skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enf...

"The Act was passed on the last day before Congress adjourned for the 2006 elections. According to Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), no one on the Senate-House Conference Committee had seen the final language of the bill before it was passed.[4][5] The Economist has written that these provisions were "hastily tacked onto the end of unrelated legislation"."

Edit to add: I agree that the ability to amend bills shouldn't be removed entirely, but it certainly needs an overhaul.
SMS at $0.10 per text is an excellent example: it was total a failure as a business model. Every provider in north america, even prepaid, now offers SMS services on a monthly basis. It was critical to uptake.

A $0.99 song from itunes isn't a micropayment. It's a dollar paid for a music track you are likely to listen to over and over. Additionally, you knew what you were buying because you heard the music for free on the radio or in a club.

Journalistic work doesn't fit the iTunes model. News and blog posts tend to be fire and forget. Nobody will pay $1 up front, and once they've consumed the content once, they no longer need to pay for it.
Although small house and ferile cats are obviously not lions, I imagine that there is at least some connection to the First Epistle of St. Peter, i.e. when it comes to perceived associations between cats and the devil:

"Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour."
- 1 Pet 5:8 (RSV)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+5%3A8&v...
America Needs to Let Go of Its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree
Since when has qmail been simple to setup? LOL
It does! Kate is a classic shrew/scold. But what makes "Taming" really interesting to me is that Petruchio is a far greater shrew/scold than poor Kate.
The play within the play angle also fascinates me. Te way it gets sort of tossed aside after the first act and never resolved leads to all sorts of questions about the writing of the play itself. Did Shakespeare intend to have this framing mechanism and then it got forgotten in the process? Is this a result of lazy editing, or no editing? Did the printers miss something? The framing play often ends up getting cut, or awkwardly forced into a resolution by directors. It's wonderfully weird. :)
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If it boils down to Labor vs Capital, this is a win for Capital and I think that view is myopic. This is about United States re-defining economic activity in Pacific and create an economic firewall. If US misses this opportunity, China will re-define it and US will not have much say. This is strategically important to the USA.
Dear President Obama, Stand Up for Strong Security
Better question, does Linus ever say extremely nice, encouraging, generous things and make the front page of HN for doing so?
Is there any evidence that you get better quality content from a NY Times subscription than you get for free on the web? I personally don't view the NY Times as a credible source.
A few things to get started here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Also, want to jump in our community Slack channel and chat with us? Getting a full environment set up can sometimes be a bit tricky and we can walk you through it. :) http://slack-invite.nylas.com/
It's like the jewish rules about food. The evidence is that the original rules were probably much less strict, but over the years various scholars tighten some rules just to be on the safe side, or to see more devout than everyone else. So it will depend on which modern expert you talk to.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring an Account Executive and Head of U.S. Sales
Slightly, but I love R and make a sizeable part of my living using that language. From a design perspective I much prefer websites like R's, rather than disaster zones like Mashable (although haven't been there for a long time, so maybe it has changed too).

I don't think people interested in R are necessarily going to judge it first by its homepage and website.
Daimler driverless lorry tested in motorway traffic
I have one, and I found that problems with it not working during bootup were related to its large power draw. It's been working fine for me since I plugged it into a powered usb hub. YMMV.
"it threatens the OpenBSD.org frontpage security claim"

This misinformation is my only problem with the article. That claim has probably never been true. If it was, they wouldn't be regularly fixing shit that might be exploitable. Still, I came up with a way to test it years ago on Schneier's blog for anyone that wanted to try:

"Watch mailing list for bug announcements. Quickly determine if it's exploitable. If so, turn it into a payload. Hit target system. Profit." So, it's special in terms of quality focus but still can be hacked if anyone bothered to try. (Few bother.) Especially at layers below kernel that they don't care about, privilege escalation because they refuse M.A.C., in a VM because Theo doesn't worry about those issues, and covert channels because they probably never heard of them.

Note: It's reputation adds more risk as it's often used for "fire-and-forget" appliances. This can be reinterpreted as "they don't patch or they patch very rarely." The more they trust it, the more likely the bad guys get in. ;)"
> I don't like how invasive our security agencies are but if they end up preventing major crimes or terrorist attacks I can't say what they do is wrong.

That invasiveness IS a major crime in itself, of mindboggling proportions even. Besides, the operative word here is "if".

> At the end of the day, I want the people defending me to be more powerful than the people attacking me, but I don't want my defenders to use their same tools against me.

Not gonna happen.

> "If the totalitarian conqueror conducts himself everywhere as though he were at home, by the same token he must treat his own population as though he were a foreign conqueror." -- Hannah Arendt
Yes, he had mentioned it before. Of the top of my head, in "No Place to Hide" he discusses it, but I'm sure you could find a better source if necessary.
Etude – a program a day for a year
nihilist-chic

Yeah, as this comment node pointed out, the whole "I knew about it first" force is in full effect here.

The other root cause here: when people have self-pride over the information they are sharing as if it were new, but you knew the new information a long time ago, and you just want to knock them down a few prideful rungs.

Or, just https://xkcd.com/1053/
I love what Unicomp is doing. The Model Ms are fantastic keyboards and I have several that I use for programming. They're indestructible and you can maintain and repair them very easily. You can grab keyboards off eBay and swap them out for parts, or source new parts from Unicomp.

I really wish they would offer the full-size in addition to the Compact models. I have big hands and the full-size are much more comfortable for me. Any of the hipster micro-keyboards are obviously right out as well, sadly.

My main work keyboard is a black M13 with the TrackPoint II. The TrackPoint has a very slow cursor speed is not very useful on modern high-res screens. I'd much rather have the new type of TrackPoint that Unicomp offers. It's OK if you turn the pointer speed all the way up, but then you lose resolution and it's hard to use a mouse with that speed.

So far I haven't found a working app that lets you use different pointer speeds for different mice. Some claim to do it but I couldn't make them work. I may bang something out at some point that latches into high-speed mode if you type and drops to low-speed mode after a few seconds without typing or moving the cursor. Or maybe I could do more fine-grained control on Linux.
Yep. Even though we like to claim that we are far more modern and advanced than our historical predecessors, many of the same narratives and anxieties about what is or is not appropriate for men and women remain the same as in the Renaissance and even ancient Greece/Rome.
Nobody. But there is more than one way to blow up a hospital, for example mortars, rocket propelled grenades, just a bomb planted in the hospital. Someone else /could/ have done it, they didn't, but they /could/ have in theory.

I have no idea why CNN and NYT are more cagy than the US military themselves about this incident. It isn't like the USG are trying to cover this up from what I can tell.
Google has all my data, and that allows them to build incredible features for me, like Google Now and Inbox's automatic parsing of travel and event emails.

I'd rather have all my data myself so I could pick great features from anyone who makes them. Nylas sounds like a part of the puzzle to make that happen. I wish you guys the best of luck.
I sincerely hope this is a joke
Did anyone else get an email from Nylas that they never signed up for? I don't recall ever signing up for newsletters, so I'm curious as to how I heard about this in my inbox instead of on HN. Kind of annoying.
Wanted: Strawman proposals for new collections architecture
I'm surprised HN readers don't already know this. It still astonishes me how so many so called "tech savvy" users are content with surrendering their privacy and freedoms to Google or Apple so that they can run the latest "apps".

This is why I'm backing the Neo900[1]. It might be a bit pricey and low spec'ed by today's market (a consequence of it catering for a niche market meaning it won't be mass produced) but in my opinion that's a small price to pay to actually own your phone (it's actually more akin to a mobile computer than a phone).

[1] http://neo900.org/
Complete Guide to Being More Persistent (And Never Quitting Again)
As someone who studies causality via experiments for a living, this article is a remarkably accessible synthesis given that it covers so much from different disciplines.

Definitely bookmarked as a juicy morsel to send to anyone who asks, "why should we care about causality?"
Awesome that they actually put up the "Scream into the void" site: http://screamintothevoid.com/
That's an extreme interpretation. KAB started the thread with thoughts about "how the TTP is framed". I mentioned "lend[ing] a friendly ear". How did we move from that to "bought off"?

It's not as though NYT are infallible, however, and it is well known that journalists often become sympathetic to the opinions of those government officials, company executives, etc. to whom they require access in order to obtain information they need.
I know some people that can't use mice without pain. Hence they are trackpoint all the way. I only use the trackpoint on my laptop as well, but I'd rather have my logitech mouse with 'tilt' style wheel.
Don't waste your engineers
what do you think about the Lamson[1]/Salmon[2] project (originally by Zed Shaw)?
It seemed really cool but seemed to have fizzled out.

[1] https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson

[2] https://github.com/moggers87/salmon
Well, if advertisers can't reach customers via web ads, where do they turn?
Are you building something with kewl JavaScript that couldn't exist without it?
A lot of people are working with various JavaScript technologies. JavaScript alpha males keep banging terms like generators, promises and reactive JavaScript. I'm sure this is all fine and in some ways better than what we've had.

I'm just wondering are you building something that couldn't be built with jQuery / Mootools / PHP / Perl / Whatever old thing?

Is it all just the same thing built in a better (or just more complex) way?
Federal and state governments also have no choice over whether they are sued for racial discrimination or contract violations.
This is a killer UI. Congrats. Once you get a live demo rolling I'm willing to bet you'll drum-up even more interest.
Maybe it wasn't, but being able to declare the UI as a function from state (viewmodel) to DOM just once, and never having to manually patch the UI to get it to the right state... is a huge development time saver.

Angular did the same but went on a different path: watching the state (scope) for changes and then digesting the resulting spaghetti updates

React users are simply adopting well known techniques from functional programming languages because they work well with the virtual dom concept. Except for that concept, there is nothing new being invented here.
I actually find all uses of #-delineated keywords on Hacker News to be in poor taste. HN is not Twitter. It does not turn hashtags into clickable links.

Until such automatic-linking support exists, as with HTTP URLs, it would probably be better to paste an HTTP URL for twitter.com that searches for the most recent tweets with the relevant hashtag word or phrase. That also removes the personal connection to the keyword. Rather than promoting a given phrase yourself, you are pointing to a community that has elected to use it by consensus, as a reference that may be useful for further information on the topics introduced in your post.

Given the nature of hashtags, one person can hardly be held solely responsible for them. They aren't particularly useful unless a lot of people independently agree to use a particular word or phrase.
Now this is big bold news! Kudos guys! I'm extremely excited!
Wow awesome. If this works entirely locally, this is something I've been looking for for a long time. I might wind up making command line utilities out of it. Or even apply for a Nylas job. Email is something I care about an awful lot.

If, on the other hand, this makes use of some Nylas-hosted server, I'm a bit bummed out, since this would mean all my data is transferred through Nylas servers.

Which is it? Or should I just bite the bullet and read the source?
I think you stumbled onto the recurring problem:

"we can't expect Gilles to be able to do it all alone"

Just like with GPG. In FOSS circles, there's all kinds of people that want to take the code but few to create it. So, people gripe about the state it's in while putting no effort in to improve it. At least the author contributes significantly. However, gotta wonder how many users it has vs how many are contributing code/audit.

Bet the difference has an impact on the situation. It's why I spend time here and there investigating proprietary, open-source models that require money or contributions to use the software. Doesn't even have be a lot: at least enough for a significant product to support at least one developer. That way the users are always investing into it and esp bug fixes happen.
I've used the Nylas API for 9 months for my side project iOS email client. It works very well and the team is super responsive. Documentation is clear and complete. It makes it super easy to build any email client.

Eventually though, I decided to stop using it because I'm not confortable with having all my messages stored by "one more" entity in the cloud. Back to good old IMAP with all the pain it brings.

I'm often wondering if such an API could work in a full end to end encrypted mode, i.e. messages would be encrypted as they arrive before they are stored on the server, and only the client would have the key to decrypt them.
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Snowden wasn't a liaison between CGHQ and the NSA. How would he know if it were a subsidiary of the CGHQ. If it's from documents he took, then were is the documents showing it?

I'm sure there is a lot of cross sharing of information, but to call it a subsidiary is a bold claim.

Snowden was a database admin, not John Brennan.
Google Starts Rolling Out Android Marshmallow to Nexus Devices
And so, the vicious circle continues.

Did you not notice how the policy of replacing messages with farts is not limited solely to intolerant and disrespectful ones? It's exactly the kind of passive aggression that is typical amongst nerds, and the kind she was seemingly railing against in the beginning of the rant.
How I keep from drowning in email
Jobs didn't run Pixar. He was a principal investor and Chairman of the Board, negotiating a few milestones like the sale to Disney, but most of his focus was on NeXT and then Apple. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter ran Pixar's day-to-day ops.

Creativity, Inc. by Catmull covers all this. It paints a better portrait of Jobs than Isaacson's Jobs biography. Plus, you get to read about the history of computer graphics and Toy Story.
Don't discount hypoxia!
This is a tangent, but does anyone know the max number of sprites you can have animated in JavaScript before it gets sluggish on a typical computer running Chrome?
Beware: from what I understood, this isn't a self-sufficient MUA in traditional sense, it's a thin client that offloads the interaction with the actual mail server to a remote system. That said, the credentials to access the mailbox are entrusted to a third party.

> See the README for full instructions on setting up the sync engine, API, and N1 on your local machine.

Sadly, there is no instructions in the linked document yet.

I wonder, can the sync engine and whatever else be bundled with a client, so it'd be a self-sufficient standalone piece of software?
Twitter Shares Pop 5.7% on News of Jack’s Return
One factor you've ignored is that to drive a car, you are required to carry insurance. Even if you modify your car, the insurance is still there to provide at least some relief to any loss of life and property you may cause.
They use to be called inbox app, maybe you signed up for info before the name change?
I don't quite understand how the business model of the Nylas platform that this client depends on works.

Since it provides up to 10 accounts for free, it looks like that end-users (for whom 10 accounts are more then enough) are not supposed to be the paying customers, but rather other companies that want to integrate with Gmail, etc.

But... does this mean that these companies are supposed to encourage the user to connect their e-mail accounts to the company's Nylas platform account, thus giving Nylas all the user's e-mails and weakening e-mail privacy even more?

Or is the business model something else...?
Philips Launches New Hue Bridge 2.0 with HomeKit Compatibility
Good question.

Wikipedia entry claims 150,000 floodlights but I question the origin of this number. It showed up out of the blue, in a single edit, and none of the cited sources have the said number in them. Two pieces of information that the edit added are that there are (A) 0.15 million lights, and (B) 50,000 poles they're on: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indo-Pakistani_bo...

Trying to trace A or B just shows articles that obviously quoted wikipedia, and they use either version of 0.15 or 150,000 depending on when they were written. At this point, the wiki entry number is almost imaginary, being circularly reinforced by web articles referencing it.
Does no one remember the Butterfly keyboard on the 701? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Butterfly_keyboar...
How do you know? Were you a participant in the talks? Have you analyzed the text of the treaty?
Pinterest Expands Buyable Pins to More E-commerce Platforms
It wouldn't surprise me if there were service contracts requiring continued manufacture of the keyboard to insure replacement parts.
JPL as well.
Let me repeat the question with highlighting on parts relevant to your reply.

"Could people have just improved the configuration or setup of already rock-solid qmail?"

improved the configuration or setup

IMPROVED the CONFIGURATION or SETUP

Do you have an answer to my question about refusal to improve an already secure and proven solution? Or do you have another strawman point ready?
We used to be called Inbox (www.inboxapp.com) but we changed the name last year (after Google shipped a product with the same name). You may have signed up then! Lots and lots of folks from HN certainly did. :)
>Oh and it is missing functions keys which means I could never use this....

There are 5 rows of keys on each hand, just like a standard QWERTY keyboard with a function key row, you just have to place them along the bottom row instead of the top. The problem, I guess, is that there's only 10 keys along the bottom row, but you could place F11 and F12 on one of the many extra keys. Keep in mind they're programmable, and you can have different layers and modifiers that just exist in the keyboard itself.
I have this keyboard. Mine was made in 2008.
Actually, i do not understand why this comment was down voted. Does any downvoter care to explain?
Obviously I don't have the text, but it would be surprising if TPP contained no punitive clauses for openly flaunting the agreement.

Punitive clauses are unenforceable insofar as they extend beyond "if you tariff us we'll tariff you back".

Obamacare transfers sovereign power to various unelected agencies (e.g. HHS) as well. I guess you now agree that Obamacare is an anti-democratic measure?
Three Ways Twitter Has Already Beat Facebook
There's also Breivik.

Terrorism is as much about media as it is about anything else and by giving these suckers as much airtime as they get the media are more than just a little bit complicit in providing them with a platform for their idiocy.
Do some of those senior maintainers then only reserve their harsh words for the most senior people just below them? And then those for those just below them?

A culture in any group flows from the top down. Praise in public, criticize in private.
>What, exactly, would be the benefit of such an app?

Extortion, blackmail, peer pressure and public humiliation come to mind. I don't know what the benefit of honest reviews would be for anyone, though.

This certainly seems like an idea better suited for the black market, however, since all the ways I can think of to make money at it are bound to be illegal somewhere, if not everywhere.
The implication here seems to be that at least Stagefright did, in fact, have software exploiting it in the wild. Perhaps there are similar exploits yet to be found publically, even on iOS, or perhaps this vector has "gone dark" now.
I've tried no other ergonomic keyboards but the Kinesis Advantage saved my programming career when a difficult job brought on a bout of RSI. Think it's about 9 years old now and still going strong. Better function keys would be appreciated, though.
Also Google: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-an... Hardly, a "CloudFlare" problem.
SOLS Lets You Buy 3D-Printed Insoles, Customized to Your Feet
Good to know, then time will tell and we will see his impact on the product.
A Plan to Turn Inmates into Coders
Is there any evidence that a Beatles album is of any higher quality than a Vanilla Ice album?
Ah, the Model M. Still have mine from 1990, used it for decades, and I would still be using it at home if it were not for the fact that it was so loud it woke up my newborn son sleeping in the other room.

So I got a quieter keyboard (Realforce 87U that I picked up in Japan, very different key feeling but in a good way) and put the Model M in storage.

My son is now 7 years old, loves Minecraft, and wants to learn programming. So we've been spending some quality father-son time on pcpartpicker.com lately, in search of the best computer he can afford. "No need to buy a keyboard," I told him, "I've got exactly what you need."

You never actually own a Model M. You merely look after it for the next generation.
Show HN: Free 3D Printed Things Every Month
That's my point.
Yes, a rogue BGP talker could take down large chunk of the internet, except that it would only be for an hour or so at most, before all the other BGP admins blacklisted the rogue BGP talker and simply completely disconnected the rogue BGP talker.
Fundamental flaw in how BGP was designed from the old days. Give me a transit or peering connection where filters aren't in place, and you can announce anyone's IP blocks with their AS (SS7 is very similar, as it was built for a closed telcom ecosystem where all participants were trusted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0I5tl0YLY).

There are efforts to move to a more secure version of BGP, but that'll be done around the same time the transition to IPv6 is complete.