skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is: at scale, is that a risk a company can reasonably carry on its own? And is that a risk we want to see a court handle in the usual way?

A massive manufacturing failure run through the courts can ruin an automaker. If such a failure was related to an inherent risk to driverless cars, it might ruin the industry if we allow it to run through the courts in the usual manner. (an automaker is ruined, premiums for remaining makers explode, it becomes near-impossible to turn a profit, the market collapses)

But the net impact of driverless cars might include broad social gains, rather than simply direct profit to the maker. [1] So if the risks materialize into a large charge quite early on, absent some mediation by society writ large, allowing that to be processed by the courts normally could spell the end to the industry and leave society at a net loss.

[1] driverless cars are likely to send impaired/distracted driving accidents trending towards zero. That's a social gain even for people who never own a car. But it's a gain that wouldn't directly translate into profits for the makers of driverless cars, that they could use to offset the incredibly high insurance premiums they would have to carry, to survive a fifty-year-storm sort of risk showing up five or ten years into the life of the company.
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I never tried to track what happened exactly, or why.

But their games back then start to suffer from lots of executive meddling, with EA interfering more and more on the artistry of their game authors.

My best guess it is related to the launch of Playstation in late 1995, spurring a race for 3D games and FMV games, requiring much more money than before, and thus requiring more "risk management."
What's a focused ion beam?

Ions are charged atoms. In Vacuum you take a small inlet of gas (only very little), or heat up a small piece of solid until it evaborates, depending on what type of atom you want to use. Then ionize it (e.g. having a white glowing hot piece of wire in the vincinity) then accelerate it. With electrodes and coils (like, e.g. used in old CRT TVs/monitors) you can form have a narrow, focused beam you can move around. This all has to be done in vacuum, because the beams will stop in (dense) air immediately.

This is your "cannon" with which you can very precisely aim and shoot at a target.

Where is this done?

The microscopes used for the very delicate structures in modern microchips are normally electron microscope (not using light but electrons for imaging). They operate in a vacuum which is very handy, because in that vacuum the focused ion beams can operate.

If you want to buy, ask your dealer for a "Focused Ion Beam Workstation", e.g. http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=50359. Have 100k€ - 1M€ to spend. ;-)

What to do?

So you have your chip in your electron microscope, and you know that buried below some other structure is a signal hidden from plain view (maybe on purpose on a secure chip, but maybe you are debugging your own design and it just happens that this is where you suspect the answer to why the chip is not operating as required).

So you set your ion-beam to "heavy noble gas, e.g. Xeon" and shoot particles to drill a small hole until you have a trench down to the interesting signal. But that trench is not wide enough to allow your (huge!) probe needle to contact. You you switch to "deposit metal" and, with much less impact velocity for your particles, like with a small brush, you put in a conductive trace from within the trench to some part on the (still intact) silicon-dioxide protective layer on top of the chip. This is where you put your probe needle that can then access the buried signal.
I don't know about posters, but there is similar imagery in "Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers"

http://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/d...
Sort of. It was taken down because LayerVault filed a DMCA notice, but you don't have to prove anything to file a DMCA notice (and yes, this is a broken system).
> That seems less like "avoid eval" and more like "avoid gets".

Assuming that by `gets` you mean Ruby's `gets`, this is not quite right. `read` (and `read-string`) are not just generic IO functions. They are parsers for Clojure code. There are plenty of other varied forms of reading input to a string, but `read` does more.
I love the idea and uses for stuff like this, but it's not until something like a household of these appliances talk to single box with a gsm module [1] that can talk to your phone from anywhere, that this will be ubiquitous.

[1] http://labs.arduino.cc/GPRS/Index
That's irrational, sorry.
pip 1.3 out: SSL cert verification, https default for PyPI
With arrays you would have to do:

$o = (object)[
'foo' => 'bar'
];

Personally I think there should be a way to create objects right away instead of having to cast an array. Maybe there is a good reason all together for not using objects but I very much prefer typing $var->field instead of $var['field'].
I don't agree that apple does updates right. for example, downloading the entire OS binary each time is incredibly wasteful of bandwidth and my time
Lots of things kill HIV. Bleach kills HIV. Soap kills HIV. Air kills HIV. So what. The trick is delivery or implementing a barrier. This is an interesting solution via a popular barrier for a particular problem (1 person with HIV but they still want to transmit fluids), but ultimately not sufficient to stop the spread.
This is pretty cool. I can't find Dr. Hood's paper on scholar.google.com yet so its hard to know exactly what is going on, but the mechanism sounds plausible.
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The article sort of breezes right by the sentence saying it can also work against tumor cells.

Also, at the end- "This work was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations"
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I think you just buy regular basic insurance like the rest. It costs about €99,-
What! I checked the site like a few hours ago and it was around 5000. It was featured in the Javascript Weekly newsletter, I think that's what happened. Congratulations.
20 minutes later still sitting in my shower robe =)
OK, so I was right with my tendency. The bad thing is, like mentioned in the comments, you can't vent. Thanks everybody!
Linux triumphant: Chrome OS resists cracking attempts
Well, you may get some form of return in that you probably get the game cheaper via kickstarter in exchange for taking on some risk.
On a related tangent, when I load this site I get 58 requests total for just this page. 42 of those are for CSS or JS assets. [1]

That is a ridiculous number. Caching does not save requests, only bytes.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/t4QSO3w.png
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You build the packages yourself? Is there a special reason why you need to do this?
Isn't HR required to give my criticism to the managers anonymized?
Lord British is back, that alone is enough for me. I love that man, he is always willing to push the boundaries - a very rare in prohibitively nowadays expensive game dev world. Why should he risk his kingdom when he can assess interest very effectively with Kickstarter while maintaining more creative freedom (either by having more leverage in negotiations with publishers and/or banks). One million dollar is nothing in comparison to most AAA games, it will still be risky. I love the thought of being able to help kick starting another Ultima project!
Love & peace my friend.
Is there an API? ;)
Kinda happy this seems as bad as it does, prevents me from backing yet another project so shortly after Torment.
He was getting paid well as a professor with an endowed chair at a major research university. He has no motive to smuggle drugs. He was the victim here.
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“The good advertisers provide good content,” says the audience. “The great advertisers provide great content,” says the target consumer. “That’s just what I needed – Thank You,” says the new customer.
I take you were in BTP. We were the neighbours and competitors then and I can't agree more :-)

Used to hear stories during after lunch walks.

@OC: But I do not agree that Google pays those dollars only and only for their patents. If that was the case then I do not think Google is a company that would let Moto bleed before fully closing it. It would rather shut it down in one go - keeping people it wants to retain. They are going to use that good 'ol factory.
And as the soupboy said, they are just shaking the belly fat off.
A bitcoin wallet without transactions is useless[1]. Transactions are how you put bitcoins into it, and how you use bitcoins to pay for things. If you create a wallet, but never use it to transact anything, it doesn't do you much good.

[The exception here being mining. I don't believe that you release PII as a miner, yet you bring in bitcoins.]
An update is available for virtualenv as well: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv.
Seems awfully similar to http://webshell.io/
Tern.js open sourced (MIT)
of course, if you actually do that (even though it IS a good idea), they can just ban you, departing you from the keys to any games you have with them.

Remember, don't cross EA, it's only through their glowing generosity that they allow you to use some of the programs on your computer.

You like those programs, right?
At least its not imaginary...
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Who designed the WikiLeaks logo?
MySQL performance: Impact of memory allocators (Part 2)
Part 2: http://mthvn.tumblr.com/post/44775649723/wikileaksintervieww...
Not supported by ChromeOS apparently.
The system crapped out and refuses to make this a link-based submission; use and upvote this submission instead: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5344757.
Sorry, by "gets" I meant gets(3) from C, which probably seems like a perfectly valid way to read input to a new programmer, but is a sure way to give yourself a buffer overflow. My point was that some innocuous-seeming functions are traps, and it's important that knowledge of those traps become part of a language's cultural knowledge, in hopes that it reaches more developers.

But whether Ruby or C, I take your point that Clojure's read is not just an IO function. It's not really the IO-ness of gets that I'm trying to parallel, but its apparent safety. But perhaps to a Clojure programmer, read is not as surprising as gets because it's more clearly an evaling call. Do you think that'd be clear to a first-year Clojure dev?
What do I do? While the decision wasn't based on the allergies, I moved to some place with no juniper trees. When I visit NM in spring, the allergies come back hard. One loratadine used to be enough. No longer. (And a double dose zonks me out.)

Is 'aller-max' the same as http://www.drugs.com/mtm/allermax.html ? According to the latter, that's diphenhydramine. Ah, no. Perhaps it's http://www.swansonvitamins.com/country-life-aller-max-100-ve... ? Looks like it.

That's vitamins A, C, and B5, plus zinc. The others are:

* quercetin - "Studies done in test tubes have shown quercetin may affect immune cells from releasing histamines which might influence symptoms of allergies."

* N-acetylcysteine - "This compound is sold as a dietary supplement commonly claiming antioxidant and liver protecting effects. It is used as a cough medicine because it breaks disulfide bonds in mucus and liquefies it, making it easier to cough up."

* L-Histidine - histamine precursor.

* Bromelain - anti-inflammatory effects

* Stinging Nettle - recommended by some herbalists. But it can also cause problems.

* Cayenne - Why?

* "Grape seed extracts are industrial derivatives from whole grape seeds that have a great concentration of vitamin E, flavonoids, linoleic acid and phenolic OPCs. The typical commercial opportunity of extracting grape seed constituents has been for chemicals known as polyphenols having antioxidant activity in vitro"

The stinging nettle and cayenne look like they are in there using the philosophy that like cures like. The grape seed looks like it's there to say it has antioxidants. The quercetin has no human tests that I can find, and L-Histidine doesn't make sense. It's basically an amino acid that you already get from your food.

So this looks like it's some vitamins plus a few compounds which help with the reaction but which doesn't do as much as an OTC anti-histamine or other allergy drug might do.

As for what you might try; have you seen an allergist? It's possible to get shots to help, but it seems that they take time.

Here's what the Mayo Clinic advises: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/allergy-medications/AA00037...
This was a great article, summed it all up really nicely.

Judge Wright's moves in this big game of chess are especially good. He really wants to get to the truth.
What are the advantages of this over Chrome Remote Desktop from Google?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
A private investigator I know was asked by a startup to look into the background of a prospective engineer. She found what she thought were some personal red flags, including a lot of online forum unpleasant rants, and some financial ones, including a previous bankruptcy filing. They hired him anyway because he seemed like a really good engineer. It didn't work out (one problem was that he apparently wasn't a very good engineer) and they let him go, and now he's threatening to blackmail/extort them.

I think businesses and engineering teams would be wise to consider sociability a big factor in choosing talent. But I think in academia, that's less of a concern if the scientist can show that he/she can publish papers and create monetizable research.
It is true that not getting updates at all is significantly less wasteful of time and resources.
The poor sap made an off-hand remark from the dais during public comment on the Council's plan to send a letter to the USPS asking them to delay the sale of our historic downtown post office. He was, in effect, making idle chit-chat, not a real proposal, and he was apparently drawing on some half-remembered pop article about fighting spam. A local "news" web site made hay out of it, trolling for clicks.
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You feel vindicated over this vacuous comment article? Let me sum it up for you: "It turns out if I set a safety variable, then unset it in a way that most of my audience won't recognize as assignment, I get votes up on hackernews."

Cultural awareness of read-time evaluation is as frustratingly absent now as it has always been; same as strcpy vs. strncpy. The only difference now is that we have increasingly more programmers with very little experience in charge of large software projects.
If you just need a few small things hosted on SSL for page inclusion, use dropbox.

Wouldn't do it for heavy access though.
"Google has explicitly stated that they do not intend to, and will not use Glass for advertising."

If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. Google makes its money with advertising. Its products exist in order to gather information about you and your environment, so that it can more effectively manipulate you to buy its clients' products, services or ideas.

Glass is linked to your Google account. The device has GPS, a camera and a microphone. Everything you capture, send and share goes through Google and will be of great interest to them.

EDIT: I searched for a Google statement, the only one I could find is from last year, when the Google Glass lead said "there are no plans to display advertisements through Glass “at the moment."
A "yield return enumerable" is "delay executed" so evaluating it multiple times causes the yield-return execution to occur at every evaluation (if you haven't taken care to ToArray() or ToList() it). Do something like:

var myBytes = GetMyBytesItr();
for (var i = 0; i < myBytes.Count(); ++i)
{
ProcessByte(myBytes.ElementAt(i));
}

and you'll be in a world of hurt especially if GetMyBytesItr() allocates a memory buffer. Count() causes the "get the bytes data" action to occur, as does every iteration of ElementAt(). Now I'm not saying this is definitely what you were experiencing, but it's a common pitfall. Also, using ElementAt() for each iteration is, of course, completely contrived for this example (you'd want to foreach instead which would cause only one execution of the "get the bytes data" action).
Question for the iOS devs out there: is it acceptable/wise to launch your app for iOS 6+ only? (i.e. not support iOS 5)
How to make a great scene fast:

Start with one asset you do yourself. They chose the spaceship. All the resources go into the spaceship, its animation, design, etc. Everything else is just an excuse to have a spaceship.

The pylon might have come from Turbosquid. There are car models, but these guys modeled and composed their own VW, possibly from an earlier exercise.

The whole environment is done in e-on vue. It's really fast and easy to get a realistic environment, for a big penalty in rendering time and flexibility, artistic and editorial.

The sky they chose, the Sunset, is probably e-on vue's most popular preset. Here are some more examples. [0][1] It's one of the few skies that gives you dramatic lighting. But it's given away in this movie, Cloud Atlas and Life of Pi (both of which used vue and this preset, hilariously) by its extreme orange saturation. [2][3]

Like software development, CG is often about finding the right bits and pieces and putting them together.

[0] http://drspaceman.deviantart.com/art/Vue-Sunset-scene-267143...
[1] http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles10/609707/projects/28569...
[2] http://images.hitfix.com/photos/2383172/Halle-Berry-and-Tom-...
[3] http://www.filmoria.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Life-of...
San Francisco, CA or our sweet, new office in Palo Alto, CA

http://www.optimalsocial.com/

Vision -
Optimal, Inc. provides unparalleled audience data to help marketers manage and optimize their social advertising campaigns, all in real-time. Optimal was named the 9th fastest-growing, privately-held company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011 by the San Francisco Business Times and PwC. We are a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer and are working closely with other major social networks, but our vision is a more general one – to be the numerati behind what it means to engage in a world where people are voluntarily social and highly mobile.

Culture -
We are growing very rapidly and occupy a unique position in the social advertising ecosystem. Optimal is seeking top-caliber, motivated individuals who view optimality as a way of being, whose curiosity embraces both theory and practicality, and who are enthusiastic about applying their talent to the future of social media: open graphs, real-time, big data, and word-of-mouth at scale. Our culture is built around an intelligent and professional look at the wider world of online and social media, but we are also a group that doesn’t take ourselves too seriously. If you want to work with smart people and change social marketing forever, come and join us!

We're currently seeking candidates for these positions (H1B welcome): Java Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Cloud Ops Engineer, and Python/Data Engineer.

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Thought so! As I was walking to work I realized this was the easiest way to protect the integrity of the tokens.
VCs also put a lot more money than $45 into it. Besides that fact, Kickstarter has to approve any project that appears on the site, so THEY obviously feel this is perfectly okay. I trust their opinion above some random person on the internet who wants to keep KS 'pure.'

Also this project is good for KS because it will likely bring at least a few new people onboard to join the site and fund this project (seem to recall them saying once people join they tend to start funding more projects), not to mention the obvious that they get their cut to help fund further improvements on the site.
iOS does delta OTA updates since 5.0, released in October 2011.

6.1.2 was 12.8MB: http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/02/ios612-100...
I could never understand the use of such tools in the terminal. I guess you need to have a certain and very specific kind of workflow.
Really, permanent death? PvP corpse looting? These are profoundly user-hating mechanics and their removal is likely among the factors that made WoW successful.

There are other ways to allow newbies to catch up and to incentivize or disincentivize players that don't rely on 'ruining your month of gameplay'.
Oil is different in that it is not something one produces, but rather something that one simply finds. Drugs are produced by farming or chemical processes (or some combination), and most popular drugs can be produced at very low cost.
Note: He did not go to space for fun.
He is major shareholder in a couple of space-related business, and he do active science work in space and ice caps.

Also he wanted to follow his father footsteps (his father is a astronaut that actually went to space).

But yes, he could have paid the game himself...
It is a cloudflare subdomain but it doesn't show that way in the URL, I dont know how that works though. Can anybody explain why this works? I dont have a naked domain with ssl with them but you can check this one out to see what it looks like https://www.luckybolt.com (also thats my brothers startup, if you are in SF, check it out). As you point out though, GAE is $10 / Mo. cheaper. I'll check that out for new projects.
If anyone wants to try Zend Optimizer+ I threw together a control panel for it, which it was missing compared to APC:

https://gist.github.com/ck-on/4959032

I've found Optimizer+ has a few shortcomings, like no way to delete individual files from the cache, it's an all or nothing reset if you turn off file stat.

However it's definitely a bit faster than APC, at least 10% in most cases because of its multiple optimization passes.
Thanks for the VMMap tip!

I restarted Chrome when I submitted this and it's already at 2gig and climbing. Ill see what VMMap tells me.
Agreed (on your first point), that's definitely another reason I haven't considered using antigen.

The main feature Vundle has over pathogen for me is that I don't ever want to manage a git submodule when not forced.
Can they get a chargeback on those games as well? Or how is that not some form of theft? He bought the previous games, and the company forcefully removed them from him and keeps his money.
He was obsessed with marrying this woman, and if he thought smuggling drugs for her would win her over, that seems like motive to me.
Because it is contrary to the stated purpose of kickstarter. I am treating the backers like adults. Why do you think that "hey, that's really not what kickstarter is for" is patronizing?