skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason why I stick to the native mail on iOS or Gmail app for the emails i need instantly without fetch. Yeah they may have their cons, but I don't have to worry about Apple dropping Mail app.

Mail should be simple, I think the best apps are the lightweight ones that don't require too much work to keep alive, and definitely don't require a backend server process.

Also, Mailbox had access to all your mail, and when Dropbox bought it while having M̶r̶s̶Miss.Rice on the board of directors, well...that just felt yucky.

My simple solution to keeping my mail under control:

ONE filter on the Gmail side of things, called "Good Spam". Any reoccurring email I like, but don't want to keep manually archiving everyday, SKIPS inbox and goes into that folder. The filter is literally a huge list of email addresses from senders. (ex snippet "....events@eventful.com mail@e.groupon.com radioshack@em.radioshack.com Hewlett-Packard@us.newsgram.hp.com....")

Anytime I get an email I don't consider "Good Spam" I unsubscribe from.

Then on my phone, I just get important or new mail.

BONUS from using filter instead of unsubscribing:
When you are in that store and you need that BANANA REPUBLIC coupon at the register, you still have access to it. Open email app, search for it, and use it. And you don't need to keep looking at their emails everyday just to archive it. Or in case of Mailbox, swiping right....thumbs get tired too.
Maybe Inbox from Google? That's all I can think of at the moment. I am as sad as you are. I felt like I had absolute control over my email with no messages in the inbox and being able to snooze messages to check later.
well, I cannot discount the name, but this speech https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitle... would indicate such
Very cool. Any conclusions from the experiment?

Disclosure: I'm the primary author/maintainer of suitcase (https://github.com/digidotcom/python-suitcase). In your example, you can shave off a line by doing the following:

example = FIDOAttestation.from_data(a)
because you know this device will be online, at least indirectly.
She's either a credible witness or she isnt.

If she isnt, then the black and knit cap part are just as suspect as the puffy coat part; and the cops cant stop anyone because they have no description - and so the cops stopped someone not matching the description

If she is, then puffy coat is just as important as black or knit cap, and the cops cant stop anyone who doesnt match all the criteria - and so the cops stopped someone not matching the description.
The bitcoin network isn't as mighty and powerful as you make it out to be. The hashing power you talk about is spent doing redundant work, and the network caps at 7 transactions a second (by design). Hashing power is moot when organizations can (and routinely do) bring down the network by spamming it with "stress tests".

Just because there haven't been any wildly successful block chain implementations doesn't mean that the technology can't be employed elsewhere. Many technologies are in play today that were once deemed as not being useful, and even though I'm critical of block chain, I can still think of a few validation use cases for big banks with it.
yes! with an open protocol and lightweight servers. Let's make one and call it Instantaneous React Chat.
Yes! I practically giggled when I saw that, because it meant somebody had cared enough to get it right, and I was therefore much more willing to sit back and enjoy the rest.
It is of course inevitable that somebody more intelligent than me is going to automate the development of bespoke software.

We don't automate software development, we still do it the old fashioned way. As such rather than attempt to tackle the problems associated with fixed price projects, we changed our business model to charge a day rate and reduce risk that way. We took this approach because we don't have millions of dollars of investors money in the bank to allow us to trial and error other solutions.
I could have used something like this last year. Looks awesome!
A huge part of what made Circa, well ... Circa was its editorial staff. The discretion they applied towards delivering the news was admirable and earned my trust.

With that editorial team now gone, an announced redesign, and the decision to "...also feature the kind of irreverent tone that does well among young audiences on social media" Circa is an entirely different business that bought themselves a head-start in content-management technology and perhaps, branding.
Hmm, here's my experience:

What I've needed from D3 is the math-y bits: calculating layouts, paths, etc. What I don't need (or want) is for it to ever touch the DOM.

But that's what it wants to do most. D3 is sort of the best of the jQuery-inspired "select and mutate" generation - it does data binding in a way that really makes sense as long as you let it handle DOM operations.

But following React, there's been a pretty big movement away from procedural DOM manipulation and toward the declarative re-rendery "DOM as a pure function of state" approach. In that case, letting D3 mess with the DOM (especially in the way that it does, where complex links between DOM and data are maintained in the background) is bad news.

If you already have a way of getting elements in and out of the DOM and keeping their state aligned with the data that you like better than the select-and-mutate model, a lot of what D3 does seems unnecessary or introduces problematic interference. React and D3, for instance, tend to not play very nice without a lot of effort.

I've had projects where programmers lean on D3 because that's the way they've learned to get SVG elements into the DOM - they'll take an example they've found somewhere that mostly only uses simple shapes, modify it a little bit to do what they want and ask me for help adding that visualization into another project. Sometimes in these cases, D3 isn't getting used for much except for "insert an svg element with these attributes for every node in this data structure", in which case it's total overkill, and I end up stripping it out entirely. I sometimes end up keeping it around for things (I'm probably not going to write my own Reingold-Tilford tree layout algorithm), but often in these cases I have to do extra work to keep it from conflicting with other things.
Yes, support for generics. _Full_ support for generics.
And RAII!
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The description also said 'puffy coat' which he is very clearly not wearing.

Its not just incomplete - he literally does not fit the description.
It's why I changed my mind on occasion about various theories and why I was ahead of status quo on others. The secret? Focus on evidence and methods instead of where herd is going and how smart sources appear. Most of my beliefs are pretty orthodox because evidence supports them.

Your claims are mere trolling. Also, a perfect example of baseless beliefs posing as reason and without supporting evidence. Basically what you were accusing me of.
That's hardly a reason to not open-source. You're not required to provide support just because you release your source code. Even a dump of their repositories would be useful for people who are interested in Mailbox.
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Bitcoin can't handle more than 7 transactions per second. It's barely viable as a niche speculation currency.
Here is my prediction if Verizon does buy Yahoo... all mobile traffic to Yahoo and Yahoo owned properties will not count against your monthly data cap. This sets up yet another streaming service(s) that Verizon can make money with ads and/or subscriptions with. Since Verizon also provides DSL and Fios, this also might incentivise Verizon to implement data-caps for those services as well; with the exception of course for Yahoo content.

T-Moble started the trend for free traffic for certain services, but Verizon will copy the idea and bend it for their benefit.
Seems surprising to me that any company would make a pseudo-non-announcement like this. What would they have to gain by acknowledging rumors or speculating like this?
Indeed, the Berlin tram network is surprisingly fast and convenient.
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Which is why many of my wife's family have changed their names, and given their children non-Muslim names.

On the flip side, my wife has also had other Muslims judge her for being too secular...

BTW, Arab-Christians are a thing, they're not named Mohammed, Ali or Abu Bakr... 'Muslim' names are distinct from 'Arab' names (ie. Are names of Islamic saints).
What I've started doing is to filter via whether or not they're in my contacts. I have a folder (I don't use Gmail) where all non-contact-originating email goes into. That folder doesn't even ring up the new email count.

I've immensely enjoyed this new system. I, like you, immediately unsubscribe from things that I don't even care about in the "good-spam" box. Only I am too lazy (or don't care enough) to maintain a huge list of email addresses to filter out. I'd rather err on the side of too much filtering (e.g. not in my contacts) since I still get it on my phone/desktop. If I ever want something to hit me right away, I just add it to my contacts, even if it's a company/"good-spam" address.
If the new Engadget is any indication of Verizon's vision for these content companies, I think we can safely say that Yahoo has not seen the worst of it yet.
Ponoko does laser cutting for all types of materials and 3D printing as well.

https://www.ponoko.com/
Can anyone explain to me, someone who's more than happy with GMail, what these apps offer that aren't being offered by Google/Microsoft?

It seems like Mailbox had a loyal following but I guess my email use is just not sophisticated enough to understand.
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That's abrupt. It wasn't that long ago I was bribed into downloading Mailbox by some notification in the Dropbox app.

Bummer too, because I really like it. They're not even going to leave it and let it slowly decay until time takes it's toll and nature wins like with Sparrow.

"As you evaluate alternatives, you might consider the stock apps like iOS Mail (Apple) and Gmail (Android)"

I guess they didn't have much time to research other mail clients.
Plenty of modern cities with highly functional urban cores do just fine with public mass transit. DC should be able to do the same.

It is a matter of fixing the right things rather than giving up and handing it over to private industry. Sadly too many interests in the USA are trigger-happy about throttling any/all public transit.
You can look at https://github.com/nylas/n1 (also mentioned elsewhere in this thread)
My fridge is listening to me
From: http://lasergist.com/design-guidelines/
Depending on your design, the engraving position will have
a tolerance of +- 3mm.

Is this engraving position registration tolerance correct, or a typo? If +/- 3 mm is correct, then it would certainly rule it out for my application (control panels)
Sad, Drew had said it's not going anywhere when the acquisition was announced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381572
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For years I've talked to people about getting basic logic skills taught in school. Everyone looks at me like I have a number of heads between 1 and 3.
For certain. I just gave it a try a couple of weeks ago and it's now my default client as a gmail user.
D3 always looks really interesting to me, but I still just use Highcharts for generating charts (easy to use, great documentation). Any reason to try out D3 for basic charting, or is it best suited for more custom scenarios?
I think you forgot your [1].
I feel more badly for the people who used and loved the products.

Hard to feel bad for people who got a nice pile of money and a cushy job and probably more equity that can turn into another pile of money later...
The other answer to the question would be no comment. The press could (would!) turn that into a story just as easily.
Definitely more suited for custom scenarios. That said, once you've got the basics in D3 it's really easy to start adding pieces of knowledge and customize. Highcharts is a lot more abstracted away.
Just ask for a sheet 6mm wider & taller than you want, and draw a 3mm rectangle around your actual design, centred within it...
Word for Word
VC is generally designed for big bets and big payoffs (invest in 10 risky bets in the hope that 1 pays off to cover your losses on the other 9). Less risky ventures with smaller payoffs take longer to grow, and don't satisfy the payoff requirements of the VC model.

That doesn't mean they're bad companies, but there's definitely a funding gap for the type of company that will require $3M in investment up front and be worth $10M in 5 years. That's still a great return, but right now it's the domain of private equity.
Thiefs in the night
Would announcing this not increase the value of Yahoo!, which would in turn increase the cost Verizon would have to pay? Doesn't seem very rational to comment on the rumours unless they have no intention to buy.
Relevant Twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/673918795707244544
It will be brought into Airwatch and used exclusively for that.
For their normal coffee I totally agree, but have you tried one of their Reserve coffees on the Clover machine mentioned in the article? As far as I know it tunes its brewing parameters to each individual type of bean and it's consistently the best coffee I've had besides what I can make on my own.
why is spectrum so expensive? only Goliath size corps can afford it.
I’d pay to have delete actually delete email completely (not just from my inbox, but from all as well).
One could say "I call myself Stephen", but does make it sound like there's something a little weird going on upstairs.
I'm still hoping they'll sell them to someone.

Dropbox is obviously planning to go a different direction with its core product strategy, so that makes sense to me, but those products were too good to just let die. I'm sure someone would be willing to take them off of Dropbox's hands.
I'd be personally interested in aluminium (or other more lightweight material), but iirc cutting it is not so simple as steel.
Isn't that against the basic idea of Net Neutrality? Is that even legal?
Cool rape metaphor, bro! Goodbye.
"If I'm committing a small burglary, I doubt I'm very attached to my current address."

That is exactly what I am saying. If he has a solid address, it is unlikely that he is a small time burglar.

Not sure how IDs work in the US. In Germany you have to register with the police when you move and you are supposed to carry your ID at all times. Of course there is no guarantee that people keep their ID up to date. Then again, I suppose if mail to the old address would be failing it could be marked in the computer, easy to check for the police.
Right now I am using Airmail and I'm pretty happy about it.
I have about 4 email accounts and it works well.

The shortcuts are Gmail compliant so you can use whatever you are used for with motion/archive/delete and more.

I've used Postbox, MailPlane3, Mailbox, Mail and a lot of others, Airmail is the best one so far.
What's interesting to note is that JAB Holdings now owns quite the coffee stable:

- Caribou

- Peet's

- Intelligentsia (via Peet's)

- Stumptown (via Peet's)

- Keurig
The founders of FED just repeated the scam that fueled Bank of England [1]. Andrew Jackson must be fed up with rolling in his grave. [2]

[1] http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2013/01/who-owns-the-bank-of-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_War
So only 10k other similar schemes to go, then? Italy is corrupt from the bottom up. :/
HotMaiL didn't make a dent in Eudora market share. What killed Eudora was Outlook Express, bundled with the operating system for free. Incidentally, the same strategy was used against Netscape (who then proceeded to quickly kill itself when faced with that prospect).
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I did expect that by 2015 somebody would have figured out a way to make a decent kettle that lasts a lifetime, or a similarly decent fridge, or washing machine, or even a watch. Sadly, I was disappointed.

If you own something, you're not buying it - so the seller doesn't get the money. Software figured this out quickly - that's why everything that has not moved to cloud yet is being sold in form of licenses - a temporary grant to use some software. Rest of the world did it with planned obsolescence, and now the trend is to actually make you license hardware instead of buying it. It's sick. But that's where the money is, that's what the Market[0] says to do, therefore it's happening.

[0] - or Moloch.
Agreed. I think much of the western received wisdom on animal cognition actually comes from religious attitudes of the unique specialness of man and his God-given dominion over the birds and beasts.

In general I think we are still adjusting to what science tells us about who "we" are.

For example, we know we're animals. As animals, we experience a concept of "self." So why would we assume that no other animals experience a concept of self?

We know that the mind arises from the brain. So why would we make a distinction between our concept of self and the "other" parts of the brain? The title of the above article is essentially clickbait, in my opinion. There is no scientific basis for distinguishing between the brain and the self.
Self-driving cars ahead of schedule
IMHO, the turning point several years ago was when Metro went from automated mode to manual mode after having to go from 6 car trains to 8 car trains. Apparently, the automated mode, where the train driver just looks out for anomalies, doesn't have enough precision to handle 8 car trains that consume the entire platform at stations.

Under automated mode, you had consistent threshold breaking and acceleration, door opening times, etc. It was a very smooth ride.
To be fair, that was 3 years ago. A lot can change in that amount of time.
Nylas looks awesome. Has anyone built a plugin for it that allows for "message snoozing"? That was the real ingenuity with Mailbox IMO.
Because physics doesn't like startups I guess...

Or to phase that another way: There is a lot of spectrum. But very little spectrum that is suitable for mobile phone usage. When a resource is finite and valuable, it gets expensive.

If you want a "real" solution that would allow startups to play in the ballpit? Pass new national laws which split the cellular companies into two organisations, one that offers consumer services, and another which exists to maintain/install/upgrade the physical cellular network (and who then resells access).

It actually makes little sense to have competing and exclusive cellular infrastructure. The infrastructure should just be like a public resource, like a road, and the cellphone companies should be like shipping companies, utilising a public resource (the road) to sell a service (shipping stuff).

I'd be all for the government using eminent domain to seize every single cellphone tower in the country, and then reselling access to them to every cell phone company equally. But it isn't very capitalist...
No; but often the server components are heavily tied to some other proprietary libraries that they're not ready to open source. They could remove all proprietary code from their codebase, but that costs money - likely more than they were willing to spend on this product.

Unless open source is part of your marketing strategy (which means the effort would have a budget), it's really difficult to open source an existing commercial application.
They are better for the local environment. They usually run of off electricity instead of diesel. That's a significant win for streetcars over buses.
Executive promises at the time of an acquisition mean absolutely nothing, their main goal is to reduce break-off risk (both of users and employees) due to change of control.
Yes. No. Does our (U.S.) government actually give two cares? No.
Can you ship in time for the holidays?
Yes, they could do a spin-out.
From the article that one links to: "Used Furniture"

Yes! That's the one that sets me off the most. I'm not too concerned about where a book lies along the range of hard sci-fi to space opera as long as it's a fun read, but I hate books that recycle other stuff too much. The worst offender here that I can recall was a series of stories that basically copied the plots from Greek myths and made them into sci-fi stories. I want to say it's from Frederik Pohl, but I'm not 100%. I also completely agree about the "space westerns".
Secomp support finally in Docker
That might work for really simple stuff, but at that point what's the point of using laser cutting with 0.01mm precision?
In English, I think this form typically implies that Ishmael is not the speaker's usual name, but just a name that the speaker wants the listeners to use.

E-prime runs in communicative problems because of linguistic marked-ness.
That would be the rational thing to do. I don't believe it will happen though. If it was going to happen it would before they announced they're shutting it down.

I just don't get how you can spend 100m$ on something and just let it die.
What did Dropbox get out of this deal?

SV is depressing sometimes.
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Excession had some old, powerful, influential minds that weren't at 100%. If i remember, one even self reported - which wasn't allowed.

I like to think there are things like loyalty and senility for minds but a million times more complicated. There's nothing specific in look to windward, but some damaged mind might have been in control, with the others covering up for it.
DC's streetcar and subway systems aren't supposed to address the same need. The metro system, in terms of station placement/spacing, schedules, line routes, etc., is designed to efficiently move people from the suburbs to the core and back again. It's poorly laid out for moving people within the city; the hub and spoke layout means almost everyone needs to transfer and trips are often circuitous. For my commute to my last job, for example, getting to work via metro required walking five blocks, going into downtown, changing lines, coming back out from downtown, and walking an additional four blocks. It took 45 minutes, vs a half hour just to walk to work or ten minutes to bike, and this is typical of getting from place to place within the city by metro. Most people don't bother.

The envisioned broader streetcar network would have been explicitly designed to address intra-urban trips, and would have had a very different layout from metro, with stations spaced more closely together, and fewer lines passing through downtown.

Lots of cities have different systems to address these needs, since it's difficult or impossible to design a system that does both well.