skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the JDK 7u10 release notes http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u10-relnotes-...:

The JRE relies on periodic checks with an Oracle Server to determine if it (the JRE)is still considered up-to-date with all the available security fixes (above the security baseline). In the past, if the JRE was unable to contact the Oracle Server, it continued to behave as though it is still the most recent version with regard to security, for an indefinite period.

To avoid this problem, a secondary mechanism, that does not rely on external communication, has been added to the JDK 7u10. From this release onwards, all JREs will contain a hard-coded expiration date. The expiration date is calculated to end after the scheduled release of the next Critical Patch Update.

This means that JREs that are unable to contact Oracle Servers for an extended period of time, will now start offering additional protection after a reasonable period, and will not continue to behave as if they were still up-to-date with security fixes.
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Probably much like Windows updates, which come out regularly without issue. Microsoft has a pretty good track record and decades of operational experience around this kind of thing.
Or maybe you are!
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I'm sure it's great software but the color scheme for that site is so bad I don't even want to read about it.
in the UK if your gain in any tax year is less than £10,600 you do not need to inform HMRC, so any gain made by purchasing beer is unlikely to be of concern to them.
You're right, its actually the sum of subsets problem
"curl http://get.docker.io | sh" - what reason would there be to not use SSL here?
You agreed to that in a EULA.
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I might have been partly incorrect above, in that what I was describing as a popup might have been the initial modal ad. That would explain why I saw the second, actual, popup, and why Chrome reported blocking several additional popups after that. Still, a horrible experience served up by Salon, resulting in me not reading the article.
Follow the paper trail. State or Federal governments mandate business regulations. Z new piece of paper work or efiling gets created which someone can create a service to help businesses with.
> Wanna have multiple memcache buckets, ... [snip]

On Gentoo, you would just create /etc/conf.d/memcached.xxx and then symlink /etc/init.d/memcached.xxx to /etc/init.d/memcached.

Relevant ChangeLog entry:

14 Jan 2005; Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>

+metadata.xml, +files/1.1.12/conf, +files/1.1.12/init, +memcached-1.1.12_rc1.ebuild:

Add 1.1.12-rc1 and retool the conf/init scripts to take advantage of the new
-P (pidfile) option. The default behavior is to save the pidfile in
/var/run/memcached/memcached-PORT.pid. This, it seems would make it easier
for people to have multiple instances of memcached running (simply rename
/etc/init.d/memcached to /etc/init.d/memcached.instance and the conf.d file
accordingly.
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New $80 million accelerator for tech start-ups launches (Australia)
of course, there really is no need to pay fees to exchange BTC for GBP. Posting a sell ad on bitcointalk.org is likely to net you someone who will take them off you for between 2 and 5% above mtgox daily average.
Nice and easy, grab a beer and some pizza and get chatting!
> Unknown what happens when it expires.

It makes your fridge smell foul.
Witty. Now please demonstrate how it looks applied to this case.
From TechCrunch[1]:

Loyal3 works with publicly-traded companies on creating a Customer Stock Ownership Plan or CSOP. In a CSOP, a company pays the brokerage fees on behalf of the investor because it might want to have more of a connection and more loyalty from its shareholders (in contrast to dealing with day traders, high-frequency trading algorithms or other types of activist shareholders). A customer that loves the company’s product might be more inclined to stick around during a difficult patch, for example.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/loyal3/
developers will be making some pretty amazing mobile games that will only be available on Kepler GPU's

No developer would do that unless the development was entirely sponsored by nvidia. There are almost a billion mobile devices out there, a substantial portion running OpenGL ES 2.0. There are a small number of tegra-optimized game variants that add absolutely trivial changes in return for some nvidia sponsorship dollars, but no one is going to bother with an exclusive for a single chipset.

Reading your post someone might think that nvidia has some clear advantage in mobile graphics and this is the big chance to make it big. They absolutely have no such thing, being seriously contested if not beaten by PowerVR and even ARM designs (of course nvidia does great things on the desktop, but having strength in 150W desktop GPUs does not translate into the same in sub-Watt GPUs). nvidia has had a lot of talk but a serious lack of actual delivery.
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One future for LXC is with ARM based servers such as Calxeda. Approx 800 core with gigabit Ethernet fabric & I/O. And sata built-in for each core. About size of a Cisco catalyst 5000 box but less than 1000 watts.

Runs ubuntu or Red Hat and uses LXC for virtualization.
Last I saw it was <$100k
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Another important tip for interns: Never work for free. If a company respects you and your work, it will pay for your time.
i am sure if you knew its value would rise by 4000% you would happily accept them, patron perhaps may not want to spend them though.
RSS-For-Later + Pocket &gt; Google Reader
Just to clarify, the last line of my comment is related to the magazines I discussed (and not a criticism of your submission!)
Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7
But it's the easier path. It's hard to fix the problems they have. It's easy to throw someone under the bus, dust your hands off and declare "job well done."
Whose logs?
Why companies only show jobs and not career paths on their websites? Any idea?
Can you find a company's website which clearly shows possible career paths for their employees. No? Why not?
Basically if I'm applying for a Software Engineer position I would like to know where I might be in 3, 5 or 10 years time. I might be able to change to management, sales or stay in engineering but I want to see what they expect from me and, if possible, real examples.
Why do you think companies don't show this?
An open-ended question like that about people's foolish ways to try to off their fellows in a single profession[1] is going to generate a lot of examples. Car bombs seem to be an easy way with some folks[2]. Heck, fark.com has many on a weekly basis. Reading the Church Committee stuff gives a pretty good idea of how wild west our government got (and likely still is given the drones).

For the record, I still think this incident was a simple accident.

1) en.rsf.org keeps track of attacks on the press

2) Nasrullah Afridi died on May 10 when a bomb exploded under his car after he entered it.
I found the jump to assume that Oracle decided to stick it to the MySql community telling of the community's trust of Oracle's commitment to MySql as an open source database (and not just from the echo chamber that Hacker News can be sometimes ... I was greeted with this news upon starting work this morning from two different colleagues, neither of which frequent this site).

My sense is this originates from a few perceptions of Larry Ellison and Oracle: (1) Oracle does give a whip about Open Source software. (2) Oracle charges so much for their primary RDBMS technology that it would only be natural for them to undermine MySql as an open source database technology (a view I, personally, share despite evidence to the contrary). (3) As a tech, in a past life, I've had to support Java on the client side for some really poorly written Java apps. Aside from the experience being utterly awful due to this horrible app, I have little trust for a company that installs toolbars alongside critical patches and then defends the practice when called out.

I'm finding my view of Oracle is so negative (maybe I've been supporting Oracle software for way too long?) that I'm not going to be fully convinced this was a bug until the "wrong set of copyright headers" is fixed. That's pretty sad since it makes little sense that Oracle would relicense just the man pages in some sort of conspiracy to squeeze a dime out of its customers.

Either way, it's always a good reminder of my personal favorite variation of Hanlon's razor: Where there are gaps of understanding, people jump to the worst possible conclusion.
Still looking for a "social share" that doesn't suck.

Think of it like this, I shouldn't have to immediately pop up a dialog box, navigate to a different page, or stop what I'm doing to share something. I certainly shouldn't have to copy and paste a URL into a shortner and then into something like Twitter.

Apart from that, something like Disqus's comment recommendation/voting system, but applied to divs on the page. Instantly apply some javascript magic to static content.

There are a few other ideas along those lines, and it suprises me daily that there aren't more javascripts that can be dropped into a static page and enhance the semantic content of the page.

I guess something like Parse would help here too, a lot of time building an independent script for any of these is spent on the backend, which could be abstracted away with a backend service like Parse.
I guess the european definition of a startup is different that the american one.

European startup : able to buy back shares, carefully select employees, refuse 8 digits funding because it doesn't want to go public, rent a country house so that the funders can keep working in this ambiance.

American east-cost startup : cries for funding, hires like crazy wishes to sell and go public ASAP so that the funders can no longer work.

I don't know, maybe it's partial, but these remark aside, I'd guess the european startup might be able to do this because it's profitable, which is the #1 thing. Everything else is eye candy.
Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords
For the searches that don't bring relevant results, I choose the "Give Feedback" option and report Bad Results. Then I add "!g" to the search and continue.
London is do-able for me (Newcastle), but the problem with evening events like this is getting back - having to stay in a hotel somewhere on top of the train journey makes it a pretty expensive trip. A daytime event would be much better for those of us who have to travel a long distance.

On that note, is there anyone else up in the North East interested in organizing some kind of meetup here?
My understanding is that the cyl/head/track info the operating system gets is... pretty far abstracted from reality by the disk firmware, making that difficult to do in any but a very rough way. By 'very rough' I mean that in the normal case, what the OS sees as sequential sectors are sequential on disk, modulo the bad block remapping... but, from what I understand, going further, e.g. Is sector 5557 closer to 6669 or 3331? is all but impossible to answer from the OS. I mean, most of the time we assume that 6669 is closer as the difference between 6669 and 5557 is smaller than the difference between 3331 and 5557, but because the slow part of the disk is usually the rotation and not the head seek, this is not always or even usually the case.
This may sound foolish, but what actually is it? I don't have the time to watch the videos, and I'm on my phone and there's no text only 'about' to be read. From what I gather, it's a music social network that puts you in contact with people nearby with the same music taste? It's like scrobbling on last.fm, but with something special than 'Bono predicted' and Woz liked? After his comments voicing support for the Great Firewall as a method of preventing music piracy, I don't really pay much attention to Bono.
I see you came here for the comments. You should check out the post. It seems relevant.
There was also the Iranian (Iraqi?) group who had a vacation in Disney World and videoed some of the experience. They were charged with planning a terrorist attack with such ridiculous evidence as "here! The video is looking at a trash can, they're looking for a place to plant the bomb!". Never heard of any convictions out of that case...
There is http://strlen.com/files/lang/lobster/C_style%20language%20Ch...
It was a bug. Corrected. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69512
How to read a lot of books
I'd assume it would work just like a printer que.
What ad agencies’ job openings are saying without saying.
<snob mode="coffee" seriousness="a little">

You call that an espresso machine? And I suppose you're filling it with Starbucks beans.

</snob>
A "pro PRISM" headline might read "Less than 0.0X% searches move to search engines that don't track individuals despite apparent outcry over PRISM"
This happened during another wave of bricked PS3's about a year ago. One year later - same shit is happening to PS3 owners, no real addressing of the problem happened.

My device has been stuck in a perpetual (failing) update loop like many others. No patch was ever released. There's no known way without specialized hardware (PS3Key) or out-of-warranty RMA. I don't want to invest in either solution.
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If you've paid for PS+ your PS3 will switch itself on in the middle of the night (optionally; you can disable it) to sync, download and install queued titles and most importantly apply patches.

I wonder how many people woke up to broken consoles?

But really, you can unplug the new Xbox, it's just that if the situation goes on for more than 24hrs you won't be able to play anything (Sony 'resolved' the situation within hours by removing the problem patch).
You're right, but it's an interesting discussion because it shows that not only are we violating privacy rights, etc., but we're doing it for literally no reason.
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I am waiting for Meta Meta C.
I would imagine they can roll out the rootkit PR campaign almost unchanged. In order to protect our IP, sometimes extreme measures have to be taken ... Along with a healthy dose of the ole "In order to save the village we had to destroy the village"
Oh, so this blogger is misusing the term (I scanned a little way down the article and thought I'd concluded he was doing GP). In that case this is much less interesting!
No! Because it has cleverly avoided having any reference to "evil" in its slogan.
Are you taking Discrete Optimization in coursera ( https://class.coursera.org/optimization-001/class/index )?
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ah, getOrThrow! nice.
The Tor Project [discourages exit enclaves][1]:

Overall the use of enclaves is not advised for these two main reasons:

- They will not be supported in future versions of Tor (> 0.2.3.x)

- They do not fit any particular threat model

[1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ExitEnclav...
Please don't editorialize/comment in the title. If you need to add commentary on the link you're submitting, write a blogpost and submit that.
For this specific problem, if it's allowed to have several items of the same type, the solution is easily noticeable while modelling dynamic programming problem, without writing any code.
> So... They want to get out of the business of actually making things and just sell IP cores now?

NVIDIA GPUs are fabricated by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). NVIDIA never owned its own fab. The only difference is that now instead of keeping their IP cores secret they are willing to license them for a (probably huge) fee. Whoever licenses the core would probably also use TSMC for fabrication.
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Since GAs are analogue of biological natural selection/evolution, I will explore that a little:

Evolution didn't build humans by starting with the problem of 'build a human' - it branches into solving various local niche problems simultaneously (primarily motivated by, how to replicate self). See also: Darwin's finches.

I would assume that biological evolution also spends a lot of time stuck in local maxima with short periods of volatile change as a new local maximum is identified (this hypothesis fits perhaps conveniently with the fossil record).

So natural selection is excellent for blindly solving problems with progressive goal(s) - which are rarely of the type identified by pure computer science. But, hard optimization problems with an open-ended solution could be well-suited.

A problem such as this where a near-miss answer doesn't get you any closer to the correct answer makes it difficult or impossible to identify relative genetic fitness - evolution is more likely to get stuck in an ineffective local maximum. Evolution may be slower at solving this problem than pure random guessing.

Interestingly, the article introduces the aspect of preparation time, which is not exactly what I understood from the xkcd comic. I believe this would allow an artificial escape route for the algorithm, since it's less likely to get stuck in a wrong local maximum considering price alone.

tl;dr: Agreed, biological evolution doesn't seem to effectively solve a yes/no problem like this.
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It may be sweeping but it's certainly not inaccurate.
Try Cambodia for example.
People lost their deposits not that long ago.
Not much in the way of government safeguards, certainly not for foreigners.
Indeed, the government are the biggest crooks, and I don't mean that in the weak "Banksters" sense that applies to western govt, I mean a good percentage are ex warlords and gansters, lead by same.
I agree. It's very difficult to estimate someones taste.

For example I like a hardcore band but only because they are different from all other hardcore bands. Most programs will estimate I like hardcore but that isn't the case.

I'm not sure but I think I like the music I like because they have this special 'mood' that fits me. And the lyrics are also important for me. Question is: how can we turn this into meta data suitable for matching.
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All hackers are poets. We write executable poetry.
To some extent I'm not sure the "launch codes" themselves -- if there is something you need to type into a console at the missile base itself to actually launch the missile and there isn't just a shiny red button -- need to be that secret. There should be a boatload of physical security protecting nuclear missiles. If there isn't, we're doing it wrong. It's not like we should be letting random people reach the point they could fire the missile.

But launching nuclear missiles is a command decision so the weak point in the system is the means by which an order to launch is authenticated. And whatever secret tokens are used in that process, those I want as few people as possible to know (ideally zero).
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Subpoenas are subject to a motion to quash and third-party subpoenas are quashed all the time.
Not only that, but claiming Scala is the best programming language for the JVM is like claiming Vala is the best programming language for Gnome. It's childish.
The relevancy of that depends on what the motivation for declaring OSM the only non-US map.

If it's with reference to NSA (one can only guess, but that seems to be in line with the times), that you won't get tracked, it's irrelevant where the map was made, as long as the map servers are operated outside the US.
The question was what happens if your device is bricked. Bricked means you are unable to even apply a patch and need to take the device in for servicing or replacement.

If you are able to apply an update yourself, your device is not bricked.
I deactivated this something like 5 years ago.
It's a support expiry, not a technical expiry, no?
I like how self aware he is of how people think he is crazy.
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It requires login because it’s a page showing the search and browsing history of your Google account. The page also lets you delete this data and opt out.
Although not new, this submission is interesting to consider in light of the PRISM scandal. If you want, you can delete all past searches here: https://history.google.com/history/settings?hl=en

Unfortunately, there is no such option available from the NSA.
Let's see what Google knows about me...My "Top sites" according to Google's private history trends:

1. github.com
2. en.wikipedia.org
3. stackoverflow.com
4. twitter.com
5. ruby-doc.org

Google knows what a sad, sad life I live
To answer a few questions:

I actually ran 2 different bots with a few variations of each (for different brokers).

My first bot was an arbitrage bot running on different markets, USD, GBP and AUD. There is still huge opportunity to make money using arbitrage as I've not seen many people do it well. The trouble comes from transferring the funds between brokers, there is often a cost incurred that you must consider and price into any profit equation. @skarmklart, yes the payoff compared to the trading volume is small, but it is low risk and almost guaranteed profit.

I ran the arb bots for a few months and made around $15,000 after which I decided to step it up a level. (I started with $100)

Trading and investments always consist of a balance between risk and return. The risk for arbitrage is very low, and so the return is also low (but consistent). The return for technical analysis trading is much greater but the risks are also larger.

My second bot was programmed to take advantage of technical analysis. I realised that in the bitcoin world it is actually much simpler than people lead you to believe. I set up a database to capture price feeds, then used some free technical analysis tools to produce buy and sell signals automatically. I then plugged the signal feed into my trading api (which I wrote from my original bot) to execute my orders.

Here's some useful links: http://ta-lib.org

Books: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator gives you an insight into trading psychology

Market Wizards (there are 3 books in this series): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Wizards
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16067829/jre-expiration-d...

It's known what happens.
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Under free opening rules, Gomoku has been proved to be sure-win for black, aka the first player. This work done by Victor Allis could be part of the reason why Gomoku is undeservedly treated as a toy board game.

We have to remember, however, that this proof is computer search based. There was never an algorithm to find the best move given a random position. In other words, it only proves that these certain openings will guarantee black a win.

Those who loved the game came up with new opening rules. The world championships in 1989 and 1991 used the pro rule. After some evolutions, swap2 now became the standard. Under Gomoku swap2, the first player puts two black stones and one white stone on the board, and the second player can either pick one color, or puts two more stones and gives back the power to choose color to the first player.

I know about Connect6, and also a branch called Renju. But I find Gomoku more attractive. You should totally try it sometimes.