skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Takes about 30 seconds to do in sublime text but I think the horizontal scrolling makes it worse.

Your post advocates a

( ) technical
( ) legislative
(x) market-based
( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
(x) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
>>"Any job that grants authority over other people probably attracts this type of employee"

Ah, but is it the employee seeks out this position because they are predisposed to exert control over others, or do they exert control because of the position they are put in, ala the stanford prison experiment[1] (situational attribution v. dispositional attribution)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
Gangnam Style hits 1 billion views
ah, thanks. sure, i understand that - i just never realised it was called geo-location (i have never worked with cdns).
They also have that (and 100k, 10k and 100).
Unless you exclude suicide, in which case you see as more and more millions of guns are produced every year, murder (and even homicide overall, which includes self defense and accidental homicide) rates are at their lowest point since any time between 1998 and 2004 depending on which specific metric you look at.

It is intellectually dishonest to include suicide when talking about "gun deaths."
Okay. So instead of a 4x markup, it's now a 3x markup when you include the colo box space in a rack, power, b/w, a couple of spare parts on hand, and the extra couple of hundred to pay the staff at the datacenter (on call 24/7, 365) when those spare parts are put to use.
Why Suppressing Notices is Wrong
What kind of country do we live in where a link to images that are taken by the government of its own citizens have to be labeled "NSFW?"

It's surreal.
No, is not very clear, they don't even mention firearm calibres, gun power, machine guns, the drug war, automatic weapons, chemical weapons, missiles, nuclear artifacts, criminals with guns, tanks and other kinds of military vehicles, grenades; basically because back then those things didn't even existed or where not considered relevant. Today is a very different world that they didn't imagine even in their wildest dreams; is a romantic but childish illusion that their words can be literally applied to a world so different to the one they saw.
Well, that answers my question.
A good citation to a printed published work grants you demigod-like powers when editing an article - if the work itself is notable. If it's self-published or has no information demonstrating it is a reliable source, not so much.
"HD" sucks
From your link, the discussion doesn't seem to have a definitive conclusion:

The folks at Chipworks has done a more professional teardown, revealing that the connector contains, as expected, a couple of power-switching/regulating chips, as well as a previously unknown TI BQ2025 chip, which appears to contain a small amount of EPROM and implements some additional logic, power-switching, and TI’s SDQ serial signalling interface. SDQ also uses CRC checking on the message packets, so a CRC generator would be on the chip. Somewhat confusingly, Chipworks refer to CRC as a “security feature”, perhaps trying to tie into the authentication angle, but of course any serial protocol has some sort of CRC checking just to discard packets corrupted by noise.

So until someone finds a truly dumb Lightning charging cable, the question as to whether or not DRM prevents it is alive.
I dunno. Hasn't About.com kinda been like this for 10 years? Sure it's still around, but does anyone go to About.com on purpose? It's just articles specifically crafted to be Google bait.

I find that these q/a sites aren't sticky enough to make money. You don't browse Y!A looking for answers to random questions. You come there from Google, read the top answer, try it if you can, then leave the site.

At least Yahoo! stuff comes up in Google. Quora is locked behind its wall of logins. And, srsly, what's the end goal here, advertising revenue? Brand research? Do I really need to pay Quora to tell me people have trouble figuring out the directions on my hair care product? How much $$ have they taken so far? For what'll end up being just another ad platform? The quality of answers will degrade over time, just as the quality of any community degrades with size.

Why, look at Reddit. It's a steaming pile of shit these days. Even the pedophiles on 4chan left 4chan to go to Reddit! Consequently, 4chan is actually a nice place to have a discussion, if you ignore the interspersed racism and anti-semitism. Those things are far worse on Reddit right now...
Population of the United Kingdom: 61 million
Population of the United States: 315 million

He's saying there's a thousand times as many lifetime inmates, but only 5 times the population. It's still a huge number.
A 100% artificial language can be equivalent to a one-time pad, so there's no guarantee it could be cracked.
I still do not understand the outrage over this. How would the new TOS actually negatively affect the users? What would ACTUALLY happen to them that is so horrible?

Here is a hypothetical:

1. I post a photo of a dinner table at a restaurant that shows some fizzy drinks in glasses.

2. SodaStream wants to post an ad on Instagram, and my photo gets selected kinda like a stock-photo would be selected because it is drink/food related, and it gets shown somewhere on Instagram's website.

Result: my life is not negatively impacted by this in any way, and the world continues turning.

My reaction: If ever saw this happening, my reaction would be "Whoa cool, that's a picture I took! And now tons of people are seeing it, instead of just the 5 or 6 people that normally see my Instagram photos. I'm internet famous, haha!"

The blogo-sphere's reaction: "RAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEE!!!!!!!!!"
I ask: "Seriously, what is the big deal here?"
They respond: "Just shut up, and RAAAAAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!!"
How is rust compared to Go?
I would like to second this. I also did a project using d3 this year, and everybody I've shown it to has been really impressed, especially in "management".

It took a bit of investment from my side (i.e. I did not book all the hours) but I knew that the return on it would be awesome, and it is. And that's even though I hadn't made a single line of javascript for over 10 years.

So thank you mbostock !
Your whole answer radiates a tone. Tone is that sentiment that is expressed over and above the words actually used. You could say that tone is found by reading between the lines.

Describing something as a conspicuous flaw is not a statement of lack of understanding. It is an assertion. You can say that you don't understand the Christian perspective on the flood account and then we could have a conversation about it. But making a strong assertion does indeed set a tone.

As a former atheist, I understand the perspective that causes people to make such statements, but please do not confuse my willingness to point out such things with being a sensitive little snowflake. Your whole reply is intolerant because of the combination of your statements and the tone you have used. Methinks you are the sensitive one here. :-)
Saturn's polar vortex has a hexagonal pattern, which I think is pretty interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
Your iPhone as a Weapon
Why is "nation" in scare quotes? How would you prefer it to be worded? What is the matter with you?
Might Github have issued a prorated refund to your credit card for the portion of the month unused?
I mean that no one ever would configure 24 disks as RAID-0 -- the probability of a data-loss failure (which may not be a problem from the data-loss side, but is from the process continuity side) becomes incredibly high. Best case most people would arrange it as RAID-10, instantly dropping the performance by half.
i actually saw decreased performance. it seems if your server is already fast (ivy bridge w/ ssd, 10gbps network), it slows it down and their service becomes the bottleneck.
Hasn't affected me yet. GMail is slow but that's nothing new but the others are fine so far
That's not what I am saying at all. Maybe I am just doing a poor job of articulating my point. All I am asking is for someone to explain to my WHY this is worth getting upset over?

Here is one of my other responses on the matter, copy-pasted so hopefully you can explain to me why this is a big deal:

[ start copy-paste ]

I still do not understand the outrage over this. How would the new TOS actually negatively affect the users? What would ACTUALLY happen to them that is so horrible?

Here is a hypothetical:

1. I post a photo of a dinner table at a restaurant that shows some fizzy drinks in glasses.

2. SodaStream wants to post an ad on Instagram, and my photo gets selected kinda like a stock-photo would be selected because it is drink/food related, and it gets shown somewhere on Instagram's website.

Result: my life is not negatively impacted by this in any way, and the world continues turning.

My reaction: If ever saw this happening, my reaction would be "Whoa cool, that's a picture I took! And now tons of people are seeing it, instead of just the 5 or 6 people that normally see my Instagram photos. I'm internet famous, haha!"

The blogo-sphere's reaction: "RAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEE!!!!!!!!!" I ask: "Seriously, what is the big deal here?" They respond: "Just shut up, and RAAAAAAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!!"

[ end copy-paste ]
D3 is beautiful and accessible, but more importantly I think it re-frames our approach to visualizing data, rather than jamming data into pre-made charts.

The D3 wiki documentation is incredible. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I'm going to read through the docs over the holidays.

You can check out the wiki and browse it locally:
https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/_access
Is the composition of the ecosystem that way really the limitation you imply it is? You visit more than one news site than HN, right?
Definition of Marketing - Part 2
And in the case of the paedophile, there is a reason its illegal (in many jurisdictions).
tl;dr: Some researcher does the math and finds that computer chips are becoming more efficient over time, i.e., electrical efficiency doubles every 1.6 years. He wants to call it Koomey's Law.

Neither Moore's or Koomey's "Law" are very deep and don't really rise to the level of a true physical law. Its been known for a long time that Moore's "Law" was going to eventually run into the real laws of physics and that seems to be happening now.
I like this idea. It has potential definitely. This is a sales tool and a way to get your message in front of people that want to know someone took the effort and has targeted them instead of many people and is willing to pay for the opportunity. I get solicited plenty by email (and by phone). I would definitely pay more attention if I knew there was some cost to targeting me instead of spraying everyone. I can see using this service to get a message I want to deliver in front of a decision maker (and know that it arrived). One of the biggest part of sales is getting someone to listen to what you are saying.

Let's test this out. I can get any HNers idea in front of a well known VC in NYC that funded Twitter. The cost for having me do this is $25 if I decide that he should give some thought to your product. If, after I review, he replies to what I forward (which means it has also passed my review) you owe the $25. If no reply, you owe $5. Any takers? Send me an email. (By reply I mean either "yes have them tell me more" or "no not interested" which also has value.)
Walking through new fancy scanner with nothing unusual on my person? Several complaints on the display and I'm groped as they make sure I'm not smuggling whatever.

Carry-on full of hand-soldered electronics and military hardware? Completely ignored.

I really appreciate how they're spending billions of our money. HEY - GUYS TRYING TO FIX THE BUDGET: I THINK I FOUND SOMETHING YOU CAN CUT!
If anything, the "commanding officer would shoot me" defense is greater than "I did it for my starving family". In the first case, you know for certain that you and your family will die if you don't do what you're told. In the latter, your family may be uncomfortable but it's highly unlikely for anyone living in America to actually starve.

What makes this more damning is any TSA employee made a conscious choice to do morally reprehensible work. They had a choice. No one forced them to do their job.

In this light, the TSA employees come off as more morally bankrupt than military officers that had a gun to their head. They choose to be active agents in destroying society in trade for their own comfort.
Although the police may take photographs of murder victims, it is generally not appropriate to view mutilated bodies while at work (unless you're a cop, etc).

I do think it is a bit silly to want to call the pictures from the scanner NSFW, because they're clearly in the context of speaking about the TSA rather than for any prurient reasons. If I wanted to see fuzzy outlines of genitals, I'd grab a pencil and sketch them myself.
My previous blog post [0] covered the simple case of 'Local' dates. If you're able to simplify your application code to avoid the use of timezones then that's a good thing to do, but boycott et al. isn't going to work. It might be possible if you're, say, writing a service internal to your company and all your servers are on UTC - its just a case of choosing something applicable to your domain.

[0] http://insightfullogic.com/blog/2012/dec/14/date-and-time-ja...
Thank you for the pointers, I shall read some more on this.

Sorry you departed the faith. Perhaps, you should have been really, really into this stuff? :-)
Well, anywhere with a nationalized pornography network would qualify, though that might well be nowhere. Some places with a nationalized health service could qualify...
Confirming: I have served on the Board with Jimmy for three years. He takes no salary or expenses from the Foundation.

For instance, while most of our 10-person Board (who all volunteer our time) have travel and lodging for Board meetings reimbursed, he arranges his own.

To the contrary, he promotes WMF fundraising, and encourages groups to which he speaks to donate or provide in-kind support to the WMF.
It's not the calls that are expensive, it's storage, caching, and the architecture that is expensive.
Get This Into Your Daily Startup Routine
"South Korean Internet portal Naver (http://naver.com),
illustrates the potential of Q&A sites. As of July, 2007,
Naver handled 77% of internet searches originating inSouth Korea, dwarfing worldwide leaders Yahoo! (4.4%)
and Google (1.7%) [19]. One of the reasons for this
disparity is the relatively small Korean language corpus
available for crawling. To address this shortcoming, Naver
built a Q&A site called Knowledge iN that encourages
users to type questions for others to answer, rather than
relying on search results [2]. Since their 2002 launch of
Knowledge iN, Naver has accumulated 70 million questions
and answers, and continues to receive over 40,000
questions and 110,000 answers per day [19]."

The source: http://bit.ly/12EHYUp
This has some potential if it got enough traction... but it's another chicken-or-egg business which is going to have trouble drawing users without having anyone people actually want to talk to.

Slideshare is here http://www.slideshare.net/gramicon if anyone is curious. The monetization rate is really low for their case study (less than 1% of clickthroughs and even >1% of registered users), but I'd imagine more of their monetization would come from advertisers - if they can convince people to stick around and keep using Gramicon.
You'll also find that there will be a release of Jodatime after 310 is finalised that allows it to implement the top level interfaces defined by 310 - eg Temporal. This will allow the libraries to play nicely together and means you'll probably be able to write code like:

LocalDate date = LocalDate.from(someJodaTimeObject);
XCode. GCC is now under GPLv3. I've got a feeling the patent issues in v3 give Apple lawyers a serious rash.

Also with it being under BSD, they can write their own closed source extensions or reuse portions of their code in their own projects.
So I'm looking at my monoprice external battery pack. It says specifically that it works for iPod,iPhone, and iPad. Is the problem that they built in the cables into the device instead of just outputting to a usb hub with specifically defined output rates?
Zurb Foundation Icon Fonts 2
Because IEDs couldn't be fashioned from ingredients found at your local hardware store...
Videos of Business of Software 2012 are available
It's not an awful card, but it doesn't offer price match protection (you buy a TV for $999, a month later it's dropped to $799, with the cards I mentioned in the first group you'll get a $200 rebate).

Also, anecdotally, Capital One doesn't seem to grow as reliably with you as other cards. That is, more people get a $5k citi, chase, amex, etc, that grows to $25k than happens with Capital One. It's not unheard of, but generally the accepted consensus is that Capital One doesn't grow as easily.
An Alternative Approach to Entrepreneurship
More people have been killed by officially atheist governments (esp. in 20th century) than by any religions.
The current situation isn't too great in terms of the standard libraries - but Jodatime is still a good alternative, and at least the situation is improving.
Moby - available now on Android too
Thanks! I'm still writing some documentation for the new methods in 3.0 (particularly d3.geo.projection and d3.xhr), so please `git pull` periodically to check for updates.
Did they pivot? When I last was in contact with Yozio, it seemed to me that it was more of a campaign tracking tool in order to know where installs were coming from. TapStream is another. That will one day be the topic of another post ;)
Liking an agency and thinking its effective are two different things.

Efficacy isn't as useful as how an issue plays on the emotions of voters.
One of the reasons that the yellow pages worked for so many years was that if someone was listed and paid to be in a particular category you knew they were serious about the product or service that they were offering. So while this does not mean that someone has something interesting to say if you are purchasing products or services for your company (or looking for ideas to fund) having someone have some skin in the game and not mass spraying everyone, to me anyway, has benefit.

Added: I was told the other day by a business owner that they received a rc helicopter by UPS the other day, minus the transmitter which the salesman would bring if they would hear his pitch. That's skin in the game obviously they had expense to send out the heli and it shows an additional level of commitment to targeting vs. traditional cold calling or direct mail.
I saw a girl walk through security with an open water bottle in the side pocket of her backpack. She was foreign too, so it's even a little more surprising nobody noticed it.
What you really need is a number of top tier IP lawyers.
Unless your servers are really slow their service will always be the bottleneck. I'll keep repeating this every time the Cloudflare spam comes up on HN (which happens with disturbing frequency): Do your homework, measure them. Cloudflare slows your site down instead of speeding it up. There is no free lunch.
NRA blames media, music and video games for culture of violence
bitbucket's unlimited free private repositories are amazing
Floating Windows as seen in User Interfaces
Steve Jobs’ Superyacht Impounded in Payment Dispute
Looking Glass - Full screen web view on any connected display on OS X
Testing a node.js express app with Mocha and Should.js
The company would need to be sure the community is onboard, and even involve them in the development process - has it changed? when i was there it was very much us (most users) v them (the famous few + mods). in fact the division and general hierarchical approach was more or less a feature, i thought - diversity and inclusion meant dilution; elitism was going to drive the top content.

also, does d'angelo still look like that? surely it's been a while now since his voice broke?
That's not so much an answer to the question as a rant against the TSA. I've asked one something like that once and she said she was just glad to have a stable job. I have a feeling that's the answer for most of them.
These quotes are bogus. The Jefferson doesn't exist:

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/those-who-hammer-th...

The Hamilton has been mangled:

http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fed29.htm

And so on. Shoddy fabrication is not debate.
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So does Java. But, same as in Perl, it was not included in standard library.
Context man, they were recently in a civil war and the communication and transportation was so bad that towns had to be prepared by themselves to affront any possible Britain retaliation; but now with the biggest army in the world, with carriers, combat helicopters and combat jets doesn't seem to have too much sense.