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Are you sure? In Germany:

* Can the state police demand that you open a bag for inspection on a train?

* Can you be detained at length (for instance, removed to a police station) if you're asked to identify yourself and don't have documentation?

* Are the police under any circumstances permitted to randomly stop and search cars?

* Can the police check your pockets during a pat-down search for weapons?

Each of these is something for which US jurisprudence has issued decisive and binding decisions (no, absent probable cause they can document and justify on the stand, they can't open your bag; no, unless they arrest you for an actual crime, they can't take you to a police station; no, under most circumstances the police can't even pull you over unless you've committed a "primary" offense, and cannot absent probable cause of an actual crime search your car; no, the police in the US can't demand to see the contents of your pockets).

Incidentally, you have the same protection under the 4th Amendment as a German citizen in the US as I do as someone born in Chicago. I assume that's true vice-versa in Germany as well.

The bag issue is what got me; Swiss police rifled through my bag. I was not the only person in the train car that happened to, so I'm doubting I was simply selected for it as a noncitizen --- not that that should matter.
Do you know what the problems are that make Wave servers hard to write? I'm writing something similar right now, and if there are enormous problems coming up, it would be nice to know about them now.
I still say: if you're in a big city, the only person to blame about not meeting women is yourself. Be creative. Show girls that you're interesting and like to have fun. For fun I took an acting class in LA, another city of men. It was a small class with a 3:1 ratio -- 3 girls per guy -- and several of the girls were models. If that's not your thing, try an aerobics class at your gym. Idk, put yourself out there in situations where you see the same girls over time AND get to show your real self. Be real with people and they will like you.
This is silly. The answer here us, "it depends". For example, if you have sensitive data in a production environment, maybe you don't want developers to have access to the environment regardless of the size of the organization. For smaller, less mature apps, having a full blown IT managed server might be overkill and get in the way. In my previous life as a consultant at Kaiser, we had both situations which was entirely appropriate.
There are a number of charges that you can be arrested for at the sole discretion of the officer. I've heard exchanges like:

officer: Don't go anywhere
friend: Am I under arrest?
officer: No, but don't go anywhere.
friend: If I'm not under arrest, then I'm leaving.
officer: If you leave, I *will* arrest you with impeding an investigation / obstruction of justice

(That exchange followed from someone not involved in a protest, who was filming police officers trying to contain a protest. They tried to fine her friend $400 for littering (i.e. a candy wrapper that was already on the ground) or something equally ridiculous when you consider the amount of time (and tax-payer money) that they wasted harassing her and her friends.)

Also, in a number of jurisdictions, you can be arrested for being 'drunk and disorderly' with only the officer's word that you were actually drunk and/or causing a scene.

Keep in mind, that it doesn't matter much whether or not the charges stick. The police have successfully harassed you if you have to spend the night (or weekend) in prison before you are able to get out (and/or get the charges dismissed).

{update} Some corrections. Also, the 'investigation' that was being impeded was a $400 fine for littering a candy wrapper (ignoring whether or not the candy wrapper was actually littered).
Not necessarily. SCOTUS is very particular about the cases it submits cert for. The 9th cir. may stand, although it's liberal reputation won't help when it comes to the modern conservative court.
This makes me feel a little better about the time when I sat on tons of invites & never really got around to using Wave. I'm one of those who never grokked wave.
Crap. How can I host my own?
He says
"Also, you should take under consideration the workload of your system, if you are sure that you will have a very large portion of your fds active most of the time and that your worker pool is sufficiently large compared to the number of connections that you have that there is no reason not to use poll (think media/file servers), whereas if you are fairly sure that the majority of your fds are inactive and/or that the size of your workerpool is substantially smaller than the number of fds that you have open (think web servers) that there is no reason why you shouldn't use epoll.

That's the precise reason those two calls exist in the first place, and which one is 'best' (for whatever bit of extra throughput you can squeeze out of a machine because of this optimization) depends on your traffic."

To me it sounds as if overall he is saying roughly two things:
(1) "There are server conditions where epoll works better, and server conditions where poll works better,"

and
(2) "I dont believe that web servers specifically under real-life conditions are likely to be improved much by poll"

Clearly he and Zed agree on (1), that being the point of the related Zed post, and (2) might well be true, but I dont think it necessarily speaks directly to the use cases that Zed is hoping will eventuate for mongrel2.

Zed used a web server to test the differences between epoll and poll, and that has clearly focused the discussion somewhat, but from what I gleaned by reading his ongoing 'The Coming Of Mongrel2' series, he has a wider range of possible uses in mind for Mongrel2, and I am wondering whether that is where his and jacques conclusions are differing.

[1] I mean, clearly they are both entirely insane in a very real sense, but I do love to pretend that those around me are rational actors and enjoy projecting rational explanations for their behavior upon them.
snacks and heavily processed foods are cheaper than healthy fresh vegetables and fruits. the easy path...
You could say that about Twitter, though, and it's difficult to find anyone today who considers Twitter a failure.
He didn't post it. Also, it bumped 'Depression Era Color Photos' out of the number two spot. Doesn't seem very 'HN' either, but I think that's what the up-voting is for.
This is the legal basis for the decision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review
I liked it, just didn't like the interface. I was an early adopter and very excited about the protocol. When I was looking at it, there wasn't enough client specification to bother working on an alternative client (ie: emacs). Hopefully that has changed (or will change before Google drops support).

I found it really useful for collaborating with multiple parties. It allowed us to work on a document and keep the conversation all in one place yet clearly separated. Sometimes email can make that distinction difficult or unclear.

At least it's not entirely closed source. :)
Just an FYI, sometime in the past few months they implemented email notifications.
The main thing going for BlackBerry is the maturity of the enterprise management applications.

Being able to remotely disable the phone, upgrade it, wipe it, or change configuration is a huge plus for corporations who want to track their phones.
I think a lot of people (and businesses) don't consider them to be toys anymore because, in recent iOS updates (2.0/3.0+) Apple has started to fully embrace some Blackberry/WinMo features -- remote wipe, exchange support, etc.

Also, who really bought the first gen iPhone? The original iPhone did well, but the iPhone wasn't a blockbuster hit until the 3G/2.0 came out with the App Store and other features that had led a lot of critics to dismiss the original phone a year before that.
"The system" is a constitutional democracy. That means the constitution trumps all other laws, including laws created by narrow margins in voter referenda. It is exceedingly difficult to change the constitution on purpose.

The founders of this country very definitely architected our system of government such that laws like Prop 8 would not stand up in court.

If you want to live in a pure democracy, try to get congress to repeal the Constitution.
We make the "Topo Maps" app for the Android, which is similar to our outdoorsy iPhone apps.

I Googled around and concede that Android sales are at 160K per day, but that is still not close to the 230K Apple is putting out.

And I did not say iPhone owners are wealthier, I said Apple owners are, which is certainly true. People who own iPads, iPods, iPhones, Macs, and other expensive gear are wealthy. If you don't believe me: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/ipad-owner-are-selfis...

I am happy to have a successful mobile app business, and the pay day is from iOS, not Android. I think I am in a good position to council people to do iOS first if they want to bootstrap.
While I agree that a large part of the blame for Wave's failure falls on Google, I think its hard to make the case that it "solve[s] problems [people] don't have".

Anyone who's ever dealt with the horror of a multi-user email thread (>>>>>This sort of thing, or perhaps "My_Doc_CASEY'sVERSION.doc")knows that Wave at least solves that problem fairly well.

Of course, no one really cares about that if you can't get your whole team onto Wave in the first place.
Your first example is naive. The police cannot arrest you absent an actual crime, but they can detain you for a "reasonable" amount of time; if you simply walk away from an officer, you are in fact impeding an investigation. There is a clear difference between an arrest and being "detained": during an arrest, the police can search you and your vehicle, put you in restraints, and drive you away to a police station.

That there are subjective offenses you can be arrested for and that the police could abuse strikes me as a simple fact of life. You can also file complaints, (in most jurisdictions) record the abuse with your camera phone, and (in crazy cases) sue.
At the beginning, on Firefox, it was soul-deadeningly slow.
I have to ask: why would a security guard in a normal office situation have the authority to randomly pat down someone who is known to work in the building?
Ted Olson (one of the lawyers on the case) had a response in the New Yorker article on this case that I thought was pretty killer:

> "I have spent a fair amount of time reading Dr. King's response to people who said, 'People aren't ready for this,'" [Olson] said. "His 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail,' one of the more moving documents in history, addresses this. If people are suffering and being hurt by discrimination, and their children and their families are...then who are we as lawyers to say, 'Wait ten years'?"
About 8 years ago, the state I live in put a project out for bid. It was a web application to help the unemployed find jobs. They gave the contract to a company in India. Talk about irony.
Statistically speaking, somewhere between 4% and 8% of the HN population will be very interested in this news. I'll bet that's a bigger percentage than actually care about Erlang, and we're always hearing about that :-)

But seriously, there is no reason, other than it being a really nice piece of news that, as a member of a community, I would like to share with the rest of that community.

(And to clarify: I didn't post it, I just voted it up :-) )
A while ago Google Docs even switched to using Etherpad-style operational transformation instead of diff-match-patch. Some pretty mind-bending technology here:

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applyi...
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Are there? Would you really want to discuss this on some general news site?
Unfortunately government accounting rules don't take the long view into account.

If nothing else, there's a general election due in (5 years minus 4 months) and counting. After which, the budget is someone else's problem.
I would understand "the system" to include judicial review.
"The System" dictates that states cannot deny rights protected under the Federal Constitution. I'd argue that it's working beautifully to prevent tyranny of the masses.
No, he's not. The court's job is not to decide based on simply majority.
At my last company we had exactly these problems with a central IT service. In the end we got so frustrated with the poor service that we moved to using a 3rd party for hosting and admin. We never looked back. We didn't have a ticketing system, we spoke to them directly in irc. They also took the attitude that any request that might be repeated was automated so that we would either not have to bother in the future or we could easily do it ourselves. Generally this automation was put in place at the time of the request. It should be noted that we did have full access to the production environments and that we did our own QA. We found that by using a strict process we were able to keep quality very high; in the two years that we had this setup I can't recall a single occasion where we experienced a service failure. Of course there were bugs etc. but we were extremely happy with the low incidence rate of these.

On another note, I'm now in one of those startups without any sysadmins. We use heroku with a handful of addons. This setup has quite frankly blown me away. You can have the best of everything, monitoring, backups, cron jobs, error tracking, memcached servers etc. with no admin required beyond switching the services on. Having used such a setup I see the requirement for sysadmins being far diminished.
There's two main differences for me.

a) It takes some work to create a new Google doc and set it up for sharing. Etherpad was as simple as pasting the URL.

b) Etherpad shows changes from different users with a different background color. Google Docs is invisible.
Twitter is ephemeral. You can quite easily leave it for a month and miss nothing important. Nobody will care, nobody will miss you. Twitter will continue to function as long as people have egos, which is to say forever. (not trying to bash twitter here even though it sounds like it.)

Wave is quite different. It's designed for conversations and collaboration. In order for it to function, users need to be able to know when the other has responded quite quickly. Wave itself does nothing to ensure this.
This appears to add nothing to the official announcement which was submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575892

and which is referred to in this otherwise content-free piece.

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I'd be curious to see if the courts will apply that same argument to other laws.

For instance, will/should the courts eliminate all marriage benefits on the grounds that marital subsidies simply enshrine into law the notion that couples are superior to singles?

I'd also be curious to see if gay marriage supporters believe the courts made the correct decision, and if they would apply the same logic to other situations.
We did the same thing here in America. Guess what? Nothing changed.

Once a power is taken by the government, it is not likely to let it go. I hope you have better luck than we did.
Why would the SCOTUS want to get involved? Are they in the business of deciding whether state supreme courts are correctly interpreting their state constitutions?
Prop 8 has nothing to do with people’s rights. I quote from the current California Family Code Section 297.5…

Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights,
protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same
responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they
derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules,
government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources
of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.

Prop 8 is just another way for the two sides of the culture war to beat each other over the head.
I'll never understand why Max took his Paypal money and built an online widget company. Hopefully he'll attempt something meaningful next time.
We hire pro designers for everything, and while I don't love the 'B' logo Patrick chose, I can easily make a case that it is more professional than his current logo. I think your comment crosses way over the line into hyperbole.
agreed. if this had been integrated as a new type of message in gmail that had some interoperability with regular email, I think the results here would've been completely different. google never gave wave a fighting chance.
I'm sure others have done this already, but have you thought of putting this information on the web to teach other mothers? Considering that breastfeeding is so important on multiple levels, it couldn't hurt to have one more place for mothers to learn this skill.
Maybe because then the user is more likely to put their credit-card on file with Apple?
its about the definition of marriage in California, not against any people. People can go to Massachusetts to get married if they wanted to, there is no law about that.

If its not legal the will have to settle for civil unions. In fact all states should have civil unions for all people, and leave marriage to the churches.
The sad thing here is that Google did the polite thing, and turned off email notifications by default. It actually took some searching to figure out how to turn it on.

Contrast this with Buzz, where they dropped it right in the middle of your inbox. Quite the opposite strategy.

I suppose the solution I favor is to ask the user if they want notifications when they sign up. Or at the very least making it very obvious how to turn on notifications if you want them.

The notification messages were also not very well thought out, it was often confusing what had changed, requiring you to log in to Wave just to read a new message that could have easily been read via email.
Wow, talk about hype. That kind of quote is like bubble era speculation, just feeding the frenzy. I always wondered why Slide was kept in such high regard when all they made was slideshows and facebook apps. I mean, sure the guy has a reputation, but what were they making that was so noteworthy and game changing?
There is still the possibility that a significant part of your particular investment vehicles will just vanish forever.
If Microsoft (or someone else) built a self-contained "IE6 For Legacy Web Applications" download, that worked like Fluid/Prism (making an individual launcher for each legacy app), allowed a newer IE to live alongside it, and was guaranteed (literally, contractually) to function identically to IE6 proper, most of this problem would go away, I think.
If they could go back and time, exclude Buzz from Gmail but instead add Wave, I think they'd have better success for it.

No question. Wave should have been an alternate view of your Gmail account. Instead it was a completely distinct environment that you had to manage separately, which most people aren't going to be bothered to do.
Peter Norvig has confirmed this, and says that the great majority of Google's projects die before anybody even hears about them. This lets them try things out cheaper, so the ideas they do invest a lot of time and money into will have a higher probability of success.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/...
The point is that Wave is never going to replace email over the night, so in the beginning it's very useful to get an email whenever something interesting happens. As you receive more and more emails, you realize that it's a lot easier to just keep Wave constantly open and you'll turn off email notification.

But before that point Wave does not deserve its own tab, and because of the lack of email notifications it's very easy to simply forget about checking Wave.
The burden of justification for new security measures should be on the TSA. And they have failed at this. This sort of thing is a gross violation of personal privacy, entirely without cause. That it adds expense and delay for no demonstrable increase in plane security is but adding insult to injury.

Hearing people approach security measures with the argument "whatever would you have to hide, citizen?" is the worst part of the ongoing "War on Terror" debacle.

I'm hoping you're playing devil's advocate here.
I'm totally with you there.

I was really surprised that to get married in New York, the officiant pretty much has to be a judge, the town clerk, or a religious representative of an "official" religion with an established place of worship. Seems awfully unfair that atheists have fewer options than members of popular religions. What possible interest does the state have in vetting wedding officiants anyway?
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. You seem to think we live in one, but actually, we live in a constitutional republic.
So its the Tyranny or the majority, that I have to put up Obama too right? Which by the way is against gay marriage.

Not all states use the Electoral College (4 to 6 don't), more and more left leaning states want pure majority.
If you mean how women were property and polygamy was cool, then sure it's thousands of years old. Marriage, as it exists today, is very different.
Except it hadn't replaced email, so would the better alternative been to have Wave spam your email with updates? Seems kind of hypocritical..

The better answer would have had settings available (defaulted to notifying) so users could choose when and how to be notified.
I disagree wholeheartedly. The system protected the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority.

Check out John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: http://books.google.com/books?id=ScTePJKjiTMC
The biggest problem with selling the Nexus One direct was support. Carriers didn't want to support a phone that hadn't branded and Google couldn't accept that people don't want to ask a community message board and wait a few days for a reply when their phone doesn't work.
If $182m is the true price it's a total firesale. They raised $78m at a $500m valuation.

With costs, liquidation preferences, etc I wonder if the common shareholders will see anything. Even BI is correct at $228m it's pretty slim pickings.

My guess is Google want Levchin to be GM of the new Google social network (he has experience of social thru Slide and payments thru PayPal of course) and this is really a talent acquisition as much as anything.
its my understanding groups that had to do a high level of collaboration across several people found it pretty useful. i know some people that still use it for this and are happy, although i'm sure that if it closes down, they'll find another product and carry on.
I love it for reading, I never expected to spend more money on books than on apps. And I'm using the Kindle app, not the iBooks one (not enough selection in Germany). I'm swapping my WiFi one for a 3G version in 2 weeks. Love it love it love IT!
The real-time UI appears to be the hardest part; Google's client is something like 20K lines of GWT code. (Technically the client isn't part of the Wave "server", but since AFAIK you aren't allowed to use Google's client with your own server, if you write a server you also have to write a client. Also, I don't think the distinction is particularly relevant in Web apps.)
Yep; I gave him 5 options (and invited him to pick anything else) but said up front that I'd bet that any uh more "recent" looking logo would outperform his current one (and that's what I was wrong about).
It did not appear that the man work worked in the carbon plant had the benefit of a respirator -- at least the dirt patterns on his face didn't show any signs of a nose/mouth covering. Imagine how many government regulations this same factory would be in violation of today.
I'm such a noob. It was in the email field. ? I've put it in the about field too. Thx!