skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The beauty of _not_ having science is that you can explain anything. Initially they'll be frightened and respond appropriately (withdrawal with cautious acts of violence, it seems), over time familiarity will breed contempt.
fetchmail/getmail your gmail, read with mutt, send with msmtp.
I'm currently writing an article about this but the two most helpful things I've found are:

1. Be thoughtful and patient: Instead of writing down whatever comes to my mind, I try to take a couple of minutes thinking about the ramifications of what I'm doing before writing the actual code. In some cases I'll mock several ways of doing the same thing and try to get a "feel" from them [0].

2. Know and use your tools! Unit testing, debuggers or code analyzers are there to help you. You don't need to use all the tools all the time but by becoming proficient with them you'll make your life easier and you can get a deeper understanding of what you're doing.

[0] My "feel" might not be your "feel", it's probably not even the right way of doing things in many cases, but with enough time programming you tend to recognize what "feels" good and what doesn't.
Why Do Bets Look Bad?
Linode Longview - now in public beta?
Just logged into my Linode control panel this morning and noticed I've now got access to their new statistics service - Longview.

I know it has been available as a beta for a while if you met their criteria and requested access through a support ticket - but there doesn't seem to have been any announcements (their blog or forum) that it has gone into a public beta.

Looking good so far though!
People understand what "try all the possible combinations"
That is correct, v2 of that license has requirements for attribution within source and IIRC requires the same license to be maintained on that code (but not linked code) if it is redistributed, but has no actual requirement to distribute the code or derived works. Earlier versions of the license also required attribution visible to the users of derived, but that has been dropped.

v2 of the Apache license has been declared GPL v3 compatible which is why some people think there is an explicit code sharing clause when there isn't (IIRC if you mix GPLv3 and ALv2 code the result should be considered GPLv3).

That considered OVH aren't talking about not taking part as the licenses says they should which settles my mind on that count, though they have marked themmselves as a company I probably wouldn't want to work for.
I think op means people with enough money to pay to turn ads off. People with money are the people advertisers want to target. Even if the person doesn't like ads the right one could still catch their eye.
This is a loss, The H covered a lot of interesting material that other titles frankly just didn't understand!
I've been happy with http://atmailcloud.com/ It's $10/month for 5 email accounts, multi-domain support, with calendaring and contacts too.

Email aliases don't count against the 5 account limit, and you can have as many as you like on whatever domains you like. Adding a domain doesn't use up an account slot, so you can set up forwarding addresses for multiple domains for no extra cost.
I have been using my own email server since 2000.

For me, Gmail is only an email aggregator for my multiple email accounts. At home I keep on using a trusty desktop IMAP client.
How Giant Mirrors Will Bring Winter Sunlight To A Norwegian Town For First Time
They generally eschewed false-dichotomy driven, dramatic reporting with hyperbolic, click-hungry headlines.
Pine! :)
As in decoders, none.

As in renderers and converters, all of them.
No you cannot. Not in the Andaman Islands. These islands are the base for the Indian Tri-Services Command [1] and rumor has it, for the Indian Nuclear ICBM command. In addition there are more rumors of serious electronic warfare going on there against the Chinese listening posts on Coco Island.

No way are there going to be drones around Andamans anytime soon.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Command
I started using twitter as it comes, then when it became unmanageable I started using TweetDeck, but notifications were annoying and the client was way too heavy for my machine. The tab kept freezing all the time. That was a long time ago, I haven't checked it out for a while.

After all this, I switched back to plain Twitter and built my interest lists (smalltalk, music, friends, etc), but having to visit all these lists all the time became tedious too.

It's been around half a year I haven't read my Twitter timeline at all.

I know it sounds stupid for the way Twitter is meant to be, but until there is a functionality allowing you to silence people you follow, I just can't use it.

I know, why would you follow people if you were not interested in what they tweet? I guess I'm stupid.
"Isn't the entire rationale for providing government funding for academic research premised on the idea that scientific knowledge is a public good, to be shared freely?"

No it isn't, it's only a part of it, and only applicable in some cases. Other rationales include stimulating research on things that are considered too risky by the mainstream manufacturers, so as to facilitate radical innovations (in the Geoffrey Moore meaning of that concept). Under those circumstances, allowing patents on the results is required otherwise the people doing the research wouldn't have a reason to do it in the first place.

Plus, the grant money is only a part of the eventual results; the original ideas, the extra labor, outside financing, etc are equal contributors.
So this is why they wanted to "help us" sort out our inbox? I feel defrauded into believing their motivation.

Like suddenly realizing I was given a lift solely because my presence in the car allowed the driver to enter my estate or place of work.

This is wrong.
Penicillin is made by mold. I'm not sure if molds count as plants, but it's definitely not a synthetic substance.
Whether you pay to opt out of ads is a function of how much you hate ads and how willing you are to spend money in general. I think the latter factor is more significant.
Assuming that you're not trolling, HDI (Human Development Index) is a crude but sufficiently useful tool to compare the two countries in this case.

Australia, which ranks 2nd with a very high HDI score, is sending refugees to Papua New Guinea, which ranks 156th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Deve...
None of them are open source, though. And VLC is probably faster.
Not ad, Up to 200 books free for you, as i will be gone
These books include:

30 more Science fiction world (China's most famous scifi magzine, monthly version and mostly translation version).

2 Science fiction world's The 30 anniversary of the supplement.

35 more world classical literatures.

30 more chinese classical literatures.

10 more world famous scifi novels.

some poem, prose.

I have no exactly quantity and category now, may more or less, i will count it this or next week.

If you like book, especially like scifi or classical literatures, and like paper books, you can email me.

BUT almost all the books is in chinese, and you (or your friend) need in BeiJing, you know, books are so heavy.

I have in BeiJing 7 years, no lucky to meet a man love scifi or literatures the same with me, so books is my friends.

They are my friends, but i can't take them away anymore, if you are coming to take them, you will do me a favor, thank you.

ghosthamlet@gmail.com
The thing with people claiming to have photographic memory is that they have nothing to compare to. What they describe is a complete normal memory and for some reason they think everyone else remembers things in a different way.

I'm not saying the author doesn't have photographic memory, it's just that it's often simply not the case.
Have you tried Fastmail?
Just sign up for paid google apps. No ads there what so ever. It's $50 per year.
I've been using it since 2006 and I now follow 1500ish people. I dip in and out. It's like a river.

I don't visit Hacker News or Reddit every 2 hours to ensure I don't miss a single story. Similarly, I don't want to read every tweet, RSS item, or whatever. E-mail is the only thing I do that for and even then half of it is filtered.

I'm considering creating a Twitter list for people for who I wish to see every tweet (e.g. my dad who just joined) but it hasn't been important enough to do yet.
Vets are using 3D printing to help pets
Wow, never thought of it this way..
A wild guess could be that the work needed to be done on that station was windows only or they did not had *nix people on board or that they wanted to see if this was enough ram for Crysis ...
The job of a university teacher is to help students learn - if a student fails the class, then the teacher has failed to do their job. Sure, it's possible that some of the blame for that failure may lie with the student, but nonetheless, the teacher still failed to achieve what they set out to do. A teacher failing a student is like a programmer shipping buggy software - it may be the case that, because of circumstances beyond your control (incomplete specs or dysfunctional management; unmotivated students or weak syllabuses), you couldn't do your best work in a particular instance, and you don't necessarily need to feel guilty about that; but you shouldn't be proud of it.
If I find an advert song to be catchy or memorable I go out my way to avoid that product to such a severe extent that it really irritates me if something I use or like is advertised. It has me wondering how I'll ever manage without X.
Can anyone point some sensible alternative? On a daily basis, I've been reading only The H and HN for many months.
17 Experimental Examples of Using HTML5 Canvas
The risk is that it becomes too popular causing google's ad inventory to plummet.
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No more just day to day spending. I basically want my bank to help me control my spending - i.e. make it easy for me to see where my money is going out, where I can save money etc. They don't seem to do this. Do you know of any banks that are particularly good at this? Or any other sites/apps that do this well?
Registered specifically to post this.

Today seems to be an interesting day on HN.

First, Google's ad revenue's are down ~5%, every jumps up and down saying the end is near and they need to shape up before they fade into irrelevance.

Now a hint of a forthcoming feature where they are doing just that, making a change to increase revenue and people lose their minds.

Lets think about this. The feature is under Promotions, a section already laden with junk for most people. Are we all saying that John from "matresses online" can send me news about this weeks greatest sleep position and special offers like 5% off pillow fluffing, but Google couldn't input it's own ad, which would likely be tailored to your interests in any case? If you signup to promotions for numerous sources (enough to warrant the promotions tab) you might appreciate the ad, no? If you don't, well you'll never be in the Promoted tab in most cases anyway, so it likely wont affect you all that much (assuming they wouldn't inject ad's into main inbox stream).
The main reason the comparison between JavaScript and Scheme is helpful is that it breaks the connection between JavaScript and Java. The first thing many Java programmers do when trying to write JavaScript is to try to create a class hierarchy (rather than using prototypical inheritance) using idioms from Java. Although possible, it ends up awkward and confusing in most cases. Understanding that functions are first-class and seeing functional idioms fall out from there is a big paradigm shift for Java devs.

Obviously JavaScript isn't Scheme using the author's "top 10 defining characteristics of Scheme." Crockford's analysis is on track - and John Resig and Bear Bibeault highlight the same idea by introducing functions are really fundamental to the languages more than objects (in "Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja").

The language's history does imply the comparison as well. Eich's original mandate was to "write Scheme for the browser" but he was later directed to give his language a C-like syntax and to ride on the coat-tails of the hype surrounding Java.

"JavaScript isn't Scheme" might not be accurate for folks schooled in the finer points of Scheme. It is very useful to those who cut their teeth learning Java.
The H is/was the english speaking child of heise.de - the biggest German tech news website and a big publisher of tech magazines and books. They belong to Springer.
That article seems to be talking about the App Store for iOS (the one you access via iTunes). We're talking about the Mac App Store that provides OSX applications.

Now although the situation might be the same, I'm not definitely sure that it is - for one thing OSX still lets you run unsigned binaries (and thus modification to source code).
An old argument for going to Mars is that spreading beyond Earth is necessary for survival in the very long term. It makes sense, but it always seems like there are so many other causes, more urgent, to spend our resources on. Musk's answer to that:

"The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not. There could be some series of events that cause that technology level to decline. Given that this is the first time in 4.5bn years where it's been possible for humanity to extend life beyond Earth, it seems like we'd be wise to act while the window was open and not count on the fact it will be open a long time."

I find it really hard to imagine our society going back to a dark age though...
I googled for it and found a "anarchist cookbook v2000". It contains recipes for dynamite and nitroglycerin that are correct, but stupendously dangerous to do.
Agile Development leads to Alzheimer's (not really)
Pretty sure they were. I can only imagine the smile of the drone operator, seeing the faces of the freaked out tourist couple in their rental car... Can't say I wouldn't do the same!
Side note, for reference I'm a Google apps user with ads disabled for my domain, who doesn't use this new inbox style, so I'd assume the ads wouldn't display for me in any case.
The gmail I have now is a shadow of what it was when I was invited in more than a decade ago. I so rarely login (it's a backup dumping ground now) that I can't find what I want, it's non-intuitive, things aren't where they used to be and I can't stand it. I might just be getting old though...
Email used to be fun, then spammers came, then good email providers added spam filters and made email fun again, now email providers are sending us spam. The circle is almost complete.
It's in the "Promotions" tab, not the primary inbox. Personally, I think there are better reasons to leave Gmail (which is why I did so years ago).
Subsistence farming isn't a reference to famines, its a reference to inequality. My point was that even today, the majority of the civilized world spends their time doing endless agricultural labor for minimal benefit, even though one would think that we would have a better alternative implemented by this point (especially since anthro studies have shown that by and large hunter/gatherer societies spend much less time obtaining food and water than farming ones do).

And my earlier point on famine was that it was a much bigger problem for heavy agricultural societies in centuries past than it was for tribal societies; a bad harvest one year for a civilization could have disastrous effects, while a tribe could generally pack up and move.

And finally, while I agree that the future is abundance, I'm not convinced it's going to be abundance for everyone. Up to this point, wealth in every single civilization I can think of has been heavily stratified, with the top few percent taking the majority of everything (doesn't matter if its nobles, priests, corporate leaders or politicians). I don't really see this changing given our current political/cultural/economic systems, unless basic income becomes a thing (and even then, the stratification will remain; it'll just become irrelevant on a long enough scale of technological improvement).
heise.de belongs to the "Heise Medien Gruppe" and certainly not to Springer.

Heise has a long history as an independent, privately owned publisher, it's still a family-run business: http://www.heise-medien.de/artikel/Geschichte-1357257.html
If you loved The H (heise UK), try
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
(heise Germany).
It's the same company, has same excellent quality, a vastly larger offering - but it's in German. They don't have the same monetization issues, though.
Heise is a magazine publisher and printing house based in Hannover, Lower Saxony.
I was really surprised and amused when I saw they also printed the phone book...
Tweetbot for Mac is for me the best client by far. I follow 200 people but I have a list called "Light Timeline" that I first created to catch up my Twitter feed when I was off from it for too long. But now I only use this list, since Tweetbot deals with your lists as if it was your Timeline, you see absolutely no difference, except I now only follow 20~30 people, and I am much less distracted. (idem on my iPhone) Why not forget about Twitter web and give desktop apps a try ?
Ask HN: Help me find the perfect (paid) email service
I wouldn't like to write a long essay here, so I'll try to be short. I'm moving away from GMail, but I don't know where. What I need/want:
- preferably NSA-proof: even 'I have nothing to hide', I dislike the principle of people (and even machines) reading my email
- has IMAP or Exchange connector
- NO ADS
- really good search/indexing
- not self-hosted, I could administer my own server but I don't want to waste time on this

That's all I need, and I'm happy to pay for it. Essentially, I want all the benefits of a self-hosted email service without the pains of administration.

Any ideas?
But what if they have a brutal dictator there?
Or slavery?
Or sexual abuse (like on pitcairn island)?

On balance though, I think all countries should leave one another alone. Foreign intervention frequently seems to do more harm than good.

These people though are now living in a constructed reality like 'The truman Show', we just haven't put the cameras in yet.
1. I use Hootsuite website (and Falcon Pro on my phone). Hootsuite allows you to have 6 lists (and more, with horizontal scrolling) in the same page. Falcon brings me to the beginning of my timeline's unread part, so it's easier to know what I have to read.

2. All that I want is provided by others apps (Pocket for "read later", Hootsuite & Falcon for conversation history)

Twitter website is really useless for power users, it's a shame they try to kill every others clients with their API restrictions.
Wouldn't it be anti-competitive to block spam, yet let your own spam through? The ads in that screenshot look like they are effectively imitating spam.
There needs to be a docker.io image with a (mostly) preconfigured mailserver, roundcube and PGP. Maybe it exists already? If not I might make one.
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Netflix presses ahead with HTML5, as free software activists call for boycott
I find arstechnica also brings quality articles
Gravity Development Board: An open source Arduino for Space Apps
And the Web is a horrible place to do that unless you work out how to get paying subscribers or sell your own products/services because regular ad rates are through the floor. Now on e-mail, a tablet app, etc.. it'd have added up.
The joke being that before they switched to the hyphenated url, it could be read as expertsexchange.com
I like some elements of iCloud for email, however its lack of settings (want to have your outgoing mail appear to come from john@doe.com? Tough) and terrible terrible search are a bit of deal breaker. How is the search so bad? I usually resort to just scrolling back through emails rather than use it.
> It seems to me that Jeff misunderstood what rule of three means, or he's just trying to re-tell the Wikipedia article in his own words.

Not at all - he's actually making a much deeper point: that something cannot really claim to be reusable until it has actually been used in three different places.

Because if you writer a reusable component for just one product, chances are very high that even if it's technically reusable, it will end up conceptually coupled to that one product too much to actually be useful elsewhere.
Oh, no! I love The H! :(

It is THE one serious IT news web site, no bullshit or sensationalistic crap; well written articles by competent people.
I'm so sorry it did not work out for them, both for them and for myself.
Nice! Like it!
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I don't know the case, but do you think talking about concrete corruption cases is "stirring unrest against legitimate government"?
Different countries different cost of living, even with the same currency.
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Brilliant analysis of terrorism
You could use it in a 32-bit VM. Since I went 64-bit, I've been using my Lide20 CanonScan though a 32-bit XP install in VirtualBox. Sure, the VM takes 20 seconds to boot to desktop, but that's better than junking a working piece of hardware simply because the manufacturer doesn't support it.
"Skimming 200 tweets" in one go might be a bit of a pain, but all 200 tweets don't arrive at once. If you briefly check Twitter during short pauses of work throughout the day, your 200 tweets would probably come in blocks of 10 or 20, and that number of tweets is easy to skim. And if you find there are more tweets than that, just don't read them all - anything really important will surely be tweeted again, or (more likely) arrive via other channels.
Btw, the top post regarding command lines applies to unix equally.
It's a pity it doesn't support external SRT files, otherwise it'd be simply perfect.
What makes you feel like they need any kind of permission? It's their product and they can damn well structure it how they want to.

You may not like it, and if you don't I strongly urge you to stop using their products.
I also need an OS that just work and that gets out of my way. I have used ubuntu until the beginning of this year without fiddling into the system. This is the first year that I have to fiddle because I can not cope with unity. I have tried linux mint with cinnamon, ubuntu with cinnamon. It works but it is not very polished, it looks very old. This week, I have just installed ubuntu-gnome (gnome 3.8) for the computer of my old father. I has required some effort to learn how to configure it. At first, it looks fine. I just hope I will not encounter any problem.
>You still don't have control over the UI....

Well, you get to choose your mail client independently of your mail provider.

>What evidence is there that google will ever stop supporting IMAP

I have no solid evidence, of course, but the fact that they've disabled xmmp support on gtalk, to me points at a google attempting to become more of an apple or facebook-style 'walled garden'

(and all along, well, google makes money off showing you ads; if you check mail via IMAP, you aren't reading those ads)

>What's so hard about switching providers if google does drop IMAP, particularly if you're using your own domain?

If you are using IMAP to check your mail, and have your own domain, this isn't hard at all.

My view is that being a mass market IMAP provider wouldn't make all that much sense unless google did turn off IMAP, or unless google otherwise started screwing things up (things, I mean, besides the UI)

However... it's easier to do something if you've been doing it for a while, you know? I haven't seriously sysadmin'd a mailserver for anything but my own company in... almost a decade now. It would take me some time to get up to speed. So yes, if I want to be in a position to swoop in if google disables IMAP, I should probably start now.