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> Congresspeople have immunity for anything they say on the House floor barring treason.

This is true all up until the "barring treason" part, which is incorrect.

Congresspeople have immunity for anything they say on the floor, additionally, they can't be arrested while attending a session except on charges of treason, felony, or "breach of peace". [1]

A lot of people in recent discussions on HN have been confusing the exception that allows them to be arrested on certain basis while they are attending session as an exception to the immunity for legislative acts.

[1] US Constitution, Article I, Sec. 6, Clause 1.
Lifts on the ground floor have to service the entire tower, where a lift that started half way up the tower would only have to serve half as much traffic as the ground floor lift, so you could have like a dozen lifts that go from ground->50%, and 6 lifts that go from 50% to top.
It is really hard to fathom just how bad the first Bush administration --- really, the Cheney shadow administration, which is what it was in the first term --- was.

And Obama did what exactly? Expanded it or at least kept it the same. Let's not get into partisan politics, this monster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_com... seems to be unstoppable, it's on autorun.
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The Australia Card cabinet document archives were recently declassified http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/cabinet/by-year/198...

One document conceeds "Surely this [laws mandating checks of people's ID cards] will be opposed by employers on the basis that it is not their duty to control entry into Australia" http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NAAMedia/ShowImage.asp?B=3142...

The project was eventually scrapped due to privacy concerns and swung so far that there are now laws preventing certain government agencies (Taxation/Immigration/Welfare/Health Insurance etc.) from doing JOIN on each others databases unless it's overseen by a third party http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-act/government-data-m... http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-act/medicare-and-phar...
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I wonder what happened if the US put the estimated 10$ billion NSA budget into solar and other renewables and withdrew from all the countries where they are (to bring peace and democracy).
morale, morals, and education are three separate things that you seem to be confusing together.
yeah, did not seem to work for me. xubuntu, chrome 27.
I always find New York times articles present a pessimistic if not outright incorrect articles on China. They are pushing some agenda of their own.

So is urbanisation a bad idea? (if so, why have ALL developed countries done this?)

Or is really fast urbanization bad?
Overly picky, at the cost of comprehensiveness I would assume. :)

I might enjoy using this service if it was offered as a browser extension, since I find myself regularly proofing my writing to eradicate the informal language that I tend to use in my first drafts.
Because the US didn't force Detroit to default on billions of debt? The rural Chinese are being specifically targeted for these reforms, nobody has been targeting Detroit's debt over the past 50 years.
(Fuck the GFW, we need vpn to open the nytimes.com)I'm a game developer working in Nanjing. The biggest problem which my generation facing is the housing price. Having a house in city means your childen can take the much much better education in city; means your family can take city-level health-care ... House is not only a house in china, because of the "residence registration system". Only elderly and not competitive people also living in the country which i was born, there're much clear air and safety food but good job , good education. Job and education means future, So many young people working hard in city ,we share one dream. PRC was really hurt during 1966 ~ 1976, we are still on the way of recovery
That's pretty weak defense of AT&T. They have 250,000+ employees. They spent half a billion dollors in alternative fuel vehicles investments in 2011 alone. They have 20B of total capital investment a year. Blue sky projects such as Loon typically takes couple of dozen employees and may be few million dollars to kick off - small enough to be rounding errors in AT&T's budgets. If I have to imagine, the reason AT&T doesn't do this is probably because (1) their leadership has lost habits of innovative/creative envisioning (2) their leadership probably laughed this off because potential for revenue from people in Sahara was not very tempting (3) Their middle management is not empowered or willing enough to paddle such ideas to top in the first place (4) They simply doesn't have setup where bottom-up vision is possible anymore so unless leadership envisions it and executes, it doesn't get done.

The lack of money and employees is probably the last thing that would prevent AT&T to do these kind of projects.
That's the purpose, is there really such a need?
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they don't have full metadata access from Google Mail either.

And you know this...how exactly? I can't say they do but it wouldn't surprise me. To say that they don't however is a different story. What's the difference between phone metadata http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/06/nsa_veriz... and email metadata? Why one is OK and the other is not, assuming NSA goes to court to get them? In fact, emails over 180 days have very little protection.
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There is one hallmark of a cult which this document misses: there is no legitimate reason for leaving a cult.

From the cult member's perspective, this is really a manifestation of the problem of induction. Everything is going great (the article's "love bombing" phase) until one day you want to leave or break a rule or both, and then in an instant everything is upside down and you lose everything.

I guess the business equivalent would be switching costs: leaving the Apple ecosystem is rough for your iTunes collection. For most people this really pales in comparison to the losing-all-your-friends pain of leaving a cult, but maybe not for a hipster.
I added similar functionality to my editor about 5 years ago after seeing a coworker use Sublime Text. I'm amazed that all editors don't have it already.
From his title, "Analyst at 20755", 20755 appears to be the zip code for a US army base, which is the headquarters of the NSA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George_G._Meade
Seeing is different to reading. Though I agree with you, there are too many factors I see to ignore. For example, I can't see jobs for university graduates (even professors!), urbanization has basically resulted in construction work as a means of mass employment (hint: makes problem worse), and the cost of basic sustenance inside of China (food, drink, etc.) is higher in real terms than in neighbouring countries and growing rapidly year-on-year. At the same time, real estate which was the engine of the economy is in meltdown (source: first hand discussions with developers, observation). The cost of an apartment in a third-tier Chinese city is far higher than that of neighbours. Realising this economic climate and how much further their government-backed cash goes overseas, we witness the acceleration of private wealth leaving China. The last time I flew through Beijing airport, UBS had proudly procured all the billboards. It's not rocket science, there's a virtual robbery going on... similar to other periods of economic or political change worldwide... similar actors, and few in the country would deny it. People are upset. It's not pretty.
Apart from the commercial model that these will use (what they'll cost to make use of, etc.), the thing I'm wondering about is how visible they'll be at sunrise/sunset.

Google is saying that they'll be barely visible to the naked eye, but just after sunset/before sunrise, they will be illuminated by the sun when the rest of the earth is still dark, which should make them more visible than they would be during daylight hours. In my mind, I'm imaging a dark sky that's full of little orange dots. I have no idea whether or not it would happen like this though.
It seemed they noticed people who had healthier gut (i.e took probiotics) had less activity in the part of the brain that processes internal sensations.... right, so stomach aches hurt, and not having them doesn't. *

* I think I'm being a bit too cynical...
Thank you, I have a considerate amount of outside of school projects that I am putting together. Most of it I feel are small demos and games and such that I used to teach myself new technologies and such, nothing actually in use or all that useful, but I hope it at least somewhat demonstrates my abilities.
You can record GSM encoded (9600bps) voice of all americans 24/7 for a year and still only fill up a couple of percent of the speculated storage capacity of the NSA's new Utah data centre. I don't know how long the average person spends on the phone each day, but clearly recording the phone calls will be just a small fraction of that again. So keeping a few years of recordings of all phone calls they can get their hands on would not be a storage problem.
I agree that references are nice. But then if someone is pushing an agenda it's easy for them to cherry pick the URLs they provide. So even if someone does provide references it's probably a good idea to use a search engine to check.

Milk 2008: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7614083.stm)

Milk 2010: (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126255525849313997.html)

Milk 2013: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22088977)

Glow in dark pork: (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8544851...)

Waste oil from gutters outside restaurants repackaged and sold for consumption: (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7971983...)
For regenerative I would just dump it back into the grid. There are plenty of other consumers in a skyscraper, the meter would not even flow backward.

I'm also wondering this about CF - my understanding is it's strong, but has very poor abrasion resistance.

Even if you avoid external abrasion you can't avoid internal as the fibers rub against each other when they bend.
what if we legalize terrorism then? ;)
That "switching cost" doesn't just apply to cults. I know for sure it applies to at least certain streams of Islam and Judaism. I wouldn't be surprised (but don't know for sure) if it applied to certain streams of Christianity too.

You may consider those religious streams cults at your own discretion :)
Because people in history were different from us, we can learn nothing from them? This is one of the most anti-intellectual non-sequiturs I regularly see, and it makes me sad and fearful for our democracy.
I don't get it... why does Australia need to store a copy of US secret data? Isn't this why the Defence Industry invented the internet?
[2011]

The auth customization story has improved recently in 1.5, and the author of this very presentation (Andrew Goodwin) is bringing support for schema changes into the core with his post-South project:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...
The abrasion problem is more internal than external. The individual fibers run against each other when the bend (since some bend more than others).

Without some elasticity the internal forces will destroy the cable. Not sure how elastic CF is compared to steel.

They may be able to help with some clever rope making techniques.
Unless I have missed something, Guardian has NOT said the NSA does not have direct access.

The Guardian has reported that an NSA document says they do, and that Google says they don't. As far as I have seen, the Guardian has not made a claim either way.

You choose to trust Google. A lot of other people here choose to trust the NSA documents more.
Ask HN: What is good language / project to teach 12-year old to code?
Thinking HTML/javascript, text game, but am open to other suggestions. I am quick to pick up languages (I already write a lot of different languages). I want to make sure that I choose something interesting enough to keep his attention if he really is wanting to learn to code.
am i the only one that was disappointed in not actually seeing any imagery of Tranquillity?
"communist leanings" -- When he was talking about racism it was fine. Then he started talking about poverty and Vietnam. That's what set off alarm bells.

Poverty: i.e. talking about the economic injustice that perpetuates racism. That is... how we won't all be free until poverty is eliminated. Simple-minded people can't figure out that one can be against poverty without being a communist.

Vietnam: He started asking, "Hey, why are so many black people being sent to Vietnam to die?" Well, since we were fighting communism in Vietnam anyone against the war must be for communism, right? (wrong, but that's how simple people think)

Ironically he wasn't a communist... at all. In fact, he often started public speeches (like this one http://depts.drew.edu/lib/archives/online_exhibits/King/inde... ) with a diatribe against communism. Listen to the first few minutes of that speech, it is both hilarious (he opens with some jokes) and serious.
NSA isn't allowed to spy on its own citizens.

Australia is allowed to spy on US citizens.

US and Australia pool their collected intelligence. The US gives a list of names to Australia and asks if Australia has any information on those names.

This is pretty much how ECHELON worked, with UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand all cooperating.
The problem has more to do with Dubai than with the building. Many buildings in Dubai employ similar schemes because the sewerage system wasn't scaled as the city grew.

This is like a lot of things in Dubai: roads, public transport and the airport which is currently being more than doubled.
Someone should mark this (2011).

South provides stable and mature migrations for schema changes [1]

Custom Auth models are now available in Django 1.5 [2]

The templating language definitely needs some work, but it's slowly getting better. I'd prefer them drop in Jinja2 but that's just me.

[1] http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizin...
"Good for health?"

Manhattan has some of the lowest obesity rates in the country due to inhabitants reliance on walking/public transit over driving. There are few studies that show a 2 year life expectancy vs rural areas in the UK, but it's not a totally clear cut win for rural areas overall.

"Good for the environment? No."

Yes, actually - it's a lot more efficient to deliver services to people in densely populated areas than when they're spread thinly across the country side.

"Per capita emissions in New York, Toronto and Barcelona are only a third of their national average, and the emissions of Tokyo, London and Seoul come in at about half of their countries' level."
- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16819-city-dwellers-ha...
- http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/the-comparatively-... has a ton of other sources, including a brookings institute study and some others

No disagreement on corporate profits. Cities are also great as birthplaces of movements, musical genres, schools of art, and political theories. Think the east village during punk, detroit in the 50s for rock, the salons of paris around the French Revolution, etc etc.

There are definitely great reasons to live in rural areas, but being a city dweller is far from inherently worse.
TBH, when I see the word cult, I think of culture, which leads to a community. So when you say people subscribe for the community, it's completely understandable.
You misread the article - the briefing seems to only specifically mention wiretapping phone calls. The author goes on to say:

> Because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e-mail messages, text messages, and instant messages, Nadler's disclosure indicates the NSA analysts could also access the contents of Internet communications without going before a court and seeking approval.

Meaning the US Gov't believes it has as much legal right to access e-mail as it does phone calls. Claims that they've done so in the same way (that is, in massive numbers with very little oversight or attention) are speculation. As more evidence begins to surface, it seems like telephone companies like AT&T and Verizon have been far more complicit in the NSA's indiscriminate surveillance programs than companies eg. Google that control e-mail - when's the last time you saw AT&T publish a transparency report detailing government requests for user data?
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None of those are "from the last few months".
And all of them are (pro) western media (less reliable).

In addition, it's seems non of them relate to China's intentional avoidance of modern technology in farming...
That 'might' seems much more like an 'is'. And they seem to be sharing that information with foreign governments as well.

As an aside, why is Silicon Valley not much more worked up about this versus say immigration acts? This seems to be more important than the immigration bills they are pushing. Talking about misplaced values... Thinking of more ways to make money while Rome burns.
The Organisation as they call it is hierarchical. That's why you have elders, district overseers, governing body, etc. I've seen elders stepped down for not being perfect examples of fathers in their own families, or if one of their children are disassociated. People do get disassociated for challenging the order in the way of not following rules. They also regularly guilt trip their members for their idleness. Not having highlighted the answers in your Watchtower for example before the Sunday meeting must mean you don't do Bible study with your family like good parents. Pioneers (people who door knock full time) must complete so many hours of services per month.
I implemented something very similar in perl a few weeks back for my user interfaces project; I wrote a desktop search client that would take a query from the user and score results based on how many and how well it matches a series of different interpretations of the query (fuzzy was one of them).

I too am really amazed this isn't more prevalent as it is so easy to do, after discovering the vim ctrl-p [1] plugin I rarely go a day without using it.

[1] https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
There are a number of suggestions to remove the cables altogether and have the car power itself, but would it not be easier to have the cables removed and still power it through the building?

Something like electromagnets, rail gun style?
I think Aeron is the best and definitely worth it.

The best write up I've seen explaining the pro's and con's of an Aeron is here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1MUWGLPM341EB/

I was also doing this research and definitely Aeron is the way to go. My other chair after sitting in it for hours caused my lower back to hurt so bad. If you sit for hours on end working like most of us here, Aeron is the only choice you can be sure to cure lower back pain.

Make sure to get the lower lumbar support "Pad" not the "PostureFit" option. The above link explains why PostureFit is more or less useless even though it is a few bucks cheaper.

As for Desks, I love this stainless steel one, it's relatively cheap and looks pretty awesome and easy to keep clean:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S69871067/

I've had both the chair and desk for years, and they still look brand new.

Hope that helps!
The one thing I know, though, they require FLAC upload for their commercial music distribution service.

It's actually better than some place, which actually requires a physical CDDA ROM...
At this late hour I made a note to comment on this in the morning, when I could make my thoughts more succinct. I then realized the inherent irony in that action.

I love this tool.
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Honestly though, why increase height and density still further? There are stupendous issues here with efficiency with regards to food, water, and HVAC - if nothing else.

Can you back up your impression that there are stupendous efficiency issues with numbers?

In the USA multiple studies have been done on the question. They find that the per capita carbon footprint of people living in major metropolitan areas is lower than those living in smaller cities and the country. And NYC, that concrete jungle that epitomizes a disconnect from anything natural, is actually per capita the one of the 10 most ecologically friendly cities in the nation!

It may be unbelievable to you that it is environmentally friendly to pack people densely enough that walking and public transit become favored options. So I point you to http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2008... for a citation.
There are quite a few technical challenges here (weight of cables, stability at 20 mi, erosion by much intense radiation etc). Details on one of the previous efforts which was considered revolutionary but never became main stream can be seen here: http://www.spacedata.net/news040108.htm.
That's why I seek to clarify, I know I don't know what's in your head. All I can know is what I see.

For the record, there is no doubt in my mind that rayiner is a hell of a lot more of a statist than you.
any one else been doing this for years too?
Ok Off topic. Why are there no street protests in U.S? Or no one cares?
The evidence of MLK's 'communist leanings' of any significance is pretty weak.

Pretty weak, or non-existent? Unless I'm missing something, that Wikipedia page doesn't contain weak evidence, it contains no evidence.
I'll be happy to supply the sock.

> NSA doesn't have Google's private key.

And socks come in pairs.
You're quite right, but it's still worth noting that most supertalls are emphatically not residential towers. Office towers are much easier to manage when there's a workday pattern. I wonder if the rampant debt and consequent vacancies around Dubai has lightened the loads so to speak on their sewage costs...
I don't remember anyone asking on the mailing list, but you can search the archives. SQLite does let you do select operations on selects: SELECT ... FROM (SELECT ... FROM ..)

The other important thing SQLite has available is user defined functions. Because SQLite is running in the same process as your query code, you can add your own scalar and aggregate functions that do anything you want.

It also has a virtual table mechanism so you can provide tables of any shape and contents you want based on other data.
Thanks for the detail - I now understand you view far better than earlier in the thread. will read these articles when I have the time
Or for that matter, type. At least C♯ has "C#".

Maybe we can use C' ?
my bet is that, broadly speaking, emerging labour markets (our type of industry, for example) based on new technologies for communications and a reformed education system will cause a mass migration of professionals away from cities, back to a more sustainable, decentralized model.

You never heard of the economy of scale that comes with urban density? How would lower density makes the environment more "sustainable"?
> I never understood why "conservatives" weren't up in arms over E-Verify. This is effectively a system that gives the executive branch the ability to stop anyone in the country from getting a job.

Because most people it would stop are brown.
> Nikita Khrushchev spoke at the United Nations, banging his show upon the desk as he said "We will bury you!"

I discovered recently that this conflates two different events

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident