skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first part of the quoted section of her concurrence is:

"More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties." (emphasis added)

This is not Sotomayor "casting doubt on that argument." It's Sotomayor conceding the argument while wondering out loud whether the third party doctrine needs to be revisited. There's a big difference between a concurrence that says: "I think this other interpretation is the accepted one" and one that says "I understand that this is the currently accepted interpretation, but I think we need to revisit it."

> conservative judges knock down decades of established jurisprudence as in the campaign finance or the Voting Rights Act decisions they're not being "activist".

I didn't say that conservative judges weren't activist. I said that accusations of activism have forced all judges into making tighter, narrower legal arguments. Gone are the days when judges would wax philosophical about justice and social policy.
IMHO, you pretty much don't need any apps to start with which is why you don't see them in the wild.

You've got built in: Word, Excel, OneNote, Powerpoint, a decent mail client, decent web browser, Facebook / Twitter client, Calendar, image manager, cloud sync, wallet, music player, search, music recognition, decent calculator, product comparison and turn by turn navigation.

You can't compete against that.

The only apps I've added are: ebay (because their mobile site is shit) and Weather.

Sure there are apps by the thousands developed by people but as per iOS and Android stores, most of them are buggy shite.

App usage count doesn't mean the device is useless.
AFAIK there will be comparable tooling for Eclipse once the new build system is officially 'ready for production'.
What is your point? Do you think that the Armenian genocide, together with other genocides should be added to the undeniable things or do you think that the Holocaust denial laws must be "deprecated"?
Well, the tacit assumption that "more gun control" means "fewer guns" is a more substantive problem. I think other "Harvard studies" (Hemenway) show, in fact, that fewer guns correlate with LESS homicide. http://nyti.ms/142rOJe
Sorry, that's where GMaps put the center of Pilsen. I can update the link if you want... =)

(ObGmapsWeirdThing: My wife and kids were outside on the driveway when the google cameras went by. Now I can see them all the time, staring back at me with their blurred faces...)
I've found from personal experience that having a bot-friendly page is just the first step in many that can deliver SEO results. For those interested, I've written a quick primer on executing a long term SEO strategy on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Marketing/What-are-some-of-the-most-ing...
...in a country which only has small islands of total prohibition surrounded by a sea of millions of available guns.
Pacific Exchange May List Futures in Computer Chips [1989]
Mega does something like this. Encryption is done client-side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_(website)#Data_encryption
I think armed citizens can be a tenuous curb on violence but that still wouldn't solve the roots of violence.

A civilized society with low levels of poverty, good economic mobility, a good education system, a fair and effective judicial system and no drug war would mean there'd be less people committing violent acts in the first place.

When you're at the point where an armed citizen has to regularly thwart crime, you probably have major unresolved socioeconomic problems.

Not that I'm against a citizen's right to bear arms. Just saying that the goal should be to have less people motivated to commit crimes in the first place, not a bunch of would be criminals calculating whether or not they're going to encounter armed resistance.
They're pretty tough on spam, actually; far more strict than any other network I've dealt with.
I hope this point gets more discussion.

It's entirely possible to decouple yourself from a framework and move quickly. It's just that most devs are incredibly lazy, and most frameworks are specifically engineered to make this difficult.
Anything where your link rotates out from under you, changes color, or changes dimension should probably not be used. You don't want to distract your user right when they're ready to engage more with your site.

Ditto for ones that involve lines flying across your link text.

The subtler effects are nice, but the delay on them can make it easy to miss that these are links if the cursor is moving fast.
That hardly qualifies as "you can express dot product as matrix multiplication" in the context of the discussion about complexity. I also think it's backwards from a theoretical standpoint. Dot product isn't a cornercase of matrix multiplication, it has a meaning of its own that can be viewed without even introducing matrices.

You can view matrix multiplication as computationally equivalent with a sequence of dot products, but that where stuff ends; otherwise, for instance, matrix multiplication also doesn't have all the properties that the dot product has (e.g. it's not commutative). I know a lot of books take this shortcut, but the two concepts are different enough that, IMO, they do not warrant alexchamberlain's remark.
You can't ban stupid people by law.
Or there isn't one that succeed yet.
Here is a thought experiment:

You are someone who is considering committing a crime. Let's say a robbery of a convenience store. You already own a gun. It doesn't matter how you acquired your gun, you already have it. You now have the choice of where to commit your crime. You can commit that crime in an area where it is illegal to own a firearm, and your victim will very likely not be able to defend himself, or you can commit that crime in an area where your victim can legitimately own a crime, and may shoot you if you try to rob him. Where do you choose to commit your crime?
And at a population of roughly 35 million people to the USA's 319 million, you have a tenth of the population too.
It is relatively trivial to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 and 1.2 is as far as you need to go to be able to use a more modern PHP. The biggest changes are how the controller interacts with the model and views, which can be done with a sed script in most instances.

Most plugins for 1.2 offer versions for both Prototype and jQuery.

In general, Symfony 1.* was easier to work with than 2.0. Symfony 2.0 feels very much like a Java project in that they prefer mounds of configuration files, reflection, annotations, etc, all to do something very simple - routing and view management.
What if you do the following?

VARX=".. " # by accident as the result of a command
mkdir $VARX
> Why can't the fourth amendment follow contracts? Why can't I trust my location data to AT&T and no one else?

The 4th amendment protects people and places, not information. You have a right to privacy in your person and your house, but not on information you entrust to AT&T because you have no expectation of privacy on AT&T's premises.

> Third parties are necessary for most communication.

The 4th amendment only indirectly protects communications. It was mainly designed to keep police from breaking down your door to search for items you hadn't paid import duties on. The idea that it protects bits flowing through other peoples' wires is itself a bit of a stretch. The first time wire-tapping came up in front of the Supreme Court (in the 1920's), it was found to not require a warrant under the 4th amendment. After all, it wasn't your apartment being tapped, but some location in the telephone company's office.
Samsung, HTC, LG are selling Android. Their other phones aren't selling really. If Nokia sold Android, they would be far behind in the Android market, and won't sell too many Lumias either.

My feeling is that they are not selling because they are not pushing them much. I don't think Samsung ever made a serious, competitive Windows Phone. Also Lumia is not selling the volume it's selling just because of the OS (actually for some is a disadvantage because of the smaller marketplace). It would be interesting to see how a Lumia with Android would fare.

Anyway, three years ago Samsung had 5% of the market and Nokia over 35%. They had a good lead over everyone no matter what OS they decided to back. Admittedly going with Android would have meant that they would have more competition, but I believe that they had a good chance on brand recognition alone. Perhaps it would have been worse, no way to tell now.

Nokia essentially dropped Symbian two years ago.

I think they have outsourced Symbian support. I am not sure anyone is developing for it or updating it any more.
Here's a thread with a bunch of pictures of Chicago excavations that have exposed vaulted sidewalks http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=143407
Fair point. Nav bars don't need underlining.
I'd love to see a citation for that.

Maybe its just the sad fact that bad news tends to travel more widely but I have yet to hear (on UK news) of a situation were an honest law abiding citizen has stopped a tragedy. I realize that their very intervention may have stopped a tragedy, making it not news worthy but I'm sure there should be more instances to justify that argument.
Cass Sunstein is among the most famous living constitutional law scholars.

Way to go! Replying to the grand parent's (revelation's) solid argument by using vague statements. Just what does the most famous living constitutional law scholar even mean? Besides being meaningless statement like the most beautiful woman in the world it is also almost irrelevant - almost nonsensical - to the current discussion. Just because a person has had a successful career - particularly in politics, bureaucracy and fields like that - doesn't
mean the person doesn't have an agenda and vested interest. In fact some would argue it is quite the opposite as - unlike some tech/hard science luminaries, for example - their success is likely correlated with their other - rather nefarious - traits than pure merit alone.

Your next paragraph about Richard Clarke is in similar vein.
I imagine micrometeoroid impacts would be a significant "weather" issue.
With regard to the first, "any" would be more correct than "all" - otherwise, I agree with those.
How big is this app? 6 months to port from one mvc framework to another seems quite excessive.
A viking cares nothing about difficulty when there are plans to be made.
The operative phrase being ... The political causation is that nations which have violence problems tend to adopt severe gun controls, but these do not reduce violence, which is determined by basic socio‐cultural and economic factors.

I saw a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people, Angry people kill people." and on the back it said "Chill out" and there was a marijuana leaf on it :-)

Once a person has gotten themselves to the state that they only solution they see to their hurt is to make someone else dead, it really doesn't matter, they are going to try to do that.
To be fair, most people who act like Steve Jobs are not Steve Jobs.
Charlie's argument is that the vast majority of people growing up today will not have sufficient loyalty to "the state" to fill the ranks of the state's spy apparatus.

While I find it persuasive that people's loyalty to institutions may be in decline, that population-wide generalization is not dispositive for the hiring ability of spy agencies.

You don't need an entire generation of loyalists to fill out the NSA. You just need a couple percent, tops.

And those people will always exist, helped along by talk-radio fear mongers who continually generate a stream of xenophobic, america-fuck-yeah types who will happily spy on their countrymen in exchange for that ever-elusive "secure job".
Thank you for hijacking my comment that was discussing the actual content of the article for more "Nokia/Microsoft sucks" discussion. I'm glad I gave you that opportunity, since no one else in this thread is talking about the bullshit you want to talk about.

Do you have any relevant reply to my post? Let me remind you, the topic was "who, if anyone, would replace Elop at Nokia if this happened?".
It's okay. In a few years, we'll be using drones.
Seconded. This could just be a teenager living in his parent's basement for all you know. Ignore it, don't even respond, and wait for a sealed letter sent to you by express. If that doesn't happen, good.
da Vinci isn't a surname and shouldn't be used as one. It'd be like calling the Duke of Edinburgh "Of Edinburgh".

See Wikipedia for more information.
Superman is the most Mary Sueish hero?
Good point. I didn't think of that.
My only criticism, then, is that the animation is bloated and distracting.
Forgive my rush to judgement.
I wish for no thought crimes at all.
Each example is numbered in the source code. The two you mentioned are "effect-1" and "effect-12".
No tight philosophical reason. It's just that historically, the court has held that there is no expectation of privacy once you share it with a third party (as long as they get it via subpoena from the third party).

Is this a good idea? Personally, I don't think so. But US law works on precedent, and the 4th amendment was written when there was no concept of privacy that wasn't spatially determined. That is why it says you have a right "to be secure in their [your] persons, houses, papers, and effects".

Yet another example where the constitution is woefully outdated and obsolete, but if you say that you get skinned alive because it was immaculately conceived by gods, and we are unfit to alter or improve the work of our ancestral giants.
This study is not evidence that armed citizens control violence, just that areas with less of a violence problem don't feel a need to enact gun control.
You may be interested in the defensive js (http://www.defensivejs.com/) project which seeks to securely isolate JavaScript code from maliscous javascript being injected on the page. It also provides a verified crpyto library implementation.

Combine this with HTTPS and I think doing the crypto on the client is certainly feasible (and has been implemented by mega (well, they messed up a few things, but that was an issue in their use of crypto, not the crypto implementation) and 0bin).

EDIT:
Also, the site you are quoting is explicitly complaining about people using JavaScript security but NOT over HTTPs, and they claim that there is no advantage to using JavaScript crypto when you are using TLS anyways. This is wrong, because using both means that the web service we are using (for example) never knows our plaintext password, so they can't attack us under the assumption of password reuse, like in http://xkcd.com/792/
OSX Mavericks "You need a Java 6 runtime to run X" error dialog fix
It's essentially true for any language (and its standard libraries).
"the best instant coffee"

I'm sorry, but no such thing exists. :)
Would it have been easier for Woz to find a different Jobs or Jobs to find a different Woz?
The Empire strikes back: how UK is using Syria to return to global center stage
Someone recently stopped a bank robbery in Michigan. I'm actually not sure whether intervention was wise, but the outcome was good - no one injured, thief arrested.

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/06/customer_foils_ba...
I really hate random people taking an article and twisting it for there own link bait. No where in this study does it say that "less guns" equals "more violence". All it says is that areas with high violence (irregardless of guns, this also does not take into account the % of those murders that happen due to guns) have high gun control.

This article also does not take into account areas in Africa, and the Middle East and instead focuses on Europe, which is greatly swayed due to the high level of murders in Russia.

This article should be called "In Europe More Guns != More Violence".
I think you are leaving out a number of Asian and cyrillic languages that would heavily skew your numbers...
It seems like the Haaretz guys don't understand social media because they added a paywall recently.
The #1 weapon of mass murderers, despite what the media would have you believe, is fire.
Snowden impersonated NSA officials, sources say
How plausible is it that enough people cross state or country borders in order to rob convenience stores to make a difference in the measured violent crime rates?
Cocaine and other imported hard drugs are easily available nationwide despite total national prohibition and a militaristic level of governmental opposition to importation. Take all the guns away, and demand will find a supply nonetheless.
I don't have the numbers on hand, but I've tested that claim in the past, and have to say that it isn't true.

Without knowing which 4 cities you were citing, let's assume that we're talking about 4 Chicagos (the national worst), whose homicide tally for last year was 500 (435 gun-based), that means we could remove as much as 2,000 from the intentional homicide rate, which doesn't move us substantially along the scale, and certainly doesn't put is within even a couple dozen of the bottom of the list.

If we refine the parameters even to be more optimistic, and limit it from first-world countries with similar domestic output, it still doesn't push us substantially down the list to consider us even remotely "one of the lowest".

Of note, perhaps, is that I am a civil rights supporter, and I believe that the second amendment grants us the right to keep and bear arms without infringement. Regardless, I tried for a few days to make that claim reconcile with reality, and couldn't.

If anybody knows of the criteria chosen, I'd gladly re-do the numbers, but I feel it would have to stack the deck pretty deliberately to get even close to that outcome in actuality.
I have almost no problem with police using cell phone data this way - it allows them to catch specific bad guys they know are somewhere, and they can only get access to the data for a specific time, in a specific location, with approval from a judge.

It would be nice if they were required to delete all but the "evidential" records afterwards, but that's a minor point, frankly, since we know they actually used it to find people for a specific crime they were investigating. If they later trawled it speculatively for random minor crimes, that would be bad, but you can't get that much data out of these things (the prime evidence against these idiots[1] was that they confessed, the cell tower data was just used to find them at all.)

[1] anyone who uses their regular cell phone while committing an armed robbery is foolish in the extreme - especially several armed robberies in different towns all with the same darned phone! I won't go on a rant about how one should go about committing felonies, because reasons, but the stupidity of these two hits me right in the brain.
RAMLOG
The laws vary, but in many of these countries, such as the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland and Switzerland, denying those acts would also be illegal and they are far from blissfully unaware of the impact of Stalin and Mao.

edit - if you are going to post on the subject of the legal positions on political denial of events, then it helps to do some research to check that you are not actually talking bollocks yourself.
Since no one has said anything about it -- I really admire the willingness to post a recording of oneself attempting to use someone else's code. A lot of people would shy away from this because viewers might have arbitrary unrelated criticism ("you type so slow!"). This type of thing could be really useful to authors who can notice if a certain concept isn't grasped right away or if documentation didn't immediately solve someone's need.

This is used regularly in UX labs with two-way mirrors and cameras watching how users interact with design -- why should it not be useful to programming as well?
Posted mostly for the ridiculous quotes by officials:

>“Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.”

>“The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,” said a former intelligence official.
> Same applies to scientists. They work individually, and pretty much do work and are judged in isolation.

I don't think this is true any more.

Historically, you had individual scientists working hard on very specific problem areas.

Even this didn't get rid of the divide between (perceived) genius and (perceived) success. Witness the classic example of Edison vs. Tesla.

However, modern scientists seem to work predominantly in groups, and are subject to the same petty intrigues and political nonsense as the rest of us.
Don't assume that everyone, especially Harvard researchers, are as ignorant of statistics, correlation and causation as you appear to be. Their intention and conclusion is clear in the paper. They aren't making any bold, ridiculous claims.
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For anyone who isn't aware of the reference, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3
I don't think you got my point about the story. The pregrammer made an UI utility in few hours so Jobs could design the calculator the way he wanted. A prototype can be done in whatever you already know, so there is no need to learn anything outside your current skill set.

If you aren't able to produce that then probably your programming skills are not higher enough and hence you could say that you can't code (not that is a bad thing anyway)
very, very unethical; you should write a book.
Completely agree.

I wrote against Symfony 1.0 and the upgrade to 1.4 needed a partial rewrite (look, new form library!).

I wrote against Symfony 1.4 and the upgrade to 2.X ..well hasn't happened, a recession got in the way and clients want to spend money on something that'll have results.

I don't mind legacy code - heck I make a good living from it. But I wish framework developers (and everyone online) would agree that slower, more evolutionary progress is OK.

-- A cynical developer, who's seen fads come and go too many times
This should exist already, and probably does, but I couldn't find it. It's become my favorite plugin ever, would love some feedback!
You're right. I concede that Cass Sunstein is not the problem on the panel. And acknowledge the very troubling "shut up and say nothing" outcomes that my viewpoint has on anyone with any sort of ambition of public office.

But I'm still not convinced that the panel is anywhere near independent given the rest of the crew such as Morell and Richard Clarke.
Total prohibition doesn't work because it doesn't exist: you can go two states down and get guns. This doesn't mean prohibition is a good idea, but saying it's been tried is inaccurate : no one thinks gun laws will seriously cause criminals to change their minds on having guns. People think guns law's will prevent criminals from getting guns.
Another way to put it: Places with high violence tend to adopt more gun control. When stated that way this study's findings sound obvious.
>> Engineers hate lying, not soft skills.

I think I ought to admit that as an engineer I probably shouldn't hate soft skills, but I do (I also do hate lying, but that's not a bad thing). I dislike the fact that it's hard for me to gain some of those soft skills, and the fact that they're often necessary for complete success. I'm willing to call that jealousy, but I think we should recognize that it's natural for that to creep in, and maybe that explains some of the comments towards Jobs.
What makes the title more absurd than usual (regardless of if it's been edited or not) is that the final paragraph of the post emphasizes that complex systems of society can't be boiled down to simplistic relationships. Such as "less guns == more violence" or vice versa.
Doesn't Elance let you prefund milestones already? I guess your percentage cut would just be a smaller percentage?
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Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide?