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New comment by liscovich in "Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life"

liscovich — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:58:30 +0000

Original WSJ article: "Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chi...

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Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

liscovich — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 04:08:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chinas-surveillance-state-overwhelms-daily-life-1513700355

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15976367

Points: 222

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How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

liscovich — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chinas-surveillance-state-overwhelms-daily-life-1513700355

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15967606

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Leaked ISIS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis

liscovich — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:27:00 +0000

Article URL: http://news.sky.com/story/1656777/is-registration-forms-identify-22000-jihadis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11258324

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by liscovich in "Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS"

liscovich — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:30:30 +0000

Looker (http://www.looker.com), Periscope (http://www.periscope.io), Mode Analytics (http://www.modeanalytics.com), and Chart.io (http://www.chart.io) should probably be even more worried than Tableau.

Chrome extension to browse Quora anonymously

liscovich — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:09:54 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/openquora/lmjdhlnfgoehannajimamlnelagjpipl?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300135

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Tinder combats overzealous swipers with Interana analytics

liscovich — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:07:58 +0000

Article URL: http://fortune.com/2015/09/29/tinder-interana-analytics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300120

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

John Cleese on Creativity (1991) [video]

liscovich — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:07:19 +0000

Article URL: https://vimeo.com/89936101

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873656

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by liscovich in "Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)"

liscovich — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:30:40 +0000

Here is the cached version of the article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CHoIZZi...

New comment by liscovich in "Meteor hits 1.0"

liscovich — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:34:16 +0000

This is quite surprising to me. I know that Pete Hunt -- one of the authors of ReactJS -- and one of the main proponents of using it in conjunction with Flux, gave a talk at Meteor Devshop 11 earlier this year (http://youtu.be/Lqcs6hPOcFw?t=48m7s), and didn't say a word about the problems associated with two-way data binding. To me that would seem to be the elephant in the room. Is that because he treats Meteor as a framework for prototyping and smaller scale apps?

New comment by liscovich in "Meteor hits 1.0"

liscovich — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:56:11 +0000

I wonder if the criticism that the Flux team at Facebook has directed at two-way data binding is also applicable to Meteor. Jing Chen is her intro of Flux (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkdrAPrdcw&list=PLb0IAmt7-G...) says that two-way data binding creates a major challenge for scaling applications because views can trigger changes in data, and data changes can trigger cascading changes in views, which makes it very difficult to predict the behavior of the app as a whole. Wouldn't Meteor face the same challenges?

In other words, if you believe that the Flux design pattern (which involves a central dispatcher as the only entity capable of updating the data) is sound, shouldn't you stay away from Meteor's model when building large applications? Or am I missing something?

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:24:37 +0000

Do you know of any examples of actual legal documents written in Lisp, or some other formal language?

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:45:23 +0000

True, but what would it look like in the future? Would you just fork a repo?

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:40:41 +0000

There is very little outright corruption in Congress. Special interests exert most of the influence through campaign contributions that are publicly disclosed. Larry Lessig has a great book on this: http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Corrupts-Congress---eboo.... And here is the link to his TED talk on the same topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:40:22 +0000

An alternative XML version of the US Code from Cornell Law School: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wiki/lexcraft/united_states_code_...

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:27:16 +0000

This is only the codified portion of the federal law. So called "Statues at Large" that are passed by Congress but not codified into USC are not included. Plus this does not include the federal common law based on the rulings of federal courts.

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:05:34 +0000

We might have to wait even longer for all the common law based on the court rulings to be published in the same format. Not to mention the "secret common law" based on the FISA court rulings.

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:44:17 +0000

If you were to start a new country, what would the legislative process look like there? For example, how should new "startup nations" like BlueSeed (http://blueseed.co) inspired by Seasteading Institute go about passing and storing laws? Should they have some sort of open github repo to which anyone can make pull requests? How do you see the congress of the future?

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:35:59 +0000

Does anyone know what software is used by the hill staffers when drafting new bills? How do they make sure that the laws do not contradict each other?

New comment by liscovich in "The entire US Code is now online in XML"

liscovich — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:05:20 +0000

Hopefully, as a result, the disturbing statements like the ones below will become obsolete:

James Duane, Regent Law School professor, defense attorney:

"Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.” http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc?t=5m18s

Supreme Court Justice Breyer:

"the complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation." http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-93.ZD.html