skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you absolutely have to run everything you plan on sending to a mailing list via spamassassin beforehand, mail-tester.com is a great tool. It saves the annoying work of cobbling together a spamassassin test script and integrating it into your workflow, and gives you a bunch of other checks while you're at it.

Spamassassin is half of the bane of my life when it comes to maintaining deliverability on a scientific mailing list:

https://www.exratione.com/2015/08/spamassassin-is-an-inadequ...

It stops being a useful tool and starts being a mode of censorship that is in effect controlled by the people who practice fraud and abuse. It is very annoying to find all sorts of things that effectively can't be discussed by mail in a list: specific drugs and technical terms used in research, any research discussion or published research that uses long technical words in close proximity, fundraising for research, and so on and so forth. Every newsletter to the opt-in, well-gardened list becomes a little minefield of self-censorship as you go through multiple iterations with spamassassin, weeding out and rewording things.

It is all very trying. One has to think that there's a better way.
What is their relationship with Amazon? In most cases, they won't have any contractual relationship, which I would think makes it harder to obtain a cause of action. They could still sue for false advertising, but they'd have to show that the reviews contain statements of fact that are false. If I'm understanding correctly, this is a considerably higher bar than breach of a reviewer's contract with Amazon.
What color theme and IDE is the author using :D?
I would pay a subscription for high quality local investigative journalism (that I can read online) but I fear that it's a model that won't work until people realize what they're missing and how much corruption can flourish if it goes unchecked by journalists.
I have a weird fascination with everest climbing season, which some pretty conflicted feelings about the people who travel to climb it these days.

Essentially the only draw of Everest that is truly unique is "it's the tallest." That's not very meaningful; it doesn't translate into "best views" or "most challenging" or even "most significant to summit." Yet this bucket-list task of "climb the tallest mountain" is leading to traffic jams of rich westerners all trying to shuffle their way up the peak at once are making expeditions extremely dangerous for each other, and the sherpas.

Honestly, I don't think anyone really has any business up there. I think if you have a natural talent for mountaineering, you can find better, more challenging climbs that are still safer. I do think I recognize the draw, but I'm also repulsed by the selfishness. And I don't accept the echo-chamber consensus opinion of mountaineers that it's all worth it in the end.
There are risks but the last couple years have been exceptionally deadly.

Prior to 2014 the deadliest day was May 11, 1996 (8 deaths). In the 1997 through 2013 seasons the average season death count was only 5 with a median of 4 compared to 22 in 2015 and 17 in 2014.
I get why it happens but the drive to turn every subscription and transaction with a customer into an opportunity to "upsell" is getting tiresome.
Still seems kind of fishy, at least without some stated reason why it needs to know it's being tested.
Also, you have to be paying one hell of a compaction penalty if this isn't a grow-only dataset. By ordering your keys you're at least minimizing the overhead of compaction on write by utilizing the happy-path for how LevelDB moves data out of the write buffer and into the SSTs.

But deletes are going to have a big impact still, and (working from my failing memory of LevelDB internals) I think might actually be the pathologically sad case.
> limiting speech in any way they like.

...that you agree to. In theory. And originally, only the federal government was so limited; states could and did have laws that would have been in violation of the first amendment, had the federal government instituted them.
in detroit, everywhere is next door to a storefront church.
Or the fact that they close at 3:30PM everyday.
You may be right about Amazon's intent, I don't know. But Fiverr is no threat to Amazon's business model. Even if Fiverr's purpose were fake reviews (it isn't), reviews aren't a key component of Amazon's business model in the first place. And there are plenty of cheaper, faster, and less likely to create bad PR ways Amazon could put a stop to fake reviews if they really felt threatened by them. For starters, it would be very simple to (a) only allow verified purchase reviews if the user bought the product via Amazon, and (b) make sure all verified purchase reviews are shown before any others (or larger, or not greyed out, etc., etc.). The fact that Amazon hasn't done these things tells me they consider fake reviews a nuisance, not a threat.
Yeah this is one of those C++ template tricks where one wonders if it's really worth it doing it in C++.

Also the purpose seems to be to mark every build as unique. You'd want to store that number somewhere, or it wouldn't be very useful at all. You know, some small database with <who compiled>,<when>,<machine>,<commandline>,<version> and maybe even a diff compared to a known revision number. To really make it useful. That ... just wouldn't be doable in C++.
Xero is a full fledged accounting system where as freshbook is more like a billing system with few accounting things mixed in.

I personally use xero for my small business. It allows me to see a complete picture of my financials for my business. my bills that I have to pay, invoices that are coming in. expenses etc and at the end of the year I generate reports that my accountant uses to do his business.

Xero also links to lot of online systems, I have it linked to insightly for CRM.

As for the bank accounts I am personally in favour of having separate accounts. My company has its own bank account that is used for all business stuff and I draw a monthly salary which I deposit in my personal account. Where I am from we have no taxes etc. So it might be a bit more complicated than your situation.

Other comparable systems to xero are freeagent, kashoo, quickbooks and less accounting.

Let me know if you have any questions and I will be happy to help.
Thanks, did not know that "omnibus" had this meaning. In my language, "omnibus" is just an old fashioned word for "bus" (transportation) ;) -- translation services are also not all the time helpful.
That's not ideal, but is also probably not a big deal in this case. There's no sensitive information to be stolen off the page here, and the only person who's going to see it is the attacker.
View the front page. It will show you an email address which looks something like "web-ONhx3B@mail-tester.com" which is unique to you. Send an email to that address then click the "Check your score" button. It will rate the email which it received from you and point out any configuration problems.
As an (italian) architect, I can confirm: architects usually use centimetres. Millimetres would imply a level of precision which is not practical in construction.
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No, because then they might be taking on an entity with enough money to provide a competent legal defense against them.
A little web.archive.org confirms year and title.

I agree about the second point, Google really has been too busy being socially fancy and letting their old resources rot stupidly. Noobs.
I find his assertion that the programmers "should have known" to be beyond naive.

There's a reason that teams designing these sorts of systems consult with lawyers who are experts on the relevant law. The programmer's job is to program. Expecting them to also deal with details of legality and morality (beyond grossly obvious things like hard coding dosage limits into medical equipment) is just wishful thinking.

That's the kind of talk that people want to hear. "Oh the developers were given shitty instructions, they shouldn't have listened" but talk is cheap. Stop to consider the implications of that sort of second guessing. Obviously things get wacky at both extremes but when you give someone a spec to meet you need to have an expectation that it will meet that spec. Our industry is built upon millions of black boxes that meet I/O spec sure having the developers turn around and say "we changed you spec because it was killing polar bears" comes with a much larger can of worms than just implementing what you're told to implement and accepting that it might not be morally agreeable and getting on to the next thing.

There's a reason people aren't all generic worker bees. It's efficient to have the lawyers worry about laws, coders worry about code and managers act as the interface between them and accept the blame if what the lawyers say isn't properly translated into the programmers' instructions. than it is to have all three groups worry about all three subjects.

I think law is interesting and has a lot in common with software developing but I don't want to have to go looking up case law as required research before coding a windshield wiper controller..
If the consumer is stateless then it needs to acknowledge every received event for it to be reliable. Otherwise the producer may think something is sent when it actually never arrived (tcp connection was closed).

So it's either unreliable or slow.

Also if you have dynamic transient worker topologies, you have to remember those positions. You are saving data for later use, that may never arrive. How long do you keep this data?

Seems like a pretty messy way of doing things.

Completely agree about LevelDB.
It's proprietary, but has a long history as an MS-Access (and other DBs) app maker : http://www.alphasoftware.com/ms-access-mobile.asp
My comment was more a reflection on how messed up a system is if this is how it works. Morally the law is unjust therefore it can't be right and I'm with MLK on this one:

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
That's a lot of money to spend to not follow through and put the last nail in the coffin.
One of my main concerns with mainstream social networks is this kind of subtle censorship/filtering. Some people think their Facebook stream is an accurate representation of their friends and surrounding reality, they are ignorant of the algoritms that decide what they will see and what not.
Sure so would I, but not enough people are like you and me. But thats just part of the problem.

1) You are depending on something to actually happen.
2) You are depending on it to be actually interesting
3) With time it will be solved with more transparent processes in the public sphere.
4) Most of the really interesting areas that journalists could cover today they don't have any knowledge of. It's simply too complex and so instead you see people who are experts in their fields report and explain.

Newspapers as a seller of events that gets interpreted by journalists and sold to people is a dying industry.
The Wub Machine automatically remixes music in a dubstep style
This Machine Writes Better Clickbait Titles Than You
Taking Humans Out of Data Analysis
Not sure what language it is but omni is latin and a prefix. It means "all".

Like omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerfull) etc...
I use this form of brain-to-brain communication that involves using other parts of my body to make sounds that I assume other people can interpret using their ears, and map onto ideas. It takes a lot of training during childhood to get this down but once you do it's pretty efficient and you can transmit fairly complex ideas fairly quickly, especially if you can assume knowledge and context on the receiver end.
Been there, done that.
It took me almost two months to open a bank account once I was there and even then I was considered lucky given the requirements at that time.
But it is not that easy in Estonia either, second hand experience from a friend - he went there to setup a startup to be used later, but no luck.
What money? They have lawyers on payroll and filing fees are minimal. Their direct outlays so far in the three figures.

And I don't get what "following through" is supposed to mean? Trying to convince a judge that someone who got $5 for posting a review on Amazon encouraging people to buy from Amazon has damaged Amazon's business and should pay $XXX because of it? Multiplied by 1,000 defendants? That would be the laughable part. And that's the part Amazon won't be doing.
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Deconvolution is a very cool subject! A sizable portion of my dissertation was dedicated to applications of linear algebra tricks to deconvolution and denoising procedures for image restoration.

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap/10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:ke...
99% of the public using their crappy mobile phone cameras.
Portugal.
> missing one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants by less than two miles

I was fortunate to work for Dr. Twisdale, one of a handful of people (if not the only man) who provides wind hazard engineering support for nuclear power plants looking to renew their license. The biggest division are the two kinds of wind examined: tornadic versus straight-line gusts (thunderstorms, hurricanes, etc). What winds up being the most vulnerable are support buildings to the nuclear power plant and not the plant itself.

The most surreal experience working for him was on a NIST contract where I had to examine a lot of data about the Joplin, Missouri 2011 tornado. Normally, the numbers of engineering hide the personal touch of impacting people's lives, but examining various videos and reports really energized my younger self as working on a high-impact project. The NIST report starting on page 6 really is brutal to read [0]. Then there is the National Geographic documentary which really captures the human toll and the resilience of the survivors [1]. Then there is the video that tourists (I believe?) were taking when they crossed the tornado's path twice [2]. Then there is the video of their brand-new middle school at the time, which security footage captured the devastation [3]. What made this particular tornado devastating was the fact that it hit Joplin's major hospital which serviced the region, and took that hospital offline.

> “There is virtually no literature on that at all,” Knox told me when I posed this question to him, “but I will give you my guess.”

That is because most engineering modeling is concerned with the creation of "missiles", such as a telephone pole going through someone's wall. For that there is plenty of literature, and even a single certified code by the NRC: TORMIS [4] (Written in Fortran 77 I believe).

Overall, wind engineering is incredibly tricky but very rewarding when done right. Sadly, it is not the "hip" nor most popular career paths.

[0] http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG2DTAzZAzw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CburjPYmSdo

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64covicCcIY

[4] http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0802/ML080230578.pdf
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By asking, you can learn.
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Sequoia's Michael Moritz just eviscerated the 'subprime unicorn' boom in tech
I'm already working on this: https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues/6
Not myself, but a very good friend tried that. He submitted all the paperwork electronically and went to Estonia for a week to open a bank account.
From the 3 banks that are supporting E-residency they all denied to open the account. One of the managers he talked with explained that the bank do not open accounts without physical address in Estonia.
Probably that will change, but that's experience from end of September this year.
Not to mention the disappointment for the whole process, which is not as advertised, although he did a very nice trip to the country itself and was worth it (his words).
Not sure if it's just the scripts the new bond films are much more "realistic" and gritty than the more fun and lighthearted older Bonds including those that Pierce played in.

That said however Craig seem to have a much better emotional range than Brosnan, or at least he's a better type cast for the "new" bond.

Brosnan kinda made that cocky can't do anything wrong thong melting bond work. But he would probably not being able to play the new bond judging by his quite poor performances in any of the serious dramas he ever had a role in.
Fun with e2fsck and debugfs
It doesn't matter what their legal systems are like. The important thing is that they don't have any assets in Washington (nor anywhere else in the US, most likely). So when they don't show for trial, a default judgment will be handed down and any of the defendant's assets in Washington (none) will be seized to satisfy it. The first-order result of any such trial itself will be Amazon spending many thousands of dollars to obtain a handful of uncollectible judgments. Sometimes such judgments have value on the secondary market, but against a nonresident foreign citizen, forget about it. Presumably their true objective lies elsewhere, as others here have suggested.
More Concurrency: Improved Locking in PostgreSQL
Mendix is one such tool (or platform as it also includes a Cloud offering for hosting the applications). It has rapid application development for web/mobile apps. At its core, it has data schema creation, form building and visual application logic modelling. This is all included in one IDE which allows for integrity checks across the board (forms, logic and database). Competitors include OutSystems, Kony, etc.

It is proprietary and mostly focused on large companies.

Full disclosure: I work for Mendix
"There are all kinds of reasons why a car has to behave differently while on a dynamometer and there are all kinds of special code branches that are executed only during test. For the programmers it probably was just another special case among many."

I think the point is that someone deliberately did this and they had their hands in the code. Yes, there are variants of the tune-able parameters for various regions and tests. As part of design and validation these can be used interchangeable on the test beds. However, someone, somewhere wrote the emissions defeator.
It was in Eastern Europe, ex Soviet block.
It is quite simply the worst neighborhood in Detroit for crime.

Yes, I think the article is clear about that; it actually says it was rated the worst in the country. What I don't get is what the story "implies about the neighborhood" that one would prefer to think he simply has luck.
I don't know why you set the MTU to a lower value... What I do know, is that I've set it to 65535; my machine now transmits 64KB instead of just 1.5KB (per packet)... Can you imagine what would happen if I set this to UInt32.MaxValue...?
The Founding Fathers approved of personal ownership of battleships, hence the "letters of marque" clause in the constitution.
You're probably right. I think that the number of new applications created with Access is decreasing pretty fast, but the number of active existing applications will decline slowly.
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> Spam is viagra ads and the like (unsolicited commercial email). Promotional emails from companies you have a relationship with are a different thing. Users should be able to easily filter and ignore promotional email, but email hosting companies should never block it as spam.

If you didn't ask my permission to send me those promotional emails, they absolutely are spam and anyone who sends them should have their emails blocked. This rationalization that spamming is ok because the recipient is a customer and there is an unsubscribe mechanism is delusional self-interest.
Yep, back in those days I loved DEC and AltaVista and Alphas, although they were out of my budget, so I purchased linux machines. In the lab next to me was a bunch of old DEC-heads who upgraded their alphaservers to Tru64 and then TruCluster. I have a great deal of respect, especially for late-stage Alphas such as clusters of GS1280s running TruCluster. They were engineered for throughput and reliability and I know many important loads ran on them.

I don't think that DEC ever really managed to market AltaVista and Alpha to the extent it could have in the rapidly growing period of the Internet.
Sure, I'm biased. Genuinely curious, do you know many applications being created in Access (or Kexi for that matter)? I haven't seen a new Access app in years.
Your git commit logs... Because what you actually accomplished is all that really matters.
Useful tool, sure.
But really, if you have to test, then yes, your mail is probably spam that noone cares for.
It wasn't meant derogative, sorry if it sounded like that :)

Not all languages have the same base so it might as well mean something else that I didn't know in your language.
If they said they bought it from Amazon
Not open souce but FileMaker can be accessed by http too: http://www.filemaker.com/
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">Putting a up a webserver that can be publically reached is not authorization to access it."

This is legally incorrect. Without any further information or protection measures by the publisher it is legal to access content on a public web server.

">I really can't say this in any other way - just because you can do something doesn't mean you are allowed to"

You are allowed to do everything that is not expressly forbidden by law. Accessing a public web server is not forbidden by law unless the owner takes steps to prevent you from accessing it or at least clearly signals that intention. Terms of service do not constitute an implied contract, so you are not required to read the TOS before accessing a public page.

">We already have an explicit signal called robots.txt"

Exactly. That is part of what I meant when I said that any restrictions had to be implemented on top of the default, which is that everyone who can is allowed to access anything on a public webserver.

[Edit] But initially, this wasn't a thread about legality but about ethics. I think there are unethical reasons to scrape and there are unethical reasons to block scrapers. We simply need to know more about the purpose of any scraping before making a judgement.
The insidious tentacles of ad tech touch every corner of today's economy. There are so many players (legal and criminal), varied interests and wealth involved, that it's difficult to imagine that enough users will ever embrace ad blocking on the scale that's required to achieve the change that this article suggests is needed.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is finally acknowledging a need for some change with LEAN (http://www.iab.com/news/lean/), but I doubt it's interests really favor users. It's vested in advertising and grabbing our attention.

We're not dealing with just one bad player, like Flash that's easier to kill and yet took way too long to do it. It's still not completely dead either.

Ad blocking is a moral obligation and just a basic tool for cybersecurity these days.

Good UX will win at the end of the day, but it's going to require a lot of effort.
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OpenBSD 5.8 released
Edit: also, remember Easter Island, where the population dropped by over 99% after an ecological disaster last millennium.
Red Hat to Acquire Ansible
Great brain drain? Meaning software engineers are leaving banks in large numbers?
eFast browser hijacks file associations
Their FAQ page has a section on this: https://www.mail-tester.com/faq#api
US Transportation Department to Require Drones Be Registered
Well then, it's quite simple, but then local law overrules Apple law. And Apple is nice enough to let you know this.