skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost half the country's voting-age population already doesn't vote.

The ones who don't vote are hardly part of the solution.
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Ask HN: Possible to enhance Email server/SMTP for user account authentication?
Seems like on most web site that has user account, email address is used as login id. For user account password reset, email server is trusted to be the delivery of reset notice. So email server is trusted, in somewhere. Is it then possible to enhance email server for the role of user authentication? So for my web app, there is no storage of password. When user login, the email/password credential is passed to the email server to verify. Not sure if this question makes sense.
It wasn't easy for the attackers because they chose not to break the law. If they had just broken into every network in the neighborhood until they found the right one, it would have been simpler.
Firefox 25 is released
This is cool and helpful, but not a game-changer. For things like garbage-collecting I've been using probabilistic techniques (just get a random element and check it, make sure you check enough to have guarantees you need) with great success. The new scanning doesn't provide any tight guarantees (it can't, really, without sacrificing a lot of what Redis stands for), so it will be more of a convenience than a really new paradigm.

Still, it is nice to see -- so, thanks!
This has been going on since the sixties. Half a century is not "a few decades". The military regime got entangled with fights against the syndicates (which were a strong political force back then, and are mostly toothless now, with the exception of the truck-transport syndicate), and dismantling the national industries was used as a resource to weaken them. Also, they systematically killed and "disappeared" basically anyone who got into politics that didn't agreed with hem. So they destroyed both the economical and the political basis of the country. The people who took over after them came from what survived their culling: most of the people who could have grown with a different point of view were dead. In that light it isn't that surprising that Menem's government in the 90's followed a similar policy of dismantling the local industry. Under the pretense of amassing funds to fight inflation, he basically sold all what remained of the national industries, creating a nice but unsustainable period of wealth. Following that, De la Rua's government basically did nothing to address the issues, and that's how we got to the 2001 crisis.

This is obviously not a complete explanation, but it works as a highlight of some of the structural causes of Argentina's situation-
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With ad-block, I can allow non-invasive ads to reach me, while blocking others (with sound, flash, some ads provider). This is a useful service, and I can donate for it, because it doesn't feel wrong.

But why hidding /removing the ads in gmail feel wrong? Because they are not too visible. The only bad/intrusive part of gmail ads is the mail parsing to select which ad will be shown. I have no proof, but I strongly suspect this will be done even if I hide them, so nothing to win there.
Exactly. It works. The Swiss are the best example. They have direct democracy and the country is far away from chaos.
After thinking it over, I don't really have a problem with a trial period. All employment agreements I've seen allow for a 3 month trial period already.

The only stipulation I'd add is that salary and benefits already be finalized. Someone taking a week away from their current job, or quitting it outright, has weakened their negotiation position so the paper work had better be done before the trial week starts.

Also I don't think too many companies would go down thsi trial road....
By definition if you are doing a 1 week trial period then you are excluding the top 5-10% of people from your potential set of hires as they'd never put up with this, but the companies that do this like Weebly don't need to hire the top 5-10% of hackers.

Weebly is probably content with hiring in the top 40% and therefore the system works for them.
Right, wouldn't work then. Maybe you could set up a meeting with them, you and a notary, they bring the zip, you bring the password, you key it in, they extract it. That way, you also have official confirmation that it was all in fact done.

Just spouting ideas here, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Adobe breach compromised more than 38 million users, Photoshop source code
TalkTalk are a really crappy company - terrible customer support, crappy broadband routers, and they have a habit of signing you up for things you didn't ask for and bullying you into paying. (This is based on experiences my family and friends have had with them). Avoid at all costs.
> To be clear and to the point, Gmelius will never access, read, store, alter or transmit your personal data.

I'm a trusting person, so I believe them. But privacy is a big issue these days. Not sure a one-liner is enough to assuage doubts.
Protection from being fired comes with a cost. Less people are willing to open companies and easily hire people to do job if they are afraid that they wouldn't be able to fire inefficient workers. All "unemployment" is government creation due to either "free" stuff like unemployment benefits or to regulations that prohibit some employers from hiring you.
Ask HN: Why is there no standard for (RESTful) API documentation?
I just had to read through incomprehensible API docs. It's painful. Why isn't there a standard for API docs, just like there is a standard for language-specific library docs (e.g. rubydoc)?
without ads* I suppose. (and thanks for the link)
Has Skype been compromised?
VMware is currently valued at 35B. Who is to say Docker couldn't be the next VMware? I would invest in these guys if I could.
They already replaced them - with dolls who smile and nod kindly to the camera. Real power stays hidden.
> By replacing boy/girl/child with "person"? Humanism.

Obviously idiotic.
"it's your job to work out how to programme for your target platform" - exactly, but there is an active effort to try and put the JS garbage on each and every target platform!
It's a compromise. If you need tighter specifications, you pretty much need to implement a transactional system.
What about the same 'trial' concept, except limit it to possibly 2 days, like a Friday and a Saturday. Assuming the company is small, it might even be possible to do Saturday/Sunday. I'd also let the interviewee choose which weekend is best for him/her.

I like the idea of a trial since I do believe interviews are a limited window of analysis, but I agree with Fred's points–asking anyone with a current job to take a week off is not reasonable.
This completely blew my mind. One of the most clever algorithms and implementation that I have seen in the recent times. It was like seeing Radix sort for the first time and realizing that sorting still works even if you sort by least significant bit first!
On a Mac, Terminal ships built-in with sensible defaults. It's easy to launch on any computer, and I often use it from other people's systems. Same with Linux/Ubuntu. Windows, however, now ships with ps.exe, but it's not the same as conemu, console2, obviously, which is why you choose to use them. My only objection is that while Chocolate makes it easier to install them to your own system, so few people do that it becomes harder to use them when you know you'll miss them on other people's systems. I tend to stick to console for when I know commands will work cross-platform.

Really though, it's just the shame that Microsoft hasn't improved their Terminal app in over 16 years at a rough guess, from a functionality standpoint. That's just ... that makes no sense. Not when they're doing so much more to encourage sysadmins to use their command prompts and PowerShell. For a company that can make such great IDEs and OSes, why can't they combine both into a masterful shell window?
There are professionals on the go who want to carry one device, not two, and have both the use-case for a tablet and a notebook. You can't use a notebook standing up, and you can't run real Windows software on a tablet.

I'm surprised every single doctor in a hospital doesn't own one of these yet, for example.
Note, the rankings are:
> as a percentage of its revenue.

Also, regarding 3M, I am not sure what you mean by 'far lower margin industry'. 3M is a conglomerate. It's like GE, in some sense- doesn't play in any single industry, but in several tens of industries.
Ask HN: B2B - who should I talk to?
My background is in BI, data warehousing and dashboard/report visualizations. I'm interested in finding out more about my market for these technologies and aspire to build a solution to solve issues within this space specifically for SMEs. I'm wondering how do I even begin getting into B2B and who do I talk to to figure out the pain points?
The programming language is pretty irrelevant. Like hkarthik said, it is about universities. I would see what University of Dayton offers in terms of computer science and primarily focus on helping those students.
Adding an ADDITIONAL faster processor is proven tech. Heck, Nintendo was doing that with $70 cartridges 20 years (e.g. the FX ship used in games like Starfox essentially overrode the built-in processor, but the main CPU in the console was still used for basic IO.

It's when you're talking about actually REMOVING that built in processor that things get really interesting.
> "whatever it ends up being, I can guarantee you it won't look much like that phoneblocks video."

Yes, because concepts evolve. Your guarantee isn't some bold bet you're making, and I assume it's supposed to show how impractical the initial design was. But this is standard across all creative industries, from tech, to fashion, to auto: You start with what many times seems like a farfetched idea and you evolve it into a consumer product that retains your initial vision as much as possible.
Do younger people really use Facebook though? The only person I actually know who still uses it is my Grandma, who just plays scrabble on it.
1. So what? Politicians also cannot change the laws of physics that govern paper money transactions, yet paper money is regulated.

2. That is not an issue of regulation.

3. The same applies to paper money, and again, paper money is regulated.
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Imagining a Trillion Sensor World
The point is not abstaining from voting, but instead to vote for other parties. If enough people would do that, US would eventually get a healthy democracy.

(disclaimer: not US citizen. My country has government ministers from six different parties, including both conservative [religious and fiscal, two different parties], left, and the greens)
Only if you have JS enabled. Which means they went to explicit trouble to make their site not work without JS, which never ceases to amaze me.
Ok, my bad. The currency itself can hardly be called "coercive". Coercion is done by people to people. When I was talking about economic policies, I meant this recipe:

1. Establish a government-issued currency that it can print when it wants.

2. Make people use this currency by creating barriers to other currencies and forcing people to accept it as payment for debts.

3. Print money according to some made up theory on what's better for society and give this money to whoever needs it it more (according to a theory at hand).
Does anyone have any links to the source code? I don't see anything on anonnews.org
Are you suggesting that in a society without a government there would be no unemployment? (To clarify, unemployment is the opposite of employment. Unemployment is 'not working'.)

On your first point, it's not whether or not it comes with a cost that is the relevant question. The relevant question is: If it does come with a cost, does the cost justify the benefits and/or are we willing to pay the cost?
The long running hardware design fallacy is that the new form factor must have all the features of the precursor. Remember ~2000 when all smartphones attempted to run a Windows desktop, poorly?

Despite all of efforts in the wrist space, the Pebble is the best in my mind. Why do you want a stylus? Who would type emails on their wrist? My Pebble kicks butt as it reduces the needs I have for my phone, just as the smartphone and tablet reduced the need to find a desktop, but didn't replace them.
You make the mistake of assuming the surprise is due to unconstitutionality rather than violation of other shared principles, and you make the mistake of assuming everyone has the same understanding of the Constitution.

The second amendment in particular is grammatically awkward, which facilitates misinterpretation. It is also, in its strictest sense, unworkable - nuclear ICBMs are discussed in "arms control talks"; the guy down the block shouldn't be able to keep and bear nuclear ICBMs. Now I think the best thing to do would be to update the second amendment, but we've sort of agreed (since about the 1930s) that we're instead going to be ignoring the strict wording beyond some arbitrary line. Once we're in that position, saying "your views are flagrantly unconstitutional because you draw that line differently than I do" is not really a well founded position. I say this as someone who thinks we've generally gone too far with gun control.
The problem is that JS is a monopoly. Monopoly is never good.
Congratulations is well in order. It's so exciting to see the progress the team and platform have made in such a short amount of time.

Only months ago at PyCon Solomon Hykes was showing off Docker to the public for the first time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wW9CA...
I think it is the only appropriate behavior considering Redis's constraints and philosophy.

Redis is not a transactional, ACID-compliant datastore. You can, for at least some workloads, build such a datastore on top of it, but it requires care and effort. You have to assemble the given pieces correctly, and fabricate some of your own.

This SCAN mechanism seems perfectly in line with this -- if you understand its limitations, it might be a useful tool, but like every other part of Redis, you can't just use it assuming it acts like your favorite SQL RDBMS.
Heart in your hand? Neuroscientists discover a new illusion of consciousness
Nokia's Q3 2013: $162 million profit from $7.79 billion revenue
Raspberry Pi Hack: How To Install Firefox OS
8 million people? I suspect the Bay Area might be able to make direct democracy work for a while. I wouldn't want to extrapolate that out to the West Coast though and certainly all of the states.
That would work if I wasn't located 7000 kilometers away an on another continent ;)
The bad people are located in Aruba while I am in Germany.
Or else what? They'll torture you some more?
I don't think these guys have anything left to lose.
Personally I like more smaller screens. On my workstation I am currently running 6 24" FullHD monitors. (Mostly because I can, but also _very_ handy for programming)
I have around 40 books purchased via amazon, and they are mostly programming/woodworking. No matching results via matchbook for me.

I do have to wonder if their selection available for matching includes many non-fiction titles.
Show HN: Our Startup 3D Printed "Tux"
That's a good find, but when I think about that quote with technology adoption, I remember Joe Kraus's great "Confessions of a Startup Addict" from Startup School, where he said "Being early feels the same as being wrong -- you're dead!"

http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2006/04/30/joe-kraus-confe...

Probably my favorite startup speech, but no longer online anywhere due to lossage from Omnisio and the YC Infogami.
As someone forced to rent with kids for the past several years (apparently contracting isn't a real job to banks), you got it exactly right. Floating around, without a defined base is really difficult and affects you more than you realize.

Though you have to pay for upkeep on a house (and HOA/insurance/taxes) renting brings it's own issues (fees,deposits,moving expenses) and, in our area, rents are about 30-50% higher than a mortgage for a comparable house in a comparable neighborhood. Not to mention, the nice, stable neighborhoods don't have much rental action around here.
A PaaS for Go
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...
Which risk is easier to judge and would seem smaller for 90% of teens: "I miss some (or even most) of my peer's social events" or "Facebook may give certain government agencies my information". Resisting peer pressure is a risk assessment and without some impressive "here's what smoking does to your body"-pictures it's a hard sell.
I was with you until the last sentence. Why would it be irresponsible to kill the Heroku also-ran to push faster on what people really want?
learn it and stop complaining.

Your post complaining about complaining doesn't make the best case against complaining in general.

You're just bitching in the opposite direction and telling people that unless they agree with you on the topic, they can't express their opinion in same rhetorical style you do.
Reminds me of http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/MCM...
using MCMC to break a prisoner substitution cipher.
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Secession in the Valley, and the End of Politics
I'm not sure that living "intentionally poor" means anything in particular. The article gives two example: a guy in a hobbit hole and a girl in a cheap NY room. Both are using macs and making a little money online. Doesn't sound medieval to me.

Anyway, the article isn't about a "mid sized country" deciding to live in a hobbit hole. It's about a few individuals. They're trying to find a satisfying way of living. This anger about not contributing to the system feels very off to me.
The paper: http://lizier.me/joseph/publications/2013-Barnett-InfoFlowIs...
It uses the closure compiler. Not the closure library.
Modular in this sense I can completely see, but this is different from having them designed to physically interlock.
I think one of the biggest deterrents is the distribution of wealth. The gap between rich and poor in the US is much smaller in the US. In India, you might have a low-level government official making $300/mo and a millionaire businessman applying for a permit. A $100 bribe to speed along the process is nothing for the millionaire, but significant for the official. In the US, that same official would make $5000/month, so you'd have to make that bribe more attractive to risk losing his job and going to jail.

The same with police officers. In the Philippines, my brother-in-law was pulled over for speeding. He offered the cop PHP100 ($2.50) and we were on our way. Cops make $50-100k per year where I live, so you'd have to bribe them at least a few hundred or thousand (and take the risk that they arrest you for offering a bribe). You'd be better off paying the speeding ticket which is only $100-200.
I've been using Sparrow for over a year now. It seems like they've stopped releasing updates, and lots of users (from what I'm reading on the App Store) are complaining of stability issues, but everything's fine here.
Another way is to fix/tune the algorithm
But the truth is, they do represent the majority of the population.

They represent a majority of the money. The country's strategic assets are held to ransom by a fraction of 1% of the citizens. We're playing modern Monopoly.
Am I An Entrepreneur?
I would suggest the contrary.

As an employed person, I have some resistance to giving up a reasonable job to enter into a permanent contract that has potential but that may not suit me as much.

A trial week gives me, as a mature employee, an equal and fair chance to decide whether or not it's a good idea give up what I already have (just as the company gets to decide whether I am a good risk at my larger-than-novice pay rate).

I approve of the idea that companies and employees should mutually agree a probation period that is satisfactory to both - it seems to me that a one week period at first is a good idea.

I would be willing to give up a week of vacation time for this opportunity (if I thought it had a good chance of resulting in a positive outcome). If I was worried about the loss of vacation, I would explain this and ask the new employer to consider additional vacation - the result of this discussion would also be important in my consideration.
Help me optimize this code which enumerates all possible GUIDs
I recently went abroad and due to a couple of issues I had to reinstall the OS on my phone (I did this during the flight). Since my Facebook app was not authorized on this phone I had to go through "extended verification" because Facebook had identified I was not logging in from my usual location. Verification involved looking at 10 or so photo's and verifying friends which they had identified. There was also the option of FB emailing a verification (I seem to recall).

The point is, they already have the means of verifying accounts without requiring mail in of government ID. If this was for a "business page" then uploading company documents etc to verify ownership, particularly in cases of dispute, makes sense but for personal accounts there really is no benefit (except to Facebook for some bizarre reason)
For example in JavaScript you can easily write your own version of new. JavaScript is a just a "bag of properties" and everything else follows from that. Very very rarely do you run into something in the language that breaks that expectation.
>I'm not aware of any other language that makes it so easy to write your code in either a functional or object oriented style

>I can't think of any other language that has that level of flexibility. Can you?

(Subjective opinion here)- I think Lua got it better; you can create a better object oriented program with it, as you can do it with functional style; Ending with a more elegant final source code down the road
The definition of what is "core" to a computer is nebulous at best. Nothing stops you from having a SOC mainboard with some flash memory and an embedded processor that can run on its own, with peripheral attachments to add in beefier hardware as need be. That is what PCI is for, after all.

I think that may be one the largest failures of modern computing - we never built a hardware platform where just socketing (especially in a plug and play way) new processors, memory, busses etc was fluid and feasible. The performance penalties were always huge (albeit understandable with a monolithic virtual memory abstraction if you don't account for varying degrees of locality).
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There are a lot of chrome extensions to improve Gmail UI. Most of them have the same features as these ones.

I went through your list of features, but didn't find anything I'd really be interested in. Not for me.
Often when discussing JS as a language the conversation drifts off on tangents talking about all the amazing and wonderful libraries available for it. Unfortunately this is sorely missing the point. The conversation is about the language, not its ecosystem.