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> They had demonstrated the practice of mass killings of innocent civilians and expressed the desire to continue to do so.

That hardly makes them unique, or even different than previous enemies the US has faced, and dealt with detainees from, and studied the effects of interrogation, and concluded that torture is ineffective.

And, as the Senate report notes, every single one of the CIA claims that this torture was effective misrepresented the facts, either of whether information gained through torture had not independently been gained through other means, or whether the information gained was gained through the torture at all (often claiming information gained from a detainee before "enhanced interrogation techniques" were used was gained through those techniques, which is only plausible if the techniques are so effective that they send shockwaves back in time), or by simply misrepresenting the existence of threats that were supposedly disrupted when no real threat existed.
Red Hat also is supporting it for the next 6 years (or possibly 9) due to it being part of RHEL 6.
It's all just regular capitalism.
Yes, that's unfortunate, but Apple isn't intentionally trying to prevent them from using the other software. It's just a bad consequence of the way the API works. Note that they would be free to use these services if they used an alternate mechanism of talking to them (e.g. built direct support into the app).
Ok, that makes more sense.

[edit] FWIW, my task list this morning has "build custom base 14.04 image from ubuntu core".
So here's an ethical question-

If the report leads to no action, where is the good in releasing it?

Real risk for real people has been created. It's not theoretical. Actual innocent people have been placed in danger.

If there's no good coming from the report, was it worth placing those people in danger?
> Drawing inappropriate comparisons between those camps and the absolute atrocities in this report isn't helpful.

Nobody did. I said that Americans looked the other way. Nothing more, nothing less.

You're clearly reading more into what I said than what I actually said verbatim.
We went on to foreign soil, and abducted the prisoners in question. It's not like we found them sneaking across our borders with bombs... We have a legal declaration of war on "terror" ... all enemy combatants in such a declaration are POW, regardless of their status in a standing army.

I have a fairly flexible moral code as far as even torture is concerned... this goes beyond what I would consider appropriate in any sense of the word.
I'm rather sure fidotron is talking about the technical aspect of the updates. Which has practically nothing to do with the political aspect you're talking about.

What was your point exactly in that respect?
Buildbot and Bors are also hosted on Github. :D

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot
https://github.com/graydon/bors/tree/rust
>But I dunno how much more of this "we're pulling a piece of what is traditionally considered 'Linux' out and replacing it with our own shizz" I can take.

All the people that want what is "traditionally considered Linux" why don't they go and use a traditional Linux?

They idea is that a lot of what "traditionally is considered Linux" (and UNIX) is decades old, designed before the current era of multicore/cheap SSDs/mobile devices/wireless connectivity/laptops/multi-TB filesystems at home/hi-dpi composite visuals/touch interaction/unicode everywhere/etc etc, and is not the be all end all of how an OS should be, nor the pinaccle of OS design...
AFAIK Susan Collins did participate. See here:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/09/live-coverage-...

"Given the authors – Committee Democrats along with (...) Susan Collins (R)"
Could you please humor me as to why this is a bad idea? I don't seem to have an eye for these types of problems.
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Some studios are owned by publishers, some are not. The statement I argued was made about every AAA studio, BTW. But if you cannot compete with a publisher owned studio then go after ones that are independant like Epic or Bungie or Insomniac or Arena or Telltale or Riot etc. etc. If you want how it's done look no further than Respawn. The studio was just founded in 2010 , signed a publishing contract without long relationship with the publisher and infrastructure, shipped a game already. It is how almost every AAA studio started (there are few studios that had been seeded by publishers, but as far as I know, none if them exist now).

It's pure meritocracy here, if you are good then getting a publishing deal is not a problem.
What does vendor not deciding to update a device have to do with an actual software mechanism of applying patches?
If you're looking for a generalized way to map an XML structure to primitive types, you're going to have a bad time.
I'm a startup founder myself and someone once told me that no one will run a startup like the founder himself, especially in the beginning. I've taken this advice to heart because even during the bad times, I've managed to keep going because I'm passionate about my space and I'm patient and persistent. (almost to a fault)

That being said, I've had team members come and go....mostly because I was hiring young developers that were still in school. Even though I was doing most of the leg work, I did have that assistance at times and was able to have that team feel that investors very much liked.

Teams are always in flux and if you have a bad team member, you'll have to face the difficult decision of letting someone go. It's an evolving process but it gets better everytime. I've been at this for a couple of years and I'm not convinced I have that A+ team quite yet. So on certain occasions, I still think I'm a solo founder (if that makes any sense.) I suppose it's how you look at things.
Also MT still has to be seeded, it is not crypto-safe and its quality/computational load ratio is not too good.
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Personal brand building. It's totally a thing.
Stack was pretty small. Allocating structure on the heap instead of on the stack is pretty standard. We just need to understand the historic context before making judgement.
>It's funny you read 'hate' into my comment.

It is not so funny, because you could make a very minor tweak to your comment, and even you can see it is unacceptable:

"Personally, I don't care at all if urban Detroit dies. I'm living in an urban "community" myself right now, and it's honestly torturous. I'm glad people are moving to away to raise their children because, frankly, it seems abusive raising a child in this environment. There's no Uber, basically no other apps, very few amusements, and virtually zero culture beyond what the majority in the area (old black people) prefer. The lack of competition in general means that there are very few new things, and lots of old, crappy things. Raising children in this area deprives them of stimulation that will literally mean their brains are less dense and less able to fluidly adapt to new situations."
Yea, the HN crowd is always great for ideas and overall pretty needed brutal honesty.

So my 2 cents, you are looking at angel money, which at 500k means you will likely be held to a salary of $50-70k for yourself and the hiring of a few people to meet your goals. I mention the salary only because you mention you aren't a young fresh out of college person, so I would guess you have some real bills and possibly a family. After about 6 months of work you will need to be on the track to raising your next round as well to get money in place at month 12-14. This all assumes you have never raised before and so have no proven track record using someone else's money, and of course is just my opinion.

An incubator might be a good idea if you can find one that will take you as solo founder, again not impossible but they play to the VC's desires.

Some other ideas/points,

1: look for traditional angel money outside of just the well known SV firms, people etc. High net worth people invest in companies fairly often and usually are more personally involved in the deal (not in a bad way) and many times are a little more flexible with founder salary if that is needed.

2: Bootstrap a little longer and pay a developer part time to help you meet the other goals. If you have a full time position now take $1,500-$2,500 of what you are making monthly and spend it on hiring part time help to get some of the stuff over the finish line before going after money. Either way this moves the ball further down the path so that if you go after money you are that much better off.

3: Definitely put it up on AngelList.

4: Don't focus on a PR firm, they generally are expensive and a waste of money for early traction. We worked with a startup this summer that spent well over $100k of their money on a PR firm that got them less exposure then did spending $2,500 on a 30 second video and spreading it through friends, family and social media sites. As well the founder figured out that by contacting reporters and bloggers directly the response he received was way better than having the PR firm do it, and all it cost him was a few hours every week talking to these people.

5: Update your website, right now it looks like a side project that isn't getting a lot of love. The website is the first impression people see of you and your service/product. If it looks poorly, so will your chances with converting the client. I speak here from great stupidity and experience for myself on this one.

No matter what, good luck!
If you're going to count every derivative of AOSP Android, to make a fair comparison you'll also have to count every for single distro that is based on Ubuntu - how frequently do they all get kernel updates, etc?

Yes, the Android ecosystem has an update problem. But that problem is largely due to external companies and not a technical limitation of Android.
> The Republicans have issued a rebuttal. I assume this means they support torture. I hope this dissuades some of their remaining voter base from continuing to support them.

Their base loves this sort of thing. You're talking about some of the most uncivilized/old-fashioned people in America - rural/old people. They grew up in a different era. It seems like all we can do is wait for them to die out.
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Does anybody knows how this works together with LXD ? It's another sort of (Ubuntu) container and I wonder how they fit.
You are mistaken. From the report:

On November --, 2002, adetainee who had been held
partially nude and chained to a concrete floor died from suspected hypothermia at the facility. [camp COBALT]
> 2.

Please, please tell me where they are! My email is hn_handle@my_employee and you can probably infer my_employee from my submissions :)
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If Isaac Newton is hypothetically resurrected, how long do you think it would take for him to catch up with all the advancements in physics and mathematics since his death?
As a german and a programmer, i have to say: You call us nitpicky. We see people as inattentive and lacking courtesy to the world around them due to all the mistakes they let themselves make. It's absolutely cultural. Americans need praise or they won't be able to feel good about what they're doing, but they fear criticism because they feel it devalues them. Germans of a certain education level are mostly neutral to praise, because it just confirms that they did the work right; and value criticism because it helps them.

When you see a german being nitpicky, chances are they're either genuinely trying to help, or think the person they're sending the message to was impolite to the rest of humanity in their lack of care.

----

Edit: Thanks for the downvote. Really setting an example of the cultural differences here.* :)

* And yes, this is me being truly grateful. I'm not being sarcastic. (This is me being sarcastic: I love how i need to point this out when talking to english people.)
There are probably two factors at play here:

(1) somewhat counterintuitively, HN penalizes stories that have a large number of comments compared to votes. It's typical for a post with ~300 upvotes to have under 100 comments; you can see several examples on the front page right now. This thread has nearly 200 comments. Having significantly more than the expected number of comments, and especially deep comment threads, is often an indicator of a flamewar, so the algorithm penalizes stories that meet that pattern.

(2) flags. Not "omg I support torture" flags, but "this isn't hacker news, it's mainstream media" flags. This story is very much on the bubble for me -- it's obviously something being covered in mainstream news, but this is a link to the actual report and people are discussing the findings in detail. (I have not flagged it, but I understand why others would.)

[EDIT: this comment was posted in response to a since-removed question about this story's position on the front page. I have left it because I believe the information is helpful.]
Great, now can they spend some of that money to pay engineers to implement multi-factor authentication for logging in?
Have you thought about adding other public domain images that are not necessarily related to art? I'd love something like this that pulls from NASA's image galleries instead.
It is the RC FlyingThings' own long-September.
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Right, and that would kill the company, but a VC is probably more likely to kill a company that's slowly running out of its runway than a company that's doing something out of the ordinary to survive and get back on track.
Well I was doing mental math, a coworker at Google forwarded it to me while I was there, and I didn't think I had been there all that long ('06 - '10) so guessing mid-tenure at '08 and subtracting off that from '14 should have given 6 years but given [1] above I'm sure it was after the conference in '09. (Now added to my Evernote database so I won't make that mistake again :-)
You're right. I've edited the comment to reflect that.
Qt wraps both XLib and WinAPI. So the same argument can be brought for WinAPI, too.
This is very insightful.

WCF and WS-* tried very hard to handle both RPC and more asynchronous scenarios, but the tooling continued to be heavily RPC based.
Do you program C?
Would you use it for web programming?

I would guess it's because the web evolve quickly and for most webdevs the 'moving fast' is more important than 'moving the right way'. C is less forgiving language than PHP/Python/JS. Also the bar for C is higher than for PHP.
Actually it wasn't as revelatory as you might think.

Windows programming was irrelevant in the 80s -- it wasn't until Windows 3 and 3.1 that it really caught on. In the DOS world there were lots of "character-mode windowing libraries" (I mean lots : I think we once reviewed 15 in a single issue of Computer Language) and they all generally had fairly straightforward programming models. People were much more focused on, for instance, memory management.

When NeXTSTEP came out, word traveled by the magazines and BBSes and Compuserve fora. You couldn't really communicate the NeXTSTEP programming model in pictures and so the only people who I think really got NeXTSTEP were people who'd already experienced Smalltalk! (Which, at the time, was at it's peak, with Smalltalk/V available on DOS machines and ParcPlace available on UNIX systems.)
> But if you are promoting to people who are your friends or are already fans of your product per the original quote, they are not necessarily unbiased and are not necessarily voting on the merit of the product itself.

Their article states :
"It is perfectly fine, however, to promote your Product Hunt page on your groups, forums, internal communications [...] community to the featuring on ProductHunt, but don’t encourage them to vote one way or another."

They are not including "friends" in there. And when it comes to people who are already fans of your product, no - they're not unbiased. But that's the thing : they tried the product, and loved it. Which is exactly how word of mouth works in real life. You try a product, you love it, and you tell you friends about it. And that's the whole point of PH : surfacing great products.
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If you absolutely cannot get around it, perhaps it would work if you made me an Admin.

I'm a sole proprietor too. I don't yet have a Facebook Company page, but I do plan to make one soon. Then I'll face the same problem, so we can be Admins for each other.
I'm confused about POMELO, the wiki says it is ' independent from any existing cipher ', does that mean that it invents its own cipher or that it can use any existing cipher?
After a quick glance at the PDF I'm worried it is the former.
Which is everywhere in Paris...
I've had an accident on a motorbike which ended up thankfully only with a broken leg and two months of immobility (the fracture was a bit complicated). It was not my fault and if I was in a car, I probably wouldn't have been hurt at all. Roughly a year after the accident, I started to ride the motorbike again, albeit not that often. I don't see anything I could easily improve with the driving style to reduce the risk. I think I'm already quite defensive both on the motorcycle and in the car and I try to always remind myself that I'm no expert.

Maybe I don't correctly evaluate the risk or I just assign too much value to the benefits I get. It's very hard to calculate with a cost of own life. Moreover this cost is changing. It can temporarily increase for example when you support a family. But how do you account for the fact that you have a finite amount of time here no matter what you do? There are much less risky things to do and also much riskier ones than riding a motorbike. Are all the people who take more than the smallest possible amount of risk crazy or unable to assess the values? Honestly, I still don't know.
Of course - how obvious. :-)
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Hahaha, oh wow, that's hilarious!

Glad you learned something today :-) http://xkcd.com/1053/
Great app!
On a related note -- do people really get to see their desktop wallpaper often on OS X?
I occasionally go hunting online for a cool wallpaper but then realize that I don't look at it for weeks. The only time I look at it is when I restart my computer (which is once every 3-4 weeks). All other times, I have my browsers, terminals, and other applications taking up more than 90% of the screen and I see no reason to minimize them.
Nope. But then again, what goes on downrange can be very different than what goes on in the schoolhouse.
He'd have trouble with modern English.

The journals would no longer be in Latin.

While he invented Calculus, there's been a lot of math invented since then, he'd have to learn it all.

Once he's done that I expect he'd come up to speed quite quickly.
The impression I get from this post is that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. That the author's board and investors didn't support him remaining CEO the first time around gives a strong tell of an immature investor. Yes, people change and come around to sensibilities, but it's not like he's a brand new person coming back to the helm.

Those changes could have been made by a board who had fanatical support for the vision and the leader. I seriously doubt Crowdflower's board provided that support the first time, given they canned him like they did.

What everyone should learn from this is that picking the wrong investors when you get funded is the worst possible thing you can do to your company and yourself.
OVH prices are so amazing, I wonder if they must be running at a loss. I use them to run Aberoth (http://www.aberoth.com), and I always keep my eye out for a better deal, but nothing comes close for high RAM servers. They also seem to be continuously sold out: http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers.xml, so there is clearly a huge market for these cheap servers. I wonder why no one else seems to be able to compete close to their price point.
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Thanks, especially for #4 and #5.

#4 is really food for thought. I mean really. My gut instinct would be to agree with you wholeheartedly. Maybe PR is an area where "business advice" has wormed its way into my brain. Try as I might, I just can't ignore enough "business advice." :)

If I cut that PR component the required raise drops substantially... at least in half.

So far all my growth and conversion has been from viral, social, direct person-to-person, and other "organic" means, but I've also observed that blogs and press mentions drive traffic and prime the pump. My graphs look like this: a remarkably consistent exponential (straight line on log plot) 1.4% daily compounded growth, but every major press or blog hit just elevates the graph vertically a few ticks where it then continues its 1.4% march. The 1.4% number is so incredibly constant it's spooky... I've never seen anything like it. It just continues no matter what I do, for months and months. This is for active online users, which is the best metric for this system. Is a constant growth rate like that common? I always assumed growth rates would look "rocky" like most other real-world data.

#5 is interesting too. It looks a lot better than it used to, but perhaps that isn't saying much. I might just use a professional web design hosted software suite like Squarespace or The Grid, since I've got better things to do than dink around with HTML/CSS minutia.

It is up on AngelList: https://angel.co/zerotier-networks

As far as salary goes you're right. I have a family and kids, so I can't afford a really big pay cut. That's another downside of not being a bachelor right out of college, and is a big part of why the startup scene is so biased toward early-twenty-somethings. But hey, I guess part of doing stuff like this is that you have to deal with what you have as intelligently as you can. You can't change your circumstances in these areas but you can hack around them.
We know that people confess to crimes they didn't commit - even if they're not being tortured.

http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/68715/
>"The Republicans have issued a rebuttal. I assume this means they support torture."

>"Clapper has issued a rebuttal, claiming that the report isn't neutral. I assume he also supports torture."

>"The White House attempted to keep this report from coming out...I assume that the White House supports torture..."

Politics is a dirty, complex game. If you treat every news event as black and white like this, you will form many extremist positions very quickly. Obama, for example, banned torture via executive order when he took office. Did you cry that he was "against torture" when that came out?
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It's time to stop repeating like a parrot what everyone said 10 years ago.

Nowadays people in Paris are friendly enough and speak english.
I just bought an unlocked Moto G and couldn't be happier. It's not the latest and greatest specs but it's good enough for most people. The best thing is getting out of the rat race of carrier subsidized phones. Good riddance to $90+/month cell phone bills.
One nice example of how MS really made things more complex with SOAP is the MSN Messenger Protocol (MSNP), which started out quite simple and sane, then got extremely SOAPy in the later versions; compare protocol interactions pre-SOAP:

http://msnpiki.msnfanatic.com/index.php/MSNP8:Getting_Detail...

and doing the same thing with the SOAP'd version:

http://msnpiki.msnfanatic.com/index.php/MSNP13:Contact_List
my fourth grade students said it all last year. (Most of them were not native English speakers.)