skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument that there was no probable cause is very unlikely to hold up in practice. The law is very lenient to the issuance and execution of warrants.

Warrants are favored in the law and utilization of them will not
be thwarted by a hypertechnical reading of the supporting
affidavit and supporting testimony. For the same reason,
reviewing courts will accept evidence of a less "judicially
competent or persuasive character than would have justified an
officer in acting on his own without a warrant." Courts will
sustain the determination of probable cause so long as "there
was substantial basis for [the magistrate] to conclude that"
there was probable cause.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/..., citing United States v. Ventresca, Jones v. United States, and Aguilar v. Texas.

If you're interested in some of the intricacies of 4th Ammendment jurisprudence, http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/1994Fourth.pdf is a phenomenal article.
No, that's a feature :-p
This considering a kid to be a project seems to have a lot to do with this. All these ideas of how a kid has to be (and also the perfect family with the perfect family home and the perfect family car). I see it the other way round. I am extremely curious to see what kind of person my kid will turn out to be. Granted, there might be a pang of regret in case he wouldn't show any interest in mathematics or science at all, but I don't see myself fighting over it. And I hated school myself, so honestly, in school vs kid, I would side with the kid.
Not suggesting anything.. (Honestly), but lottery tickets and such have been used by druglords to launder money many times.
1. Buy a winning lotto ticket from a real winner, pay them full price amount
2. Give ticket to corrupt official in exchange for services
3. Chief of police/minister/judge wins the lotto! (again!)

Such cases defeat statistical odds, and ruin the numbers.
I am a nonresident and I have incorporated in the US. I live in Chicago, however, on an F1 student visa (did my master's here), so some things were easier for me. Opening a bank account is not a problem, the problem is obtaining an EIN. Read this very carefully: http://danashultz.com/blog/2009/11/30/foreign-company-alert-...

TL;DR: opening a bank account is easy with an EIN, and obtaining an EIN is very easy if the foreign company looking to start up in the U.S. includes, among its officers, at least one who (a) controls, manages, or directs the corporation and the disposition of its funds and assets and (b) has an SSN.

FWIW, I did C-corp in Illinois through MyCorporation. Total cost was about $200 and it took almost a month (chose non-express option).
No, it most certainly is not. The number is based on the Lancet 2 study which found about 650,000 excess deaths. Tim Lambert at Deltoid extrapolated the Lancet 2 excess mortality rates to about one million because Lancet 2 ended just as violence in Iraq was increasing enough to make further field work impossible. See http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/11/deaths_in_iraq_1.php for more information.

In general, Iraq Body Count is an obscene underestimate of excess deaths. IBC data comes from two sources (1) english language journalist accounts and (2) Iraqi government data. We know that (1) is absurd because when violence increases, deaths increase and reporters' presence on the ground decreases dramatically. If you read journalists' accounts of their own work in Iraq (for example, Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran), you'll note that in many cases reporters simply never left the green zone. How could they possibly write stories about killings when they can't leave the green zone? We know that the data from (2) is highly suspect because much of the conflict in Iraq has been sectarian with government death squads engaged in ethnic cleansing. For example, we have evidence showing that when Shiite religious parties took control of the ministry of health after elections, they fired Sunni medical staff and imposed policies restricting the treatment of wounded Shia. If the Shia run ministry of health won't treat Sunni victims, why on Earth should we trust them to faithfully record statistics about how many Sunnis were executed by government death squads? I mean, are we normally so credulous that we accept death counts made by the government accused of making the killings?

From a scientific perspective, IBC's "analysis" is garbage and should be ignored. At the very least, you have no business citing IBC unless you understand enough about IBC's methodological flaws to explain precisely why it can only be considered a gross underestimate.
>The U.S. military’s new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland – one of the military’s most secretive and secure facilities.

And yet they use something akin to viral marketing to raise awareness of its existence?
I would never spank my own children, but that's a parenting choice. This societal moralizing about every single aspect of how one should raise their children is a big part of the problem described in the article.

For the record, spanking is not necessarily abuse. For you to cite unequivocably that it is is pure unthinking political correctness. Parenting is complicated, psychology is complicated. Is everyone who was born before 1950 irretrievably fucked up? How many of them got spankings?
The shadow imaging hack to avoid lenses reminds me of the single-pixel camera that produces the image via random sampling http://www.ece.rice.edu/~duarte/images/csCamera-SPMag-web.pd... I love this kind of hack for some reason.
What kitchen sink was thrown in C++? The STL? That's the main reason I first fell in love with C++. Templates? Exceptions? RTTI?

IMO the problem with C++ is its C legacy (things like macros). These things make it harder to read code and make it harder to write great tools for it (ever seen really good code completion or static analysis for C++ code?).
So 128 bits? I'd guess they wouldn't use md5 (or any of the md family), which according to wiki leaves haval/ripemd/tiger. I'd go for ripemd-128 (on what the wiki says) although you would expect them to use a NSA blessed algorithm.
I've read most of the C# 1.0 and 3.0 specs. I've also read the R6RS Scheme spec and the Python 2 spec. Admittedly, I've only read a smattering of the C++0x spec. But the C# specs have always been very clear and concise compared to just about every other technical spec I've read.
All discipline is painful. Whether it's physical pain or emotional pain. I believe, based on purely anecdotal evidence, that physical pain is less harmful to a child's emotional well being.

Corporal punishment, if administered properly, is over in an instant, and once the child has been made to understand that what they did is not acceptable (and optionally why, depending on the child's age) then reconciliation between the child and the parent can take place.

Also, keep in mind that different types of discipline are appropriate for different children. I don't think it makes sense to spank a two year old, because they probably wouldn't remember why they were being spanked, but a light slap on the hand when they go to grab that priceless vase is pretty effective. I also don't spank my teen-aged son, but he has had to do his fair share of push-ups while listening to me explain to him the error of his ways.

Now, you may be one of those parents who don't discipline your child at all. More power to you, but bear in mind that if you do not discipline your child and teach them proper from improper behavior, then society WILL do it for you. And the methods society uses are probably going to be much more painful.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of C#/.NET developers ONLY have used Visual Studio. Monodevelop is not quite up to par, so really, for C#, there's only one choice for an IDE outside of notepad... I used to do more java development, but now do more C#, and I miss the the polish of Eclipse over VS (Incremental Java compiler is a huge win, Refactoring (resharper freeze my machine), Search indexes, Auto completion is still better, code navigation via back button, much better Source control integrations...)
"Website performance has stayed the same over the past 10 years". Really? I think not. 1 to 2 to 4 second load times where ok 10 years ago for a "fast" site, now we're talking 500 ms.
Heh, oops.

Oh well; I saw another post from this blog earlier in the day and never really considered that it was an earlier entry :P
From a theory perspective, SQL has it backwards. The projection operation in relational algebra would come last. It certainly helps with IDE interactions but it makes sense entirely on its own.
I thought this article was a bit better about data
http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/

I have a 3.3 year old and a 3.5 week old. The trick to not being too pissed off at a 3 year old is to remember that he is just fucking three years old. He isn't going to listen to everything you say. Most things you tell your kid are about long term socialization that he is certain to learn, so don't stress about it.

You don't stress about it, but you do enforce it. You need to get good at not caring about crying. Crying is the sound of weakness leaving their bodies :)

Having a kid is extremely satisfying. I can't imagine I'd be happier without mine. If you average out these opinions across most of society, the amount of information relevant to me approaches nil. So don't not have kids because of some statistic with happiness research.
You're arguing that company track record is not a good predictor of product quality. Fine. Nonetheless, product predictions based on company track record are not "invalidated" by not having used the product, and the author made it clear what he was basing his predictions on.
I think it's partly the universities fault for promoting this kind of "well rounded" education. You would have to think though that this can't be doing him any favours applying for finance jobs against people that actually did economics and similar.
Thanks. I didn't spend much time on the design of the site yet (which was really hard for me) because I wanted to get it launched quickly, but there is some text that shows up under the submit button after you click on it - Almost finished. We need to confirm your email address. To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you..

I will work on making that easier to see by maybe jumping to another page or something. It is a double opt-in list meaning you will get an email that you will have to click on to confirm. Let me know if you don't and I can look into it more.
I can't say I disagree, but I can say from my own experience that you don't need kids to experience and learn everything you mentioned. Having kids probably makes it easier to experience and learn those things as most people are pretty much committed to their kids once they have them, but they are certainly no guarantee and you would not have to look very far to find examples that run counter to your particular experience.
Lots of paperbacks have ads in the last few pages (other books by the same publisher, order forms, sample chapters for the next book in the series, what have you). The difference is that these ads are after the main portion of the text, not marbled into the text itself.

Anyway, reading a book requires a completely different mindset from reading a magazine/ watching TV/ browsing the web. So I guess that's why ads "work" in one medium and not the other.
I gotta godwin this, I just can't resist it. Sorry.

"I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration" - Adolf Hitler
Ref: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/na...
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> I work with restaurant owners and workers all the time. They're loud, brash, and won't hesitate to tell you exactly what they think of you (and your product) to your face.

Great advice, and that has been our experience as well.
Ask HN: What does living by yourself really cost?
I'm a HS Grad, Looking to "rough" it for a couple months to a year. I want time to think, explore, read, write, code, learn more about myself. Basically, to have a large amount of down/alone time.

Now, I'm unexperienced in real life (since I've lived at home all my life), so I can't possibly plan for all the potential expenses.

Therefore, I have three questions:

1. What does it cost you to live frugally per month?
2. What are your suggestions for living frugally?
3. What are your general suggestions for a time like this?

I plan on using a bicycle for transportation, eating beans/rice, ramen, a few veggies, etc.

I can get a job. I just don't want a 40 hour/week job, a dirty job is fine. (I'm smart enough, I have coding skills, etc.)

(Obviously, housing costs aren't the same across the US, but I can get a room for <$400/month, utilities included.)

Thanks HN, you've been great inspiration to me!

-ls
Not to mention that those opposing the EFF's agenda of open network access must see weev's behavior here and earlier as exemplary of why such access is dangerous.
Not to get anal, but I'd say right place and right time are a part of execution.
What is your skill set? You never know who at HN might have some work for you.

You might have better luck at sites like Elance instead of Craiglist. I think you would deal with less flakes.

Personally every contract and job I have had was found through my network. Find your local tech groups and start getting to know people and let them know you are looking for some short term work.
Out of curiosity, which part in particular made you cringe?
You should read his autobiography "My Life, and My Work" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7213 Its fascinating.

I think highly dyslexic is a better description than illiterate for Henry Ford, he was a genius.

Pioneered material science, machining and forming metal cost effectively, made the assembly line, 161 patents, created enormous opportunity for hard working and smart people, brought cars to the masses.

His political feelings should be put in context, he had a great relationship with Germany before the war, FDR was massively increasing the size of gov't and creating entitlements with the New Deal (something few business pioneers would be for) and during the war, there was talk of FDR taking over the company he built to produce war goods for a foreign war he opposed intervening in.
C++: incredibly useless stuff
Looked into that before getting the T1 - mountains make it difficult to get direct line-of-sight to almost anything, and I'm surrounded by national park, so it's difficult to build towers to relay a signal. Video is a big part of my business, so having a dedicated upload pipe is also useful.
I have to disagree. I've used C# professionally since its release. At first I totally agreed with you. It seemed like the language was growing like a weed and was becoming totally unmanageable. The release of C# 3 basically led me to say "what the hell, Microsoft?"

But one major counterpoint to all of this is the features added to C# 3 may seem like huge bloat at first, but when you realize they all exist to support LINQ, you end up seeing them as a pretty cohesive package. C# 3 was by far the biggest growth spurt the language has seen to date. Implicitly typed local variables, extension methods, lambdas, expression trees, etc, all exist solely to make LINQ possible. The fact that they are usable outside of LINQ is just an artifact. And honestly I think it's a good artifact, I feel all of these features have benefited the language. The more I use the new features (whether in the context of LINQ or not) the more I noticed my code becoming cleaner, more succinct and much easier to read.

C# 4 doesn't quite have the same major killer feature that 3 had to warrant its additions. But at the same time, most C# 4 features are meant for special cases (dynamic primarily makes COM interop much simpler, for example) and don't leak into day to day programming that much. Abusing these features is just a judgment call a programmer is going to have to make.

I do think MS treads a very fine line here. It would be easy for C# to fall over the edge and become "the kitchen sink", but as a very avid user, I honestly think they (so far) tread that line very carefully and quite well. Let's see how C# 5 turns out.
_You_ may think it's fun to work with, and I guess it depends on what you think is fun (programming in Chef sounds fun, but is it pragmatic for what you're doing?).

And here's my comment to another comment on the blog post:

The question is not whether you've used C# extensively and think it is pragmatic, but whether you have used anything better (e.g. Common Lisp) and _still_ think it's as pragmatic you once thought it was. If you say that C# is more pragmatic than, say, using COBOL for an web application, then sure. But the author of this post is correct insofar as new C# features sound a lot better on paper than how they really stack up when wanting to express yourself in code.

Not to even mention that if you go outside of the OOP/procedural paradigm in C# and start coding using functional-style language constructs, C# gets pretty ugly pretty fast.
Are there actually devices (phones!) that use S^3?
The biggest problem with C# is the .Net ecosystem. Without (much) an open source community, it is and remains a tiny pond, full of crap, including a million shitty web applications and all the .Net baggage (Visual Basic anyone?)

Which is a damned shame.

It is a beautiful and fun language.
People who want their websites fast eliminate bottlenecks and streamline their client-side load so it works fast.

People who want flashy, pretty, animated sites pay for it in terms of bandwidth and performance.

Regarding the "computers faster" argument, you see the same trend in traditional desktop software. Microsoft Office used to be fast, but it gets heavier and more bloated with each release, and there are nearly no features I use that can't be found in Office 97.

Linux used to be the go-to OS for a lean, fast system. You can't install any recent desktop distribution without it feeling, well, like Windows.

Flash websites continue to become more elaborate, so the sites you saw a few years ago perform great, while new Flash sites still chug along.

I don't see website bloat as an issue, but web designers and developers do need to realize that not everyone's machine is as fast as theirs.
"lein swank" is reason enough (for me) to use Clojure
Most of the training I'm taking is pretty specific, and not available on OpenCourseWare or iTunes. It's worth the investment in teaching material alone - the more ideas/techniques/approaches I'm exposed to, the more valuable I am as a consultant, so the ROI is great.

I use Skype for some calls if the connection is good. For others, hard line is still best. I have a landline in the event the electricity goes out, so it's not a huge deal.
I feel sorry for the dude. He is asking for our help via cash or writing to our local, state and national representatives. That's a rock and hard place.
Reader in Safari 5 doesn't strip away all images - I've frequently had it retain images that are part of the flow of the article.

Which is a good thing, but it does make me wonder if the author of this article has ever actually used Reader.
The above site has <meta http-equiv="Objective" content="Hash Exploit"> in as well.

Poder is power in Latin as well. Cibernetico might be a latin translation of Cybernetic.... I'm expecting a Latin moto as per usual on these things. Still can't get the hash, tried a number of different capitalisations.
Was he the first to do that? I read a book about Frick & Carnegie and was shocked to learn Frick had company housing and stores for the workers of Carnegie's steel empire. I wonder where this idea came from? Not even wikipedia has its origins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store

EDIT: I should have clicked more. Pullman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Don't think my landlord would approve - he lives 400ft away. On the upside, I ran a buried ethernet cable down to his house, so he helps pay for the T1.
For some reason(Correct me if I am wrong), the company town business model seem to have completely disappear.

This, to me, suggest the uncompetitiveness of company towns.
After watching the lecture, just download Minix, setup it up in VMWare/Virtualbox/Bochs and hack something in it. Really, do it. It's amazingly cool OS and fun to play with.
In some places there is more than enough water for everyone, so wasting water isn't a concern.
That's how I saw it too, much closer to set theory and relational algebra.

Besides... when I write SQL I write it thus:

SELECT *
FROM BLAH

Then refine to:

SELECT * FROM BLAH WHERE FOO

Before finally adding:

SELECT COL1, COL2 FROM BLAH WHERE FOO

Linq matches the way I construct SQL by putting it into the order I logically think of it:

FROM BLAH WHERE FOO SELECT COL1, COL2
oddly enough this page is blocked at my office...
Hmm, I must have gotten my surveys mixed up. The 42% figure comes from here: http://www.changewaveresearch.com/articles/2010/01/smart_pho...

I'll add another citation. Although I would love to find more recent numbers, as I bet the percentage has jumped since then.

Great idea for the before and after videos...although on a Flash site the 'before' video won't be particularly exciting. :)
I have been surprised at how little of the genuinely innovative things people are doing in Microsoft Research seem to make it into their products, but there are a lot of very interesting projects going on in their research groups nonetheless.

I can also understand the appeal of MS research. Academic CS presents a lot of distractions - the constant scrabble for funding, teaching responsibilities, campus politics etc. There are plenty of high-caliber brains in MS research. I don't think Simon Peyton-Jones, for instance, would have any trouble finding a post in any CS department.
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I agree. It seems like if someone were to learn C# 3.0 and wanted to learn how to use LINQ with lambda, for example, they probably could figure out how to use it as far as syntax, but they wouldn't really know how it works (as far as .NET implementation) or why it was implemented, without having to back to knowing how things were done in C# 2.0.
Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.
As with many people, Henry Ford had both his good points and his bad points. Some may feel his sins outweighed his good deeds, but Ford did do a lot of good as well. One needs to take care to not reduce people to a two dimensional caricature. To do so may cause you to dismiss the good and fail to learn valuable lessons.
if the police entered a house to search for evidence of felony tax evasion and stumbled upon a murder in progress, that wouldn't be admissible because the police weren't in the house searching for a murderer.

But they couldn't cite the murder as admissible evidence of felony tax evasion, it would need to be separate charges, wouldn't it?

Well, at least you were able to dodge the tax evasion charge by distraction/misdirection. Now, about this little murder thing...