skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For last few years (after geting bitten by yet another breakage when upgrading evolution) I'm using claws-mail which is fork of sylpheed and it does everything I need from email client (and in contrast to evolution it even has usable windows version).
The title made it sound like we'll never get data for those 22,000 years.

A set of expensive icicles melted. They're going to go collect more samples once they collect enough money again.
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There's a certain breed of developer (me included, and probably also Walter above) who really like refactoring and porting tasks which others would consider soul-crushing.

When the codebase has evolved for a really long time, and you can see the different coding styles of different generations of developers, you get to feel like an archeologist or a geologist who's digging through multiple layers of rock.
All URLs are parameters.

The only safe way to browse the web is simply not to.
target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.
What about a CED?
I recently had an idea for a startup, related to the mis-use of the old.

I have been working with startups that are using a hybrid approach to data gathering, using both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and also humans. The NLP works best as a lead-generator for the humans, the NLP can pick out sentences that we are 95% sure have the information we need. Then we have humans read over the data to look for bits that should actually go in the database.

One evening I watched a fellow on the data team as he read through a dozen newspapers, looking for any clues that we might have missed. He is part of an 8 person team, and they are all in their 20s.

That weekend I went to visit my mom, who has been retired for more than 15 years. As is normal for her, she was reading over The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and a few business magazines. She majored in history, at Hunter College, back in the 1950s, then she did her masters degree in economics.

The week before last, Hunter College had its reunion for alumni. More than 2,000 women showed up. I met my mom outside as the event was ending. I saw the thousands of smart, retired women, and it occurred to me: why don't we use these women to read through all the data fetched by the NLP scripts? Why do we rely on people in their 20s? These women are smart, well trained, highly educated, many of them are looking for part-time work with flexible hours, something they could do from home. Most of them have the life long habit of looking through newspapers for interesting data. Most are willing to work very cheap. Most are eager to be in the workforce, most are sad about being out of the workforce.

There is, in fact, a whole category of startups that are opening in this area, using the hybrid approach of both NLP and also humans. And it would be an ideal place to use retired people. Only stupid bias keeps startups from pursuing this.
Not really the kind of thing I'm talking about - I mean users-vs-publishers. Chrome and Google tend to favor publishers - being an ad agency and all.
TV is declining, just like newspaper empires. Streaming is expanding as it's own empire even though it smells and tastes like TV it's different. Google and Facebook kill with ads so they'll continue to drive "innovation" for eyeballs as again traditional TV attempts to stop the bleeding. Innovation is where newspapers failed.

I'm streaming mlb right now and reading HN, TV can't offer that experience easily.
Forcing signup via oAuth with a service that does some sane email verification might be an easy route.
This is a great idea. I'm constantly having to justify that something we didn't pay for can actually be good. Many times I wish the company did have to pay for open source software just so I can throw it in the budget and avoid the argument.
Dubbing also destroys immersion, which is bad for a story, but irrelevant for an interview. Rare is the dub where all the voice actors get all the emotion in the voice correct.
My personal theory on this is twofold:

1.) High achievers are used to pushing at things to win. Creativity is like a garden - you have to do some tending, but then you have to back off and let the plants grow. Fiddling doesn't help, in fact you're liable to end up killing the plants.

2.) Smart people actually learn too fast. Creativity requires very broad neural connectivity, and I think fast learning tends to produce neural networks with sparse connectivity to different areas. This is supported to a degree by learning in artificial neural networks. When the learning rate in artificial neural networks is too fast, this can cause the network parameters to converge prematurely. This premature convergence typically results in poor generalization performance. It is also worth noting that human brains mature more slowly than those of previous hominids and great apes.
I agree and I am no saint either. My thought is don't let a bully win. Sure he may go home with an early retirement or just hide behind desk teaching who knows. But his reputation deserves to be punished. Perhaps no one would remember but that's a stain he needs to live up to. How fan we be so sure his other contributions are questionable? I am the type that can't stand at bully coming at me and I will go head to head. I am sorry if you or others have to go through these science bullies. Often we critize people demoting science in climate change and yet we ourselves can't do true science either
That I did not know.

I found a page with a bunch more of them: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/fr-cuba-article.2157...

No one seems to really know why.
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Messenger, personally. Too much of my social circle uses it as the group chat provider-of-choice for closing my account to be a viable option. I almost never interact with Facebook proper.
Easier to just send an email with a verification link to the sender address.

Should at least honour DKIM and SPF.
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I imagine that there's quite a lot of Czechs over the age of 27.
Same with Bitbucket, although maybe just 3-4 years instead of a decade.
Installing an ad-blocker could save you a ton of head aches.
> Di Modica can't really remove the bull statue then since that would signify defeat.

The bull should be challenging a bear in the Wall St. iconography. I think a bear statue would compliment the bull nicely in this case. And additionally, if you've made it a pedestrian bear then, I am sure, the ad agency would have moved the girl statue away promptly.
Same was true for me. Nothing but cheesy fake nuz. I didn't even get everything posted by my relatives. I deleted my fb account last fall. Life has improved.

I know quite a few teenagers; they say FB is for "old people" like me.

It's been true since the days of suck.com: if you don't pay for the product you are the product. I'm sick of being product.
Does achieving stability through a simple design not count for anything?
The web decentralization movement hasn't gotten very far as far as adoption goes. But that is because it is pretty new and the technology is still being worked out.

There is a real question, however, as to what would motivate the vast majority of current web users to switch off of centralized services and on to decentralized ones. What I am hoping is that once the tech gets solid, one or more people who are good at thinking about ordinary users will come up with some ways to win them over.

My own thought is to figure out what it is that people value that centralized services, by their very nature, cannot provide, but that decentralized services can.

Along these lines, maybe what will happen is Facebook will get hacked, millions of people will suffer as a consequence, and then people will be in a frame of mind to listen to arguments for decentralization.
The screenshots on the page don't really do it justice. I mean, it's not the most beautiful email client in the world, but it doesn't look like 2001. Because it uses GTK it looks like the rest of your desktop (assuming your desktop is GNOME).

I always end up going back to Thunderbird, for a variety of reasons. But, I try a bunch of other stuff every now and then. Sylpheed is not bad, but it's not got anything I don't get from Thunderbird, and Thunderbird is more actively maintained and has more capabilities. (I keep trying Evolution, and hating it, every single time. It's huge and thinks really hard about every single action and continues to be buggy. I don't know how something has been in really active development for decades and still has weird quirks and misbehavior without any actionable error messages.)
There has been tremendous lobbying, pressure and marketing from the Broad Institute on this issue.

For instance, see: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1825

I have personally talked to a student at the Broad Institute who told me a number of people there do not agree with the Broad positions (namely the Cell article and Lander's statements).

Disclaimer: Also a graduate student at UC Berkeley (not in Bio).
Since last year, there are multiple "reactions" to choose from, "like" being one of them: https://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebook-reactions-totally-red...

But there is still no "dislike". The closest thing would be "sad" or "angry". And of course, it still has the same problem as "like": When someone presses "like" on coverage of the terrorist attack, does that mean that they liked the terrorist attack, or the particular way it was covered by the media?
It's not that hard. Create a console application in Visual Studio ( it's a Windows Application).

The arguments are the default ones, that are triggerd when you "Open With" - Choose a program. You receive a filename

Then run a new console, which runs castnow ( https://github.com/xat/castnow ). And voila

PS. Can choose the wrong chromecast when there are 2 devices in the network :p
>Aestheticism has been used for nearly two centuries now to hustle artists out of their just rewards. However, like any "moral" framework, it works both ways and plenty of artists have used it to hustle wealthy patrons with dulcet dreams sculpted from lofty ideals.

It's also something several artists truly believed, not used it as a hustle, and never took money to water their art, even if they were offered the chance, and even if they had to live poor because of it.

Including people starting with, and staying committed, either to arts like poetry, which don't come with any rewards and wealthy patrons in the first place, or with genres/attitude towards some otherwise potentially lucrative art that's decidedly non-commercial.

And that's not because they were lured by e.g. some music executives to hustle them out of their just rewards -- they chose to sell less (or not at all) and make no rewards for anybody to steal in the first place. If anything those execs would love for those artists to compromise -- so the total opposite of them using aestheticism to steal their "just rewards".
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I'm curious as to why you think long distance transfer of your data is a better option than LAN? Do you not have control of your network? I transfer huge amounts of data over the LAN all the time. You're making me feel like we don't live in the same decade.
I suspect that it was the clothing industry that figured they could sell more by hooking different product to genders earlier on, and marketing basically facilitated that push.

Particularly after WW1 various industries that had massively scaled up to feed the war needed an outlet for their excess production capacity.

This lead to a marketing push to get people to think in terms of desires rather than needs.

Adam Curtis goes over this during his documentary series, The Century of the Self.
Using neural networks as a machine learning concept to explain actual concepts in Neuroscience is a huge overstep. People have always thought the most advanced technology can be analogous to cognition, see steam engines and clocks.
As a point of comparison: why should I switch from Thunderbird to Sylpheed?
Anybody know how this relates to ipfs? Is it an alternative, or something that could be built on top of ipfs, or what?
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Eroding confidence in banking systems shouldn't be an American goal. Instead, protecting and securing those systems should be the goal.
> Yup, their first order of business is to optimize for the widest swath of users. That being said, as feeds become more customized, I'm sure you'll start seeing more rich articles if that's what you desire.

You're pretty optimistic. I wish I could share the optimism. They've had over a decade to get there, and as far as I can tell, they're moving the opposite direction they'd need to do what you claim they will.

They're doing their best to become irrelevant and die. But their users keep clawing them back to life. Eventually either FB or the users will figure their shit out, and part ways.
An unbearable philosopher-wannabe writing the same platitudes and whining for decades on end while living a cushy literary/academic life.

Pass, and go directly to someone like Schopenhauer...
Why? Adblockers are useless for filtering out think pieces and low effort clickbait. They're not even very good at targeting Facebook Ads.
This. But the majority of these tech transfer offices are more like Berkeley's, jealously guarding their prerogatives rather than promoting students and faculty interests.

Stanford's model is that alumni who do well are generous. Also, alumni startups are like all startups, strapped. So unlike Berkeley, which wants their cut upfront, Stanford is patient.
> these types of observations are not routine at all.

Perhaps you think I was saying that the EHT project as a whole is uninteresting. I wasn't suggesting this at all. I understand that this project calls for a novel type of data collection that requires more coordination, etc. My opinion was that the author's use of certain wordings made things sound more dramatic than they actually were. I imagine that the possibility of bad weather would have been foreseen and planned for (i.e. routine).

> it's a little bit click-bait-y, but it's also true that we don't know if there will be an image of the black hole (shadow).

This was my point. We still don't know. But, in my opinion, the wording of the title (which is now different than the link text) sort of suggested that we do know.
I was repairing the Germany flag above, when I saw you wanted to draw a Windows 95 start button I moved it up to make space. I was amazed when I saw that people building the button helped me move it up a notch :-) ps: also did some grey pixels on the button. great fun indeed
Agreed. This article may or may not have made some good points, but I couldn't keep reading after that.
> The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores.

Performing music and writing music are really very different art forms. I'm surprised this NY Times author has conflated the two. Writing music is not the next step after learning to play music.
Some additional context at http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/15/15289194/cadillac-super-cr...
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Restocks (YC W16) is hiring people who like shoes and JavaScript
We help sell $millions of clothing every month through a mobile app. Rabid consumers use our app to stay updated on sneaker and streetwear releases, with some spending thousands of dollars in our app every month.

That gets the 'shoes' part of the title out of the way. Now on to the 'javascript':

We're a full stack JS shop and we're looking for full stack engineers to help us build our next product.

We use React/React Native/Node/Express/Redux/Postgres extensively. We even have some Go and Kubernetes running in production. Familiarity with any of the aforementioned is a plus.

We have a culture of rapid iteration. We didn't use React at all 6 months ago, and now our app is built on React Native. As funny as it would be to require something like "6 years of React Experience", we're more interested in people who are good at making qualified decisions and aren't afraid of jumping in to something new.

If anything here interests you, email jobs@restocks.io with a couple of links to some stuff you've made. Currently, we can only consider candidates who are local to the SF Bay Area or are willing to relocate.

No recruiter spam, please.
Yeah, Jornada 680 would be too small, hence why I said "between".

Imagine the baby macbook with it's touchpad area cut off. So basically just a keyboard and an equally-size ink screen on top of it. I can imagine myself going to the park near my house and writing prose sitting on the bench. Ain't happening with the laptop.
>Users won't notice when something is perfect. But when anything is misaligned, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

No, it really does not. Users don't care for Drudge Report not being perfect, Craigslist not being perfect, and thousand other huge volume sites.
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I have a similar, but even less connected case than a doctor: a contractor that worked on my basement. No friends or clients in common that I know of. I've never been to his office. Don't even know what town he lives in. I did use FB on mobile for a short while, but probably didn't allow location info (call me paranoid). I most definitely did not upload any contact list.

How can it be?
Have been trying to get this to work under arch for days. No luck so far.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anbox-git/
They specify that snowball is a petabyte level solution. OP was discussing transferring files from his laptop. Does a laptop exist that can store petabytes? No.
It's not funny anymore.
Brad knows me slightly better than that and there was a bit more factoring into his decision. As I'm one of the maintainers and security/release people for Exim, a major MTA, I'd hope that the SMTP server on my personal domain is not too badly configured. :-D
``Every now and then the code used "fancy" Perl features. Converting those parts was 10x, 100x, and sometimes up to 1000x slower.''

That is why, when I run an engineering team, I constantly push back against "clever" or "fancy" stuff. Engineers love that stuff, eat it up. I get it, it's fun. But when they move on to something else and a mere mortal has to maintain, fix, or convert it, the cost of that clever stuff becomes apparent. I've had to be that mere mortal and I can assure you it is a miserable experience.

I've often thought that one of the most useful things about me is that I'm not smart enough to be that clever, I like simple, obvious code. It's a little bit of a lie, I'm smart enough, sort of, to be that clever but it's a lot more work. And I know that any code that is more than 6 months, doesn't matter if I wrote it or someone else wrote it, it always feels like someone else wrote it. And man, do I love it when that someone else went for straightforward rather than clever.
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As a US citizen, and given how things like 9/11 were funded, this is exactly what I want NSA to be doing. This is thier job.

What I don't want them doing is hoovering up internal comms traffic without a warrant and passing it to people like DEA. That is exactly not thier job.

Frankly, it's a bit bizarre to me that US citizens don't understand how to draw the distinction between those two sceanrios...
> You accept this tradeoff with the understanding that people you contract with have to make some profit too.

Of course not. You accept the tradeoff because it is in your interest to abstract away risks. Part of the costs involved in this risk taking comes from how the contracts are set up.

For example, your employee doesn't have an actual contractual obligation to fulfill such and such goals every month, while an external contracted firm may have.
"But such a revolution will require a wholly different narrative about the origins of our wealth. It will require ditching the old-fashioned faith in “solidarity” with a miserable underclass that deserves to be borne aloft on the market-level salaried shoulders of society’s strongest."

This has never happened in the past, but similar things have happened, always driven by violence. Can this happen without violence, I wonder?
That sounds more like a systemic problem where companies profitability is put forward as an excuse for anti-social behavior.
I've used Sylpheed for years and I miss it. I stopped using it because I switched to OSX at some point. But it's a beautiful piece of software.
I get your point, you're saying that large customers are good for your pockets. Ok, go ahead, take your profit, but accept that this is totally off the point of this thread.
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I have about the same experience, but with Thunderbird. Once I got my accounts set up in Sylpheed/Claws (I have used both) I found it did everything I needed, Its extremely stable has minimal dependency and uses negligible CPU and memory.

I can compile Sylpheed form sources it in a few minutes on any recent version of Linux or BSD with little or no dependencies.
>Facebook is sitting on the largest audience of real-world identities and hasn't entered the market of microtransactions in exchange for content (like news) yet [1], even though they could single-handedly wipe out the half a dozen or so other firms -- the likes of Flattr, Brave, Webpass, the rebooted Medium, the half-thought-out never-advertised-then-mysteriously-vanished Google Contributor -- the ones who had to build their audience while trying to make this model work for years. This is just bizarre.

That's because there is no FB-level money to be made in "microtransactions in exchange for content", especially news content, and nobody cares for those firms, including Medium which has posted its second "We've failed to make any revenue, but pivoting to some vague BS" post by now.
This is the funniest thing I've read all day.