skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Java is at least as transparent as Scala in that respect: every single feature that was shipped as part of Java 8 has been discussed and decided openly on mailing-lists.

You are either completely deluded or never actually read the mailing list.

But hey, whatever floats your boat. I enjoy watching your desperateness. Really, if you keep posting your talking points in every remotely Scala-related topic, Scala will go away for sure. Really, I promise.
CSUN Says Hazing Was a Factor in Student's Death
This is obviously not a sufficient defense on its own, but my first reaction was that the HTTPD should have been bound to 127.0.0.1 and proxied to Tor; that way, it didn't know its IP and couldn't be accessed over the clearnet (although evidently this was a "feature".)

What do you folks think?
For concurrency-testing-alone it might be not. If it works good at it, then it's a good indication that the concurrency model implemented in the language is not flawed and if there is a problem, then it might be somewhere else in the language.

So that benchmark it's still valuable information in the sense that tells you that that particular language running on that particular runtime its not intrinsically bad at concurrency.

In this particular case (JRuby) moreover, the language gets its concurrency layer thanks to Java, so I'd go really easy with that, unless you really want to say that Java is bad at concurrency or that this is not known and thus a "Hello World" example would not show it.

Which are both wrongly proven statements.

Nonetheless I must admit though that some of those combinations of runtime/server/frameworks are admittedly unstable to replicate or to work with in a real scenario.
> It's one of those minor QOL improvements where I don't see what the downside is.

That's a nice example why 99.9% of developers out there should never design a language.
I would not call the random strings showing up in the general chan spam. I highly doubt it is profitable for whoever sent it. Industrial scale spam seems unlikely on Bitmessage.
It'll get figured out.
There's no mention of external in that definition though and internal verbalization is also often considered as a form of expression...

If you shout in the forest and nobody hears you; are you not still expressing your self?
MetroCards are so cheaply made and thin that you'd be lucky if you can actually use one on a daily basis for a year without it becoming mangled or unreadable. The MTA probably enforces a one-year expiration to avoid the expense of having to deal with massive numbers of complaints about unusable cards.

Because of the unreliability of MetroCards and MetroCard readers, the MTA is planning to phase them out in a few years and replace their card readers with equipment that can directly read contactless (RFID) credit cards.
I think that given the revelations of parallel reconstruction in general, the burden should be on the prosecution to prove that the NSA et al. were not involved. An illegal search/seizure could very well have been what gave the FBI the idea to find the IP address in this way.

Given that the NSA is able to collect most internet traffic, and they've been sharing info with other agencies, I would think that most evidence against any defendant could be thrown out. Yes, that would be ludicrous, and that's exactly why the NSA needs to be reformed.
Thanks for the feedback, we are looking into it.
Nice, but the author could join efforts with one of the few attempts to have a native Clojure compiler instead.

Another remark, is that it would have been nicer to have the language being made in itself instead of OCaml.

Other than that, very nice work.
Typesafe hasn't lost my confidence. Typesafe has been responsible for important progress which is already being taken for granted. People either have forgotten how low assurance was in the 2.8 days, or they weren't using scala yet.

The problem is on the other side of the Atlantic. Scala is unfixable now no matter the abilities of the people working on it because of the bad decisions which have been made to this point and the unwillingness to revisit them even when the failings were grossly apparent.

Organizations modeled on dictatorships can work fine but they're painfully vulnerable to the dictator's blind spots. As the years go by, the dictator becomes accustomed to being able to settle any question by fiat. He becomes less and less concerned with evaluating the true worth of his own ideas. As long as his power is unquestioned and there is a steady supply of people to do the work, why should he? He's the Decider. He decides.

As I told him at some point "That well does run dry eventually" and indeed it did, for me at least.
I also vote for both.
The post title (I think) was along the lines of
"Email will never die"

However using the search reveals no recent results..
Cheap Drinking Water from the Sun, Aided by a Pop of Pencil Shavings
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Stinky T-Shirt? Bacteria Love Polyester in a Special Way
> I would actually say that he is making it worse, in some respects. Many, actually.

Oh, for sure. The key though is that the value of "it" which I am making worse is not a value of "it" which I have any interest in making better. Nor would I ever suggest otherwise.

In your mind I may be nothing but an input into your total utility function, but there's no reason for you to expect me to care about maximizing it.
Agreed. When I'm in NYC I calculate this as if I want to get to a zero balance like the OP did.
I saw once a guy carrying one that would fold into three parts.

So they are around, just hard to find.
>so why wouldn't they have taken the legal precaution.
That seems to be the golden question here.
Unless he had to solve boring problems.
Why do they do the IPO in the US with a highly regulated financial industry?
Analysis of Chinese MITM on Google
Come on. Scala is a big tent language that attracts people from a wide variety of ideals, which invites some amount of arguing. Also, Martin tends to hire independent thinkers, which is good and bad.
Somehow I doubt that these guys have the drive and sticktuitiveness to go after the OP in court. Seems that they're either too shy or too lazy to even talk to potential customers, much less fight you in court for another idea that they wouldn't follow through on anyway.

OP should probably take sensible precautions like saving all his e-mails (off of company machines!) and staying on friendly terms with other employees who might one day be called as witnesses. But I wouldn't recommend "ragequitting", just go politely.
The “gate” suffix
The problem with articles like this is that there is absolutely no call to authority. If I posted some long rant abasing something brilliant, you should have absolutely no reason to believe me should I not provide you with a reason.

What if you, as the author are just a freshman in College, what reason should I have to actually listen to what you have to say?

I used to think that credentials were useless, and still agree that you should never agree with someone because of their creds (proof by intimidation), but lets face it, it should get you in the door. If you've never done anything worth while, I'm not going to waste my time reading/listening/entertaining your rants.
I went straight to the fridge and found I hurt my hand before I cracked the egg. I was as surprised as you are.
> If you shout in the forest and nobody hears you; are you not still expressing your self?

No, because this fails the definition of "expressing yourself". An expression is defined as --

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expression

-- "the act of making your thoughts, feelings, etc., known by speech, writing, or some other method"

Notice the word "known" in the middle of this definition. Known by whom? The person expressing the ideas already knows them. Therefore by definition one is making oneself known to a second party, someone other than the speaker.

> ... and internal verbalization is also often considered as a form of expression ...

Not as the word is defined and commonly understood.
Same here. I was surprised to find HN talking about WSHH....
Thank you for your suggestion. We are going to implement the wget option the next week.
How does it compare to iRedMail?

http://www.iredmail.org

Does it support multiple domains?
The hard thing with parallel constructed evidence is to prove that this is how it is done.

I doubt whether a judge will throw out evidence unless you can prove that it is a parallel construction, and that this was illegal.
a central authority for email reputation is one of the ideas put out by Mike during his presentation at RIPE, not that his ideas are Googles'.

https://ripe64.ripe.net/archives/video/25/
The Scala community isn't toxic.

There's been drama and each time the community has moved on. Paul, Tony Morris and probably others from before I started paying any attention. Even with this recent "drama", after thinking about it for a few days, I've come to welcome it if anything. Regular Scala can shift its focus to becoming a conservative language while Typelevel acts as the incubator. If the two meet their compatibility goals, everyone wins.

I'd also argue that "constantly making waves" is an overstatement. Scala just celebrated its tenth birthday. How much drama has there really been in this community over ten years? For the most part, I've found it to be very supportive. My interactions are almost entirely just on the mailing lists but I've seen few issues. Maybe I'm just blind to them, who knows.

I recognize that tensions within the community are high but I don't currently believe that they present an insurmountable challenge to Scala's future.
Remember that 99.9% of dynamic websites are not Amazon or Ebay. Not every site needs to be "optimized" for massive amounts of traffic and massive server clusters. For most purposes, PHP is good enough, and Ruby or Python frameworks are fun to work with. We are fortunate to be blessed with an abundance of choices when it comes to tools.
Unique new way of teaching children about their oral health
It's reassuring to see that the various groups working on Scala seem to have the same broad goal in mind. I also think it is important to not let the language ossify due to legacy -- which is the problem that kills many languages.
You need to try all four :-) More seriously: NLUlite is supposed to work "out of the box", without any need of additional training datasets for the parser (often these datasets can be quite expensive).
Mahout is a different type of machine learning, as it does not look into the grammar of sentences.
To add to the fray: https://yunohost.org/ is an option too for easy install and setup of a mail server - there was a recent HN item on them a while back. Been using it for a month or two and it's worked great so far. Needs Debian. Supports multiple domains.
Great look into the harsh reality (and yet awesome optimism) of indie devs on the App Store. I've been fairly successful doing staying independent for over three years but I'm still constantly amazed at how hard it is sometimes. I love seeing others take a shot, and when they have success it's a great thing.

Best of luck to you with SongSheet.
This.

You are absolutely right.

The usual Scala-hate-brigade will jump on this "smoking gun" and will build a few new talking points on top of it how Scala will fail definitely this time for sure ... but outside their bubble nobody cares and just moves on shipping software in Scala.
For the record, martin has never hired me for anything. I co-founded a company with him.
Moore's Lag Shifts Paradigm of Semi Industry
Internet of Things Primer by Goldman Sachs [pdf]
Exactly as hnriot said: the saved Wisdoms are in plain xml, where the sentences are represented in DRT (http://bit.ly/1AhuVas)
> The problem with articles like this is that there is absolutely no call to authority.

But authority doesn't count in the realm of ideas -- the ideas must stand on their own.

> If I posted some long rant abasing something brilliant, you should have absolutely no reason to believe me should I not provide you with a reason.

Wait -- which is it? Authority, or reason? Those aren't the same thing.

> What if you, as the author are just a freshman in College, what reason should I have to actually listen to what you have to say?

That depends. Does he defend his ideas with reason, or authority?

> I used to think that credentials were useless, and still agree that you should never agree with someone because of their creds (proof by intimidation), but lets face it, it should get you in the door.

Not in science, not in the age of reason. Einstein wasn't published in 1905 because of his authority -- he had none. His ideas spoke for themselves.

In science, authority is explicitly rejected -- it's even recognized as a logical error:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman
It started under Mark Taylor
I've been considering a similar project for a while using a ZI ZM film body and a Sony RX1 sensor package. Great article!
A search warrant isn't a license for law enforcement to break the law; it's a license to lawfully conduct a search and seizure based on probable cause of the commission of a crime. Warrants exist because of the Fourth Amendment, which /specifically/ deals with searches and seizures; warrants have nothing to do with a nonexistent general rule preventing law enforcement from breaking any law. Law enforcement can and does break the law all the time to conduct sting operations regarding drugs, prostitution, child porn, hitmen, etc.

For instance, the DEA can buy drugs in order to trace and later apprehend drug suppliers. They don't need a warrant to do this (though information gained from such a sting operation may later lead to a judge issuing a search warrant).
No problem. thanks for sharing your story.
Just checked out the [system architecture diagram][1]... We really need to fix email. A modern system would never get away with proposing such a design.

[1]: https://mailinabox.email/static/architecture.svg
Incidentally, while easy to point a finger at Microsoft, note that Google itself shipped a crypto-nightmare of an operating system with Android for years. Pre-Android 2.3 phones remain a significant problem, especially in the developing world, and the upgrade path there isn't clear.
Because asterisks are meant to hide the fine print, not make it easily accessible?
Just curious, what's the "half-decent VPS" you're thinking of for ~$3/month?
Landscape of Open Source Tools for Data Science
I couldn't get more than a quarter of the way through. Is it all gushingly sycophantic?
Facebook's “QuickStarts” for developers
I know nothing about type safe, which is way after my time.
I hate to call someone out like this, but to be perfectly honest I don't think your tone helps matters much.

Stop attacking the people who don't like Scala (real or imaginary). Disagree, fine, but this rampant fanboyism is odd. Yes, the language has a few critics on HN whose critiques are mostly FUD. Argue against the FUD but when you attack them you only cheapen your own position.

I'm just trying to say that there's a way to be effective about this.

(I realize I'm attacking a person about attacking a person, I get it)
I would guess that most buyers of certs are not technically sophisticated enough to know that they should have been looking for a cert with a specific encryption algo, especially if they bought a very long-lived cert x years ago. That said, I'm guessing that most reasonable cert providers will allow reissues.

What would be the technical challenges facing offering free wildcard certs? Is it just engineering time, or is there something more fundamental? That seems like it would do much more for web security than pushing for higher minimum encryption standards on certs would...
I just sold my older Moto G. Unfortunately I have to connect to Exchange and Android doesn't cut it at all in any way, shape or form for that task. Also it was buggy as hell. This could be an artifact of being Android though.

So I bought a Winphone (Lumia 630). Actually quite pleased with the purchase. Everything just works and it's pretty fast.

Few things that bugged me about the Moto G:

1. Battery life. Some days it was good, some days it was abysmal. I can't work out why. Google Play Services ate a lot of it though apparently.

2. Navigation under Google Maps craps out regularly and crashes, usually right at a road junction. Also it's useless to start a navigation session if you're on a G/E connection. You need an H/H+ for it to even consider working. That's bad as I drive out into the sticks regularly.

3. Chrome just refuses to load pages half the time and white screens.

4. Sometimes calls don't connect with audio.

Nice phone but marred by bugs IMHO.
The (Alleged) Uber-ification of Legal Services
Apple, Google Appeal Rejection of $325M Hiring Settlement
Raspberry Pi Projects – Host Your Own Website Using Raspberry Pi
ocaml is really good for writing compilers in, so why not use it?
Having this on the balance sheet as cash could make them an easier take-over target. Only a handful of technology companies have the means and justification for acquiring Yahoo! but with cash on the balance sheet it would be much easier for a smaller company to raise finance (i.e. get a loan which would be paid back very quickly, by releasing the cash back to the financier, opposed what was the case of waiting and waiting for Alibaba to get listed).

How fast Yahoo! can see the cash is another matter, as there's some history of bad blood between Alibaba and Yahoo!
We started off with a few servers in the Netherlands and just hosted the Mini NAT only range which took off really well. We've now bought a server in France to start a dedicated IPv4 range. We plan to expand this range into more countries and more places as it grows. Obviously then we will need a few more techs to manage the servers and it would become less bootstrapped.
I wonder if this would be an interesting application for Homomorphic Encryption. True FHE is still wildly inefficient, but there are some interesting applications like CryptDB where sort-of-Homomorphic-Encryption is feasible for certain restricted operations (keyword search being one).

In a system like that, maybe you could send your encrypted message along with some encrypted keywords that you consider to be spammy to some centralised service. That would, at least, avoid some of the client-side-filtering-is-too-hard problem.

As far as reputation, this might be one of the rare times where a Web of Trust seems like a good idea. Generating lots of false positives and negatives would be a lot less powerful if the value of those reports was filtered by how much you trust the account that made them. With email you already have an implicit source of trust, in that anyone you mutually email with is unlikely to be a spammer.

Seems like a really interesting problem space to be involved in.
That's correct. Most of these guys are getting cauought because they didn't believe that will have to eventually face an enemy with so many resources (FBI/NSA).

I believe that avoiding detection online can be done if you are very strict about your policies.

I don't believe DRP had the knowledge to understand and the how's and why's of a setup you're describe unlike skilled engineers[1] who design multi-layered approaches.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-04-09-tarsnap-no-heartb...
Thanks. I guess I sound more serious than I actually am.

I find it kind of funny that we have like usually one username which gifts us with his presence in every Scala-related topic for usually ~6 months and then disappears.

Either it's the same guy who just changes accounts like here: http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/1sdmdq/sockpuppet_acc... http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/25kwb1/cedric_beust_c... or it's a series of people all completely unaware that dozens of earlier crusades failed.

Both options are amusing. :-)
Yes, wear your opponents out, Thunderbolt.

It only takes getting up one more time than they knock you down.
Because business taxes are a drag on the economy, and universally acknowledged to be a bad thing by economists.
Hi, Can you post the error?
What right does the government of Nevada has to gamble with taxpayers' money? There are enough casinos in the state such that people can gamble their own money quite easily if they choose to do so. They don't need their own government putting it on red on their behalf.
How does this compare to Kolab.org? For quite some time I want to migrate my emails to my own server and the first contender on my list was Kolab.
So if you're driving along that narrow mountain road at 55mph, what happens when around the next curve there is a cyclist?
XKCD: Pixels
OSCON 2014 – How Instagram.com works [video]
Wow. I know complaining about downvotes is stupid, but still.

How could I possibly deserve a downvote for that? Does that mean that you disagree with my self classification? That you don't think I have average sized hands? That you don't like that someone has a different opinion to you?

That you accidentally pressed the downvote? I'm assuming it is that.
I am somewhat skeptical of that number, but users seem to have good things to say about it: http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=423941&...

(Now you know where the farmer message board is...)
Yeah, that's not being a slave. In fact, the argument can be made that by insisting on driving to avoid any real - or perceived - inconvenience, you're making everyone else's journey that little bit less slick (I.e. Asserting your "freedom" impinges negatively on everyone else's ability to effectively do the same).

Also,cars are an important part of most economies, but less so in bigger cities - and it points to the fact that a)they weren't always so and b) might not always need to be, maybe there's a better way, which is what some posters are suggesting. If you Remove the necessity of a car for some people, and make alternatives better, then there are probably a lot of benefits (pollution, construction costs, congestion, safety) to it. But no one (or very few, I guess, since this is HN and lots of opinions) is suggesting arbitrarily and unilaterally getting rid of cars.
i use this app back from the raven days.. makes my life so easier. they seem bunch of cool guys with good sense of humor!
Isn't that what the NSA does?
You have pretty cheap VPS's by OVH (http://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-classic.xml) and if you ever outgrow their offer you can move to SoYouStart (http://www.soyoustart.com/ie/essential-servers/) which is also a brand by OVH.
Scientists can use their ears instead of their eyes to process data more rapidly
Even if bicycles didn't exist I'd feel the same way. Why not walk? We can build trains for short and long distances. Cars are only necessary because we've made it so.
I've watched a perfectly healthy young man of 15 get a diagnosis of depression from a doctor and was given a prescription of Prozac. We tore up the script and told him it was exam stress and he was fine. Still is 8 years later and kicking ass.

Life is tough and many people, possibly most, want to be told that it's not really tough, it's just that you're special which makes it harder for you and this pill and less work/hardship will solve your problem.

It's why the USA is filled with people addicted to and completely anesthetized by various prescription drugs.

Sure, real depression actually exists. But it's rare and I suspect the over-diagnosis we're seeing is more damaging by removing people from active and productive lives than lack of diagnosis.

When last did you hear a doctor tell someone to get regular sleep, eat well, get some exercise and face up the the challenges they're presented?
Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping