skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring for a moment the ethical question of if its OK to trade your convenience as a person benefiting from the transaction for an uninvolved person's:

1. Before the near-universal requirement for confirmed opt in, it was a reasonably common attack/prank to sign up someone else for tons of lists, causing them to receive unmanageable amounts of email per day. Alternatively, sign them up for lists they'd consider offensive, or that'd get them in trouble at work. Confirmed opt-in stopped this attack.

2. We've (computer geeks, security experts, etc.) spent years trying to teach users that no, they really shouldn't click on that link in an unexpected email, even if it promises cute kittens. That continues to be a problem. I don't know how an expert, much less random Joe, could tell a real "click here to unsubscribe" link from a fake one, if you have no idea who the sender is. Researching if its a legitimate unsubscribe link—and not a link that'll confirm to a spammer that you're reading his email, or pull up a page full of the latest browser or Flash exploits, makes it far more expensive for the random person to handle an opt-out than it is for the person who wants the subscription to handle a confirm.

Confirm emails are easy for a random person to handle: just ignore them. You won't receive any more emails if you take no action.

3. Not all email addresses are nearly-free to send to. Well, they're all nearly free for the sender, but not the recipient. Some email addresses cost 20¢ per message (e.g., SMS gateway). Some email addresses page people, waking them at night. These addresses aren't always very different from other people's addresses (I've personally had misdirected mail to both types). Someone can also do this as an attack. Sending a single message is bad enough, but is the minimal harm you can do; but imagine if anyone could subscribe your text message address or pager number to linux-kernel.

4. Realistically, while some mailing lists are very easy to get off of (e.g., development list for a random open source project), many commercial lists aren't. I've had people give my email address (assumably by mistake) to the College Board on their PSAT (hundreds of emails per month, many from different senders, no way at all to stop them); sign me up for an Xbox account (took me at least half an hour to figure out how to stop that—-apparently you're supposed to phone Microsoft; thankfully I finally found another way); sign me up for various things at EA (nothing on their web site, contacting support was absolutely useless); etc.

5. Your ISP probably has policies against sending unsolicited bulk and/or commercial email. If you aren't confirming your subscriptions, you can expect your ISP to receive complaints, and you are probably in violation of their TOS.
Depends from the school and the textbook. My math textbooks didn't even mention the Fibonacci sequence and it wasn't until Project Euler that I found out about it.
Laboratory Centrifuge
Cant get much better than millions of years of try and die I guess. Mother nature is pretty crazy! We should copy her work more often :)
No, he asked a question, and I simply shared an anecdote. Do you have a link to proof for 80%?

("Obviousness" is not just a problem for patent examiners, I see.)

Some facts: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information...

Ex parte re-exams result in 66% with claims changed and 11% with all claims canceled. Inter partes re-exams result in 43% with claims changed and 44% with all claims cancelled. Not bad.
Which is exactly why competing tablets haven't gained ground. Why buy a less usable device for the same price? Things in the tablet market will only get interesting when and if Android vendors can significantly undercut Apple.
The servers don't need to run X. X runs on your machine. The servers will need to have the X11 client libraries installed, but no X server.
Interest is deductible in various situations, but for typical filers only interest on their primary residence is deductible.

This is the case for federal taxes. State stuff is all over the map; I don't believe mortgage interest has been deductible in any of the states I've paid taxes in (MD, MA, CA, IL) but there may be some where it is. For the most part there are no municipal or county-level income taxes, so the whole issue is moot for those jurisdictions.
Moving parts cost a lot though. There is a reason for trees not to have them.
It's funny you assume they can't make a more useable device ;) funny cause it's true.
There really ought to be a flag when a user posts a site that is the same site as the majority of their submissions.

For example, all of OP's submissions are to the same site.

It doesn't always happen but self-posting seems to be associated with low-quality articles.

This one on particular was not very good.

Tl;dr: flagged.
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7 years is the typical number I've seen for how long things stay on one's credit history.
Indeed. The boy's design is extremely rugged and simple (no moving parts). It should be highly reliable someday.
Looks to be run by Peter Cooper, the same person who runs the JavascriptWeekly[.com] newsletter.
UTF-16 is not harmful, just the "I use UTF-16, so I don't have to worry about Unicode issues anymore" stance is harmful.

Processing text is hard. For example if you write an editor, you must be aware of things like right-to-left text sequences, full-width characters and graphemes composed of multiple codepoints.

If you implement a case insensitive search, you must be aware of title case, and the nasty German ß which case-folds to two upper-case characters (SS). (Ok, you'll probably just use regexes, it's the author of the regex engine who has to worry about it. And it is ugly, because it means that character classes can match two characters, which you have to consider in all length-based optimizations).

In first approximation it doesn't matter if you implement your stuff in UTF-8 or in one of the UTF-16 encodings, you have to deal with the same issues (include variable byte length for a single codepoint).
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This is good. I wish more people would talk about email praxis because it seems like voodoo a lot of the time.

Do we even really need to confirm email addresses?
They have do be doing something with those books. If not then they should be.
Here is a very nice counter point to your study.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...

The link claims that one of the best violinists in the world would practice 7 hours a day. The complete opposite of what you are citing.

From the link:

>>Such dedication is also apparent in musicians. Maxim Vengerov, 34, is one of the world’s greatest violinists. He was born in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and, after being given a miniature fiddle at the age of four, displayed outstanding aptitude.

His talent was matched by an immense work ethic. He practised seven hours a day, giving his first recital at the age of five and winning his first international prize at 15. Vengerov said: “My mother would get home at 8pm, cook dinner and then teach me the violin until four in the morning. As a four-year-old boy it was torture. But I became a violinist within two years.”

<<

Also, different professions probably have different definitions of long hours. Four hours practicing on the violin must be pretty exhausting since it is a physical exercise. Therefore you must also take that into account. Four hours playing the violin and four hours programming are not the same thing. Four hours for a violin player is already long hours. Four hours for a programmer sitting in front of a computer is nothing. Specially if you are debugging code, you could easily spend more than 24 hours debugging a problem, I doubt a violinist could do the same.

Another example is marathon runners. Running two hours everyday is already long hours. You cannot equate two hours running a marathon with two hours of programming right.

So my point still stands, you have to put in long hours. The definition of long hours changes by profession.

An easier way to see it is that you have to put in more hours than what your average peer puts in. Of course, you also have to do it smart.

-Edit
This is a tangent but I just thought of this and seems important enough to share. Even though the runner and the violinists are practicing they are not really being productive because they are not producing anything that the world can use. A programmer in the same amount of time is being productive because he is actually generating things that can be used by the world.
The utility situation really depends on the area, yes.

For example, my experience renting in Chicago is that water, heat and hot water were typically included in the rent. That's most certainly not the case everywhere.
afford to fly

Is it very expensive?
No matter you smart you think you are a bad guy might end up with your user table one day, and on that day you'll hope he can't crack your passwords easily.

You can control how slow bcrypt is by specifying the wok factor variable. In this context "slow" is maybe 100ms to check a password. This shouldn't be a problem on almost any web site.

Use bcrypt.
In general what you are saying is true, but its not the general public your must fear in the competition.

Its always the exceptional guy who is going to win the prize any day. And that is why people always run into exceptionally productive people and don't find it easy to compete with them. Multiply this with the drive and energy which keeps them productive over time and suddenly things get very difficult.

For most people 5 hours of productive work will see them by, but you should not expect that to be sufficient to be the best or to be sufficient enough to beat the best. For that you will have to do something extra.
That's retarded. 90% of the articles on the homepage at all times are garbage tech gossip. I don't see you insulting those authors. You're either a troll or just a jerk.
The dynamics of the Android ecosystem are such that its value proposition will always be that you trade flexibility for polish.
But sunflowers have moving parts and they track the sun beautifully.
> Is this something that is guaranteed by javascript?

In theory? No. In practice? ... Still no, if you use delete.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Operat...
lawyers may want this to be inefficient, but clients probably don't. also, lawyers are not the only ones who look at legal documents.
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I think the Wii, in retrospect, is the writing on the wall for Nintendo's hardware. They couldn't keep up on graphics or CPU, so they went sideways into new controller technologies. The problem with that, as demonstrated by Kinect, is that it's easier to add a new controller technology to an existing console than it is to improve the horsepower of a weak console with a novel controller scheme.
An environment which requires constantly lying to fit in dosen't sound like one anyone should want to be a part of.
It would not contain information used for login.
This is a real shame, at the high end HP produced workstations that are truly superlative. I have a Z800 sat next to me that has smaller than a Mac Pro, more silent, more powerful, and IMHO looks fabulous.

The work I do means that I can't see me getting rid of a workstation in a long while even though I recognise the that consumer desktop market has been obliterated over these past 5 or 10 years (laptops > ultra-portables > netbooks > tablets) I really hope that the more business focused part of HP remain intact and churning out incredible products.
Have you collected some usage statistics ?
Wait... so there is a reason trees look like that? This was awesome, all the more for being a discovery by a 13-year old kid.
Why not just use Lsync (http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/) for this? You configure the directories to be synced and it handles all the rest.
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I'm inclined to think so too, and my own iPad has mostly been relegated to super-Kindle status. Ironically, "ultra" notebooks like the new Macbook Air destroy 90% of the appeal of a tablet for me. Three pounds and eleven inches is not a burden to port around when it's that capable.

But I know I'm also not a typical user.
Nice one! I still have mine. :)
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most plants try to aim leaves at the sun. don't know about trees, but certainly whatever i've got growing in pots does that.
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You can take the entire page, partial pages, redactions etc its fantastic.

No remote server needed either.
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The description, "The study earned Aidan a provisional U.S patent," is misleading. A provisional patent is merely a completely automated recognition of your claim to an invention. You submit your provisional filing, and then have one year to file an actual patent, which is reviewed by patent examiners. You don't "earn" a provisional patent--you just pay a couple hundred dollars and submit a few forms.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would imagine web servers rely on the current implementation as much as browsers do. That is, they just do a string comparison with the last-modified date on the server. This seems way easier to implement and might even be more correct (it would detect if last-modified date has changed between dates in the past, which might signify something fishy has happened).

Perhaps someone in the know can tell us: Do the major webservers out there rely on string comparison or do they do they really parse out dates?
I am skeptical about Palm's IP finding its way to Amazon. Amazon seems to have invested heavily in Android not only with its own store but a whole line of tablets and phones coming out very, very soon. The talent might be good. But the patents aren't critical and there is no way Amazon wants to go down the same path that just failed for HP.

Really, Google would be the best suitor of Palm if anyone was going to buy it. Google needs those patents bad. Google can use webOS code and engineers on ChromeOS. The UI designers can go to the Android team. And Google just got a hardware division that can absorb any remaining hardware guys.

If Google can get all that for $2 billion it should write the check tomorrow. Bargain.
If we force If-Modified-Since to be in the last year and limit it to 1 minute resolution, that leaves 19 bits worth of uniqueness for the site to play with - probably not enough for tracking on a large affiliate network?
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I hear Guinness is great on tap if temperature controlled properly. Like night and day from the bottle to the tap. Unfortunately I've only had the bottled version (and I find it ehhh).
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After 500 million years nature has tried a lot of designs.
Ponder that when you have impacted wisdom teeth.
Teeth are a good argument against intelligent design as well!
It might be a nice device if you can pick one up very cheap as a distressed stock purchase...
Perhaps, but it's still 19 bits that can be set independently of any other identifying traits like the User-Agent string.
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The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees
Very interesting find, one of those that when you read the title you immediately realize its so obvious, just you never thought about it before!

One thing to note, the date could still be used to identify using any date, say 01/17/2157 identifies you. What could be done is to restrict the date to (present time - 3.months) <= last-modified <= present time.

That effectively reduces the number of people they can track to 7776000. Rounding off the seconds would reduce it to 129600.
Does anyone else find the timing odd? At the start of the week, Google announce that they are getting into the hardware game with Android. At the end of the week, HP announce that they are getting out of the WebOS hardware game. But note that they say they are looking at options to maximise the value of the WebOS software. It makes me wonder if HTC / Samsung aren't hedging their bets by looking to license WebOS.

I mean, it kind of makes sense - WebOS is acclaimed as being a solid piece of software, it's certainly the most iPhone-esque of the competitors (Android, Windows Mobile 7, RIM). At a minimum, I would think HTC/Samsung would have an interest in maintaining a viable WebOS, even if it was just to be able to use it as a bludgeon if ever Google stops playing nice with Android.
That is not what I said. I think you will agree that working on the right things is more important than just volume of work.
Ask HN: Any good BuySellAds(BSA) alternatives?
We are PSD to HTML/WP agency in Sydney, Australia and the business is pretty stable. http://www.xtmlweaver.com

We've been using BSA for awhile and the monthly budget is about $2K for advertisings (cross few different sites).

I'd say that BSA is pretty good and hassle free service. But in recent month the CTR has been dropped for us so the money we spent doesn't give us good return.

I am wondering that are there any good BuySellAds(BSA) alternatives for tPSD to HTML/WP type business?

I don't think there is any wrong about BSA and actually I still really like their service, just want to see the potential for others.

Cheers,
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How can H1B visa holders now effectively utilize this new ruling?

- Assuming no source funding yet.
- I already read all the suggestions posted here but alot of questions still go unanswered.
Can n image GETs (or similar) be used to produce 19*n bits of uniqueness, presuming that the affiliate network is willing to handle a factor of n more requests?
"... as lots of devices already use the 30-pin connector for audio i/o."

Didn't know that :o
But I just loath the idea of carrying around adapters. And making yourself incompatible with all but apple sucks too, not being able to lend out something or use a good pair of headphones. The twenty dollar headsets are no problem, just buy a new pair (they will break soon anyway) but if you've bought something better you are probably not feeling like replacing them (and replace with what?).

And I doubt there really are many higher-end headphones with an 30-pin connector, but I could be wrong.

Also, haven't apple agreed to use micro-usb? Or is that only for charging? :\

But of course I understand apples point of view, it kinda sucks that the audio connector should limit the thickness of the device. But an own proprietary connector? That will just limit the supply of decent hardware and again make yourself incompatible with everything else. It's bad enough that we have two different standards for 4-pin 3.5mm connectors.

And for the market to follow they must make up their own connector and then we are trapped in a world full of cumbersome adapters that takes a lot of space just to save a few millimeters on the device itself. (and really, how thin can you make a smartphone with a large screen without it breaking in your pocket? Is the 3.5mm jack really that big of a limiting factor? If you manage to cut off one mm thanks to a new connector, is that worth it?)

Replacing the 3.5m jack is going to be, in the very best case, extremely painful. Even if the whole world united and decided on a replacement connector together. It's not something you do just by introducing a new iphone. Not that that will stop apple, they have enough market share to create their own ecosystem of cheap accessories (where apple is likely to get a cut of everything).
That's right it's a platform independent representation. I think LLVM assembly is really low level, I'm pretty sure you want to generate IR. You should be able to link the math lib.

py2llvm looks pretty interesting.

http://code.google.com/p/py2llvm/

http://code.google.com/p/py2llvm/source/browse/trunk/CodeGen...
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Compared to the U.S. it's cheap but still too expensive for many natives. I can fly from Nha Trang to Saigon for about $40 but I can take a bus for $5-$8.
Edison Vs Tesla debates often end up going no where, this is because the debates take the nature of debate between two school of thoughts. One which believes that learning the body of knowledge and using proper academic approach to research is the right way to success(Tesla), other approach is to take a interesting problem without having no background and prior knowledge of what you are going into, but as you go deeper you begin learn and do things by experimenting on the way(Edison).

Edison approach takes time, a lot of work and thereby you need to find ways of being more productive. Both methods have their plus'es and minus'es.

But.. If you find some body very hardworking, going over the counter to put effort in his work to achieve something and he ends up being more successfully than everybody else. That shouldn't look surprising. And that precisely what happened with Edison and Tesla.

Although Edison lost the war of currents, but comparing their lives as a whole Edison ended up achieving far more than Tesla.
I would guess that trees are optimal for their environments, which include lots of things that are not relevant to solar panel arrays. For example, trees grow and compete with other trees and plants for sunlight. Trees also have different structural constraints and structure cost/benefit ratios than solar panel arrays. Deciduous trees drop their leaves and hibernate through the winter, replacing them in spring. So I think you're right that nature's design isn't quite optimal for solar panel arrays, but it's a great source of inspiration. :)
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So says employee #178 .... I'm being sarcastic, but I doubt employee #1 @ LinkedIn would tell you they worked 9-5
Sunflowers don't stick around for dozens of years or more.
There may be hidden variables or different fitness considerations that apply to nature/trees but not to solar panels.
See also: doubledown by devstructure https://github.com/devstructure/doubledown
> OTP is what you need to port, not "message passing"...

So true.
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But the equipment starts to fail quite rapidly, especially when compared to a tree.
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Killing the If-Modified-Since header probably doesn't substantially increase privacy compared to alternatives. Remember, the header doesn't stick around unless the browser caches the response anyways.

For example, Google Chrome's incognito mode kills this cached "cookie" along with all other legitimate cookies when you close your browser (clearing the cache), just as you expect with other cookies.
Exactly. In fact, the guy didn't discover that trees branch according to the Fibonacci sequence (which was long known) but rather began his investigation by asking, Why the Fibonacci sequence? Then he hypothesized that it optimized the gathering of sunlight for photosynthesis. Then he tested the hypothesis with a new pv array.
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