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They didn't predict that he would be in a 130 mile radius which included the place he actually was. They predicted that he would be somewhere else, which happened to be 130 miles away.

So they were wrong.
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Here's the complete paper:

http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2009/online/finding-bin-laden.pdf
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I have a huge dream about multicast, but on the public internet, it doesn't happen.

Most of the time it happens on private IP networks (think FiOS TV, Uverse, etc., though i'm not sure if they use it.)
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I haven't read the COIN book, but if you want to get aggressive you can go for "Elements of Statistical Learning".

Free pdf download, probably not a one-flight book:

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

side note: Nat, did you intern at SGI in the late 90s, as the self-titled "armchair programmer of the apocalypse"?
I'd rather not waste an hour of my life listening to a conspiracy theorist.
I am perfectly fine with them being paranoid. They should be. They are being paranoid for me. They are doing a good job protecting the user.
Rule of thumb: whenever someone tells you that you should watch some random hour long video on the internet to really 'get' some dubious claim, don't.

I have avoided wasting countless hours of my life like this.
Start here: http://www.weusecoins.com/

If you want more of a third-party historical overview, Wikipedia has a decent article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

In short, it's a decentralized digital currency built on cryptography.
I completely agree, but I'm not particularly happy about the apparent lack of detail in their logs/IDS system.
Not happy that I'm finding this out via a blog post and not an email.
Perhaps they will improve the new Skype client.
I've been working on something similar, using Photoshop's HTML export to layout a user interface for a VST plugin. Illustrator might be a better tool though, it seems to be more visually object-oriented.
Thank you for sharing this. His life has now touched us all..
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Great, and what exactly is the improvement seen with tri-gate transistors as an independent variable? Without that it's hard to judge what the significance is for tri-gates. I understand Ars can't test a 32nm processor with tri-gates but that doesn't make this analysis any less unscientific. Ars is not alone in this dishonesty and I think even Intel's official statement was just as confusing.
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This reminds me of a little adventure when I travelled to Malaysia for a sales call. It was terrible but funny (it involved a business partner dropping my USB HSDPA modem into his glass of water). A subplot of it was I let him use my modem while roaming. In the same afternoon, while I was having tea (I mean a meeting/discussion), I got a call from my carrier, on my main cell phone number, who asked if I was the one who used the service in the morning. I said yes and I asked how much it was. The answer was in the range of US$400.

I suppose they would have offered to suspend the line immediately if I had said no.
In the event of this actually happening, what are some alternatives to Skype's video chat?
I found this out when trying to login to LastPass, was redirected to "re-enable your LastPass account" page https://lastpass.com/activate.php
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Source: http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/fast-concurrent-ruby-web-applications-with-em-and-emsynchrony

via: http://twitter.com/#!/drnic/status/65990672678797313
If there's a bright side in this for any of the Mono people, at least they won't have to live in Provo anymore.

I never agreed with the goals of the Mono project but nevertheless I have a lot of respect for the intelligence and dedication of everybody involved. If they have indeed been let go I offer my condolences and wish them luck.

If this is true and Mono is in the tank and the JVM under uncertain stewardship with Oracle it seems the OSS world might be in need of a new VM.
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/fast-concurrent-ruby-web...

via: http://twitter.com/#!/drnic/status/65990672678797313
I _really_ hope that there's no forced integration, logging in with Facebook or anything.
I'm curious about why they have an Asterix server on the same network as their database... is there a voice authentication feature, or are we just talking about their office phones?

Either way, they seem to be taking this seriously, even if they are just being overly paranoid, I find it comforting.
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You might find this useful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

A one hour lecture from Randy Pausch, one of his last.
An SPDY implementation was recently added to the development version of Go's standard library.

(Not surprising given that agl is also part of the Go team at Google.)
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It really shouldn't be even close to a defining moment in your life. There are a myriad of routes to building a successful company, and YC only accounts for a tiny percentage of them.

It's easy to miss this fact if you spend a lot of time reading Hacker News, but it's true. So use this knock to re-evaluate and analyse by all means, but YC is far from a guarantee of success: if you were going to be successful after being accepted through YC, then you will inevitably find some other path to the same destination.
If I need medical care and that clause is paragraph 11 in the small print on the back of the patient check-in form, it's pretty doubtful I'll even notice that I agreed to it.

I'd love to see an example of how this gets used by doctors in the wild, to make it easier for me to protect myself against such absurdity.

That said, if my PCP asked and I had pressing medical concerns, I'd despise making the choice of 'free speech' versus 'need medical care', but I'd certainly choose the medical care.
I've done a lot of work using Mono and consider it a huge plus to the Open Source community. The fact I could hack at the core of C# Mono (change the object class for example) was so cool (and on a Mac to boot). I really don't want to see something like this happen. There is so much more I want to write right now about this but will digress.
beedogs considering no longer using Skype.
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People from the State Department are now conspiracy theorists?
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"They also avoided all towns where someone would detect them based on noise and make a phone call, or, god forbid, tweet."

you mean like this? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505610

edit: changed link. did not realise i was linking to a fake hacker news site.
From that article: "This is actually a product that Google’s been testing in various formats for some time. Steve Poland (a regular contributor here) is pointing me to some posts (and here) by Greg Sterling from last year that discuss this. The earliest reports on this are from October 2006, and the service may be from an acquisition of 1-877-520-FIND. More information here." Again though.. Pure speculation.. It's not implausible because big companies do keep tabs on their competition. Also not sure if Microsoft's history with their product goes back even further.
Yes, me. Given the right company, I would be all for that. His "Females?! In MY ridiculous hacker house?!" was not a sell, but otherwise I see no problem. That startup culture and that space might not be appealing to you, but please don't speak for all females.
I know, right? Now that everyone's excited about Bitcoin, the exciting part is over. Kind of a bummer.

I see a unique opportunity here for a company with an existing virtual goods economy or something similar such as Listia.

They create a new genesis block and new Bitcoin-protocol clients and publicly announce they're going to turn the spigot on (announce the genesis block) a few days later. The twist being that they will accept the new chain's currency within their existing economy.

They not only get a lot of publicity but effectively become a central bank for their forked currency, which allows them to compete with Classic Bitcoin via the par value they establish.

I haven't thought this through, it's just a wild idea. What are the flaws in this plan? Would this just actually destroy value? Is this the expected long-run for Bitcoin anyway?
Could those who are down voting please explain why.
And it's been submitted, with comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515044
FWIW, even killing people is/was considered acceptable: if the victims have property X where X varies between having the wrong race, being the firs born girl, being physically impaired, being sentenced to death, being a sacrificial offer and plenty more.
if FB buys skype I'm out
Is there a good example showing how motion smoothing works/looks?
Elaborate how? It's been proven with sites like chatroulette. There are open source servers like red5:

http://code.google.com/p/red5/
Ha ha, remember when Skype pulled this scam with eBay? Good times!
That is not the reason why it has the reputation of being weak at inline markup: this is the exact reason why people consider it to be weak at inline markup: it doesn't support inline markup at all.

However, I fail to see why that's a problem. HAML is an abstraction that explicitly acknowledged it is leaky. It just doesn't support inline markup; you'll have to fallback to html to get, just like you have to fallback to assembler from C or JNI from Java to be able to do certain things. I say that's a good thing. Draw a clear line.
I landed my AH-64 Longbow using autorotation many times in the late-90s Janes simulator. I really wish somebody would come out with a good battle helicopter sim again.
What is the source? The license appears sane: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/LICENSE
When success depends on gaining mindshare, branding and perception is important. A straight popularity contest is, indeed, not the right way to do things, but popularity is a factor.
This happened about a year ago... A big part of rejecting the prize came from his desire to have nothing to do with the math community as a whole. Accepting the prize would be acknowledging it's place in the world.

"To put it short, the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community," Perelman, 43, told Interfax. "I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust."
You will most certainly want a real audio interface for doing audio production. Latency is one reason, but they also provide multiple simultaneous inputs, better analog to digital converters, and the good ones provide decent mic preamps.
If you wanna get pedantic, he did say that the exception is people who invested in quality headphones, and if you're doing audio work, that exception probably covers you. I suppose there is a set of such people who only have high-quality speakers and no quality headphones, but now we're really picking nits.
The story is impressive... And I hope they're on to building something big and serious. Am I getting this right, 5 ACM finalists working on a nicer version of craigslist's missed connections?
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Jason is coming to Mixergy to talk about it. Any suggestions on what I should ask?
I am so glad these guys are happy. I would not be okay working in that environment.

I already have had (and left) a dorm room.

My perfect coding environment is a quiet office, alone, with an awesome view of mountains. High speed internet. Silent computer. Company IM. Garguntuan monitors. On the walls, whiteboard, and a bookshelf somewhere. So, totally not LAL!
Chatroulette is not really an alternative to skype, but the link was interesting. I think the OP was looking for a similar video chat client.

I've personally never used skype, but for 1-1 video chatting, gchat works pretty well. I use it nightly.
An extreme ideology I can understand, and approve of, others pursuing, even when I'm much more pragmatically inclined. They may not be right, but they're certainly not wrong either and that's worth fighting for.

I'd trust GNUnet over Freenet, simply because I 'know' the organisation behind it.
Automaton.
nothing spectacular, but it was hard work nonetheless.
I just tried logging out and back in a few times, nothing. Very weird.
This is apparently from the Joent trademark policy and only applies to the "node.js" trademark. http://www.joyent.com/about/policies/node-js-project-tradema...
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IMO the most important improvement is the IdentityMap
Never like seeing people laid off (fired's a different story), but Mono never made sense to me. I can imagine that it was a hard thing to pitch internally to the new owners.

I'm 1/2 surprised MS doesn't just announce it'll continue with development and hire the existing team. If they don't (because they still could), this seems like the real story here...step up and put your money where your mouth is.
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Movies also weren't intended to be viewed compressed down to 1% of their original size in a room with lights and coloured walls. The people that just want to watch movies at home don't care, and grumpy film snobs will know better and turn the setting off.
Anyone who propagates conspiracy theories are conspiracy theorists. Who they works for is completely irrelevant.
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Sorry for being off topic, but I'm really glad none of the troops suffered casualty or injuries. These guys also didn't lose their cool, granted they are the seals bit still.
Same here. I changed my master password but I was never prompted to do so.
Description of Hacker Dojo is actually for one of the others. Thanks for including us.
I know this is off the topic.any body knows a skype like program that runs on lan only thanks
> My name is John Harris, and I am working on ...

Is this _the_ John Harris? (The Atari hacker?)
A personal solution is pretty easy using something like OpenFire[1], Red5[2] and the OpenFire Red5[3] and SIP[4] plugins.

Using this setup you can have an instant messenger, video chat and phone calls.

[1] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

[2] http://www.red5.org/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/redfire/

[4] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins.jsp (scroll down to SIP Phone Plugin)
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it's not overly surprising considering the recent Facebook<-> Skype integration and Skype's expansion to the USA (new office in Brisbane, CA).

I'd say it's more like likely a 'strategic partnership' than a buy-out. Having said that though, they're both private companies, so it may not as straight forward as a normal 'merger'
are you kidding, that will be the first thing they will do
How many helicopters and of what kind would it take to evacuate 22 people/bodies plus the SEALs and pilots? Certainly more than a single remaining Blackhawk.

I wonder if the inadvertent tweeter might have been hearing the support copters coming in after the initial raid to pick up the prisoners/crew and that the explosions were also after the fact--the post-raid destruction of the downed helicopter.

I suspect that as the story is progressively refined, we'll learn that rather than being a flawless triumph, the actual reason for success was the depth of backup planning and redundant systems.

This will be ultimately be a story that becomes a lesson in how the military learns from its failures (Operation Eagle Claw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw and the Rattle of Mogadishu aka Black Hawk Down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)) rather than from its successes.
I talked with several employees pre-close of the deal, and nobody expected what happened, to the point I would question if they were actively mislead.

Novell and Word Perfect laid the foundation for Utah's technology sector. It has been painful to see what came of too much success. Maybe my company will be the next one (to succeed, that is ;).
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It's not good to be dismissing unpopular ideas, a very popular idea before Iraq invasion was ....(you know the story). I'm just saying listening to both sides of the argument before conclusive making up ones mind is a good idea. I have not seen the said video and am not endorsing it, just commenting on the idea of openness, with all due respect. :-)
I can't speak for anyone else, but my experience with the motion smooth was that at first it was distracting, because it created that 'home video' feel. But you know what? I've had that television for nearly a year now, and I have got used to professionally shot film looking like that. The result is that I have lost the association with home video in my mind. Watching films without this feature now just makes me feel as though I'm watching a low quality product.
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Amen. In fact, Microsoft should hire the Mono team, redouble the open source effort, integrate Mono Droid and Mono Touch into Visual Studio and offer them for free (like VS Express). This looks like an easy way to attract app developers to the all-encompassing Microsoft platforms, and help make Windows Phone an equal of iPhone and Android... This could be a major win!
The media's portrayal of startups is something I have a split opinion on right now. On one hand, I feel bad criticizing the media because several founders have cited jealousy as their reason for starting a new company. "Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek, why the heck couldn't that be me?" So on one hand, it's a somewhat healthy amount of jealousy. On the other hand, I think it hurts people because there's a shock they experience when they do their first startup. "Wait a minute, startups aren't supposed to be like this. The magazines and newspapers had guys on the cover smiling, holding a thumbs up. This isn't what I signed up for!"

It's like digital crack. You get a sensational story, and it's kind of cool because it makes the startup world seem more attractive and now you have this overconfidence that you can do it, because well it's just easy and it looks like fun. It's probably better to read the full stories and get the full context. The founders aren't usually in the media to talk about themselves anyway; they're out there promoting their startup, so you're mostly walking away with a sales pitch (although startups do this to varying degrees, Indinero comes to mind when I think of startups who are most intent on using media coverage to grow, just an example). This video was definitely cool though, it's fun to see how they all work. They have one of the best pitches for hiring: "we have some of the smartest engineers" is an easy sell.

Check out the book if you want all the back-stories. It's pretty sobering; a nice break from the koolaid, so to speak.
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Yeah - but this is actually the most brilliant move that Facebook can make - and makes such greater sense than eBay.

You have a service of 500 MILLION accounts that actually talk to eachother.

The play here is so fucking obvious: the facebook Social technology portal page: It is a smartphone on fucking steroids.

You get voice, an extensive contacts list, all the apps on the platform, updates of actions etc...

There is no way why this is a stupid play on facebooks part.

If this goes through - they will have a phenomenally significant advantage to google. Millions of users that now have every tool they need to communicate. The additional services that facebook shall deploy only further lock in that user base: payments, planning, groups, organizations... eventually it will be about fostering and incubating companies and startups via facebook frameworked group app support.

The next step is the facebook phone... all it has is a data connection - skype all your contacts in-system, and the ancillary apps that they can end up providing through the platform in 5 years will take on apple.
Right now I run my sound through a MOTU Ultralite, and I've got some Grados SR60s and Audio Technica ATH-M40fs, which combined cost me under $100 (used and on sale... but you can still get each pair for ~$60 - $70), as well as some rebranded Altec Lansing UHP336. (Other headphones I've owned include the MDR-7506 and DT-770s, and I've frequently used older sets of K240s and HD-280s)

That being said, I think the notion that you need $300 head phones + $200 in headphone amplification is absolute garbage. $60 in headphones will get you 80% of the way. My macbooks and my Thinkpads have had more than adequate drive for my headphones, but there's still a small difference when you are driving it with something like a MOTU/digidesign/whatever interface. Most the interfaces I've used were as good or better than the midrange stuff when it came to headphone amplification.

One thing I've noticed is that most DIY PCs tend to have much crappier noise performance than my laptops, and the problem is always a million times worse if you use the front panel audio jack. Not sure why, maybe that's why this guy wrote this article.
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How should someone from the government or Council on Foreign Relations (http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=P) speak up if something is BS? -- it's not often that they do.
Instead of 20% free time, it's 100% free time, and they get to own a chunk of what they make. Smart way to outsource R&D by pre-owning a stake in what could be the next big thing, without the complexities and competition of acquisition.

I think they should just build what's getting funded at the time, and not get too crazy. A fast (and better) follower mentality.
Another offender is Netflix on the PS3: The PS3 has a 24p mode (for Blueray playback) but the Netflix app appears run at 60Hz.
"Firespotter isn’t an incubator. We aren’t looking for ideas or teams to back. We will instead be building products that we want to use ourselves and quickly get them out into the world."[1]

[1] http://www.firespotter.com/blog
The video on their 'Contact' page is particularly well done:

http://www.firespotter.com/contact-us

The narration is a series of excerpts from the 'Wave Speech' passage in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written about the hippie movement in San Francisco. Apropos.

Kudos to Alex Cornell, who apparently made it.
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http://lal.com/gatech is more or less a horrible wasteland… it's certainly no http://onlyattech.net/. Is there supposed to be something entertaining about this, besides reading the submissions from creepy people in the CS building?