skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Thanks, great suggestion and I have now done this :)

Do you really want traffic or not

Well, yes I do, but at the same time I didn't want this Ask HN to be solely about me. Lesson learned ;)
I agree. But what's your attitude to people who break the rules here?
Off topic, but everytime I run across a Google site that I haven't seen before I can't help but marvel at the beautiful simplicity of its design.

Combine that with the knowledge that Google A/B tests designs constantly, and it makes you realize how important a simple design must really be.
I don't mind being down-voted - because I believe it's dangerous to flippantly label some people as intellectually inferior.

While it might sound idealistic - I believe everybody has something to offer. There are many types of 'intelligence' - and many personal qualities that are just as important as intelligence.
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What this article describes is what I've been noticing but I've tried to focus on my startup. Although, that said I worry that there are big shifts occurring that people are not paying attention to. While we are are trying to create our business we need to remember that we are part of a community. Whether it be our country, state, county, city, district or neighborhood we need to ensure that those communities stay functional by participating as a citizen in this country.

I fear that some (not all) of the mega corporations are so motivated by profits that they forget any duties to their country. Although, why should they as many are now multi-national and stock holders consist of many rich foreigners that do not live here.

If we want to be able to do business here and be successful we need to make sure that the country continues to be a high quality place to live (and work) for the average US citizen.

Just my 2 cents.
Probably the greatest reason for Hacker News' success is the fact that PG and many YC associated founders have the access to kill posts. This keeps the trash out and the content in. Also, we need to keep in mind that these people are users of hacker news and not just moderating it.
That's really not the point, though. Microsoft wrote code that will intentionally delete your email. It doesn't matter how unlikely that is or how bizarre the scenario is, that fact means I'll never use the service or recommend it to anyone. What if there's a bug in that code? Why risk writing code that deletes emails left and right? What's the point?

The Devs said "we’d love your feedback", and when people say "please don't ever delete my email", the response is basically "too bad, you have 270 days". It's insulting.
It probably will peak and then level off, but hopefully it will allow folks to make some connections and when it does level off the s/n ratio will be higher than a crowded channel. Right now there are 25 folks in the room and the conversation is already pretty interesting.
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I think there is a fine balancing act that governments need to do. Generally it's nice to have companies do business in your country (provided they don't engage in shoddy business practices or cause too much damage to the environment) but if it's done to quickly or there becomes too great a reliance on attracting large multinationals then problems follow. It's not good for a country to be beholden to multi-national corporations or for there to be regulatory capture.
I'm pretty sure you can in most places that are not extremely remote. However I disagree about the "probably dead" comment. Only so many people are connected every day to check their emails. I know many who think once a month or so - "I haven't checked my email for a while". Not all people feel a need to carry a 3g-enabled phone with them, or do silly stuff like have an instant messanger...

I expect many people to be able to completely ignore their email for a year simply because they have nothing to send and then come back to it. Standard person != tech freak.
"Does your comment teach us anything?"

HN approach to comments in a nutshell!
Thanks! Good point about the money, I've temporarily placed this on the homepage, and will be working at a better way to display and get people clicking "Buy now!" :)

I'm now following the advice and have spent a good amount of time today finding relevant websites and contacting them about TweetingMachine. If all goes to plan I hope to write a successful post here in a couple of months stating everything I did.
What I find sad is that 90% of the replies are just flaming, they aren't actually trying to explain why they want it. Only a small proportion are saying that it's because it doesn't support email client X.
Is this summary of the dangers correct: attractive business environment -> investment, growth -> optimism -> increased risk of bubbles?
I think elements in this story would be familiar to most hackers.
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Don't you get a Live account when you sign up for Hotmail? Those don't get deleted after 270 days; I've used my Live account (originally a Hotmail account) for Xbox Live and other services without logging into Hotmail for years now.

So I doubt it's for usernames.
"Eternal september" isn't really new. We've had nearly 20 years experimenting this, we've seen usenet declining, slashdot, digg, reddit and whatever other net community you want to. Even HN is on the downward slope nowadays, I'd say.

There's an nice article on lesswrong about this : http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/

What's interesting in this analysis is the second drawing. It looks like one of the best "well kept garden" out there, Perlmonks.org ; it never devolved thanks to its users and moderators dedication, but it's probably losing steam and users to stackoverflow and al., I think because of its 1999 look and feel.
I agree that the headline is a bit over the top.

When I saw that they mentioned ActiveSync, all I could think of was "I'd have to plug my phone into my computer to get email???" I didn't know that's what they call their push service now.
> but freeing up usernames.

WHAT?! They do that? That's SO dangerous, and perhaps what made me lose a domain name three years ago! I registered a domain in 2001 with my hotmail account, and noticed in 2006 that the registration had changed to another person in Ontaio, Canada. My only guess as to how they did that (after much investigation) was that they must have accessed my hotmail account, which was dormant for probably three years (but was the account I used with my registrar). I couldn't figure out how they got into my email, and I eventually gave up the fight and got a new domain name. Now I'm waiting out the expiration on the first one, hoping I can get it back.

Do they ACTUALLY recycle usernames? Is THAT how I lost my domain name?! Someone just registered my old hotmail account back, and then probably "lost password" to the account? Fuck that makes me so mad. There's no way MS does this...does anyone know?
User base which knows better will never become their user base, until their strategy changes. This also creates their market view.

Now, which one is the chicken and which one is the egg?
Wrong. My first username (that I'm pretty sure no one else has taken) was blocked for inactivity 10 years ago and never became available again.
As a consultant, I ran into a LOT of people who preferred POP3 on their phones and non-main devices. They just wanted to have as little email on their phone as possible (which also gives you decent security if the phone is lost).

Combine this with the fact that Outlook is just terrible with IMAP, and I didn't find too many regular users who liked it.

Personally, I wouldn't use anything else, of course.
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The condescending attitude Microsoft has for users and developers can also be seen in their responses to Reddit's Q&A with the IE9 team:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_te...
Heyo olivvv!

Thanks for your feedback man; your input on making the design more homogeneous is certainly worthy; I didn't notice it from that perspective. And umm, well, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is kinda more of a philosophical / metaphysics of quality book :p

Cheers,

Dhaval
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There are so many reasons manufacturing in US is declining.

It used to be the US was one of the few places you could set up a factory without it getting bombed or confiscated. It then had a monopoly on manufacturing and the rest of the world competed to produce commodities to trade for the finished products. With protracted peacetime came establishment of factories elsewhere and competition for manufacturing without a corresponding increase in commodity production. So now an American worker has to compete with a Chinese or Hindu worker, and if he's more expensive, he'll lose and the Asian will win.

An American worker is more expensive than his Chinese counterpart at any exchange rate because of the prices of commodities they consume. A worker can't work without a car in most US cities, but in China he sure can. Beside commutes, housing is expensive (for whatever reasons). Then you have healthcare costs that are globally superlative and that the employer has to pay for, and taxes that are by no means small.

Then you have the legal system, which themselves are a huge burden. Court awards and consequently settlements are very large by global standards. This also costs a business more than money; it costs it time and requires the bureaucratic complexity to deal effectively with liability. Then there's Sarbanes-Oxley and lobbying. On top of that there's IP law: if part of a product is patented in the US, that product can't be imported by foreign companies, but it can be sold outside the country. But an American company can't sell it in US or export it. And on and on.

Under such conditions, who would want to build a factory here?
Well they had remote access for a while but started charging for it. I stopped using that feature. I think it was only pop3 anyway.
Not every house. There are still lots of small companies that play by the rules - Of course they are at a disadvantage for that integrity, but when a company takes shortcuts in one area they are likely taking shortcuts in other areas, ultimately producing inferior products. You get what you pay for.
PDP-8 first, then PDP-11, then VAX in all cases there is very little difference between the assembler and C...
I was a little thrown off by "spacecraft". Wasn't it just a satellite? Isn't there a difference?
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ggplot2 is simply beautiful. If you have the time, I recommend watching these tutorial videos by Hadley Wickham - http://had.blip.tv/file/3362248/. Someone's also made a web application based on ggplot2 - http://www.yeroon.net/ggplot2/.
Its tricky to answer, as I am limited to browsing wikipedia pages on these topics and no more knowledgeable than you are on the topic :-). One obvious alternative to your line of thinking is that the matter+anti-matter that is created in a vacuum is not 'normal' (using your position on normal matter), and has no mass.

One of the wikipedia pages seems to support that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particles
"As such, virtual particles are also excitations of the underlying fields, but are detectable only as forces but not particles."

It seems to have something to do with normally existing only for a very short time, and affecting the universe only on a very short range that these virtual particles get away with appearing to not having a mass from the point of view of the rest of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particles
Or you could just be burned out and wanting a period without any internet at all to get back on your feet.

9 months is just what it takes to make a baby.
Implementation Inheritance is a massive can of worms, and a surprisingly emotional topic, but I feel fearless today. How do you feel it is useful?
I think this was a negative PR move. Did they really think coming on reddit and saying things like this would be beneficial? I don't see any evidence in this that they actually care about peoples feedback.

They just keep getting defensive about their decisions of deleting peoples email, not supporting IMAP etc.
It's an interesting point to make. There was a particular cable from Wikileaks that talked about how Shell had infiltrated a large portion of the Nigerian government. Who knows what else is in the works?
It's unlikely that the developers were the ones making that decision, you know. You're shooting the messengers.
Yeah, great headline, but also interesting that Kodak and NY Times, behemoths of the past, are being replaced by Netflix, a behemoths of the future...
no but marxism is. the author's classification of people into these sets of workers and owners is a product of his imagination; pension funds made them the same people a long time ago to say nothing of entrepreneurs, professionals and folks like us that old karl couldn't have imagined. this thinking shows even more disregard for people than the author's facetious proposals.
I dunno what Hotmail is based on, but Microsoft Exchange slows down with the increasing number of items in your inbox, not necessarily message size.

Maybe they're using the same message store?
"Any post about Zuckerberg, Assange, Arrington, and others probably gets way more upvotes than necessary."

While true, the much bigger problem is not that these posts get too many upvotes, but rather that they're the only posts that reliably get any upvotes at all. It's hard to justify even bothering to submit stories since for even the best posts it's a complete crapshoot as to whether or not they get any votes.
The point of the article is to argue that all sites like this (HN, Reddit) will devolve into 4chan. The fact that it has a large user base does not make up for the fact that it's full of banal memes, porn, racism, and idiocy.
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Pretty sure they do. I seem to remember an hacking incident from the last 2 years where access to a Gmail account was gained by requesting a password reset to the defunct Hotmail account. Gmail was so nice as to tell you which account they emailed. Not sure if this is still the case.
I doubt he said that because it's what he thinks the US wants to hear. I would imagine he is deeply concerned about Iran creating a destablising influence in the region. You are right about saying something different in public to his subjects though, as such a view would be hugely controversial in the Arab world and a major embarrassment to the king. It seems he wanted the US to strike against the Iranian uranium enrishment program:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AP06Z20101128
I saw http:///www.coderun.com posted here the other day.
Whoever is willing to do the job for least?

Other first-world countries get by just fine without an illegal-immigrant underclass to do the menial jobs. In Australia, building houses is a respectable and well-paid trade. Kitchens in fast-food restaurants are worked by high school students with part-time jobs. And public green spaces are maintained by... well I dunno, some low-skilled worker making a decent wage.

We also have a 5.2% unemployment rate, and no real social underclass the way there is in America.
I agree. It seems the "hacker" term is from the media still stuck in the past and not realizing that the Internet is pretty mainstream. I think the people that participate in Anon (since there really isn't a group) look at themselves more as citizens of the Internet using tools available to them. I've heard some guest on a news outlet equate the DDoS attacks as Internet sit-ins. This concept, while not exact is probably the closest analogy I've heard of.
> They can flourish even if the U.S. declines, as long as they can tap into growth in other regions of the world.

Except that other regions of the world may not accept them so easily... Who need rich parasites?
I don't know much about the situation in Ireland. My understanding corresponds with what you wrote in your first paragraph. I wonder, though, if there was a perceived need to guarantee the banks in order to keep Ireland attractive to multi-nationals. Iceland, I believe, did not guarantee its banks' deposits outside of Iceland. Iceland has been able to recover much better than Ireland has. Iceland had no need to placate the business environment for multi-nationals though.

I'm interested in knowing your thoughts on Ireland still being part of the Euro. Do you think it's a good idea? Is it a good idea simply because it's good for multi-nationals?
Wondering, are there bits you've been wanting to add to it? And similarly, what are the bits that you like most?
Much appreciated. As far as a roadmap it'll probably continue to be what it's been. The next thing on the list are unit tests but otherwise it's whatever I or others using it feel the framework is missing (but wouldn't add bloat).
Yep needless to say, I am pretty concerned right now. I think the irony of the whole situation is that much of the community expected this from Mono.
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More people are familiar with Xmarks and this gives LastPass the buzz and the exposure. LastPass is one of the rare companies the really figured out the freemium part. Also considering that Xmarks were going out of business outright, this probably didn't cost that much. Lastpass is so far ahead of everyone and have such a superior product that the traditional browser competitions are not a match to their offering.
This seems to be another way of stating Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy"

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
At the moment I've added what I need so far. But the point of documenting it is so others can use it and provide input on what's missing.

The next task in my mind is to have good unit test coverage.
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This is an amazing bit of backwards reasoning. The rich, who don't need the rest of us, will pay us to leave? In what kind of sense, even if the author is correct on all other counts, would this work? Why pay a thousand people to leave when you can just leave yourself?

The article seemed an obvious satire to me. You read it literally?
There aren't enough rich people to sustain the suburbs. I think what these people are talking about is the suburban middle-class entitlement mentality. The vast majority of middle-class americans live in suburbs and subscribe to the philosophy that they are compelled to consume as many resources as allowed by their bank account and/or credit cards. Frugalness, philanthropy, and community are not mainstream American values.
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no but marxism is
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How does the choice of protocol determine if there is as little email on non-mail devices as possible? Also, I've seen people screw up POP3 configuration so the mail moves to the downloading device (because it gets deleted from the server after downloading, as they didn't choose the "leave mail on server" option). If your phone is continuously checking for and downloading mail, that less security in the event your phone is lost, because copies of your email potentially exist in multiple places. With POP3, everything is copied (or moved) and you don't get a choice to only download some messages (after looking at subject lines or sender names) and leave some messages on the server.
Could this be a case for stripping the: X-Confirm-Reading-To: Disposition-Notification-To: or Return-Receipt-To:, lines out of the message header? It seems like this is something a SPAM gateway could handle.
I think it's mostly to deal with all the temporary accounts that start as Spam1234@hotmail.com and then get spammed for years without the user ever going back to them.

I suspect a more reasonable rule is that you have to log in or download email at least once 60 days after creation or the account get's deleted in one year.
This is sick.
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But there were easy ways for the rich (and middle class) to have their children avoid being sent. The essence of believing we need to bring back the draft so that war will be waged less often is that if you make the ruling class' children fight then they will be more careful about making war. If it becomes the case that war stops being a poor man's fight but a rich man's prerogative then possibly wiser decisions will be made.

I don't think the war in Iraq and Afghanistan would still be ongoing if the ruling class were forced to send their children into harms way.
I'm trying to work out whether you have a hidden agenda under that question, but instead of doing that, I'll take your comment at face value.

It sounds to me like you either haven't read or haven't understood PG's essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

There he talks about rules that matter, and rules that don't, and I think that partially encompasses my attitude.

But only partially. In addition I'd add: when it makes things better.

When people break the rules here they usually make things worse. Duplicated items split discussion. Multiple items about the same story with no extra information dilute the "New" and "Front" pages. People who leave witty replies that teach us nothing reduce the information density.

I expect there are ways of "breakingthe rules" here on HN that make things better. Generally people frown on "meta" items and discussion. I break the "rules" on that, so do others, and sometimes we get down-voted, and sometimes not.

It depends.

Does it make things better? That's my usual guideline, and that's why I've taken the time to reply to you, even though your question could be taken as a content and information free jibe. Maybe it wasn't intended that way, so I'll assume you were intending to be helpful, and provide my thoughts for your consideration.
Um, they make inactive usernames available again? It's nice except that many sites have reset-my-password buttons...
[You're] abusing Perl's syntax for that syntactic-sugar...

Those are designed, documented, and tested features; they exist to do exactly this.
There's no such thing as bad press.

I've read the name "Hotmail" more times today than I had in the past 6 months.
Not that it makes it better, but I'll point out that Yahoo is now deleting inactive email accounts as well.
All of the images on that page are broken (in Safari). That doesn't exactly instill confidence.
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This is a really professional looking calendar chock full of esoteric info. Free in pdf format.
And all these people use their decent wages in turn to build houses and eat out, keeping the money circulating in the economy.
Documentation is really nice by the way. I also like the simplicity a lot. It feels like there's little to learn after reading through the docs quickly. Good stuff. (ps: for me personally, I don't use unit tests (yea I know, horrid), so not really needed).
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Not to downplay your work, but pretty much all frameworks are written to reduce future work and standardize things. Just like you've done.

I've definitely had that 'too much magic' feeling with frameworks, but that goes away as I learn more about how they work.
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Modern 'hackers' are not worthy of the name
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