skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author doesn't like that with read receipts the people she's ignoring can definitively point out the fact that she's ignoring them.
Before read receipts she could pretend that she didn't see it or missed it or a whole host of non-truths where it's socially unacceptable for the sender to imply anything otherwise.

Now the sender knows that the author is ignoring them and (perhaps worse) the author knows that the sender knows this. I think this is why she hates read receipts and what spawned this article.

On the opposite side, I like read receipts - but I also don't routinely ignore people who are messaging me.
Are you familiar with E? It basically works like this, plus built-in, transparent promises. http://www.erights.org/elib/concurrency/event-loop.html outlines why you might settle on this model. The messages about coroutines linked at the bottom argue against things like core.async. (This all long precedes core.async, but Concurrent ML had that kind of design.)

I've only done simple things in JS and don't understand what advantage you're getting by queueing events yourself, since JS already runs an event loop. Is it that you can inspect the queue and drop/modify events superseded by subsequent ones? I tried to do that once and it didn't help, but I've gotta admit I'm the opposite of an expert on JS UIs.
> If you close your eyes really hard, you can convince yourself that the Supreme Court isn't part of government and that therefore this phrase isn't completely ludicrous.

Its not ludicrous as it is; the executive branch represents the government, as such, in court. The courts may be part of the same government, but they can, and do, rule against the government position in cases in which the government is a party, as well as ruling for the government in some such cases, making it perfectly reasonable to describe the Supreme Court deciding for (or against, as applicable) the government.
Are you sure there isn't some flexibility in your renting? Some landlords just want to make sure their place doesn't sit vacant, and that they don't end up with a series of short-term renters.

If your lease is the only thing holding you there, you might ask your landlord if you can leave early. It can depend on the landlord, and the local real estate market. Recruiting someone to take over the apartment can make the idea more amenable to a landlord as well.
My guess it's the SAN. Many enterprise deployments I've seen will expose the same binaries across the many servers in the cluster.

And it fits in well with an across the board fault.
If someone gets upset AT YOU because they know you saw their message and haven't replied, then YOU need to deal with them being upset. Some people will throw giant shit fits over being ignored, so it's either interrupt your train of thought to respond RIGHT NOW before they explode at you (and possibly all over your social circles; this happened to a friend of a friend just this past week), or deal with them spraying their need for a response allll over.
Magic:the Gathering is a freak of nature. It was a clever game that was brought to a niche company of RPG geeks who's day jobs were managing aerospace projects. In short a bunch of well-to-do hobby publishers with day jobs saw the product and "bet the farm" on making it work out when lightening struck.

From that point on, its been an anomaly in the gaming market, often imitated, never duplicated the exact mix that sparked it. WoTC has learned the limits of where their formula works as well, even THEY can't copy Magic.
When has Apple EVER told us what the cause for an outage was ?

You're just making up a conspiracy theory here.
That's true, but they're empty comments that don't harm the site, unlike empty mean comments. That's not my observation; it's Paul Graham's. Probably better for us not to shout down people who like articles.
Gladwell did a piece on using computers to predict a hit formula :

http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_10_16_a_formula.html
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Most being the first five years of the fifteen year period? It looks like their dividends started in 03 and have only been increasing.
this is screwed up too http://devimages.apple.com/
That number is in Korean Won.
The code looked well commented and readable to me. Scalatra seems to be for Scala and my eyes don't get along with Scala syntax.
It is both expected and infuriating.
I've only played Magic: The Gather a few times, but it would be interesting to focus more on deck building and then let the computer "play" randomized head-to-head games. Players could tweak their decks between rounds or games.
That plot looks much less scary if you see the current data in a longer time-frame: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
Long-term research/engineering projects: writing and coding
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Sorry to hear that. I just had an app get approved and published an hour ago.
That's the wrong company and those numbers aren't in USD (On the order 10-15 million USD market cap).
The guidelines and culture encourage submitting original sources: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." In this case, raw stock market information from Google or another source would be the "original".

Also, the last time I saw one of your articles, a lot of people suggested running a basic spell check over your articles. I can tell that still isn't being done. More than "being first", your articles need to add meaningful insight and information. That isn't conveyed if you text hasn't been well-edited.
> I'm confused: why does the executive branch ("Obama's administration" in paragraph 1) get to tell a judge this or submit a "filing"?

The same reason you get to submit a filing stating your legal position if you get sued. Because otherwise, court cases would be pretty one-sided.

> Is this just them stating their position? At what point can/will SCOTUS get involved?

If/when it gets appealed to the SCOTUS after decisions by the lower courts and SCOTUS decides to accept the appeal.
The point of bringing in the RPi was to create a node that is always-on, because there is no central file server when using BTSync. RPi makes sense because it's cheap and low power, but just use your imagination. I really doubt it was intended to be esoteric. Instead you could use an extra computer you already own that can stay on 24/7, or a VPS.
Isla needs a read function for inuut.
My English class (not an "advanced" one) in 9th or 10th grade had us practice writing sonnets and other rhyme-pattern-based poetry when we studied Shakespeare. It's possible that this was due to an awesome teacher, rather than being generally true of our area's curriculum, though.
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By looking at how other countries do it. In Germany you actually have to drive on the motorway at high speeds as part of your training . I have a friend who was told to drive at 120mph during his training, and the instructors argument was "the road is empty, the weather conditions are appropriate, and there is no speed limit on this stretch of the road,so you should know how to handle the car at those speeds". Yet in my own country I know people who have never driver faster than 40mph during their training, yet the legal motorway speed is 90mph. Are they ready for driving at those speeds? No, they are not.

And the argument "what about woman driving while talking on the phone, eating and tending to children??" is completely pointless, just like "what about drunk people driving??" - both of these groups of people should be banned from driving, as both pose a danger to safety on the road.
Fox News reports reality unlike all the other American news outfits and the BBC? Liberal, not as bad as the likes of NBC, PBS or NPR though.
Introducing the Twitter API (2006)
I don't agree. If someone got angry at me for ignoring them, I'd be very transparent about the fact, and then continue to ignore them. Not my responsibility. Human beings are free to continue or end social communication at any time for any reason, without being required to disclose the reason. Full stop.

It's also not just an aloof principle - how often does someone who really matters message you on Facebook? You can afford to have friends and family get angry because you ignored them. It's not as if your boss will routinely ping you through informal means.
A workaround is to run encfs in reverse mode, which exposes an encrypted mount point of an unencrypted path. You could then add this mount point to BTSync.

(Accidentally replied to the wrong parent.)
Nah, I did it in a regular public school in a rural area. The variety of quality you would get from different public schools is pretty extreme (or at least it use to be). Had I lived a few more miles away I probably would have ended up in a school that got sued for refusing to not teach creationism. Big differences even in the same state in the same sort of area.

It's trendy to slam public schools, but I think the only thing that really is (or was?) systemic about public schools is inconsistency.
Are you kidding? Maybe it's grown beautiful in your memory since you last saw it. 2004 gmail is fugly.

FYI, everyone was upset when it changed. That's normal human behaviour. Nobody likes change. But since then, I've learnt where the "hidden" features are, and am lovin' it.

BTW, the new Hotmail (Outlook.com) is pretty awesome too. Even better than gmail IMO.
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I agree with this. I don't expect there to be much change in the US for another 30 years, unfortunately. Hopefully by then the technology to transplant my brain into a newer, fresher body is available. That way I can enjoy a truly free America, hopefully one that focuses on science and engineering rather than whatever the hell the focus of it is now. War? World domination?
> I'm not a lawyer, but to say that this "cannot be challenged in court" is a pretty terrible interpretation. The government asks the court system (where this is, in fact, already being challenged) to deny an injunction stopping the metadata collection before this is fully heard in court.

They don't do that. They actually go beyond that to say that not only should the injunction be denied, but that the filing should be dismissed for failing to state a claim heir complaint should be
dismissed for failure to state a claim "that plausibly suggest[s] an entitlement to relief."

Which is, exactly, saying that the challenge they raise is not the kind which can be considered by a court.
> And the Supreme Court thinks that this is acceptable.

Courts hate to decide issues if they can avoid deciding issues, and conservative courts especially so. Conservatives would prefer political issues (more surveillance versus less surveillance) to play out in the political sphere, not in the courts.

It goes back to the idea that the un-elected judiciary is supposed to be the weakest branch of government, and therefore should defer to the elected branches if it is possible to do so.
To cast it to 'hacker' terms, it's much like design patterns. Prior to GoF and subsequent pattern library books (meta-patterns), engineers followed certain patterns when building systems.

Once it was written down and the patterns were explicitly named, developers, especially less experienced developers, coded to the patterns as if they were software construction blueprints.

I'd say from 2000(ish) to 2005(ish), many conversations with developers approaching a new project would inevitably involve "we need an abstract factory here and a chain of responsibility there..." type discussions.

At the time, it drove me mad because I saw it as a failure in factorization of the development environment or the language. If a million people are writing "façades" and "singletons", then it's a bloody waste of humanity.

Now, of course, there are frameworks to make building-to-patterns easier. Instead of being a vocabulary for describing conventions, it has become difficult to leverage these frameworks without coding to whichever pattern libraries it has adopted.

Back to film, blockbusters have to follow the 'safe' path. Teal/orange, the hero of 1,000,000,000 faces, etc. have been shown to appeal to the human senses of visual attraction and folklore. There's still a lot of innovation if you hit the indie circuit, but if a director/producer/etc. want a $200m check from a studio, they have to come close to guaranteeing a "hit".

If I cared about CMM and that sort of thing, I'd swing back into systems engineering and certification, but you've read enough of my drivel for now.
Assure had 1b in revenue but actual proffit is based around internal booking keeping numbers some of which are a little off IMO.
I don't understand what this is or what it does.

Why would I add it?
No, it's not. Hence the 'U.S.A.' addition to the title. They are two different islands and stories. The link to this one was probably inspired by reading the first.
I use Everpix, which pulls in and organizes photos from Dropbox, my Camera, iCloud Photo Stream, iPhoto Library, and any other specified location (such as an email attachment folder) on my computer. It's pretty handy.
this sounds really cool and nerdy, i'd love to partake.

but then again, having dropbox just work is pretty swell too.
The backing data is Krugman being a nobel prize winning economist whose been incredibly accurate for the last decade and a half. I'm sure you know more than him though shadowmint.
This is your 3rd post on this in 3 days. You would be hit by the spam filter if this wasn't an ASK post.
If you're not getting any traction with your posts (I assume you're not since you've made the exact same one 3 times in 3 days), you should consider the reasons why, and change based on them.

Also, I mean this in the most constructive way possible- Please get a more professional sounding email address. I would never hire someone who had your email addresses.
Get yourself one based on your name, or a freelancing company name you invent.
I'm completely on board with the "bill by the day, not the hour" idea. Having implemented it in our own consultancy, it's done wonders.

But it hasn't gotten us to the stage you're talking about - we're definitely making headway in establishing ourselves as (Python) experts, but I don't think we're really at the stage where we can sell based solely on the customer's value - building software is simply too replaceable a commodity (See note). Nor do I think we necessarily want to be there - lawyers don't sell on value, after all, nor do most professional services firms.

Also, increasing the billing increment too much and selling based on value starts taking you into "fixed-project pricing" territory, which is a whole different field. Not that it's better or worse, just different, with its own set of needs. This we discovered in retrospect after practically switching all our work to fixed-pricing, then realizing what a big difference that was (that we weren't equipped to handle).

Note: Building software is too replaceable in the sense that there are plenty of alternatives to get some software built (hiring, cheaper freelancers, etc). We certainly manage to sell ourselves as better than alternatives because of speed an expertise. But that's a far cry from building projects and selling on value, which IMO is again, a whole other field which is hard to shift into from any old software consultancy (different customers, different sales pitch, different needs). I mention this because tptacek's basic point of "switch to daily billing" is better advice in that sense - it's easy to do from just about any position with just about any set of clients, and by magic improves your life.
Tangential, but you got me excited about a new feature film project from Lynch... I can't find anything about one though. Did you make it up for an example?

EDIT: seems to be just a script so far, http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/david-lynch-working-o...
It will put deleted files in a .SyncTrash folder, but previous versions of modified files with otherwise be lost in the absence of actual backups.

Edit: I stand corrected, BTSync apparently now has a previous version feature.
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Wordpress, FTP passwords exposed in public trello boards
How can a consumer of news media tell the difference? Should we just assume they're all authorized unless someone is holed up in the Moscow airport?
Sounds great. Tell me again how we ban the kinds of drivers who are likely to talk on the phone, eat, and tend to their children?
Nooooo...Speak of the spring and foison of the year!

I curse you seven times for reminding me of those foul exercises.
Warning: you will lose hours here:

http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09 (also features a design for a touch screen)

http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-10

http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-11
I wonder whether areas with strong patent law will just become... uncompetitive... by comparison to areas where such laws are not enforced.
It doesn't have to be nefarious. Sometimes there are certain aspects of a project that are outside your company's core competences. It's only ethical to pass the work to a qualified professional. Clients pay for results - it's a business transaction.
To my understanding the classifications tend to be "lies we tell to children", much like the simplified atomic models sold to first-year chemistry classes. If you're a biology major, you never really need to get the Chemistry PhD's version of atoms, right?

Very broad classifications tend to be useful, in that by definition they group similar organisms. Beyond that level of detail they're useless, yes, but beyond that level of detail you're already going into the level of expertise where you're expected to recognize their uselessness. Cell Biology PhDs may or may not realize it, but they're working on tyrosine kinases, not classifications.
I did find Knuth's "Mathematical Writing" to be helpful when writing my thesis, and that's on this list. (Even a free .pdf link on that one.)
Developers have been using the thing for months.
It is a core tenant of the government, but it is also a core tenant of the government that policy is decided via republican process, not unelected philosopher kings (judges). From that tenant comes the principle of judicial restraint. Conservatives would characterize it as the un-elected judiciary showing appropriate deference to the elected executive and legislature. Liberals usually characterize it as punting.
It takes a bit to start 'playing'.I think I experienced the same as you. Try reloading? It's very well done I'd say.
Surely we can say at this point that ruling is a dead letter? Lots of people are nostalgic for the freedom that some of us used to have.
These things are always motivation boosters. I've had a gaming idea for a long time now but I feel that I know close to nothing about graphics programming to make it work.
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Definitely! This is especially a big issues with focus groups (I had to run a bunch for a few semesters for part of my marketing degree, and one of the first things you learn is how to disrupt an echo chamber: if X and Y say two very positive things about a widget, than Z is suddenly very disincentivized to say anything negative and everyone else is more inclined to join the echo chamber).

But I don't think that's whats being brought up with the article. Literary critics are more or less the 'first voters' on new books: and yet, the correlation between critical successes and commercial successes are tentative at best (while the first few votes on an article are always an indicator of future votes.)

This is mainly, I think, a function of accessibility: you see the rating of a link on HN before you even click on the link, while most (I'd say 90%+) of the people buying books do so unaware of what everyone before them thought about the book.
It's too bad that secret court didn't get approval itself… except, you know, from the government to which it's giving its approval.
JSON, through the web interface. I'm a journaling geek, so I signed up to try Narrato. After you confirm your email address, it takes you to their online account manager, which has an export button. The export looks like a JSON file, plus a directory all of the images that you've uploaded to the app.
I once considered taking a serious crack at a subset of this problem. Didn't get any takers though.

http://libpatent.com/
We are trying to get feedback on our app/landing page. So instead of hyping it up, we decided to go the opposite route and see the response we get when we openly declare that it's not great right now.
Why do you conclude that they find it acceptable? Shouldn't judges be ruling on the merits of the case, not based on what outcome they find pleasing?
Graphics are easier than you'd think (triply true with library support). Just dive in!
We've had anonymous remailers for about a decade. Maybe people will start caring.

Bitmessage is up and coming, but needs a lot more development.

You could use OTR with servers for offline support and contact management (jabber, etc), but this isn't as convenient as email.

OTR (instead of PGP) over email is a theoretically possible, but the problem is still the same: No money in open source encryption == No easy to use interface.
It was actually David Siegel, one of the first well-known web designers, who wrote about the Nine Act structure. I remember reading this sometime in the late 90s.

Here is the archived version from 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961103105817/http://dsiegel.com...
I'd like to see some actual evidence for that 65,000 year old claim. It doesn't pass the paleoanthropological smell test.
Sure, but is presenting sensationalized articles to online echo chambers really getting us closer to an informed public, or further away?
It's from Episode 1. Why does anyone care?