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A shorter workday works particularly well for knowledge
workers—people in creative or professional jobs—who can
work productively for about six hours a day,
compared to the eight hours manual laborers
can churn out, according to Salon.

Since when do we care about the well-being of manual workers - or professionals? The focus on management has been to (fail to ) extract as much labor as they can from their workers and paying them the least. This can be formalized through various management mumbo jumbo.

How do we re-educate managers to "risk" losing productivity by trying these alternative means?
which message is that?

"come and get us, it's getting too quiet around here and people are starting to question their leaders"?
Well they're right about one thing...
Maybe I can recommend another addiction: http://scholar.google.com

Of course there is always a risk that you end up in your own bubble again, searching with the same terms all the time, but it is not because the material is limited...

One example, suppose you think you know everything about bitcoin from reading blog posts. Did it cross your mind to do a simple http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bitcoin? If you had you might have found articles about information propagation or carbon dating. There are so many gems out there, don't get disappointed because you use a few limited outlets, go explore yourself!
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ARM was my start with assembler too. But you appear to a have forgotten there are 5 more registers you can use for that blit ;-)
A similar but more fringe structure that is regaining popularity is the worker collective/cooperative. Mondragon pulls it off to some degree with 10,000+ employees but their structure definitely involves more hierarchy than the smaller coops. 10,000 employees doesn't have to mean 10,000 employees all doing the same work in the same division, you can still have camaraderie within divisions or work groups and organize the entire company democratically. The worker collective gives ownership and influence to every worker and lessens the "us vs. them" dynamic by empowering workers and basically eliminating managers.
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What would that message be? "We are barbaric so you better watch out"?
It matters because it changes the fundamental nature of combat. If a pilot is in the plane you're risking an American life, not to mention a very expensive piece of equipment with numerous safety features etc.

Now take away the risk to American life and lower the cost of the attack significantly, and viola, you've got a much itchier trigger finger now. If you've played MW3, which would you rather do, use the drone to take out enemies or risk your character dying?

A drone totally changes the dynamics of the fight. If we were able to get tons of drones and "mechwarriors", I don't think wars would be quite as difficult to justify. As technologists we are often blinded by the coolness of things. As someone who has worked on AI for drones early on in my career (for the US govt), I shudder to think that I may have contributed in some ways to a terrible technology for humanity. At the time, I had friends deployed and in my head, I thought that it's better we have UAVs than my friends coming home in bodybags...
Millions of Japanese civilians were tech-equivalent?
I wonder if the blow back from this in 10 years will be worse than the propping up of despots and dictators for the last 50.
Ha, yeah that's what I meant. Love seeing them described that way!
Currently they have 300 engineers, they plan that this office will hold 500. I see nothing too extravagant about that?
> Judith Vidal-Hall, one of the claimants suing Google, said: "Google is very much here in the UK. It has a UK specific site. It has staff here. It sells adverts here. It makes money here. It is ludicrous for it to claim that, despite all of this very commercial activity, it won't answer to our courts."

That does sum up my view on it too.

If there is a case to answer, then given that Google are here in the UK then they are bound to operate within UK law and answer it.

We've long gone beyond the point at which we can pretend that there is no UK presence.
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Yes, public education & health care are immoral because they are funded through means of coercion. Helping the poor is a noble end, but even noble ends can't justify violent means.

It does not matter how fair theft seems to the recipient of the services that are funded in such a way, it's still theft.

It is cool that you care about the unfortunate ones though. You are not alone in that — most people do, too. If we go from the assumption that democracies really represent the opinion of the majority, it can be seen that a lot of people do care.

So, if the majority of people really want to help the poor, they would still help (voluntarily this time) without a coercive apparatus, right?

(Obviously, private charities will be better at helping the poor, and private schools and medicine are doing a better job that the government does, but my reply focuses mainly on the moral side of things.)
It's not a question of "ease". Military pilots take orders; COs tell them how high to jump, and that's what they do. Either they follow orders or they are relieved of duty (and possibly face court martial).

Some drones are operated by a division of the CIA and are out of military control, however. This is probably the most worrisome aspect of the program.

However, as long as 99% of their targets are bad guys, Americans are going to continue supporting the program. It's zero risk for American pilots, and everyone likes to read about more dead terrorists with their morning coffee. More points to whoever's in charge.

Governments like Yemen's will also support it because #1 it does their dirty work for them, and #2 they can blame an evil foreign power. Win-win.
Democracy is grown (locally), not "spread" by foreign intervention. The US didn't become a democracy itself by getting invaded. If anything, it was the opposite, it threw away the external power controlling it.
I know how git works in general. I wasn't 100% clear on the whole garbage collection aspect of it, which is hardly a central feature.

There's a difference between "has no idea how it works" and "understands the overall structure but doesn't know every single detail".
I'd rather intel analysts have some cognitive dissonance than have absolute certainty they are always justified in their actions.
What if we had bombed the heck out of them 20 min before\after the wedding? I understand you got to get them when you can, but it also seems like they could be a little nicer about it. They could let the wedding draw them out of hiding then start surveillance, and follow them back to their hiding place rather than start shooting immediately.
Lets be honest here, if Bush were doing this the press and every damn Democrat in Congress would be up in arms and demanding halts and immediate investigations.

so a better title would be, If Bush were President we'd ground out fleet.
I gave up on Freedom after 50 pages upon encountering the cheapest, most exploitative rape-as-dramatic-backstory I've ever read.
> Not everyone can live.

If your definition of morality is "a system for decreeing who should die" rather than "a system for ensuring everyone lives", you are the problem.
No, my contention is more pointed: the theoretical short-term advantages of breastfeeding are largely irrelevant in the developed world where babies aren't susceptible to infection anyway, and, when considered rationally in the general case, the inconvenience of breastfeeding outweighs any advantages of formula feeding.

Remember, the couple of generations of Americans grew up on formula feeding. Breastfeeding rates were down to the 20% range in the 1970's. Yet, there is very little evidence showing any long-term negative impact in those generations.
The only way to protect property is by force. At that point you're talking about imposing your concept of your property on others. To me that sounds immoral, but I am not an "anarcho-capitalist".
JetBrains is an example of what happens when you build a product that lots of people like, and then charge a reasonable price for it. It's easy to convince a boss to buy a tool when it's not a bazillion dollars.
You're right, it doesn't need to be said. Everyone knows you don't drive or commit when drunk. The problem is that "drunk you" might disagree with "sober you", and want to drive/commit anyway.

That's why you install this cool thingy that doesn't let you commit when drunk. Sadly, it's not as easy with cars and drunk drivers...
No, the message is "This is how much we treat innocent civilians who have done nothing wrong, so stop to think about how we treat people that we actually dislike."

It's nothing more than a form of terrorism, primarily against the American people.
The file name -- [B@58aa11eb.pdf -- seems like it was created by something written in Java: instead of printing the real file name, they printed the signature of the Byte array holding the file name data.

See here [1] for a better-than-Oracle explanation:

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1040868/java-syntax-and-m...
Because since the revelations about Google providing the NSA direct access to servers, they are extremely unpopular. Combine that with their reluctance to pax any form of tax, and they have the same public image as an arms dealer.
Honestly, most of JetBrains license value can be recovered within a week.

I find their license prices to be extremely reasonable.
Parkinson's law and Peter's Principle apply to privately held corporate structures as well. There's whole mountains of busywork and paperwork related to hierarchical structures that give the impression of "work" to both outsiders and insiders where it's really just non-productive paper shovelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Mind you, I'm not sure getting rid of the managerial staff is enough to address these problems fully.
I think it meant if an american drone strike hit an american wedding.
What happens when a nation's revolutionary document becomes counterrevolutionary?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Which is pretty polite if you cannot attend the ceremony.
Gift will follow in a couple of days (using an amazon drone).
>If someone in the NSA abuses his powers, it is very likely that nobody will ever know.

You mean, besides his family, friends, and loved ones when he loses his job and potentially ends up in prison. You're underestimating the amount of training and internal oversight that occurs.
I think it's a great thing to aspire to (I certainly do), but yeah, don't think you could claim to be there until you'd put in some serious years, there's just too much to know, too many languages with too many weird edge quirks.
That's something important for you to realise. The next step is to understand that the US government didn't change much lately meaning that idea you had in your mind was never true since at least the end of the second world war. Then you get to wonder how you got to believe that in the first place.
Most of theninterestin info is linked from the reference material section of www.thethirdmanifesto.com; what you Semmelweis to be looking for is:

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/Tutorial%20D-2013-05-...

Which provides a description of Tutorial D, an implementation of the prescriptions.
Using CasperJS, you get more or less the same. http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/modules/casper.html#click...
We might pull out of other countries, but we'd pull over our own for sure then. "Well, we can't keep other countries safe... so we'll have to keep our own."
Harvard warns of 'unconfirmed' reports of explosives on campus
The real question is whether formula is inferior in any way that matters in the developed world. My contention is that it's not, and in the general case, the inconvenience of breastfeeding greatly outweighs any theoretical advantage from breastfeeding in first world babies.

Babies in the first world are: 1) not exposed to that many dangerous pathogens to begin with; and 2) in the rare cases they do become infected, are easily treated with antibiotics, etc. Sure, breast milk has live immune cells, etc, but does that matter in any practical way?
>Weddings and funerals are actually targeted specifically because those events are two that even highly sought-after targets attend despite the dangers.

Or that's the BS excuse they say to support their actions.

Not to mention, that's not an excuse in the first place. Only someone brainwashed by constant BS spin would accept that.

If those "suspected targets" (hit in a sovereign country which is not at war with anyone, without due process and UN approval, not given a chance to surrender, and not doing anything at that specific time) gathered at kindergardens would it be OK to hit there? How are weddings any different?
That would imply we people have trouble killing on a battlefield which would seem to be patently false.
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5ms * 1000 != 15s. It's unclear whether the comment is outdated, and 5s is in fact intended, or whether 15s was intended and the 5 is a typo (therefore a bug, although unlikely a critical one). Either way, it's certainly sloppy programming, and the kind of thing that can lead to more serious problems.
Quite sure that the person who makes the decision whether to deploy air to ground weaponry isn't the one sitting in the cockpit.
I'm glad we can argue semantics while the world burns.
First 60-minutes, now this. Are we in the middle of a PR campaign now?
This is an interesting point... I think it matters - possibly for a different reason. If you imagine from the ground: a terrorist car bomb VS a drone strike, they're virtually indistinguishable. Both are explosions without warning by the 'enemy.' It's almost a joke that people condemn terrorist acts and respond in kind.
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In fairness, US owned and piloted planes are very, very, very unlikely to be shot down. There is probably more risk of a crash landing on an aircraft carrier than any of those countries shooting one down. There is essentially no American Life risk.

Someone should have seen this coming a long time ago and called them multistage-guided-missiles or some other name.

The term 'Drone' is basically used as link bait and confuses the argument... If we replace 'drone' with 'stealth bomber', is it now OK to bomb a wedding?
Seeking out the stupid users
Yeah I was thinking about this the other day. It is annoying. I am in the market for another Gmail-like provider that doesn't require phone numbers, doesn't pester me about Google+ alerts, etc.

I was looking at fastmail.fm. Mail.com (what you mentioned), looks interesting as well.

I'd be curious what the current generation of tech HN is using. If you search through its history, you find a lot of email alternatives, but they're older threads. I'm curious if anything new has come out that is a favorite of HN.

I'd like to setup my own mail server, but frankly, I feel like I'd accidentally leave it wide open to spammers that know a lot more about email than I do.
New Evidence That the Head of the NSA Misled Us
Congrats! That's really great.
I've tried. It doesn't really work. Organizing is a "heads up" activity and trying to achieve flow while being available to answer questions and stuff is frustrating at best.
Okay, thanks. Is this aimed at developers then, rather than say the product team?
Terrorism is a idea, it cannot be killed with bullets or drones.

The Terrorist we know today are a pretty much related to those people who were supported by American Intelligence agencies in the mid70-80s, against the soviet. The "Barbarians" among those folk were given advanced weapons, that America possessed, those weapons might be outdated, and America may have a upper hand, but that is only a matter of time. Sadly, this has became a chicken and egg problem.

The circle of REVENGE is a continuous one, you kill more people innocent or not, you sprout a new rebellion. They will eventually hurt you back, today or tomorrow. and the process will continue.. presidents, prime ministers would come and go by.

The only way to stop this is to actually STOP. Stop interference in ways like espoinage, drone strikes, killing of "Suspected" militants.. never given any right to appear before court.. everything. The root problem is the so called intelligence that does more than just collect information about "suspected" enemies.

Someone has to rise up and stop it. for both sides, perhaps it escape us humans sometimes, the very fact "those who are hurt are the ones who can forgive or take revenge." Thats about there it is to this.

Really sad to hear about that nameless bride/groom & family. May they R.I.P.
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> I wonder if there's any managers around who also code? Maybe 50% of their time could be management, 50% coding. Nothing like getting hands dirty with the company code to see where things are at.

Yes.

Though there is such a mental disparity between coding and higher level management that it is not 100% efficient.

You're either coding or you're managing. You can't be knee deep in an obscure rendering bug whilst also still mentally committing to keeping track of what everyone else is doing.
Getting back up to speed (from either one to the other) always takes a small amount of time.
Former whistleblowers: open letter to intelligence employees after Snowden
> you've got a much itchier trigger finger now

I doubt that. It would seem that a pilot sitting in a cockpit would be a lot more trigger-happy.

Both pilots can make two types of mistake: don't recognize an enemy for what he is, or do the same thing with a civilian. If plane pilot mistakes an enemy for something else and said enemy succeeds in his efforts, the pilot will lose his place and may be his life. The drone pilot, on the other hand, will only lose the drone, which is also cheaper then a plane. But the cost of the other mistake is the same for the both of them.

So, it seems that plane pilot has actually much more reason to shoot on targets he's not sure about.
The increasing number of trolls on HN is the only real issue gleaned from this thread.

But if you're even remotely serious, and assuming for a second that what you wrote is true how does that justify shoddy journalism?
> Military pilots take orders; COs tell them how high to jump, and that's what they do. Either they follow orders or they are relieved of duty (and possibly face court martial).

Even so, and despite all the training, some do refuse orders. They're also at least theoretically obliged to refuse illegal orders (i.e. war crimes), at least in my country.
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It's helpful to note that "aptitude" could fulfill 99% of the tasks in that "Rosetta" as well (so you could mostly use only a single tool to perform all the required tasks), though I appreciate the fact that they usually provided the lowest-level command to perform the single action.
This just comes across as weak/desperate on the NSA's side.

If I were him I'd tell the US to shove it. They made him intentionally stateless and pressured other nations to make seeking asylum difficult - that to me is a low blow when it comes to treating whistle-blowers - even by US standards.
> Military pilots take orders; COs tell them how high to jump, and that's what they do.

Do you really think that the disconnection doesn't have an effect on some level? Whether it's the number of people signing up at all, being ready for a mission, or actually following orders?

How many people would follow the order of shooting from a controlled plane to unsuspecting people in a convoy -vs- an order to take a knife and kill an unarmed not resisting person in front of them? The end result is the same. Giving them enough distance just makes it much much easier.
It's not all US citizens. Only well-connected, wealthy US citizens have rights. The rest of the US citizens are semi-disposable like the rest of the world.
Well, I agree working doesn't necessarily equal productive for some definitions of "working" and "productive". I would agree that its tough on a daily basis to sit down and smash out one task for 16 continuous hours. However most of my "work" involves the occasional scheduled phone conference call, unscheduled conferences (aka brainstorming meeting), fire fighting, administrivia, talking to people, etc. While my coworker smokes approx one pack per day I'll post on HN for a break, or I'll go on a walk around the block... Also I cannot code for 11 hours straight, but I can profitably intersperse unit and performance testing, design and planning work, not to mention working multiple projects more or less in parallel.

Its sort of like housework or yardwork. Could I dig irrigation ditches / swales in the garden all day every day? No, that's nuts. But doing a variety of productive "stuff" for a full day is no big deal at all.
You're being naive. This implies three possibilities in my mind: they either (a) figured out what he is holding back as "insurance", or (b) were unable to figure out what he was doing, or (c) it's a ploy to flush him out.

Either way, the fact that these guys put this together and did the good cop/bad cop routine on TV in itself is very telling. Looks like fear to me -- my question is, after all of the stuff released to date, what are these guys afraid of? The other question this brings up is what is Snowden really up to?
Where have you heard this?
On personal branding
Also,

> If you've played MW3

doesn't have "civilians" as a game mechanic (unlike Counter-Strike or a lot of arcade shooting games, for example), so the comparison doesn't really work.
I thought Valve didn't pull it off once it got to a certain size? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/valve-managem...
Tens of millions of civilians died during the two wars.

Tech equivalency is a meaningless concept and it is completely stupid to apply it in particular to WW2 where the majority of civilians never asked or wanted a war to begin with.
Generally speaking, yes you do have to do this but there is a waiver for smaller amounts (such as typically would be encountered during a vacation).
MicroConf Europe was a lot of fun. I learned a lot and I met a lot of nice people, like you.
I don't know how well regulated Paypal is, as you infer, since it is not a bank and does not have to follow bank rules.

Banks and credit card companies seem to get it right with many more regulations, why can't Paypal? If I use my credit card for a spending spree, all it takes is one phone call with Visa to have everything cleared up. Paypal wouldn't have earned their reputation if they were able to provide that level of service.
One thing about being a JavaScript guy is that it's quite fragmented. For instance, this guy's hiring for a position that uses MooTools. In my experience, MooTools (while a great framework) isn't used very often. The framework you know and love, and the job you want don't always match up - especially if you're going to work on a product that's a few years old.
True, but still very enjoyable and closer to the original than the previous attempts. You also only get one base to operate, but there is the satellite coverage system which is an addition to the original game.