skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price seems reasonable to me. Bear in mind that they are much smaller than any popular free email provider because they charge.

Of the $50, my guess is that $15-20 covers the costs of hosting and support. That's a margin of 70% – could even be closer to 85% which wouldn't be uncommon for SaaS.

However, there are large fixed costs: an office, a development team, etc. Taking these into account, and the fact that Fastmail is a small business - they are never going to have the hyper growth of an ad-supported free model – I'd say this is a profitable, healthy business, charging reasonable amounts.

Could someone do hosted email for $40 for the same thing? Almost certainly. Could they charge $10 for something far less good (reliable, feature complete, less space, worse support, etc) yes – this is what hosting providers like GoDaddy do. Could someone do $10 for the same featureset, profitably? Almost certainly not.
Is there a good app or other ressource to learn shorthand? I want to learn it, for quite some time now, but haven‘t found any good approach without a training course...
That looks inspired by How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. One of the few "self-help books" I can wholeheartedly recommend.
AI defeats elite doctors in diagnosis competition
I thought the expectation was for VC funded CEOs to take low salaries. How often do they sell equity in fundraising rounds and/or take decent salaries (500k+)?
its still a form of democracy.
I'm accusing ALL of us as cherry picking. Human history is cherry picking because we know so little of it because of the perish-ability of everything but the most hardy of tablets. To look at history and make strong assertions about what is or isn't universal values is a disingenuous position. Sociology is a difficult science today in the modern world, let alone applying it to history.
I am not cherry picking because my point is that your assertion is too strong for what we know. My position is that "we don't really know".
> Those prices are simply too high if you factor in the price of hw, hosting, sw, maintenance, etc.

FYI ~70-80% of our business costs are staff. We are the primary maintainers of Cyrus (https://cyrusimap.org/) the open source mail server we run. We develop our own webmail, which we believe is the best in the world. We do a lot of standards work: at the IETF we're heavily involved in both the EXTRA group (maintaining IMAP) and the JMAP group (new advanced sync protocol which we hope will in the future replace IMAP/CardDAV/CalDAV). We're also involved with CalConnect developing future calendaring standards, and are contributing to ARC development with M3AAWG and the IETF. Good engineers ain't cheap.

On top of that, we run our own machines, built to our own specifications to continually get faster performance (including putting indexes and recent mail on enterprise-grade SSDs) and more reliability (live replicas to secondary machines and data centres).

If you can do all that for $5/month, well, we welcome the competition and hope you too will work together for a more open, standards-based future.
Download as html: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...
It's stable, it works, and porting thousends to millions lines of code is cumbersome if you have also real work waiting for you..

Additionally, Python3 is only really usable for the more professional audiance since 2-3 years ago. Before that they were busy with stabilizing Python3, porting popular libs, portling less popular libs, or creating replacements for dead libs.
Thanks for this, reading the article made me curious about this too.

The folks at Cards Against Humanity () didn't get too close to the record. They also ran out of funding like most of the projects mentioned in the article...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-aga...
You don't need a rule to stop reading a book and there's no reason to feel bad about it
Ask HN: Alternatives for low-tier Hetzner VPS
Currently Hetzner has an outage in their core network caused by simultaneous failure of fsn1-dc8-ex9k1 and fsn1-dc8-ex9k2 redundant routers, so all of my VPSes and their web administration dashboard suddenly become unreachable.

I'm looking for good alternative for Hetzner, to transfer half of my virtual servers. Is there something like 2+ Gb RAM, 40+ Gb SSD, 2+ TB/month traffic, with FreeBSD support for 7 USD/month or less?
Is AI a better basis for a prime directive?
"Only because as people get experience they end up in the “Engineering Manager” role & such."

There's a limited number of those positions, inherently. So most of the people in an age group are probably leaving the profession altogether, not moving to management.
Not everyone has an interest in or aptitude for the additional work needed to run your own business - from marketing to account management to accounting.
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I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

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My economics and music teacher always wrote anything not for students in shorthand. It was her natural instinct, and had to actively think sometimes to correct herself. It was one of the most useful things she felt she learned in life. She gave me $300 after graduation when I met her at the library to give her an update on whats going on in my life. I don't think I've met a teacher that cared as much as she did. She always wanted a hug when old students saw her, and refuses to retire. I always make sure if I'm home to stop by to keep her updated on technology news and see what's going on in her life.

She's the only person to date that I have met that knows shorthand. She has an insane amount of crazy stories.
Dad of 2.5 year old

1: Do your research - there are some good books (based on science) out there. Current favorite is “raising a spirited child...”.
2: Read to them. A lot. Kids books can be awesome. Get off your phones. They learn nothing from screens themselves. Talk to them not at them. Get them to help you to do things. Let them guide the activities not you.
3: Don’t follow advice from others without considering that every child is different, and that’s ok. Parent the kids you have and make it up as you go.
How AI is revolutionising recruiting
>Why would there be feces?

Because they have to go too.
Crime is lowering actually, so I guess it's less concerning than it was say 10 years ago.
I think Postbox (https://www.postbox-inc.com) has all of the features that you’re looking for; Mailspring (https://getmailspring.com) has most.
for security paranoid minds: protonmail.com
Not that it's really needed, I've found out about fastmail on HN and it's regularly the most recommended email service here, but I've been a very happy customer for 5 years now. Support (the few times I needed it) was always quick and helpful.
try setting your browser's native font size to medium or large. It will fix up most sites' font sizes if you have issue viewing (sometimes, at the cost of bad scrolling if the site isn't doing content flowing properly).
You definitely should read the whole thing with more attention to this aspect - getting productive hours out of employees is an extremely difficult task, but it does pay off big time. This can be achieved with the "fun" environment at work, with meals at the office, with very clear goals and alignment on those goals, with a bigger ambition in mind, with creative compensation schemes, flexible hours, remote work schemes, and with a lot of other things. That's why there are "managers" (not necessarily) CEOs who can get this productivity out of people, and those who cannot.
Firefox was pre-installed (just not by OS makers) and it didn't so much beat IE as Chrome beat IE and didn't harm Firefox nearly as much (likely because Google prioritized converting systems where neither Firefox nor Chrome were the default browser).
Fourthed.
I can see me transitioning, so far so good.
Show HN: EasyChords – Web App to learn piano chords fast
SimilarWeb and Jumpshot are the major clickstream companies that buy these extensions. One way to see whether an extension mines your browsing history is to use a tool like Fiddler to sniff out the outgoing requests.

One sneaky way to get back at them is to send a bunch of fake “poison” requests with fake data back at these guys. It probably wont hurt them but if enough people do it, it might make their data worse and make their operation unprofitable.
There's usually plenty of air underground in a cave. They are actively being weathered / formed by little streams, which drag down air with them, forming a natural circulating draft. So even though the human-sized exit is flooded, there are likely to be multiple small inlets + cracks in the rock. The situation is very different in an (artificial) mine, which often have a single entrance/exit and no flowing water, so the air is totally stationary and quickly becomes stale.

Airbells, which are small air pockets in an otherwise flooded section are relatively unusual, and from the video footage it looked like the football team had climbed up into a larger Fossil gallery overlying the current (active) flooded section. Hopefully this means they will also be well protected from any future more extreme flooding.

These little stream inlets form a source of drinking water. Even when the main cave river is a turbid mess, there's normally plenty of clean little streams coming in - some of which will be fed by percolation water (seeping through rock) and therefore effectively 'mineral' water.

Often when journalists describe caves in the press, 'one kilometer underground' would be better described as 'one kilometer into' the cave. Certainly the cave doesn't look very deep, most river caves form fairly horizontally.

For digging into or exploring from above, what matters much more is how thick the rock is above them (or above a chamber that they can reach), and what it's made out of.

Locating them on the surface (i.e. figuring out where to start digging) will also be a challenge - most caves are not surveyed with a high degree of accuracy, and doing so through a flooded, flowing, low-visibility section is extremely difficult. (One of the rescue divers, John Volanthen, has done some pretty amazing stuff with a water-proof data-logging accelerometer + flux compass in this area - the "Lazy Boy Sump Mapper".)
They will probably dive a radio beacon into the cave + then use that to locate the party, combined with a (dry) survey within the cave to figure out the extent of the available space to the survivors.

Radio comms should be setup quite soon - one system which may be of general interest to the Hackernews community is the cave-link:
http://www.cavelink.com/cl3x_neu/index.php/en/
It has a lot of automation + resending / checksumming of messages to enable transmission over the very low bandwidth and noisy VLF channel through hundreds of metres of rock.
While we're at it stop using Ghostery as well since they were bought by an ad company.

Ghostery invites you to submit various data to support it these days, but seems to be transparent about it and to work on an opt-in basis, so quite different to Stylish. Are you aware of other things that Ghostery is doing without the same transparency and consent?
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We use Rails and React.js at the moment, but we're agnostic to skills once applicants are keen to learn and grow with the company.
The Garmin Fenix 5X uses buttons rather than a touchscreen for interaction, and it should be awesome as a result. Unfortunately the interface is so damn slow to respond that you end up having to look at the watch when navigating or using functions anyway. Also the feel of the buttons is spongey - there's no satisfying click to tell you when the button has been pressed properly. Again, a factor that forces you to look at the screen.

Not recommended: expensive, somewhat ugly, painfully slow UI, and frankly not that awesome in any way other than a relatively impressive battery life (unless you're using GPS!).
I much prefer this kind of tech being developed in universities, but lately it seems that academia are losing ground to companies in terms of brainpower and sometimes even scientific output.
20 years at a CXO salary in a reasonably mature organization (not seed or series A) is long enough to save up plenty to retire on.
It's also time saving since the hash lookup needs to be done at most 1, as well. GP has two lookups in the hash list.
I'm sure I don't understand the scale of this. I would however think that you can bring huge industrial pumps and do some plumbing to a suitable place to dump the water and turn them on. Holland once send 7 million ton a day of pumping capacity to England to help them out. Could that not make a serious impact on the water levels in the cave?
Why don't you teach us about atmospheric aerosols? I doubt any of you even know about it. If you know what's up in your way ahead of your peers
Most geothermal installations are near tectonic plate boundaries and require drilling only a few hundred metres or less. Being able to go down further would open up the possibility of using geothermal power in other regions, but it's very expensive.
I wonder what the fastest achievable words per minute is with a modern shorthand?
You Won't Outperform an Algorithm Forever. What Then?
I think it's more a simulation of an older person using awkward youth slang.

At least, when I see it, it's usually an older person saying something like "As an old I really don't get this fashion for tattoos that look like someone scribbled random doodles all over you."
It feels like we are repeating a mistake the PHP community made years ago. PHP supports assignment in expressions, and the community seems to avoid its use. There are plenty of examples of stackoverflow questions and answers where the problem is caused by coders overlooking an assignment in an expression. You just don't expect assignment to occur in an expression, and its visually similar enough to gloss over it.
The problem were always those people who will misuse something. The Zen was never meant as a guide, but as a guardian. Python in the early days was good because there simply was no way to write ugly code. But with all the abilitys modern python has, this wall has fallen, and now ugly python has become normal. And with this it will sometimes even become horrible.
Another happy Fastmail user..

ln addition to everything mentioned by others I also love Fastmail app both iOS and Android.. It's around 1MB in size on iOS compared to over 100MB for Outlook or Google Inbox.
>"Since it generally takes around 10 years to develop a drug, they made those choices before a lot of the alternatives had any data to back them up."

Its possible to act on a "working hypothesis" without it becoming anything close to "unthinkable" to consider other hypotheses. For some reason this amyloid hypothesis became well accepted and ingrained without good reason.

>"The fun thing is that even if you consider the amyloid hypothesis to be false, that doesn't make any of the alternative theories any more likely to be true"

This violates Bayes' theorem.

>"In fact, the amyloid hypothesis could still be true, but nobody has found the right way to tackle the problem."

Why don't the supporters of the amyloid hypothesis make a definitive prediction, then if it doesnt work out the hypothesis can be dropped?
You call 100% in 18 years normal? I sure do hope that your salary also doubled in those two decades.
"an F2F interaction was recorded when three conditions were met: two or more badges (i) were facing each other (with uninterrupted infrared line-of-sight), (ii) detected alternating speaking, and (iii) were within 10 m of each other."

I wonder if condition (i) makes sense. From my experience in open offices, communication mostly happens when I and some colleague are both sitting behind our pc's. So there is no uninterrupted line of sight.
Let me guess in order to stop climate change we need to give up our guns and submit to global government. Good luck I think the ruse is over for enough people. I mean no computer model can even predict the path of a hurricane, yet somehow in 100 years earth will die. Really? You say science is your thing?
>It's perfectly possible to believe that immigrants from heavily-Muslim countries cannot realistically integrate with first world societies without believing racist rubbish like genetic inferiority.

I don't see how it would be possible to believe this at all, given the abundant examples to the contrary.
As a one time practitioner of "good old-fashioned" AI I had thought it was ETAOIN SHRDLU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
A day in the life of software developer: Assumptions, Theories, and Lessons
I think it's an open question how much was naivety and how much was a genuinely conservative bent.
To send rotten fruits by mail to their business address.
I'm not sure about the FreeBSD Support but OVH and Digital Ocean are both reasonable VPS providers that can help you out in this situation.

I personally use OVH for VPS hosting due to their low costs and near-zero downtime.
I mostly see older people use it in online contexts that are perceived as predominantly younger. "As an old ..."
Yes there is. I have multiple UDP/RTP streams at different bitrates, from the same IP to the same IP.

I then get a loss on a 30mbit stream (3000 packets a second) of 150 packets.
At the exact same time I get a loss on a 20mbit stream of 100 packets, and a 10mbit stream of 50 packets.

This is an outage for 150ms, probably because of a reroute in an MPLS network somewhere.

My packets have already been emmitted by the time any round trip resend would have come back.
Your choices aren't between tracking and subscription, they're between tracking, subscription, and advertisement. You can advertise without tracking (contextually, the original claim of AdWords) and you can sell tracking data to non-advertisers. To say that the economic model of the internet depends on privacy violation is a "the world has to be this bad" argument that just doesn't hold up, especially given the memory of internet advertisements in the time before so much brainpower was funneled in to tracking us.
>"Nobody understand the brain well enough to do that yet."

I'm fairly certain I understand the brain well enough to know our understanding of the brain is rudimentary and there is no reason to become attached to a vague preliminary model like this "amyloid hypothesis".
Is there a system in place to update everyone on new ownership changes and implementation of anti user-good practices like this?
Would you mind sharing the process? I'm curious which flow you use to materialize the oplog in Athena/S3.
This is pure nonsense.

A better question is what could possibly lead you to believe that immigrants "have a distaste" for their new home countries? You certainly didn't actually talk to any immigrants.

Perhaps this is the real problem: people who spin these bigoted fantasies around immigrants?

Certainly any objective review of the facts would not explain the sheer panic and accusations of the anti-immigrant crowd [1]. So how and why do people come to believe such nonsense?

[1] https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/06/30/confusion-over-i...
Which just goes to show:

Software development isn't "knowledge work", if the additional knowledge of experience isn't valued. It's more like "typing work".
Aside from microwaving it with a tablespoon of water (which perks it right up), it's perfect for making Asian-style fried rice dishes.

It's also not bad in chicken soup.
You could score words a la scrabble
That's not a weird phobia by any means. That's very common and it's called claustrophobia.
As someone who has meddled with QOS in the past, this page didn't really feel very concrete to me.

Especially regarding SQM... Is SQM just a new name for QOS or am I missing something?
I've used FastMail for years. You pay them money, so you are the customer, which is how it should be. Your data isn't being mined.
I cured bhfferbloat with a cheap DD-WRT capable router (NOT Puma 6 chipset). I found it important to limit the WAN bandwidth on my router to about 15% below the max speed I’m paying for. What a difference!

Netgear R6300V2

Using fq_codel because the others use more CPU than I’m confident these devices can handle.

I find that most people suffer from bufferbloat unknowingly, having bought fancy routers 5-10 years ago.
There's always the Tau hypothesis (ie it could be a tauopathy.) That would not require exotic explanations like a virus or Diabetes.
It seems like your convinced yourself it is just sugar by the end of your post. You need to use a temporary variable but then your example is easy.
I read quickly so 15 minutes is enough time to make this sort of call. The more you read the easier it is to determine if a book is good or not, as well.
Excellent, objective analysis.

The financial arguments speak for themselves, but the personal arguments hit the nail on the head, I believe:

> With a story stock, it is imperative that you have a CEO who not only is able to get the market to buy into a big story, but one who stays focused and disciplined. [...] Elon Musk is a gifted story teller, but as the last few months have shown, focus and discipline are not his strong points.

> If you are a Tesla investor, your primary concern should be that Musk, with his numerous and often conflicting claims about the company, has muddled the Tesla story and perhaps put the company at risk.
Ohhh, this ASK-HN is godsend :D
Im in a similar situation and was evaluating several approaches. I want some decent e-mailing for my whole family (with an own domain) and at a reasonable price (just want to pay it on my own and not billing my family). So most providers are out because of per-user/mailbox pricing. With 4-5 family members its just way to expensive with most of them.
I was just going to start with https://mailcow.email/ on a cheap vps. But thanks to this thread I will also be evaluating migadu, seems a nice fit with even less hassle for me.
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As an experienced cave diver, I agree with Mr Whitehouse that bringing them out as "packages" should be considered an option. It would be easier than allowing them to swim by themselves in murky waters with no vision. The diving training spoken of might be getting the boys to be used to being towed under water while being packaged up, rather than about teaching them about buoyancy control like adult divers.
Oh, I've heard this one before. I believe what you mean is that it is low _status_. It seems pretty coherent and well structured to me.

Self deprecation is a pretty common way for marginalized people to reclaim their identity, and take the teeth off insults. I'd think socially sensitive folks would be familiar with it?