skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mail is so awesome now more than any time ever because it’s so much less full of junk than my email."

Maybe it's just because I am almost entirely switched to e-bills, but my experience is totally the opposite. I rarely get spam messages in my gmail account (once a month?) but my email every day is 90%+ commercial bulk mail. Maybe once a week I get a personal letter or other item specifically sent to me. The rest is either catalogs, credit card offers or financial disclosure / privacy disclosure letters from my credit cards or brokerage.
depaul is decent, but expensive.
Why doesn't github just do this themselves
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Until you get hit with a zero-day browser exploit that doesn't need you to install an exe to run.
The book in that picture is the famous "Inquire Within Upon Everything" that essentially inspired TBL with the idea of the internet system. I have a copy right here, in fact the same edition from what I can tell!
If by 'address book' you mean your searches, your email, your political leaning, where you go, what you read, what time you're in the house, your location, your sexual preferences, what you find funny, what you hate, who you're fucking, who you hang out with, who you don't like, whether you do drugs and everyone you've ever talked to then we have very different definitions of address books.
My project only uses one language: C.

But my project is a library whose functionality I want to expose to any language that cares to write wrappers for it. Reimplementing libraries in every language is a waste of effort and will have worse performance than sharing a single C library across many languages.
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In practical terms that's impossible because it would take the output of a nuclear power plant to accelerate a mirror to such high velocities [speed of light]

No, in practical terms that's impossible because the mass of the mirror would become unfathomable when it got within 10% of the upper speed of light.
Which is when you get false positives, about the worst thing a spam filter can do. Millions of legitimate organizations send billions of duplicate messages per week. And what's spam for you might not be spam in my eyes. Or maybe it's just a case of needing to unsubscribe from the mailing list. Maybe there's a phishing message and a legitimate message coming in at the same time. Your spam filter needs to know which one is which, it needs to be quick to react to new developments, and it needs to know what you want to see and what you don't.

Spam filtering is hard. Gmail got popular because of their space and their nearly bullet-proof spam detection. If it was easy, someone else would have done it.
https://twitter.com/#!/500 is the best resource. I think they gave out notice a few hours ahead of time. They do two days of identical pitches though, so you can just watch again tomorrow in theory.
Yes, those are 'POTS' phones, the old style variety as mentioned in the great grand parent.

Newer phones, basically anything with a bunch of electronics are not susceptible to this kind of trick.

When it was first revealed by the dutch hacker group 'hack-tic' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-Tic) the phone company denied it could be done until there was a public demonstration.
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What I'm pointing out is that "steps" are arbitrary; they're not intrinsic properties of the system. You can express the entire program as a definition tree without ordered expressions.
Having people killed is pretty much a govt thing.

No, it's also a thing rich people and big corporations do all the time. Governments do that also on behalf of those people and their interests. Like, say, the did it for mr. Rockefeller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre with the national guard. But rich people are also perfectly capable of doing it for themselves. In the same case, Rockefeller had an armed guard or his own killing people. Now, at least nowadays, corporations do it a little less in the US, but even US corporations have people "vanish" and be killed all the time, in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere.

You seem to think that that's a feature. It isn't - it's a huge bug. I have no interest in being "controlled by the general public and it's will".

Too bad, because it's either that, or a few guys controlling everybody else. Your country is not your playground, and nobody owes to you or anyone else anything from birthright or something. So everybody has to decide together.

If govt has power, it will act in his behalf, no matter how much you'd like otherwise.

Sure, it's a tradeoff. You give some people the power to act on your behalf in order to protect you from big bullies, and they might use it for their interests (or even for some of the bullies interests). Still, there is not other option -- except to give free reign to bullies and try to "protect yourself". Good luck with that. Their boss is a little bully, and still most people bend over backwards to accommodate him and spend their hours working overtime of fear they will get fired and end up on the street. If just your employee can do that to you, good luck with the real big bullies out there (from the health industry, to the banking industry, ..., to the mob).

The only option is that you give power to the government but you are vigilant about how it uses it (something of which we do a really bad job). There is no option b. It's not something it's up for some guy from Nowhereville to decide upon, as if he has some unique insight others lack -- it has been found to work this way since historical times and all over the world.
First innovative thing yahoo has done in years.
Personally I would call that 'creating vacuum in a bottle' rather than 'putting vacuum in a bottle.' Putting it into a bottle implies that it was something that existed outside of the bottle and it then transferred into the bottle.
I am also on the look out for a decent alternative to gmail. So far I've come across the following:

Zoho Mail: https://www.zoho.com/mail

Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email

Fastmail.fm: http://fastmail.fm

I'm still looking around, but would love to hear if anyone uses and recommends any of the above.
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> 1. Tierney is a journalist. (Neither Wikipedia nor his nytimes.com bio seem to specify what his degree is in.)

Whups. You're right; I went back and it seems I confused the journalist Tierney with Baumeister's 'protege', Heatherton.
That's what I was saying -- neither is more important than the other.
What's in it for HP?
Amazon gunning for Netflix with planned streaming service
Let's put it this way: if every person was to buy a single phone their entire life, and they were only allowed to buy an iPhone, it would take Apple close to 70 years (at this rate) to achieve full penetration!

People are so easy to impress.
I got a lot of interesting comments from that article. Someone pointed me to this brilliantly evil implementation which can be seen at https://gist.github.com/1679908 (originally from http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html, which seems to be down). There's also Norvig's implementation, which is much cleaner, at http://norvig.com/lispy.html, and a Lisp to Python compiler at http://bernhardkausler.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/sinc-%e2%80%....
You are confusing DRM for the locking down of a product or platform. Apple locks down iOS for the benefit of the user (most of the time), but adds DRM to apps to prevent unauthorized code from being executed on the device and to prevent apps from being pirated (which Installous has proved futile).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/937899/scripts-to-parse-a...
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/you-call-that-evil/
>Sometimes they guess well. Sometimes they guess really badly.

How do you know this will happen? They haven't turned their new algorithm on yet. You're claiming an idea hasn't worked in the past, but the idea has never been tried before.

The reason they're changing their search results is because their search results are starting to suck more. They're trying to fix your complaint. Want the same shitty search full of SEO spam? Sign out. Otherwise you're just bitching.

>(But I'm really grateful to Google for tweaking those down, and allowing me to block content from certain domains)

THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO. If you don't like content farms chances are no one else does either. And yet you complain.
I claimed that this device already had "slide to unlock", I didn't specifically say it invalidated the patent. I don't believe the patent should have been granted in the first place for a few reasons.

A dutch court, however, has said this invalidates Apple's patent.

In my opinion, just adding a 'graphic' to the slide to unlock is bullshit. There's any number of ways to slightly alter slide to unlock, add a ding, whatever, do you think they all deserve government monopoly status? I don't.

The patent from 2001 is a design patent, and I'm not a lawyer, so I won't say whether it will be invalidated. I don't really see anything clearly patentable in the idea of a touchscreen device with rounded corners. I used to have one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto back in 1993.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't try patent cases, I don't intend to. These may be perfectly valid patents in the current system, but I don't agree with the system. I make no claims as to validity or invalidity WITHIN THE CURRENT SYSTEM.
Thanks for the article. I am wondering if anyone here has any experience of using Storm for working with real-time market (financial) data. If we take FX market data for example, you could be looking at multiple feeds, each updating a few times a second. Is a framework like Storm suitable for these types of applications which are very sensitive to end to end latency?

Also, given a set of nodes a set of input data, is end to end latency consistent?
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How does hittail work? Do you have to insert a piece of js into your site template like for google analytics?
Cool, but the menu gets in your way when you zoom on iPhone.
> Symantec released a patch fixing three vulnerabilities
> in pcAnywhere version 12.5 (the current version) on
> Monday, and said it will continue issuing patches
> "until a new version of pcAnywhere that addresses all
> currently known vulnerabilities is released."

Sounds like they've been sitting on a bunch known vulnerabilities. At least this acts as a kick in the pants to actually fix them.
Phrases found from a Google search for "put vacuum in"

"hand vacuum pump (the one that you can use to bleed brakes with) and hook up the line directly to the actuator and put vacuum in it"

"I was wondering if anyone has experimented with a vacuum pump or any other way to put vacuum in the crankcase."

"I believe VW uses an air pump to test the evap system instead of relying on engine vacuum to put vacuum in the evap system"

"I want to be able to put vacuum in and leave it but not sure why no suction?"

It seems that many people regard it as having a concrete meaning. (I saw little hit of a non-concrete meaning. The other cases I saw were things like "put vacuum in pool", in reference to a vacuum cleaner.)

There were 138 non-duplicate matches for "put darkness in". All were metaphorical, and most were due to a Biblical verse.

While there are some references to "put cold in", as in:

"If you put cold in the thermostat doesn't kick on until much later causing the water to freeze at a later time."

"it's identical to a regular hotwater tank so you have to put cold in to the drain and loop it back"

they are short-hand for "cold water". Otherwise the terms are either metaphorical, like "put cold in its place with this warm parka", or a reminder that chilling devices don't put cold in but rather take heat out.

The phrase "put dry in" only appears in context like "Get 2 [dog] bowls and put dry in 1", or "I didn't have fresh basil so I put dry in the mayo", where the "dry" refers to a preceding noun. (The one exception was the question "why would they want to put dry in their beer?".)

Thus, a haphazard search of the Google corpus reinforces my assertion that putting vacuum in (something) has a more real, concrete sense than putting darkness, cold, or dry in (something).
Very well said.

I hope that duckduckgo will get that it doesn't need to compete with Google at the "guessing what the user wants" and keep providing clear and concise ways to make very specific queries.
This has definitely been posted before and I still suggest http://www.fastmail.fm. They've been around for a while and are always upgrading and updating their services.

If you want something enterprise-y, I'd suggest Rackspace either hosted Exchange or their IMAP solution (less expensive).
There is also this http://test.visualize.yahoo.com/mail/
So you spent the time to write a program, one good enough to consider selling it even, but couldn't be bothered to try changing the executable name? Or ask your dad to call the AV vendor?

Am I mis-reading you?
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His explanation is partially wrong, which is why you have questions.

There is no such thing as an anti-photon, and if there was, then a photon anti-photon pair would annihilate to produce - more photons!

Time in the quantum world is not completely logical, essentially these virtual particles (they are not real particles!!) can not appear unless they already managed to annihilate and vanish (i.e. the order of operations is not one way).

The reason these photons do manage to exist is that the experiment provided the energy necessary before the particles appeared. The "anti-photon" is not a real particle, and does not need to find another photon to annihilate with. It's more of a concept of energy, what it represents is missing energy, which needs to be provided in order for the partner (the regular photon to exist).

The "missing/extra" energy pair can exist only for a short time, below the Heisenberg uncertainty limit. If, in some way, you disrupt the annihilation of missing and extra energy, the particles would not appear in the first place (that's that out of order business I was talking about). But since the experiment provided energy, the particles can appear, and then be split, and the "anti-photon" uses the energy of the experiment to not exist.

You have probably heard of the momentum/location uncertainty pair - but there is another: it's time/energy. So the more exactly you know how much energy there is, the less you know about when it existed - that's why the particle can have this out of order behavior - time itself is not properly defined for it.
Agreed, though I'm guilty as charged.

This has led me to re-think the README/documentation problem, and gave me an app idea. A little web app that allows the user to build a proper README with a template. Sort of those build a resume apps, but for README files. I plan on building it at the end of February, after I ship my current foss project.
Exactly. Asynchronous JS snippet on your site (so doesn't affect page speed) that sends analytics info back to our database, where our algorithm is able to analyze it and make recommendations.
i use postini for spam filtering for my company and my hosted e-mail customers. postini acts as a proxy (you set them as your MX records, they forward legitimate mail to your SMTP server, and users can view their quarantined queues on postini's website). unfortunately, they were bought by google some years back and the false-positive rates for even medium-level filtering have gone up quite a bit, so you have to constantly check your quarantine looking for legitimate mail. i wish there were more choices in the outsourced spam filtering market.
By that argument BrainFuck is even awesomer than Lisp.
Enyo app Paper Mache (Instapaper client) is on the Android market:

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.ryanwatkins.app.pa...
cjoh,

I can tell from your profile page that you're active in this area and you probably know what's going on.

Rather than telling 15,000 people who made an honest effort that they haven't done anything useful, maybe you could suggest better ways to reach our leaders instead?
Glad to hear it. I've been using Intercom in a web app for the past 6 months, and it's awesome. Definitely makes it much easier to track activity and communicate with users through the site. I wish Olark had some of the Intercom features, or that Intercom had a chat feature.
>Except of course for all those that do live long enough, I don't think the centenarians and beyond die of cancer

There are people immune to AIDS as well. These are the outliers. Just because people die of disease before they get cancer doesn't mean they wouldn't have gotten cancer otherwise.

>it's quite likely that environmental and lifestyle factors do come in play

Yes, I accepted that in my post. There are ways to increase your risk of cancer. My opinion was that there is never a statistically relevant zero risk for cancer. Prevention of cancer will never completely stop cancer from forming unless we know and can avoid all possible risk factors of cancer (impossible). Prevention is a good step, but finding a way to reverse cancer is the only way to keep people from dying from it.
I'm curious -- how would the author's example look using greenlets?
In theory, I agree. In practice, I've realized that most of the jailbreaking phones/tablets are used to download illegal applications and/or without paying. I know this is a somewhat contrived statement, but this is from what I've seen in company/university/engineering departments I've worked/studied.

Note:

I myself had to jailbreak my iphone to install spotify (and asked a friend to pay for it since he's outside of Canada). For some reasons, spotify is illegal here. (Yes, I know, I illegally downloaded an illegal application to legally download/listen to music).
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"Look, it's all lambdas all the way down. Until you reach turtles."
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Do STEM faculty want undergraduates in their fields?
Qubes (http://qubes-os.org/Home.html) sort of aims to use virtualization to separate out all your software. It's Linux, though.
It is a very offensive shortened form of "mongolóide" where I hail from.
I don't see how the rules of society are an "arbitrary set of choices." The process of making law is not arbitrary; it's a conscious, directed process.
Judge blasts "unlawful invasions of privacy" by "rogue" P2P attorney
Rarely use ifs?

What do you do if you want to see if, e.g. there are any results for the user's query?

I would do

if (results.length > 0)

or something
I know this is a bit nit picky, but WWW != internet.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is this a subscription app? Couldn't I run this on my site for a month, find the long tail keywords I need to improve, and then cancel? For most sites wouldn't the keywords generally stay the same?
Very smooth, great graphics. However, I'm still hoping to see an example of an HTML5 game that's more than a simple shooter.

Construct 2 looks like a great framework. There's a little background in this interview: http://www.html5grind.com/2011/07/12/construct-2-create-html...
ex1: it's an ad for google for google products no? It's not relevant like Cleetus said.

ex2: In 99% of searches I would never want to see that, but I just searched for sales and he is #3... some blurb about kindle fire sales. A. I don't need a status update on sales. B. He is linking out to an article about the kindle fire sales. Shouldn't the result go to the actual story? Isn't that more relevant? Not to mention that he has this on his twitter page too which Google HAS crawled. The twitter result is nowhere in the top 100. I barely use Google as it is, but I am definitely opting out of g+ results.

ex4: All of the stuff on the right hand side and the auto-suggestions are there whether you opt-out or not. Test it.

ex5: no comment

See http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html - I just think it is funny.
I like MS Security Essentials because, basically, I've already said "I'm willing to trust Microsoft for my system software." Norton, Symantec, McAfee, they all are terrible companies that I'd happily keep off my hard drive given the choice; when I'm using Windows, I've already accepted MS. Plus, since MS knows their OS better than others, they've managed to make a security system which doesn't bring a brand new machine to its knees.
Putting my GPS tracker in the mail and watching it being delivered
Warning: I'm about to get all opinionated on you.

This "programming sucks" thing could get old quickly. Most of the problems mentioned in these articles are already solved in some language or another. And many of them are too specific. Like wouldn't it great to eliminate for loops? Well, yes, for the specific cases where the alternative would work.

More pressing problems include lack of a REPL as a primary development environment, no decent way in most languages to organize and update libraries in a seamless manner without breaking anything, no good way for multiple programmers to collaborate in real time, lack of run-time interactivity and in-place replacement of components of a running program, etc.

In other words, I applaud your motivation, but if you want to reinvent programming, please don't reinvent Lisp, Prolog, or Haskell. It's just syntax, and that's been done to death. Reinvent Smalltalk and Erlang instead.

Edit: By the way, Microsoft Excel has many of the features these blog posts talk about. Type in Jan, Feb, Mar, then draw a box around those and drag to the right. Magic! However, the utility of these things in a small number of cases doesn't mean the idea can scale to a more general solution. The same idea in MS Word is the awful numbered list creator that never does what you want. I think you'll run into those edge cases much more quickly than you think.

And now, as a programmer, I don't just have to remember foreach..., I have to remember 1500 different ways to iterate through a list. I'd much rather have the general foreach tool and write my own "pairs" function. It takes one minute.
True, but the spec clearly states that the 418 code is to be used only when "the HTCPCP server is a teapot; the resulting entity may be short and stout."
I thank many of the people in power do recognize the issues, which is why transforming education has become such a hot focus lately.

Broad advances in education were essential in allowing the "average" person to find employment in an industrial society; the modern average person is far, far more educated than they were 500 years ago when most average people were illiterate and farmed for a living.

We will need a new transformation in education to allow future average people to find good work within an information-based economy. This means, for example, that the average person might be able to program computers at an average level in the future.
This programmer is broken. The part that made it necessary to state an age.
Even if 100% of the uses were illegal, this is an issue of principal. When I buy a gadget, I didn't lease it, I bought it. It is mine. As such, I shouldn't have to worry I might go to jail (!!) for modifying my device in a way that doesn't impact anybody else.
Googler here - thanks for the real example query. Could you confirm if the query [nfc championship game] is still showing the MG Siegler post, or if it appeared only for a short while during the game. Thanks!
I faced the same problem. I am fluent in 4 languages and can work my way on a few others. But the problem is not that it's limited to an arbitrary number of languages. The problem is that it doesn't feel anymore like what I'm getting back from any query is the full web.
Agreed. A lot of her stories look like ad placements for the companies she's covering too.