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I think the only irritation I get is gimp startup time on windows.

Need a replacement for Adobe Lightroom and I'm sorted then :)
Which invites the further question: Short of hindsight or experience, is it possible to tell good ideas from bad?
Edit: yes, I made it to the last paragraph and realised that you actually allow people to change account details from a client computer. I shall read every word in future.
And the media has been reporting on that, because that's what matters. It's out of Snowden's hands now, which is why front-page news stories tend to focus less on him and more on actual policy details, and the politics of a reform bill.

The media won't report on a Snowden interview, because as bad a state as U.S journalism is in, they haven't yet stooped so low to confuse celebrity-stalking with actual journalism, and they know to keep them separate.
>"161719" is absolutely right, it probably won't be Obama, or the next President, or the President after that abuses the surveillance architecture that has been put in place.

Wait, who said it's not abused as we speak?

In fact, illegal surveillance was going on (and abused) at least since the J.E Hoover days.
Having received several patents myself, I can assure you this is not the case. "Dilligent prior art search" in an area they are not experts in requires days. Last I checked (in 2011, I think), the average time spent by an examiner on a patent, from submission to grant (or refusal with no redress) is 8 hours. Regardless of how good they are at finding prior art, that's not enough time to be "diligent".

I'm basing my statements on the real life experience of my self, colleagues and patent attorney. What are you basing your statement on?
Off topic: A professor just earns $1,581 per month?
We use Bitbucket as primary host for open source projects to avoid fragmenting access control. Proposal repositories need to be private and most coauthors prefer journal article repositories to be private. GitHub's pricing model would encourage us to consolidate these private repos, but each has a small number of different external collaborators, so that would yield undesirable granularity. Meanwhile, all of our software products are open source, with a much larger group of contributors than the union of the proposals/papers. We mirror the flagship project on GitHub, but all of our development is on Bitbucket.
With regards to the video not appearing on youtube and many other places.
The recording TV station that holds the rights to the interview (ARD /NRD) purposefully blocked international visitors from seeing the video through geo blocking, as they only hold distribution rights in Germany. I assume they would also force youtube to remove the video if it is uploaded to protect their copyright.

The details as to why and how are explained in the second half of this article (unfortunately in German):
http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/edward-snowden-un...

In short it is a copyright fck-up on behalf of the German TV channel that made a mistake when transferring the copyright from its subsidiary to itself. The international distribution right is now stuck somewhere in Nirvana in between the companies, which is why they aren't able to give/sell the video to other international TV stations like CNN, for them to show it.

At least this is my legal understanding of the situation. You can use a proxy like zenmate and see the video here:
http://m.ardmediathek.de/Edward-Snowden-interview-in-english...
>> A hacker had gotten into Cool's WMU account and changed the routing number for his payments, he said, sending $1,518.62 to a bank in Utah..... There was $11.08 left in the Utah account, which is all Cool has gotten back of his paycheck.

Just curious. A professor is paid only $1,529.70 ? Hope it is weekly.
Depends on professor status. Adjunct professors, maybe. If it's not really full-time and they aren't researching anything, then why should they get paid a ton?
Would you mind clarifying what you mean by "second entry"?
I doubt the voters in the constituency's in the areas hosting the bases will be very happy at losing a very well paid jobs

And I am sure that some of the depressed areas of southern England woudl welcome these jobs with open arms - theres already suspicion that English dock workers where made redundant to protect Scottish jobs.
I've lost a payment in a similar fashion before. The accounts team took the written paperwork and misinterpreted a 6 for a 0 (I didn't write the form) and it just happened to be a valid destination account number. It took me 2 weeks to get the payment back.

Doesn't always come down to technology.

In fact, when it comes to technology it's usually pretty good. Humans on the other hand always err on the side of incompetence as there's usually someone else to blame...

If you do not believe this about humans, work in or for the public sector in the UK for a bit!
Isn't the Win8 start screen similar to Launchpad on MacOS? Spotlight is command+space, Win8 search is Win+F. And Unity on Ubuntu does the same thing: a giant screen where you search for the apps you want. Why all this special hate for Metro?
You see, 3 years is a long time to grow and a startup where the co founders are developers, I hope we can get enough revenue at least to pay the server bills!
> Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job.

My full time job is what brings enough money into the household to allow for us both to be home. She does work from home (she has a dozen or so piano and voice students in the evening when I'm available to watch our daughter), but it would be pretty tough for her to actually use her degree and teach full-time in a K-12 classroom.
Best Lua Game Engine for iOS/Android?
Is anyone willing to share personal experiences with the following products?

- Corona http://coronalabs.com/

- Gideros http://www.giderosmobile.com/

- Moai http://getmoai.com/

- Other

The only comparison I could find is http://goo.gl/XhGnKk back from 2012.
Do you consider foreign applications? Asked this a few months back too.
I'm surprised that somebody cares enough to post this kind of article on HN. By the way I feel really sad about BitBucket being so much less popular than Github, while having important advantages (hg + closed repos) over it. I mean I'd rather use mercurial, but I'm using git because repo on github is still so much better for PR purposes. But c'est la vie, so whatever.
>Your typical package manager will build a recursive and reverse dependency database, resolve version conflicts, detect cycles, and suggest alternative dependencies and recommended or optional packages.

All that is done outside the OS by third party code. Also, you have to stay within that particular package manager to get those benefits. With different distros you have to stay within whatever package manager they ship with. There is no common "linux" code that allows this to happen (Indeed you can implement a package manager on any OS). If you go around installing rpms manually or installing/building via source, it is fairly trivial to bork your package managers state. For e.g. - If you manually build/install a dependency that one particular package in the repo says should be of a different version..
Yeah, read it. Brief mentions, parts taken out of the context?

That's supposed to NOT be a blackout?

This is one of the most discussed persons in America, a "national hero" to some, a "threat" to others, and they don't care to show the full interview itself?

They sure know how to milk other topics 24/7, with repeat showing, panels discussing them, etc...
Heh, I'm hoping that by the time she has the strength and dexterity to open the gate at the bottom of the stairs that she'll also have the cognitive ability to understand "Daddy's working".
>The fact of the matter is that Linux is NOT a usability nightmare and it's dishonest to say that.

This is not a fact at all. It's a matter of opinion. The author of TFA is equally wrong in asserting that it is in the way that he did, but dishonest? No more than the dishonesty of claiming that it factually isn't.
If its the government, there is no *BSD experience anywhere. I doubt they'd recommend it. Everything is purchased based on the ability to fill the purchaser's pocket on the side. Yes I have witnessed this - I did contract work for NHS and one of the PCTs had taken on a vendor for a cash back promise.
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He's an assistant professor. The article also says he is 66, so there is a fair chance it is a part time job.
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The reddit comment pavanky links to (by Natedogg213) does a pretty good job pointing out the fact that this story simply isn't true, and is really just another case of lazy "mainstream media sux" claims. I'd like to add something from the other end:

Yes, it's true that this snowden interview wasn't well-reported on. It certainly wasn't blacked out, or suppressed, or whatever, but editors must not have considered it front-page material. That's because it /isn't/.

On days when HN collectively has its wits about it, we're lamenting the fact that too much journalism has focused on Snowden himself, and not enough on the important stories: what was revealed, how the NSA responded, how representatives (collectively and individually), and what the likely political future is for a reform bill. These are stories that give voters important and interesting information, and they tend to be very well covered. This interview doesn't reveal interesting new information in these areas.
Gym teacher?

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cool/
Crazy idea, not sure if its actually a good one...
I can't help but to agree.
I was gonna guess that you also must know about syscalls, but judging by your username maybe you're more into message passing. ;)
Copy the URL then switch to the Pocket app and it will offer to save it.
Not that I agree with Swann's assertion here, but it should be evaluated on its own, independent of Swann's history of being a fucking jackass. Having demonstrably idiotic opinions on one matter doesn't necessarily make a person wrong on another.
By this logic, git (which calculates sha1sums of various things) is a "cryptographic botnet" to calculate lots of hashes as well. Stupid article. Flagged.
Gym teacher:

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cool/
After buying mobile games for 3 years, at Christmas I bought a 3DS. The quality in games is comparable. While I would like to be wrong, at the moment I plan on never buying another ios or Android game.
Any reason why it's not in YouTube? Copyright takedowns don't usually work that fast, if ever.

Also any reason why it wasn't bought and uploaded to other major american media outlets?

If it was an "acceptable" political story, it would be all over, not merely on archive.org.
I don't see where it says NSA weakened the GSM standard in Europe?
>Configuring a Windows machine with the software you need used to mean going to 10 different websites

Why didn't you have those installers on cd or usb?
I have been granted patents that most people on HN (myself included), would reject based on obviousness or lack of novelty, to anyone skilled in the art. There was one back-and-forth before grant.

I did not write the patent myself - I described it to our patent-writing-guru-for-hire, and he wrote it in patentese (which is compatible with, but slightly more readable than plain legalese). He also echos yours (and everydayman's) sentiment that those guys are tough. But he also has a 95% success rate, with rarely more than two back-and-forth iterations.
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One thing I think they need to cover is how he got hold of all these documents as a 3rd party contractor. Was it just available on a shared file server or did he had to hack into some kind of data store ?

I suspect that most government agencies where already aware of the capabilities of the NSA, either because they where cooperating or because it's so easy to get access. If Snowden could do it, how many others did it for private interests ?
He's a gym teacher teacher.
I worked in the media for umpteen years in the past. Anyone who thinks the US press colluded with the government to black out anything is flat out crazy.
Ask HN: Which are the best London job boards?
Hey guys, I was wondering what job boards are you guys using in UK. Just moved in here and I have a hard time finding a high quality one. Plus it's a pain in the ass with these recruitment agencies. Not to mention the CIO, CDO, CMO, CINO and other management positions which are really rare around here or have different requirements in contrast to my experience. I also am on the startup/IT side so it's difficult to find a job like this. I would be really grateful if you can help me with any useful information I can use. Thanks.

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US only? Doesn't recognize my european phone number.
democracy now is a great channel. they covered it briefly. they had Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange many times in the past.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/28/headlines#1288
I have a windows 8 tablet / laptop hybrid as my hobby coding machine (asus t100), and i have to say that the bad rep windows 8 got does not match my experience. I've found the touch ui easy to use, and i even configured it to launch my ide in full screen mode, so i can go back and forwards between that and my browser without seeing a desktop in between. I've also noticed that i'm touching the screen quite often even while coding, and that's with an ide completely not optimized for touch (webstorm). The whole thing has convinced me that touch is an added value for any use case, even for programming.
PBS's airing of Downton Abbey has been capitalizing on ratings during the Super Bowl for the last couple years.
I feel that this sort of criticism is less about the actual plausibility of ideas, and more about the intense competition for resources amongst startups right now. People are more positive about new ideas when there aren't five hundred copycats competing for the same limited pool of attention, office space and employees with tiny variations on the same basic themes.

When there's one "stupid idea" making a run at the barricades, it's easy to be supportive. But when every idea immediately clones three other "fast follower" ideas, people get cynical pretty quickly.
Yes, but what you are brute-forcing is set: block and random number to get hash that start with defined number of zeroes. That's it. No other use. No brute-force of communication. It does not even help to brute-force passwords.
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The elevator/order-of-magnitude thing is an urban legend.

You'll only find it mentioned in fringe non-scientific sites.

Case in point, your source, microwavenews. This is for the kind of people who believe in chemtrails and such.

I mean, even if you don't know about the site, isn't it obvious from the BS way of writing that you're reading something designed to sell stuff to kooks? "According to some new calculations", "if you believe the research by", obscure "EMF" conferences in China (with dead webpages) and what have you.
That is actually a very good idea, it is something I have pondered myself so maybe that is why I think it is a good idea :)

Of course there are massive challenges associated with international commerce, which means probably only the big dogs (Amazon et al) can tackle this one.

If you just consider exotic foods, the safety issues alone is enough to scare the hell out of any regulator.

One way that this could work would be to perhaps build an Etsy-like network of individual expat/immigrant entrepreneurs who will basically setup shop via your site and be responsible for moving the products.

For instance I have friends who are immigrants and ship products from their home countries and sell them here in the states. So you could set up a service for these people to sell their goods to Americans.
More generally, I think those criteria are proxies for actual performance. For example, you can infer information about someone's performance from their age, absent of any other information, but when you do have the extra information and still rely on proxies, it's bias.
feedback is feedback. when i hear one of my ideas is stupid/unfeasible/unrealistic/ill-conceived, i now probe for more detail. i try to get beyond semantics to see if i can learn anything.

probing helps me move from reactive to proactive stance, from attached to objective. this way, i can better filter the noise.

note: some of the biggest mistakes i made in my past startup were listening to too many people or not listening closely enough to a few. that is the paradox of good judgment (which i believe comes from some combination of gut instinct and pattern-watching; listening is just another form of data collection for the latter).
Hennessy's book also mentions the possible involvement of the RAC or AA (can't remember which, but presumably the RAC) as part of the comms network for controlling the UK's nuclear capability.

Off the top of my head, I think the idea was that, if the PM was out and about, he would make use of an RAC phone box (just like the police had TARDIS-like phone boxes, so did the breakdown rescue organisations) to issue instructions. A typically British, cobbled-together solution to some otherwise complex requirement.
Look, no offence, but by the look of the links you gave, you have no leg to stand on and you seem to conflate package management and resolution with software distribution platforms(which has more to do with marketing than technology).

All the links you provided have one of the following traits:
1) User decided to build from source - That's outside the package management and FYI "make && make install" on
Linux is exactly the same on Mac.

2) User decided to include Testing repositories on Debian which, since you don't know, it's like having
a different Debian distro.

3) User decided to install broken proprietary software(in that case Oracle) that for arbitrary reasons
forced the user to install x86 packages while the user's system is 64-bit.

In any case, you don't install Debian if you want bleeding edge packages - wrong tool for the job. Choose
Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSUSE.

If you work in the CS industry and you say that no one wants something like Linux package management, well
you simply... don't work in the industry.

AppStore, Steam and whatnot have absolutely nothing to do with package management and dep resolution.
Also try something, make a script or program that installs and deploys automatically a development environment
with either of the aforementioned technologies. Oh you can't? Yeah that's because you conflate
technology issues with marketing issues.
Has he argued with any Comp Sci students?

(edited to avoid implying fault on his part)
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I don't see how they plan on keeping any sort of stable price with this inflation.
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"Stupid idea" is indeed not constructive. "Will never work because [XYZ]" is constructive IMHO, although not very polite.

Being Israeli I prefer brutal truths over polite bullshit. And personally I try to be honest with people showing me their ideas - while being positive and polite. But knowing the scene, not all Israelis are like that.
5 years ago, tech giants hardly ever made these types of commercials. They must be working really well.
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Media reporting, on "backwater channels" (ie. Not in the 24/7 news cycle like Beiber's latest hooker or Cyrus' latest thing twerked upon) as far as the majority of the public is concerned, is now moving the goalposts?

"Yes probable citizen of an affected country, you may or may not have a right to support Snowden views on the public being informed, but it is too much to for you to complain when we don't use the powers we have to try to inform, like how we inform the public of the most mundane of things, instead of trying to influence public opinion."
Unfortunately, there is another external factor playing into the risk/benefit analysis that I haven't seen mentioned hear yet - the threat of legal action. With such low barriers to filing a malpractice lawsuit and such high payouts for "victims" and devastating effects for doctors, CT scans are often ordered for the sole purpose of mitigating legal risks.

For example - someone comes into the ER with simply a headache. On its own this should not warrant a CT scan. But if a doctor does not order one, and that patient leaves and eventually comes back with a brain tumor (extremely small odds, but not zero), then the following malpractice suit would almost certainly result in a plaintiff victory and the end of a doctor's career.

Malpractice is a real thing and real victims deserve their due. But lawyer attack ads and no limits on "pain and suffering" payouts (often multi-millions) I believe are a critical part of the difficult healthcare situation in America that continues to go unaddressed.
I frequently travel to developing countries (particularly in Africa/Middle East. I think what is more important than speed is reliability. Most countries have some sort of decent mobile internet service to some extent - it is just spotty and unreliable and usually a generation or two behind.

You should think of this project as complementary to normal internet access - a last resort backup that reliable works at a low speed. Dial up should be fine - pages might take a while to load (especially those that are image heavy) but people shouldn't expect to be able to stream YouTube on a service like this.
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Thanks for the link, here's the original HN submission for it (no comments yet) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7131029