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Let me explain a few things about the American government.

The most important thing to understand is that the ability of the executive to influence the direction of the government is limited. The reasons for this are several, but I will try to elucidate a few here.

First, it is commonly believed that because of the ability to hire/fire people the President can more or less do whatever he wants in regards to the direction of various governmental agencies. This true to an extent, but to a much more limited extent than is commonly believed. The President can nominate candidates for various positions, but these positions must be approved by Congress. Since President Obama has had a Congress whose primary tactic is to oppose everything the president wants, regardless of merits, this has severely limited his ability to get policies in place that he has otherwise wanted. This applies both to agencies like the FCC (the current chairman was Obama's third choice, IIRC; the other two were filibustered), as well as the judiciary.

Second, the government itself is made up largely of agencies which are outside of the ability of the democracy to affect. This includes the military, the intelligence agencies, and the federal law enforcement agencies. (You could arguably include the Federal Reserve here, as well.) These are what Lofgren[1] calls the "Deep State". They are almost completely unaffected by elections, especially of Democratic presidents, and seek ever to increase their power and funding. Efforts to rein them in are rarely, if ever, successful.

Third, the current state of affairs re: intelligence gathering, etc., began in earnest with the passage of the National Security Act of 1947.[2]

So while it may be convenient to blame Obama for the current state of government, it is overly simplistic. It has nothing to do with any cult of personality, but rather a simple recognition of the current realities of political power and the various players.

[1] http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947
I hope no one is getting excited about this.

President Obama is a lame duck. His party just got tossed out of the Senate, relegating his political capital to basically 0. In the wake of this, he's decided to take maybe the most important economic issue of the next 20 years and politicize it.

Neither the red team nor the blue team could say they owned this issue, but one of the most divisive voices in politics just stuck the blue flag in it - at a time when he has less influence over policy than any other time in his presidency.

I would have preferred him to just keep his mouth shut.
Dodging death on the Mediterranean – crossing the sea to immigrate
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Obama is suggesting that we re-classify ISPs as utilities. That would force them to lease out their lines to competitors.
You're right that it's headquartered there, but it's largest workforce is in Portland, Oregon, and that is where my classmates went to work post-MBA.
> Joan Clarke, Woman Who Cracked Enigma with Alan Turing

Only - Joan and Alan didn't crack Enigma. Worked on it yeah. Made improvements sure. But cracked it - no.

A child can learn in 2 minutes that the Poles cracked Enigma. Why would the BBC distort? Why would HN highlight these distortions?
Zero mentions of "education" in this press release or any of the tech blogs following it. Oh well. Have we given up on that whole thing?
Recently coming out of a Job search, sending out even the perfect resume won't get the attention of recruiters as much as you physically talking to them or someone from the company. They are much more likely to remember a good person than an excellent resume.

Of course you should make your resume as nice as possible, all I'm advising to job-seekers is that it isn't enough, and it would probably be worth your time socializing rather than making your resume absolutely perfect
The NSA did not make Netflix slower.
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Yes, React components have a special `this.props.children` property [0]. Which works similarly to web components's <content/>.

The current implementation of `LeftNav` doesn't allow for this, but it would be easy to add.

0: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/multiple-components.htm...
You're right to be concerned. If they keep using the same language in these sorts of statements, you better believe it's for a reason. Look for any legislation or regulation to implement such language.
Do you (or anyone else reading this thread) have advice for current college students looking for internships or their first full time job?

Unfortunately, I don't have the breadth of experience detailed in the slideshow to even justify a multi-page CV. In my environment, we work with a 1 page resume and <2 minutes of interaction with a recruiter at a career fair (~30% chance they're technical).

I have a variety of side projects I've hacked on, but it's very hit and miss -- some recruiters care a lot, others care more about my GPA and what classes I have taken.

What can students like myself do to best position ourselves in these situations, especially when we can't have multiple resumes for every company there is (and are forced to generalize)?
Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
> The Stasi would be proud of the surveillance state that western countries have created with Obama at the helm.

Spoken like someone with little sense of historical perspective. Or understanding of the DDR.
It wasn't created under him, but now is his opportunity to do something positive about it. His track record on the subject hasn't been good for the last 6 years; here's hoping the next 2 will prove substantially better.
iOS: Mailbox (apart from apple's apps: Safari, Reminder, Clock for alarms).
"often"? Try only. The problem is a cognitive dissonance, in that hired/owned men only do what their masters pay them to do. So following the money, who told him to propose this and make his speech?

So its a story either way, either he has new owners paying him to say this kind of stuff (who is paying for this point of view?), or the guys who do pay him are going to be really angry that he's being a loose cannon. Either way the reaction will be interesting to watch.
> he flip side of the coin but personally now feel much safer when in an area with CCTV.

Considering what British city centers are like around chuck-out time, why can't we have some police out on foot patrol around that time? It's not that the areas around the lager palaces are no-go zones, but then I'm not that comfortable around lagered-up yoof either.

With CCTV cameras you have a better chance of arresting a drunk hool after he has committed an assault, but with police out they will think twice before picking an argument. Cameras might help solve crime, but proper policing is preventing crime before it occurs. Besides, I don't appreciate having my every movement stored on tape.
It did not start with Obama and by all accounts it was not stopped, slowed or in any way diminished by him. I think the backlash is from people who thought he'd be different and embrace a different mindset than the one he apparently has. He was a constitutional law professor and the hope that he'd be different than what he is was quite a let down.
regular posting of something KWC related. This one a blog post rehashing content from 2010. Everyone loves it/fascinated by it
The current Chairman for the FCC is Tom Wheeler. He is a former lobbyist for two telecommunications associations:

* National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) (from 1976 to 1984, becoming president in 1979)[1]

* Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) (from 1992 to 2004, serving as CEO)[1]

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/leadership/tom-wheeler
Those two statements from a legal (writing) perspective are mutually exclusive, sort of. One is a Right and the other is a law. But both need to exist is some form to make the other possible.

Also, they both require the same technology to be automated and possible. The main constraint for the latter is computational power.
This is the only really interesting thing going on in Linux gaming these days:

http://openpandora.org/

Why other vendors don't seem to get that you can get your entire OS for free, all you need is great hardware and some love for developers, and you can enter the hardware market and build a new platform, just for you and your customers. It doesn't have to be "only the majors can play" here - all it takes is a smart core of people, executives who really truly do "get it", and a compelling reason to get yourself a community going, with real customers whom you can communicate with.

Android, iOS? Yeah, okay. Kids, you don't have to play the Framework-user dance. You can go find your own little plot of land, and have all the right ingredients, to start your own garden. Just.. have the balls to do the hard work. Its what kept the OpenPandora alive so far, in spite of it all, and the game is not over yet .. Pyra is on the horizon.
How certain are you of this. My understanding is that regulating the telecommunications industry did make it easier to order both tap-and-traces and pen registers and that it helped to hold open the legislative door for CALEA, the Stored Information Act and others. Furthermore, much of the Bush-era expansion of internet surveillance apparatus was done by legislating internet communications under telecommunication law.
Isn't the competition in Britain only possible because regulations require companies to share infrastructure?
As a longtime fan of the dark theme in the Firefox devtools, I'm enamored by the new theme of the developer edition. But you really should document how to turn it off for the people who don't like it. :)

EDIT: Ah, I see there's a link to restore the theme at the bottom of the welcome page.
Unfortunately, I can't acces HackerNews with this new browser. Just a heads up to the team, liking the browser so far!

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An error occurred during a connection to news.ycombinator.com. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_old_response)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
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What is a realtime app?
This looks cool.

I've always wanted a way to discover new podcasts by listening to my favorite podcasters/personalities as guests on other podcasts. If I've never heard of the host, listening to someone I know I like as a guest is the best way to give that host a chance. It's not easy to find "All podcasts on which these 5 people have been guests" though.
My intent was to supply a relevant perspective missing from the article. Each individual story of suicide is tragic. Xu Lizhi's poetry and perspective are extremely valuable in helping outsiders connect to the experience of depression, and in no way am I trying to undermine his experience or the reality of suicide.

To the extent that the article uses his story as a commentary on Foxconn as a company, however, it is important to provide broader context alongside the deeply personal experience. The underlying issues contributing to depression and suicide are universal, but it is easy to cast blame on specific contexts.
What Amazon is doing is explained by the article. An ancestor post claimed that it was an effort to find the market-clearing price.

The traditional approach to finding the market-clearing price is to "wobble" it higher or lower and see how that impacts sales. Amazon does do this, along with every other retailer that has ever offered sale prices. You can even see third-party websites that track the price history for a given item.

But that involves changing the price offered to everybody. According to the article, if you anonymize your traffic, such that Amazon does not know exactly who you are, and bring up the same item on both your mobile device and your desktop computer, you will see different prices listed. This shows a clear segmentation of the market, presumably based on the originating IP address being identifiable as from a mobile service provider rather than a traditional wired ISP.

In short, someone said, "But it could have been X," and I said, "No, it couldn't. It is exactly what it appears to be." There was no dig against Amazon, other than my opinion that price discrimination is unethical anti-consumer behavior. You may have a differing opinion about price discrimination, but there should be no doubt that is what they are doing.
China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks
I understand where you're coming from, but I have a complete opposite view here. The idea of 24/7 monitoring by government authority is something that disturbs me a great deal - the very thing that makes you feel safer makes others under attack.
Availability is part of security, right next to confidentiality and integrity. Systems that silently fail closed aren't secure in a meaningful way, because you can't distinguish a DoS from "working as designed".
The laws will change a couple times before you see the problem for what it really is.
ClojureScript tutorial I wrote on getting started with Om, Speclj and Emacs-Live
> "Regulating Internet Like Phone Companies"

There is this other headline which came to my mind when I read the above headline: "Retroactive Amnesty for Telecoms".

https://www.eff.org/pages/case-against-retroactive-amnesty-t...
not at all. this isn't a "press release", it's an article by a 3rd party (techcrunch) which focuses on whatever they want.

If you check out the official website (www.raspberrypi.org), you will see it's covered in education related things such as classroom experiments, new computer for schools, etc. However it's not all just about schools -- anyone who learns something about Linux, computing, hardware, the internet, etc... from a RPi, well... it's mission accomplished for the foundation.
I think they meant the edits to Firefile itself that got it working with the most recent Firebug.
To your Edit: yep, yep, yep. You asked for more women in tech. Here you go. Not knowing the difference between total GDP and per capita. Not knowing what to do with her life, etc, etc, etc. Guess what! She will know exactly why she is on this planet for once she gets her first kid. You see how lost she is?! When was the last time you saw someone not-driven to tech supposedly being in tech? By this measure! Almost like someone told her that she needs to do it (got to tech! study CS!) to be fulfilled and feel good. So instead of getting married and her first kid, she is lost in this world with diploma where she doesn't get even basics (i.e. GDP), sad and pathetic. And we as society did it to her. Actually, feminists and cultural marxists did it to her. It is akin to taking you, forbidding you to do the tech, and forcing (through social pressure) to spend all days taking care of kids. You would be totally lost too. So, don't be surprised. That's to be expected. If you start telling boys to be like girls and girls to be like boys, you will end up with a bunch of lost and confused people. Shoot, I can't believe she could have four kids by now, instead she totally wasted that time in lala-land. We should start executing these leftists for wasting human lives and potential. She has monthly period for a fucking reason.
Form controls with CSS currentColor and pseudo elements
What rivers did you guide on? I've traveled a lot independently kayaking in between work and it was a lot of fun...
I'm a former mechanical engineer specializing in fastening (now I'm a Javascript developer).

It's certainly interesting that they're managing to keep the tightness up without resorting to any truly strange designs.

However as some have noted, cost will keep it from being adopted. Let's face it, fastening is the last thing considered in a project and the last thing bought. Even for large projects it's at most a few percent of budget and people are desperate to limit it's cost as much as possible.

Also, truly there's no need for a product like this unless the stress on the bolt, nut and what's being fastened have to be manage just perfectly. Otherwise the simplest solution to relaxation is just tightening more. Then it relaxes to an appropriate stress.

Almost all bolts in the world are under-tightened. Greater analysis of the joint you're tightening rather than a fancier nut will pay off many more dividends.

Let me clarify. I applaud the effort, fastening needs research and development badly, but this is no miracle nut, rather it's a specialized application.
Sometimes things are about legacy and not necessarily just political agenda. Has he not already reached the pinnacle of a political career?
The company's website from the YouTube video comments:

http://www.ztec-izushi.co.jp/english/

I think this is the product on Alibaba:

http://jp1009830113.trustpass.alibaba.com/product/128852485-...
As I am currently looking for work, I had to update my resume, but then I decided simple text processor would be just boring and I created themed HTML/PDF resume generator in Python that takes simple YAML data file. It worked pretty good.

There is already JSON Resume [0] initiative but YAML feels much more natural when writing semi-structured text.

Here's the source if anyone's interested: https://github.com/hanula/resume

[0] https://jsonresume.org/
I would really love to read such a book! I have been researching a lot on this topic myself, to be honest. Specifically about why India and China (the "East") are so far behind the west. And in the case of India at least, the fault lies a lot with the way history is taught. It is assumed that India was a mostly agrarian economy and the people had no way of defending themselves from superior European guns. While that is partly true, it also had a huge industry in both firearms and metal working before the British conquest, apart from Textiles.

So for India I could understand that colonialism created a West-oriented culture, but couldn't see why so in China, which was never under a foreign power. Your point about the rulers and intelligentsia being westernized makes sense in this context.
Doesn't look like I can debug websockets? Chrome's network tab allows you to see websocket frames, but you have to navigate away from it and back to it again to refresh it -- which is a pain.

I'm not seeing where/how to view frames in the network tab here, but perhaps I missed it?
I can't speak for others, but personally I specifically and intentionally downvote any complaint about downvotes, even if I otherwise agree with the poster.

That sort of complaining lowers the tone of the discussion and adds nothing.

Plus 8 times out of 10, just wait a minute and you'll get voted back up.
Your case here would be stronger if the OpenPandora website didn't open up with a video showing how their device enables you to play all the best video games off the major consoles from 20 years ago. That's not building your own garden, that's shoplifting from the grocery store.
IMO the only reason to buy an A+ is if you are going to be using these commercially at scale, where the minimal price and power consumption differences are going to add up.
The only thing you really gain with the B+ is the ethernet port and some extra ram. So for things that won't be "online", the A+ might suffice and safe a few bucks (or inches now that it's smaller). Think microcontroller-type things.
I think the thread here is that we should look at having an option to do automated patching. The major CVE (heartbleed, SHellshock) are really detrimental to the community as a whole and think that the VPS provide could build some "Goodwill" if they offered and automated way to mitigate these Vulnerabilities.

Worst case, is that they send you an email notifying you. Best case they offer you a 1 click (1 cmd line) to resolve the major issues.
That's a very generous reading of the situation. How many iPhone users bought their device because it offers secure end-to-end messaging? I'm going to say very few of them. How many of them even know what the blue bubble and the green bubble mean?

I think a lot more users would be surprised that iMessage doesn't burn through your SMS plan than those would be surprised if it did.
So, Safari on iOS setup is only available for Linux and Mac users?!
Is there any plan to support IE simulation?
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PC cooling innovator Zalman Tech brought down by massive fraud
Show HN: Boop – Self destructing animating text messages
http://boopapp.com/

I made boop with a friend; an experimental ephemeral messaging app. Here's the official explanation I wrote:

Boops are self destructing animated text messages. Boops display one word at a time, so the recipient can’t screenshot them. Throw in emoji and you can create animations called Boopmations. Have fast, back and forth private animated text chats with anyone. Boops delete themselves as soon as you read them, so there’s no history of your private chats.

It's the first version so it's fairly raw, but during beta testing it proved really popular. It seems a bit silly at first glance, but quite a few people got hooked on it as it's quite different to stuff before.

Tech: Android and iOS native apps backed by a parse.com backend.

Thoughts on Parse.com: Reasonably good, previously I've used heroku and built my own JSON API for a mobile backend. It was pretty damn fast to create my own custom functions in cloud code and generally quite a good experience. Did encounter quite a few problems on both iOS and Android, particularly around local storage/caching but nothing we couldn't work around for a first version.

Techcrunch covered it today: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/boop-messaging/
I don't think you are aware of the current situation. There is no competition among broadband ISPs. Each player has carved out its own exclusivity zone free of any competition. This is partly out of necessity of not having overlapping/redundant physical infrastructures, and partly the result of these companies buying out local and state officials. Common carrier regulations were established (as far back as ancient Rome) to counter this kind of situation. It basically states that because such monopolies are unavoidable, in order for the company to enjoy such privileged status it must be regulated as a public utility and impartial market player; and most importantly a common carrier cannot use its monopoly position to corner the market downstream (such as shutting out NetFlix in favor of Comcast's own streaming service).

Essentially, we cannot create more competition at the broadband utility level but we can prevent monopoly power from begetting more monopoly power. Common carrier is regulation purposed towards facilitating a free market.
The only solution to the problem which I would trust would be continuous maintenance and a design that doesn't rely on thread strength to maintain a joint.
In my case this was unnecessary and the update to Developer Edition preserved everything. Might have something to do with the fact that I already make use of multiple profiles.

EDIT: Wait! The default profile was used when clicking "Restart" from within the updater, but when closing and reopening the browser manually it did indeed start up with a new profile.
http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to...
"Alan Turing ... provided much of the original thinking that led to the design of the cryptanalytical Bombe machines and the eventual breaking of naval Enigma" - Wikipedia

Apparently the German army Enigma was cracked because they didn't have rigorous procedures, didn't rotate keys as often as they should. The German Navy had strict discipline and it took Turing et. al. to crack the math before those dispatches could be read.