skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [You're] implying I think "art criticism as a whole must be invalid". Curious that... I really despise people putting words in my mouth that were never there.

Weird, I wonder where I got that notion from?

> so there has to be some numeric metric one could use to separate the very best from the "just good". What is it? (Perhaps it's not an easily calculable number, but it still must exist; if it didn't, then the whole field of art and literature criticism would be nonsense.)

That's where I got confused. I thought you were being sarcastic when you said that that art can be converted to a number.

I think it's possible (or very likely) that no such metric exists, and that if it did, it would be of little value. For instance, do you rank art based on aesthetic value, or the visceral effect it has had on viewers (mean or max?), or societal impact? Perhaps all the factors, but how do you weight them? Is there an objective measure of aesthetic value? It's more likely that different individuals/groups/cultures have different aesthetic tastes that vary over time, so perhaps you average over these variables? By averaging over these variables, will the "best art" be the perfectly pleasant art you might find hanging in a hotel lobby? Or will it be bolder art that a subset of people will revile? Who gets to decide?

There's always a chance that art can be converted into a meaningful and objective number. But if this metric does not exist, then by your logic, "art and literature criticism would be nonsense."

In my personal opinion, art is by its nature subjective. Aesthetic value is rather arbitrary. Art criticism is probably mostly a sham. But without them, how would rich people know which paintings to buy? Most people like being told what to like, what to wear, and when to laugh, and so they provide a useful service.
And also I think eudoxia's request in the README on Github was pretty clear about posting to HN. Haha.
Of all possible changes, a larger screen is the one I wanted the least. Same SoC ... Is it a business error to keep producing the same model, sold at a lower price since parts cost less now ? An "old" Moto G + SD slot at 149$ would be awesome to me.
Or, rephrasing it a little "we put much more energy and resources into what is not working well and can be improved or could be dangerous then into what is already good", which sounds a lot less surprising.
I don't think anyone here is even remotely doubting that this is anything BUT parallel construction.
By the way, the commercial version's parser scales almost linearly with the number of (independent) threads. The Wisdom.ask() method is also faster with the multithreaded version.
But in the end that wealth is based on people's belief that 500m users can be turned into a profit.
The definition now requires defining what it means to be a "bigger fool."

Many investments do not earn dividends, including ones that are widely considered to not be Ponzi schemes.
1. tourists everywhere
2. tourists staring up at buildings (big no no)
3. NYPD has better things to do than go after speeders. everybody is flying
4. culture of impatience...people are in too much of a hurry to cross safely
Mh, okay.

But let's make the crazy assumptions that we are effectively in a world where end-to-end crypto is massively used, virtually by everyone.

I guess it would be stupid to assume that the message are encrypted but not signed.

This means that it would be easy to have a list of identities (i.e., keys) which are sending spams, for instance using a web of trust, without users having to disclose any other informations that "I trust these identities, not these ones" (which could be as easy to do as clicking "spam" or "not spam" for the users).

Now that means that the spammers not only have to encrypt every single email for every single recipient but also to generate new key-pairs for almost each encryption.

Of course it is also very easy to mark as spam any email signed with a key that is considered too small (i.e., too quick to generate).

Now if you tell be that still won't do it without a "centralized spam system with global knowledge", I have to seriously rethink a lot of my assumptions about the cost of some computations.
Rules of Clickbait Headlines: never use one specific word where four vague ones, with at least one indicator each of antiquity, exulted discipline, and grandiosity.
Of course using end-to-end crypto does not only mean "encryption", see my other response.
Could you expand on this? I want to use Sentinel in an upcoming project and would be glad to hear what downsides I'll face
I think the newer versios of the Sage Notebook use Flask, or at least there was some effort to move over to Flask sometime back. Perhaps also the Sage Math Cloud is using it.

However the complexity/size of Sage has little to do with Flask.
NAT is an interesting solution and we offer 20 ports which helps people still host websites, apps and services on our servers without needing a dedicated IPv4 address (reverse proxy).

We have IPv6 support, you just need to submit a ticket after ordering and we add 20 native IPv6 addresses!

We have a rate limited SMTP port and if people go over this we will give 1 warning, ask for the reason and if it's valid then we will either just let it continue or lift the limit. Repeated offences will have services terminated immediately. Same goes for copyright offences. The resources are fairly small (HDD/SSD, BW) so it is not too hard to detect.

You may be interested (since you appear to offer DNS Hosting) that many of these Mini plans are used as DNS slaves because of their cheap price. An interesting use I've found.
I submitted this without the ?hn at approximately the same time. Pretty weird that this one gained traction while my submission did not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275787
Whatever you can find at the time on http://lowendbox.com/ http://lowendstock.com/ http://www.lowendtalk.com/ or lowendwhatever from a provider that wasn't started yesterday and has decent reviews.

A couple of weeks ago there was a dedicated server offer from online.net floating around for €1.99/mo http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/33122/1-99-%C2%A0dedicated-...
Hey wait, I did vaguely recognize your username from somewhere. Thanks for SpamAssassin! I spent more hours spelunking through your guys' source code and community rulesets than you'd want to know, about a decade ago, while working for the anti-spam group in our R&D department at a tech incubator.
I have not the knowledge to make an opinion on this topic but that last line is a really cool statement, what a way to put it :D
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I know a lot of "software" solutions are being discussed in this thread for greater anonymity, but I would personally simply opt for a more secure physical solution. Such as hosting the server somewhere that doesn't require you to give away any of your information.

I know this may sound silly, but there's tons of USB stick sized linux machines that you can plug virtually anywhere. I'm thinking of public spaces such as public wifis. The ToR address can be relayed to other locations if it ever gets breached. And ToR hidden services work great even if you're behind a firewall.

This seems a lot more sensitive than opting for a system where your name is somehow attached to a server.
It's fine. It's a loosely coupled system that uses quite a few components. It's also a complicated problem to solve.

This is trivial compared to our product for example which is an integration hub for financial services companies. There are over 300 of those little boxes.

Going back to the original point though, compare to Exchange 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5764
Whatever the list lacks, it is a very long list, let's admire its amazingly broad and deeply substantial veins for us to mine and keep on learning about for a long time. For those of us who have not yet reached the glory heights climbing the learning curve appreciate the vast richness of the resources while stumbling among them to find the best way to gain traction.

Here's a strategy, I'll organize a visit to our local technical bookstore, see what new and used gems await me like a treasure hunt to secure such dead tree scrolls.
You will probably need to go a little lower on the price than BuyVM to squeeze SpamAssasin in.
WHAT?? They still haven't fixed this? Unbelievable.
Do you happen to know, from a community perspective, which native Clojure compiler project is farthest along, or the most usable?
What I meant by "a project like this" was a concrete, functional alternative to existing status-quo systems, with SWIFT as the implied primary target for forced deprecation.

I think banking is an artificial industry, one that doesn't really have to exist. I believe that money that is state issued, electronically issued, trust that can be quantified, reputation and physical goods are all equally valid assets for forward-looking exchange protocols. I believe that any distinction between participants is farcical and that risk management models, encryption preferences, topology specification and other qualitative decisions regarding deployment must be left out of scope.

To clarify my original comment further, I do think that BankAPI, just at a glance, is probably focusing too much on the conventional world of banking rather than looking at the big picture ... which has nothing to do with banks and everything to do with a potential revolution in the way we organize society, removing anachronistic middle men and vested interests who consistently fail to demonstrate any meaningful reason for being while extracting vast quantities of wealth from society at large and encouraging the continuation of a socio-political and economic trajectory that will see our environment destroyed within a generation.
Some questions that come to my mind immediately:

- Does it share my whole Dropbox with the world? (It doesn't, but I only know this from reading this thread) If not, which parts of the Dropbox are shared?

- What kinds of files are published? What MIME types are supported? Can I somehow override MIME types?

- How are the files published? Do I get auto-generated URLs on the CDN's server? Do I have to update my DNS records? Some other way?

- Are the files cached somewhere? (Other than the CDN) Can I delete them quickly?

- How do I remove my account? Is all my data deleted as soon as I remove the Dropbox connection?

- And of course the pricing questions: Is it free, will it stay free? Are there usage restrictions? (Bandwidth, traffic, etc)

The idea of this service seems really cool, as well as the one-click signup. But I agree with the others that more information before signup is necessary. I think a tutorial or a FAQ page would be really useful.

(I don't have any experience with Cloudfront, so apologies if some questions are obvious if you know their service)
Besides lacking resources on social engineering, looks very good!
Some numbers:

- Public key encryption: 2048bit RSA can achieve up to about 200k encryptions per second on a high end cpu [1]. ElGamal-like encryption schemes using elliptic curve cryptography can get to about 100k encryptions [2].

- Public key signatures: RSA is hopelessly slow for good keys. There is no reason to use strong keys for this case, though. If you reuse primes you can use a 1000 primes to generate a million RSA modules (you need two primes per public key), effectively eliminating the costly prime search. Using elliptic key cryptography the key generation step is dirt cheap: With ed25519 you get 200k key generations per second [3]

[1] http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-encrypt.html
[2] http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-dh.html
[3] http://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sign.html

Formula used for each of the above numbers: 3500x10^6/[median for Intel Xeon E3]x4
Curly: a tiny VirusTotal-enabled console file downloader for Windows
Incredably impressive.
This is not the same question.

The question is, inside the tails itself, should apps like the browser and your mail and chat programs be isolated from each other i.e. placed in "jails", "containers", "zones" or whatever?

Security in depth.
Here is a thought, Imagine if a Concorde got hijacked? An F16's top speed is approx 1320 mph and the Concorde's is 1350 mph per wikipedia. I feel like there might have been some government pressure to take this plane out of service with all the fear mongering post 9/11
The engineering dept at UCDavis went well beyond a single page, and usually allowed anything you wanted as long as it was print-only, book included. (nothing electronic or networked, obviously)

The idea was 1) in the real world, you have reference material which you should know how to use, and 2) test length did NOT include any extra time to look things up.

If you knew the material and just needed a quick check of some detail, you could look it up without any problem because you didn't have to search. On the other hand, if you were trying to teach yourself some concept during the test, the wasted time would probably impact how much of the test you were able to complete.

I liked that system - it seemed rather generous coming from "nothing allowed" tests in earlier schooling, and it had a side benefit of reducing the number of profs that badly reused exam questions or lazily used textbook-provided questions.

/* Yes, this policy caused some of us to find the one printer on campus that printed on A3 paper with duplex support, so we could print an electronic-only reference book at 24 pages/sheet (if I remember correctly...) */
Yeah, and their Debian kernel images are, by now, years out of date.
This approach reminds me of a course I took on Coursera a while ago called "A Brief History of Humankind": https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind

It is the best enrichment course I had ever taken. I wonder if the lecturer (Yuval Harrari) was influenced by this "Big History", or he arrived at this teaching method independently.
$20 million income is generating $160 billion market capitalization which is very high IMO
Oh, my bad. Yep, total agreement. Did you read the complaint? Comedy gold abounded.
One thing worth noting if you consider running any mail server yourself - is checking the IP address / range that your VPS provides you. I've had outbound email blocked or blacklisted with IPs from DigitalOcean - especially on Yahoo, whereas Linode or AWS give you better reputation.

It was virtually impossible to get unlisted on Yahoo for IPs that are owned by the hosting provider, and I'm not sure all providers would make the effort of doing this on your behalf.

I suspect lower-end VPS providers are even worst in that respect.
Show HN: Monitor Your Competitor's A/B Tests
Zeroing buffers is insufficient
I'd seriously worry if I had to rely on Digialocean providing timely OS updates.
It's kind of weird that they seem to think they need to be maxing out whatever bandwidth they have. The killer app for really fast internet is that you have really fast internet.
US need CIO, not CTO
Thanks for the number, it's very informative.

I guess there's still the solution to only accept message from trusted keys but that means that 1- we have to be able to detect signature-rings from spammers in the graph (that clearly should not be a big problem), and 2- that there is an easy and realistic way to have a legitimate key in the trusted network before it can be used to sends emails…

Anyway, all that is very interesting from a theoretical point of view, but we are far from being in a world where end-to-end crypto is massively used.
Two problems: terms of service and (lack of)network effect.

1) Terms of Service

I believe that the Google Fiber terms of service prevents you from running a server on the line. That kills 99% of the interesting applications that having fast internet would be used for.

2) (Lack of) Network Effect

Since nobody else has anything at that speed, there is no useful application to take advantage of that level of bandwidth. In addition, none of the SharingSocialAdultery startups are going to put forth anything for that level of bandwidth since to a first approximation the number of people who have that kind of bandwidth is zero.
That's what these are for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(underpass)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpass#Pedestrian
It does look very promising i wish you best luck :D
Not always, I looked. I imagine if you're familiar with the stations you can do that without being stampeded, getting lost, etc..
Really, it had a great deal more to do with politics: specifically, the Europeans had a supersonic airliner and the US didn't, so there was no way in hell the US government was going to do anything other than make it as difficult to use as possible.
As a recovering former C++ programmer, that reminds me of the verbosity of C++ meta programming...
Another reason might be that supersonic flying doesn't really gain you all that much. You still have to spend time getting to the airport, being there a couple of hours in advance, go through all the security measures etc, and jump through similar hoops upon arrival. Cutting your flight time in half sounds nice, but the effect on your actual travel time is a lot smaller.
Well, their website is at http://a16z.com/, so the explanation could have been short.
The Trouble with Harvard
Scala can be as readable or as unreadable as you like. Which is the problem with using Scala in a corporate environment, it can become a terrible weapon in the hands of a bad developer.
Multi-level source map processing library
Or "another language that's becoming popular, Node.js"
This is what causes the ‘fight or flight’ reflex – a survival instinct based on our ability to use memory to quickly assess threats.
A Twitter bot that tweets random porn comments
IT dept in GS is more efficient than JPM.
That was my first thought, too. Gives the "Computer generation" pejorative a new meaning…
Didn't know wiki release their stats. For interested the you can find the stats related to wiki related stats here[1].

1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/
dragonwriter, btgeekboy, mindcrime - thanks, I never heard of that (I live outside US).

A few minutes of Googling didn't turn out what I was looking for though. I can see an "upload and print" feature on FedEx website, I can see a dedicated mobile app that apparently can print files via FedEx...

... but what I was looking for is something that pretends to be a normal printer, so when i do File->Print in Word or Photoshop, I can choose it as a destination, much like we used to do with "PDF printers", which were programs that installed as printers but outputed PDF files, back in times when MS Office couldn't do PDF export.

So if I'm missing an obvious hyperlink to that, could you please help me out here and post it? ;).

In general, I don't want print shops to start making mobile apps or (even worse) desktop apps to "streamline the process" (i.e. scare the shit out of the living with crappy UI and "upselling opportunities"). My dream is for them to integrate into the system, like every self-respecting piece of consumer hardware does. In the end, I might even not care at all which print shop is doing the job (much like I don't care where I order Asian cousine - those restaurants are all commoditized - I only care about it to be hot, tasty and delivered on time). In a perfect world, I'd love to have it reduced to a single argument, a drop-down in printer settings dialog (but I'd happily accept a system printer per printing shop for now).
Isn't JVM and Java libraries (i.e. "batteries") the one of the main selling points of Clojure?
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Back when I was a student we played around with the concept of listening to ultrasonic echoes in a similar way. Basically human ear can get far more information from a reflection than what one can get from it by eyes.

Eventually you could do Non Destructive Evaluation better by just listening to the data and not just looking at it "Sir, this weld sounds wrong".

But alas, IT pays more so that thing was buried on that lab :)
Not all forks pick "suitably disambiguated" names. In fact most hostile forks actually picked a name that was making fun of the original. Or just piggy backed the "brand". The only cases where this didn't happen was where trademarks were involved (OpenOffice.org, Hudson), and even those cases might imply pointing fingers (open has far more restrictive connotations in the software world than libre).

And in this case I do hope that the hostile fork actually becomes what it aims for: standard/common and basically makes everyone forget about Markdown.pl.
I grew up with the bleeping chirps of software loading from 300bps modems and "turbo" C64 tape recorders.
I could easily recognize different games from the sound they made when loading, and it is trivial to recognize the various modem handshakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmPpl6UMuH0
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I disagree slightly. An additional constraint I would put is that there is enough time past for the historians to have a good view of the events (and their consequences). There is a lot of debate among historians (according to a historian friend of mine) about the legitimacy of historians specializing on "recent" history, because of the lack of distance and the inherent subjectivity (not that the distant past is any less subjective).
I see no reason why someone should limit shimself to such a narrow field ("iOS" in this case). You shouldn't limit yourself even for "Mobile"... I mean, you're an engineer, you solve tasks, no matter if it is iOS related, Android, mobile in general or desktop...
You may be interested in the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078740/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_p... where a Concorde isn't quite hijacked, but has some chase scenes between a Concorde and various rouge missiles and airforces.
From page 2 of the discussion:
"Anyway, back to some figues; at Mach 2, 50,000', the typical fuel burn per engine would be around 5 tonnes/hour, falling to around 4.2 tonnes/hour at 60,000'."
So at 60,000 feet, total fuel flow would be:
4.2 tonnes/hour * 4 engines = 16.8 tonnes/hour
16.8 tonnes/hour * 326 gallons per tonne = 5477 gallons/hour
5477 gallons/hour * 1/1320mph = 4.15 gallons/mile, 0.24 miles/gallon
0.24 miles/gallon * 120 passengers = 28.8 passenger miles/gallon

The 787 boasts around 120 passenger miles per gallon. So the Concorde uses 4x this much at highest efficiency. Not bad for 60's engineering at mach 2! I can see why it was not profitable to operate however, due to the increases in fuel cost since the aircraft was designed.
You also have to decide whether to use scala as a functional language or as a better java. Each approach has its merits and drawbacks.
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For a bitcoin exchange, only half of the business is in bitcoin. The other half is in fiat, and I think that's why exchanges need a money transmitter license.
This is like being in a marriage, your privacy is at risk, but at the same time, if given security and support and comfort, you can actually put your privacy at risk for benefit.
Best of luck and skill to you.

Worth mentioning: there is an attractive Plan B which is not "Sell house to avoid defaulting on debts." It is "do iOS development contracting work at market rates, which are somewhere between $1k and $2k per day." The failure of this business should not cause catastrophic financial consequences for your family.
Dropbox tells you when asking for your permission.
"Essentially, the fusion of [functional and object-oriented programming] can have a power that neither of the two paradigms individually can have."

Very aligned with my opinion. I would add that having strong static type system with opt-in dynamic types system (syntax integrated) adds even more power (e.g. C#).