skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question:

Some months ago I was curious about buying a domain name. So I poked around on various reseller sites to find out the pricing. I couldn't buy it at the time.

Only a couple months later (I still couldn't buy the domain), I found the site had been registered. The domain was an obscure but novel sequence of letters; the likelihood that I and someone else came up with the sequence at the same time is objectively possible, but slim.

So, I can only conclude that list reselling DEFINITELY DOES happen, and yes, I am very mad. But there is of course nothing that can be done.

Now, when I want to find out what domains do and don't exist, I just use WHOIS, because I don't trust any of the "domain lookup" sites.

What do I do now? :(
> home to 400 million people

That's a pretty intense number even for India
In the C64 piracy heyday of the mid 1980s, there was an urban legend of this anti-piracy tactic: At manufacturing/packaging time, some games' floppies had a physical hole punched in a far-away track where normal game usage would never ever send the drive head, so no problems.

Of course, pirates got a lot of mileage out of brute-force full-disk/bit copiers which would try to simply dupe every track on the disk, without regard for format or contents since this would successfully duplicate a handful of file-level tricks such as hidden or intentionally corrupted files that the game would look for. Anyways, the story goes ... if your bit-copying drive stepped out to that distant track ... whammo. <insert-expensive-mechanical-noise>

Or so the rumour goes. As brave teens, we doubted it and it never deterred anyone I knew. Interesting concept, though, if the topic is fiendish tricks.
Klinefelter syndrome oscilloscope?
You always measure distance taken with speed?

Quality of life is nothing without way to sustain it long term.
Oh! Of course. Awesome.
More than 1M worth of #ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO with phishing emails
On mobile I’ve been using incignito mode exclusively. This prevents a lot of tracking, and bonus is it avoids many paywalls. I’m liking it so far - might try to do the same on desktop.
The public outcry that you mention is not even close to large enough.

Sure, everyone is for reducing pollution and against climate change in the abstract, but then in my country coal miners rally (successfully) to avoid their mines getting shut down, drivers complain when car lanes or parking space are replaced with bike lanes or sidewalk, half of the population buys diesel cars to save a few bucks, many go to live in suburbs and plan their life around the car, and people give close to zero weight to environmental proposals in elections.

There are countries with more environmental consciousness than mine (I'm from Spain and sadly it's very far from being a model country in this...), but anyway, public outcry is worthless if it is hypocritical and near the bottom of people's list of priorities.

By the way, the answer to your question is that elections provide a great way of incentivizing long-term thinking in politicians: just don't vote those that don't exhibit it. It's the voters' fault if we don't take that into account and instead vote based on stuff like "unemployment has gone down 2% in the last 4 years" (probably more due to global trends and long-term decisions of previous administrations than to whatever the current one recently did...)
Someone registered their US college grant on my email through Gmail. I tried contacting US embassy. The school. Other US government institutions. No luck nobody responded to my emails. It was some us government site that didn't do email validation. I'll see if I can dig it up
> Personally, I think that limit is much closer to 1 trillion people living on the earth than it is to 1 billion people.

There's enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. -- Gandhi

> The facts show, that by every metric of quality of life, life is better than it has ever been in the history of the world.

Also, the gap between rich an poor has never been bigger.
Techstars Seattle unveils 2018 cohort: ‘our most diverse mix of founders ever’
You forgot about pedestrians. Should we throw away research that says pedestrian death is more likely when speed is higher than 50kph?
- git-extras has some nice features... "git summary" and "git effort". These commands show: most active users, most active files (by active days), etc.

- gource can be used to visualize the activity in a repository.

- sloccount and cloc can be used to count lines of code.

- For C/C++/C#, you can run Doxygen, and ask it to generate documentation for undocumented entities. This can make give you another perspective on the code base.

- In runtime there are various tools you can use to audit what a program does... On Linux you've got strace, lsof, wireshark and many others... On Windows you've got Process Monitor from Sysinternals, as well as wireshark.
CDE has the same features. Do you think they borrowed them?
> The thing that worries me the most is lack of fresh water. I belong to the Indian state of Gujarat mentioned in the article, and the pessimism isn't exaggerated at all.

but surely Ram mandir will fix all that. The real problem is cow slaughter, and inter-religious marriages, oh and Padmavat[i]
Inadequate drivers kill, not the speed.
The world's population growth is screeching to a halt almost universally, even without China-style coercion. This includes India, where the total fertility rate has fallen from >6 in the 1950s to around 2.4 today, and the steady decline is set to continue.
I would not judge a country’s economy from HN. Not everybody subscribes to tech startups being a sustainable thing.
> not possible to have infinite growth and improvement in living standards in a finite world

But our world might be infinite, and there is certainly at least 20 orders of magnitude more available resources than our current usage, so this isn't a practical consideration.
Who would downvote this and why? Do you think that tolerating ideas stealing is good for company? Or that it does not matter for culture?

Or that leaders are not responsible for shaping culture?

Or that leaders are not responsible for protecting/ensuring that company looks capable, creative etc to outside?
This is a great idea but I'm not sure it will work out.

Numbers are touched up all the time, both in politics (e.g. few governments will admit to lowering the employment rate, if things are not working, usually a new way of counting the unemployed is introduced) and in large companies (managers who report "everything's fine" up the chain until it's too late).

Applied to your idea, donors will have to come up with KPIs to meet. Whatever the situation, the KPIs will magically look good. And if there are no KPIs, nobody will dare take the job.
I took the course this year. Prof Mutlu is a fantastic teacher, I learned a lot but the course was a lot of effort, especially the labs. Nevertheless, best course I took at ETH so far.

Course material: https://safari.ethz.ch/farm/architecture_fs17/doku.php?id=st...
I agree it’s probably safest to follow the flow of traffic, because it’s speed differences and changes that I’ve seen cause the most accidents or near-accidents. When people are slowing down, changing lanes, exiting, or other things that cause speed differences between vehicles, it reduces other drivers’ ability to predict what’s going to happen, introducing more opportunities for a wrong move.

Whereas I’ve done the trip between SF and Reno/Tahoe many times, for example, and depending on time of day (day of week, season of year, &c.) there are parts of I-80 where virtually all the traffic flows smoothly and consistently at 80–85mph. I have a hunch that it’s not a coincidence that I’ve seen far fewer accidents in those areas—all you have to do is stay awake, steer, and hope a deer doesn’t jump out.
I wonder if it has something to do with corruption being tolerated in the Cold War era in order to prevent Soviet influence.
Another big one is that this method is not entirely device agnostic. I am not able/willing to log into my email account on every device that I might want to log into your service with.

One way this has been prevented for me so far is to include a one time pass in the mail along with the link, but some people might still not have a second device on hand every time they want to log in.
Perhaps your definition of professional is too narrow. I'm a professional writer (and hobbyist coder). I used a MacBook Air for four years before upgrading to a MacBook Pro.

My reasons for upgrading to a MacBook Pro were: (i) the better screen (which matters when you're looking at it eight hours a day), (ii) improved performance compared to the Air or the MacBook, (iii) the ability to drive a couple of high-definition external screens, and (iv) all the above on on a portable device that runs MacOS. Number iv is probably the most important reason: I prefer MacOS.

If you construe "professional" as someone with high CPU and GPU processing demands, then perhaps I don't count. But that's a tiny market: most professionals who choose a MacBook choose it for the same reasons I did.
> The major hole in either argument is that we’re about as close to thriving offworld as we are to flying by flapping our arms. The list of unsolved problems to make self-sustaining human presences offeorld are staggering and multigenerational.

And yet, disregarding the brief forays into world of balloons, we went from flapping our arms to not flapping our arms to powered flight to landing men on the Moon in the span of less than 100 years. This is how fast progress moves when people care. There is a staggering list of unsolved problems to make a self-sustaining human presence off-world, yes, but instead of solving it, we're bitching about one person driving few billion $ to be spent on it.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at works. It's sci-fi, so let's ridicule people working on it and make spending money on it unsexy, hence forever dooming it into being sci-fi. That's the essence of what you are - maybe unintentionally - suggesting.

You write:

> Of course those same breakthroughs which would make Mars colonies possible (aneutronic fusion, new battery tech, superior robotics, AI, real understanding of our immune systems and bioflora, lightweight radiation shielding, something more than chemical rockets, and more) would be cheaper to use and more effective on Earth.

But the market has only so much incentive to pursue those (after all, things we already have work well enough, and nowadays, spending money on marketing has better ROI than spending it on R&D). It's implicitly understood that for all space-related tech breakthroughs, their biggest impact will be planetside. And that's a very good reason to doubling down on space - the conditions are ripe for rapid technological development there.

--

Related: it's my belief that a lot of issues we're facing here, downwell, are essentially caused by people not having anything better to do. There's no grand vision, there's nothing to capture imagination, to motivate effort - so we're all just picking up on whatever injustice happens to us this week, and as a result of doing that, dooming the planet and ourselves with it. Space is one of the few things that don't involve people killing each other, which could be presented as "something greater" than us; I feel the world is in dire need of that kind of project.
sure! don't get me wrong, i agree with you absolutely on most of those points, just not the Mars thing.

what Musk is doing with solar, batteries and such is groundbreaking!! i really commend him for that and indeed he _gets things done_

so he is not getting all his priorities wrong, just the one, imho.

also on space exploration SpaceX is a fantastic initiative.. bringing the costs down so much.
but there is lots of space exploration to do that doesn't involve Mars and is more useful (again imho)

in a 100 years will we knock ourselves proudly on the chest for going to Mars and recreating earth in her image :)
Not well for arbitrary rules, but for simple syntactic rules at least, regular expressions in the `pattern` attribute of the <input type=password> will do it. Bonus points for using look-ahead assertions for more complex restrictions.

The following, for example, creates a password field that requires exactly six ASCII letters, including at least one uppercase and one lowercase letter, and forbidding having the same character twice in a row:

<input type=password pattern="(?!.*(.)\1)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[A-Za-z]{6}">
All India need is a change in government whose focus is on Development instead of some bigoted Hindu agenda. Current central government is focusing on creating an environment of "Us vs Them", this is what destroyed Germany. Ofcourse it will destroy India if you dont rid of such religiously driven notions in 2018.
The unstated (and unsupported) assumption is that economic growth requires growth in the use of resources.
Ask HN: User Study on companies using crowdsourcing platforms?
Hi friends,

Previously, I worked for a crowdsourcing company that offloads routine data work for businesses.I am now applying some of those learnings into my product.Our goal is to lower the barrier to software engineering using crowdsourcing.I am doing a user study on teams both technical and non-technical teams to understand how they use freelancing platforms like Gigster, Toptal and more to augment their limited resources.
What are your pain points?
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The population growth isn't a problem "yet" but it is a problem when those people want to develop (ie increase energy consumption). Hans Rosling explains it well: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing...
You can avoid that by setting a referrer header override for jwz’s site in your Firefox settings, so his site never sees the HN referrer.

Luckily it seems like browsers are starting to retire that header soon anyway, so his annoying trick will break.
I find neo-Malthusian arguments like this need to be taken with a serious grain of salt. Much of the article would have applied word for word for China a decade or two ago, and that country continues to struggle with environmental problems as gargantuan as India's -- but it's now also equally clear that they have turned a corner and are not just taking the issue seriously, but starting to make an impact.
I don't mind the shallow key travel, but the unreliability annoys me no end. In 2018, we shouldn't have to deal with keys that stick because a minute quantum of dust worked its way into the mechanism.
Slightly off-topic but Meetup's redesign over the last year really sucks. Not sure what is going on there
That looks like fun, but also like it requires running your own mail server. :)

I use Thunderbird filters to sort incoming emails, but it's still out of control. In 1995 there wasn't this kind of email overload.
It's simple: true randomness is a back door for God. If there's a true source of randomness in the universe, and our brains make use of it, you can postulate that the soul is what magically makes this "random source" not random, hence enabling "free will" as religions see it.
One of the biggest flaws of democracies is that they strongly incentivize policy makers to follow short-term gains over long-term goals.
I've found it much more relaxing to just drive the speed limit, keep to the right as much as possible and to be a courteous driver in general.

I let the traffic flow around me, instead of trying to keep up with everyone. When I'm driving, I relax and try not to stress about getting to my destination as quickly as possible.

YMMV of course, as I'm in Europe and driving habits do differ a lot.

I think inattentiveness and impatience are the biggest killers in traffic. I don't really care if people are going 10 over, as long as they're not harassing other people.
>>India is being held hostage in a prison of corruption by greed

While this is true. The true problem really is the population scale is just too much. At that point everything breaks.

We really are a society of extreme scarcity. There could be enough for everyone, but there are just too many people. People do the obvious and optimize to no end for personal profit. At one point in time people thought the government is corrupt, or that government jobs automatically come with corruption. At that point in time around late 80's there was a sentiment private jobs and enterprises would come along and solve all this. Something like the exact opposite happened. Almost every company I've worked I have seen politics and corruption to no end for foreign travel opportunities, pay rises, equity and promotions. This automatically creates a situation where merit can never win. You can start all the start ups you want but if you can't solve this problem its just attempting to build a pyramid on quick sand.

>>I don't understand at all the increasing rents, property prices amidst the impending crisis.

Why don't you understand this?

Settling in cities is the only hope for a decent job currently. Farming jobs are long gone and are not profitable for a long time. Most farms lands are owned by a few families and the remaining people just slave around on that. For those people the only escape is to start a small shop or get some education and get a job in the city. So those people will keep coming to cities. And we can only develop a few cities as we don't have enough tax collection to build and develop all over. This concentrates people into a few cities.

Now you have a high demand and low supply situation. There fore high rents and property prices.

Ideally if you had good transit then you could expand to outskirts and increase supply. But some 1000 people come to a city like Bangalore everyday, and there isn't enough tax money to build that sort of infrastructure.

>>Given that, especially, only a handful hoard most of the wealth and could afford buying or renting at today's rates.

If you start early, save and invest well, you could establish unbeatable lead over your colleagues. In a society like India where things are so scarce this is even more so true.
New success quickly becomes the new baseline and a personality that chases success will continue to pursue greater success.
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China's population is unevenly distributed. There is a large concentration in eastern coastal regions. There are provinces with larger population than Italy and MUCH higher population density.

The whole of Europe, similar in area to China, has 1/2 the population density of China.
"...to coincide with some canny PR stunts—coverage on The View, Good Morning America, CBS’s Sunday Morning, and Fox & Friends; features on seven blogs embargoed for the same day; a viral public- art installation depicting Trump and Putin nude and locked in an embrace."

Please could someone on HN tell me how the hell one organises, gets funding and pays for this type of PR. I can dev the apps but I am just unable to promote.

Any help or information is appreciated, thank you.
Number iv is probably the most important reason: I prefer MacOS.

Yes, me too, so I find myself in a weird no-mans-land - I don't want to switch to another platform, and I don't want to buy anything in the recent line-up. I will be forced to when my Mini becomes unsupported for OS updates, then I will spend as little as I can to get back in the game, because they have already pushed me into the mindset and workflow of offloading the heavy lifting. But offer me a machine as radical my old 7600 was relative to what I had previously and relative to the rest of the market, and I'll jump at it.
> People simply IGNORE the speed limit and drive at what they consider to be a safe speed.

And a lot of people are completely incapable of determining what is actually a safe speed.
i have nuanced my opinion in the comment to teMPOral.

space exploration.. great
mars traveling.. less so, imho

and in no way attacking mr. Musk on his other achievements , vision and intellect :)
Original Mathusianism should be distinguished from neo-Malthusianism, in that the latter does at least have some evidential basis in that it is based on measurement of resource levels and their rate of use, not just some political philosopher's wooly notion of overpopulation.

The problem, as I see it, is that even if you are optimistic about the theoretical capacity of the planet to sustain human life, its practical capacity is limited by how efficiently we use the resources to hand, and the current system does not properly incentivise efficient use. More often, it's the complete opposite, because the price of resources like water and soil does not reflect their true scarcity.

It's like having a large store of firewood. Enough, in theory, to heat your home through several years of harsh winters. Then you burn the whole stockpile in a great bonfire on the first cold Autumn night. That night, by every metric, you'll be warmer and cosier than you ever have been before, but you'll still have doomed yourself.
Also, the gap between rich an poor has never been bigger.

In terms of digits in a bank account, that's probably true. Is it true in terms of actual living conditions and power? Is the gap now wider than between Louis XIV and his Haitian slaves?
In my experience, politicians find new ways to massage the numbers but the civil service keeps collecting the old ones. But, I live in quite a democratic country:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/22/britai...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/26/uk-governmen...
> The gap between rich an poor has never been bigger.

So?

I'd rather live in the modern day, "unequally" with the rich, than starve or die of disease equally with the rich of the middle ages.

Just because the rich have 100Xed in quality of life over the last century, doesn't negate the fact that the poor have 10Xed in quality of life.

Making everyone equal is easy. Just make them all equally dead, starving, or miserable, just like they were in past centuries.
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This is a gross misinterpretation of what actually happened. Read up on the OP_RETURN saga. Bitcoin Core completely shitting on Counterparty is why Vitalik decided not to build on top of a system that showed that the core developers could and would pull out the rug from under him

OP_RETURN is the greatest turning point in cryptocurrency history
> Just because growth isn't "infinite" says nothing about how far away we are from reaching the limits of the planet.

And just because Malthusians have been wrong for centuries, doesn't mean they won't turn out to be right in the next 50 years. At some point something will snap. Yeah, we have it pretty good right now. At least those of us in the west. I'm not sure if those people in India who have to endure 51 Celsius heats, don't have access to fresh water and live in areas where it's hard to breathe are in a better positions than their ancestors.

A trillion people on Earth may be possible if there was a God designing the planet from scratch with the specific aim to put a trillion people on it. But moving gradually to such a number, from where we are now, I'd say is absolutely impossible. Countries like India and China that are already bursting at the seams, seem to be proving that.
> I think the strongest case against Mars is simply that we should do it, but not now, and instead in several decades.

yes, this is my feeling on this as well
Inadequate drivers go too fast for their own skills.

Adequate drivers know that speed does kill, or at least makes accidents much worse. They are not overconfident fools.

Good drivers know the rules of the road and follow them, they know when to bend them, and when not to bend them.

Speeding isn't worth it, you gain a minute here or there, that's it.
I suppose so, but increased speed increases the likelihood that “inadequate” driving causes an accident, and that that accident will be fatal. And IMO most humans are “inadequate” drivers, in terms of risk of death driving—something like 1 micromort per 250 miles, or 1 in 6000 chance per year for the average driver.
Ah. It was a joke.

OK.
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