skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fine opinion, but it's no more than that, and fortunately the 6th Circuit disagrees with you, ruling that the ECPA's 180-day expiration date for an expectation of privacy is unconstitutional:

> "Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication, it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection.... It follows that email requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment; otherwise, the Fourth Amendment would prove an ineffective guardian of private communication, an essential purpose it has long been recognized to serve."[1]

And of course their opinion carries quite a bit more weight, to the point that both Google and Microsoft, at least, put their disagreement with the IRS in writing, requiring a warrant before disclosing the content of emails, regardless of the age of those emails.

ctrl-f "warrant" in both of these for more details, but here are some snippets. From Google:

> "On the face of it, ECPA seems to allow a government agency to compel a communications provider to disclose the content of certain types of emails and other content with a subpoena or an ECPA court order (described below). But Google requires an ECPA search warrant for contents of Gmail and other services based on the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure....

> The threshold is higher still for an ECPA search warrant. To obtain one, a government agency must make a request to a judge or magistrate and meet a relatively high burden of proof: demonstrating "probable cause" to believe that contraband or certain information related to a crime is presently in the specific place to be searched. A warrant must specify the place to be searched and the things being sought. It can be used to compel the disclosure of the same information as an ECPA subpoena or court order—but also a user's search query information and private content stored in a Google Account, such as Gmail messages, documents, photos and YouTube videos. An ECPA search warrant is available only in criminal investigations."[2]

And from Microsoft:

> "Does Microsoft reject subpoenas from law enforcement seeking content data?

> Yes. We require an order or warrant before we will consider releasing content. Like other companies, we implemented the holding of U.S. v. Warshak, which held a provision of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to be unconstitutional."[3]

[1] https://www.eff.org/files/warshak_opinion_121410.pdf

[2] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/le...

[3] http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/re...
J is one of the underappreciated gems among programming languages. Everybody talks about languages which are Lisp successors, but when it comes to shortening the path from the thought to the code, J gives something to pause and think about.
To be fair, it does say "Not affiliated with Twitter" in a blue background.
Thanks Jacob-- I found these useful.
First, I think the interesting question is just about fiat currencies, not the US in particular. The global reserve currency aspect is a secondary effect. Let's concentrate on a generic fiat currency issued by a government.

So you're saying that "full faith and credit" just means "The gov't promises not to crazily inflate the money by printing lots of it". Fine. (That doesn't explain what process determines the street value, it just acknowledges that the government can destroy it.)

I don't really see how the rest of what you are talking about applies to my comment. Are you claiming that fiat currencies are impossible in countries without debt?
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You are right. I'm going through this exact same thing with the reddit api and chrome app store.

A lot of api providers seem to have a few limited (mostly lame) use cases in mind. Developers by their nature are creative boundry pushers. Conflict is inevitable.

I just wish api providers would take greater care in thinking about and describing what exactly is going to be allowed and not. Rather than putting something out there, having developers throw things at the wall, then banning things you don't like after the fact.

But they don't, it's a painful lesson to learn.
Interesting. I would expect that the logical id would be displayed only, never stored, but that would make debugging display issues difficult.

Thank you for your thoughts. It's helpful to hear the thoughts of other database professionals, especially in domains where I have no knowledge, like relational databases.
It depends on the purpose. Introductory materials sometimes use a large enough note that they can write the letter name inside the note head. (Works better for black note heads.)

The redundancy helps associate the name and position.

I don't think I would prefer it in this case. The extra note name information is visually noisy and detracts from the shape of the line, which is mostly what experienced musicians see. The shape of the line, the absence of sharp and flat marks, and remembering what key you are playing in, covers most of your reading.
Wow, this is a tour de force of detective work. If you're going to read it, make sure you get past the point where the author says, "Having read my share of crime fiction..." That's where things really get going.

It is also cleverly written. The author tracks down his target with devastating precision, but by itself that story would be dry. But he turns up so many curiosities along the way—such as the journal that asks its subscribers to glue one article on top of another—that the piece is a scrollwheel-turner after all.

Edit: but the "erotic" bits are gross.
In NYC there are never enough.

Depends very much on where you are in the city. Aside from shift changeover periods, I'd say that there are plenty of cabs in Manhattan. In the outer boroughs, less so- Bloomberg proposed a plan to allow 'green cabs' that could pick up passengers in the outer boroughs only. It was swiftly beaten in the courts by the taxi industry.
It seems that Sony has picked up on one of Microsoft's big weaknesses - they're horrible at actually delivering good products. Indie developers are .much. more opinionated than AAA developers can afford to be, so when Microsoft shits on indie developers (XBLIG), they aren't hesitant to just develop for a different platform.

Compare this to Bungie (or is it 343?) who develops one of Xbox's major exclusive titles - Halo. Microsoft can make development as hard as their incompetence can offer for Bungie's developers, but in the long run the developer's opinions don't matter because management calls the shots and as long as Microsoft pays them enough to maintain Halo as an exclusive title, they don't really care.

Hobbyist/indie developers don't get in on any of those perks, and since they make their own decisions, they can choose to develop for whichever platform they please. In addition, it's nice to actually read good news about Sony for once, I hope they profit off of their investment in the indie scene.
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This is neat, but the mnemonics are pretty anglo-centric.
I think your impression is mistaken. While functional style programming is supported, I have never gotten the impression that it's the main goal: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html#introduction
One advantage traditional notation has over this is that the modifiers are a lot larger and more visible. For sight reading, notation needs to be easily scannable and irregularities (like sharps and flats) need to be highly visible. Connecting the beams on eighth and sixteen notes also serves to group the notes according to beat, and that makes parsing a measure much easier (also easier to skip ahead when you mess up). Neat idea though.
Throwing in my 2 cents:

It looks like what Ribbon submitted to the Twitter validator was a video using the "player" card: http://cl.ly/image/2R2i1J302Z2g

The player card is designed to handle embedding videos, which is what Ribbon initially showed, however when they launched their new feature they morphed the embedding options to display a custom in-stream purchase button / unit.

In reality, they should have just used a 'product' card (granted, they would not have the added ability to purchase in stream - it would need to link back to their website).

Using the player card was a pretty clever way to get the payments to happen directly on twitter, but it seems that it bent too many of their rules. They'll probably just have to use the product card like everyone else.
Taxis (in New York at least) are definitely not cash businesses these days. A lot pay by card.
Indeed, if it weren't for my startup, Mozilla is the first place I would want to work. I've been nodding in assent with nearly all their newer initiatives -- FirefoxOS, Persona, Rust, etc. Mozilla is pushing the Internet forward in the all the right ways.
Well looks like it tried to come back (I saw it touch $200) but the media and twitter picked up its fall and started the panic more than ever. Right now at $140.
I echo what pbrumm said. As a student at Nashville Software School, I can attest that using Backlift was a lifesaver. It has allowed us to focus on our code instead of being bogged down with the server side. Before it came to our rescue we were spending enormous amounts of time just trying to figure out how to test our code, after we implemented it we were actually able to make progress and resume programming.
I agree, it's a good practice, intended to prevent government from assuming a whole bunch of bad practices that (unopposed) it tends to assume. But to take your point to the extreme, democracy, courts, etc are also therefore not necessary functions of government.

I'd argue that they are necessary components of a good government. All the best parts of government limit the scope of government .. that says something.
The "I was going to say X but I didn't" joke seems common in the CS/computer community. I find it vaguely irritating, because you're saying something you know you shouldn't be saying, as evidenced by distancing yourself from the statement. I was going to downvote, but maybe I can add to the discussion instead.

This technique has a name, either paralepsis (http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/paralepsisterm.htm) or preterition (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preterition). I mention this, because I feel like having a name for it helps point it out, and perhaps can convince people that they aren't as clever as they think they are when they employ it.

Please don't bring down the level of discussion here by making the joke you are pretending not to make. Thanks.
> It's far from obvious that demand has outstripped supply. The population of Manhattan was significantly higher in 1937 than it is now 1.9 million vs. 1.6 million. On a population basis it would seem that we would need fewer rather than more cabs.

Wrong population number, in the case of Manhattan where real estate prices are so high that 'number of people officially living there' becomes the wrong metric, and the right one begins to look like 'number of people physically present on the island each day', which is closer to 4 million people: http://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/publications/dynamic_pop_m... (Significantly higher than 1.6 million!) And these commuters are also much more likely to need transportation - like taxis - for obvious reasons.
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Well, you haven't met us yet. ;)
I didn't made any assumptions about that :p
Yeah, same here... fairly annoying, but I wonder how it impacts conversions...
Learning musical notation is not the hard part of playing music; getting your instrument to make the right sounds is. Changing the notation doesn't make that any easier.

Also, if you've only learned this new notation, you'll be unable to read any of the 99.99999% of music that has been published in the conventional notation over the last few hundred years. It would be pretty limiting, somewhat like learning to speak a language that's only spoken on a small island in the Arctic Ocean.
The Sixth Circuit's decision certainly holds higher weight than mine, but that doesn't make it national law. Until more circuits agree with the Sixth, the IRS handbook is absolutely correct when it states that there is generally no privacy interest in e-mail and other electronic communications.
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Could it be that Bitcoin is presently more well-suited as a digital store of value than a digital currency? Given the difficulty of transferring fiat into digital, a way to store value in the digital world is just as needed as a transactional system. And I suspect we'll see some systems emerging in the coming months that are better suited for transactions, with immediate verification, etc. It could be that Bitcoin's long-term role in the crypto currency ecosystem is as a store of value, with transfers only occurring when someone needs to deposit money into their version of a digital checking account, or else large transactions that are not extremely time sensitive, like buying a house or car.
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I've often thought that if there's space for something to be reformed in musical notation, it's the fact that different wind instruments are notated in different keys[1]. I realize there are historical reasons, but it just seems like such an artificial barrier between musicians in a modern band or orchestra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument
The keys to the castle have been turned over to the enemy. I'm going to have to migrate eventually, so might as well start sooner rather than later. This is an incredibly sad event for me. But, like I said, I should have known better. Closed-source software can be taken away and turned toward evil purposes and there's nothing the users can do about it.
I don't see the benefit here. At all. You are giving this people a free ride on your car in exchange for a couple of bucks. Without taking in consideration a lot of risks associated with this. What if the renter gets a DUI? What if while drunk, the driver(renter) kills someone in an accident? What about your insurance? Will it cover it?
You explained exactly what the intrinsic value of the currency is: the usefulness of the currency itself. BTCs have value over turds for use as a currency for many obvious reasons. The amount of electricity it takes to create that currency can perhaps be seen as a price floor, which is perhaps corollary to the intrinsic value, but is not the intrinsic value itself.

So if something improbable or drastic happened tomorrow that made the currency not useful (e.g. governments outlawing it, a bug in the code) then the price would fall well below what it costs in electricity to mine it and the currency would become mostly defunct, i.e. it's intrinsic value plummeted because it's usefulness did.

tl;dr the intrinsic value is the usefulness of the currency not how many electrons you pump into it (though there is likely some corollary between them)
If you had simply decried the site's 'sexism' i would not have taken issue with your post. What you'd said was that it was an 'insane double standard'.

The definition of a double-standard is 'the application of different sets of principles for similar situations, or two different people in the same situation'.

Your use of the term 'insane double standard' (not to mention the other comments here using similar language) therefore suggests that the existence of one single Web site dedicated to women objectifying men is a 'similar situation' to living every single day in a culture where only the OPPOSITE is actually a real problem.

And as much as i can identify with the distaste over this Web site, i find that that implication is laughable and the emotional outrage over it is therefore severely misplaced.
In handwriting it will be much more illegible than conventional notation. Also, small details are very bad for nearsighted people.

Don't get me wrong. I am always fascinated by new approaches for doing things and new musical notation is a fun idea. But not in this case. Practically speaking, they don't improve anything at all.

Conventional notation is not broken or something.. Imho, it is actually looking pretty great typographically, and works fine in practice.

They could make new notation that works better on computers, to be used in music software, such that it is easy for typing using a keyboard. That could be a real improvement.
Oh, whoops. Thanks for correcting me!
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considering I grew up with do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si I find the mnemonics impossible.
But also, I don't understand the point: why not just write "A-B-C-D" rather than strange half filled circles?
http://hackershelf.com/browse/ has enough free books covering a range of subjects to get you more than on your way.
The biggest problem with Galera cluster right now is that you can't have large, long lived transactions. Due to the way that the non-write nodes verify data consistency, large transactions can cause some serious slowdown issues for the entire cluster.
My thoughts exactly. The "agent" concept is quite common in Europe, where niche contractors work through "boutique consultancies" (agents - thats really what they are) to get a lot of their work. The agent does exactly what this article describes. The agent would typically take between 15 - 30%, depending on their greed!

(And is often irreverently referred to as your pimp.)
>Otherwise known as "keeping people employed at a living wage."

Or, stated differently, keeping some people employed at above-market wages and others unemployed with no wages at all.

>When the market decides that human labor is worth nothing, it's irresponsible not to contradict it.

If that ever happens we'll know regulation is needed.
Maybe it's easier to learn, but it's definitely not simpler. There's a difference [1].

Probably because I'm used to reading the tradional notation, I had a hard time deciphering theirs. There's a reason why, after centuries, the standard notation is still relevant. You basically need 3 elements to play an instrument: height (pitch), length (rhythm) and power (dynamics). And I can't imagine a better way to translate these informations than a traditional score.

But I appreciate any attempt to revisit musical notation, like the one that spawned the guitar tablatures, which is incredibly simple and easy to learn.

I'm concerned by Hummingbird's readability. Though each symbol carries multiple (and sometimes redundant) informations, I feel like there's a lot of noise. Also, drawing these symbols requires some high precision and I fear that handwritten versions will render some confusion, especially the small rest and rhythm symbols. I often scribble some music lines on a piece of paper, and I rarely have issues re-reading myself.

On a side-note, using English-based mnemonic hints ("Empty" for E, "Full" for F...) will hinder its portability across other countries, especially Latin ones where Do-Ré-Mi-Fa is more widely adopted.

[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/11/11/simple-versus-easy/
Hmm, I've wondering why there isn't the concept of a recruiter who works for the developer. I'd like to have someone help me determine my worth and work with me to improve my marketability. I know companies pay a lot for this service, but it might be worth it. I know in the past I've not know how much I am worth and missed out on a lot of cash.
To be fair, this isn't just a price update. This is an event that many people have been waiting anxiously to play out - if this were just a "Bitcoin is at $250" post, fine, I agree. But this is news - the bubble may be popping and that's newsworthy.
That'd be a great opportunity to read and comment on some of the better submitted articles. Unfortunately it's been seen as an opportunity to submit many articles. Nearly 40 articles with Bitcoin in the title have been submitted in the past 24 hours.

I understand a few Bitcoin posts. But there are a lot at the moment.
Your point is a little misleading I think. How big is the list of "most developed nations" after you remove the US and Euro Zone from the list?

Yes, every country CAN issue national debt. But issuing sovereign debt is more common largely because investors prefer it.

Either way, I didn't mean to sound misleading by calling it "rather unique." Thanks for helping me clarify.
Mapping the pitch of notes to special symbols (to distinguish, eg, 'B' from 'C' or 'la' from 'ti') has been done before. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note and the accompanying images. Introduced in year 1801.
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For me, I find it's actually a matter of learning more about myself and why I do what I do. I'm no great designer but I was a technically minded person who thought I could never design anything nice. That was until I tried to examine why I do what I do.

I keep asking myself "Why did I just do that?" and do whatever it takes to find out that why.
When Jonathan Blow complained about the release criteria that Microsoft wants for any Xbox game and Xbox Live Game I was truly impressed: He wrote somewhere that the game had to be runnable for 4 days, so even the tiniest memory leak would really kill it.
He also complained that the mandatory "Do not turn off console while saving" was annoying, he wanted the game to just open up with the first scene. He managed to do this by writing all save games to a temp file and renaming them...

I'm a bit torn here: It sucks how Microsoft again and again destroys something valuable they have created. It's interesting that the platform criteria and testing criteria are a pain for the developers but enforced.
But it's quite impressive that at least theoretically any Xbox game is thoroughly tested!
Not necessarily. Note duration, for instance, is conventionally redundant (through note appearance and horizontal spacing).
It's not always about what they can do for you.

I get what you're saying, but I will admit that I am respectful (not necessarily nice, but generally respectful) to people exactly because of what they can do for me - in my case, I want them be be respectful back to me. In the example I wrote about, I was pleasantly surprised there was a bonus to being nice/respectful and that experience has stuck with me, but that wasn't what I was looking for.

I treat people they way I would like them to treat me, so yes, I am looking for them to do something for me. Selfish? Perhaps, but it makes for pleasant interactions and I see that as a win.
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Ask Google to do it. If they can get books scanned, OCR'ed and available online, they should be able to do journal articles as well.
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The number of sticky notes and the complexity and detail of each note card (they are color coordinated and such) don't seem like something they did real quick and then throw it into JIRA. It makes it seem like that's how they track their projects.