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Pegasus Mail (http://www.pmail.com) is still going strong, slowly trudging towards the 5.0 release. Though there were a few hiccups related to the financial viability a couple of years ago, development is still going on and the product is still free.
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I agree. I only use desktop email to ensure that I have a copy saved locally.

For the workgroup that I support, I give them Mailplane for Google Apps. I find that some users just can't get past the idea of having a "shortcut" on their desktop, even when on a Mac.
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Woah, 5%? Do you have a citation for that?
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Ambition, entrepreneurialism, etc. They are all diseases… to some extent they are likely genetic; something you’re born with.

The writer was born with one of these, or like, diseases or is channeling someone who has been. He is therefore of the mindset that he must make a difference… do something that alters the course of history… make a mark.

We cannot blame this person for what they cannot control for they were born with this disease.

The article is certainly not meant for the overall public and this should have been stated. Your interest in making a change, putting your stamp on the world, leaving a memory, etc has nothing to do with whether you are a good or bad person or whether you are making the most of your life. Some are happy to change the life on one person (child, friend, etc) while others feel compelled to do so on a mass level. It is entirely a personal decision. It is most likely driven by whether you are infected with the disease of ambition, entrepreneurialism, etc…

I can speak to this as I too was born with both of the above mentioned diseases. I don’t wish them upon everyone but at the same time I am not sure life would be even fractionally as enjoyable without them.
I really don't see Google allowing people to share apps they bought.
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The homepage is beautiful and all but where do i sign up?!?!

EDIT: Scratch that, found it... "Mobile web app"

VERY cool idea. Dig it.
"Between the ideologues like Stallman, who effectively think it's immoral to make money off selling the software itself..."

Please quote him and provide us with the reference.

I am not familiar with his making such a statement. The free in free software has nothing to do with price, but has everything to do with freedom.

Richard Stallman, Free Software Free Society, 2nd Edition, Chapter 10, page 65, pdf edition: "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible - just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on."
What I miss in this article is what it implies that time is cloaked. What does is it mean and where can it be used for?
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I think you're right on many counts. As far as YC is concerned, I want to emphasize that I have no problem with what they do. It's an engineer's approach to entrepreneurship: quantify, then scale. I get that. I respect it. What concerns me, however, is the broader market trend that it represents. Like any successful business, YC spawned copycats. YC alone has funded 316 companies, and the copycats have funded many more. At that scale, you simply aren't betting on world-changers. You're betting on flippers. Flippers are your bread and butter; they're what keep the incubators going. It's the $20MM acquisitions that keep you going for the next round, and that make kids rich.

Here on HN we see a fair number of stories of the form, "We demo'd as x, pivoted to y, and sold to z for $25MM 18 months later. Here's how." I'm happy for the founders' success, and I'm happy for YC's success, but it all seems so...shallow. There's no substance there. Granted, those involved in the deal would likely disagree, but it feels like the commoditization of startups have cheapened them and changed the motivations of founders. The trend I see is a broad one and not limited to one company or YC as a whole, but the ecosystem in general. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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You come across as judgmental to me. If there were more people who's goal was essentially to relax, how bad would things be?
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Surprising, really? Two examples: Outlook has been around for awhile and will continue to do so. The other example, Sparrow is just a few months (?) old and is quite popular.
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> allow comments (anonymous or otherwise) on each
> paragraph, and refine the content based on those
> comments.

PLoSOne uses this model.
Link to original (french): http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/07/12/l-hado...

18 million observed instances of filesharing in supposed breach of copyright, not 18 million filesharers. Of a million lucky instances chosen at random, 90% of these led to the identification of lucky lucky account holders. Of the 900,000, 470,000 first warnings were sent out. The rest might presumably be duplicates, or based abroad, because it's hard to see why the other 430,000 IDs were not part of the email-sending exercise. they might also be libraries, internet cafs, etc.

Interestingly, it seems HADOPI really took the UN's human rights criticism of HADOPI-like measures; it recently put out a press release urging caution, transparency and legal compliance by those seeking to develop deep packet inspection technology and other filters (which it must be notified of), telling the private sector to instead focus on developing legal media offerings and experimenting with pricing (http://www.hadopi.fr/download/sites/default/files/page/pdf/C...)
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Thats really cool, never thought of doing that before. It's always enjoyable to learn a new c trick, thanks :)

(oops, read further down that this is a common pattern. I need to go read K&R again!)
> Does having to 'build your own framework' (my paraphrasing of your point) typically mean your software delivery is slower?

Possibly, initially. However, probably not significantly, since you should only build the framework that you need.

> Is this detrimental to the business objective you're trying to achieve?

No, since the business objective is to make money. The software is the means to do that, and the choices you make today limit the markets that you can expand into. If you decide that you're making a mobile app for android, then you are going to have to do a bunch of work (possibly including re-implementing the app) to get into the iphone or desktop market.

> Does a 2-fold approach work - using a more substantial framework to begin with (for speed) followed by re-factoring into your own more specialised "framework of libraries" later?

I think that taking the framework away is very difficult. Even when you've replaced all the code, and no longer depend on it, you still have the basic shape that lingers. I think that we generally call that a "re-write".

> Definitely some food for thought in your point - I presume it's based on actual experience of programming under both regimes?

yes
Soo this is how the Taliban recruit new people..
Just got my mind blown for the rest of the day...

Anyway, I'm reading it over and over again, and I'm still not sure if I understand this well. Can someone confirm that, and elaborate on that a little bit?

And I also didn't realize that we've gone so far with "traditional" cloaking devices. I thought we're still at microwave and near-infrared level.

EDIT. Abstract of the original paper makes this a little bit easier to understand for me.

EDIT 2. And here we have:

- http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23519/ - illusion cloak

- http://arxivblog.com/?p=698 - cloaking at a distance
I couldn't really tell much about it with all the images being shown from a side perspective.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2062v1.pdf - link to the original paper.
As much as I'd like to think you're right, you're probably wrong. The advertising industry is making very real money, which gives people an incentive to keep it going even though it delivers close to nothing.

Why do people buy Coca Cola? Is it because of the tremendously expensive advertisements they put out or is it because the stuff is ubiquitous, tastes fairly good and is usually not surrounded by a lot of competing products at the places where it's sold?

Don't believe me? What about if you're in a restaurant that sells only Pepsi. Do you leave the restaurant in search of another that sells Coca-Cola? Most people probably don't, thereby proving that all the so-called "positive emotions" advertisements instill in consumers do absolutely nothing when the time comes to make purchase. Theoretically, yes, in a situation where you can choose either Pepsi or Coca-Cola for (roughly) the same price, Coca-Cola's advertising campain may have an effect, but such situations are exceedingly rare. In most purchasing decisions there are variables that have much more significance than the advertising history of the products.

So ads are, probably, not effective. And despite this fact, there has been an industry selling them for over a century and that industry has been getting richer and richer, thereby proving that you can perfectly well build a business on scamming people and keeping it up indefinitely. You do, however, have to keep playing around with some superficial parameters of your business model to keep it convincing. Which is exactly what Google is doing here.

(btw, I use - and love - Google's services, but never in my life have I clicked one of their ads or even looked at one for more than a split second)
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Yes, the popularity of useless, emotive comments here really bugs me. There is an inverse correlation between the points I get for a comment and the amount of time and expertise I put into it.

In the scientific case, though, "popularity" would be measured by the extent of citation. (Really, it already is.) That is a considerably higher bar than "I think I'll click on that arrow." For a paper to be cited, it has to make enough of an impact that people remember it and its ideas shape their thinking.
I agree with everything you've said but I don't think we can classify it as a disease.
There is a lot out there regarding this topic. The latest paper by Whittaker et. al. should be interesting for you: "Am I wasting my time organizing email?
A study of email refinding"
http://people.ucsc.edu/~swhittak/papers/chi2011_refinding_em...

Also interesting on this topic are these papers:

* Better to organize personal information by folders or by tags?: The devil is in the details

* Don't take my folders away!: organizing personal information to get things done

* Keystroke Level Analysis of Email Message Organization
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Mine is, or I don't really know.

What's the problem?
For a long time Excel was/is the best (feature-wise, UI) spreadsheet program out there. Even if OO/LibreOffice or other F/OSS have duplicated most of the functionality, it still makes sense to get an actual licensed copy if you need it for business.

To the grandparent poster, even if F/OSS is copying features, you still have the advantage of being first mover; it just means you have to keep updating and refining. There is also the non-trivial advantage in being paid to do this work. Moreover, if customers find it better to just switch from your product, incurring inevitable transfer costs, there is something wrong already.
I hope that many politicians are among the false positives.
I'll hope that other brighter members of our community correct me if I'm wrong, but here's a stab at it.

We all learn about causality. Things don't just happen without being there being some kind of reversible action. If an ice cube melts, that's a time reversible aspect of physics. Basically if you could run time backwards like a video in reverse, you would see the ice unmelt.

In another instance, imagine a block of ice in the middle of a star. There's no way that a chunk of ice can just appear in a star. Now, that's not to say its impossible for such a chunk to be there. But you can trace back a line of actions that led to it being there, ranging from the debris of the spacecraft that contained it to the launch pad on a planet orbiting nearby, to all of the patterns of matter and information encompassing the civilization that built and launched it in the first place.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, the temporal cloak effectively allows stuff to happen inside it that isn't detectable from the outside. To stretch my last analogy a bit, imagine you put such a temporal cloak around the entire civilization leading up to where the ice ends up in the star. To an outside observer, say some aliens doing a research study on our star, all of a sudden they would detect the block of ice in the star but not have any idea where it came from.
Yes, as that article makes clear, the point is not that a voting system is perfect, it's that the current onerous system provides no benefit over much simpler arrangements.
"Some of us have dreams that can be achieved while working 9-5, that's great, but if you have a dream that's important to you, that requires you to quit, do give it some thought. You only have one life."

I think that pretty much sums it up. I Agree on the preference for "Why I did this" rather than "Why you should" but I'm guessing the author was trying to make the point that there seem to be an awful lot of people who fall into the "I'll pursue my dream sometime" category.

For them - and I assume they are the authors target audience - an article with a title which is a direct call to an action already in the back of their minds, is one they're likely to read. Perhaps a better title would have been "If this describes you, quit your job"...but that isn't quite as good as link bait!
the abstract is clearer http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2062.

here's the relevant bit:

Alternatively, it may be desirable to cloak the occurrence of an event over a finite time period, and the idea of temporal cloaking was proposed in which the dispersion of the material is manipulated in time to produce a "time hole" in the probe beam to hide the occurrence of the event from the observer. This approach is based on accelerating and slowing down the front and rear parts, respectively, of the probe beam to create a well controlled temporal gap in which the event occurs so the probe beam is not modified in any way by the event.
it's "know" with a K.

1. I understand this as "don't wait for perfection before committing", not "try to improve every code you checkout". If I have no good reason to touch some code I won't, even if it looks ugly (and I'll be dealing with some horrendous things in the coming months.)

2. Simple code is boring. Boring can be good. Code that I find beautiful is more clever than simple (as in, after that "AHA!" moment the cleverness appears that would have required tons more simple code when here these 2 lines do the same.)
I find

foo = ( bar ) ? bla : bli;

much more beautiful than

if ( bar) {
foo = bla
} else {
foo = bli
}
According to wikipedia, France only has 20 million homes with broadband. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

And yet 18 Million file-sharers were tracked? Doesn't pass the smell test, sorry.
Oh, yeah. I want to publish in PLoSOne, but my more established collaborators (the ones who have arranged the NIH grants) absolutely need to publish in Nature, etc.
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France is nuts. Leave the people alone!
My initial inspiration came from [Nick Cernis' take on Inbox Zero](http://modernerd.com/post/348119427/inbox-heaven). The article is a bit dated by now, but the gist is:

There are only three kinds of messages: messages I have to act on, messages I want to keep and the rest.

The first, I flag and archive, the second, I archive, the third, I delete. The list of flagged messages then becomes my todo-list. If I ever need to go back to some discussion I did not flag, I rely on search. This really only works if threads are collated into conversations. Contrary to the original article though, this feature is not exclusive to Gmail any more, so that particular advice can be ignored.

I believe that this is one implementation of 'inbox zero', for which you should find plenty of stuff on the 'net (43Folders and Merlin Mann should be great starting points).

That said, I never claimed that folders are inefficient for email. I just said that my system did not involve any. That said, there are a lot of people who will say that a good searching mechanism is more convenient than a complex folder structure. (And conversely, that you only need folders if your search sucks. Search has gotten a lot better in the last few years.)

One might argue that the whole point of our brain is to recognize patterns. Therefore, we are very very good at grasping the context an email message belongs to. Maybe we don't actually need folders to signify context externally. Also, tagging seems to be a more natural way of providing context than folders, for the simple fact that messages might belong to different contexts simultaneously. Still, the only context I need in an email app is whether something is actionable or not. Everything else is just noise.
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Yeah, someone's been watching way too many Google product videos and decided to turn it up to 11.
Did you even click through the link ? The intern is blind and will work towards building a "completely free and fully accessible distribution of GNU/Linux". I don't understand why one need to be so sarcastic about a noble deed.
"I think the value of the so called social graph for advertising is overestimated."

I disagree, for certain businesses it is more beneficial then Adwords. I have had really good experiences with Facebook Ads.
Same with firefox-5.0-2.fc15.x86_64
I was talking of marketing in general. Advertising is only a single branch of marketing.

And its obvious that Coca-Cola's marketing has been waaay better than Pepsi's. And also I believe that Pepsi is quite comfortable in its #2 position. As is Burger King in its own.

Don't forget, that second biggest player in a huge market is usually still a friggin big behemoth. And that for Pepsi and BK being #2 is a core business strategy. Less upside, but also less downside. These companies basically use their bigger competitors as a hedge against market change.
>No, since the business objective is to make money. The
>software is the means to do that, and the choices you make >today limit the markets that you can expand into.

I guess then it's a question of the benefit of taking a tactical advantage vs. the opportunity cost of that decision (including the subsequent re-write)?

I would say that the risk of limiting future markets (or more specifically a prohibitive cost of entry into said markets) is only one of many risks that need to be considered in the decision making process.

Surely there are downsides to the inevitable re-invention of what a framework does if you roll-your-own? It's not a one-way bet.

The software choices we make also enable options whilst at the same time limit others - it's a trade off.

>If you decide that you're making a mobile app for android,
>then you are going to have to do a bunch of work (possibly
>including re-implementing the app) to get into the iphone
>or desktop market.

That's an interesting case (one I find myself peering at currently). Isn't the only real option to suck-up the fact that you'll need 3 versions on 3 platforms - or - build a product in a market that doesn't have diversity of platform as an issue (such as a browser-delivered app)? [That could be an argument against native apps on devices.]
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Sadly, Django is both highly interconnected and has less than clean design. So while you can swap one bit for another, you'll still depend on all of django, and the stranger will be obvious.
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I own Thinking in Java and it's definitely better than Deitel, Big Java and Java Java Java.

If fact it's not just a great book on Java but on OO programming in general.

The only negative is, at least in the printed book, the code isn't highlighted in anyway. I assume this was done to keep printing costs down. Deitel on the other hand is very nicely printed.
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These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don't have anything like that these days. The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn't count). ST:TOS predicted cloaks just six years after the first laser was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX. Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.

I feel like we're getting ripped off. I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.
Errr.... you have occasionally been in convenience stores and supermarkets, yes? Restaurants that serve both Coke and Pepsi are rare, yes, but stores where you can buy either are an everyday thing for most of us...
If you have a monopoly, your rights as a service provider go waaaaaaay down.

I think the monopoly should be stripped from them if they can't handle proper pricing.
Could someone tell me a practical application of this?

If someone made a box, with time lenses around it, and someone went inside the box, what would happen?