skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when Russia and China will control ICANN

Until then I am very much against start mistrusting DNS as a precautionary measure based on FUD.

> they start coming up with real, more decentralized and trust-less systems

Sounds intriguing, how should this work? There are some ideas out there, but they all have major drawbacks. So it will take time and a real, present threat for people to start using it regardless of the drawbacks.
What on last.fm ever needs a secure password though? Maybe someone can listen to my premium radio if I paid for it, or scrobble as me, but I really don't care about either of those. As a user, a less secure password for sites that need less security just makes sense.
Obama should do more outreach to industry to promote the idea of more competition in the insurance space.
If you read the comments on my post (which reached all the way to #3 on HN!!!!!!) you will see why I left it. The job can suck you in trying to find little 1-2% optimizations here an there that are a little more black hat than you might want, but all playing on human psychology in a way that is exciting until you take a step back and reevaluate what you have been doing, then you feel sick to your stomach. At least, I did. It didn't help being in the SEO/SEM/IM/EM/AM space, so every customer was receiving nearly 0 value because they were too lazy to do the work and just wanted to get rich quick.

I now work directly with our marketing team, but they hire out to vendors for the email marketing bits, the retargeting and ad spends. I just provide my 2 cents every now and then and go back to developing in house products.
> Wildcard domains aren't supported by Let's Encrypt last I checked.

But with ACME, the need for wildcard certs is strongly reduced. If you don't need dynamic, on-the-fly subdomain creation, it's trivial to have Let's Encrypt generate certs with all the subdomains you need (especially now that the limits are much higher than during beta).
>The last time a big shipping line went bust, it took six months to clear the backlog.

So I don't know a lot about accounting, but it sounds like the total costs of this backlog are likely to be far greater than the port fees?

If so, it seems like it would make sense for insurance to be structured such that it pays these fees now rather than having to pay out all the claims for late delivery later?
Regardless of which sender you use, you must remember that email often appears "instant", but it really really isn't.

If you absolutely need to send notifications to users with "zero delay" then email is not for you, and SMS is probably not sufficient either.
kratom:opiates :: vaping:cigarettes?
A lesson from Instapaper: The freemium model is doomed
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410451
A Jeep wasn't a diesel either. There are quite a few rover converts roaming my area.

Edit: Didn't scroll down far enough to see your install ran away from you. Ouch..

Either way, it worked out well for you so who cares! Love your story.
China Opens Antitrust Investigation of Didi-Uber Deal
I'm in Australia.
Opposite. You can use the browser for free. Mobile costs money.
mailgun has worked pretty well for us
Why doesn't a monitor fill your needs?
>I'd instantly unsubsribe. Leave me the alone please with your followup mails. I can instantly tell if your personal touch email is sent 60 min later that it's a bot. Product hunt follow up mails on my submissions are bots. I find it lame.

A while back I signed up for a pingdom alternative. I was pretty happy with the interface and probably would've considered paying for some of the extra features.

However, I very soon after received an 'informal' message from the CEO or whatnot asking if I'm happy with the product and about upgrading the paid version. And whenever I logged in, a chat box would open with some first-name-basis employee asking me if I'm happy with the product and whether I'd be interested in upgrading. On top of that a number of the screens would have similar types of messages.

I've rarely experienced such aggressive on-boarding, and I implore every business owner to avoid doing so. Because as a result, I am less likely to upgrade to a paid version.
Apple has driven the market back to the days of 8 and 16 bit computers.

The PC was the outlier that allowed for easy expansion.

Now we have USB instead of Amiga expansion bays, that required a table with big enough width. Instead we scatter cables and hubs.
> I'll never trust anything that is owned/managed by a chinese company.

Then I sure hope you submitted this via telegraph and not with a computer.

(Drinking game: one shot for each component Made in China… just make sure to call the ambulance in advance, otherwise they might not reach you quick enough.)
Hosting yourself is the best of any world. I don't see how this is a negative unless you don't have resources? Just slap it on Digital ocean and pay $5 a month.
Because it's rare for hardware manufacturers to be good at software and also that those hardware manufacturers don't want to spend to license something better that 95% of their customers wouldn't really care about.

To be fair in the current situation, it's not worth buying a TV for it's smart capabilities because they'll rapidly fall out of date. It makes more sense to buy something like the Nvidia Shield which can be swapped out without replacing the panel should it be needed
What popular cloud providers are vulnerable?
I don't think it has any connotation for most Americans. It isn't a word that is commonly used. I imagine that they hear it and think "Lee Bray" or Luche Libre wrestling.

Oh wait, I just had a thought: Luche Libre Office. That's is an awesome idea.
What about others with a "real" democracy, like Benin, Botswana, Ghana?
[CHINA] Govt to promote venture capital
Even a cheap external digital tuner has a more features and a more usable interface than (dumb) TVs with builtin tuner.

Samsung TV (2010): takes longer than a CRT to "warm up", remote died within 4years

Sony TV (2008): half the screen gets covered by program info popup for some seconds every time some decoding error happens, remote died within 4years

Telefunken TV (early 90's) + external tuner: original remote still works, screen turns on automatically when decoder is turned on and it also has built-in DVR and tetris
For upload we could do file i/o in memory, our stack allow us. But right now if we did it in memory we would run out of memory.
I agree with you, there is no alternative to StartCom right now in wildcard certs. While GNOME got a free account to get those certs, the last time i checked is still the cheapest way to get wildcard certificates (60 usd for unlimited wildcard certs).

It also removes the complexity of having to deploy let's encrypt certificates every X months without storing the LE's account key online. But if they release certificates for anybody claiming to be you there is no advantage in this area.
ASK: HN how to deliver machine learning results under startup pressure?
Hi HN,
I just started working for a very early stage startup who want to do mainly intent extraction on email datasets. I thought I would work on the natural language processing. I have worked here for 2 weeks and I am struggling with extreme pressure between sprints. We don't have any data, feature engineering, users nothing. What can I do? I am trying to build up a data processing pipeline but it is difficult with the pressure. How can I keep delivering and build a better machine learning environment in the company?

Thanks for your advice HN!
As of late i find that all tech development follows a s curve of sorts.

It starts out flat, then goes near vertical as the idea catch on and all the low handing developments are plucked and marketed.

then it flattens out again as new developments becomes harder, and the market consolidates.

Flight seems to have hit that second flat around the time of the Concorde and the 747.

And electronics seems to be hitting it right now.
Assuming I'm understanding you correctly you sent 11,000 emails in under 24 hours to 10-15 people? For a newly created account I could understand that raising a few red flags. Though that doesn't justify their support staff failing to respond to queries nor the immediate account termination.

I get the feeling they're having trouble with their sender reputation; one of our larger clients was recently switched to SparkPost from Mandrill ("it's too expensive!") and it's now a continual battle with delayed deliveries and mail being marked as spam. The issue never arose with Mandrill. (and yes, SPF and DKIM are correct)
There was an update at this year's IO, but some of the team leads already had other descriptions on their twitter accounts.
Why Asana's registration is just broken
- Add refcontrol[1] for Firefox, or some alternative for Chrome.

- RefControl > Options > Add Site

- Enter site as www.wsj.com and Action as https://www.google.com

You can also use this trick for ft.com and probably a few other sites.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
You can export passwords from your password manager to a text file on a thumb drive, and store that in a safe, secret place. It's not perfect but works OK if you don't change passwords often.
Government-backed $20M VC fund launched to back clean energy startups
I can then carry out a video call in either full 50 inches or composited with the TV signal. Coolest thing ever.

So can my XBox One :). I agree that this is a nice feature, but there is no reason why this can't be part of an external replaceable/upgradable peripheral. I'm also kind of surprised that Apple and Google didn't create an add-on for Apple TV/Chromecast yet, or we could give it to our daughters' grandparents as well ;).
They wrote about URL based microdonations.

For example for content creators like youtubers so that youtube doesnt get a cut from the donation.

How does Brave decide who has a legitimate claim on that money?!
I believe that's exactly the use case of secure Bugzilla attachment hosting the OP mentioned. IIRC, it will generate the subdomain on the fly using ticket ID in the form of bug12345.bugzilla.example.com to host the attachment.
Gnome (et al): Rotting in Threes (2012)
Google's ambitious Project Ara has been Suspended
Exactly this. These days we even trust our neighbours accepting their BGP routing advertisements, which are easily modified to bring traffic to our infrastructure and intercept it. It happens every day all over the world...
Well, the temptation is that you are happy with aspects of your job other than the pay. But I wouldn't do it again.
If your threat model now includes 'the attacker can at arbitrary times make arbitrary alterations to the working memory of my process' then no, this won't help. You can't trust the checksum, you can't trust that the data you just check summed hasn't subsequently changed, and you can't trust that data which passes a checksum wasn't previously different. Also you can't trust the checksum code itself. Or the operating system you're running on. Or anything.
> > When I asked for a refund you denied me.
> This is terrible. I won't even consider trying Duet after hearing that.

This is absurd. I know that most people are used to get refunds for anything, but if you know nothing about the problem you can't say they deserved the refund (I'm not saying they do, I'm saying we don't know).

You go to a fast food restaurant and get a hamburguer, but it's a rat? refund and lawsuit.

The same restaurant but you get food that is really disgusting and you notice as you receive? Either free meal and/or refund are ok.

You go to the same restaurant, get the food, enjoy it, and then ask a refund because they had blue balloons in there? No.

> Refusing refunds shows that you don't have faith in your product or your customers.

Considering when to refund and when not to also means that you value your product.
I recall that "Office" was ruled too generic a name to really protect some years ago. Because the bundle is just general stuff you'd use in an office.

Also, it's a terrible name that doesn't say anything, except that it's sold for use in an office.
In theory, they actually can replace https content on the fly.

They are the browser. They have control.

They can convert the visible URL to a call to their proxy server, which performs an HTTPS call on your behalf. They receive the request, replace ads, and send it back to you in TLS, along with the certificate information that they received from the real server, which they'd show the user.

But I expect they won't do that, so one can hope.
Navy cover-up of Afghan ‘sex slaves’
I wanted to work there but after three nonsensical phone interviews and some feedback from ex-Googlers I came to the conclusion, even if I had the skills to be accepted, their culture is not something I would enjoy.
Pitfalls to Avoid When Scaling an International Startup
Apache is actually considering doing that: https://lwn.net/Articles/699110/
Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually check for the unexpected? What would happen if you had one of these little bristles and you didn't know it?
I've used Kratom and it truly does stop opiate and alcohol withdrawals in it's tracks.

There is a problem though; These addicts with little knowledge of Kratom will attempt to get high and overdose. This is definitely a problem and Kratom should require some license or warning, but to ban the chemicals is crazy counter-productive when we have a real epidemic
Sequoia has 40 years worth of outliers. For almost any other fund I would agree but it's fairly typical for them.
You could wait a couple days before making this public.

This post seems like you are seeking social justice and gives sparkpost the chance to escape a bad review relatively unscathed.

Now even if they fix your issue, we will never know if it is due to good service or fear of the pitchforks.
How?

There's a well-known key for the root, which vouches for the key for the .org TLD, which vouches for the key for the example.org domain, which vouches for the A/AAAA/TLSA RRs for www.example.org.

What part of the chain can the café hotspot break?
His language and the temporary nature of the ban sound like code to me for:
"Kratom is illegal until Pfizer can buy up, control and monetize the supply chain or patent analogs."

Of course the fda requirement that drugs be single ingredients which is fucking apeshit means that when it returns it will be 1000x more concentrated and lead to lucrative abuse.

Americans pay so much more for drugs and transparently that money does not go to research. The FDA is responsible for the opioid epidemic and several other horrible murderous crimes. Reform the FDA.

Source: Im PhD prof of chemistry
This is a market I've daydreamed about trying to enter. Build a high quality, dumb-as-shit TV and couple it with a small line of high quality receivers with beefy ARM processors and well written software. How hard can this possibly be?
I had to scroll half way down the page to find someone like me... I'm disappointed as well.

A lot of people here talk about performance and size. We seem obsessed with them in cell phones but at what point does performance and size become good enough and we can focus on things like sustainability and repairability.
> A couple of "big" players doing their own thing

So much for Freedesktop standardization...
Apply a weak electric current to a specific point and people get the sensation they are being watched. It's not a perception it's altering post processing of sensory data. A stroke can remove your ability recognize faces. You could still describe someone, but you would not be able to look at a picture of you wife and know who they where. You would be able to recognize her voice.

These are not in the two category's proposed earlier, thus memory and observation fail fully describe what's going on.
Well, effectively outlawing tumblers involves investigating people that pay with tumbler-tainted coins. I mean it more in a Patriot Act type legislation sense rather than probable cause [0]. Obviously, if you've got non-tumbled coins with a direct criminal taint then I'm pretty sure that's probable cause already.
Just to be clear - coins are not forever tainted in such context. i.e. someone extorts 1 BTC, the victim reports it - it's now tainted. The criminal pays the 1 BTC for pizza, police arrests him. The coin owned by the pizza place is a clean coin again now.

[0] tho I guess in some cases it could very well fulfill it (>50% probability of a crime having been committed)
Some shortcuts, as ⌘K⌘K, I prefer to simple do: shift + end, del. Same thing, same keystrokes, and works not only on sublime.

Not so related to the topic, but as I'm increasing my intimacy each day with terminal and I consider myself very fast using most of relevant shortcuts for frontend by sublime, does it worth to switch at once to vim or something terminal-based? What do you guys think?
Thanks for the link, that cleared up a confusion that I've had for a while. I've read a lot of contradictory things about fractal trees, but apparently they changed the data structure from a COLA to a B-epsilon tree at some point but kept the name fractal tree.
Regarding pronounciation, libre = lee bruh (it might be said differently in different contexts, but I've only heard that pronunciation for LO).
Not with CT and pinning.
This assumes the only limit is congestion, which it isn't. E.g. roads near me will soon be 20mph to intentionally make it undesirable to use them for through traffic past peoples houses, and to reduce pedestrian accidents.

In Central London, 3x means maybe reaching 30mph, but increasing parts of Central London are also getting 20mph, and while it might very well be that safer automated cars would make it viable to bring that back up to 30mph, you can't travel in a straight line or anything resembling it in the most central parts of London.

E.g. in the most central part there is a single road covering the city centre East/West (Oxford Street), which is also restricted to taxis and buses (and it's still one of the most congested roads in town). To travel the same distance East/West, you need to drive a substantial distance along heavily congested roads South/North, or drive through a maze of smaller back streets and deal with traffic lights and pedestrians haphazardly crossing all over the place, so actual speed measured by straight line between starting point and destination is a tiny fraction of the driving speed for a lot of locations in the centre... It's not uncommon for it to be faster to walk even when there isn't much congestion, depending on where you are going from/to.

So while there may be plenty of places where being able to fly won't be worth it, there are certainly also locations where "just" 100mph would still beat even automated cars by several times if you don't need to spend time driving somewhere dedicated to take off/land. This latter is the biggest caveat - if your "flying car" is really a "drivable convertible plane" that needs something resembling a runway, a heavily congested city core won't exactly be ideal.

Though saying that, even my old commutes in to London were far slower on average than 100mph when taking the bus + train, despite bus + train beating driving a regular car by a massive margin, and that was between locations with far less congestion than the centre.
I think you're probably wrong that you can't handle it in stored procedures (packages). You may even be able to do a lot of the processing in a single SQL statement? Try this first, then PL/SQL. Do the bits you can't do in PL/SQL in a java class stored on the database...
Docker and the 'F'-word
There are several reasons you want this, relating to security, privacy and “politics” (in the wider sense).

Regarding security, using HTTPS (along with the right measures on externally-hosted content) guarantees (to some extend) that what the users gets is what you meant to publish: an hostile network cannot replace the content with misinformation and cannot inject JS -- to exploit the client or not (as was done with the “Great Cannon” [0] which took down Github).

Privacy-wise, a number of countries routinely spy on their communication infrastructure, and revealing “I visited this website” is far more problematic than “I visited this Tor-related post on this website, and left this comment”.

The last reason for systematic HTTPS is “political”: if we go towards a situation where HTTPS is systematically employed, HTTP-only website will be subjected to increasing amounts of social pressure as adoption rates grow: deploying HTTPS (and preferably best-practices) on your “text-only” website pushes other websites (that might “need” it more) to deploy it too.

[0]: https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
I wonder what the limits to airplane size are? Would it be possible to make a version that seats thousands of passengers
Ask HN: Functional and Typed Filesystem?
I am wondering whether there is an OS (probably as a proof of concept) that only allows files of the same type inside a folder. So in a sense, folders would be lists in Haskell.

(And go further, create trees, Maybe's, and what not.)

Having your OS (at least the data storage part) be a huge first-class Haskell object sounds interesting.
Yes but their interests are not the same as other country anti-trust regulators.
No, I will update the post accordingly. As I just did since they wrote back. I have no issue to give an unwarranted bad review. I think its shady to block an account at 3am after it was being used all day.
Why are you limiting your remotes to a specific time zone?
They should let the FDA do their job so the labeling is all up to snuff and leave it at that
Flag – free photo printing app for iOS
Not sure, but i think XFCE relies on a fair bit of Gnome plumbing, and that pluming in turn is becoming increasingly systemd-centric. Not even sure how well GTK3 plays with BSDs, and XFCE will move to using GTK3 "soon".
I'm going to throw in my recommendation for Postmark (postmarkapp.com) for transactional mail. Solid, reliable service for us.
> These addicts with little knowledge of Kratom will attempt to get high and overdose

I'm not aware of a single case where taking too much kratom has caused any lasting ill effects (please do correct me if wrong). There have been cases of harm when kratom is combined with a cocktail of other drugs that are known to cause harm when combined with each other (e.g. multiple respiratory depressants).

Kratom doesn't cause respiratory depression; 'over dosing' on kratom just causes nausea, vomitting and dizziness.
Tips on how to make a web developer's life miserable
Human body cooling by nanoporous polyethylene textile
Steam engine found at the bottom of Lake Superior
Debugging unknown code in an unknown language with an unknown debugger
Making Hacking Childs Play – Good Resource for Securing Websites [Video]
Day 1 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 customer reviews
America: Best Stock Market Returns Since 2009, of All Countries
"The documents, filed Tuesday in a lawsuit by Brezler against the Navy Department and Marine Corps, also show that Marine and Navy officials in Afghanistan were aware in 2012 of allegations of abuse against children by the Afghan police chief but that the chief was allowed to keep his position in Helmand province anyway. This became a major issue after a teenage boy who worked for the chief — and allegedly was abused by him — opened fire on a U.S. base Aug. 10, 2012, killing three Marines and badly wounding a fourth."
Evolution and Rise of Online Home Service Marketplace
Does customer demand drive "overscan on HDMI" by default, too? Who are those people?
Generate PseudoRandom Images from Seed Text Using JS+Canvas
I believe gdrive allows you to store file properties:

https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/properties

I wonder if you could add hashes and checksums to files in this way? The trick would be adding the server-side app service manage these.
Why Race Relations Are Getting Worse in America
Like the Android ADK, Cardboard, that funny bluethooth ball robot....