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"Books were not interesting for them because US didn't censor books"

Did for a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover#Unite...

Lady Chatterley's Lover was one of a trio of books (the others being Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill), the ban on which was fought and overturned in court with assistance by publisher Barney Rosset and lawyer Charles Rembar in 1959
According to the article (near the end), he started a 20000 hectare forest at a cost of £200m, with over 1m trees planted before his death.
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> from intelligent people

Dude, the intellectual level of the content on "listnerd" appears to be about 11 years old. I couldn't give a crap about any of that and I tried.

How about having an "old folks" section with lists about vitamins, exercises, home improvement tips and plots of long-forgotten stories that deal with emotional complexities...

...You know, stuff people with functioning brain lobes like.
I would be very interested to hear more about the user Listnerd http://www.listnerd.com/Listnerd#lists and how Listnerd has created 492,988 lists and received 3,072,466 votes!
You don't actually think the U.S. is the only country spying on its citizens or the world right?

The only reason it's even a huge deal is because of the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In countries without a similar constitutional guarantee your spy agencies probably aren't even breaking the law. They're probably watching everything you do with total impunity.
Complex crossover networks are The Devil. As you observed, the human ear is largely insensitive to moderate variations in volume/frequency... but it's incredibly sensitive to phase. Phase is how we discern directionality (stereo), among other things. So introducing complex phase shifts in the crossover in order to achieve flatness is a bad tradeoff, imho.

To my ears, the best and most musical sounding speakers I've heard have time-aligned drivers and very simple crossovers. Tannoy, Spica, Vandersteen, and other such designs are clearer and less fatiguing. I'm a musician and have recorded numerous albums, and those speakers are the ones that match what I'm used to hearing the best.

The fundamental problem is that we work on what we can measure. It's very easy to measure frequency response. It's very hard to measure phase alignment. So we fix what we can measure. If you want to see serious map-over-territory thinking, look at THD specs for amplifiers. It's super-easy to measure THD - just isolate harmonics of a sine wave a 1khz. Unfortunately, this has approximately zero to do with music, unless your idea of "music" is static sine waves. Recorded music has a 20-30db dynamic range (less in the case of modern pop) and covers ten octaves. Dynamic recovery behavior, intermodulation distortion, stuff like this is what gives amps their distinctive sounds - but it's nearly impossible to measure! So they sell what looks good on paper... THD. Sigh.
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Google hasn't 'grabbed the majority of smartphone share'. They sell no smartphones themselves and they license software components that are used in less than half of smartphones.

[edit: as usual, a factually correct counterpoint to the marketing spin about Android gets downvoted]
"* When US was dropping bombs in Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war, I remember hearing that US deliberately designed their cluster bomblets to look like toys, made them not explode on contact with the ground, with a hope that a child would find them, start playing with it and then it would explode."

You're thinking of the BLU-43; the Soviets used a similar design in Afghanistan.
Ah, DIY speakers! The general rule here is that DIY speakers will sound as good as commercial speakers that cost 4-5x as much. You can buy kits with pre-cut parts, so all you need to do is glue/clamp and build the crossovers.

Easy-to-build bookshelf speakers, the Overnight Sensations--$136 with free shipping: http://www.parts-express.com/overnight-sensations-mt-speaker...

And the Amiga towers are great for a living room, more towards $300 for the pair: http://www.diysoundgroup.com/speaker-kits/amiga-kit.html

More Amiga info: https://sites.google.com/site/undefinition/diy/amiga

I have built both, they're both really great at what they do. If I ever have the free time and money, I'd love to build some Statements: http://speakerdesignworks.com/Statements.html
This article is based around the source that author claims to be faked in another article, http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code....

edit: fixed link
It is possible that some of those searches were done to see how to avoid having harm come to the child (e.g. knowing what temperature is dangerous so that you could keep the temperature below that point at all times). You would also need to know the state of mind when the search was made.
I'm not seeing the problem here. If police instead found a stack of books inside covering the same material, would anyone object? What about a series of entries in a journal?

Now, if this was something much more abstract such as three of the past unknown books they have read in the past unknown years involved accidents of this type, that would be one thing. But this? Doesn't seem that far fetched.

Edit: to clarify further. They had probable cause already. The suspect was acting ridiculously suspicious. The web browser behavior is just additional data, not the sole data.
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For a data point, McDonald's owns roughly 7,000 restaurant locations globally, and they have around 35,500 total restaurants (so ~28,500 owned by franchisees).
> You get good people in at the top that actually reform things and change the organizational culture. It's very fixable.

"Trust us, everything is fixed now. No, we can't go into detail for national security reasons."
Yes, defense counsel would have access to the evidence the prosecution is using against the defendant, and has powers to get other relevant evidence. And they would make that argument. In a jury trial, web search history would usually be presented by a police investigator. The prosecutor will ask him questions to elicit the picture the prosecution wants to paint, while defense counsel has the opportunity to cross-examine the witness to poke holes in that picture.

Say the investigator testifies that the defendant searched for: "how long does it take for a dog to die in a car?" On cross, defense counsel would definitely point out: "but the defendant didn't search for how long it would take for a baby to die in a car, and he did have a dog he might have been worried about leaving in the car."
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Well saw a spike in traffic to my site and traced the source to HN... Let's hope the migration from WordPress to Pelican pays out.

As mentioned by some of you this is from early 2013 but the code still works. Furthermore it has been tweaked (the timeouts and keypress duration) to be compatible with most Macs yet as efficient as possible.

I also did an iCloud Padlock version http://orvtech.com/ataque-fuerza-bruta-pin-icloud-en.html but it takes way longer.

I am working on a version that using a Raspberry Pi + Arduino should work on any BIOS, EFI, OR PIN lock for that matter.
In case someone doesn't know the reference:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_....
Burger King and Wendy's are attempting to move to a total franchised model. Burger King has managed to dramatically boost their net income by doing this for example, and their market valuation has soared accordingly; so now Wendy's is beginning to chase the same model.

At some point within the next 12 to 24 months, Burger King will be almost entirely franchised.
I would take a look at BEM. It's methodology and set of naming conventions to help write better, more modular and reusable CSS. It can take a while to get used to, and to get it right, but once you do it's a lifesaver. I can't imagine doing front-end dev without it now

http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/16/a-new-front-end-m...
This makes a lot more sense if you're right about the numbers. It's not the single meal they are targeting but 2-4 meals. That will drive down the number of meals they have to deliver to make a profit. If the meals are of superb quality this idea works. But it might be tough if they are delivering: food doesn't travel well -- your food is guaranteed to be sitting for 5-15 minutes.
They have to pick records that can be strung together into a coherent narrative that is consistent with the timing of the internet activity and the timing of the crime.

This idea is so bad that it has a specific term: confirmation bias.

If you have enough facts, you can cherry-pick them to suit almost any coherent, consistent narrative. Web browsing especially delivers enormous amounts of content from which to cherry-pick to suit a narrative.

IMO storytelling, and wholesale embracement of confirmation bias, is probably the biggest weakness of adversarial justice. I think it turns justice into a game of who's the better storyteller.
>but if what you're expecting is violence in the streets, if you're expecting a revolution like Syria - that's not going to happen.

No, absolutely not, violence would only set this issue back (imagine if the NSA now had a "valid" reason to target people, for inciting violence).

>Most Americans are not aware of their freedoms having been eroded in any meaningful way.

People need to see that their freedoms have been eroded which is one of the major issues, which is why their needs to be peaceful assembly and people making noise so that the average American fully understands the extent of the NSA's breach of privacy and civil liberties.

> that they will be rounded up by a government death squad because looking at Boing Boing pushed their XKeyScore rating past the red line.

Sure people aren't being rounded up by a government death squad, but tracking peoples every movements via phone and every single detail on their online personas is an incredible breach of privacy and civil liberties. It's only a matter of time until it escalates and you have to remove a weed before it takes hold in your garden, while it's still small enough to manage.

>Most Americans don't care about this

Then it needs to become an issue that Americans care about by the people who do understand how terrible the actions of the NSA are (in this case, most HN readers)
Because our schools SUCK. Not 100% of them, but 95+% of them.

The schools do not teach independent, rational thinking, nor do they do a decent job teaching American history or historical American political values.

In fact, they are much more likely to attack them. For example, by claiming that the Founding Fathers were slaveholding bigots, or that early settlers were genocidal. Both of which are oft-repeated claims that are much more false than true.

If we wanted to avoid all this, we would have needed to have separation of School and State, in the same way and for the same reasons we [are supposed to] have separation of Church and State.
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Did you know three skyscrapers collapsed on 9/11? In fact, prior to the downfall of the third tower, Larry Silverstein instructed the NY Fire Department to quote "pull it" [i]. Subsequently, Silverstein Properties issued a statement claiming that when Larry Silverstein advised the NY Fire Department commander that “the smartest thing to do is pull it,” what he meant was that it would be wise to pull a contingent of firefighters out of the building [ii].

In your opinion, what accounts for the unbelievable discrepancy between this account by Larry Silverstein, and the NIST's official conclusion that WT7 collapsed due to office fires?

What about the eye witness accounts by NY firefighters claiming to hear, feel and experience "explosions" in the lower lobby of the other towers? [iii]

Oddly, very few people who are for 9/11 truth are saying 9/11 was an inside job. In fact, most of the people who are saying 9/11 is an inside job are either undereducated or have an agenda to discredit the wider 9/11 truth movement.

Look, with all of these discrepancies, why is it that modern life as an American citizen demands a steadfast, unquestioning belief in the official story? Isn't it at least _conceivable_ that the official story isn't completely forthcoming with the facts? Isn't it important we get this one right seeing as the NSA's illegal suspicionless surveillance program is _predicated_ on the events of 9/11 being true?

[i] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPzAakHPpk

[ii] NIST NCSTAR 1-9, Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7, Draft for Public Comment, August 2008, pages 301-302. See http://wtc.nist.gov/media/nist_ncstar_1-9_vol1_for_public_co...

[iii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cViy34b1A
Well (I think) part of the whole point of a package manager is to reduce space by sharing dependencies. Npm seems to actually store a copy of the dependency individually for each package that requires it. I really think that is inefficient and a step backwards.
I think you mean this one: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/validating-xkeyscore-code....
I think you're missing the fact that you can use all of those same techniques in languages without all the noise. You can also use a plain old editor with such languages (which can be handy if debugging/writing code on a headless server).

And, some languages make writing most of that sort of bug nigh impossible to begin with.
Is that general rule pretty accurate? I've been contemplating buying an home speaker upgrade and pretty price adverse because I don't _need_ to upgrade. I am currently using Harman Kardon Soundsticks II w/ sub for my home audio and have no complaints -- kept this for 8 years really, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. Are those 300 really ~ to $1200. If so, that sounds like a solid project!
> Immediately, I discovered that tree structures are more complicated in languages like Clojure that have immutable state. This is because changing a node requires rebuilding large parts of the tree.

This must have implications for implementing a Merkle tree as an immutable data structure. Anyone know how a bitcoin client in clojure might deal with this?
Until they implement a JIT and compile the regex.
It's nice to see an explanation of Markov chains (and some techniques for predicting their behaviour) targeted at a wide audience. My only complaint is that the provided definition of a Markov chain is somewhat unclear and imprecise (as pointed out already by lambdaphage). An alternative definition that I like a little better is given below.

A Markov chain is a sequence of random variables X_1, X_2, X_3, ... with the property that the distribution of X_t given the complete history X_1, ..., X_{t-1} is identical to the distribution of X_t given only the previous state X_{t-1}. Intuitively, this means that the state X_{t-1} sufficiently summarizes the history of the chain so that knowing the earlier states of the chain does not allow you to better guess the next state. This property is called the Markov property.

For those looking for a free and in-depth reference, I encourage you to check out Byron Schmuland's course notes: http://www.stat.ualberta.ca/~schmu/stat580/2012notes. He also links to several other free references for Markov chains on his course webpage: http://www.stat.ualberta.ca/~schmu/580.
I think most people feel powerless, either financially or technically.

Many people I know think what the NSA is doing is completely wrong, but they have problems logging into facebook and getting their email to work, they just feel powerless because they don't understand the technology behind the world they live in.

How can they stand up to something they can't even begin to comprehend?

The NSA could literally do anything they wanted to most people and they wouldn't even know about it.

And then we have a much smaller group of people in the tech industry (most people who frequent Hacker News), who know what the NSA is doing is horribly horribly wrong, but are afraid of being destroyed financially, socially, and professionally for standing up to them.

It feels like swimming up a waterfall. The NSA can so easily ruin lives by planting illegal material on your computer, then tip off the local cops who get a search warrant, then they seize your computer and find the illegal material on your computer.

And you life is ruined.

I mean, they are so powerful technologically speaking, they can ruin lives without so much as lifting a finger.

It's very scary and very real.
Very interesting!

By the way, I noticed a typo in the cheat sheet:

> The primes is a collection that contains all natural numbers.
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Development doesn't work like this. You are assuming they knew exactly what they wanted in a fair amount of detail up-front.
Minor point but the hearing where this evidence was presented was actually a probable cause hearing, not the trial. Still, the defense can inspect these searches in discovery (fairly sure that's so in Georgia though not a lawyer) and rebut the narrative of the prosecution.
Underplaying the changes a little there. Even ignoring everything else, removing the pre-existing condition limitations made private/non-employer insurance an option for (at least) about 20% of working-age Americans who previously wouldn't have had the option.
It's like their mind being blown that Rackspace has a 60 pe ratio, or that Amazon and Twitter and LinkedIn have roughly infinite (or negative) pe ratios - and then concluding that must mean investors love the 7th place (?) cloud provider more than Google, and a profitless social network business model more than Google's ad + search monopoly. It's an intentionally bogus conclusion meant to do nothing but set up an article.
It's because of the American separatist mentality. Your average gun toting, freedom loving American sees the world through a very polarizing lens. Not long ago, I read the book American Sniper by Chris Kyle [1], about a Navy SEAL who is the most successful American sniper of all times. The good guy/bad guy dichotomy is very apparent throughout the book. He claims his life's priorities are "God, Country, Family", in that particular order. Reading this can be a bit uncomfortable to a liberal minded individual. And when Chris Kyle fought and killed all those insurgents, I have no doubt he was doing it in the name of freedom; but the freedom he was seeking was freedom from Muslims.

A person like this - and his viewpoint is not alien or even radical in America - sees the USA as a nearly sole force of good, the home of the free and enlightened. Logically, someone like that would not wish to place limits on the military capabilities of the USA, as he still sees the world in a confrontational light.

Put simply, a large part of the American public sees the world in a confrontational way and doesn't wish to reign the military capability of their government.

Under the ideas of capitalism, gun rights and the constitution, such Americans feel they are serving an enlightened, balanced mechanism, and they want it to go on.

TL;DR Americans want freedom from you; they take the freedom from their government for granted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kyle
I'm aware that it's not the only country, all countries have some form of intelligence agency, that's really besides the point honestly, the US has by far the largest, most automated system with frightening capabilities that is targetting everyone around the world.

>They're probably watching everything you do with total impunity.

I'd rather ere on the side of rationality here and without any evidence to the contrary I'm going to doubt any systems exist that are as large and thorough as the NSA's in my own country.
Confirmation bias is defined as (OED): "The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one’s existing beliefs or theories."

The adversarial justice system is expressly designed to avoid confirmation bias. That's the whole point of the "adversarial" part. While the prosecution might be prone to selectively interpreting the facts to confirm its own beliefs, the defense counsel is tasked with poking holes in that interpretation. That's why defense counsel has the independent opportunity to present evidence, and to cross-examine the prosecution's witnesses to poke holes in their story.
The media expresses it so that we individuals don't have to.
Am I correct thinking you are talking about this bug?
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-20094

If so, then yes they are aware of it and treating it as critical.

Edit: Reading into this bug is so cool. This video was linked from it, fascinating stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90NsjKvz9Ns&t=18m46s
Yes, there are plenty of messages about "freedom" and "liberty", but that doesn't mean the concepts are truly in the minds of the posters.

"Freedom" and "liberty" seem to be more like buzzwords used on the 4th of July than they are concepts pondered and/or specifically celebrated by the citizenry at large. (But perhaps that's just my biased/warped perception.)
Words like freedom and liberty are part of the standard rhetoric around the holiday, yes, but few are consciously thinking about those ideas. Practically speaking, the words are on the same level of symbolic pageantry as the fireworks, hotdogs and beer. But I don't think that disconnect is special to fourth of July or to Americans -- in my experience most holidays as well as religious ceremonies are similarly disconnected from their meaningful origins.
I'd say so! Most of my information comes from a super-long 3000-post speaker thread on a private music site. I have auditioned a few high-end speakers in stores and would say that DIY holds its own very well.

Personally, I replaced an ~$800 pair of speakers with the Amigas, and they're vastly better in terms of clarity/resolution. I have a decent tube amplifier already.

Past that point I'm pretty sure room setup/room treatment starts to matter much more than hardware...
I think they are targeting dinner for families. I always order 2 meals since they don't deliver lunch. You have to order food before 10am and they deliver b/w 3-6. My food is definitely sitting at least 1-2 hours because it is being delivered from SF to Mt view. I believe they have proper storage in the delivery vans - I don't know the details though.
> but tracking peoples every movements via phone and every single detail on their online personas is an incredible breach of privacy and civil liberties.

I've argued with people about that. They typically say they have nothing to hide so they couldn't care less that the government was watching them. And then there are people inside programming circles who say this is just an inevitable part of the information age, and all governments do it, and we should simply learn to live with it.

On the other hand, there's an old man at my gym who on more than one occasion has told me that Obama and the Democrats are going to lead the US into some kind of Stalinist new world order (just wait and see.) This isn't even on many people's radar yet.

>Then it needs to become an issue that Americans care about by the people who do understand how terrible the actions of the NSA are (in this case, most HN readers)

I agree with you entirely. It's a good fight to fight but.. I think it's going to take time before it stops becoming a 'fringe' issue for most Americans.
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