skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be tempted to design a "Never delete email again! We autodelete all email 10 days after receipt! Mandatory!" service.

It would be able to be cheap/free/low infrastructure by not needing masses of storage, and stay fast by not needing to handle tens of thousands of mails. And it wouldn't need a complex UI or tagging/labelling/tabbing/folders.

Also it would encourage / enforce dealing with mails and getting the information of of your mailbox and putting it wherever it needs to be.

It would also probably need to have a tie-in with some persona wiki and dropbox so you could easily shunt relevant content that you need to keep.

I think many people would find that they just don't need most old email and wouldn't miss it. The panic of "I have it around somewhere, let me spend time searching ... I think Bob sent it to me one time" is replaced by the certainty of "I don't have it".

If email was physical stuff, we'd call email archiving a hording disorder.
That's just silly. Depending on what's in the string, writing a parser might be much better than a regex. Lots of parser libraries already out there, too.
Not perfect: doesn't support IDN without punycode. Doesn't support IDN TLDs at all.

Users of http://موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر won't be pleased :)
I suggested that a while back but was told that due to spam, you can get lots of false negatives from this technique and others.

The best way to validate an email remains to be a test email apparently.
FYI - you can stream this movie from netflix on demand.

(though the movie has only 1.5/5 stars, interestingly enough.
Might be asking too much, but I'd also like to see a thread discussing the possible parts, schematics, and source code I could use to hack one of these together myself :) To start: what kind of rotors are those? Are they expensive?
Yeah, they should have just shown the charts for the benchmarks right? that'll get 2M views...
I spent many hours reading http://walkingtom.com/ about 10 years ago. He got three quarters of the way across, found a wife, and stopped where he was! It's cool to see how improved technology is having an effect on journals like these.
I can guarantee you that there is a woman that will look right past the stupid bag as if it didn't exist. In fact, there are probably several in your own city.
This list is so not relevant for a tech-intensive company. Tech-intensive work requires a manager to recruit and handle people who are smarter than him/her. Not the other way around.

> My success depends largely getting obvious and mundane things done, in spite of my people's shortcomings.

You mean managerial success depends on managing the power point slides instead of making sure that your server-side is architected to properly streamline asynchronous tasks?
If you want less of something, tax it.

Or if you're indifferent to there being less of it, the motive hardly matters.
How is their story even possible?

They tow away wrongly parked cars right? So what either the people stopped doing parking violations or they had to cease defrauding the people.

Or I'm to daft to understand?
Eventually it would have to stop growing, but I don't know if it will cease through foresight or catastrophe.
But the money donated would likely generate better returns if reinvested in the business (or even just regular advertising), so it's not maximizing value.

Lots of companies exist to make money, sure, but it's possible for a company to exist where that's not the raison d'etre.
Nothing is finished, nothing is permanent, and nothing is perfect.

In particular, one of the evaluation tests used here is wrong: it requires failure-to-match on a TLD with a digit in it:

numbersInTLD@domain.c0m

In fact, IDN TLDs will have digits in them. An internet-draft is in the works to replace RFC1123's IDN-unfriendly implication that digits in TLDs are illegal:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-liman-tld-names-02
MX record is not required. You should allow hosts with only A records too.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-5.1
Yeah, that's a really quick way to get IP banned from most email hosts.
Ditto, my money is on Google having poor customer support because the vast, vast majority of user issues are user caused.

From what I've seen with friends, all of their issues with gmail have been user caused.
I've accepted that it's best to treat people like grown-ups and if there's '@' and '.' and it's retyped then it passes. Someone can easily submit a fake name or phone number or street address, and e-mail's no different.

If they get it wrong, intentionally or not, then they don't get their receipt, confirmation, validation link, etc. and I believe in most cases the incentive is there for them to get it right.

In the rare case where there's some incentive to circumvent the system and this has some measurable impact on a site, then more validation may be warranted. Otherwise, why worry about it?

Also: HTML5. ;)
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I think I speak for everyone here when I say, I'm dying to at least know what general domain you're working in. Please please please spill.
You have great taste in unicorns, I have to say.
What's the deal with using a port number in an e-mail address? I can't imagine many systems supporting that. Anyone got any more info on it that doesn't involve me digging through 101 pages of RFCs? :-)
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It does not look like any of these can detect or were tested against quoted-local-part addresses. As I understand it, the local part can be quoted to allow illegal characters to be used, e.g. "John Doe"@example.com

I fully understand that these are not in common use, but they are part of the RFC and may be in use somewhere.
Not sure about this one:

Innovation is crucial to every team and organization. So my job is to encourage my people to generate and test all kinds of new ideas. But it is also my job to help them kill off all the bad ideas we generate, and most of the good ideas, too.

Why reject most good ideas? Seems like that would discourage innovation, not encourage.
This is the main reason people believe personality test results, even if the personality tests have never been validated.

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html
Very good. Here's one of the less obvious ones (at least it was to me):

"4. ' * denotes mandatory field'

No one uses this language in the real world."

The article goes on to e.g. say has measurable bottom line consequences.
When in doubt, apply Occam's razor. Consider a room full of 1000 coin flippers. Each flips his coin, and if it comes up tails, he must leave the room. After ten flips, there will be likely be one player who has flipped 10 heads in a row. He will be hailed as an expert coin flipper and make millions writing a book about how he did it.

What's more, unlike coin flipping, money has memory. Having money makes it easier to get more. Capital provides interest income with no labor required, and more significantly, investors are much quicker to invest in someone with a track record.

Hard work and intelligence can buy you the opportunity and provide a good standard of living, but they alone cannot make you rich, at least not in the short time frames we tend to think in.
I believe you've uncovered one of the great flaws of standard testing procedures. The tests cannot test anything the developers don't think up. Robotnik has a big blank space where a blue hedgehog should be.
I think (hope) he wasn't serious but instead acting more as a foil to Sutton's points.
Who said it was yearly? They are probably extending this over the projected life of the company.
#2? Feh. Keep "Please" and "Thank you", just use them with reasonable frequency. Politeness doesn't hurt anything.
I doubt it would take a few years to tow 6000 vehicles. They have more than 5 different kinds of trucks [1] and probably more than one of each. 6000 tows doesn't sound unreasonable for a ~4 month period, especially since they cover a pretty large area?

[1] http://tjtowing.com/light_duty_trucks.php
Not everybody highlights text in a functional way. In fact, what I'm highlighting usually has nothing to do with what I'm reading at the moment, and is more of a nervous habit/tic than anything else.
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To be fair, innovation is not all that useful, unless you can market it.

And marketing, only one country is known to do well. And one company, specially.

It is not a lack of motivation. This device was built ground up itself.
There might not be a "Citizen Kane", but to say that the video game medium so far lacks the artistic qualities of other mediums is both shortsighted and showing that it comes from an "older" generation (and I'm close to 30 myself, so there are probably posters that see me as an old geezer).

I am more than willing to ascribe artistic qualities to some of the games that defined my childhood - I think that the comedic values in some of the early adventure games are not at all lesser than those of movies or other genres, and why is being awe-inspiring good if it's a movie or other "art-approved" media and bad if it's a Final Fantasy videogame? (even if it's lacking in some other aspect). Are some of the better RPGs worse artistically than a book in an equivalent genre?.

The article is, of course, arguing only one side to make it more interesting :) and make people reply like I am :P
"One could argue that was more craftsmanship than innovation, but there's a strong connection between making things well and making better things, and China isn't famous for quality goods either."

That's because they weren't taught in our textbooks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technolo...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinoiserie
The person that set up the page is claiming the company is removing parking stickers from legally parked cars and then towing them.
Except I always see "is a mandatory field" or at worst "indicates a mandatory field", which people understand just fine.
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Have you considered an "intestinal transplant"?

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/digestive/crohns-...

As for the confidence issues, go out and meet people. From experience, shallow people are everywhere, so go past that find people who are not shallow.
But can they interface with Skynet?
You must be thinking of something like this: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/how-to-check-if-an-email-...

Merely looking up MX records is something you do for a _domain_ and it's no different than the DNS requests your computer makes when you go to a website.
Tell HN: I need a Designer Founder
I am looking for a design founder to join a very new startup focused on offering all-inclusive web hosting / design / maintenance to greek organizations in the Southeast.

This isn't the next Twitter (Substitute "Next Big Thing" if you want), but it does have potential to generate quite a bit of income.

Here are some examples done by another company:

-http://auburnalphagam.com/

-http://www.whiteoaksofauburn.com/

-http://www.fountainviewmansion.com/

If you feel like your skills are up to par to help me found this company, shoot an email to Jud dot Stephenson at gmail dot com, where I would be happy to discuss the business further.

Im hoping to find someone who is a compliment to my skill set and can take an active role in the decisions of the company as a co-founder, not employee. You can be compensated in upfront equity, cash, gold or beer (Its up to you) ;)

*I'm obviously not requiring you to be from the southeast, remotely working is acceptable.

Again, I can be reached at Jud dot Stephenson at Gmail dot com
> It's performant (well, maybe not on memory usage, but I have plenty of memory)

I was a die-hard Opera user for years, back when it had the smallest memory footprint and the smallest download size--less than 2MB at one time.

Opera made fast, multi-tab browsing possible on older machines. I guess they have gotten away from that in recent years!
It's not legal to sell them in US. They will be happiest if they can have 1% of the market share of iPad.

Apple has more important things to bother about. Like innovating, the iPad mini, for instance.
Well, denote is by far the worst offender, but I'm sure you'll lose people on mandatory as well.
The analysis is silly. By either by car or public transport, it can easily take 45 minutes to travel from Cambridge, MA to Jamaica Plain, MA, even though they are only one mile apart. This is even more pronounced in NYC. In the urban sprawl that is the Midwest, 15 miles can easily be traversed in 45 minutes.

The analysis would have more bite if it were redone with an eye towards mapping 'temporal' density, rather than spatial density. This would better reflect the ease of meeting in person.
Remind anyone of this?

>Dear Reddit: Yesterday a user posted soliciting donations for a users wifes cancer treatment. I (and others) claimed it was fake. I was wrong, she does have cancer and now users are harassing the family.

http://en.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bup53/dear_reddit...
I think it's just that highlighting is neat. Some portion of my brain is pleased by the flashing/changing colors (different than a flashing ad, etc., since I'm controlling the action).
Fascination. Then acid reflux.
If you aren't even 30 yet, I can tell you that you only have about 30% of the things you will learn in life in your head right now.

Yes that's right: You're still a little kid, intellectually and emotionally. Don't worry, we all were.

By killing yourself now, you're denying yourself all of that potential knowledge because you figure your not happy with the 30% you already have. That's a fool's game. You'll really understand how little you think you know in the next few years.

You know how you look back at high school and see that all the cool people that got all the chicks and never went to class haven't really done much in their lives since? Yeah, well they never do. The girls that think you're a loser now change their tunes quite dramatically as they hit 30 and realize that those loser qualities you had are actually pretty attractive.

It gets better my friend. So much so that me, at only 35, with a wife and two kids looks at this bag and says, "Meh, doesn't seem too bad, what's he going on about?" I know my wife wouldn't leave and my kids wouldn't care. You're going to find those people.

Of course, that assumes you stay alive to experience that.
"he estimated that the company would lose about $750,000"

Future tense. They lost 15 clients so far, maybe they'll lose 30 in total. $750k is 62.5k per year over 20 years, or around 5k per month. Divided by 30 clients, that's $173 a month. So if 30 big clients who tow on average 1.5 cars a month quit, they lose 750k.

The numbers are definitely pulled out of thin air, but they aren't completely preposterous.
I can agree with this sentiment, there's also nothing wrong with writing a parser that breaks the input up into pieces and validates those individual parts using specialized regular expressions.
What if it's not to help follow the line for reading, but to "feel" the page as you read it? A proxy for dealing with immaterial bits on a screen instead of holding and feeling the paper of a book or magazine? Showing you have some sort of control over it.
My uncle did something similar in 2008 -- he rode his bike across the world; flying over the oceans, obviously. His local paper did a story on it: http://www.modbee.com/2008/10/21/v-print/469931/west-side-ma...
While this company sounds shady, I think this is a little over the top until someone catches them in the act. Doesn't everyone hate tow companies in college areas?

"But claiming that the company scraped off the parking sticker" - seems like anyone could have taken his sticker off (or stolen it). I remember hearing on more than one occasion of stolen parking stickers at my school due to the ridiculous price.

I'm not on the tow trucks companies side, I just think this is way blown out of proportion for a hunch.
I annoys me that people never seem to realize that 37Signals is a company that has "won the lottery", as David likes to say when pejoratively describing the success of companies that have chosen a different route, in a major way with Ruby on Rails. The popularity of Rails is a huge contributing factor to the success of 37Signals. And without Rails, nobody would ever have picked up any of their books. 37Signals is a popular counter-example because they promote themselves, and the vast majority of their ability to promote themselves through talks and books is direct result of hitting a grand slam with Rails.
It thinks baddomain@300.0.0.1 is valid, and thinks decimaldomain@2130706433 (localhost) is not valid.
It also thought user@3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf as invalid.
(Guessing.) They have contracts with all the local parking lots to do the towing. Accusations of fraud mean the parking lot owners are using somebody else to do the towing now.
They're not a counter-example. They're just an example.

Anyway the question is rhetorical since you know the answer is "to pick a fight", which you openly admit to doing yourself right here : http://remarkablogger.com/2010/05/03/how-i-got-50k-visitors-...

The linkbait is starting to smell a little fishy :(
this must have recently been implemented on techcrunch. I just wanted to forward an article to a friend, i selected a paragraph and pasted it in the email - it was actually really handy having the read more snippet at the end of the paste.

but it'd be infuriating if you were doing this, for example, in IM and had to remove 5 lines every paste.

opt in, not out.
The second video on that page is the original.
None of the hardware construction looks all that expensive. (I've watched the video a few times, tried to catch a few details.) They're pretty high-speed motors, obviously, and otherwise lightweight construction.

The real trick is how they're getting them to calculate vectors. They're certainly not just remote controlled -- not unless they had an awful lot of takes of that 3" clearance shot -- so that raises the question, are they precalculating the vectors, or are they using some really advanced method to calculate them on-the-fly (so to speak)?

If they're precalculating, then the impressive thing here is the method they've developed to get these things to do tricks with rotors. If they're doing on-the-fly calculation, then I really want to know what kind of sensor they're using. I don't know of anything available on the hobbyist market with that kind of resolution and speed.

EDIT: Well, this is embarrassing. It spells out the answers to my questions right in the linked article. :-( Hooray for not paying attention.
One of the reasons that this is possible is that towing companies are sort of like Judge Dredd; as far as I know, once your car ends up in the pound, there really isn't anything you can do. Technically, a towing company could just snag your car, say you were parked illegally, and you'd be screwed.

Now, they don't do this because of the ramifications if they got caught. This sounds like a company that did it a small amount, got emboldened by their success, and then got caught. Of course, that's all just speculation, but it's plausible.
It works in Safari too. On my Mac, I can search the word in Spotlight or in Google (obviously 99% of the time I pick Google)
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Some Chinese websites do this, but they put their address after each paragraph. I think they do it the Web1.0 way though: white text on white background.
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Or the manhacks in Half Life 2.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. When I saw it, I instantly thought of Man Hacks from Half Life 2 - flying drones with buzz-saws attached. They were far less maneuverable than these quadcopters. Buzz-saws are for chumps, though - I'm sure these things could carry more than sufficient C4 to ensure that any human-sized target was eliminated completely in the sort of way that their relatives hope their dental records are up to date.

Terrifying.
I've accepted email validation is like security, better left to libraries by people smarter than I am...TMail with over 2000 test cases.

But we know a valid email address when we see it, right?

--

Edit: Nicely done, HTML5.
Unless your definition of a "modest lifestyle" includes driving a Lamborghini (http://www.google.com/search?q=dhh+lamborghini), I'd say 37signals is doing very well financially. And that's probably because they're intentionally staying small, not in spite of it.
I almost never use drag-and-drop for anything because it only works if my windows are arranged just so.

I'd be curious to know how normal this is. Maybe if a lot of websites implement it, we'll be able to get some real stats on how often it actually gets used.
Tynt is good for regular users that email stuff
"What's that?"

"It's a time machine."

"Does it work?"

"Heck, yeah, it does. You don't even know."
How many degrees of freedom do you have in the location of your hand with your elbow bent? Back, forwards, up, down, left, right, rotation in any direction around the wrist - it's pretty full.
I never understood the purposes of the "perfectly valid by the RFC" email regex. You may be able to with 100% accuracy say that something should be an email address, but you'll never be able to tell if it's a valid account on the server, or if the server even exists.
Terrifying, but so damn awesome!
His test also considers the % sign invalid, yet I've both sent and received email that required the % for the mail to be routed/relayed correctly (think "in care of" or c/o).

Granted, that was 17 years ago, but who's to say it's not in use somewhere?
As a typical optimizer, I was always trying to reduce my source code a few more bytes or speed up my processes a few nanaseconds here and there. I was so proud of myself. Until I tried to maintain my own slickness.

There's a fine line between clever and practical. Why do I have a gut feeling that this approach is way over that line?
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Extensive use of analytics to guide their game design, I think.
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I don't think that's valid. I think they misread the RFC. First of all, an IP address (address-literal) is supposed to be enclosed in [square brackets]. The colon is only allowed to designate address family, as in "foo@[IPv6:XXXXXX]".
Exactly. I'm not paying for the service so I can't really complain, but when many users report a bug in 2009, where Google Calendar completely chokes and can't delete or modify meeting requests with more than a handful of recipients, you would expect a company like Google to at least reply "we've opened a bug and are working on fixing this issue."

Instead, the silence on their troubleshooting forums is deafening. It's as if the engineers just don't care about fixing it, despite what would happen in the real world if a Google Apps sales rep came to our company to do a real evaluation... I suspect they would be laughed out of the room once they admitted they couldn't handle meeting invites with more than a handful of attendees.
Good stuff there, but her point #3, eliminating "click here" is misinformed if you're transacting commerce / leads / etc.

I see her point for content sites, but one of the easiest ways to lift action conversions is to add "Click Here" to your link / button / etc.

Two reasons this works:

a) Most people recognize that underlined text is a link, but a signifigant proportion do not.

b) Adding clear action-oriented verbiage drives conversion increases nearly every time - people want to be told what to do next and the clearer it is, the higher your conversions.
Especially when the spec itself is in EBNF.
I'm guessing you were downvoted because your suggestion was neither simple nor a solution. Since you can't easily predict which sites will use Tynt, it's not simple. Since you (presumably) still want to read the content on sites using Tynt, it's not a solution.
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