skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't letting me post to the forums, but I can also report receiving spam, but only on an address I formerly used with this account, not my latest address.
Probably not often at all. I don't know about UK bribery laws but that is very likely illegal both for the corporation and the judge.
Why are you surprised? It's a free service. I assume that my data is for sale for every free service I use.

Also, the parent is Intuit which, IMO, is not exactly tops when it comes to data security and privacy.
Where is the data from? How reliable is it?
From the linked page:
"I just got spammed this morning via my dropbox@... custom email address. cc'd on the spam were two other email addresses which belong to the two dropbox accounts that I share folders with. There is no way this was a random spammer guessing addresses as some of the mods are suggesting."

Seems highly unlikely that the situation this person described would result from anything other than dropbox being compromised in some way.
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I didn't say they were universally accepted groups. Those people who have pet rats likely do not want rats being experimented on. And those people who eat dogs probably don't keep them as beloved pets.
What's surprising about it? I've been receiving "ACTION REQUIRED" emails from them for years that do not actually require action, I receive them simply because I haven't logged in. Mint isn't as different from any of the other unsurprising email-leakers GP mentions as their reputation might otherwise lead one to believe.
Easy but for single-server setups also silly.

If your server falls off of the net your DNS goes boom too and you have no shot of redirecting people to a landing page or similar "oh shit" activities.

Now you could re-point your nameserver records but in my experience that takes longer to propagate than a new A record with a short TTL.
but does it let you read all articles in a feed, even if they are not new or old or already read?

I have Feedly already, tried it a long while ago, I can try it again.
Unfortunately I have seen their customer service go downhill recently. Not sure if they are having capacity problems or something. 2 weeks ago I signed up for a trial of Dropbox Teams and it said that after the trial I would be dropped back to my Pro account. I cancelled the trial as had made my mind up not to do it and it dropped me to a free account. Several emails to support, the account manager I'd been provided as part of the Teams setup and I still don't have my Pro account back and have had zero feedback from the. The only email I got was this one which is ridiculous:

Hi,

Thank you for your support request. Recently, we have been receiving a high volume of support requests and haven't been able to get back to you within a reasonable amount of time.

The volume of inquiries we receive on a daily basis prevents us from responding to all requests. Although requests from Pro and Teams users will be given priority assistance, we will do our best to get back to other inquiries when possible. If you are not a Pro or Teams user and you're looking to resolve your issue before we can respond, you may want to check out:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/

If you need to restore a large number of files and are unable to do so, please visit the following instructions to help us speed up the restoration for you:

http://db.tt/2QPImJ3g

If you are still experiencing problems, please reply to this message. We will try our best to get back to you, however we cannot guarantee a response. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
The Dropbox Support Team
The claim you quoted also requires all the limitations of claim 23. I haven't looked at those (on my phone at the moment), but just quoting a dependent claim without its independent is meaningless.
Wrong. You learn even better when you figure things out by yourself.

It's called "outside of the box" thinking for a reason. If you join the box, it ain't outside the box.
The reason that, at my last corporate gig, the best and most responsible/burdened developers were on IM well into the evenings, after a full day in the office. Because "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home."

I understand that Yahoo management screwed the pooch. From my position, outside of that management, it appears that the fallout is now in part on some of the most productive people.

I put up with that bullshit long enough. Were I at Yahoo, I'd immediately decide that they were asking me to pay for others' mistakes. And I'd be looking to move.

That's just me. I abhor the needless and counter-productive distraction of open offices. But... some of the best people I've worked with were and are the same way. And... they were generally acknowledged to be the best in their domains at those companies.
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Well.. it depends what business and what kind of internship. There's so much variance in people's experiences in internships it's so hard to just bucket everything under "internship".
Based on my own past anecdotal experiences, I favor adopting a dog from as young as possible (~8 weeks), to endeavor to have more influence over how it turns out. Most shelter dogs that I've encountered in my area are a year or more in age.

Large-scale breeders and shelters are not the only two choices; I adopted my most recent dog from a family on a farm.

Perhaps in an ideal world, no more dogs would be born until all existing dogs have a permanent home. But that seems unlikely to happen. If nobody adopts the new-born dogs, then would not they just end up in a shelter? If the blame belongs anywhere, it's on those who (at a large scale or at a small scale) breed their dogs, not on the people who adopt them.
What's the advantage of using Foundation over Bootstrap?
There's an interesting idea in this article:

... and ideally removing fructose (the “sweet” molecule in sugar
that causes the damage) from the “generally recognized as safe”
list, because that’s what gives the industry license to
contaminate our food supply.

Ignoring the loaded language, does anyone know what the consequences of removing fructose from the GRAS list would be?
Well domain.com uses 'parked' domains to ear themselves advertising dollars until you 'use' them so it seems most domain registrars are in on the 'racket'.
Holy crap Dropbox's moderators make me want to terminate my account with them.
Canonical should just wait until the 64 bit of 14.04 LTS for ARM is ready before they put it on mobile. Should greatly simplify their lives when it comes to upgrading later.
There would have been unlucky guesses as well as lucky guesses. It's incredibly unlikely that the first guess was correct, and that there were no guesses before or after that.
This says more about you than about the OP.

If you love to do a good job, and you find yourself without experience, you will spend more time on it, taking care about the details a professional will know to overlook.
> There is almost no reason to "buy" a dog

I agree, if we're talking about puppies. There's no reason to buy a puppy. But an adult dog? I adopted an adult dog from a shelter, and I will never do so again.

I realize that the rescue community does its best with the animals, but as an owner of a shelter dog, I really wish somebody had explained to me that the dog you see in the shelter might not actually be the same dog once you take her home. In the course of a few weeks after I adopted her, my laid back, amiable companion had turned into a hyperactive, sometimes-fearful, sometimes-aggressive terror.

My point is that with an adult rescue dog, you are not getting only a dog. You are getting a dog and all of its history. For instance, my dog has a deep fear of manhole covers, tall grass, and a dozen other things. I have no idea why she's afraid, and I never will, because I wasn't there when whatever triggered that fear happened. She's also absolutely terrified of firearms. If I even touch a firearm around her (I've never discharged one around her), she runs away whimpering. I have to preemptively crate her on range days, just to get my guns to the car.

I've been working with her for 2 years, and she's slowly gotten better with some things, but even now she's still afraid of a lot of the same things. And there is absolutely no way I can trust her around children. When my fiance and I get married and want to start having kids, I don't know what will become of her.

All of this to say, I completely understand peoples' hesitancy to adopt an adult dog from a shelter. You can't be sure what you're getting, and while neither can you be sure of what you're getting (in terms of temperament) when you adopt a puppy, at least with a puppy you know that no other messed up human has done bad things to your dog.

Edit: to clarify that I haven't shot my dog...
I'm sure the decision wasn't taken lightly, and I'm sure Canonical has concluded that an 18 month LTS + rolling makes the most sense for the project. As a user, I am a bit worried about rolling releases though. Maybe someone here can alleviate my worries?

As I see it, software has to change. The question for distros is just when? A rolling distro sees such changes continuously, and each package may in principle change at any point independently of any other package. Doesn't that mean that at any point, my workflow-critical programs may change their behavior or even stop working together? Sure, I can do upgrades more seldomly, but then I'm left without security updates. The main benefit I feel that non-rolling distros offer is predefined breakage points. I know that Ubuntu Quantal will work the way it works now until I upgrade to the next release. Even simply knowing in what way software is (and will remain) broken is useful.

Now of course, one can stay with LTS and get the same behavior. I guess I'm simply complaining because the 6 month cycle was perfect for me.

At any rate, I would guess that most users only really desire rolling behavior for a few (dozens?) of packages. Ubuntu has that nicely covered with PPAs (and also "special status" rolling packages like Firefox).
Yes, I'm aware of the natural proclivity. That's part of what leads to to racism and stereotyping. We don't shrug those off as just being natural.
No, we need to stop subsidizing sugar and flour production. I'm visiting the US after living elsewhere, and the #1 thing I notice about the meals is how carbo-loaded and sugar-loaded they are -- including most people's home cooking!

Not to say I don't enjoy some of the sugar-loading, but the carbo-loading is just annoying. When I help friends make a vegetable stir-fry with noodles, I don't want a bowl that's 75% rice noodles. I don't want to feel hungry again 3 hours later despite eating a large meal, because the large meal had little in it other than kilocalories from simple carbohydrates.

I want the kind of veg-and-protein filled meals I've gotten more used to, in which I can measure sugar levels by whether something tastes sweet and I feel full all day/evening because most of the meal's content was "thick" stuff like vegetables, legumes, eggs, meat, cheese, olive oil and/or fish rather than "thin" foods like milk or sauce, or "very thin" foods like bread, pasta, or rice.
ZoneEdit now charge. They grandfathered old users in at a free tier (first 5?) but now all new users have to pay either $1/month/domain or less if you buy a lot of "credits."
>Many other vets disagree.

Yes, and many vets recommend horrible things like declawing. Being a vet does not come with any requirement to be moral or ethical, nor to care about animals at all. Notice how many vets refuse to euthanize animals hit by cars and brought to their clinic? Because the $6 matters more to them than the suffering of the animal.

>but should note

Yes, vets do have an unfortunate financial motivation that is often at odds with the best interests of the animals.

>As to your dog, assuming it's adult what does early age neutering have to do with the situation?

He's not an adult, he's 9 months old.
Surface Pro hardware issues after just two weeks
Is anyone else having problems with their surface pro screen or other hardware issues?
If they were lucky guesses, his catch-all box would also have caught other random guesses for that domain.
That's funny. You were probably put on the free support queue, with low priority, since you're not a Pro user anymore :)
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http://www.i4edge.com/2013/03/01/microsoft-surface-pro-hardw...

Is anyone else having hardware problems with their Surface Pro?
Broken link at http://foundation.zurb.com/prototyping.php
UI Docs links to http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/elements.php which returns a 404.
"hey, nice site you have there - it'd be a shame if links to it started appearing all over my spammy network"

Good way to clue Google in to this network, and then drop it from the index.

"Really search engines should just give zero weight rather than negative weight to links from spammy sites"

That's what was happening before Penguin/Panda - and it wasn't working. There's no risk to link spamming. Now there is.
Since the last two weeks, I have been getting 5-6 spam and phishing emails to my unique dropbox email address, so they must definitively have a leak on their hands. Found various reports on twitter, too.

I've also seen similar leaks from linkedin (obvious, since they acknowledged their hack), everydns, the nokia development forums (another obvious one that was acknowledged as compromised), namecheap.com and uneetee.com.
I'll miss the bi-yearly fun with trying out a new release, and the name alliteration, but I think overall it's a smart move for Ubuntu. Does anyone have any reasons why they shouldn't move toward this? I'm curious.
Would a directed graph metaphor add to this? If task circles could be linked in order of precedence, and project circles linked to show resource collaboration, the resulting diagram layout could be visually useful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Dir...
Yes, I should have been more specific, as the research showing health problems is all on dogs. I would like to point out that indoor cats exist though.
Seconded. If you're going to have any success in converting people who write Clojure code away from Emacs, you're going to need to copy its good parts.

Nice redesign though.
19 person years? Just say 2 years jeeze. Or is it that some of you have been together 3 and some joined late. Omg why did you do this to me. Its too early for this.
Damn thats weak. Moderator "Andy Y." doesn't seem to grasp wth is going on at all and the rest of the moderators blatantly ignore ~5 people reporting unique email addresses being leaked.

So much for Dropbox...
Don't you need pricing information to reduce haggling and negotiation on Craigslist?
> These breeders can raise their dogs in idyllic conditions of sunny farms, financed by the high premium placed on purebreds.

That sounds logical, but from my talking to various breeders it just isn't reality. They claim to barely break even or even lose money, despite charging ~$1000 per dog. Most of them seem to have other income that supplements their hobby.

Good breeders are motivated by love of the breed and not by money (which, to be fair the article pointed out).
I call this "Google effect". Some companies started to think they can have crappy customer support because Google's support is crappy and Google is doing great. Actually Google is doing great despite their crappy support.
Small drag and drop problem.... On OSX I can drag the divisor for files/texteditor OVER the option of tabs (left options)... if I drop the editor there I cannot resize the view anymore and have to restart the program.
>You gotta be kidding on the sideways text as an important part of the UI.

Agreed. I closed the tab as soon as I saw that.
I've never really used their product, but the priceonomics blog is excellent. Complete, thorough, deeply researched and well written. Kudos!
Yes: figuring out if people are productive is hard whether they're at the office or not.

I'd love to see more discussion on this: what are good ways for managers to know if their team is being productive?
Yeah thats exactly what happened :) No other way to contact them and the account manager I dealt with hasn't responded either. Just counted and I've sent them 6 emails so far and zero response. Its such as shame as I have raved over Dropbox (partly as its Python which I also love), have 4 Pro accounts with my team and we were looking to sign up with 15 users to a Teams account. Looks like I'll be moving somewhere else now which is a real shame.
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> Wrong. You learn even better when you figure things out by yourself.

Assuming you figure out the correct answer.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279985
So, that is a possible bad outcome. A possible good outcome could be the elimination of much of the loss of information that happens when we ham-handedly convert our thoughts to verbal, or especially written, communication. Imagine how much we might start caring about each other when we can stream each other's emotions and experiences. Imagine how much we might learn about each other.
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I'm generally in favor of blaming the consumer. Markets respond to pressures. If there were no market for dogs (especially pure-bred dogs), we wouldn't see so many breeders out there. I'm not giving the breeders any sort of free pass, but I've got to ultimately lay the blame at the foot of the consumer.

As for your own experiences, I can't speak to those. I've had good luck adopting from shelters even over a year. Old dogs can still learn new tricks. And when getting a young dog, there is no guarantee that you're not going to get one with any of various neuroses.
While it's an interesting idea, you're basically just basing that on a load of unfounded assumptions about the people who manage these companies.
I just checked the spam folder of a gmail account I used for dropbox. Throughout the years I'd ocasionally (maybe once every two months or so) check the spam folder merely out of curiosity, but it was practically always empty.

Perhaps this is just a huge coincidence but I see three spam emails sent today plus another two sent this week. Some of them have cc recipients which seem legit addresses of other people, but I can't identify them. I never used Zendesk by the way.

Edit: here are the senders, in case it helps: no-reply@adsl.hu, no-reply@velkommenhit.no, no-reply@wdl.fr, no-reply@tataidc.co.in, no-reply@variationfm.com. Though it looks like these addresses may have been spoofed... the sender name is "{%FROM_NAME%}" in all of them.

Edit 2: It turns out Groupon Germany (former citydeal.de), which I checked out once with the same address, is responsible from what I can gather (link in german, but everything matches, company has yet to say anything): http://hukd.mydealz.de/diverses/groupon-verkauft-kundendaten...
Brutal customer service! Especially since a user is giving you a heads up about a possible breach and leakage of their personal information. I can fathom these types of replies if this was behind closed doors, but when you have an open forum like this, you are asking for trouble with snotty replies.

This forum should be a PR beacon for awesome customer support!
It's a hard space to break into. The businesses are conservative about any change, and new vendors are fairly un-trusted. Further, it is a bit different of a world than normal software realms, due to crazy long legacy lifetimes. Another problem is that the money isn't as big as you'd think, its a surprisingly small field.

All that being said, there is opportunity, just not easy opportunity. And a huge number of the people in it are boomers, so there is going to be big shake-ups in the next decade or two.
Because the point number 1 on their Privacy and Security Policy is "Your Privacy is not for sale" : https://www.mint.com/how-it-works/security/policy/

The way it is worded, it seems like your e-mail may be used by Intuit for promotion or by third-parties bound by the same privacy policies, but certainly not sold for spam.
What is the project direction in relation to complex JS apps?

i.e.: How do you guys expect the instarepl idea to be used in apps made of serveral node.js modules/libs or several files meant to be loaded together via RequireJS ?
This looks great! It's getting more and more usable.

It would be nice if, when a computation is running in the instarepl, the computation indicator would display inline e.g. with the previous result - perhaps graying the result out?

How would I go about implementing this myself? Or is LightTable reflection not yet publicly available?
As with sugar, most toxins are only toxic at a certain level of intake.
Good article, I guess PHP certainly isn't the most elegant language but it serves it's purpose; an easy to understand tool to add some dynamic features to html. The huge amount of resources available do make it kinda easy to hack something together. For larger more complex applications it would certainly not be my first choice either.
If they just need to decrease headcount, they can completely move the conversation to WFH vs NOWFH instead of "why are they laying off people" by canceling it.

I'm going to bet MM doesn't necessarily think WFH is bad at all, it was just an easy layoff.
In our case, we have a cat that one of the kids left at home, and she wasn't "fixed". Had her about a year or so. Recently, we had to take care of another cat for a couple weeks (a male, again with all his parts in tact). Didn't even think about it (had a bunch of other things going on at the time). Guess what happened?
I moved quite a few domains to Hover within the last 2 months. I went and immediately checked the forwards section after reading your comment. Thankfully, there are ZERO forwards setup. I'm guessing they stopped pre-configuring example forwards for demonstration purposes.
We did know that we can recover backups because we did it for small parts of data, and we know that we can do disaster recovery because (a) we did test this, though very rarely; and (b) we had successfully recovered from actual full-scale disasters twice over ~7 years.

But successful, efficient disaster recovery plan doesn't always mean "no damage" - it often means damage mitigation; i.e., we can fix this with available resources while meeting our legal obligations so that our customers don't suffer; not that there aren't consequences at all - valid data recovery plans ensure that data recovery really is possible and details how it happens, but that recovery can be expensive. And while you can plan, document, train and test activities like "those 100 people will do X; and those 10 sales reps will call the involved customers and give them $X credit", you really don't want to put the plan into action without a damn good reason.

For example, a recovery plan for a bunch of disasters that are likely to cut all data lines from a remote branch to HQ involves documenting, printing & verifying a large pile of deal documents of the day, having them shipped physically and handled by a designated unit in the HQ. The process has been tested both as a practice and in real historical events.

However, if you "pull a wire in the closet" and cause this to happen just so, then you've just 'gifted' a lot of people a full night of emergency overtime work, and deserve a kick in the face.
He doesn't run a spam filter and he's using a catch all, therefore any email sent to any address on his domain will get to him.

If someone was just trying things to see what worked he would see those emails.
Déjà vu times two: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4264330 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255927
The people he shared folders with could have been compromised.