skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LAN parties are still a thing among tight-knit gaming communities where the personal relationships are strong.

For example, I still play Descent [0] competitively, along with perhaps a few hundred others off-and-on. There's a group of about 20 of us who have become really close friends in the last few years, and we try to have a big LAN party every summer. We've also had quite a few small get-togethers where a handful of people will fly or drive out for a weekend. Last month, a friend drove out from a couple states away, and joined my wife and I at my grandparent's old cabin, at 9200 feet in elevation, with no running water but with electricity, and we played a bunch of matches.

In the past, I've been to Descent LANs at such unusual locations as a hog farm and a Dominican monastery. My wife and I also took our laptops on our honeymoon and played Starcraft: Brood War in a tiny trailer next to a lake in northern Idaho.

I'm also a part of a small Christian gamers group [1], and there are regular discussions about who would be able to get together in various parts of the country this summer.

People are willing to travel to meet friends. Lugging along a computer isn't all that unusual.

[0] http://descentchampions.org/ is the competitive site

[1] http://www.solidrockgamers.com/
Unless you have some training that makes you qualified to assess that (in which case qualifying yourself as such would help), perhaps you should refrain from throwing around terms like that.
Given the movie being represented, the constant flicker is thematically more appropriate.
CnC generals was the best!
Those chinese mammoth tanks were pretty OP though.
Why do you feel like he is entitled to a refund?
ie, datasets that are maintained and properly encrypted in a 'CEUE' (Create Encrypt, Update, Encrypt) app.
Startup offers landlords continuous, deep surveillance of tenants' social media
A second bachelor's is unlikely to take four years of full-time work; e.g., Oregon State's online second bachelor's in CS is a 1-year full time program.
"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."

On the first moon landing, quoted in The New York Times, (1969-07-21).

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Curious about his feelings regarding this work. (I find it beautiful.)
Why Xiaomi's Smartphone Are Not Going to Be Cheap Anymore
Ummm...no.

Certain systems do indeed operate as you say, with INS as the primary guidance/navigation mechanism. Submarines for instance, cannot rely on a GPS fix. Strategic missiles as well.

But ground forces do indeed use GPS systems. INS systems are very costly to build and maintain, go GPS is a go-to for missions and requirements where it's a good fit. You simply cannot outfit every ground-pounder with an INS system and then keep it properly operational in their task envelope.

Also, parts of the GPS system are quite jam-resistant. Not entirely, but when it was first developed, GPS was pretty secure for it's time, using a cryptographically derived spreading code for the carrier.

Here is an example of a system in use today:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Advanced_GPS_Receive...

Some of you might be interested in an article I wrote on the subject:

https://sofrep.com/46818/gps-spoofing-how-iran-tricked-us-pa...
Agreed. Everything in perspective.
And not just enterprise use cases. I personally MITM my own https traffic sometimes to see what is going on.
Start by whipping out clever FOIA requests to find information on it. Dig, dig, then dig more. Find a pro bono lawyer who can do a FOIA suit on your behalf. You'd be surprised by how much information you can get so long as you're patient and can cleverly avoid "unduly burdensome" rejections.

For example, you can now get the Chicago's mayor's phone records by requesting it through their IT department, who asks the phone company to parse their billing logs, which includes the phone records.

Two tabs, and still a work in progress (waiting for their dns resolution logs now for the next step):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research
A lot of rare problems can be 'easily' fixed with thick expensive metal plating. That's not enough to make a complaint reasonable.
> [the NHTSA] closed the matter after Tesla agreed to reinforce the shield that protects the battery

"Agreed"? Was Tesla reluctant to reinforce their batteries until this regulator pressured them to do it, or was this wording chosen to make Tesla sound bad?
You're fine. It's people using company computers that are being monitored.
So they got the retargeting part right, but forgot to add a second tracking code for those who signed up. "Woops"
Show HN: What's the Deal with “Smart Beta” Indices?
Building a data science portfolio: Storytelling with data
> Doing a “partnership,” thinking it will get you more users

Why is this a distraction?
I have two opinions: 1) I don't think cubism transfers well into a motion picture format, 2) I think these experiments, as they are currently, attempt to merge two styles and end up with neither, and nothing novel in its place; there is little Kubrick or Picasso in the final piece.

I think it's superficial and doesn't do either source justice.
it almost makes me wish we had some kind of... I dunno... "system" by which we as a society can be very specific about what is allowed and not. and a system for determining whether the disallowed things happened or not. and a system also for then punishing people who have been found guilty of those disallowed things.

I'm just brainstorming. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll create a way to do that. Until then, let's all just whisper and rumor and accuse and retweet and go with how we "feel" at any particular moment. /s :-)
When I took the technical interview ~3 months ago there were very specific questions about functional programming ("implement foreach" kind of questions). Makersquare had the same exact questions, so I assume someone just posted them online and people could easily prepare without understanding.
> Sure it does; there's no pricing (and therefore market) power if the mechanism, however novel and eligible for protection, has alternatives with equal utility.

That's kind of the point. A patent by its nature has zero value without market power.

Contrast this with actual property. If you have wheat or copper, you have no market power, it's a pure commodity market, but people will still pay you something for it.
Cuban made his money selling broadcast.com to Yahoo! - which was literally radio on the Internet.
I had some other doubts about the article as well, but didn't make any other comments yet because I am still researching React and web components. It appears you may be right that React does not force you into an overly coupled design, but I still think the article makes a good point about how people are writing React components (among many other library-specific component libraries) instead of native web components, which may be contributing to web components lagging behind. But I was just reading that web components can be used quite successfully as building blocks for larger React components or integrated with React in other ways, so I don't see why it has to be one or the other. And yes, sorry to call React a framework - I know it's a library and should not have called it a framework.
Music Marketing Rescue
Glad to see that GNU/Linux is getting a DTrace-equivalent. Sucks that it's all a bunch of string and staples rather than a single ioctl interface like DTrace -- but hey, that's the Linux way.
http://www.mynrma.com.au/motoring-services/buy-sell/buying-a...
I played with style transfer on a bunch of paintings from the Wikipedia featured paintings[0]. The result when it works well is absolutely fantastic but when it doesn't, it basically just applies noise. Even 'obnoxious' styles like Van Gogh need to be cherry picked for the most 'featureful' flavor images.

That being said, I am pretty hyped to get my 1080 to be able process more than 1 image an hour at 720p. Also, take a look at the featured paintings, they're all public domain and absolutely gorgeous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Ar...
Heck, I STILL listen to the free version of their podcasts because the ads are so funny.

Hey there small business man...
Dimensionality Reduction with R to Uncover Malicious Internet Domains
Reminds me of developing countries that leapfrog industrialized G8 countries in certain technologies, like skipping landline deployments and going straight for wireless networks.
I think his point was: you really should read about dtrace, esp. how to instrument user programs (without instrumentation).
I don't understand how blackberry has access to intercept anything. Are all phones constantly phoning home checking if i_belong_to_a_bad_guy == True maybe at the time of a software update they base it on one of the unique identifiers. Ultimately though, who cares this day and age the only people I know using blackberries are people with big hands who like to type fast.
Cows are slaughtered at 80 weeks while chickens are slaughtered at 6 - 8 weeks. That extra order of magnitude of basal metabolic rate is where the energy gets consumed.
It wont temper the claim that EVs are maintenance free because it has nothing to do with how much maintenance EVs require. The premise is that the best implementation of an EV will require much less maintenance than the best implementation of an ICE.
The LAN party is still well and alive in the demoscene, in the form of demoparties which are basically LAN parties plus computer art. Some of them have become extremely large:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg

http://www.ozone3d.net/public/jegx/201308/asm2013.jpg
I'm seriously struggling to make the 'racist' connection with your second photo here
Well the https should protect them from the government.
Same here...I had a blog, I'd been posting stuff to the Internet since USENET...could not conceive how Twitter was any different or better. Then our intern held a luncheon where he forced us to create Twitter accounts and try it out. Having a blog is nice, but people don't visit random blogs, and some of my projects would have never been seen had I not tweeted out the link just for the hell of it and then to be retweeted, casually, by others. There's no similar mechanism or flow when it comes to non-invasive pushing of links (or, photos of your breakfast) to the entire world, even if it seems that RSS or mass-mass-email, theoretically, could be used.
Why Quebec?
How many of those were caused by running over things on the road?
Part of my concern with bootcamps is the sentiment expressed above that you need it to get exposure to some arbitrary technology. In my experience, the best indicator to success in an industry or technology is a desire to learn that technology. Not someone giving exposure. I a happy it is working out for you, but as Node falls out of fashion, it will be on you to learn the next wave.
"It looks cool" is sufficient excuse for experimentation.
I thought Nortel renamed itself A Louer.
Why Wikipedia Could Become the People’s Newspaper of Record
Being aware of your own mortality on a regular basis can spur you on to take more risks and do something positive with your life.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Elon Musk visited the Pentagon to talk about a 'flying metal suit'
The closest I ever got to flying with the birds was on the ground
One thing this doesn't consider: how do your choices affect how the world after you die?
Open News Digest
http://vmanamino.github.io/open-news-digest

I created this app using NYTimes API and the Guardian API. Select a calendar day and then search for news published that day. Still some design problems. For example, the calendar shows days in the future for which there is no news content.

But I got the email service to work, so when you click on an article, you can enter an address and send the article info, including link.

Appreciate some feedback.
Fantastic list! Commenting in part just so I can find it later.
> "where the biggest bandwidth hogs get the good service and everything else gets garbage."

I think the worst-case, steady-state, scenario is actually equal time sharing, and the whole value is that while you aren't talking, other packets flow faster. That's not a doomsday scenario. Noone is out anything. (If this equal-sharing isn't fast enough, your upstream links/peers are over-subscribed.)

Also, your cache/memory analogy disrgards the possibility of simplifying and/or distributing the routing tables.

Route consolidation is one solution. Having no table at all is ideal. My little underpowered home router has 1 entry for it's upstream gateway. There's no reason to keep billions of records in a table in any central router either, given there are only going to be so many uplinks.

The more scalable solution is to distribute the table(s) in parallel to other peers. If the routing tables really are too big and can't be consolidated in core routers, the answer is simply more routers, geographically distributed to best meet demand, not fatter ones in the core, with higher latency, higher costs, and all the downsides of centralization like survaillance.

QoS is a solution in search of a problem; networks scale fine when we scale them out, not up.
They're talking about data that is dispatched through Blackberry's network: BBM messages and their consumer internet service (BIS) that handles email and web traffic on older devices.

BlackBerry will turn over BBM messages in the same way that the phone company will turn over SMS messages, and Microsoft and Yahoo and Google will turn over email messages.

All of those companies have to operate within US law. The controversy here is related to how BlackBerry is cooperating with less-friendly foreign governments.
I kind of want someone to do the same thing with a "NON-neural network" Picasso filter, like the ones in Photoshop and similar image editing programs. I want to compare how much the neural network's understanding of Picasso's style adds to the work (I imagine it's a lot, because this looks incredible).
Getting rid of if/else is nothing but moving the if/else to somewhere else.
Sorry. Just to mention it is going to give me nightmares about big AUI media converters sticking out, loose, not fitting right, falling off, ahahhaa. Novell Netware. Tree. Booting from floppy disks. ISA Cards!
The actual paper (http://www.se.rit.edu/~mei//publications/publications/FSE201...) is far more interesting that the linked post. The conclusions that goto is mainly used for cleanup and error handling isn't surprising. However, the study doesn't include the Linux Kernel or other kernels.
Right, I was just wondering if someone could confirm that the upper A arm and ball socket were actually aluminum. It seems a very unlikely material choice for that part to me. I just don't have a tesla to go check on myself.

Honestly, if the boot failed and the guy drove through saltwater, the steel of that part still shouldn't have rusted that badly. My armchair guess is that Tesla or their supplier didn't spec it wrong, but got a bad batch of metal in there that was improperly treated or alloyed.
I suspect that Adam and John don't need the money they make from the podcast to pay their bills, so I'm not really sure what "it's working" means to them. The article you linked to doesn't mention any specifics.
Yep. It makes sense though, if you were a cofounder at a bootcamp as of like 2-3 years ago, you went from struggling just to get students in the door, to showing the first 2-300 students your passion and teaching skills and delighting in their successes, to earning millions, to having to worry about mitigating legal/financial risks, to delegating lots of responsibilities and losing touch with the business. And now you're ready to move on with your life.

Happens to every super successful small business owner that doesn't consciously try to prevent that from happening. So it's no surprise that HR and probably lots of other bootcamps aren't as great as they used to be.
It's especially hilarious when you see ads for something while you're using it.
Some companies in highly regulated industries intercept, and inspect all traffic purely because it's easier. Though if this raised a flag, and you showed them what link you clicked, any sane IT department would laugh and start sending the link to their friends.
The Singleton Design Pattern – C++ Better Explained
I should really start a website that lets people bid for each other's votes online.
this is such a quintessentially HN comment
I think parent comment is suggesting a greater value because 15k bought him a whole year or two of supervised self-improvement, whereas it lasts only 6 weeks in the boot camp environment.
There are still a good number of federal government offices based in Quebec, including one massive complex (Place du Portage) across the river from Ottawa. BlackBerries are still handed out to a fair number of government employees here.
It isn't appropriate for cubism though, which is an attempt to render multiple perspectives to a single point of view. In this case time is the only extra dimension available, so it is a missed opportunity. But if the goal isn't a cubist rendering, just an interesting filter - mission accomplished.
> Of course, I lose around 8 - 10% of the home selling price to selling expenses, and pay 20% capital gains taxes on the profit, so that 50% gain is not as large as it sounds.

Put it up for more than you think it's worth yourself (no agent) and see what happens, maybe you'll get lucky! As for the cap gains, that's the best part of a house:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc701.html

> If you have a capital gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain from your income. You may qualify to exclude up to $500,000 of that gain if you file a joint return with your spouse.

It's a really good deal. You can even hedge and buy S&P index shares (SPY) with the proceeds of your house. If you're wrong and things continue going great you'll make a killing on the stock. If not it's a lot easier to get out of than the house!
Two New Particles Have Sent Physicists Scrambling for Theories
Before the start of this season, they created a job listing for the CEO position at Pied Piper http://archive.is/5W6Yz
I got ads for a mouse (similar model) after it was bought.
A whole new debate about copyright is around the corner.
Funny, I had the same feeling about Christianity watching The Life of Brian.
>BB users by and large consider government surveillance irrelevant.

And interestingly, every single BB user I know works for the government (I'm in Canada).
ahh, so not BES data or any arbitrary data on a consumer phone. That makes sense then. Maybe there should be an open standard for data requests, and transparency, and if you get caught breaking it you get removed from DNS and BGP.
Quanta Magazine’s Thomas Lin Spends His Days ‘Illuminating Science’
Same here. They were better with Jeff and Vinny on the same podcasts, but they're still pretty funny.
My wife and I played games together on Kali before we ever met in person (we didn't meet on Kali, but on a message board for Descent.)

If you ever played Descent on Kali, there's a facebook group full of your old friends: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kalikahn/
Funny! That's exactly how I think of Picasso's work.
Ye olde definition implies physically attractive people can't be nerds, and unattractive people can't not be nerds.

That's only useful for making an us vs them label. It's a good thing that anyone can nerd out on Dickens.

I've heard before that it's a question of degree (“prove just how much you like Dickens!”), which is kind of an uncool way to discourage intellectual curiosity. Not everyone was forged in the pale glow of monitors in their parents' basement, some have to work at it later.
Surely this comes under fair use because of modification?
Red Hat is also responsible for having lots of people on their payroll developing software that Red Hat bashers happen to rely on, but keep forgetting about when releasing their Red Hat hate.

As for systemd, I guess it breaks GNU/Linux standards and conventions, given that commercial UNIX systems have for a long time adopted similar ideas.
I like the addition of the "tolerance" bit to examples, more blogs should have a "when not to use" section.
Remember that time a firework tipped over?
I hate when people make the assumption that learning JavaScript is somehow a limiting factor. It hasn't stopped me from picking up Java, Ruby, Python, or PHP. I still have some trouble with Go structs and I still have some learning to do on Rust lifetimes... but seriously.

What "next wave" of server application development does Node.js leave me so woefully unprepared to deal with? Are people really having issues marshalling JSON/XML or sending templates down the wire?
it's more meta than that, the 6500 satirizes itself with how people use it
It just seems like, if someone is being paid to program, as in your example, the BLS would count them as such.
It's difficult to change when you have reserved instances. A business decision yesterday might not be the best decision today. That being said, I think overall AWS is very good but Google is definitely starting to create some real competition which is positive for everyone.
Creativity is like breathing
"I am well informed and unimpressed."

Also, for fairness, do the same with my comment:

"Unlike this status oriented nerd, I can relate to you and the author on a human level."
I was shocked too, honestly. But we are always looking for projects we can open source, so it's very useful.
Personally I'll just say the video's pretty fucking cool.

Referring to stepvhen's comment. I find it comical in all seriousness.

Even the must leisurely, casual or mundane topic, intended to be a refreshing change in colour (pun not intended considering the article but I'll take it) and\or conversation on Hacker News is subject to ridicule, assessment and biopsy.

It's why I like it here. Some of us are completely incapable of /not/ peer reviewing the shit out of everything. :)

Edit: words fail me, also spelt Stepvhen's handle wrong (sincerest apologies).
The big changes frame-to-frame certainly add to the "trippiness" but I'd love to see this where the value function (or whatever it's called for ML) prioritizes reducing the frame-to-frame diff so that I could actually watch the full length movie like this.
CO2 Injected into Basaltic Rock Mineralizes, Removing It from Atmopshere
Because (and I have to generalize here since this is a broad topic) partnerships can suck up a huge amount of time, with the following downsides:

1) you get introduced to customers indirectly (the partner's users), this isn't necessarily a bad thing but you'd rather have customers come directly to you.

2) the partner's objectives as a business are not your objectives, they may demand exclusivity of you or prevent you from doing business with their (the partner's) competitors. This may come to bite you if your startup grows, evolves or pivots and a better partnership comes along.

3) partnerships usually involve contracts which cost time and money.
Microcorruption was a blast. If you want to learn slightly more realistic binary exploitation, I recommend RPI's MBE course[1]

[1] http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/binexp-spring2015/
Yes exactly. I only brought up the money to transition to my rant about how I think bootcamps are a cash grab :)

I also think thaumasiotes is missing my overarching point, which is that the data science bootcamps didn't actually provide much value to their students.
SimpleFIN Bridge: Budget from the Command Line
If that's the case, the lack of follow up questions to identify that kind of faking it is pretty horrifying. Was there nothing like, "explain this technical concept as if you were talking to your grandpa/non-technical person?"