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The Daily Dot broke this story and provided the actual documents, the meat of which is:

DO NOT ADVISE THIS INDIVIDUAL THAT THEY MAY BE ON A TERRORIST WATCHLIST.

CONTACT THE TERRORIST SCREENING CENTER AT [REDACTED] DURING THIS ENCOUNTER.
IF THIS WOULD EXTEND THE SCOPE OR DURATION OF THE ENCOUNTER, CONTACT THE TSC
IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. IF YOU ARE A BORDER PATROL OFFICER, IMMEDIATELY
CALL THE NTC.

ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN SUFFICIENT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION DURING THE ENCOUNTER,
WITHOUT OTHERWISE EXTENDING THE SCOPE OR DURATION OF THE ENCOUNTER, TO ASSIST THE
TSC IN DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT THE NAME OR IDENTIFIER(S) YOU QUERIED BELONGS
TO AN INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFIED AS HAVING POSSIBLE TIES WITH TERRORISM.

DO NOT DETAIN OR ARREST THIS INDIVIDUAL UNLESS THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A VIOLATION OF
FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL STATUTE(S).

Some observations:

First, this looks like boilerplate text. If so, "DO NOT ADVISE..." means, in general, "do not advise anyone on a terrorist watchlist that they are on the watchlist". That text would make sense if, for instance, this is what an LEO sees on their MDT screen when they look up someone's identity. Counterterrorist workers want to collect information from LEOs, so they need to flag people to get reports --- but they don't want that to come at the expense of tipping off terrorism subjects that they're under investigation. That's a warning that might make a lot of public policy sense when the FBI is tracking Abdul Kadir and his plot to blow up JFK, but not as much sense for Jeremy Hammond.

The all-caps text and awkward structure of the prose sort of suggests that's what this is: the stuff that shows up on the cop's MDT screen when they run someone's identity and they've been flagged.

Second, each of the three paragraphs in this notice to LEOs directs the officer not to detain the subject based on the notice. Presumably that's because doing so can generate evidence that will then be excluded at trial, because merely being on a watchlist does not provide the police with probable cause to search or arrest.

Finally, people should remember that while our immediate association to the word "terrorism" is 9/11 and Islamist militants, the FBI tracks a pretty broad range of domestic terrorist groups --- including parts of the militia movement, radical animal rights groups, white supremacist groups, and "anarchist extremists", a category they surely didn't make up for Hammond, but which Hammond could easily have fallen into.

(In case it needs saying, while it may once have been the case in the '60s and '70s that there were radical anarchist groups that merited special tracking at a national level, I do not think the "anarchist extremists" of 2015 --- even the ones who try to scare the horses the mounted police are riding at the NATO protests --- qualify as "terrorists". The separatist militia movement, though? I'm glad we're calling them what they are.)
> I'm certainly thinking of running the ebook through a statistical analysis to see if the patterns in the writing match.

You might compare it and the original to the work of other authors, such as Truman Capote.
He was using v2.0 in that article. A version that is years old and pretty awful. The default then was that a write was fired from the client and that's it - fire and forget. A stupid default.

The default since is to get an ack from the server. You can control this on each write and make it more durable (make sure it is replicated to 1, majority or all replicas) or faster (just get to the server). The default is to be written to the primary server and put into the transaction log so if it doesn't get committed to disk (possibly 60 seconds by default) it can recover. The transaction log is flushed (fsync) every 100ms by default and is configurable. You can also specify that the write is only acknowledged after the transaction log is synced. Anyways the default is it is put into the transaction log and then acknowledged.
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Those are valid points, albeit somewhat far out there.

Closer to home, in a somewhat ironic twist, my previous comment was downvoted to oblivion. My first thought was to give the critics the benefit of the doubt, and assume they were not intending to be mean.

That said, after I had taken time to give a thoughtful and respectful response (there were no personal attacks, or snark) aimed to give another moral perspective, you have this knee jerk downvoting occurring.

So while on the one hand "it's internet points and who cares, right?". And yet, I'm an actual human being here on the other side of that browser with my real username. Not a hypothetical possibility. It still feels crappy and like you've been judged by the community and found wanting. Thus to me, in my bubble, it feels mean spirited, even it was not.

Thus, it begs the question, why shouldn't our focus be on how the receiver of an action is affected?
There has been a lot of interest. There are thousands upon thousands of big applications out there built on Swing, you just don't use them, because Java has never caught on in desktop consumer apps. But JetBrains' IDEs are based on Swing, as is NetBeans, and they look great.
I'll be keeping an eye on this as we are in the same boat as you.

I am interested to hear about Axosoft vs Visual Studio Online.
Oh no I sure hope not, the tax will be back and that is enough to move me to other sites in several cases.

Edit: To clarify, no sales tax was one of the first things Amazon and other online retailers had on their side. They could sell things cheaper, even by a little, and the rest would be made up by not having to pay sales tax. If they have a presence in a state though they have to collect sales tax. If you buy a lot from Amazon it is kind of like taking a 8.5% pay cut in buying power. If you remember back in 1997-8 there were several bills popping up around it. My Google-fu is failing me, but this is a real issue. Amazon even discontinued the associates programs in some states to avoid taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax
FYI, you'll still need to compile a specific gevent branch if you want to use it with this. lxml built fine, uWSGI seems OK too (except for the lack of gevent workers in my build).

Things seem adequately speedy, haven't investigated the network throughput tweaks yet.
I don't disagree with your point. To clarify, I was stating that it's expected to hear people leaving following a decrease in responsibility; I was not trying to imply that such change has been necessarily involuntary. It could very well be the other way around, in fact, i.e. a reorg happens as a result of one's intent to retire in the near future.
Was it a prediction or inspirational template for how communication could or should be done? Don't forget this was the sci-fi writer that invented the concept for weather satellites too.

See "Arthur C. Clarke the Engineer" http://www.clarkefoundation.org/sample-page/
The first and biggest effect (presuming a GPL-compatible license) is that Wine would suddenly work much better, and so Ubuntu and OSX would likely ship their following versions with "the ability to run Windows software alongside native software with no performance loss" as a feature. OSX N+3 or so might even eliminate Boot Camp, saying that there's no need to install Windows as a whole if all the software "Just Works."
Then you have High School AP English, where "As I Lay Dying" is a standard text.

I think "Catch-22" is as well.

Say what you will about those books, they're not necessarily essay-ready in the same way "To Kill A Mockingbird" is.
BTW nobody mentioned Limetext, which attempts to implement a SublimeText clone in golang (and other features like a terminal frontend).

http://limetext.org/
There's more efficient ways of carrying heavy loads, but the shoulder pole is remarkably efficient in a number of other ways.

Its most important feature is that you're able to pivot the pole about the body, bringing the pole in front of you, and letting you fit into tighter spaces. Or, you can pivot the other direction, and spread more load across your shoulders. By spreading the weight apart, you're able to keep your balance extremely well.

Since they're focused on avoiding strain, they should be looking at ways of distributing more of the load across the lower torso and hips. One of their mockups looks like they're trying to do this, but the result looks like you give up a lot of flexibility.
What is the reason companies pay a severance? Most jobs are hire or fire anytime right?

Is the reason only lawsuits and good will?
If you're stuck in a situation where you need to use a generic router as a wireless bridge or ethernet switch:

1. Give it a static IP on your local network (so you can find the web interface after step 2).

2. Disable DHCP on the router.

3. Plug your network into a LAN port on the router, instead of the WAN port.

Your router is now a dumb switch and access point. This works with most routers. While it can still technically route traffic to its WAN port, there's nothing plugged in there and it won't assume gateway status with no DHCP server.
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The structure and use of Banbury Sheets appears to have been well known prior to this discovery? TBH I'd say a specific piece of paper someone drew or wrote on isn't important if we know the content of that paper already; but I know many would disagree.
Do you feel like being old would entitle you to a job? And if so, why?
Some say other things:

> If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook-...
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Live by the margin, die by the margin. You do realize by changing the margins, you've only moved them somewhere else, not killed them off. Also, it's a strange metric to say business serviced by mostly middle income earners generates more happiness than a few hundred/thousands low end employees being able to pay their bills or afford slightly more.
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The subject "I" is never explicitly introduced anywhere in the sentence "As a linguist, it is absolutely not an issue of grammar", so the only explicitly available subject for the modifier to refer to is "it". (Compare "As a pragmatic issue, it is absolutely not a syntactic issue", "As a lexical issue, it is absolutely not a matter of syntax", etc.) So the problem is where the subject "I" comes from when it's left unmentioned, and a solution could be that it's pragmatically implied in any clause like "as a [type of person]" -- but surely not syntatically.
Some fraction of those black bloc people are usually agent provocateurs. At least here in germany the far right and left is subverted by payed informants and undercover police to the extend that it wasn't feasible to prosecute the most prominent far right party because a significant fraction of their leadership had been police informants for years.
Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England
Capitalism really sounds like a bad fever.
I wonder if Alan Turing installed that insulation himself.
FYI that's called "revenge".
Admittedly, I've never been big in C#, but I'm AMAZED by how much repetition string comparison there is.

IE: Environment.GetResourceString("ArgumentOutOfRange_Index")

The string there is in multiple areas of that class, and the same behavior is displayed for all of them. Wouldn't logic suggest everything such as above would be moved in to a constant repository for clarity and also less potential human error for future additions?
> insufficient documentation

That may have been true at the time, but the documentation for OpenXML is actually very good. It's incredibly detailed -- I think the standard is somewhere around 5000 pages, and fairly readable. Of course, I haven't ever actually had to write my own implementation (thank god).
*On a particular frequency band.

You can have guard radios talking on another band.
It seems just as likely that Hammond was put on a watchlist over his affiliation with the extremist fringe of the Occupy movement than anything else.
Which is really important, because right outside of the prison/jail you really want your phone to work if you see some guy in an orange jumpsuit running at you.
Lane following is a recipe for disaster.
There are many places in the Bay Area where lanes are loosely defined as "how many cars will fit". And then there are the variable lanes of GGB...
Couldn't this be accomplished today by adding tiny specs of gold to nanobots and drinking a glass of them?

idea based on: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/29/tech/mci-nanobots-eth/
I'd disagree with some of these items:

"[Nobody cares about] When your company was founded."

If you were buying a product like enterprise software that comes with an expensive multi-year support contract, you'd want some strong evidence that the company will be around for a few more years. A company that was started six months ago has no track record that would suggest it can survive hard times. Beyond some number of years, it probably doesn't matter - 10 years vs. 20 years probably makes little difference.

"Who your customers are or how much those customers are worth. You have fortune 500 companies as customers? So what?"

The fact that you can retain a Fortune 500 company as a customer says something about the level of customer support you can provide. It may not be important to you, but it's probably significant to another Fortune 500 company.

"By whom your company was founded..."

Doesn't matter much, unless they have a really unsavory reputation that you'd want to steer clear of. CEOs do have an effect on corporate ethics.
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it's a test, but few consider it from the opposite angle, the robot passes, the human fails.
I've been trying to talk myself out of using one of the BSD's as my day to day OS because I'm afraid all the productive hours in my life will turn into threads like this.

Mostly just commenting so I remember to check back on this tomorrow :-)
Making ASP.NET Windows Server only wasn't driving Windows Server sales, it was destroying Windows (and Visual Studio) as a developer platform, and thus, ensuring that no one had any motivation to develop for Windows Phones and tablets. It was a certain path to irrelevance.

Making ASP.NET Linux deployable ensures that Windows stays in the hands of developers. Making Azure Linux friendly ensures that Microsoft can take a slice of that market. And pushing Universal Apps and giving Visual Studio Community and Windows 10, an OS that allows Universal Apps to run on the desktop, for free motivates developers to fill up the app store.

This decision was inevitable and IMHO a huge step in the right direction.
If you'd ever been on welfare for an extended amount of time, you'd realise that it's actually seriously scary. You worry that at any moment, the Government might take away some of your benefits, when you're literally at $0 at the end of every month.
No, this is how people die.

The agile startup mentality is great until you try to apply it to domains that are literally life-and-death.
Depends on how you look at it. Microsoft has been good to developers since the Gates area. They always understood the importance of developers for their OS, as long as you pay for the privilege.

The biggest difference now is all the stuff they give out for free.
I worked with a closed source stack in the past (java).

Even if the bug wasn't in our code, it was really helpful to see what's going on inside, helped us figure out why something didn't work a lot of time. Making false assumptions, passing stuff in a different format than the system expects etc.

We all, always worked with a decompiler in eclipse, just because it really did make life so much easier sometimes. And well, of course, sometimes there really was a bug in the stack, and finding a workaround is much easier when you know what's going on.
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Well obviously you're an enlightened westerner and therefore inherently more clever.

Or perhaps there are other reasons why the simple solution is preferred. I honestly don't know. What I wouldn't do is infer that they're all stupid because they've not thought to do what is obvious to you.
What does that really prove? Beavers have no knowledge of tape players. If you took that same tape player to the local police precinct and instead of a babbling brook, you played the sound of gunfire; there's a fair chance the policemen will return your gunfire with real gunfire. Does that make them no smarter than a beaver? Even if they are no smarter than beavers, is it really an irrational behavior?

>as soon as they had comfortably bestowed Sandy and me on our horse, I lit my pipe. When the first blast of smoke shot out through the bars of my helmet, all those people broke for the woods, and Sandy went over backwards and struck the ground with a dull thud. They thought I was one of those fire-belching dragons they had heard so much about from knights and other professional liars. I had infinite trouble to persuade those people to venture back within explaining distance. Then I told them that this was only a bit of enchantment which would work harm to none but my enemies. And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. The procession moved with a good deal of promptness. There were no casualties to report, for nobody had curiosity enough to remain behind to see what would happen. --Mark Twain, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
I don't see how either of the first two paragraphs are relevant to the campaign in Yemen. The US use of force there has been with the cooperation of the government of Yemen.
At launch, the system will only function on a defined subset of Bay Area highways according to the article.
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People die in a lot of other ways too. This is favoring the death I cause over the death a machine does.

http://wfdd.org/post/why-we-judge-algorithmic-mistakes-more-...
We visited in early January 2012 - was a spontaneous decision, and one we're grateful we did (especially having now watched The Imitation Game, which was even more enjoyable for having been there and heard the history).

Colossus was running by that point (we made a separate donation), but most of the extras you've mentioned are clearly new. Certainly glad to know it's not going to crumble into obscurity anytime soon.
Ant colonies can also solve variational calculus problems: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/have-a-scientific-pro...

In other news, this article uses "comprise" to mean the opposite of what it actually means, which is the subject of another of today's HN front page articles: https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-1...
Scott Galloway talked about this at last week's DLD. You can hear his points and arguments at 6:50 -very insightful video on why Amazon has reached a point where they must make a brick and mortar acquisition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q
That's exactly what I think a visual programming system needs. Zoomable objects Has been tried on either smalltalk/squeak (forgot which, but alan kay pushed for it)..

A visual programming system needs:

1) quick and natural way to access tools without interruption of flow.
2) has a visual language in its structure. Needs something beyond "wiring" model that is noflo. Your zoom in and out concepts touch the right concepts. (have ideas on this)

Re: 1) I've been working on something similar to this. Reply if you'd like a working link. Got to get that up. It's mainly a reactive system where randomness of human input is valued over precision of clicks, typed text....he keyboard is a key piano in a sense. The computer decides what the input means. Rather than the other way around. Visual realm values this huge stream of information vs sound/text.

This reactiveness could let us find components/parts intuitively, like how u tuen the dial on a running water hose. I think being able to find tools/components you need quickly is an important part of using a visual programming system. Visual = intuitive.

Re: 2) We need a visual language as much as we need a text language for text programming. I'm working with a couple of teachers on expanding a visual language learning system called Grmmr, can be found on green-bridge.org, still need to add visuals and a working shopping cart, ha.

Point is we have established a very simple but crazily effective visual language (around for 15 years) you can use to teach grammar and relationships in text. I know this can be applied to visual programming with very little effort. We definitely are exploring in expanding the usage of this system beyond grammar.
Yes, because those organizations on the MS stack were all running the Express edition and didn't have MSDN licenses, right?
Make the code conform to the form of an image that the user uploads, and I'll buy a dozen.
Being young entitles someone to a job more than being old ?
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Curious (new to *BSD), why FreeBSD and not PC-BSD for a laptop?
This article gets at the crux of the difference between what I think of as the OO and FP mindsets: OO mindset is overly zealous about applying 'encapsulation' and 'information hiding'. An OO enthusiast might say that revealing your internals in this way is bad design, and if you need it you should 'encapsulate' the 15% and 4% solutions in their own (Helper, ugh) classes. The extreme-radical FP view is to ask why we need keywords like private at all. Why not just show functions that are easy to use and harder to use, and let callers decide what works best for them.

As you can infer from my use of scare quotes, I side with the author on this after accumulating repeated scar tissue.
> Why did they not try to improve it themself?

What makes you think they haven't tried to improve it in a thousand years? Or that every other person that makes their own pole doesn't have some little tweak to improve it only for themselves?

> What am I missing?

I don't mean to be rude by saying this, but: humility?
Is this legal? The fed provides this data for free (http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/download.cfm) and also says, "The information contained in the directory may not be sold, relicensed, or otherwise used for commercial gain." Am I missing something?
How did i miss this? Thanks so much!
> very much doubt that there are very many LSD "addicts" around

My cousin - big LSD user - messed up his brain function. After that: drooling/voices/psychosis. Years of hell for his parents. Hell is an understatement.

He died at a rehab / halfway house - killed by a fellow resident - stabbed in the heart with a butcher knife.

My childhood friend - took LSD/psychedelics in Japan & never came out of it. Bumbling around in the streets naked, didn't know his name etc. His parents had to go bring him home. 20 years later he lives with them still, can't hold a job, can't handle a relationship, doesn't even come out of the house.

Me and tons of others took psychedelics with no side effects - it works that way for most people. But when it goes wrong, the downside can be staggering.

> re: you and 'avodonosov's positions are "not welcome"

If you think HN is open to anti-drug views, you're kidding yourself.
Can we stop with random the downvoting?

Clapas is on topic and contributing to the discussion. That means no downvoting.
By having the authors license the relevant bits under BSD as well.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM.

Except as an employer.
You might already have Amazon's same-day delivery available:
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