skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely had this problem. I moved from a metal server to a VPS which had a different IP address, and it's taken probably 3 months to finally have a decent enough email reputation so that Gmail isn't automatically dumping email into spam. And you have to drill down to even get to that Spam folder too.

It was at the point where I really couldn't effectively communicate with anyone on gmail because of that. The answer I kept getting was "Well, why don't you just use Gmail instead of your own email stuff?"
It's kind of scary to me sometimes just how well Google has managed to get people to equate email with Gmail.
Tuffmail

Edit: Not saying it's modern or user friendly. It has worked for me for 10 years without touching it, though.
> If your company takes ~2 years to develop a pacemaker's software, it's not to your advantage to let your competitors catch up.

Why should the patient who has the pacemaker implanted care? This seems like a clear situation in which the patient's interests trump everybody else's. Pacemaker manufacturers should be competing in how well their devices meet patient needs. Closed source doesn't meet a key patient need.
It has always been the plan to upstream it. However, the patch is rather extensive, and it needs quite a lot of cleanup. (for example, making ISA-L pluggable)
He's complaining that the Bazaar is not efficient, and that it's a pile of hacks.

No. Shit.

Yes, it's an inefficient pile of garbage built one heap on top of another.

But it's also incredibly useful.

Modularity and code reuse are, of course, A Good Thing. Even in the most trivially
simple case, however, the CS/IT dogma of code reuse is totally foreign in the
bazaar: the software in the FreeBSD ports collection contains at least 1,342 copied
and pasted cryptographic algorithms.

If that resistance/ignorance of code reuse had resulted in self-contained and independent
packages of software, the price of the code duplication might actually have been a
good tradeoff for ease of package management. But that was not the case: the packages
form a tangled web of haphazard dependencies that results in much code duplication
and waste.

Code duplication, waste, and a tangled web of haphazard dependencies are only a bad thing in theory. PHK talks about "CS/IT dogma" like it's the rule rather than the exception. But the CS/IT dogma, like most other dogma, always runs into exceptions when put into practice.

When you have many, many independent teams of people developing software, you may want to implement something someone else has already done. As a member of your team, you have two choices: 1) re-implement the original as part of your own cathedral, or 2) put some glue around the existing solution.

Sometimes, 1) will be the best choice. But sometimes - and this is usually the case with Unix tools - 2) works just as well, and you get the benefit of only having to write and maintain glue, rather than a constantly morphing feature implementation. If the original was done well, and your glue supports it well, you get a feature without paying for it.

The foundation of Unix is a strong Cathedral. But this foundation is what makes the Bazaar fit so well around it: it provides something strong to glue other shit to. As long as you have someone to continue gluing shit together, you can keep adding pieces ad infinitum, and what you lose in the end is essentially disk space and compilation time. I'm willing to accept that.
Whatsapp. A lot of people I know use data just for Whatsapp.
I always think it's funny when citydwellers in Australia make this complaint. Somehow cats killing the native wildlife is a reason not to have them in suburbia, but no-one bats an eye at all the McMansions and asphalt everywhere destroying the previously native flora and fauna.

Also, the last house I lived in had a bloody wattlebird nearby. I'd much rather a cat eat it and wake up to silence than wake up to that thing at 4am every morning...
I had the same experience years ago. Checking again today on my GMail account shows that partial string searches (or prefixes) don't work at all, but I don't really notice it because it gives good search suggestions in the popup.

For example, if I search for a partial string, say the first part of my last name, GMail finds no messages. But there are hundreds of messages from my family members with the same last name in my inbox.

Another example: searching for Verizo results in "no messages found", but GMail recommends I search for Verizon and that shows all the messages I expect (at a glance.)
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The production and consumption of digital works has plenty of "deleterious" effects on the environment.
>> why you want to stick with the scientific method.

How can you have an opinion on that, after writing that you don't know what it is -- despite talking about Popper...?

I told you I didn't need that for my argument.

Bye.
Yes, Google adds closed source bits just like any other OEM does and the only difference is Google updates their sit better but we blame them.

My point is AOSP being open source means any OEM could base an OS on it and be fully open sourced.

I understand there is barriers to doing that like most mobile hardware is not open but that is NOT Google's fault.
I think this is the right track, but perhaps not intro/extro, and simply what people want from a pet. Want a constant companion? Get a dog. Want another thing sharing the space, that can look after itself? Get a cat. Want something pretty to look at that knows it's place? Get a fish...
I'm afraid to test it out with my personal account, but I wonder what would happen if you sent a test to a gmail account with the GTUBE spam signature? You know, the one that scores 999 points with Spamassassin.

http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/
I like dogs.

I like cats.

I'm just very allergic to cats. It has seriously been a barrier to whom I hang around with. The allergy is genetic. My father had a worse allergic reaction than myself.

My father found a person he liked enough to try to find a work around. This was quite a milestone for my dad. Growing up, my father was just a rigid guy. There were no "work arounds"

Well, when his girlfriend came over he had a separate set of clothes she would put on--free of cat allergens. Even with that preparation he ended up in the emergency room three times. I was there once when he had an Asthma attack. I used two epi pens, and he still couldn't breath.

A cat tried to be friends with me last summer. I was working on my transmission at 1 a.m.. This little cat started to meow behind my head. He actually startled me.
Well I got up, and checked for a collar. No collar. He followed me around the house for the following week. What ever chore I did, he was there. For weeks he would show up at the door with a mouse in his mouth. "I brought dinner." The mice were usually alive, but in shock. I would let them loose on my Lawyers property. This cat wanted a new home so bad, he would climb up the side of the house and peer into Windows. I'm still not sure how he got so high.

Just when I decided he could live in the garage, he showed up one night with a collar, and a number. I called the number, and the owner said when they got a puppy a few years ago; he decided to look for a new home. The owner said he would be gone for a week at a time, but always came home.

This cat still visits a least once a month. He usually takes a nap, and leaves.
In Australia the high value cuts of meat recently started to have RFID tags embedded in the packaging, so the checkout scanners do have RFID readers in them already. So maybe people have been putting sausage barcodes on the beef fillet.
On Alternation and the Union Theorem
Breakfast has no effect on neuropsychological functioning in children
Good luck with your service, I wasn't able to find an alternative to disqus, my thought was it's something a lot of people might like to do. Since our service is a essentially a general purpose cors toolkit, it's something our users could do with a bit of coding.
As heartless as this sounds: the patient isn't the only person in the equation. There are investors that fund the medical research, a company has employees to pay, the hospital wants the best pacemaker available, etc.
At $66/square foot (quick google), that would be 6% of their revenue as of their last earnings report. Which is kinda insane.
Hardware-Assisted Rootkits: Abusing Performance Counters on ARM and X86 [pdf]
Eager – Build one plugin, ship it to 100m sites
This is only true if the brine content being offloaded is greater than that of the Dead Sea now.
Show HN: HTML Form to File.txt
Sleep paralysis is a well documented medical disorder. As a diagnosed narcoleptic, I can assure you it is very real.
Is it just me, or is $150,000 compensation not nearly enough?
Fail-Safe AGI. Why worry? Let’s do it right the first time
How frequently? What constitutes a security upgrade?
Who defines what types of bugs qualify?

Can I release an annual patch for 2 super-huge bugs (let's say kernel-level RCE) found in the 18-to-6 months prior to the patch release, and ignore data leakage bugs in that time frame as well as a kernel-RCE that was found only 3 months before my release and still remain compliant?
Daisy disk is nifty for figuring out what's eating my disk space.
To add some more context: Japan defines a zoning "scaffold" at the national level, but it's extremely simple (8 pages with colorful diagrams) and highly permissive [1]. It defines a handful of zones cities can use across their neighborhood, allowing roughly "low, medium, high, or ultra high" density, and not much else. Your low-density neighborhoods still allow about as much density as much of Brooklyn, irregular plot sizes, homes that use 100% of the plot next to homes that 20% of the plot but are correspondingly much taller, and homes that double as a neighborhood restaurant. And the zoning is applied to large neighborhoods, not to individual plots of land.

There's also no minimum parking requirements, and cities often forego street-side parking: parking lots are privately built to meet demand.

In contrast, American zones can be hyper micro-managed: NYC defines hundreds of zones, and designates "zone" at the individual building level instead of neighborhood--the complexity spans 3500 pages[2]--not including a list of landmarked buildings and neighborhoods and their specific rules, which is a sizable list itself. Even if you adhere to the zoning laws for your plot of land, your new building proposal may still be rejected for not fitting in with "neighborhood character." (This concept doesn't exist in Japan: you can build a restaurant shaped like a boat next to an ancient temple for all anyone cares, or a corner store shaped like a tomato[3]).

Beyond that, NYC has an unfortunate habit of retroactively changing the zoning under parcels of land to become more restrictive, ensuring (1) old buildings are never torn down and upgraded for fear of being forced to rebuild it smaller, resulting in very old housing stock, and (2) it's a political rent-seeking game of rich land owners to fight for upzoning or rezoning of their individual plots, boosting their land value (see the controversy with NYU; nobody interested in just building middle class housing would ever go through this legal battle).

In comparison to highly restrictive and micro-managed US zoning laws, the national zoning scaffolds in Japan almost resemble a bill of rights more than a centrally planned system: city governments are allowed to plan densities to help with infrastructure planning, but they may not restrict what you can do with your plot of land, what buildings on that plot may look like, etc. anywhere near to the extent practiced in the US. They also don't, as far as I know, retroactively restrict your land rights like has happened in over 40% of Manhattan [4]. US zones are far more "centrally planned," just at the city/county level rather than national.

[1] http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000234477.pdf
[2] http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/zoning/zoni...
[3] https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKl1g6...
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-p...
How to DDoS Your Own Website with Python
you're right. that sounds pretty heartless.
Ask HN: Is heroku profitable?
It was too breezy, too slim and too hyped for my taste. The insights themselves still are valuable, but perhaps worth only half the size of the book.
Employing administrative staff has its own perks. It works as a jobs program (think TSA) it also enables people to gain more power within the organization and then play politics.

The problem is worse in public schools because the ratio of administrative staff to actual teachers is simply growing year on year.
Because a dog has been a part of the human social hierarchy in many cultures. Calling someone a dog alludes to various social characteristics. Calling somebody a cat is just non-sensical.

I suppose there could have been cultures where a cat occupied a place in the day-to-day social hierarchy (and not just in a religious sense). But if so that sense has been lost to us. For obvious reasons I wouldn't expect such a relationship to have been anywhere near as pervasive as with dogs.
I think this might be a bikeshed discussion.

http://bikeshed.com
Can I just point out that pretty much all of these options, including guix, are things that were invented well _after_ nix was established as its own thing?

(aside from Haskell and Scheme themselves, of course)
I have the same problem. A few emails a week get classified as spam by gmail, when they should not.

I guess many users don't complain about it as they never look in their gmail spam folders and see emails that they should have received.
Didn't libtool 2.0's autoconf macros do away with the need to check for CXX and F77 on totally irrelevant projects?
Thanks for correcting me. HN won't let me edit my comment though :-(

Curious though, assuming usage as a personal email account, what would desktop clients get you that a good responsive web UI can't?
Android Test Butler – White-Glove Service for Automated Mobile Tests
> "There were no significant (P ≥ 0.004) differences between breakfast meal consumption and fasting for any of the neuropsychological measures administered."

I'm not wonderful at between-group statistics, but I thought statistical significance kicked in when P < some value, say 0.05 or 0.1?
This was our first hire, full stop. Before the seed round closed, and a long long time before the A.
Sleep paralysis is why I go to sleep on my side rather than my back every night.

I no longer fear it since I can consistently awaken myself now, but I'd rather not deal with the annoyance.
Swift for Ruby Devs: Type Systems
> Unfortunately too much of it is endless turtles-all-the-way-down yak shaving marathons, like in the JS world

Laughed for 5 mins on this. So true! Somehow we are expected to take this into stride.
Coursera, third party tracking and transatlantic subject access requests
Another really good talk about the topic, "freedon in my heart" by Karen Sandler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE

It's mentioned in the article.
These are sound arguments. Medical devices have to be certified in all applicable jurisdictions and companies want to protect their competitive advantage. This is no different from, say, new drugs, which are similarly proprietary and the maker retains exclusivity for several years. Further, medications too are risky black-boxes towards end-users.
For the love of stuff
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Hey, I write Java for a living and my build script is just a Python program that marshals a javac call.
For reference, 6% of revenue is what a marketing agency/consultancy pays on average for offices. Mature software product companies should be earning a higher multiple of expenses.
Describes a business focus idea whereby one answers four questions to guide marketing copy. He links to a webpage version that people can fill in.

1 What is the value proposition of your business?

2 How does your business deliver its value to your customer?

3 How does it work?

4 What can your customer do right now?

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You can also use it to build a telepresence robot leveraging the android os. Here is the one my friends and I built for a tech event.
http://akhilspassion.blogspot.co.id/2014/10/worlds-cheapest-...
Let me know if you want the code / design.
But would you have paid $15 for a 25 page pamphlet? :)
Are you sure? I would assume that Red Hat requires all employees to sign copyright assignment and other such legal agreements. He would no longer be able to change the license at all, simply because he no longer owns the copyright to many of the earlier contributions.
Honestly, I think it comes from the need to pad resumes. "Rewrote motd system" sounds a lot better than "Reviewed existing motd system, couldn't see any need for improvement"
I'm very much an introvert but I love my dog, and absolutely am not a cat person.
Does anyone know if at least the FDA is allowed to review the source code for pacemakers? Or is it a complete blackbox? Personally I would be appalled if even the FDA is not allowed to.
The Theory of a Blockchain Circular Economy and the Future of Work
This 'Show HN' decided to make old smartphones into an inexpensive car/fleet tracking solution:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240542

[2] http://gping.io/
Here's what I see smart kids doing that avoids these problems.

1. Get the basic courses out of the way before going to college. The majority of homeschool students I know take community college courses during high school. It's dirt cheap, it's great preperation for the rhythm of college study, and it lets you already have the basic prerequisites out if the way before starting full time college.

2. Start immediately on career classes. A cousin of mine wanted to be an architect. He lined up architectural classes in his first year and, I think, a couple weeks with an architectural firm. By the end of the first year he realized that this wasn't what he wanted to do. He switched the second year to a major he loved. Because he switched early, he still graduated in four years. I talk to so many students who are multiple years into school and have never even taken a class in whatever they plan on as a career. This is just nuts.

3. Intern every summer. You'll get a huge education working in the real world. You'll know much more if you want to work in this field. And assuming you are smart and get things done, these companies will want to hire you when you graduate.
Do you happen to have other examples of larger companies doing this? I haven't heard of anything concrete other than this, mostly just anecdotes from people here on HN saying they feel the job market is cooling.
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It's an issue for the scenario I mentioned above which has been exploited in the wild for months now. You create a fake SHFOLDER.DLL or similar with your payload in it and stick it on every hacked WordPress or similar site you can. Google Chrome's stupidly insecure download setup allows any website to automatically download the vulnerable DLL right to the Downloads directory with no user interaction required. Now, every single legitimate NSIS or InnoSetup installer that hasn't been patched against this vulnerability that the end user downloads and runs will use the infected DLL instead of the legitimate one.

The above works regardless of how the admin has defined the search path. It's a legitimate vulnerability. Installers specifically should be hard coded to only use Windows DLLs from the Windows directories.

Realistically, Google Chrome should be fixed to not be so dumb and insecure with EXEs and DLLs as well. It may have been by now but it was definitely vulnerable when NSIS fixed this exploit and it was the primary attack vector since browsers like Firefox don't allow websites to automatically download infected DLLs to your Download directory.
Rather than seeing this as a (relative, historically contextual) vindication of the inquisition, I rather tend to see it as an argument against excessive dogmatism and intolerance toward speculation in science regardless of motive.

I don't agree completely with either of these, but I find myself generally sympathetic especially with the first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition

Note that I'm not arguing for the extreme opposite position either -- that we should give equal consideration to every hypothesis however outlandish. I'm just skeptical of excessively dogmatic and totalistic pretensions to certainty. Science is hard.

Edit: I believe an argument for the thesis of "Against Method" could be made on the basis of learning theory and the No Free Lunch theorem. Any rigorous method constitutes a learning algorithm, and each individual learning algorithm possesses an irregular performance profile across the space of all available fitness functions. Therefore any given scientific method will find itself unable to ascertain truths located in regions of state space that it cannot efficiently traverse.
Here in New Zealand feral cats are also the wrong animal in the wrong place. They decimate the local birds and fauna. We spend quite a bit of time trying to trap them though they are extraordinarily wily and hard to catch.

Dogs are even more destructive but they don't go feral, so you won't find them in remote places but always somewhere around their neglectful owners or feeders.
Just the fact that it's conjugated. And the female gendering of a word often having a diminutive effect in languages too. All in all it does seem fair (and suprising to me) given how similar the female form is, google says French has the same thing too. But yea, ideally you'd want the standard form being negative. Or both the male and female being negative.

As a side note - I've particularly become interested in the negativity of "dog" after trying to trace the origin of the proverb "The Dogs Bark but the Caravan Moves On", which is pretty common in my language (not common in English). Was surprised to find out it originated in Arabic and found it's way to many other languages.
> Researchers will track how various factors — including diet, sleep patterns, gender, race, economic circumstance, air quality, and exercise habits, as well as substance use — correlate with changes in the subjects’ brain scans over the years.

> "How cool will it be if we can collect data on 9- and 10-year-olds that will help predict how all young people will function in later life?" asks Garavan. "This is the sort of information that will truly help people parent, and legislate, and educate, and live healthy lives."

I'm not as enthusiastic about that future as Garavan is, and especially not the idea that it could shape legislation in any kind of significant way. Doubly so if it's going to be done via statistical models and correlation, rather than a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved.
A good article on Japan's national zoning laws and how it differs from the US:

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
There's the expression that someone is "one cool cat"