skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Hosted email alternatives to Gmail for Domains?
We've been having a lot of issues lately with Gmail, related to their connection and data transfer limits. We're too small to have the resources to maintain our own mail server even if we had the know-how in house. What alternatives are people using for hosted email?
How Apple could lose by winning against the DOJ
The page really needs a video explaining the app, or a link to a demo. I don't want to sign up just to find out why it's worth investigating.
I did this for about ~6 months and developed knees that ached all the time. I was running at the same time, so maybe that had something to do with it, but really I never noticed some huge health or energy shift.

The thing I will say about it though is that if you're tired, standing keeps you paying attention whereas sitting can make you slouch and relax. This is useful right after lunch, but all day? Save your legs the trouble and join a gym if it's your physical health you're worried about.
He went too far, but it's most likely the truth.

Do I fell sorry for his firing--no.

Would I tape this speach, and put it online--no.
Yes, it is

Complainers are usually Kirchner "fans" that can't stand that people were fed up with her and kicked her out

It's their strategy
No, their (main) product is search. Advertising is how they monetize it. The Tribune Co.'s product is news, monetized through advertising. Conde Nast's product is magazines, monetized through advertising.

Just because advertising pays for the operation of a service, doesn't make the service not the product.

And yeah, I understand that Google also sells advertising as a separate item from their search engine, but that's not what parent anecdote was referring to.
Show HN: Validate GTIN (Barcode) 8s, 12s, 13s, and 14s in JavaScript or PHP
Here in Tasmania we're not at the shut down stage yet, but it's something no one wants to talk about. They're not asking residents to shutdown yet, but if things continue the way they are, who knows. The major companies/power users are currently being rationed (Aluminium smelters, paper mills etc)

The state relies on hydro-electric power, and last year sold off a lot of its "excess" power to Victoria via the Basslink cable at a huge profit.

However we're suffering a fairly bad drought, and the dams are at historically low levels. Worse still, the Basslink cable (which allows the state to both export and import electricity) failed on December 20th 2015, and the repair ship has been unable as yet to actually locate the fault in the cable (it's a 270km long under-sea cable)

Apparently the repair ship costs are running @ $100,000 per day, and it could take months.

On Friday they severed the cable in order to begin testing to locate the fault, and half of Tasmania's internet went down. I was unlucky enough to be with one of the ISPs who didn't provision enough backhaul connectivity on the other network cables, so my 100mbit fibre internet now looks something like a 1998 dialup connection

malby@peep:~$ wget ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/test10MB.dat

--2016-03-14 16:07:41-- ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/test10MB.dat
=> `test10MB.dat'

Resolving ftp.iinet.net.au (ftp.iinet.net.au)... 203.0.178.32

Connecting to ftp.iinet.net.au
(ftp.iinet.net.au)|203.0.178.32|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!

==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.

==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.

==> SIZE test10MB.dat ... 10000000

==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR test10MB.dat ... done.

Length: 10000000 (9.5M) (unauthoritative)

100%[===============================================================================>] 10,000,000 6.82K/s in 43m 41s

2016-03-14 16:51:24 (3.73 KB/s) - `test10MB.dat' saved [10000000]

I mean, I feel bad complaining about my internet speeds, because in 6 months times if there hasn't been any rain.. well, it's going to get a lot more serious.
office365 is the primary alternative. There are other smaller hosted exchange environments that are either resellers, or that have their own model. It really depends on what you need.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory
Don't forget about Android Studio at 13%

http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2013/05/intellij-idea-and-and...
What’s Frying the Electrical Systems on BART Trains?
This is how business functions, and perhaps I haven't realized how much insight I get into this. I just consider all of this normal, but the reaction of HackerNews commenters is making me think that people honestly don't realize this is standard operation procedure in all verticals.

What I heard was a completely benign, candid analysis of the situation.
The horrifying dystopia that is the treadmill desk.
I hear you, although I would argue that someone with her position should have been the first person to know whether what they were sending needed a security designation or not.

The fact that 10-15% or so of those emails needed a retroactive security classification demonstrates that she held either had a cavalier attitude toward guarding that information, or was simply incompetent in knowing what should and should not have been classified.

Whether that rises to the level of a criminal act, I suspect, depends on whether any of the 30k+ emails she deleted, claiming they were personal, also contained classified material, because then the crime is lying to the FBI more so than the reckless handing of classified information.
Dodgeball, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/460987802/

"So.... Alex and I quit Google on Friday.

It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space. And while it was a tough decision (and really disappointing) to walk away from dodgeball, I'm actually looking forward to getting to work on other projects again."
Suspect that Google is uncomfortable with the primary purpose of their products being to kill people and take their resources.
> In hindsight, it was a massive miscalculation as

Assumes the OS would have been as widespread as it was w/o the licensing that MSFT ended up doing (and it would not have been). That is what it made it the defacto standard operating system.
That's what you get from duck typing.

Python API are defined solely by how the API uses its argument. The requirement is already encoded as far as the computer is concerned, except the check are by default all done at run-time. A Python compiler could work its way backward to try to verify them at compilation time. Making them explicit would solely be as a helper for the programmer, which might as well just be in straight documentation, which can ba as brief as the name of the parameter.

It's all a feature, and this is being actively exploited in code, providing exceptional flexibility. Its no worse than other language with type inference: their types can be extremely complex and reading them would not help most of the time. You're better off with a succint, high-level description, like a URL-like string, a file-like object, an object indexable by such and such.
I just get tired of seeing the same thing play out time and time again. Developer A picks Django because business described a project that can easily be handled by CRUD and thinks the Admin will be perfect for product owners and users to manage their data. 6 months go by, Product owners go off the rails of the original requirements, request changes to the admin and/or changes to the data source and/or changes that require a fundamentally different data model. Developer A bails and Developer B, C, and D get stuck with this mess that should be been developed with a more flexible solution. The more people use Django without recognizing this, the more I want to not even look at Python shops.
What were the labor conditions like for the workers in the factories your friend was building?
They resolve this in the show. Carter mentions the rough ride and cold was due to their home-grown dialing program and instabilities in the wormhole. Further tweaks result in the improved travel comfort.
Similar, but in a lot ways org is more powerful than Jupyter Notebooks which I am also a big fan of, BTW. It is more powerful because of the exporting facilities, tangling, and you have all of emacs at your fingertips. I actually would like to develop an org exporter to ipynb format.
I don't see anyone suggesting that the two are equivalent.
Exactly. This is the normal tenor of candid conversation in business. You just don't record it.

The biggest gaffe he made was the audience. He felt he could candidly discuss the topics with students from his alma mater. He learned that was absolutely the wrong move.

He should have been fired, simply because he didn't understand the audience.
Right, but if no one hires the bottom of the barrel, what do we do with them? Ramp up welfare programs, further penalizing anyone who eventually finds something they can do for a living?

We can't all hire the best (or better) employees.
> People are increasingly using Pages, Groups and Albums for all kinds of things that would previously have justified a whole startup

This is a snarky comment, but if a company can be replaced by a facebook page then it isn't adding much value.
Not just a bit: 18 months in both directions, or 3 years of single tunnel shutdown. Pretty horrible for anyone who depends on that train.
IIRC It was Uncle Enzo that shot the delivery person; he made a personal appearance and apologized.
Benjamin Kabak is almost certainly well aware of the bloated costs of the MTA.

Nobody seriously disagrees that MTA costs are ridiculous, but it's a messy dilemma; most likely even at current costs, things like the Second Avenue Subway and the Utica Avenue Subway are well worth building.

You're also glossing over the point he makes that our prioritization is inane and quite possibly insane – programs like building nicer ferries for LGA or building an AirTrain that's slower than current options do almost nothing to help things, and is much more a matter of local and regional politics than MTA inefficiency per se.
> I don't doubt his candid explanation was correct, and I don't see anything wrong with it really.

Why wouldn't you doubt this? His speech included a number of factually incorrect engineering statements about his competitors (SpaceX). If he was being "honest", then he was wrong. His "candid explanations" of things were fraught with error and also wildly offensive, not to mention dangerous for the business.
I might be more excited about voting for her if I thought she could commiserate with the pain of sendmail.cf files.
Serious question, would source code be useful to a government agency? Is there enough knowledge and expertise that exists outside of the organization that builds the software to be able to make much use of software as complex as iOS?
but I meant $ not ₣

/s
The Alphabet of London
For someone who has a herniated disc in the lumbar spine a stand-up desk has been life changing.

I genuinely think if I'd had such a desk before and stood for say 20 minutes in the hour I wouldn't have got into the mess I did with my back.

While some of the benefits may be over-stated I am convinced variety during the day (sitting and standing) significantly benefits the spine.
XPoint Memory Chips Positioned for Rapid Adoption
> The era of dynamic languages is over. There is currently a 'race to the bottom'

LuaJIT
When you go from $100 Dedicated Server with 10TB of bandwidth in average, to $900+ in AWS just for the bandwidth, well, you gotta think about it. Heroku puts a 2TB/month BW soft limit, that won't cut for some of us.
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It's an opinion. New evidence changes opinions.

You heard the candid opinion of a man at a given point of time. It doesn't mean he's unsuitable for his position.

What makes him unsuitable for his position is that he thought he could discuss it with students.

The tenor and his thoughts I've heard from all sorts of businesses with relevant detail in their fields. This is an accurate portrayal of all of those conversations.
Can you please tell now the proof in your piece? Pretty please!
NFL Loves Codemods: Migrating a Monolith
I'm on of the authors of KLIPSE.
What do you guys think about KLIPSE?
It also depends on the region. In Germany, Facebook's market penetration is much lower than in the US. In my circle of acquaintances, only about half of them have a Facebook account, and even less admit using it regularly.

And to give some evidence beyond my obviously skewed social context, most restaurants have a simple static website with a menu and map, instead of a Facebook page (or in some cases, in addition to a Facebook page).
They weren't too uncomfortable to buy the company that makes those products for that purpose to begin with.
The demand for source code would likely include accompanying documentation necessary to build/use.
Should have setup saving fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Nature_a...
OMG the comments on that article... a significant chunk of the threads are talking about the freaking stock-photo model. when will I learn NEVER READ THE COMMENTS (whitelist=HN,Metafilter)

I like a standing desk. I have had chronic back problems aggravated by a slumping chair posture, and 100% standing for the last year or so has been (I feel) really helpful.
If anyone wants to understand why this is happening in one of the largest oil producers in the world, there is only one word. Corruption. At every single level of the government.

The government can blame El Niño all you want, but they can't hide the fact that they stole most of the money that was invested in non-working power plants all over the country. I worked in 3 of those (one from Derwick, see below) and saw power plants from 1995 that were sold as new at 3x the price of a NEW power plant.

One of the companies is called Derwick. Run by some guys with ties to the government, some as young as 23 years old, with ZERO experience in the field. They are all now multi-millionaires.

You can read more here:
http://infodio.com/021014/how/to/steal/70/million/one/day/de...

http://infodio.com/030813/jose/aguilar/derwick/associates/bi...

http://www.infodio.com is a site that tracks a lot of corruption cases. It is of course, blocked in Venezuela.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwick_Associates

http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-energy-company-derwic...

https://cryptome.org/2015/06/ve-us-corruption.htm

More on the power crisis in general:

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/160227/nation...

I can go on and on about this. But this basically boils down to massive, massive corruption that has penetrated Venezuela at every level.

Where I live, we've already had blackouts 2-3 times a week. Once this problem hits Caracas, the capital, we know things are going to get bad. The government has done everything possible to keep things normal there but they might not be able to for much longer.
Well, that's partially because software is new. Again, I'm not going to claim it's legal now.

But "equivalent economic activity" seems a bit weak. A butler or security guard can be paid to open the door to visitors. So that's "economic activity", right? It doesn't mean they're not required to respond to a search warrant. And legal discovery can be very expensive.

Writing a simple software patch and recompiling doesn't seem all that hard. Rewriting the entire OS is a major undertaking. It may require passing new laws, but it seems unlikely that we'll end up with a bright-line rule where touching any line of code is forbidden. More likely it'll be a gray area where the line is drawn somewhere in the middle.
Really? I'm not a facebooker per se.

However I do use nextdoor that I check once or twice a day for community related news/events/etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783219
Which journal was this?
Pigeons are monitoring air quality over London
As far as I'm aware of the data, Bing's mostly been eating non-Google market share, e.g. Yahoo, rather than denting Google significantly. Back in 2008 Google was also at 64%, but Yahoo was at 20%. Now it's Bing.
Sony to devs: If you drop below 60 fps in VR we will not certify your game
daraprim is not under a patent. The market for it is small and there was no FDA approved competitor, but there is no insurmountable barrier to entering the market for it.

I guess it might be the case that FDA red tape was keeping other entrants from bothering with an alternative, I don't really understand the complaints about their generic approvals process well enough to have an opinion.

The US Federal government could probably go further than fixing any regulatory hurdles and set up a program to incentivize/ensure production of drugs (especially inexpensive ones) that are valuable for small numbers of people. Such money would surely be well spent in comparison to many existing programs.
There's one visualization [1] for the Taipei Metro's growth [2] in Taipei, Taiwan/Republic of China.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Taipei_m...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_Metro
"Would I tape this [speech], and put it online--no."

Anyone got anything on the motivation for the taping/putting on-line?

Lutz? Angry at the language? Supporting one of the other stakeholders? Some concept of investigative journalism?
I highly doubt that someone who has been writing extensively about the MTA for almost 10 years is "clueless".

You make a good point that the cost per km is exorbitant and needs to be reined in, but comparing the costs of a 10-15 year old system to one that is 100+ years old is probably not the most accurate comparison.
CloudSQL instances support ipv6,[1] and appengine apps can receive ipv6 traffic, but only suggestion regarding delay in getting ipv6 to users was hardware limitations.[2] I wanted to know why op thinks this is only for external customers.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/11/cloudsql-instan...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/google-compute-engine/issues/detai...
Honestly, I do think Google is really afraid of their perception problem. The last thing Google needs is people thinking data collection is going to lead somewhere bad.

I think that's a lot of why they really sunk the Google Glass project after the privacy backlash started appearing heavily in the media.

I loved my Glass, I still would prefer it over smartwatches sold today. But now it's kinda abandoned.
"Correct" in this case meaning, his honest belief of the situation.

In this vertical, I don't know if he was wrong or right in the detail of his analysis.

What was the offensive part?
I was in charge of running buses between our college and rival school for "the game" each year. We had a student run organization where we kept 60% of the profits. We shuttled 2,000 people on ~30 buses, all through one bus company. We literally had to do nothing except send emails... the bus company handled all the complicated logistics.

It was a great gig. Very profitable. I can only imagine doing this at scale will bring some nice $$$.
Sounds like the plan is to wait for the tunnel to have more serious damage, then just down the tunnel for 4 years to fix it as an emergency. /s

You can't just ignore maintenance because it's hard, doing that just means you chose to do it when it's even harder.
Thanks, I hope I'll be able to convince him to register and answer to you guys.

From what I gathered, the implication if he was right, would be the end of encryption.
This sounds like a pretty neat concept.
PlayStation VR supports room-scale experiences, clearing the way for Vive ports
In the case where the safe maker has special ability to break the existing safe, there is plenty of precedent. Every application of the All Writs Act follows that analogy, including this San Bernardino case.
> XUL is the biggest reason why Firefox feels so much slower on Windows and Linux compared to Chrome.

Can you explain why, or point to existing information on this subject?
IDC and Swiss watch makers announce big expectations for Android Wear
Forecasts of smartwatch shipments growing from $1.3 billion in 2014 to $117 billion in 2020 and smartwatch shipments overtaking that of traditional watches in the fourth quarter of 2015 precipitated the Swiss watch makers’ change of course.
> big spending, big PR releases, big promises, untried tech, and sadly lots of questionable patent filing sprees

I thought that was generally how one became a defense contractor? The billboards on DC transit always made me chuckle.
Well, she wasn't running for re-re-election so she couldn't have been kicked out (personally, I think if she had run, she would have won against Macri, but lost because her party ran with Scioli, a highly divisive and uncharismatic politican, but I admit that's speculation on my part. Let's remember on her first re-election she won with 54% of the votes on the first round, almost unprecedented).

I assume you meant her party was kicked out. Since 49% of voters voted for this party, and Macri's (somewhat fragmented) coalition only won on ballotage, I'd say it was a pretty close call... and now the country is highly divided.

Regardless, the political left doesn't like either Kirchner or Macri, and their criticisms are valid.
incredible quote — possibly the best motivation I've heard for founders
I think Johnie sees them as competitors, sips tea.
We would really love if you published the piece, an extended version with all the gory details perhaps, that you wanted to but did not!
Pretty please with 2 cherries on top!
GitHub student pack now includes 1 free month for Udacity
When it comes NSA pen testing, its not that some things are "impenetrable" its a question of how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to p__ off to do it.

There are limits, both legal and political, that the NSA won't cross but a private contractor doing pen testing might try.

Rightly or wrongly, about the only way most US private companies can get a proper grasp of what the NSA is capable of is to hire a senior former NSA officer.

http://ironnetcyber.com/executive-team.html
Saying NO is exactly not doing their job when there are numerous alternatives to their provided computer. The secretary of state must be able to communicate with others, period. Since they couldn't figure out a proper solution (and from the article it sounds like they didn't even try/ignored her/insulted her) they left the secretary of state without a means to communicate. I'd say that's criminal, negligent, and certainly not doing their jobs.
No, you broke the rules flagrantly:

> Ruby-til-Death programmers refuse to learn any other non-ruby-like syntax? It's like their brains would shatter into a brillion pieces

You've posted chest-beating things like this before, too. It's destructive to the community, so please don't do it. If you're smarter or more knowledgeable than other readers, use your greater power to improve the quality of HN, not degrade it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11303413 and marked it off-topic.
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Yup. In fact, if you use a technique called spread spectrum emissions you can have your signal below the noise floor but have it still be possible to pick it up because it carries so much redundant information across a massive bandwidth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum

I can't find much information about using SS to go below the noise floor on wikipedia but it is a thing.
I think the answer is to incentivize people to get back into those skills. Likewise, the corporations need incentive to keep those jobs here. We, as a nation, can't do this if everything like those jobs gets sent over seas.
Well first they ask for iOS source code, then they ask for the update or app signing key (kind of how they asked for Lavabit's SSL key). Then the real fun begins.

However, it's a little funny that the US gov uses the Lavabit case as an example - Lavabit shut down to avoid giving it the key.