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Remote code execution on Smart TVs through radio broadcasting HbbTV commands
Yep. The calander is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
My advice? Learn to partner dance. I always say it's the most fun you can have with modular arithmetic.

I'm pretty introverted, but I've been an enthusiastic swing dancer for 17 years now. Start by taking classes. You'll meet a bunch of people. Also, there's a structure to the interactions there. You're all there to learn, you're all just starting out in the dance, you're all meeting each other for the first time, etc. After a few months, you'll start making friends from classes. Somewhere in your first 1-3 months of classes, you'll go out dancing socially, like to a bar, or a club, or a concert, etc. You'll meet more people there, too. Also, it's super fun!

Another thing that has been great for me about dancing is that it's social, but it's not very verbal unless I want it to be. There have been many times I've felt drained and didn't want to spend a lot of energy holding up a conversation. On those nights, I'd go out for an evening of dancing and dance with 1 or 2 dozen different women and barely said more than "Would you like to dance?" and "Thank you for the dance." I'm a native English speaker, but I still find conversation draining sometimes. Dance gives me a way to get out of the house and interact with people and avoid staying in the house and compounding anxiety. Also, it's super fun!

Pick a dance where people go out and dance socially at places other than dance studios (swing/lindy hop or salsa are your best bets. IMHO, lindy hop is far and away the best. Also, there are tons of guys in IT in lindy hop, so you'll fit right in.) Technically, people can ballroom dance anywhere, but in practice, at least in Chicago, there are no weekly ballroom events that I know of outside of ballroom dance schools. The reason I advise this is that classes are great for learning the dance and for having a social structure to rely on, but you also want to have unstructured social time with people you've been meeting in classes. Also, you'll meet more people this way and dancing socially is a ton of fun. If you have a weekly dance or two to go see friends at, it's easier to stick with classes than if you're taking classes so that you can get better for... taking more classes.
Georges Lemaître had proposed an early version of the Big Bang theory in 1931. In 1936 it was nowhere near the scientific consensus -- that didn't happen until the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, 29 years later.

But knowledge of the Big Bang and the Hubble redshift aren't, by themselves, sufficient to explain what Stapledon wrote. Those things just show that the universe has expanded. For most of the 20th century, people assumed that the acceleration of the universe would diminish -- either asymptotically approaching zero, or reversing into a "Big Crunch". For the galaxies to accelerate beyond the point where photons can bridge the gaps between them, they need to not only have been accelerated, but to keep accelerating, which is a very unintuitive notion (what would be driving the acceleration?)

My guess is that Stapledon was influenced by Einstein's Cosmological Constant, which predicted exactly this kind of acceleration, but which Einstein himself had repudiated several years earlier, calling it "his biggest blunder". When I first read Star Maker in 1997, I figured that even if Stapledon had been up-to-the-minute about the Big Bang, he somehow hadn't gotten the memo about the Cosmological Constant. So I chalked this passage up as one of several things that Stapledon had definitely gotten wrong.

A year later, Dark Energy was discovered, and suddenly it appeared that Stapledon was right all along. This did my head in a bit. Somehow, Stapledon had been spectacularly smart/lucky in crafting his story from a mix of freshly-proposed and freshly-discarded theories. So no, clairvoyance isn't strictly necessary to explain this. But just to be safe, I'll retain that parenthetical question mark after "fictional(?)" when describing Star Maker.
Is Coding the New Literacy?
Tasneem Raja, of Mother Jones, on computer literacy, problem solving, education and diversity.
Why Unix like OS is mostly reffered here?
Even though Windows have larger userbase, contents posted here mostly related to some Unix-like OS. (Linux/BSD/OSX) Why so?
Of course, we must be cautious by not drawing unwarranted conclusions.

That's right, after seven pages of drawing unwarranted conclusions, just tack this on at the end to make it all right.
I remember that when the DMCA was new, false takedown notices would be punishable as perjury. What happened to that?
As a clojure developer that sometimes crosses the line into the front-end world, this is going to make my life much easier.
Is there a good way to deal with this? Even the curated Apple Store is full of clones. In this case claiming copyright or Trademarking the name would force at least a small change in the clone, but they could adjust the spelling.
You should copyright the name before you release a game on the app store, then you can have some leverage when asking for removal.
Boost your design prowess with this surprising new app for creatives 
An American design and business development team have released Coffitivity, an app designed to mimic the sounds of a humming coffee shop and in turn increase your creativity—that at least, is the theory.
PG has an interesting bit about this in an essay:

"This started to change in Europe with the rise of the middle class. Now we think of the middle class as people who are neither rich nor poor, but originally they were a distinct group. In a feudal society, there are just two classes: a warrior aristocracy, and the serfs who work their estates. The middle class were a new, third group who lived in towns and supported themselves by manufacturing and trade.

Starting in the tenth and eleventh centuries, petty nobles and former serfs banded together in towns that gradually became powerful enough to ignore the local feudal lords. [10] Like serfs, the middle class made a living largely by creating wealth. (In port cities like Genoa and Pisa, they also engaged in piracy.) But unlike serfs they had an incentive to create a lot of it. Any wealth a serf created belonged to his master. There was not much point in making more than you could hide. Whereas the independence of the townsmen allowed them to keep whatever wealth they created.

Once it became possible to get rich by creating wealth, society as a whole started to get richer very rapidly. Nearly everything we have was created by the middle class. Indeed, the other two classes have effectively disappeared in industrial societies, and their names been given to either end of the middle class. (In the original sense of the word, Bill Gates is middle class.)

But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich."

http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
I got a 61%. Still high for a native speaker, it says.

I am not a native speaker, though.

One thing that's weird. It says:
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.

That sounds good. Apparently I never claimed to know a word that doesn't exist. But when I click on the "Nonwords you responded YES to" link, there is a word there. "Seconds".

Again, I am not a native speaker but I do believe that "Seconds" is indeed a word...
There is some psychological "research" that suggests if you ask a person to help you they then like you more.
It has the largest single campus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_universit...

However, if you include online universities, the University of Phoenix is bigger. And if you allow lumping of multiple campuses together, Penn State is bigger. But even then, ASU is #3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_United_Stat...
Pledge to make it possible? It's a scanner, not a charitable donation!
if I interpret this correctly (British) copyright expired in 2000 as Stapledon died in 1950.

"In the 1911 Act the term of author's copyright was extended to the lifetime of the author and 50 years thereafter; this remained the case under the 1956 Act and the 1988 Act.
The 1911 Act in effect extended the meaning of "author" so that this period of copyright applied to all types of works, not merely printed works.
Under the 1995 Regulations (set out below), the period of author's copyright was further extended, to the lifetime of the author and 70 years thereafter."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kin...
Is Coding the New Literacy?
You seem to suggest that "all parties winning" is a random, unintended by-product of the process being ultimately profit-driven (which apparently is nefarious).

This is false. While there may well exist exploitation, the vast majority of successful businesses, especially those that are successful on the longer term, were and are successful because their profit/employee/customer value proposition is one of win/win/win.
Yes, the private key is encrypted with your password and stored locally.
Product names are not subject to copyright. Trademark is probably what you are thinking of.
... for a few specific tasks.
Just like it's not real "startup school" unless you spend 3 months in Silicon Valley?
nuget install sqlserver-express

Would that work?
That's such a sad and pessimistic way of looking at life.
agree. a lot of dependencies too, which I know cant be helped but its still about as painful as root canal. some more, I remember the JIT debugger always giving me crap. other programs would accidentally trigger it and get killed, I'd always have to go into the registry and nuke it.

does know where I can get a VM with it preinstalled?
> Edit: You edited out getting debt for a car? That may not be a bad idea for some.

Sorry for the ninja edit. I felt the post was getting too long and it was sort of an ancillary point.

Anyway, I think it's important to have a car if you live in a car dependent area. It's really easy to justify spending all weekend at home alone if you need to rely on awful public transit to get anywhere.
Game.

Nuff' said.
I don't think that's correct. A bachelor's in the US (eight semesters of study) is roughly equivalent to a bachelor's in Germany (six semesters of study) plus the final year of secondary school (which lasts one year longer in Germany).
"Libertarians like you" will find it easier to argue that the government should stop taking your money (or at least take less of it) to provide education, the more private sector success stories there is to point to.
Agreed. Both ability to read materials anonymously and to discuss things privately are very important for both freedom and democracy.

That does not mean we must treat every single personal preference as top secret material.
Star Maker is terrific.
Akamai's Download Manager looks like a private torrent system
Optimize Me (Part 2): Optimizing Your Landing Pages Elements
Short tutorial on Bag of words for Naive Bayes
Police: Indian Factory Workers Kill CEO in Dispute
Whats the harm? At most, people can encrypt things with your public key and then...?
This is why I'm frustrated that G+ (or something similar) hasn't taken off.

Facebook's usefulness is limited to friends and family. Twitter is good as a fine-tuned information feed. I've also tried using Twitter for two-way communication on very specific topics, but there's an immediate problem: I have many and varied interests, so I know that most of my followers won't be interested in most of my tweets. The character limit is also a significant handicap (and makes little sense now that SMS is being replaced by IM).

Google+ with its circles seemed like a perfect solution to this problem, but unfortunately, except for topics related to technology, there seems to be very little interaction going on. So this means I'm limited to specialist websites or sites like Reddit. While this isn't awful, I think that having a genuine interest-based social network (that isn't just a mouthpiece for the powerful and famous) would offer several improvements.

For a start, I'd have control over my 'circles', eliminating the troll problem that plagues all forum-based websites. I could make my circles as large or small, and as specialised or general as I wished. This ideal social network would emphasize mutual following and active participation, and provide many tools for discovery of relevant connections.

Maybe there just isn't the demand for this, I don't know.
I'd like the enterprisy features that Samsung is shipping, without dealing with a Samsung-only bolt on technology.
A while ago my wife and I were having a debate about hollywood. Mostly about how much it sucks, and why. I made the statement, it doesn't really matter because technology is bringing down the cost of making a movie for everyone in literally every way. At the time I was thinking about cheap CG, and DSLR's. Great quality filming like aerial shots were one of the few holdouts that individuals didn't have access to.

Now one of the last few holdouts are good quality talent, but I think people can learn to improve skills, and technology can help there too.

To me there isn't a single "hollywood killer" but rather its a singularity of sorts. When technology converges to the point where the quality of million dollar marketing oriented mass audience films are irrelevant. Because cheaper "niche" movies are more compelling anyways.
Bulgaria is an EU member, so he should be able to work in another EU country. I know Netherland has a shortage of good tech people. Maybe he can look for a job there?
Dispelling some myths about Bitcoin, from a Bitcoin fan
Writing a blog post about it that is likely to introduce your apps to tens of thousands of new people isn't the worst idea for a response :)
is it only me or does one of the characters from the other game they mentioned look a lot like eggman from sonic
After noticing the Akamai Download Manager appearing in Microsoft's SQL server download process (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898287 ) I went looking for what it actually is.

As far as I can tell, it's a torrent-like client that merely uses Akamai's 10,000+ servers rather than whoever joins the swarm.
Show HN: We're creating a social platform where you don’t need to follow people
Looks like they just put out (in the last 2-3 days) a new app that is legal

https://github.com/hiphopapp/Atraci
TestObject Quality Report for Wikipedia
Probably too late now that the conversation has moved on, but if you happen to see this could you point me to one of these syncing services? A very quick google search didn't turn up anything. Thanks.
Starbucks' tax arrangements are specifically legal. It's not in any meaningful sense taxpayers' money, no matter how strongly you feel it should be.
There is this: https://github.com/hiphopapp/Atraci

it's a fork of hiphop by the original team and seems to have some of your reqs
You should steal one thing back: the Quento lite icon looks way better than the Quento one.

Or is that the new flat convention for iOS?
Illegal contracts are illegal. What's your point? You can't sign away your legal rights.
The code and look / feel does fall under copyright though, so if it was using the same graphics or it can be proven to be using the same code (or a decompiled version of it), it can be removed under copyright law.

But yeah. This is kinda why people patent stuff, despite the brouhaha about patents: if you don't patent your gameplay idea (in this and similar cases), people will just take your idea, rebrand it and run off with it.
So by that logic it's fine to pirate anything digital?
I can't tell if it's finished yet:

> Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys.

Nor do I understand why I'd use it. Do lots of people post GPG encrypted messages to each other on gist?
I'm not sure I understand. It seems like you're implying that the two people would be moving away from each other faster than the speed of light, but I was under the impression that that's not the case. I thought that each person would observe the other travelling at C?
BBM Protected – For secure instant messaging
Indeed. Every 4 years it feels like you can talk to pretty much anyone about football. At least that's how it seems in Canada. The good thing about living in a country which almost never qualifies for the finals is that there are lots of different teams to chat about.

This year the good news is you don't even need to know much about football in order to have an opinion on Goal-line technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal-line_technology
I read the text, never looked at the image, but now that I have looked at it, it seemed like just an illustration anyway, not a picture representative of the author.
The €30k data takeaway: Domino’s Pizza faces ransom demand after hack
I recently signed up for a new Twitter account, and I was surprised by how difficult it was, even for someone who has had previous twitter experience. I was 'required' [1] to go through several steps, and each step required me to think heavily about what I wanted to achieve. Then, when I completed each step, the results were of questionable value.

Twitter really needs to redesign their on-boarding process. If they want to attract the middle-market, it needs to be super easy and immediately valuable. As simple as, 'Enter a few topics of which you have interest', followed by a filtered list of really interesting tweets and some recommended people to follow.

I remember how quickly Google gained the search market around 1999 - 2000. It was dead simple to use and immediately valuable.

[1]: The steps were actually optional, but I had to look really hard to find the 'skip' link.
This piece of software is not a torrent indexing website.
I'd say that at most it forces you a bit more (if that was necessary) to check the SSH fingerprint of the machines you're SSHing into.
MIT PhDs Take Scientific Approach to Craft Brews
Show HN: Atraci Free music streaming player
A long term stable basic income would be paid for by an income tax + a wealth tax. Suppose you set those numbers at 5% income tax and a 0.1% wealth tax. Now today that's not going to pay for much of a basic income, however it's better than a farmer in 1800. Keep pushing effecency and your quality of life keeps going up.
It is steam at a higher pressure than atmospheric would allow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam.

Its more efficient in driving steam engines and turbines
copyright isn't something that you 'do', either, it just 'is'.
It does not assume this. If you read the study Tabarrok links to, you'll see that different sorts of test prep get different outcomes.

Private tutoring (the best kind) tends to get the largest (but still small) improvements.
Personally I specialize in warehouses because with the coming levels of automation, increase of robotic productivity and loss of jobs, there will be so many products and so few customers that only bigger warehouses will be the solution :)
And the current pro-coal/oil/gas Abbott government is cutting funding to ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency), who funded this project, by $435 million in the new budget.
Even if Bulgaria sucks, it's a member of the EU. Workers have a right to get paid here. I don't see why prospective employers would even know that he's suing a former employer. The only real obstacle is probably that the lawsuit itself costs money, but even then, he should definitely sue.

What use are worker protection laws if employers get away with this? Only employers on the verge of bankruptcy should get away with this. If a healthy company doesn't pay its employees, it wouldn't surprise me if that's criminal. Try getting the police involved.

Note: I'm not a lawyer.
Note: this is my the same team that did HipHop, they seem to have come up with a similar and this time legal free alternative.

Also I'm not one of the devs.
For everyone, it comes down to convenience
No, online gaming is a bad idea for the person in question. I tell that having an online maxed out toons diablo II hardcore (if you die you lose your toon), maxed out toons (gear) in Linage2, Aion and Rift.

The escapism offered by the online gaming is a no substitute for real life. You're basically asking a person with no social life to become a true no-lifer.
It's an attempt to solve the key distribution problem. By having you verify your keys on third party sites, a MITM or NSL attack (providing you with fake keys so your messages can be intercepted) gets a lot harder as you have to attack n sites simultaneously instead of one.
You must see a good therapist, even if you pay out of pocket for your sessions. I am also very introverted and have also gone through a few years of loneliness, though not as intense as yours. It's fine to try and fix your problems on your own, but when you fail for several years, there is no shame in getting help from a professional. Psychotherapy has made great progress in the past 50 years with the discovery of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is no longer the wishy-washy pseudoscience that it used to be. Of course, a therapist is not a magician, but it may really help. You must explore this option.

Maybe, like me, you think that seeing a therapist is shameful because it is akin to "admitting defeat". However, it sounds like you've been in an extremely difficult and painful situation for a number of years, which makes seeing a therapist not a defeat; on the contrary, it is the correct thing to do.

Good luck, I hope that you get better.
>no one bats an eye

Some people bat an eye.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplic...
I'm not going to bother responding. I get down modded anyways for perfectly reasonable comments on uncomfortable topics. You can figure out what I have to say from my previous comments.
It seems to me, this could actually drive sales for Quento. People will play the Quento lite, and not like the ads. They will go to buy the full version, and find Quento.
There is a novel about that. "Schild's Ladder", by Greg Egan.

But in that novel, the sphere of destruction expands only at c/2.
Higgs boson scientists are knighted
people still have Blackberry's? I thought they were extinct by now...
This is pretty risky as native PDF readers are among the most targeted malware infection vectors. At least make sure you don't have Adobe Reader if you decide to risk this.
You also have to be careful to not become known as a pushover.
Quoting Michael Winner, a multimillionaire conservative, probably isn't your best line of argument :)

But seriously, these are both personal opinions, and the first one even seems to be working against your original assertion that the honour is meaningless.

All things considered, if you have an issue with the monarchy and the "aristocratic" government (not quite accurate, but there's a point there), that's completely valid. Rallying against an almost entirely unrelated honours system is way off-target, and I would imagine that abolishing it would do more harm than good.
Show HN : Monkey Wrench – Chrome extension to inject scripts on any url. 
Monkey-Wrench is a powerful utility that allows you to run custom JavaScript and apply custom CSS styles on any website

Usage :
Right click on Monkey Wrench Icon and click 'Options'
yip that's the link to the repo!
I'm a bit torn about normal functions. Traits/typeclasses often make more sense, but on the other hand, this kind of static monkey-patching makes it difficult to figure out which trait provides which method when looking at the code. But without something like the operator proposed here, chaining normal functions is quite awkward.
Are you sure about that? I find people are incredibly hostile towards Libertarian concepts and ideas. However, the idea of simply holding government accountable for stuff that they already keep professing to want to fix seems like something a whole lot more people would agree on.
The Future of Work, Plus or Minus E-mail
That's why having more than one media outlet is important.