skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, FWIW, search defined virtual folder is a client concept and would be trivially implemented over IMAP's incredibly powerful (and I believe I remember being even extensible) search commands, if only IMAP servers tended to provide the right kinds of index to make such queries fast. (I know this, as I was working on a highly scalable and very efficient IMAP server a few years ago that I had to force myself to stop working on as it was too much of a distraction from the things in life that are actually capable of putting food on the table.)

Mark Crispin was actually pretty-damned prescient when it came to IMAP: he believed that client operations should be offloaded to a server that would have much more disk space and CPU than the client, which is exactly the model everyone reaches for today, and thereby designed a thin client protocol that had asynchronous updates baked into its core. A few years ago, he passed away: here is what I wrote at the time about his mission for IMAP and history on the project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826113

Really, the only thing in IMAP to actively dislike is how the thin client view requires the server to have a "dense" (here I mean the mathematics term, not from the technical spec) numbering of messages the client is modeling in its view (this is the reason opening a large mailbox via Zimbra takes forever, and why many IMAP servers have dumb global locks), but I have come up with some techniques that should allow me to handle that with minimal overhead. Otherwise, with some of the modern extensions in place (QRESYNC, for example), IMAP is pretty damned awesome.
AFAIK, sim cards are basically storage devices. When did they get CPUs?
I have found teamtreehouse.com and codeschool.com both more engaging than codeacademy, but it can be tough to stay focused unless you really want to build a particular thing, or, you have a group / class that you are working with to keep you focused and motivated.
Chuck, I appreciate your thoughtful insights on this.

But what happens if it turns out that an insufficient minority are willing to pay for content to make businesses like the NYT and other publishers viable businesses (or at least viable at their current scale in their current incarnation)?

My current thinking is that if they were to stop writing, people would just get their news from elsewhere, and other publishers would gladly fill their shoes.

What are your thoughts around that? If enough people keep rejecting approaches to payment models (indicating they are not willing to pay), will we simply see the publisher space continue to shrink/degrade until it reaches equilibrium with the revenue they can manage to eek out?
Having grown up with screens that never seemed bright enough, it's funny to me that in 2015 I'd be far more interested in one whose backlight is able to go particularly low.
Delighted to see this finally make the front page. I submitted it just a few days ago, but it was quickly buried: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309001

My favorite part starts at 40:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzi9R_55Iw&feature=youtu.be...

Paraphrasing:

“Our goal is not to measure "answers right per test", or "test passed per year", but rather Sistine Chapel Ceilings per lifetime.”

That gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.
Google needed Facebook to have a MySpace moment to open the door but their insistence on real names, binding all of your accounts (Gmail, Youtube, etc) to your Google+ account and Google's history of unceremoniously dropping support for services if they under-perform kept me and millions of others from going there.
So what... they get a sizeable payout for underestimating a risk? I don't see how that could backfire.
He is still around. Wiki gives his post-PARC resume:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
Most recently he has been running a small research institute:
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf
I see. I misinterpreted your intention due your alternative technique never actually being introduced as such until now.
Precisely the reason why LINE is so popular in Asia particularly between people who just met.
I think what GP is saying is that you need a Facebook account to get a developer account, so they create fake identities to attach to developer accounts.
There's a big difference between drugs (which did legitimately cost someone at some point many millions to research and prove effective and safe) and music (which anyone with a modicum of talent can make in their garage and which costs millions only to market).

As a corollary, get your music from people with no marketing budget. They'll be forced to charge what it actually costs.
"Engineers" in this context meaning "Heads of engineering departments". These guys aren't individual contributor engineers.
>Practically speaking the main users that want INTERNET to be a permission and to revoke it are people that want to block ads. That's a moral grey area at best, so making that harder is far from "evil".

I'm not sure where the grey area is here. I am not under any moral compulsion to make requests on a network just because an app developer wants me to. Building structures to force me to make those requests is definitely leaning into evil.

In fact, it's the last straw for me, personally. I'm back to iOS and the "evil" walled garden that respects my rights as a network user.
Story goes to their Github repo - the product page is available too [0]. I saw it briefly mentioned earlier in a story about Netflix using them.

[0]: https://stackstorm.com/product/
You may be a little oblivious to how Facebook has "like" buttons, which are also javascript tracking beacons, on basically every site online. Well, "Facebook" doesn't have them there, the site owners include them willingly, serving up the privacy of their users in exchange for "engagement." Billions of tracking beacons spread around the Internet give Facebook a real time click-by-click bread-cumb trail of almost your entire thought process and Internet experiential reality (reminder: use uBlock Origin with everything enabled).

Google has the email of probably over a billion people. Sure, there are safeguards to prevent employee naughtiness (supposedly there are now, after years of "lol, i'm a sysadmin and i'll read the email of my ex" abuse), but if they wanted, they could do a lot of damage and there's nobody capable of stopping them.

Heck, let's not even include google analytics. Sure, they say there is a "corporate firewall" between the global analytic record of every web user alive and the rest of the company, but we just have to trust them.

Trust Google. Trust Facebook. Trust VW. It's only software created by and data retained by for-profit corporations in constant competition who must meet growth targets or else the market will punish them. What could go wrong?

(Amazon doesn't have a bird in this fight.)

Old quote (from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXh-GPa5dI&t=36m00):

"In some respects, it's pretty clear that we are sleepwalking into nightmares. Absolutely. And the most distressing thing is how hard that is to explain to anybody.

The way in which people will give away their personal details in much the way as in the child history books about colonialism. You had native chieftains who handed over mineral rights in return from some baubles from some canny imperialist. All that stuff is happening but it's very hard to explain to anybody."
A HN contest: Provide an elevator pitch, to completely non-technical end-users, that will make them aware of this issue and persuade them that it is important to them. Vote up the best ones. [EDIT: The goal is to persuade them about its dangers, not sell them something based on it]

That elevator pitch is key. I have extensive knowledge about this issue but have a hard time coming up with it; I need to be prepared.

Change only will come through political pressure, and that requires public awareness. I had lunch recently with a journalist from a prominent publication, someone very well informed, and they told me that widespread surveillance wasn't real, a sort of urban myth. Organizations like the EFF have been unsuccessful and I think that's because they don't generate mass public awareness. It's up to us to create it, and we need a pitch.

EDIT: [deleted]
But if you split digital and physical subscriptions and look at profit compared to revenue, I imagine those digital subscriptions look pretty good. I imagine not having to print and deliver a physical product on a specific deadline makes a world of difference.
It's a terrible hack, but changing your Skype password via their website does log you out of all active sessions within a 2-5 minute timeframe. A friends Skype got "hacked" via a third party botting a message to all of his contacts, and as soon as I changed the password the spam stopped and soon after his local client logged out.
libtrump
I believe you're required to have a real, verified account in order to create and modify test users, and I think there are certain features that are blocked for test users.
If you have the skills, you're very underpaid. I made 40k straight out of college in 2000 after the dotcom crash. It was low even then. I was in central Florida. Unlike Seattle, there isn't much of a tech industry there.
To be fair, great gas mileage is true for every manufacturer. It's inherent in the technology, and applies across the full range of engine sizes and configurations. I've driven my BMW 330d 35,000 miles and to my knowledge it's never used even a single millilitre of gasoline.
I agree but if they also want to use the strict punishment to deter then it would probably have to be more than that.
> surveillance is here to stay and that making it illegal will only serve to hide the microphones.

Certainly it's here to stay, but so is murder, theft, fraud, and many other things. We want to maximize the leverage and tools people have to fight it.
I think there's only danger in taking the cosmic scale of the universe seriously if you also take your selfhood seriously.

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Minuteness is a problem when you feel like an outsider 'brought into' the world to 'confront' it, but is less problematic if you feel like part of a greater whole.
move to atlanta. lots of jobs, high salary:cost of living ratio
Sometimes, writing bug-free code isn't even sufficient; sometimes, one needs proof that it is bug-free.

Then, your favorite language/framework will not help you much. You'll need strong verification tools, and a language and frameworks that are compatible with it.
Treaty ratifications aren't returned time and time again in slightly altered forms.
What to Do When People in Your Area Don't Understand Coworking
The self-aggrandizing name is a bit of a turn-off. But otherwise, it might be useful.
He has smart lawyers all around him. He and any family members surely have access to well-funded trusts beyond the reach of any bankruptcy proceeding.
Wow. She is on a mission. I wonder what her medical qualifications are, and also what happened behind the scenes to persuade her.
I'm not sure what "good as a person" means in the context of large scale facial recognition.

I know software is now scoring as people on various standard AI tests. But most people couldn't recognize a million other people correctly. The situation is kind of odd. It's like how engineering a car to drive automatically in a variety of controlled situations which might represent 90% of the normal driving. They are still nowhere near ready to drive on real roads.

The supposed advantages are perverse; Face recognition with a 1% false positive rate can translate one fugitive to 10 or 100 false arrests of random people.

A store clerk knowing your name when you walk in the store is mostly creepy and wouldn't help sales - the store that had their clerks saying goodbye by name to credit card holds a few years back have stopped.

So, benefits? Changes? The article is kind of light on the whole subject.
The big problem there is the intellectual capital that was lost. Primary and secondary schools were closed for two years. Universities were closed for four years. Access to foreign science publications was halted. It took years for Chinese research to recover, to redevelop the working groups, etc, needed for cutting edge science.

Additionally, the project that she was working with, Project 523, was kept secret for over a decade. So Ms Tu couldn't communicate with colleagues in other countries regarding her discoveries, and her discoveries in fact were initially published anonymously, further making it difficult for discussion and collaboration. So yes, the amount of net scientific progress was greatly diminished.
Private and Public Investing
To me, having been in the auto industry as a peon, Chief Engineer sounds like a person with a Junior Middle Manager pay level without officially having any direct reports.
I would need a more concrete complaint to tell you why you are probably wrong here. The only thing I know of that tends to cause people to balk at flags is the frustrating idea that the name of the flag for some reason has to be the same as the name shown to the user, so the inability to rename flags or even use special characters causes people to give up on them... but you should treat them as opaque database tokens, not user-visible metadata, and map them to names. There was then an extension being worked on to store high-level names in the IMAP metadata store, but I don't know if it got completed (I havent paid much attention since Mark Crispin passed away: I felt like he was one of the few people keeping IMAP from losing its way, so I am highly concerned that I'm going to read through the mailing list and find people frantically pushing through all the stuff he had vetoed). But like, adding your own "documented but non-standard" blob to IMAP's metadata would still be worlds better than throwing away the entire protocol and starting over again from scratch :/. Honestly, I think the core issue with people working on IMAP is that people these days have very little data structure and algorithm training, particularly when it comes to implementations of parsers, and so when they stare into IMAP they miss the forest for the trees and barely scratch the surface of what it can accomplish before giving up and screaming for their JSON and HTTP. (That, and the dense numbering for message views, which is a truly-hard thing to get right, even with a lot of academic background.)
Summary: because it makes your computer faster.
>"You said "One item taken = one sale, so you have the same level of information to manage the economy with." so I think you did."

If you think I said that, let me clarify then.

You said... "Monitoring stock levels is hardly all you need to manage an economy." ... I never claimed it was enough to run an economy, because it takes more than monitoring sales to manage an economy.

However, monitoring stock is enough to track sales, that's my point, tracking sales can be handled without money and without losing the benefits of money in tracking sales. By tracking stock you have all the sales information you need. However sales information is not enough on its own to manage an economy. Hope my point is clearer now.

>"How do you propose that manufacturer to be payed?"

Why would the manufacturer need to be paid when everything is free? I'm proposing a system without money, without a need for trade. There are many options, my personal favourites are variations on the resource-based economy ideas.

>"There is a lot of competition (and money!) in open source."

Competition yes, but largely uninhibited collaboration also.

As for money in open source, open source (or rather the free software movement) existed before the money started rolling in. Furthermore, the main benefit that the money brought was that people could work on open source full-time and enjoy a decent standard of living. If you take away the need to earn money to survive the level of activity around open source is unlikely to be diminished.
I interpreted the statement as being more about the ability to get bug fixes and security patches on these devices than it is about getting access to new features. Right?
Agreed. I run a small-town community website. Instituting a real-name policy stopped the trolling overnight: people behave much more reasonably if they know they might meet the person they're yelling at in the street tomorrow.

The key is that our site aims to be solely a resource for the existing community (where people relate to each other through real names), not a virtual community in itself.

I certainly wouldn't argue that the web should be real-name only, but nor do I believe everyone always has an automatic right to post on privately-owned websites using pseudonyms.
Show HN: Malfunction – Malware Analysis Tool Using Function Level Fuzzy Hashing
http://www.freecodecamp.com/

Also try to find a local support group and/or a mentor.
Here's a presentation from a few VPRI researchers from June 2015:

Introduction and Overview - Alan Kay

2D Rendering (Gezira & Nile) - 17:05 - Dan Amelang

Domain-Specific Languages (OMeta) - 34:20 - Alessandro Warth

Imperative & Declarative Programming (Programming as Planning, Executable Specifications) - 59:38 - Hesam Samimi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT4iewOHDs
I'd call it a trump complex, a common malady of new-money billionaires.
In my experience, many of those don't care if they get the absolute latest version. And I can't blame them as many of the "improved" versions tend to come with battery and performance impacts for older devices.

I do wish the vendors would keep up with security fixes, though. That's the real problem with Android updating, IMO.
It seems like this sort of privacy control could be put in place without resorting to pseudonyms.

For instance: you register using your real name/"authentic identity", but you select a restrictive privacy option that says that your profile won't show up when people search for your name on Facebook; nobody can friend-request you; and all your posts and other info is visible to friends only.

Voila, you now have a private profile, but the people whom you are friends with on Facebook don't have to create a user script that replaces your pseudonym with the name they actually know you by.
This article is a bit alarmist. I agree that government entities using this technology as a tool of oppression is definitely bad & going to happen somewhere but I'm not worried about the shop clerk knowing my political affiliation because there is zero profit motive there. You're talking about a truly massive database of customer info joined with facial info obtained...how? Is the DMV gonna start giving away my license to Home Depot? Is facebook going to torpedo their business by selling this info? I doubt it! Second, why would they want it? to creep me out when I walk into their store?
> store clerk knowing your name when you walk in the store is mostly creepy and wouldn't help sales

Saying your name might be creepy (but maybe people will become accustomed to it). Knowing your identity I think would certainly help sales, the same way it does when you shop online.
What sentence would be sufficient, if 10 years isn't?
Sure! But you're talking about repealing or modifying legislation (regulation) - not about leaving the rules in place but commandeering the property.
Nothing could be impossibly manufactured at China, e.g. Huaqiangbei Shenzhen. Take it as a friendly reminder from a Chinese. See also the news describing everything could be found at Huaqiangbei (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2014/jun/13/hu...)
Nobody has the authority to do that. After realizing that, it was just a matter of tracking a nobody down. Fortunately for me, there's a mirror right there in my bathroom, so I didn't have to look very far.

That fragment you quoted was a joke, intended to draw attention to the presumption that may have been missed if I just said "we".
I can see it already: "[Car manufacturer]'s Self Driving Car Crash Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers."
It works only in the AWS us-east cloud, what about Eu?
Let's not forget the whole Skype thing where knowing a user's ID is enough to edit any of their messages.
Well, that and attempting to have multiple people killed.
Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way
I disagree with most of your points insofar that there always seems another option to gain similar or even more benefits.

Military and military industry for economic benefits. Just pay them to build highways, bridges or whatever, they will still spend the wages on food, houses and cars. And you can keep the highways and bridges.

Attacking the USA? Geographically almost impossible, no need to intimidate someone.

Veteran army, well maybe, but given all the technological and financial superiority of the US forces compared to their past war opponents the track record doesn't really reflect that as far as I can tell.

Pax Americana, I think is a thing of the past. It may be a bit to early to conclude that humanity left it aggressive youth behind but I think it is pretty unlikely that we will see something like a third world war or even larger international wars, it just isn't worth it.

And finally you can also spend the same amount of money for research without military technology advances as driving force.
I think in the 90s.

Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Integrated_Circuit_C...
This reminds me of movies and "release windows" (releasing the same movie at different times in different countries & formats in an attempt to maximize profits).

It sounds, from this, like the NYT is still stuck in 20th century thinking and just doesn't understand how modern people use technology and information. Or maybe it does, but it is just too calcified in its current business model to understand how to get from point A (old business model) to point B (new/convenient/modern business model).

Same thing with cable TV and "cord cutters" (and "cord nevers") vs. Netflix that "just works" on various devices and seamlessly remembers where you were in a movie/episode if you switch devices.
He does have a person. He has himself. He needs to psychologically grant himself permission. It's all in his head. Your situation was different. Your authority figure was absent. That's different situation than not having one.
The real important question is: are there other sources for made-in-america clothing? Alternatively: sweatshop-free, living-wage clothing not necessarily made in America? I am not AA's target demographic, but I tend to buy their t-shirts because I would like to avoid supporting the pretty terrible working conditions most fashion companies create in their factories. For example, I buy really nerdy-looking blue jeans from Duluth Trading Company [0] because they're american-made.

[0]: http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/mens-ballroom-5-p...
There's also quite a few other testing libs available in the clibs repo [0].

[0] https://github.com/clibs/clib/wiki/Packages#testingquality-a...
Having admired the Kinesis Advantage from afar for years, I got one from Massdrop. I've used it at work almost exclusively for the last couple of months, having previously used the wireless Apple keyboard (the small one).

Biggest peeve is that I frequently hit the arrow keys on the bottom row by accident. Not being very good at using them on purpose, this completely throws me off for a second or two.

Minor annoyance is that the modifier keys sometimes stick. I don't think they're physically stuck; more like a firmware glitch, so that it's as if Caps Lock is on (mine's remapped to Ctrl), or I get accented characters as if Alt is stuck.

I still have trouble switching between the straight matrix layout of the Kinesis and the staggered layout of traditional keyboards, which I continue to use at home. Nothing major, but definitely some reduced accuracy.

So my experience is decidedly mixed. I'll keep at it until the end of the year at least, but I'm not convinced it's any better ergonomically. In fact, I've had some soreness in my left thumb that may be related to the new keyboard.