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If you really want to get Feinstein's attention, an internet petition, even an incredibly well-written one like TFA, isn't likely to do much. You need to pick up the phone and interact with a human being in her office, making sure that person understands the importance of this issue to you, one of her constituents.

If her staffers start being effectively being DDoSed from doing their jobs by phone calls about NSA surveillance, she will hear about it.

Source: my cousin and his wife were both Senate staffers for a number of years.
It's nice that a lot more people like Iron Maiden. But the article doesn't tell us what effect it had on the problem with in-store sales that it laid out in the first paragraph.

I happen to think that in-store sales are a red herring, and overall sales are more interesting, but that's not what the introduction laid out. But even total sales aren't cited, just a number of social media friends.

I'm also not sure how much we can take from observation of mega-bands like Maiden. I doubt that their experience will translate very well into the long tail of musicians.
Extra resources:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm
http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/
Star Wars Episode VII Audition Tape, by two real actors
I haven't really seen the assumption that "if you were any good, you'd already be in the Bay Area."

I have seen sort of the opposite, though -- if you are experienced, you likely have a family and there is no way in hell you are moving to the Bay Area.
We are serving all of our javascript over SSL. We think think that should protect our users against malicious attacks if they are using TOR to access our site for instance.

We could pretty easily provide a fallback HTML form for sign up. I'll try to get that up and running soon.
Sorry, what? I have no idea where you're coming from.

I've watched and enjoyed The Wire, and I might check out your other suggestion, though I don't read much fantasy genre these days.
I'm as unhappy as the next person with regard to Feinstein's track record, but to say she's opposing the interests of her own industry is just Silicon Valley bias. She's a US Senator, not a congresswoman from Palo Alto.

Yes, the tech sector is very large in California but they've largely been apolitical in the past. There are two massive industries who lavish politicians with donations and who Feinstein is representing just fine:

Military and Entertainment.

How many defense contractors from the top-100 list[1] are based in California? How about the world's largest entertainment companies (who would profit immensely from SOPA / PIPA)?

Ignoring these political realities is unhelpful.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S....
http://www.drivethrucards.com/index.php as well.

The unofficial home of print and play card games on the net.
We? Who is the "we" you're referring to? If you're an afghani, or a relative of Dostum, you can say "we." But this was an afghani atrocity, not one perpetrated by the West. And before you say that the CIA is connected due to their aid to the Northern Alliance, correlation doesn't mean causation.

Ask the hazara how well they were treated by the Taliban. This neck of the woods is full of people who make it a game to kill off their rivals. I wouldn't be surprised if the translation of "compromise" in pashto means "wait til we can kill all of them."
Piracy is no trifling matter.
Uhh, been waiting for this so long!!
I appreciate your attempt at slander, but please allow me to offer my assurance that I have no political purposes, here or anywhere else. The politics of the United States are degenerate in the extreme, in the technical sense of 'degenerate' meaning roughly 'disordered beyond the point of self-regulatory mechanisms to repair'; having found in the past that my participation in them redounds to no benefit for anyone including myself, I no longer involve myself.

I still like a good argument, though. In fact, that's no small motivation for my disengagement from politics -- in that realm, you can't have a good argument! Everyone takes everything so personally -- it was when I lost a second friend to political differences that I started to suspect a problem with the entire enterprise. In any case, a good argument is all I'm here for; if you've got some sort of political point you'd like to make on the topic, please, by all means, don't let me get in your way.
No, people just started jamming in Perl headlines in the past few days. Anyone can submit, after all. It's the 3rd most popular dynamic language. One of Perl's claim's to fame was CPAN, but at this point there's probably more than enough Python or Ruby library support. Ruby and Python also have also JVM support. You'll still find Perl in a lot of legacy software because it was king for a decade. These days, I would probably just go with Python or Ruby on any new project because it's easier to find developers.

Finally, consider if you want to outsource on oDesk, for example. There's a better chance of getting readable Python than readable Perl.
This kind of education is priceless. Once the kids figure out what's been happening, they'll never listen to Creationists, or any other religious dogma, in the same way again.
Stop using gray text on a white background.
Ask HN: accidently clicked on malicious app now what?
so came across this website >> bitcoindriveprice.com
naively downloaded the app and executed .exe
Much to my surprise it did nothing, no antivirus notifications either.

So now am thinking something is cooking disguise.
Any suggestions to handle such scenarios ?
* This has been tried many times in history. It has never worked.*

I am a supporter of the 2nd amendment, but for the sake of accuracy, gun violence in Australia was indeed reduced when they made gun ownership a lot harder there.

The societal cost of gun ownership is still a lot less than the societal cost of car accidents. I'm more concerned about the societal cost of playing fast and loose with amendments to the constitution.
Out of topic, but counting calories don't mean squad for a diet. It is a myth. Read http://garytaubes.com/ for a good research on this.

Counting carbs is what is important. Low Carb, High Fat is what science tells you should do to loose wait. Using thermodynamics to understand our biology is useless.

EDIT for on topic add: Useless data is useless, naked or not. They should have chosen a better example.
Now that you mention it, I forgot a second category of people who act like people think guns go out and kill by themselves: those who treat human discourse as a purely logical exercise and who legitimately think that "killed by a gun" implies that the person who pulled the trigger was superfluous.
Negamax is very good for a wide variety of relatively simple games. It will utterly fail for Go, but I've written negamax AIs that dominate any casual player at chess, connect 4, reversi, gomoku, etc. They become yet stronger if you add a quiescence search.
Are EMC/RSA denying that they took money from the NSA? That alone seems damning, since I can't think of any way that the existence of such a contract for any stated purpose doesn't undermine the credibility of the company fatally.
Honestly, if you had to bet, would you bet for or against the following hypothesis?

hypothesis: A significant amount of people nowadays think twice before writing or voting on something that could be interpreted as critical of government surveillance. They fear they will be included in some list and that this may have future negative consequences.
Your instructor was so close as makes no odds to stating the only workable doctrine for a nation involved in a guerrilla war. Kill a man's brother, and he'll spend every breath from then until his last looking to kill you back; show him convincingly that his cause is hopeless, and you open the way to, if not friendship, then at least the possibility of coexistence without either side feeling it needs to engage in sporadic attempts at murder.
The hard part is that once you go cross-platform, there's no such thing as a "native UI". If you target just one single environment, it'll be so much easier to make something that feels like it belongs there.
That looks like a reference to another case, United States vs. Forrester, where Forrester and Alba were the defendants[0].

[0]: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1496507.html
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Maybe. Criminals used guns even in USSR. There was little chance for a regular person - unless he's in the military or militia or like that - to use a gun for self-defense. Of course, that meant that many criminals didn't need to use gun - if the victim is completely defenseless, it is easy to overpower her without the need for a gun. But the criminals got the guns if they needed them, or made them - making a crude gun requires only basic tools.
The ZTE Open borrows its boot (fastboot) and recovery from AOSP, so it's the same thing - ClockworkMod has "Mod" in its name because it was a modification of the Android recovery system, which looks similar as well.
"A few of them have come up and shared the fact that they wish that they could’ve voted no."

As a Michigander, I've been upset with the direction our government is going but this, this one line really explains everything. It's just sickening.
Give a nerdy book.  Get a nerdy book.  (Fast, nerdy gifts for Christmas.)
You missed the punchline:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Its variants are still primary weapons of many countries' armies as well.
The website is down, as is the Google cache. The front page (as of December 16, before the release of 0.9.6) may be viewed on https://web.archive.org/web/20131216111440/http://cobra-lang... . See the announcement of 0.9.6 here: http://cobralang.blogspot.com/ . There is a download mirror (buckling under the strain) at http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Cobra-Language-Downloa... .
I know that title feels a bit spammy... but I know a lot of you guys. And I know, for a couple of you, this is going to save your bacon in a cheap, quick way. :)
BRB getting $2000
Yes. Don't do boring or stressful work for free is my advice. Also, you could receive some more insightful and tuned feedback then that soundbite by telling us who you are and what the project is. For example, if you have written 90% of the code, then you could perhaps fork your own project and retain the contributors you feel are worthwhile.
I don't know how you're defining "significant." I don't think its appreciably higher now than it ever was. I think the latest news just validates people who have always been paranoid.
tl;dr point by point on why RSA's press statement makes them lying liars who lie, and that they were wilfully negligent from 2007-2013 at the very least.
I've seen it used, albeit not often, in a sense precisely parallel to that of the German Herr or the Spanish Señor, and it is that sense in which I use it. I have never found myself troubled by being regarded as old-fashioned, but if you know a term which would better serve my purpose, I'd be obliged to you for making me aware of it.
Awesome. I usually tend to have an asshole-ish attitude in my comments, which I highly apologize for, but in this case: I just love them :)
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The web site is slammed right now. We're planning our improvements as I enter this, but it will take some time to sort things out. Thanks for your patience.
It seems like that will be hard to come by since "the copyright office does not allow readers to take pictures or notes". All we seem to have are the rememberings of those who've been in to see it.
Feinstein has been like this forever, but she's in a seat where the electorate would rather vote for a Democrat that eats babies over a moderate Republican.
Hacker news DC Meetup: Library of Congress - Torture Section
Apple Mac Pro review (2013): small, fast and in a league of its own
Resistance makes waves
How about adding Apple II games? Atari 2600 and Intellivision would be nice too as well as Commodore 64.

PS yes I am old
"So it’s not clear which version is better..."

In general, it's application-dependent. But often, in applications, the factorial enters multiplicatively, and they are in products with other stuff; the whole thing can easily underflow or overflow.

So what you often really want is the log of the factorial. (If someone gave you the exact integer factorial for free, the first thing you'd do is take its log.) That's why they implemented lgamma(). The error guarantees it gives are in the log domain, which is (often, not always) what you want, anyway.
PPS Game N Watch!! (Nintendo)
Boredom as a Problem
> Unlike the shift to Amazon that did in the book store chains, record stores are suffering from outright theft, and the migration to iTunes or Spotify streaming isn't making up the difference. Between 2003 and 2009, about one-third of all independent record shops in the U.S. closed their doors

So are we talking about physical doors and physical shops selling CD's, or are we talking about online shops, or are we talking about record labels? Each has their own economic model.

A physical shops selling CD's is indeed having troubles, but its has verifiable nothing to do with pirates. Second hand shops get constantly bins of CD's, often reselling them for cents. They can barely give the CD away, and selling it as the main source of income is not a hot venture. The few ones that derive some income is those focusing on convenience, like convenience stores, malls, and petrol stations. CD positioned in the same place in a store as other impulse purchases, like candy.

Specialized online music shops has to compete with online shops that are more broad in their service. Internet has yet to favor small shops over large brand names. Almost all online shop for electronics also sell cd's, as its extremely cheap to have a catalog over.

Last we got record labels. Like with movies and games, publishers tend to be large and few between. There are not 10000 movie publishers in the UK (what I know of). There are not 10000 game publishers. Why should there exist 10000 music publishers? Whats the business model that support such diverse number of publishers?
Under Recent Signatures as it is at this moment, I count 29 signatures with names and 24 anonymous or redacted. Looks like quite a few people have concerns about signing the petition and are grateful for the anonymous/redacted options.

That doesn't necessarily mean those concerns are valid, of course, but it suggests that the organization has a good read on people's feelings at the moment.
Morons may be too harsh a word, but I've encountered a number of people that think removing a tool and leaving everything else intact would solve the problem.

>>> Roughly nobody thinks that guns go out and murder people all alone.

Oh, of course nobody thinks literally that. But many think if they said "guns are not allowed", there would be no people murdering other people using guns. And they concentrate their efforts on guns, not murderers, to the point of sometimes ignoring the murderer altogether.
Do the redacted parts have the interrogator ask algorithm and data structure questions to a person led to believe they would only be asked about html and javascript features?
Digital sound processing tutorial for the braindead
I think that most of what I appreciate about Computer Modern is that it sends the neighborhood font nerds into fits of white-hot rage every time I use it.
How we misprice used cars
Well, two things. One, CMR shares some traits with other 'old' fonts (sometimes actually old, other times aiming for a dusty or scholarly air): lots of variation in stroke width, relatively prominent serifs, a 'true italic' where some italic letterforms look much different from their roman counterparts. (Knuth was making these for a textbook, so maybe he went for a look similar to textbooks of the time, at some intuitive level at least.)

If you look on Google Fonts, Playfair Display and Old Standard TT do some of those same things in (I think) also aiming for an old-timey air.

So, I think some of the "air of respectability" comes in part from traits shared with some other fonts, not just from appearing on math papers.

Two, the "feel" and aesthetic aspects of a font mostly do come from memory and associations. nytimes.com doesn't use a serif because it's more readable on the Web or something; they do it because serifs and newspapers go together in most folks' minds. Even the most thought-out arguments about fonts have associations as their bedrock: when Robert Bringhurst laments that a font shows no real axis with its variations in stroke width and therefore fails to evoke calligraphy, the axis he's missing is still important "merely" because of its association with calligraphy. Other than purely technical arguments about readability (which you could dispose of with an A/B test), most opinions about fonts are, one way or another, rooted in associations.

So if folks do appreciate CM partly because of their experience with it I don't see anything illegitimate about that (unless maybe it were utterly unreadable, rather than just quirky). You don't have to use or like the CM fonts, but I don't see how anyone's clearly indisputably wrong for liking them either, any more than with any other font.
I don't use Google products, so Android isn't an option for me. In other words, having choice limits my choice. To me this means that the model is broken.

For now I continue to download pirated versions of all the legit versions I own. My goodwill got me burnt by DRM before, but not again.
This looks like a really tidy framework for this class of general games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_game_playing).
There's actually an annual competition for this type of thing.

In this competition game rules are described using a language called GDL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Description_Language). Broadly there are two approaches. Super fast Monte-Carlo tree searches and algos which, from rules, infer game-state heuristics which are used in more traditional depth-limited search.
How Sotomayor undermined Obama’s NSA
Whether a country is "high risk" or not is not some well defined standard, it's an entirely subjective opinion. The US Government might have liked to consider Mexico high risk, but they aren't the ones who have to do all the investigative work on every transaction. If you look at the FATF-GATI (international AML org) recommendations, they have their own list of which countries are "high risk" (and Mexico has not been on it lately, as far as I recall).

What the USG is saying here is they think HSBC should have been treating internal HSBC-to-HSBC transfers as high risk and reviewing them all. But this doesn't make much sense for a single company. The lack of it certainly cannot be equated to a deliberate "disabling" of controls.

With respect to the repair queue, this is due to America's insane approach to sanctions - a transfer from country A to country B where there are no sanctions on B in A, that happens to get routed via a US bank, would have sanctions applied, despite that no laws were being violated by either party to the transaction. In order to work around this brain damage EU banks routinely edited ("repaired") wire transfers to avoid hitting the Great Firewall of America, safe in the knowledge that they were not violating any sanctions laws where they lived.

Later, the US decided that jurisdiction was such a bothersome concept they decided that anyone who made a transfer to Iran, anywhere, regardless of local laws at the time, was guilty of money laundering. See also: Standard Charter.

I don't think people here seem to realise the general backstory here. The US Government lies all the time. They routinely get innocent people to plead guilty without any kind of trial by threatening them with absurdly over-harsh penalties. The HSBC case is a classic example of this dynamic in action.
He showed his private key on live television, this is hardly a typical scenario.
Not to be too persnickety, but if you have to search for emails that didn't get a response, doesn't this imply that they didn't matter all that much to begin with? In other words if they mattered, you would know, and you would follow up on your own?

I guess if you're so busy you lose track of these things? But again...
Clever is great. I've had the pleasure of working with them on behalf of some clients. Their company and API is a breath of fresh air in a space that has historically been very complicated and messy.

I would love to see a Clever in the finance space...requisitions, invoices, purchase orders and the like.

I do foresee a problem with Clever. Their API is almost too simple. It would be trivial for a school ERP provider to set up a 'Clever compatible' API (since an API cannot be copyrighted) and either undercut the price or just offer it for free to education software vendors to get that nice demo room 'We are compatible with over x many applications for students, teachers, parents and administrators!'

I hope that doesn't happen but the threat does seem to be there.
Except hasn't the NSA provided information to bust very small levels of drug dealing via parallel construction? Why wouldn't they help out in taking down someone who is causing a problem for a multi billion dollar industry?
I cannot downvote you enough. This is a bullshit line of thought that detracts from the actual discussion. "Guns don't kill people... Toast toasts toast..." Please. Stop.

We can discuss whether guns as a concept have a place in our society, but you spun up a discussion on semantics when none is warranted.
I concur. I recently finished Effective JavaScript, and found it to be an excellent and insightful read.
So a "good ol' boy" system exists in finance. Huge surprise.

I just got off the phone regarding a potential assistance position with someone I've known for years. When I make programmer hiring recommendations or decisions, it's generally someone in my circle. Pretty sure this is how most hiring occurs in SV/SF as well.
> Emphasis is now on touring and t-shirts as CD sales dwindle.

This has been probably every band's emphasis for years, and for non-mainstream acts, it's not really an emphasis because it's the only way to make it in the first place. Hardcore/punk bands live on t-shirt sales, and CD sales are often break even if even that (I haven't stayed in touch with the friends who are now selling vinyl). Any potential cut from the door (or from bar sales) pays for gas. At the end of the tour, t-shirt profits either pay down your debt from the last record, or go towards booking the next studio session.
Is this for k12 only or are you planning this for higher ed? @kipinhall, we are pivoting towards professor centric app, so having the access to student info would be great.
we can talk more if you're interested, ping me @agileseeker
Quick tip: Merge your CSS and JS. It's killing your page load time:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131223_MJ_Q59/

Your first paint is coming it at around 1.8s. You could probably get that under the 1s mark just by consolidating your resources. This is even more important when dealing with a library like Angular.
Perl 6 will first be released for HURD, and the first application will be Duke Nukem Forever.
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