skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal with this attack is to listen in on (and have some degree of control of the plaintext contained in) requests between the server and a specific client. A botnet wouldn't help you do that.
FISC is an article 3 court created by congress with very specific jurisdiction (there is actually question what kind of article court it is, and wikipedia used to claim article 1, but the scholarly views i can find are that it's an article 3 court).

Like all article 3 courts that are not SCOTUS, this means it can only consider what congress has said it can.

Congress can and apparently did create a court whose entire job is to sit around and rule on a special type of search warrant (what used to be known as 501(f) petitions, they have some other name now, but are commonly known as "FISA warrants")
The court rules, as promulgated, do not allow the release of opinions by the clerk, unless a judge/etc has ordered it.
This is in sharp contrast to most article 3 courts, where opinions may not be "precedential" (though that distinction was mostly abolished), but you can still get them

However, it's not clear whether it is improper or not. It's certainly not a clear cut issue.

The real problem here is that the court was really created as a check on the executive branch, and it was expected, that any constitutional injury would get redressed through the normal process.

That is, gov takes you to normal federal court for a crime, in that court, they include the evidence obtained through FISA warrant, as well as basis for that warrant, and you challenge any constitutional injury there (through exclusion of evidence or whatever).
Are you simply proxying the USPS API or are you making queries against data you purchased from them? If so, which data did you purchase?
I think it is pure folly to look at the Constitution with libertarian-colored glasses. The Constitution pre-dates modern conceptions of libertarianism that place individual rights above all else.

Ideological clean-up, aisle 7. Ideological clean-up, aisle 7.

The constitution is nothing but libertarian. Individuals surrender soveriegnty to the states, which form the union. Libertarians have never, and will never place individual rights above all else. They simply acknowledge that rights exist firstly with the individual, to be shared with the state as minimally-necessary to ensure social order and progress. That's they way they felt in 1787. That's the way the feel now. (For the most part) E-gads, man, the document begins "We the people"
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I agree with everything that you're saying.

I live in a duplex in the Bay Area, and I know for a fact that both tenants pay ~65% of the monthly mortgage. The landlord is making a healthy profit every month -- that's the real reason that I have an issue with renting.

That being said, I will not buy in the Bay Area. I'll move back to Boston and buy a condo or house there. Parts of the Bay Area and the Boston area benefit from proximity to universities, and see much less fluctuation in the real estate market. Personally, I miss seasons -- so, I'm not going to spend more money for "better weather".
Taxis are incredibly expensive compared to a car on a per mile basis. $1.00 is considered pretty cheap for a taxi while owning a Honda Civic averages out after all costs to around $0.35 per mile if you drive 15k per year. Now spread the registration, property tax, depreciation, and maintenance among 5 people and that cost is down to $0.17 per mile for 75k miles per year. I got these numbers from Kelley Blue Book if you're interested.

So in the end, you can run a 100% margin on top of the overhead of the car itself and still make fiscal sense for consumers.
Physics and the birth of the emoticon
It's not nearly as interesting, but if you're (understandably) reluctant to connect your Gmail account, the demo data sets out fairly plainly how much can be established just from the to: and from: fields[1].

[1] https://immersion.media.mit.edu/demo
Probably because it's split between everyone renting in the building, and while the tax is higher, it's not so much higher that you end up effectively paying the same amount.

At least, that's my guess.
FWIW: FISC itself asserts it is an article 3 court.

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fisc121107.pdf

Notwithstanding the esoteric nature of its caseload, the
FISC is an inferior federal court established by Congress
under Article III[4]

[4] See In re Sealed Case, 310 F.3d at 731-32 (applying to
the FISC "the constitutional bounds that restrict an Article
III court"); In Re Kevork, 634 F. Supp. 1002, 1014 (C.D.
Cal. 1985) (district court judges retain "Article III
status" when acting as members of the FISC), aff'd, 788 F.2d
566 (9th Cir. 1986).
I think it is pretty tough to see how this works on a such a low-margin service - in order to reach scale, they need to do a massive education of the ordinary consumer. Huge costs. Looks to me like they raised their money on that vision, but have found that $30m actually doesn't get you that far.

So it looks to me like they're shifting to the B2B side - which is smart but also difficult given the competition in that space. oDesk has been shifting their model away from the 10% commission on small account model to a more enterprise sale - I expect TaskRabbit to move that way as well.
Because promises resolve to one value which can be retrieved long after the promise was resolved. This is a fundamentally different approach than EventEmitters. node's streams are the closest thing to "promise meets event emitter" I'm aware of. But maybe I'm missing the point of your question.
Default Sort, or What Would Shannon Do?
Just use anyone else. Start tonight.

You solution does not have to be The Solution for Life. Perfection is the enemy of done.

If you don't like Google, use anyone else.

If you have your own domain (and you should), then no one will notice as you slink from provider to provider in search of something better.

pairnic.com for domains, or anyone but godaddy. You can change later if you don't like whoever you end up with.

fastmail.fm for mail, or anyone else. You can change instantly if you have your own domain.

Do it now.
Classical music virtuoso who plays piano and tablet
Sure it's valid.. and in the US, if I'm not mistaken, it's expressly legal to call yourself whatever you want - as long as you aren't doing so to commit a crime.

So during day to day business and life, you can call yourself whatever you want. Others can insist on identification if it's important to them, and that gets trickier.. but using a pen-name on a book or a hotel reservation is no different than using a fake name at starbucks while waiting for your coffee.

Forging documents is of course illegal, so that puts a crimp on things - but there is no particular reason that you are required to use your "real" name except when dealing with government documents (and things that rely on them)
Who are you to decide what is important in the author's life?
It's typically a bad sign when your framework has evolved (or worse yet, made necessary) an entire programming language?

Are the GNOME folks crazy?
Example implementation of Norvig's Spellchecker in Clojure, using core.async
It's what I've observed.
Is it possible that they're just wrong? Congress also established the bankruptcy court as an inferior federal court, and the bankruptcy court isn't an Article III court. Neither is the court of federal claims, right?

If they were right, how could FISA be constitutional? Article III is pretty short and clear.

Is it possible that this incredibly confusing situation is deliberate? Of the bizarro federal courts, the FISC is the only one in which regular Article III judges are appointed, which blurs the distinction (also also short-circuits the need for Senate confirmation --- which, again, back to: not an Article III court).

Thank you for showing this to me. Here's another:

https://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fisc-032713.pdf
The problem is that you'd have such a huge supply of available cars between 8-6pm M-F that you'd never be able to turn a profit if driverless cars became commonplace.

The parking lot at my office complex has more capacity than my city's entire public transit and taxi system combined. Releasing that into the market just means razor thin profits with the risk that someone will trash your car.
Zip Code to City, State, Country API
Cornelius.js – A Cohort Visualization library for the browser
He's an agent of the government!
Love it. There are elements of this that remind me of Plan 9's Acme and the Plan 9 shell. Contrary to many people's opinion, using the mouse in concert with the terminal is a really powerful paradigm.
Not a refutation of your broader point, but I just want to point out there are outlying areas around the bay that aren't as expensive, too - though I don't know prices in either area well enough to do a thorough comparison.
Yes, it still looks pretty bad. It looks like it matters a lot more with the thinner font in iOS 7 whether the straight line strokes sit across a physical pixel boundary or not.
As a comparison though, people are paying 100K over asking without blinking in South Bay for already overpriced real estate in the last 2 months. I've even seen bidding up of rental prices in the last month. 10K sound pretty good in comparison.
There's something quite satisfying about breathing new life into an old piece of hardware, or extending its life further as in this case.

So although I agree with your point it's nice to not have everything boil down to dollars and cents all the time :)
Since tweets are very much like financial ticks (fixed size, tiny), we can put the numbers in perspective. Let's compare Twitter vs say, OPRA (North American options), a single "exchange" feed.

Twitter: 300K QPS, firehose 22 MB/sec, 400 million tweets/day

OPRA: 12.73M MPS, firehose 3.36 GB/sec, 26.4 billion messages/day

http://opradata.com/specs/2012_2013_Traffic_Projections.pdf

edit: Also worth noting, the diff between OPRA 1/1/13 & 7/1/13 is ~256 MB/sec, 2.0 billion messages/day. So in just 6 months the existing firehose increased roughly 10x Twitter's entire output and roughly 5x'd the number of messages/day.
Undertow 1.0.0.Beta1 Released
Those 3 wouldn't even be considered competitors. All have an Alexa higher than 1 million, so they are barely known. Depending on how long they've been around, one might say they've failed.
Yeah, initially it gave me a real heartburn but given the state of Gnome 3 I decided to live with it! Some enterprising programmer should really rewrite from scratch a light weight but functional Exchange/IMAP client and calendar app. Heck I wouldn't mind taking the Android code and using Java UI bindings for KDE if that's what it takes :)
The point of having the spec is that libraries can freely exchange data and promises, even if they depend on totally different flow control libraries, while still being certain that error handling and chaining works as expected. It looks like if I build on top of your library, I'm locked in.

This is not to say that it invalidates your library or that every promise library has to comply to A+ or that A+ is the only good way to design promises in JS.
I totally agree that in Computer Science there are established paradigms, but I think sometimes these paradigms keep people from exploring different ways of thinking.

Talking specifically about TermKit: If I'm on a Mac using Terminal to access the local shell, why would I care if the features are coming from the shell itself or the Terminal app?

Of course it would be 'better' or more 'proper' if all the functions were built into the shell, but like you say, it takes widespread adoption. I don't see what the problem is with starting to add features to your terminal and then let the good ones trickle back down into the shell as they become widely adopted.

Seems like a confusing nightmare, but I'm not fundamentally against it.
Facebook, Google and other web giants will make their own custom chips
Life and death in the murder capital
"Good" is subjective but in my experience you can usually always find a one megabit connection and "broadband" usually only means that. If your good involves Netflix or streaming HD movies on iTunes you're going to feel the pain.

In poorer countries you should be prepared for internet cafes that don't have wifi and in hostels and hotels the wifi often doesn't reach the rooms.

Generally the further you get from a major city the greater the chances of not having internet access.
Actually, if Google Glass catches on, we would all become knowing video subjects. I'm not sure what the author is complaining about. Right now I can buy a pinhole camera and start recording people and they would genuinely not know it's happening. If I had Glass, people would at least know.
Because the IRS doesn't think I'm responsible for it.
Or a secret court
If this is the case, a good optimisation might be to weight the value of a vote according to the karma of the person casting that vote. This seems like a simple idea to me, and I don't know if it's used elsewhere, so please forgive me if I'm being a bit naive here!
The link doesn't seem to work (error: "Unable to connect to database server"); do you have an alternate link?
I believe LightTable [0] ran with some of the concepts in the video, and I remember one of Chris Granger's videos having an almost identical bit about mapping time over space in a ball/block jumping game and very similar themes. Either way, it's definitely worth checking out. Sorry if I get any of the details wrong, I'm a bit out of step with Clojure.

[0] An IDE that supports Clojure and Javascript right now, maybe Python soon? Bit behind on the news: http://www.lighttable.com/
I just used ABP Element Hiding Helper.
"I still fail to see how Google Glass changes anything."

If, after so many discussions and articles and demos and videos, you can maintain this viewpoint, you may just have to accept that you lack both imagination and foresight.
Simple, elegant and distinctive. Certainly the qualities I'd want for a currency symbol. I also tried writing it out by hand a few times, and it really is easy and readable.

I particularly liked how they included a blurred picture. Sure, you can't quite make out the = part of the design, but the general shape (well, it's a K) is enough.

The one thing I didn't quite like was the variation with a serif. It just looks a little off. Perhaps the proportions don't quite line up--the parallel lines are too thin and close together. Beyond that, I'm not sure how to reconcile a serif with the two lines really close together. This is not to say it's bad, but I think it could be improved.

It would be really cool to see this actually get adopted. Admittedly, I'm not too hopeful--concept art side projects like this tend to stay side projects--but you never know.
Definitely interesting. Hate all the mousing around in the video and hope they'll be a way to go 100% keyboard (like God intended it), but all in all I think this looks pretty cool.
Definitely. You can always visit SF, but remember that from SJ <-> SF is a series of populated cities, some of which you've heard of (e.g. Palo Alto). San Mateo is nice (great downtown), as is Foster City, parts of Redwood City, San Carlos, even Half Moon Bay.
Also, banks are often still making a profit with rental properties.

Which isn't to say you should buy a home blindly - you shouldn't do anything so major blindly. It seems to me the appropriate way to view it is: if your cost of owning a home sans payment of principle is less than renting, then you are "throwing away" money but the alternative is investing that piece you're throwing away plus quite probably more in the real estate market, with the corresponding potential upside and risk. In the extreme case where costs including principle are less than rent, then you should probably purchase. An additional thing to watch, though, is that people often under-estimate things like repairs.

All of which is to say, there is no obviously right answer.
W.T.F. I read this story to my sister and her immediate response: "Idiocracy is coming true." I see this as a helluva way of saying someone is over-qualified. And that these judges seem to not really understand the Peter Principle.
Chris, you are exactly right. This court should be dissolved.
Age of the addict
Something like this?

http://play.golang.org/p/6nvdLWOi5D
Awesome - I was hoping it would be something like this. I've found that new comments on new links tend to be lower quality and from newer accounts. When a thread is started with these kinds of low quality comments it can be hard to recover from, if older accounts or high karma accounts can prevent this from happening naturally that would be great.
I hear where you're coming from, but I disagree with regards to the HN community specifically. I hope most members here understand that there's a huge gray area between our "extpertise-es." Personally, I have degrees in biology and env. science but I've been a software dev for 15 years. I'm not really sure where I fit in. Does that mean I can't have an opinion on environmental science topics because I'm "not in practice?" I can't speak for the medical advice topics (because I'm largely ignorant), but I always take the opinions on this site with a grain of salt.

Just because we may not be "credentialed" doesn't mean our opinions are worthless or detrimental. Most of us are simply happy to contribute where we can, and we spend most of our time learning things that are beyond our comfort zone. After having been here for almost 5 years, I can suss out the wheat from the chafe, and I like hearing the variety of opinions regardless of their credentials. And most of the time I take the position of "student" trying to learn something from others. The breadth of expertise here is astounding, and I'm continually in awe of what people are doing. Could you be taking this too seriously?

Ninja edit: softened my tone about taking things seriously (one of my personal shortcomings).
* Or possibility to get shot because you were pulling something out of your pocket.
> The gist of the DOJ's argument is sound

"Collect everything" doesn't pass the giggle test.

They're very definitely making law. They're very definitely grabbing things (metadata, probably content, arguably power) that Congress didn't want them to have, or it would have clearly said so.

That this is all secret makes it even more evil, to the extent that if we the public have lost trust in these people, they should simply be shut down because we can otherwise not be sure. Dismantle a bunch of data centers, shred many, many drives and tapes, and say "never again."

If the prophylactic solution is too draconian, then they need to provably come clean about what they have been up to.
Sortof. You still have to worry about taxes/bills, which are not insignificant in places like SF... You also have to ask permission from the local hoa/local government if you want to paint your house a certain colour. You also have to pay dues to the hoa.
Promises/A+ is not a promise library. It's not a spec about "what should a promise library do". It's about interoperability - "how can I exchange data AND promises between libraries without relying on a shared library/on everyone using the same library for flow control?". Also the spec makes error handling non-surprising, I don't need to read through the docs of a library to know how errors propagate. It looks like your promise library would have been easy to make comply with the spec by just calling "onkeep" "then" (and maybe adapting a few minor details).
Think further back. Amount of video produced prior to digital cameras. Increased amount produced with mobile phones. Soon to be increased amount produced with glasses. Each new form factor increased the availability (always have phone) and ease of shooting video resulting in a boom in the amount of video being produced over the prior form factor.
> Your house isn't yours unless and until it's paid off.

That depends what you mean. It's my understanding (as a non-homeowner of any stripe) that you can do more substantial remodelling projects without asking for your landlord's blessing in a home you have a mortgage on, which seems to have been the kind of thing the parent was talking about, and is a potentially substantial practical difference in whether a space is "mine" or "not mine" whatever the actual equity situation is.
I love that this video was recorded in advance of the US government actually saying all the thing he predicted.

It deflates the whole argument that Snowden "aided the enemy" in a way that would not work if he responded to the accusation after the fact.
But why Vagrant? It's an unnecessary dependency that requires installation of more stuff I don't use. Why not distribute a pre-built VBox image and torrent it?
Postmortem of a side-project
The composable, fluent approach that the Undertow developers have taken is very appealing. A colleague of mine described it as what Servlet would/should be like if it were designed from the ground-up today. And of course, I'm particularly impressed with Undertow's performance. I look forward to testing Servlet on Undertow via the new adapter added in this Beta release.
When You Search Google, Only 13% of the Screen Has Real Results
Leaving a job after two months, should I tell companies I am interviewing with?
So I am moving to LA in a month or two. I just graduated college with a double major in math/cs. Anyone hiring in LA by the way? Should I tell companies I am interviewing with that I am leaving another company so soon? From what I have heard leaving a company so soon is poor form. Also, what is the average salary in LA for a software engineer?
Driverless cars will increase miles driven, so let's hope they're efficient. Reduce the cost of something and people will use it more and find new uses of it -- and by far the largest cost of driving is the driver's attention.
A commenter on a blog that has been posted on the internet for public consumption?
Android is true multiprocessing and multithreading. But writing multithreaded code, beyond trivial cases, is not trivial.

Also, too many mobile apps are still CRUD-over-the-wire.
Freedom: Inside GitHub #1
I don't think there's any need to take things so literal.
No, no, if you think voting alone can change things then you're missing the point. These policies would have been virtually the same under any candidate with a nonzero chance of winning. It's not like choosing Obama in particular makes a difference. Same thing for most congressional candidates.
I don't think the argument is that people can't understand '&&' and '||', but that using 'and' and 'or' is a better choice.
Is tapping underwater cabling still a viable option with encrypted packeted communication where where equipment at both ends of the cable have performed a DH key exchange?
Have you read other articles relating to TLS security over the last several months? Keeping in mind BEAST and Lucky 13 and browser support, I would ask you which ones you would prioritize over RC4 and why?
This looks really impressive.

One note -- there is an established current affairs/culture magazine/media brand called Monocle. While Monocle (the magazine) doesn't focus on tech, monocle.io's remit of "anything that appeals to the inquisitive mind" could lead to some overlap.

Dunno if there could/would be trademark conflicts. May be worth checking out if you haven't already.
Google may be paying AdBlock plus to not block its ads
as i was not quite able to articulate below, it feels to me that forum comments, email and todo-lists lie on the same protocol manifold but not quite at the optimal point. (RE: your yesterday's comments... i use browser tabs as a to-do lists.) The obvious axes are synchronicity (temperature) and information (related to entropy) but probably this is still not the best frame to think about this problem.
This looks very slick and very cheap. If only I could justify buying one.
The battery on Glass works for about 1.4 hours, probably shorter if you were continuously recording.