skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I see this happening to any great degree. We have had the ability to know the sex of babies in advance for decades, and there are still many parents who prefer to leave it as a surprise. If there are still so many people who don't even want to know the gender of their baby before it is born, how many are going to want to make any kind of changes to it.

Also, there are still a great many people who are very suspicious of any new medical technology and would not want to take any risks when it comes to a child.
Running four cameras just for a 3d UI? Isn't that going to be a huge battery drain with little benefit?
I'm pretty confident that SimplyInsured's IT would be a huge improvement over the continual problems with the technology of the exchanges. The private sector is far better equipped to actually deliver on the technological promises made by the exchanges. The government is always years behind technologically due to the procurment process. The only reason the NSA has the advantages they do is because much of the technology they use is classified and this not open to potential competition.

There's a role in the government for insurance regulation, however companies like SimplyInsured are needed to actually execute.

This is FedEx vs. the Post Office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
It's not a bad language and learning it will teach you a lot of very important concepts. My advice is to master C first, then to wrap your brain around C++.

But, again, there may be other languages more worthy of your effort.

I only leaned Java before touching C++ again because of my peculiar introduction to OOP and because I discarded the language after considering it an inelegant kludge, but, compared to Smalltalk, what language isn't?

And, finally, I decided to swallow my pride and learn C++ because I wanted to be part of the Brazilian electronic voting system projecy. Now, every ballot runs some C++ code I wrote.

If the company is that cool, give it a shot.
Also I found that it's more productive to be responsibility focused organization https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/13816... :D
Bitcointalk forum hacked
I definitely don't believe that "parallel construction" should become the norm.

But at the same time, I have faith in the decision the federal appellate courts (you could claim that's naive, but I do).

In the long term, I hope that any parallel means to make "admissible" evidence unallowed should be excluded. But until that is legally determined, I honestly do support common law / American jurisprudence. And if people continue to make their opinion heard, I believe that it will change.

My father is an attorney who works for city and county governments. My grandfather is a state judge. I don't claim that either of them exceptional to the current debate, but I strongly believe that jurisprudence will evolve similarly to public opinion.

If I've learned anything, it's that both of my family members honestly try to prioritize their government oversight/trial work over personal opinions. To the point of of heated arguments with my family and I.

And I'm not a lawyer, so I cannot refute several of their constitutional arguments. But I similarly can't effectively argue against their options in "traditional" cases.

I will say without qualification that many cases can only be fairly adjudicated with seemingly "neutral" opinion. And that any opinions about transparency or openness put current law is not necessarily worthwhile. I may not agree with their logic, but I respect the judicial precedent.

For that reason, I hope far more pressure is placed on Congress than the Judiciary ( since one can define standards, and the other must obey the higher court decisions) for a fast-changing, judicial change. (really, I'm waiting for the next generation of judges to set the points of discussion).
Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement
That is a special and unique circumstance. One can definitely manage time so to not work while travelling.
I think you can often simulate this by having a good advisor or two. Make decisions frequently and rapidly, but leave a door open for critique. Presumably you need to document your decisions for this to be optimally effective.
(Replying again because apparently I can't reply to your new comment) - It's not a 'special circumstance' in anyway shape or form. In an ideal world, we'd always be connected. But when it comes down to it: We aren't at all just yet.

I can't afford to not be able to work when my internet connection drops. What if you have a powercut? What if you are on a flight? What if your network goes down?
The real money (~$0.0005) advertisers pay for your private data (info leak)
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I was using their product, I paid for their product and they shut it down without notice ? Classy move !
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You're possibly right. But I don't see it as following from the linked post.
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Fetching the full history in git is often less data than a checkout in svn.

Also you could just copy the folder.

Edit: git-new-workdir looks like it makes things convenient.
Branching in SVN takes many times longer than git. So it feels much more expensive.
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The way I handled branching in SVN was to have several checkouts of the same trunk, and run "svn update" to fast-forward before committing (once my patch had passed code review.) Hard drives are cheap, brain cells expensive!

(note, this model works fine when you have a big company machine sat in an office on gigabit LAN to the SVN server - break any of the assumptions there, and SVN quickly deteriorates. I'm not saying git isn't better, just than SVN isn't that bad where I encountered it.)
I don't know about the parent, but to me the combination definitely sounds like "immoral assheadery."

These guys seem to have a lot of patents#. Some of them seem (to me) like something you shouldn't be able to patent.^ It's a little creepy (but very easy) to imagine a future where most (rich) children are engineered by selectively accepting zygotes, sperms/eggs or actually creating them.

I don't know much about the economics or laws of IP, but I would really prefer that all the critical technology and data needed for engineering babies be treated as scientific discovery and available publicly.

#https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&biw=1024&bih=...

^https://www.google.ie/patents/US8510057?dq=23andMe&hl=en&sa=...
GitHub site outage - no repos accessible
I was playing around with a script that draws on webcanvas.com

http://webcanvas.com/#-8650,45871,0
Check out what Peter Schiff says about the minimum wage. He has some good, reasonable arguments IMO. The minimum wage ultimately hurts everyone. Minimum wage = fewer jobs (quantity and types of jobs) and higher prices.
We are likely starting from different points. I see a media that almost universally amplifies the hype of scientific press releases, and I'm overjoyed to see an article that (I feel) critically examines the details. Perhaps my bias against "science by press release" is so strong that I don't even register the attempts to exonerate Harkonen.

And if lots of other scientists are similarly
cherrypicking their data and making misleading statements
about it, then I'd say we have a serious problem on our
hands.

I feel this is where we are at, with Harkonen's approach almost at the middle of the road. This isn't to imply his behaviour is acceptable, just that we have a very serious problem. Have you read John Ioannidis' essay "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"?
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

At the very least, we see no evidence that Harkonen was
doing this to save lives -- a point the author strongly
and repeatedly implies throughout the article.

I guess I didn't see that message as strongly as you. I felt it was granted that he had a strong vested interest:

The prosecutors also emphasized that Harkonen had a
financial motive for spinning the study in the most
positive way. This wasn’t hard to find. The third
paragraph of the press release said: “We believe these
results will support use of Actimmune and lead to peak
sales in the range of $400-$500 million per year,
enabling us to achieve profitability in 2004 as planned.”

But you are right that this wasn't emphasized. I think for me the hard point is trying to understand the boundary between ethics and law. I worry that asking a lay jury to decide guilt based on the contextual interpretation of p-values isn't going to end well.

I also wonder to what extent Harkonen was optimistically self-delusional versus blatantly fraudulent. I presume that as well as desiring financial success, he truly hoped he had found a useful cure for a dread disease. Along that lines, I recently read a great article by a 1930's Nobel Prize winner entitled "Pathological Science" on how even good scientists can occasionally fool themselves into seeing results that just aren't there: http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/course/280/Langmuir.pdf

If the blurriness is too much, there is a good summary here:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/turro.html

Thanks for the discussion.
We have a project: https://team.inria.fr/privatics/yourvalue/

So the thing is, information leak allows us to discover the actual value of private data... It's from advertiser's perspectives, so this is the actual value they assign us... The information leak is likely fixed really soon so we must try to analyze it as soon as possible. For this we must have real users. We have FF and Chrome extensions so if you can, please disseminate and perhaps help. This is our only chance at taking a glimpse into that field. Once they fix the info leak the gate is closed.

Technical/research paper on the analysis is following shortly, btw.

We also tried here, but apparently was not relevant (but has a description ;-) ):
http://slashdot.org/submission/3014643/researchers-divulge-t...
In the UK the airport 'news'agents now have entire walls of refrigerated bottled water.

There is no law in the UK requiring airports to provide free potable water to the public, so at around $3 per bottle this is an extremely lucrative consequence of security regulations.

Compared to that revenue, selling magazine is old hat!

* I am always delighted at the provision of water fountains in US airports. O'Hare even has ones specifically designed for filling bottles!
It should be noted that it appears to be a persistent hack that has been around for some time. The defacement was quite a lengthy animated video. The attacker had at least access as the PHP user, which of course has database access.

There's a video of the defacement here — http://youtu.be/LKrOHAfMdxI

A 50BTC bounty has been offered by Theymos (author of the advisory), awarded to anyone who can find the source of the compromise. It's near impossible for an outsider though as despite it running SMF, there's been extensive modifications which may have been the source of the vulnerability.
Not a good week for Bitcoin.
The gov't sure has been busy considering it's supposed to be shutdown.

/puts on tin foil hat
Up again, 5 min of outage
HostCabi.net - Who is hosting that website?
The escrow system was probably the most critical service that SR provided. Unfortunately that seems to require a centralized model.
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Do we really need a submission everytime something goes down for a few minutes?
down for me now... just loaded up hn to see if it was my connection.
Non-clean example: Pull up next to their vehicle at a traffic light, put a few bullets in their head and drive off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Guerin#Murder

Clean: Traffic accident, apparent suicide, etc.
Maybe the objection is running the JVM on the server just for this tool?
Okay how about this,

There is not a Central Server UI for SVN that comes close to Github !

Rebase is very difficult to out-right impossible.
I would disagree with the generalization that "Git's ecosystem sucks", though ;-) Many tools have Git support these days, and supplemental tools around Git are plentiful and quite mature. The Git community is friendly and helpful, especially around the mailing list and IRC.
GitHub is down due to another DDoS attack
(Original cgroups developer here, although I've since moved on from Google and don't have time to play an active role anymore.)

It's true that cgroups are a complex system, but they were developed to solve a complex group of problems (packing large numbers of dynamic jobs on servers, with some resources isolated, and some shared between different jobs). I think that pretty much all the features of cgroups come either from real requirements, or from constraints due to the evolution of cgroups from cpusets.

Back when cgroups was being developed, cpusets had fairly recently been accepted into the kernel, and it had a basic process grouping API that was pretty much what cgroups needed. It was much easier politically to get people to accept an evolution of cpusets into cgroups (in a backward-compatible way) than to introduce an entirely new API. With hindsight, this was a mistake, and we should have pushed for a new (binary, non-VFS) API, as having to fit everything into the metaphor of a filesystem (and deal with all the VFS logic) definitely got in the way at times.

If you want to be able to manage/tweak/control the resources allocated to a group after you've created the group, then you need some way of naming that group, whether it be via a filesystem directory or some kind of numerical identifier (like a pid). So I don't think a realistic resource management system can avoid that.

The most common pattern of the need for a process being in multiple cgroups is that of a data-loader/data-server job pair. The data-loader is responsible for periodically loading/maintaining some data set from across the network into (shared) memory, and the data-server is responsible for low-latency serving of queries based on that data. So they both need to be in the same cgroup for memory purposes, since they're sharing the memory occupied by the loaded data. But the CPU requirements of the two are very different - the data-loader is very much a background/batch task, and shouldn't be able to steal CPU from either the data-server or from any other latency-sensitive job on the same machine. So for CPU purposes, they need to be in separate cgroups. That (and other more complex scenarios) is what drives the requirement for multiple independent hierarchies of cgroups.

Since the data-loader and data-server can be stopped/updated/started independently, you need to be able to launch a new process into an existing cgroup. It's true that the need to be able to move a process into a different cgroup would be much reduced if there was an extension to clone() to allow you to create a child directly in a different set of cgroups, but cpusets already provided the movement feature, and extending clone in an intrusive way like that would have raised a lot of resistance, I think.
Except that low-dollar cases are dealt with through a small claims court: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system...
It's not really about intent, there has to be a real attempt to commit a crime for your standard sting situation. Drug stings will often go as far as waiting until after a crime has happened to do the arrest.

What are you so bitter about?
> What if the founders don't need money? They only want to be part of the program for experience, expertise, and networking?

This is an interesting question.
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LXC didn't really exist in a usable form when Google started work on kernel-based resource isolation.
Is it?! It's working like a charm for me.
Minidom:Get all the attributes of a selected node?
Here is a non-facebook link ssl link.

https://ezcrypt.it/fl7n#RL16xMj9JWYSezVvk5FxnG68
Yeah, simple. And then the Java app tells you that you don't have the right version of Tomcat and do need at least an 0.0.1 update. (Yes, I was forced to run JIRA on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

Stupid Java environment. :-(
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Source on the bounty: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_... also with an update:

Update: It's unfortunately worse than I thought. There's a good chance
that the attacker(s) could have executed arbitrary PHP code and therefore
could have accessed the database, but I'm not sure yet how difficult
this would be. I'm sending out a mass mailing to all Forum users about this.

Personally I suspect that it's due to misconfigured nginx which allows uploaded files to be executed, a user in #bitcoin demonstrated they could upload a PHP file using an exploit in the avatar uploading system, although theymos did have someone looking at the nginx configurations about 6 hours ago and hasn't mentioned finding anything.
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More readable (but not https) version here: http://pastie.org/private/v0wn72dm8nklqxlrjv8qpg
Looks are basically a proxy for genetic material.
I agree, I'm a very compatible person, but there is nobody I know that is similarly skilled and interested in starting up an idea. I have a lot of long-time business contacts (from freelancing) who sometimes have very great ideas and even data to back-up the potential success of it, when they know a competitor for example. They want me to do it all the software-architecture, coding and sometimes even the design, but cannot invest themselves into it, except for connecting us to the potential customers they know. I once had a co-founder who at least did the business part of thing (man he was really good at it), but he stopped when it started to become fruitful, due to severe illness of his mother. Well and we never made things on paper, which concerned me, but not him.

I've one friend who I could do co-found with, but he wants to move to another country and work for an infosec company and won't have any spare time then, nor has the risk-taking ability that's required. Well, because otherwise he'd stay from start to finish of the product and not hunt down his the career-path as fast as possible.
And how can you tell Kim Dotcom won't be able to read anything? How do you know he isn't actually being paid by other anti-American groups?

I'd rather to trust a bunch of elite engineers at Google even though it remains a big concern that the unencrypted emails will be read by NSA one day. To me, I think most people at Google are also concerned about privacy. These people know much more than I do as computer science graduate.

Who would you trust?

When everyone begins to spread news about how NSA is monitoring everything and NSA spies are everywhere, do you really think you can trust anything? If we had to trust, we can only trust people with good background, good characters to begin with. A greedy character like Kim Dotcom or our top engineers?
What To Do If Your Profession Can Be Programmed
Lavabit Court Orders [pdf]
I think there was some anime where that actually happened :P cliques were based on genes! The coolest girl had the best DNA! Oh and another girl was showing off her speed, so the popular girl remarked "Speed is a dominant trait of lower mammals." imagine being judged for having common genetic traits...
As I said these are quite specific to a few people who need to work while travelling. I live in India, I face this all the time, but I overcome this by effective time management.
Lavabit founder turned over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout
Btw why is everyone going on about genetic engineered kids? This company only lets you get your genetic data and the potential genetic make up of your offspring. It doesn't exactly let you HAVE a baby with those genetic traits. Or am i missing something?
Well travelling isn't the only circumstance. I just can't find any situation where not being able to work without an internet connection is a good thing.

Also: You have to deal with a central repo. What if that goes down? What if that corrupts? Single point of failure and all.
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Should have put a typo in there. Can you imagine the double/tripple/etc checking going on!?
Lavabit was created so every law-abiding citizen has access to a secure and private email service.

What an intriguing statement. I'm not sure if I should read anything into it, but 'law-abiding' and 'citizen' seem odd in that context.

Edit: Why not just say 'everyone'? Otherwise it sounds as if Lavabit was making a decision as to whether someone was eligible or not, which I don't think is what he means.
Is the "Don't be evil" motto still valid at all?
Perhaps Boeing will offer their services with a healthy dose of snark? [0]

I would have guessed major municipal fire departments would have had more training extinguishing Class D Fires. Isn't water and lithium usually a Bad Idea? I recall seeing some US Navy surplus fire extinguisher canisters labelled specifically for lithium. I think they were based on copper reactions.

[0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-offers...
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, it's hard to believe that someone with so much education (degrees in Statistics, Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, and Math) and so much professional experience (University Professor, Wall Street Quant, National Weather Service, US Air Force) would get that completely wrong. What do you figure the chances of that are? ;)

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?page_id=1085
Reminds me of the recent South Park episode on the NSA/public privacy.
I think he said that because he was happy to work with reasonable law enforcement requests for specific individuals that were part of a criminal investigation.

It was just when they were asking for the ability to completely backdoor his system for all users that he started with the civil disobedience.
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It shouldn't be possible to leak passwords, they should be hashed before being stored in the db surely...?
No. Worse is Better would explain why browsers would use Smaltalk (or Self) directly, instead of inventing a new programming language.

Javascript was probably born out of Not Invented Here. Worse Is Better only contributed the curly braces from C, and the continued use of the first widely known scripting engine.

If The Right Thing is already there, Worse Is Better simply doesn't win without exterior help. Worse is better only because it's first. And even so…

> when Better gets here, it's not Better anymore, only marginally more useful.

I would say perceived as marginally more useful in the short term. This is a point where Worse easily looks Better, but whether it is is more debatable.
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