skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but remember when SUn had it MS tried to do its own java..was anybody happy with that?
Cisco Brings Smart Cities Within Reach
Cisco created an interactive infographic showcasing its smart, connected City of the Future.
This is essentially what I have been doing for the last 6 months and it works great for me. But it only works great because 1) I go to bed at 9 pm - I am literally falling asleep with 5 minutes. 2) Coffee is only allowed before 9am.
The preferential treatment is more likely that an advertisement used across many videos is much more likely to be cached at a location near you than a specific video. Still sucks, but it makes sense.
This is one of the most ambitious visions about future of media and entertainment.
You don't have to guess how well such a service would work. It has been built and is available on the site.

Google has access to the same information about other social profiles that it does about its own profiles, as the tool on the site demonstrates.
Obama to Hold Google+ ‘Hangout’ After State of the Union
ANSI Common LISP by Paul GRAHAM -> http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
Not sure I agree.

Your correct that a huge amount of software today uses libraries that are distributed under some form of libre licensing although in most cases this is LGPL , BSD or Apache style licenses rather than GPL.
Sure perhaps they run some stuff on a GNU/Linux server but in most cases this could just as easily be a BSD , Solaris or even Windows server.

There are many types of software where GPL is absolutely a barrier , namely just about anything where the software is the end product. For example pretty much any video game or for example Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator. Some products simply don't lend themselves well to selling support , very few people are going to pay $1/min to get help running a program that is simple enough to figure out on their own from reading the manual and that should 99% of the time just install and run especially if it's not something mission critical that requires 6 nines uptime.
Better JS with CoffeeScript: Sam Stephenson of 37Signals
It doesn't help Microsoft that they have been beating their own drum about the "superior" malware detection performance in Internet Explorer, as compared to other browsers.

I already pointed out months ago that this was mostly an illusion due to their greater amount of false positives:
http://www.morbo.org/2011/08/note-on-malware-detection-perfo...
Emacs 23.4 release candidate 1
all they need to do is get a warrant. they actually had a 10 day warrant in the case in question. they just tracked the guy for 11 days and wanted to use the evidence.
Not that kind of UX. In this article UX stands for 'Urban eXperiment', not user experience. Have a look at it it is an interesting read.
GLUT is pretty horrible (Does not support key bindings such as "Shift+Tab", does not report key presses when a different language layout is selected). GLFW seems much better, and simpler.
Ubuntu Unleashed is filled with unique and advanced information for everyone who wants to make the most of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by a long-time Ubuntu community leader to reflect the exciting new Ubuntu 11.10 (“Oneiric Ocelot”) and the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04.
Some of our most important caselaw is contained in footnotes.
Strangely, it doesn't work inside of screen. I'd bet that it's because of the parent ID?
Gigli.st launches Instapaper for your job search
Some formatting issues on (my) mobile (EVO 4G, Android 2.2, stock browser). The small text (html, css, api, js) next to each feature gets cut off some when in portrait mode.
While annoying, you have to put things into perspective. You don't have to pay for youtube, and you can watch 30+ minute videos with usually only one or two 15 second ads. Compare that to TV where you're stuck with 5+ minutes of ads for the same 30 minute content. Alternatively, watch Vimeo or something instead, which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't show video ads and focuses on higher quality artistic content anyway.
All Warfare Is Based On Deception
Supreme Court Backs Privacy Rights in GPS Case
I'm not sure about the two hour timespan, but brightness appears to have an effect on sleep latency and the time it takes to fall asleep.

Studies [edit: PDFs]:
[1] http://www.journalsleep.org/Articles/250312.pdf

[2] http://www.sciencesleep.org/ziliao/Effects%20of%20playing%20...

[3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2005....
Then educate those people and don't push for some nanny-state mandate by which even if the freedom to switch services is available one service must freely advertise all the others.
Not to mention the hypocrisy of Facebook/Twitter blocking data from Google yet they are demanding to be featured anyway.
The ROI of Social Media – It’s Easy, Right?
Computer Maladies Are No Longer Insolvable
Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA
What do you use for those analytics? Is it something you built or a third-party thing?
I think it's fascinating in and of itself that large telecommunication companies are inconvenienced in any fashion for the purpose of market diversity and fair competition. I would enjoy reading more about such laws.
Read hacker news all day and don't actually work on their startup.
The leakage of information by friends is a problem.

But it is not a problem owned and invented by Facebook, it is any network.
So, does this explain the unexpected delay of the Spring ML-Class? I haven't heard any news until a few days ago when I got an email saying there were delays in starting the new semester.
The ruling was made pretty narrowly, only covering devices that are physically installed on an owner's property without their permission, so it wouldn't apply to cell phone monitoring.
There are certain expectations that the customer has about the parties involved and what the voluntarily collected data will be used for. It would be hard to make make a case that warrantless seizure of data fit into the customer's expectations.
You're supposed to consider only what's presented in court. Your behavior could lead to someone being unjustly convicted. The cops could pick up someone who is innocent of the specific crime, but who they know has a record.
Query API for Backbone Collections
By definition, if it's theoritcal, it's not evadince.
Build vs Buy: Emails for Apps - Comparing self-built and third-party services
> maybe try to use "onstar" gps data

maybe, but probably not necessary. they'll just get warrants. its not really that hard to get a warrant. if they have basically any reason to suspect that you're doing something illegal, they can get a warrant.

remember that even in this case, the government had a 10 day warrant; they just tracked the guy for 11 days.

> the way this is worded, it maybe seems the action of placing the tracking device that is the violation, not using an existing one, and they can still do it for "segments"

not sure what language suggested that, but the facts of this specific case were that they tracked a guy for more time than the warrant allowed (not that they attached a device without a warrant). scotus ruled that this wasn't okay.
So when do you go to bed? How about social activities, you just leave at 8p.m?
If I were to ask an FBI agent why obtaining a warrant first would have been onerous in this case (or similar ones), what would they say?
This is all true. One technicality though is that Google Voice is not a VOIP solution (yet) which is why the fight with ATT over terminating rural calls is interesting.
Most people would be appalled if they saw what the police get away with when they ask for search warrants. In the two areas I have personal experience with, the process of getting a warrant is an administrative inconvenience to the police, not the fair review that it's supposed to be. It's also important to keep in mind that it's similar to a prosecutor getting an indictment -- it's the law enforcement side telling only their side of the story, twisting facts however they please with no rebuttal, being told to a judge that maintains regular working relationships with these people and whose main concern is making sure the affidavit covers their ass enough not to get overturned on an appeal.
Yes, not the same UX, but somehow the same principles seem to resonate.
That's just Scalia's footnote.
What happened to Google's Feedburner Beta?
Up until December I was using Google's Feedburner Beta interface, then it suddenly disappeared and reverted back to the old version with no explanation. Does anyone know what's going on?
Intuition is key for your startup
"I'm not only a founder, I'm a member too!" #foundersexchange
Intel Acquires Fabric Technology InfiniBand From Qlogic For $125M
I dont understand why youtube has no Sopa/Pippa issues? I searched but didn't find a good answer. Could somebody expain that please?
How we spent $0 & received almost 100,000 visitors in 2011
The decision 9-0 but with two separate opinions, and boy is the split weird: Scalia-Roberts-Kennedy-Thomas-Sotomayor on the broader interpretation; and Alito-Ginsburg-Breyer-Kagan on the narrower interpretation.

Good news on either interpretation, though.
Shouldn't a content provider have choice as to how you get to watch something?

I'm not sure. Copyright exists for the sole purpose of providing incentive for people to create works for the rest of the population to enjoy. If the population cannot reasonably access that work, the intent of copyright protection is lost.
Subversion Tip of the Week - Resolving Conflicts in Subversion
Anonymous warns Sony and publishes all of its Discography
a 9-0 vote by the supreme on this matter is a huge thing.... much more than simply a majority vote. it sends a loud and clear message about their stance on the matter.
judges and prosecutors will take this, and all the details into consideration moving forward..... i would imagine the judiciary does not like to pass judgement that will beoverturned by thesupreme court as a matter of professional pride in many cases, and prosecutors dontmlike taking on losingcases.

take the win for what its worth, it is huge. ( i had to double check i wasnt linking to the onion when i woke up and saw theheadline.... good job neighbours ! beproud that your supreme mcourt just did what it is supposed to do, andthey did it loud and clear.
If you could supply a few examples I would love to learn!
And discography list:

http://pastehtml.com/view/bllpf04jv.html
Don't launch a company, launch an experiment
The linked article says Rand Paul set off an alert on a full body scan, then refused to be searched. That sounds more like his "protest" is trying to cover up something he didn't realize was carrying after the fact - otherwise why was he not protesting the body scan in the first place.
I am going to start doing this. Right now after 8 hrs of work, dinner and working out I am dead. I push myself for a couple of hours to work on personal projects but I am far from 100% by this time of the day.
If you dont mind sharing, how do you handle escrows?
It definitely is. The upgrade path between major versions is significantly easier which is where it really hurts. Also, despite the Debian packages being a little older, they always just work and have sensible patches and defaults applied.
Ghost Hunting
The widgets aren't served by WWW. Try something like to block everything:

# Block Facebook
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com

You can also block the widgets without the site (I log in from time to time but haven't seen a widget in a very long time). These days the like buttons are served from connect.facebook.net I believe.
Very interesting. This might be a viable business in Asian countries where NFC is pervalent. But the technology have not reached wide adoption here in North America for this kind of business to be viable.

Its definitely worth watching.
Based on reading (the beginning of) the decision, that appears to be incorrect.

From the first paragraph of the decision: "The warrant authorized installation in the District of Columbia and within 10 days, but agents installed the device on the 11th day and in Maryland. The Government then tracked the vehicle’s movements for 28 days."

And from the footnote on page 2: "1 In this litigation, the Government has conceded noncompliance with the warrant and has argued only that a warrant was not required"

So they got a warrant but messed up and failed to comply with its terms, and to try to preserve the conviction they argued that they didn't have to comply with the warrant.

Edit: Rereading it, andylei's main point is that police just need to get warrants and in order to still be able to use GPS tracking, and that's correct. Apologies for the nitpicking.
a 9-0 vote by the supreme on this matter is a huge thing.... much more than simply a majority vote. it sends a loud and clear message about their stance on the matter.

Tell that to lower/circuit courts who have an annoying habit of giving SCOTUS rulings a big fat middle finger.
after this ruling we will see, right ? Imagine a supreme court judge aski ng if All of his internetndata was available to besearchedwithout a warrant And being told yes.... one could imagine a similar outcome when such a case reaches them.
The Pirate Bay now lets you download physical objects
I think all these ideas ought to be a subject for a future Hollywood horror movie. :)
Here's a 2007 article explaining this:

http://pcworld.about.net/od/webtelephonyconferencing/FCC-ref...
I'm not sure it is. Speaking only from personal experience, we've canned all our Ubuntu LTS machines as they were terribly unreliable (kernel failures and wierd bugs on good hardware) and shipped broken packages regularly (mysql-server being the most notorious).

No problems at all with Debian so far.
We’re currently doing our football pre season training and for the first time this year there it involves a Thursday morning session from 6.00-7.00am (we normally train 8.00-9.15p.m.).

This hasn’t been as unpleasant as I thought it would be and I’ve noticed that the morning session ‘feels’ like it is evening time. Several of my team mates have made the same comment.

I’m guessing this is due to an association in the brain (several years reinforcement) between the activity (football training) and the time of day.
Though I made the switch too, I don't get your problem with packages. Debian uses Aptitude same as Ubuntu. It sounds like the problem you had with Debian was that you didn't have the sources you needed in your sources list.

I started with CentOS but found it difficult to maintain and set up. Then I switched to Debian because for some reason I felt pressure to not use Ubuntu. People often imply that Ubuntu is for bad programmers, inexperienced people, etc. It's kind of like "well, all the cool kids are using distro X because we're l33t and you're not cool because you use Ubuntu" so I stayed away from it for a while. Finally I ended up deciding that it was more important to just get a fucking app running on a server I could most effectively use. I'd been using Xubuntu and Crunchbang on my laptop for a while and so I made the switch and I'm very happy with it. I subsequently redeployed all my VPSes with Ubuntu 11.10 or 10.10 depending on what the hosts offered. I like it because not only is it the easiest for me to manage but it seems like its easier to find help for any problems you may run into and good documentation.

I say screw the hipster crowd who are too cool for Ubuntu and just focus on what's best for you. I think people like that are trying to convince themselves of how great they are more than anything else.
As I see it, the code that adds social networking links to people in the right side-bar (which is probably the most prominent feature of the bookmarklet) depends on the G+ profile being there.

So Google has their own algorithms to, say, connect Yehuda Katz with a search query for "ruby". This means that the plugin only finds ruby people who also have a G+ profile and then adds links to other services too.

Now for this to be really useful, it should find people even if they don't have a G+ profile and that is what I wonder whether it's even possible by just crawling the web to the extent allowed by the various services.

Adding other Social Networking links to already determined Google+ profiles is not interesting. Finding people on Twitter related to a search term regardless of whether they have a G+ profile or not is the interesting part.
Demonstrating when volatile is required in Java
Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB
What do you mean? If SOPA or PIPA had passed, YouTube would certainly have issues. Did the article suggest otherwise to you? As it is, YouTube receives DMCA takedown requests probably every single second, and they comply with them. So they stay alive. It seems the situation was the same with Megaupload, except that they didn't exactly comply all the time.
Since doing the online AI course,
I have been hoping Thrun would teach Robotics.

I have signed up - woohoo.
It looks awesome - I am stoked - Sebastian Thrun is an amazing teacher, he really makes me think hard and gives me the scaffolding to investigate further on my own.
It's outdated in the sense that the original reason for the high fees was to make it economically viable to provide service to people in rural areas. But the original sunk costs of wiring every home and business have long been paid off, and the digital-ization of the phone network has drastically reduced the ongoing costs of providing service to those folks. So it's outdated.

On the other hand, there are plenty of local CLECs in rural areas that make money from these fees, and they continue to lobby hard to keep the tarriffs and fees as they are.

So it's both, really.
I think you know the answer: if judges will approve it 95%, law enforcement becomes convinced that the process of obtaining approval is superfluous, and is nothing but a barrier to getting their job done.
The problem is, that is a violation of the persons rights. S ome publications report that anywhere from 5-10% of WARRANTED searches were invalid. So imagine if you dropped that prerequisite, what that number would end up being? Would LEO selectiveness drop, and put the level of effort in validating the search onto the defense? Is that fair to the defendant? Absolutely not.
I thought Emacs 24.0.92 was the the most current version.
As an American that has recently moved to Germany, I do know that I pay significantly more income tax in Germany. I also know that a greater percentage of the population here is employed compared to the US, and that Germany also has a higher percentage of their GDP come from taxes. I was surprised to read your claims - do you have any good sources for them?

I do agree with you that in the case of US public services, money is not the real issue.
Why wouldn't they count?

Companies that sell software generally have services divisions as well. My company sells software for large amounts of money, and we have a separate division of the company that sells services.

If a company exists to make money, why would you discount one of their profit centers as invalid because of another of their profit centers?
@NelsonMinar - I couldn't agree more. I'm currently learning OpenGL and having a hell of a time putting it all together.

Thankfully I found a quick reference card for OpenGL 4.2, then I can see what's core then extrapolate from there.

But yes there sure is a lot of schmutz out there.
Storage sites unnerved by action
law enforcement becomes convinced that the process of obtaining approval is superfluous, and is nothing but a barrier to getting their job done

I don't have a problem with giving law enforcement more work to do if it means increased diligence in the court room and due process actually being executed...duly.
Anonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One
What sort of twisty-turvy world have we found ourselves in?

One where the majority of people refuse to see politicians as politicians. There is no Democrat vs Republican.
Read her other articles, this lady is the blogging poster child for suburban mothers.

Read her pile of crap about snow plows.

This is literally the highest level of blog spam.
Thanks for the votes folks :)

Would love to get some discussion going here.
On my system, all SUID binaries are executable yet not readable, e.g.

$ ls -l /bin/su
-rws--x--x 1 root root 52144 Mar 5 2011 /bin/su

Doesn't this effectively stop the exploit? It still works when I insert the <exit@plt> function address, but I don't think it's possible to trace this without root rights, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Oh, you better be sure - it (NorthernLight) did use to matter alright. Used to be mentioned in almost every print article related to the Internet/search. :)
One of the most famous is US v. Carolene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Carolene_Produ...), but there are hundreds, maybe thousands of examples. Even when they don't contain actual law, footnotes often give insights into why a court decided an issue or interpreted a fact the way it did. These little hints can be invaluable in distinguishing later cases, or giving a later court a foothold to create some new law.
Great effort! Still a couple of comments:
As already mentioned C&C is not the originator of this genre. Wikipedia has a decent article on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy

Also please don't use a black background. The dark blue links are really hard to see clearly!
Show HN: Create and share iOS apps lists
"""The government told the justices during oral arguments that that GPS devices have become a common tool in crime fighting, saying it is employed “thousands” of times annually."""

So sad to think all those investigations will now have to have proper court oversight (not that I imagine that is too hard to get).

Anybody know how this could effect other, already completed, cases? Could I ask for a retrial/appeal if my conviction was heavily based on this type of evidence?
I managed to sign up. (browser Chrome)
The problem is that it requires you to go to bed at 7pm. This will most likely never work for me.

I've also tried it and no matter how much I prepare, I'm always really tired during the day and I end up taking a mid-afternoon nap.

I think it might be because I'm a night person.
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building a Map Server
The desire of the executive branch to maintain and increase the power of the executive branch is cross-party. That's part of the whole theory of separation-of-powers; the judiciary and the legislature act as a check on executive power.
Me. It does nothing when I click on Enroll button.
It changes from country to country.

In France changing from SARL (not VC friendly) to SAS (VC friendly) hardly exceeds 10 000 €.

For a business angel, you might even stick to SARL which has got some advantages regarding partner's compensation (less taxes, more flexibility).
Emacs 24 is in development and there's been no release yet, although many people run an Emacs 24 snapshot.
That's a pretty broad statement. Got any examples?
Simplify your Life - Drew Houston (Video from DLD)
That explains why I can never connect using Vonage.

Thanks. I always wondered about this, but not enough to dig into the details. Interesting.
Fantastique! Chronicling this group would make a great documentary, or even a much better film than the sorry dragon tattoo fodder. These guys are hackers in the true sense of the word.

On a tangent, there are many tunnels under Chicago, too, which has neen used during the Prohibition. Any local HNers who has been to these?
I'm curious because I don't follow server distro updates often: what server-side stuff did Ubuntu improve on? I was under the impression that most of their gains were on new user experience as opposed to traditional administration.