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On top of everything else, the DHS even announced yesterday that they didn't consider it a credible threat.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/dhs-no-credible-threat...

Theaters should have gone forward with it. God forbid something happened they could have said "DHS has far more expertise in these matters than entertain chain management, so we were trusting their judgement".
Are we obviating that Sony is a Japanese company?
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It's a comedy. It's satire. Also, none of us have seen it yet, so it's impossible to say it advocates anything until we've seen it.
Haha no doubt. After yet another ortho surgery due to meathead stupidery, I was doing PT with "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash the tv wrestler. On GH, he said "It's the fountain of youth, baby."
All of this is just a publicity stunt and you all fell for it.

Making a specific threat like this is completely out of line with the way the regime works. They work by brinkmanship; they learned in the 80s that they can't effectively use terrorism as they have a physical nexus.
This is what caused me eventually to move from Turbo Pascal to C++ during the Windows 3.1 time frame.

I started to get fed up with writing bindings to libraries not directly supported by Turbo Pascal and pure C was a no go for me.
We are working on Wikidata to DBpedia mapping. I think we will finish next year. We had some extraction on DBpedia 2014. http://blog.dbpedia.org/2014/09/09/dbpedia-version-2014-rele...
On the one hand I'm always against censorship in all forms.

On the other hand this movie just seems needless, tasteless and unlike say Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", serves not to be properly satyrical, but rather just as a disgusting empowerment fantasy.

That said, I think its well within the theaters right not to show it, but I'm internally divided on the issue.
Actually there is a natural way to hack your body and increase your HGH by about 2000% [1] via fasting.

One theory is that when you fast, your body activates the HGH to help burn fat at faster rate.

I fast between 24-48 hours (didn't do it last month due to being on the road most of the time) and for the time I did, I could see gaining muscle mass in a short time (in about of month) in conjunction with doing weights.

[1] http://anabolicmen.com/increase-hgh-in-24-hours/ (there is a link to NIH study)
I'm not saying a name has to provide sufficient context. I'm saying a name that provides that context is superior to one that does not.

A red-black tree is named so because those were the colors their laser printer supplied. This is (much like semaphore) a historical accident. Yet, just by the name red-black, you do indeed have enough context to distinguish it from a plain old binary search tree. The defining feature is that you color every node either red or black, thus red-black in the name.

Likewise with splay tree: the defining function is the splay operation, which the name is a vivid reminder of.

Splay tree and red-black tree are Good Names (TM). B tree, B+ tree, B* tree, Bx tree are Bad Names (TM).
Really, what can you do when you are erroneously (and probably maliciously) identified as the author of a looney rant and it keeps spreading on email chains?
Can anyone argue that it would not be a good thing if Kim Jong Un were assassinated? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_North_Korea
I was just about to comment saying that if he really wants that done then he might want to start putting more of his money where his mouth is (even more so than he may be doing now) because that is a bit of a stretch (although I appreciate the optimistic attitude).
Recruiters push the "total compensation" idea because it's cheaper than offering real money, but in my experience salary is all that matters.

Stock always comes with a vesting schedule and a forfeit clause, which means that if you accept more stock as a substitute for a better salary, you are implicitly agreeing to let them retroactively underpay you for the last couple years of your tenure, whenever you move on to the next thing.

Don't kid yourself that you're going to stay at the same company long enough that it won't matter, either; the raise you get by switching jobs always dwarfs the raise you get by sticking around and jumping through the perf hoops and trying to get a promotion. So the only way to make the stock pay out is to screw yourself on salary over the long term.

What's more, keeping a large portion of your net worth in your employer's stock is a terrible diversification strategy, so you will probably end up flipping it and investing in something else as soon as it vests. So.... what was gained by accepting compensation in stock, again? I'd rather they just pay me cash money and let me invest it however I want.
> It's because we don't criminalize homelessness as aggressively as other major cities

Yes, let's criminalize homelessness. How dare those homeless people refuse to stay in their mansions and apartments.

Do you think we should send the worst of them to Gitmo?
They aught to release it in Texas, Molon Labe!
The US has shortages of medicines, too. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/default....
Thanks for the link, I never heard of that movie. Interesting.

Wikipedia says it pretty well : "was much criticised by those who believed it exploited the subject of presidential assassination, and that by doing so, was in bad taste"

There's a quote by Hillary Clinton, like it or not, likely to be our next president, describing that movie as "despicable". I never thought I'd agree with her on absolutely anything, but here I am.

(and again I state two wrongs don't make a right, etc)
There was a 2006 British mockumentary, Death of a President, which depicted the death of President George Bush (in a much tamer fashion that the explosions in The Interview). The film was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats. Two U.S. cinema chains refused to screen it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_(2006_film...
My old non-smart-phones lasted at least a week. I miss those days.
...and your agent and accountant would be completely incompetent.

By now, everybody ought to know to demand a percentage of the gross revenue, and not the net profit.
How's that? To debug GOTOs you have to place breakpoints on each possible detection of error (or at a shared trampoline). To debug exceptions, you just enable first-chance exception handling for the kind of exception you're interested in and you're done.
It might, it might not. There's no way to know in advance, so I'd say your comment here is pretty much content-free. What I want is the option to make that call, if/when an actual situation develops where it might be justified - based on the actual situation "on the ground"... not hypotheticals.
I was curious to see how you'd react to this, since Spiegel's success has been such a thorn in your side. So let's see, you opened with conspiracy theory nutjob (so maybe the real purpose of the Sony hack was to leak Spiegel's private email and bolster his personal brand??), and segued nicely into grammar nazi pedant (as if anybody, anywhere called the email impressive due to its punctuation).

> First, he's a bad writer. He'd barely get a C in a freshman English class

> Any lepers need cured?

And you probably spent as more time writing your comment than Spiegel did writing his email.

> Given that a 40-year-old CEO who wrote an email like that would (and rightfully) be considered somewhat off-the-ball

No. Maybe all the 40-year-old CEOs who privately email you write exceptionally well, but that hasn't been my experience at all.
TMUX is a transferable implementation of terminal session and "tab" organization. It's also scriptable if you aren't happy with some aspect of it's default presentation or interaction.
For me, that is enormously valuable.

Sounds like your use case could be mapped by TMUX windows acting like Terminal tabs, and TMUX sessions acting like multiple Terminal windows. Except the benefit is that now you can use this workflow on any system with a posix compliant shell and a tmux binary (which I'm pretty certain is practically all the things at this point). Sessions and windows can be given labels which is a nice touch too.

If you are an Emacs user, it's also worth noting that TMUX totally works well with ansi-term. :) I normally have a TMUX session dedicated to an ansi-term buffer in Emacs. Even if I have iTerm or Konsole using another session.

"..but transient windows don't need splits"; well, in my universe transient windows are splits. :)

Anyway, I don't want you to think I'm trying to persuade you into adopting what I consider awesome and useful. Just clarifying my statement. It sounds like you already have a workflow, are happy with it, and don't see any need for alteration.
No, you can build STM on top of mutexes, too; you don't need CAS and LL/SC as low-level primitives. In fact, IIRC, Intel CPUs use a mutex in their cache coherency protocol to implement CAS and LL/SC.
I'm "quite young" (26), although I don't know what you'd class as "actual work" (do Web development and PhD research count?).

To be honest I like using tiling WMs because they're not magic, whizz-bang things. I could lay out my windows better with a stacking WM (eg. when badly-behaved apps make assumptions about their size and put buttons off the edge of the screen), but a tiling WM does just well enough that I really don't care about my window layout anymore. Whatever Xmonad does is usually fine.

Likewise, with a tiling window manager I really don't care about background pictures anymore. Before using tiling WMs I used to use chbg to cycle through a directory of images, and use (fake, then composited) transparency in terminals, etc. These days my machines boot straight into Xmonad with st and emacs open; my only "background" is a black screen for a couple of seconds while they start up.

Any screenshot I take would just advertise whatever fullscreen application I have open at the moment, along with a line of text at the top of the screen with a clock and counters for my unread email and failing tests.
I am truly saddened for free speech. Doesn't anyone realize that capitulating to threats is the worst thing one can do, it only emboldens the idiots further.
So, we must assume that Sony hacked themselves and leaked their internal emails and data to promote a Seth Rogan movie?

Genius!

/sarc
From what I've heard, North Korea would be less than happy with the end.
"For Snapchat to capitalize on market conditions in next 3 years, it is imperative that we become a revenue-generating company." So frakin smart!
I recall reading that the reason the landing gear had to be lowered manually was because once deployed there was no way to retract it. Reentry with the landing gear lowered would result in a loss of crew and vehicle.

Basically, if anything went wrong and it was deployed at the wrong time it was game over. In the grand scheme of things it was probably fairly prudent to reduce it to a big red button instead of something that could be operated remotely or automatically versus having the ability to remotely land the shuttle in the event all the crew was incapacitated.

For the life I of me I can't find the reference at the moment... I was on a wiki binge on the shuttle program about a week ago and just can't remember whereabouts I saw this.
I think that's correct. Either innocuous (somebody tried to think what it might be and reported it as if it were likely / truth), or insidious (government saw chance to increase negativity towards North Korea)...

Still, crazy how much of a shit storm this has created!
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Wow. That's just borderline pathetic. I'm guessing it has something to do with the law that governs them from advertising to people in the UK... they're not allowed to make money off you?
No doubt. That's where judgment comes into play. And why I would be very averse to actually firing in a situation like that. But, again, I just want the option for the times when there is a clear path to eliminating the threat.
Where are these sources for "no credible intelligence" says US Government. Says who? Why is this implicit & anonymous?
that makes for an interesting americanism: if you don't torrent the film, the terrorists win
Why so many health articles are junk
That wasn't Snapchat's fault, was it? AFAIK a third party was the one that messed up, or did I eat the Snapchat PR bullshit?
To be frank, describing Amazon as an "online store" suggests a gross simplification of their business model. Amazon's business is built on traditional pillars of retailing: customer service, B2B relations and owning the best real-estate.

No competitor is going to get better deals with UPS, Fedex and USPS. Partially because Amazon has located warehouses such that they help negotiate better shipping contracts and thus provide better customer service.

It has dumped everything that could be a profit into expansion for twenty years. A newcomer would be hard pressed to sell me a Kindle, a movie download, a used book and bearings for my clothes dryer all on the same order at an attractive price and with an aggressive delivery schedule.

If your idea might have legs, some VC will back it.

Good luck.
Yep, I think that would be genius, and top it off by allowing a "pay what you like" option. This is a great opportunity for Sony to try something new.
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For that matter, Death of a President had GWB actually being assassinated. I remember it causing a stir, but it did see release in the US.
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And let's not forget all of the work he put into tilting the odds in favor of success- such as convincing the music industry to change their business model. To say he had some sort of special genius for aesthetics isn't really fair- he also was very strategic. That may be the part the Ms. Mayer hasn't caught up to yet.
Profiles in courage.
> Guardians of Peace, the group claiming responsibility for the Sony hack, issued a sharp warning this week promising a “bitter fate” for viewers of the movie and warning others “to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.”

> “The world will be full of fear,” they said in an anonymous online posting. “Remember the 11th of September 2001.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/top-movie-the...

I don't think it's fair to place blame either on Sony or the cinemas for this.

Obviously bowing to intimidation like this sets a dangerous precedent, but at the same time it would be absolutely terrible if these threats were ignored and something similar to the Aurora shootings happened as a result.

At a certain point you have to take a step back and acknowledge that it's just a dumb comedy movie - definitely not something worth potential loss of life.

Perhaps Sony should just "leak" the film.
What you are doing is "victim blaming". It's not Sony's fault. It's not the theaters' faults. It's not the lawyers's faults.

It is the fault of the people threatening violence against moviegoers.

edit: I'm not commenting on the overly litigious culture of the US or easily panicked mentality over any threat. Those are fair critiques of the US. However, both of those would be moot if it were not for a credible threat of violence from some person/group. This philosophy of culpability pre-dates the US legal system.
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If this is true the legal system is absurd and we might as well hand the whole shebang over to Putin.
Just a reminder, all OSS projects get 3 free containers on CircleCI (which means up to 3x parallelism), and they all run in fast Linux containers (with sudo enabled).

Full disclosure: I work for CircleCI.
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I don't even think it was that. I think enough theater chains opted out, Sony assumed more would follow, and they realized a limited release didn't make financial sense. Sony knows the threat against theaters was bullshit. The theaters didn't have much to lose, there's other movies they can put on that screen, and this didn't even look like a good movie anyway. Maybe they just saw an opportunity to put The Hobbit on another screen and used this as an excuse.
Is Peter Thiel really gwern in disguise?
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Now this is something that needs disruption. Why can't I get a cheap hgh pill?
"Guardians of Peace" sounds like an elaborate troll. Yes the hack was significant, but I can't imagine the people responsible can do any damage to these movie theaters beyond ordering a bunch of pizzas to their address.
Thanks for the thoughtful writeup and great work on Streak. We're big fans. You're also fortunate you were notified by the Gmail team!

On the content_security_policy property in the manifest file, thanks for pointing that out. The documentation is a bit ambiguous: "In general, CSP works as a black/whitelisting mechanism for resources loaded or executed by your extensions." I'll can revise our post.

I'd rather not eval the script contents since we lose the ability to get stack traces.
Yeah, it wouldn't be treason. The sanctions have defined punishments at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/D...

> Criminal penalties for violating the Regulations range up to 10 years in prison, $1,000,000 in corporate fines, and $250,000 in individual fines. Civil penalties up to $65,000 per violation may also be imposed.
What would be so cool is if theatres all got together and screened the other THE INTERVIEW, the one starring Hugo Weaving. It's a 1998 Australian thriller that got very good reviews when it came out. I doubt anyone's seen it in the U.S.

But it has Mr. Smith / Elrond starring in it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interview_%281998_film%29

So join with me and petition your local theatre to show THE INTERVIEW, you know, the Hugo Weaving flick!
I doubt Sony care at this stage. The damage this has done is far more significant than one single movie. Even if the movie is a runaway success, they won't look back on this episode fondly.
If this is a trend, then there is a new form of censorship arising.

Will we end up where anyone that dislikes a message in a movie can make some random threats and have it pulled by liability fearing theaters?
Well, even when they have 'credible intelligence', they don't tell us, and if they did, it would not be the whole truth, if true at all.

That statement is meaningless. It's just the gov saying "if something does happen, we swear we didn't know, but we're not saying it's going to happen"...
Sure but giving you the option to make that call has an effect on others. Giving you that option may increase my chance of death in that situation. How many civilians (i.e. people with no training/little training in firearms, tactics, life and death situations) are going to be able to assess that situation, make the correct call, and save lives. I would guess almost none.
Doing plausibility calculations from another direction--

Let's say that we want to have a glowing forest. The glowing trees will absorb sunlight from a certain area and emit it over the same area with a certain efficiency.

Photosynthesis has an efficiency of between 0.1% and 1%. I don't know what the efficiency of glowing is, so let's assume it's 10%. So your plants will illuminate the area with about 0.01%-0.1% of the intensity of the light which they absorb.

Full daylight is about 100,000 lux, so your forest will be illuminated to somewhere around 10-100 lux, which is somewhere between "twilight" and "a poorly lit room".

It gets even worse if you want your plants to illuminate a larger area than they themselves cover: if you have a plant illuminating (say) 10x more area than it covers (a tree in the middle of an open field, or next to a road), you're down to 1-10 lux, optimistically.
Well it they wanted to get angry they could go all Oatmeal on them and immediately release the BluRay with all of the profits going some cause antithetical to the hackers.
"Googlely" would be pronounced as goog-lely, which was obviously not the desired idea or part of speech. Perhaps the author meant "Googley" which would be an adjective describing something as Google-like.
I try to think of those things as nice-to-haves. My pitch is just me, looking right into your eyes, being persuasive for about 30 seconds. When I was pitching a consumer app I'd have a prototype running on my phone, and I'd just hand it to the person after I stopped talking.

I have a powerpoint and pdf of my deck on a thumb-drive, but I almost never use them (if anything, I'll email them to the person as a followup after we speak). I once met a guy who had a QR-code on his business card which linked directly to a zip file with his business-plan, pitch deck, etc. I thought that was pretty cool.
I wish I could find where I first heard this quote (I think it may have been here on HN), but it was something like "Asking a scientist when we'll find a cure for cancer is like asking a mathematician when we'll find a solution for equations." I know he was speaking a bit off the cuff, but the idea of a "cure for cancer" misunderstands the problem domain so fundamentally as to be incoherent.
Have any of you read the book: Trust Me I'm Lying (http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator...)? I have not, but have had many discussions with friends who have read it. It's my understanding that the premise of the book is that mainstream media isn't as relevant as they use to be due to the rise of blogs; mainstream media picks up stories from a lot of blogs. Many of these stories are planted there by media manipulators to drum up controversy and thus increase sales.

Admittedly, I don't have evidence to suggest this, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a publicity stunt.

Edit: I'm not claiming the hack was a publicity stunt, I'm claiming that I wouldn't be surprised if the cancelation of the movie was a publicity stunt.
A bit click-baity and not that HN worthy tbh.
>The street became colder, short Russian summer moves for the winter. Brains cooled down a bit and began to think.

I've always anticipated winter with a similar sentiment--I like the way this was said.
Virtual desktops are so amazingly useful that it's hard to imagine why a tiling WM wouldn't adopt them.
This reminds me to David Asprey: my coffee will give you unlimited energy ... Ohh by the way, I am on modafinil and HRT, but it's the coffee that is working the magic here.

It is very basic not to eat sugar .... Ohh by the way, I am taking some HGH pills every day
This isn't really a matter of free speech.

Unless of course, you are suggesting that North Korea (accused) is infringing on your freedom of speech. In that case, maybe we can organize a sit-in or something.
I think the best way to learn to be a better programmer in your position is to find a more stable job with a good team of people. Learn from other people's experiences and mistakes. Working as a freelancer early doesn't have many advantages if you want to build a career, in my opinion.

Other than that - Keep trying different things. Go deeper with the frameworks and libraries you use to understand why do they work the way they do. Read about things that are interesting to you and you have some use for. When you have a problem, don't just "fix" it, understand exactly where, why and when it's happening.
Yeh, they conveniently ignore that fact that if it wasn't for the license fee that content wouldn't exist
Reminds me of a "design concept" for a little Nest-shaped box to stick on your window and magically cancel out all street noise. I'm pretty sure this is actually impossible, and is the equivalent of drawing a pegasus and saying "I have this great concept for a novel form of transportation!" i.e. more or less not worth anyone's time, since it's fantasy.
> Comparing statistics from small, homogeneous populations

Cuba is small. Does it have an homogeneous population?

No, amigo!
So am I, I just had some milk.
It’s official: Sony caves to hacker threats, pulls the Interview