skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a genetic disorder, as does my oldest son. It is homozygous recessive, which means my youngest son and ex husband are carriers. Both my kids were extremely challenging to raise and I ended up homeschooling them both, in part to not have my family wind up being "the next Columbine" in the headlines. I have a long list of ornery relatives and have a fair degree of familiarity with physical traits with known psychological tie-ins, such as red hair being associated with high pain tolerance and also high risk tolerance.

So, yes, I believe that. Europe may not have been explicitly trying to get rid of genes per se, but they did essentially ship literally boatloads of undesirables to both America and Australia, countries which have some things in common in terms of having maverick social norms, more so than a lot of older cultures.

I can't prove it in a few comments in a public forum, but it isn't just some idea I dreamed up earlier this afternoon. It is rooted in many years of reading and discussing the connection between inborn traits and characteristics like tolerance for risk. I am not someone who likes risk. But my genetic disorder has made me unable to go along to get along, even though my default personality makes me wish I could. So, yes, I see clear connections between socially difficult behaviors and genes.
Count yourself lucky. I graduated in 2011 and only got 2 offers from BigCo's like that, and 3 grad-school admissions out of 7 applications. Ended up being much easier to get offers from start-ups, actually.
Ironically enough I have more issues with getting spam text messages on my cell phone than spam email messages. It's a shame that either the CAN-SPAM act isn't enforced or doesn't apply to text messages. I'm on the national do not call list as well, and that has had seemingly no affect.
Please leave.
You can find practically nothing, except for some initial cases many years ago, where someone has been prosecuted for can-spam. I would imagine that like with any crime, you would have to really piss some people off to fall under this act.

(Smoking marijuana is a crime as well as is driving over the speed limit and a host of other things that generally don't land you in hot water even if they are known to the authorities.)
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Podcast - Gary Whitta interviews Chris Roberts & David Braben about Kickstarter
As a developer, I like to follow the rule of thumb that requests that have a persistent effect (such as changing your subscription options) should be HTTP POST rather than HTTP GET. This is in order to avoid mistakes generated by automated tools or systems which pre-fetch/cache/scan/analyze content. As such, my unsubscribe links lead to a page containing a one sentence summary of what you are about to do, and a form submit button.

This does not apply to the link passed in the SMTP header List-Unsubscribe, which needs to take direct action.
I proudly present:

http://rewindhn.com

:)
Not only that, but they send you emails even after you have deleted your account.
That's a bit fantastic. Honestly, no disrespect to you, but it's an example of thinking that makes non-technical discussions on HN very odd. OK, if you had this magical 3D printer, probably we'd have Armageddon every other day. In fact, probably we'd only have them for a day because that's the day doomsday weapons would be created by anyone and everyone. I don't think we need to deal with that because it's just kind of crazy-talk. :)
The author argues that Microsoft should create an open source version of IE so that it's marketing for IE would be more successful.

The commercial goal of the advertising is not to drive IE usage vs Chrome/Firefox on Windows - it's to get people to buy windows machines. They're [re]building the IE brand, dispelling negative perceptions around IE (and Windows, by association) and presenting IE as a superior browser to drive OS/computer purchasing decisions.

None of those goals are served by a cross-platform version - in fact, it would only present a risk if the quality and experience was not similar or better to the native version.
Technically, those are free functions defined on strings, not members functions of the class string.

But also: std::to_string

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/to_stri...
Please note that all the discussion that is done here about Hushmail being or not secure is only applicable to @hushmail to @hushmail communication. Securing mails to external addresses is impossible by design (without other types of key exchange/trust, e.g. PGP).
I agreed with everything you said until the last sentence.

About 25 years ago I got an interesting demonstration, in a group of people. I was in a large group of people, who were asked to draw two lines. On the first, mark how noticeable you are. On the second mark how organized you think you are. We were then divided into quadrants based on this, and sent off to talk with others in the same quadrant.

The test took just a few seconds. It was based on BS criteria. Everyone understood that. But it was amazing at how much each quadrant shared. And when we came back in and sat down in quadrants, to report back what we'd learned, you could look at all 4 groups and it was instantly obvious which group was which.

If you're looking to get a label, and to figure out where you belong, this kind of test does not work. But as a starting place to get ideas for how to get insight about yourself, the test absolutely is valuable. And as long as the personality characteristics measured are consistent and well understood, it wouldn't matter what they are.

If you're curious, on the MBTI I came out ENTP. On the tiny test I just described, I was a promoter - I am both noticeable and disorganized.
posted 691 days ago: but i said two clicks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139617
I used to use bash scripts and `find` for the purposes that you give. Maid came about when I was starting to add logging and a "dry run" option to those bash scripts. Ruby quickly became an attractive option then. But for many one-off tasks, I still find knowing how to use `bash`, `find`, etc effectively to be important.

There are other benefits beyond logging and an easy to invoke "dry run" option. For example, many of the methods in the DSL give back arrays and strings, any of Ruby's many Enumerable methods are available to you. If you have any difficult-to-express logic, that can be quite handy. Also, not every OS keeps its trash at `~/.Trash`, but Maid will do the right thing on OS X or Linux.

There are other reasons you might prefer Maid over shell scripts, but in general my hope is that Maid can provide a common framework for these types of scripts and also a community for people interested in automating tasks like this.
If you really want to kill ALL Linkedin messages choose the "Filter messages like these" option in Gmail. Then just enter "linkedin.com" in the From field. Done.
All the team members of BigBinary work remotely.

Anyone looking for internship opportunity can contact us.

http://bigbinary.com/
It is not much of a choice. While I have no problem travelling for an internship, I am pretty much limited only in EU and I was rather unsure if there are a lot of offers that include living and travelling costs. Does your company offer intern positions at the moment?
As Eben Moglen said in his speech in Berlin. If we don't do something soon, we are going to be living in the age past forgetting. Nothing will ever be forgotten again. Everything one do, everything one say, everything one reads, listen to, or think about is recoded and saved for all eternity.

This 5 years the article talk about. Do anyone really believe than in 5 years, they won't extend it further? It will continue to the point in which either everything is stored forever, or push back actually takes away this pandora box from the government.

No goverment ever want to be with less information about the population. If they could predict who is a criminal before a crime is committed, social benefits could be rerouted away. If they could predict who is going to become political candidates, they could adjust information flows away or towards that person. If they can predict who is voting for who, they can direct support/anti-support to "encourage" the right result.

This is why I am worried about a surveillance state. With a large enough database of population information, and prediction models, democracy will be eroded to the point of destruction.
This is very cool. Do you intend to put this on GitHub?
Came to leave this comment, not disappointed someone beat me to it.
Would people from outside the bike industry please stop trying to reinvent the wheel?

There's a much better internal gearbox already available. The three-speed planetary gearhub has been in production since 1936 and continues to work brilliantly, essentially unchanged since. It's cheap, light, phenomenally reliable and highly efficient. They're ubiquitous on European utility bicycles, because they will run for years without any sort of maintenance or adjustment. You can have one in a variety of ratios, with a coaster brake, roller brake or disc mounts, or even with a standard cassette spline, allowing you to use any derailleur system in addition to the internal gearhub. At the expense of some efficiency and durability you can have eight speeds built into your rear hub; At the expense of about €1000 you can have a 14-speed Rohloff, as favoured by most round-the-world cyclists.

People from non-cycling cultures seem convinced that the key impediment to widespread cycling is technical and tend to jump on any supposed "innovation". The truth is that cycling development is primarily a social issue and requires no new bicycle technologies or special infrastructure. It is for this reason that the promotion of cycling is both much easier and much harder than most believe.
New Google Engineering Director, Kurzweil to Turn Visions to Reality
I had a DJ way back when, it was a pretty solid music player. It was cheap, durable (actually, very durable given my abuse), good baterry life, you didn't need itunes and had the same UI as the iPod (both were lifted from Creative - Dell got a license, Apple settled after a suit).

If you didn't want/like the iPod, that was probably the best mp3 player you could buy.
You can also create filters to manage such emails so it doesn't clutter you're inbox, but still lets you see them if you want.
Dropbox did this recently with an email titled "Never email big files again! Share with a Dropbox link"
"I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13"

Actually I can assure you that there is a inverse relationship between age and the chance of getting a newspaper to write an article about something you have done. "17 year old gets into medical school" is barely interesting. "13 year old gets into medical school" is definitely interesting. Same with business, computers, or just about anything.
It's slightly less fast, but I don't mind this. Provided you don't make me remember which email address you're sending to and just autofill it, I'll happily click all the one-button forms you like.
It is the spirit if not the letter of the law. Nobody intended someone to use 50 AJAX steps on a single page to skirt the law.
They repeatedly send you emails even if you don't have an account.
Did you accept the offer and what was the amount of the offer?
You keep talking about people leaving America. Is that you would have told the slaves before being freed? Laws are little more dynamic than you seem to imply. But I don't want to argue gun rights with you.

I would like to ask you approximately how old do you think the Earth is?
Negative predictions are quite interesting IMHO, shame we don't see more of them in pop media. They could've at least mentioned 2038 in this one.
Bonus Points: If I haven't logged into your site in over 2 weeks and/or opened an email, consider me unsubscribed and stop sending me emails.
True, my bad. btw i mentioned monasteries not as just a sightseeing. Who knows...
The good old I-didn't-find-it-useful-so-no-one-will perspective. Clearly you didn't bother to understand the purpose or the intended audience for the article. The title spells it out. There's tons of articles that discuss design elements, but very few that give practical advice on how to quickly hack together a presentable site.
The thing you're missing from that list is thingist, which is my "lists" app.

Yes, it does provide value. Thingist has become my, and the few other people that have run into it's:

Photo sharing site

Bookmarking site

Music playlist site

Shopping list

Link aggregator

Blogging platform

Etc.

I've been keeping "songs I like" for almost two years, and it has replaced grooveshark or spotify for me.

So yes, lists do provide value.

http://thingist.com

(sadly I haven't worked on thingist much in the last few months. Depression is a bitch like that)
I love that, but unfortunately CAN-SPAM is a US law, not a universal law.
Hasn't dell built a rather large company on packing other people's chips with other people's content? Not sure what android changes. I guess they would lose margin on the windows license, but that's about it.
I can certainly see where you're coming from. Many of those people would probably benefit from Hazel more than Maid, however. :) As it stands, Maid is somewhere in between hand-crafted shell scripts and a user-friendly GUI (but definitely closer to the former).

That said, Maid has certainly helped me out, and I'm happy that so many others have found it intriguing. (Thanks for the comments!)
To the less-proficient ones: Please not that here he is comparing Tor hidden services and i2p eepSites, where both the client and the server use Tor/i2p. In this case all your communication is "magically" encrypted, in a more strong fashion by i2p (this is the tl;dr).

However, when communicating with the regular web none of this apply, and Tor will probably offer better protection as i2p is not by design built to communicate with the outside net.
Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage
Because poor people don't commit violent crimes? ... ... Really ... ... ?
>> Are you sure you're an INTJ?

> IIRC, the most common response was that I must not be an INTJ.

Again, I had a great laugh finding out that questioning other people's INTJness is seemingly an INTJ thing to do.

Part of the way I see it is that doing the test is a good way to find out what you might want to work on (as you suggested with self-improvement), and that should be relevant to every type. For example, if you're an I, learn some conversation skills; if you're an E, you don't need to always say what's on your mind. I can see the trap of finding it an excuse to be unpleasant to others, however.
Creating app for finding new tv series. Link: bingewatch.it Thoughts?
If I didn't explicitly opt in (checking an unchecked checkbox, emailing someone and saying "please subscribe me to your ads", etc.), I mark it as spam.
Could you link to these people's blogs? Would make your comment so much more useful.
Probably my lack of understanding of how vagrant fits and works. But you wouldn't use vagrant to manage a production server, so there's an inevitable difference there.
What sort of vitriol is this? How dare they invent a new technology and build an API to it.
The Woes of an American Drone Operator
I might open source the frontend, but the code responsible for summary generation probably won't be released any time soon.
Just as another opinion, I love the design of the site. I saw 24ways a couple of years ago, was truly amazed at the "different" design. I still think the same design is truly unique and captivating.
Whitman: One Write-Off Too Far
My pet peeve, companies that don't unsubscribe immediately. Apple for example says they'll unsubscribe you in 10 days. Given all the other things a company's systems can do immediately this one strikes me as spammy
Twitter algorithm can analyze the truthfulness of tweets
Mobile’s Rude Awakening
interesting.

can give a list of few of the prominent companies that could do offer 5-6months internship & cover living costs.
"When he was handed the term sheet by a Twitter employee, a nonbinding document outlining the terms of a proposed acquisition, he read it and then handed it back, asking Twitter executives to hold on to it over the weekend as he weighed the details, those people said."

Anyone with legal insight comment on the idea behind these two maneuvers(meeting at restaurants and handing back termsheet)? If it has legal basis, why would twitter accept such terms?
"Even Apple makes Windows versions of Safari. So, why would Microsoft chose to isolate the primary application delivery mechanism (browser) to only their OS?"

1.) Maybe because it would be pretty hard to port IE to an OS with a pretty different architecture and I'm not even sure what would be the potential gains of doing so.

2.) Safari is based on WebKit so a lot of the cross-platform compatibility bitchwork is already done by the WebKit project, not really Apple.

3.) It appears that Safari for Windows is dying if not already dead.
Twitter, too, has twelve categories of email to opt yourself out of, although I don't believe that you're not automatically opted in to all of them (I unsubscribed long ago, so I can't be sure).
Landon Fuller is a great read, although not as active in the past year or 2. Have seen a few posts trickle through recently, as high caliber as ever.
Some woman who was in my grandfather's contact list got spammed by LinkedIn for a month. There didn't seem to be any way to unsubscribe. She ended up hating my grandfather, because his name kept showing up on the emails! Of course he didn't know there wasn't going to be an opt-out. I ended up adding her email address to my LinkedIn account, so they would stop spamming her.
Anyone got one for musicians?
I think going this way is going to turn out painful. The sort of immutable container logic that people associate with FP is against the nature of C++ and you'll be constantly bumping into other people's code, and parts of the library, that don't like it.

C++ style prefers

for_each(xs.begin(), xs.end(), f);

to

xs = std::transform(xs,f);

Because the first does not copy the container and its elements, which in C++ is a meaningful operation which may not be allowed for xs's elements, or may be remarkably expensive.

I thought the annoying verbosity when using the whole container with <algorithm> was fixed in C++11 like it was for for loops, but I can't find documentation to that effect. Boost's range algorithms library is still useful here:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/range/doc/html/ind...
24 hours left. The Game of Books is less than $4,000 away from being funded.
I like it, but prefer something like guard-shell which is event-driven: https://github.com/guard/guard-shell
In your extreme example you can see that people in the B' group (those who don't have black hair) can be safely excluded as suspects. So even in this artificial example you can see that knowing P(B|A) is of value.
You've got some input sanitizing to do.

http://www.listnerd.com/item/tse%3Cscript%3Ealert%283%29%3B%...
Someone previously posted this lecture and I remember it being quite good -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
I think you're forgetting a few candidates. Ranker.com and Listverse.com both have massive amounts of traffic; and they're based around lists - albeit with a far worse UX than Listnerd currently offers. So I wouldn't write off lists based on the ones that haven't made it; it's like saying Facebook can't make it because Myspace failed.

That being said, I really believe in the value of lists; it's why we created the site after all. But: thanks for your input. We'll work as hard as we can to prove you wrong :)
I miss the keyboard from my Palm Centro, though the screen real estate of a current-gen smartphone is appreciated.
You might send an email along the lines of "continue receiving these?" every few months and offer an unsubscribe email in there, but that's all I can think of. I'd imagine that's a fairly low spam report threshold as it is.
e-how's unsubscribe link doesn't work. i've been getting spam from them for a while now, just because I wanted to post some backlinks on their articles :)
Thanks a lot! We'll add this to the todo list in Basecamp asap!
I think it's really hard to review it without understanding the goals of the project.

Are you trying to make money with it? Are you trying to grow it to 1M users? Are you trying to build a feature for Pinterest to buy?

You're getting a lot of different opinions here. Some are saying its a wonderful, social product with a lot of potential. Some are saying you aren't solving a real problem, which gives your project a fairly short shelf life.

It just depends on the goal, what do you hope to achieve with it? I've always had a hard time evaluating things without knowing this.
Two weeks is ridiculous. You might as well not send a newsletter. Depending on your service, pretty much everyone on your list will, at one point or another, go two weeks without a trackable interaction.

I've personally seen (opt-in) newsletter subscribers go many months without loading images or clicking a link... but send them a notice that their subscription is being turned off as a courtesy and sure enough a sizable percentage click the "keep me subscribed" button.
Meetup.com and as a result the New York Tech Meetup are egregious offenders of not providing 1-click unsubscribe. They take it another step further and make it extremely difficult to unsubscribe on the website too.
Turning my website into a business
Looking for a little advice in regard to turning my website into a full fledged business. I currently run HoopCoach.org out of my office at the high school where I work. I initially started the site as a way to meet college coaches in an effort to make the jump from high school coach to the collegiate level. The site is by no means huge with just over 9,000 registered coaches and anywhere from 25K - 50K unique visitors per month based on the time of year. It does make some supplemental income via Adsense but not quit your job kind of money. Would anyone be so kind as to offer some ideas for taking the next step? My thoughts right now go back and forth between doing basketball coach software like the basketball play software and practice plans app I have now or maybe moving toward apparel or training aids.
Thanks for reading!
I'd say the answer is yes.

It's interesting, because I'd imagine if Johhny Ive wanted to pivot away from skeumorphism to a far simpler and cleaner style, the new Google 'style' is exactly where he'd want to go. They seem to be occupying the middle ground between Apple and Microsoft's disparate design languages.
In regards to upstream releasing an ARM version of Flash, I find that very unlikely, seeing as Adobe has ceased efforts to update Flash for Android 4.0+, likely indicating they are not planning on working on any other ARM based version.
Sure, but it applies to the many, many US-based tech companies. And I know Canada, Australia, and the UK have similar laws.
Create a filter for linkedin and send it to your spam folder.
1.) Maybe because it would be pretty hard to port IE to an OS with a pretty different architecture and I'm not even sure what would be the potential gains of doing so.

The difficulty of porting the application is not the issue at all. There was a Mac OS X version of Internet Explorer, and it was even the default browser in OS X. Microsoft deprecated it in 2003 shortly after Apple released Safari. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac

The potential gains, of course, would be browser market share.
Totally agree. In fact, when I was working at my first programming job, I realised I'd reached a milestone in competency when I could confidently say "I don't understand" without fear of ridicule or feeling stupid or worrying about slowing down the rest of the team.
And, moreover, requiring a login or any personal information to unsubscribe is specifically disallowed by the law.