skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money is going to the guy who patented a crucial part of Google's AdWords algorithm which neither they nor Bing can apparently design around.

The guy got crushed in the market, being just a little fish, he was gobbled right up. But he bought back his patent, and took the fight to Google and Bing and won.

You can argue the percentage calculation is a too rich by an order of magnitude or two (and I think it is), but you can't argue whether the patent is valid or whether they infringe. A judge and jury said it is, and they did, and that will stand until a higher court says otherwise.

Did Google invent it first? Nope. Did Google find any prior art? Nope. Was the patent obvious? Nope.

I don't have a problem with large companies paying large sums to inventors who actually produce a product, patent their invention, but get crushed by the market a few years later.

This is actually kinda how it's supposed to work. If this is an example of what is "wrong" then there there must be no patent that is "right".
Cuba? About time to get rid of the sanctions.
The pricing isn't even that good though
Wow! As a patent agent, those patents are pure MONEY patents, incredibly broad, especially to have been published in 2001 (but with a priority date of 1996)
Here is the money claim:

A search engine system comprising:
a first system for receiving informons from a network on a continuing search basis, for filtering such informons for relevancy to a query from an individual user, and for storing a ranked list of relevant informons as a wire;
a second system for receiving informons from a network on a current demand search basis and for filtering such informons for relevancy to the query from the individual user; and
a third system for selecting at least one of the first and second systems to make a search for the query and to return the wire or demand search results to the individual user.
==========

here is the money claim for the other patent:

. A search system comprising:
a scanning system for searching for information relevant to a query associated with a first user in a plurality of users;
a feedback system for receiving information found to be relevant to the query by other users; and
a content-based filter system for combining the information from the feedback system with the information from the scanning system and for filtering the combined information for relevance to at least one of the query and the first user.

man, that second one is a pretty broad patent.
totally off-topic, but because of the SOPA nonsense I've slowly moved my 40-or-so domains to namecheap during 2013 when their renewals came up. I was otherwise ambivalent about which DNS service/registrar to use before that incident...

but thank you for helping the guy get his twitter account back and fixing up the internal controls.
We mere vassals are happy to obey your wishes, m'lord.
Senator Klobuchar Wants To Mandate A 'Kill Switch' In All Mobile Phones
> It's mildly tempting to fork MozStumbler and have it also upload the data I collect to a server I control, just so I have a copy of my data.

You could use WiGLE's client if you want that; the client logs to a local file in addition to (optionally) uploading to the main database: https://wigle.net/
Why shouldn't it remain unused?

"They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell

IANAL, but I have a hard time believing that a court of law is going to issue a judgement of adverse possession where the perpetrator used fraud/identity theft, extortion and blackmail to come into possession of it.
1. Where can I find a list of all domain names, top 1000, top 100000?

Alexa http://www.alexa.com/topsites could provide you with data which is for the "top 500".
> Somehow Twitter noticed, reset the password and notified me via email. I have no idea how that was possible.

This sounds like pretty normal automated monitoring for what looks like compromised account behaviour.
Do you have a credible source for this?
Non web/db servers are often CPU bound, often CPU bound processes are doing parallelizable computations well suited to GPUs.
I think you're jumping to conclusions about nginx.

The author clearly means to have one nginx container in front of a bunch of wordpress containers, which can be hosted on a number of different machines, if needed.

The problem he's trying to solve is how to hook all the bricks together, e.g. how to let the nginx component know that there is a new backend (wordpress component) running and where.

This problem is orthogonal to the way you deploy the component, whether as classical applications running on a bare machine, a VM, or a lightweight container.

The advantage of using docker is that the exact same configuration can be used in a wide range of set-ups ... well assuming you can run docker :-p
It might be hard to believe, but there are plenty of people in the world whos job has nothing to do with being tech-savvy.

In this specific case the persons job is to manage HR process, not to keep their IT infrastructure up to date. The computer and browser are just tools.
you could simply use unbound functions which you put into a Python module which fits the bill. For example you could create a file services.py - or something more related to your actual domain.
This is missing the universally true #1 mistake probably (nearly) anyone commits when starting in ML: Missing an excellent understanding of the problem/domain (Unless you happen to be a domain expert for the problem you are working on, but that is a rarity).

If you do not know which features to choose and why, what the lables mean, which background data you should use, and even more important, what the actual problem is that needs to be solved, you will be wasting lots of time - and not just yours...
I know about Alexa, but 500 is too small for statistical analysis.
Alcatel stops updates for smartphone with Firefox OS
>just application of good business practices to the internet...

That's the foundation of nearly all software patents these days. Its business, but on the internet.

It seems to work because of the built in novelty factor. When there was no internet, it was impossible to do business on it, now that there is, its suddenly possible and so seems novel. It feels like a new invention when in fact, its really just an application of the technology to the same old same old.
Hired.com To Hire Indian Engineers For Silicon Valley Startups
The advancements in genetic technologies are dangerous because they deal in creating inherently extreme solutions. A lot of evolutionary stability is dependent on a statistical distribution of genotypic/phenotypic traits that have roots in a complex reservoir of genetic material. Personally I feel one cannot simply hinge an entire 'solution' on one inserted gene. The process can probably be considered analogous to 'monkey-patching' the genome IMO.
UK government plans switch to open source from Microsoft office suite
A decision making algorithm
Recently I made an argument to a buddy of mine that US should continue the drone program, but instead of bombs, drop on people chocolate bars in a shape of the American flag (weather permitting, in hotter climates we might have to opt for other patriotically shaped treats). It's cheeper, and probably far more effective at making people like (or at least hate less) the United States.

This article is yet another example of idiotic foreign policy US has been pursuing lately.
hard to say, I'd say look through forum posts to see which corps stand out, or just go do the stuff you normally do and talk to people in local, talk to your targets (or killers), fellow miners, ... whatever it is. Join those you enjoy talking to and see where it goes.

Small corps are hard if you don't know them beforehand. It's easier to find a handful of really cool people you get along with in a bigger group.
Look for the link there to download a list of the top million domains (according to them, of course).

Edit: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip
This is a viral marketing scheme to get some free advertising.

Seeing this kind of viral marketing advertising on hacker news frontpage is sad, this one is not even clever, it's mostly throwing a pile of money towards microsoft.
Bailoutism.
The hacker sells it anonymously to someone who isn't aware of the controversy or who doesn't care. It will probably shrink the value of the username but I bet it's still worth something.
Bernie Madoff was not a bank exec and was not involved in or the cause of the financial crisis, he was just exposed by it as the tide went out.

All the devils are here has a nice history of this financial crisis, I thought, and no-one who was involved in the fraud which caused the collapse of AIG, for example, was convicted, though there have been some investigations, AFAIK.

Also Iceland defaulted on its external debt and only protected national interests - the UK and US didn't really do anything similar, they have chosen to inflate their way out of debt instead.
In Iran there are restrictions on downloading articles from IEEE and ACM databases, not that we cannot access them, but our universities cannot renew their subscriptions. But there are always some ways to get what you need. It won't be different for Coursera.
But it's not fair, because facebook, youtube, gmail and services like these are always available, and in here people are very good at hating US for making these differences.
I thought start-ups are about spending someone else's money and never your's.
So much for 'disrupting education'....
Alexa also has Top 1000000 sites, updated daily:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip
That's an interesting idea to hash emails to Merkle buckets by arrival time. It may lead to uneven distribution of emails to buckets though, increasing the amount of bandwidth required to sync a bucket in the worst case.

There are other optimizations you can bring in when you sync the tree:

1. If you are working your way down the remote's tree and you notice that your local signature is zero for the equivalent remote's node signature, then you know that your entire subtree is empty, and you can short-circuit and start downloading entire buckets.

2. Conversely, if you are working your way down the remote's tree and you notice that your local signature is present but the equivalent remote's node signature is zero, then you know that your entire subtree has data, but the remote's entire subtree is empty, and you can short-circuit and start uploading entire buckets.

3. As you work your way down sections of the tree, you can start to build an idea of the average email to bucket ratio. If several buckets are only likely to contain at most one email, then you can short-circuit again.
If the username was worthless, no one would have stolen it in the first place or offered $50,000 for it.
I really don't understand why people still use goDaddy. i wouldn't recommend it to my arch-ennemy
Don't use GoDaddy. Simple as that.

If that hadn't happened, he'd still have his twitter account.

>If I were using an @gmail.com email address for my Facebook login, the attacker would not have been able to access my Facebook account.

Just google and the NSA then. Also, Gmail has an exposed password reset and social-engineerable support. A server running Postfix/Exim doesn't.

I'd consider a domain with a good registrar far more secure than google.
If you are smart enough everything is dual-use. Hobbyist quadcopter to surveillance mesh of quadcopters is not so far. But in this case it is just the low that is outdated and not real reasons. Kinda like with encryption in times past.
Its amazing how far the automotive industry has come in a mere 110 years since then.
This year the 918 Spyder, McLaren P1 and Ferrari LaFerrari hybrid supercars will fight for the crown of the most advanced sportscar and their tech is simply astonishing.
You got it all wrong, it supposed to be "how offering to buy computers for 1% of our customers is cheaper and more advertising than actually buying an ads campaign ?"
Uk gallons are slightly largers than US Gallons.

(4.54 L vs 3.78 L)*

*(note how I used the universal 'Liter' measurement to stunn you all! ;-) )
Here [1], for germany [2], Table 6: Q8. Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?

- United States 17%

- Iran 16%

1. http://www.wingia.com/en/services/about_the_end_of_year_surv...

2. http://www.wingia.com/web/files/news/97/file/97.pdf
You're clueless about what goes on in Cuba. Informers for the secret police are everywhere, nobody dares speak their mind in public. People are limited by a maximum wage. There are regular inspections of people traveling to ensure that they aren't sneaking illegal food, especially meat, around. And so on. It's as oppressive a totalitarian dictatorship as they come.
There is a petition going on to stop these kinds of blocks. You should vote for the petition if you want a change.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reverse-policy-whi...
It doesn’t even take that much. Twitter simply took @mattness from me – without notifying me – because they claimed it was unused. That was a few weeks before I was ready to launch my redesigned website…

I wrote to twitter support and they basically told me that well, it didn’t look like the account in question had my email address on it.

Unregulated centralized name registries are not a good thing.
What happened to this nice electric car from 1900s? After 100 years it got transformed into some batmobile that's mostly useless...
These types of generic sanctions are not there for military purposes. They are there under the theory that they will be onerous enough to promote regime changes. Cuba is a good demonstration of how they don't work. On the contrary they create an excuse for these regimes for pretty much any domestic problem.
You can but you don't by choice.
This is obviously good news, but I guess the fight with overpopulation is over.
As mentioned, you should turn on Google's 2-step authentication.

Since Gmail uses SSL, I'd find it difficult for an attacker to sniff out your password. Do you share that same password with other non-secure sites? Then if so, be careful of using the same password.
If someone is 'the protector of freedom' and if 'the protector of freedom' is someone that doesn't boycott Syria, then that leaves Japan, South Korea, Australia and countries who's government don't make decisions based upon enlightenment values.
Now make Chrome and Android departments compete with each other!
You can get even nicer and more useful (due to generated assertion messages) with Sweet.js macros (https://github.com/andreypopp/sweet-assertions)

describe 'when the universe exists' {
it 'should be active' {
universe.active should be true
}
}

The pre-generated assertion messages means you get `universe.active should be true` in case of error which includes actual source of the expression.
Thrift, protobufs don't really work for in-process communication because the cost of serialization can get pretty high - you can easily blow most of your CPU time just serializing protobufs across language boundaries (been there, done that). I think Cap'n Proto may be an interesting approach - the memory layout is the same in all languages, and Kenton is reportedly working on 0-copy IPC - but it remains to be seen how it will turn out.
This will not only fail but both antagonize and radicalize youth in those countries.
This was ~10 years ago. 3-digit numbers were all gone. Having a million 6 digit numbers increases chances to actually get one by registering an expired domain/email address.

In times of 9 digit numbers, 6 digit numbers were still sufficiently unique :)
If persistent connections are patchy, then HTTP is no further ahead.

A sure-fire way to decrease latency is to send as little as possible.

An empty default browser HTTP request is likely to cost you around 500 bytes in headers, before you have added any headers or data. Contrast that with a binary command which can be 1 byte. And then multiply this by hundreds of requests. CPU cycles on mobile are not cheap. It makes no sense to parse 500 bytes (and then GC this later) when you don't have to.
This. Colin from one of my favorite startups, CustomerIO, called me on the phone and pitched their product. Once he know I was interested he got my credit card number. All before the product was even launched (I think).
Oh really? You can change decades-old embargo laws by writing to your elected local official? Really?
"Mr. Secretary, how can we show these democracy-haters that we mean business?"

"I've got it! Let's go after the studious ones by blocking their access to online education! Let's force them to overload their VPNs and proxy servers while chasing their aspirations to improve the social and political climate in their countries of origin! That'll show them."
I imagine if the US invaded Cuba, Syria, Iran and Cuba, wrote them new constitutions, had massive buy in from local supporters/collaborators, had large military bases in them almost 60 years later and had almost total access to the communications of all members of government and ministries that would work even better than blue jeans diplomacy.
If it's a complex query of some sort, create a query repository that returns model objects rather than a "fat" static method on the model itself.

I believe that the "Django way" of doing that is to have a custom "Manager" class;

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/db/managers/#cu...
http://zmsmith.com/2010/04/using-custom-django-querysets/
I am pretty sure that these IE7 users (users of NursingJobs.us) are probably browsing from a hospital, where I know for a fact IT policies can be just as bad, if not worse, than at large corporations. I don't think the users have a choice here (besides using a different computer at the hospital or surfing from home).
That would be a near guaranteed way of facing criminal charges.
All but six nations have ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention, so they shouldn't be producing or possessing chemical weapons, let alone selling them to anyone.
How common are VPNs?
Wait, so this is a browser-in-a-browser?

How the fsck is that in any way an OS?

>"We believe it's not your job to keep track of what social networks your contacts use. With Avatar you simply just write a message and the system takes care of delivering the message to your friend. You can use your Avatar to communicate "cross-border" with other social networks like Facebook or Twitter."

I saw someone mention this yesterday on HN for another service, but I'll say it here. This seems like a huge WTF, as people separate services for a reason. If I want to talk to someone on facebook, I might not via email, or via a different email address to the default. See: Google recently outing a trans person who used different services for different identities.
It's not so much about in which scenarios it works or not, it's worked pretty well for people for a few years now. It's about how much magic you want in a production environment. Cluster dance gets the same net gain and is universally used everywhere. LiveRebel just takes care of orchestrating that out of the box and in synch with rest of the release aspects.
I read the article.
Sounds like an epic fail by GoDaddy, I blame them for 99% of what happened. Glad I'm not a customers of theirs...
Oh btw, try to find a registrar that does 2factor authentication!
A python developer’s guide to hacking on an airplane
I guess I find it sort of amazing that Windows can ship in 2014 and not have close to ms accuracy.
harry works around people that pine for vanity usernames. vanity = big deal in those circles. who knows why. not bad in itself.

places like foursquare, people know people at twitter. if your outside the valley twitter won't even help you when the autosuspender mistakenly pops your account but valley/connected people call an investor or executive and get their vanity handle in hours. seen it happen twice.

it's all who you know and never forget it. when i dealt with twitter support as a normal the disparity between insider service and official was pretty amazing. they are the worst of the valley backscratchers.

bet they would have taken @n if the right person called. what would you do, sue?
As an Iranian I can't really blame them. They are forced to comply with the law, and unfortunately the law is very broad. Can't really blame the US government for this sort of blanket ban either because exceptions to laws create loopholes. It won't take long until people find ways to ship missile chips as educational material.

Maybe if our government didn't threaten other nations with annihilation, this sort of shit wouldn't happen to us. Who knows.
This is already twice on the front page right now. Please find another way to boost your karma.
Less Effort, More Epic: Produce Better Content And Win
I don't understand the fault of students here. Are we still living in 90's?

Udacity can be a good alternative.
24-year-old Russian Hacker and Developer of SpyEye Banking Trojan pleads guilty
This is why I upvoted this article - anyone selling online services from the US should be thinking deeply about their export control obligations.
What do you mean my password is not secure?
lots of the same export rules apply in europe
Based on my relatively limited second-hand experience, it depends a lot on health and relationships. Some of my elderly relatives would have loved to live another 10 years, others would've been happy to have died quietly in their sleep 10 years earlier. My grandfather in particular lived to be in his mid 90s, and did not enjoy the last 10 years: outlived all his friends and his wife, couldn't really hear or see well enough to read, watch television, or carry on a conversation, could not walk, couldn't use the toilet without assistance, was on a bunch of painkillers for joint pain, etc. He was definitely of the opinion that there had been some kind of error and he was living past when his time was up.
The AMD might have more IO bandwidth - ships with dual 10GbE, while the C2750 ships with 4x2.5GbE (usually 1Gb unless on backplane), although it has PCIe too, who knows about total bandwidth.
Even on servers, parsing isn't cheap. Look at nginx code or other high-performance parsers. All sorts of little tricks to compare 4 or 8 bytes at a time to determine the verb and whatnot.
Udacity ?
Do other websites also have to block access to these countries? I've never heard of this before.
Wasn't the gigantic FU more from the Icelandic banks rather than the government?
Maple – Realistic preprocessors-based CSS framework for mobile.
And the very reason why I so dislike Civ V: in Civ IV, you could use culture to literally take over the world, as your cultural influence could slowly convert other players's territories and cities to you. And the culture bomb was a magnificent thing.

In Civ V, at best they like you, and worst (and more commonly) your cultural achievements will just make them hate you even more.
The massive accomplishment that this is aside; the website is elegantly minimalistic in a way I haven't seen since the early days of Google. Good job!
Would you rather the US government shut them down for violating export bans?
... which is written by Google. The same people who wrote the stock messaging app... and phone's OS. If they want your texts, getting them through the Hangouts app is hardly necessary.
I dug a little deeper, and ostatus is a currently working group committee within the w3c.

If I was the cio at oh, say an org in the public realm (generic government agency for example), I'd rather have control over the publishing and namespace of its tweet-like messages rather than putting every egg into the single-basket solution. Who knows if twitter will be around 20 years from now?

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
>First, name me an industry that doesn't have 3 companies that have done something bad.

Why? That would imply I don't believe the tech industry's malignity is just a further example of capitalism's more general malignity.