skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly impressive that they've modernized their website and made it friendlier.

For a project like this it goes a long way towards staying relevant.

Just a few years ago it still looked like something I made for a school project with quick and dirty hacks in PHP in early 2000s.

Glad to see they took care of it.
>I'm a musician, so when people see that I'm using Ubuntu Studio for my DAW, I usually hear a few chuckles .. until I fire up Ardour, show them my plugin list, the standard suite of synths and effects I use, and so on .. that usually shuts them up at least.

Well, it's not that impressive compared to something like Live or Cubase.
Well, now the lock in is at the server side instead... Google Docs anyone?
AI Software Juggles Probabilities to Learn from Less Data
Which is a dystopia if any large number of people don't have enough income to pay for their basic needs.
You are assuming that (nearly) everyone, given a good secondary education, is able to become university material.
Online actions with offline impact: how online social networks influence
I don't even think signing it with a trusted root certificate will work in this case.
Alice – autoscaling for servers and applications
Emacs Doctor ( which was a version of Eliza [0]) is actually more sophisticated than this script.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Software doesn't, and can't, have human ethics (unless e.g. it's specifically a missile guidance system), but a collaborative software project does need to.

The interface between these two things is subtle. Yes it's obvious that in order for a software project to be collaborative, it has to take on the foibles of humans but I don't think that your simple "No." cuts it.

If I want to contribute to an open source software project I need to share the politics of the people that wrote it. Does that imbue the software with those politics? If it was written by lefties do I have to be a lefty to use it? If it was written by right-wingers do I need to be right-wing to use it?

Case in point. There's a daily printed and online publication in the UK called the Daily Mail. It's a nasty, divisive, dishonest paper and it's done a lot of damage to our country. But they published a software library that I wanted to use. I was genuinely conflicted.

The environment under which the library was written supports division, inequality, victimisation of minorities. Should I have used that library because it was useful to me, or should I have written my own code because of the 'politics' of the code?

(I didn't use it in the end, because I was uncomfortable having 'dailymail' show in dependencies of code that I had written, but I still think about it)
That happening when someone or organization hold too much power.

Not only ICANN, Verisign which manage .com and .net then price of .com .net .org.... increase per year.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=verisign+.com+.net+price+increase
I agree with what you wrote. My two cents are: seems that getting attention goes against being nice to others, such a shame living in such a society.
They are usually called "Psychotechnical tests", and their use is standard in many industries. Though judging for some people I've seen passing them, I'd say that most of them are borderline useless, or not really used.
You don't need to trust Facebook to see inconsistencies in their message.

WhatsApp is one of Facebook's "private channels" that it's said to implement the Signal protocol, which is supposed to offer end-to-end encryption. If we assume all what Facebook claims is true, the only way to analyze WhatsApp messages for AI purposes is to leak data to Facebook servers before starting the E2E encrypted connection. But that would be just an exploitable back door that defeats the purpose of Signal, right?
Apple may replace Touch ID with 3D face scanning on the next iPhone
Can you modify Live or Cubase?
If I understood correctly:

- the user has made some mistake about some auto-renew feature, so that it didn't work smooth and has fallen to the previous known state (=using his real information)

> For some reason, WhoisGuard wasn’t set to renew and it expired.

- because of that, he didn't notice he was receiving e-mails, since it was an e-mail address he hasn't used for years.

> Because I’ve been using WhoisGuard for years, I haven’t used the old email (...) that USED to be set as the contact BEFORE (...) This email wasn’t connected to this domain for 3 years. So when it switched back, I never got ANY of ICANN’s verification request emails.

- Well, his old e-mail probably got the e-mails. He just didn't check it because he didn't access the old e-mail. ICANN now verifies every change in the whois information by sending an e-mail (something that I regard as a safety measure, because, well, when you register, you must inform a way to be reached, and e-mail is a reasonable way to do it):

> The problem is (1) their emails look like SPAM and often end up in SPAM folders (2) who uses email these days anyway? (3) they often send them to old email addresses.

Or, in other words, my e-mail provider filters e-mails automatically (samp rules), who should use e-mail when e-mail is the official way to be contacted about your site (huh?) and ICANN send e-mails to the old address (which is the one he informed when he registered his site).

I'm not sure, perhaps I misunderstood something, but the problem seems to be caused:

- by the user: now using auto-renew, not updating the whois information, not checkin the e-mail regularly (or having some forwarding rule to the e-mail he uses today)

- by the WhoisGuard, if the auto-renew was disable by mistake of the site, not from the user

- by Gmail (?), by having spam rules (?)

And I don't know where it wa a ICANN error.

Sorry, but I don't see a real problem here. The user lost his site for few days, ok, but due to some mistakes he made.
"it was surprising to me how geographically widespread the hometowns of the characters were"

On the contrary, that was quite unsurprising, because the story describes a fight of two large alliances, and talks about the lords and rulers of these places. It doesn't talk about the local warriors e.g. Agamemnon was leading, but talks about the actual allies, the lords that joined each with their own armies.

In that time when Homer says "Lord-A and Lord-B and Lord-C participated" it's the equivalent of modern "Country-A and Country-B and Country-C participated". It's not like the story is describing a band of adventurers, the both sides commonly represent pretty much the whole military might of the surrounding region at the time, and since there's no centralization yet, each local "warband" is lead by their local "kings"/warlords/leaders/nobles, who are named in the story.

The colored areas of the map are not just a homeland of random representative characters, but the "countries" that actually fought in the war - you could say that it is "a way of making listeners from many areas feel connected to the story", or you could say that it is simply not omitting any participants; For example skipping Philoctetes from the list would pretty much mean saying that the land of Meliboea didn't participate in the war - it's like omitting New Zealand from the list of WW2 Allies, it would be far more serious than making people connected to the story, it would be considered offensive.
whoisguard is namecheap's whois anonymization service: https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx
> I have about a hundred domain names. How can you expect me to check my inbox daily and click a link for all these domain names. It’s not 1995. This is not realistic. The consequence of shutting down someone’s business if they don’t confirm their email is way too crazy.

I'm not a particularly big fan of ICANN's process here either, the same thing has happened to me before and it was very annoying. But "I have lots of domains" and "who uses email anyway" are extremely poor excuses. Having lots of domains seems like about the most logical reason one should be on top of this sort of thing.
The Netherlands has no constitutional court. However, the First Chamber (Senate) does see checking of laws against the constitution as one of its tasks, and has rejected laws for such reasons in the recent past. Some parties are proposing a constitutional court in their programme for the coming elections.
Strange to see everyone sticking up for ICANN here. I'm of the opinion that their rules about WHOIS are harmful. Even if you think that the information should be kept accurate and up to date, is the appropriate recourse for ICANN to really have the site taken down until its resolved? Maybe as a measure of last resort. I would personally wait until they try to renew the domain and make them update the info then.

Another problem is that since WHOIS data is public it's not effectively possible to run a website anonymously. I'd be okay with sharing contact info with limited parties (ICANN, registrar) but forcing people to share this info with the public is nuts. It makes running a website as an individual much more personally risky.
that's such a great idea, although I think people that would sign up for this service would know not commit credentials
I think the quittable Finder is a default in El Capitan. Either that or I enabled the setting and forgot about having done it.
Not true.
Body of Secrets, published 2001: https://www.amazon.com/Body-Secrets-Ultra-Secret-National-Se...

Puzzle Palace, published 1982: https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence-O...

This guy made a career out of documenting the inner workings of the NSA and what they get up to. It wasn't common knowledge, but it's been known what they get up to, and proof thereof, for decades.
Attacking the OAuth Protocol
Why 90% of China’s youth suffer from near-sightedness
Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Custom NERF Rifle
> Is the bar to compete unreasonably high such that you effectively need hundreds of millions of dollars to compete?

Yes, I think it is so high that we are launching startups in denial and the startup community, in general, is very naive. At the same time being [partially] irrational can be an advantage.

In this context, capital is critical. For example, Uber received almost $ 9B in investments, Spotify $ 1.6B and obviously those investments are oriented to having an advantage that goes much beyond building an app.

I don't think you can obtain an advantage creating a better vision API while you don't have access to the amount of information that companies like Google have. Sooner than later your algorithm will be used by anyone. You can find an apparent contradiction of what I am saying with what Google initially achieved with PageRank but nobody spent too much attention to mimic it at that time while Google was quietly running low cost server for years without revenue. When a few ones started to pay attention it was late: Google has a crawling at hyperscale and moved much beyond PageRank.

Looking at your company (http://www.pair3d.com) I found pretty exciting what you are building. I don't know about AI, AR, or your competitors but probably you have build something that goes beyond just using vision algorithms, and at the same time you have some kind of temporal advantage. I think you should focus on having an advantage at the distribution stage engaging companies to use your platform. Google et al can copy what you did but I don't think they are laser focused in the way you are doing it. Please take it with a grain of salt. You never asked for advice nor I know about your company, but I think it is good to talk using concrete examples.
And you know what, Unity is great.
I think this is great work, the secrets are already scraped and compromised anyway. Good way to make it more clear. It reminds me of https://twitter.com/dumpmon on Twitter.
Well, the service could auto-create an issues for each repository that contains secrets.
Ask HN: How many startups have you sold?
This post[0] got popular and lots of people are sharing their thoughts after exit. How many startups have you sold, for how many figures and how it feels life after exit?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665032
It uses a text-to-speech utility, it is not even implementing that.
i mainly want to make money. if i can also improve the world, all the better.
It's important to be aware of security implications of leaving an unauthenticated server listening on the open internet (listening on 0.0.0.0 is not the default since some time now and if installing the rpm/deb package listening on 127.0.0.1 is the default option). Also never leave an internet facing server without a firewall.

As a SaaS it's not surprising DocumentDB got security configured, and it also won't be surprising when people lose data because they'll put '123456' as their password or commit their password to a public repository
I thought a large part of the value prop of Airbnb was that they had no expensive capital outlays.
not every one can afford or want to live in central London or NYC
Emacs as a Python IDE
James Bamford's been writing non-fiction accounts for decades.
> The user lost his site for few days, ok, but due to some mistakes he made.

Only if you take ICANN's procedures as a given. They could have adapted one of dozens more customer friendly ways of dealing with this, but they don't have to because they're ICANN and they can do this with impunity.
You turn a personal anecdote into generalized advice.

Please don't do that - this is irresponsible.

Immune systems vary wildly across people, and even you may have simply been very lucky until today. Don't turn this into advice.
> car manufactures generally do a worse job of producing than 3rd parties.

It could at least make environmental sense, but I doubt that most buyers compare the emissions savings from the new more efficient car with the emissions that were produced during its manufacturing.
I'm not sure if RH should really be considered an angel as such. It is just they are the grand old man of the Linux world and a massive employer of project developers.
At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, would you be comfortable buying and using a Volkswagen? :)

We'd definitely be better off without the Daily Mail, but if they actually contributed some good somewhere it's a disservice to ignore it imho.
And you can think about the other way round: and if a site is doing something wrong, like distributing software, spreading a copy of your book, sharing unconsented nudity, and the list goes on... should you be able to hide behind anonymity?
Scamster or Visionary? Decoding Noida’s ‘Cash for Clicks’ Scam
Wearable Technology Uh…
We all make mistakes despite better knowledge. I'd probably sign up.
I've had it recommended to me before, but never read it. I also wasn't aware of the extreme effort in getting it right. Thank you.
Families, lawmakers demand transparency for $89,000 drug
I both drive and cycle and must admit, cycling is a nasty experience in various ways. compared to driving. It's physically an ordeal due to exertion and bad weather, whereas driving is more comfortable, and quicker. Gotta say driving wins hands down, for me.
Of course you think America is just fine - you made it out the bottom. Survivorship bias at work? ;)
It's a rather recent phenomenon that we have enough computing power to make self-driving cars a viable reality and not just science fiction.
Would it be considered spamming to pull the email address of the commits and send them an automated email?
> So, not only did you let the subsciption lapse

No, where do you read this? I paid for my domain. NameCheap's WhoisGuard expired, contacts changed to old ones I didn't use from 3y ago. The domain was paid for. My "business relation" with ICANN was paid for.

> If I don't pay the yearly fee on my car, they'll take the plates.

No, I paid for the domain. They took it hostage because my 3-year old email wasn't confirmed. That's not about a business relation. That's bad "business" behavior.
I would be consider allowing the records to be made available in court by judicial order (i.e. a subpoena). Still not public.

Also, what the servers are doing isn't the domain's business. Traceroute the IP and bring it up with their ISP. Killing the domain isn't going to kill the availability of the content.
Perhaps it's a linguistic confusion? Civility means that I'm polite as I correct your mistake, and laws should not cover civility. What laws cover is harassment and threats.

In some places there are also classes of hate speech that are prohibited by law. That's still much narrower than a general rule of civility. It's also a bad idea in my opinion, even though I'm a big ole SJW.
Mapping DataTables and DataRows to Objects in C# and .NET
Exactly. There's lots of ways to do this better. For example contacting the registrar (NameCheap) and finding another contact on the domain (or my NameCheap's official account's email) that does work.

There's ways besides shutting down somebody's entire business. Which seems like a power move, if anything.
Because other forms of transport never get people killed, right? Because only passenger vehicles need roads?

Here in the Finnish capital Helsinki we had all of 2 traffic fatalities last year. A low anomaly for sure, but because the first only occurred half way in the year, it was widely reported and I still remember the cause: an elderly pedestrian getting hit by a tram.

Now this is, of course, just a single case, but you can't possibly claim that the only form of transport that causes casualties is driving – because it's not true. (Actually, the conditions here are pretty treacherous as I'm writing this: much harder to fall down and injure yourself while sitting in a car, don't you think?)

For me, driving a car instead of using public transport is making my one-way commute in 15 minutes instead of an hour. How much would you value 1.5 hours of your time every single day – not to even mention to comfort?
Question is.. r u an effective visual communicator?
Is this particular implementation of the email verification mechanism really required by ICANN? My registrar (OVH) sends an email that requires no action if the contact information is correct.
> If I don't pay the yearly fee on my car, they'll take the plates - should I make an angry blog post about they should "ask me nicely"?

Renewing a passport at my city hall used to take several visits, often with a long wait, during business hours. After enough people complained the procedure was mostly moved online, with optional Fedex delivery of the passport.

So, you see, these business relations are not set in stone, it's just that they were formulated for maximum convenience of ICANN, without consultation of domain owners...
Worth noting that experienced players even one one monitor will use mouse freelook anyway to see where they need to go
I think the parent meant anti-social as in causing a nuisance, rather than not sociable.
If I call you an idiot, is that insult covered by the law? Which law? Which jurisdiction? How will you find out about my identity? How will you enforce any potential judgment if I'm in Somalia? How much time and money will it cost you to a) get a conviction, and b) try to enforce it?

A lot of software projects have contributors from all over the world. It is just impractical to rely on the law to enforce civility.
WhatsApp is from Facebook and it implements the Signal protocol which offers end-to-end encryption. That's why Facebook with WhatsApp cannot do the same as Google does with Gmail. If they do, then their E2E encryption is fucked up.
Are the two Qt books on the list really worth the effort, considering they cover old versions? The Qt 5 is already around for 4+ years.
You clearly didn't actually look at the link at all. It is just a script that reads a text file and outputs it using a text-to-speech library...
A CIA backed period of insurgency that will be lauded by the Democrats, but ultimately result in plunging the nation into protracted civil war, drone bombing of civilians and the rise of radically conservative, religious militias claiming the affected countries belong to the new Caliphate?

Which ultimately resulted in Twitter being banned doubleplushard?

Gee, Mr Dorsey, sounds lovely.
Storm-proofing your kids – and yourself
Whe you make driving essential walking and cycling become a luxiury.
Totally agree. It's not a solved question. That my point - things aren't black and white. Reductionist thinking is enticing but dysfunctional.
well, that's kinda the same, facilitating finding the secrets since it's easy to search for issues, feel like a private notification is way better
I reacted the same when my colleagues discussed their company car plans. "That car is really cheap, it costs you only 300 euros a month!" - Me: "WTF? I'm paying 50 euros a month for my public transit ticket." And that thing holds more value for me (I don't waste time driving to the garage or seeking parking spots, I can read while driving to and from work, etc.).
Computer coding competition opens gate to overhauling programming education
Well, you don't need to send an email necessarily, a GitHub issue with a guide on how to include sensitive data in a public repo would probably suffice.
sure, but it's more likely for somebody that doesn't know about this service to publish a secret than someone that is aware of it
Speaking as an European, can you really call driving subsidized (if it is in one single area, such as building code) when much more cash is spent in social services paid by fuel taxes?
> With local apps there are issues of updates, security and platform lock-in. No such issues with web apps.

With web apps there are issues such as vendor lock-in of your data (like doing accounting in a webapp) try getting your data out.

Vendor updating to a new non functional version of their web app while you liked the old one.

Security issues because your data is now on the internet instead of on a local PC.

You are just trading one set of limitations for another and also removing your ability to address issues by yourself.
There's nothing wrong with distributing software or spreading a copy of my book.
Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting, Feb 2017: CAPI and CredHub Updates
Ethics of a business model that notifies owners of the breach, but they have to pay $10 for specific details or wait a week?
If Cringely claims authority on the topic, he could at least spell "Fukushima" correctly. Both the link above and the article misspell it as "Fukishima," the article 4 of 6 times!
Yet if people don't know the risk exists, they'll continue being ignorant and fucking up. Awareness is a good thing.
Not figuring out monetization at the beginning is a problem, typically leads to issues see "Inside Medium's meltdownMedium's meltdown", most smart founders have figured it out they are just being coy. If one of your monetization scheme involves selling your company you're not going to announce that to everyone. Monetization is not hard to figure out if you're solving a problem, having no strategic monetization plan early is poor strategic planning.
One of the reasons why many people come to HN is that it gives the moderation that is not covered by laws.
The linked article (http://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-levels-in-the-fukushim...) has a most interesting picture from inside the Reactor 2 building depicting the floor beneath the pressure vessel, or rather, what's left of it.
To your second point, isn't that exactly what services like Whois Privacy offer? Certainly not fully anonymous but your actual contact info is limited to the registrar and the privacy service (not even ICANN).
Well done! I look forward to looking it over.