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> But she was a "criminal"

I work for a company that provide Electronic Monitoring (EM) services to jurisdictions. This system is used to track participants and make sure they go where they are supposed to go and stay out of where they aren't supposed to go. Recently my company has been in talks to expand our surveillance of participants to monitor/record all their calls (we give them a phone), record their SMS's, record their web and app history, etc.

I am strongly opposed to this as I see it as a huge privacy violation but management sees it as "They are criminals", "The alternative is prison", and "It's our phone, we will do what we want". One senior member even went as far to say (when I brought up my opposition) "Don't worry about the ethics/morality, just do it" which really pisses me off.

I really hate this attitude of anyone convicted of crime being sub-human and not deserving of privacy. This cuts me especially deep because I was told when I signed on that one of the reasons we give them a semi-new android phone is so they can use it for web browsing and apps to help them get back on their feet (find a job/house) and that we want to treat people with dignity. Monitoring everything they do makes that statement a complete lie in my book and I really want nothing to do with it. I will continue to push back but does anyone have any good arguments to the points they are making? I have obtained a copy of the contract participants sign and as it stands right now this extended monitoring is NOT something they consent to (mind you they could just update the contract and get them to sign the updated version).
In my case I have a part-time job, and study full-time. Everything I earn just goes to gas and food. There is no savings in my case.
i've only just got myself back into a position where saving is possible. so only a few months
But I like being an artifact of ancient times.
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Assuming it's good work-- who else might be able to use this? Can you recycle/adapt/leverage what you've done for another client?
The bulk of the criticism from rational people that I hear is due to the "but they do need to adapt" argument. Flagrantly violating the law just because you want the law to change is not the proper way to do this. If Airbnb wanted to form this industry and generate revenue for cities and offer protections for renters, rentees, and residents in the buildings the units reside in, they would attempt to change the law through legislature. The fact that they simply keep raking in profits from users obviously violating the law paints them in a very negative light to any rational resident of a city where Airbnb is illegal.
patience does seem to be in short supply these days, but it's not just a vague belief that should drive the entrepreneur. it's that you see something the rest of the market has overlooked. it's that you think you have a potentially unfair advantage because of what you know, see, and can do (one that keeps you out of a situation like your username, i might add).

there's a fine line between tenacity and stubbornness (the latter of which is not pretty to watch).
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One minor point of clarification on airline profitability. It wasn't competition that bankrupt them it was government regulation. Airlines were heavily regulated for many years and their ticket prices were set by regulators. Huge incentives were created for executives to not invest in fuel efficient new planes and capital equipment. When labor union contracts exploded with benefits and deregulation came, the legacy airlines could not compete with the new arrivals.

Technically speaking several airlines have remained profitable for many years without going bankrupt. Southwest comes to mind with a 40+ year profitability streak. Even if they went bankrupt now I would consider them a financial success.

I find him an engaging speaker and I'm not even refuting his point, but perhaps a better choice of industries would make his point clearer.
I play pirated copies of games I bought and own on steam because I don't want steam to know how many hours I play my games, when I play them, from what place etc. I consider that is not anyone's business.

Adobe's spyware isn't that different from what gamers have accepted with Steam unfortunately. Will book readers accept it, the way gamers did, or will they fight back? Unlike video games, there are alternatives, that are still popular (buying books on paper). I don't ever intend on spending any $ on a drm'd book when I can have it on paper for the same price without DRM.
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If you're 65(ish), the answer needs to be "the rest of your life."
A perfect tool, this is great!
Oh look, an example of the exact thing the original article is talking about, down to the unsourced accusations of DMCA takedowns for censorship.
Interesting - you rate limited your requests, and I multithreaded mine :p (with x10 I downloaded your comments in <3 minutes).

From https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html it looks like the top plan supports 10k concurrent connections, so I suspect the impact is negligable.

Thanks for being an outrageously good resource and beacon of inspiration! You've unknowingly been one of the most influential role models in my career/life: I just relaunched one of my side projects as SaaS last month and it's succeeded beyond my wildest expectations (already at ~$8k YRR). Hopefully I can follow your trajectory and never have to actually work another day in my life :)
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I need some time to figure it out, but the little blue dots are the "air molecules". They bounce against the sail!

I first thought that they were the sea waves, of a nice visual effect, but they are a part of the simulation.
He wasn't an WHO doctor. Grammar nitpicking aside I think "The Doctor Who Discovered..." would have cleared Tom Baker of any affiliation with the disease.
I don't understand what the heck IBM is up to. They have ads with a bunch of cool icons saying stuff about a smarter future world, but I don't know what to make of any of it. Like, "Wouldn't it be great if the doctor came to you before you were sick?" Um, I guess so?
Want to hear a fun story?

You remember dyndns.com ? Well, it used to be a small app run literally from a dorm room at WPI. Well, after a while, it became one of the largest dynamic DNS providers in the world, and router manufacturers around the world started supporting it in the UI. Dyndns used to provide an address (an olden-days plaintext web API of sorts) to check the external IP of a router. Eventually, manufacturers realized that even if they didn't have a deal with dyndns or even formally support them, they can use their IP address to check the router WAN IP. Major manufacturers like linksys and d-link (I think, don't take my word for it) jumped on the bandwagon and everyone started pinging the crap out of that page and if they took it down, these routers would break in interesting ways. So they built it up and kept it running.

That API runs to this day, at checkip.dyndns.org.

edit: Today that company is dyn.com, bootstrapped pretty much all the way, and provides DNS to twitter, etsy, fastly, the guardian etc.
The raise was leaked a month ago: today is the confirmation.
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It's also pretty easy to ignore a paper contract... until you get caught. Then, the level of triviality of circumvention doesn't mean crap in court.
> if the program containing (symbol-name x) and (cos x) works in an interpreter but not in the compiler then the compiler is broken.

The compiler isn't broken.

The interpreter throws an exception, which meets your own definition of "works".

The compiler gives an opinion "x has an inconsistent type". In this manner, the code also "works" in the compiler.

You can still run the program if you like; then that opinion becomes an exception if an input case exercises the code, proving the compiler's opinion right.

Compilers for dynamic languages do not preserve all interpreted behaviors. This is usually explicitly rejected as a goal: users must accept certain conventions if they want code to behave the same in all situations.

For instance, some Common Lisp implementations re-expand the same macros during evaluation, which is friendly toward developers when they are modifying macros. But in compilation, macros are expanded once.

Usually these compilation-interpretation discrepancies are obscure; we are not talking about obscure features here. It's a basic tenet of type checking in a compiler that it will flag things that will throw type-related exceptions at run time. You cannot say that type checking compilers for dynamic languages are simply not allowed because type mismatches are well-defined behavior; that's simply outlandish.
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This Skype use case really interests me a lot, as I have to use it professionally and do not trust this application at all and would like to limit it to a bare minimum: microphone, webcam, screen and one single folder for file exchange.

I never tried Docker, but I wonder, if this requirements can be achieved with SeLinux or AppArmor as they are supported by many distributions and are around longer than Docker?

Would be great to be able to tighten the corset around any non open-source application, to make sure it is not siphoning data.
A little less than 3 years (which is the same amount of time I've been working full-time) if I give up the rent for my apartment and get a single room in the same city (Padua, Italy, for the sake of information).
html5 export (based on canvas) will work on all modern browsers anyway, svg+smil is just icing on the cake
Nope, all drawing tools and SVG SMIL animation export are custom made.
> Of course, I could be completely wrong, and missing a great alternative service.

AppNeta TraceView is an alternative to New Relic: http://www.appneta.com/products/traceview/

Disclosure: I work for AppNeta.
Ha! A) Because I love Double-Doubles. B) Because it's more than 2 year old (before there really was a hamburger icon on Android). It's completely redesigned in the next version, though.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been to a few actually (for bitcoin and spanish practice) and they were a lot of fun, but they never led to any deep friendships like those I used to have. Maybe I'm going to the wrong ones, or alternatively, it's possible I'm just not a very likable person.
These all-in-one cards are expensive, and in an awkward space between traditional plastic cards and technologies like Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

I really can't see these things taking off.
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If this story were about prostitutes, it would be read differently.
Are we including cashing out a 401k/IRA in these results?
Possibly.

Or they'd have the FBI come after him for attempted extortion.
> case law isn't precisely explicit

Huh? Of course it is - the case I'm referencing (Crowninshield v. Blaisdell) is explicitly regarding the classification of short term rentals. The courts found them to be residential, not commercial (which makes sense, if it's a residential short term rental).
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hmm, where? we don't use svg-edit nor any other tools
> 2. They got 6.1M in funding. I am not from the startup "funding" ilk, but that sounds like a ridiculously high number to me. What could they possibly be building that requires that much capital? The site and premise of it now is fairly simple to implement and code. Perhaps they have grand plans that are way above my head?

The only thing I can think of is competing with AngelList as it operates in a neighboring market with alot of customer overlap.

People interested in VC, Startups, Jobs @ Startups.
> No. The proportional list system prevents representativeness. The people whose name is on the list represent the one that put them on it. They do not represent the electors.

Then I'm not sure what you mean. That you don't like standard representational democracy, whereby voters grant power to politicians for a limited timeframe but cannot control directly what they do during this time?

> > Separation of powers: not happening in Spain. The most voted political party in the legislative elections forms government.

> > That's not how separation of power works...

> Exactly. I was explaining what happens in Spain.

That's the same thing elsewhere. What do you expect to see instead?
> The electors should have a contract with their representative and if they are not loyal to that contract they can be ceased.

That's definitely an idea, though it seems tricky to put in place.

> It makes sense if you think about the different characteristics that you look for in a legislator in contrast to the values required to be a president. A legislator should be loyal to their representatives (a part) whereas what you are looking in a governor is intelligence to guide the Nation (all). It is nonsense to think that a good legislator could be a good PM (UK). Loyalty vs intelligence, that's why it should be different elections.

I expect that legislator look to their conscience first (if they can find it...) and to their party second. I also contest the underlying idea that an election campaign is a test of intelligence.
Also, with consolekit you could use any number of inits. Drop logind on top of anything but systemd and it will simply refuse to function.

Meaning that if any of the older inits balk you can bring up the system piecemeal manually and get to town figuring out why it balked.

There are a number of experiences documented on G+ and forums of systemd getting into a deadlock, with no useful error messages, and where it can't be brought up piecemeal for diagnosis as everything relies on systemd running as pid1.

That is the kind of boot time Russian roulette that MS products have been lambasted for in the past.
The research group within IBM that's working on the question and answer portion of Watson is called DeepQA. You can check out lots of information about the team, including publications, at http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpa...
It's also expensive. I'm sure it's worth it from all I've heard, but it's unlikely I'll ever have the money for hobby work.
Here's a problem that makes it difficult to answer. I make money off my brain. One way to totally cut off all possible labor income would be a massive stroke. But massive strokes are kinda expensive.

If I don't have a stroke but perma-lose all income (uh, why?), I'm a pretty smart dude and will find ways to live rather cheaply. Can I spend 4 hours a day in my garden and 4 hours a day fishing as long as I don't sell the proceeds for cash? Move the family into mother in law's basement, and go all viking on the wilderness bringing in produce and hunted/fished animals? That might stretch me out quite a bit, like until I have a medical incident or my clothes wear out?

If I do have a stroke, I assure you my uncle-in-law's assisted living facility would drain my savings dry quite a bit quicker at the $8500/month facility he is currently at (actually Alzheimers not stroke, but its the same argument in the end). He will soon be going state aid, then again hes a couple years older than his brothers and sisters who died of unrelated causes, so who knows. But as a young-ish dude my family would go bankrupt in only a couple years, best case perhaps. This is assuming no unpaid medical bills (well, sorry we don't cover that particular thing even through we say we do in writing, and yes that is a valid charge that we do cover but we were hoping to fool you into not noticing and paying that, all stuff the medical industrial complex is famous for).

Worst case I guess would be having a stroke the day after medical insurance expires due to no employement/income stream. Then it would be insta-bankrupcty of course.
The copy to a clipboard has a few elements to it.

1. If you right click on an object in the console, you can store it as a global variable. This makes an exact copy of the object that is in the global scope.

2. They used $_ which is a shortcut to get the result of the last command. So in the example, temp9 was the last command, so $_ is a copy of temp9

3. The important bit is the copy(var) call. This will copy any var into your clipboard!

Hopefully this was helpful!
Well, this is a bit difficult because I'm not sure whether or not you're talking about maintaining your current standard of living or not.

For example, I have enough in my savings account to maintain my current standard of living for 6 months. I have enough in an investment account to maintain another 6 months after that. So I answered 1 year.

However, I live in an apartment in Manhattan and pay $2400 a month in rent. If I were seriously hard up and didn't see any good prospects for finding employment in the future, I could move to Oklahoma or Nebraska or somewhere super cheap and find a place for less than $600 a month, which would extend my savings at least another 6 months (depending on when I decided to make the move).

I'm also 20 years younger than you and have only recently started investing (in the last 5 years).

Looking at my own retirement plans, it's estimated that I'll need about $1.8 million in savings to retire the way I want. For most people, the number seems to be between $1-2 million. So if you're wondering if you've saved enough for retirement, I'd judge it by those numbers.

Also, at your age, I'd suggest talking to an actual professional that can help you plan for retirement. Companies like Fidelity have people who can help you compare how much money you have to how much money you'll need, and also help you figure out how much money you'll need based on your expected lifestyle.
"Show HN" is for showing your own work.

It's not for submitting cool products you find, like PH is. People would hate it if "Show HN" turned into Product Hunt, and the submitters weren't always behind what was being shown there.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sail#Close_hauled

Thanks for making this. As a teenager I used to sail competitively and this brings good memories. Sailing close hauled under decent wind was incredibly fun.
As Bill makes clear-WePay Clear isn't about fraud protection-we've always been managing risk. It's offering fraud protection, risk mitigation with a white label payments platform-that's a first in payments.

WePay specializes in two-sided applications-where you have buyers and sellers and you're moving money between them. There's a lot more to fraud than a bad credit card. See my other post RE: fraud.
That's sweet! Kinda hard to tack tho.
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Nice. Could you add bitbucket support too?
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IE is probably waiting for Web Animations 1.0 and SVG 2 to be finalized first.
constructively reacting to stress

Can you expand on that point?
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"so that sellers on platforms do not need to create a WePay account"
So then how does the seller get the money?
Confused.
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You probably used Firefox + Firebug and couldn't believe you used to do development without them.

Before Firefox + Firebug though? Well, you probably have suppressed the memories about using alert() calls for debugging through your tears. :-)
Leaking to where? By using the internet you're leaking [meta]data. It's a question of degrees and trust.
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Any chance we could get GitLab/generic Git (even just from commit author) support?
I would say be careful to not be directed by the trolls. Real trolls are good at directing all of us to attack the innocent. Thus while you may feel like you are "stopping" someone, you may in fact be attacking the wrong target. Look at what happened with Reddit and the Boston Marathon Bomber.

Some trolls love to create these vortexes ... it was the end-game for them all along. So ... if the person being attacked is a public person, I would say tread lightly. If both are anonymous ... perhaps simply getting into thread "thought defense" is not wise and should be avoided?

There are trolls on HN that have very high karma and yet are anonymous accounts. We (in the technical community) need to pause when we allow for that type of power that can be used against others.
I guess they do via sponsored hunt in a newsletter!
Screenhero is amazing. I'm using it all the time for pairing these days.
Human psychology still has a strong component of tribal culture in it. That's why "us vs them" works so well in politics, even though you'd think in our civilized society it'd be a completely ineffective argument.

Right now, you're against the tribe. Not only that, but the tribe's position is cemented by financial interests and people at the top whose job is to make sure that things stay the way they are.

When I've been in situations like that before, it always ended up in the "dissident" employees being dismissed, shut up, or fired.

I'd tell you to speak your mind about this issue during an all hands meeting, and conclude your tirade by "I quit this company", but not everyone can afford to pull off a stunt like this.
The homepage is the only one with a signup page. Everything else is accessible directly.

e.g. http://raymondsfood.cucumbertown.com/
If you mean a two-round first-past-the-post system, it works about the same as a one-round system. This is what got Jacques Chirac elected with 82% of the votes in France in 2002 in the second round. Whatever the number of rounds, it's a broken system designed to favour the two main parties.
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