skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. Alexis Corbière (from the same party than Mélenchon) is actually the one who got this analysis of the trailer first. It may have been a mistake from his, but he surely didn't do it for the money. He has already co-written a book concerning Robespierre[1], and is always on the lookout to bring the debate on this question.

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Robespierre-reviens-Alexis-Corbi%C3%A8r...
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Isn't the fits & starts & blind alleys the actual work involved in getting the company onto the right trajectory? Empirically, the vast majority of time spent in startups is in that category, and if someone has figured out a way to reduce the time, you'd think they'd be rich by now. (Okay, you could argue that YC is a good example of an organization trying to systematically reduce the time spent getting a company on a breakout trajectory, and they are getting rich off it. But even then, a majority of YC startups never make it.)
I don't know why you didn't choose to explain the context, and instead focused on red herrings like anonymity.

This makes me believe the real context here is "he's a douchbag, now I have a reason for my hatred".
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Nothing, but it's also too slow, and pointless for them: It's easier for them to just send. Many of them clearly don't even care about checking response codes, or retry after greylisting, which is why these techniques works (greylisting cut our spam volume by about 90% off the bat).

But there's also no guarantee that the remote server will reject the address until after you've actually submitted a full e-mail, and send the final "." , exactly to make it even more expensive for spammers, in which case any attempt at checking short of actually sending an e-mail will fail.

Their suggestion may give you an indication, but if you try to rely on it you'll get a lot of pissed off users.
I think it's pretty clearly fair use. It's a parody, that significantly transforms the work and doesn't compete with it.
What makes you think these hit pieces against Uber aren't Lyft's PR in the first place?
That is because Centos 7 was just released. Let's talk again four years from now.
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According to http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/smtpreplies.html, SMTP server can give you either a temporary error (452 - Requested action not taken: insufficient system storage) or permanent error (552 - Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation). Maybe there are some heuristics that are used for this...?
Absolutely. There simply isn't a reliable lookup method.

As I pointed out elsewhere, there are plenty of e-mail systems that won't tell you whether or not the address exists until after you've submitted a valid-looking e-mail anyway.
That's peculiar that a pre-baked linux distro for Amiga would require an FPU to boot. Off the top of my head I can't think why that would be :S
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It is a well-known fact that Tor is controlled by FBI. That's why for trully anonymous surf you should use VPN or Proxy services which are working on their own servers, not Tor
> they and everyone else needs some privacy, to just entertain idle thoughts that are neither politically correct nor moral to implement

That private space is amply available in the board room. That's a suitable space to say stupid shit as part of a process of working off steam and then finding a better solution or of playing devil's advocate.

A public meeting with journalists without pre-arranged privacy arrangements is not a good place to say really stupid stuff.
Steve of BMOW has done several amazing hardware projects including a homemade CPU from logic chips and CLPDs, Mac floppy emulators, and more. Rather than link them here, browse the links on his sidebar and read the descriptions of each project.

>Schematics? Forget it. Everything was built incrementally, one wire at a time, while staring at chip datasheets. It’s an organic creation.

Yeah, that's real hardware hacking right there.
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I can see how being assholes, intimidating the press, undermining rivals via dirty tricks, and other such behavior, can maximize shareholder value.

So maybe we just have to accept that this is the new normal and we should all focus on how we can play dirty tricks on our competitors, how we can intimidate the journalists who have written bad stories on us or haven't covered us. Where does the strategy to use intimation via oppo-research stop? Can we apply this to any dealings with politicians, angles, VC, policy makers? I bet it can be effective in these areas as well. Maybe a company's strategy to "force outcomes" should be a required slide in all pitch decks now?

I wonder if Uber stops at just using intimidation in less developed countries where things are rougher and governments are more pliable than in the US and Canada? If there are few limits to Uber aggressiveness and they have money, you can easily pay people in a lot of developing nations to improve outcomes in a large variety of "creative ways", and you can easily distance yourself from how those outcomes are achieved.

It does seem that Uber teaches us that this is the new normal and if we are not doing this, we are not maximizing shareholder value.
To say that this is "media controversy" borders on the absurd: this is entirely inappropriate and indefensible behavior from a top executive at a top company -- and it raises all sorts of legitimate questions about corporate culture and how companies internalize public criticism. You use the passive voice when you say that "it seems destined to be above the line" when in fact it is above the line because many in the HN demographic feel that this story is important. In this case, HN's strange paternalism is going to cause this discussion to happen three separate times in three separate threads. Can the HN community really not be trusted to decide what we think is important?
I can't visit the link. (https://zh.greatfire.org/blog/2014/nov/china-just-blocked-th...)
And I'm in mainland China.
What can I suppose?
I like to believe it was the only company crazy (or inexperienced) enough to participate in a project of this scale on such a short notice. Which would be a sign of maturity of the Polish IT sector.
If he knew he was on the record, I don't begrudge him taking his time to compose his thoughts and send the apology in writing. There are enough things to be concerned about here; I don't think this is one of them.
It's not fully patent free:

> It has always been a strong goal of the JPEG committee that its standards should be implementable in their baseline form without payment of royalty and license fees...

It's only for baseline.

> is no different to Ogg or VP8 in that regard

They are patent free, no strings attached, unlike JPEG2000.
> Your reply certainly implied you thought GCC was fine along the same axises your parent said clang was better.

No. I simply corrected a false statement regarding gcc. I did not compare it to clang at all. I have no illusions how gcc does compare to clang w.r.t. to code quality, modularity, etc. As I've said: it would be weird if it were otherwise. It's really not hard to beat gcc in that area.

> You are talking to a guy who helped make some of this progress

Thank you (no irony intended).

> Actually, it interests me immensely.

It may interest you, but as you say yourself:

> But in the end, I choose stuff based on technical merits first, freedom second

>You are of course, welcome to do as you please.

Will do, thanks.
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"Bad Samaritans" by Ha-Joon Chang, a South Korean economist now at Cambridge University, is a good light read fleshing out these ideas.
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Interesting to see all the classic photography rules given in the context of the space shuttle. Focusing for depth of field uses the example of the payload bay, rather than a group of friends. Makes you feel a bit wistful, while we're still sending people to space, no one will ever have the chance to use this manual in quite the same way ever again.

It's interesting to see the kind of challenges you have when taking images up there. I think there's a tendency to assume that it's incredibly easy - that any snapshot will look amazing simply because it's space. In reality there are plenty of situations where practicality wins over aesthetics and extremely high dynamic range will cause problems. And of course that ultimately these will be the best publicity photos that NASA has so they'd better be well composed!
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Broadly: Typefaces are not copyrightable. Font programs, however, are.

So that's in the clear, which may be the point of the art.
Finding "smart" programmers is very hard. As @lastofus points out communication and management effort eats into the potential gains.

If you are really serious about leverage then look at MBSE/MDD/MDE/DSL technologies. That is, tools that will take formal specifications and generate code. The old 80:20 rule applies here too, as much as 80% of the code can be generated automatically, the rest by either yourself or the very well paid sufficiently smart programmer(s).
E-mail subject lines are a stupid waste of your time
I am in Shanghai and I find it pretty difficult...

Without paying (a VPN), of course...
I really hope it is just advertising on a captive portal, and not content injection
this one doesnt seem to be. an uber svp was talking directly to buzzfeed editor.
Or .. don't.

Send a mail. If it bounces, ignore that. If someone takes an action based on the content of the mail you sent, the address is valid. I'd say this link is bad advice.
For the uninitiated: 3D-printed sex toys actually do exist, yes. For example I believe the infamous Dragon Dildos are 3D-printed? (I shan't link, for self-explanatory reasons.)
Aside from the debate of whether he's a good exec, the argument about "lying" is perceived differently from country to country. In US, lying sounds like the worst thing eva. In France it's allowed to lie for your defense, even in front of the police or of the jury.

Just yesterday I saw a movie where the kid was accused of shoplifting, said "I didn't do it", then the commercant frowns, the camera focuses, eyebrows darken and he says "!and you're a LIAR!?". From here it sounds quite ridiculous because we know people are failible and they sometimes commit little frauds, which wouldn't have been found otherwise and therefore should be dismissed. Especially so-said "lying" can often be turned over if you look at the context, the lack of precision, the tone and the informal situation.

It doesn't mean the executive is a good person, he seems to have used misogynist comments, privacy tampering and threatened journalists in general. Just lying is not a demonstration by itself.
On a an unhardened SMTP server, nothing. But there's not a huge amount of value for them in sanitizing those lists either, as they already deal in such high volumes of mail a few retired accounts don't matter. There are anti-spam products from places like GFI that can apply heuristics to incoming requests and filter out anything suspect though.

The bigger risk is directory harvest attacks, where spammers dictionary generate RCPT TO requests and use any 250/251 replies to compile new mailing lists.

Tarpitting combats this to some degree and is considered best practice when allowing RCPT replies. The receiving server is configured to pause for a few seconds before replying to each RCPT TO. 5-10 seconds is fast enough to not impact mail flow while rendering dictionary based directory harvest attacks non-viable.
Congratulations. That is a killer round and a major development. This is a $0 revenue company?

I know gmaxwell at least is ridiculously smart. I get the feeling this is a powerhouse founding team, huge group of talent, huge pile of cash. Part of me wants to be in on that team.

The part about AirBnB I really enjoyed. Because at first I thought, I bet they are all working remote and doing whatever on their individual projects. It sounds like a large diverse team which really needed to get co-located if they wanted to get real... and they did. Ultimately, there is no current replacement to actually physically moving everyone to someplace.

I have no idea why SF, but I imagine someone(s) in the early group were already reasonably near there. But I would be surprised if blockstream.com needed the SF tech force. They may have just the right number of people right now. That approach would give them some incredible runway, but so many investors need faster ROI. $21M is a huge, massive commitment.

I guess the missing piece is valuation. What percentage, or implied percentage range, or whatever, of the company do you get for $21M? How do you even put together a model for a $21M seed round? Maybe a Seed Round this large is basically a long-term bet on this group to make great things. I assume there are no-strings-attached, and this is people with Bitcoin who want Bitcoin to the valuable. It takes a lot of work to keep a currency running!

What's Blockstream's revenue model Do the the investors hold any BTC? Is their goal to increase the value of BTC, or is it BTC price neutral? Blockstream succeeds with Bitcoin succeeding (the Bitcoin P2P Protocol, its infra). But the 'payment' and 'asset' portion of Bitcoin could be excess baggage which governments hate too much. There could be better uses of Blockstream's time beyond currency applications. I mean, there are many features you can build that wouldn't increase demand for units of 'satoshi'. Then again, it's a common refrain, if you own many BTC then invest in Bitcoin. Better software should result in broader adoption. But there's nothing inherent about a cryptocurrency that the bits should cost anything. So I'd assume there's some revenue model.

Another perspective: Ultimately the price of a Bitcoin will fall to the amount necessary to anti-DDoS. There can be no price beyond anti-DDoS because there is no more utility than exactly that. Bitcoin as a currency will be a ridiculously failed experiment, because why would you hold $$$ inside some bits? The scarce bits are just to prevent DDoS and properly distribute access. You shouldn't need to pay money for something like that, unless you are speculation. Speculation can exist, fine, put it on its own chain.
I just start learning it.
1. Release a series of apps that do this with improper permissions.
>If you read the story, it mentions digging dirt on Sarah's family. Family includes children.

Digging dirt is not threatening. Neither Sarah nor her children were threatened and it is dishonest and slimy to suggest otherwise.

>Clearly you dont have children.

I believe that truth and justice are the highest values. If threatening a woman's children is what brings her to conduct herself in a moral manner, then we can say it is good. Sometimes the ends justify the means.

And the same applies to men, of course. But it's a moot point -- only the government can legally threaten someone's children.
Lout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_%28software%29) is a nice alternative to TeX and co, with a much better language. It uses the TeX typesetting algorithms underneath so quality is similar. But it suffers from the inverse network effect: its good, but few use it, therefore few use it :-( Hope mentioning it here gets some new customers.
Just an anecdote... I've had several "A" style bad trips, and they all ended up being net-positive for me. I've had one "B" style bad trip in the late 90s, and still haven't gotten 100% over it.
Tellingly, Malcolm Gladwell talking about spaghetti sauce is just him talking about someone else's research. It should really be called "Malcolm Gladwell on Howard Moskowitz on spaghetti sauce".

Gladwell is such a joke.
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> Dissatisfied with how poor the tools in other ecosystems are.

Don't pretend that the Haskell tool ecosystem is better than the others.

Does Haskell have a debugger which is as good and easy to use as the Chrome Developer Tools (JavaScript) or Visual Studio (C/C++/C#)? Is there a good editor (comparable to VS for C# or Eclipse/NetBeans for Java) with type-aware code completion? And don't tell me about cabal, that tool is much worse than package managers in other languages, the amount of time people waste with cabal is unbelievable.
Why is this here? This is a non story. All I see in this article is that someone was ranting in a conversation that was entirely assumed to be off the record (they go to great lengths to justify talking about it, as if private dinners require contracts of nondisclosure). I find it beyond hilarious that here Buzzfeed stands appalled that someone would joke about hiring people to dig up dirt when they find their way into private dinners and report every unsavory thing said in confidence and without context, essentially writing off that context as "this is never appropriate." Does anyone else see the outrageous hypocrisy here? One man is joking about something because he's frustrated with poor media coverage (which is arguably of questionable ethical validity) while Buzzfeed is actually doing that thing and now everyone here on HN is joking about how terrible Uber is and how they've distanced themselves. This is HN.

This is gossip about a man's frustrated rant at shitty media coverage. It's a non story and is totally off topic. If there was evidence he had hired people to dig up dirt with intent to blackmail, extort, or otherwise coerce people, we could be talking about criminal proceedings. But seeing as there's no mention of any criminal wrongdoing, this is complete and utter trash, and they know it. Another in a very long list of reasons never to read Buzzfeed.

I'm not here in a position in support of Uber because I literally have no idea what is and isn't fact. If every article negative of them is as misguided and useless as this one, I can't possibly hope to form a coherent and well informed opinion about a company. Definitely not based on clickbait headlines and opinion pieces without solid evidence of wrongdoing. You can hate Uber for all the valid reasons you can find, but getting angry at someone for expressing frustration is truly next level pathetic. This clickbait shit. What the fuck.

Some people are linking a Pando article, which says, as a direct quote:

> Earlier this evening, a bombshell story by Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith proves the reality is way worse than anyone on our team could have expected.

In reference to this article. You can see why this shit can't be taken seriously. Referring to garbage like this article as a "bombshell" or "proof" of activity is completely divorced from reality.
This is answering the question: "Does tihs email address exist?", which is nice, but usually not the question being asked. The more common question is "Is this the email address of the user", which can only be answered by a confirmation email.

You could use this method as a first-line validation though, to give the user some feedback (similar to not implementing the full RFC regex, but simply checking /.+@.+\..+/)
Yeah, every time I ssh into a box and see "terminal type not supported" (screen-256color), I know its using CentOS 5.x.

Which means ssh doesn't have netcat mode, rsync can't write to log files or show progress properly, and all my tmux bindings are messed up.
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I guess times change... What was considered "normal left" when the ussr still existed is now considered a bit more radical now.. He did make a coalition with what's left of the communist party until very recently, though.
Thank you for reminding us about those great articles! We were using a Ulp-based method only, but Qtxie proceeded with some improvements [1] for close to zero values, as suggested in the article. Thanks again. :-)

[1] https://github.com/red/red/pull/986
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"Todd McKinnon, the C.E.O. of Okta, a cloud-computing company, told me that top engineers are worth way more than what we’re paying them.'"

Relieved to hear that Todd!
1000$ ~= 640 pound ~= 800 euro - that's what a 'regular' consulting firm (i.e. not big four who will charge double that, but medium sized regional players) charged for a fresh out of school grad, in the UK. It's only slightly more than what a secretary in a law firm costs (although to be fair, they don't get billed out by the day). It's roughly what the most simple engineering studies are billed at ('calculate required dimensions for this steel beam with uniform load' - i.e. the sort of work they let (supervised) interns do, structural engineering 101).

Really, everybody reading this (yes also those in the UK!), if you are an experienced or senior software engineer and you're billing yourself out at these rates ($1000 a day), you're leaving money on the table. If the mentioned work is what I consider 'data science' (i.e., advanced applied statistics requiring fair amounts of high-end, performant software engineering), then $1000/day is really low if it's for anything more than what somebody can do as a weekend gig next to their day job.
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I think that, from the economic perspective, it's just a form of protectionism. You help local producers at the expense of consumers. Few benefit at the expense of many.
In fact it's so good that it's now making inroads in Europe and North America. If you play internet games many of the guilds require members to use LINE. I picked it up to chat with friends in Japan and love it, I'm now trying to get my friends to switch over.
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