skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"At trial, the government argued that Salinas had committed the murder based in part on his response to the question about the shotgun shells. The prosecutor argued to the jury that an innocent person would have said, “What are you talking about?	I didn’t do that. I wasn’t there.” But Salinas didn’t do that; he remained silent. And that suggested guilt. Notably, Miranda‘s footnote 37 didn’t apply because Salinas was not in “custody” for Miranda purposes. He was at the stationhouse voluntarily, not by force, so Miranda didn’t apply. The question before the Court was whether the government was allowed to argue about the significance of the defendant’s pre-arrest silence to the jury."

The gist of the case, for those not keen on reading the lengthy introduction.
I'm reminded of a talk by a guy who ran a penetration testing team (I think in Israel?) which was hired by a bank on a highly permissive contract. It led to them trying to physically rob the bank just because they could. (Spoiler: It didn't go well.)

Unfortunately, I don't know many programmers who would take kindly to rubber hose pentesting.
Google was making more money from iPhone users individually due to higher engagement than Android users.
That's a different business and they could definitely sign up as third party servicers with Tesla (ie to charge Tesla for any warranty services they provide), but they just want to hold onto the dealership fees on top. Not that I can blame them, but this isn't an area where regulation benefits consumers.
California public records law 'eviscerated' in budget bill, critics charge
This argument is essentially 'breakers versus builders'. Breakers have the upper hand here, breaking is a lot easier than building and criticizing is easier than creating. So people who don't create and in general fulfil a role which consists of merely trying to destroy that which others created have an inherent advantage: they need to succeed only once in order to prove their perceived superiority over the creators.

Crypto is complex enough that more people will land in the destructive camp, it is by far the simpler approach to fame and riches.

But that does not mean that a 'breaker' can automatically move to 'builder' status, testimony to that is the number of people that we think are capable of constructing solid cryptographic systems. Colin is one of the people that has definitely achieved 'builder' status, he's not scared to publish his work and has made meaningful advances in the field.

If you feel like, you too can be famous, analyse tarsnap and see if you can find a bug, Colin will be happy to advance your stature, see:

http://www.tarsnap.com/bounty-winners.html

Meanwhile, take Colins advice if you ever want to advance from 'breaker' to 'builder', any idiot can break a window, it takes a lot of expertise to make a flat piece of glass and to set it properly, far more than breaking a window does.
Older gamer used multple cheap techniques to prolong the otherwise short games. But I do think that many of the modern games are really easy by design, when compared to the old games.

For example the 8-bit and 16-bit era games are skill based, where you have to dodge multiple bullets, have good reactions to enemies and even the environment around you. And you are punished for your mistakes; which sometimes borders on cheap tactics.

Many modern games have reduced to button smashers with little to no need for any other than simple timing skills. Shooters have autoaim, and with normal difficulty levels you are a bullet sponge, even a rocket might not kill you. Of course there are a lot of exceptions, and higher difficulty level in some games can help.

The games can still be really enjoyable regardless of the design change. But the ongoing evolution to more cinematic gameplay is really worrying to me. For example, Ryse: Son of Rome, that was revelaed for XBox One an E3, looks really great visually, but the gameplay seems more or less like Simon Says. You as the player are included in amazing set pieces, by letting you press one button at a time, as soon as the game tells you to; and see how the game character and the world reacts to that.

It's a scary trend to me, that the stories cannot be told by the gameplay anymore, but with cutscenes where you have little or no effect on the result. There is a world of difference letting me as the protagonist struggle and get better, than having a non-player character tell me that in a cutscene.
Ahh ok, that explains why I've never seen that before.

I'm all for free, except when you're technically paying for it with licensing/etc.

I was totally serious about the $50-100 boxes being better than HAProxy, they're monumentally better at the basics. Where they don't do so hot is with SSL acceleration, but considering how fast AES-NI is, I don't bother doing that with loadbalancers anymore. Also fully HA and you don't have to deal with source/dest NAT issues if you're using DSR.
Re: Work MBPr - just curious, but did your work load down your native image with a bunch of Security Crap? I know a lot of people who have complained that once IT gets ahold of the MBPro, the systems become effectively 1/3rd the performance. Also - the SSD makes an insane impact on performance.

But - Yes, I think everyone on HN can agree - we'll all get 8GB when we have to make the decision.
For reference, one FISA request can be an entire company's user-base. "Direct access" is direct enough when a majority of content can be accessed real-time, much of it back stored for "direct accessing" later using non obvious relationship awareness analysis.

Citation: Much of HN's top listings the past few days. Go read.
A frequent issue with computer tech in schools is that
districts will spend most on hardware, a little on
software, but little or nothing for teacher training,
or for program or curriculum development. In the face
of that profile, not doing follow-up by measuring how
technology is used seems completely predictable.

There are a lot more resources available online now
than there were in the 1990s, but the spending patterns
tend to persist. The disparities referred to in the
article very likely stem from how Title I funding is
allocated, based largely on free lunch count as a
proxy for family incomes.

Would any parents with children in US K-12 public schools
care to share some success stories with tech in schools?
Get well soon Thomas, maybe you'll find your sense of humour again.
wsj needs some way to know you came from Google, so if that's cookies, referrers, etc. you may be blocking it.
I think the problem that he was stating is that Ford is essentially a monopoly on all Ford cars, which has especially damning implications for the car service market. The first casualty in a monopoly-dominated market is often the low-end consumer.

Whether that warrants the dealer protection laws, or whether they are effective at combating this problem by essentially creating another monopoly, is very debatable.
Exactly this.

As I've commented elsewhere, words matter. They matter a lot. Especially when discussing the critical issues at play in this situation. Almost zero media outlets are asking the right questions. Instead, they all appear to be asking questions that specifically serve the talking points that were leaked a few days ago.

Perhaps media outlets and their journalists should start treating political actors the way prosecutors treat defendents--ask the right questions, vary them, alter the wording, etc., in an effort to suss out the truth and leave as little wiggle room for interpretation as one possibly can.

When shit like this hits the fan, the press must stop treating politicians with kid gloves, only levying inquiries that serve the established talking points. Go on the offensive. Ask something that hasn't already been sound-bited and parroted by everyone involved. Ask the right goddamned questions.

A few things worth asking:

1. Is the government storing, parsing, analyzing, transcribing, recording, translating, or any other type of data-gathering and/or analysis actions on the private communications of any persons who are not covered by a standing warrant. Be specific about the words chosen in the question. Even better: ask the question repeatedly, substituting each word in place of the prior one asked.

2. If so, what is the legal reasoning and constitutional authority by which the Congress has legislated such actions?

3. If so, what is the legal reasoning and constitutional authority by which the Executive is interpretating Congressional legislation to permit these programs to exist?

4. If not, what is the legal reasoning and constitutional authority that proscribes such programs from existing?

5. Carefully and completely delineate how Americans are to understand their Fourth Amendment rights in light of these programs. What does the government believe to be their papers in 2013? What level of security and privacy can Americans reasonably expect to have, against which intelligence programs will not and do not transgress?

Etc.
This problem is solved with HN headlines by, roughly, making older upvotes worth exponentially less.

Anyone want to comment on the merits and drawbacks of applying a similar solution to an app store, and any ideas for mitigating the problems?

Anyone want to build a startup: An Android app store with HN-inspired ranking system?
"The “top” list simply rewards developers for getting as many people as possible to buy or download the app once. There’s no reason to optimize for longer-term satisfaction or higher engagement after purchase."

This is clearly false. If you have a free app, you obviously want that so you get money from in-app purchases / ad revenue.
see also Angry Video Game Nerd [1] for some examples of accidentally difficult game design in older games.

[1] http://cinemassacre.com/category/avgn/
Rare Video of “Giant Sea Serpent” Oarfish Caught
F L Bauer says in his Springer-Verlag book regarding a holocryptic running key from any offset of sqrt(2), sqrt(5), and sqrt(17) arbitrary digit expansions are vulnerable, anyone know why? The only thing I can possibly imagine related, is 19yo Gauss's famous Euclidean constructable proof of the 17-gon, and the pentagon may also be constructed. Something in early Galois, abstract algebra, may be applied to recognizing digit expansions of certain algebraic irrationals?
And let's not forget the "stop-and-frisk" program[1], in which the NYPD detains hundreds of thousands of people every year on the streets and searches them without probable cause. Only one in eight of these stops result in an accusation of a crime (and most of those are probably just pot possession). In my opinion, that's quite a bit more unpleasant for law-abiding people to endure than having their phone records sifted through by the NSA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_p...
As the article made clear, the regulation already exists in the form of the Forth Amendment. Speaking of tradeoffs between privacy and security seems odd without reference to our prior adoption of the Bill of Rights and without a call for its repeal.
Because it's unlikely they do all that groundwork beforehand.
It's refreshing to see some glimmer of decency from any political entity.
I actually use VirtualBox when I'm running Dynamips (it has good hooks when launching network connected clients) - but for day-day productivity, Windows 7 Unity Mode in VMware is pretty great.

I can double click on a .vsd file and have it launch in Visio as a close-to-native app. Also, (and this may sound stupid, but it's handy) the little "Double-Arrow Start Icon" on my Menu Bar is handy for launching Windows Apps.

On my Windows Desktop System I use VMware Workstation because it reliably shuts down and restarts my linux guests, without me logging in to windows. (Though it took me a while to find out out how to do that). I.E. on a windows restart, VMware workstation gracefully shuts down the Client Operating System, and after reboot (and prior to me logging into the Windows Environment - I.E. Before I get to the office) - it restarts VMware Workstation service (not the app), and then restarts whatever Linux Guests I've selected
in the "Shared VMs" panel.

This is important, as my Windows 7 Desktop System is now being rebooted by Microsoft two-three times a month for security updates - which I'm fine with as long as my Linux guests are there when I want them.
Don't Let Paper Paradigms Drive Your Digital Strategy
I suppose we should extradite people to Iran for breaking Shariah too. This isn't American exceptionalism. Do you think China will extradite their military leaders for hacking US computers? Fat chance. If agents are caught in country breaking the law, they are fair game. That's the risk. Suggesting the US should extradite our leaders to China is armchair idiocy.
Wow this case is just so weird:

- convicted based on weapon only? Isn't that just an indirect proof?

- 2nd trial after the first one was a mistrial - I thought you can only be tried once?!

- convicted 15 years after it happened - isn't there a time bar?

- the whole miranda business - when they arrested Tsarnaev, they didn't read him his rights and people just assumed he had them anyway. This guy apparently didn't have them until they read it. So, if they don't read them you either have them if they won't read them to you ever or don't have them if they will read them in some unspecified point in the future?

I think I'll just stay out of Texas for a while.

EDIT: also "did not answer when asked if a shotgun he had access to would match up with the murder weapon" what kind of idiotic question is that?! "Excuse me sir, does your weapon match with the murder weapon?" "Yes, it does, officer!"
Laws are not the same as ethics. It is not unethical to break the law unless the law is ethical.
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That statement was in regards to their widespread international network intrusions into potentially critical networks, not authorised access to American companies.
This isn't a complex UX problem. Let me choose if I want to see apps I don't have or overall. Set the default as apps I don't have.
For the record, you can't manually upgrade the RAM on a Macbook Air (it's soldered to the motherboard), so selling a RAM upgrade on them is reasonable. On the other computers it is important though.
I stuck a 512GB SSD in my (8GB RAM) 2010 MBP maybe a year(?) ago. The general speed boost was incredible, of course, but the thing that made the biggest impression was definitely seeing several GB paged out, with little performance degredation.

I have had some weird experiences when pushing it hard, though. At one point when I got up to ~15-20GB swapped out, I encountered a kernel panic. I wasn't doing anything fundamentally weird, just loading a large amount of data into "RAM".

I should try it again and see what happens. I wonder how hard Apple stresses this functionality in QA?
There's no easy way to sell one square foot or one square inch of Manhattan property. First movers will always be at a competitive advantage in nearly any endeavor.
I am really proud to see this here. I was there and I can say that it was the largest demonstration since the military dictatorship era more than 20 year ago.
Keep. Reading.

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Hmm ok thanks, maybe something i can customize in the checkout script to make it seamless.
I am really unfamiliar with iOS but it blows my mind that this doesn't exist already. It seems like a no-brainer for a feature, especially since Apple basically invented the modern mobile app store.
Spinning rust + low RAM in OSX = not a nice time. Is there a reason you can't just upgrade your work laptop to have 8GB?
> orientation of quotation marks

I hate it when I open a document and there's non-ASCII characters cluttering it up just because someone wanted magic quote marks. If you must have oriented quotes, you should do them the ``LaTeX way,'' so you don't have to get into Unicode, which sucks [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4835507
Is there a tool that I can use to determine such bottlenecks on my website?
There's the reason the Germans wouldn't even take a census until recently because of what the Nazis did with that data during WWII:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230398250457642...

Can you imagine what kind of weapon this massive library of data would be in the wrong hands?
Plans for impenetrable Government Quantum Network
It's also about dual channel configurations. You get better performance out of two identical memory sticks.
Watsi (YC W13) is looking for a front-end developer to spread the health
Watsi.org is a global crowdfunding platform for healthcare that enables anyone to directly fund low-cost, high-impact medical treatments for people in need. We're a technology-focused non-profit startup fresh out of Y Combinator with one goal: global access to basic health care.

We're looking for a senior designer/front-end developer to join our fast-moving 4-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate will be an HTML/CSS expert with Javascript, design, mobile web, and Rails experience. The more Javascript and Rails experience you have the better. You have to be serious about alignment, consistency and executing the design to the fullest. In fact, the more design you do the better.

A few challenges we'd like this hire to tackle: - constantly improve page load time, let’s say by 10% in the first few weeks - implement a really nice redesign that looks right on all the most popular screen sizes - take responsibility for anything a donor or a team member sees on all of our apps - get us off of Bootstrap, or at least slim it down to the bare minimum - maybe even get us off of the asset pipeline, as it slows down deployments to Heroku

If you are excited about joining a motivated, passionate team that's working its ass off to help people receive the medical care they deserve, we'd love to hear from you. Please send your resume/github to jobs@watsi.org

For more info, here are a few recent articles about us:

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/business/watsi-a-crowdfunding-site-offers-help-with-medical-care.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/30/watsi/

Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323829504578270381504454200.html
While I don't agree with your prejudices, I do believe you're on spot here by saying that choice is one of the major factors in games becoming ever friendlier.

Not only are there considerably more games today, being pushed out with considerably more marketing. We're living in the age of free to play, where the next free game is just a download away. To make any kind of money in F2P, the developers need to keep players playing, so that they'll eventually pay. Basically the same goes for selling DLC.

So I'd say the lack of difficulty is mostly caused by how games are monetised these days.
Interesting premise, and a few years ago I might have agreed wholeheartedly that modern gaming is pandering to the masses and has become too easy. But then along came games like Dota 2, Day Z, Dwarf Fortress, Path Of Exile, and Dark Souls. The learning curve to not embarrass yourself in a public game of Dota 2 is probably around 100 hours. It has some fiendishly obtuse rules and requires split second reflexes as well as in depth knowledge of the metagame as well as deep domain knowledge of the item tree and hero skills. And it is by far the most popular game on Steam right now, with over 400,000 concurrent players online some days and over a million logging in each month, not to mention a very active competitive scene. Path Of Exile has proven to be a very successful action RPG where the most respect is earned by playing "hardcore mode", that is reaching the endgame without a single death. Speaking of permadeath and difficult games, look at DayZ. No instructions, no tutorial, permadeath, weird bugs and glitches, dropped in an open world military sim with zombies running around and the map is in Russian. That's pretty difficult, and it was a smash hit. It's similar to the resurgence of other roguelikes such as Angband which feature permadeath, arcane key mappings, minimal curses style GUI with primarily ASCII graphics, and successors such as Dwarf Fortress. Oh, the author wants to talk about difficult platforming games on the console? How about Super Meat Boy, which offers all the platform challenge of the yesteryear classics. Shmups? Check out Really Big Sky and Sine Mora. There's plenty of great, challenging games out there today if that is what you are looking for.
Using RC4 in TLS isn't entirely crazy. People started doing it due to the BEAST vunerability, which was a mistake in how AES was used in older TLS versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#BEAST...

In the ongoing whack-a-mole of TLS vulnerabilities, RC4 was considered the best option. I am the opposite of an expert, so I have no idea if that was true then, or if it's still true now.
Australian scientists apply quantum mechanics to cyber security
It's a good story, but in terms of downgrading - I always go with the higher spec. Each $100-200 might give me an extra 3-6 months life, which is usually worth it.
If suppressing the thoughts works for you, great. Every one has to go through it at their own pace.
Best wishes to you and your loved ones.
What is Quantum Mechanical Spin?
Regulation isn't just law. It's also law enforcement.
Frontend Workflows with Grunt and Angular JS - by David Mosher
Damn! I read this as 'Smartest Galaxy'.
Quantum Cryptography Promises Un-Hackable Industrial Communications
I came here meaning to be all snarky and cynical. I was going to say there's no way Apple trained him to do that, and they'd probably fire him when they caught on to what he was doing.

Thanks for posting this and letting me know I was wrong. I still am puzzled. Apple is not shy about squeezing the bucks out of consumers. But this shows a level of customer-orientation that I didn't expect to see.
You are shortchanging the actual argument.

Manufacturers make their profits on selling new cars. Dealers can't sell new cars at a profit without assistance from the manufacturer. But a dealer makes more on servicing and used car sales than on selling new cars. Manufacturers have no advantage there.

The fear is that if the manufacturer was the dealer, they would have strong incentives to push everyone to buy replacement cars rather than be in the lower margin service and used car businesses. I personally don't think that this fact should be allowed to drive the local laws. But that's the reasoning behind it.
I bought my first Mac today after following MSFT from Windows 3.11 to 7. Laptop died today and after much hurried research, really wanting to avoid having to make the switch right now, I kept finding that almost every PC laptop had quality control issues. You have to look into the user reviews, not editorial reviews. Almost every ultrabook had trackpad complaints, especially the Samsung Series 9, which is a shame, because it's a beautiful machine otherwise. PC manufacturers can't seem to get their act together (or maybe they don't want to bother because no matter what they do Apple will always be considered superior quality by the consumer?)

Anyways, I'm happy with the switch so far but I think I'll always feel at "home" with Windows, given that I've been using it every day since I was 8 years old.
Android App Development - Future of Mobile Market
What are the disadvantages to complaining in the actual thread? I understand about making new submissions for the sake of complaining.