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.an (Netherlands Antilles) is being phased out [1]:

The .AN top-level domain for the Netherlands Antilles is no longer eligible for
continued delegation, as it is no longer an ISO 3166-1 two-letter code. In
accordance with the code’s removal from the ISO 3166-1 standard, the ISO 3166
Maintenance Agency asks users of the standard to “stop using [the code] ASAP”†.

As discussed in detail in the consideration of a similar case of the .YU
top-level domain, ICANN’s role is to be an independent technical coordinator of
the domain name system. As such, the ISO 3166-1 standard was chosen as the
arbiter for what is, and what is not, a basis for country-code domains. In order
to retain consistency with the standard, ICANN coordinates the removal of the
.AN domain in conjunction with the transition to its successor domains. In such
cases, ICANN asks the current operator to perform an orderly wind-down and
transition process.

The proposed sponsoring organisation for .CW intends to continue to operate the
.AN domain while transitional arrangements are executed. These transitional
arrangements include provisions for registrants in Curaçao to transfer
registrations to .CW; and for registrants in Sint Maarten to transfer
registrations to .SX. The applicant calls for a phased transition to be
concluded over a period of three years, after which time the .AN domain will be
fully retired.

[1] http://www.iana.org/reports/2011/cw-report-20111003.html
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OK, I had a weird thought here.

1. Their approach seems like it will work, if it does, mostly by increasing the chances that women engineers or women engineering students will choose to work for Pinterest instead of work for someone else.

2. I've frequently read that there is a shortage of tech workers, and companies like Pinterest have trouble finding the people they need.

3. Putting this together, does this mean that much of any increase in diversity they get will come at the expense of reducing the diversity elsewhere (unless, of course, they significantly hire away from other companies that are more diverse than they are)?

A bit of Googling turns up assorted claims on what percent of developers are women, but many seem to claim in the 10-20% range.

It would be interesting to take the data from Pinterest, and from other tech companies where this kind of data is available, and use that to classify them into three groups: those where women are under represented, those where they are over represented, and those where it is neither. The comparison should be to the percentage of women in tech, not the percentage in the general population.

It would then be interesting to see if there is something the companies in each group have in common.
Hello Hacker News,

I came up with the concept of Football President a couple of years ago and after doing nothing on it for many months, I finally started building the game earlier this year.

I've been bootstrapping the development of this game, I'm working on it full time alongside my consultancy work. After reading some of the articles on here about lean startup methodology and testing the minimum viable product - I decided to spend some of my time promoting the game and building up a community alongside the development efforts...

This landing page is the first step towards testing the marketing channels / message. I'm going to be driving traffic to the page soon but before I did, I thought I'd post it on here and get some thoughts on how effective the page is.

I'd love to know what works... what doesn't and if there's any way I can improve it! Please feel free to be as brutal as you like! :)
This could have bad repercussions, but it seems to me like Amazon was in the wrong here. They probably could have just bought this company.
Staff as a Service?

Another source of this might be Labor Ready - warm bodies to fill an office space. And for those with higher skill, maybe we could tap some Hollywood extras?
One interesting thing I read recently is that, when building a circuit, Tor actively avoids picking more than one relay sharing a common attack vector.

Basically, it will not pick more than one relay with the same family id, router or /16 subnet.

Your point is still valid, since AWS and other big web hosts like OVH obviously have a lot of /16 subnets and distinct router addresses, but it's good to see this was anticipated by the design.
Worst case, they go out of business if all the other startups go out of business.

It's leverage. When you have ~unbounded upside and capped downside, lever the fuck up. (And yes, this is how you get ants.)
Data I've seen shows builders are at high risk in my area.

Suicide is very common. In the UK it's the leading cause of death for men aged 20 to 49. In the US one person dies by suicide every 13 minutes.

Financial stress is a risk factor for suicide, so there's some increased risk for founders there.
Netzpolitik.org are doing great work. They are live blogging from every public session of the NSAUA (NSA Investigation Committee), where video and audio recordings are prohibited, they keep track of all sorts of political event and changes regarding net politics (hence the name) such as data retention, net neutrality, the recent hack of the German parliament etc. They also send FOIA requests about these topics, report about nuisances and double standards and they publish information that was kept secret (or 'non-public' as politicians prefer to call it).

A few weeks ago it was rumored that there was an ongoing investigation against the whistleblowers who leaked some of the documents. The government did not want to confirm any of this and it was not clear until today that the journalists were also part of the investigation.

It's a shame to see this happening in Germany.
Silicon Valley is a lesser evil.

http://www.gerryhemingway.com/piracy2.html

There's another blog post I can't find about an artist not being able to get access to the exact sales of his music online from his record company, which didn't make sense to him since pretty much every online music servic make it available.

Hollywood isn't any better.

http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...
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Maybe Amazon email addresses or CC's belonging to employees of Amazon? Not clear how they detected the breach...
That looks like some amazing work. I'm going to give it a try.
I mean, it should be but it seems as though most people have accepted it.
Everyone I've been talking with seems to say "less than 24 months".
> For some (bad?) startups, this is an even more valuable function of engineers than engineering.

It would be fantastic if that stopped being an important indicator.
All of our human measurement systems would be much friendlier if we had a consistently applied base 12 system. Breaking things into 3, 4, or 6 parts is much more common than breaking them in fifths. Along the way, we could mostly straighten out our measurements for dates/times, angles including longitude/latitude, etc.

(Though I must say, I’m also partial to the Babylonian base 60 system.)
I'm not sure how this is blowing them out of proportion. The 'Express' configuration that nearly every user will run with sends virtually everything you do to Microsoft. Please explain how that is not a serious privacy concern.
No plans in India for now as the market feels super competitive. We have a big enough market at hand and would like to have a clear lead before we expand internationally. We're looking for full-stack engineers. Please email me waseem@<domain>
The argument "Don't use it if you don't like it." certainly applies to many things, but when a company gets to the scale of Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc, the context is not the same. It seems reasonable to hold these behemoths to a higher standard than scrappy startups.
Does is protect against auto-completing dangerous commands like 'DROP TABLE;'?
Indeed, you can do this and we encourage it. We are also building a private "feed" application called "Kloak", which resembles Twitter but is private and "un-dataminable".

See: https://zk.gs/ZK/kloak.pdf
Edge is only set as your default browser if you use the "express settings" during upgrade.

http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/07/windows-10...
I think criticism is valid in regards to TPS. But for storage it's misguided. The blockchain is meant for consensus, storing reddit comments or cat pictures is an expensive and inefficient misuse of the blockchain.
I find the lack of customization in Apple products an exercise in frustration anytime I want to accomplish a goal. I don't think there is a fundamental difference in the platforms that you seem to think; they both have benefits and flaws depending on one's workflow. The question here is whether or not Windows 10 is another category altogether.
> Tell them that facilities are obsolete and if they don't want to become an obsolete dinosaur, they should jump on the remote-working trend before it eats the world.

And then what data do you show them to back up that grandiose proclamation?
Just my 2 cents. The really exciting part about what you are doing is making 401Ks easier for businesses.

The really scary thing is this whole page - https://captain401.com/investment-philosophy

I for one don't want a startup investing my retirement fund. I just want to see a list of names that I know (Vanguard, Goldman Sachs...) that I can choose from. If you are providing regular funds as options I would make this abundantly clear and I would push your own investment strategy to the backburner. The core value-add that you are offering is making 401Ks easier for businesses.
Absolutely! I only included our lowest-level data products in this post. We don't sweep the radar side-to-side, but since it's on a moving platform, we see the same thing from multiple angles. In the data I showed, there has been some very limited stacking applied, mostly just to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The next level of processing would be focusing/migration (depending on whether you're in the radar or seismic world) - it reasons about possible incident angle and collapses the hyperbolas to a single point.

Unfortunately, this only improves the resolution along the flight track; features parallel to the flight path and offset to the side are the hardest to filter out.
Encryptr does not ue node.js crypto at all. Just Blink and Webkit's getRandomValues, which is secure
the best for me is switching between different positions; standing, sitting, laying down.
You do a 'team building' week once a year where you fly everyone in, do a team photoshoot and a 'productivity' photoshoot, and then provide paid-for options of fun things to do (ski pass, jetski / paddle board rental, company tab at a local bar, cook-off or potluck competition, short film competition, etc. ). Your team gets a short vacation from working, investors and press get photos and videos of people doing their job, and you don't have to pay for office space again that year. Hopefully your revenue exponentially scales to cover the linear expense as your team grows.
Haha, you got us there. Laughed out loud at this one.
I'm not contradicting you, but $1700/mo for an incredibly overcrowded dorm room? Undergrad, doubles converted to triples were considered overcrowded. Wow. Maybe that's the norm in SF these days but it's not something I would have ever considered post-school.
Hence this great tumblr http://thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com/
Ah, I see. In that case, yes - there's no connection to net neutrality as long as they don't penalize anyone in any way for buying those subscriptions directly from the sites themselves (EDIT: or other sources... if i buy a sub on my ISP it should still be valid when I visit my parents who have a different ISP, etc).
I think San Francisco is better for medium sized companies looking to IPO... I think you should get a base level somewhere much cheaper.
> IMO, the choice of IndexedDB over WebSQL set the Web back 20 years.

Yep. I recognise that this may not have been a winnable fight, but I absolutely judge the people who were on the other side.

WebSQL was a much better tech than IndexedDB. Was the dependence on Sqlite problematic? Sure. But Mozilla had the resources to make a pretty good try at fixing it; instead they refused to even implement it and gave us the relatively terrible IndexedDB instead. Which, in turn, Apple has refused to implement[1], and now here we are. Thanks Moz[2].

(I'm less concerned about NaCL and Dart, because it's less clear to me that these were obviously superior technologies that obviously needed cross-browser adaption. You're certainly right that the pattern is suggestive though.)

[1]: Yeah, I know, they claim to have implemented it. Anyone who's tried to use their implementation will recognise this claim as a subtle joke. On us.

[2]: Their blog post justifying themselves[3] has not aged well. I especially love the bit where they say IndexedDB is better than WebSQL because it has better "developer aesthetics", as if anyone is actually casually coding against IndexedDB without using some sort of wrapper or compatibility layer. Or as if anyone actually likes the IndexedDB syntax and API.

[3]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Probably not a good idea for startups whose long term success is unpredictable though.
I don't understand how the list of highly ranked providers can be a "trade secret" of Angie's List if they make it public to their millions of subscribers. Isn't a trade secret usually something like a closely-guarded process, like the recipe for Coca Cola?
You let your devs finish stuff and show them the product. What you built. Without interruption a small group of good engineers can build some amazing shit.
After seeing early prototypes and having known the founder for years, this has the potential to be a truly great product and company - congrats!
Yes.

Right before the first dotbomb I went on a tour of LoudEye/Encoding.com which had lots of Hollywood clients. The place was in a gorgeous antique building, wrought iron railings, full rack sized silicon graphics multiprocessors, and all of the front desk, office staff were Beautiful People (tm) and very busy and serious. It looked like a set for what a futuristic tech company would dream of.

We need that as the face of distributed remote companies so that the old money can have a nice artifact to look at while everyone is at home on IRC.
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Is it that much of a disadvantage to get offices really close to Bart stations outside of SF?
Hashes in the blockchain, when necessary, and then markets which will sell you a file when presented with the hash. Storage technology can be whatever.

That's the smart plan, I think. I really want to take a crack at those storage markets in-browser, use a distributed hash table and WebRTC to pay people for leaving a browser open and allowing us to store stuff on their hard drives!
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https://intelligence.org/team/

Staff: 1 out of 8 seem to have a PhD

Research Associates: 3 out of 14.
Well, if the Fed doesn't tighten, they're at a pretty high risk of introducing serious inflation into the economy. The high commercial rents are a form of inflation; so are the wages of tech workers, and people being priced out of the Bay Area. So far, this is local to a few industries and metropolitan areas, but if the Fed doesn't act you could see it start showing up in nationwide statistics.

That said, I'm not entirely convinced Yellen will tighten. She has a reputation as a dove on monetary policy and seems weak to me, overly afraid of the effect her actions will have on the stock market. It wouldn't surprise me if we end up with another 1997 situation, where some temporary economic instability makes the Fed put off tightening or even introduce additional stimulus, and this ignites a speculative bubble that raises prices beyond all reason and then bursts.

(The username is ancient, I've had it on various sites since college, and while I'd love to be thought of as a prophet, my track record isn't that good.)
The best thing I ever did to improve my intellectual diet was get a subscription to the New Yorker. Best longform content around.
That's not really accurate. Maybe we can reach out to someone at MS and they can explain exactly what is being sent. It certainly isn't virtually everything that you do...it's something, it's not accurate to say its everything.

MS people frequent this site. Maybe one of them could get some detail on the subject?
Wow that puzzle is complete nonsense! Either the artist paints an eel in the corner, or not, is entirely at their own discretion. That's like asking you to predict a coin flip when you have no info on whether it is biased or not.
Yes - this idea has definitely taken over my imagination. A different research group (https://www.cresis.ku.edu/) has been working on this, but the processing techniques are still evolving.

Do you have papers describing y'all's processing? I'd love to learn more!
Total aside -- Interesting how Satya Nadella doesn't seem to have the recognition yet to stand alone, but calling him "Microsoft's CEO" is the most descriptive way to identify him for the purposes of this writing.
Question for security professionals:

How much would a freelancer or team of freelancers earn for this kind of job?
ISO 4M camera
+ Fear of (on average) poorer population, classism, and other *isms encoded in the previous two.
If someone unfairly downvotes an old comment, no one will notice and correct it. This would allow you to drain someone's karma by systematically downvoting all their old comments. So HN doesn't let you do that.
Bugs in the system, inherent to the worker units. Turns out evolution hasn't shaped up to work for the collective good very well or for very long. Once there's an exploitable aspect to the economy, certain types find it and disrupt the system as a whole, causing a rebalancing of the economy.
East Bay is great. Oakland is starting to look like a decent city.

Doesn't mean there aren't real disadvantages, but it's something most people/startups should at least consider.
Does it say that it will send actual audio data?

I mean more of my problem has to do with the fact that it's an open door than what they will actually do. It doesn't say they will send audio data, it at most says "associated input data" which for all I know could be a database from their algorithms, or it could be a live 24/7 stream from my webcam and audio device.

I guess the thing is that some things are not acceptable, and whether there's a disclaimer or not, people aren't going to like it if we find out that all of our audio is being recorded and uploaded to Microsoft. But it's not, not as far as anyone can tell yet.

But again, we're only worried because they're what, giving us the option to opt out? I mean, if they wanted to they could just go ahead and stick somewhere in the privacy policy something like "from time to time microsoft will upload certain input data for improvement of service quality, depersonalized information may be sent to partners." down in paragraph 24.c.iii. Or they could just not mention it at all.

The question is are you willing to trust the OS. I mean, hell, Ubuntu Linux went and sent all of your search information to Amazon without even giving you the option to opt out in the install process at one point. It could be disabled, but unless you knew about it in advance there was no option to do so. And Ubuntu is open source.

I can see use cases for it, and one actually ties into the location services. Say you're from a region with a specific accent. If the system can tell how you speak, and how other people speak around you, it might be able to create an accent subset for you based on the collective data from all of those speakers. It might be able to guess from a few sentences and your location that you're Glaswegian and start to understand you, not because you trained it, but because across the region many people have trained it a bit. Then with the location to tie the regional accent together, even if you're in the US once you've spoken a few phrases it might be able to identify you as belonging to that regional language group.

But uploading of all spoken data to Microsoft would be silly, not just because it would piss people off, but because it wouldn't be something you could hide, and it would end up being quite a lot of data that's really not that useful.

But could it be possible? Sure. But they could also do it without tipping you off or giving you the ability to opt out.
There are already several comments on this Hacker News thread where people suggest things like remote work. Others suggest moving to less expensive cities. Someone mentioned Tennessee. "mooreds" made the suggestion "consider starting a company outside of San Francisco". But such comments ignore (are in denial? are in defiance?) what is actually happening, which is described in the 3rd sentence of the linked article:

"the migration of startups from the Peninsula to San Francisco have led to the lowest vacancy rates ever"

The big move away from the cities played out in the USA as automobiles became popular. The trend started in the 1930s and was at its peak during the years 1945 to 2000. It's worth noting that what we are looking at now is some re-centralization. That may be surprising or counter-intuitive, but since it is happening, it is worth investigating why it is happening. And all of the folks who think remote work is the answer might want to ask themselves why the ease of remote work is not offsetting the trend that's moving jobs into place like San Francisco and New York.
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WeWork is selling risk reduction for cash.

Should there be a downturn in tech, WeWork will be left holding the bag.
Agreed. The only time I've used Firefox's customize mode is to remove crap they keep insisting on putting in my toolbar. I think it's pretty clear that the only reason Mozilla is complaining about this is because they think it will hurt their bottom line.
Have they been saying that longer than 24 months?
NaCl and Dart aren't Web standards.
It asked me. You just have to choose to customise your settings.
As luck would have it, I have asked HR ;)

They have no clue what self-directed means, who to contact at the 401k provider, and aren't really interested in making more work for themselves.
Simply getting some paperwork forwarded along to the provider took a couple of months.
Unless you're a C-level exec, it ain't gonna happen.
Clearly they are talking about 'the workforce' as 'people'. 'kids' are not considered anything but a cost center in their equation.
Meh.

Is this an ideal thing for MS to have done? Fuck, I dunno. Probably not, I guess?

But this isn't that bad; the hyperbolic title ("don't roll back the clock on choice!") makes this sound like something actually serious. Or major. Or permanent. It would be the right headline to protest MS making it impossible to use a third party browser, or at least impossible to change the default browser. Instead it's being used to protest...some options being reset when you upgrade your OS? Because heaven knows I've never lost any settings upgrading my OS before...

Plus, Mozilla is...mmm. Not my first choice for an organisation to be leading this charge; they've done too much shady shit lately. I have a feeling that Mozilla may be badly overestimating how much goodwill they have among developers right now.
Sounds like Instacart. How's this different?
Well, like I said, Windows 7 and 8 had voice transcription support built-in and it worked well on my old computers from 2009, with plenty of CPU capacity to spare. I expect a modern i3 would probably match my desktop i7 from '09.