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When the constitution was framed, 'the press' meant literally anyone with a printing press, which allowed them to mass produce their newspapers, newsletters and zines.

Now, presses were expensive, so it's a matter for debate whether the founders would have given the same right to everyone if presses were cheap like the interenet is today. Remember that only landholders could vote - they made distinctions based on wealth and status.

But it's not a matter for debate whether amateur press was intended to be afforded protection. The press by and large was amateur, and far closer to the full time bloggers of today than it was to the New York Times.

If anything, the scrutiny of lawmakers should be on the press conglomerates where so much power is in so few hands; but of course, that's not the way the world works.
Degree in Computer Engineering. 5 year program covering how a computer works inside, culminating in designing ad building your own computer from scratch (I mean literally from scratch, just wires and basic AND/OR/NOT gates) to make a Von Numen like architecture with a basic (also from scratch) OS. I definitely learned more practical stuff from that to help me in every day software design than I would with a CS degree.
I don't understand. This kind of sentences is routine in New York Times. If anything, I find the conversational tone inappropriate for such a weighty subject. I do agree that the author tried too hard to write to a broader audience on a complicated subject. The result is too much ink for too little info.
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From the guidelines:

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

So no, HN is not strict about the title.
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But I wish I hadn't. If I could go back, I'd do a degree in maths. It underpins everything and I always find myself hitting a maths wall (except in studying natural language).
Ha! I didn't even pay attention to that until I read your comment.
Totally clueless about the science but assuming that "Ozzy Ozbourne" takes up more memory space inside our brain than 00 is a fallacy (mixing computers with brains). Imagery can be more efficient in some cases. Like the Chinese language where one character can express a complex object makes for faster reading since they are unique and translate instantly to images. It's more of a compression technique.
Try it on. Or don't.
Enabling FileVault disables Firewire/Thunderbolt DMA access when the screen is locked, or always when a firmware password is enabled.

pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25

That command will disable light suspend mode. When the lid is closed, the laptop will hibernate, writing its memory to disk (encrypted) and power off, clearing the encryption key from memory.
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That's because it acts as a desiccant, which is different from 'toxic'.
Unfortunately it's a bit hard to find places that let you try out high-end headphones around here, so I'm sure there are plenty of other comprable headphones. Which Sennheisers would you recommend that are comprable to the 880s? I know of the HD650s, but I didn't have anywhere to try them out, and a lot of reviews I came across mentioned that they were a little on the warm-side and better suited for smooth music (I work with Metal). Plus, I got my 880s for about $270, and the best deal on 650s I could find was still close to $500, which was out of my price range at the time...
Borrowing from Arthur C. Clarke, and shifting the often overgenerous connotations of Hanlon's razor, I say that: "any sufficiently advanced ineptitude or ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."

The rather "Up With People" connotations conveyed by Hanlon's Razor (i.e. "do not ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") may be preferable to the more cynical tone of my chosen phrasing when dealing with inconsequential events. However, when effectively malicious incompetence and lack of foresight occur within societal institutions capable of sufficient influence, a perceived lack of malicious intent should not distract those affected by the offending institution from aggressively rooting out the sources of the incompetence.

I would also like to make a subtle point regarding the way in which you seem to have associated the phrase "the police" with a collection of instances of "police(wo)man". As suggested by my previous paragraph, I think it is worth distinguishing between "the police" as a societal institution capable of profoundly affecting those within its sphere of influence and those individuals from which it is composed.

In particular, it seems that attributing systemic problems to the individuals through whom they are expressed leads to a pair of difficulties. The first difficulty is that which you encountered, in which one hesitates to apportion any blame due to the perception that any assigned blame would correspond to an attribution of evil/malicious intent to a fellow flesh-and-blood human. The second difficulty is that pursuing solutions to a systemic capacity for sustained malicious ignorance/incompetence/ineptitude through actions targeted at the individuals through whom this capacity is expressed offers a potent example of the potential futility of treating symptoms rather than causes.

Note that my view converges with (my interpretation of) yours in the sense that I consider it important to avoid unnecessarily shifting blame earned by an institution onto its constituents, as this is unlikely to ameliorate systemic problems while generally producing negative consequences for those onto whom blame is shifted.
The Economist has a highly focused strategy on appealing to particular demographics - high language comprehension skills help position it in the high-value part of the market. It's obviously working, last time i checked it was making huge market share gains and profitability precisely because it was focusing on 5% of the world's richest people, not the local or bulk.
I read it every week and it is very well written. don't confuse that with believing what it says - in today's lingo, it's definitely a 1%er...
For all his years in the Senate, what an amateur he is. Let the terrorists have their communications and get a warrant to force Twitter, Youtube, etc to pipe all related activity to the FBI. Otherwise they'll go underground to where the TLAs can no longer see them.
So then why do the guidelines say

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
Thanks for sharing! I'd be interested to know how it carriers over to other parts of your professional life if you program as well.
The question is, when will people tire of learning new ways to make HTML web pages that save to a database. I know I sure have.
You'd hope so given the number of CS departments that are headed or founded by people with degrees in mathematics.

I'm in the mathematics degree category as well, with a career mainly in numerical programming.
I'd look at the online courses that are starting to be offered. Coursera, MITx, etc. There's a lot of foundational stuff in those courses.
"Each Xi3 device is made up of three separate modules: one for the processor, one for how the unit communicates on a network and a third for power. This means you can upgrade any of these components -- say, to swap out for a faster processor -- with little effort. Just unscrew the back panel, slide out the required part, put the hatch back on and you're done."

As long as Xi3 still exists. Once they die, you own a cool historical curiosity.
No CS degree. No one has ever cared.
What's funny about this to me is that the "04 02" reveals the fake without any kind of photographic analysis whatsoever. The numbers are supposed to be sorted smallest to largest. A valid ticket would read "02 04".
I'd also like to know this, though I imagine it's possible. I've been thinking about what sort of things I'd like to remember with these methods, and I feel that the Periodic Table would be a good, fun place to start.
Sometime last year, I read "Moonwalking with Einstein" which, despite not having been as educational as I would have liked (there are other books for that though,) was a great read, and did have some instruction in it.

One of the lessons in the book is was to memorize the memory champion's grocery list which contained some items I'd never remember on my own (pickled garlic, for example, I've never had or heard of).

My daughter and I walked through the list, doing as instructed in the text, and instructing my daughter to do the same. I never performed an image replacement (e.g., the ace of spades actually equals something else,) but did try to abstract the items. For example, for pickled garlic, I imagined a car-sized jar of pickles, but the pickles were garlic shaped. Instead of cottage cheese, I imagined (as instructed) Charisma Carpenter bathing in a large cottage cheese tub.

To this day, both I and my daughter can remember the list perfectly, by walking through the house and looking how we should.

I haven't gone much farther with it to the degree that I would have had to encode a lion into an ace of spades, but just exaggerating the image itself into a more memorable form works for me. I also have the same lack of visual imagination, but following the instructions in the book exactly as offered worked perfectly.

One of the catches though, is that numerous memory champions will tell you that becoming really good at mnemonic memory is really a game of who can be more imaginative.

Some routines (like memorizing a deck of cards) can become rote, as you already have the cyphers in your head, you just have to encode them. The more advanced mnemonists have partial encoding techniques such that one mnemonic image can encode a 3 or 4 card sequence. That doesn't take imagination, just discipline... but encoding things, on the fly, that you haven't predetermined the pattern to, is a game of imagination.

That said, you might suck at it, as I sort of expect to suck at it myself. Regardless, there are other, less imaginative techniques that may work well for you, and allow you to permanently remember things you would wish to.
My boss, on my first job, whenever presented with any alarmist "study" of this nature would mumble:

"If you feed a rat a boxcar of anything, it'll get cancer".
+1 for MixPanel; I've met some of their team and they are superbly helpful. Great software too.
If you also run an online startup, chances are you rely on SEO or search engine marketing. If Google bans your Adwords account, or penalizes you to oblivion, I'll say that's pretty much the equivalent of getting fired.
No CS degree, all my uni work is in Medieval Lit.
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Full writeup coming soon! (I'll comment here with a link, in case it doesn't make front-page.)

Getting the lines is not the hard part, but rather, reasoning about the regions enclosed by them to find the panels. I'm not totally satisfied with my current solution (it's a bit hacky), so I'll try to tweak it a bit, but in any case, results will be posted soon.
The best answer to this question I have ever found is in the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

It takes a look at the question of why one group of people ended up with the tech first and largely comes to the conclusion that it is part of a complex interaction involving the environmental availability of species and geography neccessary for the development of sedentry existence and then also a maximally heterogeneous cultural development.

[edit] the explantation I just gave is a massive oversimplification of his argument, but it would be very hard to fit his book into a post.
I'm admittedly a huge fan, but it's hard to find any downsides, even for such a young language. A couple of things you might notice if working in the REPL:

- There's no quick way to del/clear the current environment. Namespaces are planned but not yet implemented.

- If a function is redefined, there is no automatic recompilation of dependent functions. It's easy though to list or recall existing functions.

Give it a go. It's a lot of fun. Some of the core team have been invited to present at Lang.NEXT.
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my bad for not clarifying--yes it only has two. I meant to write video out, which has changed repeatedly. I've only owned macs--I love the operating system but think their obsession with dongles is crazy.

Really though, I think people knew the people I was making. So what's up with the downvotes? You don't agree with it, that's cool, just don't vote...
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I think there's less scumminess among average people on Wall Street than among average non-engineers in VCistan, which is only a small percentage of startups, much less technology.

I think there's way more scumminess on Wall Street than in technology as a whole, or than in the private-sector in general, but I think the current crop of darling-at-the-ball social-games/network-coupon VC-funded startups have some really scummy executives. This is something I've observed through experience, and it surprised me a lot, to tell the truth.
As an economist I wish more people would follow the math/econ option and add CS coursework. Unfortunately, most economist are scared to venture beyond Excel, Stata, and SAS, and I believe this creates a professional focus on static models.

Careerwise, not studying CS has not impacted my income, but it may have impacted my ability to get a job in CS. However, I blame this more on my own inability to signal CS competency.
In Australia we have an "expected life" provision in consumer law, where more expensive products have a higher expectation they'll keep working - a $2000 fridge should last longer than a $200 fridge for instance.

I've never seen it actually applied to Apple products, but a "reasonable person" as defined by the law would surely expect a $1,799.00AUD Macbook air to last longer than the 12 month warranty covers.

Does anyone know of such cases?
Out of high school I went to pursue a Computer Science degree because I wanted to be a programmer. First year was a lot of math, calculus and the like. First year computer science courses were kinda cool and fun, they used Scheme, a functional programming language to teach concepts.

I kept telling myself though, that upper year would be more programming/cs and less math. Boy, was I wrong. Upper year "computer" science is as far from computers and academically possible. Before dropping out I was able to claim that in my previous 5 "CS" courses only 1 had anything to do with programming.

The professors loved their theory and academia, and while all well and good, I wanted something more applied, or real, to relate to the real world. No professor ever tried to relate some combinatorial concept to anything happening in the real world today, which made me a very depressed student.

I finally decided (after sleeping on the decision for almost a year) to drop out and pursue a "Computer Programming" course at a Canadian college. I'm currently doing some pretty rewarding (both financially and experientially) contract development work for a local company while I wait for the College classes to start in the Fall.

Dropping out may not be for everyone, but if you realize that what you're studying isn't what you want to do, it might be time to shake things up.
I built an api for Google Music: https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API.
The crux of the piece, as I heard it, was that sugar is about as bad as fat when it comes to causes of heart disease and heart attacks, that HFCS is, in fact, worse than cane sugar because of the way the liver processes them, AND that the brain responds to sugar about the same way it does cocaine, and proves to be about as addictive.

So, toxic might a little strong, but when the doctors that worked on these studies recommend no more than about 100g/day of added sugars in your diet, less than what's in a can of soda, "large quantities" may not mean what you think it means either.
Privacy doesn't, but encryption does. You don't want to set up Tor or I2P only to find out later that traffic you thought was encrypted actually wasn't.
Agreed.

It will be interesting to see what happens at the end of this year when the block reward halves.
Everything you say is good, including the last line about freelancers. But I wonder if the alternative of a steady job might also be worth considering, just to remove the stress of finding the next gig for a couple of years.
What you're saying here, I think, is that it's not fair to, in order to build support for policy, cast about for sympathy for the specific police officers who, for instance, get shot in the line of duty.

That's not what I'm doing.

I'm saying that adversarial encounters with the police are in the general case far more likely to involve actual criminals than they do law-abiding people being oppressed by malicious or busybody government entities.

I'm not saying that in order to advocate for a specific policy. I support increased oversight of the police. What I'm doing is objecting to sentences like "this sums up the whole problem with law enforcement". That wording clouds the issue. It makes it hard to distinguish between legitimate policing interests and illegitimate ones.
Slightly related, I was wondering how the actual lottery tells if your ticket is real - do the machines record your ticket's serial number and number(s) chosen and then send the info to the lottery HQ? Or do the lottery machines compute an HMAC of some kind and encode it in the serial number on the ticket itself?
Xooglers: Where are you now?
Apparently Google is the top company to work for at the moment as stated by Fortune magazine. Despite this recognition we've seen the publicised exit of many top level employees as well as many others unheard of, everyone with their own reasons for leaving. Out of curiosity I would like to see how many xooglers are on HN and where they've ended up. Where does one move onto after being at the "top"?
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It gets better. I know that may sound trite, but having been there and done that my life is much, much better than it was. In fact, I love my life.

Some things to know:

First, it's not your fault. Learn from the past and move on.

Know a good psychiatrist, someone who listens to you and can help you find the right drugs. There's no magic bullet and and you may have to try a few things to find what works best for you. I made a point of researching depression and brain chemistry, at least enough to get a sense of what was working for me and (possibly) why, and was able to bring suggestions for newer drugs for treatment to my doctor.

If you're on meds, the drugs that work may not always work, so be mindful that you may need to switch meds.

You may not have to take meds forever. But even if you do it's no worse than a diabetic needing insulin shots.

Some people like to stigmatize the mentally ill. They can go fuck themselves.

I pissed away a lot of time (long story) and would love to get it back, but that's not going to happen, so the next best thing is to make the most of what time is left.

While it sucks to have depression, we're the lucky ones; not everyone makes it. Be grateful, and make the most of what you have.

If you, or any other HN'er, wants to contact me about depression, my info is in my profile. It can help to talk to people, but it's hard for people to understand if they've not been through it themselves.
> I recently researched the thorny issue of what consititutes art, and the leading idea in that field is a cluster theory: a set of ten ideas which commonly associated with things accepted as art.

Fascinating. Can you post some links about this?

It was eye-opening for me to find out about research into multiple kinds of intelligence. I think I'd like to know more about what you found out about art.
There's a great punch line if you read all the way to the end. But I'll save you the trouble. The set up:

Banking and payment expert Simon Lelieveldt believes [Bitcoin users] are living on borrowed time. "There is always a power base underlying a currency," he said, speaking at the Digital Money Forum in London in March. "Bitcoin is not going to fly because there is no central bank or power base. It's doomed to fail."

And then, at the end:

"To be clear, I would say the same about the euro," said payment expert Lelieveldt.
My knee-jerk response is that what you mention is a decent strategy if your intention is to catch terrorists, but if your intention is to get votes, then Lieberman's plan may work better.

That may explain "all his years in the Senate"
RC Aircraft nerd here. This is very cool, but not at all uncommon (while this particular model is, making scale remote-control versions are not). Pulse-jet aircraft are some of the coolest things you can fly, but need a big field (for safety reasons).
Doesn't every criminal who is followed by a surreptitious police tail then get to claim the same reasonable expectation that nobody should have known about his specific transit from a drug corner to the stash house?

Everybody wants privacy in every situation. The whole point of there being a notion of a "reasonable expectation" to it is that a line has to be drawn somewhere. Without it, there'd be no law enforcement at all.
not directly related, but this made me remember some reading I did awhile ago on EXIF analysis.

a really cool tool for EXIF http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I found him too.

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Masters in CS?
once upon a time (2001? 2002?) my whole office then (a semi national news agency in europe) got Sony CLIÉ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLI%C3%89 devices - a so called PalmPilot Killer, just like Palms, but from Sony, and so much better. The Sony CLIÉ would help us to become a real digital business (I was in the sales pitch meeting of the sony guy)

long story short, they complete fucked up the companies MS Outlook bases CRM system with one address book HotSync© action - by one employe.

That employe was me (I was just the first to push the HotSync© button...).

there was a backup of Outlook of course, sadly the backup could not get used to restore the CRM (don't ask...)

about 20 people were typing in address data for the rest of the week.

i now have 5 Sony CLIÉ at home, i hope the will be worth something sometime.
Plus losing a seventh or even half your income and then having a gap to look for new clients (you can ask existing clients for referrals) isn't anywhere near as risky as suddenly losing 100% of your income for reasons that can be fully beyond your control
But when he wrote that stuff he was basing the "obsolete" statement on the monolothic kernel and x86 specificity. Those key aspects of the architecture _were_ obsolete back then.

I think when he wrote that he was right about the design being outdated.

Its just that Linux became popular and some of those design aspects like the x86 specificity were upgraded to newer ways of doing things.

Still monolithic kernel though. But just because something works doesn't mean that its an up-to-date design. Look at how popular fairly heavy and large PC workstations still are today.
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I have a math degree, it has in no way negatively impacted my career.

Actually, taking the time to get a degree may have negatively impacted my career. Which is to say, I don't feel that having the piece of paper has really had much of anything to do with my career.

But maybe I wouldn't have worked out what I wanted to do without the time to screw around and learn whatever I felt like.