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Strong agree that those documents had the potential to lead to the murder of informants - this alone convinces me that the mass release of those cables without any edits or redactions was irresponsible.

However, I've previously assumed that we (incredibly) made it through the aftermath of the leaks without any of those potential murders taking place, for the same reasons listed in the grandparent comment; the media would have reported it, and the government would have surely cited it at Chelsea Manning's trial. So I'm skeptical but intrigued by your assertion that informants may have been murdered, but that there's be no way for us to know whether this had happened. My (uninformed) expectation would be that we WOULD know, since:

- we had (previously but not anymore?) informants in those places in the first place

- such murders would be (easily?) dicoverable after the fact, especially since the Taliban would have motive to tout them

- the government had a strong motive for wanting to portray the leaks in the worst possible light, and therefore would want to discover and verify such murders

Your observation that we have very little knowledge of these places does make me more uncertain about whether any murders occurred, but at this point we're far enough out from the leaks that the burden of proof lies with anyone asserting that murders probably DID take place, for the reasons listed above. (As opposed to the question of whether the leaks were irresponsible in the first place, which for me is a resounding yes even if we somehow made it through without any murders.)
Well, I'm much more interested in the state of the Userland, not the Kernel itself. And since Linux is the de-facto FOSS Kernel, it makes sense to base it around that, instead of trying to port the various compilers/tools that I've used to Minix. It's just easier to do on Linux, but I've tried using the FreeBSD Kernel, as well as XNU - both ended pretty horribly, so I'm sticking with Linux for the time being.
There's an idea that hard means you have to ruin yourself to succeed. This is reinforced culturally, in some situations if you don't portray that image, you get passed up.

That idea however doesn't always correlate with data. People who overwork becomes less effective and make poorer decisions than they would if they took care of themselves.

You can affect the rational side of that argument, by knowing when to set limits and knowing when it's important to break them. However, the cultural side of it is a more difficult nut to crack.

There's been a few stories recently about bankers, after the death of Moritz Erhardt. One of the interesting things about these stories to me is that the culture expects someone like an intern, who may not even be doing a considerable amount of actual work, to go through the motions, to be present all the time, to forego sleep and socializing. Not because it makes them more effective at their job, but because if they didn't someone else will prove that they will.

It's an symptom of the scarcity in the system. There are more people vying for a position than can attain it, so instead of a focus on performance, it's a performance of one-upmanship.

It's a similar scenario in start-ups. Most start-ups fail. Statistically it's going to happen. So you need to prove to investors, clients, partners, that you're better than those that fail. It doesn't matter if you have the best product on the block if everyone thinks you're likely to disappear off that block within the next couple of months. Success begets success, and so you put on your show. You show the others that unlike them, you can do it. You put in that time not because it makes your offering better, but because it shows to the rest of the world that you're doing it while they are not.
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter oponent
(The fundamental of chess - 1885)
Why not try Linux From Scratch?
Surface marketing was everywhere. I don't think it was particularly bad marketing at that.

The devices were definitely to blame. Surface RT squandered Microsoft's ace in the whole in this space: Office + Outlook + Windows network integration. Not only did Office RT not ship in Metro form, but the product that shipped initially was a buggy pre-release. It was disastrous execution. Besides that, Surface RT sold for an iPad/Nexus 10 price without comparable specs (Tegra 3 and low-resolution screen).
Fair point, but your personal VPN is also a lot less likely to attract scrutiny and be attractive to snooping than PIA. It's just a much bigger surface area, more popular, and potentially has a lot more useful data than your single box.
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To be fair, the 5th avenue New York store consistently "over-indexes" (as the article puts it) with shoppers of Asian heritage. Until recently at least, it was not very easy to buy an iPhone of any type in many Asian countries, and as a result, many tourists on vacation to the US would buy multiple devices to take home. Even now many Asian countries are among the last to have new Apple products roll out to them. Certainly don't have data to back this up, but I lived in New York for 6 years and took more than the occasional trip to the Apple store and witnessed these types of bulk purchases. Point is, even the "data" this article introduces doesn't necessarily have anything to do with gold.
There's a Swedish iOS game developer that's quite successful as well, Toca Boca. They're doing games for the small ones and as a father of two I have every single game they've developed on my iPads. Quality work that sits well with my kids.

http://tocaboca.com
Startups, as of today you can raise money publicly
OneNote (+ digitizer) is indeed amazing ... I don't have a surface, but I do have a series 7 slate, and I have to say that the writing/drawing experience on win8 is really really nice. Considering upgrading it to the pro 2 now.
How do you figure that?

The first link gives an upper bound of 1.32x higher... and it'd probably be a solid bit less given that youth murder rates are higher than adult murder rates...
They're talking about geographical markets, not categories of people.

Saying "X is popular in africa" would not be racist either.
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Better performance might help this sell, but the second I saw the "Surface Music Kit," I got excited.

As a DJ, I need to carry around an expensive laptop to perform. The iPad does not have any impressive apps to DJ (at least not professionally), so I'd be VERY interested if they focused on the niche music market here. Surface 2 + Kinect/Leap + superb DJing app + Spotify-esque music supply = very happy musicians.

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is going to spend the time to develop a quality DJing app.
I am an amateur beekeeper but I do not understand how wearing gloves is related to raising bees in an urban environment.

You are right, that urban bees are fine. Providing a water source will prevent most nuisance issues.
Bullshit alert! Bullshit alert!

The notion that children learn faster is a myth.

There is no such thing as a "flexible brain".

Children learn faster because they have to, i.e. they can't get a chocolate bar unless they ask for it. Most adults learning a new language have the luxury of being able to use their native language to survive, and tend to default to the easy option if given the chance, especially if they are learning in a country that doesn't use the language they are learning, in which case they can't use it all the time anyway.
Arch is my distro of choice at the moment - but even it simply teaches how to copy/paste to make things work, never explaining what is happening when you run a command, or how it manages to do that.
Yes, 64 bit would be nice. There are a lot of complexities that go along with that though. No plugins would work. There is a reason that browsers aren't 64 bit and flash will never be updated to 64 bit.

It's possible, just a ton of work, and everyone will have to come along. This was a huge issue with Vista. MS introduces a new way of doing thing, and all the software vendors don't update their drivers to work with it, and now it's MS's fault for having a crappy OS. They will need to make the transition at some point, and the sooner the better IMO.

So I agree with you, but someone on your project should have started refactoring before it got out of hand. Yeah, hindsight is 20/20, and this happens to most projects at corporations. The business doesn't want to pay for something that doesn't make them money. What they never realize is how much money it will save them down the road. One team I was on built in 1/4 of our sprint time dedicated to refactoring things. It was just a part of the business cost so they didn't have to know or worry about it. It worked pretty well for the most part.
The sign up is for letting you vote, make sure users vote a tip just one time. Also when you login you can see all the tips in one page and divided in categories, create your profile and (in the next versions) get in touch with people with your same desires.
Nice site. Has the income come down due to a reduction in traffic spend or just a loss in rankings due to reduction in freshness metric wrt SEO or any other reason?
Disclaimer: I've never developed for iOS or Android.

Honestly I think Developing for BlackBerry is actually pretty good. The other commenter makes good points about the vendor portal and responding to users, but the actual tools for development are great. There are so many options on what programming language to use, and the API documentation is pretty good. I don't know what it was like pre BB10, but I'm pretty sure it is a lot better now. They still have things to work on but I wouldn't say it is inferior to iOS/Android.
As a Surface Pro owner [1], I like:

* Surface 2 loses the low-density screen. I enjoy that low-density has been deprecated.

* The names are right. Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. No "Surface with Windows RT 8.1" nonsense.

* Haswell, yes please. Longer battery life may assuage some popular criticism.

* Backlit type cover. I hope this is compatible with my Surface Pro.

* Two-position kick stand. I will be envious of this.

* Surface 2 is smaller than Surface RT.

* More memory in the Pro 2.

* Docking station. Depending on the price of that and whether it's compatible with my Surface Pro, I may pick one up. However, I'd prefer to have an inductive charging plate as I have with my Nokia phone. I love the idea of just dropping wireless devices on a plate with no cables, no alignment, no fuss.

I am disappointed by:

* I personally would have preferred a Surface 2 Pro that leveraged Haswell to reduce the form factor to roughly the same as the original Surface RT. But I've never actually drained my Pro's battery, so I'd take lighter-weight versus increased battery lifespan. I'm usually near an AC outlet when I am out and about.

* I would have liked a purely x86 lineup. Bay Trail Atom (or Haswell i3) on the low-end, Haswell i5 on the high-end.

* Windows RT needs help. Remove its artificial limitations.

Overall, I am fairly satisfied. I may want to replace my wife's netbook with a 2 Pro.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/microsoft
The Surface Pro 2 could make for a really interesting developer machine. Plug it into external keyboard/monitor when you're at your desk, then just pick it up and take it on the road when you want to. I'm tempted, but part of me can't shake the idea that I'd be replacing my laptop with a tablet, even know I know that's not quite true.

Also: Windows. I used to use it, but I've been working in OS X exclusively for a few years now, and going back to the Windows Command Prompt might kill me.
The per-tip voting makes sense. The three options for voting is also sensible and would be necessary for doing user matching or comparison, I just think the numbers would be better expressed, on the page, as a single average per tip.

And, a spam flag for each tip would be good.
I'm curious about the result, I share his idea about LFS being a little bit too 'automatic' and the feeling of blindness that resulted. The joy of booting a system build from source was there, but didn't last long, in fact I quickly hit very weird network issues such as elinks seeing the network but not wget, reinforcing the notion that I there was a need for a different kind of information about the system.
Uh, whatcha talking about? It's a standard BSD 2-clause license.

http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
From the article: "LFS, despite how amazing it is, teaches very little about the inner workings of Linux and emphasizes copying and pasting to compile a Linux distro."
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He mentioned it's probably seasonal. All the traffic he gets during non-events are people who have friends with a birthday soon.
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That one was hard to notice! I just clicked "See all" in her desires[1] and got the signup form. Clicking anywhere in the top bar takes me to the form too, so I got stuck there and left.

[1] That might've irritated me, since I clicked "See all" and not "Sign up", I expected the former!
If they would just make commercials that show artists using the surface as a portable digital easel, authors/students using it as a digital paper replacement, and even some of what they hinted to at the event earlier with someone editing footage on the go ... I think they'd do a heck of a lot better.

Focus on what this device does fantastically, rather than poking fun at what "siri can't do".
Previous discussion, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6426142
Cool! Is there a way to turn on anti-aliasing to make it a bit smoother?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to create my
very own operating system, one which I have complete and
total control over. Because I have neither the time, nor
the skill to write my own kernel, this means that I’d
eventually land up creating a OS based on the Linux
Kernel.

Non sequitur. If you want complete and total control, you're going to have to learn the ins and outs of a kernel.

I applaud your decision to go forth with this, but is it really worthy of an HN self-post given that Kirk does not exist and is just a blog post at this point?
> I don't think it was particularly bad marketing at that.

I think Microsoft marketing was definitely to blame for their failure to properly distinguish the two (Surface Pro vs. Surface RT). They really were two very different devices for different uses. Trying to call them both Surface tablets was a mis-step in my opinion because of their very different use-cases: one is a desktop replacement, the other is a tablet. To me, that's a marketing problem, not an engineering problem.
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It's has no scence for a cellphone company to buy it, the company is going to fail anywhere, the most reasonable opsibility is for some non-competitor organization , I bet for canonical so they can make their phones with ubuntu..
Why are you arguing about whether anyone was murdered over the releases? The circumstantial evidence that the thread was real is overwhelming, and the poor visibility we have into Afghan tribal culture makes it impossible to settle the argument. Furthermore, by continuing to litigate the point, you help build the argument that Assange bears some responsibility for that threat. Why not instead just say, "sure, bad things happened, but they're offset by the good Wikileaks did", or something like that?
Office RT being a desktop app is as it should be - no learning curve, and each pixel works harder than in Metro. What was wrong was the lack of Outlook at launch, and then the other things like no AD integration, and the inability to run non-signed desktop apps.
Honestly it is probably because there is some annoyance or another which comes down to the philosophy of whichever distro you are using.

Here are my slight annoyances:

ArchLinux: got more opinionated see /usr/bin and python3 in recent history, breaks a lot for a distro

Linux Mint: Broke firefox forced google custom search then DDG

Ubuntu: Unity Mir

Debian: Slow moving, long freezes in packages

Fedora: I don't need SELinux on my desktop box, font rendering (don't like infinality)

Opensuse: Need to use OBS to get packages that probably should be in a main repo

That being said I've never been that annoyed with any of the Distributions to actually go and build one.

I used arch linux for many years but after python3 broke everything I left for ubuntu 10.04 then after that went up I tried unity but didn't really like that, but I stuck with it until ubuntugnome was an official thing.

Right now Debian Wheezy on desktop, Ubuntu Gnome laptop, and both seem to work well enough. I've lost my want to customize my OS so much anymore since I'm not on arch linux and it becomes a little harder when you don't have something as easy to use as the arch build system.
I take quite a big issue with the statement "The lack of information and documentation on developing OSes is, in my opinion, a pretty big problem"

There are entire forums for this, ie osdev
http://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

There are entire books for this
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_ex_n_1?rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A5%...
amazon lists about 57,000 results for operating systems books

You will get out of LFS what you put into it. It tells you how to download the source, extract and install it. When you have the source, nothing is preventing you from looking at it.

I also take issue with "how can we hope to continue developing and innovating on the OS level when it’s practically impossible to figure out what anything does or how it works."

There are general concepts that you will learn from getting a book on os development (including the kernel) and writing a minimal kernel yourself will give you insights into the work that goes into a full kernel such as the linux one. The concepts, not the specifics are what you need to learn, and you do this through theory, you pick up the rest from implementation (but starting with a kernel, half of the os is already developed fof you).
> Whether you trust them or not is entirely up to you, but it's not that hard to set up your own VPN tunnel.

While I agree that trust is a _giant_ issue, speed and price (due bandwidth needed/used) is also a major concern if you're one looking for an always-on VPN solution.

I personally used PIA for a few months mostly due to cost and it is at or near my speed cap at all times. I have also rolled my own VPN using a VPS at the same price point, however, considering that bandwidth would be limited and speeds were not as stable, it's hard for me to choose that route for my use cases.

Sure, if I need absolute security I wouldn't use PIA and I'd reconsider using a VPN on any VPS on US soil. But then, one would have to consider if it will be worth it.
By that logic, we should freeze all Software UI where it is. Any UI change is going to run into some level of change aversion, no matter how brilliant it is. Software makers have to balance that with the need to keep innovating on a piece of software - otherwise someone else will just do it and make them obsolete.
I won't speak for Sandy, but Quibb's not (necessarily) built with the startup niche in mind. She knew the most likely people to try a work linksharing tool would be tech/startup workers, so she focused on the path of least resistance. As to how she found them and reached them, it was mining her network for a strong first group of users, and tons of emails, coffees, and follow up.

To me the useful lesson of Quibb's first 1k is that your earliest users may not look like exactly like your target market, but need to be the most likely to adopt and provide useful feedback. Especially in B2C, this is likely some subset of the tech early adopter archetype.
I'm pretty confused about the value this product provides. Anyone care to enlighten?
The docking station looks fantastic. We've finally reached the day when we can plug in the tablet when we get home and instantly transform it into a full-blown desktop PC!

Too bad the 512GB/8GB model will probably cost an arm and a leg, making it more economical for most people to simply buy two computers. But once the price comes down a bit, I can see this becoming a true drop-in replacement for the majority of Windows desktops and laptops out there.
Nearly nothing considering your article mentions "millions" for the whole program and Google has spent 21k million just on its own. Google makes more on interest from its cash on hand than it has received from the NSA.
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You are totally right saying "ask them". Unfortunately not all people find easy to share their sex fantasies openly, nor they like to be judged when they do, also they might just look for new ideas.
The use of Sexycrets should be to take away the aspect of communication that might make feel people uncomfortable selecting just the desires both of the partners like and sharing just those with them two.
Right-o.

Good to go with open ended questions. It's hard for candidates to memorize answers.

Sadly i see lots of these kinds of idiotic strategies on their part :-)

When i started my first company in 95 or thereabouts, i remember a person who just would not open his mouth during the entire interview. I didn't know what to make of him. I then asked my receptionist to talk to him, find out if i was being too rough or intimidating etc.

Turns out that the interviewee did not trust his own command over english enough to answer back.

Once i learned that, i just handed him a free PC, told him to try writing whatever program he wanted in the next few hours and did not set any time limits.

When i came back after lunch, i saw that he had written a complete game ( This was in the DOS days where writing a game was really difficult since there were no high-level game engines around )

The guy eventually turned out to be one of my best programmer.
powershell ... seriously, it's really good. And Cygwin if you really want that unix shell experience :)
If this is true, then to me it's a reason not to use web applications. (And I don't, for the most part; I still run KDE 3 on Linux, and use KMail to read email. The only web applications I use routinely are for things like paying bills, where I have no choice but to use the web UI for the bank or credit card company or whatever. And every so often those change and I have to re-learn things for no good reason.)
VPN providers would make great honeypots.
Fortunately there are those of us who love that part:) (minus the sleazy stuff)
I wonder if they included their own software license cost... One division billing another division.
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Even a light reading of the Corporate personhood page on WP would have told you that the issue is much more complex than that knee-jerk reaction. For example, the courts ruled they can't invoke the Fifth.
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