skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For battery usage, I've gotten some good info from the Carat app. http://carat.cs.berkeley.edu/ On iOS and Android. As their site says, "Carat is a free app that tells you what is using up the battery of your mobile device, whether that's normal, and what you can do about it. After running Carat for about a week, you will start to receive personalized recommendations for improving your battery life. Carat is a research project based out of the AMP Lab in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, collaborating with the University of Helsinki."

Certainly Verizon sees interesting data, but Carat has been really helpful to me.

I see many recommending Onavo. I've had bad experiences with their "Extend" app: it proxied my data, often creating dropped connections, and created conflicts with VPN. I haven't tried Count, however.
It probably was around that number, I doubt MS would make 300 units for their launch.
Fight for the Future put this page together quickly as an immediate response to CISPA being back on the table. There certainly could be more info on the site, but there is also plenty out there that you can research yourself. This is a site to take immediate action if you feel so inclined. If not, go read up and there will be more chances to take action soon.
And if Loki hadn't died around 2002, there would be many excellent Linux games to sell on Steam today, which is a much better platform for promoting, updating and DRMing the games. Bad timing.
Designing for the visually impaired
See also the http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py tool for reporting real mem usage for programs
Yes it would be better if there were inventory figures, but that doesn't stop the exact same stories to come out about Apple launches.
Robert Krulwich is one of their pop-science journalists/bloggers, this is pretty much what he does. He's one of the co-hosts of RadioLab, an entertaining pop-sci radio show on NPR. I think you're disappointed because this is the first time you've been able to recognize pop science reporting for what it is.
Usable is the operative word here.

I've built complex tablet apps with both SDKs. Have you?
You also can build a simple recommender based on categorization of articles.

XPLR (https://www.xplr.com) for whom I work, has an API that among other things, allows to easily tag articles and build recommenders.

If you're interested we'd be happy to let you use the API. Contact us or pm me for an access to the beta.
1. Buyers apparently know that they have to go for the 128 GB version if they want to have sufficient storage for their own data.

2. The headline reminds my of book editions: '1st edition sold out!' 'Interesting, how many books were printed for the 1st edition?'
see http://beaglenetworks.net/
I'm snowed in too and this made me happy. Thanks!
Every Team member is an asset and a liability at the same time
Better build 10 more to sell. ;)
If the explosion micheal bay effect happened in real time it would be sick
This is a feature of this particular device. Keyboard doubling as stands are offered by other OEMs.
I wonder what that would be like on a car... Would you never have to clean it again? How much water would that save in the U.S. from being wasted?
did coax ethernet ever work reliably? I remember spending entire days fiddling with cables and terminators trying to get multiplayer quake to work over a network, we almost always had to resort to (very slow) serial ports instead.
Wow. What a tremendously strong and difficult gesture, surrendering the less than impressive nature of their internal struggles and personal character flaws to the public through a documentary like this. Much respect to all of those involved, including the film maker. With examples like this we can look ahead with the hopes of a better world.
Can you point me to openJDK binaries for Windows? I would love to use that.
..if they know the username of the account.

Beyond that, I don't think there is any legal basis to compel a password. Do you know of one? I'm curious about it. In the UK, apparently, there is but only for criminal investigations.
HTML5 make it sound like something that can be done cross browser, rather than something via the chrome.* apis for their extensions. That having been said, I've read about something of the sort related to WebRTC, Chrome seems to be interested in making in possible at least: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/04/chromes-webrtc-roadmap.html
Theory:
MS had low stock due to Surface RT sales.
Not even Gary Johnson?
Agreed. Curiosity is exploring an area known (or at least apparently) to have had quite a bit of water activity in the past. It seems quite likely that a river or glacier would have peeled off all the softer stone around the metal and left something like this behind.
Using a slow implementation of PBKDF2 is not going to slow down attackers who use a fast implementation.
[3] is a 404 page.

Love the phrase "energetically disassembled".
You don't spend any time looking at it from that angle when you're using it, but the stand and cover make it just as usable as a real laptop as long as you've got a tabletop. I'm able to type as fast/accurate on my RT with the Type Cover as I can on my MacBook Air.
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MIT did use it for some years before commercial Ethernet eventually displaced CHAOSnet (I was gone by then), but, yeah, it was a constant struggle to keep it working reliably. People would work in the cable spaces and ding or crimp the coax outer shield, and we'd have to go find it.
When they stuck the work gloves into water, the effect of the treated glove looked exactly like Magic Sand. I loved playing with that hydrophobic stuff when I was a kid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1id-gHQjbs
It's human nature. People have done this for millennia and I think that they always will. That's why I don't get upset about it. I don't expect anything different from human beings. This is the way we act in aggregate.

Fight the battles you can win.
Sarbanes-oxley compliance and the ability for administrators to snoop on you and stuff like that, probably.
Probably because of this: https://www.box.com/business/features/
You want to think in terms of aspect ratio first, and pixels second. Currently (and this may change) the iPad has the same aspect ratio that's shared between an iPad, an iPad with Retina and an iPad mini. On the other hand the iPhone 5 and say the iPhone 4s have different aspect ratios since the iPhone5 is taller.

Also don't forget that your design has to be responsive so that it can go from horizontal to vertical. And then keep in mind that if at some later point you want to port to Android that there really aren't any fixed aspect ratios since there are so many devices.

My advice is that you should sketch and then use an app like Keynote to see what your interface looks like on the device. You can be shocked sometimes just how different things feel when you go from a personal computer to a mobile device.
Here are guidebooks from the EFF and BCCLA detailing your lack of rights at the border and practical steps you can take.

https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...

http://bccla.org/our_work/electronic-devices-pocket-guide/

Organizations like these and the ACLU do incredibly important work protecting your freedom on relatively small budgets. While a lot of people on the comments here are shocked to read this report, remember that even getting it released is the result of years of pressure from the ACLU. Those of us who benefit most from a free society, and technological progress have a special duty to make a donation and to get involved. It's a worthwhile investment in your future.
Which are usually followed by Apple saying "We're delighted to have sold [a crapload] of [whatever] this weekend, a record amount etc etc". That's why Apple sellouts are interesting, because they actually tell you how many they've sold. If Microsoft does the same thing, kudos to them, but for the surface RT launch they didn't (IIRC).
Having been educated only as an undergrad at a college ranked ~100, I have a question for those who've experienced a course like this at MIT or a similar institution. When I was reading the first lab's description I thought "man, that'd be tough to put out in a week, but it's doable." I saw that it appears to be a multi-week lab for graduate students and wanted to find out if this is normal difficulty for a course? Is there more homework outside of labs that's missing, or crazy quizes/tests that deal with much more theory or proof style work? I just recall my undergrad courses having those extra items, but in large part being the case that if you made all your labs pass all the test cases you could get an A in the course. Does this hold true even at the elite schools or is there much more hidden below the surface here?
Nicely developed -- it requires JS from two domains to be run before anything is shown on screen.
Fox News Claims Germany Has More Solar Power Than US Cause Its Sunnier There
What's with the negativity? Nothing beats the Surface Pro at the moment so I'm not surprised it sells out.
To me, this is a marketing tactic.
Another option: http://ninite.com/
Excellent points, and well explained. People who are smarter and more knowledgeable than I are certainly better qualified to put context around the significance of nano-tech. Regardless, It seems as though we are at or near a new nano-technology frontier.

I confess to knowing absolutely zero about it, but I also think the possibilities are fascinating, and worthy of both tremendous skepticism and awe at the same time.
I remember seeing this a year ago. It's awesome how smooth it has become— last time I checked, it was choppy on my machine whereas now it's butter smooth. Browsers are sure improving rapidly these days.
>“We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits,”

Well frankly, in that case, I don't give a shit what you conclude, because you're mentally incompetent.

"We also conclude that following the Constitution for Americans reentering the country would put us in a bind for looking at whatever we want, so we're going to say that you don't need that right to privacy."
Check out the articles here: http://bjango.com/articles/

Great resource for what you're looking for. Including downloadable Photoshop actions to make it all easier.
"In its previous form, the bill would have given federal agencies unlimited access to virtually any of my personal data and online communication-- without a warrant."

No, it would not have. Even had it not been designed to do essentially the opposite, it couldn't have, because it was an opt-in measure. Being in a hurry does not excuse this level of wrongness.
Not working for me, I'm getting
"No Connection" screen :(
The security world is as driven by fashion and old-concepts-with-new-names as the rest of the software industry. The general treadmill is basically

1. Look at this bug! lolz,pwnd

2. Script kiddie tools made around it and lots of variants are popular

3. Security improves as prevention tools get better

4. 0day experts look in other systems. (aka goto 1 with a different subsystem argument).

5. Eventually, as techniques in all subsystems improve, the original area of exploration is again the lowest hanging fruit, with a slightly different guise.

For example - SQL injection is just a variant of the old pipe injection attack (also, pipe injection is coming back a bit, because newer programmers haven't seen it, and older programmers have forgotten about it).

Another example you're starting to see more of again: IP stack attacks - as ip is being offloaded into the NIC you're starting to see a revival of "lets see what we can do to the ip stack" but this time it's in the card itself. (Actually there is some really cool stuff going on here...)

So yeah, boot time attacks are pretty common and in these days, but not necessarily in the main boot path, but in cards with firmware, especially those that have DMA.

Additionally with tools like metasploit, you can keep around a huge toolkit of root-kits and so on, so if a system is vulnerable to known boot-time exploits, you can use them even if you'd forgotten them.
He seems, to a layman untrained in psychology, to be very... unstable. Just for starters, he seems to think that some sort of god talks to him through some sort of "dissociated press" style markov chains, or something.

His old HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

His new account: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS

What I mean by comparing this guy to losethos is that his paranoid rantings and delusions of grandeur (ill-considered rants like this one, or rants about conspiracies to explain why his software isn't more widely used, etc) give me serious "danger! stay away!" vibes.
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" has a great chapter on human predictions versus those made by forumlas. The superiority of simple forumlas was being demonstrated way back in the 50s (see "Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis And A Review Of The Evidence"). Since then the evidence for statistical rather than intuitive prediction has only become stronger.

From "Thinking, Fast and Slow":

"The number of studies reporting comparisons of clinical and statistical predictions has increased to roughly two hundred, but the score in the contest between algorithms and humans has not changed. About 60% of the studies have shown significantly better accuracy for the algorithms. The other comparisons scored a draw in accuracy, but a tie is tantamount to a win for the statistical rules, which are normally much less expensive to use than expert judgment. No exception has been convincingly documented."

Also interesting:

"Several studies have shown that human decision makers are inferior to a prediction formula even when they are given the score suggested by the formula! They feel that they can overrule the formula because they have additional information about the case, but they are wrong more often than not."
Right, my bad. The other way around - M^n, not n^M. Combinations vs permutations, depends what you want.
It's hard to believe they sold both.
I think I've seen a "notification dispatcher"-type app that basically receives the notifications and launches your web app with the appropriate parameters. Clumsy, but better than nothing.
Not on Linux. And in my 10+ years of Windows computing, I have never once gotten a bootkit. It's simple: install a myriad of security applications, and don't visit any suspicious websites.

It's common sense, really.
I just mean that our cells are very large, compared to what other materials are made of.

How about bleach? Sand? Dirt? Soap? Lotion? Bug spray? Makeup? Our skin is a pretty good barrier. Not saying that this stuff is safe, of course, but I don't think you can say it's unsafe because it's made of molecules that are small.
I was expecting it to be a complete horror-show on my G5 mac, but it was actually really smooth (once it had settled down of course..). Really nice work. Well done!
FatFractal can host your web content as well as your data API
the cloud animation could use a little bit of easing. It looks a bit choppy right now on mouse move.
Beware of Ballers on a Budget
All those things listed for Romney were actions taken in relation to his campaigning for president it isn't surprising that he would do those things in that context because a segment of the Republican base supports those positions. Surely if he were anti-gay or a closet misogynist there would be evidence of that in his record of actions taken as a governor.

Take the example of the "mandatory insurance provided birth-control" issue that arose during the election. That's like a $9 per month benefit so if you voted for or against someone because of that and ignored things like heinous civil liberties policies you would essentially be saying you could be bought off for 9 bucks a month. That seems insane to me.

edit: point being that the common reason for not voting for the third party candidate is fear that the other guy wins. I'm suggesting that that's a stupid reason if the difference is $9 + campaign rhetoric.

edit: This article sites generics as costing $9 per month http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/real-cost-birth...
This is really awesome! Add it to twitter bootstrap for kicks!
Aside from their new user experience, I wonder what the impact of the queue has been.

Does it make people want to use the app more or push the app out of memory?
Thoughts on... the importance of great communication
Another way to back up your master password is with 'ssss'.

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/

You can split a secret into N pieces, where any M of them are enough to reconstruct it. Even if you have M-1 pieces, you're no better off than a random guess. You can then distribute the N pieces in safe places and among trusted parties.

I just implemented this scheme thinking towards what would happen to all my digital data if I were to die or become incapacitated. I store much of my local data and account passwords with strong encryption, with full-strength keys (not six chars like the OP) that no one would be able to guess or brute-force.

The hardest part is really thinking through what the reconstruction threshold should be and who your trusted parties are. You want the threshold high enough that you would not be easily compromised if you misplaced your trust, but not so high to preclude recovery if any of your trusted parties lost their piece, or... both of you were taken out in the same accident.

You can also use a service like deadmansswitch.net to distribute additional pieces to people automatically if you don't check in for a certain amount of time. Another moving part, but it does increase the 'james bond' factor.
Whether or not this represents a lot of sales, the fact is there are plenty of Microsoft fanboys. They don't get ridiculed by the press the way Apple fanboys do, but the fact that people would queue for a new release of Windows back in the day is testament to it. Just as Apple can sell a buttload of products on day one but ultimately have a flop product, although we haven't seen such a flop in some time, so can Microsoft (Vista!).
If you're using http, you can use the range parameter in curl to restrict the number of bytes you download.
The parts of Africa which aren't going to the hospital aren't revolutionized by it. And the ones which go to the hospital and pick up an infection aren't revolutionized by it.
Stepcounting: Fitbit vs. Fuelband
It's shiny, the odds are very high that a human would indeed have seen it. For one thing, a human's eyes are constantly processing the world as they move through it. Curiosity's eyes are not.

What Curiosity has done in 6 months could have been done in a couple of weeks by a human, sleep time included. Robots are vastly inferior to humans for this work, and will remain so for some time to come.
You know what might really get people talking about Lua? Making the primary resource for learning it available for free following the lead of countless other languages.
The demo in the link is an HTML5 canvas element animated with Javascript.
Thanks. That'll help a lot. I'm tempted to leave the designing up to a professional.
Everyone has different priorities. Among my priorities are civil liberties issues. Again, I see no reason to think that Romney would have been better on any front and for the very reasons that you imply (heinous civil rights violations) I chose not to vote for Obama.

I'm not sure what you're advocating I suppose. I don't think people said that the $9 a month was important to them (I kinda doubt that figure for people w/o insurance but I don't know) but were instead saying "I'm not going to vote for some rich white dude that wants to tell me what I can do with my vagina".
> If you believe that posting a petition on whitehouse.gov and getting a few thousand people to "Like" it should automatically result in legislation, or an official saying what you agree with

That's not what I believe at all. I'm just saying that there needs to be a less broad approach to CISPA and that there needs to be a more clear explanation as to what exactly can or cannot be tracked, because with the current legislation, indefinite snooping of innocent individuals is possible under it.

The bill itself is fine. It is by no means the same as SOPA or PIPA, but it's also poorly written and allows companies and the U.S. Government to exploit citizens. That's what people need to get attention to. The website that this post links to is misleading; look at some other sources of information to see what really is going on.
No, thats my point, it may only be usable internally, and if modified only if you trust your staff
Plenty of math has nothing to do with quantities or measurements. Relational algebra and type theory come into mind as particularly useful for workaday programming.
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Amazing demos. Are there any real-world applications using something like this?
Canon 600D/T3i vs Canon 60D: What to buy?
Is the extension code open sourced?
I only see the server code on github.
This sounds interesting. I definitely need some feedback on my app Finderous. It's a location based groups app where users can start their own groups or join other interest groups. the app can be downloaded at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/finderous/id520384764?mt=8
Senario: this code triggered a shutdown on my computer due to poor ventilation. If I had programs open I would have lost my documents.
DHS can say whatever it wants, but SCOTUS says that the search has to actually take place at the border. See for instance Almeida-Sanchez v. US.

"Constitution free" is obviously hyperbolic.
"What about medical students - if they know that the difference in diagnosis accuracy between a medium and a top student has been reduced to just 2-3%, why strive to learn more than the other?"

From what I've heard, med school is mostly about memorizing huge amounts of information without a whole lot of critical thinking. But that's a task that computers are infinitely better at than humans. Wouldn't it be a good thing if Watson could free med students from rote memorization, allowing them to instead focus on something that humans are actually good at, like research?
I wonder what their team looks like. Like, how many software engineers do they got going, and how many self-proclaimed product people and "Mobile UX super experts with awesome ideas" are around.
Try scrolling or changing tabs while sharing is on.
It updates the screen on scroll, tab changed and Dom updates
Aren't they just going to lose this at court? The degree of suspicion required for different kinds of border searches is something that has already been tested before SCOTUS.
Indeed! I was one of what I called "a cast of tens" in that effort, responsible for a MIT Math Department applied math computer lab, a long run to the south corner of Building 2. We didn't have significant problems with our cable, but I did hear of others, and there was the fun time "a backhoe tried to connect to the CHAOSnet" at Vassar Street, between the main campus and the AI Lab and LCS.

I still miss symbolically named ports (e.g. "TELNET") vs. IP's numbered ones (then again IP had to run on the ARPAnet's old routers and was explicitly a WAN and a very well designed one, CHAOSnet was a LAN which was something of a quick hack, like NFS).
But they don't have to police it. And they shouldn't.
I second this.
Look here: www.irs.gov/Individuals/General-ITIN-Information
Also, you can use this in dealing with US banks. I have not done this with PayPal but have done it for US banking. It took a few weeks. to get the number.
This should be titled "Don't start a coffee shop, buy one".
In the US, you are only required to decrypt devices as ordered by court via subpoena.
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