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> I think the argument was to remove just the unused verbs.

What unused verbs?

You know the outcry that got Google to restore CalDAV access to Google Calendar data?

CalDAV adds its own method on top of the whole stack added in WebDAV, as well as borrowing one from the Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (I don't think it actually relies on the whole Versioning Extensions.)

All the HTTP/1.1 verbs (well, except maybe TRACE) -- plus PATCH, plus those in WebDAV, plus many of the extensions to WebDAV (including CalDAV), are all actively used in the wild, on major systems.

I'm no fan of the WebDAV ones, but since its an extension on top of HTTP/1.1, I don't see how HTTP/2.0 could kill them except by forbidding extensions. Which, given the success of Google's attempt to drop CalDAV, I don't see being particularly successful if HTTP/2.0 wants to get widespread adoption (if it doesn't support HTTP/1.1 verbs including extensions, then existing HTTP/1.1 -- and WebDAV extended -- services aren't going to be easy to move over.)
"I donated money to Obama's 2008 campaign and voted for him twice."

...after the first four years, why would you vote for him again? It became clear almost from the first day of his presidency that his campaign promises were hollow.

Stop letting your fear that a Republican might win get the better of you. Vote third party until the Democrats get their act together.
Depends on the property.

In a oil burning boiler property with 8 baseboard zones and 8 Nest units, it saved me a thousand dollars a month all winter. Paid for itself the first winter.

Previous thermostats were programmable "eco" models that I kept programmed and used away/vacation modes on.

Savings was from being able to see on/off cycles for all 8 zones to better balance them, so boiler was on less overall.

I've recommended them to others and use one in a loft as well. Every installation is saving at least 10%.
I don't know about UK law, but that behavior is in direct contravention of of the executive order establishing the classification system.

"In no case shall information be classified ... in order to conceal ... administrative error; prevent embarrassment ..."

See section 1.7(a) of http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526
Nations don't approve asylum based only on risk to liberty of a person.

For instance, let's say that HN decided President Obama is guilty of treason to the American people, and actually convince Congress to impeach him. Under your idea the President would be able to flee to Russia due to the threat to his liberty, and Russia would be obligated to accept him due to the threat to his liberty. That is what makes no sense.
Ya know, I'm more or less with you and I am a Google fanboy.

The 2 things that Glass will have to overcome:

1)The not-so-fashionable look. I'm sure this'll be corrected in the future.

2) The way people feel about a device that may or may not be recording them at any given moment. Let's not even mention anything about a red light glowing during recording because we know that'll be hacked out. Google Glass will be able to record you without you knowing, period. People will simply have to accept that or the product will fail or get banned in so many places it'll almost be not worth owning at all unless you're a hardcore geek.
Then of course someone does some super slick mod where Glass just looks like any ordinary pair of glasses; then mass paranoia breaks out and either people get over it or any glasses are banned. ;)

Mind you this paranoia will be happening despite the fact we've had wearable hidden HiRes cameras smaller'ish than a penny for over a decade already... http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/product/b-w+indoor+high+re...
Also, your friend should read Mindstorms: http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...

One of the major themes is the relationship children have with mathematics and ways teachers can change it.
It's probably fellow HN'ers following the link.
... or invalid. They're not that picky.
"that doesn't mean they're any less important or valid."

We'll just have to agree to disagree.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was since it is so easy to do, but I don't think it has been (yet).

I think the leaderboard might have been generated during development when I was playing 'single player' spawning asteroids and spaceships and shooting them. (Hold down 'o' or 'p' a bunch to get some easy targets.) It is much easier to get a high score that way, although I just noticed that you don't get points for that any more.

Since you cannot trust other peoples' scores, I think apps like this should just show you your own high score (which you can note yourself when you die for now).

Edit: (1 hour later) pwned
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People are working on it: http://www.terrafugia.com/ :)
I believe it actually. Evil and effective are not mutually exclusive.

The real question though is if prevented attacks would have been prevented anyway without this evidence, or in general if the price is worth paying.
I use android phones and have found many responsive sites to be horribly slow. Scrolling is the main thing I notice, and sometimes it is so slow ijusteave the site. Unfortunately, your site was this slow. I use an HTC One with the Dolphin browser.

I also have it set to the desktop user agent instead of android, as I would rather view the desktop site than a mobile one. With the resolution on this phone, and pretty good eyesite, I find this a much better experience. Responsive sites don't seem to have a desktop option, so I'm usually left dissatisfied with them.
It seems probable that the subprime mortgage crisis was a contributing factor in a number of deaths, via suicide, stress-induced illness, or, with the help of alcohol, violent or vehicular incidents.
97M https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.025%25+of+1.6%25+of+1...

Of course 1.6% could be about everything in terms of information that is out there, excluding raw non-meta data like bit torrent, mpeg, etc. One way of 'hiding' data for the NSA would be to embed it in these raw data streams with incorrect metadata.. would definitely harder to find that.
RTFA.
He says the Jews (religious) do well, but Muslims (religious) don't- so what is his point?

The author speculates that it might be linked to socio-economic status more than religion.

For the record I am an atheist, but I disrespect poor arguments from anyone, theist, agnostic or atheist.
US policy: it's still not China.

now there's a campaign slogan for 2016.
You missed the point.

In logic, it's fruitless to try to place the burden of proof on a negative statement. Example: "Prove there isn't an invisble ball of undetectable mass swirling in my hand."

What I was saying is a general rule that's valid across every subject in logical debate, and it is valid as a response for the sentence I quoted. What you're saying isn't a rebuttal to my point.
> "In any case, the Justice memo says "any arguable privacy intrusion arising from the collection of telephony metadata would be outweighed by the public interest in identifying suspected terrorist operatives and thwarting terrorist plots."

A little footnote at the bottom is all this is worth? How do they know this? How do they know that "any arguable privacy intrusion" is outweighed by the public interest in identifying "terrorist" plots, when no one was given the choice and no debate has occurred? That was (allegedly) Snowdens' entire point of releasing the information that he did!

Not to mention that the premise isn't as simple as "privacy intrusion vs thousands of people getting blown up".
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Texting was pretty mainstream popular in the US for at least 3 years before the iPhone came out...
because they debated this very thing before it was passed into law. it was public as well. perhpas you heard of the PATRIOT act?
Did texting ever had a "look like a geek" stigma? As far as I remember, cell phones have always been "cool" even back when they were super clunky like in Saved by the Bell. Pagers, too. And texting took off pretty damn fast after it was introduced, even before stuff like the Sidekick, let alone the iPhone.
yes. the game is 'multiplayer'
Except that it's http://fuchsia.bikeshed.com/ :)
No, I'm quite sure that the issue is that geocoding search fails and Maps has to fall back to a local search.

It is probably bad UX to not make it clear that this is what's happening. But it would be much worse to fall back to a local business search, drop a pin on the result, and have the user think that it was an actual geocoder result.

Intersection searches are rare, and there's a limit to how large a set of queries you can have in a "the results of these searches can never change" golden set. Again, these kinds of things have always happened with map data, it's not some kind of new phenomenon. I'd bet there's no less QA going on than during the times when you thought the quality was good.
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It strikes me as harsh to describe those things as "very wrong". Maybe it's just me, but for me, things that are "very wrong" are things like inequality, unconstitutional NSA spying, and watermelons with seeds. You know? Truly important stuff.

edit: Is my tongue-in-cheek opinion really that bad? Am I, too, "very wrong"?
Why can't GET support that process? You'd have the extra bytes of the content, but there's nothing stopping the server sending the Link header in response to a GET request.
I find the lack of a synchronous way to pass a command to the shell and get the result makes node much more difficult for the kinds of things I usual write in ruby.
Seems strange that you don't have C++ SDK as well. Unity3D is great, but what if someone wants to add support to an existing 3D modeling application? Even if you're primarily targeting indie game developers, what if I my engine of choice is UDK instead of Unity3D?

Depending on how you implement your Unity integration it probably wouldn't be very hard to add support for other code bases, but if you want a lot of developers making applications for Meta it seems like you'd have more options available.
So, what's the interesting traffic left which can be passively monitored?

We absolutely need OTR and then something like OTR for multiparty chat for chat. And, ideally, traffic analysis resistant. It needs to be the default, and painless.

Email is mostly a lost cause for TA, but TLS covers a lot of transport. Sometime in 2014, TLS should be the default, and "required TLS" should be considered an acceptable way to configure your MTA.

Standard web traffic is increasingly moving to HTTPS for a variety of reasons unrelated to NSA.

The really hard part is protection from metadata collection, and making big targets resistant to demands for 1) disclosure and 2) modification to accommodate monitoring.
It would be more of a hybrid of those two methods. You print the large parts (even a micron is "large") into place, then let the cells grow the small connections we cannot reliably engineer, like planting a garden. All this reminds me of that classic statement about human longevity and the lack of spare parts.
Don’t worry, NSA says—we only “touch” 1.6% of daily global Internet traffic
I'm fairly pro gun but I feel slightly uncomfortable with random people with crew served weapons, mortars, GMGs, etc. Although I trust most random people with $50k to spend more than I trust police departments with weapons like that.
The problem: you can just rephrase the claim to have a positive statement. Now, If I'm to claim that the FISA is NOT effective in their role, and the burden of proof would be on you.
That's true, though I'm not speaking to that point at all. Rather, I wanted to prevent a debate following from someone attempting to make a point that's technically indefensible but not necessarily sound. Expressing the same point without that kind of demand ("prove this isn't happening") would be fine.

But I do agree with you - this can be applied to FISA courts' efficacy. But that's not entirely a rebuttal since it's equally valid in both cases. Saying that in response as a rebuttal would wrongly imply it's fair to demand a proof of the negative just because it's valid for FISA effectiveness as well.
"The saddest part of all this “reform” are the attempts to “make math interesting” and “relevant to kids’ lives.”"

+1

Also s/math/science/ +1
The concept video looks awesome. A few weeks ago I went hiking and thought to myself "wouldn't it be great if Google Glass had an app that showed me information about the flora and fauna I'm seeing? Oh wait, it can't yet." It looks like Meta might be able to.

When looking at new technologies there are always two questions: is it worth doing and can it be done. The answer to the former is obvious here. I don't know nearly enough about the state of hardware to make a call about the latter, but kudos to the team for unabashedly attacking such a huge problem and trying to make the future happen faster.
Information Dashboard Design - is definitely the first one you should read. It really gives a more high level overview of charting best practices and dashboard design.

Show me the Numbers - goes much more in depth about the details of the different chart types and visualization best practices. There's a chapter or two on each of the main chart types.

Now You See It - This is described as a companion book to Show me the Numbers and focuses on data analysis as opposed to pure visualization.
I'd love to see this happen as well. India has a vibrant Linux community.
In other news, 98.4% of the world's Internet traffic is Nigerian spam.
Idempotent methods are important; I'll give you that. However, the struggle between ACID and CAP theorems would suggest these are just words we will try to live by. I rather dislike having to imagine what it means for my DELETE operation to be bouncing around the network for a minute.

> unless the server intends to complete the operation

A gerund; it intends to, without any guarantee of recency, to perform the operation. The very same problem that required the operation to be idempotent; it can't be guaranteed the operation is already done, only that it intends to complete in time. A 200 will only describe the status and does not require the description to be "deleted."
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> If the FISA decided that the NSA's activities were illegal, why would it keep rubber-stamping the warrants?

The issue is releasing an order in which they found some collection that the government engaged in under section 702 minimization procedures violated the Fourth Amendment, not that the program as a whole did so. Presumably, the situations in which it found that would not be the same ones for which it approved warrants.
This is true; I don't disagree.
Whoosh? Yes, in this context. But in the wild having several users viewing 404 pages at the same time probably means you're handling your URL's wrong.
> Tracking blank white objects — be it a piece of paper, or a big blank wall — is one of the hardest computer vision challenges around.

Most of what I know about computer vision comes from deep learning approaches, but tracking a white object doesn't seem like it should be too difficult. Is tracking a large white object actually "one of the hardest computer vision challenges", or is this just a garbage quote?
His (Degrasse's) point was that when there was a spirit of critical thinking that was permitted, there were great advances in science, whereas when that was stifled (I do believe that the jews did not have such a rigid religiosity enforced upon them) they lost their ability to do good science.

That I think was also the point that Dawkins was trying to make.

It is very likely and probable that socio-economic status is a causal factor, however the point being made is not that that is untrue, it is that there is another one of (likely) equal importance.
Yep—we took the single player HTML5 game and added Firebase to make it multiplayer; here's the diff between single & multiplayer: https://github.com/firebase/HTML5-Asteroids/commit/f42ae8b9f...
> The FISC is called a rubber stamp because they almost never reject requests for a warrant.

Given that they initially provide feedback when they have problems rather than outright rejection, and that the government can, if it isn't willing or able to address the feedback, simply withdraw the application, its not entirely surprising that they don't issue rejections, per se, nor does that necessarily indicate that they are acting as a rubber stamp.

We'd probably get a better picture of whether they were a rubber stamp if they were required to give a rejection with comments if the application wasn't sufficient on its face, and we had statistics on that.
But

(1) The subprime mortgage crisis could not have been averted by a larger percentage of the population understanding sums and compounding processes.

(2) The advent of civilization was a contributing factor to everything that's happened in the last several thousand years, including the paper cut I just got.
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And that makes the API better because...?
But it sure does sooth my 404-induced anger.
I don't have any links because the uploads weren't completed. I was able to upload the PNG file that I wasn't able to before, but I still can't upload any gif files. All of the gif files that I tried to upload stuck at exactly this point: http://alog.lu/mcrush.png. I tried to upload a gif file that has a smaller size (~2MB), and it looked like I was going to upload it successfully, but the upload started all over again and then get stuck at the exact same point. It's really strange. I'm pretty sure it's not due to my connection because I can use any other website perfectly fine and I did try to upload different gifs from different browsers, but I got the same result. Maybe it's an OS related issue? I'll try again tomorrow morning on Xubuntu to see if the problem persists. Thanks for your interest and your answers on other issues.
so, 1.2 will become unstable? ;)
It depends - tracking a white piece of paper on a snowy backdrop is definitely a hard challenge ;)

But all in all, I wouldn't say it is. In undergrad the final project of my computer vision class was to track a soccer ball over video frames. White circular object against mostly green backdrop- fairly straightforward.
Yes, very true! But this isn't a problem because they're two separate things. The issue of rubber stamping and the issue of effectiveness are related but discrete problems to consider when talking about FISA courts' - whether or not they are effective does not necessarily confirm rubber stamping, though there could be a correlation.

But, yeah, I agree. It remains to be proven that FISA is effective.
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Firefox is being a bitch today, it seems. I'll be looking into it.
Without any texture it's practically impossible to locate and track any feature points on the wall. Most vision algorithms use "corners" (feature points) that can be matched/tracked.

A way to get around that is to use an infrared setup like the kinect to project a pattern onto object, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work if both the projector and the object are moving.
Hahaha really? Have you seen a pom file on a real project its about 10 pages with plugins galore.
Edited.

Nm, I missed a demical point in a different spot. #fml, you are right. 97M.
I have to take issue with the point about negative statements, surely it's no more fruitful to say "Prove there IS an invisible ball of undetectable mass swirling in my hand."

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it's fruitless to place the burden of proof on a statement which is syllogistically isolated from any statement known to be true?
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So fascinating that I wrote a program in MS Basic (on CP/M) to emulate that.
Aaaah, the confusing and deceitful language that is doublespeak.
I'm pretty sure what Meron meant was getting the orientation of walls so that they can project stuff on top of them.
I get this, and it makes sense. But the combination of network connectivity and expensive closed-box devices means I'm not sure how to implement it.

The computer I grew up with was isolated. If I broke it, I had a broken computer. I could take my time fixing it. Nowadays, a computer is connected... to the other computers in the house, and the entire internet beyond. If my kid breaks his computer, he might get in all kinds of trouble. I can't let him play around and fix it if it breaks, for the same reasons I don't let him play around with something plugged in to the mains electricity as a way of learning about electronics.

I'm also not going to let him wire up the x-box, because I know that a busted HDMI connector that broke because I was letting my kid plug the thing in is unlikely to be covered y the warranty.
This move of Mayer and Yahoo to buy a bunch of startups at difficult to justify valuations reeks of desperation. I think it's the continued downfall of Yahoo.

If you compare with Google acquisitions each of them are strategic and the aquihire acquisitions are at more reasonable valuations.
Now, the only thing missing is the NSA's private dictionary that defines their interpretations of, "the world," "internet traffic," "monitor," "review," and so on. They have already established that they use these terms in highly specific and non-standard ways, so taking their word for anything automatically accepts their framing and leaves the word-taker out in the cold by definition. We aren't in the club, they don't want to tell us, so their numbers mean nothing.
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At the moment, 15% (1:6.8) are in the UTC+2:00 timezone, which covers most of mainland Europe using Daylight Saving Time.

Sounds ballpark reasonable to me - Europe is twice the population of USA, and USA is split over more timezones. And Asia has more people than USA and Europe put together.

I think it mostly goes to show that it doesn't take much information to reduce the number of possibilities by 1-2 orders of magnitude.

In my case, Safari on iPad makes me 1:67,000. Chrome on the same iPad makes me 1:1.6 million.
> The doctrine of judicial review wasn't even part of the original plan.

This is frequently stated but borders on nonsense. The framers could not have failed to understand that to resolve cases and controversies arising under the Constitution, the federal judiciary would necessarily have to resolve cases and controversies where the question was that an act of Congress was inconsistent with the Constitution.

Certainly -- many of them being practicing lawyers -- they would understand that courts resolving legal questions first have to determine what the controlling law is, including resolving apparent conflicts between different laws by reference to various principles as to which laws take precedence.

"Judicial review" is just the name given to regular process of legal construction when, in addition to the canons of construction that were established prior to the Constitution, the principle of "the Constitution trumps all other enactments" is added.
I'm not sure I agree. If the Nest helps to change your habits then I would consider it a net win. It doesn't really matter how you saved the money, just that the Nest is paying for itself. Sort of like paying Weight Watchers to help you stick to your diet. :)
It's not only Firefox though, as I mentioned. I also tried it on Chrome (both on normal and private modes).
If they had any clue they'd just watch traffic to Google Analytics and instantly have something like 75% coverage. Or maybe they already do that.
Intersection searches are rare

No! Intersection searches are the norm, at least in New York City. And the intersection I listed is one block from the Empire State Building.

They may not be doing less QA. Just a crappier job.
I believe the "auto away" detection feature on our Nest has made the biggest impact on our energy bill. Nowhere close to what the OP is saving, but I'd bet it's in the $50/year range.