skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use a service like this called endjunk.com. A few years ago it shut down without warning and I found I couldn't receive emails or update my username for several services.

I tried rolling my own for a while, but it was painful to make sure my mail server was always up to date and patched. I also had issues with forwarded mail being marked as spam by my email provider.

If this service becomes popular and starts forwarding lots of spam, it can result in the entire domain being blacklisted, especially since users never send replies to these addresses.

Don't rely on free mail services to get mail you might care about some day.
Bring up "integrity & self-respect" when the larger issue is racism & sexism is disgusting.
Well maybe this is the wrong place for actual communication and talking. I really see "Hacker" News as less hacker and more Start Ups trying to look professional.
Meh. The safest and easiest migration path from XP now is to LXLE (which is Ubuntu Linux) with a similar theme (and the same set of apps); I wouldn't keep anyone on XP any more: if W7 is obsolete, XP is a rotting corpse.
Inside the Hunt for Isis Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Non-ionizing radiation can also cause other adverse health effects. A famous Norwegian case in the early 90s related to navy personnel on board an attack vessel, where 17 of the 85 children of soldiers who had served on the vessel, had birth defects. A disproportionate number of the employees on the electronics workshop of its home base also has children with similar birth defects

The negative effects are widely believed to have been caused by a 750W radar jammer, which frequently radiated the ship deck. There hasn't been established a clear cause-and-effect link.

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvikk-saken
From the article, emphasis mine:

> This allows our freelancers to receive tangible rewards for their hard work building incredible software, and helps them prepare for the future.

Wouldn't simplify paying a freelancer be a tangible reward? And if you're not paying them then they're not really freelancers, they're either interns or suckers (or both).

> Will every Gigster Fund company yield a successful return?
No. Although some startup companies yield extraordinary financial returns, many fail.

Ha! Great way to spin "The majority of this will be worthless ... but you buy Powerball tickets too right?"
What the fuck is "IMSHNO"? Not even Google can answer. Is it so difficult to write what acronyms mean instead of acting like a super cool geek?
I am also not in HFT but wouldn't be surprised if there are also some timeless parts built as ASIC--perhaps not specially targetting HFT, but useful in that area)--and then just integrated via FPGA/CPU. Google's recently announced machine learning chip coming to mind.
I think "brute force math" would be a good name for this technique --- that diagram reminds me of finding hash collisions:

http://www.links.org/?p=6
"Try sending an image of child sexual abuse through your gmail account and see what happens." - the implication is clear: "why else would you fear the Big Brother?"
The subtleness if the differences between the groups seems to undermine their hypothesis. How are they saying this is statistically significant?
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Is it the same no-evil care for customer who pushes them to serve ads in the OS? I am sure they only serve ads "to improve the customer's experience"...
> or you've adjusted to a yearly upgrade cycle that is pretty painless

Painless? Since when spending hours on restoring a working computer is painless?

Restoring my phone from a factory reset takes 4-6 hours with all the passwords, configs, apps, etc, if the phone is no rooted and backed up with some massively hacky 3rd party software.

Restoring my computer is 2-3 DAYS. Yes, days, because there are things I keep forgetting about and setting it up correctly if a long time. No, I'm not going to install everything on my desktop via ansible scripts.
Because UX. /s
The domain has now been taken over by scammers, so it might be worth removing the links from the github project.
My understanding is that Schwartz et al declined IBM's bid and chose to proceed with Oracle's, under the assumption that Oracle's superior business record would mean more stability for Sun employees.
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I dunno, I'd say that everyone prior to nineteen-ninety-something handled it the right way.
I'm thinking of doing something similar and hope to learn from your experience. I have two questions. (1) Was it easier to write your own MTA than to use the milter interface to Postfix or other mature MTAs that support it? (2) How would you set up the MUA to use the right alias in the return address when users reply to a message instead of leaking their real email address? (e.g., Would you need another lookup table somewhere that maps (user,recipient) pairs to user aliases?)
While the list is definitely incomplete I would not call it small. Have a look at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/master/...
No, AFAICS that part is some combination of trying to mitigate the total cost of {free OS, no-upgrade cost}, and wanting some of the fun information companies like Google get from their more invasive telemetry.
Thank you for the compliment about the copywriting! I did try to put effort into explaining what Mailhero actually does and to make sure that I explained why I made it instead of pretending to be somebody else. :)
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Maybe they want to improve Unix? This is undeniably the correct behaviour. It's only bad because everyone has gotten used to how things worked in the 70s.
Cellphones or Wi-Fi today are unlike cigarettes in the '50s in that if you run the numbers cigarettes cause loads of deaths (maybe 10 years off lifespan) while the effects of Cellphones and Wi-Fi if they cause any harm are so small as to be pretty much undetectable (see eg http://bigthink.com/laurie-vazquez/your-cellphone-absolutely...).

If there's a modern equivalent to cigarettes it's probably air pollution which can probably knock about a decade off your life in the worst places. ("Life expectancy is 5.5 years lower in northern China than in the south because of heavy air pollution, a new study examining 20 years of data has determined."...). Or maybe sugary food.
I can recommend reading the About-page...!

https://mailhero.io/about
Wait until you see tomorrow's headlines!
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All the more reason to block their widgets on other websites, using something like Ghostery or Disconnect.
The problem with this is that malware keeps evolving: originally it used to be a single key, but look, people kept disabling it, canna have that, let's make it two keys. GWX has its own update, and keeps up with the squirming Windows Nein Update fairly well.
If you're an iOS user, you'll be familiar with how iOS apps work. This is exactly how you cater to the user - iOS users known how to use iOS apps.

If you change the UI to look like Android, only the users that also use Android elsewhere would be comfortable with that.
Surprised they weren't doing that already. Facebook has javascript injected on a lot of sites, always assumed that they'd collect a shit ton of data whether you are a user or not.

Also, all ad blockers block google analytics like tracking services but social plugins are generally opt in. I guess they should be blocked by default too.
Depends on how you look at it. The 200TB seems to be the data required to prove that none of the possible combinations works.

If it had been temporary data to get to a simple proof of something, then I'd agree that this data was just a side-effect.

But if I'm understanding it correctly, as it stands even if you're told that it stops at 7,825, you'd still need all of this data to prove that it's true.
I think the reason such rants pop up occasionally and are often criticized is because the field was started by what you call "hardcore coders" - people interested more in the building part (and tweaking, and adapting) - but as it became more and more profitable, it got co-opted by the people who are more interested in getting stuff built, without paying much attention to how its built.

Or the way I look at it, it was once nerds' playground, and those nerds are now an unwanted minority of the growing software field. Hardware is going through the same thing now, with hardware hackers getting replaced by startups.

Now, I don't mean that in an offensive way. It's simply a clash of two cultures co-existing within the same field. There's lot of misunderstanding because of that. For instance - I work in a software company; there are 30 programmers on my floor alone, but only around 3 or 4 I'd consier "my kind" of programmers. The rest think I'm the office nerd, who likes weird shit (electronics? Lisp?) and for some strange reasons likes to (omg!) code after work, instead of running or going to a concert. When I first learned programming, pretty much every programmer I knew was like me. Now we're the minority.
They are useful for exploratory maths. If someone has an idea for a theorem "All semigroups with properties X and Y are of type Z", while an automated proof might be major work, a simple check of all semigroups up to a certain size is trivial, and a counter-example doesn't require a complex proof.

However, for numbers of the size I was looking at, storing them is impossible. We were just interested in how many there were (which wasn't known, and we don't know how to calculate without enumerating them through search).
> Rather than having TSA agents use hand-pushed carts to bring empty trays from the exit back to the entrance of the line, the new lanes use an automated conveyor belt system.

Every time I travel and I see a TSA agent lumbering back from the secure side with a set of carts I shudder inside. That's got to be one of the most depressingly monotonous jobs.

Forget the massive efficiency angle, you could sell this as a security boost. Rather than having an individual go back and forth through the secure zone, just send the trays in one direction on a conveyor.

> And instead of having travelers stack up behind one another to drop off their belongings to be scanned, there are five different "divestment points" so faster travelers can drop off their bags and move on without waiting for a slower person in front of them.

Can someone explain this? Is it five drop off points inbound into the bag scanner per lane or the entry line splits into five lines after the outer check?

> Delta says it spent more than $1 million on the system, which it thought up and deployed in less than two months

On a federal budget scale, that's a rounding error.
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> But if that means creating a unique UI and app flow for long-term user happiness, then the app company owes no respect to the "local conventions" of the OS.

This PoV has engendered more hatred in me towards software creators than probably any other. Not bad considering I spent 25 years creating software.

If I'm on Gnome/Android/Windows 10/OSX/Whatever, frankly I'd prefer everything follows GUI guidelines, standards guides and looks, acts and feels like a native. Trouble is everyone knows best.

iTunes "knew better" and made Windows look and feel like a Mac. Fine, except it made the program clunky and stand out for being different. Apple knew best with iMessage and decides it should invisibly merge sms and their own messaging. Result? A dozen times a day it would hang for 10 minutes or so trying to connect to data-unreachable imessage servers. Just send a damn SMS, which is what I wanted in the first place. Google came up with Hangouts that at first release (i've not revisited it) managed to leave out every essential of a messaging app. It was sort-of pretty, but very broken.

Google and Microsoft always know best and don't even respect their own standards, let alone anyone else's. Neither are any good at all at designing GUIs and frankly should just stop. Outsource to someone who can. Samsung should take note of this too.

I don't want 40 different unique UIs all optimising app flow for long term user happiness as that's anarchy with 50 (sic) different ways of doing things in those 40 apps. I'd prefer it felt a little dated to work on Android or whatever if it was then seamlessly perfect in gestures, GUI and function.

Everyone needs to just stop knowing best. 99.9 times out of 100 they don't.
Well, I've gotten spam that had it stripped; the name was a bogus one that I gave out in combination with a specific dot-aliased address, but the address in the To: header was without the alias. I can't say how often it happens, but with major mail providers (including Google, IIRC) widely known to support arbitrary dot aliases for throwaway addressing, it seems like a reasonable ploy from the spammer's point of view.
And then MS silently reenables this KB. Yup. About 6 times so far.
Blue Coat can trivially work around this limitation by placing the intermediate cert on a server. Now when the traffic inspection device wants a (leaf) cert, it calls home to the server and the server provides it.
I agree with this.

This actually describes a lot of my problems with Docker as well: I __hate__ that I have to use `docker ps`, etc. This is due to a weakness in traditional UNIX architectures. I ran HURD in a virtual machine a while back and it has the solution to this problem: translators.

I can't wait until they hit a 1.0 release of HURD.
> It's over.

Far from it
I understand but that makes Windows 10 pretty toxic. I think people would be less bothered (or less people would be bothered) if they were upgrading their users to an awesome OS. In my opinion they are upgrading their users to a piece of shit OS designed to monetize their users. That to me is an "evil" behavior.
Clearly they'll need a 1.1 just in time for Oct. 31.
Does that upgrade in the cloud result in nonfunctional computers? QED.
In fact you can encode any proof to a few hundred lines. Just write a program that brute forces through all possible proofs. If that counts, then no proof need be longer than it's conjecture plus a constant.
I don't even know if that's a made up magazine or a real one. :)
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To remove all of MS's nagware and spyware on Win7 and 8 use this: https://github.com/th3power/aegis-voat#aegisvoat
That explains a lot. Kid knows exactly how business works, though maybe misses the point that gift-giving is viewed as a negative thing in the West, particularly in education. Schools' reputation for integrity of calculated grades is everything for that business.
If you verified the code performed the correct function, ensured it ran correctly and computed the result, then the code itself serves as most of the proof (not the 200TB). Really what you want to be peer-reviewed is the code, not the swathes of data.
Describe in, say, five thousand words or less the architecture of nginx in a way such that if implemented it would have demonstrably the same characteristics as the existing version.
I think you need to reread DanBCs comment.

His comment is stating what google does and gives a pretty strong example, not justifying what they do.
Google definitely do not support dot aliasing, I've had email addresses for gmail with dots in them and so has my mother. Thats dangerous if you allow people to sign up for email addresses with dots and then use that as an alias seperator. So dangerous I would argue they wouldn't do it.
No, the implication is - do that for a practical demonstration that Google does the same thing 'kuschku pointed out Microsoft does.
I presume the purpose of that sentence is to back up the previous one ("Everybody does this").
Strange, I have not had that come up yet. Maybe I have not installed the updates which cause it to auto re-enable yet :-)
Be careful when dealing with absolutes.

No matter how smart you think you may be, you simply don't know what you don't know, as you allude to later in your comment.
give pypi2nix a try and ping me on irc if it fails (nick: garbas)

https://github.com/garbas/pypi2nix
"In My Not So Humble Opinion." They switched some letters around.
Doesn't have the best sorting algorithm of all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
This is dismaying. I can sort of understand that the physicists want lots of filtering, but in the area I follow on Arxiv (machine learning), it seems to me as if there's a) little filtering and b) this works out great.

I have seen crank papers, but they are just ignored and quickly crowded out by papers people are actually interested in reading.

A while back they ran surveys on whether they should filter more. I and everyone I talked to said, don't worry about filtering, don't worry about prestige (yours or author's), just give a place to publish and good tools for searching/browsing (a la external sites like arxiv-sanity), and it's perfect.

But it didn't occur to me that attitudes might be very different in other fields.
Stop saying 'virtue signalling'
Outsourcing the slow speed with two-speed IT
Both, of course.

The point of Creationism (the non-laughable variety, at least) is that some transcendental being designed this Universe with all its fundamental laws and specific constants, including Evolution, with the express intent to have us here, now, in the exact shape we are.

It is not something that can be easily refuted, BTW, nor proven. Which is why it's a matter belonging to faith and not science, for now.
There's nothing wrong with competition. Some people enjoy it, and it undoubtedly improves the world. My idea of utopia certainly includes competition in many areas (arts, sports, science, space exploration, computer games).

It should, however, be possible to opt out of competition (in any particular area) and still live a good life. I think it's perfectly possible to achieve that in a post-scarcity society. Furthermore, a political & moral advancement could ensure that all "common" wealth (infrastructure, land, property, energy) is more-or-less equally distributed (i.e. "you don't deserve to own that penthouse just because you were born in the right family"), perhaps using taxation by "renting" from the society (e.g. more valuable property owners would be paying more taxes/rents to the rest of us, so they will only be able to keep it if they produce outstanding amount of wealth themselves). Then, the only competition would be based on things like intellect and creativity.

The story Manna [0] includes something similar, where energy is distributed equally among all citizens, who can then "use" it (e.g. to create food, clothes, ...) or "donate" it (e.g. to interesting science projects).

[0] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Thanks for your recommendations.

I'm currently taking a look at all the libraries and will test the functionality over the next days. Some of them are realy overweighted - especially the D3-based libs seem to be slower than the others.

I'll keep you informed about my "test winner".
Perhaps, but how, in 2016, is it not known? Surely scientists have tried raising rats near strong radio waves to see if they die or get cancer?
As far as I can tell the advice has been to change both of the keys for at least a year now. When did it change?
Well, there are many OSS/FS projects out there, where people do exactly that. Do that work without getting paid.

It's not the software work per se that isn't fun most of the time.

Often the problem is that people who have no idea about software development want to shape "how" we work.

"I pay you mad bucks for this, so you have to sit here and be watched multiple times a day so you I know you're really working!"
It'd be nice to see someone collate more git workflows, and what the advantages and disadvantages of these are.

Over time, my workflow has become simpler and simpler. I've worked with some weird and wacky workflows before, which have been born from a given requirement, such as quick deployment to a number of different environments, or two separate teams working on separate parts of one codebase while maintaining separate CI workflows. Some of these workflows have seemed absolutely mental, but I've seen them several times over in different places, so there must be some kind of logic to the madness.

Different dev teams have wildly different practices, so it'd be good to acknowledge the "typical" way of doing things, and embracing the workflows that work if you need to do something out of the ordinary.
But then read-only just means unmodifiable? How does it matter whether it's a lookup table or CPU code in ROM or whatever? And the OP said "mathematically unhackable", not unmodifiable. But for me it seems completely in the open what that means, and I support my fellow poster asking for a link.
Still, `Done` button, or `Back` button, or `Edit` are not in the same place in every app. Some apps are `Swipe Left` to delete, some are `Swipe Right`.

Not sure what is more frustrating — different looks with different usage patterns for every app; or same look with subtle differences and no way to predict what's where in a new app, or the app you haven't opened for a while.
> they got burned really badly by WinXP's "never upgrade" long tail (and the fact that people tended to just disable or infinitely defer Windows updates

Well, there's a reason for that. Software seems to change way too fast and it breaks the most basic expectations people have (which I think are very good) - that if a piece of software works, it should continue to work. If I buy a machine that has Windows and Microsoft Word on it, I should expect the OS to boot up and Word to open the documents I made with it for as long as the hardware itself doesn't deteriorate. My programs shouldn't suddenly stop working because they don't feel like it. My OS shouldn't suddenly update to a different looking one because "fuck you, that's what you want anyway". And they definitely should not do any of that in the middle of you working.

I am one of those who often disable / delay auto-updates. Because of the times I had my computer reboot when I stepped out to get a tea. Because of the times I auto-updates for apps burned significant chunks of my transfer when I was using a mobile connection.
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> Because the very first thing many people would install is Adblock Plus.

Because I can't install Adblock in Android Chrome, I won't use Chrome at all. And because I like my bookmarks/history synced between phone and desktop, that means that I won't use Chrome on desktop either.
I think he's trying to say that they didn't have a Windows update server to prevent that kind of thing. The only people dodging this are using a utility, manually deleting updates, or are running Enterprise.
Well, technically Win10 looks better and is more awesome than Win8 (which I'd call a half-assed UI that got stuck in the middle of thinking "I'm on a PC" and "I'm on a phone". But otherwise, your point stands. Especially compared to Win7, the gains for users are not obvious.
He claimed to support it because it included the Violence Against Women Act, and criticized harsh on crime policies. That said high crime rate of the 90s made everyone a bit crazy. Now with dropping crime rates even conservatives talk of reform and jailing fewer people.

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/26/11116412/bernie-sanders-mass-in...
A good team has people with a mix of skill sets. The "best" people depend on your choice of skill, but multiple skills are required to excel and it's almost certain no one person will be best at all.

Sometimes it's the gestalt of the team that works well; sometimes there's simply no easy way to isolate contribution.
Surprised Facebook didn't by AddThis when it was up for sell; instead Oracle did.
+1 for the logo. Now please update the project web site with matching colors :P
how would he know if he had a concussion and internal bruising if he hadn't been to a doctor?