skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, it's 2016 and people still report on this fraud? th3j35t3r has been proven to be full of shit countless of times in the past 7 years.

And again, his amazing mid.ru hack is nothing but a reflected XSS vulnerability on archive.mid.ru
https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/789897288315342849

This is just pathetic.
Any bets how long it'll take for a cease-and-desist letter from Blizzard for this one?
"Robert D’Andrea, a retired Army major and Iraq veteran, was told to return a $20,000 bonus he received in 2008 because auditors could not find a copy of the contract he says he signed."

How is this possible? If private businesses could do this, it would be mayhem.
From the second video it looks like the device supports a key fob accessory which contains a second camera/LED system. This seems to communicate remotely with the phone, which could be placed in the user's pocket.
We agree with each other. Restricting rentals reduces competition for owning homes, which lowers the price to purchase a home. You'll get more homeowners. Everyone who still rents is worse off because the supply of rental housing has been choked off. They will live in less desirable neighborhoods than they would in a world without such restrictions.
Did you consider using datomic instead of git?
And this, my friends, is the very definition of a 'useful idiot!'
Sound Transit 3, the light rail initative, can bring mobility to Seattle
Hahaha this is awesome
Also a Russian warm water port in the Med. And just extending their influence because Assad father and son have traditionally been allies.
I'll believe that when I see it.
Ah, Kim Stanley Robinson. Smart guy. If only he understood any economics, at all.
Hmm with an incredible enough camera you theoretically ought to be able to see and then memorize idiosyncracies per card with any deck and then take it to Vegas at any table. I'd say its possible now, although too slow and expensive and obviously seeing the same card as the same card from every side is the hardest part. The camera and light would probably be a fair amount larger, too.
This train of thougt was too messed up...but we have interactive rebase!
What's the range on that camera? I can't imagine it's more than 20-30 cm
See davidacoder's post at the top; it does that now, essentially.
It sure would. Not that you could spin up something so large.
> And maybe they could publicly shame ISPs that didn't act on the information.

so... all of them?

Why do you think Dyn should waste their time and money on this?
Wasn't clear from the article; did someone or a group of people break the law so that these ("illegal") bonuses could be paid? Basically, who (or what org) will be held accountable for this so that it won't happen again?
The whole deck doesn't need to be marked. Mark two aces in a deck and you have a reasonable advantage in hold 'em on a reasonably full table.

Not for this device, but in general.
The aesthetics of the site is refreshingly simple.
I'd wager the engineers behind this have thought a lot about voting machines, except I'd bet they'd find a way to cheat me out of both of these gambles.
In SF you essentially lose your lease instantly if caught, so the profit motive is not a sure bet. Couple that with the requirement since 1998 that subletters be informed what the actual rent is and the ability for the subletter to report the sublessor, and it's almost a sure loser.
Yeah, citation definitely needed.

One of these groups is emigrating to places far from home in large numbers. The other is not.
Robert Reich: The Trust Destroyers
Mass effects in modern life (1925)
Now you are the one redefining "jerk". When a woman complains that she keeps falling for jerks, she means guys who cheat on her, curse at her, beat her, and spend her money.
I was an Erasmus student, and some of what you describe definitely happened. A combination of factors like all the local students arrived before semester started and got the nice dorms, so all the foreigners were together in the old dorm without kitchens. All the local students had social groups and weren't looking for new friends the way other exchange students are (none of us were first years). We spoke French among ourselves because not everyone spoke English, but when we first arrived socialising in French was difficult, especially in groups, and other foreigners are much more patient and forgiving of that. I actually ended up making friends with a bunch of locals by joining a soccer team, but even there half the players were other foreigners. I wouldn't describe it as terrible at all, but everyone has an opinion.
"Give out a little taste to you friends. Call blah, blah, blah, at the Wall Street journal. Tell them Blue Horse Shoe loves Acacott Steel."

I watched that, and Platoon through college so many times. The duality of good/evil in those movies seemed to sum up life in the ninties. I eventually popped a mental gasket thinking about life/death too much though.

The only real money my deceased father(13 years ago) made in the market was at a tense family dinner, which my sisters father in-law, told my father to invest in his companies stock. He was the first rich guy who told the truth, after a few bottles of red wine. He told my father, "they all do it."

That was really the only time he came out ahead with the stock market. From then on, he thought he was a Series 7 experienced Stock Advisor. My father gave me really bad advice. He once told me to put all my money in Zapp Bicycles.

I got out of college, which he thought was a waste of time. He never paid a penny for my schooling, and I did agree that most of it was a joke. Anyways, out of college, I made $20 grand fixing up old cars. It was a lot of money back in my world.

I was just about to put it all on Zapp. My father bought a Zapp. It was his way of avoiding a DUI. He used it to go to his favorite bar in the avenues on it.

I went over to his house to ride the Zapp. I knew they just didn't do it right. It was too heavy. I didn't let it all ride on Zapp. A week later their stock went down, and stayed there.

Even though I had a degree in business, knew about diversification; there was a part of me who wanted to follow my dad's advice. (Poor kids--don't do this. Rich kids get good advice about money. Poor kids don't.)

I still have 11 grand of that money. I would have thought inflation would have eaten it all up.

All along, all I really wanted was enough money to buy a Harley, and ride across America. Now, I'm worried about theft. I'm worried about going by myself. I wanted to meet the perfect Midwestern girl. Over the years, I realized there's no perfect Midwestern girl.

A little off topic?
Or the AT&T merger with T-Mobile... that not only didn't go through it resulted in a massive contract clause with a $1B payout for T-Mobile...
Same for us. We're backed by Shopify and it was down until 4pm. Not sure I buy they quashed this by 1pm
It's quite nice, and works for user-defined collections as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XorFlvQEiI
As an Army vet myself, the truth is is that the Army will never miss an opportunity for fucking you over. Its the nature of the system. If you can make it to 20 years, you are some combination of exceptional/lucky/broken from years of fuckery.

"We just can’t do it. We’d be breaking the law"

Yeah, I'm sure the California National Guard tried really, really hard not to go after their bonuses.
Memstate – streamed persistent state as a service
It's just an engine - you have to get the content from Blizzard. OpenMW is doing the same with Bethesda.
Lets be serious here. Do you think the US or Russia will announce on their newspapers their actual interests and actually note money/commodities/whatever? This is big business on a global scale with decade-long goals. The pipelines can wait some years.

But lets say you are right -- do you think Russia is suddenly interested in some far-away humanitarian conflict or...perhaps there is something more?

Also, given the vast injustices around the world, any opinions on why the US decided to suddenly instill freedom in Iraq in 1992?
Not really surprised, the California Guard has been a corrupt mismanaged scandal-plagued organization for a long time.
Classic Holmes is not unpleasant. Modern Holmes is imitating House -- "life imitating art imitating life" sort of thing
Ask HN: Which website is the best to stay up to date technically for dev skills?
Hi,

I'm a developer and I want real good material to stay up to date.

I found many online services like "lynda.com" or "udemy" that has a nice catalog of courses.

I wonder which one is the best ?

Regards.
New buildings are exempt from rent controls. Rents on a unit also reset to market rate when a new tenant moves in. And Toronto is also the only place in Ontario you really hear about soaring housing costs. So rent controls are a fairly limited phenomenon here.
At least a partial answer is there, but presumably there are lot more people involved:

> Army Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, the California Guard’s incentive manager, pleaded guilty in 2011 to filing false claims of $15.2 million and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Three officers also pleaded guilty to fraud and were put on probation after paying restitution.
The word function has a sort of precis mening in math as a rule mapping each NUMBER in some domain to some NUMBER in a codomaon. The word arrow however can refer to any directed relation including less than or divides or what not, as long as they are composable and associative
Racism and white society needs for answers?
Ask HN: Computer Science/Engineering Museums?
Any museums, exhibits or tours related to computer science/engineering?

Computer History Museum @ Mountain View
http://www.computerhistory.org/

Intel Museum @ Santa Clara
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.html

Living Computer Museum @ Seattle
http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
"modern", but also classical.
I'm surprised that this is somehow even passed the slightest political oversight.

You need to be a special kind of bastard to ask some one who willingly signed up to get shot at while defending their country to pay back any amount of money they got paid for doing so.

Wars aren't pretty, regardless of what you think about them, and especially about Iraq and Afghanistan never ever take it out on the soldiers, they are probably on your side because unlike most of us they actually seen war.

Soldiers don't decide when, where or against whom to go to war, they are not at fault I never understood how the left in the US could blame people who either got drafted (vietnam) or signed up to defend their country (post 9/11) for the atrocities of war.
If they are residential or business IPs, it would be nice for the ISPs to let them know something on their local network is part of a massive botnet.
Stop saying I'm lonely and bored! I'm neither lonely nor bored, and my trolling is purely for entertainment value (often to be shared with others after the fact). For example, sometimes I'll make a throwaway stackoverflow account and then ask a question in which I criticize the gcc compiler, when in reality my posted code itself is logically incorrect. The variety and types of responses I get are often hilarious... from the condescending pedant to the patient nurturer.
I just googled it and found this:

http://eji.org/anthony-ray-hinton-exonerated-from-alabama-de...

which has a lot more detail on the specifics of the case (and indeed it is very troubling but great he has been released). Sounds pretty much as theguardian said though.

Disclaimer: I work at the Guardian (not as a journalist though).

Edit: also on WashPo and NYT:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/0...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/us/anthony-ray-hinton-alab...
Got another great resource here http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/
Having worked for a company designing nuclear power plants, that was very much a financial company where even the tiny sales department had far more power than the very large engineering department ... I would disagree that complexity of a problem makes companies engineering companies.

The engineers at sister companies who were working at the time on an offshore gas terminal were in the same position. Those companies are very much not engineering driven.
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Further math is sort of a stone age technology
Thanks for an excellent curated list.
This is weird. I'm extremely surprised that some kind of statue of limitations does not apply here. I'm not sure we are getting the whole story.
Marx said of history that war is always about an economic motive. He wrote that even going back through evolutionary history, wars are a struggle over control of resources.

I don't agree with Marx on a lot, but I think a sad fact is that he was right about that, at least over 90% of the time. US independence can be largely seen in this way, Germany's aggression in WWII after the league of nations crippled the German economy, Japan's aggression in WWII, Korea, Vietnam...

Worst thing about this is the scarcity problem--what economists regard as a problem of having enough resources--today is pretty much solved. For example, already enough food is produced for everyone on earth. We don't have a pressing need to go to war over resources. We do drive large cars, trucks and SUVs, and live in oversized houses that we don't need. A person looking at this from another planet would shake their head and ask what will ever be enough for us to stop bloodshed.
So did recruiters cut bigger checks than they were supposed to? If so, someone had to sign off on that... either recruiters or the managers should be held accountable.

Soldiers got contracts promising one amount but received checks for another amount? Yeah, they should have to pay that back then.

But who wrote checks and / or promised numbers higher than the contracts?
That's not how it works. They don't design shitty products specifically for sale in Uzbekistan. Off-brand crappy products are typically simply copied from the designs of mainstream products, and the features baked in for the large markets (US) get automatically included. Often times this happens with secret "third" shifts where the factory reports two shifts per day to the main customer that supplied a design for manufacture, and then the third shift is run illicitly and solely for the profit of the factory management / owners. These illicit products are then sole to places where enforcement is sketchy. They don't go and retool the factory for the third shift just to make stuff more crappy.

Yes there are still some crappy products that fall through the cracks. But the rising tide would eventually help lift all boats.
There's now a blog post with some analysis on this: https://hearty785.wordpress.com/
Anyone have the backstory on how they have a 40k robot on a twitch channel?
This reminds me of an episode in the new season of Black Mirror when they connect a guy to a device which data mines his memories and conjures up horrors to entertain the guy...SPOILER ALERT!!...and he dies 0.04s after the connection.
From the article
"Investigations have determined that lack of oversight allowed for widespread fraud and mismanagement by California Guard officials under pressure to meet enlistment targets."
With an unmarked deck, I don't believe the technology currently exists.

I would accept that at a given magnification, every card is unique (including when viewed from the side), and can be uniquely identified.

But without a marked deck, it would need one (probably more than one) run through the deck, to see the value of a card and associate it with an image of the side of the card. Bear in mind you only get to record cards that are shown, so it could potentially take many games to record the full deck, and that's assuming the deck stays consistent.

But even with multiple run-throughs of the deck, I don't think we have the technology to produce that high resolution a camera in a small enough form-factor. Even putting aside expense, the trick here is pre-marked decks, with markings visible only to IR.

Without that, we'd need serious advancements in lenses and sensors before we could have a tool that was discreet enough to pull out at a game.
Ask HN: Mathematics-related Museums?
Any interesting museums, exhibits, tours or destinations for mathematicians?

National Museum of Mathematics @ NYC
http://momath.org/

Greece
> a big fan of rent control as a general concept

Government price controls have a 4000 year history of miserable failure. See "Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls."
Is this merely a reflection of general American population that views the army as a major drain on national resources that can be better spent elsewhere. Or is there something more sinister going on inside the National Guard.
Well, they decide when they enlist to go kill people when told to.
The blog post indicates additional details are forthcoming.
it would be extremely surprising if something as simple as an organization made up of fragile humans would manage to last longer than say a millennium or so.

Would it? In 868, the County of Portucale was created; in 1143 it became independent, with Vimaranes as its capital. Nowadays, Portugal is still around and Guimarães is still an important city, and while it certainly has its problems, I don't think it's in any danger of disappearing. Is it that exceptional?
Saying any solution is imperfect is just a waste of breath. Of course that's the case. The point is to move forward with improvements regardless, because improvements, guess what, improve things.
It's never stopped people in SF. I know a couple people renting extra rooms and making a profit off of it. That is, their rent is zero and they actually pocket money each month.
It may not scale as much as you'd like, but I think the real opportunity is with clothes themselves. They're way over-priced.

It would set me back like $700 to buy a pair of well cut pants, used. These pants have legs that curve when hanged which translate to aesthetic looking stacks when worn. You can reverse engineer these things in your room - or pay people to do so - with quality fabric and you'd be looking at very nice margins, selling them for a fraction of the competition.
Women have plenty of options like this whereas men do not.

All in all though I think this is a terrible thing to ask HN. If you browse enough of these clothes you get a sense of envy; you'd easily want to start paying unreasonable prices for things you don't need. I've been browsing fancy (and subsequent googling) for the last hour+ since I've read your response.

It's a good industry to get into but I think you should have some sense of passion driving you if you expect to differentiate yourself from the competition.
Does anyone know details on the throughput or packets per second?

This smells so much of gross negligence on the part of Dyn executives and all the unicorn web executive teams for single sourcing to me.

I present as a counterexample and encourage people to go research the architecture of Verisign. I attended a talk by Verisign, which runs .com and .org as well as root servers. They are a constant DDOS target. They are necessarily a single entity of failure and appointed by ICANN to perform these services for the most common TLD in the world. If they mess up, they will probably lose that status. They've had over 16 years of uptime.

Every layer of the stack is dual or triple sourced. Two server makers, two generations, two router vendors, two switch vendors, two network architectures, POP diversity, peering diversity. Services and capacity always added in pairs. Two separate NOC and Ops teams. FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. nsd, bind, and internally developed userspace on Netmap. Code upgrade deployed in halves. Everything is structured for at least a full halving for The Big One zero day I don't think we've really seen yet.

They were doing 10gbps of DNS on a single commodity server 3 years ago. This makes it easy to absorb any DDOS and gradually clamp it at the public peering points.

The above should be standard operations structure for any breakaway success web business. It's not that hard, but you have to claw the charlatans out of the management chain and put in professionals that take the career seriously. Professionals.

What's really appalling is hearing some unicorn web biz uses one cloud vendor, one service provider like Dyn. This is absolutely trivial stuff to multi-source and has almost no effect on OpEx.

Last I heard from a Dyn insider was they were eliminating FreeBSD and had a brain drain a few years ago. Overall pretty unsurprising outcome.

Internet reliability no more complex and certainly much cheaper than analogous critical infrastructure like electrical generation for a region. I am constantly disappointed in this field for its lack of recognizing and installing professionals into management. We've been doing Internet architecture in modern form for 30 years. Get your shit together.
I would think that the fact that they paid him should be de facto evidence that he signed a contract for the money, and that the burden of proof would be on them to show that the contract was invalid for some reason.
That's a good point. I have not heard about that in NYC. To note a tangential topic of dead-weight loss...I know one person in Manhattan using their studio apartment as storage. Yes, because the cost of their rent controlled apartment is less than purchasing a storage unit.
You could, but I suspect that inevitably you would wind up having written a framework to organize and manage that complexity, just an ad-hoc and poorly designed one.
That is what I was thinking.

Right now I am debating an on premise email server or something on aws.
Such as with the $15 minimum wage - it's the marginal businesses that will shut down, and the people with marginal job skills who will be shut out of the job market.
Yeah, there is a reason some highly wealthy people are bank rolling both sides in wars. It's not only about the war but the aftermath is ripe for shady stuff as you can read from history books including power, rebuilding, contracts, natural resources to name few.
Incrementally updating the Dominator
But fraud on the part of the California Guard is an internal matter. If I form a contract with a company that says they will pay me some amount of money, but the company representative was committing fraud internally then too bad. The company needs to deal with that. It can't reneg on its agreement years later after having already fulfilled the terms of the agreement.
Considering most male-dominated occupations are due to them being physically demanding, I do agree that software development stands out as a bit of an odd-one out if you look at the list below.

https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...

But as you can see, the gender imbalance problem is no worse than those of healthcare sectors.

Where is the same political outcry about under representation of male nurses, even though RN is highly paid, physically demanding work. Why aren't we pushing men to go into caregiver fields where the imbalance is much worse?

Is it so taboo to say that perhaps it's because women excel at some of these fields than men? And vice versa?

Look, it's good to acknowledge that the imbalance exists, and do an honest root cause analysis and try to remedy it.

But this has be become such a politicized topic that they're making documentaries about this, and even private sector CEOs are getting involved. Why?
Just to add to the nostalgia, back in the day we used to use a protocol/app called BLAST[0] to grab data off of Data General mini-computers onto PC's back in the 80's. Hugely simple to use and damned reliable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(protocol)
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No disrespect but you weren't calling the right BBSs.
Business-unfriendly just translates to higher costs and higher prices.