skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anybody ever used this for denial of service? Make a large request so the TCP window scales up then just stop sending ACKs. All that data has to remain in the server's memory for retransmit. Even with a really short timeout before connections are dropped you could probably tie up a lot of server memory.
The way one interacts with the Xerox PARC and Lisp Machines environments is much richer experience than a plain REPL.

It was a graphical REPL that could embedd live objects, which were still active to further interactive changes.

Also the ability to have the whole OS exposed via the REPLs is hardly available in modern systems.

Not alk REPLs are made alike.
For me it's not as much about fining them as it is holding the correct people responsible (not just throwing some junior engineer under the bus as usually happens) and making sure it cannot happen again or gets noticed much more quickly
I'm talking about renting, not purchasing.
Microsoft's biggest problem is undue intrusion on liberties that customers have come to expect on x86 computers.

Under Ballmer and Gates this didn't happen, so consequently I liked their time much more than that of Satya. All the goodwill and other benefits that comes from open sourcing various components doesn't outweigh the privacy intrusions and lost trust that came with Windows 10, at least for me. Ballmer was loud and had his antics, Gates had his ruthless market drive that some despise, but I trusted closed source under them much more because of the claim not to abuse their customers was was hedged by the reputation the company, now that this trust is lost I can't trust Microsoft and that's Satya's legacy.
CodeRunner now supports debugging
In my own tests, I found FLIF generally beats PNG (PNG Crush/Optipng both in brute-force mode) for comics (greyscale, majority white) as well, but by a less significant margin.

It's also worth noting that there aren't many other lossless formats, so it's still a valid comparison. I'm sure neither TIFF nor RAW outperform FLIF either.
When you say "alter code and re-compile on the fly," do you mean and continue debugging without stopping the app and re-running? Because if so, that's a terrible way to debug. You now have state that may not be possible to achieve with the new binary you've made, and you may be debugging something that won't every exist in reality. And it may be very hard to tell that's the case. That doesn't sound very useful. It sounds very dangerous.
The article addresses that directly. The author talks about Google more or less abandoning its Atlanta office, where a diverse workforce is easier to get than elsewhere.
f you want to figure out this mystery on your own, the number is (212) 804-6003.

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SPOILER INFO HERE:
http://decider.com/2016/05/18/mr-robot-season-two-trailer-se...
To really understand if companies are biased or not, you also need to know the percent of applicants to these companies who are black. If only 2% of applicants to Google are black, I would expect only 2% of new hires at Google to be black.

The assumption that a white applicant and a black applicant should be roughly equal is a strong prior. I would need to see convincing data to counteract this assumption.
What happened was that ultimately people make money from business models, not technology. So, eventually, the cultural attention shifts from the the doers to the sellers.

And every once in a while, we have a little shift in the technological landscape, and for a second or two, a few hackers start making money and getting cultural attention. And this attention society also brings attention from sellers, who come over and make themselves at home.
The Dimensions of Egon's Twinkie
> Does your high income tax pay for all of that above standard local technology?

GSM is an example.

My beef with cheques is not that they are barely used, but that they're the only solution sometimes, like some B2B payments, or high ticket purchases.

And I pay 1c per minute + .15c for a call to the US. And 5€ per month gets me 5Gb
Don't Just Sell to Your Customers, Use Social Media to Engage with Them as Well
> fundamentally command-line-based

I'm a bit skeptical. Like the rest of LLVM, it's probably "fundamentally" an API, but with a bundled command-line interface.
You can actually use R and Python in the same notebook. See https://blog.dominodatalab.com/lesser-known-ways-of-using-no...

The %Rpush and %Rpull magics are what you need.

Also, if you are using Spark, then Apache Toree[1] lets you use Python, R, Scala and SQL in the same notebook against Spark[2].

[1] https://toree.incubator.apache.org/documentation/user/how-it...

[2] https://github.com/ibm-et/spark-kernel/wiki/Language-Support...
Rental cars are generally not treated well by renting customers. That's why the big boys sell them at steep discounts (fleet vehicles) after a couple years on the job. Didnt you expect that your vehicle would take on some wear and tear if you rented it out? Seems similar to the compromise made by an Airbnb host: "I know my AirBnB guests might spill something in my apartment, or break a glass, but the benefits of the extra cash justify it."
Back when I coded C a lot, I'd use DDD. It had an ugly, but functional UI, that supported editing and recompilation. DDD itself supposedly works with a variety of debugger back ends (eg pydb), but I only used it with gdb and C.

20 years later apparently it's still maintained, even if it has plataeued.

Personally, I'd like to see a more modern frontend made, perhaps for Atom.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
Markram's Dethroning from the Human Brain Project
In my experience the countries with lower tax rates have higher gross salaries and higher net immigration so this argument that low-tax regimes are shitholes seems to break down.
(Spoiler alert)

Agreed. I'm ok with both versions but a switch was definitely flipped in my head when elliot hacked a prison from the outside, via bluetooth in a police car, in order to release a prisoner from the outside. All with 24 hour notice.

That was so ridiculous. Oh and after he breaks out the prisoner he stands outside the prison in plain view of guard towers etc. for like an hour just to have a lengthy monologue. There is 0 chance you don't get caught in that situation. Oh and theres a dead fucking body next to him at the time.
"Being able to diagram and communicate your ideas is one of the biggest things we are looking for. "

To me this seems like a basic requirement like reading and writing - is it really such a hard skill it's worth it to filter for it? I would think it's fairly easy to learn this skill by attending meetings and watching others if somehow one is unfamiliar with this technique? Or is my expectation level of what people generally can do way off mark?
> Ah, blaming the victim, always easy.

Typing out words on a forum and hitting "reply" is easy regardless whether you support the victim or not. Don't see your point?
I've got 8 years of emails, logins and now Android apps associated with a Google Apps domain (1 user, $6AUD a month).

I've got an exit plan for my email, but I'd lose at least $200 of apps.

It's really easy to become dependent on a service.
The attendance of the events have no function to keep people out so merit is not required, although there probably is some correlation with merit.

The Meetup events that I attend (in NYC which is very multicultural) has people of all skin colors, not just white people. Lots of Indians, lots of Asians, just all sorts of colors, so it is not like one black among whites.

At any rate, if blacks want to advance technically and get jobs, going to Meetups and connecting with others is a good way to do it. All these "diversity" initiatives are the wrong way to do it.
I forked the repo, followed the setup instructions and now what?

There's a "writers guide" that claims it will help me write my first post, but it is just an overview of the AsciiDoc format, and tells you nothing about how to save new posts to your blog.
My description is "Fight Club meets Pump Up the Volume, set in the world of Watch_Dogs."
I think its a bit more than that. The hacking is realistic, because its more than just Mad-Libbed in.

When writing shows like Star Trek, writers often put things like Insert Technobabble Here into the first draft of the script, and it gets filled in with Reverse Tachyon Inductors later. This works for SciFi, since any explanation can be RetConned. But its glaringly obvious when done with real tech. The tech terms and snippets are more than just buzzwords dropped into a middle of the sentence. They are clearly defined plot devices with real world meaning.
An analogy would be to notice that a COBOL mainframe app wasn't RESTful, and building a VM and dependency injection framework for COBOL that would make up for this lack (rather than sandboxing the app in an environment that could have RESTful interfaces it's boundaries).
what is he fleeing from in France? => nothing. France is a great place.

However, I have lived both in the UK and in France. If I had a choice, and if I was looking for asylum, I would choose the UK every time. In another video from him he says his two friends made it to the UK before him. The best country to get into Europe (as an asylum seeker) is the UK. It is also a reason why there is such a big fuss about immigration. The benefits are great, it is a very safe country, wealthy, lots of opportunity... etc etc. I might be very biast but the UK is quite a bit ahead of the other European countries in my opinion (with a few exceptions). If the UK was on mainland Europe it would have waayyy more immigration problems.

Edit:
I am happy he made it. I am pro immigration.
Losing the email would be a disaster since the decentralized web is now relying on a centralized email system.
> it sickens me how these "refugees" are choosing what country to stay in

Why is it sickening? Surely it makes sense for any person to choose the best option of those open to them?
Yea, Im on the other end of the spectrum: So IDP integrates with SN, OHS, ADP, RDC, Xym. The support is managed by the SSD, DC2 (and many, many more....). I think the Project and Product managers make these up to prove they are doing something productive. So many acronyms, and no documentation except the main project docs. So you need to read a mountain of documentation to even know what people are talking about. Even better when you have IDP, ADP, EDP etc and people from several different countries trying to pronounce all of these correctly.
> It saddens me how they are giving us, potential future immigrants with degrees and a desire to be functional parts of society, more bad rep.

Does having a degree make you a better person or a more functional part of society? Does not having a degree bring bad rep?

And.

Why do you think these people don't have degrees and can't be functional members of society? Do you think they're stupid because their country was at war? or are they stupid because they have no means to just catch a plane and get a visa?

Your comment is extremely unfortunate.
I don't think the problem is software necessarily, it's scale. Software allows for scale but it's not the underlying cause. Google is responsible for the content of maybe hundreds of millions of people; if even a small fraction of them have issues that's overwhelming. At that scale it's impossible for you to be anything other than nothing to them.
People management and what you need to know
An esoteric home page [Maoyin Sun]
> European Court Of Human rights is merciless with States giving in to their instincts on refugees

Is it? Do you have examples?
For better or worse, sometimes to change the system you need to avoid vengeance. This is why many terrible dictators are allowed to live in peace in exile.
>> not allowing a huge multi-national business to abuse its power.

And yet you use iCloud and Amazon?
The effects of systemic racism should be considered as well.
Goes well with this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside-...
What can you do?
1. If you are on a jury, remember that it is FAR FAR FAR worse to imprison an innocent person than to let a guilty person free, regardless of the crime. Listen to evidence and make a personal decision about the defendant's guilt with that in mind and don't let any other jurors push you around.
2. Donate to your local chapter of the Innocence Project.
3. Encourage your local DA office to form or expand a version of the Conviction Review Unit mentioned in the article.
Could you elaborate on the non-commercial aspects of this proposed solution? I think it's especially important to make it clear where the money will come from.
Absolutely, this is rather the point of the article: that diversity efforts focused on eliminating bias during selection are pointless unless you also ensure a diverse candidate pool to begin with.
Ah, so it does. I didn't realise.
I guess I don't understand downvotes in general. "Your opinion is SO offensive to me, that I must attempt to expunge it from existence" - or at least move it way down and grayed out. Alternative thinking considered harmful.

Douchebags gonna douche, I guess...
I'm interested in Common Logic (a form of First Order Logic that allows for some almost Second Order Logic activities)
(info at http://cl.tamu.edu/ )

Does anyone know how much of this "Book of Proof" would require re-write to handle Common Logic ?
There's an awesome free replay debugger GDB extension available for Linux that most people don't seem to know about: http://rr-project.org
A year ago I would've agreed with you, but lldb seems just as solid these days. I use lldb just about every day in all sorts of oddball, convoluted debugging scenarios, and I just haven't been hitting the issues I used to with it.

It's not perfect- there are still rare situations in which it's not using the right symbols, but at least that I can usually fix that with a 'target symbols add'. Otherwise it's because the thing I'm trying to debug is sandboxed or otherwise protected, which is almost always going to be a hassle, and requires workarounds outside of the debugger. Raw lldb is a lot better than it used to be though.
> Are Europeans not upset that they're being forced into sub-standard foreign technology

Personally I am really happy that we have someone watching over our privacy, and that the use of our personal data is regulated.
I like that, but I think it would maybe be more "true romance" than "pump up the volume." Both fit though.
"Association" doesn't appear in the Constitution at all.

"Speech" appears twice, but is only capitalized when referring to legislators' speeches:

"and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place"

"or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"
My int is too big
It's a unix system. I know this.
In the beginning of my career I used a paper notebook. This is still handy as I think I remember what I hand write more deeply. I still use a paper notebook for ideas and sketching.

TODO list / GTD:
For the last few years, I've been using altNV, but any notational velocity clone will do. Killer feature is simplicity through full text search as the filename.
Do be fair, he said "impure language" and not "impure code".

"Looks like we need to let the scholars know - there are 18,300 uses of the non-word "performant" in scholarly papers" <- If that's not sarcasm, something is wrong. Performant is a word!
Content Farms Are Dead
That's a better intro, but the "point" of this article was about doing it without using parenthesis.
Mr Robot propelled Kali Linux into the top of the Linux OS rankings. After watching the Season 2 premiere yesterday even I decided I'm going to check Kali Linux out - either on Virtual Machine or my Raspberry Pi 3.

Also I was pleasantly surprised to see Joey Badass in the show (his first acting gig I think). Hopefully they will allow the character he plays to shine. Great show!
How Titles Evolved: It Wasn't for Giving Away the Actual Information in the Article
Yet, if you do know Lisp, you realize that not too many languages feature a true REPL with the R not just reading in Text that gets evaluated, but actually being a Reader.

So, we actually did lose some things with the new and shiny REPLs - Macros.

No debating your statement that there are other good programming environments with other shiny features^^
> People in the US still use cheques. And they have to pay (a lot) to print those.

US citizen, and I haven't used a single cheque in over a decade.

The actual costs of printing cheque are negligible, and every bank and CU I've used gives them to customers for free.
Dear CIA: Whither the Re-Org?
I feel like all large companies run into this wall eventually. The 'head' loves to talk about welcoming competition and capitalism and all that, but the 'body' acts as-if it hates a level playing field. They tie unrelated products, predatory pricing, bundle their browser into random installers to trick people into installing it, pay other companies for preferential treatment, lock you into their platform, act like a bully, and do everything except letting individual products succeed or fail on their own merits in a free market.
I've done something similar with PHP, by casting an array to a string (The string "Array") and using "variable variables". If only there was a way to call functions in PHP without using letters in the code... https://gist.github.com/nubs/5849633#file-nodigitsorquotesei...
Funnily enough, this is more widespread than one would think. I didn't know about the Turkish example.

In Spanish, all the surnames ending in -ez also mean "son of". Even many Spanish speaking people don't know (or don't care? :)) about it, as they've been used as "normal" (sorry) surnames for long now.

Lopez: Son of Lope
Rodriguez: Son of Rodrigo
Perez: Son of Pedro
Martínez: Son of Martín
etc
Personal preference but does anyone else not like material design concepts?
I think a lot of times during such interviews, they're more interested in seeing how you approach problems rather than the actual solutions that you provide (at least that's what good companies will tell you).

I haven't worked at Google but I have worked in both startups and big corporations and I find that big corporations are usually slower-paced and engineers have more 'generous timeframes' to complete features (and to do them properly).

The downside of the big company/corporation approach though is that managers tend to use the extra time to create bureaucracy around the project (in an attempt to manage risk) and this slows things down further - So while big companies tend to 'get it right the first time'; they do so at a significantly slower pace than what you would see in a startup.
Yes, it's an indicator of competency in mathematics, which in turn makes a good computer scientist. What else would be a better indicator of math competency than math tests?
I'm curious why they make a call to fonts.googleapis.com for Arial, sans-serif though....I was also pleasantly surprised to see uBlock didn't block anything from their site.

For those curious: PureOS is a Debian fork. PureBrowser is an Iceweasel fork which itself is a Firefox fork. [0] Assuming this is the official repo, there are some concerns of mine that security updates are out of date.

[0] https://github.com/purism/PureBrowser

>PureBrowser takes Debian's Iceweasel and includes a number of the changes made for GNU's IceCat, along with some extensions that we like - privacybadger, ublock, https-everywhere, html5-video-everywhere, and decentraleyes.

>DuckDuckGo's search page is the default, as well as the homepage.
What could gmail possibly give me that a server with postfix, dovecot and roundcube can not?
How Things Get Done
just take a walk through downtown seattle to see this first hand. all sorts of corporate drones and middle managers with their official "im a hacker" wear with logos for the multinational corporation they work at.
There are a TON of names for projects and companies that are not related at all to what they do. Is Apple a fruit company?
EDIT: Ah, made the connection at the end w/ Zuckerberg. Still don't think this is well written though.

If someone told me a high school student (or even a precocious middle schooler) wrote this, I wouldn't be surprised.
Information is in fact “the negative of thermodynamic entropy.”
Does not the ol' Don't-Be-Evil corporation owe it to society to maintain features that support the common good?

I know from my experience in hwops that plenty of people on the corp domain DO believe that they are working towards a better world--and that making more money will only accelerate progress towards that goal.

The question is: are they wrong? Has Google lost its way?

Let's look not just at this IMAP issue but also at the OP as we ponder that.
CTRL-F – Search, for the real world
There is nothing racist about selecting new members for likelihood of being productive. So like I said before, selecting for education, job experience, willingness to be part of our society and culture, willingness to learn our language.

Btw: do you believe that sexual selection is racist? Because it works exactly the same way.

Maybe it would be better if Socialists and Liberals take that choice away from us and make sure we are not racist by allocating sexual partners to each one of us?

Or how about companies? Don't they hire along the same lines? Education, job experience, proficiency in local language. Are companies racist if they don't hire a guy from Afghanistan who can't read and whose only job before was herding sheep?
People said Pollack and Warhol were cheap and stupid, but I think we can say that without a doubt they were artists.

I'm not saying "literally everything is art always." Yes, a hobo who is mentally unstable mooning people isn't art. Someone a hobo mooning people as a statement about nudity and people's obsession with being proper, sure, yeah, that's art.

> I prefer to use words like 'art' for things that are unambiguously artistic

Unambiguous to whom? That lends it's self to all sorts of biases based on culture, nationality, class, age, etc.

> How about this: Its my 'performance art' to offend folks on HN by disputing what art is.

Yes. If you think it's some sort of art to do so, then yes, what you are doing now is art.

> Every troll is now an artist!

If every troll claimed their ability to enrage the internet is an art form, then yes. Since most of them don't, no.

> Instead of abandoning the word (like that Wikipedia author) to goofy madeup definitions

I'm pretty sure all definitions are "made up." Propose a better one for what art is, and I'll debate you on that.
If it's interesting, go for it. Looks like it is based out of EdX.

Good luck.
This seems great. When I created (and failed to keep up with) a Jekyll blog on GitHub last year, I had fun learning the in's and out's of the generator on my own, but I predict this will foster even more of an appreciation for GitHub Pages by giving users a way to spend more time customizing and tweaking than building a foundation from the ground up.
From Reddit: "I've read a few of Cooper's books and the short answer is yes, pedophilia is a common theme in his writing (as is incest and necrophilia)." [1]

I'm calling it now. It was child porn. Google doesn't like to go around deleting people's stuff. When this has happened in the past it's been child porn, which Google is obligated by governments everywhere to delete with extreme prejudice. And of course they're not going to go around publicly accusing the guy of having child porn, even if he did, so they will remain silent. Neither will they tell someone who had child porn which exact piece of child porn tripped their child porn detector, for obvious reasons. This is not a Google issue; this is a law enforcement issue.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4sx9aa/dennis_cooper...
> * Percent of CS college graduates that are black: 11.5%

The number I got for 2015 was 2.5% (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101868)

One of the key sources of this difference is whether you count "Information" degrees as CS. My number doesn't include information degrees and yours does.