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> if someone could be bothered to tell them how to do it.

Its been clear and simple how to turn off cookies. But the silver haired old grandmother simply does not read those sort of instructions. That kind of knowledge comes from osmosis, from the surrounding culture.

We want to avoid 150 years of pollution before the digital equivalent of the EPA or the Clean Air Act. We want to get the surrounding culture focused on what is tracked and trackable. Snowden has massively moved this on, but putting a web page in front of everyone is also moving it on.

There are no reasonable regulatory fixes to NSA/GCHQ/Russia/China, that are not supported and demanded by a sizeable majority of people.

Not sure how to get there, but claiming this is a hoax is a little unfair
Originally I had a sentence at the beginning of my comment that said "as someone who grew up in the rural Midwest...", but I took it out. Perhaps I should have left it in, judging by some of the comments I've gotten.

Yes, trucks have an important role. I own a truck (paid it off and bought a car for commuting as well). My grandpa (a farmer) owns a truck. Many of my friends own trucks. But that excess capability that you speak of is the entire reason for owning a truck. Big engines, big transmission, big differentials, a big bed, and a strong frame is what a truck should have. If I can't tow a horse trailer let alone a load of steel, what good is a pickup? Pickup trucks have significant drawbacks (dangerous in the winter, deadly in accidents, hard to park), but none of that matters if you need a pickup.

You talk about contractors and fleet vehicles as if they're reason for mass-market full-size pickup trucks, but those are not mass-market use cases. Those are business uses. And let me make a big correction here, but most of the US is not rural. Not even close [1]. As of the 2000 census, almost 80% of the US was urban/suburban, and more than half of that was people living in cities over 200,000 people.

Pickup trucks are a status symbol, and while I don't have numbers to back it up, I would guess it would be more economical for people who need a pickup only occasionally to drive a car and rent a pickup. For the rest of us who actually use pickup trucks, the mass-market is turning them into minivan-substitutes the same way SUVs got turned from 7-seater trucks to soccer mom commuter cars. Compare the Tahoe today to the Blazer of 1985 for evidence.

[1] http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census_issues/archives/metr...
You seem to have ignored the main point of the OP you're responding to.

It is not SAFE to be on a bike on a public road. Do you read the news and notice how almost every week you hear of a bicyclist being hit and/or killed?

I for one do not ride my bike to school because I do not feel SAFE, no matter if I wear a helmet, pads and armor.
That's right. Not a typo. Unbelievable but true.
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I have to create some push based (websockets or similar) web service that's event driven (events on the stock market). The prototype has been written in PHP, but doesn't do very much. I'm STRONGLY considering moving to nodejs.

We now use Composer for packages, an automatic classloader, an application framework and a database abstraction. But even with all this stuff, PHP is still an incredible pain.

PHP might be good at the situation where: on every request, you start a new script, that builds a webpage and sends it to the client. But once you try to make it do something else... Frustration awaits.
Well, theoretically, workers own the means of production in communism, but that's now how it happened in practice. In practice, the Party owned everything, and its high ranking members were effectively nobility. Workers in communism were nothing more than indentured servants.
I was on the border line for the college I got into (subpar grades, mediocre test scores) and I can say that being good at a sport is what got me in. Whats funny about it is that the school I went to put almost zero spotlight/emphasis on sport and the sport I was playing was tennis not football. So all the time not studying for the SAT, and playing tennis, payed off in my opinion.
More generally, I would tend to say that humor is often about finding odd connections. I can easily imagine that being an important ability for giving good advice to businesses.
I noticed on his signature that he writes: Hipmunk: principal, marketing

What does principal mean in this context?
Also, I think Cisco paid over a billion for one mesh community network's project.

Meraki was worth $1B because they almost completely pivoted away from mesh towards more conventional networking.
> Stop going to work when you're sick.

That's a pretty privileged statement to make.
I'll repeat the crux of this discussion. There's no definition of 'hacked.' Welcome to the Internet.
That's exactly what's happening. The insurance company doesn't pay anywhere close to that price. Neither do uninsured people, typically - they just go bankrupt. There's a collusion between hospitals and insurers to help cook each other's books, and to inflate the customer's perception of value.

BTW, if you are uninsured you should negotiate before receiving service, apparently you can get a big discount simply by agreeing to pay ahead of time. Of course that's not really feasible in true emergencies, but you can still negotiate a payment plan.
The parent comment covered this very point:

>1. You're not subjecting HN readers to a site under the control of a malicious party who may have done more than just deface it. Even if you verify that you only receive plain boring text with no scripts, iframes, plugins, etc. it's impossible to verify that someone else won't get served different content. For example, malware that only gets served to people in Israel.
For some reason, you seem to be reducing my argument to "Use the shiniest technology possible!". Please don't strawman me.

If MySQL works for your use-case, and it's the option you're the most familiar with, use it. You'd be doing yourself a disservice by not at least evaluating other options though.

And Cassandra is a key-value store with secondary indexes and lots of scaling capabilities (such as multi-datacenter deployments, multi-master replication deployment)[1], and some companies who aren't Google or Facebook do need these things. It sounds to me like IndexTank wasn't one of those companies.

I reiterate my point: choose what's best for your company, and don't settle at MySQL just because it's "good enough".

[1] I'd also add that it's particularly suited for large, insert-heavy datasets.
Oh quite some time I would expect. The current system actually suits the wealthy quite nicely - on the surface it seems like it's a fair system allowing for admissions to be done based on merit. But as the article indicates, in reality the wealthy can buy a ticket for their children. So the proles are happy because they think the system is fair, and the rich are happy because a) they know it's not, b) they know the proles think it is, which gives them social cover.
Alexis appears to be heavily denying it on his twitter [1] along with releasing subsequent e-mails [2][3]. Looks like this is another Wikileaks publicity stunt.

[1] https://twitter.com/alexisohanian

[2] http://imgur.com/ZPLyoiP,KnwpYHc#0

[3] http://imgur.com/hl8lpMY
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Feel free to email me at jms at brwr dot org.
Nice aside - read up on the Volkswagen Phaeton - shows that even a company like VW forgets this basic marketing tool sometimes.
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By choosing to hold the wedding on a day when the sun is likely to shine, you have influence over the outcome, and the expected result is a wedding without rain.

It wouldn't be ironic for it to rain in Seattle in January on your wedding day.

The theme of the song is that life has a way of teaching you lessons through irony by foiling your plans when you exert too much control. Man plans and God laughs, etc.
A work vehicle is rarely mass-market. I'm referring to people buying vehicles for personal use.
Agreed, that's what I meant of course but trying to simplify.
Came here to find that out as well!
Yes, dreams too can feel extremely real. Also there is lucid dreaming [1] when you realized you are dreaming but the dream environment still feels real.
There are claims that brainwaves can be altered with listening to binaural beats [2] because they sync to them and can induce OBE and lucid dreaming, but these claims are unverified and sounds like pseudoscience.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats
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Another thing I didn't notice earlier, after perusing the implemented RFCs: More Python-like array syntax:

[1, 2, 3]
['key1': 'val1', 'key2': 'val2']

We've been on 5.4+ at work for some time now and if I'd know that a year ago it would've saved me a lot of array()s and visual noise.
Not all criticism is negative. Products are not perfect off the bat, they are improved gradually by the criticisms of the creator and the people exposed to it.

In fact, I opened this thread to see if anyone had complained about the typography, as I was going to if not.

Furthermore, while I agree that OP did a good job, I disagree with you about the fact that typography is somehow minor. ('if that's the only thing...")

How useful is a site to someone who can't read it? How many people don't bother seeing the actual mechanics of a site when they realize they need to squint to make anything out? The page consists of two elements, text and a button. Half of the elements are very difficult for a user to interact with. That's important, regardless of how spectacular the other half is.

Good job OP. like someone earlier said, it reminds me of the webcollage xscreensaver
Unless it's the norm for people to cross-reference the races of all their potential neighbors before deciding on a house, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the issue is a little more complicated than who sits with who at lunch.

A much more likely factor is your socioeconomic status (which is, granted, also related to your career), and race/class are not at all proportional in the US.

> People in Norway are more free to pursue what makes _them_ happy.

And why does engineering make men happy but women not? Put another way: are there women who are being made _unhappy_ with engineering? And vice versa for nursing? Is that not worth speculating upon and addressing, rather than taking for granted that the penis is the part of the brain responsible for enjoying math?
Ah, some of them are very high quality though! Take this one for example:

Ok, I have a better plan.

- you learn to fly by flapping your arms fast enough
- you then learn to pee burning gasoline
- then, you fly around New York, setting everybody you see on fire, until
people make you emperor.

Sounds like a good plan, no?

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5299.html

No matter how many times I read that, I always laugh.
um the US doesn't have "national health coverage"
"Nobody knows what they're capable of until they try it. Maybe half a percent of people have the brains and sheer determination to do this kind of thing. Start-ups are hard but doable, in the way that running a five-minute mile is hard but doable."

Worth remembering.
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> I spent 18 months living on a bicycle in my twenties, and I wouldn't trade that time for anything. I live in Alaska now, and loved the journey here.

Please please elaborate. I'm extremely interested in hearing your experiences. Do you have a blog or any posts outlining your experiences in-depth?
>unguided

I wouldn't say so. Most species (read: groups, not individuals) adapt when nature throws an exception they can't handle. Mutations capable of handling these exceptions become predominant in a group, while obsolete gene pools die off.

PHP shows too little of this for its progression over time to be called "evolution."
A classic example of gender humor
> Engineers and technophiles are some of the most outspoken groups opposed to the surveillance state and other abuses of power

Yes, but it doesn't seem to me like they have any impact whatsoever. Maybe I'm incorrect, though.

> The same way it's being paid for now: massive debt.

If the US economy were to crash (which it would if 50% of STEM workers leave, I think), I'm not sure if US debt would be worth anything.

More generally speaking, though, the US military and intelligence system is very highly dependent on highly skilled STEM workers. I suspect that there is already a labor shortage affecting them, and I suspect that, via their shenanigans, they are running a serious risk of seriously crippling their capabilities in the upcoming decades.

Among my colleagues in grad school, I was one of minority that was seriously willing to consider work in the military sector as a career, and now even I'm not.
And there's also Laravel, which is partially built on Symfony and generally maps a little closer to what is possible in Rails.
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Then why would the mods remove it from r/worldnews?

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1l49n0/
I know one guy who got more than 1 million in bills at Microsoft. Long term cancer does that to you.
> "Facebook should test its ideas better before full-scale rollout."

Most of the time they do, and I imagine they did with this, as well. Did I miss any evidence in the article that suggested that they didn't? Just because they are turning it off now doesn't mean at the beginning it wasn't successful.
There is none based on the evidence presented. The implication is that because Ohanian met with Stratfor, reddit may be compromised and feeding back intel to Stratfor and its partners. There is absolutely zero intimation of anything like this in the mail chain posted except the fact that Ohanian met with someone who works at Stratfor.

This is the type of invalid extrapolation everyone is worried the NSA will make since they have access to our mail. Let's try to remain calm here.
"That 80% marketshare is not going anywhere anytime soon."

>> I have seen this mentioned many times before, and also worked in PHP development teams. However I think this statement is confusing. There is no way that php development or programming is 80% of the market. I suspect that when you crawl round the internet a lot of spam blogs and advertising content is based off of php based CMS like Wordpress and Drupal - because it is so easy to get a generic template driven website up and running with a good SEO basis. I can believe 80% of the websites that return content could be PHP based.
Laravel 4 is amazing, too. Symfony2 feels like a beomoth to me (a few versions later and it will probably be on-par with Zend in terms of over-architecturing as it is going right now) whereas Laravel is lean and elastic yet offering the complete package in an easy consumable format.
Counterpoint: capitalists and the growth of inequality. I find it hard to believe that a group of people who act in complete self interest can or should efficiently and effectively distribute vital resources. See: oil, diamonds, and commodities in general.
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Notice how there is often a latino or Asian neighborhood between the white and african american neighborhoods.

I'd like to see figures on racial division in the labor market. When I lived in NYC I couldn't help noticing how I would rarely see white people working in stores, on the streets or driving cabs (and if they were white they would be immigrants). Diners were mostly staffed with Greek people, except the guys who poured water and cleaned up after you - they would be latino. White New Yorkers mainly work in offices. Waiters in restaurants or bars are often white as well.
>> You may be surprised to learn that the current director of the NIMH shares my views and is acting on them

> Appeal to authority does not make a valid argument.

Then it's a good thing I didn't make an appeal to authority. My reason for mentioning the director's position and actions is because this issue has a political dimension as well as a technical one.

By addressing the ongoing political changes, the director's comments add substance to the discussion, not to any imagined intellectual authority. If I say that psychology isn't a science, reference to the views of the director of the NIMH is hardly worthwhile. If I say that society is abandoning psychiatry and psychology, the same reference is immensely relevant.

> ... repeatedly posting that the NIMH director agrees with you doesn't lend credence to your arguments.

Only if I don't argue that psychiatry and psychology are being abandoned for cause, something I say regularly.

And finally, in a thread that includes such non-arguments as "you should stop posting", the fact that others share my views is entirely germane.
This is really fascinating. I would love to read these through. If anyone has an updated list, or a way to translate that would be amazing.
Unless you read Friedman's emails where he elaborates on his personal approach of bypassing multiple nation's laws via paid inside informants.

Undermining governance, diplomacy, while promoting corruption.

But by all means take the public facing statements as they are crafted.
Should the modal be overtaking the screen? It feels odd, almost buggy, in use.

Otherwise though, I really like this. The more muted color scheme is much more my style than defaults.
I think one point of the story is that more applications, and "better" applications, does not mean "better students."

It just means that the application process is in a financial arms raise that (in many cases) squeezes out the talented in favor of the well-heeled.

Which ultimately does not lead to the best outcomes for society.
> the OS is the house and Chrome is simply a room in the house. You don't put locks on all of the interior doors of your house to keep out burglars who might've bypassed your front door, do you?

Most single family homes do, in fact, have locks on interior doors. And they're built that way, as that's what most people want.
1) "Wealthy" doesn't mean "trust fund" money. Lots of people in the part of the 1% that isn't in the 0.1% don't have enough money where their kids could maintain their standard of living without being professionally successful themselves.

2) "Wealthy" people in the U.S. tend to be the "working wealthy" not "umpteenth generation wealthy." Among respectable rich people, there is a strong desire for the kids to follow daddy's footsteps at Princeton, etc. Look at the Frist family. The grandpa founded Hospital Corp of America (a $33 billion/year company). He went to Princeton then Harvard Medical School. Then he still donated a ton of money to Princeton to get in Bill Frist Jr.
There isn't anything significant about this, except that STRATFOR is disliked by some people in the various technical communities.

But, in fact, STRATFOR wears several hats, some I find good and some I find less than tasteful. This doesn't implicate Alexis in any unethical activities imho.
No business is intimated by the mail chain. Is there a problem with simple networking? Because as far as has been revealed, that's all this was. Ohanian and Stratfor briefly met one another, exchanged pleasantries, and went on their separate ways.
I'm not OK with stealing state secrets, but I enjoy reading them on Wikileaks, but stealing and leaking private correspondence? That's plain wrong, especially when Stratfor is being presented as a shadowy CIA-like organization.
Having a strong accent can make it much harder to communicate. I don't know if statistically true, but from my experience most of people with bad accents tend to use the language less effectively too.
If you're in tech you probably use English everyday if not all the time. With that amount of immersion it's just kind of hard not to be at least mediocre.

Also there's this immense sense of quality about people that speak a foreign language super well.

I think pg meant strong foreign accent combined with usage that just doesn't feel native. Which I feel is strongly correlated.
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I really don't see the big deal. Alexis is just sending a nice follow-up email to someone who wanted to chat with him. This is grasping for straws.

EDIT: My comment was previously under the assumption that Wikileaks was posting linkbait, but that role falls to the OP of this submission, not Wikileaks. Sorry!
I love the way she used a super wide shot to pull in so many graphic elements - beautifully done, Kate Courteau.
In the US, we call that redlining [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Unless I'm reading wrong, this scraper is a slightly prettier API to what most do: a simple curl, structuring the data with selectors.

Like most it ignores page requiring state or anything dynamically generated on the client.
It will be hard to make Mailpile user-friendly when you have to install it yourself on your own cloud server. But particularly with the end of free Google Apps accounts, I wonder if there is an opportunity here, either as something end-users can install themselves or as something mom-and-pop shared hosting companies can offer instead of their current always-awful webmail. Maybe you could even build a business around an encrypted webmail tool you license to shared hosting providers.

If Mailpile or someone else is going to be self-installed, I'd love to see it built as PHP. (Looks like Python right now.) As much as I refuse to develop in PHP, that seems like the only way to make installation as easy and ubiquitous as Wordpress, which should be the goal.

(I realize that either Mailpile or my own suggestion---or anything hosted on someone else's hardware---is vulnerable to someone reading the data right out of RAM, but it seems like their goal is to evade snooping not by building a 100% secure system, but by making it easy and affordable for everyone to have their own email server, so that government surveillance has too many targets to be practical.)
Well, some people view those sorts of totalitarian states as the inevitable outcome of trying to build a nation on Marx's ideas.
More saturated colors get more dramatic themes, if that's what you're looking for:

http://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/#ff3f38

It's also completely built on SchemeLESS, so you can easily override any color in the theme. I think "dull" is a pretty good tradeoff for generally working with any color you give it.
A thousand dollars an hour to speak with him on skype ... I wonder if he gets a lot of calls.