skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Java is getting a bad rap. But isn't this really an issue with the Oracle JRE updates? And not just the JRE but updates to browser plugin.

I mention it, because Java is not just but a platform of many different tools. And there are many different implementations of the runtime.

E.g I am running icedtea plugin, I don't know if the same vulnerability exists but it is a different runtime implementation. And then our servers run IBM's jrockit
"Chomsky is an avowed atheist and believes life is meaningless." This review really jumped the shark when he resorted to bigotry. Nothing about being atheist makes life meaningless. It actually makes it more precious to believe this is our only shot at life. Instead of treating life as some testing ground for earning rewards in some hypothetical afterlife. If I knew there was life after death I don't think I'd be as worried about getting things right this time around since I could always hope things are better after I die..
The market is eventually accurate when it comes to pricing, but the timing of when corrections happen can benefit some people more than others. So even if most people think the price is low right now, it still might be in their best interest to hold off on buying for a little while.
It's clear that someone doesn't want you to have easy access, but it by no means gives a clear message that you aren't 'allowed'. If I set up a wifi portal that flips images upside down and misspells words and all that fun stuff it's clear that your access is being diminished but by no means says I want you off my network.
All of the suggestions in the thread are great. I have been in a similar position to you and I can say from experience that working in a public place really helped alleviate the pangs of loneliness. I even made a friend because I brought a book along with me to the coffee shop and it happened to be her favorite author (Thomas Pynchon for those curious).

The key is to step away from the computer and realize that it isn't what life is all about. There is so much beauty and wonder in the world that simply cannot be replicated on a screen.

P.s. If you want someone to talk to about Python or books or the future or girls or boys or dreams, please send me an email. I too am working a remote Python job from home on a long winter break so some company would be appreciated! If you are around NYC I'd even grab a coffee or something.
I am interested in this topic; eval in the context of static typing. Is there a paper on it?
Or maintain/trim your facial hair. Scraggly ass fashion hair looks crap.
While we should shy from studying anything, someone should first explain how the modern, massive expansion of video games in realism and reach doesn't correlate with overall increases in violent crimes. Both violent crime and homicide rates in the US have been in decline since the early 1990's. If correlation isn't causation, anti-correlation should have a much higher bar for causation.
Carmen Ortiz statement regarding the death of Aaron Swartz
The irony in using the fact that Steve Jobs had a $247mil loss as a sign for hope, then later down stating that Amazon had the exact same $247mil loss -- as a sign that it has nothing on AAPL.
Nucleotide video game development diary #4
> no bouncer would be fooled by a fake mustache

Actually that makes me like the analogy again! If all you do is put on a mustache or change your shirt and the bouncer lets you in, then you don't really know what the purpose of the bouncing is.
No reasons really. I have found Vim better at tweaking. None can match that.
"It’s not possible to delete a Skype account"

One more reason to use VSee end-to-end encrypted video chat.

http://vsee.com/
Glass is a product that could only have happend at Google: it's geeky, and they have money to toss on unproven devices. Apple would never release anything so experimental.
For clarification: I'm not advocating illegal access, my point is that the analogy with theft is not a good one.
I created this Wiki because a lot of companies make account cancellation and deletion information hard to find. The goal with WikiCancel is that before signing up for something you can find out how hard it will be to cancel it.
This article is a little misleading in that it seems to indicate that FB will trash Xeon servers and drop in ARM processors. Current ARM processors (SOC and standalone silicon) have poor data throughput. You can mask this using media accelerators, e.g. decode x264 video in the GPU so you have smooth playback while saving some data bandwidth. ARMv8 (allegedly sampling in 2014-2015) will double the AHB/CoreLink width and instruction size to 64 bits, but we are not there yet. What is much more likely is that they will incorporate specialized hardware using FPGA/ASIC and use ARM cores as supervisory modules. That way, they can use a general purpose OS and use ARM tools to develop for the supervisor module, and still get the data throughput of the custom controller. This is how data processing is already done on 1080/2k/4k video streams. Xilinx and likely Altera already provide FPGAs with hard ARM cores (in addition to IP for soft cores) which makes it very easy to roll your own data controller with an ARM core managing it. Makes a lot more sense for FB to go this route for custom NAS boxes, possibly network switch/router hardware to follow in Google's path.
No it's not. What if they blocked the MAC because they detected botnet activity? There is absolutely no desire in this case to ban the person, or even to ban the entire computer if it has multiple OSs.

There is really no way to tell just from a MAC ban what the intent is.
I don't downvote when I think someone's wrong.
Also, while I don't have any statistics on hand, I suspect the portion of the population playing video games has risen drastically since the early 1990s.
:-) We'll keep refining the app based on the feedback we get from users.
Currently working on a few stuffs like LiberTweet, but those don't affect my commitment to Sudoku Empire. The multiplayer edition is already ready, but we don't want to push it out yet because it could be confusing for user to grasp the game. We want to release it, when we will have enough user, and when those users will get confort using the single player edition.
It does not support Vim's wonderful vit, vat tools. Perhaps none supports like Vim. My fav for HTML/div editing.
If they lose the case, then the IP/patent is likely worthless.
Steven Pinker comments on the Lead and Crime Hypothesis [pdf]
What happened is that you managed to hit on one of my pet peeves, which is laws that prohibit innocuous things just because sometimes bad people do them. Like the DMCA prohibition on circumventing technical measures that control access to a copyrighted work. I really hate laws like that because they criminalize legitimate conduct (like circumventing for the purposes of fair use criticism) and have no benefit whatsoever over just applying the same penalties to the real bad act (e.g. copyright infringement that isn't fair use), all they do is expand the scope of criminality beyond the actually undesirable act so that it ensnares otherwise upstanding and innocent people. This is especially bad when the penalties are calibrated for the worst possible intent in doing the thing, e.g. mass scale for-profit infringement, and then applied with that severity to everyone in violation of proportionality.

The CFAA is the same way. It prohibits unauthorized access, which seems like it would generally be bad (though it's vague enough that who knows) and with no provision for looking into the circumstances to evaluate how bad, then goes on to impose penalties as though the unauthorized access was in furtherance of something like terrorism or bank fraud rather than accessing a wifi to check your email, even though the latter is still covered and subject to the same extreme penalties.

And none of this is about black and white, which is why I objected to the example. Wanting black and white laws is about fighting vagueness: Too much specificity is bad because it's too complicated and no one can understand it (see: tax code), but too much vagueness is also bad -- even worse -- because then you have no possible way to know what it actually means until you get told by a judge, by which point it's far too late.

The problem with your example is that it isn't an example of too much vagueness, it's an example of too much breadth. Take two examples: "Don't do things" and "don't do bad things without a good reason." The first isn't really vague at all -- it just covers everything, which is useless and stupid. So the problem is that it's too broad. The second isn't too broad -- it's pretty good at only criminalizing things that ought to be -- but it's hopelessly vague.

And it's overbreadth which is the trouble with "it is illegal to break locks." It covers breaking locks even for good reasons. So you need a list of exclusions or you end up like the DMCA: You're allowed to break them if they're your locks, or if necessary in order to do something legitimate, etc. Which is actually a counterexample of being okay with relatively simple laws and not needing a list of caveats to go along with them. Because we can't make things that simple, or we get the DMCA and the CFAA, which are both terrible and need to be seriously overhauled.
You might want to check some HUGE security issues with your site. Sorry.
this is where the ideology between us differ - the classic example i use when i argue with friends on this topic is 'the wheel'.

Some of my friends argue (and i assume this is your point of view), that the wheel would've been granted a patent should it be invented today. I argue that even tho the idea is novel, there is no "secret" that you can hide with the wheel invention, and hence, there is no incentive for society to give you a monopoly, because you can't both use the invention, but hide its implementation from society. The price for said monopoly is the devulsion of the secret, and if there are none to give, you do not deserve the payment.

If the patent was for some complicated industrial process to produce better paint, an expert looking at the paint can't work out what went on in the process. But if you look at the sort of "design patents" that have come out, the amazon one-click is the classic example here, there is absolutely nothing that they can hide about the workings of the patent, and thus don't deserve a monopoly.
Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics
Various exceptions to freedom of speech have been upheld by the Supreme Court; this constitutional right is not absolute. If significant new research results appeared, it would not be surprising if the court to revisited the issue to consider whether another exception is warranted.
is linking here exclusive?
Agreed. It was too damned long to even begin to dig in. The fact that he keeps posting it (whatever it is), it just wasting space.
Cool script--it has some useful features like generating a random MAC. But it's also possible to set your mac with:

sudo ifconfig [device] [mac]

...and one can replace [mac] with `openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'` for a random address.
The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz – Part 2: Prosecutorial Discretion
A Steam Greenlight may be along the lines of what you're thinking.
No everyone agrees to this approach ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/crossingborders/2013/01/16/wall-...
"Had not sought the maximum penalty" and "offered a plea bargain" are two very different things.
The OP here.
I think this is becoming a big incentive for developers. We also have the IOS version almost ready, but we chose to launch it on android first to be able to do quick iterations.
For example, we already pushed more than 4 version in 3 weeks to adjust to users requests.
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Except it isn't a debunking, it acknowledges the Jews were disarmed (do you not expect me to follow the link, let alone know the facts from scholars I follow)?

A lot of "Good Germans" were allowed to keep arms (I think this has to do with Hitler's outward focus vs.the more inward of the Soviet Union; Hitler thought Germany was in an 11th hour situation so he was a lot more merely authoritarian that one might think); no one's claiming a general disarmament of the nation, just of the Jews, and of course other untermenschen).

I and we know there was a "systematic campaigns of public disarmament" in the USSR; as I recall, by modern times unlicensed possession of a single round of handgun ammo was technically punishable by death. In China it was part of the revolution, look up rifle taxes. That more people were killed by inept collective agriculture has absolutely no bearing on those who were killed by more direct means (in fact, a lot of "Kulacks" or "landlords" to clear the way for it).

When your sources don't support what you say they do, and you're rebutting claims I didn't make, it's hard to believe you're arguing in good faith; I don't expect to be making many future replies to you.
Before Gmail, there were IMAP Service Providers
God no, charges for the entering should be completely and utterly unaffected by activities performed after entering.
Interesting follow-up by Orin Kerr. Brief summary of his summary:

[quote]

I’m going to break down the question into four different issues: First, was any criminal punishment appropriate in the case? Second, if so, how much criminal punishment was appropriate? Third, who is to blame if the punishment was excessive and the government’s tactics were overzealous? And fourth, does the Swartz case show the need to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and if so, how?

On the first question, I think that some kind of criminal punishment was appropriate in this case.

On the second question...here’s the key question: What punishment was the minimum necessary to deter Swartz from continuing to try to use unlawful means to achieve his reform goals? I don’t think I know the answer to that question, but that’s the question I would answer to determine the proper level of punishment.

On the third question...I think it’s important to realize that what happened in the Swartz case happens it lots and lots of federal criminal cases...If you want to end these tactics, don’t just complain about the Swartz case. Don’t just complain when the defendant happens to be a brilliant guy who went to Stanford and hangs out with Larry Lessig. Instead, complain that this is business as usual in federal criminal cases around the country — mostly with defendants who no one has ever heard of and who get locked up for years without anyone else much caring.

On the fourth issue, yes, the Swartz case does point to a serious problem with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But that problem is not the definition of “unauthorized access,” as some people seem to believe...Rather, the problem raised by the Swartz case is one I’ve been fighting for years: Felony liability under the statute is triggered much too easily.

[/quote]
There was a great article in 2600 Mag about scanning a network for devices that were already connected to a pay-to-play WiFi network. You could then change your mac address to a mac address already connected. You would then share the connection and bypass having to pay for WiFi. It was really handy at airports and coffee shops that would charge to get online.
Will look into that.
If your business is largely shuffling data around then your machines may be DRAM speed limited. Sounds like a lower power processor is going to make sense even if it has smaller, slower caches.
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What's wrong with it, exactly?
And surely if the individual genius had a meritorious patent, someone would be willing to fund the lawsuit.
Google for !Mediengruppe Bitnik. They are a "media collective" based in Zurich[1]. And this is not their first hack.

[1]https://sites.google.com/site/kabkinteractivemediadesign/opp...
A converstation with Doug Cutting, Hadoop creator
Have you ever played America's Army?
I'll also point out here is that Apple has all of the profits in the industry, even if it doesn't have the marketshare. It's been true of the Mac for years, and is increasingly true of the cell phone market as Samsung eats into marketshare. Guess what? I care about profit, not marketshare, which is why I'm long AAPL.

That is no longer true. Samsung had a great 2012 and seems poised to have an even better with the S4 and the Note 2. Apple is still making a shitload of money but none of the market trends are in their favor right now.

What's more, the rise of the "phablet" and the explosion of mobile form factors means iOS development is about to get a lot harder. Developers used to pixel-perfect layouts are going to have to shift to a completely different mindset and the tools Apple provides for handling dynamic layouts are far more difficult to use than those of the competition.
Being featured can be called the "Holly Grail" on both ios and android.

But I always wondered how the review team of android pick the app that get featured? I am asking this because there is no any review process and wondering what are the opportunities a developer got to get his creation in front of the android review team.
Always a good time to recall jim cramer's great conversation on market manipulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI
Any plans for other language bindings? I'm a C# dev, although I do know C/C++ and Python, but don't like interop. I think that this is a crucial way to gain adoption. I'd be happy to write a C# binding, but I'd need a wire protocol

HyperDex reminds me of RethinkDB (http://www.rethinkdb.com/). Seems like similar goals with having distributed servers and fault tolerance.
Jim Cramer on Stock Manipulation
I have never had an incident I did not cause.

Probably not what you meant
Note the comments that Yemen estimates are all over the place, from #2 to way way down (poor country). And I'm unaware of any genocide there, even after using Google.

Serbia et. al. was a long drawn out war; e.g. Srebrenica was sacked after a successful siege; this simply does not address my points.
General espionage / covert surveillance should cover it better.
i dont understand how a video game can cause a mass shooting. is there some undocumented feature of the disc? or the case the games is sold inside?

ultimately, guns are the only things which can shoot.
No, you see, using the service in a way not intended by the provider would be, for example, setting up your laptop as an ftp server from the airplane. This is different since it's pretty obvious you are circumventing measures put in place to force you to pay for access.
It's decidedly not normal for a stock with a price that high to see 4% fluctuations day-to-day unless there's real news.

The WSJ's story claiming Apple cut iPhone 5 component orders in half is definitely real news if it turns out to reflect a real drop in demand.
Neato, I liked it so I cleaned it up/rewrote it a bit -> https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC/pull/4
I could resonate well with the Title of the article because I share the same sentiment - that with every apple announcement, people expect something that will blow their minds off. The article went on to do a comparison of revolutionary product-release timelines, failures, and stock volatility under Jobs and Cook followed by the market not being happy with Apple and so on, but I was hoping it would highlight the core reason behind the disruption of the iphone/ipad and why Apple is unlikely to meet the market's expectations.

Now, this is only an opinion, but I strongly feel that the core behind the disruptions were the technologies (or combination thereof) we know as capacitative touch-screen, multi-touch, accelerometer, and gyroscope (i'm sure i missed something). In fact, I should further point out that it is not merely the use of such technologies but rather the perfection of these technologies that allowed Apple to use them and create a user experience that would amaze the world, followed by developers using the perfected technologies to create even more delightful experiences.

Now, going back to the Title of the article that caught my eye in the fist place, while it is realistic for people to expect enhancements of hardware, new design, new software, etc. from Apple, it is unrealistic to expect Apple to release revolutionary products every year, simply because the core technologies don't follow a 1-year introduction cycle. This is something the market just doesn't understand.

I do believe that there are new core technologies in Apple's pipeline which are waiting to mature into perfection, but for now, we have to be content with Apple maximizing user experience with what they have.
How will this compare to Shen ( http://www.shenlanguage.org/ )? In my experience it has a more expressive type system than Taf.
If they were only looking for a 6 month sentence, why did they charge him with 11 counts of fraud?
The judge is free to disregard the proscecution's recommendations and sentence the defendant to the full legal maximum. This is not common in federal cases, but it does happen.
These politics fit the criteria for HN, so I draw conclusions about your political opinions, yes.
The indictment doesn't say anything about the penalties sought. Anybody have handy the primary sources indicating what penalties the prosecutors were pushing for?
I'm impressed that a US Attorney is responding to criticism. I will remain cynical, however, because there are hundreds who are suffering from these types of tactics. I doubt we'll see this type of outpouring for all those who have been subjected to this type of prosecution.
That doesn't always work without a few extras, as explained on the page.
"As federal prosecutors, our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible."

Then why did you prosecute a terms of service violation? Or do you mean "protecting" the use of computers by restricting it to only those purposes you happen to like?
This... is not going to end well. I wouldn't look forward to going in tomorrow if I worked in that office.
I recommend reading Dave Grossman's book On Killing.[1]

From the blurb:

"The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young.

Upon its initial publication, ON KILLING was hailed as a landmark study of the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects soldiers, and of the societal implications of escalating violence. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent trends in crime, suicide bombings, school shootings, and more. The result is a work certain to be relevant and important for decades to come."

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/On-Killing-Psychological-Learning-Soci...
Exactly my thought. Her statement is deliberately misleading.
Prosecutors routinely over-charge in an effort to intimidate defendants into plea deals. It's very effective on the vulnerable, often with tragic consequences.

When justice is measured in the number of convictions and sentences handed out and not low crime-rates, this is what happens.
(daylight) experimentation with MDMA
"Our job is to stop you getting hired."

So then, by definition, you have perfect employees. Congrats. I'm sure this extends to the perfect sales team, perfect product team, etc. That is impressive.
I found both your comments exceptionally useful until the last sentence. There's plenty of excuse since it isn't being taught in undergrad computer science courses, etc.

As one sample point, I have a PhD from a top-10 US institution. Partially in compilers. I'm motivated everyday to learn about programming. I hack on interpreters in my spare time. A lot. I am utterly 'ignorant of modern static typing'. Setting aside modesty, I'll submit that it isn't my fault.