skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any software out there that handles spam as well as Gmail's spam filter?

The rest of the features that Gmail offers seem like they'd be hard to replicate as well - I'm talking about the cool stuff like being able to put arbitrary periods in your email address, or adding +whatever to the end of it.

I really like Gmail today, but if there were a way to replicate all the nice things it does on a server I controlled that would be pretty sweet.
Only 730 MB, 11309 messages here, and I can confirm that the service has been steadily slowing over the past three or four weeks. Loading my inbox from scratch can take well over 10 seconds, and I have reproduced this on multiple machines in my home and multiple machines on my corporate network. Starting new emails, sending emails, switching labels, all slow.
> Yes, Ritz difficult but by no melanie impossible if you are willing to investoren some time an thought.

Off-topic, but still. Did you use speech recognition?
Haven't yet used them, but these guys http://laclinux.com/gnu/Laptop sell and support Lenovo Thinkpads with GNU/Linux installed and swear by them.
It's on Netlfix Streaming if you have an account...Was recommended to me last week by the system - which I'm definitely glad for.
Bingo. She's not asking for more because she's trying to make it cheaper for him to just pay her, than it would be for him to fight her.

Why does she deserve anything for his work?
Pandora One: Is It Worth The Upgrade?
It's not that difficult to build a copy when you are building the original as well. =)
Android is cool, no doubt, but the few times I've used those phones, the UI is just not there. It's even more important on a touch-screen device that attention to detail in every tiny measure of interaction be made, but Android doesn't have it (unless the new versions are vastly better in the last few months).
I have all mail since 2001 (around 80'000 messages) in my google (apps, paid) account. While the web interface is still acceptably fast (as long as I don't browse my All Mail label), but the iphone (and ipad) frontend has become unbearably slow in the last few weeks.

It opens quickly, loads the locally cached page and then it's just spinning and spinning for up to 5 minutes before it either reloads the page completely, signs me out again or finally displays the new mail.

Considering this is a product from a company that places so much importance on speed, this is completely inacceptable, IMHO.
Let's not forget that IMAP clients often queue the connection requests, so that when you hit Send it gives them illusion that it was quick, while it's often still sending in the background.
You bastard Eliezer! You've just wasted 4 hours of my life, just at the time when I have a rather busy schedule! No doubt this is all part of your evil plan to become a rich science fiction author, then use your money to build a self-improving AI that will conquer^H optimise the universe.
For most of human history, waterborne diseases were our number #1 killer. Still are in many parts of the world. Then we got indoor plumbing.

The point is, I don't want to go back. The fact that something has existed for only a short period of time on a cosmic scale does not mean that it cannot or should not exist forever.

I like music, and as such would like to see artists remain profitable, even after the demise of the CD.
They must have filtered porn. There is no way redtube.com is not in the top 100.
TV with Mobile Phone:- | Horizontal Image
Now isn't this nicely symbolic of the ghetto that Android has become? :)
Mod_python project soon to be officially dead
Things they never teach in college about programming.
A friend was telling me about this last night too, strange coincidence!
Also, I haven't found any way to do a search then delete particular messages without deleting the whole conversation.

Anyone know how to do a search w/o pulling in conversations, and/or delete selected search results without deleting whole threads?

At present, I resort to IMAP.

// Over 150,000 messages per mail box, working on my third mail box.
Did you guys notice Wordpress.com and .org in there:

.com: 120,000,000 uniques

.org: 8,100,000 uniques

Impressive.
Exactly this. And I hope Google doesn't shift to making a customer service infrastructure take much more of their time than it already does.

I mean, think about a 'problem' explanation like this post: "My e-mail is running slower than it used to, and other people with a similar usage profile aren't having the same problem." It's hard to get much more vague than that without trying. I really don't want someone to have to clarify that problem statement then spend hours trying to reproduce the problem.

The one time I had a clearly defined problem that I could reproduce (this was with a Google Mini), a post in the forums got me an answer within 4 hours. For everything else, peer support has always been sufficient (or, if not, a clear statement of what reproduces the problem usually gets a Google response).
This is my memory also. Manufacturers were saying that no one wanted the low powered machines... It wasn't until OLPC was able to sell some of theirs with the buy 1 get 1 and the EEEPC (I own a first generation 7 incher) went on sail and people snapped them up so quickly that I had to stalk the local micro center to get the wife one for christmas... Did the other manufacturers think there might be a market for this.

Now we can get a 1.6 Ghz laptop with wifi + camera +windows XP for under 200$ (Saw the Acer netbook for 189 the other day!). Frankly, while they were never able to hit their 100$ sweet spot I think the OLPC project has been a massive success.

Heck, we may even be able to attribute the push for the cloud... and cloud based applications running in a browser... to the low powered laptop movement started by the OLPC project.
19k, 3GB, 7 labels and it's speedy for me. Takes a few seconds to search or switch labels.
Y'know, this article isn't about Gmail performance nearly as much as it is another article about Google's utter disdain for our quaint notions of customer service and transparency.

Somebody who goes to a conference might get something like feedback and disseminate it to the masses - but that's it. Google is not interested in hearing about problems, and if they themselves are affected by a problem, well, boy howdy, they're on it - but in any other case, maybe they're on it, maybe they're not. Who are we to ask?
Does anyone know what causes the big clear spots in the middle?
My personal account is using only 648mb and speed has been horrid lately. Most of the time the slowness is in returning back to the inbox. If I get the "Loading" text at the top, it will take ~10 seconds these days.
I think my favorite character of this variety is John Francis, dubbed planet walker. [http://www.planetwalker.org/]

That he spent years under a vow of silence never once setting foot in a motor vehicle and still managed to get a PhD and actually teach in that time is just awe-inspiring.
They did:
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Keep in mind that the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don't have publicly visible content or don't load properly, and certain Google sites.
"
I have 7.1GB, it's still beyond fast. Size isn't a sufficient condition for whatever problem it is you are seeing. The only time I had a problem was before I abandoned greasemonkey.

Which operations are slow for you?
This whole story just really made me roll my eyes.
Now there is a nice, detailed and respectable announcement of a delay for pre-order shipments.
I discovered this through a fantastic list of 'mindfuck movies':

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/mindfuck_movi...

It's definitely the most complex of the bunch, but most of them were great finds. Cube was another low-budget gem, and on the other end of the spectrum there's The Game with Michael Douglas.
Out of curiosity, why?

Does your cost calculation include opportunity cost of time?

If Google does it well, why would you want to spend your time on duplicating that instead of spending your time on your own original skill?
That report doesn't mention how you'd get labelled as a copyright infringer.

Direct link to what Ofcom has to say ---
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumer/2010/05/draft-code-of-pract...

Consultation on this draft policy closes on 30th July.
How to Get Your Blog Noticed and Promoted by Super Influencers
Great idea and i'm sure an incredible experience.

But, Wow, what a cultural indicator the way this guy travels is! i remember reading Peter Jenkins's book A Walk Across America as a kid (highly recommended) and he just had a backpack and a dog. this guy has a cart with a rubbermaid box full of stuff. It captures something about our culture that 'savoring the country' now requires a shopping cart.
Hmm, except that his first example is weird. He tries to rewrite all of his logic, instead of just putting an extra case at the top:

if (b & c) {
x = 3;
elif (a) {
...

which according to his methodology is an "overlap", and thus bad - but seems a lot clearer to me than his program's simplification:

if (a & (!b | !c)) {
x = 1;
} else if (!a & ((b & !c)|(!b & c))) {
x = 2;
} etc...

Ditto for the fibonacci stuff and his later examples. And they're pretty straightforward. For larger functions I can see it spiraling out of control.
Ask HN: Dead man coding.
I am a 26 year old developer that has been working professionally since i was 13. I have severe Crohn's disease and because i refuse to take a colostomy bag I will probably be dead in 6 - 9 months; and I am ok with that. All I know is code and technology because its been my whole (short life) but I want to experience more before I die.

Disclaimer: No this post is not a joke. I used a different account from my normal one for obvious reasons.

So I guess my question is, if you were in my situation would would you do; one last project? or something else?
Fast and slow is subjective. You might be talking about responsiveness of the UI, or a specific feature like search, and someone else might be used to a faster UI, or a faster search.
The old story goes

Muddy Waters, who, according to one apocryphal tale, was busy painting the walls of the recording studio when a very young Mick Jagger popped by for a visit.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jun/21/popandrock.vinyl...)

...I read this a while ago and it screamed BS, but the truth is, anybody who was working with skinflints like Ahmet Ertegun was going to be underpaid. If you go back in time, you'll find people like Scott Joplin who got relatively good royalties. It depends on the deal-making. Led Zeppelin was 1/2 professional (not kids) and got a professional manager (Peter Grant) who made sure everyone got paid. The stones lived far beyond the typical pop band's longevity, and so matured enough to swing deals properly.
But reddit.com is nowhere to be seen... surprising.
Are all 50k messages still in your inbox, or have you archived most of them?
I almost posted this last night. (I was too busy reading it, though.)

I get the same feeling of open-mouthed joy from it that I get from any other Miles Vorkosigan story. It's just that this is the first Vorkosigan story I've ever read that had that Vorkosigan flair while not being written by Bujold. And, OK, not being about Miles Vorkosigan. Or so he says.

This is where I really started laughing: "Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling is watching you from where she waits, eternally in the void between worlds." A few chapters later, I was in love; it's going to be a three-way wedding; me, the Time-Turner, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
We should perhaps be careful to maintain a distinction between the size of the oil spill and its severity. Knowing that the Ixtoc I spill possibly involved a greater volume of oil doesn't necessarily tell us that the spill's effects were more serious. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable than me can comment on the comparative repercussions of each spill.

(I can say from personal experience that everyone who grew up on the Texas coast during the 80s has memories of cleaning tar from his or her feet after every visit to the beach.)
Too many of the nice things it does can't be done on "a server" you control.
Beantown Summer forever.
Who did this exactly?
Everything is slow. Sending mail, switching labels, searching, even clicking settings or the home icon. I've tried across lots of browsers and computers. It's related to the account. Other, much smaller and newer accounts are fast.
That you used a spreadsheet puts you in an incredibly small minority. His target audience is going to be those that can see (or will instantly recognise when shown) the benefits of such, but without the motivation to take on the hassle(1) of organising it themselves - people who keep it in their heads, or scribble on whatever scraps of paper etc. they have to hand.

Take the endless 'to-do list' type sites as a comparison: They basically offer nothing (or are not generally used for anything) that couldn't be handled by a carrying around a small notepad with a pen shoved down the spine.

(1) Minor hassle it may be, but magnitude means nothing to a great many people.
All archived. I keep my inbox clean.
The SaaS Certainty Premium
I am skeptical about the final product looking anywhere near as good as their rendering does...
Click send and stare at a modal still working... for 30sec. This is not subjective.
Hmm. I'm not sure. I am R/G colorblind myself, and I don't confuse red and green traffic lights; they look completely different to me. On the other hand, some devices use LEDs that can be red or green (like the Nintendo DS; red means it's time to charge the battery), and I can't tell them apart at all.

Also, for what it's worth, on my MacBook the images in the aforementioned blog post look almost the same to me. But I looked at them on a different computer as well, a netbook where I tweaked the color settings, and there they don't look the same at all. (I still can't pass the Ishihara test on that one though... :-)
Thanks for this awesome list, unfortunately it seems I've watched most of them. I especially recommend La Jetee (the Hollywood remake, Twelve Monkeys is also good) and Solaris.

I started watching Primer but gave up after 10 minutes or so, maybe the effects of watching it late after you put your child to sleep.
IPhone Wireframe Prototyping Pads
Over what time period is pageviews calculated on?
Ahh that probably explains counduit.com at #29 as well.
'The G' - that's Art Garfunkel, of course - walked across America. And nobody cared.

http://www.artgarfunkel.com/poems/america/trek.html
being able to sort or search your inbox by size would make resolving this issue on a personal level a heck of a lot easier
I think a musician that travels the world working what would be equivalent to full time hours anyone else would work they should make a good wage and then a little bit extra.

I think things are a little flawed if musicians expect to be able to put out an album once in a while and become rich on that. I don't think music should be always free but maybe the price expected is a little bit over the top.
Mashable - #696 Techcrunch - #850. Nice to see I'm not the only one that prefers Cashmore to Arrington.
where s youtube?
I had the same problem with the iPhone web UI. Delete the local HTML5 database from Mobile Safari, then kill and restart Mobile Safari, or restart your phone. Once I did this, iPhone web gmail was fast again.
This guy will end up making a ton of money in donations, eat a lot of great food, become super fit, write a book or two or three, get a ton of television interviews, perform a cameo or two in some low and mid grade movies, and then have a super healthy network of people to write, visit, and call upon for the rest of his life.

Where do I sign up?
I live in Houston, so I don't have to visualize...It IS sort of over my hometown.
Kostenlose Homepage auf Funpic.de
Applications welcome from all across the world, not just Europe.
Bowing to pressure, Facebook to simplify privacy controls.
I find it disturbing that you're presumed guilty: we think you're doing something bad, we put you on the list, and we can then sue you if we feel like it, meaning that consumers have to prove their innocence instead of the ISPs and copyright holders proving guilt.
I agreed with you until I got an HTC Evo 4G. I have shown it to several iPhone users and everyone agrees it is a better UI experience.

The only weakness compared to the iPhone is the quality of apps, but that is quickly changing.

Android's clever design of intents + back button behavior gives the mobile device a far more weblike (in a good way) experience when using apps.
There's no need to choose between bitching and patching. You can do both.
it's shouting: "English speaking people understanding english speaking people only" in my head ...
It's so hard to learn about oil spills. You'd have to go to wikipedia or google and type in "oil spill". Then you need to engage in the arduous process of scrolling down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills
Can also be read as: "VCs and angels, please notice me!"

Also: "I was there!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_oil_spill

"American airstrikes on January 26 destroyed pipelines to prevent further spillage into the Persian Gulf"

In response to the "Citation needed", a little Lexis searching returned a March 22 article from the Washington Times that lists the airstrike as January 27: "Jan. 27: U.S. aircraft fire at oil facilities in Kuwait to end the pumping of crude into the Persian Gulf."
Cute. Incidentally, this was already my exact mental image of the average Opera user.
As someone who tried and wanted to like SpiderOak enough to buy a plan (esp during your specials), I just couldn't get past the amount of inherent complexity in the user interface, and the way that backups/syncs are handled.

I wanted to be able to easily define a synced set of data, and be able to have a simple way to replicate that synchronized data onto my other machines. Why do I need to set up a backup point on every machine first, and then individually link every machine's empty backup point to the main synchronized folder? And why isn't there an easy way to restore the backed up or synchonized directories to a machine if I have to wipe and reinstall? I can't even imagine trying to get my mother to set up and use SpiderOak...

In the end, I gave up on SpiderOak and decided to get a paid Dropbox account instead, even though SpiderOak had the security/encryption stance I wanted and cost significantly less than Dropbox. SpiderOak just exposes too much complexity to the user, IMO.

Thanks for listening to my rant. Sorry for dragging things off topic.
The device appeared first in shenzhen, where foxconn (apple manufacturing) operates. Zing!
I'd take the goddamn colostomy bag.
Don't mistake lack of customer service for 'disdain'. For every issue related to Googles free products and services when have you ever really, and I mean really needed a traditional customer service rep?

Maybe once? Not at all?

I would hate Gmail never to have happened becuase they felt it would require a call center and they were not prepared to do that...

And as for 'transparency'... um, they're a private company. But a very transparent one at that in many other ways. Just not 'transparent' in this one way?

While I'm here...

(1) "Somebody who goes to a conference might get something like feedback and disseminate it to the masses"

I've found the blog helpful (not always, but its still there):
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/whats-your-story.html

(2) "Google is not interested in hearing about problems"

Try this link:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail

(3) "and if they themselves are affected by a problem, well, boy howdy, they're on it"

To be fair, as a dev its much much easier to solve a problem when you experience it first-hand but I maintain that they don't necessarily wait until it happens to them before problems get addressed.

You know, you could be absolutely right in all respects BUT you assume its somehow malicious, or condescending or whatever - when, at worst, its benign.
My only complain is about loading time. It takes forever.

Compared to Google Reader, which loads the UI instantly, then loads the data, I say Gmail should work that way.

Don't let me stare at a white page with a retarded progress bar for a minute.
Not really, the point of OLPC was the software that let you modify it.
Their mistake was trying to do the hardware as well.

If you build a good enough OS then the hardware will appear and market demand will make it $100.
If you are only worried about the HW being $100 then you can get an 1980s dos machine.
Get away from the keyboard, and go experience the world. Photograph or write about it all, and share it with as many people as possible along the way.
I doubt there is a book that you can read that will make you sound like a seasoned startup guy. You are already in the industry, so know your own pitch deck and know your own business inside and out.

Know about your competitors, and know and understand the key pressure points in your own business model. I think if you can do that you will sound like a startup guy--with a bit of seasoning in your own business.

Good Luck!
Same as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1386224 except that that one links to Engadget's comments on the video rather than directly to the video itself.
as a programmer.. I really suck at css and layout. Working on projects as a single programmer (startup type projects) I can't go out and hire a css guy and web design person. For me something like this is a no brainer, instead spending time trying to figure out why something is not positioned in one browser vs another.
a strip search won't find an implant.
or (c) pay for a Premier Apps account and get customer service guarantees.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
The page views is pulled from the original google list. They have more information at:
http://www.google.com/support/adplanner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

They don't say what time frame page view is, but they do say unique visits is over the course of 1 month - so its probably safe to assume page view is also over 1 month.
It's not a copy or a knock off.

An iPad is a stock LCD screen (although multi touch which is better than this) an ARM core (just buy a licence) and a bit of flash memory.
The only thing that makes an iPad valuable is the OS,branding and appstore.

It's trivial to make a tablet out of these parts, just like you can build a PC from bits from Newegg.

This is no more an iPad knockoff than a Lexus is a knock off of a Mercedes. Or a dell is a knock off of an HP.
This is bloody amazing. I'm speechless. Awesome. Go Eliezer go.
I've had a chat with someone who used to work for Zynga, and he said it was a great place to work. He said they knew full well the psychology of what they were doing, and were quite proud of how well they do.
It is for me. Loading takes forever. I gave up, only use web now. Web is fast and good for me though.
How do you know the total number of message is gmail ?
Maybe the culture in Europe is to avoid building a business structure that requires angel investment?
Appreciate the trees.

One step ahead of you
I'm going to interview Andrew Warner of Mixergy, what should I ask?
I've got <8000 emails at around 2GB. Gmail seems to have been slow for the past couple of weeks, but it does vary. Usually 20-30 seconds to load Gmail; 15-20 seconds to open an email. 30 seconds or more to send.

I just hid chat, buzz and 'web clips'. I also set the theme back to classic. Not sure what did it (or if it was even something I did), but it's back to normal now, even if I turn everything back on.