skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SubC was designed for demonstrating how a compiler works, not as a drop-in replacement for C. It's more like the Small C compilers of the 1980's, but without bending the rules (i.e. it compiles with little or no warnings).

(I'm the author of SubC, which is the language implemented by Gosubc.)
> Remote detonate if not recovered within 24 hours.

Possibly with a slick James Bond-like digital clock countdown!
Basketball – A Game of Geometry
They found a way to pay for the emissions cheat.
Converting Markdown into HTML and adding Python syntax highlighting (2014)
The thing that burns me out about freelance is the client just views you as a cost center. Always want more work in less time. I start to fantasize about the "camaraderie" of being on a team. Maybe there needs to be a Freelancer's Local Union.
Are you saying a VMM to virtualize other software or a pre-configured VM containing OpenBSD you can run on top of other OS's with better hardware support? Or something else entirely?
> Of course not.

Ok. So the original commenter's idea of Trump having some sinister scheme to leave the Canadian border un-walled so Americans can flee en masse as the mainland is destroyed by global warming, is absurd. That's all I was asking.
> Currently, Thunderbird faces the problem of simultaneously showing a vast amount of information on one screen and we hope we addressed that.

> Whole work was focused on adding some white space, inserting new typography an equalizing colors, but still keeping in mind branding and character of Thunderbird. That’s why the redesign was based on FirefoxOs Style Guide to keep its identity somehow coherent.

Please keep options open. I really don't understand why people prefer it that way. In the world of small screen laptops, vertical space of screen is very precious to me. I use 11' macbook air on the go and I always have preferred the most compact one line layout. Google also recognizes this and has given three different types of layouts.

It isn't just small screen, but some people prefer and are used to seeing lot of information at once. I am one of them. I am not favoring toolbar or side layouts, I always keep them disable and access everything through keyboard shortcuts. But my requirements are:

1. maximum number of emails on screen at once in one line, no preview pane

2. all email account's folder with highlighted unread emails

I am glad someone is picking up this project, but please keep options open.
It sounds like what you want there is RVMO?
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see where he's getting updated GPS data from. Does the company still provide it? Is it fairly standard and there's another source?

I think it's a very cool project, and amazing that he's able to read/write the data, but I kept waiting to find out where the updated GPS data came from.
A Blockchain Currency That Beats Bitcoin on Privacy
Those look worse than the first charting libraries I used in the 90s.
This is why you should not use Google free services for anything important. Google could turn them off tomorrow. You have no contractual guarantee against that.

Do mail through IMAP. All your devices can sync to a IMAP server. The IMAP server built into Android isn't bad at all. Use Thunderbird on desktops and laptops. Most ISPs offer free IMAP. Or you can get your own domain and use IMAP from a server on it. No ads, too.
Interesting point. I tend to dawdle in the morning a bit as well, but haven't really put a lot of thought into adjusting that.
That's not how it works, though. In business, you always factor in the cost of everyone, across the board. Ten minutes on the phone with technical support with any small software company is certainly worth more than the paltry $20 license you paid for.

Just like hotels factor in the price and rate of stolen towels when pricing their rooms for everyone, Google, like any other business, makes money from some of te customers and loses money on others. We don't get to pick only the winning horses. Your grocery store doesn't ban you because you dropped a dozen eggs and then left with a 10¢ stick of gum - they price it in.
Have you tried Fastmail? I've found them to be very good for many years now, although if you don't like their UI and are sort of old school, try their classic.fastmail.fm older interface.
Right. Who are you going to believe, Wikipedia or your lying eyes?

I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember how awful the state of the environment was in the United States back in the '70s. It's like night and day to compare then and now.
> There is a real intellectual contribution.

[Citation needed.]
I've been playing with a real time visualization of various graph visualizations that have nice text DSLs. Current progress is open source and includes an Atom Package for editing and visualizing results on the fly, as well as a command line tool for generating SVGso from the textual representations.

https://atom.io/packages/diagrams

and

https://www.npmjs.com/package/diagrams

Desktop oriented for offline use.
Even so, I'd setup my own router/firewall and handle the ISP supplied device as essentially untrusted. It won't be pretty, but its at least tolerable solution until you can work out a better setup.
I agree that using a pw manager and 2fa is great. But in this particular case couldn't it be a nightmare?

You don't have your 2nd factor device (phone) and someone else has access to it and presumably an email account too?
I guess they may still need the device's unlock code (PIN/finger print) to do more serious damage, but it'd be rough if you're trying to change your passwords, but can't because you are out your 2FA device. All the while the attacker is able to reset your accounts/passwords.
choosing zcrash has to be pretty punitive for your users, given the rate of price inflation. For that matter, it must be pretty punitive for you as well.
Cool project.

Is that an Anker USB charger in your stack? Did you have any trouble powering the sticks with it? I have some BBBs that won't spin up plugged into my Anker and I'm wondering if I need a firmware upgrade.

Edit: have you had any problems with heat dissipation under load? You seem to have packed things closer together than I would think.
I pulled mine recently and it was about 3.5GB with ~115k items (chat messages are included). Also pulled my wife's - 217k items @6GB.
This should be a massive wake-up call for anyone using Gmail (i.e. 99% of those who come to HN), and at the very least we should diversify away from using purely Google products, i.e. consider Outlook for business/banking-related emails.

There's no point in trusting them after they did this once, even if they may have reversed it. The fact is they did it once.
I flagged it because:

- Incredibly clickbait title that is in no way backed up by substantive fact

- It is old (2014) and not tagged as such

- The intellectual contribution is nil. Even the body that put out the dataset used in the study said NOT to use its dataset in this way as it is misleading

What good is a study that "speaks" to important issues when the samples it has are flawed, the methodology is faulty, and the conclusions are wrong? Is this what living in post-truth is like, where as long as something is 'related' or 'speaking' to issues it is counted as genuine material for discourse?
I was actually shocked they didn't contribute to FreeBSD instead then rebrand their management or security customizations as their own enterprise OS. The Chinese ended up doing that with Kylan. Cambridge's CHERI team made it capability-secure with minimal modifications. IBM was in ideal position to do that, too, given they had legendary Paul Karger who already built high-assurance OS's and CPU's for them.

Let's just call it Another Missed Opportunity for the Big Blue. :)
I think Riot.js is a step further in the right direction, but really, using web components directly is where I think we should be.
> Because they falsely accuse people of things, often—especially with AdSense—and that's it, you have zero recourse, your account is permanently dead.

In the case of AdSense that may be true but there's no evidence here that anyone was falsely accused.

People scalped. People got busted. That's it. The only "problem" is that some of the scalpers were stupid enough to use their real accounts.
Sadly yes. For several specific clients I have to run their Win7 VM in an emulator, and it can't quite manage on my (rather old) hardware right now.

Due for a hardware refresh soon, and I will obviously be trying it again :)
Nice, thanks for sharing. :)
Zcash and the Art of Security Theater
It's hard to have it both ways. Europe historically didn't "ignore" Africa [1][2][3][4] nor the Middle East [5][6][7][8][9][10][11].

It's not a question of globalization vs. isolationism. This is a false dichotomy. Rather, each sovereign state should try to look out of the interests of its people, and when they don't see results, the people may hold the government accountable by protest, election, or revolution.

Running a state is an immense task with lots of conflicting goals, but the survival of the state and the welfare of its people ought to be the most important. Sometimes this means more trade, sometimes it means less trade, sometimes it means a domestically-focused governance, and sometimes it means geopolitical machinations (if human history is any indication).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826%E2%80%... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning_of_the_Ottoman_Em... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
There are many instances of people doing stupid things at Yellowstone that long predate Instagram. http://www.yellowstonepark.com/cautionary-tale/
Even to scammers, answer must be proportionate.

Google should put in place a better solution to deal with frauds. They have the resources, not the will apparently.

Their customer service sucks big.
One way plane ticket: 500 Dollar

Fake Syrian passport that unlocks residency, shelter, food, pocket money and health insurance: 250 Dollar

A German chancellor that is a criminal and is breaking German law and Agreements like Dublin III: priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there is MasterCard.
I'm very familiar with GNU, which is why I expect a website that looks like this

https://gcc.gnu.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Reading in the other comments how the screenshots indicate this is a repackaging of "Tryton", a fork of OpenERP, it leads me to wonder if these people are just co-opting the GNU name to advance tired meatspace politics (ala libreboot).
Case Study: How We A/B Tested Our Way to 72% Opens and 23% Click Through Rate
Over the past 2 months, we've sent thousands of emails and A/B tested everything from our copy, subject, send time and sender name. Instead of wasting your time with the boring stuff, let me get to the result of all that testing, our best email campaign yet:

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Subject: Quick Question, [First name]

Copy: Hi [First Name],

I'm Soroush, founder and CEO of Slik, and I wanted to reach out and connect.

Slik is a tool that let's you find anyone's email in less than a second(how I found yours). I personally know the pain of having an email bounce, and not being able to connect, which is why our emails have a 95% deliverability rate.

I know you're working to accelerate growth at [Company Name], we've helped everyone from startups to enterprises grow faster. Is this something you're interested in as well?

Here's the link to signup: https://slik.ai/. You'll get 10 free emails to try it out, and after that, you can upgrade starting from only $30/month.

Looking forward to hearing any questions or feedback from you, [first name].

Best,
Soroush
---------

This email got a 72.32% open rate and got a 22.87% click through rate. Although this was our best email, here are all the pieces that went into it and everything we tested:

- If more than 7-8% of your emails bounce OR the number of people who unsubscribe is more than 2.5% you will start to ruin your SMTP reputation and your emails will go to spam
- Only have 1 link in your email
- Make your pitch very fast and focus on one main selling point(95% delivery in our case)
- Make the last line personalized
- Personalize the subject line
- Ask a question right before your call to action

Feel free to copy our template, hope you benefited from our experience in some way. Don't hesitate to ask any questions, I know more than I should about email.
Boosting in HTM (Homeostatic Regulation of Neuronal Excitability)
Recently I had an issue with connection timeouts in my connection pool when using the jTDS driver to connect to the Azure SQL Server service. When I switched to Microsofts updated JDBC driver, that problem was solved immediately.
Not even if you get locked out. I tried asking them why my paid gsuite account couldn't be used like a normal google account and all they could do was copy+paste some response about how great paying for google was and that I wasn't paying for anything else.

Alphabet REALLY needs to work on their customer service, especially for paying customers.

I don't trust having email on a domain I don't control (you can't move a gmail account to another provider like you can a phone number). Yet if you want to take advantage of all the features of google home/music/youtube you have to use a normal gmail account.
> good Unicode support from the very beginning

I once started a Chinese character flash card program in Python on Windows.

The yak shaving was unbelievable. I never got a working version, but I learned a lot about code pages, and why "building a console from scratch" is not actually the right answer to "I want to be able to test a toy program I'm making before it's finished."
Many restaurateurs have been running restaurants and cooking professionally for years before they try to open their own. I'm not sure writing software is as helpful experience wise.
Bottom Up vs. Top Down Design
I've already suggested in another thread that any 'solution' to global warming that doesn't involve mass genocide will be too slow to have any effect.

Even sterilization might not be quick enough.

Obviously, neither is acceptable from a humanist perspective.

Actually, now that I've read your comment closer, I noticed you mentioned serialization. Do you mean digitizing people's minds and killing them afterwards?
This was back on August 3rd. Pretty much nothing seemed to come from it.
Digital Ocean supports FreeBSD, but not OpenBSD. Which is close, but not quite the same. Perhaps with a little persuasion, they could be talked into it
I am working on digging around this data right now, actually. Some details on my website (see profile) and I will post on HN about it at some point when I get things further along (also want to look at Location History and Chrome data exports).
I love your idea, and I think it seems like a nice implementation. But feel your price point will push this well beyond its value.
I like the signalling that perhaps Microsoft is taking the command line shells seriously for their users for the first time in a long time.
10 Street Photographers you should follow
I have a steel roof, and I like its aesthetics. I have 14in. of insulation under mine, and I can only barely hear the rain. My sense is most people go for asphalt shingles because they're cheap, and they don't intend to live in their house for more than 15 years anyhow, so the next roof will be someone else's problem (too bad about the enormous piles of waste this approach generates).
It's a well researched phenomenon. You can start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue. The brain is a lazy device and making decisions saps resources.
C#: Virtual events is bad
Sure, but if you steal a piece of candy from a store, they don't burn down your house and remove your mailbox. And delete every record of your existence.
Monitoring and optimizing human behavior is what I do for a living so . . . I'm going to do more of the same.
Search is fairly important and competition just isn't as good.
The storyline backing this article is not just distracting, it is misinformative: it teaches people the wrong indirect lessons about software and engineering :/. If you don't have an assembler, you write an assembler, you don't just make do without and try to bootstrap directly from a C compiler; and if you have the luxury of extra hands and need people to work on stuff in parallel--stuff you can't run yet anyway as if you don't have really simple things like true coded I bet you don't have a shell (and there are only a scant couple reasons true would even exist if you don't have a shell that exposes branch comparisons as shell commands)--you don't set them to work building the binaries by hand, you give them a rough outline of a programming language you will have available at the right point in the development cycle (maybe you throw them a C89 manual, as manuals still seem to exist in this world?) and tell them to write it in that on the promise that it will be useful later.
For anyone who uses email a lot (most tech people do) it is a bad bad idea to let Gmail keep all those emails for you. I have Google Apps account with periodic archives setup to DRopbox. If google bans me I have to only change the mx addreses and move to something else.
Yes, in general what they refer to are things like the IRS Tax records (250 TB), Yahoo Ad data (900 TB). You just can't use a single machine to work with such data.
That's a big book right there!

I was really disappointed in how Apple treated BSD, but I am stupid and naive. I would have expected that from IBM though.
> This is completely sociopathic and amoral and a human had to have approved the action.

How is it sociopathic and amoral to ban scalpers?

> Google would have carried out their "digital executions" on their otherwise defenseless customers.

Defenseless doesn't mean innocent, and there's no evidence that these users were falsely accused or otherwise innocent of the violations they committed.
>I'm not sure how reliable this particular study is, but it's a common enough worry that it's worth making the voting systems more robust just to avoid even the appearance of fraud or tampering.

And thus we witness the power of rhetoric and 'truthiness'. Voter fraud, especially non-citizen voter fraud, is simply not an issue in the US election system, but the fears that it is allow restrictive and disenfranchising legislature to be passed http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/misleading-myth...
>"All the popular operating systems aren’t designed with security in mind"

I really disagree.
Ask HN: Haskell more productive than Rust?
This question shows up a lot on different venue on the internet, but the answers seem to me as diverse as there are people answering. I'd like to hear from the HN crowd, specifically from people who have an extended experience with both modern Haskell and Rust. I tend to use Python as my weapon of choice, and love how much, most of the time, I can ignore that it runs on a computer and focus on my problem domain, but I run into two issues:

• performance: I've used different solutions to this, sometimes better native library, sometimes pypy, sometimes C for the whole thing, sometimes a different strategy, etc... but I have started to learn Rust to address this space and it seems to be the perfect fit.

• distributing to other users / dependencies: When I need to have other people use my scripts, then I run into the issue of having to help them install packages, and often on platform I don't know (different versions of Windows, etc...). This is where I am wondering if I Haskell would have and advantage over Rust.

Does Haskell allow you to be that more productive than Rust that you still use it for problems where performance and memory size is not an issue?

Do you still start new projects in Haskell? Or tend to start them in Rust now? If the former, where do you draw the line?

Thanks.
Could be worse. Google are really tight with the Obama White House. If they're serious enough about maintaining relations with a Trump Whiter House, you might get a digital death sentence for calling a certain man a 'tiny-fingered, cheeto-faced, ferret-wearing sh#tgibbon' :)

Of course, that name-calling person was a Scot, but Google is everywhere and everything…
A VM to virtualize other software. In this case, my desktop has to support some clients who have very specific VM images of Win7 to access them. VirtualBox and VMware are fine, but for QEMU it's just way too slow (for me, at the moment)
Here's another idea - have a index from news-source article to a page that breaks down it's assertions, then links each one to a discussion of it :-)
Or option 3 they covered it up for their Russian buddies like the U.S. firms probably covered up Equation Group. This should be the default assumptions in what are essentially police states with surveillance and hacking prone intelligence services + ability to gag, bribe, or destroy commercial vendors. Best not to trust any of them in general and especially not trust them to turn on their domestic, intelligence services.
There is something called "locking facility" that some registrars provide. That is changes can be made only with a 2 factor auth.
I normally hate this format of webpage, but now that I'm seeing it used to tell a story, it makes so much sense. It's a very frustrating thing to go to the marketing page of some company who you want information on and be bombarded by animations and scroll hijacking. In the case of this story though, it was immersive and made it easier to read.

I guess my point is, I wish people would use the right tool for the job, like the author(s) of this page, rather than always reaching for the coolest, flashiest thing around.

Very well done, in this case.
i very much suspect this story is to try and shut the stable door on exactly that bolted horse.

with gmvault now floating at the top of the page i can imagine the gmail adminstrators on the phone to the account managers every few minutes relaying just how many hundreds of terabytes a second in backup bandwidth closing the accounts is now costing them.
When ever I see that line quoted I always think of whatever Apple has "finally" done. It's like tech companies earn a negative catch phrase.
I have found google chaps do come out of the wood work when you post irrefutable evidence of a 'problem', although whether that is even possible is another thing. Try IRC, although it didnt work for me at all, I do believe they said that if the right guy at the right time is on it, he might be able to help.
Additionally there is no discussion about selection bias here.

For example, we know that since it's an internet survey, everyone on the survey has the internet or an ability to use the internet (eg: public library access?). That rules out a non-trivial portion of the population.

Additionally, not everyone answers or engages in these surveys. So there's an additional bias.

A lot of immigrants take a low profile, and dont vote, and don't engage civically, such as surveys. So missing those.

In the end, the paper is assuming the people who self selected into taking this survey are representative of the entire population, and that might be true for the more common things, but for less common things, not so true.

A good example is to fill up a jar with white marbles. Then put another 50 red ones on top. Now take the top 100 marbles as a "sample". You'd conclude from this that the jar is 50% red, when its actually like 5% red! This is the classic sampling bias/error. Since the paper doesn't touch this at all, I assume the authors know their conclusion is bogus and they don't want to go here because it'd destroy their headline: "NON CITIZENS GAVE OBAMA THE PRESIDENCY".

So much shit in this paper, yet it masquerades as science.