skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "They had a (presumably lawfully obtained) warrant against a specific user; it's not they who designed lavabit such that it was impossible to execute this without obtaining access to every other user."

This is what the battle over the clipper chip was about, and the government lost that one. Communications providers, absent any prior court orders, have no legal obligation to make their systems mass backdoor-compliant. It is the government, nominally, which is burdened here by the obligation to conduct their investigation without trampling the rights of 400,000 other people.

> "Even if he had turned over the SSL keys, the US still has a fairly strong "fruit of the poison tree" doctrine: any information the government happened to obtain on other users would be invalid for prosecution because it wouldn't be covered by their search warrant."

Which is why the government uses "parallel construction" to get around this restriction. And because the original source of the evidence remains classified, nobody can say for sure why the defendent was randomly stopped on the highway.
Private security officers are cheaper because lots of them are either:
1) Considerably less trained/qualified than police officers, or
2) Police officers working part-time for additional income, whose training, benefits, etc., come through their main job (and who become unavailable when required to perform overtime in that job, for which they are paid more.)
I'm confused. It looks like they're selling battery and wired versions of the device, and the wired version also contains a battery backup (according to the specs page - click "Show Detailed Specs" and it says it comes with "Three long-life backup batteries"):

https://store.nest.com/product/smoke-co-alarm/
> Other way around.

[Slaps forehead.] I got the fire type / particle size reversed. The sad thing is I actually took the fire marshal's exam on the subject. But I guess, like in college, the moment I walked out of the exam room my mind became a clean slate.
Genes are to humans in the same way CPU instructions are to computers [1]. So this experiment is analogous to measuring the capability /throughput of a computer only by inspecting existence of arbitrary instruction sets. They may be the atomic enabling factors, but can't really say much about something so complex as intelligence.

[1]: Richard Dawkins
For #2, the 360 deal (and its variants) arose to mitigate this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal

For #3, I think we consume books/movies so differently that what happens in the music industry has no effect on other mediums. The biggest change since 1983, for example, is that people today have the opportunity to hear any and every song they want all day, every day without having to pay. Sure, you might need to listen to a commercial every once in a while (Spotify, Youtube, Pandora, etc) but that's okay - you aren't a "pirate" if you use those services so it's cool. And you can go about your daily life while doing so - you can listen to 8+ hours of music at work today if you want and still get your work done. That didn't happen back in 1983 - if you got to listen to music, you'd share that music with everyone else in the office and it would either be muzak (!) or a radio station. You didn't get to have these deep niches and deep preferences that Spotify/et al allow.

Movies though - that requires your full attention. Can you read a book while you code? Can you watch a movie while you do your company's books? It's just too different.
New "top-secret" NSA datacenter suffering electrical "melt-downs"
I've been having a discussion with a fastmail staff member about surveillance and fastmail. You can see the discussion here:

https://www.fastmail.fm/html/?MSignal=TZ-**378397*97ae93f3
And this seems to hand out a wealth of information as to why they haven't gotten there yet: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nxtyb/nuclear_f...
As the comment by 'pja' highlights, most of the restrictions to such an approach are legal.

The least restricted market in this regards is the United Kingdom where there are quite a few businesses in the crowdfunding/peer-to-peer lending space already - for equity funding see Seedrs[1] and Crowdcube[2].There's even instances of SMEs raising equity from the public directly e.g. Brewdog[3].

The UK regulator (FCA) is just catching up so things may change next year[4].

[1]: http://www.seedrs.com/
[2]: http://www.crowdcube.com/
[3]: http://www.brewdog.com/equityforpunks
[4]: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/03/britain-crowdfundi...?
Looks fantastic, except for one thing - 11" screen on a 13" lid panel. What a waste of potentially useful space.
If you're not an accredited investor, you're not going to be allowed to invest in anything that they require accredited investor status to receive information about.
God didn't come. New testament says he sent his son.

God supposedly walked with Noah's Grandfather, much better "biblical proof" especially since old testament has more acceptance on earth than the new testament.

Your physics sucks:
Multiverse theories make two assumptions: 1. There is as much Matter as anti-matter, and thus you could nullify the entire universe. 2. Every coefficient of Gravity/Time/Magnetism/Universal force is represented in a multiverse and those verses don't interact.

The universe's size is "larger than observable but not infinite". The Universe expands at the rate of the maximum traversable speed. So even if you started towards the edge at the moment of the bang you can't ever reach the edge. That is different than infinite. But as humans we tend to say infinite for anything that is bigger than fits in our head. Just like in Algebra when you say a function approaches infinity. X divided by 0 is never actually infinite.

Your Religion Studies sucks.
As pointed out "God" sent an emissary and didn't show up in both Christian and Muslim religions. Disproving the "Proof" that is the written history of God's visits on Earth is as simple as pointing out contradictions. There are 2 creation stories in the old testament, so which one is right? If Jesus was the son of God, why did he say washing your hands wouldn't prevent you from getting sick? (Mathew 15:11) Did he not know about Germs?
These 2 fashion kickstarter campaigns show you retailers earn up to 60% margin
I think what the benchmark is proving is that 5.7 uses all the cpu cores where 5.6 in all variants and predecessors does not.

5.7 is not much faster than 5.6 with less than 16 (HT) cores.

But by the time 5.7 ships GA, we'll need it as cores will be far more plentiful.
> Levison offered multiple times to write a specific script for the single user ... A pretty clear indication they wanted unfettered access to his client base and his network

i don't think this is the correct interpretation. in a court of laws, acquiring evidence is something procedural and governed by rules and regulations. having a third party (lavabit) acquire the evidence and then turn it over to the government is probably something that wouldn't pass muster in court due to chain of custody and other rules.

the government investigators had a particular target, and they needed to collect evidence that would be admissible in a court of law. its actually pretty tough to come up with a good alternative here for the government.
What's wrong with jsPerf?
Scale of years is uneven, revenue != profit. Also, if the only thing that's countering the loss in album sales is concerts, I think we should take a look at ticket prices for concerts. I think they've grown to be ridiculously (prohibitively) expensive over the years, which is just wrong.
I believe the preferred nomenclature is 'targeted killing'.
India putting final touches on Mars-bound spacecraft
What is the difference between City of London police and London Metro police? (US resident, my only time in London was a quick drunken jaunt through SOHO on a long layover)

EDIT: Thank you all for informing me!
Never would I use such ugly specter reminiscent of the netbook days.
> Failing to recognize how much you benefit from your government is, yes, I'm sorry to say it, childish

Did I ask the state to provide me with all these "benefits" in exchange for being enslaved and having guns and threats at me? If the government thinks I need its X, Y, and Z services, or whatever and uses it as a basis for theft, is it any good?

Is it different from, say, me saying that apples are good for you, therefore I can point a gun at you, violently take your money and buy you a fucking apple? You know, because it's good for you! No? Surely I am benefiting you in this case so you have to shut up and blindly obey.

Every single thing that the government does can be not only just provided, but provided more efficiently (and also more morally) on a free market.
Ambulances don't play cello sonatas. Minefields aren't marked with rainbows and kittens. The user interface for current smoke detectors is very thoughtful. It is based upon experience.

When alarms don't alarm, people often die.

When alarms are ignored, people often die.

Making obnoxious sounds is a feature not a bug. The inconvenience of being kept awake by a smoke alarm battery tends to pale in comparison to the inconvenience of being kept dead.
Looking over at my smoke detector that I took down 3 weeks ago and disabled because it was beeping, let's just say I agree with this video.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be smarter than you. Probably, I'm not. I'm just trying to make you see that actually, there is no evidence for evolution. What you have is tons of text books telling they showed you the evidence, but they did not. And I pic bacteria because everybody give this as an evidence and think it's a prove of evolution. And it is not because in the end of millions of interactions in the lab the final result that a bacteria is still a bacteria. Show an experiment that in the starts with a kind of animal and ends with another kind of animal. I could not find one.
URX — URX's Guiding Tenants
The page was cited in a Supreme Court decision, but of course giving a URL is far less permanent than giving a citation to an article in a newspaper, magazine, journal, etc. Since the Supreme Court just gave the URL, if it weren't for the Wayback machine coincidentally happening to grab it, we would never be able to see what Justice Alito was actually referring to.
The problem with forums: already 2400 posts on an inexistent phone (Nexus 5)
Thanks for confirming the clarification. I'm all for power-to-the-people.
CGPGrey did a pretty interesting video a while back that explains the difference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Celebrate Small
The primary mechanism for running Dart on the client is by compilation to JS. There is a DartVM that runs Dart directly, but its not bundled into any browsers except for a special version of Chromium ("Dartium") bundled with the Dart SDK so that the development cycle can proceed without a dart2js run at each iteration, but its not intended for general use that way.
Yeah, as a person regularly sending money outside UK I felt this pain.

Then, bitcoin appeared, thanks to which you can send money to many countries for free (or even with a small gain on exchange rate, if youre lucky).
EDID tells you whether you're connected to an HDMI device.

AMD added a special chip to their adapters that adds extra data to the EDID data in-line to say "yes i am a real ati adapter." This was totally unnecessary.
> URX's Guiding Tenants

s/Tenants/Tenets :)
I would think it's the distinction between the "City of London" (just the city itself) and the "London Metropolitan Area" (the city and surrounding sprawl).
>> Perhaps you mean the phenomenon of popular artists that are so big that they are household names across all demographics across the globe/nation. If so then your probably right. Probably we will see less new justin timberlakes/drakes/britney spears level superstars, and more local/regional/niche stars.

No, the big artists will only get bigger, because those are the artists that can afford to tour and have the backing of their labels. It'll just be harder for smaller acts to become bigger acts.
The middle part of my house was built in 1920 and didn't have electricity at the time, then it had uninsulated wires on insulators, then it had wiring with crumbly insulation (the natural rubber gets hard).

When we added onto the house, we put in smoke detectors (in every bedroom and hall) that are powered by the AC mains, have backup batteries and if one goes off, they all go into alarm.

If my house is ever destroyed, it will probably be an electrical fire, but my family will know about it early.
It sounds like a good idea, but it won't be very fun if no one uses it. I imagine having some difficulty explaining "ephemera app" to a wide audience.
Do you think "soft" reminders of battery age are enough to make people check or change their smoke detector batteries?

You've been reading this thread. Have you replaced the batteries because of this thread? or decided to check the batteries because of this thread?
it took you this long? They awarded it to Al Gore for climate change awareness (has alot to do with peace i guess?) Even worse, they have awarded it to supporters of terrorism(Arafat), and other violent types of people(Mandela).
Here's a good link for context - a NYT article from September 23, "In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere:" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-cou...

From the first two paragraphs: "Supreme Court opinions have come down with a bad case of link rot. According to a new study[1], 49 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions no longer work.

This can sometimes be amusing. A link in a 2011 Supreme Court opinion[2] about violent video games by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. now leads to a mischievous error message[3]."

1. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/futureoftheinternet/2013/09/22/...

2. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-1448.ZC.html

3. http://ssnat.com/
let me clarify, justin timberlake, drake, and britney will be fine, but the next generation 'justin timberlake' wont get the kind of massive funding necessary to make him a superstar across all demographics, social classes, genres.

as far the local/niche artists, i should clarify i don't think they will be doing 'better' than they do today.

i am instead looking at it from a fans point of view, instead of 100 next gen justin fans, i think they will be say 40 gen justin fans, 10 next gen r&b fans, 10 next gen power ballad fans, 10 next gen lounge crooner, etc...

I dont think the amount of music listened to is going to change, the margins for the companies and artists income will probably go down... but 'quality' of music will be the same as it always was
Amazing that in this era of phishing the PIPCU expect someone to take significant action against their own customers on the basis of an e-mail.

And I'm 99.9% positive it wouldn't have been PGP or S/MIME-signed for authenticity.

Kudos to Mr Jeftovic for insisting on proper instruments, such as a court order.
The method of a leisure class without duties was, however, extraordinarily wasteful. None of the members of the class had to be taught to be industrious, and the class as a whole was not exceptionally intelligent. The class might produce one Darwin, but against him had to be set tens of thousands of country gentlemen who never thought of anything more intelligent than fox-hunting and punishing poachers.

I'm down. We should be massively ramping up the amount of leisure time in our society so that we, as a society, never miss out on a potential Darwin or Lincoln or Jesus or whomever. How many world-changing, mental giants have we missed out on because they couldn't free their minds from working 40+ hours a week?
Here's the NYT article it vaguely references. Lot more content, plus an explanation. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-cou...

It's basically highlighting how there's a lot of linkrot, which makes re-reading old Supreme Court decisions difficult.
Chrome OS "gets out of the way", and it's very easy for most people to use, since it's just a browser. Steve Jobs would've appreciated it.
City of London is the financial district, a city within a city. Most of the voters there are companies and it is administered by a corporation. Dick Whittington ran it for a bit with a cat that liked sturdy footwear. It is weird.
> Nobody developed a language to run on top of Java, C#, C++

Because instead of developing languages to run on top of them, people just designed languages to run on the same platform. The browser environment is a special case where the only common feature of the platform that is available to target is JS, there's no common VM underlying it, so replacements target JS.

Though its worth noting that while it may be true that no one developed a language to run on top of C++, C++ was originally implemented as a language that was preprocessed into C and then fed to a C compiler, much the way that many JS alternatives are compiled to JS and then fed to a JS interpreter.
The requirement for renovations will vary based on locally adopted codes and their interpretation by building officials. In more affluent areas, the tendency will be to require upgrades along with relatively minor work. In less affluent or rural areas, the tendency will be more libertarian - i.e. building codes and their enforcement are subject to the political process.
Continued: I think it's pretty obvious that genes have quiet a bit to do with intelligence and achievement. There have been too many studies done on race and iq, race and crime, race and achievement to just throw out. I'm not the smartest but at least I'm living in reality. And I'm proud to see so many HNers here doing the same and acknowledging the important role genetics has in our lives. It's good to know there's more people following truth and science no matter how blasphemous it may seem to a delusional emotion-oriented general population hell bent on believing that everyone is "100% equal" in order to feel good about themselves.

Nature is racist. Us finding out about it is not.
Ha. True.

But, I'm not sure people know that a Boson is named after him at all and if they do I'd bet they assume (like I once did) that Bose was some German or Hungarian bloke.

(Mind you, I also thought that the Bose of Bose Corporation[1] would have been a European rather than Indian descent, too. Clearly, I have some prejudice I need to work out).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bose
As to theft: I think the argument is that you care much less if the Chromebook gets stolen, not that it's much less likely to occur. It's a quarter of the price to replace, and you likely don't have any data on it that's not synced to cloud services.
They clarified that any province outside of Quebec is exempt from TOEFL. Quoting their tweet excerpt back to me:

@GTOMSCS: Canadian universities outside of Quebec are exempt from TOEFL.
It doesn't say, is the battery removable/replaceable?
I grew up in a spanish household speaking english and spanish. Now I'm in my twenties and I've found that speaking spanish in the household is VERY different from speaking in public, like when you have to speak in a formal manner or an informal (friend-to-friend) manner. I end up feeling like I can't speak spanish very well in these social scenarios, like I'm speaking like a caveman due to all the bumps I hit when I don't know the formal way of saying things. Then I get super self-conscious

In that sense, I may give this a shot in the very near future. In the meantime, good luck on the venture, I like the idea :)
the report doesn't seem to compensate for inflation

shrug
"The City" is a tiny little slice with something like one hundred residents. It bears zero relation to London, the London Urban Area, the London Metro Area, or the London Municipal Area.
We're a virtual coin exchange based in Canada.. sorry about the lack of info :/
Install Noscript so you can instead write letters of complaint to web developers who like to use cute scripts to break ordinary links.
Means pretty much what it says, Professor Higgs is quite uncomfortable with publicity.

Apparently, he's on holiday right now, with no phone / email. Almost certainly deliberately.
There was an incident a week or so ago where the admin of a Finnish punk website posted a scan of an "information request" he had received from the police. This request was to provide registration information (especially email and IP addresses) of certain users of the site.

The common factor was that these users had participated in a forum thread discussing organizing a (apparently entirely peaceful) "shadow event" of the traditional presidential Independence Day reception.

The "request" came with a gag order and without any mention of an appeal process. The rationale included was a generic boilerplate "investigation or prevention of crime" with no mention of anyone being suspected of any crime or planning thereof. The gag order was, obviously and quite defiantly, disobeyed by the admin.

Now it appears that these kinds of requests are perfectly legal, do not require the authorization of any member of the judiciary, and appear to be used quite carelessly to gather information about people not officially suspected of anything. Getting "official" personally identifying information from ISPs is much harder, though, but this does not look good especially given that the new police law currently in planning stages is expected to considerably extend the electronic powers of the police.
It's a controversial restriction. Scientists rarely work alone anymore.
I think he was referring to the fact that so much of the case remained, and still does remain, secret for long after the warrant was served.
I have to say there's a good chance that society is already moving toward Russell's ideal.

If you just look at accelerators like YCombinator, you'll see that two successful startups (Dropbox and AirBnb) are by-and-large paying for the investment of the other several hundred startups several times over.

So when will we see it going to the next level? Gather a bunch of people together, using whatever criteria you see fit, and tell them to do whatever they want. Pay for their room and board, and see what is produced from their complete leisure time. If the produce of that investment was one of the individuals simply having an idea on the scale of something like "Democracy" or "Altruism", wouldn't it be completely worth it if the other individuals never did anything more than eat, sleep, and play video games?
The London Metropolitan Police (aka “Scotland Yard” although I don’t think anyone in London uses that term anymore) is the police force of Greater London, excluding the City of London which is basically the financial district of London (famously called the “Square Mile” for obvious reasons). It also has some nationwide responsibilities, such as counter-terrorism.

The City of London Police is the police force of the City of London only. Given that there are less than 8,000 people living in the City of London but more than 300,000 people work there (many of them very well paid), they specialise in white collar crime.
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Yeah, I've figured there'd be more here about it, but it's sort of like shooting fish in a barrel at this point. Plus... it will inevitably devolve in to politics. And lastly, it's not actually working yet. We don't have any postmortem about what's actually going wrong - maybe we'll get that soon (or never?)
The HN voting ring detector is so strict, I doubt people successfully game the system consistently.
Show HN: REPL, Convenient JSON Manipulation and Enrichment Tool
Right now there's a few essentials for my Air:

- PCKeyboardHack https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html... to map CapsLock to Escape

- KeyRemap4MacBook https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ to map Fn to Ctrl

- Spectacle http://spectacleapp.com/ to resize windows with the keyboard

- Caffeine http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/ to easily toggle the screen's sleep setting

- The Unarchiver http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver handles tons of file formats