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Before everyone rushes to the flag button because the author is biased (he is), consider that this article discusses a historical context I've seen missing from a lot of the NSA analysis. I find this article, even in its breathless hyperbole, more informative than the latest "what the NSA is capable of" version. It shows a historical continuity with the actions intelligence agencies pursue, and what happened when people tried to stop them (right or wrong). No, this article is not the rational enquiry I wish it were. But as someone who is conflicted about NSA activities, I found it shaped my perspective more than most submissions I've read.

Yes, everyone mentions that telegraphs entering and exiting the country were tapped, but I was unaware that in the 70s they were already mining for keywords, not calling it eavesdropping, and refusing to show up for Congressional inquiries.

When I saw Clapper's now infamous testimony, I assumed it was a new, emboldened post-9/11 intelligence community that surpassed the Cold War era. I'm not sure that's the case now.

There's also an argument to be made by those in favor of NSA activities: we've managed to have an NSA with extraordinary power that defies Congress for a long time, but we still haven't seen too many secret police.

Ultimately, it focuses the debate to some degree not on NSA goals (which have historically been to collect as much relevant information as possible, and resist Congressional oversight with vigor), but on how much easier it now is to collect that information.
The military also sells plenty of surplus equipment to police departments, often at significant discounts (i.e. cost to the taxpayer).
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Isn't that just as likely to mean that the cycle will produce more of the same? Why do the Baby Boomers have a monopoly on self-serving, harmful policy? "The old generation got it wrong. We'll get it right" is a very common refrain. Pretty much every generation has said it. And with each cycle, you get the same sorts of people in political power.

The sorts of qualities that attract someone to a life in politics, if not the very qualities that make someone successful in politics, tend to be the same qualities that lead to corruption, pandering, opportunism, and all the other vices. It's not a generational thing; it's a human-nature thing. Before long, the next generation will be looking at us and hoping things get better when we finally get off the stage.

I don't mean to be cynical. I'm just attempting to be realistic. I'm hopeful we can do better -- and if I didn't believe that, I'd be pretty damned depressed -- but I'm not basing that hope on the idea that we'll break a mold as old as politics itself.
That's really interesting. I can't say that I, personally, find it easier to read than the rather plain polish notation of the first example. I find I have to work really hard to connect the _s together and I find this process unpleasant. Maybe it's just an artefact of not finding bare lisp in general all that appealing.

Re your example with <, the 'natural' object oriented way to do this to me would be to treat the list itself as the subject. [a,b,c,d].isOrdered() say. To the fact that doing it this way in java would be incredibly ugly, I'll only say that I'm not even remotely a fan of java or, for that matter, C++/Java/C#-style static-typed object-orientation.
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i hadn't at the time i posted that comment, and then i got distracted and didn't correct myself :(
Here's another anecdote (also sourced from Urs Hölzle) about how Google transferred 9TB of data to their new east coast datacentre via fibre, for free.

http://www.dodgycoder.net/2013/02/googles-fiber-leeching-cap...
"IRV which are bad"

Did you mean first past the post (FPTP) aka winner takes all?

In election reform circles, IRV refers to instant runoff voting.
Right, but this crop of crappy old people will have learned that the wars on terror/drugs were mistakes bred of fear and ignorance. They'll sweep them off the board and clear space to make new and interesting mistakes out of fear and ignorance.
Value can change. Myspace was $500Million company when FB was a ~$500K company. Today, Myspace ~$5Million, FB $150Billion.

More relevant is that Myspace had an image problem, whereas Facebook got mass appeal.

A currency that is social will win the internet.
already up at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7180972
I know that police here in Australia will lie about where a tip came from, including to a Judge -- solely because one of my best friends is a cop and we've discussed it before. The thing is, that could be an isolated incident, I've no idea whether that happens a lot. That said, yesterday there was the article on HN about the Kings County police officer who indeed tried to lie about what had actually transpired, only he was caught out and fired(! Holy crap how good is that). I think none of us have enough info to really know what goes on, so I personally withhold my judgement about it in general, unless in a specific case I have seen credible info to lead me to believe otherwise. Hard topic, tbh.
$140 million on search? I haven't a clue if that is high or low. Seems low if the company's total expenses were $20 billion.
I was unable to get into the US Mint while carrying a Leatherman. That was pretty shitty.
Reread the article. His "all-in" is referring to N3PLs move of bringing in their supercaps/titans.

> A big reason N3 has been able to throw its weight around recently is its enormous fleet of titans and super capital ships. When faced with its B-R5RB problem, N3 decided to bring out the Wrecking Ball, the pet name of its extremely powerful fleet. Manny and N3 were hoping CFC would blink.

then

> "It's like shoving all-in in poker," said Gianturco. "You're shoving all your chips into the middle of the table and hoping the other guy doesn't have better cards than you. Most of the time, the other guy will fold. Except in this case, we came across over the top and took all their shit away."
Just as a general rule: positing that one individual entity is acting in its own, legal, self-interest is not a "conspiracy theory". It may or may not be correct, but it's not a wacky, crazy, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.
I don't know whether he was first, but I first heard of this through David Icke in the mid-90s.
As one of hundreds of thousands of combat vets with PTSD...

Let's just say I would die in a raid like that and it scares the shit out of me.

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Tales of the 'One In Ten' is a new animated web series based on the real stories of Australian children from disadvantaged backgrounds who struggle daily with the effects of financial hardship.
It's actually highly unlikely the game will not come out.
It's kind of like ebay feedback. Not perfect - community driven. I think the geolocation can prevent fraud, but it can be gotten around. It is just an informational tool.

I've paused in fear many times before hitting Send on a Bitcoin transfer. I would use this for slightly more ease-of-mind.
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The headline itself lays out why he was relegated to obscurity: The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares.

The echo chamber that is HN and Reddit /r/politics does not make the USA as a whole. No matter how egregious the things you think Snowden reveals over the next year: the majority of the USA doesn't give a damn.
I wish your comment had something informative to share in support of what you are asserting. Instead it comes across as something in line with the spirit of clickbait; devoid of substance with generous dose of bullying.

Edit: I'm not sure if you're suggesting that I'm rude by holding a standard that dislikes these type of comments on HN that come across as empty hating.

Or if the author of the piece is being rude for some reason, which I am not seeing myself.

If there is a valid reason behind your comment, then why leave that out or not respond with additional insight?
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You know, if you feel the need to link to a post that is highly specific to a narrow field of technology, which uses a lot of unexplained terms, it would be polite to actually leave a comment to explain what the post is about.
I switched to ServiceStack from WebApi just so I didn't have to develop on windows.
So this is why coinbase takes so damn long to fulfill buy btc orders.
They weren't profitable at all for several years (until AdWords) were they?
I suppose it is generally rude to point out rudeness, but there you go.
It's heartening to see this confidence. That makes me happy. :)
OK, following the comment below, the post is about the difficulties of sourcing a SoC (system-on-chip such as the ARM processors you find in most mobile devices out there) for a relatively small hardware project led by a small company. While we all get the impression that SoCs are so common that you can buy them from anywhere, the actual supply of these parts is an issue if you are not sourcing tons of them at the same time. And another intricacy is that the continuous supply of the very same chip is not a sure thing: suppliers move on to the next design year after year and it's another issue to resupply it over and over again over time.
As a matter of fact, no I would not take a higher salary if it was offered. I truly believe in building businesses. If I was in the position of CEO, until I achieved my goals of making the business more efficient and profitable, making the workplace more enjoyable for staff, and generally leaving the business and the world better than when I started, I would not move on to a different role.
It's all out of scale. You probably know our prison population is 10X to 50X larger per-capita than most industrialized nations. But upstream of that are the police, federal agents, and prosecutors. It takes a huge supply chain to fill that many prisons.

There are 100 Assistant US Attorneys in Massachusetts, a relatively sane place where the mayor of Boston came out against putting military carbines in every police car. No wonder they had the time and resources to drive Aaron Swartz to suicide. Upstream of them there are hundreds of thousands of armed agents of various federal agencies. That's equivalent to 10 division of soldiers. That's insane. In most municipalities, police are the #2 expense after schools. Not recreation. Not road crews. Not anything else.
it's nothing more than security theater

it gives people the illusion that they're safe even though the actual incident which prompted the creation of the TSA and DHS has been ridiculously under-investigated and official conclusions' are full of holes.
I think I know the answer to this question, but I'll ask anyway - Have you seriously tried to use the Embarcadero products for a "shippable" ios/android app?

I'm guessing no.

The entire experience is a sorry joke. I'm a big fan of Delphi as far as a tool to produce good/fast/native apps goes. They really dropped the ball with the ios/android tools. They ripped off GPL code, causing multiple patches to "fix" mis-appropriated open source code, it's fairly obvious there is no money, and the only customers they have are the existing ones who have a bunch of greybeards with a lot of Delphi experience and nothing else who are desperate to pump out _something_ for the mobile market, but are unprepared to learn _anything_ new.

Sorry, I'm just bitter that they took a decent product (Delphi 7), and took a shit on it, and then continued to grind it into oblivion.
Most people have no idea what their protections under the law are, nor why those protections exist. This is stuff that should be covered in school.

ETA: I don't mean "if you were listening, you would have learned" but "they should add this to the curriculum".
this is not a good industry to move into
Thanks! Those are very clear and thorough explanations.
I love how luxurious the rooms look in the promo pics.

Having been on several cruise ships, someone who could opt for a room that size could've easily purchased a room with a window.
Get an account in one of the supported countries?
Lying under oath, a.k.a. perjury, is always unlawful. I'm speaking of when not under oath and knowingly fabricating stories or making stuff up like the reply below alludes to.

The police can lie to you but if you lie to the police you can be charged with obstruction of justice (which I believe you should be if you knowingly do it). The police and government officers and officials should be charged with obscuring the truth if and when they knowing spread falsehoods and lies. Because of the imbalance of power and consequences, it's rarely, if ever, a good idea to talk to the police (and this is a shame).
Woh-hold on now, I have a Pandora (though it got delivered too late for me to really use it)
Getting parts has always been a rough time!

Parallela board, the Pandora, the iControlPad2 from kick starter failed because of parts not being sourced on time.
It's not that bad when combined with other methods of positioning, but remember, back then there was nothing else available, meaning you had to use tables for everything. Of course, the biggest problem was the lack of classes, meaning you had to redefine every style on every element.
The big exceptions being SIMD and VLIW, two similar forms of explicit parallelism. They more or less require programming language support to use fully, and most older languages are purely scalar though some can be used in a manner that is fairly amenable to automatic vectorization.
At first, I thought: "oh that's cool!" Then, I started to get a sick feeling in my stomach and realized the future will be mostly virtual. Some broad questions this made me think of; not necessarily related to this article in particular: What are the consequences of lying/tricking ourselves? Why (attempt to) mimic nature? Will we live in a 'fake' world in the future?

Not novel questions, of course, but this article explains a recent manifestation and progression towards that dystopia.
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On this tangent, where do I go to learn how to write C with nostdlib? I've tried this on both MSVC++ and gcc and it's really painful.
If the 'tip' is "it sounds like my neighbor is gonna kill his girlfriend or something", and police enter and see contraband, is that admissible?

Are "drug dogs" keyed to a specific substance? Is the cause given by a drug dog alert enough to conduct a general search and everything found admitted as evidence?
why didn't they do this before? I guess they figure they can't get a trademark on a word like "Paper" and now they're just filing it to grab some headlines?
No, for the same reason it still doesn't make sense to go with AWS. Basically you need a large number of cores that are intimately integrated amongst a large quantity of storage. It was the fact that all the machines could have a bunch of drives on them for "free" (low marginal cost). By interspersing the data and the compute you get maximum bandwidth to local assets.
Cheers, thanks for the explanation. :)
"wacky, crazy, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory" != "conspiracy theory" ;)
The onus for fixing the "us vs. them" situation is on the police. It's part of their job. I've seen police successfully practicing those soft skills with civilians many times.
I wonder what the ratio is. I doubt amt military sells is more than what the corporations sell. It's simply because sales people in the corporations work harder than a man in uniform...
Admittedly is down (matching game for downtime)
I agree with you. The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of modularity and ng, is directives.
Is the Bitcointalk poster lying, then? One of these two stories can't be true, and the poster has no reason to lie... (Not that people on the internet need one.)
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Tried sometime back. Didn't work for technology product. None of the clicks converted. Perhaps, it works for other industries?
That, and I'm nearly certain HN has algorithms that will pick up on a group of people consistently flagging things together. PG hinted at it a while back.
How about take the money you'd have spent on the cruise, and install an 80" TV in your room and a nice high def video of the ocean. For bonus points, buy a water bed.
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I predict these barges will end up being scrapped as a misbegotten folly. There are these venues called "exhibition halls." They work well enough.
That muppet, liar and MBA.
> no namespacing

You don't really need to for angular development. Namespacing Javascript is a cargo cult practice brought over from more traditional OO languages.

> no encapsulation

There is if you want it to be. You're especially encouraged to separate the concerns of the DOM in directive services, for example.

> no build/file management

That's kind of up to you, isn't it? You can run with grunt/require if you want a headache, grunt or gulp / uglify if you want easy, you can run with gulp/browserify if you want the new cool ...
Fair! I'm 23, no children, no wife, no particular responsibilities. I suppose that means I can "afford" to take that pay cut and throw myself into something like Apple. The only thing that gives me pause is the reports from those that I know who have worked there is that it's very very demanding, but also very very fulfilling.
This doesn't make sense -- from Feb 11th 2014 ebay will be allowing Virtual Currency to be sold in its own category.

This is eBay policy, so papal will have to fall in line.
Hi ixmatus,

Can you give a more specific example? Are you saying that instead of in Java/C++ where you have:

GenericSecurity > GenericOption > EuropeanOption, BarrierOption, AmericanOption

You can have more mutable types/classes at run-time and more injections instead of the concrete ones defined at compiled time?

Also, can you give any concurrency examples in terms of concurrency features? Is it similar to Actor model in Scala? Or based more on concurrent data structures as in java.util.concurrent.*?
Well, I've never been on one, but I think the idea of a cruise with a room like that is that you don't spend all of your time in the room. The main attraction is really the rest of the ship.
The same has happened to me and I really want a video lol any suggestions on how to get a video again??
Bullshit. One, it's a major generalization based on, well, nothing, and two, it's not that simple. You can stand on your moral high ground all you like, but what you are suggesting is that all of the cops who do their job properly leave because they don't have the power to stop those who don't. Well, what's the result of that? More bad cops. Only bad cops.

You overly simplistic view doesn't work in practice.
In real life you wouldn't use sync methods, they would destroy your server's performance by blocking the event loop.
Absolutely. Finding that sweet spot in pricing is essential.

One issue I find is when people don't differentiate _enough_. For example--I may have a blackboard killer CMS, but if I don't have any kind of differentiation from blackboard, I'm only competing on price. And, if I introduce new features but never show HOW these help the consumer, they won't value it.
i sure hope so.
In some areas, there is a distinction between local PD and the Sheriff's office. The former are general first responders to emergencies(using force if necessary) while the latter generally perform bureaucratic duties(summons, evictions, etc).
Now you have the HN editing/grammar-nazi army!
Military buys from vendors and donates to police, is what parent was saying.
Like this: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/07/thir...
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More specifically, we are chasing the following (in any combination):

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2) Web Backend - Django / Python, Rails / Ruby, other MVC frameworks, Heroku, Postgres

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We really are keen to see examples of your work - throw at least one project up online. Gramercy absolutely hearts open source so if you do that, then you're a bloody legend

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Neither the bitcointalk poster nor Paypal's CEO were lying, although the poster's conclusion is now proven to be incorrect.

The OP was selling casascius coins, which contain bitcoin private keys (digital currency) and are therefore against the terms of service. The CS rep the OP talked to incorrectly communicated that ALL bitcoin related items were banned. Later Paypal and their CEO issued a statement clarifying that only digital currencies themselves were banned.
Will we be able to create a new video again? I deleted pics out of my album because I forgot they were even there and then the video disappeared and all I get is the thank you one...GREAT JOB though, what a wonderful idea. I have enjoyed so many people's videos
The 32-bit OS/2 2.x and "NT OS/2" was a different story however, and while this decision was made before MS turned this project into a fiasco, this reminds me of how abandoning segmentation altogether and going for a flat address space for OS/2 2.0 and "NT OS/2" was a mistake for security reasons, and I realized that the Morris worm spread around Sept 1988, when both was in development (MS sent the first OS/2 2.0 SDKs to developers at the end of 1989).
Darpa publishes all its open source code in one place
Drought tolerant maize to hugely benefit Africa.
Third parties don't win, but they do affect outcomes. If Perot hadn't gotten back in in 1992, Bush would probably have been re-elected. No Clinton presidency, no impeachment, no Hillary. Would be quite a different political landscape by now.
Don't promises address this exception problem because the top level code is calling the then () function, which can then throw an exception to the appropriate caller?
It's pretty.

(Own a black one)

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Yes I can watch files, but if someone doesn't save to disk very often then their time won't be logged accurately since WakaTime depends on pinging the api every 2 minutes when actively editing a file.

You can subscribe to updates here: http://eepurl.com/E5olT Although I haven't sent any emails out yet.

I'm working on adding XCode, IntelliJ, and Eclipse plugins in that order. I'll start sending a newsletter/blog post every time a new editor is supported.
I saw the video. Liked it but one photo which i deleted, when i returned to check the video it was goneeee!!!
Can i get it back?
Anyone please?
I wonder if it would work. Rather than 2 year discount upfront, do it on the back.
Then get the ESR version? That's what you're looking for if those are your requirements.
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The situation for hobbyists getting SoCs is terrible - I've got a MiiPC at home that won't be getting much use because Marvell won't release any documentation on it without an NDA
I had the exact same reaction. Sad to think that a "getaway" could be spent in front of a screen depicting what you came to see.