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Are Cops Constitutional?

http://constitution.org/lrev/roots/cops.htm
I have used instabug for our app, and it only takes less than 5 mins to get everything in place. Love it :)
I build products that assume most people won't be running app servers in the future. It's so easy to use an external service available through JS to build a fully featured application.

The problem right now is just teaching people that this is possible, and to make it easier for them.
Funny how many "blame the designer" comments I'm reading here. I'm a UX designer very accustomed to dealing with the kinds of feature creep issues Jared addresses. Allow me to give you my perspective.

Given the opportunity, any competent interaction designer will give you a great user experience, IF they've been allowed to practice User Centered Design (user research and modeling, rapid prototyping, user testing). That's a big "if."

In reality, we have to balance user needs with business drivers (mainly keeping up with competition), marketing, technological constraints and of course legal and compliance. Each situation is different, but most of the time, whoever holds the purse strings gets final say. The end user almost always gets thrown under the bus.

Oh, I scream and holler and hold up extensive research to back up my rationale. But ultimately decisions get made by risk-adverse middle-managers who are more concerned with protecting their department's status quo than actually taking their customer's real needs into account.
Are we agreed that the Washington Post has had access to the full set of slides all along and are choosing to dribble them out, one by one?

If so I feel that there's a certain lack of ethics involved in this. We now have a slide recommending "direct access", after weeks of denials and pointless discussion about it that would have been much clarified and bolstered if this slide had been released. On the other hand, we still don't know the full context of the slides. Perhaps the next one says "But we don't have direct access yet, we are still working on that". Or perhaps it says "for direct access, get a warrant". We just don't know.

I understand the motives of the WP in releasing these slides one by one. It will undoubtably be maximizing the publicity and traffic they get from it. But I am not at all sure it is serving the public interest.
Federal agency destroyed computers, keyboards, mice over virus fear
I'm not sure the two relate. Textual is still made of bits, just more of them. As a stream, they can be checked via TCP for completeness and order, iirc. The danger, I suppose, is that they might be interpreted incorrectly, but that's why you've a versioned spec. Like SSL and HTTP itself, negotiate based on what the browser says it supports and the server prefers, and that's that. Binaries for software or "golden master" images for the OS are fragile not because they're binary, but because they aren't versioned as easily and they can deviate from the golden master. While on the web, a new golden master of your app/doc is a refresh away and there is such version negotiation.
Because OTR needs both users to be online when sending each other messages, which is not a fair assumption for mobile users. You need to support offline-messaging for a mobile messaging app to be viable.
Good idea for some. Unfortunately, I have not directly interacted with many outside of my team at each company, and all of those teams are developers and almost all still work in development.
How is this related to the comment you're replying to? I don't understand the connection.
Pulse of the Alley – Ashok Kamal, CEO of Bennu
So why the convoluted method of opening in the video then, and the emphasis that I should open it as a kivo file? If I just open it in powerpoint and save changes am I still getting the versioning and updates shared to my friend?

If we have it stored in two different places, how do the changes get to his file on his dropbox where I don't have access?
"These are local police departments"

But in many cases they are using equipment and training made possible by federal government largesse.
GitHub’s functionality around PRs (such as inline commenting, replies, notifications and diffing) is excellent for facilitating code and design discussion

I agree but one thing I've realized recently is how all the history and discussion happening in a PR tend to be lost once the PR is merged. Not completely lost because it's still there in the "closed" PRs, but undiscoverable.

For example, you come across one line that doesn't make sense to you but you sense that there's a reason behind it. 'git blame' will tell you the specific commit but the commit message might not be explicit and you won't be able to find the corresponding pull-request easily.

I mentioned it on Twitter and exchanged with a GitHub employee that seemed to understand my issue. Hopefully they'll improve on that…
sounds like a wearable version of this http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/22/roman-abram...
Huh, cool! I kinda assumed the JIT already took care of this sort of low-hanging fruit, we'll test this out and if it works include it in the next version of hiphip.
As a reference, training to be a full police officer in Germany takes about 2.5 years (about 130 weeks; possibly varying slightly by state). I have no particular insights on the efficacy or the specifics of the training in comparison to the US -- I assume much of those 2.5 years is spent on the job, and I guess it's possible that police officers straight out of the acadamy also go through some additional training in their first assignment.
A while ago, I listened to a Mixergy interview with the founder of HelpScout. They have a content marketing strategy, and produce a lot of quality free content on customer service issues.

https://www.helpscout.net/resources/
Thanks for replying Gerard. Do you ever see a version where I can store directly on my Amazon Glacier account?

Especially given "However... we are not an online backup company." I'd feel tremendously safer and more trusting of your service. I haven't used Mosaic so maybe you already do this, I'll take a closer look this week.

Also (in a nice way), your site could benefit from a redesign. Unfortunately I think quite a few consumers judge the trustworthiness and value of a brand by their site/landing design.
Continuing the theme of possibly not being prepared, try to get feedback from some of your unsuccessful interviews. Why didn't we go to the next level, what was I lacking in knowledge or interaction, etc.

You might also think about any interview where you really feel you were qualified, and then ask for a do-over, another interview. I actually got a job in this scenario. The first phone screen went terribly, to my surprise. I called the guy up the next day and told him I'm better than how I interviewed, and can we try it again. He later told me he hired me partly based on my persistence, and of course my better performance on the 2nd interview.
We're working on expanding the official counters docs. We'll also have a blog post up about it next week.

Basho Hacker Sam Elliott started a CRDT cookbook that will walk you through using the counters in 1.4 (and eventually the new data types we add). That should get you started.

https://github.com/lenary/riak_crdt_cookbook/tree/counter_ex...

Enjoy. Also, come to ricon.io/west.html. We'll be talking plenty about Counters and all the huge stuff coming to Riak in the near future...
I don't understand, HTTP is not TLS. So you're saying that we should continue to maintain 2 protocols?

As some others have said, I feel that making a "webapps" protocol, a streamlined websocks or something, maybe this HTTP2.0, and keep HTTP for stateless resource representations, like it was designed to do.
Good suggestion for some, but those that know me know I would give away the farm and would be a poor salesman. I'm also not outgoing and don't enjoy seeing people and relationships as a means to an end.
Valve (or whoever is responsible for the beta keys) was giving out a huge number of keys to some gamers. One of my close friends received 32 (!) beta keys, if I recall correctly, a few months ago. He gave one to everyone in our circle of friends.
> I think these entirely new systems were natural developments out of other, older systems from which everyone then moved, like WinMX and Limewire.

But then why didn't they move to BitTorrent or Freenet? Those are equally natural moves, and superior in some respects. (Look at the system requirements for Perfect Dark, and reflect that that doesn't even buy you security if the firm's claims are true.)
I was actually thinking of the noun 'gull' ("A person who is fooled or deceived."), not the adjective 'gullible'.
There's no preview. Actually there's no way to download or even list your archives through the AWS Console. You need to write (or find) an app that uses the Glacier API.
Does anyone remember the thread where people weren't sure whether steam releasing games for linux would be definitive in advancing linux? Pepperidge Farm remembers
Was it really 80%? Explaining AWS's last price cut
Minimal clients can continue to use HTTP/1.1; full-featured HTTP libraries shouldn't have much trouble adding HTTP/2.0 support.
Ouch. That comment seemed to me to be to be a very ill-considered and off-handed slap down.

Yes, payroll systems have problems, but, frankly, you don't know what you're talking about. DoD is another level of hell away from typical corporate accounting problems. The books don't balance -- they don't have to balance. There's no auditing system in place. Nobody can really tell where the money is coming from or where it's going. Contractors with sweetheart deals sell and maintain systems long after they've gone obsolete. At one point during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I heard from an inside source that some shipping containers were missing in-country and nobody could find them -- some tens of thousands of shipping containers.

I could go on, but I won't. This is something you really need to see for yourself to believe. This ain't WalMart or the mom-and-pop corner grocery store.
I think as long as they were acting as the conduit for pricing information and plans between competitors they were in a risky position (or were at least putting the competitors in a risky position). The talk about their ability to raise/increase prices looked fairly incriminating to my eyes.

What I wonder is if they could have achieved the same result with less explicit talk about what the other publishers were doing and without discussing it as an opportunity to raise prices but to set whatever prices they wanted.
Most online communications (web, forums, emails) are not real time, so that kind of weighs heavily against OTR-like solutions for everything.

PKI offered by a central party is not really any different to X.509 CA's today.
Very possible, but people aren't perfectly logical and are unlikely to consider the opportunity costs of having fun.
Rental Car Startup Silvercar Raises $5M As It Looks At New Markets
Yet another reason to not have guns in your house.

If you get raided by overzealous police that don't even identify themselves properly, and you have a gun that you try to use for self defense... EOF
Yea this story seems really unbelievable. Who in the hell cares so little about their income, especially with all the bullshit you have to deal with just to work for the military? Every time I was up for a promotion, I already knew exactly how much more money I would be getting for basic pay, housing allowance, sustenance, and everything else.
It's still pathetic. The balance is still nearly 50/50; something promising would be along the lines of 70/30 or even 65/35.
Hasbro acquires 70% of Backflip Studios for $112 million
Can someone transfer this to something browsable like flickr/pinterest/etc?
This is kind of epic. I really enjoy the explanations of how the crypto fails
Remember when netbooks were a thing, but the industry crushed them because there was no profit margin?
Wow. I guess this puts ET to shame.
Disk space is not getting cheaper faster than bandwidth anymore
So when he makes a change to the file, that edit is synced to a git repo that you have access to, your desktop document (via kivo) is polling that repo for changes and when it sees one pulls it down and displays it within powerpoint
Did you read the comment or just skimmed? I don't question the technical merits, but the underlying motivations, which I believe are fatally flawed.
Compared to data intercepted from "upstream", any data sent in response to a FISA request would be "directly from company X's servers". That doesn't necessarily imply that the NSA has direct access to the servers.
Don't have one yet, but are there any window managers with high-resolution support out yet? I may just get a Pixel if there are.

I know Unity hasn't, and Gnome 3 (my favorite) has pixel-doubling support on the way, but if there are any others or if you've been able to optimize an X WM to be readable and polished.
No.

I need to deal with a dozen protocols in an emergency situation where I can't guarantee the appropriate tool is going to be available. (When it's not an emergency, yay tools!)

For the same reason, I can use vi with no vim extensions.
For the same reason, I like configuration files written in text formats, not binary blobs. Binary would be faster, sure. When it breaks, you need the precise tools to know what you're doing.

I commend to you RFC 3117 - http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3117.txt - as a discussion on how to figure out what a network protocol has to do, and how.
"use asm" is not a keyword. It can be ignored, as V8 does. This is possible because asm.js is JavaScript as defined by ECMA-262. It executes according to the semantics specified in that document.

I don't really want this to turn into a back-and-forth, but it's unfortunate that this has devolved into outright accusations of dishonesty.
Little known fact: The Puritans invented the concept of "p-value", and like every one else doing statistics since, they misinterpreted its meaning, assuming that "P implies Q with probability 95%" means that "Q implies P with probability 95%"
I beg to differ. http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X201E-DH01-11-6-Inch-Laptop-Black...

With Haswell, the Asus could really hit it big. Ubuntu, I strongly think, has its future as the sort of super-Chromebook. More advanced, but still manageable.
Ah, the bikeshed. IMO the most relevant bit of pop psychology I've ever seen wielded by a programmer in a mailing list/online forum. It's validity is so seemingly self-evident, I'll bet this concept has been christened under other names as well, maybe before or after the book from which PHK quoted.

In any case, I absolutely agree with your assessment.

As someone who claimed to have known Snowden from past gaming posted in a brief note (on Svbtle or Tumblr I think), this surveillance issue needs a story, as in one with characters, a plot, a beginning and an ending. The American public (whatever that refers to) is much like a kindergarten class right after milk and cookies. They are ready for storytime after which they will promptly take a nap and wake up with a clear head, ready to play, eat and be entertained by the next story.

I believe I read that someone is already preparing for a full length film about Snowden and his daring deed. I'd say that script will need quite a bit of poetic license and embellishment. As it stands, there's no story. There's no narrative. NSA slides? Boring.

Who is the hero? Who is the villain? What is the moral of the story? (Hollywood usually fills one in that meets sponsor approval.)

Is it really so surprising that the government is engaged in mass surveillance? Hardly. The American people are a generally suspicious and cynical lot. They don't need evidence. Spying is not enough to shock them.

To get the American people to actually care about something, they need to be entertained.

We tried to entertain them in the beginning: focusing on Snowden's girlfriend, his Ars comments, etc. But there's no Starr report, no stain on a party dress, no candid photos to feed the innuendos. Close, but there's no cigar.

Back to sleep we go.... zzz(8)...
I know that their Linux initiative is a recent development, but if they want it to succeed, they really need to get more current generation titles out there. I play Counterstrike: GO, its the only reason I still use Windows. Instead of wasting the effort to port Counterstrike Source, they should have put those resources into porting the latest version.
I don't think those diffs are centrally managed though, which is a big problem.
You would also need the torrent's hash (which enable you to specify to the tracker which files you want exactly). That's how magnet link [1] works - they contain the torrent's hash and optionally a list of trackers (most clients today support DHT [2], a decentralized tracker-less way to find peers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
The idea of a P2P backup solution is interesting, more so if you can hook up strangers into a massive backup network.

Of course, the challenge is to make sure the peers are online when you need the files, and for this reason the network may need 5-10gb of storage for 1gb of data to duplicate the content across multiple users.
I am not sure if it's possible to get your employee's to learn to spot the output of everyone else. You will be able to, as you'll probably spend significant time interacting with everyone, but your employees won't. Each will be focused on their own project and won't have enough visibility across the company to notice output.

However all of them will notice if someone arrives late and you don't do anything about it. We had one specific case were someone constantly arrived 2-3 hours late. People very "subtly" started complaining (and I mean very subtly). No one ever mentioned or talked about what the person was working on or if he was producing great code (his code was very good btw). Neither did they asked why he was arriving late - they only assumed it was not OK and felt it was unfair.
If people liked work so much, why would they conceptualize heaven as a place where you can just lay about doing nothing? :)
Rep. Rush Holt introducing legislation to repeal our "surveillance state"
Georgetown Angels Aims to Become the Premier Angel Group
It's always baffling to me that people will take these sorts of risks for such small rewards. A few thousand dollars in exchange for firing, lawsuits, possible criminal charges, and a ruined reputation in your field? No thanks.
>Zappos is great, but I wonder what would happen if I called them for help with my iPhone... ;)

You might be surprised, but the expected result of calling Zappos for help with your iPhone is that they would give it their best shot to be helpful and get it working. There are limits, of course, and I hope you don't try it, but that is how they are trained. At least that is the mantra from Tony Hsieh, in several talks I have listened to over the years.

Tony keeps telling a story about how he was out partying with some friends once, they got home at 2am, and one friend said they'd like to order pizza. "Let's call Zappos and have them get us a pizza!" he suggested. They called Zappos, and the service rep patiently looked up the nearest late night delivery pizza places and gave them the phone numbers. There was a small hesitation to start, but the rep's training kicked in to give world class customer service. And Tony gets to tell that story forever...
About now I usually are the below story quoted. It's such a fascinating read that I'll stick it in as someone may not have seen it. Leaded petrol and crime.

http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9790009/Was-lea...
the cool kids use nc(1)
Actually, 501 already requires that the indivual investors of the 'club' also be accredited, and the club cannot be formed for the purposes of 'an' investment. However, a group of engineers could form an entity and each become active managers, and their club is able to accept funds from the engineers via a 4(2) exemption under the '33 Act. Then, so long as they didn't run afoul of the '40 Act, they could invest so long as they had $5m in assets. And the neat thing about intellectual property is that the engineers could purchase their stake in the club via a combination of cash and IP, easily and lawfully exceeding the $5m threshold.
> You should follow me on Twitter.

This meme needs to die. It's like ending every post with "Just kidding, I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm just cargo-culting blog attention-desperate person trying to build my Klout score to impress myself."
On the Design of Application Protocols (2000)
I like to put a summarizing comment in the code for lines that require justification like the ones you mention. That way the discussion happens on GitHub and the conclusion is in the code, where future developers will see it.
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What you’ll get to do all day:
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Requirements:
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Desire to work in a BDD environment
Unix fundamentals and thorough understanding of HTTP and all its intricacies
A detail-oriented approach to development and an interest in developing new skills

http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?bj=oAuKWfwu&s=hacker_news
You also get a bill for $400 for the firetruck and $10 for each fireman
Maya already has linux support, afaik.

Photoshop though...
7 didn't seem to work for me either. Asked a friend to give it a shot, same thing
How about a HazMat team? Imagine a scenario where the EMTs cannot gain access to the emergency scene because there are toxic substances in their way. You can't rely on the incoming 911 calls to decide on a case by case basis so you might as well send a HazMat team alongside the ambulance and firetruck for each and every call.

And what about an anti-terrorist unit? Imagine a scenario where...
I remember just about the same, some 15 years back. Discovering networks and being able to mess with them, even though my programming skills were still very basic. This is a good part of what made me enjoy programming. Exploring this world, feeling it within grasp.

I think TAOUP sums up a few important points about text protocols [1] and why going binary is not always wise. Obviously the main drive here is money and I'm sure we all have stories where short term money translates later to large unforseen and/or hidden costs.

Bandwidth capacity is growing exponentially so do we really need this, even for the savings ?

I'd rather see people invent clever new ways to do wonders with text streams than go back to opaque and obscure data structures that bring back to me rememberances of old days proprietary protocols.

After all, if our fathers made the choice of text streams at a time when each byte cost much more than now, there may be good reasons.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s01.html