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He may be a traitor to that vile and heinous entity known as the United States, but he's a godamned hero to the rest of the world for exposing the crimes against humanity that the American people are allowing to occur in their name. It is the American people who cannot be trusted, for they have allowed their government, for decades, to get away with countless series of crimes against humanity, and done nothing to stop its military industrial masters from having with the world as they will.

So if you have a strictly America-first orientation towards the world, feel free to continue the justification. But if you can see the world outside the pretty box, Snowden is one of the most important figures in the world today. He represents what America used to be: brave, honorable, and doing what's right in face of the certain personal danger one faces when going up against totalitarian systems of control which have the purpose of enslaving us all.
I like the idea, but I cannot get it to work. Too many people?
> Now it is home to a large Muslim population

Slightly less than 5%, mostly from turkey, 2/3.

Germany is allied with Israel, too. We delivered them the submarines which they use for their nuclear weapons.

> Also, we have been fighting wars in the Middle East for over a decade.

Much more than a decade.

> which is that relations between the US and EU are tense

Sure.

> Germany's relationship with its own Muslim population is ambiguous as regards the concepts being thrown around here

Sure.
Pretty much, this is one of the reasons why I don't like the US.
I like www.minfwk.com

But it's a little more extreme.
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It wasn't a real on-budget surplus. It was only a surplus if you took the revenue from Social Security tax and ignored the obligation to later pay Social Security with it.
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Sounds like a remarkable guy. But, and not to nitpick, but calling him "the greatest mathematician of his era" is a bit ridiculous. This was the era of Hilbert, von Neumann, Gödel, Turing, Einstein, Ramanujan...
There's a children's book called The Boy Who Loved Math: The improbable life of Paul Erdös [0]. I ordered a copy when looking for some books to get my son interested in math beyond counting and simple arithmetic.

My son is 3 1/2, and he loves this book. He loves that there was a kid who loved numbers so much he spent his whole life studying them. He loves that he gets to see a boy grow into an adult, who grows into an old man. If you want to share your love of math with a kid, Erdös' story is a great one to share. It's also a great conversation starter about how much or how little to focus on any one thing. I love knowing Erdös' story, but I'm not sure I'd like to be him.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Loved-Math/dp/1596433078/r...
You are vastly underestimating the amount of work that would be required to support Thunderbolt GPUs on OS X. Its lack of support has nothing to do with any nefarious plot to make people buy more computers. Hot-pluggable GPUs are a Hard Problem and the alternative (requiring anything with a GPU to remain connected while the OS is up, and requiring a reboot if somebody wants to connect such a device) isn't worth doing, at least not for them it's not.
I don't think the accelerators/funds are missing the obvious, but I do believe that (because of the high signal-to-noise ratio of the startup bubble) many rookie founders don't discern the importance of this process to their success, and end up "hearing what they want to hear" from mentors/books/etc and pick out things like "focus on the experience", "leverage network effects" or the dreaded "get a distribution partner" instead of simply finding customers who would immediately start paying for a solution to their biggest problems.
Check out Cloud66.
Germany is the clear leader for non-hydroelectric renewable generation (which is, after all, the difficult form, and the form that can be rolled out worldwide).

Curiously enough, though, it is outperformed by the UK and particularly France, in actual CO2 emissions:

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

That is, because of its reliance on coal. The UK, in comparison, gets much of its energy from gas, and France nuclear.
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Ah! Those are absolutely reasonable, and now I can see why everyone uses you.
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Yes, because the whole game industry has been created on the home markets.

The gaming community has a different mindset than UNIX or FOSS communities and Mac wasn't never good at games (at least in Europe).

The rise of consoles happened in parallel with the downfall of Atari ST and Amiga.

So eventually the devkits for consoles happened to exist only on PCs.

Also the demoscene groups started to focus on the PC as well.

It doesn't help that Apple, except for the Pippin and now iOS, never had a gaming culture.

So you will never see a Mac game ring with subzero temperature cooling system and a pair of SLI graphic cards powered by their own power plant. :)
But won't those same people just exploit the naturally occuring trace lithium?

Or is it not about lithium but the principle of adding stuff to water?
Hey dripton - curious what your thoughts are on this: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-unde...

I think that this gets into what the deal might have been with respect to whether you count the social security tax or not. I think that they conclude there is a "surplus" either way, although it is of course smaller. However, you might be referring to something else.
Most likely, the hacked company in the video is Horizon Energy in the UAE. The first part of the IP matches of the UAE, and you can see the name horizon on the screen. after quick search you can see Horizon has energy operations in the ME and Africa.
Weird, I have the whole Bootstrap kitchen sink on one site and the total CSS weight (including Bootstrap and my own styles) is a hair over 24k. If I actually took the time to optimize out the stuff I don't need, I could probably get it down even further - but I'd have to be in a serious yak-shaving mood.
An even lighter-weight alternative: forgetting about CSS "frameworks" altogether. Aside from propping up prototypes really quickly (an exercise made trivial with these help of these little style collections) I just don't understand why anyone would want them in a real app. I've spent hours upon hours fighting the likes of Bootstrap and its copycats. And to what end?
Alright then. Let's calm down and go back to ozone hole-punching lifestyles!
> The thing is that Germany is a close ally to the US.

That's what we think in Germany. I get the impression that from the US side, Germany is merely one useful ally among many others.
I'm missing the "bring a startup back to life" part. This is more of a previously used, and now available, domain name list?
Chaining itself isn't really the problem here IMO. Creating a variable for each level of the nested data structure and manually checking for the validity of each subsequent one would really, really not produce more readable code. It would turn a "get this value out of a data structure" expression into about 15 lines of code that each need to be individually read and understood. The problem is that Cocoa doesn't provide a great way to say "Access this stuff in this data structure unless it isn't there."

An option type is really the best way to kill this breed of problem, and thankfully Apple is including one in Swift, though it's still somewhat green.
Small nitpick, but you should conform your html to something more idiomatic; non-idiomatic code just screams isolation and lack of experience and those spaces between your equal signs jump right out and could scare the user off. Its silly I know, but :/
I'm not very okay with the checkbox and radio button styling. I don't think you actually would need to touch those at all...
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The passive scan approach has the single weakness that it appears to be effective, but mostly is security theatre.

Take for example, when we travelling into Australia, and they asked if we had any criminal convictions - I didn't know that a conviction was still an entry requirement for the island!
>The fact that the Tesla S has pretty much beaten all cars in their class shows that there must be quite some room for improvement in that area.

The gains made by the Tesla S are mainly due to the form factor - it is uniquely advantaged by being a large all-electric sedan.

Longer vehicles have a significant aerodynamic advantage, because they can more closely approximate a perfect airfoil than a shorter vehicle. The Tesla S has a very smooth underbody because of the flat battery unit and because it requires no exhaust system. Air intakes are kept to a minimum, because it does not need to dissipate the copious waste heat produced by a combustion engine.

I don't mean to detract from the marvellous engineering efforts by the Tesla team, but the Model S is in a class of one. Large sedans from mainstream manufacturers come very close to the aerodynamic performance of the Model S, but the use of internal combustion puts them at an inherent disadvantage. Competing all-electric cars are predominantly cheaper and shorter vehicles, designed for the European city car market. The high price of the Model S allows Tesla to use a lot of trick aero features, like the bladed mirror mountings, active inlet vents and retractible door handles.

I have no doubt that the traditional manufacturers could match the aero performance of the Model S if they were to produce a car with a similar form factor and price; The Mercedes CLA BlueEfficiency exceeds the aerodynamic performance of the Tesla S, as one of the few large and expensive cars that have been optimised primarily for efficiency. Volkswagen manage a drag coefficient of just 0.159 with the XL1, but it costs $146,000.
Maybe. I don't know what the mechanism of thyroid shock is; as I said, iodization is such a good idea overall that it's merely a footnote in the cost-benefit.
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Yep, console is throwing errors about the websocket server being unavailable (socket.io-based).
There's a problem with the options on the dropdown [select] box so that the bottom border is missing when the dropdown is active. FF31.0 Kubuntu; didn't test/investigate further.
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I didn't downvote you, nor did I scroll far enough to see those sorts of comments.
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The name is most correctly spelled “Paul Erdős”, not “Paul Erdös”.
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I thought Prolog was just a Japanese joke that American Lisp programmers played along with in order to get US Government funding.
Well, the site just went completely down apparently.
There is such a thing as "ethics class" and it's really not about dogmatic "do this" or "don't do that". Instead it analyzes various situations to derive insight about why some things are ethically right and some aren't.

By calling it entirely pointless you're dismissing a whole branch of philosophy. I know moral relativism is still popular among some groups of people, but there are other approaches to understanding morality. And no, I'm not talking about religion or Ayn Rand.
woah, I hadn't even considered that the term has an explicit legal definition. Scary stuff. Protect and serve the people but do it behind closed doors because the people can't handle the truth, right? Problem is the people can't make an informed vote on something they don't know about. The line between democracy and fascism is a fine one and I feel more like our government's mission is creeping in a definite direction every time one of these stories comes to light. I thank the god I don't believe that there are real patriots in this world like Snowden and the EFF who are trying to put the power of the truth in the hands of the people.
That is certainly one interpretation of the OPs question. And you are right: there is no silver bullet/magic formula/secret recipe. There are some nuances in the way the original question is framed. So the framing that 'a way to quickly and accurately determine if your idea is on the right track' is not good - ideas aren't good or bad, they are never on the right or wrong track - they are what they are, just ideas. Its the execution of an idea that paves the way and propels the idea in a specific direction. So, while there isn't (and may never be) a great tool/process/discipline to evaluate ideas - there are tools/processes/disciplines available to evaluate execution.

So, I read the question slightly differently - and I would say there is definitely something here. I can imagine a consulting service (problem-solving and execution discipline for startups - kinda like what mckinsey does for the fortune 500 :)) that could bring structured problem solving, fact-based de-biasing (countering delusions of optimism), focussed execution, research, 'talking to users' (the famous YC mantra) and (I don't have good name for it) lets call it "learning from experience and experiments of others" etc may be possible as a service.

Its the help a startup needs between "office hours" and execution. I do think that there is a piece missing here, that can be developed.
Just a comment about the buttons: It feels weird that they kinda "pre-press" themselves when hovering. I guess ergonomically speaking, a button shouldn't move down while it's not pressed. On the other hand, maybe a glow or a subtle coloring could do the trick?
> The Germans were really keen on aerodynamics for surface vehicles in the 30s

For good reason; _Wages of Destruction_ covers repeatedly how concerned the German government and corporations were about how much fuel Germany needed to import, which made the country more vulnerable and exacerbated their parlous foreign-exchange/currency situation. They went to the brink repeatedly and naturally, cutting down on petroleum consumption would have been very helpful.
If you could do this quickly, reliably, and repeatedly - in other words, if there's actually a business in this - then you are far better off starting a conglomerate to own these businesses outright than to sell the service to founders.
I'm a big fan of naps and finding place to sleep for 20 min outside your own home or office is really difficult - harder than finding a place for a phone call or a run or to plug in your laptop or have a conversation with people.
Why on earth would anyone downvote this comment? The lack of a Safari user profile is the most obvious potential issue here, based on the backtrace.
Why is the legality of an action relevant? Presumably all the things Snowden has leaked thus far have been legal. Remember, it's the government that decides what is and isn't legal, not you, me, or Snowden.
That doesn't seem to stop anyone else from copying the entire invading-countries-under-false-premises thing, though, sadly enough.
The profile reminds me a lot of the Citroen Xsara Picasso¹ (older model) but in reverse; the front fender [bumper] is very like the Ford Ka's rear² too.

1 - http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mWFPlYob-ONd0k2waRJ1j...

2 - http://www.theaa.com/images/allaboutcars/testreports/2005076...
I like to think successful founders "got there" pivoting or otherwise, by being good at bringing a product to market and building a company around it.

Startups that need to as ef4 put it "outsource the hard stuff" are pretty much proven bad at bringing a product to market, I don't think it's likely their problems will be as simple as customer development vs. being underprepared, inexperienced or just plain unsuitable to found companies.
Thats right and also fix a .1em bug that is bothering me when hover. So glow whiter when hover and move when pressed. They are now the way they are because it was based on http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeButtons/ , but I will also improve it (I just opened the issue in Github).
At this point, I'm thinking of HackerExperience as a your job, a job that you don't want at the moment. HackerExperience is a new job, which may or may not stick around, and that job requires a lot of time and attention. It also doesn't pay very much. How much would you pay for a high risk, demanding job with low pay?

Once you can prove that spending $X on customer acquisition returns $X+something, then it'd be easier for me to think of HackerExperience as a scalable business. Until then, it's a speculative venture to me.

Good luck on your journey! HackerExperience will give you some great stories to tell :)
The waste is terrible but I'm thinking there's something worse going on here. Children are being desensitized to seeing the weapons of war being used in daily life by local authorities. This is a bad, bad thing.
I don't think it should be about skipping the (or one of) the hard parts. It should be about guidance through it and helping founders understand how to read the signals coming in. Some startups think they're doing it, but they're really not.

A service to push founders through it would be great.
More simply, the white dwarf star is the size of a planet, and its entire surface is detonating all at once. :)
Musk, pursued an ambition with strong conviction, regardless of how many people tried to talk him out of it.
You can't deploy military assets against the population. It's illegal, since that's how coupes happen. That's why we have the National Guard. Read up on Posse Comitatus. So, it doesn't matter that the Navy is in town.
Did some math for fun:

DoD 2000-2014 = $282 billion to $587 billion = 2.08x increase over 14 years.

Total 2000-2004 = $1.79 trillion to $3.65 trillion = 2.03x increase.

So since 9/11 DoD seems to be expanding at the rate of total government expansion, which is pretty rapid. Compared to the 14 years before that from 1985-1999.

DoD 1985-1999 = $246 billion to $262 billion = 1.065x increase over 14 years

Total 1985-1999 = $946 billion to $1.7 trillion = 1.7x increase

So the total government is growing at a similar rate, but DoD exploded in size in the last 14 years.
That's a really amazing find, incredible how it looks right next to the other trains of its time.
> derive insight about why some things are ethically right and some aren't

What exactly "ethically right" means is subjective.

> you're dismissing a whole branch of philosophy

Yes, and it's not the only branch I dismiss :-)

> but there are other approaches to understanding morality

For example? My problem with ethical systems is that they're built on a subjective feelings of rightness and wrongness.
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1. YES!

2. Well this seems like one of those questions you could always say yes to. "Do you think you should have saved more money in your 20s?" "Do you think you should have worked out more over the past 5 years?" Who isn't going to say yes?

That being said, the failure of our business came about because the business model of the market we were serving shifted, as a result of a new piece of technology. Our customers didn't anticipate this shift (customers don't know what they want until they see it in some cases) and we, when the other business model came about, didn't recognize its significance. So, alas, I don't think customer development would have helped because nobody had invented the thing that killed us at the time we would have been doing customer development.

3. YES! I would love to buy a customer development as a service type service. Part of the problem for me is that customer development is sometimes very hard, it's not always easy to identify the customers for a particular idea.
To add a bit of background, I needed an OpenGraph parser for a personal project so I broke it off into a separate service.

The API takes in a URL and returns any OpenGraph data found along with some inferred values based on the HTML content.

The main focus for the product was to get the commonly used OG fields so some of the more obscure fields are ignored.
I'm a big fan of Min: http://minfwk.com/

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Can you explain what you mean 'fighting'? I've heard this argument before but haven't seen any concrete examples.
Nice, good to see the NY Times adapting to newer technologies.
People can rationally join church for community.

People can rationally join religion for community, but only with very sophisiticated metacognition.

Most people slip into religion without a rational basis, but still may appreciate the benefits of their religion post hoc.
"The author explains in the article how to understand the behaviour of light."

That isn't the argument. What I'm arguing is the (lack of) utility of the explanation. In what way does it enhance, support, or in any way contribute to the article? His argument is essentially:

A. We think of light as traveling in straight lines.

B. But because quantum physics, they don't! They travel along infinitely many paths.

C. But all of these paths cancel out except the straight line path.

D. And that's how beamforming works. Except it's beam-un-forming.

So he brings up a quantum phenomenon to complicate the scenario, then immediately reduces it back to the original scenario, without ever explaining how that original scenario works (i.e. how waves add together to create constructive and destructive interference: note that the words "wave" and "phase" never occur in same paragraph), then claims that this is somehow elucidating. So what's the benefit?
I love this thread. Did you notice that it has spoked wheels?
That is excellent. I feel like there must have been a tremendous amount of interest in air, considering air cooled VW/Porsche and BMW boxer engines at that time, and indeed through the 1990 (and beyond).
Ask HN: How hard is it to take up an existing project?
I hired a developer to build an MVP with a very low budget thus the code is a very messy. The app is not very big, it might be a total of 4-5k lines of code (if that counts for anything). Also, communication with this developer was not good at all which is the main reason I want to hire someone different now that I have a bigger budget.

So my question is:
How hard is it for a qualified developer to take up an existing project with messy code?
Writing software can be hard, certainly coming up with solutions to difficult problems is hard.

IDEs are a tool that are a relatively recent invention that makes a lot of this easier.

But nobody would say that IDEs are doing the "hard work".

I don't think a CDaaS App could be sentient enough to do all the hard work.

But that doesn't mean there aren't tools and services that could be very useful.

For instance, if someone curated a massive list of customers who were interested in hearing about and talking about new products, with a chance to try them out if they get built, and that service was rented out as a CDaaS to startups to quickly identify potential customers with particular interests or in particular markets.... that would be extremely valuable.
I also have this problem. I'm not sure, but it might be caused by using brew python instead of the systems original python
My general take on it is: if you find yourself "fighting" the framework, then you probably shouldn't be using a framework.

Many websites have a whole lot of overlap in terms of UI patterns (a nav bar, responsive grids, etc). Is it really necessary for every dev to hand-code that nav bar, or fight with CSS's terrifyingly bad grid support? Not really, which is why these frameworks are nice.
In fact, that was exactly a line used by the anti-fluoridation side when it was up for vote.
Interesting to see a project this large using Indiegogo rather than Kickstarter. Nice to have alternatives becoming more prominent, and every multi-million-dollar project and project that vastly surpasses its funding goal draws major publicity for its platform too.
Larger entities usually self insure, so the incremental cost for this type of stuff probably isn't very high.