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> I remember you. You're the paranoid conspiracy theorist who shows up in every surveillance post making wildly inaccurate claims.

I encourage anyone reading this thread to look up lern_too_spel and my previous encounters and decide for yourself.

I would suggest this one in particular (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513528). I would add the "Biden Bill" S.266 to the list of things in the top comment.

"It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law." - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c102:1:./temp/~c102y44...:

I would also add 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f): "Required disclosure of customer communications or records" - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703

> I'll humor you again and stick to one of your stupendous claims

How about replying to all of them? In previous threads it was very common for you to pick one fact and fixate on it ignoring the others. I would much rather have a discussion about all of these points.

> All the released documents show that it is used to home in on the location of a targeted subscriber, which can be done without recording anybody else's data.

Please link to said released documents.
The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story:

http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/americans-cellphone...

"The technology is aimed at locating cellphones linked to individuals under investigation by the government, including fugitives and drug dealers, but it collects information on cellphones belonging to people who aren’t criminal suspects, these people said. They said the device determines which phones belong to suspects and “lets go” of the non-suspect phones."

"Also unknown are the steps taken to ensure data collected on innocent people isn’t kept for future examination by investigators."

"Within the Marshals Service, some have questioned the legality of such operations and the internal safeguards, these people said. They say scooping up of large volumes of information, even for a short period, may not be properly understood by judges who approve requests for the government to locate a suspect’s phone.

Some within the agency also question whether people scanning cellphone signals are doing enough to minimize intrusions into the phones of other citizens, and if there are effective procedures in place to safeguard the handling of that data."
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Fun fact, from the perspective of the observer on the ship, time outside the ship would also appear to slow down.
> That's actually one I stand by.

If you mean, you like using it as an interpretation, no problem; a lot of people do.

If you mean you think it's more than an interpretation, then you're going to have to show me explicitly where in the math the "flow of space" is represented.
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Keep patent costs the same, but reduce their lifetime to 5 years.
Given these tests are made to be machine mark-able, couldn't they do these tests in in a more random way. E.g. For a 50 question test, examiners write 300+ questions and these are randomly ordered with each test paper having a unique ID linking it with question order.
Most hardware decoders are microcoded anyway, supporting H.264, ASP, and VC-1. Adding VP8 isn't that bad - Qualcomm, nVidia, and Mediatek already ship VP8 decoders.

The next generation codecs such as HEVC and VP9 are a lot more computationally expensive and do require a lot more die area.
After a year of acceleration at 1g, a stationary observer would observe a speed of 215184620 m/s or 71.7% the speed of light.

After two years: 89.9%

After four years: 97.2%

After eight years: 99.3%
Encoders for vp9 and h265 have a long way to go before they can compete for real-time usage, such as WebRTC.
Your assertion comes from a statement that Microsoft later retracted (according to your article) and said was from an incident unrelated to Aurora. Most likely, it was some script-kiddie checking that he wasn't being monitored, and that Microsoft employee mixed it up with the Chinese attack.

It says that Google found that the Chinese had also gained access to surveillance data in their systems after they discovered that the Chinese had gotten access to dissidents' accounts. The Chinese weren't solely doing counterintelligence.
For me, the most useful information was the "Comparison with Similar Tools" table (in the OpenGrok project wiki), which was linked-to from the GNU GLOBAL page:
https://github.com/OpenGrok/OpenGrok/wiki/Comparison-with-Si...

As a Vim user, the comparisons to Ctags and cscope were informative.

And the list of supported languages is impressive! Awk, Dos batch, COBOL, C, C++, C#, Erlang, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Lua, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Matlab, OCaml, Scheme, Tcl, TeX, Verilog, Vhdl and Vim.
My so does ems.

The most important thing is, if you're choking, don't politely go off to the restroom. That's how you die. Make a scene and get help.

While I'm on the subject, drowning also doesn't look like the frantic splashy display shown on tv. If you go swimming, learn to recognize it [1]

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/family/2013...
You do realize that Javascript powers the majority of ads, you know, the things content creators need to continue creating. And don't forget all those great Show HN browser libraries and projects powered by Javascript. News organizations and interactives to do data journalism? Yea, Javascript.

I'm fully against people creating a frustrating user experience by people using tools, but I don't blame the tools, I blame the people.
Implementers won't be able to call themselves WebRTC implementations. This specification is referenced by corresponding 3GPP specifications, so compliance there will be more strongly enforced.
If anyone is curious email addresses are divided up based on the directorate you are in. In this case the CRYPTOLOG editor (P02) is under the Analysis and Production Directorate.

Edit: if it isn't obvious, directorates and units under them are assigned letter and number designations so the organizational structure of the NSA isn't immediately obvious to outsiders (i.e. "I work in Q57" vs "I work in the polygraph office")
I don't understand following -
Japan had QE measure in place thus increasing money supply. But then they also increased sales tax from 5% to 8%.

Why take conflicting measures ? How increasing sales tax is going to make consumers and middle class spend more ?

Have Japan's economists not considered it ?
Yes - both sides can offer any number of codecs, and will negotiate the best one. MTI is only for a baseline for universal compatibility.
If neighbouring Asians are too rich to immigrate, there will still be plenty of poor Africans for decades.
If leaked NSA budget figures are accurate the agency's annual budget is equal to the endowments of Harvard and Stanford combined. I'm therefore inclined to view academia as a farm team for NSA.
Wow, that was a super thorough article.
I work on this project.

One crucial thing to make the GUI simpler than code is direct manipulation. Working with a graphics program, like Inkscape, for example, is much easier for most graphics tasks than writing raw SVGs.

For most tasks in Lyra, you can simply drag-and-drop elements onto the visualization to make it respond the way you want. In advanced cases, true, you do have to navigate menus and buttons. For many of those cases, rather than writing raw D3 code, there's the Vega project. Vega is a declarative format for describing visualizations using a JSON format. Lyra generates Vega specifications for rendering, which can then be modified manually.

Vega: https://github.com/trifacta/vega
What about Supreme Court justices? The impact of an individual appointment is only getting larger: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No3_Cala.... And when you compare the justices Bush appointed to those that Obama did, you can't claim to me that both parties are the same.

Please vote, if only to help shape SCOTUS. :)
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That has virtually nothing to do with deflation. This has to do with housing/land regulations in Japan, causing the value of apartments to decrease over time. There was an excellent article about that on HN a couple of months back, by the way.

On top of that, buying a new apartment has nowhere got cheaper than it was 10 years ago. Prices have been pretty much stable until they pumped up the tax recently.
It's been working fine for me, but I don't use it for work email.
It's "literally impossible" only in a very literal sense of the word. In other words, yes, Japan can indeed get out of a debt of 17 gazillion yen simply by printing 17 gazillion yen, but I'm not sure flooding the money supply like this would cause much less damage than an actual default (=the Japanese government telling its bondholders that it's not going to repay them).
WebRTC-compatible are things that do not implement the Javascript API. These include things like single-purpose smartphone apps. A "WebRTC doorbell" was an example given at the IETF.

With this proposal, any WebRTC-compatible device can communicate with any browser with video.
That brings to mind Carol Dweck's research on mindset in which she categorized people who bore either the fixed or the growth mindset.
Fixed mindset presumes that our aptitude are static and that we cannot change in any way; success is merely the result of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard. The striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled. In other words, a huge amount of ego is tied to it that does not help progress. And unfortunately, this is very limiting to allow for the full potential of any individual to take shape. This article is an important reminder that it is not how good we are but how good we want to become.
Seeing as Microsoft is still pushing an alternative to WebRTC, I somehow doubt it.
I'm not talking about short-term changes in GDP. I'm talking about longer term ones, obviously. Nothing in Economics is worth measuring on a 6 month scale. Political decisions on the Economical climate take dozens of years to take their toll and have marking impact.
You may want to edit your post and use a different character than asterisk for footnotes.
I really love seeing technical leaders talk personally like this. E.g., "I badly underestimated the amount of emotional effort and attention that it was going to require". When I started, I felt like I couldn't admit to anything so human. And not just in public, but even to myself. That had an enormous cost.

Software is a human enterprise. Especially so open-source software, where so many people do it out of love, not from fear that they'll lose their house. It's really heartening to me how much people are explicitly discussing the human experience of contributors these days, and I hope we keep going in this direction.
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Yes, I'm using it as a mental representation of a process which I can't picture directly. How do you deal with such things? I mean aren't you ever tempted to use a tool like that? I don't think there is anything wrong with the idea.

I'm having some trouble picturing how it could be more than an interpretation.
> serving jquery for free in exchange for tracking your users persistently via Google Analytics

jQuery on their CDN has nothing to do with Google Analytics, and it's served without a cookie and with long cache expire times, so it's not a very good tracking target.

> building a browser to slowly but surely make it harder to opt out of Google's SSL-based tracking

I have no idea what you're referring to here, but it doesn't sound like it makes much sense.
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Japan's economy dips into recession
This is a great article but I wish it would have also included advancement in area of steroids. We live in an era where drugs fuel a significant part of professional sports. Top tier athletes also have top tier drug regimens and their "doctors" have found ways to 'hack' the testing. It's an area that the media isn't open about discussing but it is there with the millions of dollars at stake.

I know I'm leaning heavy on the sports side of the article but this isn't all a result of refining the skills required for sport. They are also faster, stronger, and recover more quickly because of the drugs athletes take.
> But the quote equally shows how much it is not intended to be.

Yes, certainly, but you said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8615643):

> TeX is not a programming language.

rather than "TeX is not intended to be a programming language." It is nit-picking to be sure, but I think that, if the creator of a language (especially one who knows his stuff as Knuth does) says that it is a programming language, then it is.

Another appeal to (a lesser) authority—the TeX Users Group (https://www.tug.org/whatis.html):

In summary, TeX is a special-purpose programming language that is the centerpiece of a typesetting system that produces publication quality mathematics (and surrounding text), available to and usable by individuals.

… and an appeal to the fact that people have written programs in it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1931289.

(P.S. To "so, is XSLT a programming language because of, say, http://www.unidex.com/turing/utm.htm ?" I say "sure, why not?" What is the point of excluding something from being a programming language?)
> These folks don't believe dropping Yen is the solution as majority of investment by Japanese companies is outside Japan and weaker Yen just reduces that investment, in turn less profit flow back in the country.

The more expected result would be a change of investment patterns so that more is invested inside Japan; investments abroad bring back only a relatively small amount of money back into the domestic economy and spread over a long period of time, as opposed to domestic investment which generally involves spending in the local economy and increased aggregate demand.

> The expectation of deflation is deeply rooted in regular folks. Everyone is waiting to spend on large items, just not right now.

And this is exactly why some inflation (caused by QE and a falling yen) would be a good thing - delays in consumer spending are a classic pitfall of deflation.

This doesn't sound like an issue of the average Japanese citizen knowing less than the establishment or vice versa, but of individuals making rational economic decisions are good for them, but bad for the economy as a whole.

(BTW, I agree with you on the VAT increase, which sounds like the exact wrong thing to do to get out of this low-growth, deflationary trap Japan has been in for so long.)
Thanks for the response...I know of Vega and think this is a great use of it. Being able to export into an open format already puts this ahead of Tableau in my book.
> jQuery on their CDN has nothing to do with Google Analytics

most production servers i encounter that serve google's copies of jQuery also serve GA. i know this because i have to manually allow those requests using RequestPolicy. yes, they're technically different products. but that wasn't my point.

> I have no idea what you're referring to here

check out: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...
For your first point, the difference will only ever be very small when the topic of discussion is something that is inherently associated with a particular person, such as a patch with a specific submitter. The phrasing of the former example is more passive-aggressive, but usually no less targeted.

For your second point, you said:

"If you don't appreciate their code, get rid of them. [...] tell them it's not working out and stop working with them."

That implies more than just rejecting bad patches, it implies rejecting the developer himself. That's extremely rare. The Linux kernel developers are very forgiving of mistakes: your patches will get rejected if they're bad, but they'll still get looked at until you establish a really bad track record of not learning from your mistakes.
This is a great point and one that so many people miss. Time spent managing email is not necessarily time wasted. Working with a team involves communication, and often that communication happens via email, and so managing email can be productive. When I'm in the midst of coding, I'd much rather my teammates send me emails that I can handle asynchronously than have them stop by my desk and interrupt me to say the same thing.
> Is this project still alive?

pmeunier (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pmeunier), one of the authors, discusses this a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8026930 (though without, I think, committing to any definitive answer).
I hope Daala will put an end to this mess. But even though Opus is mandatory now, it didn't yet translate into support by Apple and MS for instance for regular music and Web audio. Their historic sickening opposition to open codecs is not easy to dismantle. Apple still doesn't even support FLAC, just because they like to make things messy for everyone.

By the way, what happened with Nokia's attacks on VP8? Were they refuted by Google or they were validated by some courts?
For the 8x8 table there's a trick you can do which I suspect the heuristics never considers (because the rule violation is not 1 but many steps away): if you have a chit of one color on 1, 5 and one more above 5 then any more above 5 can't be of this color otherwise 2-4 all three would need to be of the opposite color and that's illegal.

Same for 1,2,4: 5 is of the opposite color otherwise 6-8 are of one color.
Yet, these laws you mention actually make sense (at least those Uber and Airbnb "fight" against).

Taxi regulations exist to prevent Uber's "surge pricing" model, thereby guaranteeing the customer the same price for the same distance, no matter how late at night it is or how drunk the customer is (at least in Germany; the taxi market as a whole seems to be broken in the US so that's another story).

Hotel regulations exist to protect other tenants in a building from the kind of bullshit which has happened multiple times: ever-changing, drunk tenants demolishing stuff, being loud, throwing sex parties, etc.

The only law area being "disrupted" where the existing regulations don't protect any legitimate interests aside from MAFIAA's Big Money is the TV distribution, and I'm sad that Aereo got problems there. But well, that's the area of Big Money, no chance to compete there :(
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Before Abe, Japan is in a trap:

1. It has 200% debt-to GDP ratio

2. It has near zero interest rate and negative to zero inflation

3. It has near zero growth rate.

It's important to understand how this trap works: Japan simply can't have meaningful growth. If there's real growth, that will force the interest up, otherwise there will be mass misallocation and high inflation. But given a 200% debt to GDP, the government just can't afford a higher interest rate, as the debt servicing cost will eat up most of the budget. So, assuming growth rate and interest rate is about the same (big if, i know), for just maintaining the status quo (regarding debt burden), for every x% the economy grows, the government has to raise 2x the amount to cover the interest expense. That's how scary it is.

That's why there's this sales tax hike and the consequent gdp dip. While other country with lower debt to gdp ratio can keep stimulating for a long time and only deal with the debt problem after recovery, Japan can't. It has to increase the government revenue relatively early, because it has a much smaller buffer to begin with.
I'm not okay with it, but still use Verizon for broadband. I basically have no other choice.

This is why, despite being a big fan of NN, I wonder if it's going to be enough. We need more competition in markets, so when ISPs do chickenfuckery such as this, we can all vote with our feet.
Thanks, these look great! I've never used LaTeX but I've heard so much that I think I'll take a look at it now.
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> It's literally impossible for Japan to default on their debts, which are almost completely in Japanese currency.

Banks are not going to be super happy when the government tells them that their bonds are worth nothing through giga-inflationist measures. Or are they ? Default is better than nothing, at least you can pick up the pieces, while inflation is literally destroying your economy for any foreseeable future.
Rightio, avoiding addressing my actual points of discussion, seems you have nothing further to add except needless quarreling :)
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This is in progress. HTTP 2.0 does exactly what you specify. The tcpinc working group at the IETF is also looking at adding this at a lower level for all TCP connections.
It seems to me the other way around. I am a high volume user and I have relied on Gmail for almost 10 years. I signed up for inbox (because I am always looking for something better). I found it slowed me down. It was pretty but superficial. I prefer the plain but functional Gmail. Just one data point, I realize.
"typical Googler who received an average of about 450 emails per day" ick
His name was on a fallacious bitcoin "assassination market" only accessible over Tor, basically just a website you could submit names to, with an associated bitcoin address. An obvious scam to glean free bitcoin. The hit man claim is complete horse shit.
Thanks for pointing people to that thread. It shows another one of your crazy claims thoroughly debunked by tptacek and myself that you couldn't be bothered to correct yourself about. That's why it's pointless correcting you. If another user cares to discuss these issues, I'll gladly take them up on the offer.

As for my documents, you linked to the canonical document that broke the story itself. You even quoted the part about how it most likely works. "They said the device determines which phones belong to suspects and 'lets go' of the non-suspect phones." The rest of the article consists of evidence-free speculation about data collection that is not necessary to perform the task that the device is required for.

I'm done. Thanks for the link to the previous conversation. I'll just repost that the next time you respond to one of my comments, so everybody will understand why I won't bother to correct your points.
Why Japan, WHY!
"We need more women in the workforce to stimulate the economy!"

"We need to encourage women to have more babies in order to avoid a population crisis!"

Welcome to the government of contradictions.
While I agree in general, security holes can be (and often are) introduced at the interpreter level. PHP even has a project that attempts to patch these with an independent module[1].

A good security practice is to stand on the shoulders of giants. Just as Windows is highly secure because it's widely used and incessantly attacked, so are the major web software stacks.

1. http://www.suhosin.org/stories/index.html
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