skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So by your reasoning, if I mail you a postcard, and you put the postcard in a locked container placed inside of the trunk of a rental car, it is OK for the police to bypass your access controls and read the postcard?

How you transmitted or handled something at a point in time is not relevant to it's status at rest.

This issue here is that the government asserts that email is a communications system only. The problem is that while it does enable people to communicate, it also serves as a filing system to many email users. The law as written in 1986 didn't forsee 25GB mailboxes on O365 or Google with the equivalent of many file cabinets worth of memos, etc.
If you're drinking a dozen cups of tea per day, then you're probably getting the benefit of walking around even more often than every 30-60 minutes.
In the average, general case, it is slightly less than the cost of one Bitcoin. Due to the recent volatility it has been a lot less, probably about half at the moment (expect this to increase though).
This article made me want to put my fist through my monitor.

It reads like an advertisement.
That's not really how fallout works. Fallout occurs primarily when you detonate a bomb near the ground or the water, causing it to suck up a bunch of dirt/water, irradiate it, and distribute it throughout the atmosphere. With a fusion bomb, you could end up with some leftover plutonium from the fission stage, but that's not the primary source of fallout.
By contrast, in France for example, secrecy of correspondence is the default. It has been explicitely extended in 2004 to e-mail, but the law as it was after a change in 1988 certainly already covered that.
Tampering with e-mail is thus punished the same way as tampering with a physical letter. Being an agent of the government constitutes aggravating circumstances.

Circumventing those protections requires the intervention of an independent (as in independent from the executive) judge.
yes exactly. i have a G1 and this looks pretty much like my homepage, except for the graph of # of emails my employees have sent. It took me a few minutes to figure out that is all there is to see.

nothing to see here, move on...
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There's your list.
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> If you understand how SMTP works, it's hard to argue that it's a private means of communication. You send a clear-text message to a publically-accessible service that is empowered to forward the message to other publically-accessible servers if necessary.

Whoa, hold it, I don't think so. Almost every SMTP server out there today requires authentication and quite a few require either SSL or TLS. That is the very definition of trying to keep things private.

Hell, I use Google's solution and have two-factor authentication set up.

Should I really start adding "this email is privileged and confidential" to every email like my lawyer?
Oh, so it is a language for writing browsers.
Obviously it's not black and white, but my point was to disabuse jshakes of his (frankly elitist) notion that only superficial and uninterestng people would be exposed to this app's ratings.

Well-educated people - both women and men, actually - are in fact more likely to be feminists (due to the cultural milieu at most universities, if nothing else), and feminists are in fact not unlikely to approve of things like Lulu as well-deserved reversals of privilege. I'm not saying all of them would (in fact, I am a feminist myself, and I do not), but it's not rare, either, and I've seen that kind of reaction from people I would not consider superficial or uninteresting.

That's not an attack on anything, it's just me sharing my personal experience. And who are you to say that my experience is invalid, or silly? I think that's far more offensive than anything I've said.
I've had it happen once, so about 6% of all apps/updates submit to them. It was for a button in an app that dials a number, and not checking if the device was telephony enabled. Which shouldn't matter because an iPod/Pad can't dial out, but whatever. Add a line of code, resubmit, and then it was added about 4 days later.
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I think as mobile becomes more dominant angular will have to find a way to work tighter with the closure compiler in advanced mode (or something akin) to remain relevant.
Funny thing about Hayek. If you read "Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle" (http://mises.org/daily/3121) he describes the dynamics of the boom/bust cycle and how they are a direct result of fractional reserve banking but then says:

"If it were possible, as has been repeatedly asserted in recent English literature,[114] to keep the total amount of bank deposits entirely stable, that would constitute the only means of getting rid of cyclical fluctuations. This seems to us purely utopian. It would necessitate the complete abolition of all bank money — i.e., notes and checks — and the reduction of the banks to the role of brokers, trading in savings. But even if we assume the fundamental possibility of this state of things, it remains very questionable whether many would wish to put it into effect if they were clear about its consequences. The stability of the economic system would be obtained at the price of curbing economic progress. The rate of interest would be constantly above the level maintained under the existing system (for, generally speaking, even in times of depression some extension of credit takes place).[115] The utilization of new inventions and the "realization of new combinations" would be made more difficult, and thus there would disappear a psychological incentive towards progress, whose importance cannot be judged on purely economic grounds. It is no exaggeration to say that not only would it be impossible to put such a scheme into practice in the present state of economic enlightenment of the public, but even its theoretical justification would be doubtful."

He's basically apologizing for finding all these flaws in the monetary system and central banking. He was convinced, at least at this point in his life that he could reason with the financial system to resolve these issues through better understanding. That's the interesting thing about Hayek. He was not opposed to the structure of the financial system out of ideological conviction but just that he had enormous insight into the dynamics of the system and stated his understanding without editing or simply repeating the conventional wisdom.
Question: I love bitcoin but how come all the bitcoin sites either get hacked or close down?
At 2Ghz the speed of light in a vacuum delay is a clock cycle every 15cm. Current fiber and copper transmission is about 70% of c, so that's a clock cycle every 10.5 cm.

A few clock cycle might not matter for bulk storage, but Intel is also talking about separating main memory from individual processors. There individual clock cycles do matter. Witness the rise of low latency premium RAM.
Gmail: 9 years and counting
But the person across the table may be trying the same, and often is.
Maybe we can call it a Tusser Economy
> There is no objective meaning of "democratic" outside of the ideal that no country satisfies, so what we can conclude is that in just about all cases it's to differentiate the governments from their predecessors.

Oh come on, you can generalize that argument to practically anything. No real world examples live up to their platonic ideals so who cares if you call a duck a horse, it's just to differentiate it from a different species of duck.

> "Plundered Colony of France, Southeast Asia."

I like it.
being too smooth.

Too smooth? What is the right amount of smooth?
In the purist sense of a "scientist" I have to agree there is not much observation -> Feedback -> progress happening. But what about some of the research in the universities?

It is worth mentioning what Richard Feynman thought about "Computer Science" - He said it was never a science but an aspect of engineering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4wg6ZAFIM
BTCguild got the lion's share of ASIC miners (so far, anyway). There's actually been some worry since that pool is approaching 51% of the network's power! That means with a malicious server, the admins could (theoretically, not saying they would) take over the entire network. They have taken some steps to reduce the number of miners in the guild, and have pledged to raise their fees if their control goes over 40%, to force miners to other pools. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=168108.0

(The way they could take over the network is by crafting a new blockchain, forging fake transactions or even claiming that they own all bitcoins. If they solve blocks faster than the rest of the network, soon their malicious chain would become longer and therefore accepted by all clients! Clients always trust the longest chain because it takes the most work to make, so you would have to control most of the mining power to fake anything for long.)
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/R6RS-Inco...

racket is the goto if you need r6rs compat though
Great accomplishment by Dan & Pete. It really validates the space for a disruptive A/B testing tool at great price-points.

Dennis
CEO of A/B testing tool http://www.convert.com
ResearchGate (http://www.researchgate.net/) and Academia.edu (http://academia.edu/) are two examples of companies looking to build networks for academics.
Google Ventures is part of this round of investment and prior rounds too.
Except that fiat currencies are useful for paying your taxes, which is how governments back them. Tax laws, debt laws, torts, fees, and all of the other ways governments collect money from their citizens are what give fiat currencies utility.

Even if a business only dealt in Bitcoin money it would still need to exchange at least some of its earnings for fiat currency if it had any intention of following the law. That is why Bitcoin exchanges matter: even if a business did transactions with both Bitcoin and fiat currency, there would be times when that business did not have enough fiat currency and would have to exchange its Bitcoin money to survive. There is a reason that everyone talks about the value of Bitcoin relative to other currencies, and it is that people must use other currencies to conduct some of their business.

On the other hand, fiat currencies do not require foreign exchange to be valuable. It was very difficult to convert the Soviet Ruble to foreign currencies, but in the USSR the Soviet Ruble was money and had value.
math0ne: congratulations on your 5th anniversary here on HN! Unfortunately, you've been hellbanned for almost as long. That’s too bad, since your comments are insightful.

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math0ne’s comment, a response to my assertion that not even advertisers get support from Google: “I just wanted to chime in and say that this is not totally true, at my work we have a direct google support contact for our advertising system. I have requested and received in depth support many time. I know you have to be a certain size to receive this though.”
When your design is complex
This whole thing is really sad. Fiber is such a long-term investment in a city's infrastructure that it should be a public utility. Let all the ISPs compete to sell service over the public fiber infrastructure, don't let the infrastucture rollout languish in the hands of people who are only looking for short-term profits.
Redbud Trail is great.

Other than that, yeah, you're going to fight traffic.
This doesn't solve any of the issues associated with PCI compliance.

Namely - you still have the liability, you still have the maintenance and upkeep of the system, you still have to pay for certification

The only thing it takes away from you is building the system which, on time and materials basis, is not even close to the real cost of maintaining a PCI compliant system.
Does PCI compliance apply to software or the operator?

In your EC2 example, does it suffice to say "this software is PCI compliant"? Or do you and Amazon need to be PCI compliant?

This is one of the things that freaks people out about putting sensitive information in the cloud.
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It's a systems language that happens to be designed around the performance and memory constraints of writing browsers but with greater consideration given to concurrency and memory safety than C/C++.

What do you think Mozilla does anyway?
He probably didn't notice sexism until it became personal. Why is that wrong? Most people become activists when something personally gets in their face, rather than through some abstract idea of "justice".
The difficulty of mining is dynamically adjusted based on the currently available mining capacity so that bitcoins are produced at a constant rate over time no matter what.

In other words, you could mine the full set of bitcoins for virtually no electricity whatsoever if you could convince the world to abandon bitcoin mining completely, then just let a single old, slow, cheap miner run in the corner for the next 100+ years. Or you could use as much electricity as you wanted on the project by throwing more and more computational resources at it.
In a perfectly efficient mining market the cost of mining is exactly the number of Bitcoins mined, minus some small profit margin.

All profitable miners would be using the most efficient hardware, in a location where electricity is cheapest.
If I were making $30,000 a month on an app, I'd be pretty excited too.

The interesting point that I took away from this is it is not the size of the audience that matters but the size of the audience divided by the number of apps. He clearly has been successful because he was a first mover in an developing app store and that is interesting data.

It certainly challenges the "iOS first" mantra at a lot of startups.
Plutonium ain't easy, so you'd probably want to ship pre-made pits into orbit (we've got plenty already made), preferably one at a time so we don't get a big critical mass of plutonium sitting in a desert in case the rocket crashes.
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In my world, I guess I think of JSTOR as the "good guys." The trustees of its parent organization are real academics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITHAKA). Its fees are extraordinarily reasonable, at least compared to Elsevier's. (JSTOR fees for large U.S. universities are on the order of $10,000 annually, whereas my university says they pay about $2 million per year to Elsevier.) Since JSTOR is a not-for-profit, I don't really see where the money would go besides toward the actual cost of making the research publicly available (which in JSTOR's case is non-trivial, since they are scanning a lot of publications instead of converting InDesign files to PDFs).

There is obviously a difference between making academic research available to universities at reasonable prices and making academic research available to everyone for free. The latter is obviously better, but to happen, the money would have to come from somewhere. For a publisher, the obvious answer is publication fees (which is what PLoS does). This is not an option for JSTOR, since most of their material has already been published. I suspect that JSTOR would happily make everything in their collection open access if they had a sufficiently large endowment to do so.
Most people who define themselves as having a BS in bio (as opposed to it merely being a stepping stone) work as lab techs ranging from $10/hr pharmacy techs up to maybe $25/hr at a med testing lab in an expensive cost of living area. At least in the old days. Currently, probably near half end up as waitresses and bartenders, completely out of the field.

Most people who get a BS in computer science (not as a stepping stone to a PHD or whatever, etc) end up on helpdesks, maybe pulling cable or replacing mice, not doing anything scientific. Basically like the bio lab techs, it amounts to training not education. The top 25% or so, maybe less, might get software dev jobs or maybe system/network admin jobs. Even in current conditions, most will end up in their field, maybe $8/hr no benes at a call center but at least more or less in their field. The HN crowd tends a bit toward the upper level of the pack, so yes, most HN readers have it far better than median.
Too bad. As I understand it that's because rebase relies on the patch format as the full representation of a commit; but that excludes the commit's notes. replacement refs and grafts survive it in squashed form because they are part of the graph traversal.
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In addition, I'd run it up 360. In my understanding there are a number of tech businesses/business parks out that way.

I'd be surprised if they go as far north as Wells Branch, though the infrastructure along the rail line leading along MoPaC is certainly available.
I am completely lost as to what this solves that credit cards don't already. Things like Bill-Me-Later are fairly niche products.
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On top of the already mentioned fact of indivudal miners switching easily, MtRed was also a comparitively small pool so it had little impact on the network as a whole.
Archery can also mess up your back and shoulders if you do it wrong and/or the draw weight is too much for you. It's also an asymmetric activity, since you use your right and left sides differently.
Awesome! This is fun. Any plans to introduce rudimentary recording capabilities?
Yes, it does. I have standards for the people I choose to involve myself with. In a similar vein, I would likely not even befriend anyone that uses it, or anyone that supports this type of application (either directed towards men or women). A big part of maturity is having personal integrity in all dealings. This means, for me, an automatic rejection of anyone who would use something like this. Similarly, I do not befriend constant gossips or complainers, and call my friends out when they do it. Certain people are a waste of relationship effort.
I would not have thought this, but you are right.

I would guess that the EMP would be dangerous to satellites, but I'm sure there are ways to mitigate that as well.
Well, Zend Studio and Aptana are eclipse-based, and there's PDT - so I'd say a decent chunk.
How many developers have you hired who have no college degree, and moved up quickly to $100k?
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In my university, they had computer science (which was basically maths that became algorithms), software engineering (which many people think is computer science), and computer applications, which was what some people call "informatics".

Computer science is an overused term for something that is closer to maths but thought to be closer to engineering.
"Mobile" computing no longer exists
Here's a handy article about Scheme implementations written by the Guile co-maintainer. Look for the heading "The Scheme for SICP".

http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide...

tl;dr - he recommends the SICP mode for Racket.
I wrote a commercial NN simulator in the late 1980s and I used a different approach to visualizing weights (that many others also use): if two connected layers are viewed a a 1-dimensional vector, then the connection weights are represented by a 2-dimensional grid. Each weight grid cell is color coded. This is a much more information rich display.
IANAL, but cell phone calls are encrypted, and I'm pretty damn sure you need a warrant to legally decrypt a cell phone conversation over the air.

But I bet you wouldn't need a warrant if you wanted to just capture and show the existence of the emitted radio waves as evidence, ignoring their contents (if you were making some kind of a traffic analysis type of argument).
1. Take a 1 week vacation and decompress.
2. Who's picking the fights you or the CEO? If it's you don't sweat the small stuff.
3. Try to clearly define who decides what.if things get heated agree to walk away and try again later.
4. Don't give up you'll regret it.
5. stop smoking pot and get an exercise bike espcially if finances are tight.
6. after you've done all of this if you still need to get out then come up with plan B first before you jump.
Another way to interpret this comment is that NRE is high so no one innovates. And NRE is high because no one innovates in making NRE not high.

Sounds like space flight to me.
Its a gold-rush to write mediocre software to get millions in funding and eventually be acquired. Rinse and repeat.
As a Google Apps user, you do NOT want to do this.

You are well advised to host your email elsewhere and have it relayed to your normal Google account (and add the email address as a Google identity and a send-as in gmail).

I'll tell you why:

+ Google Apps users are the LAST group of people to get access to new google products (Google+ for example)
+ You can NOT add new emails to your identity information
+ There is no appropriate way to transfer your identity
I work with what I know. Sorry for the misidentification. Some friends of mine just north of Lady Bird Lake had their door kicked in a few months back by a few neighborhood kids. My opinion of the area was informed by old history and that incident.
I know exactly what you mean, I'm in the middle of the application process right now. When companies have a poor level of communication with me as a candidate, I definitely rethink my interest in them.
Ahh I've of course heard of these. Thanks. This sounds like something Coinsetter would do. The only problem is that it puts the seller of the put option on the hook for an uncapped loss. Presumably there is some way to combine these techniques to allow downward pressure on a stock/index while making sure no one has to be so exposed.
> What's wrong with people saving for their future and not spending beyond their means?

Because there's a difference between saving money by putting it in a savings account and 'saving' money by hoarding currency and storing it under your mattress.

The problem is that people are overloading the term "saving". In economics, savings == investment (this is an identity[0]). When you "save" by putting money in the bank, the identity self-adjusts in different ways from when you "save" by hoarding currency.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_identity
Is there any evidence that the IRS has ever been able to get access to people's emails without a warrant, or is this entire discussion theoretical? It seems to just be quoting a 2009 handbook recently obtained.

Google won't give your email away without a warrant, and neither will Facebook. So I'm not sure what this means.
for(i=0;i<max;i++) {
...
}

in Scheme becomes:

(do ((i 0 (+ i 1)))
((>= i max))
...)

In general:

for(VAR=INITIALIZER;CONDITION;VAR=INCREMENT)
{
BODY
}
return RETVAL;

becomes:

(do ((VAR INITIALIZER INCREMENT))
((not CONDITION) RETVAL)
BODY)

in Scheme.

It's a pretty trivial transformation -- not hard at all. I think these "most brightest" programmers just didn't want to learn the freakin' language.
An acquaintance recently made a facebook update describing how they belittled and berated a coffee shop employee for making a (fairly bad, to be fair) mistake regarding change on a $20.

I seriously considered leaving my office and going to the coffee shop to apologize for this person's behavior, and I personally am finished with this individual in both a social and professional context. There is pretty much nothing I find more offensive than rudeness when people make a mistake.
I think we call this phenomenon "marketing."
It's not that long since PGP was considered weapons-grade munitions and could not be exported.

We may yet return to that stage.
Google's email isn't encrypted, it is sent as text over a network. Authentication doesn't change the fact that your email can be intercepted through the network in which it has been sent or received.
Not that particular software no, but I'm used my share of dreck. Maybe I guessed where the problem was and used experimentation to validate, but I would hardly call that the scientific method.
That's good evidence of a bubble.