skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need proof of copyright interest (in order to realize damages in case of infringement), it's already possible to just file with the Library of Congress, and this is how professionals do it.
I'm out, Facebook
Yup. Tax benefits of being in the us are huge. Easy to bribe politicians, no corporate income tax, huge rebates.

As to the US market - meh. The US is third world in terms of purchasing power. Only reason to base there is the pro-corporate corruption.
I recall upvoting a comment of his just yesterday, so he is still around..
Plotagon: Web app that turns your script into an animated film
Came here to say that. See [1] my review of his awesome book "The Limits of Mathematics" + HN discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936
That might be amusing, but having my IP address shared with third parties or knowing which jurisdiction the service operates under are serious matters for a lot of users.

Especially the type of users a service like Mailinator attracts.
This is why I setup my own email server...

Here is a great guide for anyone interested: https://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-120...

I set mine up on CentOS 5 using this guide. I would recommend you also look at DKIM signing and SPF records to improve deliverability! :)
I think this would be considered 'by design'.

http://mailinator.blogspot.pt/2013/05/mailinator-is-for-huma...
Astonishing as it belongs to the same foundation as Germanys Aldi, and Aldi is not known for it's people management.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trader_Joe%27s
Step 1: Don't buy a book called "How to be Invisible" from Amazon.
The implementation on master currently uses a single queue, but very shortly it will be converted to work stealing.

Tasks can be 'pinned' to their own scheduler (i.e. thread) with `spawn_sched(SingleThreaded)`, and this is very important for tasks that call foreign code that blocks.

That's about the extent of the configurability at the moment, but I anticipate at least one other 'mode' in the future for coping with blocking tasks that don't want to be pinned to a specific thread.
The article doesn't clarify running costs for Tumblr. Might help us put things in perspective-- why is $13,000,000 in advertising revenue troublesome?
> The mini scroll down

Oh god that is soooo cooool! It's nothing like blink. If anything it's like a powerpoint slide transition, only much much subtler. I really like it.
It seems like there's an opportunity for a PGP mail forwarder, a service that encrypts all incoming mail and then forwards it without saving anything in the process. I'd pay bitcoins for that.
If you have a problem and you think that the blink tag is the solution, now you have two problems.
Why? Did they just win a f--king contest? I didn't know they ran those, it ought to be an Olympic sport, eh?
It's interesting too, because previously Karp had claimed that it would be easy to reach profitability. He said all they'd have to do is put one ad spot on the dashboard, and that would do it based on views. Color me skeptical that it would have been that easy.
That probably ties in nicely with Costco's emphasis on extreme bulk sales. If the nearest Costco is hundreds of miles away, at least you can buy a month+ worth of most supplies while you're there and load them all into your vehicle.
it sounds like they were asked to modify their system to retain data
but I am human!

edit: but thanks for that post, I had missed it. It dramatically changes what Mailinator does and what it means. It is a complete shift in its mission. The in-memory and no logs email service is what originally attracted most users. Dealing with abuse is just part of what happens when you have such a service, ditto with running a Tor exit node.
Why would it be if there was no on going investigation that they were made aware of (officially)? I think they are smarter than that. This seems like a pre-emptive move.
I know many people doing the same. I think there is comes a time when you just realize how Facebook is just noise you dont need.
Oh yeah, definitely don't trust them for anything sensitive at all. From their old FAQ:

> Q: So if the government issued a subpeona to Mailinator to divulge emails or logs, you'd rat me out?

> A: Holy crap, yes. I'm not going to jail for you, I have a boyish face and very (very) supple skin.

> At this point, Mailinator cooperates with law enforcement when reasonable to do so and at this point has received friendly subpeonas, emails, or calls from the FBI, IRS, Justice department, LAPD, and Scotland Yard.
Nice looking but the code is shit. They're using Angular but they're not doing angular stuff. They are basically using the controllers and doing jQuery shit in it. Unbelievable.

Sourcecode for the inbox: https://gist.github.com/VictorBjelkholm/6191838
CEF 3 for Python - Chromium Embedded Framework: Chrome for your python app
The app hangs on the splash screen of my phone. Not very useful...
Others have already covered a lot of things, so I'll just say that I'm sort-of impressed by:

> The second big drop is the result of removing features and cleaning code that came from the Chromium project.

In the graph, the second big drop is ~5% of the initial code size, removing the chromium code actually reduced binary size more than the inlining fixes did.
All while bribing sysadmins overseas to install NSA listening devices. What's good for the goose...
Funny because the attraction of the old Mailinator was that they couldn't co-operate, by design - since it was an in-memory mail store with no logs.

Mailinator is just like a thousand other temp email services now. Not as interesting.

Killing a good service for everybody is a lame way of shutting down abuse.
Co-foundering and De-foundering
I think they were found unconstitutional when they were forcing people to not even tell their lawyers. You can tell your lawyer now, and you can fight the gag order in Court - but in secret. Until the court tells you can tell everyone about it, you can't.
SSL errors on the 2nd... seems... worrisome.
The Iraq war dossier of Blair's comes to mind. http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
They are from Israel, a good friend of the US, and for free. What part of that does not scream 'run for the hills' exactly?
Renders terribly on mobile, chrome on android device, nexus 4
Report: AMD FX-9590 Last Breed of AMD FX CPU?
Hard to say what their infrastructure costs are, but just salaries for 178 employees is way more than $13MM.
Blink can cause epileptic seizures.
Ask HN: List of alternate and secure email providers.
Recent events over the past few months have shutdown services like Lavabit and SilentCircle. What other secure email services are you aware of? Where are their servers hosted?
Apple only had 1 percent of the smartphone market in the first year (which was much smaller than it is now). It took a few years to become what it is now. And even now Apple only has 13 percent market share globally with the iPhone.

The car market is also much slower to change, since you don't buy a car every 1-2 years, but once every 10 years. Plus, they are much more expensive than phones. That's why we're talking about thousands of cards vs millions of smartphones.
Given that the USA system is expensive, immoral, and counterproductive, is there a system or model or whatever we should work towards.

Having done some activism, I've learned it's an easier sell what you're for vs what you're against. I'm totally onboard with improving the care of mentally ill people.

But I don't know what to ask for. If someone pointed out a bandwagon, I'd totally hop on.
awesome idea - with "run it in browser" function. This is exactly what i am missing with whatsapp :)
The crazy ideas and the smart ideas – Knowing the difference
Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser
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Tesla - we may not see the forest for the trees
It is interesting to see that everybody analysing or commenting on Tesla seems to focus on the car (=tree). Looking at Musk's track record we may not see the forest. Should he be able to create the nationwide blanket of charging stations and - on top - deliver 5-minute-charging cycles to refill, every other manufacturer in this space will have to adopt Tesla's standards in order to allow his customers to use Tesla's charging stations - for a fee of course. Tesla would then dominate this market for years to come - just as Apple did early on. Musk/Tesla would have single handedly not only created but also control the electric car market.
email is not encrypted... they'll just have your hosting provider or ISP copy your email when it's received/sent
Google now reporting Manual Penalties in Webmaster Tools
Would you want to be the one who makes that stand against them? You can be guaranteed that you are from that day onwards a marked man. Everything you do, everywhere you go, and every person you talk to will be monitored. They will look for the tiniest chin in your armour, and once shown they will hang you out to dry. This explains why companies like Google and Yahoo had little choice but to comply. It might also explain why Obama so drastically changed hs beliefs.
3. I think pure node.js is pretty much never a good choice. Express.js or alternatives like restify are lightweight enough that there are virtually no cases in which using those would be "too much." In fact, that is precisely Express.js's weakness - people say that Express is like Sinatra, when the truth is that Express has even fewer features then Sinatra.

That being said, I personally learned node.js by starting with raw node (and the http module).
Tory Burch Flats On Sale
If they raised $85m in September 2011, and were down to $16.6m upon acquisition, that implies a pretty substantial burn rate, even being generous.
This is really big news, as previously it has been a real case of detective work to confirm that Google have applied a manual penalty to your site, and it obviously can have an enormous effect on businesses.

This is a great move towards transparency from Google, and is very welcome. My only concern is that the language does not confirm that all manual penalties are reported here; it may be that it is just a subset. I'd like Google to clarify that, but otherwise this is a great step.
Better to use a service that explicitly says this, rather than burying it on p47 in obscure legalese. If you want more privacy, use a different service.
I believe it. I also believe a larger percentage of people will have their "own businesses" as opposed to having a "job" or even being a simple freelancer, although many of these "businesses" will probably single-person consulting/freelancing businesses.
We've been focused on first class Windows support since day one. The only major issue for LLVM itself that I'm aware of is the lack of PDB debug info, which is less of a problem for Rust because the system debuggers don't debug Rust in the first place. Most of the clang problems for Windows that I'm aware of relate to all the MSVC extensions in windows.h, which is not a problem for Rust as it doesn't use system header files.
https://new.resist.ca/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMX_Mail
http://www.autistici.org/en/index.html

Hushmail is no longer an option though:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
Can someone explain the security implications of Persona? In what ways is it more or less secure than other authentication mechanisms (username/password, two factor auth, etc)? Thanks!
IPython 1.0
Love the interface, but why does the Android app require GPS permissions?
My point too, the text is very unreadable. On the homepage they have the green background and white text with some effects, you barely can read it before your eyes start to hurt.
Why does that keyword even exist then?
I never understand why most sites that demand sign-up verification emails don't block Mailinator even though Mailinator is obviously well-known among web developers.

It's almost as if there's an unspoken agreement among the cognoscenti that if you're smart enough to use Mailinator, you get a free pass -- we won't force you to hand over a valid email address.
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OpenJDK ships with Ubuntu, its a pain to install the Oracle one
I think all providers in all countries can be forced by the NSA to install backdoors or give up their users, one way or the other.

Dont use email anymore.
Interview with Mike Hearn
Or just split reviews and only show reviews to users of that OS. Like they do with versions of the app.
It is a quite interesting move from Google. Seems that the data shown is correct. Just the question, if they really show us everything. :)

One great function is that you can then eliminate the errors / spam pages on your website and re-submit for a review by Google´s Webspam Team.
Free certificate after 10 bucks to paypal?
You could have linked to real announcement :

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/ipython-dev/2013-August/0121...
This is a specific instance of a general argument that applies to all new languages: there is an existing infrastructure and people won't want to switch. Yet new languages are arriving at a pace faster than ever on the server side, despite massive investment in server stacks for existing languages.

If Rust succeeds as a language suitable for games and gains traction there (and that is of course an if), I think the truth will be in the middle: there will be a huge amount of code still written in C++, and that will continue to be maintained and work. But new code might be written in Rust. Rust is designed to integrate well with C and C++ code, so mixed projects are quite feasible: in fact, both rustc (because of LLVM) and Servo (because of SpiderMonkey) are such mixed projects.
"It seems all developer positions these days require the following:

1) A link to your Github account
2) A link to your LinkedIn profile"

1) No
2) No
My e-mail system is set to prefer TLS wherever possible. Spot-checks of headers incoming from other sources show that, at the minimum, a TLS session is successfully negotiated approximately 85% of the time so messages from those sources are presumed to be encrypted while in transit. All clients must connect using TLS (either IMAP-S or HTTPS). Yes, unencrypted copies likely exist on the sending side (the data storage disks for my e-mail servers are encrypted) and the client storage for some of my users is in the clear but it's not possible for my ISP to read the bits in flight.
I think we shouldn't expect historic pages to work in modern browsers. As long as we can reliably run older browsers we can also view historic pages as they were once rendered.
> To put it another way, <blink> has meaning by virtue of its history.

I agree. The Book of Mozilla stated: "Their tags shall blink until the end of days", and they are now violating the scripture.

On the other hand, the tag has been on it's way out since IE started catching on in 1998. So very few will notice their apostasy.
The problem is that most 3rd world countries will just come knocking on your doors and take everything away, if the US goverment requests it.

After all, those countries wouldn't be 3rd world countries, if they had the power to resist US threats/requests.
Or they are part of the "axis of evil" (or whatever the current propaganda term is), in which case the internet connection to that country could either be cut off, or be heavily censored, if it isn't already happening.
"I know why companies have bought into the idea of Github profiles." - is it some sort of SF-cisco thing? It's not common in UK/Europe at all.
"Pure functions are functions which cannot access global or static, mutable state save through their arguments". http://dlang.org/function.html
I'm but a layman but browser-side SSL verification is essentially 3rd-party centralized validation of the authenticity of one side of an encryption mechanism - predetermined vendors tell the browser whether a SSL cert is as claimed and an SSL cert is only an encryption key.

This service doesn't care whether a browser-maker thinks its cert is real; they also provide a means to validate that their downloadable cert is as claimed - the cert is valid encryption between you and them, from anyone not you and them, despite whatever errors a browser throws up.
Why I quit my job at Apple
Dalvik isn't a JVM. It's a virtual machine for which someone has written a compiler from JVM bytecode to its native bytecode.
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Until the states are shown the door by the United Nations.
Previous discussion on OpenMailbox: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6174603
Total train wreck in mobile - chrome, iOS. Someone needs to work on their QA!
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It's nothing too special. I use a separate Aperture library per year, each stored on an external hard disk. It's a Western Digital "My Book Edition II" with 2 x disks in RAID1 configuration for redundancy. This is configured to backup to Amazon Glacier using Arq, which is clever enough to only backup when the drive is connected and only uploads the new or changed files. Works quite effectively and once configured I don't really need to think about it.
Well. There are no barriers to entry. If you have any inkling of logical ability, you should be able to tell when a proof is right. All it requires is critical thinking. Presumably humans come with that out of the box.
Software Packages for Graphical Models
Could you name some examples from Europe? Cases when police physically takes servers are common. But I never heard of case where police would require encryption keys for 'maybe we will needed it'.
It's difficult to say, from this article, whether they are actually laying off these admins or whether they are reducing the number of people with administrator access.

I don't see many downsides to reducing the number of people with administrator access. The more administrators there are the more possibility there is for abuse as it is normally very easy for administrators to bypass audit controls as well as, obviously, access controls. The rule of least privilege should apply.

Call me cynical of the human race but I worry more about rogue admins selling information to criminal elements than cutting off would-be whistleblowers.
It isn't just a new URL, there is some javascript and cross-site scripting or something. The old mailinator was dead simple - no javascript, no cross-site includes, it just worked with all my security add-on settings like NoScript and RequestPolicy on maximum. Now it doesn't. The inbox just appears to be empty it says "Inbox for:" without a username even though the inbox.jsp?to=foo parameter is set in the URL.

This is a real kick in the gut for me, I've been a happy user for longer than I can remember and now I can't be a user.

When I read the blog entry about an update a month or two ago I figured the guy was smart enough not to fall into this trap of form over function. I've been reading his blog for years and he always struck me as imminently practical. But it looks like my faith was misplaced, he's gone and web2.0ified it when it really did not need it. I think this is the beginning of the end for mailinator.
Looks like you just managed to disprove my earlier claim:

> Before I learned about Clojure, I certainly wouldn't have
> believed it if someone told me that there was a Lisp-like
> language without the pretentious assholes.

Too bad.
I was also wondering why this wasn't done, it must have been an example that was reduced in size.
The best thing about mailinator other then the service is the blog posts. There is some seriously interesting hacker reading in there such as,

http://mailinator.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/how-mailinator-com...

http://mailinator.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/notes-from-program...

http://mailinator.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/how-i-sped-up-my-s...

http://mailinator.blogspot.com.au/2007/01/architecture-of-ma...

I think most have hit the front page of HN before but its worth including here for those who have not read them.
"Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page."

Where? I can't see it.
The servers are diskless. If they confiscate the servers they get nothing. Mind you if they keep the servers in place and take control of them it'd be hard to stop them from doing whatever they like.
The downloads are hosted on Rackspace's CDN. I think if that were compromised, it would have been noticed.
Tomczak Czarek - author of CEF - got a new project sponsor and in recent days there have been several nice releases.

Don´t know how you feel, but I got thousands of ideas in mind, which don´t have to be solved via Qt4 WebKit anymore.
Myhvold causes me serious confusion, love him and hate him at the same time. You shouldn't be able to do so much cool stuff and also be a complete asshat.
There is on in Wageningen, although you might not call that a city depending on where you're coming from :o)
You say now what? Now exactly what Snowden did: if it's "legal" only because secret court makes secret decisions which are against the Constitution, inform the people. You are sworn to protect the Constitution not to just say "I've got an order, I'm just doing it" like some guys managed to kill millions without losing sleep, thinking "the superiors say it's legal it's not my thing to even think about it".
You know a lot more about these things than I do.

That said: Aren't the equivalent pointers in .Net _only_ allowed/usable if you pin your object? If you tell the GC explicitly 'please don't move that, I'm pointing to that thing here'?

That's hard to bolt on to Go, imho. For Go it seems to be implicitly allowed, in .Net you have to ask explicitly?
so the nsa gets a list of IP addresses of mail servers that sent you mail, and sends a subpoena to each of those providers instead.