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Or, more likely, it's a few people who got dud hardware or are misdiagnosing marginal WiFi coverage and some tech “reporters” acting as an echo chamber to amplify it. This is a couple of forum posts run through Gizmodo and (disappointingly) ArsTechnica – i.e. the plural of anecdote.
Can't why to see Scalia argue as to why the government needs to put to death people it knows are innocent.
Open Source doesn't mean free.
Nobody is excited that it's faster than a gas powered car, but rather that its now feasible to have "instant" refuel for an electric car. The comparison was just to make it more interesting to watch.
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Or with your time and knowledge.

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
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This was exposed in 2006. As PRISM claims are walked back, it seems the recently renewed outrage is being pushed to other old stories.
It's no worse than suggesting that Kevin Rose "made $60 million in 18 months" from Digg. http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dont_believe_businessweek...
We're at the research phase, still. The techniques seem promising, but there's still a lot of work to do, before we get to the tuning stage. THEN, you can have your estimates.
The point is, an electrical charge can take 30 minutes or so, not that a petrol stop takes too long.
There's only so much QA you can do - are they going to extensively test with every wifi router and firmware configuration ever made? At some point you have to ship and look at the logs you get back.
This link has already been on HN once, and yeah, it helped me to make decision to follow my dream and do a 6 month travel to SE Asia. Thanks Alex! Cheers from KL :)
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That was Copernic. (After Copernicus) I remember using it and there was a list of perhaps 20 engines. I remember the first to return (like, would return in 1 second not 30 seconds for the rest) was google.

Every single time, google was the first back. It wasn't always ranked the top result back then, but it was fast.
I'm doing this now(1), almost 300 days into it. Currently have lived in 13 countries(2). I work as I travel so haven't done too many crazy places, but definitely have learned a lot of things I would do differently now. Finishing this in October, going to be a long story to share. Was worth every single stress-minute.

[1] - http://juokaz.com/blog/living-homeless.html
[2] - https://twitter.com/juokaz/status/348036931214524416
How do we know there isn't a European equivalent of PRISM? The American one was kept secret for quite some time and it's not like European countries are any less technically advanced or motivated.
If you don't have anything positive to contribute and you really think this is not worth your time, then why don't you just go away? Why the pedantic need to argue some minor sub-points when everyone else is talking about the big picture?

No one cares about your arguments, and you don't seem to care about other people's arguments either. I think the best solution for everyone is if you just go and argue somewhere where people might care.
Same here. When Lion came out it was the worst. (always used quality APs).
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We know that GCHQ in the UK is doing something similar. But unlike the US system, we may have a chance to make a difference here since the EU is already pretty strict on data protection laws.
If you are citing work I think its very relevant. Since it sets up the whole foundation of the piece.
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Would it be a threat to Google if all useful information was well-curated, semantic, etc? If developing a search engine became nontrivial, would the hypothetical loss of Google's search product cause them serious problems?

I would like to see this happen. Not to harm Google, but rather to make search a problem that doesn't require billions to tackle.
Direct audio link is here (MP3): http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress_trac/web/20927/0/BF...

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At 0:48:26 Tice mentions the intercept order for then-Senatorial candidate Obama.

He also mentions that senior civilian, military and government leaders were explicitly targeted.

Some of the notable intercept targets included Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton, Samuel Alito, former FISA Court judges, U.S. Congressional intelligence committees, law firms, financial firms, State Department personnel, humanitarian NGOs.

Lawyers and civil rights groups were mentioned as well, I'm wondering if EFF was included in that.

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Tice previously played off his unclassified resume's listing of space-based systems expertise as a cover story for his activities at NSA. However, he has now revealed that he specialized in space-based capabilities at NSA all along. This is humorous when you consider the following:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/nsa-whistlebl-2/

Do you have any connection to outer space stuff? I asked.

"I watch Buck Rogers."

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Also of note: NSA's Bluffdale, Utah data storage facility is apparently already online and operational.
I second that. SO is a fantastic resource. Just when I feel I'm starting to become an expert, I look something up on SO and discover how much I still have to learn. Keeps ya' humble!
For a start there is no guts to the article. It could be summarised in one line, "Time is valuable, make your default position no"
Most articles are shite. I feel that casual users upvote anything medium because it has sort of established itself as an important platform for good developers. However, if you read most of them, it's just rambling and you don't learn anything. A lot of it is very ranty.
Oh dear.. blame Google, not me!
medium.com is just a blogging platform. Others on HN have expressed the desire to block links to certain sites with particular agendas - do you see medium.com as having an agenda that you find distasteful?
OTOH, Apple is renowned for keeping hardware problems on the down-low and quietly swapping things out with no questions when people come in to complain. The only way this kind of thing gets out is through forum complaints and such.
All of the Indian visas I have been issued (6-month tourist visas) were good for 6 months from the date of issuance, not the date of entry.
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And we were always at war with EastAsia.

In this particular case, the beliefs are not irrelevant - doctors need to correctly understand evolution to correctly carry out their duties. Also, I fail to see how someone that understands their job could be considered more dangerous in doing that job than someone that is cluelessly copying something they've been told. To be clear, I can imagine a competent psychopath being more dangerous than an incompetent normal person, but psycopathy is orthogonal to the discussion here, I hope you agree.
offtopic, but it remainds me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

have fun ! ;)
Well if a government-blessed cartel ran industry X, and there was basically only one product with no competition, which was replaced on a predetermined 10 year cycle after a series of long political committee meetings and they'd built a massive patent thicket to prevent upstart competition and control rivals business models how much disruptive innovation would you expect to see?
I think that might be the point:

http://uspirates.org/wiki_src/index.php/Pirate_National_Comm...

For our values, we have been derided as “pirates”. For our hope that every person may be free to access all of human knowledge, we have been called “pirates”. For our belief that one need not ask permission to participate in governance, industry, culture, and other aspects of society, we have been called “pirates”. For our insistence that citizens should not be surveilled and distrusted as if they are criminals, we have been called “pirates”. For our rejection of authority and profit-seeking when it does not serve the common good of all people, we have been called “pirates”.

We reclaim this label of “pirate” and abjure its derogatory, incendiary implication. We are Pirates. We stand for the liberty, equality, and solidarity of all human beings, and against all threats they may face.

I myself am not sure if I would like "Freedom Party" or something like that better. When someone calls themselves "The Good Guys" without irony, I get nervous. So at least given the choice between those extremes (which of course is not the actual choice, the PP could have plenty of names that neither "offensive" nor meaningless), I would prefer irony and alienating those who don't get said irony.
Nothing compares to the downvoting going on over at english.stack... Jesus, you better have perfect English if you want anything other than a negative rep.
Maybe it won't be standardized. And maybe websites will start instructing users to use Chrome, or simply publish to the Chrome Web Store. If asm.js takes off, I think it will work, but right now it's one browser maker competing against a kit which provides 90% speed, today, with multithreading and a real debugger, and which, despite its flaws, seems cleaner and saner to many developers (I'm sure you've seen the many kneejerk reactions to JavaScript-as-bytecode), never mind other browser makers which seem fine with none-of-the-above (remember, today, if you even want to use WebGL, you're asking a significant portion of users to switch browser). So despite the hype, I'm not sure asm.js will receive enough support in the next few years to succeed.
I seem to recall the last time this was posted I commented and said for people to do this! If you wait and you get baggage, it makes it much harder to do. But I took some of my own advice and just last week I spent a week in Nicaragua working in a camp for the youths of the surrounding cities. Best thing I've done in a long time! I can't wait for my trip to Thailand in October. BTW, I'm doing this with a soul-sucking enterprise IT job with a wife and 2 kids. So if I can do it, you can too (albeit scaled back a bit).
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I have had an issue both with my previous mac, a second gen air and a first gen pro retina with sustaining a connection (I am immediately next to the wifi router and get wifi drop outs yet my colleague, a distance away using a PC, has no dropouts whatsoever.)

I also have a curious problem that has affected both of them - if I rest the laptop on my naked chest, the wifi connection degrades to the point that connectivity is significantly affected, and if the signal is not strong enough completely drops out. Seems to me to be related to the aluminium case. Quite frustrating as this is (an arguably not very healthy) common use case for me :)
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Don't fly, travel overland, that's the most interesting part of the trip, especially the remote areas near borders...

The worst is to book this round-the-world ticket, where you have to decide in advance how long you'll stay at each point. We travelled around the world for 1 year and ended up staying as much as one month in one place where we'd planned to stay 1 day, or literally flee out of countries like Malaysia after 2 days.
Yeah, the moderation gets on my nerves. They might just lock the question before you have time to explain yourself better. And by then, they've already edited your question to what they falsely believed it was asking, even if there was nothing ambiguous about it. I've quietly decided to never use the site again because of things like that.
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Of course I'm hoping that they succeed. But I see no reason to kid myself into believing that there is a high probability that this will work.

Since I'm living in Münster, where a lot of the German Pirates are and know quite a few of them, I'll be the first one to join any protest or demonstration they organize locally.
It was great! People are really friendly, mostly you can find someone who speaks English in any given situation, and it's pretty cheap - I'd highly recommend going. People often stopped us on the street just to say "Thanks for visiting Iran"! We just had a two week visa, original plan was to take the train from Istanbul - Tehran. Alas we could only buy tickets in person and they were sold out (lots of Iranians holiday in Istanbul before Ramadam). So instead we flew Istanbul - Tehran. Spent a few days in Tehran, then Isfahan (our favourite city there, the bazaar and square are just beautiful), Yazd (amazing mud architecture) and Shiraz (best spot to visit Persepolis from), then flew on to Mumbai.

Hasslewise: I was traveling with my partner, she had to wear the hijab (hair covering) at all times while outdoors which was a bit of a challenge (try keeping it on with the wind blowing out of the metro in Tehran!). People are very accommodating though, a huddle of women would sometimes form around her to set things right if it was slipping off! This was exacerbated by the time of year (midsummer), you'd be better going sometime cooler. Only other thing I can think of is that the banking system is totally cut off from outside (no ATMs which accept foreign cards, very few places accept western credit cards), so you need to carry in as much cash as you need for the trip. Definitely intending to go back in the future with more time on our hands - there's just endless places to see and visit - it truly was a unique experience.

We've got some blog posts here that might help:
http://www.sarahandniall.com/2011/08/iran.html
http://www.sarahandniall.com/2011/09/traveling-as-woman-in-i...
(I have blog posts written but not published for the rest of the trip - really must get them up!).
The trouble is the people in the middle. They used system UI where possible, but then rolled their own where Apple didn't have a good solution. If you recompile those apps against iOS 7 SDK, your app looks like junk, and it's a lot of work to fix it. If it's not a super-profitable app, are you really going to go back and get new art done, or are you just going to keep it the same, by using old XCode or something.

The other trouble is that a lot of devs don't use AutoLayout, because it's historically been very hard to get working right. And transitioning your app to it hasn't had many benefits in the past.
Actually, it's the other way around. Shai Agassi (founder of Better Place) visited Tesla several years back, then went on to found Better Place after what he saw:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/347005150860283905
I was under the impression that the data protection laws don't really say much about what the government can do internally, or even whether they play by the rules.
An Audi A8 and some expensive S class models.
Sorry yes I put my India parenthesis on the wrong clause - edited and fixed now!
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Yes! That's it. Yeah, Google came and blew everything else out of the water. I remember searching for an ocx file for something that wouldn't run, and everything kept returning some spam sites. I somehow stumbled upon Google, after some recommendation, and tried it, and the first result was a legitimate download of the actual file.

It's not hard to see why everyone switched to it.
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I was able to see it without any login prompt, I don't have any Apple account whatsoever.
You are basically right about China, they are raising fast. But what the news talking about is to recruit 3000 developers in Taiwan rather than in China, I think it could be so hard even to recruit 50 okay software developers in Taiwan. Actually there is no software/Internet industry in Taiwan. You can name Internet company as a long list such as Baidu, Taobao, Webo and what so ever in China, but you cannot find even a famous website which is from Taiwan. Taiwan is good at hardware OEM but not software.

As a software developer from Taiwan, I know the situation here. Hardware OEM industry makes money, they can offer better for getting talents. When CS students graduate, they would rather go to OEM company (such as TSMC) than go to software/Internet company or even startups. How can they complete OEM firms in recruiting battle?

It's really a bad environment for software development. Actually, software/Internet in China is much better than Taiwan.
You are just being obtuse.

There is no level of authorization that would allow him to go into a network closet (regardless of easy access) and setup his laptop to do what he did. Apparenly you are in the minority. When his IP and/or MAC was blocked it was because of un-authorized usage of the network. When he actively circumvented that, it was an illegal act.

I would also argue that Aaron KNEW he was not authorized to do what he did the moment he stepped into that network closet.
Built-in recycling incentives. Very nice!
Here's a tip : Become a Belgian citizen, get a job, use a 1 year time credit, let the government pay you € 1,000 a month, travel the world for 1 year and still keep your job.

You do need the company's permission.
But no wonder our country is getting deeper in debt.
I don't know that many people but I do know 5 people who have done this.
I am very fact based, and when someone makes a claim that " we have renewed, solid evidence that our governments are constructing a global surveillance state" I expect that there are some facts to back it up. Sweeping mass sentiment is not evidence in and of itself. Facts are not "pedantic" to me; to me evidence is the only rational basis for belief and action. And quite frankly, there hasn't been any new solid evidence presented for this "surveillance state" aside from Verizon turning over phone call metadata. I am sorry that this discussion has made you angry, but I don't feel that what you are saying is warranted. I have been reading what people have been writing very closely, which is how I arrived at the position I hold. If you want to provide the new evidence of this "surveillance state" I will read every word you write, but if the evidence is suspect I reserve the right to call it out. That is not "pedantic." I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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The point is that before this, charging (even with a supercharger in ~1 hour) was the accepted method of filling the battery, and it was free and/or cheap. That is still a perfectly acceptable method.

Now you also have the choice of swapping, which provides you with a guarantee of a constantly healthy battery, a fast full charge, and continuous long-distance capability.

I see your point—if you're doing 37,500 miles of long-distance, you're going to eventually pay for the battery cost over time. Possibly. But you have the choice, and it's going to be amortized over so many snap decisions that it's more like, "the convenience of this is worth $40 to me right now," rather than thinking of it as the cost of a new battery.

I think it works out, personally. And for most people, charging is a perfectly acceptable way to drive the car. I think people won't really swap the battery that often, and when they do it'll be because they need the time benefit, and that's the value proposition.

For others, they get the same battery-life and battery-health benefits by swapping only once in a while, or hell, even only when their current battery dies completely. Basically, everyone wins, and it's still about the same cost as gas for a 22mpg car, even if you swap 50% of the time. If you swap less than that, it's cheaper to operate in the same period of time. Simple as that.
Well their Wikipedia page starts off with "Better Place was a venture-backed international company..."
I love my MacBooks, but every one I have had (totally three so far) have had wifi connectivity issues, usually which involve the connection dropping a few minutes after I resume from sleep and me needing to disable wifi and reconnect.
Great introduction and images, you worked hard on this! Get any lawyer and kick their billionairism ass five ways to Sunday for $$$treble$$$ psychotic grief damages. Site shows they ruined you.

So an effective cease and and desist letter. Prepare to doubly rebutt these criminal butts' rebuttal:

how-to-write-a-great-response-to-a-cease-and-desist-letter

into: =====>

how-to-write-an-overwhelmingly-terrifying-cease-and-desist-letter:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907732

http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/how-to-write-a-great-response...
> iOS 6 runs on devices as old as 4 years.

It's an interesting side effect of Apple selling old hardware as a new lower cost option for several years. Apple isn't being altruistic or noble by supporting those devices... they are giving normal support for a device that someone can still buy new with a two-year contract.

Once Apple actually retires a product, like the iPad 1, it stops getting updates pretty quickly.
This is a welcome development for LaTeX: they achieved perfection in visual presentation years ago, so there's nowhere to go but to the content itself. I fully expect a proof checker package to be available for LaTeX within a few years.
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>Without any frame of reference, those values are meaningless.

How about we compile some results right here?

Below is what I get on an AMD Phenom II X4 965 PC with 8 GB RAM running Linux Mint 13 Maya, kernel version 3.2.0-48-generic x86_64.

— Lua.vm.js in Firefox 21.0

Score: 115
binarytrees 56.978 seconds
scimark 1.79 MFLOPS
startup 0.431 seconds

— Native Lua 5.2.2

~> lua scimark.lua
FFT 14.65 [1024]
SOR 30.41 [100]
MC 9.32
SPARSE 19.32 [1000, 5000]
LU 23.70 [100]

SciMark 19.48 [small problem sizes]

~> time lua binarytrees.lua 14.72
stretch tree of depth 15 check: -1
53974 trees of depth 4 check: -53974
13493 trees of depth 6 check: -13492
3373 trees of depth 8 check: -3372
843 trees of depth 10 check: -842
210 trees of depth 12 check: -210
52 trees of depth 14 check: -52
long lived tree of depth 14 check: -1
lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 5,99s user 0,01s system 99% cpu 6,001 total

— Geekbench-2.4.3-Linux on the same computer

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2076712 (the page includes detailed PC specifications)

Edit: redid the native benchmarks with Lua 5.2.2.

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Edit 2: The same set of benchmarks gives the following results on a ThinkPad X61s laptop with a Core 2 Duo L7500 CPU and 4 GB RAM running Linux Mint 13 Maya, kernel version 3.5.0-32-generic x86_64:

— Lua.vm.js in Firefox 21.0

Score: 59
binarytrees 117.675 seconds
scimark 0.95 MFLOPS
startup 0.822 seconds

— Native Lua 5.2.2

~> lua scimark.lua
FFT 6.55 [1024]
SOR 15.36 [100]
MC 4.11
SPARSE 10.24 [1000, 5000]
LU 12.40 [100]

SciMark 8.73 [small problem sizes]

~> time lua binarytrees.lua 14.72
stretch tree of depth 15 check: -1
53974 trees of depth 4 check: -53974
13493 trees of depth 6 check: -13492
3373 trees of depth 8 check: -3372
843 trees of depth 10 check: -842
210 trees of depth 12 check: -210
52 trees of depth 14 check: -52
long lived tree of depth 14 check: -1
lua binarytrees.lua 14.72 9,63s user 0,04s system 99% cpu 9,713 total

— Geekbench-2.4.3-Linux

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/2077111
Note that this guy is the former Director of Acoustic Research at McIntosh Laboratory: go up the URL to check out his old-school home page.
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