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These comments disturb me more than the article. Saying more cameras prevent crime is like saying more logging reduces your attack surface. Let's just ditch firewalls and add kernel dumps everywhere instead. My rate is $150 an hour.

Sometimes, HNs political naivety deeply undermines their technological contributions.
Well, it depends if you consider monolithic monopolies or governments a greater threat to freedom.

In the case of US ISPs, most people simply have no choice and are locked into one company. This creates a difficult situation and allows ISPs to easily collude. You theoretically have freedom to switch to another company, but in practice it's not possible because most people would have to up and move their entire family.
For some reason, I convinced myself that Valence was going to allow us to change the engine to Webkit and Trident as well as Gecko. While testing iOS and Android is awesome, this would have been downright incredible.
Actually, it did work very well. It gave rise to regional CLECs and independent carriers like Covad and Sonic.net.
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In a complex system, productivity is often paradoxical. One realization or idea at the fringes of the random walk of progress can be worth the work of hundreds of millions of people on the known status quo. We need people exploring on the outskirts of reality and knowledge and life as much as we need the workers, and the people who do that are invariably the ones with a connection to their humanity and the humanity of others, like this person.

Your suggestion is sound: see the real world. Sure. But don't disparage humanism and ideation and self-discovery. It is truly our only hope.
That attitude is a bit arrogant, and will only serve you well as long as potential employers have little alternative but to put up with it.

But it is still less arrogant by far than the attitude of most employers with open positions that I have encountered.

The "game" should be played with equal respect offered by both sides. Both parties are vetting the other before entering into a potentially long-term relationship. It is not the time to play stupid dominance games. I expect that equal effort should be expended on trying to convince me to work there as is spent trying to ascertain whether I am qualified to do so. If I spend a full day of my time jumping through hoops, I expect to see the company sacrificing a significant effort in exchange, trying to convince me to work there.

If you hear even an inkling of a suggestion that the company is trying to "avoid wasting interviewers' time," just say, "thank you for this, but I wouldn't want any more of anyone's time to be wasted," exit as gracefully as possible, and cross that company off your list. Then do the rest of us a favor, and post a negative review of the interview. Time spent on recruiting is an investment that might not pay off, never a waste. And nobody involved should be disrespectful of the other's time or preferences.
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Likewise here - switched from iPhone (on Verizon) to Android (on T-Mobile), and in several group threads I no longer see the replies of some of the participants. Truly frustrating, and makes you feel marginalized from the conversation.
Yep! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio...
Your first sentence is pretty much just a shorter version of what I said in my comment! The shadow DOM and React's virtual DOM are completely unconnected.
He presided over some of the worst breeches of data privacy in contemporary political history, how exactly does he expect anyone to trust him? Would he have made these bold statements, had he not have been found out?
You spelled "Institute" wrong.
The major breakthrough should be coming with OpenGL-next. Until that time the situation will be quirky. I wonder how long it will take to draft it though.
It was legalized under Obama. Under Bush, it was criminal; now, it's institutional.
Ah, yes I did.
Firefox is unusable for developers with poor eyesight that use OS-level accessibility features such as high contrast on recent versions of Windows.

There is an open bug but no love: [ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790706 ]. Firefox forces high-contrast colors, completely destroying HTML rendering, with no option to disable this behavior.

Using a high contrast theme in Windows doesn't mean i don't want to see web pages as their developer intended.

Chrome gets it right, why can't Firefox?
If a member of the dev tools team is watching, when first launching Firefox Developer Edition, I get a modal on top of a modal:

http://i.imgur.com/w11zZJJ.png

This wouldn't be a problem usually (although strange) but I have to click the partially hidden box under the top most box to dismiss anything.
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1. Net neutrality (NN) is of essential importance for the free Internet, now and in the future.

2. Barack Obama (BO) can "call for" many things, but after the latest elections he cannot do much. Even if he, personally and as a POTUS, would want to do something to protect NN.

3. If you hope GOP will do something about it... well, harsh reality is this: Republicans will do what corporate interest wants them to do. Democrats (along with BO) were doing the same. Now that GOP has the majority in both the congress and the senate they MIGHT pay lip service to the issue, but, nothing will change in essence.

4. Maybe you think/hope, people will go out on the streets, write petitions, fight for NN. If recent history teaches us something it's this: Snowden revelations didn't move much US citizens on to the streets. And, compared to NN, it was a larger issue.

(Hope for a better world is something to strive for, but after all these years, I've realized that there is only one reality: Interest. And Big Money has a lot of it to fight NN)
Yes if in the UK always wear a suit. Even if you didn't have to no-one is going to think ill of you for it. It's just standard here.

Looks like if you're in the US, though, you're going to have to be careful to find out first what the code is.
I thought interviewing was a negotiation, you trying to get the best deal, them trying to convince you to work for peanuts. You meet in the middle, or you both walk away.

All the talk of respect and time wasting and efficiency is missing the point. Arrogance is a tactic and if it works for you at your level, then more power to you.
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So on one hand he calls for state regulation of ISP's, yet on the other he calls for a "free and open" internet. So which is it to be?
Absolutely none of this has any bearing on whether President Obama could call the NSA director into his office today and order him end all mass surveillance programs. Which he could, and his order would be obeyed. That he chooses not to is a practical political issue, not a legal one.

[EDIT: Well, he couldn't literally call anyone into the Oval Office today, since he's in Beijing, but a phone call would work just as well.]
Initially a tool made for editors looking for a good stream and a high quality images for a specific track, also a good benchmark for browses capability on performing css blur filter "smoothly", currently, the blur performance on Yosemite safari seems far superior than of other top browsers out there.

More platforms and other features to be added, suggestions welcome!
"... Obama asked for no blocking of websites ..."

So no blocking of torrent sites? yeh as if thats going to happen, rolls eyes
On the other hand, he's also calling for it to be classified under Title II. Unless Title II is modified, that would prohibit ISPs from deep packet inspection.

It would also prohibit ISPs from modifying responses in situ - like inserting tracking beacons gifs into HTML responses or returning a custom search page (with associated ad revenue) when a DNS lookup fails.

Edit: So, with the 'if the content is legal' clause, Obama was probably referring to refusal to carry / illegal purpose court decisions. This can be applied only in very, very limited circumstances. A couple court decisions that are relevant:

* Nadel v NY Tel., 170 NYS2d 95 (1957); carrier suspected caller of using the telephone for illegal gambling transactions and terminated their service. Court ruled that service should be reinstated: the telephone company "is not at all qualified, in the absence of evidence of illegal use, to withhold from the petitioner, at will an essential and public utility."

* Shillitani v. Valentine, 53 NYS 2d 127 (1945); "a telephone company may not refuse to furnish service and facilities because of a mere suspicion or mere belief that they may be or are being used for an illegitimate end; more is required."

* People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15, at 33, 120 P2d 946, at 965; "public utilities and common carriers are not the censors of public or private morals, nor are they authorized or required to investigate or regulate the public or private conduct of those who seek service at their hands."
So whole societies should sacrifice their privacy so someone can have a hypothetical chance at recovering a stolen car more quickly?
As usual, in the general case, President Obama verbs for a noun phrase. (Not that it's bad, just routine.)
This touches on a concern of mine:

> driver situation

Completely anecdotal:

I remember a few years back, when I was much younger trying to get drivers working for XOrg and compiz. I couldn't even manage a smooth GLGears. I botched my installation multiple times with no indication of how to fix it.

Fast forward a few years and we have open source drivers that actually work. Install Ubuntu, compiz works. Lovely, now maybe I see what the game situation is like. I dig through the app store and find that game with the Tux luge. 2FPS. So I dig around in settings and find the option to install the "non-free" drivers. Install them and I get my buttery-smooth 60FPS, I will continue to get harassed about that fact that I'm scum who installs closed-source software for the foreseeable future, by the OS. I can live with that.

So how would a 14 year old wanting to play games on Linux see this? Firstly, he'd install a game such as Borderlands and try it out. He hits a wall with dreadful framerate. One of two things, he goes back to a pirated copy of Windows (most likely) or somehow finds out he needs the vendor kernel module:

He pulls down the compiler tools, which could take up to an hour in 3rd world countries (first-hand experience). He then goes through the process of changing the init level to 2, compiling the driver shim and installing it. He then reboots his PC and XOrg crashes. Back to Windows or...

He discovers the Ubuntu automatic installer. Excellent! Just a few clicks and... "non-free?" Does this mean I have to pay for it? Will I need my parents' credit card? Why is there a warning sign? Am I doing something wrong? Could this damage my hardware?

Let's say he figures it all out and wants to play some MP3s while he games...

It's friction the whole way. This is a very severe case of getting your message mixed up with extremism. The situation of people using Linux is always better than the situation of them using something like Windows, even if they do have to use some non-free components to do so.

You can't change the world overnight, baby steps.

/rant
Yeah, Windows OEMs have been allowed to do pretty much whatever the hell they've wanted with the OS since before the dawn of time. Heck, does anyone remember the Packard Bell Navigator? This is old hat.
Hi, I’m on the Polaris team at Mozilla. I understand your reticence on tracking. The news and other content we all enjoy on the open web is mostly underwritten by ads, as are the social networks activists use to coordinate. These sites need to get paid or they can’t keep doing what they do. It’s not the ads, it’s the tracking. While many users love seeing personalized content, an increasing number don’t. We’re trying to get to a place where websites respect users self-declared preferences on tracking, and users have better tools to enforce those preferences. It’s going to involve not just building tools and working with privacy advocates but also working with advertisers and publishers to help them benefit when they respect individual user wishes.
Thanks for the feedback, from talking to frequent travellers, we realised they often have preferences like preferred airlines, airports, flight time and such information.

Our aim is to learn this information based on their travel history which forms the personal travel profile. The travel profile also consists of biodata information.

This helps PAs/EAs save time on time spent incorporating user preferences when searching on traditional flight comparison engines. The difference is that it reduces the clutter on generic platforms and presents you with what you will be most interested in.
And the NSA, FISA courts, Patriot Act... the list of 4th amendment infringements goes on and on.
One of the greatest books IMHO which gives very practical advice how to achieve and maintain happiness in life is Raymond Hull's old classic (1969) "How to get what you want". Interestingly enough (and although written by a Canadian) it is quite well known in Europe, not so much in the US: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-get-what-you-want-ray... the comment section on amazon is interesting to read as well: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671783270/
Well the DC vendor "prefers HP" and they have a couple of thousand racks so not so sure...
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I wish I could up-vote this a thousand times.

I often tap things that are just rectangles and fail to realize that other rectangles are buttons.

I can't wait for "everything is flat, two-tone, and rectangular" to be replaced by whatever the next trend is. Hopefully something more useful.

Ironic note: the flat trend was really made mainstream by Microsoft when it released Windows Phone 7.
Why not just ask straight away if the user wants to send the message as SMS instead of having to change global configurations?
I never cease to be amazed at the naivety that exists around giving this government more power. This isn't some fluffy nice friendly government that has only our best interests at heart - this is a hyper violent, war mongering, murderous, intrusive, spiteful, extra-legal, Constitution ignoring monster. The military industrial complex has come home to roost - that is what is happening with the spying and police militarization - and now people think it's a great idea to just hand over more power to this government so they can further control the only widely accessible platform left to criticize them.
When Windows 7 did translucency, it was considred ugly. Now when Apple does it, it's good design.
I think we're in danger of getting to a youtube comments 'you-stupid-no-you-stupid' argument here but that said, I think you're being somewhat unrealistic about the real world.

One of the things police do is keeping the peace. Getting in fights outside of bars at 3am is disturbing the peace. IE, people don't feel safe when that is common. When police show up, most everyone is drunk, angry, scared, etc. They don't know what happened. Sometimes they can work it out from talking to people but a 4 minute investigation and witness statements from a bunch of drunks is not all that reliable. They need to do something to keep the peace. So, they might arrest all involved or some or sternly send them all home. Video solves that problem. They know how done it.

On the philosophical note, I think outcomes are important. Prison systems producing 80% re-offence are a failure. That said, I also believe in justice. I want rapists, murderers and assailants to go to jail regardless of harm reduction or rehabilitation. If there were 10 of us on a deserted island and number 8 beats up number 6 because he's angry or drunk or somesuch, coconut hull lashings would ensue.
No, Wheeler was not a "huge lobbyist" for "the very people" working against NN. He was the president of the NCTA from the late 70s to 1984, before cable had anything whatsoever to do with the Internet. His status as an anti-neutrality lobbyist is a powerful Internet meme that does not appear to be rooted in fact.
"Same rules for mobile internet" is pretty notable. Google only got on that bandwagon in September, for instance.
Tor hidden services announce their existence to their introduction points. The fact that they exist is not something Tor tries to hide. What they do try to hide is the location of these services.

Basically, if you don't want people to know that you're running a service over Tor then you're relying on a guarantee that isn't there. If you want to hide your location while announcing that you're running a service then you're relying on a guarantee that Tor actually claims to provide.

If this is research then given the above how is it "in bad faith" or "malicious"?
As a former non-IT systems engineer[1] I have this problem frequently. I get pings once a month or so for DevOps and SRE type positions from in-house recruiters or various companies, but never anything for embedded development (which I was actually doing at the time I was called a "systems engineer").

Now that I have more than a couple years if NLP experience the contacts are getting more relevant, though less frequent. Unfortunately, I don't want to make a career out of NLP.

[1] http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx
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The only difference is that the Stasi didn't have the tech available to them that the NSA has.
You can probably skip one of a five year old's twice-annual dental checkups, given that they've still got baby teeth and likely to just get a clean. More of a choice than one might think, especially if you've got a kid who truly loves ballet.

Whatever the choice made, it sucks to have to make it.
Simply asserting something is irrational doesn't make it true.

Just want you to put a little more meat on your argument
> In the UK and US at least, you do not need to show your photos to a person that tries to detain you, and you do not need to delete any photos. If you are arrested and charged with a crime, then they can inspect the photos as evidence, but not before. They still are not permitted to delete any.

My understanding is different for the UK. If you refuse to show a police officer the photos, they have the right to take you to a station, where they will examine the photos. Like you, i'm not a lawyer.

>Also, in the UK if someone who is not a police office tries to detain you (and this includes security guards and PCSOs), then they must be relying on the law of citizen's arrest, which means that they must have seen you in the act of committing an offense that could be tried at a crown court - in other words, something worthy of half a year or more in prison.

What you say is true about the citizens arrest, but as was mentioned in the article, my understanding was that they are able to call the police because you've been acting suspiciously, and that they have that 'right' to call the police if you are seen taking photos. They can't hold you, but then most people stay, because leaving is seen as an admission of guilt/being a terrorist. Would be nice if this was tested in a court of law, or to hear from someone who knows if it has. Even then i'm not convinced a Judge won't just say "Well, in this post 9/11 time, people should be expected to be stopped if they take photos of high value targets."

EDIT: Taking photos of a building == Acting suspiciously. Not what I believe, just what I understand is argued, often, when security guards call the police because you've been seen taking photos of their building.
Not sure what the U.S. situation is like but in the UK my transition was pretty perfect in terms of my professional happiness. That said, it was pretty weird for a barrister to be working cases during the day and then coding at night so I'm not sure I'm a good example - coding was something I'd just always 'done' since I was a kid.
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> And if you look at the make up of his cabinet, you will see that he has been able to fill it with people that are reviled by the opposing party

They are reviled because they spend a lot of time demonizing them because this is politics.
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Awkwardly, the "design design" is past that -- the guidelines say to use shadows to create buttons. But the deployed design is using the older design design that didn't realize that.
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Thanks for your comment, yes you can save time by getting humans to conduct the search for you. However, we believe assigning the search and filtering process to humans is inefficient especially as regards time spent. Abstracting that process will provide time for other more important tasks that cannot be done by machines.
Fantastic, I'll try it out.
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Also, never ever apply through one of the career portals companies setup (taleo and the like).

Having applied for tens of perfectly matching jobs at MS, Google and others through their portals, all I can say is they never call you if you apply through their online resume management system. Taleo etc are a resume blackhole, and once they have your resume in their DB, the third party consultants cannot help you either since your phone number check turns up a duplicate on taleo.

If Satya Nadella were to apply via taleo, he wouldn't even be called.
As a non-technical founder my options before Bubble were; find a technical co-founder, spend a lot of money to outsource the coding, or learn to code. With Bubble, I went from idea to MVP in less than a month! Bubble is a game changer.
Office 2007(?) had that fade-in menu gimmick.

Amusing and sad to watch mobile evolution recapitulate desktop design, not skipping over the dumb ideas.
Normal users do not care about firmware versions or cpu optimizations.

An app either runs, or not. Dalvik allows the apps to run, without the user having to know about cpu architecture in their phone or whatever.
Crappy site starts playing audio automatically. Immediate close tab.
Getting rid of 'throttling' and 'extra fees' not a bad idea. However, "Free and Open" is a way off. "New ISP Regulations for Internet Access" would be closer to reality. I am sure they will slip in some shady unconstitutional Section in the new Law as they always do.
Hahahah this is laughable...
Four million comments to the FCC is a Big Deal. There's a huge amount of public support for Net Neutrality, plus all the money in Silicon Valley.

The liberal side of this issue is huge. Whining about how we can't do anything because big cable and their bought legislators is wrong and counterproductive.
Plan 9 from user space is a port of userspace programs to other hosts. This project is an attempt to make the host supportive of the userspace programs, rather than the other way around. Also, plan 9 from user space is not abandoned.
Linux introduces a healthy level of distrust to closed drivers - which is good. It doesn't mean they can't be used, but being aware about downsides is a good thing.
Yeah their anti-DDOS is actually to null route everything to your server. It's been a long time since I've seen that but that how they did it in the past (which is actually making any ddos against you really effective but your neighbors won't be as affected).

If it's actually your server that actually attack another server, they will shutdown your server and give you a warning. They will let you boot in their recovery os that let you access your file system but if your server does it again, they terminate your account.