skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Please, link me to a case in which a person giving a lost child a hug led to charges. I would earnestly like to read it because I think you're being clumsily dishonest.

Pedophile isn't a legal term. Men get "straddled with the term pedophile" for simply being in a playground.

No one gets charged with being a pedophile because being a pedophile is not illegal.
The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement
I wonder how those people ever get used to C++.
Paying for content worked great until the middle class collapsed.
You know what's sad? I can't tell if sarcastic. I could easily see an elitist power couple doing this :(
Until one can identify the markets for which there may be demand, e.g. foreign countries out of reach otherwise, then being a minstrel or court bard means being anchored to one location.

Look, my perspective is that music is supposed to be made for two reasons: 1. the personal compulsion to create something that reflects the individual, and 2. sharing those products with a limited expectation of fiscal reward. This is not to downplay the desire to make a living from art, but an informed historical perspective doesn't infer that technology and modern business has changed the nature of the relationship between artists and consumers very much.
How do these findings affect the usage of Tor and Tails?
Should also add that it can be installed directly via https://github.com/gpitfield/postmedia-ad-blocker/blob/maste...
> While we like to make quite a bit of fun of the big cares American drive there's quite a good reason behind it.

> The US has bigger families

I'm not making fun of big SUV cars in the US, but about the big normal cars. For example, taxis in NY are huge, but they carry exactly as many people as a smaller European car.
Here is an almost related story: I am in italy and was waiting for an email from the local Apple store to tell me my macbook's repair was complete. After 6 days waiting, I called the store. They said the computer had been ready for a few days.

I checked the spam folder. Gmail had plopped the apple email into the spam folder. Gmail's reason was that the email was in a foreign language, Italian. Didn't matter that the previous 2 weeks all my google.com searches were done from Italy.
Julia is statically typed with the most general type being variant.

It will run as fast as native code in non dynamic scenarios.
I think that is an interesting idea, but my first reaction is that it wouldn't end spam. In the US there is a much larger cost associated with sending physical spam in the US (stamps). But there seems to be unlimited physical spam still.

Maybe it would just become more targeted?
The 2018 projection of $2.8 billion revenue with 329 MAU for Pinterest is roughly what Twitter will achieve in 2016.

Twitter has a market cap of 20B vs 11B for Pinterest, so there is plenty of upside if Pinterest hits 2018 numbers and goes public. That is assuming Twitter's current valuation is reasonable which is debatable.
> Glad you liked it. I have been using zoho mail for last 2 years and I must say it's recommended for startups :)

I am not sure about "recommending for Startups" part. I have a paid version and I am not impressed. When there is a problem, I can't get to talk to anyone. You have to put support ticket in and they get back to you in 24 hours. Why not have option for live support when people are paying money? Just baffles me a bit.
CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
$30 Gets You the Sensor-Packed, Curie-Powered Arduino 101
They don't want simplicity until the app crashes. They don't want simplicity until their supposedly compatible older programs don't run. They don't want simplicity until a security breach takes out their business. They don't want simplicity until their custom software "can't be made portable, realistically. It'll all have to be rewritten." They don't want simplicity until the program's behavior changes, and it's not at all clear why, or how to recover. They don't want simplicity until they've lost or overwritten data for no reason that can be discovered.

In other words, it's not the falling that kills ya, it's hitting the ground.
My experience has been that sending from my server works fine if it's in DNS and RDNS. Sending in that server's name works fine if the SPF records are present. But I don't bulk send; everything I send is something I typed, other than some messages the server sends to me periodically.
Canon's tech demos make the rate at which they dribble technologies into their cameras all the more frustrating. Hopefully the attention Sony are getting will light a fire under them.
A Whiteboard Is a Startup's Best Buddy
It has been discussed at length many times. Unlimited PTO only works if there is also a minimum PTO that employees are forced to use.
A follow-up article: CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/cdc-warns-c...
There are Thuderbolt adapters, as another comment noted few other interfaces have the bandwidth.

There's a lot of other bandwidth issues that aren't sorted out yet, too. If the adapter and drivers don't have TCP offloading, you'll be very hard pressed to get more than 3Gbit for anything other than a UDP dump.

Most of the OS network stacks aren't properly tuned for 10Gbit either.

I'd say give it a few years; as it becomes more mainstream, things should improve.
>This isn't how the internet is supposed to work.

The email architecture was started back when it was a smaller network of researchers at universities, governments, etc. Everybody basically trusted each other.

Once the "internet" is available to the general public and commercial interests, it becomes vulnerable to the "bad actors" problem (e.g. spam abuse). That's why we have the inevitable situation today of a few entities (e.g. gmail, hotmail) being "trusted", and random residential SMTP servers run by homeowners being "untrusted".

I haven't seen a realistic de-centralized trust proposal for email. Even if a proposal is theoretically sound, what incentive is there for other big players to adopt it?
Yes true, there is SPF and DKIM which are used by the big providers, though I'm not sure how strongly they trust those, but they shouldn't be using IP as a signal to determine whether the server is legitimate, or it leads to the catch 22 this article talks about - unknown IP = SPAM.
Those who are secure but open minded in their political identity and their political understanding, would greatly benefit from reading both this and its Part 2.

Summarizing such a complex situation without sugarcoating or incoherency is no small task, and this article does it exceedingly well.

Well done.
Absolutely. People will always tell you they want everything for either practically or actually free. What they say they'll pay and what they'll actually pay are usually two very different things, assuming you provide something that can't be easily replaced.
As always with Stratfor this analysis is not about security of North America but about global dominance. My opinion on stratfor is not really profound. But half a year ago I was so shocked about this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLu_yyz3tc&feature=youtu.be...
I had to write something then against this horrible propaganda:
http://hashsign.co.uk/contemporary/by/thoughts/futurism-and-...
My English is too poor to take part in further discussions here. I'm sure most will not agree with my opinions. In a manner my writing is propaganda too. But perhaps it's anyway interesting to read what (some) Europeans think.
Typing becomes a tool for solving multiple problems and its uses become more vague under these terms.

In the most basic sense, types can offer the size in bytes of the data.

They can also be used to verify that certain data can be used in certain ways.

If you look at C++ you can use polymorphism if you want a uniform interface and generality elsewhere. You can use templates if you want uniform data size and interface.
Added guest login.
You can write Fortran in any language.
What if every employee has a decent salary (70k+) and the ratio is still very high?
The email deliverability issues we have had as a legitimate business are insane. Moving to an ESP years ago has helped, but it's far from perfect. I've wondered how a small business without the tech resources could manage this.

For instance, several months back some of our account holders suddenly stopped receiving important account info as well as newsletters from us. Tracked it down to a third party filtering service used by various email providers. Contacted them and they indicated that we were sending to honeypot addresses and/or doing other things that landed us on their list. We refuted all of their assertions (all of our recipients are double out-in, etc.) But , they insisted, as if their processes were infallible and refused to remove us.

Here they were, a third party with whom we had no agreement, yet they were interfering with our ability to do business (and profiting from it). We also had paid advertising in the newsletters per agreements with advertisers. Consulted counsel and the next step was to send a cease and desist, followed by an injunction on the grounds of tortious interference. Then, just as suddenly, our emails started going through again.

So, all of this, just to send email.

Yet, I still have to deal with a ton of spam personally when wading through my quarantine folder for routine false positives. Current processes are harder on the good guys than the spammers.
>What is depressing of course is that a few of these in blimp hovering at 79,000' would make for "easy" real time surveillance of a large city.

thus i couldn't be accused of something i didn't do because there would be clear image of me doing something else at some other place. At the same time there would be a clear image of that cop shooting that black boy. It is a double edged sword, and instead of fighting total surveillance - which is just going to happen anyway - we need to embrace it and thus make sure that it is freely accessible not only to government, that public can freely use it to its benefit too.
That may be the case for personal communications (well, not me, I am old school) but I don't think it the case at all for professional communications.
> His characters were always divorced ( and possibly misogynist ) , lousy fathers and frankly, assholes. I think that's the charm - the character could say what's on his mind. Embittered, more or less tired of life. Somebody who'd paid the price for all that violence and hubris. This was pretty outrageous at the time.

That's part of the reason I love old-man Clint Eastwood movies - Gran Torino and Heartbreak Ridge, especially.

Also, I think The Shootist is the best John Wayne exemplar of this. And one of the best John Wayne movies, period.
"It has also uncovered, through groundbreaking testing, that workers are being exposed to high levels of the chemicals in roasting facilities that don't use added flavors." This article is a follow-up on a series done by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has gotten the attention of the CDC. http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/gasping-for-action-32298865...
> The likelihood of a single fertilization resulting in monozygotic twins is uniformly distributed in all populations around the world.
As a music purchaser who doesn't torrent music, I like that Spotify lets me try new music in a convenient & legal way. It's a step in the purchasing process, not the final destination.

There's a German metal/rock band called Unheilig that I heard about in 2013. After seeing a YouTube clip [1], Spotify / Rdio let me try more of their songs & add them to my playlists. That hooked me enough to add the album to my Spotify offline downloads so I can listen on the train.

At that point, I'm a committed fan who doesn't want to lose the album... so that's when I buy the CD. Two years later, I've bought all their albums, 2 limited Super Deluxe editions, t-shirts & hats & merch, and been to two of their concerts. Unheilig probably got nearly nothing from me via Spotify, but it was an important step in getting me hooked & ultimately spending hundreds of dollars.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl-mvbxAf-k
sadly, it's even hard to get some email across when using those ESPs (Email Service Providers).

Our domain has all the correct SPF records, DKIM etc and we're using a reputable email provider (Mandrill). All is sparking clean. Validated etc. Still we see some activation emails to google get delivered, but severely delayed on the Google side (after we see an OK from google for the email being delivered). Our users can't reset their password or activate their account until a certain time passes...

Emails from my mum (who I've emailed on the same account for nearly a decade) suddenly get flagged as spam by gmail. Go figure.
Please read

http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

and check all boxes that apply.
Only the Supreme Court can claim that; lower judges are overruled all the time (in some sense).
You could look at ocean currents and surface temperature to see if there's a relationship there. I can imagine whales would be interested in collaborating on a regional biodensity forecast.
The more I think the more bizzare it was. The reason being, we know each other by synthetic names in a forum (and let me just say anonymity was expected from both of us). So the only way I can think of is somehow the synthetic string/name matched on both of our data somehow like you are describing.
I have self-hosted my mailserver for a long time and started to get problems a couple of years ago. The main issue is corporate networks running McAfee's "MxLogic" product that claim to bounce my mail and tell me so, but then go on to deliver it almost all the time.

The difficulty in getting feedback is extremely frustrating, particularly compared with getting feedback from, eg, google's webcrawlers.
Argument mapping is producing "boxes and arrows" diagrams of reasoning, especially complex arguments and debates. Argument mapping improves our ability to articulate, comprehend and communicate reasoning, thereby promoting critical thinking.

You can think argument mappings as visual hierarchy mappings.

Arguman.org’s aim is arguments to be mapped successfully by many users.
I'm sorry but this is garbage in my view.

We need to use the time we have in order to do the things that are important to us, not to enrich "others" whoever they may be. This obsession about society and socializing and following norms and "fitting in" is one of the things that are seriously fucked up in the western world.

We need more people who have gone sideways, more recluses, more geniuses, more people who do not fit in and do things their own way. Otherwise what's the point?

I understand that this may sound alien or maybe crazy to people who have grown up in western societies and therefore been indoctrinated to an extreme degree to seek the approval of others and so on, but that's all there is to it really, social conditioning. Nobody will remember you 200 years after you die, you better use the time you have to do something meaningful with your life and to me that does not include idle socializing so that some sacks of blood, meat and bone will "feel" sad when you're gone.
By their standards, I qualify as a super commuter. I drive 35 minutes to the train and spend 55 minutes on the train (with a three minute walk after that) to get from my house in a secluded mountain town to the OC (Orange County, CA). I think it is around 70 miles one way. Where I live is beautiful, quiet, and similar to where someone from the city might vacation. I'm paid well; even so, I have no notion of how people afford to live down in the OC itself. My mortgage is half to a third of some of my coworkers rent.
Interesting due to the use of the Intel Curie which includes a 6-axis accelerometer and Bluetooth support.

At this price point that makes it pretty great value for an Arduino/Genuino brand product with all the supporting software/libraries and community that brings.

I wonder how the IO ports perform as the three chips near the pin headers look suspiciously like they might be IO expanders. This may mean limited performance compared to bit banging the IO registers directly (though it's possible they are purely level-shifters).

Edit: They are level-shifters! Each chip is an LSF0108 which are 8-channel bidirectional level shifters. So that should be good news for IO performance - unlike the Galileo...
> I can't think of anything except connecting to a _fast_ SAN that would require a 10GBE port in a laptop.

An off-the-shelf consumer raid-5 nas would require more than a gigabit port (so a 10 gig port would be needed).
There are people who will tell you that agriculture was just a giant mistake on the part of some enterprising hunter-gatherers, since it locked all of humanity in to agriculture forever.
You joke about the blockchain, but HashCash (a similar technique to Bitcoin's Blockchain-difficulty (not the metric itself, but how it's used)) was originally conceived as a means of making email computationally costly to send. The main issue was that spammers would use botnets while normal people would be stuck taking a while sending emails (iirc).

Personally, I would like everyone to have their own rsa or ecc key. While not as expensive as HashCash, it does require more computational effort to send an encrypted email. (This precludes web portals from sending mail, but user convince seems to always trump security! :( ). Still not a great solution.

Web of Trusts are an interesting idea, but fails for the same reason not everyone has a public encryption key: bad ui, complex idea, and no one cares. I honestly think this is the way forward. If someone isn't a few hops from me, they probably don't have any business contacting me anyway -- if they really want to, a.k.a. read my blog and want to ask me a question, they can use HashCash or something else expensive to make the initial contact and slowly build up trust/reputation as we exchange emails.

In the end, everyone is always told they need to check their spam folder for false positives anyway. Maybe we should all just say "screw it" and read all our email. If some combination of the sender and subject doesn't make us think it's legit, then we can delete it.

Maybe we keep spam filters, but stop calling it a "Spam Box" and treat it like trash. Maybe we start calling it "Unknown Box" and treat it with a little skepticism instead of a dumpster.
SIGGRAPH: Real-Time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment
Facebook was just a better myspace. Google was just a better askjeeves/altavista/etc.
> Decorrelating the email from the domain, a lot of users are prisoners of their current provider just because the address they gave everyone ends with the provider's domain name, very much like it is very hard to switch bank accounts

This one seems completely uninteresting in a world in which $15/year can get you your own domain name, complete with reliable email servers, IMAP, and as many email aliases as you like at that domain. Given that, why create an entire infrastructure to "decouple" email addresses from domains?
"half-defeating the purpose of having privacy by running my own server."

Is there even privacy in e-mail? Say I have a server that talks TLS. There's still no guarantee the other end wants to, and even if it does it's just going to store my mail on disk unencrypted anyway. Even if it's encrypted there, it has to be decrypted and read by a process to make a webpage out of it, or, to allow a client to download it, where it will probably rest unencrypted on their system. You're not getting privacy.

If you want privacy, encrypt it (pgp), or, use another protocol that is encrypted end-to-end and stays encrypted even after the recipient reads it.
There's already a tool to stop "copycats". It's called copyright (and for inventions, patents). You can and should use that to enforce your rights to your IP. It's not too hard to start issuing DMCA requests, and it's not even that expensive to have a lawyer do it if you're making money. It doesn't matter whether the illegal copy is obtained by a bot or a human.

While I agree that captchas and IP blocks can be employed by target sites, I don't agree that it should be illegal to circumvent them. I also don't agree that it's necessarily unethical (though in some cases, it may be). If you have public information posted on the public web, I don't think you have the right to mandate that it only be accessed by certain tools. You should plan and expect that it will be accessed by every tool capable of doing so.

If something is disrupting your business by "clogging the tubes" or whatever, that's another thing, and they can be held liable for that. But it doesn't matter that they clogged the tubes with one type of program or another; what matters is that the tubes were clogged by their actions, and that's the part that should be focused on in the subsequent legal proceedings. The specific tool or tools used to clog the tubes is at most a tangential curiosity. We don't want to make certain programs illegal.

Maybe we need a new amendment with "the right to bear code". We do not want to get down a rabbit hole where certain programs are legal and certain programs are not (at least not anymore than we already are with the DMCA et al). Down with code control!
We need a society where every person is needed and wanted. We need it more than any dumb technical advance that lessens the need for people, like robots delivering pizza or whatever. That will take some heavy thinking, though, and I feel that we haven't even started.
Congress is mulling whether to fine car hackers $100,000
Those reasons are pretty stale. It may not work, but not for any of those reasons. I'd still be in.
> Consulted counsel and the next step was to send a cease and desist, followed by an injunction on the grounds of tortious interference. Then, just as suddenly, our emails started going through again.

Dangerous path to go down; because so many spammers throw around legal threats too, doing so can get you on a different set of blacklists.
I take it to mean like a map that can take any type as key or value.
I used to be a nearly 100% Canon shooter (as a pretty serious hobbyist photographer) and switched over to Sony when the A7 came out (have since bought about a dozen FE lenses, an A7ii and an A6000, so a complete system change) and it was entirely because of Canon's obvious self-gating; way too many camera bodies released that were basically last year's model with some tweak to the autofocus that they have been sitting on for years, etc.

I don't doubt every manufacturer does to this to a degree, but Canon is absurd and unsubtle about it. The whole thing left such a bad taste in my mouth that it would be almost impossible for them to get me back as a "fan" at this point, even if they stopped doing this.
SMTP can use TLS, though, right? It doesn't _have_ to use STARTTLS? You _could_ use SNI.

My concern is that it doesn't get you anywhere. phishing sites can and do get TLS/SSL certificates. The process isn't particularly difficult or labour intensive if you own the domain. As far as spam goes, so what? This only proves I'm talking to the server I intended to, not that it's a reputable and upstanding member of the server society.
"They both run on HTML."
I don't get the 4chan comparison in any way.

Pinterest helps people catalogue things they find inspiring or are shortlisting to buy. They're right there between someone with an intent and a product for sale.

That's a valuable position to be in.