skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Do" words: "created", "made", "wrote", "organized". You only need a Tux t-shirt to call yourself a Linux fan...
school internet turns off at night?! where is this?
Yes, I know, Dassault Systèmes is the de-militarized tech base of much bigger industry, true .. My point was, we are now owned by Big Data.
I think you are misunderstanding the point. The NLRA grants you the right to discuss your wages with your co-workers. Companies are not allowed to prohibit this, and more people should be made aware of their rights under the NLRA.
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> if Python had better function syntax and anonynous functions, decorators wouldn't even be a 'thing'

Better function syntax? What's wrong with python's function syntax and how does it relate to decorators?

Python does have anonymous functions, though they are limited: You can have only 1 expression, you can't have statements, and you can't have local variables. The reasoning is lambdas should be used for small operations; for everything else, named functions should be used.

The reasoning behind lambdas is arguable, but it still doesn't explain how it affects decorators.

Consider:

def memoize(fn):
from functools import wraps
@wraps(fn)
def memoized_fn(*args):
if not memoized_fn.cache.has_key(args):
memoized_fn.cache[args] = fn(*args)
return memoized_fn.cache[args]
memoized_fn.cache = {}
return memoized_fn

@memoize
def fib(n):
if n < 2: return n
return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)

print fib(100)

What would a better function syntax and anonymous functions do so that memoize decorator won't be a thing?
Apple actually had a remote debugger that (ab)used the FireWire DMA to get access to the RAM. I used it several times when debugging drivers on OS 9.

I had thought that the OS X FW drivers didn't map any RAM until a driver requested some 1394 address space, but apparently that isn't the case... That would be the sane and easy way to fix this.
I have ADD and I am in an open space. It's hard sometimes.

Fortunately I do PHP and do not need to compile ;)
Guess what it will print (non-defensive programming)
You should not start with bootstrap in that case. I think especially in the beginning when you are learning CSS you should build something from scratch. Otherwise you have to learn both, CSS and how bootstrap is constructed.

CSS is not hard. I don't consider myself good at css, not at all, but give me a mockup and I can reproduce it, with a lot of Googling and trail-and-error. At least for me, though, what is really difficult is to make something from scratch without a mockup. It might be because I am not much of a visual thinker. I am a coder after all, not a designer. A professional designer might already have this mockup in her head. I don't.

So what I need to do is create the mockup in Photoshop first. There I can experiment, move stuff around, change colors, shadows, etc. When I am done, I reproduce it in css. I guess when you are either a very strong visual thinker or you are already very good at css, you don't need Photoshop. Otherwise I recommend you start with a mockup and then make a pixel-by-pixel reproduction of it. That way you can solely focus on the How, not the What. If you do that it's not hard at all, and you don't need a code academy for it. [That said I like the idea of a code academy for building a website from scratch for non-coders]
I have a background in Electrical Engineering, and when coding in a hardware description language, I feel that instantiating and connecting entities is like drawing a hierarchical schematic but in text mode. And writing the RTL implementation of an entity is like giving requirements to the synthesis tools that I need a bunch of gates and flip flops that implement this functionality. When coding in some programming language, I have a completely different mindset.

Programming usually means coding in some language that will be compiled to machine language, and hardware description is so different kind of "programming" that I think it's dangerous to call it programming at all.
Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail
I'm currently attempting to move away from Gmail to a email provider that respects my privacy.

Can anyone on HN suggest a online service that protects my privacy, has IMAP support and is preferably free?

In addition is it possible to delete most of the data Google currently ties to my profile?
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The article is appealing. I think it can become better by using several arguments in case privacy does not resonate with a reader (e.g. financially exploiting personal information, building stronger social relations, how other countries use facebook alternatively), and listing viable middle-ground solutions (using aliases on facebook).

Example Solutions

1.Dont use your real name

In Mexico, many people do not use their real names on Facebook partially because names (Jorge, Paula, Arturo, Pancho, Gomez, Ramirez, Rodriguez) are so common and using an alias makes it easier to find people.

2.Dont use your real information

I dont use my real info on facebook. My real friends should know my birthday and where I live.

3.Use privacy settings so strangers can not view your personal life.

I say this because, I quit facebook, then realized how popular it is as a form of communication these days for some demographic groups. I like letters and postcards, but I realize that's my preference
Interesting - wasn't extended/expanded memory already common by '92?
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Actually I want multiple inheritance. That way I can write that a crocodile is a reptile and a swimmer or that camera is a game object and it is collidable but not damageable.

Yes it can make your code more complex, but you can also use it to make the game more clean.
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As long as data is concerned, http://google.com/dashboard will tell you about everything tied with you account.

I'm currently trying to do this as well and the only viable solution sounds self-hosted email. I tried a bit with hushmail and Tor (also look at hushmail's Diceware for password encryption) but it has a tight limit of 25MB for free accounts.

Good luck.
On Carol Dweck and the Growth Mindset
It does look like a very exciting project but I'm slightly worried that Ableton's legal team will not be too happy with it. There seem to be quite a few visual similarities, I'm assuming this sort of thing would fall under Ableton's intellectual property rather than the devs?
The reason Gmail is free is because they have ads. I wouldn't expect to find a free and good email service.

Here's one that costs some money: http://fastmail.fm/
SATA devices wouldn't be able to pull these off, but a malicious SATA /controller/, connected to the pci-e bus, could. There have been proof of concept rootkits ( http://www.livehacking.com/2010/11/23/backdoor-rootkit-for-n... ) which hack the firmware of devices to use the negotiated DMA channel for operating system corruption. I used SATA as an example because it's something that would not be as easy to disable. The firewire attack is easy to disable because it's well known and most people don't need firewire. SATA controllers are a lot more common and would require a lot more work to clean up.
Lavabit is pretty good. I've been with them (Personal Account plan) for about 4 years now. No downtime, IMAP and a stated goal in caring about their users privacy. The webmail interface is pretty modest, but they do provide a way to set pretty advanced regex server-side filters. You have to upgrade to a paid plan if you want decent SPAM filtering though. They're also planning a surprise upgrade soon.

http://lavabit.com/

Zohomail is an interesting alternative. They say that they do not sell ads because they are a profitable subscription-based service. Email is free for personal use, has good IMAP support and a decent webmail interface. You can also use your own domain for free. The only problem I've found with them is that the email filtering is limited to a few common fields (e.g. no specific headers).

http://www.zoho.com/mail/
Revisiting the 'Pillars of Creation'
+1 for the breakdancing horse! I found I tend to be distracted more easily when I'm working on something that is repetetive or isn't really challenging. When I'm working on a serious bug and trying to solve some problem, I don't have any problem getting into 'the zone'.

Its interesting that in Sweden they have workplace laws actually requiring that anyone working at a computer screen gets 10 minutes of rest (away from the screen) every hour.
I recommend Econtalk http://www.econtalk.org/

In addition to the good topics on economics, they also cover technology, e.g. Kelly on Technology and What Technology Wants - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/11/kelly_on_techno.htm... or Hazlett on Apple vs. Google - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/10/hazlett_on_appl.htm...

My latest favourite is Taleb on Anti-fragility - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/01/taleb_on_antifr.htm...
I second the motion. I've used fastmail for years. It's been utterly dependable, worth every penny. I moved to them after deciding that running my own imap server was just too much hassle.
I was one of the 16000 protesters in Munich. The message came to me via the evening TV news about germany delayed signing ACTA.
It was impressive to see how many people care about that topic. 200 attendants in London sounds like no protest at all.
Just out of curiosity, which aspect of Google's privacy policy seems fishy to you?

I think any way you look at it, there is a basic compromise you make with Gmail: either Google holding all of your info, or someone being able to hack into your account due to security vulnerabilities. Also, not to mention the tools and email filters Google provides.
That a CDN can't solve?

Competitive providers exist in the US. I just don't think anyone is as advance as OVH in terms of price efficiency so I'm no expert on them.
WebKit dominance threatens the open web
Maybe you can use another mail client (web or desktop) but your mail hosting service can be still gmail (with pop3 and smtp services).
I'm just curious -- what specific privacy intrusions are you worried about? Google lists its privacy policy here[1]. Also, web based email services can always look at your personal content, if not today, tomorrow. If you really need absolute privacy, I'd recommend setting up your server. You can retain your Gmail address, by just setting up the right forwarding options.

[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
So if you are making more than you colleague, and he finds out, then your boss has to spend a greater portion of the next pay increase funds to up his pay. Guess who's raise those funds come out of? It doesn't matter what is legal to do, sometimes it is still not a good idea to discuss compensation.
What is exactly the privacy concern that makes you move away from gmail?
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Very nice. Just one thing: I already know I'm awesome and I don't need my source revision control provider to boost my self confidence (I'm referring to the line "...you, our awesome GitHub users"). OTOH, it's clear that it's GitHub's employees, rather than its users that need constant reassurance of their coolness. GitHub is a nice company that provides a good, solid and necessary service - hosted SCM. Then why is it that their company blog focuses on their drinking habits?

Dear GitHub,

Although your product may sound boring to laymen, you provide a good service to a very important industry. Your "boring" day job reflects nothing on your personal and very exciting lives. Your customers, however, like you for what you provide them with, not for your companionship, and I'm sure your friends like you for the opposite reasons, as they very well should. In fact, everybody loves you for many reasons, and you are all very lovable. So please, keep your extra-curricular activities to your friends, and your work activities to your customers. You can call your friends "awesome" if that's your kind of thing, but for various reasons it is better to treat your customers with proper decorum. If you're unable to keep the two separate, you're in for some bitter disappointment later in life.

Love, everyone.
Why not host your own? It's not that hard. I run my own using exim4 + dovecot. It's pretty easy to set up. Plus, as a bonus I set up mutt on my server as well so when I am somewhere else I can just ssh into my box and read my mail.
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When I consider targeted advertising and the sheer amount of data that I've pumped into Google services over the years it's scary to see how accurate of a picture advertisers and co have of me.
Actually, the zIIP and zAAP processors for "accelerating" java or db2 workloads are identical to the other processors in terms of hardware; the underlying firmware just loads different microcode onto the chip to prevent it running a full Z/OS instance.

The difference is one of licensing -- IBM charges less for activating a core if you can only run java|db2|linux on it.

They may actually put an accelerator in the system at some point in the future, but for now it's just a way of using more processors without spending as much.
GMail for Business ?
If you are using a Mac you can easily sniff the data and you may "hack" the WEP key.
If you are using a Linux dist. there is lots of tools for this like aircrack tools)
Dedicated boxes with enterprise sandy bridge processors (Intel E3-1270s), enterprise SLC SATA III SSDs, segregated gigabit public (12 network providers, 8x Tier 1) and private networks (with dedicated SSL/PPTP VPN), costs considerably more than $8.99 per month :)

Our pricing model based around scaling horizontally, rather than vertically. There are always different requirements for every project, and that's why I'll never say that our solution will fit everyone's needs.
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I've been considering this, my main problem is that my cash flow is fairly spotty at times for a dedicated server and I would prefer not to have to worry about the security of my box, uptime and the like.

However if I must, I will.
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And so; websites with many writers should add author rel attribute.
Still serves targeted ads and my data is linked to my Google profile. One of the things I want to escape from.
Most software is vulnerable, but only for a very limited time span. If the password is persistent in RAM during an entire session, it's still a WTF.
This is much more of a pain that it seems. To ensure deliverability you need to ensure that you manage SPF/Domainkeys records, that you're not running an open relay, and configure your own spam filtering. It's all quite easy to mess up, so I'd only recommend it if you know what you're doing. Your time is probably worth more than the few currency units/month for someone like fastmail.fm to do it properly.
I just don't use it. The result? More time to do stuff that matters.
This video looked more like the transfat filler bookended by moist, decadent slabs of commercials than anything close to resembling the crunchy, investigative rigor from feisty curmudgeons.

For example, 4 unanswered central theses:

1) Do rank-and-file employees in China tend to downplay actual conditions? If so, what are the roots and motivations?

2) What do western managers and investors have to say for themselves? Would they in practice let their own college-aged kids work in any of these facilities?

3) What are reputable companies doing to distance themselves from facilities that don't comply? Is there any meaningful policing mechanism? Are government(s) assisting, complicit, ambivalent or mixed?

4) What is going on in these facilities? What's the real deal (or at least, the 60 minutes cliff-notes version)? How do we know that age old "ISO 9000" games aren't being played along with other maquilliocity, i.e., sending network cable subassemblies home for cottage-industry production with very low per-piece-wages? Why not open up some of a facility's security video feed to demonstrate to the world how fair and safe are their particular working conditions? Granted there are many concerns, interests and moving parts to this, but it could be doable.
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Here is the announcement of this 2.4.10 release and also the PDL book from the mailing list: http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/pipermail/perldl/2012-Februar...

Also here is the link to the PDL book (PDF): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl/files/PDL/2.4.10/PDL-Boo...
Why TFS is Better Than X
Ruby does have sets:

require 'set'
Set.new([1,2,3])
I'd differentiate between keeping in touch with people one has met before in person and creating new relationships. The dynamics of the online exchange feels very different.
I think the lesson in this case should be teaching your kids not to be a twerp to people they do not know. Not teaching them that they could accidentally be caught by information leakage while acting like a twerp.
I used to run a setup like this for a while. Spam filtering is the most annoying part of it, so I soon outsourced that (first to google postini, then to spamhero.com). But then I realized that my e-mail is now flowing through these services anyway, in fact, e-mail is unencrypted and flows through many ISPs which all can read it if they want to be evil -- so I might as well outsource all of it. So I switched e-mail for all my domains to tuffmail.com a few months ago, and am very happy with them so far.
Cool I'll take a look. Great work and thank you for open sourcing thus!
finally, somebody like me :). How the hell should i scale?

I write tests, but do too much testing as the code size grows and that is very limiting.

Ohh, on losing the train of thought thing, this is the very reason why i don't use IDEs, because they freeze at random times. One technique that worked for is solving the problem first of board in a sufficient detail, or writing down as comments how you are going to solve the problem, and slowly fill in the details.
For streaming a loop, the point is they have left that to programmers/library designers to implement these functions. Since there are a number of considerations, buffer size, error management ... etc. it does in fact make sense to not have just one sanctioned implementation for this.
Does anyone have the link to the original article (or title or authors)? It looks interesting, but this version has almost not details.
Sorry, but for real work the ZOHO web interface is unusable. I'm not the only one who thinks that :) Especially if you are used to Gmail, ZOHO works like it has been written by drunk people.

Lavabit seems quite interesting.

Anyone going to write a Gmail clone for installation on your own servers finally? I would pay quite a bit for that.
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I have, and am well served by, Fastmail's expensive plan: $40 US per year per domain. If you even know what all those terms in the above comment mean that's about half an hour of your time, tops. And it doesn't count the cost of the hosting for your server. And for the secondary server, which receives your mail while the primary is down for maintenance.
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There's a great collection of podcasts here: http://hackermedia.org/ and here: http://www.thelinuxlink.net/

The 2600 family of shows: http://www.2600.com/offthehook, http://www.2600.com/offthewall and the Hackers On Planet Earth conference archives: http://blip.tv/2600magazine/rss

Security now: http://twit.tv/sn

This Developer's Life: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/

The Linux Action Show: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linuxactionshow/

Techsnap: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/

Ubuntu-UK Podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

Free As In Freedom (The Software Freedom Law Show): http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/
I use RackSpace e-mail hosting for own domain and also for business mail hosting. Haven't had any issues with them yet (after around 2 years).

Edit: It has IMAP, but isn't free.
Actually, for this precise use case, it might well be among the cheapest.

With a 3-year reserved instance, using the "intensive usage" pricing (since it's always on), and in the cheapest availability zone. I get a price of 6.42$/month.
I guess in practice, even for an personal thing, around 10GB of storage would be required (1$) (does the installed OS counts towards this number ?).
Add 10GB of transfered data (1$), as a vpn/screen server is unlikely to have huge amounts of incoming data.

The final price is 8.42$. Which, for a 600MB ram server, is quite competitive. If I didn't forget something.

This is about the only use case where I would recommend AWS, though. Starting at ~25/30$, there are way better alternatives (including cheap dedicated). And if you need more bandwidth, cheap VPS tend to come with 20 or 100GB/month at least. But you'd get less RAM.
I third the motion regarding Fastmail. They have recently been acquired by Opera.com but that's not a negative IMO.
Google apps was easier when it came along for setting up domain email but I've had excellent history with Fastmail.

Yearly plans give you the extras you'd want and are around $35/yr
Another key- if they're in super fancy digs- temporary
or otherwise- its a big warning sign.

What's "super-fancy"? Seems most successful companies (albeit also many that aren't and just living off of investor money) have pretty nice offices.

E.g. would that raise a warning sign for you with google?
How is Java7 API not using polling ? You create a watch service and then you call poll on it to get update events - or am I missing something ?
Less restricted anonymous functions would allow stuff like this:

fib=memoize(function...)

So the @ shortcut for:

def fib():
...
fib=memoize(fib)

wouldn't be necessary to 'clean up' the decoration of the function.
Discussion about fastmail.fm/OperaMail on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2427102
Note on Syntax
The "rainy day memory pool" is interesting, I've run into something similar in the web-programming context.

I used to work for a company that had a horrific hardware requisition policy. If your team needed a server, it had to go through a lengthy and annoying approvals process - and even then, it took months before Infrastructure would actually provide said servers.

In other words, when a project gets handed down from above to launch in, say, 3 months, there's no way in hell you can get the servers requisitioned, approved, and installed in that time. It became standard practice for each team to slightly over-request server capacity with each project and throwing the excess hosts into a rainy day pool, immediately available and repurposeable as required.

New servers will still get requested for these projects, but since they took so long to approve, odds are they'd go right into the pool whenever they actually arrived, which sometimes took up to a year.

Of course, it was horrifyingly inefficient. Just on my team alone I think we had easily 50 boxes sitting around doing nothing (and powered on to boot) waiting to pick up the slack of a horrendously broken bureaucracy.
Do you mean pooling or polling?
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don't know for sure, it might be C++, Java, and now they have Go.
An email is exchanged between >=2 people. One of them securing their account has little (if any) effect on privacy.
I have a question regarding these so-called highly secure email providers which respect privacy. Is the data on the servers of these services encrypted? I mean, isn't it too resource consuming to do something like that? And if it is encrypted, do they do it like LastPass, with a client side JavaScript decryption module?