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To answer the several questions in this thread by answering this particular question of yours, yes, I think Edward Snowden will receive a fair trial according to the law if he stands trial in the United States, which I hope he does. (Federal trials and the trials in many states are NOT televised, as a default, but they are public except in very extraordinary circumstances. I have walked into trials in various places just because I can, as a member of the general public.)

In general, as I have said in other recent comments here on Hacker News, I can be appalled by several of the recent allegations about NSA activity without applauding Snowden's actions. I took my wife and my two younger children along with a home-made protest sign ("We support the Bill of Rights") to the lightly attended Restore the Fourth protest in Minneapolis. I did that openly and in full view of law enforcement authorities and news cameras because freedom is precious to me, and I don't think my freedom should be abused on any rationale, even the rationale of fighting terrorist networks. That said, I find that whenever I get out of the Hacker News hivemind, and deal with any of my friends from around the world who have actually lived and worked in multiple countries, and especially those friends who have children of their whose futures the friends are working for, there is remarkably little regard of Snowden as a hero or a freedom-fighter. It's not clear that he really has the technical chops to make a "dead man's switch" work as he intends against all possible attack surfaces, and it's not clear that all of his allegations about United States government activities are factually true, and it's especially clear already that Snowden's recent statements, with the ghost-writing help of Wikileaks, represent a badly unbalanced view of which countries in the world are the greatest enemies of human freedom, which is a cause I cherish all over the world.
Yahoo received special commendations from the EFF for it's fights to secure your privacy. I wonder if it a business strategy. "We seem to be losing market share so lets fight strongly for our users privacy and when it comes out we're doing it it will convince people to switch." Or is it just a company morality. And why aren't other companies acting in our interests in a similar manner?

And I'm not actually sure about their market share since their stock is remarkably steady over 5 years and has been steadily climbing since the middle of 2012.

Yahoo's commendation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-...

Yahoo's stock: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#symbol=y...

I know look at the max length of Yahoo's stock and yes, it seems they have dropped quite a bit at points. Dec 1999 being their highest at 108 and change (dot com bust I'd imagine came shortly after), and as high as 39 in 2006 up from a low of 4.45 in Sep 2001. Currently 29 though so they've been putting in work since they dropped to 11.51 in Nov 2008.
Case of the Unexplained 2013: Windows Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich
Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy

Ben Franklin, 1787

http://www.bartleby.com/268/8/12.html

"Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice—the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is that renders the British government so tempestuous. The struggles for them are the true source of all those factions which are perpetually dividing the nation, distracting its councils, hurrying it sometimes into fruitless and mischievous wars, and often compelling a submission to dishonorable terms of peace.

And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your government and be your rulers. And these, too, will be mistaken in the expected happiness of their situation, for their vanquished competitors, of the same spirit, and from the same motives, will perpetually be endeavoring to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people."
No offense, but I think you're mistaken.

1) "journald was enabled in Fedora very recently"

systemd includes journald (and - as the thread that this whole discussion is about explains - journald is really a ~hard~ dependency for systemd: That's where early boot messages go, for example).

Systemd is in Fedora for quite some time already [1].

2) "Now systemd's syslog compat is seen as unnecessary overhead"

NO! Not at all! That's going to stay, that's not even mentioned anywhere in this discussion. Really, the thread even talks about improved integration between journald and for example rsyslogd (the latter moved from the simple 'receive log messages from journald' interface to the 'let me ask journald for messages and import them as good as I can' it seems).
No one, certainly not in that thread, wants to remove the syslog compatibility.

The discussion is just about _not_ installing a syslog daemon by default. It's still supported, the compatibility (from systemd/journald) is there and going to stay. You just don't run a syslog daemon without installing it explicitly.

3) The trend, what you perceive about the slippery slope of things

This is hard to argue about. There are no hard facts to prove/reject. You don't seem to like a number of recent changes in the linux ecosystem. That's - okay. Natural. But I still think that you should take a step back and reconsider your opinion on the developers' goals: Are they really trying to 'attack' stuff or are they offering something they genuinely consider superior? Are they single-handedly changing the stuff around you, or are boards/committees convinced that these ideas are worth pursuing?

1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd#What_is_the_status_of...
Actually, that's not going to matter either, because both you and the other person will be dead.
Detroit Files for Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in US History
In-valley transport actually sucks. I commute from Alameda to Mountain View - it takes 2.5 hours via public transport. :( (37 miles).

Bike --> Bart --> Cal-Train --> Bike (and reverse, $20 total)

This is one thing that interestingly has been both ignored and solved by tech companies. FB, Goog, Gene - they all have very effective troop transport. But by-in-large, silicon valley has done nothing to provide a solution to the problems with transportation and data access.

(WRT data access: DSL wasn't available in the heart of SV for several years after it was widely avaialble. Cellular coverage from AT&T has had the SAME EXACT dead spots on 280 and 101 corridors for TEN FREAKING YEARS! -- No widely available wifi, data coverage on CalTrain and Bart is horrendous!)
Notes to a Software Team Leader book free with code "HackerLeader" (first 50)
A surprisingly nice feature of using floobits has been in building our own website- we stream changes to staging in real time. Feedback is immediate and trivially sharable. We will add better integration later for running hooks based on file globing, etc. So, you could do things like automatically compile less or restart a service when a file is saved or changed, etc.
Too bad the flight back to Italy won't cross Bolivian airspace.
It's not really just the label that's racist - I wish I could hand you the citation, but I'm having trouble finding it online. IIRC, there was a study dating from the 60s that showed that when a neighborhood reached somewhere around 10-15% black, white people started moving out. This was taken advantage of by real estate investors, who would move a few middle-class black families onto a block (possibly taking a loss, because completely white neighborhoods aren't attractive to most black families), starting a process of buying at a discount the houses of the white families who were desperate to leave, and then reselling to middle-class black families who often had higher incomes than the white families they were replacing. In this way, the replacement of white families by black families would snowball.

Of course, the appeal of those neighborhoods to middle-class black people would also drop, because as the whites left, the neighborhood lost its luster as a symbol of achieving the middle-class for black people. Prices start to drop to the level where less than middle class people can move in (to what would still be an aspirational neighborhood to black people who weren't in the middle class.)

Then the city starts to withdraw services (the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s city), and, as in Chicago for example, builds highways and other developments as firebreaks to stop the expansion of these new black neighborhoods. Eventually many sections start to go into serious decline, and middle-class black people either leave, or manage to form exclusive enclaves within them.

tl;dr Humboldt Park and North Lawndale didn't originally have high crime and bad schools, that was a process that was begun by white flight.

I always like to cite the example of the neighborhood I grew up in in Chicago: Avalon Park, where "the average educational level increased, while the poverty rate decreased from 6.1% to 5.1% between 1960 and 1970."[1] The fact that black people were an improvement to the neighborhood didn't slow white flight down a whit - we moved there in 1978, when I was 2, and when I entered school at 5 there was a single white person that attended Avalon Park Elementary School. His name was Patrick, and his stepfather was black. I only ever saw one white person in that neighborhood who wasn't a teacher at that school. It was a windy day, and she was walking in front of Sears on 79th, trying to keep her scarf from blowing away. It was 1989.

If you care, I'll find the reference at some point - but I couldn't find it online, and most of my books are packed away in a fashion where it would take me at least an hour to find anything specific. If this year is like last year, I'll find cause to wade into the stacks two or three times and I'll keep an eye out for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Park,_Chicago
In California the police can pre-retire and collect their retirement while they are still working at their same job. So you have the San Luis Obispo sheriff making upwards of $600,000.

If you're ever living in San Francisco making $130K as a programmer yet still wondering if you've made the right career choice, browse the public salary databases in the area to confirm the fact that you indeed did not.
The worst part is that the calls aren't getting updated with prices right away... so if you built a system that relies on getting the price info at the end of the call, you probably aren't pretty happy now.
Sentry at Disqus
Of course, I'm sure that any moment Elon Musk (PBUH) will be along to explain why the entire aviation industry was wrong to use these transmitters.

Was he wrong in his assessment of the original 787 battery overheating issue?

You realize that they still have no earthly idea what happened to the batteries involved in the earlier incidents, correct? The "fix," such as it is, simply involves the implementation of more robust containment measures.
As a biologist and chemist studying cancer, this sounds an awful like the "ontology recapitulates phylogeny" theory which, while a cute just-so story, turns out to be a particularly misleading way of looking at developmental biology.

It is misleading, but with a small kernel of truth that appears in the article.

That kernel is that there is little evolutionary pressure to cause changes in early development, and huge potential consequences to adjustment there, so early development is remarkably stable across many species. And this conservation goes right down to the genetic level. Thus it is wrong that we trace out our evolutionary heritage, however it is true that there are similarities between early development of distant species, and that commonality is due to conserved genes that evolved a very long time ago.

(There is, of course, another commonality. And that is the observation due to Gould in Ontogeny and Phylogeny that a lot of the raw material for evolution comes from altering the timing and rates of existing development processes, rather than from introducing "new" features.)
Interesting. Though the article, from 12 July 2013, quotes a 20% recovery rate on Detroit's GO bonds (it's somewhat humorous to see Detroit's "full faith and credit"-backed bonds referred to as unsecured by Bloomberg). I'm seeing the market buzzing around 75 to 80.

Assuming a 75% recovery rate and 95% coverage, that means the monolines would be liable for about $475 million. I'm not sure (a) what fraction of the capital of U.S. monoline which insure municipal debt that is, or, (b) how that is distributed across variably capitalised muncipal monoline insurers.
Skype's security was more for self-interest in preventing third party clients to connect. It hasn't had any proper audits, except for a rather dubious review Skype published. The rest of interop is achieved through reverse engineering or other hacking up the Skype client. To think Skype had user's best interests in mind is ludicrous.

By not just encrypting, but deliberately obfuscating the protocol and client, they ensured no one could make a better client or hardware without paying them.

VoIP was around before Skype. Microsoft's NetMeeting (1996) included multiparty video and audio conversations. Skype wasn't inventive in that way. P2P was a cute way to bootstrap (less relay servers needed for NAT traversal).

Pissing off carriers is a funny line. All your SkypeOut calls go out to "carriers", so they get paid. Sure, AT&T would prefer to charge you 50 cents directly, instead of getting a few cents on wholesale, but Skype's got a huge amount of markup in their prices, too.
Thanks - right now I put up the <piechart> but soon will add the rest of the Flot library. I use Flot on a project dashboard and it does dynamic data updates nicely.

Also, I really like what you did by moving not just the data but parts of the chart setup itself - that is something I'll incorporate into Flang as well.

Thanks again.
I can't trust the research of a man with such poor desktop hygiene.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6066991
If you jailbreak you can use SFTP
They might as well jump on Twitch.tv as well, it applies just as much there. Rabid Twitch fans will donate $100 to some streams just so the streamer mentions their name live. It makes me wonder how many of them are kids who took mommy's credit card.
Thanks for the thoughts, founder of FanHero here. A merch store is just the beginning, it was the most easy-to-understand value proposition for a lot of YouTubers but our bigger goal is to disrupt the monetization tools that old Hollywood has held a tight grip on (merch, promotions, sponsors, etc.)

We intend for this to act more like a fan club in the future closing the gap between creator and fan even closer.
While those are novel applications and would probably work well in a repair situation, those things would be better managed by software that alerted you when things like "inspection time had been exceeded" or if "pressures were out of range". Having to look at every pipe and piece manually to check it's stats is error prone at best.

"You mean we have all this stuff recorded and in a database, but I have to go look at it to get the info?"
Ask HN: Are there firms that provide Infrastructure Capital in lieu of equity?
Are there any web hosting firms out there that provide infrastructure to early stage companies for free in exchange for equity?
Let me pay for this app to help you guys out. I love VLC
Heh, funny you mention that:

http://www.nethosting.com/buzz/blog/a-rare-look-at-google-cu...
Back in the old days, I used to prepare for interviews by writing the implementation for the (at the time) c and then c++ standard libraries. Interviewers would often draw from the spec for whiteboard coding. Even if it differed from the spec, it really reduced my stress level.

The obvious win was that I knew the standards backward and forward, especially which ones were thread safe when that became important. It also helped with the same sort of interviews where I'd write the function prototype and then work through the implementation with the candidate.

The other huge win for me was that I ended up developing an appreciation for automated test harnesses so I could implement without bias from the control.

I'm not sure I could recommend implementing your own c++11 library (other than as an embedded subset for resource-constrained systems) but it can be fun to go through and do K&R as a bit of kata.
Pretty sure they're all separately incorporated, so it wouldn't affect them directly. It will affect retires who moved out of Detroit into these cities and now rely on Detroit pensions.
I've been following and using Foundation since some of it's earliest incarnations and I love it more with every release. It's a great framework and the grid is just comfortable. Also, very nicely done responsiveness (as in responsive design).

The guys behind it are great too. I've had questions answered quickly by the devs, and they even sent me some stickers and this weird wooden puzzle thing that I keep on my desk!

tl;dr - Definitely worth checking out.
In dream-world, we'd never have problems like this! A constructive alternative to Detroit's problem? They should have declared bankruptcy a long time ago, before levering up their debt with bond schemes.
Generally the concept of 'fair trial' goes out the window when it becomes a nation-to-nation diplomatic issue such as this one. The individuals involved are recognized as acting as official agents of their governments. In that sense, they're more valuable for sending an international message or using like trading cards than the usual purposes of local criminal law (i.e., deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation).
It's probably too much to hope people would stop posting conspiracy theories on HN.

That one about "non-denial denials" still seems popular though.
ho-hum
newbie-think

consider the source

"Arizona State University Regents' Professor in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “It is rather like Windows defaulting to ‘safe mode’ after suffering an insult of some sort.”
<snicker>
It's probably as attractive and simplistic as the old saw "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". Kinda true at some levels, but not really. Sometimes functionally useful. Certainly not new.
Wanna contribute to ASU? Have I got a real smart guy for you..... Or is that the London Bridge in Arizona?
I would quickly admit there is a Euro-centricity of the UN that is hard to deny. But I don't think it's so much about race these days as it is about economic status. Poor nations have to face the same bias that poor people do in society in order to be represented. Basically they have to become a thorn in the side of the wealthy. The wealthier nations feel that they have more on the line and should in turn have more control. Does this sound like a familiar debate? It's the same one raging throughout all societies right now.
There's even a mixin for that!

@include grid-column(3);

(There's a mixin for practically everything, documented at the bottom of every docs page, eg http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html)
PZ Myers, a biologist, gives a good reaction to some earlier news on these physicists at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/26/aaargh-physici...
"If it's cooperation, what do they get out of it?" I'm pretty sure that the US government could give something in exchange for the disturb, for example:

* a helping hand when foreign governments want to close loopholes that allow these companies to dodge local taxes

* useful information about foreign competitors that comes out of the snooping

* government contracts

* ...and much more...
> Internationalized domain names [1]

Does anyone know how this works in general?

It seems like an invitation to severe cybersquatting to allow someone to register e.g. goógle.com. I know those marks mean something in non-English languages, but for me (and I suspect most English speakers) it's very easy to mistake for dust on the monitor those symbols that Europeans insist on putting over their letters, like "`" or "'" or [[cos(90), sin(90)], [-sin(90), cos(90)]] * ":" [2] or other weird symbols that I don't even know how to type because they aren't linear transformations of ASCII characters.

[1] http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6

[2] http://xkcd.com/184/
Ask HN: Anyone use Search HN before submitting articles to prevent duplicates?
From the outside it seems that Mac developers have just as much trouble, but with things like homebrew and developer tools in general. At least if doing anything else than web programming.
Is this wrong?
37 miles should be about 15 minutes on the Google Maglev. Maybe Apple will chip in.
Redwood City, East Palo Alto.. that should be about the min
Is there a name for the one that goes "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Godwin's law approaches 1"?
How Bitcoin is a proxy for the value generated by computation
A freezing shower will usually get you 4 hours sleep. Start with the water tepid, then reduce it over a couple of minutes. If you drop your core temp then you can get off to sleep, gotta stay under til you're cold throughout. That's how I dealt with 35 degree (that's 95f) nights after mid 40s days in the south of Spain with no air con. Also, hard shutters over the windows during the day, buildings hold on to a lot of heat.
Yeah, but he said "people like", and don't most of them qualify?
It's more than that. A contract isn't binding unless both parties offer consideration. In the case of a separation agreement the employer's consideration is the severance pay.
Not sure if you are being rhetorical, but the answer is that the new entrants are generally childless and making at least $80k annually.
Use http://www.segment.io for your analytics. You insert only one script into your site and the service lets you use up to 30 different analytic providers. Many of these services provide the first 30 days for free, so try as many as you like and see which ones you like best.
> I made the switch because I no longer had the time and interest in maintaining my OS - I wanted it to just work.

I feel that is no longer a valid excuse. I use ubuntu on thinkpads, and it just works.

I see people around me with more issues with their OS X machines in fact. That might be just anecdotal, of course.
I think one reason Kendall rents aren't a topic of discussion is also because the Boston/Cambridge area has lower rent areas that are close by and accessible via public transportation.

While it's nice to live right where things are happening, you could easily get a place out in Davis Sq or Porter Sq and take the T in, or in Somerville or Union Sq and have a 10 minute bike ride.

From what I gather, as a fellow Cambridge resident, the problem in the Bay Area is that areas with Somerville-level rent result in an HOUR+ commute, rather than a 10-minute commute.

There's a lot that's great about the bay area, but I think we certainly have the upper hand here when it comes to [reasonably priced] city live-ability and transportation.