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I think you make a fair point, and thank you for calling me on some implied BS. I don't necessarily believe he is lying. I am sorry if I conflated his statements. I also think that it's better to have such statements then not to have them, assuming they are true.

However it seems apparent to me that his statement is intended to imply to the American public that the surveillance problem isn't problematic because it's legal.

Something can be legal, and still be wrong. Sometimes laws need to change, or interpretations need to be challenged.

When legal authorization isn't a meaningful restriction, when warrants aren't issued by a judge, or when judges rubberstamp even the broadest of warrants, that is problematic, in my opinion.

The issue for me isn't the legality, but the appropriateness/morality of such surveillance. I would like to think that such programs are unconstitutional, but I don't think we have to limit our laws to the constitution... we can make laws that are more restrictive on what the American government can do then the constitution is interpreted to allow. Because if the constitution's 4th amendment protections allow the government to siphon this massive quantity of data, then it isn't restrictive enough.

It also, for the record, isn't the number of incidents prevented by the current practices that justifies them, unless they can be meaningfully compared to incident prevention rates from more restrictive information gathering.
Tor is only safe to a degree. Probabilistic flow analysis is a real threat.
From what I've read: It always disables access to contacts, location data, and the like. Apps, however, have their own saved state (say, your score in a game). The idea is they can selectively choose to run in Guest mode when incognito is enabled.

It'd be cool if they forced apps to run in a temporary directory like how incognito mode saves cookies in the browser. Apps would appear as if you wiped their data. CyanogenMod's implementation seems like something you'd leave on, though, and constantly losing your data would be no fun (no server to backup all changes you make, unlike the web).
competition solving these sorts of issues relies on informed, educated consumers.

there is endless debate about how much the government should protect consumers 'from themselves', and I (personally) find merit in opinions from both ends of the spectrum.

with that out of the way:

* home loans, by far, are the most complex product that most consumers will ever evaluate and purchase.

* home loans are also one of the most lucrative products for commissioned salespeople to close.

issues that arise in any sort of B2C relationship are more likely to manifest here. if you agree with the (common) opinion that the industry is rife with unscrupulous business practices and persons, this just compounds things.
Political views first have to be popular with people before they are popular with the political party they are in. Libertarian views are not popular with people.
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Why do you have to live in SF? You can live in SJ/MV and save more than half on rent. You can use BART/Caltrain for commuting. Life is great in Bay Area doesn't matter if you are staying in SF or in other cities in the Bay. I seriously don't the understand whats so special in living in SF. I do commute to SF on weekends whenever I want and on weekdays for work.
Libertarian views have never had influence ever. You get it in rhetoric but rarely in practice. Rare cases of real libertarian action...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

...are met with violent government force. This won't change, ever.
To be fair, some of the post-9/11 policies did have an impact. However, don't discount the real effects the attack itself had, before the knee even had a chance to jerk.

I was at Sabre (spin-off of American Airlines, owner of Travelocity, creator of travel agency software) at the time, in HR's development group. (Actually that group had been acquired by EDS, but same group, same role, different name on the paycheck) Within a trading day of the attack, they lost 50% in market cap. We went from massive projects to calculate performance based compensation to doing it on a simple spreadsheet. Many lost their jobs, including me.
How iOS 7's new homescreen fits into Apple's UI vision
HN should ban all political news, and encouraging flagging even political news that has a technical basis.
HN should sanction politico-technical basis as it stands now, and keep things the same.
HN should sanction politico-technical news but separate it from the front page in its own navigation tab.
MIT offers a similar undergraduate class called 6.004 which most undergraduates take. The course materials are available on OCW:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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A mix of media queries and window size along with useragent can be a good choice alas it will be quite cody..!!!
I struggle to find the point of this article. OK, I'm somewhat being coy and perhaps somewhat dismissing it with a middlebrow but in a real sense I'm not quite sure what is being argued. Is this the developer of "Find the Mafia!"? It's not as if the "Top Tech Companies" are actually measuring IQ, so that seems to belie the point. Sure, you could say they are asking questions that you believe correlate with raw IQ if you want, I might say "citation needed" but the fact is it is not exactly what they are doing. Now, I'm not sure this particular type of puzzle is the perfect solution, or even a candidate solution. Yeah, I'm a little flummoxed.

By the way, the simpler explanation for asking question about CS theory and algorithms is that they want people that have really studied them thoroughly. I know, it's a crazy idea, ... but it just might be the answer. :)
$1.4k is below average (but possible) in DC. I don't know anyone in SF who is paying $2.7k a month for a place (the high end condos go for that, but they're generally split by couples). The vast majority of people I know in SF pay under $1.4k a month for rent.

The rent is higher in SF, but the tradeoff is that you can walk or ride a bike everywhere, year round. It's possible to get by in SF without a car at all. In DC (or elsewhere) you're paying for parking, gas, insurance, and a monthly car payment. That starts to add up pretty quickly. There's not an $11k a year difference without that ($1.4k vs $2.7k isn't realistic), but factoring it in, SF really closes that gap, or likely becomes cheaper.
Have you been to a torrent site? Are the hundreds of seeders of a single e-book all friends?
"Better" if by better one means "more".
Your kids vs grown ups comment is ENTIRELY uncalled for. If you can't justify something based on the merits, then you have no business going for ad hominem attacks. If you can make your point without ad hominem attacks, then you should.

FYI according to Stack Overflow, Steve is in his late 20s and has been a professional developer for several years. I'm in my mid-40s and have been a developer since the last millennium. Both of us have been on this site longer than you, and have much higher reputation here. Neither of us are kids. Assume that we can understand your actual substantive points, make them, and move on.
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I agree with the overwhelming majority of your post but I have to say the draft dodging/deferring comment was a little odd. I think its really tough for us (people who have grown up under an all volunteer service) to pass judgement on how a previous generation dealt with the draft, even more so if we pass those judgements as civilians.
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That's awesome, really. If you feel like you've got no regrets about skipping the typical teenager stuff, then great. I genuinely hope that if kunai continues on the same path that his experience later in life is like yours.
Well, I'm still overtly anti-government, anti-NSA, pro voluntaryist, pro market-anarchism, pro libertarian, pro anarcho-capitalism, etc. If they're listening to this conversion, well... fuck it, I refuse to be censored. The worst they can really do is kill me. shrug I wasn't planning to live forever anyway.
Does what you say have any legal merit? Sure, I can imagine a Judge saying "Eh, no one reads those things" because it is fun to think that way but I'm not sure I think this is right.
If you do a quick search of the Android Forums, a general complaint is just the performance of it while Facebook runs in the background as a service (impacting the currently used app) . Also tends to be a battery hog from all the syncing it does. I don't want to get into the whole privacy debate on it, so I'll let someone else field that part.

However, Android Permissions are "all or nothing" when you install an app. Combined with apps being able to potentially access much more than other platforms based on the permissions an app requires (as well as any app can read your sdcard without permission prior to Android 4.1 [though it's still disabled by default on 4.1 so apps not accounting for that permission don't crash]) and the need of some people to install certain apps, they must choose what is more important--potentially giving into whatever permissions this app wants or doing without.

I don't personally use it because I don't want Facebook on my rooted Android device (though I'm like that for most apps), but I have seen those reoccurring complaints over the last few years.
I think he meant TSMC when he said TWSC.
Invoking the KKK is the First Amendment equivalent of Godwin's Law.

We let idiots have their stupid rallies because it's not the government's job to decide who gets to speak, and because the laws you would like to use against the KKK or WBC end up getting used against Malcolm X or Occupy protestors at a different time or in a different part of the country.

And just to remind everyone, the reason we're worried about chilling effects and anonymous speech is that you don't want the first person to write anything challenging corrupt power structures to get indicted with "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" charges backstopped by prolific surveillance, or have their house burned down by ideological opponents who use government powers to discover dissidents and are subsequently never prosecuted. Not only does that allow the injustice of corrupt power retaliating against activists for good, there is a real risk that the retaliation will be an effective deterrent to future activists.
Yeah, that seems like a problem. Maybe we should make it less likely that police officers who go through the training will leave.
All I needed to know I learned at a startup
Techology and social revolution: Steve Wozniak at TEDxBrussels
I think it is more problematic of how to prove the user agreed to your TOS. Clicking a button and storing in a database some text is all fine and wonderful but it does not prove in court that when I clicked the "I agree" button (if you can even prove there was even such a button to click) it was in response to the text for which you are taking me to court.
Probably in the 1990s when they moved operational systems from timeshare/unix/etc. multiuser to a bunch of networked Windows desktops for all use, not just office automation (which is how they brought them in originally).
Thanks for your reply, dfc. Sorry if the draft deferral comment was inappropriate. I mainly wanted to contrast their experience and expertise in the field. BTW, thanks for the recommendation on your profile page to use dfcdfc as the topcolor; I stumbled onto it over a year ago and have been using it ever since.
> the Chinese do not give 2 shits about pollution and sustainability

Are you saying that isn't racial prejudice?

I understand you may have a grudge, but how would you describe that?
I think Woz is right when he suggest the American constitution died with the Patriot Act.

American's transition from a free state into a police state.
Apologies, I should have linked the print-friendly version.

I hate autoplays as well.
To the extent you're right, I have to ask (rhetorically) whether libertarian views are unpopular because they're disagreed with, or they're unpopular from lack of exposure.

Years ago, I worked for a company that sublet a room in our office to a friend of the boss's, with whom I had a number of long and wide-ranging conversations. In one of those discussions, he showed me an article he'd just read, about a then-recent survey of US high school students in which some 85% of them believed it was illegal to start a third party in the US political system.

I thought that statistic was disturbing enough, until I got to the article's main point: asking whether that was due to a failure of the American educational system, or a frighteningly subtle success of something else?
How would your proposed system work in the real world? In the civilized world, we expect people to handle grievances in a court of law and not just club each other when we are not happy, so how could your proposed system ever be workable in any real sense? Just asking.
If you have a user object from the server, why would you need to retrieve it again as you navigate around? It's already been given to you from the server.

I will never forget my first interactions with a team who took this line of argument seriously. They were an outsourced team who had been given a spec for a website. They said they were on track. Our product team went down to talk to them. The most memorable quote was their lead developer saying, "We will just have to train our users to not hit the back button." Almost as bad was, "We have no idea how to support IE." (Over half of our business was IE, and many of our users were casual browsers.)

There is a legitimate debate between rich client-side applications and keeping work on the server-side. Anyone who tells you - either way - that one approach is obviously the right thing to do simply lacks full perspective.

But personally I've been burned enough by people who want to create complex client-side interactions with serious UI mistakes that I have a certain reflexive caution about arguments for pushing everything to the client.

YMMV (and apparently does).
I think that's dependent on what is stored. Sure the link enables them to capture a whole lot of data, but if an agreed standard of 'tracking data' was all that was stored. I think that would be an improvement.

EDIT: Similar to how we capture credit cards. Often the provider could capture and store everything, and publish it online if it liked. But generally (due to law, and standards) they are either passed off to a payment provider or stored with a certain level of security.
You can also sneak out of Hong Kong easily, and it is an hour ferry ride a to Macau or Guangzhou or a bus or taxi ride to Shenzen.

Hong Kong has very loose exit visa policies on western passports. You can jump on a plane to some destinations with your passport only being checked at checkin (which is of the ticket). It is very simple to get to any number of ~50 countries in the space of hours and not having your identity checked until you land.

Private banking in Hong Kong means he can have money sent to him and he can spend money without worrying about who finds out who supports him.

He is also likely to find work, since there is a lot of English speaking expat work in the country especially in the IT industry.

I'm unsure if he has a path to citizenship, a path to residency is easy but I think the only way he could swap his passport is if he works out an entire 4 or 5 year residency or go citizenship via asylum.
He can veto a proposed law approved by the House and the Senate, but in turn, they can override the President's veto with a 2/3s majority vote.
R&D also has diminishing returns to scale. It may well also _lag_ rather than _lead_ economic growth.

See Joseph Tainter and Nicholas Rescher.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.1057/abstrac...

For the Chinese: much of what they need has already been invented elsewhere (so IP appropriation _is_ a highly rational activity). They need to be able to apply it.

Their bigger problem is going to be in providing energy, cleaning up pollution, and assuring other resources (water is also becoming very highly constrained in China) for a very large population. One that's much _less_ large than it could have been, but large all the same.
I dunno. In other places, Teslas are an unusual site. I can't commute three miles without seeing one or two each day. BMWs might be more ubiquitous than Toyotas here. To be fair, I'm not in the city, I'm on the peninsula.
Kudos for actually trying out a benchmark but it must be seriously flawed. There's no way you'd get a 20x boost in bandwidth between the A8 and A15 (both of which are ARMv7 and DDR3 is not 20x faster than DDR2) in nontrivial cases if you're using technology within the last 5 years. I'm guessing you ran a very trivial benchmark that operated mostly out of the L1/L2 cache (hence you weren't really testing the RAM) on the Exynos5 and mostly out of ram on the i.MX53. Depending on what operating system you ran on the different boards, there could also be major differences in the kernel's implementation of the DMA peripheral, which would also heavily skew results.

For example, in the Github link, some code used native memcpys while others used kernel call memcpys. The differences in the specific Ubuntu 13.04 and Android implementations could vary the results quite a bit, even if they have the same exact overhead.
I wouldn't know. It kept crashing my iPad safari browser. I will have to check it out later on my laptop, as judging from the comments here it looks like an interesting story.
No worries, more than anything the draft thing was distracting. It was superfluous and it took something away from the clearly reasoned point you were making.

Added:

I just saw bit about topcolor=dfcdfc. That brought some much needed levity to the discussion. You are good people miles.
The question was obvious to me. The advantage of client-side code is responsiveness. Everything is loaded, there is no need to go back to the server. Better yet, you can create UIs that couldn't be created otherwise. For instance consider gmail's keyboard interface. Just hitting keys you can navigate through email, delete some, label others, choose to reply to more. Without hitting a mouse. It is a wonderful UI, but only is possible with client-side code. Which is likely to be saner if you have a good client-side MVC model.
the majority of Hong Kong's land is undeveloped country parks and village areas. Less than 25% of [...] is actually developed

That is nothing short of astonishing. Are the parks and undeveloped areas open to the public?
The problem is that NYU does so under the guise of a "not for profit educational institution".
I read the fine article and all the comments submitted here before seeing some questions that can be answered by reading a FAQ I've posted here on HN before about company hiring procedures. The last full posting of that FAQ was a while ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

and the tl;dr of the FAQ is "If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability test."

Readers of HN have asked me to put that FAQ somewhere on the Web with a permanent link, and I am revising it for posting to my personal website. If you have suggestions for how to make the FAQ better, I'd be glad to hear them, as I have already been doing further research on company hiring procedures.
Kim Doctom referenced PRISM-esque programs in a January 2013 Interview with RT
A few suggestions:

SCP'ing the public key directly to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys could overwrite the file if it already exists. It's better to use 'ssh-copy-id', which takes care of everything for you. Most distros should have it already.

Autossh can take care of setting up, monitoring, and restarting the tunnels for you. Arguments are almost exactly the same as ssh, just toss it into your crontab and have it run @reboot.
What multimedia specific hardware are you having problems with? I've found that Linux works absolutely perfectly with high speed storage devices, and the proprietary drivers for most high end GPUs are equivalent between systems. What other equipment are you using?

There are entire video production houses that run on Linux (Weta comes to mind immediately, but many others use it as well).

Also, if you look at the total hardware vendor and device ID lists supported by both OS X and Linux, you'll find that Linux will leave OS X for dead. OS X just doesn't care about entire device classes as average computer users will never encounter them.

I'm still not sure where the myth that Macs are better for multimedia comes from. I can imagine that, if you work with people who use Macs in their workflow, you can fit into said workflow more easily with a Mac, but If you're working for a company that uses Linux (or even Windows) in the majority of their workflow, then your Mac is just going to be a stumbling block.
I think Cheney's draft dodging status is fair game. He did, after all, co-architect our erroneous invasion and continued occupation of a country that did not actually attack us, so he has no problem sending others to war. Something other draft dodgers were not as directly responsible for.
Oh, agreed that it's quite unhelpful and Snowden revealing details about such activities is a pretty terrible idea. On the other hand, such revelations in general aren't all that new or rare - the most recent one probably being about US spying on UN diplomats just a couple of years ago. Beside light spattering of egg on some faces and a bit of ritualized indignant posturing, though, this sort of thing doesn't seem to cause much lasting damage to the global system of international diplomacy, probably because everyone knows everyone is doing it.
Agreed. I mostly consider USA Today as "that newspaper dumb people read" so never checked out their website. The design is pleasing and the linked roundtable discussion was quite good. No controversy, no professional talking heads, just some folks having a chat on camera. I am impressed.
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That's a great point - I guess part of me is blind to that because my diet is mainstream, but also, I'm surprised that there's still events that don't provide solid vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. Thoughtlessness at best, really.
We wrote a Chrome extension for Github; It allows quick viewing and navigation to your repos, viewing your issues and creating new issues. It uses OAuth2 and is open source!
What do you think a viable solution for the tier 1 cities is?
I'm pretty sure he was referring to the Chinese government, not individual Chinese people.
> the DRM shuffles some words around, inserts synonyms, changes the paragraph format or the punctuation. For example, the word “unsympathetic” could be changed to “not sympathetic,” and so forth.

This is horrible! I would prefer my book to be pirated than to have an algo. mix words up.

Besides, if you wanted to do this, why couldn't you use non-printing characters instead, like the soft hyphen U+00AD or zero width space U+200B?
On Android I use OSMAnd+ (uses OSM data) and have had good luck with using it to supplement GMaps. The map coverage is fantastic and IIRC you can download as much map data as your device will hold. That really helped me in Europe where my American mobile phone (Sprint network) did not work but its GPS receiver still did.
>If you think it is unreasonable, why don't you find something better to do with your time and money? You could make a nice dinner for two with €10 and have a much better time than you would being angry at ads and those rich assholes in Hollywood. Nobody's forcing you to watch films.

You realize that's EXACTLY I and millions of others are doing right? That in fact that exact phenomenon which you suggest is what caused this article to be written?