skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that CL could do it -- if there's any dynamic language that can support efficient C-style attribute lookup for structs, it's Lisp.

(Although I honestly doubt that idiomatic Lisp does this. Idiomatic Lisp might be even slower than idiomatic Python, because I've seen people use alists as structs rather than dictionaries.)

Either way, your example doesn't really address what I'm talking about. Python has a struct module too, and it has namedtuple, etc. My claim is that Python doesn't have C-style structs, where attribute names are resolved to indexes AT COMPILE TIME, because it breaks the model of the bytecode compiler and dynamic module system.

Lisp is flexible about compile time vs. runtime, so I won't be surprised if it can do that. But again there's no evidence in your example that it does that.
Fixed URL in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15153348
Ask HN: How do you get your site to look good if the images are bad?
Or in other words, if the client or company you've designed that brilliant looking website for decides to use terrible images?

Cause I've seen it happen a lot before. Someone designs a really nice site, it looks great when stock images are used, and then the thing completely falls apart when the actual content goes in.

For larger companies they can obviously use an in house design team for everything (I assume Apple/Microsoft/Google have a full team of photographers making sure the images they use look good), but should designers for smaller companies do?

How do you make your design look good even if the company owner/client/team decide to use potato quality images for the home page or what not?

Or if you're a news site and the only images you can get look utterly awful? Cause that's another one I'm stuck on. I often cover leaked content or things found by people on social media, and that's almost inevitably going to be terrible quality here.

So what do you do? How do you keep your site design looking good even if the company or client posts terrible looking images?
Ugh. I can't decide which party is dumber.
I have way too much stuff that I really don't care much about. For a good while it was a feeling in the back of my mind, but packing and hauling all this stuff in a recent move has made this a very clear thought.

Currently 'at war' ensuring the next move will require far less effort and stress.
On Troll Hugging, Hole Digging, and Improving Open Source Communities
Every time I see Reddit again it's always for something depressing like this. What will be the next service to explode and die a slow, pitiful death?
The reason people are shocked isn't that VCs are willing to take a risk on an idea that appears ridiculous at first blanche, it's that Juicero had 4 rounds of investment before they launched, which amounted to $118.5M. That includes a $70M Series B in 2016-03 which was quickly followed by a $28M Series C one month later. [1]

Few would be surprised by a few million being spent looking for a market fit on a wacky idea, it's the scale and obvious demand to get involved at such a late stage.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/juicero#/entity
I think it is really dangerous to hand over an amount of money that lets people completely check out of contributing to society. Alone maybe that is a sketchy amount to live off of but with roommates in an inexpensive area without a car it seems very doable.

If you look at the amount of entertainment you can get from a used cheap desktop computer and internet connection along with the low cost of at home production of marijuana/alcohol I think it would be disastrous socially and economically.

Maybe that is overly pessimistic but I'm far more in favor of minimum wage elimination with government wage substitution up to some higher livable minimum and in the case that someone can't find a job the government acts as an employer of last resort creating some sort of busywork that has some social benefit.
cool, i'm going to whip up a resume for this and apply. thanks for posting!
As someone who is doing a similarly-shady project without any investment, this whole idea that you can take money via blockchain and get away with it is stupid.

You're going to get caught. Then what?

The only way to do projects like this is to do it free, without receiving any substantial amount of money. I'm probably going to do an ICO, but it's solely to cover my own dev costs. The token won't have any utility. I won't have "investors" in the sense that people are expecting a >10x return. They're only "investing" in the vision and the people, not monetary returns.

You can't just take untraceable money for making a prostitution app and then expect the world to be ok with what you're doing. Heck, people will hate me for my project if it goes anywhere and the only thing that will save me (hopefully) is that I didn't try to turn a profit while doing it.

Raising money and trying to build out a huge team while skirting the law so flagrantly is a pipe dream and it makes me question your motives.
There is a PNAS paper which asks this question. http://m.pnas.org/content/108/8/3157.abstract?sid=cf741177-d...
The issue of reducing wasteful spending across the government, at all levels, is near and dear to many of us.
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Locating SNMP MIB Files for EMC
Hi Hive Mind,

Is there any place where I could get access to the repository of SNMP MIB Files for EMC. My startup (adeptdc.ai) is working on building a vendor-agnostic thermal visualization tool for data centers.

Thanks,
Rajat
But you don't have to hold $company stock to do that. You can sell on vest for 0 capital gains, then buy diversified index funds and hold those long term.
The long arm of US law is not so easily dissuaded.

Violating the laws of other countries is illegal in the US. Even if you've never set foot on US soil or transacted with any US persons or companies, you might still be liable for your actions elsewhere, especially if you're an international company. Maybe money transits through the US, or data, and boom.

IANAL but it's not so simple as just drawing a bright line around the US and staying out - though that is a significant first step. They can reach out and touch you for things like... money laundering! Which of course sounds a lot like what the_stc is doing, laundering the profits of illegal (in the US) transactions. It doesn't even need to be illegal where you are, or where the clients are.
36x what Trump has donated
No it wouldn't. It would ruin the buying power of the dollar which is effectively the same as giving every working person a pay cut. Those who own companies and assets would be who benefits.
Was minding my own business building malware, playing with crypto, researching ATM skimmers and anonymoizing networks when out of the blue I received an email from a local company offering a high paying job with benefits. It helps fast track you to get on their radar if you act super shady most of the time. Also start wearing a hoodie basically always (even when sleeping) and frequenting all night cyber cafes most nights of the week. Make sure to stare fixated at scrolling terminals continuously while you are there, at least 3 hours minimum per visit.
Tech companies declare war on hate speech and conservatives are worried
We already have a core team, and 2 other trustworthy, known, not-first-time, people to bring on. The rest will be hired in a fully trustless fashion.

Unlike other ICOs[1], we're offering shares with dividends. Plus, we have an actual, real, business model that can generate significant profits.

1: I hate the term ICO for what we're doing, but calling it an IPO generated confusion. We're quick to distinguish the difference, though.
I wouldn't skip the CEH, at least not the material, but I wouldn't use it as a badge of honor on a resume either. It's a decent study guide as it exploses you to the nomenclature fairly well but it's far too easy to pass the certification without actually being proficient in anything.
So many jobs washing coal coal is so dirty. Dirty as, well, coal. Can you imagine how many jobs? I can't, so many.
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It can be true and you can still be outraged, because that justification is probably just an excuse to can projects that the current government doesn't like.
Pertaining Adorno, Marx, etc...: does it not contain abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?

The worker chooses argmax_[specialization]: E[Utility(Life | specialization, society)]

The executive decides argmax_[production decision]: E[Utility(Enterprise | production decision, society)]

The "sphere's turn" means that capital's arms race creates precise solutions that don't necessarily remain backwards compatibility with the previously-solved problems humans would still have to face.

If in an idealized model the capitalist bias is towards a hierarchical graph/network of production (the rich don't work for the poor at a loss), then the expendability of the constantly-repopulating labor pool increases, due to technological updates in productivity but also mainly disparate rates of growth of wealth between the worker and the owner. Even if one laborer family has a bigger nest-egg for their child than their neighbor.

The expendability of the labor pool drives the fortune of private enterprise's owners and the ordinary person's decreasing autonomy reflects the inflation of the cost of social autonomy itself. What is consumed is then the responsibility of the people who own the deed to the organizations where the development of the consumable occurs.

All the decisions that end up in a bias towards increased consumption are decisions that weighed by numbers, dollars, item counts and quantitative optimization. (Though I suppose, quite tongue-in-cheek, it could be argued that it is not axiomatically sound to assume a person need to participate in capitalist society, given that there is a long history of our species before the past 300 , or, (gratuitously,) 10000, years.)
I booked a room on booking.com a few weeks ago. There was an accident and I booked a smoking room---technically my fault. But since booking.com is just yet another internet middleman, their response is "you should have looked closer" and the hotel, which didn't have any non-smoking rooms that night, let me know there's no refunds for same-day online booking and told me to get bent (after hours on the phone trying to talk to people). I did not stay in the room, but they already had my money and I'll never see it again...

I really dislike how companies like booking.com (and others) plus physical merchants enable "gotcha capitalism" like this, where each party points at the other and they both keep my money.

booking.com: 'talk to the hotel for a refund'

hotel: 'talk to booking.com for a refund'
They can bark out all the demands they want, there are laws to protect the innocent. We are heading down a scary road when a cop can run over The law , do whatever he wants without consequence and throw anyone in jail who gets in his way.. if they genuinely did not have the proper paperwork or formalities in order, then this cop should face disciplinary action. Every instance we overlook like this is seen as an agreement, validating bad behavior.
The case for Oracle to cede control of Java SE
Behavioral economics.
> If bread cost that much, we'd start eating more rice, pasta, and potatoes. We'd change our meal plan.

Or people would realize the ingredients for bread cost < $1, bakeries would pop up, and the price of bread would drop back to normal.

Similarly if software developers are all charging $1,000,000 / year, it gets cheaper to find smart people who aren't software developers (yes, there are plenty of smart people in other professions) and train them.
Even if goods become more expensive, if you currently have $0/month, and transition to $1K/month, that is an improvement.
The vast majority of our contractors are going to be hired in a trustless manner and do not pose a risk to Pink itself. The only people that do are well-known, trusted, people that have been though previous projects.

As far as getting the money out, first, a lot of the business is cash and the providers just keep it, just like today. The profits mostly go to investors, so we're talking anyone who buys an ERC20-tokenshare. Use Tor, tumble coins and then run through ZCash and Monero if you're really concerned.

Look at all the indictments for similar projects. So far there's been no real tracing of money, just huge opsec errors.
It's kinda cool to be living in a tulip era like this. I wish there was some way I could make a long term bet against the the price of bitcoin, say it's price 10 years from now.

Of course, this is impossible. If there is anything we have learned, and I can demonstrate that I predicted 5 years ago, it's that the definition of bitcoin is infinitely divisible. I could claim a bitcoin fork in 2027 is the true bitcoin, and price it at $1M a coin.
There is a massive difference between the CEH and OSCP. If he's ready to take CEH, I'd say do it and use that experience to begin studying for OSCP.

OSCP is no fucking joke. It's hard.
I'm still waiting for us to actually cut wasteful spending in areas like defense. Too bad that will never happen. The Gov can just keep cutting science spending.
"Once perfected, the berserk Super Ball ... The ball became so popular that football's biggest game, the Super Bowl, was a pun on it".

Color me skeptical.
The article explains it, but it's not 100% clear why the extra step was needed.. "Google co-founder Larry Page announced Alphabet two years ago to foster new businesses that operate independently from Google. Technically, however, those units, called the “Other Bets,” were still subsidiaries of Google." With this new change, XXVI Holdings will hold the equity for all child companies, rather than Google still being the owner.
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I had an oppressive computer teacher in high school and I liked to pull pranks. It started out with simple password guessing, then phishing, then trojaned USB autoruns, SAM hash dumping, and password cracking, then some wifi sniffing... I never thought of what I was doing as hacking at the time (2001-2002). I just wanted to use the computer lab to play video games, and show up my jerk of a teacher.

In my senior year of high school, I was handed a brochure for a scholarship program offered by an engineering school that paid your entire tuition if you studied cybersecurity. I didn't know much then, but I knew loans were a bad thing, so I went with it and attended that university. The final hook was a Capture the Flag (CTF) game hosted by the school. I had not pursued obtaining the scholarship until that point but playing in the CTF got me exposed to the other students and convinced me to go through it. You can read more about the NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) program here: https://www.sfs.opm.gov/StudFAQ.aspx

I like to characterize myself as one of the first class of graduates with specialized degrees in cybersecurity (at least in the US). Anyone older than me is usually entirely self taught, anyone younger generally had exposure in an academic setting. I was about half and half. For reference, I am 32. I think the NSA Center of Academic Excellence program had a lot to do with that shift. Many US universities were first getting certified with new coursework to meet that standard through the mid to late 2000s, right as I was attending college. https://www.iad.gov/nietp/reports/current_cae_designated_ins...

FWIW I wrote a short career guide to help others trying to make sense of the field and how to get started. https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/intro/careers.html

In fact, this year's Flare-On challenge just started today! It's an online game composed of 10-20 reverse engineering and forensics challenges that takes place over the next few weeks. There will be solution writeups after the challenge is over so you can learn how to solve whatever got you stuck. Give it a shot! Flare-On always gets great reviews for being fun to play, and online games (CTFs, wargames, etc) are a great way to get yourself started and add something to your resume. https://2017.flare-on.com/

I am now the CEO and co-founder of Trail of Bits, a high-end software security research firm. I will probably never quit the field. You can read more about what we do here: https://www.trailofbits.com AMAA?
Turn off IMAP? Sure. Deleting seems extreme.
To be clear to everyone, this guy is trolling. Poorly.

In fact being involved in creating malware in any way will often destroy any chances you have of getting into any serious technical security role.
> > But you'd rather prove it once so the run-time checks are unnecessary.

> No. I'd rather prove it to rule out the program being wrong. The runtime check is totally besides the point.

That's the same thing. It's just a matter of it being automated.

> > Think of proof support as being an extension to optimization of assertions.

> I never use runtime-checked assertions, so I never need to optimize them away.

If you've ever used a language that uses bounds checked array access, you have. IIRC, you've used Rust some, so you've used bounds checked array access, except where Rust was able to prove that out of bounds access was impossible and elide the code that checks.

> > Users need never see those proofs.

> But, you see, I want to see the proofs. How am I supposed to maintain a program I don't understand?

There's a difference between need and ability. Just because it's stated you don't need to see something doesn't mean you can't. If you want to see a proof, you dig in and find it, or find where it's accepted canon that we don't need to reproduce (do we need proofs for integer addition? That seems of limited use to me, but maybe a formally proved as much as possible all the way to that level language has some interesting benefits).
Because IDEs are bloated and buggy
> They basically told me it wasn't worth their time unless we were booking a cruise.

How is this even possible? Did you take away their time? Were there people waiting who would book a cruise?

My experience above is from Germany.
The following sentence sounds like they plan to achieve a less transparent situation
"The switch is partly related to Google’s transformation from a listed public company into a business owned by a holding company"
therefore they buy back their stocks.
> I wouldn't want to have my oven on when I am not home- it might just be me but it seems dangerous to leave a hot oven unattended.

Well, then you are in the market for an IoT oven that is connected to your phone and car. A device that can continuously track your phone and car location, and turn off the networked oven if you are outside the house.
That only happens when the demand for goods increases. The price of core necessities would likely be unaffected, as people already prioritize these items and purchase enough to meet their needs. The cost of entertainment, prepared food and other discretionary spending would likely increase though.
The Hard Consequence of Google's Soft Power
I couldn't believe it when on other forums, people were criticising her for 'screaming' and 'resisting' arrest.

Aside from the fact that there was no obvious reason to arrest her in the first place, she is a NURSE, a carer, on shift, probably working in an understaffed hospital and she had actual patients that needed her care that day. She probably had planned rounds to do and had medication to dispense, drips to change, patients to turn, and a million other things that are critical to keeping human beings cared for, healthy and alive in that environment.

She certainly couldn't do any of that languishing in some filthy jail cell for no reason. To an altruistic person, the fact that they are denied performing their calling can be gut wrenching.
Part of the patch does

- return TokAssign;
+ return TokSemi;

but that commits the same original sin. The better fix is

+ return token.type;

OTOH, if _all_ the other code were using the same poor pattern I could understand not wanting to fix it properly, at least in an initial patch.
> writing about something ostensibly associated with economics.

Which literally applies to the topic of "stuff".

According to Wikipedia:

> Economics is "a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services".[1]

I'd say (loosely) "goods" == "stuff".

So according to your expectation defined, you should've expected to see "cost" and "trade offs" mentioned.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics