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You must have missed this article which debunks their search as "illegal":

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/feds-silk-road-hack-legal/

The Silk Road server in question, after all, was located not in the United States but in a data center near Reykjavik, Iceland. And though Ulbricht is an American citizen, the prosecutors argue that the server’s location abroad made it fair game for remote intrusion. “Because the SR Server was located outside the United States, the Fourth Amendment would not have required a warrant to search the server, whether for its IP address or otherwise,” the prosecution’s filing reads.

In a footnote, the memo adds another strike against Ulbricht’s Fourth Amendment protections: The Silk Road was not only hosted in a foreign data center, but also rented from a third-party web hosting service. And because Ulbricht allegedly violated the company’s terms of service by using its computers to deal in narcotics and other contraband, that company was exempted from any obligation to protect his privacy.

Finally, prosecutors argue that for the 30-year-old Texan to claim privacy protections for Silk Road’s server, he would have to declare that it belonged to him—a tricky Catch-22. Ulbricht hasn’t claimed personal possession of that computer’s data, as doing so would almost certainly incriminate him. But because he hasn’t he can’t claim that his privacy was violated when it was searched, according to the prosecutor’s reasoning. “Because Ulbricht has not submitted any affidavit alleging that he had any possessory interest in the SR Server—let alone one that would give him a reasonable expectation of privacy—his motion should be denied,” reads the prosecutors’ filing.

Or maybe the decision by a US Magistrate Court which said private information is fair game, even if its located on servers in other countries, given a valid search warrant. Considering federal agencies tend to get a lot of leeway in such cases in regards to what exactly is contained in the warrant, and what they're searching for. So even if they had or needed a valid warrant, it's still within the governments authority to seize the data:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/29/us-court-m...

In a detailed ruling on Friday, US Magistrate Judge James Francis said that US companies, including Microsoft and Google, must turn over private information when served with a valid search warrant from US law enforcement agencies.

"Even when applied to information that is stored in servers abroad, an SCA warrant does not violate the presumption against extraterritorial application of American law," he concluded.
great point. Added some details, please check again
My point is not to defend it as an academic activity, but to measure the impact.

"Game theory" is clearly an academic activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

The study of football at a deeper level is a subset of that, but it covers a fairly wide area. From which plays to call in offence vs defense. Cost benefit of risking a player injury in a low win percentage game. Which players to sign etc. (Or even just the math around fantasy football.)

I mean just because your covering a specific WWI battle does not mean your doing something else and not studding history.
> By Canonical's estimates, Ubuntu has roughly 90 percent of the Linux market.

Wat? Seriously? How is this measured?
Still not sure I understand the "clearly distinct" in relation to what the OP objects against.
The US can still request data from Amazon, regardless of where the server is located, since they are an American country.
thanks, that's interesting, mainly to translate this vocabulary in english (man, "spherical joint"? I prefer the french "rotule", nobody outside of the trade would ever guess what it is, you feel so l33t).

It reminds me of my youth, the professors loved garage doors, cinema film advancing fingers, and shitty kinematic simulation software.
> It is a truly global marketplace that only sleeps on weekends.

Sure, there are 4 trillion reasons why this is enough and yes, I know it's very much about traders themselves, and that if there were an incentive to change it probably would change pretty fast, but anything that stops on the weekend seems very silly in the 21st century. (Even EVE Online's daily downtime is a bit ridiculous.)
This is wrong. In the book Soma is described to have roughly the positive effects of alcohol, without the negative consequences.
This is a real Firefox bug, but consider the reverse situation: if Firefox's slice() was fast and Chrome's was slow, would Google ship Inbox with a message that says "Inbox only works in Mozilla Firefox. More browsers coming soon. Download Mozilla Firefox."? Probably not. The Inbox team would probably pull in the V8 team. Apparently, the Inbox team didn't contact Mozilla's SpiderMonkey team because they fixed their bug within a couple hours:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963
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The problem is not "few options", the problem is "few GOOD options".

With Apple laptops, there is limited choice sure, but the choices are all pretty darn good. With Linux preinstalled laptops, they are entirely uninspiring computers.
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XKCD book – What If?
How do you opt out of CPNI?
Another good take on a similar situation: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/why-peps...
I don't understand why everyone is obsessed with which of the novels got it right. I think both made amazing predictions as there's no the triviality culture (Facebook and narcissism) and a fearsome Big Brother (NSA, GCHQ...).

It would be better if we focus our energy on how we can help fix that before it's too late.
Could be 4G only? Just did it from a 4G LTE tablet, got a big ol' X-UIDH string of what appears to be Base64.

Edit: Also, on a positive match, the page displays a link to an NBC News article on Verizon's CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information).

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/why-you-should-check-yo...
can you give me a short tl;du why it's so great?
Hmm, confirmed on Verizon 4G LTE network.

Can anybody recommend a good VPN service that works on android?
Woah, that suddenly explains why sometimes websites go down so quickly after they get linked on reddit. Surely most hosting won't be able to host 100's of requests, but some times I've seen it happen that websites linked from smaller subs went down quickly.
This is the best point here.

I don't think anyone is advocating to let the homeless starve. We just need to realize as a society that the small act of kindness that we can provide at the micro scale (giving rides, money, food, etc) can have harsh consequences when observed from the macro scale.
When I arrived in bay area, I found not too many homeless people but there were few. Often they asked for "change".

So I thought I might be able to use these people as handyman. So I asked one of them if he would help me cleaning my car and moving furniture. I offered him $20, some used clothes and chilled beer. He shrugged saying he doesn't want my money. He told me that if he wanted work, he could get it easily and had held many jobs in past.

Being a homeless enabled him get various type of welfare from government he easily made $800 per month from government. He said he could get a job for $3000 a month but then it is not a major improvement over getting $800 for doing nothing.

US needs to rethink its welfare measure. They are winning votes but wrecking the country.
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Private internet access. Works great.
Most are unable to keep 100% focus on nothing but their families for even 1/2 of each day. Startup founders focus on their families less than many in other professions, but 3 dedicated hours per day is probably relatively close to average (if anyone has empirical evidence, please share).

As a father of two, you probably know that even when you're not directly thinking of your family, many decisions you make will be at least partially based on their well-being. So families usually aren't completely neglected in the time that they are not the main focus.

My father worked full-time with a one hour commute each way. I'd see him in the mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays. While I spent less time with him than some of my friends did with their parents, I couldn't have loved, respected, and appreciated him more. In the time he spent with us, his actions showed how much he cared for us. I would argue that more family time with less consideration is worse than better care and demonstration of unconditional love within a smaller period.
Trailers are the absolute worst. It's like a condensed version of the film.
There has been plenty of post 1970's physics advances, but the number of useful ones (for the average person) directly linked to Topology is much smaller.

EX: Fusion research is potentially extremely useful, but so far it's impact is basically nothing. Ditto Astrophysics.

Though, if you have anything specific in mind I would love to hear about it as I am really drawing a blank.
Thanks, the mathoverflow link was very informative. It's funny because I started out computing a number that I thought would be useful for factoring N, but it turned out that it would take one of 2 values depending if N was prime or had 2 factors (this is easily proven). Subsequent testing via software seemed to indicate it was actually determining the parity of the number of primes. I believe that's what it does in general but never bothered to go any further.
If people don't want to see homeless people in the streets, give them homes. LA Country has pretty much proven that the cost of social housing is lower than the cost of homelessness (policing, healthcare, etc).
I really think that Slack's best quality is as an email killer. I get close to zero emails from within my company. It's kind of shocking how much more productive that makes me.
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I'd say that the other high-stress industries cause a similar dynamic. Work/Family pressure is not exclusive to startups or tech startups or however you want to label it.

But, the one difference I'd call out with doing a startup (or owning any small business), is that you're responsible for whether that business fails or not and any of the jobs that are attached to it.

So you feel an intense responsibility to those other coworkers and their families.

You also have this if you're a manager in a larger company, but I think the intensity with which you feel it is a lesser degree (you messing up is still not good, but the company may still survive).
Older article, but still works: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/why-you-should-check-yo...
This as been known for a while and it's used by some advertisers...
If the cost per unit goes up with volume, you're doing something very, very wrong.
I'm on Verizon and got "did not receive X-UIDH header". 4G, droid ultra, FL
So while it is heavily used inside our company (where everyone is on the latest chrome) it is also used by LEA's which we do not control. This means we have to support Chrome/FF/Safari/IE 9+ but we have yet to come across a group that disabled JS.

As for what requires JS: we use google maps and people need to be able to draw zones on the maps which is not possible without JS (unless we have them a bunch of text inputs that they could enter the lat/lon of all the vertices. That is just one example and I can't go into much more detail. Bottom line is we would not have the customers we do if we didn't use to make it faster/easier and we don't have to resources to support JS+Noscript/no JS.
Thanks, but I did read that bit from his paper (at the end of it). What troubles me is that it seems that the CFR is referred to a lot by some alternative news outlets (in not so glowing terms). Also it seems to try hard to portray itself to be a non-partisan think tank. I will look at the references you gave me, much appreciated ...
The linked NBC News article explains you can do it through Verizon's customer account web interface, but the parent says that won't work.

..."regardless of whether or not you've opted out of their Customer Proprietary Network Information (CNPI) options."
Soma's definitely not like alcohol, or pot for that matter.

Soma is described as being able to take a few grams and experience an eternity of time within a few hours. It sounds more like an intense psychedelic.
> to love every aspect of creation

He means that Christianity canonically differentiates a Creator (God) and that which was created (universe, people, etc). So, this person or tree is not God, nor is it an aspect of God.
This has been going on for ages, not sure why people just now noticed it.

They were testing it last year, you could clearly see these headers on a large percentage of traffic coming from their gateways.

I'm not expressing an opinion one way or another but they clearly felt the UID is not directly identifiable and thus does not become a privacy issue until they share the mapping of the UID to customer data.

My guess is in their minds if you opt-out they just do not provide your UID to 3rd parties for targeting.

In the ever increasing dream of cross device marketing (think your iPad, iPhone and Laptop) many companies are trying to figure out ways to connect these devices to a single individual or family.

IIRC Verizon quietly started rolling out service wide TOS changes to allow this sort of thing a couple years back. That said I'm not sure if their TOS makes it clear how this is implemented and what potential side effects might be caused by the way they've implemented them.
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>> "Priests and Nuns take a vow of poverty"

It depends. "Priests who belong to a religious order (e.g., Benedictine, Dominicans, Franciscans, etc.) take the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Diocesan priests make two promises, celibacy and obedience; these promises are part of the ordination ceremony."
Satire and humor are independent of each other.
This makes me rather unhappy. I'm seeing this on Verizon. Can someone with an alternative mobile provider like Sprint or T-Mobile test this, too?
I've always wondered why Amazon put their first EU DC in Ireland, so far away from everything. While Germany is great and all, somewhere more central like Amsterdam would have looked like the obvious choice.

Whatever the location, it's still terribly expensive. Just looking at the Internet traffic charges makes my wallet hurt. I could not affort to serve traffic at any volume from AWS. Luckily there are a lot of other options in Germany.
Wow,

It's hard to kind of shut off the automatic empathy that pops up, but you have to realize these are people just like you that ended up with a serious short stick in life. You need to treat them like that, instead of infantilizing them.

Oh, these are people like you, that's why you can't help them. Just let that sink in...

I guess the conclusion of the parent is that everyone who has any needs must be herded and controlled by professionals and that all human solidarity just makes people lazy, greedy and out-of-control. That is the story of the modern neo-liberal order right?
I wish Instagram engineering posts were all just collections of pictures with comments, with a different Instagram filter for each picture.
I think you misunderstood my point. If it is "clear" that most of the AFAM department knew, the scandal has successfully been pinned on and contained to the AFAM department, and has not contaminated the highest levels of the university (i.e. Chancellor, Provost, athletics chairman, etc.).
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Yes, what a horrid fate to have the weeks and months needed to think ideas through. How horrible to go to a library to find what you need. The sheer inhumanity of going 20 minutes without compulsively checking a glowing screen because you feel restless.
The news is that it's ignoring the opt-out selections (including mine that I set a while ago).
I confirm this is an accurate analysis of the code - and that it's definitely intentional, malicious copy-protection software.

Wow. I haven't seen something this spectacularly dumb in a while. Should be entertaining! :)
I find that "progressive enhancement", while perhaps a bit more work, results in a more robust and maintainable webapp. The fact that results in pages that work without JS is almost a side-effect and barely needs to be tested.

The point for me is that links behave like links (perform GET requests against a URL and change the page from one state to another), buttons behave like buttons (perform POST requests and update some internal state), and the effect they have on the page is much the same with or without Javascript. The only difference is that with Javascript I can intercept the action and make the state change a lot more streamlined, or add a fancy animation if I so desire.

By simply intercepting buttons and links (similar to how pjax and turbolinks work) I don't have to dig through JS to find where a specific AJAX request is fired-off and what it does. It just works, and when it returns, it simply updates part or all of the page with whatever the server returned, which could be part or all of a page.

There are, of course, obvious limitations, like local state that changes with user interaction but that isn't preserved on the server in any way. But the more I can get working without Javascript, the more I know will be easily maintainable and translatable going forward even if I do something crazy like get rid of jQuery or convert everything to a React app.

Maybe I'm just a bit odd, but I find this approach a lot easier to manage and a lot more productive in the long run than in marrying myself to any particular client-side framework.
Since that announcement is (a) a more original source, (b) arguably more substantive, and (c) doesn't have a breathy title, we changed the url to it from http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/20....
What a thoughtful and insightful remark. If you don't believe that statement to be in the right ballpark you are out of touch with the world outside HN.
Actually - it's the relative user-bases and the complexity of the user-cases.

An APT based system is capable of a system upgrade - but you have to help the system. The previous commenter is completely right that one of the underlying assumptions is that the package database is clean.

This applies to both Ubuntu and Debian.

The main challenges for Ubuntu is that there is a lot of ISV software out there which can break as it's not part of the distribution [0], end-users tend to run a variety of PPA's [1] and in general they don't realise the importance of the package database[2] and the classes of hardware that Ubuntu is used on means that driver upgrades can be complex. Actually, if you use Ubuntu's documented upgrade process it runs a variety of checks which standard apt doesn't.

I suppose that with fast Net connections and cheap disks upgrades aren't as needed as they used to be - but they're still one of the best bits of 'magic' I enjoy from the Ubuntu/Debian world.

[0] The counter-point being that end-users want that software e.g. Skype
[1] PPA's are great for end-users as they get to mix stable system software with the latest 'apps' but they cause problems for upgrades because you can't possibly test the variety of upgrade paths
[1] You can argue that they shouldn't have to - but that's a different matter.
If you use Chrome and enable Google's Data Compression Proxy, all http traffic is proxied via Google's servers and sent to them via spdy (which is encrypted), so Verizon can't tamper with the requests or see what they are:

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/data-compression
> "From 5:30pm-8:30pm, I’m not a startup CEO. I’m a dad." <- That statement right there pretty much illustrates my point.

I don't understand. Most of the non-founder, regular engineers with kids I know don't even get home at 5:30. Sounds like he's doing well for a working dad.
> They're more likely to sleep in an alley somewhere instead of, at worst, gathering near a shelter, or at best, getting a bed in a shelter where they are safest and most secure.

Many homeless I've spoken with on the subject consider homeless shelters unsafe places (more than once someone has told me that they are worse than being in prison).

Shelters don't provide adequate mental health services and due to curfews and wait times are not useable by people looking for employment. That eliminates them as useful services for the two largest homeless populations: those homeless due to mental illness, and those homeless due to being poor. Zero-tolerance drug policies eliminate shelters as an option for alcohol and drug addicts.

What's most telling is that the homeless by choice (train hoppers, gutter punks) won't go anywhere near shelters.

What does work are long-term mental health facilities, wet houses, and free abortions. The idiotic conservative rhetoric in the United States will keep these solutions from being implemented: "taxes!" "bunks for drunks!" "fetuses are people!"
TL;DR It turns out that the principles of supply & demand worked. hooray for the free market.
http://di.fm has a wide variety of electronica that appeals to my various moods... most frequently Liquid DnB or Chillstep these days, but Chillout Dreams and Vocal Trance are also favorites. I'm usually on there unless I wanted to listen to a specific artist on Google Play All Access.
They don't appear to be doing this if you've opted out of "Relevant Mobile Advertising", which is another option [separate from CPNI] on http://verizonwireless.com/myprivacy.

Here's the setting you're looking for:

http://i.imgur.com/QFJJNV5.png

Mods may also want to update the title to include "Wireless" after Verizon; Verizon landline is not doing this anywhere AFAIK.
Would that me positively or negatively correlated with karma? ;)
Yes, but the usefulness i'm talking about is being able to get a response without re-rendering and fetching the entire page. If the difference between the two is just a small amount of text then doing it asynchronously is faster and more efficient.

Although, if you're just dealing with purely static html pages then I would agree AJAX is pointless. But not everything useful about javascript has to be useful just to the end user.
Frankfurt is home to DE-CIX, which is one of the largest traffic exchanges in the world - i.e. it's pretty central.
So you trade Verizon's tracking for Google's?
These guys are apparently Glaswegian, so Scottish law. Computer Misuse Act territory, perhaps, in my (lay) opinion?

They aren't the first to do malicious copy-protection. It did not go well for the previous contenders. At all.
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More like Computer Engineering from the Middle Out, but still a good resource.
> But selfish in a good, weird way - working 80 hours a week so someday I don't have to work 40, so I can take my wife and kids to Hawaii for the summer someday, or whatever.

Epochs are not fungible, especially when raising children. Missing a toddler play at the beach for the first time cannot be reclaimed by sharing their first scuba lesson.
> The issue isn't copying the artwork per se, it's copying the Vatican's picture of the artwork. They will likely release the images for free, but retain copyright over the digitisation.

In the US they can not claim copyright for this. This is very clear. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel.... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_and_...
Link to privacy policy returns a 404

https://beta.tripket.com/corp/privacy-policy