skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi fsckin, example@example.com fails because while we do fallback to A records, no mail exchanger responds to us, so no one can actually receive mail at that inbox which is why we mark it as invalid.
Not a valid email address since example.com doesn't have a valid mx record. It's a reserved domain.
If you're going to be pedantic and point out minor inaccuracies of peoples posts at least be accurate yourself.

1. You don't need 100% of a market to be a monopoly.

2. Your second citation contains nothing about Virgin providing ADSL, they are primarily a cable broadband provider.
The Johnson Wax building is undeniably beautiful and a groundbreaking piece of modern architecture. For all that, however, it would be nice to find a “greatest office” that doesn’t have a leaky roof.
not true at all. Quasar uses byte code manipulation, core.async uses Clojure macros to pre-process code. The Quasar code is a re-implementation of the client end api, not the underlying protocols.
count yourself lucky if you're coding perl for a bank - from what i gather, most banks are Enterprise Java shops.
Every technology has its early adopters. Here are examples of not so world changing startups that changed the world with early adopters from the 'luxury' crowd. Using your same logic in a previous time might have yielded the same feedback for technologies that are world changing.

Viagra is now used to save lives.

The foldit project proved video gamers can solve complex protein folding problems.

Birth control pills were initially sold to fix first world problems and is now a leading technology in giving women control of their reproductive systems.

Maybe Prim starts here, but none of us know where it will end.

50+ years ago James Lapeyre Senior stepped on a piece of shrimp and saw the shelling come off the meat. He built the first shrimp peeler. As he commoditized the world's shrimp industry making it massively popular among the rich and then scaling it to make it price friendly, he realized that the conveyor belts that fed the shrimp peeler with shrimp were rusting.

He then went on to form a half a billion dollar modular plastic conveyor belt technology that is used by 60,000 clients. Before dying he had about 130 patents in all sorts of areas. The first digital magnetic compass etc...
Remarkable that 70 years of managers were able to resist their obligation to rip that crap out and put in cubicles.

Manager - SC Johnson
Oversaw renovation of 70 year old building. Placed 1000
employees in building that previously housed 200. Saved
$50,000,000 construction of new building.
More info for devs from Mark Murphy/Commonsware:

http://commonsware.com/blog/2013/07/26/app-ops-developer-faq...
That Rap Genius domain name has so much SEO power. I think it's actually extremely smart on their part to leave it like that for now because any content on their site is going to pop up in search rankings.
It's funny you use that analogy, because the hippie subculture is a bit more complex than just scruffy kids in hemp shirts.

As a very very brief capsule summary, the 'hippie trail' that started up in the 60s features stops in India, particularly Goa - a bit more westernized than other parts of India, nice weather, very very cheap, and so on. In the late 80s and early 90s the hippie community there turned on to a subset of industrial/electronic music and melded it with a flavor of middle eastern music (thanks to the Moorish conquest of the Iberian peninsula a few centuries prior to the Portuguese colonization of Goa) to produce a musical fusion that became known as Goa Trance. The Levantine musical influence combined with fairly high-tech electronics shortly made Goa a very popular destination for Israelis who had just completed their military service, and Israeli musicians who had a lot of the musical heritage at their fingertips became major players within that scene, resulting in distinct sub-genres.

Meanwhile, the music and the small industry of all-night parties and record labels etc. spread to other popular destinations such as London, Amsterdam and San Francisco, and Tokyo (which also happen to be foci of audio/synthesizer engineering excellence). I made a whole bunch of Israeli friends in the 90s who came to SF because it was part of that music scene while also being in close proximity to Silicon Valley; almost all of them joined or founded startups. I know for sure some of them read Hacker News.

Now, I wouldn't say that the current state of Internet business depends on hippies any more than it depends on Bill Gates' Poindexter look, but there's a closer connection between hippies and the tech scene than you might imagine. While I'm not a hippy myself, as an electronic musician/audio pro/hacker I think the hippie movement has had an important rule in cultural and technological cross-fertilization.
Ev and Taylor, this is awesome and free is icing on the cake. We'll be putting this to good use.
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Greasemonkey on the desktop (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) or for Firefox Mobile, or userscripts on the desktop (http://userscripts.org/) might be a way to accomplish this, the Python requirement aside. They're a simpler way to restyle and format an existing site in your browser, rather than writing code to parse an existing site. Alternatively, as you mentioned, you could write or utilize an existing scraper in Python and pull content into your own site, as long as you are not violating the terms of use for your school's website.
$200/oz is hard proof that medical marijuana(MMJ) has driven down prices. I live in Colorado and used to be friends with the proprietor of an MMJ dispensay and he used to buy it for $4000 a pound or $250 an ounce and that was their per pound wholesale price. It was common when the MMJ businesses were starting up in CO for dispensaries to sell for ~$400 an ounce and grams at $20 which I believe was mostly comparable with street prices. The prices were driven down as more and more dispensaries entered the market and the competition became more fierce as a result of the market saturation to the point where they were advertising sub-$10 grams and sub-$200 ounces.

That $200/oz price may not be cheap to you, but it is half of what it used to cost and less than half of what these hippies can make selling it in New York.
This lets you take those permissions away retrospectively. In many cases I suspect you will find it is a free app's ad network that's asking for ridiculous permissions, e.g. access to location in a flashlight app.

Google is probably reluctant to do things that "harm" competing ad networks for fear of getting sued.
The original comment is deleted by now, but it jumped into arguing whether weed is harmful or not, which is totally orthogonal to what the article discusses, to then conclude that it isn't and because of that it should be legal, without backing any of the arguments and just using HN as a soapbox. This is zealotry.
Let me hoogle those for you (sic) http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=liftM =-)
Yeah. I've noticed that most people don't seem to care about having ads. An IAP to remove ads is of so little value it's amazing. I've had much better success adding a bit of friction and limiting the free versions. Here is this tracking app, it does everything the full version does, but you can't save more than X tracks. Stuff like that has worked nicely for me. Ads are just a bit of gravy and a slight annoyance to make someone ever so slightly more likely to upgrade.
this seems to be a psychology-of-the-individual thing; i would love to have a passive income stream so that i could do meaningful open-source work without having to worry about whether it paid me enough.
Why do you think this is unique to the US? There are reactionaries everywhere, and in most* places they hold much greater sway than in the US.

* Edit: well 'most' is highly subjective, but I hope we can agree on 'many.'
The secret to pricing your SaaS product right
I really like the photos in the article. Also, this is one of those rare cases where the answer to a headline ending in a question mark is "yes"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
"I feel like if we legalized heroin, we'd have junkies all over the place running around stealing whatever isn't bolted down just to get the next high. It affects far more than just the user, it affects the families, the kids, the neighborhood, the town, etc. Even if we taxed it, those taxes would likely go right back into having more security: police officers, hospitals, etc."

While it sounds really appealing, there is no evidence to support this. What there is evidence for however (see Portugal), is that decriminalizing drugs and advocating treatment programs will lead to fewer infections, crimes, and even fewer addicts.
You assume that they have a language to begin with. Also, from a broad and very misunderstood interpretation of Godel's Theorem, their language may never be understandable by our minds. Thank you for the link though! Applying stats to language is always awesome!
+1 Node is lots of fun, and a good platform for JavaScript. As a long time (since the late 1970s) Lisp programmer (also with lots of Ruby and Java work) I have in the past generally detested JavaScript.

That has changed, big time. I now find that JavaScript (and CoffeScript) is really a nice language. By using a small subset of the language, and always having JSLint running in IntelliJ: coding is fast, code is readable, good run time performance, and fairly low memory use. Node, Express, Meteor, and Ember.js round out the ecosystem for me.

I have had a multi-year love-fest with Clojure, but I am now seriously considering the JavaScript/Node ecosystem to be a bit more practical.
The Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine, 1979 [pdf]
I don't think you can disentangle them.

Yet Priceonomics attempts to do so.
That's exactly what Privacy Guard in CM does.

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/86LLXrDpVWY
"I feel like if we legalized heroin, we'd have junkies all over the place running around stealing whatever isn't bolted down just to get the next high."

Why? Do you know anyone who doesn't use heroin now, just because it's illegal?

Highly addictive opiods such as percocet, oxycodone, codeine, etc. are legal (although regulated). Many of the risks associated with heroin use derive from its illegality, in the sense that people use heroin which has unknown purity (i.e. can be cut with other drugs), use unsterilized needles, and take unsafe dosages (i.e. there is no physician regulating the amount they consume nor preventing addiction).

My point is not that heroin is a safe drug, or that anyone should take it. But drug laws are applied with incredible inconsistency. Cocaine, which is potentially addictive and dangerous, is a Schedule II drug, while marijuana and even hallucinogens such as LSD are Schedule I drugs (meaning they have strong potential for addiction and no recognized medical use, which is simply untrue). Addictive opiods marketed as prescription drugs, meanwhile, are legal with regulation. Not to mention alcohol and tobacco, two highly addictive and unhealthy drugs which are perfectly legal.
"3. Mail Exchanger existence checks

Again, due to the robustness principle, just because a host does not define MX records does not mean they can’t accept mail. Mail servers will often fall-back to A records to try and deliver mail. That’s why we go one step further than just a DNS query, we ping the Mail Exchanger to make sure that it actually exists."

Plenty of boxes don't respond to pings (icmp). Can I assume you're doing a tcp scan on mail ports?
> What's wrong with wanting to give your business to someone you know well

Nothing, but it's impossible to "know well" everyone in a nation, making this sort of blind nationalism simply delusional at best.
Honey bees are not going extinct
Android as a framework is designed in such a way that most of the times you wish to access a feature of the device requires a permission you should be using components that can enforce a security check with the PackageManager or can handle the SecurityExceptions generated from not having a permission. Poorly architect-ed apps will have an issue with this, but those apps already have problems.
How can Dell check for back doors when the entire design and manufacturing process is done by Chinese subcontractors? That makes no sense..

Through testing, just like the governments did to discover alleged backdoors in Lenovo chips. Did you read the article before you posted multiple times criticizing it?

The ban was introduced in the mid-2000s after intensive laboratory testing of its equipment allegedly documented “back-door” hardware and “firmware” vulnerabilities in Lenovo chips.
So it would be valid if I entered "very.unusual.@.unusual.com"@mail.zikes.me, assuming I created that address on my mailserver?
Rap lyrics seem to be just one use case for their technology. And rap itself is a niche that's easy to build an audience/test case with. I think the tech itself applies well to things like books as demonstrated by things like notation in Kindle books. It probably just needs a format different than the thin-column layout they currently have.
To Change Behavior, Focus on a Single Situation
FWIW, I think the evidence that "it's the studio's fault!" is sufficient to consider it likely. In particular, when they had Starz, I was flabbergasted at the low quality of the Starz video; they were, at times, in SD. There is just no way that Netflix was proudly pushing that out of their own free will.
"More to the point: why would an app ask for permissions it didn't need..."

Ad networks. So wrap the calls to the ad network library in try/catch, and, in most cases, that takes care of the mostly gratuitous permissions.
Scriptless Attacks - Stealing the Pie without touching the Sill
I'd say "conflict" is better term than contradiction or paradox, since we're talking interests and desires rather than logical propositions.
How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State
Works on my validator (which is also free, and does the same checks as this one with the exception of knowing the Yahoo trick): https://www.emailitin.com/email_validator
Cue the piles of posted code snippets on StackOverflow and similar to uselessly error out on startup without the full set of requested permissions.

Well-behaved apps won't ask for permissions they don't need anyway, and badly-behaved apps will simply refuse to run without all the permissions they (and their ad services) request.

Without the ability to pretend to have the permission but not actually provide useful data, this really won't help much.

On the bright side, at least a subset of these do behave in the sensible way: various reports suggest that calendar and contact accesses will successfully return empty results rather than erroring out, for instance.
I don't think that's fair really.

If a military junta in Egypt suits the West as you suggest then so would Assad in Syria.

I think the west's motivations are complicated but certainly do contain an element of desire to help ordinary Syrians and also a fear the consequences of both acting and failing to act.
And water is wet.
Edit: he should have escaped the $title and $body.
Thanks, I didn't know about the CoffeeScript support. Nice!
Simple, you'd use a framework.
A very interesting concept, but after clicking on "Start with Drive", one of the permissions requested is the ability to "Upload, download, update, and delete files in your Google Drive"

Now, I don't know if there are more granular permissions than that, but if so, you might want to restrict things further so that files can only be added to my Google Drive (and possibly updated, for those that I've purchased via Sellbox).
Ask HN: Managed corporate e-mail services
Google Apps is highly recommended but at $5/user/month it can get pricey. I'm interesting in providing inboxes to affiliates currently in the 300-400 range.

I have found other services [1], [2], which are cheaper but it's difficult to choose the perfect service.

I'd rather not host it, so what does everyone else use?

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/
[2] http://www.zoho.com/mail/
Chromecast Unboxing,this thing is awesome:)
The guy at DomainSherpa.com has a lot of good info + interviews you should check out:

http://www.domainsherpa.com/how-to-sell-a-domain-name/
I'm sure this was a 'hidden' feature as it wasn't ready for it's prime time. I would expect developers to receive a notification that they need to update applications to support this - or things will be made to simply fail softly to begin with.
Postgresql doesn't offer proper timezone storage, or in fact any timezone storage. Timestamptz is just a UTC timestamp that is converted to/from your connection-specified timezone. You completely lose the "what timezone was this originally specified in" data.
Huge cultivation areas but very low population areas. According to [1] - those areas had no significant effect on the vote. But lobbying by Prison Guard and Police Unions, and Alcohol companies (!) did.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Humboldt-Life-Americas-Marijuana-Front...
Systems in general tend to have goblins that reach out and bite you when you try and scale them too hard. Better to have a clearer picture of where there be dragons - maybe or maybe not "better enough" when weighed against other advantages and disadvantages, but "mature" is a virtue.
Why so? The compression should..... wait, yes, yes it will go away. And their 'signal' may be compressed naturally, much as we say 1984 as 'nineteen eighty four' but in Spanish they say 'mil novecientos ochenta y curato' (thousand nine hundred eighty and four). Not a great example but I think it fits. Apply this over thousands of years with creatures that have hydraulic pumps not muscles (or something) and you get the idea.
Would you be interested in something open source that does this? I would be willing to release https://www.emailitin.com/email_validator to github. It does all the same checks as this except for the "valid user part for Yahoo.com" stuff.
Spain Levies Consumption Tax on Sunlight
Report Invalid Whois Contact Information to ICANN?
Could you confirm you won't store or otherwise log email addresses submited for check for any time longer then neccessary?
Hands on with a 144-core processor (July 2012)
The more stereotypical flower children hang out inside the park a bit at Hippie Hill. (Some SF old-timers use the word hippie for any sort of 'street punk'.)
Obviously I'm generalizing, and I quite agree that there are 'low level gangsters' as well (though I think you're rather overstating your case). Not trying to one-up you, but I've lived almost 20 years in the Bay Area, most of that time in SF and most of that in the Sunset. I'm intimately familiar with the the Haight, hippie subculture etc.
I thought the comments on the link I gave were bad but those are just as bad.

I mean the 'omg hacker means evil and he deserved it!' stuff...at least the tinfoil hats make a bit of sense.
Public Charging Stations Could Steal iPhone Data
As far as I know, they incorporated information from a similar dataset I created back in mid-2011 [1].

[1] http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-pa...
Managing comments on multiple WordPress sites
I wonder what that muchacho file is. Anyone know?
If all drugs were legal, would people still take meth?

I suspect meth is abundant now because of logistical reasons i.e. it can be manufactured in the country it is sold, using precursors that can also be obtained there (legally or otherwise), rather than having to grow plants (coca, poppies, marijuana) which can be seized whilst growing or being imported from overseas.

A good drug policy would make meth seem like the bad idea that it is by providing superior alternatives.
> Any idea at all what that does?

Without reading the article or having used fay, I actually knew that that was a JS translation of `enumFrom` and that you'd probably left out part of it. An editor color scheme could probably reduce the noise of all the "Fay$$" namespacing (or whatever that is) stuff.
It's only the initial product that should be for oneself. E.g. Microsoft started out making Basic interpreters for hackers, but eventually they made software for everyone.
Handling an exception is one thing. Designing your app to work gracefully with random permissions denied sounds like a combinatorial explosion of testing and UI design.
Military–industrial complex, etc.

this is off-topic, but did you see that article in Businessweek about the bomb detector.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-...

Ok, that's pretty obviously a fraud. But what it made me start thinking is if you can take an empty plastic handle and a radio antennae and sell millions of dollars of them ... there must be a ton of stuff that doesn't really do what its supposed to but people buy anyway.
Do you think laws deter needle drug addicts? If not, getting rid of the laws isn't going to increase the number of needle drug addicts. And that's on top of studies showing treatment is much more effective and cheaper for harm reduction.
I don't understand the advantage of using cloud storage instead of uploading a file. Unless I were selling a 4GB file and it was already in Dropbox and I was in a hurry...
Technology breakthrough enables crops to take nitrogen from the air
Northern California wholesale prices are more in the $600-1500/pound range now. It used to be...$2500-3500/pound about 10 years ago.
Fantastic Console Emulation for Windows
Hi airnomad, I'm the developer of the validation service here at Mailgun.

I can confirm that we do not store email addresses. The parser runs completely in memory and no address is persisted after the request is complete.
Yes, I have known many growers. Not an exaggeration. I've grown up in this area.
> If western politicians could just get over their taboos about drug use

This is a bit naive. I don't think taboos are responsible for drug prohibition. I think it's the economic interests of industries which benefit from drug prohibition, like police, prisons, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals.
More obvious than cynical.
Explaining the software upgrade process and its improvements for Android 4.3
The % transaction fee is a turndown. I have been looking for a solution to distribute digital goods, and I try to stay away from anything that is a percentage, it does not scale once you have hundreds of sales.

They are not absorbing the Paypal transaction fee, which means that on top of the 5% I would still be charged the 2.6% that Paypal wants (amount vary). So, unless the service provides a payment gateway, where is that 5% coming from? That starts adding to the cost really fast.

It might not be pretty but ejunkie (http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/pricing.htm) has a fixed cost of 5 dollars. It ends up being cheaper as soon as I sell more than 10 copies of any $10 digital goods.

For something prettier than ejunkie (but with way less features), PulleyApp does a fixed price of $6 (http://pulleyapp.com/signup). The only reason I am not using PulleyApp is because I wanted different paypal email addresses (for microtransactions vs. regular one - different fees), and at some point the ability to call a backend service does matter for integration.

I don't really see why I would use a service that takes a commission and does not charge a fixed price unless they have a value added service. As it stands, there are better alternatives already that do the same thing.

The new thing in here is the DropBox and Google Drive integration, but that is not enough for me to justify using them.
The main reason I referred to this image is because they are using it to advertise a new feature.

This was an image that was selected for marketing purposes. My point is that doing such a thing can make a bad impression. Show only the polished parts of the app.
Theoretically the same way the article claims the NSA does, with a specialized lab for hardware testing.

Whether they actually do or not, who knows.
Carbon dioxide converted to electricity
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