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I use it so rarely that I will move on without any feelings.
I care less what happens to gmail. I don't use it for anything.
Change to Network Solutions Transfer Process Makes Domain Transfers Difficult
Let's see him pop it into an electric car and take a cross-continent drive without stopping for a recharge.
The parent was saying that there are clauses in international patent law that prevent applications for devices such as this, mainly because of time wasting and fraud.
I have a philosophy degree (BA and MA). I work as a software developer. Not to brag, but I could wipe out my student loan debt in three months of gross earnings.

Of course, running in parallel to doing my degree, I spent an enormous amount of time coding, going to tech/geek events, reading documentation and so on.

I value my formal education. It's taught me to think widely about a wide range of things including the nature of language, the basis for politics and the state, religion and the good life. (Plus, a thorough knowledge of Kierkegaard is kind of sexy to the sort of person I'd want as a boyfriend.)
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Implementing a Python OAuth 2.0 Provider - Part 3 - Resource Provider
An argument could be made that this is essentially a keylogger. Fine, a _selective_ keylogger, but still.

Whilst this looks useful, it's questionable if it's ethical and furthermore it may even be illegal in certain juristrictions with strong privacy laws.
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In Turkey...

Do you think most people in Turkey are watching BBC? They watch local media.
That's interesting. Have you tried it the other way around?

- domain.com ALIAS sub.herokussl.com
- www.domain.com CNAME domain.com
How could the installed base for ios be 83 apps per device? Out of 8 or 10 mobile devices I doubt I've ever installed that many apps on any one of them. Would that be doing something like counting the same app multiple times if you wipe and reinstall? Seems like a hard metric to believe otherwise, that's what, ~165 apps per device for each one acting as an offset for the devices that don't get any 3rd party apps installed on them?
Thanks for spotting. Will take a look - appreciate it.
"The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline"

Such idiotic claims. What comes next, that meat has twice the energy energy density of a fruit blender? Since when does one compare a fuel and a machine, instead of two fuels?
We definitely need to change patent law, but requiring something to take time to be patentable does not seem like a good strategy.

1) Most break through inventions can be broken down in to smaller, patentable parts. Every patentable part at some point was "created" in an instant, rather than days.

2) You could use the logic to argue that software patents make perfectly good sense by saying that you had to spend years experimenting with software, learning what code works and what code doesn't work and understanding the market for various devices before coming up with your groundbreaking software patent on XYZ.
Neutrons. If it is a cold fusion device (which the arXiv article does not claim), then copious neutron production is almost unavoidable.

If I were evaluating something that claimed anything like nuclear power densities, you can be certain that I'd have radiation detectors around, and I'd write about it in my paper. This would be as much for my own safety as for science.

A successful invention of an alternative energy source won't require secrecy. That's what a patent is for. It's not something that can be commercialized (or even produced in quantity) without someone tearing it apart and figuring out how it works.
For everyone commenting on this story -- the link daeken posted is well worth a read. Very reasonable measures were completely ignored. The most amazing to me was the fact that external power was never disconnected from the device!
Metro is an updated version of COM.

On the desktop side, you have C++/CX which is C++ with some language extensions to make talking to COM easier.

For those that would rather use plain ISO C++, there is the Windows Runtime template framework.

.NET code is JITed or compiled AOT with NGEN and makes use of CCW to interop with WinRT.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/magazine/jj651569.aspx

On the mobile side, Windows Phone 8 only has native applications, even .NET gets compiled to native code.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and...
China military to conduct training on digital warfare - The Hacker News
There should be some 2560x1440 ones for a few hundred dollars on the market.
It doesn't sound like it's even junk science; as far as I can tell there isn't even any natural phenomenon that they're claiming to have tested.
I'm not a fusion expert, but I studied physics in undergrad, and this seems pretty much impossible.

The first obvious question is "how are you overcoming the Coulomb barrier?". Protons absorbing electrons won't just 'happen' - it's energetically unfavorable, requiring 780,000 eV of energy input. (Unbound neutrons are unstable for this reason.) Given that the energy of chemical reactions is usually around 1-3 eV, one has to wonder where the heck all this energy comes from.

The second obvious question is "where does the excess energy/momentum go?". If (say) you hit a proton with an electron at 1 MeV, and 0.78 MeV is absorbed in conversion to a neutron, 0.21 MeV of energy and all the electron's momentum still has to go somewhere. Neutrinos weigh almost nothing, so all the momentum has to go into the neutron, which is now traveling at around 500 eV (not 1 eV). You'd likely also get gamma ray emissions.

The third obvious question is "what's the reaction cross-section?". Weak force mediated reactions happen very rarely, which is why the neutron's decay time is so long.
Couldn't care less. I've long ago decided not to rely on 3rd party stuff for critical things. I even still have my own mail server (oh my, the horrors). Postfix thunderbird + spam-assassin using imap to access the mail store seem to work just fine for me. Ditto with DNS.
In a web context, full stack development includes the interface design side of the job as well. So you probably need to add Photoshop, and possibly a bunch of other design tools to your list.
ding! ding! ding! wake up america.
In other news, room temperature superconductivity was confirmed by researchers at the University of Fairbanks
So I accidentally paste something sensitive I need to edit before sending and now your servers are keeping a log of it, sent over plaintext? Highly unethical.
I believe the reason in the past was due to C++ implemented NPAPI plugins like Flash. Only MSVC builds of Mozilla/Firefox were officially supported.
Indeed, but methinks you pasted the wrong quote. :-)
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How is this a pivot? This is closing of the old shop and opening a completely new one.
Except we can only speculate on the kind of UI involved.

- Multi sign-in isn't great, but how did this user get in that flow in the first place? ("Add Account" isn't something most people would find inviting).

- How did this user accidentally delete her account? The process is actually fairly involved, and is difficult to do accidentally.

- How long did this user wait to restore her account? According to the help docs, you have a grace period to restore an account.

- What "representative" did she talk to? As far as I know, there's no chat support for free Google Apps.

Without this information, there's only speculation to be had, which is the entirety of this thread (in fact, most of this conversation has to do with "advanced" uses of multi sign-in, and has nothing to do with this story). There are a million stories like this, and this is a poorly told one. As should be expected! The user was not writing this to serve as the basis for a discussion on confusing UIs and bad user flows.

That was my point. Feel free to point me to the interesting UI discussion in this thread.
Sure, why not? I used to dislike doing the dishes since they would pile up and I would be stuck there doing dishes for like 15-20 minutes, now I just them after dinner in like 2-3 mins and get it over with. It feels faster this way.
ICQ used to have this years ago. I think its kind of an invasion of privacy. People expect things to only be sent once they hit send, not as they are typing
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Somebody posted a link to a detailed expose' on HN a few weeks ago detailing a successful negative SEO campaign to destroy a competing car dealer's rankings. I'll see if I can dig it up, but this kind of stuff is definitely going on - and people are specifically being paid to do it.
Never-Before-Seen Alien Planet Imaged Directly in New Photo
So what would folks using an ad blocker be then, if they're "just short of thieves"?

I was hoping you had a website in your profile so I could surf all over it.
Qing-Bin Lu revives debunked claims about cosmic rays and CFCs
Best practices for structuring a large Meteor app
Elon Musk covered this. They don't patent things at Space X because their primary competitors are governments, and patent enforceability against governments is questionable at best.

I think the same applies here.
With nickel at $6.64 per pound, and copper at $3.28, I'd be more interested in a device that went the opposite direction. (I mean, since it's not actually performing fusion anyway.)
Because Android allows a hell of a lot more access with their apps than iOS does. iOS aims for extremely locked-down security, Android aims for more openness.
There's a huge number of replicated Chinese spam sites (xyz123.com, xyz456.com, mob123.com) that link to my site. I don't know why or when they started linking to my site, but I know that i didn't have anything to do with it. Your position seems to be that it's legitimate that I'm penalized for this. It's hard not to take this issue personally. It's like being falsely accused of a crime and having to pay a fine.
Technically trivial, ethically horrible, especially if it's not disclosed to the user.

Personally I'd rather format my text on a notepad and copy/paste it to the chat than let others spy on me like that and even then only if I was forced to use it.

Which, fortunately, I'm not. This is one of the reasons I use NoScript.
I am not an afficianado by any means, but it does help in some ways. Many libraries exist that can run on both sides of the connection. Unfortunately, I haven't found much that allow you to modify the DOM/html using the same code on client and server, and even less that allows you to go from an application state on the server into an identical state on the client. Meteor.js, Opa, and Derby.js seem to be the main options in this field, but I'd like to see a simple javascript library that facilitates this so that many other frameworks can take advantage of it.
First as tragedy, then as farce... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
I agree with the general sentiment wrt this article, but I can address your first objection: quantum tunneling. Just like in those old (and real, even though energetically deficient) muon-catalysed cold fusion devices
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Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51
Fracture Raises Another $500K For On Demand Printing Of Photos On Glass
I haven't come across this before. I will have to play with it and see how it works. It definitely appears to be in alpha status, but then again, so are most javascript frameworks, it seems :)
Orly? Thanks for the "correction"?

I guess that I, along with countless others (http://goo.gl/W1P69), have just been ignorantly using a fictional term that nicely summarizes the concept that we are trying to convey - i.e. "the building up of back-links via non-automated, traditional routes - such as those stemming from legitimate interations with other businesses and clients"...

Thanks, pal.
Edited; thanks. That was really wrong.
Tell me where I can get a phone like that for $20 without a contract?
> I agree with the article. Facebook's biggest problem is that, because you're always talking to everybody, you really can't say much. Conversation is, and has always been, context-dependent.

Nothing has yet approached traditional web forums, IRC, and even old-school Usenet in this capacity. These forms of online community are clearly-defined social spaces, in which everyone has a direct view to who is and isn't participating. There may be many separate contexts going at any given time, with lots of overlap among participants, but each one is still an independent venue with legible boundaries. Modern "social media" lacks this sense of defined space, which, I think, is necessary for anything to be legitimately called a "community".

Forums and IRC are like a few dozen friends sitting around a table, with everyone engaged in a single coherent conversation at any given time. Twitter and Facebook are like two hundred acquaintances having 40,000 conversations by shouting at each other across the floor of a gymnasium.
This has been possible ever since AJAX appeared. Everyone should always assume it's happening.

Similar in concept to capturing passwords that don't succeed, in case they may be valid for other sites where the user has accounts.

(Note, I don't do either of these things, just saying that people should not be surprised.)
Appears to be right there in the excerpt I quoted. You find product market fit and then work on strategy with your team and (already existing) investors.
New Kickstarter Scam From the Same People Who Made Off with 200k
Me too. I used to refer to them as Perlisms in Rust, but nowadays I don't care any longer.
I hope to god this does not become widespread. I type all sorts of crazy shit in text boxes. Everyone's basic assumption is that no information is sent until you hit 'enter'. Deploying this in the wild would seem like a huge invasion of privacy. Akin to turning on a user's webcam and a screen capture to turn your users into unwitting usability testers. In other words, please use this responsibly.
@teamonkey: if so, ok. I was also forgetting something I had studied (being Italian): in Italy patents aren't awarded after an examination, they basically just certify the date of your claims. The whole examination and discussion of the patent are left to a trial, if there is ever one regarding it. I guess that' what the OP meant by "informal" patent.
Extremely skeptical of course.. but:

What if you did crack cold fusion.. imagine the (justifiable) paranoia and measures you would have to take to protect yourself, and your discovery.

I'd want to get the plans/schematics in the public domain ASAP. Someone is going to throw money at you to help build bigger and better versions once all doubt is removed anyway.
That's spyware.
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"It's not Google's job to make sure every webmaster has a "fair shot" at rankings. It's their job to make sure the best results appear when I search for something."

I would think it's pretty obvious they have to ensure every webmaster has a fair shot to guarantee the best results.

If a crappy website rises to the top by doing negative seo and denying the best results their fair shots, Google is not doing its job.
Also, it should be remembered that is a country-wide exam with a 2 or 3 months deadline for the marks (with of course, not enough teachers to do such a huge job), and the students are supposed to be evaluated equally.

That said, the typical dissertation includes a synthetic part where the ideas of the previous parts, which expose one thesis and its opposite. So there is a form of debate there, but again what is judged is the consistency rather than the opinions supported by the student (at least that's how it was when I took it, in the scientific-oriented version of the "Bac").
> Why does anyone put up with it?

Some because they are hopeless naive, as you say, but probably some because they desperately want what is being claimed to be true, so they accept things they wouldn't generally accept in this specific case.
Hacker Claims Airplanes Vulnerable
Why does this junk since about LENR keep ending up on the front page of Hacker News? It is the same report over and over again with nothing new added.
Choosing 2 of 3 is true for early-stage startups. But once things take off, then you can get 3 out of 3 as you are able to delegate some of the work out to your employees. Then, you can achieve startup, health, significant other/family.
Apple could try, but there's no reason they couldn't give the talk. Apple could patch the problem, that's a possibility. Why would anyone get sued? It's completely legal for a security researcher to test their own devices. These guys aren't exploiting people on a widespread basis, they're researchers presenting a new exploit. That's what the Black Hat conference is all about.
The only incredible thing is that Rossi seems to keep getting attention, which I suspect, along with naive sponsors, is the only thing he really wants.
While I have no issue with this in younger students, forcing some folks to continue to study subjects in which they have no interest, would simply have driven us round the bend and made us lose interest in education entirely.

I specialised to mathematical and scientific subjects exclusively at the age of 15, and would have it no other way. Cultural learning I can pick up informally as and when I want to.
These guys have created a new project for creating a bitcoin mining box. Unfortunately, it's vaporware, just like the last project they used to make off with 196 thousand dollars.

http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/dt_corp.asp?id_nbr=0423...

http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/dt_corp.asp?id_nbr=0513...
Currently the linked Article redirects to a removed page.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2272092/Page-Removed

Here is a cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Amazon doesn't like that Alias either. A friend on mine, Scott, just figured out though that you can point your Alias record at any ELB even outside your account:

https://twitter.com/scottvdp/status/341604885600534530

So I can make an Alias record to the ELB that heroku is pointing at with their SSL CNAMES.
It sounds like they are voluntarily suspending service until this is sorted out. Virginia has given them 30 days to explain why they think this doesn't apply to them.
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Annnnd... the article is flagged of the front page.
Django 1.6 Alpha released
This is Femi with Hipmob: there ARE some privacy concerns we have over this, and as it evolves we expect to add additional notifications and controls. The human operator element does make it more privacy-sensitive, but we looked at it more like a real-time search query submission: most modern search boxes will send the query details as you type in, and show prospective results in real time. Obviously, there isn't a person staring at your search query in real time so it is more anonymous, but that was the thought process that guided this.
Hacker Claims Airplanes Vulnerable at 30,000 Feet
A nice list. I use things like the simple web server all the time, and I was unaware of the SMTP server, but some of these seem superflous, like:

python -m calendar

When you could just do

cal 2013

(with fewer keystrokes). Is there some advantage to using the python version of the above?
one unlicensed money transmitter is being suspended, not all bitcoin services and not the entire state of VA.
Additionally, the 30 second limit was increased to 60 seconds in October 2011. [1]

[1] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/10/app-engince-155-...
AVC on Lead Gen
"This page has been removed due to inaccuracies. We regret the error."
I know and I sympathize. It's just that xkcd is so condescending sometimes and I wanted a good way to let that know.
Agreed that Circles are a great idea- and they're just as great on Facebook. I am lucky that I have a relatively small number of friends- categorising them did not take long at all. Now I can post updates to different groups, and it works great.
Ron, I wanted to tell you how much I've appreciated your contributions to this thread. (I would have emailed, but I can't find one for you anywhere!)
> The US system is completely devoted to writing.

Writing, perhaps, but not good writing. Most of good writing is the ability to synthesize ideas and construct prose people want to read.

Nobody wants to read your average student's five paragraph essay. On the other hand, I spent a large part of the weekend bingeing on Michael O. Church's blog, because the dude can write.
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Including aspect ratio as a column would be helpful, so we don't have to calculate width / height in our heads.
"The commission has formally stated that unless exempt from licensing we must stop further activity until such time as we apply for and obtain a Money Transmitter license."
Once I read a story about a hardcore C developer that was forced to work on an Ada project.

In the beginning she was complaining a lot about the language's verbosity, but with the time she spent on the project she eventually became an Ada advocate! :)
I may be living in dream land, but I've been building my product without sacrificing my health, my family time, or my lifestyle. I've had to eat into some savings, and I've yet to make it a self-sustaining enterprise, but the idea that you need to sacrifice so severely for a business just seems irresponsible and exaggerated to me.

Am I alone?
Seriously. I use G+ all the time, although not in the same way people use FB.

I talk to my good friends offline and use G+ for the communities. It's almost like reddit with 90% less trolling.
I don't particularly care what you call it. Back-links that were placed at your behest are spam to me.
"This page has been removed due to inaccuracies. We regret the error."

hmm?
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1) No. 2) Mostly, within reason. 3) Yes. 4) Yes 5) If you don't do #2.
Is anyone else seeing a sustained level of trashy DNS queries to their own servers? I've been seeing a sustained level to mine that's way above normal, for the last few days. I wonder if this is a broader problem than just DNSimple.
Facebook is the Central Limit Theory for awfulness applied to the internet
>Effective the May 31st, 2013 Tangible Cryptography has suspended new purchases of Bitcoins through our service FastCash4Bitcoins. We take this step in response to a notice received, the same day from the Commonwealth of Virginia, that a complaint has been made that our company is operating as an unlicensed money transmitter.

Note that they're basically acting as the middle-man, not storing anything - I'm not really sure how the terms work in this situation. They seem to think it doesn't apply, maybe they're right.

It sounds like they did this voluntarily, and they go on to explain there have been no freezes, and all transactions have been completed. Probably a good choice (IANAL of course) while they mount a defense, which it sounds like they plan to do.
I agree with you. It takes nearly no effort to digest, and xkcd has a strong selection of 'debate-memes' to choose from on making intelligent points.
Would an explicit flag to turn this off be better? We looked at this similar to instant search results in Google: as you type the results update. Obviously having a human at the other end elevates the privacy concerns: are there other angles we should also be looking at?
Simple: people that aren't you install a lot of apps. I have about fifty after some heavy duty pruning, and I'm a lot less likely to just go buy apps than many of my friends.
Oh, that's it? That's not really news, then. How are they hiding it from the user though? I would expect that would require modifying and restoring the SpringBoard plist to the device, but surely the user will notice if their phone goes into a restore session.