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Thanks for responding, I appreciate the sincerity.

I think most communities that have undergone significant change have done so with some asymmetry in power. If Hsieh deigns to consult with the locals, it will necessarily take the form of charity. How is he to run these negotiations? The local mini-grocery wants to stay, and Hsieh wants it to go. The decision is binary and rests entirely on him. Asking Hsieh to consider everyone's needs is difficult, especially given that he has all the bargaining power. I was surprised your article did not more concretely enumerate the community's concerns. I would hazard a guess that they are not nearly as organized.

As for dis/integrating as a viable strategy for improving neighborhoods - I think a lot of us here in SF would be mighty happy with a major, ground-up overhaul to a lot of the city structure. You can't cross a chasm in two leaps, etc.
Ask HN: Javascript or CoffeeScript for a newbie?
I am starting to learn javascript. I think CoffeeScript is easier to write and read. Do you guys recommend learning javascript using CoffeeScript ?
Why is it relevant to you? Here's a handful you should consider:

Do you use Facebook?
Do you use Apple products?
Have you used Skype?
And according to Alito he would have been fine even after clamming up... if only he'd mentioned that he was invoking his Fifth Amendment rights, so it's not even just about silence.

If you confirm your name to a cop after this ruling, have you permanently waived your requirement to be Mirandized?
I am sorry, but your argument doesn't seem to make sense.

What 3D applications require Parallax on mobile phones ?

And, you are comparing mobile phone with web ?
This.

There was a video a few months ago showing someone recording in-country immigration checkpoints (dozens of miles inland, checking IDs without cause in a very unconstitutional manner). The driver reiterated "am I free to go?" until he got a "yes". Chilling, and informative that "am I free to go?" is the ONLY thing you say/ask. If they say "no", lawyer up & shut up; if "yes", leave.

Only question remaining is at what point does the LEO's refusal to say "yes" or "no" constitute one or the other.
Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) and its nice frontend Déjà Dup (https://launchpad.net/deja-dup). Client-side encryption, multiple backends.
Which I just updated a few hours ago. You should find the Android app to be leaps and bounds better, faster, and more stable.
I would love to know. Any hint as to what's strange?
Verilog is higher-level than a bunch of nodes talking only to their neighbors and having a tiny amount of RAM, by far...
Stop Calling it “Mobile”
I've been postponing writing about this for a long time, mostly because I wanted to talk at railsconf before writing a post (who am I kidding, I just procrastinate a lot), having submitted the talk for the last 3 years without getting in I'll definetly write a long post about it.
Run on the on-chip CPU :) (Which bits would you want to implement in Verilog? As to Verilog vs VHDL - Verilog, always :)
You are right. By purposefully misinterpreting "god" to be literal, you have won the discussion of what he would write in a book. Your answer is the best. Congratulations.
Fair enough, sorry. It seemed an appropriate response to the other poster's attempt at sarcastic dismissiveness, but I get your point. :-)
Don't ever use RC4 for anything.
Really? That's.. pretty bad. Sounds like China during the Olympics.

My first reaction was "vote the bastards out," but then: casinos. Maybe you can get a tech company to help crowdfund a new mayor who will constrain tech investment? Wait...
Dumbass Detector
I think everyone could use this.
I like the thought, but I personally wouldn't call a change in knowledge alone a substantive effect, there would have to be some concrete effect IMHO as well. E.g. if I was able to take those phone records and somehow benefit at the stock market by it that could be said to have substantively affected the public, but it would be hard for me to see "knowing a bunch of specific calls were made" as that by itself.

And if the NSA is doing their job near-properly any actual substantive effect would have occurred to the non-U.S. public, which I can't imagine that the Act in question was envisioned to cover.
This is part of the reason I'd started Sensor Tower, as the app store is very hard to succeed in from the developer's perspective.
Buying the new MacBook Air
For the WSJ, accessing the article through a search result (e.g. googling the article's title) will give you the full version of the article.
That's actually really bothers me about people talking about how there's "so much to do" in SF and NYC relative to where I am (Mountain View).

They really just mean bars and clubs. Yawn.

I prefer dirt bikes, mudding, and bonfires.
Using science to pick an SD card
I don't think you get it. You cannot end up with the same problem if you ignore unused dependencies and prevent circular ones, it's just not possible.
Not how I read it. Obviously the technical ability to do so exists so "cannot" can only mean "aren't supposed to" in this context. Honestly I think people would have to be grasping at straws to read it any other way. What else could it possibly mean? Of course it's technically possible that's not even open for debate is it?
THere's no guarantee, no. But it's a pretty safe bet. Yes, buildings built in the 1880s have a certain style to them, but so do buildings built in the 1970s, 1990s, and today. By the end of the century people will undoubtedly have some nostalgia for the old-fashioned building style of 2013. Not all buildings built today will stand the test of time, but some will. More will if there are more to choose from.

Think about the original Twin Towers. By objective measure they were boring and hideous, but people liked them anyway - it grew on the populace. Like the Eiffel Tower did on Parisiens.

As for gentrification, the newest buildings will tend to have high prices, but if enough of them are allowed to come on the market eventually there will be a glut and prices will collapse. Maybe the price collapse will be more in the older buildings as upscale tenants move to the new ones.

(Getting rid of rent control would help a lot too, of course. Right now new buildings specialize in high-end in part because anyone who chose to specialize in low-end would quickly lose the flexibility to set their own rent and choose their own tenants.)
I don't think you read his post carefully.

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?
Now if you could only remind the 500 million other iOS users. Discovery needs to be better. Most people aren't going to dig.

If my girlfriend wants an app that she's heard about, I've got to install it for her. Guess who updates the apps on her phone? :-(

It's gotta be real easy for most people.
Small-scale project management
I have never really properly used Game Center, every interaction I have ever had with it has felt clunky.
The tech community honestly needs more legal literacy, so I for one encourage this kind of posting. The general level of literacy I've seen is about average for the American public, but we often believe it's much, much higher than that because Internet Principles.
You need to reiterate it until you elicit an answer
Yes, I wonder about that too. Greenwald seems to be very eager to tell us that Snowden has more than has been released. The implication is that the rest of the information is too dangerous to release.

Apart from the two immediate questions: "Does that information actually exist?" and "Why is it too dangerous?" We must ask ourselves why Snowden isn't forthcoming with some less sensitive proof to bolster his claims. It presumably would have been possible for him to have foreseen the reluctance news organizations had to publish the information. Why not have something more along the lines of a proof-of-concept to dispel the doubt that comes with incomplete information? Having a recording of some peoples' phone records would be just that kind of proof (provided he couldn't have reasonably gotten their records any other way.)
It Is Our Time
I'd gladly give up that $11K three times over to live in San Francisco instead of DC. And, looks like other people would too, hence the ridiculous rents here.
So you have the right to remain silent...as long as you're abreast of the latest SCOTUS ruling and understand them. In rather words you may need to be a lawyer and no niceties with the cops: am I under arrest? No, adios then.

If they want to arrest you, they'll arrest you anyway.
Wow, small world!

You're right -- I'm fine with destroying marginal communities or cultures as long as the individuals are somehow taken care of. I think it's individuals who have rights, not cultures or communities. My experiences with Downtown and North Vegas were...not pleasant, although I've pretty much avoided the area entirely for ~8 years, so maybe it has improved, and DTV seems likely to be a continuing part of that.
oh, and by curated list i mean by quality, not by revenue, as is with apple store and google store/market/play/whatever it's going to be called tomorrow.
Obama on NSA programs: Americans "not getting the complete story" [video]
This means that to emulate the near one quadrillion connections in the human brain would take about $10B today, assuming they can scale this system by 5 orders of magnitude with the same connections per dollar. Although they did manage to double their connections per dollar going from 1 to 11 billion connections.
I may be in the minority here but that seems completely reasonable to me.
Does anyone else get the feeling that some people would rather have a new wino in their neighborhood than have a developer move in?
Since congress, the administration and NASA have all but given up on manned space flight ... I have a hard time being excited about a new class of astronauts-in-waiting.
It's not enough to have a commercial rating, you also need to have a part 135 or part 121 cert for the operation, plane and pilot.

It is however legal to split the rental or fuel costs provided the pilot and passengers have a 'common purpose' in making the flight and it's not advertised as a commercial operation.
iOS 7 adds some new APIs to help with game score submission cheating.
Thomas and Scalia are on the right side of civil liberties and constitutional issues about a third of the time, anyway. What we really want is to replace someone who's almost always wrong, someone who sides with power and hierarchy and insider influence over the individual whenever he gets the chance. Alito is 63.
Twenty minutes from where I live in any direction, someone probably hunts the land. Guns are as common as hammers.

Was my comment serious? yes. Were people seriously considering shooting someone? Of course not - they were expressing their frustration with the overall situation. Had they been inclined to shoot someone when annoyed, they would have done it long before the now.

However, the truth of it is, there is no reason to believe that a transient lodger isn't going to roll into the neighborhood at 2am armed and drunk and starting trouble. That's the volatility in the mix, and why the AirBnB model poses problems in residential districts not structured to accommodate them. And that's the worry that my neighbors, and I, have.
He probably would have been convicted anyway, but Supreme Court rulings set precedent for future cases.
15 years of Ars: The time-shifts, tweets, and top speeds changing the world
if the nsa is part of the us military, are NSA employees and contractors subject to UCMJ?
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Koblitz and Menezes in this thread. Unfortunately, the mathematical literature is littered with insecure, but "provably secure," cryptosystems.

[1] http://anotherlook.ca/
[2] http://www.ams.org/notices/201003/rtx100300357p.pdf
>> The things I don't say may be used against me

>This was always true

(emphasis mine)

On the other hand, the fact that there was a SCOTUS case about it means that while it may always have been true, it wasn't clear to everyone that it was true.
I had the bare fundamentals of JavaScript down (constructors, the prototype object, anonymous functions/callbacks) and I did quite well once switching to CoffeeScript. I really recommend using the coffeescript.org "Try CoffeeScript" feature so you can see what your CoffeeScript gets compiled into. One thing I wish I understood better going into it was function scope or scope in general, I remember getting caught up on this quite a bit. I definitely have an easier time turning my thought into code using CoffeeScript, YMMV.

There's a great free e-Book hosted on GitHub that is written by Alex MacCaw. I recommend checking it out. Here's the link: http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/
you can the re-create a slightly new solution which becomes your unique selling point and defensible base

Are you basically saying that in addition to features, you need to provide service because that is what makes you defensible? It is just not very clear how a slightly new solution is inherently defensible. You could make your product offer a slightly new solution by improving a feature. I'm guessing you'd argue that isn't defensible. So what concrete characteristics make it defensible? May be you are hinting at marketing/branding - once you have a brand/mindshare, people are less likely to switch to commoditized alternatives(ie. Tylenol).
Can AES-128 Be Cracked With Brute Force?
Glad you're liking it! I am working on a "headline mode" that's going to provide more densely packed info for those who like it that way. Also I'm going to be releasing a new subscription list with a bit more functionality to it in the next week or so.
If you assume:

* Every person on the planet owns 10 computers.

* There are 7 billion people on the planet.

* Each of these computers can test 1 billion key combinations per second.

* On average, you can crack the key after testing 50% of the possibilities.

Then the earth's population can crack one encryption key in 77,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
Yeah it is!! :D
We think we're all heroes of our own stories
> When a loved one dies, that breaks you down, melts the ice block of arrogant I-know-what's-up thinking.

If you honestly didn't think you knew - or at the very least had a good idea - what was up, ever, then you'd be a complete social wreck; someone gibbering in the corner about how you couldn't tell the difference between a family member who wanted to kill you or hug you.

The world behaves according to rules, people do too, and we make predictions based upon our guesses as to those rules. Generally we're reasonably correct with those guesses. That's how the vast majority of the population behaves with varying levels of understanding and faith in those rules and guesses.

It's not arrogant to think you know what's up. Of course, sometimes you'll be wrong, and you probably shouldn't profess absolute certainty in your predictions, but growing up should have taught you that fairly effectively without the need for anyone to die.
Great demo. One thought: the whitening of the surfaces as the exposure time gets too long or the aperture too wide doesn't look quite right to me.
Creating python command-line applications
I say the refusal to answer is an answer; since you are asking the very specific question that reveals if you're under custodial interrogation, a refusal to say "Yes" has to mean "No". I mean, unless you get that yes, you clearly can't leave, right?

Furthermore, one could hope that your refusal to answer his questions with anything other than "Am I free to go?" would not be so easy to construe as this sort of silence signaling guilt.
I don't think it is necessary in this case for Mozilla to even be in possession of transiently-non-aggregate data, though. If they want to analyze click-through rates or whatever, they can have URLs that are constant across users and not lose any data. For credit cards, the payment processor must have the unique card information, so collection is warranted in that case, even if they are never stored.

That is: since I have no insight into what happens to the data once it reaches their servers (outsourced to an external analytics platform), I object to them collecting it unnecessarily in the first place. Storage does not come into play, since while I trust Mozilla I don't trust the third-party, no matter how much Mozilla claims to have vetted them.
Gnucash is a delightful piece of software, comparable to Intuit's Quicken ... but, naturally, Gnucash is free.

Keeping an eye on your budget and watching the graphs is indispensable in terms of helping you manage your money. After all, you can't make tweaks if you don't know what's going on. Obviously you want to live below your means if you want to be successful, and you want to trim categories that seem to be out of control ... but this can only happen if you are proactively aware of where your money is going.

I've heard it explained this way: "managed money goes farther". If you make a budget (a plan, really) for your money, you're telling it where to go. If not, it'll easily disappear through behaviors you're not aware of.

Many people have said that when they finally started budgeting and making a plan for their money, it felt as though they got a raise. Of course, no new money came in because of the budgeting, but the act of making and following a written plan led to far less waste, achieving the same effect.
Why would that be necessary? If they are targeting an individual for investigation at this level certainly they have already determined their citizenship status well in advance. From there obtaining permission to investigate citizens who are in contact with this individual probably isn't too difficult. I guess I just don't see why it would have to be some magical automated system when it can be handled on a case-by-case basis quite easily.
does this not make you sob?
Eh, I just got an iPad for my mom, after owning several Android phones and tablets, and my sister used to use an iPod touch as well. We both agreed that the App Store is a piece of trash. It's slow, confusing to navigate around, and doesn't auto update your apps (I think I heard that's coming in iOS7?). It looks the same as it did on my sister's old 2G iPod touch.

Meanwhile, the Play Store search and navigation used to suck, but they've both improved a lot, and they keep the highlighted content fresh and relevant, which surprises me coming from Google (though not having used an iOS device extensively I don't know how often they update their featured content, but from this post it sounds like not often enough). They've fixed most of the stupid issues they had before and I actually like using it now.
Connecting an LED to Arduino UNO
I would recommend javascript. Coffeescript is just a "prettier" syntax for javascript but in the end it just compiles down to js.

Learn JS and learn to write good JS! I personally hate CS because I some people take that route to avoid writing clean JS, just because CS looks nicer. Once you truly learn how js works, migrating to CS will be very simple.
> No need for a full cycle for simple operations: on FPGAs, you don't have to sacrifice a full cycle to do a simple operation, like an OR, which has a delay much shorter than a full cycle. Instead, you can feed OR's output immediately to the next operation, say, AND, without going through registers. You can chain quite a few of these, as long as their delays add up to less than a cycle. With most processors, you'd end up "burning" a full cycle on each of these operations.

This may be a dumb question, but how do FPGA execute multiple NON-PARALLEL simple instruction in 1 cycle. I always thought a cycle is undividable and can be used only for a single instruction.
Are they legally required to give you an answer? If not, this could go on for hours, and if their intention was to restrict your movement then they've already succeeded.
Exactly. Elsewhere in this sub-thread we discuss it, and I point out a refusal to say "Yes" to the question "Am I free to leave" is a No, you very clearly can't leave until you get a Yes.
The Play Store has gotten a LOT better. There was a time when I routinely did a Google web search of:

<terms> site:play.google.com (or, earlier, site:market.android.com)

as opposed to using the store's own search interface. Now I only do that when I'm looking for something the store will filter out (wrong device type, wrong country, etc.). I suspect the web search is still a bit better, but closing to the point where it is usually not worth the hassle is still a big step.

That being said, I'm surprised this has been such an issue, for either store. I'd have thought making sure your search results are better than a blind web search would be a standard thing to look at.
I'm excited for automatic app updates in iOS 7...
I recently saw a PBS documentary on the birth of Silicon Valley. At one time, it was place that had nothing except cheap land and lots of farms. Las Vegas is kind of like this.

The key is to attract smart people. The problem with Las Vegas (or Nevada) is that the amount of engineers per capita is very low (about half of that in California).

Also, business does have an impact on higher education. If you look at Stanford or Cal, they have a strong program in computer engineering. UCLA, USC both are strong in medical sciences. UCSD strong in biopharma. It could be a chicken and egg thing - at some point businesses will demand skilled technical people from the universities and will adapt their programs accordingly.

Meetups allow me to learn from my peers. I would call that an educational tool. I suppose it depends what kind of meetups you go to...I like the powerpoint kind.
The object pricing calculator is not working for Paper Size 6" x 9"
Do early stage startups really need visual designers?
If it means those 10% will be able to use it to defend themselves from the other 90% - as opposed to being defenseless - that sounds like a small win.
Espionage is a global business. Your government probably has a reciprocal intelligence agreement with the US. There's a good chance that your version of the NSA has access to PRISM data and the NSA has access to data gathered by your government's intelligence agency.
Startup Engineering class at Coursera.
If for some reason she was the target of an investigation it might be safe to assume they could listen to her side of the conversation at least.
I didn't have a very high opinion of Jira until about version 4. In recent updates, a lot of the clunkiness of older versions seems to have been cleaned up.

Until recently, my team was the only developer group in our company using an issue tracker. Management have decided that every team must now use an issue tracker and that tracker must be HP Quality Center. They're even paying a temp to manually migrate all our Jira issues into QC. We managed to win the battle for Git over IBM Rational ClearCase for a version control system but this kind of thing makes me think it's about time to find a new job.
Absolutely javascript. You'll be making a mistake by using CoffeeScript first. It's very important to understand the underlying language before using a meta language like CoffeeScript.
Real privacy doesn't exist. It's also a legal fiction. People assumed the legal fiction of online privacy existed because they fear that big baby government will fuck over innocents or people that are not a real threat to society. Their fears came true.
It's pretty ridiculous that they would both overturn Griffin if given the chance. I kind of "understand" their viewpoint but its just wrong and completely erodes the spirit of the fifth amendment. I can't think of a better way to say it though.
World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Used In Big Projects
That's not how I understood it at all.
I think that the point is that Google makes money regardless of whether you get an Android or an iPhone. Apple does not.