skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Domainers, where do you park your domains?
if you use the default of your registrar (godaddy, etc) please say so, if you've gone through the trouble of changing it i'd love to hear from you.
What about a browser extension, where you enter some api key, before you can use it.
They don't want you to think in terms of "fully utilizing" the vacation days available to you, like you're squeezing vacation days out of the system, trying to take all you can. Take what you need to be happy and productive, then come back. I'm guessing they know this is tricky, even for people trying to be honest, and are trying to make it work anyway.
Maybe I'm getting old (closing on 30) and nostalgic but the new generation of Waterloo students are making me proud and seem to be going further than my classes.

Although, I'm also gaining a little pride myself. I did was a research assistant at CTN and built the first UI tool for building the brain model. And I just joined Facebook and had the Waterloo students win the hackathon next door on my second week :)
Any idea what tech is behind this? I mean something for selection and preview generation like https://www.foldable.me/foldables/new.
Poll: How much of your day-to-day work involves design?
None. I'm primarily a backend developer.
I'm a frontend developer who mostly implements someone else's mockups and design.
I'm a frontend developer who mostly creates and implements my own mockups and design.
I primarily design and do little actual programming.
In server-side JavaScript, you'd typically have easy access to non-JS crypto libraries. In node, you have the crypto package, which is a thin wrapper around OpenSSL. In Rhino, you can use Java libraries like Bouncy Castle. And so on.
Ha, can't crack mine it's ''
Show HN: Slogan of a CS Hacker
Show HN: Find and Post interesting activities around the world
www.tellstreet.com
Please give your honest opinion of the product.

We were working on tellStreet for few months. Our IOS app is ready and is waiting for Apple's blessing.

TellStreet shows you all the activities(not big events, but small quick events) happening right now or in the past/future at any location. You are looking for that extra player to join your game in the park now? for a buddy to play video games at home? You found an awesome deal in a local store and want to tell others about it? You want to quickly pull python experts around to hack a weekend project? What ever be the case, tell others what you are doing and and join interesting activities around you.
Finding activities is very snappy using a map interface and creating is fun too. For now, we are pulling data from meetup to get you started. Checkout and Please leave your feedback.
I agree. Without the description, I would have thought it was a site to book cheap flights/travel. That being said, as a grad student myself and having paid thousands out of pocket over the course of my educational career for books, this looks like it will be a great resource. Come to UConn! BTW, your layout looks great; don't worry about it!
I can not agree more with you. The author just has no clue on memory management. He is imaging that the virtual memory model can solve all cache pains.
The reality is much painful.
Like the concept, but I too am a bit confused. I appreciate it's not properly working atm. Maybe focus on news or some other domain where geography particularly matters. I think it's a step away from Alpha yet, but interested to see where it goes.

PS Like the logo, hate the name. Keep iterating that!
What's your VoIP set up? I messed with sip sorcery and sipgate paired with google voice back in the day right after gizmo5 went dark, but it was a nightmare to set up and the lag made it difficult to use.
One of the issues I find with Twitter is the increasing amount to which it (like all channels) is used for commercial messages and notifications; when spammy @-replies and stream tweets started outweighing those from genuine people I wanted to interact with, my usage coincidentally dropped. Email's just as bad, no matter how much I unsubscribe my inbox still feels far more full of robots than humans.
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For (1), from a young company's perspective, I've found it much easier to communicate and steer in the same direction when a teammate on a project is in the same room. As another person pointed out, face-to-face collaboration is vital at the growth stage.

As for (2), I sort of telecommute (work from a cafe or public place) sometimes when I need to work on an individual task that requires some creativity or sustained concentration. Changing my physical environment from time to time also seems to help stimulate creative juices. During those times, the office environment can be detrimental.
Because it is Gmail?
Ask HN: Are convertible notes going to get called?
Given the pending Series A apocalypse, are convertible notes going to get called?

Let's say a company wants to raise more funds at the 18 month mark but can't, and the note is due. Assuming they are not ready to go belly up (they have some cash flowing in, but maybe not enough to support themselves AND pay off the note), would the angel investors try and call the note in?

Or, what if the founders simply decide that they do not want to not do a series A and instead choose to continue on for another year after the note is due (and they have the cash to do so)? What then?

I can think of a couple other scenarios, but you get the idea. Just wondering if anyone has experience with convertible notes getting called or thinks they will be down the road. Thanks!
Linux made a choice: the choice of what the default should be (3G/1G).
Most such clauses are unenforceable at the end of the day, but it doesn't make it any more fun to fight the fight, against an organization that has far more resources and a lot less to use.
You might also be interested in SipHash, a cryptographic MAC that's fast enough to use in hash tables. If you want to avoid those denial of service attacks, it's a good candidate.

https://www.131002.net/siphash/
Thanks I appreciate the thoughts.

1. Sorry, I should have explained that the geotag function and search are not functional in this demo, this is more of a landing page.

2. This issue goes to the demo itself, when the thumbnail is clicked the video would not play there rather the GE would zoom to the video geotag and the video would play inside the GE UI. If you are so inclined this function can be demoed here: http://www.solitaireinfosys.com/demo/will_brown/test/

Note there are 4 geotags uploaded in India, and you have to zoom in to GE just a little before the video geotags appear and here all 4 icons are default "x" but will be the @user profile pic.

3. Thank you. My immediate thoughts are: a. news - click a news channel profile and see only their news videos across globe or a local as you like; b. events - zoom in on protest sites to see user generated content, or zoom in on stadiums to see videos of sports or concerts.
Current share price is about $20. So for the $6 billion you retire 300 million shares. There are about 5 billion total shares outstanding so you retire 6% of your shares.

Effective interest rate on the $6 billion in bonds is approx. 2.4%. The stocks dividend is 0.90 cents per share which equals a dividend yield of 4.6% .

Think of it as a small company where you own 94% of the company and a partner who has a 6% share of your company. You can take out a loan for $100k and pay 2.4% ($2,400 per year) to the bank. or keep paying him a dividend (his share of earnings) at $4,600 per year. Kind of a no-brainer in terms of immediate cash flow. Plus after 10 years when you've paid off the loan you now own 100% of your company.

When you think of it that way it's really a slam dunk for Intel.

For Intel, their cash flow for 2011 was approx. $20 billion so they can obviously afford to pay back the loan.
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"I felt completely at peace about it as I deleted all my social media apps off my phone, laptop, and iPad."

I had that same feeling when I stopped watching TV and then later, when I switched to GNU/Linux. Both felt like very much like stepping off a treadmill for me.
Agreed on that. HTML e-mails are a pain to view!
Making things with Math (video)
>both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text

What?! (That doesn't seem right...?)
Or just visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and set your options to html5 all the thing.
Salesforce owns Heroku, and we leverage that relationship where it makes sense. Other than that, Heroku operates independently of Salesforce, which is how both sides want it to be.

We have our own office, we're keeping our brand, and we operate the business as we see fit.

We're 2 years into the acquisition with no signs of that relationship changing anytime soon.
Where do you live?... if in California they put it in contracts all the time but its void unless extremely blatant meaning you literally are stealing code or leveraging your employment to compete directly against your employer.

I used to have a very seasoned colleague who used to say you cant steal code but once you move on you can always rewrite it. In other words, the skills and expertise you learn on the job are always your own intellectual property (in California at least). Knowing his experience Im pretty sure he's done this, gone through the legal gamut, and come out fine.
nope. that doesn't work :)

even applying &html5=1 to video GET query strings doesn't work either on most videos

i took this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/GYhj4.png - which shows that html5 trial enabled still doesn't fix the issue, the only fix is the extension right now :)
good point. But the core philosophy of both of them are very different. EventBrite is for organizing big events.. if you are looking for a buddy to play video game or if you are running a garage sale, its not the platform. Meetup is pretty close though - the core philosophy is you want to plan ahead and find people of similar interests. you need to have a continuous meeting groups. Its a big overhead and not a simple taks to lets say conduct a garage sale.

I would say tellStreet is more like twitter whereas, others are more like email groups.
I think he is referring to mmap? Not entirely sure though...
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Snakes on a plane happens for real
The new Gmail update included Pinch-to-Zoom. Check it out in the Settings. Works perfectly, solves this problem quite nicely.
Here ya go: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...
Thanks for asking. Yes, its somewhat similar (IMO, as similar as facebook vs Twitter). Meetup is pretty close though - the core philosophy of meetup is you want to plan ahead and find people of similar interests. you need to have a continuous meeting groups. Its a big overhead and not a simple task to lets say conduct a garage sale or find a buddy for running around a park.

I would say tellStreet is more like twitter whereas, others are more like email groups.
So the coalition that's trying to get this put in place is comprised of authoritarian regimes like Russia, China, and Iran, and developing countries that have seen their long distance fees decline. Why not drive a wedge between those two groups? Surely there must be a way to address the concerns of developing countries without also capitulating to the anti-freedom crowd. Less palatably, but perhaps more likely, the authoritarian bloc could probably get what it wants without jeopardizing the competitiveness of US firms.
Meeker says we have the biggest peacetime discrepancy between government expenses and income in US history - except that this isn't peacetime; we've got active war going on in two active theaters. (For such a long time, apparently, that Wired has forgotten it entirely.)

So why should I believe anything else she has to say?
> One of the wonderful things about 64 bit address spaces? You don't ever have to re-use an address.

Never say never. Current x86-64 CPUs only support 48 bits of address space, which you could scan through in under two hours on a 2.5GHz machine (at 16 bytes/cycle). 48 bits is a lot, but not infinite.

If and when it actually is 64 bits, that will be a different story. :)
Yes, but JSON is JavaScript Object Notation, not (PHP|Ruby|C#|Java|Other) Object Notation. Therefore, since JSON is a serialization of JavaScript, it recommends that you should adopt the JavaScript convention of camelCase.
The key to this all are these two things (and someone who knows more please correct me):

1) Constitutionally they (NSA) seemed to have found a loophole that states that just storing the data on the disk doesn't constitute spying|invasion of privacy. Only when someone (a human) looks at the results then it triggers all the Constitutional restrictions. Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me, but that's how they are justifying it.

2) A court subpoena or an executive "magic-Patriot-Act-Federal-Injunction whatever it is called?" when issued can apply to all the data, including historic data from the beginning of time associated with that individual. So, if they ever get a subpoena say when you are in your 50's they could legally pull all the data you generated, created, accessed since the day you were born.

Basically it is pretty obvious they are just planning on storing all the data they can. Therefore the big new data center with a 65MW power station next to it.

My hope is only that someone who is involved in this, just like this whistle-blower, will realize that this is wrong and will expose it and the public in general will start caring enough about this to turn this into a major political issues.
The article is misleading and the author has totally no clue on the complexity of user space memory management. Random on-disk virtual memory access will be a disaster if we just keep everything in so-called virtual memory without complicated cache mechanism.
Show HN: Magic Square App w/ Meteor
I've been messing around with seeing how to make interesting math games online -- this is a simple adaptation of a game I used to play with kids I taught with paper and velcro.

The interesting feature -- that it sums as you work -- only shows up once you start inputting numbers. Feedback, suggestions, and criticism welcome as I'm quite new to building for the web!
are you using chrome? have you tried multiple videos? do you have flash disabled?

edit: i've confirmed with multiple users that this extension is the only solution to chrome w/flash disabled
On compilation of C programs:

On my unremarkable but not slouchy three-year-old workstation that possesses rotational disks and about 6GB of buffer cache. This cache has not been pre-warmed either, but I can't guarantee it is totally cold. There are with compiler optimizations on, too.

$ cd ~/codes/postgres
$ make distclean
$ make -sj10
All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
247.83user 14.22system 0:46.26elapsed 566%CPU

Depending on how you count it, this is 600,000 to 1M LOC.

Let's try complete Linux compile without the drivers, via compiling user-mode linux. This is normally sufficient for debugging file systems or the memory management system (it's really a godsend for that), for example:

$ cd ~/codes/linux env ARCH=um time make -sj16
LINK linux
321.04user 23.83system 1:02.49elapsed 551%CPU

All in all, I have always found the complaints about performance and header files in C programs (note: not C++) either outmoded or unconvincing. There are plenty of legitimate problems -- including tricky issues with semantics -- involving the preprocessor, including something as simple as figuring out when it is safe to remove or reorder a header include! There's no need to imagine problems. This meme about how terrible compile times for large C programs is needs to be put out to pasture, or maybe I just need to be exposed to code bases about ten times the size and feel the need to not use incremental builds.
> Why then does every nontrivial C or C++ code base I've ever worked on take 5 or 20 or 60 minutes to compile then?

Because if you have a global.h file that 100 c files include said global.h will be tokenized, parsed and compiled 100 times, even with ifndef guards optimizations working. Along with everything global.h itself may happen to include.
Taxes. Intel can write off interest payments, whereas they can't write off dividends - if I am not mistaken.

Plus, there are other tax advantages to taking on debt.
I'll admit I don't know all that much about machine learning and statistics, but it seems like it would be pretty hard to simulate human activity in a way that was really indistinguishable (highly sporadic, with trends of connected ideas, for a start). More immediately, most people are never going to get on board with making it look like they're into "bad stuff". It's icky, and they don't think they have that much to lose.
Interestingly, the article explicitly mentions the FBI, not the NSA. But, if we were to unify them in our respective imaginations (for the purposes of discussion), they still need to have the budget for their operations supplied from somewhere. http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbi-budget-request-for-fis... - it appears as if the FBI's budget is just as rigidly controlled as any other governmental organisation. How they internally allocate the funding they receive is a different matter. To me it seems that if there is any form of oversight within the FBI, then the funding of a project of this cost/return ratio would be infeasible and therefore the project could possibly be shut down. There is the possibility that this is an exercise in propaganda and scare tactics: "We can read your emails, so don't try anything. Check out our power". However, because the internal mechanics of the FBI are necessarily not public knowledge this is all speculation and unsubstantiated opinion. But, the argument can be made that this very fact enables the FBI to get away with scare tactics. I still don't see an organisation with the real-world constraints of money being able to store the sheer volume of data that they claim to. For arguments sake, let's assume that the year-on-year rate of email generation remains uniform for the next decade. In one year, they need to have the ability to store X amount of emails. In a decade, they'll need 10X amount of storage. How are they going to store all that data?
Buybacks usually mean the company thinks their stock is underpriced.

Everyone gets this wrong.

I blame crappy financial journalism for the widespread belief that stock buybacks are supposed to increase the price of the company.

According to financial theory, a stock buyback destroys cash on hand and outstanding stock at the same time. This reduces the value of a company by EXACTLY AS MUCH as it reduces the outstanding stock. Therefore the stock price should remain unchanged to first order effects.

Therefore a stock buyback in theory is just a way of returning money to investors with different tax consequences than a dividend.

So all that you should read from "stock buyback" is, "excess cash is available to distribute to the owners".

In this case excess cash is being raised by taking on debt. But the Modigliani–Miller theorem also says that the structure of financing of a company has no correlation with its performance, so that shift should not matter much.
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Wait, how do you have a week-long "company-wide" break? Does that mean nobody is working for a whole week?
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Awesome. Alex could be Zuck 2.0. :)
> I'd feel a lot better if this article was from almost any other news site. RT is not known for being fair or balanced when it comes to anything involving the USA.

Quite the contrary. RT is pretty well balanced when it comes to USA. A lot more so than Fox or CNN say.

RT is not balanced when it comes to Russia though.
Could you elaborate on which of her predictions were wrong?
Is it unlimited vacation without salary or is it unlimited paid vacation? There is a world of difference there as to how people will behave around it.
Alternatively, the power grid itself is the SPOF, and the 65 MW power station is essentially a redundancy.
Humans are so spectacularly bad at evaluating risk that it's impossible for the safety measures to be proportionate.
So is this a valid strategy? Basically find a local coffeeshop or place of general laptoppery that lacks good wifi and hide your karma somewhere clever, and come back a day or two later after you watch the free bandwidth rack up? You'd just need to figure out a way to keep it powered, probably a battery pack or something.

I'd imagine just stashing one of these in SFO somewhere would get you a shitton of free data. (editted, misread pricing. you'd need about 60 people to get on it before you've paid for the device if it were stolen.)
> Just because someone talks about something doesn't make it the truth.

Well I don't think they made this guy up. I don't they exactly spliced the dialog to change the meaning of what he is saying. I think this guy is real. So that +1 for RT reporting on the story (the truth).
do you how does it compare to similar features offered by TrueCrypt?
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This is a story that hasn't shown itself to have legs, I think largely in part because both political parties are fully complicit, so neither are interested in driving the narrative.

So the problem is, what does it mean for the public in general to care? Or rather, what is the value of truth in a world where we have no agency?
Let's not resort to attacks on the author. Consider that this article is at least 4 years old.
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Because if we aren't nice to her she wont tell us why lower physical footprint per person is something negative rather than essential if asia is copying US lifestyle.
Why only 1% users used Google's “I'm feeling lucky”?
I appreciate the look and response. I agree it could be appealing for news videos. I will keep hacking away at it and hopefully be live 12/21/12 (just in case).

Your comment on the name I will take to heart bc I don't even call it OMMAGEO. OMMA is Eye and Geo is Earth in ancient Greek so I call it iEarth, so I might have to rethink it.
BTW, that's called the Exokernel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel

The problem with using Unix like an Exokernel, as I see it, is that Unix really doesn't want to be an Exokernel.
> and in light of their obvious and profound bias against anything in the USA

So that's a good thing then right? If they are critical they are more likely to present topics without sugar coating them? They don't have to fear American advertisers pulling adds off the air, they don't have to fear not being invited to the White House news room and having access to govt related press releases.

Now when it comes to Russia related news, that's when I found they are painting a picture completely divorced from reality.

And in general that is also true with other news media. Like Al Jazeera. They are pretty good and factual except for stuff happening in Qatar. Which is unfortunate but also expected.

> It's worth asking why no other media organization has run with this story.

I think if you read Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" book you'll get an answer to that question.
Cool, and do you have any advice for iOS developers to achieve the similar kind of success that you're having?
How about a Safari extension?