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Do you think for a moment about what that person had to put up with for the hours before you arrived that day, or will continue to deal with after you leave?

Is it not enough that you've managed to retire as a young man and lounge on the beaches of Thailand, do you also need to be treated with smiles and deference by people who still have to go to work every day? They have a job to do, and your abuse isn't going to help anything. At best, it'll just make the experience that much worse for the person in line behind you.

Empathy is not something that can be forced on a person, and a comment on a web page isn't going to make you change your attitude or think about anyone else's life, but then again, being a dick to customs agents isn't going to help, either, so I guess we're both wasting our breath.
Hold on. Why is the rationality of people even relevant here?

> But the point of the libertarianism is that governments have incentives in the wrong place.

Is not what smokeyj down there thinks. His claim, freely paraphrased, is that libertarianism is about minimizing violence in order to maximize human freedom. I don't think he would accept that there's a class of people called "politician" which you could make such sweeping generalizations about. That wouldn't be an individual-level evaluation. Or, for that matter, a class of people divided by gender.
This can get a little tricky though... I have two bank accounts, one which is my monthly spending and one which is my emergency fund. Because of this I transfer surplus money out of my monthly spending account so that what I have in there is just my budget, forcing me to stick to it. Unfortunately sometimes this causes me to overdraft because of a payment I forgot about (a few months ago it was eBay seller fees, first time in a year I sold something on eBay) or because some credit transactions won't show up for a day or two.

Of course this is still easy to solve by monitoring your account and knowing where you stand plus keeping a buffer. Since I like to keep my main spending account set with just my monthly budget I get around it by having a small overdraft line of credit. The 8% interest on that is a lot cheaper than the $40 overdraft fee and usually if I use it it's only because I'm over by a few dollars.
Honestly, this is refreshing. The US does not have a serious terrorism problem, so the massive amount of border searches are very trouble. We're giving up a lot of freedom to solve a problem that we don't really have.

On the other hand, we do have a pretty serious human trafficking problem, so I'm glad to see someone taking it seriously.
I like your optimism, sadly most people I've seen doing stuff like he describes do it in a distasteful and rude manner. Perhaps he's better than that, I don't know him, and I certainly hope so.

I've worked in service industries (of which I'll lump in TSA and Customs officials for now) and have been on the receiving end of it, polite or cordial people are welcome to talk about their experience, but then you get people like a friend of mine that would rather make them feel miserable about what they do for a living (the reason I can only take him in small doses these days).
I tend to agree with you, but apparently people _really_ like GIFs, irrationally. I built a service[1] that converts GIF files to HTML5 video (h264 MP4 + OGV) and people reacted very violently, arguing that "it's not a GIF". It makes me kind of sad, but oh well. It even has a simple embedding mechanism[2].

[1] https://mediacru.sh
[2] https://mediacru.sh/docs
No, since everyone finds out what words mean by Googling them, they'll just adapt the meaning of "evil" as necessary.
In the 8 years I have owned a Credit Card I have never waited to pay off the full balance. I also get the cash back (0.5% - 1% and 1% - 5%) which isn't a lot, but an instant discount on all purchases. Credit card companies will only make money off of my transactions.
I'm a bit confused by your comment. What is shocking about the author's observation of those against the leaks? Are you shocked the observation came from someone in the NYT, or are you shocked that "real journalists" actually hold those beliefs in the first place?

> The idea that some how recording everyone's communications, or war crimes in iraq and afghanistan, is not news worthy is really sickening.

I also don't think anyone is saying this, specifically, even the targets of the author's criticism. It seems more that there are a few that are against the means of the message, rather than the message itself. That sounds crazy, but it's likely a self-interested tactic to keep their lines of information open (insert "Government PR employee comment" here). Or maybe they genuinely believe classified leaks are dangerous, which I'm sure can be true but I'd like to think they would have a little perspective on where the real danger lies.

Of course there are also a few who probably think the domestic spying is a net positive so it was morally wrong to reveal anything, and shame on them.
But is its best enough? Are you beaten before you even try?
What he's saying is that if you had (say) a FS image with nginx, mysql, and rails installed on it, the system has no idea of what files belong to mysql and what files belong to rails. So you wouldn't just be able to take said image and tell OSTree "remove mysql and replace it postgresql".

Docker works in a really similar way, actually -- it creates file system images and tars them up, and then uses AUFS to separate changes in each container from the base image. Docker added metadata to describe how to build images; if you want to change the components (AFAICT) the "right" way is to change the metadata and then do a full rebuild.
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> As a 21 year old, I don't see how you could try to go indie with a family and mortgage.

Older devs can more easily have 6 mo to a couple of years in savings. It's not fun to burn that down, but it's quite a different situation from having no savings and student loans.

Also, having a partner with whom you can talk about money, strategize about money, and share income / savings with is a huge advantage.
Where by "indefinitely" you mean "not at all".
Linux.io is a social operating system with a beautiful minimalist interface that allows you and those closest to you to interact with the computers that matter
Has there been any work done at all to standardize this process and allow users to opt-in to cookies at a browser level, so that we can all stop seeing this stupid warning? would that even be allowed under the law?

i tried to download a firefox extension called "cookiesOK", but it doesn't seem to work in most cases.
You should have seen the reaction to this on Reddit/r/Android.

I thought Google made it clear from the beginning that this was intended to be a beta release until testing was done. Looking at Reddit I was shocked to see the number of people who think Google is trying to force them into buying from the Play Store.
> You're wrong on several accounts, but the easiest to pick out is: The DSM is psychiatry's bible, not psychology.

Clinical psychologists rely on the authority of the DSM, as do psychiatrists. The DSM is the central authority in both fields. If you are still confused, read this:

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/04/dsm.aspx

Quote: "After a 14-year revision process and a lot of contentiousness, the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) debuts May 22. What changes will affect psychologists?"

> They are two separate fields.

They both depend on the authority of psychology, the study of the mind. Would you argue that particle physics isn't physics on the ground that it isn't cosmology?

The APA recognizes 54 subfields within psychology. Will you now argue that each of them is a separate field? I ask because I've heard that one before -- I've heard it argued that, if any of them is scientific, then all of them are. But science doesn't work that way.

> Here's the psychology English wikipedia page ...

I'm very familiar with that page. In an article I once quoted its definition of psychology -- "the study of the mind, partly through the study of behavior". I compared that to Wikipedia's definition of neuroscience -- "the scientific study of the nervous system." Within hours of the appearance of my article, someone added "scientific" to the definition of psychology. If only science could be that simple.
They're the same thing, you'll only get paid if you solve real problems (though that's not really true, a lot of people get paid by stealing - most of the finance industry, many government employees, and much of senior management in industry).
The graph in the article suggests the bank's cost for a checking account per year is $250. Wow. That seems like a huge opportunity to provide better banking service. Driving that cost down to $100 or so would be a very big deal.
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Dental coverage is a scam. I priced dental insurance for my startups for three years. The only plans available to companies with less than 50 employees have benefit caps that were less than the cost of the yearly premiums! You get "free" cleanings and x-rays but it still makes much, much, much more sense to take the cost of the premium and put it in a health savings account for your employee to spend on dental care (or any other qualified medical expense).
I'm CEO of a medium sized company now. I played semi pro broodwar and masters level SC2.

Nothing in this surprises me. More then anything else Starcraft is a game where you learn how to use limited information better than your opponent. Think about it, it's really silly that people treat chess as this game with all these advantages for your brain and games like Starcraft are ignored. When in life do you have perfect information about a situation?

Building a company is incredibly similar to a 1:1 in starcraft. You start blank slate, you make lots of decisions based on the information you have. You invest into experiments and reconnaissance and you eventually try to build up a small advantage that you leverage into a win. Early game, mid game, and end game are totally different phases that all map well to the lifecycle of a startup.

This kind of training is incredible.
Cool, cool. Cool, cool, cool. So now who gets to build a facebook-based credit score optimization app. Buy and sell your friends so you can buy a house/get a job.
Right, there's still plenty of ways you can screw up a string. My point was merely that UTF-8 has one failure mode (invalid code units) that UTF-16 does not suffer from, and that has implications in encoding converters and APIs.
Croatia has some nice places, and the prices have been falling for the past few years. But you need to be ready to engage the local bureaucracy, which can be quite a Kafkian experience sometimes.
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> "Now Germany has a wonderful framework of laws and regulations to guard personal privacy."

The part you're conveniently forgetting is at what cost?

Sure, the pendulum may swing back the other way eventually but how many lives are going to be destroyed during these unnecessary oscillations.
When he said that, did he mean "for all eternity" or "in the next fiscal year"?
Yikes. I'm generally in favor of web privacy, but with unemployment numbers like theirs, that seems like the last thing Spain needs right now.
>That said, Tor inbuilt into firefox would be awesome. I just can't imagine it doing more good than harm.

try this: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
That may be true but a year out when new feature X just needs to "work", the time necessary to make that happen is going to depend in part on the quality of the foundation it's being built on.
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Google Chrome was trying to warn us all along about PRISM
I'll give you the crowdfund backers, since they haven't got what they expected, but who the hell are you to decided what he or his wife should spend their money and time on? Should we start judging you for the useful stuff you could be doing with the time you're wasting on HN, not only yours but others', by reading your posts?

At least he probably learned useful skills building his game. What do you have to show for the time spent here?
Also not making a discussion into an argument between adversaries.

> The arguments that are most threatening to opponents are viewed as the strongest and cited most often. Liberals are baby-killers while conservatives won’t let women control their own body. [[examples from the article]]

Both of these are not only threatening, they're over-generalizing to the point of being wrong, and demeaning to the point of being insulting.
Tell that to car insurance companies.
It's hard to take Orwell seriously when he launches into histrionics in the first two paragraphs of his essay. He makes valid points (the selected quotes are almost indecipherable), but it's difficult to to see how the particular abuses of language that he cites are responsible for the decline of our civilization.

If anything, it's the opposite. Our language seems to be getting more puerile, simplistic and filled with sound bites. I agree with him that succinctness and brevity are things we should strive for, however even that is not a panacea for vapid ideas and muddled thinking.
By that measure, isn't providing entertainment/relaxation a real problem? I don't see why it is any less credible.
So what we need is to internalize those costs somehow.
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Oh so have I, and I'm specifically excluding the "nah nah nah nah boo boo" folks. The only thing those people do is encourage me to pay no attention to them. I was really talking about those that are able to just go live life, have a great time, and somehow seem to serve as a shining beacon for those lost at sea! It's even better when they have a sense of humor as well as passion. (Writing "most of them" on a landing card that has insufficient space is as creative as it is hilarious!)

What specifically does your friend do to piss you off?
> Is it clear in the law that no cookies shall be set until the user has accepted the warning, or is that an open interpretation in this particular case?

This is a very liberal translation of the relevant part of the law[0]:

"Those who provide services will be allowed to use storage devices in remote computers, provided that the owners have given their consentment AFTER [my emphasis] they have been informed clearly and completely about the utilization of the private data".

[0]: http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/l34-2002.t3.h..., article 22.2.
There's a complex symbiotic relationship between the government and high level journalists, especially with regard to national security issues.

It's not simply that they're government shills. Rather, there's a strong appreciation for the sensitivity national security stories inherently possess amongst traditional journalists. Often, these stories could cause war, regime collapse, and loss of life in ways remote and unconsidered by the journalist.

The ad-hoc system worked out by United States media outlets is to approach government officials prior to publication of certain sensitive stories. If anything could seriously damage national security or cause immediate loss of life, the officials will lobby the newspapers to remove certain pieces of information.

In most circumstances, journalists only agree to these edits when there is both immediate danger to specific persons, usually military or intelligence assets, that would be caused by the information, and the information requested to be redacted is ancillary to subject of the story.

The reason so many in the media have had a viscerally negative reaction to Assange and Snowden is that they completely ignored this delicate back and forth, skipping straight to full scale publication. In essence, they did not follow the media establishment's rules for responsible journalistic disclosure.

The actions taken against The Guardian by the UK government marked a real sea change in the way the United States media is treating this story. Going after Greenwald? Sure, he was fair game, just a blogger with little to no editorial oversight from the paper that bore his brand.

But The Guardian is a full-fledged newspaper, and most certainly not fair game. United States journalists are now scared stiff. Smashing those hard drives suddenly invoked the narrative of attempted control and oppression that every professional journalist had drilled into them for years at university.

The blowback was immediate, swift, and severe. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post all plastered stories to their front pages about Miranda's detention within a few minutes. Overnight editors shifted their attitudes, and opinion pieces like this one spiked. Most significantly, The New York Times is now spearheading a series of stories based upon the Snowden disclosures, which will likely become the definitive investigation. This shift will take time to trickle down, since American establishment journalism is very elite-mediated, but the impact will be massive.
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Funny, though it is abundantly clear that you are not familiar with Linus's standard tone and vocabulary.

A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it is vitriolic. You have a selection bias.
A rainy day is a bad day, full of dark skies, miserable wetness, mud, and poor opportunities for taking pictures. A wedding day is a good day, full of hope and promise and new life, a day in which you'd like to go outside with other people. So rain on a wedding day is ruining what is supposed to be a good day. (Assuming you fall into the mindset that rain and weddings don't mix.) If it weren't, then why do people arrange to have weddings during the dry months of the year?
>To the extent they are using mirrorless cameras, they are using them to complement their top-end DSLR systems, not replace them entirely. Thom Hogan among others has written about this extensively.

The example I gave was of a long-time professional photographer that now uses EVFs exclusively and says they are both the future and much better than traditional viewfinders.

>EVFs have numerous shortcomings, and most of their advantages are already available on high-end DSLRs with live view technologies. EVF is not great, and not even your linked article says it's great. It's just something photographers have to live with to get the lower cost and smaller size of mirrorless cameras.

The A77 and A99 are direct counterexamples to that. They cost the same as their competitors and have the same size. Those are the cameras in the example I linked so at least that one pro didn't go in looking for cheaper or smaller.

>As I've already said, I have no doubt the DSLR market share will shrink. Where we part ways is whether this means incumbents like Canon and Nikon are going to get put out of business by electronic companies like Sony and Samsung.

I don't think Canon and Nikon are going out of business, I just think this is the classic Innovator Dilemma situation where the new technology that is considered inferior ends up dominating. After all the current crop of companies are the result of the long evolution of the 35mm standard. Initially that was the low-end to take advantage of cheap movie film, no match for the medium and large format serious stuff... The same way Hasselblad is still in business but mostly irrelevant I fear Nikon and Canon will be that way in 20 years if they don't innovate along with the market.
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A mirror and a blinking spotlight also makes it.
Re: Unity

I've often heard the "Unity look" criticized, but there is no Unity look. That's just a failure of art direction. I.e. any engine that supports shaders well doesn't have a particular look.

Because Unity and UDK are such time-savers, they're used in a lot of student projects. Often these have very low production values that bias people against these engines.

A good analogy is particle systems. The fundamental technology hasn't changed in 20 years. However the final look is extremely sensitive to iteration and art direction.

Having good artists is much more important than having good tech, much as it pains me to admit it.
Interchange fees would have to be much higher if they were a larger percentage of a credit card company's revenue (as they are for AMEX). This would end up resulting in higher costs for consumers.
The ultimatum is for Google to restore undocumented functionality or publicly state they don't support openness. And we're all fools to think Google will go to the ends of the earth to support everything imaginable! Replace Google with Apple in the GP to understand the entitlement and just how foolish we aren't.
Very much so. So many of my side projects get derailed due to thinking about scaling. I tend not to do web projects so "scaling" in my context is usually along the lines of "hmm, if I put this language feature in my compiler (that nobody knows about or uses and doesn't even work) I'm going to have to support it for years."

Lame.

The "do things that don't scale" article helped knock me out of this rut a bit. I suspect I'll knock myself out the rest of the way the more I remind myself that pre-mature worries like this are actually an advanced form of procrastination.
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This actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of articles have been talking about how there's no obvious candidate for new CEO, and that it's basically too much for any single person to take on.

But if Microsoft were split into divisions (Windows/Mobile/Tablets, Enterprise/Office, Xbox/entertainment, Bing/Hotmail somewhere?) that could freely compete, it's actually pretty easy to imagine suitable CEO's for each one.

I'm truly hard-pressed to think of any value Microsoft as a conglomerate of these divisions, actually provides, strategy- or synergy-wise -- at least that's visible to those of us outside the company.

But is there any kind of precedent for this? It's common for companies to spin off a division, but I can't think of any company voluntarily truly breaking itself up like this. It's hard to imagine a board saying, "we admit we're not providing strategic value here, let's break ourselves up".
At the time, I thought that not breaking up Microsoft during the monopoly trial (a very remote possibility) was the worst thing that could have happened to Microsoft. As a large company, they lost a lot of the tech edge that they had in the 90's. Had they split into three groups something like: OS/ servers/dev tools, Office applications, and Internet services/Xbox(?), they would be a much more formidable competitor in the future.

Imagine how much would be different now, had there been baby-microsofts competing during the last ten years.
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> and the end result may be career damage that will carry through for the rest of your professional life

I agree with the rest of your post, but this is just silly.
That's what the NLP is for. It's a three step process: Specify what you want, where you want it from, come back later and download your spreadsheet.

I planned on adding more advanced features later for users to specify css selectors and stuff.

The main ability of this is a preview and adjust feature I created in there that highlights the data it "thinks" it would grab for each website.

I took a lot of notes as I was creating this.
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I think you're misunderstanding the point of the question. It's not about forcing anyone to work on a Sunday, it's about whether or not you feel like this person is someone you'd like to work with.

Lets say for whatever reason, this person is in the office on a Sunday. Does the idea of going and working with that person, all by yourself, sound terrible? If you can't be with that person all alone, there's no reason that they should be part of your team.