skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out with Exim (3.x or 4 -- can't remember now) and stuck with it mostly for the same reasons that Debian didn't change away -- I wasn't convinced postfix was a significantly cleaner/simpler design -- that it would be worth it to learn how the "other" system worked.

I did have some exposure to qmail before that, and it did feel like it was simpler in some good ways -- but then it became a sort of abandonware, sadly.

Any thoughts on Lamson ? (http://lamsonproject.org/)

[edit: I did recently switch a few vps' over to nullmailer rather than use exim4 configured for smarthost delivery -- once I figured out how to get tls working thanks to this blogpost http://metz.gehn.net/2012/11/nullmailer-with-starttls/)]
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So absurd, especially when they link you to specific things they claim you should be able to see.
Well, isn't it a bit awkward when dataset size is what forces you to select a certain algorithm that you otherwise wouldn't use? "Gee, I would love to train a neural network, but it's just so much data and I'm on a deadline; maybe I should just use an SVM and hope for the best ... ..."

That's one of the big surprises behind deep learning these days: it's now feasible to do things like "train a big neural network on bunches of images" in a sensible time. It's an optimization thing as much as it is a machine learning thing, in my opinion.
>all "opinionated software" is abrasive

I don't know you, so this is not directed at you. However, this is the kind of line I hear from abrasive people defending their unwillingness to temper what they say.

It's perfectly possible to have opinionated software (take JUnit or TeX, for example) that simply performs its task in an opinionated way without its authors belittling competitors or being disrespectful to others whose work doesn't fulfill their view of how things should be.
Intel was almost dumb enough to put those on the used manufacturing line from x86 chips... Almost. Then Intel "knifed the baby" by moving those designers to Atom and selling off their ARM stake... At one point StrongARM was the top of the hobbiest Boards available, long before Raspberry got their idea.
>Why do you magically trust OpenBSD?

It isn't magical. I've spoken to many of them. I've seen the work they've done over the last 15 years. They earned my trust.

>Much of the projects early funding was via DARPA

No, a relatively small amount was via DARPA, and that funding was pulled due to Theo criticizing the US government. And that was not early in the project, it was like 8 years into the project's life. Doesn't really scream "NSA plants".
"By leveraging internet services like Amazon Mechanical Turk, we can significantly reduce the cost compared to in-house testing and even outsourced testing."

Unfortunately, this means that your testers are going to include random people who know nothing about your application or your domain - and very little about testing (why would someone who was a trained tester settle for Mechanical Turk wages?). They might find some obvious problems, but they probably won't find subtle problems. Unlike a QA team that works closely with a team of developers, they won't be able to offer you meaningful feedback about how you could improve your product. And if they're going to be paid low wages to test code written by people they've never met, they're really not going to care very much about doing a good job. As in most cases, you'll get what you pay for.
The "expose a single port" default suggestions always annoyed me a bit, the fact is that each docker gets an IP on a virtual ethernet interface and with the right routes in place can be accessed by anyone on the same network -- so obviously more ports can be exposed :-)
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I do not know what jurisdiction the author is referring to when listing the requirements for a "good patent." But in the US novelty and non-obviousness are just two of the five requirements for a "good patent." The other three are just as important:[1]

(1) patentable subject matter
(2) utility
(5) enablement

After slogging through the language of a lot of patents you start to wonder how so many of them were deemed to meet the enablement requirement.

[1]: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/patent
Exactly. That's why we should be (IMO) focusing on hard face recognition problems, full of rotation and occlusion and blur and all the "icky" parts of the real world that we don't like to deal with.

There is some of that work going on out there, but I would be very surprised to find that spirit in a paper with the words "LFW" in the title. It's just a different focus.

In its time, LFW was "hard" since most of the face datasets (FERET, AT&T) were completely controlled: the subject visited a laboratory, sat down in the best pose, made the best face expression, and had their picture taken by the best camera that grant funding could buy. The "in the wild" part of "Labeled Faces in the Wild" alludes to the fact that these are more real-world than what the community was used to.

It's time to continue that train of thought and move on to something harder though.
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>Were someone to start a startup where users got paid-by-the-view for making educational videos, that would not be too far off from the original intent of patents.

What makes you say that this was the "original intent" of patents? I've never seen anything to suggest this. See the U.S. Constitution:

"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"

Sounds like, even back then, it was more about incentivizing innovation by granting monopolies.
Do you need real-time news?

I enjoy Twitter (and other feed/social interfaces like HN) but many aspects of these designs are abusive/exploitative of attention, creating a false sense of novelty and urgency.

I expect as this becomes better understood, intelligent summaries and filters, at longer controlled intervals, will become more prevalent. The 'Nuzzel' service, which builds a TechMeme-like summary from your own network, is one step in that direction.

A feed service that's loyal to users/developer, rather than advertisers – like App.Net, even if not App.Net itself – could also be an important part of the future. Why? What's needed is client/UX innovation that actually calms the interactions, via reordering/rearrangement/aggressive-filtering leading to less (but higher-quality) engagement... and Twitter/Facebook have strong incentives in the other direction.
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It wouldn't even require machine learnign imho.

From the first example:

generating, using a processor = calculating

a plurality of images = images

clusters = groups

It's more of a translation software than machine learning.

Perhaps the translation software could suggest 3-4 variations of the legalese sentence and allow users to vote for the best translation?
Typing "thedailyshow.com" into a browser and just watching the show and having AdBlock+ remove all the ads is pretty convenient. A large percentage of people are using ad blocking software anyway, so setup once and forget about it.
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While we are on the topic of great sf shorts:

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: http://users.pop.umn.edu/~matt0350/images/forumcrap/october/...

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html
There is still a problem we haven't solved - solar radiation. The ISS astronauts may have been up there for long periods of time, but they are protected by the earth's magnetic field. A trip to another planet doesn't have this solution. Even for the Apollo missions, we got lucky that no bad solar activity occurred, and that mission lasted eight days.
You may want to talk to a Canada Revenue Agency agent. My info came from a CRA agent who was liaison with IRS on tax related policy issues. Also, a Canadian Bank that has presence in US will be helpful in transferring 401k in US to RRSP in Canada.
Yeah, it kind of sucks, but think about it as: You work for the charity, they pay you, then you donate the money you were paid back to the charity. The pay and the donation cancel each other, and it works the same way when the pay and the donation are both zero dollars.
This is amazing, and it has truly revolutionary implications for learners of scripts like Chinese, which are still truly indecipherable to learners when embedded in images. I was really happy to see that this extension supports both simplified and traditional Chinese. I tried it out, and while it shows promise there, it definitely still needs a lot of work.

I posted a review on my blog here: http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2014/04/24/can-proje...

OP, I'd be happy to work with you on improving the recognition of Chinese text. Just get in touch with me through my blog (linked to above).
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Start-ups that value patent reform could band together and give a few hours a month to doing this, and I'll bet it would make a pretty significant dent.
The tactic that the OpenSSL project took to get the FIPS 140-2 validation, but to avoid having to do it over again every time a new openssl release was issued, was to build all the parts of openssl that were audited into a single object (fipscanister.o) that is to be loaded at run time. It is stored at some location on the machine along with a fingerprint, and when one enables FIPS mode, fipscanister.o's fingerprint is confirmed, and then the object is loaded.

In practice, what this means is that you take one of the fips-openssl-x.y.z releases, and build fipscanister.o from it; that has the fundamental crypto bits in it, it's released as infrequently as possible. Then you build a plain old openssl-x.y.z release with a flag to enable the fips feature. At runtime when you enable FIPS mode, your local openssl library would switch to using crypto functions from fipscanister.o, which might be a year or two old. The idea is that the crypto bits don't generally change, although the rest of libssl/libcrypto might change several times during the year.

Anyway building and using openssl this way is a giant pain in the ass, especially if you statically link. To make matters even more confusing, Redhat took an altogether different tack, and have their own variant of openssl that, when FIPS mode is enabled, switches to using the Linux Kernel crypto functions, which they got independently NIST validated, so if you're deploying the RHEL machines in the .gov space, a different FIPS 140-2 validation applies to you.

It leads to a fair amount of crap in the configure scripts, and macros throughout the code.
>"hard to explain" or "easy to obfuscate."

I wouldn't call it either of those things. They are so general that people have a hard time getting them. That's all.

>That's what the "mumble mumble endofunctors" joke is getting at: sometimes they're a useful generalization, but more often they're a way to make easy things sound hard, or to make bad teachers sound smart.

That is not at all what the joke is getting at (and that doesn't even make sense).
Yeah, the blackout situation on MLB.tv is ludicrous. Living in the home television market of my chosen team, why would I pay to be blacked out on half the games?
Why would you consciously permit yourself to be biased by the appearance of their webpage in such a way?
> That's not the only way of making a more educated electorate. Another method would be to limit the electorate.

Care to elaborate? On what criteria would you limit the electorate?
I've explained it a few times already. The apps add the extra value to the phone. If another mobile OS has better apps, it will gain the edge. This will become particularly important as mobile converges with the desktop.
Of course you can tweak things to be fast in hakell, but to be able to actually program haskell in such a way to, beat other languages in performance, is not a trivial skill.

It actually is trivial in a lot of cases. It's often as simple as swapping out lists for vectors and inserting a few strictness annotations into your types.
Given the hatred between Google and Oracle, I expect that even if SPARC were a better solution, Google would look everywhere else first.
It's not photoshopped, it's just cropped to show you their wide angle vs a typical camera. Quoting the website, directly beside the picture you've linked:
"The extra-wide 80º viewing angle captures more area than other phones so your pictures will include more background without distortion. "
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>The main force holding me back from learning Haskell is the cryptic syntax

Haskell doesn't have a cryptic syntax. The same complaint would be just as (in)valid leveled at any commonly used language. We're not talking APL here.

>There are so many great languages out there nowadays, Clojure, Go, Erlang.

Go does not belong in that list.

>I don't see where Haskell would be a better fit

For writing software. I realize that sounds snarky, but that really is the answer. To see the problem with your question, just turn it around. Where would clojure or go be a better fit than haskell?
It explicitly requires that there must be time limits. That isn't required if all you want to do is reward innovation. The time limits are required because the ultimate purpose is to enrich everyone, which means that everyone gets access once the inventor has gotten a fair shake. For patents in particular, it is well-established in the law (though poorly followed in practice) that a patent ought to serve as a guide to replicating the invention, with the inventor being assured that no one can do so without his permission until the patent expired.
Honestly though, they processed 22 billion payments totaling 38.7 trillion dollars in 2013.[0] When you're dealing with numbers like that, there's an argument to made in favor of battle-hardened COBOL batch processing over some real-time rewrite.

[0] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/ACH_Volume/prweb11740323....
So, for HBO including their Go product with their subscription to everyone, I should stick it to HBO by for renting everything because Comcast is tacking on an additional fee (forcing me to upgrade my internet to higher tier)?
Yes, most of the code will never change. But some of it will, and it's sometimes hard to predict what that will be. So, to an extent, all of your code needs to be written so it's changeable in the future. It doesn't have to be enterprise java style to be flexible -- just well encapsulated, and testable code helps with that.

Also, it seems like people in this thread who haven't used angular see that word -- factory -- and think of endless crappy java abstractions. You are overestimating the overhead that angular is bringing into your application in this case. A factory is just a component that can be shared between controllers. It's a singleton, like a lot of sharable components in vanilla Javascript applications, just with a defined way of being injected into the controller, and a way of declaring dependencies.

If your problem is with object oriented programming in general well... I can't help you there.
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Linking to the benchmark game as if it means something should be a bannable offense. When you look at something that encourages speed at all costs, that is what you will see. People do low level optimizations like that to gain 0.5% better performance. That does not mean you need to do anything like that to get good performance.
This all from a president the YC is hosting for a fundraiser. I bet he's saying, how do you like me know! Sorry my cynical behavior, but this is horrible.
Traditionally, a lot of large engineering companies have strong ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans). Not "co-ops", as you put it, which I think tends to imply a really flat hierarchy, although I'm not exactly sure.

If it's not obvious, it benefits everyone by increasing the incentive to perform, sharing profits (obviously), and reducing the incentives to be mercenary, which as we know just increases costs for all businesses involved (and is quite logical for employees who don't have strong stakes in their business).

I think it's a good question you ask, and I think more companies who care about the long term should consider it. Problem is, most founders are especially interested in just selling, and an ESOP makes a company moderately more complex to buy. So I don't think the model fits most VC-heavy startup concepts, but I do think it deserves a much larger place in cash-flow-positive long-term businesses.
I included a full language specification with my patent application. Reading boring specifications can also be a drag, so I even wrote a version that sorts information by color. Its all available on http://mailmarkup.org/

If you are aware of any prior art please do the right thing. I have not been able to find any, but that does not mean it doesn't exist.
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This is a strange position to take (net neutrality == affirmative action for startups?) but to answer your question: yes, it's still a good idea and yes, it artificially takes away an inherent advantage (or: 'regulates').

In this scenario I think regulation would be unfair and wrong, but it would be still be a good idea considering the public benefit. Although, were this to be the reality then I suspect we wouldn't have an Internet at all.
Off topic, but keep it up! Great job on the 100 lb. That is definitely not easy.
>Obama didn't exactly win the 2008 primary by being the rich establishment candidate.

You may be confusing personal wealth with campaign wealth.

Obama raised nearly a quarter billion during the primaries and 3/4 billion overall in 2008. Sure, he used the Net to raise a significant amount, but the extent to which small donors fueled his fundraising was greatly exaggerated [0].

In any case, Obama was certainly rich as a candidate, and wildly so.

>Not only did she spend tens of millions, she lost to a guy who is still paying back his student loans.

Certainly, no one is saying that the candidate who raises the most money always wins. On average, however, money matters--big time, and has an outsized impact on our electoral process. This is why so many incumbents confess that they spend an inordinate amount of their time on fundraising.

>There's nothing stopping a candidate today from using the Net to spread their political message

Well, there's nothing stopping them from trying any moreso than a startup can try to market online without a budget. In practice, it is insanely difficult to be heard and/or gain momentum in the political world without a ton of cash to spend on exposure. And, rulings like Citizens United exacerbate that problem.

Yes, there will be outlier underdogs who miraculously scratch out a win from time to time. But, the Net is nowhere near the democratizing force it could be. It is trumped handily by plain ol' cash. And, it shouldn't take a miracle for an otherwise better-qualified candidate to win an election simply because of a financial disadvantage.

>as odious as the alleged FCC changes are, they won't really change that.

Apologies for the miscommunication. I am not saying that the FCC changes will prevent candidates from trying to use the Net. I was simply noting that both our political process and the FCC have been co-opted by entrenched interests.

[0] http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/study-obamas-s...
Haha. I just like the Calibri font. Maybe all browsers can use it now. Otherwise, the whole site is just very vanilla HTML typed into wordpad.
> More people watching TV means more people wanting different things.

If a social network user likes your page and your page only, he'll see 100%. As soon as another page enters the mix, your reach will drop correlated to that other page's posting frequency (local pizza shop - you'll likely still get user's eyeballs, New York Times or Reuters - your updates might get drowned in that other page's updates).

A year ago an average US user was following 70 pages http://allfacebook.com/how-many-pages-does-the-average-faceb... but the number was growing, no doubt inspired by ad campaigns on TV and in storefronts.
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I think the GP is talking about a trusting trust attack on OpenSSL: Change the compiler to compile OpenSSL differently, rather than change the source itself.
Does your broker allow fractional shares in your DRIP? I hold a couple shares of AAPL in a Vanguard brokerage account and haven't had any problems reinvesting dividends for fractional shares.
I think that was deliberate.
You probably also haven't seen a band brag about releasing their album as a Linux kernel module, but here we are.
I don't read technical books back to back which makes using a Kindle difficult. It's hard to jump sections or utilize the ToC/Index effectively on a Kindle.
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What free alternatives will crop up? They have the critical mass of userbase. There is no advantage for a user to go to a place that has freer promotional space, in fact, there may be a disincentive there.
The Soviets also considered manned fly-by missions to Mars and Venus.

http://donpmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/heavy-interplan...
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I've integrated with several domestic ACH APIs, and none of them are FTP based. Most are SOAP services.
Lol, Yup. It's funny he used the term "workhorse". I remember what happened to the workhorse in Animal Farm. A sucker is truly born every minute.
My gullibility alarm is ringing loud..

Slideshow:

* Nobody uses this!

* It's patented!

* It's just like HTML!

* I'm not going to tell you which bits are patented!

Can't tell if (literal) troll or comedy genius

Edit: so going by the age of the domain and you having actually filed the patent, I'm assuming it's not just some elaborate joke. And having only skimmed the patent text, I'm failing to see the innovating mechanism or idea you're claiming. The language itself sounds like HTML mail or any of the plethora proprietary markup languages from the 90s (e.g. MS Exchange).

Can you tell us why you think yours is different? This otherwise seems like a textbook case of ridiculous patent.
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It would be good if you explained this more on your site. I couldn't figure out what the device was for, nor whether it was required, etc. I'd suggest a home page that clearly explains what you do and how it works. It's also not clear what happens price-wise after the first year. Is there some fee to pay for the device or just the $49/yr for the storage? Etc.
For the record, that's not pure terminal (it opens up another window). This project works even in a bare vterm. I'd love to see this work over ssh.
I've always heard it's very.. 'mathy' for lack of a better word. It's always put me off of delving into it to be honest
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Depending on what you mean by architecture, there probably aren't many. Maybe reliability and decimal floating point. But IBM's Power server processors tend to be bigger and higher performance than Intel's; e.g. Power8 has four times the threads, four times the cache, and twice the memory bandwidth as Ivy Bridge-EP.