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Wow. First, you are claiming the Constitution grants rights. Who, exactly, has the power to "grant rights?" Do you think the people who wrote that document gave themselves that power, or even thought that they could?

Second, you think the Framers thought they were limiting rights to US citizens. When did the Constitution first even mentioned the notion of citizenship?
What is the y-axis supposed to represent in the graph? Not to nitpick, but a y-axis title would be helpful.

EDIT: I assume it represents Napoleon's army. If so, that spike in December is interesting, and presumably represents reinforcements?
It seems to me quite analogous to electrons through parallel resistors.
FedEx and UPS (and DHL, OnTrac, et al.) are private companies. They have the authority to open your package at any time for any reason, with few exceptions.

If I gave you a box and asked you to give it to someone else, you have the legal right to open it up and do whatever you want to it. The most I could do is sue you, civilly, for breaking a defined contract if one was in place, but for the most part I'd be limited to calling you names.
The best part is that it's an open design : https://github.com/kenkawakenkenke/tempescope/wiki/Make-a-Te...
This article seems a bit speculative. They don't seem to know for sure that "(A/B/C)" means American companies in this case. Everything else just seems like commentary from themselves and other security experts.

As for foreign companies, it's pretty obvious that NSA and CIA have been conducting operations like these for many decades.

I'm not going to argue that the NSA has not subverted American companies before (see DUAL_EC_DRBG), but this does not provide definitive proof that they're actively infiltrating homeland companies with human spies.
I was one of those kids that read that the original Bell jetpack used Hydrogen Peroxide with a silver catalyst for "fuel". I tried it on the peroxide I bought from the drug store and it didn't work. So I figured "oh it just needs to be more concentrated." My friend and I built a pretty crude still and about 10 gallons of 5% hydrogen peroxide. I don't know what the concentration was when we finished, but I do remember trying to pour some into a steel pipe which was to be our "tank" for our test rocket. To say that I was startled by the pipe being yanked out of my hand by the steam exploding out of its end would be an understatement :-) We spent the rest of the afternoon "blowing up" ant hills in the desert by pouring like a quarter up of our distillate on to them.
I don't know about his university, but I figured you might be interested in this too.

We have a '+15' system in downtown Calgary such that most of the core office towers are connected on the second floor. Parts of the first two floors of most buildings are open to the public, and tend to be commercial space.

Reading the Wikipedia page, it seems some people have been wondering if they're making the streets less vibrant, but quite frankly even if they were, the enclosed walkways would still be worth it for winter. It can get brutally cold on the Canadian prairies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B15
I wonder if they're subverting open source encryption software.
not for retrieving the juicy data inside the spreadsheet as objects.
@jancurn lost 8000 photos -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8101579
The thing is, they are talking about an international push by international athletes to break world records and the 2h limit. It takes data about events in many countries and while US recognise SI system still manage to convert everything to imperial units.

I am wondering if that's wise in such an international context, when not talking about a subject taking place only in US and affecting only US citizen.

I mean, even US citizens learn the International standard at school so why not constantly use to it when it's clearly appropriate (international sport, athletes and events places)?
> The sync heavy lifting in Dropbox is handled by librsync, or at least was at one point.

Nope, highly custom process that involves librsync very little. The sophistication of what has to be done to solve this problem well would probably surprise you.
That Wikipedia article doesn't say you can't prosecute, it just says that government workers are immune unless they reasonably should have known they were violating the constitution. The FBI know they need warrants, it's got to be FBI 101.

When you take the stand in court you are an individual giving testimony though. The rule of law means that if you perjure yourself you should be tried.
I actually condone a lot of the NSA's activities, but I take serious issue with:

-Warantless surveillance of US citizens (this is bad whether it's by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, or anyone).

-Infiltration of foreign companies in allied or neutral nations purely for economic or geopolitical insight, not for military purposes (Brazil's Petrobras oil company, all sorts of spying in Germany and Norway and other places).

Personally I'm all for the kind of operations they're conducting in Iran and China, as these countries have been doing the same to us and to others for a long time. But they've become far too greedy in their desire for information domination and power, to the point where there is clearly no line that shouldn't be crossed. To them, if anything anywhere in the world is open for exploitation or surveillance, then they feel like they have a right to use it.
Lacan argues that this perception, that there is an inexpressible, ineffable something which can't be captured by a limited conceptual system, is itself a product of that system. The male/female binary scheme produces the experience of being more than simply one or the other.

From this perspective, the best way to support a diversity of self-definitions is by providing fewer options, not more. Facebook only lets you make one kind of connection to other people, the "Friend". As a result, two people being Facebook Friends has many different possible interpretations. No one believes it means you are friends.
Qubole offers Presto as a Service with a free trial (http://www.qubole.com) with a bunch of interesting enhancements for the cloud. We've found Presto to be a great engine for realtime queries over large datasets.
Okay, let the criticism begin. But I would have fired him for emailing this to "thousands of co-workers". I suspect that the mail system will shortly be changed to prevent this from happening again.

It's beyond naive to suggest that WFC wave a magic wand and give $10,000 raises to each of 263,500 people. The following proverb comes to mind:

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

When my teenagers wish for money to fall out of the sky for their latest object of desire, I tell them that I want a pony and a money tree. They've never gotten me the pony, but they did make a little money tree for me one year. So perhaps there's hope that WFC will meet this guy half way? :)
This reminds me poker push-fold strategy. Push-fold is the late stages of poker tournaments where the chip stacks in relations to the blinds are so small, that your only options are to go all-in or fold.

You can either play the "equilibrium" where your play is non-exploitable and yields neutral expectation (this is done by using a push-fold chart). Or you can play "exploitably" where your play tries to predict patterns in the opponent to gain a positive expectation.

The difference between this and rock-paper-scissors though is it involves more factors (3 choices vs 169 starting hands + push-or-fold), and a little bit of short-term chance. Though of course if you run bot vs bot 1,000,000 times, it'll be pretty clear which is superior.
I think this calls for an aggressively distributed, user-controlled backup system. Perhaps tahoe lafs based.
A plain English reading of the Constitution certainly says so. It is addressed TO the federal government FROM the people. So it is incorrect to speak of "constitutional rights." In fact, the BoR goes as far as to say it's not a list of rights and that rights have no bounds.

Now find me a lawyer who reads the Constitution this way.
> Jessica's biggest regret was squandering her time in college, not learning as much as she wishes she had.

This is also my regret. As much as I want to say doing more internship and building more personal projects and contributing to more open source projects are useful today, dedicate more time on studying the material instead of saying "no one will care if you know how to write quicksort" or "I will learn them in my job anyway" is absolutely a requirement.

I also regret not able to do more internships...
Right, and I hope nobody thinks Russia or China are saints, because they use their technical abilities to suppress dissent in frightening ways.

While there's definitely a cyber war going on, you have to ask, why isn't the NSA actively disseminating knowledge to Americans on how to secure themselves? Why are they instead actively weakening encryption standards? America companies have the most to lose from weak encryption. It just doesn't add up, and the American people have enough confidence to call their government out, unlike countries who have allowed themselves to become pretty enslaved by their government, like China and Russia.

In summary, the NSA should participate in the global cyber intelligence war by educating the American public, instead of weakening them.
The 4th is a complex one. There's a full flowchart here:

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256

The rule most relevant to this case is found here:

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2210

Essentially, you don't have standing to challenge a seizure for abandoned property and one way you can abandon property is by denying ownership.
It's not all that speculative - it agrees what was in prior leaks that claim that American companies are routinely infiltrated. Also remember that the authors of these articles have read huge volumes of Snowden documents have have not been publicly released and that the security experts (likely referencing Schneier here) are not just guys working in private industry. If you work in the security space you very quickly begin to interoperate with past- and current- military and government personnel. Schneier testifies as an expert witness on these things before congress and Greenwald is an ex-Constitutional lawyer. In short they have the pedigree to make these assertions.

For the record I don't agree with the parent. I think the important thing about this document is that it lays out the broad tactical tools used in US cyberintelligence strategy. It's handing off some major tactical playbook material.
Dropbox is generally known for reliability in the face of competitors, however issues like this one and the highly embarrassing "anyone can login to anyone else's account" bug of 2011 definitely cast some doubt on using it as a sole storage option, or a solution to store any sensitive data.

Most medium-sized and large companies refuse to touch Dropbox due to these reasons, especially in the financial and medical space.

That said, I still employ it for personal use and like the product in general.
Most certainly 100% yes. Here's a pretty swell talk on some of the programs they use to do it.

http://mirror.as35701.net/video.fosdem.org//2014/Janson/Sund...
So, the appeal of transducers is plug-and-play fusion. Like, it takes quite a bit of work to get newly created non-list types to fuse correctly in Haskell (that being said: you can do it in Haskell, which is kind of amazing considering how ridiculously impossible this is in almost every toolset, and popular libraries already have, which is also amazing). Transducers get you stream fusion for e.g. channels in a close-to-free way (you define the stepping function, you get takeWhile, partition-by, etc. all for free, so it's O(1) instead of O(n)-O(n^2) to figure out all the combos you want to stream together).

EDIT: _part_ of the appeal. The other is concisely describing things like takeWhile in a way that's both polymorphic and doesn't require multiple implementations. Good refactor motivation in general, happens to have the above property, which is good.
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I think its not about paying someone $10 for a review of an app.Instead the real deal should be to make someone pay $10 for some idea/app.
Test your reflexes with this game
Its sad, but people are idiots. A degree is only about existing knowledge and keeping the status quo, not about "innovation".

Create a phony degree, someone who doesn't check backgrounds will hire you, and then your life will improve.
As somebody with more experience with Haskell and Scala than Clojure - how to Transducers differ from Functors in Haskell?

On the surface they seem very similar.
One amazing thing about consciousness is that it turns off and on. Consciousness is not a necessary consequence of what goes on in the brain: it is configurable! Where is the "I", the "self", when I sleep a dreamless sleep?
and I think that is what he(brutally honest) is trying to do as well.
A good reminder that Dropbox is not a backup client, and should not be relied on for backups, any more than RAID should be.
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The five-option "Rock-paper-scissors-Sheldon-Spock" version would be more fun.
President Obama says he opposes Internet fast lanes
Transducers allow the abstraction of algorithmic transformations independent from the input and output, and even the process of iteration.

Whereas lodash operates on arrays and objects calculating intermediate results, transducers simply define the transformation in terms of functions similar to what you pass reduce: start with a memo, execute a function with a memo and an item, return the possibly transformed memo for the next iteration. Once you abstract the transformation away from the data, you can apply the same transformations to different processes that start with an initial value and step through a result. One benefit is that you can compute the result in one pass (without intermediate results). Another is you can use the same transformation in different contexts (lazy lists, indefinite sequence generation, CSP, event streams, etc.).

The source could be anything that produces a sequences of values: streams, iterators, callbacks, immutable-js, etc. You simply have to define (external to the transducer) how you append each item to the supplied result. The "step function" that knows how to append results to values is passed to the transducer, and the transducer executes the step function when reducing over results.

It's interesting you mention lodash in the context of transducers, as I have been developing my own take on transducers closely following the underscore API [1].

[1]: https://github.com/kevinbeaty/underscore-transducer
Unfortunately this article misses the third of the three components to improve endurance performance, which is lactate production rate (indicator for fat burning: the lower the more energy is produced by burning fat).

Two athletes with the same VO2max and efficiency can have vastly different performances in a marathon. The body's VO2max potential can be used by solely burning carbs, which supply is limited (about 2000 kcal) whereas fat supply is practically unlimited (1 kg has about 7000 kcal. As a marathon requires more energy than is available as stored carbs, the ability to burn fat is a major factor in marathon performance.
I hate the "only poor people take the bus" vile bullshit prejudice and I've seen it here on Hacker News as well.

"America" however is not one environment and is INCREDIBLY diverse. There are places such as you've described in the US as well. Not everywhere has such prejudice against public transit too. However I believe as a whole the US is (or at least was) moving in general to a society that revolves around the automobile.

I'll tell you the absolute worst part of not being in an automobile is for me (as a woman) - the form of street harassment where assholes either beep at you or yell comments at you out the window going by. This has been a huge issue for me in every American city I ever lived in. Somehow people think this is appropriate behavior. It makes me not want to walk in a walkable area.
Nice game to test reflexes.
No comments? The video is only 93 second long, so it's easy to watch.

The car does 0-60 in 3.6 seconds with 3 people on board. That's impressive.

I'd think owning a Tesla would be an "aspirational goal" here on HN. I know that if I were in a startup and got a 7-figure exit from being acquired or acqui-hired, this car would be high on my list of toys to buy.
Challenge of the week: interesting quantities associated with Markov chains
Yeah, rsync != bidirectional sync.
Handle multiple AWS accounts conveniently using AWSma
Actually, the evidence suggests that a narrow four lane road is better than a wide four lane highway when it comes to roadway user safety.

But we should get rid of highways downtown. We should make all streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists (which will in turn make them safer for motorists).
Dropbox should have understood that people are using it as a backup service. I mean carousel and other use cases sort of ebcourage and imply this. With that in mind, it baffling they didn't have any proper backups for user data.
Is there a template for a letter or a tutorial to challenge the debt?
I reviewed the legal argument that the CTIA made in favor of disallowing end users from unlocking phones and it turns out I was mistaken and you are correct.
Oh nobody thinks they are saints. I hope not.

> they use their technical abilities to suppress dissent in frightening ways

I'm just going to mention so called "Fusion Centers", which have been used to investigate and disrupt the organization of The Tea Party movement and Occupy Wall Street but spare my usual rant. No it does not compare to Russia or China.

Oh and I'm also going to link this: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

And this: http://minerva.dtic.mil/

> NSA threatening domestic jobs, companies, individuals, and most of all innocents, that leads to an upset.

The NSA's view, and in fact several of the last presidential offices, is that these programs and capabilities are important for the country because they give American companies and domestic jobs a leg up.

"The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances." - NSA Mission Statement

A good example is the hacking of Brazilian PETROBOL (PETROBRAS?). Or actually, here's a firstlook link: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/05/us-governments...

> While there's definitely a cyber war going on, you have to ask, why isn't the NSA actively disseminating knowledge to Americans on how to secure themselves?

Because it is essentially impossible to secure yourself on the internet. This isn't a fine point. It's a blanket fact.

> Why are they instead actively weakening encryption standards?

They have a concept called "NOBUS" which means that the weaknesses they introduce should only be exploitable by them. DUAL_EC_DRBG, the goto example of an NSA backdoor, is a perfect example of NOBUS.

> In summary, the NSA should participate in the global cyber intelligence war by educating the American public, instead of weakening them.

Oh I agree. Actually if you look back Clinton and first term Bush era they kept proclaiming that there was a cyber intelligence war but it never really caught on. So they made it about 'cyber terrorists'. Nobody caught on. They made it about actual terrorists. Now we listen. I do hope that investments are made in defensive capabilities rather than offensive. The Obama administration released a series of strategic documents funding longer term research into the protection of domestic computer networks, programs and technologies. But right now you can't play the game of cyber intelligence war without attacking. When it comes to hacking, the attacker always wins. Just playing defense is a losing game.

> The NSA's actions since 9/11 have been more consistent with a power grab than any authentic desire to empower & protect Americans.

This has been going on much longer than since 9/11. PREDATOR and MAINWAY are examples of programs that existed years before the 9/11 attacks.
You wrote this from your car, didn't you?
Ask HN: Resources for learning business side of startup ( new company )??
I am deep in technical things and have little or less knowledge of business side of start-up.

What are your resources to learn business side or must know things e.g.

- Finance
- Accounting
- Sales and Marketing
- Taxes
- Operations

Kindly list any or all of your go to resources for deep knowledge of Finance and Sales. Everything else will follow I believe.

Let's create one master thread as I can't seem to find easily in historical posts. Assume that only one to three person will be running the start-up ( or new business ) for few months and knowledge of basic items that they should have.

Your comments are welcome and don't forget to link the resources you already use.
The defense wasn't arguing that the FBI didn't have the right to fuzz the captcha. They were arguing that the FBI was not being honest about how they had located the server IP, and that they found it by some other means that they may not have had the legal authority to use at the time. That's why the defense was asking for permission to cross-examine the FBI. They wanted to try to pick holes in the FBI's story. If they could show that IP had been obtained illegally, then they could challenge the subsequent search as well and try to get all of the evidence thrown out.

Also, the article specifically states that the defense could have "claimed" the server as part of their motion to suppress evidence in such a way that the claim could not have been used as evidence against Ulbricht.
Amazon's Brick-and-Mortar Store Shouldn't Come as a Surprise
High score of 1450. Yeah it's a little hard in the rush mode.
HN is generally more pro automobile so your stance is not "controversial" by the ethos here. I believe posts are getting downvoted because they are needlessly attacking. Your logical flaws don't help either.
Isn't the desktop sync client built around the csync tool? http://www.csync.org
No, they address that in the article. There was a way under the law that the defense could have "claimed" the server for the purpose of their motion to suppress that couldn't then be used against them during trial.
You can't report death threats against someone else to Twitter
Yes, apples to oranges, but if we use total energy requirement and duration of a competition as indicator, than a typical road cycling race requires much more endurance than a marathon.

This is a classic one-day race, > 5000 kcal, > 6 hours.

http://www.srm.de/news/road-cycling/amstel-gold-race/
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I read the entire article with the hopes that company names would be mentioned. Let's see who took cash to weaken encryption. Let's see who helped the government create back doors. That would have made this article stand out. But alas it contained more of the same things we already knew or assumed was going on.

Here's hoping for next time.
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