skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brings to mind one of my favorite pieces of Python code:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py/blob/master/inbox.p...

A mail server in 64 lines of code.

It doesn't store to a database as Mailslurper does, nor does it have many of other features of Mailslurper.
Sorry you were downvoted. I gave you an upvote before my initial response.

You may have been downvoted because your response may have seemed a little snarky to some. While your suggestions make sense they are not necessarily practicable or economically feasible in all cases. People are pretty sensitive when it comes to the health their children and wants what's best even when they cannot provide it.
Elon confirms 1st stage did not get a good landing

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/705917924972736512

Edit - text of tweet: "Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn't expect this one to work (v hot reentry), but next flight has a good chance."

Very impressive nonetheless. I am wondering if they had a loss of the drone ship?
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Jack Chick instructs his followers in proper D&D material disposal: "Don't throw them away. Burn them!"

I guess fire is the only way to get the demons out. Makes you wonder how they thrive in hell.
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Interesting. I wonder if this is the start of a pattern of desktop companies who have converted to SaaS ditching their origins. It makes sense that there is residual value, and the current owners don't want to be distracted.
> The subtle friction of finding and installing apps has led the average person to basically not bother at all, as we now know most people install zero apps per month.

don't forget the subtle friction of having to pay for stuff, which is another factor triggering the race-to-free.
The windsors and a few other rich families own vast swathes of the UK whilst we are all paying for it.

My time is wasted, not enumerating them but slaving for them.

And Windsor is a made up name, it's Saxe-Coburg-Goth.
You might be interested in this idea of routing payments through a trust network, http://p2pfoundation.net/Ripple.

I'm just a curious onlooker and not directly involved with the idea, but there is a blockchain related implementation at https://ripple.com/, and other implementations of the original idea at https://classic.ripplepay.com/ and https://villages.cc/.
If only someone could make the election technology itself better.
What amazes me is that dang’an system is even functional.

As for pre-crime crime forecasting has been part of policing for at least as long as I have been alive. The Rand report from 2013 title Predictive Policing being the latest report I know of - http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/R...
I remember buying my iPad. I remember saying to myself, "I paid a lot of money for this device, Apple will not get another penny--in any way." And they didn't. They didn't even get my cc number. I figured I bought this pricey hardware--that's it.

I know there's a lot of great apps, produced by hard working Programmers. I've just spent so little time in iTunes, I don't even know what you guys are offering.

In all honesty, I don't like iTunes. I liked it in the beginning. The more complicated/flashy it got, the more I used it in emergencies.

I couldn't imagine having a lot of time/money invested in an iTunes app today. I imagine the tides will turn though?
In many companies the IPv6 migration has already happened. For those that have not started yet it will be more expensive if they wait even longer.

The hardest part seems to be training people. IPv6 is different - it is more than just "longer addresses".
It is a newer protocol that fixes many more problems with IPv4 than just address exhaustion.
So this "ipv6 migration" is actually an opportunity to leverage those new features.

Designing IT infrastructure IPv6 first and IPv4 second allows for so much simpler designs.
You can have your complete network IPv6 only and do IPv4 on the edge for legacy clients. (Maybe doing outgoing NAT for v4 where required)
The results are a much cleaner layout (because of the larger address space), simpler firewall rules, and so on.

It is not complicated or hard to do (in contrary I think that e.g. just setting up SLAAC is much simpler than managing DHCP) but the engineers need to know how it is different.
They need training for that. People are often used to the old ways, once they have seen and worked with IPv6 it is no problem.

I've helped larger and smaller companies since ~2004 with those migrations.
One observation I've made is that here in europe IPv6 is a basic fact of networking where as in the US it appears as if many companies are in denial.
That cloud providers like AWS don't do native v6 is absolutely ridiculous.

When you write code or security rules today that is not designed with IPv6 in mind they are outdated today. Don't do it ;-)
It's the same thing basically.
Wow, awesome, I hadn't heard of them, and I'm from Uruguay myself.
This is why I refuse to do credit score tracking on Mint. They do not need that information.
Trivia: this appears to be the first ever occurrence of the plural of "mangina" on HN.

Fun fact I did not know: a search for "mangina" also returns hits for the string "margina" so it hits any mention of "marginal". The reverse, searching for "margina" does not return hits for "mangina".

More trivia: "mangina" is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. As far as I can tell, these moths have never been mentioned on HN (until this comment), but I cannot be sure because of the noise due to that fun fact mentioned earlier.
For languages that roughly share the same alphabet as English, it seems more like learning a few new words, rather than actually learning English.

If you take a look at the actual project you'll see that translating the language features to another language (and alphabet!) is cool, but not actually enough once you want to start interacting with libraries.

Which essentially means that without learning english, you will be stuck in a technical ghetto with the only way out being to learn english, or reimplement the world.

I still think this is highly interesting as a teaching tool; showing kids what is possible without requiring them to learn english may be a good motivator to actually learning english, but this doesn't seem to have many applications beyond as an introductory teaching tool.
I like the idea. I've heard of programs like this within very-large companies (team X will send some devs to team Y to evangelize a new technology and visa versa), but I've never thought of it happening between companies.

I think it's worth a shot. I think a lot of devs and companies might be uncomfortable with the idea at first, but that's what early-adopters/trailblazers are for (to show everyone the way, and prove that the concept works).
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Another good one is MailCatcher[0] - it includes a nice API and clean ruby gem client.

* [0] http://mailcatcher.me/
Thank you, I'm going to modify it to:

saveallwork "commit message" --ignore "somedir/skipme.too"

I usually have just 1 or 2 files I don't want to include in a commit, but thank you again, it will definitely shave a few mins here and there.
> There’s no objective measure of ‘‘merit’’ so there’s no way to know whether your society is meritocratic or not.

Does he really believe that you can't quantify ability in any way? I don't buy that.
Thanks!

Just looking at this makes me feel for network operators that have to troubleshoot layer 3 addresses directly and without DNS. There needs to be a better approach - like an intelligent clipboard.
You're very correct but not in the way you might think. They are reselling the consumer spending data (timestamps, store/merchant, dollar amounts, demographics about the consumer, etc) to hedge funds, investment banks, and as competitive intelligence to other companies.

Imagine detailed consumer spending for Home Depot & Lowe's for the past few years broken down by market, average purchase size, frequency, churn rate, loyalty, demographics of consumer, financial position of consumer, credit scores, et al. That's huge if you're investing in either company or if you are either company and you want to know how your competition is faring, marketing spend, expansion decisions, etc.

In their earnings they only show direct Mint.com revenue (affiliate traffic from signing up for credit cards, bank accounts, mortgages, etc) which is extremely small compared to the data intelligence. The rest probably shows up in "data services" or something vague.
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No buying mint and then basically freezing the product was their worst decision.
>its really kind mind blowing to me that you don't see a difference but I'll spell it out for you..

Oh, THANK YOU for the scraps of information you're about to impart.

>a company is an organization of humans.

No it isn't. A company (or corporation) is a legal fiction in which the owners are pooling resources to make money. It may do nothing and have no full-time employees. It may own other companies who do nothing and have no full-time employees.

The "organization of humans" isn't the company. Those people are employees who work for the company. I know it's in fashion for CEOs to say "we are the company", but that's a polite fiction you tell people to motivate them. If you have any doubt this is true, watch what happens when the company doesn't need them any more.

>You purchase a service from the lawn care vendor. You are their customer. You are not the employer of the guy who mows the lawn. That guy is either self-employed or he might be the employee of a lawncare company.

While that's true from a legal perspective, it's a meaningless distinction. I'm paying the guy to do a job. If I stop paying him to do a job, it has an impact on his life. In leftist parlance that makes him a "stakeholder", by which they mean he ought to have some input into the decisions I make as the owner.
why not? it's a mildly refreshing change of pace from the smarmy bullshit and platitudes most people put out.
Trump's frontrunning echos 1950s film plot (“A Face in the Crowd”)
A lot of people say "remoting wayland should be straightforward" but it keeps not happening. Either it's actually hard, or nobody on the project cares, which makes me question their judgment. Imagine how a display system would be received if it didn't support color on day one.
Thanks for the clarification. I think by "central bank", the article just meant a non-decentralized currency system.

It's good that you pointed out the possibility for scores to go down in that system, and I assume that would affect the ability of low scoring participants to transact in the system. If that's the case, it makes me doubt the article's strong assertion regarding that example of a reputation currency.
Also putting externalities aside...

Really great that economics, innovation and competition have driven down the cost of shipping (larger containerized ships, better fuel efficiency, smaller crews / labor component) and oil extraction down so low that there's now a cheaper option than that imposed by the canal folks. It's not merely an expensive toll that has brought this situation about, it's also cheap shipping.
The point is that Windows was never open. Open platforms like Linux now exist. Something controlled by one corporation and built under a proprietary license cannot be open even if they allow users to install stuff without an app store.
The book Real World Haskell was written using such a system. I don't know what system they used, though. It let you attach comments to a specific paragraph.
I've clearly been paying too much attention to politics. My first scan of headlines here left me asking, in which case before the Supreme Court was LLVM an issue?

Although I must admit I would love to read the late Scalia's opinion of LLVM.
Apart from startup times, would this really be faster than the JVM? I don't know how the LLVM runtime stacks up - I'm guessing that there are a few targets eg traits that might be more efficient to implement in native code as Scala would be trying to work around what exists in the JVM and Java Bytecode but I have a feeling that it would be very specific use cases like embedded systems that would be considering LLVM as a target where as the JVM would still be preferred in most circumstances? I'm asking from a fairly naive place - I'm genuinely interested and curious to hear some use cases where LLVM would be almost strictly better.
" it’s a score that a never-explained set of network services calculate by directly polling the minds of the people who know about you and your works, reducing their private views to a number. The number itself is idiosyncratic, though: for me, your Whuffie reflects how respected you are by the people I respect. Someone else would get a different Whuffie score when contemplating you and your worthiness. "

This is exactly what i'e designed with github.com/neyer/respect

It's basically the same as pagerank, but it has an important feature that the author doesn't seem to have considered.

Look at the notion of 'soundness of respect' in my code, and see how different it is from anything out there. It provides multiple parties who aren't directly part of a conflict with an incentive to find a resolution.

> Gamergate could use to destroy your’s employment and personal life, possibly permanently, just by mass-one-starring you.

This is specially what the respect matrix works against; people who one starred someone else for spurious reasons end up dinging _themselves_ if they are at all connected, which the social graph says we all are. You'll lower your soundness score if you give someone else a shitty rating, and yet you have an implied positive rating through other links.
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No, let's not put externalities aside. That's the whole problem with externalities: putting them aside.

However negligible the contribution to global CO₂ concentrations these 100-odd ships over the last couple of quarters have made, they still made it, and it was done to the world I have to live in without consulting anyone or anything but their owner's own bottom line.

That's why there needs to be something like a carbon tax (however poorly designed so many of the proposals thus far have been). Because those externalized costs aren't free, and they should be borne by the people who impose them on everyone else.

There is absolutely no penalty for pissing in the pool the rest of us happen to be swimming in, and I call bullshit on that.

EDIT: And the canal wasn't built so its owners could charge for the privilege of using it. It was built because it took weeks off transit times. Charging for its use is how it was paid for, not why it was built. That is some serious cart-before-the-horse action, right there.
It uses mostly hydropower, even in china.
I'm curious why they changed from noncommercial permissive to GPL2+ instead of GPL3.

If their goal is to prevent misuse of the project by unethical profit-minded entities, GPL3's anti-tivoization language would have ensured that even if a company profits from building or running a MAME-based cabinet (which is good!), they wouldn't be able to deprive their customers' freedom to fix or upgrade the software that runs it. (As they now can!)

It's even worse for the permissively-licensed parts of the code, which can now be used to build locked-down proprietary cabinets that users can't even inspect. I'm glad they got at least part of the project covered by copyleft.

The "common questions" on their site contains some confusing claims, too:

> Q. Can I include MAME with my product?
> A. Yes. You can use 3-clause BSD compliant files but project as whole is under GPL-2.0 license so in case you wish to use those part you need approval from specific developers.

You'd only need permission if you didn't want to comply with the terms of GPL2. There's nothing in GPL2 that requires permission for inclusion with a product.

Maybe that's just leftover from before the license change?
> Soldering just isn't practical in the classroom (at least where I teach, middle school)

Really? I had wood shop in (public) middle school, I'm talking about a room full of 13 year olds with industrial sized band saws, tables saws and volatile chemicals. And that was somehow ok (once in a while the teacher would hit the kill switch if he saw someone horsing around). Soldering is like knitting compared to that. I don't see the problem.

Also not sure why you think breadboarding is barely workable, it seems totally workable to me.

Limiting students to alligator clips and "built in hardware" seems like short changing them. I suppose it's better than nothing.

Anyway, Lady Ada and Adafruit are really awesome. If you are doing something for schools, I would contact them directly and let them know.
It literally says that you can put UWP apps into other stores, not just Windows Store. And it was said by Phil Spencer, head of Xbox.
You can't have a power law over 1..5? Yes you can. Power law works perfectly fine with finite ranges. It works perfectly fine with discrete values as well. The only question is how accurate a power law model would be in this case.
It's true. They are trying so hard to push Quickbooks online too. But no, I am just fine with my 2014 QB Pro thank you very much.
Are these the same guys from this arduino documentary?

https://vimeo.com/18539129

EDIT: Yep - the first speaker in that doc is Banzi
Restrictions on distribution is not open or free in my book. The trademark issue I get, other projects have done it too, but that was OK because Open Source means you can always fork it. The non-commercial clause on redistribution is another thing entirely, going against the spirit of both Free Software and Open Source (Freedoms 0 and 2 for the further, Rules 1 and 6 for the later). And sadly, no, you can't fork your way from such a clause.
Intuit has squandered the Quicken brand for years with lousy updates and even worse customer support. In some respects it's good to see them sell it to someone who might do something with it.

Unfortunately, the Quicken name is now so tarnished that the private equity firm likely has one swing at a decent update. Anything less than a homerun and they might as well shut it down.
I never said anything about Linux or OSX. Sometimes alternatives don't exist. The lack of an alternative doesn't excuse continued support of a company that is trying to lock away the General Purpose Computer. If you decide that you will stop supporting Windows only if a full replacement exists, then you will never change.

Boycotts usually require sacrifice. Do you want to pay that cost now? Or are you going to signal approval to Microsoft by rewarding them with money or market share?

> as long as you have custom setting

That is going to be a never ending treadmill of fixes whenever Microsoft wants to push out changes. If you wake up tomorrow and discover that a new patch for Windows was installed, do you have the disassembled code and/or packet logs to actually know that your "custom settings" are still intact?

But none of that really matters - using "custom settings" is still telling Microsoft that you're fine with their locked "appliances". They will only change course when they see either their revenue or market share start to decrease.

Do you want to make the sacrifices necessary to send that signal now? Or do you want to wait until the costs are even higher?
What's really funny is EVE online has proven this exact phenomenon dozens of times and is essentially an accurate model of what 'anonymous digital currency' leads to.
More likely, Zuckerberg realizes that the best way to control developers and build an Internet-wide platform is to control the (open source) code they're using. Parse is the backend version of React in terms of developer turf wars.

The parse service may be shutting down, but the parse platform will only grow in popularity, and Facebook will continue to benefit from the control it exerts over the decision making of developers.
The major contributing factor to this practice being economically viable is that the big oil producers are trying to undercut one another. That isn't an "advance" in economics, or innovation, or fuel efficiency, or anything else.
As someone who worked with the fda, do you think there could be some pre certified framework that greatly reduces the work and the certification burden of medical product developers?
Exactly this. Had to go through this situation. PayPal said they'll flag the account, but these accounts are already abandoned once the money is withdrawn.
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> > a company is an organization of humans.

> No it isn't. A company (or corporation) is a legal fiction in which the owners are pooling resources to make money.

A company is a generic term in English for any (particularly business) organization. It includes things that do not have distinct legal identity from the persons comprising the organization.

A corporation is specifically a particular form of company, distinguished by distinct legal personhood and other particular legal treatments.
I was impressed when my dog would lie down by his bowl one minute before feeding time. I think he may have been keying of the sunlight position, which is always available where I live.
Once it got to the point that searching for my apps by name returned the apps of larger competitors, I knew it was time to bail on my silly hobby.
Re: Getting your data out, Quicken has supported OFX and CSV import/export since at least the 90's, and it's enough of an industry standard that any other place you take your data will support the same.
In addition to my other comment. You want to pay by credit card since it has fraud protection. Never use PayPal credits or bank transfers or debit cards. Debit do have some protection, but usually have shorter time frame on when you need to report.
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Weak analogy. Text and language aren't as intrinsic to playing music and reading/writing sheet music as they are to reading/writing source code.
Ahh, thanks for clarifying!