skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An MFN provision will frequently appear in contracts between wholesalers and retailers and it ensures that the wholesaler will provide the retailer with the best wholesale price. But Apple adopted it in the agency model to require that the publishers adjust e-book prices in the iBookstore to match the lowest price offered by any other retailer — regardless of whether the publisher controlled the pricing in that retailer.

That last sentence means that publishers basically had to force Amazon onto the agency model, or else lose money selling on Apple's store. And their intention was clearly to force Amazon onto the agency model causing Amazon's consumer prices to increase.
Designing a Vector Module in JS Using Functional Techniques
Honestly, I doubt it. They had a legit enigma machine last year. It was cool. Their booth was busy because of it.

That said, I doubt anyone interested in working for the NSA would be put off by this/the recent leaks, or that anyone who didn't want to work for the NSA was going to change their mind at DEF CON.
I doubt it. Why would it? I think you may have misread the article. Do you expect every purchase of running shoes to fund charity, just because AidsWalks exist (to use the example from the article)?

Also, "alleged charity"? How big and established does a charity have to be before you don't refer to it as "alleged"?
i buy the fancy laptop that has a dock that can support two external displays plus the laptop screen
I thought I saw a post here of a company making an anti-flash system for license plates but it might only work with the big bright flashes on red light cameras...

It basically blasted a lot of IR light to obscure the image whenever it sensed a flash going off.
to be nitpicky, Gox was sued by CoinLab for breach of contract (handing CoinLab the US market for a comission)
The 1950's intelligence community was no joke either. In fact, the CIA probably played a very large role in bringing an end to McCarthyism.

See the following for an interesting tour through that slice of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird#Director...

http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

A couple of representative articles from that time period:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5MleAAAAIBAJ&sjid=djIMA...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I8pNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MYoDA...

Things only got worse for McCarthy through the rest of '53 and into '54.
Finding out at what part of a monadic computation the return of a function put a None when there should have been a Some is much more tricky.

This is where Either comes in handy. Either allows you to attach extra information to the error condition (such as a String). This lets you have the same properties of Maybe but with more information when you need to disambiguate.
It doesn't seem to embarrass prosecutors too much when they jail someone for five months based on "conclusive DNA evidence" - even though the suspect was in hospital with a blood alcohol reading on 0.4 from two hours before the crime to 12 hours afterwards. And who'd been take to hospital by the same ambulance crew that attended the crime later on and moved the victim… You can see where this is going right? - "The paramedics physically moved both Anderson and Kumra, resulting in the inadvertent DNA transfer…"

How on earth can someone end up in jail for five months under those circumstances?

(Note too, the other suspect jailed for seven months - for, several months before the killing, posting a photo of the future-victim's house to Instagram…)

http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2013/06/28/how-innocent-m...
that is awesome. thank you.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect not much has changed in the past 40 years
Some mice have user-upgradeable firmware. If you plug one of them into a system and the adversary roots the system, you should assume any other system you plug that mouse into is rooted.

Given the prevailing prices for mice and for computer vulnerability researchers, I'd thing buying a new mouse is orders of magnitude cheaper than verifying that a suspect mouse does not contain a threat.
I guess it's encoded (embedded) in the email body? The src is not pointing to any external resource. I

One of the purpose of blocking images is to prevent tracking by sender. Embedded images won't require a request to sender's server to display so there's no need to block it?
You might have felt like that because the original organizer, "Dark Tangent" aka Jeff Moss, turned state's evidence in 2009. He's been on the federal payroll ever since.

Here, he's trying to pose as an anti-fed activist while simultaneously drawing a Department of Homeland Security paycheck.
dragonwriter's explanation is a good one.

Vertical price fixing is also rarely naked "price fixing" (IE directing a price to sell something at), it's usually resale price maintenance:

Two fake (I think!) examples:

Microsoft tells amazon they can't sell the xbox 360 for less than 399.99 (minimum resale price maintenance)

Microsoft tells amazon they can't sell the xbox 360 for more than 299.99 (maximum resale price maintenance)

Horizontal, on the other hand would look like this:

Microsoft and Sony agree that they will not let anyone sell the xbox360 or playstation 3 for less/more than 399.99.

Your local gas stations get together and agree they won't undercut each other's prices anymore.

(IE they've made a horizontal agreement not to compete on price)
Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA spoke at DEFCON last year to a standing-room-only audience. Every year "the feds" have a presence at DEFCON.
And given that there's been talk about raising the general Soc Sec boundary from 65 to 70, it's even more of a question if they will benefit...

Both my parents have "retired" in the past year though they continue to work for money, and they were both a little bitter about how low the benefits are. I had to point out that at least they will probably get what they get. For those of us younger?
Isn't it zipped? Can Git really handle .docs? Would be great!
It's actually a quote from one of the comedians interviewed, which closes the article.

> Saunders agreed, mournfully: “It is, without a doubt, the very worst video game I have ever played.”
Defcon is not a government entity, it has freedom of association rights, and law enforcement officers are not a suspect classification.
It's always amusing watching people talk about Ron and Rand Paul on the internet. Usually they haven't quite figured out that they're basically fake libertarians. Ducks
TLDR

Even if it's not your issue, you now own the problem. The customer has contacted you guys on this issue before and wasn't given a good enough answer. Now the customer is contacting you guys again in hopes of a better answer. If you don't give a good answer, then the customer may continue contacting you guys. You aren't saving time by brushing the customer off.

You could have saved the day by looking up the information in the first place and relaying that to the customer. If and email isn't doing the trick, then place a phone call.

----

I used to do tech support for Microsoft Windows and we gave our best effort to give the customer information to fix dang near anything on their computer. Most people who called in were in our area of support, but sometimes we would get people calling in about other products. People saw us as their last line of support, their only lifeline when nobody else could help them.

I think we were effective in this role because more than any other support desk, we had a great big picture view. A support rep for Intuit might know Quickbooks well, but might know nothing about the rest of the system which Quickbooks sits on. So, in some cases they might say "It's a Windows problem" and pawn the issue on us.

I think just talking to people over the phone really helps as well. When you have someone who is so obviously tech challenged, then it's sometimes just that much more difficult when dealing with yet another tech abstraction over basic communication.

So, customer calls in with something we don't support. In a friendly conversation we would explain that big picture view and tell the customer exactly what they need to know when contacting Quickbooks again. Sometimes the issue was so simple we could just Google the answer. Sure, it's wasting valuable support time, but in the end it could have saved time because the customer wouldn't continue to be bounced back and forth.
Clapper will be used as the closest precedent.

I am not incapable of expression a position, I just don't find it a useful exercise of anything in particular in this instance. You seem a bit annoyed at this, for reasons i can't understand.

If you don't want to know what they are likely to do, why bother asking me rather than anyone else on the street?

The only thing you'll discover is whatever personal beliefs i have about the subject. Since they don't really matter to what will happen, who cares?

It won't help anything. I'd rather be doing things to help than complaining about how the court is wrong on an internet site (no offense meant to you, really!), so I am.
>but rather low ranking analysts whose job at the conferences are to assess the material presented and report back

So? I work for a private company. I 'report back' on the cool shit I saw, let people know what was around, what was popular, etc. It's a learning experience. Saying they 'report back' is useless. If you go to a con and don't talk with other people about the stuff you saw there it's almost wasteful.

I think I know what you meant though - they go and see what all the 'underground hackers' are up to.
So, you are saying what exactly? That there are good games in the App Store? That's not a proposition anybody disputes.
I've heard from a person who works in the civilian section of the traffic enforcement - that while some of the products/tactics being used to obscure plates work against the automated numberplate reading software, that he's never seen one that wouldn't be obvious enough from visial instection, fail for a human operator with a photoshop-like image tweaking interface - he says they can _always_ get enough of a plate to match up with vehicle make/model/colour details.

He says the only thing he sees that "works" is flip-up plate holders on motorcycles - and that when they see them, the photos get distributed to the local police who the have a "vehicle of interest" notice for that make/model/colour bike (and jacket/helmet).
A big ad on gmvault.org ?
Referential transparency is not a lie; getA is just a value. It could be substituted for its meaning without altering the program. For example, the following program:

foo = do
a <- getA
putStrLn ("Hello, " ++ a ++ "!")
where
getA = do putStrLn "What is your name?"
getLine

Is equivalent to:

bar = do
a <- do putStrLn "What is your name?"
getLine
putStrLn ("Hello, " ++ a ++ "!")
"We've seen that most of our users are connecting from American IP addresses... shit! Can we redo that?"
If the brief for the contract includes "We believe we may have been compromised by a nation state. Check for us." then checking keyboards and mice is totally reasonable. Some of them incorporate user-upgradable firmware. Given this, turning the keyboard/mouse into an "advanced persistent threat" is an exercise trivially within the capability of garden-variety security consultants. (Ballpark cost: $20k if you get everything scratchbuilt the first time, assuming you've separately rooted one machine to infect the peripheral.)

Nation states can be presumed to have access to garden-variety security consultants, and more elaborate tricks besides.
So who is actually going around photographing the cars? Do they have regular employees, fixed cameras, or do people just turn in photographs for small change?
Ok - I guess it was just REALLY inept messaging after the acquisition, maybe mostly acquiring company's fault.

How about:

We've been acquired. Over the next 3 months we will be migrating customers and will notify you of any action required.

Instead of:

We've been acquired. Piss off.
I just don't understand why companies are still pulling this crap. It puts their customers at risk.
3D Printing Sparks Innovations in Art - MGX by Materialise
Check Out the Cheapest and Priciest Countries in Asia For Apple Gadgets
the android version donates all the proceeds to Childs Play through Desertbus for Hope. I can't remember hearing the same about the iOS version during last years event but I'd hope they did the same.
does the ocean still clean these days ?

very nice job, expect to see it available soon
http://phabricator.org/ covers precisely that - code reviews and discussions around commits. The recommended installation includes Arcanist command line tool, which modifies Git commit template to include a URL of the Phabricator code review, test plan, and reviewers' names.
I can remember using 'ddt' to rummage through the code for WordStar (I think) on my old Kaypro back in the early '80s. It really caught me of guard when somewhere deep in the middle of the disassembly I ran into some chunk of data that said "Nosey, aren't you?"
As the PC was the original computing device, it was indeed very general, and many remain this way today. I also host VMs on my main PC, as well as gaming client and server, media center, social terminal (fb, hn, email, text & voice & video chat, etc) & main programming environment.

But at this point, I'm about ready to fragment these roles into dedicated hardware -- dedicated server for VMs, RasPi for media center, phone for social terminal, laptop for programming environment & admin/control for all the other devices.

The only thing really holding me back is that there really isn't a good replacement dedicated device for PC gaming. Even though some consoles use PC-grade hardware, and keyboards and mice can be made to work on some, it's just not the same.
have you ever played desertbus? I think rather than debating whether it's the worst game ever most people would argue it's not a game at all. I recommend you try one of the ports if you haven't yet.
It would be great to build the backend and API that supports the ultimate long-term cold storage, and then use it to make the ultimate wedding photography business application.

They're not radically different—one just uses the other. You could easily do both and continue to expand the use of the backend to enable useful applications. It's ridiculous to shun this specific consumer model just because it happens to be only one way you might use the original idea.
Oops, I didn't see what I had typed in. Thanks for correcting me. :)
League of Legends is DotA with training wheels. Basically the original DotA started the genre, and LoL strived to take what they deem "anti-fun" mechanics out of the game. Good examples would be denying friendly creeps / towers, lack of stuns and CC, and the inability to dive towers early in the game.

Another main difference is that League of Legends has scaling magic damage. Because of this, spells are significantly weaker in the early game (due to the fact that you can get items to boost their power as the game progresses). There are no +magic damage items in DotA, so spells are significantly more powerful early game but become less effective compared to auto attack damage as the game progresses.
I think that with the new consoles we'll see a new push in graphics performance over the next few years which will drive upgrades in PC gamers.

This has been true for the past several generations, but this round is somewhat different. Next generation's consoles aren't even using the best graphics hardware currently available. Video games aren't pushing the cutting-edge of hardware anymore, CUDA is. The money isn't in gamers anymore, it's in coinfarmers.
I'd love to see an energy-conservation analysis of this technique. How many joules per liter does it actually require?
This is nothing compared to what cops are putting together, gathering data from all their tag reader cameras including ones monitoring popular roads and ones attached to police cars. And aggregating it at regional "fusion centers".

http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-polic...
The triangle of performance?
The page is returning a database error for me, but the Google cache shows a blog entry describing and linking to the low-power desalination technique announced here:
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/06/27/chemists-work-to-desal...
It's using a relative url for the image.

There is no image at https://mail.google.com/?ui=2&ik= …

My guess is that the blue shape and text are in the css somewhere.
Instacart Raises $8.5 Million to Offer Same-Day Grocery Deliveries Nationwide
Thanks for the reply guy. Well the max of the salary range on the job description is $110k. I'm not in the situation that I have to take the job. I'm just trying to find out the reasonable counter offer. According to CNN Money $80k in Chicago = $113k in SF.

http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
And I thought they just legalised streetwalkers...
Microsoft Confirms Plans to Take 3D Printing to the Masses
While it's easier to be smart about investing, it's also very easy to not be smart. I'm pretty sure most retail investors invest with zero or negative[1] information advantage, but don't lose a lot of money because the median expected value of investment opportunities open to the public is positive.

1. Due to cognitive biases.
It would be great if a Solar cell or small panel could power it. That could be a life saver in emergency situations.
That would be awesome if you do it!
I've been using Openbox with no complaints. My setup is documented here:

https://github.com/appsforartists/pixel_webdev

All I use it for is Sublime Text, so things more-or-less look great for me. The problem with Linux is that there are multiple ways of doing any one thing. So, just because Openbox and Sublime can handle high DPI doesn't mean your run-of-the-mill KDE/GTK app will.
Splitting a Restaurant Check is NP-Complete
It looks like it's pointing to an attached image. If so, this is perfectly normal.
Oh come, you cannot find a game that is not reasonably performant on your "Core2Quad@2.4Ghz, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 x64, GeForce 9800 GT".

How about any major game since 2010-2011?
Who said anything about yelling?

There's a difference between a stern command, and crazed yelling.

I keep forgetting that not everyone has combat experience and the ability to remain calm in tense situations.
Besides, any reasonable person who felt threatened by my dog(s) would see the results of my commands and the situation would thereby pose no threat to the police.

From there I could tell the dogs to play dead and further defuse the situation.

The bottom line is that dog owners need to maintain control of their dogs at all times.
There are too many dunderheads out there who think it's cool to have a bad ass dog yet have no idea about how to maintain those dogs in a proper fashion.

Living in the country, as I have for most of my life, we don't see too many of these types of police actions, as being in such a close-knit community, everyone knows what everyone else is up to, so the police in this county rarely, if ever, break down the wrong door.
I have a long driveway and can see who is coming up to the house from quite a distance, so I don't see how anyone could storm my house without being seen, and once I've identified the interlopers as police I would make sure to place my dogs in their kennels.

I guess that's why I live where I do. I like it this way.

This is not meant to be a defense of the reprehensible police tactics outlined in the article, but rather an example of one way to deal with one's dog(s) in a responsible manner.
> Facebook is set to 'private.'

LOL
I wish the tablet/laptop convertible had caught on for exactly this reason. They've gotten somewhat better over the past 13 years:

Acer Travelmate C100 (2000) -- the first tablet convertible, shipped with "Windows XP Tablet Edition", which was difficult to find otherwise. - http://www.cnet.com/laptops/acer-travelmate-c100-tablet/4505...

HP Pavilion tx2500 (2007) -- a recent tablet convertible that could almost be viable today. The pen input was amazing to use in Office and other places. - http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1217

Microsoft Surface (2013) -- The big update here is making the keyboard detachable, instead of swiveling under the monitor. I still count this as a tablet convertible. - http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/surface-with-windows-...
This is going to be my tenth (?!) year at DEF CON.

The culture of DEF CON, and especially its evolution, is a very interesting one. When I first attended DEF CON, it was a bunch of seemingly scary hackers. Fortunately, it turns out most of them were amazing people.

As the conference grew (and changed venues several times), the culture began to evolve. The barrier to entry--in terms of being "accepted" into the subculture--lowered significantly. DEF CON stopped being a scary place, with goons that would "de-tech" you and throw you in the pool, and more of a mainstream event. For the most part, I'm completely supportive of where DEF CON's going. I'm definitely supportive of air conditioning in the venue, instead of standing outside in the sweltering Las Vegas summertime heat.

That said, though, it's not really a "hacker conference" anymore. Not more than its sister conference, Black Hat, or something like RSA, anyway.

DEF CON used to be about hacking. Not in the HN sense, but in the "illegal entry into networks" definition. Now, it's less about hacking and more about the actual information security industry; this is probably related to the fact that everyone I knew at the first DEF CON I attended (myself included) currently works in the infosec industry.

With growth, exposure, and the inclusion of white hats, DEF CON naturally became a recruiting ground for federal agencies, including law enforcement, the military, intelligence, etc. The 'spot the fed' game that began as a joke (with prizes!) soon seemed silly, since there were so many federal employees/recruiters/agents.

I'm all for DEF CON entering the mainstream. It's a conference and community that I've grown to love, and the lessons I've learned there (not to mention the friends I've made) have helped me immensely--both personally and professionally. That said, though, there's pretty much zero chance that this announcement DT made will have any effect whatsoever on federal agents, recruiters or representatives attending the con. More than anything, it's a huge publicity stunt.

After all, most of the staff and "old school" attendees work for "the man" now. For some, like me, it's just hacking for money; many, though, actually do work for defense and intelligence contractors. Should they be banned because of their affiliation?

Personally, I don't think so.

PS: If you're considering going to DEF CON and you've never been, you should! It's a booze-fueled learning, partying and networking event unlike any other. Plus, you get to hang out in Vegas for a weekend!
Yeah, I'd recommend that link. It's slight more technical and written in a neutral voice. The original link feels like more of an excuse for a rant against the IMF.
While it is claimed that he rotated similar leased vehicles, if we were to look up the VIN (WDBSK72F67F124082), we would find that it was registered as a personal vehicle with only one owner for a number of years.

http://blog.peschfamily.com/2011/08/steve-jobs.html
That's me. I need to replace a desktop PC but won't use the current version of Win8 and don't want to pay extra to downgrade to Win7.
My wife out of town = programming/Star Wars marathon (3-days timelapse video)
It by definition can't be the worst game because it does exactly what it was created to do.
Kind of, I'd just like to be able to orchestrate it all easily from one terminal and set of monitors so as to have seamless copy/paste etc.