skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Update, Feb. 5, 2015, 8:10 p.m.: After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations flooded Werner's website donation page and he reached his funding goal of $137,000. In addition, Facebook and the online payment processor Stripe each pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project."

The problem, in other words, was that lots of people like me, who depend everyday on gpg and are thankful for it, would have supported it over all these years if only we had known that its maintainer was barely scraping by on $25K a year.

Kudos to Pro Publica for bringing this to everyone's attention.
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Planck's constant is almost exactly 10^-33/(phi-0.108843677). Coincidence? I think not.
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"One of the most surprising discoveries for me in researching my book Richistan was that many of today’s rich didn’t do that well in school. In fact, many of them didn’t go to college — or if they did, they quickly dropped out."

Does he go beyond Bill Gates, Mike Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs et al.? I think it's widely known that a lot of tech founders left college or grad school so I suspect it wouldn't have come as a surprise to most people.
Hi, I work at FlightCar, some quick replies:

1) If the renter drives more than 100 miles per day, we'll charge them $0.45/mile overage and return almost all of that to the owner. So it's not entirely uncontrolled.

2) FlightCar insures the renters, if they aren't already primarily insured by e.g. a credit card they own. It doesn't come out of your insurance.

3-4) FlightCar also pays out per-mile driven on top of the free parking, which you seem to have missed, but I think it's fine and sensible that many people don't consider the risk worth the reward (especially if their car is new); of course, everyone said the same thing about Airbnb at first too.
I mean that the people who would buy a Dell Ubuntu notebook mostly wouldn't use phone support. If Dell thinks the same, they wouldn't pay Canonical very much to provide that support. They do now sell the XPS 'Developer edition' with Ubuntu; I have no idea whether they pay Canonical for support, or how much that makes.
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Today's actually FlightCar's two year anniversary of opening at an airport lot (SFO), and we're now open at ten airports nationwide, so the initial bootstrapping has long since happened.
The logged-out page will presumably include the tweet shown in the search results in addition to ads and the sign-up nudge/nag.
Why did Dropbox make an email client?
I just don't want to take read/dealt-with emails out of my inbox. Which Mailbox can be configured to work with - only it shows 4,400 "unread" messages as a badge icon. The options available in-app are "always show 1," "show number of messages in inbox," and "never show any"

I want to see the number of unread messages in the inbox only. Not the total number. Not an arbitrary number. Not zero. Is that too much to ask? Outlook lets me do it, Mail.app lets me do it. It makes sense. So why not? Why force your beliefs and practices and methodologies on me? I have my reasons for keeping all my read mail in my inbox, and I'm not going to change that for a silly app.
They didn't. They bought out a company that did, quite a while back actually.
Awesome thanks! I just got notified that nearly 50% of my current capacity is getting revoked because the giveaway from the college Space Race promotion was only for a limited time, so the extra gig is helpful! (And I'll try out Mailbox too, I guess...)
Definitely.

Mailbox's only distinguishing feature is task-based email. By making it GMail only, there's not really much to set it apart from the official task-based Gmail client (Inbox). Inbox works really well, so I'm not sure what the purpose of Mailbox is at this point.

General IMAP support would be a huge plus.
The new Outlook iOS app is pretty slick, and works just fine with regular IMAP accounts.
Is this part of a ridiculous trend where major software developers pick whatever name they want for their language, tool, library, what-have-you without caring if there are other projects with that name, if the name is confusing, if the name is too generic (and thus hard to do a web search for), etc.?

This might be some sort of bias on my part but I seem to see this more and more often. Programmers are known to be bad at naming but these days it seems they don't even try. How about just following a simple rule: pick a word that doesn't exist in the dictionary or on the web at all. Just make up a combination of letters. Please.
You didn't just compare macroeconomics to actual sciences, did you?
Modern EPA requirements mean that it is impossible to design a compliant off highway commercial vehicle without relying on advanced electronic process controls. Your grandfather's tractor might be repairable with baling wire, but it also releases a ton more diesel particulates.

http://www.deere.com/en_US/ProductCatalog/FR/media/pdf/8r_se...

There's no incentive for companies to publish information on their vehicle bus interfaces, since it would basically give away trade secrets to competitors.
This was actually my first thought...Google users clicking a result and not seeing the tweet? Twitter wanting to capture users, but making a users first impression of the service as a bait(content) and switch(create account) right from Google results?

Maybe the way its executed it won't be a big deal. Maybe the entire tweet is available in the Google results, or the log in screen will not obscure the tweet. As to the cloaking issue, Google is entering a "partnership" so Twitter is not subject to the standard rules.
I get the impression that the primary purpose of of Mailbox was always to provide a task-based interface to Gmail -- if you just want a traditional mail client, why wouldn't you just use the official GMail client?
It worked well for me when I donated.

Looks like this is working, the number is way up. A little advertising goes a long way.
For the most part I haven't had many issues, I hope they haven't given up.
There are huge gap between Hobby and Productization
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>Another fan of smugmug here.
>You can't beat unlimited storage for $40/year. Granted upload is limited by upload speed but by letting it upload overnight, that hasn't been a problem for me. Smugmug has app on iOS/Android that work well also.

SmugMug doesn't support RAW in its "unlimited" plan though, does it? You'll have to purchase the SmugVault extra.
Really, really wish they would add IMAP support for the rest of us that would prefer not to use Google for email. FastMail + Mailbox would be killer.

( I use Mailbox with my work email and love it )
Great, so now we don't even make email clients anymore; now we make Gmail clients. The open Internet sure is alive and well in the age of Google.
You have a CS degree but you are applying for relatively simply web development jobs where you can easily be out done by less formally educated people who have more web development experience. That's a bad strategy.

You should apply for the less flashy jobs at bigger companies that tend to want people with a solid formal education.
I've been using Airmail for about 3 months.

It's nice but has many frustrations in the UI - especially when dealing with large message threads.
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Depends. Milk has two types of protein: casein and whey. They may only increase whey and not casein (casein tastes much worse than whey in my anecdotal experience).
Thanks Douwe, that is indeed how we make most money. Apart from that there is a paid plan for GitLab.com that gets you email support. Otherwise all support is via forums and twitter , see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
AFAIK, Inbox still only supports @gmail.com addresses.
To me this sounds like the same argument against C compilers: "You'll just end up debugging the generated asm anyway!".

Turns out (mature) compilers are generally better at writing code than humans, and most of the time you don't have to debug their code, only your own. Almost every time I've heard someone say "I found a bug in the compiler!", they didn't.
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Hence the widespread practice of granting preference to the children of alumni at admissions time. Only Caltech (among the Ivies) eschews this practice and admits on academic merit alone, I believe.
Does -site:twitter.com count as an "opt-out"?
I have been using Airmail for about an year. It like it, and live with its issues such as slow startup (because I have many mailboxes), and irresponsive when network changes or when machine wakes from standby; I have to always force quit it.
Yeah, a bullet kills cancer pretty well. The trick is targeting just the cancerous cells.
It's not like they're gone. They just in your archive, two taps away. It's a much more organized way to deal with email, at least for me.
GitLab B.V. CEO here, our open source edition has support for [1] ECDSA keys and [2] relative urls in readme's should always work. Consider giving GitLab.com a spin.
>>dongle will have a manufacturing cost of $34

Yeah but it uses disposables! Arnold O. Beckman made a killing selling salt water, imagine how much money we can make selling these things!
It's not an "alternative", it's a store of value by its own merit, and has been so for thousands of years, while paper money is pretty recent and is by no means a good store of value or even a good medium of exchange, with the surge of digital money.
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I tried Mailbox ... did not really work for me.
Asking him to disregard the earlier request simply because of _you_ were able to read it is disgustingly selfish. Part of providing a great user experience is about accommodating many, not just the special snowflakes like yourself.

It's sad that timr put it on the back burner so quickly.
That's awesome, but it's weird to me that Facebook, etc. will happily pay a senior engineer a total compensation of $200k+ yet only pledge $50k for the maintainer of a critical tool. Not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth here, just odd perception of the priorities here.
How do you add a regular IMAP account to it on iPhone? I don't see any options!
Perturbative String theory reduces those ~20 constants to one (the string coupling constant), plus a choice of vacuum, which is then of course the crux of the problem, as the effective field theories we observe don't map uniquely to a particular high energy string theory vacuum (as far as we know). It should also be obvious that while those constants are indeed important, the initial conditions are potentially more important and a great deal of effort has been put into explaining why from fairly generic initial conditions we would expect the universe as we observe it to arise (inflation theory).
anyone know whats new here, if anything?
And when everything fails, just pull a straw man! Right?
Where's IMAP support? FastMail + Mailbox would be killer.
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Do you mean public key cryptography as a replacement to a world-readable SSN, or public key cryptography to prevent breaches like these?

The first suggestion would be much more secure but would be difficult and very lengthy to implement, and the second would not have helped in a situation like this.
I think this is a duplicate of [2] in the parent post.
Great idea, but all the marketing speak on the landing page just didn't make sense to me. Things immediately fell into places when I saw the diagram in the"About" page.

Pushpin is a proxy server that adds websockets to existing request-response apis. Why don't you just say that straight away?
The 2 headlines and claims aren't mutually exclusive. The FBI investigated reports that the Russian government was tied to the hack, and concluded they weren't. That doesn't mean the actors weren't Russian citizens and/or living in Russia.

Just as an example, the Target and Home Depot breaches were almost certainly conducted by the same fairly well-known group of Russian hackers and fraudsters, but they have no known ties to the Russian government.
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Come on, give them some credit for the facts they did provide. They detected a breach where sensitive data was stolen on January 29th. This does not preclude that they also detected a breach first, on or before December 13!

Did anyone record any downtime of their public-facing systems in this time? You know when you're a sysadmin and you notice something really bad happening, you shut down the affected systems immediately and try to minimize the damage? You never know what kind of back doors have been put in place, after you are breached.

It is also entirely plausible that the breach is still ongoing now, after a month and a half why not, but they are just no longer able to detect it. These people are some of the most important cogs in the health care machine, the insurance providers! If they had some kind of downtime that was actually affecting their ability to provide services, well then they might actually be subject to some real form of legal action, maybe even pay serious damages to their customers. Thank heavens that didn't happen!

They are paying lip service to security because it's not as important to them as, you know, basically anything else. Like say, receivables. It's only identity theft!
I feel this is way too optimistic. Who doesn't own a few devices (especially routers and cellphones) that probably aren't ever going to get much-needed security updates from the manufacturer? I'm very for any PR about how not-okay this type of situation is.
Oops, sorry, my mistake.
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By that logic, if I know I got a lemon, I should sell it in the first year or two. Otherwise I should keep it. So most of the 1-2 year old cars on the market will be lemons, and no longer a far better deal than buying new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
I love titan and seeing them get acquired by Datastax makes me hope for even better support for cassandra.
It's time to open Shenzhen branch. :)
That's basically the same list of issues that Sparrow had.
Asynchronicity doesn't necessarily mean the function will be call at a later time. Rather it should mean the function will not be called by me at a previously known time without knowing the implementation of the function I am calling. Encapsulation, you know.

Using callbacks means giving up control of when things will happen. The fact that it will actually happen very soon is out of the question.
Anthem didn't encrypt stolen data
"There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in level of intelligence], and some problems will suddenly move from 'impossible' to 'obvious.' Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious."

I think the utterer of this quotation needs to study up on computational complexity theory.
The one electron wiki entry literally blew my mind. I read the first sentence and thought "absolutely not". Then as I read into it thinking "give it a chance". My logic tells me this can't be the case ..... but man this is a wild theory to me.
I talk with the Google News Labs team on occasion (it's a brand new team, which should tell you something), and I can safely say there's a race going on in real time news (My company is building a real-time crowdsourced newsroom - https://grasswire.com). My guess is there will be some major acquisitions taking place in the real-time news space this year. Facebook, Microsoft and Google are all realizing it's going to be a landgrab. If nothing else it's fun and exciting.
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Not so much an "email client" as a "proprietary horseshit client", it seems: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq0gam1fu1xx25k/Screenshot%202015-...
Can cascades be predicted?
Search isn't very useful if you don't know where to search or what search terms to use (as was made clear in the parent comment).
At least for CoffeeScript, the generated code is so close to the the original source that the mapping is obvious. I've never needed to get the source map working.
One thing that somewhat turned me away about SICM is that it relies almost entirely on a specific Scheme implementation and Emacs setup.
pretty sure absolutely nothing, it's really weird. millions and millions of people were on their waitlist when they launched, I'm pretty sure everyone knows about it.
Looks like I don't have to use search.twitter.com to get the latest.

Win-Win for both companies!
Obviously we haven't read the same books. You'd be suprized at how closely related to phi many of the low level physical constant are.
Don't take this the wrong way, but why isn't your accelerator providing a qualified lawyer who can counsel you on this?
You're right. I did a minute research and see you're just doing your friend a favor. I should have checked before I posted my comment. I don't seem to be able to delete that comment. Sorry about that I should have kept my (virtual) mouth shut.
It's more that the left hand doesn't need permission from the right hand's boss to develop a competing tool.
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Wired (and iFixit) are getting activist about DMCA exceptions. This is great. A couple weeks ago Kyle Weins wrote[1]:

"No one has yet been prosecuted for hacking their own car, but they could. And as locks become more prevalent, the EFF and iFixit are willing to bet that, eventually, some carmaker will bring the DMCA hammer down on a hobbyist's head. So we're are taking a stand now."

"Want to speak out in support of this DMCA exemption? Tell the Copyright Office that car owners should be able to repair and modify their own automobiles. You've got until February 6 to make your voice heard."

HN discussed that article too.[2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/01/let-us-hack-our-cars/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936382
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But they're also moved upstream at the IMAP provider, no? Anway, the problem is that it doesn't work unless you exclusively use their client/their method..
but they are pretty much the same. One of my uncles(by marriage) runs a multi-million dollar farm with his brother. They started it from nothing about twenty years ago and now they grow millions a year in crops. This isn't some giant mega corp, this is two guys who have grown their business. Banks are thrilled to loan my uncle money to get more land, equipment, etc because he has a proven track record of turning loans into profits and returning their money.

Sure its just anecdote, but based purely on personal experience i feel like the family farms that go out of business are because they are not any good at business. The farms that are good at business just get bigger.
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I'm suggesting the former. For every transaction where my identification needs to be verified, I should be able to sign off digitally.

Identity Theft is a completely made up thing, that used to be called fraud. When it was called fraud it was the responsibility of the institutions to protect themselves. Instead they use the word identity theft to make it the problem of the victim. If someone goes to the bank and pretends to be me and gets a line of credit, spends a ton of money, I am left holding the bag since it destroys my credit rating. Yet, I didn't do anything at all wrong. These institutions rely on woefully inadequate measures to determine identity and when something goes wrong, the person who should pay for inadequately verifying identity is the financial institution that messed up and gave credit to the wrong person under false pretenses.

Anthem is my insurer and now I'm responsible for dealing with the fallout from every institution's completely inadequate processes for verifying identity. How is that fair?

The solution isn't hard, you'd get an account with an identity signing service that goes to great lengths to confirm your identity. Once your identity has been confirmed, you either generate your own private and public keys and upload your public key to them or they can generate both on your behalf. After that, you either host your own service to sign with your private key or you redirect signing to the identity provider if they generated a key for you.

This is not a pipe dream. It just requires mandating that companies need to require that you sign off on things cryptographically. If you have not signed off, then the losses and consequences from fraud are their responsibility, not yours.
Yup. I meant "extremely low"
On the topic of OSX clients, especially for Gmail, I've been really liking Mailplane after trying most of the options. All the benefits of the gmail.com interface (which I like) while I still get a native app with a badge icon.
Do I qualify? http://www.robots-everywhere.com The article is scant on details about who do I talk to.
Interesting. Any advantages of this over IPython? I see fancy rendering of DataFrames, but there are libraries that let you do this in IPython.
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>I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool.

I've wanted to build a site that mixes news feeds with tweets about said news. Some news sites have weak twitter streams to the side but it would be cool to have something more immersive.
Just use Outlook. They have apps for iOS and Android now.
Yeah I thought it was going to be a way to port NodeJS apps to run natively on FirefoxOS...

Still want something like that though.
How many dimensions are there in choice of vacuum? My understanding was that it was still "many", in which case this merely reframes the problem rather than solving it.
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I think it's actually as much to do with having to turn syntax and abstraction into something actionable that describes the solution.

That is, in programming you learn a small set of abstractions (programming language syntax), and the actual coursework in applying that is in how they combine, how to fit them to problems.

In math, you learn a large number of abstractions (notation), that can vary and have new ones across different domains, and which doesn't tell you what it is doing unless you learn all the abstractions.

The latter you can kinda get, if you think about it, but forcing you to actually turn it into something expressed in the former means it is synthesized into something applicable, rather than just abstraction that may or may not be.

That is,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/d/f/1/df17b3410e58ac4c285bc...

is harder to understand when you come across it than

total = 0;
for(i = 0; i<=100; i++)
{
total += i;
}
return total;

or

sum([1..100])

You have to convert the first from a symbol that does not describe its action, to an action; the code describes the action. That extra translation step leads to additional cognitive load when learning, at least for me.
That's great counter points to the "One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990903) article.