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> the argument of "we shouldn't talk about this, because it's polarising" is a dangerous one

You're right, as moderation systems and communities go, this is one of the better ones.

Please note, though, I wasn't saying we shouldn't talk about this, we should. I was saying we shouldn't talk about this with a voting system attached, because that structurally predisposes a forum towards a one-sided discussion.

In hindsight, I probably should have just solicited an "Ask HN: What's the best forum moderation system for political discussions?" instead of hijacking this thread.
Google and Wikipedia have been blocked but not very often, and they've been pretty reliable for the last couple of years (no longer get penalty boxed on google).
It is the close form of the fibonacci function.
from the sale of products they've invested years of research in. From angel funding and capital from the market, wealthy backers and philanthropists.

I find it hard to imagine that you could keep asking for more and more funding on a promise for a cure for something in 5-10 years down the road, and continue to have the same private individuals with very little personal wealth continue to throw their earnings at it.

I imagine that individual smaller projects may well benefit from it, but crowd-sourcing cancer or something equally grand, people would lose interest in it. Not because they don't care, but because human beings have human timescales attached to expectations. Something that has a hard to quantify immediate success or reward attached to it is less likely to attract attention and investment.
The articles are also harmonized where necessary.
The Youtube video is only the first hour. The real video is two and a half hours.
> the punchline for the overwhelming majority of HNers is that if you do not have an employee who performs work for you within Massachusetts you almost certainly do not have a nexus there

If you're a consultant who does work on-site for an MA client, that may also establish a nexus. In some cases it can do so even if you don't physically travel to MA, since the services can be deemed to have been rendered in the client's location. But others are deemed to have been rendered in the consultant's remote location. It's a little conceptually (and legally) unclear where remote services "happen", and seems to depend on the state and the service and the precise consulting relationship.
Is it necessary to change the URL with each new addition (while keeping that ID the same)? I didn't really get that part.

If so, is there any Wordpress plugin that helps you do that, or how could you achieve that?
Hardware compatibility hasn't been an issue for me for years. Back in 2000? Yes, major issue.

#2 -- Specifically Adobe applications & Excel present big roadblocks from companies rolling over from Windows on OSX. Much of the other software that stopped companies in the past is now web browser based.

#3 -- Definitely an issue.
for the linux user interface, I'd say copying is all good, but you can't always copy your competitor. it's better to invent new things and make your competitor copy you. then you've made it and have entered the competition.

this desktop seems good-looking and simple to use, I'll give it a try.
What if I'm in the UK? Am I going to get extradited?
As I said before when this came up, the only thing that will cause politicians to change the rules is money. As in abandon the state entirely so they don't get anything. Move away, change your business, whatever it takes and then let the politicians (and the public) know why you are giving up on them. Sure it's painful but that's the only thing that gets the attention of the idiots in charge.
Hello.

I'm the author of genderize.io.
At the time of your comments i was slowly getting this API up and running. A lot of sudden traffic made that a little hard :)

At the time, i was utilizing a few lists of officially approved names from a few European countries. We have those in Denmark, where i'm from, among a few other countries. This had led me to believe that most countries had lists like this and i was planning to add them as i went along.

I since change my approach, moving from the lists to large datasets of user profiles from social networks. This has given me the chance to update the API, adding probabilistic guesses along with the ability to add localization based filters.

My datasets are not that huge yet, but they're constantly growing.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback i found in here and give a heads up on the update :)
You made a typo for longform's URL

s/longform.com/longform.org/
Do states and cities release data like this for the public to see (kind of like open gov api's in csv/json/xml)? I wonder how many more cities/states are taking loan money from other cities/states and are facing the gaping holes in their budgets? It would be pretty cool to throw something together and put it up on github.
MIT? Harvard? Dozens of other schools? Huge medical research field? Come on.
I think it would be neater doing it in Haskell than, say Java, but the fundamental idea would be the same in both.
How exactly do they track if people actually read the entire article? Merely based on time?
On one of the forums I am on, the debate has moved to whether a MAC address is an identifying piece of information. Especially given the high likelihood that a phone is not a shared device.

They're also using the MAC address to identify the device, and I suspect from that to estimate the demographic: http://new.pitchengine.com/pitches/60f7865a-f3ac-4167-920c-5...

This seems to be echoed by some legal people:
http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/05/articles/article-29...

> Unique identifiers (such as MAC addresses) should only be stored for a maximum period of 24 hours, and should subsequently be deleted or anonymized.

And they have an opt-out page:
http://www.presenceorb.com/optout.aspx

But how many people would opt-out of something they didn't know was tracking them?
You may also try one of the creative hire-me campaign :)

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But the original post is about factorial, which has nothing to do with fibonacci!
> [Mass. DOR FAQ] It doesn’t matter where you host the information. If the business you’re working for has offices in Massachusetts, you have to collect tax.

Sounds like the solution is pretty obvious. And I doubt anyone will miss Boston winters.
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Although it's certainly obnoxious and poorly thought out, in the long run we development shops will get all the edge cases figured out, though dealing with the legislature is going to be like pulling teeth. Although it would increase startup costs and decrease ROI for us, let's not forget who actually pays this tax: our clients, the buyers of these services. If you are a Massachusetts company and you buy technical services, you now have a really strong incentive to head north to New Hampshire or south to Rhode Island. Massachusetts is also small enough that you might be able to pull that off without losing too many employees.
There's a huge difference. In one case, the car is displacing all of that air; in the other, you are. Now, sure, an aerodynamic shell helps with that, but you still have to be the one to displace that air mass, while with a car you have a powered source doing so.
I can't even think of a snarky comment. This is so ... pathetic. I think 5 year old children can come with better lies.
You just made me realise why Google Glasses et al are such potential money makers.
Agree. I lived in Toronto when the Canadian Government introduced the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as a replacement for the old Manufacturer's Sales Tax (MST) of 13% on all products manufactured in the country, as this hurt the international competitiveness of manufacturers.

The proposal was to replace all provincial sales taxes with the GST, and to apply GST to everything, to keep it super-simple to implement. Well the provinces hated the idea, and the tinkerers just had to have exemptions added for various reasons. The result was that there were two sales taxes in Ontario, each with a complex set of exemptions. The popular example was that buying five donuts was taxable, because that was "dining", but buying six was exempt, because that was "groceries".
> "I wasn't even sure whether it was Linux or BSD based or something else until halfway down the front page, and had to check the Developers section to find out it's based on Ubuntu."

Really? Are those really worth complaining about? If anything, successful OSes (based on user base) have taught us that marketing should focus on user-centric features first, technical ones second.
Lavabit had a gag order so we really don't know what we need to know in order to accurately assess the situation. That fact's probably enough to conclude you shouldn't trust a company you believe the NSA or allies' equivalents with anything you'd want to believe is secure though.
Because unknown parties will see whatever you see?
This sounds a bit narcissistic
I'm not the only one noticing but it's the federal government where in a bizzare way, people like incompetence in others since it makes themselves feel competent in comparison. This is a non technical person who by the winds of fate (and attrition) landed himself in charge of a technical program. He will defend to the death the program no matter how broken, so long as it's his program.
This is the type of person that ftps some files and then fancies themselves a computer hacker and will try to project that image towards others. Is the champion of long winded emails full of irritating pleasantries, complements etc..., as if pleasantries could get actual work done, or was a replacement for accomplishments.
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It is already in Debian unstable.
Was there a reason to start with Ubuntu and not go upstream a bit and use Debian? I associate Unity and the UI of Ubuntu as the biggest differentiator between Debian and Ubuntu, and if they pulled that out, why not go upstream a bit and knock out more of the cruft?
A "confidence level" will now be recieved :)
I do think that there is a substantial difference in how interesting it is to use a fast motorized vehicle as an aerodynamic shield, vs. using your competitors (and teammates) in a peleton. The first feels like "cheating" in a sense, as bicycling is supposed to take advantage only of human power, while the second adds a fascinating strategic dimension to racing.

That said, I do think the original video has merit. Yes, cycling in the aerodynamic wake of a car is substantially different than cycling entirely under your own power, but it is still a neat thing to try and see how far you can push it.
The only relation between the two problems is that they involve the same type of equation. The underlying number systems are totally different. There is no reason to expect the two problems to be of comparable difficulty.

As an illustrative example, the equation for the RSA problem itself can be defined over prime fields, and it is trivially easy to solve in that setting. The same problem over a composite modulus is believed to be hard, and forms the basis for the RSA cryptosystem. Just because an equation can be solved over prime fields does not mean, at all, that it can be solved over composite moduli.
For example like this (it provides exact result Edit—no matter how big n is). CReal is some magic.

import Data.Number.CReal

fib :: Integer -> Integer
fib n = round $ (φ^^n - (-φ)^^(-n)) / sqrt 5
where
φ = (1 + sqrt 5) / 2 :: CReal

-- While we at it
fib' n = fibs !! n
where fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
Oooooops! You caught me. I didn't pass the Turing Test today! >:O
I don't know anything about the internals of 802.11, so these are just random thoughts:

- Could the spec be modified (or maybe it already has such a mechanism?) to allow APs to broadcast themselves every 1-2 seconds, and remove this device polling mechanism?

- Instead of device polling constantly, could devices simply sniff the entire flow for frames containing a src/dst MAC address of any known APs (i.e. APs the user has selected to auto-connect to)? And only perform the polling when the user is in the AP selection screen?

- Another 'hack': since we're mostly talking smartphones which all have GPS now, could devices be set to only poll for APs if they're in an area they know a recognized AP is in? Probably battery life concerns though.
I love that they both have RSS feeds. Both of which I am now following.
> software for cheap and then make the service contract expensive

If the software is cheap, it is expensive to service it.
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Is there a list of todos / easy picks for new contributors to get started with?
I wouldnt be surprised if it were true. If it is, it's probably intentional. Primitive technology gives them plausible rejection of broad FOIA requests of exactly the kind requested.
On top of that, they probably still are incapable of intercepting terrorist email.
Low tech solution: fire.

When a couple have gone up, it will no longer be cost effective.

I really don't like the idea of tracking such things. It's bad enough in the internet but being stalked outside is not acceptable.
They should put an innocuous call to action at the very end of the story to help track this.
Well, now you're changing the goalposts. You originally said 64kbit, not 16kbit. Key generation is roughly O(n^4) in the bit size. If you quadruple the key length, the time goes up by a factor of 4^4, or 256. Key generation time is not irrelevant -- waiting ten hours before your SSH server can come online is no one's idea of a good user experience.

At the 64kbit-level (again, BIG BIG difference from 16kbit), even the cost of encryption/decryption alone is easily going to cripple a high-traffic server.
Is there a reason this article doesn't mention what the actual tax rate is? According to other articles, it's 6.25%, but that omission from this article seems glaring.

Is it because that number is perceived as low, and mentioning it undermines the argument of how dire opponents think it is?

(Genuinely asking, not trolling; my employer is almost certainly going to be hit by this tax.)
Hey Ryan

I think most of these names will result in prober responses now.
In what way would you actually get rid of all these "intelligence" agencies? I don't think it's possible. I think they've successfully achieved a kind of military coup where they are always funded, always exerting control over a country and can't be removed in any way.

Am I wrong?
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The problem here is actually trademark law not copyright. The idea behind trademarks is that customers know the source of the product, so names, logos, brands, etc. are protected by it.

Copyright only protects the actual content/expression of the work of the Choose Your Own Adventure, not the name of the series.

Stallman has a nice article about the conflation of the "intellectual property" laws here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
There is a comparison to smushit right there on the homepage. :P
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Not upset, just thinking out loud.
It's just their way of saying "Fuck You"
Per RFC3986/7, http://example.com/%60 and http://example.com/a are equivilant. (Indeed, all major browsers will request the latter regardless of what is input.) Equally, punycode encoded IRIs and the original IRI are equivilance. There is a whole section on equivilance in both of the RFCs (3967 includes 3986 by reference, so is a superset).
Nobody knows if you're actually reading the words, but based upon whether you scroll through the entire content, and possibly factoring in how quickly you scrolled, they could have an educated guess. If you didn't scroll at all, you probably read the first paragraph, if that. If you scrolled quickly to the bottom, you probably skim-read. If you scrolled to the bottom with a lot of pauses and it took minutes, you probably read the whole thing.
Usability. One time pads have been around forever, are provably secure, but a pain in the ass.

Modern symmetric ciphers solve the "you need to securely exchange as much key material as you wish to send data" using mathematical formulas to stretch key material. Asymmetric ciphers use mathematical formulas to fix "you need a secure way to exchange keys."

Unfortunately, the math can't be probably secure, only believed secure and proved insecure.
The whole media playing world is just a weird place with lots of twists and turns, and lots of sharp edges. There is always a new fork, some new clever filter, or a new API spawning somewhere, nothing never stabilizing. And of course lots of things being subjective and/or hardware-dependent making finding the "best" solution difficult.
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Never under-estimate how much more helpful it can be to have something in a standard library. I do a lot of embedded development, and we have Python scripts all over the place on various embedded targets to perform all sorts of functions. Often it is incredibly inconvenient, expensive or even impossible to install extra packages on those machines, due to lack of permissions, lack of bandwidth, lack of time, or even a read only form of disk to name but a few reasons.

If your work involves a lot of scientific computing then yes, you're going to need numpy but if you're just updating an existing script that's doing some performance monitoring, having an accurate version of mean and standard deviation available seems like a great idea.

Python attempts to be batteries included, this is part of its philosophy and one of the reasons for its popularity. I'm glad this is being extended into a new area.
I suspect we are arguing past each other, and if we were to sit down over coffee (or equivalent) in from of a whiteboard (or equivalent) then we would have a really useful and interesting conversation. Everything you say is right, but I believe there are more connections going on at a deeper level. This is my intuition speaking, and as a PhD in Combinatorics and Graph Theory who has dabbled for decades (literally - I started in 1967) in integer factorization and discrete logs, I've learned to listen to my intuition. It's sometimes wrong, and it may well be in this case, but I feel that the deeper structures in Z_{pq} and Z_p have a cross-fertilization that we may eventually find.

I agree that these aren't the obvious things to be working on, and the more direct attacks - factorization for RSA and discrete logs in Z_p for DHMW - are just that, more direct, and will certainly be more fruitful in the short to medium term.

It would be nice to make that real-life conversation happen. Feel free to email me? Details in my profile.
Bashing China may be easy but that does not make complying with them a good thing.
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PyPy has its own implementation of the sqlite module based on CFFI, as well as other stdlib modules that wrap C libraries (a lot of the libraries written in C for the sake of performance in CPython are just pure Python in PyPy — CPython normally includes both pure Python and not in those cases). numpy is far more complex because it's a far bigger API than anything like sqlite, though work is progressing on it.
It isn't a foregone conclusion that states and other governments must increase taxes. If there's less money to go around, they could always spend less money.

I'm not trying to make a political point, but there are certain states where the knee-jerk reaction is all too often to increase taxes - or to tax unpopular things like cigarettes - rather than take a look at the budget and see if there's a middle ground.
I have a free Amazon EC2 VPN that's also acting as a Tor Bridge. Over the past 4 years, between Tor and my personal VPN, I've never once been blocked in China.

Setting up the bridge takes about 5 min:
https://cloud.torproject.org/#get_started

Setting up the PPTP server another 5 min:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PPTPServer

If you want facebook on your phone, you'll need to setup a L2TP VPN, since China Unicom blocks PPTP. Instructions can be found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/L2TPServer

NOTE: A bridge is not the same as an exit node. Exit notes attract attention from authorities, not bridges. If you are just running a bridge, you are only helping people circumvent government firewalls to join the Tor network. The default EC2 Tor Cloud images only run as a bridge.
What if you are a SquareUp.com and you send hardware to your customers that enables the out-of-state hosted service? Even if the hardware was free to the customer, as I read the new law in the context of real property that establishes nexus, simply having hardware in the state establishes nexus.
I wonder how long it would take you to POST all the possible iPhone and Android MAC addresses to that opt out page.
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I know what you're saying, but I think his point was if you spend $100k developing software, sell it for $100 and sell service contracts for $10k instead of selling it for $5k with a similarly priced service contract.
Alas, that version is only correct up to x = 25, because

*Main> 1 / sqrt 5 * (((1 + sqrt 5) / 2) ^ 26 - ((1 - sqrt 5) / 2) ^ 26)
121392.99999999999

happens to be just on the wrong side of the truncate.
This is a brave new world of counterintelligence in bot wars. Particularly fascinating (and troubling) for me is how OkCupid is fighting the invader bots.

"Mr. Rudder added that his programmers are seeking to design their own bots that will flirt with invader bots, courting them into a special room, “a purgatory of sorts,” to talk to one another rather than fooling the humans."
And to do it in a random order to ensure they couldn't just ignore the opt-outs based on sequence.
many people have been able to use numpy on clouds. You only need gcc and the python-dev package on linux.

Frankly, building numpy is not very complicated (scipy is a bit complicated, and only if you are not on linux).
I wonder how it would cope with a raspberry pi with wifi cycling through random cloned mac addresses.
Unfunded liabilities are spent money coming due. You can cut services in other places, but that's a similar tradeoff. At the end of the day, why live in a state that taxes you like California but gives services like Tennessee?
Hang on, how is it a defense to say that? Can a startup, or any other organisation, also say that? "Oh sorry, we don't have a search facility, so we cant act on your warrant"?

I'm sorry, but how can any court accept that as a defense?
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http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/index.htm?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=p...

Not quite easy but if your business turns over more than £79k then you will have registered for VAT in the UK.

A US state VAT system would, presumably, result in a matrix multiplier (52 by 52 or whatever the number of different rates are) and require companies to track transactions in the various states.
What is this animation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LjC...
scipy.stats distribution objects are a bit particular, that's a bit unfair to pin point them.

Generally, numpy and scipy have much better docstrings than python stdlib itself.