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Pirate Bay founder's secure messaging app hits funding goal in 36 hours
Agree with you. How does one enforce people hopping borders from places that have no universal income policy? How do we deal with sovereign states that are allowed to set their own tax policy and thus legally become an offshore tax haven?
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I really dislike the phrase "we need to talk"

shudder
pjlegato mentioned postmodern conceit and linkbait, it's right on-topic ;)
I've been using it so far on the JavaScript side and it's been awesome. This library is fantastic.
I think this[1] was one of his most remarkable attempts to contribute to the information age.

[1] http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/06/59305
Actually this book sounds fascinating, must be a interesting read, agreeing with it or not.
Also: Your website is hard to navigate. I wanted to see how much it costs, and I couldn't find a direct link. I clicked a buy link and then subsequently found a "go green" link which finally allowed me to see the product.

Just an observation.
Cute idea but I prefer to set up these profiles in iTerm2 because when I ssh somewhere, I usually use a different background to differentiate the various hosts (production, staging, etc...).

I also tend to split iTerm2 horizontally and vertically and create ssh sessions in tabs, so I hardly ever need an ssh session in a brand new window.
Paying employees is a business expense, so the money is not taxed as corporate profit. Paying dividends (outside of the context of a co-operative where you've pre-committed to paying certain dividends) is not considered a business expense and so the money is taxed as corporate profit before being distributed.
What do you mean by "the" government? If "the" government requires Microsoft to give access in this form, there's something wrong with "the" government that needs urgent change.
As far as I understand from the other press coverage the current procedure is that people in MS legal department don't even have to "check" that specific orders exist, it's something that the API user is supposed to do on their side. The procedure specifically allows API requests and monitoring immediately and providing the orders in some-week time or if the order doesn't come "destroying" the obtained data that aren't metadata. Metadata can always remain because they are considered "public" in the current up-to-recently secret law interpretations. And for non-US-citizen-or-not-on-US-soil data the orders are never needed.
Actually, the "they" that got "rapped" by the FTC were "AOL, Ask, Bing, Blekko, Duck Duck Go, Google and Yahoo as general purpose search engines and 17 'of the most heavily trafficked' shopping, travel and local search engines"[1].

These were reissued rules that clarified and enhanced the rules issued by the FTC in 2002 to make advertising clear. It likely came out of Danny Sullivan's letter to the FTC[2] showing how the competitors accusing Google Shopping of not disclosing paid inclusion well enough had no intention of themselves following the FTC's rules.

> The difference is that the negative Microsoft news tends to float on top of sites like HN more than positive news, and the reverse is true for Google so this alters perceptions of people.

You clearly visit a different HN than I do. While there is plenty of positive Google news here, the negative news in the top 10 is almost daily (Reader, account closing, PRISM, etc). Considering your account is 6 hours old (with 196 karma!), maybe stick around for a while before making pseudo-hypotheses about story dynamics?

[1] http://searchengineland.com/ftc-search-engine-disclosure-164...

[2] http://searchengineland.com/a-letter-to-the-ftc-regarding-se...
Word games; notice the use of the term "voluntary".

This also provides some answers to http://www.skypeopenletter.com/.
Sure. China loves the One Child policy. No horrible side effects at all.

Social engineering like this is fraught with huge risks.
For much more detail on the design I recommend the Draft FAI World Record Claim they are submitting. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5093348/Draft%20Atlas%20...)

Interesting tidbit:

"The pedaling of the pilot pulls on and reels in four Vectran cords, which are pre-spooled onto each of the four rotor hubs. The action of unspooling the cord and pulling on the rotor hub drives each rotor to overcome the drag force."
Why, they're going to release their next Half Life as a Linux exclusive? Or even any lesser franchises?
You would expect anyone else in the world to avoid compatible proof-of-work functions for exactly that reason.
I might be just a single data point, but PRISM is the primary cause of my slow but persistent move away from Google services.

Oh, btw, I know many people over here in Europe who never use any Google service other than search out of general mistrust towards the company. Might not help them much, as the search history combined with the IP-address logs of all the G+ buttons is already a pretty encompassing profile, but nonetheless they exist and constitute a non-negligible fraction of the populace over here.
Good point, it needs a date published along with the day it actually happened.
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I don't think it's the same thing, because your salary is an expense to the company, so they don't pay taxes on that amount. (Some states/cities do tax corporate revenue as well as corporate profit, but not federal taxes.)
My favorite quote about this comes from Douglas Rushkoff:

"Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff -- it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff."

Are jobs obsolete?: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/07/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete...
Low power only works with incredibly large wings/blades. So large as to be highly impractical. The smaller your blades get the worse your efficiency. That means you need more batteries. But that adds more weight and means you need a bigger motor, which requires bigger batteries and so on.

I don't think we'll be seeing electric helicopters with any practicality until battery tech gets much, much better. I can't really even think about possibilities unless it gets at least 5x better with 10x being more interesting.
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One important thing to note here is there is a tendency (inertia?) to find deterministic explanations to observed phenomena. That's mainly because in order to have science, objective science, we need phenomena to be reproducible in a controlled environment.

However, psychology (generalize it as much as you will), hardly allows such approach. The psyche is capable of intentional behavior, which by its nature, is not deterministic. Thus you can not make predictions. Thus you can not falsify statements about it in the same way one does with statements in physics.

That's why many find the idea of soul (a imaterial substance responsible for our psychological features) repulsive. But this is only because they put forward, as an axiom, the need and the ability to make science with everything and anything. Including with my writing this comment.
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They seem to be saying that nature & nurture is at play. Your comment mentions only the first bit.
This is the ultimate reason for not having flying vehicles. You lose one and it's injury and death all the way down.

That said, gyro-copters have excellent fail safe properties (then can autorotate/glide to a landing without power) when controlled by someone, or something, committed to operating them safely.
I don't know much about cars or helicopters, so I have an honest question: why would the maintenance for an electric helicopter be less expensive than the maintenance for an electric car?
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Some ethnic groups do have different average levels of intelligence. Ashkenazi jews, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

My own guess is that for some blacks, there has not been enough time for the Flynn Effect to occur for them to catch up with the general population. This is not due to any fault in them, but a result of no/substandard education for many generations. I imagine in a few generations any difference from the average will disappear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Nobody is saying you can spend a lot of money and suddenly be able to beat a "very good player." Instead, you can spend money and gain a competitive advantage.

Actually my main problem with LoL is that you have to spend money to access champions. In DotA I'm used to having access to a huge complement of heroes, and a common strategy is choosing heroes specifically because they are powerful against the enemy team (counter-picking). In LoL it's a lot harder since you only have like 20 (or fewer?) heroes available.

Paying for champions is paying for additional content -- content that's free in DotA 2.
> The only reason for that jobs to exist is that we can't provide better ones right now.

Oh, and how do you figure out which jobs are better? Hmm... maybe through some kind of market mechanism...
Thinking back to apartment hunting in NYC a few months ago makes me want to vomit. I am never going to do it again, I'd rather leave. I had a lucky break that did not involve using any of these services nor a broker.
Really slick design. I'm guessing most regular folks won't think that hard about sharing their browsing history; if you expect privacy on the internet, you're being silly. And if you put a big juicy button on a pretty page, most folks will click it.
I wonder if this will be like the four minute mile ... now it's been achieved a little, people will smash it, and my helicopter is on its way soon...
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Really the FICA portion (medicare + social security) is nearly twice that, because your employer has to match it. You explicitly see the 2X if you're self-employed, but even otherwise that's money they're spending to employ you that could be going to you and is instead being taken as tax revenue.
This seems horribly vague, except that they've been using the word "devices" a lot. Are they going to expand on the Surface thing and work closer with hardware vendors to make a complete suite of Microsoft-branded hardware?

It really sounds like they're embracing the cloud + hardware model that is becoming standard in the mobile space - you have devices purpose-built for your OS and sold with your company's blessing and you have a suite of 1st-party web-supported cloud services. Google's various webapps and Android and their pseudo-first-party Nexus gizmos, Ubuntu and their new Ubuntu phone OS and their Ubuntu One services, Apple and their iOS devices and their own iCloud services, and MS with Win8/WP8/Win8RT and their various SkyDrive/Live services.

My big problem with this huge move to cloud services is that interoperability has freaking tanked. Every consumer exists in one walled garden or another depending which infrastructure they bought into.

To me, this statement implies a hard push on the WP8/Win8RT devices as well as SkyDrive/Live services... which is going to be a hard fight, since winphone is really late to the party, and the confusing branding of Win8RT (is it Windows 8? What?) has basically resulted in every vendor and manufacturer avoiding it like it's radioactive.

Personally, I'd love a Win8RT HDMI stick device, but I'm weird that way... and Microsoft wants me to buy an XBox One so I'm guessing Win8RT HDMI sticks are off the menu.
Genuine question: what are pro-cyclists generally spending their time doing? Are they in races or ramping up / recovering from races all year?

If they have downtime I don't see why you couldn't find a pro that is genuinely interested in what you're doing.
Aside from all the obvious issues with poor people or people who just don't like the idea of insurance, I want to know how turning people away works with employed, well-paid, insured people like me who might just be coming in without ID after some sort of accident or medical emergency.
it's apple-approved javascript which does not have the same restrictions as normal stuff.
How does it do threading?

Does it support native OS threads or green threads?
It seems it would be possible to get a pro to work on the project pro bono provided you picked the right guy. I was assuming the projects would go that route. Any reasonably intelligent pro cyclist would love to be the guy who set a world record like that, it's a similar achievement to the Gossamer Albatross.

But that's a very good point you've made. I obviously didn't even factor in price.
I like how you make really important technical platform decisions based on the title of the guy in charge.
Congrats and best of luck. It sounds like you'll be much happier and more productive in this role (and understandably!)

My $.02: differentiating yourself as a Python thought leader immediately limits your target client base to "people who know what Python is", which is a base with particularly high standards and relatively low budgets.
I remember this, has it really been a year? Man, time flies. It is indeed interesting how far the attitudes have shifted.
It is definitely more of a heuristic than a test. I think the author tries to get around this by providing more breakdowns based on category.

I think an interesting challenge would be training a sentiment analysis algorithm for detecting sexism but I'm not sure how feasible it is for this test.
In France you have a principle that says "Nul n'est censé ignorer la loi", ("no one should ignore the law") that has a double meaning: you can not escape your responsibilities by saying that you ignored a law, and, as a corollary, no law should be purposely hidden from you.

Still, I've no doubt that french secret services practice all kind of immoral if not illegal stuffs (at the widest scale they can afford), and they have "interesting" theories about what allows them to do that (or maybe they they are just crazy enough to don't care at all, like the recent declaration about the law not applying at all to those programs seems to says...)
That's the same attitude people have with manual memory management.
It seems rather silly that they don't charge their clients though, instead charging their victims.

If they directly charged the landlords, maybe some of them would consider whether the service is worth 10-15% of a year's income.
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For instance, Detroit has created pension obligations that it cannot possibly make good on, and is having some difficulty dealing with those as it is bankrupt. Many other local governments have similar programs, but are not yet bankrupt.
I was surprised at the parent comment - this guy definitely looks like a serious cyclist.
Awesome! It's inspirational to see people attempt something they're not sure they can do, work hard for a good while, and finally do it. Just what I needed to start the afternoon!
I'd wager that on the evolutionary path to personal aircraft, the development of self-driving cars is as necessary a step as the development of manually-driven cars and manually-piloted aircraft. Or to say it a different way: there'll never be widespread manually-piloted consumer aircraft.
See you CAN run Linux on a microwave. If only somebody can get it to run on a toaster...
I don't like this attitude. It's really anti-hacker.

Of course, the world is littered with cryptosystems that some foo thought would be secure and wasn't. XOR isn't encryption. ;)

I would suggest that hackers interested in crypto take a sober and unafraid look at the history of crypto and then spend time breaking ciphers, "hacking" in all senses of the word. Read the crypto papers and work on the advanced math until you really and truly grasp "all the things". Pour those 10K hours in....

Crypto is hard. Doing it mostly right requires humility and hard study, and then you have a good chance of being wrong. Nothing to be afraid of if you understand the situation and understand the years and years it takes to really become good at it...
This is very interesting to me, and I'd like to know more about what didn't work in the previous structure.

I worked at Apple for a long time, and if I could have changed one thing organizationally it would have been to go _from_ the functional decomposition _to_ the product decomposition.
Give me 12 (a dozen) reasons to break the encryption and security of your users that could be acceptable to a non brain dead engineer and exclude surveillance and government snooping?
Nor has anyone mentioned Ancient Rome.

There an elite few controlled all the money, and the middle classes simply had no economic room to exist. The result was patronage, on a scale equivalent to a welfare system, with ordinary Romans queuing each day to recieve a daily "wage" in return for loyalty / obligations / it's complicated - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome

I mention it simply because Rome also could afford to pay all its citizens a living wage, but instead choose to keep the money in the hands of the powerful and use it for political purposes

Trends do not make a destiny.
Already here, check it out: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3940898/darpa-gigapixel-dro...
Inflation exists. They should vote themselves a larger base income every year (unless it's automatically pegged to the CPI or something).
My inclination is more expensive. You'd probably have to deal with more vibration causing more mechanical wear, and tolerances would have to be might tighter since the stakes would be higher. On the plus side you'd have less road-wear related issues, but many (probably most) car owners are able to neglect those things for years.

Nobody literally goes over a pre-drive checklist before driving down to the grocery store.
I don't work for the DoD, but you have the process right as far as I've seen. Don't forget that they seem to want a new set of fingerprints every time you go in.
I wouldn't mind doing most of my electrical work myself if it wasn't because I would potentially get in trouble with various insurances policies and/or laws doing it. I can string a wire and put up a new outlet as well as anybody (if, perhaps, not as fast). I could save quite a mint doing it.
If you don't connect it, they tend to default to sharing an interface with your primary LAN connection. They also default to DHCP, so if you're unaware of the need to use/secure it they will be exposed to the internet.
Can you expand a bit more on the difference. What do you say exactly?

Why do you think it makes a difference?
In that case I guess it's time to outfit my home with surveillance cameras and immediate upload to off-site storage.

Some fucker shoots my dog for no reason, I want them to pay.
I'd say the real Leftist Platform is "there is no mine or yours, only ours". Everyone else is a faker ;)
It only bothers me in the same sense that I'd be bothered seeing the 3rd or 4th article about "why I don't conduct routine operations on my family to save some money".

More seriously, as someone else says elsewhere, it seems better to confront the problem head on, and help people figure things out in terms of what's a really bad idea, what you can reasonably hope to piece together yourself using off the shelf pieces, and what the heck: what to do to get more experience if you're interested in different areas of crypto and security. I mean, those "perfect" people who write stuff had to get their start somewhere, right? The author of this particular piece strikes me as correctly cautious - "I'm not smart enough" - or something like that. Should crypto writing be left to people who feel like they are pretty hot shit? Somehow that doesn't strike me as a good way to decide. What are some materials you should master in order to do X, Y, or Z with some degree of certainty?

I don't know much about crypto and security stuff, so I'm not the one to write it, but I think a more detailed article might be more beneficial, because "don't touch crypto stuff" is awfully vague. For instance, utilizing GPG or SSL seems like it makes sense for some situations, and that there are a fair number of people who can make them work ok. Designing your own crypto algorithm and implementing it in C probably is not something most people ought to do outside of experimenting for their own interest. But they why's and how's ought to be explained some too. I guess what bugs me about some of these articles is that they feel a bit cargo-culty in the sense of worshiping the security gods that you must make obeisance to rather than simply explaining some facts about various aspects of crypto and security.

One more thought on the subject: if people don't understand why some things are bad ideas, how can they explain it to their bosses asking them to do something silly?
Is there some kind of cryptography for idiots guide around?

Something that explains how to use a high level cryptography library safely. A guide that recognizes that the reader is probably stupid enough to create a buffer overflow if he even goes near C++. A guide that assumes the reader will use rand to generate keys if able to and not reminded multiple times not to. A guide for people who have never heard about side channels. A guide that seriously cautions not to hand over the plaintext to Eve even if she asks nicely.