skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money, time, and experience.

All of these things have changed since over the past year or so, and there's been a lot of internal discussion about moving to Debian. In fact, it's almost sure to happen for Isis+1 (Isis is the name of our next release).

Basically, setting up our own repo took really good packagers (we have them now, and you can also get pretty much all of our software from Gentoo and Arch), running our own repo required a solid and cost-effective server (we have this now), and forking let us inherit a LOT of stuff we didn't have the resources to customize back then.

As we grow, it seems only natural that we base less on Ubuntu. But a lot of us used to be Ubuntu developers/enthusiasts, and a bunch of us have good ties to the Ubuntu ecosystem (a number of us met up at UDS-O), etc.

So, tl;dr, it will happen soon enough :)
I wonder about the health aspect of this. It seems there is very little known about long-term exposure to high intensity ultrasound.

Also, there could be a risk of ear damage if a non-linear material came into the sound field, and producing distortion artifacts in the audible frequency range - given that about 1W/m^2 can be enough to cause damage.
The problem is that nobody trusts Oracle. Have a look at what happened to Google. Their code didn't even originate from Oracle and they still got sued for made-up, bullshit reasons.

It of course sucks for those who invested their time in hacking the Oracle stack, but I think many people these days outside the Oracle bubble see Oracle as a dead-end.

Most people don't have a war chest full of money to hire the best lawyers like Google to protect them against baseless lawsuits.

Anyway, even from a technical point of view, things like Graal and Truffle are terrible workarounds and I prefer just fixing the things which are broken in the first place. Seeing that this will never happen at Oracle, I'll just work on code were the maintainer/owners are not so openly hostile.
Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
"Still, it would be wrong to accuse of sexism the "hundreds" of the investors who declined her project. She's an astrobiologist who wants to run a mass-manufacturing business. I'm not a venture capitalist, but I can see aversion to hardware manufacturing risk generally being the biggest factor here."

As physics as generally understood means this is 99% likely to be nonsense, another reasonable application of Ockham's Razor would be that the VCs passed because it's snake-oil.
Steve Wozniak says 'there were a lot of things wrong' with 'Jobs' movie
Yes, but it's GPL right? So if it's a really fine piece of software, it can be forked (not arguing if that would be good or not).

Edit: and indeed it would be nice to know if a company like Google etc uses OpenJDK or the Oracle one.
Upvote or the furniture wins.
The "universal point of view" should register an account and speak up for itself.
Could you post some links explaining your method?
Wondering why dialysis couldn't be employed to take the load off the kidneys during the worst of it. Or does dialysis not remove the cytokine?
Stay Classy, Groupon... Keep Alienating Your Partners
http://blog.sweetiq.com/2013/08/groupon-rep-threatens-sf-restaurant-posts-bad-reviews/
I believe that the poor girl will still live not much more than normal persons, probably even less.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit
Bashfill - art for your terminal
Or learning how to write code you can trust without testing it.
Very informative commentary with your "lol" and "idiot" brackets.

Maybe Facebook sucks and can't be bothered with helping the reporter.

That does not make it ok for the reporter to go ahead and exploit it.

And for what it's worth, I'm not a English speaker either so I can understand and forgive someone for not being a English speaker too.

His report is very short and lazily written. It's not about the level of language skills. It's about the time and effort he put in on disclosing the vulnerability.

Using simple language he could have written a step by step guide explaining the problem.

The point is, regardless of Facebook's behavior, it is not ok for him to go ahead and exploit the bug on two different users one of them being the CEO of the company. And he did not put in enough effort to make them understand what he's talking about. He could have given it another shot with more details.

Facebook is not trying to "save" money on the bounty program. The budget is already allocated and no one is sitting there crying over the couple of thousands of dollars and trying to stop people from getting it.

If anything, he has caused damage to Facebook's image and reputation due to the negative publicity, greater than the amount he was going to be paid.

So yes, if you post on Mark Zuckerberg's profile and create a news shit-storm of negative publicity against Facebook they are not going to thank you and pay you money.
How is this related to the JVM? I understand there's the compilation/type-information-flow part, and the exposing the JVM's internals part. How does it all fit together?
Very good points in the responses on defense budgets being a need of USA over Finland, but still proof of the values in Finland as a model for our future.
Right, my guess is that it would have little effect if puberty has already ended.
>More succinctly, I wonder if you are projecting your doubts a little bit.

Not sure I understand you correctly. To clarify, what I'm saying is, any OS that people use because they want to is an opportunity to do it better and sway them. They may be personally invested, but they're invested because it's a good product, so if you can one-up that you have a chance of winning them over, and it's actually possible they could swap to your OS.

If they're using an OS b/c corporate IT mandates it, fat chance they'll ever reinstall their work computer's desktop.

I just don't have any good guess as to what portion of Windows users are the former or latter.
Corrected, I didn't notice his name in the article. Still, he invests in a disproportionately high number of women-founded/co-founded companies, 4/16 as opposed to an average of 1/14 (by 2010 figures). See edits.
Founders Fund on PR role with this and the Forbes article on Palantir.
Most of us don't live in Egypt, and for those who do, the lessons to be learned from this "terrorism" are quite different.
I think Google already had a lot fun with Oracle while not using their code.

If you fork, be prepared for a patent-infringement lawsuit as soon as you earn some money with it.

I'm pretty sure most companies have realized that staying the hell away from Oracle isn't a stupid move.
I guess genetics is the new 'vehicle' to the fountain of youth. Plants, alchemy, ships, industrialization, computers, and now genetics. Seems like our quest moves further away from myth with each cycle. Albeit, when you have an infinite distance to travel even objectively large movements like these are insignificant.
True, true, and to hell with it I even like the JVM. I just don't differentiate google or facebook from oracle, they're equally "corporatish" for me :)
This and the fact that Obama is constantly being caught in lies says to me that the U.S. government has no clue what information Edward Snowden has passed off to Greenwald.
JUDr. Jan Vajda Twitter | JUDr. Jan Vajda Trending
String inheritance is overused
One problem with collapsing a thread is that you then don't downvote anything in the collapsed thread.

If a comment is bad enough to need collapsing it's likely there are going to be other lousy comments that need downvoting.

Sometimes sub-optimal comments have excellent replies, and it's a shame if those good replies don't get upvotes.
Having been a football fan for almost 20 years, I am not sure if this is a sad thing but playing Fifa is starting to give me more pleasure in enjoying football than watching games. Part of the reason is that in FIFA, controllers can see clearer the whole field than the limited vision real players have in the real world, so that often times controllers can make more creative plays provide that the AI controlling the teammates making interesting runs.

Now that I said that, I realized that creating such AI might be even more fun than the above two.
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Of An Incentive?
Seriously. Given the existing levels of waste in our society and the associated environmental consequences, do we have any business switching to less efficient methods of power transmission?

Unless this transmits as well as a cable, I'm not interested.
3D Gesture Control Is an Area of Focus We Likely Don’t Need or Want
The Hayflick limit only applies to healthy individuals (and their tissues) with no change in activity of the telomerase enzyme. If the girl exhibits her appearance because of a telomerase mutation, she is not subject to the normal apoptosis condition.
I'm shocked that police actually have the power to hold you for nine hours, refuse you a lawyer and that you are not allowed to refuse to answer questioning.

Edit: shocked is probably the wrong word it's hard to get surprised by this stuff anymore.
UnSocial Media Cartoon
Right now I would be perfectly happy living to something like 75, but not having any ill effects on my health and mind as I age. Immortality seems like too long a time (although of course I could eventually end my own life).
This could be unrelated to the US as details of UK spying were also released.
Locomotive - not yet another open source cms build upon Rails and MongoDB
Here's what I've been wondering. A transformer provides very efficient wireless power transmission but on a few centimeters. Has anyone considered scaling up a transformer? Would that increase the range?

What if we made a house sized one and buried it under the house? Could that provide wireless electricity to the whole house?
SF fire chief bans helmet cameras in wake of crash
The site is pulling css and javascript over http instead of https - I've seen this too often to count, why aren't the webmasters fixing it? Are they using old browsers?
I'm starting to feel that way too, if I'm immersed in Fifa 13 now I can't imagine what Fifa 2023 will be like
You are completely ignoring the fact that the reporter initially created massive negative PR for Facebook by posting on Mark's profile.

The bounty for Facebook is like a chocolate bar. They don't care about that.

And the message is not "thanks for working for us for free".

The message is "thanks...but next time remember not to exploit the bug you found".

The PR damage that he has caused for Facebook is probably many times greater than the bounty he was going to be paid.

He violated their terms of service and if Facebook just ignores the fact that he exploited it on two different users then the future reporters will expect that too.
You're doing good work. Don't be discouraged. You clearly have some talent, and you can do positive good with it. Large companies are wedded to their rules, terms, and systems. As you work more on these sort of things, the process will get easier. As you can see, there are many supportive people here.
Huh? Where is there any benchmark of Topaz in the paper? All there is involving Topaz is the percentage of RubySpec passed — nothing about performance!
QTip2 - Pretty powerful tooltips - Demos
By giving him anything they would be encouraging violation of their terms of service.

I'm no fan of Facebook but as a corporation they are doing the right thing.
Isn't it conceptually just like a counter which effectively turns off the cell copying after enough copies are being made? Before the limit is reached, the length of telomerase doesn't influence the quality of the copying. I don't see how it has anything to do with 8 year old looking as one year old. That has to do with gene expression, not with the limit of cell copies. But the limit of the cell copies will limit the length of her life, if I understand? And that's only one of probably many built-in expiration dates we have.
Avoiding problems with matching signed and unsigned types in C++
> The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows

What a flagrant abuse of power. It looks like their power should be reigned in.

The acts are fascism. The public would pay more attention if we refer to them as such.

* edits: wording. I have hard time being dispassionate about this.
The problem we have to solve is cellular aging, especially with regards to Alzheimer's and other conditions. When DNA replicates from 5` to 3`, safety sequences of DNA known as telomeres get lost. This is a normal function of cell division, and causes aging, as when there are fewer telomeres available, the cell's "clock" keeps getting shorter.

The enzyme telomerase is responsible for keeping these in check. However, humans have very little telomerase.

The issue at hand is that if we present more telomerase, and thus extend the replication life of body cells, proofreading and repair mechanisms to repair illegal sequences caused by incorrect ligase bonding of Okazaki fragments may not be effective, as the statistical probability of errors increases. The other issue is that we don't know what can happen with an infinite telomerase supply. There could be ramifications on a molecular level that could be impossible to cure. Frameshifts, substitution errors -- there are an entire host of things to go wrong.

It's a long road to immortality. As no scientific data was published in the article, I'm not sure what exactly the girl has that causes her an inability to age. The only information given was obvious. Judging by her facial features, she seems like she has more of a growth disorder rather than a cellular stoppage of aging. If the latter were the case, she would still look very much like an infant, and would behave the same way as well.
TIGER HELL...
JPMorgan Is Selling The Building That Houses Its Gold Vault
This is definitely interesting approach, but many domains are such that outliers are what we want to investigate. Take for example response times of a web service. From the usability perspective, we usually want response times to be predictable and minimize variability, not just that the average is good enough. You really want to know, if 1% of responses are e.g. over 20 seconds, because over time that gives to many users an impression that service that is not smooth.
I think that the reason this new idea came from someone outside of Physics or Electrical Engineering is because its poor efficiency is obvious to people with a background in those fields.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to challenge assumptions and achieve a breakthrough, but I don't think thats going to happen in this particular case.
An intelligence without a goal or motivation wouldn't be completely useless. Sure it would be safe to be around, but it also wouldn't have an reason to improve it's own intelligence or do anything useful. It would just do nothing because there would be no reason for it to do anything.
India’s Accelerator GSF Graduates its New Batch.
Yeah, but couldn't that happen with other open source products as well? Serious question, not sure if that happened or not.
If something is wrong with her telomerase activity she will be extremely prone to carcinogenesis.

Remember that a cell has to accumulate many mutations in order to become cancerous. One of the most important aspects of cancer is that its cells are immortal. The cells of a normal person have to overcome this barrier in order to become cancerous so that, if her cells are indeed changed as you postulated, turning into cancer cells will be much easier for them.
The HSR plan doesn't involve TSA-style security checkpoints. The Musk plan explicitly does. HSR trains have derailed in the past with minimal fatalities. The expectation is that the same scenario on Musk's trains would be catastrophic.
A lazy engineer doesn't automatically result in a warrant for exploiting the bug on the CEO's (or anyone's) profile.

No corporation will come forward and say "thank you for exploiting two of our users including our CEO and generating lots of negative PR for us. Here have this money for being a good boy and not selling the bug in the black market".

That's not how whitehat works.
It seems odd that they removed property of a journalist. I was under the impression that journalists (and their materials) had special protections under English law.

Once you get in the country you have different rights (http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system...) (https://www.gov.uk/police-powers-of-arrest-your-rights)
So many countries have "Detain first, something-something later" policies that it's easier to make a list of the ones who don't. Like Japan, for example, allows suspects to be arrested and detained for 20+ days without being charge

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/japan-end-abusive-detention-s...
I spent many many many hours of my youth playing that game. It was so groundbreaking for its time and just so much fun to play!
Ironically, Xubuntu uses the Elementary icon set.
I'm unconvinced by the "doesn't connect up with transit" arguments. If it's built, and there's demand, the transit will catch up. That the CHSR goes to downtown LA/downtown SF and incurs extra cost is a FAULT, that smacks of overplanning to satisfy irrational demands of politically connected constituencies.
more of this : "But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue to report aggressively."

less of this: "ohh noo.. Should I write my opinion on the internet? What if the NSA is watching????! Will I be put on the...the. the list???"
Not speaking of a tremendously high bar for purity here. I would have settled for someone who didn't think it was ok to kill and imprison people without trial, psychologically torture whistleblowers, and attempt to spy on the digital communications of everyone on the planet.
I am sorry to have used your post as an example, but it's just ludicrous to expect everyone to know the rules. You keep deriding the reporter as lazy or lacking of simple things!

His hack was lame; no one was hurt. Not even Facebook; nine 9s of their users don't won't know or care about such incidents. There's no telling that, had he used a whitehat account to repro the PoC, would they have paid any more attention; assuming the PoC can be performed on a whitehat account. It's not a stretch to think that a PoC against a real user should generate MORE attention.

The point is, Facebook failed to educate the reporter. They can improve their process. As you say, the bounty is really immaterial; I don't even mention it. However, the system is not there to make Facebook's life easier; if they care to only handle and reward pristine reports, they have another thing coming.
> Miranda was then released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.

Thievery and intimidation are good indicators of who and what we're dealing with.
My sense was the opposite: the same thing built natively would be superior and naturally draw usage.
That's called ludditism.
My dad has gotten pretty decent at making furniture, and already owns tools for fun. He makes things himself in part because he likes it, and in part because he wants high quality craftsmanship, which comes much cheaper when you are the craftsman.

If you want IKEA-level furniture, it will never make sense to buy your own, but good handmade furniture gets expensive fast.
Does anyone have any experience with this project?
that is the best way to solve the problem - always off by default is better than being required to remember that one must disable something unwanted.
This is a great idea, it would make it impossible for any nongovernment entity to gather up lists of users to sue without opening themselves up to a lawsuit.

I had a similar idea that before receiving any torrent data each peer would have to send a message like:

As an agent of the copyright holder of works represented in aaaaa.avi, the user at [ip address] is working under my supervision and is authorized to distribute and reproduce the works contained in aaaaa.avi.
The article concentrates on the
fact that current artificial
intelligence (AI) software
doesn't really understand
the meaning in natural language.
Right.

So, then, maybe one approach to
AI is via natural language --
program a computer to understand
natural language, just typed
input should be sufficient initially.

How to do that? My two kitty cats
understand some natural language,
and I have to suspect that I roughly
understand how they did that
and how I could program some of it.

Human babies learn natural language,
and we have to suspect that the
effort is a bootstrap where learn
some really simple things
-- e.g., "Ma Ma" and "Da Da" --
and then build on those.
"Nice". "Bad". "Ma Ma nice."
"Da Da bad". "Food". "Hungry".
"Hungry want food.".

"When
hungry and want food, go to
master, reach up with front paw
and use claws to
pull on shirt but don't pull on skin." --
my kitty cats both already figured
this out either independently or
learned from each other.

"I can see." "Can he see me?".
Kitty cats know that very well,
and if they want to scratch or
bite (one cat long ago, just
rescued), know to wait until
the target can't see the
claw or mouth about to bite.

So, to come in from the back
porch, wait until there is noise
indicating that I'm at the kitchen
sink and take a position on the
porch so that can be seen -- then
I will let them back in.

Then build on such simple things.

That's what I thought long ago.
Once I asked DARPA about it, and
they had no response.

The author of the OP has another
article on how birds and babies
learn to understand language.
So, maybe more than one person
is thinking along those lines.

Doing it first with just text
input should show the core problems
and be sufficient.

One problem: Kitty cats have
great internal 3-D geometry.
E.g., if the mouse runs clockwise
around a packing box, then the
cat can be smart enough to
run counterclockwise. So, the
cat understands the 3-D box
and paths in space. They're
not stupid you know! How to
program that? Hmm ...!
reminds me of dscan, originally from about 2003 or so, which itself was built around the time of scanrand.

https://github.com/dugsong/dscan
When home 3D printing goes wrong (printing fails)
Be proud. I have been showing Luna around and it has been met with nearly universal praise. One of my friends switched his Ubuntu desktop within 24 hours and won't stop going on about how amazed he is how everything just works, how clean it is, etc. I'd also Luna can absolutely be called an OS, using the current vernacular.
Chrome extension rants, optional permissions
As IRC has taught us for two decades, there are probably few things more antagonistic than a butthurt pirate.
check out dscan from dugsong, which was built around 2003 or so to address that problem, that dan doesn't often write portable code.

https://github.com/dugsong/dscan
Creating a test account is also kind of a violation of the TOS anyway:

"You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.

You will not create more than one personal account."
You can certainly mail batteries, just with some restrictions.

http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_024.htm
Effing cheap intimidation pricks. One day it will come back to haunt them.
>The future was supposed to be amazing. What happened?

People didn't care about politics. That's what happened. Politics is about who gets to decide how this future gonna be.

You can build all the flying cars and robots you want as a scientist, but if you don't try to influence politics (and not just by voting every 4 years or "writing to your senator"), you can still end up a slave.