skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A SINA Box is nothing else then a kind of VPN Gateway. A SINA Box does NOT provide direct access to a user's mailstore or something else. The still have to get in contact with the ISP to set the interception up and running. There's is no "silent access" just because of having a SINA box.

Anyway: mailbox.org does NOT have a SINA box installed.

Peer
(founder of mailbox.org)
Because PythonJS is not an implementation of Python, it merely looks like Python. It's easy to make a significantly simpler language faster.
Thanks for the 'use warnings;' suggestion.

Keep in mind the subject here is maintainence - where small changes with minimal impact to production is the rule and the work is often done by programmers with incomplete knowledge and no patience for explanations. For maintenance you want KISS, not TMTOWTDI.

I'm no big fan of bash but at least bash gets the common case right here without any special settings. For example, if I use -eq instead of == and write

#!/bin/bash
x=`cat FOO 2>/dev/null`
if [ $x -eq 'bar' ]; then
echo baz
fi

as you imply, bash won't be silent. It will say

bash-3.2$ ./example.sh
./example.sh: line 3: [: bar: integer expression expected
Could this headline be any more wrong? Do we even have any word if Quartz Composer will be receiving continued support from Apple?

Shame designers completely ignored it for most of it's life
'Lovelocks' collapse Paris bridge rail
Facebook blockage in Thailand was ordered by government
The Milkmaid by Vermeer as a 3D model
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Keynesian economics... Friend to the working class and the end environment. Increase Y at all cost.
Spam is REJECTED and not deleted. In cause of a possible false positive the sender (!) will receive a non delivery report. Deleted e-mails is always forbidden.

Peer
(mailbox.org)
Windows, comparatively, is a much less usable

I wouldn't call it much less usable, depends on what you're used to I guess.. Actively using both, each for their own task, I find them on par with each other. But I don't expect Windows too give me a super easy to setup server with a mighty commandline, and I don't expect Linux to give me a super smooth Desktop UI that can be used as a digital audio/video workstation, for instance. Cause they both suck at those tasks equally as it's far from their target experience. And I also don't have the WTF feeling you have as I never had the problems you talk about: three minutes? Really? More issues than Pulseaudio? Almost sounds like you try to run Windows 7 on an old pentium with crap drivers :P
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> before somebody says "but that doesn't happen in X" ... yes, it does, even python lets you write code that looks superficially comprehensible but turns out to be so horribly illogical structurally that it's impossible to maintain

It does happen, but due to the design of Python / Ruby / Javascript, it's a lot harder to make happen especially when you use a framework.

As a former Perl dev, unless someone maintains god-like discipline over a Perl code-base; it's a lot easier to come up with unmaintainable spaghetti, that no one save for the original developer fully understands how it works, than it is in other competing languages.
14 Reasons You’re Tired All the Time
Your use of the fact that "almost all Linux software is readily available on 64 bit" (to imply that Windows developers are doing a bad job of porting software to 64bit) is misleading: there is far, far more software for Windows than there is for Linux. Of course it's not all ported to 64bit. Windows developers also seem to generally respect the notion of backwards compatibility, so I am prepared to cut them some slack.

I think you're being a little bit unfair. (My personal preferences are not flowing into this assessment: I am a Linux enthusiast and in the past two years have only ever used Windows to play video games.)
Kei cars are (were) cheap, economical, Eco friendly, favourably taxed and actually quite fun to drive. Now they are "too popular" and the government wants everyone to buy larger, less fuel efficient cars - I know someone personally who bought a larger car simply because of the new penalty taxes on Keis. Abe really has lost it.
> "The counterbalancing force here is the constant flow of new features added. This is the normal state for most successful software - we want it to do more things. So while we gain quality from the bugs fixed, we lose quality when adding all the new features"

The next sentences mention that.
I love dynamic languages with strong typing. You get most of the dev time developments, but without the inherent subtle bugs that creep in via automatic type coercion.
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That is not what perl and bash do. They distinguish between "comparing as strings" and "comparing as numbers". For example, the strings "03" and "3" are different, but as numbers, they are equal (and, I guess "010" is equal to "8", numerically. I didn't try, because I don't want to know)

For bash, read http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16109/bash-double-eq... (especially http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/120235) and weep.

For perl, see for example http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=276023
> Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest.

It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the really great Java-based software out there, especially Zookeeper and Kafka.

It's worth checking out how Zookeeper and Kafka did in aphyr's testing:

http://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper

http://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka
It seems as absurd to me as constructing a building without laying down foundations and having proper blueprints.
I'm scared noobs are going to blindly turn off passwords in their SSH configs without correctly setting up keys.
I'm running Windows 7 on a current top of the line box.

Speaking of that, when I swapped out my old motherboard for a new one, Windows refused to boot, giving me a bluescreen every time. I googled around and found that this was, in fact, a very common issue and the only solution is a full reinstall. Woah.

More issues than Pulseaudio, yes. In fact, I have zero issues with Pulseaudio and plenty of issues with Windows. Not like stuttering, but devices not being recognized and a terribly confusing UI when it comes to, for example, switching sound playback devices (getting sound to work on my TV has been an awful experience).

Every time I have to boot into it it's an awful, awful experience. Here is just ONE reason why: https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-...
Yep, Code Complete, Mythical Man-Month. They are so highly regarded, but nobody seems to follow them!
Heh - I was doing that! I tried building the HTML version under Ubuntu 12.04, failed, and I'm working on getting 14.04 up and running.

Edit: I hadn't seen the email text about Sphinx, so it was news that he'd been working on converting it. Sorry!
From what I've heard the fact that every single hospital insisted that it's requirements were special and that they could never standardize was one of the contributing factors in the great NHS systems disaster.

Of course, the other part was the the consultants doing the analysis were quite happy to work with this complexity as it meant more billable time for them - they had no incentives to make anything simpler.

NB I'm not implying that medics should be forced to standardize when it isn't relevant - getting the right level of standardization of processes is why implementing these kinds of systems is so difficult.
Why not? You can always create an entry in .ssh/config for the host with the port if needed.

Host example.com

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_example

User foobar

Hostname 127.0.0.1

Port 1234
Beware of this: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/8886/11172
To fully lock down SSH you have to check PAM config as well.

My 2 cents about defending against scripters:

* SSH: non-standard port, no passwords, special user-group who is allowed to login.

* WWW: redirect everything to https. For some reason bot-attacks dropped from hundreds to none over night. :D
Considering leaving the industry because of this. Which is a shame because I really do care about good software.
I've been writing perl for over ten years. I think I learned to stick "use strict; use warnings;" at the top of my scripts on day number 1. God only knows why so many other Perl programmers never learnt this.
Swift arrays are too swift for our own good
How M2M Network Connectivity Is Driving The Growth Of Industries
Ask HN: Is there any software like this (online marketing for business owners)?
I have been speaking to a few small business owners and I have come to the conclusion that advertising online is a big pain point for them. Most of them are not tech savvy enough to be able to run adwords or facebook ads - let alone be able to measure conversion rates or A/B test them. They also do not have the budget to employ a company (or a professional) to do the same. These are hands-on business owners who want to do this, but just don't know where to start.

Is there any software or service that solves this pain point?
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Τι είναι το WordPress και γιατί πρέπει να το χρησιμοποιήσετε;
I think one of the fascinating things with social proof is that it usually works even when we know we're being manipulated, or dislike the method. E.g. people that dislike laugh tracks still report shows on average as more funny with them than without them.
We ARE clear about that. It's explained on

https://mailbox.org/en/doodle-video-explains-fully-encrypted...

and our doodle film explains the benefit and risk.

Using the feature does not forbit to set up a "real" PGP end-to-end-encryption. Users should do that and our job is to help them -- step by step. And we're explaining that to them.

Our encrypted INBOX is useful in case an e-mail hasn't been sent encrypted, because there ARE many senders (like companies or unexperienced users) that do NOT encrypt their e-mail. That's how it is, so we have to deal with that. It's a kind of "add on".

Right today round about 10% of our inboxes are completly encrypted. That's great, but we'll still have to raise that level. An: > 10% of our users are familiar with encryption in their daily e-mail-usage. -And they will explain that to friends, business contacts and family. The usage and knowledge of encryption has to grow -- and having an encrypted INBOX is one (!) step to it.

Peer
(mailbox.org)
This kinda bugs me on the binary route. What binary representation is she referring to as being tried. Is it plain old binary with every symbol representing a 1 or a 0 or is it hexadecimal encoded binary or decimal encoded binary.

There's just so many ways to represent binary.

Would that remove any patterns you would normally find?

She is right there's just an infinite way to approach this problem. :)
I don't know what the breakdown is (what number of cores goers to OS,number of cores for the games), the the Xbox One has a rather low performance 8-core AMD unit; the cores are provisioned amongst the OS and games as needed.

Since the CPU is low performance, the OS could easily eat 50% of its total performance, leaving scant little for games.
Ask HN: Did you start a company whilst employed?
I'd like to learn about entrepreneurs who successfully started companies whilst employed.

- What type of company did you start?
- How did your employer take it when you left?
- Where is the company at now?
- And any helpful advice you could offer someone trying to do the same thing?
Ah, Reading University - the powerhouse of computer science...

Move on people, it's just a cheap PR stunt.
I want a good beginner's guide to C++, in particular the C++11 version.
Anything posted on the internet is no longer 'rare'.
Smart Hoodie Responds to Gestures, Sends Text Messages
Is this Python 3-ready? Looks pretty good from a very short peek, but don't have the time to actually read it for a while.
We're not native english speakers and we just got everything back from our translation office. We're still proofreading our website and the translations.

"marketing speech" is not our way of talking and if the translation office did a bad job there, we'll correct that. But there wasn't enough time to read and correct everything.

We just started last week with our englisch website, please give us some days.

Peer
(mailbox.org)
Just speculation, maybe this is a result of US pressure in the recent trade talks (trans-Pacific partnership?) It looks like Japan's domestic auto market is a key issue in TPP:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/12/us-trade-asiapacif...

(edit): Here's a whole article about US TPP pressure against kei cars:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/01/27/business/lower-t...

"When American automakers expressed their opposition against Japan
joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations due to its closed
market, the U.S. makers also pressed Tokyo to end special tax
treatment for the country’s unique “kei” super-minivehicle segment."

"The outside pressure to end the low taxation for one of Japan’s most
popular car segments has jolted the industry, which has protected the
smaller end of the domestic car market for half a century."

"Some industry observers point out that reviewing the tax rules for
the super-mini segment would hit Japanese automakers hard. But others
say a review would be a good thing because kei cars have received
favorable treatment for too long."

Reading those two articles, I think it's credible that US negotiators got a concession from Abe on kei taxes, and we're seeing the result of that. As I understand, this kind of deal would be made in secret (like many aspects of TPP), so we wouldn't be aware of it at this point.
Maybe the angle where each letter sits is important. Since the whole thing seems to cover half a circle/cylinder.
My first thought too. This must already be a variable in high frequency trading software for a number of years.
The main problem here is that an ordinary voter should be able to check the integrity of a voting system. With paper votes, (which we still have in the UK) an ordinary voter can do this - they can watch the ballot boxes being carried about, count people voting, and watch the votes being counted.
With electronic voting, an ordinary person has to take it on faith. The more clever technology you put in, the less it can solve this problem - the harder it is for an ordinary person to check that the vote is being counted correctly.

A better route is the development of voter-verification, such as Rivest's ThreeBallot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot

He didn't include any crypto, even though he's one of the world's most famous crypto experts, precisely because that would make it opaque to anyone who isn't a cryptographer.
Yes, we HAD access to the plaintext e-mail. And we explain that and warn about that.

But after encrypting the e-mail, nobody will have access to that e-mail any more: Even hackers, phishers or the government. Many people are storing their e-mails for years in their INBOX. Great to protect those e-mails over the time.

But, anyway: The best way is always to use real end-to-end-encryption. In that case, you don't have to trust us any more. We're happy to help to set this up.
Absolutely. It's almost as if some people think that children aren't really learning anything if they're enjoying it, in the same way that if you enjoy what you do and make a living off it then it's not "real work".
I think it was Michael Lewis' "Liars Poker": "Those that tell don't know and those that know don't tell."
I tend to believe the government's version, just because all big Japanese automakers have strong kei sales. Extra tax won't help them. It may help the government collect a bit extra but that's that.

What I didn't quite get from the article is how do taxes compare. Looks like they simply got a more similar treatment to standard cars.

These cars would be much cheaper to maintain even with the same tax regime as regular cars. IMO all sales tax should be regular tax, and road tax/car taxes should just go away. They tax fuel enough to cover for all that and it makes sense to tax on usage.
>An Apple store is not laid out like that. I always see the big ticket items upfront and the accessories in the back. Most people don't impulse buy things that expensive.

You just walked past the shiny new things twice while you were there buying a cheap accessory. Maybe you noticed something you'll buy in the near future.

Meanwhile, the big ticket items are window dressing, and people who haven't bought an iDevice don't need accessories for one yet.
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Very similar to my own reasons for voting "Yes" - my other being getting rid of Trident.
It'd be interesting to know the figures for the PS4 - whether the OS has a significant footprint or not when games are running. Is there any source for the PS4 available anywhere?
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So when will GNU/Linux work properly with hibernation on Laptops?

What about energy friendly scheduling and hardware resource management with application level APIs like Mac OS X and Windows do?
This is a bitcoin-based system. The integrity of the keychain can be in danger only if a 51% attack takes place (creates a larger keychain). That's highly unlikely IMHO in a national election system, where any geek could setup a node not to mention political parties, organizations, etc.

There is a public ledger. The votes are easily verifiable by anyone, on the fly, all you have to do is a client with a nice GUI for the user. The user doesn't care about the crypto, all he wants to know is that his vote counted and that 40 years later, it's verifiable and private.

Bitcoin can do all those things. Actually it solved the most important problems related to e-voting IMHO.

ps. The only not-solved problem is selling votes. With this sort of scheme the buyer could request a proof of vote (e.g. a picture, or something more sophisticated like your user/pass). But this is already happening in Greece and I guess elsewhere too. I'm not sure though if an e-voting scheme would allow this to take a much larger scale. Technology can overcome the lack of social/political education, unfortunately.
I recommend you learn from the masters, hear "The Now habit" audiobook, very good for geeks because it teaches you how and why of procastination, not only what to do.

blocking websites or installing games do not work if you don't know what procrastination is. In an empty room with nothing to do you could spend time looking at the wall.

I will also recommend "the power of full engagement", and also a basic understanding of habits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYFooE6J1iU

Over time(years) you will master this.
A quick history of the electic guitar.
This is stupid Japanese auto makers were fairing way better in this economic crises than American ones.

Why would you like your car companies to be like GM or Ford and fail at the first sign of bad economic times.

Everyone is trying to make cars more eco friendly the Japanese seem to be ahead in that regard and now their going to opposite way.
How is NaCl going to fare in the 64-bit version, given that segmentation isn't available in x64 mode?
One of those is highly regarded.
To reduce noise in the logs so that I can focus on the more determined attackers rather than script kiddies just hitting the default ports on every IP.

It does nothing for security, but does help to reduce noise which in turn helps to reduce the time it takes to manage this stuff.
Buying art doesn't destroy wealth, it just moves it to someone else. There are situations where wealth is destroyed, but this isn't one of them.
Web application development is different (and better)
A Year of Functional Programming
crash rates for the the renderer process (i.e. web content process) are almost half that of 32-bit Chrome

I wonder how many of those crashes are due to running out of memory, because it otherwise seems quite odd that the 32-bit version would "crash more", unless they (accidentally?) fixed some bugs in the porting process.

Realistically, this means a browser that can use more than ~3GB of RAM, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.
From the preface:

Since this book is meant to provide practical advice, I think it makes sense to write with the assumption of Python 2. Specifically, I’ll be writing the book with Python 2.7 in mind. Future updates may very well change this to evolve with the Flask community, but for now 2.7 is where we stand.
You know - Marc Andreessen was tweeting about this today - and he held the same view as you. But, every book I've read on Turing, and every article I've read on the Turing tests suggests that the entire idea behind the turing test was to not get caught up on concepts such as "thinking" or "intelligence" - but to just posit a test to see if a machine could imitate thinking behavior. This then, provides a nice unambiguous target for research and development, without worrying about being caught up in the semantics of the conversation.
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No they don't. That's the nursing unions and the press talking. It's total bollocks.

The decision makers and the senior staff have considerably smaller shifts. With respect to the surgical and anaesthesiologist staffing, most of them (80%+) are contracted out and are private staff working on contract to the NHS now. A surgeon for example will probably spend two days a week on NHS cases, one day being surgical and the other being consultant and that's all you see of them. The remainder of the time is lucrative private care and occasionally teaching (which is well paid as well).

There are a few exceptions to this i.e. StR's and consultants who seem to migrate into a speciality then leave after a few years. They all take the extra shifts because they're paid for the privilege of up to a 50% bonus. They're overworked because they're chasing the cash.

The REAL overworked staff are mainly the support staff i.e nursing, supply, logistics. Most of them are contracted out now as well in the larger PCTs.

Even with all that, no one should be allowed to cover their arses as it turns into a vicious circle of unaccountability. It's a poor excuse which must not be allowed to continue in the profession (or ANY profession to be honest).
I read through you new figure of speech, and I don't see why you class it as a figure of speech. Wikipedia defines a figure of speech as "A figure of speech is the use of a word or a phrase, which transcends its literal interpretation. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, or synecdoche." From what I read in your explanation of your idea, you've just creates a phrase with a literal meaning. Would you care to explain further why you regard it as a figure of speech?
Not related to the article, but I really like time.com’s new-ish (http://time.com/13113/time-coms-redesign/) design. They have finally understood that people do not want to click through to the next page. I found myself scrolling down to read other articles, which was as painless as reading through a paper magazine.
Nope, I do not - because I'm not a scientist, I don't participate in large scale assessments of these products, and I'm not trained in the field. You are correct: My argument (as clearly stated) is based on lack of trust.

Which begs the question: Are you a GMO scientist, or are you going on trust too?
UK responds to 'Trojan Horse plot'