skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York Times sells About.com to Ask.com for $270 million
That's probably true but what if I am in a country where I can't have Netflix and the new AD episodes are just a click away on TPB or some newsgroups ?

Should I just wait for an hypothetic way to see them in the future like the old days ? Maybe I should, I know I won't because I just not think like that anymore, for better or worse.
Price wasn't high enough and I wanted to see the outcome and Apple's reaction - would they leave it alone - or double down?

They doubled down.

So instead I sold at 660 instead of ~600 and got my answer.
Best practices for patent defensive publications
Neither. Path or something similar on the mobile will quietly take over because the distance between the camera and the upload button will be smaller, and tablets, and more importantly, 5" to 7" phablets, will become the ubiquitous perfect middle ground between telephony and browser and video game console.

FB will be forced to provide a comprehensive export feature by law, which will make the jump easier.

FB knows this.

This is, of course, a personal, subjective viewpoint / projection of the path of least resistance ahead.
Neither. Path or something similar on the mobile will quietly take over because the distance between the camera and the upload button will be smaller, and tablets, and more importantly, 5" to 7" phablets, will become the ubiquitous perfect middle ground between telephony and browser and video game console.

FB will be forced to provide a comprehensive export feature by law, which will make the jump easier.
I've never met a gym that allowed cancellations over the phone. It always requires a signature in person (fax at best) in my experience.
Completely agree, but also a terrible tragedy for those times when you end up in Spain, Italy, France, Japan, and other countries with amazing food and good-to-great hygiene.

That said, I eat vegetarian most of the time because the alternative is to eat scary meat, which I'm not going to do. It's insensitive to the animal and a serious risk for me. Accordingly, I haven't eaten fast food in over a decade.

I'm also going to Spain next month and have every intention of gorging myself on delicious cured pork products every chance I get.
Carrying a set of backup codes when travelling, generating a code for each app that is linked to your account...these things make two way authentication seem very inconvenient. I went with converting my gmail account to use two way authentication but after being informed to remember to carry a set of 10 backup codes when I am going to be without my phone, was a turn off and I reverted to my old settings.
I don't know that the terminology is common (or correct), but I find it pretty useful. It also corresponds intuitively to the way people in practice use these terms. I say keep it.

TLDR for OP: in both "DP" and "memoization" you construct a name-value table for a given function. In "memoization" you construct it reactively, in "DP" proactively - where "reactively" means "lazily as we need it," and "proactively" means "any way that isn't reactively."

(A dag being just one way of storing this data structure. Generally it is just a cache of function results - which can be stored as a table, derivation graph, or whatever.)
I am sure the ones getting in because of family help pay for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_aid_%28educational_ex...
There are ways to offer predefined paths for those people that don't care about choice without taking away choice from everyone. Apple has completely failed at providing this because they're hungry for control and want to impose their will upon their customers. Ideally all people that use computers.

>Firstly, you do realize that you have political freedom -- people are completely free to jailbreak their phones, no police will come after you

Apple wanted to make jailbreaking illegal and were stopped by the USG. They wanted police to come after you, but apparently you don't remember that part.

> Secondly, none of the software you use, that you haven't written, is owned by you

There's a huge difference between not owning software and still controlling it because it's your machine and not owning software and being out of luck because Apple can remote-delete it.
Perhaps my choice of words was poor. I actually quite liked most of Windows 7 when I installed it on my partners laptop. However, I still get extraordinarily frustrated trying to get to the folders I want in a Windows Vista/7 save dialog.

Sometimes I feel like "Computer" is the top directory, sometimes "Desktop" feels like the top directory, and sometimes "Documents" is the top directory. Then there is the ill-defined (at least to the casual user) "Libraries". I miss the "up" button I am used to from many other contexts. The bar up the top which tells me my current location is thoroughly confusing to me. When I click the right arrow next to "Documents" when I am in the documents library, it shows what seems to be the locations defined by the library (My and Public documents). But when I am in a sub folder of Documents, clicking the right arrow next to Documents shows me the list of folders for the specific part of the library I am in (e.g. subfolders of My or Public documents).

No doubt these are all implemented like this for some very good reasons. I also have no doubt that if I used it as my primary OS, I would adapt relatively quickly. But for someone who only uses Windows to file my tax return and to occasionally help out my partner, I get frustrated.
I've written probably half a dozen unrelated apps that call REST APIs and I think they all implemented REST differently. Some treat PUT as insert while POST as update. Some treat POST as insert, PUT as insert/update. Some return 201 when insert was successful, some return 200 whenever anything is successful. Some issue tokens, some authenticate using headers.

Just last night I wrote some code to auto-create Trello cards and assign them to a specific list. The https://trello.com/docs/ seem fairly decent but what they don't tell you is that POST is insert, PUT is update. Moreover, while you can assign a due date via PUT ( https://trello.com/docs/api/card/index.html#put-1-cards-card... ), you cannot assign one via POST ( https://trello.com/docs/api/card/index.html#post-1-cards ). So if you want to create a card with a due date, you have to POST, read ID, then PUT the due date to /card/id.

The problem with people trying to be RESTful is that they pay too much attention to stuff that doesn't matter (71 status codes) instead of stuff that really matters (simplify complex insert/update). I'd rather have Trello return 400 on errors and provide a text description than use one of the 30+ 4xx errors. And I'd rather have them accept due date when inserting a card. Trying to conform to REST's standards is like trying to be XHTML compliant. Great, your site validates. But you're still using white font on yellow background!

Be as RESTful as you need to be. But more than that, be useful and sensible. Don't make me call your server six times to make one valid GET request.
Looks great, now it's the chicken and the egg race for you guys. Hope it picks up.
Everybody that will be born between now and 67.5 years from now will have exactly that same life expectancy, half of those will die as well.
(That comment wasn't flagged: that entire user account seems to be hellbanned as of over a week ago, so every post that the user makes is automatically deleted; flagging a comment does not simply cause it to be immediately deleted.)
...and the author also has a short introduction to the idea of the "defensive publication": http://vizzzion.org/blog/2012/07/defensive-publications/
Well I guess that makes sense, seeing that version 2 hasn't been updated since 2009. Too bad though, it is really well-written.
I shall write an article "How not to go back to HN" and read it again and again. Well, until HN wakes up.
The average Cubesat launch price now is under $40k, but it keeps going down.
Nasa now has $20k launch opportunities:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38673
and some others have under $20k as well it seems:
http://www.interorbital.com/
I spent decent amount of time and effort making my code generator/framework create a proper RESTful API, but I have to admit it is a bit tricky to figure out what is actually "proper." I feel like I was able to do a decent job with everything except the discovery service. If any PHP devs would like to contribute or just look at the API please feel free at phreeze.com
When I first used Authenticator I had this problem, because the clock on my phone was a couple of minutes out of sync.

There is room for some error but it is worth making sure the time on your phone is correct.
What would experienced Clojure coders recommended for a web framework? I'm partial to more minimalist approaches a la Flask.
Some really scary thought processes in these replies...

Apple put functionality in their phones that blocks an EXISTING Wi-Fi hotspot feature for their customers at the will of the carriers. The carriers that I have already paid to get internet access.
In my case I had a 5yr old feature phone that I could use to connect to the internet (wired) while the iPhone would not allow that because the carrier (EU, not US) completely disabled the option, not even allowing it for a fee.
I fail to see how that was helpful to me.

Thankfully that's not everywhere, that's only in Apple-verse and Windows Phone-verse. My phone is capable of creating a wifi hotspot without requiring permission from anyone. And while it's very thoughtful of you, let me worry about battery life.
Maybe: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels... : but perhaps the way we believe or don't believe in luck also affects the extent we succeed or don't succeed in a given situation.

Belief in talent over luck might make us more likely to succeed at a given endeavor.
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I have to agree. If they had added the earth or some detail which wasn't in the original photo then I might feel differently. But just adding some black to fix the composition issues seems ok to me.
Not much when your father was Joseph Kennedy heh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kennedy
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Been using it on mobile for about a year. It's small and snappy, and the people behind it are very responsive & opinionated in a good way.
I'm a huge fan of the possibility of heavily shielding off the shelf parts. It seems logical to me to try to incorporate it into unmanned craft.

However, I'm guessing there are probably people who have simulated this and it probably hasn't worked out to be very economical for past missions. I think part of the problem is that the level of shielding required would really limit your payload to orbit. It's probably going to take a huge amount of material seeing as even the Space Shuttle couldn't act as a perfect buffer between computers and radiation.

From a NASA article[1]:

"Designers also found out that laptops would crash when the shuttle passes through the "South Atlantic Anomaly," which is an area where the magnetic field draws in to Earth, again offering less radiation filtering for spacecraft flying through it."

Completely speculating here, but I would imagine that part of this experiment is to get operational experience with using standard grade electronics in space.

From the OP's article, the satellite has:

"...a watchdog circuit that monitors the systems and reboots the phone if it stops sending radio signals."

Anything with a human or with a high price tag attached to outages can't work with that caveat. If DirectTV's satellites did that, people wouldn't stay signed up for long. Imagine a Mars rover having to reboot every half hour... not very convenient.

But perhaps NASA might want to know if they can cheaply build "disposable" orbital experiments... i.e. ones that can complete their missions in a few hours. The sort of reliability where you just have to deal with the odd 30 seconds of rebooting every so often could be alright, especially if the payload can be stowed on a cargo ship and simply shoved out an air lock like the SuitSat[2].

Again spitballing, maybe they will find that things work out more or less OK if they send up five moderately shielded Raspberry Pis and they "vote" a la the Space Shuttle's flight computers[3]. If so, maybe that opens up space experimentation to universities with smaller budgets to squeeze onto resupply/manned launches that happen to have a spare square foot of space.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature_...

[2] http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/26...

[3] http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-4.html (search for "vote" to get to the specific spot detailing how this works)
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Other NASA pages about this project seem to emphasize the "Open source" qualities of the project. There's also language like "with the goal of allowing anyone with space ambitions to launch their own satellite".

For instance, most other major options (elephant in the room being Apple), have onerous terms for their accessory development kits which would preclude that. Last I checked, Apple even keep the Dock port pinout "confidential" from people not in their accessory dev program, which would be a show-stopper since presumably this uses the dock/USB port for control.
I think it's important to make everything cheaper, even if you do get the most bang for your buck from reducing the cost of launch.

The other advantage in having NASA lead the way in the cheap satellite area, it will be easier for others to take advantage of cheap launches when they are eventually available. And possibly help create demand.
I'd be curious to see Obama's application as well to compare the difference in quality when you don't have a brand name behind you, like Kennedy did.
Asking out of genuine curiosity about the semantics, not being a grammar troll. Is New 0-day exploit redundant? Are all 0-day exploits new?
> It's interesting that so many consumers (read: not java developers) have Java installed at all.

Vuze (former Azureus) has quite large base install. There alose should be quite a lot of Swing in-house apps.
My point is that you are trying, constantly to have the final word in a construct of your making that is based entirely on a fallacy and doing so in an extremely smug manner. To follow your line of thought, with your hubris continuing to grow you will eventually become too cocky and get you next investment increadibly wrong and lose everything in the process.
Come off it, there's no such thing as "Apple-style multi-touch", there's only multi-touch, and it doesn't belong to anyone.

It's disappointing to see people actually siding with Apple here. Is it brand loyalty that blurs people's judgement?

The fact that icons are sized and spaced similarly across these devices is because most people have a similar index finger size. It's obvious what the ideal icon size and placement should be on any touch device for optimal touch usability.

The legal defense of "obvious concept" is absolutely true. There are limits to how design can optimize details such as icon display, and touch input. The concepts Apple are trying to own simply do no belong to them due to their obvious nature.

Slide to unlock, the page bounce, the icons, all of it is obvious stuff once you have the hardware pieced together.

As a result of this lawsuit, Apple has lost me as customer. I am not rewarding childish hypocrisy. I do not respect billion dollar playground fights in the courts because someone else made a similar phone that has icons and multi-touch. What a waste of time and money.
But in another post, you say that you are planning to add a second factor to Rublon, so that the user must enter a PIN when scanning the Rublon code. So it doesn't appear to be any more convenient that Google Authenticator, which is widely-supported, produced by someone I trust, and open source.

The idea of using QR codes for authentication is interesting, but I would be very careful in selling this as a highly-secure system that is capable of replacing two-factor auth.

To me, this appears no more secure than leaving a copy of your password in plain text on the phone - if someone gets access to your phone, they have access to all of your Rublon accounts. Compare this to Google Authenticator - in the same scenario, the attacker would still need to know my password as well as the token.
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Programming for play should be the least of your worries when there's a risk of having to ask for permission to do anything some corporation doesn't want you to do on your device.

Or just being prevented from doing it period.
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One of the most amazing feat of plants regarding information processing is the way the leaves optimize the gas exchange process. They do this by opening and closing small gates known as stomata [0].

Each stoma integrate their local state with the current atmospheric conditions and the state of their neighbors, behaving as the cells of a cellular automaton [1].

Plant leaves literally compute.

--

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoma

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/101/4/918.full
I disagree with what you say unfortunately - so I guess we should just agree to disagree.
Is it just me, or are a lot of those challenges crap? Biological quantum field theory being used to control the evolution of pathogens? WTF? Who wrote this, a Markov algorithm?
Interesting information (with pictures) about ATM skimmers here: http://m.krebsonsecurity.com/tag/atm-skimmer/

Doesn't take a genius, just some capital and a willingness to break the law and risk getting caught.
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Thank you for the comment. It is for real estate agents, landlords, and property management companies.
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> There are plenty of comparable laptops for far less money, too.

What do you mean by "comparable"? The only decent quad core laptops in the same weight class are the Vaio Z, Panasonic CF-B11, and 14" EliteBook -- and with those (or any heavier modern computer) you have a 16:9 aspect ratio. If you need maxed out specs and don't want to work from a desktop, these are the kinds of computers you want to get. Take a Thinkpad T520, remove the optical drive, give it a 1920x1200 screen and the X1 Carbon's trackpad and you'll have a comparable laptop. Or if Panasonic would just go for the 16:10 screen ratio, you wouldn't even have to drop the optical drive.
Of course at lot of work and design decisions went into creating it (just as any UI), but it was a logical next step.
> You say "copious evidence". You italicise that.

Yes -- but my remark is about the hygiene hypothesis, not about autism. Read the post to which I replied. The poster said "There is no evidence for the hygiene hypothesis." I replied to that specific remark.

> The hygiene hypothesis has wider use than just autism ...

What? The evidence for the hygiene hypothesis is strong in many areas, but as to autism, it's mere speculation.

> But the link between autism and excessive cleanliness is, to quote one link that you provided, "speculative".

Yes -- and on what basis do you think I have taken any other position?

> The hygiene hypothesis is strong and important when talking about allergy and maybe auto-immune diseases; I need convincing that there's any link to ASD.

So does everyone else. There's no basis for this assumption in present evidence.
it is only simple if you always manage not to open such a sparse bundle on another Mac before it has been fully synced after being used on another Mac. Otherwise, you will mess up your sparse bundle sooner or later.

A service for syncing and sharing with built-in encryption might therefore me more convenient for most users. Spideroak and Wuala are two examples.
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idiots, its all staged moon stuff, just like 9-11 was phoney video... hence the "september clues documentary"... go look it up and watch it you idiots
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Our CEO and geo-guru discusses why maps are not the answer to LBS needs everywhere.

This is something a lot of people in developed countries have a hard time grokking: Majority of the world's population really cannot read maps. But many of them still use cell phones, and even web services through their phone. And there is a demand for Location Based Services.
idiots go watch SEPTEMBER CLUES DOCUMENTARY already
Minecraft pegs the CPU at 100% on a C2D.
AFAIK a 0-day exploit is an exploit that was found in the wild. No one previously knew about it and there's a scramble to fix it.

In a week this exploit will be an "old 0-day exploit" because the "0-day" bit describes developer preparedness at discovery, not how long the exploit has been known.
Looks well polished.
Can you calculate the shallow heap size of a Java object?
Flash has legitimate uses for streaming video. I very, very rarely use Java applets.
Honestly, to me, I see a Samsung Galaxy S3, and I see an Apple iPhone 4S, and I can tell the difference. I can't see how someone can't tell the difference. I don't see $1B worth of copying.
There is much ado in the REST world about whether one API is more restful than another. For us, our REST API was designed from our experience as consumers of other REST API's. Our whole philosophy wasn't about what was true-rest but rather, what was both consistent and easy to learn.

We do fancy stuff like send back HTTP codes that aren't always invited to the cool HTTP code parties like, "Payment Required" and we used "Accepted" on a PUT (Update).

Also, while we know that a rest API should be entirely self documenting we found it more practical to create a GitHub account explaining every call with sample code in variety of languages, all doing the same thing: sending JSON via a REST library.

We are a B2B product and reducing any barriers to enriching our clients is a must. We've worked on big dev teams and understand that if we want our product to get on the next sprint we need to make sure that they can copy and paste our code into their software and it'll work. It's just the nuts and bolts of business.

I would accept data on floppy disk duct taped to carrier pigeons if that was the easiest way for clients to interact with our algorithms. Fortunately for us, being "pretty" rest-y was a better fit for everyone.
Lead wouldn't work anyway - it would make things worse actually.

Lead is good for gamma (and X) rays, but very very terrible for cosmic radiation which is protons and neutrons (nucleons).

For those you want water.

It works like this: For photons you want them absorbed, so heavy metals are great.

But it's not possible to absorb nucleons. Instead you want to steal their energy. If you use lead they simply bounce loosing hardly any energy.

Instead you want very light elements - hydrogen especially. Then when they bounce all the energy gets transfered to the hydrogen.

Lead can make things worse because the nucleon can actually fission the lead atom emitting secondary radiation that is even worse than the original.

If you are shielding from electrons you can get Bremsstrahlung radiation if you use lead see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung#Radiation_safety

In summary: Lead for photons, water (or other light materials like wax or plastic) for everything else.