skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SDN Is Business, OpenFlow Is Technology
Loopnet's revenue is largely from subscription fees to be able to search listings. 42Floors is entirely free to search.
Tweets preceded by "@user" appear only in the timelines of the sender, the user in question and people following that user.
Does it help to realize that not stop talking when the other person is trying to end the conversation is really rude?
Anyone got a backup?
Another option is that the winning party (or parties if need be), can be able to rule without having a majority - negotiate temporary alliances for questions as they come up.

This has been the case here in Sweden several times. A country doesn't become Italy just because they use parliamentarism.
> you're more or less at the mercy of that network's administrator

No, you're not. Sure there are additional risks but making broad statements isn't helpful when we're talking about connecting to a service with SSL.

> connect your MAC address to the Gmail address

How? Again, it's possible but Gmail works over SSL. That connection would have to be compromised to make any connection to your MAC and then they'd have to make a connection from your MAC to your personal identity.
And even more people disparage him as a nutcase after listening to him.
It's not a binary choice. Of course, you always have local versions of republicans and democrats. Of course, it can lead to unstability (Italy, pre-1958 France) with an undue amount of power for smaller parties.

But the way it actually works is how proportional the vote is, eg, what minimum does a party need to get an MP seat. If you set the minimum too high, all the smaller parties are excluded, if it's too low, the lunatics run the asylum. You have to have the right balance, which will also depend on the political landscape in your country (eg, the more proportional Danish system seems to work OK given the nation's culture of political consensus).
Jimmy Maher's series on interactive fiction and the history of microcomputers, especially as it applies to interactive fiction, is excellent.
Well, I think for starters, you're missing context for the first example. Prior art must pertain to the context, and animated film is not a touch enabled computing device. For instance, just because Roddenberry thought of the idea of teleportation doesn't mean this concept in the show is prior art. If and when a company does invent a teleporter, then they will be able to patent it.

And your second point about obvious is flawed. Everything is obvious when you know the correct answer. For instance, a wheel is so obvious that a very young child could rationalize its creation and use. Because it's obvious once seen. But if it's so obvious, why did it take us 245,000 year or so to invent the wheel? Microsoft has been touting the tablet for ten years. Why didn't they create it, if it's so obvious.

I think all patents need to go away, I think they cripple innovation and make it impossible to create something new if you're not a giant corporation. But in so long as we're stuck with these laws, then every company has to try to patent everything it can so it doesn't get sued.
I made a wufoo form instead, as the google doc doesn't verify emails:

https://snapbite.wufoo.com/forms/fortress-hackathon-register...
Right, but the source subnet is presumably a more useful position from which to perform a MITM when the goal is connecting a physical person/device to their "anonymous" online behaviour.
This almost sounds like a case of Stockholm syndrome.

I use Twitter. The 140 character limit is definitely not a feature. In addition, they could be tokenizing mentions and hashtags to save space (e.g., as a Unicode private use point followed by a 64-bit int).

When you see the amount of XML crap that is included with every tweet, the artificial limitations imposed seem all the more laughable. (See: http://www.slaw.ca/2011/11/17/the-anatomy-of-a-tweet-metadat...)
YC s12 sponsored Hackathon 4pm today, 24 hrs, prizes, food, beer etc.
There are, believe it or not, things that IE does better than WebKit. For instance, IE uses Direct2D (essentially the state of the art for vector graphics) for rendering.
>> The Iron Dome also has the benefit of twenty years of technological progress to draw upon vs the Patriots. A higher success rate here should not come as a surprise.

To the best of my knowledge the Iron Dome success rate is lower. Patriot missiles in the first gulf war sucked, and there is no solid evidence that even a single one hit its target. During the invasion of Iraq it was a completely different story: only one Patriot missed its target (mostly Chinese-made Silkworm missiles) and hit a Kuwaiti shopping center.
As someone that works on releasing open source products from a closed source company, this is scary reading. Suddenly, all of the checks and balances we have to hurdle seem reasonable.
A glance over the wiki pages for countries that use FPTP and PR suggests that PR at least correlates better with sanity.

My personal beef with FPTP is that it devolves so much power to the party base - since you can't start new parties around new ideas (and test whether the voters like the ideas), the best way to make things happen is to just get involved with local politics and influence people within the party. Since voters are so entrenched, your ideas have to be really terrible and large scale before they affect your party's chances. This means that instead of being influenced by the electorate, parties are more influenced by the personalities within them.
An idea came up while searching. You know what would be cool? A way to see what type of business is in each office building. I want to find co-working spaces that have a large concentration of the type of business I am in for obvious networking purposes.
Hulu launches a video hub dedicated to gaming
> I am sorry, but what am I missing - where is the interaction?

you can paint on creations while they play. try it http://new.weavesilk.com/?d07e
Steven Sinofsky defended
More generally - be aggressive with your data: probe it, sort it, graph it, sanity check it, and never take it at face value.
Computing: Secure the Internet
Ask Patents qn: prior art for Apple's page-turning patent
That's a terrible visualization. It takes way too long to work out what "the story" is.
Ah, yes. The Republicans are getting no end of advice from people on the left as to what they should do to start winning elections after a relatively narrow loss. It seems 2010 has been completely erased from the collective Democratic memory, as is the fact that the Republicans were returned control of the House of Representatives. Somehow all the advice we're getting is "move left" and "be more like us".

Thanks, guys. We'll take it under advisement.
My development environment runs on a VM. You can't run multiple VMs on a host. I actually didn't want to reply to you because of your sarcasm. Also your comment history is very windows focused.
Sorry, I didn't mean to spread FUD. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the LAN admin would have a significant advantage relating your online and offline personae, though. Even the URLs you visit (not encrypted, even over SSL) tell a story.
It's actually exactly the same in other countries. Strange, but true.
Allowing parents to choose the schools their children attend is inherently superior to forcing them to attend government-run schools. Proof of better outcomes is unnecessary. Sure, some charter/private schools are worse than government-run schools. Parents can easily avoid those.
Wow, its so addicting. I could sit and draw on it for hours.
Curious about what other libraries people use. Matplotlib? Matlab?
http://new.weavesilk.com/?d07y

Simply doodling, when out pops the angel of death. Lovely :)
A friend asked me to provide him with some screenshots since he doesn't have WebGL, and he thought others might also find it helpful:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o547nsd7atgg7xa/tF2E2sYaef
This is the first time I wished I can have a fat pipe like Kansas residents can.
don't forget: way too often you hit automated or really poor translations.
I've used VTK before. The learning curve is much larger and it's a huge library. But it does have a lot of inbuilt functionality like database access with filters/conversions to format the data the way you need it.
> I do a fair bit of generative music stuff

Wow, got any of that online somewhere yet?
Why assume an equilibrium?

Events, power struggles as people rise and fall in strength are all likely. Economics is a dynamic process, modelling as a stable or convergent systems is an extremely naive approach.
Meet The Elusive Data Scientist
Absolutely true. It's difficult though, because their whole strategy is to make you uncomfortable. You're forced to modify your own behavior in a way that goes against your sense of kindness.
effin' unified power plugs?
How would you compare the Twitter ecosystem to how the Facebook ecosystem is doing lately? Seems that Facebook sign on/identity is doing well. Seems that the Facebook hosted apps are increasingly less relevant than apps just getting sign on and possibly newsfeed flow? Twitter ecosystem seems pretty much destroyed. Tweeting and Facebook newsfeed seem to be doing fine.
Nelson, who is on his agency's bomb squad, said, "He had everything to make a triggering device for an IED, so that's a concern."

Can't you make a triggering device for an IED pretty easily? The I stands for improvised, after all. A cell phone or watch could easily be converted into a triggering device - they have all the necessary functionality - so does that mean you can arrest people for carrying those too?

If anything it sounds like Mr. McGann was arrested for liking comfortable shoes.

P.S. I find it hilarious that the officer quoted in the article is one of the bomb squad members who appears on Mythbusters.

EDIT: Oh man, it gets better:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/man-arrested-a...

Apparently the fact that he sent his watch through the security screening machine is evidence that he intended to blow up a plane or something. Other warning flags that mark you as a terrorist: not checking a bag, not having clothes in your backpack.
clang and gcc are not very different from a user's point of view—clang deliberately supports a large number of gcc extensions and command-line options. For that matter, so do other C compilers (e.g. the EDG front-end, used by the intel C compiler).

So really these days "gcc" is as much a common dialect of C as it is a particular compiler.
If Twitter is pivoting, we should build something else
> If taxation is theft, property is theft.

Property can never be theft as theft only exists if property exist. You can't steal something if no one can "own" anything.

> what gives you the right to compel me to defend your property?

No one has a right to compel you to do anything.

However, you will act in your best interest. How about I pay you to defend my property?

Or, perhaps it is in both of our interests if we defend each others property. After all, if you let others steal my property, yours will probably be next.

This holds even more true for rights.
Finland has much stronger teachers' union and pro-union laws than the United States, and pretty much no private schools, and at the same time has been getting stable, good results(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Stu...) in international comparison studies.

You will never find a singular change that can turn around your education system and getting rid of the teachers' unions surely is not the magic pill.
If you don't want to subsidize health, go live in Somolia.

If you love government mandates so much, move to North Korea. See how silly that is?

The real question we should be asking is why employers have anything to do with health insurance in the first place.
It is a conundrum. If I were to hack into Microsoft and obtain the source to Windows 8, release it on github under the GPL - it seems highly unlikely that would be honored. Although if even one single person downloaded it under GPL then technically they should be able to distribute their own version under GPL.

It seems like if the code is considered "stolen" there must be some legal common sense. I would also imagine the longer the code stays as open source, the less likely you'd be able to claim theft. If you immediately took it down claiming copyright that would be one thing. If you knowingly left it up for a year, though, that would certainly be a different situation.
I guess that a majority of HN regulars read Dalton's posts closely, and found this to be news. Peter Chernin's appointment was certainly news for me, and it added flesh to his account of what Twitter's pivot is looking like.
In the color science community lots of people use matlab. I find matplotlib and numpy to be a great combination.
Obligatory IANAL but... Pretty sure possession of stolen property isn't legal even if you paid for it.
and people come to rely on that free licensing

there was no reason to believe that the open source
licensing was anything but company-sanctioned

What both these things seem to rely on, is the amount of time that has passed since the original open sourcing. It seems highly unlikely that they only discovered the open sourcing just now. If they had undertaken this action immediately after discovering the open sourcing, there would be no doubt that it wasn't company sanctioned and no-one would have come to rely on it.
I think Turkey has the most of this type of sellers. Especially the towns that are on the sea and get a lot of tourists.

It usually goes like this:

1. Hey my friend, where are you from? — So that he can set an initial price for you. None of the items ever have prices on them because of this. If say you're from Russia or Germany and the like you'll get the big initial price, if you're from Serbia like me, you'll probably get a smile.

2. Let's say you are from Germany, and were looking at a shirt, he'll tell you €40. — You simply can't allow yourself to buy it at this price, neither is he expecting you to (although I'm sure that happens). At this point he just wants you to pile up the stuff you like from the store.

3. When you're done, he'll sit you down for "the deal". Now's the time to haggle, and you should have been thinking of ways to cut the price while you were picking up the clothes. He'll probably give you a small discount "for bulk" that you should dismiss at once, and aim for at least 30% off of everything (50% is standard somewhere, some parts is less), and don't be afraid to return some things you don't want to buy.

So yeah, if you want some schooling in direct sales, go to Turkey (Alanya is very nice) and go shopping. Be prepared to come back with many knock–off Armani shirts and sweaters.
Just for the record: IE10 ≠ IE6.
great. long life to your venture!
One time I forgot a hiking knife in my backpack (pic for reference: http://i.imgur.com/WnmFm.jpg - yes, you could probably screw someone up badly with it), and did the roundtrip with it without getting intercepted.

Saying that I distrust TSA is an understatement.
I had to fire a guy and we managed to remain friends. I think it depends a lot on the employee not taking it too personally. Also helps if you don't fire them in a nasty way, but more in a way that the situation didn't work out. Also offering to provide a reference if you feel the person has good qualities - that can help because they will need that to get another job.
Or maybe that's just what it wants you to think.
And this is the top ranking comment ? Proof that hacker new is seriously loosing its shit. (Mayb we should call it startup news ?)

Come one, go learn some history. At least the article's writer did know some (a lot)
That one wasn't actually augmented, but virtual.
Because every time somebody proposes that we do it sensibly everybody decides to do their best Joseph McCarthy impression.
i would keep this background music running during my work..
makes me refreshed.
Mocler kids
Some publicity is bad publicity, Novus Partners....
the main issue is that any conversation in the internet gets saved. nothing is forgotten, ever. it might be encrypted, but that only delays reading it.

you want a safer way to communicate. use the telephone, non-voip. the content of your conversation is temporary, there is no record. if someone is not listening in to your conversation right now, no evidence in terms of content stays behind. if it would have been petraeus, all we would know that he had a lot of phone calls with his biographer....
I've created a similar site a few weeks ago. http://receiveee.com
That Skinny Chick's Mounds Bar Recipe
A lot of people have said on this thread that it's an Israeli/Middle East thing. I imagine that these salesman been on the other side of it too in their home countries, as customers/prey. Some of them probably get interested in how it's done and just watch the guys who are making money. Or a boss teaches them. I think it is interesting that the Middle East was a historical trade hub and I don't doubt that this culture stems in a large part from that.
You never bought a computer with Windows already installed, did you? :)
hi yuri! :)
PWNtcha (Pretend We’re Not a Turing Computer but a Human Antagonist)
The bicycle is the most efficient means of human transportation there is, in terms of distance/energy, as long as you have reasonably surfaced roads or trails.

Sigh... I dearly miss frequent rides.
t.forEach(t.insert(t.without("primaryKey"));

Only try this at home.
Proof of better outcomes is unnecessary.

That sounds anti-science if ever I heard it.

Claiming inherent superiority while denigrating evidence and empirical approaches is cut from the same cloth as religion, and certainly won't convince those of us with higher standards.
SSL protects against such an adversary only if the creator of the certificate is not compromised. While I think this is a reasonably safe assumption, there are still vectors for an attack. For example, if a government agency wanted to conduct an MITM attack, they could compel the CA to create a valid certificate.
prior art can be found in software. I'm fairly sure "page turning" existed in Lotus Organiser in the mid 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Organizer
Couldn't you use physical QR code stickers for such proof of location? They can be fairly small and merely need to contain a random UID code (or an URL with the code as query parameter).

Of course that only works up until people start sharing those codes online, even though you can tweak game mechanics to discourage players wanting to do that, it's impossible to prevent.
>you want a safer way to communicate. use the telephone, non-voip. the content of your conversation is temporary, there is no record.

You assume. There's no technical reason for this to be true, however. Telephone conversations are digitized and could easily be saved by the millions. I once worked at a military base where they saved every minute of every telephone conversation, and back then storage was a hell of a lot more expensive.
I think it is save to assume, that if an intelligence service is putting the effort into intercepting your email communication, they are most likely willing to intercept your telephone communication as well.

Voice recognition software has been around for ages, and mainstream consumer products (DragonSpeak, etc) have become surprisingly good. Sure, they could have used prepaid mobile phones or voice scramblers, but then again they also could have just accessed their secret email account(s) just from public access points.
Wifi Smart Pen: Sky
Have been lurking here for a good wee while :)

That would be sweet. I'll PM you on LFGSS. And yes I should be at IM, meant to be taking some photos for the blog.

Cheers, J.
How much for Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or Palo Alto?
I think your analysis is pretty one sided there. Palestinians have to live with far worse danger - Hamas don't have helicopter gunships or laser guided bombs, for example.

Israel is in a far more powerful position; they should be the ones showing restraint.
On the other hand, it's harder to securely use Tor (and not letting it leak) than to do:

apt-get install macchanger
macchanger --random eth0

(And there are multiple utilities for Windows too).

Of course, you have to know you need to change the MAC, but that's something the article could've mentioned.
The comments about how easy it is to avoid targets are in response to those making farcical claims about the density population of the Gaza Strip, and suggesting it is impossible for civilians to escape the conflict.

Israel are engaged in a legitimate military operation, exclusively targeting legitimate military targets.

If you deliberately put yourself in harm's way, then I'm sorry, but you are partially responsible for the harm that comes to you.
> My friends over at reddit.com rewrote their site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done after one weekend.

It should probably be noted that this is from 2005.

> The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something.

Here's what became of that:
http://www.cl-user.net/asp/new
I haven't tried this, but did you compile with the equivalent of -std=c99?
The URLs are definitively encrypted. Only the domains aren't, because of SNI[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Thanks for the link! I have a vague plan to do the ride as an annual event, at lease I know what to call it now :)
I guess the problem here is the "convenience" factor. Reaching an acceptable level of privacy seems to be taking more and more effort.
Wouldn't need so much. The sidebar could say 'founder of app.net' instead of the machismo bullshit that's there now.
thats 33% of US internet traffic and not worldwide?
>Shut the fuck up. Healthcare choices are to the individual and the doctor, not to the insurer or the government.

Exhibit 23239 in favor of the argument: politics should not be allowed on this site.
Please put 2005 in the title.
How to make a sales presentation
Look, I made a cat http://i.imgur.com/KK9fk.png
Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around
For the non-enlightened (as I was 1 minute ago):

Estoppel in English law is a doctrine that may be used in certain situations to prevent a person from relying upon certain rights, or upon a set of facts (e.g. words said or actions performed) which is different from an earlier set of facts.

Estoppel could arise in a situation where a creditor informs a debtor that a debt is forgiven, but then later insists upon repayment. In a case such as this, the creditor may be estopped from relying on their legal right to repayment, as the creditor has represented that he no longer treats the debt as extant. A landlord may tell his tenant that he is not required to pay rent for a period of time ("you don't need to pay rent until the war is over"). After the war is over, the landlord would be "estopped" from claiming rents during the war period. Estoppel is often important in insurance law, where some actions by the insurer or the agent estop the insurer from denying a claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel_in_English_law
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hSbE0...
But dragging something and having it move is a fundamentally obvious interaction. Can you really take "Thing that happens physically, but on a screen" and call it an invention? Could (or did?) someone have gotten a patent on a downward "gravity-like" force on a digital object, so that it falls when you let go of the mouse button?

Has anyone patented "grabbing" an "object" with augmented reality glasses, and manipulating it in space? That seems like the most obvious extension of click and drag into the third dimension possible, and yet I have very little doubt that the patent office would grant it.
Except when it's, say, a car driving down a populated street.