skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sound like identical processes.

In both cases, it helps to be clear about terminology.

You can't simply introduce evidence and conceal its source from a judge; that evidence would be excluded from trial. You also can't introduce evidence that chains back to excludable evidence.

But the products of NSA/FBI fusion (or "SOD", or whatever you want to call it) are never introduced as evidence, either directly or as cause to authorize a search. That's why the process is called "parallel construction": it is the legal opinion of the DOJ that you can use excludable evidence as intelligence so long as you then build a case from probable cause (either for a warrant or arrest) that doesn't stem from that intelligence.

In other words, you can exploit the NSA to put a detective in the right place at the right time. But the detective will need to observe you doing something that gives them probable cause for a search: you'll need to, say, do an open-air drug transaction, or get stopped for running a red light and then have drugs plainly visible in your car (or have a dog authorize the search, which is plainly problematic).

The way parallel construction works, the information coming from parallel construction is never brought to court. This bothers criminal defense attorneys and civil rights advocates. It has never been the case that prosecutors are required to furnish all the information they collect on a suspect (though they are required to furnish any potentially exculpatory information, per Brady v. Maryland). But people opposed to parallel construction see this process as a bridge too far; one way to look at it would be that the whole process of discovering probable cause is something that a criminal defense can challenge, and so that whole process is potentially exculpatory.

It's also helpful to know that parallel construction isn't a new thing. It's similar to the process that works when the FBI/DEA has a highly-placed informant in a criminal organization. They want to make cases from that CI, but they don't want to expose the CI, not least because they'll have more cases to make down the road.
How can dogecoin change their total supply after release? I thought the point of crypto currency was that the supply and rate of generation is declared upfront during release? The developers can change the supply whenever they want? whats to stop bitcoin from recapping its limit on supply???!!!!
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Ask HN: Skype account hacked and my contacts were asked for money via WebMoney 
Woke up today to realize that my skype contacts received a frienly messages from me while I was sleeping, asking them to land me money via WebMoney, my password for Skype was not changed, I still was in control of Skype account. I changed the password right away. Some of my friends sent money to hacker.

Do you have any idea how could he do that without changing my password (my password was a combination of letters and numbers). And are there any steps I can trace him now?
Yeah, it's chock-full of the testosterone I'd have expected to see from something like this. To wit:

“They put their dick on the table, and we chopped it off,” said Gianturco.
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What you've built looks very nice. Contact me if you're looking for a semi-remote Python gig in Paris :)
And further research on drug dogs has shown that subtle body language by their handlers can cause them to alert. Fundamentally, a drug dog alerts because it wants to please its handler (and maybe get a snack). It doesn't understand the tension between drug laws and the 4th amendment, so it can't understand why it should be cautious about alerting. It doesn't understand the consequences of alerting could be a human getting stuck in a small cage for a long time.
You are advocating a world in which high level organized crime would have a much, much easier time.

Yes, that's an unfortunate side effect of living in a free and open society which respects the freedom and innate rights of the individual which compose it.
Yes, among other things we benchmark your profit margin, ratio of CLV/CAC, Retention and Churn. Those indicators can help experiment on pricing more effectively.
I'm happy to blame congress and others for creating the terrible policy, but that doesn't let the DEA off the hook for the practices they're describing here.

An agency or officer that's justifying their actions as "enforcing the law" had better be talking about the every bit as important and legitimate laws that limit their activities and powers, as well as the criminal statutes.

Otherwise, they're doing something else besides law enforcement.
New twilio API explorer :-)
Wait, its illegal to take take racial demographic statistics in France? I find that really surprising. I went and tried to look up French census information, but alas, I could only find it in French. I can however find estimates of racial demographics in France on wikipedia and such.
The harder error messages to do well are the ones that come out of the semantic processing.

The ones coming out of the parser aren't that hard to do.
> Consumers can choose not to use Google, but businesses can't opt out of how they're listed

A better way to put that would be businesses can't opt out of consumers using Google. Obviously you can not be listed simply by using robots.txt or not having a website.
Displaying a 3D image in a 2D space also requires sacrifices. Obviously to a lesser extent, because you only lose one dimension, but the principles are the same. Reconstructing a 3D scene from photographs is an insanely tricky problem, and it only looks simple to us because our brains have specialized circuits for that task.
Yep, pretty soon she'll find another reason to say something nasty about the UK, just to distract the people. Argentina's version of Bread and Circuses.
It's a strange market, but it makes sense if you consider two points, neither of which is really related to education:

1) Legal services is a product that's hard to mass produce because each job is idiosyncratic. Plumbers and mechanics, jobs which have similar characteristics, charge $80-100/hour. Nearly everyone fits in one of a dozen sizes of shoe that can be cheaply manufactured in China, but every landlord-tenant dispute is slightly different.

2) At nearly every level, there is a limited supply of experienced lawyers (this is true for plumbers and mechanics and also consultants and bankers). Compare with management consulting. The field has zero educational or certification requirements, as far as I know, but McKinsey doesn't charge less per hour than a high-end law firm. Corporate clients in particular don't want to hire professionals that don't have prior, real-world experience with corporate matters. There are a limited set of opportunities to work on a real litigation or real merger, and so there is a limited supply of professionals with the desired experience.

The educational system can't really remedy either problem. There are schools that put a huge emphasis on clinical, real world education, and yet firms and clients still focus most of their recruiting on schools that offer classes like Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology Language and Law: http://abovethelaw.com/2013/12/6-ivy-league-law-classes-for-....
Put the two together and you get Erlang
Nope, it's Drug Enforcement Administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administratio...
Thanks, On the name, just to clarify the origin, we were inspired by a swedish word:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_(coffee_break)
> Why is there physics at all? There are no underlying explanations of that kind.

But that use of "why" is not an explanation, it's a justification or rationalization. I may say that the Big Bang explains the present universe, but that explains "how", it doesn't address "why".

> ... scientific theories by their nature apply to more than one instance, and therefore explain, from one instance to the next, why things continue to behave in similar ways.

No, not "why," but "how". For example, natural selection is an explanation, a mechanism, a "how". Not a justification, a reason, a "why".

Obviously in common usage, "why" and "how" may be seen as interchangeable, so this becomes a tempest in a teapot.
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Its a problem for all majors who want to go into those areas. A few years ago I was looking at EE positions at some of those labs, and they all wanted an MS or greater, as well as either academic research experience or publications, preferably both. And this was just to be the fucking cluster administrator. Anyone who wanted to work on the research directly had to go through the process ItendToDisagree described in order to meet their qualification requirements.
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I think MS's strategy thus far has actually been pretty good. It's a company with good strategic vision mired in terrible execution.

WinPhone7 was a great product on paper - still is - that was released half-baked missing a great number of features that consumers expected to be standard. It was further undermined when Microsoft decided to cut the early adopters and run (WP7 phones that never got the WP7.5 update).

Hell, even the much-maligned Kin I think was a great idea. In an era with stupidly expensive data plans, the idea was to come up with a social-media-only (Twitter, Facebook, SMS) device coupled with a kid-compatible cheap monthly plan, based on the existing expertise of Danger. Then they decided to rewrite the whole tech stack, pushed the product way out of its launch window, and lost out on the core offering: cheap plans. What ended up launching was nowhere near what was envisioned.

I believe Windows 8 and the merging of touch and desktop was, and still is, a great idea. A platform that can seamlessly transform between mobile and desktop contexts can be incredibly powerful and reflects the combination of MS's traditional strengths in work-products and the newer consumer mobile space. Of course, the execution there was well off the mark - Metro was foisted upon the desktop context and was strictly inferior to what it tried to replace, and key productivity tools were removed in the name of unification.

MS gets the big picture, but they keep fucking up the details. Here's hoping Nadella can turn this around.
Square brackets indicate that an editor has modified a quote. http://askville.amazon.com/purpose-square-brackets-sentence/...
(Sorry to contribute to this derailing!)

jacques, do you know off a forum off of HN where this is being discussed? There's nothing left on HN besides your comment.
> "There's lots of languages you can use to create iOS applications: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3949995/what-programming-.... "

Compared to truly open devices, and moderately open systems (even Windows or OSX), that is an absolute joke.
> Please stop spreading FUD.

Was that addressed to strongloop.com? They are the ones that posted an example with promises using 27+/-whitespace lines of code and the initial problem algorithm only had 4 lines.

Sounds like you should write a blog post and not them about using promises.

I don't use Node.js on daily basis and am not familiar with promises so just commented as an outsider based on the article.

Your last one line looks fantastic and makes it clear what is going on. Any reason you can think of why that wasn't the "obvious" solution to the original posters of the article?
Ask HN: Gamifying Labor Union Recruitment
I posed a question yesterday, that didn't get much traction - but what if everyone earning < $22 an hour were to unite, imagine if every service worker in America striked. Demanding that wages rise to inflation level that they should be at. it would be a big win against the 1%, and against income inequality.

Recruiting would be difficult--but what ways could you make it fun/attractive for people to join/tell their friends, and spread the movement--how would you gamify this sort of thing like foursquare or something? Any thoughts?

Frankly, I like guaranteed basic income--but a lot of people don't want to give to those who don't work--well if wages were guaranteed @ > $22 - that would be a guaranteed basic income but also guarantee that people actually hold a job at the same time, and people will be much anxious to be employed when they actually get paid decently.
Or Pulsar: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/05/02/quasar-pulsar/
Only those with valuable skills would see their wages rise, it is possible that the average STEM employee would not.
It's a false-positive because my site is just a time tracker.
To the best of my (limited) understanding, if you pull someone over because of a 'tip' and then search them, absent some other cause, the source of the tip needs to be documented to the court. You can't generally search people based on anonymous tips. (It's a little more complicated than that, of course: http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/criminal-procedure/crimin...)
I hate SO for following hard rule that questions sometime are not fit and so called community sounds rude or questioner being punished for asking a question innocently. "Silicon Valley style" won't be accepted by every polite ones. I won't call it as a "community" as the ones build by open source ones.
Absolutely correct. ExtJS definitely excels at Desktop applications (pushing and pulling data sets from departmental DB's). That's we use it for and it's fine for that. However, the learning curve is fairly steep.. 4.x is much better than 3.x, more structured with some nice MVC hooks. Unfortunately, I would never use this for anything BUT an internal app.
>the corporation's greed doesn't necessarily grow out of the greed of an individual, but rather out of an organization of individuals all trying to do their jobs

I don't believe that's all your GP was saying. But, I disagree nonetheless. My primary point is that there are actual people who benefit from the corporation's actions. So, we need to stop this nonsensical notion that corporations are "amoral". And, we need to stop slipping in and out of corporate personhood when granting rights vs. assigning responsibility. Actually, the whole idea of corporate personhood just needs to die.

>Each is responsible for making a small contribution to 'protecting the bottom line,' but as an organized system it makes the organization greedy.

Sure, in any organization there are people who just toe the line and, in many cases, don't even know that their efforts may contribute to something immoral. But, that's irelevant here. The point is that there are certainly people within the company who are making these decisions and who are well-aware of their immorality and consequences. They do this for personal gain (perhaps among other reasons).

So, putting this off on the corporation or organization is ill-considered. There is a tendency to let these individual decisions just sort of dissolve into the morass of the organization. It's especially bad because then we say, "Oh the corporation is amoral. It was just doing what it was supposed to do".

I believe your analogy with U.S. intelligence overlays roughly but differs significantly enough that it's a different discussion. The short though, is that I don't believe that we can just conclude that it was all good intentions with coincidentally evil results.
Barf. Forcing boilerplate into the code of EVERY caller of your library "just in case" somebody might want to do something slightly different.
From ramen profitable to "caviar" profitable ? :)

I learn a lot by watching the videos they put online.
How much of a role did the fact that there was hardly any other public information on iOS programming out there play?

Could you start an iOS blog today and realistically hope for a similar outcome, or are there so many iOS blogs that it would it get lost in the noise, and it would be better to pick some newer, less-published technology?
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The deobfuscation feature in debugger is a bliss! I was waiting for it.
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If you want to build a functioning starship along the lines of Icarus by the year 2100, there is a lot of basic science that has to be done. It is very difficult to predict the course of basic science, because you don't know what you don't know, and it is therefore hard to anticipate how far away the frontiers might be.

The main problem with Icarus is that it aims to create a ship that can do the trip on the scale of a human lifetime. With space travel, the amount of energy required, and therefore the difficulty of the project, is related almost exclusively to how fast you want to get there, the delta-v, if you will.

Therefore, it is unreasonable for Icarus to set a timetable.

If you really want to set a timetable, there is an easier way: stop worrying about how long it takes. Concentrate all of your effort into curing death, and then build a starship with a solar-sail, or some other sort of environmentally-friendly, but slow, technology.

The advantages to this approach are many: easier to get funding, direct economic payoff, no difficulty convincing people that your effort is worthwhile, and, oh yes, you get to cure death.

Then, while you are aboard your starship, you can spend the hundreds of years (say) that it takes you to get to Alpha Centauri further advancing science. If you are adequately equipped, as a nuclear-pulse propulsion vessel would likely be, you can invent better propulsion technology as you go along.

In a sense, the problem of human senescence and its attendant illnesses and the problem of interstellar travel are one and the same. If someone asked me to solve the latter as quickly as possible, I would begin by solving the former.
With so many specializations, isn't it partly a company's duty to train?

Ideally, yes. But most companies are short-sighted and tend to assume that if the talent isn't right there and ready, the task is too hard to be worth doing. Executives don't like taking risks, except for those that allow them to capture all upside while externalizing the downside.

There's a Gresham's Law of executives. Forward-thinking, progressive people are driven out by quick-flash politicking psychopaths. I don't know of an easy fix for that problem.
> dealing with corner cases, writing tests, and maintaining the parser as the language evolves are a couple more things that might take a lot more work.

Not really.

Seriously, if you're going to get bogged down trying to get the lexer/parser to work, you're not ready to work on a full blown language/compiler. Lexing/parsing is the EASY part, as in a minute, insignificant part of the time you'll invest in the project. I really do mean that.
For what it's worth (and I don't plan to weigh-in on the topic of Indian education one way or the other, as I have no knowledge in this area) he did receive his BS in EE at Mangalore University[0], in India.

[0]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/nadella/
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When is someone going to build the exact opposite for guests ;-)
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Is templating killing your brand? 
Templating; it’s a fantastic web design idea for pulling together a business’ online presence, and creating the appearance of consistency.It’s especially useful when there are multiple sites, product lines, and/or tons of content. Either way, the last thing you want is a clamor of different voices diluting the brand and confusing customers.
A few months ago I made a 4D puzzle console game in Python: https://github.com/boppreh/anakata

It's an amazing experience to think of visualizations. I ended up with a grid of grids, like you see in the readme. Each smaller grid is a 2D slice of the world, each column a 3D stack, and the set of all columns the full 4D space.
> Do you have any idea how could he do that without changing my password ...

Of course -- he logged on as you. How could Skype (or your friends) distinguish him from you, if both he and you use the same username and password? In fact, for his purposes, not changing your password was to his benefit, because it helps him cover his tracks.

> ... my password was a combination of letters and numbers

If your password was robust, then I recommend that you scan your system for a keylogger. Also don't use the same password in more than one place.
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I was around back then, and was using Macs and Unix, looking down on folks for using Windows & DOS. To this day, I can't begin to fathom the sort of mindset it takes to settle for worst.

I certainly would not have agreed that Microsoft ca. 1992 was at all visionary. I felt embarrassed for them and their users back then, much as I would for an adult who shows up at the office proud of the childish fingerpainting he spent the last month making. Grasping, copying, but not visionary.
No, I'm not, but then again, I don't regularly read other fora (correction, sorry: news sites). I suspect the OP did an ASK HN because it involves a YC backed company and there was a good chance the founders were HN members.

One good thing that came out of it is that the CEO is now aware of it (as per his comment in the thread) and hopefully he'll get to the bottom of that particular customers issues.

So if my assumption is correct then we can look forward to a post by the same OP relating how he got excellent support in a couple of days, or maybe he'll sue them after all.
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Interesting, I am drawing a blank when a subscriber will want to purchase two subscriptions on the same website... ? Is he or she purchasing the additional subscription for someone else?
I make a study of funny colors. For example you can get weird vibrations via certain patterns of strobed color combinations and frequencies.

This is an interesting study of such (warning! strobes!) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0lNGXoP8E
Just to add the relevant terms of art to this post for people to google if they're interested in the legal doctrine: "exclusionary rule", "fruit of the poisonous tree", "independent source", "inevitable discovery", "attenuation", "good faith reliance", and "standing".
Some other camps ( http://www.erlang.org/ ) still strongly prefer their own approach, and I can't say I blame them.
Wow, posted by Dave himself. Hi Dave!
Most people get mad every time they have to pay for a tank of gas. Its not rational, they know they can't go without it but they still hate it.
Someone went to like a dozen stations and tried to ask for a complaint form and recorded what happened. Has to be on youtube somewhere.

You won't be arrested specifically for the complaint of course, they are going to find something else, follow you, etc.
Isn't a bench technician kind of the lowest rung on the ladder? I was under the impression that once you had a Ph.D., salary for say, a Scientist at Genentech, paid pretty well.
Also "totality of the circumstances".
rtdsc:
> Was that addressed to strongloop.com? They are the ones that posted an example with promises using 27+/-whitespace lines of code and the initial problem algorithm only had 4 lines.

Oh wow, this is my fault, I didn't read what they did there. I have __no idea__ why it took them 27 lines to implement this. It's rather trivial with promises.

- They have a .then followed by a .map there causing nesting for no reason whatsoever.

- They also get the file name, but handle this very poorly (with an array), where they could just do it as a part of the .map (the .all and .then are completely redundant) there

- They assume the possibility of directories, I didn't. That .filter is justified but that's the only thing one might have to add here.

- Generally, it's poor promise code.

I guess that promises are just not their tools of choice and they just used them _for that post_.
I use the Send to Kindle app to put the cracked books back on my Kindles.
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Yeah, but you want a higher-level language for most apps.