skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken, the city usually owns the curb, I think... but has a painted curb been defaced, or merely weatherproofed in a colorful, free-expression sort of way? On the other hand, stop signs and the like tend to be stuck into private property.

There's definitely some funny business when it comes to signs and sidewalks; e.g., the landowner owns the sidewalk, but is required to keep it clear and level, not prohibit the public walking on it, not turn it into a flowerbed, etc.
It's all in 10 U.S.C. You can also download the Manual for Courts-Martial which includes all of the UCMJ articles (and IIRC, even the equivalent of 'annotated diffs'). I believe the latest MCM is from 2012.
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This is why you need the museum, art critic, docent and the monstrous gold frame around a humble Cezanne painting of some fruit on a table. Half of Van Gogh's work was destroyed, dismissed as trash. Van Gogh was an unsophisticated man. To avoid this fate and gain credibility, artists and writers will add superfluous flourishes. The way I see it, art often gets the "sophistication upgrade" to meet the sophisticated audience halfway. LOL.
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Intel App Framework 2.0 released (JavaScript library for mobile)
Intel App Framework v2.0 (formerly known as jqMobi) has been released. This JavaScript framework enables web developers to build highly customizable and feature-rich mobile websites that run on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows mobile devices. Note: I'm not affiliated with Intel or this project -- i'm just a happy developer that uses this library. If you're looking to build interactive websites that run on a wide range of mobile devices, you should definitely check this out.
Done. How long until breathing is patented?
>backdoor-ing your hardware/software

Yeah, gotta build your own computer and operating system from scratch!

>(assuming RSA)

A great reason to look at elliptic curve crypto.
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Not to mention, even if it is actually that respectable, the FBI really doesn't like hippie protests and have a history of making sure that they don't stay respectable.
Well, we already see a democratization of the means of production.

Look at open source 3D printers. Did you know there is an open library for smart materials? For genetic information? Open Hardware projects are multiplying, think arduino, raspberry pi, beagleboard…

I mean shit - even the last CCCamp had it's own piece of open hardware. I myself am thinking about developing a little robot that can tend plants, basically an open source toolchain for vertical farming…
There is more and more stuff like this coming up all the time.

And of course there's even an open source civilization starter kit you can inform yourself about at http://opensourceecology.org

IMHO the risk of one faction being all-powerful is nearly zero. We have good times ahead. Even though the road may have a few bumps.
Thank you. No more two finder windows.
also: Nested Sets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model

Saved me a couple of times.
How long could it take to make an App that says "All the beaches are public, don't believe their lies."?
How do you handle ordering of list elements? (say I have a "position" column that subcategories need to be sorted by)
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I'd prefer to call relatively reasonable, unintrusive, low-cost attempts to prevent lethal attacks on large numbers of civilians "prudent".

My own "courage" doesn't give me the right to hand over the lives of others and my politics certainly don't either.

Any framing which disregards the trade-off is harmful. That trade-off needs to be discussed.
It often does. When an OSS establishes a new system/standard, prior art invalidates any future patent on it.
Besides, who doesn't like the beach?
> Do you really want to get involved with anything Google given their links to NSA?

Google is far from alone with the NSA involvement. To be safe you would have to host in a country outside the USA.
At the start of WWII the idea of civilian death was abhorrent and not something that military leaders would tolerate.

It took considerable effort to change opinions to allow deliberate targeting of civilian populations.

To go from not killing civilians, to bombing cities, to the awful fire-bombing of Dresden and the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima shows just how brutal we became during the war.

I'm not sure why you mention the Axis powers. "The Nazis did it too" is not something I want to use to justify my behaviour. We know the Axis powers were fucking evil. I hope we hold ourselves to higher standards that the people carrying out the Holocaust or Unit 731.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731)

> And no nation other than the US today would do something that could even inadvertently hurt civilians

The US deliberately targets civilians. Very many civilian deaths are caused and these are not inadvertent or accidental.

Over 500 cruise missiles and over 1,500 air sorties, causing over 6,000 civilian deaths (Shock and Awe, beginning of Iraq war)is not some incidental death count.
That chart sure could use a label showing what years it covers.
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Majority ownership is vary different from actual ownership. Also next line "On November 17, 2010, Booz Allen's shares of common stock began trading at the New York Stock Exchange."
Another counterexample of the Hun typecast as being regimented and dutifully obsequious, and further reinforcing evidence that Jerry is brilliant and formidable.
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Ask HN: How do you build a team?
For certain projects where different roles are required for collaboration, how do you build your team? What does the process look like for you? What are the challenges you face in the process?
Many government and private sector systems share these types of problems.

Think Facebook and the DMV. As controls mature around the process, trolling through the data becomes relatively easy to enforce. My understanding is that in most state DMVs, looking up the driving record of a public figure or similarly flagged individual by some clerk is immediately detected, and "curiosity" lookups on friends and family eventually get caught by audit.
I'm glad the author of the article made the connection between this and what Weev did. Since this guy is well known and is making this an issue in the press, I expect we'll see this guy in jail soon as well.
I don't mean this in a bad way, but if someone says "recompile Mesa", I take it for granted that the understood context is "open source drivers". I didn't mean to confuse anyone.
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I agree with your sentiment regarding arbitrary law enforcement and the huge waste of times it is to chase people smoking pot and similarly harmless things. However, you seem to imply (please correct me if I'm wrong) that this justifies the vigilantism. I find that idea to be very problematic on many fronts.
I don't believe error cascade is happening in the field of climate science. A multitude of accepted methodologies using scores of independent datasets from various fields overwhelmingly produce results consistent with anthropogenic global warming.

Additionally there are well funded groups who would love nothing more than to uncover such an error cascade. Yet even a study funded by the same people who run the Heartland Institute produced results consistent with AGW. Visit a website like WattsUpWithThat to witness intelligent people trying their very best to twist data or methods to fit their worldview. If something like this is there to be found, it would have been found by now. The first order science is truly simple. All that is being debated now is when and how severe the effect will be. Sadly by the time we can scientifically confirm the 'Welcome to AGW' sign, we may be 30 years inside the border.

Using the term denier does make convincing those people more difficult. Politically, however, it may be useful to label this small but vocal group as misinformed and stubborn, and get on with transitioning to a sustainable and stable future.
lol - exactly
Are we talking past each other here, or are you just imagining a disagreement here and continuing to press a completely unrelated point?

You've said nothing materially different from me on the point that I made. You are pinpointing and continuing to dispute an off-hand comment about rubber-stamping with drawing upon the establishment of precedent and its binding nature on other courts, and again, I wasn't saying anything about that issue at all.

If I was to hazard a guess, I'd say you misunderstood the intent of my jab and are carrying forward an inconsistent comparison, cherry picking one minor detail to dispute the jab, and creating a bit of a straw man here that is completely pointless.

Here, I will say it again:

I was referring only to the fact that given their caseload and decisions, the CAFC often appears as a rubber stamp court for patent litigation. I was not speaking about establishing binding precedent [on any other courts].

Sheesh, friend. You're barking up the wrong tree here.
How that compare to P90x?
Self-flagellation is certainly not the answer.

But when talking about issues like white privilege, it's important to realize that centuries of discrimination and mass theft have a lasting effect, and you can't simply say "well the offending laws themselves are gone, now it's all a clean slate!"
USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden
I use fabric for everything just because I dont have time to learn another one of these technologies. This salt article seems great - but at the end of the day (and I may be way off base here) all I want to do is install a given version of a piece of software on my server. I dont want to create a receipt (chef), or learn another configuration format (sounds like I would need to do this with Salt stack), etc. My fabric file really seems to do only three things: use pip to install shit that is python (I use Django), use apt-get to install anything that is ubuntu specific, and make wget calls to various pieces of software, pull them down, and build them from source. Until there is an easy way for me to do this without needing to learn yet another technology, I will continue to use fabric (or, until the job of doing this gets so big I can hire a dev ops guy that actually already knows, but I am not there yet :) ). Sorry for the rant, it's just every time I see these articles I wish I had time to learn the technology but then I realize I don't.

So - is it just me or is there seem to be a big/huge learning curve for all of these dev ops technologies?
This article seems to start out with wrong assumptions and therefore ends up presenting dangerously wrong conclusions:

"Suppose, for example, the NSA was recording all HTTPS encrypted traffic to/from joeswebsite.com in January. Then, in February, they learned the private key for joeswebsite.com. Almost always, that lets them decrypt everything from January, February, March and beyond."

We should instead suppose that the NSA has had the private keys all the time (since it started recording encrypted communication), so every piece of communication that has been recorded can be decrypted even with Perfect Forward Secrecy. I.e. let's assume they got Google's private key immediately when it was last changed, then all communication with Google's servers is decryptable (correct me if I'm wrong).

The NSA doesn't have to brute-force private keys, they just use legal/strong-arm techniques to obtain them, so it doesn't take a lot of computing power and time.
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he's not probably right, he's right. california beaches are public and protected. anyone can use them as long as they follow state law (regarding alcohol, fires, dogs, trash, etc.)

the state takes it very seriously and that's why there's thousands of miles of clean shoreline for everyone to enjoy.
A Product Manager on the Front Lines, Pt 1
"How would you describe what you do?

As stereotypical as it sounds, my main job is to keep new development moving forward fast. I make sure projects are clearly defined, that there are no major roadblocks and everything is on schedule. Part creative thinker, part project manager, part QA engineer, part production manager, part team advocate, etc."

Read more for what Jack Lyon (veteran of CNET, Blurb and Good) has to say.
As someone who has written many GPS apps like this, once you have the data you could write it in a day. And since there is a free PDF with all the data in it, you just need to extract that data.
I like Carter, but he is a politician. You don't get elected to the Presidency for being a plain old dude uninterested in politics. Any time you think a politician is not being political, you should reflect on whether you've been had.

The problematic assumption is that his 'partisan interest' would be to favor (D) over (R). That's not the only possibility. I think that Carter's interests are more in steering (D) and other issues like Israel and Palestine. And perhaps, a little, in glorifying himself - the possibility should not be excluded.
Kerry is the Secretary of State. His role is to represent the State and the policy direction of the President.

'Deeply troubling' is diplospeak.
Not anywhere in the state of California, that's for sure.
"all beaches in California are public from the water to the high tide line."

There is also a federal law that makes all navigable rivers open to the public up to the high water line. However, as far as I know there isn't any database that contains a list of all the rivers that are considered to be navigable, meaning that actually using this protection might require an expensive affirmative defense.
> Google can't stop the NSA from slurping up traffic. But they can prevent that data from being massively decrypted via a single key.

I don't want to sound snarky, but, so what? If you want privacy you still have to encrypt data end-to-end, not end-to-[google|microsoft|yahoo|facebook]-to-end.

And, anyway, [google|microsoft|yahoo|facebook] should not know about your stuff just like the nsa or anyone else who is not the intended recipient.
If used properly they should have an identical result.
Do you suspect that they are lying? I guess only time will tell. I sincerely, for the good of all of us, hope that you are wrong. But there are many wealthy philanthropists who have already given away the majority of their wealth. For instance, John Templeton and Chuck Feeney. And perhaps you're forgetting about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
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I wrote about this before. If we could build a website for the creation of a new political party. One that allows all of its members to vote on the direction and political stance of the party. One that allows for transparent party accounting.

I could go on and on....
Quite sincerely, I just tried switching to Ubuntu 13.04 (from Win7) on my gaming machine (4GB Ram, some Nvidia card that I can play BF3 very well), and it doesn't "Run" like Windows either.

Chrome is slow to start, videos don't load properly, ejecting the pendrive fails...
We use Chef for distributed team. They download a very basic VM, run Chef, and are off to the races in minutes. When updates or config changes, they update from VCS and everything is configured and good to go. This is especially awesome for more UI focused devs that aren't as comfortable with Unixy tools.
Ssh is good, I think it is scp'ing that kills the master?
Seriously? I give up.
Today it is totally inappropriate and stupid to blast a German for the Nazis, regardless of your nationality. (Unless the individual is a Nazi, but that's not the same thing).

Of course, it is very accepted to blast every American for slavery today, so that is just sort of an international double standard.
Some businesses are fundamentally high-margin, and some are low-margin. It mostly depends on the amount of raw materials involved.

For example, Microsoft (software) is a high-margin business. Their cost of raw materials is low, so 77% of revenues goes to pay for R&D, other expenses, and then profit.

Apple is a lower, but still a high-margin business with healthy 37% of revenues remaining after paying for the cost of materials and assembly. Apple can charge significantly more for their devices than they pay in raw material costs. But it may change, so Apple investors are generally watching its gross margins. For example, last year Apple's margin was 47%, i.e. it declined quite a bit since then.

Amazon (as any retailer) is a low-margin business. They move a lot of products, but 89% of the revenue goes to pay for those product. So only 11% of the total revenue is available for R&D costs and profit.
Yes, and you shouldn't blame a nation where no one from the time period when that was acceptable is still alive and no on alive still condones that behavior.

On the other hand, lots of people from that nation say that whatever that nation does today is good - and the proof is that it has always been the "good guy" throughout history. That's not true, and demystifying this myth of the US exceptionalism is fundamental if we want to have a rational discussion about current issues.

Just one example: I remember someone saying here on HN that even in the war of 1812 the USA wasn't the aggressor...
I generally agree with the other commenter here (who says he never worries about guns), but I thought it worth adding that the atmosphere can vary depending on the club. It's unusual, but not unheard of, to go through a metal detector (wand) at concerts and some clubs (say, a medium-size venue with space for ~500 and up -- much more unusual at a small club with space for 200, say). Why is there a metal detector? To keep guns and knives out. So, there can be caution and fear around guns in clubs.

I don't think the fear is about just guns. I think it's about all manifestations of violence (knives and beat-downs too). Two examples that come to mind are the fan who was attacked at the LA Dodgers game (just a beating) and ended up handicapped, and three hipsters who got shot outside a small but influential indie club in LA (http://www.laweekly.com/2011-01-06/news/mongols-and-hells-an...).

Teaser quote from that last link, which is worth reading:

"It seemed so cheesy, I thought it was a joke," says the guitarist, 30, whom we'll call Brad; he's a witness in the gunman's trial and fears for his life. "When he started shooting, I just stood there staring at him. I couldn't believe anyone would fire a gun into a crowd of nerdy indie-rock kids."

It has to be emphasized that the above story was a "story" because it was so weird (I've been to that club, and it really is a classic indie rock skinny hipster hangout).
Having a Clean-Slate Identifiable Environment is well and good from a usage standpoint, but from a creation & maintainability standpoint any bucket of bits qualifies as an identifiable environment.

The very purpose of most of these tools is to make state visible, to be able to see what has been poured in. That visibility contributes to extensibility, the ability to take that known configuration starting place and to be able to branch and create new configurations.

If you have infrastructure in mind for how your CSIEs are constructed, I'm all ears, but I'm envisioning more sh scripts posted on the corporate wiki as your CSIE implementation.
I think the answer could be yes, but the question as stated is a bit too general. Do you have in mind specific software, or at least a specific kind of software? I think it might work best in a specific niche, as you could become known as a go-to point for updated versions of software in that area.

One possible way of picking software would be to try to find cases where companies are running old OSs solely to keep some legacy software operating. I know this is relatively common with some laboratory equipment, for example, where some labs are running old Win9x boxes for data collection, because the data-collection software and drivers for discontinued equipment haven't been released in a newer version.
Does OSX have open source drivers? How is this an apples to apples comparision?
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P2P is harder to build and harder to monetize than client-server, so it's like poison to startups. Crackpots are still into it, but they don't give a good appearance.
I just explained that.

You and I have a secure P2P connection (aka Skype). But my client and your client check hashes of URLs against a third party service before transmitting the message to the other person.

There, you can blacklist URLs and it doesn't send any message contents to anyone (only hashes of ONLY urls) and then sends the actual full message, encrypted on the wire.

It's not hard to conceive how this system would work.
I love this use of Threshold pledge system...
Using Kickstarter as a way to "ransom" software for a communal total price, and then making it free when the ransom is paid -- that's a great idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system
How many Python programmers are there in the world?
No. The point of Perfect Forward Secrecy is that, even if you know one side's private key and have a log of all communications, you cannot determine what _session-key_ was agreed upon, and thus can't decrypt the rest of the session.

PFS means that even with private keys, you can't read sessions passively. Of course, it can't help with a MITM or taps on unencrypted data.
Why Backbone-Relational Sucks?
OP here. I'm not yet sure if Backbone-Relational sucks. I posed this here as a nexus of conversation about Backbone-Relational.
Just imagine if people were that dedicated to each other.

I've often noticed that we treasure the unconditional love and dedication that dogs have for their owners, yet the same behavior seen among people would be considered weak, co-dependent, etc. Why is there such a disconnect here?
Any time I hear someone complain about cruft OpenGL I think of this JWZ rant: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...

It's not my area of expertise but it does ring true to me - whenever I see people complain about OpenGL they always seem to be confusing API surface with implementation details. I.e. the "legacy" parts can be shimmed to the "modern" parts without harming anyone very much.
GQ did an interesting article related to the topic.

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201304/avicii-tim-berg...
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HN is seemingly so oversaturated with NSA items that they're seeping into all submissions regardless:

I'll assume you are not trolling and just misinformed so I'll address your 'elephants':

- Google already said that there are no "links": http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jun/19/google...

- Statistical analysis of Google closures shows that they deprecate products at below industry pace, so your impression about that is also wrong: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
This is a better explanation in my view:

"Gervais / MacLeod 21: Why Does Work Suck?"
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/gervais-macle...
wrong on top of wrong on top of wrong.

Like I said, people still don't get it.

Supernodes are a directory service. "Traffic" as in text and video traffic rarely, if ever, is transmitted through Supernodes.