skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
POP3 is only efficient if you download all mail to the client and immediately remove it from the server. But nobody does that, everyone leaves their mail on the server. Then everytime you synchronize the server has to go through all the mail it has to see what you don’t have, which is very inefficient if you have 10000 mails in your inbox, like most people have these days.

It’s optimized for a usecase that doesn’t exist anymore and it will work in the usecase that does exist while wasting a lot of resources. Truly the worst you can have. It’d be better if it didn’t work at all.
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This [0] is one of my all time favourite comments. Chris Wilson explains how the stroke miter limit works in cairio graphics through the medium of ascii art (and tidy maths).

[0] https://github.com/behdad/cairo/blob/color-emoji/src/cairo-p...
I know how good D is and I have a lot of confidence in it. There are a lot of great people using it that are getting their jobs done faster & better and are thereby making more money. That's what matters to me.

Everybody likes to make more money :-)

Back when I was a brand new engineer at Boeing, I was talking to my lead engineer about the beauty of aerospace engineering. He smiled and said I didn't get it. Boeing wasn't making airplanes, they were building money making machines for airline companies. That the airplane turned out to be a beauty was just a happy side effect!

D isn't about my personal aggrandizement. It's about how effective it is for users at solving their problems and making money for them.
A tweet from Akamai's CEO confirms this
> "As such, all of your data is unavailable for download and no longer subject to GDPR privacy regulations"

IANAL, but wouldn't this itself violate the GDPR?
I think the main takeaway is how small this sums are when put in perspective of defense spending. Priorities.
It would be great if someone did a high level diagram of the source code to have a taste of the overall architecture without having to dig into the code, specially for those who, like me, don't speak Pascal.
Take it easy, it's just a joke that I post to every JS framework thread on HN:)
Xcode doesn't need to come from the App Store, it can also be downloaded from the Apple website:
https://developer.apple.com/download/more/
Never mix migrating with adding features. It's the path to the dahhk side!
Error handling is one of the areas where ime more comments would frequently be in order, though not in your trivial snippet.
As we have seen asking the general public about an important topic leads to a situation like Brexit. Just because ppl have an opinion about what the priorities should be does not mean they have the slightest understanding about what the is happening in the world. The MPs are the ppl claiming to know best so you should trust them that they are doing everything in your interest and if they are not then it is your right to remove them from power. Having the average Joe decide on external politics is one of the stupidest thing you can do (e.g. Boris Johnson).

I do find your argument for Brexit to be a bit better than the average but employing the same logic London should just be a separate city state because there are ppl outside who vote against London’s values (openness and inclusion). I’d be the first to admit that in that vote if asked I would vote for an independent London from the U.K. and this is exactly why general population should not be making these descions.
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(they didn't understand what their 50 lines of spaghetti did...otherwise they would've written a pithy comment explaining it.)
Immigration is good for any economy, because a growing economy is a strong one. There are many, many things more important than terrorism. And I imagine there are as many views on what exactly, as there are people. My biggest issue personally is that I want to see a common fiscal policy adopted across the union, to match the current monetary policy.
Interstel didn't reject it, and Interstel Empire made history!
If EU died, who do you think would take over and why do you think they'd be any better?

Easy. Nation states would. And they'd do better, at least some of the time, because they're more accountable.

Just compare the Congress vs EUP performance. The USA is arguably too large and too centralised. But Congress, despite having many ancient politicians who clearly have never used the internet let alone Facebook, still managed to run rings around the EU "Parliament" (it's not really a parliament). The EU apparently allocated nearly all the hearing time to politicians speaking, leaving only minutes for Zuckerberg to reply, allowing him to pick and choose which questions he answered.

And yet there won't be any real impact on the EUP for this because it's not a real parliament, it can't actually change laws by itself. So the people who run can't have any real policies, and as a result it's stuffed with political nobodies with no ideas beyond rah-rah EU and sometimes boo-boo EU, so voters tune out and ignore it. There's little competition.
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0 and -1 as status numbers aren't that unusual to call magic.
Agree but his track record is 14 yrs long already. Let's not forget that.
My guess is that:

1) It's not open source / FOSS

2) According to the linked article, laced with bugs

3) Only runs on SPARC

edit:

4) Not using SIMH
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Maybe get it into (perldoc?) perl.org if possible?
Nice! I didn't get any access to a computer till I was 16. I had to punch cards and hand them to the teacher who'd run them as batch jobs. In college all students had accounts on the college PDP-10, a marvelous machine for its day.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0056...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0057...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Metzinger
In this context, you are wrong.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=us+company+eu+customers+gdpr
Does Pascal allow a programmer to shoot themselves in the foot the way that C does? Does it have safer memory handling?
What on earth is going on with the belly flops? How are they surviving / rebounding from that without puking?

Is it secretly a full trampoline, not a pad? Anything less than a spring would cause blunt trauma, let alone neck whiplash.
Having nice users like you guys is very gratifying!
Apparently they are already GDPR compliant (FB). In their case it's actually easy to justify their legitimate interest because their entire business is the handling of private data. Ironically, even though GDPR is supposed to affect things like facebook more, it changes very little about the way they work.
Well, Corbyn has been taking a beating because of what he's ignoring. At this point in the electoral cycle Labour should be well ahead of the Conservatives. They should have cleaned up in the last round of council elections. Neither happened, and it's partly because Corbyn is seen as ignoring those sorts of things.

Meanwhile the current government isn't ignoring the economic impact. So far there has been none - the economy is growing and has little spare capacity, if you believe the 4-5% unemployment lower bound. As for future economic impact when the EU inevitably tries to block UK companies and trade, that's pretty much all the Tories are talking about these days. Very much not ignoring it. So I'm not sure I agree that the government is downplaying the concerns of the people.
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Congrats on launching!

One thing on your landing page, maybe add some detail as to what Lackid does. I had no idea.
looks like it is stuck in 1970 or so, according the number of minutes in the image

Edit: 1972 to be exact
Nah, he would not be storing any data himself. He s not a processor or a controller.
Do you think menial jobs will just magically disappear when people are educated? Will we just pay everyone equally for their time?
> Not even in slow motion, with scarves.

Scarves are harder than balls because their movement is unpredictable and your hands end up moving in all directions if you can't throw them well.

Find decently weighted balls (130g is standard) which will have enough weight that throws can be well controlled. Juggling is 90% throwing and 10% catching. Get the throws right and everything will quite literally fall in to place.
Convince the police or FBI you're a criminal or terrorist. They will unlock it for free.
> I struggle to think of something that I actually want to build as a project or a challenge so I can't build a compelling reason for my to maintain my interest.

This is the big problem. It's not unusual for it to be an uphill battle to learn stuff "dry".

You truly do need a desire for some specific, reasonably substantial, piece of software to exist. Then, you'll learn skills and techniques "just-in-time" as side effects of making that thing a reality.
What some younger programmers don't get is that allowing to do things is good, the real question is what style a language encourages.
The issue isn't the (alleged) "fall" of the EU as much as the fact that the EU (and, to a lesser extent, US Congress) wants to shut down platforms that host content that is not aligned with their political viewpoint. None of this hysteria would be happening if 55,000 fewer Americans had voted for Trump (and thus Clinton won), or about a million people who voted for Leave instead had voted for Remain. The obvious partisanship behind the Facebook frenzy is galling and should negate it on its face.
> Every and service that I use has an RSS feed, except for Twitter.

I use https://feedbin.com as a RSS backend to any client I can imagine (Reeder on iOS in my case). Feedbin recently introduced a feature that treats and presents twitter searches/users/tags as RSS feed and extracts media and links in tweets. Right along all your other RSS feeds: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-...

I think it's a brilliant addition to the service.
All I am saying is that $400 in 2013 is not worth $430 today, Its wort a LOT MORE! Stop arguing like a idiot.
I enjoyed it but I found the ending ludicrous. It turned into a kind of political melodrama. Which I thought was a pity.

Sabbath's Theatre I enjoyed much more. I think he was always best when he was focused on the personal.
Maybe the EU is doing better than ever on some metrics, but I find it quite scary how over the last 20 years, Europe has completely missed the train on technology. We are now in a vassal position where we have to beg foreign CEOs to have some sort of view / control over the technology that runs our society. And it's not getting any better.

GDPR is too little too late, and may even be counterproductive[1]. It would have been vastly preferable to have healthy European competitors to Microsoft / Apple / Google / Facebook. But we don't, and probably will never have.

The situation with Microsoft in the 90's should have made it obvious of what was to come. Our politicians ignored it entirely. They are now making grand statements about democracy that leave me less than impressed.

[1] Some say that GDPR will cement Google / Facebook's advertising monopoly as they are in a much better position to gather data sharing consent from their users than their smaller competitors.
Watching this made me realize how different things were in 2010 than 1980.
TC is fine
And this one time, when I updated my iPod touch, and both WiFi and Bluetooth stopped working.
What Would Earth Be Like If All Land Was Oceans and All Oceans Were Land?
Why not to try FreePascal and Lazarus then?
Destroyed? The account does not work anymore, but the device is doing exactly as told.

However i agree any electronic device should have the ability to factory reset. Software lock ins are terrible.
> I thought we are on hackernews here, and not some bullshit propaganda spreading site.

I had the same wonder after I read the first few paragraphs of the ridiculous article that this thread is about!
Convince them your daughter is a criminal, it's hers not yours.
No, Dodd-Frank is in fact bureaucratically onerous. The cost of paperwork has nothing to do with whether or not the documents are actually on paper.
By large-but-immaterial, do you mean the money escaped via tax fraud and illegal tax cuts?
"It's nearly impossible to get someone to understand something when their livelihood depends on them not understanding it." -- someone I forgot
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Not forever, looking at the screenshot - “just” 45 years.

I hope he gets this resolved - otherwise his daughter will have one hell of a digital time capsule to open in her late 50’s - assuming apple or anything else still exists.
Yep, they couldn't have made that message look more like phishing if they tried - including poor HTML formatting of the email body. This is how you really know that GPG has failed.
Rails migrations are checked in to version control, and then rails keeps track of which "migration" has been run. For tables this works fine, because you want to define them only once and if you need to change columns/add columns etc. you can create a new migration, which contains only the updates you want.

For triggers however you need to replace the trigger wholesale, so you end up with several versions of the trigger on your file system and need to check each migration file to see what the latest definition of the trigger is (for tables rails normally creates a separate file with the current state of the database after running a migration, so you have relatively easy access to the latest state of table definitions).
The switch to C and C++ only came when Apple decided to cater to the increasing UNIX market pressure.

Which was actually C++, given that they tried to port MacApp to C++.

While at the same time Metrowerks, which was the major compiler vendor on the Mac, introduced PowerPlant.

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

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

https://archive.org/stream/ApplePascalHistoryDTC92/ApplePasc...

Comments at http://blog.fogus.me/2017/07/20/pascal-at-apple/

So plain C always had very little place at Apple, even at NeXT it was all about Objective-C and Objective-C++, including the driver framework.

Both A/UX and NeXTSTEP used UNIX compatibility as a means to bring software into the platform, but the goodies were in the platform specific frameworks.
Ask HN: Pointers for a news recommender project?
Hey HN,

I'm getting started with a little project to practice my nascent machine learning skills.

The idea is to have users list a few websites they like and then, based on those, suggest a few interesting news as they get posted. The news will be delivered by email. I want it to be privacy focused.

So, I already know this is not really original. This is really more a learning project than anything.

The "battle plan" so far is:
1. Build a landing page where people can subscribe and list their favorite news sources, with a few tags. Trying to "crowd source" the effort of finding content and cataloging
2. Drive traffic to the landing page somehow. I was going to check AdWords campaigns but they seem too pricey for something which is basically for fun more than profit. I'll try to rely on social discussions / comments. Any other suggestion on this would be appreciated!
3. Ship an periodic email with 5 links or such, which are supposedly interesting / have the email include links to "thumb up / down" the content, to further customize the recommending engine
4. If there's any visible interest and / or if providing it starts costing me more than I'm willing to pay, I'll attempt to monetize it. For example by adding sponsored content / or advertising maybe?

What I want to gain from this test is:
1/ Practice machine learning
2/ Form some habits that will help me shipping other side projects in the future
3/ Practice other skills such as SEO, Cloud architectures (aiming at the most serverless architecture I can imagine. Right now the landing page is hosted on S3+CloudFront, the form is a Google Form (yes, that one looks cheap))

I would love to hear your thoughts about this all. Any suggestion?

The landing page is here: http://newspulse.ai
Feel free to comment on it, and to fill the form (with a fake email if you don't want to hear about it again!), that will kickstart my news source catalog.

Thanks for any help!
> Publish under a different account?

Not allowed and easily detectable

> Sue?

For what?
I assume he is referring to the ECBs bond buying program and to the migrant crisis. He is not wrong that this is the source of dislike of the EU and not Facebook. HN is one of the most extreme echo chambers on this topic.
Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, auto-updating, and you forever avoid the extortionist dinning renewal scare tactics of the commercial products.
Given an equal feature set (and similar performance), a larger lib is worse, yes.

If your problem space requires a lot of code, then off course not.
The UK does in fact have regular swings of devolution of power to regions and cities. See: the Scotland referendum, which resulted in more powers being given to the regional assembly despite the independence campaign losing. The flow of power over time has been slowly away from central government, or at least, people have been offered that choice.

The MPs are the ppl claiming to know best so you should trust them

Hmmm. But I also claim I know best. Now who do you pick?
Ha! That's pretty neat. I also resort to ASCII art comments, when appropriate: https://github.com/ShieldBattery/node-interval-tree/blob/mas...
And it didn't seem as he wanted to make any friends either. I'm pretty sure the EC is already drafting regulation or actions against facebook based on this hearing... but i m not sure what facebook plans to do. Perhaps they 'll spin off a separate EU facebook? Go back to US and wall off EU? The EU parliament seems to think that facebook's users are their users but Zucc has not said a word about this.
It is harder to shoot yourself in the foot with Pascal because you rarely use raw pointers.
Functionality like this is pretty good to deter theft. If thieves can't easily re-enable bricked devices, black market price is much lower, thus there's less incentive to mug people carrying those devices.
Pascal had some annoying implementation features on the Mac: Fixed length string types, for example: Str31, Str255, etc.

> So plain C always had very little place at Apple, even at NeXT it was all about Objective-C and Objective-C++, including the driver framework.

That was at NeXT in the late 80s and only came to Apple after Amelio bought NeXT to use NeXTStep as the Classic Mac OS followup.

Apple shipped their first C compiler with MPW 2.0, released on July 20, 1987.
Zuck probably thinks that he'll have time to redeem himself...ala Gates. But "If I stop now, FB crashes and I can't do as much good"
> (hint: immigration, terrorism)

Dear God, no. Those are primarily external problems, we should (and are, thankfully) focused on fixing internal problems and making ourselves better.
What a lovely comment, explaining not just the why but also, in this case, the 'how' because its not obvious how to derive the code from the requirement so actually explaining how is worth it.

But then I scrolled down and saw it verbatim just a few lines further down https://github.com/behdad/cairo/blob/color-emoji/src/cairo-p...

Why is CheckMitreHight() not a function? :)
Protection against DDoS attacks at the web applications level
Also not a lawyer (but skipping initialism of that), but I believe the GDPR covers any business servicing the region (EU), and this scenario indicates Facebook stop servicing EU.
Good that someone found a use for it. I studied it at Uni and then never used it again.
I think this is the same person who post this,
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7138743

^
For more info.
I wonder if you created a network with an SSID and password that matched the original if it would pick it up and update the date? This is what I did with my TV when I lost the remote, so I could add a phone as a remote.
Juno : Jupyter Notebook client for iPad
Cars with Built-In GPS Tracker
Yeah, skip the reviewer, they cite the rules endlessly, even if the rule they are citing has no connection to the actual problem (in your case it does, but still). App Review Board, send in your plea, that's that.
I think as other users have said, the review board is your best bet.

But maybe you could let us know more about what the problem is exactly? Here's Apple's guidelines for VPNs:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#vpn...

Sounds from what you said the user is informed about what data you are collecting, but what other part of the guidelines are you potentially breaking here?
No body can be taught common sense. The remainder is just arithmetic, like addition and subtraction.

You have two apples, you eat one. How many apples remain?

The part about delayed gratification is pure psychology. And its just personal training.

I'm not from the US, I am Indian, these problems are universal. Most people can't handle freedom, that is all there is to it.
Dealing with giant bueruecracy can be the most frustrating experience. bureaucracy’s are ultimately made of people though and rules can be stretched, broken, or changed. I hope some real human working at Apple sees this, has some sort of power to change things, and is willing to step up to bat for OP’s daughter.
Hello,

My name is Cam, and I'm the maker of Lackid (https://lackid.com).

I built this application because I need a simple project management app like Trello (it's great) with the ability to get the overview of the whole project like Mindmeister (a mindmap tool).

With Lackid, the project is no longer just a long list of items, but it could have a few layers of decomposition which help people to easily get the overview of the project. Like a mindmap app, Lackid allows anyone to brainstorm from idea to tasks (I think this is suitable for startups), and start working on it right away.

Lackid also provides the ability to have multiple kanban boards on the same project (Status board is created by default). Which allow you to organize/prioritize items based on many aspects (such as release plan, customer segments, etc...)

In addition, you can have the status of the item at any view at any time through its status colour.

I hope that Lackid could be a good choice for startup projects.
I appreciate your sharing your thoughts on it.

Thanks,
Cam
> the device is doing exactly as told.

As told by whom? It certainly wasn't told to lock up by it's rightful owners.

It's not even clear if Apple actually intended this, or if it was some weird side effect.
There are some great interviews with him on YouTube about the original Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgxt8YRHt8
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One point I find they are missing here is how conditions in origin countries greatly affect immigration. German emigration dropped abruptly due to Bismarck's creation of the social welfare state [1]. Recent improvements in the Mexican economy are a large factor in the decline of Mexican immigration [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Early_legisl...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_Mexico#Recent_....
Why does the back button keep me on the landing page? Or is that just me?
I am not going to say that this is a bad thing. One thing about managing a widely distributed company, with workers of various skill levels, is creating crystal clear rules. The rule that “everything you fill in online MUST be an exact replica of a customer’s handwritten input, and anything else is a fireable offense” you avoid people trying to say “well she said she wanted the $500 paint upgrade even though she didn’t write it down.”
thanks for your message. I just want to keep it simple as possible. There is a learn more link under start now button which leads to the features page.
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Probably not: the post is about an iPod whereas the article is about an iPad Mini.

This issue is actually quite old and I am very surprised (and sad) that is has re-surfaced.