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US officials have lied so many times it's difficult to give credibility to anything they say:

NSA lies to senate about surveillance on U.S. citizens living inside the country: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/mar/11/...

CIA lies about torture and it's effectiveness: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/opinion/the-senate-report-...

FBI lies to U.S. courts about surveillance records: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/fbi-chastised-court-ly...
Have JS APIs implemented by browsers developed enough so that Flash's feature set is now possible to mock? I know in the past it would've been a real challenge to imitate the Flash Microphone and Camera APIs, and Flash had a real advantage in other areas like Clipboard APIs.

I haven't worked with AS3 for the past few years so my memory of the APIs is fading, but overall, they were for the most part well-structured and programmer-friendly. A complete Shumway would be really neat.
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If I only lost while gambling 20% of the time, I would be ecstatic. Meanwhile in my job as a consultant, I get paid 30% of what my clients are actually billed. Uber takes 20%. My employer takes 70%. I fail to see the outrage.

What percentage do the cab companies take from their drivers?
Not necessarily. Wouldn't a minimum income plan also mean the end of other welfare plans?
Nice! I have been looking for an easy way to build a reliable desktop app for some scientific computing code that I've written, so I've been exploring various options, including using node and the Qt libraries.

Feels like a bit of a maze at the moment, so I'm not entirely sure which way to go, but I like the look of Atom Shell. I'd love to hear a bit more about your experiences using it. The discussion on HN about a recent blog post comparing various HTML+CSS+JS solutions to building desktop apps was definitely insightful [1].

I'm also looking at using something like Atom Shell as a way for me to build a project that would allow me to kickstart my JS learning curve.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8729791
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I remember reading about designs for guns that video every shot fired with them (IIRC, in relation to police violence in South-Africa) and only allow their owner to fire it (a la Judge Dredd)

I cannot find a good link, though. Best is http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/disruptions-smart-g..., which discusses Gijs that ID the person holding the gun.

I also found http://security-today.com/blogs/reaction/2014/10/sensor-reco..., which doesn't do he videotaping and is aimed at protecting officers, not at protecting the public.

Anybody have a better link?
I rarely listen to the VM I get, I prefer calling first...

My goodness, that's annoying. b^) You're certainly not the only one. At least once a week I leave someone a several-minute voicemail with specific detailed information, questions, or instructions. Then ten minutes later they call back, "what did you want?" MFW...

Keep in mind, these are people whom I would gladly send an email, if they would read their email more than occasionally.
Duplicate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8791721
Your example of the Blueray player is a good one, and I can't disagree with it.

I will say that I mainly had housing in mind when I made that statement. That was somewhat short-sighted of me, but in my defense housing is quite different from something like a Blueray player or a TV. House prices are much, much more fluid than those of gadgets and are also highly localized. One house can be 3x more expensive than another carbon copy simply because it's closer to an office district that employs a large number of comparatively wealthy people. In other words, housing prices in competitive markets are determined mostly by factors other than the cost of production, which can be nearly negligible in some cases. Housing prices certainly would go down if everybody's income was simultaneously cut by two-thirds; this is exactly what happens when a local job market crashes (e.g., see the Houston oil crash in the 80s).

Regarding your final point, about standard of living simply veering upward over time, I think there's a lot of truth to it. But I also think there's a lot of complexity. I know plenty of folks who still live very modest lives that are barely different from the 50s -- small homes, often homes that were built in the 50s and are still standing and are in bad condition, certainly worse condition than when they were first built; small TVs; old kitchens; no vacations; public schools; many family members living in the same house; etc. These people are often working classic middle-class jobs: nurses, school teachers, etc. Despite not having many of the materialistic advances you list, they also often have pretty bad debt, either student loans or credit card debt.
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Not the biggest fan of js myself. As something cooked up in 10 days during the summer of '95, it's syntax is brutal. The original intention was to put "Scheme in the browser". The road to perdition is paved with good intentions....
I haven't listened to my voicemail in probably two years.

In the age of caller ID, what's the point ? I can see that you called me, and call back.
Right, supply-demand only influence prices, not control them. You can't demand prices to infinity, or supply prices to zero.
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Because why exactly would anyone believe the US government after they have invoked the "secret evidence" trope for the billionth time?

They will claim this to get out of some clerical error. They will claim this for anything. It's unverifiable, it's unbelievable, it's a wonder any publication with some journalistic integrity left would read anything into it.

Here is attorney general Holder invoking state secrets to cover up what was eventually revealed as a lowly FBI clerk checking the wrong box:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2014/02/holder...

This wasn't even an important case! Think what these people will do when the stakes are higher.
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I'm sure it's both.

For me, I've never liked how interruptive and demanding phone calls are. I would never barge into somebody's home and immediately insist on attention no matter what they were doing. But ringing phones are like that. So I definitely notice some politeness-related anxiety when I call people.

I also notice a little bit of stage fright with both phone calls and voicemails. Phones rob you of almost all the in-person feedback that lets you judge reaction. And they also don't allow the sort of self-checking and self-editing that text messages and email do. Once you say something dumb or get caught in an awkward pause, it's just out there.

Neither really bothers me, I happily call people and leave voicemails as needed. But I definitely notice the feelings.
"Seamless" appears to have lost most of its meaning - personally, it doesn't really apply if you can't even get through "Hello World" without spamming "this is server code" and "this is client code" everywhere...
More JS frameworks (databases, back-end frameworks, languages, caches, messaging systems, etc.) equals more specialization, "job security", higher wages, etc.

To illustrate, the (extreme) corollary is one stack and one pool of laborers with one skill-set.

Just another vantage point, whatever we think of the tech merits.
I'm not sure, but I think that this is colloidal silica. It's super-easy to make (from a $3 bag of finely-milled silica from a ceramics supply store, and some water). It's also commonly available as a filler for epoxy resin.

I'm sure they put a lot of work into the uses and research and all, but colloidal silica has been around for a long time and it, if it was so revolutionary, it would have been more more widely used already.
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If I'm reading the thesis correctly the modern state top to bottom monopoly on mechanisms of enforcement of common law is a consequence of population growth as it applies to two things, (1) crowd control and (2) attitudes towards methods of crowd control.

But there seem to be holes. Unruly armies of tens of thousands have existed since antiquity as insurrections, unrest due to demands for change, and borderline rebellions. The ruling classes of the Roman empire had to deal with this sort of thing on a regular basis. The size of the mob is not a new thing.

I think the change between old and new enforcement of common law has a lot more to do with technology, specifically the development of firearms and their ability to enable a small armed group to defeat a large unarmed group. That changed the whole nature of insurrection and civil disorder. You'll see that the advent of the police came right around the time at which firearms moved beyond the crude, slow weapons of the Napoleonic era. I don't think that is a coincidence.
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anecdote vs. anecdote: I've never been robbed at gunpoint by a rich person. however...
The idea of unconditional payment is interesting, and I'm almost on board, but...

1. Is it tax free? If not then it's not equal right?

2. How do you avoid it simply translating into inflation / lower dollar?

3. Does it save money elsewhere to pay for itself, or are taxes increased?
I'm 45, and I definitely notice those feelings despite having grown up with answering machines and voicemail. Composing a text is slightly more work than just blabbing away. But I think it's so much nicer for the recipient that I'd much rather text than leave a voicemail.
I'm still not sure why it has taken so long for IAM to support this kind of configuration, using VPC as the isolation point.

Our use case is running packer[0], which requires a large IAM profile[1], without needing to create a separate account for AMI creation. It would be awesome to issue credentials that limited Security Group creation/deletion, Instance Creation/Termination, etc to a single, VPC.

[0]: https://www.packer.io/
[1]: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon.html
To be fair, you can make millions as a Sport's Athlete or professional video gamer.

The "Rock Stars" within a profession always make a sizable chunk of money. Be it programmer, engineer, lawyer... even blue collar workers. I have heard plenty of HVAC guys who start their own company in a nice area and make 6-figures.

But to even out the variance, I use the Bureau of Labor Statistics to report the median wage for professions. BLS states 40k for these workers, so that is where I get my numbers from.
At my workplace we evaluated atom-shell for couple of desktop apps we were building but we found various shortcomings:

1. Limited integration with desktop environment. Have a look at System tray integration for example, https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/blob/master/docs/api/tray... in many cases it is just too simplistic.

2. Another thing we learnt the hard way is, a lot of JS charting libraries are not meant for plotting streaming data for long period of time. We for example found that, most d3js based charting libraries start to balloon in memory usage if left running for > 1 hour or so.

3. Large executables.

It is still a nice platform to develop on! But if you are stuck with performance problems or something, coding your way out of it is way harder (unless you are willing to get your hands dirty with atom-shell code itself).

EDIT: So we ended up using Qt. in fact, a lot of JS libraries can be used in Qt via QML, for example - https://github.com/jwintz/qchart.js/tree/master.
I don't want to get into an argument here but calling it "historical revisionism" is absolutely disrespectful to the rest of the world.

Historical revisionism is polls showing a huge percentage of Americans still think Saddam was involved in 911.

USA had no business invading Iraq (nor practically any other country, for that matter) and using the excuse that "Saddam claimed he had them to look tough" in order to justify so many tragedies (mostly foreign but also American) is egregious.

When someone performs threat assessment they do it based on facts and not on posturing or they'd prosecute every internet troll out there.

ugh. I'm going to stop now because I'm pissed but I'm going to let you know that you're basically apologizing for crimes against humanity with what sounds like kinder garden excuses.
Most suggestions involve increased taxes.
that's an interesting analogy, i don't really think of Marxism as an ideology, but a critique of capitalism. people who berate it as an ideology are correct because they are berating Marxist–Leninism, but Marxism as a critique of capitalism is sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

> For the political ideology commonly associated with states governed by Communist parties, see Marxism–Leninism.
Another view I've seen recently, it covers the same time period as the parent article.

http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/willmodpol.html
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I'm surprised the article didn't mention anything about the time required to achieve and maintain proficiency.

If knowledge and skill comes from time immersed in work and study, then the knowledge worker who puts in 60 hours a week will be far more valuable than the one who only devotes 15 hours a week.

A surgeon who practices medicine only 2 hours a day will be much less capable than one who does more surgeries, spends more time learning new procedures and technologies, and keeps current with all the latest research.

If you need to design a suspension bridge, do you go with the engineer who spends 80% of her time not designing bridges, or do you choose the engineer who lives and breathes bridge design and has many more successful projects in her portfolio?

An attorney making $600 per hour might survive financially on 4 hours per week if her hourly rate stayed constant. But if she tried to do that, her knowledge would quickly atrophy, and nobody would pay that rate any more.

It's a bit of a paradox. To make enough money per hour to live well on a small number of hours, knowledge workers must acquire a very high level of knowledge and skill to make their time a scarce resource.

But to acquire and maintain that level of knowledge and skill demands a large and continuing investment of time.

Competition with other knowledge workers ensures that the highest rate per hour goes to those who spend the most time actively engaged in their field.
>Aren't most or nearly all of the Java exploits related to running sandboxed code?

Yes. Memory corruption flaws are still found with some regularity in the JVM, but they probably represent less than 10-20% of browser security issues.
Previous discussion of atom-shell and other similar software here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8729791
Make sure you also check out the starter app!

https://github.com/atom/atom-shell-starter
When I have other ways to contact someone, I feel like leaving a voicemail is slightly inconsiderate, as it is the mode of asynchronous communication that requires the most effort from the receiver.

It's much easier for them to see that they have a missed call from me, or see a text message to see what the call was about, or to read a quick email rather than listen to a voicemail.
You're technically correct in that chemical weapons were found, but the bigger picture is that that these were manufactured before 1991. Also, the US government itself deliberately suppressed knowledge of these findings because they made the "active WMD programme" basis for going to war look even more dubious.

All of this is mentioned in the linked article.
The concern is, on the whole, those receiving & relying on a basic income find a right to the fruits of the labors of others, without any incentive toward their own productivity. Many people find that with a little care, they can live nicely on little - and if that little is just given to them, then they can occupy their time just fine with mundane leisure (eating, mating, entertaining) and ongoing demand for more. Why contribute to national productivity when idleness is encouraged & funded?

Many will contend that having the basics covered will encourage the poor to be more productive by not limiting their efforts to mere existence (a la "might one take time to learn programming if not obligated to a 16-hour-a-day job just to pay rent & buy food?"). Many contend this is absurd, as those not inclined toward productivity are not going to become inclined without any reason to. Reality is a complex mix of these, the overall expectation being grounded in one's faith (or lack thereof) in human productivity sans motivation.

Basic income also risks devaluing money. The purpose of currency is representation of value; if someone is not creating value, their money has no value to represent. Money taken from someone and given to others (taxation for BI distribution) gives workers nothing in exchange for their efforts; money received for zero productivity may be squandered a la "easy come, easy go". Concern is akin to minimum wage: a gallon of gas will always be worth about 20 minutes of clerking at a gas station, regardless of the number placed upon the currency used to pay for the work and buy the gas. Basic income would skew low-number pricing: higher prices may continue to represent greater value accurately, but pricing of mundane goods/services would inflate as those purchasing have done nothing to acquire the currency buying them.

Basic needs have a cost to fulfill. Making it easy to fulfill those needs without social contribution reduces overall societal productivity, rewarding idleness and punishing productivity, lowering national GDP. Requiring people to work (true welfare cases aside) encourages productivity, including in work people would rather not do but for need to provide for one's own basic needs.

Reverse question is worth asking: how can basic income possibly be sustainable?
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Yes, necessarily. Because welfare is means-tested.
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If North Korea is involved I think it was after the initial attack (theory #4 in the article). As he says in the article: "the explicit North Korean connection -- threats about the movie The Interview -- were only made by the hackers after the media picked up on the possible links between the film release and the cyberattack". North Korea may not have even been aware of the movie until the hack.

It seems like Sony is playing up the North Korea connection because it could only help them. They would lose more credibility (and potentially lawsuits [1]) if it's a 14yo hacker doing it for the lulz. State sponsored hacking is a Big Deal, and many would give leniency to Sony if that's a true story.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/sony-faces-4th...
Your first assumption is a needlessly pessimistic view of the quality/quantity of intrinsic motivation in most people. By the same token something like "most people would drop out and enjoy the freedom of pursuing their passions, working on what they enjoy and spurring smaller scale local economies etc" might be equally naively optimistic, but I don't think the truth is at either extreme.
Just my opinion here, but for context you can include virtually any television program that originated as NTSC and was not shot on film and telecined. Just about any soap-opera for example. A more recent example would be NBC's Peter Pan Live, which looked like it was done in native 60p to my eye. Paradoxically it was a play but really would have benefitted greatly from 24p.
Why does https://www.seetheinterview.com keep redirecting to https://www.kernel.com which doesn't even contain The Interview film?
It redirects to kernel.com on the website they link to, and there is no reference of The Interview. Where have I made a wrong turn, or is everyone else seeing what I am?
> Removing something from Google search results effectively does remove it from the Internet. If you can't find something, then it may as well not exist. ...

Well, if you believe the "social" hype[], people increasingly find info via shares from friends (e.g. Facebook posts). If I chose to make a Facebook post about Max Mosely (the "media figure in the United Kingdom" referred to in the article and strangely not mentioned by name) how could the "right to be forgotten" be applied? I think that even in Europe, that level of individual censorship would be unacceptable.

[] BTW I don't believe "social discovery" is nuking general search. But it's an interesting "what if"
Thanks for the link.

It still seems true. Simple bankruptcy does not wipe out your student loan debt. You need to go above and beyond bankruptcy and win a court case against your creditors in court after you've declared yourself bankrupt.
Would you mind sharing the sweet spots that have caused atom-shell to be a good fit for your application?
What I have done in the past was to create /srv/lib and /srv/www to handle CI sites. All sites would be served out of the www dir and CI would be stored in versioned dirs under lib.

The sites would then symlink to whatever version of CI they needed, which also allowed me to upgrade/test/downgrade quickly if needed.
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I used to work at a company that had an office phone system with desk phones and all. To this day I consider that kind of system a most confusing piece of technology I tried to use.
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I wonder if Netflix was considered, or if the lack of PPV revenue disqualified the most popular streaming service in the country.
No. The welfare system is incredibly expensive to operate! I mean, in terms of the administrative overhead, the armies of bureaucrats, etc. Scrap all that, make a simple, unconditional payment - nothing to administer, no fraud to investigate, and it becomes very affordable - without raising taxes either.

But it won't work in the real world, because it will be too easy to buy votes by promising more and more. This basic income needs to be fixed at a level of bare subsistence only. Like here in the UK we have a problem with government housing now - I don't begrudge anyone a roof over their heads, but it has morphed into, with at least one spare bedroom, in the area of you choosing for life even if you no longer need it, etc. Thats not fair on the people paying for it, and it's not fair on the people on the waiting list.
The post specifically says it won't be available until 10AM PT, which is 32 minutes from now.
That focus on Iraq is strange. I'm French and when Bush provided so-called "evidence" at the UN, people here were laughing and media were skeptic. From comments on HN, it seems Bush was taken seriously in other circles of the world, which may explain why some US citizen boycotted French products after we said we would create a worldwide axis against war.
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They could've had a better holding page than redirecting to somewhere with zero information.
The studio takes their direction from Japan-based Sony. Japan, in fact, required changes to The Interview assassination scene to tame it.
Have you thought about porting it to Meteor's Atmosphere (https://atmospherejs.com/i/publishing)? You'd only need to set up a Meteor Developer account and then create a Meteor package file and export the library for Meteor's usage (afaik).

I'm curious if this supports Leaflet too?
CLID is trivially spoofed; indeed there are CRM vendors that will do that for your sales force.

Telco should fix CLID.