low crimerates compared to the US, far fewer homicides and almost no problems with guns and violence.

The Unites States has a mentality of punishing the perpetrators, often very hard, in order to gain revenge and maybe act as a deterrent to others. This is why the US is one of the onlycountries in the world that use capital punishment, and the country in the world where most people are in prison.

Unfortunately research shows that this doesn't work, as evidenced by crimerates and homicides in the US. Norway takes a different approach, and instead of looking for revenge they ask "how do we prevent this from happening again". This is why there is no capital punishment, why you see drug offenders in nice rehabilitation homes, and why Breivik was convicted like any other murderer within the Norweigan system.

The Norweigan system works, and the American doesn't. Just look at the numbers.
For a deep dive into this watch/read http://dirtywars.org.
So Obama has right to detain Americans and, please note, foreigners indefinitely, but he says he will not use these privileges to keep Americans (only?) imprisoned indefinitely.
So does it mean foreigners have no rights in America? I guess its time governments all over the world start adding US to the list of rogue countries.
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Duplicate removal generally happens after the initial count is received. That's why you can get major variations in the count and the actual number of results.
I once tried this with a recruiter, and they got very testy with me in a new email, accusing me of wasting their time. ha ha ha. needless to say, I did not respond further.
The individual country pages are listed on the right under causality estimates,
click a time frame for a list of all of the accounts,

Somalia:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/22/get-the-data...

Pakistan:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/01/03/obama-2013-p...

Yemen:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/01/03/yemen-report...
I love Xamarin's support and devs.
The devs are extremely friendly.

The tools are getting better with each release.

Kudos to Miguel, Nat, Rolf, Seb and other folks I don't know :-)
Doing so requires either preserving or emulating obsolete hardware. There's a small but passionate contingent doing that for games; not so much for app albums.
If you are looking for an open source docker book, check out https://github.com/kencochrane/docker-tutorial I'm building a Docker Guidebook, that I hope to release as a free ebook.

It is on github, and pull requests are welcome. It is currently written for Docker 0.5. I will keep it up to date, and when we hit 1.0 I'll look at getting some hard copies made, if there is a demand.

I still need to pick a license, not sure what is best for a book, open to suggestions.
If you believe Paul Graham (which in this case I do), the thing that killed the Segway was that you looked like a smug jerk on one.

http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html

No one predicted this would be the problem, and indeed most people still haven't come to Graham's conclusion. In that sense, concrete metrics are irrelevant. The hyperloop is just as likely a priori to have some sort of similar fatal flaw. This is the problem with getting too excited about any new particular device; there's too much that can go wrong between zero and revolutionary.
It wasn't a prudish guilty verdict. It was a reasonable response from the community, given the circumstances and the knowledge of the case at that time.

I don't think at all voicing your reasonable opinion on a public forum counts at all as a douche move. Not if it later turns out this opinion missed crucial information about the mental state and fragile support framework of Aaron. And especially not if that opinion was obviously shared by many members of said forum.

Claiming Edward spearheaded a negative community response to a desperate cry for help of a dying man is ludicrous. And I think you should apologize for insinuating that, as I am sure expressing these thoughts puts significant torment on Edward.
There's really no point to porting some parts.
As a Russian, i support that. He was too stupid to try fighting the system openly, playing on their own field.
Trickier than that is the following:

If such actions are committed on US soil, this section will not be applicable. So this is about arresting and detaining, indefinitely, someone on foreign land. Land where the US government has no jurisdiction. Am I missing something here?
Aaah, wig.

Need more coffee.
"Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges"

Sure, he'll just ask someone else to do it...
Why is it that every leader in power seems to forget that they won't stay in that position forever? Let's take his word for it and say the power won't be abused. What of his successors?

If a power exists, it will be abused. Period. It's only a matter of time. That's the whole premise behind checks and balances and due process. You don't leave power in the hands of a few, but the many.
Human observation. How many open source applications do you use that you have paid for?
While I'm not a Fedora user, I wish them good luck, and hope the change goes through. It would be of great benefit for other distributions aswell, and perhaps we could get rid of traditional syslog for good at some point... (wishful thinking, I know).
I think it does matter. In the Netherlands you are able to vote right wing without the religion, or even vote on a religious left wing party. There are party differences between how we should handle a lot of different issues. It is easier to find a party you agree with.

Party sizes vary greatly after elections which means politicians feel the consequences of their actions. It is not perfect of course, but it is better.

The weird thing is that it is possible to have multiple parties in the US, but they never get enough votes. This makes it seem like their has to be a lot of corruption.
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Exactly. We got into the Sopranos and I got out a few series from the local video store on DVD. This was a few years ago. Never again. The DVD player was the wrong region, so I put it into the Mac. It played fine. I tried to output the video on the Apple TV. Some kind of (according to apple forums) DRM prevents this. I was in the brink of encoding the DVDs to a different format, when it occurred to me to torrent them. I set off the torrent and the encode at the same time, and a short time later stopped the encoding, and the torrent had got enough to get us started. And I didn't have to watch the anti piracy warning. How can legal be so hard and free be so easy?
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Learning failures is just as important as learning successes.

/lesson I learned in 5th grade science fair
I'm not saying more surveillance == better. I'm saying more surveillance would resolve that guy's specific problem, therefore his example is false.
Principle is difficult, short-cuts are easy. And it's so much easier to "get things done" yourself if you break all the rules, but of course once you've destroyed all the rules they no longer apply to anyone, not just yourself.

Ah yes, here we go, a great quote from "A Man For All Seasons": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rjGTOA2NA
If knowing your customer strategy works well, then the world would be much happier place to live because then we won't get any automated adverts on mobile etc. I understand your point, but imagine, a recruiter planning to call you only to ignore it thinking 'Oh, s/he a busy person. Let me not disturb s/he'. Not going to work in real world.

'Knowing your customers' usually means that sale-person know how and what a customer is thinking so s/he can bank upon it. It doesn't mean that sales-person should contact only when customer is away from work and is not too busy to talk.
That’s mostly because the email has already been accepted by the incoming SMTP server by the time it gets to Sieve, hence cannot be ‘rejected’ at the SMTP level anymore.
More power to him. The Journal is a much more interesting and useful approach than syslog.
No, I think that's the picture. It's already happening in those "black sites" we hear about and the sad thing is that the citizens in those countries would be up in arms about them if they were more widely known. It's the government complicity in each of those locations that allow these things to happen.

I.E. Not technically detained by the U.S. but they are detained the request of U.S. officials. It's the most flagrant (and disgusting) use of plausible deniability.
Worse than the scaling problems will be the count mismatch between your and your wife's app if data integrity breaks.
I still think that desktop outlook is the best email. Email is not a stream of random information but things I need to look at and act upon. The amount of magic in gmail makes this use case impossible.
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The Segway was demonstrably inferior to commonplace alternatives on simple metrics alone: speed, capacity, cost, safety, comfort.

It was only hyped because it was "cool".

If the hyperloop, however it works, can duplicate the capabilities of a high speed rail system in terms of passenger throughput, speed, and waiting time and do so safely at much lower cost then even if was the uncoolest thing in the world it would still be of immense practical benefit.
Given that funding plays such a large role in US elections it opens the door for someone to effectively pay for the use of that power.