skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the quality of the names it comes up with seems pretty meh. there is a lot of room for improvement.

for example, use tricks from poetry: assonance, consonance, alternate spellings, break the provided words into syllables and return names with multiple words that overlap on the last syllable one word and the first syllable of the next, do connotation analysis
> You must verify who you are when you register a new domain name, even an international one.

Not sure how requirement to register has to do with new gTLDs - as mentioned in preceding paragraph.

Reading down a few paragraphs reveals the reference to Thick Whois. But Thick whois has been around for some gTLDs now.

That and insults thrown around makes for some poor writing and hyperbole
Ask HN: What skills for Google?
I want to work for Google as a non software engineer capacity.

What are the most important skills/experiences?

What languages/tools should I be 100% with? (SQL, etc)

Curious,
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I was going to mention that in my comment, but I refrained for a number of reasons: a) old non-symlink-aware Windows software will treat symlinks as hardlinks (by and large), b) it's very possible that hardlinks will be present in ReFS in one form or the other as Microsoft has a long history of using a dozen different names and implementations to create hardlink-like behavior over the years, and c) the only apps that can mishandle symlinks are those that were written with symlink support in mind, but they mangled it and did a bad job pulling that off - which, while very much lamentable, cannot be blamed on MS.

Honestly, any serious application that doesn't take symlinks into account in 2010s is a joke. Unfortunately, in the Windows world, there's a lot of them. Even hard-core backup applications (I've consulted for a few backup companies) mess this one up.

Hardlinks were the precursor to softlinks, in this day and age their only purpose is to let you say "I've given up on the software I use handling soft links properly," and while we can wish for such a feature, I don't think it's that bad of a decision to drop them.
I wish people would stop thinking of Kickstarter as a shop.

It's not.

The site is very clear in it's FAQ that once a project is funded, delivery of the promised perks is up to the project creator, not up to Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project#Wh...

I've seen some great projects on the site, but you have to realize that you're not buying something.

When you see a project that is developing a product, and the promised reward is one of those items, you are _not buying one of them_.

You are pledging your money to the sponsor in good faith that they will provide you with one. In effect, speculating your money on Kickstarter against the risk of the project failing after it's fully funded.

If you want to buy something, use a shop.

I actually think that Kickstarter (despite it not being in their best interests) should place an upper limit on the funding available on projects that effectively try to use Kickstarter as a shop, and dupe the public into thinking they are buying things.

There's really nothing to stop me creating a "cool laptop" shop on Kickstarter, claiming to "rebrand" macbook airs and resell them with laser etched designs for $500 each, take all the money and walk away.
Yes, but for that you would be doing something like setting up a blog on a service, or leaving anonymous comments on blogs/websites.

I would strongly support the "right" of people to leave anonymous comments on blogs. But does this provision affect that?
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That is good to know. I guess this helps catch SEO cheats with javascript
The actual contents of the QR code is the following URL:

https://accounts.google.com/sesame/uc?s=vlrPimUVe5-LGarBtJxU...

The `s` parameter is changed with every refresh, but the majority of the URL remains constant.
I did this for the first "real" job that I got and then again for a startup that I got a job with I did something similar. In the first case, the company was a few years old and the task they gave was very obviously just to gauge skills (not a real-world task). In the second, the startup was fledgling, actually the previous "main" developer wasn't getting things done and was essentially being shuffled out the door so I agreed to basically take a part of the project he was struggling with and spent a day getting it working as I was told if I could do this I would get the job. I doubt I would ever do that again but at the time it made sense because it was a step up for me and I hadn't proven myself enough yet. I would be willing to do something like the first job again, however, as I think its fair for them to give a test if its obviously not something they are using as part of their business.

For my current job, for which I'm a contractor, the only thing that I did as far as skill evaluation was take a basic language-specific evaluation test from the recruiter.
Hey there....

I think I may have found a bug - either that, or I don't understand what this site is meant to do. I searched 'media' and one of the available domains it found was 'medialounge.com'. Thinking, 'holy crap, that sounds like the kind of domain that I would like', I took a trip over to my registrar. Turns out that that domain is not actually available. Let me know if you need some system info and I can email it to you....
I think this what you are looking for:

http://www.cs.mtsu.edu/~untch/karel/
No need for SOPA to combat this kind of cybercrime. DNS takedown may slow these guys down but it would not stop anything.
Too bad they can't just use ZFS, but, NIH and all.
How is a domain name not speech? Someone might want to be anonymous if they own recoveringpedophiles.com or fucktheusa.com or ... There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be anonymous.
What you're saying is that you want everyone that sets up a domain to be required to not be anonymous. You're idea is that people that want to be anonymous should do it on someone else's forums/blog/CMS/etc (presumably someone else that is not anonymous). On the other hand, that someone that runs that forums/blog/CMS/etc is not required to accept anonymous comments or allow people to register for the forums anonymously.
I don't think the point is that the breakthrough idea of today is within the means of some real fourteen-year-old. The breakthrough idea of today is something that today's concepts, economics, and best practices are NOT well-suited to handle; otherwise it wouldn't be much of a breakthrough. The amazing thing is how quickly something has gone from the realm of obsessed genius to the realm of the mundane. It goes back to Whitehead's observation that, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

"Without thinking" is an exaggeration for some of the items in the post, but consider the problem of storing 200GB of data. "Um... on a hard drive?" "And how will you finance that?" "Gee, maybe with the money in my wallet right now? When do these questions get hard?" Shucks, hardware sure is cheap these days! Problems simply disappear from being challenges to not requiring any thought at all. The exponential increase in the power of affordable hardware may not be surprising, but to me it seems worth thinking about even though it's been normal and predictable my whole life.
But only if you have enough other deductions that you itemize your tax return. Basically everyone gets a standard deduction (i.e., 5,800 if you are single). You can either take that, or you can deduct a list of qualified expenses (for most people, this is mortgage income, property tax, and state tax). If that puts you over the standard deduction, then you deduct this amount instead. Then you can start adding on things like charitable contributions. Otherwise, if you don't have enough deductions, and you take the standard one, then you can't add anything else to it. (Some exceptions apply, consult your tax professional for advice, the above is personal commentary only and not intended to be legal tax advice).
Thanks for replying. I lived in Singapore for a year, and my experience of the place was very different from yours is, so I am interested in your perspective.

From your reply, I understand that you are running a startup in Singapore? I am particularly interested in why you find Singapore good in that regard. Apart from the low taxes, my experience of Singapore would indicate to me that it is a very difficult place for a technology startup for the following reasons (if you could refute these I would be most interested).

1. The large and ongoing diaspora of educated, intelligent engineers who find the constant censorship and nonsensical propaganda distasteful and leave for free-er pastures. Making it difficult to hire and keep technical people locally.

2. The abysmal state of internet services. I found internet to be slow, unavailable, expensive, monitored and censored.

3. Despite the low taxes, the cost of living is very high. The Lee family (through Temasek and the Government) control the supply and demand for housing and use that leverage to apply a 'rental tax' on guest workers which is a way of distributing wealth from the middle class 'migrant' workers to the local population (who receive preferential terms for loans and purchase price of Government housing. There is typically a 300 bps spread between the loan and the rental yield). Food and transport is also expensive.

4. Related to 1 & 2, the general antithetic feeling towards free speech.

5. The city is boring as hell. It has some good museums, and a couple of interesting nightspots, but generally not much goes on. Anyone doing anything interesting risks fining, caning, jailing or all three. For technical people this is a big downside.

Apart from those, there are some things I do agree with you on.
1. The city is very safe (except for Dengue fever), and very clean, something that appeals to technical people.

2. The weather is excellent if you like 28 deg Celsius @ 85% humidity 300 days of the year. (I don't, but SGP does have A/C almost everywhere.)

3. It IS a great base for travelling in SE Asia. For North Asia, I think HK is better.

And some, not so much.
1. The public transport is not particularly reliable, except in Govt. statistics. The buses are often late, are very slow and badly organised. The trains are fine as long as you don't have to change lines, then they seem to be deliberately mis-timed. I was in Singapore when the train breakdowns occurred. On the green line they did not have enough power to run the line, so they started turning the A/C off.

2. The food ranges from mediocre (and expensive) to food poisoning. How you find the food will depend on which country you arrived from. For me, it was uninspiring.

Every place has good points and bad. On balance, I personally felt that the bad outweighed the good, but there were other contributing factors to that decision. I am still curious as to why you think it is a good city for a startup.
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"Should I just make a simple website with her and show her how to do basic stuff using javascript"

I think the easiest way to learn is to take a simple page or script that already does something and change it. With that you get a little excitement that motivates you to learn further.

The classical computer learning books normally start with a "hello world" program and then move on from there.

I wouldn't go with any theory to start.
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Nope, I consider that fine. In fact I think paying to make ads go away is a fantastic business model. It doesn't matter if it's a separate app or in-app purchases in my mind.
the pitch to users probably shouldn't be the same as the pitch to investors.
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Thanks for the heads up - but you're probably right, the Ghostery user base is probably pretty well self-selected as educated on PIPA/SOPA :)
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Man, I wish you didn't mention that project. I would have been very happy spending that money on something else instead, but now that I've seen it, there is no option. :)
A gTLD has an initial price of "$185,000, with an annual fee of $25,000". Someone who wants to run a piracy website will probably opt for a cheaper domain. And anyone who can shell out tham much cash can probably afford a lawyer or some other level of indirection to hide their true identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#June_2...
I think there may be a relatively simple solution to the problem: filter the comments so that the comments of low-karma commenters initially only appear to themselves and high-karma readers. As they get upvoted, they gradually appear to lower and lower karma readers. Maybe make them initially visible to the contributor of the post or comment they are responding to as well.

This would create a self-organizing system that would rob trolls of their audience (high-karma readers would likely downvote them without response) while still encouraging newbies to post.
>Honestly, any serious application that doesn't take symlinks into account in 2010s is a joke.

I agree, but it doesn't stop me from having to use these programs where they clearly kill their competitors in terms of features or usability.

Not to start a fight but windows programs take a serious step back in ease of use (for me) vs their linux counterparts. I work from home so my home PC = my work PC.

Unfortunately I'm a massive fan of multiple displays (5 currently) in various orientations and linux epicly fails at this. I used linux as my primary OS for 7 years but finally gave up over this singular issue.
SOPA doesn't fight cybercrime! It attempted to allow US authorities to block access to people who provided counterfeit or unlicensed copywritten work. That's all.
We can take that further. If clumps of data that make up a "file" is a possession, what about the thousands of executable and library files that make up his operating system? He may not use the calculator or chess game, but his computer surely comes with that. What about every bit that make those up?

We need a clear line or this gets silly, and I think physical possessions is a clear enough line.
What does SOPA have to do with this? SOPA is meant to battle copyright and trademark infringement, not 'cybercrime' in general. Making SOPA into something that it's not isn't an effective way to fight it.
A sniper rifle would do a much better job.
I think you neglect to realize you don't need traditionally schooling to reap terrific social rewards, and indeed, from the research I read over the years when our son was growing up, social rewards were more likely to be gained by homeschooling than traditional schooling.

Our son also giggled and laughed when interacting with people, young and old, and continued to do so all the way up till he moved away to graduate school at 14. He still laughs plenty, but not as often as he did before he moved away, and I am not sure the reason for that (though I do wonder if he'd be happier had he never gone the formal education route or stayed at home longer), but am happy he at least has plenty of laughter in him.

Do some research, Pay close attention to who the unhappy 5 to 18 year olds are. As far as mental health visits, traditionally schooled people have FAR more than home educated people, and while I grant that homeschooled people might for whatever reasons be less likely to go in for mental health help, I doubt that explains the big picture as many people who become mental health patients didn't choose that path/go voluntarily. There are also far fewer prisoners who were homeschooled than traditionally educated (fewer than the general population of homeschooled people, which I realize is a very small population still itself). And homeschoolers on welfare were unheard of a decade or so ago, when I last read on the topic; not sure if that's still the case. People in the hospital or a clinician's "couch", prison, and welfare lines don't tend to be the jolliest folks around (which isn't to say they never laugh, of course).
Well, the way I see it, the reason for serious anonymity (as opposed to things like anonymity on forums like this one) is that you fear a powerful agent wants to silence the opinion/information you have to present. Like the poster above has mentioned, if you have a physical machine it's not that difficult to track it down.

I think it is more practical to post the information anonymously on a website, just as in the olden days you would post the materials anonymously to newspapers or TV stations.

If every website in the world stops accepting anonymous submissions, we are in deep do do already.
Consider another, simpler way to solve the problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473753 . Self-organizing, no extra steps required, and mostly transparent to the users.
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"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."

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"Efforts to contact members of the group for comment have been unsuccessful."

Okay okay, but what would they have said?

'Our efforts to pwn n00bs / go shopping / pay off local cops have been GREAT SUCCESS!'

'At least we're not Paypal.'
There's one thing that everyone has missed so far, and I've said it to anyone who will listen: free apps are undermining both the app store(s) and the developer. Before you brush me off as crazy, please think it through...
Bureaucracy, i know its rather generic and quite a large subject but i absolutely detest it and i feel its only purpose it to make everyones lives harder. Whether its doing the mandatory paperwork i need to do for running my company (which is always late cuz i procrastinate) or absolutely ridiculous requirements like the umpteen amount of papers and ID i have to provide to get something as simple as a Costco card.

I do recognise the government is getting gradually better at a very slow pace but it grates on me so much that i will refuse to participate in something unless i really really want it or have to do it by law.
I hate to be that guy, but really? You're suggesting that people be killed for supposedly infecting machines and spreading malware? They should be brought to justice; that's not the same as murder.
> "without onerous licenses and unreasonable disclosures of personal information clearly indicates you will have to provide verification of your identity, which in today's world is not a requirement."

Really? That's his proof that ID will be required? I must be blind, because that doesn't seem clear to me at all. In fact, it almost seems to imply the opposite of what he's saying.
In theory, you're supposed to provide accurate WHOIS information when registering a .com second level domain.

I don't like ICANN's gTLD racket, but the whole crux of their plan is that they will be doing $185,000 worth of due diligence legal research before granting it. Even if ICANN for some reason wanted not to require registration info, it's generally illegal (in the US) to transfer that kind of cash anonymously.
Ask HN: How to add "Discuss this on HN" to a blog
I'm in the process of setting up a new blog. I'd rather have the discussion all happen on hacker news rather than set up disqus or facebook comments.

I'm also not that interested in submitting all the articles myself. I'd rather just say to readers: "If you'd like to discuss this article, go to this link on Hacker News". The first person to do it would have the opportunity to add the article.

How can this been done?
When you are designing a product for Kickstarter and you show prototypes, backers will assume you have worked all the bugs out first.

Do backers on Kickstarter really assume that all the bugs will be worked out before the prototype is shown? I'm not familiar with how the community works, but would assume that the prototypes would be used to identify more bugs and design flaws, as well as elicit feedback from early users.
You are missing the point, completely. The only thing this facilitates is:

a) Companies generating blanket lawsuits
b) The government tracking who says what where

Hiding your identity has never been a problem for resourceful criminals. You either setup an company with a new name or get a proxy ('testa ferro' is the term I prefer) to do it for you.

Now, how many whistleblowers you'd think would be able to go through that just to make us (the general public) a favor? How many political dissidents would?

In other words, yours is equivalent to the argument most people brandish when talking about gun laws: "if guns were banned, then gun violence would go down!". No, it wouldn't. Those outside the law would get them in the black market, and those of us that abide to the rule of law would lose a valuable weapon (no pun intended).
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Agreed. I switched the tagline to the description from the about page.
It's makes financial sense to get someone to pay you your market value. Google knows how to give people good raises without them having to float themselves on the open market and threaten to leave. The process is transparent and well-documented.

Speaking from experience, Google's offer was lower than what I had in mind. But I couldn't find anyone else that would pay me more. That means I'm probably making the right amount of money. And the good news is, I know what I need to do to ensure that I get good raises. That's something that's never been clear to me at any other company; it was all "you did really well this year! thanks!" and then "oh sorry, no money for raises or bonuses". Google does not do that. It's the first place I've worked where I've thought, "wow, I won't have to quit in two years".

Also, you're not competing against other people, so being average is fine. To get promoted, you have to be good at your job and continually do good work. That's it. You don't have to be Guido to get promoted.
It fiddles with the AST during compilation. No reflection.
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I have not noticed this. On my team, people start showing up at 10. By 7, nearly everyone is gone. (Dinner starts at 6, so most people stay for that.) I'm at work later than that, but mostly because I only have a temporary apartment and have better food / coffee / computing equipment at work.

Ultimately, nobody monitors when you are in the office. All that matters is what you get done.
The pharma counterfeiters ARE the botnet herders ARE the credit card rings. And counterfeit drugs would have fallen under SOPA.

SOPA was a horrible idea, of course. But yes, any anti-counterfeiting laws can also be cybercrime laws.
I'm not suggesting it, but I wouldn't be upset if it happened. These people are scum in my book.
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Whoa! Try zooming on the page (command+/- or control+/-). It's like watching a caterpillar walk.
I was probably responsible for 100k of those views as I was learning Rails. Cool note: I put a question on stack, went to do a Google search seconds later, and my question (I just made) came up. Cray