skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head - offline support, PGP support, multi-account support, decent mail-list/threading support, separation of client from service provider..

I'm actually quite a fan of the gmail interface; it is one of the most usable webmail experiences in my opinion (I use google apps both at work and for personal use). For day-long usage, I'd rather stick with mutt/vim.
Azure provides a massive number of Linux boxes. It's actually their preferred target, if you hear them tell it at Connect2015.

I had a friend go there, came back talking about hallway discussions of Posh on Redhat.
I can think of a few reasons to avoid Ada. For one, resources and community for this language are basically nonexistent compared to C++. The history of the language is obscured in proprietary implementations which has led it down the same road as Pascal in terms of longevity. Ada has "bad parts" in the same way that C++ does, although this is mitigated by SPARK.

Concurrency / tasking in Ada is simple and beautiful, however. One of the most compelling features of the language, especially coming from C++.
How much does Ada rely on garbage collection?
Actually... its chown that is failing, which is very logical: only root can do chown.
True, but this is in the Amazon in the first 150 years after the Spanish. 90-98% died, mostly of disease. There are more native people now then in 1650.
Hats off to you on the implementation and for being so technically ambitious.

I'm wondering why you exactly decided to go this route? I was expecting your app to be very graphically intensive or have some other kind of demanding requirements. When I went to the site it appears it's some kind of collaborative design tool? Not saying these tools don't require a top-notch UI. Maybe for manipulating and scrolling/scaling huge canvases? Coming from a mapping background, I can totally see this as something lacking in the browser. There aren't many primitives for creating these kinds of image-based interfaces.

There's certainly a trade-off between having super-fast performance and a completely custom rendering engine and adopting a not-often used delivery mechanism and stack (C++/asm.js). I'd imagine it's hard to find people who have all that expertise, it's hard enough finding a good frontend dev in the conventional technologies of the web.

Good luck on your product launch, can't wait to use your UI and play around with it.
Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update
I was kinda hoping there would be a second message down the left side:

http://www.wired.com/2009/10/schwarzenegger/
None of your examples make any sense to me. It seems like it'd be a lot easier and safer to simply piggyback on the existing Bitcoin blockchain. To use your trivial example of a two person blockchain, what are you trying to do? If we trust each other already, then we don't need a blockchain, we just need signed transactions. If we don't trust each other then having our own private blockchain solves nothing, as whoever has more processing power can perform a 51% attack on the network, deny the other person's transactions, and double-spend your own. Having a blockchain makes no sense in this context.

That's why you use the biggest existing blockchain, not a separate one. There's no way in hell I can cheat you if we do our transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, because I can't beat the overall hashing power of the system, but I sure as hell can beat your hashing power if we have a blockchain that's only for two people, or just for a neighborhood.
Also interested in sample pricing, would also like to see some sample designs. This would be really cool to do logos for doors etc at engineering and design firms.
we double check the input data. Totally different to confirm than to wait for a quote.
Regarding the third question, it's a nice analogy there but is he suggesting that electric power is predominantly clean?

Across the US, 37.4% of our electric power comes from coal. I don't want to detract from the overall message because it is clear and accurate but I think it's important to think about how electric power is currently generated.

Coal statistic pulled from: http://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/...
Understood and well noted. If i'm not mistaken though, those services have their own software and some very specific guidelines to follow.
Ratings of Muslims Rise in France After Charlie Hebdo
Maybe for people just looking to do plain text / fonts that can't do design in illustrator / CAD make a text box?
They still have the opportunity to correct their decision if it turns out to be a bad one.
Yeah, The Box is a good read. A few years old now.
Energy in general doesn't look like a good investment in the near future.
I skimmed your article and I'm now convinced that Albert Burneko is a mean person. That was about 3479 words of ad hominem. I have to respect such persistence.

But I have no opinion on David Brooks.
They are known violent protestors. I don't care much about the freedom of "environmentalists" that protest against capitalism by burning down stores. Especially while the country is in state of emergency.
The Selfie: A Window into Our Sexist Souls
The actual story was discussed a week ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10653033
Because the Internet was the first - and so far only - global free or mostly free market that has ever existed. It came of age at a time in which every major economy is highly regulated, rigid and bureaucratic. By design it came into this world with: free speech and expression, the ability to create and start things at will without permission (no little bureaucrat to get approval from first), and had little to no taxation placed on top of it for a long time (even if eg in the US those sales taxes were supposed to be paid anyway). The powers that be have had to work for two decades to try to cripple it to strip that very high degree of freedom away and acquire the control they want over it (whether for data espionage purposes, or control of commerce, or control of speech for social purposes, or taxation et al). Most governments were caught entirely off-guard with the speed at which the Web emerged.

Any time large bureaucracies run into a free market, they inevitably try to kill or regulate it (whether for the benefit of entrenched companies, or for state control purposes, or out of misguided nanny-state protectionism). There are few nations across the globe that haven't followed the same increasing regulation / control path with regards to the Internet, to one degree or another.
How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire (2014)
The first open source PC
Do you mean having some ready samples that you can order or just plain pics? This is already on its way to be done quickly. Thanks for your comment.
I think unlicensed spectrum should be reserved for use by the public.
Encryption is really an identity problem.

For intra-corporate mail, email works just great, because the identity problem is solved. Trusted communications between 3rd parties just isn't a natural mail use case.
I think theres plenty of useful spectrum to go around between 2.4GHz and 5.8

All the legacy nonsense needs to be ruthlessly eliminated. People claim frequency auctions are efficient but that's clearly not the case if you are only auctioning .1% of whats useful and allocate the remainder to waste on a free cost basis.
Toomas Hendrick Ilves, the current Estonian President, represents a cybersecurity expert. Things like that can mean a big deal, with respect to policy.

I lived next door, in Riga, Latvia, for several months, in late 1997; during that time, we visited the beautiful city of Tallinn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn . Definitely worth the trip.
Just keeping the ISS in orbit would require at least one mission every year or so to boost it into a higher orbit and re-stock some of the consumables.

These missions cost something like half a billion each.
Is Linux performance on par with OS X, does anyone know of a benchmark that would make sense (given the status of much of the standard lib)?
It is suswalm at sec dot gov
Slick.

Bonus is that Android/iOS is probably just a matter of hooking into just GL, Input & Filesystem APIs.

I'd really love the hear the painpoints of emscripten in production for an actual application. Most of the uses seems to be either games or demos.
> Edit(since I can't reply yet to child):

HN #protip: if you click on comment link itself, it will let you comment earlier.

Ah, I see. This isn't my area of specialty, but it _sounds_ like what Cap'n Proto does? Anyway, it doesn't sound impossible, though it might not be the most ergonomic. I'll check out that library, thanks.
In eras when speech carries risk, facts can be spun into fiction and fiction can be a safe carrier of dangerous facts.
He doubled his salary in just five minutes a day. Employers hate him!
Bernie’s New Climate Change Plan Is an Environmentalist’s Dream, Except for This
I think vega lite is where the action should be. http://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
I have observed a strong trend in avionics software development to move away from Ada towards C++. I have not yet heard a concrete reason why. I might guess that it's easier to hire people with some existing C++ experience than with Ada experience, but understanding the programming language is pretty inconsequential compared to understanding the product domain.
Noted and 100% agree with you. We'd go for Comodo most probably but we'll have a look at cloudflare too!
For some time I think of C++ not as a programming language, but as a make-your-own-programming-language-kit. It's because practically there is no the C++. Everyone uses different subset or even coding style. C++ ABI is not as interoperable as C ABI (if you can even say that it exists). Almost every bigger library reimplements Object - the base interface of everything. Then they need wrappers and adapters between those different object models. Qt for example is not written in C++ - it has to be compiled with their MOC to add signals/slots and introspection around other things. But all this ad-hoc languages suck in regard of tools. Their error messages are unintelligible and everything relies on convensions (hopefully enforced at least by code reviews). I could paste here quote about ad-hoc reimplementations of Lisp...

C++ is still necessary (evil) in some cases, but as a C++ programmer I have enough and I plan to move to other languages.
If you mean OSX do this:

- Open Mail, roughly time how long it takes from left pane click to message fully rendered on the right (~2-3 seconds)

- Open Dropbox (fast before it goes away!) and do the same (~250ms)

I get roughly 100-150 emails overnight that I go through in the morning. At 2-3 seconds PER THREAD render this is insanely unproductive use of my time.

Every time I open OSX Mail I have this exact process in my head and I promptly close it.
These weren't Europeans in the rain forest (which is a large continent of many different peoples), but mostly Spanish and Portuguese. Who married and had kids with native Americans. They weren't racist as we think of it today, they just held little regard for human life, especially little regard for non-christian human life.

To put this in perspective, this period came right after 100 years of bloody civil war in Spain that produced some of the most efficient killers the world had ever seen.

[EDIT] I shouldn't have said that they weren't Europeans, but that not all of Europe was represented, only Portugal and Spain. That blaming Poland or Germany for the activities of the Spanish was pretty unfair.
In the first and second question he addresses pollution and coal. I think it's safe to assume he means an electric car powered by renewable energy.
If partner / customer (assuming B2B) visits are a possibility, consider that it may not make the best impression on them. Neighbor complaints are another possible area of concern; this was a big problem for one of the original coworking locations in Cambridge, Betahouse.

As others have mentioned, definitely consider coworking; there are a bunch of options in the area now, and they're more affordable than private office space with more benefits over running your business out of an apartment. Here's a list of 20+ coworking spaces in the area: http://bostonstartupsguide.com/guide/boston-coworking-spaces...
Prices are determined by replacement cost, not potential value. Google has a strong arbitrage opportunity because it can generate more dollars for the same wage as competing companies. While margins allow them to bid higher, the price will always be marginally higher from the second highest bidder.

The point of the article is that, assuming equal employees, you are in fact saying that one has a higher economic value to the company based only on where they choose to live.
Dear Muslims,
Let's not forget that the Roman Empire was not without its atrocities in the name of the Greater Good.

Bad often has to be done so that More Bad for More People won't happen.

And before we catigate Europe, let's not forget that there are a substantial number of sectarian and ethnic minority/majority tensions even inside of the Muslim governed world. No one is without blood on their hands.
The latest Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac, which has been shipping for the past 2 years, already works only in the 5GHz band. There has been a push for Wi-Fi to work in the 5GHz band ever since the 802.11n years with the "dual-band" routers, mainly because the 2.4GHz band was getting too crowded/routers were interfering with each other through walls too easily.
I wonder what the css insight would show? Both the computed value and variable name?
Used where and for what? The international space station was originally intended as a low earth orbit base for human space activity, then gradually morphed into a low-gravity laboratory.
They lost me at the basketball story. The point would be valid if the scoring baskets were uncorrelated events, but they're not - a player's physical and mental state on the day of play will be similar for all of them, and different than on another day.

Then immediately after he talks about the probability of dice rolls, without realizing that rolling a 7 is much more likely than rolling a 2 if you're using a pair of dice.
The one exception to the otherwise excellent plan:

> But there’s one major flaw in Bernie’s plan: Sanders is calling for a total phase-out of nuclear energy.
Indeed food is another thing whose price will rise. Meaning that because the supply pipeline is relatively fixed, when the demand goes up (due to more people with disposable income) things will either sell out more quickly or the price will go up resulting in a drop in demand to match the previous levels but now more money is in the hands of the suppliers. Only if an increased demand looks very sustainable will a company increase its supply output ahead of schedule.
I did as well. However, I imagine that articles that aren't a touch hyperbolic seldom make it to the top of the news aggregators.
Gates has also reviewed all of these books in more detail on gatesnotes.com. Here's the link to the Thing Explainer review (which I ordered today) - http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Thing-Explainer

Others Below:

Eradiation: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Eradication

Mindset: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-o...

The Road To Character: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Road-to-Character

Being Nixon: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Being-Nixon

Sustainable Materials: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Sustainable-Materials-With-B...
This just smells like the start of censorship creeping into these platforms...

Twitter was pivotal in the Arab Spring. I can't see Twitter ever being pivotal again in future struggles if regimes can demand them to censor rebellious accounts

It's not "social" if the society can be censored.

Edit: Now that Twitter will be closing "terrorist" accounts, how long until Japan demand Twitter to close the @SeaShepherd account?
I had a business idea much like that when I was a kid. Send people to deserted islands and let them survive on their own for weeks. However, I assumed it would only be for the ultra rich. It's mind boggling to me that the rates are actually really cheap (because you're ostensibly renting out a whole island for a night): http://www.docastaway.com/pages/adventure-cottages-huts/list

The most isolation I ever found was getting dropped on an uninhabited island (well other than wild horses) and running around it for an hour. I would love to go on of these trips. I've always been fascinated with survival (Castaway seemed like a fun adventure more than a tragedy). I admit that the whole thing is rather silly if you stop to think about it, but that doesn't stop me from finding the idea alluring.

I have to agree that the name DOCASTAWAY is really dumb though.
Facebook Ends Creative Labs Initiative and Shuts Down Slingshot, Rooms and Riff
Glad I'm not the only one who thought the one supposed 'major' update did not add very many useful features and made the UI look cluttered. Also, it ran surprisingly well for a webview app, I don't see why they felt the need to rewrite it.
It also sidesteps the partners operating the ISS; NASA isn't the only one (albeit possibly the largest one) on the station.

> If nothing else, the ISS would be useful for "worker housing" during such assembly projects.

Interestingly Russia plans to take some of their part from the ISS to build another space station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Piloted_Assembly_and_E...) that will exactly have this role of an intermediary "gas station" between earth and space exploration
Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]
trip down the memory lane: i coded apps (programs we called them, like a small joystick drawing tool or a little program that put out a boilerplate BASIC code) and games (rpg, asteroid like mini-shooter, ...) on the C64 (basically via "forking" and combining programms available in printed magazines) - but nobody "grown up" saw value in them. i was told not to waste that much time on the computer - and after the energy-supply-thingie went up into flames, i was sent back to watch TV...

gladly -as i found out in the first dotcom bubble - that not much has changed. ok, everything has changed, but "writing programs" was still "writing programs" and it wasn't that much of a jump from BASIC to "that stupid subset of PERL that the template engine of that long gone agency used".

we should bring back that "printed code" magazines. i mean really just a magazine where there is pure code and only a short discussion about it. not that patronizing how-to shit thats currently available.
What you said makes sense if a company's stock price (and market cap) was correlated with the size or stability or profitability of the company. That's usually not the case though. People buy and sell stocks based on their predictions about other people buying and selling the same stocks, which itself is only indirectly based on a company's performance.

You are correct that in an ideal world, $14b sounds like a lot for Keurig, but that's pretty mild compared to other valuations (in the tech industry in particular, and among startups in particular) that we all read about every day. Apple reports record profits? The stock tanks. Amazon loses money? Hey everybody, let's double down on Amazon. Facebook's market cap is over $300b right now. $300b for Facebook, let that sink in. Twitter's market cap is currently $17b in spite of having no path to long-term stability or profitability in sight.

The one thing a company can do to improve its stock price seems to be to show growth. If there's growth, your stock is likely to go up. If there's not growth, even if you remain insanely successful and profitable, your stock doesn't stay the same- it's likely going to go down (MS in the aughts being a prime example). Investors seem to value growth (and fear the lack of growth) far more than they care about the fundamentals of the companies they invest in, at least in the tech industry.

Every market has natural forces acting on it that push it towards efficiency and rationality, but most people learn about those concepts and stop there. IMO, understanding a market means understanding why a given market isn't 100% efficient or rational in spite of those forces, and in the case of the stock market I fear that it's mostly driven by the Greater Fool Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Thanks for sharing.
I know Shodan API. But actually its API has request limits.

I am planning on creating a site like shodan which provides webcam search service. You know, detect webcams online and store them into databases.

Some ideas?
On your last point, email subjects are created by end users. I don't think I've ever had a mail client complain that my subject was too long and refer me to the RFC. Pretty much every application developer will prefer complying with their users' preferences rather than specs.
How much are you looking to pay for this? How many people are looking for delight in their email client? Do these numbers multiplied add up to a few tens of millions?
Affiliate links? Like, Bill Gates gets some money when you click through his blog? Please tel me I'm misunderstanding.
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Swift does a pretty good job as well for a first attempt.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...
Unrelated: Facebook notes look good. I wonder if it's a direct competitor to to Medium / Svbtle.
Folders. Didn't Gmail kill folders?
Amen on David Brooks -- I feel like I am losing my mind when he pops up with his morality expertise in the media. I regularly re-read this 2004 line-by-line analysis of his 2000 book Bobos in Paradise[0]; his writing is littered with incorrect generalizations that makes me question everything he has to say on principle.

[0] http://www.phillymag.com/articles/david-brooks-booboos-in-pa...
Excuses, excuses, and fine-grained sub-classifications. OSX feels bad and stale. The store breaking only exacerbated this.

Oh, and El Capitan's fucked dev experience?

> There is almost no UI convergence.

"Almost" being notification center which is really important and interacted with regularly, I guess.
Thanks for the reply and references, I'll try to integrate them into the post soon!
Can't believe I haven't heard of this before. Thanks!
It's interesting that this option wasn't even considered.

Why does every startup need to aim to take over the world overnight? Is it not feasible to first take external funding to grow quickly in early stages, and then transition to a more organic growth model once you reach a point of profitability and sustainability (and maybe also slowly buy back shares in the company to eventually become fully autonomous)?
I'm suggesting this string has two Unicode codepoints. I don't know anything about Hindi language or Devanagari script.
No, another commenter posted links but slapped affiliate tags on them.
A candidate just waved away defending the Constitution as “the usual complaints
There are actually no direct links to Amazon (or other similar sites) in his blog posts. Parent meant other commentators in this thread.