skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was involved with a company that received several attacks on AWS. We were premium support customers, and were able to work with our AWS TAM to get a mitigation device in place and turned on. It was a bit shaky at that time, as this was not a common service offering. Things may be better now.
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no, the question become, how to we land it without crew intervention or prevent such an occurrence where a crew or passengers can put a plane in harms way?

Can their be parameters using a known flight plan that prevent the computers from permitting actions that are contrary to the safe operation of the plane without notification of someone, if not possible prevention there of? (giving some leeway to have on board circumvention - two station bypass no adjacent/password/etc)
I think your substitution makes sense.

At first I was thinking Developer/Engineer difference, but that wasn't correct.
I don't think anyone thinks the plane blew up. At some point it likely just ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean.

The simplest possible solution with the facts that we have now is that one of the pilots (one of the pilots wife and children moved out of the family home the day before liftoff) wanted to commit suicide (taking many victims with him), but for some reason wanted to leave a mystery. Perhaps relating to insurance in some way -- hoping the black box would never be found that revealed any of the actions. Their tactic might have been to continue flying into no-return range in such a way that they didn't have to fully admit to what they were doing until it was too late.

It is terribly crass to make someone a villain when they might have been simply a victim, but of all the possible explanations that is all that seems to fit right now. That someone wanted to leave a mystery, and intentionally crashed in a place and way where it was incredibly unlikely that they would ever be found, and it turns out that only a communications handshake and some technical excellence led to it possibly being found.
This backend has been merged in to the Erlang/OTP master branch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/9d46875b53ffb21bc55aec4...

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I decided to polish up and open source my crypto-crowdfunding (is that a thing?) app. I'll release the BitCoin version soon, but for right now... DOGECOIN... To the moon!!!
I think the best chance for emulating the SPUs would be with an Intel processor equipped with Iris Pro and the shared L4 cache. The latency and memory sharing issues involved with using a dedicated GPU would impose a huge bottleneck and the AMD APUs are just so weak in IPC terms.
If someone on the flight is conscious and able to operate the controls of the plane then the chances are high it can be landed safely. It is possible for a ground crew to talk someone through landing a plane, a lot of the work is automated and as long as there isn't a cross wind the landing itself is fairly easy.
Most of Europe has been playing this game for centuries.

Almost everything people consider typically European, from food, culture to social-economic policies, has mostly been imported and adopted from countries and cultures outside of Europe.

It's this openness to change, this constant iteration instead of desperately holding on to the "one true way" (something typical not only for cultures that rise and fall, but also something that seems to be hindering the US when it comes to implementing necessary change) is the essence of the enduring wealth of Western-Europe.

There is no one European way, just constant evolution until a new successful road is found.

The riots in the streets and social unrest, which are nothing new or unusual in Europe, are a part of that process, not a sign of deterioration.

(And unemployment figures are hard to compare when what is considered employment in the US is considered exploitation of people below the poverty line in Europe...)

The economic policies of "a decade or two" are nothing. A blip. European countries can completely tilt social-economic policy within a generation because none of it is tied to their fundamental identities. You visit some European countries now you would find it hard to believe they were strictly communist less than a generation ago.

Whatever traditions European nations have, they go much deeper than the favorite social-economic policy du jour. It's something Americans seem to find very difficult to separate.

The US has tied it's identity to fundamental social-economic values and ideologies. For European nations, social-economic policy is a changeable as the weather.
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I'm going to agree with him and say ultra thin font weights are ugly (subjective) and hard to read (objective).

They're good for a heading, but as the body font? Crazy talk.
Mid-air aircraft explosions also have a very significant IR signature, which will show up on missile warning satellite observations. TWA-800 did, for example.
sorry for that: http://quint.ly/1iUtOrs
This feels like one of those cases of second guessing the development team or having pushed them to get the first iteration of something out there and then expect the same super human effort every time.

It doesn't scale.

Teams can certainly ramp up for short bursts, but more often than not there are PMs and other managers that think that should be the norm rather than the exception.
This productivity rule might save your day
Perhaps related, but I've been seeing more and more French entrepreneurs setup shop here in Montréal in the last few years. There are similar problems in regards to the bureaucracy and red tape (and language laws, which can be a huge pain), but many I work with mention A) the state of the economy being better here B) the social climate and cultural similarities to France C) the proximity to the US and Silicon Valley, for funding.
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Except GitHub's audience is very different from Basecamp's. The first rule of any communication is - know your audience. Well played by DHH.
Partial updates of a single JSON document are not supported yet.
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I made a simple html based visualisation of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Check at http://viralpoetry.org/en/gets.html or http://viralpoetry.org/en/strcpy.html
Probably not 100% what you're looking for, but I just use http://www.pdfscannerapp.com/ for a subset of that usecase.

There are a lot of smartphone apps that probably do this too, but I'd rather do it all on the laptop.

(As a scanner I use some cheap multi-function printer/scanner that OS X automatically detects and scans from over wifi)

I just sort all of the things in folders. I haven't seen a need for more advanced tagging yet.
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Which are just specific types of criminals. I don't see the problem.
Not only that but also connect the highest with greatest connectivity to the lowest with greatest connectivity to avoid "orphan" nodes.
I laughed when I read the line implying that flappy bird and 2048 were high quality games.
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Yeah I have a laptop with intel/nvidia. I foolishly assumed it would work... several days of research and cursing later after installing ubuntu and I finally came to the realisation that the support just wasn't there. This was pretty recently too.
Thank you everyone.

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Again, everyone, thanks.

Edit: Currently all my 1270v3 machines are out of stock, and so are my 1230v3 SSDs. I'm waiting to get more in stock, but I still have quite a few 1230v3 HDD left.
I think perhaps you replied to the wrong post? The GGP post I replied to was explicitly contrasting the US with Europe (not once but twice clarifying that wasn't referring to France alone), and it specifically mentioned working conditions.

Also, while Greece is the strongest example, you could probably substitute any of the PIIGS group and my counter-argument would still hold to a degree: when insufficiently moderated, the socialist-leaning economic policies that are popular in parts of Europe have not been very successful recently. There are many possible balances that might work, but neither extremely socialist nor extremely capitalist economic policies tend to fare well over the long term.
Well in this particular case Google and the rest have already been prosecuted and fined for the criminal misconduct. The criminal case was settled in 2010, this particular story is really about the on-going civil litigation where Google is named as a defendant in a class action suit. Some of the defendants have already settled.
ok, I guess that makes two people now. So what's a better color in the context of fullstack360.com? Maroon? Navy Blue?
Get the meatbags out of the cockpit and leave flying to the experts :)
you should probably have made sure your name is on all the dozens of 20-page security contracts you signed when creating, incorporating, running, and selling the company.
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The USPS already opens a lot of my mail. Sometimes they even decide to keep it if it's something nice. Not very trustworthy in my opinion.
I don't understand. Did you not have company equity in your name? As far as I understand, it would be impossible to acquire the company, its patents, and associated technology without proper paperwork?
Let me give you an example of why this is a weak argument, and bear in mind that I say this as someone that has lived and worked in France for the last ten years.

I'm going on 40. I'm not married, and I won't be having kids. From your list of benefits:

* although I also didn't have a student loan, it wasn't thanks to French taxes.

* I don't / won't have kids so their subsidised schooling does nothing for me individually

* health insurance. I'm still young enough that I don't have any major health problems, although of course, insurance is also protecting me from accidents and what not, so I am getting some benefit from this. Concretely though, I haven't as yet got much more than a few courses of antibiotics paid by the government in 10 years.

* safe enough? Pretty much the only reason you don't have gated communities in France is because all of the places that rich people live in have been there for hundreds of years. If they could figure out a way of doing it, the 16th arrondisment of Paris would totally gate itself off.

* unemployment - yeah, I'll give you this one. I'm almost tempted to try and get myself fired, just so that I can spend three years funded by the taxpayer to start my own business. (not really, but that idea certainly removes any fear I have of getting fired).

* retirement - no reasonable person believes that people of my age or younger will get much of a retirement pension. If you're not taking steps to guarantee your own retirement at this point, your going to get a bad surprise at the end of your career.

* I'm not having kids, so parental leave gets me nothing

* massive tax breaks for nannies etc? well, in the sense that you can more or less claim their salary off your salary for tax purposes, I suppose that's true, provided you're actually making enough money to be able to take someone on in the first place (I personally have a housecleaner, but my flat is so small that she only works for 3 hours a week - at her hourly rate, that works out to a tax saving for me of around 1000E a year. Not exactly massive).

As always with government subsidies, they are just not as flexible as giving people the money and letting them decide for themselves how they are going to spend it. My salary is suppressed to pay for a whole lot of benefits that I personally will never see. There is a case to be made to limiting government subsidies to oly those activities that the government can do cheaper than anyone else (maintaining roads, fire department, police department).

So why am I still in France if the deal is so raw? Well, personal reasons, and I'm also enough of a lefty that I do see value in providing good education, public transport and health services to everybody, so I don't resent those taxes. But I'm willing to bet that a lot of people would decide otherwise if they had the choice.
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Hipache on CoreOS
They'll have to find some debris first. So far none of the satellite sightings have resulted in recovery of anything conclusively connected to the aircraft. If they do find debris they can then check the ocean current data for the time since the crash to extrapolate a rough area where the flight data recorder might be. Even then, it could take a very, very long time. Air France 447's FDR wasn't found for two years, and they knew where it had crashed within less than a day.
You don't need analogies.

A buffer is a place in a computer's memory for storing things, text, numbers, data, whatever.

A buffer overflow is when you try to put more into a buffer than there is room for.

When this happens, some of what you tried to put into the buffer spills over into memory outside the buffer.

This other memory could have important things in it which can get destroyed or changed when a buffer overflow spills into it, causing programmes to behave in strange ways.
a. There's this work is robotics[1]: You specify at a very high level the required robot behavior.The system analyzes it and if it find contradictions or things that are not fully specified it points you to them. After solving the issues it verifies the program behaves according to your spec.

b. see "Making programming more conversational " [2]

c. see "Integrating Programming by Example and Natural Language Programming" [3]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_uVE86dJYI

[2http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/Conversational-...

[3]http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI13/paper/view/647...
Former President Carter Uses Snail Mail to Dodge NSA
Very agresive tone. I almost downvoted you because I thought it was a comment to the article, until I realize it was a reply to a deleted comment. Do you have a copy of the original comment?
As referenced elsewhere, she did have a technical co-founder.

Even if that wasn't the case, could easily have gone the oDesk route. (Personally I think the idea of doing this and keeping all equity is a bit of a pipe dream, but I hear enough folks pimping courses that advocate this, so surely it works, right?)
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I wonder if we'll see "emulators" for the PS4 and XBox One soon (maybe even sooner than usable PS3 emulators) given that they both use x86-64 CPU architecture.

It seems we wouldn't even need emulation, "just" an API emulation layer like Wine. And I think the ps3 used openGL, so it might not be too difficult to map that to native calls. And unlike emulators we'd get near-native speeds.

Actually that sounds a bit too simple to be true, what am I missing?
Zero tolerance policies are not about "treating" everyone the same to the letter of the law/rule in question.

It's about "punishing" everyone the same to the letter of the law/rule in question. Often without due process and common sense.

Things would be better between the public and the police if they did treat everyone the same, but that's not zero tolerance policy.
It only took a couple of days to find where the Air France 447 crashed despite its location. Moreover, I doubt either accident would have been prevented or people would have been rescued if the precise location of the crash was known sooner.

There is some value in knowing early where an accident occurred, but that is rarely a problem. How much is it worth to fix it for the few cases that happen in the middle of nowhere?
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Upvoted for a fair point. Regulation must work effectively for it to deserve support going forward, and I am 100% with you when it comes to opposition to excessive or prevents-fair-competition type regulation in this kind of space. I'd probably prefer improved regulation than zero regulation though: regulate what matters, but otherwise step aside.

Taxi and hotel regulation IMO comes with a safety aspect which should, for example, protect lone or vulnerable travellers from harm (to a limited extent, of course, but some is better than none). Personally, I will accept a bit of restriction to my options in return for widely vetted service provision.
It's striking how all those GUI discussions and moaning about Microsft seems totally irrelevant now. I remember those days well and I can't recall anybody envisioning the way we interact with information via mobile devices now. Interestingly, I hear a lot less complaining about the state of computing now although there's plenty of complaining about what mobility has done to human interaction in general.
Java 7 one-liner to read file into string
No. It's not possible to prevent a malevolent pilot from destroying the aircraft.

On the other hand, pilots need to be able to be in total control of the aircraft, including the ability to shut off any system on board. (See Swissair 111). In an emergency, you don't have time to mess about with two station bypass/etc.
But users != revenue.

The killer problem with mobile web games is monetisation. The app stores absolutely destroy any web based approach for this, hands down, and until that changes even things like the Chrome store will remain ghost towns.

This is really why there was a giant exodus of game developers from Facebook to mobile platforms in the first place.
That has more to do with IBM / that dept within IBM than the individuals.
Pretty fun game. Clever way to scout internships as well. Hah!
Red Sneaker Effect Signals Authority And Accomplishment
We believe what happened is that he tore up my contract without telling me, established a new, clean corporate entity after pushing me out (though my contract was supposedly still valid, it was with the old entity), and simply transferred all intellectual property to the new entity. He kept the name the same but changed it from LLC to a corporation. The acquiring company claims never to have heard my name, other than seeing it on the company's primary patent. It's a big legal mess.
False Equivalence and the Feud Between the CIA and the Senate
Are there international stats? There aren't very many mail services I would trust, but I would trust the swiss one. Just a gut feeling, though.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs. Especially seeing the points for my comment cycle up and down as rapidly as they are. 12,4,7,4,7,1 so far :(

After reading Sam's last two blog posts I just decided to reconsider and apply to YC after all; but the atmosphere here is so toxic that I can't help but feel that I'd spend more energy on dealing with YC misogyny than actually participating.
I take it at one point people will start to believe that I work for OVH (I really don't) but... OVH has a mandatory DDoS protection on all its dedicated servers: fees have been slightly raised to take that mandatory protection into account.

There are a few gotchas, including if I understand it correctly the need to "retry twice" when you try to SSH in your server when a DDoS is going on but...

OVH doesn't even feel a 85 Gbps attack (let alone a 20 Gbps one like in the article). They can deal with attack much larger than that automatically.

They seem to have very good DDoS protection against the "flood" type of DDoS. And this is pretty much transparent to users.

I hope more and more hosting company start implementing similar anti-DDoS features: more competition would bring better protection against flood-type DDoS and cheaper price.

Here's the explanation as to how their system works (in french but there are several graphics):

http://www.ovh.com/fr/a1164.protection-anti-ddos-service-sta...

Basically as soon as a DDoS trying to saturate your server(s) is detected the attacker faces the problem of needing to DDoS... OVH itself.

And the DDoS doesn't even make it to your server while the legitimate trafic still does.

I find it great that there are people actually looking for solutions to the DDoS issue.
It isn't $300, it's "up to $50,000"[0]

I've seen articles before saying online gambling websites often do pay up as the downtime isn't just lost revenue but customers going elsewhere.

[0] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9455636.htm
I bought the app! However, I'm not sure if I was hallucinating when I saw an option before to define certain apps that will use Link Bubble because I can't find it anymore.

Anyway, again, this is a very awesome and useful app.
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Wholeheartedly agree. After the Isaacson book came out I read story after story of "entrepreneurs" who had decided to emulate him in all the wrong ways. They chose to ignore the fact that in addition to being a complete dick a goodly part of the time he also had the ability to inspire fierce loyalty in people and I'm sure it wasn't by being a dick. If he saw you as valuable (e.g.; Jony Ive) then you got treated better.

That said, in my experience, you'll get WAY more out of people if you treat everyone with respect if and until they do something to cause you to lose that respect. And even then you're better off having a polite but firm attitude.
It's sad, but many developers actually count on JSON key ordering. Why, I don't know, but they do. Why people like to code to the implementation, not the spec, I do not know.
I pay $45/year for Evernote; they OCR everything I put into them, and I put all of my paper mail into it. Also, I configured a fax number from Phaxio, which pushes the PDF right into Evernote (for those who won't email me something).

It doesn't have automatic tagging, but the OCR is very good.
Fun. I gave up when the number got to 9, because the cluster got messy. :(
> Or is it an LLVM front-end that compiles Erlang to LLVM AST?

This, kind-of. It's a new HiPE[0] backend. See [1] for how LLVM integrates into the existing Erlang pipeline.

[0] http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/

[1] http://erllvm.softlab.ntua.gr/documentation/design/pipeline/
Criminals are just specific types of people, and people are just specific types of mammals. Being more specific sometimes aids understanding.
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As far as NLP libraries in Ruby land, there is both [treat](https://github.com/louismullie/treat) and [ruby bindings to the Stanford Core NLP](https://github.com/louismullie/stanford-core-nlp).
Funny, it does seem familiar but I don't recall reading this article four months ago. But since you seem to know that I did, I guess I won't bother now.

Thanks for the time saver.
The cost of rescue & recovery is substantial. That money could be preemptively used to subsidize the tech that affects flight safety.
>Stay professional and detached—it's a DDoS, I've no doubt it's frustrating but they happen.

Burglary and murder happen too. No reason to hold your language back. Not even lawyers and prosecutors do, and they deal with those everyday.

For the company loosing millions or the Basecamp client whose unable to enter his account, that "those things happen" is not much of a response.
It's answered in the FAQ: http://www.post.ch/en/post-startseite/post-privatkunden/post... .

Postal secrecy is taken seriously in switzerland.
I need 'car analogy' for this butter overflow before I understands it. Please help.
It is terribly crass, especially when rumor and conjecture about the pilot's personal life (no newspaper of any repute has verified this) is used as a basis for these remarks.

This particular rumor is less vicious that the ones about him being a political fanatic, or a Muslim extremist, but no less sad a reflection of how far the press has fallen.