skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The FBI is a Domestic Detective agency

The FBI changed their task to "national security" recently, and are now part of the "intelligence community" club.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/fbis-main-mission-now-not...
But you only need to update the JRE's that interface with the outside world, and unless there are bugs in the JVM's network code that would be only your Java browser plugin.
Since when has it been a crime in the UK to refuse to answer questions from the police?
It's a term that you mostly find in government circles, media reporting and advertising. Outside of these, it is a warning sign that a person comes from that background and has not much down-to-earth experience with security topics and/or is trying to sell you something. (At least that is my impression from reading various discussions about the word)
AppLovin: Processing 30B Requests A Day
Stupid question: have you tried marketing? Do you have a site? Copy? An email address? A pricing structure? A small profile on each team member?

(If you do, please post it here! Would love to see it, you guys sound cool).
Here's what Elon Musk said during his conversation with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy (that he invested) about online courses by talented teachers:

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Elon Musk: The analogy I sometimes use is, you've seen like Batman – like the Chris Nolan movie – like the original one. And it's pretty frickin awesome. Right? You've got incredible special effects, great script multiple takes, amazing actors, and great sound. It's very... is very engaging But if you would instead say okay that you have the same script so, at least the same script, and you said, ok now that script, instead of having movies, we're going to have that script performed by the local town troupe. Okay and so in every small town in America, if movies didn't exist, they'd have to, then, recreate the Dark Knight.

SAL: Right.

ELON: Like with home-sewn costumes, and, like jumping across the stage – not giving their lines quite right, and not really looking like the people in the movie. And no special effects – that would suck. It would be terrible.

SAL: That's right. Very, very –

ELON: That's education.

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And here's the author's characterization of online courses:

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Our disarticulation of knowledge accumulation and knowledge transmission also leaves us exposed to an even more frightening adversary. I refer to tech and its maniacal destabilizing energy. Financiers have recognized that there’s good money to be made in conveying knowledge; their thoughts, naturally, do not linger on the costly infrastructure that produces knowledge. Working in tandem with the digital wizards, they wager that they can do it better than we can and cash out in the process. Given that they’re up against a cohort that has very little interest, or dexterity, in sharing its immense store of wisdom, the money and tech people like their odds.

---

Also, lectures themselves are not that great to begin with, so that's something to consider too:

http://educationoutrage.blogspot.ca/2015/01/why-do-we-give-l...
I don't see "needing" it as much as it being a guide to help people who are interested in investigating a new library or framework to become familiar with some of the more popular conventions and techniques.

Also, don't see why it hurts to start large projects with a skeleton, and having that skeleton removed eventually once the ground work has been laid out. Any constraints, albeit redundant at times, can help with initial stages.
For example, keeping geostationary satellites in their correct orbit, to counteract the aerodynamic drag from the very tenuous atmosphere 200km above the Earth.

Hmm. Not sure geostationary satellites orbit at that distance, more like... 36,000km.
You can pay for a mortgage in place-that's-good-to-live-but-not-to-work on a third of the West Coast salary needed.
Out of curiosity which Java? OpenJDK or Oracle or IBM?
You could make the data available elsewhere in encrypted form and use the Bluetooth device to distribute the key and the URL where the data can be found.
One of the reasons is that we are using the delta (demand minus current salary) in ranking the profiles in our lists.
If employer really needs it, one can work remotely for a while.
Nice tagline. OAuth is blocked here. Will try from home.

> Why "TryCatch"?

> Because you are an _exception_
The entire point of a patent is to make it publicly available while funneling money to the patent holder (who is presumably the inventor).

That's the entire point. That's why the patent system exists. To say something is patented is the same as saying it's publicly available.
Could someone please confirm that original JRE installer downloaded from www.oracle.com contains this? (I dont have a mac). On Windows you often get modified installers, if you download from 3td party website.
Some more information...

"When you have a commercial relationship like this, not only are you dealing with your [own] corporate policies on communication, and revenue recognition and all that kind of stuff, but you also have a commercial partnership and agreement that you have to abide by and follow," said Smith during the call.

Smith also defended the practice by saying Oracle had inherited the deal when it acquired Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, in 2010. "This is not a new business, this is not something that Oracle started," Smith said. "This is a business that Sun initiated a long time ago."

Sun had bundled third-party software with Java since at least 2005, when it offered a Google toolbar. In the following years, Sun made similar arrangements with Microsoft and Yahoo, before switching to Ask.com.

With Java, it's true our installer waits 10 minutes before running the install process, but this to ensure the JRE [Java Runtime Environment] updates properly without additional strain on a user's computer," an Ask.com spokeswoman said in an email reply to questions Monday. "This is not intended to trick users."

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2494794/malware-vulnera...
facebook is probably able to get data through other means. Their like button javascript on half of the internet for example.
The 11 winners of the Launch Festival 2015 (and why they won)
New versions of IntelliJ IDE EAPs come with a JRE runtime if you choose that option. Jetbrains developers had major problems with subpixel font rendering on post-Apple JREs so they forked OpenJDK I think to fix it.
Here's an even more minimal seed project i've been working on (with sass): https://github.com/badsyntax/react-seed
I've worked for several MSPs and yeah, I mostly mean Windows. But we worked on just about everything. Especially Cisco/Dell CLI equipment (routers, switches, etc).
Why would you want to get paid less? In my experience developers in Indy get about 80k. SysAdmins for IS and SQLServer get about 120k. They also don't have to work that long since the servers themselves are fairly robust.
Anyone in Athens, Thursday night: Τα «μαθημαγικά» των ζογκλέρ
Delayed email.
Not if you ever want to read the data back and aggregate it.
meanwhile Obama gives pretty speeches about fighting extremism and tries to drum up more support for killing people an ocean away. American Democracy is a farce.
The point about taxes is important. When a company like Google makes a lot of money, a lot of taxation occurs. This allows the government to essentially capture an ROI on that research.

Given current "financial technology," government is indeed the only entity that can make R&D investments that are both high-risk and broad-payoff -- broad-payoff meaning that they pay off unpredictably and often across the entire economy. ROI is captured through economy-wide growth via taxation. Only governments can do this because there is currently no private financial instrument that can securitize that kind of investment or capture its upside.

Is/was the public research that led to PageRank patented? If that were the case, it's the only thing I would disagree with. Public research should not be patented, or if it is it should be made available to all domestic (US tax paying) companies and individuals royalty-free. It'd be appropriate to charge foreign licensees fees, as they are not paying into the US R&D fund, but the impracticality of that makes such a national patent licensing scheme kind of dubious.

Edit: yes -- so my comments above should be tempered by this: https://encrypted.google.com/patents/US6285999
The way they handled the MEGA thing it sure seemed like they were acting as mere hired guns.
FYI, Oracle installs Baidu (Nasdaq BIDU) bloat wares in Java Updater here in China.
As someone learning to code i can relate. Here's how i look at things - if you're successful and it takes off, which i hope it does. The challenges you'll face then will be more tougher than learning how to code a initial prototype. Go as much as you can into the prototype without someone else. test it with a small group of people , get some feedback. this way you'll have a fair idea of how things work. Also you will be able to evaluate someone you're going to partner with in the future. Hope this helps. Good luck :)
Do any of these "other means" involve installing shady software on people's computers?

They've had many opportunities to do stuff like that with their iOS and Android apps but have never dared.
I am also interested in knowing more specifics about your crawling process (if you can divulge).

Did you just crawl random sites and search for .mp3 content on them? Or did you have a set of pre-defined search sites to craw?
Finally! I've been waiting for this for so long! It seemed so unfair that only Windows users could get the Ask.com toolbar for free...
>It seems that for most people total calories are more important than the carbohydrate/fat-ratio.

It's also relatively easier to track. It's easy to say "Well, I can consume about 2000 calories per day, this donut has about 300 so I'll have roughly 1700 calories left", but it's quite difficult to know the breakdown of how much carbs/protein/fat should be consumed within those 2000 calories and more difficult again to plan and monitor for those values.
Yo Store
song/identify supported both ENMFP and Echoprint, and AFAIK the Echoprint matching path was exactly the same as is published on Github.

I know at some point we did adapt the Solr end (for example, we removed the N most occurring codes) for speed optimizations.

Many users of Echoprint in the wild have adapted the python matching logic for their use case as well as changed the hash update rate on the codegen. A great modification to watch was Sunlight Labs' "Ad Hawk", which ID'd commercials: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/adhawk
Checkout crunchbase.com - whenever somebody gets an investment there and you like what they do that may be an opportunity to help them with their growth.

Just talking to people on your networks raises the chances of spotting a place / an idea how to find a one.
Generally, a Zobrist hashing system is used (which is a specific type of transpositon table) for Go. It's also probably used for chess, but I don't follow chess AIs as closely.
Aha! that makes more sense. I read that as if the user would get money for using ask.com toolbar.

But yeah, thanks to both of you.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if ask.com is willing to bundle their toolbar with any product. Maybe they select only high-volume products?
It's been a while, but if I remember correctly Play v1.x's 'magic' depended on Play v1 messing with Java bytecode. Well this in turn makes it harder to debug. This is no longer an issue with Play v2, but the magic (and the fun) are gone.
My point is they wouldnt need to install shady software on your machine. They're able to track you with their like button.
Well, when I say on the go, I mainly mean "take it to my parents' house and plug in at Christmas and Thanksgiving", or maybe to a hotel.

My retro-gamer friend also recently restored my 26-year-old NES, and it was a big hit over the holidays. I used to play a lot of emulators on my Nintendo DS, but that was mostly before iPhones and iPads became my distraction of choice on my daily commute. Open Pandora look pretty nice though. I'll keep an eye on it for sure.
One is set as the 'parent' SIM and incoming calls will only ring on that phone. If you're using the master and another call comes in, it can be configured to either go straight to voicemail, or ring on the second phone. Quite convenient.

This is available all over Asia - as usual, the Western countries seem to either be being held back by some regulation, or simply behind the times.
Seems like my Macbook Air 2014 is not affected (with a high probability)

here's the test: https://github.com/google/rowhammer-test
As some commenters pointed out, the installer is now an APP instead of a PKG. The original PKG is inside the APP at Contents/Resources/JavaAppletPlugin.pkg (right click on APP -> Show package contents).
Spin this around so a company can test the water with a salary range and desired qualifications and get a percent of candidate pool coverage... Basically what fraction of an anonymous but hopefully representative group of programmer would consider this salary (a) acceptable and (b) below or above current salary.

Bonus point, filter by geography.
Which is probably what the average user does, if I extrapolate the data from friends and family.

Installing adware with security updates is just so wrong on several points. It is difficult enough to get non-techies to install security updates and now you additionally have to teach them to watch out for crapware that someone sneaks in there.

I'm choosing C# over Java whenever I can, just because of the ask.com toolbar, seriously I find it that annoying.
Of the five vendors that they mentioned, the only one that did not have vulnerable memory was "DRAM vendor D", which also only had one entry on the table. Given the nature of the problem here, odds strike me as near-1 that "DRAM vendor D" has shipped RAM with this problem.

For that matter, the "no"s on that table really only prove that the exact stick they tested with the exact memory locations they tested did not exhibit detectable bit flips. It doesn't prove that those sticks are "safe", let alone that the product line they come from is safe.

So, basically, what's vulnerable? To a first approximation, everything. What would happen if we tried to recall every bit of DRAM produced in the past X years (where X is also unknown)? Well... you'd bankrupt the industry is what you'd do. That's not a very useful outcome.

In fact this sort of thing happens all the time. New safety tech is developed for cars all the time, but you can't go back and sue the auto companies for not including it before it was invented or the need for it was discovered [1]. This seems more like that problem than an actual problem of negligence or "defects" being produced.

[1]: Well... more or less. I know of cases where this was successfully done, though they tend to get overturned on appeal. Run with me here.
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I think everyone using the Java runtime should install and use the ask.com toolbar. Why not?
> The state funds research as an open-ended investment, and would normally not expect any fixed quantity of money or other assets in return. Since they weren't selling anything to Stanford or Page-and-Brin in the first place, they were investing, and are indeed due a share of the profits.

You should read the NSF mission and goals (http://www.nsf.gov/about/glance.jsp).

> Initiate and support, through grants and contracts, scientific and engineering research and programs to strengthen scientific and engineering research potential, and education programs at all levels, and appraise the impact of research upon industrial development and the general welfare.

The entire point of the NSF and other similar institutions is to spur innovation. They aren't investing in the way you state they are, rather they are funding. They give money away to those who they feel will continue to push the field forward.

> So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high risk, high pay off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.
T-Mobile will send you as many SIM cards as you want for the cost of shipping.

You can usually just tell your carrier you lost the SIM card if they don't formally offer duplicate SIMs.
R 3.1.2 is released
Last month I went to the UK PHP Conference where Jeremy Quinton spoke about DevOps. The biggest take-away I got was:

'Do not set out to create a DevOps team or employ people for that role'

My interpretation was the role simply doesn't exist. If your company has a team of developers and a team of people who keep the wheels turning - in an ideal world you already have a DevOps team as long as they collaborate. If you also employ smart people you will get 'developers that know how to do sysadmn' and 'sysadmins that know how to develop' - definitely this indeed should be embraced but not expected.
> public transport ticket, food

Don't care, don't care, don't care. Unless the IRS is taxing it, I don't care about it.
aren't we still unsure if the few so-called "quantum computers" in existence are even actually quantum computer?

That at least was the case not too long ago with some of the d-wave machines...
The CIA's New Directorate Makes Cyberespionage a Top Priority
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Peanuts May Be Good for Your Heart
Magic or Science? Revelation Tourbillon with Now-You-See-It-Now-You-Don’t Dial
Oh, Stefon, don’t ever change.
Piketty Corrects the Inequality Crowd
You have a valid concern. We are starting with salary to simplify things because cash is what matters the most.
That would depend on the ad blocking implementation. Some only hide the elements instead of preventing them from loading.
Meet Canary Watch, a Way to Disclose Gag Orders Without Disclosing Them
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The Leaf sold better than the Volt in 2014, but I wouldn't say they are selling gobs of them. Also, the Volt had a new model on the horizon last year, so lets see how sales go with the new model.
Guanxi (from the writeup) for anyone who is wondering is the Chinese concept of one's social status and influence within your personal and cultural network.
Ask HN: What technologies should I list on my resume?
I will be graduating this summer and am applying at some RoR jobs. I have interned at a shop that specialized in MS stack and I'm not sure how to list the technologies I know on my resume. Should I only list things relevant to RoR or everything I know? Or should I categorize things by how well I know them or the type of tech(language, version control, db, etc)?
What I'm asking is: what is the point of trying to argue that certain kinds of coerced sex are not rape?

I wonder why HN is so sensitive to this line of questioning that they want to censor it outright. Are people emotionally attached to using certain forms of coercion to get sex, while thinking that it's okay or "not rape" because they aren't holding a knife?
This certainly poisons the Java well a little bit more in general, and desktop Java in particular. Android and a sea of line-of-business webapps will keep the Java platform healthy for a very long time, but this kind of thing makes me shake my head in sadness.

More positively, this is a an excellent data point for both free software advocates ("look at the abuse closed source enables") and Apple ("do you really want to foist crapware on your users? just use our awesome native tools to write apps!")

I imagine that this move infuriates much of the Google Android team (because it weakens the developer story slightly) and makes them very glad that they have "Android plan B" with Go.
this game is so epic
Almost all exploitable vulnerabilities are related to the browser plugin. There's no danger of keeping outdated JRE inside some application.
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Good question. We do have a specific ordering, and that happens when the metrics are generated. Again, we don't really treat them as tags for a specific metric, but rather unique metrics. Having a different name means it's a different metric.
OnePlus One smartphone launches in 16 more countries available across whole EU
Mention saving fuel as a cost saving. But the real issue is, what is the maximum mission delta-v? Fuel needs grow geometrically with needed acceleration over the mission. The ion engine can quadruple the mission possibilities or duration.
The fine print: "Live streaming video requires Safari 5.1.10 or later on OS X v10.6.8 or later; Safari on iOS 6.0 or later."

Really?
The Six Shearling Coats to Consider
Surprised that the mitigations section did not mention ECC RAM. Wouldn't it be effective mitigation?
Apple Watch App List
Whatever floats your boat. You're into art and culture; NYC is a good scene for you. But if you're into something else...

How far is it from New York (City) to a good trout stream? Air that you can't see? A mountain peak above 10,000 feet? Powder skiing? (Yes, I know, those things aren't Midwest either, exactly.)
From a business perspective, the Neo Geo is a fascinating look at an attempt to segment the video-game market into "regular systems" and "upscale systems". The NG was in every way the BMW/Mercedes of the time. It was never going to replace the dominant systems, but it offered a high-end alternative for people so inclined.

It also hit at a very weird time in video-game history, the explosion of the fighting game. And SNK tried to completely monopolize and corner that market for years. In the beginning, the system offered much greater variety (and innovation) in gaming, but eventually it just got turned into a platform for yearly updates of one of the half-dozen fighting franchises SNK produced.

Once the main craze was over, some of that variety started to show up again, with a couple shooters and the famous Metal Slug series. By then, technology had moved beyond what the NG could do, and SNK didn't really succeed in making it in the fast-moving world of polygonal arcade games.
Related, also harsh reading:

"Why I am Not a Professor OR The Decline and Fall of the British University" Dr Mark Tarver, 2007

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm
Alternate live blog

Verge: http://live.theverge.com/apple-watch-macbook-liveblog-march-...

Gizmodo: http://live.gizmodo.com/our-apple-watch-liveblog-starts-righ...

Tech Crunch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/apple-watch-event-live-blog...

CNET: http://live.cnet.com/Event/Apples_March_9_event

Ars Technica: http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-9-spring-forward-ev...

Re/Code: http://recode.net/2015/03/08/liveblog-its-time-for-the-apple...

WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/09/apple-watch-spring-fo...

Cult of Mac: http://www.cultofmac.com/314636/apple-watch-event-liveblog/
It is too bad it does not seem like Europe will ever get its act together enough to be a balance against the US.
Would reducing the speed memory is clocked at prevent this?
In many places like the South (and Mid-West), most people tend to say variants of "Why?", "That's stupid", "That's crazy"

Here in Bay Area more people say, "Why not? That sounds fun."

Do you have any evidence to support this?
Caveat: some of these look a bit fly-by-night. But I thought it was an interesting resource. If I were going to use any of these I'd try to dig up some third party reviews.
I'm pretty sure it is illegal, but nobody in this thread is a lawyer providing legal advice so that's moot.

What is the point of arguing that blackmailing people into sex isn't rape?
Thanks. I wonder why would they block OAuth ?
I can't imagine that the Java installer asking to install the Ask.com toolbar on a Fortune 1000 CEO's home computer is terribly good marketing, though.
Will it happen on Mac? http://static.spiceworks.com/images/how_to_steps/0000/3886/t...