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This is the biggest load of horseshit I've ever read.

> Since taking office, President Obama has worked with Congress to secure appropriate reforms that balance the protection of civil liberties with the ability of national security professionals to secure information vital to keep Americans safe.

Yes of course he has.

> Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it.

Has it? Has it really? Where's the proof of this?

> If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and -- importantly -- accept the consequences of his actions. He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers -- not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions.

He tried the official route a number of times and was readily ignored, remember? Given that the NSA's actions were deemed unlawful, his actions were in the public interest and he deserves protections as a whistleblower.

However the people aren't fucking stupid. We know all he will face if he returns home is life in prison. At best.

> We live in a dangerous world. We continue to face grave security threats like terrorism, cyber-attacks, and nuclear proliferation that our intelligence community must have all the lawful tools it needs to address.

Hmm yes. All those civil libereties groups, charities, foreign businesses and allied politicians you spied on sure are dangerous. Got to keep them in check lest they attack America with their ball-point pens!

My translation of this entire response;

"We have heard your voices and grievances and honestly couldn't give two shits about what you think. You have no power here."
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It's an interesting question, and maybe a wrong question altogether. From my current experience I've noticed that it does not really matter what you learn as long as you learn something. To go event further, choose something unrelated to your current skill set.
When you learn something new, the way you perceive the world, the way you think in general changes because you have more variables to work with. You will start observing things that were always there, but the subconscious part of your brain was filtering it out because it was considered "useless". You will understand more, and at some point will be able to make connections between apparently unconnected topics, get new ideas, innovate.
But if you want to learn a new skill just to monetize it (get a good payed job quickly), things are a bit different. Then you must stay in your area of expertise, and choose something close to that, something that either has potential in the near-future, of it can be monetized now. You will have to make a bit of research on that one depending on the area you live in and the number of open jobs available.
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Yes. If you can do that, so could anyone else. And Gutenberg would give it away for free, so if you can make a few cents, why not?
"However, web apps also allow organizations to write once for many platforms in a much more seamless way than most cross-platform native toolkits I've seen."

Does it? I used to think that. Until every medium-complexity or worse web project I've worked on took forever as we went through all the different browsers and OS's and now mobile and tablets and responsive and OMG just give me a decent native app tool now please.

Browsers absolutely suck at UI beyond their original intended domain.
Why do people who use the "face the consequences of his actions" argument consider it so self-evident? Accepting an unjust punishment for your good deeds isn't somehow more noble than escaping it. And not just an unjust punishment but an unjust punishment in the hands of the very institution whose corruption you exposed.

Government lecturing us on proper civil disobedience is ironic to put it very mildly.
Electricity is not especially cheap compared to jet fuel.

Jet Fuel has about 128kBTU/gal and is available around $2/gal, so 64kBTU/$.

Electricity is about 3400BTU/kWhr and a kWhr is about $0.05, or about 68kBTU/$.
You're right I think ide-backend provides almost all of this. It was all working in FPComplete's web IDE. I think Chris Done is working on emacs integration with ide-backend.
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This is spotify's approach.
> If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and -- importantly -- accept the consequences of his actions.

Secret courts, gag orders, free speech zones... How exactly does one speak out?

> He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers -- not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime. Right now, he's running away from the consequences of his actions.

A jury of his peers? You really want me to believe you wouldn't boot any of his actual peers out of jury selection?

Implying Snowden is "hiding" when he's given up his family, home, and a nice paycheck is the most disgusting, cowardly thing to say.

What a joke our government has become.
As I tried to point out below, this is exactly the situation jury nullification was designed for.

Guilty under the law, but pardoned by a jury of his peers.
There are ads on Soundcloud? I use it every day, and this is news to me because I use an ad blocker.

This also happened to me with YouTube - I didn't realize they were displaying ads for _months_ until I watched a video on a friend's computer.

Without an ad blocker, the web is basically unusable. I don't know how people live without one.
A coffee or chips is a consumable, as soon as I use them they're gone and nobody else gets to consume them. They don't compare.

A trip to the cinema, without paying for unnecessary and expensive food and drink, only costs about 6x-10x more for something that costs considerably more to produce than a song. Jurassic World cost $150,000,000 to create and I got to watch it for $9. Skipping the cinema altogether, I can buy it on disc for about the same price at a later date and watch it as many times as I want.

A song has a tiny fixed cost per unit sold. Personally I think that my compensation to the artist (not their total compensation) for their effort in creating a song is pretty fairly priced at about $1 given their investment and costs. If they made something amazing, maybe a few million other people will also chip in and they'll be rich.

Honestly, I'm also not convinced money has any impact on the quality of music either. Amazing musicians often do well for themselves but lots of the big names in music put forth formulaic crap and pandering lyrics too. We get bargain-barrel quality despite those musician being well compensated, while some of the best performances I've witnessed are local artists still working a day job to survive and playing gigs on the side because they genuinely enjoy doing it (knowing full well their chosen genre to perform will never be a million dollar mainstream hit-maker).
That's what i thought in the beginning of the crisis but now i'm reconsidering. (I'm Greek)
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"before engaging and killing them."

Do they have to be killed though?
If we have machine soldiers and the enemy combatants aren't an immediate threat to actual humans shouldn't we be trying to detain them instead?
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This is great data. As a former/recovering evangelist, it's great to see how these things work at a macro level. You always keep track of your own data, hacks, etc but don't have a good idea of what happens at the hackathons you didn't attend or for the APIs - colleagues or competitors - you're not tracking.

+1 to ChallengePost/DevPost for sharing all this.
The hilarious part about this is that the OP is not only not willing to spend $.50 USD extra on a song... it is that it is for a song that he already loves and has listened to many times! What a great way to reward that artist!

My very favorite songs I've listened to a hundred times or more. In one case, I wanted a remix that wasn't even sold as a single, so I ended up paying about $50 for a promotional copy (given to DJs) on eBay.

It was definitely worth it.
Yes, exactly. I really can't recommend that my company use this right now because of the complexity. The Hello World image is easy, but after that, there's quite a bit involved. And my company is already happy enough with spinning up VMs.
Reading the response it seems that they are planning to charge Snowden as they would charge Assange, eventhough Snowden released documents through responsible journalists..
I have a 1st gen Google Nexus 7, 32GB RAM. For technical books requiring scaling, color and illustrations it is pretty good with Manatano Reader.
Nor are OpenGL, and WebGL, and AJAX, and JSP. And you could include XML and XAML in this if you're being picky.
Would any administration act differently? Would any institution? Think of any institution you've been part of:

* Part of the President's role is to lead and manage the Executive Branch. He can't set the precedent for his millions of employees that blatent breaches of authority are an option.

* Like any manager, the President also is an advocate for and loyal to his subordinates. The President is only one person; the priorities of the nation depend on his effectiveness as a manager and therefore on the loyalty and support of all those in the Exectuive Branch.

* Notice that my first point referred breaches of "authority", not of law or rules. In every institution, the priority is not the rules or laws, but loyalty. That might not be good, but it's true. Egregiously break the law but be loyal to the institution and authority (e.g., torture, various corruption scandals), and you'll be protected. Be disloyal, and you'll never work in the city again and will be prosecuted if possible.

Unfortunately this is true in almost every institution, in my observations and experience (and this is hardly a novel or controversial statement). I'd be fascinated in research on this issue and its solutions, if anyone here knows about it.
This article has a click-bait title, is nostalgic for the web of... 3 years ago??? And the "awesome indie music" is... well differences in taste I guess. Looks like somebody just found out that people have to actually pay for things, and decided to throw a tantrum aiming at advertisements because they felt that would be the lowest common denominator for galvanizing support.
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I don't think you can honestly rationalise it like that.

You could similarly rationalise selling an iPad for $2,000 by 'We have a bajillion engineers, who all went to top schools after decades of non-stop education, who worked 80 hour weeks to refine every single component of this, who tested 100 different chamfers for this edge, who polished it, who ...'

The price of something should absolutely be dictated by how much the target market is willing to pay for it (and that includes ease of purchase etc) - otherwise people simply won't pay. For music, that is one of the reasons why you have so many people whining about how much piracy there is; their target market simply doesn't think that their music is worth the amount they want to charge it for.

The consumers may be incorrect, but it doesn't change the fact that the sales will be smaller because of this.

Music is frequently expensive to produce, but the sale price is largely independent of that. If you consider production costs alone, an orchestral recording should cost many times that of a band, due to its many times greater investment (an orchestral musician will be vastly more technically talented (after 2+ unpaid hours of practice per day for all but a few years of their life) than almost any band musician) and smaller market.

Meanwhile a live recording should cost almost nothing, as it can be produced simultaneously (and frequently is) released immediately after the gig.

The price is the same, because that's roughly what people are willing to spend on music.
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Plus retail has its costs too, markup for vinyl used to be around 50%, plus VAT. So you'd buy the 12" from the distributor at 5–6 € net and sell it for 9–10 € incl. tax (numbers from 10 years ago in Germany, probably haven't changed all that much). Owing to low volume (you can only move so many units), running a record store inevitably leads to self-exploitation.
You don't have to be omniscient to realize an action might have a consequence that wasn't intended. I don't go 100MPH on city roads because I don't have to be omniscient to realize I might end up killing someone even if I don't intend to.

So OF COURSE regulators should consider ways in which their reulations might cause unintended harm. This is a major reason why US Federal regulators almost all have mandatory public comment periods -- third parties might be able to point out some of these unintended consequences. Regulators might not always make the right decision, but they should at least be making informed decisions.

The attitude should be "We considered that possible outcome and the benefits outweigh the harms (or not)", rather than GP's "well that shitty outcome sucks, but guess what? Not my problem".

I honestly cannot believe the idea that regulators should be considering both positive intended and negative unintended consequences of regulations is controversial.
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Why does Goldman Sachs still exist? Shouldn't they be in prison or something? How do they still have customers after they were so proud of screwing their own customers?
The story this tells is so stark, I don't know what else there is left to say on it.

They guy sealed his own fate when he made himself an enemy of the state, and I fear he will never get to set foot on his homeland again. One day, I hope he will be nationally recognized for his service to his people. In the meantime, the drastic divide between the aims of the government and the aims of the governed makes me grow ever more worried that we have dark days ahead of us.
curious what flags was the c version compiled with? optimized or non? i guess x86 or 64 bit also?
According to google finance 60% of twitter is owned by institutional investors. Compare that to 67% for Facebook.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=z5q3VdHiDon3...
1. Open SoundCloud

2. Open your browser's Developer Tools

3. Navigate to song page

4. Click on network tab in Developer Tools

5. Press the big play logo on the song

6. Look for the request for the MP3 file

7. Save link to computer

Honestly, for a rant that detailed about how corporations are ruining the internet, I kinda expected OP to know how to save songs off SoundCloud.

The worst part about this "modern web" for me is that mobile browsers can't seem to download a file from a website using simple HTTP authentication, because someone thought it would be a great fucking idea to write a separate app to manage downloads, and they never thought that someone might still be using HTTP simple authentication in 2014. So no, sorry, you can't download that file because our developers needed to write yet another app and didn't consider your use case.
I'm in Rochester, NY, but I'm open to relocating just about anywhere. I've got a few friends in the Bay Area, so I'd love to move out there.
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...meanwhile we still have flash video because HTML5 isn't good enough to replace it yet.
Yes, and impossible for people to fill in. Therefore, whoever manages to find the band correctly must be a bot. Mission accomplished.
That doesn't really matter for a company that has already raised some money and now desperately looking to get out of red, does it? (I'm not talking about Reddit or any companies in particular right now, just remembering my mind state when I was CEO/Founder: I can almost feel that desperate depression again).
Maybe what skwosh means is a moratorium on new features in javascript so that we can refocus on the features that are useful, and actually improve rather than complect the language.
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I've gotta say, I'm somewhat sympathetic to the idea that we'd be better served by a period of focusing on stability and performance over new features... but talking about the IE6 stagnation era as a good thing?

Yeah, no, that was awful, and if you're holding it up approvingly, well, now I officially disagree with you.
This is a logical progression. The Wall Street and Silicon Valley cultures are converging.

A significant part of what made a company like Goldman Sachs competitive on Wall Street used to be primarily about "Who you know" (as opposed to "What you know" or "What you can do"). That's changed over the last few decades as the financial markets became less about relationships and more about technology (although relationships still reign in certain areas). Since the dot-com bubble burst, more and more people have been crossing back and forth between investment banks (or hedge funds) and startups. It started with engineers because technology is key to both types of companies, and now it's shifting to financiers because pre-IPO "startups" need those relationships.

Silicon Valley used to be the exact opposite of Wall Street (i.e. totally about "What you know" or "What you can do") but over the last decade, it has been evolving towards a "Who you know"-ocracy. It's no longer enough to have a great product/technology - you need to build your network and get the warm intro, so successful entrepreneurs no longer automatically reject the value of "Who you know", and they're now comfortable exploiting a financiers' connections and relationships to help grow their company by raising money privately.
I used to be of this opinion, but [1] changed my mind.

The problem is that there's a huge potential to deanonymize the user at an exit node because of all sorts of traffic other than web browsing. Do all of your chat programs encrypt everything? How about your email client? What about every daemon on your system that accesses the Internet?

At the very least, all of these can be used to fingerprint you.

WebRTC is a great example of why the user-agent turns out to be the right level to think about anonymity over Tor.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/anonymity-routers/
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Really enjoyed this because it's not saying: "Those bad tech people!" or "We should do something!". It's actually giving you a lot of concrete / actionable advice.
> Interestingly, Microsoft added a similar feature to IE4, and deprecated it as of IE9. The idea didn’t catch on because back then nobody wanted to emulate native apps (which didn’t exist), and therefore nobody particularly cared if the users had to briefly wait for the next page.

> native apps (which didn’t exist)

Does this writer believe that nobody installed software on their computers before the iOS app store opened in 2008?
I hope Mozilla takes a quick decision on this based on its own principles.
This sentence saying "we are considering adding an extension" seems to be in stark contrast with the way Pocket was added into the main browser instead of being an ad or recommendation on the new tab page.
Until someone subpoenas their emails and sees a discussion in which the act is deliberate, during which case it's anti-competitive.

"Oops" only works when there's no proof, and it's hard to hvae an absence of proof in something that would take so much orchestration.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree: I pay for many services online and I'd be happy to pay for more if it meant the services I enjoy would get even better. Or wouldn't lose their souls to advertising.

But your $10/mo and my $10/mo aren't enough. It seems like the web-o-verse has spent the last twenty years desperately attempting to figure out how to charge money in a way that enough people will shell out the necessary cash. For the most part, it's been a failure. Most people seem uninterested in paying directly for digital content.

Any service built upon user-generated content -- like SoundCloud -- has an even worse path. If you charge from the start, you put up a huge barrier that will prevent people from ever using your service. But if you start changing after you've gathered up steam and have an active community, people will feel betrayed -- like you were just baiting them into using your service so you could pull the old switcheroo and force them to pay to access the community they built.
Higher-order functions do the same thing.
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases

I use Git 2.4.3 on Windows. (Using Msysgit.)
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I went looking, at it looks like the project has moved from msysgit to git-for-windows, and it is tracking git more closely. Just not ready for release yet I guess. There are release candidate builds available though if you're feeling adventurous.

https://github.com/msysgit/

https://github.com/git-for-windows/

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases
We need a break. We need an opportunity to learn to the features we already have responsibly — without tools! Also, we need the time for a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.

How about this.. YOU take a break. Stop trying to keep up with every little new thing that comes out. Wait a while.

And you'll get exactly what you want.

The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.

And you'll get more time to learn the actually useful ones... and you'll get to learn from the mistakes others made early on.

Yes, you'll be a bit behind.. but you're apparently already ok with that anyway.
> The broker has shown so many crappy places that they will help the renter see that this is a fair, market value, deal.

Huh, I guess that's why the value-adding broker decided to show my wife and I an apartment that was well over $1k over our budget, in a five-floor walk-up when we told him that due to my wife's knee injury, a walkup of more than 2 floors was a completely and total deal-breaker for us.

Not to sound combative, but I wonder how many potential tenants abandoned your broker by yelling at him on the 4th floor, from the 2nd floor, that we're literally physically incapable of seeing the out-of-budget apartment he was trying to show us, and then walking away.
In a way, I see what he means. Let's take a breather to let all the major browsers support the existing standards before we give them more draft specs to chase.
It's not succeeding because it's usually not necessary.
I thought that companies were legal persons in English law? And if they can prove actual damages then they can sue for libel? As always IANAL

I'd agree that McLibel didn't play out that well for them - however here we're talking one massive company vs another. McLibel was not even close to the same thing as e.g. Google vs. the MPAA would be.

Anyway my main point was laws already exist to protect companies from malicious communications.
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