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I have both sides of this:

on one hand its true, cuz i spent almost my entire last 2 years in 'hardcore' optimization, network flows, computer simulation etc, with only a couple 'filler' courses in facilities design, efficiency etc...

on the other hand i got into the major cuz my GPA was horrid, and my advisor who was one of the leaders of the engineering physics department was like yeah dont bother to apply to the engineering physics you should apply to orie instead...
This is the media trying to sell pageviews. We know virtually nothing about the facts of this incident, yet the media is trying to sell the story "if you google for pressure cookers you will be visited by law enforcement." That is clearly preposterous.
We should care that we can't be sure about something as important as Snowden's dealings with Putin government, if only to slow down rush to judgement, when situation is uncertain.
As a Portuguese speaker, i can say i would never write Hélder correctly if i simply hear it.
That article essentially captures it, I just wanted to write up a more intuitive explanation.
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>If the NSA can literally look into any electronic conversation between anyone, then why haven't they stopped a single drug cartel?

See: Coast Guard.

>This is digital enslavement and every single person who approves of this bullshit is complicit.

And your evidence for that claim is...? Enslavement? Seriously?

More hyperbole.
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If this is all true, those systems in place, I am very curious to hear what technically is in place that we haven't heard about. Can't even imagine it.
We know that the local police visited her house, and that the FBI knew about it.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable in trusting the author that the officers said they were with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is one of a few plausible ways the FBI would know about local PD activity.

Her credibility on the big fact is established. What are we missing, then? The details on what the questions were? Whether or not they were asked about their Google history? Where the intel came from?
Is it possible for me to stay in SF? Can travel a bit.
Except the Atlantic Wire article states that both the FBI and the JTTF denied visiting the house.

FBI spokesperson Peter Donald confirmed The Guardian's report that the FBI was not involved in the visit itself. Asked if the FBI was involved in providing information that led to the visit, Donald replied that he could not answer the question at this point, as he didn't know.

We asked if the Suffolk and Nassau police, which The Guardian reported were the authorities that effected the raid, are part of the government's regional Joint Terrorism Task Force. They are, he replied, representing two of the 52 agencies that participate. He said that local police are often deputized federal marshals for that purpose — but that the JTTF "did not visit the residence." He later clarified: "Any officers, agents, or other representatives of the JTTF did not visit that location."
> most people don't consider the police an armed gang

Actually a significant portion of the population DO consider the police an armed gang, and have done so for quite some time. For starters, poor people in urban areas. The difference is that now wealthier people are starting to be treated the same way poor people have been treated all along.
I suppose we all love the game of conjecture though. It is certainly a favorite past time of many.
I would like to reiterate that these were all house and loft parties - our events product was all about underground events.
"Government is not controlled by people. This is easy to prove by trying to peacefully disagree with government's procedures. E.g. not paying taxes"

I am not sure why you would assert that paying taxes is not in the interest of the people. Functioning government is definitely in the interest of the people and taxes pay for it
What exactly did they actually (in an objective sense) do wrong though?

If the only thing they did wrong was "failing to comply with regulations", then maybe those regulations are wrong. The same way that googling certain terms isn't wrong, putting labels on bottles of liquid isn't wrong. And, if someone comes to your door with guns in their hand because of this, then they're in the wrong - not you.

> You don't want to mess with the ATF. They are notorious for bringing down the hammer.

Wow, the tone people use to describe these various gov't agencies just keep making them sound more and more like common gangsters...
Just add

"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true

to your Preferences.sublime-settings to have spaces instead of tabs in Sublime Text.
"... a three point seat belt that can be seen in the above image and every car sold today"

I'm confused, the above image is a meme -- was this copied from some other source?
This is what the cops count on. Same as in DUI checkpoints, telling you to just let them search your trunk when they pull you over for speeding and then they'll let you get on your way, etc. The initial response by cops to saying things like "Are you detaining me?" "Am I under arrest or am I free to go?" "Do you have a warrant?" is usually pretty hostile - things like "You don't want to know what happens if I have to wake up the judge for a warrant at this time of night" "Do you have something to hide?" "I'm just doing my job, why don't you just let me do it and we can both get on our way, etc" -- Depending on the personalities of the cops involved, it can rapidly switch back and forth from good cop to bad cop. But they really do work and generally will respect the rule of law if you stand up for it.

They are trained to make you give up your rights voluntarily, not to abuse them and possibly have a lawsuit etc on their heads.

(Note: this may not apply if you are not white)
Unfortunately, it looks like our law enforcement agencies won't stop harassing us for the things we do in the 'privacy' of our homes. Perhaps companies like "Google" should help them with some intelligence by making it easier to catch the 'right' guy while providing more transparency in doing so. The thought behind this is that the government will continue to collect information, and we might as well help them find the 'right' information by providing intelligent analysis of the data. This in turn would help reduce these life-ruining experiences as the ones reported in this article...

I don't even like what I just said, but it's an idea.

The conditions for this kind of help from the tech world, would be

1. They access bits of information without receiving a full copy from the origination source.

2. They allow congress to pass privacy laws that make sense for the country.

3. They must provide an API to your own data... after all, they do use your personal email address as the search key......

Or, they need to shut down.
"I would not have let them in." No you should not get in their way. Don't give them permission if they ask if that is your desire, but don't get in their way. For what it's worth police don't need a warrant to enter your house, they just need probable cause a crime is in progress. If you try to stop police as they attempt to enter, you may find yourself arrested for getting in their way.
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it also makes you wonder if the interrogees still get treated with kid gloves when they aren't relatively well off people with access to money (and therefore lawyers) and large publications/audiences with which to complain.
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this hypothetical if seems irrelevant to our discussion. US and the rest of the western world have a much better track record on supporting individual freedoms than Putin's government, which violates them whenever it sees fit or whenever it's politically expedient. That fact is hard to argue with
Agreed, but the event still happened. We need to know what triggered it.
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Considering the hostile skepticism on the thread about the article Ms Catalano posted

There is nothing wrong with skepticism, and I would dispute that it was "hostile". We can't just go around accepting every story we read because it is a story we want it to be real.
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Clicked HTTPS and then immediately searched 'bombs' afterwards. Now we wait.
tptacek seems hell-bent on not giving the side for which he has no factual data any mindshare at all--there are arguments for that mindset.

As for your filtering observation, yeah, I have no idea if he just mis-stated his position, is using different definitions, or today just can't into math.
In the case of Apple (LLVM/clang), having an in-house compiler gives you a certain level of independence from those kinds of problems.
where could one get this kind of info for the traded companies?
If we had 13 months, all of them would have exactly 28 days. We would need and extra day in order to complete 365 days, but we could make it a special case (the first day of the year, for instance) not belonging to any month or week. Then all months would be alike, every 1st, 8th, 15th, etc, would be a Sunday, and so on. We would never need a calendar again.
Valid point but given the context, going from zero to some generic application of scientific resource management will definitely have a profound effect.

This isn't Amazon trying to move from 92% efficiency to 93% which probably is extremely difficult, this is a charity that probably never thought about these things seriously having folks who look for efficiencies being brought in.
Next time the cops are slow to respond to my noise complaint, I'll know what to do.
I don't think this was ever posted on HN and happened just 2 months ago. This is how Russia deals with extradition when the shoe is on the other foot and they want someone:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepubl...

Reportedly "dangerous stand-off" meant that Russians pulled guns on the plane and Czech police withdrew in order not to escalate.
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> What the hell is quinoa, they asked.

Their culinary ignorance is nearly as upsetting as their disregard for citizens privacy.
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I'm sure your neighbors told you all about the work they do at the NSA.
Not at all. Jet Cooper is ~30 (incredibly talented) people. It's a talent acquisition. They're basically buying a larger Toronto presence via acquisition. Smart move, especially going for JC.
Yep, doesn't stop NYPD from stopping and frisking random minorities (including a 3 star NYPD police chief who was not very happy about having guns pulled on him while sitting in his NYPD vehicle with a badge around his neck). Looks like this was local cops, never underestimate the desire of a cowboy to be a hero.
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I am skeptical of how real this is... If this really happens this often, wouldn't we be seeing reports of this all the time?
"They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week."
But the truth is, pretty much every company does this.. except Apple.

Any evidence or even subjective reasoning why I'd believe Apple is any different from any other company? In the absence of evidence I wouldn't accuse Apple of anything but only a fool would give Apple a pass on something that "every company [supposedly] does".

Lots of bashing and irresponsible reporting while bending the truth on Apple. Coincidence

Good point; Apple never trashes the competition, that's above them.
Yes, I'm sure if The Guardian simply asks the US government or local law enforcement why it targeted this family they will be very forthcoming.
Look at it from the other way too.

A foreign agency is secretly funnelling money into an institution that's supposed to be looking after my (as a UK citizen) interests.

I think it's well past time this incestuous charade was exposed.
Indeed. Our market back then was quasi-legal loft parties and house parties, so this was idea was definitely to fit the mood of the "modern speakeasy." Thanks!
One might also wonder whether major US internet and telco providers are pressured to peer solely with UK companies for European traffic.
This story has a whiff of being fake, but that being said I'm glad I switched my whole family over to DuckDuckGo & Firefox. The mental overhead of "am I being watched" by Google/Microsoft/Apple/Facebook is not there anymore, and it feels good.

I am not hiding anything. I am a free, Canadian citizen with no criminal record. I am simply not willing to give up my freedom and liberty because other people are either scared or in the business of fear mongering.

Ol' Benny Frank said it best "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I was wondering the same. Or I guess they could be talking about the grill of the car containing a seat-belt-like design?
I believe in the literal truth of those statements.

I do not believe it to be likely that the local PD had evidence that would warrant a raid that they obtained on their own through normal local police procedures.

What's the reconciliation?
The specific type of explosive used the Boston bombings, the pressure cooker devices, was originally from Anwar al-Awlaki's Inspire magazine. The Feds, based on DC hearsay, may be a little embarrassed they didn't catch the association right away, so they're overreacting.

Of course, the bigger story is that Googling anything shouldn't lead to a visit from domestic law enforcement, because access to search records of American citizens should be protected by the Fourth Amendment.
when she should have started "my husband makes frequent trips to China and Korea

Why is that? China is our second largest trading partner. Korea is our 7th. Is visiting countries that we do massive amounts of trade with suspicious?
The memory architecture hasn't been detailed, but from his claims of latency hiding I could see a memory load succeeding in a constant number of cycles and pushing a belt item tagged as unfilled memory, and then an actual attempt to read that belt item would cause a stall if it hasn't been filled yet.
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The biggest issue I have with csv files, is when the people sending them don't get the $%^&@ quotes right. The second biggest issue, is when they say "sorry, we're not able to do that" after I tell them exactly how to fix what they're sending.
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Awesome! Most of the demo, you can pretty much figure out how they did it by watching... Except for the plasma waves about halfway through. I've been dying to know how that was done for twenty years, and here it is!
Maybe it's just a matter of perspective but it seems to me to be much more common for people to go around denying stories they don't want to be real (police and government abuses of power).
MySQL has supported CSV as a data source for quite some time:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/csv-storage-engine.ht...

You can run full SQL queries directly against a text file as if it was a table.
Either is acceptable per PEP 8.
Yes, someone should get to the bottom of this, but no one has, they are busy running speculative link bait.
Any forum or service that allows you to post external urls for images, you just have to paste that as a image url and I guess screw everyone or pollute the database.

On the enterprising side of things I guess you could sell a product with that name on Amazon and get a lot of traffic?
They should update their perception of the police to fit reality.
What? There's no proscription against either of those. However a little common sense would go a long way in your first example. Break at spaces/hyphens/other natural break points in strings. Also the + symbols aren't necessary. String continuation is implicit inside parentheses.
> The issues with package versioning and dependency management are well known and frequently discussed in the Go community.

Is there a good place to see the current status of that discussion, or is it just spread across the mailing list?
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