skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is and you can sue. I sued a company in small claims in SF for a week's pay because they refused to pay me because I took another offer after a week of being there. Mind you, this was at-will employment, though not the nicest thing to do, I know. I fought it in court and the judge awarded me the pay. On appeal, the appeal judge cut it to about half for no reason. I never actually collected as that would have required going to court yet again (for the third and possibly a fourth time) to discover their assets (since I didn't have a check from them I didn't know their bank) and then have the state put in an order for withdrawing money.

Anyway, I found out later by searching public records that this company had been sued in small claims a number of times and lost just that year. The moral of the story is to look up future potential employers' court records like you'd do a background check on a potential girl/boyfriend. Wait people don't do that to potential girl/boyfriends?
I suspect they are hoping the public will do it for them. They gave enough clues for that.

That way they said it, without actually saying it.
Looks like they achieved >5ms confinement of a 10^7 degree plasma.

For meaningful energy production, they would need say ~10s confinement of 3*10^9 degree plasma (300x the current temp -same as the temperature difference between the Earth and the surface of the Sun ). It's an interesting development, but I'd call the outlook very uncertain.
It basically just adds a level of indirection. Rather than going straight to the grsecurity folks, you now have to go to whichever downstream is disseminating the kernel based on that patch. Bummer.

Really, it's just weakening the brand they've created for themselves. It always sounds really great in theory, but it's almost never worth it. It's the GPL, they've literally signed up for this type of code (ab)use. I'm not sure why people have trouble understanding this concept.

(Though if they wanted to be really snarky, they'd relicense their code GPLv3 and watch these companies go into complete hysterics.)
Not necessarily anachronstic, considering the iXsysems CTO is Jordan Hubbard, who was previously at Apple as director of UNIX technology. Out with the old in with the less old?
You could also use a for loop. But as others pointed out, that doesn't allow you to add items to the queue after it has started.
I didn't find California's enforcement to be particularly vigorous at all, unfortunately (see my reply above). Probably because I didn't think of engaging a lawyer, though that wouldn't really have been cost-worthy.

I'm glad you did though! That's how it should be. :)
It's discussed explicitly in the fourth paragraph from the end. (Well, it doesn't name the poem used for the lyrics, but that's not really the point of the article.)
But wouldn't they need to follow the Linux license, which is GPL2only?
Apple’s content blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech
Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head
> Combine that with the fact that Git falls over at ~5GB.

I've never heard that (and certainly don't personally deal w/ git repos that large). I thought massive repository handling was supposed to be a strength of git. How does git (start) failing at that scale ?
How about:

./my_awesome_analysis /data/complicated_file_with_long_name.dat &
# do some stuf
wait
./my_awesome_analysis /data/even_more_complicated_path.dat
What does this link from 2011 have to do with anything? I'm not sure about the legalities of teachers unions or what bill was curtailing their bargaining rights (which understandably would cause protests) but there is no ransom involved in that either.

Perhaps you should read these links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
The thing is the network didn't learn the features you described. Take a simple example : neural networks confuse leopard print couches with leopards. Why? Because the network learns discriminative features based on the data it has. Theres not shared concept saying "oh this is an animal with for legs".
Also https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/450995354972864513
> Your linux binary is more of a surfing act where things are great, then you are slowing down, and something breaks, and the whole tower comes down.

This is why you use Steam Runtime and don't worry about that. It's does work even outside of Steam:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/26pck1/selfcontain...
"The case also exemplifies a suspicion that, at times, law enforcement’s motive is profit."

"At times"? Really?

I think they mean all the time for a growing majority of districts.
> We decided that it is unfair to _our sponsors_ that the above mentioned unlawful players can get away with their activity.

How is that unfair to them specifically? The purpose of this is to protect them by raising a paywall for anyone that isn't their 'sponsor'? (tangentially, that's why I prefer BSD/MIT, because people aren't as obsessed with other people doing dirty, nasty things with their free code.)

It's bad enough that these patches aren't integrated into the kernel like they ought to be or that they aren't included into mainline distros and are only ever present on custom built machines, now they are behind paywall as well. Damit, I don't want to move to OpenBSD.
You can have your own source control at the server level and every one logs into that server just run an X Server on your PC. And yes you should be developing on exactly the same hardware its going to run on.

All you need to set up a new user is a bog standard pc and a new account set up on the server.

Its a lot easier to keep dev test and live identical than 20 or so developers pc's

And even when we did local development (oracle forms) all the code was checked in to a central server which was used to produce a daily build.

How do you think IBM mainframe development is done?
Big cities are expensive, finding an on-demand workforce does not have to be
Mathematic Proof That All Hipsters Look the Same [pdf]
I don't see how that is the same at all

The broadcaster pays the movie's rights owner for the right to rebroadcast whereas AT&T has no such deal with the website owners and is supposed to be acting as a simple common carrier.
YC also despised the idea, but invested because they liked the founders. But they also presumably liked the 600+ YC founders that failed, so you can see how much investors can really predict.
The GPLv2 doesn't grant any trademark rights. The only mention of trademarks in the GPLv3 at all is a single clause explicitly allowing the grantor not to license trademark rights.

Licensing code under the terms of the GPL does not constitute signing up for trademark infringement. The article's primary focus was on trademarks, as it should be. Nowhere did the authors claim that this vendor was violating the terms of their code license.
This is a great idea. The last time a company with this idea appeared on HN, some people complained that it wouldn't work for insurance reasons, but that doesn't seem to have been a major factor yet in any of these uber-type industries at any type of scale. That is rather surprising, actually.
Should Police Be Able to Control Driverless Cars?
facts of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deploym...
I once browsed through the lyrical content of national anthems for common themes. The typical republic's theme consists of: "kill the tyrant, the people will rise, we will not be defeated." There are little variations among them that reference particular struggles in their history, but in most ways they're more similar than different.
Google ACH transfer.
I think there is significant enough opposition to the notion that the IRS would have such a capability that at the very least it will be the very last agency to get it. I can't see even the Republicans crossing that line.
> I didn't find California's enforcement to be particularly vigorous at all, unfortunately (see my reply above). Probably because I didn't think of engaging a lawyer

State enforcement doesn't seem to be involved in your case -- you went self-service with a direct lawsuit in court.

If you want State enforcement, you file a wage claim with the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageClaim.htm
That'd be the joy of their paralegal auditing team's life for the next year to figure out: does all of the code that they're building into their version of the kernel include the "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version" clause, such that the resulting binary can be a legal GPLv3 binary? I haven't a clue.

The GRsec people wouldn't care, their patch can be whatever GPLv2-compatible license it wants to be.
Tutorial: A FreeRTOS-Based WiFi HTTP Server with ESP8266 and Visual Studio
See this product overview from Wind River, which mentions "grsecurity".[1] (Backup copy: [2]).

[1] http://www.windriver.com/products/product-overviews/PO_LINUX...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150403191546/http://www.windri...
I wish they would outline their plans to integrate these technologies with FreeBSD. It is time for Apple (by way of their innovations) to feed the base which they used to build Mac OS X. How willing is the FreeBSD upstream to integrate these?
Republic Wireless is sticking to Motorola phones, there is that connection.
7 bloggers that can genuinely teach you ‘ how people get rich online ’
It takes a long time to build a Unicorn...

airbnb dropbox stripe twitch weebly machinezone were all funded >5 years ago... Unicorns in the past 5 years are Instacart and Zenefits (there will surely be others). In general it is hard to measure performance of the entire portfolio, much easier to measure performance of a class.
That seems to be a low-utility solution. Miss one cell, and it recurs.
That assumes that the sponsors don't distribute operating systems or devices containing them, only services in the cloud (or user-space software).

And even still, they could re-distribute the grsecurity code if they wanted to. But they probably won't bother. So yes this private-patches policy will have a big impact on availability, at least on convenience.
Public stock prices are the last price someone was willing to buy that stock at.

Private stock prices are the last price someone was willing to buy that stock at.

It is slightly less simple, because you may give a discount for advice, but private stock prices are definitely reliant upon supply and demand. If one investor wants to set your valuation at $1B and another at $100m, you go with the one who offered a $1B valuation. There is occasionally a discount for advice/connections, but the mechanism that the highest bidder wins is generally the same. Private market stocks are by no means exempt from economics or supply and demand.
Not in my book.
In my book any association with Muslim Brotherhood, Al Nusrah
(Al Qaida) and ISIS is justification for their hanging.

Especially ISIS. Ask any Iraqi who had relatives in Speicher. Your white guilt horse-shit used to peddle Greenwalds, Moore or Werlemans books and other crap doesn't work on us anymore.

Are you Swedish by any chance?
Stanford has a higher acceptance rate at 5.7%. Yes, you have a better shot at getting into Stanford than getting lucky on AM.
Spin+N'+Win+Slots+is+on+GreatApps.com+-
> Japanese civilians incinerated...AFTER they made overtures to quit

That's nonsense. The fascist Japanese government hoped for a cessation of hostilities because it was their only chance to stay in power and perhaps to fight again. That's not "stopping" in a permanent sense. They had attacked the US unprovoked[1], and there was no rational basis to believe they wouldn't do so again in the future. The US didn't want to win the war, demobilize, and do it all again in a few more decades; they required a permanent peace.

[1] Some will claim the US was provocative in its trade actions, but refusing to sell oil to fuel the continuing rape of China is not a reasonable definition of provocation.
Adopting Mach fresh in 2015 is certainly anachronistic.
Mad Magazine had a gag way back in the day saying that one of the benefits of being a senator is being called "The Honorable [name]", right up until they jail you for all the horrible things you did in office...
Science Friction
light and fluffy but a really positive article for the future... instead of the usual discussion on world destruction through technology or robots taking over the world
To some extent I think all inventable music has been invented. I can't remember the exact piece, but you can even hear parts of Advance Australia Fair in a Beethoven piece!

But it's interesting how even countries share melodies
> By quadratic you mean O(2^(2n))

Quadratic is O(n^2), not O(4^n). n is the number of bits.

The bits are decoded in parallel, ergo. in constant time. There may be a linear step afterwards (eg. numbering each instruction result) but the actual decode happens in parallel.

I'm a bit confused about why you think it's linear time. (I suppose technically it even has to be constant time, since the number of bits is capped at a low constant, but I suppose that's also besides the point.)

It's not actually quite that simple, since it's actually a 3-phase decode and there is some interdependence. However, the point remains that shifting the read along one instruction at a time would be too slow and parallel decode is key to fixing that.

I suppose you might instead be asking why it's not linear hardware space complexity (rather than quadratic); the answer to that is a little more subtle.
Nuremberg was important because it provided a symbolic mechanism for Axis to get a clean slate by sacrificing a few leaders. It was nothing more than theatre, and was intended as such. It was also extremely effective.
Intel's commitment is to specific products and technologies that it has determined are either in great market demand or are checkbox items in support of its other products. The company has no affinity whatsoever to Free Software or Open Source ideals, and most of its products are closed-source and protected with extremely restrictive licenses. This is especially true in the space at issue here; Intel does not make its firmware available under anything resembling Open Source terms. The same applies to its CPU microcode, most of its specifications, and the large body of tooling used by OEMs and embedded developers (much of which is not only closed but Windows-only). Intel is committed to supporting GNU/Linux distributions offered by its partners or as demanded by the market at large, but in general it remains an extremely closed, secretive vendor.
It's still not equivalent, and it's more cumbersome.
Perhaps a deeper issue is that the "Name" of a program in human terms is very unlikely to ever match a name that you'd use on the command line unless it's only one word long.
Sounds like Verifone is one of the GPL violators. They are known for being "open" except when you want to innovate without permission.

http://global.verifone.com/products/software/v-os/ - Says its Linux Based.

http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/multimedia/ - Have an MX 900 series of products.

http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/petro-pos-systems/ - Have a Petro series of Products

NYSE:PAY - are a multi-billion dollar company.

Employee asking for help: https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3938&p=139...

GRsec saying its verifone: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/450995354972864513

Thread indicating they are using an old unmaintained kernel:
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/424914478912651264

Industry called out specifically: "Not only has the entire embedded industry as a whole not contributed a single dime toward our continued development and maintenance (despite our work being critical to the security of the millions of devices using our code: streaming media players, credit card processing systems, etc), the companies we've identified have actively violated the GPL and even our trademark. These transgressions have continued despite their awareness and our legal action."
Agree completely. I saw a similar issue with sites like Operator, Magic, etc. The requests were very vague, making me wonder, "Am I spending too much time thinking about where to order a pizza from?"

And if I know which pizza shop I want to order from, what's the benefit of adding an intermediary?
The Brazilian national anthem is said to be a mashup of several compositions of the time, including the French anthem: you can sing "Allons enfants de la patrie!" in place of "Ouviram do Ipiranga as margens plácidas"

There are also several bars ripped off from Paganini.
You can currently click-to-install Wordpress, Drupal, etc on these hosting providers, but I think the real Sandstorm value is in the sandbox model. In order for host-your-own webapps to take off there will need to be active marketplaces, and any time you get enough activity there will be bad actors. We currently rely on Wordpress being trustworthy, but Sandstorm gives us much better controls to ensure it does what it says it will.

Sandstorm also gives a standard interface for writing apps, where you don't have to worry about authentication or user management. And in the future I can imagine apps exposing their capabilities to other apps in the same way your mobile device can have multiple mail readers, browsers, etc.
While they may be related by the subject of WW-II, the eastern portion of WW-II does not belong within this threading; the cultures, circumstances, and interactions are different. There are many things that our ancestors; on either side of that conflict, did which we can find moral fault in.

Likely multiple rich threads of discussion are required to fully explore the special circumstances of that particular set of actions in their historical context; but this article is not the place for such a discussion.
This stackoverflow answer[0] shows how you can queue jobs even after you start running other processes in your queue.
Essentially, you can do:

sleep 2; echo "A" && sleep 2 ; echo "B" && sleep 2 ; echo "C"
# Quickly Ctrl-Z
fg && sleep 2 ; echo "D"

and you will see A\nB\nC\nD\n slowly printed out in your terminal.

[0]: http://superuser.com/a/345455
You're only seeing one side of the problem.

Put yourself in the shoes of someone whose spouse was exposed by this leak. Imagine how humiliated you would be, knowing that the whole world knows your spouse was cheating on you. Sure, it might be good to know the truth, but how does it help you that friends, family and even strangers know this about you? Not only that, but it's on the Internet, where your humiliation will be permanently recorded for all to see.

Yes, there are consequences for the cheater. But there are also consequences for the cheater's victims, and they're significantly exacerbated by the public nature of the leak.
I wonder if Amazon leverages all of the human involvement in Mechanical Turk for any machine learning.
Tupac on Everipedia
https://github.com/less/less.js

12k stars, yeah throw it out, it's done.

https://github.com/sass/sass

6k stars, definitely more popular, if less stars means more popular. Obviously more front-end developers love sass! The evidence has spoken.
I do miss the content of old, which was 1/3 general interest, 1/3 hacker interest, and 1/3 business development. I'm not really a business guy, but it was interesting reading about how to do things like measure retention, or A/B test things with customers, or how to read your market. These days it seems that the only business-related things are either puff pieces or people talking about salary and job interviews.
Naive question: can't EFF help?
The point is that the uid is just a string. You can put anything you want in it. Most people put their name + email because that's what is useful for most internet transactions. If you get an email from someone, you want to be able to verify that it is from the person who controls that email account.

For example, I work in Japan. My colleagues work in the UK. Generally speaking I know who they are because I work with them every day. However, I have never checked their real life credentials, because it doesn't matter to me. When I receive an email from them, all I am interested in is "Is this Joe Blow that I work with from the UK". I don't care if Joe Blow is their real name, or if their carefully cultivated story of growing up in Shouthampton and going to the London School of Economics is true (as opposed to growing up as an indentured clown in a travelling circus and escaping at the age of 14 on the back of an elephant). When I receive an email from them, none of that matters. I just care if it's the same person I worked with.

So most of the time people put their email address and a name (which may or may not be fictional). When I sign that uid against a key I am saying, "I verify that this person controls this email address and is the person I know as Joe Blow".

If you actually care about whether the person is who they say they are, then the uid is going to have to contain something more identifiable/verifiable. So for instance, let's suppose I'm a bank. I want to verify that orders coming from my customers are really from that person. It is important that it is really that person because there are laws about identifying where bank transactions originate. I don't care which email addresses they control. I don't care if they are spoofing their email address. What I care about is that any messages I receive from them are really from them (and that any encrypted messages I send to them is really only readable by them).

So a passport number would be a good solution. The person walks into a bank with a USB key containing their public key with a passport number uid on it. The bank physically checks their passport to see that it matches and that it does, indeed, belong to the person who claims that it does. It then signs that uid against the key and locks it away somewhere. The key never has to be on the internet. Why would it? Nobody on the internet cares who you really are (apart from the NSA, I guess). They only care that you are the person who owns a particular email address.

I agree that there is a lot of confusion over encryption, signing, trust and identity verification. To a large part, I blame the convoluted nature of Open PGP and the existing documentation which conflates many, many issues.
I took a class with Prof. Traub, he would explain a problem, ask us to come up with an algorithm and then always ask "Can we do better?" and push us to find a better solution, he repeated it so often that every time I think about solving something "Can we do better?" is at the back of my mind.

He was interested in optimal algorithms and was one of the founders of the field of "information-based complexity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-based_complexity
How about American high school (or even college & university) fight songs?
true. more evidence is needed. my point was more that simply an email address is definitely not enough evidence.
Prenav "hello world" drone drawing cubes inside a building [video]
yes i was surprised to find out this was the case. I actually didn't think I'd posted this comment, as I went to AM and tried it out with a dummy account. must have hit the post button by mistake.
Anytime there is a platform for money to be exchanged from one party to another, there will always be people who will exploit it.
Code will be available to sponsors and sponsors would be entitled to release it to the public, but presumably they will threaten to cut you from future updates if they did that, otherwise these is no point in raising the paywall. Unless you are willing to burn dozens of shell companies for each update there is no way of stopping them.