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I agree. The "welfare queen" or "SNAP for steaks" stereotypes are assisted by their immediate visual presence, enough to make even one encounter turn people off of the welfare scheme, especially if they see it as freeloaders on their paycheck. If the theme is less "makers and takers" and more "we're all in it together," we may find ourselves looking at our fellow citizens in a more egalitarian light, knowing that the minimum is not one to be feared, but avoided, if possible, and desired.
I beg to differ. I don't see constantly increasing competition, partly because the demand for (good) programmers is also increasing, and partly because (in my opinion) most programming work actually does need real understanding.

Besides, programming is a very rewarding activity in itself, due to the creative nature of it [1].

So I have the complete opposite view - software developer is a great career: http://henrikwarne.com/2014/12/08/5-reasons-why-software-dev...

[1] Why I Love Programming: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
Just a smaller coffee company. Never been in a location, but I have had many of their k-cups.
Got it about the Trumpf! Of course we are reviewing every single design and approve/decline designs. We don't want unhappy reviews for sure but the "post-production editing" stuff we do saves the common gotchas of laser cutting. Can't wait to try us out - will definitely be there by Christmas (I guess you are in the States, right?)
PSMA publish GNAF every three months. Need to think about a production process and metadata :-). There are about 100k "new" addresses each time and a lot of addresses improve their location. Might be worth asking for a change file.
Good points here, but let's have a quick look at the examples provided here:

> There are some companies you can rely on: Bare Bones, Panic, and Omni (my employer), for instance.

Hmm. Panic killed its early MP3 player Audion not long after Apple started shipping iTunes in their OS for free [1]. And Omni has allowed their once mind-blowingly great web browser OmniWeb [2] to wither; though theoretically still in development, only "test builds" of the latest version have been available for years, and it doesn't even have its own page on Omni's site anymore.

The author's point - that software companies discontinuing software sometimes is a thing that happens regardless of other factors - still stands, but the companies the author cites as counter-examples are not themselves flawless.

[1]: https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

[2]: https://www.omnigroup.com/more
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690035 and marked it off-topic.
If LTE-U degrades WiFi won't it work in the other way too, WiFi degrading LTE-U? If this is the case it's going to be difficult to use LTE-U inside or close to homes, which are probably the most crowded areas and so the use case of LTE-U. It could be a difficult product to sell.
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Oh man this is sad news. I'm currently using Mailbox as my default mail app on Android. I'll pay for it is there was an option.
Did you read to the end of the post? No one can actually follow the ITG script.

Maybe if you're a professional lawyer. Everyone else will screw it up somewhere. Following it closely requires an attitude regarding cops somewhere between "Officer Friendly is only here to help" and "these pigs might kill me". That zone on the spectrum for "these guys are cleverly trying to hamstring my lawyer before the trial" is razor thin.

Those on one side will cooperate because they earnestly believe that the innocent do not get punished. Those on the other will cooperate because they believe that resistance is futile in the face of overwhelming force without any form of restraint. The ITG stance is pretty much exclusively held by people who will probably never have the opportunity to try it out on real cops.

Everybody out there in the real world formulates their strategy based on their prior experiences with real cops, rather than activist videos.
Try highlighting substrings of that text -- my browser doesn't even know it's multiple characters. (Separate is the idea of a browser displaying ligatures, which already works. But that's because ligatures are a display issue and the source text must have non-ligature text in it.)
Nice article. But I think there are a few other things they missed out that make building an email client so difficult:

1. Consistency. Okay, this is always going to be a problem, since rendering anything more than plain text in emails is a minefield that makes the bad old days of Internet Explorer vs Netscape Navigator look like a utopia. But people still expect their Amazon/eBay/Google/whatever account/confirmation emails to look decent, so you have to figure out a basic HTML parser as well. And then try and make it somewhat work with people who are designing their messages with stuff like Outlook's Microsoft Word engine in mind.

2. Spam. I'm surprised this wasn't really mentioned in the article, but it's arguably the biggest issue any email provider, client developer or email server software maker has to deal with. You have to make sure your software can figure out what messages are unwanted, then either send them to the spam folder or delete them. Most startups don't have to figure that out, since their systems are closed and spam prevention can be done on sign up. Not so much if you're building an email client where any Tom, Dick or Harry can send messages to anyone with no real way to verify if they're human or not.

So yeah, few other issues.
not having an automated/instant quote system totally kills my interest in this; compare with ponoko or big blue saw, upload a design and it will very easily give exact prices for your design on various materials.
Will Mailbox be open-sourced? [1]

Unfortunately not. We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, but this is ultimately not something we will support.

[1] http://www.mailboxapp.com/faq/
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Seeing "The discussion of gender bias and gender equity is a rich and complicated subject" statement with an attitude of "I know more than you despite me not possibly knowing anything of what you know of the topic" paints an interesting picture.
Hey all!

I set up a web application to subscribe to email newsletters.

Im generating unique email addresses and have been parsing the content of the emails.

I do some post-aggregation of links shared via the emails by doing some redirect following.

Since the emails are directly embedded into the page, there is a lot of wonky CSS styling that is going on.

I'd love to hear what this project makes people think!

- @rememberlenny on twitter
I ctrl-F'd "Android" - Mailbox is the best email app for Android other than Inbox - which doesn't work with my school's Google Apps configuration.

Shame that there are no other good Android apps, but iOS has a few.
You keep bringing this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497114 -- do you have some kind of axe to grind here?
Depends on wifi's reaction to what amounts to noise. Given a polite protocol that checks before sending, and a protocol that rudely blasts out a signal without checking, the latter will "win".
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Should I read into the fact that Google translate has changed to the title to "Klikkausjournalismi eat credibility of journalism?" :)
Considering a public policy perspective, I would be hell of a lot less interested in the ongoing class war if I knew at any time I could go and live out in the woods with my girlfriend and neither of us would have to worry about being hauled into debtors prison for student loans.
> Once again the French show the world what they are best in

First, you can't post comments to HN slurring an entire people. Users who upvoted this should be ashamed of themselves.

Second, please stop posting inflammatory political comments to HN. That's not what this site is for.
I'm of the belief that most active terrorist orgs are unlikely to have a strong Facebook presence, and that even if they do, they're unlikely to do anything of a threatening nature there. If anything, it would seem as though you might want to keep whatever is happing there for honeypot reasons.
I think one of the biggest problems for a creative entrepreneur is growing a business. This is my attempt at helping. I have made and sometimes lost money as a fashion designer, graphic designer, founder of an artist management firm,web developer, freelance designer, brand consultant and marketing director at a footwear brand.
Do you know any good resources for creative entrepreneurs? Please share
Hm, this seems to be more advice on how to use C++14 as if it were its own language, or as if it were Java, or as if it were Scheme.

One problem I have with the advice to use the newest language features in C++ is that it sacrifices one of the biggest advantages to writing code in C++: the ability to compile for multiple platforms. It's extremely unlikely that one has a compiler for every platform that supports all of these features. Additionally, each of these language features adds a small bit of convenience to the developer, while making the compiler substantially more complicated (and hence, more prone to errors).

To summarize the points made in the first 10 slides, which is far as I read (sorry)-

1) Always use auto.

2) Use for-each.

3) Don't use new or delete.

4) Use STL for everything.

5) Use smart pointers.
Just one more rep: your growth might just be one step away
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No, it should be the other way around.

You have to get a verdict first in order to detain them and not let them do the job for you and make them go through hardships for a redress and emergency laws are not just or fair to entertain them .
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What's your point? I doubt anyone except a Saudi propaganda minister would argue against you. I was responding to the parent asking for Iranian instances.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Virtualization
> Toss the whole maker away when it breaks, too.

Just like a laptop.
This is almost like a reverse Betteridge's Law of Headlines. So maybe the real law is, if the headline asks if there will be a huge change of the status quo, the answer is no. If the headline asks if the status quo will remain, the answer is yes.
Yup. Acquired for $101M then subsequently shut down in 1-2 years (just kidding of course).

I don't know if it's in my best interest to answer this publicly, but screw it. The honest answer is I'm not entirely too sure, but an acquisition is always on the table for any startup IMO. I think whenever you ask a founder, "If someone offered you $100M, would you take it?", it's a pretty loaded question.

There's really three outcomes to a startup: They die, they get acquired, they IPO. The thing is, if you think your company is valued at $1M and someone offers you $100M, of course you're most likely going to take it. It's 100x what you were expecting and it would be unwise not to take it. However, if you deep down believe that your company is worth more or can be worth more than the offering price and you have the proof to back it up, then it'd be unwise to take the offer.

For me, I strongly believe that email has A LOT to go. I mean, it's nearly 2016 and I still can't connect my Dropbox to my Gmail app client or send stuff into Evernote / Trello? Given all the time we spend on email, shouldn't we at least have some better automation / AI integration by now? Something smarter and more contextually aware that can make my life a bit easier?

So many people use email in the world. Literally everyone that has a Facebook account has to have an email account. I think the reason why we haven't seen a billion dollar plus company yet is that it's very ubiquitous and it's hard to build solutions for the masses. So companies give up, sell out, close down, and then we have to start again at ground zero.

So to your question, what's the end goal? Well, if we're right about our beliefs, hopefully we can become the next billion dollar company. If not, then it's the other two options: get acquired or die. Which one will it be? No idea, but we're just working our butts off right now.
Eh - there is actually plenty of room for pretty much all the trash humanity could possibly create. A hole ten miles square and couple of hundred feet deep could hold all of the U.S.'s trash for the next 100 years (this is not a controversial statement). And recycling is energy inefficient for pretty much everything but aluminum and steel.

Keurig solved a huge problem in offices - how to always have coffee available when people en masse are pretty bad at refilling the coffee. No amount of hand wringing will make people better at things like refilling coffee.
The message from this: outside of backup, Dropbox can't/won't sustain a small scale but profitable business for the long term (e.g. Basecamp style).

So don't even consider adopting and trusting their new "Paper" collaboration offering.
Andrew Jackson is also the guy who thought it fine to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling that under established treaty the Cherokee owned their land, sent the US Army in to evict them, and wound up killing a third of their population.

I'm not exactly a fan of his public policy positions.
It's unusual ("exotic"), but the meaning is perfectly preserved, and it's grammatically and semantically valid.

It's the sort of phrase that James Bond might say.
This is a huge blow, this was the mail app I used exclusively on the phone. What's the best alternative? Inbox? It seemed a bit complex when I first tried it out.
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I use Outlook. The thing I like about it is that it integrates my gmail and icloud accounts nicely. Native iOS app doesn't work well with GMail because you won't get notifications for new mail. And the GMail app doesn't work well with my icloud.com email - or iCloud doesn't forward to GMail reliably.

So I use the MS Outlook app and both are integrated seamlessly.
Educators have their hands tied. We've centralized everything, and the central bureaucracy has decided it doesn't matter how innovative educators can be because the central bureaucracy already knows everything about the best way to teach, and if you deviate from it, you're fired. (A couple of intermediate steps through failing test scores and the consequences, but that's the effect.)

Until the educators get the central bureaucracy off their backs, it doesn't matter what they are capable of.

If you'd like to read my point as being that the central bureaucracy is "the most entrenched, hidebound, nearsighted, and even perhaps terrified of real change" part of the system, I'm perfectly comfortable with that.
LTE-U surely won't be at a disadvantage to WiFi because it's designed with WiFi in mind.

Congestion-wise it will probably look like yet another WiFi AP, or zillion of them if it gets deployed sufficiently widely.
Once upon a time there was a man named Jacobs who designed wind turbines. In 1933 Admiral Byrd set one of these up on the South pole and many years (and many storms) later the machine was still working. No maintenance, no parts replaced, just incredibly durable and very well designed:

http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/wind-power-h...

I took a lot of inspiration from that model (but used many modern materials such as Neodymium magnets which were not available at the time).

The Jacobs brand survives to this day. I really don't understand how Ars could have missed this in their research for the article.
Can a screenplay algorithm save Hollywood?
Because not everyone agrees about what "net neutrality" means.

On the more universally reviled end of the spectrum, you have companies attempting to charge servers to pass traffic to their (also paying) customers.

On the nearly universally acceptable end of the spectrum, you have the widespread use of CDNs, or the Netflix and YouTube caching servers that they give ISPs for free.

Somewhere in the middle you have wireless ISPs offering free bandwidth to their users for use with popular services. Hard to get customers to see that as a bad thing, especially if they already use those services.
Nice work with OpenAddress.io BTW.
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One presumes that the non-whites also felt supreme, until the moment that they weren't.
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Who knows, maybe Coca Cola is playing a long game, and hope to refine the technology enough that one day they can ship around only the dry ingredients, and save $$$ on shipping all the water in each can?
So I can't eat meat because I don't possess the sharp canines and claws of a feline? Should I go around the forest telling tool using animals that they can't eat termites and ants unless they have the natural adaptations of an anteater?
CIOs will be the outcome economy's information controllers
>There's no inherent morality to the corporate bottom line (one of the biggest flaws in "free market" thinking is that if a theory is beautiful, it must also be moral)

Actually they think something even more naive, that the individual immoralities and egoisms at play (maximizing individual profit) work out for the benefit of all in the end.
For another ancient irrigation project, still intact, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dujiangyan
The parent of Peet's (and Caribou) closed all our local Caribou a few years ago and replaced them with a much smaller number of Peet's. It was a downgrade (the nationwide Peet's is nothing at all like the great ones I remember from the Bay Area) and a year later, they closed those Peet's and abandoned the region entirely. The Peet's they closed did a decent business (as did Caribou) so it was all just mysterious.

It sounds like they just skipped a step with you guys. Efficient!
Do you plan to add PGP support?
App Producer Gets Facts Wrong in Attempt to Dismiss Due Process Concerns
I still think is faster to send the same message to all than using JSON.parse on each (not to mention much more compatible). Since each worker is going to make a copy anyway (with JSON.parse or by receiving a message), why does it matter?

Also, assuming what you say is true, what's the problem? It's much easier for the JS implementations to synchronize things only with a specific type of typed arrays than sharing all kinds of GC-managed data structures.
How do they compete now where they exist markets with good coverage? Most major US cities have complete coverage from the big three, so they must be competing on things other than coverage.

Sure, this will even the playing field for coverage, but it won't even it for anything else (customer services, device financing, cost, et al). Plus actual network costs have little relation to what companies can charge, since all cellular companies over-sell their network.

I'm sure with this there will be companies that offer terrible customer service, and price their offering dirt cheap. That's fine. But most consumers will want to find a happy medium between the quality of service Vs. the cost.
I thought this was going to have something to do with the once popular magazine "PC World". As for "literacy" in the world of emoji, and in the case of this article, really-light-gray text on white background, that is being phased out for future generations of donkey island slaves.¹

¹See that Pinokio reference is a meta-joke about literacy.
I don't completely disagree with you, but in practice it's really hard to go back to C sometimes - there are a lot of tasks that are painful and error-prone to write in C. Complicated initialization and teardown logic that can fail mid-way is much easier to write incorrectly without RAII and scoped initialization objects, for example.
Yeah right now it labels the email with “trash” in the all folder instead of actually deleting it.
Do you have links for the 8 week doctors? Thanks in advance.
Don't you have to calculate price for every job anyway (in case the user lied or was inaccurate), or are you actually trusting their input to control pricing?
Given ready access to information and knowledge, and eventually cognitive enhancement, maybe the focus of professional education ought to be on core values and skills. Plus enough general background to know where to start with any particular project.
Seconding this recommendation - I'm planning on assigning this book in a college course on the Columbian Exchange next year. It's got the readability of a longform New Yorker article and the scholarly credibility of an academic book. Totally fascinating material that will up end much of what you learned in high school textbooks.
> To say you "lose nothing" seems a strange way to describe an option you have to pay for and which has no value without clearing the contract cost.

Well you can only lose what you put in and the option itself costs a fraction of the share price. Put option owners were certainly feeling a lot better today than short sellers (though call option owners were feeling best--some lucky owners of the Dec 11 65 calls are up 239900%!).
Sure, but it's possible to disagree with someone's opinions or policies on one topic and laud them on another.
Anyone have any info about this program? Quick googling about didn't help me, and I'm quite curious about how this program works.
FWIW, you can buy a sodastream unit for ~$70 and then for another $200 to $300 get a conversion kit and a large co2 cylinder and from then on the cost of carbonation works out to less than three cents per liter. Not sure what the syrup cost is since I only use mine for sparkling water.
Building a Better Let's Encrypt Client
Maybe, but not any time soon. S/MIME solves the same problem and is what enterprises and governments want. It's incredibly complicated and difficult to implement properly, but it does include solutions to some security-related issues that PGP doesn't (e.g., security labeling).
But see, I only need low-level control for parts of a project. For the rest of it, it's really nice to have the STL, and the move operators, polymorphism, and and and...
I think most VCs would rather see the company stick it out and go for the hockey-stick & IPO. An acquihire is a blip on their returns; it's basically worthless. They're usually arranged as a courtesy to founders, so that if you work your butt off for 3 years, do everything right, and still don't find success, you don't leave with hard feelings toward the other people you worked with.

You get acquihires when the assumptions behind the company's business model have been proven false and there's basically no way to solve it other than rebooting the company. Arguably this is an argument to not take VC until you've got the hockey-stick trajectory, so you can pivot & reboot at will without dissolving an existing organization. But even this sucks for customers, if you have any.
Unless you're building an MTA from scratch, I feel like the spam problem is solved by addons the MTA has, like SpamAssassin for Postfix.
Coordinated in real time, as I recall. Planning, don't know. Don't know if the NSA et. al. would admit if they'd vacuumed such up but failed to recognize it in time.
Why would we ever de-orbit the ISS? It took far more money and effort to get it there than it takes to operate it. The long-term value of ISS is unclear, but so is the long-term value of going to the moon or Mars.

Imagine if the people who founded Jamestown said, "hey, we're ready to start moving deeper in the continent, so let's burn Jamestown and push it into the ocean first." Why give up a beach head?

Our reach on single missions is constrained by our rocket size. Therefore to do bigger missions, we will need to assemble and supply spacecraft in space over multiple launches, as we have assembled the ISS. If nothing else, the ISS would be useful for "worker housing" during such assembly projects.
Higher powered APs don't help transmissions from the client which face the same interference.