skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN as a whole is a pain in the ass to deal with.

We had one of our domains taken hostage because the whois information pointed to our support@ address, and the support staff thought it was spam.

What it's supposed to help, I don't know - because accurate registration information really doesn't seem to be a whole lot of help to anyone except perhaps ICANN themselves.

Anonymising services or not, nothing on WHOIS needs to work except the email address, and that can be a random gmail address, the only thing you ever need respond to is ICANNs email.

It certainly doesn't help in trying to identify or contact the real owner of domains.

Another gripe with ICANN is that they're zero help when trying to take down scamming/spamming domains. Adding to that, many registrars simply don't give a shit about what their customers are doing with the domains they register.

At work we own <ourcompanyname>.com and the local equivalents in pretty much every country.

Some scammer purchased <ourcompanyname>.<new-generic-tld> and used that in fake job ads (the 'We need a support person in <country> to process payments' etc type). The ads get taken down pretty quick (job boards are familiar with this) but not before enough people are emailing jobs@ the scammer's domain.
We only heard about this because a few people emailed us pissed about the scammy behaviour.

We contacted the hosting company, domain registrar (both the reseller and the actual registrar), and Donuts, all of whom either completely ignored us, or said fuck off talk to ICANN. Even having our lawyers send a C&D letter to all the various parties got us nowhere. (Hosted in Russia, registered to a fake address in NYC, etc).

ICANN won't touch it without us spending up to submit a dispute, which we did, but it takes them months to process and each domain costs something like USD$1500 to dispute. In the months while the scam was active, we got something like 100 people contacting us to report it, god knows how many actually fell for it.

While we're in the process of disputing that, the smartass registers a couple of new generic-tld domains and starts using those.
People continue to use it because it provides value to them. Additionally they either don't have concern for your worries or are naive and unaware of the implications. Regardless it won't change any time soon because most are not interested in becoming more technical or trying to understand a magic black box that shows them family and friend happenings.
Bird Flu Strain Taking a Toll on Humans
Hivy is an office management service to manage all those startup perks
It would really suck, though, if each automaker built an incompatible charging system.
So you get money when someone clicks on an ad? I'm reading their site and can't really make out the payout?

How much per ad click?
They were gonna prepend "Usain" but some speedy guy got there first
IANAL... just like pretty much everyone else, but circuit court rulings are only valid for areas that are under the jurisdiction of that circuit court. And circuit courts do disagree. Only the Supreme Court has national weight. (Yes, circuits can and do look to other circuits for guidance, but still...)

What ever the case. Consult an attorney before deciding you know enough to act and know what court rulings apply to where you are going to try this stuff.
Sounds like a good place then!

Her kids can talk just fine, well sort of, there are a lot of SpEd kids and non-English speakers in those 40 kid classes. But the 'median' kids talk without issues. It's mostly limited to reading and writing. As for maths? Fuggeddaboutit. The mean SAT score was a 325 in math, and that's when you take out the kids that started fights during the SAT.
> ... it's hard to argue with people that disagree. Terms like reasonable are so flimsy it's hard to use it as a model to communicate with people that don't already agree with you.

You are absolutely right on both points, and I think it's important to recognize (as you did) how vague language can be. It can be astounding how much miscommunication and cross expectation can happen even after parties agree on really concretely elaborated terms.

But - in part I wonder if this misses the spirit of the Reasonable Person Principle. My interpretation is not that "reasonable" is (or even should be) a concrete criteria under which to judge people, I think the point of the principle is to default to giving benefit of the doubt. I think it's a suggestion that when one finds a disagreement, one should assume that the opponent has legitimate reasons for their position before one tries to argue with them. In other words, try harder to not argue at all, but instead to understand.
Baby boomers ruined everything else, might as well blame them for this too
Terrible People and Why Not to Be One
Buses make a great case for having electric, AI-driven vehicles. It's like one of the ideal applications of these concepts.
Or a really nice good ole boy network where to build some stuff you need to be able to call in some favors.
I use Google infrequently and block google-analytics, so I believe I'm mostly outside the search bubble. I get "how to leave group chat", "how to leave your wife", "how to leave a review on etsy", and "how to leave group text". The questions about chat and text both give answers about iOS. Is Google the default search engine for Siri?

The other questions, hmm.

Another way to bypass customized results is to use StartPage. The only suggestion I get from there is "how to leave town"
Mitnick definitely milks it the most.
Our school district has moved to Google sheets for kids grades and I am blown away how well it fits with this use case.
I rather actually see a real comment if there is no time to create a unit test.

Why does changing ZQ_PEDERSEN to ZQ_WILLIAMSON fix the bug?

Having meaningful named constants would make much more sense.

Edit: On full view of the code, the bug could be avoid if they broke out the if <demoninationX> blocks into their own function, and to prevent "typo" errors, it would be good to have a local variable named current_demoniation = demoniationX, and then reference that local variable instead of referencing the constant everytime.
" but do you have evidence that in non-Christian, English-speaking cultures"

Who cares? This is an existing convention in written English. It doesn't matter whether you or I like it. Your original argument was that it shouldn't have been used on this map because the dead weren't Christians. That's not how typographical conventions work. Now you want me to prove to you something that really exists exists. It does. Sorry you find it irksome and didn't know it before or that sometimes dagger and cross get mixed up. None of this changes the fact this is an existing typographical convention. Let's call it a day.†
A product of similar nature to Snapchat (posts are deleted after n hours) could quickly grab all Snapchat users if Snapchat fatigue sets in and the other product looks new and shiny. All it takes for users is to download another app.
Your landfill is probably subsidized, yes. The price is artificially low because if it's too high, people (as a whole) don't say "oh I'll generate less waste/recycle and compost more", they say "I'll burn it in my backyard/dump it on the side of the road". Yes that's illegal and all, but if it becomes an attractive option, then you need to pay for more enforcement, and it's easier to just subsidize the landfill to make that more attractive in the first place.
Actually I think the nonlinear and binary mapping is what gives this quite an artistic effect. Reminded me of the predator self destruct countdown.
PostgreSQL Internals (1) for PostgreSQL 9.6 [pdf]
Water was by far the cheapest way to get goods to market until railroads came along.
How to Make an Image Classifier – Intro to Deep Learning
Not sure entrepreneurship is held back, Stockholm for example is doing alright by most metrics.[1]

It's almost as if free education, universal healthcare and time to sit down and think would be pretty good for innovation.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...
The Economics of a Hit TV Show
“Could someone on cloudflare security urgently contact me.”
There is a huge difference between a court using the balance of probability in a case of sexual abuse and a third party accusation made against the father for domestic abuse and the CPS swooping in and removing the baby from the mother one day after birth.
The Doctor and the Scalpel: Stop focusing on tools and start with fundamentals
I have used GAE a lot. They have improved tremendously over the last couple of years and have also extended their services. However, as noted on in the previous comments - support sucks.

Advantages:

- Easy to set up.

- Cheap to start (somewhat like Heroku). Especially the moment you start optimizing for performance it's easy to cut down on the funds needed each month.

- Scalable. Google takes care of it.

- As someone mentioned versioning. It works as easy as changing the YAML file.

- Deployments are fast and painless.

- Amazing cloud administration with beautiful and easy UI. Unified logs.

- Ease of integration with other Google products and APIs.

Disadvantages:

- Lack of proper support.

- Documentation is sometimes lacking.

- Lock-in. Oh man does it hurt if you want to move away from GAE.

- For python for example, you can only used C based python modules.

- HTTP request 30 seconds. 10mb limit. Datastore is I believe 1mb. Blobstore 50mb.

- Gets expensive the moment apps become bigger (somewhat like Heroku).

I'd definitely wager where your app will be in a month, 3 months, six months and a year and see if GAE is a viable option. Think of API integrations as well.
I have question given that 2018 is the date to deploy test vehicles how much time do they need to their tech operationally mature?

I see in the article that they acquired a self-driving tech startup but that doesn't say much about how much experience that start up brings, and it not like there's many veterans in this field.

Will they be playing catch up with Tesla, Google et al for years to come or will the tech soon start becoming commoditized?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it owns WhatsApp
That seems to be the default complaint from investors about the cultures in non-valley places: "They choose risk/reward balances most beneficial to themselves instead of the investors. That makes them less attractive than the firms that structure themselves as outsourced R&D teams paid in lottery tickets".
Microservices can be used to logically separate different parts of the program. It also means that the same service could be used for different projects. I don't see why a single developer shouldn't use them
The gigafactory and charger network give Tesla some barrier to entry but I don't think the costs will make a giants blink.

Even more scary is collusion of giants trying to kill Tesla. Say the Japanese automakers group together to share the risk and costs of building the same infrastructure.

My primary concern is the margin per unit. Only a handful of automakers today have been able to sustain their margins, namely Porsche which supposedly makes the most margin per car. If you wonder outside the luxury segment, you find razor thin margins and heavy competition.

Tesla and Elon Musk deserves a big award for bringing the EV market to people who succeeded in capitalism. But as you saw with Ford, just because you were first won't guarantee your place. Heck, without bailouts, there would be very few American automakers left.

And this is really where my argument for maintaining high margin per unit is essential for long term survival. That can only be accomplished by moving upwards, not downwards. The accumulative cost & risk of selling 2.5 model 3 vs 1 p90D can't be ignored.

Having said that the market seems undecided between the bears and bulls on the upcoming Tesla earnings report.
Well, yes, but the acquisition in Sep 2016 (referenced in another reply to this comment) was just over the IPO price: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/08/google-will-acquire-apigee...

Facebook had a similar valuation decline, then a bounce back.

So those who had faith in the company for another year saw modest gains compared to 1.5 yrs ago at IPO.
Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
Don't we already have UBI? That's what the social security program looks like to me. It seems to me that if you want to expand UBI, you would be working to lower the retirement age. That's exactly the opposite of what is currently happening. The retirement age is rising, and the payments are shrinking. It doesn't seem like throwing taxation at the problem will address it.
If you're complaining about high fees and interest rates, you're not using your credit card right.
Moreover, PG touched on this idea in his essay, "Keep Your Identity Small" (2009):

http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
I'll look around online to see if I can find a replacement. The reason I know that gear is broken is because I did open it up to fix it.
>Amazing that the police can essentially ignore the laws they're sworn to uphold when it conveniences them.

Except that they can't, it seems.
> ... and the mobile rich media makes it ideal for advertisers, who pay a lot for those ads

Until they don't. At some point, the companies making actual stuff that people use will realize that, despite the made-up "metrics," there's not much value in surveillance-based advertising. It's hardly better than the pile of paper you transfer from your mailbox to your recycle bin every day.
It's an issue (still, even after this ruling) because different courts have held different things. Eventually we're going to see a SCOTUS ruling, and hopefully it goes the same way.
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Actually the whole point of the distributed blockchain is that there's a very public paper trail. The only hope for anonymity is obfuscating the movement of value through the blockchain, which can be accomplished to varying degrees depending on the sophistication of who is trying to track you. If your theft is high profile enough then you'll have a good deal of trouble liquidating your funds anonymously.
If this were true, we'd see similar drops in other popular sites like Amazon and Apple and Google itself.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=facebook...
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The silo leaks quite a bit. Every other website has Facebook logins and Facebook comment threads, or screenshots of conversations from Facebook. It's pretty bad.
Preschool can provide a boost, but the gains can fade surprisingly fast
We can just call it the "alternate-web".
Haha nice! Good work! :)

I made one last month too. With React Native and Redux!
https://github.com/abhishekbhardwaj/Yet-Another-Hacker-News-...
Americans Refusing to Pay for War
Ask HN: How do I improve my impromptu speaking?
I struggle to gather my thoughts quickly when talking about random topics presented to me.
> Perhaps the cold climate means people mingle less, and so social occasions are meant to reaffirm social cohesion, to the exclusion of airing differences.

I know this article and comment is about the Nordic countries. But I'm not sure this reasoning is generalizable across countries/cultures. In my experience, climate doesn't seem to be the driver in the US. I'm not sure whether or not New Englanders are more sensitive, but folks from other parts of the country seem to find us more gruff than e.g. down south or in the southwest. ;)
One case where they're caught, where hundreds of times where their interpretation of the law is not questioned.

I suppose it's a start, but I doubt this decision will result in operational changes directly.
Dodd Frank was intended to make the derivatives markets more transparent and prevent banks from taking excessive risk. I don't think it has had any effect on the IPO market or tech companies at all.
Actually I think this might have been the fix.

https://github.com/zcoinofficial/zcoin/commit/584e1c60617d59...
But do you have fire?
"The following was printed in the newspaper "The Nation" on August 9, 1900."
Peak AOL happened a while back, and peak Windows has already happened, it's getting murdered by non-PC devices.

Anything can peak, products and industries alike.
The article mentions the issue of law enforcement going through your phone at the airport.

I just noticed a decent solution to this by accident. My android broke, hard, and I had to get a replacement. The automatic backup that Google provides restored everything I needed, and pretty quickly, on the new phone. I think I was only missing call history, which I can live without.

So, at least for me, the current tech provides all I need. Just do a factory wipe before I leave for the airport, and restore it after I'm past the goon squad.
I don't think this case was at all about the legality of recording the police, as the headline proclaims. The defendant was never charged with illegally recording the police, or with anything at all.

The conclusion, in fact, gives the police officers qualified immunity from the plaintiff's claim of First and Fourth Amendment violations. The "further proceedings" on the Fourth Amendment claim is what was found for the plaintiff, but I didn't read the whole opinion to know what that means.

It's scary that some of the comments in this thread are from people who would read an opinion like this -- or read the HN headline -- and take it to heart in terms of their own actions. That's just dumb. Look at all the precedents that are cited in the opinion -- it's not a simple case, and, indeed, there were dissents from the majority opinion.

Be careful out there.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing it!
But compared to Mark Elon is much more pro-current president, so he gets much less respect.
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Ask HN: Where can I get feedback on my project before the launch?
Hi! I've made a project that I think is pretty cool, but I'm not ready to submit it to Show HN or Product Hunt yet.

I would like to find the first 10-20 people to check it out and give me feedback before I share it with the larger audience.

Can you guys recommend me a good place where I can find them?

(If anyone is interested, it's a platform for sharing/discovering web development learning resources. Send me a message to raymestalez@gmail.com if you'd like to help.)
The Islamic Golden Age is usually considered to end after the Mongol sack of Baghdad, back in 1258. The main rise of Islamic conservatism doesn't really start until after the Ottoman Empire starts to decline, about the loss of the Battle of Vienna in 1683. Even then, it should be noted that the Islamic fundamentalism doesn't really arise until the 20th century.
Come on people, Mitnick might not be someone you'd openly idolise just because that'll somehow seem less cool than understating or being dismissive of his skills but you've got to admit that he is a hacker... In the freaking proper sense. Don't be priggish snoots
Maybe Google did peak and now people are treating search engines as some white-label service that they're utterly indifferent to the provider of.
Zealandia: An eighth continent under New Zealand?
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What mistakes do young founders often make that more experienced ones don't?
There are plenty of non Tesla chargers here in Kansas City. I can charge my Nissan Leaf on a chademo charger in 1/2 hour. So I'm wondering if Teslas own charger network makes that much difference.
It's too bad that's a third rail for you, because it's an interesting and pretty unflinching article.
That graph looks scary for Facebook. Yet the share prices have not corrected to reflect it.

1
Tunisia 100

2
Turkey 95

3
Venezuela 95

4
Ecuador 87

5
Peru 86

6
Algeria 84

7
El Salvador 81

8
Serbia 77

9
Colombia 75

10
Dominican Republic

Notice that none of the developed economies are showing up in the top 10. The dollar per user must be falling as users are increasingly coming from smaller economies which means less amount of ad revenue dollars.

It makes sense why Zuckerberg is crazy for China. Without another spurt of user base growth, Facebook's share price will not be sustainable.
Practice. That's really what you need to do. There are tricks you can learn to keep up speaking while you're formulating something decent to say, but more than anything it's practice. Go to open mic nights and practice also watch/listen to other people. You'll being to see how they do it and it will help you too.
Building off this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13159908

I have started a newsletter, webinar series and blog to invite folks like you to share you experiences using ML to solve real, human problems. I'd like to invite a constructive dialogue for businesses and ML providers alike to come together to discuss how this cool technology can make a real impact. Hope to have some of you join the conversation.
you contradict yourself as well as you can
quickest=cheapest
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Making a currency is already a gold mine. Mine the first 100k coins and hide them for 5 years.
Pointing a camera at an officer is likely to cause him to become aggressive. I've had this happen when there was no danger to anyone involved, and no one was doing anything wrong, and it was intimidating as hell.

In such a situation, you have to ask yourself: Do you know your precise rights? Are you willing to spend some time locked up and take your chances dealing with the law? Sadly, it's often up to the civilian to "de-escalate" the situation.
How Silicon Valley Is Trying to Hack Its Way into a Longer Life
Google Sheets fully integrates with Google BigQuery as well! [0]

You can create a BigQuery table that's powered by a Google Sheet, or export data straight to Sheets for quick and dirty data wrangling. Some folks use Google Forms or Google Sheets to update ledgers, SKUs, or what have you, with data flowing straight to BigQuery for analysis against clickstream data, server logs, Google Analytics data, weather, etc.

Love AppScript - so many possibilities for a "serverless" framework. How about ODBC?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/bigquery-inte...

(worked on BigQuery, work in Google Cloud)
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Ouch. What is the justification for the lock up period? Is the idea that employees are somehow going to flood the market? Is the volume of vested options for the average worker bee really that high at the time of IPOs? Its seems like the plebes get burned a fair amount.
This shows the underlying utility of Facebook compared to other tech giants distilled in to a really generic scenario.

- You go to Google to research what to buy.

- You go to Amazon to give Amazon your hard earned money.

- You go to Facebook to brag what you bought.

Yet the market cap of Facebook rivals those two with far less revenue and highest multiplier.

This cannot last.
Great comment, thanks for this.

This is a time saver for always busy developers!
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They'd get half there news from somewhere else if FB wasn't around, FB is milking it.