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Ask HN: Is it a good idea to use a .software domain?
I am starting a business and would like to have the word 'software' in the name. It will be an intentional pun, so that the name sticks easier with clients and potential clients who hear it. I've discussed this with a psychologist already, research suggests that it works. Just think of all the abbreviated unix tools that are puns and how you never forget what they stand for.

My concern is getting put into the spam folder for emails when I send letters from .software domains (not going to host my own mail server). Does this happen, even, when you run your mail via google or the registrar?
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Same. I hate when I need to get on a call to just get pricing for something, or even worse, to just renew a yearly subscription.

Plus this was analytics software which is a dime a dozen nowadays. So you need to make your value proposition known very well and very quickly. Even then you'll get a very low conversion rate unless you've done a very good branding campaign to get your name out there.
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The poor lady that died and found the bottle was not in the best of health. It was reported that she was a long term alcoholic.
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I used to know of someone who’s middle name (not just initial) was “E”. One letter.
Thanks for the response! I almost think that during debates
people should be required to breathe deeply after every
couple of phrases, heh.
Except it isn’t his invention. I don’t want to rehash 2003 all over again, but it was a collaborative effort that included ideas from Curry, spec work from Dave Winer, and an iTunes pass-through script for downloading to an iPods from Kevin Marks.
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The lobby bit was only 3 hours. The rest of the gig entailed a lot of knocking on doors and getting onto a first name basis with every security guard.
Essentially you changed your weakly held strong opinion about strong opinions held weakly.

I like it!
There's a lot of apps like that (you pay a recurring license fee), but there's also a lot of apps that sell a subscription for their online / cloud segment, e.g. note taking apps so that your data is synchronised across devices. That seems more fair than the periodical license fee. Usually those apps work just fine without the subscription as well.

I also have a "smart" thermostat in the house, it was a one-time purchase, but they offer a subscription for bonus features like detecting when you're outside and turning down the thermostat then.

That said, I'm not actually very comfortable using it anymore, all of my home temperature and humidity data is being sent to their servers and sold on (I'm sure) as statistical data. I get remote control (from my phone) and (actually interesting) temperature / historical charts. Only per day though, I would like to see weekly/monthly/annual data.
lol... 2017, pal
Unfortunately on mobile the zoom is fixed (I can't zoom out, didn't know that was possible) and I can't see the left and right edges of the text.
If they advertise increased click-through rate and they increase it, what stops them from claiming they fulfilled their end of the bargain? It could even be click bots.
Extradition cases are the responsibility of the magistrates' courts. In practice, they're not given to benches of volunteer magistrates, but to the group of District Judge (Magistrates Court)s who sit in a single court (Westminster Magistrates Court) and who have experience of extradition work.

DJ (MC)s are professional judges, with the usual legal training, who can sit singly in place of benches of lay magistrates for all the usual work of the magistrates' courts (which is mostly minor crime, straightforward family business, and regulatory civil hearings such as approving liability orders for outstanding council tax). For quite a lot of contentious extradition hearings you actually get the Chief Magistrate, who is a senior district judge.

It does have to be said that not being extradited on the basis of a well-formed request is rare, whether you're Julian Assange or not. If the court is confident that you're accused of an extradition offence, and that your trial will be fair, there are few reasons for it not to extradite (normally these days because of anticipated breaches of the Human Rights Act).
There's also services like Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub pages with generous free tiers and minimal setup for SSL, CDN, etc.

If you're more comfortable paying for something, it's easy to set up a prepaid BunnyCDN to hit an S3 bucket.
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yes, its just very unlikely, given the huge mass we are talking about. thousands of mountain sized c02 scrubbing machines scattered over the planet?
1. LPE/rooting exploit
2. Win
Yeah, fraud is a major reason other people don’t want to maintain their own directories. And I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of fraud provisions built into this by design. Because “open.”
I stopped reading the content of marketing websites ages ago, I just click on whatever is big and orange or other flashy colors until I see something that looks like a list of features, or whatever I'm looking for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I don't expect to be the only one to have this marketing blindness. I guess I'm a bot based on my behaviour?
It's important to remember the Swedish authorities were never interested in testimony from Assange.

It's worth reading this interview [1] with Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, which reveals in shocking detail the level of manipulation around this entire case.

As Melzer says "You just have to look at how the case was run: For Sweden, it was never about the interests of the two women."

[1] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
Clipboard API for browsers is inconsistent
Yup. That one.
I'd disagree in music. Many of the industry's top musicians started lo-fi in their room or basement, like Lorde or Billie Eilish, or all the garage rock, punk rock, hip hop, etc. Those artists get propelled by mass media, but they were nobodies and had basic equipment. So even in the Poppiest of genres, you have breakout by unheard of people. Then, expanding to folk or jazz or electronic, Spotify allows a measly income and exposure for very obscure, niche players and their small record companies. Power has been widely distributed by Napster, Spotify, and many others. They barely gatekeep these obscure artists, they use algorithms, though they do not share a decent % of profits with artists, IMO.
I've heard that if a recruit doesn't have a middle name, the US military will assign them one: NMI, which stands for No Middle Initial.
It comes up with 130 high risk events for ycombinator.com [0](accounts with plain text passwords) and 294 medium risk events (accounts with encrypted passwords)

This feels like the sum of all the domain accounts from leaked breaches - similar to have I been pwned

Despite what the report says - you can't actually verify the data without signing up to their service and doing the whole sales funnel thing

[0] https://www.immuniweb.com/radar/?id=kKhvrIhe
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That is a lot for most people. Obviously the upper bound on what's possible is massively higher, but if you take a mildly fit person off the street and put them through 4k feet & 13 miles w/ a 45 lbs pack, they'll be feeling it. An out-of-shape person would be completely destroyed at that point.
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Yeah, and the non-technical users will surely understand that what they need to do when the link doesn't work is:

1. Recognize that it's an Archive.org URL

2. Understand that the link references an archived page whose URL is "clearly" referenced as a parameter

3. Edit the URL (especially pleasant on a cell phone) correctly and try loading that

If you expect the user to be able to go through all this trouble if the Archive is down, you can also expect them to look up the page on the Archive if the link does not load.

But better yet, one shouldn't expect either.
Many? Virtually _all_, either for a rich individual or the church. An artist just making a thing, and seeing if people like it, is a pretty new invention. Probably a big part of why post-19th century art is so much more interesting and diverse; Western art pre-19th century was largely about technical competence in whatever the current fashionable style was.
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This sort of reason is exactly why I started using one time credit cards (privacy) for new service signups.
It's the member states that are tasked with enforcing it. Here's what they've been up to: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
>I'd be happy to pay 50% for each digital product sale

You will have to when the advertising network figures out the value of a sale.
What's the point of this?

I can easily screenshot the opened image on my Mac.
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> One bug that I remember is that it wasn't possible to remove ads, and the button to suspend an add didn't work most of the time.

I've hit that one. Usually I found I was able to delete an ad if I started by creating two more. It's like a reverse hydra kind of thing.
I mean, it would still be illegal to copy their designs... The only difference would be that looking at them would be legal.
Any solution cheap enough that the developed world can shell out for it without worrying about the developing world not paying their fair share would get implemented in an instant.
OpenJDK is now on GitHub
IKEA’s e-commerce was already pretty bad. During Covid-19, it fell apart
what information makes you believe he was tolerant?
The Swedish prosecutors wanted to try Assange on rape charges. Their actions were geared towards getting that to happen. Merely having Assange "testify", outside of a courtroom setting, would not necessarily have furthered that goal.

I do not see how that conflicts with the interests of the two women.
The Assange odyssey may be the Dreyfus Affair of our time.

As insane as this reads, the job of litigators is not to make sense, it is to press whatever possible advantage they can construe. They are not in the pursuit of truth, that is not what the court establishes. If a litigator is on the receiving end of public outrage for things like the absolutely insane assertions by the prosecution, they take it as credit for doing their job. This professional contempt for truth and principle outside the narrow constraints of legalism is what gives lawyers the reputation for being assholes, and what makes some of them insufferable when their work habits bleed into their personal lives.

The trouble in this case that I read from these updates is that the judge is clearly acting like a second prosecutor. I blame it on a generation of people who don't understand impartiality, and who see it as a weakness because they don't need to be impartial if they "know" what they are encountering. Once they have internalized the notion of history as progress, attacks on levers and institutions that can facilitate it are attacks on progress itself. They are litigating ideology, and law is just a host or vehicle. In exposing corruption in the most powerful institutions in the world, to his persecutors Assange's crimes are against progress itself, and I don't think they are capable of impartiality.
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Yes. I recall reading about a man who sold his car with Autopilot activated, and when Tesla got wind of the sale, they deactivated Autopilot on the new owner.
> And then someone invented the wireless and the record player.

Even before that, you had music halls as popular entertainment (and music hall music was indeed very formulaic, arguably more so than modern pop music).
This is somewhat of an internet axiom. All browser APIs are inconsistent. That's why web devs hate their lifes. Nowadays, it's smooth sailing, as you have about 3 browser engines to deal with. Around a decade ago, it was double that, and a load of bugs.
I can't quite parse your sentence (typo?) but I think you mean to ask whether it's possible that LinkedIn shared the PII when the user used their LinkedIn account to login to Scribd?

Doing so would in any case (I assume) violate the GDPR if LinkedIn doesn't doesn't have your informed consent for that. Perhaps their trying to weasel this under the "technically necessary" exception, but that strikes me as unlikely to hold water - at best they'd need to share some minimal token (e.g. if you sign in via google or some other auth provider, you get told what data google will share in advance, and it's possible to share fairly little).
I remember when he did this 15 years ago. He hosted fraudulently uploaded podcasts with ad-inserts. Along with his podcast network that literally stole the names from several of the biggest podcasts at the time through their Podshow Contract. This looks to be exactly the same. Scammers gonna scam.
When I was contracting a lot of my peers got forced into having a limited company as their clients didn't want to be deemed their employer.
Luckily there is still some competition in the automotive industry.

Software-wise, we already lost to monopolies of FAANG. The privileged few use Open Source and distributed sharing platforms, but the general public has little choice but pay recurrent and ever increasing fees.
It is the word "significantly" that bugs me. It is "significant" for the individuals involved, but 4000 tons is not significant to the Earth system.

Enthusiasm for carbon storage of various kinds is driven by the desperation of our situation. You've probably seen the IPCC projections to the year 2100 -- the models did not stop in 2100, rather the IPCC chooses only to show up until that point. You might look at the IPCC charts and think "easily survivable to 2100", see the curves go exactly where the eye wants to follow to 6.5 degree C in 2200. (At that point I don't think homo sap will be burning fossil fuels 'significantly')

The economics look favorable to capture carbon from a fermentation process (think an ethanol plant in Brazil) then compress it to 1500 psi and inject it into a saline aquifer. You could capture more carbon if you burned the product and captured the CO2 there but either you have to strip the CO2 from the atmospheric nitrogen in the exhaust or remove the nitrogen before burning, say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_looping_combustion

but the economics of the first option are all too well known (chemical engineers solve problems like that before breakfast) while the latter is largely undeveloped.

Despite all the talk, there has been very little implementation of the above BECCS technology even though the fermentation version did very well in trials.

Germany has managed to "generate enough renewables" to harm the economics of fossil fuel generation that fills in the gaps when the sun does not shine and the wind is not blowing. Fossil fuel methane from Russia with love. Capital costs of the associated gas turbines are low and helped to put steam-turbine dependent coal and nuclear power plants out of business. The trouble is that removing that last entrenched bit will be very hard in a world where they burn methane as the well-head.

(Nuclear power plants cannot win in terms of economics unless they ditch the steam turbine, that of course means developing a closed cycle gas turbine for nuclear use.)

Personal transport (cars) can be reformed when the feeling of crisis hits, but the development of sustainable fuels for aviation is decades behind that for cars, they are still trying to make "the right hydrocarbons" via the boondoggle Fischer-Tropsch process rather than productizing some reasonable molecule such as 1-butanol.

So hitting the braeks on CO2 output is not so easy, there is a case for carbon capture, my main concern is how you make the "apples and oranges" comparisons. Protecting rain forests is a great climate policy, but the economic value of CO2 captured by land use changes has to discount that the forest might get cut or burn up next year, that you can't measure it easily. Any kind of "carbon credit" will be colonized by Enron-style energy traders and directed towards things that look like they work as opposed to things that work.
PandaDoc was founded in Minsk, belarus, so not so much foreigners I guess?

... In 2012 company was founded by Mikita Mikado and Sergey Barysiuk in Minsk, Belarus. In 2014 company headquarters were moved to the Silicon Valley...
Curry has had a lot of success running things on donations. I wouldn't discredit this project because of its funding strategy.
From Curry's Wikipedia page:

"In late 2005 Curry was caught making anonymous edits to the Podcast Wikipedia page, deleting several sections concerning contributions made by fellow podcasting pioneers, Kevin Marks and Stephen Downes, while adding material that emphasized his own involvement with the development of the medium."

Edit: the entry goes on to quote Curry in a context where he admits performing the indicated edits.
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Part 1 and Part 2 discussed on HN previously:

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Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261948
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1. Technical topics that strike my interest. Thinking of expanding it to include other things I'm interested in.

2. Not enough.

3. Gastby.js and Netlify because it was easy to get started with.

4. http://carlchesterlloyd.com/
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From his CV[1]:

- "Professor Patton primarily teaches in USC’s Full-Time MBA Program and its Executive MBA Programs in the U.S. and China"

- "He has served as a key advisor to the Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership, a faculty member at the US-China Institute and a leader of MBA learning programs in China and Korea."

[1]: https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/gpatton/pci...
Like many commenters here I am disappointed by the lack of emphasis in this article of listening to the other side. Which is strange because at the end it concedes that it is not about winning the argument but gaining insight, valuable ideas, a sensible course.

One of the smartest ways I know to approach a discussion with insight in mind, is called steelmanning. It is the opposite of strawmanning. In strawmanning you attack altered, weakened versions of the other side's argument. In steelmanning you attack its best, most convincing version. You even seek to corroborate the argument and verify it with your opponent before attacking it. The benefit is that you genuinely have to understand the other's arguments before arguing against them.

The following blogpost explains it very well. https://themerelyreal.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/steelmanning/
Are you saying this like it's a bad thing?

Tests describing requirements acts as documentation, validation, and regression prevention with future refactors.
>>> work suggests that popular neuron models may severely underestimate the computationalpower enabled by the biological fact of nonlinear dendrites and multiple synapses per pair of neuron

Actually sounds quite significant ;)
The start of life on Earth is an event horizon we struggle to see beyond
What labels pushed on the radio did certainly feed into what people bought, though.
Why do you consider this particular number NSFW?
That would probably increase the amount of storage space people would end up buying which would greatly increase the electricity demands on the end user.

I would bet this is already the most efficient way of it working.

You can setup a proxy service to cache internet requests too, but they're getting less useful due to greater use of HTTPS.
Saying that before the Top 40 music was reduced to people singing songs badly in pubs and the few who could afford an instrument is a pretty reductive view of musical history.
If the landing page has a bunch of soft stuff like 'expands synergy' on it I am just going to assume I was not the target audience. I'm not a CEO, I'm a practitioner. Put something crunchy in there. Sorry you guys wasted your marketing budget on a mistargeted ad lmao.
IP lookup says it's hosted by a shared web host (InMotion), so the writer isn't running his own server.