skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I can confirm that Ubuntu 10.04 is vulnerable. We're proceeding with the fixtime.pl workaround.
I worked kitchens for about 10 years and have a culinary degree. I can tell you that in many restaurants the cooks have never tasted the type of food that they are supposed to be cooking. They throw in the ingredients but what comes out is a sad given the resources at their disposal.

My grandmother can cook better than many places using standard household equipment. It really is sad what we have done to both the culinary world and the home kitchen.

Think about cooking different dishes for years, 40 to 60 hours a week. How good do you think they should be? Most good chefs that gave a damn and had the option left the business.
Could he target healthcare next? :-\

Seriously -- it's not glamorous but it could really use an innovator.

(Then again, who would have said an electric car could be glamorous?)
What on earth are you talking about, man?
How selfless is it when you consider it the critical, deciding factor in your own success.
The upcoming small business revolution
As part of Google Compute Engine we provide an NTP server to the guest which is based on Google Production time. As such our VMs get to take advantage of this leap second smearing implementation. I was going to mention this at my talk at IO but forgot.
That doesn't speak too well of his design ability.
for people like me who haven't spent the time to learn the ins and outs of django but still like hcking around in python, things like this are very enticing. so in a way, the author 'invented the wheel' for me, so i don't have to reinvent it. if that makes sense.
I think - no evidence to justify this - that you're just smelling the vine. The vine and the leaves of tomatoes smell really strong. I bet if you took one of the vine tomatoes off the vine, washed it, left it for a few hours, you wouldn't be able to smell that smell any more.

I have considered whether the leaves of tomatoes are edible, they do have such a pungent smell. I was told they are poisonous. I could google it, but would that not ruin the fun?
How are systems being notified of the leap seconds now, that wouldn't immediately enable them to update their hypothetical leap second table?

It seems like we already have a much bigger lead time for notification than we could possibly need.

> I can see why people don't relish the idea of requiring similar tables just to keep system time accurate.

But the 'solution' we're using now is to make system time less accurate, not more accurate. Accurate would be if leap seconds incremented the system clock like normal seconds do. If the accuracy you're worried about is displaying a clock time rather than time since the epoch, you already need a time zone to do that.
Let me see now. They have pushed their email address out into people’s address books and taken control of their private communications.

Where is the poor (business) design?
"Most blurry photos are due to low light and camera shake, ..."

The Lytro camera has a fixed wide-open aperture, so exposure times are kept short.

" Being able to pick the focal point arbitrarily after the photo has been taken is a cool gimmick, but what's the point?"

You can also change the depth of field after the fact. E.g., to blur out the strip club in the background of an otherwise nice shot.
On this topic, I am sure that many tropical fruits taste so much better when you eat them in their native setting. Mangoes and papaya are the first two that come to mind. I have never had a good papaya in England or in Canada and yet, in the West Indies they are one of my favourites.
Researchers hack drones. A science project anyone?
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WebGL Quake 3: 2 years later
I have some perspective on this. I'm a white guy that lives in San Francisco. I also used to live in South Florida and spent a lot of time in Miami.

My ex-girlfriend of 8 years was Haitian. I got to know and love her parents, Marie-Ange and Frantz. They moved from Haiti in the 60's to NYC, then later to Miami when my ex was a girl.

I had a chance to learn a lot about Haitian culture and history. They are, almost without exception, some of the nicest and hardest working people I've ever met. Some of her family are doctors, lawyers, and musicians. Others struggle everyday to put food on the table. Frantz never spends much money, and worked as a foreman for years. He helped to build a lot of modern Miami. Despite never having an abundance of money, he always gave to help others.

Miami is a very, very hard place to get ahead. It is, per capita, one of the poorest cities in the US. The opportunities for most people, especially immigrants, are lacking. Frantz in the story is likely doing the best he can to support his family in a very shitty situation. Based on my experiences, I will make the claim that it's nearly impossible for him to find a second job. He's likely another hard working, striving young man like countless others I know. But his opportunities in the place his family lives don't make his life easy.

I don't know if there's a clear point to my story, but I hope my experiences provide some extra background to the discussion.
Note, it might indicate that most of their Engineering staff use android devices as no one found the problem in time.
Interesting analysis. Preserving (2) means that systems that don't handle leap seconds (or don't have a leap seconds table updated in the last six months) have a POSIX time at most 1 second away from systems that do. Dropping (2) would mean a more complicated formula to convert system times to times of day, but it would also make the failures and missing leap tables immediately noticeable, rather than a one-in-a-few-years event. Which would have made it the better choice; bugs encountered during development are easily handled, bugs that happen years later on production systems are inconvenient.
Well, that's the point, right? People are worried about hostile AI, and how scary it would be to be confronted by an enemy possessing overwhelming resources and no emotional common ground. But much of the world already has that experience.
If it is a matter of bruising then it would ultimately effect the taste as well - or at least the mouthfeel, which is arguably part of the taste if you use the tomato in a salad rather than a stew.

Perhaps the solution is simply to educate consumers better.
People love the concept behind RSS. They just want it served in an easily digestible way, which is: social media.
It's one of the big problems for fancy organic type supermarkets. People associate organic=good and healthy=perfect and pretty, but in reality of course it's the opposite.

So one of the reasons fancy organic supermarket produce is so expensive is that they hand sort and pick the prettiest pieces.
Where is the poor (business) design?

You'll see this when people start recognizing Facebook as the crap it really is, and stop using it.
Now facing this issue... By using 'adjtimex' command, you can clear the problematic INS bit.

At first, you can confirm the status flag like this.

$ ./adjtimex --print | grep status
status: 8209

8209's binary representation is like this. This surely have INS bit "100000000[1]0001" (5th LSB).

$ ruby -e 'p 8209.to_s(2)'
"10000000010001"

8193 is the value after the clearance of the INS big.

$ ruby -e 'p 8193.to_s(2)'
"10000000000001"

Then, let's set it as a current value. Please ensure your ntpd is not running.

$ adjtimex --status 8193
They convinced my wife she didn't want a Prius. I bought her one anyway, and she loves it.

As far as I'm concerned, the Top Gear guys are hucksters.
Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?
I was talking to a few people who worked for a big company. The software they use are some of the worst software I've ever seen. The workers there hate it and it makes them unproductive. Sounds like a good place to make a start-up, right?

That is until I found out the people who use the software have virtually no input in purchasing it. Not even the IT people who have to maintain it has any input in it. All purchasing decisions are made three states away in a purchasing department that buys stuff by list of features - whether or not those features work efficiently or even correctly for that matter.

How is this maze navigated? Is it worth the hassle if you don't have deep contacts and relationships inside every big company?
Also, if you're planning to work in research, then having a doctorate is a plus in grant applications.
http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e...
i hate to agree with scoble but he's 100% right -- google gives you no control over who can invite you to an event, and that's bad usability. i was also really sort of shocked to find that a user can't control who can invite them to an event. honestly over the past year every time that google tries to "improve" the quality of the service goes down...
Don't use backbone.js... yet
The idea that a single data center can host a highly available service is just wrong.
"The details and evolution of healthcare costs in particular were eye-opening"

How long have you been working? I ask out of curiosity, because I've been working for the past 12 years as a software developer. For the last 8 years if I didn't change jobs or get a promotion there was only 1 time that my raise out-paced the insurance increases.

The fact that the lowest paid guy got paid via pre-paid debit card is only surprising because I assumed it was cash under the table. I know that in central Missouri that if you work construction it's common practice to pay you in cash for the first 2 weeks because too many people don't stay on for two weeks. As a result employers see it as too expensive to fill out all the paperwork etc.

I guess I just thought most (if not all) of this was common knowledge, and I'm in a upper-middle bracket and come from an upper-middle class family, so it's not like I "came up from welfare" and saw all this first hand.

However, I assume that the stories of these family run a lot deeper. I just kept thinking "Is it really news that a dishwasher gets taken advantage of and lives in a scary neighborhood?"
I've sent several emails to my Facebook email address just for shits and giggles. I've never gotten a single one to go through.
Just to be clear, that quote is from Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars), not really Zuckerberg
1. With in-air refueling, a greatly increased time in the air vs manned aircraft.

Not unique to unmanned aircrafts. On the other hand, pilots need to go to the restroom, get hungry, and tired.

2. Ability to outmaneuver any manned aircraft by exceeding the human g limit.

Only useful if human pilot have low latency access to aircraft, or if AI is good enough to fight. Otherwise, you're good as owned.

3. Greatly lowered cost in both manufacture and pilot training (or lack of).

Useful, when nobody is trying to shoot down your drone.

4. When fully realized, AI that is superior to human pilots -- increasing overall combat effectiveness and reducing error.

In 30 years, maybe.
It always amazed me how bad the supermarket produce was in California. Almost all of it is grown within 100miles of LA, even Mexico is only a couple of hours away and yet all of it was terrible factory-grade long life varieties and expensive.

That's the other weird thing for a european, the supermarkets are more expensive than the corner vegetable stores, there are no fruit/veg markets - only either farm gate trucks or fancy expensive farmers markets
Feels like yesterday that we (or at least some of us) we're all in awe with the released 'Q3Test' published online in 1999.
Growing tomatoes hydroponically, in greenhouses, all year round, then picking them early, and then shipping them (from Holland to US?) seems really weirdly sub optimal.
If Bing isn't working for you as alternative you need to try http://yandex.com/ This is a Russian startup with just awesome search in English too.
Tax the rich and we'll see how long until they use their considerable political power to move the gov't away from war spending. Don't tax the rich and then why should they care how much the gov't puts into war spending? It's basically free.
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Zen & the art of startup advice
Sorry, future Moon colonists—not much ice at the south pole
But are you asserting that this is somehow the result of regulation? Because I have trouble understanding that.
Why does everyone always say Y2K wasn't an issue ? I'm sure there were a lot of consultant making too much money with little work - however _alot_ of bug fixes were done, that would have caused problems. So because it was taken seriously , stuff were fixed and issues didn't happen because of that.

Personally, I fixed 3 Y2K bugs back then, 2 of them would have brought down a rather critical business support to simply crash every time new data arrived.
I agree with him too. Google doesn't get social (we thought they finally did)...it's being said and this one proves it yet again.
"Defaults aren't usually in the best interests of those on the bottom (e.g., Ph.D. students), so it's important to know when to reject them and to ask for something different. Of course, there's no nefarious conspiracy against students; the defaults are just naturally set up to benefit those in power."

That is very reminiscent of Nietzsche.

Also worth reading, when it comes to the question of to do or to not to do a PhD is: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
You probably already know this but just to confirm, emails dont show up in messages. Instead they go to 'other' in messages, which no one checks anyways.
Just to 'ruin the fun' for you (and anyone else inspired by you), the leaves of tomatoes contain cyanide. Same with potato leaves.
For the set of features you have, with most calling conventions on most platforms you don't need to synthesize all that. You could simply have your apply function be written in assembly and handle setting up the parameters fetching them from memory.

Like this? https://github.com/davvid/libapply

unittest.c shows how it can be used: https://github.com/davvid/libapply/blob/master/unittest.c
I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
Dillo 3, and h3v.

Non-graphical: links, w3m. Other 'light' webkit shells: uzbl, Midori, Arora
If bringing in submarines, we should also bring in all the "fishing boats" that have short range nukes as well which sit off US coasts. There's also the long range bombers, though those are not really effective since the above mentioned robot planes will make quick work of them.

But forget the fishing boats, it's not relevant. Let's just talk the submarines and the ICBMs, some which carry multiple nuclear warheads, each warhead capable of destroying a large metro area.

You don't think it is gigantic, really? Let's launch them all at their primary programmed targets. What happens next? If you're in the US do you feel safe because you feel the arsenal is not as gigantic as I think it is? What is the difference in result between whatever level you personally feel qualifies as a gigantic number of nuclear armed missiles, and the number that somebody typed into Wikipedia?

It's completely astonishing to me that anyone thinks the Chinese don't have a gigantic number of nuclear missiles.

The current number is more than sufficient to permanently end 90% of human life in north america. Why is that not enough to qualify? How many more do they need before it's enough to be a gigantic number of ICBMs carrying nukes?

Let's just think about this for a moment. The US launches a full blown robot attack fighter strike against China, for which there is no defense. What's China's response? To give up? No. China has a defense. A last resort defense. Because they have this defense, the US will not attack China. That's just how it is. Attacking China is suicide because of China's nuclear capabilities. Countries without these capabilities are sitting ducks for american corporate imperialists to toy with as they fancy with their shiny robot death weapons. These countries can resign themselves to be the US's plaything, or they can develop a defense strategy. A defense strategy involving an airforce, an army, or anything resembling conventional warfare is not going to work against the US. So now what? Unconventional warfare, that's what. Nothing surprising in the least that more and more countries will be pushed into this corner if they don't want to be bullied by the US. Right now, as well as last week, as well as next week and the week after that, this is the conversation that is going on throughout the world in every country that has natural resources the US might want, that doesn't price oil they sell in US dollars, or that doesn't feel like being controlled by a corporate plutocracy aligned with a phony protestant religious veneer used to get the rubes on board with the looting scheme under the guise of god and patriotism.
How long have you waited? I heard of emails to Facebook taking as much of half an hour to arrive.
As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on the service just for findability, but even that small step would have been enough for facebook to hijack my contact info in a friend's phone. There really is no way to have a facebook account at all, no matter how infrequently you use it, without getting screwed over.
Thanks!
Our BI/Dashboards product is targeted more towards business users (non-programmers-admins). I haven't evaluated qlikview but the goal is the same - insights from data aggregated from various internal/external data sources.
Pay dividends.

The titular "owners" of companies should receive the "profits" created by those companies. Until that happens, "owners" (oh, they can issue new shares at their discretion, didncha know?) will be beholden to an irrational, short-term and easily manipulated stock price based on nothing but scuttlebutt and abstractions like earnings yield.

If a company is paying a fat dividend, you, as the owner, start caring about the long run a lot more. If they miss a growth target... well, you've got your dividend. You don't care as much about it, so long as it is a short term issue and not putting the money machine at risk.

It would do a lot to reign in absurd executive compensation, too.

OTOH, Wall Street hates it because they don't get any vig on a dividend payment.
Uh, how could it violate CFAA? It's their own systems, and their data (they own it all).
Oh, I see. That speaks well of raganwald's wit and sarcasm.
Eventually and maybe even sooner then most think, fb will become jet another dinosaur. It's just a matter of time.
Fly dinosaur, fly :-)
Facebook managed to remove any opportunity to email me from my Facebook page. I'd previously set my @facebook.com email as visible only to me, so that it wasn't published to the page. They didn't change that, but they did set all of my other email addresses as "hidden from timeline."
Doing it wrong? If one DC going down, takes out your "cloudy" application, you suck at making cloudy apps. Surely? It's a pretty big SPOF if you are trying to be highly available.
That speaks well of Palpatine's design then.
"my six years of Ph.D. training have made me wiser, savvier, grittier, and more steely, focused, creative, eloquent, perceptive, and professionally effective than I was as a fresh college graduate"

This statement is essentially a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

Anything that didn't leave you wiser after six years would be a pretty terrible way to spend time. Heck, simply being alive for six years probably makes you somewhat wiser.
Old school: Big sales forces addressing committees and execs, operating over long sales cycles. Rewards: big contracts and institutional lock-in.

New school: Self-serve sales winning grass roots support from front line workers. Rewards: high customer loyalty, quick sales cycles, quick feedback, and lower sales costs:

https://www.google.com/#q=consumerification+of+the+enterpris...
Marco's blog post (linked) had a similar idea - running ntp with -x for a day so it smears time.
Not quiet.

To make up for the amazing improvement in teaching and ever rising school exam results over the last 20years we have had to add an extra year to the traditional 3year undergrad course. For some reason we don't understand these increasingly brilliant school students don't seem to have done any calculus for example before arriving for a physics degree.

The extra 'honours' year of the degree is normally called a MSci/Meng - to differentiate it from a real MSc masters degree. There is usually an option to stop after 3 years and get a normal BSc. Most research councils require the four year version.

The reason British PhDs were nominally 3years is that UK ugrad programs were totally in the nominal subject, there is no minor or required arts/humanities courses - you just do a single subject every lecture.

Similarly a PhD traditionally has no taught courses or required extra material, just do the research 24x7. And since the research councils gave you a grant you could live on there was no need to teach/TA more than a nominal amount for experience (and beer money)
Good summary of the article, but I'm not sure I agree with the logic.

If I have a 5 year patent, I have 5 years to make my high-markup profit. If I have a 10 year patent, I have 10 years to make a high-markup profit.

My R&D costs are constant. I need to make at least, say, 10x my R&D profits to stay in business (a lot of products don't pass trials).

So if I have 5 years to amortize the R&D costs instead of 10 years to amortize the R&D costs, I would have to push the antibiotics a lot harder and convince doctors to prescribe them in a lot more instances in order to make the money back.

Whereas if I have 10 years, I can potentially recoup the investment and make a decent profit at half the rate of prescription in the wild. If it were even longer, I'd be able to afford to amortize the R&D costs over an even longer period.

How about instead the patents on lifesaving drugs could actually be extended a LOT more as long as the company agrees to specific capped/regulated licensing costs after an initial period. In other words, after a short patent monopoly expires (3 years, say), in order to keep a monopoly they agree to be regulated in their sub-licensing terms so that the drug can become affordable, but the discovering company still gets an income stream from it (maybe for 20 years from discovery? longer?).

Or give the company options: 5 years total monopoly, 3 years monopoly+17 years regulated sub-licensing, 2 years + 40 years regulated sub-licensing, 1 year + 60 years regulated sub-licensing. Depending on the product, having a long term income stream might end up more valuable than trying to gouge people for 5 years and then making practically nothing.

Of course that assumes that companies are willing to think in terms of long-term profit as opposed to maximizing the current quarter, which is probably the reason this suggestion would never work. Oh well.
Hrm... never heard of centipede? Not sure what you are looking for but this (http://www.liketotally80s.com/top-20-80s-arcade-games.html) has a good list...
> Imagine how disconcerting it would be if medical or law school graduates couldn't get jobs as doctors or lawyers, respectively.

The latter happens.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grace-nasri/law-schools-feel-t...

I'm not sure about the US but the former happens in the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9274753/Up-to-1...

Perhaps not to the same extent, though.
Hey, I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 . Could someone guide me through what I can do to detect/prevent this from crippling my server? Thanks.