skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the version under test here was simply a proof-of-concept, not optimized for maximum efficiency. There are also plans for a version with a superconducting frustum, which should be even more efficient...
If you made money on ebay, deposited to your PayPal, and then spent elsewhere, and did not claim that money on your American taxes, you would be evading taxes by not reporting taxable income.

Same here.
Ask HN: Please send me your startup spam, I'm making a startup email filter!
TL;DR: I recently starting getting into machine learning and I’m building a bot to filter out startup engagement emails for fun and need training data.

--

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of getting emails from startups/sass when I sign up “checking in” with me.

I did go through a period of replying bluntly with "Please, for the love of god stop emailing me.” or sending them ical links which actually take them to a rick roll, but I’ve decided I’m going to attempt to solve the problem once and for all with ML!

I would love some help though, if you have any emails like this and want to help, post them below or forward them to alexbarlowis [at] gmail.com

Thanks
This, absolutely. I'm actually surprised the government showed their hand so soon. There must be a lot of money in Bitcoin already. The government WANTS people to go 100% digital with their capital. It is infinitely easier to track digital money. Bitcoin is something they're against because the anonymity factor. I won't be surprised if we see some legislation to block or inhibit anonymous digital currency.

Let's not forget that the US will really want to "own" or be in control of any significant digital currency. Since the US dollar is the world reserve currency, the US wields unprecedented economic power on a global scale. Any currency that has the potential or shows signs of shaking that up will be on the radar for the US govt and the Fed, as controlling currency is the means by which one can control the economic destiny of any nation(s). As we saw with Egypt, for example, several years ago. A simple change in US monetary policy can result in the overthrowing of foreign governments!

Interesting side anecdote: A person very close to me purchased Bitcoin on the stock market, but Bank of America froze the account on suspicion / risk of money laundering or general FUD. It isn't clear how much of this was due to the bank or the government, as they are in bed together, but it prevented this person from being able to trade Bitcoin in his account anymore. Sadly, had his account not been frozen, he would have doubled his money.

N.B. Citations needed, obviously. Commenting on mobile makes this challenging.
There was the 2.3.2 release 6 days ago. There is not much to say about this release.
You still have to buy your bitcoin somewhere, unless you earn it or mine. This is about Coinbase's brokerage activities, not its wallet services.
For the past decade I've been blindly buying Apple products (but been using Macs since late 90s), while looking at alternatives with disdain. Paying the Apple premium allowed the tech to get out of the way. Very happy to continue paying, but it seems like Apple is forcing me to leave. In this relationship, I'm the one getting dumped. I'm not sad about it, but from a business perspective why they are actively pushing me away? Canceling product lines (routers, mac pro), not updating the active ones (mac mini, iMac), and being difficult with the products they do update (MBP, iPhone).

On a relative basis, Apple has infinite resources. It has cash, the brand and can attract the right people to run the business. Each product line, like the routers and mac pro can be focused on because they have the resources to do it. Most companies re-focus on core products because they are spread too thin - Apple is not.
Hmm, pretty much any NAS out there (Synology, QNAP or WD) will expose itself as a TimeMachine target as soon as you turn it on. What's not simple about those (+ they give you actual protection from HDD failure)?
Why Is This Query Sometimes Fast and Sometimes Slow?
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet
I disagree. The Airport Utility was aggressively bad. Unless you had a setup that exactly matched their paint-by-numbers GUI, it presented a series of vague riddles to accomplish your task. What exactly were the UI metaphors it presented? 3 pretty pictures, right? What was with the hidden, right-click here, elements? A total fail, where a webapp would have been fine.
Hear, hear! The essential idea of "identity theft" as a thing menacing individuals, rather than "theft from a business due to fraud / sloppy security practices," should be deeply offensive to all people.
I am pretty sure there are a few API marketplaces out there where its easy to see pricing and code all at once, without having to browse around like a mad person, just like amazon has done it for shopping, with reviews, ratings and q&a.
Its very disturbing for me as a google user and an android phone bearer seeing many of those posts coming up.

So in all fairness if I ever get my account locked for whatever reason, I need to make noise on reddit and yc news to get it resolved?

That really makes me feel uncertain about the google apps I use day to day.

They need to change something soon on their policies or they'll start losing customers.

P.S there was a post here the other day about someone that got his account closed due to a breach of service etc. I don't mind that obviously google can close your account if it feels you are violating their terms, what shouldn't be able to do is to lock access to your data or the option to extract your data off their servers.
WeChat Officially Replaces the App Store
Both Netgear and ASUS AC1900 routers are good, you just need to buy off the top of the line (~80-120EUR price range).
l33t-speak is so far off my radar that I was wondering if there was some hot startup called '4 people 3' or somesuch. I doubt anyone at Apple remotely cares about l33t-speak from a branding perspective.
The unfair aspect of this criticism is that Apple is putting faster storage in recent macs, see

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/11/15/apple-maintains-ux-domina...

and a 2007 machine with an SSD will run rings around a brand-new machine that is dragged down by an HDD.

No computer manufacturer has done a good job at convincing consumers of the value of SSDs.
What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out
As usual, I have little idea what the author means by "blockchain".

If he means a bitcoin-like blockchain based on proof of work, it is completely overkill, as there is no problem in forking and merging vote logs if everything is authenticated and public enough.

But anyway, it completely ignores the elephant in the room. Get an electronic voting system that is both anonymous, verifiable, and free of voting coercion, and we start talking. The idea of adding a blockchain somewhere helps solving none of those problems.
SARs only apply to suspicious activity. CTRs are what your bank has to file for every transaction over $10000.

Also, it's all the Dept. of Treasury. The IRS is essentially the collection agency of the Dept. of Treasury.

It's listed as a bureau on the U.S. Treasury's website. https://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/bure...
This is another example of the law of unintended consequences.

While the idea of helping people become more educated is obviously beneficial to both individuals and the society as a whole, government loans - which are supposed to "help" - are a huge factor fueling ever-raising costs. The loans, in effect, subsidize the higher-education complex, rather than students.

Many of us have been brainwashed to think that higher education has to cost a lot of money. But it need not: all that great education requires are wise, passionate teachers and a bit of infrastructure: a whiteboard, a few books, and a laptop computer (with a couple of outliers).

We don't need football/hockey teams with coaches paid $3-4M/year. We don't need armies of "Deans of Diversity & Inclusion" (and other phony administrative positions), who make $400K/year, we don't need manicured lawns and Olympics-quality sports facilities (these salaries are from the Univ of California - a state school!)

If a good private university cost < $20K/year and a state university < $10K, we would not have endless discussions wrt who should pay, who should study what, etc.
Curious if you'd notice similar from circuit emulator synths like Diva: https://www.u-he.com/cms/diva
I switched to working remote professionally 1 1/2 year ago and worked 1 1/2 year remote on private projects (Firefox committer, university projects) before that.

I make about 20% more money (before tax) than on my last job.

I save 1h every day on commuting, which I had to do on my last job.

I buy my food in my local store, which is much cheaper than buying food in the city.

I have my "own" office, without any people talking, getting sick, etc.

I probably could improve things a bit, by moving into a cheaper city, but overall I'd say, remote work has made my life much better.
Anybody made a comprehensive prediction about 2066 ?
It's a reliable metric in describing the possible reach of fake news.
There will be a sizeable portion who believe what they read.
This is straight up fiction being spread masquerading as truth, which should deeply trouble everyone who cares about what is correct and what is not.

Speaking anecdotally, I nor my friends would share news we believed was fake. Would you share the fake source knowing it is fake news or would you share links exposing and explaining a fake news article?

> I mean, how many shares do Onion articles get?

Go take a gander at The Onion's Facebook page and scroll trying to find a fake article that has more than 10,000 shares.
You've misread me--I'm suggesting to use the angle formed between vertical and the mouse's current position, and then wherever it moves, to add to the current position of the rotary knob.

This doesn't mean that you end up with having to carefully dial the knob, but it does let you click and drag the mouse in such a way that the rotary dial at least rotates in the direction you'd expect. The current behavior sometimes turns CW, sometimes CCW, seemingly at random--if we decide to skeuomorph, we might as well skeumorph correctly.
-Tritanopes may beg to differ (regarding the blue not being an issue, that is.)

Significantly less common than red/green deficiency, though - I only know of one more on the island I live on (pop. 15,000 or so)
Terrible, dystopian idea. You know education can't be "free", right? Unless you want to enslave educators and force them to work for nothing. In reality, the middle class will have half their income seized to subsidize the dependent class, being worked to the bone in mega corporations. Meanwhile, the elite will reap all the profits and pour them into more social control programs. Result of basic income will be a culture of demoralized serfs, totally dependent on a feudal corporate state for their survival.
Does Oracle know that people expect that everything Oracle touches will turn into garbage?

I mean Oracles image is absolutely terrible among everyone but a small subsection of large companies. Arguably it doesn't seem to matter, Oracle isn't going out of business any time soon, but I can't imaging that their brand isn't suffering to some extend.
People always want more. I've met plenty of people who had enough inheritance / other random windfall to just get by who still went to college and careers. If those who get it by random chance or family act as such, why should we assume that those who would get it from Basic Income would be any different?
> This just seems so wrong.

Why? Out of all the things to think are wrong, inability to pick a useless major based on financial status is wrong? As opposed to pollution in East Asia, conflict minerals in our supply chain, or slavery in shrimp fisheries in Thailand?

> These fields don't usually/directly translate into a financial success, but they broaden our perspective and deepen our experience.

Yes. Those are luxuries. For most of history, middle class people couldn't afford to study those fields. Colleges used to have much smaller enrollments. They'd either by A&M schools, used to help train up mechanics and farmers or engineering schools where you need to learn the math to become an engineer. Only a few prestigious ones (Yale, Harvard, etc etc) offered humanities majors, for landed gentry. The kind of people who didn't really have to work for a living.

> And to a certain extent, "true" art is antithetical to capitalism

That is ridiculous. "True" art has to appeal to an audience, and if it appeals, it will sell. You can't just put our art and say "hey, it's true, support me". That's a dangerously naive view of the world.
But the IRS has not asked for Paypal to dump their entire database of all payments and customers.
To be fair, I don't think I know anyone who "cares" about l33t speak.

H4xx0r j0k3s is all it is.

I never seen anyone go out of their way to defend or use leet speak all day long.
> Interesting side anecdote: A person very close to me purchased Bitcoin on the stock market, but Bank of America froze the account on suspicion / risk of money laundering or general FUD. It isn't clear how much of this was due to the bank or the government, as they are in bed together, but it prevented this person from being able to trade Bitcoin in his account anymore. Sadly, had his account not been frozen, he would have doubled his money.

I highly doubt your contact bought bitcoin on the stock market, since there hasn't been an ETF launched. They might've bought bitcoin on an bitcoin exchange and had their bank account frozen- it still happens frequently. Banks in the US are still scared to do business with bitcoin folks because they don't want to get undue attention down the line (eg Operation Chokepoint), and banking a potential MSB is more difficult ("know your customer's customers").
There's a much easier solution: the vast majority of legit auto-generated email will have a "List-Unsubscribe" MIME header. I filter based on that header into a 'Bulk' folder.

There are some exceptions, e.g. emails that go via the Drip service, but given limited number of automated email services you can probably catch 99% of emails with a few rules, rather than machine learning.
How does it work if you sold a service for bitcoin, and the value of the bitcoin changed befor converting to cash? I would think that regular taxes (income) would be owed on the initial cash value, then capital gains tax would be owed on the float. Same as selling something in a foreign currency?
How i win an free iPhone 6S
It really is; I'm going to go buy one as a backup. I purchased the original first gen time capsule, and it ran for over two years straight without even rebooting the damn thing. Short of a hardware malfunction (which is exceedingly rare in my troubleshooting experience, but power surges happen..) they just work.
Well, this will no doubt go well.

I'm so excited to see what ...improvements... oracle will make to the Dyn product line. I mean, just look at all the exciting ...improvements... they made at Sun, and all of the other (too many to name) companies they bought out!
+1. And you can look on craigslist, I've gotten some good stuff there pretty cheap (Stanley #8 for $10, fantastic instance of this tool, I wouldn't sell it for $500. Delta 8 inch jointer, the parallelogram one, for $900).

For table saws, the old craftsmen that look like this:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/tls/5874228064.html

are actually pretty nice. I had one of those and it was really good about not spraying dust at you.
One option is to use premium rate phone lines, That way, people pay for support via their phone bills. It's far from perfect but it might be better than nothing...
I refer you to my last comment about the BBC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13004593
Your move GitHub and Reddit.
I just read a copy of his latest, "Dissidence" which is part one of the corporation wars series, part two "Insurgence" will be out at the start of December. I thought it was a great return to his harder post-singularity SF styles like "Cassini Division", but still plenty of political and social commentary. Another good author is Michael Cobley with his humanity's fire series: "Seeds of Earth", "Orphaned Worlds" and "Ancestral Machines" - if you like Banks and Macleod I think this would also be appreciated...
No because treaties are specifically addressed in the constitution via the treaty clause, but are still lower than the constitution due to the nature of the constitution as the supreme law of the land, and are made part of US law once ratified, therefore no treaty can violate the constitution in any way. (in theory at least). Now, any treaty which does violate the constitution that is attempted to pass would then make those party to negotiating it guilty.

For example, TPP was seen coming down the line, but the powers that be recognized this, which is why they twisted the arm of congress into passing fast-track, in which congress, potentially unconstitutionally, traded powers of treaty review in exchange for ~100 optional objectives from potus. This was legal maneuvering to prevent just such objections when they are going to try to shove TPP and similar nafta 2.0 things down our throats. The other thing they have been doing is calling things trade agreements which are really treaties, but trade agreements fall under different rules.

I would also say that the passage of fast-track is in violation of the nondelgation doctrine, but that's just a principle not a law.
Good article explaining complexity of refinements in Ruby: http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
Most places will not take your resume seriously if you don't have a degree attached. Startups tend to be more lenient sometimes, but Big Corp. isn't going to touch you without a degree, nor will you have a promotion path without one.

It's the reality of the situation, and until there's a significant change in attitude, not having "a" degree is going to hurt your career prospects unless you're a wildly successful entrepreneur or have great connections/independently wealthy.
Yeah, I had the pleasure of going to school with Jon, and he really is a top man. Quite, quite mad though, he's done some crazy stuff!
> Unlike some of the largest email service providers like Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail, @Reagan.com will not copy, scan, or sell a single word of your email content. Your "Private" email will stay "Private"!

Is this true? Is it possible, with current SMTP requirements? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not actively copying it for the purpose of keeping records they can give to someone else, or scanning it to insert ads.

But to act as a mail server, in my understanding of the state of the art, they need to take incoming mail in a format they can decrypt it - functionally equivalent to 'scanning' it. They need to store it on their servers - 'copy' it - so you can download it over POP3 (or IMAP, in which case it remains on the server).

I don't think it's possible to act as a no-knowledge mail server given current mail requirements without using PGP. And to do a bit of demographic analysis, the group of people who "Feel pride of owning an email address with Ronald Reagan's name" have a narrow intersection with the group of people familiar with PGP.
I think the answer is margins.

If you're not making 40+% profit margins you're bringing the company's overall margins down and have to go.
I am not.

I will say, though, that I don't see it as necessary to reply to somebody who ignores the substance of a comment, picks out one sentence, and misinterprets it.
I wouldn't make assumptions, but I don't understand your point.
Yea, inexperience with Microsoft would make them think it's okay to do that before these announcements. I agree with parent comment though, not enough to make me come back.

source: C# and .NET were the first languages I taught myself after PHP in 2007-2008.
Fantastical 2 is the only good solution I've been able to find for both calendaring and reminders. It lacks many of the features of OmniFocus but I find the trade-off to be worthwhile.
I think if you are a woman and they are going to release a naked picture with your name, address and cell phone number, the larger threat is going to be harassment, not just shame.

The article makes a statement of both men and women of college age can do this, but only provides examples of women BTW.
That's exactly the attraction coinbase had for many sellers (avoiding the volatility): https://www.coinbase.com/instant-exchange
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> That all changes when you get a single bad actor who takes advantage off their weaknesses and well-meaning nature and controls the new system

I think part of the goal of these new decentralization movements is to create a system that has no weaknesses, despite how impossible that may seem. For example, using paper money has the weakness that people can counterfeit it. A naïve solution to that problem is putting security threads, serial numbers, and watermarks on the cash to make it harder to counterfeit. A more complete solution would be something like a blockchain-type ledger. You cannot counterfeit an entry in a log that everyone in the world shares without corrupting enough people in the world to support you.
apart from, you know, being 20,000 leagues under the sea, which is 1.1112e+8 metres accoridng to google. and submarines so deep in the ocean that they are actually deep in the space on the other side... or maybe it's just ISS?
Unicode URLs are the devil. Too many indistinguishable characters. URLs should stay full ASCII imho. And I say that as someone whose language requires non-ASCII symbols.

Or, in Bruce Schneier's words: "Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure."
Because it looks like an "o" in Verdana, but it could look different than the "o" in an other font.
Exactly, there's almost no benefit to them to push the state of the art as they're not an end user product at present (whether or not that should be the case is up for debate, but since most people don't care).

Apple is nudging consumer behaviour with each product transition - I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we start seeing more devices with mobile data built in (say, with an antenna behind the logo or behind the Touch Bar).
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we bulldoze away houses, we throw away food. meanwhile, people are homeless and hungry. Clearly we already live in a society of overproduction.

The difference is that the owners of the capital aren't willing to lose on their investments, and it's cheaper to bulldoze and throw away than to give it away or provide work maintaining the communities that these properties exist in/on.
How They Removed 1,400 Cars and a Sunk Ship
Basic income is my one hope from the next 4-8 years (because socially, we are screwed)

Much like with Obama, Trump and the Republicans are going to learn what is and isn't possible for the POTUS. And while there are many factors in the election, a significant chunk of the votes were poor whites who are traditionally opposed to social programs.

So on the off chance we build more factories, they are going to be modern (automated), dispelling that myth.

Which should set the stage for the Dems (or even the Republicans, but I doubt it) to pivot back toward being "the poor people's party" and finally get to push some of those social programs.

And the only one that really makes sense (at least, to me) is some form of basic income/guaranteed minimum income.

I am still sceptical that we'll see the real thing in our lifetimes, but I do think we can start down that path sooner than later.
http://patriciopalladino.com/blog/2012/08/09/non-alphanumeri...