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Long story short my co-founder quit after we got rejected a second time when making it to the final round of an accelerator program. After she had quit she still wanted a very large sum of equity for all the design work along with the domain name which she owned. I ran out of money and couldn't come to an agreement with her so I had to just give up the idea.
I am not a lawyer.

I found Professor Orin Kerr's discussion of United States v. Jones (2012) at the Volokh Conspiracy both enlightening and depressing. Professor Kerr's analysis there, if I recall it correctly, was that any violation occurred when the GPS device was physically placed on Jones' car violating the seizure part of unreasonable search and seizure. That the search itself was legal.

And I think that's how the government's attorney and Scalia and the Court saw it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012))

But presumably according to Kerr, and I am very likely distorting his views since a) I ain't a lawyer and b) sometime has passed, that if the same tracking information against Jones was obtained by having ALPR devices mounted on city street lights, freeway overpasses and freeway ramps, then Jones (and us!) would have no more expectation of privacy than if Jones had been seen by a cop walking a beat.

I think there is a fundamental difference between a cop walking a beat recognizing a citizen and having an array of massively cheap cameras hooked into an ALPR network tracking all citizens 24x7.
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Being a business development guy I have seen a pattern that personally written email will get you a positive response rather than a formal HTML template email which people tend to ignore without even reading it. Very well summarized article. Thanks for the share.
Still no raring package.

It seems I'm stuck with 1.2.6 for the time being.
Your posts leads us to believe that this is in fact, not agreeable.
I quote:

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states,
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be
answered by the word no."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

This is a case in point.
If you look at where they are used, then it looks like these macros do not need to compare m[1] to c1 because whenever they are used it is already known that m[1] == 'O' (hence "str3O" in the name -- that's 3 and the letter O, not number zero).

I guess c1 is included in the first case because it's faster to compare the whole 32-bit word than mask out the known byte (and since c0, c1, c2 and c3 are compile time constants, the whole right-hand-side of the comparison will be optimized by constant folding anyway).

(It's ridiculous micro-optimization in my opinion, but at least it is correct, and it is limited to a single file.)
Feynman may have found the arbitrary nature of syntax for a new language a tedious learning exercise.
It Can be the developer's bible.
No, the legal consequences of a defense case are potentially so dire I'd walk right past the alley.

As ... Massad Ayoob, I think, put it, we're talking about the equivalent of visiting the hospital, noticing a complete stranger who needs a lot of money for treatment, and writing a check for $250,000 plus or minus and putting it in his pocket. I'm only willing to do it for "me and mine", i.e. my friends and blood relatives, especially since I don't have the sort of money that's required for a competent defense against a serious felony charge, no matter how bogus it might be.

And you might want to re-read the above, an ideal, if it comes to it, is "a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound" (better if the attacker is not killed), not a Good Samaritan explaining. We're all ultimately responsible for our own self-protection.
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I can definitely see the reasoning behind not wanting to encourage people to don their black ski mask and attempt to weasel their way into the building beneath the cloak of "security researcher." You are absolutely right, the police are not going to split hairs attempting to decipher the intentions of the individual and will act swiftly to neutralize the threat.

However, this case is different. While it was absolutely an attack on Google's infrastructure, it was discovered through a vulnerable external web service. Even though the control panel application is not a Google product, it stores user passwords in clear text as decoding it seems to be trivially simple. At the very least, Google should be responsible for picking third party vendors that store passwords using one-way hashes ;).

If you ask me, this should be one of those special cases!
I have never liked the idea of them but couldn't put my finger on the "why".

Thanks, EFF.
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Is there some simple description of the operations supported and the space and time complexity of them, as well as their effects on "hidden" parameters of the ciphertexts anywhere?

All the available documentation seems to focus on the underlying implementation and mathematical proofs without clearly stating the user-visible performance behavior.

For example, if I have N encrypted signed B-bit integers (treated as modulo 2^B), and add them all with homomorphic encryption, how much time does that take and how large is the resulting cyphertext?

What if I have two N-dimensional vectors called v and w of B-bit integers (treated as modulo 2^B), and want to compute the value v^T . M . w where M is an NxN matrix?

What if they are floating point instead? Is that supported? Are integers modulo M supported for any M?

Is the sign(x) operation available or just addition and multiplication?
The Court, including Scalia, has already ruled that technology can be suppressed when it comes up against Constitutional protections.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

(And at other times, various courts have ruled:

* citizens cannot decrypt encrypted cable tv signals passing through their homes
* citizens cannot monitor even unencrypted cell phone transmissions) (I think)
Invading the privacy of politicians doesn't sound like a good idea.

It will only convince the qualified candidates, especially those who are (themselves) concerned about privacy, to not go into that field.

It will also make politicians used to the idea of ubiquitous privacy invasion. "Oh, see? I can live just fine underneath this," they think, "so why can't the general public?"
I think it's likely they realized they were wrong about how many people would back off and settle.
There are firms who hire people for underpaid apprenticeships, with the assumption that they move on to bigger and better things in two years.
This will continue to escalate until it ends up with people dying or both sides back down.

Or everyone just keeps up this new internet war just like we kept the cold war going for decades, with no one being killed by it.
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Hack this, hack that...Enough! Seriously, it's the buzzword that's been raped beyond recognition here but people still use it.
Any time I install git, I install tig immediately after.
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There is a massive difference.

But that's not the point. There is a societal benefit to tracking people this way. Well, there is expected to be one - of road pricing, congestion and crime reduction.

The handling of loss of privacy, which seems pretty much inevitable, is something we do need to deal with - just not try to stop it.
A++ is a grade, not a number. Clearly what you need is #S(grade :letter A :decorations (+ +) :rapidly-escalating-pedantry t) or some other meaningful representation.
That order IS unenforceable. You can't remove every entry on the internet for Terry Johnes, there's more than one, and you can't differentiate.

Kinda like the DMCA, actually. Look at what a can of worms THAT was, no wonder google wants to keep the lid on tight.
You're misinterpreting the author's point -- nobody anywhere is arguing that we should abandon useful technology due to blind fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The problem is the lack of oversight on how the data is managed.
What is the value-add over free tools such as rubular?
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The "real" solution is to retrain society from top to bottom to break the conflation between what a law is and the outcome a law is intended to produce. As that phrasing implies, I don't think this is going to be an easy process.

The purpose of a speed limit is not to make people not go more than 55 miles per hour. The purpose of a speed limit is to make driving safe, and particularly to make driving safe for society, even moreso than for the individual. If everybody is driving at 65 in the 55 zone, but everybody is safe, the higher purpose of the law is being met, and citations for speeding are just punitive for no gain. When conditions make 55 unsafe, people need to slow down enough to be safe, regardless of what the local speed limit is.

Because we've never been able to rigidly enforce laws, it was very easy to conflate the two concepts. Now we are starting to develop some tech that does let us rigidly enforce laws. The solution is, don't do that. The laws we have on the books today were not designed for rigid enforcement. They were designed to be tools for creating public safety that could be used by the legal system, they are not themselves the specification of public safety. No such specification can really be created, and people are going to have to learn that.

Hopefully we learn that before we really box ourselves in with even better tech. Either way we do seem very determined to learn this the hard way.

This idea has applications to all sorts of modern day issues popular on HN; copyright law isn't really to prevent you from sharing a copy of a song with a friend, it's to prevent massive pirating enterprises that impact the market. Patent law isn't intended to provide mechanisms to sue end-user consumers of scanners that violate patents, it's intended to protect innovators from having their ideas taken without compensation by large engineering firms. Regulations in general are intended to produce certain results, usually some sort of social safety, they are not intended to becomes gods in and of themselves. But the actions of pretty much everybody in the system from top to bottom proves this idea is poorly understood.
Hah, not yet... this is really quick prototyping through to deployable something.

Once I've put it up, I'll accept pull requests... I'm sure there's enough people with small reqs that it could be knocked into shape enough to show how to do most things.
Monitoring license plates don't track people. They track vehicles. Vehicles that are heavily regulated.

Humorously your smartphone probably is tracking you (with a much higher correlation with people, and accuracy, than vehicles), and logging it for years on end.

And honestly I don't care whether there is a database of places where my car has been (this usually causes wildfire in most forums as the natural result is to hysterically proclaim that one can only allow some monitoring if they allow any and all monitoring for anyone, which is a nonsensical dichotomy). I can rationally see that there could be a lot of uses for it, in fact, in modernizing investigations and law enforcement.

Presuming that it has appropriate checks and balances. e.g. audited access and look-ups, with every plate-holder having the right to use that same information themselves (whether the history of spots, and every look-up of the same).
Didn't seem to bother him. He just has the degree/certificate in his old name, and his paperwork showing the name change.

It's still quite common in the UK for women to change their name when they get married and they don't seem to have any problems of this nature.
One big one (for Windows users) was they reduced the amount of heap a Go program on Windows can access from 128 GB to 32 GB. This was to work around a design flaw in the Windows virtual memory allocator that forces virtual memory commitments that are free in Linux/BSD/OSX to have to be backed with memory, or more commonly, swap on Windows. On the other OSs mentioned above the Go runtime's pre-allocation of virtual memory space is non-backed.
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That's because c1 is always 'O' (in order to compare things like : 'POST', 'COPY', 'MOVE', etc.)

In the first case, comparing 2 integer (4x 8bit) is faster than omitting one byte.

That's is, using ngx_str3Ocmp with c1 != 'O' would be a usage error.

Edit: sltkr, sorry didn't see your reply.
It never happened to me. The compensation round is always at the end.
http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=2382

I googled for the paper title and this was the second result. It's just a scan, but it's readable.
I think you're right. It isn't the stationary restaurants who are uncompetitive, it is the landlords.

I think increasing the supply of "prepared food selling space" should give low-end stationary restaurants more leverage in their rent negotiations.

High end restaurants and food trucks do not compete, so it isn't a big deal for them.
I think you're basically right, using the framing of "low overhead" is probably a better way to think of it.

But I'm sure you'd still agree that food trucks disrupt existing interests (whether you use the word "monopoly" or not) and that on the whole this is probably a positive thing.
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Australia: even the mammals are venomous[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_venom
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I find that I barely skim heavy branded emails thinking it's just marketing stuff. Plain email always gets more interest from me.

On that note, this is something I also considered heavily when building Supportfu - all outbound replies mimic a traditional modern email client, graphical branding isn't even an option.
Thanks I added it to my profile and here it is also rafael@simpleindustry.com
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Yeah I could not remember who said the Kernighan quote. Should have remembered.

I am not against cleverness, just appropriate for the system - for example some part of the system needs to be very clever else its a pretty mind-numbing project. However the rest of the project should be less clever.
thats a password protected url?
Bethesda Announces Wolfenstein: The New Order
Bethesda have officially announced Wolfenstein: The New Order. Said to be “reimagining” the long running classic, it’s still an action-adventure shooter, and will be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and next generation consoles within 2013.
..or an alias for "git log --graph --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --all"
There seems to be some confusion here in the comments. Atlassian did not make tig, Jonas Fonseca (https://github.com/jonas) did. In some sense though, it makes Atlassian even more awesome that they wrote a blog post about a piece of software they didn't create.
I don't think you've ever eaten at these vendors. You're making baseless accusations. A lot of the vendors are iconic locations where you can find a wide variety of palettes which would be impossible to find in NYC at such a cheap price.
They claim to have accessed the mole's webcam. That's not very far-fetched at all.
Presuming that it has appropriate checks and balances. e.g. audited access and look-ups, with every plate-holder having the right to use that same information themselves (whether the history of spots, and every look-up of the same).

You seem to be begging the question (in the formal sense) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question)
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Chrissake, why does everyone have to be a hacker these days?
>> Oh come one firing people is easy

In California, to avoid litigation lawyers get involved, the whole process gets documented, orchestrated, and some kind of separation agreement is negotiated.

But mostly it's emotionally very hard and very stressful. The decision is not taken lightly.
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That doesn't hold for the people who would read my papers - other researchers. We read pdfs on our screens all the time.
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Enough with this nonsense. Take the plunge and start using Bitcoin. Whatever risks and uncertainty Bitcoin may have for vendors is miniscule compared to the daily fleecing handed down by the likes of Paypal.
After introducing the ring, still bridges collapsed in Quebec while in service not at construction and people died. I am not sure how effective is this ring.
Distractions --

>>The purpose of a speed limit is to make driving safe...<<

"I hoped that the national 55-mile per-hour speed limit--already in force--would help reduce gasoline consumption"

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8017

>>When conditions make 55 unsafe, people need to slow down enough to be safe...<<

"California has a 'Basic Speed Law.' This law means that you may never drive faster than is safe for current conditions"

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/speed_limits.htm
I guess it is just because people don't know it. I agree it is as powerful as git itself and very intuitive.
The chart is not displayed if using Firefox. Switched to Safari and it works perfectly.

It's a bit of a shame that most demos now are only focusing on webkit/blink browsers... Please guys, think of folks like me who use the best browser in term of Freedom ;)
Just for reference for others who might be interested:

I had to install this public key from ubuntu server:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ABF5BD827BD9BF62

Had to remove nginx-full and nginx-common.

Then install nginx: apt-get install nginx

Even though I told the installer to keep the default config (which it did) but over-written /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf The only change I had to make was port number, since I am using varnish changed my port to 8080 for nginx. Restarted nginx.

nginx version: nginx/1.4.1

Thanks for the help!
Maybe store it with the other bits of paper in your wallet?
100% Inland North

I've lived in Syracuse NY for the last 15 years, so I suppose that makes sense.
What color is your site?
IRC is a communication medium. Could we please not vilify it? It's like saying people who use burner phones are bad people.
I don't give a shit about my (former) linode servers and never want to have anything to do with the bastards again.

I just want to know one thing: did or didn't they leak the credit cards?
You have an infestation of apostrophes in some of your plurals! I wouldn't want someone to stop taking you seriously because of a few typos (you have "Monday's" and "customer's" instead of "Mondays" and "customers").
This is the same approach we've taken with candidates. We start with a phone screen and then a simple coding problem submitted via email. When we bring them in for an interview they spend time with with a few developers working collaboratively on a problem. If possible, it's a bit of work from the current iteration. Working together on real-world code has been surprisingly effective. I was skeptical at first, but it has been very helpful in weeding out candidates who had good cv's and probably could have coded a really great algorithm to traverse a binary tree but weren't great with solving real world problems.
I think food trucks can be a great business if the location is right. As some other people have pointed out, New York already has a ton of street vendors with probably half the price, so the barrier to entry is much higher. But for example in San Francisco, there are a few trucks near our offices that are ridiculously crowded because there is no other options around for at least a few blocks.
Does this have to do with ITAR restrictions?
nobody anywhere is arguing that we should abandon useful technology due to blind fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Except that the entire article was raising fear, uncertainty and doubt about the retention of that data. The "useful" part is retaining the information such that later on when someone is arrested in the commission of a rape, for instance, they could look at other historical appearances of that person's known vehicle and see if there's a correlation with other incidents (which at most would be circumstantial given that a vehicle can have many drivers, but it could instruct further investigations).

This article warns that such logged data betrays "your political and religious beliefs, your social and sexual habits, your visits to the doctor", and then says " If this data is too private to give a week’s worth to the public to help inform us how the technology is being used, then isn’t it too private to let the police amass years’ worth of data without a warrant?"

That does not mesh with your rebuttal at all.
Hey Evadne,
The text shrinking was actually requested by 20 different beta testers, even though I initially hated the idea, and am looking at ways of improving it.

The UIActionSheet should come from the bottom, it's a bug I need to fix (that randomly came about as I deployed)

I accept the point on comments, I'm currently redesigning them for the next version.

As for readability/social etc, it's a useful feature, so why not include it as a bonus?
Thanks Facebook for being so considerate(message after completing the survey)
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I built a custom one in NodeJS as the existing ones aren't reliable enough. This is hosted on heroku, so I can scale as required.
> problems that are representative of the work

bingo. I know you're a big advocate of this approach and it's worked well for you in the past and it's probably because you keep it relevant.
Is this an example of Betteridge's law of headlines?
Almost if and only if
> The battle for privacy is already lost.

Over my dead body it is.
I think the problem people have (including myself) is that the messaging around the problem is horrible. We see this error, over and over, with no solution, and a "we know" response. An update on the blog and emailed to customers, explaining how tens of thousands of people sign up per week, how you've upped your purchasing by 100% a week -- that'd go a long way. A note on solutions you've considered but can't implement would also be helpful in getting your customers on your side. People will be far more understanding if they're given a reason. Most of them want to see Coinbase succeed.

I still don't see why someone shouldn't be able to reserve a purchase, even if for a 15-minute time period. Or change the limit per-account so that more people can get a piece.
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In its defense, it was published in the New York Times. Which has some interest in the NYC area. :P
You can put a payload into your push notification (as long as you're not going over 256 bytes). The developer guide says that notifications should not be a way to send data to your app, but what they mean by that is that it should not be the only way that your app gets data. You can use a custom payload to "cheat" with the UI (much like how Apple's blank UI splash screens are meant to make the UI look faster), and present the user with at least some new data while the app loads all of the up-to-date data in the background.
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That's my favorite feature. They still may make significant changes that don't effect syntax.
This is a good point, but the obvious solution is to rent parking spaces at something like a market-clearing price.

If a food truck can outbid people who want to park, then the city's economy needs food trucks more than parking spots.
I would argue the exo-planets we have found so far are a very biased sample. We don't have great technologies for detecting solar systems like ours. And at least the first few years of planet hunting we'll tend to find a lot of large giants orbiting close to their stars since they're the easiest to find.
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