skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the pricing?

Edit: After a bunch of clicking around, I realized I have to initiate an order to figure that out. And I need to provide material, thickness, X*Y dimensions, path length, and a couple of extras to get to hopefully get an estimate.

My feedback: please give me some pricing examples early on. Make it prominent on the start page. Like photos of 2-3 objects, what they cost to make, and what their respective parameters are.
Dropbox is shutting down Mailbox in February 2016 and Carousel in March 2016
There's a really big difference between terse academic written language and the kind of mode switching that goes on when speaking out loud for bilingual speakers. Most people have a much easier time following rules of grammar when writing language than when speaking it. Papers in english from academics around the world are often more readable than their spoken english.
I've had the complete opposite experience with D3. It adds one layer of abstraction (data binding) that is a little hard to understand, but pays off reams once you "get" it.

It doesn't do anything if you just desire to drop in your data - you need to build everything from scratch. On the other hand, if you start with good code or a good example and want to do something slightly different, it's very easy to modify to do what you want.

The amount of code it would take to "do everything yourself" that D3 does would be an order of magnitude more.
Is AWS enabling Angellist to boil the VC business?
Check out Spark by Readdle. It replaces Mailbox fairly well.
It seems unnecessary to ask for the dimensions and path length, could those not be extracted from the template uploaded in the second step?
Gmail on mobile does have a unified inbox:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/gmail-for-android-gets-a-un...
i think we're better of going for a paid email client instead of depending on these free ones.. that get acquired and shut down
Lessons learned from shipping Bad Medicine (a board game)
There is a benefit in being able to drive on the roads, what is the benefit in being attacked by terrorists?
Hey there-- I work at Nylas.

We've structured our business to... actually have a business. Our team spent the first year selling APIs to developers [1] which already power lots of paid apps. The N1 mail app we released two months ago[2] follows this and will have paid features next year.

Plus both are open source free software, and quite popular on GitHub. [3]

[1] https://nylas.com/features/

[2] https://nylas.com/n1

[3] http://github.com/nylas/
I'll get back to you when I'm done with my delicious freedom fries.
What feelings? "Dead children" are just about as close to "objectively morally wrong" as you can get.
Fraugster | http://www.fraugster.com/ | Berlin, Germany ONSITE, FULL-TIME

DevOp / Linux SysAdmin

We're a small startup based in Berlin tackling credit card fraud, our core stack is built on Golang web services, PostgreSQL and Kafka amongst other technologies. We're looking for a strong shell scripter with a ton of experience managing virtualized Linux environments on both bare metal servers and cloud providers like Google Cloud and AWS who can automate our deployment pipeline. Experience with Docker is a must, also it helps if you’ve worked as a developer in your past. You’ll be responsible for our infrastructure and have a big say in how things are done. As a company, problems are handled pragmatically & professionally, expectations are high but we’re more interested in someone who knows where their knowledge stops and wants to be constantly improving. The work environment in comparison to other startups I’ve been in would best be described as ‘sane’, in that projects are planned, code tested, efforts estimated and reviewed. Our current team is cross-functional and highly experienced in this field. We offer competitive salaries, good working conditions and we are willing to sponsor visas.

Please contact us at jobs@fraugster.com
I've been looking to move to FastMail for a while, but Mailbox was holding me back (the whole zero-inbox with the remind me this weekend stuff).

Does anybody know of a good zero-inbox client for FastMail?
FWIW, a friend told me Mailbox was dead (the team had been moved off the product) back in June, so this was internally known for months.
Angels+Among+Us:+Have+You+Met+One?
That's really bad news for me. I've used Mailbox everyday for a long time, before it joined Dropbox. I am really happy with it, and never tried to switch to another mail client.
That site almost crashed my Macbook Pro.
Ooh, this is very sad. I rely heavily on Mailbox and its follow-up functionality. Any advice for ios-capable replacements out there?

EDIT: The FAQ recommends Google Inbox, Apple Mail and Outlook. I just looked at Inbox again after quite a while away, and it seems like it may be feature-complete with Mailbox.
If you're looking for an alternative, we built one at Nylas. :) https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine
Boutique coffee is all about nuance- it's like Scotch, or bourbon, or tobacco. You get this particular sack of beans from this tiny coffee producer in the middle of nowhere and you've roasted 5lbs of it just so and you then grind it just so and you then prepare it just so with an exacting process and carefully controlling your variables of time of extraction and water temp.

Starbucks cannot and does possess the ability to harness that subtlety because they operate on a huge scale. They roast their beans to burnt in order to drive out the differences between beans sourced at different plantations because they have to offer a homogenized product across all of their stores and all of their retail offerings. Every cup of coffee at every Starbucks across the entire world has to taste exactly the same because that's what customers expect[0].

If I want nuance I go to a local coffee roaster and ask the owner what's good that day. If I just want a caffeine fix I can go to Starbucks or, better yet, just drink the crappy stuff at work that's free and load up on the sugar and cream.

I don't go to a college rager and expect to find Springbank (fancy single-source Scotch); I go and expect to find Natty Light and Yuengling and, in fact, I expect those offerings because I'm not going to stand around and compare tasting notes, I'm going to get drunk and have a good time. Similarly, I go to Starbucks as a mid-morning break at work so I can have an excuse to get up and walk around and get something caffeinated I can sip at my desk while doing other things; I'm not expecting the coffee experience nor do I want it, I just want to get my buzz on and go about my day.

Additionally I think this move by Starbucks is putting even more pressure on small boutique coffee shops and potentially marginalizing them even further because now casual consumers can just go to Starbucks and get what they think is a "boutique experience" when, in fact, their money and their time would be better spent going to the actual boutique coffee shop (Edit- amyjess pointed out that this is NOT the case! http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_m...). Not to mention a potential ripple effect in coffee pricing where Starbucks could be able to strong-arm the market and drive small specialty coffee growers out of business like Wal-Mart and the enormous pickle jar[1].

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/119vnt/question_reg...
[1]http://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
> If you are indeed close to the given description of a criminal complaint, they're going to check. They have to check.

No, no they don't. Goodness.

Let me break down this problem for you. Maybe a quarter of Boston is black, half of those are men, the height/weight thing probably doesn't rule out more than half the people (and the police clearly admit in this interaction that it's a stretch to say he's that light-weight). At least 10% of men will go out with a knit cap on a cold Boston day. You multiply those together and you get 0.00625. You, and the police officers, together are thinking, "man, that's a surprisingly low probability, only an 0.625% chance that we'd come across a guy matching that description! We'd better detain him!"

But that's a dangerous fallacy, in a family called the false positive paradoxes. Usually we surprise kids in statistics class with these by saying, "hey, you live in New York and took a 99%-accurate test for HIV and it came out positive, what's the chance that you actually have HIV?" And they answer 99%. But the real answer is, you probably don't have it, and the probability is closer to one in three. How can this be? Well, you can look up these statistics for 2012, where there are 130,000 cases of HIV/AIDS in New York, which has nearly 20 million people, so your prior probability of having an HIV infection is only something like 0.65%; then the 1% false positive rate means that your 99%-accurate test has only increased your probability of actually having an HIV infection to about 39%, as the false positive set is larger than the true positive set.

It's even worse in this case, where you're looking for one person. Your 0.625% chance is spread out over a city of 650,000, meaning that over 4,000 people are subsumed by this description. Given all of the facts cited there is a less-than-0.025% chance that the guy they are detaining has done anything wrong.

Imagine the absurdity if they actually worked out and then quoted the statistics: "Look, we're 99.98% sure that you're not the guy we're looking for, but we're detaining you anyway, because we demand six nines of certainty that you're not who we're looking for. Oh, you have a valid photo ID and we can easily check that someone with that name is a professor at this college? Roots in the community? Well, that only bumps you up to about 99.999% sure that you're not the person we're looking for, but that's only five nines, buddy, not enough for us to let you go about your business. We've got to get the woman who made a complaint to look at your face to make absolutely sure that you're not the criminal who we think you might with 0.001% chance be."

They absolutely do not have to check that. Certainly they don't have to stop you to check that -- at five nines surely they can let you go about your business and check up with you at your residence if they receive sudden incriminating information.
No, ordinary evidence or models that fit the observed data better or make more accurate predictions. I leave out the extraordinary part except for when praising scientists for talented observations or methods.
Honestly, I was positively giddy when, during the first minutes of Avatar, I noticed the huge red-hot radiator panels on the ISV Venture Star.
I speak Spanish very well though I have several structures I've imported into Spanish from English. Spanish speakers are much less likely to assume I'm dumb or insinuate I am doing something 'wrong' than English speakers in the reverse; presumably because I'm American and Americans are 'well-educated'. I think that's the real grub there in my experience, what we think of bad can be really abritrary depending on what we assume about an individuals background.
Wait up, you can setup apple's stock mail to push via the google exchange server.
> Does everything need to be skill building and development oriented?

In short yes. There is a finite amout of time before you die, and that time is measured in years, not millenia . We spend ~12 years in school playing "general education" where basically we are conditioned to set times for work and hierchael authority. That is 15% of your entire expected lifespan, aka not time to spent lightly. Look at how quickly you learn new job skills and keep up with new technologies. Then look back at public school. Why does it take 12 years to move from addition to calculus? Why does it take 11 years to teach kids that chemistry is between atoms and to learn simple reactions are building blocks? Right now the amount of education that public school provides is laughable compared to how much you learn in a year on the job.

What would it be like if you only took 8 years to get through primary and secondary? That is 10% more time added to your productive shelf life. Better yet, those years have been saved on the front end, where your brain is most agile and plastic.

My personal feeling is that there is a lot of time wasted in the current public education model. When I was in school, I never percieved any A/B testing, or relentless optimization of coursework. Instead everything was the same as it had been 10-20 years ago. At least now I get the sense that now people are starting to look for a better local minimum in the process of knowledge transfer.
groper is better in several ways. First off, you specify all your options in Python, not a DSL that won't be checked until compile time. I mean, sure you could add code highlighting for docopt to your editor of choice, but chances are it already supports Python and works well.

Second, with groper each module is free to define its own options. You no longer need to have a centralized place where all the options are defined, and you don't need to do the plumbing through your application to give the right values to the right modules. This way your server.py can say "I want a host and a port" and your logger.py can say "I want the verbosity level and the filename" and the two don't have to know about each other (but can).

Third and most important, groper supports config files, which no other argument parser does. Chances are that if you are creating something more than just a simple command line program, you'd have too many options to specify on the command line. Instead, it'd be lovely to have a config file, and be able to override some of the options via command line args. Python's ConfigParser is a mess, and it's a mess that works completely differently from argparse/optparse/getopt. I also don't consider something like config.py to be good practice either.

So basically, groper is your one stop shop for getting config files and command line options right. Oh, and it can generate sample config files for you if you want.
Keurig Green Mountain to Be Bought for $13.9B
That's food for thought. Gut feeling: yes, ability to articulate: none. So I could be wrong on that because I have no data to support it. At a minimum it implies a harder problem to do a roll-back (if conspiracy were detected a roll-back would be easier). So I do think there are differences that are significant.
On front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754
Little Bites of Cocoa #141: App Transport Security Basics
That's exactly my point. Silicon Valley rewards "go big or go bust", it doesn't reward "small, sustainable business".

I don't for a second blame the founders of Mailbox for doing what they did. When the market creates a strong set of incentives like this you can't really expect anyone to do anything other than take the $100m. But this is the side-effect.
Yeah, I completely agree. Carousel is one of my favorite apps because of how unobtrusive and simple it is. It makes me feel like they're not going to commit to anything of theirs if I use it. Fortunately, the nature of the service makes it trivial to migrate away.
Such institutions didn't stop Genghis Khan. In a time of growth people are willing to pay taxes to support social institutions, but will that still be true in a zero-growth world?
Can you compare yourself to Mailpile? I want an email client (and maybe server) that is privacy-conscious and easy to configure. Are you two completely different projects?
Same. Sparrow is still my favorite email app on the Mac. Sadly had to give up on it with iOS as it just got super wonky. Will use it as long as it works on OSX.
"We gave a lot of thought to open-sourcing the underlying system, and none of that thought will be elaborated on here."
Paying for rail doesn't do anything to alleviate the need to pay for roads though. The comparison really is paying for trolley vs paying for Uber (or whatever)

Rail is only useful in certain situations and it's only useful if done correctly. Neither of these things are happening in this case.

And don't worry about your vote. It's really irrelevant. It's really about making you feel like you have a voice then actually you having a voice.
If you're a desktop email aficionado, I'd love to hear your feedback on N1. It's kind of similar to Mailbox desktop, but works cross-platform and is open source. https://nylas.com/n1

(Also feel free to write me directly. mg@nylas.com)
It's not great, I agree, but I like that we still have an opportunity to define what a CTF is for people who aren't already CTF players.

Also: we're very much structured like a conventional CTF; it's just a CTF we're not taking down after a few days.
Sweet Maria's has a great getting started write up, as well as selling green beans and coffee roasting equipment: https://www.sweetmarias.com/
Hubhopper. A social network built on React Native
Hi

We just developed an android app for one of our clients built on React Native for android. Feedback would be appreciated !

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hubhopper

Thank You!

Developed @ Soch
http://soch.io

P.S. Still in beta.
Not only the Muslims are targeted, if you are an Atheist Arab and it happens that you have an Arabic name you will receive the same treatment.
Show HN: Raskolnikov – Existential operations in JavaScript
How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8144377

How to Make Perfect Coffee

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261639
Would love to see some more examples/photos
I'm sorry, but I find that a whole load of horse shit. Especially in today's political climate in the US, I see there being absolutely no benefit to the people who's jobs are displaced. Basic income is a non-starter, especially basic income to the level where one could actually raise a family on, as many of these people are family people.
My expectation is that if police transport a suspect anywhere, that is an arrest which must be justified by reasonable suspicion that the suspect had committed a crime.

Now, I don't know how Boston classifies "try to break into a woman's house", but it looks like my web search in the General Laws of Massachusetts brings up part IV, Title I, Chapter 266, Section 18.[0] Maybe IV I 265 18C [1] if there was someone inside the house.

Based on it being daytime, and the quoted statement from the cop including the words "try to break into" rather than "inside", it would appear that no crime actually occurred. So the cops circulated a vague description of an average-height, average-weight, typically-dressed Bostonian male as a suspect for a nonexistent crime.

The Internet Tough Guys aside, the author did make a mistake in answering police questions. It should have gone something like this:

Cop: Hey my man.
SL: Yes?
Cop: Where are you coming from?
SL: Am I free to go?
Cop: No.
SL: Am I under arrest?
Cop: Not yet.
SL: Why am I being detained?
Cop: We had someone matching your description just try to break into a woman’s house.
SL: [remains silent]
Cop: You fit the description: Black male, knit hat, puffy coat. Do you have identification?
SL: My name is Steve Locke. I live at XXXXX, in Dedham.
Cop: No, no, no, do you have a photo ID card?
SL: I do not consent to searches or seizures. I will not answer further questions without the assistance of legal counsel.

At this point, he gets arrested, not for breaking and entering, but for "contempt of cop"--probably even "failure to identify". He beats the rap, but does not beat the ride. He later sues the city, and eventually accepts a $75000 settlement, which isn't bad for enduring one very stressful day and some PTSD.

The bystanders made a mistake in not whipping out their cameras to film the incident.

But that ideal conversation does not happen when you are dropped into a stressful situation with no notice. While you're thinking about burritos, an armed man confronts you and informs you that you are a suspect in a crime. Instead of thinking about how to resist police corruption, you're thinking about not getting killed in the next ten minutes. It doesn't matter if you know, rationally, that you have the right to not get murdered by cops, if you also know in your fluttering intestines that Eric Garner and Freddy Grey theoretically had the same right.

[0] https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Cha...

[1] https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Cha...
Man bicep curls 135 pounds with ease
Gmail for Android does, I suspect the OP was talking about iOS.
There are a few reasons it's not ridiculous - will encourage development, it will encourage more people than buses will to switch modes, will make everyone healthier (lower med costs).
Users beware: just ignore startups altogether. A hot startup is a vehicle for converting user growth into money for the founders and investors. It does not exist to create and maintain a good product. It's fine to tag along for a ride; it's not good to make yourself dependent on its continued existence.
I started playing around with a Lumia 530 on T-Mobile which has HD Voice and the call quality is night and day compared to my Nexus 4. Everyone I've talked to says the calls sound dramatically better and I'm not aware of anyone who has HD Voice capable phones. The noise cancelling seems to be a big thing as most people tell me that they can't tell I'm driving when I have them on speaker phone.

I didn't realize it had HD Voice and chalked it up to Nokia just knowing how to make a decent handset.
You don't really understand blockchains very well if you think that a trusted party blockchain is vulnerable to defection by one member institution. In fact, they are vulnerable to defection by 1/3 of the member institutions (or 1/3 of validation power, if you're assigning different amounts of validation power to different institutions). Also, a compromise leaves a huge paper trail implicating those responsible.

Ripple is overly complicated, includes the XRP currency for the sole purpose of enriching the founders, and has been shown to not be secure on networks larger than one node. There's no real reason for a bank to use it instead of just building their own application with the underlying technology. When I see comments like this, I always assume the commenter owns XRP or BTC.
Frustrating as its still my favourite mail app. Although development has definitely slowed down (for desktop at least) over the past 6 months.
In favor of what? There are lots of things it would be crazy to write in c++ in 2015 ... on the other hand there are some things that really don't have compelling alternatives.
I've lived in two European cities with extensive tram lines. Both of them have trams on the streets, but the other one also has dedicated lanes in places where streets are wide enough. The dedicated ones are very fast and enjoyable to ride, but even the on-the-street lines are way better than buses.

Blocking the rails happens very rarely, so I assume it's about everyone getting used to it, plus hefty towing fees.