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Not a lawyer, but according to Wikipedia, Ladar Levison ran into issues surrounding lawyer acquisition during the Lavabit case:

> Afterwards, Levison wrote that after being contacted by the FBI, he was subpoenaed to appear in federal court, and was forced to appear without legal representation because it was served on such short notice; in addition, as a third party, he had no right to representation, and was not allowed to ask anyone who was not an attorney to help find him one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Nothing has ever changed, everything is the same way it has always been and will forever be.
The resistant phenotypes often ARE less fit, as the guy above me said - if you have to run a solute pump in order to remove drug from your cytoplasm, that has a cost in energy and protein. EVERY phenotype has a cost that must be paid. You don't get to hang onto a useless genotype in the absence of a selective pressure that maintains it.

Low doses allow you to provide a continuous challenge that doesn't kill the entire population. That's not what's happening when you stop your drug course early.
"Allowing air currents to do the work of lifting them makes frigatebirds' flight hugely efficient. The heart rate monitors Weimerskirch and his colleagues attached to the birds showed that they didn't flap their wings at all while gaining altitude — the energy costs of ascending thousands of feet in the air were the same as when they were sitting still."

Aeronautical engineers: what's it take to develop long-range flight vehicles that are this efficient? Graphite wings/fuselage?
Also open-source: https://github.com/lukexi/rumpus and yes, written in Haskell : )
Did you receive a National Security Letter?

No? Okay, I'll update the date. Canary date is updated.

Yes? Okay, see you in the after-life I guess. Canary update process dies.
On the same note, a while ago I mapped Washington's farewell address. The original to vernacular.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsaJDi5AMLicz1HKd4tgmiCc...
> The authors romanticizing such lifestyles are free to build a cabin in the woods. But one should understand the accompanying poverty that would accompany such a decision.

Totally spot on. A lot of people these days are romanticizinglife as "close to nature" which is in reality life of poverty, deprivation and lack of serious opportunity. Not to mention it might even be lot more harmful to nature as well.

I grew up in a remote village in India. When I moved to USA my father taunted me that he was enjoying the beautiful natural atmosphere of the village while I toiled in AC office and wasting hours in traffic. He told me how my kids will never experience the joy of catching a turtle in hand or knowing how a Jackfruit tree looks like.

He recently visited me in SF and I took him to see the brilliant botanical garden in SF, took him to California's farms and ranches and once in Yosemite we saw several deers crossing the road. He was almost speechless because deers had gone extinct in our village because of poaching. Not to mention he also found the air here cleaner than the village air. (Villagers burn plastic and other garbage in open air).
Yeah pretty amazing article that was surprisingly not just clickbait. Especially this bit:

Frigatebirds are the only seabirds that lack waterproof feathers — if they dive into the ocean or even land on its surface, the water will soak their plumage and prevent them from taking flight again. This should be a death knell to a species that dines exclusively on fish, but it's not. Frigatebirds can soar high above the ocean, eyes peeled for movement in the water below — a sign that a large predator, like tuna or dolphin, is scaring fish to the surface.

And this bit:

It's still not clear how the birds sleep during these epic journeys. Weimerskirch said there's evidence that they can shut down half their brains as they ascend on updrafts.

"They are probably getting small bouts of sleep at this time — maybe two to three minutes," he said.

Just awesome.
Ask HN: Can you find the things Comey missed RE Clinton investigation?
Regarding: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system

This is the statement of the FBI and I respect the validity finality of their recommendation that comes with this letter and the authority of the person making the recommendation.

If there is to be any debate against this outcome it shall be from a successful attack on one of the premises:

* "... we cannot find a case that would support... " is a very strong statement. A single court proceeding meeting that criteria could invalidate Comey's recommendation.
* Emails were deleted before State gave them to FBI. If a single email between Clinton and an aid related to "clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information" this could change the outcome. NSA and adversary's signal collections may have a copy of such an email. A leak may change Comey's decision.
* FBI was not given full access to Clinton's emails (they were whitelist-filtered first) and Comey does not believe this counts as "[effort] to obstruct justice". Another case which found "efforts to obstruct justice" based on a similar action could invalidate his reasoning.
* "But that is not what we are deciding now." If there is any case of DOJ prosecution resulting in "security or administrative sanctions" then it would invalidate Comey's stance that "no charges are appropriate in this case".

Perhaps a crowdsourcing effort can be made to find the above things. Such new evidence would question the soundness of this letters' finding. Would you like to be part of the search?
This is the statement of the FBI and I respect the finality of their recommendation that comes with this letter and the authority of the person making the recommendation.

If there is to be any debate against this outcome it shall be from a successful attack on one of the premises:

* "... we cannot find a case that would support... " is a very strong statement. A single court proceeding meeting that criteria could invalidate Comey's recommendation.
* Emails were deleted before State gave them to FBI. If a single email between Clinton and an aid related to "clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information" this could change the outcome. NSA and adversary's signal collections may have a copy of such an email. A leak may change Comey's decision.
* FBI was not given full access to Clinton's emails (they were whitelist-filtered first) and Comey does not believe this counts as "[effort] to obstruct justice". Another case which found "efforts to obstruct justice" based on a similar action could invalidate his reasoning.
* "But that is not what we are deciding now." If there is any case of DOJ prosecution resulting in "security or administrative sanctions" then it would invalidate Comey's stance that "no charges are appropriate in this case".
"Can you comment on if you believe these to be actually effective? I don't see how when the USG says that you cannot divulge that you've received any type of NSL, they can easily say you must continue to act like you have in the past."

The entire basis of the warrant canary is that it's not simply asking me to stop doing something, but rather, a judge would have to order me to make false public statements. That's a tough thing to imagine - certainly on any continued basis.

Even in that situation, how will they force a swiss national to update the swiss location ? There's no jurisdiction there.

I don't see it as a technical workaround at all - it is completely non-technical. Can the government compel my speech ? Can the government compel me to make false statements ?
There's a great book called "The Checklist Manifesto" which talks about how simple checklists (of well known, basic best practices) can radically improve medical outcomes.

Seems like cleanliness should be on that type of checklist.
While I very much appreciate the sentiment behind this post, I'm somewhat in disbelief at the anecdotes. What country are you living in?

Admittedly, I'm from Ireland, where there's a fairly high number of cattle and sheep, grazed outdoors, on a very traversable landmass, but I still find it a little unfathomable that the difference in other countries could be so extreme that people would really be the disconnected. Particularly chefs.
Thing is that when one aim the complaint in the wrong place, effort goes to waste fixing the wrong problem (or a non-existent problem).
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You can and (probably) do use many such services, and they're all going to give up your info as soon as any governmental authority asks nicely. It's a trade-off that many of us who aren't Richard Stallman make everyday, for example to use gmail. Or even the postal service. I throw out all kinds of personal mail in my garbage, and if anyone has read it (aside from the occasional raccoon in search of rotting pizza) I would be surprised but not terribly alarmed.
I am pretty sure they are referring to "the code is law" as quoted above. That is apparently changing to "the code is law unless we think that is unfair".

I am not as worried about it in the longer term, but it's a big setback in the immediate term. Ethereum will have to convince the world that it has truly returned to "the code is law" at some point in the future.
This probably works because the frigate bird is so light compared to an aircraft: thermals generate sufficient lift for them to stay aloft. Though you might be able to apply some of this to a really light UAV...
Edit: parent edited out the political stuff.
>you exchange public keys over a trusted medium and then use public key cryptography to encrypt the AES key used to encrypt the rest of the message.

What do you consider a "trusted medium?"
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Actually, the ZFS send/recv capable accounts start at 6 cents and go down from there. There's a bit of a cost reduction since we don't create and maintain snapshots for you - you take care of that yourself, with your own zpool at rsync.net.

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> until the racist part

This one?

"He stirred up the Indians, and give them arms and ammunition, and told them to go to it, and they have killed men, women and children, and don't care which."

That translates to "The King was protecting the Indians too much." Which was probably true.
We may well be heading towards a future where some large fraction of the populace doesn't have anything better to do with their lives.
Typically physical control is deemed as the game ender. If this is proven to be OS executable it will be a major issue. Many of the Adobe, IE, and other high volume exploit vendors codebase zero-day root exploits would allow one to not only gain access at a root level on a machine, but now also at a much lower level. This level would negate the typical benefits of recovering from a root-level "hack" via HDD erasing or Malware Removal tools or any other method available to even tech-savvy people.
Based on Sturgeon's Law [1] then, Perl books are doing fairly well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
>content that is effective at generating ad revenue must be shallow, vapid and limited in scope.

Even if I grant you all the generalizations you made, You will still not make any revenue unless your audience is interested in content that is shallow, vapid and limited in scope.
Apparently there is still a fake facade masking an exposed section of said underground. Originally built to allow trains with smoke catching tanks to empty them.
so you volunteer your salary to all your coworkers without demanding the same of them?
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While I get the joke, the question is accurate.

If I had $1000 and bought 50 cords of wood at $50/cord, and could only sell then for $40/cord, I'm left with $800. I took a $200 loss, but I'm hardly broke.

I'd go so far as to argue that this is a common occurrence in business when they haven't identified scalable marketing channels. Often you have to spend at a loss to gather data, optimize your efforts, and THEN hopefully make a profit.

So if I can take that remaining $800, optimize my efforts, and sell them for $51/cord moving forward (assuming no further optimizations), it will take me a little bit to earn my initial cash back, but I'm in essence printing money at that point.
When I used the back button, the video started again at the beginning, it would be good if it would remember the place, like bbc iplayer does.
I don't think that Raspberry Pi is open source hardware at all - the schematics are public, the documentation is open, but I don't think the PCB designs are.
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We'll set up "pull" jobs on our end to pull the backups from you.

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It's not accurate. Widely adopted client before uTorrent was Azureus and it was written in Java.
It really boils down to the deal the foundation has with Broadcom, even if you could source the chip you would never be able to beat their unit price.

The "openness" is rather limited too, there are all manner of NDAs and minimal order quantities associated with the parts in the BOM, nor are the gerbers available. A real pain point for the bleeding-heart OSHW types.
It may be because there are multiple posts. The first may have been flagged by people who didn't want to see the story, the later posts may have been flagged by both those who didn't want to see the story and those who didn't want duplicates of the same news (I'm in the latter bucket).
It was indeed one of these sketchy courier services. They dumped my package by the front door of our apartment building at 10pm on a Saturday night in NYC. Or they claim to have. An hour later when I got home it was nowhere to be seen. I waited home most of the day for it until I had to go out to a previous engagement, too. The previous time I had a next day delivery, they claimed to have attempted delivery mid-evening while I was at home but never even rang the bell.
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Sometimes i wonder if we had one, that just happened to have a decade long seize fire.

Then again, said wars may well be seen as a extension of the great game. A game that continued through the cold war, and is now once more in the headlines...
Would be better to use a small GUI library, avoiding Webkit / Chromium, for memory usage and security.
except there's a contingent of people (like the person you replied to) who won't accept anything short of jail time.

they've already made up their minds. she's guilty, 100-point-zero percent confidence, and anything that doesn't line up with that narrative is obviously crooked politics or whatever.

congress is the attack dog that the republicans have used for the better part of the last 2 decades to make anything stick to the clintons.

don't believe the lies about "where there's smoke, there's fire" here. they invented all the smoke, hoping you'll believe there's a fire.
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City workers destroy 'Holy Grail' for earthquake scientists
Building a few gates on a small board is easy.

Building a complete computer the size of a room isn't easy at all, because the connections between the elements have to be active transmission lines, and Vcc and GND still have to be clean enough to avoid spurious switching.

There's a whole order of magnitude of extra design pain involved in building something that big, including LEDS in all the elements, and making it run fast enough not to be completely useless.
Actually, net number of jobs getting created are for the educated not the poor:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-30/americans-...
Seems like a pretty good investment thesis (especially if they were truly ahead of the curve here).

Except I doubt the last bullet is accurate. I'd be very surprised to find that even 10% of tech IPOs have significant preferred investors not subject to a lock-up. Underwriters really, really don't like holders (even small ones, but especially big ones) being able to sell right off the bat. And if the market is flooded with VC investors dumping shares just after the offering, then there may well be no "pop" to participate in.
They didn't really understand what was happening. Keep in mind that 1914 was a different war -- there was maneuver and grand strategy elements there.

What had happened is that you had officers and political leaders fed on a steady diet of studying Napoleonic warfare. They earnestly believed that elan and offense would bring them to a decisive victory on the battlefield. Unfortunately, the British experience in the Boer War and other conflicts distracted from the hard lessons learned by the Americans from 1861-1865... rifles and railroads meant that victory didn't matter in modern war, only breaking down the enemy's ability to maintain the army.

The other thing was that while WW1 armies had many of the trappings of the modern era (machine guns, explosives, some vehicles, limited aircraft, railroads), they lacked good communications infrastructure. The order of battle was driven by a pre-defined, precisely timed plan. The guns fired at target X at time Y, and division Z needed to move as planned. If circumstances changed, they could not react. With shock tactics and other advances, armies were able to "win" territory at a tactical level -- but they couldn't exploit the victories in a meaningful way.

It is a war that should always be studied and talked about, because it aptly demonstrates the horror and futility of modern warfare without the overarching "Good vs. Evil" narrative in WW2 or the weird political calculus of other conflicts. Millions of lives were sacrificed for nothing.
I have a 34" curved LG ultrawide monitor at work and quite like it. Only annoyance is the LG ultrawide splitting software acts up after logging back in sometimes.
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Include headers /are/ API schemas. The big problem being discussed here is ABI compatibility. Needing to recompile one's software every six months, or have .so.hell is not fun at all.
See, from my point of view enough was added to the discussion with just a comment about a "niche book". Rest of the comments on it are mere reactions of ego:)
That's illegal
Yep. Conservatives and their ilk are so thoroughly convinced of her guilt (and if not this, list off the 100 other witch hunts the republicans in congress have led against her).

They'd rather flag and stifle discussion than let people know that her actions didn't rise to the level of criminal charges. It is sad. It's also exactly what I've come to expect. People scream about the liberal media, and yet here we are watching a pro-liberal (in theory... i guess... maybe just not anti-liberal) story get censored as fast as they get posted.
Agree. The original article seems like it was written ten years ago. In infosec the industry is usually a decade ahead of academe.
It's definitely the IPs.
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> no region restriction

Hangouts doesn't work in China, undeniably a major if not the major online market. Skype does.
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Of course there are always ways to improve, but when duplication reaches a certain level, people just stop changing things because they can't keep up with the bugs it produces or the changes it forces all over the place. Anything can be fixed with enough effort, but there's a point at which it's no longer justifiable in terms of dollars to undergo that effort.
> Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said today that the man arrested on July 4 after a flag-burning Facebook post will not be charged.

> "The State's Attorney's Office is declining to file charges against (Bryton) Mellott as the act of burning a flag is protected free speech according to the US Supreme Court decision, Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989)," Rietz said in a statement.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-07-05/update-urb...
The GTK project is hard to understand. They develop with a philosophy that is almost the antithesis of the kernel (which basically says "changes that break programs are bugs"). It would be fine for an application being used directly by end users, but for a library and gui system it is bonkers. I have tried to compile a gtk-based app from source, and had no end of difficulty just because my library release varied by a point-version.

It left a really crummy taste in my mouth.

I really like GTK, and once it's compiled it's great, but these aspects are really painful.
throughout the comments, people have commented about the necessity of work as if the only jobs required for society to function are 40 hour corporate office accounting professionals and IT staff.

the entire concept vastly downplays the actual number of services people utilize and purchase. how do you automate a lawsuit? which robot knows how to install a new circuit breaker box? and even if a robot could hypothetically discover new oil fields who decides how it searches and where are these mythological solar powered oil field search bots that have close to unlimited range so nobody has to figure out what depot they're stashed in?

finally, how do I build a new computer and phone from scratch when no slave labor exists to create all the components that go into that design since apple and microsoft and samsung and sony all have to go out of business because nobody has any money to buy their devices?

I would google it, but they're out of business since ads don't work in a society without money.

the library card only goes so far. psychological thrillers to academic psychiatry, kids books to romance novels, newspaper articles going back 50 years, but somehow I don't think I'd be able to learn micro-computing circa 2016. It would be back to concepts circa 1980-1996 and the entire field would be tedious again.

yes. a work free world would be terrible. I've thought about it a lot because the better part of my life is spent figuring out how to work less. you notice over time the people who don't have a choice in automation and they get my respect because there's very little chance they're ever unemployed longer than a couple days in their lifetime.
And of course Cylance for file artifact analysis and TrustPipe for two way network conversation analysis.