skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managing email programatically in particular for me is a nightmare, sendgrid is an awesome service, but processing incoming email should be much easier. (I have yet to try lampson)

Is there an available solution for the reverse of SendGrid? Basically a service which would receive your emails and then post to a url on your application.
I'm finding it really hard to be sympathetic after hearing so many of these kind of stories.

There's no way in hell I'd develop anything for iOS while the only way to distribute is via the app store.

I have some serious cognitive dissonance going on though; I have an iPad, and it's great. I'm glad people do run the app store gauntlet so I have nice apps to play with.
Oh man where to start.

It's just a noisy mess, poorly designed, with a lot of weird design decisions and exotic patterns that only added to the noise.

It starts with a way to complex proposition. Google basically created the entire vision instead of the basic core functionality and then expanded on that, optimizing in the detail rather than for the big shows.

Etherpad started the right way. It started very lean with a basic principle that then evolved with time, slowly. And now it got bought.
I signed up in Opera 10.60, but couldn't get it to add my Linode instance. Had to do it in Firefox to get it to accept my API key.
and not only Silicon Valley. While YC is Bay Area based, its ideas (maybe not his program yet) really inspire a bunch of international people too
Dealing with random candy attraction aka dopamine email effect.

The reason I and other people keep refreshing email, fb and hn all day long is because you never know when something good is coming up. Maybe one email that will change your life. A wall post from a potential partner. A insightful reply to your comment.

Limiting one's usage to predefined periods (eg mail only at lunch) is a start, but far from enough if we are to keep increasing our connectivity with the world.

I'm skeptical that there will be a good enough technological solution for this, which makes it all the more scary (scale/reach problems).
Overcrowding on the train.
Amazon losing money on the new Kindles?
The main thing was the integration with email, I was amazed it didnt have it from the start and convinced that it would be coming very soon.

But the UI also irked me, it was far far to bloated with features I didnt care about (replay), when the thing that I care about was it being as fast and responsive as gmail, which it wasnt close to.
People who can't keep their car at a constant speed on the highway; cruise control is the best way to do this if you don't want to keep checking your speedometer.

To elaborate: If everybody picks a slightly different speed and maintains it, any encounter between two vehicles will never last very long. There's more distance between any two vehicles, so it's safer, and large, impassable clumps of vehicles are less likely to form.

EDIT: bad markup
What about sites like Meetup? I had this same problem after moving and found a lot of regular hobbies locally.
Oh man... This one bugs me too, but I see a lot of potential for things like the iPad here...
Productivity pr0n - it´s the number 1 productivity killer
Indeed. I couldn't go on reading after that because I had the feeling that the article already climaxed (pun slightly intended)
This is something I have thought about as well, I think its 2 problems, notifications and filtering, I have gmail notifier but it would be nicer to see it come natively to more apps (facebook / twitter / email / comments)

and filtering which is much harder and specific to each application
Entrepreneurs Need to Master Competitive Selling
This criticism misses the Volt's unique powertrain configuration. Trips under 40 miles are all on battery power, so the average commuter uses no gas doing their daily business. However, unlike an EV, you can hop in the same car & drive as far as you want, pausing only to fill up the gas tank.

So while it is pretty damn expensive, it's not necessarily worse than having one ICE car for long trips & one EV for commuting, especially considering that you'll only need to buy gas for trips over 40 miles. It's not going to hit too many people's sweet spot but there's some real potential.
That's one place where plain English works fine. Glob matches a glob of characters.
Smartest Person In The Room Disorder
Interesting observation, but it has nothing to do with the question of moral behavior.

There're also plenty of examples of businesses trying to buy as cheap as possible while at the same time trying to sell as expensive as possible. That just proves that buyers should beware.

Also, proprietary software is not equivalent to high switching costs: in fact, it's a rather subjective calculation. If you don't care about keeping your old emails, switching your E-mail client has nearly no costs, for example. Additionally, "free" software doesn't imply low switching costs: develop a large application using the KDE or GNOME APIs, and you'll find that switching is rather expensive.

In general, your argument is a red herring: Since switching costs may establish a trap, you should warn about software with high switching costs, not about proprietary software.
When contrasting Nokia to "evil corporations" such as Apple or Google, don't forget that Nokia is the number one advocate of introducing software patents in the European Union. Just sayin'.
I think "know thyself" is far more valuable than "make thyself", because in real life, everyday terms we have far less control over what makes us happy than it seems, rationally.

But -- we also have far more freedom than many people realize. "I can't" usually conceals a confused morass that needs to be dredged out with a vengeance.

The decision might still be "I won't", but if you know why, and have some sense of how to maintain your emotional equilibrium, etc. you're still far, far ahead in the game.

I think the quote resonates with you (and many people!) because it's so easy to be locked into near-immobility by a kind of inarticulated wash of bad feelings about how other people must be judging us, and in fact most of this anxiety is unfounded and misleading.

It's incredibly valuable to take a kind of eyes-open "5 questions" approach to big decisions, to dig out the kind of thing like "so apparently I will do almost anything to avoid being criticized by men who resemble my father". And yeah, break free from the crowds (hint: this tends to actually earn you respect, not harsh judgment), work on improving yourself, etc..

But don't delude yourself into thinking that simply because there's no god, universal meaning, etc., you'll be able to just shake it off if you realize that your choices have earned you the contempt of those you love and respect.
Say hello. I'm at Picklive and sit about 10 feet away from them.

Steve.
anybody who has lots of data and would like to analyze it would find you extremely valuable. You just pick a domain that interests you.
I'd love to see a text editor that let you select text blocks by drawing a box. (ie, you could draw the box selection style and select the last 5 characters of each line)
The NPR application appears to be using it to stream audio which is not strictly VOIP.
Textpad does this.
1. Technologically possible things that have been castrated/restricted by business people (or that need to be hacked, i.e. can't be done by your mother, in order to get them to work properly). Examples: phone tethering, ring tones, lack of power outlets in economy class on airplanes, VOIP over 3G, media licensing (aka dvd zoning), inability to stream Netflix from different countries, inability to watch streams on ESPN3.com/Univision from non-approved ISPs (wtf?), general lack of TV/radio streams on the internet (major annoyance during the world cup)

2. Things that are obscenely expensive but don't cost much to produce/service. Examples: mobile broadband ($30-60 that you can't share, see above), mobile text messaging ($0.25 per 160 bytes!?), dealership car service, iPhone cases, Monster cables, etrade transactions, international roaming (data: $20 PER MB, voice $2.29/min), laptop batteries, retail books, music, DVDs, basic software (such as FTP/ssh clients, PDF readers, etc).

3. Getting ripped off, knowing I can't do anything about it. Examples: exchanging foreign currency, used video games
>so they do not have a right to claim any more

Not of what they made in the past, but they can certainly terminate the agreement and change the rules from now on (assuming that the boss approves, obviously).
Why Umbraco suits us
Actually, this only happens in the US. In the EU (and most countries) you can get any phone unlocked and without a contract straight from the telco stores or independent stores.
Clojure 1.2 RC1
yeh if anyone has a firefox extension to fix this then it annoys me as well.
http://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api
Are you talking about "column selection mode"? It exists in several editors, SlickEdit for example, and lets you select "boxes" (or columns) of characters.

My favorite editor nowadays is Sublime Text, which takes this concept much, much further. It allows having several cursors active at once, each one behaving like a real cursor, so you can do things like ctrl+right to move all the cursors to the next word, no matter the length of each specific word. Kinda like real-time macros, only much better.
The ridiculous "zomg I am a founder", "omfg entrepeneur", and "omfug I will change the paradiggams boxes!" flag waving that occurs. Makes me want to stab my own eye balls.
He really needs to calm down. The tone of his blog posts on this, while understandable, is not conducive to a good business relationship.
Even at subsecond intervals?

(I'll note that the bid/ask spread becomes effectively zero every time an actual trade happens -- what if it actually reflected market prices rather than a bunch of video games competing against each other?).

Does it hurt the buyer and seller more than the little nibbles these guys are taking to smooth out that curve?

I see a lot of paychecks being cut in this industry and I don't see the value being created. Looks like highway robbery to me.
Textmate and Vim as well
How can you say that they are the stupidest? They pulled off a massive tax-payer bailout, screwed their investors, stayed out of jail and are lining up a new round of investors. They may not be the best at making cars, but the company's mastery of the American financial and political process is second to none.
I remember reading an article from someone who've used email for 25+ years and he pointed out three or so fundamental changes to email since he started using it. I think it was readable email addresses, conversations, and search.

Anyone know which article I'm talking about?
There is a separate mode for background audio, pandora uses it
I want a global movement to make the acceleration pedal actually affect acceleration, not horsepower as it does now.

Imagine a pedal with a dead spot in the middle that represents 0 acceleration. Pushing down on the pedal increases the rate of acceleration. When you get to speed, ease back to the dead spot to maintain. Lift past the dead spot to decel.

Think of it as a hybrid cruise control. I'm convinced it would solve many traffic congestion problems associated with people not maintaining speed on, say, slight inclines.
I don't see the problem. The total is very nearly normally distributed by the central limit theorem, is it not?
I have a great amount of respect for Richard Stallman, but I don't understand how he reconciles his concerns about a large "surveillance state" (#24) with his insistence that governments take away enough power from companies to make them "squeal." (#17)

Doesn't one work against the other? In other words, a government with enough power to make citizens' organizations squeal by practical necessity risks becoming a "surveillance state."
Nor did the government or G.M. decide to sell the Volt at a loss, which, paradoxically, might have been the best hope for making it profitable.

Glad this dude isn't running my business.
WeddingCredential
Phillipe Starck is such a wind bag celebrity designer. I don't believe this guy for a second just because he's pseudo philosophical. Congratulations on your horrible lemon squeezer.
Never. I meant just now.
I agree that it was a terrible start.

But have you looked at it recently? I've been using Wave to manage most of my project-related communications (with one or two partners), and it's fantastic. Like Etherpad, but a lot more powerful. And fyi, the Etherpad team is now part of the Google Wave team.
Notetaking as a way to stay smart
Looks fun. What's the daily trading volume like?
Especially doing anything that requires one bank to talk to another. Why does it take 5 days to move money between banks? It's ridiculous.

I once had mistakenly setup a transfer from one bank to another and I wanted to cancel it. So I called up the destination bank and they said there was nothing they could do. I called the source bank and had to pay 30 bucks to put a stop payment order on the account AND they couldn't guarantee it would stop the transfer.
Something I've always wanted is to be able to set up my home phone so that between (say) 9pm and 9am, when people call they get an automated response that says, "The person you are calling doesn't want to be disturbed at this hour. If your call is urgent, press 1 to ring them; otherwise, press 2 to leave a voicemail without ringing them." Technologically, it's nearly trivial.
Its pretty hard to say that the only way MS leveraged its monopoly was to enter other markets. That may have been the biggest problem, but I doubt it is the 'whole' problem. You really believe that MS didn't gouge consumers on the price of their OS? Or their Office suite?

Regardless of your opinions on their specific business practices, I think the OP's point still stands: its difficult at best to laude someone for giving away money that to some extent was derived illegally.
People hate the App store regardless of the iPhones HTML app capacity because they want what the App store offers without the compromise that Apple makes them take.

They want centralized marketing, distribution, security and payment handling which the HTML option doesn't have. They could build a website selling these apps if they wanted, but that would be work outside of developing, which they don't want to do.

Everyone wants to be on the App Store because that's where you go for apps. You don't Google for "html iPad App RSS reader". So no one is going to install your app.

With the recent security issues with Android phones (this will happen with Apple apps too, but maybe to a smaller degree) Apple's controls are looking nicer and nicer.

Sour grapes.

Also, what's with the title "which Apple can't stop". You're thumbing your nose at Apple with a feature they developed and encouraged?
I'm betting someone in the Vatican is taking note of this..
Personally, I prefer the zeppelin bend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_bend). It's very secure, very easy to tie, and very easy to untie.
Chrome can use Greasemonkey userscripts. Can you add collapse-able replies?
"Prove the algorithm correct" - gosh, if only that were true.
I admire those guys. Always innovating and trying all sorts of things.

Also I found a solution for the last bit about protecting kids. Don't buy your kids a damn iPhone, get them the phone that just calls/texts people if you're so concerned.
I participate in martial arts, and would sometimes bruise my hands (overenthusiasm ftw). With query it would hurt my hand after typing for an hour or to before I had to stop with Dvorak, it was easier to keep typing all day.
The fact that 100s of years of art and music are available, but people still gravitate towards whatever is being promoted--typically something recent and inferior. This is partly a function of marketing, partly of herding--both poor selectors of quality.
Is it a choice you had to do yourself as well ?
I'd like to add that if you are/were in the U.S. Military at some point, (or even your parents, I'm pretty sure) then you should check out USAA. They have a fantastic website and awesome customer service.

note: I have no affiliation with USAA other than I use them and really like them.
I can't tell if the programmer was using the VoIP mechanisms to allow the app to run continuously in the background, though it does look that the programmer was attempting that. Apple isn't going to allow continuous background. If your application needs that, then that's likely best an Android application and not an iOS application.

And this comment: "It’s just not possible to tell them to hold the chatline, send a Push Message, and resend the text to the app when it comes online…"? That's arguably less of a limit, and more of a potential opportunity. Why not create the servers necessary to do that; to allow off-line IRC, and deliver via push? There are folks already using a similar scheme - bouncers - to do that with existing IRC clients and servers, after all. Package that and sell it, and (if your end-user agreements are clear about the potential for dual-use of the servers) package and sell the feed, too.
The updates on a linked article[1] seem to point to his distribution credentials having expired.

1) http://www.roomsapp.mobi/blog/2010/07/roomspulled-from-store...
You really managed to fit it all in there.

>Given that G.M. destroyed their first electric car of this decade why would anyone trust them to build a new one

Because they had the experience of building an electric car, knowing it wasn't viable, and going back to the drawing board until the technology was refined?

>I've never heard of a company purposefully destroying capital in the way G.M. did.

That's because your analysis of it is hipster, populist garbage. Sorry to be impolite about it, but the whole "who killed the electric car" movement is populated by people proud of their ignorance.

>The Volt will likely fail because of its massive price

Since when did $41K (really $33.5) get classed as a "massive price"? That is an absolutely typical mid-level sedan price, and apparently the volt is fairly well equipped.

>At least with the Prius you'd be getting a quality car made by a quality company.

The number of problems with the Prius have been legendary. Toyota's quality lead over GM has shrunk to almost a rounding error, yet we'll forever hear the "angry at GM guy" railing his 1980s argument.
To be fair, the iPhone readers can also change the font size, the background and foreground colors, and so forth. We experimented. The real killer feature should have been the ease on the eyes of the eInk for long-term reading.
Good idea, but there's nothing that impels me to sign up.
However, in the case of Behavioral Economics (in which I am a researcher) the "generalizability" of such findings to the "human race" is something of a red herring. Do you think Wal-Mart cares when they routinely take advantage of bad depth judgments and sell cereal boxes that appear bigger when in fact they just shrink the dimension not visible on the shelf? When they routinely offer decoy options in stereos that make the more profitable option appear more compelling? Guess what: consumer psychology, especially for our commercially driven culture, is endlessley valuable.

Call it what you will, the WEIRD world is a big world--one whose laws and economic assumptions have great impact on the rest of civilization. The goal of behavioral economics isn't to generalize about the human race (although several of its hypotheses do), but rather to inform sound policy (to not take human rationality for granted, for example) and to help WEIRDOs better understand their day-to-day decisions so that they can make better ones going forward. I think that's a valuable program, don't you?
Databases, The End User Experience
Bureaucracy

and

The positive effects of democracy made negative by the conservative older generations.
Are IPOs Bitter Lemons?
Possibly, but the biggest difference would be the increase in the bid/ask spread.
One thing that supremely annoys me is Italian drivers who do not stop at crosswalks. My daydream solution is a golf club or baseball bat, but I think that solution probably has unintended consequences.
Not sure what it was built on, but don't forget Microsoft had TerraServer http://msrmaps.com/default.aspx long before Google bought Keyhole for their mapping technology which was limited to a desktop application at the time.
Sadly, having had to wrestle with a surly TSM installation, I can report that IBM tools still use this argument style.
some more details about the journalist:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/147963800

WikiLeaks formed an impromptu alliance with old media -- a local TV channel and one of its journalists, Kristinn Hrafnsson.

"Julian Assange showed me the Iraqi video a few weeks prior to its release. That's the first time I saw that video of the killing in Baghdad. I thought it was essential to find the identity of the people who were killed, to get their story basically, what they were doing there in the square that day," Hrafnsson says.
Zed is clearly in the wrong business. He's such a prolific writer, he should really be rewriting and updating the O'reilly catalog.
Symbian^3? New themes to an old crap? Yeah, they still doesn't get it. ^_^
Ask HN: Features in a language
Consider your ideal language(s). Some people love the "I don't have to think about it"-ness of garbage collection, others hate the "I don't know when this destructor will be called" effect. Yes, I know these are not exactly opposites, and that different languages have semantics and pragmatics that vary from a little to a lot.

So here, let me ask: What must a language do and have?

For you, for your programming style and purpose, must a language have GC? Must it have strings? Must it be able to take a list of any type and act on it?

In Python you can define the "length" function like this:

length = lambda L: sum(map(lambda x:1,L))

or like this:

def length(L):
if L==[]: return 0
return 1+length(L[1:])

and you don't have to worry about the types held in L. Does that matter to you?

What really matters? When I get enough answers, if I get enough answers, I might turn this into a poll.
Isn't it obvious that employers prefer to hire wage slaves.
OmniFocus for iPad is now available
You are operating from the perspective that the "right word" is the one that the dictionary defines as the most accurate based on the context. If the people you are communicating to will receive the message better if you choose alternative, less correct as far as dictionaries are concerned words, the message will be better received.

I see people make this mistake all the time; it's important to recognize that the ultimate goal of language is to communicate.
Really nice! I just signed up, and set up my sandbox EC2 quickly, and I find the feature set meets my needs. The free price to monitor my EC2 is great, and will likely pay off for Cloudkick when I recommend them to my customers (I always like it when customers use the same tools I use for my stuff - makes life easier.)
I would posit that discarding something because you see drawbacks and no benefits is logical.

Prescribing what someone you've never met knows or doesn't know would be, if not foolish, presumptuous.
Edit: The more trades made independent of stocks fundamentals the lower the signal to noise ratio.

Both negative AND positive feedback loops independent of underlying value are bad.
Which is exactly my point. One size fits all doesn't work. The scale or notation system should be appropriate to the music. AFAIK, Indian classical has its own way of doing things, and most blues and jazz isn't notated the same way as classical music, either. Going to a fully justified/chromatically-based system is just sweeping the intricacies and nuances under the rug. Plus, naming "all twelve" tones doesn't even begin to address what you would do with microtonal music.
USAA does have a mostly solid website (and a fairly customer service all around IMHO,) but it does have some rendering flaws with Firefox on Linux that are very annoying.