skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is reporting that Nick Merrill, who was under a gag order restricting his ability to talk about a subpoena he received in 2004, is no longer gagged. It links to an editorial he wrote (anonymously) about that gag order, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03... , in which he writes:

> "Based on the context of the demand -- a context that the FBI still won't let me discuss publicly -- I suspected that the FBI was abusing its power and that the letter sought information to which the FBI was not entitled."

This new article does not disclose who that subscriber was, but the article, and the earlier op-ed, seem to imply that the subscriber's identity alone is enough to suspect an abuse of power. We'll probably hear more about that in the near future, but I'd like to make a prediction. The most likely interpretation is that this was a critic of the FBI or of the US government as a whole, and that the subpoena - which seeks to unmask the subject's identity - would be a prelude to retaliation.

The article goes on to describe how the FBI has materially misrepresented its use of National Security Letters to Congress, and that the practice of sending them has twice been struck down by the courts as unconstitutional. By all appearances, a significant chunk of the US law enforcement apparatus has simply gone rogue, stopped respecting Congress and the courts and is instead focused on increasing its own power.
Would you mind elaborating on your reasoning?
I must disagree. The US has a shortage of employable workers as evidenced by the current unemployment rate relative to wages; it has a demographic imbalance where too few young people earn enough to support resources drawn by a much larger aging population; and there is no realistic excess taxing capacity for political and economic reasons outside the scope of this reply.
I didn't quite get the desk/paper thing -- was it continuous feed paper, so Feynman grabbed the end and pulled it all out?
That's a polite way to say that apple is spending less on R&D.
Possible alternate explanation: maybe Apple is promoting Lightning headphones not because they want to eliminate the headphone jack, but because they intend to start pushing some kind of smart functionality to headphones and audio devices.

That's pure speculation. No clue what that functionality might be. What if they were leveraging the processing power of the iPhone to achieve some kind of adaptive noise canceling on any headphones? I don't know.

I do know this: this isn't like dropping the floppy drive or optical drives on Macs. By the time those were dropped, hardly anybody was using those features on their Macs. But a casual glance around any plane or public transit tells you that a lot people use their headphone jacks all the time.
Not only is the high price considered a positive as per your link, but Veblen specifically used university culture to explain his concept of conspicuous consumption. So much of university professor culture has nothing to do with learning and everything to do with appearing high class, but without the money. Robes, fancy eating spots, stone everywhere ... it's all about appearing upper class.
It's obviously a very personal decision. But I would point you in the direction of problems that need solving that aren't obviously tied to coding or engineering.

Maybe a few hours spelunking through the half bakery would yield some treasures that get your creative juices flowing.

http://www.halfbakery.com/
>Athletics: Drop athletes that aren't student athletes. I'm sorry, but illiterate players don't belong in college. It's a disservice to them, the rest of the students, and the university's reputation. Stop spending astronomical amounts on football (primarily) and other sports, even if it pays for itself it's not needed for an academic environment. Rein these in, keep athletics but cut the programs so they aren't (budget-wise) on the level of some professional teams.

This isn't going to happen in the current environment. There is literally billions of dollars of profit at stake.
You statement assumes that everyone who joins/supports ISIS is evil or brainwashed like the people in that article.

Imagine you are a resident of a town just captured by ISIS in Syria. Assuming that they don't kill you immediately for being a Shia, Kurd, Christian or Yazidi, how hard would it be for you to say no to supporting them, when the alternative is death, or to flee to another place only to be forced into destitution due to lack of economic opportunity.

No doubt ISIS seems to have a special capability to recruit people with sociopathic desires, but any army marches on its stomach, and that requires regular, non-evil people, to participate in the effort.
There's a searchable map of the data at oaklandlpr.com
The story goes much deeper than that.

The public sector unions across California circulated a letter in each municipality that they would only support candidates willing to approve 8% guaranteed annual pension returns.

And they got it. As a result, California cities are all bankrupt today.

FYI: San Jose is bad, but ironically wealthy Palo Alto has one of the worst budgets.
i have a solution for a headset which would work with a thinner iPhone, Mac, Macbook and so on. It's already a standard and its called bluetooth.

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MKLD2AM/A/beats-by-dr-dre-...
Perk.com buys Corona Labs game platform
Update: I read one of the comments below and now I'm convinced by the argument. Here's the intuition for what's happening. (I wish the article had spelled this out sooner)

As long as A does not equal B with some positive probability, and as long as you choose a separator R with full support, then there is some probability that R lands between A and B. When that happens, you always win the game. Otherwise, if picking A or B randomly doesn't hurt you, then R landing somewhere else not between A and B doesn't hurt you either. So you've gotten a strategy that, once in a while, helps you separate A and B, and doesn't hurt you otherwise.
Monogamy is not practical without heavy penalties on non-monogamous relationships.

If by "monogamy" one means having one stable primary relationship at a time while having dalliances with secondary/tertiary partners and transitory partners, then "monogamy" seems to fit the baseline human sexual behavior for the majority of people, across cultures, and across history.

Today, since adultery/serial monogamy/polyandry/polygamy etc. is a joke and widely "accepted", there is no incentive to get married. So many 18-35 waste their youthful lives just dating, dating, meeting jerks, partying, jumping from partner to partner....instead of focusing on building a REAL stable relationship.

If society looked at the actual data, and adjusted to the patterns of behavior people actually exhibit -- serial monogamy with possible secondary partners -- then I suspect there would be more scope and opportunity for building stable real relationships. There would be less pressure on keeping the strictures of such a monogamy. It would be easier for people to remain "faithful." There would be less drama. There would be less sexual dissatisfaction and boredom.

(My data: My previous relationship was with someone "poly." My current relationship is traditionally monogamous, to which I do adhere.)
I am a huge fan of Google's services but they do make money from our personal information.

I am hopeful that Microsoft will evolve into a strong supporter of privacy, but with some (hopefully temporary) issues with Windows 10, I will wait and see what happens.
Anonymous hacks ISIS site, replaces it with Viagra ad
What do you mean? I think the clip-on shuffle is fantastic for exercise.

Edit: Thanks, I didn't realize there were multiple clip-on models
You seem to think everyone's decency has a price, especially poor people. Pretty depressing thought but thankfully not true. Otherwise people would be blowing themselves up all over the world, including the US. Instead it is almost entirely the members of one death cult.
The left claims ISIS happened because of geopolitical bullying that the West did in that area for about a century now. The right claims ISIS happened because they are religious nutjobs fundamentally opposed to western values.

I think it's not either / or. I think it's a messy situation with a complicated causal web. It's more like all of the above.

You get Picot / Sykes after WWI to stir up trouble in the region. And the creation of an artificial state after WWII in the region, which the West keeps sponsoring so that they dominate the area militarily. And things like the CIA coup to remove Mosaddegh from office in Iran, who ended up being replaced with a theocracy. And the relentless pressure and meddling from the West, for the purpose of maintaining an oil supply.

And then you get a bunch of religious nutjobs ruling various places in the area. And a religion which seems to have a particularly "robust" attitude towards "holy wars". And then throw in the mix some climate shifts that knock out harvests and upset the price of food staples. And maybe the economists are right, too, and vast inequalities of all sorts in the area just made everything else worse.

If any one of the factors mentioned above was acting in isolation, nothing would have happened. But the stack, as you see, is pretty thick, and I guess something broke somewhere. It's all of the above. It's not one single, isolated reason.
You can get high quality grain-free dry "kibble" pet food. Just because it's kibble doesn't mean it's low quality or full of junk.
Is that much different than what Facebook or Google Maps are already doing behind the scenes? They might not make that data accessible to you, but it's undoubtedly being (or able to be) compiled behind the scenes. See this update:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/28/google-search-now-shows-you...

The average HN user might not care for such a system, but I think many people would find it reassuring for better or worse.
I don't think I can recommend the Wiha 75999[1] toolset highly enough - excellent quality and not overly expensive.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H7MWEI
Cortex A53? Nice toy but A57 or A72 would make much more sense in laptop form factor.
I am not disagreeing with you here, but what you are saying doesn't discount that income inequality could still lead desperate people into Islamic (or more generally religious, or even more generally, ideological) extremism. Blind faith thrives among the poor and uneducated.
It probably relates because the marriages themselves don't matter, it is the family that forms and the impacts that has on individuals that do. Thus if you had some society which allowed only monogamy but also allowed concubines, you would likely see the same issues as caused by polygamy. Or if you had a society that didn't do marriage at all, but the relationships that formed tended to be greater towards polygamy than monogamy. (You can also have the reverse, polyandry, but this study doesn't seem to look into those societies to see how they differ from monogamous and polygamous ones.)
Like all models, incorrect but useful, I think that the most useful model to view "value" and GDP is as a crude approximation of the human input that goes into making something or making it useful. Natural resources are only useful if humans exert effort to extract and refine them, services are only useful if some humans exert effort to save other humans more effort, manufacturing is only useful if the effort exerted is repaid in improved productivity or utility gained, etc. Once you abstract away from monetary units to say that we're all trading units of human effort at varying degrees of efficiency, it's clear that GDP growth and "the ability of limited resources to support a growing population" is dependent on the growth of both the amount and the efficiency of human capital rather than physical resources. I'd take Ehrlich's wager [0] at any point in the future.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
This is solving a problem that nobody has, and replacing it with an obvious set of real problems.

Who wants to buy expensive certified headphones or wireless in all cases? Headphones are pure commodity -- they can be had for $3.

I wouldn't buy another iOS device if this happens.
> How could you charge your phone and listen to music simultaneously?

The could have things like existing microUSB-to-HDMI adapters for mobile devices, where the adapter also has a charging-only microUSB port.

Or it could use wireless charging.

Or Apple, who is great at optimizing for what they perceive to be the most common use case and selling it as all people need, might just consider simultaneous charging and headphone use as an unimportant niche case.
> It's a disservice to them, the rest of the students, and the university's reputation.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you but for lots of big public schools the reality is that reputation of football/basketball teams is as important (if not more) than academics, particularly WRT to alumni dontations. Those 2 in particular are also generally quite profitable for the big schools (isn't free labor great)
In the original old version there is a joystick for controlling the boat: labs.gooengine.com/pearl-boy/
Same here. Been at a couple companies that consider Chrome part of our app's stack.
If you work on a computer all day in an office you are stuck in past. Do you still use fax machines too?

The Internet has been fast enough to make remote work feasible for at least ten years.

Commuting is a horrendous waste of resources.
> To say the problem with ISIS is anything other than Islamic extremism is a red herring.

This assertion seems obviously false. ISIS isn't suddenly "better" because they are killing in the name of something other than "Islamic extremism." There are also plenty of extreme right-wing muslims who don't kill people, which also suggests that a generic diagnosis of "islamic extremism" is not enough to explain ISIS.

If you /really/ believe ISIS is powered by a fervent belief in fundamentalist Islam and nothing else, then there are no remedies other than killing every member of the group as their rhetoric inescapably leads to the conclusion they should kill everyone who disagrees with them. Of course, to believe that, you also have to believe previous groups that espoused philosophies with similar conclusions (Al' Qaeda, etc) were lying - as we haven't kill all of their members and their terrorist & militant activities have fallen off. If all muslim extremists are driven solely by personal belief in islamic extremism, we would never expect them to change their behavior.

But people do change! All the time. So, even if you believe that all extremely right-wing muslims want to kill everyone all the time (a preposition I find hard to believe myself), you should also see that some (most I would say) muslim extremists choose not to kill most of the people most of the time. If we want to save as many lives as possible we should, while we push back against the intellectual garbage of extreme Islam, should also work to understand the factors that cause some extremists to kill and others to live in relative harmony.
A little at a time.

Force yourself to do something every day, even if it's only 15 minutes of work. Write a blog post, research a technology, test some code, etc. Just do something to move your project forward. Progress is made in little steps.

As an aside, I've found that with kids, this is the way to get anything done. I just don't have large blocks of time I can spend working on stuff anymore. I've found that although it's inefficient to work in small increments of time, sometimes it's either make zero progress or make a tiny amount of progress.
I am once again reminded that the ACLU and EFF are wonderful organizations that attempt to keep the legal system barely sane for everyone else.
On your first point, I agree that the message is most often overshadowed by delivery. But I also agree with mentat's point that at some point "um" can make the speaker sound stupid.

> It's not good managerial advice to say, "Tell your employees they sound stupid if they are bad public speakers!" It's better managerial advice to say, "Know your employees, and how each individual might be best motivated, and don't accept complacency."

I completely agree with this, and I got this from the article/video as well. In the "um" story, the manager tries twice to tell her in a nice way, offering to bring in a coach, etc, but she doesn't get it. Knowing her employee, she tells her that she sounds stupid and this works. Kim says in her talk that Sheryl had done several things to establish trust in their relationship previously, so she knew that this case was not a personal attack.
You might be right. There is a sibling comment that mentioned that even smaller shuffle, which I must have had in my mind when I replied to the parent.
I am no fan of Apple's phones, last I used being an iPhone 2. But this argument is nonsense to my mind. I cannot remember the last time I used the headphone adapter on my phone. It was probably at least two phone upgrades ago, making it an early generation Android device (I have since dumped Android for Windows).

Modern mobile headphones, speakers, and automobiles attach to the device via Bluetooth. If am doing high-fidelity listening using good headphones, I'm not playing the audio from my phone anyway; I am at home with my proper audio equipment. I don't know anyone who uses the headphone port on their phone.

That said, I agree that I'm not clamoring for an ultra-thin device, principally because I don't find it particularly easy to hold a super thin phone. I'm not ruling out the possibility that an ultra-thin device could be designed that is easy to hold, but of all the problems I have with mobile computing, thickness is not in my top 50 complaints. In fact, subjective or apparent fragility is more a concern than thickness, and reducing thickness will inevitably (I feel) increase apparent fragility.
Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year
I understand your points. What you're talking about is middle class and upper middle class privilege. That privilege is different than upper class, which is implied by the original poster's comments on ivy league and boarding schools like Andover. There's different granularities and levels of privilege.
There's actually lots of really important actions that get mostly ignored precisely because saying that this is related to religion is politically incorrect.

1. The West should more publicly defend the people who stand to gain most from a decrease of religiosity in Muslim majority countries: women, intellectuals, gays, etc. Those are the people who have a self-interest in reform, and thus are most likely to actually try.

2. In Europe in particular there should be a bigger emphasis on religion in education; particularly education about different religions and about atheism.

3. Any immigrants and refugees should get personal and very intense help to integrate into European society, and gaining a European passport should be tied to achievement of those goals.

4. Salafist and Wahhabist organisations should be banned, and any money coming from Saudia Arabia and other Gulf states investigated.

etc.
She had stopped eating by the time they euthanized her; she wouldn't have lived longer than a few more days.
> When they show up they make me really assume the rest of the article is junk as well.

Sounds like you stopped reading at the first page and didn't bother to check the rest.
Here we go again.

Once the obvious cause (religion) has been eliminated, whatever remains, however unlikely must be the truth.

Except the obvious has only been eliminated in his analysis because of a dogmatic belief in human/religious/cultural equality (module disadvantages caused by economics and western foreign policy).
I think he means binary userspace programs.
Also child support laws which could create an incentive for having multiple different fathers before settling down with one, so that you get more financial support than had one had the same number of children with just their husband.
New Samsung patent shows off a phone that unfolds into a tablet
I really appreciate that I can relatively easily pick up my MacBook Air. But it still requires quite a bit of effort. The MacBook dropped all ports bar two so it could be lighter and thinner, and while that bothers some people, I'd love a laptop that lightweight.
One could argue that the people making 'that' argument should probably not be reproducing ;-) !
No, you're missing something.
I hate it because it completely distorts my view of how the input works. It's just as annoying as changing the velocity of the mouse on a page. Don't mess with inputs.
I've had bluetooth headphones for 18 months, they get 13 hours of battery life and I charge them about once a week. It's really not an issue.
I agree. Yes there were two models - one with an awesome clip that worked beautifully, the other with a reduced size clip that was a nightmare.
An open-source Slack library for use with Xojo
There's a lot of history, even if sometimes accidental history, in why certain industries are so concentrated where they are. But there does seem to be a natural tendency to concentrate in many cases. For example, the Kendall Square area of Cambridge is pretty much non-stop pharma/biotech construction. MIT is part of the reason in that case but I'm sure it's not the only one.

Of course, there are often Tier 2 locales for a given industry that have less of a concentration but still have a reasonable hiring pool and/or people willing to relocate there (plus remotes). They may not be as in-demand as the center of the given industry, but they can be a lot cheaper or attractive in other ways. In tech, the housing pains of the Bay area are arguably the perfect storm of historical happenstance, a great climate for the most part, and constrained geography.
GitHub vs. GitLab vs. BitBucket Server (Formerly Stash)
Not that I'm advocating doing away with wired earphones completely, but I'd just like to mention how ridiculously inexpensive passable bluetooth earphones have become. "Bluedio N2" stereo bluetooth IEMs (incl mic/remote)... SUB-$10! Delivered! From China!

No, the sound quality is not as good as my wired Etymotics, but being unattached to the phone is often preferable. These things are head and shoulders the best bang/buck I've ever had in consumer electronics. Stockpiled 3 pairs.
I tried to find the script on that page but it does not seem to be there any more.
Having grown up in a Mennonite community I'm sadly very well aware of how uninformed most Christians are about what the bible says.

My favorite was catching shit in a passive aggressive manner about my tongue piercing and then thanking the elder for bringing his concerns about his wife and daughters ear piercings to the group for discussion, as surely he was not pointing out the spec in someone's eye while ignoring the log in his own, and then wondering whether this proscription from Leviticus on piercings also meant that we should no longer consume pork as we certainly did not want to be one of those pick and choose Christians who only listen to the parts of the bible they like.

Needless to say a lot of people we're very pissed at me that day.
The Lavabit case was complicated by Ladar Levison's handling of the DOJ's request, and by the fact that his security architecture was "all-or-none" in a way that did not allow him to selectively disclose only the encrypted messages DOJ asked for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7774823
> A better approach would be to offer comparable pay and status to professors who spend most of their time teaching, reserving reduced teaching loads for professors whose research continues to have significance and impact.

I think the problem with this is that you have no idea up front which research is going to be significant and impactful and which isn't. If you knew what the outcome was going to be, it wouldn't be research, now would it?
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/merrill-v-lynch-unredact...
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