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Prometheus Research, LLC (http://prometheusresearch.com) is searching for a full-stack development operations engineer to help build-out our SaaS offering and custom deployments of bio-informatics applications. We're comfortable with telecommute, however, since we work with HIPPA, you must be in the U.S.

* We help medical researchers (especially those working with autistic children) manage their data.

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We value planning, documentation and competent execution. This is not an entry level position. If you're interested, tell us at ops-hn-20130801@prometheusresearch.com

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They will probably do lots of if conversions to avoid this and to make use of the 33 issue slots. They could also add special instructions to push several values on the belt to keep different paths aligned.
"Sovereignity" is just a word. I can also use it to proclaim me and my friends individually "sovereign" so no aggression against them is justified. May you tell me how violence is justified in your eyes when person voluntarily pays for a flight, then pays for a taxi and goes outside the airport without a passport?
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They explicitly just wanted visibility, even if it will be downvoted.

This is an awesome post and it is fair to be in HN, but in some way just gave to Samsung what they wanted.
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HN has a nesting limit for comments (for probably good reasons), so replying here. Yes, I get your point.

> If there were more terrorists caught than people dying in car accidents, that would justify NSA activity in his eyes.

Ok, then our interpretations simply disagree, and that's OK. (edit here I mean that I do not believe that citing stats implies that were they reversed, NSA activity would be justified. I do not believe such a set of beliefs/etc. leads to inconsistency.)

I simply think that stats can be used to illustrate absurdity etc., but not necessarily to justify something. It is a slippery slope, but I believe it's a rather long slope ;) Indeed,

> E.g. giving up one man's life for 5 lives is measurable and sounds solid. Why don't we do that?

Here you are ignoring the slope entirely. What you're saying sounds like act utilitarianism. There are many types of utilitarianism and, more generally, "using the ends to [partly] justify the means" falls more broadly into consequentialism (utilitarianism being a subset of consequentialism.)

If we e.g. take rule utilitarianism, then your given example/situation computes differently. Indeed, this very example you cited is used to illustrate the difference [1].

All I'm saying is, there are many shades of gray. :) Just because you use stats to illustrate a point doesn't mean you're then bound by consistency to kill all lonely people to harvest their organs.

[1]: http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/utilitarianism.html#Act_util...
There is a fundamental difference.

When you read "a + b * c"--and then test your assumption of what it does in a REPL--the result is a learning moment where that knowledge now sticks to you; from then on, you know which of the two operators come first. You only have to do it once.

On the other hand, "using a font in which * and + look like [the same symbol]" means never being able to recognize the pattern, which means never learning anything and having to check every time.

Also,

> the idea that code should be readable - i.e. that you should be able to tell what a given line of code does without having to run it or look it up - is about as fundamental a good coding principle as it gets.

I would agree that that is a good coding principle for low-level C/C++/Java code; in these languages, you can't separate the abstract meaning of code from its implementation, so it's better to just keep the two things together.

But on the other hand, the equivalent coding principle for Lisp is "create a set of macros which form a DSL to perfectly articulate your problem domain--and then specify your solution in that DSL." The equivalent for Haskell is "find a Mathematical domain isomorphic to your problem domain; import a set of new operators which match the known Mathematical syntax of that domain; and then state your problem in terms of that Mathematical domain by using those operators." In either of these cases, nobody can really be expected to just jump in and read the code without looking something, or a lot of somethings, up.

This isn't because the code is "objectively bad", but rather that it has externalized abstractions which in a lower-level language like C would have to be written explicitly into the boilerplate-structure of your code. These are just two different cultures.
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I am not a US citizen, nor do I live there. However I did live there for about 12 years.

I don't think there is a lot of support in favor of Snowden in USA, don't be confused by internet activism. The reality is most people is US doesn't care about snowden or the implications of his revelations.

In the current US, anti-government activism is a foreign concept. You won't find a lack of people complaining about the government, but you won't find them on the street and make some noise untill there is some real change.

Even the occupy movement was largely a farce and it wasn't really against the government.
No.. I am not talking about full ACID support. Hardly any of the new object stores like MongoDB guarantee that in all conditions. I am talking about being generally reliable to store data and fetch data for a relatively important application on production.
It doesn't matter anyway, the burden is not on citizens to prove that the government is spying on them, the burden is on the government to prove to the citizens that it's no longer lying to the society.
Indeed, and have been free for a long, long time. The only thing they charge money for is the IDE.
The circumstances around a car crash are most certainly not voluntary or by choice. Negligence by other drivers (alcohol, distraction, and other factors) cause deaths to even pedestrians and bicyclists. One could argue that the victims of terrorist attacks are by choice - by choosing to work in a densely populated area or to send a child to school instead of alternative education. I think neither car crashes victims (in accidents caused by others) nor terrorism victims are "by choice". They are victims of circumstance.
Odd title, they've always been freely available, just bundled with the larger .Net framework
This seems to have come out over 2 years ago so the price may be far too high.

I do wonder whether it would have been far more successful if they'd created a snazzy Kickstarter video and required people to pre-pay for it.
Using your logic, being a victim of terrorism is absolutely a choice. My girlfriend's parents live in Arkansas. In the middle of nowhere. 20 minutes drive to the nearest town that's larger than pop. 50, give or take. No terrorist in their right mind would even consider doing anything there.

So just move away from the city, easy peasy. Your choice.

I think this logic is flawed and the argument is a weak one.
I disagree. For the majority of the United States, driving in a car is not a choice - it's a requirement to work.

Regardless:

In 2013, 1,660,290 people are expected to be diagnosed with cancer.

In 2013, 580,350 people are expected to die from cancer.

Source: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurvei...

Did these people die by their choice also? Maybe they should have eaten more vegetables and exercised more? That's 116 times more deaths in one year than have died by terrorism in 148 years.

If we had 240,000 employees working on cancer prevention, screening, treatment and cures do you think we might be able to bring that cancer death number down by 1%? That would save 5,800 lives per year which is more than the last 148 years have killed by terrorism. (Department of Homeland Security has 240,000 employees, improving screening processes alone would likely reduce cancer deaths by 1% per year).
Everyone keeps saying this, but what's the option? Discourage exposing scammy behaviour whenever someone could theoretically profit from the attention?
Large code bases now will REALLY look like spaghetti !
They have been part of the .NET framework since .NET 2, anyway. The only change now is that you can download them separately in a package with MSBuild (which was previously only bundled with Visual Studio or the Platform SDK, if I remember correctly).

But indeed, that's not a very big change, given that they were free before already.
I wish KickStarter had an option to subtract money from a project. This is the biggest abomination in programming I've seen since PHP.
This is an old idea, nice to see it get more mainstream visibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evoluti... (1902)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation (1981)
This is a sad day for America.

It's a sad day because a citizen of our nation decided he needed to go to a foreign journalist instead of one of our own to break this story.

It's a sad day because that same citizen felt like he wouldn't get a fair trial in our justice system and might be treated the same way Bradley Manning was until he did get a trial.

It's a sad day because lots of decent, honest people who work in our intelligence services that are trying desperately to uncover the next possible attack are going to have to work much harder.

It's a sad day because those people are going to work harder because the leaders do not feel like they can trust the American people to understand and decide for themselves how much of their privacy they are willing to trade for the work that the government's intelligence services do.

It's a sad day because we demonstrated that we care more about the embarrassment of our duplicity being revealed than in the ideals of our commitment to civil liberties.

And I'm sad because I'm an American and I love my country and I want it to do better.
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Scientists Banned from Revealing Details of Car-Security Hack
What sort of cold war spy movie scenario are you imagining? If he wanted to give the data to the Russians or Chinese, he could just have uploaded it somewhere for them to grab. On the other hand, I would assume that he knows how to encrypt things well enough that nicking his laptops while he's not looking would be pretty much useless.
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This is a good find. Thanks lloeki for posting this.

Google maps running WebGL has locked up my Mac (OSX 10.8.4) on multiple occasions.
While I agree with the sentiment and conclusion I don't think you can build a convincing argument by just looking at numbers of deaths.

Terrorism has no value but vehicles do.

Unchecked terrorism, ostensibly, begets more terrorism. This is unlikely to be true with vehicle deaths.

Terrorism also has effects beyond the deaths and injuries it causes and I'd argue those effects are much larger than the same number of deaths in a vehicle accident.
I will not comment on the very condescending generalization made by this comment. Instead I will ask this: Do you really need employees hired for a specific task to go through rigorous testing which depending on the company you are applying for offers very little real world benefit beyond satisfying HR? I can't count the number of comments here on HN where people were complaining that they didn't get the job even though passing the tech test with flying colors. Isn't it way more efficient to hand someone a real life task and see how he executes it? Also freelancers are expected to be more self reliant then employees who have an immediate superior and a more general role in the company structure.

In my experience there are two types of freelance work, one where you are basically an employee with a different contract (more money, less security). The other is where you are expected to take on as much responsibility as possible and manage yourself (I like to think of it as an one man army). I've been in both roles and neither is inherently better because if you force one role on your client, it is going to end badly and leads to dissatisfaction for both parties (been there done that, went with self reliance mode when employee mode was desired, needless to say I am now much more vigilant and make sure I know what the client wants).

I can't be really angry with the parent comment because I've seen the same kind of arrogance from contractors. The counter to his point could be that employees are afraid of performing or getting tested in the real world, hence they train for a series of theoretical interviews and whiteboard coding and once they land the job they just float along the other employees, stay low and perform as little as needed.
This is not my opinion but rather what I have heard from other contractors so don't take offense. Not to mention that one shouldn't be offended by general statements because they offer a modicum of truth at best.
And a load of days not to be: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/01/5614662/russia-will-enforce...
If you're not familiar with the Bounty or the Pitcairn Islands, this is a fascinating (and horrific) article on them: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/pitcairn2...
You never had to pay for. The news is that you can get it standalone from the .net framework.

As for free as in freedom, AFAIK it hasn't been made open source.
Merely discussing something is not promoting it. The GLBT community has fought this battle again and again, when various parties sought to suppress any mention of homosexuality in public schools, because that would be "promoting the homosexual lifestyle". This discussion may make more people aware of the Samsung contest, but it is in no way a promotion of it.
Nothing in this article implies that Samsung wouldn't be willing to do a deal in cash with such a no/not enough patents company.

For that matter, did Apple make a cash counteroffer?
If it's not about personal brand or profit then why would the writers care that the platform is making money out of their content?
I think Haskell handles the combinations explosion with its polymorphic types and higher-order abstractions. There are many, many types, but there are also abstractions over types. Java/C++ do not get that. `sort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]` works for infinite amount of types that have `Ord` instance.

I don't agree that lists are not very important for Lisp, they're essential for functional programming as we know it today.
Security people don't necessarily think about the past, because it isn't relevant. The death/injury ticker isn't really relevant. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln and post-WW1 anarchist bombings are not related and aren't relevant to today.

Security people do think about what motivated individuals can do. If some lunatic with a semiautomatic rifle can massacre dozens of people in a school or movie theater or shut down a major city for days, what could a trained group of fanatics do? There's a nearly limitless number of horrible things that can happen, and many of these things are real risks, just waiting for the right fanatic or lunatic to go for it.

The open-ended nature of this anti-terrorist campaign/effort/whatever reflects the open-ended nature of the risk.

That said, I think Snowden did a valuable thing. I think the approach the government has taken is too secretive and too much of an overreach. In an attempt to foil terrorists, we're undermining our democracy and the integrity of our institutions.
Out of touch? This guy maybe, but I would be surprised if SO, like most other communities, wasn't already successfully being gamed by marketeers a hell of a lot smarter than this clown.

And let's not have the illusion that HN an pg are too smart to be manipulated by people that are at least as clever as we are but who have specialized themselves in manipulating people instead of bits and bytes.

No place where human beings gather, virtual of physical, is safe from this. It's only the clueless an lazy ones that get caught like this.
The guns are not to be used against you unless you are violent. You imply you obey laws only because there are men with guns. This indicates you will use violence to avoid obeying laws. That is why I need protection from you.
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In places with lack of central government, (ruthless) armed group tends to become the de facto ruling regional organisations, like Somalia, Libya, etc. This is debatable that the lack of government is the only issue with these areas. However, I don't have examples who come to mind where the lack of central authority transitioned in a peaceful coexistence of different factions/regions/tribes.
It's a sad day because a citizen of our nation decided he needed to go to a foreign journalist instead of one of our own to break this story.

Glenn Greenwald is a US citizen.
It seems a little bit ridiculous that they're selling this as a "greener" and healthier alternative than a bicycle. I suppose the advantage is the size?
Netflix debuts multiple user profiles
We found 50 NYC hackers under 18
For me John Harrison remains one of the greatest Britons (despite coming 39th behind David Beckham and Princess Di in the 2002 poll - http://alchemipedia.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/100-greatest-brit...). Whilst he wasn't the only inventor working a timepiece solution his clocks were the most robust and he continued to refine and improve his product despite certain powers working against him.

The importance of seafaring to Britain cannot be overstated and this man was responsible for providing a key component of that success in many ways in spite of the country.
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> Bringing executives and managers in the development process is a recipe for disaster, there's a separation of roles for a reason.

In one sense, yes. Having people who aren't intimately familiar with a code base/data base decreeing how things must be done is... challenging.

On the other hand, executives and managers do tend to take a proprietary interest in how people's time and the organization's money is being spent, and sometimes this does spill over in to technical matters. One way to empirically assess this would be to survey the executive and managerial offices around you, and see whether there are diagrams drawn there by technical staff, perhaps on a whiteboard, or a piece of paper, or in some electronic form. If this is the case, you may already have the disaster you fear... or perhaps it's just the way of the world.

To my thinking, sharper tools to assist in conveying technical points accurately to non-technical people is an underserved and valuable market, even if you get rid of the snake-oil salesmen.