skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always reminded me of Ben Rubin's (EAR Studio) early work on notification tones. One of his projects was the ticket gates in the NYC subway system.

Those high-pitched piezo speaker beepers are cheap and simple, but it is difficult to localize where the beep is coming from, and the single frequency can't communicate much. Mostly, you can't tell if your gate beeped, or the one next to you.

His solution was, among other things, to turn it from a beep to a bell tone. That alone made it better.

It seems like the audio design of things is often missed. I'm excited about products like Google's Home and Amazon's Echo because we're finally considering audio as a first-class user interface.
A friend of mine used to have a cheap alarm clock of tge type that rings indefinitely, placed between two metal baskets that he locked together with padlocks he'd thrown away the keys to. So he had to pick a padlock in order to turn off the alarm. Not only did he wake up early, he became a skilled lock picker.
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Because reselling your devices should not be allowed?
> They optimized for the wrong metric: the number of accounts, or the number of tweets/day.

Who optimized for this, Twitter or the SV VCs?
Get-Content test.jpg -Encoding Byte -ReadCount 1000 | Set-Content test2.jpg -Encoding Byte

Piped binary data, not corrupted, since a long time before that blog post was written.

What you can't do is run native commands, and read their standard output as a byte stream without going through .Net and Start-Process.
I've set DDG as my default a couple of times, and I find that I end up `!g`ing every search eventually. Maybe it's time to try again though.
I've run into "security software" for domain computers that required every computer to have the same local admin password... and for it to be enabled on every computer.
They are just cherry picking features, check the AOSP.
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That sounds like it could be a bit close to uncomfortable things...

Also obviously people who believed those things could just mark "no", and it would probably also strengthen those beliefs in those that hold them.

I disrecomend that plan.
I use it as a primary search engine on all devices. Every now and then I'd fallback to !g or !gi if a particular search is particularly bad, typically to learn that Google isn't much better. But the fact those commands are there makes it super low friction :)
I've successfully used getmail to back-up my gmail accounts for over ten years now. It's a classic case of a functional, if a bit crufty, solution blinding one to a potentially better solution, so i appreciate this (gmvault) heads-up. thank you.
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Does duckduckgo act as a proxy of sorts when using !g?
For drive: https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive
Was super fun to learn about this when restoring the "backup" dumped via pipe in a powershell script.
>context aware controls

you mean key-bindings?A full keyboard already has ~100 keys.
"articles that had high click-through rates tended to do well"

Wait, that's not what their data showed at all. There was a TINY "correlation" between CTR and total page views. And with the sample size of 30 across this distribution is hard to say anything with statistical significance.
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Is the layout using https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre
?
The CTR conspiracy theory claims that certain parts of Reddit are controlled by a CTR conspiracy, pro-Hillary commenters are usually "shills", pro-Hillary news is usually upvoted by bots and/or interns. What I asked for is evidence of this grand conspiracy.

A PAC that does "online messaging" on certain platforms isn't evidence of this grand conspiracy. Everyone does online messaging. You're claiming something far wackier is being done by one specific group of people that you singled out.
Yep -- Germany LOVES the degree (the fact that they love certifications and titles is so true). I have a colleague without a degree working as a software developer, but for me they required a photo copy of my diploma for whatever reason.
Exactly my solution. My brain is tuned to human audio, I can't block out conversation.
...why?

I get it if this is someone's project just for fun, but relevance to the HN crowd seems a bit iffy.
Why is this getting downvoted? Can you provide counter-arguments to her very strong case?
They are. The first thing gmvault does is have you authenticate with oauth. From there it's just using the gmail apis / imap to download the data.
Dynamic languages cannot be easily mapped to CIL, which is why IronPython was the genesis of DLR extensions, later added as standard part of .NET.
Aren't we glad it's 2016 ?
How long does that have to last for though? 1,000 years?

Also, why is it so hard for you to understand that everyone doesn't agree with you on this and there are plenty of good reasons for that?

> There are people in the US who have been marginalized and oppressed because of the color of their skin...

Oh boohoo. Take a look around you and you'll find plenty of poor white people who have also been marginalized and oppressed because they don't have the money to lobby the government like the rich white people.

People of every race are free to point out Twitters double-standard and Twitter is free to ban them. People are also free to leave Twitter in droves. Personally, I never use it.
"admin"

This would be a good move if it was on Windows Server.
Google needs to realize that their services (such as Gmail) are critical to a lot of people

Google will realize this when a) people pay for them and/or b) people start leaving the platform.

There are options for paid, supported email, like Fastmail and others. They probably have .01% of the userbase Google does.
After trying hand-written approach and later perl's Parse::RecDescent I ended up using peg.js (http://pegjs.org) parser generator. It was probably the most flexible and performant out of all the options I tried.
Disable cookies and javascript. Use a decent browser such as Firefox, Tor. Use ddg.gg to search. Solved.
Well then you could tell your friends to choose loud, crazy and fun alarms and or choose the option to crank up the volume.

I keep thinking I should get back to working on it and finish it the way I described above...
Linux doesn't scale down very well though. I really don't need the full Linux API for a lightbulb. Most embedded OSs are microkernels for this reason. If any mega-trend has a chance of unseating Linux and generally disrupting the OS space it's IoT.
Thieves will just dump the phone for parts. They need to lock all the potential spare parts to the ID of the logic board on first startup / communication.
The last time I was in the hospital, the sound was only really ever used when the nurse or doctor was present in the room. It allowed them to monitor the status of the patient without having to stare at a display. All other times, the sound was typically turned way down or even muted as they were monitoring an independent readout in another room.
Seriously. I just got a recruiter spam email yesterday for a job in London with a salary listed at "up to £45k" (about $55k USD).

That's less than half of my current salary in a city with double the cost of living!

(I'm in Ohio, but apparently London is even more expensive than SF: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+london+...)
It mentions that most people made up brand-new accounts to run the deal from. If Google's initial investigation showed only brand-new accounts, it might explain their move to delete the accounts entirely. They reversed the decision when they realized real accounts were getting caught up as well.
It is strange to claim no one really uses powershell. It is widely used in the Windows world.

The main complaint I see about powershell is that it isn't bash. The object pipeline in powershell can be so much more powerful than parsing text between commands. After all, that's why we have data types instead of storing everything in strings.
What kind of authorisation is needed for someone at Google to close a user's account?
that's total convenience?
They'd get flack because of too much control over privacy sensitive sensors.
I was really excited when I read that article a few weeks ago because I'd like to find more people working on this.

What I'm working on only just started taking shape a couple weeks ago, so all I have are some pages in a notebook. I've been laying out observations & hypotheses. Over the last few days, I've started looking into the structures of scientific theories and will be typing up my notes starting today. It'll all go into a repo under this org:

https://github.com/mindfully
Strange. Because its bloody hard to get powershell to run anything with default security settings.
> Apple barely makes any money from the sale of peripherals.

Well that is going to change now, since everyone and their mom now needs a few extra USB adapters + USB SD card reader + HDMI adapters etc.

> "I'm a professional, I need a floppy drive!", "Amateurs may be ok without a CD-drive, but I'm a professional", "They're just trying to push their WLAN base stations, it'll never catch on. Professionals like me need a real network"

You don't think that having to use an adapter for something as generic as a USB thumb drive will kind of be an obstacle in the day to day business of the casual user?
The main point of eli_gottlieb's comment was that money is effective at swaying public opinion. This is obvious. It's the whole point of advertising and marketing.
I think whether the source is automated or not is a secondary concern, since all broadcasting involves some automation.

I don't agree that a broadcaster has a responsibility to their audience. If a broadcaster starts screwing up consistently -- for example, by relaying false or unsubstantiated information -- the audience has the choice to move on to the next guy.

I also don't agree that it's necessarily the platform's responsibility to control what's on it, although it has that option.
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It's good to see my paranoia about depending on a single cloud provider is not entirely misplaced. Losing access to my Google account because of some virtually unaccountable automated process would suck but at least I do frequently export my contacts, email, drive, etc and back that data up to other providers.

The driving force for my mistrust of depending on one cloud provider for everything was getting burned by a hosted email service that I used for everything. Since I didn't control the domain I had no recourse. Taking the lesson learned, I moved to a privately owned domain for my critical stuff and now I can instantly point to another provider (or my own server) of choice.
They're used to develop accurate psychological profiles, which are then exploited by government agencies, data aggregators, etc.

I find surveillance economy to be worrying, because while it makes the market efficient, it makes government too efficient and allows for bad behaviors on the part of marketers (eg, targeting addiction susceptible people via "machine learning" for deniability).

Leaking my personal information to pay for websites isn't economics I like.
Google Search is one of Google's easiest products to switch away from. DuckDuckGo, Bing, whatever. They all do the job.
Latency Math (Almost 100ms faster then current technology)

EDIT: This is only one way

ALSO Grace Hopper telling David Letterman what a nano second is! https://youtu.be/1-vcErOPofQ?t=4m26s

1 Nanosecond = distance light travels one foot

1 mile = 5260 nanoseconds (In a vacuum)

Current Satellite Internet = 22,000 miles or 115720000 Nano Seconds = 115.72 ms

SpaceX Low Orbit = 715 to 823 Miles

823 miles = 4328980 nano seconds = 4.3 ms
Mine are all blue. But I run Canary so I don't have to complain.
Try using hckrnews.com to view the list of stories. It's so much better than the default list at news.ycombinator.com. They don't remove flagged stuff if you don't want them to.
You're picking regions in the US that easily have some of the very most expensive costs of living in the country.

Compare Durham, NC, for example: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Durham isn't some tiny village or one-horse town. It's part of the North Carolina capital metropolitan area; on the edge of the Research Triangle Park (where there are tons of jobs); in near proximity of 3 reputable research universities, offering first-class medical, engineering, veterinary, and agricultural programs, among others (Duke, UNC, and NCSU — thus, the "Triangle"); home to an international airport; birthplace of Clojure, while Epic Games and RedHat Headquarters are just down the road in Raleigh, and GamebaseUSA is just across the road in Chapel Hill, while hundreds of companies, many of whom you've heard of, either call the Triangle area home or have major satellite offices in the area. It's got mild weather, a fantastic craft beer scene, great culture, and frequently makes it on "Top 10" lists for quality of life and business climate.

Starting salaries for junior software engineers start at around $65-75K, but within 3 years in the industry, I was already earning 6 figures — and that money goes a long way in the area due to the low cost-of-living.
By text-based do you mean ascii-art? Right now you can output graphics alongside with text to PNG, PDF or SVG - https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.png https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.pdf https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.svg
Newspaper that print fake stories will take substantial credibility hits. It is in their best interest not to publish falsehoods.
No, you don't. Most democratic voting systems allow abstention for precisely this reason. In the UK you're allowed to 'spoil' your ballot paper so that it's deemed invalid.

If done properly then abstention is a perfectly valid alternative to not voting at all, because your vote means it's more difficult for the parties to obtain a majority. If you don't vote then (ideally) you have no effect on the numbers. Whether this is how the US system works, I don't know, hence the ideally.
could this be another morgan.js or some other hack around that that offers more
They feel very different, but they both do add Cortisol to your bloodstream... both are similar to your body.

Which is to say... if I wanted to be the #1 code all the time coder in the world, I would not want to be training for an Ironman or something that required 15 hours of fairly high physical stress a week.

Or if I wanted to train for an Ironman, I would not also work for a startup with my hair on fire all the time.

Clearly some people do both. Investment bankers love triathlon in fact. It seems to have negative physical effects after a while though... something has to give..
I agree with your statements.

...However, to me it feels like its not so much that google killed off access to email as if it was a separate product...Rather, the physical device that google sells (and its associated platform a la Play store) are dependent on an identity mechanism...And the identity mechanism was what google was trying to shut down...It so happens of course that the identity mechanism that google chose to use (and has chosen to use for their android-based phones) is one's gmail address. THIS begs the question, if there was no such dependency (like one's gmail address), could google have exerted such power in shutting down these people's access? I'll admit I've traditionally been a fan of android phones...but this just struck me as way too much power, and scary.

Yeah, i might still need a semi-"throw away" google/gmail account to use my phone, etc. But as far as one of my "identity mechanisms", I'm starting to look at alternatives such as fastmail.com (which I just started a trial account with) for my main email. If anyone can suggest other alternatives - for quality (non-free) mail providers beyond just fastmail - I'm all ears.
I've noticed that spear phishing attacks have become quite a bit more sophisticated lately. This is a good example of it, but I've gotten emails supposedly from Stripe, my bank (not a common one that would suggest a mass attack), my credit card company, all quite convincing. At first glance I was fooled, but thankfully figured them out before giving away my accounts. I've since become more vigilant of course.

In none of these cases did my email provider figure out that the sender was malicious.
True, but I've worked at quite a few large companies now and I haven't once been proven wrong. Conversely, there can be pockets of light dotted throughout the company but the bad departments have the ability to turn the company into a curate's egg.
I have the same problem. Try listening to really long (unpwards of 10 minutes) songs or albums that really flow together. You want to avoid distraction and listen to things that are repetitive and don't require you to lose focus and fiddle with your music player.

Another that I can't recommend enough is listening to old video game music. Something you love and played as a kid. For me it's N64: Zelda, Mario Kart, SM64, Banjo Kazooie. It's all on Youtube. There's something Pavlovian about music that accompanies passive focus and puzzle-solving.
I thought that is only with old (like 1 year or older) OS versions?

Aren't remote exploits quite rare?
'troll' * 1000 > out.txt

Open in NotePad++, no weird newlines in the wrong place, content not truncated.

Were you using |format-table and |format-list (ft, fl) to explicitly format the text for console viewing, then redirecting that to a file?
I have opted to have 3 gmail accounts with various names; 1 outlook, 1 yahoo account. Every email sent to my gmail is forwarded > outlook > yahoo. I use 2 other gmail accounts for newsletters and etc.
I am sure at least 1 company will remain free to access data! BTW thanks for the thunderbird tip.
It's not widely used in the Windows world from what I can see.

Walk into any office and ask an IT guy to run "ipconfig". They'll open up cmd.exe without even thinking about it.

I read a lot of programming tutorials. Nobody ever reference PowerShell in them. They always instruct people to open cmd.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
All something needs to be controversial is for there to be a great deal of public disagreement about it. Climate change definitely qualifies. Unfortunately, this has just about nothing to do with factual basis, evidence, etc.
That isn't going anywhere, they are just trying to save Dart.
You forgot your <sarcasm> tag.
How does this persist/restore filters?
It probably became fake news when we stopped buying the NYT in print. Now it's mostly fake news because they give out 10 fake news items per month and expect me and you and everyone else to pay for the "real" news so they can run their news outlet. But then we won't so then they'll just accept money from anyone with an agenda.
Also even if you have more than enough sufficient information to get a lost Gmail back. Send them your state issued drivers license and ID and birth certificate. It is still not enough to get my account back.

What do I honestly do in a situation like that? (After 2 years of failed recovery attempts, hunting down google employees on social media and their work or personal emails)

I got one single Google employee to respond to a help thread I posted on the Gmail help forums. He responded with a question that was already answered in the original post. And it took me 6 months to get there.
I don't want my alarm clock to annoy me. I just want it to wake up. I'd like an alarm with a gentler, pulsing sound that only gets louder or more annoying if you don't get up soon.

I found an Android alarm app that tried to wake you when you're in a shallow sleep phase. IIRC, the app would quietly ring 45, 30, and 15 minutes before the wake time you set, so if you happened to be in a shallower sleep phase then you would wake more naturally. I stopped using it, though, because the phone UI was too annoying to use as an alarm clock.
The fact that it has to be a covered by news really sucks.

I ran a website that got our AdSense account shut down for what Google claimed was invalid clicks. I never clicked on our ads and we made little money from AdSense (we had other ad networks). Since my personal Gmail account was used as a backup email my personal account's AdSense account was also banned. They won't reinstate either account or give any more details.

I don't use any Google Cloud services because I'm afraid that all of my accounts would get shut down for any reason and I would lose all of that data.
It redirects your search to https://encrypted.google.com
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Decryption aside, reverse-engineering anything is extremely difficult - I've seen projects like this take much, much longer than 3 days even when no encryption is involved. But as for the encryption itself, the author says himself: "the 'encryption' method was laughably simple." That may be "good" encryption from a hacker perspective, in that it's easy to work around, but it's not "strong" encryption in any book.
Hopefully the previous two didn't burn down...
"multi-cloud server boot via HTTP"

HTTP? ... I know you don't mean that, but perhaps a poor choice of slogan.
Under Enlightenment era philosophy, human rights are innate (or equivalently, granted by God). The state may or may not acknowledge those rights, but they don't create them.

This is literally the first thing you read in the very first founding document of the U.S. (the Declaration of Independence): "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
I was a WoW addict. I wouldn't say I regret those four years, I made some really great friends, lots of them I still keep in touch with, but it was definitely an addiction, and it cost me a decent amount of "real life" potential imo.
Remote detonate if not recovered within 24 hours.
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Is anyone still using StartPage? Haven't seen it mentioned but it's been a great alternative for me. I use DDG on my iphone since safari won't let you set StartPage as the default.
For simple tasks such as running a command, sure. But if that admin needs to do anything more complex, such as parsing the output of ipconfig, they're most likely going to use powershell.
Updated to show HTTPS
No, there's difference when companies are doing it hidden and when leader of the company publicly declares that surveillance is a must-have thing.
We Have a Bad News Problem, Not a Fake News Problem
No. Snowden documents didn't show that Larry and Sergei are childhood buddies with FBI, NSA or CIA chiefs.

That's the problem with intellectual americans - you guys know how bad things are in your country, but not realize how worse they are everywhere else.
> "they autoplay and count 3 seconds (even with no audio on) as view"

Yes. Exactly this. And a few more 'hacks' the 'Zuck' way ... :)