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Finally someone who actually gets it that mass surveillance is wrong in principle even when it does not have US citizens as subjects.

Thank you professor Rogaway.
And dispense with the ridiculous prices. My takeaway regarding wine would be (If I drank any) that anything more than $10-$15 per bottle is probably snobbery- or collectors markup.
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This is probably the best comment in this discussion. Thank you.
Anyone who posts a link with the tag, "this will crash your browser" clearly isn't aiming very high, certainly not at "advanced".
I'm sorry you couldn't live in your parents' house forever. :)

I remember reading about the Genesis Engine in college. For what it's worth, I think it's awesome how you've worked your way to Voxel Quest. Good luck.
Occam's Razor makes me think that Google simply does not want to "bother" with many low-value customers, associated support infrastructure, etc.

Honest curiosity though: What kind of contract would make it impossible and would one make such a contract?
There's loads of info out there on websites and torrents, which I've spent the last year or two devouring. The main thing is to understand where you might like to live and find a technique that's suitable. If you're happy to move somewhat outside of a city, I'd recommend checking out information around straw building in particular... it's pretty impressive in terms of cost, longevity, seismic, audio and thermal insulation properties and is well proven, and suits a surprising range of climates.
No, the idea is to eventually integrate the work started with Maxime at Sun and replace the JIT developed in C++ by a Java based one.

This work has been discussed for possible integration into the standard JDK in a post Java 8 version, as part of project Graal.
Current politics seems to demand that everything be an investment. Education, roads, stadiums. It is supposed to create growth. Stimulate. Save on future healthcare or welfare costs. etc.

Realistically, the way to think about almost all government spending is consumption. By spending on health we (hopefully) get to be healthier. By spending on entertainment we are more entertained. The Olympics or any other public prestige projects are like when billionaires and dictators do stuff, but for cities and nations. They get to feel prestigious. Prestige might have some economic benefits but thinking of it that way misses the point. Prestige is an end in itself.
The startup life is possibly not for you. But if the team is the problem then make sure the problem isn't really you. And if you decide it really wasn't you then feel free to play again, if it is you then maybe the startup life isn't for you. Pressure is up, money is tight, it is a harsher environment than an established company. Some people thrive like that others can't handle it. Please try to exit as gracefully as you can so as not the kill the company you are working with.
Nowadays, doing just about anything in Go makes it HN worthy.
Indeed it does -- it tries to run the JavaScript, decides it's crap, and handily recovers. Good old Lynx.
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I tried to write short, with just the content of mine (and the Obama administration's) argument, to force you to answer it.

You just wrote longer, still without touching the main counter argument!!

(I thought the Amnesty reference was to the previous paragraph. Never mind, the point is shown: The Pinochet revolution was like a children's party, compared to the previous and present Assad dictator.)

If I touch your points you get a chance to write without answering that for a FIFTH time, so I'll keep my fingers in check.

>>the situation could potentially deteriorate and go out of control.

I already answered that, as a sub point to my argument. And so on.
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That degree of structural integrity is overkill for a greenhouse. Just get some bamboo poles with a sheet of transparent plastic and you're done: instant greenhouse.
Thanks! I am amazed that people still remember it. It has been a decade long battle to fight my way back into doing game development full time, and even though I am working like a dog I couldn't be happier right now.
Restraint by an over-zealous security guard for skateboarding or something similar.
>>explain my position

So much text and you didn't answer my single argument (same as what the Obama administration use) for the FOURTH time.

You even repeated that which the argument answered, pretending never to have seen it...

(Note that I motivate why I think you're not intellectually honest -- you write many kb without touching the only counter argument. So it is not an ad hominem.)

Edit: HRW also points out the Syrian junta for the chemical attack: http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/10/syria-government-likely-c...
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It's an obscenely high risk game (I wouldn't even call it an investment). There's possibility for a complete loss , mediocre return, or a low possibility of high gains. Everybody selling the hardware is against their own interests. If you had a machine that made money, you wouldn't want to sell it for less than your potential profit.

Manufacturer wise they come in all shades of dodgy. BFL have such a long order book (year and a half at this point) that the devices they are delivering cost hundreds of thousands in BTC initially, and will never make even their own cost back. Avalon was initially making very profitable products, but suddenly stopped because well, their competition supposedly threatened them. ASICminer sells products that will never earn their cost back. KNCminer is unproven outside of a single FPGA prototype. Bitfury makes nice products and ships them on time, but they're hard to come by outside of Europe. All the others are either blatant scams or appear to be.

It's an extremely touchy game to get involved with. I've read enough that I would never take the risk with any of these companies; people get screwed over time and time again. There's people who decided to take out college loans and buy miners with, which just sort of demonstrates the mindset you need if you want to "invest" here.

Disclosure: I own one ASICminer device that I kept around to keep my Raspberry Pi busy.
I also went to school outside America, ten years ago. I don't have a decided opinion on mixed schools either way - there are definitely benefits to single sex education, but they need to be weighed against the artificiality of the environment, as you say. Its worth noting that many of the straight up academic benefits of gender separation appear to be stronger for girls - higher participation in STEM subjects, more participation in class, better performance in general - but there is some evidence that boys perform better academically with girls in the class. (this might be a little out of date, I am less interested in the theory of school since I left it myself). I got the impression that the idea was basically to reduce social distraction during school: one could always hang out with the opposite sex after school (and most people did).
You can't plan, receive approval for, build, receive inspections on, and move in to a house for anywhere near as little as $40,000. Try double or triple for a bad one. Perhaps with the exception of a kit-home in nowheresville, NO.
I don't see how that contradicts the "low margin" part. If the hardware is reasonably available then anyone can buy it and start getting some transaction fees. This should drive the required fees down as people drop their prices to compete.
Blank keys on a touch screen phone! You invented the ultimate affectation.
No, it does not.

Chrome for Win32 here.
The first point is actually ambiguous. I think she made the 'offer' to her daughter, who insisted that her mother should actually not interfere.
The cure is more feminism. Why did you think that "nurturing" jobs are given disproportionately to women?
If you agreed to a ToS by clicking yes, and the ToS allows them to install malware that's a failure on your part to read it. If your child clicks it, you probably have recourse in civil court because a 4-year-old is not able to execute contracts. Most ToS's include a clause that they can change it at any time; you might not be legally bound by the new one, check that with a lawyer.

It seems like you are angered that you have to enter into a contract before using software, and you would prefer to just click "accept" and have that magically not be interpreted as you agreeing to the terms. "I'll use it but I don't accept the terms". I'd like that too, but I'm afraid that's not how it works.
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> Second, setting aside households with two TV's, only one spouse can enjoy passive entertainment at a time. Presumably while we watch football, women can do something fascinating and productive.

I happen to enjoy watching the same shows and movies my wife watches on TV, and I somehow assumed it was true of the majority of couples.
It's a question of how much happiness you generate for the cash. The UK Arts Council gets about £500million to spend. The Olympics cost the UK 18 times that much.

If the Olympics also produces 18 times as much happiness, then that's a worthwhile investment. If not, then maybe that money could have been better spent elsewhere.
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Do any men have any experience in classes where they were the only man amongst many women?
Istanbul would be a perfect place for an Olympics, except Erdogan ruined it for them. Did you know that Istanbul is already third most internationally traveled city?
Ask HN: What is your experience in music production?
I started music production about half a year ago. An fell in love with it instantly, I think I come a long way since then, and currently tinkering with a fellow hacker on starting an audio related website.

However, I am still growing and getting better, but what is your experience with music production/audio engineering — or being an artist for that matter.
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Some metal detector only work on ferromagnetic metals, which wouldn't be the case for the alloys they are going for. In any case at under one gram they are likely under the threshold of detection and are easy to store near legitimate metal, like a zipper.
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Apparently there are none, but there are rules followed by some papers..

http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/Sentence-Case.htm
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I sorry you had a bad school experience and absolutely agree with your point that things shouldn't improve and we should do nothing to help.
I think there's an important psychological dimension that's often missed from these calculations, particularly for countries that have a chip on their shoulder. It's a way for the entire world to be focused on something that you're doing well (hopefully) for a few weeks. Before the Beijing olympics many Chinese would ask you how you liked China, and when you replied, "yes" they would say China is "luo hou", which means backward. China is still luo hou to most who don't live in the richest eastern seaboard cities, and being able to watch China do something amazing for weeks on end is more than worth the 40 billion that was spent.

Lets not forget that in developing countries, massive investments are often sped up just to get the opportunity to bid - in 1999, the Beijing subway was almost nonexistent. Today it's one of the largest systems in the world, and was largely constructed prior to the Olympics. Other improvements included the Beijing airport. Of course, you could say that I'm cherry picking the Chinese olympics as one of the few examples, and maybe there aren't many advantages for a city like Tokyo or London, but even here in the UK, many people were inspired and proud of how their country handled the events. That may not be worth what it cost, but it is worth something, and I think it's a bit bizarre that the Economist seems to be puzzled as to why these events poll well with voters.
I'm a IT/Computing teacher in the UK. We've only just started to teach Computer Science recently and although I was a developer before retraining as a teacher I chose Visual Basic.

Why? Well, we don't have to pay to install it, our technicians are happy to install it, the GUI design stuff is easy for students to use, I think it is easy to learn quickly and most importantly it allows our students to get high marks easily. Also I'm the only person in my school who can program - others will have to pick it up as the number of classes increases - again VB is easy for a novice to learn.

The exam board dictates what programing assessment is to be done and the amount of time it is to be done in. As much as I'd be happy to teach another language VB is the best fit in this case.
Why do we care about likes?
I wonder how much your second job as a landlord (`headaches ouf owning a home') actually paid per hour.
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Ask HN: Is there a way to access historical location data on iPhone/Android?
I'm looking to use the historical location data from the user to better customise the user experience.

It seems that this data is captured by Apple and Google but silo'd off from any other app developers, meaning they have to reinvent the wheel and recapture all this information themselves.

Is there a way or a service to access where the user has been? (with their permission...)
My girl friend and some of her friends had some bad experiences with their CS teacher too. Leading up to the point that one of her friends didn't dare to work with computers throughout her studies. She would even go so far to dictate texts and had her boyfriend type them for her when needed.

It's hard to understate the impact a bad teacher can have on a persons life.
Well, it certainly crashes on all my Windows flavors (XP, 7, 8x64). Firefox isn't exactly the poster child for stability, can't tell whether it ever was...
Nice to see that you have Mandy speaking. She is also speaking, as yet unannounced talk, at http://allyourbaseconf.com this year.
Because simply blaming it on the people signing the loans isn't productive, it's just a statement of the status-quo with no solutions (shaming people isn't going to change anything).
I think you've really identified the problem here.
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What a shame, I've been using Exec for ikea furniture and it was great. The cleaning service is incredibly expensive vs Homejoy which provide an incredible service.
I think VB is a good choice for high school programming. As well as being closer to spoken English than most languages, it has excellent GUI development tools and also the by useful IDE features like Intellisense and auto formatting. But the best thing about it IMO is that it's the only programming language that most people might find useful later in their careers - via Excel's VBA. That shouldn't be underestimated.
Flawed logic, that "18 times" depends on the initial 500 million so the cut-off happiness value is now determined by the initial investment? Nope.
The only way to determine if it makes sense is if there is way to specify happiness per pound for the olympics. I for one couldn't care less about the olympics by the way.
What does space have to do with renting vs buying? You can rent whole houses, too.
What I really found helpful was learning Racket.

Common Lisp is a little less straight-forward and a little more complex, so Racket is awesome for learning the patterns you'll use to program with.

I'm starting to move into Common Lisp now, because it has more useful tools and libraries available for making 'proper' programming easier.
On top of my head: not all is lost. So if it costs $50 Billion, a lot of it is recouped via jobs, taxes, infrastructure that would have been built anyway, tourism etc. Some is lost but that's life. There's the "Made in Japan ...USA, China" brand and other geopolitical benefits as well. So money might be lost or it will be lost but so what? Greece has no business in doing them but Japan, China, USA, Russia and countries alike can afford to lose a (relatively) little bit of money for indirect benefits. Sometimes people buy a Lexus when a Toyota does the job just as well, or eat a $100 per head restaurant instead of a $7 Chinese buffet. Are they dumb?

Politicians also win, there's euphoria in Japan right now and those involved will see some benefits, just as those been seen during the opening ceremony, medals etc.
"one should practice all religions" Apostasy is usually considered worse than out-and-out atheism.

"create a religion" You could, but on those terms I bet it wouldn't get enough interest to become a "religion". Anyway, it's been done before: some 4000 years ago, the Abrahamic god said "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself". Since then, Jews, Christians and Muslims have been happily murdering one another on a regular basis.
> I'm looking to use the historical location data from the user to better customise the user experience.

If Apple or Google offered historical location data online to anyone, there would be an incredible, and justified, outcry about violation of privacy. And consider -- if this were public information, people could use it to stalk other people in surreptitious ways.

So ... no. Don't count on this kind of information being made available the the public.
Best line to remember is what the ACLU guy underlined: "If the NSA wants to get into your system, they are going to get in... Most of the people in my community are realistic about that.". Keep your hopes low.
Thanks! I switched to Liberation Mono, it's almost as legible as Droid Sans Mono but differentiates the 0 and O.

The link to Proggy Clean redirects to Groupon, it can be downloaded here instead: http://www.dafont.com/proggy-clean.font
Avoiding ridicule is just a Wikipedia entry away...
In 9.3 they also made failover faster.
Thank god my country has tax-funded tuition (upper education is provided free for all citizens), this sounds like a nightmare.
The Feynman approach. Nice :)
Quite cheap for undermining democracy, free speech and the right to protest.
"We have to do something! This is something. Therefore we must do it."
I agree that there should be an easy way to get home from each page. That's why it's become standard to have the logo link to the homepage. The question is whether enough people are aware of that convention to dispense with the additional Home link in the navigation.

True that we could test it, and we may well do so, but there are a lot of things we'll want to test about the new design, so we want to aim as close to optimal as we can to start with.
Please change the seizure-inducing flickering background, thanks.
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There's actually an app called "Crosh Window" to fix the Ctrl issue. It opens in a separate window and can take Ctrl sequences without Chrome picking them up.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crosh-window/nhbmp...
That's an old version though, IL-2 1946, while the article is about the sequel, IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad, which is still in development http://il2sturmovik.com/ . Fortunately it seems that someone has got both 1946 and WWI sim Rise of Flight working with the Rift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ConJqygVOqE .
Quote" ... He is one of the key people who drove Facebook’s growth from 30 million users in 2005 to 550 million users in 2011 (the year he left)."

He was present, but how can anyone meaningfully claim that he "drove" or was in any way responsible for the increase in users? Facebook now has over a billion users, half of whom signed up since this person left Facebook.

I mention this only because too many claims like this are made based on zero evidence of a cause-effect relationship.
>Talk to your students in private to see how class is going for them

This shows that the author doesn't really know anything about modern teaching. Talking to students in private is probably a breach of the school's child protection framework.
I'm using sublime text 3 defaults, with a theme, nothing else. I was a m1+plus font fan for many years, but now i've got used to this.
Sure, but care about the right things, and not construct a gednder issue where thete isn't one. Do you think gender issues are the most important problem schools are facing?
Although economically true these days, I found "Greece has no business in doing [the Olympics]" ironic.
I can't help but feel that since the landlord believed that the wifi was secured and the only person with the password was the tenant the only decent thing to do was actually cooperate with the police. Wasn't it?
And let's not forget that governments don't act in isolation. There are numerous corporate interests (primarily construction) that stand to benefit and many government systems incorporate some form of lobbying.

Japan in particular is notorious for it's collusive relationship between politicians and businessmen, with regular bid rigging or no bidding at all for public works contracts.
Does this mean that we can expect faster versions of the languages laid out in the presentation (Python, Ruby, etc)?
Is it me or the buttons don't actually work?
There was once a Japanese cartoon show that was said to have actually induced seizures among susceptible viewers:

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/

So it's not mere hyperbole to say "seizure-inducing."
That's pretty much exactly the same as the programming classes I took in high school (New Zealand). After that I mainly kept to programming on the side as a hobby rather than for work, I'd be lying if I said my school experience didn't have some influence over it.
That's why he ends the story with:

> I’m not even all that pissed off about it. She genuinely thought I was the only person with the password. I probably would have given me up too.
Are geeks very likely to attend a Visual Basic class at school? I somehow doubt it. Also "sudo make me a sandwhich" isn't necessessarily that hostile. Having a an overzealous mum who blows things widely out of proportions could become a problem, though. That girl might even have been primed with some "gender attitudes" before class had even started.
Weird. I Wonder why HN London makes front page, but when SFHN gets front page we get banned?
I speak many languages. It's easy for me because my native spanish helped me to reach the romance languages (derivated from latin). English was quite easy to reach a good level (nothing expert like).

Once you learn 1 romance language, jumping to the next one will be really easy. I always start with the same stuff as usual on books. The key is to find people to talk and talk like a crazy is the way to train your brain to think on a new language. No book will teach you how to say good morning properly. It differs so much from reality.
Funny story, but why wait 5 years to write it up?
GlobalSign and any other certificate authority that was hacked.