skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To the extent that's true, the appeal provisions from FISCR to SCOTUS are also in those sections (or closer to them), not in 1803(b), which is a nonsequitur in any situation other than the government appeal of a denial of a warrant."

The original question was not about denial of warrants, but about FISC rulings and their appealability.
As I pointed out, there are plenty of cases where you can appeal FISC rulings to SCOTUS.

You had said it was not possible.
I agree the statute does not provide a path to appeal certain types of warrants to SCOTUS, I was skimming 1803(b) and not carefully enough.

However, FISC does rule on more than that, and in the cases most folks have cared about (Verizon, Yahoo, etc), they were rulings that could have been appealed to SCOTUS under the sections I provided
I don't believe the U.S. system can change these undemocratic features at a favorable cost.
Where is here? A Nexus 4 costs twice as much in Norway as in Canada, but so does everything else.

When identical Chinese-manufactured electronics are priced differently it's usually because of import tariffs (Brazil) or vastly more generous consumer protection laws (Europe).
Thanks!

These cases seem comparatively insignificant to me. I think patent infringement will be the real "intellectual property" issue with 3D printing. I'm looking forward to a renewed debate on the ethics of having governments intrude in people's private lives to enforce corporate monopolies.
Startpage sets all time high in searches
Some people don't like the style of dance in the video (especially on the YouTube video, but I suppose the lesson to be learnt here is to never read YouTube comments), but complaining about that is completely missing the point. The approach she used to get there works for any other style of dance and many other things in life. It's why I have five juggling balls...
Man man
Meta: go!

Interesting... I've noticed your username above several rather anti-social comments in several different threads over the last day or so. I wonder why.

/Meta

To be honest, I don't think alxndr was being snarky. I see plenty of drivers plow through stop signs at 5-10 mph. I also see plenty of people on bikes plow through stop signs at 5-10 mph. Both are in the wrong, but the fact that the person on the bike was going the same speed before the stop-sign doesn't seem hugely relevant to me. What does seem relevant is that plowing through at 5-10 mph in a car is far more likely to injure or kill a pedestrian or cyclists than doing so in a car, for simple reasons of mass and vehicle width.

Frankly, your little rant sounds like the self-serving justification I usually hear from several of my friends and relatives for raging at cyclists. Those friends and relatives are among the least courteous and defensive (that is to say, the most dangerous towards other drivers and cyclists around them) drivers I've ridden with. I hope for your sake and mine that you are not like that.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6015182
Not really relevant or helpful to focus on in the context of the overall message. Having been in both hardware and software, I've seen hardware technician positions (filled by "hardware people") that don't actually formally involve any engineering design in the job description. Soldering, assembly, and testing come to mind as tasks.

It's also likely that she was using the term to be more specific. For example, I have a degree in Computer Engineering, and have held positions in hardware (as a Firmware and Electrical Engineer), but now I write software (as a Software Engineer). I used to be a hardware person, but now I am a software person. I have been an engineer throughout.
Seraph Angel Group Returns Posted Online
Inside look at an angel group's returns.
Apparently you have a non-standard definition of "surveilled"; perhaps the one James Clapper uses? The leaked Verizon FISA order clearly shows that practically everyone in the US has been surveilled by the NSA (every Verizon customer, and everyone who has ever called a Verizon customer). That means everyone has standing, and everyone whose standing was previously denied was wronged.

But suppose the leak hadn't happened. Suppose the government kept secrets perfectly, and nobody could establish standing. Is your position really that the government should be able to violate the 4th amendment as much as it wants, as long as it's kept secret?
Probably "textbook."
It's the unfolding douchification of the bay area, led by goatse-grade assholes who describe coffee shops as "their offices" and want to sell you another local social mobile web 2.0 TODO list app.
As the site has currently some problems, I can't read the article.

When is Chrome 28 arriving? I'm using Firefox and Chrome on my Mac. And today I've updated Flash for all browsers, except Chrome. The Flash plugin in Chrome is old now and needs an update. But no new Chrome there. :-(

Flash will bring Chrome down. They even have their own Flash bugs they don't fix as fast as Adobe(!).
Im fairly certain that if you are on a mac you can do this with codekit or livereload
This is very compelling. I've echoed many of these same thoughts.

Growing a community has always been the goal, and that's true --- it would be the same community as ThreeJs, Modernizr, etc. That's a very good argument to make it OSS.

And the positive acknowledgement the past 48 hours has been wonderful and incredibly motivating. Far more than I expected.

Hmm... let me let this sink in for a day. Thank you.
> The reason the cost of healthcare is so high is because medicare pays roughly 15% of a bill, others are somewhere between 20-50% of a bill depending. That is to say if the doctor charges you $40,000 you pay your 10% co-pay of $4,000 and the insurance then only pays maybe another $8,000.

That help may explain extremly high nominal prices, but it doesn't explain the fact that the median price paid is also really high (The $12,000 in your example). Nor do cross subsides explain the high costs.

Both bottom up analysis looking at the amounts paid by various insurance companies for procedures and top down analysis of overall per capita health care spending reveal a system that is far, far more expensive than any other health care system in the world.
Hard to say, I ended up finding funding for a project while I was in the process with them. We never really finished.
Best Time to Visit Guilin, Best Time to Travel to Guilin | ChinaTour.com
"When is the best time to visit Guilin? In general, best time to travel to Guilin is from March to November
With SPDY as implemented all requests for google analytics reuse the same TCP connection. This connection acts as an implicit tracking cookie uniquely identifying your browsing session.
We're working through the prefixed features we inherited from WebKit:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/bl...

Our approach is (1) to avoid adding new prefixed APIs and (2) to unprefix APIs when we're confident we're not going to cause compatibility problems.
> You had said it was not possible.

No, I didn't.
That was awesome all the way down...
Jeri Ellsworth, for people who don't know, does really interesting hardware stuff.

"TSA body imaging at home" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDyo_OQFdAc)

"Home made EL wire" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RKBGxJJmwg)

"Recording Audio onto floppy discs" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr7B-7BFP4)

"Home made transistor" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qph8BNrnLY)

"Homebrew NMOS transistor" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE)
I think you're creating a false dichotomy in your mind though, since a lot of these other things you learn will actually be part of your down-time so to speak and they will cross-pollinate more than you think.

In this video you see more than just learning to dance for example, you see someone going from being afraid to fully express herself to purposefully giving everything she's got in the moment; a very powerful skill to have.

I recently started a writing course for example and I've been finding parallels between writing and coding that've been incredibly helpful in starting to do persuasive copy in my startup.
Yet Linux 3.6 still lasts only 1h15m on idle compared to windows 7 at 4h45m on my laptop. Linux has all powertop optimisations on as well.

YMMV
[php] REST Interface for mongodb
> Both bottom up analysis looking at the amounts paid by various insurance companies for procedures and top down analysis of overall per capita health care spending reveal a system that is far, far more expensive than any other health care system in the world.

Its not so much a system as dozens of different systems with completely different premises and extraordinary complex interactions which have to deal with each other.

Which is why it is so expensive.
Europe is merely a free trade agreement between various independent country, and a common currency between a subset of these countries.

> Unless you think that is normal for a country to have permanent military bases of a foreign power in its own territory.

These bases are negociated not through the European Union, but through NATO agreements (AFAIK), and on a bilateral basis.

For example, there are no American bases in France since the 60's.

> I'm not judging or complaining, it's just the way it is. At some point in history, decisions were made about Europe's own place in the world that put it under US sphere of influence, and these decisions have important consequences to this day.

Western European countries, maybe, but please remember that Eastern Europe has been under Russian influence since the cold war (and many of them still are).

> It can be argued that European countries traded part of their own sovereignity in exchange for security, protection and economic progress.

Some of them traded a bit of their military sovereignty (the first and foremost being Germany), but as far as I know most of these countries are politically sovereign.
This is your assertion, not the current precedent.
I am objectively talking about the current precedent and what it states, not what my definition or my position is.
Do not confuse the two.

Under current precedent, the answer to your questions are "No, not everyone in the US has standing" and "Yes, if they keep it secret enough that you can't prove it, you are fucked", at least given what SCOTUS has said.

At least the latter question has been almost directly answered by SCOTUS. I may disagree, but that is the current law of the land.

Congress could, of course, change that (as could SCOTUS)
A simple solution to this problem would be to replace the seating in the coffee shop with less comfortable ones.

A while ago I had to work from a coffee shop for one day and while the chair I was sitting on was comfortable for 3 to 4 hours, my back and arms really started to ache after that time. The next day I still felt it.

This would solve the problem: regular laptop hobo's will not use your shop because it will not be comfortable to work there, while customers that are there to socialize are there for a short amount of time anyway.
Shape Matching Experiments
How to fit two shape through and visualize the minimization process.
Don't think so. We also have lots of games, which show that if you actually need the performance, people are willing to "drop down" to native. But the lion's share of the rest of the AppStore market could probably be replaced with webapps without CPUs being rent apart. But it won't look as native and you can't charge money for it as easily.

We also have lots of social apps because, after all, most mobile devices are communication devices, so this comes naturally. Never mind that even when you consider full-fledged desktop apps and the backends of lots of web sites, there's not that much that is really CPU-bound (although it's getting back there with ubiquitous data mining, which is one of the main reason we're seeing a resurgence of native compilers)

Two device sectors where this might be different are big tablets and low-end devices, pretty much both extremes of the mobile sector. Tablets used as full PC replacements would probably be the main users of the CPU-bound spreadsheet the author mentioned, as well as other almost-desktop apps that could require more resources, esp. considering multi-tasking. And they would be on for long stretches of time, so even if the quad-core processor could cope, it would be nice if it could cope for twice as long.

And then we have low-end devices. When the Palm came out, all the people who learned 68k assembly on their Amigas/Ataris were in demand again, as there was little CPU and memory to spare. On the other hand currently the environment mostly targeted at those sectors is the one with the least support/demand for native: FirefoxOS. Which seems a bit weird at first, as they certainly could make use of every MIPS they can scrounge. But that's economics for you: If it's mostly cheap phones and (most likely) users with little income to spare on frivolous apps, why would you target it? On the other hand, you're probably writing a webapp for other devices, and FirefoxOS users can piggyback on that. Sometimes you rather have a slow app than none at all.
How would you like unlimited, full automated content for life?
How would you like unlimited, full automated content for life?
FUCK THE N.S.A.
Hmm, is Seattle an "ostensibly bike-friendly" city?

Granted it's probably not as bad as many other American cities, but for all Seattle's often rather liberal laid-back nature, Seattleites also seem to lovvvve their cars, and the state of public infrastructure to reflect that.

I used to bike a lot in Seattle about 25 years ago, and well ... I always felt very alone, and often very nervous. I felt part of a fringe. My impression was that although there generally wasn't the sort of overt "kill bicyclists!" aggression you might find elsewhere, Seattle was still very much a car-focused city, and that few concessions were made to bicyclists, other than the random token gesture (bike racks on buses, etc). There seemed to be essentially zero real bike infrastructure.

Maybe things have changed in the last few decades, I dunno. I haven't noticed much obvious change when I've visited since, although the bike cops are great (they're the friendliest police I've ever encountered!).
From the manufacturing companies.

Even if it the profit is big, it might not be big enough compared with whatever else they might producing instead.
> Nothing you are likely to do to a large company can bring about genuine change.

Unless, of course, you're near enough to the top of its structure, formal or informal...
Newer laptops have 6+ hour batteries. Not having a power outlet won't deter anyone in the future.

Also, if you have Clear or tethering you don't need WIFI to get online. I have Clear and it's been fun to find new places to work. (I just wish Clear had better coverage maps.) So why be a "hobo" at one location when you can work at several locations?

As far as limited space, this is not really an issue unless you live in a big city. If you're in NYC, you're elbow to elbow like sardines all day long everywhere you go, is this really news to anyone? If you don't like it, move somewhere less crowded.
Why should Medicare pay for every residency in the country?

If hospitals can afford to give their executives seven figure compensation packages, they can afford to fund a few residents.
Which is precisely why the government in the UK added encryption sections into the RIPA acts http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_P... people who fail to hand over keys to encryption can face a prison sentence. The rather obvious flaw in this is that people routinely forget their passwords and the prosecution have to prove intent.
Which is why, basically, the parent's comment is correct. In essence, you're both right, but his issue of standing, as a practical matter, is almost certain to be true.

If surveillance is done against me, and nothing is found, then I never hear about the incident, even if it is wholly unconstitutional. If unconstitutional surveillance is done against me, and something is found, but the government keeps the source of that information secret, then the evidence is not challengeable. In an ordinary court, that would be a problem, but if I'm thrown into Guantanamo without an arraignment, trial or anything else, it does me little good.

Even if I somehow find my way to trial, it'll almost certainly be a military tribunal, where the rules of evidence are different enough then the evidence might stand, even if its sources are not disclosed by the government. If the sources aren't disclosed, I can't know whether the evidence was obtained as a result of a FISC decision or action, which does me little good.

The only way for a citizen to have standing in an action as a result of Prism activities is for the government to arrest me through normal channels, which would be surprising, if their information has revealed that I am likely to be a terrorist (JIHAD!), imprison me in a 'normal' jail, then to allow me access to an attorney in lieu of interrogations, then allow me a trial wherein the remove the veil of secrecy over the source of the evidence.

If all of those unlikely events occurred, then you're right, one would have standing whether or not one was found guilty, as either a civil matter if acquitted or appellate matter if convicted, but getting to there seems like small odds to me. And on top of all that, if you're going in on appeal, then the circumstances pertaining the constitutionality of the evidentiary source is polluted by all those other criminal facts of the case.
Our german Pirate Party is struggling with this as well. They desire to be a democratic party, where the officials just do as voted. Technology [0] is used to make this feasible. Nevertheless it hardly works out in practice and leads to lot of discussions and a high churn rate.

[0] https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy/ note the meaning of the name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
Intel, Samsung Kick Off App Contest for Tizen OS
Chrome 28 is available now on the stable channel:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan...

The update is rolling out gradually. If you would like to make sure you're on the latest version, you can select "About Google Chrome" from the "Chrome" menu on Mac. That will take you to a page that shows you which version you're running and checks for updates.

As the release blog mentions, the Flash update is rolling out via the component updater, which updates Flash independently of the rest of Chrome.
An effect system cannot express what transformers can.
Consider the difference between StateT s Maybe and MaybeT (State s).
Well, it was an enterprise language, and quite often most of the flaws you'd get in Java GUIs were there in the previous, native versions, too. Just like they're still there in the intranet web apps that replaced a few of the Java clients.

(I know a few people who still prefer the old-fashioned mainframe terminal apps, if available. If all you have is a few colors and line-drawing characters, even programmers have a hard time messing up simple forms. Not saying that we/they don't often succeed despite this difficulty...)
By the description and from other sources I would guess that this company is in markets such as: The Internet and Advertising.
Lots more energy is lost during power conversion than this.

Scary numbers though even if they are ballpark figures.
Thanks. glad you liked the redesign.
JQuery.parallax - Moves nodes in a parallaxy kind of way.
Perfectly described by George Orwell: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (Animal Farm, 1945)
Searchdaimon: open source search engine for corporate data and website
It probably deserves to be here ;)
As mentioned in the blog post. India has truly arrived.
No, not really. They just added `let`, iterators/generators, destructuring assignment, etc in 2006 without asking anyone. Today, you can even use it without opting-in (via: type="application/javascript;version=1.7"). This stuff is supposed to be in ES6 in the future.

Parent said or being put into the standardization process. All those ES6 features are obviously in the standardization process.
very interesting post , thanks!

your website forces a certain zoom on my mobile browser and does not let me zoom out so the text is unnaturally huge and images are cutoff at one side... :(
Thanks for your feedback. Believe me, getting the prices are always a priority for us. We'll look into this.
India's Flipkart raises massive $200 million from investors.
San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Mins. With Proposed New Transportation System
A typical Haskell project will have thousands upon thousands of uses of Maybe, and only a handful of calls to the unsafe "unjust". Sure, sometime the maybe wrapper is wrong and you have to force it but it is exceedingly rare and in the vast majority of cases you have maybe you need to actually handle the nothing case. The compiler makes sure you do. It also makes sure you remember not to give nothing to a function that doesn't expect it. It also reminds you to think really hard if you unsafe fromJust.

Without it you can easily hand null to anyone who doesn't expect it, and forget to think about null when receiving it.
China's Manned Space Program
Sheer and utter nonsense. First there are a huge number of students who wish to go to medical school and don't get in. There's no shortage of applicants at all. Second the incredibly high compensation for speciality doctors quickly overcomes both opportunity cost and tuition costs as compared to almost any other profession.

I encourage you to run the numbers. You will find that $250k/year catches up very quickly to $100k/year even with a 10 year head start and $300,000 in extra debt.
Starts with a good set of things everybody might need, and then quickly trails off into an opinionated set of rather random things
Or replace head with a better function.
> because only spdy has demonstrable value in production.

What demonstrable value? Google has never compared it to pipelining and when Microsoft did so they found it about the same and sometimes slower.

There is next to zero value in SPDY over pipelining across several connections. It's just complicated for no good reason.
As long as we're plugging: I realize nobody here would ever use Geany, but my Gitbrowser plug-in for that teeny-tiny editor/IDE has a keyboard shortcut to do git grep, and make the results clickable. See https://github.com/unwind/gitbrowser#greping-a-repository.
I think it's a fairly safe conclusion that a benevolent dictatorship can be a near perfect form of government - as long as it's benevolent. Long stretches of prosperous european monarchy supports this. The problem is what happens if the king goes mad - either by obsessing over some military objective or empire or such, or medically mad, with his court scheming to rule in his place. Other, similarly long stretches of european monarchy shows this.

Democracy biggest success, despite its significant imperfections, is the orderly overthrow of government every 4-5 years. Even monarchy doesn't guarantee an orderly transition of power.
Optical strontium clocks could redefine the second
Was Valve ever "structureless"? My impression from reading the handbook was that power structures were recognised but not enforced, i.e. if you wanted someone on your project, you had to persuade them. This is not great if you can't get people to work on your pet project, but that doesn't mean the system isn't working.

Personally, having seen Jeri's AR project video, I wouldn't have joined it. It seemed like a rather weak and non-transferable technology that didn't solve fundamental problems with AR and that had limited gameplay possibilities.
His suggestion is:

> One simple way to gain a lot of benefit for little cost in this area, would be to assign "flow-labels" which each are restricted to one particular Host: header, allowing HTTP routers to only examine the first request on each flow.

I don't understand what he's saying here. Who assigns a label to the "Host" header when? Is he proposing sticky cookies?
PS: In case you find I wasn't explicit enough:

FUCK THE N.S.A.