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It struck me as a resonant response to the proclamation of empathy made by France's newspaper (Le Monde) after the 9/11 attacks: "Today we are all American" [http://www.history.com/topics/reaction-to-9-11].
tattoos can be a problem, right?
"Eventually Guinea turned to communist Russia with even greater consequences."

What did you mean by that? Wikipedia is prety succint on this:

"Following France's withdrawal, Guinea quickly aligned itself with the Soviet Union and adopted socialist policies. This alliance was short lived, however, as Guinea moved towards a Chinese model of socialism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea#Independence_and_Post-C...
> Given the circumstances, you'd think everybody understands that the "je suis charlie" thing is just a gesture.

The popular sentiment on most forums (at least ones I've seen) seem to equation the 'je suis charlie' statement with effective re-publishing of the offending cartoons.

You've gotta understand that Mohammad is a very significant and sacred symbol to Muslims everywhere. Printing cartoons Mohammad doing weird things is pretty seriously distressing moderate Muslims -- it's like if someone in America were to making fun of black people being slaves -- it's a no-no, you don't go there, it crosses a line, it's insulting black people, why do that? Of course everyone should have the right to print absolutely anything, but we adults should distance ourselves from childish and belligerent content like that.
I just finished reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Highly recommended for anyone who's interested in the concept.
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"We just want a fair split here. We'll take all the equity and you can have all of the risk."
NSA diode candiate, unfortunately :(

For edge devices, it's a criminal that high security standards are not more pervasive. Though given the nature of retail products, it's not a big surprise even though it is still disappointing. (How many of these boxes even work for longer than 5 minutes without spontaneously rebooting (crashing) or having a xfer rate within an order of magnitude of the channel bandwidth?)

PS: If there were a minimal OpenBSD/(x86|arm) based pfSense-alike project that could be easily themed, minified and plugin-ed, that would rock... and potentially dramatically reduce the attack surface by reducing the duplication of awful embedded web app implementations. (Yes, there are DDWRT and other Linux embedded network gear projects and pfSense (which is great)... OpenBSD for fewer lines of code.) It seems like what might happen going forward because the existing vendor stacks are often terrible and likely expensive for them to maintain. (Kickstarter for hw+sw or enterprise "crowd"-funded perhaps.)

Folks requesting pfSense ARM support: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=34707.0
I would suspect (though I am not a fancy CEO man) that it is generally best not to talk to employees about what a great deal you got on them, like they are cogs in your supply chain that you got on clearance.

It would only be marginally better if you complained about how expensive they were (especially if many of them benefited from the sale minimally as common stock employees).

I think it would be better to, you know, welcome them to the team and treat them like people.
Pretty much. Look for lastModifiedVersion in: http://dubeiko.com/development/FileSystems/HFSPLUS/tn1150.ht...
This is good news!

By watching which messaging tools are banned in the UK, we will have a canonical list of which messaging tools GCHQ cannot breach.

Thanks David!
Now imagine, your father was the lead architect of the gift card system he worked on for five years, and he gave you the very first issued gift card as a gift instead. Completely different again. What the students are protesting is how mainstream economics aren't capable of even noticing this value, and what I'm trying to say is they have a point. For certain cases, labor has value for its own sake.
That's not been my experience. I can regularly get my choice of the Hudson at 2000 or lower with a clearance (1100-2000 requires a clearance in most places). At night, I prefer lower as the buildings are more impressive when you're below the top of them. On a nice summer day, the VFR corridor can be a zoo, so I'll sometimes take the clearance at 1500 just to stay in less congested airspace.

If LGA is landing 13 or Newark is using 11/29, then you have a conflict with the airspace over the river, but it's very rare for Newark to use 11/29, and LGA traffic counts aren't all that high to present a conflict. Plus, if you're on a clearance and being controlled by LGA tower, they'll turn you if they need to to accommodate a departure or an arrival.

I often hear pilots complain they can't get a clearance through NYC Bravo airspace, but I've only once been turned down in probably 50 attempts. That was a Thanksgiving Wednesday when they had a radar outage and they were turning everyone away who wasn't landing inside the Bravo. I've found NYC tri-Bravo controllers some of the easiest and most accommodating approach controllers to work with.
Yea, but it would be better to convert filenames from disk at comparison time.
You can't get permission for the wrong thing and don't need it for the right thing
If most of the UK didn't already think Cameron was an arse this could really damage his reputation.
1) What are the odds Tim Cook or Craig Federighi will here about this?

2) What are good filesystems for OS X to adopt? OS X supports other filesystems. Is there a way to force it to install the OS onto a different filesystem, like ext4?
I think there are very few cases where the use of military force is unambiguously morally okay.
Ahh right.

The datasheet for the nRF24LE1 talks about it's AES encryption/decryption accelerator (section 15) and thermal noise random number generator (section 16), but the power consumption specs (section 26.1) talk about the rng using 0.5mA and don't even mention the AES hardware (even though they list other modules all the way down to 0.5uA). The RX/TX modules use over 10mA, so an order of magnitude more than the hardware RNG, and possibly 4 orders of magnitude more than the AES hardware.

I doubt the encryption would even register in battery life - completely obscured by the power consumed by the TX/RX modules.

http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/content/download/2443/29442/fi...
People keep saying that passwords are flawed, but what else is there? Authentication depends on secret information, does it not?
I, for one, welcome our new feudal corporate overlords. But seriously, it's great that Google is doing this. I just wish they didn't have to.
Have they improved the implementation recently? I have not benchmarked myself, but according to [1], they are slower than the equivalent loop-based code.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.6631v2.pdf
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While I really like thristian's explanation of why case insensitivity adds massive complexity to a system: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876873)

I have to point out that case sensitivity offloads a bunch of that complexity to the user. This is almost definitely why OS X uses case-insensitive HFS+ by default.

As a ultra-simple example: with a case-sensitive file system I can have two directories, "documents" and "Documents". Which one are my documents in? Half in one, half in the other, probably.

I'm not saying Linus at al. are wrong that case-sensitive is the way to go, but there are some reasonable arguments for trying to take that complexity back from the user and deal with it in the file system.

Source: I'm a long time mac user, and I just switched to a case-sensitive file system last year. The win of having my dev machine match my deployment environment (iOS) is bigger than any downsides I've seen yet.
> Firstly the model you claim isn't taught as an actual model of the world is - for some reason - exactly the model used to shape national and international economic policy.

I claim that it is taught and in the context of a foundational model to build upon. Critiquing the 101 model in any field is a straw-man argument.

Politics and economics are deeply intertwined, I agree to the claim earnestly, but it was not the point of my post, nor was it a primary point of the article. The article is directed at academic economics, so I address the attacks on academic economics. Politicians clearly have different incentives than economics (in fact, there is a robust field within economics, Public Choice Theory, which addresses the incentives of politicians and collective actors), and to judge an academic pursuit by politicians' self-serving interpretations of it is disingenuous. If the objection of the protesters is politics, then protest politics, not one of the tools they abuse.

>You also ignore the fact that the few heterodox economists that exist are utterly ignored by policy makers - even when they continue to make correct predictions about future economic outcomes.

See above - the article and my comment address academics, not politics.

>Rigorous intellectual deconstructions have existed for decades. They have a much better predictive record than mainstream 'wisdom', but they continue to be ignored by the profession.

They have indeed, and only some few have better predictive records - I'd love to hear which you are referring to (connotation = honestly curious).

I'll explain this by saying that you conflate the profession of economist with the profession of politician or politician's supporter.

I'll finish by noting that free-market liberalism is not a political consensus, and in fact "unfettered [free-market] [capitalism]" (and various synonyms) is commonly used as a pejorative among the political left of many leanings, and any support for the idea among the political right is lip-service at best and clearly hypocritical based on the often corporatist leanings of right-wing policy.

Those on the right who do support free-market liberalism fall more toward Ron Paul and the Tea Party (neither a perfect representation of the ideal, though closer than the majority of the right) and supporters of the man or the party are clearly NOT the political mainstream, but at best a vocal minority.

Those on the left supporting free-market liberalism (various anarchist groups and left-libertarians) are, if anything a smaller influence than those on the right, or at least a less discussed vocal minority in the news.

The mainstream of both right and left follow remarkably similar economic policies differentiated by the rhetoric used to support them, both tending away from free-market liberalism.

The conflation of politics and economics turns most public discourse into a religious war, rather than a reasoned interpretation of academic progress on many fronts (and, as you note, public ignorance of many of those academic fronts).
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In most of the UK, buses are operated by private corps. It's actually fairly annoying as it means a ticket for one bus doesn't work in another, and there is no way to get a generic bus pass... but I don't see why it shouldn't be this way, to be honest.
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The choice of Iraq over Saudi as Great Enemy has little to do with size or power; back before the Iraq-Iran war, Iraq wasn't a poor country. In fact, if Saddam hadn't misread US responses when he hinted at the possibility of taking over Kuwait, he would probably still be in charge and I bet he'd have developed a great friendship with King Abdallah by now.

The Saudis are safe because they will "do the right thing" when the chips are down -- see for example their recent refusal to cut oil production: there is a drunk Russian bear to quiet down, prices have to stay low to make him feel pain, so the Saudi Kingdom will make the "right" choice even if it costs them some cash. That's what a reliable partner does, and as long as partners remain reliable (and strategically irreplaceable), there is no reason to take them out.
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Rant: the older I get, the more I think that "value" (our social evaluation of worth) should be based on nothing more than hours of labor. An hour of labor from someone with a 130-IQ might carry a higher price on the market than an hour of labor from someone with a 90-IQ, but that doesn't mean our society should perceive the former as being more "valuable." Because at the end of the day, each person is giving up the same hour of life on this earth God gave him.

To take this to its extreme: If Superman existed, would he be just as valuable as a normal person? If he needed a kidney, would it not make sense to move him up on the transplant list? After all, doing so would save countless lives. At some point, the disparity in abilities becomes so great that only an ideologue can claim people are equal. I agree that it's important to lift the veil of ignorance only in special circumstances (employment, limited educational opportunities, etc), but one should avoid defining people as equal when what we really should be doing is treating them as equal.

One should also note that who is doing the work isn't important. It's what is being done that matters. Whether it's an executive or a janitor, the same amount of good is being done volunteering at a soup kitchen. The difference is that the executive could do more good by working at his job and donating an hour's worth of pay to the soup kitchen. That's the sense in which a person can be more valuable to society. From Money: The Unit of Caring[1]:

> There's this thing called "Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage". There's this idea called "professional specialization". There's this notion of "economies of scale". There's this concept of "gains from trade". The whole reason why we have money is to realize the tremendous gains possible from each of us doing what we do best.

> This is what grownups do. This is what you do when you want something to actually get done. You use money to employ full-time specialists.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/
I may not be active duty military and a ballistics expert but I implore you to watch this quick video of the shooting: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668

Here it is again in slow motion, zoomed in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w

Kalashnikov rifles chambered at 7.62mm exhibit greater than zero recoil under the best of circumstances.

It simply isn't credible to state that a Kalashnikov rifle will not exhibit _any_ recoil.

And to pretend as if a 7.62mm round fired at point blank range into a human target would cause _no_ amount of blood splatter or blowback in the target is highly suspect.

There is no visual of a bullet hitting this police officer and I will not apologize for my statements inciting controversy. Watch the video. In less than a minute you will see I am accurately describing the events as they unfold on video.
In political terms, I suspect perfect has become the enemy of good.
Feel like Airbnb is being the DVD against your old VHS?
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I take it you're not very familiar with Mountain View's geography. Google and the vast majority of other SV companies there are to the north of the 101, which is already well served by existing shuttles, and where the bus (rightly) only barely ventures. Most of the route connects shopping centres, the Caltrain station, the hospital etc, which is very useful for eg. senior citizens who can't drive.
That is a good generalization.
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According to the FAQ [1] you're both wrong :)

"Google has contracted with ALTRANS ... to manage the daily operations and customer service needs for the Mountain View Community Shuttle."

[1] http://www.mountainview.gov/depts/pw/community_shuttle.asp
I'm French, I think I can speak/write English reasonably well, but I still have to correct myself sometimes over punctuations rules, yes. The rule I was taught is "every punctuation character that has a part over the writing line has a space before it".
I have to point out again that it has not been discredited, and is still quite actively debated and used in economics. This includes both the LTV of Karl Marx and that of David Ricardo.
> The question is whether people will ever get smarter and start being picky.

The market for music is typically youth. So people probably do get smarter, start being picky, and stop being youth. But there's always another generation right behind.
Nope. She never used it. It was the initial "determining the eligibility of this machine" phase where it asked me to log in (originally, this was to check that you'd indeed purchased OSX Lion, but the OS is "free" now). If "Find my Mac" is turned on, it won't even let you wipe the hard drive.
He can if course make it fast, even very fast but conceptually its hard because he has focused so much work on making floating fast. He uses them as the basic element on the stack and hiddes pointers in the NaN. Ints dont have NaNs so that approche does not scale that well to more primitives.

There are a range of compiler tricks that can make boxed math go fast as well.
Another breathtaking "circuit board" is Los Angeles -- at night. I immediately likened what I saw to a glowing circuit board without thinking twice. What a resemblance! Very computational.

Flying in from the east, descending over Riverside and heading towards LAX, presents an absolutely astonishing view below. Lit up in orderly sequence are a vast range of square blocks, freeway arteries, commercial corridors, and industrial complexes housing warehouse "chips" that are eerily reminiscent of a giant, organically-built, human-habitable computer. Tron-style. Hardly an end in sight if the weather works it out.

All breathtakingly illuminated in varying, relative intensity and motion (streetlamps, autos, traffic signals, spotlights, etc.), "powering" the whole damn machine of a human ant colony with electric life.

Please excuse my poor attempt at a poetic description, I have not been able to find a proper photo to share here, yet.
Yeah, identification of any sort is so Nazi, right?
You could just epoxy it, but I don't think it's meant to be production ready.
I used to be an investment banker and dealt with corp dev guys (gendered pronoun used intentionally and accurately) all the time. PG's article is spot-on.

One additional thing to note is that the diligence process can be an intelligence-gathering bonanza for a larger acquiror. The information they glean can be either harmless to you (data points on employee shares/salaries allows them to build knowledge of early-stage compensation, which is very useful when poaching engineers from other companies) or harmful to you (they see your private information and act on it in a way that damages your business).

For what it's worth, I would advise people approached by Corp Dev types to not only say no as PG suggested, but do so in 10 words or less. The email response should be "No, not interested. Sorry" -- no greeting, no pleasantries, no signature. You won't hurt their feelings and a longer email is just an invitation to them to start a conversation that is going to suck up your time and energy.

If you are interested I would demand a break-up fee as others here have noted, as well as an aggressively worded NDA and a non-hire agreement that stops them from poaching your employees.

Finally, I would also consider the effects that knowledge of an explored-but-abandoned acquisition would have on your employees' motivation if they found out. Generally not good for culture and/or long-term goal orientation.
It seems the QuRan (like the Communist manifesto etc) provided an ideology that drove people to conquer and feel good about it. There have been many reasons to expand and conquer in the past, and they were all usually driven by some ideology. Hellenism, Communism, are two examples.

The political idea that a society should be run according to the principles of Islam is sometimes called "Islamism". A huge reason there isn't much "Christianism" today is that the New Testament was written by people who didn't have much power and so focused on peaceful proselytizing. That is not to say that the Church and other institutions didn't at times wield great political power and seek to maintain it. But rather that the WRITINGS advocate for more like anarchism than a philosophy that encourages converting others by the sword.

Judaism has never placed emphasis on proselytizing - whether by the sword or not. It had a much more exclusive character so there is no sense that Jews living in a democratic country would dream of converting that country's structure to one that follows the rules laid out in the Torah.

So Islam in a political and cultural sense is closer to Communism than Judaism and Christianity. And we see much of the same dynamics. McCarthyism in the USA and the Red Scare are now replaced with fear of radical Islam.
I was pleasantly surprised when someone posted my story about how my life changed when I started caring about the people I don't hire (although my ISP was not).

In wading through all the comments I categorize the reactions into two camps:

1) That's cool.
2) You're asking too much.

I am preparing an essay addressing most of the issues but I thought I'd share my thoughts on inventiveness because, after all, what happened was that my job candidates and I together invented a new process; nothing had been pre-planned.

My dad told me the secret to success was to not be evil (way before google). He didn't care if I became rich but he would be ashamed of me if I were evil.

This story from a someone who picked me up hitchhiking really makes a point about the relationship between good, evil, and inventiveness. Hope you like it.

(Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859199)
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This is unrealistic. There are many startups that are worthless (product is terribly architected, teams don't get along, they cannot track their customers revenue, etc.). A company cannot be expected to offer money for something without some minimum level of due diligence.

again, if you absolutely are not selling, then say that and move on.
The news hidden away at the end, about a bunch of SV companies getting together to operate a shared shuttle service, is arguably much more interesting. It's a huge waste to have each company operate buses for their own employees only: sharing there costs and making them open to all makes a lot more sense. Now if only they'd start doing this for SFO-MTV as well...

http://www.mvgo.org/maps-and-schedule.html
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I am more thinking about things like the Iraq War, a invasion without any justification besides a bunch of lies.
Have you heard of PowerVR's raytracing chip?
http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/raytracing.asp