skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite inelegant, but physicists have eliminated most of the other sensible explanations. Remember, there's no law in the universe that us humans have to like the underlying physical laws of the universe. Frankly it's amazing that they have as much elegance and mathematical beauty as they do.
So is that 90% figure from some poll or study? I'm curious where it comes from because not even 90% of the IT industry is white. There are a lot of Asians.
Thanks for the pointer. Definitely, next year.
If the tests are crashes and you have existing unit tests, some work out of Virginia on using genetic programming to evolve patches could possibly work: http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/genprog/
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Parody video makes a good point:

https://youtu.be/DQAJmmVsi1g
That our collective financial judgement has produced homelessness, more so than the "poor decisions" of any individual.
This is the case in the US as well. But the US tax code is complicated and every year we take a form from our employer that declares how much tax they paid on our behalf and combine it with forms from our banks and receipts from tax deductable things like paying a mortgage, educational costs, retirement savings, donations to charity or random things like buying an electric car or solar panels, and come away with a total number we owe. Usually, since many people in the US get deductions that their employer doesn't compensate for when paying our taxes, this results in the government returning some of our money. Some people make more money from investments than their deductions cover that results in them having paid too little, and they have to send a check to the IRS.

For example, in 2014 my overall graduated tax liability should have been 21%. However, due to deductions, it was 16%. I got the difference back as a refund.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7818597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7199692
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Part of the issue is that the interrupt number, 5, is hard-wired. So there really was no need to keep it alive.
I would be overjoyed if people would stop capitalizing "black", "white", etc. It feels like I'm reading something from Stormfront. Do we want body attributes and tribes to be less important in the future, or more?
For anyone interested, here's the link for the site dedicated to ISEE-3

http://spacecraftforall.com/
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I was referring to the sentiment in general, with specific people in mind that I dare not say out loud.

I know my PL history pretty well, from Sutherland, McCarthy, Kay, Steele, Papert, Lieberman, not to mention all the VPLs, constraint programming systems, and so on. Ya, there is a lot of work, but that is no excuse to stagnate.

Edit: I'm not sure it is useful to shame people for not knowing their history. There isn't much wrong with reinvention, and who knows, it might be better than what was invented before. Our legacy sometimes does us more harm than good.
One thing Internet.org really gets right is design for low bandwidth connections. In emerging markets, net neutrality is a distant concern since the reality is severe infrastructure bottlenecks.

I had the chance to try the Internet.org app in Tanzania a few weeks ago. The sites in the app are static pages designed for low bandwidth and the effect is to make entire parts of the internet usable. For example, open the BBC inside I.org app and it's quick and snappy. Try going to BBC.co.uk in the browser and the network provider chokes on downloading all the flash, javascript, video, ads, etc. -- can't even load the page.

Given that reality, one can appreciate Zuckerberg's point that having some internet is better than none. The market can and should provide healthy competition to Facebook's play by designing sites for low bandwidth.
What has been done to ensure this can't be used to deliver malware, ads, spam, popups, etc?

edit: more than "you have to opt-in" because we know people don't willfully install malware on their computers; the malware writers trick people into clicking on it or installing it
They are better off not selling handsets anymore. Even Samsung and Apple will start to feel massive pressure on their margins sometime soon. Handset technology is leveling off and generic manufacturers are getting better at making them. It is much like what had happen to HDTVs recently. Sure there is "the ecosystem", but with Android the white box manufacturers get that for free too.

So yes Nokia squandered a huge lead in handset tech, but getting rid of the division has helped them a lot
The JVM has received a lot of money and attention over the years, yet still falls quite short of its direct compiled competitors in almost any benchmark. The threshold for "enough" when it comes to improving a JIT is still arbitrarily high.
It's pretty trivial to find examples where societal biases create negative results for companies that do not move beyond them.

For instance, in some places (you may be aware of ;) there is a societal bias that heterosexual anglo men are hyper sexual. That they are literally untrustworthy due to it is not an uncommon bias. It is an easy jump from that bias to an implicit (or even explicit) belief that it is better NOT to hire engineers to build streaming event architectures who are constantly thinking about sex and therefore to build a pipeline that biases against heterosexual white men. A company that did this, intentionally or not, is at a disadvantage when hiring because they have removed from the applicant pool people for the wrong reasons.

A company that instead was blind to that bias (or actively worked against it) would therefore have a wider pool to select from.

Even 1 counter example is often enough to change the biases for everyone who encounters them. So the company that hired 'yummyfajitas' and realized either A) he is not hyper sexual or B) he is but it doesn't impact his ability to perform the task is more likely to detach the wrong biases from their hiring pipeline and this has a multiplying effect.

Substitute "women aren't as good at math", "older people learn technologies slower", "black guys don't research as well" or whatever other bias you want.

Also, you know, sometimes we should do things because they are the right thing to do.
In the US there's commonly withholding on your paycheck for your state and federal income taxes and Medicare/Social Security. You can tell whatever company does your paychecks to withhold more or less depending on if you know you have a lot of deductions (married, supporting children, etc.).

On my paycheck I have a break down for how much is being deducted this period then year to date.
Yes, really. Events, in order:

1. Swarm released

2. New 4sq released

The article talks about 2 then 1, implying incorrectly that new 4sq was released, people got pissed off, then swarm was released.

I don't think anybody is arguing that it wasn't part of the pivot. I specifically am calling them out for implying 4sq was reacting to users who were pissed off with their new app, when their new app wasn't yet released.

Reference: http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/foursquare-swarm/
There's a documentary being made about Yelp's strong arming: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1299637435/billion-doll...

I heard a business owner complained that yelp was showing mostly bad reviews after he refused to pay. So that's only anecdotal evidence but there seems to be more of it out there.
Poor analogy. 10-15% of CA's population is black. Something like 1% of Silicon Valley tech employees are black. The percentage of white people in China is vanishingly small. And AFAIK China doesn't claim to be a land of equal opportunity.
As an American living in Italy, there really are more taxes and "death by a thousand cut" fees and rules here than in the US, from what I've seen.

I like to pay a little more tax and actually have a decent healthcare system, social security net, and retirement.

One of the problems is that many of the large US corporations legally avoid tax via one of the tax havens (including my country of origin, The Netherlands). It creates an uneven playing field.

There is no reason why European companies couldn't compete. Taxes may be higher, but wages are lower, and costs may be significantly lower if you are in east Europe.

I also don't completely agree with the sentiment that started this thread, there are also plenty of European startups/ex-startups doing well: Booking.com, Spotify, Rovio, Mojang (Swedish) was just bought by Microsoft for 2.5 billion, Skype was also a European before it was purchased by Microsoft.
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Today 7 out of every 8 minutes on mobile devices is spent within apps.

That's the most interesting thing here. I'm interpreting it as meaning only 1 out of 8 minutes is spent browsing the internet or using the native SMS app.
This is pretty much what I have observed in my social circle, and my own personal usage too.

Once they removed checkins and moved it to another app, most of the people were outraged and decided they didn't want another app. The few who did give the other app eventually stopped using it because none of their friends were using it any more.

It is like Google deciding they to discontinue search and concentrate on ads.
I think it's interesting that many of the feelings she had when she had to be passive all the time are very similar to how I feel when I'm a little depressed. While her condition was consciously self-imposed, I fear my lack of social contact is a consequence of anxiety around others, but the outward and inward symptoms are similar.
If you're married you can't file separately. You can "married filing separately" but those brackets have an even higher marriage penalty.
FreeBSD can test the kernel virtualized in bhyve instead of needing a rump kernel.
To anyone deploying to App Engine or GCE having this issue I found a workaround is to use 'gcloud preview app deploy ./app.yaml' instead of 'appcfg.py update ./app.yaml --no_cookies --oauth2'

YMMV

And now, 5 minutes later, it's back.
Yes, exactly. The EU has the power to do something on this. Actually, when US was facing the Net-Neutrality case, most media questioned about what EU was doing about the same topic and they all pointed out that, according to many different lawyers, this is a field where the EU can interfere.

So, I don't have doubts about the fact that EU has the right and the power to do something.
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Not sure I see your point. Most "non-fizzbuzzers" are college graduates who got a liberal arts degree and are trying to pivot to a more lucrative field.

Just to be clear: I don't think all developers need a degree, but I think there is much more than just attending a 4 week codecamp required to become a good developer. The author makes it sound so trivial and easy.
Wow, rayiner. You're in rare form today. I don't often notice an emotional post from you, especially one with a sentiment that I share.
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And yet when they don't, people decry (accurately!) the crappiness of non-"Google Edition" phones. For years now, the only Android devices truly competitive with iPhones have been the various Nexus/Google Play Edition/etc. devices - ones where Google has taken a heavy hand and enforced a more integrated (one might say "Apple-y") experience.

Indeed, early on in Android's life, Google was much more hands-off with the OEMs, letting a thousand flowers bloom... we got fragmentation and subpar devices, developers and consumers complained, and Google set forth on tightening the reins and exerting more control such that when people buy an "Android" phone, it means a particular experience. (And of course there's nothing stopping OEMs from shipping AOSP-based devices and just not calling them Android - as in fact a number have done).
Afl-fuzz is really amazing. The only thing that bums me out about it is that it is not as open as it could be. From AFL's documentation:

"PS. If you wish to submit raw code to be incorporated into the project, please
be aware that the copyright on AFL is formally claimed by Google..."

I'm assuming that this would make forks unlikely or impossible?
I think that Haskell's parser combinator libraries, like Parsec, are clearly superior for most parsing tasks.

Parsec is about as concise as a formal grammar, but it is real code rather than a code generator, so you don't have the extra complexity of a parser-generator. Parsec parsers are type-safe, so there's no way that you'd get something back that wasn't a valid AST (or a parse error). Error handling is also quite good.

Parsec in particular is not especially fast - there are other libraries like attoparsec and cereal (for binary serialization) which trade off some of the flexibility of parsec for improved performance.

I think Haskell programmers mostly use these libraries, because they are clearly superior to the alternatives (for instance, you get a lot less interest in RegEx in Haskell-land, because when you have a really good parsing library there's much less reason to use them). C programs like SQLLite aren't using this approach because monads can't be expressed in the C type system, and there is no syntax sugar for monads in C, so Parsec would end up much less pleasant and much less safe than in Haskell.
This is interesting, and probably good. These are two companies that make sense to consolidate, especially as both eye developing markets in SE Asia & Africa, and especially those markets that are open to Chinese development monies+influence (mostly in Africa).

On the integration side of things, yes, it will probably be a little challenging from a business systems & personnel point of view if they really want to become a single-faced corporation, but on the manufacturing & engineering side I think it'll be pretty easy. I don't know if my company is the largest EMS partner for either one, but I do know that both Nokia (otherwise referred to as NSN, Nokia-Siemens Networks) and ALU are both top-10 customers of ours, and collectively responsible for a couple billion in revenue. I mention this not because of anything to do with my company, but because both are already setup for effective automated integration with their EMS partners, so whatever they do on their side (e.g. changes to EDI rules/structure, ECO processes, NPI processes, etc) will be pretty easy to trickle down and deal with on our side.

My hope is that Nokia become the business leader part of this acquisition, not Alcatel-Lucent. They are very challenging to work with sometimes.
Best headline of today :)
So unchecked arithmetic is the culprit, again? And this would seem to be the kind of thing that could get passed through frontends unless they already cached a result.
What's a "distro" have to do with BSD? The only BSD that has ZFS is FreeBSD.
This is a ridiculous idea. Might work for people who have a very simple tax return but the IRS could not possibly calculate my tax return it's incredibly complicated and is not based only on information that they have access to.
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Do you seriously propose that ignoring tribes will help anything?
Talent isn't a universal unit of measurement. Talent we attribute to results, even when there is glaring evidence that many of those results are as dependent on factors outside of a persons control than on any abilities of that person.

Thats what the discussion about privilege is really useful for. Keeping it in the forefront of your mind (especially if you are successful) that many people have similar capability/potential as you, but they experience different circumstances that can radically alter the outcomes.

My favorite saying to remember is "He thinks he hit a home run in life, when he was born on third base."
I kind of wonder if they're counting "Chrome" as an app, and the 8th minute is actually SMS + phone (quaint, I know). I'd believe it either way, to be sure.
> Most "non-fizzbuzzers" are college graduates who got a liberal arts degree and are trying to pivot to a more lucrative field.

Prove it. That has not been my experience in hiring at all.
How come with hear little or nothing about Apple having such a closed and restricted environment for iPhone. For example with payments having to go through them?
I applaud the EU not because I love regulations but because Google is tasting its own medicine.

Any country or group of countries with a shared legislation can be seen as a platform. Yes, like the software platforms we are discussing here in HN. You must obey their rules. People who wants 100% market freedom forget that when companies like Google has an incredible market share THEY ARE THE MARKET, and they impose their own rules (imposing agreements, modifying and limiting APIs, etc) just like the EU is doing now.

There is only one thing that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, nobody is innovating enough to really compete with Google in some important fronts such as search. This can't be solved with regulations.
yes, was confusing you with putlake, was tired, it began with a p and was about the same length, sorry.
The irony is that the state governments are way more corrupt and despotic. Almost all the "police brutality" news you hear isn't DEA agents or FBI. It's municipal law enforcement.
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The entire development of particle physics has been rather inelegant. Only later has it become a (sort of) coherent framework. For example, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon#History
The interesting take-away is the .sys suffix on the filename: Yes, Windows contains a device driver running in Kernel mode that cares about (IIS) HTTP traffic.
I'm not sure how sage my advice is, but apparently I feel like pontificating.

Although you are as old as you have ever been, you're probably not nearly as old as you're going to get. Since you're the type of person who knows they don't know as much as they will know, use that knowledge to plan to know the things you want to know.

There's a reason Norvig recommends ten years to learn programming...he has steely eyed high standards for what it means to learn something.
The bundling issue on Android is basically what Microsoft were censured for with IE and Media Player. The real question is what happens when the competition authorities question the market for iOS apps (which is subject to arbitary veto and 30% fees).
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This is a complex topic:

* There are taxes and taxes. Pay a % every month, simply and easily? That's not such a big deal - everyone has different tollerances and preferences, but it is what it is. Italy has lots of little, annoying taxes and gotchas, though, which take a lot of time and are irritating. For businesses, a lot of these need to be paid even if the business is not profitable (like startups!).

* Healthcare is actually more expensive in the US as a % of GDP. "Europe" wins there in my personal experience. For businesses it's easier too: no shopping around for health insurance.

* Social security changes a lot from country to country. Italy's system does not really seem to be working that well to me, though.

* Retirement. I don't trust either the Italian or US systems. I hope yours works better.

My point was mostly that it's all the small - and constant - annoyances that make life harder for a small business here in Italy.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21606293-small-b... - this kind of backs up what I said - it's not the overall level of taxation so much as the 'hassle' factor.

I would suspect that things are better in the Nordic countries, and maybe the Netherlands too.
I don't think the marriage penalty is patriarchal bullshit. It's just recognition that couples have lower combined expenses than two single people and hence have more income available to pay for taxes.
Here the Microsoft Security Bulletin: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-034

I think the title is downplaying the severity of the bug. It's a remote code execution vulnerability in http.sys which is a webserver component running inside the kernel (yea right, great idea!) so you can get remote root via HTTP request. The blog quotes this correctly but I get the feeling the author didn't communicate it properly.

Someone please adjust the title of this submission to something like "CVE-2015-1635: remote kernel code execution via HTTP request affecting Windows Server"
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He makes a very good point about understandability in system design:

Mixins hide control flow and add layers of indirection that make it hard to even see what the possible paths through the program are. Instead of a clear and obvious flow of data you have to hunt around to try and piece together the graph of possible events. My hope was that pushing as much of that into data as I could think to at the time would make it observable, but realistically a graph with more than about 20 edges is very hard to make much sense of and an IDE certainly has more than 20 edges.
IANAL, But from the readme [1], it's Apache Licensed, so fork away - just make sure you retain their copyright notices and follow the rest of the license.

-edit-
In addition, the bottom of the README which you quoted just mentions the need to sign a CLA if you want your code pushed upstream. See the FSF page about why they require copyright assignment [2] for their projects for some background.

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/README.txt
[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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So what you're saying is "It might work for 90% of the population with only a single job, but since it doesn't work for me personally, let's not."
The idea that people (collectively) have all sorts of rights to "their" land is pretty fundamental. If you're going to go after this there are bigger issues e.g. why does a country like Brunei with a tiny number of residents "own" the vast nearby oil reserves?
Brtt was too charitable. You are completely off base here, but hey, way to prove the writer's point!
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I'm pretty sure this isn't due to the header. I've experienced sites that have the same problem, and I've also experienced sites that have a fixed header but still manage to handle scrolling appropriately.
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To add to your "calibration" framework: I sometimes explain the ethics of affirmative action in control theory terms as a kind of 'bang-bang' response[1]. So yes, things will be inequitable for the other side for a while, but you can't expect to efficiently correct longstanding historical inequities otherwise... Too bad it's this generation's "tag, you are it" moment to pay up for our forefathers' privilege, but that's just the way it is.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang–bang_control
I'm sure you have checked out the official documentation (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/README.txt)?

Fuzzing Python programs with AFL will be hard. AFL leverages a version of the GCC compiler to instrument (add additional code to) the resultant binaries. Because Python is not a compiled language this will be difficult. I'm sure there is something you could do to make it work.
There are a lot of ways to explain that power imbalances are critical context to racist statements. Yes, when black people say racist things in America, it's racist, but when white people do it, it's racism.

But the very best explanation is long-form stand-up comedy. If you don't understand, you really should watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
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