skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same reasoning could be used to decide that synthesized diamonds are patentable (not merely the process, but the synthetic diamonds themselves).

The decision should have been very straightforward, and against patentability of cDNA of naturally occurring genes. Introns are already removed (according to well-accepted modern theory) between the pre-mRNA and mRNA stages in the naturally occurring process of protein synthesis from DNA. Therefore, intron removal is not novel. Furthermore, constructing cDNA from mRNA is not novel because the process is straightforward given observation of retroviruses. cDNA is informationally identical to mRNA which is naturally occurring.

The fact that BRCA cDNA has not occurred in nature (to our knowledge) because no retroviruses (that we know of) carry RNA for it is irrelevant.

How does any of that add up to the conclusion that cDNA is patentable? For that matter, how does that add up to the cDNA creation process being patentable?
You mean besides everyone else at Qwest, and for that matter Worldcom and Enron, that went down at roughly the same time?
They didn't say they had direct access.

The exact quote is "Collection directly from the servers of..."

This - depending on say, the context and narration, can mean any number of things and considering the intended audience and what PRISM actually is, would've meant "we collect this data that's stored on Google's servers" rather then perhaps "we seize individual computers" or wiretap the information some other way.

Which is a pretty obvious way to interpret those slides! But of course this is the NSA - clearly the first thing we must to is ignore the simplest explanation and start proposing hardware backdoors in Intel processor instead.
Big fat websites in Sweden
My guess is because the Bootstrap JS isn't really useful without the CSS and Google doesn't seem to host much CSS there.

There's always http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/
Orders Speak Volumes: At Amazon, PlayStation 4 Sold Out, Xbox One Not So Much
As opposed to the other theoretical papers in the list?
Apparently, "Kobe" is used to describe many things, and, given that a prominent place like the burger bar is still selling their burgers 10 years later, their doesn't appear to be a lot of trademark police chasing people down.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-23233092
The amount of delusion necessary to create this massive of a failure is beyond comprehension:

- "Scratched discs" and my "little brother" messing with my games are two use cases I have never encountered in my entire gaming life. For those who have encountered those issues? Bummer! Life goes on. In fact, props to PS3 for using Blu-Ray, which has extra protection against scratches by design.

- How in the world is GameStop the enemy? Forget the War on Drugs -- this War on Trade-Ins is perhaps the most absurd thing I've ever heard. The fact that publishers, developers, etc. feel entitled to a cut of that $5 most people get for trade-ins says a lot about how up-their-own-asses this industry has become.

- I don't want Microsoft OWNING any part of my house, thank you very much.

- Any "savings" Microsoft will give customers for new games (which will never happen anyway) will be made up with the cost of XBox Live.

- The "phone home" model is shit. Absolute shit. Stop keeping tabs on me.

- Lack of indie dev access? How can a gaming system that's marketing itself as 'ahead of the curve' be so ridiculously out-of-touch with what's successful in the market?

- The ONLY TIME the 100% digital model works for me is when the convenience of information transfer outweighs the cost of the game itself. Steam is great because whenever I have to reinstall Windows, all of my games just automagically re-download. In iOS, I'm purchasing new devices (iPads, new iPhones, etc.) on an almost-yearly cycle. All I have to do is enter my credentials, and all of my apps and data are right there. Not too shabby considering most apps are $10 or less, not freaking $70!
These are the positive examples?! I'll highlight a few snippets from your quotes and tell me what's positive about them.

... living inside an infographic.

but .. little that's familiar

[OT: iOS (and its imitator, Android) -- snide for the sake of it]

WP leaps to the other extreme, ... different .. for the sake of it.
Saw that tweet. I usually don't like snark but you deserve it!
He says "No digital communication is secure" (this is obviously an embellishment; this is trivial to show unless the U.S. government has broken every major encryption scheme), "and so these communications will be found out".

He does not specifically say these phone calls will be found out. He could very well be referring simply to the ability for FISA requests to receive information about an individual that has been stored by companies like facebook, google, etc. The interviewer's question was "And you're not talking about a voicemail, right?"

It is not clear in any way that he is saying the government has recorded all phone calls and can go back and listen to them.

Additionally,

sources tell CNN the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev spoke with her husband on the phone after his pictures and video appeared around the country as the prime suspect.

If this was after he was already named as the prime suspect, you are telling me they didn't have a traditional wiretap on him and his relatives at that point?

Btw the transcript linked in the article (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/01/ebo.01.html) and the video don't match up, so it is hard to get context.
If you get it right you will.

I think there are complications though - you need to be very sure that rogue javascript can't dig around in your plugin and extract my private key. I'm not sure how securely sandboxed plugins can be.
Point you to an article?

You mean you've been shooting off here on HN without even reading?

At Google's official blog post, they stated that review each request.

Don't ask people for a link. Do your research first before you comment.
Cloud Print for Android, the Official Printing App From Google
"The goal is to move to digital downloads".

Somehow this phrase really irks me. Are we on analog downlods currently?
Vintage Hybrid Car built By Porsche in 1900
Wow. You've been served but you still are going to great lengths to defend your position.
"Kobe beef" is trademarked in Japan and is legally protected there, but not in the US, where anyone is free to use it as they like. You can still prove a beef cut has come from the real source via certification.
Biggest as in "most boldly false from the start" or as in "dollar amount raised but didn't deliver"? If the latter, I think the secure USB key project was over $200K. Granted, I think the USB key folks started out hoping to make good.
Yes, nobody else has ever been jailed for white collar crime.
Part of me thinks those are cool, but the rest of my shouts "why should I have to do that?!".
This is why I tell people that actual fingerprint check is much better than any CA.
sure.. can u email me ur contact info, we can use skype plus screen hero.. jordanmetzner[at]gmail
I dunno if I (or most people) would call $1,000 a plate "easy to get."
Bitch, don't even think about it.
Ask HN: Investment ideas
Hello!
I'm a software developer working for a very large company. I spend a lot of time working and don't have much time to invest (financially). Apart from company retirement plan, and stock options, I keep all my money in a checking account.

There are loads of information available online but being a cautious, controlling introvert, I'm having trouble starting.

I'm 33, make an average salary, in the bay area, single, have no debt, live within my means and willing to take high risks. About 27% of my income goes to company retirement plan and besides real estate what do fellow programmers recommend/do to grow their money? How would you invest 50, 75, 100k, that you don't need immediately? I'm interested in both short and long term.

Thank You!
As once a poor schmuck in not-even-that-rural Alabama, we never could and still cannot get decent anything there. Best I could come up with when I still lived there and what my mother still uses is mobile internet with a small cap.
removed word "professional" because apparently that's a bigger deal than the content itself...
Trece Consejos Para Bañar A Su Mascota
Maybe he was deaf? Otherwise, yeah, idiot...
I agree here, I think Tornado is really quite readable. I was pleasantly surprised the first time that I looked at the source.
As a programmer this makes my decision easier if I should invest time in Google products like Go and Dart.

No, even if they are open source, it isn't the same if Google retreats from the project.
U.S. National Security Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
I know what the corporate norm is, but I do not care, because I live on planet hacker. My brain does nothing of any value before around eleven AM and its peak productivity kicks in around 2-3 pm. An 8-5 schedule would be a great way to waste my time and my employer's money.
> Debian's been nothing but diplomatic.

No they weren't. They kept insulting him.

I personally would have overlooked that and transferred it anyway, but I can understand why he didn't. Must have been a tough time for him.
> +++ATH0

> NO CARRIER

Now now, let's not resort to modem violence.
That's certainly one way to look at it.
I just checked out traceroute, and it seems that it's not yet servering. Same was with Google's Hamina data center. It took months, before it was actually serving something to Finnish users, even if they claimed it's in production use.

Currently it seems that www.facebook.com TCP connection is terminated in Frankfurt, Germany.

Ping from Stockholm, Sweden is 178.2 ms. Hmm, it should be less than 20ms for sure.
If software patents are illegal then how the hell they can grant ten thousands software patents? I hope they modify the copyright approach a little better and remove software patents to help save open source softwares.
I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.
to me being fast is a feature. I think it added speed to my ole thinkpad. Getting past metro is 1 click after boot.
Yes, a FISA order, like a warrant, can identify more than one person. But again, in order to target (for example) every Facebook user, the 2000 FISA orders in 2012 would have to have covered an average of about 500,000 Facebook accounts each. That has probably not happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5865717 .
"The thing is, the DRM is really really similar to steam... You can login anywhere and play your games, anyone in your house can play with the family xbox. The only diff is steam you have to sign in before playing, and Xbox does it automatically at night for you (once per 24 hours)"

Steam Offline Mode: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-agc...
It’s Not Today’s Government I’m Worried About
In the UK it does. On a standard BT residential line the caller can hold the call open even after the callee has put down the handset. When the callee lifts the handset again they won't be able to begin a new call until the caller terminates the call.
Very common

Copying a 4GB file through a congested wi-fi connection may be very slow

It's easier and faster to copy to a good USB drive
You're right, I didn't word that well at all.

I meant it's fairly common to see apt complaining about not having the key available to verify a package. I see this a lot in my work where sysadmins lacking clue enable a third party repository and don't bother / don't understand the need for adding the key with apt-key.
Maybe the recent DOJ prosecution of big-ticket Dem fundraiser Raj Gupta was also politically motivated? Oh wait, someone on HN claimed that too.
They present two options. Option 1 is he does nothing and they risk having to pay lawyers to get the domain, which they are clearly willing to do. Option 2 is that he takes 5 minutes and helps them out for free. Since they were willing to pay lawyers to get the domain, it seems like paying him perhaps $100 or so would have made the issue go away. They probably insulted him, perhaps unintentionally, by indicating that they would monetarily value a professional's time but not his, where each was a different means to the same end.
Yeah of the traditional consoles Sony will win for the hardcore market. I just wonder if Apple, Google, or Roku have any surprises this Fall as well. In my opinion, those companies are going to cause the most disruption in the video game market. Then there's the Oculus and Omni...
I don't recall where I heard that, I may be mistaken. I'll keep looking around and update here when/if I find it again.

EDIT:
Possibly http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/us/how-edward-j-snowden-or... "Mr. Snowden has now turned over archives of “thousands” of documents, according to Mr. Greenwald, and “dozens” are newsworthy."
Facebook's first European data center goes live in Sweden
| the price of a product is dictated by what
| consumers are willing to pay

The value is dictated by consumers, but anyone can set the price unreasonably high, and sit around wondering why no one is buying.
Instead of talking about my silly tweet, how about you address the question? Do you think I made the court order up?
I just checked out traceroute, and it seems that it's not yet servering. Same was with Google's Hamina data center. It took months, before it was actually serving something to Finnish users, even if they claimed it's in production use.

Currently it seems that www.facebook.com TCP connection is terminated in Frankfurt, Germany. Ping from Stockholm, Sweden is 178.2 ms. Hmm, it should be less than 20ms for sure.
A well designed interface is one that anticipates a person’s intent.
I guess it depends on the audience the presentation is intended for, but if it's internal I'd hope they weren't lying to themselves.
Where do you find companies that do not restrict side projects in their employment contracts? All the ones I know of set their employment contracts so tight that they may have copyright over the comment you [1] just wrote.

[1] I do not really mean you specifically.
You've checked Hughesnet and Exede?
Why not sell this information directly?

Someone at Michigan should make a startup that builds a system to sell this information at market value, which most certainly is way more than $1 million per year.
Read this paper: http://pdf.aminer.org/000/055/177/static_tokens_using_datafl...

If you want more:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=145814...

http://web.njit.edu/~ziavras/MICPRO-2002.pdf

http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4020/sum2012/COP4020_Lectur...
Thousands Of Firms Trade Data With US Gov In Exchange For Classified Intell
No news. It was common that Uni people used 500kB background images on sites, wihtout realizing how long downloading it would take with 56kbps modem. Because at Uni they got used to 10 Mbit/s connections. That was back in 1996.
I get his point, but he lazily lumps in Chromebooks and Android phones with Apple. Google specifically permits user control over their devices, down to including a switch on the ChromeBook to disable boot-locking. It encourages hacking and sells unlocked devices (Nexus) Android devices can install apps from third party non-Play stores, etc.

Also, what does dropping support for Reader have to do with privacy? I mean, must Reader be dragged into every conversation, even when it isn't relevant?
Surf Pop: Apple’s Stylistic Return to California
>things that are considered a publishable offence against religion to do in a church (akin to a hate crime in the US)

people from countries without freedom of speech (i.e. basically from countries other than US) frequently don't understand it. Expressing a religious (for example) hate isn't a crime in the US, while it is a crime in the Russia or Britain (and this is what the girls were punished for). Committing a crime motivated by hate of specific kinds (like religious, ethnic, etc...) is a hate crime in US and expected to be punished harsher than comparable crime without such hate motivation.

>Also the use of the term "labor camps" is misinformative without context, evoking gulag or concentration camps, whereas "labor camps" (prisons where prisoners work) are just the most common type of prison in Russia.

so, what has changed in Russian "most common type of prison" since Gulag?
This is apparently the article. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ru...
Thing is that here in europe/sweden steam is always the most expensive choice sine must publishers equals 1 usd to 1 eur. So here the only sane reason is to wait until they have sales since then it is just expensive and not overly expensive.

//Anders
pastebin should clone their site and name it minileaks.com
Sugersync new remote wipe feature
My response to the "I have nothing to hide," or "Don't break the law, and you have nothing to worry about," crowds is the following: If you have nothing to hide, then you should not be opposed to having a "black box" installed in your car. This way, the next time you are pulled over for any reason, the police/highway patrol can just plug into your black box, and if you have exceeded the state speed limit at any point (since it was last read), they can just give you a ticket on the spot.
Bull Durham... 25 Years Later
The gamestop insight is arguably and inside perspective. full disclosure, i dont even play consoles.
I doubt that they are decoding AES, except perhaps for the highest-value targets. I would guess that that computing power is a shared resource, not something that can be dedicated to a single task like that. They are probably using it for numerous data mining applications, probably a lot of traffic analysis, some signal processing, etc. Even if the NSA has the resources needed to crack AES128, those resources would almost certainly be better used on other tasks.
everything is being saved. _everything._

it's massively compressed, so they need
_pointers_ to review anything specific.

but if they really _want_ to, they _can_.

they're telling you this in dribs and drabs,
because it'd be too big a shock to tell you
all at once. you'll get used to the idea...

after all, "it's for your own good". right?

-bowerbird
Where Microsoft and Valve differ is that, while Valve's Steam service is known for its quality of service, Microsoft is known for shutting products down whenever they decide they're no longer in the interest of the company. Oh, right, and without any PR or customer service to quell concerns (see: Kin, Zune, Silverlight, Microsoft Broadband Networking).
CSS Dig: It’s Time to Refactor
CSS Dig unearths properties and values from almost any website to help you analyze, refactor, standardize and maintain your CSS.
I would like to AGAIN reiterate that Steam does not enforce DRM. Valve provides Steam DRM as an option for people publishing on the Steam platform. (An argument has been made to me that if Steam goes away for good, not being able to install games from Steam is also a form of DRM, but I'm not sure I entirely agree with this position)

It's like this fucking myth that refuses to die.

The Microsoft situation enforces something different unless they decided they didn't want people to understand that the phoning home thing was a publisher option.
>> One reason is the team behind the app has already proven its worth.

I just heard of a startup raising money at a few million dollar valuation with something any programmer could create in one month or so. Surely they understood a business need (which I later found referred to in a two-year old news article) that I was not aware of before. Yet, x million valuation for it?!

To make it worse, the founder says that he'll hire about fifteen-twenty folks and that by itself will raise valuation to a few tens of millions. Someone else also told me that the people who are involved in due diligence for a company's valuation are often merely comparing it to previous startup exits in the same space and at the current size of the company (plus of course largely made up projections).

Looks like there are not so commonly known rules of thumb used for valuation that are being exploited by those who know.
In regards to searching a particular site, is this the same thing as using the tag site:wikipedia.org on Google?
Cocoa Got Blocks
The right way to think about surveillance, in the US anyway, is as follows: the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain
Own Your Neighborhood: Real-estate crowdfunding could revolutionize urban policy
Given your situation, you should not go for short term for sure as you don't have much time to follow it. For long term you should try things like fixed deposit which have sure returns.
Global Spying: Realistic Probabilities In Modern Signals Intelligence (2009)
still... it seems odd to tell people that to ensure their privacy they should change their search engine preference, but keep on running a full-time spying program created by Google.
How college dropouts screw the rules and create the future
Github doesn't have any central direction at all (people are more or less allowed to work on whatever they like), and this is a side-effect: the boring stuff doesn't get worked on, and the fun stuff (like, say, rendering 3d models, or a CLI in the header) gets lots of attention.

I think Github is probably vulnerable to a team that stays focused on the bread-and-butter tools that are actually important to developers.
Is the Twitter News.YCombinator bot dead? Blocked by NSA?
Twitter news.ycombinator bot is dead for the past two days. Did they block the account for NSA related posting?
We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for.

Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts:

http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo...

http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter

http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...
History of ball by ball commentary in cricinfo.com
I don't mean this sarcastically or anything like that. Could help me understand what is wrong about what my taxonomy below?

18 year old kid = vassal

customers = serfs

venture capital = feudal lords

The feudal concept has been pretty obvious(at least to me in my own reasoning) for at least 3 years now for me. That said I'm not an expert but that is my take right now.
Probably fallen foul of the v1 API being turned off. Like all my twitter bots. Because I am a poorly planning FOOL.
Ask HN: Do we have a problem with bad tutorials?
After spending 2 hours on a tutorial that turned out to be completely incorrect, I started wondering if we (the tech community) has a big problem with bad / out of date tutorials? The best example I can think of is [insert programming language]'s database tutorials teaching SQL injection-friendly code by default.

The particular example I was stung with was a tutorial on building Linux kernel modules out of tree - the correct answer is to use make modules SUBDIRS=/module/path and not to hack Makefiles
A Photo History of the NSA, from Its Once-Secret Archives
SHN: "Big Iron Age"-Tweets
VM loses connectivity. When I try to ssh - it times out. Also can't connect to anything FROM that VM.
How I Added Permalink To Post And Page Title In Genesis Framework
3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Dedicated Phone Line