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There are two key questions. To start, a secretive private company decided to spend 1.14 billion dollars to buy the .org domain.
The first question is what is it going to do with .org that the company thinks could pay off its investment and make a good profit.

The second question is what effect would all that profit-making activity have on the internet, in particular on organizations that reasonably want to own a .org url?

What I would like to know is if the Internet Society even considered these questions.

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>So if you're running Chrome/Firefox dev-channel then they're a RAT?

No, because it's opt-in and it's explicitly needed for the purposes of a dev/nightly build. This is as opposed to a voip client which needs unrestricted access because... they want to be able to run A/B tests on uninformed subjects?
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I was surprised the article mentioned eBay as a better alternative as a seller. It really isn’t, eBay will side with the buyer pretty much every time.
Also as you alluded to, it doesn't sound like someone worth confronting at his house lol.
By make them searchable I think the author means - make you search for the list because they buried it in a footer and you have to scroll through a long page trying to convince you to give them your email.

I'm also curious about the Y Combinator logo on the page. Does that mean they are sponsored by? Ideas have lead to startups that are? Or they started a thread here?
The goal is to not have it happen again. Which is contrary to the wording given, since it implies that Comcast willing to waive the overage charges for the month was a "one-time thing" kind of deal.
Sadly, the coverage does seem to vary widely.

I heard the absolute horror stories, and the opposites, too.

What province/territory/city were you in?
Sadly, winning a debate has more to do with charisma than sound logic and evidences. Trump had multiple debates on TV, he "won" them well enough to be elected, and he thinks global warming is a Chinese hoax.

Scientists, being scientists, are fundamentally trained to communicate to fellow scientists with basic scientific competency and no desire to twist every word out of context. They aren't the best TV debators.

You wouldn't give members of the Manhattan project gladiator swords and march them into Colosseum - what would you expect?
FYI:

The deadline for comments is March 30, and the deadline for reply comments is April 29, (though it's not clear what the difference between comments and reply comments is).

The FCC document (in all its legalistic glory) can be seen here: [1]

And you can comment here: [2]

[1] - https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-168A1.pdf

[2] - https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express
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At risk of starting a debate on the true meaning of 2001 A Space Odyssey, I don’t think “monolith” is derogatory.
He probably means Bitbucket.
Check out https://www.airsend.io. We are getting started and it works well in our private testing with couple of thousand users. Currently we have apps for ios and android.
> why not just ask what the right answer is?

“RTFM”

“Nobody’s going to do your homework for you”

“whathaveyoutried.com”
> I said it was a 'usermode Linux "terminal" emulator', never said it was a VM or anything like that.

It's a full x86 emulator.

> IIRC the dev said he also wasn't allowed to publish it to the App Store

He didn't, it's just never been tested whether it could be on the store or not.
Yes, I also agree. And, I'm also waiting for Godot. Btw, is this the 43 bus line or are we huddling in this bus shelter for what seems like no reason? I gotta get to East Cleveland.

;@)
> Anything you run has to be compiled already

You can compile binaries on iSH and they'll run on the emulator just as all the other code does.
It's certainly effective. I once spoke with a guy who founded a relatively large e-commerce biz ($100m+ revenue) and had been exploring a new product. To validate it, he put together an entire webstore complete with an actual checkout - not just a price, but people could actually put in a credit card and pay. He bought a variety of ads for it, collected orders, and then just cancelled all the orders. This essentially allowed him to measure all the numbers he needed to validate whether it would be profitable (ad targeting, conversion rates, etc.) without the cost of having to actually manufacture the product.

The best part of this approach is that you measure actual conversions, and your numbers aren't distorted by people who are only willing to subscribe to a mailing list, or even people who make it all the way to a checkout page before changing their minds. It's purely people who would've actually paid for your product, because they really thought they did.

On the surface it seems sketchy and possibly unethical, but I suppose the inconvenience to the customer is relatively small. They experience a brief disappointment when they see the email telling them the order is cancelled, and that's likely the full extent of your negative impact on them. You could even argue it'd be unethical to yourself / your investors to not validate an idea every way you can before spending lots of time and energy on it.
I'd just like to point out that there is a gratuitous swipe at a prominent politician in this piece. Of course it is wholly out of place, and should have been edited out in a piece of true journalism.

Regardless of your political leanings, it is astonishing to see how much time and energy is dispatched each day trying to push an opinion on an unwilling audience. One day soon, this will be known as the golden age of media propaganada.
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Victorian death photography was a thing. Before cameras were cheap, people used to get photos taken of their dead loved ones because it was literally the only photo they would ever have of that person and they wanted to cherish the memory.

Often these photos would be taken as a group family picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography

> Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when "death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life."[3] As photography was a new medium, it is plausible that "many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young children, were probably the only photographs ever made of the sitters. The long exposure time made deceased subjects easy to photograph.'

> In the Victorian era it was not uncommon to photograph deceased young children or newborns in the arms of their mother. The inclusion of the mother, it has been argued, encourages one to see through the mother's eyes
If no one is writing assembly code, does it matter? Seems to me that backwards compatibility is more important than simplicity at a layer that almost no one ever touches anyway.
Yes. Options given to you by your company as a non-cash compensation is an equity grant because it gives you the right to equity ( shares ) in a company. If you "exercise" the options, you get X amount of shares in the company.
The schemes that a smart person can come up with, given a few days, are numerous.

The schemes that the many smart people in the legal profession have seen through, collectively hundreds of thousands of times over centuries, are several orders of magnitudes more numerous.

A good lawyer would be doing everything short of bodily tackling you before you compounded your problems by adding subversive accounting to perjury to criminal profits.

The law is like the Simpsons. It goes on for so long that nothing is left unexamined. The odds that you will think of something that they haven't are slim.
It always seemed somewhat opposite to me - that opposition to net neutrality consists of a non-negligible percent of people acting only against something perceived to be liberal.
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He sells weed so he's a criminal?
It came across to me as "Just use this one weird trick and you can convince people of anything!" The runner example in particular seemed to emphasize the convincing over the content. I suppose it's possible to use the same technique benevolently, but the article didn't seem concerned with that question.
Ask HN: What do you think about the following stack for cross-platform dev?
Stack is:

Hasura
React Native
Expo
Auth0

It will be a grid based online gaming platform. I'm thinking of using hasura subscriptions or maybe socket programming in another language. I got the idea for this stack from the url below. Any opinions on this stack? I want to optimize time to market. I will probably be the only developer in this project. It's hobby/CV project. Thanks in advance and have a good day.

https://awesomestacks.dev/react-native-with-expo-and-hasura
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Yeah it gives too much credit to those cringy ads that are full of cliches.
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That's a very dangerous thing to do (as soon as the deal is one, one party can easily move the content of both wallets to a key only they control).
Yup!

They smell money to be made, so they are jumping on board.
I'm very much a web developer, but I've been on a mobile iOS project for the past 6 months or so.

My team decided we didn't want to fight Apple, and went all in on xcode and swift.

The first month was rough because I do 90% of my development in vs code. Xcode is a lot upfront, but very powerful once you get the hang of it. Spending the time to learn how to use the storyboard properly has really paid off for us. Our designer loves it.

Overall, if you can spare the time, doing it Apple's way isn't too bad.

My team is pretty comfortable now, with the exception of managing our git. Storyboards can make merges almost impossible sometimes, and we really haven't figured out a good way to go about it. So if you're working with a large team this should be a huge con for going the swift route.
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Yes, and all of them outside of computer science/engineering are using linear algebra on top of calculus.

Computer software/engineering is the only field of science that can use naive linear algebra directly to solve hard problems in the field.
Congratulations on breaking free. Enjoy!
Ask HN: How to deal with a shift to slower work?
I moved from a fintech where everything happened very fast and I had a lot of responsibilities to work in an hedge fund where everyone works long hours but everything takes a lot longer to happen.

Sometimes I feel that my desire to want to keep the same pace can hurt me. How do I adapt to this change?
He mentions that in the last paragraphs. It's part of his point about orthodoxy and loyalty. People hold strong opinions on either side of that debate.
In what field?
Also requires an account to read the article. No thanks, I'll just move on.
You indirectly pay for a Windows license every time you buy a laptop.
Signal is shit because it requires me to identify by phone number. I might not have a phone number. I travel and switch sims. My phone number is a magnet for robocalls. Phone numbers are easy to steal. Asking for my phone number is a non-starter and a sign the Signal devs are idiots.
At Elementary we're working on [atom](https://github.com/elementary-robotics/atom) which is a ROS-like OS for your robot in which each element (effectively a "node" from ROS) is docker containerized. Docs [here](https://atomdocs.io/) It also gives you more powerful serialization options on the wire (no serialization, msgpack and arrow currently supported) and has some nice data APIs due to using redis streams as a message brokering backend.

It's still pretty early and doesn't have nearly as many features or open-source packages but it's helped us be nimble and avoid a fair amount of the build/maintenance headaches.
> What's important is that the government considers those bitcoins as its property

"condiders", insofar as governments are concerned only reaches as far as their sovereignty does. In the case of Ireland, that IIRC, 12 miles from their shores [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters
This and the bash man page are all I need in general.
Are you sure about this? I thought the limit across the board was 10 years.
Because collecting it leads to using it, and using it leads to the surveillance dystopia we're just starting to get a taste of.
I can appreciate that it seems that way, but this person has been doing this for many years with dozens of accounts. If you saw what we see, I think you'd consider it abusive too, and I'm certain that the community as a whole would.

You don't have to look far through https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... to see how many hours I've spent defending users accused of astroturfing and telling other users that they can't sling such accusations without evidence. That problem is actually far more serious than this one, in its corrosive effects. But the flip side is that it does occasionally happen that the evidence is so unequivocal that public banning is called for, and this is one of those cases.
Hey, it can be done. I'm living in a fairly big house now, with 3 kids and a stay-at-home wife.

I live in the central US, and work remote. (The company pays fair wages for the northeast, which translates well to my locale.)

I know not everybody can be so lucky, but I wanted to mention it can still be done.
They commenter isn't saying you should pick a job just because of money. But you should also avoid a job that is taking advantage of you, by giving you absolute crap compensation, by "selling" you ISO's as something valuable, when in most cases it isn't because of the constraints.

We all want to work on things that are cool, but we also have bills to pay, and retirement to prepare for.
Both, to varying degrees. And of course carriers are going to tailor their cell gear to their benefit in ways unknowable to customers without enterprising investigators conducting some seriously-dedicated SDR packet capturing and N carrier x M handsets x P locations x Q time-of-day testing.

0. Even assuming lossless/infinite backhaul capacity, it gets messy when guessing about what's deployed in terms of packet prioritization of tower -> handset.

1. Once deployed and maintained, the marginal cost of data is much closer to zero than what customers are being overcharged. Even if it's going from a cell tower to cheap dark fiber or trenched in, it's still nearly the same amortized cost. Also, there is plenty of spectrum channel capacity.. the "bottleneck" is the backend of the towers or their backend upstream in the region.

2. Xfinity (optical, fixed-premises "cable") has a 1 TB limit for certain US states but not others, where they have unlimited data allowances. So it's not about infrastructure or data transit costs, it's about making money from relatively richer people.

It would be a good requirement for internet-providing carriers to be required to publish their effective channel capacity oversubscription ratio (for upload & download) for each internet-connecting plan that is offered in each ZIP code.
> I'm surprised to see the NY Times have such clickbait-ish headlines.

It stopped being a prestigious broadsheet long ago. The active anti-Trump coverage (and I'm anti-Trump) is just cannibalizing their remaining credibility, which is derived from the interesting investigative work they still do from time to time.
If "gratuitous swipe" is your term for accurate description, sure.
You don't necessarily need it to be fake. What we did was put up a store button on our app, and when someone clicks it, it prompts a "Sorry, under construction". And then we'd record clicks on the button.

You'll lose a few customers that way, but it's a lot cheaper to validate there over spending a couple months populating the product.

We considered adding on a meal delivery service, and then added a box where you enter your postcode and it tells whether the area is in delivery range. Of course, we didn't start it yet, and no area is in delivery range, but it was valuable data on what cities wanted it and what numbers we'd get.

I'd say the important part is just don't lie to them.
There is zero ambiguity in that.

If the box had any kind of shrink wrap, adhesive seal, or anything else that's now missing or broken, it is unambiguously "Used - Like New or Open Box". That's literally what "open box" means.

As I buyer, I would absolutely have a problem buying, say, a new MacBook on Amazon that was missing its original shrink-wrap.

It's simple: is there any detectable difference from how you bought it, or any packaging replaced? If so, then it's not new. Period.
Netflix is probably the most relatable case study on what fast lanes look like, because it is Netflix that pays whatever rate the teleco thinks it can insist on in order to install their CDN in your ISPs hub, that in many cases must compete with the exact same content the telco is now serving.

(Side note: one more good reason for Netflix to be in the content creation game)

Netflix gets to pay whatever rate to get priority infrastructure at the telco, you get to pay more to Netflix, and you blame Netflix (not the telco) if the content delivery is botched / not as good as what your "cable subscription over the Internet" delivery is.

That doesn't line up perfectly with the narrative about fast lanes that we were sold, but it does show some of the power being wielded by the telco today as more than just a dumb pipe, and how they leverage their position against competitors.
The story is about exactly what I thought from the headline. It’s wrong to attribute your misinterpretation to malice.
Bash was the first scripting language I became “good” in too! The skill seems to be regularly devalued in this community, and there is no surprise why (what is collaboration and maintenance for $500).

However, it’s hard to ignore why bash masters are born in the first place if better tools exist - shouldn’t the best tool win in the long run?

My take is lone wolf hackers working in corporate /_/nix constrained environment who become proficient, prolific and efficient win the corporate version of “survival of the fittest”.
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I'm not sure that's the finite lookup table he's talking about. Within the last year we talked about Peter Norvig's sudoku solver: https://norvig.com/sudoku.html

He starts by generating a table where each cell is represented by a data structure that enumerates all of the legal values in that cell. The options. Then there is code that can find all the peers of a cell (same row, same column, same square).

Turns out that most 'easy' and many 'moderate' puzzles can be solved by starting with a list of all cells with one option.

For each cell:

* solve the cell

* for all peers, eliminate that value from their options

* for all peers with one remaining option, recurse

I believe that's quadratic time, and intuition tells me breadth-first converges faster.

After that, Norvig reaches for brute force, under the theory that this has already gotten you so close to the solution that it's not worth implementing and debugging more complex constaint logic. But I think that despite his claims that Sudoku is a disease, I think this is a taunt; it simply encourages you to go into a more sophisticated process of elimination.

Single elimination: Any option that only has one cell in a row, column or square: solved.

Double elimination: If a pair of peers have only the same two options, then eliminate that option from all of their common peers. Solves nothing, but may solve other cells.

Triple and Quadruple elimination: same thing, but progressively rarer.

Quintuple elimination: I don't recall why, but it was asserted that since this is more than half of 9, any time this happens a simpler constraint is also true.

I believe that covers all of the moderate difficulty puzzles and the occasional hard ones. From there there's a whole array of other constraints you can implement. You can either do it yourself as an exercise, or there are whole websites dedicated to these rules.
Those things from big banks always remind me of the quote from Big Short: "Yeah, I think you mean that you've secured a net short position yourselves. So you're free to mark my swaps accurately for once because it's now in your interest to do so."
83(b) election is one way to make ISOs more on par with RSUs. 83(b) isn’t cheap... But! These days a lot of companies (especially FAANG, but start-ups too) are offering $20k-$100k signing bonuses; those bonuses essentially give the appearance of competitive total comp while in actuality depress base salary growth. It might be productive for employees to push towards having signing bonuses turned into an 83(b) election bonus that covers strike and (some amount of) taxes. Then fewer employees get roped into dumb tax games that only entertain investors, and we’d be moving the notion of competitive compensation towards reducing stock risk for those who can least afford it. (If salaries grow more rapidly as a side-effect, that’d be nice too).
Fair. I drank for 20yrs and clung on every last article about x drinks beneficial, how reservatol helps, etc., but at end of day I'm skeptical of who shadow funded what. We live in a consumption nation where our GDP is driven by that. I was in denial about drinking and knew it made me feel like crap. Quitting drinking was epic.
Is $2900 even eligible for small claims? Seems like marginally yes, depending on the state. Looks like the photographer is based out of CA and their limit is $7500. FL is $5000. WA is $10,000. Go figure.

> Collecting on these sort of judgments can be difficult, time consuming, and frustrating.

Definitely, and it's quite possible at the end of the day the fraudster doesn't have significant assets to recover. Still, might be worth trying it for $2900 or more, depending on how you value your time.
I think being smart is one of the requirements. Education doesn't necessarily mean you're smarter, but it correlates. Attitude matters a lot though - if you feel like your education level is an obstacle, that could be a negative.

That said, YC loves investing in underdogs, which is why a lot of founders there are young and unusual.
Ask HN: I want to work on combatting desertification – What's out there?
Hi HN! I'm a long time reader, but only now have I felt the courage to post.

A few months ago YC posted a request for startups working on Carbon Removal Technology. One of those requested was 'Desert Flooding' aimed at fighting ongoing desertification [1]. I've been keeping up with all the news related to that post and searching for startups working on anything close to desertification, but I'm at a loss at finding anything. As a recently graduated undergraduate, I really want to dive headfirst into this issue but have only been able to quench my thirst (haha) through the reading of papers.

Does HN know of any projects or startups that might be working at applying to YC in the future for this sort of tech?

Any leads would be very appreciated!

[1]:http://carbon.ycombinator.com
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Yeah, right.
There's a bit of a jump from "it's thermodynamics" to "do everything Greta says". Skeptics (like me) tend to have a problem with the parts of that science on the right of that spectrum.

But even staying in the most scientific part of that spectrum (that goes from science to politics through economics and policy), it's a jump from "it's thermodynamics" to the data torturing that goes on in e.g. proxy reconstruction papers.
I'd argue complexity increases the odds of bugs. Pretty much the last place I want a bug is on my compiler (though I'm sure there are plenty out there).