skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes the shifts potentially groundbreaking is that major-league sports are famously technophobic. The NFL outlaws computers and PDAs on the sidelines, in the locker room and in press-box coaching booths within 90 minutes of kickoff.

This isn't about "technophobia" it's about controlling information that may be used for gambling purposes. For better or for worse, the NFL wants information about player injuries/etc to be distributed through a controlled process ("xxx has a leg injury and his return is questionable") rather then risking that some part of the population will have the info and another part won't.

Anderson would consider putting a computer chip in the ball and a laser on the goal line to replace the time-consuming debates and video reviews of scoring.

Fans have been talking about this for year, but it's not quite that simple, since scoring (and yardage in general) aren't just dependent on the location of the ball, it's also dependent on if/what body part of the ball carrier is touching the ground. It's worth investigating, but it won't be a panacea.

As long as opponents can't intercept the communications, he sees no reason why all players and coaches shouldn't be connected with wireless headsets, eliminating the need for a huddle or the quarterbacks' wristbands with plays listed in tiny print

Again this is something that's going to be inevitable. However, looking at booth-to-sidelines and sidelines-to-player communications today, if the headset system of one team breaks down, the other team isn't allowed to use their system until the first team's system is working again. I would assume that a similar rule would be in place for a team headset system, so that if one player's headset breaks, the other team wouldn't be able use their system until it got fixed. I wouldn't expect a team helmet communication system to be implemented until the NFL can be sure that the reliability will approach 100% which will be difficult considering the abuse the equipment may undergo, as well as potential interference issues.

An up-tempo pace will definitely increase the conditioning requirements of players, I'm curious as to how it will affect today's 300+ lb linemen, especially with the limited game roster.
It depends on what the full chambers do, but this could be a strategy to:

1) Disarm the opposition by making them think they have more time (i.e. the initial "until 2012" reports);

2) Railroad the legislation through more "quietly" and "at the last minute" while the public (and legislators, to the extent they aren't already fully in the camp of this legislation) are distracted with the impending holiday weekend and their attendant long-standing, personal commitments to family, travel, and all that;

3) Bury news of all this (to the extent the mainstream media has not already almost entirely ignored it) in the holiday-eve end of news cycle (akin to the "take out the trash" Friday / holiday weekend news releases that shows such as "The West Wing" helped to shine a light on with respect to general awareness).
IPhone 4S Time Zone Problem/Bug
Are you implying that the life of your countrymen is more important that the life of someone not of your country?

If so, I'd say those are questionable ethics.
Dependency injection vs. Cake pattern
Using that fancy tech is an end in itself as far as I am concerned.

When you think about it, public key cryptography is just plain awesome. We can generate a pair of numbers that let you hide and authenticate messages! Why would you not want to use that?

Much more recently I became aware of these other technologies that amount to a secure public title registry. Distributed currency and name resolution. Awesome! I want to learn about these things and put them to use, and soon. The hacker appeal of these is just staggering!

The very idea that a government would even consider saying I can't or shouldn't use these (shouldn't do a certian kind of math) is merely a reason to hurry up and do it faster. How dare they.
I think this business model is similar to that of the self-publishing model.

The two main parties in any published work are 1) the author and 2) the reader. The publisher, agent, distributor (book store) etc. are all intermediaries that have increased the cost of books for the reader AND decreased the money earned for the author (therefore restricting many authors' artistic contributions). With websites like creativespace.com authors can now publish self-publish with many fewer middle-men - therefore making the price lower and the net gain to the author higher.

The same applies for Louis CK's experiment. I assume his industry is pirated more than the print publications so that is the real trick. Either way, great experiment.
In Canada you generally pay long-distance rates (~$0.40/minute) when you:
-Call a number with a different area code (and sometimes the same one because some area codes are very large and actually have multiple zones)
-When you call a number in your own area code but you aren't in that area code (when you're in another city)
-Receiving calls when you're outside of your area code

Most people are on multi-year contracts with substantial break frees (in the $200 range). There are also charges to change your number and so on and so on...
Startups as innovation factories and not complete enterprises
Just to point out, this is apparently not true. Updated information indicates that Smith has scheduled another hearing on Wednesday, December 21. (Several current threads on HN point to stories describing this.) Don't assume you have until 2012 to oppose this legislation.
Great fun to watch! He just posted a "work in progress" version: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/ld22/index.html
Go to https://s3.amazonaws.com/ld48/ld22/index.html to play the game (he updates it periodically as he's working on it).
I don't know the exact rules of Ludum Dare, but if possible, I would have sketched out on paper (and if no prepared materials are allowed, memorized the important points) the general structure of the game, so that all I'd be doing during the 48 hours would be the actual programming.
In my version of Windows 7 (International English?), it says "Documents", "Pictures", "Music", etc. There is no "My" prefix.
Lots of bitterness here. Come on, it's christmas time, that's just a little fun for normal people.
"Software liberty" has a ring to it.
The last thing they wrote was "Confessions of Hot Hollywood Starlets at Secret Clothing-Optional Parties" published in 'The National Enquirer' right next to "Aliens Impregnating Actresses? How Many?"?
I've come across this misconception many times even on Hacker News and FLOSS-related community sites.
The site needs the information from a social graph to be useful. I can see it being hooked up to G+ in the future.
Is that a comment about Google or Politicians
Nice article. A really cool ssh feature is the integrated SOCKS proxy which you start with the -D option.
Just run

ssh -D1080 me@remote.host

and it will start a SOCKS proxy on port 1080 and will forward all requests via the remote host. Change the proxy definition in your browser (foxyproxy ftw.) and you are done.

It is really useful if you want to access virtual named hosts behind remote servers or just want to specify the uri instead of fiddling around with ports.
Thats interesting. My first 4 or 5 attemps had a checked item disappear (actually animated it to go back to the main list). Then I found myself accidentally checking items off by mistake and being annoyed I couldn't recheck them easily. So I decided since my lists were always short, I would just grey them out so the unchecked ones would stand out. At least thats my reasoning at the time.

Oh, and as a compromise, to remove checked items from the list, you just cycle the list button, and that cleans up the list, so I was hoping you'd get the best of both features. 1. A less twitchy list. 2. The ability to clean up the list.
It bothers me how, when writing my congressman, the advice is almost always to write in terms of how business will be affected. Sure, that's important, but what about freedom? It's as if citing freedom as a reason to do or not do something is too "abstract" when compared with a predicted effect on business.
According to Wikipedia[1], he liked some of its features, and seemed to float it as a model for a replacement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)#Monotone_as...
I believe perforce handles large binaries as well.
What is the difference between the three?
Huh. I've really had my fill of Gnome 3. I'm an xmonad user, and the new shell's addition has only complicated my situation --- all the code that was taken out (for, say, customization of gnome's look & feel) was useful to me, and the new code (the shell) isn't useful to me at all.

If KDE's stable, it may be time for me to have a look. I just use chrome, emacs, a shell, and a file manager anwyays.
Israeli Entreprenuer Changes Name to Mark Zuckerberg
Actually, he didn't do this. Part of the LD is that the theme/topic for the Dare isn't revealed until the game starts. He actually spent about twenty minutes staring at a 5-line text file labelled "ideas," just thinking out loud while he tried to come up with a game type.
How general do you want to be? You included gay men, which is ~ 2→5% of the population, so you're already siding on the "include lots of minorities" stand.

My point is that you can't really "analyze the situation" at all, because there are so many different sexualities.
The Setup: Brad Fitzpatrick
yeah right now g+ doesnt give you social graph data yet, we are working on linkedin and twitter however with twitter a lot of people follow brands or people they don't know

scaling friends of friends, combined with geo location, timeframe and interest tags has been an engineer challenge but we are starting to look into other graphs like above
At the least they could put G-meters in the helmets, to aid concussion detection, or trigger more serious sideline testing.
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You could say the same about "techies" who have the same or less knowledge of how politics works.
Grocery lists don't help you figure out what you need to put on that list, that's why it often fails me and why I created a list with "tags". Maybe I'm the only one, but its already helping me to not forget things.
Another nice ssh tunnel feature is remote port forwarding. Instead of forwarding your local port to the remote server you can forward a remote port to your local system. Instead of -L8080:localhost:80 you can just use

ssh -R8080:localhost:80 remote.host

which will make your local running web server accessible via the remote port. Of course you can specify instead of localhost other arbitrary hosts which will be exposed via the connection.

This is really useful for some firewall punching (if you can access the ssh server or have at least a http proxy which supports CONNECT) and exposing private services remotely.
For SOPA, Google should remove ALL search engine listings of copyright material(even websites created by the owners of the copyrighted material) just as ISPs would be expected to block entire site roots because it's easier. That way, there would be no copyright material accessible online. See how many media companies support SOPA under this new policy.
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Despite the name, xxxterm is not a cli web browser. If you clicked looking to browse the internet in your terminal, try w3m. It also has vi shortcuts.
Intel's talk at the LLVM dev conf on OpenCL
This is a link to the talk that Intel gave at the LLVM developers conference on OpenCL vectorization for the CPU.
My definition: A startup is a 1-5 year old company that has a potential to grow up its enterprise value by 50X within the next 5 years and has a business that can scale up quite easily.

This would filter out all the usual suspects Facebook, Twitter, 37 signals, while keeping Path, Instagram and all the YC funded companies. It would also cut out the new neighborhood bookstore, most service businesses and that sweet home business. Also it would cut out companies that have already reached $1-2bn in valuation (as they cannot realistically grow to become $100bn companies in 5 years).
I'm not saying it's a justification for continuance of the status quo. I'm saying that it's our evolutionary heritage, and as such it has to be recognized as a problem for everybody, rather than saying "it's the white man's fault so the white man is responsible for fixing it".

Changing thinking requires someone to show that things CAN be different. Only then can the majority follower population even consider the possibility. This is why the constant complaints about how "things aren't the way they should be" result in no action, and we end up right back here with accusations flying and nothing getting done.
xpra is also worth looking at. I's much faster than X forwarding or VNC, and it's much simpler to set up than NX. On Debian and Ubuntu, it's just an apt-get away. The usage is straightforward

On the remote machine which will export the application(s):

xpra start :100

export DISPLAY=:100

xterm

On your local machine, you would use something like:

xpra attach ssh:serverhostname:100

You can even detach the windows(s) from one computer and reattach from another, like GNU Screen.

http://xpra.org/
I am particularly upset by his failed campaign promise(s) to close Guantanamo. Friends tell me that there are "political realities" that prevent this from happening, "What if the detainees do something bad once they're freed? How would that look?" When did our ideals become props that can be abandoned when the popularity contest has been decided?
Pretty cool. I want to see that on twitter.
Some geeks certainly deny the sexism -- he gives an example of one -- so I think an article on male privilege has to start out there.

I also think trauma can work both ways. My abuse for being a nerd didn't teach me that women were bad, it taught me that being mistreated for being different is bad. Ergo my hatred of sexist behavior in my industry.

More generally trauma can explain bad behavior, but I don't think it excuses it. (Not that you're suggesting otherwise, but I want to make sure people here don't slip into a common error.) A lot of physical abusers have been abused themselves. But a lot of abused people don't go on to abuse anyone else. There may be a reason that somebody is a sexist jerk, but we should still hold them to account.
~ is your home directory. - is the last directory you ran cd from. For CDPATH see this http://www.caliban.org/bash/#bashtips
they are much less likely to have their genitals mutilated as infants by fathers who do not like the way they look.

Female genital mutilation happens as well in some countries. And the majority of cases it's much worse than the male equivalent. FGM often results in all or part of the clitoris being removed. That would be like all or part of the glans of a penis being removed. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation#Class...)

(As an aside, I think male genital mutilation happens more in the USA. Men in Europe of christian ethnicity don't usually get this done. Tis an odd the cultural practices)
"Even before interviewing Richard Stallman, the journalist still didn't understand the difference between free/libre and free/gratis."

The problem is that "free/gratis" and "free/libre" are intertwined. If you sell an app to a user that is under the GNU license, they have the right to re-compile and re-release it for free (and it's allowed under the license).

I've tried to charge for software under the GNU license. The type of people that use it generally expect it free as in beer. If it isn't, you get hate mail and someone will eventually release their own free version (which is an exact copy of the the paid edition) to compete with yours. You will slowly lose all of your sales and traffic unless you also release it for free.
But then when you have Google+ they change it to +Name (example +Stephen)
I love articles like this. Opened in a tab and moved to the left for reading over the holidays.
Maplight.org has the data:
http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/112-hr-3261/1019110/dow...
So the idea is pretty simple. Basically, they are asking, what is the mutual information between two variables? For those without a background in Inf. Theory: mutual information basically measures the amount of detail involved in knowing the two variables separately vs. knowing the combination of them. So if one variable can be predicted from the other perfectly, the mutual information is high, since knowing the two variables separately you would have to keep a lot of details, while knowing them together, you only need to know one. Information can be measured based on the discretization applied to the variables. They basically say if you look at all discretizations, then you can see if there is any way the two variables are related. Of course, they have to resort to an approximate algorithm. The idea is simple, and really, it is not new. I think a lot of non-parametric technicques try do the same. There software can be downloaded and I'd like to see its complexity and performance. I didn't find too much inf. on big O complexity or run times.
I guess you haven't heard of SHODAN yet then... http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=HTTP
Since learning about https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle here on HN, I rarely need to use ssh tunnels on my local machine. Instead, I keep multiple sshuttle sessions running in the background for the private networks I access.
I don't see techies wearing political ignorance as a cute badge of honor. When they want to restrict the rights of politicians, they learn about politics.
I agree with gerad, use "My" -- it's shorter, cleaner, and appeals to the user more. "Your" creates distance between the app and the user, if one were all alone, "My" would still exist, but "Your" would not.
We don't know he was even an obnoxious person (see also, the Actor-Observer bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_bias ), we only have her boyfriend's third party account of the interaction.

Other options:

- What she said was stupid and noobish, and he replied bluntly - rudely but not sexistly.

- What happened was misinterpreted as sexist because the interpreter is her boyfriend and jumps to her defense easily.

- The man in the comic book store interpreted her as being mocking and hostile and retorted in a similar fashion, when she didn't mean it that way.

- The man in the comic book store intended his comment to be a mocking imitation of a sexist, thinking he was being witty, but was taken as being literal.

- The shop manager agreed with the complaining customer because he was complaining and not because he was right.

- The man in comic store is normally nice and was temporarily more sexist than he usually is for some dull and specific reason, like he saw a very-near-miss in the carpark by a female driver.
I unsuccessfully tried to watch (and record) this with rtmpdump. Does anyone have success with it? This is as far as I got:

rtmpdump -r "rtmp://199.9.255.233/app" -a "app" -f "WIN 11,0,1,152" -W "http://www-cdn.justin.tv/widgets/live_site_player.re2cb52468... -p "http://sv.twitch.tv/notch --live -y "jtv_NkzwEXgKbSnzmSP_"

It is a shame that things like this are encumbered and tightly controlled.
SOPA Vote Hit with Surprise Delay
Tips for the Relief of Migraine Problem
Jumbo Electronics WLL
yep look at the German telco system very centrally controlled and they took a top down position that ISDN was the one true way - and so hampered the rise of the internet in Germany - which why they only have me to copies at the moment.

And all the really good engineers want to work for Audi.
I think this is an interesting debate, and something the olympics has to deal with as well.
Should we use technology in real world physical sports to abstract control of the game away from the players themselves?
Is watching football more enjoyable when the players turn into pawns?
When does the NFL start poaching starcraft players to help direct the field of play?
You might want to consider XFCE as well - the look and feel is very similar to Gnome 2 before they started adding all the bling.

The deal-breaker for me with XFCE is the lack of network folder support in the default Thunar file manager, but that may not be an issue for you.

But personally, I'm still using Gnome 2!
Mobilicity has $12.50/month unlimited calling plans now... I wouldn't say things haven't improved. If you use the upstart carriers you're paying a lot less. What hasn't happened is that Rogers or Bell or Telus have reduced their prices to match. Presumably they are anticipating that at some point they can simply acquire the new carriers and fold them in, like Fido or Virgin Mobile.
Yes vote with your wallet. "Money lets you effect the change you want to see in the world".

But that doesn't mean you aren't allowed to give out about sexist stuff when you see it.
I agree. It should be clear from the context that this is the user's content. If there is a mixture of content, I'd opt for labeling the other stuff.
does no one else know that hes just ripping off Belbin.
Where do I sign up for the privilige of having members of the opposite sex fall all over themselves doing things for me in order to get my attention?

If you're an attractive man, then you can get gay men (esp. older gay men, especially older, ugly, gay men), to do this. If you want people falling all over you, and doing things, there are ways to do that.
This is a great service, thanks!
Belbin has found what mix of team roles work well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories
A more effective and easy solution would be to wrestle the root zone control away from the United States Department of Commerce. The Americans have proven, without question, that they are unfit to govern what has become a global communications system. This regime can no longer be trusted.
They absolutely should. G-meters are already compulsory in lots of high-school football leagues.
I think the most interesting part of the post was in the comments when Fred highlighted an up and coming star using the web for distribution.

Freddie Wong is starting an episodic series. He raised the production money on KickStarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/freddiew/video-game-high...

Can you imagine how more interesting the web will get when the next Lucille Ball can go direct to the fans? All that is needed is a way to easily consume media from the web on the big screen.

Forget 500 channels, how about 5 billion channels!
> multiple implementations

Remember Android fragmentation? Talk about open source as golden hammer to solve problems.
Thanks for the tip.

Do you mean this ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories#Belbin_Te...
Well, yeah. It's Firefox.
I'm disappointed to see such harsh, judgmental attitudes with regards to this close-knit and supportive company culture. With the countless stories of poor management and toxic work environments, we should applaud and encourage companies that do their best to respect employees. Why such hostility?
Yes, almost any other VCS would fare better. VSS was set up so that clients could write files directly into the repository -- if the client failed for whatever reason, the repository file could get corrupted.
Javascript-free: http://mobile.twitter.com//DarrellIssa/status/14779528773226...
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I know it's just a coincidence that they chose the darkest day of the year for this, but I still find it a little poignant.
probably to hide hide somthing when he says "At Spool we’ve consciously hired mostly Stanford alums"
As I pointed out on your other thread on this topic (talkingpointsmemo, with similar title):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361737

"Just to point out, this is apparently not true. Updated information indicates that Smith has scheduled another hearing on Wednesday, December 21. (Several current threads on HN point to stories describing this.) Don't assume you have until 2012 to oppose this legislation."