skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the obvious answer there is 'Yes'. Most people I know have their email accounts through GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL or what have you. Those companies are profitable, and their customers rely on them to host their email entirely outside of their own, individual control.

Regarding your other point, the thing to note here is that these are separate services, which you would have to subscribe to in order to get them into your inbox. That's not to say that Google won't ever co-opt these features into GMail, but at least in the current, there's no 'default' option to allow my Inbox be accessible to some foreign party.
That's almost a direct quote from Adam Smith's mouth from a talk he gave at MIT startup bootcamp. I don't have the link to the video at hand, but I distinctly remember him saying, with a pause for emphasis, "Xobni does not solve the email triage problem."

I understand you worked at Xobni, so I cede that you probably know more than I do. Either way, that was the message he was trying to send.
Well, despite some promising open-source efforts in the area (PostGIS being most prominent) Oracle is still tops when it comes to handling geo-spatial data. Unfortunate, but that's the way it is.
> Are they doing all of this today?

No. Because they don't really care. They're not trying to understand your behavior to display ads you're more likely to click on. Google? it's their core business.
If you're really going for an "interactive book" instead of a character generator / combat tracker / DM tool that supplements a traditional print/PDF publication, then the integration will take a lot of design work. You might really be better off learning the requisite skills yourself, as otherwise I'd predict a lot of back and forth talk between you and the developer. Which can be more frustrating than learning Cocoa/Objective-C, never mind that lots of iterations are usually quite costly. It all depends a bit on how thorough your vision is and with how many mockup drawings you could provide the programmer.

How hypertext-y do you imagine your full product? Lots of interaction or more a few mini-apps that contain links to a textual copy provided (e.g. a character generator that would link to the relevant texts in an integrated PDF viewer if required, but otherwise would look like a desktop program).

I'd say that most of this could be done as a webapp, which would make the app more universal (players could use their laptops, too) and would increase the pool of potential developers. Clicking on a table to select one result randomly is a trivial javascript addition, character generation is a bit more involved (I haven't seen a good character generator for any RPG yet.)
The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl (2005)
"would you willingly grant access to your e-mail to a profitable company"

That's not a yes/no question. I would grant some companies some level of access to some of my email some of the time.

One example: I might grant a spam filtering company read access to the contents of my "Junk E-Mail" folder in exchange for being able to use their black list. Subject to privacy policy contents as always.
>people talking when they should be listening.

I don't care much for the "no true Scotsman" nonsense, but I don't agree that someone should be listening to out dated advice. If you meant it as a story about the glory years then ok.

> This grandparent which included intimate secrets of my success and earned nothing and this little joke:

The one where you showed you were good at real estate? Are you here to earn imaginary points or to communicate with like minded people? You need a couple hundred karma to get downvote ability but after that? Who cares.

>Then people like you tell me I'm wrong

Your methodology is no longer the most effective way to develop software. One can still do it, but one would be artificially limiting what they're capable of.

EDIT: Edited to remove some of the unnecessary barbs. No one likes to be told they are what's wrong with anything but no one wins a flame war.
It's not a java class, it's a 'Software Development I' class. Treat it as such or else you'll lose the forest for the trees.
It sounds like you are describing a racerback:

http://www.zadehome.com/images/product/Racerback_Nightie_2_M...

But I think that falls into the category of "sack with a couple more holes".
For what it's worth, I typically pronounce is as 'add e ose', though in hearing you say that, I think that 'ah dee ose' does sound more ... authentic.
Agree 100%. Furthermore, it's important not to conflate version control with data backup. Although they share some traits, they have different goals. For example, if I lose my local working copy of a repository before any commits, I've lost valuable work. In absence of a good backup strategy, the existence of the remote repository is of little consolation.
That's true, but you have to realize that Google, Apple and Microsoft all have to work much harder than Oracle to make their profits. Selling directly to the public is like that.

Oracle, on the other hands, sells only to other businesses. At this point, their reputation for being "enterprise grade" is so well established, they could probably sit still for a decade and still retain a fair amount of their customers. I don't think Microsoft, Apple, or Google could say the same for their businesses. Well, maybe Microsoft could, but certainly not the other two.
I quite like the name, and I find it easy to spell though, as I just commented elsewhere, I pronounce adios as 'add e ose', so perhaps that's the cause.

The only minor complaint I have (and whatever you do, don't take it seriously) is that it reminds me of Dora the Explorer.
Keep baby's medical record online
Would you be interested in keeping a whole medical record of your child online? By that I mean having vaccines, medicine, dental and growth control, and a lot more... I'll really appreciate your comments.
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There's a tremendous difference between expressing disapproval for what someone says and believing that they shouldn't be allowed to say it (insert not-actually-Voltaire quote here).
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Plain Text vs innerText vs textContent
Pulling Together | Pulling Together
Or...

ssh bob@example.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized-keys' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
You're talking about small websites. I'm talking about websites with a lot of traffic and a lot of employees. You think only one person will be using that function? Not to mention the potential abuse by employees whose job is to monitor real-time user activity.
The September that never ends.
I'm not a fan of medication. I believe some people really do need it to balance out, but I think others just need some proper dieting and exercise to balance their body's chemistry out. Our bodies aren't made to sit around all day on a computer, we need to have some physical activity to stimulate the rest of your body and give your mind a break. Perhaps thats the problem people have with focus'ing, is that they are overworking their mind.
My friends, colleagues, joke I have adult add, or whatever you call it, because I jump from topic to topic. Perhaps.
But when summer came rolling around I began hiking miles and miles of the Adirondack Mountains. I began to bike around. Not to mention I picked up a motorcycle and began riding that. These activities away from the screen, really help. I still jump on topics, but when I work, I'm focused on what i do. Granted I can't wait to get out of work to go on another ride or hike.
Get off the computer, and read a book, go for a walk, do something that doesn't require you being near a screen. Get some real achievements in life, not on the xbox. Check your diet for being healthy. You will have to google on this one cause everybody's diet is different. For me as I try and lose more and more weight (so I can go skydiving), I tend to eat leaner protein, and keep on the carbs for energy, making sure to exercise to burn the carbs right. Some of you might want some St. John's Wort, for your moods, others may want to get some more Omega3's in their body. I'm no dietition, I just like to research what I can eat naturally before turning to synthetic drugs pushed by a corrupt government and group of doctors looking for money in treatments and never the cures.
Once a day I try and push myself physically to a racing heart, and it in turn clears my mind. The joy you can get from pushing your body will clear your mind and help you appreciate it much more.
I've seen the prototype car they did a lot of development for Ellison's car. It's pretty impressive (this coming from a manufacturing engineer). Also, if you're in the Provo, UT area and like cars, think about dropping by for a visit. They seem quite open to visitors to come check out their facility and see what they're working on.
I can see other desktop email clients and webmail clients wanting to add this sort of functionality. Does rapportive offer any sort of API to the social networking data they display?
A common criticism of measuring teacher performance is that teachers will try to get the best students in order to get the highest bonuses. Apparently VAM solves this problem:

“My kids come in at a very high level of competence,” [...] After she teaches them for a year, most score highly on a state science test but show little gains, so her bonus is often small compared with those of other teachers..."

It seem as if VAM gives teachers an incentive to seek out the students that they can help the most. Win.
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"to explore .... and boldly go ..."

does this count as split infinitive?
You're right - there is no black-and-white way for me to say "I am this person" in real life. However, when I attend a conference and introduce myself as tktktk and then continually project myself as that person throughout my relationship with that person, I become that person.

This isn't to say that there isn't a personality "bleed", only that if over the course of time, I reliably show someone one side of my personality, they come to identify me primarily as that person.

Google will slurp up all available information about me and there are no mechanisms on any one social network that allow me to present different sides of myself to different individuals or groups.
How about waiter licenses for high end restaurants (which primarily serve the rich)?

High-end waitservice is hardly a low-skill field. Good waiters are well compensated, and restaurants compete for them almost like technology companies compete for programmers. And restaurants themselves are completely different businesses than taxis. Each additional taxi added to the city is more or less identical to the taxis that were there before, whereas restaurants are highly differentiated from each other. You can't predict the marginal payout of an additional restaurant.

But with that said, restaurants are regulated through zoning and health ordinances. You can't just start a restaurant out of your apartment or set up a table wherever you please to start serving people.
Why do everyone always use Tallahassee as an example of a random town ? (FSU alum ;)) This includes references in LOST, Areosmith songs ...

Is it the name?
'ah dee ose' is the correct pronunciation but I don't think that makes it sound like 'audio' (unless, perhaps, you're from certain places on the east coast).
This is going to be extremely useful for me. I know the basics (churn, CMMR, etc.) but I'm missing some of the others.

I'm not quite sure I understand why CPA is so simple. Right now I'm not spending a dime on advertising so I'm not spending anything to acquire these users (it's WOM and SEO). Once I start advertising shouldn't that calculation go against customers customers acquired through my advertising efforts instead of all new users?
Fair point, I'll update my instructions with a warning, and a version of your commands that works for OS X as well (OS X lacks ssh-copy-id). The instructions are intended for new server builds (hence installing Git etc.).
Your post is lacking clarity in its intended meaning.

Also, regarding the sentences "The traditional approach for small businesses is to register a very long domain name..." and "The problem is, small businesses end up with very long domain names...", surely this is something that we can quite easily extrapolate?

Finally, many businesses use smaller urls that contain "buzz" words and trading names already.
Not really, since my kids' pediatrician does a good job of keeping those records and letting me have access to them.

But, just as a quick "do you know what you are getting into?" question. If this is going to be used in the USA, have you started going through the pile of HIPAA compliance regulations for storing and access of this information? It can get even hairier than credit card info with lawsuits and penalties if some cracker breaches your system and that info gets out into the public.
Ah, you caught the catch. Indeed, remote, centralized accounts are nearly universal. But I wonder if people actually realize the direct consequence: their provider has access to their e-mail.

For instance, when I say to people that Google is performing semantic analysis on their e-mail, many are surprised, if not appalled. And the fact that no human is looking at the results doesn't reassure them much.
Still a ways off getting there with humanoids! The small size league is one of the most fun to watch. It moves very fast, the robots work properly in their teams, and they even chip kick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXiSE7MoVU&feature=relat...

I think a lot of people miss how cute the Sony AIBOs were though!
When I applied a year back, all notices were sent at the same time and the rejections were all identical.
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True. I just wish you could see the status of the bug it is duped to.
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Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824414
I ran throught his this week- Gitorious' install is a bit of a pain, and the software is just BROKEN in places (referencing an array, when the variable is not in one).

I like the system, and it's very flexible, but it doesn't seem like they treat it very well for outside use.
Yeah, I'm not sure, but for our purposes I just mean density. The typical line of lisp code may have 3 or 4 close-parens.
I'm 
guessing
sure Github does backups.

QED.
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You obviously understand your situation much better than I do, but don't you think that one of Github's big differentiators at this point is the network effect? Sure if you open sourced the whole site someone could put up a clone, but without Github's enormous community it'd be difficult for them to gain any traction.
"This isn't a dick size contest is it?"

You're the one who started with unsubstantiated claims about how the OP was a poor programmer because he didn't follow your methodology. If edw has managed to find a method that works for him, why shouldn't he share it? You can take it or leave it. If you feel the need, you can also tell him where you think he is going wrong. But there is no need to start by insulting people or telling them that you can code circles around them. Edw may be the worse coder, but you've come across as the bigger dick.
I think it would be easier if we Americans pronounced "Adidas" like the rest of the world; or if you have experience with Spanish it seems easy to spell. For everyone else, it seems they would just pronounce it "add-ee-oh-so", which would again, be easy to spell.
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Whatever happened to P != NP
The "Getting medieval on your apps!" line didn't really seem his style either.

Not the reference to Pulp Fiction, not the apps/ass pun, nor the exclamation mark. I don't really like the font either. Maybe that's not an official image, if it is it's very off-putting.
insert not-actually-Voltaire quote here

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Done.
Guess the A/B test winner contest
Hi, thanks for the bug report and suggestion. Also, I've this bug report golden rule, which is, if you found a bug I will offer you the next release. So if you are interested let me know ;)
How to choose a web framework and be surprised
Has anything practical come of other recent "innovation stories"? I recall reading a few years ago about hydrogen injection from electrolyzed water -- supposedly, it was already commercialized and being deployed -- including as a relatively inexpensive, after-market retrofit -- at least in limited measure. Also, a team at UW in Madison has been cranking out interesting engine design revisions, including IIRC one or more employing supplemental gasoline injection to improve burn efficiency (a small amount of gasoline, allowing a small tank's worth to last... several weeks, IIRC).

These stories crop up, and then seemingly fade away. Are fleets actually seeing any of this, yet -- if you or your relative have any perspective on this? If not, sorry to trouble you -- hope you don't mind the question.
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Wayfarers is pretty old school, and I fully intend that the game remain on the table top, so not so much of an interactive book.

Basically this: The tables in the book can randomly generate results (layout remains more or less the same), and there is a character sheet that has fillable fields. (I suppose that the sheet would be the most difficult, because it would be nice if the logic would provide adjustments, -such as a damage bonus for high strength.) Also a basic dice-roller, and bookmarks.

But that is it to begin with. I imagine the app aping the book design/layout, but having a few dynamic elements. Maybe a webapp is the way to go. Thanks.
Come on, in no sense was the Infocom era the "golden age" of interactive fiction. In both quantity and quality of work, the "golden age" is from the mid-nineties through right now.
Okay, maybe the last sentence was a little melodramatic, but the point stands.
Even more to the point: Cryptonimicon is about how the freaking internet works. (Ok not really, but it is a major sub plot)
That what I meant by "beyond a certain sized software project." The claim was that because Lisp can do a lot of things Java can't, Lisp will end up requiring such less code that it will have fewer parentheses than Java has curly braces. However, as another commenter mentioned, Lisp will surely have a higher parenthesis density than Java's curly brace density.
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Well, AFAIK Cyanogenmod is the only way to run Froyo on the G1.
Like wikipedia.

>the Roman toilets were probably elevated to raise them above open sewers, rather than for sitting.

However in the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ostia-Toilets.JPG accompanying one can see that this would mean that the Romans were wasting a lot of well prepared stone building the toilets twice as high as needed (note the extra stone below the opening).

One thought was that this could be an economy of parts, the "seat" and front pieces appear same-dimensioned - but then I noticed that the bottom part has a corner that the top part didn't and so in this instance that theory appears unsound.

Given the Romans amazing engineering prowess I can't see them wasting materials like this in order to make the toilets harder to use.

http://books.google.com/books?id=RIRlPwAACAAJ&printsec=f... appears to be the major ref on Wikipedia and is widely cited in scientific papers but unfortunately I can't find a place to read it online (and don't have a copy!).

Edit: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0715638505?ie=UTF8&tag=... "Latrinae Et Foricae: Toilets in the Roman World" clearly, to me, shows a Roman toilet as a seat on the front (my posterior would fit but my feet wouldn't fit either side of the hole to squat). Review - http://bloggingpompeii.blogspot.com/2009/12/latrinae-et-fori...
Real presentation is till slide #70. After that it gets advertisement.
Based on their own evidence it looks like Mattel is right. Why don't they just change the name?
I am using Chrome 7.0.503.0 (r57033) Dev on Win7 32bit and never seen this.
Programming today isn't like programming in the 70's. We're dealing with vastly more complexity now. Edw's old school methodology may have served him well in his day but a new person taking this on will never be able to keep up for the same reason some guy with a mule and plow can't keep up with a modern farm.

>you can code circles around them

My point wasn't that I can code circles around him but that modern practice can code circles around him. Which is something he could take up as well.
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Slicehost doesn't have phone support last I checked.
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In case you didn't get it, he really wants a genie.
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>It's not fun. There are some parts that are fun.

Well, even a grueling task can be fun with the right perspective. But point taken. :)

>+10. The fact you have the artwork is huge. Even better if you did it yourself. Programmers are commodities. Programmers who can do some design are not.

Yes, I did the layout and design, some of the artwork too. The rest of the art I commissioned, and have the rights to use.

>You have to choose whether to drop everything else and put them on the backburner.

That's the toughest part right now. I can get pretty focused (the game is 400+ pages and took nearly 2 years), but I have another front-burner project at the moment that is going to remain so for some time.

>From personal experience and that of others, I conservatively estimate it will take about 150-200 hours of hands-on work before Objective C/Cocoa stops being the problem and starts becoming the solution. That is about 2 months.

That's 6 months in real-time then? :P Thanks. That helps.
Do we really want Linux machines that never reboot?
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First of all fill your HN user profile! You are missing on potential connections that you can make through this thread.

Oh and shoot me an email (address in my profile), I might be able to help.
Yes, but split infinitives are a more powerful and better form of expression.

To not split an infinitive is to create a weaker and less coherent thought stream.
You're right, a 0.5 strategy is better than random chance. Unfortunately, the simplest generalization of that strategy yields only 0.5^(n-1), which is not good enough - you need to start with a bigger base case.
tl;dr stuff:

- Free, after startup bootcamp, it's in cambridge, under 21 is okay, starts at 6:30. Don't have to book via eventbrite, but would be nice so we can keep track of estimated attendee count.

Also: We're listing other HF chapters. I have bay area, nyc, and indy there. Please leave comment, email,etc. if you have a chapter+url. thx.
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Some things never change. Though, I will admit, I got a brief chuckle out of this. Just a shame we've come to this as news.
Is the U.S. tech industry oiling its own guillotine?
It is a smear campaign, so they don't have to wait for a guilty or innocent verdict - the charges alone are doing enough damage.

I like the old wikileaks, before Julian starting getting his face on the news as being the spokesperson. Wikileaks is now editorialized, which makes it easy for the right to write it off as part of the liberal media. It all started with the 'collateral murder' video (the chosen title says a lot).

They should let the documents speak for themselves, and leave wikileaks to be the online de facto venue for such documents.
Oops, I didn't see that and the dupe catcher duped me. :-/ Should I delete the submission?