skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I've noticed that Hotmail's spam filtering has improved significantly in the past year or two (I still have an old Hotmail account). It may be 7 years to late to compete with gmail for new customers, but it's nice to see these improvements from Microsoft.
I'd most likely be a homemaker because that was all that was available to most women 100 years ago. I often count myself lucky that I was born in an age when women can become programmers.
The people I know who use hotmail these days all love it. Unfortunately an @hotmail.com email address in my field is just instantly regarded as unprofessional and laughable.
Has anyone ever seen Microsoft confirm a problem with Hotmail itself being "hacked"? I have an account with Hotmail I don't use and haven't done since 2007, I logged in recently to discover it had been sending spam emails. Every single person I know with an active or inactive Hotmail account has the same problem.
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The story is funny. A guy we (Unbounce) don't even know - from a hockey pool (insert sob story over the Canucks choking) - pulled this off in 20 mins. And no the dude in the video is not Oli (me).

You might flame me for this - but we're in a race for Canada's top startup and the voting ends at midnight tonight.

If you're a fan of lean startups, we'd love your vote:

http://bit.ly/ubgrow
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What?

I know plenty of people that have active and inactive Hotmail accounts and I don't get spam from them.
This is fatally flawed by virtue of the fact that it's a .com. The US government has already claimed it has jurisdiction over the com TLD. Should a judge agree that means the social network could be shut down just by appropriating the domain. Also, anonymous is supposed to be decentralized whereas this is anything but. I like some of what anonymous does, but I don't trust them at all.
There is already an anonymous social network, that is where all this Anon stuff started.
It's strange how people talk about email hosts as if they mean something. By the same token, gmail.com is headed for the same fate eventually.
Mail chess ftw.

Or maybe mail Starcraft...?
its pretty interesting where this war will go ... pretty much gplus is taking a good market share this time :)
Common sense is nothing more or less than tacit knowledge that you learn implicitly through observing your peers within a culture. If there's nobody in your peer group with that knowledge, that sense won't be very common.

Here's an example from the startup world. Imagine that you have this great idea and you're desperate for funding. You're approached by a key investor, and they ask you "Is anybody else interested in your startup? Have you been talking to other investors?" Nobody else has expressed interest, and you haven't been talking to any other investors. How do you respond?

If you spend any amount of time with successful entrepreneurs, the answer is common sense: you lie and say "Oh yes, we're talking to a bunch of people and everyone's pretty excited." This is the answer the investor expects you to give: it shows that you know how to drum up interest in your product from nothing, and if you can't do that with him, you probably can't do it with anyone and you've just disqualified yourself in his eyes.

But if you grew up with a typical middle-class upbringing, this advice will seem very strange, even evil. Because you're lying. And more than that, you're lying to a powerful person about a business deal that directly concerns him. What would your mother think?

It's even more complicated because there're specific, unwritten rules about what you can lie about, and nobody ever explains this. If a journalist asks you "Are you working on X?" and you are, you're perfectly within your rights to lie and flat out say "No." If you lie about how interested people are in your product, that's fine, and people even expect that. But if you fudge the numbers in a due diligence audit, you're guilty of securities fraud and can go to jail for that. It's an awfully fine tight-rope with no clear guidebook.

Many of the rules for jumping from the working poor to the middle class are like that. Sure, everyone tells people to go to college and you'll get a good job. But which college? How are they supposed to know that University of Phoenix is nowhere near as good as, say, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor? Or that there's a big difference between a UC-Berkeley degree and a UC-Santa Cruz one. Who tells them that they should study software engineering rather than sports medicine? Or maybe they miraculously find Proggit or Hacker News and hear that you should study software engineering, but don't realize that when it comes down to the actual degree program, you're often better off with Computer Science rather than Software Engineering. Or they do all that right, get great grades, but nobody tells them that GPA doesn't matter so much and they really need to have been doing internships and helping their professor with his research to actually be qualified.

If you've studied academic sociology, there's a lot written about this under the general category of "cultural capital", particularly the work of Pierre Bourdieu. It's all the little advantages we have simply by growing up in a peer group that's successful. Usually you can't put your finger on these if you have them, but you very much feel their lack if you don't.
Is this a testament to the innovation of the Hotmail team or the non-savvy of its userbase? Honest question.
I have several old accounts, I just logged into a few and they haven't sent any mails. I have family that use Hotmail and don't get spam from them either.

Maybe you and your circle all happened to use some of those other big profile sites (Gawker, Sony, etc.) that have had their e-mails and password lists stolen...
I saw the same video used for a bit of google + promotion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y
It's already illiquid - the current mortgaged owner has fled without putting the house on the market. If it were a case of just a few houses, as in the normal economy, I'd agree with you, but there are a whole shitload of houses in similar situations in the United States right now. This squatter is a better neighbor than a crack house. (Unless he decides to diversify.)

If the neighbors really want a say in it, they're free to pony up the money, track down the owner, and fight their own court battle to buy the place and then rent or sell to somebody they'd rather see there. It would probably be pretty cheap, actually, even with legal fees. But people always find it easier to say "You can't do that" than to say "We can do that."
I find this question very ambiguous. Either software patents (or patents in general) are a good idea or they are not a good idea.

Asking whether good things have been done with proceeds from licensing software (or other) patents is a different question entirely, and inevitably leads to the answer: yes. (Of course some patent holders have used the income to do good things!)
And, really, that is probably the way it should be. Patents are out of control and not really providing benefit commensurate with their current cost.
That site isn't the social network, that apparently is only in planning phase. It's just a forum.
Yeah, I think that's where he sourced it from.
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They do mean something. Not a lot, maybe, but your choice in email host is a reflection on you, the same as your choice in car or clothes or shoes.
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Doesn't that run in quadratic time - or can delete_at() somehow avoid copying all the tail elements in the array?
This article unfortunately can't get its facts straight. Silicon Valley has a higher, not lower, unemployment rate than the average across America:

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.ca_sanjose_msa.htm

And the unemployment rate is drastically, almost 3x, higher than Fargo, ND:

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.nd_fargo_msa.htm

It's really sad that the state of journalism has dropped so low, and the Valley fever gone so high, that people can't get basic facts straight.

Then again, it may be that people spending most of their time trying to raise money from rich people have a particular brand of social myopia.
Ultimately, it still seems that she did not "win" anything except knowing the telephone numbers that made up the $4.19 charge

In order to provide detailed billing, Verizon still claimed that customers are required to pay a one time fee of $40.00 USD, plus an additional $0.02 USD per call to be listed on the bill, which for regional exchange calls could be around 50% of the price of the call itself. The ruling of this case makes it appear that this "feature" was available long ago, but since she was not subscribed to detailed billing, they told her to fight their policy in court, and she lost because she couldn't prove "... that the rate in the tariff is unreasonable or that detailed billing of residential measured use calls is feasible."

Ruling: http://www.puc.state.pa.us/pcdocs/1138012.docx (Word Docx)
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Yes, perhaps that's what he meant, and he said "patent trolls" by mistake.

In any case, that is not really a case of patents being put to good use. They might help you specifically, as a defensive measure, but only because of all the bad uses of patents overall.
It's more than mindshare, it's also the fact that the ratings given by NRSROs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Statistic... ) are often written into statutes. There are many massive funds that are restricted by legislation from investing money somewhere that Moody's has rated at lower than X, X often being AAA.
That's actually what I found confusing; they seem to be planning to build it all from scratch.

And then there is "The relationship database with permissions is kept on a central server". So much for decentralization.
> it may be observed that the nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices.

Jefferson might well have thought so, but it's very far from being self-evident. The Industrial Revolution happened mainly (albeit not exclusively) in England.
> "If your slow Internet connection has you frustrated, just be glad you don't have to communicate with a probe on Mars. Even with new technology, scientists will be able to transmit only about 270 megabits per second between the two planets, not a lot of information when you're talking about superhigh-resolution photos."

Wtf? 270 megabits per second is about 27 times as fast as my Internet connection. Am I missing something here? Are they joking?
I like comment #11 ( http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110715/0221... ).

The comment doesn't exactly prove anything, but I've always suspected that all the infrastructure required to support complex product offerings with per-minute, per-feature, per-byte accounting added significant cost - to the point that offering uniform full featured accounts with minimal controls would deliver more value to the customer and more profit to the telecom.
So, it the header makes it look like a PNG:

magister.html: PNG image data, 1242 x 1, 8-bit grayscale, non-interlaced

If you look at this in an image viewer, it's as advertised: a long black bar.

So what this is is some garbage data with a PNG header, a token PNG image, and some HTML that bootstraps a javascript program whose main body looks like binary garbage. But it's not a self-extracting PNG, it's a very strange HTML document with a PNG header.

That's not to say it's not impressive, but the running demo looks nothing like the PNG data.
Someone with this kind of tenacity seems to be a potentially great "non-technical" cofounder. (Not to be misread as a statement implying that he's a foursquare cofounder.)
Hm, how strange. I've not used the account for anything other than msn, a google search for it only yields results from 2 forums where I've posted it (in "add your msn" topics) from ~2006 and the password is what was used for a variety of other things at the time, none of which were "hacked", so I always assumed it was the result of an internal Hotmail breach. How strange, maybe it was just me and my friends then. Confirmation bias at work...
So what if a founding father had a clearly set out view of how things should be, it's not like anyone cares what the right people think, they just take their view, and use their own ego to get it somewhere. Some of them even like to ignore what was written down.

They purely being the crappy politicians. I had some better way to word this in my head.

I've read articles of about that length from about 20 people of that century, his is the hardest to read, sort of double-speak.
Old version of chrome perhaps? Works fine on my chrome on osx here. 12.0.742.122 here. (I'm technically out of date too, mostly because I haven't restarted chrome in a while)
How Google+ is like Windows Live
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Windows watchdog kills tasks running on a GPU after ~5 seconds (using CUDA) same might apply here
How does google help the poor?
Let me first say I hate most patents, but they are alowing patents for stupid things, like a rectagular touch screen phones. Or maybe the patent lenght should be shorter, so as to give an advantage, and incentive, but not to halt progress.

Yet, It seems that Google's secret sauce search algorithm made lots of cash for Stanford to help continue to educate and incubate more ideas like this. Without Googles edge of a protected formula, the relatively "non evil" company may not have grown to offer us free services like google voice, gmail, google docs, and a free OS.
I felt posting this image would be acceptable despite its lack of an in-depth article. Since these photos were not released until after the submission from this morning about Vespa was posted I hope this isn't regarded as a repost as it wasn't my intention. If you have not read the post about the asteroid Vespa from earlier today I encourage you to check it out, as it contains the bulk of the details about the mission.
A scientist shouldn't be defined by those who misinterpret him/her.
Personally I prefer people use their real names if possible, but I am not in favor of sites requiring it.
now, if only someone could finally reveal to me what "hullabaloo mode" did in Fast Lightning, a disk copy program for the Amiga...
>Hotmail will put the account in recovery mode which will cause a password reset.

This sounds like it could be easily abused. How will the password reset work if the hotmail address is the only one a user has? What will he need to do to reclaim access to his account?
you mean like 4chan? Can't see that working either
Just to add another token data point. I have it up full screen at 1920x1200. CPU usage is sitting between 50 and 75% of one core and GPU usage jumps back and forth between 40% for a few seconds and then 80% for a few seconds. This is using Chrome 14.0.814.0 dev-m
Nope, I'm on the same version as you, although it tells me that's the latest version.
The good patents are the silent ones, the ones broken by people who have never known of the patent, who describe it in some other but equally unique, novel and non-trivial way. Along the same lines, Red Hat (and others, even self-employed full time open source coders) may talk about implementing something useful, but not make reference to the patent. I'm sure we're heard of something that was patented for OSS, but not as a patent, as a program feature.
Agreed. Much lip service is paid to "hustle" but very few actually have it in the way Tristan does.
It's not that impressive, he performs okay. I hear he spent the first few years mostly playing games, until he finally buckled down and got a thesis out.
You were right up until saying it was garbage data. The image data is the demo code itself. This is a real PNG, even if it looks random.
BrowserID allows multiple emails, and I've tested "me@gmail.com" and "me+test@gmail.com", and both work.

I guess it can't be 100% automated, but you don't want automated logins anyway.
"I make websites. No, not the pretty graphics and stuff, the bit that make them do stuff. You know that little "e" up in the corner? Whenever that's spinning around, my stuff's happening."

"sound exciting"

"Yeah, it's almost exactly that exciting. So what do you do?"
Really exciting stuff. I kind of missed TrueCrypt when I switched to FreeBSD, because I had a lot of things saved to a TC volume on my network drive. I eventually figured out how to mimic TC volumes using FreeBSD's native geli encryption tool. If anyone is interested in how to do it:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20382
Haha nice! I built something similar for Twilio + FreshBooks called "Wheres My Money Man?" using clips from Family Guy: http://www.songcupid.com/wheresmymoney/

It barely works but whatever.
Bug report: It seems to choke if you scroll down the page after opening the bug muncher (ie, the lightbox doesn't follow the scrolling, and clicking preview doesn't do anything)
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The Supreme Court has long relied, implicitly and even explicitly, on Jefferson's views about patents. The Court provided a nice recounting of the evolution of those views in Part II of its landmark opinion in Graham v. John Deere & Co.[1] That part of the Graham opinion is definitely worth reading for anyone who has to deal with the U.S. patent system. The Court observed that:

--snip--

[Jefferson] rejected a natural rights theory in intellectual property rights and clearly recognized the social and economic rationale of the patent system. The patent monopoly was not designed to secure to the inventor his natural right in his discoveries. Rather, it was a reward, an inducement, to bring forth new knowledge.

The grant of an exclusive right to an invention was the creation of society -- at odds with the inherent free nature of disclosed ideas -- and was not to be freely given. Only inventions and discoveries which furthered human knowledge, and were new and useful, justified the special inducement of a limited private monopoly.

Jefferson did not believe in granting patents for small details, obvious improvements, or frivolous devices. His writings evidence his insistence upon a high level of patentability.

--snip--

(Extra paragraphing added.)

The Court noted that Jefferson clearly recognized the difficulty of "drawing a line between the things which are worth to the public the embarrassment of an exclusive patent, and those which are not."

These Jeffersonian views have been part of the underpinnings of U.S. patent policy for decades.

[1] 383 U.S. 1 (1966), available at http://supreme.justia.com/us/383/1/case.html
Which would last all of about 15 minutes when the banks file against "John Doe" with a motion to unseal.
And what a great photo it was! Mighty oaks from little acorns grow...
I think that this is a great idea, but there will need to be a few things in place to make it secure enough for use.

- Only friends that communicate "a lot" should be able to report it (and not repeatedly).

- If the account's password was compromised, then the attacker will enter the account recovery flow on next login attempt. So the AR flow will need to ensure that the user is not the attacker (SMS and e-mail that are trusted, based on age and usage, is pretty good).

But why not just create a system that will alert the user when a successful login was made from a new device on their account? And include an account lock link in the e-mail, so they can quickly lock their account from anywhere with cell phone access.
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I had my five-year-old, $30k/year Adwords account suspended recently, through no fault of my own. I made a few polite phone calls and they were surprisingly helpful; eventually, in about two weeks, my account was reinstated. Although the telephone staff can't unsuspend your account, they can escalate the matter internally so that a human reviews your suspension. It has taken a lot of time, but Google might finally be starting to understand that customer service matters.
Out of curiosity, how does @hotmail.com compare to @live.com, or even @yahoo.com or @ymail.com in the perceptual hierarchy of free email providers?
Followed by 9 paternity suits against the same guy.
The lesson here is the Google is a corporation with a corporate agenda, with an allegiance to share holders and not users. I think this is the 3rd such story I've read in the last week.

The other complaints I have seen are from gaming communities. I can understand anon getting banned as they probably breached TOS by supporting criminal activities. But it hasn't been the case for other instances I have read about.

Anyone who thinks Google+ is a social network designed to improve the world is sorely mistaken. Its purely designed to harvest consumer to increase profit margins. If your data can't be sold to 3rd parties via Googles ad netowrk then you aren't welcome.

Whats the saying? "If they aren't selling you something then you're being sold"? no idea who to attribute that quote to.
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Perhaps ground-up would be effective in the long run, but my imagination wonders if an index of pre-populated mini-networks all rooted on one "jump page" might work better in the near-term.
At least that's the functionality I imagine- the index could be similar to a traditional forum layout, where the categorized interests lead you to Elgg-like (again, only as an example) focus- and/or geographically-specific group of people. They would of course be fully capable of interconnecting between other networks throughout the site, but the goal here is sharing among people in your local group of like-minded people.
It's fun to think of the possibilities here- there are many. Back to you-
PS- just saw this and thought it might apply
http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-...
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Same situation as the rest of this thread - I just get cpu usage and a white screen, in Chrome stable/beta/dev. OSX on a MBP, only thing I can think that might be shared with others having problems is my GPU: GeForce 8600M GT. I haven't heard of problems with this card before, but OSX + GPU ≠ consistent results, at times.

Though interestingly, the behavior in all three Chromes is wildly different: Dev runs 60% CPU use in the rendering process, Beta sometimes uses nothing, sometimes 60%, and Stable uses the same 60% + 120% on "google chrome helper". The alert test works (shows a canvas element) in both Dev and Beta, Stable shows me a "page unresponsive" after a couple seconds and never alerts anything.

Other GL tests work just fine in all 3. I'll be happy to test other things if you can come up with them :)
Thanks for the info, can I ask what browser version and os you're using? I'll have a look in to that.

Thanks
Matt
No I didn't. Which module? I'll have to RTFM. ;)
Why have I never thought of this?!
That's not a patent, it's a trade secret. The difference is that if I independently invent a search algorithm that happens to be the same as Google's, they don't have the right to sue me.

I personally find secrecy just fine.
The pronunciation of γιώτα (iota) in Greek is, actually, exactly "yota", so I'll allow the nonstandard transliteration.

/resident Greek