Satellite killed by trajectory patent
news.ycombinator.com (31) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC-14#Launch_anomalyAMC-14 is a communications satellite initially owned by SES Americom which was to have been placed in geostationary orbit , following launch by a Proton rocket . Built by Lockheed Martin and based on the A2100 satellite bus, AMC-14 was to have been located at 61. 5° west longitude and would have been used for DISH Network service
RIAA Thinks LimeWire Owes $75 Trillion in Damages
news.ycombinator.com (4) http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_owes_75_trillion_in_damages.htmlBy Sarah Jacobsson Purewal , PCWorld Mar 26, 2011 5:44 AM The music industry wants LimeWire to pay up to $75 trillion in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. That's right .
Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen
slashdot.org (3) http://96ochiai.ws/colloidaldisplay"3 graduate students from University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Tsukuba have developed a colloidal display — a clear projector screen that can control its transparency . Normally soap film will allow light to pass through, but the colloidal display does not. It mixes colloid into the solution and uses ultra sonic speakers to vibrate the surface of the soap film to achieve this. They have created several prototypes
Debt Strike and Debt Forgiveness - Debt Strike /Kick-Stopper
news.ycombinator.com (21) http://groups.google.com/group/debt-strike-kick-stopper/browse_thread/thread/542fde5207d2d3faI was looking through some old e-mails and came across a link that someone had sent me months ago: http://www. thepoint. com/doc/learn_more This looks very similar to what we were discussing building for kick-stopper
I took Scott Hanselman's advice on productivity, and now look at me...
news.ycombinator.com (17) http://whiletruecode.com/post/taking-hanselmans-productivity-adviceAbout a month ago, I watched Scott Hanselman's awesome productivity talk, It's not what you read, it's what you ignore , and it spurred me to take a hard look at my daily Internet usage. As a result I've finished several projects that were previously languishing on my todo list, and I've improved my focus. One key thought that I took from Scott's presentation is the importance of being intentional about the content I consume--tweets, blog po
New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College
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Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School
slashdot.org (58) http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Scalable_Game_Design_wiki"The idea of getting kids interested in programming in spite of their common perception of programming to be 'hard and boring' is an ongoing Slashdot discussion. With support of the National Science Foundation, the Scalable Game Design project has explored how to bring computer science education into the curriculum of middle and high schools for some time. The results are overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that game design is highly motivational
How to find an apartment in San Francisco during the tech boom
news.ycombinator.com (68) http://jasonevanish.com/2012/05/20/sf-startup-survival-guide-how-to-find-an-apartment-in-san-francisco/Congratulations! Youâve taken the plunge and decided to move to San Francisco for your own startup or to join one of the hundreds (thousands?) here. Making the decision to move may have been difficult, but nothing compared to all the hassles and headaches of moving to this city. Having just gone through this and spent a significant amount of time asking friends for advice on making the move, Iâd like to share the best advice I received and
Google wins final approval to acquire Motorola; deal to close imminently
news.ycombinator.com (34) http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-19/google-wins-final-needed-approval-for-motorola-mobility-purchaseGoogle Inc Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc Google Inc. (GOOG) ( GOOG ) won approval from Chinese regulators for its $12. 5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc
MIT sues television makers over digital sets
news.ycombinator.com (25) http://www.universalhub.com/2012/made-tv-lawsuit-mit-sues-television-makers-over-diMIT yesterday sued two TV makers for refusing to pay licensing fees on digital-television patents it was granted in the 1990s. In lawsuits against Funai - which makes Philips, Magnavox, Sylvania, Emerson, Funai, and Symphonic products - and Vizio - MIT says it held four patents at the heart of American digital television and that it's owed licensing fees and penalties because the two companies refused to buy licenses for the technologies, unlike
With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul
news.ycombinator.com (41) http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153002892/with-eye-on-future-billionaire-investor-bets-on-paul<a href="/stations/donate/?ps=sttn" class="donate">Donate</a> | NPR Shop | NPR Social Media | Login | Register Find a Station NPR News and Shows Find Stations | Music Streams Latest NPR Newscast What is this? by Richard Gonzales May 19, 2012 Weekend Edition Saturday PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who has donated more than $2. 5 million to a superPAC backing GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C
Show HN: My first web app - HakingPot
news.ycombinator.com (6) http://hackingpot.com/HackingPot is a search engine for makers and hackers . Search for cool project recipes using the ingredients you have at hand.
ORNL Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition
news.ycombinator.com (7) http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2012/02/29/ornl-completes-first-phase-of-titan-supercomputer-transition/Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Tags: GPUs , Jaguar , Titan OLCF Project Director Buddy Bland with personnel from Cray as the Jaguar supercomputer is upgraded. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world. Acceptance testing for the upgrade was completed earlier this month
Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia
slashdot.org (62) http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jC2PVgnKp2_dC9Rn38rq17nS8KHw?docId=CNG.c58a795ffd35368370f9b6ad937fec69.251"Various new sources are reporting the results of a recent Labor Party poll, indicating that Julian Assange would be elected to the Australian senate , should he choose to run. From the Sun Daily article: 'Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands a real chance of winning an upper house seat in his native Australia if he presses ahead with plans to stand for election, a poll showed Saturday. A survey conducted by the ruling Labor part
Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration
news.ycombinator.com (106) http://worqshop.com/Worqshop is a small development environment for the iPad with GitHub and Heroku support. It features a fast code editor with syntax highlighting for Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. Worqshop is developed by Worqbench , a small development studio based in Melbourne, Australia
An Anomaly in the μTorrent network
news.ycombinator.com (67) http://www.cert.pl/news/5365/langswitch_lang/enThis article is based on observations in the ARAKIS system, which is built on top of a network of honeypots. In recent weeks we continued to observe significant increase of uTorrent (uTP based) network activity. Some parts of recorded traffic triggered high-level alerts in the ARAKIS system informing about possible nodes infection
How do I get started with Node.js
news.ycombinator.com (22) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-jsAre there any good resources to get started with Node. JS? Any good tutorials, blogs or books? Of course, I have visited http://nodejs. org/ , but I didn't think the documentation they have is a good starting point
The developed village - a village that puts metros to shame
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A Sun Position Paper on Software Patents, 2006
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Fatal Collision Makes Car-Sharing Worries No Longer Theoretical
news.ycombinator.com (84) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/your-money/relayrides-accident-raises-questions-on-liabilities-of-car-sharing.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&pagewanted=allLog in to manage your products and services from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Don't have an account yet? Create an account »
Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"
slashdot.org (68) http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/dear-jailbreaker-apples-wants-word-you-051812"After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version
The world's first HTML5 SIP client
news.ycombinator.com (116) http://code.google.com/p/sipml5/Source code freely provided to you by Doubango Telecom ® under GPL v3 terms. This is the world's first open source HTML5 SIP client ( May 12, 2012 ) entirely written in javascript for integration in social networks (FaceBook, Twitter, Google+), online games, e-commerce sites.
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images
slashdot.org (117) http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-21/pakistan/28285630_1_pakistan-telecommunication-authority-websites-facebook"Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter . Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site."
Postgresql vs mongodb
news.ycombinator.com (45) http://blog.pingoured.fr/index.php?post/2012/05/20/PostgreSQL-vs-MongoDBTo content | To menu | To search « Easyfix By Pierre-Yves on Sunday, May 20 2012, 11:15 - Général - Permalink A comparative tests of postgresql vs mongodb English version As you may know I have spent some time recently working on the hyperkitty program. The idea being to offer a new interface to the archives in mailman 3 (which has never been closer to a release). Hyperkitty aims at implementing a numbers of the ideas developed by Mái
Show HN: A weekendproject, disposable web chats
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