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That is exactly what they are doing. Terrorism is all about relatively minor, cheap, covert strikes against somebody perceived as the enemy.

The USA wont kill everyone that opposes them with such a campaign, but the point is the same as "terrorism", to send a message of fear if you dare oppose us, or associate with people who oppose us, damn the "collateral damage".

Make no bones about it, this is exactly the same kind of asymmetrical warfare that the USA itself condemns as terrorism.
Possibly the first but its not like the USA is using indiscriminate area bombing like they did in Vietnam or the British using poison gas pre ww2 in Iraq.
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I really like Mozilla's scrumbugs app as well. Good for planning sprints with bugzilla http://scrumbu.gs/
The use of manned bombers has occurred in "police actions" over and over
Feel good nothings like this that ignore both the power and profit of the defense industry are hopelessly naive.

I also don't see how blowing away teenagers in an Afghan village who have no idea what 9/11 is, is some kind of macho statement against oppression. Pretty soon, if not already, we'll be killing young people born after 9/11. Not sure if this is the big win the GOP 'defense first' voter thinks it is. Sounds like yet another failure in policy, much like the profitable war on drugs.

When we give the nation state carte blanche on both a moral and budgetary level, expect nothing but endless abuses of power. There are 150,000 Iraqi graves that wouldn't have existed if Bush was honest. Lets not forget that. If there's a global bad guy in Nicholson's speech people should defend against, its probably the US military, and I say this as a US citizen.
I appreciate!
@adambenayoun Many thanks for all these suggestions.

I see several advantages with open sourcing our product. Most notably, wider adoption and community support available on the net.

Unfortunately, all three options you propose defer the point in time from which we can earn money. For a startup, this is very risky. If we run out of resources before say we have enough users to set up a SaaS service or offer support & training, we will go bust with nothing but wasted money and time on our balance sheets.

I am sorry to be so direct, but I think the three options you propose are not currently viable for us. We might revisit them later though, and I might be in touch via your email! - when we know more about the limitations of our current approach.

Thanks again!
Michael
you understand that Nicholson's character in that movie was intended to illustrate the hubris and dysfunction of militarism, right? Sorkin would be amazed (actually, probably not) to see that speech being used as an actual argument...the intention was the opposite.
Ask HN: Best books/tutorials you read in 2013?
Now that the year is coming to a close and we have all gone through a long list of resources.

What would you say were the best books articles or tutorials you read? Or are planning to read in 2014?
That is correct, Telegram does upload names and numbers — naturally, after receiving permission to do so. (see also: http://telegram.org/privacy)

Apart from identifying Telegram users among the user's friends, this also enables us to use proper names in notifications on the iPhone, as well as facilitates moving between devices.

But you have highlighted an important issue. Our android developer relied on the system prompts when it comes to uploading contacts, which is definitely not enough for the issue at hand. We will add another prompt in the coming version. (As well as update the GitHub code to the current generation soon, it's been becoming a little stale.)
Васильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах!

Used to be, anyway. This is a general putdown of the city whose palaces resemble Versailles but are located on the marshland banks of the Neva river. St Petersburg deserves better.

(Loose translation of the quote: Vassilevsky Island is beautiful just like a toad with cufflinks.)
I'm not an expert on US law. But why does the NSA have the authority to grand amnesty?
I teach math and science in a public high school. I am a little wary about sharing my atheism in my small community. I know there are some parents and community members who would no longer trust me as an educator if I openly spoke about it.

I don't want to make any specific public statements about atheism, it's just something I don't speak about very often. I also think one of the best approaches in this direction is to give everyone a stronger background in science, so that's where I put my energy for now.

I would love to see a significant rise in atheism during my lifetime.
Yeah, it worked so well subduing MOVE! [1]

But in all seriousness, this isn't police action, its a foreign power.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing
In all fairness though, it's very easy to bash JS, but the anonymous functions etc., that are really core to the language are pretty powerful. I used to hate it a lot more than I do now, but one day I realized that apart from its more patchy areas (no strftime, what?), it actually covers off a lot of coding styles and patterns you need in order to get stuff done.
> Does anyone believe that, if not for our lethal drone program, the United States would've sent the Air Force or ground troops to fire on this wedding party?

The premise of the article is non-sensical. If we didn't have drones, would the airforce be bombing targets in Yemen? Undoubtedly.
It might come as a shock to you but people (and corporations) try to win in court, arguing over jurisdiction is an automatic first step - nothing extraordinary is happening here.

And if you need someone to point for you the difference between this no harm money/publicly seeking bullshit lawsuit, and chemical spill disasters then you lack all perspective.
Web Standards are only useful becasue people agree on them and utilize them. There is no mechanism for enforcement or ordering, just the majority rule essentially.
Because a Seal team is worth the risk of capturing bin Laden. A Seal team is not worth the risk of raiding some wedding.
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To engage with technology is the only way to re-find these experiences in the modern world.

Technology is neutral, and in essence is a metho od illusion. And like all illusions, some are useful abstractions, whilst others are merely distractions. Both things in life are neccessary, I'm affraid. Its life by another means, no different to the use of other media. Other than at a tactical level, it requires new skills and sensibilies (perhaps).
Which is why escalation of privilege attacks are as important as remote code execution. A sophisticated attack will use multiple exploits.
Appealing to extremes always make great arguments!
They laughed at Einstein[0] but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The truth of one conspiracy cannot be used as evidence for the truth of others. It simply doesn't make sense.

[0] They didn't really laugh at Einstein, but you get the idea.
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Most developers aren't scripting web interaction fulltime.

This gives you a target: in which businesses are they doing lots of it? Have some copy on your website that speaks to the managers of those specific businesses - since they are the ones who decide and pay for it.

The scenario plays out: developer is sick of testing, hears about Helium, tries it, it works great, he badgers his boss to buy it, boss looks at website, says this is fantastic, let's buy 100, he goes to the next tier of management for approval, and has all the answers for their concerns.
It is super-tough to find a balance... take for example the Sencha/ExtJS community where there are problems like a paid support forum that free users can't access even when their own posts are moved there after being reclassified as feature requests / bugs:

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?269640-Why-the-Pr...

There are more examples in that forum demonstrating that while trying to appease those in need of a community edition, it's easy to wind up 'doing it wrong'.

Edit: not focusing on any particular method; just pointing out that any balance between commercial/open source can cause hard feelings and takes extra work to manage
Ask HN: Why does the "More" link expire so frequently?
If you leave a tab with HN open for a while, and then click the "More" link at the bottom of the page, you'll get a message that the link has expired.

This irritates me at least two or three times a day, and it's a really lousy user experience. I haven't encountered a similar problem on other sites.

Does anyone know why this has to happen? Or have an extension or script to fix it?
Umm, my take is that developers are taking over the world, in term of duties. We don't need BA, since we do agile development and talk directly to customers. We don't need DBA now that we have ORM and NOSQL. We don't need sys-admin/sysops because we are devops now. Now, no managers. Next, no VC or no boss?
When I'm right, yeah. Not using "engineer" as a title of authority but as a problem solving technique, maybe the TLDR is its an engineering problem where non-engineers mess up RDBMS incredibly often, and when its blame time, better off blaming the tool than the "designer" so...

"I don't know what I'm doing, but someone who knows what they're doing anecdotally solved a completely different problem using tool XYZ, so for lack of any better idea, lets copy them".

If you're familiar with cargo cult science there is an enormous miasma of cargo cult engineering fogging up the entire database arena not just nosql.

Another concept that needs to be in the discussion is the "no silver bullet" rule from programming applies to database design, like it or not. Can't just sprinkle magic nosql pixie dust on any old random problem and expect it to work, any more than applying any random programing fad to any random problem will work.

The (old and new) tools are actually pretty interesting, although often poorly engineered (by the end user) and implemented. Its the persistent anti-patterns and non-engineering design technique that I'm properly arrogant and condescending toward.

Hammers are a cool new invention and have some great unusual new applications, but they don't install deck screws any better than the legacy screwdriver. Laborers on the job randomly mixing screws nails screwdrivers and hammers on the job and then internet discussions about how hammers and/or screwdrivers suck is nearly physically painful to watch.
Those studies might have involved people doing one job for all those hours, while the grandparent worked two jobs. Depending on how different they were, the variety might have been enough to offset some of the fatigue of working up to 80 hours a week in total.
As opposed to a wired fighter jock inbound in a fast mover who has only one pass before he bingo's and might have .5 seconds to decide if he should abort or not - having less pressure will result in better decisions.
Piracetam is unsafe and has withdrawal? That must be joke!

Some people are taking 20g/day for entire life, including pregnancy.

And, no, you don't need 'other supplements'. You can for instance eat eggs for choline.

Actually, your numbered list is nonsensical:

1. Nothing is ever proven
3. Substance such as that 'absolutely no deleterious mental, pyshical or general healt effects' doesn't exist. The toxin is in the dose. Every input is trade between good and bad.
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Thanks for the realistic and encouraging words. I was beginning to feel like a bad human being for charging for my work ;-)

So you give the source code for your product to your customers, once they have bought it?
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It's true, and probably means a set of instances in us-east-1 are the ones computing and storing billing costs for users.
Since when is the US not a party to the Geneva Conventions?
Actually, 60 Minutes has quite a checkered past. The first thing that comes to mind is their misrepresentation in the 80s of reports of "unintended acceleration" in Audi 5000s. Their colored journalism almost ruined the company.

CBS's "60 Minutes" ran a devastating expose of the Audi 5000. Audi customers fled. Lawyers cashed in. The American public was saved, yet again, from the perils of technology gone awry. Only one little noticed footnote remains at the end: There was nothing wrong with the car.

...
'60 Minutes,' in one of journalism's most shameful hours, gave air time in November 1986 to a selfstyled expert who drilled a hole in an Audi transmission and pumped in air at high pressure. Viewers didn't see the drill or the pump—just the doctored car blasting off like a rocket.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm
Doesn't this definition make the existence of any military deterrent "an act of terror"?
"but you have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are not doing this for shits and giggles."

Wait, I do? Did they pass a law or something?
I worked for defence companies in the past. There are no morals and ethics. Just profit and plunder. The parent of your post is spot on.
NASA's role isn't flying billionaires around planets for profit. That can happen through private companies just like its happening with planes now. Knowledge and exploration is NASA's game. No private company cares for those, so funding will come by the state. Its more effective then to fund NASA, than some private company that stands to make profit by doing it.
People keep telling me to watch videos like this, and it never resolves the contradiction. I can't watch them all.

However, the interesting thing is that you can't (or haven't) pointed out any contradiction in what I said. If what I said is wrong, you should be able to correct me quite easily.
We won't see captured pilots being paraded in front of a camera with regular piloted aircraft either, not ones flown by the US against any likely current target.
Nothing in that piece to suggest Snowden was a "A Genius Among Geniuses"...on what basis does his genius rest? AFAIK there is no record of Snowden doing any kind of work out there that'll suggest he knew anything about computing security.

It seems people have forgotten that there are a ton of freely available computer security tools out there that any body can take and do a lot of damage with.
Surely paper money has 'production' as well by that logic. Printing, distributing it and preventing counterfeiting all count as 'production' for paper money.

I think you're essentially comparing fiat currencies guaranteed by governments with the fixed supply of Bitcoin that isn't guaranteed to be stable.

That doesn't mean it's not a currency, just an unstable one with fixed supply.
Very valid points. Especially the barrier that the developer is not the one who makes the purchase decision is one we have already encountered in a previous product.
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Interesting idea, but it seems to have a trade-off -- instead of negotiating a single (or perhaps a few) relationships, you have to negotiate about 20. It sounds a lot like a n*(n-1) problem.
The extension you're thinking about is Trevor Perrin's Axolotl ratchet, which is (a) the product of an actual cryptographer, (b) used in more than one system (it's also incorporated into Adam Langley's Pond), (c) has been reviewed by experts, and (d) is entirely specified, with a public domain spec.

It is not in fact reasonable to compare Telegram's ad-hoc protocol to the "extensions" TextSecure has.
"NSA is only looking at your information"

That's an overly narrow construing of the word "information". As you well know, metadata and location bits are considered "information" by anyone except the pen & trap zealots.
My reaction:

"Ok, I understand the appeal to minimalism, but what's with the 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith?"
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One thing not covered in the article: Amazon.de is also used in other parts of Europe, e.g. I'm in The Netherlands and frequently order from there (or amazon.co.uk).

So I wonder to what extent this'll also impact secondary markets in the countries that surround Germany.
Perhaps Kellogg's limiting factor was not their salary budget, but maximum occupancy on their assembly lines. Switching from eight hours to six means you can hire a whole additional shift of workers, assuming the machines run 24 hours a day.

If 6 hour workers are 112.5% as productive per hour as 8 hour workers, then this turns out to be a good deal for Kellogg's.
Well, that would be highly devolved government, not anarchism, no? Shouldn't Chomsky avoid such confusing langauge?

I'm no better off serving a local collective than a national collective.
cf. "Maverick" by Ricardo Semler, the CEO of Semco.

I think you'd all enjoy reading it. It changed my attitude to work and management considerably. I am still a manager, but I give a lot more responsibility to my team than most.
Undoubtedly the video game quality of the drone program abstracts the carnage and makes it easier for the operator to sleep at night.
This is true. The commoditization of hardware gave way to a focus on software. Perhaps we will next see the commoditization of "operating system" instead of proprietary OS that serve to limit the uses of commodity hardware sold to users.
They could have done it at first place, but cheaper eastern europe countries dont have germany's infranstructures.
That's bad press for Amazon anyway, call me naive, but I think customers do care, I do.

But the whole amazon scandal really started when journalists discovered they were hiring "neo nazi" security contractors.
Michael
No need to apologize :) As another user in this thread suggested - ultimately this is your company and you'll decide what is the best course of action to turn it into a profitable business. By all means do whatever is possible to make that happen and don't be afraid to experiment.

I suggested a few ideas that could work and would basically allow you to enjoy from both world (both open sourcing your product and monetizing it) however I can understand if you think you don't have the time to get the kind of adoption you'd need to successfully open source it.

Additionally this could be done backward - you could start with your current model and at some point once you are more economically confident switch to another model that is more open source friendly.

Good luck! :)
Ask HN: What websites are there in the 'Slow web' movement?
I find the principles of the Slow web movement quite appealing, but I don't know about any 'slow' alternatives to big websites. Are there any places that aggregate slow web sites?
Anarchism is anti-state. Anarcho-socialism is also anti-property, given some muddy definition of property.

Your statement is typical from anarcho-socialists who want to squat on the word "anarchism" while failing to define what property should be granted to an individual (call it possession if you wish), how to reach consensus about it, how to enforce it without a higher authority, and what to do about the higher authority that naturally arises in such a state of chaos.

At least anarcho-capitalists have an out when it comes to defining property... it's whatever you can afford to defend, probably through third parties that offer defense as as contract.

I'll keep saying this until I'm convinced otherwise: What is needed is something between anarcho-socialism and anarcho-capitalism that both sides can agree upon, but such a thing cannot happen unless everybody looks further into the future, understanding that there are aspects of humanity & private trade that are both needed for us to prosper.

Squatting on the word "Anarchism" or calling one side or the other confused doesn't help either cause. They're both two ends of a spectrum and the reason why we have the spread is because we don't understand how to bridge the gap, or we don't yet understand that neither end points alone will go very far.
Sorry, but in the link you give (clickLabel), I still have to provide the HTML element type ("<a>" or "<button>"). How does CasperJS for instance let me type some text into a text field with a label to its left?
Maybe you are actually pointing out a misunderstanding I have. I thought "anarchism" meant "no government." If it doesn't, why don't anarchists use a different term? Can you think of a more descriptive term?

It is certainly the case that anarcho-capitalists are for "no government."
As one of my old (properly self-deprecating) managers used to say "If you're a lightweight you'll float to the top eventually."
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It would clearly be more human to automatize a task that is characterized by low wages, permanent performance pressure and short term contracts.
A few years ago while discussing with a cashier about the automated cash registers they had just installed:
-Dont you fear losing your job?
-You call that a job?
-...
Right, but the assumptions of the BG problem are also a bit harsh for the real world; network exhibits latency and/or splits, which are followed by joins. If two servers cannot communicate (ever again), then you have bigger problems than simply "synchronizing attacks". For the usual problems of varying latency and some dropped messages, the proof-of-work, coupled with a cryptographic authentication, will suffice for eventual consistency.
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I think back then, the 'n' just wasn't very large, so O(n) versus O(n^2) didn't make much of a difference.
Also, choosing a critical period like just before Xmas has the effect of making the protest look like ransom
The difference between Snowden and other NSA employees is that Snowden is the real U.S. patriot, not just government worker.
Hi,
I like the idea and I used watir [0] in the best to do a lot of automation but I fail to see what's different with Helium. Can you please tell me what are the differences besides python vs ruby ?

[o]http://watir.com/
I have two degrees.

http://www.templeos.org/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf

B.S.E. computer systems engineering

M.S.E. electrical engineering

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I had 5 courses in assembly language. CSC226 CSC326 CSE421 CSE422 CSE523

I had no course in algorithms.

I had a course in compilers and operating systems and computer graphics.

I had courses in digital logic and digital signal processing.

I am an expert in system programming, like operating systems.
I've been through these phases too. But they keep on recurring time after time.

Me too. As I get older, though (I'm well past "maturity" ;), I find myself going back to C more and more. I'm not exactly sure why.

I do think, though, that while our discussions of programming languages nearly always revolve around this or that feature making things easier, or more efficient, or more fault-tolerant, or whatever, there's also an element of "intellectual fun" (or something like that).

I won't say I never get aggravated writing C, but I often enjoy the puzzles that emerge. Trying to figure out how to do something in C, trying to visualize what's going on with the memory, creating clever little pointer-machines -- it's just as fun as doing analogous things with Lisp or Haskell (during one's obligatory Lisp and Haskell phases).
automation is going to happen regardless. Tactics like this are just buying time.
Performance sucks, takes visual studio out regularly when devenv.exe hits process memory limits. Tests don't all run. Refactor operations never finish.
Automation is going to happen regardless. Tactics like this are just buying time.
You lost the quote ;)
I was actually talking about finding a balance between the community edition and an enterprise edition (see Nginx plus for example).

As far as I would be concerned, Forums should be open to everyone (paid and non-paid) customers and support provided by the community for the community.

Paid support could be additional add-ons in the forms of email and phone support with varying level of responsiveness (a-la-SLA).