skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that these people have sheep and goats already for basic subsistence. They already use these dangerous fields. By buying them more animals instead of (or as well as) spending money on expensive technical demining kit, you increase the probability of mine clearance a bit, while making the person wealthier. Sheep reproduce and excess lambs can be sold, making the process sustainable.

Similarly, training locals in demining with donated basic equipment is also good, in the sense that these new experts can sell their services locally. The down side is that these brave people take extra risk.

Both the livestock and local training methods were used in Bosnia, which had a serious landmine problem recently.
Metaphors are not helpful for understanding this sort of issue. It's a bit like and a bit not like all kinds of things, and isn't exactly enough like anything else.
Actually we're going for the high-end Cisco options. Thanks!
That was my thought too - 8bit sequencer with 16 steps and chiptune sounds.
Although this is probably won't be a popular viewpoint, Silicon Valley is likely reaching the end of its glory days. For the past 30 years or so, it has been able to exist as a largely insulated bubble -- mostly because it has been able to flex and grow as the rate of increasing demand started its exponential slope upward. But the reality of today is that demand for technical workers has outpaced SV's ability to grow. Because it is a peninsula, with limited space for growth and housing, the bubble is not infinite. Prosperity generally demands space, and there's just not enough of it here on this bleeding edge.

So, it's inevitable that other places will eventually benefit from the spillover. The questions are: where and how and when? Whatever cities can employ the most forward-thinking civil engineers and planners to literally build the city of tomorrow will be able to create an environment where cost of living coupled with a good cultural and environmental climate make it totally worth it to build a company elsewhere.
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Yes, I'll probably turn it off. And then when they add some strange mapping API, I'll turn that off too, and then finally when they add a storage API I'll switch to a browser that isn't trying to be everything to everyone.
You overlooked the fact that TinyUmbrella cannot help if you did not happen to use it to collect your iOS 5.0/5.0.1/5.1/5.1.1 SHSH blobs generated uniquely for your device by Apple at the time that iOS 5.x was the latest version available. Once iOS 6 came out, if the blobs for previous version(s) had not already been collected, then it's "tough luck: you're stuck."
There is "scientist" exciting, and there is "general public" exciting.
"General public" exciting is sign of life. "Scientist" exciting can be a bunch of other things.
I'm hoping for "general public" exciting, but am afraid I'll be disappointed. fingers crossed
There is Halfbakery (http://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/about.html), which I tend to avoid but have occasionally seen in Google search results and/or mentioned in online discussions.
get a TLD

i'm guessing you're using bootstrap, you can find clean looking themes these days

spend a day on dribbble for inspiration or factoryjoe's design patterns set on flickr

create a different page for each of your points

read patio11's site for SEO tips and whole bunch of other advice

clickable, http://projectionable.herokuapp.com
I imagine KPMG will be getting sued then?
> Making a call to a server should be like calling a function anywhere else

You can make calling a function on a remote machine look and seem (superficially) like calling a local function, but they will never have similar behaviour. A network is very different from a motherboard.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/05/25/HTTP-and-t...
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IE 9 is the current version, IE 10 is still a 'Release Preview'.
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In UK you can go to jail for not remembering your password. There's nothing to "yay".

> A 19-year old from Lancashire has been sentenced to 16 weeks in a young offenders institution for refusing to give police the password to an encrypted file on his computer.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
Israeli boy develops App Which Warns of Rocket Attacks
Sorry, on a plane and somehow deleted former post with iPad. Anyway, I'm still serious about getting former profs/legal scholars involved in a podcast setting, hn members with insight to how it will have a deleterious effect on tech progress (the cloud) and launching a fierce social media campaign from it.
Get an Android.
It's not that simple, ask any farmer: the amount of rain and when it falls, is hugely important too. The type of soil too, the new areas might have a wrong type of soil for the grains.

Even if the average temperature is the same, the amount of food you can produce can vary a lot.
Conflict is an unavoidable consequence of human interaction. There are various things you can do to make conflict resolution as quick and efficient as possible, but ultimately if you have X interactions between people, some fairly stable percentage of those interactions will result in conflict that requires litigation to mediate.

A more apropos playground analogy might be skinned knees. They are of course not a good thing in and of themselves, but if you have a bunch of kids running around and running into each other, you're going to get skinned knees. The more kids you have running around and the more active they are, the more trips to the nurse's office there are going to be. You can make the playground safer, tell kids to be more careful, etc, but at the end of the day kids getting playground injuries is correlated with kids playing.
Optimal training strategies for dual n-back working memory training
It means that if it happens or is required then due process is followed and information is available to us.

However those who do nefarious things certainly don't do email.
That sounds like a pretty dubious assertion to me, especially given the nature of $$$. Care to provide some evidence?
This article has been written as a response to those of you who are interested in how best to train your working memory using the dual n-back.
13 year old Israeli boy develops App Which Warns Israelis of Rocket Attacks from Gaza. Generates > 100k downloads.
I never trust just my willpower, so I trick myself into habits that I want. Want to eat healthy? Only have healthy food at home (no cookies). Want to be productive and not go on Facebook or Hacker News or Twitter? Install Self Control, and have these websites blocked. Want to get out of bed right away? Keep your phone far away from bed, etc. I found this works a lot better than putting myself in the path of tempting bad habits and relying on willpower to ignore these.
I think that learning to talk to humans is a valuable skill.
I think that was a pretty thick sarcasm
The demo of this robot in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuC6q9kbryw
Sure, there are arguments to be had, and I would tend to agree with you that (at least in some sectors) we stand to gain more than lose.

But the commenter to whom I replied called the patent chief "intellectually dishonest", and I think that's a strong statement and not adequately supported.
Thats interesting. So a given iPhone can now have a combination of the following locks:

* carrier lock

* APN lock

* region lock

How is that even legal?
I love that idea.

As an occasional angel investor, I actually use a variation of that filter as well. Out of politeness, entrepreneurs will offer to have a call with me to talk me through their business. I tell them no call is necessary, they have better things to do with their time. If someone insists on a phone call without at least trying to see if we can accomplish what's needed over email, it's a no go for me.

Thankfully, just about every early-stage entrepreneur I've encountered has no issues with this approach. They prefer it.
As a practical matter, the more releases that have to be supported with security fixes, the less secure each will end up being, as there is less testing of each individual version, and divergent code bases may need different security fixes.
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This browser add-on gives access to Hulu, Netflix & Pandora from outside the US
Request to firefox devs hanging here. Please make the linux version better.. I use firefox on Windows but have to use Chromium on Linux. I'm mostly talking about the UI interface, it's really not the same standard.
I think the policy is similar but the reasoning is different. His is, IIRC, closer to "phone calls are not the most efficient use of my time; I prioritize efficiency very highly; you will deal." It is similar to e.g. a standing policy to tell employees "If you require any decision from me regarding an issue where you could resolve the issue yourself for under $100, resolve the issue and add it to a spreadsheet. I will periodically have someone review that spreadsheet. Rationale: These issues do not require my input to be resolved to the benefit of the business, some more pressing issues do, accordingly, we optimize me out of this process."
I use StraightTalk in NYC with an official unlocked iPhone 4S, because it's less than half the price of AT&T, but dealing with them has been horrendous. If you aren't good with computers, forget about it, ever.

They supply their SIM cards with a list of "settings" (APN), but it turns out 1) you can't access them on an unlocked iPhone, and 2) they're both wrong and incomplete anyways. Calling them up, their customer service told me it will never work without jailbreaking my iPhone (which is completely incorrect), and gave me another set of settings to try, which also didn't work.

In the end, after much Googling, experimentation, etc. (including the T-Mobile SIM card swap trick), I discovered the following worked:

- Download the Apple "iPhone Configuration Utility"

- Create a profile with not just correct APN settings (att.mnvo) but also the proxy server and port (66.209.11.33:80), despite the fact that the customer service representative kept insisting it must be left blank

- Attach the profile to your phone, and restart it once or twice

I've accepted the fact that MMS will simply never work, but most people I know use iMessage anyways, so I don't really mind.

The absolute worst part was a couple of weeks ago, when StraightTalk decided to change its proxy from 66.209.11.32 to 66.209.11.33, incrementing the IP address by one. My data didn't work for two days, calling them gave me someone else completely unqualified who insisted that they never need to tell anyone when they change their internal settings, because iPhones detect them and self-update automatically, etc. And that besides, nothing had changed, and a proxy isn't necessary anyways. It was only through trial-and-error that I discovered the new functioning proxy (because it happened to be the same as the MMS one, now, unlike before).

So, you will save money, but the experience is horrible. It is ridiculous that Apple doesn't expose APN/MMS/etc. settings on their unlocked phones, and it's ridiculous that StraightTalk can't even provide minimally correct information to their customers on how to get their SIM cards to work.
This could make more frequent trips outside possible: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/stp/niac/2012_phaseII_fellow...

And you could do it with a smaller system on a Mars buggy.
Innovation?

The problem is that people are patenting non-innovative stuff. At this point one could write an automatic patent generator, much like domain name generators.

Or we could have the Patent-libs (like ad-libs).

Software that runs on [DeviceType] that has [ShapeOfCorner] and allows the user to [DigitalVersionOfNaturallyOccurringAction] which produces [ObviousOutcome].
and an enriching one too.
Wouldn't doing due diligence mean you spend this time, however long it requires, to find out the reality of the company? From another commenter who worked there, said KPMG (and Deloitte) were the auditors, and I can imagine HP would be suing them..
If you don't explicitly enable it, you'll never know it's there. We were very careful about that.
Wow, there's a lot of speculation and circlejerking in these comments, and very little actual discussion.

Whoever thought up this rewrite picked a perfect time. With the whole Patreaus situation still fresh, "A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy" seems like a home run for the Senate. I hope people realize how dangerous this would be.
How long ago was it that all software was redefined as either being Enterprise or an app?
I think we'd all agree that luck plays a big part in all of our lives, but he did become the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world.

If you think this was due to "luck" then I'd strongly disagree. Luck provides opportunities, but people have to take them and make the absolute most of those opportunities to even come close to the career that this man has had.
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Fun fact: the US Navy uses trained dolphins to locate mines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy_Marine_Mammal_Program... (No, they are not killed in the process.)

This got me thinking, could we train rats to locate landmines using their strong sense of smell? I googled, and it appears so. http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/13/world/americas/colombia-bomb-d...
Braintree isn't the only HTTPS API a developer will consume. Rather than bury the knowledge of HTTPS best practice in the black box of a library, why not exemplify it in language-specific examples of plain-old REST API documentation?

If the boilerplate for manually getting an SSL connection right in a given language is that obtuse, the "just use our library" pitch is even more compelling.

All this said, I have used Braintree's libraries and they are extremely well executed.

Not exposing REST API documentation externally (it surely exists internally, right?) just feels like a cop out.

(An argument I'm surprised was left out: it's easier for support staff to work with customers integrating with a good library than some home rolled REST client. I can imagine this to be true, but maybe a case of premature optimization if the majority of big API players expose and document their REST APIs anyway?)
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Whatever you do when you build your client, do me one UI favor: Reverse the fields when composing. Body, then subject, then addressees, then the Send button. Think of all the headaches due to accidentally-sent mails the world over.
I can't believe how much that post resonated with me.
Strangely though, I consider myself at least somewhat an extrovert; I just can't seem to master phone call etiquette.
Mail is not necessarily government run.
Dude this is amazing, I want to try it for printavo
Google Plus has a similar functionality that is pretty neat, however it requires people to "Attend" an event.
Given the nature of the economic meltdown we had just a few years ago, I think the system allowing massive fraud to occur is a given. The question is, what can be done about it, short of letting it all burn and rebuilding from scratch?
It was a geolocation social network w/ pictures that are tied to locations. Then it pivoted extremely quickly to live video streaming.
Mine also very specifically crashes on the Linux version (but not OS X or Windows) when I try to search on http://ukulelehunt.com, which is rather odd. I did report it but I really don't know what's causing it.
reitzensteinm called the chief "intellectually dishonest", and did not properly support that strong claim. That is bad for the discussion. None of the arguments/claims you are making change that fact.
Please do not confuse IP protection with the patent system. For example I love the copyright system while I hate the patent system. You don't copy code accidentally and to use your example - it's still relatively easy to research if names are already used and you don't have to do that often.

But you have a really hard time figuring out if you break some patents while developing software. Even lawyers and courts often have a hard time figuring out if something steps on a patent or not. As software developer where you develop new things every day you can basically only close your eyes and code on hoping you don't trigger too many patent mines. Patents belong as little in writing software as they belong in writing other things like books, articles or speeches.
How is it not officially supported? Isn't the whole idea of a factory-unlocked phone that it is officially supported on any carrier?
How lucky I am living in Sweden where we don't have that bullshit. Just doubled taxing fees.
I'm not saying how the parameters or return values should be formatted other than the fact they're in JSON format. JSON-RPC requires you to conform to their specifications.
This interface looks really good, but as previously stated, there are a lot of behind the scenes features (security, spam filter and keyboard shortcuts) that keep me with gmail.
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OK, but you seem to be supporting my point...

The example you gave is copyright violation. My claim (poorly worded the first time) is that patents are not what most companies are worried about -- they're more concerned with copyright, trade dress, and trademark.
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That and a number of other clever things. The tech and talent acquisition was likely a good one. As a product, Color was launched so clumsily, and squandered its one good shot at a relaunch.
NPR are probably just being sensationalist

NPR is one of the least sensationalist news outlets out there. It's not like they're in a mad dash for ratings during sweeps week or something.
darn, I was really enjoying this too.
I am in the boat as you. After a few months I just accepted that MMS will never work on my iPhone. Google voice doesn't support mms anyway and I would rather be able to get MMS in my email.
NYT meet Barbra Steisand...
> do we demand today's innovation on the cheap via a weaker patent system that excludes subject matter, or do we moderate today's consumption with a strong patent system so our children enjoy greater innovations?

Moderate today's consumption, what does that even mean? Save your innovations for the children? No, thank you, I don't want to slow down progress so that your friends can make more money.
It is crummy that you can't read other peoples perf numbers, that being said, evaluation versions exist for a reason. No need to rely on other peoples generic benchmarks.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx
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As taken from spenders twitter, here are the relevant parts of the patch:

http://grsecurity.net/~spender/jit_prot.diff
Oracle should buy HP and rename itself HP
after HP completes autonomy cleanup, Oracle/SAP should pick it up. I think it makes more sense for Oracle, from a branding standpoint.

(disclaimer: I was at Oracle doing M&A. these views are entirely mine and not representative of my past employers or knowledge. I do not directly own HP, ORCL or SAP stocks. I may own one or more of HP, ORCL, SAP through mutual funds in my retirement account)
Ignorance is bliss... or in his case a massively overpaid job that doesn't need to exist.

What a prick.
You have not convinced me that the patent chief is intellectually dishonest.

I was already convinced that the patent system needs reform.
So why are you giving input to the Mac version? It would be awfully strange to have lion style scroll bars in windows 8.
Reminds me of a Sanskrit sloka roughly translated as:

The wealth that cannot be stolen,
neither abducted by state,
nor can be divided amongst brothers,
Neither it is burdensome to carry,
The wealth that increases by giving,
That wealth is knowledge
and is supreme of all possessions

Intellectual 'property' is an oxymoron. The treatment of knowledge like a physical asset in that, it must be possessed and contained, is an exercise in futility.
In my experience, the proxy server for the internet APN is not necessary, and in fact hinders certain functionality (I know that it at least blocks the download component of Speedtest.Net; when I saw that, I didn't bother to use it long enough after that to figure out what else it was breaking).

I am currently using a configuration profile generated with the Configuration Utility in order to work around the internet access problem. It works fine for that, and I had no problem setting that up. I've had no problem with the service and no problem with configuring it provided that I had a place to enter the values that needed to be configured.

Back when I used the iOS 5.x modified-iTunes-backup procedure to modify the APNs, I found that all I needed to do was to change any of the default AT&T APNs to the "att.mvno" one and leave everything else the way that AT&T had already configured it for their service (including all of the default MMS values). So I haven't been using the Straight Talk supplied web proxy since day 1, and it's worked just fine. MMS used to work fine, too.

The thing that galls me about the MMS problem from a practicality perspective is that a friend of mine who doesn't own an iPhone could send me an MMS message, and not only would I never know that they sent it, but they would never know that I never got it. From their perspective, it was successfully sent, and nothing got kicked back to them. From my perspective, nothing ever showed up.
I opt-out of the x-ray scanner every single time, and so should you. It really doesn't take much longer to go through the process. Show up 3 minutes earlier if you have to. You're rushing to the gate, for what? To sit there longer? Boarding with the crowds is stressful anyways. The most relaxed way to board is at the very end -- there's no more line, I just walk right into the plane, most people are seated, and just grab my seat. Why would you want to maximize the time spent sitting, especially on a cramped plane? I understand the situation is different if you really want your carry-on bag to stow above you.

If everyone opted out, the program would be scrapped. You can tell me about how the scanners give harmless amounts of radiation, but I don't really care. You have to stand for your principles. In this situation, a government contractor forced more security theater upon a country, with the only benefit of the entire charade going to their bottom line. Nobody is safer, an entire mode of transport has a new bottleneck, a government agency has expanded and is emboldened and now wants even broader jurisdiction, and as the article states, people are driving more and dying.

If we don't stand up and push back now, things will only get worse. More invasive, more annoying, more useless, more dangerous. And not an inch gained against the stated purpose of deterring terrorist attacks.
None of his comments even address the problem of patent trolls. When legitimate tech companies such over patents, the obvious defense is to sue back. There is hope that they will realize the futility of the patent war and either do binding mediation or simply decide the war has to end.

Retaliatory defense doesn't work against trolls, who have nothing to defend. Even if the troll company folds for whatever reason, you can just pass the patents to another shell company and start again.

For the IBM lawyer and others saying that the patent system doesn't need reform because there were patent lawsuits 100 or so years ago, please cite an example of the trolls that Rockefeller, Edison faced.