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I grew up in south eastern Ukraine (as Russian as Ukraine gets). I'm still in touch with some of my childhood friends, and the views are pretty split in my hometown. One friend that I went to school with always posts all kinds of pro-Europe anti-Yanukovich petitions online. At the same time I just received an email from another friend this morning and his opinion is "Those fucking protesters are turning Kiev into shit, good thing we don't have that in our town. We did have some but they got shit thrown at them [literally what he said], so they sit at home now." Basically his opinion is that it's western governments trying to manipulate Ukrainians.
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And people who studied bullshit that nobody really needs used to get jobs. Talk to a 50-year-old businessman about his degree and you'll find out he studied lit or philosophy.
Remember that the person that I replied to replied to a post that said:

"Firing a gun constitutes lethal force. Even brandishing a gun might constitute lethal force. Lethal force is only acceptable to prevent death or grievous bodily harm. ... If you shoot in self-defense, you must shoot to stop a threat, and shooting must be a proportionate response to that threat."

Legally and practically (if you're an armed member of a foreign army, you're far more likely to encounter armed opposition than some random guy in Nowheresville, UT), things are very different in a war zone. This is why threats of deadly force are often acceptable in a war zone, but unacceptable in times of peace.
"When the state granted land titles to a fraction of the population, it gave that fraction devices with which to levy, and pocket, tolls on the fruits of the labor of others."

In a master stroke, when the Kings of Scots granted feudal titles to existing lords who controlled lands, who were inevitably potential rivals, they granted them feudal rights over different lands to those they actually occupied - ensuring long struggles between the lords that meant they wouldn't pose a threat to the kings.
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I'm not sure what to think about this answer. The first paragraph doesn't seem to address anything i said. The linked article seems to agree with my understanding, from the preamble, but contains too much Haskell syntax for me to ne able to understand what he's explaining, so i can't say for sure. And i know even less about the mathematical aspect.

However, still, thanks for letting me know that i might be moving in the right direction.
This is going to be so useful for when people ask me for advice. Great work, Nick!
What actually more interesting to me is that FM has assigned channel numbers. I don't think I've ever seen a consumer radio that used channels instead of the raw frequency. I never knew they existed until I read that.
I get your point. But you could have omitted (who tend to be women)- and (I am not attempting to be sexist btw); you would have gotten the same exact point across.
It just fell from the top of the mountain or whatever that rock is on? There seems to be a slope...
I've always liked Linux for the simplicity of services and how they're handled through simple, clear and very understandable init.d scripts.

Any distro which takes them away stops being my friend.
This will be the official reason why it will become illegal to bring mirrors to the protest.
In order for wood to last in an application like a thermostat box you basically have to cover it in plastic (polyurethane) anyway.
The locals are upset at our occupation and are throwing rocks at us. Pretty obvious really.
But it used to work that way.

A generation or two ago you had a bunch of guys with degrees in literature and art-history managing plants full guys with highschool diplomas. And they all were middle-class or higher.
Couldnt it have been wind? or is the whether on mars really calm.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I expected the example to be just the app's logo. Ie: oh, that's my Dropbox app because instead of the Dropbox UI, I see the big Dropbox logo (Nothing against Dropbox or their app). I also wonder if we'll ever see the app switcher card being used as advertisement space.

A little less cynically: If you can redesign a screen in the app to remove clutter and highlight the important information for the user for the app switcher, why don't you do that in the app? Sounds like it might be a better UI design. Now, I can think of many reasonable counter examples, but I'd challenge you to spend more time on the app UI where your users spend most of their time.
I'm not an economist.. I imagine there are papers with better data, but I would have to spend some time trying to find them.

I did come by this article which deals with the same question:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/09/measuring-poverty-inc...
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/06/fam...

If income volatility has increased, it could explain why the spending-income gap is so wide, and why they (poor) spend more on education (retraining to re-enter the workforce).

Maybe try asking EconTalk (podcast of economics topics).. Sounds like something he would find interesting, and he often takes questions and makes episodes out of them.
http://www.econlib.org/library/contact.html
What zipcode?

Most were probably fixed wireless in where there are over a thousand, yet most people don't know they exist.

Next time you drive on a big highway look for the big circular antennas on the cell towers. (or smaller white ones).
> Both technology and libertarianism tend to draw from the high side of the autistic spectrum

Do you have a source for this claim? It seems quite extraordinary. Anecdotally, everybody I've ever met in technology who has claimed to be on "the high side of the autistic spectrum" has in reality merely been an average-intellect asshole who: a) thinks he's much smarter than he is, and assumes his inability to "get along" is because others are jealous of his abilities or just don't understand what it's like to be "on the spectrum"; b) is looking for excuses for his own boorish behavior.
If you've tried to use GreenSock on a mobile device, you'd see that it stutters quite a bit depending on the number and size of elements. I've tried all the famo.us demos on basic mobile phones and for the most part they all perform well in terms of fps. That is their main advantage, I think.
If front-end MVC Is too much for a given use case, then Twitter's Flight.js[1] seems like a great way to keep jQuery well organized. It defines a way to write jQuery components that communicate via events, piggy-backing on the DOM's event propagation. Quite simple, and ideal for when a single-page-app (e.g. the kind you get with Backbone) isn't quite right for you.

[1] http://flightjs.github.io/
That doesn't hold water when workers work for companies with foreign customers. One way or another, you're competing with foreign engineers: if they can't work for US companies, they'll work for their local companies in the same markets. For example, Google is now practically the global search engine, but it's an American company making tons of money off foreign users. If only American developers were allowed to work at Google, it's possible many more country-specific search engines would pop up (many already exist, but they're not as popular).
Sure PHP had a lot of catch-up to do, but they're really on a fast pace these days.
This is now fixed. Thanks for the kick.
With only four years' experience I'd expect you to know little about any of the fields on this list. I'm surprised you found nothing of interest, unless you are only focused on web stuff.
Which did better for "communities and the under-privileged", Socialist North Korea or Capitalist South Korea?

What about comparing under-privileged from 1917 to 1988 in USA vs. Russia?

Do you have any counter-examples?
Your number 2 is silly and it makes it hard for me to take you seriously. If those are the jobs you think students should go towards, which exactly are the dead end jobs you speak of?
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Does that mean we can sue the company and the individuals involved, for tresspassing and vandalizing equipment to enable sigint for internal corporate data? Will they be subject to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act the same as everyone else? Can we catch and prosecute individuals participating in operations that involve crimes (vandalism/b&e/sabotage) by enabling sigint on corporations' servers and networking equipment? And if such individuals are armed during an occasional physical incursion into corporate infrastructure, can they be shot in self defense?

More fundamentally, let's follow the money.

Who is going to fund this corporation? If they take money from the USG, money which is then paid to corporations to persuade those corporations to give up personal data or allow network taps and collocated spying equipment, that is no different from the current situation.
I'm confused about debian stable vs testing vs unstable.

As the joke goes: unstable means testing, testing means stable and stable means old.
Mr. Obama was angry at the revelations, privately excoriating Mr. Snowden as a self-important narcissist who had not thought through the consequences of his actions.

I could not disagree more with that sentiment.
Sovereignty means total freedom of action except perhaps what you bargain away. And even then, in the absence of some higher jurisdiction to enforce them, agreements between sovereigns are only binding out of politeness and convenience.

In other words, to say that the U.S. can't say tap international fiber cables and record all French traffic, you must be able to point to a treaty where we agree not to do that. And even then, since nobody can enforce that treaty against us, we follow it only to the extent we find it convenient. Sovereign nations exist amongst themselves in a state of nature, and those are the rules of nature.
The recent NSA slides mention "metacontent" and "metadata." After some consideration I decided the use of "meta" is horse-shit. Evidence for this is how the "meta" has been touted as "not being the content." Well it doesn't really matter when both the (header)data and (body)content of things like SMS or email are both snooped.

Yet more wiggly phrases made to try to shift the goal posts that is privacy. Let's drop the meta.
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Do you think Obama is appealing to non subject matter experts because they're reasonable, or ignorant?
Somewhat related, one guy began a startup that simplifies, through his website, the process for family members to shop and send stuff to inmates. All the products are within the prison's accepted stuff guidelines, as it seems this is a major PITA for people outside to figure out. He even made a deal with a major record label to start making hip-hop albums on cassette again.
Here's the link:

http://www.sendapackage.com

PS. There's was a discussion about this on HN some time ago. Couldn't find it on search.
Yes, it could have done without the Dave Spart-esque video.
For the screencast I was using CentOS 6.4 which is not systemd enabled.
You think large for-profit corporate news organizations demonstrate "statist" views? Ha!

(NPR is one of the more accurate news organizations in the US for a reason, though.)
Have you used the government's website? It is full of bugs, non-indexable, and doesn't do it's job efficiently.
Just anecdotally, most of the folks my age who joined the military did so not out of a sense of duty, but strictly to better their chances, for the same reason they might go to college.

I don't have a lot of respect for that particular decision, and that is not a popular sentiment where I live. I believe that mercenaries, which is more or less what they are, are morally culpable. But I, too, made bad decisions when I was 20, and it's even cloudier when there are a lot of folks telling you that you're making a good decision and that the nay sayers are basically cowardly traitors.

That said, I don't know how useful it is to attack the problem from that direction; between the entrenched fantasies about how legitimate that violence is and the real social and economic circumstances that push people into those kinds of decisions.

There is plenty of blame to go around, if we are okay saying that this use of force is in fact immoral, but in my opinion it doesn't do a lot of good to blame anyone, beyond analysis... all we can really do is look at what we ourselves are doing and decide what we change directly or in concert with our fellow travelers.
We have a "something privilege" article here probably every day. Women in tech every other.

There was an actual "programmer privilege" submission. Twice.
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The thesis is that everyone is a 10x engineer at certain moments. But that if that same person is put in a more challenging situation, they no longer will be 10x. Also, that's the situation they should consistently be in. Otherwise, a consistently 10x engineer indicates coasting.

It's a workable hypothesis, but where is the data?
translation: I didn't know about RTK before I posted. Thanks for schooling me.
nevermind, i see, it's DEAL. I didn't carry the mixup calls all the way down. I guess the "mixup" function call should be a hint.
Recursively apply Joyeuse's point until you hit a generation that wasn't coerced into making bad choices. Joyeuse's main point was that we can't blame a younger generation and simultaneously vindicate the preceding generation. This does seem to hold true.
Only if you think Clojure is the natural progression of Java. This seems like a minority view though.
Debian "unstable" is the "bleeding edge" version. New packages go in there on a pretty frequent basis, and things change often. Sometimes there is breakage. I would strongly advise against running this unless you're capable of and willing to fix serious breakage every now and then. And dealing with package upgrade conflicts. Sometimes you can't just "update everything", because someone just uploaded X version 2.1, only package Y has a strict versioned dependency on X <= 2.0, so you need to decide what you want.

I used "unstable" on my desktop for a while, but once every 2-3 years I'd end up with a bug that would break the early boot process, and I'd have to muck around with rescue disks and chroots and reconfiguring grub and the like. So I'd advise against this, unless you want to actually get involved in the Debian project.

Now I run "testing" on my desktop. When packages have been in "unstable" for a certain period of time (typically 10 days, although this is changing) without having a Release Critical (RC) bug filed against them, and if the move won't break any other packages, then "unstable" packages migrate to "testing". It's fairly up-to-date, although sometimes a large group of packages that need to transition all at once will take a while to synchronise.[0] And there are explicit "transitions" for some widely-used base libraries when they undergo ABI changes.[1] But you generally don't need to worry about this, as it'll mostly happen behind the scenes.

Still, if you're going to run "testing", I would still recommend installing apt-listbugs, which will tell you if there are any new RC bugs in any packages you're about to install/update (e.g. that were discovered only after the package migrated to testing), and allow you to decline the update.

Then, every couple of years or so, Debian is "frozen" for a few months, and no new updates are allowed that don't fix RC bugs. Once all the RC bugs have been fixed, and these fixes have all migrated to "testing", that version of "testing" becomes the new "stable". ("unstable" and "testing" can get a bit out-of-date during this time, but generally not too badly). "stable" is then "stable" in that it doesn't change at all, except for security updates, until the next "stable" is released a couple of years later. (There is also "backports" which packages newer releases of some software to go on top of stable, but you can't really rely on anything in particular getting a backport version.) This is handy for large deployments where you need to support users who will freak if their menus move around, or servers, or if you want to create your own distro and need an unchanging base platform to work from.

If you're moderately technical, and want fairly up-to-date shiny, I'd recommend Debian "testing". If you're interested in Free Software in and of itself, I'd definitely recommend it.[2]

[0] https://release.debian.org/migration/
[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/
[2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract
First I would say that nest certainly has a good user base. Keep in mind 3.2 Billion is just what google was willing to pay for the company this is in no way a metric for the success of the product. Liberal estimates give the company a potential revenue of 111 million a year based the amount of units they claim to produce, but this is a maximum sales number. Also the argument that most users don't care about this issue has been clearly shown to be incorrect. http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-sync-hits-1-million-users...
Spark is still like nest a company, and THEIR argument is that their product is great because of the control it gives you over making your own solution. I am not saying that nest isn't a valid product for the market I am simply saying that sparks thesis isn't really valid because they claim to put the user fully in control when really they are still the gatekeepers.
> I wouldn't say that Russian speaking Ukrainians are "firmly" pro-Russian, I'd say its far from the truth.

Maybe not the best wording. While there is no doubt dissatisfaction with political and daily realities, most Ukrainians, certainly all the ones I know, still feel closer culturally to Russia than to the West.

Russian-ness and Ukrainian-ness aren't dictated by politics which are continually changing...

> Most people just want to have better lives. But their lives got worse with every year.

This is an issue in every country. Right now in half of the EU peoples' lives are getting worse (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, etc...).

There are certainly world-wide economic variables at play, but there's also the issue that some pro-West agents try to hold the country hostage every few years... Russia bailed out Ukraine, and pretty much continually props up its economy. Look what the EU did to Greece and Cyprus...
Congrats on launching. Interested in the parts pricing / sourcing component.. I own Partsline.com and am interested in collaborating. What's the best way to connect?
If a '10x' engineer is going ten times slower than a normal and is therefore not a '10x' engineer anymore, wouldn't a '1x' engineer on the same difficult problem also go ten times slower and be a '0.1x' engineer?
All the jobs I listed, apart from nursing, are well paid.

Nursing is more for people who like to help/save other people, and it's a noble profession in my mind.
My ultra-naive hope is that if more people ignored political labels, then we could naturally move away from toxic partisan politics.
Try http://www.reddit.com/r/marxism
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I'm 28 and I've been working nearly three years in my first job (that I got after finishing college). Mainly coding in C++ (cross platform). I'm living in Ireland and feeling the urge to move elsewhere... Where would people recommend? I'm looking for a change, but some place with a good software vibe :)
The analogy is one of how principle matters. There are plenty historical examples of minority groups defending and supporting themselves, rightly so, some would say, and eventually gaining power and subjugating others. The one thing that rarely changes in those organizations is the principles behind them. Those with little power in the beginning can only defend themselves, with great power they can do that by subjugation of others.

So I will reiterate, it is the principle of exclusion that puts it on the same spectrum. No they haven't and I will assume most likely will not cause a genocide. However, principle...matters. It is unwise to perpetuate the same beliefs and systems of an oppressor and expect a different outcome! 'Only certain people of a certain group because of race and gender can be here'.

Since you insinuated I could know nothing of the subject because of my background, and then upon revelation suggest I should know better because of it, I'd suggest to you that instead of making assumptions about me and my background what I should be like, and chaffing at the fact that I don't fit the mold of someone you'd expect with this background, maybe heed what I have to say as it is from a unique position that is not common.
I'll wager Apple will shut this down or reject apps that do this.

If you're going to do this you have to consider the ramifications of how stale the information on the card becomes over time. The example, showing a "Checked in since..." will become stale if someone checks in/out on another device.

A real iOS 7 API to update these cards in the background would be a nice addition.
Some people are just better at exploring problem spaces, avoiding dead ends and making insightful connections that lead to solutions. It doesn't always come with experience, some people could work forever and never solve even a moderately difficult problem. These people build websites. The 10x engineer has a mindset and an approach that yields results more consistently than his/her peers.
If it isn't a monad, but provides one, then this seems to be the perfect example to explain on, since decorators are understood and monads are something smaller than decorators and as such should be able to be explained by reducing the explanation of decorators.

Also do keep in mind that i didn't say decorators were a monad in any language, just in python, because they cause a curious side effect that is otherwise only attainable with much self-repeating and hard-to-read syntax.
Could the rock have been blown there by the wind?
very ugly, but very cool (I do like the wood finish though)
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I think any web forum that grows significantly (not just tech) will tend toward politics, because to talk politics, all you need is an opinion, and everyone's got one of those.

To talk about technical topics, you need some experience and expertise, and those are a lot harder to come by. So the percentage of those folks declines as the overall audience grows.
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NPR is a joke. You're totally naive.
I have to admit, I was dragged kicking and screaming into the new init world, and really didn't want to leave SysV init. I haven't used systemd, but I have been using upstart and it's grown on me.

After reading this post, I did look at: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart

Which does spell out some reasonable pros and cons of both systems. I'd say the biggest problem with upstart (and possibly the deal breaker) is the licensing terms. Yes, it's open source, but no, I really don't want to have to fill out Canonical's contributer license agreement if I want to contribute. I'm not really sure why Canonical doesn't just GPL like everyone else and leave it at that.

There are some tools out there for upstart, but one thing which would be really nice would be a built in command for visualizing the init graph in ascii. It doesn't have to be fancy, just enough to know where your init script is going to be called in the boot process.