skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thankfully these patent wars are being settled in a court of law. The system is over complicated and has a lot of loop holes (i.e. look at Oracles often unfactual descriptions of common programming terms in Oracle vs Google) but I think in the end it will eventually balance out where no one has won much more than others, even with Apples big wins over Samsung.

The USPTO is starting to address the problem (albeit slowly) and there should be many more decisive rulings in the next decade.
I did this experiment by bitsquatting all the domains around cloudfront.net after hearing about it from defcon. It works. You basically have the opportunity to replace the javascript of tons of sites. I simply served 404s. What was really interesting to me was the varied places where the corruption occurs. Some of the requests even have the correct Host header. Now you know why the old PC was so flaky!
They're not making the hardware. The units they list are run of the mill lowest-end Android tablets you can pick up on Amazon (or directly from China via Aliexpress etc.) that more standard Linux setups have already been ported to.

EDIT: At least that's what the pictures are of. I have that keyboard case, and at least one of those tablets, already.
@johnsusser is exactly right. You can't add diversity at the end.

So if you want to have more diverse people speaking at conferences, make sure you get more diverse people interested in school. Don't give a conference flak because biases in school and society have emptied their prospective diverse speakers to a pool of zero people.
Because boiling everything down to a simple model like "regions where bombs are likely" is throwing away information.

We do so because it's easier to analyze and think about a simple model than to try to deal with the whole dataset all at once -- except that if you have a specific question, it might be possible to treat that question directly. Because you're not losing information, doing so provides a more accurate result.

In practice this might not matter, and simplified models might be good enough. But as computers become more powerful, it becomes easier to query the data directly.
sigh Here we go again. Inferential statistics is unified by a field called decision theory, which is the mathematical formulation of how you choose a "good" mapping from the set of possible outcomes from your experiments to a set of possible decisions.

Bayesian and frequentist are interpretations of probability theory, nor are they the only ones (nor are all interpretations even concerned with a formalization of a notion of "chance"). They are not necessary to statistics.
This is a ridiculous statement. If you want to be non-racist, diversity shouldn't even be a word in your vocabulary. The definition of racist is not 'have at least one of each in your audience'. It is 'do not discriminate based on race'.

I won't accept any accusation of racism or sexism until I see a message from a minority that says, 'I have been disrespected on the count of me being a minority at this conference, and the organisation did nothing to make sure this would not happen again'.

There being 100% white guys is not a problem. It is a problem when a black woman goes there, and she feels disrespected because of her sex or race.

Tell me how a conference that is only attended by white men perpetuates racism? It just doesn't make sense, you should listen to Morgan Freeman more.
Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server
I'm not sure that's the attitude that helps either side in this kind of situation. I call your troll-iness.
I'm not sure why a penetration tester would bother to run this against a VM when they had already obtained a privilege level that allows memory modification of the hypervisor process. That level of access is already the equivalent of physical access.
Also of note, a while back I posted when I started r/HWStartups:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286840

Now we've got around 600 members and rising traffic!

http://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups

Would love to hear about anyone interested in starting a meetup in your town!
both need work (what's with all the checkboxes? Quite confusing), but the one without the annoying background image is definitely better...
I know this wasn't in the UK, but in the UK if you're selected, you can't opt out. Which is pretty insane.
>He is the explosives guy on Mythbusters.

I don't know what's worse...

The idea that knowing how to blow stuff up qualifies you to profile folks as potential terrorists or that being consulted for a TV show qualifies you for anything.
Black people and women are so linguist. Not submitting talk proposals to Ruby conferences is just disrespectful.

edit: Just found out raganwald submitted a talk proposal to BritRuby. Turns out my racist general remark was entirely misguided and black people might actually not be linguist at all. A shame his talk wasn't accepted. I'd like to hear more about method combinators :)
And this is why we can't have nice things... What is it with TSA and their lack of will to cooperate and listen to people? They just act like a bunch of mindless enforcers these days and have zero regard for common sense.
Love these meetups!
There's more to making a detonator then just the timing device.
This reminds me a little of the MIT student who was almost shot when she went to the airport wearing some kind of LED circuit board on her shirt http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
This is what I brought up in the last thread. IEDs are IEDs because they can be made from almost anything.

Now it does take skills which most people don't have; but this isn't about skills it is about physical kit, and purely in terms of the physical stuff needed I'm almost certain you could buy it all at the airport in the "secure" part (e.g. travel clock).
More on Copiale cipher and revealed rites of a secret society of Oculists
Israeli government websites under mass hacking attack
Does anyone know if this will mess with my existing wine setup or install side by side? I'd like to try it but I use other wine apps and don't wanna break them.
I'm pretty sure by now more people have died of ingrown toenails than any potential terrorism that prevented by the TSA.
Which to an extent, is why it exists; a last-minute substitute for the previous unending pseudo-war.
Yep. And obviously if asked about Arash's role, Drew would say something classy like "I couldn't have done it without him". But that doesn't mean he couldn't/wouldn't.
If you work in the explosives business, maybe everything looks like a bomb to you.
Republicans Retract Report On Copyright Reform
There's also "make deleting an account so difficult that most people won't bother."
> Whether we like it or not terrorists have shown a deep attraction to use airplanes as instruments of terror.

American society is currently going through a raving paranoia phase. This is not about terrorists, it is about the public getting off on wallowing in fear. Hence the TSA, Department of Homeland Security, Amber Alerts, escalating the War on Drugs, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, zero tolerance everything, transparent backpacks and metal detectors for schoolchildren, hysterical panics about the supposed dangers of immunizations of all things, and so forth.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Bin Laden's genius was to realize this and trick us into defeating ourselves in detail. Fortunately for us he chose something relatively harmless like the 9-11 attacks. Imagine if he had arranged for Al Qaeda to be caught sneaking iodide and omega-3 fats into every major baby food factory. We'd now be defiantly raising a generation of retards to show those ragheads who's boss.
Isn't this one depreciated by Facebook itself?
If you have a goal of "diversity" that implies that you are going to treat people differently depending on their race and gender. Race and gender becomes part of the selection criteria. Isn't that pretty much the definition of racism and sexism?

A system where the speakers are just randomly chosen from a pool of people who submitted papers would definitely not be racist or sexist, but it probably wouldn't meet your definition of diversity. (Probably wouldn't make for a very good conference either.)

A fair system is one where race and sex do not influence the selection criteria. It cannot have diversity listed as a goal. If it is a goal then you have created a racist, sexist system for selecting who gets to speak.
I hold a PhD in Experimental Psychology. Your way of scamming people and tricking them into time wasting BS, while smuggling the whole thing as low level research is to be ethically condemned, and index of deplorable scientific morality. Simply disgusting.
The Truth is in the "Fish"
It's also simply not true. I have an iPhone and listen to music on it all the time. I haven't purchased any music from iTunes, ever. I refuse to buy music with DRM so I don't. I'd rather subscribe to a service like Rdio instead or get music from the artist via some other means and import it in to my collection.
Researchers Show How We Can Do Math Problems Unconsciously
I'm sorry for whoever downvoted you for disagreeing with them. Normally we're better than that.

I'm on the fence for the kind of thinking you suggest.

On one hand, the phenomenon you describe does happen -- it's what MLK referred to as "the mythical concept of time." That if an un(der)represented group just waits patiently, they'll be alright. The idea that they'll get rights when the courts decide so, or that they'll get a decent education when they test well enough, or that they'll get reasonable jobs when they can afford to commute there.

I think people get upset about these observations because they think the observer is attributing malice. "Racist" is a strong term that elicits an emotional response -- people thinking of the Deep South in the 50s. I don't think that the British Ruby Conference planned on an all-white all-male conference, and I don't think any reasonable person believes that they explicitly denied presenters because they were black, or hispanic, or gay, etc.

But it's also true that year after year we see this. To be transparent, as a white male, I sympathize with meritocratic thinking ("the best person should get the job"). And I understand why people get upset over affirmative action-like policies. But what we're doing now isn't working, and I don't know the answer.

What I do know is that both sides need to be able to acknowledge that there are reasonable views and goals across the board in this debate. The emotional language that comes with this is polarizing, and people are defensive, and people are indignant, etc. We need to discuss this reasonably, and this is a forum that should be able to, but frequently doesn't.
There was a RuPy conference[1] this weekend in Brno. I think it would be more accessible money-wise since accommodation + food in Czech Republic (or Poland last year) + travel (20-50GBP for return ticket from London) would be probably cheaper than accommodation + food in the UK.

Can't really tell if it was world-class though.

1. http://rupy.eu/
Every time they have to hire a new screener, they have to spend money on training. If the job of screener is well-known to be unpleasant, they'll have to start paying the screeners a higher salary to compensate them. If passengers routinely opt for the time-consuming manual patdown instead of submitting to the pornoscanner, they'll have to hire more screeners to cope with the demand. Each of these things make the screening process more expensive. If we make it expensive enough perhaps they'll stop doing it. There doesn't seem to be any other way to get rid of it.
IANAL but I think that better wording might be, "This is GPL but we created it for the purpose of legal uses and don't condone other use".
>a dominant power that prefers the warmer globe

The Arctic League!
To be clear, I did not knowingly try to spoof or "evade" the URL filter. I'll look out for this issue in the future however.

Please don't accuse me of doing it on purpose, however!
Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards
Listen, white guy, the simplest counter argument is that white guys just aren't 100% of the field. They're probably <60-70% of the field.

So yeah, you do end up with a problem if somehow, conference after conference, we only field white guys.
Seems fairly close to a scam to me.

"By using crowd funding to consolidate the orders we will be able to achieve the prices listed in the rewards and upgrades to the hardware become possible."

Then why is the PengStick/Mini MK802 twice the price of Amazon?
If I go the thenextweb homepage and click the link to the article I get the url with ?fromcat=all. Banning a user because they copied a url directly is not a good solution. Many websites put some extra information in the url.
You've basically described the primary difference schools of programming thought. Should programming be the act of taking well-defined/understood requirements, a nice clean environment (and dependencies), careful thought, and producing a program that is correct by construction and has little need for debugging? Or is programming a messy affair of poorly defined requirements, crazy environments, and more exploratory, where debugging would then consume more effort than actual coding?

I believe more in the latter school, though of course, they are both extremes and I'm a moderate. The mud is unavoidable and we might as well build winches to pull ourselves out rather than spend time trying to carefully avoid it.
Invitation to the world: Pair program with me on Xiki for an hour
It looks like it installs a separate non-conflicting package called wine-compholio with the necessary patches, and leaves your current wine installed. I don't really have any current wine apps to test against, but you should be able to try and uninstall everything to get back to your current set up.
I helped to organise the last Ruby Manor conference (http://rubymanor.org/3). As an experiment, we built a web app (http://vestibule.rubymanor.org/) which allowed anyone to submit, discuss and vote for proposals. When voting closed, the 8 most popular proposals were automatically selected.

The result? 8 white guys giving talks (http://rubymanor.org/3/videos).

We’re going to try something different next time, but who knows if that’ll work any better.
You're right, Pittsburgh should be on this list!
Apple bear comes in from the cold as shares tumble
Yes, it will run the programs made for desktop operating systems, as long as they're recompiled for ARM:

This is an example of Ubuntu running on the LY-F1 (which is incidentally one of the tablets these guys show pictures of, so it's not very clear what they're actually planning on doing for this money other than passing orders on to distributors and chucking in suitable Ubuntu image):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyVarHgHMWg

The poor user experience part I agree with, though.
Sadly, on the Mac, this doesn't feel like a native application and things like changing the size of the window are broken. Also, a horizontal scrollbar appearing in an empty text window is strange. Might work great on Linux and I like the idea but the execution on Mac leaves a lot to be desired.
Also from that Wikipedia article, "The application of Bayes's theorem to update beliefs is called Bayesian inference."

While this guy says,

"Bayesian Inference {\neq} Using Bayes Theorem"

If this guy is correct, he should update the wiki...
Best prep ever for those times when you're on vacation and your boss calls you up and says all the things are broken. You'll probably be connecting over a high latency network, on someone else's machine and without a .vimrc to your nome.

A "plugin all the things" type would probably be more productive with nano than vim at that point, especially if the person has remapped default shortcuts (cardinal sin IMHO).
Dude - talk to Jim - he wants to do it! We did the 3D Cookout and it went really well!
Removal services London
Sparks of Genius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kin... says that in 2001, >90% of the people in the UK were white.

Got any sources for your <60-70% in the Ruby community?
Man in military uniform takes a bomb mockup to airport ...

Idiot
Interesting comment, I don't think of myself of as 'defending' the practice so much as picking apart the original author's argument.

The original author is claiming injury [1] based on the available space of the disk in a 128G Lenovo Voyager not being 128GB. On its face that is a silly claim because you have to have some space for other things like the OS and tools. Further no laptop that ships with a 128GB with any OS today gives you, the user 128GB of space to play with. So really the argument would have to rest on the delta between the space available on a completely 'cleaned' machine (all crapware deleted) and a 'fresh' machine.

So if the author really needed 128GB of space, they should get the 256GB Voyager 13, since the additional 128GB all is available to the user. Then regardless of the weird partitioning he isn't injured.

Now the author could have talked about value, the cost of the device versus the available space and compared that to other models, the author could have talked about system performance, or any number of things but instead they make this claim that 40 - 50Gb of available space is a 'ruined user experience'. Which doesn't seem well supported by his argument. It could be supported by market acceptance but that remains to be seen.

As for my feelings on the practice of stuffing all this stuff into the machine, I expect that to sort itself out by people not buying the small disk machine. But of the choice of having a less expensive machine that I spend some time deleting crapware from and having a more expensive machine? I'll take the cheaper one. I may certainly be in a minority there.

[1] The injury claim is for "ruining the user experience"
If they're actually planning on specific improvements of the Linux distro, I might be willing to pay extra for it... But, yeah, it does seem like they're at the very least not doing anything at all to prevent confusion over what this is about.
Great post. Knowing that there are so many others out there going through the same unforgiving grind day in and day out is a strange kind of inspiration. Thanks!
Year after year, new people start running conferences. And year after year, people have to point out that running a conference while paying no attention to diversity will (a) ensure that your conference fails to represent whatever diversity already exists in your community, and (b) do nothing to encourage further diversity in your community. It's unsurprising that the people who've been making these arguments over that time get frustrated - they've had to keep on making them in the face of wave after wave of naive conference organiser.

Sometimes an emotional response is justified. Sometimes rational discussion gets you nowhere. Sometimes it really is just time for people to say that they are sick of this bullshit and they aren't going to take it any more. In this case, the conference organisers clearly weren't acting in bad faith - but nor had they put even the most cursory effort into making themselves aware of the issue. That shouldn't be considered acceptable behaviour these days, and if rational discourse hasn't led to it being considered unacceptable then maybe emotional responses will do.
Pacific Fibre co founder here. Most of the article is right, some is wrong. I wrote about the underlying issues here: http://lancewiggs.com/2012/11/05/pacific-fibre-ii-background...

Pacific Fibre, the company, is closed down. We had a great contract to build, solid customer contracts for launch but failed to build an investor book to the required us$300m. The cable was to be 12-15 Tb/s, and use technology that was a lot more upgradable than the existing cable. Demand and business model were never an issue. Someone plonking $1-300m in the table was, even though they'd likely multiply that amount significantly. Our competitor, for example, had their cable build cost paid for by launch date, and their build cost was several times larger.

Kim Dotcom managed to stir up a lot of people, the primary issue for him, assuming he raised the money, would be landing rights into the USA. But even as it is increasingly apparent that he's the victim here, he is still wanted by to be extradited by the same USA authorities who froze his assets.
How to fix the world
Yeah, 51% of the population are also women.
I dunno. Something about this analysis bothers me. The basic premise is that a string the length of a domain name routinely, albeit rarely, gets corrupted by one bit, causing errant DNS lookups. Then it's reasonable to assume that a longer string is even more likely to contain corruption. But if that's so, why do I almost never see any evidence of bit corruption in my web server logs? Surely the same corruption would affect other parts of the URL, and the probability should be greater due to the length. But I can't find a single example in my logs that can't be explained by human error (typos by users or developers). If bit corruption is so overwhelmingly prevalent in hostnames, but not URLs or other identifiers, I suspect it's due to a software bug somewhere.
If anyone is interested they dropped the "fake bomb" charge since they couldn't prove intent and she took a deal with "disorderly conduct" because it was hard to defend against (since it just requires other people to be upset by your actions with or without intent). She got 50 hours community service and had to apologise for her "crime."

Based on this interview: http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html

She was in and out of court for a year, nobody was punished, and nothing was altered. This could and maybe will happen again.
From the initial post:

'This build is not compatible with "vanilla" Wine, so installing this custom package will uninstall any existing Wine installation you have. Back up your current WINE folder to be safe.'

http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-her...

<edit> A peek in Synaptic shows both wine 1.4 && wine-compholio installed. Perhaps the PPA resolved the necessity of the uninstall. In the interest of public safety, I would definitely back up before proceeding.
I downvoted him/her because the post is hyperbolical nonsense.

Correlation is not causation. It is perfectly possible that the best papers (by whatever metric) were submitted by white guys. So if that was the case, and they selected the best papers then they would end up with 100% white guys.

If you make diversity a goal, then you potentially reduce the resulting quality. A technological conference should care about the papers' quality and nothing else. I would not mind if it would be 40% transsexuals, 30% furries in pony dresses and 30% carribean housewifes because to me, that is completely irrelevant and not something I care about.

I have no idea about this conference, ruby or anything else.
This is for Node.js, not host scripts. It uses node-ffi.
"It's entirely reasonable to expect more than 100GB of usable space,..."

I would be interested in hearing an argument about 'reasonableness' here. One of the challenges in this particular example is that "we" the readers don't really know what benefit we're getting from each of the consumed gigabytes of storage. So it is currently impossible to know what we're 'giving up' by taking those gigabytes and giving them to the user.
Anybody had problems with arduinos and its various shields in airports?
Now you are trolling. Or do you have a source for that? It seems highly unlikely that a programming community would have such a high percentage of women.

I would link to wikipedia for some verification of that feeling but all I could fine were biased feminist articles on that topic.
Guy on HN doesn't read the article and jumps to wild unfounded conclusions, then makes a glib remark.

Idiot.