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It should be, the US Constitution should apply to government actions ANYWHERE not just actions on US Soil, the US Constitution was never designed to be geographically limited, it was designed to limit what the government was allowed to do, period, in all cases in all lands, everywhere

Sadly the US Court Systems has stated it does not have the authority to apply the Constitution to the US Government when the US Government is acting outside US Soil, it is a ridiculous standard but....
For big computers, C is good for systems programming because everyone else uses it and because of the titanic effort that has been put in to building really good optimizing C compilers. UNIX came along but when C killed pascal, IBM, Microsoft, everybody was on C's dick.

On small embedded computers, I think C is popular because it's so easy to build something that resembles a C compiler. The fact is, undergrad compiler classes almost build C compilers (some universities might actually go all the way.) You can almost build a yacc grammar that will read C and emit assembly. The small computer embedded vendors have a difficult problem, they need to provide tooling and they don't usually have giant piles of developers to sell to. So they dust off some abandoned "C compiler" they found in the gutter, add their hardware to it and call it good. At least that's my theory and I've seen some rough "compiler work" from some pretty substantial hardware vendors. In fact, if you're running a 16bit or smaller part or a weird part, I have yet to see a decent C compiler from a hardware vendor.
> But they deny me my property.

Is it your property? It's a benefit that people have decided to extend to whoever controls existing Bitcoin wallets. Do you have an agreement with Coinbase that obligated them to transfer to you any such benefit that should accrue to the Bitcoin wallet they control for you?
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> The public square has effectively become platforms like YouTube.

Then people have willfully given up their rights. Google and the companies they bought and developers they pay made their software services. People own this stuff it is property and the property owners get the say as long as they follow the laws.

One could even argue they have to remove this stuff because much of it is "calls to violence" which are illegal and not protected by the first amendment.

This might sound snide and dismissive, but that is not what I am going for, so I am sorry. You are free to make any service you like and host it. It has literally never been easier. Look at 4chan. The first versions cost nearly nothing to setup and maintain and that is about as free as speech gets. You can have whatever rules you like on your property. You apparently haven't gone through the effort of making a giant video or communication service so you have to play by the rules of the people who own the ones that exist. If you think you shouldn't have to make one to (to enforce your rules) then petition to make one, but that is really asking for trouble in my opinion.
It means the proof is explanatory, i.e., that it provides a framework of thought that extends our capability to reason about related problems within our very limited cognitive envelope. Pure proofs, like purely predictive models in science, often do not provide this.
> Collecting metrics about your product

This plugin is not their product, they are merely taking advantage of it's popularity for their own purposes.

> The thing is, market forces are pretty good at settling these issues

True, and the market seems to be unhappy with this approach and publicly taking a stance against it, right here. I believe this is as serious as any other case of hijacking a popular extension for collecting data, the specifics of what is being collected don't matter the littlest bit (and could change at their will).

On "positive intent": they did all of this with a commit message that doesn't mention 'Kite' at all, even uses a hardcoded IP address to avoid a domain name. It was clearly shady and meant to go unnoticed.
I think that there is a clique on HN (which I am a part of) that values their privacy and security that is more vocal and aware than the average user. Also, in the webapp example I think keeping private source code and software private is much more important than your pictures / (micro)blog.
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It's only "cheap" as long as you can outsource the long-term costs, like for waste storage or in the case of a disaster.

As is, these plants are barely profitable, imagine they'd be forced to set funds aside for clean-up operations in case something goes really wrong, talking about real funds here that would make an actual difference and not some token amount. They don't do that because they know it would totally ruin their bottom line but by any metric they should be doing exactly that because it would be their mess that needs to be cleaned up when something goes wrong.

These costs are very real and in the case of catastrophic failure can be so high that even major economies are struggling to pay them (like Japan has been).

And it's not like we have any good ways to hold anybody responsible when something actually goes wrong.
The responsible company can just declare bankruptcy and have somebody else deal with the costs and long-term ramifications of the clean-up efforts aka the tax payer.
What happens when the file name is "2017-02-12 - meeting with John Doe.md"?

(This is the same reason, scaled down, that people are angry and concerned about stuff like phone metadata collection.)
I don't know if storing a plain text log of my browsing history is a good thing or not...

https://github.com/looterz/grimd/blob/fc327b2f2993f762c8557c...
Totally fine, so long as you know that makes you an "advanced user".

I can't imagine you'll find a sane place to work where senior people are only capable of learning something after consuming a tutorial or a manual. The nature of the work is to drill down one layer below what you're working on. Do you need to know how to smelt steel in order to be a good car mechanic? No, of course not, but it sure helps to have taken an engine apart. And if you're trying to build the next, better engine, it's really great to see the internals (and the commented motivations!) of previous implementations.
Another is the 3ware 8000 series. We got a dead machine in recently for repair and were faced with either moving the RAID drives and card over to a new server chassis while being restricted to the EOL'd CentOS 5 or upgrading to CentOS 7 but being forced to buy a 9000 series card and rebuild the array.

Lose-lose.
What they should be worried about is Kyllo v. United States[1]. When data collection is sufficiently normalized such that general public no longer expects privacy - crossing the bright line that currently makes police using the same type of data collection technology a search that requires a warrant.

If this it becomes commonplace for text editors to spy on some types of (meta)data, a warrant may not be required for the police to gather the same type of data without a warrant even if you do not use a "common" editor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Not really. It's one of the, if not the top index. A lot of passive investors (myself included) put a large chunk of their investment funds in ETFs and/or index funds that just track the S&P500. Not being included means a massive reduction in the number of people indirectly holding their shares.

Index inclusion/exclusion is something that must have been studied by some academic - I wonder what their conclusion is. My hypothesis is that the stock price would be lower given the significant reduction in quantity demanded.
Bitcoin's original codebase is presumably part of Satoshi's plan. It contained sequence numbers, lock times, and transaction replacement.
It may be I'm missing some obvious implication of something you've written that I've missed due to negligible background here, but I'm confused by the numbers you've cited here.

You list many solids as having a molar heat capacity of "25 J/molK", water as having a molar heat capacity of "75 J/molK", and conclude that water has almost 31x the heat capacity, but naively comparing the numbers cited only gets you 3x. Where does the other 10x factor come from?
On particular platforms they have nailed down the C++ layout enough to make this possible. I think windows did it for COM (or DCOM?). But in general you are right.

On of the most infuriating things about fancy languages is the way they all have their own ABIs. I mean it's nice that they support special features through those ABIs, but standardized vtables and dictionaries would take us a long way.

And Kudos to Microsoft for having a second crack at getting that right with .Net.
What can be done to help sort problems like this?
I think this is a perfect free market reaction to companies not having voting stock.

Last week the FTSE Russell index announced the same thing.

As a minor point, dual/triple class shares are still allowed so FB, GOOG and BRK are still ok.

If you really want to own a stock that gives you no profits, no income from dividends, no voice in how its run, and actually no value what so ever other than the greater fool theory then go ahead.

I mean, Google could come right now and offer to buy SNAP for 10x what its currently valued at and Evan Spiegel could say no, even though its almost a certainty that the company will never be worth that much.

On the other hand if you don't like the fact that a company goes public and declares that its ownership is in for life no matter what, then you'll probably view this as a positive measure.

All this means is that ETF funds will have some recourse to hold management accountable.

One thing is for sure now ETF investing got a bit less passive.

As a side note on SNAP in particular, Even though the first Lockup has just expired, most employee's, are in lock up due to earnings coming out on August 10th and a subsequent lock up at the end of the month.

By mid September we should have a clear picture on just how the markets value SNAP.

EDIT

To give an example of what companies like SNAP are foregoing by not allowing voting rights is access to, of the 7 largest owners of google stock, 2 are the founders, the other 5 are mutual funds/ETF fund firms.
This title, "S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate" is wrong. S&P 500 is moving to bar all stocks with multiple classes with different voting rights. Existing stocks in the S&P 500 are grandfathered.

Personally I'm a fan of this. Multiple voting classes seem to be abused. Take the recent Ford case where the Ford family owned a very small percentage of shares, but had an overwhelming share of the voting power. If I understood it correctly it took basically unanimous voting from all other shareholders to remove this imbalance.
On the phones I've owned with tap-to-wake, it wasn't a full unlock, just some level of the lock screen being illuminated.

With my old Moto X, I could just wave my hand over the phone while it was laying next to me and a minimal version of the lock screen with clock and notifications would show up.

On my current phone (Pixel) it does the same with a double tap: clock, notifications, nothing else. The phone doesn't unlock until I use the fingerprint reader or swipe my lock pattern.
When proofs are creeping slowly into the petabyte or exabyte territory, at some point you will not be able to distinguish them from the complexity of Mother Nature herself.

Proof used to be a distillation of a complex phenomenon, or a complex logical tangle, into a smooth thread that one could follow and agree that, yes, this is obvious when you put it this way.

Sure, at some point computers will take over the work of doing proofs, just like in a different trade hammers took over fists, or wheels took over feet, or engines took over muscles, hearts and lungs. But at that point we will have to re-examine this concept of "proof".
I really enjoyed the story, then this --

>Two hundred and fifty years later, in a world where autocratic thugs reign at the two extremes of the Western world,

oh brother.
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We have a repository of gifs that are tagged according to our nlp algorithm.
Please elaborate. I do use thinp in production (OpenShift + devicemapper pool as Docker backend, which uses thinp).
Looks like some sort of "sentiment" analysis give the ability to vote/train whatever underlying logic they've built so far.
To expand on your point, retinas talk a limited number of overlapping spectral responses. That's why we can have an essentially identical perception of spectral yellow and a mix of red and green light.
Sadly this page doesn't even load unless I whitelist Mozilla Telemetry in uMatrix.

Don't suppose anyone from Mozilla can fix that?
They split off the extension and only collect the ".md" part: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen... If it's an unrecognized extension, they set it to blank.

That's why I was so confused why people are upset.
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True, but none of those fields have the same kind of "end of humanity" connotations attached, in the general psyche.

Clarifications by well-known researchers don't travel as far and wide as urgency-signaling clickbait...
Assuming progress continues long enough: as proofs (and theorems) become more complex, the computational difficulty of verification, combined with the inherent physical impossibility of obtaining absolute certainty in the correctness of a computation will transform future mathematics into an empirical science, where mathematical hypotheses will be tested by computer, and results will be considered true only probabilistically.
I have a limited understanding of how this works, but could it be that app devs are leaving debug stuff in the builds, and not removing that when it gets pushed to production?

Please, educate me. I'm all ears. :)
Is that particularly valuable, though? It seems like a pretty anthropic point of view to value an algorithm as more elegant just because inferior hardware is able run it.
Since, as you point out, they're probably not making money on the processing directly, maybe there is another reason Stripe would find it useful to process a large amount of transactions...
Another big change is SELinux support for overlayfs, which means you can use the overlayfs2 driver with Docker without disabling SELinux.
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I think it's probably legal given he is a foreign national on foreign soil. (I'm not sure if there is anything in the laws that empower the NSA that limits their scope for what matters they investigate on, if so, they may have violated that. If not, there probably should be.)

A fairer question might be, why is the mission of the NSA to enforce copyright law for media companies? Shouldn't they be busy trying to hunt down terrorists, prevent attacks against the USA and it's people abroad, things like that?
This is serious stuff and we will definitely see more of it in the future! As there are more and more node.js developers, it will be more profitable to run a scam like this and you only need to hijack one page that has a lot of dependencies, one package that is for example used by `express` to get access to a lot of users.

The only thing you can do is be careful and listen for projects like node security.
I meant web apps. Modern web apps offer a lot of freedom in constructing the precise experience we want the user to get. This is unlike traditional desktop applications with the cookie cutter controls that behave the same way from app to app.
Just an index that you really really want to be in... It's the mother of all indexes.

Facebook gained 4.3% when it was announced they were getting included in the S&P 500 (a $5b market cap gain at the time):

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sp500-facebook-idUSBRE9BA1...
Unfortunately non-sensationalist news doesn't sell.

The layperson is guided by fear and is quick to trust any headline that comes across their newsfeed.

AI (and not Machine Learning to an extent) have a bad association with far-fetched sci-fi plots and worst case scenarios. Maybe the best solution would be to re-brand AI/ML as something more abstract.
I think they already do that with bitcode. You upload the LLVM bitcode and it will generate the code for the appropriate architecture as needed. It's standard when you upload your app to iTunes.
They don't use your source code for that.
> If you really want to own a stock that gives you no profits, no income from dividends, no voice in how its run, and actually no value what so ever other than the greater fool theory then go ahead.

Totally agree. You can have this kind of dismissive attitude with naive early employees that don't know any better (equity low on the vesting rung, expensive equity buy-outs, unfair vesting schedules, etc.), but this shit won't fly on Wall Street.
By default people that don't change to a BCC client will follow the legacy chain, so if BCC is going to be dominant it will take a while to find out most likely. The price is likely to be very volatile while the market figures out which it wants to follow more.
> It's only a valid comparison when compared against current usage, as our current system also "wastes" power to run the current system.

No, even if "the current system" was an apt comparison, there is still a fundamental difference between PoW and everything else. The power consumed in the process of facilitating a bank or any type of business is incidental to the useful work being performed. Power is burned so there are lights for people to see, power is burned so computers can perform calculations so that employees can get their jobs done faster, power is burned so that people can go back home after their shift is over; all this is incidental, the power is expended to make the business process more efficient, but the business could still run (though much less efficiently) without spending power on lights, computers and transportation. On the other hand, PoW is literally a waste of work because the nature of the work itself does not matter, the only thing that matters is that the unbounded cost of wasting energy keeps everyone honest.

> I'm just saying it's meaningless to complain that bitcoin uses power, it only matters how it compares to the current system.

The comparison is meaningless because "the current system" continues to exist regardless of any developments in bitcoin, if anything ubiquitous bitcoin would almost certainly increase the power impact of the finance industry.
I think it's so we can create more plastic pollution when the device is obsolete after 6 months.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/ocean-plastic-pat...
Yup - I understand that; I looked at the code. But, and I think I expressed this poorly, I have no assurances except through forensics (i.e., having to go grovel through a bunch of code for a few frigging sidebar functions that have no reason to be sending anything anywhere in the first place!), that that's all they did. The breach of trust has been created and it has created a relationship (an unwitting one) that they could change at will.
Many "open problems" in mathematics are not actually that interesting on their own. Take the Collatz conjecture: it's pretty much just the statement that a certain 3 line program terminates. In many cases such as this, it is not the truth or falsity of a statement that interests people, it is the method to arrive at a proof which yields new insights.

For example, the graph minor theorem states that a certain order on graphs does not have an infinite antichain. Classically this may have some interesting consequences, but in reality it's not very useful. However, the proof contains some real gems, such as the notion of tree decompositions and the graph structure theorem that lead to mountains of new results all throughout graph theory and related disciplines. Tellingly, the graph minor theorem is a short and simple question while the graph structure theorem is a deeply technical statement that would not have been conjectured on its own but rather was discovered in the process of showing the graph minor theorem.
overlayfs + XFS works very well, so it's probably not a priority (wild guess)
Coinbase CEO here - apologies for the confusion on that.

I certainly wouldn't say we are treating it as a "shitcoin". I tweeted out a few thoughts here to share how I think about it:

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/89248668753155686...

Hope it helps. Thx!
As a user of both they've always seemed like two completely different services to me. One is streaming, the other a store. One a social sharing based platform, the other mini-sites for each artist with terrible discovery. Bandcamp would need to change a lot to replace SoundCloud's use case.

NB: Not shitting on Bandcamp, it's great and I use it.
All sounds very reasonable - thanks for the insight!
I worked for a company called TopTel, managed the VC networks for ICL, DOH and few others, dealt with many Telco's and bridge companies who's names escape me at the time. international VC and dialing the extra 0 for ISDN lines to make sure they didn't route over satellite and then the fun of switched ISDN (North American ISDN standard with it's bit stealing 56k lines over the dedicated D channel 64k lines). Fun times.

One aspect of VC was you could tell if a network link (leased lines) was not upto scratch as you would see bit error, unlike network data, which would happily gloss over such odd bit errors. Other fun and games was ISDN circuits being stolen due to engineers repatching lines of little used circuits and then when the ISDN would lock up and that would often be that the bit error count hit a limit. You would call up, get the telco to test the line/circuit and low and behold it would be working again, this was due to the test resetting the error count. Had a neat way of testing lines using my 2G mobile on the Orange network, in that if I called an ISDN line the way it terminated the call would indicate if it was up or was errored, or busy.

But my funniest story would be spending 30 minutes trying to resolve an issue with a PicturTel setup with some French chap and why the audio from his end was not working, turned out he was sat upon the microphone.
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