skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he forces major companies to provide access to their data, that still leaves minor companies or open source projects to do what they want and therefore still leaves the bad guys with a place to hide. The only alternative is to ban encryption for all but those who agree to allow access by the government (with a warrant of course) which while possible is highly implausible given how much internet traffic is currently encrypted.
That's just it - it's impossible to social engineer a takeover of your domain, since nobody can reach a human!
Apple Watch Internal Hardware Might Be Upgradeable – Solving Huge Problem
In that case it isn't the terminal (as a terminal's job is to handle input of text, and output of text). What you need to adjust is your shell; and in the case of bash with file completion it already does equivalencies and ordering correctly for your LANG / LC_* already. Your problem is largely fixed already; it works fine on my case sensitive Linux machine and I am using the default Ubuntu bash settings.
Dethroning Godaddy is a noble act of course, but other than that I don't see any show stoppers from Google in managing domains space.

Adding support for more .bullshit TLD's that no one cares about?

Connecting to Blogger?

Yawn...
> The indie dev scene is thriving on PC.

Back when I was a console developer at EA, the ambient wisdom was that the money was falling out of (non-online) PC games in large part because of piracy.

Is that not the case? Do you happen to have numbers on what the PC game industry is like? How much of this is because of Steam?
You have to put the telecom debate in the proper historical context. It's not some sui generis issue. It's part of a broader debate about how much involvement government should have in regulating services. There was a time when the government told trucking companies how much they could charge for a shipment. The overwhelming trend since then has been to deregulate industries if possible, or replace heavy-weight regulations (rate setting, etc) with lighter-weight ones. Full-on Title II represents 1970's-style regulation that neither party wants to go back to, which is why the debate is between no action at all or "Title II with heavy forebearance."

People talk about regulating telecom like the power company, but the trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate the power companies as much as possible.

NB: The UK example is a poor one. British Telecom was originally a government entity, and was "privatized" under agreements that made clear that they would be subject to constraints. In contrast, since 1996, the telecoms have invested tens of billions of dollars in capital under the premise that the industry was deregulated.
Hey, they _have_ that picture. If there is a hash collision, then a human will look at it. (Not that hash collisions are _that_ common.)

Why would they come to your door for the stuff you store at them? :)

Edit: you mentioned lottery below. Well, waiting for a collision in the case of a good hash function is a lottery where nobody's winning for a few billion years :).
Security and convenience. It's tied to a Google Account which I already have and offers the same level of protection.
SaaS Revenue Forecaster
With any good hash function there is pretty much zero risk of this happening.
You may want to look up the age of those "virtuous" languages you listed. While it's fun to bash C, you could drive a damn yacht through the undefined behavior in Scheme. High-level languages are not immune here.
terrorism or not terrorism?
[ ] 9/11
[ ] US drone attacks
[ ] Charlie Hebdo
[ ] Pearl Harbor
[ ] Hiroshima
[ ] mugging
[ ] insult

Neither you nor I get the "right" to redefine words as we see fit after they have been defined. Invent another word. "State terrorism" could be a rather contentious term for "war" and calls into question your motives.
When I said take advantage of Title II i was referring more to the massive amounts of money solicited from state governments supposedly for telephone infrastructure upgrades or large network buildouts, as well as rights to government property under Title II.[1][2]

from the article:

>every fiber optic wire appears to be Title II." That includes fiber lines used to deliver home Internet service and the fiber lines that feed into Verizon Wireless' cell towers,

>Verizon provides Title II-regulated phone service over both copper and fiber, but the fiber network also supports FiOS Internet, TV, and the largely unregulated Digital Voice service. Despite its claims about Title II harming broadband providers, Verizon used its common carrier status to gain perks that helped build the fiber network.

You can't say capital investment is harder under Title II, then use your Title II branch of your company to gain investment for buildouts of your non-Title II business.
That is directly hypocritical. If it were true, you would be seeing their fiber rollout financed without the guise of their Title II upgrades, by private investment rather than public.

[1]http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/03/26/state-s-deal-wit...
[2]http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/30544

edit: formatting
Absolutely, that was a huge reason I decided to make the switch to Linux. Coming home and getting a stack of laptops from family and friends, becomes a hassle. I didn't come here to spend my day reinstalling Windows!

After I reformatted the machine, I just handed it over and didn't even mention that it was running Linux, just to see if there be any reaction like, "this is not Windows!" and the only question I was asked was "what is the password to unlock the screensaver".

It's a real drag having to go to like Dell to find and download all the drivers, and then download and install things like Java, Flash, etc.

Having a package manager is a huge win, I can write a ansible playbook to configure the machine and make sure the packages are always up to date with something like unattended-upgrades and then call it a day.

I'm just glad my parents don't use online banking, so I get some peace of mind there.
.us for example prohibits it.
Nice work. Quick look at your repo and I'm impressed with how you indented your work. Its makes everything readable (most of the javascript I've seen is a mess, maybe I read too much bad code)

Offline access would be an awesome feature, especially for users who are not "always connected".
With standard registration, the site is registered to you with ICANN. With private registration, it is registered to your registrar and you are provided access. Whois will show their info.

Note that this means you are technically not the owner of the domain, and you may be limited in your ability to transfer it, sell it, or do other things with it. Permissions are limited to what the registrar allows instead of what ICANN allows, although in most cases they give you nearly full control. You'll just have to read their terms if you want to know what you can do with it.
> from being in the best of its genre

I loved Monument Valley and would be delighted to find more games in that vein. What do you have in mind?
Here's a write-up of the details: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2015/01/apple-gr...
I'd recommend it. It's useful if nothing else for the stuff on dilution, cocktail balancing (acid/abv/sugar percentages), and batching. It's helpful even for classic cocktails.

Most of the stuff in it is not dangerous. However unless they're nerdy and willing to spend, they're not going to get much out of the modernist stuff. I'd say bare minimum you need to build a home carbonation rig (~$150ish) or buy an ISI Whip and some CO2/N20 cartridges (similar price all-in) and some Pectinex Ultra-SPL ($15 after shipping) to do anything interesting.
I find the question posed by the title, and reflected by the text, to be puzzling:

"That is, can we fix homelessness in SimCity, or because we haven't fixed homelessness as a problem in real life, therefore we are bound to lose?" Bittanti asked. "Is SimCity a reflection of what's happening in reality, and therefore is very realistic, or is it a programming issue?"

A reflection? "Sim" is for "simulation", correct? It seems more relevant to write about the accuracy of the simulation algorithms, which seems praise-worthy given how the author and participants are struck by how realistic the simulations' results are, and quite notably by how the participants' response to their "homeless problems" are similar to those we see in real-world municipalities, too. Then, a discussion of using SimCity (or the like) for testing eco/socio models would be interesting. To talk about it as a software "bug" or "feature" in seems really off-the-mark, and misses an opportunity for a fruitful discussion. Perhaps the author is coming more from a perspective of class issues and hence a bias?
Ive had beta access for a while now and havent had any problems yet. The main reason why I switched my domain to google was how seamless it works with gmail.
It's more of a request to your hosting provider albeit Google likely will be happy to selling you SSL certificate :)

Agree though - clear instructions are missing.
I ordered a domain recently on Namecheap, with free privation registration addon.
ntfs-3g was indeed ported and can be easily installed, but I think the point was is writing to NTFS is not natively supported.
I'm not willing to ruin someone's life over the equivalent of winning a particularly bad lottery.
All users care once it, personally, impacts their performance and their security.
At a company with 45 people, all of the roles you mention probably should be dedicated roles/teams. You didn't do anything wrong, you were just successful at growing a company.

If you want to wear a lot of hats, go join another early stage company (the items you mention make an awesome resume). If you want to grow at the current company, pick an area or two (development+strategy or management) and let the ceo know what you are interested in.
He's probably got a 4 year vesting schedule and maybe a more recent evergreen grant with another 4 year vesting schedule. As intended, that's a good incentive to work on the problem before giving up.

The thing missing from the post is a description of what he wants. If it's more recognition, I bet he could talk to the founders and work something out. To them it'll be a justified and free way to keep a great engineer.
I actually agree re:name, but besides that - everything else seems to be pretty solid with namecheap.
> i was referring more to the massive amounts of money solicited from state governments supposedly for telephone infrastructure upgrades

As I have described before, there never was any "massive amounts of money" paid by state governments. What Kushnick calls "subsidies" was just agreements that allowed the phone companies to increase their prices. To Kushnick, that's a "perk."
Not just transporting it, but in your kitchen too. A professional kitchen that uses it should have an oxygen monitor so they can evacuate if it goes off.

Also, don't screw a lid onto anything containing it or it becomes a live grenade.
I think integration with other Google products is the main reason they are venturing here. It can offer one click integration to google apps, app engine, cloud compute and blogger. If they offer free google apps for personal use, I think it can be a major selling point.
If you store simple encrypted stuff at them, then it works fine. Using OneDrive, Google Drive or anything alike to store a large(-ish), often-changing volume in a way that it does not leak information does not make sense, because the performance would be horrible then.

If it does not change often, then it does not leak much information, naturally.
There's a huge sense of entitlement with respect to iOS and Android apps. People want the world for free, and $1 means they OWN you.

The race to the bottom with free being the default has spawned this attitude. And the economics work out so that an indie developer can't really break even on free; you need 10s of millions of users to produce a reasonable income from ads. You can be a critically acclaimed indie game and only have a few million users.

Sure you can create a "fremium" game that sucks either time or money from users (where you basically charge people so that they can play the game less; addiction is a terrible thing). But if you don't want to be making freemium games (there's a formula you typically need to follow for them to be successful), you're stuck charging.

Here's the worst part: If you decide to make a "demo" for your game so that people can try before they buy, then when they reach the end of the demo, MANY people will end up leaving a 1-star review "SUX costs money!!!!!". Ratings are life in the app store: If someone sees an app with less than 3 stars, they're far less likely to grab it.

So because of poor user behavior, now you're stuck NOT offering a demo for people to play -- or you have to release your game as "fremium" even if it's not designed to suck people's wallets dry, which (as I've experienced firsthand) is a recipe for failure. At least my game has 4+ stars; not that it helps.
The farmers have the coolest names by far. Or at least to a non-american person, they seem rare. Maybe people in those professions are rarely in the public eye.
There has to be a boatload of prior-art around this.
Elon Musk plans to hire hundreds for Seattle satellite-building program
Obama to propose expanding the computer crime laws
Not OP, but you should totally try Windowsill, Botanicula, and EYEZMAZE's series of GROW Flash games. :)

Oh, and Fez, of course.
You helped found a company and fell in love with the work of a founder. You can't re-found the same company, so found again!
Maybe they could rename to Nameaffordable. Amusingly enough, Googling for "nameaffordable" does, in fact, show Namecheap (for me): http://i.imgur.com/BCV8aXG.png

I've been using Namecheap for a few years, and have (for the most part) been pretty happy. Their SSL certificate service is super clunky, but the domain stuff is decent.
You can play the lottery ticket game and move on, taking your 2 years of vesting with you.

Only do this if you think you've set the company up for long-term success and it will still be successful even without you there.

Also only do this if you think you can make out better in the long-term (more money, more equity, equally sure thing elsewhere), otherwise just buckle down and ride out the remaining 2 years.

Unless you think your current company is trash, then just bounce.
Small application with big plans
I have been a long time lurker to hacker news and have a side project that I think could use some feedback. Feel free to tear it apart, because that is exactly what it needs!

A few friends and I have built an app (QuickHap) for users to see what Events or Haps are happening right now in Toronto (we are expanding beyond this) and it also shows Events/Haps that will start within the next 12 hours. It lets you additionally post anything interesting happening, incase you wanted to share with other users. So its basically an easy was to discover cool things you might be missing out on.

So what I want is testers (you guys) to let me know how good (or bad) the app is. Any feedback is welcome :)

Here are the links for the app on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickhap/id929848817
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blk_inc.Haps
Thank you for even taking the time to read this post :) If you want have problems let me know here or @QuickHap on twitter.

Thanks again!
>>involves checking out for a year

Woah, I'm not saying you shouldn't be getting paid. The trick is getting paid while you are interviewing for new positions! Just make sure your interviewing for them.
Yes, it's indeed interestingly... wrong. That's exactly the bullshit I was referring to.

First, the statistics are completely idiotic - the typical stunts marginally smart people pull when they try to manipulate the public using "science". SETI has scanned close to 0% of the sky, and has been operational for approximately 0% of the lifetime of the universe. Furthermore, most light from far-away parts of the universe hasn't even arrived yet. Also, extrapolating "probabilities" from N=1 is obviously impossible. Sure, there might be 10^-100 probability of physical constants permitting stars to form, but there might be 10^200 universes being created every second, so... And, there were many planets found since that could potentially harbour life.

Second, even if we somehow assume that the authors are right (i.e. that their, completely unsubstantiated, estimates of the relevant probabilities are, miraculously, quite close), we cannot assume that "intelligent design", yet alone any specific religion, are right; simply, disproving A does not prove B if there are other options available. For example, we might be living inside a Matrix or another artificial experiment; that's quite far removed from the description of "intelligent design" as usually propagated by religious people.
>to help fix the giant living machine we've been slowly breaking for decades.

It is a fallacy to assume that the machine was ever working properly.
Sorry for getting my safety hat on, am not meaning to rain on your parade. I think this is really cool and want to try it too.
Adding Route 53-like feature would be a killer addon that only large company like Google can (if they want to) properly handle.
I lucked into a remote job. Applied thinking it was an in-office position..

Anyway, have you talked to recruiters? As much hate as they get on here, they can be very useful. A great recruiter will know your needs as well as the company's, and can give you an idea of a position's flexibility. In my opinion it doesn't hurt to reach out. Worst case scenario, you end up with some extra emails in your inbox every week.
> Note that this means you are technically not the owner of the domain, and you may be limited in your ability to transfer it, sell it, or do other things with it.

This is a myth. ICANN has published requirements on how private registrations must operate; ownership of the domain always goes to the paying owner, not the registrar.
Some companies, especially at the beginning, would put a trailing slash on their domain names when using .CO on a business card or other printed material.

Things have gotten better now, and millions of people have interacted with t.co, the Twitter shortener, Vine, etc., which means that .CO isn't quite as "underground" as it used to be.

I think ultimately the choice of TLD should be related to other branding decisions in that you consider your market first. So if you are pursuing a group that's very internet savvy, or startup savvy, they've probably heard of .CO and you can use it freely. (Likewise, you could probably use an unusual/industry name)

But if you are going after people who aren't familiar with URLs or domain names -- or maybe can't even discriminate between an email address and a domain name -- you'd be better off going with the safer option.
Rather than checking out..... consider spending time trying to get mentored by the new managers. Think of the way Larry Page was mentored by Eric Schmidt. Also spend time reading about how to manage a large team.

Also consider... do you want to manage a large team? Or do it again from the ground up?
James here - This project is unrelated to Voxelquest. I love what Gavan is doing. This voxel engine has different capabilties for a different style of game.

The thing I love about this engine is the ability to program the environment. Whereas most game engines restrict the developer to program each entity, this game engine enables the developer to program the environment based on the grid topology.

Also, within Voxelvoid, the entities are re-sampled in each frame. This works just like resampling a 2D image.

In my opinion Minecraft is not a pure voxel engine. While it does use a grid of voxels to represent the world, things like textures and entity models are not strictly aligned with the voxel grid.
Namecheap is generally free WhoisGuard for a year on new registrations
> Leave.

If he's got options, they'll be vesting -- typically over a 4yr period. He's 2yrs in so if he decides to leave, then he'll lose half of them. If he's willing to do that, then he'll have to exercise what he already has vested. Does he even have the cash to do that?

It's easy to suggest that people just 'move on' but it's important to remember the context.
> You are essentially taking away their right to do something.

Like... harming other people, specifically children? Oh, they are so oppressed /s
The primary reason I use it is to have two factor authentication defending my domains. [disclosure: Google employee]
Mark Zuckerberg is “desperately trying to kiss Chinese bottom”
No. Not unless it was contaminated.

It's nitrogen - the same stuff that's in air, just cold.
I'm struggling to discover the novelty. Can anybody pinpoint what exactly this is supposed to be?
Were you considered for these roles or entirely left out of the process? How much have you actually talked to your management about this?
Thanks, this is going to be really handy!

Just curious, what do you use to create the docx in browser?
The eight-hour workday is one of the fruits of the struggles of labor unions before Ford Motors even got started. To then turn around and assign its introduction to a capitalist is ridiculous on its face but the sort of pro-corporate propaganda that is all too common in US culture.
One thing you need to come to grips is that regardless of how smart you are, the VP of engineering is probably someone that has a lot more experience and clout than you do. If they aren't, then the senior management of the company is terrible. If your company has grown to the size of 40-50 people, that's the time when they need real experience to help drive them forward. They can't take a chance on a great programmer who has never managed an organization before or grown it from 40 to 200 people. So you need to accept that.

But you should stick by the VP of Engineering and learn whatever you can from them. Be their right-hand person, and try to become someone that the entire company goes to for technical issues. It's not hard to be the de facto CTO, just make sure you are a part of all the technical decisions, and a positive guiding force for the company. As you become more and more the face of technical decisions, eventually you'll be recognized for it, or you can go to another company in that higher role.
I don't think GoPro went down because of the threat of the patent. Rather, investors are afraid Apple will start to compete against GoPro. People are seeing the patent as a possible product roadmap not a legal threat.
Ask HN: Any Apache projects looking to mentor students?
Hey all,

I'm a student with some internship experience under my belt and I'd like to get more involved with the open source community. Apache projects in the distributed systems, distributed databases and "big data" space would be great.
I do agree, however, that Ars is on an anti-telco hunt these days.

Do they not have it coming? Consumer satisfaction with telecom companies, across the board, is horrible. Nobody likes their phone company or their ISP in the USA, they're a company that is dealt with out of necessity, and is usually (rightly) seen as operating in bad faith.

The behavior of the largest telcos are extremely dubious if not outright evil. (Examples: Comcast, Time Warner..)

They're not quite mustache-stroking Saturday morning cartoon villains, but dammit, they're trying!
Regulation, in this and many cases, is a way for the government to ensure that companies don't use the privileges granted to them by the government (such rights to lay cable lines) as an anti-competitive tool - which they naturally will try to do. The privileges have to come with restraints - else bad things happen.
If they haven't elevated you into a senior management role after doing all those things successfully then they're probably fucking up.

if you believe in the company, and the founders, go to them and fight for what you've created and your position. If they don't listen and help come up with a solution to retain you, it's probably time to move on.