skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think that depends on what type of emails he's receiving. If it was only business then I'd agree with you, but I don't have the time to address 30 personal emails per day.
A few tweaks to the UI are not going to undo the cumulative effect of people having their articles axed because of 'non notoriety' and a very hostile attitude towards 'newbies'.
"Black Swan"-linked fund may have contributed to "Black Swan" moment
I think it's a good concept. Taleb has built a career off of this one idea, and although I find him generally conceited and quite smug, he is definitely on to something with this. Just look at recent events: BP oil spill, the meteoric rise of twitter from nowhere, Iceland volcano etc. The trouble is, of course, that you never know when/where the spike event will occur. He made a lot of money by holding far out-of-the-money options. You bleed a small amount of cash in time-decay, but when the event happens, you make a lot back. You could do a lot worse than putting 5 - 10% of your portfolio into such a strategy.

Edit: I believe taleb lost money several years running doing this. He made it all back and more when the market crashed in 87.
SSE2 vector registers are 128-bit, while CRAY-1 had 4096-bit ones (if I'm reading the manual correctly). Even next-gen AVX will only have 256-bit registers.

Sadly, the part on the instruction set is not available.
How would you like voidy.com?
Then don't answer.

It is as simple as that. Not every email requires and answer. I think 'compulsive answering' is a huge problem with people that have an 'email backlog', they see that not only as email they need to read, but also as if every email requires an answer, and really, not every email does.

If someone asks you questions or mails you a business proposal then yes, an answer is required. But if someone tells you they had a great time somewhere or tells you they are going out for lunch today and won't be in the office between 12 and 2 that does not require an answer.

Even plenty of personal email does not require an answer.
Finally, a decent, well research piece of what might of happened.
I wonder if they care. The amount of damage control Facebook has done in the wake of this has been pretty passive; as if they're saying "We hear you, but we're going to stay the course".
The author's arguments are: people are lazy, stupid and liars.

Dear author, fuck you. We, the "common man" have been denigrated and belittled since our existence began. Yet we made the web. We made Wikipedia. And we'll do it again.
We don't know how many emails a day he was dealing with. Clearly, he wasn't ignoring email over this period, so many he was already keeping up with 30, 50, 100, 200 emails and this was just the excess.
Have there been any email clients/plugins that used Bayesian filtering to sort non-spam email into different categories successfully? For example, is there anything out there that would let Fred Wilson automatically tag all the emails he gets from entrepeneurs asking him to check out their sites and invest in their companies?
Not to mention the essayist seems to assume that all Reddit traffic is allocated to the programming section.
Nah, most of the email I get is because I've built up a fairly extensive net of personal contacts over the years and email (rather than say facebook or so) is my preferred way of staying in touch. The contacts are both business, private and 'mixed', and I really don't mind the volume, it's just that 30 sounds like a great number.

I reply to emails usually very quickly (unless I'm sleeping), even if they are a bit more complicated because I know that if I let it slide the 'mountain' will start to look too high to me to.

It's mostly a matter of discipline.
Gmail has some features that work like that.
It's the unfriendliness of the editor_s_ which has been the problem in my experience.

When someone goes through the trouble of creating a well-cited article only to have it deleted for being 'not notable', they're unlikely to bother again. If there's a Wikipedia issue to resolve, it's the deletionists and the strange environment which encourages their behaviour.
Cloud Enabled Distributed Search Engine
QOTD: '"Black Swan"-linked fund may have contributed to "Black Swan" moment'

talk about self-fulfilling prophecy...
Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights
30 is the delta -- he clearly has been dealing with email for the last month since it is critical to his business, just 30 a day were accumulating.
That's a separate issue. Both need to be addressed, I'm personally glad they're doing something about usability.

For what it's worth, personally my own edits seem to stick around - I write a lot about architecture (buildings), industrial design, and software. I've written about Ron Arad, Konstantin Grgic, Zaha Hadid, btrfs, SystemTap, Python, Django, Zed Shaw, and popular culture in Portland, and they've all still there. I appreciate you may have had different experiences.
Maybe you can find something else that will interest you here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/
Sexy image hover effect like in flash in pure CSS3...
Microsoft changes SQL Server 2008 R2 virtualization licensing
Provided it retains improved integration with OSX, I think it'd be sufficiently different.

Having iDisk to provide net storage to iPhone OS devices would be a fairly big deal by itself. (Assuming they include over-the-air backup and fix the workflow issue.)
That could be, he mentions 'unread', but reading 30 emails per day on top of whatever he already read is:

- if it was low, not a big deal

- if it was high, percentage wise not such a big issue

So it would have to be somewhere in the middle, say around the 30 to 60 emails on top of the ones he's already receiving for it to be a 'big deal'. And even that does not seem to me to be an extraordinary high volume.

The thousand backlogged emails is a big deal, that will take you two days at least to get rid of.

But the majority of those probably does not require an answer, and if it hasn't been read in 30 days it probably wasn't very urgent either and you may be able to lose it entirely without it being a big deal.

People should not become a 'slave to their inbox'.
"throw" "doeable"... Sorry, folks. That's what I get from typing on an iPod before I wake up.
Dylan in Lisp
Rant@HN: Can we please stop taking Open Graph Protocol seriously?
I realize that it's often best to release early, but Open Graph Protocol is especially annoying because it's not a 'protocol' (there's no exchange of anything), it's not about a 'graph' (there are no links between elements in it).

It should really be called something like Some Page Associated Metadata or Node Metadata Specification.

If you go and read the 'specification' you'll find an apparently almost random collection of 'object types' and other attributes.

The reality is that Open Graph Protocol is a very weak specification which benefits Facebook and that's about it. Sure, everyone else can consume it, but it's so Facebook oriented that it cries out for competition.

And I question its 'open' nature. Given that it's page metadata it basically had to be open. Facebook would have had a hard time making it not open since everyone could scrape whatever they got publishers to place on their pages.
Chatroulette in HTML5.

Go.
Yes, there is, the mail client integrated in Opera Mail does this:
"Learn from messages added to or removed from filter: allow Opera Mail to train itself into recognizing which messages belong in the filter, and which do not. This can act as a substitute for adding rules, or in addition to the rules. It learns from the messages you remove or add."
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/mail/sort/

I love this feature.

It is also possible to use POPFile with any client and IMAP server.
http://getpopfile.org/
Simply adding more features does not equal a better software product
I feel similarly. I started paying for extra gmail storage after reading a story of how one guy's gmail just ceased to be one day. I hope that somehow by paying, gmail has a small motivation to keep mine in existence. Probably wrong, but it makes me feel better.
Please review my weekend project: face-me-not
Greenpeace still hunting for truly green electronics
Please someone make email better! This is a huge problem. Gmail is okay, and it's the best web mail out there. Filters are really pretty useful, but as far as I'm concerned, Gmail's two great innovations were 1) it's approach to threaded conversations. IMHO it's "The Right Way" to do it and 2) archiving email as opposed to deleting it.

But, it seems like they've really stopped innovating, and it really leaves a lot to be desired. Labs features are nice, but not really game changers.

Gmail's contact management sucks. I have hundreds of contacts in my contacts list from running the Hackers and Founders meetups, and I try really hard to write notes and metadata about each contact after I meet them, but it's really hard to get at those notes from an individual email.

Xobni really has the right idea with this. If I could easily change the display of emails to threaded conversations ala Gmail and easily get the archive feature, I'd make the switch over to Xobni + Outlook in a heart beat.

I'm more than willing to pay $10 -20 a month to someone that can solve this problem for me....
I just started http://webpulp.tv yesterday. It is gear towards server admin and web scaling tech.
That's not true.

Gmail has good filters, but it does not have bayesian learning (appart from the spam filtering).
very nice site! this is something i never knew i would even be interested in until i saw it - kudos.
Well, there was this thing I wrote like 10 years ago called POPFile (http://getpopfile.org/) when I had the problems that he is talking about. I haven't looked back.

POPFile grew from POP only to lots of other protocols and many, many people still use it.
I like it! my parents are avid gardeners and I've always wanted to get an idea of what/when to plant things.

Suggestion: add a select all / select none on the veggies page. Also, I think there has to be a better way to convince people to pay.

I found myself selecting the email only mode, then wondering if I could "upgrade" my account to a pay version, but I seem that there's no way to do that unless I create another account.
The question you need to ask yourself as a startup is how much time I should spend to not make money. I am sorry, if I already can't ship to you, why do I want to add all these resources for you when I will never receive money from you. Yes if you move to the US the owner might eventually make money, but that amount of time spent on such a low conversion rate is hard for a startup to justify. I think a message of US only would be sufficient for any startup.
Google actually has rolled out a small step towards this. They recognize microformats and other bits of structured data, and use them to do things like supply the number of stars for a review or to populate friend lists for social networking sites.

Their official jargon is "Rich Snippets", and they have a couple posts on it at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introduci... and http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/help-us-m... .
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On the Economics of Anonymity [pdf]
Might want to have a look at glTail for that purpose as well. It also helps with showing management why you need that shiny new server. :-)
also, copyright info needs to sit on the bottom of the screen.
Keeping your email under control requires an unreasonable amount of discipline. I've managed to avoid 'defaulting' on my email so far, but at a decent overhead rate: Every hour or two, I wipe out my inbox completely and leave only items that absolutely require an action. Most mail is read once and interesting email gets archived by sender name. I have lots of filters set up for people who usually send me uninteresting mail. Everything else is deleted.

I've almost lost control a few times - mostly because of vacations- and I'm certain that I'll hit a tipping point where my time doesn't scale to my inbox size. I couldn't handle my boss' email load, for instance...

Are there any good techniques that scale for dealing with email?
Ask HN: How long can you actually work standing up?
Here's a question for people who are working at a standing-level desk - how long can you actually type while standing? Do your knees and feet get tired? I'm intrigued, but... I have to type a lot if I want to get paid.
Or you could just install glTail - http://www.fudgie.org which I wrote to do exactly this, with multiple parsers and OpenGL display.
It's the WSJ. Anything that reinforces the idea that humanity is nothing but a competitive struggle is fair game.
A Unix weenie would still have a good time back in 1975.

But I have to agree some 70's technology puts to shame lots of stuff we have now.

I am only half-joking when I say ST-80 makes Java'2010 look primitive.
Beautiful Image Hover Effect Using Only Webkit CSS (No JS)
Check out http://www.windowfarms.org/
...and boom goes the crowd-sourcing. Let everybody who is growing turnips send in turnip pictures, pick the best/representative few and promote those as exemplar turnips. That way you don't have to source "real" pictures of everything in every stage of the growing cycle, you just eventually get it all for free.
Why Perl isn't Going Away Soon (Or Ever)
What I'm implying is that the fact that you ask for my ZIP, I assume you take into account the kind of climate / space that is typical of that zip. But maybe I'm wrong.
I think Google wanted to shut them down because Scroogle offer an SSL search service, so all searches are encrypted. Too much privacy, Google would say.
Ah ok, so labeling is only based on the filter contents and not on previous emails that were labeled with a certain tag.

That's weird, they use the exact same tech for the spam, why not apply it to the 'good' mail as well?
How did Facebook guess my email address?
reddit's frontpage sucks

reddit/r/programming half-sucks

reddit/r/coding is like HN, but nobody goes there
POPFile is awesome. Definitely one of the most useful email apps I've ever used. Thanks for all your work behind it.
Not my submission mind you, but it would appear that the FB privacy debacles are extending far beyond the OpenGraph, unless someone actually knows an answer to this.

This is relevant to my interests because something very similar happened with one of my throw away emails that's never been used/published.
Mozilla and Shuttleworth Foundation seek fellowship applicants
I like the search engine. I have been using it as my default for the past month. I just love the infinite scroll thing.

My only gripe I have is that it is slow. I have a pathetically slow connection and DDG is at least 3-4 times slower than Google.
You are most welcome and I'll pass on your praise to the people who keep POPFile alive and growing today.
Branding is easily mvt tested.
There is such an alternative: hosted Exchange. ActiveSync is an almost ubiquitous protocol.

Add on the fact that it's currently usually businesses that use it, and I feel even safer that my data won't be fucked with or social networked (cough buzz) on a whim. Maybe on a little more, but probably not a whim :)

It's what I use and love.
The number of searches through scroogle per day compared to google directly is so low that I don't think that was a factor here.
Melissa Huckaby
If your direction is 60 degrees off then the right-direction component is 1/2, not sqrt(3)/2. (You move sqrt(3)/2 in the perpendicular direction.)
Very nice! The code is simple and easy to read as well. Now if only webkit had more thorough coverage in browsers so that we could use these pure CSS effects and know that all our visitors can see them.
...because it's holding the entire internet together?
I've written about this in the past: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/12/facebooks-creepy-privacy.html

And, not mentioned in that post, is that fact that that email was sent to an address that Facebook does not have. They sent it to a valid email address for me, but not one I had told Facebook about.
The only way I'd put Flash Player on my Nexus One is if it had some kind of ClickToFlash-like functionality. One of the best parts of mobile browsing is missing out on horrible Flash banner ads and annoying middle-of-the-screen popups. Yes, mobile Flash video and games might be cool, but it's not worth that downside, IMO.
Awesome list. Thanks!
No technology ever goes away. Nobody is saying Perl won't be developed, just that people are less likely to use other languages for new projects in favor of newer technologies.
Spectacular High Quality Digital 3D model painting of actors
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337533
LinkedIn competitor Viadeo hits 30 million members
In other news, Ford Focus is outselling BMW X5, who wulddathunk?
From FB point of view they have 2 options.

1. Go back to the 2007 FB and keep most people happy, and lose the ability to sell private data.

2. Lose 10-25% of users and monetize everyone else's data.
I agree that it's a red herring in the "future of Flash" argument, but it's still a significant hurdle. The value of any existing Flash content that requires keybaord or mouse hover interactions is diminished almost to the point that you might as well not have it.

That's not to say that future Flash content won't be built with touchscreen interfaces in mind.
Actually, you guys are right. I realized the flaw in my thought process right after I read seasoup's post.

I do, however, have intellisense in my eyes.
Alternatively; a two value system measuring popularity of the sentiment expressed and separately the quality of the post. So for example, a poorly written post with good ideas would be: legibility: -4, popularity: +4. This could be expressed as an rounded average or different users could filter by their own preference of legibility/popularity.

Of course this would all be a fairly major change to a system that isn't really broken so it's just speculative thinking on my part.
We're trying to keep the level of discourse high, here, remember? Especially since we're defenders of HN. :)

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

I'd suggest vigorously arguing his ideas, not his character. I'd actually be really interested in reading a vigorous discussion of "To bot or not to bot" as it relates to twitter, Facebook and Buzz.

I think discussing where the line is between automating specific marketing tasks and spamming lies is a really interesting question. I'd really enjoy reading both of you vigorously defend your oppposing points of view.

But, this discussion has now degenerated into insults which robs me of the potential insights that both of you might have on the situation.

I feel that posting insults also communicates to noob HN readers that insults are okay in this community, when in fact, it's not. One of the reasons that people like you and I have felt compelled to heavily invest our time here over the years is because we've generally managed to keep insulting comments at bay. :)
Interesting blog post, actually because it gives us a glimpse into exactly how serendipitous Facebook is with your data. I remember someone making a comment in another FB thread here on HN to the effect of "I might opt-out of the social graph, and lock my profile down, but my data would still leak out of the cloud because of ONE photo a friend tagged me in".

I think it's time for me to alert my closest contacts and let them know where I'll be. Facebook and I are done.
Today is the 100th Birthday of Glacier National Park
Better sales presentations
Visit Custom Web Sites If You Search for Ideas Research Paper  
When students get a task to write research paper, they usually search for ideas research paper. You may find good ideas for your research paper in internet. There is a list of good topics in any subject.
Of course if she put an ad for "babysitting" on the web, people would find it. There is nothing "semantic" about it. You simply search for the word "babysitting".

More likely, she doesn't have a computer or the parents don't have computers.
The relays still work, the mechanisms to share the relay addresses have changed a bit and continue to do so. Tor's traffic looks like regular https traffic so it's very difficult to block. The tor project makes China one of it's priorities and continually play an escalation war with China's government.

So if it does get blocked its not for long.

I wish I could help you with more specific information off the top of my head, but I fortunately don't have to use relays. I am willing to do some research and share the results here if you like.
That looks really cool. How big a %age of the mainstream browsers can show this effect?
...because it is my duct tape
Only for webkit
CU3ER – flash 3D image slider
CU3ER is the flash 3D image slider initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides, turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator.
Nice demo, but I feel that the title is a little misleading as the CSS is more so webkit-specific CSS than it is CSS3.
Readers back Apple in Flash-on-iPhone dispute
Replication in distributed file systems
How do I pay him? I don't want a physical copy of it.
Android OS edged out Apple OS
In the words of HN's own resident Facebook liason:

"What do you suggest?"
Wait, you're THAT jgrahamc?! Whoa, small world. I nearly invited you to speak in Japan about POPFile and OSS at the technology incubator that was my ex-ex-day job, but our budget fell through. As far as I know our not-quite-ready-for-primetime POPFile/Outlook integration is still protecting a few hundred desktops next to a rice field.
> Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ... took three minutes to deliver.
> So, why would it take anything more than 30 minutes to describe a company, ...
> That's 15 times longer than Lincoln used at Gettysburg!

Er, so 30 divided by 3 is 15?

Slide 6:

> "Why Should I Believe You?"

You blew it. Now I find it hard to believe anything you say.

ADDED IN EDIT: Since I got a down-vlote at least one person hasn't understood the point I'm making, or didn't like the way I made it. Let me expand somewhat to try to make it clearer.

In this hyper-critical, attention-deficit economy, it doesn't take much to lose your audience. If you're pitching for me to invest in you, you'd better know what you're talking about.

This was a fundamental error in a document that that was talking about the importance of the pitch. The document itself is a pitch, and pretty much the only figures they gave, they got wrong.

Yes, that means that I stop reading when they actually have more interesting, useful and important things to say, but it does make me worried about their attention to detail, and there are 101 other things demanding my attention.

Net result - stupid error, and they've lost my attention. Other sites are just one click away, and my time is limited.
From the source (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2010/05/examples-of-flash...):

We’ll be releasing a public version of Flash Player 10.1 at Google I/O

Expected, but wasn't confirmed until now. Nice. So we all should have it in a week or so and be able to run our own tests.
I'm not sure you can call -webkit-transition-duration CSS3.

That said, the animations are really just sugar, and would be painful in any browser that doesn't handle them very fast (I used to hate lightbox). Since the effect may still be worthwhile without them, and purdy with them, I prefer this to javascript.
When I looked at the markup, I thought, "I would use JS to insert those mask divs." Does anyone else feel that same base compulsion to keep the markup clean?
Fragmenting Linux is not the way to beat Apple
Farmville for real life, nice :) I wonder if you could build in gaming mechanics too?