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He was brought in for questioning and seized of his property.

On what basis? The Home Office guidelines clearly state that questioning and seizure are to be used only in cases where terrorism is suspected. David Miranda is clearly not a terrorist, nor is he associated with terrorists. To quote the guidelines:

Schedule 7 powers are to be used solely for the purpose of ascertaining if the person examined is or has been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. The powers must not be used to stop and question persons for any other purpose. An examination must cease and the examinee must be informed that it has ended once it has been ascertained that the person examined does not appear to be or to have been concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

Does the law say somewhere that they can question anyone for any purpose? If not then this was clearly illegal.
As for monetizing... if you can stabilize your app financially so it's at least self-supporting via grants/charity (ooh, get Pearson to sponsor it!), you could then leverage that success into a for-profit startup targeted at the money-rich American market.
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As an aside: it's not good to think of chess as something that you "reason through" or that benefits from any kind of abstract thinking. This is a very common misunderstanding (that, as a programmer who sucks at chess, I find grating sometimes -- everyone assumes I'll be able to just sit down at a chessboard for the first time in a year and trounce them).

Instead, chess is a learned skill, like playing an instrument or maybe speaking a language. It's not that advanced chess players are unusually good at analyzing systems -- the game of chess is far too complex for that. Instead, they build up an intuitive understanding of how the game works based on memory. A good chess player looks at a board and intuitively determines which player is in a better position. This is possible because they have seen that situation, or others like it, before.

That's not to say talent doesn't play a part, but chess-playing ability is mainly a function of games played (at least, at beginner-intermediate-advanced levels).
Looks quite nice - I really like the new theme, as it allows you to go for a gradient look but appears much less intrusive than Bootstrap 2's theme, in addition to being optional.

Better documentation is also a huge plus.
Chinese hackers gain access to the most expensive U.S. weapons system ever built
Your replies in this thread have been piss poor, anti-corporation, anti-media, hyperbolic shitposting. Please take it back to /r/technology.
No, they said he should not "harm the US" if he was to get asylum.

As Snowden had already handed his documents to others, presumably Russian authorities knew full well that making that promise would be easy for Snowden and would not make any difference, and it made it easier for Russia to appear to be taking the high road.
The tube does not run in a straight line. Every curved element is an opportunity to absorb thermal expansion. Imagine bending a metal rod into a curve in your hands, which remain at fixed point, while it sits on a table. Then it gets very hot, and the metal rod has expanded. If your hands have remained at the same points, the arc of the rod has gotten slightly bigger. The pipe itself has moved laterally from its prior path. This is why the lateral and vertical dampeners assist in absorbing thermal expansion.
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Opening the mobile menu still lags a lot on my phone (Galaxy S3, stock browser). Why don't they use CSS animations for it instead? I was really hoping it would have been fixed in v3. Love the rest though.
I have tried answering some of it below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239844
> its not clear that he is attempting anything with Hyperloop other than what he is demonstrated to be very good at: selling ideas.

While selling ideas isn't a bad skill I think you're underselling his ability to execute, somewhat.

Personally, I feel that Musk's "list of biggest risks to Tesla" has many items before "CA HSR". By the time it's built Tesla will either be (at least) a countrywide success, or not.
"It seems the article is more concerned about criticizing the details of the proposal rather than the idea."

Normally on HN, you'll find many people repeating a mantra, something about execution being more important than ideas. Ideas are cheap and easy. Actually making them work usually isn't.

The thing about the hyperloop is that the proposal is the only thing anyone has to go on. Unfortunately, it has the same problems as many other proposals familiar to HN'ers, including excessive details in some areas while cheerfully breezing over important issues.
Of course it would; but academic qualifications don't really play into this, do they?

Take 2 Harvard dropouts; one founded a tech company and one deals drugs from his basement. Are they interchangeable? If the former took you aside with a proposal, would you be more, or less likely to think about it than if the latter did?
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well as an indian it saddens me to say that i agree with you. also I believe that middle class and rich are the most misogynist among indians. There is no morality that works in india accept "I can get away with this because I have money and power to do so". I think that world will face a lot of problems integrating india and indians in near future.
This is an excellent solution to long latency tails, which become more and more noticeable at large scales. Here's a blog post discussing Google's experience with it: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/12/google-taming-the-...

I expect it will be especially helpful for businesses analyzing data-- they can get useful results from massive datasets without massive hardware expenses.
Congratulations, you are smarter about documents than Greenwald and partner. Now you just have to get into a position where the next snowden knows this.
By "Typical 2K and HD digital movie cameras" I guess they mean small sensors, which lead to large depth of field due to the laws of optics (don't ask me the details, I must have slept through that class). Larger sensors allow smaller depth of field which blurs the background (or just lets you show off your bokeh), allowing the eye to naturally focus on the subject.
Yes, read my other responses, I'm tired of repeating myself.

Also, the only narrow minded here is the one who advocates for a fragmented world and the resulting slow flowing of information.
It seems very much like they stopped caring about how it looks. Pretty much around the time the revoked Snowden's passport.

We're through the looking glass now. Our governments (no Western government is exempt here) are operating in a way that closely resembles the regimes of the former Eastern Bloc, and they are making no attempts to hide it anymore. That's the scary part.

Revoking a citizens passport? Blocking attempts to seek asylum? Forcing down a plane of a foreign, democratically elected leader of a country? Detaining the boyfriend of a reporter under false pretenses? None of this is happening in secret anymore. And it's no longer "them", the anonymous evil "terrorists", the "enemy combatants" that cannot be fought by conventional means. They've turned on us now.

I wouldn't be too sure anymore they aren't planning to go "full retard". They obviously have no shame, and no fear of consequences.
> The lack of half-decent theming in Eclipse and
> Preferences/Settings being all over the place
> really puts me off ScalaIDE personally.

Agree. I can recommend http://eclipsecolorthemes.org/ combined with https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes.
You left out section 2, which clarifies that:

Action falls within this subsection if it-
(a) involves serious violence against a person,
(b) involves serious damage to property,
(c) endangers a person's life, other than that of the person committing the action,
(d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or
(e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

I think it's pretty clear that while the people involved may have been trying to advance a political cause, they weren't intent on using violence or destruction to do it.
That isn't true; as part of the C++11 support Visual Studio is getting, Microsoft is implementing more of C99 language support.

To quote the blog post the other person mentioned:

...the RTM version will also include a few tactical C99
language extensions when compiling C code...

You can thank the C++11 committee for that; they worked to bring the C11 standard into the fold with C++11.

It's going to become increasingly difficult for curmudgeonly vendors to refuse to support C11 if they support C++11.
He's been told more times than I can count at this point. I think he's decided that he doesn't care.
Why are you overclocking at run-time vs the simpler BIOS time overclock?

Sure while you are testing stability making run-time changes is nice, but once you know what your system can handle it makes sense to just set that permanently.

Also hopefully a fix will come out soon, since it is already well known that the ratio is allowed to change.
The same thing can be built for facebook, though.
That sounds like a fascinating model. Is there any explication of this online that you know of? Tricky to Google due to generic name of company.
yeah and 'gorithm' in English means "Khawarizmi"
Crime does pay, that's rather the point of crime, it doesn't really need proving.
Holy shit man, I feel bad for you. Having such a distorted view of life must suck.

I would try to explain my reasoning but judging by your other replies, it would be a fruitless endeavor.
> "With v3, we've gone flat. Don't call it a trend—it's all about customization, folks."

I hope everyone catches that part of the post. It's very important, I think, based on the previous HN thread comments.

I've been quite surprised at how many people are in an uproar about v3 being flat. People have been saying things like "it's a dumb trend", "horrible UX", "so ugly", etc. For a skeleton starter template like this, flat is good. Having the design flat encourages you to build on it or theme it to your OWN style so all of the sites using Bootstrap don't end up looking the same (like they have in past versions). It was also annoying in past versions when you had to declare no gradients, or reverse engineer things to lose the "default theme". Making it flat now allows you to build up, where past versions made you go backwards first, then build the theme the way you wanted. I hope more people realize that rational now they have specifically called it out.

With that said, well done everyone that helped on the project! Great work! :)
There are techniques to hide it, like make the prints to grainy film to alias the pixels, as it was still projected on film.
If nothing else, it's intimidating because if they can detain you under a terrorism law for doing journalism, it stands to reason that they can bend or abuse some other over-broad law to actually charge/imprison you depending on the interrogation. Also, you get to hand over every piece of electronics you're carrying for an indefinite period of time. If and when you get any of them back, you might as well assume they're bugged or otherwise compromised, so they're essentially useless unless you want to try your hand at finding any backdoors that might be there. Fun.
Amazon.com Goes Down, Loses $66,240 Per Minute
There's definitely a slope, and trade-offs in both direction.

In the case of land, there's an absolutely limited supply of land, and so I think it could be argued that, in balance, it's more important to make sure that limited supply is used effectively.

Gold, by itself, isn't actually very useful. If someone wants to hoard it, they'll increase the market price for it, and maybe luxuries like jewelry or electronics will be more expensive, but it won't affect much.

I'd actually argue that patents that aren't being used should be made public domain. There's only so many good ways of solving some problem, and if society is blocked off from using some or all of them, then society is that much worse off.

If used as intended, to protect the results of invention/research until a product is brought to market, a patent's downsides are outweighed by its benefits.
I completely agree with you on China. I've had encounters which were completely harmless there, but could have taken a sour turn in Germany. Even the homeless are remarkably civil. There are certain areas you should stay out of as a tourist, but everywhere else seems almost laughably safe.
The interesting thing is that amazon doesn't typically lose orders when the site goes down for a short period, it often just causes people to delay their orders a little.
I read the article and linked articles. Does the OSX instance also run LXC micro-containers in your dev environment? OR is AWS/some other cloud provider required?
I've read time and time again about musicians, actors, and directors that all slowly come to realize that reading the reviews about their product just isn't worth it. It's hard to reconcile this sentiment with the "customer first"-attitude that should go into running a company. Yet if there's one thing I've learned from running my company over the last five years, it's that the Internet hate delivered by our users will be constant, never-ending, and more often than not, baseless.

I think that the creatives who just cover their ears and stop listening to the reviewers have something useful figured out. There are so many channels through which feedback can travel, why bother spending time on the mean-spirited, irrational ones?
Just to mention where this comes from: iOS 7. I don't like it on the phone, and it's a bad experience on the web. I'm a firm believer in subtlety in user interfaces, but this is so subtle that it's nearly invisible.
Now I'm waiting on a SCSS port of it.
I've had so many issues with PayPal that it's just unreal. First up, they have something like 10 separate API interfaces for taking payments. Second, the documentation is -terrible-.

We implemented one of the APIs (can't remember the name, it was something stupid at least) recently, and half way through our implementation the parameters we received back changed name for no apparent reason, and the PayPal sandbox was entirely changed; this resulted in our account becoming broken, constant errors where code was previously working, and it was never resolved.

WorldPay is incredibly outdated, underfeatured, and rarely improved. Their support is pretty decent, however.

With Stripe and Paymill now available, I don't see any reason why people should continue to use what we've been struggling by on for the past few years. They're so much better that I can't even really draw a comparison.
Don't forget the competitive advantages gained.
"Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence."

Wait...What? HFSMFCSWTF!
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In that case, crowdsourcing a way to pay this guy $5k for the vulnerability he found and abused would be counterintuitive.
Don't Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really.
I agree with that completely, however, common-sense should have told him that demonstrating an exploit on third-party was a really dumb idea. It has nothing to do with TOS or language barriers.

That is why he isn't getting paid (yet?)
And isn't it possible that the rich rapists actually can get away with it, and that's why you don't see their names in the media?
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He posted on Mark's wall, not as him.

Sure this bug was like that. But what if someone discovers a bug that allows you to post as the person?
From the PDF:

Picture:

http://www.rtcc.org/files/2013/08/Hyperloop-passenger-capsul...

Description:

The maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum height is 6.11 ft (1.10 m). With rounded corners, this is equivalent to a 15 ft2 (1.4 m2) frontal area, not including any propulsion or suspension components.

Note "6.11" feet is in fact a typo, he meant at most 3.38 feet as the multiplication with 4.43 gives 15 of frontal area, and it fits with the metric units. It's very low, much less comfortable than sitting in the car. And you can be serviced in the car in the case of accident -- emergency cars reach the people in need. You practically can't interrupt the 30 minutes of supersonic ride in the capsule.

Imagine that I offer you to enter the non-moving capsule and stay there, knowing that absolutely no matter what happens to you, it won't be opened for 30 minutes. Would you enter? Would you let your grandparent enter it? Your kid?

And finally:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/hyperloop
A dumb 'trend' that's been around for decades.

And agreed on your points. I'm looking forward to no longer having to override superfluous elements for the sake of customization.
Why don't we hear this more often? I often hear stores about people traveling to India but I've never heard of this level of incessant public abuse.

And what about the people who were warning her to dress conservatively and not make eye contact? Did they know the extent of the abuse she was about to endure? Did they deliberately downplay it for some reason? Or did she experience unusually horrific treatment because of her appearance?
> Having read that, I now believe the British were justified in detaining Miranda, though doing so for 9 hours was clearly excessive.

Much of the controvery kicked off by this is that they used rights that are supposed to be used purely for direct terrorism-related investigations. As one of the Guardian articles so succinctly put it, this is absolutely unacceptable, unless somebody actually and officially declares journalism terrorism.
I come to HN to read views that make me uncomfortable and push my pre-existing assumptions. I started off pretty negative on Snowden but have changed my views over time based on the strength of arguments I've seen here by those who think very differently from me. I'd never downvote something that was genuine and earnest no matter how disagreeable.
Of course "good faith" goes both ways. Facebook has to act in good faith. If they don't, they can't demand others do to them.
Well I'm glad I finished a customization of the v2 carousel last night. Will this thing break if I update? I'm betting yes.
Wait, were you approached by other men on the street soliciting sex?
Nice work bootstrap team! I really like how mobile friendly this version of bootstrap is!
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The lack of a response only suggests that you don't have a counterargument, and I don't blame you, it's hard to counter the obvious.
I guess I didn't read Hyperloop documents correctly, but I thought that the solution proposed for thermal expansion as well as earthquake mitigation was tube in tube expansion system at EACH joint, and dampers in X, Y, and Z axis under EACH pylon.
Levison did make a comment once that he couldn't give the government what he didn't have, referring to deleted emails. I didn't address that in the article but it is another dimension to this. Being that this is all about something he didn't already have, chances are that archived messages was one of those things.

Nevertheless, the means to decrypt those messages still is the critical difference here.
I began a project with this after the pitch/initial selection phase - but due to personal circumstances had to withdraw about 40% of the way in and concentrate on other things.

Due to the specific arrangement we had, I (understandably) didn't get paid anything, although the idea is still on hold to be resurrected when I'm more able - although this may be as a solo project then.

The concept and semi-anonymous funder are certainly legit and I'm interested to see how the other projects from this develop.
The only thing these nice commentators are advocating for is not blasting the character of others not conforming to your worldview. You are allowed to have an opinion, but the way you judge the choices of other people is rather unproductive.
As a contrary answer: Not very.

As a game with any purpose aside from building, it falls flat. After the first evening or two, monsters aren't a real issue unless you want them to be, exploration is somewhat dull after your first few caves, and the graphics (while arguably part of Minecraft's charm) are about as basic as you can get.

There are a number of mods and texture packs which address some of these issues to some extent or another, but even they get dull quickly.

Ultimately, it's a set of digital legos, and your enjoyment of the game will depend greatly on how much you want to play with digital legos.
Why don't people just send things in their native language?

Because there are dozens to hundreds of languages that could be! How are they supposed to be good at them!

Even Google Translate probably could've done a better job than this guy's original report.

Erk no. Google translation is decent for many languages, but sort shite for lots, and non-existant for others.

Especailly big reports with lots of fine details of "this is supposed to do this" type language can be harder.
And for people who are still concerned (and even though this is mentioned directly in the post - some people won't necessarily read it). There is a theme provided, which I personally think improves on Bootstrap 2's version.

http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/
Everything you mention in problem 2 is likely true, but these are generally true in most countries around the world, regardless of phase of development: in any country most crime results from the poor or uneducated because they have an impetus for wanting to do it, and ultimately believing they can get away with it.

Regarding problem 1 this might make sense if crime (violent, in particular) was notably higher in India than in other countries with similar income levels, but I do not think that is the case - in fact I would guess it is on the whole on the lower end. Yet women do seem to be heavily objectified ( as pleasure). This is what I found so surprising and upsetting while I was in India.
Unless you're getting ignored by the security team. Yes, I get it. There was a language barrier. There are what, 7 billion people on earth? Any one of them could be reporting a security vulnerability, and chances are english isn't their first/primary language. Prepare/act accordingly.
What does this have to do with terrorism?

How is the release of classified US information a terrorist threat to the UK?

Keep in mind the statute is for terrorism... Not your doing things we don't like to our friends.
What I don't understand is why anybody would think of India as a traveler's paradise? Because everything is cheap for a western person? Does one need a huge amount of ignorance to enjoy traveling among hordes of poor people? (Real question - I've never done such a thing)
All I see here are people going against me without offering a real reason as to why a fragmented world, the status quo, should be promoted.