skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Any luck with domain escrows?
I'm looking for an escrow to help with a domain purchase, anyone have one they'd recommend?
Still not the case, because they need to redirect asteroids into low earth orbit/the orbit of the colony. (And then expend a ton of energy to match orbits.)

The economics of asteroid mining only make sense if you're:

1. Using the mined materials for space construction. But why are you doing space construction in the first place? So you can do more asteroid mining? So you can do more space construction?

2. You've found an asteroid made of pure unobtanium.
There’s evidence that the “Pythagorean Theorem” was known in Mesopotamia a millennium before Pythagoras. It was likely widely known in the ancient world.

The Greeks wrote their mathematical ideas in a different way than other cultures, so the answers to these questions aren’t completely clear-cut.
>"Amazon: It's almost impossible to imagine any company filling the gap they would leave"

So you would make do with substitutes to deal with Apple, Google and Facebook disappearing but if Amazon disappeared you can't imagine yourself or others walking into a store to buy goods?
And the person who eventually gets hired points out that this is impossible, he could not possibly have made more than the two years he has on Angular 3. And he must be really ahead of the curve, all the other losers who applied barely got that much on 2...
> Until displays reach 1/60th of an arc minute …

Or an arc second, a second being 1/60th of a minute

(as an aside, I was prevented from posting this for some time due to 'submitting too fast,' but I've only posted five times today, twice in the past hour & thrice in the hours before that — how strange!)
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Okay thanks, let me try to dissect this a bit:

1. You fall in the category of, "What if <my closest family members or friends> find out private information XYZ about me, based on which domain names I visit? My life would be ruined."

2. You don't fall in that category.

Group 1 has real fears. For some of them, even knowing whether they're home might be a life threat, and I understand that. But I don't imagine ISPs are fighting so hard just for the sake of targeting group 1; I imagine they might even avoid them if they could, for legal fears. They must be reaping immense benefits from gathering domain name browsing history about group 2 as well, and I assume those in group 2 are still terrified at the thought personally (as opposed to only because they're terrified of what would happen to group 1).

So let's leave the first group aside in this discussion. I'm trying to figure out what the most serious (but realistic) things are that people in group 2 are risking, and how ISPs are reaping profits from them. For example, ID theft or burglary is something that can happen to anybody. How much is your ISP recording & selling when you're home increasing the risk of burglary? etc.

Also: if you think group 1 is the vast majority of people and group 2 is the real minority hear, I'd be interested in hearing that argument as well, since I really don't have data on this (data would be welcome). My current instinct is group 2 is the majority.
Ask HN: What is the story behind Amazon starting AWS?
All that is required is that they do not spend money to match the telecom's interest here. I don't see what Google, Microsoft or Facebook have to gain from telecoms getting datasets large enough to compete with their ad buisinesses. I think they probably just figured hey had little to lose and would not fight very hard.
The comment about Boeing overshooting on the 787 surprised me. Here's an article with the original quote and more background: http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/20236688...
Pierre Brassau, Monkey Artist

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_ar...
I suspect you would have the same problem as you see in Python, in any situation where you use code generation with Go.
Its like Google is becoming a Javascript framework.
Just in time for Mark Zuckerbergs run for the presidency then...
They claimed a religious exemption so the government wouldn't punish them. If they actually get cancer then I'd bet they'll seek treatment.
You should have read about restrictive production systems poisoning the Amazon. It is European production restrictions that cause them to need cultivation in virgin rain forest to feed their population. USA on the other hand, is one of the largest agricultural exporters.
Probably some of the "preventative and wellness services" and coverage for prescription drugs, surgeries and other treatments with the worst cost-to-benefit ratios. That's how it's always worked here in the UK. For example, breast cancer screening is only offered every three years here compared to 1-2 years as required by the ACA and for a narrower age window too, some of the other screenings probably aren't offered at all, and the more expensive chemotherapy treatments aren't covered either.
We should solve that within the same protocol. Allow multiple named conversation streams for any combination of contacts with an interface to filter them (private, work, dating, family).

I also want priority of messages to let the receiver handle them differently (low/normal/high). Default ‘normal’ and changeable within reach, but quite invisible. Anyone can then let me write a ‘high’ priority message that makes noise in the middle of the night, or if I suspect they're resting and I want to send a cat picture I'll use ‘low’.
Ah, that's the issue. "You have left your computer unattended; that's consent enough for us to install WinX. Too bad, sucker, you should have purged GWX and aggressively prevented it from coming back; anything less, and we consider it as consent."

There have been incidents of rogue upgrades to WinX despite a lack of consent; in such cases, your argument is moot.
I believe cases like this hinge on the notion of informed consent (they were not informed the product is defective) and reasonable expectations (it's reasonable to expect that by now, after so many years, Microsoft would have learned how to make an operating system that does not destroy user data).
12 features that every UI testing automation tool must have
Help out here please. Is the house doing something different/worse than the senate to gut our privacy protections? Not that I'm ok with this crap (and I'm looking into a vpn now) but I hear they could already sell our data to whoever because they gutted Tom Wheeler's plan.
Why's this getting downvotes? I think that calling software & features 'experiences' rather than 'software' and 'features' is a symptom of precisely what's wrong with Google's current direction.
According to this editorial, China will be the global tech leader soon (if it isn't already):

http://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2081771/...
I also don't fully understand this. Jumping in to see if someone can clarify.

Here's the text of the bill (it's pretty short): https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

It looks like all this does is undo an FCC rule from Dec 2, 2016. My understanding is that if this passes, our internet privacy will be the same as it was on Dec 1, 2016.

Am I wrong? Why is this so bad?
The worst news in this announcement by Google is that "Quote Selected Text" in Gmail will be retired, it was essentially the only lab feature I used, I even got used to. I'm sad to see it go.
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How much of it would be devastating if (1) your closest friends and/or family members found out? (2) more distant acquaintances found out? And how likely is it that each of those would happen under a data breach? (Since presumably most people don't go looking inside illegal data dumps trying to find out the most intimate secrets about their friends' or family members' life for no good reason.)
Not super familiar with the containerization community, but it seems a bit late to get into the container orchestration game and build a completely new platform. Why not build this as part of the Kubernetes ecosystem?

In the FAQ[1], I see the "in fact, we planned to use Kubernetes for scheduling in Kontena as well", but I don't the reason behind the decision not to do that.

[1] https://github.com/kontena/kontena/blob/01e4db3aa37d349f3fb2...
Marko vs. React: An In-Depth Look
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948225 and marked it off-topic.
Ugh. Need a hall of shame for this.

Links are the essence of the web (HTML and HTTP).
The linked map is not working for me in Safari on my Mac. It only loads the base layer. It does work in Chrome on Mac.
Ah, Stigler's Law of Eponymy
Well Smith v. Maryland, Third Party Doctrine, etc. holds that a warrant is not needed if you share data willingly with a third party. In this case, you give up your reasonable expectation of privacy. So... If you're sharing with Comcast, you're sharing with Uncle Sam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland
Thanks, Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestions i will consider those notes with next updates (In Shaa Allah).

About tip percentage and another behavior measurements all can be configured as you prefer in setting menu ..

and you can always enter the tip percent directly from its respective field.

already published a new free version, would you like to take a look at:)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=excitingfuture...
You can easily attribute it to laziness. They don't research a topic themselves so whoever makes the best presentation gets the vote. Usually that's lobbyists because they have more money and time and are hired as excellent communicators. Dinner invitations and paid flights in private jets help too.
You realize most of Netflix is not in AWS right?
Well, to be fair, WeChat is a pretty good application.
You can't do that if the ones that refuse to upgrade are some of the bigger providers on the network.
Used it with 27 Cinema Display for couple years, never had issues with scaling , now switched to 32 inch 4K from asis and its also working perfect.
It seems like the only real complaint this article addresses is that gtk (or other non-native toolkits) add a ~20mb dependency, and Windows didn't have a good package manager (since static compilation is preferred).

Frankly, this is a non issue. Windows users are used to this. It comes with the territory. Toolkits like GTK and Qt are full featured, densely documented, fast, look good, and work well in any OS.
Your house/apartment doesn't have a UPC on it either, but nobody's confusing it with mine. Location matters.

Amazon keeps different sellers inventory in different bins, which are tracked.

I agree that some sellers are avoiding it, but I know several big sellers that are all commingled.

Most of my business was merchant fulfilled, but I still sold over six figures worth FBA last year. Never had an issue from commingled.
Lol... because it will kill the wildlife?
Thinkpad T-series which I bought 5 years ago for $2K.

I am amazed how it still holds under a daily heavy use at home and in the office.

Hope the new ones are as reliable.
In quebec those agreements are not legally binding.
Explained Visually
It's weird when Apple has the better messenger app.. Even more so when they got into that position without actually changing anything..
So today I noticed that when you try to select text in a tool window, it really does act like a browser. The window won't scroll. The selection spills into other windows. There's no way to select anything you'd have to scroll to.
Then they should have to pay.

There are people who legitimately do not want medical care, because of religious beliefs, because they're 85, or just because f--- off.

It might sound harsh, but there should be a way for these people to really-for-really opt out.
Genghis is also an excellent example of why the article's title is incorrect. Cooperation is far more important than friendliness. I found the article difficult to digest as it switched its focus between cooperation and friendliness while attempting to treat them as the same thing.
Hello, we have problem on being able to move to California if we where accepted. My wife will be carrying twins at that time. Is this a deal breaker for YC? If not how do I relay my issue? Thanks
> Boy, do I regret giving so many people my GV number and using it as a main phone number...

I recently switched to Google Fi and opted to bring in my Google Voice number. Fi works okay, but now that it's a "real" number, if I were to switch to Verizon or something, I could port it there.

So you might consider that approach to get your phone number out of the ecosystem.
Note that you can transfer your Google Voice number to another provider. I think there is a small fee the first time you do it. https://www.google.com/voice/unlock
or scrollclick in any browser.
A contract cannot violate laws, but there is nothing illegal in fact many courts may order arbitration and most suits use the affidavit and disclosure periods for arbitration between the legal teams.

Also "justice" is a very subjective and relative term unless you mean legal justice which based on your rant you do not.
Agreed. P/E ratio shouldn't be the sole metric used to evaluate a public stock, but it is a useful proxy for evaluating its current price. And when a stock has an outlandishly high P/E ratio, there needs to be an outlandishly compelling story behind the stock. I don't see that with Amazon; I see a company that does the majority of its business in the US, has trouble overseas with some of its offerings, and that has plentiful competition worldwide.
I believe it's that javascript apps built without due care and consideration don't use true links, they use onclick handlers.
That's a common misconception about the GPL. You can use GPL software for yourself with no restrictions. The license requirements come when you redistribute the software.

By the way, you can't redistribute copies of Windows arbitrarily either. In fact you can hardly redistribute it at all.
This is super cool. I've tried a few times to build a tiling window manager in Javascript, once with Backbone, and once as an extension to Gnome Shell (yuck!) back in the days of yore. Seems like React is the right fit for this sort of component -- I could use this component in either my web apps or my Gnome Shell tinkerings...

I like that there's first-class support for mouse resizing and moving splits; I like my keyboard-driven AwesomeWM as much as the next nerd, but I frequently wish that Linux tiling WMs had better mouse support. Split resizing is also live and fluid, something that few other pane-splitting web components get right.
I've had similar problems, I don't hold them in the high regard that I used to. This is anecdotal but I think when they merged with Kinkos the service faltered a bit. I also always thought this was an odd match culturally - The Kinkos experience has always felt like the epitome of slow and inefficient to me while Fed Ex has as their official slogan 'the world on time."
Well, your question is not uncommon for people having little experiences developing and operating large distributed systems.

But I can guarantee you, if Netflix can, they already did, so to make them in a position better negotiate price with AWS.
I have this exact problem with Microsoft Azure as well. Changing pages always takes 5-10 seconds and you can't open in a new tab to open new tables concurrently. Makes working in their portal really inefficient.
Exploiting Embedded Systems – Part 2 (2011)
It could've been used without being proved also
It's probably more just that sites are using SPA frameworks that use onClicks in JS instead of hrefs in HTML. Can't control click a link that isn't a link, it's a span pretending to be a link.
So I have used wxWidgets in the past with the help of python bindings and enjoyed using it and my end product. I hear electron[1] is picking up these days for cross-platform dev - anyone got experience with it?

[1] https://electron.atom.io/
Driving Traffic to a News or Entertainment Site Can Be Easy Using This Tip
This is mostly towards g suite enterprise offering.
I came here to comment on that as well.

I tried flicking the page right above the code fragment, but it turns out the scroll hijacking disables iOS's native inertial scrolling, so there's no way for me to read the rest of the article until I get back to my desktop.

I don't see the need for down-votes here: clearly many authors (in absolute terms, if not relative terms) tease their viewers with 30 minutes of reading, only to frustrate them by making the rest of the page inadvertently unreachable. I would think of these kinds of comments as a courtesy to the author.
Yes, FreeBSD adopted the same command Solaris has for boot environment management -- see the beadm man page.
I'm the author of the article and one of the maintainers of Marko. We also recently published an article on the release of Marko 4.0 for context: [Marko 4.0 is here](https://medium.com/@mlrawlings/marko-4-0-is-here-837884c5f60...).

A lot of hard work has gone into making Marko one of the fastest and simplest JavaScript libraries for building web applications based on UI components. Many of the features of Marko were heavily inspired by React, but Marko is very different with a lot of unique features (async, streaming, concise syntax, etc.) and optimizations.

Feedback and questions welcome!
Will Travelers Reroute Trips to Avoid Laptop and Tablet Ban?
UNO API of LibreOffice Easy and Understandable – Nice Office Access
AKA lol Angular. Curmudgeonly amusing that a team in charge of ads on the web builds a product that requires so much care to make something as basic as the link continue to work.
Worth reading this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/three-myths-telecom-in... -- essentially, there was a court decision that moved privacy enforcement of ISPs from the FTC to the FCC. The FCC took up the mantle with the new rule. Now Congress is undoing the FCC regulation, ISP privacy won't be governed by either the FCC or the FTC.
Apple, actually.
JMESPath: query language for JSON
MoveOn Is Hiring Mobile Campaigner and Text Team Manager
But not any website :(
> Now everyone is always online and it's never unacceptable to call, text, or IM someone

Eh, but you don't have to answer. I think the paradigm has shifted from a TCP-like approach where you're expected to respond in real time to a UDP-like approach where people fire off best-effort attempts to reach you and don't mind if they don't hear anything back.

At least, that's how it is among my peers. Reach out whenever, just don't expect a response.
Java's TypeVariable.getBounds is not thread safe
Where do you see behavior mixing with presentation in wxnim's GenUI? The only thing that the macro is used for, besides saying what to draw and how, is to define events that the elements emit.
> I will take the time to read through it when I'm not working. It also inspired me to want to read through the source code behind .NET's CoreCLR.

Excellent, that's the effect I hope my posts have!
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Yeah, I saw that too. But I used Segment's analytics.js [0] several years ago and they solved this problem. Other companies should take a look at analytics.js and fix their scripts.

[0] https://segment.com/docs/sources/website/analytics.js/
When you want to like Taiwan more but then notice their view of Tibet is just as twisted

District 13
Yeah that's a great video, he really knows his stuff!
they updated s3 recently.. sadly not solving the problem
> 100%. It's also arguably the most irreplaceable.

As an Australian who doesn't have access to Amazon, it's easy to imagine Amazon being replaced.
Standardizing on Cats
In quite a few institutions CompSci is effectively math, undergrad compsci and mathematics degrees may only very in a few courses.

When I did mine we didn't have a single "programming" course in the degree you were expected to learn the language a corse utilized on your own.

Math and physics were at the undergrad level of their respective BSc. Degrees and the coverage was nearly the same.

As far as notations goes then it was covered in one of the first 3 "101" courses you take, your first program was effectively handwritten in this manner.
Please comment civilly and substantively on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An electron app ships with chromium; major unnecessary bloat. Check out electron file sizes.
This. I've been guilty of it, because sometimes it makes sense if you're in a hurry and want to add clever functionality (for example, make the whole row of a table be a "link"). Only to be overtly frustrated when you try to use the the app yourself. I'll wheel-click a table row and curse myself for not have thought that before.
Alibaba gets serious in Southeast Asia in preparation for battle with Amazon
3 letter non .com domains are your friend, plenty of those left for cheap
I hope they use something smarter than caller-ID, since the provided source number is almost always fake, generally generated to be the target's area code or a neighboring one.

I get a lot claiming to be from my mobile's area code and prefix... which was originally allocated as mobile only.
The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]
It's not like we don't know anything about NP complete problems, neither. Critical phase transition in transition of alpha on random kSAT and other stuff, the realization that this is neither necessary or sufficient for NP completeness just a really common complementary phenomenon, etc etc
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The classic X-COM games rely heavily on procedural content. There's only a small set of simple alien missions, but I think there are three factors that let it succeed:

1. Harsh consequences.
You can't ignore the aliens. Any random alien mission might be the one that makes some country withdraw funding. It might be setting up a tactical battle that's too difficult for you to fight. The alien detection and interception mini-game always has strategic consequences.

2. Hidden information.
You start with very limited view of what the aliens are doing. Even when you've researched the best radar you can't cover the enter globe. This makes it easy to imagine they're doing something more complicated than they really are. It's like the argument that text adventure games are more immersive than graphical ones because the images are only limited by your imagination.

3. Gradually unlocked story.
The games have a research tree, and as you retrieve alien bodies and technology from random battles you unlock more things to research. Many of these research items serve only to explain the story. They do nothing to help you win but the first time you play they're some of the most interesting things to research. It gives you a real feeling of progress beyond just getting better weapons.

Many games feature the first two factors, eg. roguelikes, but I think the addition of the gradually unlocked story is what makes the game truly great. It combines the mimesis and diegesis that Jimmy Maher talks about in a way that makes both of them better.

Also, the games are available on GOG, but I strongly recommend using the Free Software engine reimplementation OpenXCOM if you're going to play them, because it fixes a lot of bugs and interface inconveniences.
Live Coding with AWS: Application Delivery on AWS #Programming
Referrer spoofing with iframe injection (IE)
Summary: Stop wishing the world was fair, and start understanding how it actually works.
That was interesting to google.

The first link I got: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/south_korea_to_depo...
use the api (which is also not perfect)