skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no actual strict definition of terrorism; just a bunch of disparate attempts at one by various government agencies. The reason this is, is because it's so painfully, obviously subjective. If we use the definition provided by drivebyacct2, the use of the term itself is the best example of its definition. Most accounts of terrorism are merely just criminal acts that a certain party wants to paint as extranormative. It's interesting to bring up the question of whether this hack could be considered terrorism, as I'm sure if it's real, some Republicans will have interest in calling it that. That's the nature of the illusive concept of "terrorism". Sorry for the off topic discussion!
Access Clipboard Text on Multiple Computers Easily
Oompf is awesome! I have had the pleasure to meet the team and these guys will go far! Go Oompf go!
Awesome list, thanks for adding Instatrip up!
Isn't this vague enough that a site with an image is infringing?

"Sure, they requested the web site, but they never explicitly said they wanted the image, and now you've gone and stored it in their cache."
ShellJS is awesome. It's basically Unix shell commands for Node.js, which is excellent if you want to write a makefile equivalent in JavaScript.

If, on the other hand, you want to execute web developer-centric tasks like concatenation and minification, linting, running of unit tests in pure JavaScript or a headless WebKit instance, or any of the functionality the 90+ plugins I'm aware of provide, check grunt out.

Grunt also works on all platforms, and supports completely arbitrary JavaScript tasks. If you can write it, grunt will execute it.

And because grunt supports arbitrary JavaScript tasks, you can use ShellJS (or any other JavaScript) from within grunt.
If that's the case then "anonymous" shouldn't be used as a noun.
If the people accepting the Bitcoins for ransom own the Silk Road? Let's face it, all Bitcoins eventually end up on the Silk Road.
i actually read the title as "How we die" and i was confused reading your comment, and then i saw the title my eyes wide open!!:D
Brutal, especially when it seems like a real act-of-god type failure and not just gross incompetence. Good luck to them.
They can change the physical width of the device while making the change transparent to apps. I wouldn't put much stock into this.
FWIW: I was reading an article from Patrick / Patio11 just the other day when he talks about having experience with large companies upgrading their SaaS package just because the upgraded name sounded better on an expense report.

So it sounds like some SaaS upgrades may, in fact, be linked to the name of the package and nothing more!
If you're interested in the intersection of game AI and 'real' AI, you might also want to check out NERO and all the work associated with it that has been done over the years: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?nero . One of the original principals on NERO, Ken Stanley, went on to a professorship at the University of Central Florida, where his team produced Galactic Arms Race. They have a social game in the works called Petalz: http://petalzgame.com .
He has recently insisted that he's never paid less than 13%, so if it comes out as less than that, he might have a huge political problem.

For the record, I don't think he's lying about that, he seems far too smart to set up a trap like that for himself.
It's all to easy to convince oneself into creating things society should or may eventually value. In my case it took a long time for reality and the absence of evidence to sink in.
Seeing how hard I am on rental cars, I would never buy a used rental car.
How is #29, AwesomeShare (not even launched) a top 35-missed startup? Its an idea that’s been done over and over and over again. It doesn’t even look well done.
I haven't been surprised about consumer Linux from the time I got a Linux-powered TiVo back in 2003. Linux with a very nice UI = win for everyone (except, I suppose the FSF who argue that Google/TiVo's usage of the GPL v2 was a perversion of the intent).

What's more interesting is that it is (assuming you have a boot-unlocked device) running free-as-in-libre software.
Weekend Hack: SpotCast - DJ your Spotify to your friends
I had ordered mine from Element 14 during july and was told it'd take until november until i got it, ended up shipping just before august. they are certainly fun to play with i got two, one to really play play with and the other to use as a print server for a 3d printer.
> Well, Windows Phone has failed to gain traction in the marketplace and therefore lacks a proper app ecosystem.

Can you even buy a WP8 phone yet? Give it a year after it's released before passing judgment on its app ecosystem.

You're confusing the old with the new.

Their whole deal here is that they are re-inventing the product line. It's not the old WP flop anymore.

> Personally, I think it's a Pepsi. Sweet on first impression, but cumbersome to use every day.

That's coming from someone that's never even used it once!

Personally, I think they have an awesome product. Once MS and manufacturers gear up their marketing, we'll see what happens.
There was even an Infinite Mario AI contest in which you had to write a player which gets through as many levels of increasing difficulty as possible. The winning solution? A* of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8

(I had an also-ran entry in this contest that took 3rd place, but my solution wasn't significantly different than Robin's -- his was able to anticipate bullets firing but mine wasn't) Writeup: http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/GIC2009Compe...
Yeah java's not so great in ST2 with Tomorrow Night but it's much better in eclipse. http://i.imgur.com/1HNco.png
RIPE will be out of new IPv4 addresses by the end of this month
I'm not sure what's new here. All the Windows Phones (7+) had a unique user interface. The array of live tiles, the emphasis on a narrow array of primary colors and the lack of UI customization always characterized Windows Phones. Also, Nokia phones have been known for good build quality for quite a while. Producing phones in colors other than black and white isn't new either.

Considering the limitations that Microsoft imposes on customizing the OS, I'm not sure how many avenues for differentiation remain for the phone body itself. There is only so much you can do with pure design. I think the more radical and original designs are only enabled by superior core technology like the size of the SOCs, batteries and other internal components. If you want a smartphone as thin and flexible as a credit card, then you're going to need advancements on a whole lot of fronts, most of which aren't within the purview of the designers. I think that Nokia needs to bank on something more than just phones that are outwardly a bit fancier than the competition. 4.7 inch screens and Gorilla Glass are old news.
It's remarkable the difference I noticed in the comment's sentiment between your blog and HN. Good luck!
Deliberately Breaking Bad Habits
Is this brand spankin' new? Can't say I'm terribly familiar with all of Google's dev offerings.
Real World Comparison, GC vs. Manual Memory Management
Charlotte NC (DNC host) startup wants to change 'finding a ride'
Charlotte NC startup myautopilot.co wants to change how people 'find a ride'.
True, but a judge awarding damages to your counterparty hurts, even if the amount of money is insignificant.
I knew this had to be about "foreign aid" somehow.
Sounds like he had his fill of the game but couldn't bear to stop until it was finished.

"Some people said to me that they wanted to play more," Redwood told me. "It's great that they like the game but, you've finished. You're done."

I bet he took the FREEDOM tag from a sticky note attached to his monitor.
It doesn't matter who does the investigation, so long as the evidence they find is reasonably easy to validate.
Couldn't agree more.

I already own an N9, which is a beautiful, tasteful piece of hardware in itself - no plastic-y feel at all and I have a Galaxy Nexus, too.

Really, no comparison.

On top, I find the metro UI design very elegant and convincing, I'm actually considering a Lumia. Can't wait to try one in my hands.
I really hope you didn't just give them the idea.
C - Unsigned minus unsigned difference between 32 and 64-bit
Big Data vs Intelligent Data (and what Startups can do with it)
Temporary tech problems, we'll get it started at 11:15am.
You can use your Twitter client to search for "nreducedemoday" to follow the action:

https://twitter.com/#!/search/?q=nreducedemoday
No. Announced October 2011. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-cloud-sql-your...
The design doesn't feel perfect, but that hasn't stopped the iPad app from being my new morning and evening go-to news source. Great work on shipping, and it's pretty amazing that there's so much progress on all three platforms simultaneously.
Anyone measured performance on this? I'd be interested if it was similar in speed to a dedicated machine with SSD.
It is fascinating that none of the major news outlets seems to have reported this as of yet.
Part of the idea of terrorism (and hate crimes, for that matter) is that the victims aren't just the ones immediately impacted, but other people as well. The aim of terrorism is to create a climate of fear in those who live. I will always remember the first time I flew on an airplane after September 11, 2001.

I strongly doubt that this act was designed to strike fear into the hearts of all of the other fabulously wealthy presidential candidates who refuse to disclose their tax returns.
In my opinion, the reason this does not classify as terrorism is that 99.999999% of the world is not afraid of being blackmailed for the release of their tax returns.
Oh no, not at all, Qubes is a much lighter weight alternative to what the roomful of security people DARPA did throw together in the 90s to try and design those systems.

They're throwing another roomful of people together to build something similar right now. If Joanna wants and maneuvers right, her lab could end up getting a lot of the contracts to do a lot of things the DoD wants done.

I'm not sure whether she's interested in that though, or whether she's pursued it already. They'd probably ask for a bunch of stuff that would involve headaches. Either that or she's already doing work on it. Dunno, to be honest.
Jean-Louis Gassée: The Apple Tax, Part II
> What is Microsoft missing that would make it "proper"?

Apps on par with Android and iOS. Sure WP has a Twitter app, but it's ancient. Several other popular "must-have" apps are there, but are not at feature parity with competing platforms.

I think that's the one big thing Windows Phone is missing: versions of apps that don't suck, and don't lag features behind competing platforms.

Outside the Microsoft crowd, developer/buyer interest is virtually non-existent, which is sad because I think it's a rather great platform. It's fast, pretty, elegant and useful.
> I found that they are a "different" kind of car dealer because they have fixed, no haggle prices for all of their cars.

I love this sales tactic -- tell the customer that your sticker prices are set in stone as if it's some sort of benefit.
This kind of stuff has the potential to be so much fun, but always ends up being so boring.

Remember when a 4chan user hacked into Sarah Palin's not-public-record Yahoo! Mail account and managed to post screenshots to /b/? But then the user totally failed to publicly archive the mail? And somehow got caught? Total disappointment.
Nothing kills a bad product faster than good marketing.
Toilet paper is in some cases also not resellable.
Icare: open source carpooling platform developed with RoR, MongoDB, Bootstrap
Obama, Romney field questions on NASA, Net neutrality, climate change
Jason,
First: In mid-August, I discovered my site was being copied.
I communicated with Newsblur by email requesting that my original and story views be removed. I then repeated my request on twitter and was told that it had been removed. I replied that it still displayed. It continues to display.

So, my site is supposedly already "removed". Nevertheless, if I visit http://www.newsblur.com/site/1100897/ both the story and the original still display if I click around. I'll be more than happy to take screenshots for you. Also, I can report the Newsblur bot continues to return to my site to make fresh copies or the front page. Clearly, if it is not the intention of Newsblur to display fresh copies, these return visits should be a pointless waste of time for a bot.

Clearly, it is not particularly simple to get Newsblur to displaying fresh copies of pages on the web.

But let us suppose it was a simple as you suggest.

I would suggest that the practice of assuming that all content is open-domain is a risky one for Newsblur. Copyright law has potentially heavy fines for unauthorized copying. Newsblur would be wise to reconsider the notion that it is sufficient for content providers to watch diligently for unauthorized copies and follow up by hunting down Newsblurs email so they can "opt-oubllby Newsblur thinks they can advance some fair-use argument why they can simply copy 100% of front pages of blogs. I don't know what that might be-- but since I can prevent display using javascript I'm content to not pursue that issue.

I would suggest that no matter what a judge might decide in a copyright dispute, if Newsblur is going to send out a bot to make copies, rather than suggesting content providers email them with requests to not-archive, they ought to visit robots.txt, obey it, and failing that obey no-archive directives included on web pages. To do otherwise is-- to put it mildly-- impolite.

I might also add that while Newsblur might prefer content creators to communicate with them to have their 'original' views removed from Newsblur, content creators might find it simpler or preferable to drop in javascript. Dropping in the javascript would suffice to break your Newsblur frames and the frames of other as-yet- undiscovered entities who have decided they wish to frame content and/or copy and then frame the copies.

I'm sure no content provider would object if Newsblur detects this framebreaking so it doesn't spoil the Newsblur experience. But based on my visits to http://www.newsblur.com/site/1100897/ it seems Newsblur does not auto-detect framebreaking.
Samsung kinda came out of nowhere with their original Galaxy S, and, along with other people, I absolutely love mine, which I've beaten the hell out of, left in the back of a taxi (this weekend - but got it back), and generally mistreated like a lover for 2.5 years, and it is still in perfect condition. There must be a gradual market effect from the fact that they've made some really good quality kit. I've seen so many iphones with cracked screens!
I would gladly pay a dollar (or donate to a charity of Mitt's choice) to have him release the records, just so we could move past them and try to talk about something of substance for a while.
Both are marketing gimmick at the end of the day. And Apple (Jobs) has been leading in that department very well - Nokia had 3G long before iPhone 3G was released. Nokia had multitasking long before it was there in iPhone 4. And Nokia E6 had a PPI of 328, much before 'Retina Display' was advertised... and such high PPI is useless except for marketing anyway.
According to the pricing page, the largest instance you can currently provision is one with 4GB RAM and 10GB storage. Not really worth benchmarking at that point.
Damn. Who knows if this is legit, but assassination markets are coming, it's only a matter of time. Obviously it won't start with ACTUAL assassinations-- but hide your data, hide your mistresses.

If abused assistants and underpaid file clerks ever realize they can make 100x their salary by leaking data with a bounty there is going to be a culture changing shit-storm.
Well at least he was not sold cheaply.
For me, after a threshold (which is what the iPhone display reaches), it doesn't really matter. The returns are exponentially diminishing after that point. Having 10% ppi more than the iPhone's will not make the display 10% better.
You see them or you don't at a given distance. There might be value for some people in having that distance be shorter.
That's a great approach and I admire your honesty. I think users should always have a choice. At the moment, there is a big assumption made which is the problem.
Twilio API now has call queuing
The entire idea of blackmail is that you fear the thing being held against you.
I recall it being couched in words about overall tax rate, though, not income tax rate. Which would give him enough wiggle room if push comes to shove.
To be fair, that designer is almost certainly correct. What benefit would your machine learning AI bring to a RTS game?

Things like the AI Director in Left4Dead are the more interesting applications, but even then it doesn't apply to every type of game.
:-)

Messy as in the meaningfulness starts to deteriorate faster than with XML - the ability to have attributes and tags when you are deeply nested can be useful

However, if you are that deeply nested, maybe you are doing it wrong
Any Bike Geeks out there?
Your feedback of this bike would be much appreciated.
>the likelihood of offspring drops pretty precipitously after certain ages.

That's a bit of circular logic though. We can't explain why we age (and thus die) by pointing out that we age (and thus are less able to reproduce).
You don't have to go into biology to explain why we die; the physics is sufficient. Everything is subject to entropy.
What if it's all a scheme to drive up the value of bitcoin via speculation?

Increased attention to the currency will have some bidding up the price, so anyone just holding bitcoin could profit, even if without 1 coin being sent to either address.

Of course, if someone did try to make the payment and purchase a million bucks of bitcoins, that would drive the price sky high.
"The Samsung trial recalls the interesting peace agreement that Apple and Microsoft forged in 1997, when Microsoft “invested” $150M in Apple as a fig-leaf for an IP settlement (see the end of the Quora article). The interesting part of the accord is the provision in which the companies agree that they won’t “clone” each other’s products. If Microsoft could arrange a cross-license agreement with Apple that includes an anti-cloning provision and eventually come up with its own original work (everyone agrees that Microsoft’s Modern UI is elegant, interesting, not just a knock-off), how come Samsung didn’t reach a similar arrangement and produce its own distinctive look and feel?"
How the turtle got its shell
Sure! I am still experimenting and changing things around, but here is my current setup.

12v 10Ah sealed lead acid battery

Instapark 20w solar panel with solar charge controller

Pololu step down switching regulator

Logitech c270 webcam (USB)

Edimax wifi dongle (USB)

With this setup I am running 24/7 "off the grid." We'll see how well it works in the winter. The webcam and wifi can be directly connected to the RPi. You don't need a powered hub. This greatly simplifies things. The goal is to eventually swap out the SLA battery for a 12.8v LiFePO4 and house everything in a waterproof enclosure made from a Pelican case. I also have a powered hub and a GlobalSat GPS unit that I'd like to add at some point. The logitech camera is not that great. I'll look into replacing it once we know more about the add on camera coming from the Raspberry Pi foundation.
Software Design: The "Come Back Later" Problem
Two issues with your usage:

- this is not "systematic". Terrorism targets a whole group.

- this is not "violent" (search the wikipedia entry[0]; while the word is left out of the one-liner at the top, it appears throughout).

I would have categorized this under blackmail, or possibly harassment or intimidation. It definitely isn't terrorism.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
Show HN: interactive visualization of text entropy
"If Romney is as afraid of releasing his taxes as many imply, would he not be fearful of their release?"

If a kid is afraid of their first day of school that doesn't mean the school is a terrorist, though that child may be full of terror about that day. It's a very broad term - arguably which contributes to problem of ever really "winning" a "war on terror", but the common understanding of the word terrorism today doesn't usually include things like fear of tax records being released.
Grunt works great on all those platforms!
Agreed. It will however take original research, which costs time and money. I reckon that's a bit of an issue for most blog writers (and of course that applies for lots of people that write for traditional publications as well).
Video production can be all over the place in terms of cost, complexity, and sophistication. One trend has been using DSLRs to lower the cost of high-quality production (esp, in photojurnalism and documentary style). If you have intellectual curiousity about how is done, or alternatively, just for background as you benchmark your options you can learn more here:

http://www.learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2011/eos5d...

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/11/26/7-days-7-shoots-eo...

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/
I ordered two about 3 weeks ago from Element 14. They arrived near the end of last week, so about 2 to 2.5 weeks for order fulfillment.
I think it's good to not confuse what we typically think of as links with recommendations, which I think both the OP and the commenter do. Zemanta's widget isn't about permalinks, it's about recommendations. The former are a human art form, the latter can be human or mechanical or some combination.

That said, the decline of the permalink bothers me deeply and I'm working to fix it.
>As well, CUPS has been ported to FreeBSD.

Well CUPS did not originate with Apple, they bought it when they needed a mature printing system. It existed for BSD prior to Apple's purchase.

I don't know if the BSD's have made any use of anything from Apple's Darwin release? Perhaps it's not possible due to the licencing (Apple Public Source Licence) which is copyleft'ish.
AngelList Docs - Close your round online
You're missing the whole point of not having other windows open
I believe the entire point of Cloud SQL is to provide real SQL support of App on AppEngine.
In those cases your liability coverage would cover it first and then you or the insurance company might pursue a case against the manufacturer. There will of course be lawsuits and class action suits, but by and large I predict liability will handle it.
http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/07/28/anonymous-hacks-irs-d...
> Now, seriously, there is absolutely no need to increase pixel density

Isn't that what they said in 2010, and 2005, and 2000?

When we have a display that's "retina" when being held 1 mm in front of sharp eyes you might be able to say there's "no need." Until then, the market will decide.
ENCODE: The Rough Guide to the Human Genome
An aid package of 60 million dollars would be three times the amount they spent yearly on Cambodia in the last decade (with little variance). See [1].

[1]: http://www.openaid.se/en/countries/kambodja?year=2012
I don't understand why they made this a public posting. Romney isn't incentivized to pay up once the blackmail is public knowledge -- payment is equivalent to admitting guilt. Might as well keep your money and take the hits.

I don't see any situations where this beats contacting the campaign privately, with a document or two in hand to prove that you have the real stuff.

Unless, of course, if this is just a stunt that someone is running on the off chance that anyone is stupid enough to actually pay the money.
Any Bike Lovers Out There?