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There are lots of voters believe in Erdogan because he said he's clean. It's all about uneducated public being manipulated through religion and patriotism. He talks about Islam and national flag. He's reading national anthem's lyrics in ads on TV.
How could the missing Malaysia plane have flown faster but covered less ground?
From my experience, it's easier to explain linear coefficients. Also, at least in R, linear regression tends to run faster than logistic regression.
I assume this is the dead fish paper: http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/09/the-story-behind-the-atla...

[edit] The above is a link to a blog post. Is this the paper: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
Yeah well, I don't buy this.

However, I think Oculus could easily kill any doubts over that aquisition by promising to release an open source driver.

Because that would mean that even if the Rift universe they built is beeing crapped on by like buttions, there's still the option to build an alternative open source universe using the open source driver.

Personally I think that would restore my faith in the Rift.
The obvious and universal solution to APIs that don't have the kinds of facilities AWS does is that your app does not talk directly to the third party. You construct your own API that runs on your own servers and permits only those operations the users are supposed to be able to perform.

It's not an "alternative", it's the correct solution.

In fact, you still have to do a lighter-weight version of it with AWS -- you need an API to generate and hand out the restricted keys to your apps.

With a few very rare exceptions, you don't use third-party APIs as a complete substitute for building your own services, you use them to make building your own services easier.
I've never heard of this brand before today. And thus I'd never seen this post before you posted it here. Now, my mission is to move to a city that is served by Eat24 and to give them my money. These guys are very smart - they had a problem (we need to increase ad revenue and ROI), they found an inventive solution (advertise on porn sites, the demographics add up and there's NO competition), and they executed a great plan by engaging with the sites and the porn stars themselves. Very smart indeed!
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Just because they bought a few patents doesn't mean they're following. FWIW, MSR has done some pioneering work here and they showcased early prototypes a while back. I wouldn't be surprised ms has had one in the works for a while
The fact that some companies aren't in Wikipedia is irrelevant. The point was you shouldn't have to go to Wikipedia to find out.
From the comments I've seen, their definition of "selling out" meant just selling the name and technology but not keeping their own dev team together or continuing to work on their plans as they were. Therefore they don't see this acquisition as selling out because they're keeping the team completely intact and continuing on the same plan as before (only expanded/expedited due to the influx of capital). They already saw themselves as beholden to their investors, so being beholden to one big investor (Facebook) doesn't seem much different to them.
At least to me, the issue is more that Facebook is not who I want developing these technologies.

I think facebook is going to eventually use this to create a modern connected virtual world. Which is something I dearly want. I just don't want it controlled by facebook.

In the short term I don't think facebook will screw Oculus up, however.
I wonder who's reviewing this show? Techies like ourselves, or HBO's mainstream audience?
Facebook is right in the middle of pissing off just about everyone with a FB page, and Oculus is all excited about advancing VR by pairing with Facebook. Seriously, a simple geek campaign like "let's call it the Facebook Oculus from now on" would probably have a good chance at destroying the project. It's not that I personally have anything against either FB or Oculus, but it seems like a huge business risk to everyone involved. The one point that sticks out as a plus is the "this will advance VR no matter what" point. You can safely bet (probably) that this will contribute to the future of VR.
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Good writeup, not enough people go in depth like this on shellcode!

Metasploit has some decent shellcode. What you wrote here is essentially a specialized execve payload. Some of metasploit's execve payloads support passing arguments to execve, by building the args array on the fly:

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/m...

There are also lots of reverse shells like this, and reverse stagers too. Additionally, there are other solutions to bind shells being noisy:

See https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/3017

Which causes the port to show as "closed" in a scan, and

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/2981

Which prevents other IPs from jacking your shells.

EDIT: also I think you need a null byte at the end of everything, otherwise the last arg string might not terminate correctly depending on what's in memory.
Who exactly defines "how a social network is meant to work?"

The users do. Facebook will see declining participation if they keep taking user-hostile actions like this. People need to feel they are in charge of their feed (at least mostly in charge), but if they no longer control who sees their content, or which content they see, and hence become unhappy using the service or use it less, that's going to be a big problem for FB.
I have a DX in the closet, and even if the screen is big enough, it's still too slow.

The other huge problem with the DX or any other e-ink reader so far is the lack of note-taking. I hoped the DX would be good for academic papers, but it just isn't.
I guess for me:

A) Doesn't seem to make sense whats Facebook going to do with such a device? They don't do gaming, manufacturing, or design.

B) I for one am not happy with Facebook presently, they've morphed their great community/communication platform into a frustrating ad-pushing machine that will only let you interact with your community/friends at a an increasing price.

C) Given those two, I can only shudder at what Oculus Facebook will become.
I don't understand why a company would expose their source code to a job applicant who was not yet hired?
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Can't wait. Mike judge is just straight out Genius.
Indeed the initial tools were a mess it's true. But they've grown a lot. There's a lot to choose now. From interactive tools, to performance improvements with really interesting things like HDT. The whole situation is much better.

I understand your grief with RDF's past, but please consider judging the actual things RDF currently brings to the table.

Otherwise it's like saying that HTML was initially very cumbersome and, simply because of that, you're willing to dismiss all the cool things happening with HTML5 nowadays.
What does "Big Data" even mean? Personally I think of it as some kind of disruptive synergistic paradigm. Is it a sea change or a holistic approach? Perhaps some kind of seamless mission-critical win-win? I hate when people use overloaded terms that can be twisted to mean anything at all. To not put Google in this list clearly shows it's just a random collection of companies, or maybe based on advertising sales to the magazine.
Wow, I just learned about this today. What's the point of having a Facebook page then? Sounds like a gigantic waste of time.
this is what I get with VPN and without VPN http://i.imgur.com/XNtDGYq.png
Lately it's even less (4-6%)
Right on, Facebook's goal is to connect the world. That's why they've acquired companies that range from cloud hosting (Parse) to Internet-delivering drones (Ascenta/Internet.org).
What you observe in fMRI are always changes, not absolute measurements. So you end up comparing differences between changes.

Suppose you measure the height of two mountains their bases, but you want to make inferences about which mountain has the greatest elevation. To do that you have to compare the relative heights of the bases where the measurements were made.
> "If you really want regular updates from a vendor you sign up to their mailing list..."

Or you follow them on social media because you use it more regularly than you use e-mail, or you find it more convenient.
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The NSA and GCHQ have been doing this for years, so why complain about Turkey doing this? The only difference I can see is targeting individuals vs targeting the general population.
I don't think Mozilla expected the backlash this week either.

Hundreds of thousands of people with very rapid ways to share opinions (Hacker News, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) equals a very different scene to that of even 10 years ago.
I pretty sure that they want to create something like a successful second life - i.e. a VR social network, where users have their own virtual property that they can customize and virtual spaces where they can meet. Basically something like the metaverse in Snowcrash.

And I can completely see the high ups in Occulus thinking that this is a brilliant match of visions.
The number of new TLDs is rather ridiculous.

That said, I can't say I mind all of them. Scotland and Scottish culture will finally get their own domain - .scot - which will be great.
I don't follow your point about a campaign. As apprehensive as I am about this buyout, "Facebook Oculus" has only neutral connotations to me.
Two words: Google Glass.

Maybe they are the kinds of people who are excited about something like Google Glass, and who just don't see what bothers people about Facebook?
Lots of network devices will not have nc, wget, curl, etc. Which makes exploiting cmd injection annoying, you often have to drop a bin in chunks using hex-formatted echo.
AR is potentially much more useful, but VR is much more likely to lead to useful products in the near future. VR is hard, but AR has all the same problems of VR plus a whole bunch more.
Okay, any reason that would succeed where VRML failed? I just don't see it.
You're probably not going to learn calculus just by reading a book, though. To understand it and to be able to deploy the knowledge to solve actual problems, you need to do practical exercises.

In a sense, doing those exercises is "rewriting calculus" in a form that is internalized for yourself. It's the same as learning to play a piece of music: if you're a good piano player, you can read the sheet music for a Beethoven sonata and have an idea of what it's like [0], but you need to practice the piece to really understand what it means.

Maybe the design of software should also contain some kind of built-in learning process. When one encounters a new codebase, it can take quite a while to figure out where to even start deciphering the architecture... What if there was a design document with a textbook-like approach that extended all the way into the code itself: there would be "exercise hooks" expressly for the purpose of allowing a programmer to experiment with the software's internals in a controlled fashion.

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[0] I guess -- I suck at music, so I wouldn't really know.
>also I think you need a null byte at the end of everything, otherwise the last arg string might not terminate correctly depending on what's in memory.

That is what mov long [esi+64],eax does at line 19, it puts a NULL on top of FFFF to properly terminate the array of parameters. It is also reused as last argument of execve() at line 23.

I know I have tested this shellcode against a vulnerable machine (as a CTF, nothing illegal) and it worked well enough.
Right. Loma Prieta was pretty serious, particularly closer to the epicenter (and as I recall, damage sort of hopped and skipped among geologically unstable landforms for quite some distance). But it was less than 1/10th as powerful as the 1906 quake.

And yes, M9s are monsters -- the Boxing Day and March 11 earthquakes in Indonesia and Japan were both M9s, I believe there was one in Chile ... ok, that was 1960 -- the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska, quake was also 9+. Listing at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes

On the US West Coast, it's the Oregon / Washington coast which would be most likely to see a quake of that magnitude, along the Cascadia fault, a megathrust fault which could produce similarly large tsunamis as well as massive shaking. For most of California, not so much.
I've been thinking about this Facebook acquisition for a little while, and in my mind, the only play that makes sense for Facebook is to become the login gateway to Oculus games.

For many Windows games, there's Windows Live...a social-ish, login service that you literally have to register and sign in with in order to play the game. You cannot opt out. If Facebook became this... "Sign in with Facebook"... for all commercial Oculus games, they would have a guaranteed mindshare on the future younger generations of gamers.

And becoming just the gatekeepers would more or less let them be hands-off with the actual Oculus direction as a company, which is in line with what's been said so far.
For those confused by the acronyms: A virtual reality (VR) headset would show the viewer an image completely produced by the device. An augmented reality (AR) headset allows you to see through the glasses at the actual world in front of you, and just projects extra data or graphics onto of this. Think of a heads-up display for a fighter pilot.
I think that what you mention - a tech conglomerate - is what Facebook wants to become. Of course, it's going to be hard for them to do that, at least for some years, because people are going to hear "Facebook" and all they are going to think about is the social networking portion of their business.

Of course, Google was the same way at one time back when they were known only as a search engine.
I've never been in an illumiroom, but I have been in a CAVE like environment with 3d projected walls. Pressing a button on the motion tracked handset and seeing (and hearing) a lightsabre blade come out of it was by far the coolest technology mediated experience I've had. I've got a Rift, but I don't think anything it offers will be as good as that.
Well said. To me, the definition of 'Big Data' is data so big that that the computation time is much greater than the data analysis/munging time. It has nothing to do with how complex, robust, etc. the analysis is. Big data is really not that sexy, but it's a fad that I'm riding because people are hiring for data analysis skills.
Where can I download the source code of JXcore? Or is it a closed source fork/distro?
> I don't presume to know -- it's just the first system I came into contact with which has this concept.

It was already present on the Xerox PARC systems.

You can see a little bit of it here about Symbiotics, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932 at minute at minute 30.

Or here for Smalltalk-80, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU
The "where" is often totally forgotten as well. Sometimes it still matters if a company is in US vs Europe, South America or New Zealand!
You can also find a pre-compiled .deb here https://github.com/nathanjohnson320/node_arm
Has anyone really looked at their Facebook page? Their engagement is low for a good reason - they simply aren't good at posting on Facebook.

Go look at their page and tell me: if you were in charge of Facebook's algorithm, would you put that stuff on every person's feed without charging a bunch of money???

I'm by no means an expert, but I know that their posts aren't exactly making me interested in ordering food or talking to them.

They do, however, have some posts that went viral, but they're really not suited towards their customer base.

It's just not a good feed. IMHO, and obviously also in Facebook's, they don't "deserve" any more attention when there are tons of more successful alternatives for Facebook to show.
Case in point: Facebook games are Mafia Wars and Farmville... games that represent raking in tons of money by offering very poor (but addicting) gameplay.

The core gamer audience is pissed off at Facebook as it is, and that is the audience Oculus Rift is aimed towards. If Oculus sold out to Valve, Sony, Microsoft... hell... maybe even EA or Activision... they wouldn't have nearly as bad of a reaction as with Facebook.

Because as bad as EA or Activision is... they have demonstrated an understanding of the core "hardcore" gamer audience that appreciates greater depth and vision in gameplay. Facebook however, does NOT.
> Kinda sad since they used to lead the game.

May be when they first made their Basic interpreter. And Word for Windows.

But everything else was an acquisition or a clone. DOS bought, Windows cloned from Xerox and Mac, Excel cloned from Lotus-123, FoxPro bought, XBOX cloned from playstation, Internet Explorer bought.
It says exactly who's reviewed this unreleased show right on the linked page - five television critics writing for five different publications.
The target market is geeks that generally have a gigantic entitlement complex.

What they need to do is ignore those people and move on.
Naur's article is based on a contradiction:

On one hand, a 'theory' is described as something completely internal and irreducible:
"the theory, is not, and cannot be, expressed" (quote from PATB)

But on the other hand, a 'theory' is applied to external objects:
"if viewed in relation to the theory of the program these ways [of changing it] may look very different, some of them perhaps conforming to that theory or extending it in a natural way, while others may be wholly inconsistent with that theory" (quote from PATB)

These cannot both be true. A 'theory' cannot be wholly internal if it is applied to things. If something external conforms to it to some degree, then that thing is to that degree an expression of the 'theory'. What else is an expression? And, a 'theory' cannot be irreducible if it applies to things that are reducible. If it matches something -- like software -- that is complex and determinate, it must itself be analysable into determinate properties or patterns or structure.

Since 'theory' is used to make actual software -- something that can fit or diverge from it -- 'theory' must have a substantial, and complex, objective part.

So instead of this confused term 'theory' we should think of something like a material: programming is the engineering-design of structures in a particular abstract 'material'.

That does not change the article's conclusions about programmers not being 'replaceable components of production'. But it gives a better viewpoint of the activity: not merely some obscure inaccessible idea of human thought, but some lead on the part of it that is objective and that we can get hold of and hopefully build some understanding of.
Exactly. Nvidia has got away with crap for far too long. And given the rise of Intel and AMD GPUs which come with fully OSS drivers, they need to get their heads out of sand and realize that they can't get away with it anymore and they need to either invest resources in getting their GPUs supported under Linux - be it Android or Desktop - or at least make their specs open like AMD. (The way they supported Tegra on Android is also similarly crappy - look at how many popular Tegra Android phones or tablets were released post the Nexus 7 2012.)
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If they sold to Valve, the reaction would have been different. But it's all initial impression.

We'll see long term how it shakes out. I do admit it seemed odd to me that Facebook would be the buyer. I just don't see the connection.
Don't you see it? Facebook can't currently monetize face-to-face interactions, but in virtual reality they can.

The purchase makes a lot of sense for Facebook. Facebook's business model is to monetize human interactions. Today, most of human interaction happens over the Internet (with messages and images), and in the future, it will happen in virtual environments. VR will be the ultimate platform, and Facebook wants to own that platform.

Virtual reality is not about gaming. Would you describe Matrix as a game? Facebook's wants to put everyone in the Matrix, so they can monetize us.
Will the Facebook bubble burst any time soon?
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> they should've expected that reaction if they sold to anyone

Pretty much any major gaming company could have gotten away with it. Even EA wouldn't have caused this much backlash.

And if they'd been bought by Valve, there would have been dancing in the streets. (Actually, the dancing would probably still be going on right now.)
Darn. This means they're not as smart as I thought.
"No need to get angry"

The people angry have no right to get angry.
I think that other companies announcing their plans for VR is one of the reasons Oculus sold to FB, especially so quickly. They see themselves needing the backing of a big tech company if they want to be able to compete with companies like Sony or Microsoft.
What are they want to do with it?

.hack//Sign, Sword Art Online and Ready Player One

That's what they want to do.
Kickstarter is all about directly funding unique concepts and products by independent entities. The whole point is to avoid the "traditional" investment model. Or I suppose more accurately, fund what the "traditional model" wants nothing to do with.

If I was a backer, I would probably want the Oculus to fail now, just out of spite.
It's politically sensitive to admit, but the most-legitimate value of polygraph is in scaring people into telling the truth (which cannve verified in other ways). It has many other problems, though, like scaring innocent people into flade confessions, or scaring people into divulging their legitimately private info.
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> Beyond our core community, we expected it would be positive.

How can you go in understanding that you are going to upset your core community and expect anything other than a negative response?
If China is behind this, then they are committing a horrible crime that no free society can stand for, and the entire western world must band together to fight this menace.

If the US government is behind this, the best thing to do is form a commission to prove that no wrong doing has been done, and make sure these two "researchers" are punished as severely as extra-legally possible.
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> We believe these changes will also help prevent a fire resulting from an extremely high speed impact that tears the wheels off the car, like the other Model S impact fire, which occurred last year in Mexico. This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree. The driver stepped out and walked away with no permanent injuries and a fire, again limited to the front section of the vehicle, started several minutes later. The underbody shields will help prevent a fire even in such a scenario.

That is not just PR. That is damned amazing engineering. That's the kind of description you get out of an episode of Knight Rider, not something in real life.

That's clearly evidence that these cars are designed and built to an amazing level.
I thought "just" meant "only", not "fair".

Hooray for language.
This is more of a statement of why Facebook's stock dropped by 15%. Investors are baffled by this purchase by Facebook.

Outrage on the Oculus Rift side has to do more with the indie "spirit" that it gained by starting off as a Kickstarter company.
I think that the more people who 'interact' with the post the more it will spread to other who also like the page.
This is more likely a response to Google Glass, not Oculus.

I assume Google has built a patent portfolio around Glass. This may even be a defensive move by Microsoft. Still, looks like another tragedy of patent abuse brewing.

I wonder about the upcoming patent lawsuits against Oculus. Maybe that's their real reason for embracing FB -- protection.