skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lincoln did suspend habeas corpus, and legal scholars can argue over whether it was done in the proper form

There's not really much debate on the matter -- from the contemporary decision in Ex Parte Merryman and the numerous other district court and circuit court decisions finding against the suspension until it was abandoned up through a chain of decisions repeating its logic (the most notable recent example being Hamdi v. Rumsfeld), the pretty clear weight of decisions from the courts -- and there's not a whole lot of contrary scholarship -- has been that, to the extent that the writ can be suspended, it can't be suspended unilaterally by the executive branch.

> the Constitution does permit the suspension in times of rebellion.

Actually, the Constitution does not expressly permit the suspension of habeas corpus in any circumstances, it (in Art. I, Sec. 9, among limits on Congress' powers) prohibits the suspension of the writ of it with some exceptions to the prohibition.
the only letter whose name doesn’t include the sound it makes

I'm trying to figure out if the author pronounces H with a Tom Brokaw "haitch" or an Elvis Presley "aitchuhh".
Worth mentioning for those unaware that Cleveland was LeBron's hometown state. When your fame and occupation is built around the religious fervour that is fandom, I don't think it's outrageous for people to like the idea that a hometown hero can elevate their team to greatness. Especially when said hero remarks that he'll persist until he wins it all for them.

(NBA fan, but not a Cleveland or Miami fan.)
Well, it depends on what you're using it for. In many cases, the issues we wrestled with are fairly minor. It's only when you have a very large number of data nodes that you run into trouble.
It was passed before Wikipedia existed.
I don't think any of the recent proposed legislation is intended to address a situation like this, where all the players are large companies with deep pockets.
Is bang.io available?
We value convenience over security. It's the new normal.

I think we all understand this is not for the best but since it's normal we'd just go with it.
Well, Comcast is protecting its business interest.
...a third patent describes an "integrated message center."

This is just comically ridiculous. The only benefit to Google being the target of this suit is that if it goes all the way, there is a chance that some of these might be invalidated because at least they have the cash reserves to stand and fight (if they choose to do so).
Elmore Leonard wrote "Djibouti" about the Somali pirate operations. He must have researched it pretty thoroughly because everything in the Economist article is in the book.

If you want a nice thriller and, at the same time, get some background into the pirate operations, give it a go. It's a great read.
Also Try http://genomecompiler.com

:-)
Couldn't I encrypt my private key with a TPM, give them the encrypted private key and have them say insert a smart card that clears the TPM, (or clear it myself) putting the private key beyond reach? Does the TPM manufacturer keep the burned in TPM private key used to encrypt other things (like my key) on record? I have an older TPM not built into my chipset so am not worried about not trusting say Intel
I think the article's reference to AMD refers to part of the RequireJS framework:

http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html

Until I found this in some of the links later in the gist, I was very confused, because I'm pretty sure that whether your CPU is AMD or Intel or ARM makes no difference that browser-based JS would care about.
"I want to be able to access the audio stream programmatically, which is not possible on 99% of android phones."

The N900's OS uses PulseAudio.

Examples:
I can redirect audio output to the FM transmitter and instantly have the FM radio in any pre-bluetooth car become a giant speakerphone.
I have tiny applications for recording calls (intercepting the audio stream between the GSM radio and the amp), and other applications for recording from the mic directly (for verbal note-taking).
sarcasim? Take it you do not live in the UK and with that not effected by such evil exchange rates!

FYI in the UK they are charging an extra $128.20 if your able to get your head around that.
I know it's been said before, but to reiterate: outrage doesn't help anything, but buying products from these companies DOES hurt. If you're truly outraged enough to want to take action, take action

- writing to your representatives

- donating to the EFF or other organizations

- by not donating another $2k to Apple for a new Mac*, implicitly endorsing these bullshit tactics

- not developing for those platforms (App Store, etc)

Leaving comments here expressing outrage isn't really helping.
- They are just accruing debt with their actions

- Their time will come and when it does it will be painful.

- Any system that's inherently corrupt is bound to collapse.
No, it's not because he's quirky. It's because he loaded up at a team to take the easier road to a championship.
and i suppose Amazon "went nuclear" against Apple by selling the Kindle at cost?

apparently that's what it takes just to enter these dominated markets. which is more than just a little scary.
Good point. Although this particular case highlights one of the key problems in the entire system. Shell corporations with very little assets are established as the suing entity in order to shield the much larger and wealthier owners from any counter-suit liability. If that aspect of the current system were changed and you could pierce the shell corp to get at the real beneficiaries, it would alter the landscape for these cases significantly.
"I thought it was impossible to be more of a douchebag than Intellectual Ventures, but apparently, there's a new winner in town."

What Rockstar is doing is very shitty, but IV takes the cake because they're a non-practicing entity. It's one thing to sue competitors for making products similar to your own, it's another to make no products and sue people who dare to make something vaguely encroaching your vaguely defined patent.
A quick example - RVM!

http://rvm.io suggests you run the command:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Which exhibits exactly the failure scenario outlined in the article; partway through the script RVM cleans up after itself by running "rm -rf ${rvm_src_path}"

Simple changing this to

"\curl -L https://get.rvm.io > /tmp/rvm.sh && bash /tmp/rvm.sh stable"

Would eliminate the potential for nasty failures, with a minimum of fuss.
Who would worry with 'W'?
If you must post a gif, you could at least add to the conversation first.

And no, predicting your karma decrease doesn't count.
The National Association Of W Lovers is not going to be happy about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkiCTDcV51k
Errata Security: #badBIOS features explained
Holy crap, scrypt is now in android as a default method of key stretching for whole disk encryption! That makes it way of a legitimate option and I'm really happy to see a memory hard algorithm being adopted in such a large area!

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html#44-...
Yeah, that's the right thing to do. Punish the ones who use Patents to attack other companies.
Save rich text in Rails from contentEditable divs?
Hi HN,

So I'm a Rails newbie making my first app and am running into some problems with my content editor. The user is supposed to be able to make entries, like diary entries, so the content editor should be simple. But I don't know how to save things like paragraph breaks and apostrophe's in the database and render them properly again when the user opens the entry.

Are there any gems or plugins that could help me with this? I would really like to be able to preserve my contentEditable divs, as they make the design clean.
Releasing a cheaper product is just free market competition. Suing for patents is abusing a government granted monopoly.
"Don't buy Macs" is not going to work well around here. Most HNers develop software on Mac and see it as the ideal development platform. I'd say they don't care about what Apple does (it's not the first time Apple does that either).
It's not a discrete one or the other choice here. I think it's very unrealistic to believe that for the average person this is a dangerous security risk in practical terms.

The number of times people might do this is probably well below 100 and there are much more risky day to day security faux pas than this.
But that's exactly what Rockstar does. From the article:

> Part of the company's strategy is avoiding a patent-countersuit by not having any operating businesses. Essentially, Rockstar wants to enjoy the same advantage patent trolls have, even though it's owned by direct Google competitors like Apple and Microsoft.
It's how America runs. Have you asked a doctor how much he pays for legal fees/malpractise insurance? It's the laywers who run this place
> racket

That's an interesting choice of word!
So, you're saying that a company deserves to be sued if it makes a product that was previously unaffordable for the masses, affordable? That's totally being an elitist (and in a way discriminatory). Not that I'm outraged with your comment, I just think that everyone having access to technology is only a good thing and it is actual progress by itself.
Agreed, the current state of software tools for biology is sad- the tools are written by scientists, for scientists, and tend to have messy source code and incomplete/difficult to read documentation.

I don't mean to insult the people who work on the tools currently- they're great! But we need more software people writing tools for the industry.

Fortunately, people are starting to do just that. TeselaGen and Genome Compiler are both good examples. (Disclaimer- I'm a TeselaGen engineer)
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> Fundamental extremists do exist and want to destroy Americans at any cost (including their lives)

No, they don't want to destroy Americans, they want to destroy America through terror. Killing Americans is a means, not the ends.

And, on the other side, American patriots do exist and want to preserve the freedoms that define America at any cost (including their lives).
"Google bid for the patents, but didn't get them. Instead, they went to a group of competitors—Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony—operating under the name "Rockstar Bidco.""

I feel like with those initials, they could've operated as "REAMS" instead. From Wiktionary, ream: "(slang, vulgar) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way..."
New Runtime Compiler in Android 4.4
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I'm honestly starting to regret choosing to learn Objective-C now. I am seriously considering learning Android development and ditching my Macbook / iPhone for a Nexus 5 and some sort of linux distro. People like me are making this whole situation significantly worse by contributing software to Apple's platform.
Finland’s Foreign Ministry gets pwned by worse-than-Red October malware
Wait a minute, there are significant backward-compatibility concerns to be addressed before we shorten the pronunciation of "W". How will we fill the extra two syllables in the ABC song?
NEC has 21.5" 5MP (2048 x 2560) displays[1], and Barco[2] and EIZO have 30" 10MP (4096 x 2560) displays. These come out to 154 and 161 PPI respectively; you're right that it's not the 180-200ppi target listed, but it's still higher than anything consumer grade.

[1] http://www.necdisplay.com/p/medical-diagnostic-displays/md21...

[2] http://www.barco.com/en/Products-Solutions/Displays-monitors...
Check out some of these documents if you want to get angry:

http://www.tennessee.gov/hsda/con_standards.shtml

The standard for "Burn Unit" says there can't be more than one burn unit bed for every 225,000 persons and you can't build a new unit unless all the existing ones in the area have >70% annual utilization. So what if your new unit might be MUCH CHEAPER or merely more competent than the current players? Nope. The government isn't allowed to take mere PRICE into consideration in deciding if you can go into business. Or competence, or anything other than expected "need". And your new unit has to have at least 12 beds - operating at a smaller scale than that is apparently illegal.

Then the standard for "long term care" facilities says they aren't allowed to plan on using any spare capacity to provide services such as "advanced emergency care". Why not? Because that might lead to "unnecessary duplication". Ugh.
I like it. Too bad twitter bans you. :-\
Out of curiosity, what is difficult about setting it up with Xilinx tools?
Take a look at acko.net for some inspiration!
<sarcasm>Yep, sure thing. Apple stops innovation. Nail on the head. </sarcasm>
I really wish they'd just nullify any patent granted that involves "doing something commonplace ON THE INTERNET!!!", as if adding a tcp/ip connection is something truly inventive or novel. Christ, this is getting out of hand.
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Assuming the probability that you drop connection is evenly distributed amongst all characters, even if there is no payload and this is all that is executed then there's barely a 1% chance of the truncation happening in the way you describe.

Considering that there is usually a sizable payload and the probability of a dropped connection is not evenly distributed and is probably very low, the scenario gets even less likely.

Yes, it's possible, but it's also possible to rm -rf / because you typed a path wrong and I bet the probability of human error is much higher than the probability of this shell trick screwing you over. People have rm -rf /'d their systems, but even this isn't a good reason to advocate for say, removing rm entirely or not allowing people to type into the shell :P
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What really sucks is how established multi-billion dollar companies are able to oppress smaller innovative ones from competing by simply using their cash war-chest to buy-up broad patent mine-fields around them. It especially sucks this is being done to stifle the momentum of one of the highest-growth markets the world has ever seen.

Patents were meant to protect the innovator, instead software patents are being used to legally harm competition they can't compete against technically - hurting everyone except the status-quo.
Hey everyone,

I'm a working to help re-elect Mayor McGinn to Seattle. We're in a close race with our opponent, who has received thousands of dollars from Comcast. I'm hoping that you will consider helping us out so that we can show the rest of the country that we can do something about improving internet service. Would you consider helping us out with $5 or $10 donation? Here's how you can help: http://www.mcginnformayor.com/donate.

And this isn't the only issue in the race. You can read about the mayor's positions and his vision for the future of our city here: http://www.mcginnformayor.com/why

Thank you,

aaron
Frank Shaw of Microsoft revealed that Google was invited to jointly bid Nortel’s Patent Portfolio but declined.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/microsoft-just-kicked-googl...
http://technologizer.com/2011/08/04/google-shows-how-not-to-...

Take everything with at least a boulder of salt before turning to an emotional being.
Just to expand on that (I had to check it for myself) - in my ipython (ageing core2, two cores at around 6k "bogomips"):

%timeit d={"message": "Hello, world"}

10000000 loops, best of 3: 103 ns per loop

%timeit d=dict(message="Hello, world")

1000000 loops, best of 3: 298 ns per loop

sys.version
Out[24]: '2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14) \n[GCC 4.7.2]'

So, pretty big difference.
But that kind of policy will eventually backfire, since doctors are free to move to whatever state they want once they finish their residencies. If Maryland forces them to accept insurance that doesn't reimburse them at a rate that they find acceptable, they'll go work in another state and Maryland will have a shortage of doctors. And doctors who are already practicing in Maryland will retire early or move into research, or some other job that doesn't involve seeing patients (like consulting for medical software companies).
Good thing you realize it now. Better now than later. Do take action if you are serious about the philosophical implications of your work.

Anyway, we can see that even in the absence of Steve Jobs, Apple is certainly serious about "going nuclear on Android". They'll follow their former leader's thinking even beyond the grave. That's sad.
"But that's exactly what Rockstar does"

Rockstar acts as a firewall, sure, but the parent companies make things. IV made a mosquito-killing laser that no one could buy, then allegedly got down to business by flicking individual patents to shell LLCs and suing indie app developers for using iOS's in-app-purchase APIs. Classy.
I can't speak for Android, but the Nexus phones are nice and Linux can make a stellar developer environment. What with Android no longer being an ugly step-child, it's a good time to make the switch.
If it makes any difference I'd say Android development is mostly a lot more logical and sane than iOS, particularly now that Apple is shoving the tragic catastrophe of an API that is AutoLayout down everybody's throat. Don't let the fragmentation FUD scare you.
I solely use Google Chat to communicate with some family members, and most of the the time I am using Adium. Which uses XMPP... looks like the new Hangout protocol will need to be reverse engineered to open it up.
Firefox also has broken font-boosting
If you detect an antagonistic or uncivil comment or commenter (an exercise to the reader), add an interstitial that displays the "In Comments" section of the guidelines with the editable comment before they are finally allowed to submit the comment.
Using d3 to create directed graphs
The only problem I see is the approach of relying on ng-mouseenter when it comes to mobile sites, as its behavior gets very weird on swipe, scroll and tap events
Wow, what a dog move. The fact they're using Google's attempt to bid for the patents originally against them is even worse. If this isn't justification for serious patent reform, I don't know what is. The fact the consortium that owns the patents is comprised of Google's main competitors in many spaces should immediately ring alarm bells for any judge. This move surely must be anti-competitive, I hope Google fights this all of the way to the top (they've got enough cash).
Brilliant Clip!  Shut the Front Door by Leo Kidd.
And Apple is not the only company in this consortium
I think RockStar is even worse because they are an NPE that is a sham front set up to further the anticompetitive business interests of two of the largest and most dominant companies on the planet. That's all the evil of a patent troll plus extra ...
Sorry, but Watson can't do surgery, nor can it instruct a nurse who has no training in surgery how to do surgery.
Grabwall takes the igoogle news feeds and presents them in a great format to consume and curate content.
I would argue there is more than sufficient interest :) All you have to do is scan the angularjs google groups for ngRepeat issues.

Infact, one of the solutions proposed for ngRepeat issue (with lot of caveats) has 300+ stars no github

https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce

Including me, there are lot of folks who would find your solution very useful. You are addressing a fundamental O(n) scaling problem in AngularJS.
I once met a young man who just graduated from college and started working for the NSA. During a Microsoft Kernel Drivers conference I grabbed a few minutes at my hotel gym and we struck up a conversation; or should I say he forced a conversation out of me. I generally mind my own business when working out.

It honestly didn't seem too far off the "Good Will Hunting" recruiting scene. From the start of the conversation all he wanted to talk about was what he did, but at the same time was incredibly vague. When I asked him for a little clarifying information just to keep my coherence of the conversation, he couldn't contain the gloating huge smile on his face. He responded, "I'm not allowed to say. It's classified." At that moment I understood why he had abruptly started a conversation with me. It was as if the whole conversation up until that point had been a setup for him to tell me how cool he was. Of course, I didn't see it that way, but the reality distortion field that he lived in left him with no question that he had the coolest job ever. There didn't appear to be any awareness in his reality that perhaps I intentionally didn't apply to the NSA, nor would I accept an offer from the NSA if one was given.

People like this exist. I know living in a progressive city it seems hard to believe, but not everywhere is like that, and there are people who have positive feelings, even today, towards the US war machine. People who believe we aren't at a juncture where we should take a step back and reflect on what we are doing in the world.

One other hypothesis I have on NSA workers is that working for the NSA is working for the most powerful government in the world. Some people crave power more than even wealth, and some of those people see the US government as the ultimate power on earth. I can't necessarily argue with that logic. That may also be a motive to work for the NSA.
Don't wire wrap your fuses.
where is the technical proof that they actually hacked into google's fiber?
Put some diagrams on a piece of paper and at the top it says TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN and everyone automatically believes it?

although I'm not totally doubting it, just want to see some proof.
Well, aren't they always unhappy about something, anyways?
It has nothing to do with you buying a mac.

It's basically big corps trying to shoot down each other,it's war. It will not end google search,dont worry,worst case google will have to pay a few billion but they can afford it.

Remember these corporations are using patents as nuclear dissuasion tools,we are not really in patent trolling here.IMHO Google is not better than the rest.
So you’d punish Google too?

Edit: Cached version instead of the bloodsucking WSJ paywalled version.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zoneG32...
Well, that'll show 'em.

But seriously: This isn't an issue that'll be solved by buying one product over another.

(I mean, if I understand correctly, this could impact your ability to actually get your hands on a Nexus 5 (or later) device if litigation either prevents them from being produced or makes them too expensive for Google to make. That's the whole point, right? To take the power to choose financial winners and losers out of the hands of the market. To make your decision matter less. That's one big reason it's shitty: It distorts markets regardless what you as the consumer want.)

It's an issue with how our government treats patents like this. Buy your Apple product if that's the best one for you. Enjoy building with Objective C. Or work with Google's products. Whichever you want.

But.

If you're interested in changing this situation, I'd try recommend trying to get the attention of the one organization that really holds the power, here: The United States government.
And, of course, w's name does contain one of the vowel sounds that w forms (the long u), just like y's does (the long i). Neither of those letters name contains their own consonant sound.
The bigger outrage in smart phones is the fact that Android exists in the first place - thanks to a little industrial espionage on Apple's board. [1]

I know where my wallet voting's going.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/robenderle/2011/11/11/you-the-ju...
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Thanks, that is incredibly interesting, especially the example at the end relating to facial recognition.
I checked out the page, but it looks to me that the $30/month plans are just data. Am I looking at it wrong, or does that include voice and text as well?
By invitation, was it "Join us in suing others, or we'll sue you?"