skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spam tends to be a lot smaller (~6.4kb) as longer messages take more resources to send and are easier to detect. https://www.trustwave.com/support/labs/spam_statistics.asp

Also, Email does not need to hop from mail server to mail server all that much due to DNS. Granted legitimate mail might move around a fair bit, but as far as the public internet is concerned the vast majority of spam is sender -> possibly senders mail server -> spam detection software -> /dev/null.
I hang out on a couple of online machinist fora and I agree. Even the outsides of something like, e.g., a Monarch 10EE are beautiful. Sculpted in a way that just doesn't seem to happen anymore.

Two of my favorite machine porn photos are from WW2 - a woman at a beautiful Warner & Swasey turret lathe: http://www.shorpy.com/node/1809 There's another one on that site of a woman using a Heald Borematic that I can't find right now, but it's even more amazing. I need to find it so I can order a large print.

Yeah, I love machine tools :-)
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I think the suggestion is C14 dating would be useful to date recent events (perhaps in accidents or crime scenes) were nuclear tests not so common in the 50s. Humanity lost a useful tool (dating recent events) so that we could develop more devastating nuclear weapons a bit quicker than we otherwise would have.

Phrased like that it sounds a shame, but I have no idea if this is true or not. My understanding of C14 dating is that it relys on the half-life of C14 being predictable. But my understanding of radioactive decay is that it is not perfectly deterministic. This suggests to me that you might need a bit of time for the radioactive decay to trend to its expected average rate.
I used to use Inconsolata ever since I came to know about it.

But, after the monospaced variant of Ubuntu font is released, I switched away from Inconsolata. It is a great font, but Ubuntu Mono is better looking for my taste.
No, the least you could do is make snarky comments about the people who are actually trying to do something. This isn't about 'signing up' for a website. This is about trying to mobilize a group of people that often times is not that involved with politics. The idea is that when you sign up, you'll take action on the items that the site informs you about. There is literally nothing like this on the internet for this demographic and the OP gets the most upvoted comment complaining that they used the term 'cat signal'? Politics and protesting can be fun and inviting. This has zero effect on anything except for grump old people who think that they know better. We stopped SOPA with a few days of action and a few big names stepping up. This is simply an attempt to harness that power and dedication. People who are already shitting on this, on day one, while typical is still extremely sad.
Or fix the certificate issues. Don't train the staff to be blind to security warnings.
You can compare the TODO list implementations in todomvc:

Backbone: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/master/architectu...

jQuery: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc/tree/master/architectu...

The Backbone implementation is an adaptation of this: http://backbonejs.org/docs/todos.html which i think is more readable. The todomvc adaptation is a little over-structured for my taste, too many JS files for too little functionality.
A solution going forward to contain 3rd party javascript is HTML5 sandbox iframe. This allows declaring a whitelist of permissions 3rd party code should be granted. Only about 40% of browsers support this feature [1]. For unsupported browsers, the external javascript continues working without the security guarantees, so it's no worse than the situation now.

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=iframe-sandbox
I am almost certain that Ballmer did not take Math 55, though Bill Gates did (and supposedly got a ‘B’). Do you have a source citation for that? You don’t have to take Math 55 (a freshman course with 10–20 students per year) to graduate with high honors in Math/Economics. (Which isn’t to say that Ballmer is a slouch: he is clearly very sharp, and was even as an undergraduate.)
I'm surprised to ever say the words, but copy of this BBC page for those of us in the UK?
Ask HN: Google TV ads success? 
Has anyone used Google TV ads within their adwords account to advertise their start up? If so has it been successful or a failure? I am debating trying it but wondering if my $ is best spent using regular adwords/or cpc banner ads. Read a great story about beenverified.com which used it's last $1,000 on a google tv ad which basically saved them.
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> Stay away.

Yep, stay away from the advice of some systems programmer who "follows" web development and feels entitled to comment on thing he knows very little about.

Backbone is not MVC framework, it does not have Controllers. The name is very apt: it is basically a small skeleton for your app which gives you things you'd have to reinvent and provides some organization and structure.

Actually, the description on backbonejs.org describes it very well:

> Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with
> key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable
> functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your
> existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

It is very small and simple (and even "rich API of enumerable functions" is provided by underscore.js on which backbone.js depends).
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It leads to weird ethical dilemmas as well. If the startup does offer insurance, their risk pool is small enough that hiring an employee with a preexisting condition can make a huge difference to the average employee's risk/health status, and therefore the cost of their group plan. So there are financial incentives not to hire anyone who has a medical history, though it's of course illegal to decide on that basis. And on the applicants' side, you could inadvertently sink a company, or force them to drop health coverage, by accepting an offer from a small company!

(May not apply in some states that have functioning small-business risk-pooling arrangements. And, if it gets implemented, there will be a "Small Business Health Options Program" from 2014 as part of PPACA that will do that kind of risk-pooling.)
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If you have a startup that is taking a proven idea and exploiting a niche ("twitter for left handers", "ebay for counterfeit goods", "airbnb for dyslexic vegetarians") or you're taking an existing business model and disrupting it via the internet (car rental, clothes swaps, food delivery) then you may well find seed money in the UK.

But if it's a new idea (new product/service) then in my experience even with a team with a proven track record, and a product built up and running to proof-of-engineering-principle, there aren't many people who can look at an idea and a first version and see beyond the fact that it's new, different and raw to see the opportunity to invest.

It would seem the early stage money is not tech-savvy, not excited by tech, and is looking for iteration over innovation. That is, it's risk averse and favours the reliability of a decent chance of incremental gains rather than lower chance of much bigger gains.

I haven't met everyone, by a long stretch, and it may well be that my product/pitch is wrong, but genuine innovation doesn't seem to come through the UK seed/VC channels, while such products start in the UK they generally find seed money from the US.
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The deniability aspect is irrelevant. This is a method of authentication, not encryption. For the authentication to work, the system must know the password and present it to you, along with two other non-password foils. Then to access the system you must demonstrably show that you "score higher" on the trained sequence.

I'm not sure how one would apply this method to encryption.
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Yeah. There are numerous quotes on differentials in programmer productivity being an order of magnitude or more between a bad one and a good one, but the reality is — at least in software — it often seems the same holds true for managers, except they can sink or save their whole sub-tree.

A good manager is a powerful thing, especially a good manager who knows his limits, but too often (especially in continental Europe) "management" seems to be a "reward and natural evolution", to the exclusion of other evolutionary paths and hinging as much (if not more) on the ability to brown-nose and play politics as management skills.
seems like a good candidate for Kickstarter
Tethr is a really cool convergence of open source software and hardware that will save lives. I'm really impressed by disaster response technology. I hope Tethr works well and is widely deployed.

Light weight related, the Open Street Maps response to the Haiti earthquake was particularly impressive. Here is a slideshow about that. http://www.slideshare.net/sabman/haiti-quake-public-key
You're right (although re-starting firefox isn't quite an instant thing), but like dsr_, I don't turn my computer off - so why would I ever restart a program unless I need to? Killing firefox and restoring the session might not take a long time, but it's always going to take longer than not having to restart it.
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Ask HN: Stealth Co-founder?
Having recently bootstrapped and launched a workflow SaaS app, my (non-technical) co-founder is working on the marketing of it. The problem is, his current fulltime job prevents him from being public about his involvement so anything he posts or signs up for is all run through my accounts (i.e. LinkedIn). While that's all well and good, it adds more administrivia to my plate as I'm left responding to any and all correspondence that comes our way, which takes my focus off of building a solid product. I knew going into it that he may have to operate on the DL, but I ignored how this may impact me as I've been heads down on the tech side. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems doing my part to market the app, which I do, it just is seeming less like a 50/50 effort and more on me.

I was curious as if anyone else has dealt with and handled a similar situation. Thanks.
There's nothing secret here, no private messages or personal data (email and password aside). Until censorship is a worry HN is in the later groups of websites to need https, followed by those with no login and no logging.
Anyone know how much money he's talking about to certify the new patch? Even a ballpark?
Project management isn't a full-time thing. A good PM should be able to manage a fair number of developers at the same time... you certainly don't need a full time PM per developer. Unfortunately I'm unable to share their info.
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What would that accomplish beyond creating an opportunity for Office competitors such as iWork?

Do you really think people will ditch their Macs and go back to Windows?
Fair critique. We're working on changing our permissions now, and it'll be fixed by the end of the day. Cheers!
Given how large a portion of business users are now buying / owning Mac laptops and/or iPads, pulling Office from OSX would probably do more to damage that very profitable business than hurt OSX. It would just push more people onto the lower cost Office 365, or Google Apps faster than they've already been going - in particular at Universities and other places where the additional functionality of desktop office is mostly wasted on the end users.
Ask HN: How to handle a complicated biz filing?
Disclaimer: I am not asking for legal advise here, we are working with attorneys on figuring this out. I am more interested in just hearing from any founders who have gone through similar situations.

Background: An LLC with a 300k cash contribution and an equal 300k IP contribution was formed 3 years ago for a site that buys and sells cranes. It didn't do well.

Moving Forward: The company approached me as the developer to rebuild the application and re-start the company. Since then we took on an additional in 80k in cash contribution from a new member, plus my contribution of IP. The proposed membership is:

Original Member 1 - 20%

Original Member 2 - 30%

New Cash - 15%

New IP - 15%

Option - 20%

Problem: The lawyers are telling us that the non-cash contributors may be in for a rude surprise come tax season, as we are accepting payment in the form of stock for services rendered. My understanding is shouldn't be the case as we assigning our IP as a capital contribution to the corporation in exchange for stock, and therefore this should be looked at by the IRS the same as a cash contribution.

What are your thoughts?
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> Stack ranking really isn't as bad as it has been made out to be in the past few weeks.

I'm curious how it could possibly not be as bad as it sounds, considering the simplicity of the concept and the obviousness of its implications.
Y Combinator is different from other accelerators in that it isn't an incubator. This is part of what sets it apart IMO.

I think that TechStars is an exception to the rule about accelerators and incubators being little more than a distraction, but you're entitled to your opinion. The benefits of Y Combinator are much clearer.
No. If that wasn't bad enough, that same system requires managers to rate a certain number of worker as sub-standard each year even if they already fired all their sub-standard workers during that same year.
The bypass button only disappears for HSTS sites. Do you have a proxy server that's intercepting these connections and has a broken certificate?

You can disable all certificate checking with --ignore-certificate-errors but it is as bad as it sounds.

Rather, to correctly support MITM proxies you should install their CA certificate locally.
jashkenas went over a lot of this in the State of the Backbone at Backboneconf. Regretfully you can't see all of the examples in the video... but you can hear his description here:

http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2012/06/state-of-the-back...
I fall right in the middle with the lawyer advice.

You should not incorporate without seeking very good legal advice from someone who knows what they are talking about in your industry. Yes, incorporating a business is easy and standardized, but as MattMarron pointed out, you can do it in a way that is bad for your type of business. For example, as a tech startup, you shouldn't structure yourself life a restaurant. You need founder shares to vest overtime, etc

On the other end, some people just blindly pay and trust lawyers to know your business for you. Lawyers should not be decision makers. Rule of thumb: Do not pay lawyers to tell you how to do things. Figure out how you want to do them, then pay lawyer to make sure that's actually represented in the fine print.

Find a lawyer who's worked with similar companies, seems trustworthy and doesn't charge you for every 15 min phone call
Sounds like a government contractor.
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I tried this and loved it, but it lacks one of the two prime weights (bold, ital), can't remember which. That hurts it because a lot of code editing for me takes place in an environment where all three weights are used, and it kills the monospaced-ness.
Actually it's not an affiliate bot. Whatever a microsemiconductor is, it costs 10 million dollars:

http://store.americanmicrosemiconductor.com/120293-0001revk....

I also enjoy the negative 9 million dollar discount you get.

Does anyone know what a microsemiconductor does?
Can't we know the name of the startup?
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I believe the idea is that when the Committee for Public Safety decides something so heinous is about to be passed in (some?) legislature somewhere in the world (a little hazy on what will be actionable), they will fire up the cat-signal and provide updated campaign code to League members to demonstrate solidarity via a "hunger-strike" of sorts "going-dark" protest.

Not sure if the cat signal will be involved in this "final-mile" of the distributed protest action or not.
Group Health always treated me well, people need to get over it.
We can't do a blocking DNS lookup other than for A/AAAA records. About 5% of Chrome users cannot resolve TXT records because the network is filtering the DNS requests. (i.e. we know that the network is up and we're asking about a DNS name that we known exists, but we get a timeout.)
> I'm not sure it would scale to a 50,000 person company.

Split the company into a bunch of mini-companies, don't get beyond "the limit".

Microsoft used to be a pretty flat organization back in the days, depth of the management layer is one of the things MS employees mocked at IBM in the 80s and 90s. It was already a pretty big company back then.

BTW, MS's headcount is closer to 90k than 50k these days.
Sure thing.

But first, for the "kinds of things" that Backbone helps with, take a quick scroll through the list of examples available here: http://backbonejs.org/#examples

Here's a bit of typical (if exaggerated) jQuery to render/update the UI for a list of "accounts":

$(".account").each(function(){
var id = $(this).attr('data-id');
var data = window.accountJSON[id];
$(this).find(".name").text(data.name);
for (var i = 0, l = data.emails.length; i < l; i++) {
var e = data.emails[i];
$(this).append($("<div class='email'></div>").text(e));
}
var addresses = $(this).find(".address").length;
$(this).find(".address_count").text(addresses);
});

... note that we're looking into specific DOM classes, pulling data from a big 'ol global JSON object, looking up id values from the DOM, and so on.

Here's something a little bit closer you really want to write instead:

Accounts.each(function(account) {
new AccountView({model: account});
});

For each account, render its UI. Of course, this is just sweeping a lot of the complexity of the original example under the rug -- but that's the point -- you want your UI in HTML templates, and your data/model logic to be in "clean" JavaScript code unpolluted by UI concerns. Then, when you refactor your design later, all of your client-side business logic doesn't have to change -- it no longer cares about global nested JSON structures or concrete DOM elements.

For another Backbone example, imagine taking all of the songs by a given artist, and rating them with 5 stars:

Songs.each(function(song) {
if (song.get('artist') == "Wire") {
song.set({stars: 5});
}
});

... and your UI updates accordingly, and you can change that ".set" to a ".save" call to persist the tracks back to your server as well.
can you share any apps you have on the market?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Sergei and Larry wanted her gone, period. She has had a lackluster career at Google, and they may have gladly watched her move out of the way.
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This is the only corroborating evidence that I could find:
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=4618

For some reason I had it in my head that Bill and Steve took Math 55 together.
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It's actually kind of a pain to enable HSTS because it makes you fix all the places where you're downgrading to HTTP. You should definitely do it if you care whether your users' sessions get hijacked, but it's not _just_ flipping a switch.
I was trying to stay fairly clinical about it because it's pretty controversial. But yes, I did have a good giggle when I first saw it on The Yes Men Fix the World.
If clearing the browser cache/cookies makes the browser forget about STS for each domain, then MITM attacker gets a lot more chances to intercept and attack. I don't have stats on how often average users clear their browsers but it is a fairly common troubleshooting step so most people are aware of it.

If clearing the browser cache/cookies does not make the browser forget about STS for each domain, then we got another way to maintain http://samy.pl/evercookie/
I've heard around $10,000. It's not much if you're a larger studio, but if this patch could potentially introduce more issues, the costs could add up.
Consolas is wonderful and definitely better than Iconsolata. If you like Inconsolata, I highly recommend trying to hunt down a copy of Consolas from Windows (I did this on my Mac for awhile). These days, though, I use Meslo because it allows me to get a bit more line height in a graceful way.
You can get most of the benefit now by registering a separate domain for the frames and taking advantage of the same-origin policy.
> microsoft would charge us tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game.

That seems like a decent ballpark.
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15k for setting it up properly before raising funds. It is a great deal more than just incorporating, which was more like $1k for me even using my very expensive corporate lawyers.
> You'll also see the crowd freak-out when they see it, which I think is a reasonable way to assess how many times previously they've seen something similar.

I would disagree: RDF.

Not to mention whether a group of Apple journalists and enthusiasts have seen something before isn't quite a waterproof endorsement of lack of prior art.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number Valve should already be two tribes.

You have probably heard about Gore-Tex solution—build plants with 150 workplaces.
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If you want to "replace" jQuery, use a model binding library which takes care of driving the UI from the values set in the models.

Check out the "Views" section for a list of libraries:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/wiki/Extensions%2C...
Bing works, in a lot of measures it works just as well as Google search.

Bing may be losing money but if MS keeps it in place, it will be able to capture search if Google just happens to seriously stumble somehow.

MS has an indefinite stream of nearly guaranteed money from the Windows/Office franchise. It makes perfect sense for them to use that money to chase all other high-profit, high-tech markets that other companies pioneer. They've had some successes doing that(Xbox). Apple has a got track record creating such markets so why not use them as a searchlight for opportunities.

What should MS do instead? "Follow it's dream"?

Not every company can be Apple so what can the non-Apples in "consumer computing" do but chase Apple?
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Do you know of any technologies that Big Pharma has suppressed? I'd be interested to read about it!