skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liberty needs a lobbyist, and that lobbyist has to be Silicon Valley.

So, liberty's lobbyist is to be a bunch of out-of-touch, arrogant billionaires who collect peoples' data and sell it to advertisers, and who can't even make a small city (San Francisco is not nearly the size or complexity of New York) a decent place to live?

There are (stating the obvious warning) major issues with governments, including ours, but I don't think for a second that the current SV elite would do a better or even adequately comparable job.

Also, is it just me, or is it hilarious that these one-big-hit-makes-wisdom billionaires who whine about government-- except, of course, when they're exploiting tax loopholes and using NIMBY regulations to keep Bay Area real estate expensive-- and talk about how wonderful the world would be if they were running it, then go ahead and get pwn3d by that supposedly inefficient, antiquated institution? The poetic justice here is powerful.
> Next time they should fly to Germany and fuck about on the autobahn for a couple of days

Please don't. We have enough idiots over here mistaking the autobahn for a racetrack. I'll tell you a secret: It's not. People get killed here just as in the USA, for example the accident when a professional test driver for Mercedes cannonballed his prototype car into a previous accident. Despite darkness and bad visibility he was going beyond 190km/h and impacted with 170km/h, killing the driver of another car - despite the fact that that person was already out of their car. Two people that were out on the autobahn trying to help other victims of the crash narrowly escaped death. I remember that quite well since I passed there like half an hour before.

If you want a race, take your car to the Nürburgring for a weekend. It's still legendary and still dangerous, but at least people know what they signed up for. It's actually affordable: 195 EUR for 4 laps with instructor: http://www.service-zum-nuerburgring.de/details.php?id_nr=306...

Edit: Picture of the accident: http://www.nq-online.de/index.php?&kat=56&artikel=5699 There's not much left of the car.
Or if you could just generate a QR code and print on a sticker saying "if lost, please scan for return details". The QR code takes you to your own website with return details or a mailto: link.

Not 100% fool proof and depends on those who find it having a smart phone but its a cheap hack.
> and their monopolistic practices...
Is there any of the big hitters in the industry that aren't similarly "monopolistic"?

Agreed. This guy's a shill.
>offering free products

By my definition, that makes Google the good guys.
If you're weird, I'm weird too.

It just seems to me that the main should worry about interfacing with the outside world, and the rest of your code should really just be written as a library.
Edward's Snowden's open letter to Germany
TIME Explains: The Deep Web
I have the same results.

Doesn't matter what I picked in autocomplete, nothing else was submitted.

(firefox 24 on linux)
Thanks for posting this. I was worried about the phone growing too large; I think it's safe to say I won't notice the extra half-millimeter of width (for something I hold in one hand, width is the "usability" dimension).
That's the one thing I missed on OSX too, BUT BetterSnapTool does just that and a lot more.

I also kinda missed the (true) window maximize button, but then again there's RightZoom which does it.
So is it finally less expensive for Google to pay a lobbyist firm (hell, pay ALL the lobbyist firms) to significantly overhaul the patent law?
More than 200 DBMSs ranked by their popularity
Brain stimulation boosts social skills in autism
Links don't work... :-(
ZFS support in NuoDB Release 2.0
Lots of SQL injection in there, too.
I spent hours on the OEIS having fun. I like to convert numerical sequencies to sound to see how they sound. Some sound bad but some sound pretty good. I wrote a little bit about this here:

http://pedrokroger.net/2013/05/how-does-pascals-triangle-sou...
It's definitely not true, at least in some countries. For example, France: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/big-gp...

"It's a commonly held belief that only the copyright holder of a work can enforce the license's terms—but that's not true in France. People who received software under the GNU GPL can also request compliance, since the license grants them rights from the authors."

After all, the rights of the customer (to receive the source code) are also being violated.
It's a high-end phone, just like iPhone 5S. If you want a mid-range phone, you can look at cheaper ones.
The key word in the title is nuclear - a war that no one can win
This is a great story, quite dangerous, but all the comments here scolding this event, I suggest that you take a drive during the morning commute on the illinois tollway, say around Lake Cook towards ohare and let us all know how many are driving at the speed limit, which is 55. If you go 70, you are likely to get run over. Or if you drive the posted speed limit in a construction zone, you are likely to get honked at.

Similarly, on the Edens where the expressway begins, at 0600 on a work day, if you want to drive 70, you better be in the far right hand lane.

So according to a tracking company whose officials asked not be identified because they were unaware that Bolian would be driving so illegally when he hired them. Seriously? The tracking company thought that they would be driving just a little illegally, not so illegally??
Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework
There is something mildly sickening and darkly amusing that Microsoft and Apple apparently learned enough losing over half a billion dollars in patent lawsuits filed by McKool Smith, to then hire them when they were ready to go after their competitors with patent suits.
> The understanding of IP law that I've seen is that American patents don't apply internationally

Of course they don't apply to other governments, they apply to the US government. The constitution, and American law, tells the American government what rights it ought to enforce or protect, within it's jurisdiction.

> This is the same Declaration of Independence that didn't bother including slaves and women as "men", yes?

It makes no such distinction. Didn't the US have a civil war over this? Which side won?

> The essential claim here is that rights granted by American law apply to Russians.

In places where American law applies, yes. Do you think they shouldn't?
I don't know about you, but with enough caffeine (which really isn't that much) I can easily stay up for 30 hours with little to no side effects.
I always disable all "auto" functions in any browser. Autocompete for forms and URLs, remember passwords, everything I can find a switch for I turn off. Makes the browser faster and I feel like I'm more in control of it.
Germany allows 'indeterminate' gender at birth
I would say 90+ is the target speed of a lot of cars, however the actual average is probably still in the 70s due to congestion. I'm trying to gather some data on this at the moment.

To say "pretty much everyone" is false.
Blender 2.69 released: plane tracking, mesh bisect, new hair shader
The first time I filled in my credit card number I vaguely remember Chrome asking if I wanted to save it and I declined. After that I never saw that option again. Maybe it's the same in your case?
Now that you had the benefit of hindsight and coupled with your experience in squeezing out performance, do you have any opinion on Backbone vs Angular from a pure performance perspective?
Burning Skeleton Head with a Sword in his Mouth
I should make a whole wiki :)

1) Mac Color coming in 6 - 12 months (Caused me to not have a new computer for 3 years)

2) NO viruses and NO malware (No OS can ever say that) http://mac-antivirus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/histo...

3) Power PC fastest CPU in the WORLD (Than Intel CPU 6-7 times faster "who knew")

4) Antenna Gate "Your holding it wrong"

5) iMessage is unreadable by Apple (Proven wrong when reverse engineered)

6) The iPhone and iPod Touch screens (Wow how many times did we see people with destroyed screens over the years)

These are just off the top of my head BUT there is so much more. I just would NEVER trust them
What is that difference? Please be as precise as you can. Because in the popular usage today, saying people (how many, and who?) are being treated as "second-class people" carries a very derogatory connotation. And if the difference is very small, it feels like an inappropriate statement to make.

Re: your second sentence, my mind asks: "How many people have been tortured?"

My gut tells me that the percent of people alive today who have been tortured by the US intelligence community is nil. I don't even know how to guess. A few hundred? Divided by 6 billion? 5 X 10^-6 percent of the world's population, maybe?

Is the outrage is equal to the hazard in the situation, or is the outrage is artificially high compared to that hazard?

I am not arguing torture is good or bad, I'm specifically saying it as a supporting argument feels like a distraction.

Politicians live in the public eye. This has been shown time and again, in the US and elsewhere, that especially in the Internet age they get all the oversight needed. Obviously the same is becoming true for agencies, given the prevalence of leaks and whistle-blowing.
When I come to think of it, I might indeed sound like pro-anarchi but I don't share any political or religious views, rather try to accept things for what they are. Rules are nothing but conditioning. Attempting to give moral and ethics questions an ultimate answer bounds that group of people to go radical and crash with reality.

Nothing extreme could ever work. It's an equilibrium with lots of different sides that change their weight with time. Another manifestation of this is the mafia. It is present in every society in History. It's a human flaw. Rather than ignore it and pretend it's not there, maybe we should talk about it.

Understanding other people's position and making compromises is key if sustainability is your primary goal.
Sweet! Been using the description field to store my metadata currently but this is a huge step up in terms of structuring the data and being able to search it if necessary.

Kudos to Stripe!
Hmm, seems like something product manufacturers should pay for not consumers - see http://www.knomobags.com/uk/register-your-knomo/
Am I the only one that was reminded of Dr. SBAITSO ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw
That's a misuse for the term "autocomplete" in my opinion. What he complains about is "autofill", not "autocomplete" as I understand it. Autocomplete takes the values you used previously and gives you suggestions for the stuff you're typing in yourself. Autofill tries to guess what values are required and fills them in without additional interactions.

They're very different mechanisms...
But agile (well scrum) is about working at your own pace.

Measure your velocity to predict delivery times.

Not push yourself to hit required (i.e. hoped for) delivery.
You could do User.count no point to do User.all.count unpess you want a hole bunch of user objects build.
I've built a similar system, around 5 year ago. Users were able to deploy any version to any cluster from a nice UI. Basically you could select any version, click "Install" button and follow the logs in real time.

Behind the scenes it was a decentralized continuous delivery system. Very cool stuff, highly automated. Reduced a lot of work and sped up development cycles from months to minutes. Served quite a large software development organization (1000+). I think we had 1000 servers in 5 datacenters around the globe.

Nowdays I'm working on an open source version of that system, it's still missing few critical features but hopefully I'll get the first release out next spring.

btw, I'm looking for projects/contacts that would be interested in trying out how the system would fit their needs.
Encrypt All The Things With PGP - Part 1: Email
1password works great, and is secure.
Amid NSA spying revelations, tech leaders call for new restraints on agency
I've been googling, and I haven't found the regulation or policy for the Coast Guard that forbids the disclosure of business intelligence. If one does not explicitly exist, then it doesn't practically exist, either. If you know of one though please provide a link, it would definitely settle the debate for me.

Otherwise, there is fiduciary imperative on the part of the business to insist on non-disclosures, and I see nothing where it should be illegal to insist up until a court orders the disclosure of that information (and even then, can be argued that the court must seal the discoveries).
"And here I stand accused of a crime I didn't even commit! I mean 'Attempted murder'... Do they give nobel prizes for attempted Chemistry?!"
- Sideshow Bob
You have heard Iranians chant "Death To America" at their official rallies right? How do you know that the chance that they don't mean it is zero ? Based on what information? Even at the height of the cold war nobody ever chanted "Death To America" in the Soviet Union.
> But isn't the point being made that this is better not looked at as a good versus bad, it's better looked at as one sort of bad against another sort of bad.

The direct consequence of this would be a call to get rid of the evil on both sides and abolish the (software) patent system altogether.

I'd like to emphasize a quote from the end of the article:

> Patents have become the arena in which tech companies have chosen to do battle.

There is no longer competition about the best user experience or the best technical solution to an engineering problem but competition about who can file the best vague, yet court approved patent and secure the most destructive intellectual properties. I don't understand why we are still only talking about reforming the patent system.
3 deaths in the last 30 years. It's a race that tops out at 250mph whereas these guys only got to around 100mph less. That's quite a lot less. I get your point, but I'm not sure these are really comparable.
> If you're looking to provide legal support to people, consider donating to ACLU.

The ACLU is doing some important work, particularly in the areas of drones and areas outside the EFF's focus.

I am not that enthusiastic about the ACLU because I think their defence of first amendment issues is rather tepid and has been for decades. In the 1950s they kicked my mother's uncle out for defending the rights of the Communist Party USA to peaceably assemble, and today I am really not happy with the way they look at religious liberty.

The problem with religious liberty and the ACLU is that they seem to look at it entirely as if it is just a piece of anti-discrimination law and nothing more. For this reason they came down 100% on the wrong side of Hosana Tabor v. EEOC, and have generally opposed religious liberty when it conflicts with other anti-discrimination agendas they push. But the First Amendment is not just another piece of anti-discrimination law, and it must have more force than the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Civil Rights Act. The unwillingness to really defend religious freedom outside of the antidiscrimination context is one reason I can't back the ACLU over the EFF.
These were defensive lawsuits and you know it. When you're attacked by patent trolls, the only option is to counter sue with a similar patent troll attack. Think mutual assured destruction nuclear style. But I'm sure you're aware of that and just being disingenuous to make your point.
Just because it's a stated policy doesn't make it a justified policy or even a good policy. To reiterate what's already been said in other comments here... iPhone 4S, iOS7, etc. etc.
Is working at Google and Apple any different?
It looks like he averaged 85 miles an hour [1] - above the speed limit pretty much anywhere in the US. That's pretty indicting, but I bet he can't get a ticket since no individual agency knows that he sped in their jurisdiction. I'd personally love to see some effort made to peg him with at least a speeding ticket by looking through, say, toll road logs.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+LA+to+NYC...
Anarchists? I'm sorry, but how about learning what that word actually means?
"Android for the 1%"?
So the first framework ever (Java Servlets) is still pretty much the fastest? I wonder what that says about where development is heading.

In my previous project I've actually used straight servlets and found them quite RESTful and elegant - HTTP GET calls a function, you run a SQL query, render results using a template. What else does a framework really need? I much prefer that to the beast that is Spring. In fact, that's pretty much what people use tornado+express for these days - map a URL to a function.
I'd be a lot more interested in this if Google didn't just shutter everyone's trust in the Nexus program by obsoleting the Galaxy Nexus, a phone less than two years old.

It only got one major OS upgrade since launch, which is less than most regular Samsung phones (which typically receive two).

Basically, Google's flagship phone wtih 1GB RAM just got dumped on. By Google. As they launch Android 4.4 which "should run great on devices with just 512MB ram".

That's just outright offensive. Buying whatever Nexus is out there when I needed a new phone has always been a no-brainer. Not so anymore.
So you started out with a principle, "Corporations consolidate many orders of magnitude more financial power...", but now you've thrown that principle out the window with every enumerated argument.

All I can now determine is that you just don't like the politics of many corporations and want them to be muzzled.
Is anyone else's tongue tripping on the name? I keep saying "LooseProof" in an effort to make the syllables use the same vowel sound (English US speaker).

The web page is nice, but this stage in my life I feel like I've got too much stuff. Losing it is one convenient way to rid myself of some of the mass. The things I really care about aren't conducive to stickers ... I think my wife and kids would object, but maybe I could find somewhere inconspicuous. Everything else I'd hate to lose I have redundancy for (family photos are on Flash drives in multiple locations).

Maybe my definition of "Love" has become more refined than it used to be?
Seems to work correctly (only name is submitted as one would expect) on Firefox 24.0 and Chromium 30.0.
Edit: This is on Gentoo Linux.
I just tried 1password Safari integration with the test form[0] and it had the same problem as Safari's own autofill (it filled out the hidden fields).

[0]https://yoast.com/research/autocompletetype.php
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What have I missed?
> then knowingly violated those patents

I can't compile hello world in any language without violating dozens of patents.
I'm rather unimpressed by the implementations of the Python benchmarks, and surprised there isn't a single mention of gevent - that alone would have speeded up, say, Bottle by nearly an order of magnitude.

We use uWSGI + bottle + gevent for REST APIs and a relatively humble box can reach flood a gig Ethernet link with _useful_ replies. And, of course, any decent implementation will cache computed results, etc. (but toss Varnish in - which we haven't, yet, since there's no need - and you'll outperform anything else for cacheable replies).
Flight turns unforgettable when passengers learn of fallen soldier
If only you could turn off auto-rendering, that bugs the hell out of me
HaaS (Hugs as a Service)
Apple are also touting credit card autofill with their new version of OS X, with strong claims of security. http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/#gallery-icloud-keychain-...
You might want to reflect on the concept of legality. I know, thinking hurts sometimes, but it's totally worth it!
Hurray, Dr. Endy, Monica, Jerome, and Pakpoom! :) I interned in this lab and it's really cool seeing their amazing work (especially using M13 for high-bandwidth communication) get the press it deserves

Let's also not forget Paul Jaschke! http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul_Jaschke/ He was able to design and produce a working refactored version of the PhiX174 bacteriophage.

Refactoring in bio has the typical CS connotation of cleaning up messy code -- The natural PhiX174 has some overlapping genes that cannot be edited in isolation -- The refactored version has no gene overlaps, so the genes can be editted individually in a more rational manner.
Uh MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs. MVP (Model View Presenter). That will be confusing.

(still nice project of course)
Unacceptable. I put up with way too many buggy ROMs and crappy user experiences with my previous non-Nexus devices. The whole reason I bought a Nexus phone was so I'd receive timely updates and not have to worry about being left behind. The correct course of action for me now is to jump ship to iOS despite how invested I currently am in the Android platform. Luckily, owning an iPad (older than my GNex and running iOS 7!) makes it a little easier.
This is nothing less than an attack on technology, innovation and engineering. They could try to compete by building better products and matching the level of openness of their competitor but they'd rather keep their platform closed so they can gouge their customers and use lawyers against anybody that doesn't.

We live in a world where inventors can't build anything that get's them noticed by large established competitors without risking frivolous patent lawsuits on obvious concepts.
> Some courts have held, and the EFF argues, that providing an encryption key is unlike providing the key for a box because it requires you to recount things that are in your memory, and is therefore testimonial.

I am not aware of any court in the US which has held otherwise to be honest.

There are a few cases where individuals were ordered to decrypt contents but in all those cases, it was content that the law enforcement officials had already seen on the computer.

For a parallel, there's a case before the Supreme Court which was just argued over whether the 5th Amendment protects an individual from testifying against himself in the context of a court-ordered psychological evaluation. The likely outcome is that it does unless the defendant raises an insanity defence, and then, as long as the defendant can offer evidence that he was not sane, the state gets to compel him to have an evaluation.

What I am getting at is that the 5th Amendment almost certainly both applies and prohibits, generally, forced decryption at least in the US. There may be cases, however, where the 5th Amendment does not apply because nothing new is revealed to the government that the individual has not already presented.
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But really? It'll get pretty onerous to check every checksum and guard every entry point. I think we should fix the real problem.
I find your username amusing given the context of this thread.
IBM could stand to make some money by licencing out some of their patents as they have done in the past:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/yahoo-was-licensing-paten...

http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-buys-patents-ibm-defend-itsel...

Incidentally if anyone is told their work is to be patented and will only be used in defense - bear the above behaviour in mind, over time, companies will not just use patents in defense.

Ha, it seems I'm a bit late to make that prediction - it's already happened.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-14/google-purchases-1-...
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Why is it good practice to use it on login fields? That just means your users will use weaker (easier to remember) passwords on your site instead of using random, unique ones stored in a password manager.
The NBA is an American league. Wired is read all over the world, much of which doesn't really care for basketball, let alone your national league.