skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great, if you frameworks abstractions aren't leaky. Which they almost certainly are.

At that point the question is whether the troubleshooting, as stated, will teach you about how to solve the problem with javascript in general or framework specific contortions to work around it.
The malicious part is because the resources to mine the computers (physical hardware and electricity costs) are born by someone else (the owner of the infected computer).
Difficulty obtaining meaningful transaction records. Transaction are public, but often obfuscated.
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I understand 'innocent until proven guilty,' but 'patentable until proven otherwise' makes no damn sense.
Templates via http://keynotopia.com/ would do something like that.
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This is a bit of topic; hopefully not too much so.

A collective of Czech artists spliced a nuclear explosion into a television signal and made quite a splash.

It was pretty funny (if you like this sort of irony) to see the footage in an installation in one of Prague's national galleries.

More details here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/04/artnews.art

> I have all this info from hearsay, cough.

Shucks! I was sure your read about this in a book :)
yep. But can the largest military power really default?
Most (if not all) explicitly say they are not to be mistaken (in any way) as legally binding contract. With at will employment, this seeming nuance is worth keeping in mind. It means the employee cannot rely on such a handbook, in court: the employer has explicitly prevented this use. As you correcty point out, an explicit contract may require one or both sides to live up to the handbook. But such employment contracts are not considered the general case, in the US at least.
It's not like every alternative requires hours of configuration. Download CCCP or SMplayer, push the button, and you're go.

VLC has ongoing minor problems (e.g. colorspaces) and a history of more major ones (e.g. buffer overflows in subtitle parsing). Unless you prefer the VLC interface (which would be perfectly reasonable, but I don't see people giving this as a rationale for using VLC), it's worse than either of the two alternatives I mentioned. And yet it's far more popular. This can be frustrating.
That sounds more inline with the jobs I've seen floating about for web-devs recently, although there's probably plenty still relying on the good old tools.
>> if you are not looking at the settings and privacy sections of the website but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.

There are two separate issues here: 1) should Facebook have done this, and 2) should the user have stopped it sooner.

You say the answer to #2 is "yes." Ok, fine.

But the answer to #1 is definitely "No." I don't care if they've been doing it since the day they launched. They're spamming the user's friends, without the user's explicit action, in a way that makes it appear that the user did it personally.

How can they possibly call that a "feature"? Imagine having Skype auto-dial your contacts, impersonate your voice, and pitch them on products.

>> if you are still using Facebook but purport to care about your privacy there is something wrong with you.

There, I fixed that for you.
So assuming we're talking about a synchronous machine aka permanent magnet AC motor, the control of whether the motor acts as a generator or motor is inherent in the physics of the machine. Inside the motor are polyphase AC windings which with the help of an inverter create a rotating electromagnetic field (usually the stator). The rotor position is sensed, and thus the control system can vary the angle between the electromagnetic field and magnets in the rotor. This angle is called the torque angle, and if it it is leading the rotor ("pulling it along") then the machine produces torque. If some external force accelerates the rotor (or if the control changes the phase angle) then the rotor is lagging ("pushing against the magnetic field") then the torque is converted into output current.
Practically this means that a synchronous motor spinning at a particular speed (again set by the AC inverter) will consume power if it is under load and produce electric power if externally driven.
The AC inverter is designed such that power can flow in either direction. When supplying power to the motor it acts as an inverter, when the motor is supplying power it acts as a rectifier. So basically the control just needs to change the phase angle to control whether the motor produces torque or acts as a generator.

I assume that the operation of the switched reluctance motor covered in the article is similar.
Stable or volatile: uh... both
You need a police force to enforce contracts and there is no system of exchange that can survive without contract.
oh no. Sorry.
Have you flagged this back to Spotify? It might be a good idea, I can't see them being super happy to leave a bug of that size floating wild.
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For the same query I got "White House, TN". Surprising (to me) amount of huge trucks, and quite uninteresting white house.
I believe that trademarks should be granted (and patents too, for REAL non obvious innovations), but watching the black and white sketches it looks like they "trademarked" the very idea of an animation showing a page folding on a digital book. Following the trademarking analogy, this looks to me like trying to trademark the word "Apple" for a company selling apples - which AFAIK isn't allowed.
There's opportunity cost in using it for yourself instead of selling the use of it to other people.
You might to look at http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/
Using facebook for events provides a few benefits over email:
1. You don't need to know your friends' email address
2. You can add pictures/video from the event
3. It automatically generates maps, directions.
4. People not interested in getting emails every time someone responds with "I'll bring the salsa!" can choose not to get notified.
I thought one of the last sentences was pretty interesting. I've definitely been noticing more websites with larger images - Square, Desk.com, etc. I'd love to know how that's affecting these websites and if it's worth it in those instances to give up speed for the marketing advantages that higher quality images give.
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If you can formulate your problem in terms of tensor math (for example, neural networks) you can use Theano [1]. It is a very high-level approach. You give it mathematical expressions and it generates and executes GPU code for you. When I last used it it only supported CUDA, so it was NVidia only, but it may be extended to OpenCL by now.

1. http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
Given that Bitcoin records all transactions for posterity, and given the ongoing rise of "big data" analytics, I'd say Bitcoin is likely to be harder, in the long run, to use for shenanigans. A government currency has forms in which transactions create no paper trail. Bitcoin does not.

Really the big disruption Bitcoin could cause if it becomes well established, is to act as a stable reference frame against which the other currencies can be compared (versus now, where they all float against each other). No government owns the Bitcoin printing press. It cannot be used as an instrument of fiscal policy, and it weakens the ability to use government currency as an instrument of fiscal policy.
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Windows Explorer is still crashing?!?!
Here's a nice discussion about Switched Reluctance Motors courtesy of TI (and control thereof):
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/spra420a/spra420a.pdf
Governments are cracking down on the use of cash in ways that will only help the promotion of Bitcoin. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/10/17/large-cash...
You can use a Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) client like MultiBit (see http://multibit.org). From scratch it takes about 5 minutes to start using Bitcoin.
> Here's an article I wrote about why I think Knockout.js is so much better than Backbone.js

... and it was written in a horribly obnoxious manner. The disclaimer clearly shows you realize they have different purposes. So why the antagonistic tone? If your issue is really as stated that people use Backbone for the wrong things and to highlight the benefits of data binding for views, then address that, instead of writing some inane comparison blasting Backbone for not providing features you the at the end admit isn't its focus.

It's a bit as if I were to review your blog post as musical theatre and then at the end admit I knew all along it was actually a technical blog post but that I'd decided to slate it for lack of singing anyway.
The cycles are so much shorter now that what you were doing last year is antiquated, and what you were doing 5 years ago will get you fired.

This isn't true in any other field of software development. Has the author not wondered why web development is in such a state of flux? The answer is that the whole concept is a hack - using a document markup system to deliver applications was a poor reinvention of the old thin client idea. Any programmer worth his salt could see this, and so all the early tech like PHP was 'designed' by people who couldn't design. Since then smarter people have tried to fix it, but it's still layer upon layer of hacks, which is why it requires entirely new hacks every year.
I think the comment is referring to opportunity cost, since botnet's can also be used for other profitable activities, which may bring in more money than bitcoins (such as renting them to interested parties).
I feel like I stepped in some 1990s GeoCities.

That'll take a while to scrape off my shoe...
Detailed technical questions are answered on Bitcoin Stack Exchange. See http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com.
I think slashdot (of all sites) had a important snippet why this is important news:

> This information comes from research carried out in the U.S. into the possibility of using LTE networks as the basis for a next-generation emergency response communications system.

I can agree that "civilian" systems can except people to behave in a non-destructive way. But a law-enforcement/emergency system should be reasonably resilient (of course not immune, but resilient) against interference. Thus the value of this study is that it exposes that LTE is not suitable for such use.
Yup, Lovefilm was also forced to switch to Silverlight. The content providers haven't learned anything from the mistakes of the music industry. This is going to end badly for them.
>> if you are going to leave your house unattended for three years... you are downright stupid to not figure some way to get it watched

That is completely different.

Number one, a common and legitimate reason to stop using Facebook is apathy. How many sites or services have you abandoned using over the years? Imagine if each one of them took your inactivity as permission to actively impersonate you.

Number two, this isn't like your abandoned house getting broken into by random people. This is like your landlord changing your rent agreement unilaterally to say that she can steal your furniture.

The real difference is that I assume my landlord is basically honest, whereas I long ago dropped that assumption about Facebook. If I heard that Facebook were taking over web cameras and selling indecent images of their users, I would not be surprised.

I see the basic policy of Facebook as "we are going to do anything we want with your account and/or data unless you vigilantly monitor and stop us." Which is why I deleted my account.

I assume they actually kept it and are still selling my data, because that's just the kind of company they are.
My first thought was that the perfect place for the word SHARE and a thin horizontal strip of "favicon-sized" buttons was ...the same place you warned me that my IE10 might not work ≡÷þ
"foreign governments liked holding their reserves in US dollars"

Yes every government has to keep dolar reserve because this is the only currency you can buy oil with. USA managed to force oil suppliers to accept only US dollars.

This is the source of the dollar power and enable FED to print as much dollars as they want. People all over the World must purchase dollars.
Tough words from someone who named themselves after a peanut butter cup. ;)
Yes, yes it was.

Why not arrest him and try him for war crimes? Assuming that there's enough evidence to convict - and if not, why is that enough to go and kill him?
"natural" != "right"
Quite a few people are mentioning prior art and then going on to give examples where it's just an animation. I'm not saying that there isn't prior art however it does specify that the animation is initiated with a finger:

"The animation responds to a simple swiping motion with the finger, which turns the page over just as it happens on a paper book. A different swiping motion will flip the pages quickly, and a vertical finger movement will flip the page just enough to reveal what’s on the next page."

Talking of which - does anyone find the iBooks animation to be slow and annoying? On my iPad 3 it lags for a split second and generally feels a bit rough. It sounds picky but it's quite annoying and judging by a quick search on Google, others are annoyed by it too. Has it always been this way or is this a bug that will be fixed?
I'm the same.

But while I've never seen that page before historically I've been pretty strict about going in and tightening up privacy settings.

I wonder if when they introduced this they created a default based on other privacy settings?
I noticed something weird in the programming community: We all seem to want really hard to believe that programming is easy.

I know I got definitely caught up in this whole idea, and attempted to teach programming to everyone around me (girlfriend, sister, dad, coworker). Of course that didn't go very long, because, let's face it programming is difficult. It hit me recently that I've been obsessing about programming and practicing like a maniac every day for years now, and I still suck. Something easy shouldn't take this much effort to learn, right?

Dijkstra wrote in "How do we tell truth that might hurt?" (EWD 498) that "Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics". Regardless of whether he's wrong or right in 2012, I have one question: Why is it a truth that hurts?
I think if you are doing a terrorist attack then FCC fines probably are least of your concerns.

The authors are obviously not worried about some kids doing a prank with jammers or anything like that. They are worried that criminals would use jammers to execute their crimes.
try this http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-white-house/m...
In theory they are different, but in reality people use backbone because they think it will help them reduce the bloat and mess in their code, when in fact backbone will not help with that.
Already in place: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#What_do_I_call_the_various_de...
Is this a web intent?
Lots of choices here: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/
I agree with you. But it's important to understand that 'Patent granted' has no meaning at all.
It is Israel that breaks the ceasefires and starts the violence.
Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-kanwisher/reigniting-vio...
It's the only way this could have been shown. This story couldn't have been told if it wasn't browser-specific.
I worried about the same thing about sending something that exposed my Social Security Number. So I submitted my driver's license and car insurance policy for identity and residence respectively. (It was kind of a pain to find a proof of residence they accepted since I had no bills in my name.)

For anyone browsing the thread, this is part of an email their support desk sent me for accepted documents, which is significantly more permissive than the upload page for verification suggests:

1 A copy of your government issued photo ID such as:
- Passport
- Permanent residence card
- Driver’s license

2. Proof of Residence that is not older than 3 months such as:
- Monthly utility bill
- Internet Bill
- Cellphone Bill
- Tax Return document
- Residency Certificate
- Voting registration form
- Medical insurance
- Pay Slip
- Car Insurance Policy
- Medical Bill
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> I don't put LTE coverage in the "Mission Critical" category of infrastructure.

The problem here is that officials are considering using LTE for communication between emergency responders. And that would make LTE very much "mission critical".
It looks like this is about the name. If you want to call your thing Android, you have to respect the Android API (the example they give with SystemClock makes sense).

The android source being under an Apache License, you can still fork the project, but you'll have to change the name.

This reminds me of the Firefox/Iceweasel story.
In a completely distributed system where malicious participants are trying to attack the system, you need some kind of mechanism to get a consensus about the state of the world. Obviously, a simple majority vote wouldn't work because an attacker could cheaply spawn many nodes on the network. In bitcoin this is solved by tying the "vote" to proof of work: the explicit assumption is that the majority of the computing power is controlled by participants who aren't trying to attack the system.

There is another mechanism that could reduce the need for proof-of-work though: the participants could instead show proof-of-stake[1], i.e. prove that they control a certain amount of currency. Somebody has created ppcoin[2] (a bitcoin fork) to experiment with this.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake

[2] https://ppcoin.org
There's no room for learning, if we don't go about it this way. But hey, please carry on.
Judge Crabb Explains Dismissal of Apple v. Motorola
I play TF2 much more than I should, and I can say that they have the balance between the weapons pretty well perfect. Of course I have my load-outs which I prefer, but there aren't isn't really anything that outshines any other weapons, whether it be the base weapons or drops. I can guarantee you that I can kill you with any of the base weapons, and that I can be killed by anyone who has practised enough with any of the weapons.
And it suddenly hits me that programming actually takes effort

This post does very little to dispel the stereotype that girls can't code.
does it still work? Spotify says :access denied
>50 years ago it was very reasonable to think that we'd have worked out how to make a fusion reactor too.

Most of the reason we haven't is economic; modern fission reactor designs are far more efficient than even the most optimistic estimates of 50 years ago.
In traditional companies, VP is higher than Director.

In banks, it's different. VP is a middling level and not necessarily managerial, while Managing Director is usually the highest.

I think the idea is that VP is equivalent to VP in a regular company, while MD is comparable to a C-level title, but because banks can't have as many C*O's as they have Managing Directors, they use a different title. Whether the rest of the world agrees with the banks on this title-equivalence is open for debate.
Who upvotes this crap, seriously?
Stuck? Just shut up and be a robot for 25 minutes and see what happens.
A fork means that you offer an incompatible SDK. What Amazon does is not forking the SDK, but using it.
some welcome improvements.

array/string de-referencing will help write less useless lines of code.
Email validation is indeed a complex and occasionally surprising beast.

Clearly this regex is impractical, but any validation you invent yourself is likely incorrect. The best way to validate email addresses remains sending an email to them.
Really? My experience is that it does. So is the experience of many others. Data binding was far down the list of issues I've needed to fix in the places where I've experimented with Backbone.

For data binding there's tons of alternatives that co-exists nicely with Backbone, including Knockout via Knockback, or Rivets, or any number of modules written specifically to work with Backbone - the choice of data-binding mechanism is orthogonal to the choice of using Backbone or not.
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people don't have to invent bullshit explanations of how they think this stuff works - the thesis is here http://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf

it is more than a stack of images.
Seriously...this is what you get from it? Ridiculous.
I have re-read this argument "design patents have a very limited scope" a few times over the latest Apple patent craze. What I am wondering is what the reasoning behind all these questionable patents is and if they are indeed hardly enforceable. Or is Apple, maybe as a consequence of the Samsung disaster, going into "patent whatever is remotely patentable" mode?
I had a quick glance through the expression, looks good from here.
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Indeed. And I never felt the fragmentation people worry about is much of a problem. We have been doing resizable interfaces since the first windowing systems arrived.
Great, now I have something to strike fear into the hearts of new devs who ask me about email validation.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable using a regex like this in production. Sure, we can write lots of tests and ensure it performs correctly, and the rfc is unlikely to change so once proven solid it won't change... but using this just feels wrong. Like I'm using the dark side of the force.
This regex tests for RFC 822 compliance, but what if you get a user who has an email address that itself doesn't comply with the RFC?
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There are a number of publishing platforms for magazines that use these online (Ceros, Zinio etc).

As for touch related, I think they both have iOS / mobile web apps as do others.

They have all been around since before iBooks.

The first time I saw a finger following page turn on iOS was pre iPad via Pixelmags. I am not sure when it make it to market though, but I'm sure it was before the iPad launched.
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The second half of this article has the order by Judge Crabb,.

The order starts off explaining why she earlier thought she should take up the case, and force Motorola to specific FRAND licensing terms.

Motorola then demanded that Apple agree to the Judge's determination of the specific licensing terms.

When Apple then said they'd only take the licensing terms set by the Judge as an upper-bound, and agree to the licensing terms only if it was under a dollar per phone, the Judge realized that any trial would only serve as a negotiating strategy for Apple setting an upper-bound, and that the subject under trial was far too complex for the Judge to issue a specific performance, and was more amenable to a binding arbitration.

The court would be resolving all of the issues raised
in this case without necessarily bringing the
parties any closer to a license agreement.
In effect, Apple was asking the court to assist it in
negotiating, not in putting the parties’ dispute to rest.

It's great to read how the Judge modified her thought process as the trial went along [for 18 months], and how Apple's strategy backfired when Motorola demanded that the outcome of the trial be binding on Apple.

For those of you who thought that Motorola has been violating the law on its FRAND obligations this is a reality-check.

The order is a relatively easy read, and quite candid in showing how a Judge would change her thoughts as a case progressed through many stages.

[edit] added Judge's quote