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Its called a false flag operation, commonly used to implicate a nation rather than an individual.

The Snowden camp is rather well defended at this point. He has received asylum in a country where US forces can't simply collect him from. The leaks are given out carefully, with lessons learned from the events surrounding Wikileaks. The news are given out in pace with readers ability to absorb them.

So what can a government do? Stopping airplanes with national leaders in them only caused more uproar. Trying to strong-arm journalist just created more news articles. Trying to physical destroy copies only resulted in a somewhat burned laptop, and maybe made someone to release an "insurance file". I guess they tried next with a false flag operation, hoping that it could go unnoticed. I wonder the think tanks will think of next.
Not dumb at all! Is a discussion that can be a little misleading, so be wary and don't blindly trust some random guy on a forum.

In the video they relate this randomness to the fact that qubits live in a superposition of states, in contrast to bits, which can be either 1 or 0, but not both. This means that when you measure a qubit, you would still obtain 1 OR 0, but you will obtain each with certain probability. So, how is this different to just picking a random bit and then measuring it? You could fabricate a way of picking those classical bit that yield the same distribution than the qubit.

We find a difference in one of the very first experiments that highlighted the quantum nature of the microscopic world; the double slit experiment: you have two screens, one with 2 small holes and the other is placed behind that. Then you send a bunch of classical particles through the punctured screen and you receive the counts on the screen behind it. Then you have a distribution of places where those particles hit. Then you do the same with quantum particles this time. You obtain a different pattern (this is important, is different to the classical pattern). This pattern is called "diffraction" pattern and means there was a wave like interaction between the particles. So now you try to do the same experiment with quantum particles, but sending them one by one, so no classical-like interaction could exist. Amazingly, you find the same diffraction pattern. This means one particle can "interact" with itself. The way physicists explain this is by allowing quantum states to exists on this superposition states which induces intrinsic randomness due to the fact that when measured, each particle could only have travelled through one of the slits, or each qubit (after measurement) can only be 1 OR 0, but not both.

This difference between classical and quantum description of nature goes deeper, and makes mechanisms as entanglement and teleportation possible. "Bell inequalities" are a great example of of some other, related ways in which both differ.
> There is a clear distinction between malware (virus, trojans, and worms) and adware in the antivirus community.

Fortunately for everyone, the "antivirus community", which produces software I would also classify as malware, does not get to dictate how the rest of us use words.
So if they're getting money directly from the NSA, it's hard for them to claim that they were in the dark as far as allowing the NSA direct access to their data.
Well, judging by the number of iMessages that arrive in a correct order on my iPhone/Mac and their inability to make iTunes Match stable, it's hard to believe that iCloud will be a success in the end.

Under Jobs Apple made stellar hardware and good-enough software.
I think that Jake Von Slatt's bus, while less designed, might have more of these things you are looking for:

http://www.vonslatt.com/bus-main.shtml
It's 9% extra because nobody is able to get their money. It's a sign of the market failing.
"They didn't have 'direct access' to our bank account."
Objective C/Cocoa: Simply use the built-in API:

[[[FSGun alloc] initWithGunType: FSGunTypeShotgun] shootBodyPart: FSBodyPartFoot side: FSBodyPartFootSideLeft onPerson: self]
I think the point was, how many of those billion dollar businesses did he inherit? Doesn't the emergence of, say, SharePoint, show that he didn't just extract money from existing profitable businesses? Microsoft seems to have done pretty well at creating new profitable businesses under his tenure, but they're not the sexy consumer products that people like talking about.
Welcome to Rails circa 5 years ago! :)
I appropriate your comment is meant to be flippant - and while I did enjoy the humour of it, the point you were seeming to raise bothered me a little.

The reason why HN promotes so many different languages and paradigms is because different solutions are better suited for different people and problems. It's not about hopping languages based on the latest bandwagon, it's about people wanting to share their experiences with their new tools.

What's more, just because many of us have got a little exited about Go / node.js / whatever, it doesn't mean that we're turning our back entirely on older technologies (case in point: I've recently made the switch to Go; both for web development and standalone console apps. However I still use shell scripts if I want to bang out some quick sysadmin routines. And I still use Perl CGI if I just need a very quick page thrown together for internal / personal use).

I think it's great to embrace new technologies, but not at the expense of abandoning older technologies when they're a better fit. And I think most people on here are intelligent enough to realise that. So the diversity of languages you see published on HN are the equivalent of the variety of different IDE's or even OS's around - they're not always there to replace each other as they often set out to solve different goals; and nobody is advocating that members of this community should learn and hop to each new language like a Frogger sprite leaps from log to log. Just as you wouldn't be expected to switch IDE's nor OS's every few months.
> Good soft skills will not compensate lack of smartness.

Sure they will. I work with quite a few people who have been very successful in their careers on the basis of their soft skills, and who are (how do I put this) "not notably smart" in classical book-learning skills.
How on earth is Apple TV a failure? It's a product they don't really seem to care about and they have the majority marketshare[1] (in 2012) and have been selling millions of the things each year.

They have had failures though, of course. Ping was another, for example.

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2013/07/16/report-at-56-apple-tv-takes-ma...
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Or many, but they prefer to do things the old fashioned way.
>Microsoft very publically bumbles their consumer products, but their enterprise division is doing well AFAIK.

MS is surprisingly well rounded regarding where its revenue comes from. More so than I had assumed reading a lot of the reporting.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-apple-and-google-wh...

>AAPL is one bad iPhone away from getting beaten by Samsung.

Look at how much of Apple's revenue is just iOS. Crazy. I'm not sure that Samsung is the threat, as they are just a hardware vendor like Apple, but without the profitable app and digital goods store (I'm assuming that App Store revenue is falling under iPhone/iPad in chart but could be wrong). I also see Apple more willing to change the business it is in if it needs to than some of its competitors. Apple got a lot of flack for the Maps "debacle," but it was a bold and decisive move. Apple couldn't come to terms with Google so they just built their own global mapping service. With so many eggs in one basket though, the revenue is certainly Apple's to lose or keep, depending on how it executes.

The Google chart is just amazing. Everybody knows why Android is free, but this just hits it home. They're an advertising company plain and simple. Anybody, anywhere, that can build better storefronts (search, email, native apps, etc) is a threat.
And Bill Gates always lacked decisiveness.

I think that he could turn the company around in months. After all recent failures in MS history are policy errors and not execution ones. The teams still ship high quality software - the problem is mostly with what management wants (at least what I see from the consumer side)
What social property did Microsoft push heavily like Google does G+?

Also MS was into search before Google was.
I don't like the CSS one.

Here are a few ideas:

You take the gun to a smaller room and it disappears.

You're left-handed but the gun doesn't support left-hand prefixed properties.

The gun is too big in your right hand but too small in your left hand.

You take the gun to a different range and your beautiful, well designed gun is suddenly too ugly to behold.

You miss your foot because you're standing in line next to a guy that's floating.
I've heard of being raised on the bread line, or the poverty line, but the command line? That's real deprivation. Imagine how excited they will be when they learn about hot water and inside toilets.

More seriously, what can a 2-5 year old do on the command line that would interest them? I'm genuinely curious.
I just viewed it as a story of a self-described hacker sharing his love of computers with his kids. And it reminded me of how I first resisted the replacement of the command line with a GUI (Windows ?3.1? - yes, I'm rather "mature") at work because I didn't want to lose that sense of control and flexibility.
This guy totally stole my idea. Awesome story.
Should I be ashamed or proud that I believe in writing my own tools for my craft?
UKs house prices are high by design. Germany, another European country, does not have that kind of price levels for property.

It's not the speculators or billionaires, it's the governments.
It's funny how you think that getting to the heart of the matter is "distraction."

But from your answer I can see why you don't want to have this discussion, it's just sheer nonsense. The word "right" doesn't refer to "we've always raped and pillaged after we won a war, so that gives us a right to keep on doing it."

I don't think you are philosophically equipped to use the word "right" here. For you, "right" simply means "might." So you might as well just say, "Yeah? Whaddya goin to do about it?" Don't pretend to be having a discussion about "right".
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Along the same lines: "If programming languages were cars"

http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.htm...
He's more of a CTO.

"CEO of Microsoft" is a prestigious title. They could use it as an opportunity to pull a coup. Like offering to merge with Facebook and giving the title to Zuckerberg. It doesn't have to be with FB, any big guy that would bring a missing market to Microsoft's empire would be a coup.

But the reasonable thing to do is to hire from inside.
The article may get some things twisted with some warez definitions, but the main problem is: a once trusted site lets users download a different software than anyone is searching for - this leads to confusion at first because users don't know what they are downloading and installing anyway...
When you're 5 everything novel in your environment is basically like magic. So being as the command line pretty much is the closest thing we have to actual magic spells anyway, it's going to be useful for them to encounter this fact early on, while they still find it easy to accept.
So how exactly does the government design that?

I saw the same thing in Italy when I lived there in the 90s - any kind of real estate was much more expensive than it seemed like anyone would be able to afford.

Never did figure it out - in the US, the public policy issue with homeownership is making mortgages easier or harder to get. If they're easy, then prices go up but more people own something. If they're hard, then prices go down (because no one bids them up) but fewer people own. I can't figure out a policy that leads to high prices and low rates of ownership.
Can be, easily. Your goroutine defers a function that calls recover and notifies the supervisor if it was panicking. It's exactly what Erlang does, just done slightly more manually.
Agreed; I was hewing a bit too close to simplification. The risk-free rate of return is what you really want.
I've actually started a second json database for the program for different nutrient profiles and various data that needs to be stored. I'll probably push it later today once it's working. I'm planning on asking a lot more from json, and now that I'm doing it I'm not sure why I didn't do it sooner.

Python's great for working with json because a json file is actually a valid list of dictionaries in python. I've taken to validating it with a python interpreter, since it'll find any mismatched braces or extra/missing commas.

The only issues I have listed on the repo have to do with adding some minor functionality to the GUI layer, which would entail learning wxpython and dealing with the somewhat disorganized wx code I've written. I'm never sure what the best way to clean up the wx code is, but it's always on my mind.
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What's important is the marginal memory usage. I'd rather pay 20-30MB of JVM memory tax upfront it it levels up with C/C++ for long running process and lowers the possibility of a memory leak and memory corruption.
No city is 100% perfect. I've found that the rain in Seattle is one of those things most brought up by people that have never lived here. It's a daily light rain, and not constant. The annual rainfall in Atlanta is higher than the annual rainfall in Seattle. It is dark in the winter months though, and for some that will be a big bummer. But it's an easy trade for me if that means I can easily afford to live in the city.
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I'll keep drinking coffee and tea to get my own caffeine fix, but I'd buy this spray to kill bugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
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I required a CDL Commercial Driver's License to legally operate a school bus, nearly identical to OP. I additionally had to have "Passenger Endorsement" to transport passengers (not sure limits on number and relation, like I'm fairly sure I could transport my sister w/o PE). PE also lets me operate limo/cab. There are HazMat and a couple other endorsements. A higher class of CDL is required to operate tractor-trailers, aka semi's.

My employer provided training and I had to pass written and operating/driving tests in addition to medical exam/requirements. This was in Washington state. Similar in the several other states I have lived.
Gee, if you're going to make up a headline, at least spell the words correctly.
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I'm not sure that's the point of Dilbert, although it is a recurring joke. PHB causes way more misery and obstruction than Wally. Your manager can steer your whole team/organization onto the rocks.
How would you change the headline to make it more accurate?
Snowden was quoted as saying the capabilities of the agencies he was dealing with were “capable of a trillion guesses per second” in decrypting communications.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...
.NET folks don't particularly like him either.
Problems I've noticed with Uber time estimates in the US, add traffic and it really can slow things down.

-Car just passed a turn when I call it.
-Car looks close, but really isn't. For example, its on a highway and you are a block over.
-Misread on the direction the car is traveling, usually from signal interference.

Predictions, I don't know anyone at the company so this is what I expect they are doing. If they don't, a competitor will:

-Within 5 years we will start having driverless Ubers.
-Service can scale and they plan on it, they have taken the start at the top of market and work down.

The thing that has kept me thinking is, by the time cars are driverless, will taxi cab medallions (in NYC and Hong Kong at least) go up in price because you don't need a driver, or will they be worthless?
I like to read  ALL Hackernews Comments.
Can we put in place a way of collapsing the first comment. It's so hard to read them by scrolling. Reddit has the - + and it's not optimal but a better system then we have here.
Just a note, Manning didn't exhaust a single legal avenue, let alone all of them.
"A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now. "

When doing this type of calculation, please adjust for Dividends, which have been substantial from Microsoft, and only recently started from Apple.
The topic of the discussion is a nuclear accident. Nevertheless I'm still discussing libertarianism with you.

The word "right" doesn't refer to "we've always raped and pillaged after we won a war, so that gives us a right to keep on doing it."

I agree with that 100%. I don't think anything I have said could be taken to mean that I support rape & pillage.

For you, "right" simply means "might."

No it doesn't, and just saying that is what I think doesn't make it so.

I understand the libertarian view: that governmental power is illegitimate because it is derived from force.

I also completely reject that view: I believe that governmental power is derived from a civil society and that power is society's way of imposing an agreed set of behaviour in the face of bad actors. I see nothing immoral or wrong in this - indeed, it is the very principle of democracy.

A couple of additional points:

1) Trying to say I don't want to have this discussion is demonstrably wrong (ie, this reply, and all the other ones). Saying something is sheer nonsense is unhelpful - I'm not clear if you think the discussion is nonsense or if it is merely an expression of frustration?

2) I don't care either way about drugs. Clearly that is something you feel passionate about, but I'm not the person to discuss it with. Sorry.

3) I find it very interesting that you have avoided the problems with your theory about nuclear regulation and insurance. I find that is often the case with libertarians - their ideas sound nice on a surface level but when you dig a little bit there is nothing there. I'm unclear if this is because the ones I discuss it with don't understand their own philosophy, or they are unable to explain it, or because there really is nothing there.

So far you haven't tried to explain it. Unfortunately that leaves me none-the-wiser.
Pretty sweet gestures controls in this app, if you don't have a iOS device, you can play around with their web interface: http://www.justapor.com/bigpicture/tour-de-france-100th-edit...
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Should have made the kid create PC from sand and metal. CLI still kills their curiosity about how transistor is made.
Pfft, anyone can factor large prime numbers :)
not being forced to spend hours a day preparing and eating food

For me, it's an hour, tops. That's lunch and dinner, I don't eat breakfast. It's probably the single highest cost/benefit ratio activity I engage in on a daily basis.

Saying that preparing and eating real food is "not psychologically healthy" is the dumbest thing I've read in quite some time. If you're an extrovert, eat with other people. If you're an introvert, eat alone and think. If you think that's psychologically damaging, how do you feel about meetings? Or maintaining other people's code? Or paying taxes?
It's not just you, but I believe it's a subset of people. Though I'm not an educational researcher, I believe it has to do with your comprehension style -- people tend to gravitate to one style they like best.

The common one I've seen referenced is the VARK model: Visual, Auditory, Read/write, Kinetic[0]. Though as that wiki page states, there are several other theories.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles#Neil_Fleming.27...
You try to center your gun over your foot but can only center bullets.
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There was an article posted on HN a while ago about certain Xerox scanners that would change numbers on scanned documents (turn 6's into 8's, for example). So this is just a follow-up.
If you want to do blind tests on beer snobbery, why would you choose a bunch of shitty American Lagers? If you had put in higher quality beer along side those lagers, I'm sure any seasoned craft beer drinker would know the difference. If you put a line up of different beers of a similar style, most "beer snobs" would be able to distinguish them, which ones they prefer, and most likely would be able to pick out their favorite if it was among the lineup.

I'm not sure how blind testing a bunch of cheap beer helps with your hypothesis that "Drink snobbery, whether relating to coffee, beer... has always seemed like confirmation bias in action."
Indeed.
Obligatory xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/915/
Thanks WCJ, this was quite helpful.
No, only the ones you want to unilaterally change.
You're judging the share price coming out of the greatest stock market bubble in world history.

1) The stock was closer to $57 in January 2000 if you average the trading days, not $35 (high in Jan was $64 at the end of the month, low was $42 at the beginning of the month).

2) They generated $22.9b in sales and $9.4b in profit in the fiscal 2000 year. Ballmer inherited about a 45 PE ratio, which is a massive multiple for a company with a $425+ billion market cap. An impossible multiple to maintain at that size I'll note. Just ask Apple, their PE has imploded from 35 to 60 several years ago, down to 9 recently (now 12 or so). Does that make Cook a terrible CEO, the fact that it's very likely impossible for him to build a trillion dollar company? No, he inherited a growth monster that is rapidly slowing down. Welcome to the law of big numbers.

3) Sales have increased from $22.9b to $77b so far under Ballmer. And profits have gone from $9.4b to $21.8b for fiscal 2013. For a company that was already the largest software company in the world, that's a spectacular operating performance. Meanwhile they've returned 40% of their market cap in cash to investors.

The notion that any company can dominate all industries simultaneously, such that Microsoft was going to own search, social and mobile is absurd to put it very lightly. The notion that Microsoft can just magically stop all future giant companies from existing, is equally absurd.

I don't think he was a great CEO, but your bashing is completely off target. You're criticizing Ballmer for basically not being a trillion dollar company with $100 billion per year in profit by not being a combined MSFT + GOOG + AAPL + FB. That makes no sense.
I didn't imply that the Bitcoin market is failing, but this marketplace. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Don't read the post, click the comments. If you can filter through the noise, MSFT employees sometimes post interesting stories and opinions.
Why would anybody think that there aren't limits to what one company can dominate?

This absurd notion that Microsoft could have ever possibly retained "control" of the future of computing (apparently forever would be the requirement) is non-sense.
I opened the thread just to post this comment. :)

Glad you did!
Ironically, their CEO search process reflects the bureaucratic nightmare that is today's MSFT. Why not just park Gates in an office and interview the 10 best MSFT senior execs?
That's a result of how Microsoft evaluates employees. People are disproportionately recognized for new initiatives, not refinements.
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