skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I was telling him like, well, how can you claim to be better than a PHP dev (I have been a PHP dev, but it still one of my favorite bashing at any dev) when you don't care about scopes, immutability, allocation of variables when you pretend to code into a language?

This is where you went wrong. What you said was very `unnice`. Rather than plotting to kill him, start plotting your apology. Then figure out whether you are a "Boss" or a "Leader". It makes all the difference in the world. If you find that you are a boss, quickly relinquish your position. If you are a leader then you will find a way to apologize and turn it into a teachable moment for yourself and for your co-workers.

Do a quick google search on "Boss vs Leader" to understand what I am getting at.
Why can't you just set a bit for each non-match and then bitwise-or them all together, returning false if non-zero? I don't think a compiler can optimize that away.
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I was around when it was launched. There were just as many doom and gloom predictions and feelings as today.
Cross the border from China to Afghanistan, and you'll have a 3½ hour timezone change.
A common solution to this problem is salting the sensitive value before it's hashed. Then we can have de-duplication and security.
I never doubted the potential, as I said. I only doubted the possibility that this will have an immediate (read: "explosive") impact on par with the Apollo landings. Re-read my comment, and attempt reading comprehension this time.
By the 60s, the Russians were concentrating on ballistic missiles,
and not much more work was put into air defense in the U.S.

How does one defend against ICBMs? Is that not considered "air defense"?

By the 80s, a smaller group of F-15s were presumably
adequate to defend the U.S., nevermind the missiles.

"Nevermind the missiles"? Do you mean: a smaller group of F-15s was adequate to defend the US if by "defend the US" we mean completely ignoring the missiles?

The Russians kept improving their system though, and
it remains quite powerful.

Where can one learn more, or what web search keywords are good?
If I'm running Android without TextSecure, how do I mitigate this?
We got to see the surface of Pluto, though! And we've also got the LHC :) I think things were 'as bad' as they are now 40 years ago, we're just more informed because information spreads so fast.
Most likely this submission will be flagged as most sexism or racism articles get flagged.

Corporate American needs a major reform. US society need a major reform. Our culture and community need major reforms. The way boys and girls are raised need to be changed, the way they are educated and develop social skills and people skills need to change as well.

As it is Corporate America and the Tech industry has developed a certain mindset based on the power elite of Silicon Valley that controls VC and who gets on the board of directors via shareholders. Everyone has to work 80+ hours a week, and it is hostile to trying to raise a family. Corporations favor the worker who is single over one that is married and has children. They don't like it when there is responsibilities other than work that an employees has. Which is why there is no good maternity leave, or even child care services. Heck in most cases you have to drop your religion and become non-practicing so you don't attend services so you can work more hours.

When I was a young boy in the 1970s it was different, people got the weekends off and spent it with the family with family picnics and they only worked 40+ hours a week, and took off for family matters. The 1980s and 1990s changed that and the Dotcom Boom made the Startups and marathon coding that required more time per week to work. People got less sleep, worked more hours, gave up relationships and family, and put everything into working a job.

For me it got so stressful that in June 2001 I developed a mental illness from all of the stress I was under and all of the extra hours I worked. I took time off to pick up my son from a babysitter because child care was not offered and my wife worked a different shift, and I got made fun of because I was taking care of my son instead of my wife. I ended up on short term disability and when I returned I was fired for being sick. You see once you become mentally ill they don't want you, even if you were hurt in the line of duty. Which is why so many mentally ill people hide their illnesses and go untreated and then do a suicide later on. I ended up on disability in 2003.

I never made it back to work. But I know of all of the problems in the industry and can talk about them freely without worrying that I'll be fired for talking about them.

In order to make up diversity, many tech companies use the H1B Visa program to hire people from India because they are not white males and because they will work for less money. Being from India gives them a more diverse work force, and they are disposable employees. If they don't do what they are told, the Visa is canceled and they go back to their native country. Then the company hires someone else. It is a big racket.
> maybe, they could check to see if a phone number supports imessage

Is that possible? I haven't touched iOS in a long time.
I would really like to hear more about the testing policies. Who code reviews the tests, which presumably must be in place before the code to be tested gets deployed? And what metrics does Quora's CI system use to determine there's an issue before rolling back a release?
Show HN: gvp v0.3: GOPATH management, made simple
Which one? 4?
I enjoyed this piece. One piece of hard learned advice: add exponential back off in failure to your clients, now. It'll take only a small amount of work, and will save you from the inevitable self DDOS when your ingestion endpoint hiccups, and clients' buffered data creates a load so large that you may not be able to recover.
Install TextSecure.

Alternately, disable MMS auto-processing.
+1, this is all I have done
From what I've seen, the bug doesn't affect iOS devices, so while I have no idea whether the behavior between TextSecure and Telegram is the same, iOS isn't vulnerable either way.
All current-generation WiFi chipsets already have the problem of proprietary firmware running on the radio's processor, separate from the SoC CPU.
Precisely. Thanks.
Looks to me like the only solution in this case is to build your own: a box with PCI slots, pfSense OS, ethernet cards, and a PCI wifi card. Screw the feds!
Trump lawyer: he didn't rape Ivana because you “cannot rape your spouse”
Jaksmit if you are still around responding I am curious...if only 2 people clicked your ad including the target himself, then how is it the very next day after the ad was created the target was "inundated with emails from his friends telling him to check out our landing page"?
There are people in the South Asian sub continent as well as SEAsia where families will sell other members into slavery for varying economic and social reasons. It involves no kidnapping.
Sometimes it's for very menial and manual labor (tea picking, for example, next time someone enjoys some Assam tea) or are later sold into human trafficking rings.
> The GPL doesn't protect your right to run the modified code if the mere act of running modifying code is made illegal.

If you cannot comply with the terms of the GPL, you cannot distribute the GPL'd software at all. If the FCC prohibits you from distributing the tools and information necessary to build the source code as required by the GPL, then you have to stop using that software in your product. The FCC does not have the power to authorize copyright infringement like that.
They use Mongo, I'm pretty sure
I turned off auto-retrieve of multimedia messages in the settings. I took a couple of handy screenshots here:

https://imgur.com/xaAsWZY
The whole point of ethereum is to keep trust in a third party to an absolute minimum. Wait a month or two and much easier options will appear (created by startups happy to act as the trusted third party)
There are two types of YouTube comments. There are comments from random people on very popular videos. Those are often an excuse for people to say something with a big audience, and those comments have usually been of low quality. The other type of comment is when there's a small community around some particular niche subject or particular content creator. And there the quality of the comments can actually be pretty decent, because it's not just drive-by comments from random folks. Unfortunately, YouTube's comments changes have generally targeted marginal improvements on the quality of the first kind of comments to the detriment of the second kind.
Here's a dumb idea I just came up with: Attach a bright light that the computer can blink programatically. Write a program which:
a) blinks the light,
b) Blinks the light again 0.01 seconds after the camera sees the light blink, and
c) repeat b a thousand times.
d) Measure how long the process took relative to ten seconds, divide by 1000 to get your latency (including latency for sending the signal to the light, but hey, it's at least an upper bound).

Another thought that occurs to me is that people who work with music equipment (especially usb synths and such) care about latency a lot. It maybe worthwhile to hook into that scene and see what kind of insights can be gleaned. Here's a link to get you started:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/dsp/examples/measuring-audio-l...
Looks like they're basically using a feedback model as well.
I still miss usenet. It's a shame that we still haven't improved on comment systems despite decades of technological advancement.
I don't think it's about protection; it's power needing to stay relevant.

If we let this happen, they will continue to roll more and more things into their regulatory sphere. It's almost a law of nature. Eventually they will tell SDR owners that they need a 'license' (because bla bla safety).

The same "logic" will be applied to other gadgets. Open source cars, open baseband, and ultimately, open brain implants. Casualties in the war on general purpose computing.
What's not true is that this isn't in the wild. Period. You can make all the points about urgency you want and I will agree completely, but this is not currently in the wild, as far as anyone knows. Saying it actually is being actively used would be factually inaccurate based on the information known right now.
Thank you Tom Wheeler, just when I thought there was the slightest chance you might be on the side of the consumer...

While this is probably the most effective route to curb the behavior, it also seems like the most sleazy. If you didn't want DD-WRT allowing non-region channels, why didn't you go after them directly? Probably because the uproar would have been deafening. Instead you go after the router manufacturers because they're easier to control. If you can remove their product from the market, you can instantly curb the behavior.
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Direct soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-sounds-of

I'm shocked at the extremely low fidelity. It sounds almost like 8 bit crush on top of POTS bandwidth filters. Some had nearly as much noise as signal to my ears -- I never noticed any laughter in #17 Footsteps, Heartbeat, Laughter. Any footsteps were indistinguishable from heartbeats.
It loaded for me on iPhone 6, but I couldn't scroll past the first map because it took up the entire screen :(
The biggest concern with the base band is when it can be used to infect or steal data from the rest of the system. Maybe concerns could be eased if communication between baseband and rest of the system were set up so as to make that impossible.
Nope. I want open baseband.
Right now I'm using a standalone access point as a glorified 802.11 ethernet bridge. I'd love to put the WiFi in my router (running linux) but I can't find any PCI or USB cards that are supported that don't have really lame limitations (like 4 or 8 stations max supported).
The economics of political correctness (2014)
I understand that is the approach.

Another idea I want to see tried is a source code annotation which indicates to an llvm plugin to run machine specific super optimization on a specific basic block and cache the result. Might be an interesting way to enhance tight loops.

A third idea I had would be to use super optimization as a way of automatically generating isel selectors with only the lowest level descriptions of what the ir and the opcodes do. That is harvest a program for ir sequences, automatically find good mappings to assembly constructs, automatically emit a backend.
And because in the beginning, Facebook was completely closed off from the greater web and had very good privacy controls. Why would I worry about using my real name when only my friends could see my profile, and it took a harvard.edu email to even log in to the site?
Out of curiosity, is there some reason you are not directly mentioning the state of the two towns?
And in your original post you said you knew how to solve the problem but wanting the dev to learn a lesson. SO you must regard training time more valuable than customers bugs.

AND now you start arguments with anyone that disagrees with you??

Take a chill pill, fix the bug, move on, laugh a little, and look the poor bloke in the eye and say you are sorry. People will respect you more, and maybe next time things won't get so blown out of proportion. Above all, relax, you got this bro :-)
I think it's great to encourage these kinds of work.

I'm old and wish I had made my impact in more meaningful areas.

Lots of people here have changed the world. I can't be the only one looking back wanting to have done it for a better cause.
Don't ignore your feelings. You should get pissed, and also understand the forces at play.

Not everyone you work with will have an equal or greater work ethic as yours. The harder you work, and the better you become at your work, the more apparent it will become development in many companies is less than ideal.

And that's ok. You'll be happier if you understand that.

You went on to dig deeper as a result of getting annoyed, which people who blindly succumb may not have done, and may lead to changes.

But please, stay focused on the bug, not the person.
Address the process, not the person. The process is a stronger force.

One of the most effective ways to handle cases like this is to face the problem directly. In your case it may have been to send an email, containing only one sentence and nothing else (so there are no distractions) that says "I believe the problem is with scopes in compute_since_how_long -- can you please test this function?"
> while still allowing updates, and not violating the GPL?

GPL v2 wouldn't be violated, per previous.

GPL v3 software isn't used in many places.

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

The linux kernel is GPL v2 and that is the only part they'd really use.
The cutesy answer subscripts are really lame. I really did not want to complete the survey after the first question.
> It's not exactly a novel idea.

True. But:

1) It isn't exactly trivial.

2) Someone who didn't play games in the 1990s, and doesn't like RTS games may very well actually have never played a game with demo recording and playback.

3) Hell, I was unaware that either Source or recent versions of Unreal Engine were capable of demo recording, and I've played the shit out of lots of games that use both engines.
>But if crdoconnor disagrees and also is logically consistent, he should also disagree with you.

Uh, no. It's entirely logically consistent to agree with him.
This is a great example of where usability and security meet. Auto downloading MMS messages is certainly much nicer from a UX perspective. However it can lead to bugs as we are witnessing.

I think they struck a good medium.
AmigaOS '85 = MacOS '89 = Windows '95
Think tank researcher and economics professor? These are good careers for people who want to change things? Citation needed.
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My dream of a new company
Let's imagine that lots of people don't like working with assholes. Let's also imagine that good developers can more reliably pick where they work. If that's so, being an asshole skews your hiring pool away from good workers. That might very well cost you money.
First of all, TextSecure does display pictures in MMS. It just doesn't call out to stagefright to do so. I've never recieved a video message, so don't know how that works.

Second of all, the difference between a 0-click infection and a 1-click infection is huge in terms of time it takes for a worm to spread.
>It's very possible that Australia's min doesn't hurt employment and it would in the USA.

Much as the National Restaurant Association, Cato and American Enterprise Institute would love for us to believe this, it just isn't true.

It would hurt profits, though, and a lot of those restaurants paying minimum wage would go out of business (and be replaced by other restaurants).
I'm curious how much of a savings you could actually expect to gain from rendering a single scene for multiple cameras at once. My understanding is that, historically, a lot of the work in rendering a scene is camera-dependent, and that a lot of performance optimizations for rendering rely on being able to avoid computing things that aren't visible to the camera. Has that changed significantly over the years, or am I just wrong?
well.....ok...yes Lynx is a browser.

Of course I meant a graphical browser. Lynx was always a stopgap for people without graphical displays. It's always showed a poor terminal equivalent of the web, but back in the 90s, not everybody had access to the internet via graphical browser.

Lynx was never meant to be an example of what the web was supposed to be.
> I had one (very productive) coworker who would slip intentional bugs or style violations into his changes to see if the reviewer was paying attention.

I've heard of this process ("bebugging", the opposite of "debugging") being used for statistical QA analysis. If you purposely inject 10 bugs (don't forget to remove them! :) and QA or fuzzing finds 7 of them plus (say) 42 other bugs, then you can extrapolate that you have about 18 undiscovered bugs (10/7*42-42 = 18). This assumes your 10 injected bugs are representative of the actual bugs you find, which is harder than it sounds.
Absolutely. I think code reviews make sense for knowledge sharing and improving the quality of the code. Most people during code reviews don't actually find bugs in their comments, according to some research done by Microsoft.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/180283/ICSE%202013-codere...
To be fair, DD-WRT isn't an FCC licensed entity, so I don't think there's much the FCC could actually do to them directly.

There's no license to revoke, and I don't think we want to be in a world where the FCC can issue a civil forfeiture for simply publishing code to the web.

The router manufacturers are the FCC licensees, so going after them is the easiest route to compliance.

(The other option, going after users who are broadcasting on disallowed channels or above rated power levels, is practically untenable due to issues of scale.)
The word "home" does not appear anywhere in that document. I assume this document applies to all WiFi routers sold in the United States capable of U-NII frequency use.
Learning to write embarrassingly clearly.
I've been using the ubiquity AP's for this purpose for several years now with a miniitx pfsense install. It's hard to beat the flexibility of it really.
You caused extra downtime for the customer so you could make an example of someone and relish in your victory.

You're winning an argument while you lose the war.
Is the following information still relevant?

Basically it suggests a flashable device must be classified a "SDR", but FCC jurisdiction does not extend to independent software developers.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/fcc-sdr-white...
They are designed to eliminate others whom pose a threat to you.

God made men
Sam Colt made them equal

Hyperbole, but I love it.
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As much as we like to criticize the United States and other developed countries on HN, personally, I think what we're seeing is the worst-case scenario playing out here:

1. "High risk" countries with unstable regimes and dictatorships default on their loans to the World Bank and developed countries
2. China steps in and provides loans to keep the regimes stable, allowing them to continue to be in power and thumb their nose at democratic values and their own people.
3. In turn, China gets to enjoy low cost access to raw materials it needs to fuel its growth, while these nations and peoples lose access to their own natural resources.

I'm not exactly sure that the game that China is playing is helpful in any way to the healthy development of a better world.
On that note, Mikrotik also makes some fine hardware/software at prices lower than building your own and lower than most entry level consumer routers.

I don't entirely get why people buy new hardware to flash with xx-WRT, although I do get the point for recycling some already purchased gear.
China shares gyrate as Beijing scrambles to calm markets
> make it not rain after your 20 hour flight to Hawaii

Why is this not a global armchair sort of affair? Staff the site with a tech as needed, but otherwise automate the whole deal and observers can queue their requests which will get filled as god/weather/orbits permit?
Silicon Valley isn't the only tech scene with a gender diversity problem
It doesn't call for or notify of deprecation. It acknowledges that "the system works well enough for most transactions".

Bitcoin is an attempt to replicate a similar system of "cash" in a completely decentralized (in that, anyone* can participate) manner.

*With sufficient knowledge and technical resources.
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> A back-of-the-envelope calculation gives me $12Mn USD per day

3600.00 BTC or $1m is paid as subsidy per day.

Are you saying that people are spending 12x that on power?

I dont think so.
It's trivial to get miniPCIe cards with the same Atheros ath9k 802.11n radios that are used in the most popular OpenWRT devices.
The spot price of BTC has been steadily rising. Someone must be getting more than $12,000,000 USD / day in value out of it.
The Quora post specifically says they review code after it is live in production:

At Quora, we generally do post-commit code reviews. That is, the code goes out live in production first and someone comes and reviews the code later.
So what if G+ only has a few hundred million active users. Why does G have to "win" at social media. They created a nice service, and they have another business that makes money.
The OP seems to argue that autonomous
weapons would be dangerous heavily
because they are intelligent in
the sense of AI.

IMHO, the weapons would be still more dangerous
because they were not very intelligent
and, instead, in essentially any human
sense, quite stupid. They'd be like
flying a quadcopter carrying an
automatic pistol with a hair trigger
that could fire essentially
when, where, and at
what no one could tell.
So the FCC is very interested in reducing the security of routers and getting all users of routers hacked. Good job FCC, you are the best. I guess they are concerned about the router firmware letting you configure routers in such a way as to cause interference. The proper way to address that is to inform the makers of router firmware and force them to comply, I am sure the US government is more than capable of doing that, even if the FCC is not.
Adblock and any other plugin that manipulates the DOM interferes with web frontend work, also marketing work.
Moore's Law might be ending, but what about the rise of heterogeneous hardware using multiple CPUs?

http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/
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This is likely because the FCC's regulations cover "intentional radiators" (i.e. hardware devices designed to emit radio signals). They don't have the authority to regulate software that may be available independently of that hardware.