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His comments about health insurance were quite interesting.

"And ... you know when you say, OK, we're going to do what we're doing for your law firm but we're going to do it for 300 million Americans and we're going to make it affordable for everybody that way. And yes, it means that you're going to be paying for the other guys in the society, the same way you pay for the other guys in the law firm … Their eyes glaze. You know they don't want to hear it. It's too much. Too much to contemplate the idea that the whole country might be actually connected."

I never thought about it that way. That said, I still think obamacare has some serious problems, and is basically corporate welfare and sick care. If you want to make people healthy, stop subsidizing unhealthy carbohydrates and GMO toxic shit, and perhaps gasp think about stabilizing population.
Keeping a clean home is about discipline and not gender. Some people take it to OCD levels and others are negligent but there is a reasonable middle ground. Cleaning up after yourself is an attribute of adulthood. If you can't do it you are still a child.
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the first rule of employment: If someone offers you free money to leave? you take it.
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Two points:

1. The comment to which you replied wasn't comparing violent war crimes to privacy violations, so your indignation was unnecessary.

2. Whether you're discussing war crimes, selling cancer-causing tobacco products, or spying on innocent civilians, the "just doing my job" and "I have a family and a mortgage" excuses are inadequate justification.
While I'm no expert on what RIM is doing these days, it really seems like if they could just get their act together, motivate more development for their platform, people wouldn't have to make imitations of their greatest selling points on other devices.

The market is clearly there -- why isn't RIM doing better?
> "I use my real name, because I have nothing to hide"

Of course I do, everyone does. I'm just very thoughtful about never posting it online ;)

Also, pet peeve: it's "lose", not "loose".
You can use closures:

func SomeHandler(foo Foo) {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
// use foo
}
}
// later, during init
http.HandleFunc("/foo", SomeHandler(someFoo))

or method values, introduced in go 1.1:

type handler struct {
foo Foo
}

func (h *handler) bar(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
// use h.foo
}

func (h *handler) qux(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
// use h.foo
}

// later
h := handler{
foo: someFoo,
}
http.HandleFunc("/bar", h.bar)
http.HandleFunc("/qux", h.qux)
Microsoft lost its new CEO about a year ago: Steven Sinofsky
Ask HN: How to secure a laptop for mobile editing of online content?
Hello all,<p>I am looking for the best advice out there for making my laptop secure when doing very risky media work. I will essentially be a mobile studio between and iPhone and the MacBook. I need to know the best backup and security suggestions for my data and rights. I am looking for the best ways to " get shit done."
It's interesting to me to see all these new fangled home automation devices come to market, especially when really inexpensive technology has been around for decades: http://www.x10.com
Agreed. I really like how gocraft does contexts. Very cool way to structure your app
> I don't think countries (the U.S., Norway, whoever) should be required or require themselves to get warrants to surveil citizens of other countries.

I think there is a difference between committing illegal actions when they are inevitable (I can understand that, eg, the US would want to conduct targeted surveillance on known AQ members abroad). It's another thing to make it into an all-encompassing, industrial activity. And clearly, the distinction between "national" and "foreign" is rather... blurry. The US, the Europeans, the Australians, I assume Japan, Korean, Taiwan... look like they have a good working relationship, in which everybody can spy on everybody else, as long as you can pretend it's about security.
If the app automatically adds a prefix and doesn't automatically strip that prefix if it's present in supplied data, it's broken.
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>> He argues that expanding government crowds out non-governmental social activity,

And yet if you look to the past you see that when government does nothing people die in the streets because charity in no way covers what government can now. Particularly for those on the fringes of society, those considered immoral or sinners in some way.

Private social activity absolutely does not do all we need it to.
So are you saying it is, or is not, odd that a decision made here can affect something a light year away? If you don't find that odd that's great for you; you obviously have a far more intuitive understanding of the universe than most people.
That was actually very easy to understand!.

Thanks for that. I'm thinking in build a toy language and this make on magic thing die..
I'm confused.. India's "dysfunctional governmental bureaucracy and law and order system... failed miserably" because it was cloned from the west. But you're also saying the government laid the groundwork over 50 years to raise levels of education and healthcare so that India is now making "visible progress".

I don't think @sreeni_ananth's comment was discounting the role of colonialism, but rather looking at the way out. There's not much we can do now about what was done to India in the past (except maybe harboring ill will against 'the west'?). But looking to India's future, I'd have agree with him that the main issue standing in the path of India's full recovery and health is corruption.
That's the beauty of no-independent-oversight organizations.
I don't think countries (the U.S., Norway, whoever) should be required or require themselves to get warrants to surveil citizens of other countries.

And where then does it stop? Should countries also not be required or require themselves to provide due process to citizens of other countries when they visit? How about not recognizing property rights, and confiscating their belongings? Why not go the whole way and just shoot the ones you don't like?

The reason that international human rights treaties exist is that adopting isolationist policy in the area of human rights is a move that creates no winners. We just seem to have forgotten that in the context of the Internet, because the violations take place at home while the immediate victims are abroad. But the indirect consequences will probably come back to haunt those who don't respect citizens of other nations all too quickly, whether it is in loss of tourist trade, or loss of control of technologies like the Internet because a single nation is no longer trusted to administer that technology impartially, or more direct consequences to the bottom line if for example technology companies with cloud-based offerings are no longer trusted by foreign customers.

The US seems to be particularly at risk today, because it has been a natural leader in some of these fields and has been trusted to act responsibly in that capacity. That trust is rapidly being eroded, and the US has more to lose as a consequence than most. Still, the general us-and-them attitude in today's international politics is a plague on all our houses.
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>Browser vendors need to set an example and do a Diginotar here: remove that root from the stores.

I just found Diginotar certificates in FF 25.0.1. So no "Diginotar" has been done in FF. At least not what I'd call a "Diginotar": Remove all certs of that organization.
First, a lot of that migration is to other parts of the British diaspora, and so reciprocal arrangements allowing for migration of people of British descent (along the lines of Israel's Aliyah) would still allow for this kind of migration.

Second, jobs are a side issue. People latch on to jobs because they are the only non-"racist" reason for opposing immigration. But politics are quickly changing, and I think people are feeling more empowered to speak their mind on preserving their own ethnicity and culture. Part of this change comes from online comments, where people are able to speak freely without fear of social or legal repercussions.
Perhaps they could ask Clippy.

It looks like you are choosing a CEO...
There were, but Steve shitcanned most of them.
True, but why would an exception ever leave memory in an undefined state? I can imagine it corrupting a thread's own stack in some languages, but you wouldn't use a thread's stack for shared memory (at least, not without some construct that told other threads when it was safe to access it)
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Bernstein's praise is misplaced, being directed at a member of the minor political elite who sacrificed very little, and not to those who sacrificed a great deal.

The people that who stuck their necks out were Snowden and Greenwald, not Rudsbridger. In fact if the material was released in a different way, namely only to a single news organization, or didn't have Greenwald fighting for publication, Rudsbridger would have been loath to sign off on reporting on as much as he did.
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> that you shouldn't conclude that communism doesn't work[...]

I haven't concluded that, and as I think I conceded in the original post (or at least somewhere anyway), I'm not entirely convinced that we've discovered what the true path forward is. Regardless, I agree that there hasn't been a fair application of communism, where both its recipients and its administrators were all held to equal benefit.

> couldn't you say that it's just true capitalism working its way as "intended"?

Well, no, and for two reasons. Either the money shouldn't matter, and no amount of money poured into democracy shouldn't have any bearing on legislation, or the results of said legislation shouldn't contradict the tenets of the Constitution, and would be subject to the same degree of public scrutiny that all laws do.

The former is obviously not true because politicians are corruptible, which is a situation that is potentially not fixable. The latter is obviously not true because it isn't primarily legislation that money buys, but regulation. The regulations imposed by the hundreds of federal agencies aren't done in public, they're simply bought, paid for, and then enacted without public input or scrutiny, to the advantage of those that paid for them.

In short, I think what you implied is that the problem with communism is its unfair application. I would agree with that, and further assert that unfair application, or put more bluntly, corruption, is the only big problem with capitalism as well.
The problem with that is that you just get more of the same.

Microsoft really needs some outside influence, someone who hasn't drowned in the kool-aid.

I think the last line of the article is the only relevant one -- that the people they are talking to don't want the old guard looking over their shoulder, and the old guard doesn't want to leave.
You can't really compare different data sets like that.
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Did you read to the end of the article where it was actually described why it is a stalemate? Mulally-case has nothing to do with it.
So, what's your hypothesis? Instead of bitching, why don't you contribute?

Second, you seem to like his (our) position on liberals. Pot meet kettle.

Lastly, I came to this conclusion after many years of talking with conservatives (and watching them in action on TV programs) and reading their own words.
A not-insignificant portion of airbnbs business is host-present which is legal in NYC.
You'd take the $2k vs. working at Zappos, or does the money have to be a material amount?

I don't think I'd walk away from Tesla or SpaceX for $100k. (I might walk from Tesla for "a Model S", IFF I thought I could still go back a few months later, but that's just gaming the system.)
As Steve (Em)Ballmer showed yes. Just cannot run it good.
And is this guy a terrorist or a freedom fighter?

It can be very hard to tell.
It'd be awesome if it was ScottGu down the line - but think its unlikely.
You're exactly the kind of person they are trying to get to leave -- someone who is only in it for the money and doesn't believe in the mission.
I think this is quite a novel observation. If you patiently read to the end of the article, it is explained that, in fact, potential candidates's fear of Gates and his refusal to leave the board might be causing a stalemate.
I appreciate that this is getting press on the American side of the border. This was in the Canadian news cycles a little while ago, but understandably the focus there was on how U.S. Border agents were able to access her medical history in the first place--with speculation that the Canadian government had some form of information sharing that involved medical history.

So it's great to see the focus on the other side of this issue as well, which is why the U.S. is profiling in this way in the first place.
Show HN: I ported the 550 point Colossal Cave Adventure game to the browser
I'm spaniard I don't have these impression.
Man I see people that are around 50-60 years old using a modern smarthphone to play games or using Whatsap, in the train.

But the funny fact is that here have some tendency to call some products/marks/films by the original English name as look more exotic or modern. For example "Star Trek" (not Camino a las Estrellas), "smartphone", "open source", etc... But with google glass is just the opposite.
I don't think people are wrong to oppose immigration actually.

What you characterize as an irrational fear, I would say is an desire to preserve unique aspects of one's culture, and possible genetics. Unfortunately, this viewpoint has been associated, often unfairly, with taking an extreme approach where this desire is held above all other considerations.
> can easily convince themselves that someone who doesn't fit into that profile will not be a good fit

I wouldn't want to work for anyone like that anyway. People who make blanket blaming statements need not have me apply.
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The short answer is: "Administrators"

I'm a nearly-finished Ph.D. candidate, and when people complain to me about how bloated and inefficient the government is, I think to myself "Wow, that sounds like a pretty good system."

A typical graduate teaching assistant at my university has about 10 lab sections per academic year. The lab fees--just the lab fees, not tuition--from just one section is enough to pay the TA's salary for the entire year. Even if you include the outrageously-inflated graduate tuition that a TA-ship pays, lab fees from just three lab sections cover the entire compensation package.

The tuition from just one big lecture section is enough to pay a tenured professor's salary for almost two entire years (and a tenured professor should be teaching 5-6 courses per year).

Some of the rest of the money goes to pay for the country-club campus, but most of it disappears into the black hole of bureaucracy.

And we haven't even started to talk about the scam of "overhead" that the university charges on federal research grants--30% straight off the top, except for very large purchases. Want to have a new electrical outlet installed in the lab? You have to use the university's maintenance department (and its inflated hourly rates--at least 3x what you'd pay a licensed/bonded union electrician) and pay overhead on top of that!
I've been working on this project on and off for a few years and finally got it polished for release. The heavy lifting is all done by a Google Web Toolkit engine and the front-end is straight JS/jQuery.

Rather than port the game itself, I spent a while re-implementing a somewhat generic ACODE interpreter. This is easier said than done: much of the ACODE specification is documented by one or two uses in the actual game and some of it is only available in the original FORTRAN.

The game itself is incredibly difficult and unforgiving. Enjoy! :)

Source is here: https://github.com/mmastrac/adventure
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It's hard to impose change when nobody wants to throw themselves into that fire.
Because otherwise you end up allowing naive, irrational, and dishonest actors to determine how your system functions for everyone. It's like airport security.
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In other words, the smart person who is not gonna stand for bullshit, and who is a professional that knows the end goal is creating value, not some BS "mission".
I have been working for government contractors / subcontractors / sub-subcontractors / military-industrial complicators for a few years now.

For the last year, I have been working with a team of 20+ to accomplish only half of a task that would have been absolutely trivial in comparison with my last job in the fully private sector. It could have been accomplished by one person working for 6 months, or perhaps 2 working for 4 months.

The government pays for 20 times the personnel, quadruple the required time, and gets a quarter the quality in return. And this team is rated very highly by the government's idiotic metrics.

Since the contractor companies also skim off the difference between what the government pays them for the labor and what they actually pay their employees, I can easily believe from my anecdotal experience that government is capable of wasting 99% of everything that it spends.

While waste does not disappear entirely from the economy, it is not directed into useful production, which is the basis of a healthy economy. What it does is build a human ecosystem around absolute fraud and purchasing political favors and influence.

That doesn't account at all for the things that government does to destroy the wealth-building activities of others, such as requiring barbers to spend thousands of dollars to get licensed to cut hair for $10 a pop, or demanding that 8-year-old kids selling lemonade buy business licenses.
Yup, and if you want to play mind games with your employees, and pretend like it's not a monetary relationship, then the feeling is mutual. I provide enough real value that I can get an employer who respects me enough to be honest and up-front.

We aren't family. Both of us are going to break off the relationship if we see a better deal.

If you want me to stick around because I think the company will be better X years from now? Give me a significant amount of underwater options, and a position where I have a chance to move the share price.

However, more relevant to this situation? Who do you think is going to take the cash and leave? Probably the people who can most easily get new jobs.

Now, I'm the first to point out that your ability to get a job does not 100% correlate with your competency, but there is certainly some correlation. Your company is going to be dramatically worse off if the people who have other options leave. If you have to let people go? you want to get rid of your bottom performers, not the top performers.
Let's use your contrived example to highlight a new problem:

The three astronauts Yuri and John elect Markus to be the new commissioner of oxygen, while Markus votes for Ronald and Ronald abstains. Everybody delegates total control to Markus, who unfortunately turns out to be a psychopath and kills the whole crew.

What were we talking about again?
I would love to hire people like you... people who are willing to take a paycut and small stock grants in order to fulfill my grand mission: to make myself as rich as possible.
Wish it had tilt left/right/up/down for gaming
It's almost hypocritical. Our lack of universal healthcare causes so many otherwise mildly ill people to become much sicker. (U.S. health insurers, who make much of their money by throwing red tape at people until they just give up on legit claims, are especially vicious toward those with mental illness, who are statistically more likely to give up easily.) Then the U.S. says, "no sick people! We've made too many of our own!"
The point is to hold MPs to the same standard as anyone else
Is there a low-cost Bluetooth integration w/x10?
The advantages of using your name can often outweigh the disadvantages.

Reputation is a valuable thing. You don't gain a good reputation by hiding away. You build a good reputation by making a positive impression on lots of people over a long period of time. You can't do that if you are always anonymous.

If I was hiring someone, I'd google them. And if nothing turned up, that would give a somewhat negative impression. Better than seeing them being a jerk or idiot or criminal, of course, but still.

On the other hand, if I saw a long history of them behaving intelligently and diplomatically, going back a long time, that would make a very good impression.

I say use your real name, but don't be a dick, and don't be stupid.
>> You'll break a rule when you have to, and that's it. It's very simple. If you're in the desert, dying of thirst and someone comes along and starts trying to force you to pay a ridiculous price for some water, then of course you'll do whatever you can to get some. But no sane, independent, objective "court" would punish you for that.

Then the NAP is not the whole of the law, or necessarily even a useful starting point.
I can book a decent hotel on HotelTonight [http://www.hoteltonight.com] in New York right now for $99-267/night. Who is paying $500/night?
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Wow, you must be very young, i.e. 10-12, or have very perceptive teachers. I feel that teachers and other authority figures still don't get it, especially those above 40 who aren't in a Internet/computer-heavy field. And even young folks in the tech field still don't realize it (basically everyone who uses something like SnapChat too enthusiastically)
You don't use your real name then. You use a nick here and your first name only, as far as I can tell, on SO. Whilst the information there makes you traceable it's still not 'using your real name'; unless your full legal name is only 3 letters?
I think TACK is targeting browser vendors, and convergence is targeting browser users. But it doesn't look like it has been updated since 2011 (still in beta, too), and there's no add-on for Chrome.
How is Elop even in the discussion?
That would be failing up.
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> the low end welding jobs have been automated out of existence; I don't think that's the case for low-end coding jobs

I'm not so sure- it seems like times are pretty hard in the website business, which always seemed like the primary swimming pool for low end/beginning devs. Twitter + Tumblr can do a lot.
How do you know they're using their real name? Do you research it or do you assume that people using what looks like a real sounding name are using their own real [legal] name?
not op, but "You'd take the $2k vs. working at Zappos, or does the money have to be a material amount?"

Isn't that part of the Zappos standard procedure and not an "event" like this? If I read lsc correctly, then if some event occurs where the company offers money / severance to leave, you are better off leaving. I don't know if anyone has stats on this scenario, but I'm inclined to think the recovery is the long odds bet.
I would /pay/ $2k to avoid working customer support for zappos. I'd pay rather more than that, in fact. Have you worked phone support? I only did so for a month, and it was probably the least pleasant job I've ever had.