skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it has these kind of mechanisms are embedded:
If there is an error in the middle of a syncing then Gmvault will wait few seconds and try to restart the current operation. After 4 attempts it will leave in error. Gmail imap servers can start to throttle the transfer and also cut the connection.
Gmvault also has a restart mode (option --restart) to restart where it was. Actually up to 20 emails before because Gmvault save its "position" (email id synced or restored sucessfully) regularly.
Infinitely more...
In Portuguese stockmarket, if you have 1 winner stock and dozens of looser stocks, you still pay tax from the winner one..
This is not the person who coined Moore's law either.
I just bought a suit from indochino.com - For less than $400 you get a custom made suit from China in about 3 weeks. Their "fit" guarantees are nice too. You have to do you measurements yourself or by an experienced tailor(I enlisted the help of my girlfriend) but they'll give a $75 credit to get it tailored further if needed.

The quality of the fabric is good IMO - much better than department store suits. I would say it's definitely worth checking out if you are looking for a suit.

I've bought $200 suits from department stores only to spend another $100 on tailoring.. for a bit more you get a custom quality suit - from a company with a compelling business model.
Wonder if it could be combined with more typical ultrasound measurement techniques (time-of-flight, amplitude) to get distance -- combine this with Doppler-derived velocity using a Kalman filter, use stereo microphones for reception, two speakers emitting slightly different frequencies for left-right disambiguation, and you could probably get pretty good absolute measurements.
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Just out of curiosity, have you talked to your current employer about your goals and in particular have you discussed concrete steps which would allow you to move into the role you want?
Should we stay in the background forever, and let the marketing people dictate the future of tech, or make some serious attempt to drive tech into another direction?

At some point you have to get people's attention - once that happens, maybe we can see improvement. Until then, brogramming just makes assclowns easier to spot.
Endless scrolling is uncool if you want to click any of the links at the bottom of the page, Lists, RSS, Bookmarket. Maybe these links can be relocated to the top of the page? I sometimes go to Lists | bestcomments to find the creme de la creme.
Just to further make it easy to confuse the two, the Forth-inventor Chuck Moore is also involved in chip design these days (at Green Arrays - a company doing embedded heavily multi-core chips running a forth-like instruction set)
Aren't some (many?) telecom switches run with Erlang? I haven't used it, but from what I understand it's more functional than OO, is it not?
Best entertainment value ever: When one of the big jackpots was making the news I bought one as much to head off the conversation of why not than anything, but it triggered these incredible technocolor daydreams! I was not bored on the subway for days. Diminishing returns though, since then the occasional ticket never had the same internal result.
I think the real changed was projects started to skip the testing step. When programmers can get new code into production in the same day they need to do their own testing.
completely agree. If I click the back button, I want to go to where I was before accessing the entire "newspaper" not just back one page (which kinda defeats the entire purpose of being able to flip the pages back).
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Still not working for me on OS X. I CDed my way into gmvault-v1.0-beta/bin, but when I ./gmvault sync mikemarotti@gmail.com, I get this:

http://i.imgur.com/yLzyy.png
The Bible as historical non-fiction is most certainly absurd, no implications about that. Not saying so out of sensitivity to those who believe otherwise does reason a disservice, just as not calling out Bolzmann because I don't want to offend him. If this makes anyone unwelcome, they should avoid places where their fragile ego might be challenged by rational conclusions. In a place like hacker news, I see no reason to let sensistivity toward faith restrict my speech any more than sensitivity toward programming language choice. Invite me for dinner and I will respect your religious and any other beliefs. Have a scientific debate in a web forum with me, and I will speak without concern for challenging you. It's not a personal attack to say the Bible is absurd - it's the truth.
The idea of Boltzman brains is a good reason to hope that the universe ends with a big crunch.
Big generalization here, but if you only need one specialized dev and have nobody on board who can judge them, then you probably don't need the best dev possible anyway. I'm imagining a non-tech company that just wants a functional website. If you're not looking for the best possible person, and just want to make sure you're not wasting money on some schmo, then this approach is probably fine.

The responses you're getting are from the point of view of a tech-based company. Because your approach has no advantage for the top-notch dev, who at the moment is in a white-hot market and able to write their own ticket at a company that IS able to judge their ability and isn't going to try to get some cheap work out of them.
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I'd hardly call the 64 GB in the $999 model "massive". I still know a lot of people who won't make the switch to an Air due to the lack of an optical drive, and reducing the already small hard disk capacity would reduce the attractiveness of the Air to those folks even further. Also, I don't think iCloud and iTunes Match are good enough (yet) to convince people that the don't really need a hard drive anymore.
Will people notice it -- and leave the app? Or will a few geeks complain.
It's all because developers think they are entitled to interesting problems and amazing coding.

Heck, in my day job i even have to fight to learn my damn goal. Which never is "to code" something. That's always only the means to the end. But still, every Coworker and manager start stating that as the ultimate goal of an engineer in a software department.
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Gmvault is a tool entirely dedicated to Gmail so it will recreate your account exactly as it was. Standard imap backuping tool like OfflineIMAP do not preserve labels when restoring emails on an imap server because your have to use a Gmail specific extension.
For example it will take care of the Gmail labels and will recreate them when restoring the emails on an account.
More features are available. Check the documentation.
I think Joel Spolsky had a nice spin on this a few years back:

"Once you've written a subroutine, you can call it as often as you want. This means that almost everything we do as software developers is something that has never been done before. This is very different than what construction workers do. Herman the Handyman, who just installed a tile floor for me, has probably installed hundreds of tile floors. He has to keep installing tile floors again and again as long as new tile floors are needed. We in the software industry would have long since written a Tile Floor Template Library (TFTL) and generating new tile floors would be trivial."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/fog0000000337.html
So let's say me and a superstar cast of Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk are accepted as a "no idea group".

.... What do we do the next day? What do we work on? I can totally get behind the idea that they're funding the founders and not the idea but there has to be some idea at some point, right? Why not the day before the application instead of the day after?
I don't see how this makes sense. The casino's odds are always not in favor of the players, so the more the merrier from the casino's POV. Even if you're a card counting wiz, the margins are pretty poor and you're easily caught.

I imagine the real problem would be crowding your casino with people who just showed up for the buffet but refused to gamble.
That's only hard to understand if you don't speak Hebrew. Anti-Semite! :)
Bach had some complicated, almost math-like themes, but is it really more complex than Wagnerian leitmotifs and huge orchestral settings or Schoenbergian modern music where the traditional score notation can't keep up anymore?

But yeah, the analogy is easy to abuse, due to the multitude of artistic styles, and active rebellion against the "mainstream". For every Piet Mondrian out there, you can find a Chuck Close.
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During my 15 minute commute, I saw 8 drivers reading their smart phones while driving. I guess it time for those driverless cars. How many did you guys see?
especially since the marginal cost of even a first class seat would be low

The cost all depends on whether or not they would have two spare first class seats to throw away on someone (and his bag) that they are never going to get a dime from again. Even then they could use those seats to offer upgrades to loyal business/coach customers.

$37,000 per year doesn't go very far when divided by the price of two first-class tickets.

I think this is a classic case of short-term vs long-term thinking.
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I uninstalled it almost immediately after installing. Cool idea but you shouldn't change the entire look and feel of the site. See Reddit Enhancement Suite as a good example of how to write and present a site addon.

Great idea, it's just too intrusive.
I would tell them to focus on a big problem that they are passionate about and have some credibility.
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I can think of a few examples. Controlling your music player while in another program. For Wii-like games but also for example for making signals to teammates in FPSs. As the article said, presense detection. Perhaps for desktop switching to free up screen real-estate.
If I had been granted the power to downvote, I would cast my first downvote on you, for this.

In a post-modern economy of people handing each other money for entertainment, rather than just food and fuel, I don't want any part of the way I express myself to be "stamped out."

Luckily for you your HN karma, which you will probably try to monetize somehow, cannot be devalued by me, but you can entertain schemes of priggish conformity under my nose.

Pretty cool place!
Thanks for the feedback. I have not tested deployment on Vista but on WinXP and Win7. You didn't need to be an admin as far as I saw.
The integration in the menu,showing up in the installed program as well as uninstall is in the version 1.1 that should be released next week.
I wanted to see if some people would be interested by such tool.
A lot of people don't seem to grasp that there is no dichotomy between turning ever-higher profits and creating outstanding value for customers. At least not in the minds of the many people who admire Apple, so your implication that they are somehow deluded rings hollow.
I suspect they didn't actually say the same things to the slaves that built the Pyramids; I suspect they just told them to get on with moving rock and whipped them if they didn't. Certainly I'd much rather work for Apple than the ancient Egyptians.
I disagree, but only based on personal observation. Publishers clearly love apps--hence the reason when I go to nearly any newspaper from the NYT to small town USA news asks me to add their iPad apps.
Apparently, it also backs up Gmail specific stuff like labels. Which is nice, but if Gmail every bites you in the ass so hard that this is the only way to recover, would you trust Gmail again?

As for myself, I just imap my Gmail accounts and don't use those features exactly to avoid that kind of lock-in. I've used too many email services and clients in my lifetime to assume Google is the final solution. And safeguarding my mail offline with imap works just fine.
> Getting into an accident is far more likely.

True, but I didn't say anything about the constants involved, just the shape of the problem.

> And everyone has health issues sooner or later, so the probability of that is 1.

That may be, but health insurance premiums only cover a certain window of time, during which you may or may not have health issues.
Is there a way to make Thunderbird or Mac's Mail do the same thing?
As an OfflineIMAP user, I see a few immediate differences:

1. OfflineIMAP expects standard IMAP servers. GMVault has special casing to handle Google's wonky IMAP support, along with features like labels and the "All Mail" directory.

2. OfflineIMAP is GPLv2 (or 3, at your option). GMVault is GPLv3.

3. OfflineIMAP syncs to either a local Maildir or another IMAP server. GMVault syncs to its own custom on-disk representation.

4. OfflineIMAP uses a username/password to log in to servers. GMVault uses XOAuth.

5. OfflineIMAP is fully bi-directional by default; local deletion propagates to the remote server. GMVault notes that "manually deleting emails or emails' directories does not prevent Gmvault from working."

6. GMVault can encrypt its own archives. OfflineIMAP cannot.

Basically, GMVault looks like a much less general-purpose tool, but in its specialization, should allow for a much nicer experience for users that simply want a backup for their GMail account.

I'm fond of the versatility that OfflineIMAP gives me (I can restore my mail to any IMAP server, not just GMail; I can access the local Maildir with other applications like Dovecot and Mutt; etc.), but excited about the possibilities of GMVault for friends and family.

"Do you have your GMail backed up? No? Here, let me install GMVault for you..."
How does

(ternary (false) (integer 15) (integer 15))

help JIT?
> When did that turn into some bizarre conflict and why?

Man you weren't kidding. I tried looking up uTP on wikipedia hoping to come away with some technical understanding. It's full of passive aggressive statements that cite forum posts as their support, with no information on how it actually works. Maybe some of the folks in this thread could go fix that.
If the number of votes for a comment were visible people probably wouldn't feel the need to annotate their comments with "this" or "++1". So blame the commenting economy of HN. Or just accept it.
Thank you for the sanity.
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Seeing him speak at Startup School last year was absolutely inspirational for me. I don't like Facebook that much, but he's built a great company, and you can tell he's got a lot of interesting things to say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWKUoabjjxg
Great tool, awesome work. Gmail should really offer a link to backup your mail though. I know you can do it with mail clients and this, but its annoying I cant just download one big zip file from gmail itself.
Personally I am waiting for them to put floppies back in laptops. Seriously, Air will never get a built in optical drive and you either accept that and use the USB drive once a year when you need it or you just go and buy a different laptop, but for everyone else they are picking up the air in massive numbers and it is clearly the direction laptops are heading.

I have a macbook pro that came with a built in optical drive, but I still spent the extra money (and time) to remove it and replace it with a second drive.
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Hi thanks for the feedback. I will try to use the py2app application. If the binary version doesn't work, you also do a standard python installation (http://gmvault.org/install.html#py_install).
Ask HN: inspiring geeks/tech (auto)biographies
There are a number of geeks and tech people (e.g.: I include Steve Jobs here) (auto)biographies I've read over the years that I found inspiring, I'm sure there are many more. Here are some out of the top of my head:

- Steve Job's official bio

- iWoz

- Paul Allen's Idea Man

- Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture (the video is of course better)

- Masters of Doom

What are yours? Thanks!
The installer needs admin. Can't write to "Program Files" otherwise.
Sure it will. You might have to turn it in late, though.
It didn't work for me (TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable), I opened an issue on github.
Screenshots at the least?
I hope they'll eventually do this too. They have this *Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), from where you can already download some data in simple zip files.
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I imagine (and I'm not speaking for my employer here) that it has to do with cost: if the easiest way to backup your email is by using IMAP or POP, it's essentially an incremental backup mechanism. If the easiest way to backup your email is by clicking a link which contains all your email in a .zip file, it would be a non-incremental backup system and its cost would be much higher, because people would be far more likely to repeatedly download the same emails.
Sweet! I'm gonna keep my gmail backup on my google drive!
I agree with this, but it seems to be a software issue in the games themselves. When I view the little stick figure version of me during calibration, that tracks my movements extremely well. So I would expect the games to get better and better as the devs iterate.

Side-note: I really need higher ceilings in my family room. I nearly knocked myself out jumping into the ceiling once. Once.
Granted this isn't working for me to begin with (http://i.imgur.com/yLzyy.png), but will this tool work to archive Google Apps email accounts? eg. Gmail accounts that do not end in gmail.com?
How does this compare with WebOS?
I love the layout. It looks like it would be great for touch screen devices.

My first instinct was to click the "flip" button. It takes a lot of effort to click and drag with my mouse.

If it's possible I would consider something like making the page lift a little bit when the user hovers over an edge. Then just click to flip the page.
+1. "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum" is an excellent book and a must must must read for anyone in software engineering. It will open your mind and give you a new perspective on software.

The dancing bear analogy is on the money. It's like early computers: "OMG, word processing! I can "delete" my typos! I can reformat my paragraph!" Today's computers: "it's hard for me to figure out how to reformat the paragraph. Next app!" Also, early computers: "the computer crashed, I should've saved!" Today's computers: "the damn computer should not have lost my data no matter what happened."
What do you mean? By default, both Thunderbird and Mail.app should fully download and locally save an archive of your mail.

To verify this in Thunderbird, check out Tools -> Account Settings, then go to the "Synchronization & Storage" page. Make sure it's set to "Keep messages for this accounts on this computer," "Synchronize all messages locally regardless of age," and "Don't delete any messages." You can click the "Advanced..." button if you only want to sync certain folders.

To force a sync, you can go to File -> Offline -> Download/Sync Now, but you shouldn't ever have to do that with the above settings.
- If you're so poor that paying 1 USD is a hardship, then you shouldn't play the lottery. Otherwise, where's the harm?
- The argument, "the lottery is a tax on poor / stupid people" is valid but useless when talking about small amounts of money.
- The difference(s) between winning the lottery and someone just giving you millions of dollars? - 1) You know where the money came from; 2) The person just giving away the millions isn't receiving payment for giving away the money.
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I don't agree. As a person who has applied in the past, a developer and a sole founder, why would I submit my idea with no NDA to basically a think tank of clerical ivy league wunderkind waiting in the wings for a call from PG for a shovel ready project or a "pivot." All this in exchange for a "thanks but no thanks dude!"

I was on the fence before about applying to "incubators" (I know YC is technically not a incubator), but this solved it for me. Ideas are worthless, execution is only slightly more valuable and YC is an idea execution factory. To be honest, it's an enviable position. I do appreciate the transparency.
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Funny. For me it's the other way round. Does not work on news.ycombinator.com but on hackerne.ws
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"You can negotiate with a developer on her rate, but if it sounds reasonable, it probably is. Keep in mind that there are plenty of other people out there willing and able to hire her for what she quoted. And, if she feels like she’s been out-negotiated and she’s not being compensated what she’s worth, chances are she won’t prioritize your work over other work (or over other, more fun things). Or, she’ll find someone else who will pay her rate, then leave you hanging. I’ve seen it over and over again."

So true. The lowest price is only the best price if you're never going to deal with the person again, but in general you want people who do business with you to make money too so that they keep doing business with you. The price you pay for something, and the degree to which you negotiate, sends a strong signal. You don't want that signal to be adversarial in situations like these, for the reasons described.

Finally, a lot of people see margins from negotiations as easy money, or say things like "I'm a good negotiator." The first is only somewhat the case, saying the latter is not only bad manners but reveals what a person thinks of the role of others is in their success. A negotiation sets the terms for the relationship, and if your terms are bad, people will get out of that relationship or set you at a low priority, at best.
He'd probably be a mid-level software engineer at Sony, a division of Myspace.
I don't really see the advantage to that? Do you just prefer HTTP to IMAP? :)
Ok got it and will add it in the next version. Still you can install it anywhere so put it somewhere else in the mean time.
On the boob tube the other day, I saw for the first time an add for a Comcast -- err... Xfinity -- home security system. Apparently, this is a "new" market for competition for these behemoth entrenched ISP's.

Given my experience with Comcast's pricing, I might sarcastically suppose it would be cheaper just to let the burglars break in.
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While I can't hear above 16KHz, lots of people can hear up to 20KHz without any trouble. To them this would sound like the highest pitch ringing you could imagine. And don't let any dogs in the room, this would be a continuous dog whistle to them. Very annoying.
The Mac Pro replacement, the iMac Pro should see the light of day soon, with hot-swappable disks at the left and right sides, thunderbolt (obviously) including simple multi-screen support, touchability where required and multiple gpu support.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what's the point of having proprietary web apps for Chrome that could already be achieved with existing HTML5 toolkits?

This just seems to be an effort to "app-ify" the web, that is, create a shitty appstore google owns for websites. I hate this concept and don't understand why people support fragmenting webpages like this. HackerNew may be fantastic, but release it as a website that all browsers can display.