skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really common arrangement when the costs involved are non-trivial. Even in civil litigation, complex e-discovery often involves cost recovery for searching through and locating records.

I had a similar experience related to a more typical criminal investigation and an individual computer. There was a warrant signed by a federal magistrate, our counsel reviewed it, and they were professional and respectful of our operational concerns.

The problem here is the secret court, secret warrant, etc. the rest is fine with me, the police should be able to investigate crime with appropriate oversight.
I am just getting exposed to C & C++ because I have a course starting next semester on it. I use Javascript for my internship. Python and Ruby are for fun. I do not pay as much attention to them.
Replacing you while transitioning you into a new role means they basically end up with two new employees instead of one.

You should take their advice and easily get the job you want somewhere else.
I've actually met the guy and did some contract work for him. After hearing the story from his mouth, what stuck with me is his utter dislike for the Nissan CEO and Arabs. He seemed very passionate about Israel and cited Nissan's Arab CEO as a huge part of why he dislikes that company.
CA is in New York; AppDynamics is in San Francisco. Those are both places in the USA.

Getting an injunction against a company outside the USA for software running outside the USA is not within the claimed jurisdiction of US patent laws.
It's also totally unnecessary in a DE, where XRandR will be wrapped in a GUI.
It's not always the NSA. Some of my datacenter friends told me stories about times when "a box" would appear and they were officially to not go within 6 feet of it. Of course, actually working on neighboring customer boxes meant sometimes violating that (without telling anyone), but for the most part they would stay away.

I seem to recall they were chasing down online pill vendors this way. One little box with power and two Ethernet ports can collect a whole bunch of evidence, after all. They get what they need, and then they remove it.

This was 10 years ago... or more. I can only imagine what happens now.
It increases the stock price and is known to have a signifcant positive effect whenver a buybackplan is announced
Right! US Customs will just confiscate your network traffic at the border.
I believe what rayiner is describing is similar to the "political question" test. The court may have the ability to hear and decide on any constitutional question or appellate dispute, but they have determined certain issues to be fundamentally political in nature (such as gerrymandering), or primarily subject to legislative remedies (many national security issues, including Korematsu, which upheld broad discretion in affording leeway to the federal government in the interest of national security).

You may disagree with this. But, the Supreme Court has a staggering amount of written and unwritten precedent and protocol that is considered. And national security based cases are unlikely to be subject to as strict of scrutiny before the Court.
Mr. Nissan used to run a small computer shop in the 90s. He's pretty old school guy who's had to hire shit load of developers over the years for various pages of the site. I was hired at one point to fix an issue with their contact form.
TOR is resilient to a single point. However, if an adversary can compromise both the entrance and exit node, then they can de-anonomize the traffic.
That's not quite how property works.
Possible reasons for this move:

1) People only care about election handicapping every 4 (or 2) years in the US.

2) Nate Silver especially made political predictions look really easy (in comparison to the partisan clowns who populate cable news). The outcome you're trying to predict is how people will vote, and you're free to go and ask them how they will vote.

Compare to sports where (1) you have sporting events all the time and (2) you are trying to predict something that is much more uncertain. For someone who is in to sports, I could easily see that being much more interesting.

The counter to this is that politics is (arguably) more important, and is associated with more fame.
So ... you could get FM's "Enhanced" account (10G mail storage + 2G file storage) for $40/yr and then pay $5/G for additional space. It sounds like $50/year, perhaps less, would get you what you need at FM.
My comment was admittedly hyperbolic, so I'll provide an expanded reply. Yes, the government doesn't have the ability to deem what is constitutional in every situation, but as long as it's under the umbrella of national security, the safeguards of judicial checks on power are crippled.

State secrets have been used as a defense in courts more times in the last decade than the 50 years before 2001.

There are countless situations where the Bush and Obama administration have acted without traditional judicial oversight with seemingly legal proceedings justified by national security (see CIA secret prison network).

The supreme court has even ruled so on many occasions against the government. But those cases are quite rare compared to the frequency of which the government acts under the safeguard of secrecy. Very few people (probably >99.9%) ever challenge the governments claim to secrecy (for example NSLs). Even mega-corporations are fearful, let alone citizens. So the question of the efficacy of judicial oversight regarding the constitutional limitations imposed on the government is a very challenging one to even measure.

> The court, encouraged by the government, has thus created at Catch -22: only the government knows who it is wiretapping without a warrant; so long as it claims that information is a “state secret”, no one will have standing to sue and the government can never be held accountable for breaking the law.

http://washingtonindependent.com/31800/does-national-securit...

The concept of state secrecy is quite brilliant in it's ability to limit legal challenge. Therefore leading to the states ability to say any action conducted in secret is "constitutional", because it can't be proven otherwise in court (unless a radical judge ignores the state secret clause which has happened only in extremely rare situations).
I guess we'll see some major moneyball stuff from him?
Wikileaks is based in Sweden and was seen as threatening by the US govt.

Companies that settle out of court are, from what I have read, small to medium sized US based companies that can face legal action if they do nothing.

What I am talking about is a small company that is foreign based in a place that does not comply with US patents. Has there been one that has ignored US patents and been shut down by having their domain blocked or their US payments disallowed?
People tell me I'm crazy when I say this, but I contend that the primary purpose of government is to pretend to fail.

I wish someone would be able to prove me wrong, but recent events keep the thought strong in my mind.
So why not use Gmail with PGP?
I'm very curious to know if these little black boxes could function as a MITM. I mean, if you're already there mirroring everything that's going across...
By the same logic, I suppose you could walk into a bank vault, take all the money home, but not really consider it theft until you spend it. Complete BS.
3) Nate Silver really, really likes sports.

He got his start doing sabermetrics (statistics for baseball) and, after reading his book and his column, it honestly seems like he's a lot more passionate about sports than politics.

(I don't think this conflicts with your point about sports' immediacy and uncertainty.)
For example, during the 2010 midterm elections, there were a number of Democrats arguing "Silver is wrong this time because (random political reasons)", which is exactly what the Republicans were doing in 2012.

Winning an election requires enthusiasm and people willing to volunteer their personal efforts, so partisan activists dismissing contradictory polling data should be expected.
Microsoft and everybody else has been waiting for years for Intel to reduce the power consumption of x86, so long that ARM has caught up from an CPU appropriate for mobile devices to an serious competitor to the dominant platform.

Intel has done everything they can to "prove" that their chips are ready, but they've done the same thing before. They partnered with Nokia and rebuilt their system for internet tablets into a general purpose system for mobile devices (including netbooks), then automotive systems. They released a chip for smart TVs and set-top boxes, then abandoned the entire line, leaving devices without firmware updates in certain devices (like Boxee). They've gone to great lengths to target smartphones and smaller tablets where the larger footprint would be a serious downside.

I will admit that intel has finally delivered a chip that is competitive with ARM on smartphones and smaller tablets.

I will agree with another commenter (either here or on the other story) that it is too early for the RT to be introduced as a product category. But I also believe that Microsoft has to succeed in getting a Windows product on ARM based on the NT kernel if they want to maintain their long-term dominance in personal computing, particularly for businesses.

They may have the wrong idea with trying to build a media consumption tablet built around applications in the same device as they have with Windows RT. I would suggest they take the opportunity with the 8.1 upgrade to support arbitrary compiled Windows applications, starting with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. (Both would likely be ported if that was possible.) That they embrace developers using Visual Studio 2012 to build applications on the device, not just for the device. I would suggest that they use Microsoft Installer (MSI) to hide the fact that the applications are compiled for ARM, call them "Universal Windows Applications" if they must.

I considered the Surface RT before getting my Samsung Chromebook (ARM) and went for the latter of both price and lack of support for Windows (Win32) applications on the RT.
Keith Olbermann is a dreadfully partisan and negative person. I can't believe they are bringing him back.
During the NBA season, ESPN's commentary and analysis paled in comparison to TNT. I think this is partially by design -- the best analysts don't make for the biggest audiences -- but I think ESPN is understanding that the landscape is more competitive than they thought.

I'm looking forward to Silver working with Simmons. His column would fit it quite nicely at Grantland.
http://gizmodo.com/5898964/this-is-how-much-carriers-charge-...
Fascinating, but why is it our business?

By that measure, should western governments be liberating various cultures who don't live in a manner consistent with western ideals?
I was trying to negotiate a deal with him to advertise my consulting services on his site. We also bounced ideas about turning the domain into something more meaningful.
"The one huge assumption they make is that you have good clients who aren't on a budget and won't go shopping. Those clients are much harder to find as a freelancer."

Agree. And it's not even so much budget as "not a schmuck" (sorry not a better way to put that).

When I saw this, I laughed:

"As an example, if I was proposing to build a website capable of creating an additional $100,000 of profit annually, I would ask the client to make an investment of $40,000 in their website."

So we are taking a totally speculative number of profit ($100,000) and charging $40,000 to get there. You would have to either be working for a large corporation (using OPM) and have no clue to buy into a proposal phrased like that or be new in business and totally naive. The entire presentation to me smacks of naiveness.

But here's the good part. I can totally see how things like this could and do work. That said you will have to find the type of customers who will fall for something like this.

Most business people who have been around can smell a sales presentation a mile away and to many of them (me in particular) it's an instant turn off because it reaks of "you are going to be paying a lot for this that's why we won't tell you upfront the cost. Because we are going to do some smoke and mirrors to make you go for it."

Lastly, one of the reasons in favor of discussing pricing in advance of a presentation is also to qualify people. I've seen to many salesman stupidly come in and not qualify people in advance simply not realizing that the local small restaurant simply isn't going to part with $10,000 no matter what you promise or tell them (or will have contract signers remorse and back out.)
it's a waste of Nate Silver's intelligence to work on something like sports

That's quite amusing considering that he became famous as a pro baseball statistician. I agree with other posters pointing that BB stats are actually a good way of getting kids interested in math. I'm not American but living here has caused me to fall in love with baseball and admire the number-crunching that goes with it. Every so often I see a parent and child at a game filling out a paper score card for the game together, which I think is just fabulous.
You could trivially detect a loop by examining noise.

You could trivially defeat that by injecting noise.

You could less trivially defeat that by looking for "random" behavior in the datacenter, such as people walking by, vibrations caused by folks moving about, blinking patterns of the ubiquitous network activity LEDs in your rack and other racks, etc.

I think a loop is trivial to detect.
Don't forget skydrive looking at and deleting private files.
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I'm in my twenties. Have cable no dvr or tivo and want an xbox one. Same with my brother who is in his twenties.
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yep. what i want to read is an article about failure, or stats about rate of failures, where failure is not earning above average wage over the time it took to make the app.
> They do it because it's better than their previous existence.

Something to consider is that if some members of a society choose the new existence (provided by the new outsiders), then it can undermine the rest of the society.
One of many benefits of so-called education is in significantly reduced amount time wasted on clueless assumptions and ignorant guesswork. The list makes sense, especially HtDP => ProgLangs => FP + Types "road".

btw, there is a wonderful course based on HtDP2 on Coursera by Gregor Kiczales - the guy who wrote AMOP (yeah, almost no one know what is it.) This course is such a rare example of teaching thinking and doing transformation in your mind instead of coding and copypasting that I sometimes watching some lectures for a better night sleep.))

Another nice idea is to google who Matthias Felleisen is and why he is famous guy. Then, perhaps, one could be able to appreciate what academic guys could do.
I like the way the larger woman in the background is looking up at the ceiling as if for cameras. Also that the male short-haired government agent is wearing a suit, as one would expect. And then looks ~directly into the camera at one point.
OpenPGP card - keep gpg keys safely isolated from your computer
1) non-life: rocks, water, sand

2) definitely life: animals, plants, fungi

3) self-replicating systems that stay far from equilibrium for a substantial time: hurricanes, fire, Benard cells, viruses
Truly, think of how benefit would be gained if we were to eat the rich and redistribute their property!
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When someone voices a complaint, they are not inherently making an implicit statement about being owed something.

I doubt you would speak to your mother that way because, frankly, it is an rather anti-social reply. She's not dumb, she knows she is owed nothing. In the hypothetical complaint she was not claiming to be owed anything. Your quip is clearing nothing up.
"fewer" bills back, not "less".

pedantic? yes. but as a fellow member of the "give-em-too-much-to-get-fewer-back" tribe, I feel that you might appreciate this particular bit of pedantry.
Can't it be an interesting article without being a peer reviewed research paper? Jeez. It certainly made an interesting point to my satisfaction, whether or not that constitutes "actual data." We're talking about plot and story here. It would be hard to come up with a more subjective domain. Can't you turn off the pedant for a few minutes and just enjoy a new thought?
I don't read things like this (pricing and getting the most money is a specialty of mine so I don't have much need to mess with what is already working for me) but your comment piqued my interest so I took a look at a bit of the beginning of the pdf.

It's essentially an advertisement for freshbooks and agree with the "motivational" aspects complete with the obligatory testimonials (which I'm sure will or have been reciprocated). The story telling to me is annoying like a childrens book.

The "I'll show you how" uses this single example to make the point of why the information is valuable:

"I completely revamped how I ran my design firm to the point where I worked 19 days in one year and generated over $200,000 to fund my side project."

So we have n=1 here and no further data to back up the initial claim (could be elsewhere so if it is someone please correct me) of how all of this works.

I wouldn't base writing a book on making 1 or 2 smart moves that worked to generate $200,000 (I've done that by the way and over the course of many years so at least I could back the claim up with n= a much larger number btw.)

This is not to say these ideas don't work (some of the ideas do have merit) but we don't exactly a long history here of these tactics working from the author since it seems that after making that money he switched into starting freshbooks.
On the other hand, no-one gets compensated for doing their taxes.
There is absolutely no reason any service should ever email you back your password.
The linked PDF would have been more interesting if it actually got into detail about that claim.
Speaking of schmucks, here's one that got me to give up on consulting from couple years ago: http://cliffkaplanfraud.com/
The fallacy is thinking the NSA is the problem, rather than the states ability to severely limit their legally liability for acting unconstitutionally thanks to the concept of "state secrets".
I don't follow. Your point is that my departure will yield a new developer?

I don't think my departure would be a good thing for them. I'm on a small team, and my leaving would greatly decrease their capacity.

I'm also being encouraged to take on more responsibility while I'm still around, so I'm not getting swept out the door or anything here,
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I've been doing all my coding in LightTable and it has a decent CLJS repl.
It's arguable that the team I'm aiming for is even MORE responsible for generating revenue, fwiw.

They clearly want me aboard as a dev, but the question is whether they're actively discouraging me or simply avoiding promises they may not be able to keep.
There's making your own merchandise, and then there's trademark infringement.
The PDF doesn't actually go into detail about how the author made over $200K in 19 days. In fact, the rest of the story doesn't mention anything else about that claim at all. It's a discussion between a fictional "Steve" and "Karen" about how Steve should not charge by the hour.
Thanks. some of Foxconn's NanoPCs are the first Mac-mini-like things I have seen that beat Apple on price, specifically http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119...
>I'm a big believer in voting with your wallet.

How is this suppose to work. Voting with your wallet is a very course signal, saying no more than that you do not like some recent change. If you complain, then the company knows what it is that you do not like, and can make a better informed decision if they should continue to do it. This complaint can be backed up by voting with your wallet, but you need both.
What's, in your view, an example of such a technology?
I believe pop/imap/smtp require "full access" type "regular" passwords.
Under such circumstances, why not extract as much monetary compensation as possible from the government and donate it to the EFF, ACLU, or similar?
Thanks for this comment. For a moment, I didn't understand basic economics terms.
your statement is illogical.

Parent broke down why the companies ask for compensation, and it's reasonable. Why should the government get to take up resources for free?
Then you're charged with obstruction of justice or something.
Here's the site Uzi put up regarding the lawsuit. Last updated October 17, 2007...

http://ncchelp.org/

Edit: Here's the original PR...

http://web.archive.org/web/20000510174513/http://www.ncchelp...
I suppose those are the Messenger lectures he gave at Cornell?
The data is handed over because a sovereign nation issued a legally binding court order. Google hands over data when required to do so by court order, otherwise it doesn't.

You can't pay Google for private information unless you have a court order, and Google is compelled to hand over data whether or not the feds can pay. The data is not being sold. Google is only being paid for resources it is already legally obligated to spend.
(I mentioned PFS and CP because I perceive them as paradigmatically analogous to the threat model I described - suppose that not ALL of DDG's queries are MITM'd, and yours weren't when you first connected, but you're afraid of the NSA MITMing the queries coming from your connection starting at some date after you made your initial connection to DDG's server, when they start targeting you. If you trust the initial connection, then CP prevents that. Or, again, post facto to you starting to use DDG, the NSA could obtain DDG's SSL private key and decrypt your queries, but if you use PFS, then this is mitigated.

So in each case, it seems, whatever trust you have in the initial transaction -- be it a SSL cert presentation, the particular SSL sessions based on it, or just the purchase of your hardware -- being malice-free, then in each case the pinning/PFS/lack of remote patching abilities guarantees the extension of this trust indefinitely, and prevents the other party from going back after the fact and screwing you, it locks the trust in, so to speak.)

(I realized after typing this that I actually have no idea what specifically remote chipset patching refers to or how it's performed, but I assume that it's what it sounds like.) :-/
Indeed. I think it is somewhat analogous to the US Army blocking access to the Guardian's website because of the classification of the Snowden leaked documents hosted there.

Everything follows in a logical order when viewed from one perspective, but seen from the perspective of a normal person who cares less about internal procedures and more about general governance it is obvious the emperor has no clothes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/us-army-blocks-g...
You have many options for improving your reading experience, among them:

Evernote Clearly

Readability's Read Now feature

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viewtext.org (always extremely slow for me)
Domain isn't important since Google.
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It's incredibly rare to find advocates for APA in most humanities fields. I've only come across MLA and Chicago. Was yours a terminal program? Mind sharing the discipline?

The issue isn't so much enforcing a style across colleges/departments as academic journals.
Apple employees are not supposed to have any real online presence. Kinda sad that anyone wants to work there really.
I must be missing something. Anyone cares to explain why this is in HN?
Well I was referring to Allegri' Miserere in particular which is not a classical piece of Music, yet Mozart was able to transcribe it from memory after hearing it only once. Its all a capella as well.
Sounds like I could give this one a miss. Too many motivational fluffs out there already.
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