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I don't think any of this really matters. If the Supreme Court decided tomorrow that anything the NSA does is unconstitutional then the laws would either be rewritten immediately or the government would challenge the ruling and force the justices to change their minds. The Us government answers to no one, and that includes the Supreme Court.
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That's what so many people miss. They see "Bitcoin" and forget about the technology behind it. The ability to create "cryptocurrencies" at no cost is going to be very interesting, I can't wait to see what we can build on this basic logic.
"and that's exactly the kind of label that women slaps on tech jobs"

what kind of world are you living in because it's not one I've visited.
Only new ISP clients have these filters enabled. Old clients have them disabled by default, for now.

I doubt that you'll find someone who can confirm so easy.
> ... with strong parity to mitigate transcription errors.

How would you deal with coffee stain errors?
> If the kid is too young and not too knowledgeable about the world then perhaps it would make sense to not be left alone with an -online- tablet.

Why is it okay to revoke internet access entirely, but not selectively? If the argument is that filtering a child's internet is bad parenting, then disabling it ought to be just as bad as limiting it.
I see. For some reason I read your statement as being about disparate impact rather than ad-hoc hiring procedures.
The "mismatch" in dialog about this stuff is perhaps telling.

One person says (essentially): "organization need to take systematic efforts to avoid bias in hiring".

The other person say (essentially): "you can't prove we're sexist, this is a witch hunt".
I thought annotations were just a way to sidestep paying licensing on the lyrics.
My current project is around providing value to LinkedIn users via an app. I believe LinkedIn itself and the app store are two obvious platforms that make sense for me to focus on.
"Unlike my previous job where I had to work 9-6 ... sometime I work for a continuous 16 hours and then sometime I find myself I haven't looked at that project in the last two days ..."

I think that's actually really natural, and mimics the patters people were in before industrialization.

Even when I was doing corporate work, that's very much how I ended up actually getting things done. Sometimes it takes hours and hours to wrap my head around some API and make the mental connections, at which point I'll just keep coding until I run out of juice (typically the point when I realize I'm just making errors, coding in circles, and resorting to random edits). The annoying thing in the corporate world is that you can't just spend most of the next day in bed, or on a hike. Instead, I'd work extremely hard one day, then slack off and browse the Internet the next two days, and maybe fix some trivial bug for the sake of a logged checkin.

In my current system, I would say my most valuable habits are:

1) Cardio. My goal is to do 15 - 30 minutes of HIIT every morning. In reality, I end up doing it a few time per week. :-) Honestly, nothing gets me energized and motivated like doing consistent cardio. Two weeks of 30 minutes every day? No depression, constant motivation, sex drive, etc. Incidentally, forcing yourself to do this somewhat uncomfortable act regularly is itself a way to develop discipline.

2) Pomodoros. Once you start forcing yourself to work in focused intervals, you start to realize that you don't actually work that much every day, which is rather liberating.

3) Task estimation. I break down tasks by the number of anticipated hours, then check off every Pomodoro (effectively 1/2 hour) next to the task. Ineffective estimation has been both massively demotivating and very eye-opening. My estimation and attention to detail in analysis has improved significantly from forcing myself to do this. It's also easier to force myself "into the mood" for coding when I'm actually reasonably sure that I only have to do 1.5 hours of work, then I can go play.

4) Block all attention drains in my hosts file. HN, Reddit, etc.
Hi Mark. I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I have a calloused view towards civilian casualties? I'm really confused by drones. In one camp you could argue that without them there would be a much greater loss of life and more horrors of war. We would still be going after various members of the Taliban in the Afghanistan/Pakistan mountains only now it would be fighter jets and boots on the ground and therefore heavier casualties all round. On the other hand you could say that the ease with which we can now kill our enemies - without the critical downside of the death of our own troops (and the subsequent public opinion swing against war that then follows) has created too few disincentives and resulted in increased and unnecessary deaths. I'm not sure which it is! This headline grabbed me as perhaps by someone who could discuss the positives and negatives of how drones are really being used and I could draw some conclusions. Instead, as others have pointed out too, it offered very little in the way of substance about drones. Instead, it was a broad anti war piece with a lot of emotional imagery which spoke very little about drones and really didn't have any conclusion or point. So I felt like a bait and switch and that I was being lured by a misleading headline (Thus my manipulated theme)
All monopolies with market power have a responsibility to the public. It's a matter of policy and law.

You're right that they don't have a responsibility to abide by the whims of random spammers, but they also don't have carte Blanche to use their power to regulate the internet as they see fit.

The 'it's their product so they can do what they like' line is simply not correct. When they take action like this they need to be scrutinized carefully and we as the public most certainly should debate the merits of their actions and their effect on the internet.
30% is probably including sales org, it is high for engineering. Anyway, consider the difference between 2-3 women of 12 people in an startup, vs 200 of 1000 in a big company, where women may cluster on some teams, or have "dotted line" relationships outside their official hierarchy.
And as an American I do live with a particular type of fear, which is that of the DEA and SWAT team escalations.

I disagree that this is something to be all that worried about. It detracts from the rest of your argument.
Sigh... The subject was war not realpolitik games of common interests, which all countries play (and lie about).

Most of those games also went away with the cold war.

An irrelevant question about your claims:

I don't know about Cuba's number of political prisoners, executions at revolution time, control of information, police state mentality. It might be less bad than the previous junta, but it is worst in the Americas now since the other unpleasant juntas disappeared... Afaik, the south Vietnam regime was horribly corrupt but can it really be worse than a communist place?! (Is that ideology? Do you have references?)
I tried that too. Far too annoying, when you could just use 372gg.
You can't loan at interest on Kiva. Which makes it a charity, not an investment.
Saying that everything people do needs to be backward-compatible is what leads to having to support IE 6.

I'm sure you had the foresight a year ago to know that they'd want to attach different covers in the future, why didn't you tell them?
This is currently in review - however generally this is seen as a "no-no" if the passwords are also stored in plaintext - which they are not. Hope this helps a little, and the fact that it's in review may give some confidence that it's actually being looked in to.
No doubt that when bitcoin's success is obvious, he will also admit his mistake and go on to make another uninformed prediction.
Interesting perspective. Agree that national interests ultimately trump economic interests. At the same time, what would advance the discussion even more is data on how critical international trade was/is to each country. For instance, what % of GDP for pre-WWI Germany came from beyond its borders vs. present-day China. Globalization may not prevent war, but perhaps it's possible that more intertwined relationships -- whether through deeper financial gain or cultural understanding -- could decrease the likelihood of world war.
> If someone was going to be really good at programming they would have found it on their own. Then if you go look at the bios of successful founders this is invariably the case, they were all hacking on computers at age 13.

I am by most standards a successful founder. I was not hacking on computers at age 13. Why not? My family could not afford a computer at age 13. I got my first computer at 15-16 by essentially fishing it out of a garbage can.

How long did it take me to write my first C program? About a year. Why? Because I was the only person in my (very, very small) hometown who had any affinity or interest in computers in general, let alone programming in particular.

That is why that statement "reeks of privilege."
Why would you expect there to be such close analogies for so many countries and elements in WWI? Discounting this editorial because there is no one to "play the role of Italy" is weird. The point of the piece is not to say everything is going to be similar, it's (in part) to say that comforting arguments about the war-preventing aspects of economic integration and modernity are insufficient.
Is it possible for Apple to pay international shareholders a dividend from their international cash hoard?
Do I need to build my own transistors?

If I'm allowed to use modern machines and software, an FPGA, and off-the-shelf static RAM, I could do it in a week or two.
1) Surely the most common source of memory corruption is bounds violations.

2) Even reconciling our disagreement on terminology, I still disagree A) that a strict phase separation is a prerequisite for types to exist at all and B) that it even makes sense to talk about "untyped" as if I couldn't just invent a type system (however complex) for proving properties of a particular language that previously had no known type system.

The simple fact of the matter is that definitions evolve over time as we learn more about our field. "Type safety" is historically valid phrase for what we now know as "memory safety". In context of the performance claims, it was quite clear what the author meant.
I have heard that argument for jobs, but what about Bachelors Degree majors?

To me, the bigger difference is that there must be 10-100x more CS majors per year now than in 1985. CS was mostly applied math then, and math majors have long been extremely majority male.
So which is it: Warrantless search has no recourse unless the law says so, or is the judge buying in to the idea that section 215 data collection isn't "search?"
Cool. If you had to build it all from scratch?
From the study abstract:

"Men and women apparently achieve similar IQ results with different brain regions, suggesting that there is no singular underlying neuroanatomical structure to general intelligence and that different types of brain designs may manifest equivalent intellectual performance."

So as always, MUCH more research needed before drawing that conclusion
A women cannot be driven out of coding by anyone other than herself. This is not a social thing. This is not hard core research requiring millions to get started. Only a PC, Stack Overflow and an internet connection are required. Even now on HN I cannot tell who is a girl or guy by their username, let alone the gender of the person who wrote the code that populates the webpage I read.
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I don't guess that all of this has been corroborated?

Maybe I'm missing something but all of the stuff in the article and several things in these threads aren't in the cryptome pdf listed below.
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>Nationalism trumps economic interest at the end of the day. History shows this to be true.

I interpret history as "nationalism used to trump economic interests". A lot of has changed since. Most countries are representative democracies, and it's more difficult for leaders to go into a war.

As for the tribal argument, I think the "nation state" is dying. Tribes are subcultures these days[1]. The internet connects me to my subcultures (like Hacker News), and it matters less every year what country I happen to physically live in. There's also the argument that the world is more united these days (particularly thanks to the European Union and somewhat because of United Nations).

1. http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20So...
"female" as a noun is, generally speaking, a usage for assholes. use it as an adjective.
Yes, you can see some artwork in his git repo. The only hope is that the ownership of the IP is unclear, for example how was Yoot tower made?
I read his response and he actually makes no point. Just reiterating "war is hell" twice.
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Yes, a point you did not make and which I did not contradict.

Indeed, the same applies to several other European "powers". Also some European nations had quite extensive overseas colonies while not really being military powers (e.g. Belgium and Holland). For that matter. Russia had no colonies that I know of.
You do realize that software development existed before app stores, right? Lone developers created and released applications all the time. App stores are about convenience, and so they are not like your other examples, which are about decentralization. They just don't fit.
FYI, schadenfreude : a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people
It's a commentary. Commentaries are supposed to be one-sided.

The Guardian commentary appeals to emotion while making it clear where its sympathies lie. That is perfectly acceptable and proper for a commentary.

It's also quite relevant to the debate to bring emotion into it. You hinted at it when you asked whether "we're carrying out a lot more sorties than we did prior," but you only mentioned the military cost of it.

A key issue that the commentary highlights -- and perhaps the HN reactions to it as well -- is that we may be flying more drone sorties because the American populace is more comfortable with them.

It's a variant the old "smart bomb" argument from Desert Storm. If the U.S.'s only option was to carpet bomb Baghdad, then there probably would be more domestic opposition to the war and it may not even have happened. But the warmongers argued that we have smarter, more precise weaponry, which perhaps moderated opposition, leading to more horror and death.

Thus highlighting the actual horrors that drones inflict, and the widespread terror they instill in an entire population who live in constant fear they could be annihilated at any moment, is a very valid contribution to the debate.
No, it's something I heard from a guy doing UI design for this stuff. We were comparing notes / discussing what's the minimum resolution to pilot a remote vehicle.
| A whole generation of kids is going to grow up soon routinely using small Bitcoin escrows to hedge everyday scenarios.

Could you explain this in more detail? Or perhaps provide a specific example? I've heard people talk about DACs and such (which I also don't really understand very well). At the risk of sounding stupid, I honestly don't understand what kind of scenario this would prove useful (or at least simple enough to warrant its use over traditional methods).
Would be justified as long as they deleted all the copy's of Mrs Browns Boys
I have not found that to be even remotely true.
Making war is also an incredibly difficult and unsolved problem. We regularly just "decide" to make war for a particular objective, with very little thought to how it will be accomplished (And what plans we do have usually end up not working as expected).

Why should resolving to make peace not war require more thoughtfulness than waging war?
> Inside every Bitcoin transaction is a small program that contains no loops. If that program when executed returns true, the transaction is valid.

I've read elsewhere that the official client no longer processes any such scripts except for ones that are whitelisted. That reduces the current protocol to a single feature set, instead of the promise of future extension without requiring further agreement from miners.

Can anybody verify this? Does today's client still process arbitrary scripts?
A white man can be smart, kind, caring and sharing and have troubles of his own. But white MEN are privileged and you know it </meninblack>
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Yes. The scariest thing about our current military adventures is that they are based on a declaration of war against a brand name rather than against a state, which could conceivably be toppled to end the war. The 2001 AUMF goes a step past Orwell by declaring war not merely against Eastasia, but against any organization that might potentially share any of the amorphous subjective defining attributes of Eastasia.

Yes, real war please.
Are you joking? The fashion world has massively outreached to men in recent couple of decades. Axe and chest shaving and all that other metrosexual stuff.

And the lack of male teachers is a persistent concern in the education world, especially with respect to the need to provide male role models for kids of single moms.
I have access to several machines on UK ISPs. Quick SSH and poke with links on each machine.

1. Easynet - all work fine.

2. Andrews & Arnold - all work fine (this is expected)

3. O2/Sky - all work fine

4. BT - all work fine

All of these lines were provisioned before the porn filter was announced so...

Edit: tested Amnesty, OpenBSD (which these machines are all running and would be a PITA for me) and linux.com
My browser (Chrome) shares screen real estate between its search functionality and address bar. Therefore, if I have searched "facebook" on Google but have not explicitly typed "http://facebook.com" into the address bar, Chrome remembers the "facebook" search as I start to type it out. As a user, the next most obvious action to take is to tab-complete + enter, and voila, there goes the Google search for "facebook".
It's interesting that you'd say this as I've found myself doing the same thing for very much the same reasons. I'm actually a little hesitant to use Chrome at all except in those cases where I need flash (I don't tend to install flash and usually rely on Chrome's bundled plugin).

Chrome is a great browser and the built-in developer tools really seem to be raising the bar but for casual browsing I've pretty much switched to Firefox or Safari (depending on the platform).
> Startups try to keep a "high bar", only hiring people with sterling academic credentials or proven work in the field.

Your "high bar" is everyone else's "they're like us."
Thanks. Blocking EFF/Linux/Amnesty is very disturbing.
Yeah, I'm sure that 'trusted computing' isn't effectively the Clipper Chip by another name.

Remember one simple fact: with all such schemes, the end user is the one party involved who isn't trusted.
The problem with that thinking is that Bitcoin is not transaction-fee-free. Transactions are subsidized by block rewards, but already today, your transactions might get stalled if you don't pay fees. And this is only going to get worse.

Taking a 3% cut of transactions (or even more in some of the walled garden ecosystems) is obviously too much for a service of irreversible transactions. We'll see whether (a) reversible transactions and the related insurance problems can be solved more cheaply than today's credit cards and friends, and (b) whether irreversible electronic transactions will be accepted by people given the sorry state of computer security.
> Maybe if you put the American Empire in its place and position this in the latter half of the 2000s century and starving people want our rice/corn?

Starving people don't make war; they have more pressing problems.
Indeed. Any with conclusions that support dismissing women in tech?
Depend on what has highest chance happening - That children dies because people who should confirm what is a threat fail because they are too lazy (or bad pixels, or bad weather / angle and so on), or children dies because solders on the street become so extremely mental unstable that they shoot innocent people just for laughs.
My girlfriend went the BioMed route as well when i posed this question to her. Personally i would have tried business machines.

The bulk of all modern medicine (western at least) owes its regimen and SOP to military medicine. Just as i have seen ligatures (tourniquet) go from a no-no to standard practice in the last 10 years, each generation has watched medical science be advanced by martial situations. Epidemiology, rehabilitation, prostheses, surgery; they all are where they are now because of war and the responses to war. Modern sensing equipment is a grandchild of the tech build up of the cold war. Fracking super glue was a Vietnam War Era advancement.

I do not like it, as i think human on human war is an obsolete expression of very small groups of wealthy folk colluding to expand (ditto for racism), but i think it is a bit naive to assume we can just carry on with the march to the stars on the assumption that peaceful means of technological advancement are superior/ will be adequate. Humanity requires a challenge to be its best self. I grow tired of the challenge being an artifice of business (which is the predicate for all wars. all.), and if Global Climate Shift is in any way alterable, i sincerely hope that humanity's response will be the next "war", or concerted conflict if you will.

War is not the key ingredient, but it is by far the best catalyst known to people thus far.
>> When due process is undermined, the population becomes more alienated from the government, and more individuals become radicalized, and more terrorism happens.

How many lives of soldiers would be risked and how much money would be spent for operations to 'capture' the terrorists in foreign nations? And will nations like Pakistan allow military (or law enforcement) operations on their soil by foreign govts to capture the terrorists? No of course not. Drone operations take place in Pakistan/Yemen and other nations because of the inability of such nations to police their population adequately.

The real problem is NOT the drones but the failed (or almost failed) nations where groups of terrorists can operate in OPEN essentially, whose goal is to hurt/topple another nation.

If some Chinese or Russian 'freedom' fighters decide to train militarily in US with the goal of toppling current govt of China/Russia and did actually cause deaths/damage in China/Russia, would US govt sit back and let them train in US? Probably not.

All this 'omg, the drones are terrible' is useless. You don't want to see drones operating in foreign nations? Use your energy helping NGO and the local govt overcome corruption, ignorance, and backbone shattering poverty. Give no space for terrorists to operate in. Sure it's near impossible task. But that's the only real solution, and real solutions take real work.

The drones are a 'perfect' tool for rich nations for warfare whose population don't want to see their own getting hurt/killed. It's not going to go away.
What am I allowed to use? Discrete transistors? Relays? Wire and metals?

Do I need to refine my own metals? Make my own wire-drawing machines? It would take me a few years, others might be able to do it more quickly.

I might be able to make a massive mechanical computer rather than an electronic one. That would also take a few years. People have built "computers" in MineCraft - something similar could be done for real.

Also, define "Run C." There are variants of C that run on PICs that are genuine versions of C, and compile nicely to compact machine code.
What's your angle on the usage of "third wave feminism"? It always seemed like a legit thing to me, and a marker for caring about things like intersectionality and trans issues.