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Right, and while the act of being indicted means very little. In most jurisdictions, a prosecutor has the sole ability to present fact and evidence to the grand jury. There is no defense. Thus the common saying amount prosecutors that they could "indict a ham sandwich for the murder of a pig."

But the documentation produced by the indictment is very important. I contains testimony, evidence, and large portions of the investigation. It's almost always the defense's first target of attack.

If I were Ulbricht, I would hammer at that Fourth Amendment violation. He's put forth motions, but his lawyers never did the investigatory legwork needed to win the motion. Winning such a motion requires a very tight focus on the particularities of the case, and so on can see the smallest of violations, like through a brick wall for a tiny crack of sunlight.

I would ask, in no particular order:

How exactly did the the FBI get the images of the Silk Road servers?

What is the timeline of the various events in the investigation leading up to Ubricht's arrest?

Did the gmail screen name lead them to the Stack Overflow post which led to the MLAT, which led to the server?

Or did this, as they said later, somehow "expose" the Silk Road IP, and back track the rest of the evidence.

Were any other intelligence agencies involved? Was any form of backbone collection use to reveal the SR IP?

Mainly I would do this, because if he doesn't win a Fourth Amendment motion to dismiss he's going to jail for a very very long time.
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Perhaps because everyone who cares/matters already knew, there isn't really a point in denying or hiding it anymore.

A month or two ago some journalist accidentally said it on air if I remember correctly.
I'm not disagreeing with you; but this is not an argument in favour of going further down this road by using a bracelet instead.
This is exactly what we are doing now. Thanks for the feedback though. In case you liked the demo and would like to share the real info about yourself, feel free to mail me about it. hello at horntell dot com. :)
I've programmed on an IBM 360 in FORTRAN :-) so I knew they had computers. NASA has always been one of the big US government buyers of computer technology. The technology they had to work with on the ground was certainly relatively more sophisticated than what they could fit into the spacecraft and expect to run reliably.
I went through the same, was interviewed at Google and for AWS. This was after a short 2-year sprint running my own start-up. I wrote my story here (including how I am dealing with the side-effects, some of which you mention). Part 4 is still in the pipeline, but I should be ready to release it soon. http://www.lemiffe.com/truncated-dreams-1/
Looks nice! That said, SQL in this case is just a way to look at data. Given that most network devices (and printers and UPSs and ...) in existence use SNMP, it would be nice to have an (SQL?) engine which would query devices via SNMP in background... If I understand correctly, this solution is tied to servers only.
Right...

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ntakasaki

Every third or so link you posted has 'microsoft' in it.

As for me confusing HN and YC, I'm quite aware of the difference between the two and as far as I know I didn't confuse them in the least. Lots of start-up people frequent HN, YC related founder or not they are better off using what is most cost effective for them. This will rarely translate to 'microsoft'.

Hosting is almost never the biggest cost for a start-up, but it can be the biggest cost for a larger company, which is what most start-up aim to become.

$50K for hosting through 'Azure' or some other cloud company typically translates into a few grand from a dedicated hosting provider, by far the most cost effective hosting solution available to start-ups and successful companies alike.

Thanks for not making this personal.
I wish we lived in a society where people weren't pressured into "publically acknowledge" their sexual orientation just because it's different than the norm. You don't see heterosexual CEOs publically acknowledging they are banging their wife, why should it be different for other sexual orientations? Just let everyone be.
While everyone already knew, the act of public announcement is one of great meaning and catharsis. Coming out is an important event for a gay person, and for a prominent person such as Tim Cook, for our society as well. As an ally, congratulations for having the courage to be who you are.
Thanks. Photoscan's worth checking out - there's a few people doing large spaces with drones, as well as the usual object scans you mention. See http://www.agisoft.com/community/showcase/ They've done churches, cliffs, and whole valleys before: http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanis...

That said, Photoscan's UI is incredibly poor, and the software has bugs (particularly around CUDA) so I'd be interested in alternatives.

123D catch (from Autodesk) does cloud based processing like you guys.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

if you like seeing your universities in ranking form
Can you give an example of when this has happened? It strikes me that driving your model around being difficult to replicate from a technical point of view wouldn't necessarily lead to good business decisions.
Yes, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Review_X#Brief_History

"Since its foundation the journal's impact factor has been increasing and for the first time passed that of the older and prestigious non-open-access journal Physical Review Letters for the year 2013. This makes Physical Review X currently the journal within the family of Physical Review journals with the highest impact factor."
I had absolutely no idea, but CEO's sexuality tend to not even cross my mind. I'm glad that these days people can safely talk about this, hopefully soon it won't even be news.
$AAPL down 1% pre-market :)
I still have my Sidewinder joystick :) It survived several moves over the years, and still works perfectly. Really solid piece of hardware.
Yes, I share your belief in collective consciousness. I think there's little doubt we'll find they do exist, once we find a testable definition of consciousness.

BTW one doesn't even need to take acid to realize this. Humans have thought this for thousands of years. It's a common belief of ancient eastern philosophies (metaphysics) such as Taoism and Buddhism, that "we're one consciousness". Our egos just don't think about it, much like a cell of your body operates in another (lower) level of consciousness, where it thinks it's "independent of you".
As opposed to the pointless complexity that comes from implementing support for string diffs?

Having implemented a json differ (which is similar, but with different representations of the paths due to having uniform access to nodes in the tree due to having id elements everywhere that matters), I would consider string diffs overengineering.
How inspiring. Reading this manual gives an idea of the magnificent effort involved, covering so many disciplines.
I'm not sure copying the controls from google maps is a good thing, I've always hated them, for me they're incredibly frustrating to use. It could simply be that I'm so used to FPS controls so they feel too uncanny valley. But I've had years to get used to them and they still feel awkward.

I appreciate it could just be a personal thing, I've never asked anyone else what they think, but I seem to regularly accidentally look up because click to location often competes with viewport manipulation, you then can't get it 'level' which is mildly OCD annoying and the controls also feel backwards as you have to pull right to go left, pull down to look up, etc. Also the sensitivity of up/down seems exaggerated to left/right, but probably because it's windowed, I actually don't know.

I can't describe very well what's wrong, it just generally 'feels' wrong.

Google aren't exactly known for their UIs and as far as I can remember that control system was their first go at doing it and they've never changed it.
Perhaps Hofstadter has a definition of consciousness, but what you gave is a (right or wrong) description of how consciousness is implemented, which is not what most people would call a definition.
My mother had one of the early SCM Marchant electronic calculators in her lab http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/scm240sr.html. I don't remember the exact date but looks like it looks like it would have been late 1960s as well. I remember how laughably slow it was doing square roots; you could watch it going through some sort of successive approximation algorithm.
Way to go, Tim! It's a shame that he had to 'come out', but I hope that being the CEO of one of the world's biggest companies will help the LGBT cause.
I think that's a very real future, and speaking out in this way only helps to make that a reality sooner.
Never expected that! but still lot of respect for him.. it takes lot of guts to speak up being the CEO of the worlds biggest company!..
The motivation doesn't have to do with it looking like comments: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/386
I got curious how much space it would take to have enough spherical panoramas of the YC office to walk freely around it like in a first person shooter game. No 3D model involved, just a panorama for every possible position the user might want to walk to.

I think 60 frames per second would be smooth enough. Walking speed 5km/hour is roughly 1 meter/second. Per frame distance then is about 0.02 meters.

Looking at the map the YC office seems to be about 30 x 40 meters. Imagining a grid with lines each 0.02 meters overlaid on it, it seems you would need 3000000 panoramas. That might sound way too many, but wait! We live in the future.

One spherical panorama of 10000x5000 pixels seems to be about 4MB jpeg-compressed. So you would need only 12 terabytes of space. Also since you need 60 of these each second, you need storage that can move 240MB/sec, which is lower than the current speeds of SSDs.

1TB SSD seems to cost about $400, so for only $4800 you would have enough speedy space to store the panoramas. Enough space to explore whole YC building with no snapping at all between frames, with complete realism. Actually you could even do stereo 3D, as you already have the data.

Now it's a different question entirely on how we could take those 3000000 panoramas. Even if you had a Double Robotics bot with a spherical camera attached to it going around the space, snapping 10 panoramas per second, it would take 4 days to complete. While that itself is tolerable, how it would know its position and control its movement to the required accuracy I have no idea.

Still it blows my mind that storing all that would be possible.
Good for him. Must be a relief.
True that!
Made it on purpose, we thought it was funny!
Strangely enough I'd see pictures of him at some gay pride thing and it never even occurred to me he might be gay. I think, more accurately, it didn't trigger anything in my brain that thought it mattered either way. Obviously this is the way it should be!

It seems like Tim Cook isn't under any pressure to publicly announce this, so it seems he's doing it as a way of leveraging his position to help others who are experiencing adversity. Some will say this is a stunt for Apple, and no doubt it does draw attention to Apple in a way, but I think you'd have to be pretty cynical to say that this is anything more nefarious than an admirable gesture.
That would value a CEO's sexuality at 6 billion dollars. I sincerely hope that has nothing to do with this news.
This is excellent idea. While I try to avoid unnecessary abstractions (yes, I'm looking at you docker), having a consistent cross-platform and familiar API for OS instrumentation seems like a big boon.
At low complexity cost there is a chance to offload admin memory from idiosyncrasies of OS monitoring details.
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I wonder how carefully crafted this line was:

... I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

It seems a particularly odd thing to slip in, on so many levels.
I think thats a bit unfair on the article.

The memory management, and low level control make rust special. Thats what the author is talking about.

...why is an article that shows how to put rust into action bad?

Its a great practical article about dipping your toes into the water of using rust in my oppinion. /shrug
Everyone except me, apparently :-)
Perhaps, but I remember watching comedians and entertainers on TV when I was a kid who it seemed pretty obvious were gay, but when the fact came out publicly they were subject to terrible discrimination and public humiliation. For those of us that really don't care about a person's sexual orientation perhaps it's easier to see it clearly, but it seems to me that a lot of people with prejudices have difficulty telling, and are resistant to calling someone out as gay perhaps because to them it seems such a terrible thing. We need to remember that for many people with prejudices gay and Paedophile are basically synonymous. Bearing that in mind perhaps helps explain why they find it so shocking. As always, ignorance is a powerful driver of prejudice.
I sorta agree, but I think the core paragraph explains his motivations better:

[I]f hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

Announcing that you're straight is never going to be controversial, but we're currently in a cultural stage where announcing things like this continues to normalize the reality of diverse types of sexuality and, ironically, over time that should make it less of a big or negative deal to some people.
Download page is in Russian, but the interface is in English when installed. International site (http://browser.yandex.com) still has "We're working on it".
Would you consider telling us what the past projects were? I've been in a SAAS idea drought for six years now. Or perhaps you'd want to sell one of your past projects?
"(...) and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me". I can only imagine the reactions if the same was said by a heterosexual person, about heterosexual orientation... :)
You could bring in the entire .object into Unreal Engine first person template right now. Having whole rooms as models (rather than BSP brushes) is actually pretty common now. You might have to fix lightmaps and maybe make a low poly version first.
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Even at my fraternity at school, a kid sent a very long heartfelt message that he was dropping because he was gay. Which was followed by a a series of messages from everyone else saying either "we know, we support you unconditionally" or cracking the occasional good-spirited but crass joke. He later served as an officer and was a member until graduation. While at a liberal college, it's easy to forget the challenges people of different orientations face in many places throughout the country.
> One of my biggest issues with Bootstrap (and similar frameworks) is that, beyond a certain point, you find yourself overriding and customizing them to such a degree that it's more productive to just build your own "vanilla" components

I think Bootstrap was meant as components ready to be used out-of-the-box as they are, but not necessarily easy to extend and customize.

I think what we need is a framework that makes components easy to create and extend, and then build a widget library on top of it that provides the most commonly needed components/UI patterns.

If the components where easy to understand and extend, then we can just look inside them, copy paste and make our own by modifying just the part that we need.

The problem is that they are not, in the case of Bootstrap these seem to be quite extended set of jQuery based components that you can spend a lot of time debugging to understand how they work, and modify them to do what we need.
Its perfect for that use, but 1.0 is still months away. No one is using it yet...
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We would all like for that to be the case. Unfortunately, as long as members of the GLBT community have to worry about being physically attacked, even in "safe" places like San Francisco and other progressive cities, it's important for people who are in a position to be able to speak out safely to do so.
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It seems like a legit question, why down voted?
If I'm not mistaken dbus is a spiritual sibling of DCOM.
So Tim just came out an idiot. He thanks god for making him gay, the same god who hates gays decided in his infinite wisdom to make him an object he hates. If he does not see the irony in that statement, then I have to wonder about the intelligence of the person.
Well, shareholders may fear that some conservative consumers will want to boycott Apple because of that announce. Not completely illogical.

Or they think that other shareholders will think that and lead to a drop in the share value.
Yes, it was a rather dramatic moment on CNBC, with a columnist discussing the fact that no CEO of a major company was willing to be mentioned as gay:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnbc-panel-goes-awkwardly-silent-...
Wasn't this public knowledge?
Who said his god hates gays?
Asked his prediction on what the stock market would do, J.P. Morgan responded: "It will fluctuate".
I guess Tim Cook and Brendan Eich don't see eye to eye on some issues.
Yep on CNBC i believe( I hate that channel,it's just ridiculous). What was stupid is that one journalist said T.Cook was gay,others insisted he wasnt.Like "noooooooooooo he's not!" multiple times.

That sums up the whole NBC network for me.

Frankly,nobody cared about Jobs sexual life,and he did a good job at shielding his family from the media frenzy.
Yeah - they build the model from photos, but they limit the movement to the spots in the model where the photo was taken, then show you the photo. It's the same thing Microsoft Photosynth did a few years ago.

Saying "Our model quality has changed a lot in 2 years as well." and then presenting the 2014 photo is pretty sketchy.
An accurate comparison would be viewing the model from the same position as the photo, using the model, not the photo. Or allowing arbitrary angles - I bet if you look under the machines on the front desk on the actual model, they've melted into the desk a little bit.

Or - I do understand the quality is not there yet - say 'Our viewing experience has changed a lot in 2 years as well.' and show the old viewer and new 2D/3D combined viewer.
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Phones are not plug and play, but this project lays the groundwork for them to be.

It's not as if anyone truly imagines every part needs to be modular, more that this allows parts to be modular which allows some degree of upgradability in the future or to have base devices more cheaply repurposed for specific usage scenarios.
That caught my eye also, but his support of that thesis was quite nice.
Really no different than any other form of fitness tracking (i.e. the ol' pen-and-paper). I don't think this is a device problem, this is a people-being-lazy-unmotivated-sacks-of-crap problem.
Mechanical problems with USB thumb drives are not caused by USB itself but by manufacturers that ignore mechanical specification of USB connector and it's surrounding space. On the other hand, there are many protocol-level reasons why USB is not good interface for essentially any kind of device, especially when you take cellphone-style power management into account.
I know. So I pay for

- the product

- the 'forwarding' service (that I need to trust first..)

- the shipping to my actual location

- import taxes, VAT etc.

and smile? This product is intentionally not available to most of the world, jumping through hoops on my side seems weird. Like camping in front of random stores, waiting for some device coming out in 3 days from now or other similar random acts of insanity.

I'd have bought it (and sure, payed more than $200 for it due to taxes etc), but I'm not prepared to circumvent arbitrary regional limitations by throwing my time and money around.
That's the entire point being made here though - being straight isn't a particularly large challenge in today's society. What Tim is saying here, is that much of his empathy, and ability to appreciate minorities, and the oppressed, derives directly from being a member of a heretofore marginalized group. And, his ability to appreciate the importance of diversity, and to truly understand Dr. King and his message, is a result of that, "gift from god."
Yeah, if you changed the statement to refer to something with entirely different context and history, it sure would be different.
I appreciate the market's crude honesty in evaluating the business impact of events, and I understand why a drop would happen. However, I hope that people aren't evaluating the business impact of this information at 6B, and that it is only a sad coincidence.
Me three. Mostly because I just don't give a fuck about people's personal lives. Even celebrities. I see people in commercials that everybody seems to know and I have no clue.

I guess I live under a rock. Good thing I get HN under here.
because it's explained in the article...
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At the risk of going down an off-topic rabbit hole...

There really is only irony if this god actually hates gays (I'm assuming we're talking about your usual run of the mill Abrahamic deity). It may well be that Tim's theology is a bit more sophisticated.
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I'd like a world where announcements like this are considered utterly mundane.
God himself. Read your bible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_homosexuality
It was not completely wrong if he was right about some things. It's one thing to say someone broke a window and another thing to say who and how and when. He proposed an explanation which know now to be false. But the thing to be explained is still there.

Sad thing is that much of the literature in philosophy of mind will discard dualism solely on the fact that past attempts to explain dualism have failed. And more over, some have just failed to convince the opposite side, which is open for subjectivity.
I never noticed the mention of 'God' and had to re-read it.
We ourselves built a project with speed and security in mind and are working on open sourcing it in 2015
One has to wonder how - in this world filled with anonymity enabling services like Tor or even Pastebin - it is still possible to hide a secret, out in the open.

This is old news. Felix Salmon spelled it out in no uncertain terms when Mr.Cook was first named CEO, in 2011. [1]

The best place to hide something - not that Mr.Cook himself wanted his sexuality hidden; he merely did not want it to grab all the attention, away from Apple - is still in plain sight.[2]

This also begs the question, if enough vested interests or powerful people want something not to be talked about, is the fact still worthy of its truth value?

This applies to the trivial case at hand - of Mr. Cook's sexuality - as it does to the countless secrets of great gravity that were largely ignored - concerning at least a dozen nations not including the U.S. - that Wikileaks exposed.

[1] Don’t ignore Tim Cook’s sexuality

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/25/dont-ignore...

[2] The Purloined Letter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purloined_Letter#Plot_summa...