skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that looks terrible.

my favorite part of tweetstorms is the compartmentalization of ideas and arguments. if a point in the story is 50 chars, its 50 chars with a break point. if its 100, let it be 100. making the story one string feel like reading long text, whereas breaking it down feels more comfortable to me.

but this is all subjective, and that website's design is pretty sleek :)
To do testing after CBT (validating models), fundamental research, and to a lesser extent, fusion power research.

(Well, the primary reason is to spend money.)
Optimizely Personalization is Here
Anyone else read Animal Farm by George Orwell, and feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you read this paragraph:

“Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates should do the right thing—follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect,”

or is it just me?
Their core strength is on the Individual -> Broadcast communication angle. Facebook tried to pick it up, but their mental model is still firmly Individual -> Group & Individual -> Individual.

Twitter's "Follow" function being the core method of interaction, and defaulting to public feeds that you can easily interact with is actually fairly different even from a blog or say tumblr, whose core method of interacting is content-first. The balance of power (you can tweet, I can tweet back, I can retweet you, you can retweet me—and they all look the same and have the same weight in the UI) is the main advantage, and if they can play that well then they have a chance.
I've recently started working on an application using email and was considering using Nylas but have hesitated for the same reasons as you. But IMAP is such a pain that I may go ahead anyway. Have you considered running their sync engine yourself?
For most jobs, why does anyone really need a college education? I was just having this conversation with my co-workers. We are a small startup and are looking for an office manager. Immediately one of them drafted an add and the first thing under requirements was a Bachelors Degree. I asked why? And he just looked at me and said - thats what everyone does.

We had a good conversation and came to an understanding that for this position, a college degree would not help at all. What we need is a person who is smart, hands on, able to learn quickly, with a great and positive personality . A college degree does not guarantee any of that. In fact in my experience, it just breeds 20 year olds with an ego and chip on their shoulders.

Proud to say our add's requirements now just say simply:

- Smart

- Motivated

- Positive atitude that always looks for ways to be more efficient

- Willing to help out around the office (answer calls, setup appointments, plan events, and handle all the overlooked details that help us succeed!)

- Willing to learn the ins and outs of the business

And we just got three of the best candidates in a long time - now the problem is we can only hire one.
If ridden purely for exercise, lighter equipment lets you cover more ground in the same amount of time. You don't work any less, you just go faster.

There another reason many people ride bikes: purely for fun. High performance equipment tends to be more satisfying for many.
Are the "pixels" DOM elements or how does this work?
Can't buy them legally, though, can you?
I am surprised people don't know that there are two types of security, Mossad and non-Mossad. You can't win against Mossad.
Can you solve this brain teaser?
Linus on kernel management style (2004)
Improving the Linux kernel with upstream contributions
There's the UltraNav USB Keyboard [1] which is basically a clone of a 2008-era T series keyboard. The trackpad feels a little cramped compared to modern trackpads, and there's no Windows key, but it's still a very nice keyboard. Not wireless, though.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/IBM-UltraNav-Keyboard-Integrated-Point...
Unit-testing embedded C applications with Ceedling
Lots of variables enter into this, but here's Pixi.js' bunnymark if you want to try this yourself: http://www.goodboydigital.com/pixijs/bunnymark/

My system (OSX 10.10.5, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5, 16 GB RAM) running Chrome 45.0.2454.101 (64-bit) gets north of ~80k bunnies before dropping FPS below 60.

Don't measure when adding, add a bunch and let it run for a bit.
The burgeoning field of neutrino astronomy
Come on, your username was enough... b^)
OT, but fun: For programming, run a spigot server with the scriptcraft plugin. Instant JavaScript fun inside minecraft!
So, you've never heard of a good person being led to do bad things by the superiors they answer to?
Bringing Smart Surveillance to Everyone
Are you a professional investor?
Ricardo assumed immobile capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Free_mob...
I loved these nipples. Only Apple's trackpad is better than it.
Depending on the meds it's probably cheaper for some people to fly to UK and get a private prescription.
Thought experiments resulting in "I don't think something will happen in the future" aren't evidence.
> Lots (and I mean lots) of normal, private citizens drive these vehicles as their normal commuter cars or to run errands

Most of those people use the truck part of the time for tasks that only a medium-duty truck can do, such as towing a boat or trailer, horses etc. They just aren't wealthy enough to dedicate the truck to that single purpose so it is also used as a "daily driver".

> Also the vehicles (for private, non-business use) are preferentially taxed

I'm not aware of any such tax advantage, at least where I live (TX). Diesel fuel is taxed at a significantly higher rate than gasoline. There were (still are?) some IRS deductions for business use of expensive trucks/suvs but that doesn't fit the case you've described.

disclaimer: I own a 3/4 ton diesel pickup used exclusively for private trailers hauling
I have both a ThinkPad and a MacBook Pro and MacBooks are also doing it.

I prefer to override Caps Lock to be another Ctrl and I can't remember the last time I felt the need to use the normal left-Ctrl. The best part is that Caps Lock is here to stay because many users like to write ALL CAPS.
Most of the hits for Linus being brutal on Google are him dressing down someone doing something arrogant and/or stupid. Generally he seems relatively pragmatic but gruff.
Terrific job, congrats to all the team! Curious to know why you choose MySQL and not PostgreSQL.
A bit of advice for anybody who wants to subscribe to the NYT (I'm a very happy subscriber) but might not be in the position to pay the full subscription rate - Wait for a discount offering, subscribe for the introductory period, then, when your subscription switches over to the regular rate, call and cancel, just let them know you can't afford the full price, and they'll give you a 50% discount.
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Are you implying that a contract, legally entered into by a democratically elected government, should be able to be rescinded without need for compensation whenever the government or electorate feels like it?

This is the type of thinking that leads to nationalization of property without compensation, such as that being done in Venezuela and that which is expressly prohibited by the US Constitution - and it's prohibited for good reason.
If the interconnections are limited to the extent said off-the-shelf hardware just can't have privileged access to the other parts of the system, it's safe. That said, it doesn't matter if modem is hacked if it can't do much.

Backdooring an MCU so it'd allow access on a secret code from anywhere is surely possible in theory, but it'll be hard to hide the cost of adding such backdoor.
It's a slow news day when one's identity-charged tripe diatribe after having spent a few minutes on /r9k/, is published as a major column.

Such demagoguery is by now well known to be the least productive thing to do after a mass shooting.
Its not just women that are being put off.

I find it peculiar that you start with this sentence, even though the OP says nothing about women in general. It seems that identity politics in such discussions has become so common that it is assumed be there by default.
I'd be happy with a bit of criticism from either.
Very interesting, can you explain further?
Tinder for news
New study: Exercising frequently may reduce suicide attempts in bullied teens
Three states of elevated consciousness
That's just a measure of popularity, not quality (however that could be defined).
I was confused as to why you found that unusual until I realized that this is actually only normal for those who use an Apple keyboard.
> Suppose the app was smart enough to do some clever analysis.

When Alice gives a bad review of Bob, I think to myself, "Why is Alice giving a bad review of Bob?" I'm putting myself in Alice's shoes. There is absolutely no hope that a computer program would be sophisticated enough to do that, not yet, not for at least a decade (translation: possibly not in my lifetime).

Computers can't even solve the "simple" problem of matching people in romantic relationships. When we throw computers at the more general problem of human interactions and trust, we should naturally expect them to completely botch it.
How does that mean the quality is better?
Collection of Startup Lessons by Paul Graham (Co-Founder – Y Combinator)
not to discredit how reliable thinkpads are, but wasn't there news that lenovo's been installing secret backdoors on its laptops?
The drill doesn't pull you down. The equilibrium is achieved by (roughly speaking) (the force that the drill bit pushes the ground) = (the force that the ground pushes the drill up) = (the force that you push the drill down) = (the force that the drill pushes you up) = (the force that the Earth pulls you down).

The Earth's gravity on your body enables all this force; without it you need to invent some other way of pushing down the drill.
If this report is correct, it's not that the security app is not secure, it's that the app has been criminally misrepresented as it is riddled with spyware, logging and tracking.
I've been using Mailbox by Dropbox for a while and it's still very rough, not even beta quality by Google standards.

Most frustrating is that search doesn't work at all.

I have multiple accounts, but if I didn't I would still prefer the gmail web interface to any thick client app I've used (so far).
SampleClean: Data Cleaning With Algorithms, Machines, and People
Your username looked familiar. I finally figured out where I'd seen it. Earlier this year, we both commented on an article about the Charlie Hebdo massacre.[1][2] You said, "I think both parties were at wrong here." and, "…the level of Satire in question here, was perhaps too much."[3]

I recall being utterly astonished by your comment. People were murdered for drawing cartoons and you insinuate that it was partially their fault. Shame on you.

1. HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879215

2. My comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879389

3. rikacomet's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879528
i'd think his nose would still grow because he lied when he said it
Just be ready for them to hike your rate without any type of alert after the initial period expires. This applies even to gifted subscriptions like the one I was given for Christmas. The customer service was...unsympathetic.
I see this as a bad idea because it is personal and it is in print. When people have a bad experience with each other, time tends to heal the situation and many learn from the experience and most move on. Perhaps many situations could be chalked up to personality chemistry or bad timing or health issues.

When the experiences are put in print and published, they drudge up the past and make a dynamic thing a static thing. The printed version of a bad experience won't heal and forgive as people do and the rating won't reinvent itself as people do.

Even credit history is not kept for more than seven years if I'm not mistaken. People do change.
Site was down when I tried to load it today. Here's a mirror via Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:miranj...
I've found nytimes.com content to be great and exhibiting great technical, artistic, and journalistic merit[1]. As a result, I visit it daily and and it's the first time in my life I have a paid recurring news subscription.

However, nytimes.com has a very regrettable pricing structure, as you say. They seem to aim to be Comcast-like. The pricing is:

* Heavily promotional (special price 50%+ off sticker price)

* Difficult to cancel (you are asked to call them, although they will ultimately run it through email)

* Opaque in billing (no way to actually look at the terms of your current subscription/promotion; full payment history hidden away to obscure how much you're paying them)

They do this no doubt because it works in the short term and bumps up numbers. But as a consumer I can't help but feel they are losing goodwill and face in this new age and hope they come around to more contemporary online billing practices.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/21/business/media... is the best example I can find. It's very nice to get stuff like this every week. Kudos to the web team.
The firmware of the gsm-modem, called the baseband, can be updated by the service-providers at any-time. Triggering any kind of exploit of the user OS is trivial then. Heck, you don't even need to think as complicated as that, looking at the permissions granted to the most installed apps.
Both postfix and qmail have quite thorough privilege separation.

Most people run Postfix out of the box (apt-get install, answer which domains you want to route mail for, done) and it's completely solid. Wietse Venema had a name for himself in security circles long before he started writing it. DJB too. Neither is likely to be the vulnerable link in your system.
>To solve this, Sandcats issues certificates valid for only seven days.

I'm not sure I'm convinced that the primary motivation for the 7-day certs was users security.
I'm not sure OpenSMTPD is attempting to cover all use cases.
The only currently-extant memory-unsafe language.

Some variants of Forth?

OpenSMTPD actually dates back earlier to around 2009, when it was introduced in 4.6.

Not that this is even notable, as virtually all major OpenBSD projects are C-based.
Interesting case study - he's "just" a full-time gamer, but there are tons of parallels in market timing, luck, peristence, positioning yourself in the market, getting to your first $100K revenue, and balancing founder-level time commitments with raising a family.
> For most jobs, why does anyone really need a college education?

To get the job.
I agree. Further, these problems have been known since the 1960's with solutions available then. Should've been adopted once the cheap hardware caught up in performance. The thing that surprises me is how many people think C's design decisions were well-thought or something vs competition. No, they just stripped every good protection or feature from ALGOL, etc so it would fit on the PDP-11. Did same for UNIX. That made sense given what they had on hand but keeping it all the way into 2015? See main article's gripes for entirely-predictable result.

Gave details here on C and UNIX history with counterexamples from other systems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273656
Red Velvet Underground
As someone living in Western/Northern Europe, it's not clear to me what you mean. Can you describe it a bit more?

The British government knew where I worked, through the tax system. They knew, more-or-less, where I lived, by my registration to vote (compulsory, though not well enforced as far as I know). Is that what you don't like?
The Lenovo X1 Carbon actually did remove caps, instead putting home/end there. I believe it also removed the F keys, instead adding an "adaptive" touch strip. They undid it in the latest version. I wouldn't consider anything safe from the terrible designers at Lenovo.

It is fine that they wanna experiment. I just wish they'd sell a premium option with the old style, good, keyboards.
Web Summit Controversy?
That's pretty much the intention. I have heard Larry Wall say that Camelia was created to appeal to 7 year old girls. I didn't hear him go into any complicated discussions regarding masculinity/femininity or any of that jazz.
As far as I'm aware, UMTS has not been hacked. You can tell the device to connect to UMTS only. Of course this doesn't stop carriers from giving government agencies direct access to communications. If secure communications is your concern then you should always encrypt your calls and data.

The Neo900 modem is sandboxed at hardware-level, monitors all activity and gives the user complete control over it so you will know if something fishy is being attempted and you will be able to prevent it. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible for an adversary to take over the device. Regular Linux (by that I mean not Android) can be installed so it is far less likely to contain any backdoors.

If triangulation of your location is a concern, just switch off the modem.
Is JMAP [1] support on the roadmap? Once email providers (namely Fastmail, who wrote the spec) start supporting it, of course.

[1] http://jmap.io/
Negotiators Finish TPP; but Don't Expect to See the Text for a While
Why do I need to run a whole stack for a mail client? It's a mail client! Why is everything JS web services :(
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I worked in a place where I'd be scolded once in a while when I did something stupid and I enjoyed it[0] for a while as long as it was fair.

It quickly became annoying when it turned out the same people who criticised others harshly swept their own mistakes under the rug ...

[0]: "As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another."
You say swapped, I say its the correct placement. I use control much more frequently than fn, and its easier to reach it with my pinky on the thinkpad keyboard.
Do goats grow on trees?
Yeah, there are other memory-unsafe languages. His overall point remains. Matter of fact, thanks to you, I can now drop bombs on concurrency angle thanks to Concurrent Pascal, Solo, etc. Relevant given all the C & BSD apps juggling threads. To think mainstream is just now solving these problems in past 3-5 years despite proven solutions available... (rolls eyes)
I've currently got rEFInd dual-booting Yosemite and Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro 11,3 (15", mid-2014, 2.5GHz) - and it works just fine. It took some tweaking - the Linux distro didn't come with Wifi support right away, and it took some searching to figure out the problem (you'll have to install the Broadcom drivers manually from the Linux boot drive). But after that got worked out, it's become a pleasure to work with.

The most frustrating bit was actually getting it to output at a native 2560x1080 resolution for my LG Ultrawide. But, again, there's a driver for it. The only reason I haven't switched to it full-time is I haven't had the time/luxury of incorporating it into my current workflow. Too many deadlines. But I plan to, and until then I'll just keep using Yosemite.
The mac has the command-key though, making the ctrl-key less important.
Crafting Artificial Arteries
More easily, the House and Senate are able to promulgate their own rules. Since the rules of things like consideration limits and cloture are not enshrined in the Constitution, but rather in House and Senate rules, they are free to pass a law like TPA that sets special procedures.[1][2] I may have strayed from your point though.

[1] http://www.libertylawsite.org/2015/05/29/fast-track-for-the-...

[2]Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892)
What other motivation do you suspect?
Meet Project Comet
Poor Grim_Reaper. Nothing to do all day but post complaints in a Perl 6 thread. I hope you can find some sort of purpose in life, friend.
Newly found malware can harm any iPhone or iOS device
"The packages and ports collection does NOT go through the same thorough security audit that is performed on the OpenBSD base system. Although we strive to keep the quality of the packages collection high, we just do not have enough human resources to ensure the same level of robustness and security. Of course security updates for various applications are committed to the ports tree as soon as possible, and corresponding package security updates are made available as snapshots for -current."

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Intro
Even a contract doesn't really guarantee anything because it will probably never be worth it to get a lawyer and deal with suing them.

Just make sure they pay you regularly and if they want to pay when everything is finished then get a down payment. Don't let it get to the point where they owe you a lot of money because you never know if they'll pay. Try to not create a situation where if they don't pay the amount they owe you then it will really hurt you.
Every of those pseudo-sharing company is distasteful.

Sharing should work without for-profits.
There's a tradeoff there in the number of satellites needed and the amount of fuel needed to maintain their orbits... the closer to the planet, the more drag. I suspect the larger number of smaller satellites will also produce lower available bandwidth, but I'm not sure how that scales.

I recently saw an article about impulse engines using an arc-welding type approach where just electricity and some sort of metallic rod were needed. If these can be made small enough that could bring down the cost of station keeping dramatically, since presumably you could get a lot more lifetime thrust per kg of mass using that metal, then you would with propellants. (And the electricity can be harvested in orbit.)
"IEA (2010) defined Middle East as Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.[1] According to this definition, Middle East population was 127 million in 1990 and 205 million in 2010." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Middle_Eas...
See, this is exactly what I mean. You don't seem to be aware that it's possible for there to be a difference between "good design" and "maximize immediate profits." This is why shoddy clickbait is taking over the web.
My Grandpa Really Did Enjoy a Better Shave
American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy
Engine parts from Level3? Like generators?
Lessons from a crack dealer, a cop and a high school drop out
Why didn't Sean just google the spelling of "googol?"
I never said they were. Frankly, the studies should motivate singles to make a concerted effort to get out and interact with people in real life.