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Was randomly recommended a video on YouTube a few weeks ago which was a recording of a tour of the WLW broadcast transmitter facility. You get to see the high power equipment in detail accompanied by lots of history about the facility. Was a fun watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHjcwIoTiY

From what I remember poking around at Hansa that's not true. Each vendor / user had a public key associated with their account. All text communication through the website was supposed to be with GPG encrypted text secured by private keys unavailable to website.

So law enforcement has lots of encrypted text along with some clear text from users not informed enough to follow any kind of opsec.

The 5th covers several rights of a person accused of a crime. In this context they are referring to the amendment's protection against self incrimination: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

A person has the right to decline to answer questions if they believe that their answers could be used against them as evidence of a criminal act. This particular proceeding is civil rather than criminal so its outcome can't result in any criminal convictions. However, if he were later to be charged with a crime and tried in a criminal court any testimony he gave in this civil action could be used against him as evidence in the criminal trial.

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403906

I come to the HN web site on slow work days or when I need a breather and generally look at front page stories or glance over the Ask HN list.

I noticed what seemed like a pattern: stories with a high ratio of points to comments were often more valuable and the discussions more interesting. Entries with more comments than upvotes are frequently pop culture-y or bike shedding discussions.

So to try and see a "best of" without lower value discussions I threw together a Twitter feed that lists stories with high points and a high point to comment ratio: https://twitter.com/HighSNHN

Two Senators willing to filibuster plus the amount that backed out after yesterday's protests will make it very tough to get this bill to a vote.

This is absolutely not true. 41 votes are needed to prevent closure. According to Rep Lofgren the headcount for no votes on closure are down in the singe digits : http://www.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/onk34/urgent_message/

Once closure happens the bill heads into markup behind closed doors where the sausage making starts.

These bills are still very much on track. People need to be on the phones to their senators urging a no vote on closure so that the debate can happen in public with input from both sides.

Yesterday had some impact, but these bills are still very much on track to become law. All the post mortems today aren't communicating that very well.

The closure vote in the Senate on the 24th needs at least 41 no votes to prevent the bill from moving into markup. While more senators have announced opposition or doubt, current headcounts put "no" votes on closure only in the single digits.

Unlike subcommittee hearings, the markup hearings are closed door and allow the Senate to draft a final version of the bill without public scrutiny or testimony from tech leaders. If this legislation follows suite with other controversial legislation, the bill that emerges will have enough back room deals attached to let both the latecomer opposition and the White House to declare the bill a healthy compromise irregardless of the facts.

People need to be on the phone to their senators. Urge them to vote no on closure so that the inevitable compromise bill can be debated in public with input of experts.

I think its a good idea and will give it a try next time I need to spin up a theme.

Ignore the negativity in these comments. This is a great example of scratching your own itch and being generous enough to place it on Github. Who cares if the bulk of WordPress users won't grok it? That's no reason not to build it. Thanks for sharing.

Its really great of you guys to offer this service on your own dime - thank you. Its also very shrewd marketing, and I hope it pays off for you.

Besides entertainment value doesn't all of this back and forth reduce down to the age old "use the right tool for the job in front of you"?

Node.js as it currently stands isn't the best solution for applications that will involve CPU intensive tasks. Perhaps at the outset of a project you don't know when and where those types of tasks will pop up so basing an entire architecture on it might be risky.

However, it seems to me that regardless of the above, there are tasks Node excels at and it would be silly to dismiss it as a technical solution all together. I'm building browser based games with it and love working with Node. The bulk of the logic is in the client and Node serves as the glue that allows people to play games together from different clients. Nothing I have read gives me pause about this implementation.

Often times they are stuck using insecure browsers because some archaic piece of in house software depends on obsolete features only present in dated versions of browsers. They choose to skip updates because they don't want to spend the cash rebuilding the timekeeping system to work with anything other than IE <= 7.

I'm not seeing anything in the thread that verifies the title of this submission. Am I missing something?

It looks to be people discussing the iOS episodes and patent trolls in general.

Edit - Yup my fault, I zeroed in on the responses.

I don't know if his views on this issue completely line up with the prevailing sentiment here, but this is the second time in recent memory that Sen Wyden has acted to bail out the internet as we know it in the US. If the issue is important to you consider taking a minute to contact his office to express your opinion or even donate something to his campaign.

Contact form: http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/ Campaign: http://www.standtallforamerica.com/contribute/

For all their flaws, politicians are much more likely to pay attention to issues when they know an engaged audience is watching.

That is apparently no longer the case. The only major services non-military are ineligible for are auto and property insurance.

Eligibility description here: https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/why_choose_usaa_eligibility_...

I think you'd find a site like stackoverflow to be a more helpful place to ask a question like this. Certainly there are JS experts around here, but people tend to be in a different mode when browsing HN and are more up for discussing tech at a 10,000 foot perspective.

Here is a good summary from SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2067472/please-explain-js...

To quickly answer:

1) Yes - Its the browser security model enforcing this rule and not anything directly related to the DOM. In theory the rule is in place to make cross site scripting harder. It is bizarre that there is an easy work around like JSONP, but I'd say lets just be grateful that it exists.

2) Common. Its a hack, but its also useful enough that its widely used.

3) Yes - thats proxying your data. Very common.

Maybe its because I was skimming, maybe its because department versus department battles in a large company feel all too natural, but I have to admit that this had me all the way until:

"It's not like people are going to start using Bing."

Interesting that the Google provides several offerings for Sprint and then the fiber project picks KCK which is a stone's throw from Sprint headquarters.

Could be completely unrelated, but could be hinting at further alignments.

The 30% cut of in app sales has to figure in somewhere as well.

First time in a while I got a warm fuzzy for having an Android device.

While this seems to be mainly a headline grabbing talking point that is lacking any path to implementation, Rick Perry (or at least one of his speech writing advisors) seems to have some interestingly disruptive ideas about using technology to make education both better and cheaper. The call for a $10,000 bachelors seems to hinge mainly on utilizing web based technologies and distance learning.

During the recent election he also advocated replacing elementary school textbooks with laptops. The laptops could be used to provide students with electronic copies of textbooks that were more up to date, cheaper, and able to be supplemented with educational games and multimedia. (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EUFAVG0.htm)

Then again if they come from Rick Perry those laptops might have several gigabytes of creationism along for the ride.(http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plink&id=1312...).

I don't know about New York, but in DC gentrification is pushing many of the urban poor to the older suburbs like Prince George's County in Maryland.

As the process continues it might be that some of the first suburban areas built in the 50s and 60s become the new "inner cities." Transportation costs serve as a pressure to drive people back into re-developed spots in the city and next lowest cost of living are many of these first suburbs that haven't seen development and investment keep up with the times.

I'd have more sympathy for this argument if government interference didn't play a large part in the construction of the status quo.

In Canada, government regulation and taxpayer money played a significant role in building the infrastructure. In the US, government granted monopolies built the infrastructure and still serve to squeeze out competition.

Government interference isn't a shiny new monster imposing itself on private sector infrastructure. Rather it has been a key player since the beginning and shaped the market in ways that need to be accounted for.

I know you asked for a book, but as a fellow self taught person I remember this video being really valuable to me when trying to get my head around OOP.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2058469682761344178...

It is an older video of Dan Ingalls of Smalltalk fame explaining objects. I clearly remember a large light bulb going off in my head as he walked through his analogy of a hospital described as an object.

This certainly isn't comprehensive, but if you are stuck on the concept its helpful to hear someone talk it out.

I helped run a large, high volume college bar for around 8 years and then opened and operated my own venture (with partners) for a year or so.

Much of the details of your venture will depend entirely on its location. Sticking to advice that will apply no matter where you are:

If you have to equip the place from scratch and need to do it on the cheap, find restaurant auctions around your location. Restaurant and bar equipment depreciates at a sickening rate, and they go out of business frequently. You can save well over 70% off of catalog for six month old equipment.

Find a local insurance agent and get to know them very well. Don't ever, ever skimp on liability insurance.

In my experience far and away most important aspect of operating a bar is the staff that you employ. Obviously they need to be as trustworthy as possible - employee theft is a constant. Much like fighting illegal downloads you will be fighting to minimize it rather than abolishing it. The theft will rarely be in the form of removing money from the register till, but rather in the form of unpaid product.

The larger reason that your hires will be important though is because hiring the right people is the most effective form of marketing that you can possibly do. Hiring a staff of well connected, social butterfly waitresses, door guys, and bartenders has an infinitely higher ROI than any print or radio marketing that you can do.

Additionally, good employees are perhaps the most important differentiating factor for your business. Unless you are a multi-million dollar Vegas-style theme joint, your business is a commodity. There are already twenty other businesses just like yours. Having employees that are both good at their jobs and eager to establish relationships with your patrons will be key in converting customers to repeat customers.

Could type all day, but the last thing that I would add is that as with any new business you will struggle to gain traction. When marketing I always tended to look at my job as one of disrupting traffic patterns. Potential patrons already had their favorite bar and a list of five others on a short list. My job was to get myself on that list, and in order to do that I would have to offer an awfully compelling reason to get them to disrupt their patterns.

I would usually use either a heavy loss leader (really cheap drinks) on a typically low revenue night or high profile events (big name band / DJ, fight night, etc). Once I had ac customer in the door and I provide a well executed experience it becomes a numbers play much like PPC advertising in the web world. 50% of the people that tried me out will be back someday, I made it on to the short list of 10% of the new customers, 5% wind up being new regulars.

Most lawyers I have dealt with for business needs like commercial leases, liability waivers, etc all use boiler plate documents for a starting point.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think the bulk of the cost that you are paying as their customer isn't for the text of whatever document you need to procure, but rather for their professional analysis of your business's specific situation and any changes that need to be made to that boiler plate.

CNBC now reporting on air that a human error by a trader at a major firm triggered the interday low.

Breaking News of cnbc.com reads:

Trading Error at Major Firm Blamed for Market Plunge: Sources (Story Developing)

Oh yeah - I definitely agree.

I guess my thought was just that the semantic lens is focused in a different direction that I imagined. The mental model I always had was that the semantic info would let users make connections between datasets that model our physical world rather than datasets that monitor users themselves and how they use the web.

This is just a different use case than I imagined.

My idea of a semantic web is when the data on the web has value added to it by being able to tie disparate pieces of data together. The thrust of what Facebook is doing seems to be tieing my identity to data on the web. That's a different value prop.

One makes the web more usable to me, the other makes me more usable to other people.

(1989)

Its neat to see this posted here. I'm a self educated hacker and years back this video is what finally helped me grok OOP. At the time I could copy and paste code, but had little grasp of the ideas behind it. Ingalls' "Hospital as an object" analogy is what made the model click.

Many of the subscriptions reported directly by WP are bots / spiders. Feedburner attempts to filter many of those out.

Makes sense to start in an area where some of the big players have territory that overlaps.

To be clear though - companies like Clear and Sprint aren't just selling 4g wireless devices, they are selling hotspots filling the roll of routers that supplant a home internet connection all together.

When Verizon gets in the game - maybe FIOS for heavy need households, 4g hotspot for a light duty setup?