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You do have a 4th amendment interest in the contents of safety deposit boxes, storage units, and rented apartments.

So the question becomes: is the cloud more like your friend's garage, or a safety deposit box in a bank? I think the relevant distinction is that when it comes to a safety deposit box, or a storage unit, or an apartment, the landlord no longer has unrestricted access to the unit, and indeed it can be illegal for him to access the unit without your permission. Thus the expectation of privacy is higher than with your friend's garage, which he can continue to access whenever he wants without restriction.

So it might well be that there is a stronger privacy interest in something like AWS, where Amazon doesn't look into your instances, than in other cloud services that look at the data you store in them. That said, as I said, Riley makes me think that the Supreme Court is just going to give blanket 4th amendment protection to cloud services, regardless of the fact that some are, in actual fact, much more private than others.
Very small compliment (I like other things, but commenting about this one):

I love that your call to action button says "Watch the 1-min video". I NEVER click on product videos because I am afraid it will be 6-10 minutes of founders in the studio talking about how great the app is. With the specific detail of "1-min" I immediately watched the video and found out more about the app that I would have from reading the home page for 5-10 minutes.
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AKA subways, really. And cities with excellent subway systems really do come close to this ideal. It makes it feel like anywhere in town is walkable.
Do you have to be concerned that those countries may subpoena the VPS provider?

You're right that data grabbing isn't isolated to the US but I argue no, not if the point of concern is specific to one government entity instead of all of them.
I'm not worried, I'm the only one with that code and even I can't access my account. What a trainwreck.
Although surely inferiour in some ways for now, Inkscape is more useful to me because it's open and runs on all of my computers, it also has a usable plugin system, a userbase...

Thanks, but no thanks.
> > but the system is not completely broken

> That's demagogy.

Uh... what? I think the claim that the system is not completely broken is very fair. If you want to prove it wrong, show that 90%+ of the patents are junk.

> Completely or not completely is irrelevant. If it's passing through tons of patents

It doesn't matter which patents pass, what matters is which absurd patents go to court and win.

So, let's see, how many court cases have we seen this past decade where absolutely absurd patents ended up winning in court?

Don't get me wrong, I think the system has problems, I just don't think it's broken and needs to be completely abolished.

We need to find a way to eradicate patent trolls and there are a lot of potential solutions to this. For example, if company A acquires company B, then company B's patents become void and null unless A can prove these patents are applicable to its business. Blam. All patent trolls vanish.

Once you eliminate the problem of patent trolls, you realize that the idea behind software patents is sound and actually promotes innovation, start ups and entrepreneurship.
Wow. Nice downvote there. Good job guy. I can't comment on a post I want to read later. Thanks for that.
Here's an idea, stop using shitty services like PayPal. Today it's IPNs failing, tomorrow they're locking your account and holding your money for 180+ days with no justification.
yeah the old app looked like horrible, they updated a few months ago tho looks better
Even if the startup had the patent, it is unlikely they would have the millions it would take to enforce it against Facebook. Far more likely the opposite. Facebook collects hundreds of patents and uses rotten lawyer tricks to avoid ever competing with startups bringing real innovation.
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sorry to disappoint you, but it's actually 30~50 micronewtons, which is only 0.04g.
Even if in a vacuum, you can get multiplication.

http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/470-multipaction
You are of course correct that there's nothing special about the market for water.

The problem, again, is equivocation. You say that we could end water shortages by accurately pricing water. The problem is that when you say "shortage" in that context, you're using the economic definition wherein a shortage is a situation where some external force prevents A from selling something to B for a price they're both willing and able to accept. Whereas when we think of water shortages, we normally think of whether or not people are able to obtain enough water to continue living.

Yes, market pricing for water ensures there would be no "shortage" in the economic sense, by definition. But it tells us nothing about whether people would be able to obtain enough water to survive within such a market. Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't, but you haven't demonstrated that they would.
Its not mandatory, only if you want to opt into the free 5000 stellar for proving you aren't a bot.
How do I delete my HN profile and all submissions permanently?
I have seen at least 3-4 cycles of travel companies going bankrupt in as little as the last decade. The general attitude is that they think once they acquire monopoly by offering cheaper fares, then they can charge what ever they feel like.

But the story always is every time they get close to even say 5-10% of the market share some launches a competing service. By then you have lost too much money to make any thing meaningful out of it.

>>We have a reached a stage where rickshaws and cabs are competing for the same market segment, within the city.

If money isn't a concern for you, then that is true. But for anything less than 40 km of travel or a 4 hour hire, Autos will win by a big margin.
I've always been a bit nervous about those "speed is enforced by aircraft" signs (as opposed to "monitored"). I always get a mental picture of a aircraft strafing near my car until I slow down...
Next time I get a parking ticket, I'll be sure to investigate the temperature stability of the parking meter's clock.
Never register your domain with the same company / account you have your hosting under. If you keep them independent and something catastrophic happens to your servers you'll still be able point the domain(s) somewhere else. If AWS goes down and takes the control panel with it you won't be able to do anything with your domain.
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As much as people complain about them, I still haven't found a service that matches their reach or ease. Let's face it, PP is a de-facto bank without any of the regulations, requirements or safeguards.
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Lol. Let's cyberbully the new guy
Come on, I know you guys have a few more down votes. Make yourselves proud.
ease of use is still kind of key for me. I pay a lot of people in Europe / Asia and if it weren't for paypal I'd literally have to make a trip to my supermarket Western Union twice a week.
I enjoy this forum as we can have an intelligent discourse. I appreciate your concern for my situation, but remind you that most folks here are pretty smart, so please remember that before calling people brazen and implying they don't know what they are doing.

When we became aware of the patents we consulted with counsel and put a plan in place. I misspoke earlier, for dramatic effect, we are not violating the patent as we haven't entered the US market, and we don't plan to until we've addressed this issue.

Furthermore, my account here is pseudo-anonymous, so you would need some serious google mastery to pull enough information together to make the connections required.
Wouldn't a database be prior art? If a general solution to an entire problem domain exists (in this case, databases solve the general problem of adding computer representable data to a record) and predates a patented application of that general solution to a specific instance, then the general solution seems like a very good candidate for prior art. At least it seems to stand to reason that applying a general solution to a specific domain can't be considered novel. The novel solution is the general one, if it exists. Since the oldest databases have existed much longer than 20 years, it would be impossible for an active patent for a solution within this problem domain to not have prior art.
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Very nice, but:

1) one of the reasons I use a password store is to share passwords with my wife. I can't imagine her using this
2) iPhone? Android?
3) 1password's integration with the browser is very helpful: since I've been using a linux box as my day-to-day machine (where 1password doesn't have a native version), I've been using it significantly less, because it adds friction. On Mac OS, I would just auto-gen a horrific 12-16 character random password for any website, and have it automatically saved to my 1password.

As you might guess, I have high hopes for Mitro, especially if they (well, I guess it's now we) can create a compelling don't-use-their-host story (either hosted, or file-based (eg. dropbox)) and pass at least a cursory security smoke test. :-)
That is an... idiosyncratic... definition of "journalism".
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Riley doesn't apply here.

Riley dealt with the search incident to arrest exception to the warrant requirement under the Fourth Amendment.

In this Microsoft case, law enforcement had a warrant.
I don't think so. Here is my experience so far. For background, I don't run a spam filter at all and host my own mail on a enterprise fiber line that's unlikely to have ISP-level filtering. (If they do have it, it's terrible, since it doesn't even block email that has a certain product targeted at males mentioned in the subject line and spelled correctly.)

I've only seen what would be considered dictionary attempts for four addresses, info@, admin@, sales@, and support@ but only on a few of the domains.

A few years ago I started getting spam at random hexadecimal addresses at two of my domains, such as 72da48ba6@, about two spams per address per day. There turned out to only be ~ 800 unique addresses that were targeted, and so it was easy to block. What I think happened is this case is a address-to-spam-list creator padded his lists manually before selling them to make the list size bigger. I still get email at those 800 addresses, but no new hexadecimal addresses since I blocked the original set.
You dare accuse The Grauniad of inconsistency?

(That'sh Private Eye's job. Ed) http://www.private-eye.co.uk
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my favorite part about this is the "show frames" version of the page. now thats what made this a real 1999 read for me.

edit: from a UX perspective having the frames enabled was actually quite nice. I am sure there are tons of new ways to do this these days with AJAX / JS / CSS but not too shabby.
Have a read of what the author (of the article, not JoshTriplett) has to say about parents who refuse to cure their childrens deafness:

http://meloukhia.net/2014/07/deafness_on_greys_anatomy_again...

"... in an era where it’s possible for hearing loss and deafness to be treated with implants and sophisticated technology, many people are debating whether they should ‘cure’ deaf children ..."

"... The choice of whether to get a Cochlear implant should be in the hands of the individual, not the hearing community. And the conversation about implants within the D/deaf community is a complicated one that hearing people might want to sit down and watch, rather than jumping into, because there’s a lot more going on here than the assumption that hearing loss is a bad thing that needs to be repaired."

My opinion: refusing a procedure to restore hearing to a deaf child for any reason other than medical risk is a form of child abuse, and should lead to criminal charges. And I'm about as far Libertarian as you get.
Every product is cheap replica of something else.

...and often has improvements that are practically useful. There, innovation happens bottom-up, with incremental changes to an existing product, and there's far more design sharing and competition since exclusivity doesn't last.
you just backed him into a corner based on the threat made!
Matt Cutts is a fascist
I appreciate your offer to help, but I won't be providing that detail. But, for the spirit of the discussion assume that it is similar to what the EFF described in their article.

But, to make the exercise a bit more fun!? Don't read the EFF's summary, go read the patent and try to make sense of it. If you were an e-health company how would you work around that patent?
Have you seen cakehealth.com? Haven't tried it myself but like on par with what you describe, even integrates with your insurance directly.
ill send you some if you don't want to use facebook.
Exactly right. It's an apparent violation of Newton's Third Law, unless the photons are pushing against virtual particle pairs as suggested in the article.
haha needed and what they got are entirely two different things. It's unfortunate, but the problem was that because it was a government website, the developers were strictly not allowed to get help, i.e. have someone review it/ask a friend for help/post on stackoverflow/etc.

this probably was the source of the initial failure.
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You are completely correct, in that I have in no way proven that a market in water will provide sufficient quantity for all the residents of any specific (or general) area to live off in the long-term. I have only said that there would be no water use restrictions, or problem of the wells and dams running dry, which are usually described as 'droughts' or 'shortages'.

A very strong case can be made that a market for water would provide enough water for all the individuals to use (in developed areas), as well as resolving the aforementioned issues, but it is impossible to prove on theory alone; we would have to test.
Is it a warrant? They say its a "hybrid."
> Would you rather be counted amount the attrition?

Do I have a choice?
This is what Instagram for Android would look like with Google's Material Design
Why do I need to provide a password to change stuff later? Couldn't you do it just with a text confirmation?
Yes, exactly. When I tell people where they need to send funds, their first question is "do you have a PayPal account?" Western Union, Moneygram and such are all highly inconvenient for both parties.

And services like Stripe aren't an option for me due to their restrictions on use as well https://stripe.com/us/prohibited_businesses

My work covers multiple items on that list. Compare that to PayPal's https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full#9

Edit: I should mention, of Strip's list of "prohibited businesses", nothing I do is illegal or unethical. Just in case I gave that impression.
No funding by giants; not a public company. The SEC rules prevent us from talking further (we're too busy to go to jail for breaking the securities regs), but if you are interested in the business side of the company then you can sign up at MillComputing.com/investor-list; it's a low-traffic mailing list where we announce opportunities.

In heavy semiconductor you don't really move out of "when its done" until the FPGA proof-of-principle is working. That's over a year plus "when it's done" :-)
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I don't think you can. You can scrub your profile of identifiable information, change your password to something random and then forget it, though.
No, you don't have to trust the miners because there are no known collusive schemes that would make more money for that volume of miners than playing by the rules would.

Maybe you think that some scheme will be discovered, but that's pretty speculative at this point. It's been many years and not a whiff of one.
Same here: A friend and I actually batted around the idea of launching reader called "Every 3rd Tweet" -- seems to be a common problem.
Experiments this delicate are very difficult to get right.

And it is very difficult to overstate just how much established physics would have to be scrapped if momentum conservation turned out to be violated. (Just for starters, relativity implies that non-conservation of momentum in one frame must always involve non-conservation of energy in another.) Why would quantum field theory calculations match experiment to ~12 digits of accuracy if its basic foundations were flawed? (Those calculations are affected by literally every possible quantum vacuum effect, so why wouldn't introducing some new set of momentum violating interactions completely throw off the results?)

This is an astoundingly extraordinary claim, and it should thus require tremendously compelling evidence. I'm not at all convinced that these experiments are clean enough or consistent enough to even approach that standard.
I like the way you think. The problem is that it is quite expensive to invalidate a patent. In fact anything to do with a patent is quite expensive, which is part of the problem itself. As to file a strong patent that can't easily be worked around costs a lot of money, so much money in fact that a lot of small companies don't bother. So, it's only bullies and large companies that have patents. While the guys focused on doing the real innovation often don't any.
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I agree the frames are quite nice; they're also the simplest way to get this functionality, and doing it any other way would probably entail far more work and complexity with an end-result that isn't as portable
(e.g. no JS, text-mode browser, etc.)

The content:styling ratio is also a lot higher, and IMHO that's a good thing for this type of content.
I don't see it as an open ticket in issues, you would think that there would be a delete somewhere.
If you haven't seen it, I would recommend checking out Aaron Shell [1], the cross-platform desktop JS runtime environment that Github uses for Atom editor. If your app is mostly frontend JS with an API, porting it should be easy. If the backend is in node.js, porting it will be even easier.

[1] https://github.com/atom/atom-shell
A primary reason for the generally larger, and in some cases, insanely large throw-weights of Soviet nuclear missiles was their much less accurate targeting and guidance systems.

If you can land a nuke, or even a conventional warhead, directly on whatever it is you're trying to make a was, your required explosive yield falls dramatically.

Blast radius and damage increases with the cube of yield, so if you're half as accurate, you need 8x the blast, generally, for effective damage.

Turns out that with extremely high precision warhead delivery, the US can dispense with nuclear weapons even for tasks such as destroying deeply buried and reinforced bunkers (command and control, or missile launch).

On the one hand this makes nuclear Armageddon that much less likely. On the other it makes use of highly advanced weaponry less objectionable.

Which way the risk needle ultimately swings given that calculus is an interesting question.
Weird. What's a hybrid warrant?

Anyway I think your points are well taken in comparing the cases' concepts of the data, property rights, privacy, etc.

I just wanted to clarify that the problem in this case does not appear to be one of constitutional law, as in Riley, but rather international law.

But please correct me if I'm wrong.
wow that list is huge!
Hell, I had no idea that Stripe's prohibited businesses list was so ... massive.

The list runs the gamut from "risky" to "value judgement", and I can't help but wonder how all those items ended up on the same list.
I didn't downvote you, but one reason some people did might be that if all you have to say is "nice read", you can just upvote the post. Downvotes are a way of conveying what sorts of comments the HN community does not see as adding any value to the conversation. (I realize people don't always use them that way, but it's still worth considering that view of it.)
Thanks. So, if anybody reverse engineers the proprietary utility, a virus could be coined that spreads via USB devices and infects thousands of computers and USB sticks and the like. Scary.
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Much of the kernel has changed but a lot of the info on PC hardware is still pretty accurate; e.g. the description of PCI still applies even to PCI-E which is largely backwards-compatible at the software level despite being completely different hardware-wise. (Minor error I noticed in the PCI section: no 8080-based system had ISA, that and the fixed I/O port assignments started with the 8088 in the IBM PC; or more precisely the 286-based PC/AT.)
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It doesn't matter what evidence comes to light really, they have a huge internet propaganda machine going 24/7 right now that will come here and tell you the truth about how this was actually manufactured by the CIA. Lots of hand-wavy questions will commence.
If you watch the Belt talk on our site, and know how a modern OOO machine works on the inside, then you will recognize that the Belt is a forwarding network, sometimes also called a bypass. There is no RAM, "S" or otherwise, no general registers, and no ports.

Bypasses are nothing new; what is novel is how we are able to handle triple the number of data paths than other machines, the fact that the bypass is exposed to the program rather than being hidden behind the register metaphor, and that the program model is a single-assignment FIFO. See those talks for more.

There is no better way to speed up registers and SRAM than by having none at all.
PG wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226.
> And the US population isn't fast growing, its projected to reach 438 million by 2050.

That's fast growing to me.
You may want to point that the binary is for Linux.
All I can think is "insider trading", you know, the crime that if we plebians were caught doing we'd be in jail, but Congresscritters and those in their ecosystem can do with impunity. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions.
The gateways will be targeted for regulation until they are no different than modern banks.
No kidding. Pretty weird to see a post on the front page with non-zero upvotes and no comments.
I guess it depends on what one's of "high" is with respect to false positives. I think he's arguing that the costs associated with these false positives are such that even an "extremely low" absolute number (like one in a thousand) is unacceptable.

Consider, for example, if airplanes carried tens of thousands, rather than hundreds, of passengers. Then our acceptable false positive rate may change by an order of magnitude.
No, clearly their single experience in life should speak for everyone else. /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7871180

Notice the questions I asked.
If this is independent of the refining into gas, then all's well with your math.

I think we agree ... that if there's less gas being refined, then there's less energy being used to do that ... if and only if gas refining is independent of refining into all the other products. If, on the other hand, refining into the other products efficiently ends up making gas anyway, then that's different.
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I like the ability to darken or lighten the UI but I absolutely hate working with their non-native, wildly inconsistent UI.

And I hate the rounded corners options in the size panel now.