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Moment.js is fantastic. The number of new year, daylight savings, and leap day bugs this library has wiped out must be in the thousands.

"I hope civilization will be around in 20 years." And that's from an extraordinarily well-informed person.

Better article is the one quoted: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...

It's downloadable now at http://emacsformacosx.com/

$10B? That's awfully large, and closing the door on a lot of ideas. What if you just want to solve an important problem by selling a product profitably and don't want to grow to enormous size? I guess you look somewhere other than Y Combinator to get started.

They buried the lede, and put half of it in parenthesis:

"In 1994 the average North American office worker had 90 square feet of space. By 2010 this was 75 square feet. (Executive management gained floor space over the same period, according to the International Facility Management Association.)"

Date posted: December 23rd. Enough to tell you the NSA would love this, as pathetically obfuscated and incomplete as it is, to be ignored.

Falsehood right in the forward: "the largest attack against the American homeland in our history". War of 1812?

Shocking stuff. I don't think it's an exaggeration at this point to say that politicians are afraid of opposing an organization that knows their, and everyone else's, secrets. And so they continue operate as they like.

The only way these abuses are going to stop is if the government employees and contractors who ordered and/or architected these systems are prosecuted and convicted.

When is that going to happen, Eric Holder? Barack Obama?

Unless it does, good luck, Democrats, hiring the best data guys for next election.

Normally this could slide: "...most of it’s citizens..." But in a piece about the importance of education? (The apostrophe doesn't belong in the possessive version.)

Not only is Snowden brave, and smart enough to outwit (so far) the most powerful institutions of our day, he's also an excellent writer.

To David Brooks and all the others who mock him for not finishing high school, take this statement as a model of clarity and forthrightness.

"NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest."

From an organization that spies on the world, that sounds sinister. As in "if we did object, we could do something about your 'lawful' protest."

Apparently the US government is trying to see just how craven and vindictive it can be.

As Snowden says, they want to intimidate the next leaker.

"...the petition requires us to weigh the nation's security interests against the Fourth Amendment privacy interests of United States persons."

The text Fourth Amendment doesn't narrow itself to "United States Persons". It says:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

With his column David Brooks loses his title of "The Liberals' Favorite Conservative."

New title: "Betrayer of a Genuine American Hero." And I can think of worse.

I agree, it was beautifully written. I'll be looking for Mr. Rich's novel on the strength of it.

Best headline I've seen on HN in years.

The Atlantic? Here's the answer: I went to David Miscavige and he fixed my DC-10 engrams!

Seriously, this magazine has lost so much credibility over their advertorial I think HN'ers should take a long break from upvoting their links.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/1...

Some of the Kaiser doctors are more evidence-based than others. But none of them take home more money if, for example, they operate on your rather than not. That is still true in many plans, even high-end ones, though they're not going to tell you about it.

I would recommend Kaiser coverage to anyone thinking about switching from one of those plans with big increases. Their doctors don't get extra money for performing extra procedures as is the case in a lot of plans, so there is more incentive to just do what's necessary.

Sure, but they are still essentially a Chicago company. http://37signals.com/svn/writers/

How about a company with principals/co-founders in different regions?

This argument will carry a lot more weight when there is a successful company (say, Instagram-successful) build and run by remote collaboration.

I've written a lot of JavaScript, including large-scale projects, and never once have thought, "Gee, I wish I had type checking."

Haven't we come to a consensus that types are more trouble than they're worth? They hurt clarity and catch few bugs.

I started using Ruby because I heard the inventor of the language also wrote the Emacs mode. I haven't regretted the choice.

All the blackout banners should link to this video.

Add this to the fact that they steal others' ideas, and it's a tough company to like.

Just because we are bereaved does not make us saps!

It won't take long before this gets weaponized. Then safety as well as privacy will suffer mightily.

Oh, yes, literally too. There were more people in Japan (return of imperial forces and families) and less food. Millions were hungry, and some starved to death.