skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on this, google.com is registered through MarkMonitor, which is a registrar. Google Domains is also a registrar. A registrar cannot sell a domain that is owned, and certainly not one that is owned by a client on another registrar! There was some error on the Google Domains side that indicated a domain was available for purchase that was in fact not available for purchase. That's it. The money was refunded when the error was reported. It's the only possible sane solution to the problem.

Your comment implies that the sale should have gone through anyway, which is nonsensical. Otherwise we could have situations where I steal foo.bar from you (which you have registered with, say, NameCheap) by buying it through, say, GoDaddy, which is currently experiencing a similar bug that incorrectly marks your domain as available.
> These days it's pretty clear the US and China benefit from mutual trade

Yes, that is probably the current perception even with most people never hearing of competitive advantage. I wonder how climate change in the next couple of decades will change this war/peace calculus. I fear we may realize that benefits that the U.S. and China receive from trade partnerships is from extracting natural capital and replacing it with negative externalities. When that natural capital runs out and negative externalities come back to bite us in the form of climate change, what will the U.S. and China think of each other then? Will we still believe in competitive advantage then?
When you exchange the number of pigeons, do they need to observe the travel back to City A to set directional bearings, or do you need to keep them in darkness so they will return to City B out of pure instinct?

Apologies for my ignorance, asking for myself and a friend....
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This could also be used to remove the need for a CDN for common libraries like jquery and similar resources. If the browser knows it has a file in its cache with the same properties (has, size, name) even if it come from a different site it can be pretty sure that the content is the same so no new request is needed.

So your site could use the cached copy of jquery (for instance) that was originally brought down to serve my site, or vice versa.
One thing about SRI that's also great - even beyond the security concerns with 3rd party scripts - is the benefit of stability. You know whoever controls the other end of the src attribute on your 3rd party <script> tag won't go changing things (even with the best of intentions) quietly that break your site. It's an out-and-out win and I hope all browsers support it soon.
Then they should be using example.com (or .org, .net , .edu), which are actually reserved by the standard and guaranteed to never exist.

EDIT: Or, perhaps even better, the .invalid TLD which is also guaranteed to never exist.
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It's still "stalking", sort of.
Are you sure? JWZ reports otherwise: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/dali-clock-back-in-the-app-... (check 'graph 3)

Did that policy change in the intervening time? If it did, would you provide a reliable citation? :)
> System Integrity Protection is obnoxious paternalism at best

As is ASLR? Users should always know what addresses their libraries are loaded at in their own machines! While we are at that, let's remove file permissions. That's paternalism - users should know what they are doing.
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Yes, something I feel there's a great need for. Perhaps I'm unusual, but most of my notes in Evernote I wish could contain structured data, so I can make better use of their contents, both in my life and cross-referenced in other notes. E.g. I record foods I like, places I've eaten (my private TripAdvisor) and structuring that data would be really useful for plotting on a map, making lists and the rest.
Seeing this bug filed today (rather interesting/weird breaking change needed to fix it), it seems plain sanity should prefer a generated parser.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28777

I'm not a compiler hacker, so I don't know how to weigh it really though.
I agree with @Trcollinson here. If you want to be considered expert in "start-ups", you have to be able to give detailed answers and not blog posts. Why did you select that blog post anyway? Care to elaborate?
I think what piratebroadcast meant is that the title of the article makes it sound like it will be about what advertisers have to pay to advertise on 50 different websites
How do Pigeons instinctual drone-aversion tactics fare?
"If" the US vitally needs those elements? How much modern tech (or military hardware) can you name that doesn't require rare earths?

> Molycorp

Last I heard, they filed for bankruptcy, probably because of China cornering the refinement market.

> The mine has been plagued with legal/financial problems

Yes. The video I linked to was an attempt to work around those problems. It failed, but that doesn't mean a domestic source cannot happen in the future.

for the rest, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310969
And if you attach one of your own pigeons as a passenger with every message you send ...
> It looks kind of like a user friendly database app a la File Maker

Cross-commenting as the other's right at the bottom of the page, but yes, a user friendly database with easy custom schemas is something I feel there's a great need for.

Perhaps I work differently, but 50+% of my notes in Evernote would be better as structured data, so I can make better use of their contents, both in my life and cross-referenced in other notes. E.g. I record foods I like, places I've eaten (my private TripAdvisor) and structuring that data would be really useful for plotting on a map, making lists and the rest.
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It's a lot easier to just quit when you are single. I'm lucky my wife was supportive when I got burned out and took half a year off. I'm sole breadwinner. Ah, youth. I'm more careful now about balance.
This.

I had an exit a few years back for a sizable, but not retirement-worthy, amount of money. My friend who was one the founders did make retirement level money and went the full financial planner route with a large investment firm.

I had begun to do a lot of research for where and how to invest, but before meeting with "his guy" I doubled down and consumed everything I could find. I ended up deciding that if I went my own route I would just go with Wealthfront for the simplicity of their strategy and the extras like tax-loss harvesting and immediate and near-real time account re-balancing.

I eventually did meet with the financial planner and his staff did their best to make me feel "special". The waiting room was modern and wood paneled, I was offered drinks and snacks, and when he brought me back to the war room he had another member of his team there and reassured me that I'd have their full resources at my command. This triggered immense skepticism off the bat, since a few simple calculations with their fee structure revealed that I was essentially a chump to them compared to my friend. We talked for a while and he led me through various investment options and I later left with a few personalized investment strategies in a nice leather-bound folio.

It took all of about five minutes of study to determine the proposals were a waste of time and an even larger waste of money. For a 1.5% management fee they would invest in high cost mutual funds -- the kind that even do kickbacks to the advisers, and provide me with a once a year re-balance of my accounts with no opportunity for tax-loss harvesting. I told him all this and that I was just going with Wealthfront instead and in a subtle but patronizing manner he told me I did not understand his value proposition.

Unless you are high net-worth I have a hard time understanding why you would ever go the planner route as opposed to just keeping a safety net and dumping the rest into a service like Wealthfront.
I dunno, if France (or any country) was interested in tactics for curtailing NSA spying on French citizens, there are other, more effective options.

For example, they could make it illegal for a company to make available the private communications of French residents to any third party, explicitly sovereign intelligence agencies.

I think this would put Facebook, Google and such into a catch 22 and pressure for an agreement would come from companies like these. Imagine Facebook being prosecuted in France for complying with an NSA directive. It would be especially effective if done as part of a big case/effort where sovereign intelligence agencies included rivalrous countries (Russia, US, China) that don't like to be compared to one another.
It seems a little unfair to judge a company against their hypothetical future actions. I agree that if they do remove the option to disable it in future then that's a problem, of course.

> they sell two very popular lines of computers (iPhones and iPads) that are completely locked down.

Note that iOS is less locked down now than it has been in the past. Previously, you had to enroll in the $99/year developer programme to run your own code on your device, but now you just need to register for a free developer account. So they're moving in the right direction, even if this is still too restrictive for some.
I did not have that problem, though navigation apps in general kill my battery.

I think the only feature I wish it had, which might be in there now, is to export the places I marked as a favorite to something such as CSV or JSON.
I'm sure you need to provide more information while being cautious about not disclosing too much.
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This mentality is called reductionism, but it's not just the presence of sugars that matters, it's also what kind of sugar and in combination with what else. Sodas like Coke or Pepsi contain other things as well, besides the high fructose corn syrup which is the worst sugar you can find, or the phosphoric acid, things like Bisphenol-A, Sodium Cyclamate and 4-MEI.

Ice cream can be mostly made of natural ingredients, like milk, in which case it would get its sweetness from the lactose in that milk. Ice-cream can also be made of fruits, like peaches, or coconuts. The ingredients can be all organic and ice-cream can be made at home. Furthermore, after one cup of ice cream, most people are done, whereas Coke drinkers can drink more than half a gallon per day, because it is engineered to create addiction.

Of course, ice-cream can be made from processed ingredients as well and with plenty of HFCS or other cancerogenic and diabet-inducing ingredients. But reduce the problem to one ingredient or another and you end up missing the forest from the trees.
I installed El Capitan this morning and was expecting to have to do this - I did not. chown stayed owned to me properly, brew functioned as it was before... everything fine.
No, it just means that this method works for both HTTPS and plain HTTP - they are not stating an opinion of either protocol here. If you are using HTTP then this would protect you from one class of problem, but it leaves all the other potential problems open if they are relevant to your content.
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The main two by far are the US and the UK. The US didn't bring much but it has pursued banks more when it comes to fining them (I'd agree it's a poor second but better than the UK).

The US also let Lehman go under and let their housing market crash. The UK has done all it possibly can to wind the clock back to 2007 so they can set The City running again like it never happened.

The UK FSA has come up with nothing and since the crash we've had more state guarantees for the banks than before.
And I haven't completely finished my explanation of it! http://jimkeener.com/posts/explain-pg

I love EXPLAIN, it's such an amazing tool for figuring out how to get a query to run faster. It's much more detailed than MySQL's and often one of the reasons I list when people ask if they should checkout/switch to pg (which you should!)
Yes, this makes sense. For the public sector it would necessarily incur extra salary costs.
You can use the version from f-droid.
Whoops, that is massive.
But was there anything in particular wrong? Was there anything Dropbox should have done differently to keep her?

I realize that some places are wrong for some people, in ways that can't be fixed. I'm just curious whether it's possible to articulate how Dropbox was wrong for the author.
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So what?
He earned nothing but your carelessly attention.
No, it will just compare given hash to file.
I think he's saying that we should be wary of seeing everything China does as a threat since that kind of one dimensional thinking puts us on a trajectory toward the trap. Instead we should aim to rise both our boats.
Why is this better than the Content Security Policy header where you can specify a hash or the hash attribute on a script tag?
Why isn't the clipboard a special-case file in the first place?
I have never been in a position to just up and quit a job without having something else lined up. Are you all trust fund kids?
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
(In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.)

- Louis Pasteur (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur)
This is interesting, maybe you can develop with some references aside philosophy?
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I would pay money for such a delivery system, but it would only work with pidgeon hotels/stations in each city and the more specific local distribution by for example volunteer or paid cyclists who know where to go. It would be valuable carbonfree messaging supporting the local economies (and health of pidgeons)! You could also do solar powered fidonet-like raspberry pi asynchronous national network and print-outs (or handwriting) for last mile delivery but that would perhaps be more difficult and expensive to setup. Not sure if either would be a viable business plan.
Though, I don't see why CDNs wouldn't replace the sha1 with sha1 of injected file.
> the college is willing to subsidize your education expenses every year

The college isn't subsidizing anything.

It's called price discrimination. That's what the article is partially about.

If you look at the demand curve, you see that different people are willing to pay different prices for the same service. Some people have more money, some less. Some want it more, some less.

Ideally, what a service provider wants to do is charge everyone the maximum price they're willing to pay. This maximizes their revenue at the expense of everyone else.

They blow up their tuition to ridiculous levels and then discount all the way down the demand curve to maximize intake. They discount using scholarships, financial aid, and other programs. And then they sell you the bullshit that they're helping you.

We don't tolerate this abuse from any other industry.
I'm not judging them based on hypothetical future actions. I'm not really judging them at all; I'm just uneasy and worried. I'm predicting that the probability of hypothetical future actions for which I'd judge them is too high for my comfort.

I'm also judging the hell out of them for their past and current action of keeping iOS locked down.

The developer program thing, IMO, is a bit of a red herring; everyone who can buy an iPhone can also pay $99, so pragmatically there is nothing you can do now that you couldn't before, unless you're a student and your parents bought you your phone. Sure, it's a step in the right direction or at least not negative, but I don't think it's particularly meaningful.
Like a lot of the comments on LWN, I'm having a hard time understanding why this should go in the kernel, instead of just being a simple userspace library. There doesn't even seem to be a performance argument for it, since any userspace library can use iovecs to combine headers and messages to avoid multiple system calls.
Sites already appear to be able to detect that.
> size, name

I don't see why it would be necessary to provide a name and a size. If the hash is the same, we can be pretty sure that's the same file.
> I suspect what you and the others really want is for Apple to be bound by some kind of common carrier status...

Not just no, but "Hell no". What folks want from Apple is for their reviewers to behave like professionals. Professionals would provide a reasonably consistent, non-capricious application of the App Store rules. The current situation can be described roughly as:

"Your app will be de-listed if some app reviewer got up on the wrong side of the bed. The reviewer will point to a randomly selected clause in the TOU as the justification for the removal. You will be unable to get your app back in the App Store unless you have a large amount of social clout, or another reviewer who really dislikes the first one decides to override their decision. There are no guarantees that this process will not recur an unlimited number of times in the future."

This is not a good foundation on which to build a business relationship.

Could you attempt to use all the apps that aren't pulled, and the $X,XXX raked in monthly by folks from App Store revenues as counterexamples? Yes. Do those things negate my point? No.
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Already in proposal stage in many places. My current home, Thailand, just announced plans for their own version. I am not amused.

However, hilarity has already ensued. The gov here is so incompetent that they couldn't even make an annoucement without having a bunch of gov websites taken down by a manual DDOS attack yesterday [1]. A few thousand people coordinated via social media to repeatedly visit the gov's ICT website which brought it to a standstill. Yet the gov thinks they can manage a single internet gateway to facilitate surveillance and it won't be ruinous.

[1] http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/714432/single-gatewa...
Simple, yet seemingly effective. As long as the hash the browser is checking matches the hash the server produced, the only options to beat this that I see are hash collision and bypassing the mechanism.
As a matter of fact I became a programmer by only doing online courses and as far as I know many other people have done it. I did have a BSc in Economics and Finance though, so I have some formal education that definitely helped me do further studies.

Also, the transition wasn't easy at first and I had to work/study/code quite hard, but now after some 3 years in the industry since I first started I feel quite comfortable with my skills. :)
> it can be pretty sure that the content is the same so no new request is needed

I'm really glad that the SHA-2 family of hash functions has held up thus far.
I took the Intro to Programming and Web Development MOOCs at Udacity back when they first launched. Combined with the knowledge I learned from the free books "How to Design Programs" and "Learn Python the Hard Way," I was successfully able to gain employment as a developer (previously I was a Windows sysadmin with no real knowledge of programming).

However, I didn't show off any MOOC certificates or anything like that. I think what mattered was that I had a combination of a real world project (Django site for a paying client) and a diversity of other "non-school" projects. Even though those projects were mostly exploratory, they demonstrated that I actually enjoyed programming and was capable of learning a variety of things, which was important to my employer. I tried to present myself in terms of a portfolio, and not my MOOC education / lack of a CS degree.

Without those courses and materials, though, I really don't think I could have become a programmer.
Just got a pull request from the bot, and thought this was worth sharing. Now we only need a bot that scans for common code smells and we're golden :)
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The CDN doesn't control the SHA1, your website does.
Google Domains is not the registrar for google.com. MarkMonitor is. Your situation is analogous to agreeing to buy a deep-discount TV from someone off Craigslist, who meets up with you in a hotel parking lot, goes inside with you, points you to the TV in the lobby that you just "bought" and says take it. That TV was not for sale and the person "selling" it didn't own it. It's unreasonable to expect MarkMonitor to honor a sale that couldn't happen because some other registrar messed up.

Mistakes can and do happen in business all the time, because businesses are composed of people and people aren't perfect. The solution is to deal with mistakes in whatever is the most sane way.
You can enable it via editing HTML rather than altering the HTTP headers.
Apartment complexes do a variation of this all the time.

In your first year, they give you "one month free" and then amortize it over the life of the lease. In the second year, you don't get on the one month and there's an increase, so it becomes a huge increase all at once.

For example (made up numbers):

Year 1: $1k/month on a 12 month lease, 1 month free amortized -> $917/month

Year 2: Year 1 + 5% -> $1050/month

Removing the discount and increasing the base is a double whammy. And - like in the article - the switching costs (economic and emotional) are so high that many people will go along with it.
Statistician here with experience in the financial world: you're wrong. Don't confuse the existence of Wikipedia pages and books written by people wanting to make money with actual science.

Moving averages have a function in statistics. But there is no evidence that they can be used to time the markets. If they could, it would be done algorithmically by hedge funds, closing the possibility.

Please show actual analysis of market data (i.e. recent published scientific papers) supporting your positions. Without those, it's quackery.
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