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We really need to reflect on the slippery slope, America.

I recommend checking out this TED talk because it's very inspirational: http://on.ted.com/Stevenson The focus of the talk is a bit more on inequality in the justice system than tech laws, say. But it's relevant since a) we need to be mindful of the "other" who's persecuted, as we're reminded by some of our own who are persecuted.
and b) this talk highlights how we accept the moment as normal even when the moment is unjust. The talk reminds us to stand up and fight for what's right, rather than accept the new normal.

Finally, I'm reminded of the Martin Niemöller quote that we should always remember:

"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a catholic.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me."

EDIT: I do apologize for the hyperbole folks... it was more inspired by the TED talk I linked to than the article above and the feelings caused by the Schwartz case and others. I went off topic, sorry!
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We're looking to bring on a full stack engineer. We work mostly with Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js. Good hackers can learn any framework of course, so there's no prerequisite on experience -- you just need to be a smart hacker willing to take on problems. We've got backend data needs, front end products to build, mobile apps in need of love. There's lots to do.

You don't need to be a YC alum, but you should naturally think like a founder, not an employee. There are now 9 of us, and each of us is a strong-willed, independent thinker. The root of our teamwork is based in respect for each other's considerable talents.

Because we're entirely composed of other capable founders, we only need to do things like meetings once every couple of weeks. It's refreshing. Of course, we play bughouse (team chess) every day. Often, several times a day. We even wrote an app to calculate our rankings...but I digress.

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From TFA: "The DMCA only permits you to unlock your phone yourself once you've asked your carrier first."

This struck me as odd. Not having read it myself, I didn't realize the DMCA was that particular.

So, is this "illegal" in the sense that ripping your own DVDs is "illegal"? Will we have "cellphone johns" under fire from phone maker and phone-unlocking code on t-shirts in a few weeks/months?

I've never owned a phone fancy enough to warrant unlocking, but this news irks me nonetheless. Seems plain as day that once you buy hardware, you have the right to modify it and use it as you see fit, so long as you own it outright.

Let the game of whack-a-mole begin...
This isn't exactly accurate;
"... are able to pass regulations with criminal penalties without passing a law through Congress."

The DMCA was passed by congress and provides the criminal penalties. It's up to the agencies to work out the exact details of what falls under those penalties, within congress' wording. The larger problem is congress passing extremely broad laws.

Congress can't possibly legislate out every detail of every law (imagine holding hearings to decide on what species of tree in some national forest can be logged or on the details of the airport airspace restrictions around Des Moines Iowa), so they leave it to agencies. This isn't anything new.

That's not to say that there are no oversight issues though...
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Oops - typo. Yeah what he said
There is little or no way for this to be actually be regulated.
I have a ton of files on github and gist, most of them are absolute crap.

Honest question:

Is it okay for someone else to say (without swearing or making personal jabs) in public that it is also crap?

And again, to emphasize, this is a sincere question.
The regulatory agencies are largely controlled by the executive branch, and the increase in their power in part of a larger, seemingly irreversible towards the president being a sort of elected king.

There are many reasons for this, but the growing staleness and corruption of congress is a major one. That, in turn, is caused by a historical low in congressional turnover (with a multitude of causes, including Gerrymandering, Power determined by seniority, etc)

Term limits, preferably on consecutive terms rather than absolute ones, would help. And it's considerably more likely to happen than, say, switching our voting system to proportional representation.

Congress is supposed to be the people's chamber, in fact, the most important and powerful branch of government. Without a strong one, the Republic, in the form it was intended, will fail.
I personally like SFLPhone [1]. It's developed by the fine folks from Savoir-faire Linux [2] and supports encryption. Here is a guide how to configure it to encrypt traffic between the client and an Asterisk server [3].

[1] http://sflphone.org/
[2] http://www.savoirfairelinux.com/en/
[3] https://projects.savoirfairelinux.com/projects/sflphone/wiki...
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How exactly are they going to do that? I want to know how are they going to obtain a list of names from websites that do not operate from US or EU, or from those who do not require you to hold a balance account with them (which is what I would recommend to anyone wanting to buy bitcoins anyway). You fail to explain that.

Plus, those who think Bitcoin is just used to buy drugs on Silkroad has probably only a very passive interest in the currency anyway. It is used for much more. Many people, like myself for instance, use it for cheap international transfers. Just like Bittorrent which is used for more than piracy, but despite a massive campaign lasting what 10 years now? which is funded by basically most of the richest entities on the planet, has failed to even decline in use.
You can't pay income taxes with bitcoins. If you make income in bitcoins, if you are an American at least, you will need to pay taxes on that income. In this way, bitcoins cannot replace the dollar for American citizens. The most it can ever do is be a stable exchange currency.
Googler: Coding in a newsroom more fun and fulfilling than working at Google.

To each his own, but why is this news? I like coding without wearing any socks but I don't see NYT writing about it
https://twitter.com/harthvader/status/293829635823792128
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This guy is incredible! Actually rapping about things that matter. Seems trivial but it's a huge undertaking. Applaud and support the effort. Will keep buying
I'll disagree with it. A lot of cars are needed all at once. There's definitely over-capacity, but a lot more than 10% of people still need to get to work at around 9am and leave sometime around 5pm.
Not true. We also have contract subsidized phones, and you can still unlock and use your phone however you want, you still have the contract to fulfill, or you can pay the ETF and be done with it.
When I read the article I had in the back of my mind that this had been done before but I could not remember who. Thanks for the reminder. Her song was introduced to people because of the movie Reality Bites. This song going number one I will take as a positive thing because it shows the still growing influence of the internet.
As someone who has been reading The Wheel of Time, this article title makes me laugh. Backreferences as a metaphor for tapping into the power of The Dark One seems way, way too apt.
So I'm not an evolutionary biologist or a doctor, and this is a heavily studied problem, so I am not going to say "they're doing it wrong." There's probably just something I'm missing, and I want to know what it is.

But the problem with drug resistance is that these bacteria strains evolve when exposed to a drug, so that the mechanism of action for the drug stops being effective. What I want to know is: why aren't we treating new infections by giving patients a drug with every (still working) mechanism of action at once, attacking the infection on multiple fronts?

Essentially you'd be massively constraining the optimization problem that evolution has to solve, and making it way more unlikely that the bacteria in the patient could acquire all of the necessary mutations before being wiped out.

So what is it about this strategy that wouldn't work? Why are doctors still just prescribing amoxicillin alone?
Yes, it's true the roadbeds had to have embedded mags but it was a beginning. It was exploratory and they got it to work back then. It was different tech, for sure. My point is that people were looking at solutions more than two decades ago. We don't expect solutions to follow the same path to resolution.
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Macklemore/Ryan Lewis have a lot in common with modern startups. If you know Seattle, they have a small studio on Aurora. Software and shrewd attention to quality put them where they are today. It's been fun to watch their rise; I hope it continues to go so well.

(And, if Macklemore becomes mayor of Seattle in 2025, it'll be funny as hell.)

Pitch for their first album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNXWOl81mBE

Giving away tickets on Craigslist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG30mzdOzoc

Kickstarteresqe promo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGcm4lOr9CQ

Jumping on the Tiny Desk at NPR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEJmvuKSwo
On making zigg.be clearer over the phone?
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Also, I think the concept could probably be done with sed and whatever bash scripts.

But the code didn't look that bad. It is Javascript after all.
You don't have to pay income taxes on bitcoin.
Really? Here's a whole list of synthetic medicines that can be used on organically raised livestock (US Law):

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=0bc0fb14...

And if it's considered to be non-synthetic, the only restriction is strychnine.
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I may well be maligning you but on the other hand I have over 20 years experience working as a trader/researcher and developer in the finance industry for tier1 investment banks as well as hedge funds and have seen a lot. You are not doing this for "the greater good" you are doing this to make money, as is GETCO et al. Stealing algorithms and protection of algorithms are fundamental issues in the industry.

I would suggest you guys try to assuage fears about this by doing as much as possible to prove your true intentions.
How's about instead of calling out a specific party, we all try and fight the onslaught of corporate influence and the government bending over and answering to the companies' every whim?

Seriously, calling out political parties does NOTHING unlessy you're prepared to fight against those parties. See my other comment about "misguidedness and delusion" for more details.
May I also recommend Nearlyfreespeech.net, an excellent registrar and host with a good record of upholding free speech?

One example of upholding free speech: http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2012/10/06/official-uk-gove...
Sure, but that does not have to be at an expensive conference. I have a spare bed room (will be furnished soonish) that could host a traveling geek, ala, Paul Erdos.

Much cheaper than an expensive conference.
Which is unfortunately similar to the thought processes of some judges and juries.
You using Aheadworks?
If I remember correctly, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T have all settled class-action lawsuits regarding their locked down handsets after consumers claimed it was anti-competitive.

1 step forward, 10 steps backwards. How is this happening?

> Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on June 1, 1929, Dr. Billington was. . .

Oh, the guy who just decided unlocking smartphones should be illegal was born in 1929? Cool. That's how rotary phones used to work, right?
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Within his comment is a great example / reminder to consider constant factors when doing your 'big-oh' analysis of different approaches to a problem.

"""
Because ray tracing involves a log2 scale of the number of primitives, while rasterization is linear, it appears that highly complex scenes will render faster with ray tracing, but it turns out that the constant factors are so different that no dataset that fits in memory actually crosses the time order threshold.
"""
>>>I paid for the phone. I own it. I can do whatever I bloody please with it.

I keep trying to make that point to people who defend lock-in to specific app stores and so far it hasn't worked. It's your device. Not someone else's damned colony.
Start with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism#Purpose_of_criticism
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>The evidence: the defendants knew that BTC were used for organized criminal activity. Therefore, they knew they were transferring money for criminals.

That would apply to any currency exchange. Considering the amount of money we're talking about here, I think the defendants could afford a lawyer to explain that to a judge.
This is not possible in Haskell either. You never hear people claiming Haskell doesn't support closures.
I remember a Saturday making punch cards. I was probably five. He must have had an assignment due. He was back in grad school and still working full time. He's got stories about manually editing paper tape.
No, you just need to pay income tax on the USD you get from converting the bitcoins.
> the defendants knew that BTC were used for organized criminal activity

[Irony]And since everybody knows that criminals never use dollars, guns, cars, phones and computers then it is ok to use them.[/Irony]

> The BTC/USD price falls to 0 and remains there

Its price already fell down close to it on Dec/2011. And it rebound back because people need it.

This article is a truckload of bullshit. Yes, most governments in the planet will try to control BitCoin. And most will fail simply because BitCoin is useful, decentralized and is already working.
This is probably not a big deal for silk road, but what exactly is the rules for paying income tax made with a foreign currency, outside of the country? Do you have to pay before you bring the money back to the US, or only after? At what rate of exchange?
Why is this a before/after situation? The people addressing one issue are a completely different group of people than the ones addressing the other. And what is keeping people from addressing both at the same time? And which one is closer to us that we can have a more direct effect on?

This idea that we shouldn't try to address problems in the HN community because there are problems elsewhere in the world is ridiculous.
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> We (I work for Quantopian) will surely support other order types when we support live trading.

I suspect they won't be true limit orders, but stop orders (true limit orders wouldn't slip). Also, for a passive trading algorithm its important to have level II data (the order book), or the algorithm is flying blind.

Re 1, its not the size of the data set which prevents overfitting (larger data sets actually make it more likely), but the use of it when developing/training the algorithm. Repeated testing and tweaking the algorithm will overfit, unless one is careful to maintain the complexity of the algorithm.

Anyway, best of luck to your users! But they should be warned that active trading on signals (price prediction) is the hard way to algorithmic profit. That's why market making and arbitrage is the bread and butter of the pros, not signal trading.[1]

1. said as much here somewhere in the first 20:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s
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after our per-student educational funding fell to an embarrassing 49th in the nation

I had heard that funding levels in California, as ranked against other states, had fallen in recent years, and that is surely embarrassing to Californians, who historically have taken pride in generous state funding for schools up to and including universities. But of course even more embarrassing to California in the years that I have been an adult have been the poor results in California schools, even compared to funding levels there that were higher than in some other states. I wish the school administrators in California well in learning how to spend their resources better. I note that the Gates Foundation studies of effective schooling practices often include schools in California in the study samples, and I hope actionable data lead to better results.
Fair enough, I assumed by "You" that you were referring to "You" at large rather than Nathan specifically.
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126 bitches.
What's an expensive conference? The euruko for example is at around 50(?) and used to hover at 20 Euros. Lots of smaller conferences are popping up at that price point - single track, one or two days, no fancy catering, just a focus point where more than one person will show up and gather around a topic.

Until technology can replicate that, I think conferences won't go away.
Likely yes. China wants in here and what better way than to offer cheaper phones that you can use with any carrier? To fend off that competition, the big name brands will have to do it first. I keep asking how much of a carrier-free phone's "price" is actually too fat a margin built in to soak carriers, who can seemingly afford to pay up.
no it's definitely a "I'm sorry for offending you, but seriously fuck you for using node."
A while back I would probably think the whole premise that government would go after people who buy/sell a product sometimes associated with criminal activity is flawed. Articles such as the following have made me think otherwise:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011...
Good point. You highlight the inherent danger of corporations: the mob has never been good at applying justice. Individuals, with accountability and transparency have always been better than the mob which is concerned only with profits.
The pressure will come soon no doubt.

"Bitcoin-based casino: More than $500,000 profit in six months"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5100697
See the article linked by CreRecombinase: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/01/antibiotics-and-animal...

Summary: most of the antibiotics given routinely to animals are of types that are never or rarely used in humans. The most effective antibiotics are already restricted to human use or require a prescription for animal use.
As mentioned by tocomment in another thread, the rules are apparently changing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110144
I just wanted to post a similar comment. Yes - the US might outlaw Bitcoin in its own jurisdiction. But there's a considerable amount of trade going on in other jurisdictions (see http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/).

If Bitcoin is outlawed in the US there will be a price drop, but the remainder of the world will continue trading the same way as before. And even in the US the market won't be fully killed. Already nowadays people violate lots of laws to be able to gamble in offshore casinos. In the future the same people possibly will find an (illegal) way to sell and buy Bitcoins, and use Bitcoin casinos instead (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/01/22/bitcoin-ca...).

I don't want to judge if Bitcoin and everything related is a good thing or not. But I think the chances of killing it are about the same as the chances of killing P2P software.
In the past few years this has been happening a lot when it comes to rap. A lot of artist have been powered by the internet, gain a big following, but then they end up signing up to a major label. Drake, Soulja Boy, ASAP Rocky, Odd Future, etc. So far this guy has signed to no one and was able to break out the internet only sphere and get to the top of the charts.

I hope this happens more often. I am not anti corporate by a long shot but the labels have gotten worse not better since the days of Napster. Doing it this way an artist is able to make money but still avoid the dreaded 360 deal.
That is exactly the kind of thinking that will potentially get us into this trouble in the first place. If you have an income you pay taxes on it, end of story. If you think some income is exempt just because it's a little harder to trace and don't declare it, you are committing tax evasion.
A driverless car is already loaded up with all the sensors you need to fully map the road.

Google's cars start with an extremely detailed map of the road, including where the lanes are and where everything should be. And, every time a Google car drives the road, that map can be updated.

This obviously isn't ready to deploy nation-wide right now, but there's a pretty obvious growth path here. If you were to buy a Google car for your commute, you might have to manually drive it for several days in order for it to learn everything it needs to know. Eventually, the other self-driving cars on the road will also be helping build a map for you, and you for them.
A battery may not be necessary--you could recover sufficient energy from the first shot, but that's obviously problematic. I was thinking a fuel cell in the ammo clip--maybe one which looks like a bullet and is sold with every n bullets of ammunition.
Medium sized companies in niche industries often don't have a web presence and desire one. These companies often have existing branding or an in-house marketing team that would work with you to design their web-app.

That said, having some design skills significantly increases your pool of potential freelance candidates, and there are plenty of ways to learn something about it.
I understand your concern, but with the exception of Apple most of the interesting tech is talked about in blogs long before conferences and you can download almost any open source stuff and play with it from your home computer.

What then is left?
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