skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does remove a large class of attacks, but there are still IDN homograph attacks possible with single-script domains, if they happen to use only characters that can be approximated in another script without mixing scripts. For example, if you registered να.eu ('να!' is a Greek interjection), you could be spoofed by the Latin va.eu.

ICANN's approach goes a step further and disallows registering a new domain if it is confusingly similar to an already registered domain. To allow that to be checked automatically, they use a set of quasi-equivalent pairs (e.g. Greek 'α' <-> Latin 'a') to determine what counts as confusing similar.
If it was this easy, google should take a survey in asia and redraw the map of every country there. A map of India with Line of Control with Kashmir and Line of Actual control with China as real borders should permanently resolve the issues between three nuclear armed nations.

There is more. The island between Japan and China. The island between Russia and Japan. Also for Sri Lanka create a map of Tamil nation with Jaffna as capital. And Taiwan..

Wish it was so easy...
You just conjured up imagery of the Pangu and Tai Yong Medical from Deus Ex: Human Revolution in my mind. Lower Hengsha is indeed a place I would rather not live :) I think more people could do with reading, watching, and playing dystopic sci-fi media. Keeps everyone cognizant of the fact that technological advancement isn't an inherently good thing.
Left 4 Dead 2 is released for Linux
Let's see if I can knock together "paypal" out of Cyrillic...

раура

The hard part is the "L," which you can sort-of fake with a 1.

раура1.bg

The "one-script" idea is better than nothing, but it's far from complete. For any two European scripts, the overlap of shared characters is substantial. Some domains will have good protection, and others nothing at all.

[edit] Oh, here's a better one:

раур.al

This one abuses the Albanian top-level domain to look like a cute shortened version. Albania has a small population of native Russian- and Bulgarian-speakers who would have legitimate cause for using a Cyrillic-script domain.
So how exactly does someone register a domain name like this?
YouTube of a similar experiment - "The Works" cleaner with HCl + aluminum foil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgDhizxCeIY&feature=youtu...

The same DA didn't press charges against a kid who shot his brother dead with a BB gun. Not saying there should have been charges in that case, just highlights the absurdity of felony charges for a soda bottle bomb.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57582808-71/expelled-girls...
There is a cool system called ConXTech that uses robots to make big chunks of buildings that can be assembled on site with far less work than conventional steel-frame construction.

Think of it as a lego type snap-together system

http://www.conxtech.com/conx-system/manufacturing/
Show HN: Number Canvas - A modern calculator
There's an interesting idea in "Accelerando" that supertech civilizations would value "novelty" the way we [once] valued gold and Bitcoin values rare prime numbers, and it's hard to imagine a better source of novelty than an alien civilization.

Now - that doesn't address the virtuality thing, but I've a friend with a compelling take on that: If we're assuming that any sufficiently advanced civilization would rather simulate us than visit us, then it's pretty reasonable they'd have more than one simulated universe. And it's pretty likely that the simulated universes would have super tech civs that start up their own simulations, causing a recursion, which in turn makes it more likely than not that we're in a simulated universe. And, if we're in a simulated universe, then we're already "in contact" with the host universe/civilization - otherwise, what's the point in the simulation in the first place?
> The world does not exist to provide you with enjoyment.

Why not?

Why does the world exist in your opinion?
In my opinion there is no reason, at least none of which we are able to understand.

So why not make the best out of our time here?

An enjoyable working place is especially important, because this is where we spend most of our time.

> If you can make a living doing what you love to do, like many of us here, that's a fantastic added bonus but realize -- it isn't the nature of life to be able to do what you enjoy 24/7 (or 8/5).

Demanding this from others is one thing, doing this yourself is another one.

There were multiple stages in my life where I had to do work that I did not see a sense in and they always made me depressed and I didn't really do a good job at them even though I tried really hard.

Now I do what I love and I am really good at it. That this is computer science (something that is considered valuable at this specific place in time) is a complete coincidence.
Thanks! Not sure how you fixed it (or how you know its fixed) but if you're an admin, I'd love to know why anything I submit is automatically 'dead'. Email is aashayk@umich.edu, thanks again :)
Decentralization boosts miners' profits by making bitcoin sounder, and therefore making its price higher.

Miner's profits have to do with the stability of the network and the demand for bitcoins. At high bitcoin prices, their return is better than when the prices are low, other things (thing, mining difficulty) being equal. It's much like gold mining: it has become much more profitable of late because the difference between extraction price ($250 to $400 per ounce in most places) and sale price (roughly $1,500 per ounce) is how much the miner takes home.

Decentralization increases this price because it makes bitcoin sound. If there's no one door to knock down, or one person to subpoena, the cyberpunk currency can robustly survive losses in its network and still have enough computing power trained on it to prevent attacks.
My favorite is http://xn--ls8h.github.com
Plastic bags, tape, broomsticks used to fix leak in San Onofre nuclear plant
Appeared on Reddit first (with link to the original video as well): http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1dm6t3/its_not_just_...
So, I've done this, but its got one pretty important caveat.

If you're using a consumer level SSD, and doing a lot of writes, be prepared for your SSD to die quickly, like possibly within 6 months. Also, when that SSD dies, it may take your ext2/3fs with it (been there, glad I had backups).

If you're thinking about RAID1-ing the SSD, also remember that since this is solid state media, they're likely to die at the same time.
I'd hardly call embedded work an extremely small niche. Now, what he's doing on them may or may not be. But microcontrollers on the whole are a much bigger industry than personal computing. You'll find many more 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers in any given house than you will Intel or AMD 32/64 bit general purpose microprocessors. Last I checked approximately half of all CPUs sold globally were 8-bit.
Thats fantastic.
I really liked the video, but come on... we are getting close to up-voting some cute puppy videos.
I think it could be an even more viable idea if they bring the costs down. I would say it is more suited to general consumers than audiophiles, and should be priced as such. From their campaign I got the idea that it is going to cost $250 retail/$175 campaign (not sure if that cost will come down). For $175ish I can buy a pretty good Polk Audio 5.1 system or something of similar quality, albeit it won't fit well in a corner. Also I wonder how easy it is to set up multiple ones as a bluetooth sound source...otherwise, I like the design!
https://github.com/mythicalprogrammer/ProjectEulerInErlang/b...

in Erlang.

Stopped at problem 3 because Erlang is not for numerical crunching... >___<
Cleverness should remain rewarded even if you must close the hole to preserve the good of the game.

Wall Street thinking. How about instead of rewarding cleverness, rewarding one's contribution to the good of the , er, "game"?
The degree of is/ought fallacy and outright naivete in your statements is truly astonishing.

> "Why do people have to adjust to the economy?
Shouldn't it be the other way around in an ideal world?"

As Darwin said, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." This has been and still is a basic truth of the world. Creatures that expect (much less demand) their environment or others to adapt to them always suffer. That's not to say that all suffering has its root here, but the economy was never "created" to do anything, especially make life easier for everybody. Economic forces emerge naturally from basic human interactions, and there is no single authority who can tweak the knobs on "the system" to change it for the betterment of everyone.

> "I would not want to spend the majority of my precious time on earth with something I do not like to do. And of course I think other people shouldn't either."

This is precisely the attitude that most older generations complain about when they belittle milennials. Many of these people worked in boring, sometimes pointless jobs to be able to pay their bills. They understood that work is called work because it is not necessarily fun. Fun is what you do when you get home from work, on your own time.

We are fortunate to live in an era where many people can find jobs that are inherently satisfying. We live in an economy that has many opportunities for creative minds and challenging problems for analytical minds. Most of these problems can be solved indoors, in an air conditioned room, without having to physically exert yourself or put yourself in any danger.

The economy will not adjust to you. The economy cares about what you have to offer it, and what you can purchase from it. It does not care what you demand from it without offering anything in return.
Well those are all similar looking, not looking exactly the same just with different Unicode code points. I don’t think it’s registrar’s job to protect users from all possible phishing attacks.

Especially since https://secure-paypal-processing-eu3.net would work just as well for most scamming purposes.
Reading about suspensions reminds me of the inerter (J-damper) [1] used in F1 racing. It was discovered by analogy with electrical circuits; it was the missing mechanical part corresponding to a capacitor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inerter_(mechanical_networks)
(2008)

Today I would just use bcache.
It took me forever to figure out what was going on in that post, because in the font Firefox displays the linked page in, '✪' renders like an 'o', so it looked like he was talking about the rather unremarkable 'odf.ws'.
Just wanted to add it is goog.editor.Field, not goog.editor.Editor. When I wrote that, I told myself "don't call it goog.editor.Editor," a typo I often make in my code. I guess it's like when people look at something and then crash their car into it. Sorry about that.
http://🍎.tk is another fun one.
Here's something few people seem to be aware of - Taiwan agrees it is part of China (aka 'One China' [1]).

While we often hear about the government in Beijing claiming the island as the sovereign territory of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), we don't hear much about the claims made by the government in Taipei that the mainland is the sovereign territory of the Republic of China (ROC).

Although both sides dispute who is the sole legitimate government of a single China, they both agree that territorially it includes the island of Taiwan. Meanwhile, a recent poll suggests that for people on the ground, opinion is divided.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy

[2] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/04/30/2...
Very professional -- this should be a model for how to handle and report such outages. There is a lot of procedural machinery happening to even get to this state, i.e. monitoring, a change management system (who did what, and when), troubleshooting and escalation, deploying a fix and verifying that it worked. They do not gloss over the fact that this jumped QA!
Great job, Google API Infrastructure team! Communication is key. Now if only everyone did this...
Ratchet Vine: A Ratchet template that attempts to recreat the beautiful Vine app
Kiera Wilmot’s School Expulsion Is Racist
How about an alternative ? Actually visit Africa. Look at what UNICEF is doing there and how. Never give a dime to them again and know you're doing the world a favour. Visit New York, see where most of UNICEF's money is being spent and how, talk to them if you can. Note the car they're driving, ask who their dad is, and where they live. Suppress the feeling to shoot them.

Give to an organization that isn't focused on money and would never in a million years pay off dictators, doesn't use external people/materials to build it's buildings, teaches local people instead of handing out stuff, builds hospitals, actually maintains contact, and is extremely, extremely reluctant to just solve problems with money. Frankly, give to the church (one of the big ones), if you want to help African children. And yes I've seen the luxury of the Vatican, the luxury the pope is surrounded with, it's not enough to get my blood boiling, and most people there are actually dedicated to either the museums or communication with the churches around the world - both of which I find worthy causes.

UNICEF - giving money to dictators if they hurt children. And a cushy job to the kids of their posse.
Google's Ray Kurzweil on the computers that will live in our brains
Call me a luddite, but I found these 2030 comments from Ray Kurzweil extremely disturbing.
Those areas are tech hubs. I've lived in Silicon Valley for 18 years, and most companies I've worked for are about half engineering. So, for every foreign engineer we bring in, perhaps the company can add one position on the other side of the house, in marketing, accounting, HR, etc. And then some small trickle-down effect as the engineer and his counterpart spend their salaries locally. It's good, better than nothing, but it's not like the old days of setting up a car factory and then bringing in thousands of relatively low-skilled new jobs.

The Halo example is good, but balance it out with things like Google's self driving cars. It's a relatively small team that will probably eliminate all of the taxi and truck driving jobs in the developed world. It will probably make vehicle sharing radically more efficient as well which will take a lot of cars off the road and eliminate more jobs there too.

All in all, I believe we're competing with foreign engineers no matter where they are so it makes sense to have them here. I'm just not seeing much evidence that we are creating jobs faster than we are eliminating them.
Ira Remsen:

While reading in a textbook of chemistry, ... I came across the statement, 'nitric acid acts upon copper.' I was getting tired of reading such absurd stuff and I determined to see what this meant. Copper was more or less familiar to me, for copper cents were then in use. I had seen a bottle marked 'nitric acid' on a table in the doctor's office where I was then 'doing time.' I did not know its peculiarities, but I was getting on and likely to learn. The spirit of adventure was upon me. Having nitric acid and copper, I had only to learn what the words 'act upon' meant... I put one of them [cent] on the table, opened the bottle marked 'nitric acid'; poured some of the liquid on the copper; and prepared to make an observation. But what was this wonderful thing which I beheld? The cent was already changed, and it was no small change either. A greenish blue liquid foamed and fumed over the cent and over the table. The air in the neighborhood of the performance became colored dark red. A great colored cloud arose. This was disagreeable and suffocating—how should I stop this? I tried to get rid of the objectionable mess by picking it up and throwing it out of the window, which I had meanwhile opened. I learned another fact—nitric acid not only acts upon copper but it acts upon fingers. The pain led to another unpremeditated experiment. I drew my fingers across my trousers and another fact was discovered. Nitric acid acts upon trousers. Taking everything into consideration, that was the most impressive experiment, and, relatively, probably the most costly experiment I have ever performed.
1. Attach seats

2. Don't get rear-ended
Because the vast majority of UNICEF money comes from having friends inside governments and employing the -usually moronic- kids of foreign government officials, to give them salaries exceeding the President's pay.

Just like most worthy causes, money comes from relatively few (still hundreds to thousands in the UNICEF case) very big donors. Small donations just transfer money to banks.
Some of the subjects have shared, what looks like, their dna on Github[0]. Since this is art, I wonder what part the modeling software is doing, and what part she is doing. It's too bad she is not open-sourcing it, unless she likes you (friendware [1]).

[0] http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions/portraits.html

[1] http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions/about.html
I can't say exactly why it is, but I bet no one would have felt off-put if you had offered gift cards instead of cash. People in general will be much more comfortable taking a gift card than cash.
Cigarette That Doesn't Cause Cancer
I don't agree. There are plenty of people with money who want an urban lifestyle.
I agree. Its SO much different, and so infinitely fascinating. Every time I've made it "through" it was an utterly different world that was populated by autonomous, interacting intelligence.

I posted this because I feel it a very real possibility that our proximity to alien life has nothing to do with physical distance or resources, so to speak.
Pretty bad. It's battery powered and has a 4 inch driver in a tiny enclosure. Even with the boundary gain from being in the corner it won't be loud enough to amount to much in a space that size. You'd also have to figure out how to get it down to recharge it every 5-10 hours of use (if I were to guess).
Thats what nReduce was (http://www.nreduce.com/). Not sure if its still running.
When looking at the terminal screen shot, I can't help but think of the classic "csh considered harmful" (http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot) (Which is itself a classic "meme" before "memes" were a misused "meme").
Guild Wars 2 banned people for being clever shortly after launch. It was dumb :(
Do you read Paul Krugman at all? I cut his blog out of my information diet a while ago, but before I did, he was beating the "lack of demand" drum pretty loudly.
I agree. I think, should Glass catch on, there will be the same awkward period of time where everyone figures out the etiquette for using it.
we recently switched to MailQuatro.com, you can keep your gmail and you can also create customized email addresses at your domain
"why the hell would you be doing this at school?"

A standard American school day is about 7 hours. Sign up for a sport or debate team, or any of drama, glee, or science club, and it's nearer 9 or 10 hours. You might be doing this at school because it's where you are most of the day. Also, most schools have more open space than anything else in town but the public parks.

"She showed horrible, horrible judgement and could have actually hurt somebody."

Having once ridden to the mall down a limited-access highway with my rear on the trunk of a Datsun Z-something and my hands on its roll bar, I think I may have encountered horrible judgment before. Jon Bentley's "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" column in CACM (collected in Programming Pearls quoted Fred Brooks: "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

By all means haul the girl into the principals office and yell at her. But a felony?
Awesome post, just did a pretend Hackathon with a friend of mine and it turned out great! Deadlines and structure really force you to work efficiently and to prioritize.
In your HN profile can you add your website/startup and twitter handle?
Not at all--the leasing company (a separate shell entity or a bank) takes the tax credit because they bought the car. This is how both of my electric vechicle leases have worked. The leasing company then passes on the savings in the form of lower lease rates.
The end of article contains "Reliability Impact" part that directly touching the topic deep enough
New Fab header brings iPad "hamburger" nav to the web
Those cute buildings are incredibly energy inefficient
Solar Impulse has started its cross-country flight
The corner of a room is probably the worst place you can put a speaker if you care about sound quality. The room resonances will be nasty.
Yes, yes, yes. What the fuck is going on with design/UX at gmail? It just becomes suckier progressively.

Yesterday I attached a document 3-4 times during the course of my writing the email because there is no way to know if a document has been attached already. But if you start uploading another document, it will list out the documents already attached. What an incredible fail. And sadly, this is a trend, not an edge case complaint.

This reeks of design-by-committee fail. It seems like an experience built on compromises to merely accommodate ideas of many different individuals even if those ideas together make the experience suckier.
Yahoo mail has tab-style tabs. And I think it's still considerably more popular than gmail. Gmail has some huge advantages, but they're all business-y stuff, like free POP. Yahoo's interface is perfectly good.
But there is. It is quite clunky, that's why they don't expose it. You must get in touch to them for instructions.

PS: Sorry for the late reply.
You can however give them a safe place.

Trying to give a "safe" place is, unfortunately, part of the problem. Instead of it being a place where kids can be helped if they get hurt, it has morphed into a (impossible) place where kids can't get hurt. Then, if something shatters that illusion, it's "off with her head!"
There are some guns for which the upper receiver is the controlled part though. FALs, SCARs, etc consider the upper the controlled part, while the FNC is in the curious position of being sometimes upper, sometimes lower, all depending on where the manufacturer decided to stamp the serial number.

In short, there's no logical reason that the lower is considered the firearm over the upper, except that's what the ATF defined it as... more reasons not to ever assume anything. :-)
If we can make guns entirely out of plastic, why haven't we seen plastic guns before?

For decades we've been able to do everything that's possible with a 3d printer with older technology injection molds, cnc mills, ect.
Pixel Press - iOS app that lets you draw your own video game
Whether to put the buttons together or at opposite ends has been an option for as long as I have been using OS X, but I don't recall the history of the default setting.

The other scrollbar-related behavior is what happens when you click on an empty part of the scroll bar. On NeXTSTEP, the scroll thumb jumps to where you clicked. On Windows, it scrolls down one page/screenfull. OS X has defaulted to the Windows behavior for at least the past several major releases.
You say that; but then you realize that a non empty set of nagios plugins monitor other monitoring systems...
i wasn't responding to your first post. I was responding to your subsequent comment that says a local unix-like nvironment on windows is not shitty and alien. Cygwin is exactly such an environment and the best of its ilk. I claim Cygwin is shitty and alien.
Shoot someone with bullets?

Perhaps you're thinking of a zip gun as something that shoots rubber bands, but what you'd do is fashion a firing pin out of the smaller cigar holder and plunge it into the larger cigar holder to make the bullet come out the other end, or any variation on those mechanics.

Edit: http://www.howtomakeonline.org/IYUgBMoneysA7DfH/MACEs-Homema...
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