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I also love the Source Engine networking. Another one I like is The Torque Game Engine. It has a very similar networking model, I think it may even be a little better (it's the engine that powered the original Tribes game).

I remember buying a license to the original TGE years ago and digging through the networking code, it was great. They've open-sourced the latest version of Torque under the MIT license, and I believe the networking code is nearly identical to the original code used for Tribes.
Can those servers act as honeypots and attract real attacks too?
Haven't read the spec, but yes they can.

I know several common USB devices that actively prevent field upgrades of their firmware for security reasons, an example would be the Yubikey (http://www.yubico.com/faq/upgrade-yubikey-firmware/).
Building a Honeypot to Observe Shellshock Attacks in the Real World
I forgot to mention -- about PPS -- most modern high-speed connections can handle a 30 PPS 8-player Descent game just fine, but there are a few players stuck in rural areas with very old connections, who can't. I'm guessing -- from the 8kB/s limit he set for himself -- that the author's audience sees a similar distribution.

The thing is, you don't have to make those connections symmetric. One of the features I'm working on for the next Descent Retro release is allowing players to set a PPS limit for themselves, based on their own available bandwidth, that will both reduce their PPS upstream, and request that their opponents reduce the rate of the incoming packets.

This means people with fast connections can have high-quality 30 PPS game interactions, and people with slow connections can still play with them. They have to put up with 8 PPS (or whatever), but it's preferable to not playing. :)
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It's an excuse to award state contracts, which are massively profitable for the bureaucrats awarding them, and for the winning bidder selected (who has business connections with the bureaucrat.) Half of these companies that completely fail at not overrunning their budgets by 2-5x don't even exist before these contracts are awarded, and don't exist for long afterwards. The rest are deeply entrenched in government.

It's only negative ROI for the taxpayer. The Olympics and the World Cup are just excuses for graft.
Location: Los Angeles or Orange County, CA
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Technologies: Clojure(Script), Om/React, Rust, Haskell, Swift/iOS, Go, Scala/Play!, C++11, Python/Flask, Ruby/Rails, Machine Learning
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ml6njfjnswexpnz/resume-pub.pdf
Email: in resume
Site: http://www.blaenkdenum.com

I'm a generalist who doesn't get bogged down with dogmatic views on specific technologies. I strive to learn a very diverse set of technologies in order to keep an open mind and blend the best ideas from each [0].

[0]: http://www.blaenkdenum.com/notes/

Most recently I created a web interface for rtorrent in Clojure/ClojureScript and Om/React [1], and I'm currently working on a static site generator in Rust.

[1]: https://github.com/blaenk/levee
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Your email isn't in your profile as far as I can see :)
Herpes vaccine passes first trial [pdf]
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1]

I imagine that a lot of people also find "quick, weak jokes" to make for boring reading.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm comfortable with the assumption that the drone operator was close enough to the drone to discern betwixt a gun discharge and other loud bangs. It does say they were focusing the drone on a house under construction (and even if they were flying all over the neighborhood, they would still likely end up keeping a short distance to the drone).

Edit: I'm also comfortable with the assumption that the police took the location of the firing and such into account when they made the arrest.
that and our current "partner", Russia, isn't so reliable anymore. This can be simple acknowledgment of who else will be a viable when it comes to space exploration and exploitation.
Curious how you plan on managing a pro version of the product when the free version is open source. Will you just be rejecting pull requests which add features which are in the pro version? Given that the code is licensed GPL, this seems to be inviting a fork which will have additional features which would otherwise be restricted to the pro version.
This is pretty rad. I had hopes for Kopilua and Aluminum Lua, but neither panned out. If I go back to Unity, I'm gonna use this. Thanks for open-sourcing it!

For now, I actually use CSharpCodeProvider and compile C# as "scripts" during game start (and cache it for future use), searching across attributes to find the right item. When deploying to platforms that don't have CSharpCodeProvider (Xamarin.iOS, for example), I can precompile the scripts, pack the assemblies, and the fallback is trivial.
People are still whining about namespaces?

Laravel's Translation files are namespaced Illuminate\Translation. The database stuff is Illuminate\Database with some subsections like Illuminate\Database\Query. Hardly complex.
The firmware could be locked down, but doing so is inconvenient for the manufacturers.

For example, I believe that the firmware flashing allows for easy configuration of the USB storage size, so there's no need to hard-code values in the hardware. As a result, you can easily re-use components and repurpose them as needed.

It might also be used for mapping out bad sectors during device testing? That way you can stuff low quality flash storage into a USB stick and then blank out the bad parts during testing. This could be more difficult to do if the firmware isn't easily updateable.
What are the examples of successful startups that were created deliberately to 'start a startup'?

I'd imagine the majority of successful startups never set out with any aspiration of becoming one. I think having that goal is poison and leads people to "playing house" and going through the motions of a successful startup without achieving the key ingredient: a product users need.
You sound like https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker.
Hi, the link should say (for now) "Almost ready" when you hover. We will have that ready soon (soon = days).
We don't have problems with adding a CDN at all. We do that a lot for many other projects. It's just a matter of this "stealth launch of Taiga" going out of control, we didn't need a CDN for a 1 core + 1 GB RAM virtual machine, which is what is actually handling all the traffic. Having said that, expect a CDN in place next week.
Could someone comment on the following C++14 feature on the list here:

"Avoiding/fusing memory allocations"

It lists Clang but nothing else as supporting it.

This sounds like a compiler optimization and not a language feature, and since it's talking about C++14 (not C++11) I know this isn't referring to move semantics/rvalue references.

What exactly is this?
I can't reliably pass on memes because I don't have a clan. I'm a lone nation of one (well, two, anyway), and this nation is going to disappear once we die.

I can give memes to other unrelated people but I don't know whether they use those for good.
Usually I work to prevent problems rather than create them but hey I could be the antagonist in someone's novel. I doubt that's not the only exploit in the library either. I could go through it with a finer toothed comb if you wanted.
Thanks for chiming in - you're definitely our target market exactly. Good points on POs coming from QB. We thought of QB in that we already built an integration for the seller to push invoices into QB automatically, but I hadn't thought about it from the buyer's perspective with POs. We currently allow you to enter a PO number on each order in OrderCircle so it can be traced back, but I see the need for deeper integration if possible.

Very familiar with NowCommerce - they're really the only one out there doing it even close to correctly (though they're very limited and locked into QB). Also fairly expensive, yes?

Great thought on a QB PO importer/reader. It's a bit tough since POs are free-form and you'd need to somehow automatically map it to the seller's SKUs. But we'll definitely put that on the list to think through further.
AluminumLua isn't nearly complete and isn't a pure interpreter. It can't run on Xamarin.iOS, for example.
This is a rather unusual comment and this link is probably the wrong place to have this conversation, as hacker news is probably the wrong place in general.

Anyway, it's rather simple. It's just taking what we have seen in the past (people appropriating any kind of technology thrown at them [1]) and extending it into the future.

Is this the correct approach? Probably not.

I like to remind myself that there was a time when smoking was the thing to do. Little knowledge about potential dangers was available. Projections about future adaption of the habit might have looked similar.

[1]: Strictly speaking this is not true, since there is a huge cemetery of rejected technology that remains mostly invisible. Smartphones just turn out to be one of the technologies that have become widely accepted, creating a wrong impression overall.
Cloudflare experiencing upstream network issues
Slideshare releases its first iOS app written entirely in Swift
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Oh the reaction that would happen now should any perceived as dangerous if not truly dangerous project were to be hidden around a major metro area or within. Considering the uproar slowly evolving over Ebola, the CDC, and hospitals who treated people, it doesn't take much this day and age to generate interest or work on people's fears.
Observer is way more practical of course, but there's something very cool and futuristic about the 3D version. You expect Tony Stark to reach out and modify some of the processes or something. (You guys didn't know that Iron Man runs on Erlang?)
Why do you say that? The techincal goals of this mission are fairly modest, and do not seem to bush the boundaries of launch technologry or involve technology that would be useful for human survival in space.

The agreement and mission are both good things, but I do not see how they will have much of an effect on human spaceflight.
Ancient campfires may have aided the rise of storytelling
Study suggests that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients may be reversed
Yeah, cities bidding is like investors bidding. They're looking at ROI's in more than just the monetary terms. However, if you walk into a board room and ask for a billion dollars they're going to tell you yo get out.
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The mob is fickle and they're usually wrong about the facts.

The first iPhone didn't even have apps like the smartphones that came before it. That's not modern. They didn't have the first touchscreen on a phone. Apple has very good marketing and that goes a long, long way when it comes to dealing with the mob.
Spoofed TCP disconnections can be annoying too.
There was a lot of waste too, just look at the photos of what the site is like now http://desertedplaces.blogspot.com.es/2014/08/athens-olympic...
Tweaked the title a bit because it's drawing a hyperbolic conclusion from the paper it cites (which is nonetheless interesting): http://www.pnas.org/content/111/39/14027
SATA storage...
OpenStack's tipping point, Alan Clark interview and Juno's march to maturity
There can be many superheroes, but only one ultimate.
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Scribble Raises $12M Series C Led by Waterloo
My Neighbor Blasted My Drone with a Shotgun
It's been reposted lots of places. Here's an ostensibly more official source, if you prefer: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487
I don't happen to particularily like that culture. It's toxic for most part. There are some nice touches here and there, but I can't tie myself to it fully.
Ask HN: How do you choose SSL provider?
I'm crafting an app that works with google drive API hence touches user's data. As I'm not an organization the options are reduced to domain validation cert. but how to choose the right one?

The default option is GoDaddy certificate as I host my domain there.
Can't some of this be patched at the USB driver level in the OS? A storage device shouldn't be acting like a keyboard, etc.
Hehe. When I was interning at a company and they had SGI systems back in the day. I accidentally stumbled on Fsn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn) and realized it was the file browser they used in Jurassic Park and it was real and I could actually use it.
This is what I'd prefer, similar to "use strict" like Perl and Javascript.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "appropriating technology".

People accepting, wanting, using and integrating said technology in everyday life.

> The number of smart devices is going to explode because we want to automate all the things

This is precisely what I'm questioning. "We want"? How can you know that? I believe you want that, I believe that maybe people in your circles do, too. Still, that is no evidence at all to extrapolate that "we want".
This is exciting but makes me nervous. India is re-imagining "space travel on a budget", but if all of a sudden they have to play by NASA's rules and standards, their ability to innovate at low cost might be hampered.

Hopefully whatever form of cooperation they come up with lets India continue to operate mostly independently.
This article doesn't even mention Fermi! Anyway, I thought most people already knew the Manhattan Project began in Manhattan.
Reexamining Residency Requirements for Police Officers
A Field Guide to Design by Pros at Media Temple, Marvel, GA Dash and Product Hunt
Is it roughly the same as UE3? It was usable but god damn did it make a lot of things difficult.
Run Your Startup Like a Cult
In-depth Interview with Brian Wang, Fitocracy
Very true.

We held up 'having a bachelors degree' as a requirement for getting a job, no matter what the job is. It's a way of narrowing the applicant pool.

And it completely distorted the purpose of university.

IMHO, everyone who qualifies academically should have the opportunity to - free of charge - go to university. It raises the level of cultural discourse.

On the other hand, trade schools are completely stigmatized in this country - and many of them are simply scams that don't do a very good job at training you at all (see: ECPI).

Post-secondary education in the USA is completely ass backwards, with conflicting priorities, an upside down profit motive, and a cultural perception of either being absolutely necessary or absolutely lib'rul and evil intellectualism that's-a destroyin' amurka.
I think that in the context, it conveys the fact that it's 10% of the original price better than saying 10%.
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This might protect against malware infecting your device unexpectedly, but I think there's a need for OS manufacturers to consider this as part of the holistic security. Why not pop up a dialog when a new USB device with HID profiles shows up that the OS hasn't seen?
It is. It was only 2 colors, but it was high resolution, especially compared to other screens at the time. There's one in my Vectrex sitting near my desk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
I'm afraid this is going to be my dad, if anybody ever flies a drone low over our family farm...
Substitute "large democratic power to balance China" with "large power to balance China", and I think it makes more sense.

U.S. foreign policy seems to be to hinder the expansion of other large powers in an attempt to keep them small enough to not be an existential threat at some point in the far future.

You send money and aid to whom ever is in a position to hinder those who are growing too powerful, whether the group you are sending that money and aid to is democratic or not.

This is not about right and wrong. It's about long term strategy, aimed at preserving the status quo for as long as possible. If you hinder your competitors, that keeps them from becoming even more of a threat to you.
I am aware of the textbook definition of "democracy," "republic," etc, but it seems like those names are more of a flag for people to fight under than a definition for a state of being in the modern era

You seem to be assigning moral equivalence to democracy and Chinese communism/totalitarianism.

If you aren't just trolling, then differences include the right to travel, the right to free speech, the right to read the internet uncensored, and the right to vote.
Huh, this sounds like it could dovetail beautifully with FirefoxOS's attempt to blur the lines between "native apps" and web content.

It'd probably be pretty easy to have these things show up in an "Ambient" smart collection on the homescreen, or in the universal search pane...

Edit: Looks like you can get this running on an RFDuino (https://github.com/google/physical-web/blob/master/documenta...), which are currently $20 at MicroCenter, and a USB shield is $25. Still 2 in stock in the Twin Cities, if anyone else is interested!

Edit 2: ...Though, it looks like FxOS doesn't currently support BLE (https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Bluetooth#Unsupported_Bluetooth...), so this may not be the most useful path at the moment. :)
It's concerning that so few cities are left in the 2022 games bidding process, but this article seems to ignore that there are still plenty of interested bidders for the 2024 summer and 2026 winter games.

While the author's conclusion is not necessarily wrong, this is very much a case of selective bias.
The trouble with FIFA is that the national FAs aren't a whole lot better. If three or four of the top footballing nations withdraw and form their own organization, it's likely that FIFA would collapse into insignificance.

If anything, FIFA's downfall may come from the fact that they're now funneling money to nations which are very much not part of that group, nations with little or no credibility in the sport.
There are a few clones and similar 3d interfaces.

http://nooface.net/3dui.shtml

Like VRML it seems it was a tech before its time. I'd love a modern version of one of these with Oculus.
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Show HN: A tool to create online Polls that go viral on social media
Nice idea, but more Crowdfunding sites please.
The idea came about since I also own several manufacturing businesses. We couldn't find ANYTHING that addressed this market - all the solutions were either old school (desktop software), or very focused on the fashion market (nuOrder, Joor).

So being that I have a startup/tech background, we started to build our own solution. I made the decision early on to put in the extra effort to built it multi-tenant as a SaaS app so others could use it too.

So yes, it's built directly to scratch our own itch - and it's an itch I know others have as well from chatting with other business owners over the last few years. There was nothing out there for it, so we built it :)
I wrote this on the WSJ comments several hours ago but it's worth repeating here. I believe that it would be valuable if the US invested more basic research money in India. We might be able to greatly increase our research output in the basic sciences. Start small then increase the budget as research in India matures.
Currently reading:

A Guide to the Good Life: Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine

Algorithm Design Manual - Steven S Skiena

Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work - Dan Roam

Highly recommend the first 2, Blah Blah Blah is a rehash with a twist on Back of the Napkin.
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No, there's nothing in the USB spec that requires the internal processor to be updatable. The headline is clickbait.

To get this to work, you need to solder wires onto the USB flash drive's PCB, and then program a "burner" firmware image into the microcontroller. Only then you can remove the wires, and further program its firmware over USB. The stock firmware for nearly any USB device would never allow itself to be upgraded over USB.

This strategy allows you to give someone a malicious flash drive that enters keyboard commands into the computer (this has been done before), or infects the computer by pretending to be a device whose driver has a security flaw. It would not allow you to infect the other USB devices connected to that computer, because they don't have burner firmware.
Go. If your employer don't care about your training and other good things, don't spent your time too. I think it can be better for other guys, if you tell your current boss why you leave the company.
Attackers Scrape GitHub to Mine Virtual Currency
I'd be forever grateful. I imagine this one to be quite tough since it's ultimately up to the user to create and read serializable state objects for their components.
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That's a natural question.

People are welcome to fork and add their own features. They will need to support and maintain their features just like me. They will need to pull in upstream changes or their fork will rapidly age.

I target Inspeqtor Pro at teams and businesses with a real budget. They want a supported, pre-packaged product that solves their problem. If someone is willing to find and use some other person's fork, they were probably never going to pay for the Pro product in the first place and therefore there's little to no real competition here.
NISAR is a very interesting mission from a technological point of view. It will have two radars, at least one of which gives 10m resolution, and they will be obtaining global coverage. The data rate is huge, larger than any Earth remote sensing mission to date (many TB/day).

Earth scientists are already having problems dealing with contemporary data volumes, and NISAR really raises the stakes.
A few months ago, I tried building the Google WebRTC implementation, but got an error about missing Java libraries. I'm not sure why Java is needed to build a C++ API, even then, requiring Oracle Java 6 and not working with OpenJDK.

Ericsson's implementation, on the other hand, has a much simpler build process. Just run the shell script and it works.
The use of Linux and commodity hardware is interesting but when I read some of the sales copy on the Cumulus website I was reminded of why I hate enterprise software.

> The emerging software-defined data center (SDDC) paradigm involves automated control of all network, server, storage and application resources, resulting in a cloud operating system. Unified visibility is essential, enabling the cloud operating system to efficiently allocate resources, detect problems and ensure consistent performance.
I'm referring to the US government's 'us vs. them' attitude towards the countries that it defines as democracies (the 'free world'), and the countries it defines as dictatorships (including China).

I am aware the truth is significantly more nuanced than that, but in my post I'm interpreting the motives of the US government, not my personal take on the matter.

update: pdx's comment does a great job of providing a deeper explanation.
What is a mastermind group? When I google for it my screen gets filled with buzzword soup.
Thats an issue for a small percentage of the people who work in PHP.
You are implicitly assuming somehow they don't currently 'play by NASA rules (and NASA-level) standards.' Any evidence that this is so?
What you describe is true of the old style nuclear reactors (which, unfortunately, is all of them). I completely agree.

But new reactor designs (thorium, etc.) avoid the black swans and all of the interdependent complexity. We should be deploying them.
I've used AirVPN, Cryptostorm, and iPREDATOR in the past. No complaints with either of the three.

That said, if you're trying to hax0r the NSA or something crazy like that, don't expect a VPN to save you.
> Is it likely that this is simply empire expansion

The US' relationship with those places it has influence is more of a reverse empire: there's always a net outflow of money/resources.