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I'm not sure how unconstitutional it is. The Constitution says: "[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."

I wouldn't have written that into the Constitution, but nobody asked me.
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Neither; as I said, I think it's part of a superordinate (higher) clause, of which (i) and (ii) were subclauses. Mind, I am just going off the short extract on the Freezenet page- I didn't bother to dig out the original document and work back from page 63 to get back to the very top context. I've decided to wait the 30 days for the final text to appear and then make a decision to support it or not based on the final text rather than a draft.
Unlike every actual tracker on the internet, Gravatar is opt-in. Things like google analytics, facebook like button/tweet button etc, they are all opt-out.
This is absolutely mind-blowing! I'm looking forward to reading the paper they published.
To calculate the number of processors available or the optimal number of threads/processes?
What about 3rd party keyboards like those that have recently made their way to iPhones and have been on Android for a while?

All of them (even Samsung's swype style keyboard) seem to have some sort of cloud-based storage for your data so it can remain equally predictive across your devices. Is there any good security research out there on how safe these keyboards are and which ones are the worst offenders? Seems like it is essentially a user-installed cloud-based keystroke logger ripe for abuse.

I love the functionality of some of them, but man do they terrify me.
This quote of the judge as he delivering his verdict is so crazy (he is reading from Ulbricht's journal):

Two days later on April 8 you write: "Sent payments to angel for hit on Tony76 and his three associates. Began setting up hecho as standby" -- I have no idea what that is -- "refactored main and category pages to be more efficient."
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> If I'm working on a project with someone, I can immediately find them and message

Interesting, that is exactly why I don't use my real name on Facebook. I don't wont everyone I work on some project with to be able to find me and message me outside of the established conversation channels from within the project. And even less am I interested them to be able to learn about my private life.

All my friends do find me with help of the friend of a friend feature on Facebook and the Picture I have there. Everyone else should never try to contact me there, I will block them anyway.
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I find these responses extremely suspicious. This is an old trick in the book with new accounts commenting on just a particular post.

I could be wrong, but excuse my ahem.. dubious mind for thinking this.
I used to have a very high trust in NYTimes articles but my 'trust level' dropped steeply (at least when it comes to foreign news) when I started reading their articles about Nigeria (I happen to be very familiar with the country). Lots of their stories about Nigeria were heavily skewed to 'portray a certain view', a few were outrightly false. The tipping point was when I read the Editorial about the presidential election that was postponed and it was factually incorrect. My thought was this - I know about these inconsistencies and false reporting because I'm familiar with the country. What is the guarantee that something similar is not happening with their reports on other countries. Nowadays, I stick with Aljazeera and BBC for foreign news
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Decent example.

I generalized this as "You have something you really want (everyone has different goals). Right when you think you are about to achieve your goal, it is taken away (because of something stupid you did in the past; everyone has done something stupid at one point). This is why unchecked data collection is bad"
Sarah Sharp: Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence
It might be a lot more helpful to him if you contacted him privately and showed him your resume or whatever so he can see what is working for you and see if that somehow clues him what he can do differently. I am of the firm conviction that our current job acquiring culture is pretty broken. Being good at a job and being good at getting a job are distinctly different skills and you really shouldn't infer too much about his on-the-job competencies based on his lack of job hunting savvy.
I hate to say this, but: I think this would be very cool. See someone interesting at the bar? Scan and check to find a convenient ice breaker. "Oh! We both went to the same summer camp as kids!"
I have seen lots of posts where he explains things patiently in a lot of detail.

I just wonder if he gets the same tough treatment he gives to others when he is wrong. And if he takes it well. I am assuming that sometimes like most of us he is totally wrong.
I've used this before on small projects and it has proven to be a better 'learning' experience versus just googling for help.
While I won't deny this point, I think the industry at large would benefit quite a lot if we were able to agree on how to write probably bug-free code, even if empirically.

Reality is that within a group of 10, you might as well get 12 or more prescriptions of how to write quality software. About half of those prescriptions will be useless and at least one will be actively harmful, but the team will have a hard time to reach a consensus and tell which is which.

Actually, the people most likely to tell which is the obviously harmful prescription learn pretty fast to keep their mouths shut, because they are more likely to alienate their peers than to convince them. So, everybody knows that thousand-lines-long functions are bad, but nobody can tell exactly why besides the bland, non-threatening "style" argument.
I hope they don't. The last thing we need is a proprietary solution for "the messaging backbone for the internet". =/
> You misunderstand what was written.

Actually, I have a fundamentally different perspective.

> They don't want to pay for things, the way they might pay for things where they are actually gaining something on a permanent basis.

The goal of good writing is, in part, to permanently change the reader. Even if they read it once. This is true of literary content, educational content, news content, and even entertainment.

But more than that, what good content does is establish a relationship that can be cultivated. Even if you read an article just once, it can become part of the greater relationship that serves a larger purpose. (Perhaps, educational, building towards expertise in a certain knowledge area. Or, perhaps, entertainment, where the reader can reliably expect a change in their emotional state.)

> My dad saved all issues of Scientific American from 1949 to 2009

Many of my subscribers save all of the emails I send them. How is that different?

> Nobody does that with web articles.

Have you never referred back to the same web resource? How many times have you viewed this discussion? Do you wonder why there is a "bookmarks" menu button on your browser? Have you ever emailed an article to yourself to read it later, or printed it out? These are all common behaviors.

Someone regularly comments on my Facebook article posts, saying "bookmarking", just so they can reference it later.

Ironically, I often email the same article to the same audience multiple times, and the readership rate remains high.

Yes, the web is full of low-quality content that degrades the reader, the writer, and the entire culture of the internet. Maybe that content earns 1/3rd of a cent per view -- and deserves it. But is that really what we want to be supporting?
Remember, though: Do not run the open sync-engine on a public-facing server!

It uses no effective authentication and everyone can just login to your accounts (due to /accounts and /n, the endpoints displaying the auth codes, being public)
why are all logos mixed up for listed companies?
That'a a big problem. It's a huge deal and Congress can either approve the whole thing or reject the whole thing. That puts a lot of pressure on the single representative.

It should be voted on in small pieces. The same should have happened with the ACA. There are lots of parts that could be enacted on their own.
I'm stunned by the defenders of this policy I'm seeing here.

Not singling you out in particular this is for everyone who doesn't seem to get it due to youth, lack of experience, very privileged life, complete inability to empathise, I'm not sure what exactly in each case but it's ugly at times and Hacker News seems to be ground zero for a lot of this stuff.

I suspect like many things I see on here there is a huge lack of life experience informing opinions.

Luckily on HN you don't have to use your real name so these immature opinions won't come back to bite you as a well adjust adult with life experience.
@Geniebazaar, when dealing with the United States Citizen and Immigration service, I think alot of people will agree with me that a call to a place like that is worth holding on for. Paying $2 for a call to be made on your behalf to a place like that is simply not worth it IMO.
Analogies are like shopping carts; you can only push them so far before they begin to make an annoying high pitched noise. Your analogy probably works better in the ways that you've explained, though.
I think you're going to be disappointed about the future. Given I need music to keep focused at work, I got a subscription to Google Play. Now I've got access to all the Beyonce I need for $10 / month. It kind of sucks because my desktop is not capable of caching music for offline use, only my Android can. Plus, if I end my subscription, I get to keep nothing. It's a great way to discover new music though. And I don't like SoundCloud because the signal to noise ratio is not that good and I don't have the patience.

My point is that the notion of buying songs and albums is coming to an end. I personally don't like it, but there you have it. And sorry to say it, but for this future in which we rent music, I also blame piracy. I also think ad-blockers will be the catalyst for a similarly dark future for websites.

The underlying cause is always people illegally using and not willing to pay for other people's work.
How much do rich interactive digital articles cost to create versus a print article?

That questions also changes the math.
Surely, Winterkorn/Piëch/the whole post-2007 and post-Pischetsrieder exec team must have dirt on the TÜV/CDU politicians in lower Saxony?

e: And hilariously for you, according to Wikipedia, Piëch himself is in fact a dyslexic atheist. Zounds!
Happy to see someone who understands that pork barrel spending was THE currency Congressman had in order to secure votes needed for important bills. That is truly how compromise was achieved.
I think you've got to look at this as a process of gradual refinement in which both government and industry participate. The government wants to achieve its overall objectives of reducing emissions over a long period of time (decades); it knows that if it just set the emissions targets at the target on day zero the entire industry would fail to meet them and the industry would collapse. So the regulations have to be set with some idea of what is currently achievable or within reach of the industry given an economically feasible amount of investment.

So the aim of the regulation is to push the industry in the direction you want them to go at a rate which gets everyone to the destination without destroying the industry. And every so often the regulations need to be tightened to keep the development process moving forward.
I keep hearing "fail fast" as part of the start-up rah-rah. They just took it to heart.
YiSpecter: First iOS Malware That Attacks Non-Jailbroken Apple iOS Devices
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Gotta increase those ad impressions.
This is insanely creepy...
Indeed, a few years ago Paul Biggar (CircleCI) tried to compile PHP extensively and said it was far too dynamic to do "good" compilation (I'm distorting his words a lot here).
i think you might be misunderstanding the point of managers..
> As people migrate, rents and wages adjust.

Americans are not migrating to third-world countries because there are more jobs. That's not going to happen.
The Wahabbi/Salifists see destroying all that old stuff as a feature not a bug.
Here is the discussion for "Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9749660
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When was the last time that you changed the heaters of your car?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But I don't remember giving FB permission to view my phone numbers.
It would be nice if I could just get my results without adding my email.
Switched to DDG a few weeks back and can't see me going back to Google
And they can vote and agree to change that agreement.

Congress changes laws all the time. That's their job.

"As idiotic as it would have been to allow the Congressman from the Arkansas 3rd, home to no major cities unless you consider the headquarters of Walmart a city, to directly alter trade law"

Are you seriously arguing that Walmart doesn't have an impact on trade? Or that international trade only affects "major cities"?

I assure you that you are wrong about both of those things.

"Thankfully, several months ago, they voted and agreed not to let that happen."

And tomorrow they might change their minds.

Where does this idea that a law can't ever be changed once it is passed come from?
> I don't know how they do it. But they do it.

A big avenue for this is phone numbers. If you have exchanged phone numbers or texted and either person has the facebook app installed on their phone they may show up on "people you may know"
This is HN, remember. Engineers are demigods here, freshly sprung from Athena's head herself, but one step removed from Zeus.
I could not agree more.
Haskell's GHC is a super clever optimizing compiler with a garbage collector built around the sort of memory pressure that arises when you've got tons of immutable data. Some of GHC's brand of speed comes from the super optimization bits where GHC automatically intuits out a mutating, low level, primitive loop out of your high level description. Some comes from loads and loads of tuning. Clojure cannot benefit from the latter because JVMs are tuned differently and cannot benefit from the first because it has less good transformation semantics.
>There's a really virulent meme that Ulbricht was never tried for the assassination scheme.

nice choice of words - "tried" instead of "convicted" :)

>But he was: the murder-for-hire scheme was a predicate on his "criminal conspiracy" charge. Not only was it brought up in trial, but it was brought up in a way that put the onus on the prosecution to prove it.

not true. The Judge clearly states that assassinations come through on "preponderance of evidence" which is a lower standard from "beyond reasonable doubt" the prosecution must prove for a trial and conviction. There is absolutely no surprise that a testimony from a [still unknown to be corrupt] federal agent met the "preponderance of evidence" threshold.
Somehow the Wi-Fi network theory sounds even creepier than geo-tracking.

Also in my example, I didn't usually connect to any Wi-Fi because I have LTE. But of course I don't turn off wi-fi when I leave the house so my phone still does network discovery.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your experience on that.

Am I right in assuming that creditors are able to write off any such losses (such as your networking gear example)?
yeah, this comment thread is full of shills.
It's going to get worse, but not for the reason you state. Changing car performance (acceleration profile, etc.) for the worse is a necessary outcome of fixing this issue. That's why people will sue.
I've found a draft with indentation (QQ.G.10) that supports your point. Thanks for the explanation.

http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/Section-G-Copyright...
It's easy to generate real-looking names, there are libraries to do so.

Requiring real-looking names therefore doesn't prevent bots.

If you're not being bombarded with friend requests by bots on Facebook that just means none of your friends have accepted a friend request from a profile with a picture of a young asian woman as its avatar (and an authentic-sounding name) yet...

You can validate your name on Twitter if you want to. You don't have to though.

Access to Facebook isn't a right (although in countries where it is the only net presence that may become more of an issue).

But Facebook's mistakes (and Real Names policies are a mistake) affect a lot of people, all of whom have the valid use case of "using Facebook as a platform".

So the argument is you're creating a false dichotomy between using Facebook to get "5000 followers" and wanting to use Facebook under your legal, European-sounding, name.

The valid use case you're missing is using Facebook under the name you generally go by without this being a problem if it's not a name Facebook thinks is valid.

Even I go under an informal version of my legal name - it's not the name on my birth certificate, passport, or bank account. So it's not my Real Name. And I'm not any of the groups that get hit hardest by this.
And, in some countries, even making copies or photographing or scanning an ID is a crime. I’ll not commit a crime just to get access to Facebook.
This may be obvious to some, but the software already knows what's on the colouring book page. It has a predefined model of the character, so it just applies a texture mapping algorithm (with some guessing to colour the back side of the character).
The cert is valid, but they load some elements from HTTP.
I'll let the NSA surveillance me because I don't have the power to stop it on my own.

I will not let a corporation/individual do the same if
I can spot the devises they use, or the hear they are surveilling me.

The small changes I made are: I don't shop at Home Depot as much as I used to. I walk out of any store that has too many cameras. I don't shop at stores that a require membership picture. I never had a big presence on the Internet, so I didn't need to delete to many real name/identifiable ip accounts.

I think their are small ways we can fight. The problem I see is most people think, "I'm not doing anything wrong, I really don't care."--with the exception of HN members.

I have actually looked into ways to defeat facial recognition, but everything I looked into might bring more attention to myself than doing nothing. I do understand the big hoodie though. To be honest, I've never liked my picture taken. As a Photographer, I don't take people's pictures like I used to; it just rude, and shows poor manners these days. (I did look into a hat with IR lights on the brim. It seems to work now, but looks like new cameras will be able to defeate the lights, and there's always the establishment that says no to hats?)
Your friend / family member is down on their luck. Or, you help "those less fortunate."

You are tagged/associated with them.

Now, you're down on your luck.

P.S. Because, proprietary algorithm.
As a kid who grew up with an overworked dad, thank you. Well, thanks dad too for bringing enough money at home. But not having played ball at all before 6 made me a pretty isolated child, at an age where people socialize through sports. Not having much affective presence has been bad for my self-confidence, which is still a problem today. Not having enough discussion about dating girls made me isolated as a teenager and young adult. Sure that gave me plenty of time to succeed at school and I'm now sitting on a pile of money, which I can use to buy courses and any experience that I feel lacking. But there are some things that are just less painful to learn when we go through them with parents.

I'm not a father and it is up to fathers to judge whether financial safety is more or less important than affection. But there are real, palatable, eventually financial, painful consequences from not spending time with your children, so much that spending time with children is often a pretty good thing to do.
De facto free trade zones such as the United States themselves (and the internal economies of most nations) are a good example of what it looks like once the transformation is complete. Doesn't prove that moving from tariffs to no tariffs will be a net benefit, but it's a good model.
To me putting high-priority low-latency process and a low-priority high-throughput process on the same machine is a recipe for disaster - they will find some way to get entangled and hurt each other. Kudos to google for pulling this out but the article shows that you need expertise on all levels of the stack to attempt this. Most of us are better off with simply buying more boxes :)
Legally changing one's name ranges from "a pain in the ass" to "impossible", depending on jurisdiction and the contexts in which you have used your previous legal names. It is also generally part of the program for trans* people to spend a period of time living as their gender (name, clothes, etc.) before more permanent (medically and legally) steps are taken.
That doesn't appear to be an un-biased sub. From its description:

>The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement.
But doesn't this cut both ways? If you don't hang around questionable people, you'd qualify for better rate for loans. Or if your credit score is not very high, but the fact you don't hang around questionable people brings your credit file up a notch and make you qualify.
16 years, I created a profiling macro system on for select set critical functions. The profiling system can switch the measuring data from #instruction, #cpu_clk, #branch_stall_cycles, #L1_miss, #L2 miss for all the critical path functions.

After analyzed the data, I found branch stall cycles and data access stall cycles were causing huge number of delays in the critical code path.

I used the following tricks to get rid of the stall cycles.

1) Use branch_likely to force gcc to make sure there is no branch at all in the critical path of executions. (save 30+ cpu cycle per branch, there are a lot of branch stall cycles if one just simplely follow the gcc generated "optimized" code. MIPS CPU 200Mhz)

2) Use prefetch ahead of data structure access to get rid of un-cache data delay. (save ~50+cpu cycle per data stall, also, there are lot of them in the critical path.)

3) Use inline functions, etc to get rid of call stalls in critical path.

The system got ~100x increase on the overall system thru-put with those techniques with just pure C optimization from standard -O2 build.

I think it might be possible to create a build system that can automatically collect the profiling data (branch stall cycles and data stall cycles) and use the branch likely and prefetch instructions to auto-optimized the critical path code.

Specifying which code path / function call sequences are the real critical path probably still require programmer's touch.

As result of using data prefetch code in proper place, I don't used cache locking nor doing any kind of CPU affinity trick to generated the optimized obj code without any stall cycles for critical code path.
I actually just started reading the abstract and let out a deep sigh. It's still impressive but no longer mind-blowing unfortunately.
Untrue.. The first several pounds of shrooms on the Silk Road were grown and sold by Ulbricht. He claims credit for "Several Kilograms" in his diary.. Several kilos is well into the tens of thousands of dollars range..

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-the-fbi-found-on-r...