skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I didn't think that out very carefully, obviously exponential growth at any substantial rate would have that kind of effect. The perils of composing text in the loo. My main point still stands, though...
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It's done with Node.js and nginx all the time. Other than the initial configuration nginx is essentially stateless, and there's simple setups out there to automate the nginx config as well, with docker for example: https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy.
> Regarding your first point: no, they can't. See what happens if they try to exploit the DNS to get a Google certificate. (Notice the last several years of Google punishing CAs).

If the U.S. government, or the Russian government, or the Luxembourgian government orders a CA subject to it to produce a certificate for a given key and hostname, it will be given a certificate for that key and hostname.

If the U.S. government, or the Russian government, or the Luxembourgian government orders a DNS provider subject to it to resolve all requests for a domain to a different IP than it would have otherwise, those requests will be so resolved.

If the U.S. government, or the Russian government, or the Luxembourgian government orders a network subject to it to route all traffic for one IP to a different IP it controls, that traffic will be so routed.

> It is very important to DNSSEC advocates to convince people that our security can't be any better than the security of the .COM zone, which is controlled by the US Government through Verisign. But nobody accepts that level of security today.

Everybody accepts that level of security today, because that's the level of security we have today.

Actually, it's better than the level of security we have today, because at least a DNS-level CA system would mean that no-one other than someone who can compel .com can take over a .com hostname. Right now any government in the world can do so, at the drop of a hat.

Restricting that to the government a company or person is subject to greatly reduces the attack surface.
Wouldn't bit-shifting to store booleans in 1 bit actually decrease performance, for minimum size improvement?
This is exactly my experience. As for the disadvantages of ddg, it's difficult to find some regional results from not-so-popular websites. This is not where ddg shines. Apart from that, I like ddg's results more than google's ones.
D'oh. I'm pretty sure you're right. Thanks!
Ask HN: How Are the YC HW Startups Doing?
About 5 years ago, YC started funding hardware companies. The first was Pebble IIRC.

How are the hardware startups doing in general, relative to their cohorts?
It lost signal when held that way. It didn't drop calls. As explained in the anandtech article, they couldn't get it to drop a call once.
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> Yes, but America is not a reference to a continent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

"The Americas, also collectively called America"... In many languages America is the continent.
> If you cannot go to university full time, go part time. If you cannot go part time, you don't have enough time to actually learn any of these topics on your own.

Going to university part time eats up more time than reading a textbook at home or wherever you are in your spare time. It also locks you in to the specific pace that the class is at which is not optimal for most people, because people learn different things at different paces. There is also the cost of university to consider.
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HK is kind of an odd example, though, because it is a city-country. It's not like you have a "Florida" to go off to when you are old. You're either in HK itself or in a foreign country (ESPECIALLY China)
But let's not make those taxpayers foot the exploding costs of tuition caused by access to so much easy money.
Bear in mind that solar cells are rated for the amount of power they provide in direct sunlight, and will generate much less under other lighting conditions.

The human eye has a huge dynamic range; you might not realize just how well it compensates for differing amounts of illumination. Many indoor environments are 100 or even 1,000 times dimmer than outdoor direct sunlight.
Oh yes you're absolutely right - it's easy to conflate or confuse the two, even if they're quite different.
or aggressively recruit you by calling you non-stop and using manipulative pressure tactics

Wow, you just reminded me of something funny that happened about 15 years ago.

A younger friend of mine was interested in tech, and knew I was "good with computers". They had taken some online quiz, and said I should take it. So I took it, and filled out my info thinking I might win something (I was young, and didn't particularly care.) About 15 minutes later I got a phone call from a guy trying to tell me that I was in a dead end job, and that I would never be anything if I didn't go to the school he was pushing. I think I just laughed, and said something snarky like "at least I'm not calling people up selling things." Then about an hour later he called back from another number, and was making fun of my (admittedly awful) band, asking where he could buy tickets. I calmly just told him we would appreciate the support, and gave him our website. He just hung up in a huff, but it was a very weird exchange.

In any case, I am very surprised anybody ever buys anything from pushy salespeople. I always immediately equate it to a low quality product, or a business with questionable morals.
Does Google index the metadata within images?
Nobody is stopping you.

OTOH, 1.it's something completely different than the title claims, 2.there's a very suspicious set of mutually impossible features (you can't have strong anonymity AND data recovery), plus "unlimited" storage (surely the device sales will pay for all of it?) and 3. your way of promoting it sounds like an advertisement.
However, my point is that those "pennies" could easily have been "dollars" instead at the cost of a fraction of the top of the income distribution, and this graph is celebrating "pennies" for the poor as a victory and masking millions or billions flowing to the wealthiest.
It's a far-reaching interpretation in my opinion.

The author is talking about product innovation, all the examples are on people who invented famous products.

When he says : "Twenty years before Henry Ford convinced..".

Well the congress's statement is from 1875, 20 years later the first cars appeared. Ford came 10 years later.
The event he's referring to is clearly the car invention

It's quite obvious that he's presenting Ford as the inventor of the car.
That confusing with Indian Institute of Tech should help though. That's a top school in India
I see responses like this from developers, and -- no offense -- it really doesn't advance the conversation.

The guy asking these questions is a bureaucrat, he's running his game book. Just telling him he's dumb and you're smart won't get you the certification your company needs.

In this case, yes I think these questions are insane. But you could respond like:

> A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers

We use Linux servers that store passwords using a one-way encryption. If we show you how we validate that all passwords are 16 characters long, contain special characters, are not passwords previously used, and are changed every 30 day, would that suffice for the password complexity scan we assume you are trying to perform with this password data you requested?

> A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text

See answer 1, we require all users to change their password every 30 days; passwords older than 30 days expire and can not be used.

> A list of "every file added to the server from remote devices" in the past six months

We use XYZ System for change management. Here are the change logs. We monitor log ins using ABC System. Here are the logs.

> The public and private keys of any SSH keys

Providing this information would violate our security policies. Our policies can be found in the attached PDF. Please let us know what compliance issue you are attempting to verify here so we can brainstorm alternate methods of providing the details. We change keys yearly.

> An email sent to him every time a user changes their password, containing the plain text password

See previous response, giving this would violate our security policies. We programmatically ensure complex passwords, and that passwords expire every 30 days. We can show you how the server is configured if you'd like.

End with, "For next steps, can we get someone from your technical team on the phone with one Security Lead to discuss these responses?" If they aren't game, just find another service provider. These questions are batshit, but they strike me as "first pass" questions sent over by someone junior. Find a way to get up the ladder a bit and everyone will be happier.
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I don't think it does to be honest. Income growth for the world's poorest has been astonishing over the last several decades. The gains are very real and very meaningful.
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> this is pretty much state of the art in the UK

Having worked for a company that did PCI compliance in the UK (not it's core business), and therefore alongside a lot of people who had worked at other companies in the sector, I can tell you that this is definitely not the state of the art in the UK in my experience.

Most of the major companies doing this in the UK seem to be doing a very good job of it, I think the problem is with the much smaller, cheaper companies. I don't know if they are the majority, I hope not.
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...it goes away as momentum builds and everyone gets interested...and then it comes roaring right back as the economics of mining favour concentration.
PARC never had substantive DOD funding, it was funded by the largess of Xerox. Bell Labs did do government work, but was largely funded by the Bell Operating Companies, in the form of a royalty.
"Inventing new things" usually is a series of incremental changes. The Wrights didn't just sit down and build an aircraft. They built large kites, then unmanned gliders, then manned gliders, then added power.
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They did, they even said in the keynote that they're using a new aluminum alloy[1], and it's mentioned on the website as well[2]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/12/9315471/iphone-6s-new-alum...

[2] https://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/design/
Thank you for answering my question. I understand that many people are uncomfortable around guns.

As someone who frequents gun shows you piqued my interest in determining how dangerous they really are. The numbers are hard to pin down. But I tried to be as conservative as possible using the available stats. So if these numbers are wrong, chances are they are incorrect in your favor.

The ATF stats state that there are approx 5000 gun shows per year and they generally have 2,500 to 15,000 [1] attendees. We could use the low estimate (2,500 * 5000) and it gives us 12,500,000 attendees. (many of these people probably go to multiple gun shows every year so this does not imply 12.5 M people went but some smaller number went to multiple shows).

Using the dailykos's stat stating that for three years there have been around 1 gun show accident per month gives us 12 per year. [2]

The chance the average person will be struck by lightening is 1 in 960,0000. [3]

The chance of dying in a fatal car accident in the US in a given year are 1 in 11,000 [4]

So, the chance of a gun show attendee who attends one show once per year getting shot (at a gun show) is actually 1,091 times smaller than the chance of dying in a car wreck in any given year. It's also less likely than being struck by lightening. It's important to not let media crazes influence your perceived risk of an event happening.

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

[2]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/2/19/1276171/-First-gun-s...

[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_strike

[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
There are various ways to get loan forgiveness for these loans, for reasons as you suggest, before the bankruptcy question. But pity the fool who paid off their loan and is now bankrupt.
And while that is an option, like I mentioned, it's not the most common one.

The wikipedia link to America, redirects to the United States of America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America

And in the description of the United States of America:
The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(disambiguation)

"America is a short-form name for the United States of America."
Honestly if I had to do a new desktop app project. I would probably go with nodejs + chromium + html (front end) & C# + .NET Core (backend). You get total control over the UI without having to deal with WPF, plus it runs cross platform.
If the US government orders a CA to mint a bogus certificate for Google Mail, they will get the certificate, and then the CA will get put out of business, one way or the other.

There are consequences to suborning the TLS CA system. DNSSEC advocates pretend there aren't, because they have to, or their arguments become untenable, because there cannot plausibly be similar consequences for suborning the DNS: we know for a fact, with repeated existence proofs, that governments will manipulate the DNS (like DOJ did with file sharing sites), and we know .COM isn't going anywhere.

DNSSEC advocates will grudgingly acknowledge one half of the modern CA system security model: key continuity (pinning).

What they seem unable to acknowledge is the other half. To use Moxie Marlinspike's terminology, which he coined in an argument against DNSSEC: trust agility.
The world map from our school is biased
If the voyages of the South Pacific Islanders and the Vikings were admirable, then surely so was that of Columbus? It's not as though they had better maps than he did.
Below the ski resort of Verbier (Swiss) there is bunker which has been converted into a hostel. I've stayed there for a week and it is very bad, and this is just sleeping there at night. Think tiny 3 story bunks, 10+ person dorms, 2 showers and almost no communal area.

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Hotel_Review-g198848-d306983-...
I can't remember for sure but if you haven't already you need to read this blog series on the making of Crash Bandicoot http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/ It's one of my favourite reads.
Fully not jokingly, I think governments love BTC and other pseudo-anonymous blockchain tech in particular. It's a permanent, irrefutable record linking transactions. Even if your name's not on it, without extreme heroics, you name will be traceable to the cash end or the service end at some point. This is way better than cash.

Fully anonymous blockchain tech probably scares them.
Because I don't generally believe altruism is a thing in politics, the majority of the article is just fluff and smoke. Scientific literacy? What a crock. Scientific papers aren't for boosting the kind of basic scientific literacy the links to. They are generally written for an already literate audience (putting aside the poor quality of a great deal of science and scientific papers). The overriding pragmatic motive here is hinted at in the following sentence:

"Ultimately, this decision comes as a result of a meeting by the Competitiveness Council,which includes the ministers of Science, Innovation, Trade, and Industry."

EU science, being what it is, needs to be more competitive. One way to become competitive in the face American or even Japanese competition is to take the open source/free software route and make research freely available. This makes the research more accessible, unburdens relatively poor European universities from having to pay expensive journal memberships, increases the ability of EU institutions to collaborate, and allows the EU to attract collaborators from abroad by removing financial thresholds. And because science in the US has stronger ties to industry, it plays an important role in determining the economic prowess of the US. Poor entrepreneurs can also benefit from the move. The EU is likely aiming in a similar direction (though I personally know members of European academia who dislike the collaboration between academia and industry).
Define "left". I don't have a definition either, I don't like or use the word, but I know there have been and are people that I adore and agree with on many things who probably would be labelled that way, and all of them would spit out what you seem to consider "left". One example:

> Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it. Say honestly, "I love arm-chairs better than free men, and pursue them because I choose; not because circumstances make me. I love hats, large, large hats, with many feathers and great bows; and I would rather have those hats than trouble myself about social dreams that will never be accomplished in my day. The world worships hats, and I wish to worship with them."

> But if you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.

> At the end of life you may close your eyes saying: "I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age; I have chosen mine own allegiance, and served it. I have proved by a lifetime that there is that in man which saves him from the absolute tyranny of Circumstance, which in the end conquers and remoulds Circumstance, the immortal fire of Individual Will, which is the salvation of the Future."

- Voltairine de Cleyre

If you say a little candle (or even just one that is fake and painted on) is the sun, that just means you don't know what the sun is. Keep looking maybe, or keep rationalizing your inertness to those who would fall for it.
> Perhaps you should chip in some time or dollars to help maintain a release version. The great thing about open source is that if you care enough, you can help yourself (either directly through code maintenance or indirectly via funding someone else).

I wish there was an easy way to crowdfund maintained releases. I've been burned by 3 frameworks moving on with no backwards-compatibility; that was worth money to myself & my business to keep them maintained.

Unfortunately, not enough to hire someone full-time or coordinate it (the original developers in all cases had no interest).

Does this exist?
I prefer my clothes not to be sentient, tyvm.
You mean the one that they choose the most obscure pentalobe screws on the market for?
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I like Sagan but wasn't Bozo's whole raison d'etre to be laughed at? Sounds like a success!
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Show HN: Traceur, my weekend project to auto-track shipments found in Gmail
The problem with SSL/TLS is that it is binary. There's currently very strong pro-binary movement in the ranks of Internet infrastructure engineers, probably originated in Google. Yes, binary protocols are marginally more efficient, but they are inherently harder to understand, debug, and generally see what's happening, especially in high-stress conditions when something fails in production. Binary protocols are more complex than text protocols, and more complexity leads to negligence and security problems (e.g. recent OpenSSL bugs). Secure systems are simple systems (OpenBSD gets it right).

Text-based protocols are the greatest thing that UNIX brought to the world. There should be more of them, especially in security sensitive areas.
"In North Dakota, in the heart of shale mining country, it made everyone richer."

Well, mostly on the western side of the state, but that was the poorer side to begin with. It did make for some problems with some folks on fixed incomes.
Crash did not really do anything weird with the CD drive, it just read from the disc a lot. So much, in fact, that a single playthrough would hit the disk more times than the drive was rated for (the drive was rated for some 70000 reads, but completing the game required something like 120000). [1]

[1] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/06/making-crash-ban...
That seems valid now. But developing two runtimes in parallel doesn't seem that great of an investment. Plus there are already dotnet core contributions regarding portability, for example from Samsung, it seems reasonable to think that 2-3-5 years from now dotnet core will power Mono as well.
Basically, Traceur requests access to a Gmail account via OAuth and scans hourly for any valid FedEx, UPS or USPS tracking numbers. If it finds some, it adds it to the database and periodically checks for status updates. I plan on charging $1.99 per month for this product as it seems very useful for general consumers (I started building this because I wanted it for myself) and also people who order a lot of things for their business. (Artists, repair, office managers, etc.) If you want to try it out, each account comes with a 7 day trial period. I have a couple 1 month free codes I'm willing to hand out for people who are willing to give me some constructive feedback.

Next features I'm working on are notifications (via Pushbullet) and then hacking out the mobile applications.
So, has anyone used it? If so, how is it?

The last time I looked at this (long, long ago), it was pretty much poisoned by penis-enlargement and drug ads.

I'm hoping it's gotten better since then.
There is an enormous difference between a user that is searching for keywords related to your product, and potential customers that probably aren't looking for your product that you have identified through Facebook targeting criteria. The Google user has a problem and is actively seeking a solution; the Facebook user fits what you believe is the demographic profile of someone that might be interested in your product.

Traffic from Facebook ads is notoriously difficult to turn into cash precisely because of this. Most of their advertisers measure ROI in terms of shares and likes, not new users or product sales. Because Facebook has you bidding against such people for traffic, you will never be able to make the numbers back out because your competitors aren't measuring dollars or new users like you are. Advertising products/services on Facebook is a fool's errand for almost everyone, except for those with an extremely broad target audience.
With startups it's quite difficult - remote law, pay and equity. Law for contracts and equity in different countries vary. Buying power is inconsistent. Stock options in particular are strongly biased against holders with lower pay, since they will have to take greater risk to buy their stake at cost of many more years worth of salary. You got to make sure so many things add up in multiple places, otherwise it's just a matter of common sense for remote workers to eventually see themselves at disadvantage and act on it.
The submitter seems to be a spammer for submitting stories to HN that don't generate much utility.
For that I wouldn't use WiFi. Use Thread or a custom nRF51 protocol. Both allow very long sleep times (infinite with a custom protocol) and can send millions of packets from a single coin cell.
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