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> Just so we're on the same page, the number I've seen is a "$1.5 million bill" that the libraries racked (but presumably they would have paid nothing since they were piloting free access.)

The $1.5 million bill goes to the magnitude of the unauthorized access. PACER isn't just (or even primarily), a public-facing interface to these documents. It's the system lawyers and courts themselves use to access these documents. There's a substantial DoS risk there that warranted investigation.

> But, if you're in the first world and the 21st century, reading about a court case at home in your online newspaper, why shouldn't you be able to instantly and freely consult the actual public court documents online?

Absolutely nothing stops whoever wrote the article from hosting the relevant documents at his or her own expense.

> Even if they don't give completely free access, the huge surplus is proof that it costs less than 8 cents per page/$3 per document! (It's so astoundingly huge, I'm willing to hear why it's incorrect, but I'm doubting the NY Times got it wrong.)

PACER subsidizes the rest of the judiciary's IT. The idea is that the people who use court services (litigants) should be the ones to pay for its upkeep, through user fees. So PACER fees aren't the government making "huge revenues off of public documents." The primary purpose of PACER, again, is as a tool for litigants, so it makes sense for it to be a revenue source for the judiciary.

The idea of the government distributing hashes and letting people host documents P2P style is cool, but what's the point? What are people going to do with that information? It's just information for information's sake. The idea scratches a techno-futurist itch, but I think there is very little tangible benefit to making these documents more easily available to people who don't care enough about them to pay a couple of bucks for them on PACER.
I agree with you. I also like the idea of a remote file system as a standard protocol.

There are a lot of complaints here that it is too complex or that it should be json rather than xml. How many people are developing their own WebDAV libraries? I like that I can grab a WebDAV library and add remote file support to my software.

It isn't perfect, but it works
Australia's 4th PM since 2013. Rather volatile.
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Half duplex mode?
The article links to the SNEAKEY project, which is pretty impressive. Using a photo taken from 195 feet away, they were able to duplicate phsyical keys by decoding their bitting code from the photo. Never stumbled across this before.

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/sneakey.html
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You can opt out, but I think it will be the default.
>A one-wire serial connection can (probably) be reversed by replacing the firmware of the controller chip.

I would say; probably not. RS-232 uses fairly high positive and negative voltages. There is always some sort of driver that can't be made to work in reverse.
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Not required. You can choose between iCloud backup, iTunes backup (even encrypt if you want) and no backup at all. iCloud is the most convenient though
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If the discussion is about gaining an increasing measure of understanding and an ability to control biological systems for particular purposes, sure, that certainly makes sense. And, yes, manufacturing when you look at it closely is really all about mitigating variation (randomness) with the understanding that everything is a trade-off. However, to stretch that into the idea of "eliminating randomness" in our lives is absolutely asking to be bitch-slapped by philosophers and scientists--- that's something that money-people like Thiel may need from time-to-time (its not a bad thing).
Why is there so much discussion about paywalls on HN? Can someone create a FAQ? The first several comments so far are essentially about the paywall. It's all noise. We need to increase the signal.
In point of fact, I agree with what he said, it accomplishes in me an understanding that in fact C++ is a warty thorny bush of mess, and leads me to conclude that a significant aspect of 'being a C++ coder' is to find ones way, beautifully or otherwise, through it all.

I've seen great C++ code that I just thoroughly enjoy reading, because it doesn't make assumptions about anyones' intelligence, and I've seen C++ code that is purely designed exclusively for only the elite who are mighty enough to wield the sticks that the C++ committee provide. C++ really gives all kinds of control authority to any style you wish to use .. another of those quaint software ironies that the power that makes one weak, enlightens another ..
Google Spreadsheets is absolutely not what a government school would consider private or secure, nor is it likely to be able to handle a database like this, as it tends to crap out a little ways into the 5-figure row region.

They also won't pay some college kids to do it, enterprises, especially government enterprises, tend to require contractual support, which is probably outside the realm of what a college kid can or would want to do
> You've also been nothing but vague in terms of what makes Racket not a Lisp

True, and I have to apologize for that. But I don't have the time, nor the priority to go into full detail. The main points are: different community, different goals, almost zero code sharing, different technical solutions, different literature, ... The differences are technical and social. Each of the points would need more explanation, for which I don't have the time.

For me 'Lisp' is something practical. I have a bunch of non-trivial code -> can I compile/load it? Can I port it easily? Are there people who would be interested to share? What are they using? Can I work with them?

Example:

Macsyma is an old Lisp program. New Lisp dialects appeared. Macsyma was ported to them: Maclisp, Franz Lisp, NIL (New Implementation of Lisp), Lisp Machine Lisp, VaxLisp, Common Lisp...

This software can't be ported to Clojure or Racket, without fully re-architecting the software, and I'm only thinking about the basic Macsyma, without GUI or other system dependent parts.

> that the 'vague' definition serves a much more practical purpose

which one? to confuse people? To raise expectations of collaboration in a community, which are then not fulfilled?
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What do you mean by "break the web" here?

I've seen the phrase used to criticise lots of things, e.g.: SOPA/PIPA, mobile-hostile CSS, semantically incorrect HTTP codes.
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As far as I understand the law in France (I am french, but not a lawer), providing these files may be slightly reprehensible because it helps to create illegal copies of the keys. But, there is a strong mitigating circumstance in the fact that TSA has been careless with its keys.

I think that the author does not risk anything in France. The spirit of the law is very different in US.
The BluRay master code was too (copyrighted and attempts made to DMCA it).
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I worked on a document management system 10 years ago, we would loved to have used webdav to present a virtual filesystem from our (linux) servers to Office clients for document retrieval/conversion. It was just impossible. As you say, every version of office & windows had different, severe bugs that meant we couldn't get something as simple as browsing a directory, loading & saving files to work across all versions, and it wasn't like recent versions were better - it was completely unreliable.

It turned out to be easier to write plugins for all versions of office than it was to rely on office's own code actually working.
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There's no javascript on the page at all (with the exception of two IE-compat scripts). The CSS also looks tame enough - a data uri, -webkit-font-smoothing and one Google web font are the only vaguely notable things.

Could be a browser bug on your system? (I see no lag of any kind)
Here's a good (but long) resource for anyone who wants to understand how and why we have come to use the conventional measurements of economic growth that we do:

http://www.oecd.org/std/41746710.pdf

Giovannini (former OECD Chief Statistician) has this to say about the future of economic accounting:

Looking to the future, it is possible to identify
certain trends in the demand for economic statistics that will presumably strengthen in the years to come. In the first place, demand will focus more and more on the services sector (which already accounts for over 70% of GDP in many developed countries), with new forms of
production playing a more important part. The measurement of “intangible” activities will take on increased importance and this should bring about greater integration of economic statistics with social statistics: concepts such as those of human and social capital are already generating interest and becoming the subject of quantification, albeit still in embryonic form.
Actually, there are _very_ significant and growing manufacturing operations in Mexico for automotive and electronics.
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"the functional elements of a 3D print can't be copyrighted"

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/23/demystifying-copyright-lice...
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Dystopian anticipations have been 180 degrees wrong:

1.Genetic Testing -
Anticpated: GATTACA
What we got: A bunch of innocent people freed from jail. Who, today, would want to live in a world without genetic forensics?

2. Pacifying Narcotics -
Anticipated: Brave New World
What we got:War on Drugs, 80's crack epidemic. Huxley foresaw the gov't forcing people to take drugs. The real problem was the gov't trying to stop people from willingly taking drugs.
I will hang onto this and use it as an example of why it "government managed backdoor key escrow" for encryption algorithms is such a bad idea.
I'll third that. C++ jumped the shark with C++98. I don't enjoy reading "modern C++."
Flying cars have been part of science fiction since road-going cars and flight were a relative novelties, and the sentence in the original article is obviously referring to flying cars "we predicted we would" quite some time ago. I don't think pointing out that fantastical views of the far future written in the nineties didn't place quite so much emphasis on them really contradicts his point.

On the contrary, I'm sure he'd argue that all the emphasis in more modern space operas like Banks' on the extent to which liberal civilisations with few other worries should impose their cultural norms on very different aliens is probably a reflection of contemporary preoccupations[1], much like the softer side of late nineteenth century proto-futurism was preoccupied with eugenics and utopian socialism, and by the early twentieth century it had become preoccupied with war and dystopian socialism.

It's not the most tightly-written article, but it's full of social as well as technological innovations missed by the last generation of futurists. We're a long way from the world of the Culture so it's not really the job of the author to identify exactly what that's missing, but I think it's fair to say that if we ever enter a spacefaring age, we might find even the most thought-provoking late twentieth century space opera to be more a reflection of contemporary liberal foreign policy concerns than a reflection of the biggest changes that have happened and challenges they face.
I expected that code to print "hello everyone!" forever but apparently the top level acts as a delimiter. This is why I think delimited continuations make more sense since even call/cc is already "delimited" but with no concept for it.

A version that would print forever:
(let ((_ (display ...))) (saved-continuation "everyone"))
One problem is what demographics futurists tend to be. White men are less likely to imagine a future with full gender equality and black liberation than black women are, I would imagine. People living in the West will think less about the rise of the rest of the world.
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When I heard about the keys being reproduced from a photo, I assumed that the photo was taken of the keys close up.

Under these circumstances, it's an impressive feat.
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By their map, this is hardly a US-centric project.
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Just travel with a firearm. You are by law required to have a lock that only you have access to and a hardcase around the gun, so you can travel with cases made out of metal with hefty locks that only you can open and if TSA needs to get into them they have to get you, they can't just pry them open.

And the fire arm doesn't have to be loaded and IIRC it can even be a flare gun, if you don't want to own actual firearm.
I have tried a number of the ones that you and others mention. The security was awful. They would create the remote drive (or whatever) automatically, all the time. eek! I want to have to log in first.

It has been a few years since I have tried. I hope something has improved.

Again, basically, I would prefer to edit in Notepad++ or Sublime instead of vi. Personal preference.
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Betting the farm? That seems a bit dramatic. I'm quite confident that Redhat could remove systemd just as easily as they added it if they had reason to.
TBH I don't know Lisp - the code generator was donated. There isn't enough libc to run the benchmarks and I haven't really examined the code much. Maybe it does use go. If you're interested in having a look, feel free...
I only have experiences with DavMail in front of an Outlook server. It actually works well, except when it doesn't:

http://sourceforge.net/p/davmail/bugs/598/

When it rains it pours.
Couldn't an attacker override window.getComputedStyle() at runtime anyway?
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Those discussions always seem to miss the point.
I think it is really obvious that our economic system struggles with stagnation, but really seems to break if an econmy (god forbid) shrinks for whatever reason.

If not for that constraint i guess economies in western countries would have already shrunken quite a bit due to automatisation. For me the cause seems to be to a fundamental bug in our intertemporal trade system.
I hope your model works as an antidote to the perverse incentives of ad-based revenue, but I wonder if you could improve the incentives even more. There will still be advantages to using click-bait and writing that manipulates our curiosity. If you make it trivial to get a refund, that will greatly negate those incentives, but it also enables freeloaders, no?

Jean, I would love to hear your or Blendle's thoughs on my variation of a reader payment scheme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008960
> I’d envisaged the former owner being some sort of back-woods buck-toothed survivalist who spent his life protecting his family from the oppressive government until he got sick and had to sell his house, guns and alarm system to pay for his medical bills.

I love the casual elitism of this Brit expat. Cool post otherwise though.
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Mexico is beautiful and amazing place with great food and wonderful people.

It does have problems, yes, the government for one, a culture of corruption, a "caste system" mentality, a lack of focus on community (which leads to awful habits like littering).

The media reports constantly show Mexico's problems, which to be fair it does have, but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years. The average standard of living has risen considerably. I would say the average citizen is more aware of the wider world outside their little community. That's just my experience.
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They already had the suspect in custody.

Why would they be fearing attacks from unrelated people enough to shoot first and ask questions later?
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Related question: is there a place in my Facebook profile where I can see everything I've liked?
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Yeah, recording the police is a right that has been supported in court a million times.

The cops are also supposed to be disciplined about shooting people, but whatever, that's out the window already.
80-90% of murder victims in Mexico are male. That number is similar to the worldwide rate, maybe even a bit higher. It seems like Mexico doesn't have any special problem with murder of women, they just have a huge problem with murder, period.
A simpler way is to have a seperate Chrome (or Firefox) profile for Facebook. I have an icon in my taskbar for Gmail and it simply opens up Chrome with that profile, which has Gmail set as homepage.

Not a perfect solution, but good first line of defense none-the-less.
It's basically just thermodynamics: if you're willing to spend enough energy, you can optimize the state an arbitrarily large system as you please.

Of course, the key words there are enough energy. It sounds like Thiel might be forgetting to account for what we want to optimize and how much effort we're willing to spend on it.
You're not really talking about "Religious gatherings" you are talking about a specific "Religions, gathering". There are some very nice religious fuelled gatherings that lead to nice things like taking breaks, working quietly and all that other stuff. There are also some that don't.
At this point, I think they're afraid of having anti-cop lynch mobs-- based off of the terrified cop behavior that led to this incident in the first place.
This is a little unfair to (intelligent) libertarians. A similar argument could be made for socialists or welfarists. They all rely on "economics" in the sense that they are quantifying and describing the dynamics of economic activity. Thoughtful libertarians know that these measures and models are representations of reality, not reality.

In fact, a fairly important figure in "neoliberal" thought is Hayek. Hayek (and Hayekians) argue that not only is the economy difficult to quantify and describe formally, it is impossible. In his frameworks price and choice are conveyors for knowledge.

I would even say that the most serious hubris in this vein has been the Stalinist and Maoist "5 year plan" which aimed to quantify economies in accounting terms.
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But the two things you have on the moon - unrestricted view of the sun, aluminum dust lying around in piles - means its certainly the easiest of the alternatives. That's the point.
Thats exactly analogous - both oversized parking lot and burning down forests for few years worth of farming are profitable, yet highly undesirable.

If you'd stuff european cities with low density parking lots it would make car owners life not FUCKING SUCK
At the cost of ruining the "ecosystem" - everything is spaced out by parking lots, so more and more people are using cars in turn needing more parking lots, hardly desirable outcome for a city, which would be better served by good public transport, which would be made less desirable if everything was distanced by parking lots

A simple metastable suboptimal state example is extreme income inequality - it took years to get out of another metastable state - more sensible income distribution. Now, it would take a lot of effort/change/work/whatever to switch the states.
One thing oft asserted in economics textbooks is price as an "information signal." That is, if we step back from its various origins that tie it to land, labor, and energy, pricing has similar utility to any other valuation method. A person using extremely expensive equipment that is owned by an institution cannot value it within their individual budget, even though it has a "price." The cost of access is the membership in that institution, which is not the same and may be priced in terms of service hours or political weight.

As our economy hits more extremes of abundance vs. scarcity, decoupling of value mechanisms is a likely future step. Mainstream economic theory already has some accomodations for types of goods and externalities - it's not too radical to imagine a theory that recontextualizes them.
For a self-hosted, wide area network file sharing solution I think WebDAV is a very simple and cheap choice.

My experience with WebDAV has been just that, its simplest form. Setup an Apache web server for project managers to share files with a client for example.
Does Wikipedia consumption have value if you don't use it to go and create something that has impact on GDP?
I don't read anything in that page that says this is a Spotify product... It even says: "Spotiamb is not an officially supported product of Spotify®."
You could. Commercial diodes comes with special drivers and I've seen at least one with a modified nic that could sync with only one way communication. There are also software components they usually come with as the proxying is somewhat tricky with one direction communication. The real advantage of the fiber is the use can see that there is no way for a return signal, with normal Ethernet you need to have a special cable, a very special one, if it's replaced with something different the diode may be compromised. It becomes a trust issue. The diodes from some companies are very expensive too, 6 figure price tags with all the various defense type certifications.
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This is reportedly also an excellent way to make sure your baggage is not lost...
I get the lag too. MBP 15" Late 2014.
So one of your guys just pinged me in private about this, and I responded lengthily. Here's the basic summary:

* I didn't know JMAP was also about calendar and contacts.

* Those parts seem nice.

* However, I'm the kinda guy who self-hosts his data servers. JMAP seems like a powerful protocol. I'm not sure those two things mix well, since JMAP server implementations probably will require a good database, not just a dumb FS like in remoteStorage.

* However, I would like to collaborate wherever possible.
For an approach that does this, check out how Racket's web server manages statelessness across requests:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#%28par...

http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pcmkf-...
Hi, creator here.

This is a tribute to the old times, when iframes was the new big thing and JavaScript wasn't widely used.

I wanted to investigate how hard it would be to implement a <noscript>-compatible nes emulator that could be played together with other people in realtime.

A stretch goal was to make it work in browsers from the late 90's.

Ironically, everything is written in JavaScript on the server using Node.js. :D
Downvoting should be used to indicate relevancy. The comment is obviously relevant.

They downvote because most are still little boys and girls just exerting their right to downvote, not intending to use it for it's real use.
'Because it's slow' doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Couldn't they register the click then do the check, allowing them to have the best of both worlds?
...says the guy with lots of disposable income. What makes sense for paying for a legal mechanism, can introduce crippling inequalities in access to information. But who cares if the poor have access to legal aid.
No lag here, Mid 2015 MBP 15" driving 2 27" Thunderbolts.
Then they should remove the paywall. How are we supposed to discuss the article if we can't read it? This isn't a discussion "about the paywall" - it's just a link so the rest of us can read along.