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Obama Orders NSA To Stop Spying On The World Bank, IMF
As someone that's been building high traffic applications on ASP.net for 11 years I generally stay out of threads like this. There is a ton of ill-informed (and more often than not blatantly false) asp.net bashing that goes on on this site. I see so much of it I generally just roll my eyes instead of hitting the reply button.

You can't use the silence of developers like me to prove a point when any pro asp.net content posted here is met with hostility.

ASP.net has an "easy mode". Easy mode is for small sites made quickly. If you're dragging and dropping, you're using easy mode. If you're only using the server controls provided, you're using easy mode. If you haven't extended or replaced any of the provided subsystems, you're using easy mode. I'd prefer developers from other platforms stop making comparisons between their platform and easy mode asp.net as if they knew what they were talking about.

ASP.net is a tuner's platform. It is completely modular, and anything you don't like can be replaced with something custom suited for your business/performance needs. This goes much deeper than custom server controls. You can look at the development of ASP.net MVC as an example.

If you want an easy framework to master, ASP.net is not the place for you. If you want something fast, scalable, strongly typed, customizable and built for large applications; you should have a look under the hood.

Those who haven't spent time getting intimately familiar with ASP.net's innards really have no place to comment.
I'd imagine tracing routing, and then MAC address tables would be rather a lot faster, and more accurate.
Presumably Sony are hoping to be the last Android manufacturer, because all of the rest have been sued?
> Does this mean all clients are seeing the same video rendering?

Yes - all clients connecting to the same renderer instance are seeing the same video.

> What made you do it this way rather than render on the client and update positioning over WebRTC?

This is a part of a larger [research project](https://forge.fi-ware.eu/projects/miwi/) to create and test the viability of different kinds of UI enablers.

One use case for cloud rendering is low-end mobile devices that can't handle the rendering of complex 3d-scenes. Or you could create a live presentation using a 3D world, eg. about an architectural design.

Other people in the project are building tools on top of WebGL to do the rendering in the browser - mainly porting the [realExtend toolset](http://realxtend.org/) to Javascript.

Everything I do will be released as open source later on. I'll give you a shout when we got something to show.
Which Huawei device? Often their tarballs match several devices but you may need to be psychic to work out which.
Currently running Ubuntu 13.10 with i3, freshly build from Ubuntu 13.10 Server. I mostly run my development systems in VirtualBox on a MacBook Air but don't really use OSX for anything other than the host machine.
How is caching the count "cheating"? Grabbing the count for every request would be ridiculously expensive in any framework, not just Meteor.
Found a typo on the FAQ page under the question "Can you guarantee my stuff will be safe?":

> your stuff will get back to you should the worse happen.

worst.
ok sweet! just keep me updated. im all ears.
Review: Tesla Motors’ all-electric Model S is fast—but is it a good car?
For example by not supporting standards like svg and png as long as they had the market leadership?
Students Recreate 17th Century London in 3D for Video Game
I tried them at the same time I was trying ighome.com. I liked it enough, until the nagging for money started. It then became annoying, so I settled on igHome. Less functional but less annoying.
FAA Relaxes Restrictions on Device ON/OFF during Takeoff & Landing
For those who always suspected that devices are not nearly the safety hazard precautionary measures often made them out to be.
Try using a name that doesn't include the word "BOT" in it. Given that your account is suspended repeatedly, and that you alter the frequency of the tweets, consider what you haven't yet changed.

If changing the name works (i.e. create a new account), then you have something else to write about: Twitter doesn't care if you spam people with tweets, as long as you are concealing the fact that its spam!
I'm busy reading "The Masters of Doom". Here is a little snippet all about patents with one of the world's best developers of all time, John Carmack.
"Carmack turned red. “If you ever ask me to patent anything,” he snapped, “I’ll quit.” Al assumed Carmack was trying to protect his own financial interests, but in reality he had struck what was an increasingly raw nerve for the young, idealistic programmer. It was one of the few things that could truly make him angry. It was ingrained in his bones since his first reading of the Hacker Ethic."

As a developer there is nothing more destructive than to be be told you can't do that... it is similar to what I did.

Could you imagine what would happen if someone put a patient on breathing?
Nice work, but a bit useless without Erlang. :-(
> Rules are made by people who can't win without them.

What's that? The official motto of all bullys and anarchists?
That smiley slide will enter history in the same way as the fatuous comments made by agents when they forced the Guardian to destroy computers that had been used to process Snowden's files in London.

Utter contempt for 'little people' isn't viable long term. The 'little people' eventually realise what is going on. Then the politicians have to change their approach.
Well considering Apple was willing to actually pay a small amount rather than no payment at all, I don't see how you can see them as the aggressor. Motorola clearly stated that they wanted more for it.

It seems like Google had more control over whether that lawsuit was filed than I thought. From FOSS Patents:

>A few months after that Zeitgeist talk, in January 2012, Google authorized a Motorola Mobility lawsuit against Apple over six patents in the Southern District of Florida. The merger agreement was publicly available and absolutely unequivocal about the fact that Motorola needed Google's consent prior to bringing new IP assertions while the merger was under antitrust review.

EDIT: Since it's not letting me reply to your comment, gonna post it here.

If you're talking about Motorola vs. Apple in general now, clearly Apple wasn't the aggressor. Motorola was the first to sue over patents prompting Apple to counter-sue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility_v._Apple_Inc.
Then take that to its logical conclusion and read the source code for all the stuff you are installing, and the description of all the packages you are installing. Your argument was the strawman.
12 Steps to Navier Stokes (Computational Fluid Dynamics in Python)
I know this is a bit offtopic but why is the obsession with the semantics and the literal text of the Constitution?

It is just words on paper created by mortal men that certainly were unable to see 200 years into the future. And with the advance of technology some parts will begin to show their age. Both the government and the citizens can do a lot of things right now that they could not foresee.

And yet the idea of the changing, expanding and clarifying it seems to be a taboo in modern US politics. People are only allowed to interpret it, but not allowed to talk about changing it.

It is as close to theology as I could not imagine. I don't know of any other country that treats its founding laws that way.
Oddly enough, I've seen Bing Translate work wonders on facebook when it comes to translating Chinese into English. One of my friends posted a huge paragraph in Chinese, and the translation read as correct (if a bit flowery) English. I'm just one data point, but I'd guess that there are definitely good translators out there.
I was a huge fan of igoogle. No idea why this project shut down. The concept was brilliant, but maybe the name conflicted with apple's ieverything.
It is a time-trial, a race against the clock.

From an aesthetic point of view I really like the cannonball. From a practical point of view I suppose doing it does make you a bit asocial.
Well, if you want to label good guys and bad guys, you need some rules to judge them with. In this case the moral code for me is that software patents are bad and whoever abuses them is in the wrong.
The answer is simple, you wait until they are monetizing it and are clearly going to support the product into the future. No one is forcing you to be an early adopter.
Really? I'm quite interested in that, do you have the research on it? The disparity in countries with barely functioning governments can be extreme, with a very small ruling class with most of the wealth. England, for example, has a much bigger government than it used to yet less of a gap between rich and poor (Victorian times -> now).
So they hosted at Hetzner and OVH, both extremely cheap hosters, and were surprised that things did not go smooth?

Extremely professional.
> refused to participate in a joint effort to safeguard those patents for all

Source? you're not confusing these with the Novell patents, are you?

Either way, this is the worst case of patent trolling, and may even raise anti-trust issues. Speaking of which, weren't they specifically told not to sue and gang up on other companies when they bought these?
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Forced The Game - Story of people behind it
> Do any of the Snowden revelations contradict these beliefs?

No, they actually confirm them, or have up until this time. For example, take a look at this screenshot, part of the XKeyscore leaks:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9AyutDLLujY/UfnKBu83TfI/AAAAAAAAAe...

Now to you or me, this is a combo box that anyone could fill out falsely to pull data for Americans, possibly without being caught. To an NSA employee, this is an important safeguard of American privacy that ensures anyone using this system is either doing it for a legitimate intelligence purpose, or, committing perjury and/or treason. Exact same set of facts, just a more favorable interpretation.

Second example. According to Snowden's leak, XKeyScore led to the successful capture of 300 terrorists [1]. So that leak would confirm the prior belief that we are in an infowar and these programs contribute to American defense.

It will be interesting to follow this new leak, as it seems quite clear to me that the NSA is deliberately and specifically spying on American companies even if they are retaining data only on non-American persons. But I expect this fact to be overlooked by NSA employees because they will only run queries about foreign persons.

Finally, I have very much gotten a "take it up with the legislative/judicial branches" vibe from the NSA. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled [2] that a foreign alien outside the U.S. has no fourth amendment protection against search and seizure. Further, SCOTUS has ruled "That searches made at the border [e.g. of US persons], pursuant to the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself by stopping and examining persons and property crossing into this country, are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border, should, by now, require no extended demonstration." In other words, the US government has the legal right to search anything at the border, full-stop. The fact that the NSA has procedures that minimize searching the network traffic of US persons goes well above and beyond the constitutional requirement, which allows anyone's data data to be searched as it leaves the US, US person or not. So, if you don't like the law, take it up with SCOTUS, or start a constitution convention, or pass an act of congress, or something. But the NSA does not view themselves as the bad guy for doing much less than what the legislative and judicial branches have authorized them to do. It's like getting mad at a cop for making weed arrests; you don't go after the cop, you go after the state law, or the DEA, or federal drug law, or something. Border searches have been authorized by the very highest authorities in American government, the NSA is just the cop that executes the search according to the principles established by the higher authorities.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Verdugo-Urquid...

[3] http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6107136132398268...
Yes, that's the point. You print the commands as you would type them manually, make sure they look right and perhaps test a single one out. Then you can pipe that whole thing into another shell. It's even reasonable to generate shell commands from, say, perl. Rather than having perl call system, just have perl print each command and then pipe the output of the whole thing to `sh -v`.
Available in Denmark from mid-November for about DKK 4k:

https://twitter.com/LGNordic/status/396017139578306560
These tunnels were man-made. But yeah, obviously the scale these worked at was more towards villages and small towns.
thanks!
A few days ago there was another article suggesting that the best time to post was around 19h in the evening (GMT) which is consistent with what you say of 11-12 AM PST. The only difference was the day, he was posting on sunday I believe.

what day of the week were the 2 failed attempts posted on?

I'm trying to sense the pulse of the HN crowd, to see when we all slack off the most ;)
I too would pay for this if it were simple and convenient enough
Just one good non-obvious software patent?

US Pat #4,200,770 Diffie Hellman public key exchange

There are literally dozens, maybe hundreds of good software patents out of the 500,000 or so that have been issued.

We'd all be much better off without any software patents at all but it's not true that they are all fraudulent and abusive like the ones in these lawsuits. A small fraction are decent. Of course the innovations involved in those few patents would all have been discovered and published without patents as an incentive, because that's how software works.
You forget that Apple has their own patent suits against Motorola that they are not dropping. Ending the fight would mean that both drop their patent suits. Seems to me that GoogleMotorola wants this and Apple doesn't.
FYI, RetroShare has a solid and solidly growing community.

Of course, if you want to talk about "taken the world by storm" as in "Microsoft Windows 95": You're right, no encryption software has ever taken the world by storm. And that has to do with the fact that the general public doesn't care about privacy, b/c they have no clue how it works and most of all what the mid- and long-term consequences of losing privacy will be for their lives.
I think this is what you're looking for:
http://lapa-app.com/
For every moron to break the 'Cannonball' record, there will be a hundred other morons who, in an attempt to break the record, will plow over pedestrians and animals.

Not a proud moment to be a human.
The problem is not if Google or Apple, Microsoft & Co. are good or evil. This patent war is evil, very evil. Because it could prevent companies like Jolla, Canonical or Mozilla to release their smart phone OS world wide.

Especially small companies won't have a chance in a patent battle against a Apple, Microsoft or Google proxy.

That is the biggest problem, and the solution has to be political, it won't be reached in the courts or on the market but in parliament.
There's no exemption. That's just 100% "bear-repellent amulet".
Google+ has actually turned out to be quite good in terms of a social network that I want to use, and has a lot of tech/programming/science/gadget/photography oriented users.
Why does every article about somali pirates always bring up qat? It's popular in a lot of places and it's barely a narcotic, maybe half a step up from coffee. Do they think chewing qat is what is making them pirates?

Most places where it is illegal but popular don't even bother to enforce the ban.
Other than what others already said about early connection termination, there is one major reason why you should not pipe to a shell.

To avoid users complaining about how dangerous it is.

This is why I distribute a tarball with an installer script in it. It's functionally almost the same, not that much harder, but it avoids all the backlash and makes my software more likely to be used.
The Roller Coaster Designed to Kill Its Passengers
Also, if you can post the FCC or CE ID it may be helpful in looking up more information about the components in the router, the firmware for which may be under the GPL separately.
No, they created Google Now which overlapped with this product. Google is constantly starting new projects and ending ones that either conflict with new ones or become obsolete.
For a moment I thought it was RFID stickers and I got excited.
> He concedes his endeavor was a dangerous one, especially when you consider Bolian slept only 40 minutes of the trip, and co-driver Black slept an hour. But Bolian went out of his way to make it as safe as possible, choosing a weekend day with clear weather and a full moon -- and routes, when possible, with little traffic or construction.

It's interesting how people justify things to themselves. "Okay, sure, I'm an asshole, but at least I made efforts not to be terrible". Travelling at a weekend might just mean a much higher number of inexperienced drivers making rare journeys, thus making weekend racing more not less dangerous.

And isn't the point of having a co-driver to let one of them sleep while the other drives? Driving while tired is very dangerous.

I agree with the rest of the thread - these people should be prosecuted. Take this stuff to a race track where other people have made a choice to be there.
>The tl;dr is that it's not a NOC tool, it's more for process monitoring whether that be application processes, engineering processes, or business processes. It also does provide a central location for anyone to see the state and history of an application or business unit.

Ah. I've usually just used email for that. :)
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I haven't really tried to use Google+ in a while, does it seem to have largely ended up as a kind of news subscription service vs. a FB style personal social network?
Britain is equally broken - and as you say, the whole west is complicit, and all, to varying degrees, suffer from the same malaise.
it's not just a matter of desserts. Unlike corporations, which are taxed on a profit basis (i.e. income less costs), individuals are taxed on an income basis. So if you give 100% of your income to charity, there is nothing left for food, shelter, etc.
Sad I used iGoogle everyday.

What's a good alternative to iGoogle? i.e. that has weather, news feeds and stock quotes on 1 page?
Good question – one of our main aims with LoseProof is to keep your personal information secure (phone number, email address, home address etc).

Although a lot of items get lost relatively close to home, you're right – we're looking at extending the service in the future to offer the option of return postage.
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You're nicer that I'd be - I was going to write one that was actually nasty :P
Great read - I've been doing angular based UI for errormator - check out the demo on https://errormator.com. And I've yet to optimize it, but even now the ui is rather responsive.
I will probably have to adopt some of their techniques too at one point :-)
Show HN: Handkommando (Realtime multiplayer rock-paper-scissors game)
Realtime multiplayer rock paper scissors game.
Websockets - Akka, Play, Postgresql, jquery mobile/backbone.

Feedback welcome.
US secretary of state John Kerry admits spying has gone 'too far'
The 'real' value of a Like
This is a very dangerous project idea. Have you, for one second, considered that this is not a sales funnel, where the only thing that counts is the "success rate" at the other end, but something dealing with people in a crisis? People who may just be considering suicide, and can be tipped in both ways. For example by a pseudo-empathic bot that tells them the same shit they hear all day in the US, which sounds nice but is the culturally accepted way to say "Please either pretend to be happy, or shut up" [1].

Please generously apply the hacker mentality to software, arduinos, knitting, cooking and art, if you like. Don't be afraid to fail, nothing bad happens there. Build, test, iterate, enjoy.

There are, however, things in life where the stakes are higher. They require more knowledge than you can quickly gather with a Google search, and, you know, professionalism. Healthcare is one of these topics.

[1] As this seems to be a bit of a cultural blind spot for people in the US, I highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Sided-Positive-Thinking-Undermi...
I think I do that to avoid global variables as much as possible, as well. Declaring things as "local" tends to keep me honest, as opposed to having a bunch of junk cluttering the global namespace.
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> The way Google does this with an error page for non serviced locations feels really off.

And hypocritical, given they are quick enough to penalise sites which present different content to there crawler than everyone else. Presenting different information by way of adding a warning ("we can not currently supply thsi item to the location you seem to be calling from, please come back later and in the meantime let's have a look at what you could have won...") would be fine, but an error feels like "you can't have one and we don't care".
Do you have a citation for that? I'd hope that the key distribution is a bit smarter than prefix-based.
Sorry, I'll stop posting now. You should also get in the queue with the busybox lawyers - "BusyBox handles enforcement of our license via our fiscal sponsor, Software Freedom Conservancy instead. Please email <gpl@busybox.net> if you believe you've found a violation of BusyBox's license, the GPLv2."
These patents are also FRAND patents from what I can tell, so I wonder how long it will take for the governments to intervene.
Digg Reader for your RSS feeds, it's a good-looking clone of Google Reader. As for the widgets, you may give a try to My Yahoo since it has been redesigned recently.
"we promised to that our program will would address the following areas:"?!
Use Surfly for remote development on GitHub or Bitbucket
Don't use autofill in your browser
I'm not sure you mean exactly this but, it's added recently: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/installtoho...
Thanks very much, glad you like it.