skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with this. I used to be pretty picky about how the term HTML5 is applied to new products, snippets, etc., but I've realized that it refers to a very specific context. It's much more efficient and descriptive to associate something with all the modern technologies we're using on client-side by tagging it HTML5. If we call something "modern", it is doomed to be slightly ambiguous and always shifting -- people called some technologies modern back in the '50s; are they modern now?

Even though calling something HTML5 may not be semantically appropriate, it's a nice form of metonymy and it instantly orients the audience with the frame of mind the author intended.

edit: missed a word
There's a book I can't recommend highly enough called "the emperor of maladies" and it's a history of cancer up to ~2008. It's pretty depressing in a lot of ways (both the disease itself and the history of the fight against it), but it's one of the most fascinating books I've read in years.

The kind of trade offs re: safety vs "getting things done" comes up quite a bit. The key optimism I pulled out of it was that cancer research is progressing exponentially, but this is harder to see because the general public only sees through the lens of "cured/not cured". But I think most cancer researchers would say "progress is being made, and faster than ever before with increasing velocity". Then again, the cure was around the corner in the 70s.

But yeah, cancer is bad news and a disease many of us will be forced to face in our lifetimes...
> "However, giving money to people on the street is not helping."

Recall, my goal isn't to solve their problems by giving them small amounts of money. I think to solve their problems we need to make society-wide changes. Under our current form of society, there will __always__ be people on the bottom.

My hope is that they can use my donation to temporarily boost their happiness. Similar to how when I spend $2 on a cupcake it temporarily boosts my happiness.

> "It's enabling."

My thesis is that I am not enabling their poverty. If we stopped giving them money, they (in aggregate) could not work themselves out of poverty --- because there isn't room for everyone to make money in our society. Recall, unemployment is non-zero.

> "Basically every city has some sort of program to help the homeless work themselves back into society in general."

I think these programs are important. But I don't think they should be the only mechanisms by which we contribute charity to impoverished people.

> "However, they do require the people participating in them to be fully "bought in". When you give a dollar to someone "down on their luck", you are really giving them just enough of a life-rope to keep from entering these programs (which require sobriety as a matter of course)."

It sounds like you are essentially saying that the homeless should be helped __exclusively__ through these programs. I disagree. Not everyone will benefit from those programs; not everyone is even elligile for admission. For instance, you point out non-sober people won't benefit. I don't think people are universally capable of curing themselves of addiction. Some people are unlucky and do not have the "will power" to overcome addiction. This comes back to my point about the possibility that free will might be an illusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will

> "You're not helping them."

I am helping them. They smile when I give them money, and then they use it in whatever way they think will improve their life.

> "They need to bottom out and seek help of their own free will. That's how the road to ending their homelessness truly begins."

I am glad you made that point because I think it illustrates the core of our disagreement. It seems you strongly believe in the existence of free will. You believe that people have a "choice." Whereas I am skeptical that free will exists.

I think it is plausible that impoverished people could literally have zero ability to "make choices" that could bring them out of poverty. I am lucky; they are not. I get to eat complimentary delicious food at work, whenever I want. I want to share my wealth directly with the unlucky.
Hi, I'm one of the devs.

Regarding Contractor, its big proponent is on vacations and we still need to move some of the blueprints about it to the appropriated milestones. In fact, we still have to report many bugs about it, but in time I'm sure it'll be done.

Regarding the new release, we get a lot of criticism from all kinds of users saying they want us to be based on a more modern version of Ubuntu and as so, we plan to be based on 14.04 for next release. We aim to release shortly after Ubuntu 14.04 comes out and that's the plan we're sticking to. I'm sure 14.04 will be just as stable, we can't be stuck in the past and moving is a lot of work - we need to start working on it as soon as possible!

Besides, we also need many new GTK+, Vala and other libraries' features.
> What incentives would people have to put in more work to produce more?

To have more than other people. You don't need to threaten people with hunger and kicking them out on the streets. Just allow them to show off and they'll compete for bigger telly and nicer car/scooter/bicycle.
As a brazilian, I can confirm 100% what speeder said above.
Greenwald just posted his own account:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...

At 6:30 am this morning my time - 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US - I received a telephone call from someone who identified himself as a "security official at Heathrow airport." He told me that my partner, David Miranda, had been "detained" at the London airport "under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000."

David had spent the last week in Berlin, where he stayed with Laura Poitras, the US filmmaker who has worked with me extensively on the NSA stories. A Brazilian citizen, he was returning to our home in Rio de Janeiro this morning on British Airways, flying first to London and then on to Rio. When he arrived in London this morning, he was detained.

At the time the "security official" called me, David had been detained for 3 hours. The security official told me that they had the right to detain him for up to 9 hours in order to question him, at which point they could either arrest and charge him or ask a court to extend the question time. The official - who refused to give his name but would only identify himself by his number: 203654 - said David was not allowed to have a lawyer present, nor would they allow me to talk to him.

I immediately contacted the Guardian, which sent lawyers to the airport, as well various Brazilian officials I know. Within the hour, several senior Brazilian officials were engaged and expressing indignation over what was being done.
Link needs a [video] warning or something.
Just more evidence that the world is controlled by an oppressive totalitarian Govt that we're effectively powerless to stop.

At least with these incidents we get to know which other countries are complicit and under the influence of the NSA.
If a person is whitehat, it is understood, and by definition, they will not use the found bug for a bad purpose or sell it on black market.

Whitehat does not mean "I will responsibly disclose the vulnerability for as long as there's good money and rewards otherwise I will exploit it or sell it to someone else".

Facebook or any other company with bounty programs are not competing against the black market and trying to out-bid the bad guys by attracting the black hat hackers to wear a white hat and disclose the bug to Facebook for some money.

"we will only pay you if we feel like it"

Facebook isn't saying that. They are saying "we can not pay you because you violated our terms of service" which is truly an under-statement. It should be like "we can not pay you because you exploited the bug on our CEO's profile and another one of our users and have created negative PR and damaged our reputation"

But even if they did say "we will only pay you if we feel like it", as far as whitehats are concerned that should not change their incentives and behavior because, again, whitehats, by definition are not those who disclose the bugs for money and rewards.

If you are a grey/black hat only wearing the white hat when the money is good enough then Facebook is not interested in dealing with you in the first place.
The other day I needed a script to tweak images on Wikipedia so I looked into Greasmonkey. I installed it on Chrome and started writing the script. Then I remembered that I'd seen an alternative before which simply runs a JS file on your FS that contains the URL's host inside ~/.js. It's called dotjs [1] and it's really strait forward to use as it does not require the complicated header section. See the tiny script I wrote to see how easy it is to run custom JS on any domain [2].

[1] https://github.com/defunkt/dotjs

[2] https://github.com/fphilipe/dotfiles/blob/master/js/wikipedi...
Nobody is saying Hayward is the moon. Of course people will get to Hayward to ride the thing. The problem is that their door to door times won't be that much better than HSR.

HSR goes from city center to city center because that's where people actually want to go. Not only that, but it's much cheaper for them to get to city centers, because they can use existing rail lines, which is something blue-sky proposals like Hyperloop can't do.
I must give you a heads up about moving over to Debian: currently, Debian installers do not have the option to format or install onto a BTRFS partition. (Nor does Fedora's installer, without difficulty. Ubuntu's does though.)

This matters to me because I was recently checking out an interesting installation method that allowed me to do away with Linux partitions by solely using BTRFS subvolumes. (If you look at the IRC chat logs of #btrfs, #archlinux-newbie, and #elementary, I was btrfs-newbie trying it a few days back.)

As of now, I am nearly done with my laptop set up, and I am happily running Arch Linux and elementaryOS with a shared /home subvolume all under the same BTRFS partition. This is a really neat feature that I could take advantage of in the Ubuntu installer (Ubiquity, was it?). I did not have this issue on Arch because Arch's installation method was practically a chroot and create the filesystem and package structure in the proper places.

Please keep this in mind when moving forward. It would be interesting if you can maintain that aspect in your next release, Isis. Thanks so much for your time, and keep up the amazing work!
Is he a journalist, or just the partner of a journalist?

Maybe since they know they can't intimidate Greenwald directly they are going after his family and loved ones?
I'm shocked, shocked... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc
I remember a comment by you saying that most exploits are not that valuable. How valuable would this one have been?
Update on STM
I tried it out on VirtualBox for some GAE apps I have. It was pretty easy to get going and the apps ran perfectly.
Because no one has the authority to impose such an obligation.
Introduction to Golang
This is probably more apt for HN: https://github.com/pixelsign/html5-device-mockups
"The two students who killed 13 people at Columbine High School wanted to kill at least 500 others, attack nearby homes and then hijack a plane and crash it into New York City, investigators said."

Volume 119 >> Issue 22 : Tuesday, April 27, 1999

http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N22/littleton.22w.html
That's a good point: we already know they are watching, and that we are all on the list.
That is a rather simplistic take on the problem of aging. I suggest you look up Aubrey de Grey and take a look at his work. I recall a telomerase + cancer gene activation therapy being successful in mice in the last year. Might even benefit myself later.

(rephrased from wikipedia) de Grey's list of seven problems is:

1. Mutations in chromosomes
2. Mutations in mitochondria
3. Junk inside cells
4. Junk outside of cells
5. Non-replaceable cells dying
6. Cell immortality (yes, this is a problem too)
7. Extracellular protein crosslinks

His contention is that we should approach the problem with engineering. Makes sense to me, sounds so Agile and Lean ;)
Neat, how you are doing the layout of the nodes?
Quote:

"Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they feel threatened by."
At least history shows us that all totalitarian governments have indeed been stopped at some point. However, history also tells us they really don't like speedbumps on their route to getting to that point.
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But everyone should learn to put their problems into perspective while growing up

Perspective is important no doubt. And don't get me wrong, my own take certainly includes a large degree of concern about "big picture" issues. But as somebody who is admittedly a radical individualist whose interest in philosophy tends towards Existentialism, and who realizes that we are all living very short lives in a brutal and uncaring world... I don't have much of a problem with people who choose to focus on their own problems, needs and concerns.

Like I said, it would be nice if everybody willingly chose to focus on poverty, clean water, vaccinations, clean energy, pollution, etc. But if someone chooses not to focus much (or at all) on that, I can understand and respect their stance.
No, we aren't powerless. That's why these people are so relentless in their intimidation and pursuit of more power. If they thought we were powerless, they wouldn't bother. They are afraid, and they should be. The tide can turn quickly.
The SF Fire Chief needs to be invited to find a new job. All public servants should be mandated to have video and audio recordings taken during their interactions with the public. If the recordings are inappropriate for public release then that's a different matter than trying to prevent their valuable existence.
People had similar things to say about The Social Network. It was wrong about history, but it was also a good movie on its own. We will see if "Jobs", as a movie, can stand on its own.
FreeBSD does have excellent atheros support thanks to adrian chadd. He's doing wonders for their wireless stack.

As for suspend and resume, it didn't become an issue until recently when my workflow became sit for half-an-hour to an hour, then pick up and move multiple times a day. Rebooting, opening all my programs again, etc. became tedious.
Yes I agree that the Facebook employee could have responded better.

But you are mixing two different issues.

Facebook employee saying "go away" does not automatically result in a warrant for you to go ahead and exploit the bug you found.

If you do that, you no longer meet the definition of a whitehat researcher.

That kind of person is not the type that Facebook wants to reward because Facebook is not competing against the black market prices.

It is simply rewarding those honest reporters who would report the bug even if they were 100% sure that Facebook is not going to pay anything and would not exploit it or sell it even if the Facebook employee said "screw you" or if the black market bids were 6 digit figures.
>I distance myself from those that don't take my advice. It's easier on me.

I'm not sure this is a good thing to do.
For a better film concerning the same topic, try pirates of silicon valley.

Its a bit old, but quite good.
The UK should be kicked out of the EU. Until they learn how to behave.
Cool! I'd like to share my little extension! It let's you view the cached version of a webpage with Google Cache, Coral CDN, or Wayback Machine with a click of a button.

https://github.com/Dbz/WebCache

P.S. if anyone knows how I could add more cache databases like bing cache or yahoo cache, please tell me because I couldn't figure it out.

EDIT: If anyone is willing to test the Coral CDN, I'd greatly appreciate it. For some reason Coral CDN doesn't work on my browser, so I've never tested it =`[
"Threat" is a bit of an exaggeration. Regardless, it's seriously unprofessional, juvenile and completely tactless. Not to mention damaging to the very company he's serving/ed.

I understand sales people are also human and getting hung up is bound to stir up emotions, but they still need to keep those in check while on the job. Vent at things, not people.
I'am steeped deeply in having fucking cancer. This is the reason why I am a little invested in such discussions.

There are less than a handful of publications about cannabis as cancer treatment, all of them about preclinical research.
That's not a ton of evidence. That's just an incredibly small step away from nothing. It does not, for fucks sake, justify advertising this stuff to people who can't think straight because they scared out of their minds.
The salient quote from Greenwald's article on this:

They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name. [1]

This is a great example of why we should treat terrorism like any other crime, and why the police should never be trusted with exceptional powers simply because we feel under threat. Give them the powers, and they will be misused - in this case they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation. The security services even called Greenwald to give him the news that his partner had been detained.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...
I think you are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231466 . And please don't bother defending, just dropping by.
I'm not sure what he does for a living, but he was in Germany to meet with Laura Poitras so he is at least somewhat involved.
Welcome to the UK

[1] https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/terrori...

[2] https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/policy/bill-tracker/...

I think I'll buy the Guardian tomorrow...
It's sponsored by Google (check the footer of README.md)
I don't think the ability to dispense fear and intimidation around the world at will is a show of fear.

Our biggest hope is this becomes a national issue for the next election so we at least have the opportunity to elect the leader who respects our constitutional rights the most.
Greenwald posted an open letter and from what he says in that it doesn't seem his partner is a journalist. He was however questioned extensively on Greenwald and his reporting for The guardian.

Link to the open letter: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...
Yes, I should not have used the word intent, i was writing fast because I was on my way out.

As others have said, intent is not an element that needs to be proved here, but the tweets (and "i really like speeding" on post-it notes on your fridge) would be direct evidence of reckless indifference.

Vehicular manslaughter is not an intentional crime (it's a negligent one in some states, and a reckless/grossly negligent one in others), so it's not possible to have intent to commit it.

(This also means attempted vehicular manslaughter is not a possible crime in most states)
Source? I'd like to read up a bit more about this.
Update: found this: http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/papers/2012_SPLASH_Truffle_Sl...
Which is exactly why he shouldn't be in his position.

A guy with that level of maturity needs to spend a bit more time learning how to behave before earning a position like account manager or sales rep.

With all the drama surrounding this incident, I doubt this guy will find a comparable job after Groupon fires him anyways..
A "server engine" (usually called a kernel actually) is like a userspace operating system kernel that is purpose-built for a class of server workloads and attempts to optimally manage system resources for that workload. The server application is built on top of that kernel. When people refer to e.g. "database kernels", this is what they are referring to. It reimplements the operating system resource management services through the OS APIs.

Writing an excellent server kernel requires a high level of technical ability and quite a bit of low-level code since you have to reimplement most of the operating system resource management services most developers take for granted. Few pieces of open source server software are built on userspace kernels and the ones that do like PostgreSQL are (currently) only partial kernels that still rely on the OS to do significant things a full kernel would reimplement. A properly designed database kernel, for example, is at least 100k LoC of low-level C/C++ and that is before you actually write the server application that sits on top of it. I've designed and written kernels for both database engines and network engines, it is not trivial.

So why would you want to go through all this effort instead of writing to the standard POSIX APIs directly? Because performance and scalability. For example, a well-designed disk buffer and scheduler for a database kernel can easily triple the I/O throughput possible with a highly tuned POSIX implementation. A lot of locking and blocking, both explicit and implicit in the OS, become unnecessary. Certain kinds of distributed system problems become easier to solve because you can adaptively schedule data flows at a fine-grained level. One of the reasons Oracle and DB2 scale so well and get such high throughput is that they are built on highly optimized userspace kernels.

Virtualization actually degrades the performance of high-performance server systems in part because the hypervisor acts as a primitive operating system underneath the operating system the server kernel can see. This does not impact non-kernel based servers as much.
They specifically allow accounts to be created for whitehat purposes at https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/
You are talking about Java right?
For what it's worth, The Social Network as a movie was very well-received by critics [1]. Jobs, not so much [2].

[1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/

[2] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jobs/
Don't be shy - call it what it is - genocide.
Really interesting article - I doubt she will hold "the key" to practical immortality, but researching her case may allow us to reverse engineer one or more of the many processes that contribute to aging.

I recently wrote a blog post on practical immortality that presents several arguments for age being a curable disease, and breaks down the things we'd need to do to cure the disease of age.

If interested: http://juliansarokin.com/practical-immortality-if-age-is-a-d...
I'm hoping Sorkin's movie is better. We'll see.
I've had the same thought she had - that we shouldn't necessarily need to plug stuff in to charge it. My preferred solution - not an original idea - is to find a way to free-ride off existing broadcast signals. Right now, the world is full of radio-frequency devices pumping energy into the air. Find a way to convert some of that energy - the energy of the strongest available broadcast source in your area, whatever it happens to be - back into power. An old-fashioned crystal radio would tune into one strong radio station and use the power from that to amplify the broadcast of a weaker station with no battery required - that's our proof-of-concept. It's not a LOT of power, but if you were charging even a tiny drip all the time you wouldn't necessarily need very much.
Shades of Joseph Wilson. There will be some serious fall out from this, I wonder what they were thinking when they pulled this stunt, Greenwald is not going to be intimidated.
Yeah this is a good idea. Just like the [pdf] indicator. I generally don't watch video pieces and get mildly annoyed when there's no other clue.
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