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> Except there is no particular reason why Karpeles actually needs to be physically present to provide his testimony

Whether or not you believe that it is necessary, it is a routine demand in lawsuits, not evidence of some special government conspiracy to arrest Karpeles.

> or for the corporation's designated representative in court to be a specific individual rather than an attorney hired for that purpose.

This isn't about a "corporation's designated representative", its about a witness with first-hand knowledge of relevant facts. The corporation's designated representative will be a lawyer hired for the purpose, but they obviously are not a suitable witness.

> I am not one who believes that physical custody of a witness is either necessary or sufficient to obtain truthful statements from him.

Whether you believe that or not is irrelevant to what can reasonably be concluded from the fact of someone asking for it in a context where it is completely normal without any special conspiracy aimed at arrest.

Yes, if the world was usually run on your personal preferences, then this might be an unusual request that justifies some kind of conspiratorial conclusion. But in the real world we actually live in, it is not.
The tech demo looked great 2 years ago. Doesn't even have that anymore.
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> bitpay already offer 0% fees for a flat $30/month

What about the spread? The transaction fees charged by stock brokers approaches zero because they make the real bank on the spread.
I could imagine a lot of Wu-Tang fans joining forces to fund a Kickstarter-type thing to buy it and release it under some permissive license.

I wonder if they even bothered clearing their samples...
The slow, sad death of Last.fm
I was really missing SearchHN so thank you for all of the work you have put into this.
If the belt operation can be changed from the current "take any two items on belt, process them, put the result to the front of belt" to "take two front-most items on belt, process them, put the result anywhere on belt", we can save some bits and make shorter instructions (good for mobile):

currently:
OP load-address-1 load-address-2 // output is always put at belt's front

to:
OP store-address // inputs are always 2 frontmost items on belt
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"Shit's Easy Syndrome": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
In an ideal world, we'd all be living in a post-scarcity economy with Basic Income and no IP laws and no "currency" to speak of.

In an ideal world. An ideal world sounds really cool! The implementation details might get a little crazy though.
Really, there is a huge field waiting! Hacker News for Astrophysics!
Strategic thinking. Being able to fluidly use both linear and intuitive thought processes. Being able to apply strategic concepts learned on Go (Territory vs. Influence, life-and-death, good shapes, urgency vs. big moves, move order, etc.)

Go is a game that is abstract enough, you can easily see the same kind of patterns emerging in day-to-day life. Thus, it helps hone your ability to make decisions in face of uncertainty.

For example, a classic decision: you have a startup. Google offers an acquihire deal with you. Do you take this deal and run with the money? Do you hold out for a better acquisition deal where your product might see the light of day, or do you try to realize the potential of the company on your own? This is essentially the same decision you make when you play territorial vs. influence style, that is, realizing gains now vs. potential gains later.

Each concept in Go you learn can help you be a better Go player, but the real value is in how each of those concepts help you make decisions in your life.

You might use a computer to help you analyze things, but ultimately, the entity making the decisions for your life is you, not the computer.
Using Trello for SCRUM
Awesome. Now to see how their integration works with regards to confirmation time. The best solution IMO is to use a risk analyzer to determine the number of needed confirmations. 0 conf for small payments for a merchant with a low fraud rate, with increasing confirmations needed as the size of the payment grows. I would look at BitPay's checkout flow to see the state of the art here.

Also hoping they implement the payment protocol (BIP70), which gives a much better user experience and improved security. Instead of copy pasting an address, a signed payment request is sent to the users Bitcoin wallet with a message stating something like "Bob's shop has requested a payment of 10USD (20mBTC) - accept?". Some particularly insidious coin stealing malware has been developed that modifies the payment address in the clipboard to be changed to an attackers address, and the whole UX around copying long Base58 encoded strings is horrible. Furthermore, the signed payment request serves as a receipt. With BIP70, the UX of bitcoin payments surpasses that of CC payments, IMO.
I take his post to mean that demonstrated growth helps bump your rank up the list, consistent with the themes you explore in some of your essays.
the rtree implementation they found [1] isn't connected to leaflet except that the org that it lives in also manages some leaflet plugins, Vladimir, the author of leaflet, does have his own rtree implementation [2].

For the record I manage the one in the article.

1: https://github.com/leaflet-extras/RTree
2. https://github.com/mourner/rbush
IMO you're kind of ruining it with the chart down the page showing all the images. Everybody has played 2048 now, the only incentive left is to discover what images will show up :)
Apples to oranges. This is a civil proceeding relating to a bankruptcy while Sweden issued a warrant for Assange's arrest.

From wikipedia:

"Ecuadorian officials also suggested that Swedish authorities could question Assange at the embassy.[186][187] The prosecutor had already explained that Assange was not wanted "merely to assist with our enquiries," but for "the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings"—that is, to be arrested, charged, and tried."
Microsoft's new CEO reveals his plans for the company
And yet, that still doesn't mean anyone is acting like it only has a single purpose, but rather that they dislike one of its purposes strongly enough to dislike the whole thing. It's ok to argue that the point of view is unreasonable, but not to be willfully ignorant or just dishonest about what their point of view actually is. If you said "but it does all these other great things!", they would say "I don't care, I still hate it", not "oh, I didn't realize that, I like it now".

Also, you can't actually tell what someone is doing with it, so complete shunning is the only way to be sure you aren't being recorded. Some people don't like being recorded at all, and most people don't like being recorded surreptitiously. These really aren't absurd or paranoid preferences.
Awesome.I wanted to integrate BTC as an option to cut out their 3% fee. If they can handle it for 0.5 to 1.5%, I'm happy to keep them in the loop
Especially odd considering there is a free photoshop clone called Paint.net for windows. Its like a really old version of photoshop.
Of course. Thanks for the response.

PS. How's the Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan?
We actually haven't figured out how the pricing will work yet. (We want to make sure we have the product right first.)
The Windows Apocalypse: Here's why Microsoft is releasing Office for the iPad
Structuring Hybrid Mobile Applications
I think that's the point. If you only expect to make 500K* from album sales, it makes sense to sell a single copy for 500K to a wealthy fan and let the content leak out to other fans.

Same pay, less work and more happy fans.

* - I don't really know what the numbers are. 500K is just an example.
Note that this kind of advise is good for the 20 somethings. That's like how your parents want you to avoid hanging out with the wrong crowd at school, don't be stupid a few years later.

As you grow older though, it takes so much effort to maintain friendship that you will naturally lose contact with people that do not share your values in some respect.
Floating point values with a given precision and some integers. We’ll have to buy a proper supercomputer before the latter take more than seven digits :\
sorry for the accidental downvote, does replying reverse that vote? I think I saw someone post that it does, but HN can be smoke and mirrors sometimes
I listened to Marc A on this week's Freakonomics podcast, giving a very plausible rationale for why we should still care about crypto-currency. (Go listen - its good)

I am trying to salve my conscience and turn open source software and public sector into a mission (#) - but despite loving his pitch and wanting to believe in the Golden future, I must have too-small-a-mindset.

How on earth can you spend 1.5 billion on startups in the next couple of years? I could take 5 million right now and do some amazing stuff in message queueing in local UK government - the future is bright, but cheaper. Are they wanting to put in for 300 small startups that will change our infrastructure but essentially make things cheaper, reducing the total cake? Or is this 100M for a few "build the next rocket" startups?

(#) oss4gov.org/manifesto - I still think its the best I have yet expressed about how angry I get seeing proprietary code running government.
I'm on iPhone 5 and they run "okay." If a 3 year old, 2 million dollar framework is already ruling out everything but the absolute newest devices, what do they expect devs to use it for? Pet projects pretty much seem like the only thing.

I can't imagine using this on something professional that targets a realistic target population.
Finally they've accepted the fact that they need to optimize to apple products, the Gates mentality has been blocking innovation in this area and this might be the breakthrough !
Biblequote :

Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips.
And yet, it's pretty common to pay with cash at any brick and mortar store, where you have no electronic protection (like chargebacks) and not even any physical protection for the cash you carry around.
Being somewhat introverted, this means that I am my girlfriend, my cat, and my computer. (Not necessarily in that order :)
What about a remote TEMPEST attack?
It depends - some algorithms exploit correlations between pixels to reduce the computational load. This is bad if the Z channel is not strongly correlated with the others (RGB are very strongly correlated in natural images). Since depth shouldn't usually be correlated with color, this might cause some issues. Some experiments were done in "Learning Feature Representations with K-means", A. Ng. and A. Coates. (http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot2012.p...)

Give it a try, but also look at the underlying assumptions of your algorithm if it performs poorly.
Are you really on Lion?

For me, it fails because I am on Mavericks. They're using code similar to below, which only matches Lion and Mountain Lion.

var ua = navigator.userAgent || navigator.appVersion;
if(ua.match(/10[_.]7/) || ua.match(/10[_.]8/)) console.log("valid os");

You can find the code by viewing the source here:
http://paddleover.com/javascripts/application.js
Rigorous security checks. Right.

The album will be anonymously leaked to the Internet by a trusted insider before a physical copy even makes it to the first museum. Absent that, someone on a museum's security staff will do it.

Did they forget that most bootleg recordings come from the venue's sound board, and not from some random guy in the audience?
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> And remember, this isn't the "Federal Government" giving him this protection, it is the State of Texas.

No, its the Federal judiciary. The particular bankruptcy court happens to be located in Texas (US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas). People often confuse federal courts located in a state with state courts, but they are not at all the same thing, and have nothing to do with the state government.
That's a good point; I don't think I can delete my submissions or my account on here, but even then 3 total use cases revolving around delete isn't exactly a huge number.
It's discouraging for me to think scientists could be as biased and provincial as regular humans, but thanks for the comment anyway.
This is the whole point of domain expertise that so many people ignore. Domain expertise is not just about knowledge; it's about the relationships you develop by actually spending time in an industry.

Thousands of people work at HBO. Tens of thousands of people work at Time Warner, which owns HBO. And tens of thousands more work in the broadcast media ecosystem. If you're really passionate about doing something in this industry, why not work in it for a few years?

Not only are you bound to meet the people who can help you, or who know the people who can help you, if you're strategic, you can put yourself in the position to come to the table with a modicum of industry cred, something that run-of-the-mill introduction-seekers almost always lack.
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Or crowdsource it and not release it until you hit 500K.
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Benchmarking Box's S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up
Any advice for applying for jobs that specify a PhD as a requirement, but for which I'd be otherwise qualified? I'm in bioinformatics, and trying to transition into a particular field. I completed a masters degree, and have been working for a few years in a rather intense academic research lab. I don't have any intention of being a professor, but would like to continue in research- based on that, most people I've talked to have advised to skip the PhD. However, more and more company jobs like the bioinformatics positions I'm eyeing at Craig Venter's new Human Longevity Institute seem to be specifying PhDs as a requirement. Any insight or suggestions?
It's already recorded and I expect that RZA is doing the production himself or with trusted associates. With only one master it's not like there will be much opportunity for a factory worker to grab an early copy, either.
To "release it", fans would have to buy the copyright, not just the album.
Or that music is just a collection of bits? And with enough storage and computing power I could generate every song every recorded by humans?
CDC: 1 in 68 US Children Has Autism
A continuously updated list of the best open-source fonts from Google Fonts
A review comparing the Apple apps (native and cloud), MSFT Office (native and cloud), and Google Docs compare would be interesting. Specifically usability (touch as well as external keyboard attached), on and offline modes.

Playing up the ribbon in the presentation? Curious as ribbon really has triggered a love it or hate it reaction.
Thanks for the clarification.

The whole "multiple governments" thing in the US gets confusing sometimes.
WearScript: A JavaScript environment for Google Glass
MS is changing, and make no mistake, this has started with Ballmer. If you watch(ed) the press conf, it's quite apparent. App store for Android, Office for iPad, AD for Azure.. quite nice stuff, that's what we expect from a software giant: just release stuff for everything, everywhere, and make things be able to work with each other nicely.

Good to see that, competition is always good for the users, and Apple, Google and MS all seem to be quite strong on their fields (although Google is the most fashionable nowadays).
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Excellent wording. That's exactly what a Hacker is all about.
Why are they doing this? It's too late. No one is going to want to make Bitcoin transactions through a US-based company now because you know the Fed is going to start creating all sorts of lawsuits unless people follow the rules. I have zero Bitcoins but if I had any I'd play it safe and put it somewhere overseas (or if I did put it in a US-based company I'd want to make damn sure they were backed by an overseas bank).
Hello NoodleIncident,

More importantly, though, it seems that you don't have to slide any tiles for new ones to be spawned.

We had two reasons for this modification.
1) We wanted random bot that prints one of the 4 moves randomly to be able to play longer
2) In the original game, if your move does not slide anything you will not lose (infinite loop) :). So we wanted a new tile appears after every move (not matter what the move is).
We're back in the 80's again.
It's not that people are inflexible, it's that if you're going to provide an alternative, it should slip itself into someone's workflow and processes with almost no inertia. When someone is accustomed to hitting a keystroke to achieve a certain effect, or someone is using to having a widget in the left corner, any change to that process is going to cause discomfort, and most people don't need that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pizza_Tapes
i wonder if it will keep getting regular updates and support too -- what product cycle will it be on? will it have clippy -- the office assistant? so many questions.
So...should I mention growth in my application? ;)
I'm really hoping MS becomes a company that offers consistent and great experiences no matter who's walled garden you're in.
We have an Internet now. Information moves a lot faster and more inexpensively by itself than it does in the custody of a human courier. Thus, the stated motive--"to appear for questioning"--appears on its face to be bogus.

The purpose of a deposition isn't to elicit information as quickly as possible. That can be held by document requests responded to by email. The purpose of a deposition is to take the sworn testimony of the witness and to record various aspects of their testimony ahead of a trial. Most importantly, demeanor and other side information that isn't properly conveyed by a video deposition. One of the most important concerns, especially with a defendant accused of fraud--is ensuring that the defendant is offering their own answers, and is not merely reading scripted answers from out of the camera's view.

You may find that some people are more forthcoming when a grim-faced person in a robe, with armed men ready to mete out punishment at a word, is not the one demanding answers.

That's cute. You actually think a deposition is where a judge asks questions while the bailiff stands menacingly over the witness? Here's a clue: depositions are conducted by the parties themselves without the assistance of the court. Most depositions are held at the law offices of either the plaintiff or the defendant; the only 3rd-party present is the courtroom reporter who, despite the name, is actually a non-court affiliated commercial service provider licensed to transcribe depositions. At most, the judge will participate in a deposition only if the parties call him to resolve a legal dispute. Bailiffs do not participate in depositions under any circumstances.
Paying some exorbitant ticket price to sit for over 2 hours in an isolated, monitored environment for a single play-through of a rap album? I can't imagine a less enjoyable listening experience.

Artificially inducing scarcity in order to increase value is an interesting experiment, but this doesn't seem like the way to do it. At some point on this tour, some handler is going to have 5 minutes alone with the album, at which point they'll immediately make a copy and leak it.

Nevertheless, the original will sell for a small fortune. Genuine scarcity will always be a good reason to pay lots of money.
Oh, doh, you're right.. I'm going to delete my previous comment.
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There's nothing disruptive about it.

It's artificial scarcity, which has never worked well, or for long.
If there is only one copy, and it is sold, how then would the original creators establish that the works found on the copy are actually theirs?

If it is not the only copy, how would they not be liable for fraud in claiming that it is?
Sadness but yeah
Yeah, there's a mental tax to domains like that beyond merely understanding what they read.
They're not mapping the Earth to a resolution of microns though. Does that help make sense of the fact that there isn't a 1-to-1 scale mapping between the Earth and the sensors? Each image sweeps each pixel across a length along the Earth of nearly a meter. If you try to imagine how this maps onto the sensor head it rapidly breaks down. Each pixel seemingly overlaps with other pixels, each line seemingly overlaps with other lines. But that's not what happens, instead there are optics which effect spreading the image plane over a large area on the Earth with a separation of several meters between each color line.

Think about the optics in reverse. Imagine turning the satellite's sensor head into a hologram then sending it backwards through the optics until it reaches the Earth, where it would be magnified to an enormous size and each pixel would be the size of a human.
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What about North Korea?

I think that's still just a slogan.
I wouldn't have thought of using craigslist..Thanks! Very helpful
They wouldn't sell many more in any case... unfortunately..

ps. huge Ghostface fan right here
Why Things Are Getting Better for Women in Startups
I wonder how Google's broad adoption of MariaDB figures into this news.
Intel are in a perpetual war with another vendor with the same instruction set for which some of their optimizations are generally applicable, to the point that ICC used to intentionally cripple AMD hardware: http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49

Thus there's a disincentive for Intel to release their optimizer's tricks: not only are at least some percentage of the optimizations applicable to their competitor's microarchitecture implementing the same ISA, but they probably reveal various Intel CPU internals that Intel consider trade secrets (similar to the argument against open-sourcing 3D drivers and shader compilers).

Mill is not going to be locked into a bitter head-to-head battle with someone else trying to implement the same ISA better (at least not for a long time), so there's no incentive for them to hide their CPU's internal optimizations and no competition for which compiler optimizations could be generally applicable.
I think we are on the same page here actually. I talk about how email sharing is around health and aging - topics that address older folks and Twitter sharing is around breaking news w/ an international bent + business and tech. Not sure if I've seen a lot of evidence for liberal vs conservative but could be.
NASA's STEREO Solar Observation Mission [video]
ASK HN: Whats the best AWS server to host RoR app
Hi,

Am using AWS E2C to host our RoR app using Opswork. Am currently using a c1.medium instance for our production app. In a few days AWS is cutting down prices and I would want to move to a new instance. My question is What should I look at when choosing a new instance for a RoR app? lots of RAM ? high CPU usage? from what I can tell in my new relic metrics I should go for a large RAM instance. But am not sure.

Our app is a consumer app with medium traffic and I run everything using unicorn and nginx.

Any help, adivice and guidance will be appreciated

thanks
Pays the rent at least... Rents are going up!