skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a speculation on your part.. and PR spin-off on theirs.

Nobody asked them to support it, or whatever. Just dump the damn thing online so others can pick up and continue to "help fight your inbox to zero".

Clearly their intention here was profits and since they didn't see any - they kill it off. They won't do it so nobody else should try to safe email either.

I wanted to get my company (over 3,000 users) off DropBox long time ago after each update comes with new issues. But this just broke camel's back. I will make the switch happen this weekend.
Does this make you think that there's more going on with this story than meets the eye? It doesn't seem a giant like Big Red would be ignorant to something like this. They must have an end-game that's not being portrayed here. However unconcerned they seem to be towards bad PR, I'm surprised they'd risk being the reason iWhatever's aren't syncing.
I wish they would stop comparing gun violence deaths and just use deaths from violence.

I'm pretty sure I'd rather be shot to death than hacked to death by a machete anyway. The implement (if there is any) doesn't matter as much as the result.
And, indeed, that sort of functionality runs counter to the idea that once something has been sent to me, it's "mine" to keep/delete/whatever without someone else having the ability to change or delete it without my permission.
Comcast is running around Net Neutrality with their new Stream TV service. It uses their cable network to stream to your IP devices and it won't count against your cap like using every other IP streaming service will.

Overall this needs to be stopped, it's highly anti-competitive! If it walks and quacks like a duck it's a duck.
And poor network performance can often be attributed to multiple components.

Your WiFi is slow ? Restart your computer, upgrade your operating system, clear your browser cache, move your router closer to you, buy a different modem etc. There is plenty of room for deniability that interference is the root cause.
Building terrible DRM technology does seem to pay off in some cases.
> `egrep 'PATTERN|PATTERN'` instead of `grep PATTERN | grep PATTERN`

Oops? Ironically (assuming two distinct values of PATTERN) I think you just answered your own question. (They are different: first is disjunction of patterns, second is conjunction).

Your point has merit for scripts (performance) but for data exploration at the prompt it's almost always irrelevant: the simplicity of pipe composition outweighs anything else.
The miners are incentivized to do whatever is best for the value of Bitcoin, because that's what their block rewards and transaction fees are paid off in. Maximizing the block fee in a way that hurts Bitcoin itself would be myopic and irrational, and they aren't doing that. Most pools are on board with increasing the block size.
> Unlike the article, I didn't try to use either form in my comment. :)

I'll give it a shot. This proved harder than I thought it would, and might read awkwardly. (Especially the "actually called 'E-Prime'" part. I can't think of a way of rewording that that doesn't sound weird.)

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In High School, my English teacher had us write essays in a format that incorporated these rules, but I had no idea that it had a name: "E-Prime". In addition to not using forms of "to be," we followed the SEXI format. This meant we composed every body paragraph from four parts: Statement, Explanation, eXample, and Interpretation (one web site lists this as Importance). I think that in short essays each SEXI paragraph also couldn't number more than four sentences.

The combination of E-Prime and SEXI created a real challenge to write at first, but with practice I found that it led to really solid papers with greater clarity of thought. It tremendously helped in writing my college senior thesis.
Yeah, that's the main change here, and I think probably a positive. The Nordic countries already have close to a universalist welfare system, where you're more or less guaranteed an income sufficient to live on. So the change here isn't about whether you should be able to live without working: that's basically already true, and has been for decades. The change is about whether to pay out a basic income unconditionally rather than via the traditional welfare system, which excludes employed people, people with assets, etc.

I'm less familiar with the specifics of Finland's system, but in Denmark, if you run out of savings and eligibility for other sources of support (unemployment benefits, etc.), you fall back on a last-line "cash assistance" (kontanthjælp) which is something like $1500/mo, and can be received indefinitely. But you lose it if you get a job, so it can provide a disincentive to work in some cases, especially if your only job options are low-paying ones. Just paying out a basic income unconditionally wouldn't have the same issue, since any employment income would be in addition to the basic income, vs. the current scheme where your job income replaces the cash assistance.
I'd say it's more like a street food vendor setting up a stall on a public sidewalk. Sometimes that's really convenient for both of you and it's exactly what you want, and sometimes the area is too congested so he's just in your way and it's super obnoxious. (And obviously it makes a big difference whether you're out in the suburbs or you're just off Times Square.)
The Mazaks we have don't have this option but the engraving one does have something similar. You raise a huge point here: industrial vs consumer. There are so many things that consumer-level clients won't be satisfied with.
Floating the idea to regulators/public opinion to gauge how strong the immediate backlash is, and to manage expectations going forward.
Still using Sparrow, but wondering if it works on El Capitan? Does anybody use it on El Capitan?
> Additionally I think this move by Starbucks is putting even more pressure on small boutique coffee shops and potentially marginalizing them even further because now casual consumers can just go to Starbucks and get what they think is a "boutique experience" when, in fact, their money and their time would be better spent going to the actual boutique coffee shop.

The rest of your comment was excellent, except for this part. Starbucks actually has the exact opposite effect on small coffee shops: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_m...

Turns out that the presence of a Starbucks ends up evangelizing the public on coffee, converting non-coffee drinkers into coffee drinkers and making people more likely to seek coffee from all sources. And they will: as soon as the local Starbucks gets too crowded for comfort, people will move to another coffee shop so they don't have to wait on line.
Can you provide some links to these flooding attacks? I'm curious. I'm not aware of Bitcoin having seriously been impacted in this manner.
Unlicensed doesn't mean unregulated. The unlicensed spectrum is absolutely regulated. For instance, jamming unlicensed frequencies is illegal. Also, the unlicensed bands have power limits.
Those are not 'debunked' but rather 'addressed.' Some of the criticisms are still valid, but the author chose a different reference frame.

Consider “Mega-philanthropy is non-democratic, because it involves a few individuals shaping the future”. The re-framing is 'as far as we can tell from his statement at least, they plan to use the money to alleviate disease, improve education, and fight poverty' which are 'unequivocally good'.

I reject this reference frame. Consider the move towards charter schools, which is funded in part by the mega-philanthropy of Gates. Set aside even the question of if charter schools 'improve education'. Charter schools are anti-democratic.

Public schools for the most part are run by local schoolboards. Remember, education isn't only important for the student, it's also important for businesses who want to hire new graduates, infrastructure which assumes a basic level of literacy, and a political system at least nominally based on the idea that educated citizens are better than uneducated ones. So even if I have no children, I should still have some say in how the school is run, because the results of the schooling will affect me.

A charter school, on the other hand, limits that decision to the owners of the school and (indirectly through parental choice) to the parents.

This is anti-democratic, because it removes political power from most citizens.

Now, we can talk about balance - should we remove some democracy in the name of better education? But to do that, what is "better education"? Is it test scores? Is it the local school board which gets to decide which is best for the community, or the state? How much influence should mega-philanthropists have on getting to decide what constitutes "improvement"?

If billionaires have a bigger voice than tens of thousands of citizens who have a different view of what is 'good', then that too is clearly anti-democratic.
A bad proposition unless folks forget about that whole UIDH tracking thing. Who really uses Yahoo! these days?
Laws exist to prosecute those that help support, aide and abet terrorists and they are frequently used against people in the aftermath of an attack. You seem to either think that all Muslims are guilty of aiding and abetting so should all be prosecuted or that these laws are not being used against Muslims who had prior knowledge of these attacks.
Thanks! Interesting link too!
For what it's worth, Sparrow was a paid client (~$10) with a free version that had ads and limited functionality.
Depends. If Google et al are right and they have studies which show it degrades performance under certain conditions, then all it would take is one class action to get off the ground.

People will pile on, and the evidence that Verizon knows their technology can cause problems is already mounting. That they're pushing their products through without reviews or certifications could be seen as evidence of negligence or maliciousness.
Lockstep is a neat one. They have sublight interstellar travel, but it seems like FTL because everybody spends most of their time in hibernation, all on the same schedule.
A while back Dropbox said that they had grander ambitions that being a single-product (Dropbox the service) company, rather they wanted to be a sort of Microsoft, Lotus or Borland of the current generation.

This statement preceded the acquisition of Carousel (a sort of alternative to iPhoto and Picasa built on Dropbox [the service]) Mailbox (an alternative email client, no technical connection to Dropbox [the service]).

So yeah maybe this strategy isn’t panning out? I dunno, just irritated that the default move for abandonware isn’t open-sourcing it.
You don't know what you're talking about either though.
your silly faux-incitement "joking" (your words) strikes the wrong tone in this literally deadly-serious subject matter, and if it potentially offends sensibilities then I'm sorry, but pointing that out to you can be constructive.
Absolutely yes. Where are you located so I can confirm this?
I used to think I'd get tired of the process of roasting once the novelty wore off, but to my surprise, here I am, still going strong.

I find the roasting process very soothing, almost like meditation.
I'm still amazed how mostly everyone is praising T-Mobile for violating net neutrality with free music and video streaming. Instead of looking at the long-term effects (prices for other types of data will stay higher), everyone just looked at the short-term effects ("we get free video streaming _and_ they made data cheaper at the same time too").
It's unlicensed/unused spectrum. Not unregulated.

The FCC still maintains ultimate regulatory oversight. And if LTE-U does cause issues with WiFi then it seems like something that makes sense to be regulated appropriately.
OMG - didn't notice it even after I read your comment.....
More prescriptionism?
What would Verizon acquiring Yahoo! mean for Mozilla? Given Verizon's history of user tracking, that would be an awkward partnership.
Viva la typewriter
The article didn't mention it, but my understanding is Kela is planning to do a pilot phase where they give 550 €/month to a group of people selected by lottery across the nation.
The US still demands my taxes 10 years after I leave the country.
Pretty much this 100%. It's not being a feminist or female specifically that makes you a target, it's being seen to respond poorly to attacks and trolling. If it's not feminists, then its furries, or otherkin, or bronies, or fanboys, or whoever else is seen as an easy target that responds poorly to criticism.

Ignore trolls, and they'll (eventually) ignore you. Keep responding and baiting them, and you're toast. Same thing goes if you run a community. Don't want trolls? Ban and move on. Don't turn it into a big dramatic deal and 'war on trolls'.
Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital
Coding with the Grip It and Rip It Mentality
With a guaranteed income to fall back on, it would be much easier for jobs to rely on market forces for wage-setting, and not need a minimum wage. After all, potential employees would have a better choice.
yeah right but you could at least try to escape from being hacked by a machete...
This seems like a too-generous take.

Dropbox could have thought that and just been wrong. Even in the normal economy, per The Economist about half of all acquisitions destroy value. In our little hothouse, I'd expect a much larger percentage of value-destroying takeovers.

But there are plenty of other reasons deals get done than a company-wide coherent calculation of economic value. E.g., I've heard of acquisitions happening because a CEO needs to demonstrate to the board that they're doing something. Or incentive structures set up to reward an M&A team based on how many deals they do. Or executives wanting to bring in their old buddies from another company. Or, "gosh, money is so cheap right now we'd better spend it because our competitors are spending."
God forbid anyone share abandoned code. Where I work we incinerate anything potentially useful when we're done with it. That way no dirty freeloaders can take advantage of it.
> "Clearly Dropbox thought there was at least a $100MM opportunity"

The opportunity was the team, not the product they were producing.

Say you had a room full of math prodigies, but all they were doing was watching TV all day. You hire these math prodigies for $X and put them to work solving math problems - this doesn't mean that watching TV is worth $X, in fact it likely means the opposite, that their value is underutilized by whatever they're doing right now.

So there isn't enough money in making email apps, but a team capable of producing a great email app can be put to use doing things that do make a lot of money - but it sure isn't making email apps.

And that's unfortunate, because as users we're missing out on a lot of great products. The dark side of the immense growth in software (and immense growth in software salaries) is that entire products and services are no longer economical, even though we'd all love to see them. The VC system that drives these early acquisitions and acquihires is just one more factor among many that limit the field of what can be economically produced.
Seems like Starbucks good fortunes are tied to Keurig's bad ones. As disposable income creeps up again people are less interested in at home brewing. I'm a little relieved after all the environmental issues with Keurigs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678498
This is awesome and I had not seen this article! Thanks!
How do you determine who gets to participate in this separate blockchain? Can anyone join? Or are there barriers to entry? Because if there are barriers to entry, then you've now created a single centralized authority that issues these keys, and you thus don't really have a decentralized system at all.

If each participant individually judges the merits of other participants, then everything will quickly diverge as some blocks are accepted by some participants but not by others, and the whole network collapses into forks.
> ...am I missing any languages that do?

Tcl supported Unicode in 1999 with version 8.1. Much like Zathras, Tcl is the beast of burden that is easy to overlook.
totally another field.... and honestly we are not experienced or equipped properly to do aluminium cutting.
Interesting theory to explain why Starbucks' stock price is up, but I'm not sure I believe it. Friends in Seattle tell me that to "coffee snobs" Starbucks coffee is basically on par with McDonald' burgers, and that some locations serve coffee without any Starbucks related branding or nomenclature to avoid driving away the people who feel that way.
If D manages to get garbage collection out of their standard library and there is a one click IDE with step through debugging and code completion, then D could be a major contender. Right now it has a few big barriers that prevent it from taking significant market share on C++.
This stinks. I was just getting used to Mailbox. Why buy these smaller companies unless you have a long term plan on how its going to be NPV +ve?
"Write me a web-site that allows users to login using Facebook and sign up for my mailing list."

It's a program that I think can be written in an autonomous fashion, but I just wanted to point out that as soon as you start coding non-trivial programs, testing and debugging you're non-specific language is going to be hell. So bad that I think you are going to have to write thousands of sentences, and eventually decide you want a more specific language than English when you can't determine which of the thousands of words or grammatical elements you and the computer disagree on.
There are many, many many content providers and only a relative few ISPs. It would be pretty easy for ISP's to coordinate or even just act independently and abuse their oligopoly status and extort money from content providers who don't have the same leverage they do.
There are many, many many content providers and only a relative few ISPs. It would be pretty easy for ISP's to coordinate or even just act independently and abuse their oligopoly status and extort money from content providers who don't have the same leverage they do. And the nature of wired internet access is such that the barrier to entry for a potential new competitors are pretty much prohibitive, so even if customers wanted more options, there is almost no chance that they will become available.
So you can choose:

* Pay up to the state

* Get thrown in jail

* Go in exile
so Sunrise gets sunset :)
No plugins at all.

Just open DOCUMENT INFO palette, select object from the drop down and select your paths. The path length will be shown on that palette.
Marissa Mayer's Next Headache May Be a Nasty Proxy Fight
There's a difference - software also has unplanned obsolescence. For instance, I've been working on a non-profit website that has a fair amount of QuickTime video from way back when that was a good choice. If you don't do something about it, it won't play anymore on modern browsers. It's hard to align the interests of software developers with the interests of customers using a one-time purchase, but with work that continues indefinitely. Appliances are different since I don't need their features to change long after the sale. In this case, if they can charge me more at the time of the sale for an appliance that lasts longer, we can align interests.
Hmm slavery is having people work against their will. Paying people a (low) salary for working is not illegal.
hv u done pair-programming before?
which is not?

Do we have the infrastructure (or can we build it) and the knowledge or not?
Shakespeare would not have appreciated this. How do you say "to be or not to be" in EPrime?
The point of E' is to provide a kind of mental exercise. By forcing yourself to write this way, you discover clearer ways to make your point, or to convey information.

Think of it like the weights baseball players put on their bats during practice. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_doughnut)
I've never used a graphing package without an error-bar. It would be easy to add one in d3.compose but I don't see it in the API.
It depends on the context. The pipe in a data flow sense will be working on data structures, a bitwise or will need to work on two plain data types.
The mainstream left in France mainly the Socialists are as awful when it comes to individual liberties as their peers in the center right.

A good deal of French people love the nanny state and their government to meddle into their private business and run their lives but they have their differences on how to achieve that and which flavor to pick.
Indeed. I think Yahoo is already a liability to the Mozilla brand. DDG should just become the default for search. That move would at least create goodwill for Mozilla.
not here :(
There's a big distance between "works for me" and "delights me."

I use Thunderbird on Linux and Windows. It "works for me," in the sense that it's stable and predictable and doesn't lose my data. But it also has lots of niggly little problems that annoy me, like UI decisions that made more sense ten years ago than they do today and limited tools to support people like me who have a ton of mail.

So while I use and recommend Thunderbird, I also would love to see something come along that is so much better that it makes me fall in love with it, instead of just shrugging my shoulders and resigning myself to this being as good as things get.
One would think Verizon had enough spectrum already. Sprint, sure, but Verizon?
So what ? New businesses are always getting hurt by successful vertical integration because it increases efficiency through methods they can't match - as long as there is no monopoly the government should not care - it's role is to protect consumers from monopoly behaviour - not help sprout new business by preventing optimization.
Even if they wanted to open source their system, it is likely is that they migrated their codebase to the Dropbox platform, and it would be difficult for them extricate their code. Most larger tech company (e.g., Google, Facebook, MSFT) have this problem when they want to open source products...
“Nemesis” malware hijacks PC’s boot process to gain stealth, persistence
Depends on your definition of "good life", but mine is making sure you don't have to worry about shelter, food, or vital medical care. And every industrialized nation can afford that, easily.
My Birth Certificate, friends, family, and employers identify me as "Blah".
Huh?! You can share URLs on Facebook.
I think he means he'd like to be able to irretrievably destroy all records of an email.
> Don’t worry though, standard Perl 6 does not demand that you be able to type Unicode. If you can’t, there are so-called “Texas” variants:

I've always loved the "everything's bigger in Texas" joke implicit inthe "texas" variant on some operators.

> If you’re interested in working within a particular normalization, there’s the self-explanatory types of NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD.

That would probably be better with a "Well, it's self explanatory at the point you know you want to work in a particular normalization", since I only vaguely know what those are, and I've beenhearing about some of them for years. ;)

Great post though!
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Or option 4 (by far the most popular) - emigrate to another area.
It makes things look more crowded, but unless people are actually using the Comcast WiFi it isn't actually adding to congestion. The periodic SSID beacons are an annoyance but they use negligible bandwidth. That said, don't ever use an ISP provided access point.
Airmail is quite good, and AFAIK you can turn off some of its many features. http://airmailapp.com/ (hint: You can use it for free if you use the beta version)

I was a huge fan of Sparrow (like you, I used it long after the updates stopped), then Airmail and Mailbox, but now I simply use the Gmail web app. I follow the zero inbox method strictly, so I only need to read/archive/reply/search emails, and it does a decent job at it (except for search where it's best in class), while being simple and non-confusing.
But that's not what's happening here is it ?