skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse than nothing to do is the pile of misconfigured and abandoned IPv6 endpoints/experiments. Trying to get work done with an IPv6-before-IPv4 DNS preference makes the internet _work less well_, for the time being.

(This is 6mos of playing with IPv6 on Softlayer systems [well done, guys]; there's breakage on the internets.)
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Who would decide that the first failure would by command cut off telemetry?
An Interview with Anonymous: "We will keep going until we stop being angry."
Why does Wired like the reddit children?
Why does Wired like the reddit children more than those of us who think for a living?
Hey Aaron, glad my book was helpful. What do you feel is missing from it?
Now that I think about it, looking at instruction sets made it click for me too, so maybe it's something i should include.
And nice work with your language!
There doesn't seem to be much reason to go to war with them though - wouldn't it be more likely that the entire earth would unite to convince them to let us join?
Retro-engineering a video game system.
Wow. :( "I'm confused. Why would you (a blind user) want to
know what the poster frame is? How does it affect you?"

There are real needs and perceived needs. Trying to understand the potential use cases is not bad in any way.
Ask HN: Review www.sport-tribe.com
Hello,
I would be very grateful if you could review my new website from a design/usability/general point of view but also from business point of view.

Presentation :
Name : Sport-Tribe
URL: www.sport-tribe.com
Company : Limited Company registered in London, 2 directors (1 developer, 1 artist/web designer)

Description:
www.sport-tribe.com is an online sport directory for all people and associations practising sporting activities.
In Sport-Tribe, sportspeople from all over the world can search and add information about clubs and events relating to their favourite sporting activities. They can also connect with people who share the same enthusiasm for those sports, and therefore organise, find and enjoy to a new level there favourite sport!

Principle :
Sport-Tribe is organized in "Tribes". A tribe = one SPORT in one COUNTRY.
Each tribe has a specific landing page, search page, member page etc..
Example : http://www.sport-tribe.com/en-GB/gliding/France

Business Model :
Today, Sport-Tribe is still a very young company, and we haven't started any commercial business, but focus on increasing traffic and interest for our website. To date, we haven't generated any money. In a near future, we intend to sell advert spaces to advertisers, and develop Affiliate programs with sport-related activities.

We have divided Sport-Tribe into sport+country (tribes) in order to simplify the marketing and to do business in a more focused way, with specific and targeted markets (per tribe).

For each tribe that has (or will have) enough traffic, we will find a sponsor/affiliate program relative to the sport+country and display specifics adverts about them.

Example: http://www.sport-tribe.com/en-GB/gliding/France : see AirContact at the bottom. (note: We use BanManPro to manage adverts.) AirContact is a dedicated journal for Aero sports in France.

Roadmap:
1) Our first concern today is to find a way to fill up the database with all clubs information for the tribes. We have 2 solutions to this problem :
a. Enter each and every clubs by hand
b. Send an email presenting the Sport-Tribe to all clubs of a tribe, and expect a registration from them.
2) When we have full tribes (or with already enough information), we will market these tribes to bring more traffic to them, increasing overall traffic to the website.
3) Finally we will find paying advertisers for theses tribes.

Thank you very much for your comments.

PS: I have copied this request to other business-websites to have more opinions. Please accept my apology if you find this on other sites. I will check the answers on all sites (startups, onstartups, joelonsoftware).
There is a significant difference between the title and what's in the poster image. One commenter on the thread pointed to the Casablanca Wikipedia page.

The "poster" image for Casablanca has an alt text: "Black-and-white film screenshot with the title of the film in fancy font. Below it is the text "A Warner Bros. - First National Picture". In the background is a crowded nightclub filled with many people." If you imagine a movie being embedded in a webpage, that might be the alt text for the poster image whereas the title might be "Casablanca".
Possibly. My reasoning is that, unlike colonization, these projects are so big as to be impossible by one nation. They can only be attempted through co-operation by many.
> Perhaps description of the video makes description of poster redundant? Maybe one can use ARIA? Maybe media framework can extract description from the video file?

The plan seems to be that <track kind="descriptions" src="desc.en.srt"> be used as a child of <video> to provide descriptions in sync with the audio.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Really good
http://www.everbuying.com/product32709.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc ?
I'm not saying that it isn't exciting for sure, but Diaspora as the sole namedrop product out of that?

Not that Diaspora isn't cool, but it is an unhosted, alpha-grade, open-source project with no apparent business model competing with Facebook. It won't make money.

Interested in Diaspora? Check out this recent review:

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/15283-Open-social-net...

I think it is great, and I'm sure it will do well as a free product, but really- was that the only group worth mentioning? Even if they host the product and trying to compete with Facebook, according to what I've read, you have to overtake an established market using 3x of the funds your competitor puts into it. 3x what Facebook burns? I'm not sure that the improvements it makes in display of photos and security are enough to overwhelm FB. It isn't going after much of a niche need unless you consider it being open-source a niche.
I thought the same thing at first, but this post provides an alternate thought: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1742913
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That's not really a very good example, as many videos are far more complex than that.
Turns out that the things that you learn as a child affect the rest of your life.

I grew up in a house with lots of kids and lots of discipline. Everything had to be in the right place. To this very day, I am the most organized person I know.

You'd think this would have led to a career in the military, but it didn't. I became a data base administrator and programmer. I've been hashing since I was a toddler but didn't know the name for it until I became an adult.
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Money can grow on trees: Forests are disappearing because they are undervalued
videtur

(It's a second conjugation verb)
Or you can just keep dropping nuclear bombs out the back of your spaceship and blowing them up.
We both think that should happen, but for most people the need just isn't pressing enough and the scales of time are just too big to be appealing. People, generally, just respond to basic instincts (wanting to be entertained, titillated, make easy money, stuff their faces on the couch, etc) and short term, easy goals.

And unfortunately, it's unlikely to become a popular political position either.

Imagine a chance to route defense spending to space research and exploration - it's the geek dream!
Ask HN:  Please help a virgin blogger.
After repeated requests, I finally started a blog, but I have no idea what I'm doing. For me, commenting here at hn comes naturally but blogging doesn't. I'm so busy I don't have time, so I did the next best thing; I am "recycling" my old Hacker News comments. It only takes about 5 minutes each morning.

I don't have the most important thing I advise my customers: a goal. I'm not looking to drive traffic, make money, or get business. I do want to paint a picture of myself and my work and provide whatever value I can. I have included a link to my blog both here on my profile and as the last line of every email I send.

http://ShleppingData.com

After a few months, I'm wondering if I should continue. Is this a waste of time, or does it provide value and can it lead to something else?

1. No one has ever commented, so I just turned comments off. Does this make sense or just seem lame? Maybe they don't comment because it's recycled material.

2. Posterous allows up to 100 entries per screen, so I just set mine at the max. It's only text and almost everyone should have broadband by now, so it loads fast. Why would anyone set this lower?

3. Posterous allows tags, presumably to group similar posts, but I can't find any facility for an index or Table of Contents. So I just tag every post with it's own title. Again, does this make sense or does it just seem lame?

4. I named my blog "Shlepping Data", because the simplest explanation of what I do is "Shlepp Ones and Zeroes from Point A to Point B". (Of course there are a lot of details and I'm spending a lifetime mastering them.) I wanted to leave a touch of lightheartedness along with all the technical talk. Cool or lame?

5. Any other suggestions from seasoned bloggers are greatly appreciated. What else could provide value without investing too much time?
If I could see who is calling and then actually answer the phone from this gadget, then I wouldn't need to be constantly digging my phone out of my pocket. I could just have the earpiece in my ear and the phone in a less accessible place, which seems like it should be a lot more convenient.
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This simple and completely true statement never ceases to fascinate me:

> In short, as an industry, we all stink.

We really do stink and we as an industry are nowhere near a state where there are any real standards and best practices in place like e.g. when building a skyscraper or a road. Those are fairly to pretty damn complicated tasks and there is so much knowledge, experience and best practice involved and everyone in the construction industry (should..) knows them and when it is done you can have it checked and certified that it was well built and won't crumble the next day.

I don't think anything like this even remotely exists in IT. We have a lot of RFCs describing protocols and what not but nobody can really objectively certify your serious-business software as well-built or can verify whether you applied even the smallest best practices or common sense guidelines because there are so many almost religious wars being fought over completely minor advantages and dis-advantages which simply do not matter on a global scale.

And far too many really, really actually bad programmers just get away with their mess or horrible, insane code.
Ask HN: Would you trademark your startup?
Let's suppose you've come up with a unique name for your startup. Besides domain registering such name with .com, .net and the usual suspects, would you bother in trademarking it too? I mean, would you fear some hostile company or individual trademarking it to build trouble?

Thanks for your advice.

Edit: Of course I've already searched HN for related threads. The only one I've found which answers my question - very old - states trademarking is a good idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141515
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Unfortunately the only proven technique for unifying large populations towards a single cause seems to be warfare.
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The space elevator is the most game-changing investment we can make. The cost of getting into and out of orbit is the main barrier to any grand space scheme like mars, moon bases, or asteroid mining. It would also become a target of extremist anger and ignite divisions about tech. Runner-up might be a serious global scale geothermal plant for renewable power.
"I give you a very classy example: Casablanca"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_%28film%29

I had to check this out. The alt text on the images really are excellent.
I talk out of my ass, by if I recall the numerous pseudo-scientific tv-show I've seen correct, the moon is pretty much similar to the Earth, but due to its smaller size, it has cooled down much faster. Additionally, it's not heavy enough to sustain an atmosphere, which can bind water to the planet.
Why do you limit a reasonable amount of time to a human lifetime? If we're going to colonize interstellar space with anything like our current technology we're probably going to have to ditch that requirement.

There's no reason you can't have a multi-generational ship that takes a thousand years to arrive. You don't have to send thousands of people either, it's enough to send a hundred or so, have them populate on the way, and maybe send some frozen sperm & eggs with them to increase genetic diversity.

Another possibility that'll probably become viable within 50-200 years is to not send any humans at all, but to only send a fast & small ship with human sperm & eggs that can start hatching humans once it gets there. Raising the infants could be done with robots and other infrastructure manufactured once we get there.
I voted you up because you cite such a good source, but please note that the diagram in the article shows one wire between just the lamp and the switches, i.e. the Carter system. The common system would have an unswitched wire to neutral, as shown and described in the wikipedia article you cited.
World's first 'cyber superweapon' attacks China
Couple random points:

I just bought a new consumer router last year (actually, come to think of it, 2). Neither have current support in the admin screens for IPv6 - it's the standard 4 box dotted quad input only. Yes, a firmware upgrade can solve this, but this was 2009 at the time - how much more time do hardware vendors need to put this in consumer products, where we'll see arguably the most pain (in terms of hand-holding service requirements)?

Also, relating to screens, a huge number (large majority?) of software is coded specifically to the dotted-quad format. I think we'd have seen more adoption if the plan we're migrating to had simply added a couple more dots to it. Easier for people to think about at the end, and would have given us a moderately larger pool base, easier way of thinking about new address spaces (visually, I mean).

64.27.78.45.134.240 where you tell people that the first two (or last two) now correspond to new addresses, and 'old' addressed simply have two leading 0s, would have made transition easier to swallow (IMHO).

2001:0f68:0000:0000:0000:0000:1986:69af, in comparison, even if shortened down, looks pretty alien.

Adding two dotted quads would have given us 65k x 4 billion addresses. Yes, it's not IPv6-sized, I know. But in terms of the 'let's measure everything by how many IPs each person on the planet can have!' it would have been sufficient for a while - I think most people would be fine with fewer than 20k addresses each.

I know this is wholly naive of me, and real hackers everywhere can do this stuff in their sleep. However, 'real hackers' aren't going to be dealing with the majority of this transition - it's going to be average joes trying to help their family get back on the internet over the phone after they mistype something on their new DLINK-950v6 router from Best Buy.

We're well past the phase where we can back out, or I think even consider alternatives, but the impact to existing software screens is not to be underestimated.

IPv6 may turn out to be the real Y2k.
Perhaps more than just irony.

When I discovered this, my reporter's instinct kicked in.

Success as a reporter often depends more on who you know than what you know. Networking is a core skill. Networking is also Facebook's advertised purpose, so that's how I started using it.

Success as a reporter also means recognizing a good story when you see one. Not to say conclusively that he did it on purpose, but what better story to draw publicity to yourself (and, your prized book)?
The guy is deluded: "I was flabbergasted. Going too fast adding friends? Wasn't making friends what Facebook was for?"

He could say the same about spam:

"I was flabbergasted. Going too fast sending messages? Wasn't sending messages what email was for?"

This sort of excuse is weak, and you could use it to justify abusing anything.
I could except my hosting provider still isn't ready - apparently their data center itself isn't totally ready. I was told 3 months ago to check back in 6-9 months.
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Yes. As a physician (pathologist) who is also a hobby-hacker that is particularly inspiring.
I think I will actually use this page as an example for people who don't understand how the alt tag should be used. These are really good.
Good on Facebook.
You're probably right, and I sure hope that's what he's doing. I have to admit it did come across pretty bad when I read it though :)
This reminded me of a clever way to do key exchange with $0.40 of electronics (rather than quantum computers) that Schneier blogged about a few years ago:

http://www.schneier.com/essay-099.html

Relevant bits:

Alice and Bob have a two-wire cable between them, and two resistors each -- we'll say they each have a 10-ohm and a 1,000-ohm resistor. Alice connects a stochastic voltage generator and a resistor in series to each of the two wires. That's the setup.

Here's how they communicate. At each clock tick, both Alice and Bob randomly choose one of their two resistors and put it in the circuit. Then, Alice and Bob both measure the current flowing through the circuit. Basically, it's inversely proportional to the sum of their two chosen resistors: 20 ohms, 1,010 ohms or 2,000 ohms. Of course, the eavesdropper can measure the same thing.

If Alice and Bob choose the same size resistor, then the eavesdropper knows what they have chosen, so that clock tick is useless for security. But if they choose a different size resistor, the eavesdropper cannot tell whether it is Alice choosing 10 ohms and Bob 1,000 ohms, or the reverse. Of course, Alice and Bob know, because they know which resistor they're choosing. This happens 50 percent of the time.
Alice and Bob keep only the data from the clock ticks where they choose a different size resistor. From each such clock tick, they can derive one secret key bit, according to who chooses the 10-ohm resistor and who the 1,000-ohm. That's because they know who's choosing which and the eavesdropper doesn't. Do it enough times and you've got key material for a one-time pad (or anything else) to encrypt the communications link.
Yes, it has absolutely nothing to do with taxes. In fact, in some state like Virginia (when I last investigated this) you have to pay extra to the state for an out of state incorporation.

The key is not so much "friendly to corporations" (that gets complicated, especially when corporations sue each other) but I might say as "sane, stable and speedy" (I think, for the latter; at the very least they have a separate Court of Chancery that handles an important subset of corporate issues). This is a big business for the state government (1/5 of state government revenue) and the associated firms that do their part and they do their best to keep things on track and be efficient (I used to work for a company that sold one or more high speed Kodak ImageLink scanners to the state in the early '90s).

The case law you cite speaks to the stability concern. Companies aren't so much interested in "friendly" as they are in "a known quantity". When the rules of the game are stable, you can plan with some degree of confidence.
A non-sighted user hasn't managed to get to a video without somehow navigating their way there. The people replying to the tracker seem to be under the assumption that a non-sighted user will just mystically be presented with a video and not know what it is all about. I can't imagine a case where this is likely.

Navigating their way there gives them context to what the video will be (in the use case that the video is on a blank page). If the page contains textual content then the user will get context from the text. If the video is completely unrelated to location context or to page-level context then the content will be of little to no interest, so providing an alt description adds no real-world value.

Also note that unless the video has audio captioning then the entire video is of little to no interest. Imagine watching something like Lost in Translation with no visual input and no descriptive captioning.
I used to think that as well until I read about "Infiminer", the open sourced XNA Minecraft predecessor. Now I think he just saw an opportunity.

http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Infiniminer
Apparently there was some sort of signal from the Gliese system in December
Isnt the grouper unnecessary in this example? Seems to me the mappers could divide their text into 10 sheets, since they already are determining the key which later determines the sheet.
I am struggling with that: how to market myself as a consultant, knowing that all code sucks?
No, whether they were right that the airport would fail due to lack of custom without intervention.
Good suggestions.

(Typos: aiii, I can't believe I completely overlooked that. Thanks, fixed it :-)
It's actually more of a remote screen than a remote watch.
I refuse to be united with humanity. And it's not just me.

Differences are good, disagreements are good, and diversity is good. Including differences in goals, values, priorities and everything else.

If you have some serious differences and if you want to avoid conflicts, you probably shouldn't keep pushing to unite. You probably should separate. Like, you know, if a family can't agree on some important set of issues, they probably shouldn't always try to find a compromise (which might as well be bad for all sides), or apply force to silence the weakest side. They would probably be much better off if they get divorced, and let each side to form a family with someone who shares their views.

I think the same logic applies to countries, and to disagreements about any serious issue -- like, i don't know, taxes, global warming, foreign affairs, gay marriage, controlled substances, etc etc.

So, tldr: I'd rather look for something to separate humanity, it tries too hard to get united.
The example came to mind via C#. I assumed that it could be added to Python via a mixin or whatever if you wanted to do it there.
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Am I missing something here? This seems to be a touch screen remote for an Android phone. How is that like the iPod Nano?

It's an interesting idea for controlling music and notifications (though a 1 inch screen RSS reader... not so great).

Hard to really judge without a price but gut feel is that it's going to be more expensive than most people will pay to solve the "getting my phone out of my pocket problem".
I liked this, and sent it to some friends.

As an aside, it would be cool to have several "stories" like this for simple map-reduce. I've found that sometimes it takes multiple attempts for the concept to get across.