skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It might be argued that in enacting the Patriot Act, Congress partially suspended habeas corpus in response to the "Invasion" we call 9/11."

Even if someone did argue for that, which you didn't do, they would argue that 9/11 was an "invasion", not an invasion. See how that works?

Also, the perpetrators were from Saudi Arabia mostly, yet Iraq was attacked, talking about how he's an evil man which had fuck all to do with him attacking the US. That's kinda where your whole post falls down like a house of cards. Remember Powell before the UN, with a dry throat and sweating a lot, showing his slides about what might be mobile WMD labs? Heh. No, to anyone not accomplice to it, or suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, this is rather clear. And it's old. Americans have been warning Americans for a century now. The military industrial complex doesn't do this since lately.

As to whether the Constitution prohibits killing an enemy combatant in wartime without individualized due process in each case: That'd be a really, really tough sell

If you simply define "military age males" who died in drone attacks as those, then they're not really enemy combatants, they're "enemy combatants", which raises the same issue as the "invasion" stuff does. Also, simply attacking people and calling it war doesn't make it "wartime". Just saying "it's war!" doesnt make it war.
Those links won't work in China, at least not the last time I tried stuff like this about 2 years ago, they'll be redirected to the TOMSkype download page.
No, it just adds a lot of realism. I'm not being snarky, NK roads are mostly devoid of cars most of the time from what I've seen (on the Internet, didn't have the privilegue to visit yet).
I meant expensive computationally.
I have one of these:

http://www.louizidishome.gr/components/com_virtuemart/shop_i...

The box said "Teppanyaki". I have no idea what it is. Does anyone know if it's similar to a rice cooker? I want to find out what I can cook with it...
Xkcd: Instagram
Bosnia and Herzegovina- all clear :)
.gb?
the red "buy" are unavailable but could be for sale.
the green ones are available. u can uncheck the flag 'show unavailable' next to search button.
should i make it unchecked by default? let me know what do u think?
NCrunch and resharper give away
But Gmail only first offered HTTPS about two years ago...
Which phones are unsafe when they are turned off?
Exactly. I'm no tin-foil hat type, but I'm already transmitting my location every 6 minutes with my cellphone, this data, my calls, SMS and all my Internet- and mail activity is logged for several years in my country. One in every 1.000 phones is being monitored in Holland. Calls with lawyers, doctors... My cars license plate is photographed every 500 meters along every major road and there's talk to add a black box to log it even better. I can only travel with my RIFD-public transport card (that is linked with my banking card) and we even have camera's and microphones in our public transport for our own 'safety'. My fingerprints were added to my chip-loaded RIFD passport and I am not allowed to walk about without proper identification.

A pay-as-you-go Prepaid allows me the choice to opt out of at least the phone/text surveillance when I want to.

(Dutch source: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detai...)
i would assume the more interesting information is how much does it cost to license in a commercial project.
I got downvoted to hell for saying this is another ycombinator thread two days ago... I guess I jumped out in front of the bandwagon instead of on to it.
Totally concur about lack of communication to devs which is why despite being primarily a MS dev I haven't bothered to jump on the WinRT/Win8 app store empty bandwagon, and have instead been playing with Objective C recently.

For MS to regain status:

1) Fire Ballmer and get someone that understands technology/design to lead a tech company

2) Be more transparent to devs

3) Put more resources to the core tech that differentiates their OS like Apple does with Objective C API, MS should be doing with WPF (not Silverlight or WinRT or another tech - their thought process of supporting JS didn't really gain much JS devs for Win8/WinRT apps, and just ended up burning bridges with long time MS enterprise devs)

Failing the above I see MS losing more devs and as a result less apps supporting the OS and finally less market share.
Our PR Stinks: Here's What Your Startup Can Learn From It
How to create a Blog in Portofino 4 - part 3
Know a competitive parent? Send them the Gift of Code this holiday season.
I have no idea why you would conclude that from that sentence. HTML allows browsers, the same way that HAL allows generic libraries. I'm struggling to understand why this is controversial, there are already 16+ examples of generic HAL libraries across a bunch of different languages.
If you look at the graph with the longer time horizon, you can see that Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia had stronger growth pre-crisis, a bigger bubble, a bigger collapse from the bubble, and a stronger recovery from the performance trough. Only by measuring by performance from their GDP peak do they look bad, and it's not obvious why this is the natural measure of recovery policies. You would think performance from the trough of the crisis or from some neutral pre-crisis point would be more relevant.

Here is another article with more graphs explaining this point: http://blogs.cfr.org/geographics/2012/07/02/postcrisis/ -- though you will find some debate in the comments.
Obama Unveils Online Information Sharing Strategy To Fight Cyberterrorism
Having visited the offices a few times and met the team, it's definitely not a myth. The cell structure is there and in action. Whether it is a "secret sauce" to success remains to be seen in the long run (Say 5-10 years at least).

That being said, the team is amazing and they definitely seem to know what they are doing. Besides, similar company structures already exist in other successful companies, in the gaming industry the best that comes to mind is that of Valve corporation.

Not a cell structure per say, but very similar work and leadership attitude.
Mayan apocalypse: are there any facts behind this doomsday scenario? (No)
2012 End of the World: Is This Prediction Based on Correct Analysis?
People like to predict what will happen in future especially in 2012. Nostradamus brought about massive destruction and mayhem thought there was comet in 2012. Even Mayans stopped their calendar on December 21st, 2012. If it’s true, human only has less than a week to live. But do you really convinced by this dire prediction? Is this prediction based on correct analysis? Some people who believe that because they are depressed at some bad phenomenon such war, natural disaster, resource exhaustion, economic recession, stock price falling etc.
Also see http://bobby-tables.com/ which also shows how to avoid them.
In a word, yes.

There is a lot of knowledge about optimisation, handling different devices, responsive design buried in these boilerplates.
Frankly, I'd like to have a detailed online course to teach me how to create something like this including annotated code, exercises, the works. If I ever learn enough to do it myself, I'm going to teach my kids. A spectacular demonstration of the creative possibilities of this new medium! Thanks for creating it.
I hope they have backup of this old content. This robot.txt policy is crap. robot.txt should not be taken into account retroactively when the site owner has changed.
These are my concerns exactly, which is why I wanted to work with SC. A prepaid option sounds very nice, actually, I'll suggest it today. Mass surveillance really is getting out of hand.
Personally I use LucidChart, mainly because it actually just works better than Visio for creating flowcharts (the connector reflow logic is nicer).
So long as they share the revenue with me, I'm okay with it. I have for years wanted an inbox where I could charge people to email me.
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BigDog Robot Learns To Obey Voice Commands, Follow, Roll Over
Because it is the sound creation in the end that is analog I assume. You could create a musical instrument from a digital source -> 3D printer. Let's say a flute. It would still be played analogue and the means of creation do not matter at all.

I am not an "audiophile" but I assume this is the reasoning and it is perfectly understandable and logical.
Interesting how often scientific research links on HN seem to be to discoveries with Chinese names in American universities. As someone who didn't study in the US, are there particularly large numbers of Chinese students and professors in say MIT?
Yes I did, I just find the wording ambiguous enough to mislead newcomers, especially at the very start. The article is good at making parallels with the software world and explaining how to map previous knowledge, but does not make it clear at the beginning that this is not software. Even at the end, things are muddy, with things like:

Hardware - write concurrent code, write serial code where needed.

For you an I who get the difference, we can read between the lines and get it, but a complete newcomer might just as well end up thinking: "okay I get it, this is very low level software code which is executing concurrently by default", when really, it is "this is very high level hardware which is described here, and physics makes it 'happen everywhere' at once, but I can understand what happens through a mind trick".

Mind you, I like your article, but I just feel it may make some hardware beginners get some fundamental basics wrong.

As an anecdote, I personally noticed the critical importance of this distinction first hand, as in a software program, we went through a hardware course on this very subject and the teacher incessantly restated this fact, with due reason since later down the road each one of us understood that basically every single mistake one made was due to one trying to shoehorn software concepts into hardware, or expecting software behaviour from hardware.
Well, their website crashes all my mobile browsers on Android 4.0 (Chrome, Opera Mobile, Firefox)
Ah! Found it! Click not in the green square, but on the edge of the green square. Finally, a reason to believe this is different from the other submission.
Way too early for an April fool's joke.
And there are a few CPAN modules for those who are squeamish about using goto :)

- https://metacpan.org/module/Sub::Call::Tail

- https://metacpan.org/module/Sub::Call::Recur
so far so good, will just check ou
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Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is being sued for its promotion of a new 3D printer.

More than 2,000 users contributed over $2.9m (£1.8m) to help Massachusetts-based Formlabs build the device.

However, 3D Systems - a leading maker of printers that turn computer design files into real-world objects - has alleged one of its patents was being infringed by the machine.

It has also filed a lawsuit against Formlabs itself.

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20434031
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No, but it is compatible with the motivation behind it.
Been over 12h and nothing.
Do Jetbrains not even send a receipt mail or something like that ?
It sounds to me (cooking noob) that I can cook things faster in hte rice cooker? Instead of 4 hours of cooking in the slow cooker ... I could just cook it in 45 minutes with the rice cookers?

Is this right?
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that is really weird and creepy..
Selling indecent pictures of the developers. We're looking for a domain to post them on, humblebundle.com was already taken, sadly.
Funny thing is Australia is one of the most liberal countries in the West when it comes to IP enforcement. No direct suits against individual downloaders, no 3/6 strikes laws or even proposals to bring them in, a string of failed attempts by IP trolls to force ISPs to block file sharing.

Australia's immigration laws and practices on the other hand are no laughing matter.
"efficiently monetizing their userbase."

Is this newspeech for ripping off their customers?

I don't know their games, but I wouldn't be surprised if their clients are mostly teens maxing out their parents credit cards. Yeah sorry, I am a bit in a cynical mood I suppose.
Read the English wikipedia article about metonymy. This figure of speech is not uncommon when referring to organs of state.
Competition: Best Windows 8 / 7 PE Tutorials
Use Jitsi, open source, and has OTR for chats and ZRTP for video calls:

https://jitsi.org

They were supposed to release version 2.0 by the end of the year, but if it's not out by now, it will probably arrive next year. There's also an Android version planned for next year.

iOS - it can't go there because it's a GPL Apple, and Apple doesn't allow GPL apps on the store. But as far as chatting goes, you can use any other OTR-enabled app like ChatSecure and so on, to talk to the Jitsi client on other platforms. And yes, Jitsi also works on Linux and Macs.
Fireworks was/ is for vector based graphics. That is a different use case from photoshop.
2 years ago they started with a high quality Browsergame in Flash called Gunshine (a casual RPG) which didnt work and was closed down.
They then seem to have shifted focus to mobile and do amazing things there, which was only a matter of time because of their top team.
It's understandable? I didn't see Google agree to it? The fact remains Microsoft is all too happy to censor and monitor people in the name of the Government there if they think that will gain them an extra 1% market share. It's what they did with Bing, too, after Google tried to fight against the Government.
These links are broken:

https://github.com/twojcik/luvit-redis

https://github.com/yields/rounded
Took me awhile to work that one out!

Reminded me of the tale of a Mr Ng who despite his best efforts was unable to get an English university to record his name correctly and was finally registered as Mr Ngonly Ngonly
But you don't know that immediately after a slide, and you have to assume (hope) that's not the case and do everything your training has taught you to save those buried.

Making calls on your cell phone to report dead bodies is not included in that.
Facebook tests fee to have messages show up in nonfriend's inbox
I do think that clash of clan is much better than other games i have played so far. I have played other games (dungeon hunter) which asks me to pay up for virtual coins, gems if i have to progress in next set of levels, but with COC i can do just fine without spending any money.

Love COC ;)
xkcd: Instagram
Stack Exchange's Winter Bash: Example of Gamification
Instagram Reverts To Original Ad Terms After Outcry
This is dreadful news. 'Expression Suite' was built on Microsoft's acquisition of Creature House in 2003, and their fabulous Expression vector graphics software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_House_Expression).

At the time, Expression was the closest competitor to Adobe Illustrator: it had unique features ('skeletal strokes', based on the co-founders' PhD research), and a superb UI (yes, imagine a streamlined, friendly interface that was different to Adobe's!). The animation version of Expression, LivingCels, offered similarly innovative animation technology, which was seriously being looked upon as a competitor to Flash. More significantly, though, it was on course to disrupt the (cel-based) animation industry. There's an informational site at: http://livingcels.com

That's why Microsoft bought the company.

So, the little things: Creature House bought back the rights to Expression after MetaCreations went down. (I wish they'd do so now, once more!) The wonderfully whimsical website with beautiful, funny illustrations (by Patrick Lee) was replaced fairly rapidly by Microsoft's soulless corporate rendition. There was a Mac version of Expression - abandoned. Then the Windows version was re-coded to fit into WPF (dropping lots of essential features along the way). LivingCels has vanished.

I still use Expression almost daily. It runs perfectly in WINE (especially important now, since the Mac version isn't Intel-compatible). The user manual is a brilliant example of how manuals should be written, and the sample illustrations demonstrate how painterly effects can be achieved through vector gfx.

There's still nothing quite like Creature House Expression, so it's fortunate that Microsoft are still offering these original versions (Windows & Mac) as free downloads (check the links at the end of the Wikipedia article).
With all this talk about how the good days of the app store are over, it is good to see a relatively unknown company making it. I also noticed that a big part of the Apple selection for the end of the year is made by indie developers, like Super Hexagon, Letterpress or the education stuff from l'Escapadou, which means that they will probably make a lot of money.

With talent and flair, it is still possible to do it. Easy success for trivial apps is over but what Apple did to remove the barriers to entry for indies still makes the app store very interesting.
So This Is Christmas - [Don't] Let It Snow
nice job, If I may suggest an improvement: after selecting a domain the "not available" for twitter/facebook is not clear.

For example, "foo.io" is an available domain, while facebook and twitter are not.

I imagine it checked for @foo and /foo but maybe I'd be interested in @foo_io and /foo.io and I can't tweak this, nor tell what the app checked.
"The developers I was working with also had a lot of trouble with REST. I had to explain repeatedly what PUT, DELETE, GET and POST were (they weren't really familiar with HTTP at all), and that they weren't doing RPC calls."

You should try using the SQL analogy instead of RPC, as this is much closer to what a "traditional" developer might expect. With REST, one is not doing a procedure call, but one is querying to create/retrieve/update/delete data. Of course, there might be some procedures behind it, but to a client it's just a data query (just like SQL has stored procedures of its own).
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Web "Apps"
Doesn't DRM stand for digital rights management? I think you may have confused it with something else. DRM doesn't prevent people from manufacturing cables -- it's to prevent the end user from accessing content they don't own. DRM was never aimed as a way to reduce the number of manufacturers out there. In fact, DRM wanted to increase the number of manufacturers so that there would be less hardware that could play media that you didn't buy (pirated content).
Given your experience, how good is this: http://www.xess.com/appnotes/FpgasNowWhatBook.pdf
I've always believed this to be true. They do it in US, too, and probably in a few more countries like India and Saudi Arabia, and maybe some African ones, too - and possibly even UK. It's just too bad they aren't going to come out and admit it, and say which governments asked them to do this, and how many requests for people's logs have they received - the way Google does it. As a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users, that's the least they could do.

This is why to me Google is still a much more trustworthy company than Microsoft. Microsoft with all of this and all of their hateful campaigns against competitors, and hiring other companies in secret to throw dirt on others either in public or to convince politicians about something. It's just a much shadier company. I wish they would change. But I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon, at least not until Ballmer, the "salesman", is out and they get a much different CEO with different kind of thinking and ethics.
Funnily enough I finally picked up clash of clans because a guy in the office kept pestering me to give it a go. It's very nicely put together and I can't remember the last time someone in the office harassed me into picking up a game. Particularly someone I'd classify as a non gamer.
So you couldn't get a predictive behaviour from each particle, without external communication? Am I understanding you correctly?
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yes it checks for @foo and /foo currently.
i will correct the messaging.
checking for @foo_io and /foo.io is a great suggestion.
will add them as well. thanks!
I suppose they could be using cert pinning[1].

[1]: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
How to Encrypt/Lock Thumb Drive with Password on Windows 7/8/XP/Vista
linkbait from a website called mathbabe.org? Surely you don't mean that?
Jitsi. https://jitsi.org/

FOSS, cross-platform (not mobile yet though, if you can throw money at that, it can be done), encrypted audio/video, in active development. You can use any XMPP account you like. It even has call recording built in which is very handy if you might need to remember or protocol things.
Available for over 4 years, default for nearly 3 years:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/making-security-easier...

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-f...

Please save your criticism for Yahoo, which still does not use SSL for anything except the login form and account info editing. Only premium accounts get the privilege of SSL for mail.

Hotmail might have been improved since then, but about a year ago SSL was disabled by default in account settings.

Google wasn't the first to offer SSL encryption for webmail access, but Google is far better than the other major U.S. based email providers.
Correct me if mistaken, but isnt Skype voice transmission peer to peer? Wouldn't it be burdensome and very expensive to transmit the voice data back to a central server in order to be warehoused?
According to the article it sounds like they started on the design before Apple announced the new connector, and then updated their design once the connector was announced. Also it seems they did contact Apple but "[they] didn’t get a yes or a no up front,”. Once they finally got a straight answer from Apple they canceled the product. So apparently they did make that phone call and it wasn't as simple as you seem to want to make it.
Elcomsoft is answering similar questions to yours in the original article's comments section.
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End of world attempt gone wrong :)
Quilt.js - A JavaScript Library For Backbone.js Declarative Views
A Hacker's Diary: 5 steps to implement a PostgreSQL replication system (2010)
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/quiltjs-javascript-library-f...

looks like a nice JavaScript library which takes a new(?) approach to adding functionality to Backbone.js applications via HTML attributes and not by writing JavaScript code.
Going to try it out during weekend and see how it holds up.
Charge the advertisers $2, $1 goes to Facebook, $1 goes to the victim.

Seems fairer, no?
Android in 2013: What to expect
The answer to the headline's question is "No, and it never will."

There's a branch of philosophy, the philosophy of science, that deals with analyzing the scientific method.

Discussing the scientific method is a sort of meta-analysis that will continue to be useful as long as we do science, even if every other application of religion and philosophy is eventually overturned by science and technology.