skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
College football is amateur i.e. not professional.

You can go down any sport and find divisions that aren't paid very well, likewise you can find obscure sports that consider themselves professional but aren't very well paid either. I find none of this particularly relevant to the discussion. There are huge differences between how e-sport works and how professional sports organisations work and I guess the people who don't believe that will just have to remain ignorant.

SV is already there to some degree. With angel type funding you will spend most of you salary on living expenses which won't return very good quality of life.
Mission control would have had the trajectory back up calculated and in hand, but separating from the lower lander stage and engaging the (different) return rocket at low altitude, outside of normal flight parameters, with an ongoing computer problem of (then) unknown origin - I would agree, that sounds still dicier. Plus, a manual landing was practiced in computer-governed simulators; it wouldn't feel the same, but otherwise the task would be quite similar - except for the dust perhaps.
Player by player basis. Each one plays differently. It was moreso seeing a bracket, who signed up, then pulling up replays of how they played and reading about them. I made a lot of notes on specific players styles, their timings, unit composition etc. Different strategy for each player + map.

What surprised me was when I went to the tournament, a lot of players had different play styles than what I've studied, which ultimately ruined me.

I'm the guy you're describing. Behind on the meta game. I went for the long game every single time, as safe as possible, so I lost to a lot of early cheese that I didn't even know was possible. Some Korean gave me a 3 stalker push at like the 5:30 or earlier(can't remember). I just sat there wondering to my self "fucking... how?" That moment really stuck with me. You play thousands of games in the top leagues and people still surprise you.
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As I mentioned I've only been doing it for like a week so take this with that in mind. It hasn't helped me do work directly or my focus(well kind of has) but it has helped my organising work and not missing tasks or things I need to do that I put off to tomorrow or next week.

I think for ADHD the time based contexts help more than the books recommended location based ones(office, home, at a computer, with a phone) since I'm pretty much always near a computer and a phone. I have

Full focus(tasks up to 30 minutes that require my full concentration)

Short dash(same but up to 15 minutes)

Brain dead(tasks that don't require much thought or concentration)

Bored(Non-work related things that I find interesting but are still kind of productive, blog posts I want to read and stuff like that)

Someday/Maybe and waiting for stuff in the future or pending other peoples actions.

I took them from a blog post I can't find right now but I find them very helpful since a lot of my wasted time or distraction is in spent deciding what to do next or in situations where I have to do something in 20 minutes so I end up spending 10 minutes finding an appropriate task then realize I'm out of time and 10 minutes reading reddit or HN.

I'm still working on the breaking tasks down to fit the 30 minute window though so I have a few longer tasks in there still but its helping.
I'm sure I'm just misunderstanding you, but the logic doesn't seem to follow. If you can trivially test for a CS degree then you already have all the other testing that comes with a CS degree by association. Why would you take weeks or months to test everything in a CS degree when you already know a CS degree is present via your trivial test?

> And no, discriminating based on credentials is not tantamount to racism.

You are, however, judging someone's abilities on their outward appearance even though in our hypothetical situation the person is equally skilled as anyone else. It may not be racism exactly, but still morally wrong for many reasons. That should be fairly obvious.
This seems to imply that the following could be a plausible chain of events:

1. some of the NSA Suite A ciphers get reverse-engineered by foreign citizens;

2. isomorphic algorithms with equivalent guarantees to those Suite A ciphers are developed, again out-of-country;

3. those algorithms are put into a piece of open-source software and posted online, allowing anyone to use them;

4. industry across the world decides that these "new" ciphers are really good and widely adopts them (e.g. incorporating the code into OpenSSL et al), to the point that they become a de-facto standard;

5. flaws are found in other current ciphers, such that the isomorphic-to-Suite-A ciphers we now have access to become the only conscionably recommendable choices;

Then, at that point, it seems like NIST could now choose to put these isomorphic-to-Suite-A ciphers into a standard, and the NSA couldn't say no. Is that right?
Yes, I think "alien abduction" is also on there somewhere...plus every disease known to man.

It's more like a brainstorm of all possible problems. You asked!
The only people I have met who are anti-immigration are also hardcore racists. I doubt it's a coincidence.
Straight spam for a revised edition of an old self-help book.

Thanks, I don't see enough ads online.
I have the same story as you, except, once I downloaded Doit.im, I could never look back.

For about 2 years now, I have been on the GTD wagon. It's become an obsessive need at this point.
As an Indian, I felt a real contrast when visiting Singapore. Everywhere we went around it was clean and beautiful but Little India. There was noise, trash, and what not. That walk was really insightful about us, begged questioning my values.
Edward Bernays truly was a morally ambiguous vanguard. His 1928 book Propaganda is just as relevant and chilling a tract 87 years later.
We still use the term 3rd world?
Unfortunately the issues with micropayments is that even if a service comes out that manages to solve the rather substantial technical hurdles, nobody will be willing to trade the free+ads model they can just abuse with adblock for voluntary payment.

Cost has time and again been proven to be an extreme obstacle vs free and people will go to great lengths to acquire stuff without paying (ie: piracy). When it's as easy as a browser extension, then it's tough to see a way out.
Next we need a DIY handheld to go with this. I don't mean something like the 3D printed handhelds getting around, I mean something people could make themselves with only basic soldering skills.

I just discovered the Odroid-W, a very tiny Raspberry Pi clone. Surely one could sneak that into a PSP housing easily.
/^throwaway/
Is the revised edition worth picking up if I've read the original. I've been a die hard GTDer for a 5 years now.
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You actually are appreciating her efforts with your thoughts. Appreciate doesn't mean value/like necessarily, it can mean to understand the implications of in a neutral-preference manner.
Regardless, there are many men who appreciate heels in the other sense (sexy, etc) who give no thought to the effort required to wear them.
Wearing them myself lets me do both :)
Nope, I was bitching about those *I#$@! backgrounds way back then. It was part fashion and part narcissism: "Look ma, what I can do. I'm a real programmer!"
Tell HN: One key selling point Microsoft has over Apple: freedom of choice
Microsoft doesn't seem to push this very hard but one of the key reasons to go Windows instead of Apple is freedom of choice.

Want to buy HP? You can.

Want to put together your own machine? Yep - that's good with Microsoft.

Want to install on your existing machines? No problem, Microsoft has your back.

It's not a selling point that Microsoft pushes very hard.
Sounds like your issue is with operator overloading. The same can be done in C++ and any other language with operator overloading.
> They look nice, I want to look nice. They feel powerful, I want to feel powerful. Men's shoes are boring, I don't want to be boring.

I'm sorry, but that makes very little sense. If you want to look nice then you need to go by what society judges as nice and society does not consider a man with heels to "look nice".
Ask HN: ISP can't connect to some Apple services. How to figure out the problem?
I have a broadband connection from a national ISP. Since a few weeks, I'm not being able to connect to developer.apple.com or sign in to the App Store/Mac App Store/iTunes. I am able to browse apple.com perfectly and the App Stores work fine (everything shows up fine) until I try to download anything, which just makes the downloading circle spin momentarily in iOS and hangs App Store.app on OS X.

People living in the same city who have a broadband connection from the same ISP are having the same problem and some are even switching to satellite connections. I'm forced to use a public VPN every time I need to download an app or browse the documentation in developer.apple.com.

developer.apple.com resolves to 17.146.1.15 for me which is correct (Apple owns the 17.0.0.0/8 IP address block)

The last two lines of `traceroute 17.146.1.15` are:

ae-2-70.edge8.sanjose1.level3.net (4.69.152.84) 511.946 ms 386.713 ms
209.244.104.134 (209.244.104.134) 410.042 ms 452.702 ms 511.376 ms

I have no idea where the problem is, does anyone have suggestions on what to do (except complaining to the ISP)? Is it possible that my dynamic IP block got banned by Apple's DDoS protection?
World of Information and Entertainment
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Then it should have been Slap as in "SemiLAttice Processing". Well, Lasp is a better name :).
I was just going to say, in that regard "1996 in my case."
Nike fights on two fronts as brand is linked to bribery and doping allegations
How is this different from Sonar?
I happened to look for "uber moving Nashville" (my city) and it looks like Uber has partnered with a company called Bellhops to do just that. So, yup, they either do it directly or indirectly.
Those tricky relationships arise from the most fundamental circuits that define CS, yes.

What I am trying to say is that you do not need mathematical formulas to explain mathematical concepts, but certain vocal academics have managed to push a view that math is nothing but formulas AND that there is no controversy here. There is, in fact, a lot of controversy and this does lead back to Grothendieck since his work does not support the formulas-only view.
As someone who knows approximately jack shit about hardware and firmware issues, I appreciate the time he did waste explaining why he says the original poster was full of shit.
The Most Hilarious Robo-Falls from the Darpa Robotics Challenge
Looking at this one has to update estimate of when robots take over!
He has written 6 of these and they're all available on his page (scroll down to the line on the USENIX online magazine): http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/
Do you think "walls of shame" could help with the problem of open defecation?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31831559
+1 ...and open source under Apache License 2.0 :)
I found this free ebook to be a good (and significantly shorter) introduction to GTD.

https://gtdfh.branchable.com/
Haha, fair. :)
I have no desire to publicly out myself on this. My girlfriend, mother even, and quite a few friends know. I did mention wearing them publicly at Folsom, but I expect no judgment there as there are much more interesting things going on than a man wearing black boots (plus, Folsom is an event about acceptance as much as it is about an particular fetish).
If you're pointing out the zip code in the username, oh no! I mentioned SF and used an SF zip code! Someone might recognize me!

why bother even trolling?
As written, it's psuedo-code. ;) Yup it's tricky and platform specific, but the point is it can be done (or at least that's my understanding -- I do not have first hand knowledge).
Business cards can be hard to beat.
Ugh. Super rich people fighting.
Agree with you. I meant it in the sense it impedes progress at grassroot level.
I generally agree: too many people think they have to make an entire language—with its own grammar, parser, standard library, and runtime—every time they want to play with some new language semantics.

I would love to see more "languages" that are either:

1. alternative syntaxes (with their own semantics) for existing languages (Lisp-Flavored Erlang, for example); or, better yet,

2. [reader-]macro libraries (as used in DSLs, but not Domain-Specific) implemented within sufficiently flexible languages, which encapsulate the base language's semantics and provide the alternative semantics you want, but which also allow you to "drop down to" the source language wherever the experimental wrapper-language isn't complete. HN's Arc language is this way, a macro library sitting on top of Racket. Erlang was also originally this way, a macro-library on top of Prolog.

A language should only be grown out into its own ecosystem if-and-when that would provide a benefit to the people programming in the language, such as support for new platforms, or greater performance. Otherwise, it's just meaningless busywork.

Or, in other words, building out an entire "programming language" is almost always premature optimization.
The six corporations that decide the news
I really liked Zapf's work. Here's a clip from the documentary Helvetica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjaepids2Q0
This Amazon review suggests not

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3604ULQ9IPQIK/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
>The conditions are because the rural economy has deliberately been kept very weak.

Curious. By who?
Wow, so many self loathing Indians here.
That's only true if you're wearing them out and trying to please others.
Society doesn't inform my preferences at home nor does it see what I'm wearing behind closed doors.

Plus, with the right body type and shoes, you too could look quite nice in heels. Or full drag. Except I'm not into that but you are free to do as you like.

Edit: I haven't been able to post for an hour so I have nowhere else to put this: sorry Silverstorm I'm 6'3". Doesn't mean I don't like being taller though.
Show HN: Cross-Platform Chrome App – Memorable Password Generator
Sounds interesting. Is there a demo somewhere so that we can see it in action?
My experience: I read the book, learned the concepts. It was great, and I even setup OmniFocus (Apple only) on my iPad and iPhone. Life was great, and then I changed employers and I was back to Windows and BlackBerry. It completely broke my workflow and I spent (WASTED) months trying new tools and finally dropped it. I am now using the ToDo templates in OneNote which is a much simpler approach, but still use many of the concepts.
You're making the assumption that by "nice," he means "what society judges as nice," rather than what he personally considers to look nice, and that assumption is almost certainly wrong.
For the vast majority of real world services, if you want to extract semantic data out of them you use JSON.

JSON is just the encoding, not the data model; it doesn't work at the same level. That's why RDF/JSON and JSON-LD exist.

Without disputing the idea that the implementation of the Semantic Web is a failure, this idea that JSON (or XML, for that matter) is a data format is holding us back. Every provider is saying that they output in a "standard" format (JSON), while we keep writing new clients for each and every service out there, because every data format is different and it's impossible to write common handlers.

Except for a few attributes, a Github user and a HN user could have the same structure, since conceptually they're quite similar concepts. Yet, try handling [1] and [2] with the same code.

The regular claim that programmers can handle more abstraction than regular people just sounds like a sad joke whenever I think about the shortsightedness and lack of self-awareness that has led to the current situation.

[1] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/jl.json?print=pre...

[2] https://api.github.com/users/octocat
Excellent points! Maybe anyone who decides to "check out" should consider getting physically away from the team, if possible. Find those who proactively help others and apply healthy self-critical thinking.

Kathy Sierra in "Badass: Making Users Awesome" said: "An important, unconscious way to develop expertise is being around high-quality, high-quantity examples of expertise." The flipside is apparently true: exposure to mediocre examples begets mediocrity.
These reasons are rooted in everybody sitting on their butt 23 hours a day, and not really exercising at all even when 'working out'.
SpaceX gets direct competition for re-usable rockets from Airbus
How Israel became a social gaming hub
Is this even a real question? There are many. Remittances, micro payments, lack of credit card fraud and fees...

Right now I could pay someone in Thailand and they could take money out of an ATM from one of the largest banks in 20 minutes. You could be on the island of Koh Tao, have money sent to you from anywhere in the world, and get cash as part of the same trip to go get a cold drink from a 7-11.
Why not create standards around abstract representations of things

That's RDF in a nutshell.
Ask HN: What would be a decent learning path/track for a Big Data newbie?
@randomdata -- "trivial" isn't "free". The test I proposed adds an extra hour of in-person interview time per candidate, and also substantially increases the number of viable candidates.

> It may not be racism exactly, but still morally wrong for many reasons. That should be fairly obvious.

Comparing discriminating based upon whether someone did four years of audited work with racism is... a somewhat extreme position, to say the least.

You may not think that college is "real work". You're welcome to your opinion. But I assure you that a university degree at many universities does require a lot of work, and that this work is difficult enough and audited well enough that it warrants consideration in hiring decisions.

A degree is NOT something anyone is born with. It is something many people work very hard to earn.

To put a finer point on it: is it OK to discriminate based upon prior industry experience? Because I consider a degree from a top uni better preparation "work" preparation for many jobs than X years writing web apps.

Is it OK to discriminate against doctors who don't have MDs?

Or am I supposed to give everyone who submits a job application the benefit of an interview, and sink my business in the process?
Exactly - that's the point. Same reason Square / Grubhub / most other mobile checkout options usually default to the 2nd lowest tip amount. You need to psychologically be okay with being less generous to move it to 0. Most are too guilt-ridden to move it to 0 so that the server / delivery driver still gets some compensation.
Do you really believe hundreds of millions of dollars of electricity has been spent on bitcoin mining?
For any non-Europeans looking to explore Europe by rail, I can highly recommend getting an Interrail ticket that gives you unlimited rail travel for various durations. For a reasonable price you can get a multi zone ticket that will let you explore most of Europe for a very reasonable price.
Some people dress for themselves or for a core few others. Lowest common denominator doesn't rule all valid aesthetics.

Anyway one recent popular menswear designer, Rick Owens, wears heels: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg0ahygW5j1qazwkm.jpg
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There are important concepts I've learned from GTD--for example, the mental strain of open loops and the importance of getting them out of your head--but I have never been able to implement it in full over the long term. Trying to go through the process consistently and in full every day is itself very time-consuming. Much like a dieter who has one cookie and decides, "Fuck it, diet's over," and eats all the cookies in the jar, if I failed to fully complete the GTD process for a single day then I would tend to never do it again.
just for the record, this article is from 2012 and the infographic is from 2011, so this probably isn't entirely accurate anymore (which isn't to say that the general point isn't valid).
"But I bet I can pay a fresh CMU/MIT grad less, and that they'll be able to figure things out."

Sure, but it could take them much longer to figure it out. College work doesn't really prepare people to work on cutting-edge problems that nobody has solved before. Problems assigned to undergrad CS majors are generally straightforward applications of what was taught in the course, and the professors already know the solutions and how much work they involve (e.g., an assignment due in two weeks is known to be possible to complete in two weeks of effort).

"In general, 5 years hacking out code doesn't prepare you to write code that's mathematics heavy or design systems that require careful mathematical analysis."

How many CS grads have had experience with mathematically oriented code? The only math I remember doing in my CS classes was in theoretical courses like Algorithms, and that mostly involved proving things rather than writing code.
That session happens to be about OS X kexts yes, but it's just where that piece of info happened to slip out. Clearly they've been planning to do at least that much for quite a while now. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they start using a completely separate system partition on OS X like they already do on iOS now.

As far as I know the release versions of the iOS kernel don't support kext loading at all. Most likely, MFI participants are encouraged/required to use standard interfaces or request inclusion of specific functionality if it isn't there already.
It is also nice for Europeans :-)
Not a doctor yourself? Learn enough to at least diagnose.
Trolling? You said that, on a man:

>They look nice, I want to look nice. They feel powerful, I want to feel powerful.

Who is trolling?
Spring is not the only framework with bad names; look at this class name from aspectj:

org.aspectj.weaver.patterns
.HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor
While I would like something like this too, the $0.05 per day or $0.50 per month is the real problem. Would you be willing to pay $1.00-2.00 per day? $30-60 per month? These are the typical subscription prices sites need in order to stay in business.

There seems to be no midpoint where the sites get the money they want or need that is also going to be acceptable to the consumer. Advertising, for some reason, does pay enough.
One of the real reasons why i love living in Frankfurt.
I feel closer to all of Europe than everywhere else on the continent.
As a French, I wonder how British people judge their rail system in 2015
Did you come up with a solution for recompiling the clojurescript files only when cljs and cljc files were changed? The watch task fires whenever a file in the resources or src directories changes.
yes, built part of my previous startup on it. It has its use cases.
I recently moved to Canada from Europe and one of the "cultural shock" were the difference in scale on the maps and what is commonly considered being "a short drive".

I did a tour of the most active hackerspaces of Europe in six months while I was in high-school. It was a fantastic experience and it is the cheap cost of night trains that made it possible. Granted those were not super confortable but I do not regret the experience one bit.