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I pass no comment on the site, but on assertions here about hindutva as hindu religious propaganda/nationalism. This is incorrect, hindutva does not proscribe or prescribe any religion.

Veer Savarkar's pamphlet on which modern notions of hindutva are based on can be read at [1]

Sarvakar includes all Indian religions in the term "Hinduism" and outlines his vision of a "Hindu Rashtra" (Hindu Nation) as "Akhand Bharat" (United India), stretching across the entire Indian subcontinent.

Hindu in the context of hindutva is not religious. It speaks about a common identity for a united nation. Savarkar's writing need to be read in the context of the period that they were written, English oppression and the fight for independence, before the idea of a muslim state, Pakistan were first proposed. During this time, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh were one nation commonly know not as India, but Hindustan. Hindustan represented not a Hindu state, but a country where people who shared the hindu ethos reside.

At the level of practice, the Hindutva or Hindu ethos, outlook boils down to upholding righteousness (Sat-guna) and fighting ignoble attitudes (Dur-guna).

Quoting Savarkar, "We Hindus are bound together not only by the tie of the love we bear to a common fatherland and by the common blood that courses through our veins and keeps our hearts throbbing and our affections warm, but also by the tie of the common homage we pay to our great civilization - our Hindu culture"

Modern India was founded at independence on the same beliefs, in the quote above replace hindus by India and hindu culture by Indian culture.

Please read the literature on the subject and not what is simply presented on modern pop culture.

[1] http://www.savarkar.org/content/pdfs/en/essentials_of_hindut...
“Nobody knows who he is. Even at this hour we still don’t have his name,” Hlungwane said.

^^ This sounds like something that Mr. Bean would do!

Would love to find out what his motivation was!
> unacceptable, impermissible opinion

> crowdsourced rightthink pushback

I can't tell what level of irony/sarcasm you're operating on here.
In the first week of January I'm leaving a Software Engineering gig for a US defense contractor to move to New Zealand. Due to the expense of shipping, my wife and I are only bringing what we can carry, and we've taken special care to fit as much of our lives as possible into our electronic devices. Search/seizure of these devices would be horrible and violating on so many levels.

This news is absolutely terrifying to me.

Edit: I wrote this as a quick knee-jerk without much thought, and now that I read it again I see the sad irony. This is being done to prevent terror? Someone needs to do a risk/reward analysis here...

Edit 2: I appreciate everyone offering up solutions here, but really the only solution would be either to not go, or to not carry any devices at all. Encryption can't prevent me from being detained and my property from being confiscated. Given that the issue here is a violation of personal space rather than one of having something to hide, encryption will only increase the impact which such an event would have on my wife and me. If such an event were to occur and I was using strong encryption to protect my data, I'd be asked for any encryption keys, detained for much longer, and if I refused to cooperate in any way I'd have my things permanently confiscated and face refusal of entry.

If I find myself in this situation, I'll be looking to minimize impact. I'll cooperate while trying as best as I can not to compromise my values, and then raise hell after the fact.
I think at some level of consideration, it's worth thinking of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ as one entity. The public of each might see the different flags, Olympic medal counts, anthems and cultural variations but when the shit hits the fan (and now anything hitting anything) it's effectively one thing.

I've mentioned before on here that I think of it as Oceania from 1984.

If a company has influence in the U*, you can bet they will get what they want down here too.
I saw at at linux.conf.au in 2010 and it looked good, but also as though it hadn't been worked on for a while. It looks like it's had a lot of neat stuff added in the last 3 years.
Pagination does have it's advantages, namely:
- Linking
- Easier to grok where you are in the result set ( 3 out of 5 instead of the scroll bar that changes height)
FTA: I still believe in privacy. It’s just a matter of questioning which things need to be private, and which things really don’t.

Doesn't this address your attempt at a point? He has some things which he realized he kept private for no reason so he opened them up. The content of peeps is, in fact, not his to share (if I gave you my phone # to contact me, I would not consider it reasonable, without foreknowledge, for you to dump it into a public DB).
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Thank God for IntelliJ because Eclipse is the biggest steaming pile of shit excuse for an IDE.

I'm really glad Google is ditching Eclipse as the go-to IDE in favor of the IntelliJ-based Android Studio. Good riddance.
Backlinks can be disavowed via Webmaster Tools.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487

Related:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2309486/Matt-Cutts-Use-...
Ship your stuff before you go
Despite oft printed warnings to the otherwise, you can just cut up the patches to customize the dose.

Duration of release? I believe you should leave it on 24/7. IIRC, it's not that nicotine improves sleep quality, but rather that nicotine withdrawal impairs sleep quality rather profoundly, and as such keeping the patch on at night allows for better sleep. I could be wrong here, though. Been a while since I've researched this.
Thanks for replying, Jackson.

Well, I do have a share of nontrivial projects on github, I just don't think they'll attract companies. I've done a fair share of web scraping as projects (like scraping GSMarena for phones, or the Apple store for information + reviews). It's not exactly the sort of stuff to display though, in the way that someone who does iOS/Android/web dev can display.

I did want to create a web frontend to the GSMArena data, maybe I should extend that with something on the frontend.
No, taking belongings has nothing to do with terrorism. Terrorism is about using terror as coercion and presumably, they're searching his stuff because they want to find something, not because they want the attention.
Because customs doesn't search shipments? No. If my stuff is searched/seized, I'd rather be aware of it happening.
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> Using a native rich application is always going to be superior to building a web app on top of a browser.

Depends on how you define "superior."

Word has a lot more features that Google Documents, but if I don't need them...

Personally, I am more than happy to use Google Docs over MS software. Google stuff doesn't take 45 seconds to load. Formatting rarely goes awry. It has the features need. I can access docs from anywhere and share with anyone and they don't have to install anything or even load an application to view it.

I do not miss using MS Office one bit.
Five Eyes, mate...

I was born in NZ, and live in Australia, and I'm under no illusions as to who our security services really report to.
I thought I read that the correlation between your income and your parent's income was stronger than the correlation between your education and your income. I can't find a reference, though, so it's possible I'm making it up.

here we go:

http://mmss.wcas.northwestern.edu/thesis/articles/get/776/

"I find that family income remains an important positive predictor of eventual adult outcomes. The effects persist even when many characteristics that are related to income, such as parents’ education, home environment characteristics, parental involvement, school characteristics and student ability, are controlled in a regression framework. "

...

"Even conditional on a host of other characteristics such as grades, test scores, and parents’ education and level of involvement, a student from a family earning $50,000 a year can still expect to earn about 10% less in the future than an otherwise identical student from a family earning $150,000 a year. These relationships are all statistically significant at the 1% level."
That's not 4% of visitors, that's 4% of people who went through your signup process.
Why the cult of hard work is counter-productive
Yeah maybe it is his last name.
Why wouldn't you just signup for Office 365 and literally have every problem you mentioned go away?
I wonder whether the field of philosophy has a term of valence equivalent to that of "architecture astronaut".
I don't think Derek was arguing that she shouldn't have the right to keep it secret, or that we shouldn't respect her wishes.

The point of the piece is that many of our "secrets" -- things we guard carefully and fear being exposed -- wouldn't surprise, or even interest, other people.

It's just a shift in perspective, not an attack on anyone's right to privacy.
Add Germany. Our Government is pro NSA and supports them as good as they can. They are dishonest self-servicing hypocrites.
Tuition costs have skyrocketed but average salaries of professors have not. It doesn't take a math wiz to figure that equation out.
Encrypt the files you take with you. For good measure make a full backup and leave it behind with someone you trust.
I've had the opposite experience while working with a company of <200 employees and several locations needing to have a set of communication tools to efficiently collaborate in real time. We're using the query functionality in Google spreadsheets to automatically parse data input by a variety of staff through Google forms for meetings gathering people often through Google hangouts. We're also able to make instantaneous and ubiquitous changes to training documents, policies, and other items (e.g. procedures) without worrying about versioning or if an old photocopy of a policy is still be used. I can't speak highly enough Google apps in this type of environment. We seriously considered Office 365 (which seems to focus almost entirely on getting you back to the desktop) but the inability to real-time collaborate on documents (at least at the time) was the first of many strikes against that suite as a viable option. YMMV depending on what you need to do, but for fast-paced collaborative work I can't imagine working without Google apps.
True, but those who will join late will be the big losers.
Can you ask your contractor to add a special label to it? I don't mean like: "Government Data - Fragile". But maybe they can manage that for you. A friend of mine could ship stuff with a military airplane, because his dad worked for the us army.
Wow, this is textbook http://paulgraham.com/say.html, right down to being the prevailing opinion a couple of generations ago about full-time harassment of most every passerby.
Known as the "Five Eyes" alliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
DHS Interrogates NY Times Reporters At Border, Then Denies Having Records
originally i thought that your response was somewhat of a dick move. then i realized that he misspelled "college"...
But encrypt it as strong as possible, with password + private-key.
You're ignoring the signaling aspect of college. If all the high achievers forwent college, the signaling aspect would be destroyed and those people would continue to earn more anyway. But for any given high achiever, it's not a good idea to assume that employers will take the time to figure out that you're a special snowflake without the signaling aspect.

It's like looking at Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein and asking if they wouldn't still have become successful bankers had they not gone to Harvard. It's most probable that they'd never even have gotten their foot in the door of the industry.
Simply and narrowly put, that may be terrorism, but to call this terrorism would be speculation -- it's not politically-charged attention-whoring in the strictest sense.

Another staple of terrorism is random violence, and we're not quite there yet.
Terrorism is about using terror as coercion

I'm not seeing where that contradicts his experience.
Nice! I have not made the jump to ergonomic though I do have both a Unicomp Model M and a DAS Keyboard (Cherry Blue) that are my prefered. Though neither keyboard is ergonomic, its use is because it allows me to place my laptop on a stand and use a second external monitor. This and switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout has made a huge difference to me personally in terms of hand comfort.
I'd take my chances with the abuses of NZ customs officials than just about anywhere else in the world. One story does not a broken system make.

This is the same country that told the US to fuck off with their nuclear-powered ships and when levered through treaties to send personnel to warzones, sends medical staff rather than troops. It's not some backwards little-Stalin state.
I'm certainly not saying ergo keyboards aren't useful. It's just that dedicating dozens of prototypes that will always float hands up and to the right (to get at the vowels) seems a fools errand. Ergos are great! I just think, in the same way a cyclist can buy a $4000 bike to save 10 lbs, when a moderate diet would achieve the same weight reduction, that it seems a bit misplaced resources.
The sad thing is, NZ seemed to be a more sensible Australia. Now we're both going mad.
Most of my graduated friends have service jobs, or at best, low paying career related jobs.

Learning to weld is more valuable than college for many people.

The most valuable thing I did in college was work on my own projects and work an internship.

I had my degree delivered to my parents house. It's in a drawer somewhere for their sentimental value. It represents lost years of my life.
Terrorism is politically motivated, there is no evidence of that.
Quite the narrow-minded scope that those thoughts come from -- not the apology, though if it was genuine he must of had someone he cares about shame him about it. People are homeless because of the systems that we have allowed to exist and perpetuate in our societies - and he's part of that system, whether he understands and realizes that or not. If he has a tech salary job then he's also part of the reason gentrification is happening in their city - perhaps why some of these people are homeless or selling drugs - because they can no longer afford to compete with the rent prices?
Every month, but we're getting close to every other week. That's not entirely because of September 11th, but because politics thinks that they can serve Government and Corporate requirements better when they rip our data, privacy and rights.
A skill someone can learn in 6 months that will impress employers on a resume
Because the concept of an instantly transferable easily stored and hidden immune from state control pseudonymous electronic currency having any amount of success is clearly just as random and unpredictable as the result of a roulette wheel spin.
The main thing screwing over the USPS is the moronic and absurd requirement that they pre-fund retirement for people who don't even work there yet. And then when they try to petition to change their policies to deal with the shortfalls (no Saturday delivery, etc), congress smacks 'em down.
why aren't mail carriers in suburban areas given bikes or motorbikes to speed up their travel?

Auspost has a full spectrum of delivery vehicles vans and cars for remote area\parcels, postie bikes (honda ct110 (though apparently they are replacing these)) for suburban areas, bicycles for denser and trolleys and walking for dense areas
I suppose if I'm not an NZ national (US citizen) they would only pause for 5 seconds (as opposed to none) before similarly making away with my gear? Or would they be more inclined to do that to an American as a more kingly than the king type deal?

(I was planning on going there for Easter)
And ship the encryption key separately so that you really cannot decrypt it . Or transfer it across once you're in the country.
Upload everything to a server before you leave. Download it when you get there. Take no devices across borders except a throwaway phone for emergencies.
Here's a business idea, start a company that competes with AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, offering better service at a lower price? If they are as awful as everyone says, that should be easy I would think. Shrug.
Yes, I have multiple backups, and I intend to leave copies in places where they are retrievable through various means. However the issue isn't losing the data, although losing my expensive hardware (to which I have an irrational emotional attachment) would definitely leave me quite irate.

The issue is my privacy. It's not even that I have things which I feel some strong need to hide, but that my devices are inherently personal to me. Having gone through so much effort to fit yet more of my life into them has only strengthened this impression. The thought of having them forcefully confiscated and rifled through is makes me visibly agitated and angry.

If you come to my house and rifle through my underwear drawer, I don't care that you've seen my underwear. I care that you've invaded a place which consider to be private and exclusive to me and me alone.
Your robots.txt is nothing but comments. It doesn't specify the URL of your sitemap. It does have a blanket disallow for all user agents for the root of your site. It is commented out (like everything else) but if that was ever uncommented that could be your problem.

I guessed your sitemap URL since it isn't in your robots.txt. You have every single page listed as being updated hourly. Even if that is true I wouldn't put that in there.
Time to switch login prompt to "Logging in with username and password" and have a dummy account that can delete files upon login. Provide the fairly clueless customs official with the loaded login credentials and damage done before they realise.

Not that I have anything to hide... that being said they will probably just back door into my laptop next time I'm on and deactivate any form of tripwire.

Curse you NSA, always streets ahead!

(Note: If I wasn't on their radar, I am now... /sigh, it was a joke)
The thing that defeats viruses is evolutionary pressure, not "engineering organisms".

At this point in time I'd still say that we only have the ability to reintroduce old disappeared pathogens. We do not actually have the ability to design new effective viruses.
If you just want to make a rhetorical point, sure. If you want different things to have different names so that we can have intelligent discussions about them, no.
How to measure resource contention on Virtualized Systems/VMs?
>They can't serve you ads if they can't examine your packets.

Thanks for the laugh.
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I doubt his cell phone could be used directly in terrorism. Seems to me this isn't an attempt to prevent terrorism.
Ambedkar was one of the primary drafters of the Indian Constitution - usually not something you entrust to a fount of bias.
I just want you to know that after reading your comment, I've began to start learning web.py, and can't believe how easy it is to get a basic CRUD app up and running and I'm sure I haven't scratched the surface. Can you recommend any good resources on deploying to a VPS, compiling the jade/coffeescript/sass?
> I wish my list would grow past 0 items.

> I honestly have no itches to scratch.

Looks like you do have an itch to scratch...though I can't think of any good solutions to wishing for more projects.
That's really not the conclusion you should be getting if you apply (my?) logic.

Of course math is involved. But those things were not built for the sake of math, their "roots" are in their respective functions (building something impressive, something religious, or crossing a bay).

Edit: I just checked your [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Bridge reference.
You seem to be saying that this geological formation ("transoceanic bridge") is about mathematics too, implying it's man-made. If that's the case, we're playing by different rules of what "logic" means, and our discussion is completely pointless, no offense intended.
BitPay Exceeds $100,000,000 in Bitcoin Transactions Processed
"I" meant "cron". The system does this on its own, but it's still a cheap hack. I'd like the crashes to be more predictable, but maybe this is the best I'll ever do. I've spent enough time setting this up already, other things to do!
Exactly. It's comparing apples and oranges.

Investment in going to college: 12-14 years of school getting good grades along the way, SATs and then $20,000-$70,000 a year.

Investment in a MOOC: one button click.
What about a PAC that was funded similar to a kickstarter. So either you raise all the funds or not towards X goal? I had an idea like this for the common person to crowd source their funds and effectively buy back their government but not a fan of politics
Really? You think someone will find it easier to go look at the source for my plugin rather than just a line of imperative code in my build script? I would agree it easily gets out of control, but I really don't think I would rather have to find and understand a whole plugin just to grok a one off piece of logic needed in the middle of a build script.
Yeah, I don't see at all how security theater is politically motivated, you're right.
Reform ECPA: Tell the (US) Government to Get a Warrant
Postgres: Search and Sort by Distance
Reposting because time is almost up and very close to 100k.
See my post above. This won't do anything for me. The issue isn't that I don't want people to see my data, it's that I don't want my "space" forcibly invaded. Further, carrying an encrypted laptop (or shipping encrypted storage) will only increase the levels of both "forced" and "invaded" [1] I'd experience were I to face this kind of situation.

Also, I like my hardware. If they can't see what's on there, they can seize it and destroy it, and I'm sure I wouldn't be compensated.

1: http://xkcd.com/538/
$60k out of high school? Guess the recession is over. (Median household income in the U.S. is roughly $50k)
Dude on a practical level this might be your best bet.
India’s ban against gay sex has origin in 5-century-old British power struggle
Maybe, maybe not. That's certainly a topic worth discussing.

I was just refuting a3voices's assertion that a rise in value alone made it a good investment. That's outcome based thinking and it's wrong.
Just found out that the Dark Knight (Batman) was shot at Chand Baori (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand_Baori
Have you tried an IBM model M or Thinkpad's keyboard? Neither ergonomic. But I am not kidding, I prefer my laptop's keyboard to many other full sized keyboards, also I think my trusty 20+ years old IBM model M is one of the best in general. Maybe it is all in my head more than in my hands, but that is my 2 cents.

Well actually I tried an ergonomic keyboard before and it wasn't bad, except for when I had to go back to using a regular one at other workstations. It was hard because I had gotten so used the ergonomic design. So I prefer the "rectangular" kind since then.
Just ... wow. Easy? Man, I don't even know where to start with a response to this stupidity.
In my experience many homeless are mentally ill, but not to the level where they should be committed to an institution. This puts society in a bind: do you take away their freedoms because they are odd ducks (treatment is not yet possible), or do you let them do what they want, which typically results in their homelessness? Has there ever been a society without homeless?
...and buy dirt-cheap credit default swaps on them from the insurance giants?
Yes if you had good enough information that it was likely. Anyone following Bitcoin for the past few years knew there was a very high chance of this happening.
Customs can request the encryption keys from you and did in this case. So not only encrypt everything, but use a hidden volume as well.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/plausible-deniability