skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of The Economist, is anyone else getting a ridiculous amount of third party spam pushing The Economist subscriptions?

I'm getting several a day, typically from domains in the new TLDs, such as .date, .science, .faith, and .review. The domain names match the IP addresses, have SPF records that check out, and they body doesn't have any of the usual things that make it look like spam, and so Spamassassin is marking many of these with a score of around -2.4. They look so non-spammy that even though I keep feeding them to my "train spam" script I'm barely getting the score to move. (Occasionally one does come from an IP that is in a blocklist and so does get marked as spam)

I assumed they were probably phishing attempts, but all the links really do go to The Economist's website, and the ones in the mail that go to ordering pages use https and the certificate checks out.

My current guess is that it is a rogue affiliate, or possibly that The Economist is not doing a good job of policing their affiliates since the rules of their affiliate program [1] (assuming that's what those actually are) says that affiliates can send email to people in their own database, but that these must be approved by the merchant (which would be The Economist) prior to being sent. All the links when they end up at The Economist have a /AFF/DM appended which I'm guessing identifies the affiliate.

I'm absolutely certain that I did not subscribe to their affiliate's list because not only am I getting these at my home address, I am also getting them at my work address, AND I'm getting them at several former co-worker addresses that are forwarded to me (just in case some legacy report or monitor was overlooked when addresses were updated when they left), and I'm also getting them on some work mailing list addresses (e.g., it@my_employer).

[1] https://subscriptions.economist.com/CE/affilinet_TCs.pdf
My dad was the first mate on deep-sea freighters operating between Oakland and SE Asia. Once they transported munitions from the Concord Naval Weapons Station, located at the mouth of the Sacremento River, to a US ally in Asia. Their route through San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Strait all the way out to blue waters was cleared of all ships an hour prior to their departure. Transporting munitions is a very dangerous activity.
I don't know if this matters to you personally, but the thing about Twitter DMs (and about FB messages, I suppose) is that there is whitelisting by default:

If you aren't following me, I can't spam your inbox.

That is a very substantial difference for many people, and why they will use FB messenger, Twitter, or other services in lieu of mail.
Weibo link (with video): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049192
Twitter blog post about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049137
This is newly relevant with the launch of Squeak 5.
He has other pics of the explosion, damage, injured people (not too gory), etc:

https://twitter.com/thelastnext
The economist is very good at providing readers with the illusion of being informed.

Think about how multifaceted US policy is on any given day of the year. The economist boils down similar issues to a blurb on a page with a heading that says "middle east." So now you can turn that page and be confident that for this week you know what's going on in the middle east.

The truth is the economist fills a void. Before reading an issue you know nothing about current events in India. After reading you know something. Something is vastly more power than confessing ignorance in any situation. And if anyone questions you, well, the economist said so.
> In GPG's model a MITM or malicious mirror can serve you old, known vulnerable content that you'll accept as valid because the signatures verify.

This presumes you use HTTP, have a compromised SSL cert, or have pissed off the NSA. At the worst one would be installing older packages with known vulnerabilities via a replay attack, not a fresh code injection by the attacker. This is more the fault of the package manager running over HTTP than GPG, as far as I can see.

Here's a paper covering 'survivable key compromise' by the same chaps: http://freehaven.net/~arma/tuf-ccs2010.pdf. Interesting stuff.
I'm 90% sure that there's a lot of Boontling in Pynchon's novel _Vineland_, set in northern CA, though I haven't seen a full glossary. This one doesn't mention it, but as I recall, a "Wheeler" is a tall tale, and the protagonist has that last name--possibly a coincidence, but I remember having found a few others as well.
> BLAKE(2) is not open to length-extension attacks---in fact resistance to those was a requirement of any SHA-3 submission.

I did make a mistake understanding the algorithm. You're mostly right: no length extension attack has yet been found. However, HAIFA is far more similar to MD than the sponge construction, and this is widely cited as a reason for Keccak's selection.

> As far as security goes, Keccak and BLAKE are mostly in equal standing both in security margin (number of rounds attacked vs total number of rounds) and cryptanalytic attention received.

Then why was Keccak selected? It's clear that at least some analysts think Keccak has significant advantages over BLAKE.

And ultimately my point still stands: a comparison of cryptographic hashes should start with a discussion of their security properties. Glibly stating "it's faster therefore it's better!" is highly dangerous.
Quality and accountability is what happens when we pay.

This may plausibly be necessary, but it certainly isn't sufficient.
Thats how it started! I do the same thing.

I was considering to temporarily make this a browser extension.

Do you think you would use it if it was?
If they think a recipe for growing mushrooms is bad, then they should not look at the rest of the site.
I think the pro-free-trade, anti-regulation, anti-union, and anti-populist sentiment used to be limited to the 'leaders' or specific editorials; since ~2006 it has become much more common in the content articles.

I think it's 1) more balanced than most 2) still not very balanced and 3) easy enough to sort out the facts from the liberal (in the global sense of the word) triumphalism.
...if general intelligence is one of the ultimate objectives of the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, then they are very much on the right track...

Bold assertion.
Indeed, it's "pay what you want". Should've been clearer.0, sorry!
OS X and Linux are not the same OS. The entire stack for writing GUI applications is completely different - as different as writing an iOS app vs. an Android app. OS X and Linux don't share the same kernel, the same foundation frameworks, or the same UI frameworks. The entire application would have to be written from scratch. If they're really ambitious they could probably share some Objective-C business logic, but anything that touches the UI is platform specific.
Baidu explains how it’s mastering Mandarin with deep learning
Deep learning is anything that's been written about neural networks since 2006. Seriously.

Everything else is some subset of "machine learning" of which "deep learning" is also a subset.
Note that the paper observes:

"liberals tend to be connected to fewer friends
who share information from the other side, compared to
their conservative counterparts: 24% of the hard content
shared by liberals’ friends are cross-cutting, compared to
35% for conservatives"

The more articles that I can't agree with I find in my feed, the less likely I am to click on one of them than a guy who sees them less often.

Even if we both read exactly 3 such articles a week.
Does anyone have a link to the actual paper?
we know that we can't "see" most of the Universe - the dark matter/energy. That pretty much can happen to be the real Universe, and we're just living in the part set aside for the non-intelligent species. It is like being an ant on Earth - there is a planetary tech civilization being developed while you have no idea what is going around. The only interaction you my have with the civilization - if you're lucky, and you are some kind of special ants, then your colony may get moved before dam valley to be flooded, otherwise - not even that...
Comically, as soon as the animated GIF showed the person's response, I closed the tab because I didn't want to read all of it.

That was the whole point of the short messaging service of Twitter.
nix-shell is a killer tool. A generic virtualenv that doesn't duplicate dependencies if you use it for multiple projects.
If you required each block to be at least 75% full, what's to stop miners padding out the blocks with trivial transactions?
A lot of my thoughts on this subject were inspired by this Tweet: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/616327747435036672

Maybe check out Gary Bernhardt's code?
Sorry, looking back at my question now, I realise I should have at least included a link to Microsoft's tossup so people can see what its about:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/06/microsofts-new-tossup-app-l...

and here is a link to my site:

http://klavado.com/welcome/when-and-where

I haven't been able to use Microsoft's app as its currently limited to the US and Canada but from what I gather, the functionality is quite similar.
Project Sentry Gun
I love your points.

Im bullish on making it a part of the the social buttons.

The data I've seen from working at a publication company for the past two years is the following: Desktop users will start an article, then scroll to the bottom before leaving; The average bounce point for users is after the "first page; Most users dont click share buttons.
My favorite project of his is the pantorouter.

http://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/

I plan on buying his Sketchup plans and building it this fall/winter.
This is a long shot, but my hunch is that there's probably something political going on here.

Reddit is typically the target of large scale pro-Russian propaganda shilling/submissions, and, as far as I know, not well-used by Russians. With that in mind, Russia isn't actually that serious about its "war on drugs"-- it's probable that this was just a cover story.
How to Speed Up Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?
Show HN: Find a home close to work
According to the Official Story, it was just a normal erasure accidentally done by a secretary who was transcribing it.

I don't necessarily buy that story, but a thorough analysis could shed some evidence on that, too.
Brilliant:

> "InvestHK quietly erased online evidence that it once gushed about the car-hailing app...
In May, InvestHK, a government department that aims to “attract and retain foreign direct investment”, published a piece proudly talking about the company’s decision to launch in Hong Kong."

http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/08/12/after-arrests-hong-ko...
;) Wonder what it would feel like to be bought by a dinosaur..
Buck is a nearly verbatim clone of the build system used inside Google, except that the word "blaze" has been replaced by the word "buck", and it was written by xooglers at facebook.
I think the problem is that in user interfaces pretty good can be a million miles from good. It's like the uncanny valley in animation - the app feels wrong or ill but I can't quite tell why and it's very off-putting.

But maybe I'm too snobby about user interfaces.
$1/week is a lot for what a single author could put out. If you take into account time researching, I can't imagine that would amount to more an article per week at any kind of quality?
And they'll be better for it (the Russians)...
I was just trying to get Nix working after needing a version of base (GHC) newer than what I had installed.

The situation seems to have gotten a bit simpler with newer versions of the nix tools (this is of no fault of the author of this post, the post is more than a year old, their blog has great haskell stuff!).

Anyway, for haskell development you can just:

1. Write cabal file (e.g., ./project.cabal)
2. cabal2nix --shell . >shell.nix
3. nix-shell

After step 3, all the required packages, including stuff like GHC, will be installed. You can use cabal however you normally do to build the project:

4. cabal sandbox init
5. cabal build
Touch screen keyboard concept design
He gets that middle class welfare due to his child. As a single male professional in Australia, I see none of that middle class welfare, unless I start speculating in real estate or taking advantage of superannuation concessions.
Nothing strange about it. Don't listen to what women say, but watch what they do. When dealing with women you always have to keep that in mind. For instance, I have this one rather hot friend. She hangs out with a bunch of guys who want to sleep with her. Yet, she complains that all of her male friends want to sleep with her. Yet, she still hangs out with them. Now why would she do that? Attention and validation. She may not want to sleep with most of those guys, but she likes the attention that she receives from them. It's like the episode of The King of Queens when Carrie was upset that the construction workers didn't catcall her. It's not that she enjoyed being catcalled, but that those guys no longer found her sexually desirable.

The women on Tinder, and every other online dating site, they don't all want dick pics. It does get annoying. But, they still like to feel desired, and getting a bunch of responses from men validates that a woman is still sexually viable, attractive, and that men want her. You can say that it's a confidence booster.
I think sometimes it's a case where things are bad, but the project owners have a few long shots out there and are hoping that one of them will come through. I guess in a perfect world, they would just write that as well.
Nice. I haven't heard of Twitter product changes since ages. I don't use DM's that much, but it looks like a logical choice.
> what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets?

Then we can all celebrate the end of an arbitrary and obsolete limitation?

The justifications for the 140-character limit have always been:

1) It was necessary in order to make Twitter-via-SMS work

2) It forces users to create better Tweets by removing the option to be long-winded

Twitter-via-SMS was compelling when the only other way to use the service was their original Web interface, but now that Twitter support is baked into umpty gazillion apps and devices there's no reason to limit the rest of the service just to cater to it. And even if you agree that shorter Tweets are always better Tweets (I would argue that point, but that's another discussion), why does Twitter need to enforce that at the application level? If shorter Tweets are better Tweets, that should be a law that enforces itself as people follow those who keep it short and sweet and unfollow those who don't, no? Why not just let people post what they want to post, and trust the users of Twitter to know what they like?
That'd be a shame if it were true.

GitHub has 6 pages of public repositories (https://github.com/github) that you can peruse. To pre-empt your response, yes, they aren't all open source projects that GitHub has released. But a great many of them are. Some of their popular projects include things like Atom, Hubot, Boxen, Linguist, and many more.

They also have developers who contribute to a great many other projects as part of their daily work; Ruby springs to mind - Aman Gupta and Charlie Somerville have contributed quite a lot. And they pay at least two people to work effectively full time on git itself.

But don't let facts get in the way of your rant.
>invest at 10% (you get to work out where)

That's the line where everything fell apart.
I lean toward having this work on trusted publishers.

The pocket/new tab method is good, except when you have too much stuff. There is a breaking point for both of those systems, in that you have too many "saved" pieces. When you get to that point, adding new pieces is meaningless.

The defined future reminder prevents this accumulation of delayed content to happen.
They have a Windows version. Linux isn't less like OS X than Windows is.
I don't think this can work at all. You don't hire a remote team, you hire individual freelancers and a local manager to manage them, otherwise you are caught into a scam system which won't let you go until you run out of money.
Serious question: why not target a platform that's more similar to what Crash Bandicoot was built for, and then run it in some sort of Steam-compatible emulation layer[1]? This would have given you a potentially great game, and at least an MVP that you should sell and also show investors with a "imagine this with way better graphics!" pitch, instead of having great graphics without as much of a complete game, given limited time and resources.

1. I'm shooting from the hip, because I have zero game dev experience, and I know even know if this is possible, let alone whether it even makes sense (are 8-bit, etc. games more simple to build than those with modern graphics?).
Interesting Analysis of Minimum Wage Adjusted for Cost of Living by City
Existing competitors means two good things: customers exist, and the product is understood in the market. Building a better mousetrap is the ideal startup. There's nothing wrong with competition.
He's 48. I am 50. I know most folks here are in their 30's and 20's. Let me suggest the better takeaway is that if you want a particular lifestyle or personal outcome and you are persistent over time, you can do all kinds of things that look undoable to most people.

His real secret is he made a decision to walk away from keeping up with The Jones' and stuck with it for many years. If you do the same, you can have similar outcomes by his age, assuming you want that. Some people do. Some people don't.
I can't help but imagine a party, not entirely unlike the opening scene of Animal House except that everyone is older. Our protagonist enters and a hipster host quickly leads him away from the action and into a side room saying "Rich, Paul is working on a new dialect of lisp, too."
What does anyone think of Aurelia? (http://aurelia.io)
Very interesting. The site looks clean and it's fast.

Where do you get your data? I used to work for one of the industry dinosaurs; our only competitive advantage was that we had agreements with most of the 674 MLSes to rehost their data for our clients, which were RE Agent companies. Zillow is still using Trulia as a pipe to funnel that MLS data from my former employer.

Is that one of the reasons for piloting in CA - fewer MLSes to partner with?
Don’t Be Evil: Google, Alphabet, and Machiavelli
Hmm,

I can't tell from this description how "MANIC" solves the broad frame problem.

Another issue that I think Nicholas Cassimatis has focused on the most is that any multi-model approach is going to need much tighter integration between modules than ordinary software system normally have.

And altogether, the document seems little more than a series of arrows drawn between different subsystems. It may be "correct" but so broad as to be not-useful. I'll have to look at their implementation.
What's different now than at your launch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113240)?
I think that you're missing the point (or at least talking around it). Namely - what is your timeline for actually securing Docker? Features like `docker cp` are nice, but don't help me when I really can't use Docker securely in production until things like user namespaces are running. I have multi-tenant systems and right now the only way for me to run Docker securely is to use it w/in a VM.

Certainly, it will take time to battle-test anything, so the sooner that feature has been released, the sooner that we can get started doing the battle-testing.

It would be helpful to have a clearer roadmap for features like this.
I don't doubt that there are regulatory regimes with broken rules that require people to add harmful complexity to systems in order to satisfy rubber chicken security requirements, but I'm going to call those rules what they are.
Yes, precursors are toxic. But it's also easy to overheat a Teflon pan when preparing to fry something up, and it's not healthy:

"Use low or medium heat with Teflon skillets and pans. When Teflon-coated cookware is overheated, the cookware releases fumes that may cause flu-like symptoms in humans."
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/dangers-scratched-teflon-cookwa...

I prefer other types of cookware, for myself.
Great idea! Also check out https://www.wallabag.org, a self hostable application for saving web pages.
Angry birds, and all merchandise around it, also sold really well.... is that an AAA game too? CandyCrush? Farmsville back in the day?
Spotify is reportedly scaling back free streaming
It's probably due to /r/UkrainianConflict/
Keep in mind that the project succeeded, but the company behind that project failed. The game was shipped, and is currently available. But because they were not able to do so in a sustainable way, they have no money leftover for the company, including to ship the physical Kickstarter bonuses.
I was ready to be persuaded by your first statement: "In 2011 he was proposing to Satoshi that he should take over the project[0]", but then I actually clicked through the link you provided and, while expecting some shocking revelation, I instead found what seems to be a solitary email sent to the ether so to speak and a very reasonable email too at that.

This "attack" on someone who worked for google as a network engineer, who has contributed to bitcoin for years, who has given us SPV wallets and a million other things, in this forum out of all places, sounds desperate.
That is really judging a book by its cover.
"I wanted to believe that a team of 6 to 10 people could make a game that looked and felt AAA. Boy was I wrong!"

"In the video game industry, AAA (pronounced "triple A") is a classification term used for games with the highest development budgets and levels of promotion.[1][2][3][4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)

It should be obvious from this definition of an AAA game that 6-10 people in a small indie game studio can't make a game with 'the highest development budgets and levels of promotion'. It requires lots of $$$ and other resources, which an indie game company almost never has.

"Wisdom begins with the definition of terms." - attributed to Socrates
Transclusion and Template Scope in Angular Directives Demystified
Again: I'm simply saying that I/O is probably significantly slower than a software DRBG, no matter how fast the peripheral is internally.
Dolphins' Stephen Ross Putting $1M Behind Drone Racing League
>Surely there must be a usable shell wrapped around an actual modern language?

AFAIK, the answer is no. I've spent a bit of time thinking about this problem and my conclusion is that the things that make a shell nice to use interactively are the same things that make it bad as a programming language. Rc may be as close as we will ever get to it.
100% agree! Was hoping to have the full manual done today, but it's not ready yet. Kinda worked out - I'll spend today ducking as the GitHub goliath whooshes over me for HN readership's attention ;-).

The rest of the product's docs are complete and full of screenshots:

https://docs.diffplug.com/1.6.1/ViewerDiffers/TextViewerDiff...

so the git client will be too. This client animates changes to the DAG, so I'm experimenting with animated gifs so that the manual can capture the feel of using it.
> On August 10, Russian censors complained that they were unable to contact Reddit's administrators

I'm going to guess this is either totally false, or if they did reach out to reddit, they didn't make it at all clear they were a legitimate Russian government organization.
Step 2: Do not get paid like in the US.
One thing to add to that list is that an AAA game is also somewhat defined by the amount of marketing and promotion that goes along with it.
In any given issue the Middle East & Africa section is 4-5 pages long, hardly a "blurb".
LISP dialect invented by Paul Graham. This site is written in Arc. Afaik that is the only mayor application so far.

http://arclanguage.org/

http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html