skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can notify me all they want about the actual transactions I am performing with them, monetary or other. But when it comes to solicitation they should have a very explicit opt-in process.

The truth is I think we are probably that far apart in what we believe is acceptable. I think that having all communications not specifically pertaining to an actual transaction on an existing account be opt-in explicitly is unworkable, but only slightly. I think it's great in theory, but that it breaks down in the face of reality and what people find they really want and find acceptable.

Really my point here is to fight back against people re-labeling "unwanted commercial emails from companies I do business with" as spam, as unwanted is not the same as unsolicited.

I've fought the real battle here; I was an admin at an ISP and maintained mail servers, dealt with spam filters, deployed new spam solutions, and had to deal with the constant misuse of the system to send spam through compromised accounts. Having people use the label of spam just to pull along the emotional reaction of the reader really seems to get me worked up.
I feel like I should write a bot to say this on forums across the Internet.

Every time somebody complains how Photoshop doesn't have rounded corners, they mean it doesn't have dynamic rounded corners. You can't change the roundedness in any remotely easy way after you draw the shape, and changing the dimensions of the shape distorts the corners.

They're just a huge pain to work with, when they need to be trivially easy for doing web design.
A few ideas to foster Ubuntu edge founding
Canonical is trying to come out with it's own high-end Ubuntu Mobile, and to achieve it they expect to raise 32 million dollars (!) from crowd-founding. But, in my opinion, their offer is not tempting enough for us, the common mortals, unwilling to spend $ 800 on a mobile phone.

Here's a couple of ideas to make foster ubuntu Edge founding.
Ubuntu forums compromised
From an email I got earlier today.

Hello,

You are receiving this message because you have an account registered with this address on ubuntuforums.org.

The Ubuntu forums software was compromised by an external attacker. As a result, the attacker has gained access to read your username, email address and an encrypted copy of your password from the forum database.

If you have used this password and email address to authenticate at any other website, you are urged to reset the password on those accounts immediately as the attacker may be able to use the compromised personal information to access these other accounts. It is important to have a distinct password for different accounts.

The ubuntuforums.org website is currently offline and we are working to restore this service. Please take the time to change your ubuntuforums.org account password when service is restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience to the Ubuntu community, thank you for your understanding.

The Canonical Sysadmins.
Yes, to be clear, (and I realize now that I wasn't above), what I'm talking about above is what a patent examiner is allowed to use to routinely disqualify a patent up front as part of the application process prior to granting it.

The examiner is not allowed to go on research expeditions to interview witnesses, or to locate, purchase and reverse engineer old products to prove they are implemented in such a way as to invalidate the patent. A court (or the litigants) can certainly do all that, but here we are focusing on what can invalidate a patent prior to it being granted. And for that we are limited to certain classes of readily verifiable types of evidence.
I don't see your point. In the analogy, copyright law is analogous to food safety law that requires labeling.
Thanks, I also edited it a bit for clarity.
http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
This is precisely our way of thinking at adioso.com
A quote I once heard but can't remember the attribution "you don't need better tools, you need to do better with the tools you have"

also http://readwrite.com/2013/06/11/excel-is-an-art-form-these-b...
I fell in love with computers during high school, where my teacher would allow me to play pokemon via gba rom in exchange for creating our school brochures and flyers using MSPaint. I have the honor of making the first soft version of our school logo, which the school only have in paper back then. Surprisingly, I didn't learn Photoshop in college and just went full speed to programming, which I hated in high school as it was taught using Visual Basic.
Where is the Android John Gruber?
No. They want to be essentially your advisors and that probably deserves 0.5-1% equity in total. Anything more looks like a scam. You can agree to pay a finder's fee of couple of percentage if they contribute significantly in a fund raising round which is spending 50-100% of time spent by founders to raise money.
It's always amazing to hear senile (but still sharp) people talk.

97 years of existence must teach a lot about life and what is really important.

I wonder what could be achieved in one particular field of expertise if you devoted all that time to it. It's over 500,000 hours of possible learning ( for a 90 year old ). Some say that 10,000 hours is what takes to gain mastery ( I know this is controversial ).

I like to imagine myself mysteriously falling into some other dimension where I am forced to live for 1000000 years and practice one craft, then returning and comparing my skills to those who had only one short life :) It helps to push the boundary of what seems "impossible" a little bit more.
Howto: low-impact paranoid browsing
Rebuilding the Jersey Shore
Manufacturing was outsourced to China starting in the 1990s, resulting in a flood of cheap consumer goods. Inexpensive labour means artificially low prices, which means in turn that most consumer goods are not worth repairing because the cost to repair them with North American or European labour is prohibitively expensive. It is cheaper to replace the item if it breaks.

This has led to a decline in two professions: electronics/appliance repair and thievery. Just as it doesn't make sense to repair most consumer goods, it doesn't make sense to steal them, either.

The street price of stolen goods is a tiny fraction of the new or even the used goods price. When new prices are so low, the miniscule price of stolen goods means that it is not worth the risk of getting caught stealing.

The decline in domestic manufacturing may also have a bearing on other crime rates. Depression and hopelessness in a population, paradoxically, do not necessarily lead to increased violence.

Look at any enslaved population; the first job of the keepers is always to create hopelessness, so that the population is easier to control.

Violence declines in any enslaved population--at least, violence against the keepers. And violent crime among the enslaved is rarely reported, partly because the keepers don't care and partly because the enslaved do not trust the keepers.

Criminals have either become anergic or else they have switched to confidence scams like organized religion. Religion, unfortunately, does not get reported as a crime.

Edit:sp.
Starting at 40-50, each decade you loose 2-3% of your neurons. At 90, by that calculation - unless things accelerate further - you'd loose 12% of your neurons. I hope I remain still as sharp when I reach my 90s.
Leaving Google (for now)
If there is such a thing as a software hall of fame, MSPaint deserves to be in the inaugural class. Microsoft has written some real crap over the years, but MSPaint is no one of them. Its a shame that Microsoft seems to have left MSPaint behind after XP. I've tried all the open source MSPaint alternatives, and none of them even come close to being as good as MSPaint. Its like the "Super Mario Bros" of desktop software.
Isn't JWZ mainly famous for Netscape (and later the DNA Lounge)? I didn't know he had anything to do with Emacs until I Googled to see what that was about.
Unpleasantness is not a crime. Which judging from your post is probably something you should be thankful for.
A big part of this is the shortsightedness of the companies themselves. There are steps you can take to ensure that you can manage types in dynamic languages. Very often, companies simply don't take these steps. It's not programmers that need babysitting by tools. It's big enterprise.

I am not at liberty to discuss details, but I would be shocked if your theory was an accurate explanation of the data that I saw.
Gmail's New Inbox is a Win for Shrewd Email Marketers
> There is no evidence of harm to
> children from light drinking
> during pregnancy

To my knowledge, there are is no evidence that taking ibuprofen during pregnancy harms the child. Should a woman then ignore the medical recommendations that she not take it?
Users of proprietary software have the choice and can decline, too. Since users dont need it to protect their freedom, why is the GPL necessary if not to restrict freedom?
Yup, twilio for sms, mailgun for emails
>"Brand relationships are like human relationships."

No. Brands, corporations, and other legal fictions are not human. They're tools explicitly designed to generate profit. This is their fundamental purpose, and as such, they can never bear any significant resemblance to human relationships.

Aside from that, it's certainly an excellent write up. And I like the term too: Dark Patterns.
The GPL does offer a deal, but its dishonest to call it 'freedom'.
You can, in fact, forget that. We should judge people to be criminals or not based on their actions, not their daydreams.

Also, how is it lazy to create a media shitstorm and get your house raided versus making some free money quickly and quietly? Are you really trying to frame his turning down free money as the MORE disdainful choice?!
It sounds like a bunch of crap to me.

The list of what they will do makes up for its lack of milestones with an over abundance of waffle words prefacing so-vague-as-to-be-meaningless actions - e.g.

Connect Company with prospective beta customers

Forget, how many, forget when, that's not closing sales. Here's the base analysis:

If you don't need cash from investment right now, then none of what they are offering, even when viewed in the most favorable light possible, adds value to your company - you don't need positioning or critique or a grant.

On the other hand, if you need cash now, then you don't need and investment banker and VC who aren't writing you a check in exchange for equity - and granting them equity just makes raising capital more complex because now the vultures have legal standing within your corporate structure.

My gut tells me that their big idea is to get equity for no cash, sit back and hope that things take off more or less on their own. They're not even committed to attending meetings:

When reasonably available, attend investor, strategic
partner, beta customer, and other such strategic
meetings.

If they don't, they have lost very little. If they do, they have enough leverage to perhaps take control, or make their taking control the least painful alternative.

Good luck.
Why do you think it's reasonable to make people take a guess (even an educated one) at the intent of the site operator?
Definitely somewhere downtown! Find someone on AirBnB, or hell, even stay at a downtown casino. They're still right in the middle of things.

If you want to meet a lot of interesting people in the Vegas Tech scene, maybe you could attend a taping of the Downtown Podcast (http://downtownpodcast.tv/) or come to a Tech Jelly (https://twitter.com/VegasJelly).
You don't get to break into a bank because you want to see if you can exploit a security hole.

What you're talking about is more akin to wiggling the bank's door handle and then leaving. What weev did is break in, steal a bunch of documents, and then talk about selling them.
This is a great model, especially for underserved rural areas. I wonder if the telcos opposed it.
30 day challenge: Chromebook Pixel
If I were paying out affiliates or similar I could see where this could be useful. However, it'd have to be very simply and easy compared to printing a batch of checks with quickbooks or similar.
http://www.xkcd.com/505/
I owe someone else on HN for introducing me to this quote:

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." —H. L. Mencken
Ask: Do you outsource your bookkeeping? How much do you pay? 
Do you outsource your bookkeeping? How much do you pay? what about payroll?
BOINC now has an Android client. Donate CPU time to science
Or just FUSE + sshfs, and any editor that you have locally. :-P
Sports for the Mobile Generation
HUDDLERS can be downloaded here http://bit.ly/147WaGU
$68 an hour is not an inexpensive hobby by any objective measurement.

I also have to wonder where high-school students who drop thousands of dollars into their hobbies are getting their money from. Parents?
The plural of anecdote is anecdotes.

The plural of datum is data.

Datum != anecdote.

Data != anecdotes.

QED.
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who had that issue. Strangely it works perfectly on the mobile version of Chrome for Android, but it grinds to a halt on the tablet version. This is especially strange as I have a Padfone 2 (phone connects to a tablet dock) , so the hardware is the same, and Chrome just gets relaunched in tablet mode when it's docked. Maybe due to the size of images being served being varied on screen size.
You're being downvoted with no explanation. The issue with that is that your email address is easily harvested by combing through websites. The comment above yours is describing a way to get around this by obfuscating the email address in HTML and using CSS trickery to get it to show normally.
After a while, most HN posts just fade away in my memory.

I will remember this one forever.
MailChimp isn't for spam.
It is in fact illegal to "daydream" (i.e. make solid plans) about doing certain crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
same here, cant use on Chrome or Safari.
When I was growing up in Oregon, the dude that was the awesomest best skiier, was the guy wearing Levi's and really shitty skis. Some things never change.
Google to pay for free Wi-Fi in SF city parks
"Breaking in" suggests that there is access control (locks, doors, walls, etc) in place.

ATT admitted in court to publishing this data on the web. Emitting email addresses in response to ICCIDs was a specific feature they explicitly implemented to reduce the number of steps required to resubscribe to service, not a "security hole".

Your physical analogy is inappropriate, and serves to frame his actions as criminal when they are clearly not.

Please read the brief.
Parenjs: Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler
https://bitbucket.org/ktg/parenjs
What weev did crossed many times into criminal territory. He harassed a lot of people in ways that made it either hard or unlikely to press charges.

Seriously, save the reaching argument for people who aren't complete scumbags.
It's a list of people who are (1) famous AND (2) Emacs users AND who would still be famous if they were not Emacs users. Weinreb, Steele, and Stallman all fit this.

Also, you make it sound like Stallman wasn't involved in Emacs from the start. In fact, Stallman and Steele wrote the FIRST Emacs. Everyone else you named came after.
Most automated phone systems will connect you to an operator if you press 0 repeatedly (as in 10 to 20 times in a row). There's almost always a way to get around automated phone systems.
So your solution is to abolish the current copyright system?
How would you fix it?
What would you do different to the current one?

And this topic is well documented and there currently is only one viable workaround, the FSF licensing LibreDWG under a GPLv2 compatible license. They have blatantly refused however, as explained here.
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/libredwg-controvers...
I have copied mspaint.exe from a WinXP machine. It doesn't seem to have any prerequisites, and still works fine!
Yes, but they usually have access to grad students...
I've been administering Cisco PIX/ASA boxes for a half decade and I've yet to have one crash. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
That doesn't tell us the motives for the hack, just that he is possibly being honest about what ran through his head after finding something valuable.
Any environments, list-aware reader, closures or just parenthesized prefix notation translated to JS or Haskell?)

btw, not related to OP, those guys who think it is so clever to translate some primitive subset of Scheme into Haskell should appreciate that writing Scheme interpreter in Scheme is a part of CS61A course and it takes one page of much more readable code.

If, for some reason, you wish to write something other than toys, look at Mark Freeley, to realize that serious Scheme system is hard.
I love this laptop - I found a slightly used one on craiglist for around $350 (given - it has an i5). If I had a budget of $1500 I would still have purchased it and gotten a couple of nice external displays. Honestly I think it is plenty powerful for web development. I also have had a flawless experience with Linux on it.
Why You Need A Side Project
A Skeptical Look at Screening Tests
You must consider though how the massive test run costs associated only exist because the FDA believed drug companies could foot the bill since they got monopoly distribution.

In a patent-free world, those regulations wouldn't hold weight. What would happen (I imagine) is independently sponsored r&d produces drugs for trial that the FDA itself puts through clinical trials on taxpayer money. You can't sell a drug without FDA approval still, but since drug companies aren't operating as super-for-profit businesses on chemical compounds to help people live, they would foot the bill to make sure its safe.
Yeah sure. That's what the devil's advocate tags were about. I was arguing reductio-ad-absurdum - for some crimes, half carried through preparations should be punishable even if the intended "end crime" never got carried out.

I'm not suggesting weev was after credit cards or intending to commit fraud. But I stand by me second para - that Kaminsky or Blaze wouldn't have downloaded the entire database after confirming the vulnerability works - and weev should have known he was "doing something wrong" when he chose to. I agree that AT&T (and the prosecutors here) are _seriously_ overreacting, but weev was a fool if he didn't expect _any_ adverse reaction.
Ask HN: Tips for Working From Home?
I am starting a new job soon in which I will be working from home, what are some tips to make the best of this (already good) situation. Specifically, remain productive, not become a shut-in, and continue to grow professionally.
Good article, and correct in the context of the vast majority of the United States, with the exception of the extremely left of center regions of the country.
What other Websites do HN users browse besides HN?
It's the recognition that fast, cheap internet access is good for the community - like water, schools and roads.
>I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite computing device at home, I hardly touch my desktop these days... Times are changing... Why would I want to use a truck at home?

That is the most pretentious load of bullshit I've heard in a long time. The creators took the liberty to warn you that they might eat into your data plan that you may be capped on and you call them out? Not to mention the rendering on this site would bring your little ipad to it's knees. This attitude has got to go.
There is a solution:

Put him on a plane. Have couple dozen American citizens and citizens from several other countries that are allies also fly on the same plane with Snowden. Make sure that it is very clear via the flight manifest that the plane is carrying dozens of American citizens besides Snowden and citizens from other countries. Fly the plane to the destination. If the US tries to force it to land, they can simply refuse to comply because there is no way that those leading this witch hunt would go as far as to risk causing a major international incident by shooting down the plane, causing a mid-air collision or causing some other air disaster.
Because liferay has the word "enterprise" in the slogan and discourse doesn't.
> "Breaking in" suggests that there is access control (locks, doors, walls, etc) in place.

No, it doesn't. See, this is what happens when you start talking about crimes on the internet when you really shouldn't be. If I leave all my doors and windows opened, or if I put a box of valuables in the middle of an empty lot that I own, it doesn't suddenly make it legal for people to steal from me.

AT&T leaving their doors and windows open does not suddenly authorize any ol' grody troll to walk in and take personal information.

Whether you like it or not, his crime will be made into a physical analogy.
Can you add a little bit about who you are and how your going to deliver these mentors? Also, are these quests going to repsect my time?
Fear and loathing at the Riviera: A noobs guide to Defcon
That page basically says exactly what I did: There is a work around, they could create an alternate plugin interface specifically for this purpose. However they don't want to because it's "ugly." So after reading that I would say the blame falls completely on the LibreCAD developers. Something perceived as being "ugly" is not a valid reason for the FSF to compromise its political goals. The FSF re-licensing software they own the copyrights to is not an option. They're a political organization and they drafted the GPLv3 for urgent political reasons, for them not to use it would be hypocrisy.

As for replacing the copyright system, let's save that discussion for a different thread where it is more relevant.
This doesn't address the parent's point.

First, the context of the parent's comment about countries being arbitrary divisions was clearly with regard to human rights.

Secondly, your argument is completely circular. That people in Nebraska will defend your freedom does not make national divisions any less arbitrary. It simply means that those who would do so have bought into the arbitrary divisions. So, you are effectively saying that if we can get people to believe in those arbitrary divisions, then they are not arbitrary.
I'm not sure what your point is, but so far the asm.js samples that I've seen have not indicated that compiling a runtime for a dynamic language, including memory management, GC, and JIT, are anywhere near as fast as transpiling to JS, and there are tons of complications.

lua.vm.js is running at 50% of Lua, not LuaJIT. Add to that that you can't touch the DOM from asm, and the ported VM basically has it's own heap and no way to collect cycles between Lua and JS and it's not a good solution. Much better to rely on the JS VM for memory management.
What's with the hidden "74HGZ" text at the end of the first paragraph?
Could we not turn that objection around to say we'd like to see implementations that allow exposure of random people's payroll data by typo-ed/bit-rotted/guessed SSNs should be criminalized?

In my head, this is related to the "expectation of privacy in public" and "ubiquitous surveillance" arguments. If somebody makes available on the public internet, a system that reveals my payroll data "secured" only by an enumerable/guessable SSN - while an attacker exploiting that vulnerability is "in the wrong", so too in my opinion is the developer/management/company who deployed that system.

It seems to me that AT&T should be being held to account for their actions at least as much as weev is. If the data weev acquired was worth prosecuting over, then AT&T need to be considered culpable/negligent for it's exposure.
I recently found out that Swingline never originally made a red stapler, but started making them in 2002 (3 years after Office Space was released) because they got so many requests for it after the movie was released.

Story linked here: http://www.techcomedy.com/www.redswinglinestapler.com/histor...