skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haystack: Facebook's photo storage (2010) [pdf]
Thought the same thing. Another startup that came to mind was Atlas Informatics https://twitter.com/discoveratlas (defunct as of oct. 2017 - https://www.geekwire.com/2017/atlas-informatics-shut-pulling... )
Despite my initial misgivings, I would actually consider something like this, even at this price point, but there are a few things that for now are non-starters.

1) I’d need to feel secure my email would actually deliver correctly. Zack Whittaker on Twitter [1] mentioned that the CEO’s email wound up in his Gmail spam folder. This would be utterly unacceptable for me, even though I don’t frequently email new people.

2) The single domain per server totally makes this DOA for me. I have multiple domains with separate, non-aliased mailboxes, controlled via legacy GApps accounts. It winds up being a security advantage because I use different accounts/domains for different services and that means that the likelihood of me being severely hacked is lower as a result. But beyond that, a single domain designation seems off for this type of product. The people willing to spend $500 on this kind of hardware are the people who have multiple domains.

3) I worry about the long term future of a startup like this. If they go out of business, not only is my hardware now worthless, I now have to migrate my inboxes to Fastmail or GSuite or something else, or face configuring my own local mail server, which is what I was trying to avoid to begin with. And in my case, that would also potentially mean giving up grandfathered GApps accounts with 50 users and custom domain support.

I wish Helm luck and we need disruptive email startups and better turnkey hosting solutions, but I’m not sure this is the right solution at the moment.

[1]: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1052619938349899776...
I would love an early access code! seth@scurry.io
A fine example of an OP not reading & understanding the article they shared.
I know a guy in his 40s who works part time and goes to school part time because as long as he is still in school, his loans don't come due.

He has no way to pay his loans, never will, and is unable to discharge them in bankruptcy.

Yeah, there is a "poor me" element to this. However bankruptcy laws exist for a reason, and denying people like him access to bankruptcy forces them into unproductive lives. That non-productivity makes all of us worse off in the long-run.
Question: is there any economoc incentive to hold REP tokens?
Also, no actual content appears on the page without allowing third-party JavaScript. Even though I'm interested in hearing about new mail services, I chose to close the tab rather than spend time figuring out which of the 17 third-party domains I should white-list in order to see some text.

I doubt I'm the only one who made this choice. For some of us, content is still the reason we use a web browser; that includes those of us who value privacy and minimising the amount of arbitrary code we run on our devices.
Looking forward to seeing where this goes. This is one of the primary reasons I use Google Keep for everything, which at least gives me Google search for all of my notes, todos, saved articles, etc. Of course, there's still a lot of room for improvement.
The irony being that remembering that is almost guaranteedly easier than acquiring and installing mole on every machine where you may need to Port forward.
Usually an ISP defines it as something that allows ingress unsolicited connections. i.e. put a stateful firewall in front of it and if it requires ingress allow rules to function, it's a server.
I've always considered chick the exact same as dude. It's just a synonym for girl/lady. If used improperly it can be offensive, but then I'd argue any sentence you can think of where it's used improperly you could replace "chick" with pretty much any synonym for girl/lady and it'd still be offensive.
Perhaps the raw number of jobs isn't the best denominator then, since many of the jobs in tech likely pay more to acknowledge this fact. A better measure would be something like the total of wages payed, or total of wages payed for the bottom 4 quintiles of workers by salary (cut out C-class executive outliers). Equity of course makes that harder, but most of the companies on this list are big enough that they're probably paying more in salary at this point anyways. I'd be interested to see where that places tech companies vs. more traditional businesses.
Being underslept makes me grumpy, irritable, unable to focus and pessimistic. All the time.

Having enough sleep lifts up my mood, I am naturally joyful, with easy and reliable access to my memory, and relaxed. All day long.

For me, I know that having fewer pleasurable activities in well-rested mode beats the grinding experience of more stuff in grumpy mode.

Being 90-100% present and able to enjoy fewer things is better than being 30-60% present, and in partial agony, with more things.

So I prioritize sleep which forces me to do less unnecessary stuff.
Interesting idea, though the examples given were mainly fixing Null Pointer Exceptions, which can be somewhat solved with static analysis in languages without nullability.
SingleFile: Web Extension for saving a complete web page into a single HTML file
How Equality and Inequality Shape the Birds and the Bees
My understanding is that you can train people to recognize few/certain tones, but if you have a perfect pitch you are able to do it for every tone, which is something that cannot be learned.
My whole team was laid off two years ago. Last year I did a startup that unfortunately folded when my business partner had a major family tragedy. This year I've been contracting and looking for work. I ran the numbers and I can't retire yet. I'm looking to work another 8-9 years.
Burrows-Wheeler transform
I think generally the idea is that if you can't get exercise and 8 hours of sleep you need to reprioritize. If you only have these 2 options, there are bigger problems you need to tackle to open up time.
> Taxes are utilized notoriously inefficiently in the US.

I've wondered about this: is this "conventional wisdom", or are there actual cross-country comparison studies?
EBay Sues Amazon, Alleging Sellers Were Illegally Poached
Honestly, quantity of sleep pales in comparison to the ability to focus, for me (I get enough sleep. I go to the gym. I still can't focus).
The author demonstrated that a particular model is not consistent with the selected systems. That is not evidence strongly in favor of a single other model (uniform sizes = normal) it is evidence very weakly in favor of every other possible model.
I love the Graham scan algorithm for computing convex hulls of sets of points. That and the fast exponentiation algorithm, which can be used to compute linear recurrences (e.g. fibonacci) in O(log n) time.
Single purpose doesn’t mean non-programmable, it just means designed with a particular use case in mind (in this case, programming).
I’d like to: me@danielfischer.com
I imagine you're making the Engineers mistake of pitching your credentials. Think of the hiring from the their perspective. A 25 yo recent Stanford Grad with no idea what they're doing with crippling insecurity. If they actually hired someone with experience then they might be outed as 'not the smartest guy everyone has ever met' and that would be devastating to their self image.

In order to send a signal that you're a safe hire that won't undermine them, either intentionally or accidentally, you'll need to show that you're a team player who will go along with their ideas no matter how obviously stupid they are. Crossfit is perfect for this.
Header-only runtime reflection system in C++
Something I've been worried a bit about with RISC-V, hopefully someone can tell me why I'm wrong. If I were implementing some cryptography in assembly on x86 or ARM I would make every effort to avoid branches and use conditional moves instead so as to be more resistant to timing attacks. Is this actually a common technique in computer security? And does RISC-V suffer from not having conditional moves?
I'll try early access:

journal@cresten.pizza
Inside the race to hack-proof the Democratic Party
Unfortunately reputation management is a requirement nowadays for all senders of MTA. And it's an ongoing hassle.

Helm promises to handle this in a way that doesn't let them read transmitted mails. You still have to trust them ultimately, but the stakes are higher.
There you go, I just saw this on Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/project/2428-single-chip-avr-basic-compu...
I knew someone who was a waiter at one time working full time at a restaurant. When he began work, he found some customers would not leave tips. So he would cordially ask the customers if anything was wrong with their service. And inform them that for people in his line of work where they serve their customers, their earnings are mostly based on tips.

Minimum wage is different for tip receiving employees, but if the tips do not add up to normal minimum wage, then the employer is required to supplement their paychecks until they hit minimum wage.

So if you like the service that the waiter brought you, you got to tip. The money goes to them only. If you get a haircut, then you got to tip if the barber/stylist went a couple of steps further and made sure you got the haircut you like. You got to show your appreciation for workers who went above and beyond their requirements to serve you better.
>123 udp inbound still blocked for unexplained reasons

NTP was part of a massive DRDoS not too long ago. It's possible they pruned it somewhere much further up the network under the (not insane) assumption that most customers don't need to run their own time servers that answer public queries.
Classic diversionary administrative state clickbait headline: "More taxes, because libraries!"

How about why are our taxes not spent on libraries? What are they being spent on? The people who talk to the people who fill out the forms for the people who are supposed to be managing our libraries? Or was it that our libraries were actually sold by the people elected to supposedly make sure our libraries stayed open? Oops that was the US post office...

Total government revenue was $6,300,000,000,000 last year[1]

[1] https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_2018USrt_20rs1n
Comcast doesn't let me run my own mail server, but I think Comcast is still an ISP.
Can Harding Make Slow News Pay?
Satirical author Badiucao has sent a #MWGA cap to Google Headquarters
>Those are different email addresses according to the email standard.

Not really. It's left open to interpretation from my reading of the relevant RFC. The spec says the dot-atom form should be used but does not say in what way it should be used. Google collapses x.y.z@gmail and xyz@gmail.com to the same thing which is fine they're welcome to do so. However the Apple IDs x.y.z@gmail.com and xyz@gmail.com are entirely different entities. So we have a namespace collision in one space but not the other because although an Apple ID looks like an e-mail address it's not. I'm just saying that can create a problem.

An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a
locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@",
ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain. The locally
interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom. If the
string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no
characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext
characters), then the dot-atom form SHOULD be used and the quoted-
string form SHOULD NOT be used. Comments and folding white space
SHOULD NOT be used around the "@" in the addr-spec.
Kevin is right, at least in terms of terminology: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=barista&year_s...
> In recent months, some communities voted to pay to reopen or support a town library, while others insisted that volunteers alone would suffice.

In other news, voters in a democracy use their franchise to decide priorities for their community. Elitist Northeastern newspaper writes judgmental article about it because its editors have different priorities.
I'd like to try it: my HN username at gmail
Also, one more thing, the Playground functionality on the iPad is great.

On Xcode it sucks (buggy, stops refreshing, etc.)

Kind of strange, because it's the same infrastructure...
To be fair, that's how many babies actually sleep.
> Women in the GDR typically became pregnant at a very young age (18-21) because a family with a child had the right to get its own apartment.

This is one way to look at it. The other way: free, guaranteed child care (probably mandatory for most as well) for every kid just a few months old. You could easily have a kid and study or work - that was the norm, not the exception.

Disclaimer: I'm the kid of a woman who got her PhD in medicine in east Germany. "Feminism" was a concept I only learned about when the wall fell. In the east, as far as I can see, it was a woman's duty to be productive for society, not about a "right to work while raising kids".
Hey Joe, I'm actually making my next move and would appreciate any help you can provide with my resume. What is the best way to reach you?
What if the user's bank account is compromised using the Equifax dump?
Funny. :) But a Fourier transform is reversible.
Some governments have this capability already, but it's definitely not widespread. An extension to your idea would be able to record and publish these near-instantly (sort of like Mint, but for government and the results published for the public).
None of the devices you mentioned were polished physical products competitive with their contemporaries, while also costing significantly more.

What the community needs is a compelling physical piece of hardware with first-class upstream driver support for everything and relatively modern specs.

We can iterate on the userspace as a community. But there won't be a growing community if you don't sell us a compelling open piece of hardware to run it on. We can't easily iterate on the hardware as a community, this is the part puri.sm should focus on delivering.

Sell us a modern device that respects our privacy and ability to replace boot loaders and run mainline kernels. Give use first-class driver support for everything included from the GPU to the cellular modem and cameras and all the APIs necessary to speak with them.

It just seems like a total disconnect from the reality of mainline kernel support for smartphone hardware, to be off in la-la land working on a GNOME phone OS before delivery. Pavel Machek's talk from 10/22/2017 [1] comes to mind as representative of the state things are in, in mainline.

I'm far more confident in the GNOME/free software community's ability to write dialers, messengers, email and photo apps than its ability to quickly bring up low-level support for such hardware and develop the new kernel APIs where things like V4L2 fall short.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/21/181
Nice lot!
Ask HN: What tools do you use for working with a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)?
Lots of types of information can be represented as a DAG but I don't know any Excel style tools for working with this type of data. What do you use for organizing, analyzing, and understand DAG structured data?
Been seeing a lot of don't get high and drive govt. ads here in Canada, feels surreal.
Might be interested in this kind of approach: https://www.engadget.com/2013/04/02/kindle-paperwhite-raspbe...

It's still going to suffer with the e-ink refresh speed but depending on what you want to do in the terminal, you might be fine with it. Combined with a Pi Zero W (not available when the solution above was done in 2013) and the battery would probably last quite a while!
> Well, Journal uses zero-knowledge encryption that ensures Journal employees can’t read or decrypt the information of the user.
This isn't an actual zero-knowledge proof, just regular encryption as the image below describes. Not sure why it is described as 'zero-knowledge' in the article.
There's definitely room for a premium smartphone beyond Google and Apple! Samsung devices running Android seems to own that space pretty effectively.
Xor Swap.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm

not because it's super practical ( and there are other variations using other operators )

I like it because it is super simple and when I first encountered it early on in my learning, it was really not immediately obvious why it worked. It's probably been the simplest piece of code that's surprised me.
While you make a fair point, the commenter is suggesting that Tim Cook is well-intentioned, and the comment that a company like Apple is suspectible to market forces is not an indication that Cook is not well-intentioned.

(Not that intentions matter particularly either way.)
i think that's an interesting idea. instead of "how many jobs did we create?" you could ask "how much socioeconomic mobility did we create?". or something along those lines
It's possible the demographics of the applicant pool did change for Summer 11.

Summer 11 (my batch) was the first to apply AFTER Start Fund (Yuri Milner and SVAngel) announced they'd give $150k to every YC company. This program may have attracted founders who wouldn't have done YC previously.
zero new information
How was it design-wise ahead of the curve? All I see is yet another flat rectangle. With a notch. Ugh.

It's a shame that no one really tries to innovate on mobile device design any more in order to target niche markets. But perhaps the economics of mass production mean that's no longer a viable strategy.
> these policies are paternalistic and violate consent.

Like I said, if you don't like living in a society where the rules aren't to your liking, you can go live by yourself in the woods where there's no one to violate your consent.
This one came up a lot when I was researching the most efficient way to generate anagrams, but the numbers are growing way too fast. In the end, a frequency map and comparing the frequencies worked best. My use case is a bit special, as I'm creating anagram sentences, so a Trie or similar things wouldn't work. Check out https://anagrams.io if you're interested.
The comparison to colorblindness isn't precise: colorblind people don't have relative color perception. In terms of information content, over an entire song the information encoded in the scale is very small compared to the information encoded in the relative pitches of notes (in fact the ratio goes to 0 for long music). A grayscale image contains significantly less information, essentially a 2D chrominance array; the ratio of information is roughly constant and does not diminish for large images, or say a series of images (e.g. a grayscale movie). It would be more like applying unknown hue rotations [1] each time you look at an image.

[1] Example I found: https://cms-assets.tutsplus.com/uploads/users/1251/posts/259...
How is this different than what DevonThink does?
I mean, sure? You can use encryption to get security and privacy features but "FDE" isn't it. FDE is more important for Helm but that's a problem of their own design: suddenly the e-mail is in a box in my kitchen and it's a lot easier to walk out with a box in my kitchen than it is to walk out with a drive from us-east-2a :-) For anything in the cloud it's a belt-and-suspenders/compliance thing.
We can always try. The end-of-year-spend-your-budget phenomenon is definitely real, but could be mitigated or eliminated with the correct incentives e.g. what your department saves rolls over into your budget into the next year.
BPE (byte pair encoding) as used in state of the art neural translation models , maximize the information per token by greedy iterative merging of the most common (lowest information) tokens, until a predefined max number of tokens is reached https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_pair_encoding
I live in southern Idaho and we have similar problems with poverty in rural areas due to declining timber, grazing and mining industries. Those problems are due to a hundred years of unsustainable mismanagement and were anticipated by environmentalists decades before they played out.

There is a strong anti-tax sentiment here, especially in northern and southeastern Idaho, but I don't share it. The truth is that the vast majority of federal tax money today goes to the military, corporate welfare (tax breaks) and debt service. At the state level, the biggest costs are due to loss of taxes as incentives for corporations to relocate to certain cities, the loss of main street small business taxes that closed when Walmart/Amazon took over, and subsidies to factory farm conglomerates like Simplot (where your french fries come from).

So a $6 tax to keep libraries open is a pittance. To me it represents a last desperate dismissal by the people of a government that has utterly failed them. Sadly all of the above causes stem from good ol' boys in Republican clothing, who made backroom deals to enrich themselves and their cronies while working folks got taken. But we keep voting for them so the situation is unlikely to change anytime soon.

The saddest part of all is that due to the electoral college and overrepresentation of low-population states like mine in the US Senate, our short-term populist thinking has spread to the national stage. People don't generally change political parties, and unlike us fringe intellectuals frequenting HN, are hesitant to examine their own ignorance and learn from the past. For me there is little alternative but to spread the truth about what happened in us flyover states and wait for the youth to vote for a better future.
Not sure if the person who posted this is the author of the article, however, it says

>Total.js is the last in our Node.js web framework comparison list; however, it also deserves our attention.

Yet, Total.js is the second framework mentioned with many frameworks following it.
Device -> Purpose

iPhone -> sell apps & subscriptions

Android phone -> sell ads / harvest user information
> There isn't [a 'good reason[] for requiring all aspiring lawyers to go to law school instead.']

In my view, there are two good reasons.

First, the legal job positions that only require a mechanistic understanding of the law have been automated. The days of needing a "country lawyer" whose practice consisted of basic family law like wills are gone, thanks to LegalZoom and similar services. The jobs that were best filled by these people have been automated away. In the jobs that remain, it's not enough just to know the law, but you must learn to think in a legal/analytical way. This is not a skill that comes easily just from reading statutes and some case law under supervision.

Second, the size and complexity of the American legal regime, including the administrative state, has made it necessary for lawyers to (a) specialize; and (b) be able to issue-spot in areas well outside their expertise, to know when to look for help. Although a mergers and acquisitions attorney might be able to apprentice a young aspiring lawyer in that area, they're unlikely to be able to transfer all the latent knowledge they have of other areas of law. As an example, I have about a decade of experience in my practice areas, and would be wholly incapable of apprenticing an aspiring lawyer in the area of, say, commercial paper to the point of being able to pass the bar exam. The first requirement (depth in a specialty area) makes most practicing attorneys ill suited to train someone to standard in the second requirement (latent breadth).
Is this an attempt at humor?
The only Helm EC2 instance I've seen listens on 587 and 993, which seems incongruent with that promise.
I think the nuisance in your point is really important. Particularly when you are talking about 22(ish) year old. They've essentially been fronted the money with no collateral so it's not real for a lot of them yet.