skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows Live Mail, included free in Windows 7, does a perfect job of backing up a Gmail account, including sent mail. Configure Win Live Mail to pick up via POP3 all Gmail every couple of hours and save it (copy 1), then every night backup the Live Mail message store to a local Windows Home Server (copy 2) and to a cloud backup service (copy 3). Has worked for me for five years.
Happy to be downvoted for this one.

So a person dies, and robert scoble is concerned about noise filters in Google+? Literally 1-2 hours after their death ?

Please - show some respect for a person and choose a time to post a more adequate title. Amazing that tech pundits have reduced themselves "oh, she's dead BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY! Lets focus on noise filters!"

Sorry. Don't think it's cool.
It reminds me of the hydrogen lab I saw at a university once (my alma mater did not have one): it was a single-room structure made of reinforced concrete, about three stories tall, adjacent to the main chemistry building. The roof consisted of very lightweight panels (not sure how they kept it leak-proof from rain and snow). The idea was that if you were in there conducting experiments with hydrogen and blew yourself up, you wouldn't take the rest of the chemistry department with you: the explosion would go straight up, blow out the ceiling, and create a huge roman candle. There were also serious ventilation systems to help prevent an explosion in the first place, but just in case the whole thing was a giant chimney.
What about sky cities like the Ultima tower?
It definitely seems from the way that google is handling this (playing everything close to the vest, not letting you know anything) that it DOES have something to do with the FBI raid. In the US, this kind of cockiness and disregard for standard procedures of law and decency is often paired with Homeland Security shit. It doesn't seem very far fetched to say that google might have been told by the gov't that you are without a doubt some sort of terrorist or pro-wikileaks hacker so that the gov't can look at your information (without any kind of warrant, of course).
> And yes, it works.

[citation needed]
Thank you for the link. I didn't see it anywhere in the story. In fact, the "NASA" link doesn't even leave the site -- it just goes to stories with that tag!

Gruber had a story recently about attribution and credit that Engadget should read: http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/attribution_and_credit
Finding a team to build a prototype
There's a pretty serious tinge of narcissism to using a woman's death to complain about too much noise in your social stream. He couldn't have waited until the next time Apple's rumored to be building a TV to post this?
Aside: I saw a geek news bit about you withdrawing (removing) your post and the heat you're getting.

Dude, I'm so sorry.

For future, I have two bits of advice.

#1 Don't bury the lead. Like myself, the geek news bit also didn't get the point of your post.

#2 Focus on the positive. Meaning that all negatives can be stated as a positive.

So, were I to have written your blog post, I would have lead with your "future" section (peer reviews, competitions, contemporary projects), enthused about all the positives, and underplayed (or flat out omitted) the back story, the bullshit plagiarism software, the complicity of the administration (shocker!), the cheating students, etc.

I definitely would not have responded directly to any personal criticism, especially not in public. That's always a trap.

In conclusion, I think you did the right thing, are on the right track, and got burned by being the internet's chew toy of the moment. Lesson learned, move on.
I think I understand what you mean, but I don't think that's what the comment your are replaying to is all about. I think it's good to do both, trust in your knowledge (and so don't "join a priesthood") and still know that you "nothing" (or just a tiny bit).

Hmm, or maybe I didn't understand you or the first poster and that's what you meant. Sorry, I'm a bit confused right now.

Also I wonder how many people ever read this. Most of these things you'll realize sooner or later as it is what really makes you a good and experienced programmer. I'd just suggest to be open minded and think for yourself, but I guess that's a good suggestion for your whole life.
The author is right. Washington DC has an extensive bikeshare system, but over the course of my summer internship it actually made more sense to buy a used bike and sell it back at the end. This is because-

-The bikes are low-quality and heavy, by design

-The time limits and locations are too restrictive (you have to find another docking station, you can't just lock them up anywhere)

-The price point wasn't low enough to beat $170 for a used bike on Craigslist

Maybe I don't fit the use case because bicycles are my primary means of transportation, but I really don't understand who these bikes are for.
Capitalizing on Privacy Practices
You're looking too much into my phrasing. I don't expect someone to just sit down and write the same program over and over. The point is for them to come up with problems they want solved, and solve that problem with code. Thinking about the problem and the solution is a big part of the process, as you say.
Minnesota's new bikeshare program is working quite well over its first year. The bikes are nice, maintained daily, and kiosks are available almost everywhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_Ride_Minnesota
Naming things is a hard part of programming, but that doesn't make it a computer science problem. Computers can't name things for us. To solve the naming thing would be to solve the thinking thing.
Yes; more accurately, read "anywhere in EC2 to probably anywhere else in EC2".
Why would you use TB for backups? Use something designed for the job, like offlineimap. Well, or Heliotrope, which is brilliant (Sup, the other project by the same author is brilliant too, but it doesn't download, just reads a maildir).
- When you change a function b so that it depends on the number of times a has been called, then this is a pretty deep change; but yes, it should be simple to do in situations like logging etc.

- Single-assignment really has NOTHING to do with purely functional programming; see my article "Purely Functional Structured Programming" or my (purely functional) programming language Babel-17 (www.babel-17.com)

- Random is an interesting operation; it is not purely-functional, but can be considered side-effect free; so it is not really imperative, either (although implementations via seed are)
Not quite. See these tweets from the author of TouchJSON (Spoiler: JSONKit is still faster, TouchJSON still has a better interface):

http://twitter.com/#!/schwa/status/94835100075819008
http://twitter.com/#!/schwa/status/94840915075674112
I set up the site as a curiosity (and to use it myself), and I can assure you that it works. It will, however, be at least 1 month till you get that citation (but more likely several more months).

I use it to record startup and research ideas that I don't have the time to pursue right now, but want to be reminded of in the future.
Lets play spot the difference.

From the article;
"Her goal is not to sell the service to consumers, but rather to the government." And now we change two words;
"Her goal is not to sell the service to consumers, but rather to venture capitalists."

The entire argument is flawed, they are selling to a customer. Does it matter who the customer is?

Why does the government subsidize public transport in large cities?

From the Article;
"In the case of Alta Bicycle Share, my life would be better without its existence." Try swapping "Alta Bicycle Share" with "New York Subway".

I certainly hope Casey Research (the article writer) wasn't subsidized by the oil or car industry to write this piece of garbage.
No kidding! The best part is, it's all so unnecessary! When I saw the blank page, I decided to have a peek at the source, an lo and behold, there's the essay! Copy it to a text editor, turn on dynamic word wrap, and... enjoy?
In fact, the attacks have gotten much better since then; for instance, see Crosby & Wallach's paper on using statistical filters to establish nanosecond timing bounds on "local" (ie, cross-datacenter) networks:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/crosby-timing2009.pdf
Thanks for the explanation.

it's really quite easy once you become familiar with it

This was really my point. Things are always simpler when you're familiar with it and I happen to be very familiar with SQL. I just don't think ease should be a highlighted feature of NoSQL.

Don't get me wrong though. I use a few NoSQL systems in my company. But I didn't pick them because they were easy to understand.
Again theoretical: you need to look at the bigger picture. If Facebook was a login service for startups, then ideally startups would have access to the social graph that facebook gives (via their api or a subscription service). So, if you get someone to connect to your new beta with a "connect with facebook" then you get a better idea of the demographic that you're dealing with.
There is a link to the press release[1] the bottom left, next to where it says "source" - All Engadget posts have it in the same place. Seemingly it's not prominent enough, but the attribution is certainly there.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe2011072...
I dunno if this is a reliable service and how long it's been around. 6 months is also a bit limited.

I've used futureme.org, which does work. In fact, I just got a message from myself from 3 years ago in the last couple of weeks when I just turned 18. Creepy to say the least, and awesome.
well, one of the way the situation may developed further is bifurcation of the human species into 2 species. One would continue into the ant colony style civilization and another is space bound. One of the natural dividers emerging now is "either one is an accessory to the computer(and all its consumer oriented entertainment) or the computer is an accessory(i.e. tool for further exploration and development) to the one", and that would become even more pronounced with further development of even more effective (ie. direct connection) human(brain) to machine interfaces.
The older CLI version of Livereload is Ruby-based and can be installed on Windows. https://github.com/mockko/livereload
UFO spotted in footage in aftermath of bomb explosion in Oslo, Norway
I just set it up, and I can assure you that it's reliable (uses Mailgun for delivery, which is top-notch). Very interesting to look at futureme.org, I guess the difference here is that the time is chosen randomly for you, which allows an element of chance.
I use captchas that set a hidden field value through javascript (the user does not enter anything). It takes a second to view source and figure out what should you enter. Despites this, the captcha works 100% and spam stops. Unless spammers target your own site manually, such a solution is good enough.
I really loved reading this. I'm in a similar boat, though not at the stage of recruiting anyone yet. Let me ask you this though: are you unconcerned about not having people in a face-to-face environment?

I can't imagine working with someone on developing my/our shared passions remotely. Besides, I communicate far better in person. Is that an unusual position to take, in your eyes, or do you just know what you need from a technical standpoint and choose not to worry about personalities etc... ?
Thank you SO much for the feedback...working on some of those changes right now.

EDIT: changes are now live, thanks again!
Even in impure languages, writing simple functions without side effects is the ideal of functional programming — the language just doesn't force it. If you want to write imperative code, just call it imperative. Don't call it functional just because that's the cool buzzword nowadays.
If you don't have your fair share of failures after a while, then you're probably not trying hard enough, or at least not exposing yourself to enough opportunities.

That's a valid point, but I think that not investing in something isn't the same as trying and failing - if anything, it's avoiding trying so as to avoid failing, and later realising that you exposed yourself to too few opportunities, not too many.

Trying and failing is when you invest in something that ends up losing you money - and yes, if you never do that (either in investments, or a similar analogy in any other area of life) then you're not taking enough risks.
I get so enraged when hearing these stories. It is no different from extortion, and now I hear that you can be sued for libel for calling it that? I wrote a blog post the last time there was an HN thread on this calling to action:
http://enja.org/2011/07/09/the-software-patent-racket-what-d...

I'd love feedback and ideas
This article has just brought back to life my child faith that space hides lots of amaing surprises for us. Thank you :).
While true, it looks identical to the "NASA" link that precedes it that doesn't go externally, and so I skipped over it as I thought it was a duplicate.

Besides, is it possible to make an attribution less visible?
There's a difference between having 180k followers and having 0. Having 0 is painful because you tweet into nothingness. My observation comes from trying to get many of my friends started with Twitter, only to see that their tweets get lots in the continuously-scrolling timelines of the five of us who follow them back to get them started.
Since OCR was only able to parse one of the words, they have no way of checking the other (besides taking votes from a ton of submissions). Because the summation was not the word that was checked, you could enter anything.

It's an interesting problem. If they make it too clear that they don't know the right answer, quality of submissions will plummet. If they keep the current form, then usability suffers.
It took me a while to realize, but monads are a great solution to the problem of state (to mention just one thing).

Now that I've gotten used to them though, it sucks not having them in (many) other languages... Haskell has spoiled me :(.
So what's the actual time it takes for light to travel 12 billion lightyears?
37signals have a vast team spread all around the world and they have always said it doesn't hinder them... I think if you believe in the people you are working with the distance soon doesn't matter too much.
It's merely my cynical conclusion that this VC fund is mouthing a lot of hogwash. Two-thirds of the companies they have funded are exactly the kinds of companies that this manifesto says are the problem. Their essay really doesn't really say what their goals are other than to invest in entrepreneurs "tackling challenging problems" which is what every single VC in Silicon Valleys says, yet all of them are still chasing the next social-mobile-local marketing company.

The entire essay is bullshit.
What happened to the future: Advertising as a primary revenue source and Financial Markets trying to be a place unto themselves with rules and customs that actually don't make much long term sence. In the US, throw in a generation that really didn't seem to care to make a better place for the next generation and you got a lot of problems. The now killed the later.
OK, this is interesting.

Considering that a tweet is only 100-something characters, your use is essentially equivalent to following an RSS-like feed for a news site. The only difference is that the newsmaker can be anybody and you don't get to read a full version of the news article. Right?
Why there is no standard for developing real modular web applications?
OSGI, SpringSource, Jboss Modules,J2EE and the list never ends.All these technologies promise to their end users/developers the same thing which is more or less java modular web applications(?). How many of us out there, though, have actually tried to develop a REAL modular software system in Java? How many of us have managed to get it done?
Repentance is always good.

Have you thought of doing a Milner style blanket investment on a YC cycle?
For now, I'd settle for an ordinary, standard scroll bar...
Wooga on making every game a success story
Pippa Middleton Recycles Her Dress & Her Date
Who doesn't like a red convertible?
There was also a fair bit of typos and bad grammar which are never a good sign.
I just don't understand the blog post anyway. "It's dumb to try to rack up followers just for a number" right after "I can't get any followers".

Find a way to use Twitter to get content from people you like. My Twitter is a combination of an RSS reader and a way for my friends to share quick thoughts or links. There is overlap with Facebook and overlap with Google Reader, but there is lots of content that I get from Twitter or discover on Twitter... that I can't find elsewhere.

I feel like if people spent more time following people they knew or developers they like or project/product managers, etc, they would actually see the value in Twitter, rather than trying to take this ivory tower approach.
No you don't tweet into nothingness: your feed is public which means that you can for instance show your last tweet on your blog/homepage/... and use twitter as a quick update tool for visitor of your blog/site/... Also, you can use hashtags to join a conversation (this is done better with groups in status.net). In the same time start to follow people who say things that interest you (news, links, personal update, event coverage...).

If you're not interested in any of the use cases above, then why start using twitter at all?
Amy Winehouse Death Video Scam Hits Facebook Users
Agreed, but just because: Quicksort in Haskell:

quicksort [] = []
quicksort (x:xs) = quicksort front ++ [x] ++ quicksort behind
where front = filter (<= x) xs
behind = filter (> x) xs
Hmm.

Given that its distance was more than likely measured by the light, I would assume that 12 billion light-years was the distance when the light was emitted; not its current distance.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, that renders your whole point about Hubble expansion moot, no?
I actually disagree. Facebook has improved my life by a ton.
What if it is an alien space ship that eats water, and it is coming for our planet next?
Most other (good?!) languages should allow you to define monadic data structures fairly easily. Many languages are able to make use of monads, the difference being that Haskell leaves you (almost) no other option.
Agreed. I wouldn't want to do business with this company.
That reminds me of something I've been thinking about again and again over the past years. Is there any reliable way to send myself a message that I would receive, say, 40 years from today. So far I haven't been able to come up with a good solution.
Bike sharing systems allow you to localize bike storage, removing the need to transport bikes long distances. Instead, transit by bicycle is reduced to middling distances where they have an advantage over both walking and cars.

Second, I don't see how this isn't entrepreneurship. By the author's logic, if I design a workflow system which streamlines compliance measures and so allows a city or state to shift more of their workforce to telecommuting, I'm not an entrepreneur. But clearly, I found a specific problem (regulations that hamper telecommuting) and privately engineered a solution to them; why my customer base is an issue isn't clear.

I'd argue, in fact, that this kind of entrepreneurship may be far more important than others because of the impact government has. The next geosocial app won't produce nearly as much value in the economy as, e.g., the workflow software considered above if only because it reduces government waste.
It depends on what do you mean by relational. I mean, even the simplest key-value store has to have keys, so if you store the key of another record/document, you have a "relation."

But you can't set constraints that enforce such relations, which is the whole point of the relational model.
When you're traveling at 60km/hr and going faster, it's thrilling. You imagine what will come next.

When you're traveling at 260km/hr and going faster, it's horrifying. You think of how you can hold on.

If you go to Disneyland's Tomorrowland you'll see that we ended dreaming about the future in the 60's and 70's. It was polished metal; a stone's throw from what we had, but within dreaming limits.

Now we don't know where we're going, but we know we've never been there before. It makes no sense to dream about "today plus twenty years". It won't be that and we're aware now that it won't. The innovation will happen with or without us as individuals. And it will keep going, hurtling faster into an oblivion which we can only guess at.
I enjoyed reading about Stormpulse in the Hacker Monthly: Startup Stories. Congrats on the hard earned success!
More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have a Passport
My week on narcotics – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Also, if Kardashian successfully sues Old Navy for using a model that looks like her (http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/07/21/kim-kardashian-sues-old...) hire her lawyer.
“It was a nice party anyway”: the wonderful history of the Whole Earth Catalog
(Personally getting news off Twitter isn't a reason I use it.)

If you follow a feed that basically just outputs an RSS-esque feed of titles and links, then yes, it's just an interface for RSS.

You can also follow people and/or organisations that editorialise in their tweets. For example, if you want tech news from BBC, you could get a basic RSS feed, or you could look to someone like Rory Cellan-Jones and could follow his work account (@BBCRoryCJ) which is basically just BBC stuff, but not the same info you would get from an RSS feed with some extras added in, or his personal account (@ruskin147) where you get more personal thoughts/opinions etc.

And another option, getting news from your friends - so, in theory, that can provide you with interesting content from random different sources that fit your interests, which an RSS feed won't do. So it's kinda like what a sub-reddit is to the reddit frontpage, except purely personalised on who you want to follow.
Where Is My Magical NFC Phone Wallet?
Why not Chrome
Murdoch Leaks
NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans
I kinda liked that the explanation was hidden behind another link, but it led to a literal violation of the guidelines, and for that I apologize.

I'll strive to do better, but hopefully I can be forgiven.
Yes. It is like massively decentralized news aggregation.

You can just follow any-old tag and see what comes up, or you can try and improve the signal-to-noise ratio by following the people you generally enjoy reading and create specific lists.

I've also found it helpful in big conferences. at the WCC2010 I switched streams (there was 16) a few times because the quotes coming out of other sessions hinted that the other one was more interesting/relevant to me.
Agility.js: an alternative to Backbone.js
I hate this example. This is not what quicksort is about. Quicksort is about sorting array in place. The preceding code is not. Also I can't see how it's relevant to the thread.