skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gmail's filtering in this case seems to be 100% spot on for me. It's grabbed all the stuff I consider spam and hidden it away, and hasn't touched anything from people who I want to hear from. A few thousand messages have been properly sorted since I opted in.
"Pages that have earned a web award" and "Pages that convert" aren't always the same thing.
IDEO workshop for Techstars
In that case, wouldn't you also want a more thorough and thought-out solution to concurrency like Erlang and Clojure offer? And if you prefer the familiarity of a C-like syntax, Kotlin is just what you're looking for. It won't force you to use delegation, but Go also leaves the door open for a a whole class of problems (especially concerning concurrency).
All the divinely inspired code is here on-line as well as on the distribution of God's new temple.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/LineCnt.html#l538

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

unken; 24:50 The lord
of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and
in an hour that he is not aware of, 24:51 And shall cut him asunder,
and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.

25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins,
which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took n
What's wrong with this?

<a href="mailto:mail.added@by.js" />
some
<span style="display: none" />☃</span>
person@gmail.com
</a>

And here I can either click the link or copy the text and it isn't all messed up. A simple function can easily generate that HTML for any email string.
If you're still reading this at this point, take away one lesson: Do not hire ambitious, talented people if you don't know FOR SURE you can give them meaningful work. Better to remain friends with a talented person who is now working for somebody else than to employ him and turn him into an enemy for life. (Because yes, I will have my revenge and it will be fucking brutal. Legal, but oh so brutal.)

I sympathize with being occasionally underworked in my earlier years, but... this would make me not want to touch your resume with a 10-foot pole.
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But that doesn't let you run "desktop" software (e.g. LibreOffice, Inkscape/GIMP, a browser with proper keyboard shortcuts, a development environment (!) -- still a much different ball game than mobile apps.
A buddy of mine found a note from one of his wife's friends, telling him that she suspected his wife was cheating on him.

Because it was in the "Other" inbox, he didn't see it until over a year after she sent it, and after he had caught her cheating himself, and divorced her. He could have found out a lot sooner if that note had gone to his normal inbox!
It's unlikely Edge will get 30m USD. And I am usually never wrong when it comes to predictions.
I'm salivating over the hardware specs, but you have to consider that 1 year from now they won't seem as spectacular.
So do you see this concept as a better or worse Kayak? I feel that google has done the best job with flights and they are my go-to location. This concept seems great for trips, but I'm not sure how many people per year are flying for a vacation vs flying for necessity.
There's a graph in this blog post showing the phenomenon you describe:

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/shortening-the-maximum-proje...
Node-inspector: a debugger interface for node.js using the Blink Developer Tools
SEA claims Viber hack, accuses company of 'spying and tracking'
It isn't, though. You are probably looking at the equator and may be thinking this way because southern hemisphere has much less land than the northern hemisphere, and almost all of this land has tropical weather. But most of the land is also clustered near the equator: Australia, Brazil, South Africa etc. are warm, but so are Egypt, India and Mexico. This image [1] may help.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/World_map...
This is the first you have heard of Mr. Goodspeed?[1]

I scoff at you, sir.

[1] See http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/ for one famous project of his
My first thought at this story was that the action serves to legitimise bitcoin as a means of exchange. If the Ponzi scheme had been peanut-denominated, would the SEC have taken action?
If you own a plane, you're rich globally.
Google, Amazon.com Win Appeal to Toss Internet Patents
> Each country expects other governments to spy on them, but when you start requiring American companies to help the intelligence agencies do their jobs, it leaves little reason for anyone to do business with American companies.

This is largely orthogonal to the issue of whether or not the NSA ought to be barred from spying on foreign individuals unless that person is specifically under suspicion of some sort.
Wow, they still mention that non-sense in the FAQ?

Let me guess, they also still link to that “OMG Generics are so hard” article where they conveniently manage to ignore the comments which point out the elephant in the room?
I haven't tried ownCloud yet, but from what I've read so far, it seems promising. It supports CardDAV [0]. The software is free, but you have to host it on your own server. There does appear to be some services that offer it as a service, and one service that has a free tier [1].

[0] http://owncloud.org/support/calendars/
[1] http://owncloud.org/providers/#free
If it's spam, then it belongs in the spam folder, not in any part of my inbox. If it's not spam, I want it in my inbox; that's why I'm subscribed to the list.
I still wonder why Go is so prone to religious fanboys, though.
I believe you can donate on indiegogo without selecting a reward.
The SEC can go after ponzi schemes because those are effectively investment scams. Any ponzi scheme effectively issues IOU's (e.g. shares in a fund, debt instruments or just verbal promises of future payment). These are the securities involved and thus fall under the SEC's domain. The SEC regulates securities and exchanges. Not just registered public securities and public exchanges, ALL of them. And they say what is a security or an exchange, not you.

Gambling operations such as casinos and sports books are regulated by local, state and federal law enforcement. At the federal level, I think it's the FBI.

On another point, you write, "BTC is not a real currency but electronic messages being sent back and forth and logged in an electronic ledger". Most money is exactly that: entries in electronic ledgers and most money transfers are just electronic messages. You don't really think that banks reconcile transfers with big piles of $100 notes, do you?
It was on this exact blog post. But just to hear him tell the story of how he built this thing in his words was incredible.
Introduction to visualizing networks
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Anyone know how this thing compares to a cheap $~150 video card that supports CUDA/OpenCL?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPD0ZBiMs0

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\YANKEE.TXT

and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's
families--_including his own_.

They all looked unhit, and said they didn't know; that they had
never thought about it before, and it hadn't ever occurred to them
that a nation could be so situated that every man _could_ have
a say in the government. I said I had seen one--and that it would
last until it had an Established Church. Again they were all
unhit--at first. But presently one man looked up and asked me
to state that propositi

-----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8-Y-fIbqM
At one company where I worked, the advertised benefit to employees was, "You get to choose what you build for the company! You can INNOVATE!" Not these words, but this was the message. If you want to take initiative to improve things around here, you have to do so on your own time.

Interestingly, I ended-up spending much of the hackathon day an evening fixing a production problem which was of obvious urgency. Some mild shaming from management ensued when I had nothing to present -- a clear message.
I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary recently about the increase in juvenile crime and the increasing occupancy rates in jails. Also, what about biological disposition and hormonal influence?
I'll probably come back & post more on this later, but one thing to note is that it is not the law schools denying admission to the bar, its the bar denying admission to people who have not gone to law school. Also, it's not illegal to practice law without the education - it's illegal to practice without the bar. The ace card isn't really the law schools so much as it's the bar associations. Meanwhile the bar associations are filled with attorneys who have JD's and want to keep the value of that degree up, so they have a vested interest in requiring JD's for admittance into their profession. It's kinda a circular & self reinforcing system, but like Mark Twain said, every profession is a conspiracy against the world.

I think the focus on legal education should not be getting online right now, but to change the JD to a 2 year degree, or start offering LLM's or something equivalent without the need for a JD and allow people to practice with those degrees. I've heard many law professors talk about how the final year of law school is pointless. Unfortunately, making a JD take 3 years is like Alka-seltzer coming up with the ad where they put in 2 tablets instead of one -- they're making money off it because people think it's needed.

Law schools are over priced, but they're also producing more than enough lawyers, so I don't really see accessbility as a bottleneck that needs to be solved, which is what most of the MOOCs are solving. Price is an issue that needs to be solved, but given the self perpetuating old boys network that is the legal profession any changes need to come through slow reforms, not major disruption.

Finally, firms & government agencies aren't going to hire people with online degrees even if they are admitted. School's name recognition carries more weight than it should (in my opinion) in this profession. It will be extremely hard for grads to gain the skills and prove themselves when they're not able to plug into existing networks after taking an online degree.
Yeah but... which spec?

(pun intended)
> They have always been about freedom first and software second, and Stallman has many times stated that he'd rather a program be used less if it results in more freedom, than vice versa.

I think I disagree with your interpretation, but I think my disagreement hinges on a semantic disagreement about the word "freedom." To me, the GPL is a legal limitation on freedom. It prohibits certain use cases, like distributing that software without its source code. To me, a piece of software is "more free" if its source code is available, but people are still able to do literally anything they want with the source code, including distributing binaries without providing access to the source code. I think the point of the GPL is to utilize the copyright system to ensure access to source code for everyone, not to simply increase freedom.

The slavery quip doesn't really make sense, because in that analogy the source code is the slave. So unless we're talking about increasing freedom for source code (which is a strange notion, since most source code is not conscious) rather than increasing freedom for people, my disagreement still applies. The reason forbidding slavery is not generally considered a decrease in freedom is that both slave owners and slaves are people.
Huh? How did you conclude that?

Tracking image loads and clicks would be a much more effective method of determining that an address is valid for both legitimate mass emails and spam.
Somewhere on the site they actually tell you to use Stackoverflow because it's more up to date.
I wasn't angry. I was resigned. That's why I phrased what I said the way I did. After so many cycles of doing YC, I know a certain percentage of the startups in each batch are doomed. Some people just aren't meant to start startups, but there's no way for them to know that for sure without trying it.

So when a startup seems determined to stay on the wrong path, I won't keep fighting them forever. Eventually I give up. And occasionally when I do I tell them so, because sometimes that wakes them up.
I don't have actual numbers, but a cursory examination of my Gmail spam box says spam senders don't generally provide a valid List-Unsubscribe header. One of Gmail's spam triggers may in fact be, someone clicked on the List-Unsubscribe header and the FBL message bounced.
> we won't spy or do this list of things to you, without arranging with your Foreign Ministry, and you won't do those things to us without arranging with our Dept. of State

During the Bush years, I recall reading that the US had (secret) bilateral agreements with the UK, wherein the Brits would spy on the Americans for the US govt and the US would spy on the Britons for the UK govt. This was supposedly a way of working around legislation governing domestic surveillance.

I've no idea if this is actually true or not, but perhaps bilateral agreements aren't necessarily better.
So, the software is different, and possibly better (I have no way of judging). How is this an improvement over porting the software to an existing phone?

It's probably even doable to make it run on the Android kernel. See, for example, Hellaphone (https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home), which is an Inferno port to Android. Take the Nexus 4, or some other nice phone, flash it with the updates, and resell it.
Communicating sequential processes is pretty thought out, I haven't used much Erlang but I was under the impression it uses a similar model to go (green threads, message passing between them).

Can you explain what you mean by 'more thought out'? If you're talking about STM or pmap and friends, then I'm very, very unimpressed by them (see Amdahl's law for why). I can do shit really slowly in one thread just fine.
I find HN really irritating in this regard. My NY Times subscription costs about $15 / month. It doesn't even register on my budget. I don't understand why everyone here is so reluctant to cough up a few bucks for decent journalism, not to mention the outstanding interactive graphics.
Both MPI and OpenMP are fairly mature and easy to use with C or C++ (I haven't used them with FORTRAN, but I believe you can, with a few slight alterations).
Just about everything except the basics is undocumented, or only documented via stackoverflow.
"Announcing vendor lock-in community"... no, thank you!
Browsing is entirely different from spamming. With browsing, a store (online or offline) has opened its doors and said "Please come in! Look around, see if you want to buy something!" And we do. It's understood in this model that we are not obligated to buy something. We are browsing.

Email is a means of personal communication. I trust that when I give out my email, it will only be used for the promised purposes - such as giving me order receipts, or establishing an account. Giving out this email for one purpose is not implicit permission to use it for another purpose.
While that's sort of correct, there actually is a technical "ping" called an FBL message that gets sent by the big providers when someone clicks the "report spam" button.
Silk Weave
Interesting. My experience has been nearly completely opposite of that. Especially in terms of "false positives" where things are being put under the "promotions" tab that aren't promotions at all. :-(
I don't work for Mailchimp, but it isn't that complication: Feedback loops with major email providers, monitoring bounes and engagement rates, and (of course) tracking abuse complaints. If you're sending out bona fide spam, many people will take the time to send a message to abuse@yourprovider.com

Among the consumer-grade ESPs, Mailchimp has a reputation for being extremely strict about anti-spam enforcement.
Have you check out https://www.google.com/flights/ ? It's similar to this concept, with fewer linear transformations.
Dvorak does it better -- underscore is on the home row.
I understand the cultural allure of a single event -- pizza, beer afterward, etc. If a company wants to allow all employees to participate, why not have a demo day every couple of months where teams could present stuff they worked on during that period. People could self-organize partially by their own time availability. Enforcing the time-boxing rules would be hard, but I don't think this is an integral aspect of what makes hackathons a cultural success.
I think we're interested in this because frank feedback is an age-old aspect of 'geek culture', but it's obviously not that important; I'm sure neither of us is too invested in his point of view. Continuing the thread:

I agree with you about people using Steve Jobs-esque "emotional towel-snaps", and how reactions to them may thus be emotional and not rational. Check.

I'm saying, though, that if you clearly (and quickly! within minutes or seconds!) communicate 'you came here for my view, and it's that you're wrong. don't do that', people will read that as emotional, maybe as 'mean', regardless of whether there's any explicit emotional content there. No one likes to hear that answer, so their distaste at getting an answer they don't like makes them view it as an attack.

But I don't see that anything in pg's cited words demands a translation to "you are effing stupid!" It's reasonable for an adult who is basically paying equity to get actionable advice from a trusted investor not to interpret said advice as a personal attack.

To illustrate my point: your 'Spock' answer assumes a much friendlier reality than pg may have seen for them.

What if 'Spock' is convinced they were having a hard time buckling down, that if they changed focus that late in the game, they'd have died?

Then he would have essentially paraphrased pg's response: 'I am as sure as I can be that that is, qualitatively, a terrible course of action. You've nearly died already [moths for bad ideas], and I'm sure you will be dead if you do this. My time's up, so let me know what you decide next week.'
LiveMinutes launches all-in-one collaboration platform built on Firebase
> IMO, releasing the source code that operates people's property is equivalent to putting a list of ingredients on a packaged food product.

pessimizer, I really like your metaphor, and I expect that using it is an easy way to introduce the subject to non-techies/non-law-geeks. Thank you!

As I reflected on your metaphor, my first thought was that releasing source code is actually more closely similar to releasing the ingredients as well as the recipe for the packaged food. But my thinking is probably not always correct: An author can release their source code that operates on my property (the ingredients), but they have no obligation to release the process to build/compile said source code (the recipe). (Hopefully I'm correct, I'm certainly open to constructive criticism).

That said, I truly appreciate it when developers offer easy-to-follow build instructions. However, for me at least, releasing the source almost always meets my needs for sufficient disclosure.
I want to find a source of these dishes.
> And that has a corrosive effect on culture. Those negative thoughts don't go away, and when team members repress doubts, resentment builds. Passive-aggressive behavior starts to predominate, politics brew, and problems linger on without being solved. So although people may hold their tongue intending to be nice, the result is that a more subtle kind of meanness takes root

This is so absolutely true that its painful, because I have seen this first hand.

The thing you must do is try to figure this out before you join a company, because this tiptoeing around people's feelings seems to work really well at shit and spectacularly average companies. So if you go into a place where this is the accepted way of doing things and try to be the straight shooter, you'll find yourself on everybody's shit list because that's just the way things are done, and in short order (depending on the level of sociopathy that prevails at your particular firm) very strange things will start to happen to your career.

It seems to be that at companies that are doing really amazing things, with really smart and accomplished people, this is not the case.

I also think that this might be a function of culture in the city you work, So while a more unfiltered approach might not raise eyebrows in New York, doing that in Texas could cause problems
PG's On Lisp might be a candidate for reprinting. Judging from not-selling-prices, there seems to be a demand.
Was it that hard? "If you make money on our platform, you need to give us a percentage," seems sort of like an obvious monetization strategy. Otherwise, what's the point of building the platform?
Oh, I'm sorry. It appears I accidentally fed prose into a markov chain.
Apple’s No-Growth Q3 2013 In Charts
In zsh you could use noglob to make this nicer:

zmodload zsh/mathfunc
_calc() { echo $[$*] }
alias c='noglob _calc'

Then:

% c 2 * atan(1, 0)
3.1415926535897931

(Although this works with any command, using an alias with qalc as pointed out above might be more useful.)
Alan Watts on Insecure Societies and Outsiders
Anyone know how these would be used? I.e. is each processor exposed in the OS level, or is it more API-like as in CUDA / OpenCL?
oh good another social network
You are allowed to deconstruct the id that way because it's the only way to get the information. It's not a property or value, it's part of the id. You then use these three parts to get the rest of the information.

It's not documented as a format (very little is) but it's been this way since at least 2011-ish.

If there is a better way to get this information it is also undocumented.
Decentralisation: Alternative Internet
Wonder how this affects Apple's facetime?
The contents of my Promotions tab included many things that were not promotional in nature, including -dev mailing list digests.
Interestingly, my Other folder (which I used when navigating apartment subletting in a new city) is broken. It just "loads" forever.

I have three unread messages in it, too...
I have no idea who you're talking about. I took the handle from the film L.A. Confidential.
Resume that looks like a Google results page
It should get trounced. I think Adapteva is hedging their bets on core counts much higher than 16 or 64.
Basic questions:

1. Can I run python on linux on this

2. Would the multiprocessing module work like it does on x86 4 core chips?
I recently found this, sent in January...

"Thanks for giving me your details on [INTERNET DATING WEBSITE], sorry is this a bit weird that I am contacting you on Facebook - couldn’t find an email address for you. You probably are thinking that I am a bit of a cheapskate, no excuse really just haven’t really got round to renewing.
How was your new year?"
Very interesting, I'd love to hear an update on the author's views several years after he's penned that.
Yeah - look forward to getting mine.

Does anyone know if Erlang / Elixir will run on Parallella and take advantage of all the cores?