skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing a technical article about the standards process around web DRM without even obliquely addressing any of the criticism of it seems like a strange choice to me. Almost everything in this article was already publicly known; what I'd like to have seen was an actual rebuttal of the criticisms of, among others, Ian Hickson, so as to move the standards conversation forward.
This is a rumor BPD already shot down, after NY Post ran the story.
> All the elements of modern "terrorism" are there back then: a half-wit dupe bomber, nutjobs with a crazy ideology (anarchism in this case), and national actors manipulating them from behind the scenes.

And before that there were of course the Russians, where I think everything started (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Russia#19th_centu...):

> Nechaev argued that the purpose of revolutionary terror is not to gain a support of masses, but to the contrary, inflict misery and fear on the common population. According to Nechayev, a revolutionary must terrorize civilians to incite rebellions.

Fact is, I also believe that the Tsarist secret police Okhrana was much better at actually fighting the "terrorists" using classic methods like "infiltrating and influencing revolutionary groups, rather than merely identifying and arresting their members", compared to what the US secret agencies are doing right now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana)

It's crazy that I was just reading a couple of days ago about how the CIA had almost turned into a military unit because of its control over the drone war, instead of doing actual information agency work.
There's also dodo, another simple CLI client: https://github.com/adamw523/dodo
Sprint, Softbank and Dish: The Love Triangle from Hell
You might be right. It's contradicted by both Sprint and Verizon here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-cellphone-service-sh...

Edit: And, it seems, AT&T: https://twitter.com/ATT/status/323915702132150272
The problem is that there's always "something" more that could be done to prevent these types of incidents, but eventually the costs of additional preventative measures will outweigh the reduction in risk they provide, if they haven't already.
CBS LOCAL reports that security footage shows man with multiple backpacks near the scene before explosion, reporters suggest devices were placed in trashcans, and police have recovered at least one unexploded device:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/15/several-hurt-in-explos...

Update: Police commissioner Ed Davis claims there is no suspect in custody:
http://www.businessinsider.com/live-boston-mayor-holds-press...

Original NY POST reporting:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_bost...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_susp...

WBZ NEWS 1030 is reporting that a Saudi national was tackled and turned into police, they are questioning him, but he's cooperating and denies any involvement.
live feed: http://tunein.com/radio/WBZ-NewsRadio-1030-s27704/
I remember when they found the 9/11 bombers in a Boston hotel, too.

While figuring out who did this will be very very important, right now it's not something the public should worry about.
ZipMinis Living Mission Statement of Core Values
> People can purchase/rent content from 10000 sources, it's not what made YT useful originally.

Correct, but now I can do all my online-video-related activities in one place. How is "going to 10000 different sources" better than that? Google already has my credit card info. Ability to purchase content on YT means I don't have to give my CC details to yet another website. How is that not a good thing for the user?

> 1) Constant ads, from "skip in 4 seconds" to "you have to watch all 30s, sucka".

I prefer that experience over alternatives which have even more intrusive ads.

>2) Taking off videos, or taking off their audio content, when some media company decides the music is theirs.

This can happen to any website. Google is just complying with the law. Are you proposing that Google should violate the law?

> 3) Forced G+ integration.
I agree, its bad. But saying YT is "ruined" because of that is hyperbole.
Yet another Google service soon to be discontinued... When one need it as most probably.
Just a little too soon after, only a couple hours, combined with confusion over for-profit status makes it look tone deaf but it is really not. People are suffering - help suffering people.
I'm probably biased, but I've been impressed by their work in the field I used to work in (white space wireless). I spoke to a VC the other day who seemed surprised that we were working on stuff back in the early 2000's that he's only been seeing commercially in the last couple of years.

I guess the nature of the model is hit and miss...
Honestly, for that class it probably doesn't matter much as it's focusing more on functional programming theory than anything complex in terms of application structure or environment. I did it in Eclipse when I took the first iteration of the course, and I didn't really have much trouble. Unless they've added alternate project files, you'd probably have to convert the worksheets and projects to the IDEA format, and that'd be a bit of a hassle.

That said, for general use I really like the Scala support in IDEA. I'd suggest playing around with the free version a bit - as you mention, Play support is only in Ultimate, but the Scala plugin itself works fine in Community. You can get a feel for how IDEA manages projects, handles debugging, that kind of thing.
> Gee whillikers, if only anyone ever had studied the unconscious changes in reaction to a proposal submitted under a male name or a female name!

According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5554390, women actually come off worse in this case.
By laid back, I meant:

You can dress and look however you want. And, in return, you draw in the kind of creative, interesting people that care about that kind of stuff. Believe it or not, this is not a given at all software jobs.

There's not a lot of process and formality. Less time writing TPS reports, more time making software. This doesn't mean it's all unstructured cowboy coding, just that there's less pointless overhead than at other companies I've seen.

Lots of kidding around and laughing. Less people taking themselves too seriously.

> Laid back, to me, means "Oh, we had to work 60 hours last week, so this week I'm gonna leave around 4 pm on Thursday. I'll send an email to the team lead to not expect me tomorrow"

I think that depends a lot on the project and schedule. Certainly, the worst crunch was right before a deadline, and things were more lax after it. Taking several days off after a big push wasn't unusual. The months following shipping a title which were mostly focused on writing design docs were often "nominally 40 hours but really closer to 35 and we aren't exactly killing ourselves during those hours either".

> From the stories I've heard, "laid back" in the game industry means "great news! it's 7 pm on Sunday evening, everybody go home and be with your kids"

Well, of course the stories you hear are always extreme. Otherwise, they wouldn't be a story. No one ever says, "Breaking news today, area man works 40 hours in one week."
"It doesn't limit habeas rights--it creates stricter procedures for invoking that right"

Much like free speech zones don't limit free speech rights, they just create stricter procedures for exercising those rights.

AEDPA was not just about habeas corpus rights. It covers penalties for conspiracies that involve explosives and for hacking into government computers. It covers counterfeiting activities. It covers law enforcement training and assistance. It covers international terrorist funding and investigation.

It is like an embryonic version of the PATRIOT act.
I don't really think your "EDIT2" is called for.
"We will remove this last remaining browser plugin as soon as WebCrypto is available directly in the Chrome browser. At that point, we can begin testing our new HTML5 video player on Windows and OS X." - What do they have against linux?
Is this really the time or the place for your comment?
Study: Searchers Choose Google Over Bing When Google’s Name Is The Results
All terrorism is bad. Including both sides of the NI debate, the ANC and Apartheid government of South Africa, Hamas and the IDF all of which have deliberately targeted civilians.

But although the IRA did kill civilians, this generally wasn't their goal and they took steps to actively prevent that. Re: Eniskillen, read your link. Neither you nor I know the truth. Re: Harrods, acknowledged.

Kidnappings and murders in Ireland and NI were done on both sides, the IRA disarmed when the RUC, a British state run organization that also collaborated with terrorist paramilitaries was disbanded.
In that case, I will take it upon myself to be offended on your behalf. No need to thank me.

;)
There are lots of calculators that will show you, but for a $100,000 loan at 5% you only get about $1450 in equity the first year and only another 1550 the second year, but you pay about $4950 in interest the first year and $4900 in interest the second.

Unless you make lots of extra payments you gather equity very slowly. The break even interest vs equity per year point is at the half way point.
I wouldn't rely on the NYPost, at all. They're still saying the death toll was 12 when everyone else says it was 2.
As pg tries to explain, it's not a YC company but a charity he supports (and therefore knows about) and it's also one that he thinks can help people get (afford) medical treatment.
Different library. The one the Globe tweet refers to is the Boston Public Library, right by the finish line. The JFK Library is on the opposite side of the city.
That's a pretty cynical world view. I think a lot of bad stuff happens for reasons that could be taken away given better social structures, e.g., people who are abusive because they were abused themselves, desperation because of poverty, etc. There are probably psychopaths which simply have the genetic disposition for that, but violence perpetrated for ideological reasons is definitely something that society could address one way or another.
Yeah, this has been done: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelficarra/make-a-be... IMO this is fine as long as it's disclosed in the pitch.
Probably nothing, except statistically nobody uses Linux on the desktop, so it's not a priority.
Addition to the other factors to consider put forth by nostromo:

-Mobility. When you need to exit a house and relocate, you can do so without waiting for a lease to expire. If you are in the right market, you can rent the first home out while you migrate, then sell it once the dust has settled.
Right, it has been axed. I support an application reliant on Silverlight for some rendering stuff and it has been axed on the Microsoft side, but some people still use it in their products, unfortunately.
I'm just curious, is this in any how, related to the recent RAM increase ?
Power of Arduino and Raspberry Pi combined in $99 Android/Linux PC
For all the nay sayer's most of your objections are actually addressed in the original article. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3381v1
A quote from the end of the abstract:
Can we take these estimates as an
approximate age of life in the universe? Answering this question is not easy because several
other problems have to be addressed. First, why the increase of genome complexity follows an
exponential law instead of fluctuating erratically? Second, is it reasonable to expect that
biological evolution had started from something equivalent in complexity to one nucleotide? And
third, if life is older than the Earth and the Solar System, then how can organisms survive
interstellar or even intergalactic transfer? These problems as well as consequences of the
exponential increase of genome complexity are discussed below.
Actually Boston uses "mall" in the same way as the English and Australians.
Wow, aren't you a ray of sunshine?
I think not common, at least not in the US. The risk of liability is too great. My company has a strict no-comment policy, and won't affirm anything beyond dates of employment and job title. This seems to be the norm for corporations.

Smaller business who don't have their own HR and legal departments protecting them may be a bit more forthcoming, but probably not much.
Well, we're certainly going to disagree about whether the AEDPA is good law or not. I happen to think it abridges liberties, but that's beside the point. The
point is that its passage was very much in response to the Oklahoma City Bombings, even if its legacy today has to do with habeas petitions.

See this:

"But within weeks of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Senate voted 91 to 8 to pass the Comprehensive Terrorism Protection Act of 1995, which cut back sharply on state death-row inmates’ access to federal court. This bill eventually morphed into the broader Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which President Clinton signed shortly after the first anniversary of the bombing. Standing on the south lawn of the White House, in the presence of family members of the victims of Oklahoma City and other recent terrorist incidents, the president declared that the new law “strikes a mighty blow” against terrorism." [1]

And also [2], which notes that a draft of the AEDPA also contained additional surveillance powers, among other things.

I'd definitely call the AEDPA a knee jerk reaction.

[1] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/homegrown-hu...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=H_RrLyV9rDUC&lpg=PA31&#...
Revolutions occur not during, but after times of intense hardship. When the general population has enough time and resources to inform themselves of perceived imbalances in the power structure, and isn't expending all their efforts on survival, they have the opportunity to become politically active.

This is why smart dictators keep their populations in constant poverty and either war, or war-readiness.
NBC just reported that AT&T was urging people to use text messages to avoid congestion on their network. So, it's probably a capacity issue.
Poll: What would it take for another company to poach you?
More money
More interesting work
Part-time ok
Work whenever, wherever
All's well that ends well,then. I understand you didn't expect it to become the top comment.
Due to the sarin gas attacks in Japan in the early 90s Tokyo no longer has trash cans in public areas for the most part.

The attackers hid the canisters in trash cans in that instance as well.
Perhaps part of the problem is poor math, logic and research skills.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

> Nonfarm payroll employment edged up in March, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

> In March, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 4.6 million. These individuals accounted for 39.6 percent of the unemployed.

One must wonder if 39.6 percent of 7.6 percent is 10 percent, or is it 3 percent.

A three percent incompetence rate is lower than ten percent. It's also almost identical to the 3.1% of the population who are under correctional supervision: either in prison or on parole. (http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/aainjail.htm)

With a full 3% of the population actually in the correctional system, it is not hard to imagine that there is also 3% of the population incapable of contributing meaningfully to a job. Half of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-...) 36% of Washington DC residents are functionally illiterate. (http://voices.yahoo.com/more-than-one-third-washington-dc-re...) Nationally, 21% of adults are functionally illiterate. To think that the vast numbers of illiterate adults who are also unemployed are ready and capable of holding down a job in a meaningful sense is a complete fantasy.
If you ever want to fulfill your childhood dream, you can always go indie.

If you're a programmer, contracting out the art/music is very common, and the indie dev community is quite small and self-organizing for that kind of stuff.
I don't think it's in their interest to even acknowledge there's an issue.
I don't get why this is made to be a big deal. Gender or race shouldn't matter in choice of speakers, it should be their talent, track record, relevance of their work etc. What woman would want to be invited to speak if they knew it was because the organizers want to be representative of both sexes.
Has anyone set up a charity to raise money for the victims? Something to help pay for prosthetic limbs?
Brainwash (1/7) - The Gender Equality Paradox
I honestly don't understand DRM in html specs. Most people use open source browsers. To crack the "DRM" all you would need to do is open up the source code and slightly modify it. DRM only works when either the client side code hasn't been cracked or when the server side requires clients to log in. The first is impossible with open source, and the second is already a part of html.
What Digital Content Can Learn From Radio
I'm not saying to do it, but the EV is almost certainly positive if the prospects for long-term unemployed are significantly negative. Suppose you get "caught" the first time? Just do it again, and you'll likely find a job sooner than if you played it straight.
Out of curiosity, what's the acceptance rate for these tech conferences? Are these like academic conferences where < 20% of the talks are accepted after months and months of work, or do mere mortals have a reasonable chance of acceptance?
+i for the inflation comment. This is a big driver for my current investment approach. The opportunity to pick up a large, real asset at rates below the inflation I personally experience (US gov't published inflation rate is lower than mine), in market with significant appreciation due to positive population metrics (Austin TX)

Note that you should always spread risk in your portfolio, but housing at nominally negative rates should have youngers investing if they can. Buy something small and close to the city core.
Yeah, due to localized jamming in Iraq (for convoys, using Warlock and better), there were "increasingly sophisticated" systems.

The correct way to make the best IED trigger would be something which required an ongoing cryptographic challenge with nonce or time, so you were safe from both having your circuit cut AND from people finding/replaying your signal.
Ask HN: Did you know you can live with your head detached?
I've just discovered that we can die (removing blood) and then come back to life (after pumping the blood back). I've lived until now not knowing this, it's like today I've discovered the world is spherical!

See video at 5:42 => http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jq06D0xRWmc

See more about: http://techzwn.com/2011/08/the-soviet-zombie-experiments/
Please stop pretending to speak for everyone affected by this sort of tragedy. At least wait until the chaos is over to make such sweeping judgment.
Here's a fun calculator (not by me) that takes all these things into account. It's great fun!

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html

The author offers a reward if you find an error.
Just because a bill is motivated by an event does not make it a "knee-jerk" reaction. There has to be some element of "poorly thought out." AEDPA is a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem it addresses.
"Status: Someone has received information that this person is alive"
- I wish they reword it to something less scary. like, "Status: Someone has received information that this person is fine"
I'll respond as I myself hate when people leave me hanging after I respond to their snark... "factoid" (arguably used incorrectly), "authoritative", "verifiably false premise".

It could be written more simply. You're not wrong, of course, but I've seen you take-down posts like that a couple of times now, so a comment seemed fair. (I realize it's not far off from how you normally write, but the effect is different in a take-down post.) IMHO of course.
I thought of replying to this post, but instead I decided to make this submission, I cannot write something better than it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5554695
Agreed. Crazy is just a dismissive term. Perfectly sane people can do things like murder other people - we have tons of them walking around today but we call them Veterans. Crazy, in this sense, should probably be replaced by societally dysfunctional.
When I hear somebody say 900,000 milliseconds, it makes me wonder why he didn't quote the number in nanoseconds or worse.

On top of all the other problems with this puff piece, I couldn't shake the feeling that Microsoft will probably end up leading the way in buildings susceptible to viruses and other malware, consistent with their security record.

My expectation with implementing anything like this is that you immediately pluck some low-hanging fruit (fixing some inefficiencies) when the system goes online, and then it quickly becomes way more difficult to find further inefficiences to eliminate. The article makes it seem like there's an endless stream of inefficiencies they're finding.
SwipeView is pretty good but not good enough for large scale front end application. Also, SwipeView (at the time when I looked at it) required all of the data upfront v/s letting the app pull it via a webservice. If you're looking for more info on how LinkedIn achieved the buttery performance, you might want to look into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft9R72R7TlI
It's not necessarily fragmentation, Person Finder is designed to federate information from multiple sources so that information isn't fragmented and sources don't get overwhelmed by the load spike.

I don't know it the Red Cross system supports the relevant data exchange standard, although they seem to have been talking about it in the past with the Person Finder team. A finder that falls over under load isn't very useful.
For what little it's worth: I can think of 6 colleagues who have been, or are currently, long-term unemployed. I personally wouldn't have hire any of them, had it been my decision. I'm glad it wasn't. Two of them were among our best hires ever. The other four didn't work out so well.

Still, that's quite a high "hidden gem" rate.
> When "their qualifications" results in a selection rate of men approaching 100%, I think that's prima facie case that one of the most important qualifications is being a man.

Why is this a prima facie case proof of sexist qualification requirements? What evidence do you actually have?

At the 2012 American Academy of Nursing Conference, the expert panels were roughly 100% female. Is this prima facie evidence that one of the most important qualifications was being a woman?

[1] http://www.aannet.org/assets/docs/ConferenceMaterials/2012/c...

> Furthermore, (% of industry that is women) x (% of women interested in presenting at a conference) is exactly what I was referring to when I talked about "outsourcing" the discrimination - the filter was set upstream.

I fail to see the issue here. Conferences have to work with the pool of speakers that they have.
Apologies, that was biased, and I have no idea about the ethnicity of the victims. Perhaps "people from wealthy english-speaking countries" would be more accurate?

I struggle to find any other significant differences between this incident and, for example, the terror-murder of 7 people in Mexico (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandt...) or the 6000 last month victims in Syria that will get much, much less outrage and impact than this bombing.

The only difference in value of people lives to global media seems to be their country of residence. Now THAT is politically motivated.
Or let Google do it. Google can scale much faster than the Red Cross can outsource it.