skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with dumping gmail for another email provider is that at least half of the people with whom I correspond use gmail too so my messages wind up on their servers anyway.

Edit: REALLY tired of all the idiotic downvoting lately. What I've said is factual. Don't be such a lazy fuck and post a rebuttal if you disagree.
I think you are being downvoted in this thread because either you or your input device is horribly mangling your words.
Short answer: 4^(17*17) combinations to try, and each combination requires an expensive test before you can pass/fail it. Plug that number into Wolfram Alpha alongside things like "age of the universe" for some perspective on just how massive the search space is.
I have been an entrepreneur for five years.

I decided to close the business and get hired because the risk to reward ratio was too skewed on the risk side.

According to what I have seen happening to fellow entrepreneurs, when they did run into trouble they did not get broken but neither had second chances.
This discussion of whether the content is legal or not isn't very constructive. Clearly Reddit has to ban illegal content. However, they also have to uphold community standards and enforce rules which keep more toxic parts of the community in line. Allowing pseudo-child porn creates a meeting place for pedophiles and that is likely not a liability that Reddit wants to take on.
That's true, but nearly every virtual server provider oversubscribes the physical hosts; there's not a 1:1 correlation between virtualized and physical CPUs. Consequently, your virtual machine may have to wait a while for its process to be requested.
It’s “Congress shall make no law”, not “Reddit shall make no rule”.
I run my own private mail server and also manage one for a company I consult to and anecdotally I can back this up. The logs for both servers show that the bulk of MTA to MTA traffic is encrypted.
I have heard many moderately and wildly successful entrepreneurs and marketers including Seth Godin, Tim Ferris, Steve Blank, and Eric Ries all mention some variation of "prove your market first by prototyping your solution and getting feedback from the market BEFORE writing a single line of code".

The market validation process is relatively obvious and straightforward to execute, but it's STILL hard to build a successful business around a compelling solution for a validated market.
Yes, and the worst lunch options Sat & Sun.
Peter Thiel possibly teaching "Startup" CS 183 at Stanford
I've seen a "New Tab" button on Firefox since at least version 3.6, IIRC. It's visible in the UI comparison at http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4.
From what I understand, the real policy was more "Anything that you can manage to somehow twist into something that vaguely resembles legal in low-light conditions from a minimum distance of 100 feet away is allowed."
It's very possible (likely) that it originally came from Feynman. Munger quotes him often.
Why not run a couple PyUNO workers on EC2 and pull conversion jobs out of a MQ system where they get queued up by whatever system does the conversion requests? The workers pull a job out of the queue, load the files from wherever they are (S3 for example) and then put the converted files back when done. With a little scripting the PyUNO workers can be monitored and restarted after <x> conversion jobs, or simply when the conversion doesn't happen within a timeout. And the whole thing can be scaled up simply by running more EC2 conversion workers. This is the sort of thing AWS was made for.
The description doesn't mention him by name, but does say:
The class will be taught by entrepreneurs who have started companies worth over $1B and VCs who have invested in startups including Facebook and Spotify

I read on a unrelated email list that this will be Peter Thiel, although unfortunately can't find a link to anything.
Mike, thanks for spending so much time on the site looking around. I agree that perhaps it was a problem to fit it in because it would be a problem to fit it in!! (Staring us in the face)I'll assume you'd like that test account deleted?(!) If you saw anything else that needs immediate attention - we're always open for that kind of feedback. Thanks!
Google does have a bidding system for ads, that's true, but if everyone stops using Google, then the ads become worthless and Google goes out of business.

It's easy to look at as "Google is just selling eyeballs", but it's not that simple; Google has to please both the advertisers and the people looking at the ads. And, of course, there are the various paid products (Earth Pro, Docs, etc.) that Google offers.
But if you're Cmd+Tabbing between your two apps, the Finder is always the 3rd icon and you never get to it.

You'll literally never accidentally tab into the Finder unless you press Cmd+Tab,Tab -- which is awfully hard to do by accident.

The author says Finder "has an insatiable thirst for keystrokes". I say accidentally Cmd+Tabbing into the Finder is one of the strangest complaints about OSX I've ever come across.
The thing is, I'm not sure I really believe that companies want to have public dialogues about social issues. After all, the longer the dialogue persists the longer it sticks in the public consciousness that you "did a bad deed". One of the problems resulting from mob backlash is the inevitable slow death of the public apology.

A public apology from a company is currently something of a litmus test for the success of a movement. If any old Internet shit storm elicits a public apology in the future, then a public apology can no longer be a decent metric for how much has been changed by web activists. And will eventually lose all credibility.
Managing your RSS feeds (cross platform)
Thank you for posting this, it had always bothered me. The other problem I have with the task switcher is switching to minimised applications does nothing. Anyone have a similar fix for that?

Edit: On Lion the path is slightly different from the one in the article, it's /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Info.plist
Not a gray area? The Reddit admins say otherwise, and presumably they would know what they've been dealing with:

> Beyond these clear cut cases, there is a huge area of legally grey content, and our previous policy to deal with it on a case by case basis has become unsustainable. We have changed our policy because interpreting the vague and debated legal guidelines on a case by case basis has become a massive distraction and risks reddit being pulled in to legal quagmire.

While we're at it, Neil Gaiman points out examples of several of those gray areas:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-...
You're right - including 'D' in the sensitivity list is incorrect and is a good way to lead to the synthesis of latches. Sensitivity lists should only include the clock, or clock and an asynchronous reset, or if it's combinatorial logic, all signals (with no clock).

The best explanation I've seen for two and three process FSMs is that older synthesis tools weren't smart enough to infer an FSM from anything else. At least with FPGAs, it seems like the professionals are only using the single process model. Why wouldn't you? It doesn't separate related pieces of code over multiple pages and the chance for stuffing it up is reduced significantly.

Teach people to use the single process model. Teach them that two and three process FSMs exist so that they can identify and understand them, but don't waste too much time on it. Some of the textbooks I've read devote a chapter to the distinction between Mealy and Moore state machines. Time to let this one die!
I don't see what you're saying. Big Pharm sells drugs to insurance companies. Oracle sells databases to CTOs. Monsanto sells weed killers to farmers.

Yes, these activities all have externalities; drugs would be better if people could pay for them themselves, databases would be better if programmers picked them out, and farming would be better if Monsanto didn't patent genes. But ultimately, none of these companies try to harm their customers. We just don't like them because we aren't their customers.

Google is in a weird position where they have two sets of customers; users and advertisers. Both need to be pleased, even though their interests are in conflict, or Google will die. So there's a financial incentive to be nice to users, and as a user, that means they should be nice to you.
Four hundred thousand people have died in the Darfur genocide over the past nine years(1). It's not exactly something that shows up on cable news every night.

(1)http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur
Nothing they've removed is legal. A child does not have to be nude to constitute child pornography.
Scumbag Reddit

Freaks out about anti-childporn laws

Bans pics of 18+ teenagers in bathing suits
Is Google planning to offer IP video to Kansas City?
If they did, good for them. While I don't normally condone the "ends justify the means" approach. I'll gladly make an exception for this one. Because of that persons effort, the world is just a bit better than it was yesterday.

Of course, for that hypothesis to work, it would have to be the only relevant subreddit in existence. In reality, almost every conceivable permutation of the turn "jailbait" had a subreddit that trafficked in the same kind of material.
Another reason to answer every question your child asks and reward them with useful information no matter how probing the question might be.

And also take care that schools reward this to, to the extent possible.
Or what I want - to be able to purchase an iPad app from my iPhone. Even if I can't download it on the device I'm currently on, I should be able to make the purchase.
The *bait subreddits they removed were illegal.
So you believe teen girls in swimsuits is child porn? I'm sure you can find these same pictures all over facebook, should facebook remove those "child porn" images too?
That's what I was thinking. 90% of the time I check my Gmail on my phone. I only go to the desktop browser when I need to download attachments to my computer without having to transfer from the phone first.

The privacy complaints I can understand. I'll be careful using Google products. I'll delete anything with sensitive information. Beyond that, Gmail is just too convenient. Instead of setting up e-mail on my domain, I just have Gmail take care of it. It's too convenient to give up. The only maintenance involved is deleting old or sensitive emails. And then it's easy to use Gmail with other clients, since the ones I use have a Gmail setting instead of inputting a whole bunch of server parameters.

I'll certainly be careful with it, but I won't ditch it. I like the convenience too much.
I agree, but I think the same applies here--- people expect an implicit contract of confidentiality with utility providers. Most people would feel that wrongdoing took place if the phone company started recording random excerpts of your calls to build a profile on you, and in fact we feel that strongly about it that there are laws banning them from doing so. I would guess that many people don't realize that there aren't similar laws applied to whether Comcast can snoop on your web-browsing, or Google can snoop on your email, as opposed to acting in a classic phone-company-esque service role.

An interesting recent one that's cropped up is whether the electric company can use your electric usage patterns to build a profile on you, perhaps to sell to marketers or government agencies. It's only become feasible to build a detailed profile recently, with the monthly meter-reader slowly being replaced with electronic meters that report back usage much more often; now with appropriate machine learning the electric company can actually, in many cases, detect signatures of specific kinds of appliances, and build a profile of what you do when. European countries have started passing privacy laws around this data; its legal status is less clear in the US. I would guess most people don't realize this is possible, and if they did, would feel it was a violation of an implicit contract.
A special Valentine's day picture
It will be Valentine's day very soon. Do you love anybody? If your answer is "YES", you probably should see this!
Let's not be petty; it's reasonable to take his post at face-value and assume that he just wanted to pontificate about something that interested him.
There are surely other criteria; what else would you add?

Budget. The SAAS bill is probably paid from the Operations budget but the desktop software bill is probably paid from the Capital/Supplies budget. For a lot of companies, it's easier to get approval for money from Operations than Supplies. Learned this from an old boss who used to be a CFO at another company.
What's a Sema for?
They applaud the censorship because the content is predatory. Even though images like "13yearoldinabikini.jpg" are legal, they are almost certainly scraped from some unsuspecting teenager's Facebook album. Also, remember to consider this within the scope of reddit. If reddit announced they were banning all subreddits dedicated to warez, most people would say "well duh".
There are people on Reddit trying to make the case that (based on a study from the University of Hawaii), access to child porn (or, more reasonably, artificial child porn like lolicon) can significantly reduce the rates of child sexual abuse:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/11/30/legalizing.child...

By the way, I'm not in any way supporting that opinion, just presenting the case that some people are making. I personally think there are probably better ways to combat child abuse than giving people lolicon.
There's This Lake in Bolivia
Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done
If the standard becomes to delete every picture containing people who haven't explicitly consented to that picture being posted in a public forum... well, that's a huge chunk of Reddit.
Anonymous take down Greece government and police websites
This is my issue with the new Gnome design: http://i.imgur.com/6CxMW.png

It's 50% a joke, 50% serious :-)

But, whilst I value simplicity, I can't help but feel that Gnome has gone a bit too far. Simplifying for the sake of it and to the point where functionality is really being affected.
Allowing /r/trees creates a meeting place for illegal drug users and that is likely not a liability that Reddit wants to take on. Indeed, quite similar to how people were accused of trading child porn on Reddit, people set up drug deals on Reddit.

etc etc etc. It's a slippery slope.
Hasn't this already been invented? Like several times?
But what is illegal content?

Is it Adolph's Mein Komp?
Is it Mohammad's Koran?
Is it some words form a Journalist praying to some god other than Allah?

Please enlighten everyone on what illegal content is..

US Law is based on possession..
If you're hosting something chunky like stock wordpress on stock apache/php with stock mysql on the same server and your hardware is nothing more than a $20/mo. VPS from linode with a mere 512mb of ram then getting that sort of a traffic spike can quite easily shutdown your site. More so if you have an app that's even more resource intensive than WP.

If you're willing to throw either time or money at the problem then it goes away easily. But both resources are typically limited.
Solution: "I'm REALLY Serious, and I'm an Asshole" button
Calculate lighter/darker RGB colors in Python
Thank you for this, it's quite difficult to follow the paper trail to the exact algorithm they're talking about. I had seen a talk about an extension to Reed-Solomon that promised more efficiency and was hoping this would talk about that, instead it looks like a wireless-optimized fountain code.
Knowledge is built from the ground up. The more knowledge (and experience) you integrate into your brain, the smarter it is.

There is an innate ability to do this integration and some people do it more easily.

But those who use their abilities most often and without fear build their brains faster.
If I am leasing the machine I expect it to be "managed" in that someone takes care of the hardware. I expect it to be unmanaged when it comes to OS, software and all that fun stuff.

This seems to be fairly standard throughout the industry, when you look at unmanaged hosting you get no OS support but do get hardware support. And when leasing a server that is what I expect.
I see no electrocuted elephants. There's nothing wrong with changing expectations to match reality. I think the short term expectations might dampen, but the long term expectations are still intact. Oil refineries aren't being built to meet demand because the refiners know it's a finite resource. Prices will rise and hold and when they do it will force a switch, but the technology will be ready.
It's surprisingly hard to come up with a balanced version of such rules.

Using your example: What about a follower of the religion that symbol was stolen from? Or a hard core gamer with image of a dieing SS member from Wallenstein.

As to Reddit, stock footage of Wimbledon can be less the wholesome content for people with a certain mindset. Let alone Posters from any number of bands etc. Personally, I would suggest playing it extremely safe, but at some point you need to find an arbitrary line based not one what's bad but something that says 'this' is OK. Or there is a steady march to ban an ever wider swath of content. How could she be so shameful as to show her wrists in public.
hold down option once it is tabbed to and it will unminimize it.
The law is concise but absolutely subjective. How do you objectively determine "whether the visual depiction is intended or designed to elicit a sexual response in the viewer" or "whether the child is depicted (...) in inappropriate attire, considering the age of the child" ?
Ship asap = not(Ripped off)
If you want to argue definitions, censorship is censorship no matter who's doing it.
It's still censorship, it's just not illegal.
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I don't believe Tesla has franchises.
Teen girls in swimsuits can be child abuse images: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dost_test#Criteria
Language features and third party libraries are different things though.
Sure, but the difference is in the implied consent.

If I continue to use Gmail beyond another week or two (what's that deadline, again?) I've implicitly consented to Google's policy on what they're permitted to do with my email. (One nice thing about Google: I can't really claim they haven't told me about this nonsense. They are taking the notification of their customers very seriously.)

If, however, I'm not actually a Google user, but the Googlers secretly reassemble my mailboxes by sniffing the inboxes and outboxes of all of my friends and relations... well, that's a bigger transgression. They didn't ask my permission to do that, and when they asked my permission to do similar things I said no. So they'd better be good at keeping their activities secret, because if I ever learn that they did it I'll squawk a long, loud squawk.

Sure, social disapproval doesn't have the force of law. (At least, not right away.) But it does have force.
I pay $4700/month for an architecturally magnificent 5BR 2200 square foot house on the block east of the Berkeley Bowl. I suppose it's not cheap on an absolute scale, but a comparable house in SF would be $8000/month at the very minimum and in Pacific Heights or the Marina or a neighborhood I don't want to live in. I think you're underestimating the cost of San Francisco right now.

Berkeley is more expensive than Silicon Valley, but it has all of the amenities of a major metropolis (except late night anything) while being quite small in the scheme of things. It's still absolutely not a place to go for a way cheap alternative to a city, as it's still one of the most expensive areas in the USA.
I don't mind constructive feedback, it helps us improve our services. I think we're both comparing two different things here. I mentioned in the previous post that our pricing model is scaling horizontally, rather than vertically.

I've seen many different uses for the 128MB node, either as backup servers, DNS servers, small web servers (nginx works amazingly well), private BSD development boxes, small-scale proxy servers, personal VPN servers, etc. I've also seen the 1GB of SSD storage used as cache for ZFS, which results in extremely low latency reads and writes. The 128MB node was initially offered because of demand and is actually one of our higher selling services.

Unfortunately, comparing the numbers from two different company offerings doesn't give the full picture on what either of them offer. There's a lot more that's included in our pricing, and you end up paying a bit more for new, under-utilized physical servers where you can actually use all of the resources provided with great disk I/O. There are a lot of providers out there who try to cram as many people as possible on a single box, and we're simply not one of them.

I appreciate you taking the time to write out your thoughts. If you have any more concerns feel free to put them here and I will try to address them the best I can. If you would prefer to discuss them in private, email me matt[at]ssdnodes.com
This is a fundamental problem in this area. Flirting exists for a reason, and that reason is because relationships are smooth curves not step functions. And the seriousness of relationship issues (which can easily be as heartbreaking as losing a family member) means that it's typically necessary to begin only with the most tenuous of bonds between people who might love each other.

Trying to force this subtle and enormously complex social interaction into a clunky machine is just asking for disappointment and failure.
If one is worried about privacy, he/she shouldn't send their email in plaintext, readable by not just Google, but the rest of the world. If one cares about privacy, look to encryption.
Neither the execution nor source character set (of C) is guaranteed to be ASCII though. This makes the general parsing as well as lines like "if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F')" non-portable.
But a picture of a child is not automatically pornography either. Of course there were plenty of legal pictures removed.
Another example is Peter Atwood, who makes small production runs of knives and tools. His stuff sells out right away, which tells me he could charge a lot more than he does. High end knife makers like Busse are the same way but aren't just a single person.

http://www.atwoodknives.com/
Why do I keep getting the following message when I use sudo?: "You don’t own the file “Info.plist” and don’t have permission to write to it. You can duplicate this document and edit the duplicate. Only the duplicate will include your changes."

I'm running Lion 10.7.3
I think it's been pretty well demonstrated that the Reddit admins have their heads up their asses, at least when it comes to this issue. Just stating that the law has grey areas is not evidence that the law has grey areas. It has more to do with their deliberate obtuseness toward what the law actually says.

As far as I can tell, Neil Gaiman is a really talented writer. There's nothing in his background that indicates expertise in law. Beyond that, upon reading his post, he is clearly talking about government censorship in the context of literature and graphic novels depicting sex involving minors, not the distribution of actual pornography. At one point he even concedes that he has not even looked at the site in question and cannot make a judgement on it's contents.

Really, if you're going to post a link as support for your argument, read it first and make sure it supports your argument.
Rumor (and by rumor I mean a couple of opinionated coworkers) says: the Python community has a lot of cases of "This project didn't have the feature I needed and has a couple of problems, so I went and wrote a whole new one with a different set of problems." By contrast, the Ruby community settles down on one, maybe two things as the primary way to do it.

This article lends weight to the rumor.