skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM's JVM and OpenJDK's IcedTea have fallen victim to most (possibly all, not sure) of the exact same sandbox bypass flaws as the ones in Oracle's HotSpot, mostly because the codebase of all the other alternatives still contains a huge portion of Oracle's original code.
Sounds familiar. I was trying 'three things per day' technique, but found it overwhelming so I simplified it down to 'one thing'. Each day I am setting one goal, which can be anything, and I have to accomplish it. Helps to establish the routine and some sort of discipline.

Edit: it is also important to understand that out of the box nonlinear creativity etc in our case serves just one purpose - to find excuses not to do what we are supposed to do.
Can former “pirates” fix a broken movie market?
True, but the whole point is that the cops are a bigger danger to life and limb (and perhaps liberty) than terrorists.

Only if you look at it simplistically. Terrorists on the streets don't really stop other crime, whereas cops do. Some drunks having a fight outside a bar at closing time? Having terrorists around won't help.
The problem with Metro is that it assumes the purpose of a laptop is to chat/email/tweet/check the weather.

Some people actually do something productive with laptops. Engineers are one category. Metro just laughs at them.
I mean, if you made me guess the sex of the person involved, I would certainly suspect it was a boy. Mischief of this kind tends to be more popular among boys. But a joke like this isn't intrinsically sexist, or anti-girl, or silencing of female voices

(Obviously, it's good if genuine sexism is halted in coed classrooms so that both boys and girls can learn.)
Why do the penalties get bigger and bigger and bigger each year? Let me guess. Perhaps it is to get people to say "its not that bad" at first, so they could get it passed. What boggles my mind is that people actually promoted the idea of giving up their freedom to another person. Letting someone else dictate to them what is going to happen. Especially the youth, who fight their parents growing up in order to be able to make their own decisions. Then what do they do? They place a portion of their brain that is responsible for making health decisions on a silver stamped plate, and hand it away, all the while with a big happy smile. "Here you go, you can have my freedom, just don't penalize me for 3 years and i'll put a sticker on my car with your name on it, because I am now your bitch." I guess the part that pisses me off the most is that they didn't only put their own ability to make rational decisions on a silver plate, they put everyone elses on a plate too. They stole that decision from me. Not a whole lot is going to be different, but its just one more decision that I want get to make. Slowly over time, they keep handing over my decisions, until I become an integer instead of a human. Life is about making decisions and adventure, it isn't supposed to be pre-planned for you to follow the same path as everyone. You choose your own destiny.
I think you and I are operating with different definitions of word bad. I took your comment to mean, that the fact that cops are about* as likely to die as to kill someone by mistake, means we got badly trained cops. Now I see there is more than way to read that comment.

* I made up number that was used for that based on a very small sample. Please let me know if I messed up somewhere, I am quite curious about it.
The sandbox bypass vulns almost always also affect OpenJDK and IBM JVM.

Your best bet is to keep the Java browser plugin disabled as much as you possibly can, no matter your OS or browser.
> I used to simply type an app name in windows 7's launcher.

Me too... the process hasn't changed. Windows key -> first few letters of the app's name -> enter
An Online Game You've Never Heard Of Made $1 Billion Last Year
The money will trickle down. ;)
I do, but it switches me to the metro interface with a color change. Also it pulls metro apps first and only 2 apps then its like 2 settings apps and the 2 documents, but I want all apps.

Something like if I type "sky"

SkyDrive

Skype (metro)

..Some settings

..Some settings

..Some document

..Some document
You've been able to buy it installed on a machine offered by a major hardware vendor and publicly offered in their catalog? Or just been able to buy the install disks?
Waz was the 1% before it was cool.
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No doubt. But that's with two cars, so it's still less than the $500 you'd spend leasing two Volts.
I don't see why there isn't a bigger push to move all these underemployed programmers to careers as cashiers. They'll make more money and get better benefits than what they get as an underemployed programmer. They won't necessarily get much time to "solve problems," but with their typing and math skills, cashiering should be a breeze!
Indeed - we were developing on & evaluated on a homogeneous cluster :)
The relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1252/
"Similarly, the only reason terrorist deaths are so low is because of the phenomenal amount of resources we dedicate to the detection and prevention of terrorism."

You are going to need to offer actual proof of this, because it doesn't at all follow from anything you said.

(and is unrelated to the statistics in the article).

In fact, i'd bet it's just the opposite. You spend a phenomenal amount of resources preventing a very small amount of loss of life.

(and nothing the FBI or other agencies have offered in response to requests for "foiled terrorist plots" seems to dispute this at all)
Why? It's fairly obvious where their predilection lies. Have they exhibited a track record of less-than-reputable analyses? (Honest question, not trolling)
I think using the example of police officers is apt, because police officers can be thought of as a countermeasure to terrorists (and other lawbreakers). I don't think this article really lets the argument take form, but I think it's important to note that the actions which are supposedly intended to combat terrorism are themselves more harmful than terrorism itself.
As I understand it, people trading with that name BEFORE the trademark was filed, can continue to use the name as well.
Thanks, that's better. But still doesn't solve only 2 apps and 6 total search results. I looked over settings and can't seem to find to change that.
The studies here have so many statistical problems it's not even worth talking about. It may be true, it may be not true. You can't just take stats from multiple sources and directly compare them without any thought. It doesn't work that way.
It's interesting to me how this is portrayed as a problem that workplaces need to deal with, and not the real issue which is that EVs are still seriously impractical.
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Esse som é pra curtir do lado daquela pessoa especial.. divirtam-se
Jane Jacobs, more noted as an urban planning visionary, started taking a hard look at institutions, including education and the role of credentialing. Her book The Dark Age Ahead is (as you might suspect) a dark vision of the future:

http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9781400062324-3

She addressed the topic in an essay, "Credentialing vs. Education": http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2004/spring/jacobs-credent...
Comparing to their chance of death by traffic accident would be more relevant.

Not really. The increases in LEA capabilities and militarized tactics took a massive leap post 9/11 largely based on the idea of preventing terrorism. If those impacts are now causing more harm than the thing they are intended to prevent, then there is a clear problem and highlighting it shows that such a response is wrongheaded.

The other causes of death in this case are not relevant at all to the point, however the broader approach would advocate that the more frequent causes of death should be addressed before other less probable causes of death.
For what its worth, it looks like v8 has had incremental GC since 2011 ( http://blog.chromium.org/2011/11/game-changer-for-interactiv... and generational GC for longer) while Firefox has had IGC since 2012 ( https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/08/28/incremental-g... ).
If there are 4 programs that match my search, it shows 4 programs before any documents or other results. If a color change is that bothersome, you can use Win+S to open the search panel on the desktop. You can also uninstall the Metro apps you're not using and don't want to see in search results. They uninstall in one click.
Yeah, it's hard to see how being looked down on as ugly people with bad social skills is a mark of privilege. I apologize for being such a loser, since its clearly oppressing normal attractive people who want to enter the field.

Perhaps their thinking is that if people who are born with the privilege of being White and male end up as losers, then those people must be objectively inferior and so there is nothing wrong with making fun of them. I have trouble following progressive thinking sometimes.
Edit: I can see this is getting downvoted. If you have time, I would really appreciate a response to go with the downvote. This is my heartfelt belief, and if I'm wrong I would really like to be able to learn something.

> Make you wonder if our industry's mind share being wasted on web apps and consumer gadgets because of the profit incentive associated?

I find this sentiment strange. To me, your kind of excitement, which seems to be pure joy over incredible engineering feats, seems nihilistic. There are serious terrestrial problems happening right now. Massive environmental destruction, humanitarian disasters. Even in relatively stable places like the Bay Area I know many people who are teetering on personal disaster. These are extremely complex problems and engineers have extraordinarily powerful skills to help solve them.

I understand why people are captivated by things like comets and why they'd want to attempt these extraordinary feats. It's exciting and fun and there are few joys that can match doing something that's never been done before.

For that reason I don't begrudge anyone who chooses that kind of work. Earth's crises are incredibly depressing and there's largely no glory in helping a few people stay out of homelessness, or helping a kid get through college. It's risky, demoralizing work.

But I don't really understand why a mission like this would be considered a noble pursuit. Fun, sure. But not especially noble. Yes, basic space science has some value to society in the long term. But we have a MASSIVE backlog of basic science that is being unused. We have journals chock full of solutions to problems that are going unimplemented.

Even something as simple as logistic regression, which has been around for 70 years, is vastly underused. People get excited about bayesian models and neural networks and all this great research, but there's still a massive backlog of problems that could be solved with a simple regression or an ANOVA. There are no basic questions to solve, just the work of obtaining and cleaning data, doing the analysis, and packaging it in a tool that people can actually use.

You seem to wonder why more people don't take on extremely difficult challenges on the edge of possibility. But I wonder why more people don't use existing technical tools to solve the massive backlog of problems that are being ignored.
"Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly ... , we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
Steve Jobs left Apple, wasn't Wozniak there that whole time? Then he came back and lo and behold, not just did a good job of running the company but turned it into world's biggest company by market cap. Could Woz have done that? Once they parted ways, Woz did not much ( relatively ), while Jobs did a lot.
"If a response with a 200 status and a valid torrent file is recieved, the client should download that torrent."

This isn't possible in this order, right?
You claim that what is happening is that every time a story than happens to involve a Black person or a woman is posted, people post comments about race/gender to derail the discussion.

What is actually happening is that every time a story promoting progressive views on race/gender (this story explicitly mentions gender), people post to disagree with the message of the story.
First I'd like to point out that this was leaked by the same group who had a member pretend to be a Google employee, but I tend to think this is genuine since the “memo” in question in noncontroversial, despite the editorial best efforts.

Generally, I think the press (I'm being kind to Techcrunch et al here) are being incredibly unfair towards Google, it’s a company that pays employees well and provides them commute and for their trouble their buses get vandalized and their employees disrupted on their way to work, so they hire protection and somehow this author (as many others) are spinning it into a “perk”! why aren't they inquiring if the perpetrators who vandalized the bus are in police custody?

And not to mention that Google is just one company that shuttles employees from san francisco yet it's the only one in the spotlight.
IP lawyer here:

No, they haven't trademarked it.

They've applied for one.

It's been approved for publication in the official gazette.

It is now on step 11 of http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/

This means anyone who wants to object now has 30 days to object to the mark.
You can imagine they will, given how broadly they claim this mark (plus the examiner should have objected)

So basically, rather than complain and write articles, now is exactly the right time to file an objection to the mark.

The USPTO site makes this clear:
"Approved by the examining attorney for publication but has not yet published for opposition. Although rare, withdrawal of approval prior to publication may occur after final review. The opposition period begins on the date of publication."

If you want the exact status:
http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85842584&caseType=SERIAL_N...

Also note: The basis is that it is based on a foreign filing (which means they also filed somewhere else other than the US)
The population of the Dakotas is 1.5 millions. The number of unemployed people in the US stands at 12 millions. The Bakken oil patch couldn't make a dent in the national unemployment rate, even if it wanted to. I have no clue where this pernicious "there's jobs in the Dakotas" meme comes from, but it needs to die right quick.
In order for the human race to survive, we need a foothold in space. The Earth, or even our solar system, won't remain habitable forever.
> Is there just enormous waste in the system

That depends on your point of view. If you are a part of the metastisizing university bureaucracy, then you might think replacing full-time faculty with more administrators and staff is a great use of resources.

"In the two decades from 1985 to 2005, student enrolment in the US rose by 56 per cent, faculty numbers increased by 50 per cent, degree-granting institutions expanded by 50 per cent, degrees granted grew by 47 per cent, administrators rocketed by 85 per cent and their attendant staff by a whopping 240 per cent."
- http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/the-fall-of-the-...
Since police are also there to combat murderers, gang members, drunk drivers, etc, your statement does not even begin to become valid unless police numbers are put against terrorists plus all those other groups. It's total nonsense.
Deep Blue Group Networks auf Deep Blue Stars
"Our star shines for you" – deepblue präsentiert "big data" in weihnachtlichem Gewand

Deepblue Networks verknüpft sein traditionelles Dankeschön an die engsten Kunden in diesem Jahr mit einer schönen Botschaft an die eigene Belegschaft: "Jeder von euch ist einzigartig. Und gemeinsam erzielt ihr jeden Tag außergewöhnliche Ergebnisse." Dafür verantwortlich ist bei deepblue immer das ausgewogene Zusammenspiel von Kreativität, Logik, Fantasie, Aufmerksamkeit und innerer Ruhe. Diese unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften wurden nun mit dem "MindWave"-Sensor des Herstellers NeuroSky aufgezeichnet und in generative Infografiken in Form von tiefblauen Sternen umgewandelt. Eine Auswahl dieser Sterne ziert unter der Überschrift "Our star shines for you" die diesjährige deeplue networks Weihnachtskarte. Alle 150 Data-Art-Kunstwerke sind unter deepblue-stars zu sehen.
The GitHib code is https://code.google.com/p/chrome-reload/. Not linking to the extension itself.
Why? I mean, on economic issues I can understand the mistrust, but I'm curious to know what kind of Shadowy Business Interest might be behind a post such as this.

Also, BTW, it's not a "study", it's just a blog post.
Playing the Odds on Saving
There's no hurry though, waiting 100, or even a million years won't have any impact on that, right?
Wish I'd been able to get the same service... my 5300cs was off somewhere at applecare for 6 months... those were some seriously dark days for Apple.
Sure, but if merely switching compilers produced a faster binary, then I would expect all programs to be compiled with the better-optimizing compiler. After all, it doesn't take any particular expertise to adjust the value of CC.
Just use sickbeard, so much easier. :-).
I understand and agree with you here, but that still leaves the question: where does all the money go?

Most universities aren't for profit institutions churning out dividends for shareholders, so it's gotta be going somewhere internal to the schools.

I'm honestly a bit mystified.
Where are all these underemployed programmers?
Sounds like you need a cheaper, slower charger primarily for Volts.

Better to have glorified extension cords serving all the cars than a fancy device that only serves one or two, right?
I mentioned the US because the charges on him are from the US government, lobbied by corporate interests.

Self-centered does not imply killing in any way, shape, or form. If you use the word akin, try not to be hyperbolic, it makes any intelligent reader immediately discard any validity you would have summoned.
Jobs supposedly erroneously sabotages the cash cow. Job leaves, thank god. Everything is honky dory because Woz is still there? It sounds to me a bit like Woz is wishing for something that didn't quite pan out like that
If everyone in the world (except say 0.0001% of people) took MMR vaccines, then you would probably be 8 times more likely to die of an MMR vaccine than Measles.

Does that mean everyone should stop taking the vaccine?
What to do if your algorithm has been "patented"
I am working on a niche product that requires some algorithms to process audio streams and I have recently discovered that a (small) company with a similar product has patented my algorithm. What should I do in this case? Should I abandon the project or ship it anyways?
So... where did he save his files?? Network drive?
intel paid more than 10M to lawyers so they could debate on legalities of the law instead of the intent of the law, hence not having to fix the problem.

they are not worried about fines. fines are cheap for those companies. they are worried about market control.

they are what they are thanks to phoenix reverse engineering IBM bios and the rise of the generic PC market. Now they fear anyone that can enter the market as easily as they entered and hope to not make the same mistake IBM did.
"It's the (Backblaze) restores that fail."
Also really valuable are his blog posts from 2007/2008. He's since took his blog down but they're archived here: http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/pmarcaarchive/pmarca-archive...
well, personally I don't think that's enough. I'm amazed they got away with the plea bargain they did.
A racial slur is typically thought of as a slur that is about race. Pasty-faced is not about race. It's about not getting enough sunlight. Race is implied because darker colored people do not look anything like paste when they don't get enough sun. But that race is implied does not mean pasty-faced is any more a racial slur than the negative use of "pale."
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I like this breakdown as it shows the problem with the title of the article "You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist".

For me at least I'm very unlikely to be attacking cops any time soon...
Here are two screenshots:

https://portal.bitcasa.com/send/3555f1c51a7e086335e4e0d6895f...

"Sky" should have return both skypes, not just first 2 search results. Also how do you start desktop internet explorer? The search returns the metro one.
Where I work we have a well-maintained OpenGrok instance which works great.

I still end up pulling down the repo and using grep 90% of the time. OpenGrok is what I use when I don't even know which repo I'm interested in.
> Again not to be crass but another pattern I see in modern academia is an unwillingness to move, to take on a job. "I grew up in NYC, my family is here, and goddamnit I want a faculty position here too, not in Ohio or Nebraska or Arizona".

Maybe you're confusing New Yorkers for everyone else? (In which case, this has everything to do with the NYC culture and nothing to do with academics.) I have met very few industries in which workers will desperately move as far and wide as in academia.
High school teaching also pays miserably in many places.
Ask HN: How do I encourage women developers to join our dev team?
Right now we have ~5-6 developers, one of whom is a woman. I am not the owner, so I can't necessarily move mountains, but I really want to make sure our team stays balanced as we grow (it's already a bit Bro-y). Any things we can do in particular to attract women? Sponsoring meetups? Changing how we phrase our job applications?

I recognize that it may be sexist to treat hiring women as an end in and of itself, but I prefer to work in a more balanced environment. There are women working in non-technical roles in the company. Recent hires / interviews have mostly been guys too.
It's relevant because a vastly expanded police presence has been erected in response to terrorism, but police are statistically more dangerous to the population than terrorists.

If we want to stop terrorism without trading it for something worse, we need to deal with the root of the problem: an aggressive, imperialistic foreign policy that costs more that we can afford, makes us insecure, and benefits only a tiny elite.
For those interested in a summary, here's MuckRock's article on these files: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2012/jun/06/feynman-f...
FBI snatches Google Glass off the face of innocent movie-goer
Setting up a full charger with dedicated electrical supply is quite expensive.

Relays attached to extension cords cost effectively nothing.

The idea of sharing a charger over a larger number of cars sounds much closer to the latter idea than the former.
Policy makers believe that rising home prices are a sign of a recovering economy, so making home prices rise will make the economy recover is what they do.

Of course, creating an effect does not create one of its possible causes.