skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the registration of new TLDs be like a modern Gold Rush?
With the first TLDs there was no rush b/c not many foresaw that brokering 'hot domains' like buycars.com, registered (and renewed) for $10/year, could later turn into huge earnings. Now is different. I'd argue that a concise self-described domain is half the sales pitch - and a big weight in SEO. So, say I want to register buy.cars, do I pre-order with a registrar and trust they'll get it for me? Do I camp-out the night before, be ready to hit submit when 'cars' is out and hope my post hits the database first?

I understand the rush of the 49ers, after all gold is a natural and scarce resource; so are words and the possible combinations of them. However, having a corporation (funny, uh?) decide what words can be used and who can process registrations is yet another modern case of artificial scarcity.

I imagine that artificial scarcity was invented by a greedy bastard who needed to figure out how to pack and sell air!

So, enough with the 'best interest' or 'keep things organized' bull shit:

I.want.my.own.fucking.domain.now!

Do.you?
> Comonads tend to well represent a notion of computing where you're isolating a particular section of your data in relation to its context.

This was the piece missing for me to understand comonads, worded exactly the way I needed. Thank you.

The author mentioned zippers, but for some reason I didn't quite get it (`a collection with one of the items being at the focus,` perhaps it sounded too specific for me at first)
Require is a service locator, so you are getting some of the inversion of control benefits, but I greatly prefer the injections of the dependencies I need instead of relying on a locator.

In practice the DI approach is very nice, and works consistently. It also makes unit tests more straight forward.
That's actually a common logical fallacy that is often used to deceive observers. The truth stands alone, just like the cheese.
> I fear this generation's war will soon be upon us.

At IO 2013 I saw someone leaving the Angular session.

I did a double-take.

His name badge: Kyle Reese.
Probably the simplest approach that lets you do local dev is VirtualBox + Vagrant + an Ubuntu box. This combination shouldn't take a great deal of time to setup (10-20 minutes + download time), is pretty much zero cost and means you can use the laptop that you currently have.

If you can do remote dev, then a cheap VPS might make sense, however this means that you need to be learning somewhere with 'net access.
I bet Comcast is loving this.
I've been wondering about the point of APNG lately.

1. The gif patents are expired. So that whole drama is done.

2. If you want more colors, couldn't you just do a doublesize dithered gif, display at half size and let the browser pixel averaging algorithm take care of the rest?

3. Would the above result in much larger files than APNG? i don't know, maybe that's the clincher.

4. APNG does not provide any additional API advantage over GIF. I still can't control when it plays, how fast it plays, or easily provide the ability to replay it (without going round the long, glitchy looking way by forcing a reload of it)

Incidentally, you know what does provide a pretty good and well supported javascript api? This is going to sound weird, but you can make just a plain PNG image strip, wrap an img tag in a marquee tag, and get full control over how it works, with universal browser support[1] : Play, pause, stop, rewind, speed, looping, etc. etc.

[1]:Except for bloody webkit, in which recent versions have changed the behaviour of the marquee tag with relation to other browsers for some fucking reason. :(
Web/Mobile Development

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Win7 in VMware (For IE, Photoshop, and Office). Vagrant for local servers.

Editors: Sublime Text 3 for local and vim for anything remote. Eclipse if Android (only because Android Studio is too buggy to use).

Misc: Git for Source Control and grunt for the tedious stuff.

Whenever I do
Probably about 3 years ago.
Youtube page title now has play button while playing
That's what it means to be an ideologue - willingness to die for your values. Don't be ashamed about your decisions, a strong sense of self-preservation is perfectly natural.
Design for Failure: Processing Payments with a Background Worker
I'm a django expert and I've built dozen of projects with it. So it would be hypocrite of me to tell you not to learn it. On the other hand, when I first started learning it, it was a young framework not well known (PHP was still hot.. Rails and Django developers were the hipsters of the web on the edge of technology ;-)

I'm pretty happy about my choice to be on the edge as when it got mainstream, I was already very proficient with it. So, in that sense, I think I'd still suggest you to pick a more edgy framework.. say Node with Angular (or ember).
Re: Heroku, free > not-free
4GB is unnecessary for small apps that aren't doing alot.
Managing a VPS takes non-zero time, heroku takes as close to zero time as required.
Your use case sounds different though, hence you're probably not missing anything.
What do you mean by "dominance"?
Companies can't self-police. But other people - that care about what companies do - can find out what they do. Just as politician's affairs are found out, for example. So your claim that government coercion is necessary to either find out the information or disseminate it is obviously false - there are existing systems for doing both, and they work quire well - at least, not worse than government ones - where they are applied.
Are all Drones so loud? Is there any possible way to make the quieter? Even silent? Looking through the videos and reading a bit it sounds like an issue is with the gears or motor producing the majority of the sound.
Eyewitness Records Santa Ana Officer Shoot, Kill Unarmed Homeless Man
This sounds very interesting. I guess the only reason there has been no adoption of thunderbolt is just the silly license rent seeking Intel tries to pull on the interface, a lot like firewire.
Many who voted for him bought into the rhetoric of change and even some "hope". He has brought things in Iraq to a close, a plus. However, domestically, he has been Bush++ and even amplified the crackdown on whistleblowers. Eric Holder, in some ways, makes John Ashcroft look quaint.
the biggest problem angularjs solves for me is boilerplate code and easier testable code.
Now if University research could not be patented, we'd be getting somewhere ...
Yes there are a bunch of tremendously expensive external PCI card cages that cost $200 per slot and which are attached to your computer with $99 cables.
So it sucks to be middle class in SF.
While Digital Ocean is great, it isn't really a fit if you're considering running on your own bare metal server (especially for things like an actually loaded database server).
The Apple Thunderbolt Display is a nice docking station solution: video, audio, USB and Ethernet all running over one cable. And if you have two displays, you can daisy chain them and still only have one cable connected to our laptop.
It must be, especially considering the data is cached in many different countries with varying degrees of oversight.
> When you say, deny, to me the user must go to their browser settings and set it manually?

AFAIK:
Safari does not expose a setting for this (but I didn't look).
Chrome uses Chrome app/extension permissions to control this setting.
I'm not sure how Firefox does it.

> If so, what bearing does that have on what we're discussing?

You asked "Is there a way to trigger the copy, cut, and paste events?". You don't need to trigger them in this case since the browser automatically fires them when the user invokes the corresponding edit action.

> As for setting the clipboard data, I have seen no way of setting that through the copy, paste or cut events.

Here is a quick sample that works in everything except IE. I'm too impatient to figure out why it doesn't work in IE but http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh772145(v=vs.85).as... provides IE-centric documentation.
database quality machine (RAID-10 with BBU, SSDs, and lots of RAM)

they're not talking about machines of that caliber.
As someone who has equipment there, I agree. Its not a datacenter. However the pricing is not bad, so its a real get what you pay for.
I wonder how long until they put a NSA rootkit in it.
No offense taken. I did find that my "model" code was basically the same as the viewmodel. I'm not sure how much that matters or how hard it will be to change, hence "maybe I'll learn better".
He's ramped up his efforts working against Australia's NBN because it's a threat to his pay TV network Foxtel.
First of all, in many cases this requires that such entities have interior access. If you can't inspect facilities but only the end product, you become very limited in what you can do.

Secondly, even then, all you can do is disseminate information. You can't enforce anything; you can only try to convince people to vote with their feet.
If Freedom Hosting was compromised by the Feds, why is he still arrested? That points to his cooperation, when the alternative would be that the Feds did this themselves, but certainly thats not legal, now is it?
> Also note that no. 1 is Shanghai (why not "China", I wonder?)

1) Shanghai is a very developed part of China (along with Beijing, and a few other big cities).

2) I'm pretty sure they rigged it. There's various ways the teachers could have rigged the test, and I doubt there was any effort by the local schooling system to keep them honest.
also, seemingly everyone neglects to calculate these comparisons based on EC2's reserved (heavy utilization) pricing.

this brings the hard costs much closer. (but doesn't close the gap entirely.)
I realize this marks me a failure as a hacker and a human being, but JavaScript is not my native tongue and Google Translate doesn't seem to have an option for it. Could someone please post some actual news about...whatever is happening?
Normal web pages can't trigger copy/cut/paste events. They can access the clipboard via the events (which are automatically fired when the corresponding action is invoked by the user) documented in http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/clipops/.
>Finally, it takes an unpopular stance on a religious issue and asserts that programs should be documented.

Are these two different issues or one?
The letters need only illustrate the positions and be memorable. No hex is required for this purpose.

Edit: The 0x communicates that the mnemonic is illustrating base 16, so your objection below is not valid.
Exactly. As far as I can tell, you cannot connect an external monitor to a USB port and have a GPU drive it. Thunderbolt serves a different purpose than USB: it is an interface between a small number of external devices and a small number of hardware components. The fact is that it can only at this point be useful for three things: displays, drives, and Ethernet. USB is what you use when you do not have another option. It is nice since it can support almost any kind of device because the protocol is not burnt into hardware, but of course the downside is that it has to implement the host side of things in software. Anyone trying to use a "USB video card" to play an HD video will notice how much of a toll it takes on the CPU. And when the CPU is fast enough not to be bothered by a 1080p video, we will instead be talking about 3D 8k video.

Basically, it is nice that USB just got faster, but IMHO direct access to the specific hardware (disk controller, video card, etc.) will always win.
What s/he did can be perfectly natural and not imply that s/he's a worse-than-average person, but still be worthy of shame. I don't mean to be an asshole here, but it's important for all of us to recognize that normal humans (ie. we) have a capacity to do awful things if circumstances encourage it - the Stanford Prison Experiment would be a famous illustration. That's why these slides are helpful.
> generator expressions can be expressed using lazy list semantics

That does not change the fact the results are given in a certain order. Lazy list semantics means the data will be calculated as it's needed, therefore, the calculation cannot be parallelized.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4191403
I'd love to see a similar study to the Google study[1] done on power supplies. Intuitively, one would think there might be some events/environmental causes for PSU failure (like poor cooling, power spikes) -- so that the likelihood that two servers drop dead at the same time are higher than it would be if the outages were random. Now, "same time" could of course be a few hours, or even days -- giving you time to get a replacement up, before all your database servers are down.

[1] http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
President Obama Vetoes ITC Ban On iPhone, iPads; Apple Happy, Samsung Not
The article is vague on whether or not he made, or just distributed the videos. Will this open the doors to be able to catch the monsters abusing young children, or is this just a game of whack-a-mole?
So the founder of Tor Freedom is arrested and now this. Quite a coincidence. Maybe not NSA, but probably some kind of government agency. I think the best bet people can make these days is to assume that government is guilty and means to do nasty things - until proven otherwise.
The EFF's CFAA reform letter. They had folks in the room to gather paper signatures from attendees, and remote folks will eventually get a chance to sign electronically.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/letter?utm_source=twit...
Thanks. Still my favorite game ever.
Not legal, haha. "Not legal" is a concept invented for the rest of the society and it means nothing to Feds. Source: NSA revelations.
40-50k a year is well under a poverty income in most urban areas in the US. What we pay teachers is abysmal, and the not surprising result is that many of our teachers are also abysmal.
I'm not sure, but several guesses:
1) The clipboard APIs aren't well known.
2) You can't normally set HTML content in the clipboard with IE since it only supports 'Text' and 'URL' types (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536744(v=vs.85).as...).
3) The IE interface (via window.clipboardData) might trigger an infobar. I didn't really test this though.
Denying file hosting to abusers is valuable even if no abusers are caught. Impeding the ability to sell child porn makes it harder to make money off it, which reduces the impetus to create new material.

But yeah, the article is hideously vague. The Reddit link implies that the guy knowingly allowed kiddie-porn purveyors to host with him even after being alerted. If that's true, fuck 'im, let him rot. I'd like to get some more solid sources, though.
Education in the business school or the real world
Some folks I know working on the technical side refer to this iteration as Ludicrous Speed seeing as the naming has gotten so convoluted.
Why is this on the front page? I really couldn't care less about some boring civil issue.
I'd say correct answer almost always is to leave quietly. Let's leave doing immoral things to immoral people and let's hope their employers starve due to elevated fees.

Also if you live in US you should always put your own safety in the first place. US justice system becomes most significant threat to capable citizens.
I wonder how/whether safe harbor will apply.
Sure but they never will. ESPN makes $5 per cable subscriber in the US regardless of whether you watch it or not. You think your model works better for them?

BTW 90% of my US sports are not done on ESPN. Of the 4 major sports they only do a few select games.
Endian-ness changes when the base changes. For a clear explanation, actual hex is needed.
Renting it, as opposed to just listing it.
Meat, Metal, Code
Of course you can take the plot outline and rewrite the story without copyright infringement. Copyright infringement applies when reusing the actual author's writing.
Actually I think the bar for safe motorsports events is far higher than public roads. Nürburgring is considered one of the most dangerous and deadly courses to race on and it has had 68 fatalities since 1928. Per mile driven I believe that is probably an order or two of magnitude below the fatality rate of most highways, let alone ones that have been around since the 30s.
It's possible to predict bubble-induced crashes in advance, to getting the timing right can be difficult. There were those who predicted the 1929 stock market crash, the dot-com bust, the 2007 housing bubble crash, and many other bubbles. The precise timing depends however on specific events, including but not limited to crowd psychology, and the triggers may not be known for years (for example: what caused mortgages to dry up suddenly in 2007).

As Jeffrey Reuben has pointed out, all but one of the post-WWII recessions in the US was preceded by an oil price rise. Including the 2008 recession.

Agreed that microeconomics (mostly) works better than macro, though it too has its issues.
In other news oxygen has been banned from distribution due to child pornographers utilizing it while producing child pornography. Environmentalists across the world cry foul as vast swaths of forests are slashed and burned in an effort to control oxygen production.

Conservationists have been branded "supporters" of child pornography, and incidentally the logging industry has seen its largest growth ever and jobs are plentiful.
Software Engineer (Web developer)
OS: Windows 8
IDE: Visual Studio 2012
Stack: C#, Asp.net MVC 4, Sql Server 2012, JavaScript (jQuery, jQuery UI, Kendo UI) and Google Maps.
Source control: TFS 2012
To clarify this now that I'm not on my phone, folds may not express termination by themselves, they depend upon the type that they're folding up. More formally, folds are catamorphisms which operate on data, but you often need to use codata to generate the structures to fold over.
I'm glad!

Duality is your best friend when trying to understand nice concepts like monads and comonads. You automatically get two chances to examine every topic.
A byte is not a byte if its value exceeds 255.
http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1jmrta/founder_of_th...

TL;DR Your analogy is broken. Go fix.

Edit; Apparently the person in question was aware.
If he truly wants to be Mr. Overachiever, then starting a company is probably more meaningful than working harder at his current job.
COBRA, from my understanding, doesn't give anyone a free ride. It just means that the former employee has to pay the costs themselves:

COBRA does not, unlike other federal statutes such as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), require the employer to pay for the cost of providing continuation coverage. Instead it allows employees and their dependents to maintain coverage at their own expense by paying the full cost of the premium the employer and the employee previously paid, plus up to a 2% administrative charge (50% for the latter 11 months under the disability extension).
I was looking for this today, and was surprised that I couldn't find one. Wish you luck and speed, because I need some dental work done and never have any idea where I should take vacations.
Seems like it's not worth the liability - much more to lose.
Show HN: Startup MVP
Hey HN,

Thinking of pursuing this if it can get some traction. Right now it's super early, just starte yesterday, so any and all advice/critiques welcome. Thanks in advance. The startup is at http://lindavista.tv
>I might have been branded as a coward

If you have an ethical choice to make, consider the reaction of your esteemed colleagues (get counsel if you feel you can), not that of the mainstream news. The general support for those such as Snowden and Manning among my peers would prove that indeed they are held in high regard among those to whom it matters. The decision you made was your decision and you should not curse yourself for it but learn from it and support those who did make decisions to release materials and information.
link: http://lindavista.tv
Ok but what am I going to use this data-binding for? Ensuring that nobody will ever have to (GASP) click a "calculate" button? I mean what am I supposed to use this for?
The future of advertising agencies
I think it is worth thinking about the idea that whatever your particular moral framework is it should not be about 'making a difference' but making the most effective difference you can. Actually if you hold something to be important you should want to do the most that you can. Exceedingly often what this means is doing something different to the majority of people. Often this goes against conventional wisdom.
I don't understand the equivalence. People who are opposed to violence are less harmful than people who are not, regardless of how "crazy" you consider their beliefs.
I read a while back that the US hospitals charge foreign medical tourists competitive rates. But getting that rate as an American is another matter since the hospitals make so much with their standard rates.
> Denying file hosting to abusers is valuable even if no abusers are caught.

Yeah. It works so well for drugs. They give out harsh punishments to the drug users to reduce the market for drugs.

This just raises the price and number of providers grows because with elevated price as a provider you can earn much more per unit and your risk and cost of providing unit haven't changed.

If they were actually serious about fighting child abuse they'd make distribution of child abuse photos legal, drive down the price of it to the bottom and use supple info to track the people who actually abuse children instead of the people who are just sick in the head in a way that makes them like looking at abused children.
Web Development

Language/Framework: Ruby, Rails

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Editors: vim with Terminal (Bash), geany (sometimes)

Services: Github, Bitbucket, Digital Ocean
Please don't blindly copy paste from reddit without at least making it applicable to what the parent comment actually said. They didn't say anything about camera makers.
boilerplate to do what?
Kungfu clock
Interesting. Freedom Hosting had been a target of Anonymous' Operation Darknet from the beginning--they're well-known for refusing to take down exploitative sites. Operation Darknet is, itself, a pretty interesting phenomenon: Anonymous hacks onion sites, then hands over user information to the FBI for investigation. Anonymous does what the FBI legally can't, and in exchange they're not prosecuted for it. I can't find the article now, but I recall reading an interview with an FBI agent in Wired or Ars or some such where he described the anons as "Internet Superheroes". (sic)

That, in and of itself, is kind of curious. Curiouser? One of the original Op Darknet principals was Sabu. You may remember him as the hacker the FBI rolled and got to bust up LulzSec. Sabu was turned by the FBI on June 7th, 2011.[1] Operation Darknet began several months later, in October, 2011.[2]

The obvious question, then, is this: Did the FBI use Sabu to entice Anons into attacking child porn networks, thereby evading the laws against them doing it themselves? Did they use the fact they turned a well-known hacktivist to help them deal with criminals they lacked the legal tools to go after? Is this arrest the culmination of those efforts?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_(hacktivist)

[2] http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/anonymous-at...
TL;DR: fuck taxi drivers and public transportation?
Despite that being a xeon, the SP series do NOT use ECC ram. I specifically asked them about that that not long ago, after noticing that the details listed ECC ram for the EG server class and above, but didn't mention ECC for the SP series.