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While this diplomat person as an individual is none too commendable (back home in India she is involved in some questionable property dealings [1]) - there is much more to the story than this shallow but seemingly introspective "article".

The lady (servant - according to the article) was brought in on an authorized "Au pair" visa. Indian Diplomats in the US are paid little in-terms of monetary benefits. Most compensation is in the form of "perks" that help in their day-to-day lives - this "au pair" benefit is one such perk.

While in the US this "au pair" ran away despite being (apparently [2]) treated well. Then there are serious allegations that she contacted a lawyer thru whom she tried to extort the diplomat [3].

No one is implying that having a "servant" is a right. Having an "au pair" was an accepted & Authorized perk. The article starts off with a wrong-headed premise and does some hand-waving from there.

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6947473 for the real motivation behind this incident.

[1] http://www.firstpost.com/india/adarsh-scam-devyani-khobragad...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526719/Pictured-The...

[3] http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2013/12/18/richards-dema...
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If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all.

In a way, this sort of proves that not having a servant IS an option in India. If laws pass that push people not to hire help they can't afford, they will stop hiring. I know that's not the point you're trying to make, but it's worth considering.

That said, I'm curious: why you do you think people in India won't go without hired help? Is it a cultural/historical thing? Or something else? (I ask this not knowing your background).
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Why 2014 is the 'year of smart glasses'
A new insurance plan won't retroactively cover the costs of some emergency hospitalization.

At 26 you should be able to limit your out of pocket to less than $20,000 for a few grand a year, you have to compare that to what it would cost you to declare bankruptcy.
Yeah, why paying them at all , after all , they would be starving if they ware not slaves ... And folks like you are ok with slavery and exploitation...
You feel like people should feel free to share, but you also think that society should be less accepting of trans people? How are those points of view remotely compatible?
Discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929975
We thought we wanted frameworks to build big complex UI's with things like Dojo and Prototype, and discovered we wanted JQuery instead.
> Don't forget to disable TLS compression and HTTP compression for pages containing session ids or CSRF tokens.

Dumb question: Is this general advice or is it specific to django due to the "BREACH" [1][2] https attack? It's not clear if it the underlying flaw is in using a CSRF token or something specific to django's implementation. I had never heard this before, so thank you.

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Django-BREACH-Attack-Against-...
[2] http://stacks.11craft.com/what-is-breach-how-can-we-protect-...
As I understand it, the new plans are expensive because they cover all sorts of things regardless of whether you want them or not. You might never want kids, but that's covered. Also you may not believe in acupuncture or aromatherapy, but they're covered. Of course the real problem is that Obama stood up and said "you can keep your existing plans" and people believed him, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
With https the filter cannot mitm and figure out which page is being accessed, so will have to block the entire site.
The english article mentioned nothing about it. I can now see that there is a German article with a lot more info. Sadly I do not read german and google translate is a poor substitute. If he does have a stream, can some one link to it, if it's public.
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Then HTTPS is doing its job by preventing an active MITM attack by a hostile third party.

Option 1: negotiate with the filter maintainers to get your site whitelisted; that may require changing your content, but a site in which you have a commercial interest probably shouldn't have content on it that trips most filters (with some obvious exceptions on which the filter would be doing its job).

Option 2: inform your users that they need to opt out of the filter in question, assuming they're in a situation/regime that allows doing so. Make it clear to them exactly which content is tripping the filter, and hope their reaction is "that's absurd".

Option 3: maintain an insecure HTTP site for use from such locations, and arrange to redirect there or inform your users that they'll need to use that version due to the filter they're using.
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Setting a kernel argument in this manner can only be used for inputs to the kernel. Any output you want to read (either in a subsequent kernel or from the host program) must be written to a buffer or an image. In your case, that means you need to create a single-element buffer and pass the buffer to the kernel.
In my experience, a salient example of antifragility ("damage" and/or volatility that makes a system stronger) is Rejection Therapy[1]. Continuous rejection can actually make you more confident. Rejection gives you answers faster. It exposes weaknesses and delusional thinking. And getting rejected feels exhilarating because you've disobeyed your fear and accomplished the game's objective.

It works the other way too: the less you get rejected, the more you fear it and the more painful rejection is when it inevitably happens.

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com
For big sites, sure. But at least as things currently stand, that's infrastructure-inconvenient and somewhat pricey on the low end, especially if you operate multiple sites and they come and go as hobby projects. Not because of the compute overhead (negligible for my uses), but because of the need for a (non-self-signed) SSL certificate, plus a unique IPv4 address, for each domain. Digital Ocean, for example, won't give you more than 1 IPv4 address per VPS, which means you need a separate VPS for every side project, if you want to go HTTPS. I prefer to multiplex all my tiny projects on one VPS, saving both the extra $60/yr per project and the extra sysadmin overhead. Plus $50/yr for the certificate, and $15 for the domain, and you have a startup cost of $125/yr per side project... versus $15/yr that it currently costs me. Not huge, but more than I want to pay, and raises the mental friction on something that I currently consider near-free/throw-away.

If IPv6 actually gets deployed to the extent that I can have an IPv6-only site without needing IPv4 addresses, and someone solves the SSL signing mess, I'd be happy to use it.
Heh...as a Danish person, I think part of that distinction also is that Denmark has a really bad service culture compared to the US. It does seem to be changing. But I feel like Danes are a pretty proud (and/or headstrong) folk with very strong (and sometimes misguided, see Janteloven) notions around class and equality.

I feel like many Danes who work in the service sector project this attitude that they're really above the work and that the customers are a complete imposition on their time and energy. That's why I'm always so impressed when I get a really nice waiter in CPH or just shopping at a grocery store like Irma.

I think you're right about the high-end places -- I've only been to one fancy place one (cause, yikes! the prices) and they did act very differently because it was so expensive. But by and large, yes, I agree, they tend to see it more as a "job" than "service."
It is true that the U.S. is not specifically bound by the ICC, and that the Geneva protocols have never been held to apply to franc-tireurs, which is probably the closest analogue to "terrorist".

However, this has very little bearing on GP's main point about diplomatic immunity, which is a widely-observed custom going back to at least the Council of Vienna; apparently, it's even an official convention [1] nowadays. The U.S. can and should indeed be expected to respect that. (Yes yes, I know about Assange/Snowden, no need to bring it up again.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic...
> Is this something possible ? (now that they can't check for preexisting conditions). Or will I get screwed somehow.

There's a fine for doing this, precisely to stop people from doing what you're suggesting. But I think the fine is so small that it's actually worth doing it (rather than having insurance).
Ah, that makes more sense then them not knowing what a replay is. Their writing is good enough that I didn't notice they weren't from an English speaking country.
Technically, the Super Hornet airframe is quite new. While certainly a development out of the older Hornet platforms, its fair to say that aerodynamically anyways, the Super Hornet has a pretty recent (development started in early 90s) airframe.

Further, it lost its bid to the Gripen, which is approximately as old as the Super Hornet (airframe-wise anyways).

You are right to say that the Super-Hornet is outclassed in a huge variety of roles by modern planes from every country, but those are hardly the only considerations. As you say, political clout is important, but it's not just an American thing.

[1] is the leaked report for the Swiss Air Force from their procedurement program between the Gripen, Eurofighter, and Rafale. In summary, the Rafale was the clear winner by all metrics. The Swiss went with the Gripen. We don't have a leaked report on how -that- came to be, but likely a combination of realizing that they don't in fact need the best possible platform (likely what Brazil did as well... their final three airframes were the Gripen, Rafale, and Super Hornet, and I cannot believe that the Super Hornet can do anything better than the Eurofighter (or the Rafale)), and some political maneuvering.

[1] http://files.newsnetz.ch/upload//1/2/12332.pdf
Not necessarily. With the German privacy protection laws, it sounds like just 1% of the population could easily cause enough grief to make mapping prohibitively expensive. According to this

http://searchengineland.com/google-has-stopped-street-view-p...

250k homes and businesses requested to have their property blurred out, which is indeed much less than 1% of the population.
The long-term plan is to avoid being locked into crappy languages such as JS and HTML/CSS and give developers more freedom.
You can only sign up for ACA plans during the so called, "Open season" which is a limited time each year. So if you find out you have an expensive illness you could be paying for treatment out of your pocket for a while before you can sign up for a plan during open season. You might be able to get around that by manufacturing a "life event" ie get married or have a kid etc... And there by be able to get an ACA plan immediately. Defiantly risky though.
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When I was younger, there was a lot of information out there to the effect that the only "real" transsexual women knew they were "the wrong gender" from the time they were 4, they hated their boy parts with a fiery passion, and they thought sex was icky until they'd fully transitioned, at which point they just wanted a husband, like any suitably stereotypical woman would. Anyone without this history was really a guy who liked to dress up in women's clothes for sex.

I didn't fit all those rules, so I wondered if I was supposed to be a cross dresser. The thing was, the clothes didn't really do much for me from a sex standpoint. As I explored my sexuality, I gradually figured out that I was bisexual and that I was submissive, but sorting out sex things like that didn't really change anything about feeling like I was supposed to be female or feeling depressed because it seemed like I was living the wrong life.

Having said that, there is still a lot of ground between keeping everything completely under wraps and having surgery. But for most of my life, I didn't feel comfortable exploring it. I've spent most of my life completely despising my body, so looking at intermediate alternatives meant I had to dwell on that, which was extremely painful. It was easier to spend all my spare time coding or whatever -- and trying really hard not to think about what was wrong -- especially since I wasn't really sure I had any palatable alternatives anyway.

At this point, I'm not at all passable, so it's hard for me to take an intermediate step like trying to go out and experience the world as a woman part time to see how it goes. Nevertheless, as I mentioned in another response, there are lots of steps I can take if I decide to that don't require committing to any irreversible surgery. I just have to figure out what makes sense for me.
> "If somebody cannot afford to have [X], then they don’t have [X]."

suppose X = {health care, an education, a lawyer, ...}
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I agree, and that's why bitcoin needs accountability. If not bitcoin, then Coinbase. PayPal is a good example of this. For all of the flak they receive, you can trust them to honor reports of unauthorized transactions and feel (mostly) confident making purchases.

I'm very cautious now about considering bitcoin any further. I'm certainly glad I never linked a bank account to Coinbase.
Can you remind me again, why did you vote for Obama second time?
hear-hear! some of my least favorite things to search and research about are matters related to "R", "C", "dock", "boost", "Go"... i never had any such problems with "erlang", "numpy", or "gromacs".

Please do not underestimate the critical nature and endless annoyance associated with naming things after common concepts (or worse yet, single characters)
i don't understand. for years my mom worked at her job (12hrs night shift, hard labor, without most of her fingers on one hand which she lost in an accident), cooked and cleaned, and took care of her young children
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Quite. Assuming that SELinux is secure[1] the NSA's mission should have been to get it as widely adopted as possible, say. Same with GCHQ, it's #1 priority should have been securing the systems of the UK, both public and private sector.

[1] Open source doesn't help here, if the flaw is in the algorithm or the seeds of it.
> Wages are determined by market

Yet there is a minimum salary you ought to pay in the USA. Your comment is rather idotic too if you ignore that fact.

> Who determines the "Decent" wage, idiots at NYTimes?

yeah , who?

> This is the same misguided argument against garment factory workers from Bangladesh and FOXCONN workers in China. Rest of the world does not have the luxury of Social Security, Food Stamps, Medicaid and a ridiculous minimum wage.

ok,I wont even bother answer that. When you find yourself in a dire situation , remember that comment you've made.
All of your listed crimes are not violent crimes in themselves, although any and all can commit violence in the course of their "profession" in which case, yes, they are now violent criminals.
> If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all.

Would you also be opposed to raising the US minimum wage because of the same reason?
"Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life," by Marshall B. Rosenberg, represents my go-to book for empathy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
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Ugh, I really hope not. I can't see any reason people wouldn't use this, though, since it's a lot less likely for someone to care about other people's privacy or convenience than their own.

I can certainly see myself asking people to take them off if they want to talk to me (unless they're the same people that currently browse/text/play on their cell phones during conversations, as that's a conversation you might as well not have anyway).

More cameras, microphones, and sensors all over people, and mostly connected to the internet. What could go wrong? This is obviously a good direction.
This is highly misleading. Avionics and SW play a very critical role, and many "old airframes" are suprisingly capable in the right hands. "Outclassed" is also irrelevant in many actual theatres of conflict. Very few military forces can afford to field, not to mention, lose in combat, the types of planes that "outclass" the F/A 18. So maintaining a local air-superiority quickly gets into questions of mobility and sustained localized logistics. When considering carrier-based planes in particular...its irrelevant if you have planes but not carrier battlegroups. Just look at the UK. The airframe is only one part of projecting the force for a modern war.
For Python development, I'd strongly suggest Cygwin. Unless you plan to run your Python code on Windows, it'll give you an environment much closer to the server the code will run on.
That's $120/year for unlimited certs (for the same owner) though...
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Still using PSP 6 from 1999, too! :) Will definitely look into Paint.NET, thx.
> If the laws pass that require servants to be paid more, some servants will be lucky enough to make more money as a result, others will starve to death because they will go from making $64/month to nothing at all.

Replace "servant" with any low-paying job. That's the old argument for ending the minimum wage. How many people starve to death in countries with a minimum wage? What actually happens is that wealth gets redistributed. The masses will revolt against the wealthy before they'd starve.
You cannot figure out the "servant" business in India without considering the caste system. We get the income inequality side pretty well, it makes sense. But until the caste crap gets replaced by a different currency, being/having a servant is a different concept from a westerner's.
Well, two reasons:

- It seems to break the rule of punishment matching the crime. I wouldn't say violent criminals "deserve" to be locked in with other violent criminals & get stabbed, but at least the violent ones might be better able to fend for themselves.

- Violent criminals require more security, so if we separate the violent & nonviolent criminals it will be cheaper for the US taxpayer
yes, I think its less than 100$.

If I take a plan for me and my wife, the cheapest plan is 660$, which makes it 7920$ a year.

I also have a child, but I can take a plan just for her, which would be 280$.
That's a good beginners guide. To take it a step further, check out the documentation that we maintain at Mozilla: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
because the other side was a joke,and between 2 evils one should always chose the lesser.
What filter are you discussing? AFAIK UK filtering is done by ISPs and conforms to their own solutions, there is no plan for a statewide filtering system.
It's not a false analogy; you're just focusing on a difference which isn't relevant to the analogy. Yes, there is arguably a difference in how people should treat people with face tattoos, vs trans people. But the analogy isn't about how employers should act. It's about how they do act.

The purpose of the face tattoo thought experiment is to help you understand what a trans person has to deal with in practice.
Anyone know of a good ACTUAL guide for deploying HTTPS? i.e. ins and outs of different certificate types, configuring on popular backends, etc?

I always have to stumble through this painfully every time it comes up again.
Because despite the Affordable Care Act being a long way from a proper first-world system, people realize that it's miles better than what we had previously on the whole.
General. Don't use TLS compression or HTTP compression for any information you want to keep secret. BREACH and CRIME attacks exploit this.

You can still use, say, HTML minification.

You can compress your js and css as long as you make sure you aren't sending your confidential information in those request/response headers. A good way to do this is to setup a subdomain for media that never uses cookies.
> The US and the UK had broken Enigma but had kept this fact secret so that countries would use these broken ciphers.

Does this even count as a 'backdoor'? As much fault as I find with NSA's actions, I think of backdoors as the most malicious form of tradecraft. To me, a backdoor is something that has been specifically designed to allow the NSA, and likely only the NSA, entry, despite it being otherwise secure.

I'm not a crypto guy, so perhaps I'm just looking at this naively, but I think 'broken' and 'backdoor' are two entirely different classes of things.
Then the point was made poorly. Again, I was responding to the bit about face tattoos.
If you find out you have cancer or kidney failure or whatever, you may not be able to enroll immediately depending on "open enrollment periods". (If you can move to another state that might count as a "qualifying event" and let you enroll faster.)

I do think people in the USA are overwrought about going without health insurance. It's a risk, but so is driving a car. If you do end up with a big medical bill, medical debt is (at least in my experience) more manageable that other kinds of debt.
Account activity should also be a must for your users. Session id will not be as useful when users can monitor their accounts. It's a work in progress, but I'm writing a page on good application login design https://tagsauce.com/docs/designsnippets
You obviously haven't read "Applied Cryptography" or looked at any of his algorithms.
Just means you might be grabbing more coffee than you were expecting, especially if your test takes some time.
As far as I understand, the point of the article is to simulate a working backend in order to concentrate only in the frontend, the choice of AngularJS is contingent, you could do it with another framework (or none) but they chose this one. They aren't saying "Hey, Angular is the best for prototyping" but "Hey, not worrying about the backend is great for prototyping, and we do it in this way with Angular".

The interesting part is that you don't have to worry about web servers, server software, databases, scalability or server deployment; just simulate what kind of responses you'd get with the complete web application and iterate from there until you are happy with your frontend. This is particularly useful if your development process is driven by UX.
The thing about cheap catastrophic plans is that that is the price point where a lot of lousy plans would hang out. Lousy meaning, you get sick and all of a sudden find out that costs you thought were covered aren't actually covered. Or you get kicked off due to rescission. Or, the first $x is covered and then you're told you're on your own due to some fine print somewhere.

A lot of plans relied on that, which is what made them cheap, and customers would regularly get screwed by it, and Obamacare makes all that illegal now.

The downside for Obama is that if someone gets sick, and goes to the hospital and actually has their costs covered, they're not exactly going to be amazed that the plan works exactly as they would have expected. So in that sense, the law might never really get the appreciation it deserves.
Can you clarify what you mean by that? The slightly less poor exploit off the extremely poor?
I didn't mean to claim it says that in the German article; but unless it outright states he doesn't have a camera, just that it doesn't mention details about his "intrusion detection methods" doesn't mean he doesn't have a camera, right? Maybe I'm splitting hairs.

If by stream you mean his Twitter, here you go: https://twitter.com/ioerror
Assuming the GP was trying to make a joke, it is is also helpful when giving criticism to have it be for something specific and actionable (which isn't the case for that post.)