skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's a viable solution. Some of these are quite complicated and replicating them in-house is not something you just up and do in a short time. That tactic might expose you to significant downtime.
zeromail seems to only allow gmail accounts?
There are a few paradigms I can think of off the top of my head that support it:

-The idea of 'temporary insanity' or 'diminished capacity' in our legal system. When invoked, it normally asserts that a situation was so overwhelming that the subject couldn't react as they normally would. The 'heat of passion' and all that. This implies that generally, we can control our reactions to most things, and uncontrollable reactions are the exception.

-The field of cognitive behavioral therapy, which does has scientific evidence of effectiveness [0], see cites. Perhaps 'control your reaction to anything' is less-than-supported in the case of CBT, but combined with point 1 that should be more than enough to get you started.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy#Ev...
How is this different from WebFinger?

And a more detailed question - what is Mozilla's political strategy for getting adoption?

I hope they succeed!
One nice thing is that all data channels are encrypted DTLS by default
I think you should have the top comment - but I am willing to admit I'm jealous anyway. :) Jealous, but thankful that I was never made a millionaire at age 17...because that 17 year old will no longer get to see what the real world is like.
They were good, too. Not particularly different in quality IMO from the ones who launched. There are a lot of different reasons why you might still be in stealth on demo day.
Why not? Do you manually install the patches coming down every month? Do you put all of them through some validation? On your home machine? How are you doing this validation? I mean aside of installing a patch and uninstalling it when you come across an issue?

Having an unpatched windows machine is a way bigger risk than some patch not quite working right and by installing the updates when you are not in front of your machine, you don't risk either interrupting your work for the reboot or remain being unpatched pending the reboot you are postponing.

As the bug report makes a reference to both Netflix and sleeping, I would assume this is a home user, not a corporate one where the patches get reviewed quickly.
I would LOVE a tutorial. Heck, I'd pay for one!

I've avoided setting up email for years and years. It kinda seems like a good time to learn.

What are you using for SPAM filtering? Is it as effective as Google?
I don't like this. It just feels like Firefox is being lazy to me.

I notice I have to wait a second or two when I switch to another tab. This is annoying because I remember seeing the page load before I restarted. My subconscious doesn't realize that it was a different process.

I'd rather my browser and everything else involved work a little harder to give me the illusion that nothing has changed after I restart.
I started to gather a list of HN related stuff as well. I started by other websites, tweets and browser extensions.

http://clearbottle.blogspot.de/2013/01/hacker-news-in-variou...

I was going to break it down into various categories like Show HN, Ask HN, jobs etc, but real life got in the way :-) so it is in limbo at the moment.

Hope this helps.
My primary problem with Stack Overflow is that someone's information may or may not be correct, but more often than not, they will defend their information to the death in order to secure reputation. In other words, rep whores. You also get a lot of weenies who will downvote a particular solution into oblivion because it simply uses a different pattern than they would like. In other words, brogrammers concerned with telling you how to smoke your cigar.
The issue of group management tools is a lot more complex. I have had to deal with it for two years :)

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=135
I might be exaggerating a little, but all this does is making the move to "cloud-systems/apps" slow down. People or companies are already afraid of the cloud concerning owning their data, spying, etc... Articles like this are bad advertising (but also good to point out the privacy issues, don't get me wrong here). Maybe everyone should start running their "OwnCloud" (pun and reference intended) as well as their own email system? So in other words, let's abandon the cloud all together?
Be glad. My forays into programming have been gitified. It's like these teenagers growing up with social media and cameras everywhere. They'll always have those years to haunt them :P
Even if so, what would change about it if you were watching it? If the patch goes boom, does it matter if you were watching the process?
Already is. See: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/prop-edcom-article-conte...
Hey. I'm the developer behind the site. You could submit those if you'd like. That's where the "community" bit comes in :)
Free-to-play, free-to-move, startups, and free-to-innovate:  Valve HQ
E-ink sort of addresses the 'distracting' part for me. I find it much more pleasant to read than from LCD. No direct light shining into the eyes, and the low frame rate is also an advantage here as it means no annoying animations and 'real time' distractions.
Haven't had much time to work on it since last year. I'll look into this over the weekend. Thanks.
I object - they also make good monitor stands!
In the case of Yahoo! they already know that it sucks and I am sure acqui-hires is only one part of Marissa's strategy to turn it around.
Safari implements your solution. Though I wonder if it would even help if their Netflix tab was the focused one; for that case, it would also have to wait for some user interaction or something, which seems messier.
Sure, but the fact that you don't break down crying (or go on a killing spree) when someone goes out of their way to hurt your feelings shows a level of control already.

I think there's a level of practice and analysis that has to happen: someone goes out of their way to make a cutting remark and you can recognize, with practice, that they're manipulating your emotions, or projecting their own feelings, or whatever. And of course some people are more naturally resilient than others.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squat...

Great article on "how bit-flipping in memory chips or CPU caches can also cause you to visit a wrong domain that may be one character off from the real one." I think I remember seeing it on HN awhile back.
I counted close to ten free books by Allen B. Downey [http://allendowney.com].
Anyone care to guess what kind of creative "Closed:..." tag this bug gets?
I agree they take a long time to replicate. Which is why it doesn't make any sense to me to suggest that you should build them in house before you get your product out to the world.
Warning: youtube vid. But this is some of my favorite personalities from ye olde mod scene talking about their very successful business. Very happy for them, and i'm always interested in non-standard corporate hierarchies.
The Go compiler converts its AST to assembly directly. There's a peephole optimizer and certain AST patterns are specially handled, but overall the compiler is extremely simple.

By comparison, LLVM/GCC passes code through multiple internal representations and performs many complex optimizations on them before emitting assembly.
Excuse me, I couldn't hear you over my own goddamn tree-hugging self-righteousness! ^_^
Got it, even without a Valet component I think you guys are onto something great but in the meantime I suggest changing the description and call this part of the service "free limousine ride" or even something more glamorous like a "Chauffeur service". A valet is someone who parks my car not someone who gives me ride.

The best way to manage customer expectations is to under promise and over deliver. When you launch your valet service you can email all your customers to tell them they were upgraded to Valet service for free, you'll delight them instead of deceiving them.
> I wish we had a system like Hackernews, but for the real world

We do. It's call the Congress. It works, like Hackernews, because it's a small, elite group of people chosen to make decisions in a structured, democratic manner.

This country was not founded on the ideal of democracy for the people, nor do I think it should have been. That would be mob rule and you can read all about why that's a bad idea.

What we need to do now is curb corporate influence and corruption in Congress and figure out how to pick better leaders.

Encouraging rational public debate, in a roundabout way, results in better leaders in the long run. The people make more informed votes and future politicians are raised in a more enlightened society.
This is why I plan to be off-world by the time the average 14 year old kid is able to create a serious bioweapon in 15 minutes by following instructions from online.
Make the Christmas snow words
"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
-- Larry Wall
What a giant eye sore.
You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes: loss of individual "genomic liberty"
Is it wrong that the first thing I thought of was this:

http://majorslack.com/pics/screenshots/redalert_03.jpg

?
The difference is, people would pay.

Classic bait and switch. That's how things have played out since Geocities. You young guns sweating over Stack Exchange points don't remember those days. That's why you register a dot-com, to protect your content.
Original paper: http://genomemedicine.com/content/5/3/27
The 5 Advisors That Cripple Companies
Simple and useful flame effect (original tutorial)
Could someone actually cite these people who are holding up Stack Overflow and Github as bastions of democratic process? Because I'm more concerned by some random schmuck building a site supposedly about argumentation getting himself twisted up over a straw man. If you're going to play this game, you need to do marketing for your competitors by citing them, too. You've got no ethos here.
This will sound obvious, but since someone else commented about your portfolio: open a Github account if you haven't already. Push all your work there. Put the link to your Github on your resume and on your blog. Put your resume online, use Zerply or one of the other services. Link to that from your blog as well.

The above works best in conjunction with the other advice here: get into the open source software world. Hang out on IRC while you're working. Read the documentation. Blog what you're learning. Make the most of free resources. Go to meetups related to technologies you're learning if you can.
Frankly, we are guilty of blowing anything computer-related out of proportion. Just observe the number of folks here who insist that software engineering is the most important field in the world!

Edit: On second reading, it looks like the "nuclear bombs" quote by the CEO of Cloudflare was taken out of context.
In English, "you" can be used to refer to people in general.
Where are you seeing that earlier data? I can only get the graphs to cover 2012 and 2013.

This is a good example of how deceptive a percentage-change-only chart can be, without the absolute value of the portfolio also figuring in. If the system has a max drawdown of 98%, then getting 200% returns after hitting that low isn't going to do much good.
spamassassin with blocking lists and bayes filtering, it's very effective once you have given it some data to 'learn' from. If you have many users with similar kinds of profiles (like company domain) then you can use site wide bayes filtering.
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesFaq
Transit is departing
> Why not? Do you manually install the patches coming down every month?

yes, but that's so I control the moment of restart since I always have a bunch of transient stuff running, once I get the update alerts I can download & install then slowly wind down transient state until I'm ready to reboot the machine. That may take a day or 2.
Thanks for sharing this, Now this was a great link!

I want to recommend Eric S. Raymonds books for those that haven't read them.
I'm a midwest boy who grew up on a farm, including working it from a very young age. Don't underestimate the farmer. Farmers will talk shop as much or more than programmers.

Feeding pigs is the tip of the iceberg. If you want to see some sparks fly, just sit down at the local cafe and talk about the comparative yield of soybeans and corn, and why anyone growing X percentage this year with the weather pattern is just plain nuts.

It's not quite the same as the family-farm days (most are now corporate owned), but those were the first debug sessions I listened in on as my grandfather held court among his colleagues.
I could, but would rather not have it like that all the time. Good point though.
The cathedral is what makes money for the people to contribute to the bazaar in their free time.
Youtube is harmless. Have three different porn sites open when restarting Chrome after a power loss and then listening to three porns at once... ouch.
Treat every gun like it's loaded, check both ways before crossing the street, and assume that all of your unencrypted data is already compromised. Sounds like good advice to me.
Ask HN: Is the 15" Mac Book Pro (Retina) worth it?
Hi,

Ruby developer here, still working on my mid 2008 Mac Book Pro which just keeps going, although is starting to show a lot of wear & the fan noise is driving me insane, also the screen looks very fussy compared to its modern counterparts & I don't even mean those with the a Retina display.

Just wondering if any other developers here have purchased the new 15" Mac Book Pro - are you happy with it? Do you think its worth a cool $2k post-purchase? Have you experienced any problems?
"Closed: User told to watch something less scary"
That's nice. Meanwhile, real criminals use Hushmail and Tormail. This is a movement to spy wholesale, nothing more.

If any precedent or piece of legislation disproportionately and negatively affects a certain demographic of a population (let's say those with the means to form their own opinions), while they argue "well it's for everyone's safety", the reality is that it's unjust no matter how you try to spin it.
Digital Currency: ten years before Bitcoin, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
Not to be overly tinfoil hatted, but:

Historically, intelligence monitoring of communications providers was done extra-legally (by employees at the communications providers who either worked directly for or were compensated or politically-motivated agents of intelligence agencies). When it doesn't need to be used in court, there are a lot more options. Stuff as simple as an employee providing copies of the day's tapes.

Later, intelligence agencies got smart (particularly the Israelis) and ran cut-rate service providers for support services (VoIP termination, billing reconciliation, etc.), selling to existing consumer-facing providers, primarily for information.

Just because FBI is talking about this for law enforcement purposes (implying they don't have it now) doesn't mean they don't necessarily have various types of existing access for their dual role as a counterintelligence agency, or that other organizations (US and foreign) don't have access.
This article is absolute trash. The 4th amendment doesn't apply to your data hosted on Google's servers, and ECPA and CALEA are essentially meaningless here. The truth is that Facebook and Google can give away (or even sell) your data to the government, and they have your consent to do so.

Reading the terms of service and privacy policy of each site you visit daily is a good exercise. Nearly all will contain some ambiguous catch-all provision that they can use your data to "improve [their] services." Then, if they're sued, the question is whether they have the resources to hire a law firm that can convince a court that selling data to the FBI/CIA/etc. improves their services. They do.
No, Firefox 'solves' this by giving it 'WONTFIX'. Lately, it seems sucking is a feature, not a bug. ;)
> I would like to see this run against 2008s market and see what would happen.

Disaster. I'm only in Nov and at -200% return, 88% drawdown. Ouch.

Edit: spoke too soon: -453% vs -45.3% bench in nov.
As I let the words roll of my tongue, "acting offended" sounds just awful doesn't it? Only a Machiavelli would admit to acting offended to achieve their aims! "Getting offended" needs to be seen to be from the heart - as if you really had been torn kicking and screaming from the womb of rational detachment. Effecting this obviously requires extremely good acting.
Wow, great advice.
One sort-of-workaround is to enable plugin click-to-play. It's less convenient, but it has other advantages. It prevents Flash content from annoying you unexpectedly (such as on every band website ever). It also adds a small bit of safety if there's ever a 0-day for Flash. Instead of getting exploited as soon as you visit any infected page, you'd at least have to click on an embed that you wanted to watch or play.

Unfortunately, this doesn't help for sites that use HTML5 for media. As more sites start using HTML5, I think demand for a ClickToHTML5 option/extension will rise.
Meaningful to whom? Seems to me that the existence of an internal feeling experienced by some couples is not enough to warrant misusing a precise term.
Aha so you ought to make software that interacts with the pre-filled forms before they are confirmed and charges 80% fees on all savings you account...

Go pre-filling!
Many ebooks (prag prog for example) are available without drm.
> The government provides essential services (decentralized up to the district level) like education, water, streets, police, health care, social security for it's citizens.

I wonder if herein lies the fundamental difference. I would never put it the way you have.

The people form the government and pay them to administer infrastructure and services for them. That is massively different than the "government does for it's people" view. One is almost a royals-and-subjects view while the other says, well, government of the people, by the people and for the people.

In my model we hire the government to serve us. They are nothing more than our employees.

The other data point I have is that as a youngster my family spent quite a number of years in Argentina. Monkeys would govern that country better than nearly any administration they have had to endure. I have followed their politics on and off over the years. To this day they continue to be raped and pillaged by their government. The only way you can characterize them is thugs, thieves and gangsters. It is quite possible that seeing some of the things I saw there planted the seeds for not seeing government as part of the solution as an adult. I mean, look at Cyprus.
Definitely not. Especially since updates aren't 100% error free all the time and unless you set it to install when you want it to, you don't control it. I can understand that they want to make sure patches are applied ASAP, but I prefer to keep an eye on it myself.

Not too much of a problem for me since I'm up at 3:00AM anyway. In fact, it's 3:09AM right now.
I really wish Android had better support for web apps. iOS supports creating a shortcut identical to an app on the home screen, indistinguishable from a normal app. Android, on the other hand, only has home screen widgets. Ideally you could throw a bookmark in the app drawer too.
They are not separated. This approach appeals to geeks/programmers, but is completely impractical, as I've learned the hard way in several projects.

In a practical setting you will get a set of pre-cut HTML/CSS and images. Good luck splitting that into semantic markup and styling. And good luck teaching a designer how to work with it afterwards.

Because of hard-earned experience I try very hard not to put any HTML into my code, keeping it all in templates, which are much more accessible to designers and easier to modify.
Random Access Magazine
|| and figure out how to pick better leaders.

More important, IMHO, is - how to keep those elected leaders good, honest and in check!
<hat type="tinfoil"> … or they've so thoroughly subverted the SSL certificate "industry" and the major internet backbones that they figure even people using SSL cert pinning aren't going to notice they're already MITMing every single piece of web traffic with self-issued browser-trusted certs. So it's a good PR time to pretend they need new powers.</hat>
Just because you're not offended by a racist comment doesn't mean it isn't racist.
My solution was to switch to YouTube's HTML5 player. No more tabs crashing left and right.

And the YouTube Options extension is great, and solves the problem of auto play (besides adding a ton of extra features; downloads included).
Well, considering that my family lost quote a few members to genocide I think I am entitled to detest war. And, no, I am not trolling. You shouldn't be angry at all. This is just a conversation.

Pointing out that the vast majority of the technology stemming from state-funded research came from military programs is nothing less than the truth.
Table 4.5, found at the bottom of this article. Article is from a think tank, but the table is lifted directly from an official OECD report. http://taxfoundation.org/blog/no-country-leans-upper-income-...

It is common knowledge amongst all whom study comparative taxation that the US has the most progressive tax system in the OECD. One of the OECD researchers posted about this on reddit recently.

Intuitively, look at VATs, fuel taxes, other consumption taxes. These are regressive and low in the US. Income taxes in the US are steeply progressive - especially in relation to other OECD member nations.

Corporate taxes are incredibly high in the US, again relative to other OECD nations. And income taxes are now about as high (for the rich - ~50%+) in the US as the highest taxing OECD nations. Cap gains rate is about the same or higher in the US vs OECD (~32% in US). Estate taxes don't exist in most OECD nations as well.

Importantly, tax enforcement is incredibly strict in the US relative to typical OECD, again particularly for the rich.
THIS is what I want to read here. Thanks mate, and best to you and your family.
OP: I wish you good luck. You will find your way.
Apparently, yes: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/bowden-sheffield-minimalist...
Stop using Windows. Problem solved.
IIRC Windows turns itself on to install updates and then shuts down.
I would really appreciate that.
You can email me at volodymyr.floreskul+hn@gmail.com.
I have found most humans to not care about their energy consumption. So in the name of humanity, I have at least one computer on 24 hours a day.
T-Mobile: $600 less than AT&T, $1000 less than Sprint
I just so happen to be working on a product that significantly overlaps with Collections.

I've spent almost a year on it and don't think I'm going to take their advice if it's all the same to them.
I always do this in all my browsers (I use Flashblock or similar extensions). I have no idea why people need plugin content to start immediately. This also blocks most of the annoying ads.
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