skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose I customize and email 1000s of potential clients. Is that considered as spam? Would you recommend any nice template/examples to use? Should I send these emails from a generic email box or from my personal email? If I include an "unsubscribe" option, won't the receiver think "hey, I never subscribed to this, let me mark it as spam".

On a side note, I used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. The email wasn't even sent from the same domain (google godaddy spam scam). I moved off to NetworkSolutions. Anyone sending cold emails, please beware of this.
Clearly he does it for show.
Datomic is an example of a database-as-a-value - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Datomic-Database-Value
Also, any suggestions on which host to use to send these emails?
I actually took Facebook up on this option last fall. I have not missed facebook nor will I be back. I no longer have to worry about them tampering with my privacy like they did so many times.

My life is definitely no worse not having a facebook account.
Chromebook: developer setup options
Pressing Issues: Reinventing Journalism
We've just launched Pressing Issues, a publication with the goal of reinventing journalism. See http://pressingissues.net

It all started when a small group of journalists decided they wanted something new to read. They were looking for a news magazine that not only told them everything that was happening around the world each week, but that did so in an entertaining way. Ideally it would be gleefully sweary and eager to offend the rich and powerful. They realized this meant it probably wouldn't include any ads.

Upon realizing that this magazine didn't actually exist, they decided to create it.

And thus Pressing Issues was born.

We don't have a mission statement, but if we did it would probably say something about "reinventing journalism." It's a broken business. Everyone wants to make an app to make journalism smaller and smaller. I say it's time to make journalism big again. That's why we're publishing 3,000-word pieces online, and 10,000-word pieces in print. We're serious about this.<p>We're launching digital-only, but our print edition is just down the road (assuming we don't run out of cash and/or get sued into oblivion).

We're also going to have a radio show / podcast where we talk to our contributors about their pieces and expand on our written coverage.

I'm the founder, so feel free to ask me anything. Questions, suggestions, and hate mail are welcome.
The agreement applies to the users, not to the person coding the browser. The fact that he happens to have a personal page is unrelated, and facebook would probably threaten legal action even if he didn't have one.

On top of that, there is a reason contracts of adhesion are treated specially. An agreement between a billion dollar corporation and someone that wants to post cat photos isn't a true meeting of the minds. It can only make demands that are sufficiently ordinary* Requiring a website to be browsed in a specific way is rather out of the ordinary.

* As defined by libraryfulls of precedent.
The question (probably unanswerable) that fascinates me is: Did the authorities find DPR by analyzing Tor network traffic, or by some other means? The Tor network being ineffective has wide-reaching ramifications.

I know the evidence has presented to make us think they found him via a series of mistakes, but the existence of parallel construction makes me question everything.
nlnet.nl -- NLnet supports a number of software projects, events, educational activities that strive for an open information society.

Current projects: http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
I know nothing about him. So before jumping up and down and cheering, I went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond to look it up.

He sounds like a fairly radicalized activist who did some seriously questionable stuff, and will do it again given a chance. I applaud him for being true to his ethics. But can see why the government goes after him.

Other than the solitary (we shouldn't do that at all the way we do), I cannot support not punishing him for illegal acts he knowingly did.
Craigslist is very similar to a newspaper listing section. Nobody expects newspapers to collect hotel taxes when someone lists... well, anything. It's just a listing board.

You cannot say this about AirBnB.
Show HN: Update to ugliest MVP you'll ever see
Whilst my disability isn't as impacting as hers, I thought I'd contribute my own perspective on going through a similar process.

I have very poor vision as a result of occular albinism and because it's retinal it can't be corrected with glasses. This leads to endless frustration and ultimately finding creative solutions to many problems faced at university.

The fact of the matter is there simply isn't support to do things "normally" with a disability, whatever it may be. People make adjustments but it's never quite right. As a computer science student, you might think this could be mitigated because a lot of my work involves using a computer and for the most part this is correct. I have good enough vision that I can tell, however, if a monitor is at a poorly configured resolution so I always prefer to have maximum resolution with zooming tools.

This is going completely off topic but it is one of the reasons I still tend to use Windows a lot instead of a linux distro; they simply don't support ease of access as well. Windows recently introduced a "Win + +/-" zoom tool in Win7 which has honestly been life changing. On the contrary, trying to work out how to increase the font size in SWI-Prolog on a school machine was a fruitless endeavour.

So what's my point? With a disability, there is no escaping it. You have to adapt and not rely on support because frankly it's just too much hassle. I can't read lecturers writing on boards in lectures so I borrow notes from friends, it's not ideal but I don't think it's worth the headache of pissing about with a ridiculously slow and difficult to use camera system provided by a disability support grant. I'm not sure what the solution is for my particular problems but I resonate the sentiments of the article; if you're disabled at university, you're going to have a hard time no matter what support they try to offer.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/
Just another example of the importance that those who are developing software and platforms of the future to develop them in a way to make them accessible to all.

Microsoft and Google I'm looking at you and what you are doing in the educational space.
According to the people after Jobs' death was that Apple will ride the wave, then decline. just like Dell after Michael Dell left. Larry Ellison said the same thing the other day in an interview (but not sure whether to believe him or not, Ellison being Ellison and all).

Although Apple was never perfect even with Jobs (remember Antenna gate) and other issues but he was a visionary, he saw things which a lot of people didn't. But although people always thought of him as the brains you also have to see that he has a great team behind him.

Apple might be in decline now from the $800 per share at their peak but is this how a company is measured? I believe that even though they have not produced anything revolutionary in the past few years does not mean they are in decline. One cannot simply create revolutionary ideas every year. It's all incremental.

iPod touch was the testing platform for the iPhone and in turn it was the platform for the iPad.

What's next? I think I'll sit here and wait for it. I still think that they are still capable of something great based on the current team of executives at the head of Apple. They aren't sitting on their laurels with a sales person as their CEO. When the day comes that Apple does that I might change my tune, but for now I will still be as excited for an Apple event as I used to be.
Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Hawaii Beautiful Beach On Security Cam
The American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/
It seems there were specific flaws in their approach that cannot be totally excused by large amounts of traffic:

"Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems."

Which means they may have been a little too triumphant back in June:

"It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/health...
No sound in desktop Safari 6.0.5
The Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.org/
Depending on OS, you might consider:

rsync -aSH --delete --update /source/ /destination

if both file-systems are Unix/Linux.

-S Sparse files remain sparse.

-H Hard links are preserved. Caveat: Big O(inodes).

Note the trailing slash on /source/ unless you
want to copy to /destination/source/.

-W does not seem like a win for your
local-to-local use case but may be the default:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
Human Rights Campaign
http://www.hrc.org/
Can You Read People’s Emotions?
Is it really "offline", or just the website landing page? I got an "Amber Alert" out of Miami on my mobile phone yesterday. It happened while I was driving and freaked me right out. My phone was paired with my car and it managed to make the loudest most sudden noise I've ever heard in my car. It sounded like someone water-boarding a bald eagle.
This is what happens when an important variable (the specific problem domain of performance comparison) is left as a free variable :-)
I just started learning Chef, and all I can say, vis-a-vis Ruby, is "F%!#, what a nightmare". Now, to be fair, the version of Ubuntu I was on was a bit out of date, and I'm not a "Ruby guy" so I knew bugger all about rbenv, RVM and the like going in. But that was downright painful.

I don't know what life is like for Rails devs, but just getting Chef up and running is painful enough that it killed any latent interest I might have had in ever diving into Ruby.
I guess I wanted it to be Matz Is NIce So We Are Nice because it's more pronounceable.
I'd love to donate to an organization who's charter was ending the drug war, but I'm not sure I know of one specifically like that. I suppose NORML might be an obvious choice, but I don't feel like picking a specific drug for promotion is where my heart is. I don't really know much about organizations in this field. Anyone?
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6493510, "Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM"
If the majority of users take the small bag, which seems logical, then I can't imagine you would be able to upsell them easily to a product that was 5x the price (indeed the author acknowledges that), the upsell opportunity there would be to a medium bag, but as there is no difference to him financially in the sale of a small or medium bag, what is his incentive?
Campus Diaries – An amazing online magazine embracing the storytelling culture
How did Dropbox promote the Great Space competition to college students?
File format archive
Your body is the next frontier in cybercrime
Flat rate is a pretty good suggestion. Another idea is to use milestones. Pick a set of features, deliver by a certain date, they pay you, rinse and repeat. This reduces the risk on them, in that they won't be out for the whole amount. It reduces risk for you, in that you won't be limbo, if they take a while to get back to you on something.
I am not empowered to speak for Mozilla.

But personally, I'm kinda sick of people referring to the EME draft as "DRM for HTML5", since... well, that isn't what it is. Five minutes with the EME draft would clear up that misconception.
How does it sidestep private subreddits?
I guess you haven't seen http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/if-android-is-a-s... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada#iPhone_controversy

Like I said, some companies are more aggressive than others. Odd that you mentioned Samsung.
For new keys, 4096 is preferred.
mac mini too
Sparse Distributed Representations - Gerard Rinkus
One of the major ideas of the Cortical Learning Algorithm.
thanks - didn't know that was possible. upgrading now.
A startup isn't a massive company and Google is notoriously atypical with transparency and inclusiveness with hiring. Even so, just conducting an interview is far from learning about the thought process behind the actual act of hiring.
:) I'm learning! Thanks.
MongoDB Shell Cheat-sheet
Your post is so correct, that I'm running short of words of praise for it.

The problem isn't just in the US. I'm from India, and the situation you describe matches the very situation we have here.

One thing that really pisses me off totally, is the industry seems to classify people into two separate categories. First, the kind of people who become managers quickly are automatically considered good. Its almost like if you are coding after 5 years into the industry, you are 'stuck'. That's how its described.

Second, is the kind of people you describe as in having worked for technically meaty projects before say 30. Unfortunately such work is exceedingly rare to find. I would be glad if you can write an essay on how to be finding such work. It would help me and nearly everyone else a lot.
We use rsync extensively all throughout our deployment pipeline. Here are a few pointers on how we use it though.

Don't rsync directly to the location you are running your application from. Instead, upload to a staging directory and then use a symlink to change from one version of your code to the next. Changing a symlink is an atomic operation.

We have a user called something like ~packages which has all the static code and assets in it. This users data should be read only from the users that run the actual services. Inside that user dir, we have version directories like tags/0.11.1/1, tags/0.11.1/2 and tags/0.11.2/1. These directories correspond to tags from our version control system.

Switching over to a new build just means stop service, change symlink, start. Some services don't need the stop and start part.

You can use hard links to make this process even better. Our build system uses the "--link-dest" option to specify the last build's directory when uploading a new build. This means that files that have not changed from the last build don't consume any extra space on the disk. Since the inodes are the same, they even stay in the file system cache after the deploy.

You can have lots of past versions sitting there on the server without taking up any space. If you have a bad deploy, and need to revert to a past version, just change the symlink again.
Jail For File-Sharers Does Nothing to Increase Music Sales
You should really check it out. Try contributing on a few easy bugs, get an idea about the people involved!
So am I to understand that it should be completely fine to compromise systems illegally as long as they belong to a company that can be construed as "evil"? Would this campaign exist if he had physically broken in to Stratfor instead of electronically? Not every hack-tivist is a victim of the system, imho.
Points 1 and 2 seem entirely self promotional.

Since when is not outsourcing your development a recipe for disaster? Conventional Silicon Vally business wisdom leans in the exact opposite direction: keeping core business functions in-house.
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/
I'm just starting out on this road, so this is what I see right now. I'm sure my thoughts will become more nuanced and elaborated in time. Thanks for the feedback!
It's entirely possible to teach yourself to be a very competent programmer. It's going to take time though and a lot of dedication, but I'd say it's a very worthwhile thing to do. Before you launch into that though I'd try to reassess why it is you hate using the skills you have. You might find there are plenty of opportunities there that don't require completely retraining yourself. While programming is great, there is a huge need for other skill sets and products that aren't webpages. What's your technical background? What are you interested in? What aren't you interested in?
Whatever it is they truly believe is totally different than "they have to make decisions that benefit their stockholders or they will go bankrupt".

How is this relevant to what I said in the particular statement you were responding to here? I wasn't saying anything in that statement about what FB does believe; all I was saying is that, judging by their behavior, they don't believe that "there's long term value in delivering the best possible experience to users, and if for some users that means using an extension that's fine with us".

As for what I think they do believe, see below.

this has nothing to do with fiduciary duty

Which was exactly my point: saying that FB won't get sued if it lets third-party developers change its UI is not at all the same as saying that FB thinks its stockholders will benefit if it lets third-party developers change its UI.

for-profit companies do not have some kind of Sword of Damocles hanging over them, waiting for them to make a decision that costs stockholders value.

I wasn't saying they do; nothing in what I said requires that a single decision is all it takes. I didn't specify any time frame in which FB has to benefit stockholders or go bankrupt. If you read other posts of mine in this sub-thread, you'll see that the strategy I think FB is following is not one aimed at maximizing short-term return on capital, but that doesn't change the fact that they have to benefit stockholders on some time horizon that is relevant for the stockholders.
This is the same stack that Drywall is built with. When you're ready to get past a simple hello world app, please take some time to checkout the project.

http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/
Atlantis market disappeared probably because they didn't make any money and risk didn't equal reward, they claimed agents were messaging them looking to find informants but it's likely they just scammed all their users of a lot of escrow coins and disappeared.

Freedom Hosting was likely a NSA op to get a hold of tormail.org messages and history because Snowden was either using it or emailing somebody using it. The FBI will use parallel construction to cover that one.

SR I suspect they simply watched him sitting at cafes and libraries and logging into his virtual cartel. There were also numerous people who had discovered leakage and were able to find the server many of whom ended up working for DPR. Either way it wasn't set up very well, who knows maybe the FBI uploads spyware.js as an image while posting a new order or broke through the php5-mysql plugin. I'm sure they will discover that half his inner circle of close associates were informants too maybe they leaked the address. Remember he once put out applications for database administrators you can guarantee dozens of agents signed up for the job.
What's the best way to find their GitHubs? Do many/all projects make their source available online for people to learn from?
That's almost verbatim where I am. The ups come with progress, little accomplishments or whatnot. But, every time I hit an arbitrary wall, it's a huge downer.

I'm just glad it's not just me.
I don't think it's that simple. A 4096 bit key is extremely unlikely to get you fewer bits of security than a 2048 bit key. But the thing that makes 2048 bit keys a realistic threat is likely to make the "preference" be for something other than RSA entirely.
Ecommerce multi vendor marketplace
I think you'll find java's propensity to box everything to effectively mean that beating it is rather easy in pretty much any application that actually uses some memory.

As will java's insistence to do everything in UTF-16.
Unfortunately, I'm not even sure that's enough for me, b/c it's such a mixed bag. I love my work, but hate the bureaucracy when it works against me. I like the people I work with directly, but the org is big and wide...and I don't care for all of them.
Also a big fan of Kiva. Been involved with it for years.
Or... sometimes computers crash, whether they're linux, windows, or mac. That you saw a linux computer crash once is no more notable than the times I saw a mac crash (and believe me, I have).

Anecdata!
You can use something like Onenote to save the image, which will OCR the image and make it searchable and also gives an option to Copy text on right click.

Disclaimer: Microsoftie
Some time ago Eran Tromer gave an estimate of single-digit millions of dollars for a device that could factor a 1024 bit key in a year. I can't quite tell what you're suggesting about the useful lifespan of a 1024 bit key, but I feel like Tromer's opinion represents a growing consensus.

You might also think in terms of the security level that a 1024, 2048, 4096 &c key gets you. It isn't 1024 bits for a 1024 bit RSA key!
I get to learn a lot. I play with new and cutting edge technology, applying it to solve current business problems. However, it's unclear to me whether or not what I'm learning is the environment isn't 100% conducive to me being happy.

Maybe it'll always ebb and flow. Or maybe I'm doing it wrong. That's why I asked the question.
I wouldn't think think low level delivery guys in Manhattan have that much to worry about. The types of customers he presumably was delivering to aren't the types to go buy an illegal handgun somewhere and then mug a delivery guy for $1K in drugs given they obviously make several times that in their job.

As far as being busted goes, if he's taking cabs/walking everywhere and its in say Midtown Manhattan and he's dressed like any other 20 something with a laptop bag, its unlikely he'll be randomly stopped and frisked.
Advocating for comparable sentencing between online crimes and physical crimes seems a lot more supportable than advocating repeal of all online/computer crime laws.
What an interesting thought. I feel like my speech would be an analysis of the things that I couldn't change, but think the company would need to figure out if it's goal is to be the kind of place that attracts people like me...or ideally a lot smarter than me.

Then, they'd probably agree and do nothing about it. Which is what led to the speech in the first place.
Yes, that is what you are to understand from this page.
effing finally.

Up until today, there was LITERALLY NO INFORMATION from Google about where your installs came from.
FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you
Gladwell always points out the 10,000 Hour Rule, which only becomes more depressing as you age. In my mid (almost late) thirties, I now sit down and think about all the things I don't have time to become an expert in, even if I want to.

Even if I could dedicate two hours every single day of the year to becoming an expert at something, I'll be 50+ before I'm an expert in it. If I could dedicate about 15% of my waking life to becoming an expert in new things, there is only enough time in my remaining life to become an expert in two things at most. And that's assuming it doesn't take more hours or become more difficult or even impossible to become an expert in new things when you're much older. And, frankly, what's the use of becoming an expert in something in your mid 60s?! Just in time to finish the last bit of your life.

If only I'd known the value of time much earlier in life, so I could have jumpstarted that in my 30s and focused on more than one thing to become an expert in . . . you only realize that sort of thing when it is too late.

Aaaaaand now I'm bummed out. :)
-Docker and PaaS

-Bitcoin and the possibilities arising from currency as data

-Home automation/small sensors

-Pull based discovery through AI (evented ways to tell me what I want to know without me asking)

-Virtual Reality (for real this time)
Namebench - Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility