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The removal of most UI customization.
I understand your view point, and will keep it in mind while designing the app.
> "Probable cause is not necessary for a search. It's necessary for evidence from the search to be admitted."

The purpose of parallel construction is to create an artificial heritage for evidence collected without probable cause. This is done by finding probable cause for a search that you will then claim uncovered evidence that was in fact previously discovered during the course of an illegal search.

The lawyer, doing his job, will ask where the evidence came from and what the probable cause was for that search. He will be lied to, and told that the evidence was discovered during the course of the second 'investigation' (the existence of the first investigation, the real investigation, will be kept a secret.)

For a simple example of how this would work, imagine a naive police officer acting on his own: The police officer, spurred on by prejudice, breaks into several homes in a neighborhood looking for evidence of a grow op. He finds one such operation, but since his search was illegal nothing he found can be used in court. He then gets the bright idea to leave the police station an 'anonymous' tip. That tip is then used to justify a search warrant, which is then used to reveal the presence of a grow op.

That situation is trivial and the "anonymous tip" is immediately cause for suspicion. Things get much hairier when you add more participants, and make them reasonably intelligent.

TL;DR: The entire point of parallel construction is that the defenses lawyer can do his job, but it won't matter.
I can't edit this now, so I'll add this as a reply:

Normal credit/debit card details are like symmetric encryption. If I give you my details you could pass them on to someone else and pretend to be me. The analogy is more apt with bank details, if I give you enough details to transfer money in you have enough details to transfer money out.

Legal protections are the only reason these systems work, and have been introduced to cover the clear problems with the approach.

Bitcoin is like asymmetric encryption. I can give you an address to send money to, and you cannot take money from it. I can transfer money to you without giving away the information required for you to take anything from my account.

Since the protections for bitcoin aren't legal but technical, international transactions (which have become more common since the introduction of debit & credit cards) become easier and much safer. I can buy something from a website for, say, $10 and risk only that $10. It doesn't matter how sketchy it is, or what their security is like, I'm fairly safe.

This introduces other problems, and I'm not going to pretend like it's some panacea but it does address real problems that exist.
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...and 64 lines of html... i'm curious what all these "___ in X lines of js" would look like if all the html elements were created and appended to the body in js too.
I read that as "sold my pet for bitcoin". that would have been funnier.
I feel like a complete idiot coming from bzr to git, it just seems so much better designed.
People are getting hung up on the card favor. A couple unsolicited suggestions:
- Show more than one idea on the homepage and allow people to up vote what they think is best
- Idea with most votes gets sent out to folks every X

Advantage is this let's the community pick what is relevant, makes your life easier (less editorial), enables you to grow to more than 1 idea per week as there might be runner ups, likely to increase the quality of what people submit as there will be competition.
I'm not sure it is a bubble (I see issues with bitcoin, but not the concept in general. Better cryptocurrencies seem possible.), but the total valuation is not evidence it isn't a bubble. A bubble really boils down to expansion beyond what the fundamentals support, and (only determined in retrospect) end in a contraction. While it's small scale, a $1 widget gaining widespread popularity and ballooning to $100 is a bubble if there's no real reason other than hype or artificial scarcity for it to reach that price. The total value of BTC being only 8 billion USD doesn't mean it isn't a bubble, it just means most economies will be unscathed should it turn out to be one.
Microsoft Research Builds A Tool To Control PC Docs With Your Windows Phone
I believe the roots of this mistrust between people in Russia and the whole Eastern Block can be found well explained in "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn (http://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenits...)
XAML is the layout engine used in Silverlight, WPF and WinRT.

There are only differences in the amount of C# and C++ code in the XAML stack, and the set of available UI components.
> Unfortunately, I satisfy your criteria required for understanding suicide, so I vehemently disagree with your assertion that "Suicide is a very rational reaction to life."

OK, you're certainly entitled to your opinion and to disagree with mine.

Especially when we're discussing teenagers, who haven't even lived one fifth of their expected lifespan.

It was only a short time ago that it was common in Europe and elsewhere for 15 year olds to be starting families.

Today, many 15 year olds (and younger), commit suicide.

What exactly are you seeking to accomplish by emphasizing his age and your arbitrary requirement on what the "right amount of life" is?
Anatomy of a stalemate: Why is everyone still fighting about WebRTC?
> It's not clear why the SR admin would be buying cocaine in the first place, though.

Probably for one of the same reasons that anybody buys cocaine. Either because they like cocaine, or (judging by the amount), because they want to make lots of money selling cocaine. Making money on transaction fees doesn't mean you don't want more money.
We are replacing the GTK icons with custom icons.

Are you manually changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to support a hidpi display?
"Since I moved to the Bay Area, I’ve worked on two startups. I had a substantial equity stake in one of them and was promised an equity stake in the other once the next round of financing came through."

Good story. And sad. But still not following Mom's advice and betting on something that has a very small chance of success.

I wonder how much salary he is giving up to get that lottery ticket?
Going to have to concur here. Unfortunately it appears that Australis presently isn't targeting those who change their userchrome whether by addon or directly.

I think the design looks good, I just hope that it will be given the same amount of customization freedom Firefox enjoys pre-Australis.

My Nightly:
http://i.imgur.com/1oPRtU2.png

I expect significant breakage tomorrow / later today.
Frightening and strangely inspiring. Definitely worth a read. Right on for his honest and uncompromising view of his own situation.
He actually received a total of a little more than 19 bitcoins. He's a very popular and respected blogger among libertarian circles. One of the most well read (of history and economics) authors I've come across.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier
> I wonder who the buyers are?

Cryptolocker victims?
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No, you are right. There are just small API differences in terms of available components.
This reminds me of the conflation of tag and element in discussions about HTML/XML markup.

There's a meaningful difference. but you still end up dealing with Web frameworks that have a method for script_tag that inserts an element that has two tags. And when developers start talking about doing something with tags you have to mentally parse or just ask if they really mean tags or elements.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200508/html_tags_vs_el...
Pixels are OR'd, so you'd want 75% grey, not 50% (assuming each of the component images is an even distribution of white and black pixels). Otherwise, yeah.
Why is Mozilla trying so hard to make Firefox exactly like Chrome? I have been using Firefox since like 1.5, if I wanted it to be like Chrome I would use Chrome.
reminds me a bit of Animal Farm. Where the rules on the farm slowly change over time, allowing for more and more transgressions to occur. 2009 is also, I believe, around when Google started recording WiFi data with their street view cars.
Really? That must be why the comment is still there.
Five more arrested in $45 million cybercrime scheme
Develop a suicide prevention app.
Implying U.S., Russia or any other powerful country doesn't control their media?
The article that this links to mentions that it's actually in the 'employee lounge' - in other words, its for employees to donate food to other employees.
Yes - even with the same ads/ad group/keywords/landing pages, my experience has been that customers who click through from lower positions tend to be price shoppers, and are often less likely to become customers.

That said - my data is largely qualitative. My AdWords experience is primarily in selling local services online, and my customers tend to offer premium services (at higher prices) than their local competitors. All of this could be a factor.

"otherwise, there could be several explanations."

Absolutely, that's our own special kind of hell. :)

It could be that customers who see our ads in top spots recognize the brand from other channels, and so they aren't bothering with the other ads, whereas customers clicking on lower positions are meeting us for the first time. Or it could be that our landing pages speak to one type of customer (e.g., one who wants to hire the best, and is less concerned about price) but is leaving another type cold (e.g., those who want quality, but put a premium on value).

I'm just saying - don't forget to segment visitors based on their ad positions. :)

PS: thanks for the great discussion - its always wonderful to hear another perspective, and re-evaluate assumptions.
Because Chrome is superior.
Actually it is a terrible CAPTCHA; no normal human will understand why the hell is he supposed to drag those noisy rectangles, while machine will easily find hidden image by scanning and counting entropy.
Lucky you! (and I mean it).

I more think about it this way--and hey, if I chose the wrong word, do correct me.

When we are changing the world with our technology we don't really stop to think about all the people who will be put out of work by it. We don't as a community really care much about the impact of our companies on our communities (giving to local arts organizations and volunteer efforts in SF are not rising concurrently with population or wealth).

To be fair, this thinking isn't limited to milennials, it's just that as children they were more likely to have been raised without the early foundation of morals which are usually taught by religion.

I do not in any way mean to imply religion is necessary for morals, just statistically that's how most people get them. I also don't mean to imply milennials are criminals, just that well, it doesn't occur to them to think sometimes about the impact of their choices; or if they do, they don't care. Hell, maybe I was that way in my 20s and I've conveniently forgotten it...so maybe it's a function of youth.

The brittleness though? absolutely. Most of them are deeply insecure, fundamentally needing a lot of praise. I don't mind , because that's the kind of leader/manager I like to be; but adversity is hard for them to deal with.

I sometimes think one's attitude toward all this is dependent on when one arrives in the area; for myself having arrived during the bust of 2002 I feel perpetually like "winter is coming." for those for who it has always been prosperous springtime, it's hard to realize how important it is to squirrel away money, karma, connections, etc.

Random musings. YMMV.
Some people are really, really nasty. For no real reason. Unfortunately you only need an extremely small minority to fuck up a nice act.
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I'm definitely willing to be labeled naive. Would suggesting a call to a suicide hotline be as insulting? What if the app carries out similar functions as a hotline? Please, I'm not trying to troll, just trying to understand why the idea of this app is so repugnant.

Also, while this specific app may not be able to help, doesn't it seem at least possible that some app, some day might? It seems prematurely dismissive to write apps off as wholly ineffectual. Unless suicide is a case where you're likely to do more harm than good?
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The buyers are mostly China. 1 bitcoin is currently trading at $770 (¥4700) on https://btcchina.com

PS: you already made your investment back. Keep 0.5 BTC for the long term. Those who sold at the first bubble at $30 regret it. Those who sold at the second bubble at $270 regret it too. Those who sell during this third bubble at ~$700 will regret it too.
>Why do Americans always have to act happy? It's so fake.

we'd like to believe it is fake. Otherwise what conclusion it would lead us to, incl. about ourselves? After more than decade here i started to come to that conclusion and sometimes i think i should have chosen the blue pill :)
There always is the possibility that startups are the only place that would accept a homeless guy with little experience.

He seems to have writing skills, which is a useful skill, but with very little "resume fluff" to prove it. A white-collar job looks down upon even 6-months of unemployment... seeing years and years of unemployment / odd jobs is just a giant red mark.

Even if someone is fully qualified, you are simply going to favor the resume with a "solid work history" over someone with a whole bunch of holes.

Startups on the other hand, cannot afford that luxury. They often need the skills immediately and don't about those sorts of matters as much.
I'm sorry that his makes you feel this way.

1. I am in no way experienced with suicide, I just thought this idea up for a contest, but it actually won, and I felt the obligation to at least try to make it a reality.

2. This app is not really aimed at people already dealing with severe stages of depression, many organizations and suicide hotlines are already doing that well. This is more towards people only starting to feel issues that could worsen to lead to suicide, catching the issue early on.

Again, sorry if that's how it seems, but I'm just trying to help out in any way that I could possibly.
While I raised my younger siblings and was often referred to as more 'grown up' than my peers, I still have that 'imposter' feeling described above. Married, good job, have adult worries about kids, house, job. But my husband and I still watch old cartoons and half jokingly talk about what we want to do when we grow up.
Ask Bitcoin Exchanges: Where are the IPs of the buyers/sellers from?
Calling all bitcoin exchanges (or equivalent places of purchase like coinbase):

It would be very insightful if you could provide aggregate analysis on where the buyers and sellers of bitcoins are from. Could you provide a blog post on this (likely using IP address-to-location lookups -- unless everyone is using TOR to purchase their coins).

Given a recent spate of articles on China's growing interest in bitcoin, many of us are hypothesizing that the recent appreciation is in part due to Chinese demand.

Then there has been Bernanke's statement lending credibility to the currency. That could result in more traditional investors finally taking the plunge.

Since there haven't been that many new merchant/places to spend bitcoin added in the past 3 weeks, the appreciation is almost certainly a signal of speculation (which we all know). What would be helpful is to know who these speculators are and how the makeup of bitcoin investors is changing through time.
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Seems like we misunderstand their lack of smiling as much as they misunderstand our smiling.
The response to this post surprises me a bit. Suicide prevention is a great idea. But as described, it really isn't explained well enough to capture my imagination.

There's very little description of what it would do beyond that it's an app and it prevents suicide. And that it's a social network. That really isn't enough to describe the idea.

I can see the possibility of a social network site for depressed people.

Dunno. It's a big goal, but very hard, and I think it's extremely important to take into consideration the mentality of someone who is considering suicide.

Good luck.
A Mozilla coder gave an explanation for this several months ago:

"In case you wonder, the reason for which Firefox doesn't merge url and search bar is to protect user's privacy. If you prefer a Chrome-style UI, there are a couple of add-ons that provide just that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5590988
A simple solution for the feds presents itself: offer a large award for the site's founder.
I'm pretty sure I have a wallet that I dumped a couple of bucks into when bitcoin was first starting out. Problem is, I have no clue where it might be, or even what computer it might be on. Laaaame.
I agree and I had my remark down voted, you know it by the number of suicides.

We pay a price for living with terrible weather, with no sun light half of the year, where you can't get out of buildings because it is so freezing cold.

I would say what you see in places like Costa Rica(pura vida!!) is genuine happiness because people need much more the Sun and friendships for being happy than a Ferrari or whatever we could buy.
The Anatomy of a High Converting Landing Page
XAML is almost the same API, with differences in terms of where it is implemented (WPF, Silverlight, WinRT implementations have different sets of C#/C++ code), the available components and some classes.

However, it does share quite a lot across all frameworks where it is used.
While this is up, does anyone know what happened to the Priceonomics search bar?
Ask HN: GIS - offline routing with javascript?
I want to build an GIS application (HTML5/JS) with abilities to do some routing while the used device is offline.

Dijkstra and A* should be enough in this case, but I would like to know if there is already a offline library for this particular task, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I've thought of a adjacency list using JSON.

There are some routing services out there, but every service requires a server connection to calculate the routes.
It would be cool if there is something like a OSM-XML (cached) routing library for OSM data, but I didn't see JavaScript libraries for that.

Thank you for your advice.
The method of payment is flawed. An encrypted file with the date of murder is presented as proof that you knew the date beforehand, thus are the murderer. But anybody can submit any number of such files near the likely date of the hit; its trivial to forge them.
this is what keeps me coming back to HN. thanks for the insights. very interesting....people always want something to believe in, whether it's god, country, exercise, companies, etc. Religion (of any kind) is one of the best sources of dopamine.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-there-a-...
This is a drive-by shooting of Wal-Mart intended to play into U.S. domestic politics, where one group is pushing for a higher minimum wage (to divert attention from other problems, most likely)

Terrible, terrible story. To see why, simply ask yourself: is WalMart obligated to employ every person at a certain wage for a certain number of hours? And pay all of their bills? And make sure they have a good holiday? Of course not. Lots of folks work at various big box stores for 10-20 hours a week just for the holiday season. Raising money to help these people is a pretty cool thing to do. Turning that into some kind of linkbait? Reprehensible.
That's true. He also mentions that "So full-time, permanent employment in a real company with actual revenues is still an elusive prey."
The main reason he failed is because the industries he picked - first publishing and second sitcoms - were declining industries. And no matter how smart or hardworking you are - and this dude was smart and prudent and hardworking - you can't fight against larger macroeconomic forces.
Surely price is comparative? If you only earn $10 a week then $10 for a chicken is expensive, but if you earn $1000 a week then that chicken is pretty cheap.
The mastermind of indie shooter "Jamestown" on how to level up your coding
console.log(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(object))) is an easy way to log a deep copy, as long as it doesn't have circular properties (happens with some DOM elements).
That was my take as well. It seems he wants that long-term, corporate job, but it's just not there for the taking. The startups seemed to be the step-up from the Craigslist gigs.
Greater fools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Domainr is fun (and really neat) to find cool domain names, but they're not a registrar, they just output affiliate links.

Reminder: gandi.net has 29€/year .io registration and they provide top notch service.
If I were you I would be very carefully looking at who is buying those things. If there is no large institutional holder or significant amount of new users - current bubble is another speculative bubble (who could have guessed?).

TL:DR bitcoin always went through successively larger bubbles. Without very hard evidence I would believe that current price is result of bubble as well. Also, is there a reliable way to short bitcoins?
I bought 35 at about $100 each and sold 9 a few days ago when it was $450 so I got my initial investment back out plus a few bucks. From this point on, I'm just going to hold it to see what happens or use it for the occasional online service that accepts BTC and provides a discount for it.

Everyone keeps on talking about how it's impossible for a currency to keep rising like this and have it be useful for commerce, and to some extent I agree. I, however, have started to see the Bitcoin price as the cost of a share into a new world-wide equivalent of the Federal Reserve.

There will only ever be 21 million shares of ownership issued, and I purchased some just to see what happens. It's kind of exciting to me
I did the same at the time. I know in which computer mine is. But I know I trashed that computer not long after...
I think there's someone already working on this use case, check out: https://github.com/makinacorpus/salt/blob/develop/salt/state...
Amazing gif data visualization of the Earth using the cloud
He's got several years as a staff writer on a hit TV show, and his magazine publishing experience before that. The gap is real, and obviously important, but what came before is a lot more than "fluff".
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Sorry for the nitpicking, but you meant "macroeconomic". I agree with your point though.
The main subreddits are heavily moderated though.
Anyone want to sell me 1 BTC over PayPal? Its really hard for us Canadians to purchase bitcoin here :( The hoops are ridiculous.
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Why China is leading the global rise of Bitcoin
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