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Steve Jobs Movie Slammed by Critics — And Woz
There's a lot that can be said about Oracle's stewardship of Java, what it's like and how it should improve; it's a very important conversation. But the tone of your comment (and some of its child comments) seem to take the discussion in a misinformed direction. I don't know how much of the world's important server-side software is written in Java (or runs on the JVM), but I wouldn't be surprised if it's around 80%. The fact of the matter is that aside from small-to-medium startups' servers, the world's server-side software is mostly Java. Almost all non-embedded, large defense software is Java; almost all banking software is Java; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google are mostly Java/JVM shops (when it comes to their infrastructure software).

Saying "I'm not using anything owned by Oracle" is something most serious server-side developers just can't say, because, frankly, there's little choice. If you require high-performance, multi-million-LOC software developed by a large team, you would be quite foolish to choose anything but the JVM. So we should certainly discuss Oracle's behavior, but pretending that we can avoid Oracle software like it was a specific linux distribution is a misrepresentation of reality.
Fair enough, let me rephrase it: he is parroting a common cliché, one that is based more on the desires and trends of the contemporary computer industry than a deep reflection on the future of humanity.
I made a facebook security vulnerbility report Friday afternoon and have recieved absolutley no response from them.... its getting rather disgusting
>Do you think you could control it?

There always seems to be an assumption in popular thought that any intelligent machine would necessarily be like us: ie, have drives, motivations, self-preservation instinct, etc. This just isn't the case. Even in us, our rational nature is an appendage to our more base drives and instincts. Intelligence does not come with these motivations and drives, they are completely separate. There is no reason to think that a general AI would have any of these things, thus concerns about it deciding that its better off without us are completely unfounded.

There is a concern however, that someone would program an AI specifically with these motivations. In that case we do have everything to worry about.
Surface RT an “Unmitigated Disaster”, Says Class Action Suit
> PickToRead is a minimalistic and intuitive news reader.

Based on the huge font size, it's apparently intended for the visually impaired.
There is (was?) a privately-funded project that was well into the engineering phase (http://www.xpresswest.com) but they needed a Federal loan to make the project feasible and FRA recently put the kibosh on the loan: http://www.reviewjournal.com/transportation-insider/prospect...
reading the article, it might seem that it's some sort of futuristic technology, but it's been used since 2002 (scanrand)

the downside of stateless portscanning is that you are trading speed for false negatives.
It's funnier when FB points to some fine print and acts like bigger douches then those administrator. I would've half expected FB to have engaged this person in a whole differrent spirit, with all the well publicized "we're cool & paying whitehat hackers" PR & new articles.
While the instructions to report bugs on the whitehat page are not localized, the terms Facebook is referring to (https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms) are.
This is a fantastic speech and slides. Thanks for the link!
My understanding is hazy, but is it possible that the particular photos taken of objects that are three dimensional could not be under public domain as there was artistic decisions made in capturing the object?

A photograph of a painting, meant to re-present that painting with as much accuracy as possible, I think is under the public domain for public domain works.
The SVM here is unrelated to the LLVM project. The SVM allows you to take a Java program (with some restrictions) and turn it into single static binary that is the JVM, libraries and the program all compiled and optimised together. So you can compile our Ruby implementation and get a ruby binary just like MRI - no JVM needed at runtime. Then startup time is about the same as MRI.
Wow! That would lead one to speculate that perhaps they haven't had the best of engineering teams focused on improving the product over the years! Which means there might be a huge opportunity here.
So his point about spacing may be true for loading and unloading, but it is not for emergency stops. You can exceed .5g's in am emergency. With appropriate restraints, 4 or 5g's would be possible.

The larger problem is: if you can build a hyper loop track at 10% of the cost, you can build an ultra light conventional "train" on the same pylons and with lighter weight,cheaper, track. It would run at maybe 200 or 250pm and hence with reduced capacity. At best Musk's cost claims are a capacity/cost trade off. At worst, they are suspect. I think they are suspect, especially given the extreme tolerances of the tube
Just for the sake of clarification, I don't think "inlining" is what you're looking for. Using `margin: 0 auto;` is shorthand, not inline. Inline would be `<div style="margin: 0 auto;"></div>`. Definitely don't want that :)
Hi, I'm on the elementary team.

I'm not sure how exactly you "emailed support" because we don't have a support email address, but I would encourage you to check out our support landing page here: http://elementaryos.org/support and specifically search/ask a question here: http://elementaryos.org/answers/+/all/solved/highest

If nobody seems to have a conclusive answer for you (mind you, Geary is not an app we wrote in house, so there's liable to be less Geary developers hanging around our support channels), I'd ask you (on behalf of the community) to report a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/geary

Thanks :)
"Obama could have been special."

I have a honest question, did you read his voting record, see what bills he had wrote / sponsored / co-sponsored, or listen to his podcast[1] before deciding he was worth your hope for that symbol? The media narrative for both sides is smoke and mirrors. The only real truth is what the do in legislation.

1) Yes, he had one as a US Senator.
This is not a fault of Xpressive, but of CSS3's implementation: doesn't it bother anyone that we're in 2013 and we still have non anti-aliased motion graphics?

http://i.imgur.com/GAJuyqV.jpg
IMHO there is a huge market for replacing menus with somthing "simpler" and faster, look at the "ribbon" in MS Office.

ps: not trolling but I gave to my grandma a linux laptop (ubuntu and unity) and I think it's always great to have alternatives
Since I never voted for any Bush, your straw man does not apply. I'm not advocating being a Republican. I'm advocating being independent and making strategic decisions about candidates based upon core principles - rather than being a jersey-wearing die-hard fan of a political party.

That said, I do think that having a Republican administration take the blame for the current scandals (IRS, NSA, AP, Benghazi) would have been a good thing.

If we extrapolate the level of anal probing that went on as a result of the Valerie Plame outing to the above scandals, the media wouldn't let any of them go until something more meaningful happened in congress, in the courts, or in voting booths.

As it is, these scandals are all disappearing from the MSM's coverage. Maybe they can do another multi-month coverage of George Zimmerman-like trials to take our minds off of important things.
I think chrome extensions are very easy and quick to set up. I often end up making extensions for when I want to make some task easier for my mom. I just have to tell her how to install extensions once and I can run any js in her browser's context.
Green and naive.
1. I haven't said "there are no economies of scale"; and I don't know how this relates to my point.

2. "traditional retail will keep being strong", during the past 5 years retail has been one of the hardest hit industries both in the US and Europe, I don't understand the basis for such argument.

3. "will remain cheaper and with higher margins" - retail prices tend to have an over cost of 30%-40% due to fixed costs, primarily due to distribution, real estate and retailer markup. Again, I don't understand the basis for such argument.

4. "When something new comes, it does not mean it replaces something existing." The internet replaced travel agencies, taxi/limo booking desks, the yellow pages, music distribution, etc. That's the internet alone, but if you take a look at large supermarkets such as Walmart, this has swiped mom 'n pop retail shops all over the U.S.

The great thing about this discussion is that time will tell.
Who is the clown here ? Obama or Leno ?
I wonder, though, if perhaps a lot of "power decisions" are made at the margin.

(I mean "making decisions at the margin" in the way that economists use the term. For example: I wish cheese was free. But, in real life, I have a choice between $2.49 cheese and $2.19 cheese. So I buy the cheaper cheese, not the free cheese. Because the free cheese doesn't exist.)

If the President has to make small decisions about "the lesser of two evils", then how much power does he really have?

For example: He said he would close Guantanamo Bay, but didn't. One theory is that he was full of shit. He's just a tool. Another theory is that there wasn't the political capital to accomplish such a thing. As in: there was enough push-back from his own party... he didn't want to alienate some of his friends... as in, he couldn't afford to. So he says: "Screw it. A couple hundred people in hell isn't worth my career if I can focus on other things that can benefit more people."

(I'm not trying to be an apologist for Obama here. I think Washington is pretty horribly corrupt in both parties...)

So I'm left to wonder: Sure, no smart politician is going to burn his own career for a couple hundred foreigners that the citizens hate anyway (I guess...). But why is Gitmo still open? What does it accomplish? (I keep going around in circles trying to figure out why anyone loves Gitmo...)

A president "spends power" at the margins. He spent a lot of power on Obamacare. (You call in favors, you do the horse-trading...) But he has spent no power against the "Security Industrial Complex". I guess it's not something that he cares to achieve. People are calling it "Bush's 4th term". I understand the contractors profit from "Fear of Terrorists". And I'm sure there are some military / intelligence people who are actually hard-core about it. But, outside of that.... who the fuck loves it? I just don't get it... Washington has wrapped itself into a self-sustaining engine of fear...

... oy vey. And here we're not supposed to be getting all political on HN... :-/
> Or does a family spending most of their $75K income renting a 500 sf apartment in NY experience the same level of happiness as an equivalent family in a remote suburb with much more living space.

There has been some research done around how some people who live in cities (especially those who can be paid a relatively high livable wage) are those who want the local optimum of their available choices (maximizers). [1,2]

This tends to make them possibly less happy than those who have less choices. For instance, if you live in London or NYC, there are hundreds of options for nightlife and entertainment - and you might want to be somewhere else even if you are at club X (fear of missing out).

But the reality is:

"Happiness is complicated. Wherever you live." [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...

[2] http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2012/02/14/the-real-value-of-d...

[3] http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2011/10/...
Why can't there be an "ultimate" programming language?
So by that characterization, virtally no GNU/Linux distro is actually worthy of being called an OS.

That's fine if you want to say that, but you have to understand what that actually means.

As for differences beyond the "visual", we wrote our entire desktop environment and a number of our apps from scratch. We did't just skin things and make opinionated decisions about design. We actually write code (apps, libraries, our DE), as this article expresses.

Full disclosure: I am an elementary team member and I helped edit the linked article.
Yeah, and it gets even weirder when you start learning about representations of 3d art. Photos of non-flat art do renew that copyright right? But what precedent exists re: 3D scans of objects in a collection? We share what we can, which right now is limited to 123D catch generated models, up on http://thingiverse.com/met .

Disclosure: I work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and am trying my hardest to share all our data with the world, but have learned that what is legal and what is museum policy can and often do clash. Its super interesting.

If you want relatively low resolution images of our collection, feel free to visit http://scrAPI.org , which just scrapes our live site. Its a workaround until our policy changes.

Roger, how was working for Getty while you were there? Was this your main project? How supportive where those involved in sharing the data? If hackernews isn't the most appropriate place to answer these questions, I'd be glad if you could take the time to go off-site for a conversation.
Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness
I admit that hoarding books is an irrational pack rat behavior. :-)
Is the reflexivity toggle broken for anyone else. Seems that the toggle will only work once per newly created edge.
How to influence behavior
I think those posters are way overstepping the mark. I don't mind the idea of promoting charity donations by claiming they are more effective than giving to beggars, but personally I'd like us to preserve the human institution whereby if somebody asks us for help, we consider giving it. Human relations are very nuanced, there might be good reasons why someone begs rather than turns to homelessness organisations. I'd hate to live in a country where everyone has the same robotic 'can't help you, you should report yourself to the police' response.
> The behavior reflects that of a classic old and inflexible corporation that hides some details in their small prints to screw their customers over.

You act as if corporations maliciously "screw their customers over". See the responses below and you'll see that in this specific case FB actually wins out when they pay more to their whitehats.

I hate to single out your specific response, but it's comments like this (and the other 90% on this thread) that remind me how very few people on HN have experience with businesses at scale. classic old and inflexible corporation or let's just call them "enterprises" create policies so they can protect the highest number of cases available, but not all of them. It would be silly to think otherwise.
Well I'm from the east coast so I'm not the most familiar with SF/LA but how many people per hour actually travel between those two cities? Would it really exceed the 1,260? If not then the reduced travel time would certainly be a huge benefit.
It is spam. There is no doubt, the goal at least from my perspective as someone who has been experimenting with sales and selling is to send a quick note that is hopefully a bit personalized and allows them to be interested in your product...this script obviously allows you to do that at scale.
Comparing the theoretical capacity of the Hyperloop vs the High Speed Rail is only one fact to consider. Musk correctly points out the High Speed Rail is in theory way more dangerous. And, possibly more significantly, it is just too slow. To expect travel consumers to opt to max-out the so-called High Speed Rail capacity is wishful thinking. The real "high speed" capability of the Hyperloop make it more likely consumers would opt to max out its capacity, at which point more capacity can be added (by adding a parallel loop), and it is still cheaper than the High Speed Rail.
> What little I can puzzle out about systems like this suggests that six active wheels (plus spares) would allow for desaturation of spin (cutting back when one flywheel approaches its maximum RPM) without either additional spacecraft rotation or thrusters.

But in the absence of thrusters or another method, to stop one reaction wheel from spinning, you have to start another one spinning -- in other words you have to transfer the conserved momentum to another wheel. So wheels acting by themselves cannot cancel their own momentum, they can only transfer it from one wheel to another.

Another approach is to stop a wheel spinning with a brake pad, which would convert the momentum into heat. But this has obvious drawbacks, among which the energy is irretrievable.
You really can't make such statements about "cancer". Stage II lung cancer? You will probably die in a few months, surviving five years isn't very likely. Stage 4b Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 18? You have a decent chance of getting to know your grand children.
OpenDesk dev here. Just spotted this thread and that the traffic had caused the site to fall over.

I've removed some web service calls and allocated some more hosting resources. Fingers crossed this will keep it up -- it's running OK for me atm.
Which representation is used to produce the static binary? Is it a native binary? What is the backend? Gcc, LLVM?
FWIW, the problem with their having been "releases" is that there is no reference release; Larry Wall is uninterested in doing an implementation.
Agree. I have a feeling that if the company was not Facebook (or other seen as 'evil'), many reactions would be different.
So installing something by default is forcing it on people now? It's still Linux.
OD dev here. Check out our sister project http://wikihouse.cc -- an open source construction set for CNC printed houses.
You incorrectly used "to evacuate" in a rare instance where your intended meaning is actually confusing. At first I thought you were making a clever joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d82ndui_s
I've done that, but the project is long dead and it doesn't really showcase the technical chops of its authors. It's more about good intentions.
Lossy PNG tends to preserve crisp edges.
Needs an ecosystem not just free downloads. If you want free downloads the competition already has that.

I believe that's exactly what they're building here. See the cached link to their website from singold. I agree an ecosystem is important, but that's what they're trying to provide.

Their desks are not at all boring, I think they're very nice thoughtful designs, and they're set at certain proportions and with certain materials for a reason - because distorting the proportions, wood thickness etc would mess up the designs in various ways. Your request for a tool which you can fiddle with all the parameters of a desk presupposes that design is some sort of gloss that is added to a final product rather than a solution to a given set of parameters, so I doubt it'll ever be realised. If you think it can be, please do go ahead and make it, but setting up these concrete designs which exist against a hypothetical tool which doesn't exist is hardly fair.

What I want is what this website delivers (or does when the site actually works) - beautiful designs which I can ask someone to make, or make myself if I'm so inclined. If I was furnishing an office I'd look here before buying something from IKEA for example, these desks look sturdy, functional and yet elegant - everything I'd want in office furniture.

My only hesitation is that it undervalues design somewhat, but they could possibly introduce a marketplace for designs at some point too, if this takes off - obviously the CNC machine owners would make money, so perhaps the idea is that design shops could make their own furniture and sell it, as well as giving away the plans?
Denying bounty to a hacker on some bullshit "Terms of Service" violation excuse defeats the whole purpose of the bounty program.

Next time a hacker will just sell the exploit to somebody else, cash upfront, and wont bother reporting.
Not that a "hyperloop" is ever going to happen anywhere, but:

* There won't be $20-40 tickets on the SF/LA route, because (a) capex costs will be much higher than the white paper anticipates (it costs its el line at 1/10th the going rate for viaducts and its tunnel at a tiny fraction of any other tunnel, even given the narrower tube --- not to mention an extremely optimistic projection for much much tunneling will be required, projections lower than those for the Tejon Pass HSR concept, which runs at 1/3rd the speed or less and can thus follow a tighter course) and (b) ticket prices have to account for opex as well, which will be substantial; having built the thing, it does not simply run itself.

* Land in the central valley might be cheap, but the ROWs you'll need to do anything from Chicago to NYC won't be anything resembling cheap. Note that the "hyperloop" painfully acknowledges this, by terminating in Sylmar, on the far northern outskirts of LA, because integrating more thoughtfully with LA's transit system would have been prohibitively expensive; similarly, the "SF" end of the route is actually San Leandro, which is an hour easy from SF in traffic.
I've been crawling Twitter user data for awhile, and I can tell you that the # of ACTIVE twitter users is somewhere between 15 million and 25 million users.

I notice this because in the beginning, I'd be crawling a ton of users a day, but have reached a peak in the past few weeks as I've crawled more and more (now I only crawl maybe 10,000 new users a day that weren't crawled already).
If everyone moves to iPads and iPhones, no amount of Emscripten will address the problem that the browser doesn't have access to the actual hardware. No talking to bluetooth devices, no talking to the GPU, no ad-hoc wifi communication with other devices, etc.

Mozilla and Google have been pushing on exposing more features like that to the web browser, but that's something Apple seems uninterested in (because it diminishes the importance of their App Store)
That would work great, in a James Bond movie.
Yeah this sounds like a super productive discussion.
You missed the biggest businesses in this "war" - the private prison companies.
Computer Chess
So what strikes me as more interesting is the potential for this as an alternative to conventional ferries and cargo runs for short haul stuff or vs trains up and down the coasts.

A miami-bahamas GEV plane could make the trip in 20 minutes vs 2 hours for a "high speed" catamaran ferry. But if you used it to ferry cargo from Miami - DC (traditional flight is 2.5 hours) but you could shuttle cargo in 4 hours perhaps (though i'm sure much more expensive than traditional cargo ships) but faster than the 12-18 hours a train takes or a truck takes.
See anologwintermut's comment. But if anything, the faster Hyperloop needs a larger capacity, since there would be more demand.
20-25% ain't bad when you don't have good ratings data. Look at Wonga et al in the UK - 4000% was the highest one I think. (they're called "payday" loans - they give you up to £1,000 for up to 30 days. Most people who use them end up in a debt spiral, unsurprisingly.)
second email points about that he and Sarah are not friends.
"the vulnerability allow's facebook users to share posts to non friends facebook users "
Micromet was developing a set of bi-functional antibodies that pretty much accomplished this same thing. That is directing the immune system to tumors. One side of the antibody would bind the tumor, while the other bound the T-cells. They were bought out by Merck a year or two ago and I believe the therapies are in clinical trials. You can read about the antibodies here: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/69/12/4941.full.pd...

The added benefit here is that the antibodies can be produced en masse and delivered as a drug rather than reprogramming the person's T-cells.
Building Traffic from Scratch
I like where this could go, but basing it on calories isn't particularly useful. 300 calories of garbage (or corn syrup if you will) is still eating garbage.