skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mail Avenger will cut down a good amount of the spam by itself, and waste the spammers' resources too. And honestly having some remaining spam is useful for detached gauging of pop culture. The subjects aren't actually too different from mainstream marketing pitches.
> Amazon delivers by their promised delivery date.

Except that there are alternatives to Amazon, hence my use of the word "choice". I'm not saying Amazon doesn't keep its promise. I'm saying when Amazon is compared to its competitors it falls short.

> A super saver shipping promise is 5-7 business days

Actually it's 5-8 business days (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&...) and usually Amazon milks it to its limit. 8 business days equal 10 to 12 real days.

Compare that to merchants that ship immediately. It usually takes 3-5 days to arrive at my home. That's a lot faster than Amazon's 10-12 days.
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So, I see a lot of people excited about this Soylent stuff here and that's great but to those that actually excited by this and are very interested in replacing all your meals and "don't understand what the big deal is about food, other than the not dying part" ... do you all expect anyone to take you seriously as human beings? I mean that in the most sincere way possible. It just looks so ridiculous and honestly, somewhat pretentious: "Oh I would never waste my time with food." Maybe I'm the crazy one.
Bugsnag co-founder here. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions or feedback for the API.
A Brazilian perspective on the detention of David Miranda
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I too thought the same, so I mailed at following addresses:
indisales_support@group.apple.com
indiasales_support@group.apple.com
india_sales_support@group.apple.com
support@group.apple.com

All four gave delivery failure notification.

I still can't believe that Apple doesn't even provide support mail id, not even in US (I just checked), only phone support, and that too doesn't work in India.
Providing aid is good and should indeed be welcome. Enshrining connectivity as a "human right" is what I take issue with. It is an insult to those people who die of starvation or lack of shelter in places with extreme weather.
The casualty rate has been revised to 500 people.
For those struggling with the modal, their twitter profile has an invite link: http://www.lumoid.com/friends

Also, as much as I love a good Canon v. Nikon flamewar, there's a huge comparison-shopping unmet need in the CSC (compact system camera) space: Olympus, Panasonic, Fuji X, Sony NEX, Nikon J/V, Canon M, etc.

Aka please send me a X100S, X-pro1, and a EP-5/VF-4 to test :)

Lumoid founders, if you haven't yet reached out to Mike Johnston, Steve Huff, Ken Rockwell, Michael Reichmann, Kirk Tuck, et.al, hop to it! They have huge audiences of photo enthusiasts who'd be receptive to the model.

Also, how do you differentiate yourselves from rentglass, lensrentals, lensprotogo, etc.?
I can't get over how intact the interior is. Any injuries to you?

What were the crash parameters? Speeds? Head-on? (Looks like it).

Your car was a Subaru something or other?
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Security might be about layers, but privacy very much is all or nothing. A given piece of information either is or is not private.
What do you think about my idea - smart NFC authentcation device?
While a lot of people are trying to solve security issues these days I cannot find a good solutions to some of the core problems. Where to store my private keys and how to access them. On the market there are some USB devices that can do the job but in my opinion they are not secure enough. Access to them is granted via PIN code typed on the computer keyboard. Intercepting the PIN code via ordinary keylogger is pretty easy task. Another problem is that you cannot see what actually the USB device is doing at the moment.And I think the best solution is standalone NFC device with keyboard and display. It can be used to automate site logins, data encryption, payments, filling web forms and a lot of other stuff while providing higher security not possible to achieve on any PC. Someone can say that a NFC smartphone can do the job but smartphones are too far away from secure devices and not very reliable.
Unless you only allow voting based on reputation like downvoting privelages, which is something that can be validated server side.
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This smacks of fascism, if I may be so blunt. It's preference as long as you do not hurt with your decisions any one else. Not turning your headlights on at night while driving on a public street is NOT a preference you can have, because it effects others. Not turning your headlights on while driving on your own exclusive and private drive way IS preference, as the only person you are likely to kill is your self. Not having any scroll bars on is preference because the only one it effects is the user.

I think a more important question is, what kind of design are you using that people can not instinctually figure out that they need to scroll? If your site needs to be scrolled horizontally (and its not painfully obvious that that's the case) it's a bad design. And if your user can not figure out that they need to scroll vertically, the are an idiot, or it's a truly bad design. In the former case, stop catering to the stupidest 5% of the population. Just like with people who use IE 7 in 2013, you'll never be able to properly serve them. And if its because of your design, redesign the damn site rather then pushing your preference onto the user.
A few days back my iPhone's power button stopped working. I gave it for repair. After 4 days when I called to know the status, the local service center told me that warranty was rejected. I called Apple care to find out that my display was a fake one. Yeah, there is no connection between the two issues. After 2 hours with Apple Care, I finally got it replaced. But the experience was a nightmare.

Apple users never like to hear their Apple product is a fake one.
Where did you buy the laptop from? Have you tried reaching out to them. Alternately, bigger cities have authorized service centers, that is likely your best bet.
Thanks for the insightful article. On a tangential note, that link's home page is easily the weirdest thing I've seen all week.
Asserting that something is a right implies that it will be guaranteed by coercive means, (usually by a government). Provision of positive rights has historically been problematic and rife with abuse.
>One additional problem of soylent: the designers assume we need a steady inejection of the same macronutrients every time we eat.
We know positively that this is false. Bodybuilders have long known that carbohydrates are more effective after a workout. As with increased protein after a workout.

We don't "know" this. There is strong anecdotal evidence showing that it MIGHT be true. But Alan Aragon, Lyle McDonald, and others (including those in the IF community) dispute this claim.

I would caution a rebuttal to what we "don't know" with Soylent with what "we know" which may not even be true.

As for my unsolicited opinion, who gives a shit if they make it and people eat it. Tim Ferriss is usually a shill for ridiculous products and information (like his Four Hour Anything crap), but he makes good points about Soylent needing to rebrand and change how they advertise. You can't just make a bunch of claims that it's all the body needs because it fits XYZ macronutrient panels (even though they are very, VERY likely correct - the laws of physics don't get trumped by biology, sorry) for the simple reason that the FDA will wield the banhammer with extreme prejudice.

But no one is being coerced to use the stuff, so who cares?
Exactly, IIRC it was a British Airways flight. It's highly probably that many of the flights paid for by the Guardian are BA flights.
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>That’s where the new narrative of ADN as Twitter for elitists took hold, especially because its users were decidedly male and white, and because it launched just as industry critics were starting to launch attacks on the white male dominated world of new social services.

Oh no, those evil white men are at it again, always innovating and inventing new cool stuff!

Fucking racist and sexist hypocrites.
No one is saying it is not O(n), they're just saying that the cache effects can be larger than the complexity hit.
I bought it from eBay, I have mailed the seller regarding the issue, still waiting for reply.
Dexa scan is used to measure body composition in this case.
*Update: Bought from eBay (with VAT Paid Invoice).
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True, but select multiple is horrible. It's easy to code but my god is it unusable.
So Bitcoins aren't a get-out-of-taxes-free card. Isn't that it's primary practical draw? What volume of Bitcoin transactions involve black-market activity?
NSA Scans 75% Of The Internet Through Telco Partnerships
How to Download and Convert YouTube Music Videos to MP3 at a Stretch
This tutorial will introduce the best way to download YouTube videos and convert YouTube MV to MP3 at a stretch. If you are lucky enough, you can also get a free YouTube video to MP3 converter tool.
I'm more interested in the code needed to establish how much data needs to be loaded. Is it dumb file counting? Are they sending some sort of informational "header" before the data? If they're counting bytes, how are they doing that?

This bar's UI takes all of 20 minutes to make.
http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
This soylent discussion that I constantly see on HN is what happens when computer nerds who know nothing about nutrition (and a couple who do) talk about health.

This guy is going to make a ton of money but I think that people should be thinking, "Do I really want to live a life where I don't have time for food or I don't enjoy preparing and eating it".

Personally I think it is kind of sad and hope in the future that 'Eating' doesn't become what 'face-to-face communication' or 'playing outside' has become today.....
> then you know you're on to something

No, no you don't. That's the whole point of doing scientific experiments. Your brain is very, very, extremely bad at judging objectively. Any subjective "test" is simply no test at all.

> Also, numbers like weight and computer mental agility tests also can be quite reliable if you are consistent in your testing...

That's a pretty big 'if', plus a 'can' and a 'quite'.

> ...and they aren't subject to misinterpretation or wishful thinking

That's the whole point of the OT in this discussion thread. They very much clearly are subject to misinterpretation. A zillion factors can impact weight and "mental agility".

People aren't lab rats because they don't live in labs and aren't rats.
Steak and eggs. Quick, tasty, high in protein, low in carbs. Considered a traditional breakfast.
As a kid, my mom helped me do simple chemistry experiments and build electromagnets. I still ended up as a software developer, though.
I just saw someone use a globally constructed object to instantiate some global variables and it seemed like a neat solution, but I don't really know C++. What causes it to go wrong?
> If you can use C++11, this becomes a non-issue with move semantics.

That wasn't an option for ZeroMQ which was started in 2007.
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Usually, the customer themselves don't even know what they want. See: Malcolm Gladwell's talk on coffee.
While that is not unreasonable, you cannot get to that point of haggling between 10G/10TB unless the 10GB option can physically be accepted. If people take photos and videos, the 10GB option of uploading everything is logically impossible, and must be discarded.
Prime Minister's office contacted Guardian over Edward Snowden secrets
This submission includes a loud video that autoplays.
Jeff Bezos: the gardener with a chainsaw
Try calling sales and ask to be transferred to support.

Apple sales enquiries
For sales enquiries call 1800 425 4646 (toll free) or 080 2574 4646. Lines are open Monday-Saturday, 09:30-18:30.

Support line will probably still be busy, but it is worth a shot.
Is this also why Explorer's progress bar approaches the end asymptically, with no regards to the actual number of files processed?

It drives me NUTS, to say the least.
I'm sorry, what smacks of fascism? The choice, in this case, is Apple's, inflicted on all of its customers.

If anything that is not obviously harmful can be reduced to mere "preference" then what is the point of hiring designers? just deliver raw html code and a textfield for users to write in their own css, right?

Of course, I admit this is reducing the argument to absurdity, but so is calling my position "fascism".

In truth, as product designers we make all kinds of decisions on behalf of our users. We use a system of judgement to rank the "goodness" and the "badness" of those decisions based on whether they make our user's lives easier or harder. (or make us more or less money, depending on your ethos)

In what way does hiding the scrollbar improve anyone's lives? In the cases where it demonstrably makes user's lives harder, explain why that doesn't matter?
Sodium is a problem for some people, but it's also not a problem for some people. It's certainly something to pay attention to, but probably not as important as the many other important things to pay attention to, unless his blood pressure is affected by sodium and it's already too high.
If you change NFC to USB this is something you can buy today. I'm not sure what NFC gets you, once you've already put a display and keypad on the authentication device.
Could the web app ad-driven business model exist in the real world?
For instance, imagine a lounge where you can go and hang out. Pay for drinks, lots of couches, hang out with friends, and the catch is that once a week this place plays full records that won't be released for at least another month. You don't pay at the door, you don't pay per hour, you don't pay at all to just sit there. In return, at the beginning of the record they'll play selected ads, and on the days when they play advance screenings they'll plaster up some ads tastefully.<p>Could a cafe run in this way live (let alone thrive) in our current economy? Bigger picture -- could any business that gets revenue for its service (a cafe that plays advance music's service is the advance playing, not the cafe) solely from advertisements and sponsors?
That's a silly thing to say.

The fight is simply about freedom. I don't think it's logical or moral for anyone to be able to restrict another human being in anyway. Justice would of course be the only exception -- and justice is the grayest shade I know, so enter debate. I think we live in a completely backwards world thinking anything needs to be granted as a right first, rather than things starting as innate parts of freedom.

We've overcome the fight for physical survival. Now we are faced with fighting off the chains of our peers. That is in no way insulting to those still fighting for survival.
> Soylent's different target market

What exactly is Soylent's target market? 20-30 something men?

As much as I love the idea of a meal replacement, the idea of a one-formula-for-all Soylent marketed as a near-entire meal replacement is kind of disturbing. I really hope the Soylent team figure things out soon by coming out with multiple formulas, or at least make it really clear who they're targeting first.

You don't have to even reach for a patient with special dietary requirements to realize the problem. For years I had to ensure I either took an iron supplement or got enough iron through my diet due to iron deficiency anemia from menstruation - a problem discovered only after I passed out in the middle of the street one morning. Given that I love iron-rich foods and that I chalked up the rest of the symptoms to stress, imagine my surprise. My postmenopausal mother consumes an absurd amount of calcium daily because that's one thing the female body needs after menopause. My father is getting old and his eye doctor tells him to consume eye vitamins now to reduce his risk of AMD (age related macular degeneration - one of the largest causes of vision loss). These three examples from my immediate family. Half the world's population will menstruate at some point, or will stop doing so. Even more will eventually get old. You can see where I'm trying to go with this.

I would probably be a lot more relaxed about this and put Soylent on the same level as my Carnation Breakfast Essentials if it's only supposed to replace a small part of what you eat, but while people are wholeheartedly advertising this as a complete meal replacement and while all the (so far public) test subjects seem to be 20-30 something men... I'll be nervous about it and I'll hold it to a higher standard. (And no, none of my disapproval of Soylent means I approve of crappy diets of fast food and sugary foods. Maybe some people will end up eating healthier with Soylent compared to their old diet, which would be great, but just don't market it like it's for everyone to replace nearly all their meals with IMO.)
Thanks, will try this.
>Imagine if there was a new drug that gave the mental benefits the guy reported after two weeks of use and saved you money too.

I found this drug that makes me feel way relaxed and totally content with the world. I don't do anything while on the drug, 'cause life's great just sitting here on the couch. As a consequence of sitting on my couch enjoying my great life, I don't spend any money, so I'm totally saving compared to before I took this drug. Pass the joint, man.

I'm legitimately not sure if your argument in this thread is serious. You are basically recommending we throw out any pretensions of objectivity or science or knowledge in favor of "do what you feel".
Thanks for the clarification.

For some stats:

In 2009 there were 10.5 million accidents, and 35,900,000 motor vehicle fatalities. Your odds of dying in any given accident are 0.3%.

In 2013 projections were for 1,203.6 billion vehicle miles travelled. Travel mileage has actually been declining slightly (about 1%/year) since the 2008 depression.

You could expect to travel 33,526,462 without a death, on average.

http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/DOT-Miles-Driv...
https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103....
I personally think it's interesting. A lot of B&M services are run the way they are because of tradition. Either you have the M&P private family owned businesses that have done it for years, or the big businesses who have similarly survived by playing by traditional rules.

Obviously those standards and traditions exist for a very good reason -- it works. I'm not saying it doesn't work, or that this model would work better, I'm just asking -- could it work at all?
I'm not super familiar with Julia but it seems to use a pretty simple and easy to manipulate representation for metaprogramming purposes.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/
From this NYTimes article (http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/business/the-ever-fatter-b...):
"The Government forced all liquid protein products off the market after they were implicated in 59 deaths."

The article doesn't give many details, but it looks like changes in diet can be dangerous.
I do not disagree about the importance of freedom and blablabla, but, have you ever met anyone whose primary concern is whether they will be able to survive today, tomorrow be damned? I have.
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As increasing automation concentrates capital in the hands of fewer and fewer during the coming century, that viewpoint will become increasingly untenable.
In light of PRISM I would argue that the opposite is true: "the ability / freedom to not be connected is a human right".
It's not that hard. If you're already using a module loader (which in all likelihood, you are if you're loading something async these days), then just count modules being loaded in your controller(s), and use that as your basis.

A harder approach would be to be super accurate with actual size of response. Content-length on the header won't work because it only refers to that one file. Also, the server won't have any clue which files belong to which web page response. A way around this is to check every request against a session ID. You'll also have to pass back some sort of "request hash" -- GUID for the request so you can match different files from the same request (static files, content, etc).
FedEx does not have the technical culture to compete with Amazon. Flat out. Most people in Memphis know someone who works there or worked there and it's a hot mess on the inside. They succeed, and have for many years, but I tend to think of them as one of the whales that gelled technical "Ahab" teams that understand the value of the hacker culture will take down one by one over the next 20-40 years.

Technical debt, poisonous power structures, aging entrenched workforces, layoffs, and shifting economic conditions will force places like FedEx to innovate and I've got my money on them not being able to compete in the next economy. It's a case study I've thought a lot about and I really can't wait to find out if I'm wrong.
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While I have no ability to judge the veracity of the claims of Soylent.me -- let me tell you the only reason I am hopeful it works is for the same reason Jobs only wore black turtle-necks and jeans: simplicity.

I want to be able to take a good fuel for my body and indulge in great food whenever I want.

I want to be able to back-pack for a week with only a 4-pound food supply.
29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)
I think the problem was that SWFs so frequently needed load indicators. Sure, progress bars make the time seem to go by quicker, but what's better is actually being quicker. Progress bars were a crutch, but the pages were still dramatically slower, that's why we all hated Flash sites so much.
If increasing the plan cost by $5 a month is essential for all existing customers (not just new customers), you may be undercharging and/or running into cashflow issues. If so, here are some other options:

* Make some new larger plans, with some enticement to convince current subscribers to switch. "Normally $60 a month, but only $40 a month if you sign up now..."

* Offer quarterly/yearly billing. Let people lock in the current rate if they preorder, or even offer a small discount in order to get the cashflow bump.

* Overall, don't get into the situation where $5 makes or breaks profitability. If you are indeed helping e-commerce merchants process orders with nontrivially less pain, $30 or even $90 a month is nothing to them.
That is indeed a better way to ask it. The answer to both your questions and to the question in the article title is "no". Don't deny connectivity, don't guarantee connectivity, just get out of the way and let people connect.
Okay, this is borderline sick. Just combine "Theresa May, the home secretary, confirmed that she was given advance notice of Miranda's detention as she praised the police action [...]" with "Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former Labour lord chancellor who was involved in introducing the anti-terror legislation used to detain Miranda, said the police had no right to detain him under the Terrorism Act 2000."

Let me paraphrase that a bit.

The police: "Hey guys, we're going to abuse the anti-terror laws and intimidate a highly visible journalist and his family. This might be illegal."

The police oversight body: "Who cares?"

The UK home office have effectively announced that they are not doing their job. Even when expressly told in advance that the police will break the law in a very visible way, they choose to ignore it.

That must be either gross negligence or crass incompetence.

[Quick edit: italics]
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"Metrecal and other similar products were pulled off shelves after the United States government connected 59 deaths to liquid protein products"