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Dev-C++, or at least the version of it you get at that particular website, is a terrible choice. [1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/36896/

[2] http://clicktobegin.net/programming/why-you-shouldnt-use-dev...

[3] http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/3707...

[4] http://blog.vucica.net/2011/01/reasons-against-advising-begi...
so is he the guy behind 48 fps movies? If so this guy has nothing to prove. It's the future of the cinema.
He's also deleted his linkedin, twitter, and instagram. This guy had no ability for recourse after this story broke. Let's hope that he doesn't have this kind of lapse of judgement in the future.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andy-johnston/41/81/119
I took it to mean that the tube was rigidly (or near rigidly) fixed in the vertical direction, more generously dampened in the transverse direction, and completely free to slide over the pylons in the longitudinal direction.
Reminds me of the cigarette advertising ban - as soon as tobacco advertising was banned in the UK profits shot up because the huge ad budget was suddenly unnecessary. They no longer had to compete with each other on that front.
First of all, I don't think Brad had "everyday sadness". Secondly, he may have required medication.
Often the net feels like a small place, but it's things like this that give me notions of just how much stuff there is going on that I truly have no notice of. On the internet, which is pretty much were I live, there are these conflicts happening that I never see, that I never even suspect are happening.
Acts like this are designed to have a psychological effect on the target. Since government can't outright just kill the guy any more, they will do everything they can to make his life miserable by doing things like this. Imagine being in Greenwald's shoes and knowing that your spouse is bearing the brunt of consequences for your actions. It would make many people rethink what they're doing.
I am not sure what specific activity you are asking for. There are play sites, news sites, forums, learning sites etc. I like chessbase for news. But I play at fics which is a chess server.
Of possible interest, RED and Jim Jannard were covered by Wired back in 2008 @ http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-09/...
There are no providers who can provide full protection from a court order. The only solution is to encrypt on the client side using PGP or S/MIME and make everyone you communicate with do the same. But that means you can only login to your email from computers where your private certificate is installed. It also means no more webmail and no more search capabilities.
I think the important part too, is when he technically violated the TOS it was only to get their attention because he was otherwise being ignored. I don't see any reason they should not want to pay him.
I can think of many. For example, you're unemployed, and live in a hostile environment (i.e. palestine). I however cannot think of an excuse for a support team who's native language is english to dismiss the possibility of a serious bug.
Yeah that's fine but instead of getting angry at bad comments, try to engage them. If that fails, move on, big deal.

It's not personal. It may be for them, but it shouldn't be for you. At the end of the day, their negative social interaction is based around your product, and you as a founder, have to mitigate that.

Nobody is out there digging up personal facts about the guys life and giving him a hard time for it, then its personal.

If the negativity is based around your product, then it's business as usual and should be treated as such.

Never give up.
If you're wondering where the conversation got derailed it was here:

> Learn the basics of engineering

Every single comment resulting from this comment has been partisan:

Side 1: Elon Musk knows the basics of engineering as evidenced by his numerous successful projects.

Side 2: Strawman: although the original comment was about _basics of engineering_ turn it into an argument about the differences between engineering disciplines.

Seriously folks, if you're going to argue about semantics, skip the strawman, he ruins the party.
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oops, that's because I don't use ssl and typed it in incorrectly :) I should redirect it though
I agree with you. The problem with depression, though, is that it does not make idle threats. In my experience, you get a window in which to make those changes, after which depression can stomp you into a hole so deep you can only get out with a lot of help, and tremendous effort. If you're lucky enough to find a way out at all. Many don't.
i think it's important that it was true for the places the author was in, as well as the other women whose situation was similar with the author's.

yes, it's generalization, but that the experience and the severity of consequences were similar to multiple people should give you more sympathy than 'it's true in some places'.

I know you didn't use the word as I think you used for, and I'm sorry, but the usage of the word some really tipped me off here.
> So they pull him aside to see if they can intercept it. It's not clear if they have or not - we do know they took a lot of his equipment.

Obviously stealing his shit does not take the full 9 legally allowable hours. That could not have been the only motivation.
Replying "this is not a bug" is equivalent to saying "I have read and understood your report, and this is not a bug, it is a feature." First off, it's not a dismissal, it's an acknowledgement. Second, since it's not a bug but rather a feature, then how does using the feature violate the ToS?

The correct reply might be something like "cannot understand or reproduce, can you explain more clearly?" along with some bug report guidelines.
More probably they hoped to discover something incriminating on his computer or media during that time in order to have a clear case against him and keep him.
Hi peeps,

I'm the author of the article, I'll be happy to answer any question you may have about docker-brew!
This gets asked a lot currently. The sentiment seems to be that email is doomed from a security viewpoint. You'll be leaking metadata no matter what. Even if your email provider was somehow secure, you have no way of knowing if the person (and their provider) you are communicating with is secure. If it's not (which is very likely) then all your efforts to secure your end are almost for nothing.

So yeah, my suggestion currently is to acknowledge the level of secrecy (or rather lack of) available with your email setup and use it accordingly.
>I'm just trying to point out that there might be a logic to it

Is there a legal justification, or is the gov't abusing its authority? Everybody knows that the gov't is embarrassed, and seeks to prevent further disclosures, does that give the gov't the right to break the law?

>a) He was his partner but he was also acting as a paid employee of the Guardian correct?

I don't know.

>I read they paid his flight at the very least.

So, it is not unreasonable for the Guardian to do so, since his connection to the recent Guardian stories are the reason for his detainment (even if he has no involvement).

> b) Assumption by said governments would be "He's traveling from Germany from Laura Poitras back to Greenwald in Brazil. He's very likely carrying highly sensitive documentation from Snowden"

Where is the connection to terrorism?

> c) The governments still believe that is highly classified, stolen documentation.

> So they pull him aside to see if they can intercept it. It's not clear if they have or not - we do know they took a lot of his equipment.

Harassment

When a politician says they need a law to detain travelers, without due process, in the name of preventing terrorism, I assume that means that the person may have involvement with an ongoing plot or operation to commit actual terrorism imminently. I am totally cool with detaining a person or persons who might be about to murder a bunch of people using a train/airplane. If wrong, the gov't ought to apologize, and make it up to them.

When the gov't detains travelers without due process, in the name of preventing terrorism, and it turns out the person has only computer files/documents/etc. and does not have any bombs, weapons, plans to hijack planes, or any connections to persons who do, and everybody knows the traveler is not a terrorist; that's an abuse of anti-terrorism laws. There are other ways for gov't to hide its shame, instead a gov't chose to shame itself further.

PS, I assume you meant "brought to bear"
Interesting, I thought The Alebrist was one of his weaker efforts and really needed a strong editor to come along and say "Now then Iain, we need to lose about 100 pages."
One clue is a statement Levison made is that it's not just what they asked him to do, it's also what he knows that would change our perspective of email:

“If you knew what I know about e-mail, you might not use it either.”
So there's two possible reasons for them stopping him and both are kind of pathetic. One, that stopping someone for 9 hours in Heathrow really amounts to much intimidation of anything. I mean it's wrong and wrong headed but I struggle to buy that someone with half a brain thought this would be at all intimidating. I mean this is England for crying out loud. They probably spoke loudly at him and refused him tea.

So I lean toward they really wanted to see if they could find anything on him directly or indirectly that would help them get to all those documents Greenwald is now saying he'll release. But I understand that most people will chose between these two reasons and it's hard to prove one or the other.
Lavabit's closure highlights the fact that third-party email providers cannot be trusted to keep your email private.

Even running your own mailserver (on a computer in your home, for example) won't save you from dragnet NSA surveillance or targeted attacks, but at least you'll know if the government sends you a National Security Letter or obtains a FISA court order for your email.
Perhaps it's a broken adaptation from an individual perspective, but working for groups. Depressed individuals are just being naturally deselected.

You fail, then you die.
My Wife just read SD on holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it, liking the characters. I'm pretty sure that it's her first Culture Novel.
I think we should crowd-source $5k to that guy and make Zuck sure we don't really need him for anything.

I'm ready to toss $10.
So far very impressive. Definitely worth $30 a year
If you have bombs flying over your head I doubt you spend your day hacking Zuckerberg's account.

I concur with the second point.
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It's also an issue for anyone who's overclocked their gaming rig, as the computer won't keep accurate time anymore. See this video for a demonstration of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkDKgvXKko&feature=player_em...
This article seems to speculate on things that are not necessarily true. It's possible that the government simply told him that he had to be able to supply information arbitrarily on demand without an explicit warrant. This does not mean that they required him to install their own software on his machines.

Of course, one certainly still argue that this a line that the Government should not cross - I'd wholeheartedly agree with that. However, statements such as “We’ve had a couple of dozen court orders served to us over the past 10 years, but they’ve never crossed the line,” do not imply that the government required him to install software or otherwise compromise his security in a way that he was not already able to do.
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His primary argument is about thermal expansion. Are you claiming aerospace and automotive engineers make no study of thermal expansion? I could see your point if the proposal was about a dirt retaining wall or aqueduct where the other two disciplines wouldn't be well versed in the material's properties, but I am not seeing something CE specific in the thermal expansion of steel.

Yes, “stringer” is also a common word in structural engineering, especially in bridge design, but something that reinforces a tube wall is a stiffener, not a stringer. Update: I am reminded by Matthew Hunt on Twitter that “stringer” is commonly used in aircraft design. I should have remembered that.

Given this quote how do we know they aren't in violent agreement but talking past each other because they are using terms from different disciplines?
The Oakley people get their status cultural capital, the geezer accumulates real capital to take risks and you get the cameras. Seems OK to me (I don't buy brands especially).
Wow - what a completely and totally awful experience. Normally I tell people to take any and every opportunity to study abroad, but this makes me rethink that. Perhaps it's gender blinders that make this experience seem so unthinkable.
Many people seem to forget that there are still countries where US laws are not in effect.

Even more interesting is the fact that even Lavabit's founder seemed to have overlooked this fact, and instead of relocating his servers and all the user data to Iceland, Norway or New Zealand, he chose to shut it down for good.

Why?
Thinking about India really made me grow up in some ways. Mostly by disputing the idea that the whole world is progressing and 'getting better'.

Not saying India is particularly bad, but maybe the foreignness shocked me into noticing it.
Maybe you can find a way to charge for it in richer countries, while keeping it free in developing countries?

People might feel more likely to pay for it if there as some nominal, charitable aspect to it: "Buy now and help support women's health clinics in Nigeria", that sort of thing.
The tube does float (longitudinally) over the pylons, in the proposal.

The tube will be supported by pillars which constrain the tube in the vertical direction but allow longitudinal slip for thermal expansion as well as dampened lateral slip to reduce the risk posed by earthquakes. In addition, the pillar to tube connection nominal position will be adjustable vertically and laterally to ensure proper alignment despite possible ground settling. These minimally
constrained pillars to tube joints will also allow a smoother ride.
James Cameron has also been talking about 48 FPS for a while.
What all of this fails to mention is that Jannard was essentially forced to sell Oakley to Luxottica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica). Luxottica has a gigantic monopoly on the eyewear industry and one day refused to sell Oakley brands in their stores unless they sold out. The high price tag with the sale is to keep Jannard quiet.

I think Jannard has developed a kind of healthy-paranoia here, because the work he's doing is flying in the face of titans. His persona makes him want to stand up against the big boys and say, "Told you so!"

In my opinion, he's right to be super paranoid and fall into the background. He doesn't want RED to become another Oakley.
you know that the biggest advances in Maths are made in japanese, russian and french, right?
You know that english got a status of lingua franca only gradually, meaning that for a long time there was actually no reason whatsoever to learn it.
And now the best one, you know that thanks to the US money sent to Israel, Palestine is voluntarily maintained a third world country by its neighbor who impairs any form of education (or other form of societal development whatsoever, like having a port, and airport, fishing, trading, traveling etc.)
This guy learned some web stuff and some english (whose alphabet and spelling directions are different) while the most powerful nation in the world was sending obstacles (by which I mean missiles and bullets). I think he already did quite some homework.
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't cooperate'
A cool tip I've picked up on is to have a label in your inbox called "feel good" (or whatever). Then tag the emails that make you feel good, whatever they are. For example, in mine I have an email of my former academic advisor congratulating me on my MSc defense, the first email sent to me by one of my mentors which led me to move to CA, etc.

Ideally those emails will span a period of years, if not decades- it brings a nice perspective on life during stressful times.

That can be your little "black box" :)
I have met several people with ADHD one of which was extreamly hyper and clearly had major issues the rest where fairly close to the norm. IMO, the real issue is spectrum disorders like ADHD tend to get over used and really need a sliding scale vs a simple tag. Aka this person has level 2 ADHD and has trouble sitting for more than 30 min, this person has ADHD lvl 10 and has trouble focusing for more than 20 seconds.
I've been in this position 3 times now. Trust me - you want to get documentation signed as soon as possible (yesterday, really). When money and equity is on the line, "friendship" can, and often does, go out the window in an instant.
The entire email transation between a sender and a recipient usually looks like this:

Sending Client [--A---> Sender SMTP Server [--B---> Recipient SMTP Server [--C--> Recipient IMAP/POP server <---D----] Recipient Client

Connections A and D are easily possible to encrypt, provided your provider provides SSL/TLS on their SMTP and IMAP/POP servers. Most usually do. Connection C is usually local to a single machine, or for large email providers will go over an intranet of some kind.

What is at issue is connection B, which goes over the public internet. That is almost always in clear text, as most of this infrastructure was designed 30 years ago and hasn't evolved much since then. If you are sending email within a single provider (e.g. sender@gmail.com to recipient@gmail.com), such delivery can be trivially encrypted.
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It reminds me of a news about a western woman who hitchiked across China. I hope women's security in India will get better in the future.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rachel-katz-hitchhiked-across...
To all hackers: If you speak perfect english, please proceed to submit exploits to the FB security team and collect $5k on your way out. If not, post to blackhat forums and receive $10k. Or use the exploit to manipulate FB stock price (I'm sure posting as Mark would move the stock price significantly, if only for a few minutes. But that's enough to earn a lot more than $5k).
The problem I think is - The people at lowest rung of our society have very little moral values. The most important thing is to survive. Sure occasionally you meet a auto-rickshaw driver who did not try to charge you more, but by and large every one of them will try to take as much as they can.

I have been with some of the poor people (heck I come from poor background) of this country, took a trip in transport truck from Kolkata to Patna, stayed in cheapest hotels in Varanasi, was part of student group that tried to forcefully occupy a train only to get fired at (one guy got killed) and one thing that is clear as day to me is - the idea that "this is wrong" does not exist when what matters is - "Can I get away with this?"

The gap between middle class and lower class is HUGE. I don't know if there is any other democracy that has such wide gap of income between people. It Us vs Them. Rich and middle class get very little empathy from poor folks. Perhaps it is true other way round too.
Show HN: Sort of like a freeform forum with multi-replies per post.
Because if he got a NSL requesting a backdoor on his servers, then it doesn't matter where the servers are located. What matters where he personally and his company are located. And you can ask Snowden how fun it is to be persona non grata.
having recently traveled in India for three weeks, I heard remarkably similar accounts all too frequently from groups of women travelers.

Even as a man, I was approached for sex several times while out running. It was gross.

Having traveled a fair amount, I have never personally experienced behavior consistently this revolting in other countries. The behavior of Indian men was easily the most dissappointing part of my time there.
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I feel bad for what happened to this poor woman, but it just goes to show you the disconnect between academic romanticization ("South Asian Studies" major at U. Chicago) and the cold hard light of reality. And that reality is that people flee these countries for a reason. People don't just decide to uproot their families and leave everything they know 10,000 miles in the rear view mirror for nothing.

What bugs me are people, largely motivated by financial interests, in my opinion, who downplay the massive cultural and social advantages we still enjoy in the west over places like India. We may be dealing with demographic challenges and sometimes sclerotic economics, but I'd take France in decline over any BRIC country on a supposed upswing any day of the week... But the almighty dollar is the most important thing, right? As long as there is money in doing business in India (or the Middle East), we can just chalk all this up to "cultural differences" that we must be "accommodating" of.
solid talk!
It's the first amendment in practice.
No. Read the pylon section. What it says is that the tube is NOT constrained in the longitudinal direction on the pylons; it's free to slide back and forth in the direction of travel. It's only constrained vertically and laterally.
Laws are not black and white. If they were, judges had a far easier job. Laws are made by the legislative and are interpreted by not only the judiciary branch but also by the executive branch.

What has David Miranda done which violates that law?
Miranda was not charged with anything, he did not violate a law. He was brought in for questioning and seized of his property. This is allowed since the law is aweful and can be interpreted this way. If it was unlawful the prosecution could prosecute the police that did this. They likely won't since the law is fuzzy.

Again, I'm not supporting any of this. I'm just trying to shed some light into this since most comments her on HN are simply complaining about UK/US without digging deeper and asking themselves why this is possible and why nobody has been charged with anything yet.

Law are not black and white
Plausible deniability assuming you have a competent lawyer/judge?
The reason to downvote you is not because your rationale is necessarily "illogical", but because 1) it's speculation, and 2) it's better to spend your speculative effort defending and supporting the good guys than the bad guys.
An enduring image for me is of the kind of bullshit jobs that you really can only find in certain parts of East Asia these days.

For example, drive to a parking garage at a shopping mall and there will be a guy who's entire 8 hour work day is spent wearing an over elaborate bell hop uniform and bowing to cars as they drive in. That's it...his entire job is bowing to cars. If he disappeared off the face of the planet tomorrow, it wouldn't affect a single thing. People would still come to the mall, cars would still manage to park, not one thing would change.

Or how about the nice costumed sales ladies standing in every aisle in the grocery store, not giving out promotional samples (a la Costco), but simply holding up gift packages of cheap processed food items. My favorite is the gift package for your salaryman husband, a beautifully wrapped container of instant coffee. That's actually two BS jobs, the lady holding the package (which you were going to buy anyway), and the person who packaged up the $20 container of instant coffee in an overly elaborate gift package that will go directly into the trash 10 seconds after it's received.

I remember travelling in Russia, and going into one of those amazing Stalanist subway stations, and there was a booth with a person in it. They didn't do anything, they weren't really an attendant, didn't help anybody or have any particular function, they just sat there for a 8 hours.

Of course for the really unbelievably useless jobs you have to look inside the U.S. government.