skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... it shows they're moving to the modern approach of "suck money from players any way you can" instead of the traditional "sell really really good games at a high-ish price that never goes down because the game is so good it retains its value".

I worry about this too, but I think the recent success of Majora's Mask 3D (a remastered version of a 15 year old game that sold over 1 million in the first two weeks) should solidify the importance to Nintendo of creating really good classic iconic games that retain their value.
Likewise, it's already a massive time saver, this new tool can only reduce development cost further. I'd love it if my prototyping tool naturally converted the UI into something I can actually build on - this looks really promising!
You know you can tell it whether you're using car, bike, walk, or public transit, right?
I hope this will make laptop vendors and others include IR capabilities in their devices, and that those are usable outside Windows Hello. Would be cool to see what other uses people could come up with, for this "baby-kinect".
Right at this moment I'm reading Computer Networks (4th Edition) and loving it!
I enjoy his writing style, mainly because he makes jokes all the time! Funny guy :)
Use strict; in PHP
It appears one (the keyboard/menu-based system) reflows the page content--scaling the size of elements but not the document bounds--and the other (pinching) scales everything, including the document bounds, so no reflowing is necessary.

Not sure how I feel about it. I can see the former being useful on smartphones, but I really only have the latter available on the smartphone.
Faster? Yes. Fast? No.
I hope that PINs and such always remain alternatives to biometrics. My usual concern -- if the locally stored biometric data is compromised (malware, poor crypto, etc.), I need a way to "change my password", which isn't really possible for something like facial recognition. Likewise, I'm curious if there's a fallback authentication method for people who lose a finger, get their faces deformed, etc.

That said, the whole device-based authentication piece seems useful. A Windows 10 computer is now one factor in a 2FA scheme and the OS (and at least one of its browsers) gets to be directly integrated into Microsoft's SSO scheme.
If you say so! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219372
They claim physical access for "hacking" is required, but that is not true. As long as you have a root access on a device you can do anything from anywhere. I don't see how this replaces or improves passwords from this perspective. Yes it is easier for the user, since they don't have to remember the password, but everything else stays the same.
I think that she just might've just been a bad egg, given the facts presented in the article.
How old do you think a company would be to not be able to enter?
It does this for networks picked from the scan results - I might have been mistaken about one or two networks, but I see the probes for multiple networks I'm sure I picked from the list.
Generally the idea is to give the head of the project a vote.
Why stop at roaches? We could do this to dogs or small children! There's sometimes a tightrope between science and ethics, and this is just plain unethical.

I'll start with the argument just about everyone can relate to. We all know this isn't going to actually help people in collapsed buildings or find lost wedding rings. It's going to be used by government spy agencies and military goons to control people in one way or another.

Secondly, "it's just a cockroach" doesn't work for me. At what point do we say it's ok to essentially torture a living being into doing what we want? You could argue a cockroach doesn't have feelings or consciousness, but I could also argue that I am the only living being with feelings or consciousness. "I have no way of telling if another person or creature has feelings, therefor they must not."

Third, for those who don't give a shit about anybody but humans, how long until this is used in humans? They are sending signals directly into a living being's brain that controls its motor functions. Could that tech not be applied to a person eventually? Why put people in prisons when we can just force them into building signs all day? Why give soldiers a battle plan when you can just safely control them with a joystick from 3000 miles away?

This isn't just about making a cockroach do simple things. We're trading our humanity for science that will only do us harm.
The argument that climate scientists claim x% of warming every decade is a straw man.. that is not a claim they have made and then failed at. They have claimed longer-term warming with short-term fluctuations (considering that carbon emissions are only one factor among many), and if you pull out to a 100-year view, that claim has been maintained. In fact, when carbon emissions as a factor is removed from model predictions for the last 15 years or so, they predict cooling.. so the "flatness" in comparison indicates that carbon emissions brought the average temperature up.

In addition, the "flat temperature" argument itself only uses atmospheric temperature and not ocean temperature (which is another huge heat sink). Combined ocean and atmospheric temperatures still show a heat rise, even with the other natural environmental factors pushing a cooldown.
They readily admit that their models (unsurprisingly) don't do a good job at predicting the result of climate change, not that it doesn't exist or that it's going to be a good thing for humanity.

Whoa there. If their models don't do a good job of predicting climate change, then that has a direct impact on the predicted consequences and the impact on humanity, no?
This stuff is great, but too bad resin prints are brittle, and nearly useless at building replacement parts that require any strength.
The video actually shows a person attempting this, and it did not unlock the computer.
High-Resolution Dynamic Analysis of Windows Kernel Rootkits
I think interest in that application is partly driven by a DARPA competition for disaster-response robotics: http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/
South Philly parking works because double- and triple- parking is practiced (and permitted by the parking authorities in neighborhoods). Just write your cell phone number on a piece of paper, place it on your dash, and go inside.

It's amazing how little this is practiced in other cities that should utilize available parking to its maximum.

Thankfully, my city has a better public transit system than SEPTA. At the very least, I don't have to buy a copper subway token from a machine that only takes paper money.
It sill makes the idea that someone would pay billions (in cash) for Snapchat technology pretty funny.

As how to value their users...
Design, customize and 3D print your own toys
Nintendo is, in fact always has been, leader of the portable console market. The 3DS isn't dead, quite the opposite.

Kodak seems a poor comparison.
YC opted out. From the Forbes article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/03/17/the-best...

> Those strict criteria kept out one notable program: Y Combinator, which ranked #1 in 2014. Hochberg and Cohen note that Y Combinator, a pioneer whose graduates have included Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit, has “evolved” its model into that of a hands-off seed fund.

> “Y Combinator is cashing in on the name it made for itself,” says Hochberg. “They’re talking about raising a multi-billion dollar late stage fund to take advantage of their model that selects great entrepreneurs rather than mold them.”

> Other accelerators that remain on the rankings are more hands-on than Y Combinator, which by metrics alone would have ranked first again this year. Some entrepreneurs enjoy the relative freedom the program offers, versus highly structured programs elsewhere.
Patent trolls are still killing startups
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A rotation by 180 is the same matrix as two mirror images across X and Y. But the interpolation should look quite different.
Downvotes not justified. Lane's reviews are distressingly snarktastic.
Does Starbucks use WPA2? The last one I was at was open, I just had to click through a terms of service page.
> It's not impossible some of them apply to city housing markets.

Yeah, that's why I asked for real world examples.

But I still haven't seen any. If this actually happens, there should be real world examples that people would bring up in these arguments, right?

> Supply and demand storytelling doesn't even begin to come close to providing a useful model of that network.

I don't want to be rude, but isn't this just this standard anti science handwaving? "The world is far more complex than western civilization can grasp, therefore my gut feel must be the real truth!"

I mean, it's fine to say a model isn't perfect, but unless you have a better one to replace it with, or at least a clear example of something wrong, you're not really helping.

To me the SF housing market conforms perfectly with the supply and demand model: With a huge rise in demand, and supply being kept almost constant, it predicts the kind of strong price rises we've seen last few years.
Very convenient that this 'bad egg' in VC happens to be one of the 4% women in the field, and who again, seemed to do a far, far more competent job at the actual job description of picking the right companies to invest in, rather than total intangibles like 'thought leadership' and 'owning the room'. Read more articles about the case, read about how she wanted to invest in Twitter but they picked a bunch of losers instead, and still ignored her for promotion for intangibles that can straightfowardly be construed as gender-biased.
Oh, true! It's fixed now.
You can thank Linus for that, i.e. for refusing to upgrade to GPLv3.

GPLv3 deals with this problem exactly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
AMA with Stackoverflow's Sysadmins
First carefully consider what you want to print. For example, this resin type printer is not a great technology for creating strong replacement parts around the house.
You're throwing a lot of opinion out there that's not backed by evidence or even anecdote.

I currently work for a VC funded company and have worked for several in the past. I would not describe any of them as "frat house cultures". You're making some pretty sweeping generalizations.

The dinner with Al Gore was for senior partners and there WAS women invited, they just couldn't make it. Here's Mary Meeker on the subject:

http://recode.net/2015/03/16/liveblog-mary-meeker-testifies-...

> a highly qualified woman suggested they invest in winners like Twitter only to be ignored

We don't know the fully story here. They had already looked at investing in Twitter and passed. A mistake? Sure. But anti-portfolios are famous. Whether Pao is "highly qualified" or not is debatable. Has she made any successful investments? Was she previously a successful entrepreneur? Those are things that would make you highly qualified to be a VC.

I don't see anything "sickening" here.
I think it's pretty common to use downtown parking lots for events on weekends. I know DC also has "rush hour lanes" -- parking spots that turn into a lane of traffic during rush hour.
Vancouver in the winter is rainy and cold, but a refusal to cater to motorists (most of whom are from the suburbs anyway) hasn't negatively impacted businesses, and if anything has positively impacted them
What? There are clearly questions asking about how sulfuric acid is made, how glass is made, how to make paint, and so forth.
Agree strongly with this: "Does anyone seriously think that was anything other than hitting on Pao?"

Any man who is beyond college age, and who sincerely does not realize the meaning of handing out gifts and asking women out to dinner, is an idiot and should be removed from any position of authority. Emphasis on "sincerely" -- Randy Komisar is not that stupid, and his denials are hardly sincere.

The line "his wife bought the gift for her" has become something of a cliche which married couples use when the husband has been caught flirting but the wife is not yet ready to end the marriage.

Gifts given in public, for work well done, are always welcome, but a pattern of private gifts and requests for dinner are universally understood to be requests to initiate a sexual relationship.

One last word about "sincerely" -- there are some men who sincerely are that stupid. I have known at least 2. They somehow reach middle age and it does not occur to them that the gifts they are giving to an attractive young woman are being interpreted as sexual overtures. As Schiller said, "Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain." There is no cure for such men, but they need to be kept out of positions of power.
It is possible to have enough parking spots. It is impossible to have enough free parking spots.
The practice of medicine by human Doctors probably can't be much further optimized from what it is right now.

Let us all hope that you are wrong, because the system clearly isn't working.
Coming from a family of scientists and having a background in science as well, it's a bit terrifying (but not surprising) how many skeptics of anthropogenic climate change (or of the extent and severity of its effects) there are here. There are a few really good posts in here making good points about climate science, but there are also a bunch of really dishearteningly poorly informed comments too. It's dismaying to see and then to be reminded that the US populace in general is even more skeptical of the conclusions of experts, which pretty much all point at a very bleak picture of the future--a picture which keeps being adjusted to be more bleak, since so little action is being taken to rectify the problem.
I downvoted you, because you purported to summarize the case for readers who haven't been following it, and then provided a very misleading summary. Pao's case does not revolve around delayed reviews, or who took notes in meetings. One needn't have an opinion about the merits of Pao's case to have a negative opinion about the merits of this summary.
There's no mention that it's just ~10 words you are getting from signing up, once you are done with that you are prompted to upgrade ($18 for the next 370 sounds). Apart from that there were also a bunch of duplicates in the free ~10 words you see after signing up. ("kalte" was probably asked 4 times)

I don't know if it's OP's site but I'd include a demo that is actually usable without signing up and make it obvious that it's not "free".
> As long as you have a root access on a device you can do anything from anywhere.

As Raymond Chen likes to say, "it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway." Once you have root, yes, you have compromised the machine.
Is there a way to sort this by capacity, completion date, and other metrics? I'd love to see a timeline view of how submarine cable capacity has changed over the last decade.
It could also be a sign of many different things. My "gut guess" is that founders with some startup experience that now are heading out on their own are being selected for.
Companies with a female founder: 25 (21.93%)

Companies with a Black founder: 9 (7.89%)

Companies with a Hispanic founder: 6 (5.26%)

They should release the stats of the number of people overall, not the number of companies with at least one member who fits into one of those groups.

For example, say X% of the people are female, etc.
I agree and would add others along the lines of . . .

- a hobby-skill (playing piano, ping-pong, billiards, surfing)

- playing a team sport

- telling a joke

- defending one's self / fighting / disarming with humor

All the above designed to build confidence.
> No offense, but it doesn't sound like you know fully what you're talking about.

About that ...

MAC addresses are not checked unless you use an extra tool for this. For example, a large institution (university, company, etc) can have many access points, each with a unique MAC address. However the SSID is unique among all Access Points. Your device will only check the SSID, try to connect (using mutual authentication), but no MAC address checks take place. You don't need to know or use the MAC address of the target network to clone it. You can just use any MAC address you want, that is if you know the password of it, or are cloning an unprotected network.
Show HN: Smart Cigar Humidor Project Running on RaspberryPi / NFC / Arduino
> Of course, the real solution lies in eliminating personal car usage altogether (e.g. Uber)

eg bicycles and walking
Hitting on a woman isn't even illegal unless there is a threat of coercion or it is so frequent/severe that it creates a hostile work environment.

I'm sure Pao's attorneys are arguing it is a part of a larger hostile work environment. But itself isn't sexual harassment.
Has SF ever been considered or even wanted to be considered a kid/family-friendly place? Watching from the sidelines, it's never seemed like a priority.
Yes, many Canadians pronounce "aboot", but you don't find the ", eh?" construction all over Canada, particularly out west.
Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look
I feel any indicator that shows the product is coming soon will relay the message to users to follow-up (ie email notification when mac/linux is release).
I think its less about the $15k and more about being able to say they got an award from Mastercard, publicity, networking with other businesses, which is always helpful.

Also, the CEO might just find these things fun.
How to make the perfect cup of tea
no what? no you don't agree, no you don't care? no its not in bad taste? give me something more than no.
Care to provide some links to what you think the case IS about? I'm addressing points raised in the submitted article and the article I provided a link to. How am I being misleading?
Well, I'm referring more to original IP. Yes, there are ports, but ports just aren't all that interesting in the grand scheme of things. There are basically zero studios on mobile making games on Nintendo's level as first-class platform citizens.
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Or C++. The whole "But you can only use a subset of the language if you want" part will particularly resonate with anyone who wrote C++ in the past couple of decades.

And this argument is nonsense.
It did..? I think.
That holds when parking is free.
A lot of old companies are Dead or Exited. Someone should do statistics on this data.
Yet, DNSSEC introduces a huge number of other problems like giving government agents even more control over the Internet. I was strongly in the DNSSEC camp until doing more research into it. I'd summon @tptacek for this discussion, but I think you've actually participated in a few of those already with him.
A few years ago I 3D printed a head I sculpted in Maya, and took a video of the print. [1] Seeing the video of the Carbon3D in action makes me want to buy one just so I can make a cooler video :)

1: https://vimeo.com/54888826
great work! Would be nice to see funding along side.
Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
There's less than zero value in bringing Megaupload into the discussion at all. They're not some 'content hosting site' that was 'aggressively prosecuted'. Megaupload was run by pirates who left mountains of evidence that they were ensuring that their content site was filled with pirated content.

Do you have an actual example of an actual content site that was aggressively criminally prosecuted?
'Aside from the fact that you should never trust website software that uses ".aspx" in its URL bar'

Overall really interesting post - but this hurts credibility quite a bit.
> Third, for those who don't give a shit about anybody but humans, how long until this is used in humans?

I hear people are eating chickens and even cattle! How long until this is done to humans?!?!
I'm confused. There are lots of people doing this type of 3D printing using video projectors and whatnot.

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120911-a-list-of-diy-high-re...

Is there some new IP here I'm missing?
Pinterest Valuation at $11B After New Round of Fund-Raising
Where does "who invented the cotton gin" fit into all this?
I think this should definitely be an option. This is a really personal preference and there is no reason you should suffer through autoplay videos if you don't want to.

I would want it on, at least for some sites, like Gyfcat and Imgur because otherwise my phone slows down to a crawl, trying to load and render a GIF.
There are two types of "new" names: "native" neologisms and loanwords. Gender assignment of the former usually works by analogy with existing words; the latter is a more interesting topic - go search "gender assignment loanword".
Apple Planning to Launch Streaming TV Service
Nice, I might actually use this from time to time. However, an option to show 100th of a second would be useful sometimes.
Nintendo Bringing Mario and Other Games to Smartphones and Tablets
Similarly Edinburgh - which is pretty damp, chilly and dark over the winter has had quite a few bars and restaurants invest in outside seating areas in tents on the street - particularly on George Street (where I work).
The Grammar of Data Science
Also try doing `import antigravity` from the Python repl ;)
But all that math, biology and stuff, that has nothing to do about beeing a "good employee". There's a lot of things that the school system genuinely tries to teach. To me it seems that those life skills are an added bonus. Some of them are also requirements to mass teaching. For example, every needs to be at the same place at the same time.

That beeing said, mass teaching like we do it might not be the best thing. We have tools to facilitate teaching that for example does not require everyone to be at the same physical location. Those same tools could also be better utilized in work to enable remote work. Which would then mean one less life skill to teach at school.
They haven't launched publicly yet. You'll hear about them soon.
That definitely matches what seemed to be the prevailing perceptions for me when I was in undergrad. Whether or not they're actually accurate... hard to say, but that's how the people around me generally felt.
Well I think that 'consciousness' is a pretty strong term for something described in the article.

Just to clarify: Are cats or toddlers conscious?
Are the people that do not see the disk conscious?
That's great news.

Every year I evaluate Scala for adoption. I'm a pragmatist, a polyglot, and usually never say no to seeing how things can improve my execution; which is why I chose to leave the door open for Scala.

And every year it doesn't make the cut for me (various reasons, probably well-known - complexity, compiler, tooling).

This is happening for the last, oh, 4-5 years now. Each year, I take away two weeks from my free time to try and force myself into it.

This year I made a special effort knowing that Spark and big companies adopted Scala. And it lucratively looks like data science is adopting Scala (or does it?).

Knowing LinkedIn is saying "enough" is a real breather for me. At this point, I can stop. Hopefully it will trigger a chain reaction, and leave Scala for the academics.
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Well, a big point of YC is that it provides the "contacts and money". And of course anyone who is further along in their career has more at risk by going to a startup.
Or C++ at any point in it's history. I guess it's the burden of being multi-paradigm.

Edit: Looks like zak_mc_kracken beat me to it. Which I think just makes the point even more obvious
I think you've just gotten lucky, because I've gotten plenty of tickets in South Philly for being one inch past the "park between these signs" signs. I got a ticket once because I was parked

[ here ] [ ]

and the parking enforce had the order of the signs screwed up and thought I should be parked

[ ] here [ ]
Thanks! The upgrade is mentioned on the homepage, but we should probably offer unlimited usage until you've used it a lot more.

Sorry about the duplicate "kalte". It uses basic spaced repetition and can be sensitive if the first answers are incorrect.