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Weddings and funerals are actually targeted specifically because those events are two that even highly sought-after targets attend despite the dangers. Also, the subsequent funerals for those killed at the targeted wedding would then be targeted as well.

You can either agree or disagree, but if you feel the target is accurate based on your intelligence the venue doesn't really matter IMHO. Civilians will be killed no matter if it's a wedding, funeral or some other random day.

Would we have cared if bin Laden was attending a wedding?
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On the mentally ill and those who are forced to go through psychiatrists - I was reading through this thread yesterday and it left me rather sad: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1sxjvn/15_yr_old_girl_...
My experiences were similar - at the last job we had a team in Ukraine (they were in Zaporizhia and Odessa). It took a long time to find them (we wanted excellent English as well as coding skills) but once we did we signed them to a 2 year contract. They really were an extension of our company.
But America isn't a failed state with a UN task force in place and it is not common practice to take large amounts of weapons to a wedding.

This is a ASB (alien space bat) type of argument as used in many a sea-lion argument "obviously Hitler could have invaded the UK" (only if the ASB's destroyed the royal navy from orbit)
The notion that 60 Minutes had a position from which to decline is curious.
Only if it's "password", "secret", "god", "scotu" or "12345"
on the crappy analogy: Additionally, this is an NSA official 'suggesting' an amnesty, not Snowden demanding one as ransom.
Your way is much cleaner; mine was just a size gimmick. I just can't resist it :)
I think you have the most accurate description of modern feminism. The "problem" with it is that they have to create their own calculus that works.

I don't think any real female scientist would take such things seriously while at the same time sympathising with the idea (which I do, as well).
Not all that surpising. As was made clear during the Snowden leaks the USG doesn't consider human beings who aren't US citizens to have the same rights as Americans.
Yes.

Have you forgotten that we are supposed to be the good guys?
Its not illegal when we do it. We are the government. Do as we say not as we act.
If I convert my Krone to Dollars and then back again when the exchange rate is more favourable, will I have to pay taxes?

I imagine the answer is yes, I know you have to in Sweden. In Sweden the taxes rules are basically the same whether you trade in forex, stocks or derivatives.
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I dont know which is tarnishing the American image worse the use of drones strikes or the Snowden leaks. What happens when our allies start to even say enough is enough.
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So you're saying public education is immoral, and public health care is immoral. Maybe for the taxpayer it is. I doubt it seems immoral for the child of some poor parents. Or for someone seriously ill who can't afford to go to the private doctor, no matter if they chose not to plan for the future and be financially sound.
This is a no news article. No jurisdiction is pretty much move one in any dispute. The argument will be rejected and everything will continue on as normal, while the lawyers will be slightly richer.

There are cases in which the jurisdiction argument is valid, but it's made pretty much regardless.
I recall an interview with John Chambers of Cisco many years ago where he mentioned having 20 or 30 direct reports, to avoid too much meddling in people's affairs. This can work if you don't need to make drastic changes (we have had a massive disruption in our industry and need to let half the workforce go - which half?) and if there doesn't need to be any cross-functional tiebreakers.

What's strange is in a more recent (2009) article [1] he claims to be more command and control, but shifting towards a more bottom-up organic method.

[1] http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet...
I didn't even read this. Is it as dumb as I immediately assumed?
I guess I am lucky to have an Aldi in the neighborhood

No alcohol, but it's the same ownership as Trader Joe's I think (and cheaper, also with lots of good cheese)

I live a three minute walk from Wegmans but I would rather drive to Aldi's; you don't escape Wegmans with three bags of groceries for $40-60.
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That trailing slash diff is an interesting case. I feel as though the system should've been able to pick up on that one and attribute the point to the original submitted article.
"Kids these days and their video games. When I was young I used to shoot real people in real jungles." :)

But seriously, it is much easier to create just about anything these days, which is arguably more important and fulfilling than travel and drama.
Snowden has 'insurance' that will leak if they kill him and they probably figured out what it was and would like it back. Most likely plans to the NSA death star
I think this is good, because it will discourage speculation and encourage direct bitcoin trade, since they can't tax that.
It's the same in France, my GF is from the US and everybody including me speaks to her in english also she want to improve her french. Which of course completely reinforces the cliché of the American who doesn't have a strong command of a foreign language (the best way to make a prejudice true is to act on it).
The worst thing about such pro-spying articles is that they are policy arguments, when the real issue is one of Constitutional rights. I don't really care what policies individuals or groups support. That's the whole point of a Constitution. It protects liberties from even majority rule taking them away. What part of the Fourth Amendment is unclear? Don't like it? Then pass a new goddamn amendment.
>this is definitely the best encrypted communications app there is for ios

If you actually cared about security then you wouldn't be using iOS.
This is what I find the most troubling. I used to think the US was trying to still spread democracy worldwide but apparently internally they feel if you are foreign that means there arent any laws as to what we can and cant do.
Because someone coded it up, which is more effective than I was on my projects this weekend.
All I wanted to know was whether it was the new node.js code or the old old Java systems. I click through and get a PHP exploit? Letdown.

Learned something though.
It continues to baffle me why the fact they're drones matter in the slightest.

They're not autonomous, they're flown by pilots who just happen to not be sitting in the aircraft they're flying.

Manned aircraft have killed huge groups of innocent civilians more than once, but apparently that's fine because the pilot was sitting in the aircraft.
It boggles my mind that this needs to be said, even if in jest. Just looking at the subject, I think, "What kind of idiot needs to be told not to commit when drunk? Do they need to be told not to drive when drunk too?" And the article is worse than the subject.
Google has been called "arrogant and immoral" - by whom? the plaintiff?!

Google is arguing about jurisdiction in front of a judge, why is the author doing publicity work for the plaintiff? and why is a routine legal argument news?
Jetbrains is one of my favorite companies. Success well deserved. Congrats guys!
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So 'only following orders' is the defense here? And these orders (e.g. hacking Google's SSL endpoints, big data mining) originate from politicians? (And to call scrutiny 'tiresome' when the director baldly lies to congress frankly just compounds the general air of unchecked arrogance.)
I thank you for your honest and direct feedback. Obviously, it's very interesting for us to hear, and if you are right and we do not understand our target audience or our business model is flawed, then we have a problem that we should find out sooner rather than later.

You have a lot of criticism for how we position ourselves, and our product. I deeply believe that there is a market for a tool such as Helium, be it open- or closed source. Assuming that we have a product that the market wants, can you recommend a way for us to make this product open source, yet generate an income that allows us to sustain its development?
> 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.

An important part of the reason why so many technical people have an "overblown" idea about the inefficiency added by management is negative experience.

I have met maybe a dozen people who were in management position and were not completely and utterly incompetent at what they were managing. More often than not, the managers I meet were people who started out as programmers, but quickly realized they don't stand a chance building a career out of it. This is an incredibly common career path.
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I still hate yoda-conditionals, but after reading your comment I now realize they have value.
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Watch the commercials. They're aimed older than the boomers. Aimed more for the Lawrance Whelk generation than the Beetles. They kept Rooney around because he reminded their average viewer of themselves.

Please make a distinction for me that I'm not saying all old people are senile or even that its a good idea for one of our very few media corporations to push the idea that all old people are senile, but I am stating objectively there exists an infotainment news magazine format TV show oriented specifically toward the idea of selling advertising to nursing home viewers and their editorial spin is based on the idea the viewers are senile.

They're pretty good at their job, for better or worse. What I mean, is if you don't like it, you're probably not part of the target market.

(Also I agree with you, Frontline gives the BBC a serious run for their money)
If the cost of covering everyone is less than or equal to the current cost, why not?

BI is supposed to cover food and simple housing, people that want to travel, have a large house, or have hobbies will probably need at least part-time jobs to cover that, their incomes will be taxed.

The problem is getting over the idea that some people would be freeloaders, but again, if the total cost is less than the current cost of welfare, it's in our best interests to switch.

I'm not certain that it will work or that it is a good idea, but the counter-arguments seem to be 1. people irritated that they'd be forced to pay for the lazy and would rather lazy people have a shitty life than have less welfare expenses for the state, 2. people who assert without a scientific study that the majority of other people in absence of a job wish to do nothing but watch TV all day every day, and 3. people who just flat-out construct strawman arguments about lazy people having parties all day every day at the expense of the state.
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I think pages like Reddit and HN with some insightful blog posts kind of give an illusion of learning new novel things without adding that much real knowledge. I've pinned them under entertainment because that's what they really are for me. If you really want to learn new things, take a 30min to one hour break and sit down with a book and work on one chapter of something you're interested in.
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I hope you succeed with your project, but sorry, I feel that your pricing is batshit insane, pardon my French.

$200 per year subscription for 1 machine for the basic license with support only for the installation, basically. And probably bugfixes, I'm guessing.

If for whatever reason I'd like to create a 3-4-5 VM test farm I'd have to pay $600-$800-$1000 per year.

And, again, subscription. If I don't pay after one year I cannot use this anymore.

Combined with the closed source factor, I really don't like it, sorry.
we've always been at war with terror
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The way America is conducting the war on terror is both self-defeating and morally repugnant.
I'm no fan of PayPal, but this customer was aware that a sudden onslaught of sales (where before there was none) might set off some sort of alarm with his payment processor. Seems like a legitimate concern for both the processor and a pro-active measure by the customer.

We all know the horror stories of frozen PayPal accounts but I can't say I can blame PP given the scope of what they have to deal with when transferring money and dealing with regulators/government.
It is probably easier to get pilots to bomb civilians with a Playstation controller in what looks and feels like a video game, than an actual person present.
You're overlooking a couple of important things here:

1) Public education is shit anyway,
and mostly just meant to
indoctrinate us into the Cult of Statism.
2) Private schools would do a vastly better job,
for a small fraction of the price.

I'm sure you agree on public schools being bad quality, to put it mildly. You might not agree on the indoctrination aspect, but hey, if we want to change things for the better, we can always write to our representatives and of course, vote! Vote the bums out! All hail The Land Of The Free!

As for private schools doing a better job, you probably know how competition works. You get better stuff for lower prices.
I think in some organizations this should happen anyway by giving the individual wide degrees of autonomy. Micromanagers are the bane of everybody's existence.
It's not about stopping terrorists, it's about sending a message.
Is there an (easy) way to see what/how haskell evaluates such code (ie: step through)? Something like explain from sql or disassemble from lisp?
If Bin Laden had been attending a wedding, then ground troops would have been sent in, who would have made sure they killed him and left unarmed civilians alone. We know this, because that's what actually happened when they found him.

The question is why is this not being done in the same way in other cases, given that random killings of civilians are perhaps the best terrorist recruitment tool ever devised.
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I think the point is that the drone strikes are happening in places where the US isn't even at war. They're just bombing any place they feel like and apparently not having a pilot sitting there seems to make it ok, or something...
There's a lot to be said about creativity coming from being forced to deal with constraints. It's counterintuitive, but we get most juiced about solving problems when they're tough. It's hardest to start writing when it's blank piece of paper.

Here's one story on it: http://plumecopy.com/bach-picasso-on-the-creative-process/
You cannot make blanked claims such as this. There are dozens of different types of anarchy ranging from socialistic anarchism to free market anarchism. Voting may or may not be part of the anarchist experience.
Hm, I didn't know that. Nonetheless, I feel the analogy stands somewhat; decisions are at least partially made via participatory consensus rather than from one entity by fiat. There's also the WHATWG, which is much more democratic, and which has been very influential in the ongoing standards process.

Perhaps a more accurate comparison would be ICANN vs. NameCoin; however in that case, the anarchist solution is far less proven. ;)
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He he, I remember 15 years ago when I told a friend studying economics and East Europe, that I had racist tendencies when it came to Russians -- everyone I had ever talked to for more than five minutes were an engineer or had a cultural job (musician, etc).

He coughed up some coffee and told stories about St P, the cost of life (well, the cost of death) and so on.

So, it is not dangerous now? It is good that things get better, good luck with getting rid of the present thieving criminals. If I still remembered some math, it would be fun to get a job there and see the place a bit more.
Can we safely say Communism hasn't panned out then.
Anarchists are not confused. "Anarcho"-capitalists are just not anarchists. Anarchism is anti-property, anti-capitalist, and anti-state. If your proposal is to replace the rule of the state with a purified rule of property and capital, you are not an anarchist.
Millions of dead from WW2 strategic bombing, disagree with you.
They should send his money back. As a total percentage of tax dollars NASA's budget has fallen, but in inflation adjusted dollars has remained pretty consistent for the past 30 years.

I've been extreme sad to see program after program cut from NASA, but just looking at the numbers it seems like more of a management issue than a budget issue - double the workforce with an inflation adjusted-only budget increase?

There have been a handful of years when NASA recived less in nominal dollars than the previous year (but not the majority), but like every government program, a budget cut isn't a reduction in funds, rather a decrease in the rate of increase for the program.

Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
I would think that it matters because the drones make killing more efficient (both in terms of financial costs and life-risk to the pilot). In other words, if manned aircraft were killing huge groups of innocents on their own, it would stand to reason that drones open the floodgates to exacerbating that problem.
Ideally? A round of war crimes trials for the sociopaths responsible for this nightmare.
Blackstone's formulation is one of the most important parts of English and American common law. At the point where it becomes acceptable and legal to knowingly murder innocent people in order to punish the guilty, all legitimacy is forfeit.

This, of course, has already happened.
They've been the opposite on a number of other things - see http://jacquesmattheij.com/life-as-a-service for reference
The question is why is this not being done in the same way in other cases, given that random killings of civilians are perhaps the best terrorist recruitment tool ever devised.

perhaps you've answered your own question?
1. delete your email address
2. change your password to some random characters
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Now commenting will require you to signup with a new account, which is an extra hurdle.

(I was spending a ton of time commenting in the past, and this has worked for me).

There are millions of people online, and most of them are wrong. You could waste your whole life telling people they're wrong, or you could go and be productive.

Also after a while once you withdraw from commenting, you realize that only a couple of articles a day are actually worth reading these days.

Another point to make is that HN and Reddit are not "user voted". They put out that illusion, but they both have editors who push up stories they want, or bury stories that they don't want there.
Additionally, they do not have any issue censoring comments if you disagree with the hivemind.

Get some offline hobbies as well.
Really cool. You're never too young to chase your dream.
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Completely OT. What's with these articles that look like traditional magazines on the web? I get this is a PDF, but it makes reading on screen painful. I think something like the medium layout is the best way to present writings and you can still build fancy edits on top.
Wholly different scenario, fighting a real war against a tech-equivalent enemy.
That's a really good point, and I think that it come in the name "drone." These aircraft are NOT "drones." They do not perform menial labor and they are not "thoughtless." They do not perform automated attacks. These are units of force projection that the U.S. military uses as part of a psychological warfare campaign against citizens that it deems to be a threat (or, in other words, pretty much the entire planet).
Individualist anarchism is still anti-capitalist.
Condescend much?
Maybe you should explain specifically what you find difficult to understand in that quoted sentence?
You have a fair point, but I claim for a proof-of-work computation it might be good for it to be a bit unpractical. (Depending on the parameters, this paper is on my reading list but I haven't gone through it yet.) I think it's incredibly interesting also, in any case I hope you enjoy the paper :)
The biggest problem with humanity is arrogance. Not everyone can live. Sorry!
Why would someone being an engineer make them more hostile to NSA spying? There are tons of engineers working for the NSA.
Easier, and cheaper.
> Five of those killed were suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda, but the remainder were unconnected with the militancy, Yemeni security officials said."

> The New York Times reported in 2013 that the Obama Administration embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties, which in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.

So 5 people were of military-age and male? Given a size of 22 people, it sound reasonable. I wonder how many were children.
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Those are not computers.
What's wrong with a little bit of humor?
Exactly. I don't see how that shows a shortcoming on WhatsApp's part.
"To realize that dream, however, he needs NASA to have a fully functioning space program when he's an adult"

Or, you know, he could get a job with SpaceX or Virgin Galactic or any of a few other companies (or the additional companies that will be founded once this becomes obviously economically viable) who eventually are going to need a manned presence in space for any number of reasons. Some of them will probably even be doing asteroid mining, or similar other cutting-edge tasks.
Seeing as the original story was posted over a month ago timing definitely is a factor. There's nothing unjust about it, timing [or luck if you like] plays a role. That's just the way HN works.

ALL-CAPS in the recent submission may have played a role - it's the sort of thing which might trigger a spam filter.

More importantly, the statement that "several posts" were taken off the front page lends itself to the possibility that some of the posts did not make the front page organically - i.e. the complaint is consistent with using standard social media promotional techniques on HN.
> Email that isn’t related to intelligence is rarely viewed, and it’s even less often viewed if it’s from a US citizen

I stopped here. The words "rarely" and "less often" should both be "never". If the answer is not never, congratulations, you just helped ruin the world. Engineers and developers should be using our powers to help the world, not help corrupt governments spy on their own citizens. I only wish there were a way to strip credentials from technical people who aid an enemy so they can never work in this field again.
I'd be curious to hear which other open source frameworks "do the exact same thing". I spent hours compiling a list of competition products, and none can really offer an approach as high-level as Helium. The one that comes closest is Capybara, but it's still not quite as high-level as Helium, and only available for Ruby.