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What do emails not sent to or received from the subject of the investigation have to do with the investigation? It might have been reasonable, if the government had real reason to believe Julian Assange have broken our laws, to request emails related to him or to Wikileaks. It is not acceptable to just demand everything, unless they are also seeking to prosecute this person.
I realize that the estimates aren't hard numbers, but if (e.g.) Apple estimates that the MacBook Air has 11 hours of battery life, I expect not to generally get 1 hour of battery life.
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Wouldn't they also have to place an electric air conditioning system on the plane as well? When they disconnect the shore power at the terminal, the air does not come back on until the engines spin up.

edit Read the comments on the article page and a reply stated the APU powers the ac.
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Auxilia...
Is this actually true, or is it water vapor (H2O) that we're expelling each night?
>Suppose the statute on murder expired automatically every 10 years and had to be reauthorized. What makes you think it would not just be expanded every single time the review period came around?

It would be. But who would expect it wouldn't be? The law against murder is not the issue here. It's all the laws against all the things no one would necessarily even expect to be illegal.

So how about this: A law can be passed with a simple majority but expires after 10 years. A law can be made permanent (in the sense that it doesn't expire, not that it can't be repealed) only if it is passed unanimously in both houses and not passed using a veto override. Obviously then murder can become permanently illegal since that will have 100.00% support. But every decade we have to have a debate about each of the laws that didn't have unanimous support originally, and anything so unimportant that nobody even remembers it can fall off the books before it becomes an anachronism.
They don't lose revenue... You pay tax where you register, unless you live out of state.
Well, "recognized as" hardly amounts to a declaration of war. Congress did authorize use of military force though, but technically only against Tripoli, not Algiers or Tunis. So the question remains open in general.
> The amount you capture can be less than the amount you authorized.

The amount you capture can also be more than the amount you authorized, but how much more depends on the bank and is not known until you try.
> As a result, whoever held the writs could search anyone at any time and were not liable for damages caused as a result of these searches.

This would appear to be relevant to the current discussion.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025294
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>His writing is shit because he doesn't care.

I am not convinced this is true, nor have I seen a sophisticated analysis of his work that demonstrates this point (though I am open to reading one); it seems that most people assume the point and then proceed from there.

I did write a mostly positive analysis of his work here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/hilarity-ensues-tuc... , however.
There's another way to demonstrate just how unhappy you are with the trampling of your basic rigthts.

Guns.

Go out on the streets in meaningful numbers brandishing unloaded guns to show the govt how serious you are about the issue. It's a much stronger form of protest IMO.

(PS: I know I'll get downvoted for such radical comments, but moderation has stopped working with govts)
So basically, your opinion of what government should be able to reach without a warrant is different from other people's? Welcome to democracy, buddy.
Thank goodness for secondary DNS servers (dnsunlimited in our case)... the sites we implemented secondary DNS for are running fine.
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I'm not sure why this is highly upvoted, but I would recommend reading "How to Disagree": http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html to those who have.
Well, there's the "2008 Bailout of Very, Very High-Net-Worth Individuals Who Invested in Tesla Motors Act"...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30digi.html
I agree.

Nevertheless it's the kind of concrete detail I think a case can hinge on. Public opinion, too.
Tell that to the judge man, he or she signed the warrant. Maybe the government was able to put forward the theory that there's a whole network of like-minded people working with Assange, a network that cooperated to run a website or something, and that this guy's emails should be useful in piecing that together for use in the eventual trial against whoever the hell they're investigating.
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>...international communications for foreign intelligence purposes.

It's because it's international communications. You fourth amendment rights only extend within the borders of the entity that protects those rights.
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I just finishing writing an ebook for an introduction to the architecture of Amazon Web Services. I feel like I went through a lot of pain points just to understand how their framework operated and I wanted to document those things I learned.

What also helped is I had many hours of support talking with Amazon architects for them to explain the platform to me.

I don't currently have any large set of tech followers or a popular tech blog. Other than putting my content up on gumroad, do any HNers have any advice on how to get started to pitch the tech book online?
I like looking through the "Browse Existing Sites" and looking at all the emerging sites. I especially like the ambiguous "enter credit card and expiration date" sites that are nothing but a form and submission button.
Assuming we're talking about the "other" UofM, I would hardly call what happened "doing nothing about it." It was almost certainly an egregious failure on the part of a couple individuals, but it was more about a lapse in protocol then a university cover up. Not to mention that UofM has completed two separate independent reviews of what happened and made a pretty big (and public) effort to fix it.
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I did a quick search for jav but none of the results were titled "introduction to jav for americans." Can you explain jav? Is jav the police interest groups?

Police interest group sounds like a a group of tommy tactical types that wear cargo pants, and spend a lot of their time at the range or talking about what they EDC.
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I can see plenty of problems with that approach too, eg Murder never becomes permanent people people keep trying to shoehorn in a clause making abortion into murder. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are not going to change human behavior just by rejigging the legislative system. You talk about 'things that no one would expect to be illegal' but all those laws got passed because for some group of people, they address a real problem. People like Silverglate cherry-pick weird stories that most people aren't familiar with to try and make it seem like the entire game is rigged. It's total BS. The average person is not committing 3 felonies a day. I would love to meet Silverglate some time and call him out on his bullshit.
What would even be the point if the guns weren't loaded? You shouldn't be willing to march en masse into the streets with weapons you're not prepared to use, otherwise it's an idle threat. Signs and slogans would literally be more useful. Then at least, the news media might report on the message and not the guns.
And now NSA has 100k targets.
So the L in rdl has nothing to do with Louisiana?

I feel sorry for the lawyers that live on the border of LA and need to be proficient in their state's laws as well as LA's. Bar prep must have been awful.
This is not how subpoenas work, at all. This is straight up surveillance.

It doesn't matter that a judge rubber stamped it. That isn't the bar for what is okay, as we all know.
I don't know if this works for everyone, (and I hate to appeal to magic), but I'm pretty sure it was http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/chapter-3.htm... that gave me a visceral understanding of Ruby's syntax. For example, the slashes surrounding the Regexp are like pins that you stick the Regexp onto the paper with, and it lights up if the pattern matches. The at signs stand for "ATtribute". Exclamation/question marks have meanings analogous to their natural language counterparts. And the vertical bars form a little chute that the block variables slide down into the block through. It's really fun.
You may presume it, but I am logically convinced.

The only kinds of common correspondence in use at the time which were capable of being seized fall under papers (eg letters) and effects (including personal gifts). They are therefore protected.
It's a fact that politicians are more notorious for corruption than the average person. But even ignoring that, his argument does not depend on politicians being more evil than the average person. You're seeing a fatal flaw where there is only a molehill.
imperial gallon & US gallon?

Or maybe more interesting but historical "ale gallon" and "wine gallon".
Needs a better catch phrase like "You can take away my ability to share digital files that the public needs to know about when you pry them from my cold dead hands!"
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Hope it was worth it, Snowden. Good luck in jail.
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"The company is requesting $400 million in low-interest federal loans as part of the $25 billion loan package for the auto industry passed by Congress last year."

"The tax benefits/rebates/carbon trading shit that Tesla benefits from is available to any car company that wishes to participate."

?
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It's hard* to find credible sources on this on the open web, if you read something like the Silk Road[illegal eBay for drugs, you pay with bitcoin] forums on tor, this is widely reported, and verified by self-proclaimed employees of the companies(ups FedEx). More convincingly vendors universally ship through USPS explicitly because they provide a warrant.

Disclaimers: I am not a customer, and have not used the service, but believe that looking at the security methods used by those actively prosecuted is a decent way to figure out with precautions/security measures work.

*though a quick google of ups open package on warrant will reveal many on dubious forums
3k signatures left (presumably this means 4k signatures happened in the past 5 hours).
How do your friends feel about the NSA's recent activities?
I was furious (as were many of you) when I initially read that the NSA had taken phone call metadata from millions of Verizon customers. At the same time, I was thrilled to see the news make media headlines; as a libertarian, I'm typically disappointed by what the establishment reports. But this time, many individuals from all sides of the political spectrum were slightly outraged.

Unfortunately, the passion died down much quicker than I expected. A few journalists disagreed with Snowden's cause and called him a traitor, and news was quickly back to normal again. It seems as though the general public has forgotten about the NSA. Warrantless wiretap doesn't even concern most of my friends.

Hacker News consistently pushes NSA headlines to the front page, but my other news sources don't. Has everyone else seen a similar drop in passion against the NSA among their friends and family?
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People need to organize and protest, online and in person. That means, an organized blackout like SOPA/PIPA and organized public (in real life) protests. I like the whitehouse.gov petitions, but I don't know of an instance where they've helped anything (in their short history). The Baby Boomers got plenty done with protests. And Google/Wikipedia/etc stopped SOPA/PIPA with a massive online blackout. Of course, the tech industry largely benefits from intelligence spending, so I'm not sure how much of a protest could be organized online. Perhaps the users themselves need to boycott any company not opposed to surveillance (say, replacing their avatar with some indication of their boycott and deleting all their content).

Also, I think we need the Republicans (or anyone) to impeach Obama, for the good of the country.
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Ruby's syntax is beautiful once you've realized two things:

1. How blocks work, and how their minimalist syntax is beautiful. You see absolute value bars but believe me, getting used to that barebones function syntax is a gift. (No other programming language that I know of has an absolute value operator with vertical bars so it is not as hard as you think.)

2. Every time you see a dot, do NOT think attribute access. Think message sending a la Smalltalk.

Suddenly then, things like the tags.collect! line become pretty for encapsulating a callback on one line unlike the ugly function() {} crud of JavaScript, and things like defining a newtags= method become sensible, because everything including traditional attribute getting and setting reduces to message passing.
If it wasn't your intent to make a general accusation, you could have made a more specific one. Even so, rabid tribalism does not require a particular job title or direct corporate sponsorship.

Whatever grassroots effort they may have had going on in the first place wasn't successful in turning the tide of public opinion. It would be rather strange of them to undermine their own subsequent reversal.
Yup. Since 9/11 the US state has been working hard to consolidate its domestic power, creating a domestic counter-insurgence force (the DHS) to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act and a command-structure for military action within the continent (NORTHCOM), among many other complementary developments. Wherever the agenda originated, both political parties are following it and the power consolidation is unlikely to stop until completion barring some disruptive influence.
I picked emacs because I couldn't remember offhand if vim traps ^Z

My .emacs has

(global-unset-key "\C-z")

because I haven't figured out how to make xmonad handle iconified windows nicely / I prefer M-x ansi-term over suspending my precious, and

(global-unset-key "\C-x\C-c")

because I boot my emacs ~exactly as often as I boot my workstation (and I got angry at accidentally mashing a C-c after hitting C-x) :)
Everyone seems to be mad about that one.

However I've yet to see ANYONE in the mainstream press point out that the Obama administration was recently trying to pass legislation that reduced privacy protection for Americans as a response to the Chinese doing exactly what we are doing to the Chinese. There is a high level of hypocrisy here.

Call me an idealist, but my belief is that the USA as a country should take the moral high ground, even if it costs us tactically in the short run.
Ultimately you're going to need to know multiple programming languages in your toolbox to be considered dangerous. I recommend Java, C++, Python and Javascript IMO.
"It doesn't matter if it's widespread or wholesale, it matters that they can do it when they want to."

That is precisely what matters. The 4th amendment requires a warrant that some specific person or location (or in our modern world, set of files) is evidence of a crime. In a free country, you may still get caught up in an investigation. In an unfree country, everyone is constantly unsure whether the government is spying on them.
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Unfortunately, this means that I cannot click with the middle mouse button to bring up the page in a new tab. Please remove the extraneous target="_blank" code.
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The article is bunk. It assumes that casual customers will just happen to buy Xbox if they shipped it. No, casual customers are not buying home consoles at all. They all want iPhones and iPads (and not Surface). Microsoft would have yet another product nobody wants.
In short, it doesn't. Mainland holidays that are also HK holidays see reduced pollution levels, however mainland only holidays do not coincide with significantly lower levels of air pollutants.
The fact that we need to have new laws to make it required to get a warrant for some new way to find out about you and track you and invade your privacy is the real problem.
The rights not written, etc.
Even if the Amazon service was more expensive, there is more to choosing a service than price. Assuming Amazon's service is a carbon copy clone of their AWS services, then the decision is a no brain so long as the prices are at least in the same ballpark. AFAICT IBM is going to create a custom solution for the USG, which carries much greater operational risk relative to a clone of AWS. Furthermore, all the community, tutorials and open source software that already exists in the AWS ecosystem is a massive asset that is very difficult to price a a major contributor to the value Amazon will provide the USG.
The next-generation will be open-world
The APU was a nice advance in that it enabled getting rid of the ground cart - which provided power to the airplane when its engines were off, and also provided the electric power needed to start the engines.
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Don't assume you know what I think. I've had to grapple with this issue myself many times. I've had to implement nasty workarounds because upstream rejected a trivial patch. It's a pain, but spewing about how packagers all have OCD and live in the past is hopelessly egocentric and whiny . . . and counterproductive. They do know what they're doing, and their policies generally do make sense if you consider what works across thousands of packages instead of just one. Exceptions and accommodations can be made when the benefit outweighs the cost or risk, but a case has to be made for that. Throwing a tantrum isn't making a case.
The fact that something is secret to avoid tipping someone off does not preclude it from being secret.
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Of course the Leaf doesn't begin to stack up to the Model S in those ways. The Leaf is $35k; the base Model S starts at $70k. It is literally twice as expensive.

Would you be impressed if I told you all the ways a BMW 7-series was superior to a Corolla?

Besides, your parent said:

... entry level entrants ...

I would argue that the Leaf is far, far, FAR more of an entry level electric car than a Tesla. Silicon Valley sometimes makes us think otherwise, but most of the USA isn't full of people who can easily afford a $70k+ vehicle.
The fact that someone can do an internal audit indicates that someone can bypass auditing. Who's watching the watchers who watch those who watch us.
Many are still upset, they just have a sense of futility about it and go back about their daily business with a "well, there's nothing I can do about it" attitude.
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You're trying to control forces outside of your control.
The result of this are your emotions that are destructive to your health.
From your post, in order listed:

furious, disappointed, outraged, unfortunately, died, disagreed, forgotten, drop in passion.

You keep feeling this way - you're going to kill your health.
Airframe companies know exactly what a pound of extra weight on an airliner is worth. It's large, well into the 6 figures. 660 pounds needs a lot of fuel savings to make up for it. Remember, it takes extra fuel to hold that 660 lbs up in the air.

I'm sure this has all been carefully costed out.
> It's always nice to look directly at the data.

It is, but you should keep in mind there isn't just one "the data" and in this case, what data source you pick affects what answer you get. The people you're arguing with might be looking at something other than GISS. For instance, here's the WoodForTrees index:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti

the WoodForTrees Index is an average of four popular temperature series. This index was created specifically in order to reduce the need for arguing about which series to use. I believe the current formula is:

WTI = mean(GISTEMP-0.35, HADCRUT3VGL-0.26, RSS-0.10, UAH)

Playing around with the data sources, it seems like 1998 was an all-time high within the period of the satellite record - not surpassed by "a few years even warmer in the 21st century" - according to three out of four of those. Specifically, UAH, HADCRU3, and RSS. It was surpassed according to GISS or HADCRU4.

So not only is it not inaccurate to say "Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century", it also would not be inaccurate to say "Since 1998, the warmest year for which we have satellite records."
You are the man for doing this. If only others, including myself, were so brave for every web project that they attempt.
Your parent didn't say fighting it was futile. Your parent said automakers prefer this model today.
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Dr. Thomas Kelly of Harvard is pretty awesome to watch.
>eg Murder never becomes permanent people people keep trying to shoehorn in a clause making abortion into murder.

I don't see how that's a real problem. Even assuming they can never once pass it unanimously, they're still going to renew it every time rather than allowing murder to become legal. Also, an amendment expanding the definition of murder to nontraditional entities is going to get killed if necessary to save the bill, and if the vote on the clean bill isn't unanimous then there are going to be Congress Critters who have to explain to their constituents why they voted against prohibiting murder.

As I see it the real trouble with this approach is that it encourages Congress to just reauthorize everything without a debate because there are so many laws they don't have time to do their jobs thoroughly. And that's kind of a different problem -- which is already a problem today, since they should be considering whether laws on the books should be repealed on a regular basis regardless.

But if the strongest argument you can make against something is "it might only help a little instead of a lot," it's maybe still the sort of thing we should try.
The parent comment seemed to be questioning why he was charged with theft of government property.
I meant dangerous in a bad way. :P I agree though. I have some background in Python and I am learning JavaScript now. C++ is next.
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Striving for conscious incompetence
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The German rocket fighter Me-163 dropped its landing gear after takeoff, and landed on a skid.

Of course, the Me-163 had other problems like blowing up on the ascent, or worse, dissolving the pilot if it developed a fuel leak.
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You mean, literally religious. They do. On the contrary, calling the "global warming" belief a religion is metaphorical. However, I think it is a very good metaphor, as it immediately brings a certain enlightenment to the whole argument.

It is very unfortunate, in my opinion. As unfortunate as the politization of science.
That's funny. I searched that domain name on domize around a month ago too. Though mine was going to be S3 and Route53 using boto.
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Wow, someone who still believes in a planned economy? I guess he is old?
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