skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those individuals are using science to support their pre-existing narrowmindedness, stubbornness, and extremism. Science is not making them those things. On the contrary, the fundamentals of science lie in questioning pre-conceived notions in the face of findings that conflict them. This is how scientific progress is made.
If your service tells me that myname+servicexyz@gmail.com is an invalid address, you have to live without me. I can't count how many mails I sent to websites incorrectly validating email fields. However, password validation is mostly even worse. Just stop over-validating already!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_D._Holt
Apple TV No IPhone as Talks Bog Down With Media Companies
If you're using a Mac, please don't install all of this individually. Instead, install the Scipy Superpack: http://fonnesbeck.github.com/ScipySuperpack/
I use it daily.

- I mine

- you can buy them to your name, and then after a few transfers/transactions it would take the collaboration of an army of disparate users worldwide to determine where did the coins come from

- #bitcoin-otc in freenode

Although I do agree that's not easy to grasp for outsiders. It takes some time to get familiar with the best options. There's no way in hell they can connect your id with your coins (or a subset of it you keep for stuff like this) if you are moderately careful. Even satoshi-dice does the trick.
Guys, I have to interject. This is a terrible idea:

This is horrible practice from the perspective of a mail server. Too many illegitimate email addresses and you will start getting more "soft bounces" (a polite way to say, "We're not delivering this") when attempting to send mail. ISP's keep score for how accurate a mail server is when delivering mail, attempting to sift out spammers. When your score dips to a certain level, ISP's stop cooperating with you and basically label you as a "dubious/bad actor".

For a small-scale operation, perhaps this is okay. For anything larger or more vital, I wouldn't trust this method of operation, as it will at some point result in emails to legitimate addresses not being delivered. That's simply unacceptable for many applications.
Stock Android is integrated and easy. Though perhaps you're taking "stock" to mean "lacking the Google applications," which I'm certainly not.

"What comes on Nexus devices" is what I consider a stock Android product. That's effectively the selling point and why it's so fantastic.
Anyone know for sure whether or not the browser will work international with 3G? That's the one thing that would prevent me from upgrading from my keyboard model.
It's not Apple doing it, it's http://www.openstreetmap.org/.
You're probably not a scientist. Mathematics mostly traffics in things which are right or wrong; science rarely does. That's one of the criticisms that the peanut gallery often lobs at it: that it's just based on theories.

When ideas are actually being trafficked -- that is when they're new and struggling for breathing room, they're rarely clearly right or wrong. Consensus forms over a fairly long amount of time. With luck, and a lot of verification, over the course of a decade or three theories elide to the canon of science's best understanding of a given problem space. There we might broadly refer to theories as "true", but that's just everyday conversational shorthand, not the language of science.

The problem in the intersection with pop culture is that it's generally only well after those couple of decades of a theory working its way into the canon of scientific understanding that it begins working its way through pop culture. This is the critical point where there's a lot of naysaying from the general public and a lot of rolled eyes from scientists. It's at this point that science transforms into politics: each side hardens their positions, begins stating them in absolutist terms and tries to win the other side over, usually based on an appeal to authority.

Science itself is, in fact, a slow and reasonably democratic process. It is at times dogmatic, but far less than, say, American politics.
Lush's purpose a little dfferent than Matlabs. The abstractions are a little lower level than Matlab for instance. But then again you you can compile your functions directly to machine code. There are trade offs to everything in life.

Matlab,Ocatave,R,S are great but if you need to be closer to the metal, Lush offers a very good compromise.
The biggest argument for not validating email addresses shouldn't be that "it's hard". It should be that email providers don't always follow RFC guidelines. At my old job, we had this really weird bug that, after a lot of work, we tracked down to users who legitimately had greek letters in their email addresses.

If there are legitimate emails that don't follow RFC, you should absolutely allow users to enter non-RFC-compliant email addresses.
I presume GP talks about tightening rules on immigration. Federal Skilled Worker program that was the main source of skilled immigrants to Canada several years ago was a point system where factors like your age, education, work experience, marital status, number of official languages you speak, and secured job offer were contributing to the overall score and your occupation did not matter.

Some time ago, this programme became limited to the specific list of occupations, with application limit per occupation and overall cap. And, software developers were not on the list. As of July 1st 2012, Canada temporarily stopped accepting applications until "early 2013" to implement some more changes.
Some good points for comparison:

http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users

IMHO, it's best to prototype in Octave and then build in python. I find that the Matlab/Octave syntax is too focused on linear algebra, so it's better for small prototypes (and for people coming from non-SW fields). For big projects, I prefer the 0-based arrays, more than one function per file, and all the rest of the python goodies. I estimate that 70% of my time is usually spend preparing the data (e.g. parsing xml, or some other files, etc), for which I find python more suitable.

In fact, I usually work with them side by side, testing ideas in Octave, then implementing these pieces into a large python project.

Edit: this has also been discussed here before, e.g.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363096

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=689183
Phew! I worked in one of Google's data-entry offices for the GT team. I've left, but now I can shoot this article to people to actually describe what I did.
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He'd have to have bang routes set up on his mail server for that. =) So it's not just effectively dead, it's dead-dead.
Quite simply because they don't run for office. Angela Merkel is quite an exception in that respect. Usually, in Germany it's quite the same as in the US: Most high-profile politicians are lawyers or - a German peculiarity - former teachers.
I completely agree, and India is a prime example of this. In some of the poorer states there, the politicians are blatantly corrupt, yet keep getting re-elected.
> I don't see how this integration is a selling point, the price and the kindle branding seem to be it's biggest selling points. Everyone knows that kindle is synonymous with books at this point.

It's a selling point because it's easy and it's automatic. Similar to iOS. Out of the box you're ready to go and if you buy something one place it shows up in the other place too. If you're a Prime customer there is a ton of video content waiting for you for free. It's a walled garden, but other than Apple it's the most well done walled garden.

I'd prefer top of the line hardware with stock Android (mostly so I can test stuff), but that's not the business they're in. They made that very clear with Bezos stating they don't want to make money with selling their devices, they want to make money when you use them.
The obsession with responsive websites
You're second point is pretty much the reason why I ended up joining a startup in Canada. I got job offers from Facebook and Google for twice the pay, but I couldn't get a tn visa. According to the Canadian government I am not qualified to work there since I dropped out of College.

But yeah if it weren't for that there wouldn't have been much incentive to stick around.
A couple years ago Evan Phoenix (of rubinius) and I collaborated (by which I mean he wrote the grammar and I did almost nothing) on a REAL RFC compliant email address validator using a PEG for parsing: https://github.com/larb/email_address_validator

I don't know that anyone uses it, or would even want to use it. It was a fun project, but I certainly wouldn't use it in an app (unless it was an MTA or MUA). What comprises a valid email address is way too broad.

I think there are reasonable regexes for email addresses FWIW. The RFC(s) are stupid and broken, and you can hit 99.99999% of addrs and provide useful errors back to the users with a regex.
You'd be surprised!

I think on vWorker and some of the others, people just post projects with what they can afford -- a few hundred $$$ -- and see what sticks. There's always someone who will take them up on it, even if only to disappear forever when they realize how difficult it is.

I have received at least one personal invite to design just such a board in the last week (max bid $499), but I already deleted it.
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Ask HN: What online services do you use to calculate and file sales tax?
If there are any problems, it's because you're using an old browser. (As far as I know.) The iPhone browser definitely counts as "old". ^_^

In particular, a bunch of browsers don't support specifying background-size in the background shorthand yet. It's in modern WebKit, but that hasn't trickled down to mobile versions yet.
Ok, this is really weird. As a dabbler in robotics I've converted toys into robots but not actual living bugs. I'm really not sure where this sort of thing leads either good or bad.
The best part about science that could be used by politics is empiricism. There is so much talk of right and wrong, as if the policies of the next guy are going to be written in stone forever. Our nation is a human construct, the constitution a written document, amendable, changeable. A good scientist would look at the problems facing this nation and say, "Well, let's see what this policy does."

We try hard to make good policy, but the universe is complicated, people are finicky, and policies can fail. We need a political environment that encourages this kind of empiricism, and rejects the absolutist assumptions that seem to underly all political debate.
I have a Kindle 3 with 3G, and it works great over here in Italy, and was also the only internet connected device I had when stuck in Amsterdam because of snow a few years back (hotel charged something obscene for wifi, and the phone would have incurred big roaming charges).

Of course, with the touch, they only let you see wikipedia and Amazon.com, I've heard.
I believe you can setup aliases in ssh_config where you specify the actual hostname and the key to use. Which is what I've used in the past to get the right key to just work with git (and gitolite).

Host github-yipit-main
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/yipit_main_rsa

then just go about your merry way of:

git clone git@github-yipit-main:/yipit/yipit-main.git
Let's just take a quick look....

gs-collections / collections / src / main / java / com / gs / collections / impl / map / strategy / immutable / ImmutableHashingStrategyMapFactoryImpl.java

Never mind...
Why didn't you take the 30 seconds and check? It's very much on the Amazon marketplace and works fine on the Kindle Fire.

http://www.amazon.com/Kobo-Inc-eBooks/dp/B004SIEZ8I/
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I don't think anyone is claiming that scientists are infallible godly beings. Rather, the article is pointing out that countries that elect scientists to their governments end up with significantly more scientific progress than governments that elect lawyers, poly sci majors, and business people.
Exactly. I installed and used Glitter Draw Free, presumably this data was sent to spankapps.com, and my information was not in the dump.
I think foobar@gmail.com. should actually work. IIRC, that last dot is the root of the DNS hierarchy.

Try http://news.ycombinator.com./ ;-)
I would say that an acquihire of a struggling product that he was only marginally involved in, isn't the time to congratulate the guy. He was primarily an investor and probably just lost some money
I know what you're talking about: I'm from Brazil.

Democracy is a recipe for bad decisions everywhere, though. In Europe, you won't elect a leader who talks about cutting government expenses, even if those are needed. Instead, you'll get a leader who pleases the population, with catastrophic results.
With rpy2 you can even embed R code in Python.
A quote: "We arrive at the park and have to mount everything. This involves removing all the gear from the car ..."

Wait -- based on the article title, I thought this was about camping. In camping, you put on a backpack, walk away from civilization, choose a spot suitable to put up a tent or throw a sleeping bag on the ground, and stay a while.

No park, no car, no bathroom. The author is misusing the word "camping" to refer to going to a car park.

Another quote: " ... all the usually long trips to the bathroom (if you're lucky it's just 50 meters from your tent) ..."

This is depressing. I'll bet this guy has never camped in his life. Where I camp, I have to think of a way to keep the bears out of my tent.

One of my camps in Alaska: http://arachnoid.com/alaska2008/graphics/pws_naked_island_20...
At work I've introduced mailcheck.js[1] (which I found on HN, BTW.) and we use it in registration form to give hints about mistyped popular polish and international domains. We do also have some validation code, but it's simple and it handles + sign correctly. It's important not only for users, but essencial for developers as well - right now I have 56 unique accounts on the development server using the same e-mail but different things before the + sign. It helps tremendously.

[1] https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck
Are there scientists to vote for in the US? I would love to vote for one, but they're are no scientist candidates in my country. And virtually every academic I know, openly hates politics and wants to stay away from it.

"The largest punishment for those who are not interested in politics, is that they'll be governed by those who are."

Maybe the best solution would be to teach politics to scientists, and not the other way around?
I don't think it's as much "techies," per se, as being a person who 35MM people like and listen to. Rush Limbaugh "engages the political process" by the same token. Regardless of his actual words, he is courted as a taste-maker.
>a good UI on the registration form can go a long way in alleviating //

But not all the way. And so a simple "you might have got this wrong" flag would be helpful, no?
I'm surprised by the quality! Never associated Pakistan with cool new online services.
You, um, know that Selectors is one of the few specs without naming problems, right? Its url is "selectors4".

As well (partially as a result of me writing this blog post), we're looking into changing our URL structure, which was originally settled on a decade ago, before we knew how we were going to do this "module" thing.

But hey, nice attempt at trolling.
I will check further this path... :-)
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Totally agree. Would also add Chrome to the list of "most appreciated Google products".
Just having a simple warning should not be a problem though as long as never do change the input of the user.
If you get an incorrect address, it's because the user made a mistake. Chances are, most of those mistakes will still be RFC-compliant addresses (wrong or missing letters, for example). I find it hard to believe that people inputting addresses without @s or with unicode characters would become a real problem.
To see what people are up to.
OpenWRT on a TL-MR3020 or TL-WR703N. They're broadly similar, although the 703 is physically slightly smaller, cheaper, and Chinese (but easily acquired via eBay). They have ethernet, WiFi, and USB.

I'm using a TL-MR3020 with OpenWRT as the basis of a telepresence robot I'm working on. It has a USB hub connecting it to a flash drive (mounted as a filesystem), camera, and a microcontroller for motor control etc. It works really well.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n
Not in my case. I bought an iPod over eBay a few years back. It was delivered faulty. I chatted with seller who said send it back. I told him I would when I "got back", which I did. Sent it registered. The guy stopped answering mail when he got the device. His reputation started to plummet very quickly, mine was 100%.
PayPal refused to investigate because I notified them too late (about 6 weeks after purchase) despite emails, faulty item delivered and acknowledged.
PayPal is a scam and I will never trust their buyer protection again.
Http://www.paypalsycks.com/
I have one of these, which you can instantly "recharge" at the corner store by buying 4 AA batteries.

http://www.tekkeon.com/products-tekcharge1580.html

I normally keep it filled with good quality rechargeable NiMH batteries (PowerEX) which hold more than enough juice to completely recharge an iPhone 4. 4 AA's from the store will give you about 2/3rds of a charge. I find it well designed. It also works as a travel charger.
As an engineer this may finally solve one of the most vexing problems I deal with, data sheets. They are all PDFs these days and they are unreadable on the old style Kindle (kinda ok on the DX) nice but a bit of overkill on the 3rd gen iPad.

The reason I want an e-ink screen device for data sheets is that it often sits on my desk for long periods on the pinout page or the 'example circuit' page. On an e-ink display it just sits there forever, on an iPad the display goes to sleep or if I keep it awake I burn through power too fast.
Because we have yet to see if the software has improved.
If that's your definition of a fork there are very very few Android devices since just about every OEM/Carrier does the same thing. Amazon was different though since they didn't refer to it as Android. Not a true fork though since they are bringing in the latest Android changes.
Question - why do you prefer the hard keys to the touchscreen page turns? BTW the non-touch model is still available, it has the hard keys.
Is /@/ really going to catch significantly less invalid emails than whatever other almost but not quite validation you can apply?

What's more common, someone accidentally typing "foo:ar@gmail.com" or "foonar@gmail.com"? Both would bounce and cause mails server issues.

If someone was being malicious, they can do it with an unregistered address that passes any validation you throw at it.
Throwww's Initial Reception
The problem is that the "protection" invariably prevents someone from using their odd but valid address.
Google 4, Bing 1, but I mostly use DuckDuckGo. But Google is unmatched for geographic terms, so I override with !gmaps
Colorblindness simulator
Yes, but $69 is for a regular e-ink Kindle. The tablets don't start until $159.
Do they really use Open Street Map? I thought they licences data from TomTom.
mullvad, nuff said
> The OS is based on ICS.

I was looking for that info, where did you see that?
Online Sight Check
I won't be buying a new kindle in large part due to how disappointed I was with the first Fire. The ads are the final nail in the coffin though. While I've read a number of people writing positive things about the ads (coupons for amazon mp3 etc) it's still not something I care to see on a device I'm spending hundreds of dollars on.
That said, the old adage still holds: "You are entitled to hold your own opinions, but not to hold your own facts." That is something which is clearly not true in US politics. There are politicians in the US who profess publicly that the Earth is not warming, that the universe is only 6000 years old, and animals were designed by a divine creator.

This has obvious public policy implications. It's hard to discuss possible adaptations or remedies for global warming when one side refuses to acknowledge that the phenomenon even exists. It's hard to talk about endangered species when one side thinks, "It's God's responsibility." It's hard to talk about the impact of tax changes when neither side has a coherent view of basic economics.

It's true that scientists are no less afflicted by selfishness, vanity, or pettiness than people in any other industry. However, unlike people in other industries (especially law and politics), scientists and engineers have to deal with physical reality. They cannot make their problems go away through fancy rhetoric or canny argumentation. That reminder of physical reality beyond the niceties of law and legislation is one that's sorely lacking in our government today.
They're still at the head of the price curve if you look at the price that matters: $69. you don't really need a touch screen, a glow light, and the ads are not a big deal. Kindle is still the cheapest real player in the e-reader market.

I probably won't be upgrading from my 3rd-gen kindle either, but somehow i doubt amazon cares. I'm sure they make more off of book purchases from 3-year-old kindles than they do from the sale of new hardware. They want to sell kindles to as many people as they can, but once you've got a kindle all they need you to do is keep buying content.
Do you really want random, uneducated people wielding that much power? People who idolize celebrities?
Nowdays browsers should do the validation that provides immediate feedback to the users (using <input type=email ...>), so the article rightly claims that just sending an e-mail should be sufficient for the server side code. Most of the stuff that passes the browser's input filtering will be nonexistant rather than malformed addresses.

OTOH, most languages have proven, stable libraries for validating e-mail addresses (e.g. Mail::RFC822::Address for Perl).
"You might have it wrong", yes. "You are wrong, we won't let you submit the form" won't.
Both (and more, too).

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078987/apple-tomtom-opens...
There was that popular link being circulated a while back... Democracy does not aim to select the optimal candidate but to minimize the damage caused. The candidate chosen is the "least bad", not the most optimal.
Competitiveness has been the driver of all human progress. Without it people just stagnate.

So any interstellar race is likely to be very competitive. You hope it doesn't show up as killing, but the reality is when you have two people who both want something, they fight.
Bit late answer...

I think technically it will be possible to let the user provide and store the data needed to have a personal experience at a website, it should be not that hard.

You should be able to either provide an address to your data or the data itself in the calling phase of a request to the server at hand, if we choose to change the protocols of webserving.

However I have a feeling that the whole enterprise world will fight with all power to make it not happen.
Like mailcheck.js I mentioned in other part of this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486341
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I quite like the way these phones look too. Nokia, when they try, does a good job on such things, I think. It is just that nothing about them looks organic at all. So it is absurd that someone kept using that term for them.