skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have any of them giving you all benchmarks to hit to secure funding?
Not a lawyer, but I think they are also required to have a process for disputing inaccuracies. Also, there is the free annual credit report law.
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> A trillion tests can complete in a reasonable amount of time, and it should catch most problems.

When your individual test is a handful of instructions, you can make such impressive claims. I only wish $work's test suite was so svelte!
Prismatic anyone?
US and British spies 'get personal data from Angry Birds'
A phone app helps the public find access further south in Malibu.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201308091630/b
Maybe he does not want to be disturbed while sunbathing on the beach so that he can really enjoy the Sun.
Most companies are first heard, but looks great.
How on Earth are you parsing my comment where highlighting a Chinese hardware maker's US arm is stating that 100% of the hardware has been backdoored by the NSA? I didn't even mention the agency. Just US domestic operations of a Chinese hardware maker.

I was nice enough to cite the persons and companies involved in that previous thread, including the detained Barret Brown. You addressed his drug use without the topic at hand that he reported on? I mention an article written by Michael Hastings that referenced Brown, and you insert bullcrap as if I said intel agencies killed him? You went on further to bring up Monsanto and Nickelback?

I ask you to not engage me anymore for a reason. You are a prick, tptacek. You are a prick.
> Everything will probably be just fine if you kill-9 something. If a program fails permanently and dramatically when it's kill-9'd, you should "remove it from your filesystem", because it can't handle other, unavoidable abrupt failures either.

There is a lot of middle ground between failing "permanently and dramatically" and shutting down cleanly.

What about a program that can recover after an abrupt termination, but only after a time-consuming recovery from a journal? What about a program that can recover after an abrupt termination, but only after you manually remove a lock file? These are cases where it's not "just fine" to use SIGKILL, but not so bad as to warrant removing the program.

Generally your life will be easier if you don't take the sledgehammer approach to killing processes, and at least try a non-SIGKILL first.
Google Glass Now Works With Actual Glasses
Interestingly, things like the zooming and enhancement of video similar to the TV capabilities often portrayed are also now easily accessible. Read about 'super-resolution' [1,2] techniques for more details.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superresolution
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/downl...
Just to drive home my point:

Here's the pricing for a put option on AAPL to sell the stock at $450. Expiration 16-Jan-2015 (roughly one year from now):

40.11 Down 3.09(7.15%) Jan 27

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL160115P00450000

That price is per share. So, for roughly $4011, you can buy the right to SELL 100 shares of AAPL between now and Jan-2015 for about one hundred dollars per share LESS than what it's closing price was yesterday. Figuring in the premium, that's about $140 loss per share built into that trade yet there are 1300 OPEN contracts for just that. By your thinking, those puts should be worthless, right?

Moreover, there are already ~1300 OTHER put contracts out there at this exact same strike/expiration. What was the volume yesterday in those contracts?

15. Fifteen fucking contracts.

Hey...what about at $550 strike? 12 contracts.

Liquidity and premium are important. A lot of the time liquidity is the MOST important thing. It doesn't matter what price someone else got if you can't get that price because there isn't a counter-party to trade with.

You can't buy what someone else isn't willing to sell and you can't sell what someone ain't buying.
Shouldn't that explanation be by followed by 'in order to request the termination of the process'?
Social security numbers are most emphatically not identification. The social security department tried for many years to get people to stop using your social as a form of identification, but companies (and sometimes even the government) still keep doing it. Social security cards printed before 1972 actually had a disclaimer printed on them that said "Not for identification purposes", but the message has since been removed. Although rare, there are actually duplicate social security numbers as well, and not everyone has a social security number. A number of religious groups, most notably some sects of Amish, refuse to get social security numbers and regularly fight legal cases to prevent having a social security number as a requirement for access to government services (although obviously not social security).
Scavengers is probably extreme, but they do tend to paint a half picture when it comes to the externalities of their services.
Something like offering $500,000,000 up front? There's no question I'd take the $25 mil offer, put it in a trust and seriously mess with the world (in a nice way).
What am I doing wrong?
My links usually do great on Reddit but they never do here. Can someone please tell me what I am dong wrong?
Who's using single precision floats these days?
Wow thanks for the kind words!
Couldn't a service employ a warrant canary and effectively create a 0 bucket and a 0-249 bucket? I wonder... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/apple-takes-stron...
As long as the programs are 1) targeted against actual threats and 2) controlled by judicial oversight, I don't think there is a problem. The reason people are reporting on it is probably because there is currently little to no reason to believe 1 and 2 actually occur in practice when it comes to the NSA.

Right now, it is absolutely in the public interest to reveal the shrouded capabilities of an agency that has in so many respects gone totally rogue in their pursuit of absolute security for themselves and their elite patrons. Their purported ends definitely do not justify their excessive means.

Milton Friedman was onto something when he said this:

>To deny that the end justifies the means is indirectly to assert that the end in question is not the ultimate end, that the ultimate end is itself the use of the proper means. Desirable or not, any end that can be attained only by the use of bad means must give way to the more basic end of the use of acceptable means.

In a free society, such a means must withstand the test of Constitutional, Congressional, Judicial, and ultimately, Popular review. When they rebuild their credibility with some actual accountability and transparency, then they can expect to see the decision making calculus in editing rooms change.
This is a very interesting and complicated case.

The judge's ruling skirts the fundamental conflict between the rights of private property owners and the rights of Californians to access the shoreline. Instead, Judge Buchwald rooted his decision in the land's history during the mid-19th century. Since there was no public easement attached to the property at the time the United States acquired California from Mexico, the judge reasoned, the question of whether the California Constitution now guarantees access to the beach is immaterial.

The original owner of the property was Jose Maria Alviso, who received a provisional land grant from the Mexican government in the late 1830s. He later transferred the property to his brother, Jose Antonio Alviso, whose rights to the property were upheld under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War. The U.S. government challenged Alviso's land patent, but the Supreme Court confirmed Alviso's ownership in 1859.

All that complicated history led Buchwald to a basic conclusion: The nation's high court exempted this property from the full reach of California law.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24380282/vinod-k...
Not necessarily. You can send the CONTinue signal to a process using the kill command. This will not cause the process to terminate.
Sorry for the delay! It is certainly an interesting application and one that I am personally very interested in pursuing at some point. For now we are focusing on the preventative potential of this new vaccine concept.
Happstack is very worth checking out as well.
I remember when Symbian did that. God it was awful!

But perhaps if it were implemented better it might make some sense.
Got it, thanks and all the best! I for one will be watching closely so keep the updates coming.
'The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.' --Mahatma Gandhi
Not always. The kill system call can be used to send any signal, it's just got a name that implies you're sending something like SIGKILL or SIGTERM. I have written C programs that use kill for harmless inter-process communication.
Android does on demand permission requests for premium SMS sending. now to just scale that to anything an app developer wants to make optional.
And it still looks like a Segway for your face.
What are some tools you can't live without?
Non-mainstream consumer web services. For example rapportive, github, stackexchange, etc..
This is not really a debate about whether the family will get a settlement, it is more a debate between Uber and the driver's insurance company.

My guess the driver is going to be 90% liable, Uber 10%. California is a joint and several liability state, so Uber is going to pay all damages not covered by the driver's insurance. I am not a lawyer, but this seems so clear cut that it will never go to court.
Well, they could read all that other stuff by default with no warning previously until all sorts of apps abused it. Then Apple had to add in the prompts for things like reading Contacts. I'd imagine the Android devs are working on similar since the list of permissions model is breaking down.
I understand your reasoning and I count myself on that side of thinking.

But then again, if you think about it, being an Uber driver is unlike any other contractor. If I were an Uber driver, i'd have my app open as much as possible. every second is potential income, and every ping to my app is guaranteed income.

Can a php contractor say that by having their email client open all day?
I think this argument also holds true about Vancouver when you replace nurse with [insert random trade] (e.g. HVAC technician, elevator technician, etc.)

On average I feel software devs are highly underpaid in Vancouver (even more so when you take into account the cost of living).
Hi Reid,
as I said before, I wish you all the best but I simply don't understand how your experiment 2 is going to work.
Did I understand correctly that you will immunize mice and then isolate CD4 T cells from the spleen. Then infect those cells and see if cells from immunized mice die slower/less/not at all and don't express p24 in high levels.
I'm afraid this experiment will not work this way. CD4 T cells by itself can not be immunized against HIV. The immunizing effect comes from memory B cells that produce antibodies. These antibodies bind to HIV infected CD4 T cells and as such label them as evil to be killed by other cells.
CD4 T cells alone will not show any effect in regards to susceptibility to HIV no matter how well your immunization works.
As rgejman pointed out, it would be way better to infect the mice with HIV and do a CD4 T cell count there every week. This would be so much easier and it might actually show you something relevant.
Yes, I use Xabber on Android.
Don't forget that Google Hangouts now has access to all your texts, too, now.
Considering everyone just Google's the answers to things instead of reading books or learning something new to find the answers, I'd argue Google made our brains irrelevant a very long time ago.
I remember reading this story a few years ago, maybe two or three.

Why hasn't this gone to court already?
Yeah this is the update I stopped at too.. Now I might just delete the Facebook app because I hate constantly seeing that there is an update waiting for me.
I don't think he was speaking in Sanskrit. Let's rephrase: he thinks spying targeting the general population is intolerable.
Journalist who made up “Hack Heaven” story barred from legal profession
Yes, that's why I said they'd get less traffic, and not likely provide the information. However, you might be able to achieve the opposite.

Let's say on the iPhone, you could click a person's name, and attach their Twitter and HN handle. Now, you click their name a few dozen times a day when you go about your usual stalking to see all the new tweets and HN posts. You then follow these links to both Twitter and HN when something catches your eye. Facebook is now missing out. They didn't want to take part, because they wanted you to visit their app directly, but now, people are not taking the time to open their app. I can get 10 sources of information on my friend by clicking their name. Will I make a completely separate visit to Facebook to get their info? It's kind of a hassle, I might check those 10 sources with a simple click every hour, but only visit Facebook once a day because it's now more work. If Facebook was integrated, and I now had 11 sources of information just by clicking someone's name, I might start visiting Facebook more often by following these links.
OH-MY-GOD! - Facebook is snooping around my "Private" data - this is NEWS to me!!!

+ it's Android (Linux's one SHAME!), which is known for keeping Privacy.

PS if you're on Facebook in the first place you can't complain about this kind of stuff
Sweet. This will make my life much better while I'm working in the field. (No mobile internet, and browsing SE on my phone was always a pain.)
I noticed they pushed an update to the iOS app too, but those permissions weren't mentioned in the update log. Anyone know if they claim the same access in iOS? There's no granular permissions in the iOS Privacy section to control access to messages.
I think that's rather harsh, MySQL/InnoDB can't handle kill -9. Granted, kill-9'ing a database process is bad karma :)
You can just interface with Facebook chat using the Jabber protocol https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/
They say they've received 0-249 NSLs, but they also said "CloudFlare will therefore challenge in court any NSLs we receive." While it's possible this statement doesn't apply retroactively, they seem to be implying they haven't received any NSLs.
Do you object to the very capability to exploit such commercial technologies? Or do you object to the NSA's exploitation of such capabilities?
Well, yes, that's what support groups are. Not all problems require drugs (the psychiatrist's USP is the ability to write prescriptions).
Sounds like a great spot to set up a hacker commune!
Because a $2000 fine is totally going to deter a billionaire.
dey took our JEEERBS
I uninstalled the app and put a bookmark to the mobile site on my homescreen instead (like the old days before app stores). It's slightly slower, but on a Nexus 4, it's still fast enough I don't mind. They've improved the mobile interface since the early iPhone days.
Did Big Internet Companies Handicap Startups in FISA Rule Changes?
Consider the case where you have a struct containing something in addition to an array. If you malloc sizeof the struct, then the array size is likely not to be found anywhere.
They're the standard choice for 3d graphics in games.
Google offering prescription frames for Glass
Hey HN, I just wanted to thank you for the overall very positive, constructive comment thread. Thanks to you this post got roughly/over ~22k page views and I didn't receive a single vitriolic comment or bitter dissent. All I got was thoughtful, earnest, and honest replies. Made my day.
If you're interested, you can read the complaint on the SF Superior Court's website. [1]

[1] http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APP...
Yeah, I was going to say. The wisdom that I'm being taught in school is "Don't use single precision floats, at least not when you're on any kind of a modern system."
From your tone it sounds like you think such a vulnerability is so obvious that it shouldn't even be mentioned as such. Regardless of how defenseless any device is to an attacker with physical access, the point of Schneier's article was to

>discuss how the exploit works, how we might detect it, how it has probably been improved since the catalog entry in 2008, and so on

Do you have a specific issue with this approach to the leak? After all, if such exploits are so obvious and predictable from an attacker like the NSA, it is probably prudent to consider how to defend against them no?
The smart mailbox idea was attempted by a well-funded company called Outbox.

They shut down last week, for insufficient demand (cost of user acquisition too high)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/outbox-shuts-down/
Haha, that would be so awesome. Presumably buffet is betting that you're going to take a lesser cash prize to avoid the risk of losing in the final 4. But at that point, if the buyout offer is huge but you are still +ev to stay in, you can probably turn the tables on him and get a big insurance company or investment bank(or a conglomerate of them) that has the bankroll to buy you out and see the matches play out.
The long-term ramifications of a guaranteed $25M/yr for that amount of years could start science labs, schools, provide free education for a small country for 2 generations.. although you may find you could do OK spending the 2-3% interest on $250M, say $500,000 a year, and have that for many more years to come (assuming you only needed 50M to live on after taxes and banking systems stay afloat).
I have indeed: http://blog.mikebourgeous.com/2011/03/08/home-automation-and...

Hope you find it informative :-)
Social Security numbers are not ID numbers, as other posters have written.

Other countries (including Israel, where I live) do have ID numbers, and they are used universally -- by governments, employers, credit-card companies, and the like. I actually very much like the convenience that this gives me. I have one number to remember, and I don't worry very much about it being taken or used by someone else.
I've heard lots of people speculating that the big pharma companies would be better of if there would always be HIV and they can sell their ART pills for live.
But on the other hand if one of them is the first one to create a HIV immunization, this alone will make them so extremely rich. An effective HIV immunization will become standard immunization for all people in the western world and the WHO and UN will take all in their power to immunize as many people worldwide as possible. Just imagine the amount of doses that will have to be produced. And you would be the only one company having this product.
This has way more financial gain that being one of the dozens of companies that produce ART therapies.
On top of that a few people working in high positions of big pharma companies are still "nice" people who would actually be proud of curing a disease. Not everyone just counts their dollars every day and hopes that more people get sick.
I think this is actually the absolutely wrong way to do it. By asking people what they would pay for, you often constrain your idea space to the space of "incremental ideas that sound good that lots of people have thought of," rather than explore the space of "revolutionary, new-market or market-disruptive ideas that most people think are stupid (without the benefit of hindsight)."

The right approach, I think, is to build a prototype and then ask people if they would pay for that prototype, rather than forcing people to imagine a product.
Practically speaking, things almost never go wrong when you kill -9 a process, as opposed to a more clean way. Also, time is money.
> Uber app operating is proof that cab driver is looking to get paid, looking for patrons, and hence employed by Uber.

No, the Uber app operating is proof that the cab driver is amicable to getting paid.
The problem with this is that although it's likely true, there is no guarantee that what is done with that permission will not expand in the future.

e.g. Given the explanation that it's only for 2-factor authentication, I accept and install. When the next version is released (which does more with that permission), I see no new permissions required and install.

ericcumbee's suggestion of sending a URI makes much more sense to me. A per-request permissions model would likely need to include a "yes to all" checkbox, which would be checked in short order by the vast majority of users.
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I think you may have reinforced tptaceks's point, actually. Many DBs can handle abrupt termination.
That's like walking up to an astronomer, and when he gives detailed remarks regarding the stars in the sky, you reply:

You're really surprised that there are stars in the sky?

I think you're missing the point.
And people wonder why Walmart is so popular with the working poor. Bluebird credit cards (even takes direct deposit), prepay phones, low prices, and low friction. They were advertising health insurance last time I was in there. I do believe they had minute clinics at some places.
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I think Vinod's kinda being a douche here. All of the positive street cred he is getting for his promotion of green energy is being lost to this fight. I mean, is it worth having the private beach? Why not keep it open to the public, upgrade the access, and actually reap some positive PR from this?

This is the kind of stuff protesters hate about rich techies. Apparently, this beach was historically used for a long time to teach surfing by local surf schools. A guy swoops in, who probably will rarely use this beach/vacation home, buys up the land, and closes off access. Attempts to "hack" the legal system through a loophole to achieve an exception to the state wide public beach system.

If he had been appreciative of the history of the beach and local surfers, he could have actually got some benefit out of it, maybe built some local facilities people would pay to use, add some exhibits on Khosla investments, etc. It would have generated positive press and positive externalities instead of negative press and negative externalities.

I like Vinod, but this just comes off as being a rich jerk.
This is correct. If they haven't received any, they can legally say so, and it would seem to imply they have received one or more.
iOS apps can't access messages.
Anyone who wants to do fastest possible floating point arithmetic with graphics card. Also, if the memory, disk access, or IO-troughtput is the bottleneck with number crunching, single floats might give huge advantage.
I stumbled across this paper describing a language that aims to do that. For some reason I was not that excited by the matrix multiplication use case, mainly because that is not the kind of application I'm interested in. I'd like to see examples of stuff a lot of cycles are burnt on in "web" data centers.

But I would like to see more work along these lines -- pointers appreciated.

http://sequoia.stanford.edu/

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=170564211168157303...
The Linux OOM killer (used heavily by Android as part of normal operation) does a SIGKILL. I believe iOS does this as well.

So pretty sure this is totally fine and not a problem in the slightest, seeing as some billion devices or so are doing this on a daily basis.
I think that they will incubate CD8 and CD4 T cells from the same mouse together. The CD8 (cytotoxic) T cells, if they recognize the antigen, should kill the infected CD4 cells.

A caveat is activation/co-stimulation. The CD8 T cells should already be activated due to the vaccination and no longer need co-stimulation from DCs... but this depends on the vaccine having delivered enough peptide to stimulate a true immune response in a human/humanized immune system. That's the (first) big unknown here.
Such a tone-deaf retort is typical of those who fail to see the problem. Again the issue isn't about your or my level of comfort; the issue is the environment we set up for young people considering their opportunities in life.