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I did one of those in my first couple months of my first development job. I put a mailto in a recursive function for debugging. I thought that the function wasn't working, and since it was 5:30, decided that was enough for the day, shut everything down and went home. On Monday I came back to over a thousand debugging emails in my inbox, and everyone in the office's email was down. Well done me.
If you read the article, these aren't even convicted criminals -- they're just suspects from some Chinese database. This is a truly horrible piece of "research".
A separate file server (QNap) that backups in CrashPlan, and to an external USB drive. Not ideal, but works.

I don't bring work back to home.
He did wonders for the GDP and unemployment, has stopped the wholesale sale of Russia to foreign interests (like under Yeltsin), he has brought relative stability and he is not a lackey or yes-man like the West wants. And he plays to the moral values and spirit of the majority.

That's enough for people there to like him. Of course you can't get everybody to like you, especially in a still poor country with tons of problems and such a legacy. The western media of course portray him as a kind of evil incarnate for doing 1/10th of the things the US itself has been doing in the last 30 years (wars, invasions, drones, mass surveillance, etc -- and not in their borders/immediate area, like Russia does, but all over the globe).

As for the "journalists thrown in jail" etc, most countries pointing the finger were not much better when they felt threatened by the "reds" (McCarthy anyone?). Only the idea they had back then that USSR will use some Hollywood actors and NY lefties to overthrow the US was laughable, but the idea that foreign powers today can use whatever opposition they find to overthrow a government in today's (much smaller potato) Russia is not that laughable. They've been doing the same shit, an sponsoring since the colonial years...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
Snow Crash combined with Selfish Gene and infection theory provides a neat mental model of what's happening. Basically you get a constant bacground of competing memes all the time. But since the competition is fierce, none of them becomes too powerful. The elections made a lot of people more susceptible to infections and ideas become to spread. The social media provides the number of contacts necessary as well as increasing the transmission likelyhood as it forms echo chambers. It all makes sense.
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I was worried you where going to say it took the plane offline
Thanks for making this site. For your 404 page, something along the lines of "these are not the droids you're looking for" would be great, given the site url.
More than likely because your comment, while a reasonable reaction, isn't really a comment that facilitates discussion, which is not preferred and seen as white noise. Most people are fine with profanity in reasonable amounts but it should have more content. Reactions alone tend to not give a lot of room for discussion on the topic so much as the reaction itself, inquiring and understanding the commenter's position instead of the article.
That's kind of like saying the random() function made a billion dollars for Notch, though. What made the money was the whole game, not just one algorithm used.
Hi Paul, found your site after watching a trailer to new "National Geographic" series "Continent 7: Antarctica" at (http://tvnfo.com/p/1216727). Wanted to see some pictures from `Antarctica`. Thank you for a useful website.
Money and work are interchangeable [1] and mining doesn't necessarily add value to the community since a miner could mine empty blocks. Mining is using real money to buy electricity to generate Internet money.

[1] I'm ignoring hippiecoins based on the labor theory of value.
Came here to say this. Take advantage of the time by making sure you get to work in one piece.
That's gross profit--revenue minus cost of goods sold, not including salaries and rent. Other overhead plus taxes brings that down to about $15 billion. Which is not a lot of profit for a company with almost 2.3 million employees. It's equivalent to a 20-employee mom-and-pop that pulls out $120,000 a year for its owner. A McDonalds franchise is much more profitable.
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I'm sorry, you generalizations about the US are a grotesque misrepresentation of reality.

Just like anywhere in the world, there's a wide spectrum of hopes and wishes and dreams here and an equally wide spectrum of how to achieve them.

You are painting the US as a drone-like nonsensical mono-culture. This is very, very far from reality.
Please don't post this sort of swipe. It's fine if you're uninterested in (Franz) Kafka; plenty of the rest of us are, and the submission is perfectly on topic.

It's in HN's DNA (not to mention the opening paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that it covers a wide range of topics, far beyond just computing, tech, and startups and definitely including arts and letters, among other things. Historical material is welcome too.

Acting like the rarer species should be wiped out is a lame way to treat this site.
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It's hard to tell what you're asking for. There is no getting around the amount of computation required, and there are already plenty of systems to distribute workload the old fashioned way.

In addition, while many projects rely on clusters of GPUs, a great deal of cutting edge research can be done on one or two decent commercial grade GPUs. A single new NVIDIA 1070 (and even better, the coming 1080 Ti) is cheap ($400) and is comparable to many good supercomputers in 2000, for example.

An AWS with a K80 is only about 30 cents an hour at spot prices... after a week of training you could have yourself a state of the art result that wasn't even possible a mere few years ago. Not too shabby!

Things have never been cheaper.
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From a fellow immigrant, please don't believe everything NYT/CNN tell you (i.e. daily fearmongering).
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Judging by most of the comments in this thread, it seems to me like the JavaScript ecosystem is already a punchline. IMHO, the problems/punchline extends past JS to the entire Web development ecosystem, and has for quite some time now.
Listen to software conference talks! It's true that some of the more technical ones will not translate as they require too much concentration. Ideally, you can find some that are more conceptual or do not rely directly upon watching the slides.

I posted a few of my favorites from last year here: https://www.kevinlondon.com/2015/09/10/10-software-talks-to-...

I, too, generally dislike software podcasts in the car. For me, they usually are paced more conversationally, so I find that I get disinterested.
Oh man, wait until you find out about the Javascript ecosystem.
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Where I live, State owned universities subsidize in-state students tuition so it ends up being $12,000 without room & board. If it's not State owned, it's usually in the 30,000's not including room & board.
> is that there is no scientific proof for global warming.

> There are no such proven predictions made by modern politically funded climate science.

> All they have are computer models which are constantly being disputed for being fudged to produce any result you want,

> and cannot even begin to predict past climate phenomena

> So to attack people you see as misinformed as 'not discussing the science' doesn't make a lot of sense.

It is very clear that you are not discussing the science, you're only discussing your political view because all of your "scientist" claims are just wrong
Maybe the book I read was not that good (Deitel&Deitel) but the section on macros was pretty tiny and I don't think I'd have understood that macro on my own. Anyways, I think C is great, just that most books don't seem to cover the important stuff to work on serious C projects.
OP didn't say it was a DDOS, just that MS treated it as such. Given the ISP-level block, that makes sense.
I read your comment to the same extent that you read the results of the search I provided.
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I think you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. Nobody is going to build a city on top of anything in Antarctica. The other calamities you mention aren't going to happen either, at least not in any location chosen for this purpose.

Meanwhile, people are dying right now from fossil fuel emissions. It just doesn't look all edgy and apocalyptic on CNN the way a nuclear accident does, so you don't care.
This is the scary part about dependency-heavy projects. Sure, you trust the developers of Rails, but what about that gem 5 levels down your dependency tree? Maybe you've seen the name as you glance through your lockfile, but you don't know what it does, when it was last updated, who (if anyone) maintains it, how competent they are, or what processes they have in place to keep bugs out.
What was your build cost? I'm a bit skeptical that 2 x xeons + 72gb ram + 2 x ssds + LSI 9211 HBA + 4 x 2tb drives = more than 4 drive synology. Isn't 72gb ram / 2 x xeons overkill?
Funnily enough, I learned JavaScript about at the same time I learned C (~13 years ago) and at that time, JavaScript was dead simple to learn in comparison. I couldn't imagine myself trying to learn JavaScript today though, I'd probably be banging my head on walls.
Sounds like something from the Twilight Zone.
> Imagine you are told there is a 99% chance you have a fatal disease that will kill you on your 50th birthday, and that the only cure has a 100% chance of leaving you completely paralyzed, but must be done before you turn 25.

You surely must be joking, nobody can be so delusional and wrong
It is obvious that "can't" doesn't mean "not legally allowed to" but "that's my prerequisite for thinking about it".

Really, how could anyone get something else from his interview?
AMD is too important for China to let it fail.
There was that story a year or two ago about someone who took control of a plane through the in flight entertainment systems. I don't know if it was scare mongering or not but you'd expect that the entertainment system and flight control computers were on separate networks.... wouldn't you?
Your surrealistic analogies are not an argument
The issue that the article seems to take with this phenomenon isn't that there's any harm being done (although some of the stuff with lego seems questionable), but rather that someone somewhere is having 'bad thoughts' about the minors involved.

This is getting into a very thoughtcrime-y area.
It's a person misreading syntax :-/
Wishful thinking. Unfortunately, cost savings like this at a state level rarely translate into reduced taxes or greater services, nowadays they get allocated into payouts for the states underfunded pensions.
>They're not interfering with the right to bargain collectively though. For all we know, they're genuinely warning their employees that they may be involved in a PII collection scam.

I never thought the benefit of the doubt could go so far.
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Apparently this app is just for answering frequently asked questions about HR and leave policies, with the help of IBM's watson.

Which article were you reading? They were not trying to organize workers overtly, and just to give advice on lead policies requires absolutely no personal information that needs to be stored.

What part of that can't you tell the difference of, that their demanding of personal information is overreach?
We've banned this account. HN is not a place for political and ideological battle, and several of this account's comments went way beyond even that. Not cool.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000525 and marked it off-topic.
Intel seems to be taking a long time getting things to market in terms of SKUs that the general developer can buy. This is critical for gaining mindshare for the programming model. Both Knights Landing and the new chips from Altera have failed to materialise into general availability in a SKU priced at <500$. Part of what has made Nvidia so successful here is that the CUDA ecosystem scales up and down their entire product line.
Interestingly, the Jolla phone - arguably the descendant of Nokia's smartphone programs - uses Python as one of the native app languages. So it finally made it, albeit outside of Nokia's ecosystem.
A lot of those big airlines are a mixed bag. If you get one of their newer planes they are world class, but we were on an aging 747, it creaked and groaned, had the aforementioned in flight entertainment system, and the toilets stunk up all the rows near them. But some of their planes are beautiful and the service is top notch. This was a few years ago but even in economy they gave everyone a little pack with toothbrush, ear plugs, travel socks, and those masks you put on to sleep when it's light.

I've had a similar experience on Lufthansa where one flight was an amazing plane with a bar downstairs, and all the mod cons, and then I had a flight from Frankfurt to LA which was 12 hours without any back of seat in flight entertainment (it just had a few screens hanging from the ceiling). This was only three years ago.

That's why I try and fly Air NZ wherever I can, it's not the best airline in the world but it's consistently good across the whole fleet.
In the first 3-4 years of Twitter, the internet was full of blog post about "writing a twitter killer". Please give it a rest.

The only way to replace twitter is with a big push in protocols, and with open source software based on those protocols: easy one click install apps on the cloud or self-hosted.

Imagine if tweets were RFC'd like emails were, or NTP and then clients were built around it. It could work like IRC where you still have servers which only purpose is to link the nodes. You'd have internet splits like in the good old days (unless you cache everything everywhere, but then there are privacy concerns on delete tweets) but such a system would be open, and you'd retain your data and your feed's.
Fun fact: since Perlin noise basically provides a smoothly varying scalar gradient over a space, it's trivial to extend it to higher dimensions (including variance through time), and to use it to generate things like vector fields when you need smooth but random motion or other effects.

Also fun to toy with different interpolation and noise generation algorithms.

It's a wonderfully simple idea and great fun to play around with!
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I think the problem is that there is no downward marker pressure on college costs (for some puzzling reason there).

It seems like American students are willing to pay higher and higher tuitions. This is the root of the problem.

If we had 0% interest loans, we might have students paying even more for college than now.

Why can't these kids just think about the debt they're getting into?
>> since as I understand it the tuition hikes track funding cuts at the government level for higher ed. that is the real killer.

No, that isn't the real killer. That's the educrat line you've been trained to regurgitate. The truth is that higher-ed is getting about the same percent GDP it's been getting since the 70's [1]. The "real killer" is the annual 3.5% above inflation tuition increases [2] that are inflicted to fund an ever growing amount of staff and their gold plated benefits.

>> do the taxpayers see the money as reduced sales and property tax?

Are you kidding? Where is the place where taxpayers are liv'n la Vida Loca in their property tax free la-la land? We're paying out the ass. Some RINO manages to cut a half a percent or maybe just not increase taxes as fast and they shout it from the roof tops; HUGE TAX CUT. OMGWTFBBQ I SAVED YOU 1.003% VOTE FOR MEEE!

Please kid; stop drinking the educrat kool-aid. The only redeeming feature of this crazy ass education bubble is that it isn't growing as fast as the crazy ass health care bubble.

[1] http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending
[2] https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...
One big problem with Timthumb was that several themes came pre-bundled with it and to make matters worse, they often changed the name of the file, so that it wasn't enough to just scan for the filename but also for variants and file contents.

At the time it was the exploit that kept on giving, since you would suddenly find another timthumb related file on the server that was being targeted, followed by another, ...
In the end, a lot of the hosts simply blocked requests to timthumb related files, in order to try and stop it on the server level and not the individual account level.

As you mentioned, these days the sites that I'm being contacted about that have been defaced or were hosting abusive content, are usually related to severely outdated plugins. I haven't seen a timthumb issue in quite some time, but had to restore a site that was affected by the original(!) Revolution slider exploit recently, due to having a several years old version of it installed.
As I attempt to understand the block chain as a tool I'm struggling to see an application useful other than bitcoin. Anyone have a example?
>Committing to a web app (for a user), and monetizing it (for the software author), is much harder -- especially on mobile.

Partially agree. Monetizing it is surely a big concern. But creating a web app is far easier than native. Big concern for me is the updates in OS which forces us doing changes and unnecessary wastage of time. Docs are also not proper. But unless you use frameworks like angular, web hardly needs those changes. Now a days I am able to do proper native kind of animations with help of CSS3.
yeah, https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...
The tricky part for this approach is knowing the order things can get done. Days can be dynamic.

I'm wondering if a schedule without times but only durations would be an upgrade from the ToDo list, showing how much can be accomplished in a day, or how long it will take to complete a list.

Did I just describe a personal Gantt chart?
I second this, but would also add that I've started motorcycling instead of driving. Even a commute on a motorbike is a thing of wonder, using parts of my brain and fight-or-flight responses I've left dormant for years.

But to the primary point, I also thoroughly agree that downtime is important, and there's a danger of trying to optimise every waking hour too much. Learning the art of structured procrastination (neither too much nor too little) should be part of every pragmatic programmer's toolkit.
Well you are comparing S40 with iOS, so that should not be surprising. But if you did a comparison with Symbian or Windows PocketPC the difference is basically skin deep. The most interesting to come out in a decade seems to be Project Tango.
There are two levels, IaaS and PaaS.

For IaaS, I agree that you're responsible for some sysadmining, but you start from a known good point in that bare VM OS images (for CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, etc) will probably have all the appropriate patches applied and up to date. Of course you're on your own when it comes to spinning up your programs to make sure SQL injection doesn't work, etc etc.

PaaS is another thing. In that case, if you're using AppEngine or ElasticBeanstalk or Heroku, you don't have to worry about the base infrastructure or the datastore at all. They should have all the relevant security patches applied at all times, which really cuts down the attack area to just your app, not the web server, datastore, or OS vulnerabilities.
You were working on that? I was using that for a prototype app and REALLY liked the productivity after a few years of S60 "C++" programming. So: Thanks!

But I think it was kinda hard to get installation instructions clear enough for our partners to install the Python app. Not that I really remember anymore what the installation steps were...
Kids can't think rationally about debt because their parents and teachers have overinflated the importance of everyone going to college and have actively discouraged critical thinking on these issues.
Education (or teaching people how to think) will always be important.

Curriculums which attempt to teach and certify specific things will always be of varying degrees of usefulness, but in order for them to become optional their importance to your career will need to be greatly reduced.

That means that entire industries need to learn how to hire people based on what they know and what they can do rather than what someone says they can do.
Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory? My guess is it's because human memories are ideas and like all our ideas they depend on other ideas for their meaning.

However when we were young our ideas about the world were very different from what they are now: much simpler and with many falsehoods. So our earliest memories don't make sense to us and can't be recalled.

What we call our 'first memory' may just be the earliest thing we can recall and make sense of now.
That and getting mindshare in the academic compute space. Where Supermicro is cleaning out all of Nvidia's higher end SKUs to build these academic compute clusters, Intel needs to insert itself and try to take the market. Currently they pair a mid-range Xeon with a couple GPUs, Intel needs to change that model if they want to win the market that has kept Nvidia in business.
Nvidia's stock price has tripled from $30 to $93 in the last 12 months, while Intel's share price stayed at $34, exactly the same price a year ago. Although Intel is still a lot bigger, they want a piece of that pie too. That said, the chance for them to win a significant market share is slim. They have failed a few times in entering standalone GPU market. Will this time be different?
You've likely viewed how people spin and cherry pick, particularly in this election cycle. It's very unfortunate, but unfortunately unsurprising at this point.
Hey, thanks for Wordfence man! That was right near the top of the list of "must instal plugins" when I used to do WordPress...
The German system would never mix with American optimism. Germany has a fewer percentage of its students going to university. Kids are aggressively tracked from an early age into seperate tracks, most of which don't lead to college. And German universities aren't luxurious four year vacations like American universities are.
That's not true. I don't like to leave such statements unanswered—the community has a right to know that we don't do these things.

It would be helpful to see the specific links that you're basing this view on, so we could clear them up.
On the other hand, the two domains left unregistered point to stupidity over evil.
Under the new plan (retroactively available to old borrowers), it's only 20 years not 30.

And Even if they don't fix the tax penalty, there's an insolvency exception. You're only taxed on the amount forgiven above insolvency.

If you manage to go 20 years without paying it's likely you have far more liabilities than assets so you probably won't pay any tax penalty.
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The name of that page goes back close to ten years, when HN was created. That was a time when lots of people had more faith in social forum upvoting than they/we do now.