skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point in this particular case is that Rhode Island has become a bedroom community for Boston, so improving transportation links between the two can make RI even more attractive to discretionary residents (who come here because they want to, not because they can't find anything better -- which is a byword for higher-income residents), who can stimulate both residential and commercial growth by their presence.

It's a reasonable suggestion. Another alternative is that RI could promote business growth to lure away some MA or CT talent. But whether they want to be a swankier, higher-income commuter suburb or a commercial-heavy exurb they really should do something.
Good eye. May be random noise since most daily deltas in the data-set are so small. See comments about over-fitting and noise elsewhere in the thread. Also may be a veggie-style (without the bun) burger. It was over 2 years ago, so I don't remember. I plan to write a separate machine-learning focused doc on this exploratory experiment when I get more time.
It's somewhat odd to see the author gloss over the fact that ragtime began as a guitar style...
If the presence or absence of people can affect the size, wouldn't the fact that swimmers start out of water and dive in screw this up?

Unless the boards were mechanized/able to adjust after the fact to maintain the correct distance despite changes to the pool environment. I was imagining setting up the boards prior to the race, but if they are responsive that's different.
Was a mail admin for quite a number of years, here is some tips. Check that the ip address you are running your own mail server from is not black listed. Nor can the IP hosting the mail server be in a home ip range. This is because there is spam black lists that explicitly mark home user ip ranges as possibly spammy.

Check the repuation in the various anti spam blacklists out there
* Check IP in multiple blacklist http://multirbl.valli.org/
* Check server IP on mxtoolbox http://mxtoolbox.com/whatismyip/
* If you are using home server IP please consider using a VPS with a good IP reputation.
* Consider lookup up ip at Cisco senderbase reputation and check its score, make sure its consider good. https://www.senderbase.org
* Lookup ip in Barracuda repuation http://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups
(Cisco and Barracuda is because these are somewhat common antispam services at edges).
I never took 90% of those classes. Even for a class such as Programming Languages, we never did any actual programming. I'm assuming superuser2 went to Stanford, where their curriculum is no where near what's common.
Yes, TLS was what I meant..
Absolutely possible but its a battlefield on the Internet so you have to understand the players. Two things I haven't seen mentioned in all the excellent advice:

1) Does your ISP let you send email? Some ISP's will not allow any outbound traffic to port 25 from a non "business" port. They force their users to send their email to their server, and then they forward it on to the Internet.

They do this with nominally good intentions (it is easier to control spam generated from their networks), but they also are financially motivated to do so.

2) Don't try to send mail from a dynamic IP address, you should have (and would probably pay extra for) a fixed static IP address (V4 and V6).

Dynamic IPs have two problems, one they change and mail receivers don't like that. Two, they carry with them the abuses people who had the IP address before committed. So your email may get delivered one day, and then poof you renew the lease on your IP and get one that is on a black list somewhere.
Show HN: An ES6 Promises/A+ implementation in 100 lines of code
Yeah it's dangerous down there. But visitor enjoy because Day temperature remains between 40 - 45 Celsius in Sultanate of Oman.
> I understand that imported goods are expensive, but the prices I saw at super markets were just ridiculous ( and it’s possible even that was for ‘fake’ olive oil).

You should try comparing the price wholesalers pay to coffee plantations in tropical countries to the end price of roasted coffee beans at boutique coffee roasters in the US or Europe. It will blow your mind.
http://www.linuxonaposter.com/

(Excerpts of) the Linux source code printed on a poster you can hang on your wall. Not one sale to date.

It's a niche market, and I haven't found a successful marketing strategy yet. (I donated one to the local LUG's raffle, and a couple people fought over it ... but apparently nobody wanted to pay actual money for it.)

When November rolls around, and people are starting to think about buying Christmas presents, I might go buy some Google ads.
Several years ago, I was arrested on a hacking charge and got to see first hand the appalling nature of our legal system in criminal courts.

Normally, after your arrest, you have to have a hearing within 24-48 hours, but if they arrest you on a Friday as they did me, they are allowed to detain you for an extra day because it's the weekend. I'm sure this is a tactic used often to frighten and goad people. My hearing was exactly as the judge in this article describes. There were lots of minor, non violent offenders in the court room with me, most minorities, and many couldn't speak English well at all. The judge would openly mock them and condescend. One man obviously had no idea what he was even pleading to because his English was so poor.

Once I got to higher court for my actual sentencing, it was no different. The judge didn't even read my case and the clerk forgot to have it presented and available for the judge to review. My lawyer had to give him her own copy which he briefly skimmed without adjournment. I later discovered that the prosecuting attorney was good friends with the plaintiff and the investigating FBI officer assigned to my case.

The courts in America are a joke, the legal system is in bad need of an overhaul. I couldn't believe the level of incompetence, racism, bias and prejudice existed there.
Yes, with the caveat of non-guaranteed deliverability (in other words: one day out of the blue gmail/hotmail/whoever will drop silently your emails)
Or just make a nice label, buy some cheap oil and add green and yellow colour and some flavor packs, and you can make the same amount of money without all the hard work.

Oh wait, was that idea already taken :-)
Ars did a series of articles on running your own mail server: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to...
I was shocked at the ​casual racism emanating from the bench.​ ​The judge explained a “stay away” order to a Hispanic defendant by saying that if the complainant calls and invites you over for “rice and beans,” you cannot go. She lectured some defendants that most young men “with names like yours” have lengthy criminal records by ​the time they reach a certain age.

Thereby instantly disqualifying herself from the privilege of serving on the bench. Ample grounds for impeachment, by any reasonable standard.
> Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.

That's great! A good place to start would be here -- https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fsolid.mit.edu....

It's a nitpick, I know. I view source. I always view source. There a lot of things that made the web a success (the REST principles underlying the architecture, the "a" tag, the non-draconian "error" handling, right-place-at-right-time), and one of them was "view source." And I always view source. And then I pick at nits.

This one advertises "[relying on] existing W3C standards", so I brought it up. I usually keep my mouth shout.
Plus make sure that your whois is not registered behind proxy registrars. In other words use your real name and real email address.
"That’s worrying, but in practical terms, it’s unlikely to have significantly impacted the security of TLS because the elliptic curve random number generator in question is not often used."
vs.
http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/

"Secondly, there’s the implementation. This is a bit more tricky because there’s plenty of scope for influencing either the software implementations or the standards upon which that implementation is based." vs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/15/still_200k_iot_heart...

And if you think the vulnerabilities of the shocking state of openssl stop at heartbleed (which is as obvious as backdoors get), you've obviously not given the code even a cursory glance over.

https obviously greater than http
But if you trust it with your life you wont have a life. It's as simple as that. (and tls is basic compared to tor, and even that we have seen is broken to hell and back, or silkroad would still be running.)

Signal and especially OTR are the current state of the art. Apple went the security by obscurity route and once again proved it's inferior.
Any recommendations on where/how to buy real olive oil in Canada? Many of the brands people talk about here do not ship to Canada.
This kind of answer is why I love the HN community. Do you have any idea how much 100% pure olive oil would cost? If it costs say $80, then making it on your own and being assured of the quality really isn't that much more.
Why would stock GTK+ cause problems?
As opposed to your (implied) recommendation, which is for society to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year enforcing jaywalking statutes.

Let's fix the potholes before we go after the pot users.
Not helpful. Michael Pollen's pithy advice is a rather trite and even he will say it's misleading adage. For example, if one ate mostly starchy or sugary plants, they'd probably be a lot less healthy than someone who ate mostly wild game and greens. Nutrition is incredibly complicated and variable.
If I understand correctly, you're saying open web is necessary because otherwise the world would be a worse place. And I agree with that, I even mentioned that in the original comment.

My point was, at the end of the day you are building something for actual people to use (and not for a few philosophers), so you need to build something that's actually useful enough for people to switch from existing solutions.

The open web people don't have that, they are philosophers who want an ideal world, and there's nothing wrong with pondering about and advocating idealism, but you know what's cooler? A philosopher who can actually change the world by building something people will actually use.
ALIEN 1940's FOUND IN EGYPT,FOUND BY RUSSIANS
Libc++ vs. libstdc++
I actually fell into this trap! One day I was struggling to figure out why I could no longer access one of my web servers. I thought that it was due to one of my plugins. After much hair pulling I found out that it was because someone (or perhaps an automated bot) had added my domain to the hsts preload list. As a short term fix I added the certificate of my web server to my trusted root ca dtore, and now that LetsEncrypt supports IPv6 I now have a real certificate (albeit one that does not work in BB10 since the native browser does not trust user-installed root certificates).
Have you looked into visiting a hackerspace for the DIY projects? Most have some kind of short-term membership for people in your situation.
I've given up on it for transactional email for any of my small-time SaaS services. Coaxing gmail into accepting my emails was a constant fight. Just when I thought I was good, they'd start blocking me again for some new obscure reason.

I remember fondly the days you could send an email to postmaster@domain.com and get a response from a real human being and at least attempt to have a rational conversation to resolve your mail delivery issues. I've tried that with google, yahoo, et al. and have never received a response.

I just use mailgun/mandrill/etc. these days and forget about it. I also pay $10 a year to a provider for my personal email address.
The article says the tolerance is "3 centimeters in each lane," which feels surprisingly high. The longest race is the men's 1500m freestyle, which is 30 lengths of a 50m pool. That means that in the worst case, pool dimension errors can add 0.9m to someone's race -- about half a second of time in the 1500m. I bet there are races where 0.5 seconds makes a big difference.
Whoosh.

You support "I don't need this study" with prior studies.
>Even I, as a bankruptcy judge, know that the point of bail is supposed to be simply to ensure that a person will return to court.

That is the point of posting bail, but that is not the standard of granting a defendant the right to post bail/bond.

The standard is more along the lines of: a) is the defendant a flight risk; and b) does the defendant present a danger to the community.

As to b) it is not simply enough that the charges are non-violent, which seemed to shock this Judge. For example, DUI while not a violent crime generally one eligible for bail/bond by default, may not be granted if, say, it is the 3rd or 4th DUI. Or if say the defendant was already out on bail/bond and picked up a new charge, a Judge may revoke the bail/bond on the 1st crime. I'm not claiming this is always how it works and the decisions are always just, but I just want to give a little more perspective.

As to the shock of the state of the courthouse, only a Federal Judge would find that shocking. Don't get me wrong it's a pleasure to practice in a gorgeous Federal Courthouse, complete with grand marble accents, but I'm of the opinion those types of luxuries are a waste of tax payer dollars.
When math meets computer science you get (hint look at visualization)
Are you saying that cGMP makes it illegal to test imported raw ingredients, or that it's illegal to not test? (sad that one has to ask this, but such seems to be the state of food regulation in the U.S.).
> "Pot smokers are T-R-O-U-B-L-E"

There is an error in your reasoning process which has been pointed out several times now (not just by me). I encourage a bit of introspection.
>online at home

>my internet use at home

I'm guessing you're able to use the internet at work or school?
We must have had a dozen of these in the 1980s. An internal IBM one was I've Been Moved. Others I can still remember include Install Bigger Memories, It's Better Manually, Itty Bitty Machines, and Idiotic Bumbling Morons....
I used Windows as my main desktop before (till Window 7) and I must say that its UI usability degraded constantly. Windows 8 and 10 have thier own problems, but my experience is just occasional with them. I have also occasionally used some other Linux desktop, or tried to use it, but Unity feels most polished and logical for me. I do not have much experience with OSX. Perhaps I would like it, but I do not like Apple hardware.

Yes, Unity has it problems, for example some processes start to run amok time to time, but I do not notice that compiz is one of them. Considering that I usually ran my Windows installations to the ground, Ubuntu has stand the test of time for me.
After reading this article, I have to wonder if the criminal court system is under funded and overworked. I think America's core institutions have been under decay for some time now.
What is MTA?
It might be a natural response, but that doesn't mean it should be legal. There is a big difference between making it illegal to consume a product that hurts you, and making it illegal to produce and sell a product that hurts the people who buy it.
There is no way that Google is not recording messages sent through smtp.gmail.com.
Huh..never thought of this. I run my own e-mail server on a Linode. I have constant trouble not being classified as spam. I did a whole post on it:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...

The sad reality is, I'm thinking of moving my e-mail back to someone else. It might be Fastmail, might be Amazon. Running my own e-mail server is a pain and I hate having to send people a message on Facebook or Reddit saying, "I sent you an e-mail. Check your spam folder."

If I route my e-mail through Gmail's SMTP server as a relay, that shouldn't affect my DKIM/SPF stuff right? I'd just have to change SPF/DMARC to say gmail is allowed to relay messages for me, correct?
Ask HN: What to do when websites ask for cell number to create login?
This is becoming more and more common and now The ssa is requiring it to access my account, how can I avoid giving it out?
Cool, problem solved. Can't wait to see this at the next Olympics!
My grandfather used to manage a solid waste disposal station in Palo Alto. He got to be friends with a number of homeless men who made their living doing just that. The one guy I remember best (Bert) lived out of his 56 Chevy station wagon. He would dumpster dive for electronics and disassemble them to get at what had recycling value.

Really you don't want to do that at the dump though, as by that time useful items have been commingled with actual trash. Another memorable story is that there was one worker who couldn't deal with glass bottles if they had any liquid in them and would just freak out and put them in with the trash.
Can torrents actually share chunks? Because otherwise when downloading a large 'mutable' torrent which is often changed slightly one couldn't use all possible peers.
I view it differently. The benefit is being in control of your data, and there's not much of an inconvenience. It's up to competitors to implement the standard. The user will just have to press a "move" button.
There is also a third option, set up a OpenVPN server and connect the home hosted SMTP server to the internet though it, gives you the best of both worlds I figure.
Send a mail from your address to mailtest@unlocktheinbox.com. They send back an extensive "lint for smtp" report within minutes. I found it indispensable for debugging a DMARC issue recently.
I have had an idea for a new type of torrent (or better yet, onion routed torrents like Tribler) that is updatable by the original author for some time.

This would be useful, for instance, to have a torrent of a video series which always contains the latest episode instead of creating a new torrent each time, so the torrent would act more like subscription or RSS feed, which would encourage seeding as well since you would need to keep the torrent active in your client.

One major problem is malicious authors who would update a "verified" torrent with one that contains malware. Perhaps the torrent could somehow contain user reviews, and those reviews would be deprecated upon each update.

Does anything like this exist yet? Any other ideas on how to solve the malicious author issue?

This seems to differ from what is being proposed, which if I am understanding correctly is something like a link to an RSS feed which provides updates to an archive of torrents. Could this provide similar functionality to what I propose?
Enigma is hiring a back end engineer. Fuel the data revolution from NYC
I had a friend who ended up with a drug related charge. When bailing them out, the bondsman, who was a conservative, ex cop, hardened and huge, told me how my friend was lucky to get the judge they got.

There were three judges in that court and one was known to be particularly rough. A defendant (drug charges, heroin) was asking for bail to be set, had secured a bed in a locked down rehab facility and the judge denied his bond. The bondsman said he had never seen someone leave the courtroom so broken.

Here is a case where a man acknowledges his crime, says he will do his time but wants more than anything to get clean. And securing a bed in a lock down rehab facility, besides being expensive, is not easy. Here is a case where the state had every interest in sending the man to rehab, even to save the cost of housing them in a jail, but the system doesn't care. The DA, the judge, don't care. Bail denied because the man had missed a hearing due to being in another jail after being picked up on the street with dope.

The bondsman said he sees this kind of thing every day. It was the rule, not the exception. People are just cycled in and out of the system. The addict will get locked up, released and locked up again.
MaidSafe is an alternative protocol as well as an application platform focusing on strong security and privacy, http://maidsafe.net
I disagree with you. I consider email legacy technology because of its reliance upon DNS and static IP addresses. These two requirements make hosting email unnecessarily costly.
I will not repeat what everyone else has already said, but I can add one thing.
You need to 'warm up' your IP address. You need to send a lot of non-spam email. MTAs will A/B test it: mark some as spam, mark others as not spam. Then they see if they get user spam reports or non-junk reports. They don't know you. The more you send (successfully, if everything is marked as spam by receivers it won't work), the more they start trusting you.

SparkPost allows the use of dedicated IPs and it has a warm up time. They tell everything about it in [0].

[0] https://support.sparkpost.com/customer/portal/articles/19722...
I've made this comment in response to this type of moderation before: if comments expressing skepticism (or even cute stories about kids being kids) are detached, but comments lacking skepticism it are not, then a bias is created in which it becomes okay for the religious to discuss those intellectual aspects of their beliefs suitable for HN, but not anyone else.

And FWIW, I thought the commenters in this thread did a decent job of not turning it into a flamewar.

So if this comment was detached because it received a lot of flags, consider that it may be effectively suppressing an interesting intellectual viewpoint because of one group's disproportionate taking of offense at disagreement, to the point of feeling the need to flag this comment but not other, similar comments that support that group.
Yes, you will eventually reach an altitude where the gravitational pull of a given body is negligible. At that point you will have escaped it's orbit.
Quantum telescopes should get us beyond the diffraction limit

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04275v4.pdf
How we get here? By pushing the previous protocol to the limit, observing where it breaks down, and fixing those things. We could even predict what will replace HTTP/2 by looking at where it starts to break down.

I work with HTTP/2 daily, and there are some pain points when running at high speeds:

- Headers are still head of line blocking. You must synchronize sending them to maintain the HPACK table state. At a high number of requests per second, this is a bottle neck

- Running over TLS is CPU bottleneck since encrypted messages are sequential. We get around this by making multiple TCP connections.

- Long lived HTTP/2 connections will often break because of NAT's (home internet), or changing IP address (mobile). A single dropped packet kills throughput for highspeed links too.

All of these are addressed by the QUIC protocol. I suspect that eventually HTTP/2 will be last major protocol over TCP because of most of the aforementioned problems come from running over it.
> Mass extinction certainly isn't going to happen from global warming as we understand it today.

I assume the parent is referring to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction which is certainly happening, and has been for thousands of years.

Climate change is a rather recent contributor, albeit a very serious one of which we've only glimpsed the beginning.
The situation is somewhat similar to Certificate Authorities. CAs are trusted at differing degrees and also have to watch out not to get their root certificate stolen.
Thanks. Come play next year!

Watch the DEFCON 20 documentary. 1o57 says his challenge is to make is hard enough for a 3 day event, but still be inclusive for n00bs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwaIe6CiHw
That's federal prison. The overwhelming majority of inmates are not in federal prison. The numbers are very different at the state level.
Find a competitor. I only give my cell # to parties with a good reputation that I have to do business with.