skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I'm pretty sure there's no compelling legal reason for the TSA to do this. If what the TSA says is admissible in a later trial (which it likely would be[1]), it will be admissible whether or not Schneier is present at this hearing. The legal angle would explain why Schneier wouldn't want to testify, but he's apparently game.

Coming from the TSA, it amounts to "we are afraid to face questions from someone who will know enough to ask hard questions." Which I agree is unsurprising, but it's not exactly a compelling defense of their position.

[1] Under, for example, Rule 801(d)(1)(A): http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_801
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Well, the kid doesn't have to worry what to answer on a question about the most impressive thing he did if he decides to apply to YC someday.
I don't think that's right. The author clearly states its 0.004% of the sky, not 0.00004%. Simply adding a percent sign doesn't change the number.
That is pretty impressive. I wish there was something like this that showed travel between two points, say earth and Alpha Centauri, but at lightspeed or faster with a timer in years at the bottom like an odometer. I imagine that would impart a greater sense of scale for myself.
It's worth noting that the application isn't only for "pull to refresh". The first independent claim covers "scroll past the extant content area to do something else".

Scrolling to the left of the iOS home screen to bring up the search interface runs afoul of that claim as written.

As does scrolling in the built-in Google Maps app.

This kind of patent is bad for the industry because it is absurdly broad. Whether patents on UI are a good idea, or whether this is truly novel and not just an extension of the 'infinite scroll' of things like Google Maps, is almost irrelevant in comparison.
His timing is way off.

He's also not specific enough about what he's apologizing for. He admits to exaggerating what he saw but doesn't explain what exactly he did see, if anything, and what exactly in the show is a fabrication. He needs to come clean about everything. Remember that he was still arguing at least a week ago that he did meet underage workers, for example.
Gotcha. Fair enough point.

I didn't mean to imply to imply you were for them, though I see now that's what my wording did. Sorry about that!
Right. I don't think it's possible to make it profitable without a corporate sponsor or heavy subsidies from the local city government for the first few years.
this is the way network non-neutrality will creep in. Who would complain about a special deal for some customers?
Gregg Braden - Bridging Science & Spirituality
What does 2012 have in store for us.
I'm hoping his next step is to create a full computer and port Linux to it... :-)
Scrollerometer: Auto-scrolling in Mobile Safari using the Accelerometer
In the US, even the most progressive city centers like SF and NYC are still dysfunctional for families due to public schooling being poor in all but the wealthiest neighborhoods.

My family was ready and willing to downsize to less than half the space we have now to live in the city. But we can't stomach 4 times the cost for the smaller housing plus a lottery system for public schools for our kids.
they are backed by google, and they fake data? they cannot afford accurate counters?
Curious as to what the backend stack is - can you provide any details?
Great question!

Apparently, yes. http://www.archdaily.com/197061/architectural-patents-on-wha...
Everyone has their own style. As one controversial example, some programmers do this

if (condition)
singleStatement;

Their POV is less lines = better.

And others do this

if (condition) {
singleStatement;
}

Their POV is defensive programming and or consistency is better.

Similarly, some programmers prefer

var a,
b,
c = 3;

Because less typing = better. Others prefer

var a;
var b;
var c = 3;

Because they prefer consistency and defensiveness. Deleting any line doesn't effect the others where as in the 1st example, delete the first or the last line and other lines have to change (which is funny since that means MORE typing).

Yet another example

if (condition) {
statement;
statement;
}

vs

if (condition)
{
statement;
statement;
}

Some prefer the first because it's shorter. Others prefer the second because it's consistent and keeps the blocks separate and movable.

IMO one vs the other is not a pattern vs anti-pattern. It's a style decision. Me, I'm on the consistency and defensive programming > shortness of typing side of this fence. It's disheartening to see some self appointed JS gurus claim their 'style' is better when clearly it's just 'style'.
This is a great example of why I dislike JS as a language. There is a page on optimizing for loops with 6 examples. Four of them are deemed sub-optimal. The two "preferred" examples are miles away from being intuitive or natural. And it's not an exception.

There are just way too many ways to do things wrong.
More testing and simulation is needed.

> So far, the team has modeled individual 3-D modules. A next step is to study a collection of such towers, accounting for the shadows that one tower would cast on others at different times of day. In general, 3-D shapes could have a big advantage in any location where space is limited, such as flat-rooftop installations or in urban environments, they say. Such shapes could also be used in larger-scale applications, such as solar farms, once shading effects between towers are carefully minimized.
Fixed: Earth is the only planet known by humans on Earth to have life.
Geuis:

.004 / 100 == .00004 / 1

And

.004% = .00004
Not a new idea, but it seems a pretty implementation. I've played with Spore a little in the past: https://github.com/spore

Client implementations include:

- Perl: https://github.com/franckcuny/net-http-spore

- JS (Node): https://github.com/francois2metz/node-spore

- Lua: https://github.com/fperrad/lua-Spore

- Ruby: https://github.com/sukria/Ruby-Spore

- Clojure: https://github.com/ngrunwald/clj-spore
Yes it does, actually: "per cent" means "per 100", so, divide by 100.

50% is 50/100, or 0.5 of the whole

0.004% of the sky is 0.004/100, or 0.00004 of the whole sky.
When I tried to request early access, I saw "Hm, there was a problem. We're looking into it. Try again later? Sorry!"
> You're probably right, but the post is titled "Girls and Computers", which kind of seems to imply some deep, and general, theorizing about girls and computers.

Or that she's been spending some time thinking about "girls and computers" after the news stories about girls and computers and it made her think of her own story.

That's how I read it, anyways. Obsessing about the "deeper meaning" of a 3 word title and whether or not it is the best description of the content seems a bit pointless.
> Actually, I'm pretty sure there's no compelling legal reason for the TSA to do this. If what the TSA says is admissible in a later trial (which it likely would be[1]), it will be admissible whether or not Schneier is present at this hearing.

The thing is that what they say changes depending on whether there are hard questions asked or not.
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It's not necessary. But it does make a difference to the story. Some one who'd had years of education and gone through a good college and has worked in the industry could have made this, and everyone would have been impressed. The fact that this young person created this without all that is impressive.

And, depending what media you have access to, there's not often good news about young people.
It looks a lot like they're using https://github.com/jeromegn/DocumentUp Allows you to create sites from markdown files.
On Being Remarkable
> "The purpose of patents is to get things invented that would not otherwise be invented"

The purpose of patents is to advance public knowledge. It was understood that people would invent regardless (as people always had). But without patents inventors obfuscated, sealed devices, etc. And when they died, chunks of knowledge often died with them.

But inventors were reluctant to make their secrets publicly available for everyone to see and possibly copy. Hence the temporary monopoly was extended, not to make their job in the market easier, but as payment for sharing their knowledge with the public.
We're not quite "fully launched" at this time, but you might want to check out Trestle:

https://www.trestleapp.com/

We don't meet all your bullet points from above, but your closing paragraph sums up what we're doing with Trestle pretty well (i.e. more than just a web connected database).
Yeah didn't work for me either.
Yeah didn't work for me either.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/sendspree/webapps/backlift.com/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 988, in _execute

getattr(self, self.request.method.lower())(* args, * * kwargs)

File "/home/sendspree/webapps/backlift.com/backlift/backlift/server.py", line 35, in post

raise tornado.web.HTTPError(403)

HTTPError: HTTP 403: Forbidden
Collaborative Value and Learning
If Daisey's story wasn't politically charged, if it was just a whimsical autobiographical human interest story I wonder if people would care as much? I think everything I've read indicated that most if not all things he described actually happened, just not in the way he described or to him. Does it matter that much how he tells it? I don't really think it does personally, to me it was just an enjoying story and even now it didn't sound like he was creating fabrications out of nothing. Ira wants him to to be more explicit about what is truth and what is fiction but does he demand it because this crosses the line from theater into journalism? Since these autobiographical dramatic performances are a regular occurrence on the TAL maybe they should start putting disclaimers on each one? I wonder how much Sedaris and other contributors exaggerate and invent for the sake of comedy and drama?
Ecommerce/shopping cart software reviews
Ask HN: Any Team Gamification tool out there? [4sq for Workplace]
I'm looking for the Foursquare for Workplace to gamify developer as well as sales team activities. Any reference?
does not work for me either
Yes, and 0.002 cents == $0.002.
Looks awesome Cole!
>what you lay out would be infinitely worse. All those "shoulds" are decisions that would be made by beurocrats with little real understanding (who really knows whether the $9000 device can really be substituted with an iPad and app?).

I can't say that I have all the answers, but neither are you providing any alternatives.

Can you make a suggestion as to how to prevent patents (or for that matter other IP protections) from being used as a tool to prevent innovation as opposed to promote it, as it was intended?
It's right. 0.004% == 0.00004

Just like 100% is equal to 1. If the image were 100% of the sky, you would divide by 1, not 100.
Not going to sign up on Facebook for that... so: Patio11, do you realize Patio has a meaning in Spanish too?
I'm rather confused about a few things:

1) Is there no index.html?

2) Can you develop locally?

3) How do you use the templates you showed?

4) Is the boilerplate you provide open sourced anywhere?
Thats learning about different programming languages... Not creating your own.
One of the main purposes of patents is (ostensibly) to allow innovators a temporary monopoly to recoup their R&D investment. From that perspective, a UI patent that isn't specific to applications in your niche seems like a bad idea. If I'm not competing directly with Tweetie, how are they harmed by my use of their UI technology? If they're not harmed by my use, why are they being protected?
World Wide Telescope:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/wwt/
Not that this matters to the general public, but it seems to me that general security knowledge should be applicable to airport security. In other words, there's nothing that makes airports special.

It seems rather like refusing to listen to a janitor talk about cleaning airport floors because he's not an "airport janitor."
It doesn't matter whether they claimed output or efficiency. If the efficiency is currently on the order of 20%, then the output is about 0.2 times the energy absorbed. If we multiply that by twenty, we end up with an output 4 times the energy absorbed, which is of course impossible.
This is exactly how I learned on an Atari 800 XE. I clearly remember the moments where I understood variables, iteration, arrays, multidimensional arrays, subroutines, etc. The fact that I could teach it to myself while I was a child is a big deal. With a modern context, I'm not sure where I would even start. I'm proficient with a bunch of programming languages, none of them seem as accessible as the BASIC code above.

I've often thought about how to replicate a similar experience for my kids, short of getting a collectible 8-bit home computer and removing their access to modern hardware. Anyone have success with this?
It's not like there's a lack of deserving decoys out there. However, the TSA has the advantage of "reaching out and touching" people literally by the multi-millions. The current situation was put in place by George W. as well. They may be the best outrageous government agency the current administration could hope for to look good by comparison to.
I couldn't agree more, I can't imagine how much more I could have picked up at that young age if I'd just had, say, a tty, instead of endlessly playing with window themes, notification sounds and so on.

Another thing that's important though, you need to be able to make the computer do fun things pretty easily, otherwise you'll (as a kid) loose interest.
"Schneier is different because he's an expert in security and he lays out just why the TSA's approach is bad security."

My question is how did it happen that Schneier was invited in the first place to testify? Did he propose it to them and got picked (and now withdrawn)? Did congressional staffers choose him?

"Schneier is different because he's an expert in security and he lays out just why the TSA's approach is bad security."

Expert compared to?

He's been quoted and he is well known. But I've been quoted and I'm well known in what I'm good at. But there are others who know what I know. But they aren't as good at promotion as I am.
100 / 0.004 = 25,000

So we'd need 25,000 images like that one, to fill the sky.

25,000 * 200,000 = 5,000,000,000 galaxies
this looks like a stripped back version of parse.com but with code generation for a backbone app that connects only to this service. Good work.
I still don't get how "storytelling" and "entertainment" have anything to do with investigative reporting and blowing the whistle on alleged workplace abuses.

Daisey did Foxconn employees and all emerging-market workers a dis-service with his mistruths... all in the name of "entertainment" and his bottom line.

The real danger is that someone who really questioned the labor conditions at the factory that produces Apple (and Dell, Microsoft and many other companies) products is now left confused as to whether it's really a problem.
That pressure might be completely in your mind. Also one-on-one meetings might not always be deep, either.
Darrell Issa (one of the committee leaders) is fairly active on twitter. Let him know your concerns: https://twitter.com/#!/DarrellIssa
No. Just no. First of all, anedoctal evidence doesn't mean anything. Sure, women are sexually haressed at technological jobs, but women are haressed EVERYWHERE. And men are also a minority in lots of professions, is that because the women majority on those fields haresses men that try to enter their area?

I suggest that you watch the first episode of this series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

If you don't have the time, atleast think about the result of this experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing-systemizing_theory#...

"Research on one day old babies have found that boys look longer at a mechanical mobile while girls look longer at a face. This, as well as the effects of fetal testosterone on later behavior, is argued to be evidence against the sex differences being only due to socialization"
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Hi loboman, you can signup without facebook too. We'll make that more obvious
not everything is pushed back by teenagers. Cars, internet, cell phones - people tend to refute the ideologies of their parents (as well as the clothing style, it seems)... but items of consumerism tend to "pass from generation to generation" :-)
That particular claim just sounds like the touch screen version of moving your mouse cursor to the edge of the screen.
Definitely a good point. It was a little last-minute :)

Can you think of any other known/notable families you'd like to see on there? I thought one with stock photos might be a little impersonal. But maybe that's the right call.
From Predictive Modelling to Optimization: The Next Frontier
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http://iactionable.com/
hum... both are wrong.

wc is "word count" it's not a sane default. it's a obviously explicitly behavior. if git checkout were called 'git checkbranch' then you would have a point.

tar does not have sane defaults. it requires explicit flags. your example (besides not working because as i said, it does not have defaults) could very well be `tar -c files you want to copy -f destination.tar` and all would be well. you actually still repeat the very first tar command line example you ever saw to this day, even not agreeing with it :)
Yes, but it didn't cause my best friend in middle school to dissolve into laughter between fits of quacking noises, so it works for me.
A better console.log
1) By default, Backlift generates the index.html file based on a few configurable parameters. We think this will work in many cases since the index file for a backbone.js site can simply provide a container for your html templates.

2) Not currently.

3) If you're starting a new app and you need a starting point you can do so by downloading a template. You can alternatively run "backlift init" with an existing project.

4) Not yet. We're thinking of creating a github project where devs can upload their own templates or tweak ours. Pulled templates will become available from the CLI. We don't have a specific timeline for this yet.
How can Daisey's story be politically charged? It's only politically charged if we had an Apple party and an anti-Apple party (Slashdot party? Google party?).

Did you listen to the TAL retraction? Some of the key points retracted make all the difference between complete outrage (employment of 12 and 13 year-olds) and disappointment. Did you hear the most emotional scene in his story, of the man with the crooked hand, is a complete fabrication? Did you read the NYTimes article by Duhig and Barboza, which was factually correct, and think that was not enough exposure of the harsh working conditions at these factories? And if you heard the TAL retraction, you surely must've heard the bit where many workers do want to work over 60 hors a week, to make more money. That surely is an interesting factual point that splashes some gray into the black and white matter presented by Daisey.

All works of fiction on TAL are identified as such. IME when Sedaris et all retell their stories, they add comedy and drama via colorful descriptions of their feelings or using exaggerated analogies. However, they don't lie.
Posting this again with a little commentary...

I just released an android app to the market last week which I believe will be extremely helpful to those trying to deal with the high gas prices. There have been quite a few studies about how the average driver can save on gas. A study by Edmunds summarizes the results best in an easy-to-read article. Basically, by altering your driving habits to reduce breaking, hard accelerating and speeding, you can see some serious fuel use improvements (one study saw 45% improvement, although Edmunds finds 35%). This is like Weight Watchers for your car, turning that 25 MPG beast to 34 MPG dieter.

The application, known as Open Road: Fuel Economy Assistant will track those behaviors for you so that you can actually measure your results. All you need to do is select your car from the database (or build you custom car) and press Start before you leave on your trip. As you drive, you will see live and trip averaged fuel economy. There is also a display for how much that individual trip cost you.

Check it out and give me some feedback! I love feedback and look forward to incorporating your awesome suggestions.

PS. The iOS version will be released in a week or so. Like the facebook page to get news about its release.
Strong disagree. Experts at airport security might for instance:

* Have intimate knowledge of the kinds of day-to-day security events that actually occur in airports

* May be intimately acquainted with security incidents and interdictions that haven't been reported on in the media

* Might have detailed knowledge of the processes by which various types of employees gain access to airport facilities

* Might have detailed knowledge of the monitoring and surveillance systems employed within the airport

* Might have detailed knowledge of specific vulnerabilities to airplanes or fueling systems or other airport facilities

I bring this up because there are people who know this stuff who have been vocally opposed to the TSA. For instance, FBI Counterterrorism Agent Steven Moore. Or: an even better figurehead than Schneier: former counterterrorism "czar" Richard Clarke.
I'm thinking of a group of friends who used passworded uploads on Megaupload to share their band's music.
Well if another galaxy has life in it we'll probably never find it.
He might think he'll get a lot of traffic, so google's servers would help.
We're trouble shooting now. (and sweating profusely)
no, it's consulting the encyclopedia. There's a big difference between an encyclopedia and a dictionary...
... and if the owners and operators of MegaUpload were using it to share DVD rips with their friends, and stated explicitly in their emails that they knew the majority of their media content was infringing, your particular group of friends would be relevant... how?
Data is stored in MongoDB, and assets are packaged with JAMMIT. Two tornado apps run each of backlift.com and backliftapp.com behind NGINX.
prior art should be too hard to find, the whole concept of scrolling up to refresh is exactly the same concept as infinite-scrolling. if you scroll below the bottom of a list, it finds the next n older items. if you scroll above the top of a list, it finds the next n newer items. what's the difference?
Twitter Just Stopped Resolving t.co URLs Even in the Web Client
haha wow... this seems incredibly unnecessary. An entire hosting platform for a single tiny framework?
I'm not how that is relevant to the discussion we were having. To remind you, we were discussing whether removing links is sufficient for DMCA compliance.
Cisco

http://www.bumwine.com/cisco.html
Did F-Spot Go To Heaven Mommy?
YC AngelList activity
I wonder if SELinux could be used to accomplish that. IIRC, you can limit actions of programs to a given limited context, but I'm out of my depth.

Still, you don't need to give the root password (Linus' rant) with sudo and you'd have to maliciously use the programs you need to run. So, while in theory, your printer configuration utility could increase your privileges under sudo, I'm not aware of any such printer configuration utilities.