skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firstly, they immensely overvalue their individual contribution to a product and undervalue the contribution of all who came before them.

Can you elaborate on this? Ownership is based on both owning the product of your labor and the ability/right to trade property.

> Secondly, the finite natural resources and space (land) of the planet can NEVER be considered the product of anyone's labor, and thus can NEVER be treated as private property in any strict sense

I think there are a wide range of views on this among people who call themselves libertarians. A popular view is homesteading, which says that you own land once you improve it/mix your labor with it. I think there's some subtle variations in the view with respect to things like whether you own the land itself or just the improvements to it or things like that. Personally I agree that land isn't really something that can be owned. Constructed houses and the like can be owned and people can have rights to these houses but not to the land itself.

> The notion of perpetual ownership of any finite resource is antithetical to the principles of the free-market, because it allows one to purchase an infinite amount of something (i.e. perpetual rights to a piece of land, including perpetual rent collection) for a finite sum.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying its antithetical to free market principles to own anything indefinitely? Or just land?
We already have crowd funding for science. We do it as a whole society when we fund the various grant-giving agencies in this country. I cannot emphasize how bad of an idea it is to take funding decisions away from professional scientists and place them in the hands of untrained individuals, no matter how enthusiastic they may be nor how much money they are willing to throw away.
Although I'm not a kernel developer, I strongly suspect that Linus' common reputation is driven by cherry-picking his nastiest rants and then exposing only those to the vast majority of current developers hanging out social channels who will never in their career look at kernel source code.
Just did something similar with Ansible, the simple task "apt update_cache=yes pkg=bash state=latest" will do the trick. At least it did for me.
Hmm, I do see "vulnerable" print when I run that code on Mac OS X 10.9.5 with bash 3.2.51(1)-release.
/bin/sh depends on the system. It might be busybox or a minimal shell (this is common on embedded devices). On some systems like OSX and I think CentOS /bin/sh is just bash. You can check with `/bin/sh --version`.
inurl:cgi-bin "inurl:\.sh$"

320k results here. The slash and $ made a difference but they are not parsed as regex other chars work too. Not sure what's going on here.
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But IE6 will break! :O
Most people now didn't adopt Linux to get away from something, its just the default server OS. (And not desktop).
Gnome Shell is really beautiful and practical. I'm switching to Fedora Rawhide (I tried Arch Linux, but got a bit disappointed with it), because I got tired of Ubuntu's effort to boycott Shell (although you can still install it) instead of merging efforts to create desktop experience at par with Windows and OS X. My only issue was the lack of a dark Gnome 2 theme in Adwaita. Does anyone know if 3.14 fixes that?
But why would anyone care about this?

Because if it isn't done properly it won't play back properly, and when something doesn't play back properly the blame usually falls on the distributor, whether they're a broadcaster, streaming provider, or DVD wholesaler. The only reason the 'competent pirate version' can exist is because someone else laid the groundwork for it.

Weeks of work for specialists really sounds over the top

That attitude is why first time producers almost invariably run out of money in post-production. Every film is different and has to be QC'ed individually, and if there are problems they'll have to be addressed individually. Broadcast and streaming standards are pretty stringent and if something doesn't pass then no payments are made.
The only part of this I care about right now is the random number generation. It looks good. Pity there's no way to get a float though, for a drop-in drand replacement.
Here is a quote that my experience in science has caused me to resonate with.

"I think there's been a Gresham's Law in science funding in this country, as the political people who are nimble in the art of writing government grants have gradually displaced the eccentric and idiosyncratic people who typically make the best scientists. The eccentric university professor is a species that is going extinct fast." - Peter Thiel [0]

[0]http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_tec...
Does state sponsored research guaranties that result will be made public and shared ?
(This is a serious question)

If so, I agree with you, If not, I see here a strong argument for crowd funded projects like that.
Robofish gets a new mission
pretty sure it's still considered bank fraud which is worse than fraud.
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Great response. Would give gobbles a try now after this.
I've had a Galaxy Note 3 damage pockets that were particularly tight, but not the other way around.
dopeness - very useful
DigitalOcean is based here. And like others have said, many companies are either started here or have a satellite office.
Ouch, I feel for whoever let this slip.

Experiencing some small scale analogs to this is what taught me to really appreciate the sort of simple, manual rigor that I often see from (much) older engineers.

That's not to say that such things weren't done here - who knows. It's more a thought on what I sometimes perceive to be over dependence / confidence in automated testing.

Now...

Is there a term for the sort of "If X was Y then..." conjecture we have dotting this thread?

Here, in relation to Apple it's "If Steve Jobs was alive...". In boxing it was "If Cus D'Amato was alive..."
Interesting idea. However, I believe doctor correction can be a very delicate matter as professionals are still not happy of machines pretending to "know better". However, we did discuss some surgeon assisting robots, like holding various tools or ultrasound scanner in place and adjusting for patient's body movements
> It's frustrating, as someone who is interested in cooking and is trying to learn, that there are a million and one recipes out there, but very few things that teach first principles.

You'll probably love the books by Michael Ruhlman, if that's your desire:

1. The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen

2. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

3. Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques 100 Recipes A Cook's Manifesto
I'm guessing the joke that that a "score" is an obscure unit of measure.
It would be a malformed http header and most libraries would ignore it or raise an error.
Thank you. I think you are right. Felt like somehow what I said was inflammatory. If anything it's admission of ignorance... but one I thought was worth mentioning.
Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM
That has to be the most disorienting website I've seen in a long time.
U.S. charges Texas man with smuggling after he forwarded a single email
I used one and thought it was in the way. It was nice to not have to wait for the check though
Also in the section "Don't resize images clientside" a whole paragraph is repeated.
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Before you go and buy a book, you should check out ChefSteps:

http://www.chefsteps.com/

It's linked to Modernist Cuisine, which is also linked to Nathan Myhrvold, who isn't popular here (for good reasons), but it's really a good resource for cooks -- comprehensive and pretty reliable. I haven't really looked into their basic stuff but it's always getting new content so even if they don't have what you are looking for now they might in the near future.
Git commit for Angry Ruby Developers
I've had one employer offer to pay you the difference, but I don't believe this is common outside of large corps known to be good places to work.
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Interesting idea, thanks! gonna think on how rfid or similar tagging can help to avoid adding complex CV algorithms where much easier alternatives could be offered. There are some robots moving around trolleys with items already there, so staff and patients are getting used to see machines sharing same corridors
Good luck :) By the way, on the map and calendar view, you have "can be seen hear" instead of "here".
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There are many problems with the institutions in this country that give grants. However, crowdsourcing is not the answer. Nor is baiting people by offering them the promise of a "patent free" cancer drug. Full-term drug development, including clinical trials reaches into the billions of dollars. You're never going to crowdsource that. So even if your drug is wildly successful and nontoxic (of which the chances are tiny given that you have not yet done animal studies), you will to partner with a pharma comnpany to bankroll the rest of its development.
I think mostly people adopted Linux to get away from paying a lot of per-seat license fees for everything, and to get away from having to buy some vendor's medium iron hardware rather than just using commodity x86 chips.
Is this a classic Poettering thing?

How'd PulseAudio get stuck in so much stuff? Is this a pattern?
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So you're arguing for price controls. Who's going to set them, the government? You don't want producers to price their own offerings, and presumably you recognize that if the price is set at the consumer's preference of $0 then it won't be economical to make any films.
It probably ensures that you get the Linode-customized flavors of packages where such exist, so that, for example, you don't inadvertently upgrade your kernel to a build without the ability to mount Linode disks.
What was your dataset of people who were applying? If a girl with an Italian name gets 90% and a guy with an arab name and is younger than 25 gets 1%, what about the in-between?

I'd be curious to know where I stand..
The NIH mandates that all research it funds be placed in the public domain within 1 year of publication. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

This does not go far enough, but it is a good start. It would be better if non-published research were also placed in the public domain, but this is logistically tricky for many reasons.
This would be a godsend in Europe, where to American sensibilities it often feels like you have to have a flashing light and sirens to get someone, anyone, to show up and give you the bill after you're done your meal.
That is kind of the entire point of the article. This quote summarizes the argument which you paraphrased after pointing out "You have no idea what you are thinking".

The argument to spell it out in a clearer way than the author is a reductio ad absurdum:

1) The system protects us from unsafe airline and car practices.

2) The system tries to ban toys and sodas.

3) Therefore, the system can protect us from anything that is bad.

The conclusion is clearly false, because lots of bad things still happen and you can't engineer a perfectly safe system. The omnipotent entity he refers is the the government, market, or whatever entity makes decisions you don't have to. In the full article there are lots of examples, from banking to whatever where the train of thought jumps from one type of savior to another, without ever pinning it down on the individual.
systemd is less stable than upstart (and sysvinit, obviusly), "it lacks maturity" says the author. You've had several problems with upstart, but count yourself lucky, certain problems with systemd will take down the whole system, and make it unbootable too!

systemd is not reliable, unlike eg daemontools, the developers are busy adding new features and don't care at all about old bugs. They say if you're not using one of the latest kernels, tough luck. So you're continuously debugging systemd "modern innovations" instead of focusing on your product.

If you're using Ubuntu, let's hope that by the time it gets adopted, systemd has evolved into a functional, dependable component. I wouldn't bet my product on that, though..
VoIP software is hilariously insecure in general. This little bug is going to make some people a ton of money. Or even just cost some people a lot.
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c'mon, I can't believe people are taking his fear seriously. This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read, thus I'm being sarcastic.
In the video you mentioned that the project died, but the repository is still up, what's the story then?
Here is a very simple proof of concept that helped me understand the vulnerability:

bash-3.2$ anyvariable='() { true; }; echo foo' bash
foo
Do you have any links to papers or code that could help get me started on such a project? This sounds like it'd be incredibly fun to build.
Looks like the patched version and the pre-patched version show the same version, or am I being stupid and missing something ?

ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ ls
bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb bash-builtins_4.2-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb t
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ dpkg -x bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb t
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ diff -c t/bin/bash /bin/bash
Binary files t/bin/bash and /bin/bash differ
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ t/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ sha1sum t/bin/bash
9eeed02173db163b013933eff3b8c6aa3697f67f t/bin/bash
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$ sha1sum /bin/bash
3384fadf84146a4d4b6b7f529f615e9947b4ac99 /bin/bash
ayourtch@mcmini:~/bash-patch$
There is an argument to be made that industrial R&D these days is more about the D and less about the R than it once was but Bell Labs was always sui generis--and a creature of AT&T's telephone monopoly (which was hardly an unalloyed good). But the world is also a lot different than in Bell Labs' heyday. I'd be genuinely curious to hear about what areas or types of important research that would once have been done aren't being done today in the absence of a true Bell Labs equivalent.
Sure, mine's in my profile. I can't promise I'll be very useful or have much time, though. :)
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You need to read it till the end, there is a surprising turn in the story...
I'm pretty sure the line is drawn here because it is pretty clear why this is wrong.

The relaxed ethics of the general consensus of the Hacker News threads is probably due to the lack of information rather than people here having questionable morals, or so I'd like to believe :).
Completely agree; learning to cook shouldn't be about cooking different recipes, it should be about generalizing the lessons from each one. That said, I think an effective way to learn it is just to try cooking a million different things and keeping notes (mental or physical ones).

My best resource is foodwishes.blogspot.com. His videos focus completely on watching the ingredient, never himself, and I feel like he does a pretty good job of always explaining why we are adding in a spice or choosing a particular cooking method, or when you can feel free to improvise with your own preferred flavors. And there's also a good variety of different dishes, so its not just one type of cooking. I have been following recipes from foodwishes for about a year and I feel I've learned a lot (for an amateur) about how to cook.
Don't tell anyone.
I haven't heard of that before now, and now I am super curious. Is there an article that details what happened?
Ah, yes, the Juggernauts of Biology. That was a fun article to write. Indeed, the professor we're critiquing (and also praising) was on my committee, and I had a copy of an early draft of the Juggernauts paper literally in my back pocket during my thesis defense [0].

That research is somewhat unrelated to what I'm doing - the more relevant paper is this (happily open access thanks to the NIH) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376188/: The molecule demonstrates great results - single digit nanomolar IC50s (somewhere between taxol and paclitaxel-level strength). And also mitigated cardiotoxicity, which was the major concern preventing continuation of preclinical experiments in the parent compound.

Briefly back to the topic of (the typical scientific) press releases, they have always been a strange animal, authored by nonscientist PR agents hired by the institution, bragging about some achievement, without directly asking for funds - in the case of universities possibly indirectly suggesting to alumni that their donations are going for good and in the case of institutions like NASA, reassuring the public that their taxpayer dollars are well-spent.

[0] so this was an option for me. http://xkcd.com/1403/
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The cynic in me can't help wondering why, if there's such a big mainstream demand for ordering at the table with minimal interaction with the waiter, paper menus with tick boxes and kiosks to pay on the way out haven't been the mainstream way of ordering and paying for food for a while.

Maybe I'm going to the wrong restaurants.
Though it's no doubt rickety, conceptually I really like CGI. Talk about loose coupling.
Since other people are reporting that their copies of bash 3.2.51 are vulnerable, I suspect that the version of bash that is currently running in that terminal is 3.2.51 and vulnerable, but the version of bash that you are invoking from that vulnerable version of bash is not.

In other words, I suspect that:

$ echo $BASH_VERSION

and

$ bash --version

Will report different version numbers.

If you start a new terminal and try `echo $BASH_VERSION`, you will probably see a different version as well.
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To European sensibilities ordering and paying from an iPad would be seen as unbelievably tacky.

I suspect the hurdle here is social not technical, similar to Google Glass.
Mitnick probably falls inside the psychopathy spectrum though, so the parent might have used the word in a looser sense.
https://gobble.com/signup -- Page says 'select 3 kits', shows only 2, does not allow continuing unless 3 are selected.
I don't buy this at all. My iPhone 4 simply will not bend no matter how I flex it. My Brothers Note 2 does not bend, though I can apply some force and get a little bend out of it, it bends nothing like the iPhone 6 Plus. So while this article is free to "Duh" me all it wants. Simply put, standard wear and tear should not ruin/bend/crack the phone. Apple knows that people put these things in their pockets. I don't agree with putting phones in the back pocket, hell that's just asking for trouble (sitting on your $300 subsidized phone? lolwut), but this reportedly happens in the front pocket as well.

There are some great videos of iPhone 6 pluses being bent with little force (comparably to note3 phones).

Also I can't even fathom folding an iPad into the debate. I don't know anyone who puts theirs in their pocket. Maybe if I actually stepped on it (which happens as my daughter likes to leave the iPad laying about wherever she finished using it last, sometimes in her blanket forts).
Small patches are the "hello world" of open source. They give you a chance to get familiar with and work through the contribution pipeline before you push something sizeable through.

There's little useful about "hello world" as a program, but it ensures you've got your toolchain working correctly, which is a necessary precondition for doing real work. Trivial patches are like that.
Try out America's Test Kitchen (http://www.americastestkitchen.com/). I find there way of explaining things very easy to understand.
Hello Mark. Could you give a link to the "specification of Shen", that is, is there a battery of test that for a fork of Shen certifies that the fork is a conforming with the specification fork?, is the "official standard documentation web page of Shen the text of the specification alluded in the license?

Thanks for you work in Shen.
If you just want to update that package then:

apt-get update

apt-get install --only-upgrade bash

fwiw, Linode's mirrors are up with the latest version yet Digital Ocean's are not. I lose faith in DO everytime I remote into my VM. They just seen like an amateurish shop.
Welp, that page definitely worked. I really want one. The zone backlighting for better contrast sounds great. I don't know if there's enough 4k content available that I care about it at the moment.
The video is a good demonstration on why you should use actual actors in startup promo videos.
how is that a bait? I'm pretty damn serious about that. Anyone who knows me knows that I have been a very fervent anti-patent person for years now. It's caused problems in places that I have worked.

I think it's correct to say that I am not going to crowdfund the entire drug development. Accordingly, that is not the plan. My vision is that the first stage (well second, really) is crowdfunded to show that there is broad interest in the idea in society, to raise some amount of funding outside of institutional granters, and achieve a productive result showing that indysci (and I) are not totally incompetent buffoons.

The completion of preclinicals (which typically ranges in the single-to-double-digit millions) would probably best come from institutional nonprofit granters, and running clinicals should come from the for-profit (probably generic) pharma that is seeking to capitalize on it. But I'm open-minded to other ideas.
Or get a line of credit. Or overdraft protection. Or in the worst case just take out a cash advance on your credit card for a few days.
3.25% off the top just to pay your rent is insane.
Silence On The Wire is an excellent book: both a good read and also technically informative. I’d highly recommend it.
This is why I never upgrade my phone or OS as soon as possible. I don't think I'm missing anything by waiting.
A perspective where one is more familiar with IEEE754 than your in-house custom fixed-point implementation of choice?

There are plenty of applications where it makes sense to do something different because you need to accommodate special hardware (e.g. FPGAs), because you want a different representation density/range, or because external policy effectively dictates the most natural format (e.g. finance). But in the absence of a pressing concrete reason to ditch 754 floats, they are BY FAR the best option for high performance, reproducible, portable, debuggable math with abundant documentation and pre-existing pools of expertise. They're far from trivial but so is the fixed-point code you would replace them with.

If someone couldn't be bothered to learn the relevant intricacies of IEEE754, why do you expect them to do a better job re-implementing the stuff on top of integer math (or picking apart the in-house attempt to do so)? Shifting from problems of the "intern forgot to reset the rounding mode" variety to the "Newton's method code erroneously terminates one cycle too early if the last bit is a 1" variety hardly seems productive.