skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pakistan claims they don't permit the strikes, fwiw, although they seem to de facto go along with them, and may secretly consent. Not that that necessarily makes a difference either way.
Remember click to activate in Internet Explorer caused by Eolas?
This article seems under-informed. The scenario which privacy and security wonks usually consider to be the explanation for various government assertions that they can track phones while they're off is that the target's phone receives an OTA firmware update which makes it act as if it is off (turns off the display, etc.) but does not actually power down the phone's radio. So, yes, the phone is "not really off", but as far as the user can tell it is off.

A link for context: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/remotely_eaves...
Scientists Just Built the Most Detailed 3D Brain Map in History
Oh... Well that's a dealbreaker for me. Maybe consider supporting multiple storage backends (local filesystem, Audobox "Cloud", Dropbox, maybe even custom/user-owned S3 buckets)?
Interesting idea, but I think public companies just don't have the culture for this level of self-criticism. The job would inevitably become corrupted somehow, subject to spin and influence from the powers within the company.

I think what should be happening is that investigative journalists in the financial sector should do a better job of finding sources within public companies, who are willing to leak information about practices and policies that are against the company's publicly stated positions, and/or are hurting shareholders, employees, the environment, and so on.

Example: why don't we see detailed leaks about NSA actions at the ISP's, carriers, and large web companies?
Forget about trying to contain Germany – we should copy it
You know what is weird is that all these patent trolls are scaring me into filing for defensive patents. Its scary since the law has now changed from "First to invent" to "First to file". You come up with a great idea, troll X notices it, files for patents and then sues you back.
I'm from Vancouver and I've lived in San Francisco. Compared the SF, the city is very walkable and the transit is far more efficient than SF's Muni, which crawls like a croaking dog. I never thought I'd say that transit in Vancouver is better than in other cities, having been part of the fight to get more transit funding in Vancouver, but it's not bad.

SkyTrain is the most beautiful rapid transit line I've ever been on.

Best in the world though? Not sure - I'd like to see it compared to Zurich or Hong Kong or Amsterdam in that regard.
Interesting use of a data URI. Is that much extra effort to upload the image?
> A state-sanctioned terrorist attack would likely be considered a military action by that state.

The U.S., at least, claims that it wouldn't be. According to the U.S., state-sanctioned terrorism is still terrorism, not legitimate military action, and a violation of international law. Therefore the U.S. maintains a list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism", countries that it alleges engage in such unlawful tactics, either directly or via proxies. For example, it placed Libya on the list after the Lockerbie bombing.
Quick rubygem to wrap the unofficial NYC Citibike API
The Black Death or Detroit. I don't know which is worse.

I keed, I keed: many very smart people are doing really interesting things in Detroit. It's interesting to note, though, the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic causal factors: the Black Death significantly increased real peasant wages and per capita wealth, likely helping the transition from a feudal to capitalist society through dispersing capital more widely. It's a much better situation (for the people who remain) than the Detroit case, where it was low returns to labor that depopulated it.

Estonia is much closer to the Detroit case, it sounds like, which is not necessarily a good thing for its future prospects.
More Bad Angel Behavior
Its stuff like this that turns people into terrorist, also known as freedom fighters to others.
Post-modern short story, loved it too!
Yes, he is a scumbag and what he did was unethical and still perfectly legal. We have to remember that before reaching for the lock and key.

I doubt RICO would stick or even blackmail or extortion. What would be the charge against him? Maybe there's some tax dodging going on, but something tells me he's been careful.

Being a scumbag, unfortunately, isn't enough to land someone in prison so that would leave other legal avenues to make future scumbaggery less profitable.
Patent judges are federal judges, appointed by the President. The opinions of Texans at large are likely not very important.
How Do Good Ideas Spread?
Many states only require one-party consent.
You could still claim prior art if you used or published the idea before they patented it. The difference between "first to invent" and "first to file" basically only comes up when someone invents an idea but keeps it private, which can be difficult to prove anyway. (IANAL, TINLA.)
You want to use inversion of control in your Utility class. Just pass function, which will operate on Modal class instance (not Modal class instance itself but function) as argument to its utilities that show Modals.
First North Korea Instagram Videos Give Eerie Glimpse at Mysterious Land
This isn't the first time I got myself wondering "where do people derive these ideas from?" I need to read and re-read (and perhaps read once again) a post full of pictures every time someone try to explain me a new concept in Haskell. And the more it happens the more I'm convinced that this language is not an everyday tool.

I don't want people to misinterpret me, I decided to learn Haskell and I don't regret it. But I often feel it's more like trying to cut vegetables with a katana: it's challenging, it's fun to practice, and surely it's a powerful tool, but even if I become a master at it I won't accomplish much alone, and I definetly won't want people trying this next to me.

The thought of a bad programmer trying to look smart while fiddling in my Haskell code scares me to no end.
> Is that 40k a month per restaurant ?

Yes. While I haven't actually looked at financial statements for those businesses since they were way out of my budget, I'd get the occasional listing with numbers like that. Businesses like http://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-Opportunity/Sushi-Restaur... - nearly $700k in earnings in one year is not bad at all.

It's up for debate how much the owner actually makes and how much of the sales goes unreported to the BOE, IRS, etc., but it's within the realm of possibility.

Alternatively, absentee-own a franchise or series of stores for similar effect: http://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-Opportunity/4-Unit-Five-G...

> What makes your restaurant so succesful, isn't that industry plagued with 80% shutdown wiyhin 5 years?

I can believe the failure rate is that high for brand new restaurants, but that is why you buy already established businesses instead. I also don't think that number is too strange in the context of all brand new businesses. Think of how many startups fail. Imagine if there was a market for buying and selling "matured" startups - that's basically how small business sales work. (Hopefully) all the bad ones will have died out already, the ones the owners are trying to flip as fast as possible before they die are dead obvious, and you'll maybe be left over with a few sustainable businesses to choose from.

I think the only difference between running a restaurant and starting a startup is that there is no restaurant equivalent to winning the jackpot (read: selling your startup for mega bucks) and just keeping the business in the black is the norm (although, now that I think about it, I'm not sure how a lot of startups can even dream to accomplish that...).

As for what makes my restaurant successful? My takeover may have been this year, but it's sat at the same location for decades (older than I am, even) and we have big servings and tasty fries. :D
The real problem with the FA is the ending, which strongly agrees with people epitomized in fiction by the likes of Sheldon Cooper's mother in her reesponse to her son's statement of a scientific law as a fact: "and THAT is YOUR opinion."
What is the job of a developer?
What, exactly, is cowardly about him? If anything, he seems like a bold piece of shit rather than a cowardly one.
Brad Feld: Secrets To A Successful Startup Life
The site seems to only index homepages right now.
While it's true that "nothing" or "custom" should be poll options, I don't agree with your reasons.

Supervisor programs aren't just about restarting processes if they die. They manage dependencies, reloading, a central authority for starting/stopping and other administrative tasks. Some additionally do things like logging.

And besides, even the most stable software can't be guaranteed bug-free (though I do agree that a better action might be to stop and yell loudly rather than blindly restart). Why forego a safety net?
I agree. I don't have a specific plan, either, but I have intuitions. The key things we need to address are people's natural spiritual and medical curiosity. In another thread, someone pointed out some hackers hack to scratch an itch, not just for fun. I believe the same can be said for needlepoint, carpentry and heroin.

We could make space in society for people to explore the parallel worlds. Maybe a week per year research period.
Many users I know of all types of drugs take them just to tolerate their jobs. We could somehow make work more tolerable.

We could make everyday life more fulfilling and have less stigma attached to exploring alternate states of mind. We need to find a way to fit or shoehorn this stuff into our lives because we can't eradicate it. Perhaps this is the skill of the shamanic ritual and modern day music festivals... to put boundaries of time and space around the exploration of this alternate states of mind. We need to protect and shepherd people into safe places while they're experimenting and keep them away from responsible areas like driving and machinery while they're temporarily intoxicated. We need to keep them productive even if they're using.
Is it now possible to use ZeroMQ in JVM languages without JNI? I used ZeroMQ with Java 2 years ago and had to use JNI to make it work. (Which I did not like).
But surely they pay some attention to community sentiment.

There are some jerks behind the bench, I'm sure, but I like to think the majority are willing to serve their community objectively (or the legal system has no hope) and that would entail not screwing the very people he's appointed to serve.

Government serves the people, not the other way around.
Apple's Developer Portal Hacked, Awaits Overhaul
seems like an old post from somethingawful forums.
He effectively gave us the equation and kept secret most of the coefficients (though he explained how to choose many of those coefficients). That wouldn't be acceptable for academic purposes, but it seems quite reasonable for journalistic purposes (and is certainly more than any typical political "analyst" provides). He also couldn't give out all the raw data that went into the analyses, because much of it was stuff he had to pay for. Getting past those paywalls and assembling a comprehensive database of polling information is almost certainly the bulk of the work necessary for reproducing his results.
Is there a way to delete a recording on the phone?
Canary: The world’s first smart home security device for everyone.
MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking
For internet historians:

This was originally posted on the Something Awful forums in 2002 by user Moonshine. Here are links to the original threads.

Part 5: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=332...
Part 4: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=306...
Part 3: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=260...
Parts 2 and 1 are gone.
"Appeals ensued but were inconclusive; the case ultimately settled out for more than $100 million, with just over $30 million going to Eolas' co-plaintiff, the University of California."

It's pretty depressing that taxpayer-funded universities are also in the patent troll business.
How is this any different from a VC changing the terms on you at the last minute (which I am told happens routinely)?

It is just another form of re-trading a deal.
You can quite easily roll your own app that would do this. You could ad hoc install it or build it directly to your phone if you have a developer account. I doubt you'll find one in the app store though, as this "feature" is pretty much prohibited.
For pharma patents - is there a requirement of trying to bring a patented chemical to market (at the very least, doing clinical trials, etc)?
I enjoyed how the page scales when I zoom in :)
I'm sort of amused by how at the time people thought it was awful, but it wasn't all that much later that click-to-play for Flash became a moderately popular feature.
How are you doing dynamic process allocation with supervisord? I had to move to circus to get that API capability.
Global warming will clean it up anyway.
Stop taking it so personally. All I did was point out that your request was somewhat ironic, now you're projecting your anger at him onto me.
Ilya Grigorik has been advocating using ZeroMQ with SPDY for modern backend RPC.

See "Building a Modern Web Stack"...

AirBnB Tech Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfEcqJ4MOM

Slides: http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/http2-for-fun-and-profit.p...

Blog: http://www.igvita.com/2012/01/18/building-a-modern-web-stack...
Somewhat tangental, it would be great to be able to sort that list by average karma. There's a lot of users in that top 100 that got there via quantity of comments alone, it'd be interesting to see who the most _valuable_ contributors are rather than just the most prolific.
I would argue that to most people who download the tor browser that is effectively what they are doing.

As has been shown before, open and closed source products people use (including security software) has been time and time again proven to be insecure.

I still would be somewhat wary to use this site for actual stuff I care about, but its a cool site and a cool little idea.
Google's remembrance of Cesar Chavez instead of Easter on Easter made me switch to Bing.

Now that they're working with a politician who fights against knee-jerk, broad-reaching economic policy changes with regards to climate change, I might have a reason to switch back!
So here's something I don't get:

They've done Pages in the browser. Ok, great. So that would use HTML5, right? And take advantage of modern web browsers' layout compatibilities, complete with CSS styling, and all the cool new stuff like CSS regions & shapes. Right?

Apparently not.

If you go into Pages and open up web inspector, what you'll see is not a nice clean HTML structure with the text written in HTML and formatting in CSS. Instead, you'll see a large collection of dynamically-generated SVG <text> elements, with pixel-exact positions explicitly specified, even to the level of the horizontal locations of individual glyphs. This effectively completely bypasses the browser's own layout capabilities. They appear to have written their own layout engine in javascript, or perhaps ported over the existing native Pages one.

Any ideas why they would have taken this route? Apple and Adobe have both been doing some fantastic work on improving WebKit with better layout facilities, and Microsoft have been doing the same with IE. Things are pretty good in 2013. Why not leverage that work?
Theoldreader.com down for "a day or two" due to database restore
Why? The Nobel committe gave Henry Kissinger that same prize and he oversaw the invasion of Cambodia. An invasion that eventually led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the deaths of over 1 million Cambodians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu

I don't think we should place too much faith in these Nobel folks getting it right much of the time.
Dude relax. Why write a wall of text when there is a "flag" button?

From the guidelines > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.
The lack of a downvote button doesn't imply that everyone would downvote the things you don't don't care about. I don't know him except through Twitter and HN, but I care about his new job and upvoted the article. "But you're just one data point!" So are you.
I don't think this is quite right. If the null hypothesis is true and you conduct the same study an infinite number of times, you will reject the null hypothesis 5% of the time at alpha = 0.05 regardless of sample size, unless there is something wrong with your sampling procedure or hypothesis test. This is the point of null hypothesis significance testing.

In practice, if you fix p=0.05 and increase your n, the probability that you will find a statistically significant result often increases because your power increases, and in many situations, the probability that the null hypothesis is true is close to zero. (Andrew Gelman uses the example of asking whether there are significant differences between voting patterns of men and women.)

On the other hand, effect size estimates become more accurate as the sample size increases. This mitigates the above issue, provided you actually report your effect size. It also means that small sample studies that report statistically significant results are more likely to overestimate their effect size, which is especially problematic if you are applying null hypothesis significance testing when you know the null hypothesis is false.
Why Microsoft decided to put WebGL into Internet Explorer
> I fail to see how any of these is about 'controlling women.'

Because you're looking at it in terms of public policy and law making (which is appropriate; "Think of the Children" is precisely such a public face). How do these scenarios play out in a domestic environment?

> How do we get this from "Think of the Children" + "Women Need to be Controlled?"

Because fathers are not expected to have such a strong connection to their children. The chain of command is "Man -> Mother -> Child". A woman's first and foremost responsibility, in this way of thinking, is the well-being of the child. Only when she can't handle it does she appeal to the man. The obedience of the child derives directly from the obedience of its mother.

Thus, the man's job in parenting is to provide from afar. He does not sully his hands by dealing with silly emotional issues; he brings bread home and punishes any misbehavior that isn't dealt with by the mother.

In this model of the world, the mother is useful only as an intermediary to handle messy things like diaper-changing and doctor visits and crying. She is the hammer that pounds down the nail. This particular role and objectification must be justified. That justification is that there is a Super Special Bond of Specialness that makes her uniquely qualified so that no one else could usurp her place.

Honestly, there is so much cultural detritus to point out as context that, if I made dealing with sexism my life's work, I could probably put together a book or two on the subject.
Making Jewelry: What I wish someone had told me as a kid
I would seriously question whether 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) is relevant at all. This law is specifically for "Circumvention of copyright protection systems". Does Snapchat own the copyright of pictures distributed using its software? or rather do the users own the copyright? I suspect the answer to this is the latter -- that users own the copyright to the works distributed, and this would render the law irrelevant. Moreover, I would argue that the software protections put in place by Snapchat are for reasons of privacy not for reasons to enforce copyright.
Crypto flaw makes millions of smartphones susceptible to hijacking
This! What the author describes is exactly what happens.

Our lawyers even admit that. The company I work for gets sued for a bogus patent every week(!), so we were all ask to file patent applications. I didn't, but I got involved in some applications as co-inventor anyway.

This isn't - and not been for a long time - about inventions.
As the other reply said, the provider has remote access to those devices. That amounts to them having a fully functional computer(or 2 or 3) replete with wireless radios and other goodies in your house(at least, in theory).
What Happened To My Post On Patch?
I don't believe wsend is the "opposite" of wget. First of all it requires a third-party server/service (wsend.net).

I think the "opposite" of wget already exists: ncat.

And ncat can also _already_ connect and send files via HTTPS: --ssl.
There's no way this is a trend, is it? That's pretty much as low as it gets - "give me additional equity for doing my job." What recourse does a founder have if this happens?
I've used it to stream an uncompressed video feed (essentially a special purpose webcam) over LAN as a quick and dirty solution for a research project. It worked out ok after I set a high water mark and forced it to drop data when it couldn't keep up. Before I figured that out, messages tended to pile up and crash my process by exhausting memory.

Can't say I'd recommend it, but it can be done, depending on the needs of your project.
I wasn't attacking you, I just wanted some sources because driver education is really the only solution to this :D
I opened this expecting to skim and come to the comments, but i'm absolutely enthralled. I just got up to get a cold drink and i'm going to savour this properly. Thank you so much for posting this!
You say no.
No, it's because the FCC eliminated the Fairness Doctrine [1] which lead to the rise of biased "news" channels in order to gain viewers.

The Harper government in Canada recently eliminated Canada's version of this and I shudder what to think will happen 10-20 years down the line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
You're thinking AMD?

Current ARM processors already support up to 1TB of RAM via something called "Large Physical Address Extension".
Funny you mention Tarantino, who built his whole career by cut-and-pasting tropes, beats, and clips from classic Asian movies. Or as Tarantino calls it, "homage"
"First to file" just means that if two inventors file, then the first one to file gets the patent (rather than them having to compare notebooks, and other evidence). It does nothing to stop publicly available prior art invalidating patents.
No. A video consists of 15-30 pictures per second, which is colossally wasteful of bandwidth when all you want is to record audio and one picture.
People are more likely to contribute if it's on a platform they trust and recognize.
Thanks for the response, Hunter! Looking forward to seeing where y'all invest.
Not that I'm defending the actions of the drone strikes, but assuming the numbers in this report are correct, it does seem to kill a lot fewer civilians than an invasion and full blown war would have, both in relative and absolute terms. With the Iraq war we've had over 100K civilians killed to ~40K combatants. Thinking logically, drone strikes would've severely reduced the number of civilians killed, whilst simultaneously increasing the number of combatants in both real and absolute terms for both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Whether or not the combatants killed actually were combatants, or whether or not this should be done morally are for other people to discuss. But assuming that the other option would be say a full blown invasion of Pakistan or Yemen (and I'm NOT saying that it is), looking practically, if a military action had to be conducted (and I'm NOT saying that it must), I'd pick it in the form of drone strikes any day of the month.
This happened to a colleague of mine, he was the sales director of the company (ISP in the mid 90s) we worked for, and after 3 take overs in a row - and 3 times changing of mouse pads, business cards and email addresses in a short time - he had no responsibilities left, had no boss but was on the payroll. He quit after some months of being bored.
How to sideload Android applications
Not to be a wet blanket, but what are you offering that Soundcloud doesn't?