skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly worrying but something on this scale and impacting I would of thought that more sources of this would be scropping up. But may bea early days.

Certainly the aspect of rewritting the controller code on flash drives of all available types would be a very news worthy issue in itself beyond this being used as a vector to rewrite the system BIOS. Which would be a way of doing it, given how many manufacters that have windows based BIOS update programs that have caused people fun and games in the past. This avoids the whole windows/AV and indeed any protection the system BIOS has beyond a checksum that would also appear to be easily bypassed.

Still the whole area that I wonder is when flaws in network card chipsets are found and then the potentual to rewrite the code/BIOS upon those NIC's. That would be an area which a failing CD-ROM drive would not show up.

Now waiting for somebody to invent a USB product condom, as in you plug it your unknown USB device into it and it checks that it is not going to infect your computer and puts on a green or red light accordingly showing it is safe to insert into your computer.

Hope some more details come too light, just seems too big a deal to be this low scale on the news front.
Or to cover peaks like say the Olympics just anchor it near to where it is needed.
Try looking at "should" not as "Doing X is proper and just" but as "Doing X has expected result of Y, so if you really want Y then better choose X".

Reality doesn't care about moral opinions of how reality should be - if you observe in practice that choosing to having a career sometimes carries an unfair consequence, then taking that risk into account helps your decisionmaking, and ignoring the consequence because it's unfair would hurt only yourself.
Let's say the copyright period is not extended. Perhaps the government should then auction off the rights to Snow White, rather than putting it into the public domain. That is, Disney could buy a 25-year copyright extension, but they would have to pay through the nose for it.

I like the idea of being able to watch Snow White on Youtube for free, but I prefer the idea of significantly boosting cancer research.
In terms of effort and investment required, entrepreneur > career woman > full-time employee > part-time employee.

No one says not to work, just that if you make it your life, prepare to feel like you're too good for that guy.
There are also a lot of court cases the other way, and those cases were more about employment agreements, handbooks, and TOU, than they were about by general privilege breaking by using a cloud email provider.
Read up on the '60s Robert Strange McNamara TFX debacle if you want to understand a lot about the F-35/JSF now and likely in the future, minus it also trying to do air superiority (we learned that lesson, although we didn't procure enough F-22s). The Strategy of Technology by Pournelle et. al. is a great source: http://jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/Strat.html
The end of cable, continued: Comcast to offer new Internet bundle with HBO
Actually it just struck me this might be part of Googles DR plan for California getting hit by the big one
A reasonable compromise is to allow copyright extensions to those who pay a fee for it.

At a minimum, this will allow abandoned copyrights to slide into the public domain.
What I would really like is a plugin that defaults the browser to incognito / private mode when using certain sites. For example, automatically search google.com as if I'm not logged into Gmail.
Indeed, there are many good points. That doesn't stop the MPAA lobbying to have "limited" interpreted as "forever minus one day", but at least it's in there.
Haha of course, hence the "I doubt that'll happen anytime soon." Though I wouldn't be surprised if it became commonplace for people to swap out their breakfasts for something like Soylent in the near future. I already do something similar by throwing milk, protein powder, ground up oatmeal, and flax seeds into a blender every morning. The convenience is pretty overwhelming, and it has a much better nutrition profile than a bowl of cereal.
If it says no CarWoo dealers in my area, do I get any benefit out of going through the CarWoo dealer contact interface? Or am I essentially just going through the service to give local dealers the ability to call me whenever they want?
Ok, so I had a closer look at it and now I have a question: on the homepage you have 121 ideas atm, but I don't see where I can browse them, except for the top 10. The hello page states "Every month the Assembly community picks an amazing idea for an app". I signed up and logged in, still can't see anything past the top 10. Am I not 'community' enough or are you openly 'faking till you make it'?
"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple."
NSA Website Allegedly Hacked Ahead Of "Stop Watching Us" Rally
http://www.sideprojectbook.com/
Not trying to be negative but this data compares MSRP to carwoo price, but no one buys at MSRP anyway.

The data that would have been valuable in showing the value of carwoo is how its price compares to what non carwoo buyers who negotiate on their own pay, or even the no-haggle fleet pricing which is available via AAA, Costco and others.
Hong Kong expired on the British.

The point of copyright is to encourage the creation of new works (called content these days). If Disney can just keep making money off Mickey Mouse forever and use that money to crowd newer ideas out of the market, I would argue that we're significantly poorer as a society than if new and original creations were being made.
I would like to see a controlled trial of Soylent against the all-raw-and-rotting-meat diet:

http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-has-eaten-nothing-but-raw-...
layouts. I still can't make head & tail out of it. I found tables easier.
A place for those with no visa to the USA to work!
When I mentioned shorter, I meant shorter than "life of the author plus [bignum] years". My main concern is to figure out how to track down the original author, and also for preservation efforts (esp old films that are rotting away, and no one can archive copies of them legally if the "copyright holder" can't be tracked down, or is unknown).

An alternative could be compulsory licensing of unregistered works that are beyond a given age. So that if someone uses it, and no one comes by to claim it is theirs, then all is good. But if a copyright holder shows up (and can prove ownership), then appropriate fees can be transferred at a standard rate.
Google is an interesting parallel to this. The company encourages the development of many different ideas, but it has no issue cancelling (with very short notice) the products that do not take off.
I had seen the link to Zac's jumping off post, but had neglected it (because frankly most of these discussions are pretty similar).

The exception for this particular case is that i have met Zac and had some interesting conversations, because i also work on the University of Missouri campus.

So when the author of the slate post writes "And finally, in a rare coup for humanists, Ernst is departing for a lucrative job in the private sector."

I can say categorically this should not surprise people. Zac is the brand of humanist who is in the humanities not because they are not technically proficient, but because they are of a technical proficiency that allows them to pursue whatever they want.
Can someone in Portland check the ship #? The article photo shows that BAL0001 and BAL0010 are in SF. I'm guessing the Portland one is either BAL0011 or BAL0100.
Hawaii is awesome to live in for some people. Cost of living isn't that bad, especially without a family. Once you start thinking about private education for your kids (since public is in the bottom quarter of the country) you will feel the squeeze.

I absolutely love living in Honolulu, though there are plenty of people that move here and are disillusioned or miss the mainland very quickly.
This is normal, expected and working as intended. Adam Smith said it back in 1776 in his book Wealth of Nations:

"“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Recognize that copyrights clash with basic property rights. Why can't I use my computer or printer however I wish, even if that means copying existing content?

The reason is a fundamental tradeoff -- we've accepted a bargain to deny ourselves some fundamental property rights temporarily under the theory that, in the long run, we'll get more innovation and content and further the "progress of science and useful arts", as the US constitution puts it.

If we're not making that progress, then it no longer becomes a tradeoff, and the laws are simply breaking property rights for no reason.

So, yes, if you care at all about property rights there's a very good reason to believe in limiting copyrights.
Well, it should be expected - by that time the majority is already married or 'settled-down' without marriage, so the nice guys and average guys are mostly 'out of market' while all of the douchebags and also the most frustrated ones are still right there.
Given android's upward trending market share dominance, android-first will probably be the default in the next year, with android-only becoming the norm in 3-5 years. As the article points out - you've got to follow the numbers. At that point, iOS will be treated similarly to mac os - there will be groups of people who love and swear by it, but while they'll be rich, they won't be the mainstream market.
Well, first of all radiation is a entirely man made disaster, unlike a tsunami. And additionally I think that your wikipedia quote is a nice example, first no acute radiation syndrome fatalities is a nice statement, it is also true for the entire WWI. The thing is, that acute radiation poisoning only happens at really high doses, long after everybody should start running away. This is simply not a concern for an area where anybody is living.

Future cancer deaths from accumulated radiation exposures [...] are predicted to be extremely low to none. Yes, but I find the paragraph in the source [1]

Even the worse case scenario — a dose of 50 mSv — poses a fairly minimal risk.
However, the models showed that infants living in Namie could have got a higher
dose to their thyroid, of 100–200 mSv. That higher dose would be due mainly to
radioactive iodine-131 blowing from the plant immediately after the accident. Brenner
says a dose of 200 mSv to a female infant under a year old might mean a 1% risk of
developing thyroid cancer over her lifetime (by comparison, the lifetime risk in the
United States is 0.02%).

So if you then look into the WHO report which triggered the nature blog post [2], and especially appendix D, you will find that there was quite a lot of necessary smoothing of the data, for example, the difference between the average contamination of seafood and the maximum sample is a order of magnitude. And it is actually quite easy to construct a scenario, where consumption of a specific Tuna is a death sentence.

So I think that a argument can be made for nuclear energy, but this argument should not be "no one will ever know we killed her. <evil laughter>" The argument should include sentences like [3]:

[...] My offers were such as to give me a risk equivalent to that faced by an American soldier
in World War II, according to my calculations of plutonium toxicity which followed all generally
accepted procedures. These offers were made to all three major TV networks, requesting a few
minutes to explain why I was doing it. I feel that I am engaged in a battle for my country's
future, and hence should be willing to take as much risk as other soldiers.

[1] http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/world-health-organizati...
[2] http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44877/1/97892415036...
[3] http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html
They are bought and paid, so yes.
Whether or not the esoteric idea of "property" exists as some sort of natural law seems irrelevant. Philosophy aside, a society just agrees that something should be a certain way, and then decides to enforce that idea. To me this is all what modern liberalism representative governments try to be. I reject the need for an idea to exist as some magical entity apart from a society. The idea of property was invented by people and is seen as good and is agreed upon. Same with government. Neither are natural laws of the universe. So to me this whole argument is arguing over nothing.
There is no good reason for copyright to ever expire.

This is wholly wrong. There are entire classes of good where marginal consumption does not dilute the value of average consumption. The purpose of copyrights is to subsidize (temporarily) the production of such goods. This under the theory that they would not otherwise be (or only inefficiently) be produced. Certainly mickey mouse needs no further encouragement...extending DIS an ongoing franchise is pure and simple pork-barrel-politics to the governing class that relies on the media (eg, ABC a DIS subsidiary) to get elected (and/or the electoral votes of Florida).
From the terms of service:

https://medium.com/p/9db0094a1e0f

"By furnishing your User Content to Medium, you give Medium a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to utilize all copyright rights now in existence or that may arise in the future with respect to your User Content, in any medium that now exists or may arise in the future, as well as to do anything else that is reasonably appropriate to our Service and its use of your User Content (including, but not limited to, use of your name in association with your User Content to identify you as the contributor). The license has no restriction as to the medium, dissemination method, type of Service we may offer, or the type of systems or products that may be used in conjunction with your User Content."

Anyone went into this fully conscious about this aspect? Do you feel it's reasonable?

To be honest, at this point I think I'd rather pay for a service and keep ownership.
T-tree
Martian packets are a funny thing: The packet is ALWAYS coming from somewhere, so why don't internet providers just flat out refuse to send packets exiting their networks if the given IP doesn't match what they get?

Okay, routers are supposed to get a packet and just route it to the next point by blindly following the instructions ("0.0.0.1 wants to UDP 124.40.28.9 on port 80"), but whatever the route taken, once my route leaves my home router, my first stop will ALWAYS be my provider's routers, the very company that gives me an IP.

So why can't these companies check on their client-to-outside-world routers that the request is coming from my IP and not something otherworldly?
That's because all the parents are on it.
Thats an odd bit of news. I'm in the CRM market (http://www.radiumcrm.com) and as a competitor I always admired the product. It was a very clean UI, had some nice features and was a good complement to the behemoth that is Salesforce. I can't imagine why they would shut it down.
It would be interesting if someone set up a test similar to Harvard's Implicit Association Test to see if this is true.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/tab...
Aren't you agreeing with Hobbes?
Just guessing here, but the geographical advantage probably requires a fiber link, which seems prohibitive in open ocean. Putting your ship in the right place probably doesn't improve your latency if you have to bounce signals off of satellites.
It, like many things in political philosophy, depends on your definition of "property" and "government." In fact, I would argue that most "big debates" in political philosophy come down to semantic arguments over these terms and related ones like "rights."

But using a vague definition for government like "resources which most of society recognizes to be under the rightful possession of a specific individual or group and for which most of society expects attempted trespasses to be met with violence from the possessor or people serving the interests of the possessor" and a vague definition for (at least modern Western) government like "the organizations which are funded primarily by taxation and which have the sole legal authority to make and implement policy," both of which I think line up with most people's everyday definitions, I would say that property predates government and can easily be conceived of in modern times without government.
I once had my personal trainer cook me the 6 properly balanced meals I needed a day.

I got 6 tupperware boxes each day and it was heaven, apart from the price tag.

I've been dreaming of starting a healthy micro-meal delivery service ever since. You even get the perfect distribution point for free: the gym.
sandboxes.

http://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystem.html
The chart shows a huge jump in "Other," from 4% to 17% in just six months. I wish they explained that. Vine?
For me it varies. There are some foods I can eat on a daily basis without ever tiring, but some others I go off very quickly. So far I've found one protein shake I can stomach for long periods of time, the others I get sick off after about 2 weeks.
I've never met a successful entrepreneur who sits around trying to come up with business ideas. At the risk of sounding negative and grumpy, groan. Another one of these blogadoodoos. What follows is my $.02, some might disagree.

From what I've seen it goes "I have experience in this area" -> "Wow there are under-served market needs here" -> "I have some relevant experience to start a company that addresses it and can attract talent" -> startup.

Not "I'm a wannabe entrepreneur" -> "I have no domain specific expert knowledge" -> "let's randomly find something we guess people care about and overspecialize" -> start coding blindly or find a Rails dev on Odesk. Seen that one fail innumerable times.

One other thing. If you have to go searching for ideas, you probably have no business experience. Let's say you manage to find a good idea using something like the techniques of this blog post. You manage to secure some funding. The startup starts to do well. You then become a sitting duck to be ejected by your investors, as you've built the product, but are inexperienced in business, and they specifically will want you out for that reason.

An exception to this is incubators like Y Combinator, who are more concerned with team chemistry than idea. If they weren't buying the concept but want to give you a shot, they might stick your team on an idea other than yours. But they probably already have an appropriate idea in mind, they don't have to go hunting.

Another possible exception is Stanford MBAs, specifically.

So much advice on blogs. Be careful.
Python 101: An Intro to ConfigParser
I'm probably not the only one here who added medium.com/* URLs to their subconscious spam filter. This is a smart move on Medium's part to break that perception - or to intensify it, depending on the type of people and posts coming in from now on.
And yet most people approve of government, which is the embodiment of the idea that might makes right.
There are no drives that speak AOE, so AOE needs a processor to do the encapsulation, minimal as it is.
Frederick Taylor and the Quantified Self
I thought they tended to see rights as the product of a social contract.
Thanks! And a whole lot more congratulations are owed to the kind folks who wrote the words that go inside the book, and those who helped with copyediting. :-)
Continued use by estate or children should suffice. The great^6 grandchildren of the Grimms can't just show up one day and say "oh, those stories belong to me" any more than they could show up at some old house and claim they own it. It would be to the benefit of the rights' owners to register (for a fee, that could be more than token) the copyright and keep it updated, precisely to prevent the long lost cousin from showing up and demanding a piece.
That screenshot really ought to be in the original link. Kinda changes how bad I feel about this.
I have the gimp, and I find a lot of very important details are missing from files I receive that were made in photoshop.

It's virtually every time; I just request JPG exports to go along with the PSD, because otherwise I won't know it's missing.
Never Built Los Angeles Animations, A+D Museum
I have no idea why Do is closing down, but I'm guessing it has something to do with lack of ROI. Hence, Salesforce has a fiduciary duty to do so.

This repeated criticism on HN of any company choosing to close down a service is bizarre.
It's been tried: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/sealand-and-haven...
CarWoo is for new cars.
The "scene" is cool. There are local meetups, some small, some mid sized. Monktoberfest just drew quite the crowd. As the other commenter said, there ain't much for investment though, and the companies are a mix of web boutiques, large companies (Unum, Idexx, etc), and a startup here or there. I work remotely, which gives me the benefits of being in Portland while making a NYC salary, but even when I was working for a Portland firm I was still making a good wage.
We are now really comparing physical property rights with copyright? I have property rights to this copy of a banana, so it follows someone should have a right to all bananas?

Isn't the scope and intrusion worth considering?

(I ignored the part on economic theory because first of all 1) you're likely wrong on your assumptions 2) none of it is applicable to lawmakers as they exist today, they are not science-, but ideology-driven)
Salesforce.com to hold mobile app 'hackathon' with $1 million prize
Not joking. If you know of any please share. To clarify, I am talking about consumer plays here.
Wow after reading that, they might as well have written: "We can do whatever we want, whenever we want, with everything you put here, regardless of anything that happens".

That's a disgusting license. However, it reflects in the content they have. I've never read anything useful on Medium. It's mostly just blog posts complaining about random things (of course, I'm subject to selection bias in that the Medium posts I see are those linked from HN or Twitter).
They're running Ethernet over a SAS/SATA connector.
Yeah I imagine vine and snapchat are the two biggest growth social networks.
Al Mazhumy Spiral
Conditional compilation can be quite certainly used. The best way to find out the space requirements is to try out some of the examples provided. I cannot give the overhead exactly, but it can be read from the source with not too much effort. Send an email to tanel.tammet at gmail.com if you need help with that. In broad terms, we have been very careful with using memory, both for the reasons you state and the reason of getting more bang from the cache.
One huge problem with this survey is that if you have always lived in the US (outside of NYC and maybe one or two other metros), your expectations are extremely low - so "satisfied" doesn't mean much. You first have to have experienced a city with great public transport to understand what's possible, and what you're not getting.