skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Domain registrars that engaged in holding domains hostage and increasing prices would probably eventually go out of business.

Even if that ended up not being the case, we'd have to fix how domains are transferred between registrars - same as how telephone numbers can be transferred between telcos but you can't sell your telephone number to someone.
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Ask HN: What do you miss in apps analytics services?
If you are using web/mobile apps analytics service, like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Flurry, etc, what things are lacking in it, as for your use case?

[I'm working on an open source one and would like to know did I miss something important.]
This topic is relevant to my interests. I've googled around a little bit on research on the topic of eliminating squatters, but haven't come up with much. I'd appreciate pointers to papers if anyone has them.
What? Germany alone got over a million of refugees in 2015 alone.
Yeah. I think it could be a little more concrete than that. First, that there's a lot of cultural baggage around money, and it's important to try to know how that's effecting your decisions. Second, that all the sellers of financial products/services are trying to sell you something, they're no more altruistic than a used-car salesman.
What propaganda? There are many refugee camps near the actual conflict areas.

It's not cheap to get to Denmark, so only those with most money can do it, which means the rest are left in the actual refugee camps near the area they fled from.

All you need to do is go and check out the refugee camps in ex. Denmark and you will find it to be mostly men, many of them married which mean they left their wife and or children behind. Think about that for a moment.
I skimmed through this, but their conclusions are far too simplistic to be of any use. A company repo is more popular than a personal one? Are they implying forming a company around an unpopular repo will make it popular? It's likely that if there's a company behind it then it's being done as paid work, that it has specifications needed to interop with something else, with management behind it driving quality, perhaps to a deadline. Second, saying more contributors equates to greater success is a tautology. Or are they suggesting one can simply give strangers commit access and that alone will determine success? More likely, success and popularity attract contributors. And repos tend to get more stars after a release, so if one releases every hour they'll get the most stars, right? Fix a typo, it's version 79.0. Document a method, it's version 80.0. Or maybe it's announcements around a release that serve as marketing?

Lots of correlations in their conclusion, but no causation. The paper could be shortened to "Have more visible activity in your repo".
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You can speed up a video, a feature of lecture videos in the Coursera courses I've taken. With pitch adjustment, it's surprising how much better even a good lecture is when speeded up. But you can't edit out superfluous content.

It seems to me that the future of online video is exemplified by the recipe videos produced by Gawker that appear in the Facebook feed under names like "Tasty". These speeded-up cooking videos allow the viewer to skim how a dish is put together, from start to finish, in about 30 seconds. (I watched one just now that took 55 seconds and I found myself impatient with its slow pace!)

In their simple, junk-foodie way, these videos illustrate that the measure of quality is not just how quickly and efficiently information is transmitted to the brain, but also the degree of emotional impact.
I say this on most threads about procrastination, but it's important to remember that chronic procrastination can be an indication of anxiety, not just a temporary state of mind. If you suffer from this kind of anxiety and not just a moment of distraction, you should see a professional, they really can help fix things long term and improve your quality of life.
"Dear kid: The 'American Dream' is a myth. Its purpose is to flatter the rich that they are virtuous."
I usually like to leave more substantive comments on HN, but I don't think he would be mad if I said "that's kind of his thing."
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc? Typical Wall Street commentary BS. Why did Apple's stock lose almost as large a proportion of its value at the same time?
Chinese govenment's justification in Tibet is mainly legalistic, as follows: Tibet was a part of the Qing Empire. Qing handled over all administrative power peacefully to Republic of China. People's Republic of China overthrow Republic of China, therefore inherits all of its administrative rights. Of course, the later part is muddier because officially the civil war is not over.

On the ground, for the people, the real justification are different. It used to be the liberation of common Tibetan people from a regressive serfdom and a brutal theocracy, not unlike the communists' justification for themselves elsewhere in China. Similarly, after Deng, the justification is more about improving people's economic status and living conditions.
Years ago, there was a man who would stand on Market St. wearing a suit and just kind of dance back and forth singing "Gotta keep smiling". It wasn't a song as such, just a refrain that he would roll around over and over, and he would shuffle and sing and point at passersby and smile, encouraging them to smile.

One day my dad stopped and asked him, "You seem sane and well-educated, why do you do this?" (I'm paraphrasing here.) The man told him, "Sir, I make a hundred dollars a day, tax-free."

(My dad saluted him and walked on.)
Yes, written English isn't a phonetic language like, say, Hindi. Or even German where spelling is changed to keep up with changes in pronunciation.

English is somewhat conservative with spelling, so a lot of words embody their roots in their written form. Teaching kids to spell via phonetics and a huge set of rules makes spelling (and comprehension of new words) harder not easier.

Of course you can take this conservatism to absurd lengths: in French spelling and pronunciation have become so divorced after only a few hundred years that spelling bees are prime time television!
A look under the hood at Powershell Remoting through a cross plaform lens
California surpasses France as world's 6th largest economy
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I use 2x speed for YouTube videos. It takes some practice, but you can generally pick up almost all of what was said.

Other <video> elements can be sped up entering this into the javascript console:

document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 2

(There are also browser extensions that can do the same thing.)
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11569726
> The biggest one being a C-centric view of programming that has cost the world untold billions of dollars when dealing with untrusted data.

That's pretty simple to explain: all those other options were just way too slow to get the kind of performance required out of the hardware available at the time. The difference was simply too large to be ignored.

It's all nice and good to theorize about how the past should have been, but without UNIX you probably wouldn't be writing any of this on the medium you're currently using.

It has its flaws and it is far from perfect but at the time it fit the bill nicely.

The real problem is that we are categorically unable to move on when better options are around. There is a large amount of silliness involved when it comes to making responsible choices in computing, lots of ego, lots of NIH. Those are the real problems, not that UNIX was written in C.
Do refugees speak better German and Swedish then Portuguese?
Best HN response.
My point was not to claim that they're all unique, simply that they are all learnable.
What difference does that make? Once you commit to this you have to do a database lookup for every request. Why not keep the session data there?
"really fascinating way to transfer carbon back into the oceans by seeding it with iron"

Thats a horrible idea.
See ocean acidification on Wikipedia.
Err, are we not taking things out of historical context?
Didn't the US attack a MSF hospital in Afghanistan a couple of months ago?

Are they still taking US money?
> So basically everybody should model their language after Finnish.

Sure, as long as you assume the only goal is to validate a phonics approach to teaching reading. Some people appreciate that english words get the same spelling in Minnesota as they do in Mississippi.
Reading illiteracy is no longer a big problem. STEM-illiteracy is the new problem.

It is easier for some to learn how to read than it is for others. Yet as a society we don't give people who find difficulty in learning to read a pass on reading. Nor should we for STEM fields.
Typos rarely matter in real contracts. Intent can trump language where appropriate. But in smart contracts typos are everything. Good luck with that too.

The City of Cleveland and Frank McCourt would like to have a word with you about your novel theory. In real contracts, typos--like an errant comma--can be significant and completely change the meaning of the language. Cleveland lost the original Browns because of a typo; McCourt lost the Dodgers in part because of a typo.
I have to confess, I am hoping for Brexit vote due to perverse curiosity:will my imaginary scenarios[1]/ what-ifs /predictions of doom will pan-out?[2] I also can't wait to find out what the biggest unintended consequence will be.

1. First prediction: Scotland leaving the union would be effectively set in stone.

2.See also: Trump presidency. 2017 might be a hell of a ride :) Good luck to both sides of the pond!
They're not all learnable. The common character 赢 is infamous -- among Chinese in China -- for being difficult to remember. And there are much worse ones.

What do you mean by "learnable"?
51% attacks are a known issue. A sustained 51% attack is pretty much an existential threat to any blockchain. So I doubt the issue gets any better when dealing with individual contracts.

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/15/long-range-attacks-the-...

http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/544
Somewhere familiar? How is Denmark or Sweden or Germany familiar to Syria?

If you flee because of war you don't care where you go, you just want to get away from the war. Moving to Denmark or UK or Sweden is a completely different operation.

Keep in mind that most people are left in the refugee camps near the conflict. For every person we have to take into our welfare system we are basically not able to provide for 10 if not hundreds of others in the actual area of the conflict.

The idea with being an actual refugee is that you are supposed to go back once the conflict is over and rebuild your own country. Thats not the plan of those who move so far away.

You are trying to turn something with a lot of gray areas into som black/white moral thing were the only right thing to do is help.

Sweden said just come everyone everyone warned them. Now they have closed the borders and is sending 80.000 back.

This is because they didn't realize that Denmark did which is you can't just take people in large quantity with such different cultures without it undermining the country they are migrating to.

It's easy to play the good person when you don't have responsibility for a country.
You could displace them, slowly, but you don't have to. You could just keep building [1] tide [2] barriers [3] instead [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_Pass_S-1_of_Saint_P...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project
Well, concern for the atheists is influx of deeply religious and conservative people. Do you know what happens to atheists in societies where many of people are coming from? Same for LGBT, woman rights etc.
Awesome work! Now I need website where I can just generate them and view them in webgl.
After injuring myself badly running, I built a free running plan for dummies
I have stopped going on reddit. There is an obvious agenda trying to be pushed in the guise of a purely user driven content aggregator.
It's interesting to consider how painful a "video-only Wikipedia" would be to use. If the point is to distract, then video is certainly at an advantage. If the point is to communicate or inform, then certainly text is the winner.

I guess that explains FB's hope for a rise of video content.
Here is a video of Joshua Bell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell) playing a 3.5 million dollar violin in the subway for 45 minutes and making $32:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw
A zucker is born every minute, they say.
Free speech is a concept of government. Reddit is a for-proft corporation. It's not censorship, it's a business refining its model.

Joke's on you that you thought reddit was anything but.
A modern - and superior - option would be a mobile application that could provide ongoing and reinforced instruction to the child.

As a millennial, we're probably the last generation to learn how to write a letter in elementary school (as well as how to use the Dewey Decimal system to find a book in library), yet even I find the concept of writing a letter silly and more about nostalgia for the parent than the child who will probably wonder why you just didn't use email or IM.

After reading this article, I'd rather have the couple minutes back in my life than trying to wonder why applying archaic communication to perennial concepts suddenly makes it relevant for the NY Times to cover.
Domains used to cost $0 to register.

Edit: LOL Which idiot downvoted this? The chronic lack of basic tech/internet knowledge among some people here is ridiculous.

In 1995, the NSF authorized NSI to begin charging
registrants an annual fee, for the first-time since
the domain's inception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
Remembering Andy Grove–and Government's Role in Modern Technology
Nah, I grow up there. I knew the people. Using a Game of Throne analogy, Tibetan people are like free folks (or wildings) and Han people are like people south of the wall. When I was there growing up, every male Tibetan carry weapons (including boys) on their body. They are a militant people, yes they are deviant Buddhists too, but that doesn't mean they are not militant.
Instagram hates developers
I'm not sure the title makes sense - I learned why having 4 founders can be ok, but that doesn't mean the 2-3 founders advice is bad - just that you should have a reason why you think you won't run into problems. It seems too specific to be about recognizing bad advice, just that a traditional rule doesn't always apply (and how many rules always apply in business?)
That's because while also a troll haven, the internet and parallel technical revolutions have done more to improve access to education, free speech, news, productivity (not to mention small businesses, new money, new economies, and just so much more) and so on than any other 20 year period in history.

FaceTime and like software alone have so vastly increased our family's access to each other across global distances that it's hard to put a number on, let alone having pocket access to the wealth of the world's information nearly instantaneously.

Yes, there are concerns as you mention, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that would roll back the way things work now. I'm willing to bet many people would give up cars and meat before the Internet and related technologies.
I still have never seen someone use Apple Pay or android pay in real life. I live in DC. I've used Apple Pay for lyft but it's more annoying than uber just having my card on file.

I don't even know how to swipe my phone.
I'm outside the USA but I get it.

Average living standards are falling despite the general impression given by politicians and journalists. This is also true in Europe.

The West isn't doing as well as advertised and this traces back to the early 70s. Attrition has been going on for decades.

If you find this incomprehensible then you've got to understand if you are in SV or a major city that you're in the Core of the system, it is the Peripheral that first runs into difficulties when a down cycle appears.

Take countries such as Venezuela, South Africa. These are places on the edge of our economic system and they are blowing up. It is easy to ignore this because they were always, from our perspective, borked. In fact they used to be doing much better in the past.

The key point to grok is that many of our 'stats' about the world are incorrect. Interest rates are not really at zero percent. The economic system is fracturing and traditional models/tools don't work anymore. This is what it looks like when a complex system is in danger of falling to pieces. Larry Summers is borrowing from the same technological stagnation playbook as Peter Thiel. Oil prices halve without meaningful changes in economic growth. Hmmmm. Maybe something is up.

tldr; This is <del>Bat</del> Bear Country!
Steve here. Thanks for reading! Those earnings are certainly not sustainable over eight hours in a day, nor over every day of the week. But they are attainable in strategically timed bursts. Some earnings are also skewed by a very few who donate $20.
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Sure is inconvenient when facts disagree:

www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/11/481641640/more-than-ever-americans-are-dying-by-accident
Sure, why not? Because the world needs the billionth streaming service.
//sarcasm
FWIW the "others don't see my posts, only I do" is called "shadow-banning" or "stealth banning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning

The practice involves making a user's contributions invisible to all other users, but visible to themselves, making them less likely to create new accounts to add the same material.
There's this one. It isn't deep. More about making people aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX7xmhpUoi4
Or a malicious one. The move has to be voluntary.
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In those cases the court found the intent manifest in the language. These were sophisticated parties with legal advice. Even if they court didn't see intent, it is within the courts' power to force such persons to follow the language if for nothing else than to serve as example to other negligent contract drafters.

A court will only grant that which is asked for. So for a typo to matter, one of the two parties before the court must be claiming that is isn't a typo.
You find it strange that conservatives support the Republican nominee for the presidency?
Shadowbans aren't meant for censorship. It's an artifact of old Reddit design for spammers that hasn't been replaced yet. (I know the CEO mentioned that was on the agenda, hence the improved suspension option)

Hacker News does shadowbans too which I am not happy about, but that's another story.
What were the pricing models of JustEat and Deliveroo?
While I 100% agree they aren't doing anything illegal, it's still a shady business practice.
Research grants are not endorsement contracts. Have you ever seen a Nobel prizewinner on a box of Wheaties? pitching Hertz rent-a-car? Me neither.
Your example is incongruous. Height is something you have no power to change, while intellegence can be made. And even if it cannot, it can often be substituted for hard work -- this is why the common trope of the smart person beat by the hardworking less smart person exists.
In my system the authentication strategy is the responsabilities of the clients. The auth system only provides tokens via the /auth and /refresh_token routes given respectively a usn/pwd or a valid token.

So the client can refresh the token when they are close to expire or just auth again after expiration.
It's used as a cheap source of labour by many Israeli companies too. And while not occupied in the classical sense, everything's going in or out is controlled. The airspace is controlled, the place is heavily monitored and the populace are under no illusions as to has the power.
If someone was censoring comments not kind to the pharma industry on that post, you would think they would have also removed the comment that starts

"... horrible horrible medication. don't take it."
It's a limited shared resource, and if someone else would do something with it that's worth the fairly reasonable sum of $8/mo, when it's not worth that to you, then yeah, I'd rather they have it, especially if it also means that good names aren't all camped on by rent seekers who do literally nothing with the domain. That said, I think we should just price all .com's higher, regardless of demand for specific domains.

We can leave other tld's for things that aren't worth $8/month to their creators.
Well...if they're telling you to do something specific, wouldn't that stop being a "principle"?
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This is from 2015. Reddit removed their shadowbans for regular users (still enabled for spammers, I think) [1].

And, by the way, calling out censorship because of 1 shadowban when there's even a subreddit to know if you're shadowbanned (https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowBan/, appears when you search shadowban reddit) is too much of a stretch, I think.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/reddit-account-suspensions...
The joke is on me, I guess. I've never understood how the line is drawn. Freedom of speech and religion are both in amendment one. Free speech is a right, but one can, evidently, open a website and suppress any opinion one chooses. Freedom of religion is a right, but one cannot use religious beliefs to deny gay people their rights. [1] That seems like a double standard to me and I've yet to find a way to reconcile it.

edit: grammar, edit2: supporting story

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-colorado-bakery-cater-...
Kerberos Golden Ticket Protection Mitigating Pass-The-Ticket on Active Directory [pdf]
Everyone has an agenda. techrights.org has an agenda. Hacker news has an agenda (You think you can post whatever you want here and not get banned?).
New York passes bill making it illegal to advertise entire apartments on Airbnb
That would be news to the overwhelming majority of its audience.
I think this is exactly how it should work. Perhaps the first 5-10 are normal priced and then increase at some f(x) from there. I think others made good points about having a few for future or personal reasons like email or whatever. But I don't see a great reason why aside from squatting or having tons of companies why someone should own 200x .coms. Though I don't know if it should be per domain per tld or just plain per domain for the counts