jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's very similar to my experience.

50% of spam come from a valid gmail account, as in, using gmail smtp server, come from gmail origin(.google.com reverse dns) have valid DKIM. The only way to filter out spam is look at the content and run some simple ML on it.

50% of spam come from non .com TLDs such as .cam .work from random servers around the world: China, Bulgari, Hungari, France, Germany...

But it's very easy to block other TLDs because their IP are on DNSBL already. But what can I do with gmail? Gmail IP get on DNSBL all the time.

Example: 209.85.222.196 is listed right now on spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net and ips.backscatterer.org

But at the same time, this is just the nature of an email service. If we have a large user base then no matter what we do, a small percentage of users are abuser which are successfully to send out spam using our services before we can detect and ban them.

On AWS SES, they requires user to keep a reputation of less than 0.1% emails flagged as spam. Go over than that and you will be put on a review queue. Reach 5% and get banned permanently.

But before that occurs, spam are send out already.
I count RadioShack, because it was great. As late as 2016 they had their transisor, resistor, capacitor buckets and speaker wire. You couldn't get arbitrary ICs there, but for basic components or last-minute bodges they were key. And now they're no longer carried.
Replying to my own post to add details.

Windows 7
AMD HD 7970 3GB
I don't see the point of encrypted keys, if my computer is compromised it is a trivial matter for an attacker to log input and get the password. If the computer is stolen, the disk encryption should be enough.
If you like stories like this, there are a number of similar stories (e.g. this one, cracking the enigma code, protecting convoys) in a book called The Pleasures of Counting: http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Counting-T-W-K%C3%B6rner/dp/... - it's not all world war 2, but is very interesting and does contain a lot of information on the math used during the war.
The experience has dramatically improved since when I first started using Linux with Ubuntu dapper. I have had very good success as well. Having said that, I have run into hibernation, track pad issues with Asus devices. Optimus is also a right pain in the ass.

Your best bet is a Dell laptop with an integrated Intel gpu chip.
When I was in Stuttgart I made a point of visiting the one they have in the Rathaus. It's an interesting mechanical design, but definitely assumes some personal responsibility on the part of the user. Keep your hands to yourself as you go around the top and bottom...
>Why is this not in the mainstream news?

HackerNews, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook aren't mainstream? I beg to differ.

If this event was reported on any other media, I'd have no idea that it was occurring.
It's on Github! https://github.com/smilli/makethisinanhour
So is the proof you're referring to actually asserting anything that isn't trivial? The identity function is one-to-one from the rationals to the reals.
I'm a partner in a joint working space in downtown Tampa. If you make it down and want a place to work for a day or two, let me know.
Is there anything Dropbox can do to prevent this de-dupe hack?
"What happens if you give commit access to absolutely anyone? Let's find out!" - http://ejohn.org/apps/thunderhub/
I like a variation on this model where employees use whichever machines they want and you pay for them: Your guys want to use macs? Fine, we'll pay $1500 each for them and don't come crying to tech support when they stop working.
And BB posted a weasely response to that.
I've googled potential candidates, and that usually tells you a ton about that person. As far as I know, it's pretty common practice. But maybe HR doesn't know much about that yet...
Alexander Burger, author of PicoLisp, has done something similar by outputting ANSI codes directly:

https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de/msg090...

(Vip is a vi clone written in PicoLisp)
Printer paper, pen.
There's the "shut up and calculate" thing within particle physics. I don't know how seriously it's taken.
Your account has been using HN primarily for nationalistic and political battle. That's not allowed here, because it destroys the curiosity this site is supposed to be for. We ban accounts that keep doing this, so please don't keep doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
sadly the echo chamber is strong here and anything said against vetted mainstream rhetorics will be downvoted
Thanks. The lack of something like this has been keeping me drawn to R for pure statistics work. I'll definitely give this a try.
This is why I almost always pay much more attention to negative reviews. How many there are, the reasons for the bad review, and so on. Positive reviews, even honest ones, are always so generic: "it's great, works as intended!"

Bad reviews usually give a lot more detail that actually describes the experience in concrete detail.
Landfills do collect and burn methane. Those pipe like structures you see sticking out of a completed landfill are part of the process.

https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/solutions/technol...
Think of the relation between being really sad and having crippling depression.

Now take “occasional ADHD symptoms” and ramp them up to the same degree. Get an idea of how this could be debilitating now?
"have made profound advances in explaining how ancient speakers of early Arabic used the letters of other alphabets to transcribe their speech. These alphabets included Greek and Aramaic, and also Safaitic"

This part is amazing to read because this is still done today..you can see all over twitter or other social media.
> Nothing is risk free.

I specifically called out SYSTEMIC risk.

What's the systemic risk of solar panels and wind power, for example? A terrorist attack destroying 100 millions solar panels?

> On the other hand

The usual false dichotomy between nuclear and oil/coal/gas.

> And CO2 emissions from oil, gas and natural gas are bringing us to the brink of an environmental catastrophe.

...not to mention the direct release of heat into the atmosphere due to poorly isolated house heating, industrial production and electric generation plants themselves. None of which is mitigated by nuclear. Rather, it's made even worse by any source of cheap electricity.
The guy was arrogant, yes. But he had the numbers to support him. Furthermore, the death rate of mothers at the hospital where they did all the autopsies was so horrible and so well known that soon-to-give-birth mothers would fake illness near the other hospital in town just so they wouldn't need to give birth over there. (Don't have the reference handy, I've read it in several places).

But the general response was not "well, that's a theory worth testing". It was "This guy is crazy. Gentlemen do not pass disease". I have read no record of an alternative theory of the high mortality rate that anyone else had advanced - one might have existed, and was lost in the myst of time. But I find it just as likely that there were, in fact, no competing theories.

I have unfortunately witnessed a modern day case applying to a much smaller population. Not much has changed. I know a doctor who has literally (and provably) saved at least ten lives based on his understanding of a disease, which he cannot support with statistics yet - his statistics keep improving with every case, but still not at the publishable 0.05 threshold. And this is an extremely rare disease (in the order of 1/1,000,000), so it might take 10 more years until he has a rigorous proof. (Alas, giving more details would basically be naming him and myself, which I do not wish to do)

His theory is a lot easier to accept than the prevailing theory about said disease, except that accepting it proves incompetence of many in the field, including editors of medical journals -- which, indeed, is the case, but those cases are dismissed as occasional random misses rather than the systemic incompetence that it is.

It is possible this doctor will retire before they have enough evidence to publish their results. And despite the amazing results so far, when I went for a second opinion after talking to this doctor, 4 others told me that he is making a mouse out of a molehill, and that it's almost impossible that he is right. Luckilly, imaging results proved he was right, and another life was saved. And you know what? Of those 4, only two realized they need some introspection, and the other two dismissed this as a "lucky guess".

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

P.S: Said doctor is extremely humble, and communicates very clearly.
10ms seems like a reasonably small period of time. I believe it is considered to be effectively instantaneous in UI.

Edit: Although, I suppose the "refresh rate" of the entire system would then be 20ms, which might be noticeable. Chop that down to 5ms per Kinect, and it might be viable.
Follow-up post: http://jasongullickson.posterous.com/coincidence
Repeating what you said above, and contributing "I knew I would get downvoted for this" don't really belong on HN either. In fact they're probably worse. Heh.
Yes but that rule of law wouldn't have any anti-trust laws in it, right? So I'm not sure how this is an answer to the claim that capitalism creates monopolies so anti-trust laws are needed. As an anarcho-capitalist, I think we need to convince people that capitalism doesn't cause problematic monopolies, Governments cause those.
As one of the other comments pointed out, ISPs could just charge for bandwidth.

The current (speculative) pricing schemes and hypothetical non-neutral pricing schemes are simply alternatives to pricing per megabyte.

Why? Because ISPs believe that their product appears to have moe value when it's sold as x megabits per second for y dollars rather than x megabytes for y dollars.

Since most customers can't estimate how many megabytes they use each month, it makes little sense to price the product that way. Whereas many customers know that if they currently have 10 Megabits, if they upgraded to 20 megabits their downloads would be faster.

Comcast's boost pricing is evidence of the way ISPs are evolving to meet consumer demands. They give you lots of bandwidth for just long enough to let you download a song or a movie, but don't constantly make it available to you. This creates the perception of faster speeds for most customers.
>It would be great if that worked

DHH told me to attempt the impossible if I want to achieve success. I see it as profoundly unimaginative and unambitious to restrict this notion to the fields of business and programming.

You've gotta have a go!

Besides, 'watching closely' is pretty trivial now. The government certainly seems pretty good at doing it to us.
No, if you're going to fail at the stupid test some random person dug up, you have nothing to lose by renegotiating.
Hey did you see that story about the topical caffeine?!
Don't give me that, even if you never looked past the front page of a newspaper you would have to have known that Iraq was a giant clusterfuck.
This is the fundamental point that gets made and debated, again and again. I just don't agree that the stress is the same. Speaking as a person who is very prone to interview nerves, nothing evokes quite the same reaction in me, so it's not a valid predictor. Despite my terrible nerves in interviews, I'm able to handle real-world stress just fine. In fact, the craziest example of this I have is live-coding demands from a client in response to a final deliverable. I had our codebase up in an editor on my laptop, and in response to client complaints, was making changes live and deploying to our UAT environment to prompt them to give the final sign-off. Literally, the difference between "ok, we will call this project complete and pay you for the last 6 months of your work" and "this is unacceptable, we aren't paying for this" was in my hands, over the span of an hour, with the client sitting right across from me.

This completely contradicts the argument that a candidate who has difficulty handling interview stress will not have the ability to handle any stress. I can't speak for everyone who gets nervous during interviews, but in my case it's due to the combination of the uncomfortable environment, lack of access to tools I've grown to rely on, and an awareness of how fickle people's opinions are.
Assuming linearity, there's 1/10 of the number of exceptional programmers in Canada vs the US (based on population). The educational system's are comparable, as are the social environments. Canadians can get TN visa to work in the US with a job offer and a CV at the port of entry, so there's no "paperwork problem". Although it's probably a bit more difficult than coming north as it's trivial coming north...

So, if it's important to hoover up the rockstars from Canada, there's nothing stopping companies - they already have the weather advantage, and relo costs are pretty low for most singletons. The only negative is that the TN visa can't lead to a green card. But I doubt most startups are thinking "six years, get green cards for the staff".
I recommend Nim http://nim-lang.org/ (the website docs don't look too good at the moment, but this has been fixed for the next version that will be out in a few days).

Nim is an incredibly good language that compiles to C, is fast, and has very easy bindings creation to any C library you want. For me, it's the best of both worlds between a Python look (indented, clean) and a fast typed compiled language that helps you instead of hindering you.

You might be interested in checking it out.
> But if you're going to dispute an article—any article—on Hacker News, you have a responsibility to engage with what it really says.

Let's look at what this post really states:

> The US has less than 5% of the world's population. Which means if the qualities that make someone a great programmer are evenly distributed, 95% of great programmers are born outside the US.

This is a huge if. Frankly, it is very difficult to make a strong, compelling policy argument on the back of a flimsy, lazy assumption. Yet it is crucial to Graham's position and used to support statements that aim to preemptively rebut arguments critics make ("It would be great if more Americans were trained as programmers, but no amount of training can flip a ratio as overwhelming as 95 to 5").

It is not Graham's responsibility to prove that the backbone of his argument - the 95 to 5 ratio - is reasonably accurate?

> The anti-immigration people have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort technology companies have expended trying to make immigration easier.

The reference to "anti-immigration people" is not only insulting, this statement pretends that those who are not swayed by the arguments of the tech lobby must be "anti-immigration." To the contrary, one can favor immigration reforms that would make it easier for individuals to come to the United States without naively accepting the validity of all arguments tech companies make in support of immigration reforms.

Is it not Graham's responsibility to explain in a compelling fashion why the tech companies Graham says are "right" are indeed right instead of brushing off anybody who doesn't agree as "anti-immigration"?

> We have the potential to ensure that the US remains a technology superpower just by letting in a few thousand great programmers a year.

Even if one is charitable to Graham and is willing to assume that a) the United States is at risk of losing its status as a technology superpower and b) Graham's figure is plausible, he offers no substantive suggestions for how we identify those "few thousand great programmers" and attract them to the United States. In fact, as someone else here pointed out[1], Graham has previously discussed just how difficult it is to recognize the exceptionally talented.

Is it not Graham's responsibility to provide reasonable detail as to how the United States could actually accomplish what he proposes?

It's fair to state that comments here are not always charitable to post authors, but it's also fair to state that many of the authors simply don't make compelling arguments. If authors are disappointed with the criticism they receive, it's just as much their responsibility to make more compelling arguments as it is for critics to give them the benefit of the doubt at every twist and turn.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799869
Friends don´t let friends run bind...
How about

a+=1;
b+=1/a;
Aside from what hga covered, there's the case that sometimes you want to hire a specific H1B candidate. I've seen a similar thing for moving positions within a University, where policy says you need to advertise for the position but really you're just trying to promote a person. Though there the approach wasn't "lie" but rather "be crazy specific about any random thing in the person's resume".
me too, i have a special "corporate 911" card that i've been informed during onboarding is the "real" 911. No matter the emergency, lost/stolen passports, lost/stolen corp computer, place crash, car crash, anywhere in the world the company does business, i've been told to call it first before doing anythign else.
I'm not an american, so I only care tangentially. But the election was shady as F. Over 1000 sworn affidavits from witnesses. Video evidence of votes being pulled out in middle of the night, from under tables and scanned multiple times while observers told to go home, crazy one sided spikes. and so on. But lets say I take every plausible explanation they came up with at face value.

What exactly is the point of voting in your state running legit by the book fraud proof elections, if another state isn't going to verify signatures to make sure there are no fraudulent ballots? Even if your legitimate election state is won, the unsecure election state will nullify your state with their electoral count. Specially if the state has more electors than your state. Because the Supreme Court said it doesn't matter.

You are also making appeals to law, which is fallacy because all kinds of Rogue states have laws too that they follow.
In the Netherlands there are a few entry ways and they look a bit like this:

https://www.dormakaba.com/resource/blob/128222/7d74af646dce4...

They're configured one-way only, can be fully opened for high through-put or emergencies, but are otherwise single-person only. They can detect multiple people in various ways. The default for sensitive areas would be biometric (e.g. weight, some parlement members coming back from vacation a little overweight have had to get a manual override in the past). Of course bulletproof, and can be controlled at a distance by an operator.

It makes sense that not everything requires something like this, but the office of the speaker of the house of course should be in any situation. If she wishes to meet people in less-secure rooms it's entirely possible to create meeting rooms with fewer or even no significant entry or security controls if you wish, but your personal office, places where you store sensitive data etc... can't just have em behind a few wooden doors.

Of course some countries opted for the benefit of a modern building. The capitol is more than two centuries old, you can only retrofit it so much.
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." - Maxine Waters
Not sure why this was dead within two minutes of submission. I vouched for it to hopefully allow for discussion on the article to take place. I'm still reading it myself.

Edit: The situation on the whole sounds pretty precarious. I'm particularly worried about the chilling effects mentioned if Alphabet decides to bring down the hammer on the leadership of AWU. These companies already have so much power, I don't think silencing internal dissent will the world any favors in the long run.
They'll probably give it to that computer repair guy in Deleware so he can pull off all of the emails from March of 2021 and somehow lose them in the mail when he tries to send them to Fox News.
So you like the repeal of net neutrality?
Most of those routes, with the exception of Jakarta-Bali, are in countries that have managed the virus well enough to avoid recurring/permanent lockdowns like in the US and Europe.

When Asian countries had to lock down, they were super strict. See Da Nang (Vietnam) in August.
Except Tesla puts wiper speed (a thing you actually use while driving) on Model 3 in the touchscreen. That is the dumbest thing ever. Touchscreens are fine, but the controls you use while driving should be buttons or via steering wheel controls + HUD.
I'm fine with yarn. It seems rarely "required" and is very npm compatible.
At my company, we were migrating all our apps to a kubernetes + istio platform over the past couple of months and my advice is this - don't use a service mesh unless you really, really need to.

We initially choose istio because it seemed to satisfy all our requirements and more - mTLS, sidecar authz, etc - but configuring it turned out to be a huge pain. Things like crafting a non-superadmin pod security policy for it, trying to upgrade versions via helm, and trying to debug authz policies took up a non-trivial amount of time. In the end, we got everything working but I probably wouldn't recommend it again.

It's funny that I was at kubecon last week and there was a start up whose value prop was hassle-free istio and the linkerd people stressed that they were less complex than istio.
VLC is the only thing I can use on my AppleTV to access my local Plex server when my Internet connection is down. It's almost the only time I use VLC but so worth it when I need it. Thank you and the team for all your work over the years.
If you're going the ML way, I recommend an end-to-end approach to get significantly more performance (at a data preparation and training cost). Simply generate a dataset of chess boards, and then render them using a 3D software of choice (pretty easy job in blender/etc.). For robustness then you can add various kinds of perturbations, like different camera angles, small displacements for each piece, etc.
This is why if you want to tax sweet drinks, you should charge it on artificial sweeteners too because otherwise it’s just a handout for aspartame.
Heh, right, because those locations the Peace Corp sends folks are doing so damn well by themselves!
Have you not heard the phrase "too big to fail?" Unfortunately for mt gox, nobody with power relies on it continuing to exist, but they do rely on the continuing existence of a banking system in the US.
Kinect has been out for less than two weeks! I can't wait to see what these hacks look like after a year. There's so much potential in using Kinect as a robot sensor package it's not even funny.
I want an ethernet port. Don't laptop makers get it? Even one of those slim ones that flip up would work.
They'll get the XOR of the two original messages, and also can break authentication: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26790/how-bad-it-...
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a link, then adding your text as a first comment in the new thread. Good luck!

I think it would be fair also to put Show HN in the title since this is an entire project that you're sharing.
Your second and third point are completely independent of the substance at issue. So by that logic, we should test everything that is “safe”.

Prayer? Meditation? Garlic? Red wine? Cannabis?
Yea, the build quality is the biggest area it's lacking. I have Lemur from 3 years ago or so (and they still look more or less the same) - and the body is very uninspiring chunky black plastic, and feels flimsy/flexy. The keyboard is fine I suppose, generic chiclet keys which I don't mind at all. But the trackpad is quite mediocre compared to any Macbook.