skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell that to the Olympic Restaurant (http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/sports/olympics-an-interim...) and Olympia Pizza (http://www.olympiapizza.com/About.html) and Olympic Gyro (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/06513919689/us-ol...) and Olympic Provisions
(http://legacy.kgw.com/story/money/business/2015/02/20/olympi...) ...
Couldn't agree more. I've been looking at Xaramin for a real hybrid development. React Natvie is interesting, but once again, JS...
Google adds ride-sharing tab to Maps for iOS
Kik has over $100mil in funding and what, 100+ employees? the $30k response seemed intentionally pointed to highlight the kind of two-faced nature of the situation.

Kik will apparently throw around their perceived worth and size to threaten someone with legal action, but it's all "hey buddy do us a favor — don't be unreasonable" when it might cost them something?
Extremely angry, to the point that I can't actually have persuasive conversations about it with the pro-DARE crowd because their perspective boggles me so.

This quote sticks out as to the why of the dissenters, but doesn't levy them much sympathy:

"the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
That's a negotiating strategy. Not calling them dicks, but when someone pressures you to make the first offer and you don't know what ballpark you're in, toss out a really high number and see what happens. In this case the response was thinly-veiled legal threats.
suppose you were in Azer's situation, where a corporation has threatened legal action against you, and then did an end-run around you and used their influence to have the maintainers of your software distribution platform act against you unilaterally.

would you feel like you had been treated justly? what would your response be?
Depends how much leverage you feel you have.

(Same with any of the various other humiliations employers like to think they can force on us, just because (think) they can: drug tests, personality tests, NDAs, non-competes, putting your mugshot on their website, etc.)
I got it. Gx [0] looks simpler and better without the craptocurrency stuff.

[0]: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx
You'd like the system administrator at a medical research facility where I once worked. Every Monday around noon, he deleted a file, a randomly file from a randomly chosen production system, then restored that file from backup.

I've always admired that, but never emulated it...
I think it's entirely reasonable. Trademarks are not like copyrights or patents - they don't have to be novel ideas or anything, and they don't do very much. Trademarks exist to protect a brand, and that's it. For example, "Subway" is a perfectly normal, historical word, and it hurts no one for Subway Sandwiches to have a trademark on it; I can talk about it here with impunity, I can write novels about subways, I can even start a business called "Subway" as long as I don't sell sandwiches. Seems okay to me.

More broadly, if you don't allow English words or spelling plays on English words, what's left to allow? Chinese? Line noise?
In the previous thread some associated "Boom" with "Something blowing up" which wasn't perceived as a great name for a plane.
It isn't a threat though, the company has no choice but to enforce their trademark when they see it infringed. Otherwise they lose the right to that trademark. That's the mess trademark law is in, fail to enforce it once, and that will risk any future trademark action.
Israel's Cellebrite linked to FBI's iPhone hack attempt
I'm not sure that it adds nothing. It's obvious what it's satirizing, but when you get to the end of the article, it does make you wonder what the big deal was.

The reason why Azer Koçulu removing his modules from npm was such a big deal is because a lot of high profile modules depended on at least one of Azer's modules. When you find out that the reason all these modules started breaking is because they needed to load a module to pad a string, the only appropriate reaction is a face palm.
Essentially every package manager has to allow that, and every package manager I can think of does allow that. What's your threat model anyway? The package itself will run arbitrary code once you start using it. Is it so problematic if it starts doing that at installation instead of later?
>Your argument started as that only Silk Road was a "notable" onion service

I never made such an argument, I said the dark net markets are as they're really the only sites receiving large amounts of .onion traffic. (Besides of course botnets)

> which you appeared to define as having "publicity".

We're talking about onionland in the media here, publicity seems like it would be one of the metrics that a journo would use when selecting notable examples of onion sites.

>Then the argument became the Facebook doesn't really need to run an onion service.

This seems to be a case of selective reading. I specifically stated,

>Facebook has no need to hide their origin servers, so their use of .onions is symbolic at best (besides as a TLS alternative) as any tor users would be better off browsing the clearnet version of the site.

I've highlighted the relevant part for you.

Lets say someone even manages to find the facebook onion address, which isn't a particularly easy task since seemingly the only part of their site where it's listed is the blog post mentioning it. For example https://www.facebook.com/help/ is of no use.

Now, lets say someone that's already using facebook over tor finds this address. Do you think they'll switch to it over facebook.com? I didn't, and I seriously doubt very many others did either. All it does is massively increase load times, modern browsers will already have FB certs pinned.

>But I think your original point has been effectively rebutted: there are several notable onion services other than Silk Road, and some of these are quite beneficial.

I'll agree on the other notable onion services, for example AlphaBay is far bigger and better than SR ever was.
i thought the following into existence yesterday and read the post today. that facebook uses users as a layer of abstraction above one brain. a brain of brains. putting queries (thoughts) into the system (brain) and obtaining a result that is the average of many.
Shame on Sacramento for electing someone like Jim Cooper.
I'm sorry that you've been tasked with improving productivity in your office haha.

Here are some things that you can try that will actually have a positive effect:

-Better pay

-Better hours

-The ability to work remotely

-More vacation and sick time, with the encouragement to
actually use it

-More autonomy in the jobs that they're doing
And it's somehow one of my most upvoted answers on HN.
$5,000 for the trip isn't a huge leap for typical business class to London. Economy alone is usually like $1,200-1,500rt. This isn't some huge exorbitant leap like costing $30k for a first-class trip. It certainly doesn't come close to elite "tech types" being able to afford it "some day" like trips on the Virgin SpaceShipOne will.

I think many companies depending on situation will consider this worth it for the quick flight. It certainly doesn't strike me as something that people are excited about just because it's "new and shiny." It adds actual utility to get key players to certain locations on short notice.

In any case, despite it holding fewer passengers than a Boeing 787 or something, I would bet that drastically decreasing flight time goes a long way toward bringing the carbon impact more in line with a typical flight of the same length.
The new link is just an article copy-pasted (with attribution, but unclear whether it's with permission) from the real source, which is this:

http://aviationweek.com/greene-tweed/hybrid-hopes-inside-loo...
FBI vs. Apple: how did we get here?
We have a lot more experience building planes of various types that can fly. This is well understood science. The difficulty with rockets are the razor thin margins and the extreme conditions it needs to handle.
Deploying react-router website on Amazon S3
Decentralized consensus over which private keys own what strings (aka Namecoin) would save us from having to deal with obtuse hashes, would it not?
If they're on private IP addresses, per RFC, they shouldn't be listed in a public DNS zone. If they aren't listed in a public DNS zone, it's not really an issue, is it?
This was not deliberate in the cases I'm thinking of. This was a lack of quality control due to the extreme distributed design and development approach Boeing chose with the 787.
Stability of software, targeted at those who need it (eg enterprise). With a large supporting ecosystem around that.
Im not sure what it is about articles like these that bother me so much. Is this guy some hacker hero that I should know? I dont care what the platform is, and this is nothing to do with iOS vs Android. I really cannot stand this "why I quit x" type of blog post. Is there a reason this guys opinion matters more than anyone elses? I know I could just ignore articles like this, but it does happen to be staring me in the face at the top of the list. At the risk of irony, I would much rather see a case made for improving something than a "I chose this because its better, and I know better than you" article.
Uber started with town cars in SF that cost more than taxis. They caught on because they actually show up when you call one, unlike taxis who might find a street hail halfway there and abandon you without notice.
How full are the internet's biggest tubes?
It's very considerate of the burglar to only choose victims who have insurance! I'm sure the insurance company was happy to pay out. I hope you can still afford it when premiums go up with the increased crime rate that follows unpunished crimes.
So Kik's point is essentially: "We were really polite about threatening Azer"
Is there any way to read the articles not in a horizontal layout? Everything about the site implementation is slick except for that part. It's incredibly difficult and awkward to read, to be honest.
How Anxious Reappraisal Can Help Turn Anxiety into Productivity
Nope, we aren't done yet. I was just trying to compare it to a project people (here in particular) are probably more familiar with.
Hinge reveals unlikely startup lessons and benefits of “good churn”
How desperate are you for this particular job? I definitely wouldn't, because that's a ridiculous request, but I also wouldn't be out on the streets if I turned down a job.
Pornhub's new virtual reality category
Here's a fairly well reasoned argument to the contrary: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...

It boils down to the fact that it's very easy to have unexpected state dependencies/constraints in those smaller functions, that is non-obvious by just reading them. If they're called when those constraints are not met, it is a bug.
A Gallery of Psygnosis game covers
What’s Next for the On-Demand Economy
There is an entire book written about this trade off called "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintaince" One of the major themes is the author and his best friend comparing how they interact with their bikes and the meaning they get from either tinkering, or not having to tinker, with them.
It all goes back to the theory that it's impossible to implement "unbounded nondeterminism", according to Dijkstra.

As mentioned, humans can step out of a system and analyze it objectively. In essence, the rules can be broken and changed at any time, which means the system is constantly evolving. Logic does not always truly need to play a part, either. The system is constantly changing and adjusting.

Because of this limitation due to our inability to implement systems that are truly nondeterministic, we are forced to use the constantly improving resources (such as faster processors, memory, better algorithms) to improve the speed at which we can mimic this behavior. However, these methods still require the data at hand to function, and several of them lead to exponential growth. As you said, it is always limited to what it's given.
$ gx import QmR5FHS9TpLbL9oYY8ZDR3A7UWcHTBawU1FJ6pu9SvTcPa

vs

$ spore install mortal

This is a very important distinction that you gloss over when you use loaded terms like "craptocurrency".
From the article: "Well, I believe in free-market capitalism. A well-known and popular programmer has tweeted, repeatedly, that he supports violence (real violence, e.g., the firing squad) for people who believe that."

Well, that's a political position with sizable historical backing. The people behind the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and China's revolution would all have agreed.

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!" - Marx.
I know of poor people in India who lack the ability to get jobs due to disabilities. They either have never had a job to be able to have a pay check or had jobs before they became disabled and are unlikely to see a pay check ever again. I know of a few instances of abject poverty in India through a priest I know. In one instance, the sole provider of a household developed a medical condition that rendered him unemployable. In another instance, people at a shelter for the physically and mentally disabled lack things like wheel chairs and bedding, with some of them just lying on the floor.

In both cases, I know people are sending money to help them. That is especially true in the case of that household in a poor village where the father is a disabled craftsman while the mother is completely uneducated. Enabling the children to study will give them the opportunity to work for a better life, which is an opportunity that their parents will never have.

Anyone who has a paycheck has the opportunity to obtain financial advice from sites like YNAB. Not all such people live as they would like, but being able to imagine something better puts them in a whole different category than actual poor people. They are able to make financial decisions and save for the purpose of making their lives better in the future. The truly poor lack such luxury.
I've been thinking about "trying" a move in the opposite direction as well, but each time I look at the limitations of iOS, I think maybe next time I just get a cheap non-smart phone if that's all I want. Escape from all this.

n.b. I'm 40 and have no need for snapagram or whatever. (Even if I needed it, pfft, nobody needs it).
Tying namespaces to a hostname isn't really that controversial -- it's no different than email.

If you want to be your own provider then host your packages on your server(s) and tell your users to add npm.cooldev.me/packagename to their configuration.

If you don't want to host your own then you can choose from a few public providers like npmjs but then have to be subject to their guidelines, policies, and fees.

Throw in some automatic bittorrent support in the client to help offload costs and you've got something great.
QR codes don't need internet. They just get less reliable the bigger you make them, so often people just put URLS in them and put the real info at the URL. There are plenty of "historical site" QR codes around here that have a short paragraph of info in them.
why would they do that? their concern was that a user might be confused over the names. they were interested in exclusive rights to the name, not in getting paid a token amount so someone else could use it.
I can see this reasoning being right on the money, if you can be happy building web apps.

Personally, I find that developing with web technologies is a miserable experience, and developing with iOS native technologies is a joy. YMMV.
2017 Nissan GTR engine assembly [video]
Happiness Is Like a Rocking Chair
By creating reliance(for service), a future revenue stream is ensured(for manu or 'authorized' provider). Over-engineered products with features of spurious benefit only adds to the reliance. That is The Service Economy, in a nutshell. But don't worry, we can always pay more!
I think the criticism is that it's not much of an achievement to get a non-binding commitment to sell what some people think is $20b worth of work for $2b. Yes it's a flashy number to throw around (whoa, $2b!) but at the end of the day, the real challenge hasn't even begun yet.

Edited: Revised the numbers to better reflect the article.
The in-game music of Turrican 2 [video]
If they were honestly worried about trademark, they would have asked him to put a 'Not affiliated with Kik interactive, inc.' in his readme. His project is still on Github.

They weren't worried about trademarks, they wanted the NPM package name.
I agree with you. Azer's response was pretty normal and understandable considering the circumstances. I too would be extremely annoyed if a corporate lawyer threatened me.
lol... didn't know the "I" in FEI stood for "International" until this comment talking about how you are US-focused :)
"According to Kik Interactive, as of December 2015, Kik Messenger had approximately 240 million registered users, and was used by approximately 40 percent of United States teenagers." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger

Are you sure a court wouldn't consider that qualifying as a famous mark? I'm not going to dig into case law, but my guess is it very well could be.

"Evidence relevant to the fame of a trademark may include sales, advertising and revenue figures; geographical scope of use; channels of trade; registrations in home and other countries; past enforcement efforts; and the results of consumer recognition surveys (provided the survey methods are approved by the courts in that jurisdiction)." http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/FamousW...
I bought my Corolla off the lot in 2004. It currently has 120k miles on it and I've never had a major problem with it.

OTOH, I always maintain it by taking it into the shop and having them do what they do.

The only issue I'm having now is the A/C would sometimes go out last summer, but I'll be getting that looked at as we get into the summer months.

I expect this vehicle to be running just as well at 240k miles. I've already got over 10 years in it and I don't expect another 10 years to be outlandish.

That's lasting power, but I don't maintain the vehicle myself, I pay others to do it for me.
Ask HN: How do you find experts to talk to?
Let's say you want to learn about a topic (or industry etc) and that you want to talk to someone who is working on the topic/industry and ask specific questions. How to find such people, without cold calling/cold emailing and without bothering them? In other words, how to find people who are okay with spending half hour to an hour, willingly?
"You know what else is the enemy of good? Terrible!"

http://wondermark.com/975/
Why Microservices?
Right now, I'm running an IPFS node. Now, say I store a set of files. What happens is that:

/set_of_files -> /ipfs/[key_1]

Now, these files change because they were your GIT repo of all your projects. So what happens is that the key that represents your files changes continuously. That sucks. There's a solution. IPNS.

IPNS can point at a continuously changing set of directories, and always provide the pointer as an IPNS link. It's the mutable part of IPFS...

Now, as for the hashes... The Firefox plugin already supports looking up the DNS txt record of the IPNS key associated to your site. So, if you have a pretty DNS name, you still keep your pretty DNS name.

Now, for the versioning, that assumes that there was something prior, something now, and something that will be. That's not always the case. In that situation, a changelog could be applied as a form of a blockchain showing all deltas to the keys changed. But that can be implemented when it needs to be, and not as core functionality.
>one company provides the hardware

Nexus devices have a variety of manufacturers. The current 9 is made by HTC, the 5X by LG, and the 6P by Huawei

>one company provides the software

Nexus devices all come with unlockable bootloaders that allow you to flash custom Android ROMs such as Cyanogenmod. Past that, other operating systems such as Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch could be flashed on Nexus phones such as the Nexus 5.

>app store

F-Droid is an alternative FOSS app store available for Android. You can also use Amazon's App store which is what Amazon's Kindle Fire Android tablets do rather than Google's.
Once I install a package, its hashes and other info become part of the project. I just don't want that to change in time without me knowing. Etherum here is an overkill, it's not practical.
The person might be under the gun from someone else to fix the prior problem, and made a mistake under pressure. Singling out the admin just absolves management from any blame. And it shows the lack of leadership and the lack of willingness to take on responsibility for the organization.

And the problem is clearly a organizational problem. There's no clear backup and restore procedure. It's probably never tested for restore. There's no failover. There's no disaster recovery. Even if it's there, it has not been fire-drilled periodically. There's no clear access procedure in protecting the production servers. There's no prior spell out of definite steps to address production problems before doing them. There's no rollback procedure. There's no review. There's no approval process.
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Even that isn't as simple as it seems. Your site may have h3 elements, but that does not mean that your h3 rule will be used. Maybe all of your h3 elements are covered by more specific rules, such as ones checking for h3 in a div, or for h3 followed by a p.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11343346
> I don't think the use case of hidden services are large sites that themselves need to be anonymous.

Using a hidden service has some serious caveats, using a hidden service is significantly slower than using a clearnet website over tor.

>That's really hard anyway because if you're big then you inherently have a lot of traffic, which significantly reduces the number of possible nodes that could be hosting the site to the ones with at least that much traffic going through them.

Yeah, as you would expect you have to scale up if you get a lot of traffic.

>The use of hidden services for large sites is that they authenticate the site without the person uploading the documents having to trust the CA system. And the person doing the uploading has to use Tor or something like it because otherwise their adversary would just block them from accessing that site or punish them for it, and Tor is better than something like a VPN in that regard because the uploader only has to trust the design of Tor, not an individual operator like a VPN.

As opposed to a PGP public key and a clearnet site?
WebKit Audio Experiment
Fun fact: The distance between silicon atoms in a crystal is on the order of 0.2 to 0.5 nm. The 10 nm process is therefore operating on the order of tens of atoms. That's just nuts. Quantum effects must really complicate things at this scale!
> I do think that SL made the right decision though.

I assume you mean LambdaConf, not StrongLoop.
As a note the original article for this thread is about LambdaConf. StrangeLoop is the conference that chose to ban this particular speaker.

I assume by SL you mean LC?
I wonder how this applies to companies like NewEgg that are based in California. When one orders online, isn't it by law sold in California?
how did you connections and contracts with all the publisher? It doesn't seem strait forward to me. I guess personal contacts or so are needed.
I'm no lawyer, but if Kik's assertion of 'because you have to enforce trademarks or you lose them' is true then I understand their actions - that's just the world we live in.

To which I say:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4bnrn4/a_discu...
The 'did Azer break my stuff' utility
Cure for cancer will easily generate billions and billions dollars worth of LOIs. Not a founder's dream, unless you actually have cure for cancer.
Are they broken if js is enabled?