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If you think this is unacceptable, consider that the nytimes, where this story was published, has also held back or failed to publish articles critical of the US on multiple occasions in the recent past - wiretapping under bush, Iraq war, torture, wikileaks. That's not to say they are a propaganda organ or always toe the line, but they have killed a significant story just like this (phone tapping) because of US pressure, and they are one of the more critical US news outlets.

I don't think we should make this into a battle between East and West, as the nytimes has framed it here, it is a battle between corporate and state interests and those they govern, over who owns the news, which to a large extent defines the limits of our thought. That happens in every country, and with every sufficiently influential news org.
Since you only need, say, four angles, those four angles will soon become usual for you.
They did once, a long time ago. But Github has a big headstart on them in that department now... and $100m they just raised earlier this year to keep growing.
Navigating to the directory from the 'Files' tab and clicking the 'i' icon to the right of each filename available for download displays the 'View details' panel with the SHA1 hash of that file. Is that not enough?
Yep, quite true; though users of HN would expect admins not to implement such invasive features.

In the event that a site does, though, even if they acquire a completely unique fingerprint for you as a site user, they still don't find anything interesting about you yourself. If you visit the same site with the same IP and never register, they won't be able to put that fingerprint to much use.

Now, if that fingerprint were shared with or collected by other providers in some way (perhaps by a common ad network), much more nefarious things can be done in that regard.
Al - the case

S - probably a component of the Al alloy, it helps with machinability

Li - the battery, possibly also the case alloy

B, P - semiconductor doping

Cu - Almost certainly used somewhere

Pb, Sn - solder

Anything else?
Great pack and even I read all your comments on forcing to tweet etc. It is still a non profit initiative that gives away to startups really great pack worth a lot of money !
Oh come on, since when is Bloomberg a stand-in or microcosm of Western values?
One site that would have had the bandwidth would have been Google Code. But they just dropped binary hosting. And they didn't support projects that used multiple licenses (PortableApps.com has tons of apps under every open source license).

The only other one is Github as they're growing and have $100m they raised earlier this year. They added in binary hosting as "Releases" but it's relatively new (this year) and after they killed binary hosting last year with no path to move to, I'd worry about it happening again as Github stabilizes its product offerings.
> inexpensive vpses

http://lowendtalk.com/ is my reference.
Well, Dalvik is register based and JVM is stack based, this is a big difference
So....

Like when people here on HN decide not to criticise, say, Tesla, Musk, Linux, open source, etc because they know they will get voted down?

Or where politicians don't properly investigate or voice issues with the likes of the NSA because they simply don't know what dirt they have on them?

Or don't criticise presidents who start wars on lies because they are called unpatriotic or anti American?

No. I don't like it one little bit either. But frankly, people with something to lose are rank cowards. People taking the "coin", worse.
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A bit off topic but is anyone trying to work subscription payments with bitcoin? Is that even possible without something like a prefunded account?
Possibly more popular with the HN audience:

http://www.reddit.com/r/perfectfit
I was kind of surprised by this. My impression was that they did well in college towns by sucking up all the advertising for local concerts and watering holes. I guess the local revenues weren't enough to offset the costs.
how do you apply stack ranking effectively if most of the dead weight is in the branches (middle management) but scoring heavily weights the leaves (workers) of an organization?

I'd make the system ignore the scores of any bottom ranked management.
You're just throwing the baby out with the bath water. The world is not this black and white. Things like this do get called out in the media. Do you think that is just well orchestrated conspiracy to throw us off?
I think Vernor Vinge's depiction of the future of driverless cars in Rainbows End was interesting, and something that could actually happen someday.

If you haven't read it, in the book, there are numerous driverless cars that operate a bit like taxis: you can hail one or you can summon one. They take you to your destination, and then rejoin the pool of free cars that are ready to take people places.

There's a minor plot point where one of the characters fights with the embedded logic of the car, which refuses to take him where he wants to go (and indeed refuses to just "stop the damn car so I can get out" since he wants to get out along the shoulder of a freeway on-ramp or something like that).

Vinge's driverless cars are neat (I would be 99% happy with them) but they subvert the automobile's typical role in American society: rather than being an enabler of rugged independence, it only allows you to go where the state says you may go.
Facebook strikes you as the company that would have principles and morals? The reason they are not in China is because the government wouldn't let them, with or without censorship. They are too much of a "threat to the unity of the society" - you know, the typical authoritarian excuse.
For most people, it's really not a problem. But here's a fun example I recently came across.

I'm looking for an apartment in SF, and I stumble across a few places that seem too good to be true. Pretty sure they're spam, but out of curiosity, I go ahead and email. (Plus the way to make life difficult for spammers is to give them a lot of false positives, playing along for as long as possible, wasting their time, but unfortunately yours too.) The response I get back is clearly a scam—the "pay $200 deposit to schedule a tour" kind of scam. I get a few more emails, pressing me to pay the "deposit." Out of curiosity, I check the email headers. The sender is using Yahoo, and the IP address is being leaked. I do a geo IP lookup, and it turns out the IP is from Ghana.

Naturally, I enter the IP in my browser, and guess what shows up? An authentication dialog for the "EchoLife Home Gateway." Sure enough, entering "admin" for both username and password works fine (first try too), and here I am, connected to some scammer's router, halfway across the globe.

What's more, the router connects to the ISP using PPPoE, so the username for the account is visible in the PPPoE config. And the password is hidden under a password field, but it's being loaded by some sketchy javascript (you know how router software is). Pretty trivial to check out the DOM and find a plaintext password. Next time I'm in Ghana, I get free DSL! Did I mention that the username for the PPPoE account was clearly an actual name? A bit of google-fu and I know quite a bit about the guy who tried to scam me. Turns out it's no secret he's a scammer—in his early days it looked like he'd been using his actual name to run scams, so there were a ton of postings on scam reporting sites.

I stopped there because, as fun as it was, this was just an exercise of intellectual curiosity, I never had the intention of breaking stuff. As much as a scammer might deserve it, vigilantism isn't really the way to do it. I just reported the email to Yahoo/Google and moved on. I doubt there was much anyone could do to stop the guy from scamming anyway. But there's a lot you can do with an open router if you want to harm someone, and that's an understatement. All it would take is something as simple as setting up a VPN connection (I don't think the router I was dealing with actually supported VPN, but I'm sure you could do something malicious, like port forwarding to netbios)

The moral of this should be pretty clear; if you're a scammer don't leak your IP. Also don't use default passwords for routers. Clearly that was the bigger issue here, but how many average people do you think use default passwords? At least if their IP is hidden, there's an extra layer of obscurity. Not a great one, but better than nothing.
Google didn't stand its ground. Google also did a cost-benefit analysis and realized that China wasn't going to let a foreign company control its internet and monitor its data, which in turn was monitored by the US government. Further cost-benefit analysis by Google determined that it was more beneficial to tell everyone it was for principles.
The only way you could do it without a "pre funded" account (online like Coinbase) was if you had a RPC-Client for your transactional wallet, say on your local machine. This client would schedule payments.
Risk in what way?
You've got to be kidding ... NewsCorp is an example of journalistic integrity. This can't be taken seriously.
True, but if many companies do this on a wide range of sectors then wouldn't it be hard, if not impossible, to distinguish "the West cowing down" and "private orgnisations being more pragmatic"? I'd say it's a dangrous move, whose consequences must be vigilently watched.

The difference between this and Google is that whether or not Google operates in China, the world outside of China is not affected. People everywhere else still get the same search results. But if Bloomberg decides that it's better to report less negatively in English to its audiences in the whole world in order to make a profit from the Chinese market, it's not the Chinese audience, but the outside world that's gonna be hurt.
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My god! Toxic cancer? That sounds even worse than regular cancer!
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Thanks for your reply, there were some very interesting points in there. I know several amateur pilots, but it never occurred to me that you can pay a railroad to haul your own car around for you.
Does everyone have that, or only people who created Google Profiles before Plus replaced them?
True. I think this is what's bugging me: drawing a lit version implies information about 3D shape; in particular, the artist has to reason/see in 3D. So, in a sense, it is a new method of entering 3D information, that works especially well for traditional 2D art styles.

Why not have the artist enter height directly, instead of shading from several different angles? It seems like less work (because there's less information to input); though possibly doesn't mesh as well with how 2D artists work... whereas shading is part of the tradition.

There's something I'm not getting here (that might lead to a better way of doing it, or not).
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> considering there is no sense at all to use Bitcoins to purchase legal items in the vast majority of countries.

This is quite asinine. I assume you've never tried to purchase an item in country A from merchant A' accepting currency A'', while you are in country B using bank B' with an account denominated in B''. The hurdles, generally, are numerous and diverse. Any lack of hurdles is quite exceptional, and completely dependent upon international agreements between nations, banks, and any number of permutations thereof.

Instead, you could simply transact in BTC.
It's an interesting company... (HR vid 'Draw the Owl') https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwSe2imUyvg
Does it have to be anything more than a kickback?
These things are always a matter of degree and subjective judgement. I have made up my mind. Systematically preventing criticism of a ruling elite that has no democratic legitimacy whatsoever is on a different scale than what happens in the US or Europe (which is bad enough).

I'm not in favor of a large scale trade war or boycott. But in this very specific instance, where one company - Google - has been thrown out of China for taking a stand, and another company with global ambitions benefits from it, I think blocking the latter is not disproportionate.

(I'm not in any way affiliated with Google. In fact, Google is one of my main competitors)
"Such competence is potentially heritable and is reinforced by the human tendency to mate with partners of similar traits and ability."

I think this raises a very important question: How far are we willing to go to pursue equality in the modern age? It seems that -- generally -- there is an inevitable tendency of humans to mate with someone of similar "stature" or "capacity". Of course, like any generalization, there are exceptions, but it certainly seems that we each possess a certain amount of "personal capital" which determines our worthiness as a mate. Can we really prevent the good from mating with the good, and the bad from getting stuck with the bad, generally? Is that even a goal worth pursuing? Such presumption seems to be in conflict with nature itself.

It's almost amusing how the modern era is so committed to the science of evolution and yet works so hard to derationalize it!
While I agree that it shouldn't be automatically assumed that someone who has bitcoins to spend will use them for illegal purposes, I'm curious as to what specific hurdles you encountered as mentioned in your post?

In my country at least, if you want to purchase something online and in a different currency than your account and CC's denomination, the conversion is done automatically for you at checkout, at whatever the bank has set for the rate, usually a fair one. Works like this regardless of what store you buy from, could be in the U.S, Europe or somewhere else on the globe.
Which version? resolution? zoom-level 0?
I dont know what kind of contract SF made out with his mirror providers but i have doubts that they can keep all of them under these circumstances. SF ability to push such amounts off bins comes from support from providers and edu facilities.
This is why I've always believed Wikileaks and whistleblowing/leaking are together the "future of news" (at least real news, that uncover truths).

Wikileaks isn't motivated by making a "profit", other than its immediate needs for survival. As for "leaking", it's already been one of the main sources for "investigative journalism", it's just that in the past it was more of a "push" thing from journalists, to try and get the classified documents, and in the future it will be more of a "pull" thing, where the leaks will come to them, and they just need to figure out what's the story from them.

This is especially important when media entities can't have "boots on the ground" anymore, and they need to be a lot leaner - blog-level leaner. And it's all good as long as they keep their integrity, which ultimately is what really matters about a news agency, no matter how small or big, and we can already see most, if not all, of the media entities have become corrupt already, so it's not like we should put our trust in the big news agencies only anymore.

I expect Greenwald's news agency to be very successful if they have a document leak platform on the site, and promote it very well, and put it front and center on the site, because now everyone knows Greenwald has integrity, so a lot of future whistleblowers will coming to him, because they trust him, just like Snowden did.

The real, government-breaking stories of the future, will be coming from small/lean news agencies that have a very high-level of integrity. However, we, the people, also need to push for much bigger whistleblowing protections, unless we expect every whistleblower from now on to literally throw away their lives for us, which is really quite an unreasonable expectation, even from most potential whistleblowers.
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The CEO looks high as a kite.
It seems to depend on the window size. Full-screen 1920x1200 mis-registers it, but experimenting with different window sizes seem to make it shift around.
I'm using
http://musicplayr.com
for playlists and favorites and it works really well even across YT, Soundcloud and some others
Everyone gave extremely valuable pieces of advice, but your advice the strategy is going to be really really helpful.

I am going to follow what you suggested, but if you could answer some of my further questions, that would be great.

I have not been making contacts to much people. I did not even apply to positions in a daily basis. I just occasionally spent 3~4 hours applying to a bunch of companies on their career websites from either Google search or LinkedIn/Monster/Indeed etc.

I just copied and pasted almost identical cover letters always with my resume for every application (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8rx0JiEGlpwxTa2--7rQvla...), as writing in English was very time-consuming for me, and I was busy, and mostly, I knew they would not give a damn about my cover letter attached to the application even if I had put much effort on it. Thus far I had two (one on-campus and one phone) interviews, each with a good company, but neither of them were through a web application.(I got rejected from both, though..)

I did not care too much about the applications, and I kind of messed them up.
One relief is that I have not applied to companies I prefer the most, which are start-ups and mid-sized companies in NYC, and I went to NYC to attend Columbia University Engineering job fair 2 weeks ago. I talked to people there, handed my resume(the original one that did not look very good), and got business cards from 7 people from different companies. Of those 7, I had memorable conversations with two, esp. with an entry-level engineer about my Rwanda project(he would at least vaguely remember me. but they only use web languages, so I may not fit..). There were quite many good companies based in NYC in the job fair, and I have some 'stories' to talk about when I contact them.

I would like to focus on the companies I want to go to, and I want to do well this time.
Of course I will have to apply for 'safety' companies, too but I will put my time and effort in applying to 40~50 companies in NYC and Silicon Valley.

Here are some of my questions.
First of all, you said you contacted people in the companies. Whom did you contact (HR? Engineer? Sr. Engineer? CEO? or someone else?), and how did you find their contact info?

Second, what do you think I should include in the three sentences about myself? Language(Java/C++)? Experience? or other soft skills and characteristics? Could you show me an example?

Lastly, although you made "it as easy as possible for them to get back to me, and take the conversation from there", it is not easy for a non-native like me to write a letter that is easy and simple. Particularly what made your letter easy for them to get back to you, not compromising the amount of necessary information?

Thank you so much.
I think using professions ("lawyer") as a proxy for privilege is a little bit problematic. I'm sure I could have been a lawyer, but I never considered it because I'd never met a lawyer. It just wasn't on my radar.

Instead, I became an engineer. My grandfather & father had been engineers, so working in industry, making things was something that I could conceive. I'm sure I didn't suffer financially - I'm better off than all the lawyers I know.

So, to reiterate my point: Using a particular career as a proxy for social mobility is problematic, because life choices can be "sticky" between generations.
Fun fact: 21% of Koreans have the family name "Kim" (means "gold"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name
This is growth hacking, right? Seems like a nice PR prank by the company.
I don't think you understand what is done in research labs around the world every day, to mammals, monkeys, even apes.
Someone made a benchmark of it:

http://static.androidheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/1...
This type of cockroach control is pretty par for the course in undergrad anatomy lab sections... I think the only part that seems weird is the gamification of making it a remote control app.
People used to worry kids ripping wings off of houseflies weren't right in the head. Budding aerospace engineers cheated of their true potential because no U.S. company had the ingenuity to market $100 wing scissors?
Amazing, but weird... I am having flashbacks to the cockroach-spy scenes in the movie "Fifth Element".
Credit cards work well in the situation you describe (if I understand it correctly).
Are you saying some kids are born psychopaths? Or that marketeers are?

I've observed both ways, where the kids were far more sane than the parents, and then there are kids that turn out evil despite the best parents.
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Wow. I thought Onion was something people found in the mid 2000s and got viral because it has all the crazy fake but extremely hilarious weekly review. Does the print version makes those fake news or legitimate news report?
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Protip: If you use paid email, ask your email provider how to hide your IP while sending via SMTP. I asked mine and it turned out that they run a separate SMTP port which you can use and then your IP won't be included in message headers. This is a fairly popular provider, but I won't mention their name as they don't advertise this feature and provide it on request.
$ 5000 seems way too much.

50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South America) according to this page:
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing

That's still a lot of money, of course.
Admittedly death by pyrethroids (most insecticides) is basically death by paralysis, and can't be too pleasant either. I usually resort to the bottom of a shoe as it's the fastest way.
Usually if you have a normal ethernet switch/WiFi your TCP packets end up going to everyone.

Endpoints only self-choose to listen to stuff addressed to them.
> 1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously).

Imagine the scenario where you >search< in a >box< (term) with `grep -inr "pattern" /random/path` and you get results like:

./random/path/file pattern
./random/path/file2 pattern
hxxp://www.amazon.com/product-with-pattern-name

Nice, right? You performed a search. Why not go public? Hell, why not go over plain text?

Take it even further. Visit amazon or c@n0nical's site and be welcomed with your hostname. Great, eh? And while you're at it, send all patterns to NSA as well, because, ummm, it's a "search box".

Do you still think that this is not a privacy violation?

C@n0nical has become a pimp.

Seems that many people erased POSIX and privacy from their dictionary.
1. Passing off only applies to unregistered trademarks. For registered trademarks, it's just trademark infringement. Since ubuntu is a registered mark (or so they mention in the C&D), passing off simply would not apply.

2. Nominative fair use, as I mentioned, is a complete defense to trademark infringement (including passing off), and most other related things, including dilution.

If FixUbuntu claimed or implied they had a business relationship/etc, there would be an issue.
They don't.

Trademarks do not give you the ability to stop others from using certain words, they give you the ability to stop others from confusing consumers about the source of goods.

Plus, you know, criticism of products is among the most protected speech possible when it comes to trademarks ...