skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a perfect example of how useless most of these new gTLDs are.

The majority of them (for example .camera) were created to capture address bar traffic (someone typing camera directly in and effectively bypassing Google search to become the #1 result). Since the ICANN decision to disallow dotless domains, there are only a few dozen "good" domains under .camera, so we are left with lots and lots of TLDs that will have very sparse usage and not be revenue positive for the owners.
And you get to the end and think "hey, I could have done that." One of the signs of a great teacher.
Doesnt seem to work on chrome for Android.

As soon as I type a letter, the text area seems to lose focus and the on screen keyboard disappears. Nothing appears in the search box.
The "save some money" bracket was not intended. If you can do that, great, it will give you flexibility. But the real value is in learning deeply about non-trivial problems.

And, yes, I am saying the best preparation for worthy entrepreneurship is to do something else. Using the method outlined by the blogpost, the only problems you can solve are the problems that you encounter in your everyday life. If, however, you go (for example) to nursing school, you will learn about [a] a much larger population of problems, and [b] a population of problems that are, in many cases, grievous.

We all get one crack at life. Solving silly problems is one way to spend it. Solving real problems is another.
Ask HN: Is it justified for IT organizations to fund Maoist Militant groups?
A leading Agile software consulting company founder is hiring and funding Maoists in India. The top management of India was not on board with it. They have left the company and have started a new consulting company in Bengalooru.

The founder justifies his stance by saying the Maoists are the oppressed people by the democratic government and need support. The leading Agile software consulting company has also started a new office closer to the Naxal base, in a Southern Indian city.
"taxes"

cement.email
decrease.singles
collect.pics

...I guess they kinda make sense??
I don't think this is necessarily the case. You do need to understand the idea's domain really well, but that doesn't have to be because it's something you do already. You could try to solve the problem of someone you know well, or have a cofounder who knows the problem domain better than you, or pick a market that seems underserved and learn about it until you get an idea and can make sure it's not a bad one.

There are benefits to picking something you don't already do - or rather, something that most people who start startups don't do. People naturally think the most about optimizing things they do often, and when most of them are being told to "scratch your own itch", they do even more of that. So most software startups will be about things that people who write software and found startups do a lot of, and those markets will be the most competitive. If you solve your grandmother's problems instead of your own, there's a lot less competition.
On your shoulder... <tap><tap><tap>

Come over here...

It's God, nigger! I say jump. You say "How high." Got it nigger?
Thanks for the report - I'll check it out.
hardware encryption is more difficult to audit, likely to have backdoors, etc.. djb recently posted some feedback on how to improve available instructions in x86 for doing the type of maths common in today's crypto code, which is far more useful.
So Spain's not part of Europe? They push up over 100°F there on a fairly regular basis.

0 through 100 is really just a part-time thing at best.

In °C the same thing plays out as somewhere between -40°C and 40°C where at the bottom of the scale it's really cold and at the top it's really hot.

Plus it follows the simple rule of "negative numbers mean ice outside" which is important from so many perspectives. That makes a lot more intuitive sense than "numbers under 32".
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I am a developer who recently got bugged by Audio processing / Digital Signal Processing. Putting it to use I was able to make a small whistle detection program[1]. I need to know how can I improve this program or better say, a primer on advance aspects of Audio analysis.

[1]: http://shubhamjain.github.io/whistlerr/
Good points, but I would argue that HTTPS provides little protection against this kind of access tracking.

Even if the site is HTTPS protected, a surveillance actor on the net would still be able to read the entire site, maybe to determine if the site has content worthy of tracking those who access it.

And, surveillance would still reveal that your IP address is accessing the site, and thus triggering something.

What HTTPS would protect is the specific URL path you are going after on the site, because that's in the HTTP GET which is part of the encrypted data traffic.

I guess you could say that maybe the site has some pages that are more sensitive than others, and revealing the exact URL paths you are accessing might set off a surveillance trigger that would otherwise not be noticed. But, the site in question is probably not like that.
There are contracts but no money. There's nothing to retrieve.. yet. So I'm stuck waiting for them to make money or raise.
It has nothing to do with France. Save your "Freedom Fries" outrage for something more deserving.

I think anyone, given a choice, would pick a simple, round number like 20 over something wacky like 68.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the vast majority of that 0.2% are people sitting behind corporate proxies with a fake CA cert installed and pushed out to workstations via Group Policy. A hostile (and targeted) MITM could remove or alter the JavaScript that posts the fingerprint back to the server in which case it would be very difficult to detect.

The problem with Self Signed Certs in a practical sense is that they enable a much broader range of attacks. Neither of them protect you from LEO and NSA. Neither of them protect you from the people that own and/or can run code on your PC. CA issued certs will protect you from the carder that is connected to the same public WiFi, but self signed certs wont.
cool marketing site, show us the code. back to saturday morning cartoons.
Why not? They would be the genesis of the idea, after all. It just seems bizarre to me to say that religion did not urge him to do this, which is the usual meaning of 'inspire.'
So yet again we have reason to trust Snowden's word and to further doubt official statements from the NSA.
You be the judge, but be fair about it. Does the world need more pastry chefs, or does it need more nurses? Does it need more people trying to improve on fresh strawberries, or does it need more water engineers to keep millions of people from dying of water-borne diarrheal diseases every year?

It's an easy calculation if you think big (which is what people of talent should do). If you think small, then, indeed, you can get whatever answer you want.
I will never understand the US idea of measuring solids by volume. If you recipes called for "200g of flour", then that's trivial to measure out on a scales.
> The NSA’s new discovery of written contact between me and its lawyers - after more than a year of denying any such contact existed - raises serious concerns.

^ Something Snowden says, at the start of the article
You know, the really sad part about this essay is, because the teacher doesn't know what the hell they're teaching, they miss the bigger picture. These kids have been learning-crippled. It's not just math. They're looking for a mechanical process for everything. That's a tragedy. But it's lost in some misguided rant about how math might be involved in what's going on.
On the Washington Post comments section, I feel that users "still here" and ".Morti" are shills from the NSA. One of Snowden's leaks confirmed that they do try to change viewpoints on online discussions.
> What, exactly, is it about nursing, as a whole, that
> makes the field universally superior to the measuring
> cup industry?

You lose credibility when you ask a question like this.
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As he said in the article they continue to contradict themselves. They said no communications existed - and now suddenly they have one. Why should we believe them when they say they don't have any more when they've already lied about it once?
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We made a (failed) play to get our hands on an AMD opteron devkit in order to talk about running xen on it. I did some research regarding arm64 + xen and put some notes up here http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophobia/2014/05/survey-of-xen-and-a... in case anyone is interested.
Wow…If you're asking such a dumb question you should send it to my PayPal account at mentor2@gmail !
I agree with you - and I understand the intent of your statement. Others may be inferring your sentiment too harshly. Like you, I am very tired of the great brainpower of the community, to solve simple/trivial problems that have a negligible impact on the world.

Measuring cups do make a difference - albeit proportionally smaller than say finding a way to remove society from fossil fuels. Measuring cup creation is much lower on the totem pole than, say relativity as examples.
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I built it.<p>I need to market it.<p>Can you help?

I can offer equity.
I agree. Coming right out of school, most people have only a little understanding of what real problems are. This was illustrated in an article a few days ago about "dudes, or duos of dudes, who have only recently experienced the crushing realization that their laundry is now their own responsibility, forever. Paradoxically, many of these dudes start companies that make laundry the central focus of their lives." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817895
You're assuming that people are interchangeable cogs.

They aren't.

Most pastry chefs would be incompetent and unhappy as nurses or engineers, and vice versa.
Who are the shills on HN? ;)
Pi.rate (intellectual property)
I built it.

I need to market it.

Can you help?

I can offer equity.
> > People claim that startups work you hard, I personally don’t see it. From people I’ve talked to, I’d say 50 hour weeks are average. That’s about what you see in corporate America these days.

> I think only in America would somebody say 50 hour weeks don't count as working you hard.

50 hour weeks are technically illegal in the European Union. EU Working Time Directive sets the max working week at 48 hours.
Startups are a dicey bunch, cash flow is always "in flux". With that said, tightly covering your development with staged hours AND/OR deliverables and stopping development completely when payments are missed can help alleviate some loss.
Perhaps they should just keep the archive videos for a week or a couple of days after the broadcast. That gives a window for users to download archived copies and reduces the amount of storage they need on their end. It also means that users aren't forced to generate video archives themselves, and can still rely on the service for this function. Maybe for videos that accrue a certain amount of unique views during the grace period, keep them around in a sort of "Classics" library?
Aw come on, all you have to do is let your users choose an icon of their favorite animal or sport, save that as an account preference, and show it to them while they enter their password. We don't need better certificate verification!
I've been a big fan since the days when it was free! Since I do CG as a hobby, can't afford the full version just yet. But, someday, I'd love to!
Not in our experience.
I like how God has these really buff arms... He must bench-press at least 225lb.
Oops, I missed the paragraph under the last picture. I know a few educators at a private school, and they said the hardest part is proving that the classes they already teach cover the Common Core requirements. Admittedly, they have much smaller classes than public schools.
Can't speak to the state of this on Linux, but on Windows/IIS if you "just follow the wizard" and send the generated file to your CA it will not include the key.
I'm not sure that coming from the field is a requirement to getting good ideas(in important fields).

Being able to learn subjects deeply and communicate with subject matter experts , do in depth market studies of potential customers and creating collaborations could all be good options for creation of innovations. Hell, it works quite well for academics.
Maybe. Maybe they just hold the opinions they profess. I know people who would agree with them and i'm certain they don't all work for the NSA (I live in Texas, and believe me, there are a lot of "still heres" and ".Mortis" who'd see him strung up from a lamppost as soon as look at him.)

How does one tell the difference, and does it even matter?
Yahoo did something very much like that about 5 or 6 years ago: inviting me to upload an image file, then telling me to make sure the image is present every time I log in.

I upload an image file; the next time I found myself at Yahoo's login prompt, the image file was there; the time after that, it was absent. It has not re-appeared since.

Just offering a data point: I don't know enough to have an opinion about the technique.
The article doesn't go far enough in showing the genius of the SI system (known as metric system most of the time).

The conversion factor between mechanical values in the SI system is 1.

Example:

E = F * delta_x
= m_1 * a * delta_x
= 0.5 * m_2 * v^2

Energy = 1 J
= 1 kg * m^2/s^2
= 1 N * 1 m // Force: 1 Newton applied for 1 meter distance
= 1 kg * 1 m/s^2 * 1 m // Acceleration: 1 kg accelerated at 1 m/s for a distance of 1 m
= 0.5 * 2 kg * (1 m/s)^2 // Velocity: 2 kg accelerated from stand still to 1 m/s velocity

So you can see that no magic factors popped up at any point. This is because the SI system describes the real world very well: for example mass and force are rigorously defined units and can not be used interchangeably.
He risked much more than his income - he risked (and is risking) his life.
The tech boom in Seattle is bringing in droves of successful, insufferable guys
Really nice and thanks for including Hover in the results. Since you know the domain is available, you can skip the search on our site and take the user right to the cart if you want. https://www.hover.com/shop/domain.com (replace that with the actual domain, obviously).
Your theory that the Mom's Night Out movie was panned only because critics thought it wasn't "feminist" enough can just as easily be turned around to say that the Christian audiences praised it only because the movie panders to them. All the praising user reviews I've read come from a very politically motivated and reactionary viewpoint.
Why is it so hard to find a single HD video with this line? I searched for 'football "yellow line"' and filtered only HD videos, and none in the first page actually showed some game footage with the line. The same for 'football "first down line"'.

Is there no HD footage for these events? Or do even short extracts get removed due to copyright issues?
One of the multitude of examples how law in the European Union (on average) is geared towards protecting the individual (citizen) whereas in America it seems to be geared towards the needs of the (big) corporations.
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I think the point the author makes is fundamentally correct: the correctness of answers comes from human reasoning, and is subject to discussion and debate. It's not something completely external, and education shouldn't be a game to guess what these external decrees are. As the author says, what should matter is what the student thinks is correct, not whether they think their answer will be accepted as correct.

However, the author uses language that is belittling and rude. I think that teachers who use students as an emotional outlet for their frustrations are very harmful. I would rather see the teacher find another way to get the students to see her point of view, than emotionally browbeating them.
Wow I had this professor last semester. Great guy!
Agreed, it's a long story but I have definitely learnt a lot and do business very differently now.
I hate measuring anything by volume. Life seems much easier if you just treat every liquid as 1g per ml and only ever use scales.
I think he means before he decided to leak information, when he was just voicing his concerns to his superiors.
having to serve a separate static version may soon become unnecessary.

...for the purposes of being indexed by Google.
I think the biggest problem is the high-value domains are all reserved.

e.g. "black.coffee" cannot be registered, nor can "gym.trainer", "fitness.trainer".

Despite the apparently limitless options too many "obvious" and "good" domains aren't available.
> In an ideal world all computers would ship with a native programming language, a big fat manual for users,

The Archimedes I grew up with had BBC BASIC (with its assembler) and more of the machine's user's guide was programming language manual than anything else.

python is sort-of close given it's designed as a teaching language.

many of my fellow perl hackers came from a humanities background and say they found the human-language-ness to make perl more approachable than anything else.

I wonder whether an analysis of what python and perl do and don't have in common with BASICs might help answer the question of how to make a language as accessible as possible ...
Assembling a program into machine language is simple enough that it's easy to trust someone else to get it right.

I imagine it depends on the difficulty of the problem being outsourced.
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Not sure if this is a common occurrence but I've noticed that when I search for a common one-word app name, it's really hard to find. I searched for the app, "Champion" and had to follow their iTunes link in order to view the page.

Anyway, best of luck with the pivot and I'll probably check your app out in more detail during the World Cup.
> I'm guessing you're a lot of fun at parties.

Please don't address other users this way on Hacker News. (It's a bad way to respond to provocation because it degrades the discourse further and invites worse.)
This is a little different: I'm looking for a mentor who has worked in the behavioral science / psychology field. I used to be a startup founder and software developer, but now I'm looking to combine technology with behavioral science. Also happy to chat with others who are interested. mark[at]markbao.com
I guess it depends on the user. For me, the .gallery domain was incredible as my site, MinecraftGallery.com can now use Minecraft.Gallery
>How does one tell the difference, and does it even matter?

It matters very, very, very much. The more those opinions are presented as if they were the opinions of the majority, the more people who disagree silence themselves to protect themselves from the majority.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence
It's the product prototype that's easy to build. The company itself is very hard to build (gaining traction is probably the hardest part, and you won't last long without it).
Their Alibaba investment is going to net them 20 - 30 billion. Basically what the entire Yahoo market cap is currently worth. So, in essense, investors are valuing Yahoo itself at $0.
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I think there are many topics in math that are left out because students have to train a few numerical algorithms. For example I was not at all exposed to logic in my math classes (if I was, it was very informal and only on a side note). However people would greatly benefit from this, probably even more than sucessfully calculating the shortest distanc between a line and a given point.

The additional class would have room for some algorithms as well, some graph algorithms maybe (DFS, Djikstra), maybe also Binary Search, etc. A lot of those concepts do not require extreme amounts of calculation skills but they train the mathematical mind.

We expose students in calsses on literature, geography, biology with various concepts, yet we limit contact to math on a narrow subset (roundabout requirements of an engineering college class for college-preparing courses). If you do not end up in STEM or CS, you will probably only use the rule-of-three after having left high school for 5 years.

Just discussing questions like: "You have a scale and 12 billiard balls. One is lighter than the others. How many times do you have to weigh balls until you find the lighter ball?" would be inherently beneficial to students. Students afraid of equations can work on this as well and even have fun.
I like the idea of something like 24hour retention. If you just missed a broadcast by say an hour or live in another timezone +12hours then maybe watching it later within the 24 hour grace period would be good.
Everybody complains. There's too few men. There's too many men. The men are too random. The men are too predictable.

Are there some good examples somewhere, something which someone could build something upon?
I realize that maybe there's no incentive to write anything, if everything's okay....
Given some of their arguments, part of me wonders whether such people really even understand what it is that Snowden leaked. The same could be said for a number of the loudest voices in government.
It could be a cost elimination.
Any chance you could make an option to choose which amazon to search (amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.de), I figure the API's will be the same anyway?
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Knowing what a test is going to be like is pretty useful if that test matters at all. Otherwise there is a higher chance that the people who fare well on the test will be those who happened to work more on the topics or skills which come up. I'm happy my lecturer for group theory in university let me know which of the 5+ page proofs of theorems from the course wouldn't need to be known for our exam - it wouldn't have been very good use of my time to fully internalise all of them. However they were interesting and I think it added value that they were in the course.

I think you just have an idealised picture of how tests work. In the best maths exams I have taken, you know all you could within reason about what you need to know and what will be the content of the test, and yet the questions still surprise you and cause you to think in new ways.
I think he was making a joke. Those pictures do nothing to prevent TLS MITM attacks.
My recollection was that most people also hated the storm's touchscreen and that made it a pretty big flop.
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Good to see a widgets demo on iOS. The pinch to zoom / resize & place is a little problematic. Pinching that small of an area accurately (on small screens) is more cumbersome than simply tapping twice (open / home).

Resize & place can be unpredictable. You'll notice around 0:29 when the weather icon is expanded it forces the black Settings icon off the screen to the next page.
The most interesting bits are at the bottom of the release page:

> Linux Mint 17 will receive security updates until 2019.

> Until 2016, future versions of Linux Mint will use the same package base as Linux Mint 17, making it trivial for people to upgrade.

> Until 2016, the development team won't start working on a new base and will be fully focused on this one.

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_qiana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php