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"There is legitimate debate about what kind of balances the Constitution strikes with respect to individual rights versus the executive's authority with regards to foreign affairs and war."

My telephone, physical mail and electronic communications are not foreign affairs, and I have not been formally notified that the United States is at war with me. Nor have I been served with a warrant. And yet, it seems, they have a record of all of that.
At one point some documents were "redacted" and released. Turned out you could just remove the black boxes in the PDF and see the text underneath.
Exactly _what_ is your qualification for debian being lumped in with hipsters? Some of us have used it as the most rock solid STABLE linux distro for servers and desktops for quite a long time.
At the very least, the intuition seems to me that if you have a high enough karma score, you've learned by example what is an acceptable and unacceptable comment and know how to compose comments that are acceptable, and should be able to tell the difference. Beyond that, if you set the knob high enough, you're going to capture people who have been around for a while and have been able to witness the rise of the pendants and armchair-experts compared to yesteryear so won't dismiss these things as "normal."
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...the security of the nation itself. Nothing more or less.

"Nothing more or less" sounds so precise, but "the security of the nation" is (like "national security") so vague as to be virtually meaningless without elaboration. "National security" is often abused to mean pretty much whatever the speaker wants it to mean. But it has always been very much about the continued existence and authority of the government.

"National security" as a concept and term didn't exist in the Civil War, but the main threat to "national security" at the time was the attempted secession of several states, which, had it succeeded, would have dramatically altered the power, authority, and nature of the US government.
> The FISC can't grant the executive any power it didn't otherwise have

The problem Americans are having is that we feel our inherent rights as human beings have been taken away, but having been done so in secret, we have no way to assert the government has acted inappropriately.

How hard would it have been to fight slavery if it had been conducted under top secret designation? How would Rosa Parks' actions been so influential if no one could know what she did and what the bus drivers/passengers were doing?

Edit:

Examples could go on and on. I think we should 'send a message' that it's not ok to cover up crime by stamping it Top Secret. Every person who classified something Top Secret should be investigated. If they're found to have classified a crime by the government, they should be imprisoned for life. Every top director in intelligence since '03 should be tried for crimes, along with Bush, Obama, and any other influential people in the administrations (such as Cheney).

I hope the next presidential election revolves solely around this issue. It's important enough to me that I'd vote purely based on it. Hopefully the Democrats and Republicans end up offering us candidates to address the 4th and 1st amendments which I think are clearly threatened here. The Republicans could be motivated to focus on this issue purely because they'd have the upper hand on Democrats, and the Democrats would have to address this to even have a chance at winning (at least, that's my hope).
So voter turn out in 2012 was around 57% or so and Obama had 50%-51% of the popular vote. So, basically 25% of America decides the election ignoring the electoral collage which reduces it to 270 people, not all of which are required to vote with their districts popular vote. This pretty much marginalizes the middle ground voter.

So yeah... what can you do.

The only way I see any change coming is if you can get around 10% of congress recalled in their given states. Unless people are upset enough to do that, you wont see any change. Even if incumbents are thrown out during normal election cycles, congress doesn't seem to get the point. As a whole their approval rating is <15% which is terrible. But their individual approval rating amongst their own constituents is much much higher... There is something wrong with that logic. How do you convince voters that they are part of the problem.
Ha. I did the same thing before I read the comments.
'allowed'? Why would the government forbid him from debating it? Do we have First Amendment rights or not?
I just do not have any fear around things that happened in 1998.
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In this case, it's definitely a matter of opinion. rayiner's comment assumes that there's a fundamental difference between "making law" and "interpreting the government's powers under existing law", and that because the FISA court's decision fall under the latter category there's no public interest in knowing how they've interpreted the law - even if those interpretations would shock someone who only knows the letter of the law.
I've never seen a clearer demonstration of why you shouldn't say a word to the police if you ever come in contact with them. Those kids unwittingly admitted to crimes when explaining to the police what happened, and were arrested on the basis of things they said. If they had just shut up and asked if they were under or arrest or if they could leave, they all would have walked away.
True, but I don't think that covers code samples does it?
This is so true. Karma and other scoring metrics just magnifies the problem as the number of people and therefore also the potential karma points decrease the later the comment is posted. It's not an easy problem to solve because people naturally gravitate towards the newest items.
This is also a good way to get around unusable "designed for iPad" interfaces when browsing on your iPad.
Mark Manson has written a lot of really valuable advice, including IMO the only dating book you should ever read [1]. He rejects the pickup culture in favor of a more intimate, human approach towards building emotional connections and improving oneself. He's the only mainstream dating coach pushing Dale Carnegie's work [2]. Mark's also big on the anti-pornography, anti-masturbation trend that's gaining mainstream attention [3]. I highly recommend reading his stuff for anybody who's looking to improve themselves, both in dating and in general.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Models-Attract-Women-Through-Honesty/d...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap

Edit: it looks like this was on the front page, but the HN is only for programming topics crowd seems to have flagged it into oblivion
uWSGI with CPython and Go workers, with RPC each other.

http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Go.html
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I am not as smart as you guys. I just added:
?page=0,0

to the end of any URL on that site. I guess I am more of a trouble shooter than a hacker. Glad to see other ways of doing the same thing.
>>In my experience it's rarely worth appealing to logic when discussing home ownership. It's just such an emotional subject that rational debate is often hard to come by.

This is probably the most intelligent thing I have read in this thread so far. You are absolutely right. Sometimes I forget that purchases - especially big purchases - are emotional decisions, and people jump through all sorts of crazy mental loops to justify them. I think this "bug" in the human brain is one of the most powerful drivers of the housing market.
For me at least, this isn't the pain point. Granted, I'm an engineer, but all I've got for data is my own mind, so here's my anecdotal evidence.

The concept of keypairs doesn't seem hard to me. And I think that can be abstracted away a bit anyway. You just need to know that there's this super-secret file (the private key) that you should never leak to anyone, and you need to sync it to your devices. So far, not so bad. As for the public key, I think the software can mostly just handle that for you. I.e. it can take care of uploading it to keyservers.

Signatures might be harder for people to understand. But here still, a good UI could help to abstract that away a bit. Imagine I can just click "get my key signed," enter an email address, and that's it on my end. No more steps for me to take. On my friend's side, it's just an email that comes in, probably with a link using the application's special protocol. My friend clicks the link, her PGP UI boots, and a yes/no pops up. Done.

So I don't think that understanding the mental model is the bottleneck right now. Rather, I think it's that the software and the accompanying documentation are not optimized for getting a naive user off the ground as fast as possible (without compromising security).
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http://taskpandas.com/
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etc... there are lots
I understand this stuff, and I believe I can teach it to my friends. But I don't believe I can convince my friends to put up with the software that is currently available. That is the entire reason I can't find anyone to use PGP with.
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My take on the best way to write/use such a document would be first present the math, then a reactive example. The user should read the math formulate a hypothesis/visualization/understanding of the system then use the reactive document to verify or falsify the concept.

This does not remove mathematical understanding from the document, but adds an opportunity for quick verification of an understanding. And according to my vague understanding of learning and neural connection getting quick feedback is key to forming strong connections.
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I think I accidentally downvoted you. Sorry.
Another idea: have 2 scores. One score controls life/death and the other score controls karma. The life/death score is based on the votes of users who meet certain criteria. This way, its essentially a vote of the the class instead of a singular person.
Agreed that this is an issue, but it's a smaller one than you make out: Consider that there's likely a marked hockey stick going on here. Now keep the very most recent tweets of the very "worst" in terms of followers in a hot cache, and mix their most recent tweets into the timelines of their followers as needed until they're committed everywhere. Then collapse writes, and you reduce the "conversation" problem.

It's still not cheap to handle, but consider that fan-out on write is essentially an optimization. You don't need that optimization to be "pure" in that you don't need to depend on the writes being completed in a timely fashion - there are any numbers of tradeoffs you can make between read and write performance.
I've been using Console2 for a while and really like it. Last week a colleague pointed out an alternative called ConEmu. It's actively developed and has a bunch of extra features. I'm trying it out but haven't made up my mind which I prefer yet. The decision seems like it will largely be a tradeoff between configuartion complexity and flexibility. https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/.
So if I put some paint over that light, no more red light while recording. I find the argument that a light will make our privacy ok not all that convincing.
The USPS is where we get our data from...we have a layer of abstraction in case you don't want to deal with SOAP and XML and want something simple via REST.
aahh.. politicians and marketing machines settings the agenda.. sam's place same time and a steady stresm..

Maybe we get real and make it all Open Source.. and two sides..
Hell.. maybe we can KickStart a 200 millions cable submarine project ? ??
I think the majority of the time you want the number of utf8 characters and not the byte count. In fact I have never wanted the byte count. If I did I would expect something like byteLen and Len. Not the other way around. You should be optimizing the common case, not the exception. Obviously I'm not a language designer so perhaps I'm talking out of my ass but I've heard this complaint A LOT.
This is a process the executive regularly engages in: it asks itself, is this activity legal?

Here the disconnect lies: This activity is a proxy for looking back at the people and asking "is this what you wanted?". The proxy is no longer connected to the people, so the answer is invalid either way.
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Very douchy place. Probably less douchy than Ohio though.
But there's another barrier for arrest, you can't tell if it's recording (or if there's a light, people will hack it/cover it). If 8 people around have glass, it'd be fairly difficult to notice all of them, check for the recordings, and take them.

I know miniature cameras exist right now but since they only function as a camera, there's not too much utility to always having one around. Glass though has a camera but that's not it's main selling point.
While reading the Vagrant official documentation, I had a hard time grasping how it worked.

This article seems like a more throughout example.
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> Generally gameplay and character based games
> instead of visual appeal / physics based games
> like many of the traditional major AAA games.
> This dramatically lowered their production costs.

Are we sure this is true?

Refined gameplay is the result of many, many, many extra person-hours (and therefore money) of iteration, testing, refinement, and so forth.

It's one of the reasons (certainly not the only reason) there's (for example) a flagship Zelda game every 5+ years, not every single year like Madden 2013 or Call Of Medal Of Honorable Black Splinter Ops.
> Public outrage is not prima facie evidence of a wrong decision being made.

For sufficiently large definitions of massive it is indeed prima facie evidence for the simple reason that the government exists to serve the people. If the people disagree with the government's actions then the government is, by definition, wrong.

> If public outrage were all that was required then Sunil Tripathi would actually have been guilty of the Boston marathon bombings.

Since his guilt or innocence is a matter of fact not opinion the analogy is deceptively unhelpful.
It is, but my commute in DC is at least 45 minutes and normally 55 (by Metrorail), and many have far longer, so it's really not that bad in the context of living in a major metropolitan area.
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No worries, I've done it too, and I'm used to seeing an occasional comment in light gray by now anyways. ;)
Compare with Seattle, by the way, which just has a Sound Transit stop right on the Microsoft campus, easily accessible from Belltown and Cap Hill. If there's one thing that frustrated me moving from Microsoft to Google, it's the sudden decrease in the quality of inter-city public transit.

Moreover, if public transit to/from SF weren't such a fucking joke, more young techies would choose to live outside the city, knowing they could go in whenever they wanted to.
What I want to know is what I, an SF renter, can do to fight the NIMBYism and get more housing units added to the city each year.
This would be awesome if it delivers on its promises. How can we know your global address verification works? Can you publish some more information to boost confidence?

Also, I would love to integrate this with my app, but $0.15 is pretty steep when you consider the use-case, where margins can be pretty tight and prices are low. A tiered pricing structure would be much more attractive where once volume ramps up you're paying closer to $0.05 per lookup.
It has multiple return values and syntax for assigning the results of a function that returns multiple values, but tuple values are not first class and the destructuring form is limited to calling a function and extracting its return values.
asm.js is designed for static compilation, there's no magic.
It's still better to use promises as an underlying mechanism, so that you can "yield* promise" or "yield* generator". This approach is now implemented in python tulip framework, and it solves the problem of combining the existing callback-based code with coroutines.
It's expensive to experience the douchery that is San Francisco.

I agree, there should be a Massengil tax.
Those libraries are ultimately just more sophisticated versions of this on a bigger scale. Meteor in particular takes reactivity to a whole new level: changes are propagated immediately not only to you but to other users as well (if appropriate to the application, e.g., a chat room). The philosophy is more or less the same in all cases: make the page react immediately to what the user is doing without a full refresh. Some of those libraries take it further and tie the page directly to the application back-end or database if desired.

I think the main appeal of something like Tangle is to get the benefits of reactive programming while using only a very lightweight and simple library. It provides a very clean interface to a subset of the functionality.
I and my bank also own a house (it's more theirs than mine at the moment, but they let me inhabit it for now), but I think financial benefits are not as lopsided for homeowners. You typically incur a host of new payments:

- property taxes (1.15% in Santa Clara county), adds up if you own for more than 5 years

- HOA fees if any, typically responsibility of a landlord in rent environment

- one needs to buy/install/maintain appliances

- overall maintenance cost that will vary widely depending on the age and location of the house

While I don't disagree with you, home ownership is not for everybody and definitely limits one's options as far as job location, etc.
I'm sure you could get vastly better performance. But this is not about performance.

What happens when you need multiple datacenters? How about if you need to plan maintenance in a single datacenter? Therefore you need at least two servers in each datacenter, etc.

Let's say you decide to use smaller machines to serve the frontend but your backend machines are big iron. Are you going to perform all your computation and then push the data out to edge servers?

There's much more to this then loading up on memory and cores.
I have dabbled with many WMs, including i3. I have settled on awesome. These are the shortcomings of i3 for my usage.

1. Multimonitor. i3 has 9 tags that are shared between all attached monitors. So, if you have 3 monitors, the distribution of tags may turn out to be [1,4,5,6], [2,8], [3,7,9]. You can move tags from monitor to monitor, but AFAIK, you can't exceed 9. I have a habit of keeping email, browser, music player, and chat program on one tab each. So, this limitation of 9 tags just kills it for me.

2. awesome has better placement of floating windows.

3. Vertical task/status bar. This is a minor issue, but I wish i3 comes with one.

If i3 fixes these things, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat. i3 has a saner config, and a much more elegant tiling layout.
I share your passion for revolutionizing math education, but I don't quite understand the attachment to "Common Core." Federal prescriptive nonsense is a huge obstacle for real innovation in education and outside of the need to make a sale I don't see why you'd limit yourselves.
Thanks, Ayn.
Is this a joke? Nintendo has just been lucky ONCE with the Wii, and you call that "doing so well" for 2 decades? Let's not forget they lost the console supremacy with the N64. That the Gamecube was a dead console when it came out. The only reason Nintendo is still alive nowadays is because of their portable consoles business. That's where they go unchallenged. And no, Sony is not very successful in that field, except in a few markets (the PSP(first one) did very well in Japan, and is still going on strong).

Their base "will always be there" is exactly the kind of statement that brought Sony down in the last generation. They thought they could sell PS3 at the price they wanted. Nintendo made the same mistake with the 3DS, by pricing it very high at launch timing and facing extremely disappointing sales until they cut the price and released more games for the system. It was one of the worst Nintendo launches EVER.

Even if the games come on WiiU, it's too late for Nintendo. There will be fantastic-looking games for the PS4 (and XBox one) which will catch the attention of gamers for a while. And the WiiU did not repeat the same thing as the Wii in the first place: most people dont "get" the concept, because it's not a very cool concept in the first place.

Another reason the WiiU is dead is that they have no 3rd party developer support. There's no games for it because most developers are working for other systems already. They don't bet on the WiiU. It will be obsolete in no time.
> which, had it succeeded, would have dramatically altered the power, authority, and nature of the US government.

But it would not have altered the existence of that government. It would, on the other hand, have threatened the republican form of government which the Constitution requires the government to provide for its citizens in Article IV.

Of course, I was speaking of actual invasion anyways, not mere secession.
> Without secret FISC rulings, you'd have secret NSA legal interpretations. The FISC can't grant the executive any power it didn't otherwise have--it exists instead as a check on the discretion the executive would otherwise have in using that power.

Okay, wait just one second. Are you fucking serious? For a start, both the executive and the FISA court are operating under the pretense that said court is actually an independent part of the judiciary and not merely the equivalent of the NSA's legal department, as you're arguing. This pretense allows them to issue blanket warrants like the leaked one for all Verizon call records and hold companies in contempt if they fail to comply. It also allows them to provide warrants for all kinds of activities that'd be outright unconstitutional by themselves. These are powers the executive doesn't legally have on its own.

Is it so unreasonable to call their bluff and demand that, if they're acting like a court and being treated like a court, we should get the same level of transparency we'd expect from any other court?
Lotteries like this are a tax on people bad at math

Most of the time, yes. Some lottery games with fixed odds and variable payouts have rare moments when the expected value of a ticket turns positive. I'm fairly good at math and I always play powerball every one or two years when this is the case.
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y are there so many douches in SF?
We have to stop predicating people's livelihoods on work. Because, most work is going to be automated away, and the only choice we as a society have is: does that mean we all retire, or does that mean we're all sacked?

The status quo path leads to chaos.
A Honda Civic's total cost-per-mile (with depreciation) is $0.17 if you're driving 75k/year which is pretty low for a taxi. Even though Civics aren't big cars, the lack of a driver and controls means you can have 2 rows of seats facing each other with a ton of leg room.

Taxi rates would fall so far it would be silly.

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Best in terms of censorship resistance and data privacy.
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