skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bigger question is if there are any open source webmail apps that can support Gmail-like usage.

Setting up your own mailserver is easy. But getting a gmail-like experience is pretty hard. For example, I tried Roundcube a while back with my full Gmail mail dump. It tried to keep up, but there was just no way it was going to handle 2gb of mail going back years.

I'd love to see something that either ran off of a standard imap server or that was a mail-delivery agent (MDA) that had a gmail-like web interface, complete with full text search.

I haven't found anything like that yet.
My windows 7 PC is a games machine, so special list for windows 7 is as follows:

1. COD MW2

Windows XP machine

1. VirtuaWin - Multi desktop (my switch desktop shortcut is ctrl+alt+win+arrows) (GPL)
2. YzShadow - drop shadow on windows (pointless pretty eye candy) (Free)
3. GVim (GPL)
4. Abyss Web Server (simple local webserver) (BSD)
5. On Windows XP - Royale Noir Theme (Kinda Hacky Commercial)
6. Office 2007 (Commercial)
7. TOAD (Commercial)
8. cmd.exe (Commercial)
I'm not the blogging/twitter type. Never done it actually, and don't plan to. I'd rather be doing things than writing about doing them :)
I upvoted you because you have a really cool link up there.
Compared to the GMail UI, SquirrelMail is pretty terrible.
It's always been Win+V by default for me...
I remember tutoring my mother in the use of computers.
It was the early 90s and she had no previous experience whatsoever.

To my amazement such seemingly trivial things like double clicking turned out to be a problem. She tapped the mouse button twice, but too slowly to register. While my first reaction to this was embarrassment, the whole thing turned out to be a learning experiment for me - in human condition.
"people with this level of computer knowledge" have apparently been using Facebook. Facebook is doing pretty well.
I wonder if this will increase the number of people that sha1 the books to see if it has been tampered. maybe have a distributed system that votes for the correct hash. Or you could have a canonical repository like the library of congress.
Went to your link to see what privacy settings there were. Noticed the address they had on file was my last company's US address. Removed that, then saw that somehow the payments for that company's Google Apps account were made through MY Google account, and their credit card was still on file.

Thanks Google, for storing someone else's credit card for someone else's services on my account, for no reason I can find, other than the obvious 'I didn't realize what account I was signed in with', which seems unlikely because their Google Apps account was created before I ever started working there.

Man, Google's getting more and more confusing. It's a giant labyrinthine maze of data that only they have the time and processing power to sort through.
As a Google fan boy, this pains me to say this. I had to turn it off :( After everyone connected their twitter, blog, google reader feeds it became the same useless jargon as everywhere else. I'll come back around to it after they change things up.
If it was a 'work' gmail account, it is quite possible that the people in their frequent contacts, are people they normally share related information with so the question didn't really come up.

Another possibility is that they assumed people would simply disable and that would solve the issue. It turned out to be an incorrect assumption.
What are the economics of happiness?
That's seems to be a strange stance to take. "Everyone" wants to turn on those features, except for you. And you expect them to turn off those features? heh
There are also plenty of open source desktop IMAP clients; I personally strongly prefer clients like mutt or sylpheed over webmail interfaces. with ssh, I can even look at my mail from anywhere.
At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I don't get what differentiates the (new) "synthetic biology" from the (old) "genetic engineering". They seem like the exact same thing to me (I'm open to be convinced otherwise though). The only difference I can find is that one term has been pilloried by the green movement, while the other has (for reasons not quite clear to me) escaped most of that negative attention.

People have been talking about all of these genetic engineering fantasies for my entire lifetime. The technology is still not there to put all the pieces together "like Legos" as the arcticle seems to suggest. I am happy to see that this stuff is getting people interested in science, and biology in particular. But this article makes it sound like you could just go order a bunch of DNA and make yourself a little bacterium that does whatever you want. We're still a bit far from those days.
I had the same thing happen not 10 minutes ago. I logged into a rarely used gmail account, got the Buzz landing page, clicked "no thanks" and then was redirected to my inbox. Buzz was there and active and had added followers automatically.
Wait...you mean 'Turn Off Buzz', doesn't really turn off Buzz!

Aaarrrgh!

That's the last time I 'try out' a Google product. From now on I test their crap on a junk account that I'll create in GMail.

Thanks a lot Google...

No...not really.

Jack@$$es!
Cool, thanks for the tip. I don't have a problem with "made by Microsoft" I'd just always used AVG, had never had any problems with it, so hadn't bothered to switch to anything else.
I thought about a few shitty scenarios, but this one didn't come to mind. Google calculated the risks and choose to have autofollow enabled. They knew what they were doing. I think they released it and waited and reacted. Venn diagram it, they have more users using their system because of it.
Comes across as an awfully bad name; I hope they change it. Sounds like they wanted "Shareshot", but it was taken. Divvy's an awkward word. Plus, it apparently means 'idiot' in Liverpudlian.
bullshit. Google just redefined "public."
"Self-transcendence 'reflects a decreased sense of self and an ability to identify one's self as an integral part of the universe as a whole,' the researchers explain."

To me this sounds like an imbalance that would turn a person in to a doormat/easy mark/sucker since it overwhelms the counterbalancing selfishness that protects the individual. In a healthy individual, this part of the brain would help motivate what Tony Hseih calls "relatedness" and "connection to a larger vision". It would be interesting to know how the patients' oxytocin levels were effected, since there might be a bonding/safe-and-warm-feelings response happening in response to the world at large. It would also be interesting to see similar studies of LSD takers who report "a cosmic connection".
http://www.zimbra.com. Better in some ways, worse in others, but by far the most capable open source webmail available. I used it for a few years and loved it.
1. Casablanca

2. Chinatown

3. The Maltese Falcon

They don't make 'em like they used to ...
Escher for real
Reminds me of "Steady Ed" Headrick, the father of Frisbee golf, whose ashes were pressed into a limited run of discs after his death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_golf#.22Steady_Ed.22_Headr...

"One of the discs that contains Headrick's ashes will be permanently placed on the roof of the center. When asked why this was to be done, by a member of the local media, PDGA Executive Director Brian Graham quoted an old Frisbee adage, 'Old Frisbee players are like old Frisbees ... They don't die, they just land up on the roof.'"
Already mentioned by sucuri2 in another thread, but roundcube (http://roundcube.net/) looks much more attractive. Still not GMail, but much nicer than squirrelmail.
Then consider the Swedish name "Jerker" (for males, of course).

Maybe there is some deep insights here into our Swedish psyche? :-)
I made a diagrammr of this that I think is easier to understand at http://www.diagrammr.com/png?key=dDRzSzMprTx
Did it for years. Loved it. The only problem? Hosting providers and colos often reuse IPs that have been blacklisted because of spammers, so one day you realize some folks just haven't been getting your mail. I use a leased server and would switch back from GMail to Zimbra in a heartbeat if I thought I could reliably insure my email would not get blacklisted. There are services out there you can pay for that offer smtp gateways, but they often charge on a per domain basis, and I need to send/receive email for 50+ domains. Pretty expensive.

If anyone has any suggestions to get around this sort of limitation, I'm all ears and will be back on Zimbra before the weekend is out ;-)
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Yeah, I currently do that as well, but in the spirit of this thread, I'm looking for a non-Gmail way of doing this...
Be careful with FeedDemon. It uses IE to display blog posts, and we all know what may happen if you browse the net with IE...
Real Parallel Filesystems
Sysinternals stuff: Regmon, Filemon, TCPView
yeah a lot of the entries are garbage. windows media player classic is, according to him, the best video program on windows.

what.
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One big downside is that spam filters are very agressive these days. It can be a huge PITA getting your mail through, even when you've gone through the trouble of setting up domain keys and spf records and submitting the appropriate forms. Some providers, like hotmail, will silently drop emails, too.
This doesn't always work, though: Jeff Bezos worked for a large hedge fund (D.E. Shaw) before starting Amazon, and pitched the idea to management -- and only left to found Amazon on his own when Shaw wasn't interested.
Synergy - to share keyboard and mouse with other computers & OSes. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Git tries pretty hard to avoid this now; it won't treat fast-forwards as merge commits, it will just fast-forward you. Apparently this was not always the case.

Anyway, "git pull --rebase" is your friend. (And so is "git push --force". git pull will DTRT on the other end, so this shouldn't mess anyone else up.)
That's almost certainly true, and it may be less than 40 years. Northrop-Grumman has already produced a 100kW solid-state laser capable of being mounted on a fighter or a small ship (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/19/business/fi-laser19), and apparently they think that vehicles mounting it are ten years or less away. Serviceable, ruggedized laser rifles are probably 10-20 years down the road from that -- and will mean an enormous increase in infantry ammunition capacity and firepower, probably on the order of magnitude of the introduction of the automatic rifle. (Manufacturers of rechargeable batteries suddenly sound like a very good investment.)

US infantry tactics as they currently exist will not be well-suited to wars involving such weapons; a retired Marine gunnery sergeant, H. John Poole, has written a number of books on the need for the US to develop autonomous light infantry, and has pointed to the prospect of laser weapons as one of the reasons for this need.
AuthSMTP is priced with a fixed number of "email From: addresses", but what they don't tell you on the pricing page is that you can add a whole domain (wildcard *@domain.com) and it just counts as one address.

Looking at their pricing page it looks like you'd be out about $150-160 bucks per year. Up to you to decide if it's worth it, but hardly expensive in the normal sense of the word.
That should come in handy:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
In the future, you can simply wait a few days for feedback/reviews. Not that complicated.
As I was watching this I also thought that Google could be using Buzz to devalue Twitter. If Buzz can get a mass audience Google may be able to acquire Twitter more cheaply. Twitter has way too much of a head start for Buzz to actually rival it.
On you own server you decide what and for how long data will be stored.
In the government wants your server you can format your hard drive if you want (or whatever you think is fit). I bet you can't do that if your mail is on google (or yahoo, msn, etc for that matters)
I once hired a professional to draw a caricature of a friend of mine, based on internet photos and some biographical info. He did an outstanding job in a short time: http://www.rickscartoons.com/

I am not affiliated with Rick, but would use his services again.
So, does this prevent people from following me after I go through these steps? Or will I have to periodically purge everything again?

On a side note, as I was purging my lists today, I found that Picasa had magically been re-added to the list of my shared sites after I explicitly removed it yesterday morning. What is going on here?
And globbing is exactly why I wrote open, instead of using start. Good point about cygstart; I'd forgotten about it.

Almost forgot about another one--I still use some of the MS powertoys.
Yes, but if it's in your house, you at least know it happened and can try and fight it. If google hands over your data you may never know. I think in many cases they'd likely be barred from telling you even if they wanted to.

Note: IANAL
"This is Google. It's huge, it's been around the block a few times, it's already had a ton of failures, and millions of people rely on it. It can't and shouldn't have the same latitude to fail, especially in an area as important as privacy."

All the more reason to consider what is the best course to prevent similar mistakes in the future. Knee-jerk firings may make things worse.
HN stripped the word out completely when I posted it non-censored. I thought it was weird too -- but probably spam protection.
I just found out I am following 27 people I have no idea who they are or why Google choose to make me follow them.
I didn't even sign up for this Buzz thing.
Google - this is really messed up!
In the future, Google can make a 'Turn Off Buzz' button that actually Turns Off Buzz. Not that complicated.
Ripple - Ruby library and object mapper for Riak
There's lots of common knowledge out there. The common knowledge which is true ought to be easily citeable. ;)
I'm kind of disappointed that Steve Krug didn't think up something like this for _Rocket Surgery Made Easy_ (http://www.sensible.com/rocketsurgery/index.html); this would be a very convenient source of manpower for his model of "hallway usability testing," and would allow even larger numbers of even more easily set-up tests than the model he describes.

It's good to see how usability testing is becoming de-mythologized these days; all of us should keep in mind, for current and future program development, that you really don't need a very sophisticated apparatus.
I've read a number of times that you should never rebase commits that other people may have fetched already. Is this a possible danger here, or will git only rebase your strictly-local commits?
The college I went to beats all of those on the same Google search. Does that mean I went to school with a bunch of snobs who thought they were better than they are :(
'Lavabit was built for people like you. People who want a fast, reliable, private POP3 e-mail account with the most advanced features.'

POP3 account… with advanced features? I mean, I know they don't want to go IMAP because they don't want to store information on their servers, but it's still contradictory at first glance.
Obviously there is a whole flash ecosystem that Adobe profits from. If html 5 helps move the market away from Flash, Adobe's influence and market position would be impacted. Going from a position of controlling Flash to being one of many html 5 tools companies is not in their best interest. So, its understandable that a public company is digging in their heals, but its up to the community to help push through the politics.
Tom Has Finally Reached His MySpace Friend Limit
I've set up a number of mail servers for myself and clients. I've always asked providers upfront to guarantee that I can get assigned to a new netblock if any of the IP addresses they give me show up on any blacklists. In some cases, just asking resulted in getting clean IPs from previously unused netblocks. In the few cases where the IPs were blacklisted, I got new ones without any problems.
Nice promise in the title, but the article doesn't really try to estimate anything. Almost no content.
What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
I've found that the windows key + start typing is pretty nice in Win 7, removes the need for many other utilities.

1. Display Fusion (In UltraMon the font on task bars in my 2nd and 3rd monitor is unreadable)
2. Ditto - clipboard manager (free, open source )
3. Used so be Foxit Reader, now it's Sumatra PDF
4. Used to use Foxit's ifilter for searching PDF's but now I see it's commercial: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/
Mine are spread out all over the country. Different last names too. They don't seem to care.
Javascript + DOM in your ruby, the simple way
Silly article, IMHO. Main reason: if you are really caught up in the privacy issue, don't use Google (signed in), Facebook, etc. Also, strongly control what cookies you want to allow.

To me it is a value proposition: what are the advantages of a service vs. disadvantages like privacy issues. I choose to use most of Google's services, occasionally use Facebook, and I am sort-of addicted to following people who I consider to be "thought leaders" on Twitter.

Also, my early take on Buzz: it is OK, but I have an attitude that I don't have to read everything that shows up on my Buzz list. Same as Twitter.

I have also started to sometimes do short tweets on Twitter, and maybe following up with something more detailed on Buzz.
We use SendGrid: http://sendgrid.com/

They've got a free account for up to 200 mails a day.
It will only rebase your local commits.
Webfinger enabled for all gmail accounts with public profiles
Your implying the cost to replicate the technology and gain the same traction would cost Google more then $50m.

Not quite. I am implying that Google thinks the risk associated with doing it on their own is not worth the $50m for the acquisition.

It is way more complex than simply about tech and traction. ie. lets say google can build the same thing for $10M. But hey it might take them 2 years. In the same 2 years, a competition(Microsoft) might acquire Vark and turn it into a billion dollar competitor to google.

On the flip side, even if Google can build it for 10M and launch in 6 months, the risk from the other possibility is not worth the 40M in savings.
Patent trolls don't normally go out and invent the product they've patented. I'd put this one fractional step above typical trolling.

PS: That video OWNS.
South Butt's legal response to North Face complaint
This means I can test all the Javascript that my rails applications use without opening a browser!
After all Tonido makes sense now. right?
Are you sure she's not already made in China?
I run gasp windows vista at work. I've never had to reboot my computer due to memory problems. It'll run for two or 3 weeks before our admin makes us reboot for windows update reasons....
Not really. Aside from the Picasa issue (showing your email by default if no username is set) I don't see how your public Google profile gives away your e-mail address.
And she still has a wristwatch.
Actually, I didn't get a choice. On logging into GMail yesterday, it asked me whether I wanted to to try Buzz. I picked 'no' so it went ahead and enabled it anyway. I am not impressed. Now looking at my options for moving away from GMail if they keep messing with it.
I agree that freedom of speech is the overriding priority here, but at the same time I can't help but feel -- for instance, when watching 400 people attempt to login to Facebook via ReadWriteWeb's comment button -- that some kind of basic training before we let you loose on the Internet would be a good idea.

The Internet is awash with spam, beset by phishing, and plagued by botnets. Really simple training could help average users avoid these problems and make the whole Internet a better place. Shouldn't we at least offer an Internet Driving License course, even if it's optional?
Starting an online commerce firm from inside a hedge fund is not exactly what this guy is talking about. He's talking about allowing promising managers to invest money (which is a hedge fund's business) without excessive direct interference from more senior managers and with a direct stake in the outcome. D.E. Shaw is not an internet company (Juno aside). What the author is suggesting would be something like Google giving operational autonomy and a percentage of the profits to the guys who came up with gmail.
Just use the PGP plugin for Gmail on Firefox. Then it doesn't matter who has access to your email so long as they don't have the private key.
very nice - someone who has used sup should put it up on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients ).

I see every other client - mutt, pine, etc. there
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How to disable ActiveRecord in Rails 3 in order to use a different ORM.
I'd actually like to see the citation for the poor performance of hedge fund managers, or are you just basing this comment on the recent media portrayal?
Maybe the cargo pants. As for Thinkgeek t-shirts, they have sorta fallen from favor here in the engineering department--to start with, we've observed that the approach of such a shirt frequently proceeds the arrival of generally unpleasant body odors. They're still pretty big (XXXL in some cases) in the CS dept.
From a certain perspective, it is actually good that this is worthless against China or Russia: namely, if they don't perceive it as a threat, then they won't fight its deployment or try to build up arms in response.

Consequently, it may prove useful in neutralizing the threat posed by medium-to-long-range weapons possessed by particular actors (Iran, North Korea) to allies in the region. (I say allies because I agree with you - if they wanted to attack the US, doing so via conventional means would be extraordinarily foolish.)
1. CodeSmith
2. RoboCopy
3. TortoiseSvn
There is a high possibility that Google's server is 10 times more secure than any average Joe's mail server. Even more secure than a security expert's server as well: http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/08/dan-kaminsky-kevin-mitnick...

Do you have time to manage and keep your server secure? Can you patch a new 0day in an hour, possibly not.

On the other hand when men-in-black asks to Google yes they might give it away, which is another story.
Not to restate the obvious, but e-mail goes around in plaintext. Whatever Google is doing with your e-mail can also be done by your ISP (and your recipients' ISPs, and anyone between).

One could make the case that hosting on Gmail has greater privacy in this respect, since if you send to any other Gmail address, the e-mail probably stays within the Google network.
As someone with ADHD, I find it very annoying when people say "I'm so ADD".
No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
Yeah, this is particularly true in the rather terrible physics-meets-free-will literature. It seems every few months a physicist "scientifically discovers" some viewpoint on free will that has been widely known for centuries, or even worse claims something absurd like that they've disproven free will, for some totally naive definition of "free will".

In particular, almost nobody seems to bother dealing with compatibilist arguments, of the sort made by Daniel Dennett and many others, which make the physicists' research mostly irrelevant for free will, unless compatibilism can be refuted:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Scott Hanselman has answered this question to my satisfaction:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2009UltimateDev...
He is, he's using @font-face. Some browsers don't support custom font rendering very well yet.
German B-2 or Nazis' Secret Plan to Bomb New York
Except for the trolls, that's pretty sad.
You mean, shouldn't we do a good job generally educating the population?