skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR version - Foreign governments can inject malware at the chip level, we don't have a second source.

I think the short answer to this question is 'no.' The more interesting question is can you write software that defends itself against a chip trying to subvert it? Possibly. Some of the original triple redundancy with voting research that was done for the space program might be useful here. Basically run three chips in parallel and insure they all do the same thing. This would have addressed the SCADA malware as it affected the operation of a single PLC but wasn't synchronized to other PLCs. So using a voting scheme for 2 out of 3 you would have had reliable operation.

I think one of the winners would be Intel here. They have the most fab capacity in the 48 contiguous states. With government contracts mandating the chips be built on Intel processes in the U.S. of A. they could at least protect the supply chain some what and act quickly when they suspected a problem.
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Facebook: people outside America don't understand the "interested in" phrase
Probably, I will start with RoR, at least it seems so now. :)
>let's not conflate the issues of identity vs. verification vs. permanence

I think that's the entire point of the article - that those issues combine to be a factor on social networks in a way that they very rarely do offline.

To put it another way: on social networks, assuming you use your real name (which is the issue), all three of identity, verification, and permanence are true by default, and false only as exceptions. Offline, you may get one or two, but rarely all three at once.
I have no idea when I would need to use it. Can someone give examples of when I might want to think of using it?
I wonder how such analysis is conducted. are there experts for both parties present? Or just the judge? Seems strange to allow one of the parties access to the computer, there should be a neutral person operating the computer and only do stuff after both parties agree to it. Could take some time though...
So you're saying that the community has no place in attempting to guide and shape the social networking sites that they use?

Social networks are becoming a must and you can't just choose to use whichever fits your needs. You have to use the one that everyone else uses. Many people are forced to use these sites for business reasons. Often it's even required by a job, so suggesting that people have a choice is true to a point because they could find a new job. For many people it's probably about as true as saying that you don't have to have a bank account.
They deserve credit along with a number of other sites. (The Manhattan Project is one.)
You're proposing that Joe the candy store owner be given money by the government for filing a patent on kite-powered lawn mowers.

You claim that since Joe is evidently providing something the market values, we should cut his taxes.

But that's what everybody with income does. So why not cut everybody's taxes? We could do that without a sideshow of filing useless patents.

This idea

1. Does not tie rewards in any way to actual innovation.

2. Explicitly suggests that people keep things as trade secrets for a while, which negates the actual purpose of the patent system!
Yes, lets leave that to the physicists please.
It's worth pointing out that there's a difference between "anonymity" and "not-my-real-name". Most people on the Internet are probably not anonymized by their screennames/handles/nicks/whatever-the-kids-call-them-now because they work hard to integrate that online identity across services. It is a real, tangible identity even though it is completely separate from the physical person.

We shouldn't underestimate the value of that identity, or of stepping outside the identities we have in the working world. Some people would rather be known totally and solely as the guy who posts funny stuff to Reddit and contributes to open source projects, not as the 34 year-old IT worker who gets yelled at every morning by a boss he hates.
I think this is actually pretty exciting, if I understand it correctly. The computer revolution was led by a better understanding of semiconductors; materials led the way. It may be that understanding new materials and new material stats is key to a quantum computing revolution.
There was a Stanford Entrepeneural Thought Leader Seminar where the speaker (I forget who) said:

"The day big corporations come knocking at your door threatening lawsuits...that is the day you know you've made it".

No startup will have to worry about patent litigation from giants, unless they are perceived a threat. And if they are perceived a threat, they are significant enough to combat or negotiate their way out of it.
> Your name on a patent makes your argument against the patent you have that much more effective.

That is crazy talk.

Here's an analogy. We're in the 19th century. Someone with analogous views to yours says an abolitionist should become a slaveholder to be a more effective advocate for abolition. An abolitionist who through an accident of birth inherits an estate with a holding of slaves might indeed make a more effective advocate against slavery because he stands to suffer immediate financial loss were slavery abolished. That is all true. But it's a completely different thing to say that a would-be abolitionist should actively try to become complicit in the very system he is trying to abolish. Or that the man who is a slaveholder by birth should expand his slave holdings in order to make his potential losses from abolition all the more staggering.

I'm not trying to say that the system of patents is analogous to the system of human slavery on a moral scale. I'm just addressing the tactical issues and whether someone who opposes a system for moral reasons should become complicit in it. There are probably many other examples I could have used, but this is the one that came to mind.
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These two anecdotes suggest that we should teach a hacker mentality to soldiers. Or have a hacker (or a group of hackers) with each unit where they identify problems, experiment, and implement solutions. Hopefully the military would place more value on the intelligence and creativity of the common soldier and invest more in order to nurture it.
Rosetta Code: 541 Programming Problems in 392 Languages
True enough, but you don't need your real name on Twitter, at least.
Thanks for the comprehensive overview of what is going on cappuccino land.

Regarding the missing features on vanilla JS: it is ok. More powerful languages on top of JS might have them, and having a common ground to compile to would make the toolkit more hospitable to a polyglot environment.

Edit: It is also important to note that Javascript supports metaprogramming as powerful as LISP macros. This is because functions implement toString method. Coffeekup [1] is a beautiful DSL for writing web pages in Coffeescript that uses this feature quite successfully. Therefore I'd really like to see which JS missing features can't be supplanted by AST manipulation, like the one you'd do in Scheme, Clojure or Common Lisp.

GWT had this very same issue: by choosing source code compile, languages like Clojure, Scala, Groovy and JRuby were removed from the ecosystem. Which is really harming for open source projects, where the more people you reach, the more help you get.

Heroku's founder Adam Wiggins wrote a lot about this Polyglot environment a couple of days ago on: Polyglot Platform [2]

[1] http://coffeekup.org/

[2] http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/8/3/polyglot_platform/
Python's if __name__=="__main__": main() in other languages
This behavior is very hard to Google. For now, I'm calling it "scripted main" and I'm cataloging it for several programming languages.

Ruby: if __FILE__ == $0 then main end

Perl: unless(caller) { main; }

...

https://github.com/mcandre/scriptedmain

Does anyone know the syntax for this in GNU Smalltalk?
That might be the best argument going for it. Which is not to dismiss the rest of the device's potential. Suck that one FCCT&T!
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If that's the route you're going, I highly suggest Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial. The entire text is available for free, but you can pay for a PDF version and accompanying screencasts.

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
"On top of this, developers are able to very easily repurpose their Android apps to run over QNX"

Am I missing something here? When was Android ported from Linux to QNX?
Why does it say "paper jam" when there is no paper jam?
Why Are American Schools So Damn Easy?
Bethesda suing Mojang AB for "Scrolls"
ICML 2011 presentation videos
Hey, as long as the dish washers get stock options it's still a pretty good job.
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One cool feature of the juniper junos CLI is that all the CLI commands have an option for XML output, making parsing of the CLI output in scripts a little more sane.
Um, yes?

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/04/stable-upda...

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/stable-chan...

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-and-...
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Actually, the Queen visited Bletchley Park a couple of weeks ago and unveiled a tribute to the WWII Codebreakers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14164529
July Unemployment improves to 9.1% and NFP hits 117,000.
The reason why prolog is important to learn and play with it is to understand and learn concept of declarative programming as programming paradigm.

That is very important skill when designing system because you learn how to define what the system should accomplish, rather than describing how to go about accomplishing it.
In the future I will make sure that I register domains that are not under the control of the U.S. government.
I would say that the actual software component of Minecraft isn't in beta so much as it's the "game mechanics" side of it. It's like having a board with pieces, but not all the rules are written yet.
We don't have enough people to warrant group coverage, so I've always just paid for a health plan for my wife and kids. I'm healthy, so I don't see the need in paying several hundred $ per month on myself, when my costs are no where near that amount.
Spartacus protest on Google Plus
@zedshaw Would you be up for a Factor version done with the same spirit and quality?
How to use images when you're designing without pixels
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Lets have an honest conversation here. The only reason why Google and Facebook want your real identity is because of marketing dollars. I should know, because my company makes a lot of money from being able to identify individuals in the audience we advertise to. The more I know about my audience, the more money my company makes. They are the same audience whether I know who they are or not, but when I know who they are, I know not only what they will buy but what triggers will push them in to that position that they buy.

In the old days you gave your friends your pseudonyms. My friends knew mine and I knew theirs. That is the way public communication should be. We don't walk around outside giving everyone we see a brochure with our full name, city of residence, and pictures of everything we've said in the past year -- we certainly shouldn't do it online where the information is as easily accessible by someone in your hometown as it is a Mexican kidnapping gang.
If developers all united against filing software patents it could make a difference. I admit that I have cooperated in the filing of dumb patents before, but next time that happens I will refuse. Fire me if you have to.
I don't think you should put words in his mouth, but since he's a new account made just for that comment, perhaps you're right and he's just trolling. I still don't have a Facebook account. I'd also wonder how often it is that one doesn't use one's real name when trying to network for business reasons. The fact is as long as we're not involving the government, Google/Facebook/et al. can do what they please, and I'd rather keep it that way. If this real names issue remains a big issue people just won't use Google's offering and Facebook/other will win. Let them decide it. If your boss is forcing you to get a G+ account with your real name, I think you've got bigger problems. (Not to mention you can hardly be said to be part of the 'community' if you just joined a minute ago at your boss' orders, but that's beside the point.)

Edit: curious about the downvotes. Did Google Buzz prevail despite making lots of people angry?
And the freedom they have is choosing the services they use as well. If a service wants you to use your real name and you don't want to, you don't use the service. That's the beauty of freedom, you are not required to use a service like Google Plus. Freedom is not that Google Plus is suddenly a governed body that has to adhere to some unwritten law that they cannot require real names.
Google-Microsoft spat could be tiny step toward patent reform
This issue is generally described under the heading "effective capital gains tax rate" in the literature, which back when the rate was higher was between 3.4% and 6.6% (1960 to 1978).

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2352820 for an abstract that relates
This seems like making a site like whohatesshoes.me, advocating for banning restaurants requiring shoes. If you disagree with the requirements of a service, you shouldn't use it (assuming the requirements are legal).

That said, the design of this site is pretty slick
Same here, it seemed overkill for my use cases so far. Check out Gearman or Beanstalkd, they're simpler to setup.
If you're using the geoloc of the phone - you can show the nearest venues on a map. I dont think that users would find that clunky.

That is how many people use Gmaps on their phones: Type a search for a store/place see them listed on the map and click the bubble for directions.
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Isn't that what translations are for? Or do translators get it wrong too?
There is notification (and AFAICT, no way to turn it off in the Froyo version on the original Moto Droid), but otherwise, jellicle is correct. Just check the box on the Android Market App page to allow autoupdating.

Would be interested to learn what the "security reasons" are that you referenced above; did you mean the underlying OS? I've always felt that by Appifying more of the core Android OS functions, Google could deliver more timely updates because they would be able to avoid many of the carrier restrictions and awful modifications made by manufacturers (e.g. just include the keyboard as an app that gets shipped with the core OS).

[UPDATE:] Can't reply to georgemcbay, but he stated:

> "this can be disabled"

I've had this set in the market app as you described for a while, but still get notifications when an app has autoupdated. Did I miss something?
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>Gruber is being consistent here: he doesn't like software patents

Funny that he doesn't say that in this post. Nothing like "I'm against software patents, but Google seems to play the software patent game when it suits them". Instead he says 'there are some who will argue that there are no “worthy patents”' which 1) implies he's not one of them and 2) conflates software patents with all types of patents.

>Google would actually have a moral high ground if they hadn't even bid for the Novell patents.

Google has the moral highground because, unlike Apple and others, they have not been suing people over software patents.
The community should probably spend less time complaining about how existing centralized social networks are abusive, and spend more time developing, using and promoting federated alternatives. The fact that you have to use the one that everyone else uses is not a universal truth but a regrettable state of affairs which should be fixed.
I don't care about video -- I just want to get stuff done, so the more ways to communicate the better.
Facebook used to have a "looking for" field, and I always thought "interested in" modified that. I'd always been interested in men and women for friendship (on Facebook), before that field disappeared.

... and I still find men and women interesting. Why does it always have to be about sexual preference?
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Where do users look first?
Dictator douchebags through the ages have been asking for the names of the people that want to overthrow them. Anyone that asks for your papers should get a a quick shot in the head.

You think its revolutionary to demand my papers every time I take a step? Yes, yes it is. Something orwell could not have even dreamed of.

But don't worry, the tyrant getting overthrown will be you.
I for one, welcome our robot car drivers.
Interesting facts about sharks (Shark Week)
for node.js

if (!module.parent) {
// your main here
}
Not really. Giving the game some sort of (optional) goal (i.e. actually turning Minecraft into a game) was always Notch’s plan. Nothing special about that.
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Does Celery support task dependencies? Would be great to specify a DAG of tasks and have them run in parallel. Basically something like Oozie but not restricted to Hadoop.
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Why measuring the Social Media Marketing ROI is Rubbish
Ask HN: Best day of the week to launch a startup?
What's the best/worst day of the week to launch a SAAS startup? Is any one day better than another or are there any particular days to avoid if we're going to try to get online media coverage and traffic?
I have an individual plan (as does my wife and our son). They cost us around $450/month total.
Is it not a major outsourcing hub already? There are hundreds (well, I might be overestimating it a bit) of companies there. 2 out of 5 top Google search results for "software outsourcing" are Russian companies.
Sony's PSN Debacle Earns An Automatic Pwnie Award
So...what. The enemy can see where they placed their own bombs? This thing is going to be 100 meters or so (at most) away from a humvee with people in it.

That was the same argument, by the way, for why it didn't matter that the drone feeds were non-encrypted. The enemy already knows where they are, they already know that the drone is there, the video feed gets them nothing.
I would strongly suggest looking into a high deductible HSA plan to protect yourself from a (financially) catastrophic medical event.
So you mean a he said/he said case? I'm pretty sure they investigate those all the time (most assaults would be this way) and have even less potential evidence than they would with a phone.
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Froyo added auto-updates that work as jellicle described (you select it as an option per-app from inside the market app and it'll auto-update those apps that publish new versions whose permissions haven't changed).

It is true that by default you still get notifications for each app update, but this can be disabled (go to the settings in the Market app, set the notifications setting to 'Do not notify me').

While technically this isn't quite the same as Chrome because the user has to disable notifications manually (and the notification option isn't a per app option, but rather for all apps), I think the system in place on Android strikes the right balance for a mobile device.
I think it’s kinda important to clarify that your issues are not at all common. Your experience is not the typical experience. There is something wrong somewhere with your copy of Minecraft. (Have you tried deleting it completely and re-installing it?)
Oh yes I def agree that maps can be very useful when searching for a place (we've actually integrated it). I may have misunderstood you but what I meant was discovery of new places via a map can be somewhat difficult (without actually typing in a place name). Sometimes its easier to just see how far it is from you. For example 150 yards. We could totally be wrong on this and thats why your feedback is so important to us.
Thank you, whoever changed it!
Agreed. But 99.9% of your real-life statements aren't stored permanently as they are online. This allows us to be more honest with our friends. We don't have to worry that something we said 10 years ago in a bar will be available today verbatim to those friends and to whoever those friends share it with... and with a strong possibility of people who we don't even know listening in. (In the digital sphere, privacy restrictions are much easier to circumvent than the space-time limits of real-life.)
Wow. There is almost no extra information in this article beyond the title. I suppose there is a brief history of the dispute, but nothing at all related to the"smoking gun evidence" besides the original statement and a couple of "no-comment" follow ups.
Certainly. It’s line of sight. It’s actually possible to visually see who will be able to catch the data.
The quoted math is wrong, it's actually 6 million total and 210k per month so far.
May I ask how you know your join-order at your school?
Google seems to have decide that red equals "create" -- all the new designs have a red button for creating a new message / document / ...

My brain's having a lot of trouble with this. I'd be really interesting in the reasoning that went into re-mapping a color usually used for "stop" or "delete" or "danger" onto "create".
I'm working on a CLI right now that's rather "complex" in Ruby and i'm seeing the other extreme: CLI frameworks and DSLs. I don't know about other languages but in Ruby your library options range from the minimal (DIY with OptsParser, Trollop) to the gigantic (Thor, Rubicon) and everything in between...
Well, at the risk of asking too much... Any (All)of those things.. I'm just starting out as the tech lead of a project we're bootstraping, and this is one the the weak areas I find ourselves heading in. So i'd like improve every aspect of the documentatiton that I can
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