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> The 9th circuit did not know whether they should grant standing. They remanded it to the California Supreme Court to decide that.

That's neither procedurally nor factually correct; they certified a question to the California Supreme Court about the authority of petitioners under State law to defend the proposition in court; this was not a remand, and although the Ninth Circuit based its finding of standing on the result, the question to the California Supreme Court was not directly on standing (which is a federal question, not a state law question, and thus wouldn't have been an appropriate question for certification to the state court.)

> The Supreme Court has now disagreed.

The Supreme Court, to be clear, disagreed with the Ninth Circuit's conclusion on standing, not the California Supreme Court's answer on the question of state law authority. In fact, they based their disagreement in part on the California Supreme Court answer, and on how that answer clearly indicated that the state law authority did not have the requisite elements of an agency relationship, which would be necessary for the petitioners to have the standing on the basis that they were representatives of the State interest rather than on the basis of particularized harms they themselves faced as the result of an adverse decision.

> California gives voters the power to pass proposition that the state does not like.

It gives the voters -- through the reserved legislative powers state held by the electorate -- the power to pass laws (including Constitutional amendments) that the elected representatives of the state don't like.

It also gives the voters the power to voters to elect representatives -- and to remove them if they don't like their actions.

> I do not understand precedent well enough to know whether state courts will look to the Supreme Court or the California Supreme Court on this.)

State courts -- and federal courts -- will look to the state Supreme Court on the state law question, and would look to the US Supreme Court on the federal law question (except that the question of Article III standing is, unlike many other federal law questions, almost never relevant to a state court except perhaps as persuasive authority on the application of similar state standing rules when there is no controlling state precedent available.)
Then you can start your research with the definition of standard of living.

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

Which of the factors listed have improved? Note the explicit acknowledgement of these measures done in context, meaning in relative terms. Measuring wealth in absolute terms is unhelpful.

Also, social mobility has been declining for decades. Your personal experience is not the norm.
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How do you feel about "nicotine addict"?
"They felt that they were being hired into temp jobs just for the time being, and that soon, they would be hired into full-time jobs."

That is unfortunate, but I wouldn't advise anyone to go on feeling in such cases.
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That's pretty much the feeling I had... I would even say that it might be that kintek never heard of this guys, they just happened to have very similar idea that probably came from similar sources.
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Has there been a clear acknowledgement from a court that these programs violated the 4th amendment? Because I'm pretty sure that government's position is that PRISM was fully authorized under the law with the direct approval of a FISA Court.
Nicotine is as addictive as heroin. Doubt you get physically ill trying to kick porn.
"Also, if you're not a feminist by 2013, what are you?"

I'm an egalitarian, because I believe in equal rights for all people, not just one biological sex.

Unless you're a cis female, feminism is very hostile to you. Since I am GLBT, I find egalitarianism much more appealing for this reason as well.
A couple of thoughts:

1) A hard upper limit on the intellectual capacity of an individual human being does not directly necessitate a corresponding limit to the capacity of humanity as a whole. There are now reliable means of preserving past knowledge and experience, and population growth means more minds are available to ponder difficult problems.

Interestingly, this is somewhat analogous to where we are today in computer hardware - an individual processor's power is limited, but large gains are yet to be made by adding more processors, and storage of information is increasingly exponentially.

These kinds of gains are not linear as you would expect from an increase in processors' speed, but they are gains nonetheless.

2) Even if you do assume that the individual human's finite capacity does imply an upper limit on human progress, it is still possible for progress to increase indefinitely; the gains will merely be increasingly marginal.

I agree that the idea that progress is an inevitable force of nature is completely false. It is a goal, not a natural force. I personally don't know anyone who actually believes this though, so I feel like this is something of a strawman.
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In approximately the same way they'd know how much money, dope, or shares of Toyota you have: by asking other people you did business with, counting it, convincing you to accept it from them, or otherwise bringing the routine practice of law enforcement to bear against you.
Obviously the Austrian student group who filed this lawsuit are total hypocrites based on what the UK does.
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The question that keeps coming up is whether being a journalist means you get special privileges. It's hilarious that David Gregory suggests Glen Greenwald be charged with a crime, seeing as Gregory, it will be further recalled, illustrated an anti-gun law by violating it on the air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Hb6c2tWl0

So if you go along with the idea that a journalist gets special privileges, what defines a journalist? Is Ariana Huffington one? Howard Stern? How about Rush Limbaugh? How about a famous blogger? How about a not-so-famous blogger? An anchor for Fox News?

Hmm. For many, these are uncomfortable questions. After all, what happens when journalists fail to do their job, because they either can't get the info or won't report on it? Julian Assange is proof of that issue. Is he a journalist?

Once upon a time you just needed to be bureaucrat. Today the thing to be is a bureaucrat with a badge. Bruce Schneier calls this phenomenon "privilege escalation". He cites the example of transit cops whose main ambition was to drop the "transit" part of their job description.

Fascinating commentary here:
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/06/24/do-you-know-w...

It becomes a matter of "who you are" instead of equal application of the law to everybody.

Frankly I despise the idea that journalists should have a different set of rules from the rest of us. Equally-applied laws make should be beyond question ... I can't believe people are even arguing whether laws should be applied to everyone equally.

Especially defenders of the 1st amendment.
The machine could have been shutdown before they had the opportunity to slurp the file.
How is this a desktop client and mobile at the same time?
... actual details (vs wild speculation).

Thank you!
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Are you saying that people who are addicted are not conscious of their problem?

Most of the time, getting out of addiction takes more than your run-off-the-mill consciousness and self-control.
Ask HN: How to become a blogger?
I recently started blogging here
http://www.runningmeticulously.blogspot.ca/
but my blog is not doing well.

I was wondering if anyone had tips on blogging.

I've seen lots of default blog layouts on here and thought that the content is what matters and not the design.

I am wondering how do bloggers get an audience.

Thanks in advance.
I was not even aware this was a thing.
How many meals do you figure they served each day?

$500 a day might not be all that much (or it could be quite a bit).
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Thanks for the update! We're working to have expected functionality when third party cookies being disabled. I'll keep an eye on when it's planned to be released.
Here's a link to live video: http://channel9.msdn.com/
I have a (now in maintenance-mode) site at http://eMusicTheory.com that's based on Java applets... but based on the number of subscribing teachers who are contacting me over the past 2 years saying "the school is getting a bunch of iPads, but the drills don't work!", at some point I'm going to have to start migrating to JavaScript.

I have a pretty significant codebase (in Java, for now) representing music theory concepts as objects, which should be pretty simple to convert to JS, but I haven't tried tackling the notation rendering yet at all -- mostly because I've been busy on another project for 2 years now.

Get in touch if you'll be open sourcing this library, or if you have any interest in building JS-based music theory drills; there's certainly a market.
I don't think they look similar at all..

How many sites look like the Stripe landing page now adays?

Also, it's about 3am in brisbane at the moment, so you might not get a response for another 7 hours.
I think when you consider the "upstream" portion of the prism slide titled "FAA702 Operations" (the one about splitting the fiber optic cables) that yes, my statement is correct.
Your file extension is geo.json. Rename to .geojson?
It might be restricted to focusable/editable components, e.g. a `contenteditable` block should work.
>"I really envy you guys."

A trip to the doctor will cure you of that.
Yes, this is eerily lifelike.
A little self-control goes a long way, and the words we use with ourselves are very important. We create our own narrative, and unfortunately a lot of people are oblivious to this. Hold yourself to a higher standard, and you can do a lot more than you think.
As a STEM student, I ask these questions, have been trained to ask them, and like to consider myself quite creative. So many people forget that the philosophers studied by liberal arts students were often mathematicians and men of science, as well. STEM graduates aren't the people getting only half of an education, here. In fact, if historical trends continue, humanities students 500 years from now will be studying the stuff they write.
Thanks, I was getting mighty confused about adblock and thinking, "I didn't think this was even a German property"
Sounds interesting — but how would I go about finding the work in the first place?
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They're not loaded from the server but the sms.db (sqlite) database on your phone.

Tools exist to read the database from the phone directly, from backups, etc. Which is great when you accidentally delete them... I wouldn't know that though. :)
Exactly this? WTF? The "this" response was bad enough as it was. Now we are lowering the SNR even more by prepending "Exactly"?
Google also has an add-on if you want to opt out from Google Analytics.

[1] https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Find it hard to trust that piece, too many possible agendas come to mind that could motivate publishing it.

For what it's worth, I've been watching porn now an then and it didn't spiral into more and more kinky and what not stuff for me. I still prefer "playboy style" most of the time.

The thesis that porn worsens your sexual taste is probably the foundation for a lot of ideological campaigns...
this:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/nsa-leaker-ed-sno...
"[name/pronoun] is killing it"

Everytime I hear that on a podcast or read it online, my douchometer pegs the needle. For an industry based in science and facts, there's far too many buzzphrases and abstractions thrown around by so called leaders.

Seriously, when I listen to a podcast and hear "killing it" or "Yeah buddy!" in one of those 2am infomercial voices, I assume they have a fresh coat of spray tan, a fauxhawk, and are wearing sunglasses inside while recording.
NSA spokeswoman Judith Emmel said the actual words in the Patriot Act are the "best possible representation" of how the government has interpreted the law's authority.

I notice that the 4th Amendment doesn't factor into it.
> Roberts has generally been considered the swing vote in cases where he needs to sort of fall-on-his-sword to preserve the non-partisan appearance of the court.

Why? So he doesn't have a problem getting "re-elected?" I'm not sure why you think he is worried about the appearance of the court in that way.
Stock options state that you may exercise, essentially invoke, your right to buy a stock at a given price, also known as a strike price. If you have 100 options at a strike price of $20, you have the right to buy 100 shares at $20 per share regardless of current market value of the stock. Your options also may be subject to a vesting period. This means that after a given time you are given a certain amount or percentage of options you may use. For instance if your 100 options vest over 4 years, you would have 25 options per year that you are allowed to exercise. Vesting periods can be different so ask your employer.

Here is an example:

You are given a strike price of $20 per share and decided to exercise your option. The stock is currently at $30 per share. You are now buying the stock at $20 per share. You now decide to immediately sell those shares and now make $10 per share gross profit.

All stock purchases and sale must be done through a broker.

Hope this helps.
Physical addiction to nicotine is hard to establish and quite weak. It is strongly psychologically addictive.

I'm cautious about the new addictions, and I think there's some misunderstanding in sensationalising in pop therapy, but I can see how porn addiction or sex addiction can happen.

It's pretty well established that people can be addicted to gambling, and I don't see much difference between that and other non-substance based addictions. Gambling is more well known because it is so well tuned to exploit the addict.
Blog spam has a meaning. It's a copy and paste of another article. This is not blog spam.
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I'm so glad Google had a great pitch 14 years ago, otherwise I never would have switched from the superior Lycos search.
I don't get the "without their knowledge or permission" part. That could go for anyone who puts a tracking pixel into an email. It doesn't apply specifically to the "technical loophole" discussed in this article. I'm not a fan of tracking pixels either, but this isn't really the point of the article.
Amazingly happy to see that HN and /r/news|politics|worldnews now looks like /r/conspiracy exploded all over them.

I am happy that the worries of echelon, which was treated as rumour, hearsay and conspiracy theory are now 100% proven to the entire world.

I am looking forward to seeing what further revelations Snowden's files will show.
Thanks. I agree that Haskell is a great language, but this is a dynamically typed scripting language. As such, perhaps it would be more useful to compare it to languages that are actually comparable, like Ruby, Perl, your favorite LISP, Javascript, or Python.

This language does not include any nonsensical type casts. You cannot add a table to a string, take the arithmetic negation of a function, or index a number. (Actually, if you wanted to you could write code that permits you to do most of these things. For instance, I usually use some code that adds the ability to index strings.) String concatenation and arithmetic addition are different operators, so unlike in some prominent scripting languages you cannot find a and b such that +(a+b) == 50005 and +(b+a) == 55.

It does, however, include some forms that allow you to branch based on whether or not a value is a member of the set {nil, false}. I suppose that it would be better for the compiler to be able to guarantee that the value was a member of the set {true, false} and to yell at you rather than running your code if it was not, but this is a fairly rare property across all programming languages. I frequently use a programming language called Scala, and it pretends to provide some typechecks, but in reality all reference types are silently nullable, and all method calls are silently of the bottom type.
The truth can often seem inconsiderate. That doesn't make it less true
No, that's a good point. SCOTUS evaluated only Section 3 of DOMA. They did not "strike down" the entire Act, as most reporters are suggesting.
Seems good, I like it. I might try it later on my server (hopefully it's not too heavy on the system, since I'm going to try it in a small vps).

But it's still another reader that I'll probably not use. Why? Because since there isn't an open standard for RSS reader I can't use it with the client I want.

I'm not saying it's your fault, as it sure isn't. But it's sad that we didn't learn this from the death of Google Reader. There were some talk about creating an open standard right after it's death, but nothing major came out of it.

This is also why I'm still using Google Reader, because every RSS reader out of there doesn't have either a mobile client or a website that I like. If there were an open standard, I could use the mobile client I want, the desktop client I want, and rely on the backend for synchronization and reading on computer without a desktop client.
"it was a steadying beam to fall back on."

What does that even mean?

I reckon a lot of adolescents (and also older men) would fall back to masturbation after having frustrating encounters with the other sex. With or without porn.
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ha, that is a good one. didn't think of that, but also a good pre-caution!
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It's going to come down to what kind of business the Irish company carries out on behalf of the parent company or whether the Irish company is the parent. There are so many ways the relationship could be set up and figuring it all out could take a loooong time. First they have to work that out before they can determine whether they are responsible for following EU law and what laws they are obliged to follow. The Irish company may not have anything to do with data which would pretty much let them off the hook I'm guessing.
There is a world of difference between "put up an acceptable defense" and "defended to the limit of their ability".

Opponents of the proposition pick a district court with a judge whose bias is known. The state puts up a defense, loses, and then does not appeal. There are, now, no safeguards blocking this sequence. Nobody can be sanctioned for it. And nobody aside from the disinterested state has standing to complain.

The protection of the court is useless if you cannot get your day in court.
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Your business partner is going to be the most important relationship you have outside of your family and your SO. The way I see it there are four crucial aspects:

1. Whether or not you like working with them all day
2. Whether or not you can resolve disputes in a friendly, dispassionate manner
3. Whether or not they can be trusted to act in your best interest most of the time, aka not stab you in the back at the first opportunity
4. Their work ethic.

The benefit of working with your best friend is that you know a priori whether they satisfy most of these constraints (nota bene: your best friend may not be all that great of a business partner).

I don't really understand how people can team up with perfect strangers they can't vet; I imagine there are a lot of tense, meaningless conversations early on regarding equity and division of labour precisely because they can't trust each other implicitly. When incorporating our company, we skipped a lot of awkward conversations with the understanding that we'd talk them through like adults should conflicts arise. There are very few people in my life I can do that with.

The key thing to keep in mind is that you have to talk about your exit from day one. Your business is likely to fail, and so you always have to keep in mind how to gracefully handle it to preserve your relationship. Suppose you toil for a year or two and things are kind of stagnant but you or your buddy get offered a sweet job, man. You can turn on the guilt but you should also be able to step back and say "yeah this is probably the right move for you, go for it".

I've worked with a good friend where things soured (and it was like 60% my fault); it was awkward for a month or two afterwards but not unlike an ex girlfriend we had a good chat about it over beers once things had settled down and moved on and recovered entirely.

It's a delicate exercise, but one that for me at least has worked out pretty good so far.
An RSS reader without synchronization is not a Google Reader replacement.
McAfee which was headquartered out of Plano, TX recognized domestic partnerships at least as far back as 5 years ago. Domestic partnership covers opposite-sex relationships, so it was a nice little benefit for everyone in committed relationships.
Oh, I understand now, you were talking about shared mutable state. I think that Java has a solid support for parallelism and there's more in libraries (e.g. implementations of the actor model). When I share data between threads, I almost always use immutable objects (one can even mark immutable classes with an annotation to make it explicit). Clojure's software transactional memory is a very interesting feature but I haven't really played with it.

Java does allow variables to be marked as being immutable using the final keyword, but it doesn't have very good tools for dealing with immutable data. It doesn't have efficient immutable data structures in its core language and it has no tail call optimisation, or even a pseudo-TCO structure like Clojure's loop/recur. In short, it's much more difficult to use immutable data in Java than it is in a functional language like Clojure.

Mostly agree, functional languages like Clojure are definitely more immutable-friendly.
Another interesting tidbit:

At Brigham Young University in 2007, 21 percent of male college students reported watching porn "every day or almost every day."
You broke "back" functionality with alt+left arrow.
My car was broken into a few years back and all the thief took was my school books sitting in the back seat. My iPod was even sitting in the cup holder on a pile of loose change.
We're currently doing some testing using images. We're still very early in our product development.

The new Digg does look great and very slick!
I'm an egalitarian

This makes you, among other things, a feminist.

It also makes you, for example, an opponent of the case system in India, regardless some people deeply involved in that issue committing bad acts under its cloak (not saying there are those people, I have no idea, that's not the point).

Unless you're a cis female, feminism is very hostile to you.

I'll be the judge of that.
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But according to the blog post, `.json` should be fine (unless `.geo.json` is not considered `.json`)
Very, very helpful! Thank you very much!
Nice, hope you'll post a link to your thesis/code when you're done (for Science!)
Good question that most people face and are afraid to ask :)

Here are some resources to check out that have covered this well:

* Rand wrote a great post (http://moz.com/rand/understanding-stock-options-at-startups-...)

* Solid overview: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/11/how-much-are-startup-...

* This is a good book that doesn't get enough love (http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Silicon-Valley-Startups-eboo...)

* Good high-level notes about equity in startups (part of an incredible series, read it all if you can - http://blakemasters.com/post/21742864570/peter-thiels-cs183-...)

* Venture Hacks on the "Option Pool Shuffle": http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle