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When I revisited it just now it didn't want me to sign in. What am I missing?
Rackspace Mail. $2/mo/mailbox, 24/7/365 support, 100% uptime SLA, big mailboxes, configurable backups, good spam filter. I use IMAP and native clients for reading/composing.
I didn't want to believe that Jobs was the only thing holding that company together. Apple's soul died with him.
There's no shame in being jobless - Not for these people, it's a societal norm. There's no shame in asking for government handouts, blowing it on booze and drugs and gold chains and other luxuries, then complaining that you can't make rent and can't buy food. There is no shame whatsoever - just a continuing resentment that they are owed something by society that is not being provided, like everything else they have ever had.
You should think twice before applying to YC with a social network for cats or cars if only because if you do that you're unlikely to get accepted.
...lead to some of the worst regimes in history, and we can't forget that.

Yeah, because without his ideas, Russia would have turned into a well functioning capitalist democracy. The past 20 years have been pure bliss now that the burden of communism has been cast off- since there is now no way for power hungry leaders to control the nation.
Have you lived, worked, or interacted with people who have been on long term welfare? What works in other countries can't be transferred over and work here like people think they can. Reform? Sure! I'm all up for it. In fact check my comment history about 6 months back and you'll see that I'm actually the one that suggested paying people a minimum income for being peaceful, since 100 years from now most jobs will be automated and the unemployment rate will skyrocket to over 50%. I have since abandoned that plan after careful consideration that things don't work out the way we intelligent human calculators think they will. Adjusting numbers on paper doesn't take into account for primitive human behavior.

I know we here at Hacker News are entrepreneurs and are dead set on trying 100 new crazy ideas of which 99 will fail and cost investors hundreds of millions and 1 will succeed and exit, ipo, or fizzle out in 5 years. We're so crazy we even try ideas that have already failed 12 times over thinking we're going to do something different this time. Humanity doesn't change as much as you think. You can't take the human out of the human. And this plan for giving away money or housing or food (which has already been tried numerous times) is dead on delivery.
How I use the iPad as a serious writing system
His coil works in reverse too.

;-)
It sounds like you are building something quite complicated. Why wouldn't you just release the "quick-n-dirty" version and see if it works, before investing all that time scaling it out?
Interestingly, the authors claim in the paper that batteryless backscattering devices are not regulated by the FCC, citing FCC regs.

"Legality: In general, it is illegal to broadcast random
signals on spectrum reserved for TV (or cellular) channels. However, battery free backscattering devices (e.g. RFID tags) are unregulated and not tested by FCC because the emission levels from such devices [7] ... Ambient backscatter also falls into this category, and would therefore be legal under current policies.

[7] New policies for part 15 devices, FCC, TCBC workshop, 2005."
Intel and MIPS have Android ports to their respective architectures - enabled, in part, by Dalvik.

So far, neither company has made a significant dent in the Android smartphone or tablet market, but that may be about to change for Intel. There's a leaked benchmark of their upcoming tablet SoC (Bay Trail) showing it easily beating the best ARM has to offer today (Snapdragon 800)... with one hand tied behind its back (apparently clocked at 1.1 GHz when Bay Trail is expected to go to 2.1 GHz):

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/160320-intel-bay-trail-...
Israeli Interior Ministry to run biometric pilot
I've moved 4 times in the last year and here are my tips (I'm trying not to duplicate anything in the TA or the other comments):

1. Bills. Make sure you are in agreement with your roomates about them - I had an issue with a roomate that maintained that he shouldn't pay more than 10 percent of the huge electricity bill because he didn't heat his room (not directly, I might add).

2. Choose an apartment with good insulation - this might not affect others as much as me (look the previous tip). But climate change and changing energy prices will soon this for everyone.

3. Start looking early and use your friends to find roomates.
My parents only had 2 children because they could only afford 2 children. If the US government rewarded my parents for having children, they would have the incentive to have more children. Technically it does (through taking advantage of the welfare system) but my parents are hard working immigrants and not freeloaders (not to be confused with people who are on short term welfare due to legitimate unforeseen events). They did not have more kids. Other people aren't so well behaved. Other people purposely have children so they can get welfare.

If the US funded planned parenthood more, legalized abortion in all 50 states (which women already want, see below), turn off welfare for pregnant women who cannot provide for their children but got pregnant anyway, and subsidized contraception to make it affordable beyond excuse, the kids of which you speak would not exist.

I know I sound like a cold android and YES you may call me an asshole but that's life, that's nature.

Every human has a right to reproduce but is responsible for taking care of their offspring. I am not responsible for funding YOUR children's existence. Civilized people already live this way:

"The biggest reasons why women have abortions are: that having a child would interfere with a woman’s education, work or ability to care for dependents (74%); that she could not afford a baby now (73%); and that she did not want to be a single mother or was having relationship problems (48%)." - http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3711005.pdf
How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear - Slashdot
I have played with GPG time and again, my Enigmail/Thunderbird/OpenPGP card setup is fully functional.

But what's holding me back is webmail.

I don't use the web interface often, but it has proven to be absolutely crucial to be able to get some important mail (boarding pass, mail explaining how to get somewhere etc.) from any computer.
African Tech Startups
Must has: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component.html

:)
I suppose this also doesn't require roof access in many cases. If someone is willing (and your building super isn't going to get angry at you), you could put an antenna on a balcony the same way people would put up a satellite dish, and we get could get line-of-sight going at least in one direction from a given building.
I doubt people who rob gas stations post often on the HN. But consider this: it takes money to vandalize as the spray paint does not grow on trees and even when you stole it you are missing an opportunity to steal something you could pawn/sell (like washing detergent or booze). Yet the vandalism does not stop.

People don't join gangs to pay their bills.
I take my boys to the playground most days when I pick them up after work: my wife works later than I do, and it gives us something entertaining to burn the time until she gets home. I usually have my DSLR out with some sort of "stalker" lens (e.g. a 70-200mm[0]). If my boys want to play with me, I play--if they don't, I wander around and keep an eye from a distance. If someone else's kid needs pushed on a swing and I'm not busy, I give pushes. If someone else's kid needs help off the monkey bars, I help them down. I've never once felt like I'm under a microscope or anyone thinks "man unaccompanied by woman, must be a predator."

1. The feeling you have could be illusory. It's very possible that moms really aren't thinking that, and you're just a little paranoid. I know the feeling you have, because I had it at first as well, but I think it's seriously overblown and largely unjustified. Until someone actually tells me to get away from their kid--I'd be happy to oblige, of course--I'm reject those feelings for lack of supporting evidence.

2. I live in California--maybe that makes a difference.

3. I consistently go to the same park at around the same time. My wife once took the boys to the park on a day I needed to stay late at work and people came up to her and said, "I recognize your boys, but I don't think I've seen you with them before, you must be their mom." I don't know a single parent there by name, but they know my face and they see me parenting my boys on a regular basis.

The point I'm making is that you should try not hate taking your boys to the playground, and the best way to become comfortable with it is to take them more often and involve yourself in the ad hoc community that forms at the playground. You have nothing to worry about, and the more you go, the more you'll see that your concerns are unwarranted.

[0] Obligatory pictures of my awesome boys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemfinch/sets/72157634058745609...
Piratebay response to apple for intellectual property dissemination[2005]
The legal statement about the FCC clause is there to try to cover their asses on the research that went into this and to try to market the possibility of a wide adoption of these types of devices. I'm guessing they did not bother testing inside a screened room then if they believe that? Maybe? Maybe not?

EDIT: I am guessing not. I imagine they used real-world backscatter to test this out.
These are all very good reasons posted below, but I believe that the most important reason is corporate mindset . The powers that be - mostly old-hands- view software as physical "property" and unwilling to let go. Sharing it is seen as sacrilege! Also is seen as providing competitors a peek under the kimono and giving them an advantage.

It is the same reason that many pharmas don't release the data of their failed trials. How much better the world would have been had we had a commons of the failed drug trials. sigh
It's kind of hard to know what your goals are based on this note. Perhaps you might want to look at a javascript framework, such as Angular or Ember. A lot of front end work is being done primarily in javascript these days.
Asiana pilot of crashed plane had only 43 hours of 777 training
30%? That's far from the breaking point I am afraid. I'm from Belgium and graduated with a good job - from day 1 I was in the highest tax bracket: 50%. This bracket starts at 31K or so btw, nothing extraordinary.
Analysis of Asiana 214 crash
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...
Not to take away from the value of component systems, but I find them remarkably tedious to code with.

In Unity 3D they work well because the component attachments are driven by the visual interface. Your coding happens inside components, and is then linked up in the scene visually.

The second game engine I implemented used an entity component system, and I found myself not wanting to use it. Attaching and building components in code just to do trivial things was tiresome.

I think such a system is valuable for a game that's already designed, prototyped and ready to be implemented cleanly, but it's not a great pattern for prototyping/rapid game development.

It's almost like you need one set of patterns for game prototyping (messy, hacky, and immediate operations), and an orthogonal set of patterns for final game implementation.
Leaders of the country are male. Leaders of the family are female.

Your point?
Yeah, it's a cool technique. But it still has no room to scale as far as I can tell. At least not for transmitting inside licensed frequencies ... maybe they should try it out on 2.4 GHz or 3.5 GHz??
Question: What happens if the NSA has a user in its sights?

Snowden: The target person is completely monitored. An analyst will get a daily report about what has changed in the computer system of the targeted person. There will also be... packages with certain data which the automatic analysis systems have not understood, and so on. The analyst can then decide what he wants to do - the computer of the target person does not belong to them anymore, it then more or less belongs to the U.S. government.

I wonder if regularly wiping and reinstalling your operating system has any effect on the aforementioned computer compromising by government/criminal elements?

Obviously, an open source OS is a better choice than some closed, proprietary, OS, but I seem to remember some controversy about BSD developers being approached by government agents for the purpose of coding a backdoor into the systems which they were working on.

Just how secure is my unix-like OS?
I am really curious how this would turn out.
Multiple short radio bursts from outside our galaxy
If I were more trusting of police, I suspect I would not think twice about some minor sports gambling with them. That is not the sort of thing that most people think twice about.
For anyone reading this that is interested in news on how this goes, but doesn't have sysadmin skills, nor access to a building, I added a simple newsletter signup field to the page.
New Language for Turning Graphics Chips Into Supercomputers
I will admit that I use Slim for just about all of my PHP needs. Absolutely love it. Simple enough that I don't feel bad for just using it as a router when needed.
Wow this answer is really disconcerting. Are we really so javascript/web programming oriented now that "plug-in" connotes javascript?

No I am not talking about JavaScript. I am talking about an actual application level plugin. Think flash, and silverlight not greasemonky.

GPG mail is a plug-in to Mall.app. My point is why not a similar browser plugin.
I don't think that's strange, and I don't think it's bad: nor do I think it's something you're doing because you're a man.

Even in gathering of my closest friends, where we share implicit trust that every parent is looking out for all our children, I still take great care to be aware of where I'm placing myself relative to a parent and his or her child. If I find myself blocking some parents' view of his or her child, I move. I (obviously) don't do this because I think they'll suspect me of some malfeasance, but simply because I know they'll feel ever-so-slightly more comfortable being able to see their kid.

Playgrounds are the modern analog to a watering hole: an ad hoc "tribe" forms around them, and by making it clear that your kids are at the playground, you're saying, "I'm not an outsider, I'm a member of this tribe, you can feel comfortable with me." Women do exactly the same thing, it just manifests differently; usually in the form of smalltalk and mini-conversations with other parents.
Also please not that shooting a gun under stress is probably not going to be easier. However, this should not be an excuse.
Some misinformed info in there about not starting your messages with obvious niceties "Dear fred" or including the same text at the bottom of all your emails (your email signature). If the crypto is good, this doesn't matter - it's not deterministic encryption. If it can't pass a known plaintext attack, you shouldn't be using it. GPG does.
29-Year-Old Gets $15 Million to Decipher Song Lyrics
Internet big boys take aim at Singapore's 'regressive' new rules
I don't have a link. It got written up as an undergraduate thesis in about 1991, but as far as I know the University of Sydney doesn't keep copies of such documents.

I'm not sure what the outcome was, though it must have gotten to a certain point of success, since I've memories of a car driving around with a corner reflector on it.

The same student was experimenting with using a plasma as the modulated reflector, but that one ended when he connected the wrong end of the vacuum pump to his gear, accidentally pressurised it, and blew it up!
Pretty cool! I just tried it out. How do you imagine it being used?
The United States is not broke and cannot go broke unless we foolishly decide to. Please read: http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf or spend 2 hours to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

"we're broke" thinking is what causes the http://www.lostoutputclock.com/ to keep on turning, and that lost output is the health and welfare of our citizens.

Austerity mindset has had catastrophic results in Europe, and it starts with the assertion that "we're broke" or "we can't afford it", both of which are completely untrue as far as the U.S. is concerned.
The Secret Science Behind Big Data And Word Of Mouth
Are they better in that they are easier to use (and thus promote security)?
> I would rather pay a little more to have the pilot sit in the same airplane and have his life on the line as well.

I think I agree with you in general about this, but that's sort of a shitty and unpersuasive way of making that argument.
I think the real problem behind this is quite simple - studies have shown what we probably know from personal experience, that when you wear a "mask" - whether one of anonymity, or a "Robo Cop"-like getup, it makes you behave more aggressively.

The reasons behind why every PD has all of this paramilitary gear is well-studied but best left for another thread; the fact is they have it, and when they wear it they are more likely to behave like any other human being who finds himself suddenly hiding behind full body armor.

It's not the police that's the problem, it's the gear, and departments who ignore the mental impact of having it & don't adjust their training to match.
Not necessarily true. There are certainly CAs that are able to keep their private keys out of the hands of most governments. But there is definite uncertainty about who to trust. For the truly cautious, wouldn't it make sense to explore setting up your own CA? Something like OpenCA or TinyCA should do the trick.
Data Is Becoming The Beauty Box End Goal
It's almost as though the scientific consensuses is based on evidence. Using this guy's logic, I shouldn't get heart surgery unless I've been to medical school. WSJ trolling at it's worst.
'Basic income'? Lets start with 'Basic grading'

Currently students earn grades A-F. From now on we should have a 'basic grade', all students will be given a 'D' - a basic passing grade.
You get your 'D' even if you don't even go to class.
and since don't go to school well we might as well just give them the diplomas too...

I would like to see the idealistic college students and professors apply this concept to their real world and see how it works out...

The idiocy of this becomes obvious in this context.
Hands on with Apple’s Budget iPhone
It isn't overpriced housing, healthcare or the lack of jobs, but decimalization that's holding the middle class back? No wonder people think the elites are out of touch.
Thanks for the correction. The Atlantic article should have specified that they meant the four year graduation rate. I did think that 25% seemed too high, but I knew that 1% was much too low.
This information is illuminating, albeit not too surprising. But with all these releases, Snowden's chance of securing whistleblower protection on constitutional grounds is completely shot. There could be a legitimate discussion about tapping US companies, or constitutionality of the information dragnet on Americans [1]. He could have had a fighting chance if the leak were confined to just those.

That's not going to happen anymore, because now everybody is distracted by sensational asides: we're hacking everybody, we're behind Stuxnet, we're in cahoots with the Europeans, etc etc etc. Snowden is allowing the spotlight to remain fixed on him; this whole thing is perfect fodder for the media -- an individual on the run, Hollywood-style hacking plots, and predictable Internet outrage. All while the constitutionality issue gets swept under the rug (see Congress). What's more, Snowden will probably lose the battle of public (and legal) opinion because these foreign operations are arguably justifiable [2], and the leaks weaken the US bargaining position with other countries.

I'm not sure what the goal of this leak is anymore. Snowden is completely fucking himself over while diverting public attention from issues that have the best odds of an immediate fix -- the surveillance of Americans. This whole thing is a bitter popcorn-fest.

William Binney said this during the USA Today interview [3] a few weeks ago:

I would tell him to steer away from anything that isn't a public service — like talking about the ability of the U.S. government to hack into other countries or other people is not a public service. So that's kind of compromising capabilities and sources and methods, basically. That's getting away from the public service that he did initially. And those would be the acts that people would charge him with as clearly treason.

[1] Sorry, non-Americans: the Constitution doesn't cover you guys. But we need to protect ourselves from our own laws first before we can help the rest of the world.

[2] If you think the US is the only one doing this, or if the world should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya: get a clue.

[3] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...
High density populations.
The wiki/aggregate idea was based on the fact that useful resources might be hiding in posts/comments.

Hiding them in vaults would clump them together, but the resources would still remain relatively hidden in the user vaults.

Apart from that, a wiki has the added value of organization and summary (a short description or other considerations).

There might be better ways to accomplish this task, though.
For future references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT%26T is the lawsuit - it was pretty clear that they were wholesale tapping the backbones and recording everything.
Even worse, The Supreme Court declined to review the case.
All three branches of the federal government tried to sweep the gross abuse of power under the rug. They succeeded, at least for a while.
Ahh yes the Real-Problems(TM) paradox and moral high ground.

I take issue with that last paragraph.

You know what? I want a social network for cats. You know why? Because that sounds awesome. Come on guys and gals, whatever happened to being human and having a sense of humor?

Let's solve the hard problems too! We don't ONLY have to do one or the other. Let people work on what they want to.

I think people's motivations are the more concerning thing about these kinds of things. Is the person building a social network for cats because he or she is a huge pet lover and wants to see something like that exist or just because he or she is trying to make a quick buck? If it's the former, then I'm completely fine with it. Let them try, and if it fails it fails.
Google Glass XE7 Update: browser, handsfree commands & family - Stabley Times
That's interesting, I had always thought of it as more of a celebratory expression rather than "oh my god," which usually indicates shock or sadness.
What about a social network for cat-driven cars? Or a car network for social cats? Heck, a social cat alone must be worth a patent or two.