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> The only reasonable explanation I can imagine is sabotage by someone who didn't want Obamacare to succeed

It depends how you define "success". While most people assume success as a well-oiled healthcare machine that is affordable and cares about you then yes, they have failed. However, if you have done your homework on Obama and Democratic party (in biggest part), you will understand that they already greatly succeed - that is they shoved a huge tax (that over 10 years grow to 10% of your income, starting with 1% next year) in american's throat. While congress pass the law and Supreme Court upheld it, rest is just a statistic noise. Who care congress has 11% approval? Who care Obama has vanishing approval rate and his administration cannot catch up with any "phoney" scandals they getting into every month it seems? Its all irrelevant. After all, they did not hire 16,000 new physicians; they hired 16,000 new IRS workers that will be responsible for collecting what you lawfully owe. That's all! Its all about the taxes; its never been about you or your health. The only way Obama ACA would be more successful is that every single american throw a towel and say "screw it, I will pay the fine, this is too complicated!". That would be the best scenario for the Obama and the gov.

> the same thing that happened in Congress recently.

I think you mean the shutdown. It was so pathethic that it is funny. Imagine situation when you drive to work every day. And then every weekend you go out and drink and drive. The cop pulled you over twice but he let you go with a warning. You keep drinking and driving. Then one day he pulled you over, boom! DUI, license revoked. Then you go to your friends and family and you complain that because of this cop now you cannot do your work, because you drove to the office every day. If you agree with this reasoning then yes Reps were responsible for shutting down the Gov and not letting Congress do their work.
What I'm finding from using and talking to beta users of DidSum (referenced in another comment on this post) is that the act of physically tracking a behavior has value in building habits and improving toward goals (or being extra aware of it, when you're not).

This is doubly true in a social setting where your friends/spouse/mom/coach can _see_ when you are or are not taking actions toward what you want to improve at.
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It's not just government waste. The private, for-profit companies that are awarded these contracts are part of the problem. It's not like "government waste" is even the biggest problem here. The biggest problem is the private companies involved in this. Not the government. Although all parties deserve some blame, for sure, because they have a "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" approach.
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The web part is just a tiy part of a major project. Extracting informations from 55 databases/unrelated systems in a coherent manner is a nightmare by definition.

The number of different 3rd party libraries that are required, the type incompatibilities, matching fields, accounting for changes in the schema, and talking to legacy systems (I am sure there are many of them in there...), all in 5 months? Good luck.

Add to this the overhead of talking to IT and management of insurance companies, the IRS and others, and just the fact that it does answer some queries is fairly impressive in my book.

Also I am sure that most of those systems are failry deep inside the corporate networks of these insurers, just getting access to them probably was not an easy task.

That said the authentication layers failures and lack of testing are far from impressive.
>I'd really like to understand what I am missing here.

You only need to look at what happened with <video> and it should be very clear just how much Mozilla can realistically rely on Google to defend VP8. Or how willing they (=Google) are to make a "dent in it" using YouTube and Android. The answer is: zero.

Firefox will continue supporting VP8 for WebRTC. But Mozilla won't block the standard on it not being MTI.
10 web developers couldn't even remotely come close to building/implementing a system like this. This is not a web development project but an enterprise integration project. What you see as "the website" is just the tip of the ice berg. It's like saying that a car is just a steering wheel and four wheels because that's all you "see" but you don't know what's going on "under the hood".

However, I do agree that the costs for this are extravagant and there are certainly signs of "government milking" visible here.
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This is a complete non-sequitur. It was only until very recently that whites have begun to approach anything less than a majority.

ETA: likewise, Asians have not been in charge of the US for the majority of its history. In fact, they have typically been subject to whites' dominance. The WWII Japanese internment camps are a case in point.

But I get the sense that you're not really interested in exploring the complexity of different race relations as you are discounting said complexity with a trivially false equivalence.
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You mean Rhino (the JavaScript engine written in Java)? :)
To start with, I'm really just looking for real basic stuff: What were the top 10 pages across all sites? What were the trends/graphs of traffic of all sites combined (maybe a stacked line graph so I can still see how each site contributed).

It'd be great to know which sites are having a particularly good or bad month based on historical data.

Shoot me an email if you want more, it's in my profile.
I had pretty much this exact same idea a year ago. The people I talked to didn't seem all that interested, not that it necessarily matters.
I read the article. But I am not angry because of the actual incidents - what makes me angry is the sentiment, thinking of non-US people as second class humans. And I would happily lunch everybody into outer space who does this, including everyone from my own country, Germany.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640210
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Thats just the contract cost.... Numbers are estimated near $340M and the GAO just came out with current costs sitting at $320M but harder liners are coming out with numbers near $620M. By the time its done and fixed, its estimated at $1B.

Put that in your head...
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The US has submarines which are entirely designed to splice fiber optics without interruption.

They literally bring part of the cable into the sub and work on it from there.
I am definitely no security expert, but from my feeling it seems as if unsecure protocol + secure messaging layer is much more successful in practical applications than purely secure protocols. Therefore my believe would be that improving existing secure messaging layers would help the world much more than creating another secure protocol which nobody will use because it would require to replace the whole infrastructure. Especially Email seems to be something that is unlikely to go away, because of its long history, huge infrastructure and simplicity.
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There is no release yet, but Cisco is saying they will be releasing the source code of the full implementation, not just nvidia-style hooks to a binary blob. AFAIK, the plan is for users to be able to replicate the build and see that the binary they got from Cisco indeed corresponds to the source code.
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Great idea, nobody in my area yet so I cannot check the execution. (Barcelona, Europe)

Please, don't let this become something bad as happened with ChatRoulette when it became viral.
"Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy..."

You're talking about security only. What about privacy? Security and privacy are not the same thing (although they overlap).

No other company has such a rapacious appetite to track and record online behaviour in one form or another - whether it's signing into your Chromebook to print to your desktop printer or using Google Analytics, Google wants to capture it all. Their vaguely-worded privacy statements tell you nothing about how they use this data, who sees it, or just how personally identifiable it is.

Take ChromeOS, the fact that you have to sign-in in with your Gmail account means potentially every activity you perform while in the OS is tracked by Google. I'm amazed at how little discussion is made of this. (I would never run ChromeOS for this reason alone.)

I've no doubt that Google takes security matters seriously. I'm not at all convinced they take privacy seriously.
I've always been a big fan of colophons in books and on websites—basically telling people how the thing that you're looking at was created.

It isn't necessary to the end user, but it is fun to show to designers and developers that we might want to work with.
Seconded. My experience:

Taking this course was an great way to learn more about compilers and fill a hole in my CS curriculum. Professor Alex Aiken is a great instructor and covers a good amount of material. I learned a lot about compiler construction despite having toyed with my own compiler before starting the course. The programming assignments were particularly tough, giving me useful experience in building compilers and a great sense of achievement.

(TL;DR from my full blog post: http://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/writing/2012/07/21/compilers-on-co...)
What does Node have to do with it (besides perhaps a little IO)? Isn't it just JavaScript?
I've driven with Glass and on a trip where I'm not sure of the turns, it is much safer than looking at my phone for GPS instructions.

It sits above my field of vision and is no more distracting that the frames of my glasses.

When Glass is in nav mode, that's all it does. Shows you the next turn and/or the route overview.
It's parallel construction all the way down. Discover via extralegal, point mass-capture in that direction, sniff out and send to 'legal' 702 or 215 databases, hint to FBI/DEA buddies, get normal warrant, and now you've got your criminals!

In that way, killing the 702 or 215 powers really wouldn't do that much, because they can just derive their parallel construction from elsewhere.
I agree with audience building. It's like the huge elephant in the room. Everyone knows you need to share engaging content, blog, etc.. but how do you do so when you have no audience to begin with?
Biology may be very "unabstractable", but that doesn't mean we can't still learn enough about its high level behavior to create practical systems in its image. For example, it is unlikely that whatever structure or property of the brain makes it intelligent exists only at the molecular level, so we likely won't need to simulate the brain at that low of a level to create an intelligent machine.
Doing 80 in a 65 is the entirety of the 101 and 280, outside of rush hour, when it's 20 in a 65.
There is brass in the muck: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/06.html
>or, for less duplication, build a fleet of transport vehicles that could hold data centers, and piece by piece transfer their existing US datacenters into those transports.

Or, they could build data centers on barges and float them out of difficult jurisdictions. ;)
Well, we had this on the roadmap for www.wobbleapp.me. Will be interesting to see the reception in advance.
The iPad community is starting to give the amateur cyclist "weight weenies" a run for their money...

Heck, you should hear people who read books talk about hardcover vs paperback. Weight is an oft-cited difference between the two.

Better still, eavesdrop into conversations about the tradeoffs of Minority Report style user interfaces – wherein arm-fatigue is a huge minus, and there's nothing in their hand at all.

Wonder why that is.
The whole idea of Mozilla and Google pushing vp8 (and later vp9) as the WebRTC standard was so that we would FINALLY have royalty free fully open source implementations which could be implemented/ported everywhere with no cost.

Atleast that's what I thought, but with this move Mozilla has shown that the 'royalty free open webstandards' which they touted as their goal was in reality 'as long as it's royalty free for _us_ to ship', as they are now switching sides one week before the voting and suddenly backs h264, which will only be royalty free if you accept a binary blob from Cisco.

I am truly disheartened by this move, and I can only assume that the hiring of Monty to work on Dalaa was just a calculated way of trying to mitigate the criticism by saying: 'look, we still believe in an open royalty free codec, sometime in the far future', which is weak as it's not as if Dalaa is even poised to compete with HEVC and VP9, but against whatever comes next.

And that is assuming that Dalaa will actually end up competitive at all, and if so, also having been able to avoid treading on the sadly insanely broad software patents that litter the video encoding field.

I think it's a huge betrayal of the principles they (Mozilla) have claimed to uphold, and the result is likely that we will end up with a binary blob for WebRTC standardisation come the vote, I'm so very disappointed.
>not all US citizens

The vast majority of citizens support these initiatives. Given the winner-take-all approach we employ, it is not a stretch to say that yes, we all share blame.
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>Does FF officially support h264 right now? I'm using FF v24 and it seems to already support h264. Is that because I'm using a mac and it falls back on a system codec?

It's using system codecs. Your stuff won't work on Windows XP, which is still a significant percentage of users.
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Civil immunity is a subset of completely unconstrained by law. For example, judges are entitled to absolute civil immunity for actions taken in an official capacity. But they have occasionally been charged criminally for actions for which they were civilly immune.
Why would any "normal" person care at all about IPOs. Consider the sort of questionable activity already swirling around the offering:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/two-financial-adviser...

IPOs are just another part of modern life that has been captured by rentiers.
I would pay good money for this - I'm always trying to figure that sort of thing out and it always ends up as a bunch of random googling or trying to remember to check the news in a few hours.
I don't know if this is the same thing, but it looks like it:

pdf - http://www.penguin.cz/~radek/book/lets_build_a_compiler.pdf

html - http://www.penguin.cz/~radek/book/lets-build-a-compiler/
I'm a US citizen.

Born and bred.

And, at this point, I can't in good faith say that I would blame you.

I think it's pretty safe to say that getting rid of a President is no longer enough. My sense is that the people who make these policies really are "Beyond Elections". They are constants in our government. And appear unassailable.

I doubt very much that we, the American People, could even IDENTIFY the people setting or implementing these policies, much less rid ourselves of them.

I think in the present environment, it wouldn't be imprudent for other nations to look to their own interests.
> NO! WRONG! tl;dr NO CODE IS BEING RELEASED AS BSD!

Then please cite a source that backs that up. Bothering to follow the links from the Mozilla post indicates you are dead wrong:

We plan to open-source our H.264 codec, and to provide
it as a binary module that can be downloaded for free
from the Internet. -- [1]

[...] The source code will be open source and distributed
with a BSD lIcense. The binary module is separate and
when the users software downloads it from Cisco, that
is when we are responsible for paying the MPEG LA
royalties. – Nadee Gunasena, Cisco PR [2]

[1] Cisco blog: http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-remov...

[2] Comment on same: http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-remov...
You joke but if you don't think subtle censorship tools have already been deployed you're mad.
There's a tradeoff between the extra complexity of engineering a P2P system and the ratio of marginal cost of resources between home and data centers. In 2001 when people were going gaga for P2P it was actually a good idea compared to the status quo at the time (remember that Web 2.0 hadn't been invented yet). Since then data center storage and bandwidth has gotten exponentially cheaper but broadband has stagnated, so client-server is now cheaper than P2P. For example, before they were driven out of business, cyberlockers delivered better service and had a more sustainable business model than BitTorrent. And that's not even taking into account the network effects of "big data".
Finding such a person would be difficult (but not impossible) for you or for me, but conditional probabilities work heavily in the NSA's favor. They have thousands of in-house people already satisfying 1, 2, and 3. 5 can be perfected by a team and taught to any of those thousands of people and 4 can be achieved with resume tweaking and, at most, a few repeat trials.

It's the same reason why security through obscurity doesn't work: if you chain together 5 obfuscation layers that each keep out 80% of competent hackers, in total they probably keep out 85% or 90% of competent hackers if you're lucky, but certainly not 99.99%, because everyone who bypasses the first layer has a much higher probability of having the skills to bypass the other layers as well.
I thought even extremely strong encryption was computationally quite light- it's cracking the crypto that takes computing muscle.
I think your friend was referring to business majors. a 3.5 at most finance programs is achievable with hard work and almost no innate intellectual gifts. Conversely a relatively smart person can get a 3.5 without attending lectures or doing much work.

If you are an engineer it's very difficult to explain in parallel terms. The running joke at my school was that failed engineers drop out and become straight-A accountants.

Sorry if I offended any business majors (I am one), but the truth is the truth:)
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We're working on moving away from NIST curves as a default.

http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/this-one-goes-t...
If you're a Mac user, take a look at http://www.pixelmator.com or http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Right now, we notify the restaurant owner that a negative review has come in and we encourage the owners to respond to any negative reviews (in a friendly manner).

Having a family in the restaurant industry, I can say that most negative reviews and rants can be diffused with a little discussion and an offer to make it right. With Bistro, we just want to find every mention (from review sites or even personal blogs) and just start that conversation.
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Only solves a subset of the email problem, IIUC.
I'm not putting any responsibility on Google's CEO that he didn't ask for when he became CEO - he is ultimately responsible for the company's actions. Leaving that amount of user data open to attack is unforgivable, regardless of who is "behind this" or how much he knew.

Secondly, the alleged attack, however it happened, is not the reason he should step down. Larry Page stepping down is going to be really bad for Google, he is one of the finest entrepreneurs of our time, and a great technologist.

He should do it to send a message.

Will their ever be more evidence about what actually happened? Probably not, but a resignation by one of the most powerful CEOs in the world will get some serious attention in the wider debate on privacy.

But like I said, the share price probably comes first...
congrats. This has been on my list to read and experiment with. I was hoping my 15-year old could get into this as well.
>Just when the truly open source VP8 was set to go in WebRTC

That's not really fair summary of the situation.
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It pulls friend's birthdays from your facebook profile.
There are plenty of other artistic mediums that lack a performance aspect. Painting, drawing, literature, photography. Do these mediums also lack soul because they directly connect the composer to the audience, without a third party to interpret? Sure, if a piece of music was written with the intent that it be played by human hands, then it probably won't sound great when played by a computer. But if an artist creates an original piece of music using electronic tools, how is listening to that piece any different than viewing a photograph, a painting, or reading a book? Many people dislike audio books specifically BECAUSE the filter of the narrator colors their interpretation of the author's words. As with reading, one might argue that electronic music better communicates the author's soul to the audience.
Presumably the interfacing with insurance providers is done on the backend (not included in the $295M). It's possible that QSSI took all the content from the providers and standardized it for display in the front, near trivializing what you mention. Just a hunch, and not saying it isn't complex, just not $295M complex.
Only baseline profile is supported. Don't expect most videos to work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_tapping

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/undersea-cable-surveillance...
It seems to me that explanations of technical topics in natural, everyday language are very valuable. People who would be turned off by a formalized explanation and dense symbolic manipulation can still get a lot out of this. Bravo.
Gosh, this is an incredible comment. I see in greater detail what is meant by your illustration of "dual path." I had no idea the systems-level design was so thoroughly isolated.

Thank you very much for taking the time to share and answer my question!
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"Civil immunity is a subset of completely unconstrained by law"

Sorry, I didn't read it that way :)
Since the original thread seemed to be about criminalness, I assumed you meant they could not be charged criminally for their actions.

There is a huge difference, as you point out, between civil and criminal liability.
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Based on his HN profile, my guess is Python.
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A good life, yes. After that its mostly just changing diapers, paying mortgages , chatting about 401Ks, and dealing with loud music.
That's the bog standard response when anyone gets pulled over for speeding.
What's the relevance? This isn't a spam fighting endeavor.
It must depend on the user. I have worn them daily since end of April and only ever notice when they're not on my head. I'll feel a vibration in my pocket and try to check glass. The first few times you wear them you may notice them in your peripheral vision but your brain quickly tunes them out. There is no obstruction of my view.

In my opinion, they are far safer to wear and use for the purpose of navigation than a phone or mounted GPS. They give me the necessary information quickly and don't require me to adjust my vision off the road.