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Yeah, "Stop when the results are positive" is one of the classic ways to fudge a study. Twelve patients (the number mentioned in the article) is way, way premature to end this early.

In this case, it's not even the regulatory environment. As the article mentions, the treatment is as fantastically expensive as it is fantastic. A lot of the skepticism isn't that it can't work, but that it might be too expensive to be viable.
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For those saying Elementary OS isn't a blatant copy of OS X. Just look at those icons in the dock.
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Yep. They're just divs and background images. Could've made this with XHTML or HTML 3.2+, I'd imagine.
Re: "We are unfortunately not able to pay you for this vulnerability because your actions violated our Terms of Service."

Poor Zuck, literally poor poor Zuck. #Sarcasm

Prediction: People will start finding holes, shorting the stock, exploiting the holes, then going public with the exploit and making their money once the stock dips.

Done correctly, that probably pays pretty damn well, yes?
Hopefully the pushes De Blasio further in the legalization direction. As of now he's waffling on even medical marijuana and he's actually the most conservative of all the Democratic candidates when it comes to marijuana reform. It's interesting that Speak Quinn is so liberal on the matter given her ties to Commissioner Kelly and her love of Stop n Frisk
That price accounts only for the capex cost of building the thing, and assumes that many of the... extremely ambitious... cost estimates in the white paper will hold up. In reality, there will be high operating expenses as well, which would also need to be reflected in ticket prices.
We had to make this as a "practicum" in our computer science class.

This is what I made in about 5 hours (java)

https://gist.github.com/brambram/6261967

(it was made in 2 sessions, in the 2nd session we had to expand the elevator code so it supported 2D movement)
A bigger human problem with the proposal is, apparently, motion sickness.

This isn't an abstract issue, like the diaper requirements. The vehicles in this proposal travel 3x faster than HSR; it thus can't use the exact same path as HSR; for instance, it might need much wider curves, which in the mountains might involve substantially more tunneling.

Motion sickness is a pragmatic concern for air travel too; it dictates that you want to run routes above the weather.
I understand you're an insider, so can you please explain what is the actual breakthrough compared to the previous attempts to make a faster Ruby?

And how your approch fares compared to the state of art JIT implementations? Can your solution produce a faster Lua than LuaJIT, for example? Why starting with Ruby for which you implement 40%? And what have you used from JRuby?
For any Vim/Tmux users, the original Vim Powerline is being ported to Python and JSON (beta) and made more general so it can be used in more terminal apps than just Vim:

https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Like this, you mean? http://www.hackagame.org/
D3 can handle lots of nodes. I had to write something that visualized a comprehensive wordnet [1] topology branching from certain words.

This got up to over 100,000 nodes or more easily in the browser and it handled it fine.

[1] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Secret knowledge is appealing. If 99% of the sheeple are being duped by the puppet masters, the politicians, the corporate interests, the bankers, and you and you alone know the true shape of the world, then you are special, you are powerful, you are cleverer than everyone else.
If you are truly homeless -- note, not currently living without a home, but truly homeless -- it is hard to really conceive of them not having a comparison point. Food, shelter, friends, transportation. All of these things are readily visible to them daily, yet denied them.

Also, don't get me wrong, this article does indicate some rather unfortunate situations. I personally do not envy them their lot. However, statistically non-existant situations are hard for me to really consider.
There is literally no discussion on Hacker News about this article (so far) except the discussion about the toilet issue.

Sigh.
He also gave no technical information at all. He gave more info on his education than the bug he found.
Wow! This is pretty cool! A lot better than mine :p congrats and thanks for sharing!
No, but that adds to the fun of it.
I like the idea of a new competitor in this space, however I was a bit disappointed in their direction. Not sure of others but I don't need another gnome3-like (dumbed-down, grandma-friendly, immature paradigm, rather be a tablet) interface. These linux-based desktops will never be popular; that ship sailed long ago.

However, I desperately need a professional, stable, feature-complete, mostly bug-free workstation GUI with modern capabilities at least as good as Win2000/XP, Irix, NeXT like I had 10+ years ago.

Something like Xfce polished to OSX-level quality.

If one of the design-goals is that "menus are too difficult" there is no market available for that product. The people that would benefit use Windows, OSX, iOS, and Android already.
Unfortunately, there are lots of reasons to stoop to their level, which is why all the major media do it.
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I'm not shifting the goalposts, it is rural and urban issues that leads to having different departments and systems to deal with them. Clinton knew and dealt with urban issues. That is obvious from his campaign and experiences he brought to the White House. You can reject it, but a state is much closer to structure, system, and rural / urban concerns than any city. Even one as big as NYC. Clinton's dealing with HUD and as governor gave him an appreciation of how things work in DC more than any city official.
I think it is because "lie" implies a falsehood you could disprove, say in court. "Misled" implies a judgment that the president told a technical truth that he intended to be misleading. It could get confusing if you said he "lied", then he showed you how, technically, what he said was true. Falling back to a weaker "misled" at that point would take a lot of air out of the argument.
i found a uk govt page describing this: "Regulation 6 covers the use of electronic communications networks to store information, eg using cookies, or gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user."

which is more general than just cookies and would cover caching too.

http://www.ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...
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Of that entire group you just mentioned, the most divisive class warfare big government statist was Obama.

At least if McCain had been elected then we would have had opposition party contention between the executive and legislative branches.

At least with a Republican in office, the media would have been more likely to do its job by asking tougher questions and analyzing rather than fawning and adulating.

Before all that, though, maybe people should get involved earlier in the process and not let the media, the party leaders, and Saturday Night Live pick their candidates for them?
I think a business visa will serve your purpose - signing contract and who ur face, No work. But do not dare try to step in without a VISA else you will never ever get an entry into USA again
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>A residual might be that East Texas citizens are more aware of the harm their judges are doing to the software they use and can now not access. They would probably want to change those judges.

People did not vote for T. John Ward. Bill Clinton nominated[1] him the US Federal Judge in Marshall. As long as a US Federal Judge is in "good behavior", it is unlikely that he can be removed from office.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._John_Ward
The citation is against money not being able to buy happiness. Indeed, most of the research shows it does a pretty good job of working at that task. Now, the same research does show diminishing returns.

And, there is the whole statistical abnormality of this story. For every person that fits in this story, I suspect there are countless that could use an extra 10 dollars.

Am I saying that I envy these poor children? Of course not. I just view this as a story that you can not really use in any informative way. Name one decision that you will change based on this information?
I emailed support a question and never received a reply back. Using Geary, once deleted/archived, emails almost always come back. Sometimes, they come back after several attempts.
Can we keep out the usual discussion about the game dev work culture from this one?

What EA did there was pretty inspiring.
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Lying implies intentional maliciousness, which is pure speculation. It stands to reason that our elected representatives are simply puppets -- what they say and do are controlled by others.
I had helped a friend report a security vulnerability to Facebook. It was similar in the sense that it allowed anyone who knew 2 Facebook usernames (easy to do) to post a private message to someone that would appear to come from a friend. You didn't even need to be authenticated on Facebook to do it and could do post it from any machine on the Internet.

At first Facebook was similarly dismissive that it wasn't a bug. My friend pushed a bit to convince them with additional details and examples of how it could be easily used for exploits. They finally saw the light. The bug was fixed and my friend got paid $1K which wasn't much for the bug's seriousness. In any case it got fixed and my friend got acknowledged so it's OK.

It's a bit of a pity, thought, that they didn't see it to be serious at first. I would have expected any mediocre engineer to skip a hearth beat when learning of such a bug in their system.
Even with a changed voting system, I don't think it's going to change much.

The reality is that the average American is frightened of terrorism and wants the government to protect them. The average American believes in "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." The average American is still in a Cold War mindset and thinks that we need a massive military and intelligence apparatus to avoid being invaded and conquered.

The conversation in the tech community has centered around the system and the process, making the implicit assumption that the American public generally agrees with us that these acts are bad, and they're being foisted upon us without our consent by an out-of-control government. The reality, as far as I can tell, is that the American public does not generally agree with the tech community on these issues, and that we've ended up with these massive spying and anti-terror programs because that is the government the American public wants.

I firmly believe that our efforts should be directed toward convincing the public at large of our positions. If accomplished, the government will follow. The system is not (yet) that broken.
> Politics is full of that sort of indirect language.

Politics may be full of that sort of language, but why are media? This is not North Korea where journalists have to fear punishment for insulting the supreme leader. Or is it?
>Also, I was confused by the switch statement that took a boolean and had a case for true and false. Why didn't you use an if statement?

You know, it never occurred to me to do that, but I think there may be times when that would be a clearer idiom than an if statement (as long as you put "default:" immediately after "case true:"). I always feel like the order of clauses in an if-else gives a sense of privilege to whichever case is handled first, but there's less of that sense with a switch statement.

In particular, I think it might be a good alternative to conditionals on non-boolean arguments. For example, instead of:

if(countDown) {
countDown--;
} else {
blastOff();
}

You could use:

switch (countDown) {
case 0:
blastOff();
break;
default:
countDown--;
}
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Hard to see how their conclusion really makes sense. They basically play some semantic game to totally separate the ideas of satisfaction and happiness.

Also, this is in regards to income, not wealth. They are distinct things. Curious if there is a study regarding that. For myself, I don't think any additional money would make me happy. However, I am very happy I can provide healthy lives for my family.
i cant reply to all of these comments , but i can say that i love facebook security team when they ignored me ;)
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There's something about elevators and early-stage computer science students. I remember that writing a lift scheduling algorithm was a really popular project at my school. I think it's because in the arrogance of youth we think that the only reason people have to wait for elevators is because Otis hasn't embraced the computer age. With just a little application of programming skill everything could be so much better. Never mind that it's actually really hard...

This isn't a dig at the poster; it just sparked some memories.
> For reasons he only knows, he choose to side with abuse.

Obama is a vain, stupid man who believes that he is the president of the United States. In reality he is manipulated by a small inner group of people who have the real power and who play him like a puppet. Do you really believe that a man of such limited capabilities can stage a successful campaign to become president? Obama is the biggest con ever played on the American people.
Well, I guess it depends on how you insert new pages. If you remove the machine, put new paper and put machine back then it is a stack. If you lift all papers along with the machine then it is a queue. I believe second method looks more convenient unless you have a 5 foot of paper
I liked the API in Verbal Expressions a bit more: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions
Mine has the nvidia...Its not to hard to work around.
It's a really cool OS. The only thing I don't like is that they force their own applications. I always install Firefox and Thunderbird, and then it's a real thing.
At an average of 22.3% annual interest rate, microcredit schemes appear to be a ripoff.
I think it's worth thinking about how some routes would enjoy increased popularity given the existence of a hyperloop mode of transport.

For instance, the Chicago-New York route is roughly 800 miles, which is about an hour of hyperloop time. If the tickets were still priced in the $20 range each way, just think of how many more people would travel between the two cities.

People could live in Chicago while commuting to work in NYC. Others could live in NYC and impulsively decide to travel to Chicago for a fun night out on the town. Surely, the route would increase in popularity - perhaps vastly so.

What I love about the hyperloop is that it's like a physical embodiment of the internet - shrinking the geographical distance that separates us.
"wait for" and "for parallel" seem useful. Are they inspired by constructs in other languages, or do they have analogs in other languages?
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The payment would ofcourse be for discovering the bug.
I applaud him for his expertise and finding the bug but here are some points Ḱhalil:

- You violated Facebook's terms of service by exploiting the bug on Sarah's profile. You shouldn't have done that.

- I understand that English is not your first language and of course that's perfectly fine, people usually don't expect perfect English on the internet. However you have written the report quite lazily and haven't taken the time to clearly explain the steps. For example you have said "mark profile" instead of "Mark Zuckerberg's profile". That's just ambiguous language and confuses the reader. They probably receive a lot of wrong reports every day so if you make mistakes like that you are less likely to be taken seriously.

- After they said it is not a bug, it is clear that they have misunderstood you because you failed to communicate clearly. You could write a more detailed report and tell them that they have misunderstood you. If not you could report in your first language and let them ask one of their Arabic-speaking employees.

- You violated the terms again by exploiting the bug on Mark's profile. It would be bad if it was any other Facebook user too. But you went straight for Mark which will obviously generate a lot of buzz and negative publicity and I'm sure he doesn't appreciate someone randomly posting something on his wall.

- Just because they fail to receive your bug report does not make it ok for you to go ahead and exploit it.

By exploiting the bug you had found twice you lose your whitehat status and you no longer deserve the bounty. Whitehat does not mean "white hat unless you fail to take my report then I will have to exploit your CEO's profile for the world to see".

If Facebook does pay you for the bug, it is just setting a bad example and will be encouraging similar behaviour.

After that, every other person who finds a bug too will do something funny to Mark's profile for attention.
I don't think you should be so sure that all solutions to cancer have been tried.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-04-24/news/key-words-cannabis-o...

There is no money in natural cures, so most researchers don't bother.
When you lost a viewpoint in a discussion was that worth? Were they correct? If yes then you shouldn't be thinking of it much. If they are not, you should go and talk to them or may be in next discussion bring this up and try to win the argument. If they all are aggressive then you should take different direction else not.
right, because when we had republicans like Bush/Cheney in office, everything went far better than they are now. Feel free to be a Republican just as I feel free to be a Democrat, but that's not really relevant to this issue. The majority of Obama's support on these issues comes from Republicans.
The concept of a really advanced mechanical/analogue computer is covered really well in "The Diamond Age".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
How does the first email contain enough information to base a case on? All he says is that he can post links to other people's walls. He makes absolutely no mention of not being the target's friend.
I'm embarrassed for my ignorance of that fact.

Though he might not be removed by the people, it could bring awareness of the issues if East Texas couldn't access a good deal of internet services.

This is not to say that it's primary motive would be activism.
This is great but not open source in the OSI sense, the license seems to be restricted to non-commercial use. edit: The license is CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

The idea is titillating though. I would love to have a toolchain to go with these plans that enable me to tinker with such plans. Would love to come up with a standing/sitting desk combo for example.

Trying to find out what this kind of thing would cost to have done in Berlin now...
I'd agree "crazies" is a little insensitive. But your counter example of 1440 minute voyages vs 30 minute voyages is a little hyperbolic. That's 2 orders of magnitude!
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The whole problem is this is a proposal. It's not even at the research stage. As such, all we can do is speculate to its advantages and/or disadvantages and a lot of questions go answered.

If Musk (or anyone else) wants to address the criticism, that someone needs to build a demonstration systems. This was done for HSR (the US even as a test facility outside Pueblo Colorado for rail research) and MAglev (the now defunct TransRapid facility in Germany, plus a couple of Japanese facilities). Once something has been built that people can observe and ride, a lot of these questions will go away. For know, what else can we do?
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Add it to some benchmark sites like http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6

It would be interested how it compares to OpenResty (LuaJIT), Node.js (V8 JS engine) & co.
There are several techniques working together here. The Truffle system allows the running program to gradually become statically typed over time (slide 9), where as JRuby has to go through a generic IRubyObject type for almost everything. Also, where JRuby has to continually check that methods have not been redefined, we never check and instead we go in and stop the running machine code when a method is redefined (slide 34).

The advantage of running on the Substrate VM is that, unlike JRuby, our startup time is about the same as MRI (slide 19).

There are several languages using this system, both by us (JS, Ruby) by academic partners (Python, R) and others (Smalltalk is one I know of). This talk just used Ruby as an example.

We used the parser from JRuby.
If you think good hackers report security bugs for $500, I am tempted to call you a total idiot too (though I will not).

Consider what motivates people more deeply.
Sure, the reason is certainly that...

More simply, the only ones that should care about this post are the people who knows her. I don't see here any depth, any earth shattering conclusions or space for parallels with the tragedies of society in the first world.

Again, simply, she matured over time the decision that that place was not right for her, she didn't care about having a career in a big corporation. Just build an alternative and move on, you are not the only one going through this, don't over think/over analyse it. That's what i would have told her.
Unfortunately for the American people, more people will have seen Obama make his remarks on Leno than those who read the Salon article. Getting your news from clowns is dangerous to our liberties.
I think the killer route for the hyperloop is Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

Las Vegas could pay for it - sidestepping California's budget issues. In return they would get a giant vacuum cleaner nozzle for gamblers from southern California.
Uh, no. How many security exploits do you think would impact Facebook's stock? This one? Investors do not care about minor bugs that are fixed quickly.
A lot of people here fervently complaining about eOS again.

The most important thing is that there's finally a linux distro with a team behind it that really cares about design. I think it's a huge step forward, and when eOS gains in popularity, I hope other teams follow in their footsteps.

No, distros like Linux Mint aren't the right way forward. Stripping off everything until what you have left is a taskbar isn't exactly my idea of good design.
Thanks for the input, that makes sense. I can't remember the last time I intentionally visited their site, but ran across this article and it seemed as if it had enough merit to share.
But I already wrote it
> Politics may be full of that sort of language, but why are media?

Because they're not an opposing force in a war, they're dance partners.
The majority of these stories that I am familiar with could have used the "spend some serious time and personal resources on your kids." Money and outside resources seems a poor substitute for good parental relationships.
It is my understanding that gamma correction occurs in the display driver ( or possibly display itself, in some cases ). The colors that your application manipulates are the "raw" colors. Linearly interpolating in this space is correct. Gamma correction will be applied automatically later in the display pipeline.