skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, the semantics used to be that if

1. You used the keep option,

2. fetchlimit was set to be less than the number of messages in the remote mailbox, and

3. The remote mailbox stayed above this limit,

then you would find yourself in a state where fetchmail would say that it had fetched everything while there were unread messages that it would never look at.

Looking for a bug report just now, I didn't see anything that matched this.
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I work with several schools as part of my volunteer work. And while it's a neat idea, but it is an EdTech startup that doesn't understand the legalities of school data. In the 49 states that Clever isn't sitting with servers in using them would be illegal.

In most states you couldn't store data on third parties servers with out consent from the kids parents.

Using Cloud Offerings just isn't permissible in most places because of the legalities. Clever would need a lot more than $10M to change all the necessary Federal, State, County, City, laws.
ps. Have him take a crack at protein-folding so he does not get bored.
That looks really nice. I wonder if you could integrate this with firefox's tab groups[1] I use them to manage things all the time.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...
No, not at all. Blacklisting is attempted murder (perhaps with a low success rate) or, at the least, reckless endangerment.

Financial hardship leads to depression and risk of suicide. Obviously, people can't be held liable for all cases in which they create conditions that may be unhealthy, but the purpose of blacklisting is to create persistent financial hardship, often without the person knowing the true cause.

The fact that a blacklisted person will often not know the cause of his failed future interviews may add to the sense of low self-worth, or the suspicion may create paranoia, and both are conducive to mental health events that place the sufferer in high danger and others around in medium danger.

Of course, there are legitimate actions that may cause financial hardship. If you fire someone but don't damage his reputation, then you've made a valid business decision and the fault isn't with you. That's just how business works. If you ruin his reputation or make it harder for him to find jobs and he ends up sick or dead, that's your fault entirely and you should be brought up on criminal charges.
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Just think, they could sell drone idle time and other captured video to the NSA and other interested parties to help defray delivery cost.

Can't sell ads... sell surveillance!
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> Clever is limited in what they can do with student data because of privacy laws. That's not really their play.

Um, what? I’m not even sure what you are implying that I claimed was Clever’s “play”. What I wrote has nothing to do with privacy, that would be a whole other issue.
> I was thinking about picking up an intro to CS book to begin learning CS. Would this book be good for this?

No, absolutely not.
Now if Matt Cutts made an announcement like this it would turn the world upside down.
Google subtracts MathML from Chrome, and anger multiplies
Yeah, if all you care about is candy crush and the random pay to win adventure game. No one is playing "real" games on tablets or phones, nor will they be anytime in the foreseeable future.
You have to understand how schools get money, and how they spend money. As consumers, we have flexibility in how we can spend our money. Schools often do not have this flexibility. I'll provide an example of a scenario that I know intimately.

Schools buy educational content for classrooms and media labs. Increasingly, this content is electronic, but historically, schools are used to buying piles of dead trees covered in ink (physical books). Because of this historical precident, schools get their money in the form of large-dollar-amount, single-use budget allocations. Let me decode that. Someone in an administrative office notifies the person who will actually buy the materials and says something like, "You have $1.2 million dollars to spend by August. The checks must be issued by that date or the funds disappear."

So now the buyer is sitting on $1.2 million to spend by a specific date. Let's say I just built an ebook platform that allows students to log in to a website where I display non-fiction content, along with some reading comprehension questions. When I develop my pricing models, I have to make sure that they fit with the way the buyer spends their money. In the consumer space, we'd do something like:

All plans include access to over 900 titles!

$9.95/mo for up to 10 students

$19.95/mo for up to 25 students

$49.95/mo for up to 100 students

$99.99/mo for up to 500 students

More than 500 students? Call for custom pricing.

The buyer ignores your product completely. Why? Because they can't spend $100/month. The check has to be written by August, then the money goes away. The buyer is also used to buying physical books, so they're averse to the idea that they should pay monthly for something, even if it is much, MUCH cheaper. Remember, they don't know what their budgets will be next year, so "a bird in the hand" rules over value.

Instead, what often happens is that the publisher charges a one-time fee of $100,000 for 2,500 students, then agrees to keep the content accessible for as long as the school wants. The publisher takes on the risk associated with hosting the content, and is well compensated.

The school doesn't want to pay an API middleman, they want to buy content. Clever is very well situated, and publishers (and schools) are going to be very happy they exist.
If you look at his blog, and read the captions you get an idea of how controlled his experience is.

First, the camera doesn't get checked (although it might have been) because they have a "no photos" rule in certain places, like the mausoleum. The tour is guided and controlled and he never allowed to go anywhere or leave on his own, so he is only taken to the best places DPRK has to offer.

The simple reason for not having less impressive shots is he was never taken anywhere or allowed to take pictures where things were less impressive. It's not misleading, he only had pictures of the places he was allowed to go (which they wouldn't likely let him into areas that gave him a negative impression) and was allowed to use his camera.
I looks like PathJoy was YC S10. Can you fill us in on a little history of what happened in those two years?
That's a bit of a simplification, I think. The status quo benefits South Korea as well - reunification means absorbing crumbling infrastructure, 25 million undereducated and hungry people, and trying to integrate that with a technologically advanced economy. It'd make the costs of the German reunification look like nothing.

It benefits everyone who isn't a citizen of North Korea for the current regime to stay in place.
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Artifacts as teaching aids spark discovery-based learning. A single object has many stories to tell depending on the questions asked. Educational websites provide social, cultural, or environmental contexts that allow for deeper examination of the artifact. Context enables students to use investigative skills to draw conclusions. Journalistic questions of who, what, when, where, and how become teaching aids that guide inquiry. Through the interpretation of their findings, students begin to see artifacts’ stories unfold. Different questions yield different interpretations of the research gleaned from educational websites about an artifact. These differences form the basis for meaningful student discourse and collaboration.
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/fasc1.ps.gz

That's the postscript version of an unmaintained version. You can probably convert it to pdf and it ought to be similar (sans links, errata fixes and other changes) to the purchasable version with respect to the math layout.
>> It is the outliers like snapchat @3billion and instagram @1billion that were not created to solve problems but to start a startup.

That's not why either were started. Both were started as just cool little projects by guys who wanted the product. They may have rapidly shifted into growth at all costs, but that's not why they were initially created.

I do agree that they weren't created to solve a problem in the way DropBox was, just to scratch an itch of the founders. Which makes growth hacks like Dropbox's referrals much more difficult. Dropbox could survive on people loving the product no matter how many others used it. Snapchat and Instagram value to users craters without a critical mass of users.
Any line following a blank line and beginning with the four characters "From" marks the start of a new message. The BSD way of handling such lines in the body of a message was to prefix them with ">", which is a non-reversible workaround and is in the uuencode target charset.

Prefixing every line in the message body with a tab character would allow reversing and not interfere with uuencode/base64&c.
> He uses the royal "we" to define a group (here, engineers) and then prescribes very broad goals for what "we" "ought" to do.

That is pretty much the definition of ethics [0].

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.h...
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Their stylesheet https://play.google.com/static/client/css/2587577817-lowlife... has these styles in it:

.multicol-column {
-ms-word-break: break-all;
word-break: break-all;
word-break: break-word;
}

Very strange!
You need to have something worth growing before you spend energy on growth. I treat this as step 0
> It needs to be disclosed in public, that could be a photo on your Facebook, showing a person in the pub with the public present, anything.

No, this is not enough. You have to be able to prove in court of law that you disclosed it when you said you did, and that your disclosure was in fact a disclosure of the invention in question. So a blog post that says, "I just invented this cool widget" is not enough. Even a blog post with a detailed description may not be enough unless you have some way of proving that you did not go back and edit the post after the fact.

And in my scenario where you don't make a public disclosure but just show the thing to your friend Fred who then decides to stab you in the back, you will almost certainly have no recourse whatsoever. In theory, yes, the fact that you invented it and Fred didn't protects you. In practice, to avail yourself of this protection you have to prove that Fred didn't invent it independently, and that will be nearly impossible for you to prove if Fred is even a remotely competent backstabber. (And, of course, in actual practice it won't be Fred, it will be FredCo, Inc.)
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> Are Jewish orgs doing anything to help this situation, given the human rights violations similar to the Holocaust?

Probably the same things they were doing to help out in Rowanda and Bosinia.
> A lot of startup success is luck--or, in other words, factors outside of the control of the founders or their advisors.

Success is very much luck, but a lot of failure is predictable. There are a large number of startups that simply can't succeed because they have a contrived idea that ticks the boxes on some VC's checklist but that excites no potential customer.
Amazon raising Webstore seller/marketplace fees and commissions by 100% in 2014
You mean because they took less money or because it gained 4B in value in a few months?

The follow-up money is twice as cheap because of the larger valuation. I guess someone really wanted to invest in them?
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Remote work job postings are usually a haven for scammers, commission-only jobs, and MLM. But this looks great so far. I hope this stays as clean and legitimate as it is now. My sister's boyfriend just bought Ferrari with the cash he made working from home, click here!
What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics?
In response to (2), most would-be immigrants dream of entering the US with the intent of picking up work, and to be politically feasible in the US, the BJ would have to offer higher (PPP-adjusted) wages in better working conditions than most people expect in the developing world. BJ jobs would be very attractive to most would-be immigrants.

Since BJ labour generally provides less value per hour of work to taxpayers than it costs them to pay for the programme, taxpayers will still want the programme to be as small as possible, which means it's still going to be politically unfeasible to get much closer to open borders.
I have a fundraising page for LiNK (non-profit organization rescuing north koreans) and am matching donations: http://fundraise.libertyinnorthkorea.org/fundraise?fcid=2704...
I use push/ret idiom all the time to stdcall off the stack.. did not realise there was a return cache, that's very interesting.
House of Representatives passes widely supported bill to fight patent trolls
House Passes Innovation Act, Deals Major Blow To Patent Trolls
Funny thing; the American prison corporation complex was just exposed as gloating about how many "beds" they have and that each bed means more profit margin and shareholder returns.

Oh, yeah, we also have the largest ratio of imprisoned population and also the largest rate of ever having been imprisoned. ..... But yeah, booooo North Korea.
The brand is only an advantage in public perception (which usually means nothing in terms of company success at the startup stage), and maybe some level of increased respect from investors (which, as you have pointed out, really doesn't mean much, since they act as sheep. A great company is the way to get investors).

Completely agree that the major value of great schools is better schools attract smarter people, who often make better founders.
Full text (PDF warning): http://www.pnas.org/content/110/44/17623.full.pdf
The mall analogy works just fine: You're not paying the high rent for a small space -- you're paying for the foot traffic.
Thanks for the support!

No need to apologize for your custom integration work. As a company building integrations in an automated & scalable way, we can't cover all possible use cases & combinations. I'm thrilled to see devs doing great work at a reasonable rate (& let's talk - maybe we can send some referrals your way!).
Would have been cool to see how many lines of code each implementation took including the erlang one.
I think that could still be tenable, if the marketing was rearranged so that the FOSS project was the initial point-of-contact for people looking for gene mapping (picture it as a whole app, rather than just an extension), and then it does lead-gen for "23andMe, the premium gene mapping service compatible with our gene explorer."

The FOSS project still might get forked, of course... but as long as the 23andMe people are actually the leading experts in doing those correlational studies, their fork will stay the canonical/preferred one. Seems more honest. (Of course, no company wants to have to be "honest" in that way, but if the only other option being legislated out of existence, it might still be a profitable strategy.)
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This is so transparently a fluff piece for the startup referenced in the latter falf of the article.

See pg's the submarine
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> you're not in power, and that scares you.

> Considering I don't know anything about you, that'd literally be impossible for me to do.

Let's compare and contrast those, for a moment, shall we?

> The Interstate Commerce Clause is part of the Constitution, so any usage of it is by definition constitutional.

The Interstate Commerce Clause has a definition, and whatever its definitions where, judicial precedence precludes it from trumping a right enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Also, just because something is "in" the Constitution does not mean that one can apply any contrived definition of its terms as justification for an action.

> people have been bitching about what you're complaining about here (abuse of these two clauses) since the dawn of the US, and yet somehow the US is still here today.

False. There is document stare decisis on record indicating a massive shift in these interpretations under FDR's reign. While I can't factually defend against the assertion that I'm rehashing old business (which I'll agree that I am), I can factually assert that it has not in fact 'always been this way', which falsifies your argument.

> It's no longer an ad hominem to say you're full of shit and don't know what you're talking about, as I've demonstrated that fact. It's merely a conclusion based on observation, at this point.

You haven't actually illustrated any points that are supported by fact. You've levied accusations, which you've supported with more accusations, none of which are provable.

In short, I shouldn't have responded to this post, but for some odd reason, I took poorly to being referred to as "full of shit" on a subject I've studied a good portion of my life by someone who is literally countering factual arguments with untruth.

This is the last topic I'll post on the matter, and I apologize to you and everyone else on HN for not having quit some time ago.
>We live in the world we live in, and counter intelligence is critical.

especially against your own citizens. Do "fusion center" and "Suspicious Activity Reports" generated by Palantir software ring a bell?

If you remember history, the most amount of intelligence gathered and acted upon in USSR, East Germany were against their own people, while it was supposedly under the great goal of counter intelligence against [foreign] enemy spies, agents, collaborators. Fusion centers with modern equipment and software is KGB & Stasi wet dream.
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Dollar Menu. Or dollar-ish menu. Chicken nuggets and a small chili @ Wendy's for example.
Whoa, high temperature superconductors really would be a leap forward.
That 5 minutes long presentation movie from 2007 really explains why Dropbox is such a success. He just simply tell us about what his product does, what problem it solves, and how he has a good solution to "the file syncing problem". The presentation is so good that even my dad understands it.
Clearly stated, you criticism should be that my claim is tautological, not trivial; this is a legitimate point...
But you seem to be forgetting that the proposition was part of a larger argument, where I was criticizing a previous post which claimed to support liberty, but was also supporting government healthcare programs. My argument was basically that the government health program destroys the private market, thus eliminating liberty (and choice).

If you take the statement that 'increasing government control destroys private markets' alone, it is tautological; but extracting that phrase from the argument of which it was only a part, then criticizing the statement is a pointless set of activities.
Would it be a bad thing for China to covertly take over North Korea? One less headache for them, one less for us. I say we look the other way.
I agree. How do you measure it? Picking that metric is what you need to do right at the start.

You can't just spend the months or years before product market fit without a lighthouse to guide your efforts.
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"Something" doesn't have to be a full on attack.
The trend is what is disturbing. As time moved over the last 10 years they got closer rather than farther apart.
Do you have Celiac disease, or did you just decide on your own that wheat is unclean?
I see one big difference...

Starting 16 November 2009, as enabled by the Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene, dozens of detainees began to use habeas corpus petitions in U.S. courts to seek freedom from the Guantánamo Bay prison. In some cases, they testified by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Fifteen Federal judges have found the government's evidence against 30 detainees wanting and ordered their release. That number was expected to rise as the judges were scheduled to hear challenges from dozens more prisoners.

How many North Korean prisoners get any kind of hearing?
I am all for closing Guantanamo (as well as stopping the horrible brutality in US prisons -- which is a much more pressing, but more "hidden" problem) but it's counter productive to compare US to a totalitarian regime. You are still free to leave United States, to hum a tune from a counter-regime movie, etc... without being thrown in Guantanamo. Many prisoners are also released from Guantanamo. It is legal to openly run a presidential campaign -- and win -- promising to close Guantanamo (but alas, it is not illegal to fail to follow through on this core promise).

In fact, the danger of United States becoming totalitarian is low: creeping authoritarianism, police state tactics, "law and order" used to justify horrid prison conditions and insane sentences, "reasons of state" blackholes (like aforementioned Gitmo), are real dangers. Plurality of the world is governed by either hybrid or authoritarian regimes (which most usually serve to satisfy their rulers' thirst of money and power); North Korea, a few former USSR republics, and perhaps areas of failed states controlled by totalitarian factions are the only unambiguously totalitarian states.

However, by hinting at moral equivalence between United States and North Korea, you end up serving those advocating this creeping authoritarianism: they can now present outlandish arguments that since those opposed to Guantanamo "apologize" for North Korea (note, I am not accusing you of this -- you are not saying North Korea is justified in what they do, but this could easily be spun as such!), advancement of their goals is advancement of North Korea's, Taliban's, etc... goals.

I'm saying this as somebody who feels very strong about torture being an unconditional and absolute moral wrong, sees Guantanamo as representing a very evil and dangerous tendency, and also sees current prison conditions in US as something that -- in the future -- will be seen in the same light as the breaking wheel and the torture rack. Comments like this do not help; just don't do this -- instead, speak up for human rights of all individuals (whether or not their testimony looks like it "serves US agenda" or "helps the terrorists").

[Edit: the big reason I feel strongly about this is that I came from former USSR myself. I remember many Americans, especially those who were unhappy with US behaviour during Cold War would always speak about how US was slighting "my guys", "my country", and being sorry for break up of USSR. They were surprised why I would speak so negatively about "my country" -- as if government and country were equivalent, Cold War was a morally neutral football match, and as if my country wasn't one my family willing adopted and chose to make their home, that is the US.]