skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get how being a pretentious ass and wanting to distance yourself from your ilk is best achieved by emulating their style.

Either you don't give a shit about 'them' and write as pretentiously as you desire, or, like myself, you adjust your style to distance yourself from 'them' because you dislike the association.

As it is, it's rather confusing to me because I can't tell the difference between you and the 'Eng lit academia' you seem to wish to avoid.

All that said: I don't think you write like a pretentious ass and I feel anyone should communicate however they want as long as the message comes across. And personally I like your style. So rock on, I guess :). But it's essentially what DFW is doing too, I think.
Leading Banks Set to Pull Out of UK Early Next Year
It hasn't undergone regulatory approval yet, so calm down. :D Remember when regulators planned to block AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile? It could happen here also and just like then I'm sure there will be a public comment period.
Yeah isn't Time Warner Cable now merged with Charter to form what's now referred to simply as Spectrum?
Or recruiters are adding everyone who responds to their 'too old/overqualified' blacklists.

I miss the BBS days. Very few non-geeks around. The internet just isn't the same.
I agree sounds more like the contacts were imported through app permissions or something, unless LinkedIn found a real venerability in a common browser or leveraged some CSRF or XSS attach, but seems doubtful given it's Google. It's so easy just to accept the laundry list of permissions for common apps.

I'm doing some email outreach through Hubspot which requires access to my gmail so I set up a separate email so they don't have access to my main account. I don't believe Hubspot will do anything with my offline access token, but it's just one more system that has access, so better to follow the whole principle of least privilege.
Hendrix: Real-time correlation and alerting system for streaming data
AT&T Agrees to Buy Time Warner for Around $80B
And if they catch you cheating, you'll be find dead in a dumpster somewhere.
Why your mobile connection is so slow (Hint: DNS)
Two DAYS? That's a long time to keep a corpse...
Also, http://mg8.org/processing/bt.html
That is what Apple used to recommend but the general approach these days is to allow the user to scale however they want as long as it doesn't break your UI, and for accessibility reasons.
I read the headline as "shrapnel landing site"
I remember the hype around LZMA2 and xz being that, because it uses blocks, you can do the compression and decompression on multiple threads. LZMA was generally considered too slow to use for regular usage (only for archival, basically) and multicore was the new way to scale so this was perfect.
>"A nice big billion-dollar lawsuit against Amazon for gross negligence would be a good way to start."

Wait why is Amazon responsible? Why should they be sued?
FYI, in case she doesn't know:

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That's a game of whack a mole, and even if you whack them down, the devices are already out there and are going to stay online for years.

The only thing that will make a dent at the problem quickly, is wholesale filtering of all Internet traffic by all network providers originating from the IP addresses identified for being part of these botnets.
> inevitable -- sort of a force of nature

Yeah, sort of! The attempts are inevitable, but I don't think the vulnerabilities are.

I've long used the Three Little Pigs story when explaining security: Yes, the wolf is always there, don't act shocked when you build a house of straw and suddenly a horrible bad nasty despicable and thoroughly evil (just trying to feed his family) wolf shows up.

The pig who hauled the brick did more work than the pigs who hauled sticks or straw, but ended up not getting eaten. Everyone from the breakroom to the boardroom should understand this analogy. I've found it helpful, anyway.
do u see much 25k old documentation? Everything we know today will be forgotten.
Finding the right mark has to be at least half of the work you'd expect to do anyway.
Cuckoo's egg?
> Startup idea: neural-network-based filter for social media applications to hide any discussion of the results of a particular game until after you watch it. Bonus if it can also hide movie spoilers.

Fuck no. Last thing you want is nation-states hacking that and delivering censorship straight to your mind or "Funny how this ballot has one candidate only".

People could even intentionally inflict this on themselves, such as "blocking" a person after a bad breakup so you can't see them or hear their names when they come up in conversation - I hear there might be a Black Mirror episode that touches on this (I'm yet to watch any of them).

Edit: Apologies for my off-topic rant: I read "neural-network-based filter" as "neural filter". I'll leave my comment as a monument to my derpery.
The attack was on the front page of the NYT website yesterday

here's the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/business/internet-problems...
The article mentions in passing that one class of five year olds had been taken for a walk and weren't hurt.
Yes thanks. I am not doing exactly this but contacting an American who is well versed in Malayan culture, language, and has studied there. Beyond this, I think it is interesting to fomalize cultural differences to learn how to handle these situations.
> When there's a single ruling party, or two major parties in a system like the USA, the distinction between political parties and the government itself is blurred to point of being meaningless.

That's simply nonsense. The reason you might have two major parties forever is if you start making things like registered voters public. After all, who would dare to affiliate themselves with a third openly if that would lead to an immediate risk of being labeled in all kinds of nasty ways.

If Peter Thiel isn't immune to such pressure you can bet that ordinary citizens would be a lot easier to target.

The government and the citizens of a country are two disjoint entities, even in a 'one' party (that really means 'none') state.

Party membership does not equate to being a part of the government (though the one does not rule out the other).
Ll Teslas are been built with self driving gear now
Y Combinator Should Fire Altman and Thiel
June 2014 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Shelby County v. Holder that things had changed in the south, when gutting the Voting Rights Act. I find it ironic the majority wrote, in effect, that racism is over while this man was still in jail.
Or, they're illegal, but the law isn't enforced, so people feel they are legal.
DNS resilience is best served by diversity at every level of implementation. That includes diversity beyond your own resources. Somewhat topically, DNS services for high profile entities are DDoS targets; there are very few entities that can absorb incoming hundreds of Gbps without the service collapsing.

The emergent downside of sharing the eggbasket is that of collateral damage i.e. a successful DDoS intended for one target also cripples many others.

In Netflix's case, their CDN infrastructure is all about video delivery and is almost certainly optimised for outbound bandwidth and video QoS. Engineering to absorb an inbound DDoS is expensive, and involves compromises. By having DNS elsewhere, they've avoided the basket sharing and created new opportunities for mitigation. That's an example of how diversity systematically enables resilience.

In the worst case ops scenario, having to cold-boot an entire platform from down, then it's pretty much essential to have directory services as independent infrastructure. The larger you get, the more weird interdependencies arise if you don't take architectural steps to avoid them. This can apply to migrations of infrastructure also. Not 100% necessary, but sooo much easier if so.
Unless you don't have cable - which I don't. If people didn't buy content they don't want it would drastically change things in terms of how much money sports content was worth. It would be an interesting scenario to see play out.
..and when you try to extend this to something reasonably complex, including third party libraries and a database, you'll realize why people stopped writing PHP like this years ago.
No but they obviously have some amount of confidence or they wouldn't have entered into discussions at all.
It's the author's right and responsibility to accurately advertise the article, not the submitter's. We've updated the title from “High end, Chinese made, poker cheating device”.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think by definition the comments sections is implicitly a spoiler section. Those who read it first get what they came for :)
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This is pretty silly. No casinos or card rooms let you have a phone/device at the table.

That aside, you need to have a special marked deck. People have tried something similar with flourescent ink and special glasses. I think professional shuffling devices have some kind of built in blacklight check now for this. IR is a bit better since its harder to detect without a camera. You would still need to have a tub of ink and manually mark the cards though.

You'd basically need to have the dealer in on it, and if that is the case you don't really need the device at all.

A more interesting method from a few decades ago that actually worked was "edge sorting". Because of printing/cutting one could determine certain cards. http://deadspin.com/how-phil-ivey-beat-or-maybe-cheated-a-ca...
Just wondering, have you ever lived in a foreign country? your advice sounds reasonable, but it can be very difficult to implement. It's easy to blame foreigners for not willing to mix with other people, but it's much harder than what it seems. Think how sometimes people have a hard time making friends when they move to a new city in their own country.
I honestly found the compression and artscene episodes more interesting than fidonet. Although fidonet was good too.
BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning
Will do. Let us know if you need a shoulder to cry on when he loses.
They trade very, very often. You can be lucky if you buy a couple of stocks and wait around a few years. Someone I know had parents who bought Nokia in the 1980s and sat on it until the mid 200s. That's luck.

You can guess a coin flip 5 times in a row. A few people out of a hundred will do so.

But you cannot get significantly over 50% correct on millions of coin flips. That's not luck.
It sounds like your mostly being facetious, but in the interest of historical accuracy: The Blue Lagoon started as just a runoff from the power plant, it's only later after the natives had been bathing there for free for a while for free that it turned commercial.
Yard Sale HN
I have a lot of electronics/computer items sitting around that I want to sell off and/or donate, and I suspect other do as well. Due to VAT and other complications, lets keep this one US only for now. Also please only sell electronics/computer equipment, or stuff that might be relevant to the HN community.

Rules: buyers and sellers responsible for their own transactions (make sure you trust the buyer/seller or use a third party transaction service like eBay if necessary). Assume USD pricing, and that "retail" reflects current retail price after tax. Please list items in the following format: "ItemNameAndDescription retail:$xxx, selling:$xxx/free/etc, condition:new/mint/used/etc [optional:@YourTwitterHandle or email]." Feel free to discuss price, ask questions, etc within each item, but don't nest item listings and one item per listing unless the group makes sense (multiple listings allowed though).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769812 and marked it off-topic.
There isn't a specific branch of mathematics you need to know in order to learn Category Theory. Its main role is in providing a way of describing other parts of mathematics (similar to the way set theory and certain logics are commonly used to formulate definitions and proofs). In other words, it's a kind of 'foundation,' so there isn't really anything under it. (This is my understanding anyway—please correct me if I'm wrong here.)

That said, it will probably be rather difficult to comprehend if you haven't been exposed to a good amount of other work in pure mathematics first. If you wanted one other more introductory subject, I'd recommend checking out Abstract Algebra (lots of other mathematics are expressed in its terms, also; so independent of Category Theory it would probably be time well spent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra).
Although everyone has a different opinion on "excessive".
I find it kind of funny that a guide for Chinese and German academics is written in Chinese and English. Is there even a German translation of this, or did the authors just assume that German academics are all proficient in English anyways?
"I wouldn't call DNS based IP mapping "horrendous" simply because it doesn't work as well for mobile"

OK I'll take back the word "horrendous" but it's a hack alright.

> The fact is that it is still very effective. The major CDNs are quite aware of the mobile shortcoming of DNS based mapping and I am pretty sure it is something they are working to address.

No not really. They're certainly trying to patch DNS to pass through enriched information in DNS requests through recursive calls... but it's such a long shot to work consistently across tens of thousands of networks around the world, and requires coordination from so many different entities, that it's clearly a desperation move more than than a serious effort. Regardless, there's no real solution in sight for the web platform.

For mobile (native) apps though, the right way to discover nearby servers is to directly build in that functionality using mobile specific techniques. There's no reason to keep limiting mobile apps to old, restrictive web technologies considering that apps have taken over as majority of traffic around the world. That's the root idea behind a lot of what we're doing at PacketZoom. Not just in service discovery, but also in more intelligent transport for mobile with built-in knowledge of carriers and network technologies etc, automatic load-balancing/failover of servers and many other things. Here's my older article on the topic

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3016733/application-develop...
> I assume there are a lot of games being played in Vegas at far from reputable establishments, where the owners of such places would love to kick the odds in their favor.

Or where a dealer would collude with players for the right price.

> the kind of place where your alcohol is mostly water

The less reputable places would typically have a vested interest in decreasing your judgment and inhibitions, not in keeping you clear-headed. Remember that many casinos will reward high-rollers with free drinks, among other perks.
HN should really avoid this old jingoist tendency in tech. Nearly all devices are made somewhere in Asia at this point, so this should not be noteworthy.
Why would competition be unable to rise?
You should see that your candidates will falter as time passes.

Suppose there are 10 funds with the track record of RenTech. In 10 years, you wouldn't expect them all to be as stellar.
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Until Web Bluetooth opens those devices to exploitation from internet websites. It would be best if Bluetooth remained isolated from web browsers, but the powers that be want websites to be able to talk to them.
It works with a camera in a car key.
2016 MacBook Pro, fully loaded with Radeon Graphics, retail:$2700, price:best offer, condition:mint (used but no scratches or wear, 19 battery cycles), @gavanw (notes: only used for one contract job, no longer needed)
This is pretty silly. No casinos or card rooms let you have a phone/device at the table.

I've played all over the US, and while I'm sure there exists a room that bans phones at a cash table, I can't name one.
Flammable refrigerants are nothing new, now that we can't use the old ozone-depleting kind. My new fridge uses R-290, AKA propane.
In my case, I don't have a device that Authy supports. I can't use 2FA at all because Cloudflare wanted to buddy up with another cloud product.
That's what smart beta does. You take an index and rejig it slightly to eke out a somewhat better return.
Kermit's design accommodated connections that zmodem couldn't (half-duplex, connections that don't let one send some control characters. seven bit connections, or connections between systems using ASCII and systems using EBCDIC), and the basic protocol was easy to write. You could use Kermit to send data between your C-64 and a Cray 1 or Burroughs Large system--and it was used to send data from the International Space Station to earth. Later versions supported sliding windows and large packets where possible and let one selectively quote characters, while still providing backwards compatibility with earlier versions.
Oculus RC1, no touch controllers, retail:$600,selling:best offer,condition:used (slightly), @gavanw
Using Machine Learning to Detect Malicious URLs
For some reason they seem to be linking to an older version of the comparison. It looks like there's an updated version of the article (with an updated conclusion): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm-clan...
CλaSH – A functional hardware description language
In other words, this is a right to be protected, not just passively allowed.
I pretty much do the opposite. I remember that everyone was a child once and some, unfortunately, still are. Basically attributing annoyances/disagreements to ignorance/differing values rather than malice.
Show HN: Generate a mindmap from an org-mode file, with annotations
Email comes with an implicit expectation that I am responsible for hanging on to a copy of the message. It's formal in that way.

Email is better for covering one's ass than Slack or SMS. Slack and SMS probably cover an ass for an hour or a day. Email covers an ass for years. Didn't you read it? It was right there in the third message of the attached eight message conversation.

Each email is an item on my 'todo' list. That's why getting more of them processed more quickly is appealing but yesterday's Slack is long gone.
WW3 RUSSIA SEND FIFTH OF THEIR NAVAL FLEET THRU- BRITISH CHANNEL,LAUGHING AT UK
Vue-Awesome: Font Awesome Component for Vue.js, Using Inline SVG
Because Time Warner's competition needs to rely on AT&T's network to deliver their content.
The technique with the markings on the edge of the card is also used in a well known card magic routine - but using wax instead of infrared ink, so you can feel the slight differences in texture when you handle the card (though only if you're paying attention to it).

Takes quite a bit of practice, though.
Related: KVM / QEMU technical architectural overview
slides by Stefan Hajnoczi, one of the QEMU maintainers. (No talk recording, unfortunately-- pity, he's an excellent speaker).

http://vmsplice.net/~stefan/qemu-kvm-architecture-2015.pdf
True, but we are having a lot less IPOs lately: We see companies with valuations well in the billions, venture backed, that aren't IPOing. We are seeing non-public companies writing contracts with dual-trigger RSUs because options have become completely worthless.

So while it's still possible to raise capital by printing stock, this is happening less and less lately.
Question to landlords: does rent control hurt your bottom line?

I understand the opportunity costs of rent control: if rents in your neighbourhood have gone up 50% this year you feel like a sucker if you can only raise them by 5%.

Similarly you might put off minor renovations (that don't require the tenant moving out) because you won't necessarily be able to charge more to make up for the cost (apart from selling the property).

But is it common to rent out a property below cost, assuming you can make it up later with rent increases? E.g. you just bought a property in Mountain View so your mortgage payments are high, plus the cost of all of the new appliances, and maybe it's an older house so labour and maintenance costs are higher than the $4k/mo you charge in rent.
It doesn't even take a concentration of a group of a specific origin. Take Erasmus students, for example, it's terrible. They come from various countries, so they do not speak the same mother language and do not share an identical culture; but they'll always stay together, always speak in English and not in the local language, and almost never mix with locals students or others locals (except the local drug dealer of course).
In addition to these good points, assuming you also host whatever application your MegaCorp makes, you have now put all your eggs in one basket. If they can break DNS, they can (or have) probably also broken your app. Likewise, if they manage to DDoS your app, you can't change DNS records to point them elsewhere since that's also down probably. For the same reason you may use multiple hosting providers (like a nice Digital Ocean droplet for when Linode is under attack), spreading out your DNS options is also very smart.
Totally understandable, and I can see what you mean about 3D printing not being magic. You're not going to hit "print" and end up with completed pressure vessels ready to live in.

I do think, however, that robotics and additive manufacturing will be critical to building significant parts of the machinery and buildings on Mars.

Certainly, sometimes you will use traditional manufacturing methods to construct things. But additive manufacturing has different capabilities and it will be used for different things. And unlike some people who claim additive manufacturing can't be used for anything, I believe that a mixture of traditional manufacturing methods and additive methods will be critical to building a colony on Mars.

Imagine for instance that you want to build some buildings. Lets say both pouring concrete and additive manufacturing methods would work. You need to build 40 habitats. Would you rather work all day in a space suit in the hazardous near vacuum of Mars to build the forms needed to pour concrete for the structures? Or sit in your pajamas in a habitat on a computer designing and controlling the robots that will do it for you? And in that case, maybe you will want to have the robots make forms and pour the concrete for you, but perhaps you will use additive manufacturing methods.

I can imagine the latter is easier for robots, and using robots is easier for humans than doing the labor themselves.

Of course, to build a robot that will manufacture a home out of concrete, you need to build the mechanical parts of that robot. How will you do that? Probably not with CNC machines and blocks of aluminum (making such parts was my job for 7 years BTW). Instead I imagine that you will keep a library of feedstocks for 3D printing and you will print out the robot parts in your lab.

Interesting fact: there are now some extremely high performance plastics available for common home-style 3D printers, including carbon fiber filled PEEK. At $850 per kg that's a material I don't think you'd use unless you had to, but if I were building a colony on Mars at $500k a head I think I'd bring 100kg of that stuff.

100kg of carbon fiber filled PEEK plastic will make a lot of concrete extruding habitat constructing robot frames.

You'll have to bring the motors and electronics separately. At least until you build that foundry....

See what I mean when I say 3D printing can help make a self sustaining economy possible?
Joe Armstrong on GUI development (2006)
I think I remember Terence Tao talking about something like this in relation to Navier-Stokes.