skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Applications that do not implement the Tor protocol SHOULD generate an error upon the use of .onion and SHOULD NOT perform a DNS lookup."

The RFC is still a "Proposed Standard" and that sentence is probably a mistake.

Even applications that are designed to use Tor like the Tor Browser don't "implement the Tor protocol", tor implements the Tor protocol and other applications use tor via SOCKS. Or not even that now that there are things like torify.

The problem is there is a trade off between a) applications that know nothing of Tor leaking the onion name lookups from people who actually need anonymity into the public DNS when Tor is not installed or configured correctly, and b) breaking things for people who want the widest variety of application support via Tor, who aren't interested in anonymity and are only using it for e.g. NAT traversal. (The Tor people like to encourage the second group because more users improves overall anonymity.)

A possible solution is Tor providing a particular innocent name that will resolve via Tor but not via public DNS, and then applications that can't resolve that name should not try to resolve any other onion names, and DNS caches like dnsmasq should by default return NXDOMAIN for that name without forwarding the query.
He sounds like the refined product of the worst of silicon valley. Fully kitted out with a messiah complex, convinced his bizarre blend of libertarianism, contrarianism, and new age guff is going to save everyone and everywhere. Completely blind to very real ground facts, like the fact that his buddy Trump is nominating oil executives to all the top jobs in the middle of a climate crisis. Rich enough that he's never going to have to face any real consequences of his complete lack of judgement.

In a way he sounds like his whole life is a sales pitch for a flaky startup, he's started running with some crazy pitch and somehow life just threw all this money at him so he just went on and never stopped.
Also mass deportation that earned him the DIC(K) title - Deportation-in-Chief:

Source: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21595902-expelling-rec...
VSCO shuts down its New York office
No. And I'm skeptical it's the case here. You get a CC statement and have to pay the amount on that statement after some number of days. The claim is that you have to pay the instantaneous current balance on the due date--which I doubt.
>but can't help but consider true

You may want to reconsider your logical approach here, because it's not true at all.
Why are most people right handed?
Not to mention staying silent on the Dakota Access pipeline and continuing the drug war unabated.
I think another good example would be the craft beer industry. The brewers association directory[1] lists around 200 regional and large breweries in the US, and somewhere around 5000 microbreweries and brewpubs.

Granted, some of these are more than 20 years old, but the movement grew the most through the early 90's[2].

[1] https://www.brewersassociation.org/directories/breweries/

[2] https://www.brewersassociation.org/brewers-association/histo...
Well, I certainly didn't vote for him. But by your standard of evidence, I would have to say that we already elected someone that is just as much "confirmed serial sexual predator" who served as President for 8 years. In fact, the evidence against them is much stronger. Said former President was repeatedly defended by Trumps primary former rival for the position... so what choice did Americans really have? In the end, not a very good one.
Yeah, super misleading headline. I'd sign up in an instant if it was as described, but don't really care if it's just Amazon purchases.
Well, look at what is happening to the ACA, which was a step in that direction with its elimination of pre-existing conditions as a factor used to determine whether to offer insurance.

Americans have learned the hard way that people can and will use their health care information against them. And that even commitments in law towards eliminating this face strong counter-pressure and reversal.

The reality is discrimination. And there is no reliable, dependable change to this on the horizon.
My own anecdata about coworking spaces involves a space that only allowed permanent residents, so needless to say the group of people I met had very different motivations

Still, if nomadic workers are finding it easier to "guarantee that work can be done" by booking a coworking space rather than spending that cash on a bigger AirBnB/hotel room promising a desk and fast WiFi it's an indication that at least some of the time they consider an office shared with other people working a preferable working environment to the solitude of an empty bedroom.
Looks remarkably like an RTS!

See also press release [1]. So are these things intended as remotely-operated munitions? Or reconnaisance?

[1] https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View...
My oldest cc is 6 years old (non-american), and I really want to close it. Do you have any idea of its effect ob my FICO? (You mentioned "age for 10 years", what does that mean?) :)
The problem with that is it requires information from the game (some of those commands), i was working on something similar for star citizen and was setting up screen scraping to get data (but insufficient interest, beta testers and 0 sales after 6 months kinda killed that project).

Basically think of these types of systems (that's voice attack i believe, i saw this video a while ago) as macros triggered via voice - useful for space combat (shields forward, slide left(for 6 degree of freedom flight) etc).
I feel bad for Zegna.
> “It was a miracle neither of us were hurt,”

Crashing “the fastest car in the world.” and coming out of it without a scratch = Made up story. It seems like Thiel makes up exicting heroic stories, just like Trump, to compensate for an otherwise boring excitement-less life.
>I use my regular ATM card to get cash. There's still a (relatively high) fee

Are you in the US? If so there's no reason to pay any fees.

Get a Fidelity Cash Management Account and/or a Charles Schwab Investor Checking Account. Both are free without any minimum balance requirements. Neither charge a currency conversion fee and both reimburse all ATM fees.

Personally, I use Fidelity. I couldn't be happier with their products (I also have an IRA and credit card with them) and service. I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.
I dislike his views, but one thing Thiel is most certainly not is misinformed. His interpretations may be completely wrong, but he is not misinformed. I recall an interview of Marc Andreessen where Marc said he had to do a ton of preparation just to stand toe to toe in a debate with Thiel.

If you believe that, then look for other explanations for his oddball statements. The contrarian angle seems like the right one - Thiel has lamented in the past that you can't say certain things anymore. He might be saying these things just to provoke a reaction.
I've had an Amazon card forevers, I've never had paid any interest on it
Also, a substantial number of children know the truth about marshmallows: they're disgusting. The study might get very different results with bittersweet chocolates with buttercream filling.
What really caused the housing crisis?
getting work done is NOT why I come to the office. I don't like to be one of those guys who sells half of his day to somebody. I come to work to have fun, meet people etc.I also have to work sometimes... but it is easier to mix the 2 of them in an open space. Sure, I'm not very productive, but that's not what I want.
They spend 9 paragraphs discussing it, and other aspects of the optical system.

I think it's pretty neat. I'm mostly skeptical because commodity compute has led HPC for so long. Novel architectures are often quite interesting, but feel like they only have a performance advantage for short periods of time.

It looks like a neat system though, and I'm sure many of the ideas will trickle down into commodity hardware eventually. It's great that HP are still doing this kind of stuff.
It doesn't get released, unless you are doing manual memory management inside an unsafe package.

In a safe package it can only point to existing data, there isn't anything to release.

If the pointee is something that lives on the heap, it is similar to weak references. Points to GC data, but doesn't count as yet another GC root.

If the pointee is on the stack or global memory (data segment in C), then there is also nothing to release. Global memory only goes away when program dies, stack gets released on return. Memory that was allocated by the compiler due to VAR declarations, it is static.

Usually the idea is that you use untraced pointer to navigate statically allocated data structures, they are not to be exposed across modules.
The headline is misleading - nothing was explained about Thiel at all in this article, unless they wanted us to conclude that he is an uninformed rich guy just living off his wealth from a lucky Facebook investment. I don't know whether that impression is true or not, but it definitely is what I am left with after reading the entire article, as all I got from his answers was that he likes to play with words and scenarios in a sophomoric way more than he actually analyzes what is going on in the world.
I'm sorry to be the one to say it, but this is an advertisement.
Django Class-Based-View Inspector
Awesome update for existing Visa Amazon Chase card holders. Their Store Card already offered 5% back, so it's nice that everybody gets the new rate now.

A bit weird that we have to verify the card to get the 5% back... you'd think the fact that I've been using it for years would be enough verification.

In any case, don't forget to verify!

Go to Your Account -> Manage Payment Options

Then type in your full credit card number and click on verify and rewards will change to 5%.
GigRove wants to match skilled freelancers and startups with spare rooms
Oh, I wasn't aware that I was implying that the current administration is without problems. I'm just really surprised at Thiel's answers in this interview.
Not a duplicate, they are different articles
Not to mention that most of the quotes are clearly taken out of context. Making any kind of judgment based on them is a shot in the dark.
That's how all credit cards work, and how they exist as a business. You making minimum payments is how they can pay for everything they offer.

How exactly do you think they offer miles, cashback, etc? It all comes from somewhere. That somewhere being people who pay interest by making the minimum payment.

Learn how to use your credit cards properly. It's simple: Pay off your complete balance every month.
Yeah, maybe just "Simulated ..." or "Synthetic ..."?
yup. Amazing application..
Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010)
>>Wrong. Yes it was a reasonable test, but their results are invalid.

I'm confused. In what way are the results invalid? The results were as a result of a bug in Apple's software, no?
Where do you think this free money comes from? Jpm covers it??
What motivates successful engineering organizations
Can you explain which quotes are taken out of context, and in what context they are best interpreted? I'd love to understand.
I know it's buzzwordy but after using it a bit I'm starting to think VR might really change this.

Instead of losing all of the signals from in person communication, the accidental bump into's or a glance causing you to notice someone doing something relevant to you (or vice versa), you can just walk over to someone else's space and collaborate with them. If they need a period of focus, they can disconnect from the group space and have a doorbell, but it would also be easy to rejoin.

And unlike skype you're not always 'on the call', everyone just happens to be in the same room and if nobody says anything all day it's ok. More to the point you could even mute people if it's not relevant.
> A house has a more important primary purpose

Aren't houses purchased for the intent of renting them out investments? This would argue that they are not. Seems to be proving too much.

Despite the title, this section of the article is actually about how illiquid houses are. Which, again, proves too much - old bonds are also extremely illiquid, but no one says they aren't investments.

> A house can’t be an investment if you never plan to sell it

I buy plenty of VFINX that I don't intend to ever sell. I buy them for the dividends (incidentally, the same reason I would buy a house).

> Thinking of your house as an investment can lead to equity stripping

This says that thinking of your house as an investment leads to poor decisions, not that it is wrong. Sure, maybe it does, but that's a completely different argument.

> The carrying costs of a house are too high for it to be an investment

The carrying costs of a house are typically negative, unless you conveniently forget that a house covers a short position and is thus paying you back (in the form of covering your rent). Which the article does.

> Your house won’t generate cash flow

Again, it is covering a short position. It saves you from paying rent, which is mathematically identical to forcing you to continue paying rent but paying you the same amount.

> Price appreciation is the magic ingredient, but it’s not guaranteed

This is true of all investments.
I don't think that the issue isn't the difference between what people "should" and do read, but between what people read now and what they're likely to read in the future (on the scale of years or decades). Collective tastes of the public ebb and flow over time.

The trick would be between finding the difference between actually needing the book later, or just hoarding something that will never be needed again...or at least, that introduces more of a cost to keep than it would cost to dispose of it and buy it again later if it does come back into fashion.
We should commend her for not taking herself too seriously. But even so, she gave him way too many softballs.
I just checked mine and it was already updated to 5%
Then what's the purpose of the promise in the first place? That's just having the old APIs and compilers with the new optimisations (at least what I understood from your suggestion).
It is neither cultural nor hormonal. A miscarriage is the loss of what was going to be a human life, and all the plans, thoughts, and hopes that went along with it. And the later in pregnancy it is, the harder it is to take. Miscarrying at six weeks is different from miscarrying at 11 weeks. I've done both (and I didn't grieve terribly either time, but I felt the loss). I can't imagine how much worse it would be to miscarry at, say, 18 weeks, when you've felt the baby kicking.
Is sad and cringe:

https://twitter.com/GoogleyAsHeck
You're right. I missed the fact that it was a live site, not just a domain name. After reviewing the site content, the automation aspect is clear.
As someone with a city planning hobbyist interest, I've visited Mexico City and greatly disliked it. It's a miserable city to get around in, though I can see its potential if it ever decides to move away from heavy car infrastructure (some core neighborhoods are pretty nice so long as you don't want to leave them). Were you thinking of somewhere else in Mexico, or specific parts of Mexico City?
We are talking about the JVM. And as such, the existing competitors are Java, Scala, and Clojure. Scala had promise, but many significant users discovered warts on large projects. And on top of that, Lisp is not only sexy (rationally or irrationally), but Clojure has a lot of intellectual momentum. Further, we have Clojurescript for nodejs. It is the one to beat.

So if someone is going to sell me on a better JVM language, they need to at least give me a pro/con list vs Clojure. While HN might disagree, the market (people who work in companies that live for revenue, not VC) will agree in my interest for that comparison.
> Have you honestly figured out what make you happy?

I'm not 100% sure, because I haven't lived it, but I'm pretty sure I don't need that much. I like quiet and space, the city's not for me. I need a very quiet property quite far from the hustle and bustle (and goddamn leafblowers!). Also a couple of thousand per year for gadgets/technology. I'm a people person but I hate the fakeness and superficial contact with people that seems to come with jobs in the city ("how are you today?" grrrr), so I feel like a sour puss most of the time, which is actually not my personality so it feels dissonant.

At the end of the day I've just kept the machine running for another day. I work in an important industry, so my job is indirectly important, but I can't ever point to a physical thing that I've created or a particular person that I've helped, and most people don't even understand what I have achieved. I think that makes me feel a bit empty. It's just other people's problems all day with a lot of irritating bureaucracy and "professionalism" but a bag of money attached.

Maybe I'm just lazy but I don't want to work as some people seem to. I have many hobbies that could easily occupy all my time, so I don't feel I need work to be happy. I have heard about studies that say that people are happier working but I really don't think that I am (or maybe I just haven't found the work that makes me happy yet).

Unfortunately I haven't worked out how to make an income away from the city yet, but I have thought about quitting and getting any menial job I can find in the country because the rents are cheap in rural areas. Just can't bring myself to pull the trigger, my current job has a lot of pluses and good pay, and I'm not sure if I could come back to the IT industry if I did ever want to after leaving and getting behind.

But who knows? Maybe after a couple of years with a quiet rural lifestyle I'd miss the city. I don't think so though...
no. if you experience these types of rules, you are in the wrong building and need to leave
I used to know and work with Delamar at a startup but for the music industry and ringtones... also, with similar concluding results. SMH.
Thiel is a part-time YC partner. Does Y Combinator believe that its low current levels of corruption are a bad thing? Would YC be better if there was more corruption? Is Thiel open to corruption in his role as a YC partner?
Expertise is generally pretty narrow. For instance, I heard him speak about bio and pharma about half a year ago and he made several statements that were categorically incorrect and poorly reasoned through.
Obama is seriously considering a pardon for Chelsea Manning
Where do you buy your options?
Maybe I didn't read it close enough (kinda skimmed it) - but I don't recall seeing any mention as to what these "wig thieves" did with the wigs?

Sell them to others? Disassemble them and sell the hair?
Yeah I just got off the phone with Chase. You cannot transfer to Ultimate Rewards.
I have had one for a long time as well. As well as other Chase cards. Hence my skepticism that there's some very non-standard gotcha embedded in here--especially if they're transitioning current Prime members who are also cardholders.
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This context can get lost online easier than in print -- but this is in the "Style & Fashion" section of the paper.

It's not intended as hard-hitting journalism.
Yes (although I should clarify that I'm referring to car / house / contents insurance here). Typically the premium offered at renewal time will increase every year, but if you come in as a new customer you can get a substantially lower premium.
I heard that story first from Elon...
Why? I actually still have a 6S and I find the physical button feels mushy in comparison to the new solid state / haptic button. Is there a disadvantage I'm missing?
>"What are examples of successful crowdfunded companies?"

I can talk about successful crowdfunded products, including products made by companies.

To give one example to start with, Formlabs has used crowdfunding to help generate money to manufacture their 3D printers:

https://formlabs.com/

>"How does the crowd determine the difference between your type 1 and your type 2 companies?"

I'd suggest it comes down to experience. With experience in crowdfunding you can spot the campaigns that are likely to succeed, and which ones are likely to fail. The main problem I see is when campaigns are too ambitious based on the background of the people involved. For example, high volume manufacturing in China without prior experience of working with Chinese manufacturing companies.
"IRS interference in an election against political opponents"

That was a misrepresentation of what happened. And not due to Obama.
This is what surprises me about the interview. I was under the impression that, given his interest in politics, he was pretty well-informed. But his answers here are consistent with someone who knows very little about the topics he's being asked about, but has a bit of experience arguing with other people ("I'm going to answer your question with another question").

edit: And I'd love to believe the contrarian thing, but when I've seen it done by well-informed people, it's immediately substantive and really thought-provoking, instead of... well, whatever this is.

I'd be very interested in reading the interview you mentioned, if you find it at any point!
One of the pictures was captioned with this: "Stolen wigs, large and small, could be sold for a pretty penny." One of the stories also involved a man stealing a wig for his own use.
Thanks. I already use Fidelity. Though, to be honest, I doubt I spend $30 in ATM foreign exchange fees a year. I should look into though.
> no work discussions longer than a minute at work areas (use a conference room, take a walk or Slack)

Nope. I've had so many "just a minute" talks that turn into 5- or 10- minute chats, and there's no way we're going to break the flow of the chat at the 1-min mark to go and hunt for a free conference room, or take the lift out of the building for a walk. And the reason we're chatting in the first place is that Slack isn't good enough for the needed information transfer, otherwise it would be there.
Is that really shady behavior?
The overall industry trends suggest that you're part of a tiny minority, so I don't think this model is an "adequate replacement" at present.
Tycho of Penny Arcade describes this well, I think:

Children carve something out of you, a place for themselves;
people can twist the knife in that spot, and it just bleeds and bleeds.

The process of having a child changes the parents in many ways: emotionally, psychologically, physically, etc. The parents carry not only their own expectations, hopes, and dreams, but those of their friends and family.
What do other companies do with people who have to evaluate content like this?
No, it's the statement balance. Most cards have a 20-25 day grace period where interest isn't charged on new transactions. As long as you pay the entire balance off once per month you'll pay $0 in interest.
I guess you learned today something:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mOI8GWoMF4M
Fitness Trackers Aim to Improve the Health and Happiness of Zoo Elephants
Here's the thing: you may be right that Elon is not a genius, for example. But I can't deny he's a master salesman. Generating this hype is precisely what a salesman needs to do. That in of itself leads to genuine success.
I doubt that qualifies as shady behavior. You might disagree with Obama on that, but it's not an ethical lapse.
There's a lot of important works that aren't very likable, but that doesn't diminish their importance.

Maybe you hate A Tale of Two Cities or loathe A Handmaid's Tale, but it's important that books that make up the cultural foundation or provide relevant commentary on it are available.

If it was all about popularity the library would be jammed full of nothing but garbage by John Grisham, Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer. It would be high-fructose all the way.

Eat your vegetables. Digest difficult, disagreeable things.
How does the GPL prevent Amazon from hosting say GNU Health, and charging for it? If the source is free to distribute, and they don't make any changes, the GPL won't save you. Or am I missing something?