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Greenwald is not the only journalist with access to the documents: this has been explained and mentioned several times. Several news organizations had access to the cache including The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and others. The idea was that the professional journalists would be better at figuring out what was both news-worthy and ethical to release. There are already people claiming Snowden personally gave an autographed copy to Putin and then we have folks on the other side like you who are misinformed and . Obviously, taking people like you and the people acting like Snowden forwarded everything to the FSB/Chi-Coms into consideration, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to release this material in a fashion that some uninformed person won't complain about.

Wikileaks have claimed that they have Russian diplomatic cables just as explosive as the "Pentagon Cables" but it's been years without any release which leads me to think that they either: a) don't have them and are lying b) have them and are not releasing them for some political reason which would be even worse. I wouldn't trust them at all to release any important information in a thoughtful manner.
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T420 - OK. Pretty durable and robust. Never took to the screen much; the keyboard seemed like heaven or hell depending on my mood; the trackpad was utterly terrible.

S400 - I like it a lot. Took a while to get used to the chicklet keyboard but like it now. Trackpad is good. Screen is fine. Very thin and not robust (screen can bend), and terrible battery life.

Yoga 11e - I quite like. Very robust, nice keyboard and trackpad. Crisp if small screen. Good battery. Screen can bend back but far too heavy to be a tablet replacement.
> Why is this not happening any more?

It is happening. The average manufacturing wage in China is up 700% in fourteen years.

It isn't happening in the US and Europe, but that's because the average worker here still makes absurdly more money than the average worker in the developing world. The gap is closing quickly. As it does, we'll be able to see more evenly spread growth again.

But purely from a humanitarian standpoint, it's hard to argue that it's a bad thing for workers who make $7000 a year to be getting bigger raises than workers who make $37000.
Interesting. To be clear, the current state of affairs is eating sterilized food (often required by law to control pathogens), and taking antibiotics every 2 years[1].

This is bad a priori, since it's two deviations from the only known good condition -- the one we evolved in.

But I take it that argument was non-persuasive.

So here are some other people discussing the idea: The hygiene hypothesis[2] is broadly the theory that diseases of affluence[3] are related to living in overly sterilized conditions. Most if not all of the items discussed in [3] are correlated with your microbiome[4], with large studies underway to determine the role in more detail [5].

Okay, hope this helps. To answer your question a third way: most biologists working on the microbiome think it's plausible.

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1212055

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_of_affluence

[4] http://academy.asm.org/images/stories/documents/FAQ_Human_Mi... -- see pages 11+

[5] We have a bibliography at http://www.generalbiotics.com/science

edit: my co-founder wishes me to point out that I wrote this was to illustrate why eating ancestrally normal microbes is a plausible idea. Please don't take these links as me saying my product can prevent any diseases -- I don't have sufficient evidence to support that claim.
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Best is a comparison, and sadly the information needed to make an estimation is missing from your question.

Generally, if you are seeking color gamut, 99.9% of the consumer displays are nothing short of awful.

The only one that seems to be remotely along the lines of acceptable color reproduction would be the Dell UP3214Q or any other display with the same panel.
Count your blessings -- I would be quite happy to pay $30 for 10/1. Where I live, $30 with AT&T gets you 3 Mbps down, and that's the promo price.
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> the police can get you online the way they usually get you -- by having an undercover police agent pretend to be the seller.

Except this method doesn't work online because they can't prove you are the one who ordered it.

Anyone can order illicit material to any location and with any name over TOR. Without corroborating evidence, no court would convict purely on the involuntarily act of receiving mail.
As an avid listener to K-Pop and j-Pop, i regularly buy the CDs. The Japanese have this idea of "fan service" executed better than the western media outlets. A regular CD from most western music artists contains a jewel case, maybe a sleeve with a few copyrights, and the CD. The last J-pop album I bought contained a CD, DVD, 30 or so page picture book, and stickers. Often where i buy these cds from they also throw in posters. Its a far more fun experience.
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Animal domestication is also a technology.
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Yeah, we use .Net 4.5.3, without EF. Connections still fail all the time especially under high demand.

We have our own retry logic, which also logs the issue so we are aware of how frequently errors occur while a command / transaction is being executed.

This is using SQL Azure with the "Business" tier, so it will be interesting to see how the new (much more highly priced tiers) Standard and Premium tiers go.
Ask HN: What's the most productive thing you do on your tablet?
I generally feel like I need a keyboard to be productive, e.g. writing code. Most of my activities on my tablet feel like I'm just consuming and often wasting time. I want to be able to make good use of my time when I only have a tablet handy or when a laptop is not an option. Any ideas?
The Wikipedia entry doesn't do RASCI any favors in promoting it as any sort of useful artifact from what I can tell.

It seems most like a "blame matrix."
Hong Kong and Singapore are the two freest economies. They have very minimal welfare states, with relatively light regulation and taxation. Their wealth creation and economic growth have been astounding over the last ten years.

Meanwhile, most of Europe has seen zero GDP growth in real terms since 2004/05. France has seen an average of sub 1% nominal GDP growth for a decade; negative in real terms. Japan, which is a massive welfare state, has seen zero GDP growth for 20 years; their State spending dug such a deep hole, a quarter of their revenues go to just paying interest on debt, and they've taken to debasing their currency as the last step available to them to hold off further collapse. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, et al. are welfare state disasters, rapidly imploding. The US has seen zero standard of living improvement for 40 years, and that's before accounting for the massive increase in debt that has yet to exact its full toll.

You can count the number of welfare states in the world that are doing well on one hand, with one of them being a temporary oil empire named Norway.
While it is convenient to pull out the quote "never attribute to malice..." the malice here has both mens rea and solid evidence. This is not about fighting criminals, judicial process, or even vague threats to national security.

Malice, n: the intention or desire to do evil. Ill will.

I will list a few, but I'm not going to debate the point or google the sources on these. If you don't see the malice here or want to disagree on minutiae, please do it briefly and then let's let it drop.

It seems like malice plain and simple when:

1. Keith Alexander lies to Congress about whether the NSA routinely intercepts totally domestic communications (bear in mind the NSA's stated charter).

2. The CIA deletes their records after it comes to light that they captured surveillance of Congress when Congress started an inquiry into the CIA for illegally putting surveillance on Congress.

3. James Woolsey publicly declares Snowden should be hanged for treason.

4. David Miranda is held inhumanely for 9 hours in Heathrow. He has never been implicated in the Snowden investigation or charged with anything else, for that matter.

5. The Guardian chooses to physically destroy their copies of Snowden's files when pressured by GCHQ. They can at least film the process.

6. NSA programs deliberately weaken encryption, subvert standard committees, infiltrate US businesses, sabotage hardware shipped through the US, and record all traffic at major internet switching points around globe. The stated intent is surveillance completely at odds with all major recognized statements of inalienable human rights.

Malice.
Interesting. I know Navy vessels do this [1] but in their case, the motivation is to trap machinery noise and reduce the sonar profile of the vessel.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie-Masker
Actually, in most first world countries you'd have a hell of a time doing this for very long or on much of a scale without the authorities catching up with you.

Sure, services in other countries could still maybe get up and running, but they'll have a harder time finding donors.
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for programming, the seiki 4k displays are great. i have had mine for ~6 months; it is wonky for gaming; wonky for over-scanning in some resolutions; and (related to the gaming) only does 30hz at 4k.

It looks great; at first having a 40inch display is crazy; but (again, for doing work.. programming, graphics, writing) i find the lower pixel density great. i am a bit further from the monitor with it being so large; so the bigger text is fine
People do realize that this is going to mainly benefit large companies, right? Anybody who still scatters their resources across many CDNs and whatnot is probably not going to see a tremendous benefit.

I'm not convinced that the 30-40% improvement in performance (in some cases) is worth the additional complexity. There are some nice features, but I can't help but think that this is something being pushed mainly by Google et al. because it benefits their server farms as opposed to being an objectively good idea.

At least it should be relatively easy to setup on a server.
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Air bubbles in the ocean being a problem? Not a chance.

Waves make trillions (10^12) of times as much bubbles. (Not exaggerating about the trillion BTW, I ran some quick Fermi estimations to come up with that number.)
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From a purely humanitarian standpoint, it's hard to argue that it's a good thing for CEOs who make $9.6 million a year to be getting bigger raises than workers who make $37000.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2014/0527/CEO-pay-hits-10-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/ceo-pay-worker-pay_...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/1212/CEO-vs.-worker-p...

http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-231-times-greater-ave...
> The the amount of money donate to you is so small (like under a dollar over the course of a year) then you don't need to declare it on any tax forms. If a random person on the street gives you a quarter, you on't need to report that on taxes, nor do you have to report a 0.00017 BTC donation.

The confidence in understanding the intricacies of tax law in the world's 196 different countries (many of which have intranational differences in the tax code) exceeds that of any tax attorney I've ever spoken with.
Either you believe police should have access (with warrants) to anyone's information or not.

You can argue all day about warrant-less wiretaps, but that's a red herring.

If the law should have power to discover data, denying them the power to do so via poor tools is a half-ass way to hamstring a policy that we agree is necessary.

Or we don't agree, and you want to bar the law from private information at any cost.
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Some do, my Swedish debit card does. It only works on stores that support 3DSecure though https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2486214902 (looking at the date of my photo, this has been in place for 6 years now)
pleasently surprised to hear something like this on HN.

I am not super convinced that public servants are "out to get us", but probably woefully uninformed and living in a certain bubble. Just like how we're in a bubble filled with images of totalitarianism that makes us react so violently to comments like this.

I'm always reminded of Adam Curtis' blog post on the history of MI5(http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER). An absolute must-read. Basically MI5 was lead by people in an alternate reality to what was already happening. Their objectives were not malicious in itself, but their worldview was so insane that what they ended up doing was pretty head-scratching.

Here, the FBI spends their time running after kidnappers or something, and suddenly they can't get text messages from the kid's phone (which is probably the best lead in these sorts of situations), it could be extremely frustrating.

Just by the way, kidnappings are a very real thing that happen extremely often in the US (250000 a year in the USA). Only 115 are of the "stranger kidnapping a kid" variety, most are people they know, so of course the police would like to see the text messages.

"Think of the children" is a tired trope, and I don't think that it's a real argument, but the FBI works on a lot of these cases, and this will hinder their job. It's normal for them to speak up about it. Doesn't mean they should get access though.
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The biggest problem I've seen is that most laptops can't adequately drive a 4K display.

First of all, a lot of them can only drive a 4K display at 30hz (for example, my late-2013 Retina MBP). The currently available HDMI only goes up to 30hz, and DisplayPort 1.2 only supports 60hz with MST enabled. It seems like high-end desktop graphics cards can do this.

Second, native 4K on a 28" screen is too small. I can't read it, and my eyes aren't all that bad. I'm guessing a 32" screen would be a bit better, but probably still too small. Any larger than 32" probably wouldn't be feasible as a computer monitor.

It seems like 4K would be perfect at HiDPI mode on a 24" screen. Unfortunately, my Macbook Pro can't do HiDPI on a 4K display. 1.5X HiDPI mode (effective 1440p) on a 28" would probably also look good, but my Macbook Pro can't do that either.

My guess is that the resolution we really want is 5K @ 27". I was playing around with the Retina iMac at the Apple store, and it was still completely readable at 3200x1800. Unfortunately, Apple apparently had to hack the Displayport spec to get this working, and Displayport 1.3 (which has enough bandwidth for 8K) won't be out for a while.

My guess is that we will have reasonable 4K/5K displays as well as computers that can support them in a year or two.
> what if it were primarily defined by altruism?

It's a fun question, but I think the answer is less entertaining: we would all be less happy. The fact is that most people are better at guessing what they themselves really want than other people are. It's a question of information. I know more about my desires than my friends do, for the most part.

Altruism is nice, but inefficient.

Spending quality time with friends & family, on the other hand, truly is priceless. I don't want them to be nice to me - I just want to be with them. So finding an economic (and cultural) system - be it a few tweaks on the current one or a radical rethink - that gives me more opportunities for a healthy social/family life ought to be the goal, in my opinion.
I'll state at the outset that, provided you have the ability to output using DisplayPort 1.2, you should consider the Dell UP2414Q, which I'm using and really like. Otherwise (and even in this case), you might be happier waiting it out.

There were a few caveats that prevented The Wire Cutter from recommending any monitor, but some of those don't seem to apply as readily now as they did at the time of last edit.

I got the Dell UP2414Q - a 24" ~4k monitor, making it around 183 ppi. The primary issues The Wire Cutter brought up in their rundown (of this display and generally) seemed to be the following:

- price (in this case $1100)

- the resolution being too high for the screen space

- poor refresh rates (30Hz in this case)

On the first point, you can now get it for around $750, maybe less, in the US. The second point was somewhat platform-specific, but on OS X you can tell it to display in HiDPI mode and it'll deal with the resolution in pretty much the same way that it deals with a retina Macbook Pro's 2880x1800 display. Namely, it'll scale everything at 2x. This is idyllic. If you have an rMBP, imagine that kind of sharpness across a 24" display and you're in the right ballpark.

The last point, about refresh rates, is trickier. My understanding is that this display has no trouble displaying at 60Hz once you enable it, but I have this display hooked up to a hackintosh, so myriad driver quirks make it impossible for me to say definitively whether the video card, the monitor, or the whole universe is conspiring against my success in trying to get it to display at 4k@60Hz. I think it's the buggy nature of the solution I came upon, which I could only describe as "not working in varying degrees". I'm still looking around, but I'm not optimistic for a real fix to get 60Hz for another month or two, if I'm lucky.

If I had a 2013 or later rMBP, I understand I could test it since that supports the DisplayPort 1.2 standard, but mine is from 2012. So I'm stuck testing with a desktop that shouldn't really even exist, heh.

So bringing it full circle, I recommend that you give waiting a chance. The Dell monitor I have has been fantastic, but not without its frustrations. If you can wait 6 months (or better yet, a year) I emphatically believe that the long term solutions to these kinds of displays will have shaken out by then. DP 1.2 and HDMI 2.0 will almost certainly be ubiquitous in video cards and probably in most laptops. It'll just be a lot easier to get things up and running.

That being said, if you're willing to put in some work and get frustrated a couple of times along the way, the reward is quite nice.
In Sweden, all cards that are issued are forced to use that "Verified by" Visa and Mastercard "SecureCode" program for two-factor authentication. Merchants can turn it off, but then they're liable for misuse - so plenty of places have it on by default.

Some banks, require that you use the token generator you've gotten to log on and manage your bank account while most other use a seperate password for the Verified by Visa/Mastercard SecureCode thing.
3DSecure works internationally and can be used to implement 2FA or passwords. It's common in parts of Europe and Asia, but seems less so in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
Ah yes, RFC 1149...

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>On 28 April 2001, IPoAC was actually implemented by the Bergen Linux user group. They sent nine packets over a distance of approximately five kilometers (three miles), each carried by an individual pigeon and containing one ping (ICMP Echo Request), and received four responses.
It's a matter of perspective. The bitcoin world is highly unregulated, and much like the black market, you cannot pull it from that space without bringing all the chaos, disorder and risk that comes with that. For a lot of people (and arguably for almost everyone), the benefits of the regulated world are terribly desirable.
> Bailing out banks and hoping they will spend it on industry just after they bankrupted themselves by gambling shows an unquestioning and total belief in the institutions of capital.

On the contrary, it betrays deep distrust in the actual institutions of capitalism: market prices and bankruptcy.

"Institutions of capital" cannot just mean "the people who hold the capital", because by that definition every oligarch since prehistory was a capitalist. That contradicts even Marx, who saw capitalism as a distinct modern development.
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> Sorry Armin/Mr Ronacher/Mitsuhiko but your "Bitcoin is Wild West" rant is unwarranted.

Really? In what way would you say that Bitcoin isn't the Wild West (at least in the sense he intended)?
I don't understand- how they are lying exactly?

Don't they explicitly ask you if you want to backup your recovery key to the cloud?

Is it really that hard to read prompts and change the default setting to manage your own key backup?

If checking a single radio button is all it takes to NSA-proof your device, I'd say we are in pretty good shape. What is everyone complaining about?
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I don't think that's what they're saying. They're saying that the problem of American Poverty is temporary; even poorer people in Bangladesh are earning gradually more and more, and will one day earn as much as unskilled American laborers. And only then will unskilled Americans be able to find work again.

FWIW, I'm less enthusiastic about the current system/situation than mattmcknight appears to be.
Apple set the bar with the iMac 5K. We have to wait for the display manufacturers to catch up to it; as well as a new display port standard to actually use these. So my advice is to wait it out.
Nor has any political force yet emerged built on that premise of social power structures. Perhaps classial liberalism, georgism, distributism, and good old fashioned anarchy. Every existing political force along the spectrum simply tries to subvert the pyramid to its own purpose.
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Other communities/societies -> they were doing it already. Just no media hype, because they weren't funded by agencies wanting to convert people.
>The critics also argue that police often have other ways of legally obtaining information, such as getting warrants for data stored on company servers.

Isn't the whole issue that the data would not be readable on company servers anymore?