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I think that it will be used in more sinister ways. They will provide information on how to make political speeches and propaganda more influential and how to get main stream media stories to be better believed.

There has already been a statement on the particular psychological tricks Obama uses in his speeches - I can only see this being used to strengthen that.
The urge to play the lottery is a very normal cognitive bias. I know it has a negative expected return, but I do feel drawn to play it when the prize gets very large. The actual reason I didn't participate is that my aversion to waiting in line is even stronger than my urge to buy a ticket.

Dan Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow" is good reading for anyone who thinks that only stupid people feel the urge to play the lottery. It's more subtle than that, and worth understanding because these biases affect all of us in many important decisions.

Note that the lottery has about the same expected return as insurance (around 50% I think), and I've always bought insurance for risks I don't want to cover personally. Is overpaying to cover downside risks "smart" but overpaying for big upsides "stupid"? I don't have an opinion either way. If I consider the question, I can't tell if my own opinion would be more informed by my knowledge of psychology and statistics, or by my attitudes about prudence and waste.
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> * Still, I think SO should remind people to accept answers*

It does. Your accept rate is displayed under your username when you ask a question. Let it drop to low and other users will start complaining in the comments under your question, telling you to start accepting if you expect answers.
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In a way html2canvas[0] does actually do this, implementing a (minimal) rendering engine in JavaScript. I wonder how far this will go.

[0] http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
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I find it kind of sadly ironic that morse code could actually speed up input, and perhaps shouldn't be treated as a joke. For example, a pair of telegraph operators beat "the world's fastest SMS texter" on Jay Leno a couple years back.

http://www.flixxy.com/sms-text-messaging-vs-morse-code.htm
For what its worth, my phone was stolen last month and had Lookout Mobile Security installed. It pinpointed the location down to a few meters. Still the cops more-or-less said, "Oh, that's nice but we can't use that." They said that civilian tracking apps that use the cell network are only usable down to the tower, matter how exact it claims to be. This was in a big SF Bay Area city with a well-funded, adequate, and tech savvy police force.

Your phone tracking software is non-binding and irrelevant in court. It says so in the user agreements you click-through. That said, its nice to have the ability to wipe and lock the device remotely.
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Well, avoiding casts AND supporting inheritance AND having a simple type system is pretty hard. You can usually just pick two of the three.

Many prefer static typing, and many don't. BTW, Clojure is indeed dynamically typed, but it has a "type philosophy" that keeps things nice and orderly, namely no encapsulation and uniform data access.
What "Constitutionally protected privacy" would that be?

There's no enumerated right to privacy. There's a right to be free from "unreasonable" searches. But, if you actually read the key Supreme Court majority opinions establishing what "reasonable" means, you find that it concedes privacy in every case in which legitimate government interests are at stake.
As a prominent counter-example, Bill Gates was famous for showing up at tech conferences with a grungy t-shirt, unkempt hair, etc. (And like Zuckerberg, he didn't need to impress any bankers.)
Eh, it doesn't matter a whole lot anyway. A TD game you can beat the very first time isn't interesting, and if hints on what is to come will let you beat it, it's too easy.
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It's quite an impressive effort. Works on user-agent, referer, or geolocation (or possibly a mix)
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One of the most impressive things about the package really is that it "just works". And especially protrusion is wonderful in my opinion, since it really makes nicer margins.

Glad you like it!
The amount of preparation work that must have gone into this is admirable. There are so many variations!
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I had some fully-upgraded towers built near each of my map's four spawn points. After I sold them, enemies near the spawn points continued to take damage.

Someone might want to test whether selling towers does anything other than give you money and allow you to build a new tower in its spot. :)
In what sense is this a clear violation of the 4th Amendment? There are numerous contexts in which the police can literally search your physical person and surroundings without a peep from the court. How is diagnostic logging from cell towers worse than that?

It's possible that, as happened with the FBI GPS case, the police are going to end up needing court orders to get this information in the future. But are you aware of the evidentiary requirements to get similar court orders? They're minimal. The police will get these court orders whenever they ask for them: the history of recorded locations of subjects in active investigations is certainly going to be considered legitimate enough to outweigh the privacy expectations here.

I'm happy if the police end up needing court orders for this, but I'm also happy the police have access to this facility.
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He would find that it never advocated copyright infringement.
The key difference here is that while that is theoretically the case, the Queen does not in practice arbitrarily dissolve parliament, and her appointing the prime minister is basically a formality. The House of Lords, while it is fairly undemocratic, doesn't seem to be doing any worse a job of looking out for the rest of us than the Commons are. Contrast this to the various EU directives which frequently are interfering in local affairs, often not in a way that's in our best interests.
Showering and deodorant is a distracting straw man.

It certainly is, and the fact that people go there shows how empty the argument is.

I'm still surprised at the consensus in this thread. Hopefully it's a random blip and not the white blood cells finally figuring out where we've all been :)
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When the prize is large you get more people willing to risk a tiny amount just to get that short time of dreaming, and the teeny tiny chance of a big win. There's not much problem with that.

But lotteries also attract people who just don't get the numbers. People who can't afford to be spending 10, 20, 50 dollars on lotteries. That's a problem.
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"All the problems with law enforcement agencies". I think this comment sounds wittier than it actually is. Policing is a dangerous and often unrewarding job and even the worst cops spend most of their time dealing with toxic situations we rarely even imagine.

I'm a civil libertarian, but I've found that I'm saner and my perspective much improved by remembering that the police are not an evil entity out to destroy us all, but rather a typically clumsy and inept collection of human beings trying to perform a vital task for society.

Seeing the police this way lets you pick out the difference between, for instance, false-alerting drug dogs used to effect civil asset forfeitures on interstate highways from situations like "active investigations aided by cell tower locations".
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I hope it will be sooner. The retina display could really be a game changer, both in terms of hardware and OS.

If the manage to offer doubled resolution while maintaining the same interface form factor like they did with the iOs devices... wow, can't wait.
It's worth pointing out that a considerable number of the people who did that hard work were on Jobs payroll.
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That's pretty amazing, however, the title is a bit misleading. He made an RC Blackbird replica: not a drone, not life-size, not immune to radar, not weaponized, thus not a Blackbird.
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I like this argument, which tries to separate the "security" of the Bitcoin protocol/cryptosystem from the security of its implementations, so that the protocol can serve as a sort of inverse straw man to deflect attention from the comically poor security track record of Bitcoin as it actually works in the real world.
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I'll start out with the classic:

"Introduction to Algorithms" a.k.a. "CLRS" http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...

I think this is all (and probably more than) you really "need" if you want to know CS for programming, and an enjoyable read too.
> Even with a warrant the data collected by FRA wouldn't be legal to use in a court if both parties (sender and receiver of a message/whatever) was in Sweden (regardless of whether the traffic took a detour across the border or not (too/from gmails servers for instance)).

That does not make me fell much safer. In Sweden there is nothing preventing illegally obtained evidence to be used in court. The idea is that the one obtaining the evidence will also be punished for his crimes, but I can easily see that case not even reaching court.
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That is just amazing. When I was a kid, I loved to read about high-tech aircraft and space ships and I recall that the SR-71 was known for being hard to handle at low velocities and altitudes (something about the shape of the plane). I wonder if the same is true about the small version. It looks easy enough in the video.
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I may get a couple down votes for this, but I don't think the developer is doing anything wrong or creepy.

I was at a mall in Bangkok today and I opened up Foursquare today (the first time in a crowded venue for me). I scrolled thru, saw a female, and clicked thru to her Facebook profile.

Girls Around Me, while tacky, isn't that different. If I were a stalker it would be useless, I'd have to use the Foursquare app instead, because Girls Around Me doesn't let me follow individual users... Foursquare does that.

I feel like this is just the app that is saying what everyone knows - social networking can easily be creepy.

Also - it was a lot easier in this mall to find girls by walking around and looking at them. I have a feeling if I were a predator this is probably what I'd do. The information about their location is in real time and they can't opt out or choose to make it visible to friends only. They're in public, and if they chose to share this info on Foursquare it's even more public.
I've observed similar attitudes and reactions in matters of security. The advocate insisting we should and can do better is criticized -- perhaps marginalized -- and uses up personal capital to get improvements in place. Some time on, those measures prove decisive.

Unfortunately, as often as not, such efforts end up crippling if not destroying the same person's career.

In part, this is due to a function -- I'd argue; not a side-effect -- of corporations: To dilute and minimize personal legal culpability.

I use the words "legal" and "culpability" purposefully. I agree with the attitude presented in the article: It does not reduce personal responsibility. (Nor, in my opinion, certain definitions of culpability.)
Well I don't think the problem is about wether it's seller or customer friendly but how the cost is distributed between the customers. If the warranty is high, the additional support costs will added to the product price, such that the support penalty is effectively shared between the customers. On the other side, if the warranty period is short, the product price will be lower, but a small number of customers must pay a lot to repair their devices out of warranty. Then one needs to take into consideration that there are many ways to break a device by being "sloppy" but not fall outside warranty constrains. I try to be careful with the devices I own and in the first case I would have to pay for the carelessness of other people and I don't like that. On the other side high repair cost can be a large burden to single individuals, which is when it is reasonable to share risks in the community (see, e.g., medical costs).

This is why I guess the European law is basically about getting a working device in the first place and not about how repair costs are being distributed, which is non-obvious to decide.
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1) Your copy needs work, I see grammar mistakes all over

2) The preview animation moves way too fast

3) Give your first time visitors something besides a login/sign up. Let them see the real product.

4) Your about page is a ridiculous wall of text, I'd get rid of it completely. Along with the empty Careers tab.

5) It seems like you are trying to do too many things at once, pick one thing, focus on it, and do it right.

6) You'll need viral aspects if you want this thing to blow up, posting on HN isn't going to do it. Or an extremely large ad budget.
Something's got to be a bit out of whack when governments sanction and even sponsor lotteries where the odds of even getting your investment back are worse than 1:4, and governments make it illegal for masses of people to invest equivalent amounts in startup companies, all in order to protect the people from the possible downside of losing their investment.

Reminds me of a bumper sticker:
"Don't steal. The government hates competition."
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I think calling it a drone is a bit misleading. It's a radio controlled model aircraft.
Really nice, the last round (50 or 51 i think) was a bit too much for my laptop integrated video card, but i succeeded :)
Wow, the most impressive thing is that he actually managed to land it while controlling remotely. That must have taken a lot of experience and skill.

I'd feel more comfortable writing some autopilot landing code for the thing than to trust myself to not ruin months of work.
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Do you really consider Facebook a private setting?
Remote control aircraft hobbyists get pretty used to weeks/months worth of work smashing into trees, the ground, etc. That's why you start off on the small, cheap projects first.
Worth noting: the FBI's GPS case turned on the fact that a person's vehicle is an "effect" in the sense of the people's right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures". The word "effect"; it's right there in the 4th Amendment.

The court did not find that people have a reasonable expectation to privacy in public spaces (an argument made by the defense in that case). If you're out and about in public, your location isn't private. This is obvious, because it's clearly lawful for the police to simply follow you around in public.

(I'm happy if the police end up universally needing [easily obtained] court orders to collect cell tower logs, but unlike most of HN, I don't see the status quo as particularly outrageous).
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Wouldn't it be possible to create a trust (or even a corporation), transfer all of your IP to the trust and then appoint trusted third parties as trustees? There seems to be a world of difference between personally holding IP and being the sole beneficiary of a trust that holds IP.

For my part, I'll stick to working for employers with reasonable terms of employment.
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I was mugged in Chicago last summer and my phone was stolen. The phone and the people who mugged me were in police custody ten minutes later because of cell tower phone tracking. The police asked questions about what tracking the phone did; I have no doubt they'd have used that information too.

(Of course, this is a case in which I obviously would have consented to them tracking my phone).