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Again, as specified elsewhere, I am responding to the parent's original suggestion to ask if one is under arrest, and the question of how I anticipate the situation getting out of hand.

Needlessly complicated? I suppose that's a matter of interpretation when you're on the receiving end of a power imbalance and are wanting to both go on your way and assert and protect your rights.

Yes, the shorter path is to ask if one is free to leave, and then respond accordingly. And yet still, it is not incomprehensible that an officer might respond with something more complex than a simple "No" when asked if you are free to leave. Say, something along the lines of, "Yes, as soon as you answer a couple questions." This is much closer to a "no", but still legally debatable (especially within the context of this decision) whether or not you are in a situation in which you may rightfully assert your rights.
Do you really believe that after all the political lies we as a country have heard in the past 3 months, any thing a person on the hill says would carry more than 2 cents?
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To be clear:
This was always true (legally), and this decision doesn't change this.

As long as it was not a custodial interrogation, and you had not been formally charged, your words could be used against you (ignoring other procedural evidence rules for a second) without Miranda or other warnings.

The only thing his decision changes is a long-standing open issue of when silence can be offered as proof of guilt.
Your Salesforce example highlights a SaaS replacing Enterprise Software - Salesforce vs. Siebel. Regarding your point about software being sticky like some hardware offerings have been commoditized - software can also suffer this to some extent (especially in the SaaS space as noone is doing anything that revolutionary that a competitor or competitors cannot come along and literally clone them).

I do however agree with you about the switching costs, Salesforce actually use this as part of their lock-in & differentiator in that they have got their users to associate them with CRM - their stock ticker is it etc - this they become product evangelists for them. As a result, there is a network effect built around Salesforce which has helped them create a lock-in.

However, that sill does not mean users won't switch (look at the new http://www.moz.com it isn't a coincidence that the UI looks like Google Analytics - that is one such example of how to "break" the lock-in). Moreover if a customer is offered a Salesforce alternative for 20% of the cost & it does exactly what Salesforce can do (as well as having a similar UI) that becomes a serious incentive for a business to switch - after all most of the decisions are made by the CIO etc who doesn't necessarily use the product day-to-day.

Finally to address your point about there being no commodity version of MS Office the problem is, is that no alternative has actually managed to provide a product to a similar level - Excel is by far the most superior spreadsheet product on the marketplace.
Ahh - I love Tim Kreider. Find him hilarious, poignant, extremely witty, and intelligent. Mentioned elsewhere, but if it helps drive more people to his site, here it is: http://thepaincomics.com/
If you can afford it. The Acela will run you $400-$500 round-trip BOS to WAS unless you take the 5am ones (and then it'll be $330 or so). Flying from BOS to DCA nowadays is $220 round-tip on JetBlue, say, at reasonable times of day.

If you happen to be traveling as a family, the price situation is even worse, of course. At some point driving actually starts to look pretty attractive...
If you claim the encryption was done using a One Time Pad, you can pick any result you want, generate the corresponding key, and hand that over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
For a government agency like the NSA, that's easily accomplished by a man-in-the-middle attack. They can almost certainly convince multiple US-based certificate authorities to give them a certificate that will be included in the default set of trusted certificates by all mainstream browsers. They would only have problems with the very small number of people who are both paranoid and tech-savvy enough to change the certificates that there browser trusts.
Most apartments and shared houses I've seen and both the ones I've lived in had no easy way to install an air conditioner.
How sweet (but geeky)
Ask HN: Non-US citizen. Why should I care about NSA/PRISM?
Hacker News has been full of links about NSA and PRISM lately but I don't understand how that's relevant to me. I'm not a US citizen and live outside the US--I'm just a developer with some startup dreams and a lot of curiosity to learn new stuff, which is why I'm (sometimes) here.

So I read the article from Wired that explains why "I have nothing to hide" is the wrong way to think about surveillance, hoping to get some answers:

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/

But the points raised still don't seem to concern me. Even if I had something to hide and American police can be abusive, I live outside the US and are bound/protected by different laws, and a different police. The only potential problem I see is that the suspect US-born companies store my online footprints in their servers and I can't download them for myself. However, I'm not even sure that's a problem because what can they do to me with it?

Any thoughts? I was expecting this question to pop up much earlier in HN but it seems no one else was asking this themselves.

UPDATE: I'm from a developing country in southeast Asia that used to be a US colony, but I very, very highly doubt that we even have access to all that NSA/PRISM data, let alone that we have an espionage program. Murderers can just get away with their crimes here even if they left hair or fingerprints, because they don't even have those data to match against.
Definitely a Von Neumann joke, the only unusual thing about it is that the terms themselves weren't infinite series.

Did you end up releasing your Coffeescript implementation? There's stuff like Golly but not a great deal in the way of readable higher-level language implementations out there.
As the author of the article, I'm generally accused of being too cynical, so it's a delight to see an accusation from the other side.

I generally agree with you on one point, at least. If you believe the NSA is "more than willing to operate on an extra-legal basis" -- they certainly did during the Bush administration -- then the only way to change thing is have a new president who is willing to look into suspected abuses and file criminal charges against .gov employees who go too far. The problem is that those people would have been given legal immunity by the outgoing administration, so it's only a prospective remedy, not a retrospective one.
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Wow, every "bad" thing being ascribed to Tony Hsieh here seems awesome. Turning the utter wasteland that was LV Downtown into something amazing is worth some inconvenience to renters in the neighborhood.

I wish he'd do the same thing in the Tenderloin, Bayview/HP, or EPA.
You might find the genius lists go some of the way toward solving this problem for you. They try show things you're likely to be interested in, and don't show stuff you already own.
True enough, but just because it comes up often doesn't make it a solved problem. In fact, I think it comes up so often because it's so damn hard to get right. To the extent that the author is advocating for better communication and transparency, I think that's probably a good step in the right direction.

Of course there's a whole OTHER discussion here: private vs public city planning. Is it really a good thing for a single investor to drive so much of the development? Where is the local government? It seems that a city council of some kind should be able to weigh in on behalf of the larger "community"
Just copy/paste this in and watch the edit war

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_cre...
I don't understand the last line in the article:

"Would you be comfortable with having a landlord’s management history posted on your listing?"

If we are talking about rental listings... if it's my listing, am I not the landlord?
Can you make one for me? :)
"Jenkins doesn't seem dispositive on the specific question of law at issue in Salinas."

I guess Salinas is an extension of Jenkins to the somewhat broader circumstances of a suspect not answering direct police questions. While the circumstance of Jenkins are weaker, the actual opinion held that:

"The Fifth Amendment ... is not violated by the use of prearrest silence to impeach a criminal defendant's credibility."
Remember when Apple discontinued iWork online? Yeah, well, it's back.
Presumably, by the fifth time this happens, it'll be seared in your brain. And the browser url is already prominent.
Although it's clear what you meant, as you wrote the sentence, it has a somewhat more entertaining. You meant, "that we would mind being printed...". As written, it meshes nicely with my opinion of the financial sector. (/tongue-in-cheek)
Anyone have any idea when they're going to quit putting off Cryptography II?
The Verizon FISA court order would be the evidence. I suppose that the groups filing this petition (and likely to litigate eventually) would claim that Americans can be substantively affected in terms of 4A and privacy harms even in the absence of knowledge.

Not an exact analogy, but if the FBI got a secret court to issue a secret order to secretly search everyone's house in a city looking for people doing Evil Thing X, and nobody knew about it until much later, would that presumptively illegal search be something that "substantively affect[ed] the public?"
Awesome read. This guy seems like he'd be fun to have a beer with.

That said: he reveals his hand at the end. His startup ideas have been rejected, he's been told he has no chance of being funded in the future and is generally disliked by the Vegas Tech community. So this is his butthurt revenge (whether he realizes it or not).

That doesn't mean anything he said is untrue, but it means it's a certainty there is another side to this story that would paint a much different picture of the nature of the interactions between "Vegas Tech" and the downtown "locals".

Having lived in Vegas for awhile, one key element he didn't mention which could by itself explain why they keep to themselves, is safety. There have probably been naive startup kids who have been mugged, conned, attacked, hustled and worse. The easiest defense to this is to stick together and not get involved with outsiders.
What I mean by this is don't make your selling point about having more features (since a competitor can copy them) but rather create an additional value-add that meets your customers or potential customers needs.

SaaS currently tries to say "this is the solution" and as I was saying in the post it needs to be flipped to focus on actual customer pain points (since the current solution may not actually meet their needs) which you can the re-create a slightly new solution which becomes your unique selling point and defensible base (which is why it's important to go beyond competing on features). Essentially SaaS is becoming the method to provide the customer with the product rather than the actual business model and if your SaaS works with your customers & solves a key problem for them beyond "hey pay us X for these features" you will become a preferred partner who is solving a key problem which is critical to the success of your customers
Chrome, at least, has certificate pinning for Google properties (and perhaps some other big sites?), which prevent the use of a different but otherwise valid certificate from a trusted CA.
> Without death there could be no life, and without grief there could be no love.

I really just don't know what you mean by that. I imagine a world in which no-one dies and someone asking, 'What's life?' and people still quite meaningfully pointing to living things and going 'Well, it's that.' Just as I can imagine that people who haven't grieved can still love.

Grief and death perhaps serves as a proof of love and life, I suppose. If they weren't there what would you lose? But I don't see how they're meant to have IFF relationships.
what makes you think that the criteria for "top" is actual based in reviews? it may or may not be, but a smart thing to do would be to base it on another pre calculated score. something like the formula that reddit uses would work good because it degrades over time. that said, I'm willing to bet that apple cooks that list based on a number of factors.
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Unfortunately RC4 is still very widely used. About 50% of SSL/TLS aka HTTPS traffic is RC4 encrypted "because it's the most secure cipher". Uh.
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That is a fun question. Convince is a very strong term, and I'm not sure anything political actors can say at this stage can actually attain convincing power of 1.

Here's a quick stab at answering:

On the question of whether or not the ability exists to listen to phone calls:

The programs in question, and all other intelligence operations and agencies, do not possess the technical capabilities or requirements to collect, intercept, parse, translate, analyze, listen, or store the content of any person's voice communications at any point in time. We cannot collect, intercept, read, parse, analyze, translate, transcribe, or store any person's phone calls either in the present or the past without a properly executed warrant. When such warrant is executed, we can only engage in technical operations that allow us to wiretap or request records of private communications from the date of the warrant forward. Every communication record in the possession of intelligence agencies is tied to an executed warrant and does not pre-date the date of the warrant.

On the question of whether or not the ability exists to peruse the contents of people's email and other non-audio comunications (IM, SMS, etc.):

The programs in question, and all other intelligence operations and agencies, do not possess the technical capabilities or requirements to collect, intercept, read, parse, analyze, translate, transcribe, or store the content of any person's data communications at any point in time. We cannot collect, intercept, read, parse, analyze, translate, transcribe, or store any person's data communications either in the present or the past without a properly executed warrant. When such warrant is executed, we can only engage in technical operations that allow us to wiretap or request records of private communications from the date of the warrant forward. Every communication record in the possession of intelligence agencies is tied to an executed warrant and does not pre-date the date of the warrant.

On the question of whether the government does indeed have databases of private communications records:

We cannot collect, intercept, read, parse, analyze, translate, transcribe, or store any person's data communications either in the present or the past without a properly executed warrant. When such warrant is executed, we can only engage in technical operations that allow us to wiretap or request records of private communications from the date of the warrant forward. Every communication record in the possession of intelligence agencies is tied to an executed warrant and does not pre-date the date of the warrant. No person's communications data is present in a database unless that person is expressly mentioned as the target of a warrant.

Of course, I'd accept equivalent answers that say the opposite. Either way, the language would be far less obfuscating and make it clear exactly what the government is or is not doing.
> You appear to be one of those tedious people

> I doubt it's worth my time

> Not everybody has Mommy and Daddy to pay their bills while they dream up some retarded app

> I suppose that only middle and upper class folks should have the ability to change the world

> I'm fairly sure I could kick all your fucking teeth down your throat

> jerk-off geek libertarian fantasists

I sympathize with your underlying positions (at least I might—it's hard to tell when reading something this unpleasant), but can you please not use such aggressive and sarcastic language on HN? It violates both the letter and the spirit of the guidelines and, experience has shown, is one of the worst ways to degrade the quality of the site.

I know how nannyesque that sounds, and I even enjoy fine flaming wit, but not here. It's the social contract of this place and it needs respecting.
The intentional violation of the 4th amendment by the government, has a very radical and substantive affect on the American public, both today and even more particularly in the future. The violation of my privacy has an affect on me, regardless of if I know about it: it illegally increases what the government knows about me, against my will and rights; current behavior / beliefs etc can be used against me in the future by a repressive government. Their knowledge base changes their behavior toward me (one way or another), thus an affect upon me.

Simple black and white example: someone takes a dollar out of your bank account every day, but you fail to notice. Does that make it ok? Obviously not, and your freedom is a lot more valuable than a dollar bill. You might not have noticed, but you've lost something.

Another simple black and white example: a law is passed committing me to slavery, but nobody ever comes around to actually enslave me, and in fact absolutely nothing changes - except in government codified documents, it directly states that I am a slave. Has that affected me? Yes, my understood status and rights as a human being have been completely altered. That is the most substantive affect possible, and the same is true about eliminating my right to be protected against warrantless search & seizure. There is little question that when the government alters what it regards to be my rights, thus how it views and treats me, that has a material affect upon my life now and in the future.
The problem with top-n list is the 'long tail' apps. They got very little or none exposure. Apple just need to work on that by adding more novelty and serendipity into the recommendations.
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Honestly? I've never sought money from the DTP, nor do I plan to. I have lots of other contacts for VC if I seek it. :-)

My point was that I don't need them, which is why I'm okay with saying this stuff where others in the community aren't.

But you're right: there are other sides to the story. If it interests you, seek them out!

[Edit: actually, I spoke informally to some of them very briefly, very early on in the timeline of all of this, about investing in my startup. I'd forgotten that. But it never went anywhere and after a bit I realized it would have been a bad fit anyway.]
Sure, he could say that, but it still is a "No", you can declare it as as such, and unless he's going to ask you if you're armed or the like he's then made it crystal clear you're now in an custodial interrogation. I really doubt it would be subject to much debate, but then again I really doubt you and he would provide the same accounting of the event unless it was being recorded and he knows it.
> ... well, yeah? How can one know not to get burned without getting burned?

Well, I've never been shot either but I still think I'd rather not ^^;
What if the police officer does not answer your "am I under arrest" or "am I free to go" questions?
I find the source code view is particularly useful as a dashboard because it gives modification times at a glance for each sub-directory, so as a non-maintainer you can tell whether there might be anything of interest to pull down (and possibly reconcile with local changes), without needing to go to that directory on your disk and do the fetch on the command line. So defaulting away from that isn't an obvious solution.
Hahaha, hey Ryan, I don't know if you remember me or not. But we also worked for MedWeb at the same time a while back!

I think you're completely wrong, though. It's not convenience, it's survival. But I also know you and I are on total opposite ends of the economic belief system, too. :-)
Wow. As anyone who has spent some time downtown could guess, that title was bound to cause a bit of a stir. In theory, this is a good thing; some of what the author is on to is accurate, especially when it comes to the inevitable clashes between the influx of people downtown and the residents who were already there. Point being, this kind of stuff should be talked about...

Unfortunately, this rant is about the worst way to try to discuss anything. It seems the pulitzer prize winning writer couldn't be bothered to stay focused for long enough to actually cover one topic in-depth enough to offer some local wisdom or countervailing courses of action (not to mention actual journalism). I don't really know what's up with the Huntridge situation, but I imagine it's more of the same thing it's been with the Huntridge for a decade or more: quite a bit of nostalgia for a theater / local landmark that fails to address any of the underlying problems in the surrounding neighborhood.

And therein lies the problem I have with the whole situation. Whether it's the Huntridge, First Friday, development on East Fremont, or whatever it may be...the whole situation is so fraught with an "insider/outsider" mentality that it's very often difficult to believe that anything anyone is doing is truly in the best interests of Las Vegas. I can guarantee you that Hsieh doesn't have all the answers and that a delivering happiness approach won't fix every one of the systemic problems that have existed in the valley for decades. Honestly, the author is right that the whole scene downtown can sometimes feel way too circlejerky. Yet at the same time, I haven't heard anywhere near enough cogent arguments from non-DTP community members about what specific things could be done differently that truly brought something new to the table.

Edit: I deleted the last sentence; I'm not a huge fan of the rant, but it's not nearly as anonymous as I thought it was.
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>Hell, three different neighbors considered addressing some of the situations with guns - it's Alabama.

Is this a serious comment? I guess it's one of the reasons I'm grateful not to live in the United States. The fact people in your area might turn to using deadly force to address noise complaints and misbehaved kids completely blows my mind.
Yeah, that's part of the problem. There's zero accountability. And in Vegas, local government is only concerned with economic improvement -- everything else takes a backseat.

We're talking about a city where the former mayor (whose wife is now the current mayor) made it illegal to give food to homeless people. Swear to God.
Just be aware that Austin has some very nasty traffic and Seattle's real estate is out of control for reasons similar to SF albeit less severe.

(Still working on the fashion thing out in the Yay)
Try Atlassian's SourceTree.[1] I have only used the Mac app. It's the GUI I settled on after trying three or four others, including Github (again, for Mac). They built the Windows client after everyone who uses Windows at work clamored for it. I'm still on XP though and it requires 7+.

Atlassian also has a good, friendly set of tutorials for using Git.[2] The order in which they introduce the concepts and the commands encourages a clear understanding of the whole system.

[1]http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
[2]http://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorial
Interesting. I had presumed that the pilot would be violating some FAA rules, as I might be myself. If the pilot had a commercial rating, I presume the more costly maintenance requirements required of commercial carriers would apply here?