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Hunting for liquid water on mars is mostly about trying to find life. If there's anything living on Mars, it'll be in the water.
> That means as bad for the NSA as giving amnesty would be, they consider remaining documents worse.

Well, it would mean that, if it were serious. Snowden has already said that he has transferred control of all the documents to journalists and no longer has any control of them, and the whole amnesty spiel was predicated on him having control of the documents and being able to demonstrate that it was impossible for any more of them to escape.

It's not really a statement of intent to provide amnesty, its an attempt to:

1. Reiterate the claim that Snowden has compromised the "keys to the kingdom" when it comes to US national security,

2. Provide a justification for the continued hard line against Snowden based around the need to protect those supposed vital-to-national-security secrets that have not been revealed, rather than retribution for the clear abuses that have been revealed.
Gold is mined. It's limited. It's an asset.

Bitcoin is mined. It's limited. It's an asset.

Currency is not mined. It's unlimited. It's currency.
This argument presumes that the chief danger to cyclists is a vehicle, which may or may not be the case. There are plenty of other dangers to riding a bike. As others have noted, cyclists are very good at falling over of their own accord, whether that's from dodging a pedestrian or animal crossing the path, turning too sharply (or not sharply enough), slipping in the rain, getting tires stuck in potholes, etc.

A vehicle does not have to be part of that problem.
That's how it goes it many developed countries.
More to the point, I think, why would you post it? The author clearly didn't want fan-made ebooks out there and the blog basically gave a step-by-step converter, given the correct url.
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It is a bit of hit and miss, yes. But if the post makes it to the homepage it immediately gets a "HN seal of approval" which carries a lot of weight.

With my book stuff, I've had about a 50% success rate of "making the homepage." If you're offering something interesting, they will click ;)
Also, it was pretty funny. GitHub taking this down is... concerning. This will do nothing for the cause of women, en contraire.
In a word, commoditization.

Regular aircraft are "expensive." They're literally expensive, in dollar terms, but even ignoring that they're logistically and operationally resource-intensive to operate. You only have so much airpower at your disposal, you're limited by flight deck space and pilot availability, you want to keep some in reserve, and aircraft are a bitch to maintain. Like, a week in service per day of flight time.

Basically, you default to not using them. You don't bust them out unless you have good reason to. You don't just cruise around looking for people who look suspicious, because that would be a tremendous waste of resources that could be better-spent elsewhere. Like transporting supplies for the troops on the ground. You only bust out the planes when you have solid, definitive, verified evidence that there is something that should get blown up.

Drones flip that around. You can't quite go cruisin' around just looking for stuff, but it's worth the time & effort to check out quite a few of your semi-sketchy tips. Now you're doing a lot more operations, on less-reliable intel, and the risk of cock-ups rises significantly. But because the drones are remote, none of that risk is borne by any member of the military performing the operations; all the extra risk falls on the local civilian population. I don't think many people partaking in these operations are intentionally heartless, but this is a classic case of moral hazard, and on the margin more aggressive, risk-taking behavior is incentivized.

Additionally, putting a drone in the sky is faster than putting a regular plane in the sky. This means that planes tend to be used only against 'static' targets, which gives you an opportunity to scout & verify. Drones allow you to hit 'time-sensitive' targets, which means you are now making time-sensitive decisions. A wedding party got hit because some dude had literally minutes (or less) to decide if a collection of vehicles was a wedding or an armed convoy. I take it as axiomatic that the added time-pressure increases the number of wrong decisions.
Isn't this wildly illegal? I thought all web scraping violated CFAA... not to mention copyright...
Or until your tire fails and flings you off the bike. Or until your bike fails and flings you off the bike. Or until you miss a feature in the road that takes your bike out from under you.

All three have happened to me. I was just lucky that I didn't hit my head in any of those incidents.

I had a friend fall while ice skating and hit his head. He died after a month of being in a coma. Having this tragedy so close to me reminded me that I'm not always in control, and anything I can do to limit the price of failing to control the situation is worth it.
I agree completely.

However, my statement was not intended to be read in isolation, but in context of "domestic collection programs that intentionally capture the full contents of nearly all domestic communications within the United States." I was referring to the bulk interception and subsequent long-term retention of data on US persons.

The implication of my statement was: assuming this type of collection didn't exist, selectors related to potential US persons (for whatever reason) would simply return intercept data beginning from the time said selector was invoked.

Contrast that to the present, where selectors are capable of retroactively returning the sum total of a US person's digital (and by some extension physical) life for the past 5+ years.

It's commendable that the procedures for accessing the data of potential US persons are so stringent, but at the end of the day there is still an incredibly intimate and detailed picture of almost every single US citizen's private life being retained on a long-term basis.
Like it! But thinking of family photos I always think about private albuns feature.

BTW: welcome to 2014 :)

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> How does the NSA offer amnesty anyway?

The NSA isn't offering amnesty. An NSA official is saying that he would recommend offering amnesty if doing so would assure no further leaks of the information Snowden has revealed. Presumably, the Justice Department would be the recipient (or among the recipients) of that recommendation.
Monty Hall problem explained visually
The reaper/predator and other drones cannot survive in contested airspace; any pilot(s) in modern combat aircraft would be at almost no risk of being shot down.
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I built schedulejs (http://bunkat.github.io/schedule/) when I needed to solve this problem for my own services. It lets you define very complete schedules (working hours, vacations, dependencies, breaks, etc) and then generate conforming schedules. It's a library and not a stand-alone tool, but it wouldn't be hard to build something on top of it.
> "we sort of knew all along they were doing this anyway."

In the wake of the original leaks, reading this particular snippet on FB posted by otherwise intelligent friends was one of my ultimate pet peeves.

It neatly encapsulates both self-affirmation ("oh I totally knew this was going on, because I'm wicked smaht") and a shocking degree of complacency.
Very cool. Congrats, guys! This was a great talk - http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/how-rethinkdb-works/
I wish more people understood that the models they were taught in Microecon 101 are not a particularly accurate representation of the actual inner workings of human society.
Indeed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciajessop/2013/08/31/the-econ...
Seriously, you can't win. Here you have an actual former NSA employee giving a first-hand account of his time there -- and not only his account doubted for no reason other than failure-to-comply with known-biases and unverifiable journalism, but some guy is now providing psychological analysis of him as well!

Some know-nothing armchair psychologist who read the NYT is telling this guy -- who has made an honest effort to be utterly transparent -- that he's cognitively dissonant and that comment is going to receive a hundred votes because it makes people feel good about the things they think they know. It's not truth, just an exercise in mass delusion.
I don't think the mechanism is a direct biological signaling of the baby's sex to tell the woman to produce fattier milk. It seems more plausible to me that wealthier families value boys a lot more - you see this tendency everywhere. This causes mothers to value their male children disproportionately, and the social feedback she gets probably affects her hormones as well, which would cause the milk to vary. So you see the large difference in wealthier women's milk for boys and girls, whereas the difference in poorer women's milk may not even be statistically significant.

I think if you repeat this test on different circumstances where the child is valued or not, whether boy or girl, you will find similar results that remove the sex factor.
It's a little more complicated, but yes [1].

The current government promised a 8,50EUR minumum wage.

Fun fact: The leftist German news paper TAZ who was fighting for minumum wage for quite some time, argued against the minumum wage for it's intern as "not possible".

[1] e.g. when you are below some wage, the government pays you some money for the "gap"
Except... Grandfather effect comes into play.
So Curiosity and all the other rovers are not sterilized?!
This is true but you have to admit over time the means of oppression have become more nuanced and complicated.

Few people realize that most companies are little more than intellectual property, a network to collaborate on expand said IP and the corp's ability to secure information.

Large corps and govt's not only understand this, they are defined by it, thus the need for whistle blowers more now than ever as the foot on your throat is not as apparent.
I was actually surprised that the figure is so low. It feels like anyone able to do the job of a college president should be able to make more than $1m in other industries (Wall St.? Tech companies? Government?) Of course the market doesn't lie, so perhaps talent at that caliber is less expensive than I expected (or perhaps the caliber is lower than it appears).
I am living proof that it is. I stated teaching myself how to program in 2006. I did a lot of freelance work for a number of years. I was laid off in Spring 2011.

A programming position opened up at a local manufacturing company. I submitted my resume which spoke heavily about my freelance experience. I got a call for a in person interview. During the interview they surprised me with a hand-written programming test.

It turns out that I was the only person that actually passed the test out of 15 applicants.
Because the selling costs to the enterprise are 16x!
Additionally, NASA is legally obligated to use several subcontractor's who's prices have far outpaced inflation.

Are you claiming this is a feature? This kid gave NASA his piggy bank as a donation. If NASA were to be rated alongside other charities by whoever - givewell, charity navigator - how well do you suppose it would look?
The error in your logic is the casual assumption that knowledge can not be profitable. Hopefully the mere act of stating it is enough to show how untrue that is? And that's why there were private discovery expeditions, per WalterBright's point.
I, too, learned to ride as a kid. But a helmet saved my ass (well, my head) a couple times when I was younger. The first was when I had a nice spill on a gravel road (took a turn too fast). I was still injured, but when my head was slammed on the ground the helmet took the brunt of it and not my skull. Later on while doing some mountain biking (generally a riskier activity than street biking modulo cars) a patch of leaves resulted in a similar accident. In the first I'm confident the head injury would have been severe, based mostly on the cracked helmet. I'm less certain how much help the helmet was in the second accident, but I don't regret wearing it. Cars aren't the only things we have to worry about.

EDIT: This is about motorcycles, not bicycles, but I find the anti-helmet attitude there similarly amusing/infuriating. A friend/colleague enjoys motorcycle racing. He still participates, but his accident is a demonstration of where protective gear comes in handy. Similar to my accidents, his bike went out from under him on a turn, and fortunately he was wearing the proper gear. Instead of being dead when he slid into a tree he just had some cracked ribs and a broken shoulder and a cracked open helmet instead of a cracked open skull. He had about 20 years of experience at the point of that accident, and no previous accidents (or none of note, I imagine he had some spills when he was learning but none with serious injuries). Sometimes shit happens or we get distracted, the gear is for those times.
The supply is artificially restricted by the way that people think the job can only be done by a small incestuous class of people. The qualifications seem to be a mastery of jargon and social norms in this sub-culture. Are these presidents really adding $1 million of value a year? Or are they just another part of America's self-entitled leadership class that doesn't seem to have any checks on it?
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> "but you have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are not doing this for shits and giggles."

I am very confident that I do not have to do that. How are you going to make me?
We must be on reddit because someone is complaining about early downvotes.
If the contract is voluntary it is advantageous to both or else it wouldn't be entered into.

Take this trade off. I create a system whereby I can make $100 for every hour someone works. I tell you I'll pay you $10 an hour to work. If you are better off working those hours you will take it and I will receive $90 and you $10. If you won't I'm out a lot of money, so I will probably revise my offer upwards.

These workers are individuals capable of making decisions. If they decide working for Amazon for $13 an hour is better than alternatives they should take it - if not they should pursue a more valuable alternative.
why is the author doing publicity work for the plaintiff

Hell, when the UK Prime Minister publicly takes sides in ongoing celebrity court proceedings and announces that he is on "Team Nigella", I think that many journalists probably shrug their shoulders and give up attempting any pretence of balance around court.
Well, the word is out.

I have a friend, we'll call him Jon. Jon has been making apps for the past three years. He never learned to code, or design, or market, but he somehow managed to pickup xcode and started making fun apps for his nieces and nephews.

Eventually a day came when his sales skyrocketed, roughly $5,000 in a single day (a figure I made up, but he has stated before is realistic for him). Seemingly by chance. As Jon dug around a little he realized that a school -- who regularly provide iPads to students -- had bought his app in bulk.

Now, years later, he specializes in developing apps not for children or parents, but explicitly for schools. That's where the money is right now, he tells him.

You can make a lot of decent money selling quality apps or tools to consumers, but if you want to make boatloads you have to think in terms of those who would buy what you make via bulk purchases; from organizations large enough who need the thing you've made.

Isn't this how 37signals found their way?
> This is not quite true. I never gave anyone (especially not the users of WhatsApp or Telegram) permission to upload my personal information to any cloud services. You can not actually imply that permission from all contacts merely by asking the user.

Thank you, that was exactly my first thought.

In general, since we all are represented in other peoples' contact lists, it's worth considering what those other people are going to do with our data.

And it's not just the people you correspond with directly. I have a lot of people in my Thunderbird and email provider lists who I have no idea who they are, because someone in a chain of someones sent out a broadcast email with their address and my address.

Which means that if I were the sort of person to "upload my contacts!" I would have exposed people two or more hops away from me to whatever "service" I'd just submitted to.

Uploading your contacts may become the net equivalent of farting in public; it's rude.
What skills does one typically acquire as a temp packing worker in a highly automated warehouse?
Not always. Look at the app marketplace, for example. Businesses are in dire need of better quality apps for managing employees, HR, payroll, networking, etc. And to get your app into their hands is as simple as making a unique app.
Who was on board for Computer Science Education Week?
They're actually correct about the notification use case - the server has to generate the message text that is displayed, and no application code can be run unless the user taps the notification and launches your app.
Their job is to raise money. If they bring in $200 million in donations, is a $1 million salary really so out of line?
I made a similar game for a TI calculator where the issue I was having was a lack of memory for the game state. Eventually I found that you could read the graphics memory, so I stopped saving any of the game state at all: I'd tell if there was an obstacle by just reading the graphics memory and seeing if the according pixel was already black. Now system dialogs like the calculator's "reminders" could draw their dialogues to the screen and become obstacles themselves. Now I couldn't tell food from obstacles, so I just got rid of the food idea and now you grow infinitely, and the randomly dropping obstacles XOR their targets to potentially free up walls to pass through.

Like it sounds, the game went through a lot of changes like this in structure through the course of development, where the nature of the game had entirely changed. I had a number of friends with my model of calculator, which was not the more-common TI-86 at my school, so I was the only, err, game in town. Because it was in-effect several games over its lifetime, and different people wanted different versions of it, I learnt a lot about maintainability and version management. "You have the six-month-old version of this with food, and it has a bug that I fixed five months ago in a different game. And the fix doesn't apply here". Or "I solved the slowness you're seeing in this case by removing 3 instructions from inside of this loop here, but that cut the key response time in half, is that alright?"

It was a major learning experience for me. My calculator is long-dead and I don't have a version of the game anymore, but I bet that I could still remember how to make changes to it if I saw the code again.
Do we need 100% code coverage when it comes to unit testing? 
We are trying to do more TDD but I've come across a stumbling block. We are using PHPUnit+FuelPHP and I need/should write a unit test for image uploads.

However, mocking anything dealing with the FILESYSTEM is notoriously difficult and time consuming.

So I am wondering: Does it make sense to write a unit test when writing testing code (i.e. mocking and stubbing and writing a bunch of wrappers) is more involved than writing actual production code?

Do we need 100% test coverage? Or am I approaching TDD incorrectly?
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We're in the enterprise space. While I'm constantly amazed at how much we're able to charge for our product, I'm equally amazed at the reasons deals go sideways.

In the consumer space, you're working with averages over large quantities. The number of potential buyers is huge, so you need to build a product that, on-average, will result in more sales than non-sales when the customer reaches the point of making a decision. This decision point might happen tens of thousands of times -- sometimes millions -- a year for consumer products.

In the enterprise world, the number of sales opportunities are smaller by orders of magnitude. Every sale becomes a huge gamble, and as a result you tend to throw an immense amount of resources at every sale. This is also one of the primary reasons enterprise software ends up so bloated and unmanageable. On the front-end, the decision making process for purchasing enterprise software is driven by checklists and "due diligence" procedures that are horrible at accounting for software quality. You're more likely to win an enterprise contract by saying "sure, we'll add that feature" than you are carefully explaining how maintaining product focus results in a more usable product.

This makes enterprise software a high-stakes game. A sale results in windfall revenue, but a non-sale can severely strain cash-flows. At the end of the day, you're still trying to beat the averages, but you're working with a much smaller number of opportunities, so wins and losses move the needle in a big way. I think this is a significant incentive for small shops and independent devs to avoid the enterprise space. You need a larger bank roll to attack the enterprise market. We bootstrapped our company, and we hit several gut checks along the way. The days of writing large checks to my company are not quickly forgotten.
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You're implying that the inside of your mouth and the landscape of Mars are more or less equivalent?
15.9 million students wrote over 500 million lines of code during CS Ed Week
I down voted you by accident. You are correct. Imagine a world with no 3rd party student loans. Schools would become cheaper pretty fast.
But can't we simply compromise and have public means of production with private residential property? As a libertarian socialist this seems like the best way to move past this debate until we implement such a system. I agree with your point, but I'd rather not expound the hypotheticals containing a married couple and child, being visited in the night by some unrelated teens who feel it is their right to sleep in the same room and said couple's child. Your thoughts?
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So, you lie

And, presumably honorably, take the consequences for hiding an illegal program.
Appears to be in the works-- http://www.pixate.com/blog/2013-12-06-android-views-demo/ind...
What a nice wrap-up!
How does Rethinkdb handle replication, multi-master and MVCC? Thath's the main reason to use CouchDB over MongoDB.
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Let me tell you the story of Victor Serebriakoff who as a young fellow was diagnosed as being mentally incapacitated. When he was 15, one of his professors told him that he will never be able to finish school. This made young Victor assume his imposed status and for more than 17 years he only took laboring jobs, most of them being way below his potential.
Weddings are not war zones.
Bizarre response? You should learn to recognize a bit of dry humor when you see it.
I've worked on a prototype during a SlideShare hackathon, it's a POC but working relatively fine, you can check it out here:
http://visual-resume.kalache.fr/

there is also visual.ly and http://resumup.com/ that are actual services.
I dont see your point apart from trying to sound as nasty as possible? Just because they arent tribes means they're irrelevant? They are indigenous species and should be protected in the interest of science if nothing else. You dont eliminate every bacteria of a certain species when you use mouthwash. In the grand scheme of things we are also just some stains on some dirt on a rock somewhere.