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by jcrites 13y ago
I'm imagining something like this: Imagine if the NSA has a copy of these companies' (Google and Facebook's) traffic, and has perhaps subpoena'd the TLS keys. Having the TLS keys is still not having "direct access&q
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by jcrites 13y ago
I am not defending the program. But doesn't the program only collect data when there is a 51% percent confidence or greater that the source is foreign? That's a bit slippery, but could be an explanation for his statement.
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by jcrites 13y ago
There is a lot more to software engineering than writing code. As I see it, proficiency in software engineering includes topics such as: 1. cost efficacy 2. availability, reliability, and scalability 3. administration (system administration
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by jcrites 13y ago
A social interest in gardens and mother nature is one thing, but what about pollution regulations? The New York times suggests that there are significant problems with pollution in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/as-chi
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by jcrites 13y ago
> They knew there was a slight risk the ground wire would be hot once disconnected Is there some way you could measure that before touching it or messing with it? And then call in the power company if its properties are not what they ar
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by jcrites 13y ago
I was curious to learn the current status, so I looked through Turkish news sites. According to Hurriyet Daily News, the project to demolish the park has been suspended: "Court suspends planned Artillery Barracks project to replace Gezi Par
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by jcrites 13y ago
This isn't a particularly constructive comment, especially the sarcasm. I can see that you've been on HN for a while, but in the future it would be great if you could consider stating your concerns directly. (Unless you're just trying to ma
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by jcrites 13y ago
I think that's a good question. I would support similar views in other countries. However, the US is my home, and I would not presume to dictate other countries policies to them, knowing nothing of their circumstances.
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by jcrites 13y ago
The sonnet doesn't set public policy. But I think it's worthwhile to remember the US's historical views towards immigration - that it made the country stronger. On the other hand, since then protectionism, especially the desire to protect A
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by jcrites 13y ago
It would be great if the US government provided an expedited Visa program for college-educated foreign nationals who have received a job offer from a company in the US. There is H1B, but that applies to specialty occupations. (I'm not an im
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by jcrites 13y ago
How are they making a living and otherwise providing for themselves? (Serious question.) Is homelessness also skyrocketing, or do the unemployed receive benefits of some kind?
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by jcrites 13y ago
It seems like it should be possible to run some economic analysis, at least at a high level, based on this type of data and the actions of the countries involved. I also wonder if Europe has higher unemployment due to a lower frequency of "
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by jcrites 13y ago
Leaving for where? Departure posts without "what's next" feel like a cliffhanger. Edit: I was able to find https://twitter.com/hirodusk/status/340573647813083136 which says "My near future involves a lot of r&r, but I'm definitely not
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by jcrites 13y ago
I think you can see some slight 3D effects in the picture: http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/hires/2013/2-firsteve... In the two variants on the right, their edges seem to be curling upward making a bowl shape. Their edges are also b
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by jcrites 13y ago
I think you mean they control a second-level domain. The top level domain is "com" in the example of "internetsecurity.google.com". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain
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by jcrites 13y ago
What is the marginal cost of a digital good? The cost to download it one more time? It seems like the marginal cost to produce one more copy of an existing digital good is close to zero. Books and music and other similar works certainly hav
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by jcrites 13y ago
From what I understood of the scheme, HelpScount doesn't differentiate between them - you do. If you want to communicate with someone on your personal email address, you can give it to them directly.
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by jcrites 13y ago
I'm a big fan of RecordStream. Everyone should definitely give it a look. However, is it true to say that recs has this functionality? RecordStream is great with sequences of relatively simple JSON structures, where you want to count, group
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by jcrites 13y ago
I would be interested to collaborate, but I couldn't figure out how to get in touch with you via your profile. I tried your HN username @mailgun.net but that address bounced. What's the best way to reach you?
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by jcrites 13y ago
I think it's a bad decision. In order to read the text, I need to zoom in. But I can only zoom in on a part of the page, so I need to scroll sideways back and forth to read the beginning and end of lines in the same paragraph. It's a bad de
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by jcrites 13y ago
> Now, stop, please. I know of Emacs manual, tutorial and all the other built-in docs. Stop telling me to use them, because I won't, thank you. Why not? If there are problems like they're hard to read, understand, you've tried them and
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by jcrites 13y ago
The article with Knuth's program and Doug's reply is: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=315654&CFID=329016541&... (Don't have a non-paywall version.) Regarding the claim about Knuth's program being long, it is worth considering that (
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by jcrites 13y ago
What is the feeling about XNA? I haven't followed the area, so I found it unfortunate that it was treated in the original post without explanation. Was XNA a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
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by jcrites 13y ago
IO Completion Ports are a pretty nice feature too, in an of themselves.
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by jcrites 13y ago
One of the core features I've wanted from a bookmarking service was the capability to store the actual /content/ of the bookmark indefinitely. I want to recall having read an article or paper years later in conversation, say "Let me find th
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by jcrites 13y ago
> Do [older developers] leave programming completely, due to burnout or for a career switch, or are they moving up into management positions? It's not necessarily "up", although it can be - it's a different job. At companies with a stro
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by jcrites 13y ago
> Researchers Thornhill and Palmer say rape is an evolved reproductive strategy and not a crime of violence Can't it be both, by modern standards?
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by jcrites 13y ago
Not the entire rest of the world - or at least, not completely. > The vast majority of men between the ages of 20 and 30 are conscripted into the militia and undergo military training, including weapons training. The personal weapons of
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by jcrites 13y ago
I don't think his point was that firearm ownership by Americans of Japanese descent during WW2 would have been effective. I think his claim was that injustices have happened in America of the sort for which armed resistance is proportional
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by jcrites 13y ago
> Is IRC safe? I am pretty sure it's not. One day there was a news story on Drudge Report: http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/05/10/20050510... ("feds investigate huge computer attack; worldwide hunt for 'stakkato'") As a j

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