skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. Especially of it were a factory installed option. You could probably encapsulate the electronics in one of the frame tubes, which would mean it would be welded in to the bike. Impossible to detect casually, and nearly impossible to easily defeat without destroying the bike itself.

Given the ratio of hours ridden to power draw of a small tattletale device, you could probably put a couple of magnets on the crank assembly (inside the tube the connects the crank to the frame), along with a couple hundred coils of wire and create a very nice charging circuit. It might take even 100 hours of riding to build up an initial charge, but I'm guessing that would be no problem in a typical scenario, even if it took 2 weeks to get there.
Interesting. If that dynamic improved I believe that'd be a huge asset to the region. What are your thoughts on health tech in the area? One of my projects is pretty focused on improving the lives of researchers, and I've found this area has quite a few institutions looking to become more cutting edge.
You're kidding right? Sure, I'll dig through the patent lists for a few hours digging up the hundreds of examples of patents that were creative new ideas for their time. Very little of them will be software patents.

But this isn't a discussion about patents like that. This is a discussion about patents being granted for ideas that are simply innovations and/or copies of pre-existing ideas. That's completely different.

Not every patent is of equal creativity, importance, and value.
We use Postmark and it works great (http://postmarkapp.com/). Sendgrid and AWS SES are other common alternatives.
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My oldest documented Usenet post: https://groups.google.com/group/net.unix-wizards/msg/bdd2d3b...

Anyone here on Usenet earlier than that?

For some reason, I seemed to pick on csh a lot back then: https://groups.google.com/group/net.unix-wizards/msg/ab37210...

https://groups.google.com/group/net.unix/msg/21cc4b34f67c736...

That's kind of puzzling, because I've never been a csh user as far as I can remember.
Someone please tell me what IFTTT is.
Let's all pause for a moment and gain perspective.

Apple, who's been making computers since the 80s, has somewhere between 6 and 10% of the market.

If the users who buy Apple products are slightly less affected by the current economic slump than most of the market, good for them. They're likely a little better off than "average consumers".

I don't think it's everyone is buying iPads, because the numbers just don't line up. People are just holding on to laptops a little longer.
It looks like most of the astronauts are test pilots as well, they would have been handling such pressure situations as a part of their daily routine less a blip on their radars. No doubt that only the very best human specimens make it out there in space!
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I haven't watched the video yet either, but I'm guessing he's talking about Datomic's design, which would make this a good place to start: http://docs.datomic.com/architecture.html
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the problem is that google authenticator stores the seed in the phone(and the server) so if you lose it basically you lose the server too, right?
Many modern MacBooks use atheros chips, which work perfectly.
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Apparently there is also another FACT. It is the fact that Apple bothers with you even if you are a small company.

You claimed that the idea of this happening is ridiculous. Yet, they just showed you an example of this happening. I'm having a hard time trying to understand your argument now. Are you claiming the example is invalid or have you changed your argument and now claiming that Apple does that but it is okay for Apple to do that?
can you operate a business from a house?
I was at a Wal-Mart in Shenzhen China and noticed a lot of used bicycles. I couldn't explain why they stocked used bicycles. Could have nothing to do with what you're saying, or they could have been stolen bicycles from somewhere else. In the US, bicycles sold at retail stores like Wal-Mart are new. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyatkinson/392577801/
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I was a big fan of Manmohan Singh and used to be a vocal supporter. I had high hopes too that we finally have someone who understands what India needs but his leadership through these scandals has been poor, to put it mildly. In any case, when it came to liberalization, he had no other option. The previous budgets used expenditure control and increased exports as a strategy to solve the BOP crisis but it failed miserably. He couldn't have ignored the IMF and continued a policy that had failed for the last 4-5 years. In some ways, the previous finance ministers were already taking small steps towards that path by encouraging public sector disinvestment. I'm sure any other Finance Minister would have taken the same decision. On the topic of execution, his team did a great job. However, the Indian government always steps up when it is in a serious crisis. Whether it is Kargil/ Commonwealth/Tsunami/Terror attacks, we manage to unite in a crisis and find a way to get things done. So, should we start calling Shelia Dixit the "architect" of Commonwealth Games. I'm not so sure.
No HiDPI support yet. They are slacking!
There are two people that I will stop what I'm doing and watch every new lecture they make: Rich Hickey and Bret Victor. Both are visionaries.
This is an area where a disruptive technology is due. Imagine if even 10% of bikes had technology that wirelessly sends out GPS coordinates or can identify the owner via an embedded RFID tag. Suddenly stealing bikes is not nearly as risk free and the incentive to participate is greatly reduced.
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> one's Indian heritage

Depending on your perception, either there is no such thing as India heritage or it's so broad that it's bordering on being indistinguishable from non-Indian heritage.

1. We are talking about a country of over a billion people who are descendants of different races. Aryans, dravidians(I believe aryan invasion is under dispute but there are more people leaning towards it). I don't know what race the north-east folks are but they are different.

2. We follow differing, and sometimes totally different cultures. North and south India has different cultures; more so with north-east folks.

3. We belong to different religions with different practices. Hindu, Muslim, Sikhs, Christians, and a lot of other minorities. Owing to the huge population, even the minorities aren't really minorities. The number of Christians in India, for example, is larger than the number of Christians in Australia.

4. We have a vast economic divide. People on the peak and right of bell curve have totally different lifestyle than those on the left. People who are on the extreme right aren't any different from their else-world counterparts.

5. Even among the same income group, the lifestyle differs depending on the location. A person earning 25k/month in a small city and a person earning 25k/month in Bangalore isn't the same thing.

6. Though the low-lives tend to go up in arms every few weeks ostensibly trying to protect the Indian culture, there is no sole authority for deciding what constitutes Indian culture.

If we talk about Hinduism, it has 4 vedas, 108 upnishads, and number of other books. There is no canonical book and many a times the scriptures are contradictory and/or ambiguous. More importantly, Hinduism is based more on orthopraxy than orthodoxy. Many a times courts have quashed bullshit "against Hinduism" litigations ruling that fucking read the scriptures, quote us the exact lines, make sure other scriptures don't say differently; or else don't waste the court's time.

Now one might say that most of my points are about lifestyle, and don't represent Indian heritage per se. I would say lifestyle and companions are a big variable in shaping a person's values and viewpoints. Heritage, as in inheritance, depends on who you are inheriting from, and this hypothetical Indian "who" doesn't have a canonical definition.

Personally, I was trying to look at myself and find out things which would constitute Indian heritage. I couldn't think of anything. Would somebody help me out with what constitutes Indian heritage?
There was an article that appeared on HN probably earlier this year about a guy who said he was a minimalist and only owned 15 things (apparently this included "toiletries" as one thing). If my clothes are one thing, then I basically own 3 things (MBA, clothes and cell phone) and it all fits in two suitcases which I take with me as I move about S. America.

Having a second suitcase on Brazilian airlines means paying a pretty penny which usually equals the cost of the flight itself. It was only yesterday that I realized that it's possible what goes in that second suitcase is not worth the second suitcase fee. Keep in mind, I've already paid 300-400US in fees for it at this point with just 3 moves.

Just because you are a minimalist doesn't mean you own the correct few items (correct for you). It's oddly easy to forget this.
Listening to the RNC in another tab, read this as homophobic hashing. Sigh.
I grew up in Detroit when it was at its peak, then I watched it crash and burn. Though I live outstate I've been in Detroit at least monthly for the past two years and am convinced that I am witnessing its rebirth.

Detroit is like a startup there is huge opportunity with a capital O along with huge risk. As a result Detroit has become a magnet for ambitious young people.

The city's despair has made it open to bold ideas where you'd never get a hearing anywhere else.

Want to start a farm? The city will sell you the land and even tear the buildings down for you.

Want to own a skyscraper? Detroit has over fifty for sale and according to the Wall Street Journal they're at the lowest prices anywhere in the world.

http://www.dailywealth.com/952/The-Cheapest-Skyscrapers-In-T...
How much of the $200 000 went to founders' salaries and personal expenses?
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For a reason I can't reply to you brk but I used the same ideas.

My last question was about communicating openly or not about it.

- Openly would make robber aware and probably come up with attacks
or blocking means, but that would surely render their activities
a lot more complicated. Could be mass-produced.

- Secretly a few people would have it and use it as bait, and
authorities being aware of the scheme would casually catch robbers
later. No mass-production

Oh one more thing, I was thinking about using a cellular module with custom firmware to reply to text messages with gps position but I'm not sure it's feasible.
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...assuming that thieves will actually be punished.
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This comment should probably be translated into 40 languages, cast in pure gold, and illuminated with spotlights in every major city of the world. Humans need 'stories about the world' to understand it, but we often forget that the stories - and our categorical abstractions in general - are a highly filtered and edited subset of reality.
Outside Magazine had a story about doing just that: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/Who-Pi...
not true at all... Just last week I saw a sign for WambaTech being put up in downtown Royal Oak - http://www.wambatech.com
I'm not sure if I understand your comment fully as it relates to mine so I could be going off in the wrong direction with this, but here we go anyway...

I don't think that's a fair comparison. As our technological ability increases then amount of time for innovation and creation decreases. I'm not surprised at the lag of innovation from your Benz to Ford example as part of the issue would have been manufacturing capabilities as well as the economy of the time. I'm not surprised at all that in modern times we get better capable phones about every six months.

But for your example. If Benz received a patent for steering a moving vehicle by means of a tiller I would have disagreed with that since all they did was take the idea from a boat. But what I'm describing is if Benz did get such a patent in a manner of today's software patents then Ford would not have been able to use a steering wheel on his Model T without licensing from Benz for their patent on "method to control the direction of a moving object" that failed to describe how that method actually worked. Well, assuming said patent lasted long enough to be an issue for Ford.

In general I have no problem with the idea of software patents, as long as they show exactly how it works including code and why it is unique enough to deserve protection.
Note for non-British readers: Boris Johnson is the Mayor of London, not the Lord Mayor of London. The latter is a largely ceremonial and supportive role concerned only with the ancient City of London, the square mile containing the financial district.

Left a comment on the original article but it was removed. Disappointing to see such pointless inaccuracy on a website devoted to a subject where nuance and precision count for so much. I could have understood getting it wrong the other way round, but the author - a lawyer educated in the UK - had to actually add a word in to make it incorrect.
The best workaround I know of for bike commuting is bike share programs. (US examples: "Nice Ride" in Minneapolis or "Capital Bikeshare" in DC). In these examples, the bikes are large, relatively unattractive, limited functionality (3 speeds), have distinctive designs, and these things to me I'm hoping remove the incentive to steal the bike.
I don't think we need anymore of these threads. It's getting repetitive. There are too many emotional individuals on all sides of the fence that are adding nothing of value to the debate. If you want to flame that's fine, go do it on Reddit or try the Ars Technia battlefront forum.
Here's something I see with well informed beginners: They have to do everything perfect all the time.

No you don't.

Technical debt is like actual debt: It's bad to let it pile up, but it can give you powerful leverage. Don't quite know how to do something? Well, if you don't even know exactly what it is, it's going to be much harder to write it in an elegant way from the get-go! Write it so it works at all, then refactor your way out of stupid architecture.

I did this the other day, even though I already had an architecture designed, and what I came up with was even better than what I had thought of. The code will talk to you. There may well be CodeSmells. By playing with code, you can often see EmergentDesign.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeSmell

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmergentDesign

Technical debt isn't a sin. It's a tool, but it's a tool that can bite you, so use it wisely! (Analogy: It's the shop owner who should decide when to get a loan to buy inventory, Not The Customer!)
This is relevant:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/alistair_veitch/papers/elepha...

If only half the stuff done by the likes of IBM and HP were to make it into common usage the world would be a very different place.
> I've had too many issues with Unstable breaking

So what you're saying is the distribution called Unstable is somewhat... unstable at times?
See lallysingh's comment on this same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4444843
What about bike parts? Bike seats, wheels, etc get stolen all the time. Are they just scrapping these parts out for 5 to 10 cents on the dollar as well?
I think it still requires your normal password as well, so the server wouldn't be lost unless someone had both.
And both will be at Strange Loop this year! http://thestrangeloop.com/sessions
Been using this for around a month and it's great. Highly recommended.
Seconding the recommendation for PAM/Google Authenticator.

Off-topic: Has anyone ever managed to get PAM/Google Authenticator working with RADIUS? I spent a while messing about with this last year, and never got it working exactly as I had hoped. I'm no longer working with RADIUS, but this post reminded me I never finished scratching that geeky itch.
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Just ask your neighbour. ;-)
In some sense Gutenberg ought to have obviated the need for the lecture format in college but it didn't. Radio didn't, television didn't and I suspect the internet won't either. At least not for the majority of students.

I've been teaching online math classes for 7 years now and those classes almost always perform much worse than face-to-face classes. I suspect that the reform that will come will be more in the form of enhancing face-to-face classes and not replacing them. Maybe more flipped classroom style reform. For all of it's perceived badness the lecture format is remarkably resilient in that it's better for the average student than any of the current proposals that I've seen or experimented with.

Disclaimer: I'm an average teacher (below average?) and much of my opinion comes from personal, anecdotal experience.
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A good bed? I'm not aware of any that you can pack in a car that won't give you back problems in the long term.
I use and love http://postmarkapp.com/. (For transactional emails only)
That's true and I could fit all my camping and climbing stuff in my car, but the picture I get from people who tout "all my stuff fits in my car" philosophy is that they live in a room with no furniture, a coffee mug and their laptop. Having less stuff for the sake of having less stuff doesn't seem to really serve a purposes. Keep what you need and want and ditch the rest. Not that complicated.
And what happens when an owner who lost his key gets shot for cutting his own lock?
One of the things I try very hard to drive home to people is that WPA2 uses a passphrase and not a password.

I highly encourage people to use something like a favorite movie quote or a line from a book. Something like "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio;" is both harder to crack and easier for a human to remember than something like "v3$bk:j".

You're essentially taking natural language, which is something humans are pretty adept at remembering, and turning it into a direct mnemonic for a more complicated passphrase.
Although I believe that summary executions are in bad taste, I want to point out that, au contraire, the tax should be levied on car owners (to encourage cycling).
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Is usersnap.com really facilitating better feedback or is it just annoying people that visit your website?
Really? I just went to a shop to look at bikes (and a real bike shop, not Wal-Mart), and there were options in the $300-$400 range. At Wal-Mart and Target and the like, you can get bikes in the $100-$200 range (or really crappy ones for even cheaper).
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Here you go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1784497
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This has been implemented in Madison, WI and is supposedly effective.

http://www.uwpd.wisc.edu/crime-prevention-bait-bike-program....
The stuff equation changes once you have kids. Cars and appartments get bigger and stuff accumulates. Luckily you can live on a lot of hand-me-downs that get handed down again but at our house there are also continuous trips to Goodwill to get rid of stuff.
You could just tranquilize them and then release them into the wild.
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They should make movies about people like him (and the whole NASA staff actually), instead of another Captain America or whatnot. Real people, with good sides and bad sides, but who did amazing things.
Apples patents are clearly not patents on "smartphones with a rectangular touchscreen and no external UI buttons", but they cover many inventions that make such a phone usable.

Likewise, apart from a totally different kind of flying machine like a helicopter, there probably isn't any better method of controlling an airplane than the method covered by Wrights patents (since it specifically does not exclude non-wing warping control designs), which is why the basic mode of control is still in use today. So Wrights patents at the time might as well be called a patents on "things that fly". It was very difficult to make a controllable plane without violating the patent.

Likewise, unless you equip a phone with dedicated zoom controls, there probably isn't a better or more intuitive way of zooming than using pinch-to-zoom or double tapping.
Participating in support, as the author mentions, is an incredible learning experience. I handle all incoming emails for the manufacturing business I work at. Even though I end up filtering and passing on most emails, I get to see what customers are saying, asking, wanting, etc. If something needs to be handled by a higher-up, they often include me on the following interaction with the customer. This has taught me a lot about the philosophies and decision-making process that has made the business successful. I am now at a point where I am handling more emails than I am passing on. I can't think of any way I could have learned as much as I have and had it make sense and really sink in.
& A simple remedy for staying on your mac is to use a wireless dongle (USB) that supports packet injection. It's extremely simple to set up in backtrack.
Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Great artists steal... good artists get caught?
XP is antiquated in terms of its technology, in particular its security model. Vista, while not a hit with consumers, was a major step forward in security for Microsoft.

There is a certain irony in making an argument based on the security model in recent versions of Windows while we're in the middle of a thread discussing web browsers. Both Chrome and Firefox go out of their way to circumvent that security model, despite providing arguably the most obvious attack vector on many modern computers.

And frankly, the modern Windows security model isn't that great anyway. We can solve a privileged execution problem by nuking the machine and reinstalling from back-ups. It's a hassle, but it's a controllable risk. This is the sort of thing that the UAC measures help to prevent.

But if you don't have back-ups of your personal files, you're toast if they get deleted by malware. And since you probably have write access to those files even if you're logged in as a low-privilege user, and Windows doesn't separate which applications can access what data to that extent, the likes of UAC won't help you here. Sure, everyone should keep back-ups, but we all know that many people don't.

And the really bad stuff these days isn't destructive anyway, it's about data harvesting. If someone gets in and starts uploading sensitive data, or perhaps sending out phishing e-mails to people who trust the compromised machine's owner and think that's where the messages are coming from, UAC isn't much good there either. You need firewall and antivirus tools for this sort of threat, and we had those with XP, and if you're doing it seriously you don't run them on the same computer you're trying to protect anyway.

If you can upgrade from XP, you should.

Sorry, but I don't think you're anywhere near making a case for that yet.