skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Cook's email being posted around the 'net has nothing to do with this, and bringing it up only shows your lack of an argument.

Someone posted a private email address on Twitter. The owner of that email address filed a complaint, and the Twitter account was removed. Any other day, Twitter would be the Good Guy, but the Internet has a hard-on for hating NBC due to their Olympic coverage, so now all of the sudden it's cool?
> Any time someone creates a proprietary computer program it restricts everyone's ability to freely interact with it.

That depends on what the alternative was. Any time someone creates a proprietary computer program, there are restrictions on how it is used - that's what proprietary means - but a situation of a proprietary program existing is less constrained than a situation of no program existing: you still have the option to not use that kind of program or write a free one but now you also have the option to use the proprietary one. Where constraints are created is the choice to release the given program as non-FOSS.
I am not even certain I know my Hotmail password: I have not logged into that account in many years, and certainly not from my iPhone (which is where I just created that account).

Yeah, verified: here is a copy/paste from the message.

From: Hotmail Team <member_services@live.com>
To: <saurik@outlook.com>
Subject: Getting started with Hotmail
Date: Tue 7/31/12 9:51 AM
I noticed that about the subject. It doesn't stand out. I get the same feeling from the Mail app for Windows 8. About halfway through this article there is a screenshot of a message being composed. The subject there seems equally hidden.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/06/14/building-the-m...
Yes, things aren't where you would expect, but it quickly grows on you. It sure did on me. Sent 5 emails already ( just to my accounts :) and liking the UI
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Of the companies I've read about so far, I believe this is the one to watch. I'm expecting this to be a big deal (I don't know the founders or anyone else even remotely involved). If they can get the right deals (be where authors sell the books and readers read the books), then writers will quickly become addicted to this service.
He's simply profiting on the bots article's fame. If the facebook bots article never existed, this advertise wouldn't exist too.
Are you archiving emails in gmail? I've found that keeping my inbox clean helps the performance of the site.
Where is the email address disclosed on NBC's site? I'd like to see a link.
Outlook's url seems to be on the live.com domain... confusing at best. Let's make a comparison of url's from the "home" view:

New Outlook (wtf):
https://bay002.mail.live.com/default.aspx

Gmail (better, could be cleaner):
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
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I'm not the GP but in my startup we just use Resque, it works wonderfully. I've also had semi-good experiences with RabbitMQ via AMQP. There's nothing special about the structure. Depending on the system you'll use channels/queue names/routing keys/whatever when enqueuing a job and then workers will pull the jobs they're in charge off out of the queue. In the case of mixpanel jobs you should set it up so they stick around when they fail
In my old account accessed via outlook.com, I see no ads. In a new account I just created I see ads from Restaurant.com. Not sure what gives.
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Coursera.org is a good resource. I really enjoyed the Human Computer Interaction Course: https://www.coursera.org/course/hci

There were lectures and assignments built around design heuristics, different aspects of prototyping and you have to design your own application as part of the course grade.
So, I think the interesting thing here is that it does not seem to work at all with IE8.
I use outlook on a mac to access my employer's email account ... and I'm a developer :)
Yea, the problem is that making actual calls to their API servers is taking a while.
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I understand the distinction, but if you're going to target me with ads solely based on where my IP says I'm from, you might as well just scan my mail and give me relevant ads.
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Not only that, you can make a 100000% ROI while you're at it.
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I just sold a car battery on craigslist for $50. It cost me $0.00. My ROI is well over 3000000%.
Lesson: facebook ads work great for selling items at below cost.

I'm not sure ads were needed in the first place; an event and posting on the pages he talked about /a couple of forums may well have had a similar result.
I hate position fixed stuff. I scroll a page, then have to scroll back a few lines because what I want to read next, instead of appearing next, is hidden under a titlebar that I really don't care about.
The comments on their Facebook announcement page[1] are surprisingly positive. I think it's worth remembering that while Hotmail and SkyDrive might not have 'mindshare' in Silicon Valley or even across the US, there's a large population of new and global users who have not yet formed opinions on the matter and, more importantly, are willing to try Hotmail out, especially when it's presented in a fresh and modern way like this.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.101510045341137...
+1 on the send button placement. Also when I clicked on the emotiocons, I was expecting a popup to open right below the icon. But the emoticons panel opened up in the left sidebar, totally hiding the to list.

But, I do like the Metro UI, though. Clean!
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I've been using Outlook by choice, well, forever. I won't bother listing all the reasons for this. It's powerful and it works well. And, if you are a programmer, you can go to town writing your own customizations with VBA.

I use Yahoo Mail online for most of my personal stuff. Out of all the online email offerings out there I have found it to be the most "polished" (if I can use that term) and outlook-like. I tried Gmail a couple of years back and just didn't do it for me. As an example, the lack of a real time preview pane was a huge deal breaker for me. Both Outlook and Yahoo Mail have this. Maybe Gmail has this now, I don't know.

The other thing about Gmail that scared the crap out of me was to watch as one of our clients had their Gmail account evaporate because their AdSense account got shut down. They were new to the platform and made a couple of dumb and innocent mistakes off the line. Google bots summarily shut-down the account with no recourse or anyone to contact. As their account got suspended so went Gmail. I'll let you venture a guess as to whether or not these people are using any Google products now.

Here's a feature I wish email clients would implement: Tabbed accounts.

I run more than one company and regularly monitor a dozen email accounts. Outlook and Yahoo Mail allow you to setup rules to deliver email from specific accounts into designated folders. With Outlook you can also choose to store the email in separate files. That's all well and fine, but the whole thing has the risk of becoming cluttered and difficult to use after a while.

There's an Outlook hack that allows you to launch multiple Outlook instances. This works very well as I can launch one instance that opens the email addresses corresponding to one business and another instance with a separate business. Having multiple monitors makes this even handier.

What would be even better is if I could do the same thing with tabs. I want one tab per business --or a user-designated category. Each tab would receive and send email from one or many email addresses. They would all be independent while having relevant sharing capabilities (copy and past, drag and drop, etc.).

It's about context switching.

With something like that I could have a single email client handle all of my business email as well as personal within one application window. That would be slick.
Where there is an affiliate program there will be bots. Insofar as Facebook creates a way for developers to monetize their apps through a revenue share on ad revenue, developers will have an incentive to falsify app usage and ad clicks.
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/ChangeLog-0.3.14#Core_Developers

I think the versioning scheme is just not what you're accustomed to - not only are plenty of people actively involved, but releases happen every few months and major changes are present in every release. That's far from stagnated or even "slowest-moving," in my book.
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Outlook on the Mac is actually a very decent client, and I prefer it over the other options.
The argument OP makes is 'I made $10,000 in one day thanks to Facebook, thus Facebook is a superior platform' which is undeniably faulty.

1. The OP did not make $10,000 in one day.
2. We don't know how well this would have done on a non-Facebook platform.

My point is that this is like arguing that Facebook is a wonderful platform because Apple makes a lot of money and Apple uses Facebook to advertise. Apple would be making a lot of money without Facebook ads, too; if a company using Facebook ads generates $X revenue, that doesn't mean those Facebook ads were responsible for a specific amount of the revenue.

In short: congrats to the author! But this doesn't really prove anything.
> princeCharming ‏@oreo_homeboy: @sahaskatta you really want to type a password longer than 16 characters? what do you have in your e-mail? nuclear launch codes?

This tweet depresses me. Is there something wrong with wanting to make sure you're secure?
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still super messy.. switches to hotmail screens in some of the settings pages.
Getting involved in your local UX community can be a good way to find mentors and experts who can help you grow. Be a sponge, and try to understand how these people look at the world.

Looks like you're in Houston, so: http://www.uxhappyhour.com/hou
Finally, an alternative to GMail. The only problem is hundreds of different one-time use websites that are registered to that email and send a ton of "spammy" mails.
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"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters."

Well, it failed my test. Sorry. I never trust my emails to small hard to remember passwords. I rather trust them to very large easy to remember/type passwords. Like horses-functional-pickles

Also their capcha, I cannot figure out it, i won't spend more than 2 minutes on capcha
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But you have to agree this is a very specific case.

It's a real life product, at a very low price with a very specific niche.

If this was a rule and not an exception, every big company in the world would be using these ads. Another point is that it was an event ad, so it was there for a very small window of time, limiting the exposure to any kind of botting.

Funny how he tries to say people should use utm campaigns and not care about bots clicking your ads.
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I believe the FSF are interested in liberty rather than "true freedom" (at least in my understanding of the terms).

I believe Stallman originally wanted to call it "libre software" but there wasn't an equivalent word in english so instead he went with "free software" and thus the confusion was born.

The line in the sand the GPL draws is specifically for the purpose of preventing closed versions of open source software (which would be against the original authors wishes). There are of course more liberal licenses such as the MIT license which do allow you to do this.
We might be able to help, even if we don't currently support this environment. Feel free to get in touch at james@hiptype.com
We haven't instantly forgotten how Microsoft handles Skydrive, have we?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265086

I think I'll pass on putting my email through their systems. Although I have to admit this looks way better than GMail. I hope this inspires Google to do something about their interface design.
Code-wise: Delayed::Job https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job

Design-wise: Two queue worker processes independent of web server processes. Delayed::Job lets you assign tasks a priority and lets you assign queue workers to priority levels it is allowed to look at. By convention, priority 0 (highest) is interactive tasks in my applications (a user is at their keyboard waiting for an answer) and priority 10 (least priority) is, well, Mixpanel. Not because I don't love them, just because if Mixpanel blocks for an entire month my rent still gets paid and that isn't true of any other priority level.

Queue worker A only works on priorities 0 through 9. Queue worker B works on 0 through 10. This ensures that even if Mixpanel (or Kissmetrics, also on 10) perpetually times out the higher-priority levels will never be totally blocked.

Delayed::Job worker processes are monitored by god, which resets them if they fail, become bloated, etc. They're also separately monitored by Scout monitoring's DJ plugin, which fires a yellow alert if a job is ever older than an hour (shouldn't happen but can in event of e.g. an API outage) or a red alert if there's ever more than X jobs in the queue (high probability that this represents a crash god can't recover from).

Because even that setup was letting through about one outage every six months to a year, I have one other ace-in-the-hole: my ajax polling actions which check whether particular jobs are complete will, if they fail Y times in a row, a) instantiate a queue worker within the web server process (this degrades request processing but can't totally break the site) and b) fire off an independent-from-everything-else phone call to my cell phone saying "Your first, second, and third line of defense have failed. Get ye to an SSH terminal."
Few posts are bashing Outlook in general but I will take it anyday over the biggest piece of shit we have at work: Lotus Notes. It is one of my biggest pain points at work.
$125 million is a lot of money, but I wonder if this is the number Box wanted.

If Box is to compete with DropBox, surely they need a larger war chest, no?
We have a Roland HP307, which is already a few years old. It's fantastic - every aspect is customizable, and the modelling is spot on - you can press notes down silently and the strings will resonate when you play other notes.
Manufacturers might be satisfying that requirement by providing an unlocked boot image for users to flash themselves.
I'd attribute it to the software. iOS and Android are clearly meant to coexist with and not supplant a more traditional OS. To me, the dangerous precedent is that this new ARM computer comes loaded with "Windows", a label which connotes a more traditional OS, yet it can only run apps from MS's app store and cannot be booted into Linux. Yes, this is a slippery slope argument given that MS also provides the x86 version which can do all of those things, but I think the distinction will be lost on the general public.
Ok, for an embedded controller project without much in the way of I/O (just GPIO), you can get a cheaper unit, it seems. If you want the ethernet and the USB and mass storage (SD Card), and an actual O/S (Linux), it seems as if Rπ still has it beat, but this is a very good resource, thank you.
It will definitely drive up traffic, but I don't think that the story is anywhere near convincing enough to undo the damage that has occurred after the clickfraud claims.

Would be interested to know how many people from HN would sign up based on this post.
Howard does sound like he is complaining, not sure why. I had heard him talk at event where he did say they built their own platform independent of Twitter.
Doesn't it seem like a bad sign to say: "Here is where you should learn about UI - just ignore the bad UI." For all I know there is lots of good content there, but I'm immediately turned off of learning about UI from someone who can't even be bothered to make it easy to parse his frontpage.
lg is much more than just a data inspector, it's a full-blown REPL. The fact that you can jump in and interactively eval code directly in the running process is huge and opens things up to a whole new level of hackability.
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> so what is the calculated ROI, 2000%? 3000%? You do the math.

over 9000%
> "I'd say the value of upright pianos is actually negative."

We just got rid of my parents' old upright piano, which had been abused by all of us kids for decades, but was still almost perfectly in tune.

It was definitely negative value. It was heavy and taking up valuable space. It cost almost $200 to get piano movers to take it to salvage / the dump. So if someone had taken it for free, we would have been ecstatic.

(Also, our Technics SX-PX552 does the job just fine.)
Pretty sweet job considering it's advertising an e-mail app, although I was somewhat disappointed by the absence of unicorns.
I like the new integration with the social networks, and the UI theme. However, I think the UI could benefit from more spacing between items, as it feels very cluttered.
Ok, the "Hip{something}" naming madness has to stop.
> But, I guess, there is no way around it

There's a ton of ways you can specify your own CSS for a website, depending on what browser you're using.
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An example would be Windows Media Player. Every single update I've ever done to that program has required a restart. I can't fathom why that would be required.
I just signed up and the first thing I see is a bar of bing ads selling me $500 TVs or something. On my gmail (I just checked) I don't even see an ad (does web clip count?). You'd think a billion dollar tech company can afford not to force product on me.

The second thing I see is, wow, this looks really nice.

But, that was the second thing, first I felt like I was at Best Buy. I don't have a TV and I don't even want a TV, go away!
The OP did not make $10,000 in one day.

Now you're almost willfully missing the point.
Did you miss that it is still a preview?
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I'm pretty sure that it's because the username is already taken and the error message isn't showing up correctly on the page. They had me excited when I thought I could get my first initial and last name (both common names) as an email address.
It's true, this was a liquidation sale, but most of the records came from a batch of 8000 records that I bought for $2000.

I was being a bit flippant with the ROI percentage, sorry about that - just trying to stress how easy the process was - I really was blown away when I kept asking people how they found out about the event, and they said they saw an ad for it on Facebook.

One thing to keep in mind, as far as calculating ROI, is that if I were to continue to run the business, these are all new customers that I could continue to sell to, so the return on investment isn't purely a one-time thing - the LTV of each customer is way more than they spend in one day.
The problem is likely that OP was using Chrome, which has pretty poor anti-aliasing on Windows, iirc. Text rendering in Windows, in general, is fine.
this is just a shameless plug for his company
How much does it weigh, compared to a standard upright piano?
I see at least two ads on my gmail homepage at all times. One line above the inbox, one below.

When I'm in an email, there will be one to several contextual ads (sometimes hilariously mistargeted) on the right.

Do you not see these?
This is a good question. None of this data is available from the book itself.
We've invested a lot of effort into our analytics backend, and our ability to derive demographics info from a very small amount of uniquely identifying information on the eReader or multi-purpose device.

There are a few reasons why we're not explaining how we get all of the demographics and insights data shown on our dashboard, but we can vouch 100% for its accuracy, and it's all data that is publicly available.
Google Calendar is completely integrated with Google Mail in every way outlook is.

I didn't realize this myself, either, until I started working at an employer that uses the Google Apps stack for all things corporate.
outlook.com's DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Why should they? It is good that they are embracing youtube rather than try to start promoting something of their own.
But it's a cost/benefit problem, no? People say this bearing in mind free speech. Sure, free speech makes it ok to say lots of terrible things, but the boon to human rights outweighs by far the evil made possible. People assume that this logic extends to technologies that facilitate free speech. Care to argue that it does not?
It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.
The first couple of times I tried the error message wasn't even being shown, but when I changed the username it worked.
I agree 'send' could be better placed but the subject line is pretty obvious and placed where I would expect it. The 'to' field seems badly placed to me.
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The integration with other services like Facebook, Twitter, I believe?
This is a great application -
So I need to give my phone number to send an email or solve a captcha ?

I go for the captcha. 20 tries, no luck. Let's try audio. Impossible.

[EDIT]
And now, a really funny one I just got :

We've noticed some unusual activity in your Outlook account. To help protect you and
everyone else, we've temporarily blocked your account.
To unblock it, please {0}.

Well, alright, I'll {0}.

http://i.imgur.com/auM4J.png
Several times? $35USD list price, and approximately $49USD delivered (tax/shipping).

I could do my project with dd-wrt/openwrt, but I'd be storage-limited. A day's worth of data is in the hundreds of megabytes range, uncompressed.

Your WR-703N plus a daughterboard would make an OK basis for a NAS.
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position:fixed is to make it more app like. Outlook on the desktop (and pretty much every other desktop app) works the same way, if you scroll down your inbox the menu bar doesn't go away.
Responding to #each is neither a necessary or sufficient property of Ruby IO objects. You are mistaken and confused.

Don't believe me? Let's undefine #each on the metaclass of an IO object and see what happens. Guess what: it still works!

https://gist.github.com/3218710
Just an idea - but when your event collectors start to become unresponsive, why not redirect your load balancer to a SnowPlow-style "no moving parts" collector, e.g. CloudFront + S3? You would have to merge the S3 log data into your main data store after the outage was over, but at least there would be no data loss (at least, not for events logged by GETs - POSTs are not supported by CloudFront), and webpages wouldn't be hanging.

The SnowPlow architecture diagram is here: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Technical-architec...
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That's because gmail ads typically are not on the mainpage, but they are there when you read individual emails (in the side bar).
I'm curious - what other ad platform could I have turned to drive local commerce? Always interested to hear how other folks would approach the same problem.

I still have some records left over, thinking about doing another sale, would be game to test another means of customer acquisition and report back with results.
That did happen initially but then it only complained about the captcha
No, I don't see any! I just checked my gmail, and two apps accounts. Add a screenshot? I would, but there's nothing to see here!