skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah like POP?

but presumably the server could unbeknownst to the user, still keep copies of all incoming emails right?
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Seeing an untap value in 2D framework for the web and anyone has experience in creating some not-yet-existed features that will make Crafty truly shines?
You could, but you would be wrong, as the remainder of the paragraph you started quoting argues quite convincingly. Fiddle with the free parameters of the contest and it "demonstrates" whatever you want it to.
Governments and corporations also take loans.
The four months is for the whole year. Many people take some time off initially and then the rest over the course of the year. So, its premature to judge that Zuck is taking "half his parental leave".

(disclaimer: FB employee, views are personal)
"in a very real sense the stock was free for the company itself"

Stock always has value, especially to management.

Unless the company has poor self-esteem. :)

The reason so many technology companies today make acquisitions using stock is because they (correctly) understand their stock to be inflated, relative to intrinsic value. If that were not the case, if they understood their stock to be undervalued, then they would definitely not be giving it away in transactions. They would be making all-cash offers instead.
Perhaps it was more 'my mail is stored locally once I download it'?

I use Thunderbird with pop3 settings that ask remote mail server to delete messages once downloaded. Then authenticated SMTP account to send.

No big reason, just what I do.

Edit: I believe that my shell-account provider is deleting those messages once downloaded, and not copying them somewhere else, but I have no guarantee of that as pointed out lower in the tree from the parent post.

If the gentleman is using a mail server on his PC that would be interesting as you say.
I live there, it's fantastic. Moved from London. Please god don't make me go back.

My maple syrup is slightly more expensive than it might be. Boo hoo. Wake me up when you have sorted out all the corrupt banks that make UK land hideously expensive, then you can get onto small stuff like this.
One needn't store the data on blockchains, just a hash to it, or even a hash of many data blocks' hashes, etc.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see how Bram gets around the vim source code, for example.
So could any transit server.
> For verbose languages, you can't beat auto-completion and auto-import.

And you can get both in vim, emacs, etc. The lines between those and full IDEs are blurry with the right (or wrong) amount of plugins.
I am from Brazil, and I think one of the few things we actually do properly, is that here the law follows exactly what you just said (paternity and maternity leave aren't touched by the company at all, the state foots the entire bill)

Still not enough sometimes (I know a person that worked at 3M, and refused to have kids, fearing the temporary replacement if she ever got pregnant and went on leave might become permant and displace her... after she got fired, near her 40s, and tried to have a kid and failed, she went to the doctor, that informed here that she missed the boat, she was fertile some years before, but now wasn't fertile anymore...)
And that's good, a desktop shouldn't distract from its contents.
Maybe he's using POP3 instead of IMAP? (ie downloading all the email to a local archive) Thunderbird and other clients still support that, and you can still search & tag messages within your local email archives.

It also means if your email server is hacked, they won't get your entire email history - unless your local machine gets hacked, of course.
As it seems z is somehow abandoned, I'd like to recommend autojump[1]

1: https://github.com/wting/autojump
Remember that all this pre-dates the sexual revolution. Patrilineal inheritance + no DNA testing + no effective contraception + no effective anti-VD measures + extremely dangerous abortion + no employment prospects for pregnant or childrearing mothers + no social security = patriarchal society where maintaining your own love life is almost impossible.

It's not a coincidence that people who are opposed to one of those enablers of female freedom I've listed are more likely to be opposed to others.

Traditional marriage is a contract that defines the relationship - that's what the vows are - but it differs from other contracts in that it's also at least partly for the benefit of children who are not born at the time it is contracted.
I might be biased ( ex-dev with 20 years experience from Assembler to C to .Net etc ) but GOOD manual testing requires a lot of skill. If it didn't then I wouldn't have switched from dev to test. I work in a shop where they had devs doing all the testing, tons of automation but they still found that a good exploratory tester added value. But from your comment it may well be that you've never worked with someone like me - maybe when you do you'll think different
The same thing happened to me last week:

- Giant shared server full of old PHP projects* gets owned.

- Logs show an automated tool was brute forcing a vulnerable SQL injection vector for weeks before getting through.

- Backed up server for analysis and removed malicious content.

- Setup new ModSecurity rules, fail2ban, and fixed vulnerable code.

- Started moving stuff to Digital Ocean.

* Not my server or projects, but recently my responsibility.
Looking at this, and also at the New York Times article[0] it appears that

1) The plans that the nations put forward are about 1/2 the reduction in emissions required to prevent a 2 degree C rise in temperature.

2) There are no legally binding targets for emission reduction

3) There is no enforcement

How can anyone see this conference as a net positive? We spent a lot of money, and emitted a lot of CO2 flying hundreds if not thousands of people to Paris, to come up with the equivalent of a change.org petition in terms of actual legal value. I think this is a net negative. It seems that after all the pre-conference hype about this being the last chance, the delegates actually couldn't agree to something substantial and just signed a feel good document that actually doesn't require anything concrete of the countries other than good intentions and then are making a big deal how they signed a treaty to save the world. This is grandstanding, inefficiency, and waste with no benefit for anybody (except for the frequent flyer miles of the journalists covering the conference).

0) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-chang...
They never consider this. All the fuss was about a "wish list" collecting all propositions from police and gendarmerie.

So yeah, at least one guy working for government though it was a good idea and ask for it. So what ?
Android and Chrome unification wasn't ready yet, but the hardware platform was.

Google IO 2016 will be interesting.
Well, try it yourself :). Make sure to make it blind-test with the help of somebody else. Ideally such things would be subject to scientific studies. But these are kind of expensive and nobody cares for mp3 anyway. I'm not aware of any recent.

Hydrogenaudio listening tests [1] are studies by volunteers, but they focus on non-transparent compression. Anyway, it also illustrate aswell how bad mp3 is.

[1] http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Hydrogenaudio_Lis...
Before learning DevOps, learn AWS first
Walmart Pay takes the field
Meanwhile the leading candidates from both US parties want to trample on our Fourth Amendment rights by weakening encryption and installing backdoors.

"Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people." -Donald Trump[1]

"You’re going to hear all of the usual complaints, you know, freedom of speech, et cetera..." -Hillary Clinton[1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151207/21225233018/two-l...
I agree with you that having a centralized bank is not always a problem. I admit that I store my money on one of those good old usual banks. I don't really like my bank, but I'm generally happy with the service it gives me.

I live in a country where there are regulations on what banks can do, which is cool too. I don't really read the news, but I still get to hear every once in a while about some government backed bank that has decided to erase some people's debts. Money invented and gone, out of thin air. However, even those things are not the main reasons to create a decentralized bank.

Think about the following setting: You want to create a small internet like network in some place in the world. Maybe a place where you don't have banks you can really trust, or even a government that you can trust.

So you deploy some boxes, and you get a working network. Everybody on this network pays some kind of virtual money for his use of the network. (He just pays for the electricity, and the box does the real work). The balances are managed by the network itself, somehow. You don't need to find some external bank to make this work, and fulfil his arbitrary tax or other strange regulations. You don't have to trust an external bank. You just plug in the power and it just works.

I don't need the bank here to give me "buyer protection", insurance or the ability to invest in funds. I just want a tool to make sure that if one person sends more messages in the network than somebody else, than he needs to compensate the other person somehow.

Another important reason for which I believe decentralized banks are important is the ability to deal with micro-payments. One of our biggest problems these days is how a small amount of people, with limited amount of resources, can serve billions requests of people from all over the globe. Just check the job listings. They all search for people that can "Scale the backend".

I don't know if a regular bank can deal with transactions of "move 0.003 cents from Alice to Bob, for data transfer work". However, I think that a distributed bank can deal with it pretty well.

I hope that this relates to your question. Please tell me what you think if you are still around.
For all we know, he could own a dedicated always-on machine that works as his mail server.
They are effectively establishing a local grid system within each township. The adjustments allow them to place the grids side by side. The brilliance of the system is it is simple to implement.
Homebridge emulates the iOS Homekit API
Goddamnit. Couldn't we have tried, as a species, not to commit suicide?
The keyword is "about to open up". Unless she has a written guarantee, it doesn't really mean anything tbh. Things might fall through. At least your new position is guaranteed.

Also, what were your reasons to wanting to move? That could be a factor as well.
+1 to autojump.
"our creative endeavours have never produced anywhere near the amount of capital the resource sector has..."

http://www.forbes.com/global2000/

Only four of the top 20 could reasonably be described as "resource" companies (oil companies, in every case).
I believe my only change has been from Notepad2 to Sublime and from Firefox to Safari.
I think people would rather develop their own app from the ground up instead of squeaking into another app / network when all the users must download the custom app anyway.
There are two popular models to predict long term employment trends.

Model 1) There's a finite amount of work out there. Computers will replace mental jobs just like robots killed physical jobs. We're all heading towards unemployment.

Model 2) Employment is determined by the value of an employee. Technology makes employees more valuable, not less. Employees will get more bargaining power as technology improves, not less.

The economic consensus is with #2, because feedback systems appear to drive down high unemployment over time (though bad governance can definitely interfere). One feedback system might be: idle people will eventually conspire to discover and meet the wants of others.

That's abstract though, it might be helpful to look closer to home.

Consider the fear that software will take over everyone's work. It's easy to forget that programmers know exactly how this goes. They have already cannibalized a lot of their work with software. The last fifty years of programming language (IDE, engine, ...) development has been a steady progress of finding ways to get software to write software, to do all the annoying grunt work of the job.

As programmers became more efficient, and crank out more and more complex tools over time, has the demand for code steadily decreased? Have we now solved all the world's problems that can be solved through code? Or has the problem space expanded to meet our capacity? Has the demand for programmers increased because their time is now much more valuable than it was in the era of punch cards?

Note more broadly, jobs are picking up right now as part of the recovery, despite continual technological improvement.

I think the economic consensus is with #2 because so much of the available data so consistently points that way, so it's easy to dismiss the other model as just natural human pessimism about the future. Maybe the pessimistic model is right and we just don't know it yet, but I think it currently has the weaker case.
Someone should build an encrypted cell phone into an assault rifle. They would never be able to ban that.
This is a system that doesn't tend toward Nash equilibrium. If everyone is permitted to maximize their production then it floods the market, prices drop and everyone loses. You could argue that you should let the strong survive. Wipe out the higher cost producers and leave yourself with a factor syrup producing industry.

Yes you can (arbitrarily) value market efficiency over this, but the vast majority of products chose otherwise. They put together a system that benefits their interests. We do this all the time when we create laws.

Now you have a few free-riders who benefit from the higher prices created by restricted supply, but who don't want to pay the cost. If the market was left to it's own devices, they would probably be out of husiness altogether or they would be running a factory sapping operation.

And let's be clear, unlike water, energy, syrup is a luxury good not an essential commodity. The additional cost of inefficient production will be a rounding error for most consumers.
What Makes a Prodigy?
For Stallman's case, surely there is an emacs command to copy the the whole frame, mode line and all, to text for pasting into a mail buffer.

But seriously, it does make me wonder how much of the vast system he retains and uses. Using it for a decade, myself, (certainly not working ON it or understanding the internals) I learn new parts every month but forget a lot, too.
The Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin”
Interesting that they're talking about accepting "other forms of [digital] wallet.

Let’s leave open that some wallets are going to be widely adopted and customers may have a preferred type of mobile wallet they want to use across retail. Let’s allow those wallets to be a payment type within Walmart Pay,” [Walmart Senior Vice President of Services Daniel] Eckert noted, after having fielded several variations of questions from various reporters about whether Apple Pay might work in Walmart Pay (no direct answer was given, but we wouldn’t hold our breath).
Climate change is always the wrong argument. Every piece of legislation that's come up doesn't help solve the actual problem. The problem is pollution, consumerism and planned obsolence. You don't need a new phone every year. Phone should be upgradable, every American city should have trams, intercity rail is much more efficient that cars out buses. Not everyone needs to own a car! Electric cars produce a massive amount of mercury waste in battery production.

Reducing carbon emissions is useless if it just means we move to other forms of pollution or out source environmental devastation to China.

We need to consume less. Our currently capitalistic world is not sustainable.
Bumping you back up because I don't think you're trying to be inflammatory...

You're asking why the American government doesn't implement more progressive/liberal labour laws and/or 'entitlements'?

The massive wall of reasons why American (I assume you're talking about American) labour benefits/protections are relatively minimal is a pretty good reason for why companies are "forced" to do paid mat/pat leave to compete.
Does this news means that Google Dart used only by the Google and does not used by other serious companies?

Or does this news means that Google has finally decided to use their own software product but the other serious companies still has not been decided to use Google Dart?
I work on vehicle routing. I've seen mysterious detours that ended up being cause by using an imprecise segment length equation.

Because the earth isn't a sphere, the common length-on-a-sphere great circle distance equation isn't perfect for the earth. However, it's a lot faster to calculate than the haversine length, which takes into account the squashed sphere that we live on.

We were calculating driving routes at high latitudes. The difference in the length calculation meant that east-west road lengths were being calculated as slightly longer than they really were.

Amortized across a long-distance route, this led to the mysterious tendency of the shortest-path algorithm to prefer north-south oriented roads a lot more often than you'd expect.

While we knew we were using the less precise great-circle distance, the deviation is not all that big, so we didn't really expect the difference to manifest in the output.

Those were some mysterious detours.
I use awesomewm, which is, well, awesome. Each of my workspaces has a preconfigured layout: floating for browser, auto tiling for terminals, etc.
The number of presidential candidates that look at the constitution as a hindrance is scary.
In theory? Sure.

In practice?

Well, I wouldn't want to be, to pick one example out of millions, a med student, in an age when looking up medical knowledge damages your credit rating. It's not a very distant age.
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Siri in 2016 – Moore's Law Takes Hold
I actually tried this last year, and found out the hard way after reencoding my mp3 collection to vbr opus at around half the bitrate (I did some light quality testing to make sure it was of similar fidelity, of course you lose some quality going lossy -> lossy) that either opus-enc or gstreamer at the time would produce choppy broken audio.

And it was reproducible on all my computers. I couldn't use my opus collection at all because either the encoder was broken or the playback was broken.

I need to do it again at some point, when I have 8 hours to transcode everything and try again. See if they've fixed it.
Plug - for Powershell users out there - https://github.com/manojlds/posz
That period is also covered by Uber's insurance in the US (if he's online on the Driver App).

http://newsroom.uber.com/2014/02/insurance-for-uberx-with-ri...
No, it's not the right of ownership it's the right of enforcing a monopoly. If I copy something you own, you still own it, I'm not taking anything away from you...
It would be amazing! Basically what we have now, but (1) noone would go to jail for piracy, and (2) all research would be shared much sooner, and you wouldn't need to worry which spurious patents your original research is infringing.
Ask yourself, right now in Yahoo, all things being equal, who will get the promotion, the lady taking a 2 week maternity leave, or the one taking the 12 week maternity leave? I can guarantee you that although in theory it should make no difference, it will in reality.
If this is true, one wonders why they waste all that time writing rules of engagement, and prosecuting those who don't follow them.
Indie Games, Refunds, Terror, and Taking “No” for an Answer
As pedalpete mentioned, most of the time you'll want to do the bulk of the prority research yourself before you start costing lawyer and/or patent agent* time.

We submitted a few patent applications during my master's research project, that the university eventually bailed out on due to the industrial partner pulling out.

The patent agents basically pulled a list of a few hundred (might have been a few thousand, there were many duplicates though) patents we had to go through and make sure they weren't prior art. We mainly used google patents. We reduced that list to less than 10 patents, which we then we through in detail with the agents, them explaining to us the subtleties of the law and patent specific language (words on patents don't always mean what you think they mean) and us explaining the technical aspects of our invention and how it's different.

Overall though, I came out of the whole process feeling like the utility of patents for the independent inventor is very limited. Not to mention the initial time and cost to apply for a patent, think about the eventual cost if you need to actually defend it in court, ie, make actual use of the patent. Is protecting your invention worth this?
I'd applaud it. There's nothing I hate more than seeing people putting in extra hours at work instead of spending that time with their kids - especially when they're young. At nearly every job I've had I worked less hours than co-workers with a spouse and kids and I'm 25, single, with no kids. It's sad.
> Adding AI is another order
> of stupidity.

That is predicated on the assumption that AI would make worse decisions than humans, which I'm really not sure is a given.
Well, yes, but in the broadest possible sense, as in the rising water level will raise all boats, including of course the YC ones, since all the work coming out of this group will apparently be open sourced and freely available for anyone to use, YC company or otherwise.

From the article:

> Sam, since OpenAI will initially be in the YC office, will your startups have access to the OpenAI work?

> Altman: If OpenAI develops really great technology and anyone can use it for free, that will benefit any technology company. But no more so than that.
"If the role of an internal developer conference is to encourage discussions among teams, then that one certainly succeeded. Because discussions most definitely ensued."

Been there, got the video, in less exalted company.

Is the book simply a repackaging of the blog posts or would it provide a more coherent view of the history of the Windows project?
Hunter-gatherer primitive communism is alive and well. It's called "family". At that scale it's easy to do business without money.

Capitalism as in money, trade, loans and private property date back at least to ancient Babylon. If you wish to include "modern" banking in the mix with currency exchange rates, then you go to 1157 Venice or Genoa.

What happened hundred years ago was income tax.
Understanding the value of ux
Images used to pinpoint targets in Islamic State territory
Looks really nice! I'll probably switch to this.
I'm always annoyed that homesick doesn't automatically sync my local dotfiles repo with the home directory and I have to push to GitHub and then pull with homesick.
This is a good idea but a bad choice of font. I can barely read the text even when I enlarge it.
I get less and less comfortable using my Fever RSS reader (www.feedafever.com), which was made before FireSheep and HTTPS were part of the public conversation.

I don't know of any services that come close, but although I don't have anything particularly incriminating in my feed, it's still a shitty feeling to know that you're a bored script kiddie away from all that getting owned.

It also reminds me of the self-hosted fad a while back (around the time Docker came around) where people still didn't want to fork over the money to get SSL for all their personal health data and whatnot.
Awesome is the bomb.