skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the real value is that for a very fair price I no longer have to be concerned with the ins and outs of sending email. Once you start sending tens of thousands of emails you run into problems. People don't receive the emails. They get blocked. Users accidentally mark them as spam. And so on and so on.

I don't want to focus on figuring out email - I just want to send them and have them get to the users that want them.

I use MailGun for email for the same reason that I use FreshBooks for invoicing my clients — because I want to spend my time building my business rather than focusing on solving a problem that someone else has already done a great job of solving.
Same here; Safari 6 and Chrome 21 on OS X 10.8.1....
There's also SRWare Iron, which is Chrome stripped of all Google "spyware."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
If it wasn't for marketing, your friends would not have likely heard of them in order to recommend them to you. Marketing is more than just MTV and radio. That viral YouTube link you sent out was most likely started by someone in the music industry. That indie band? You know of them because someone marketed them.
Unfortunately I'm still sticking with Chrome. I love Firefox but Chrome loads "instantly" while Firefox: even 15 still has a noticeable lag when you launch it.

Firefox has always felt very unresponsive in terms of the UI and loading times. The only browser I've found less responsive is Safari (IE, is very responsive).

Memory consumption was an issue at one stage in Firefox's history but they mostly fixed that (from 1 GB/usage down to like 200 MB~ after a day of browsing).
Sopcast is usable for live sports.
It has gotten better each time. Now the only things I have that leak are a few choice plugins, which I leave disabled unless I need them specifically.
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I remember that day. A quiet sunny morning in September of 1993...
What are you, project manager for HBO GO?

Just because it doesn't do what you want doesn't make it broken.

Promising functionality with an Airplay button and delivering partially is the failure. If you can't see that then I pray you never write specs.
> Yes, because downloading torrents + network share is just the same as streaming + airplay.

No, it's much better. It's free and completely automatic. Set up an RSS feed for your favorite shows and tell XBMC to monitor the download directories. It's a truly breathtaking experience.

> This guy already has a cable set top box plus an Apple TV that can stream from HBO and network sharing.

Compared to a full-blown HTPC, an Apple TV (or any other device without a full OS) is very limited in its functionality.

> you can't mirror/stream from your mobile to your HTPC.

Oh really? This article would beg to disagree: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-mirror-your-ios-or-android-...
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Well, the fix is to have a simpler API that allows less rope for developers to hang themselves. This is how Chrome manages it. Firefox was built with this vision of XUL-based apps, big modifications, etc which never panned out. A lot of what needs to get done by extensions really can be done via simplified API like Chrome's.
For those wondering what SP-GiST is: it allows the creation of new kinds of specialized non-btree indexes. 9.2 comes with spgist suffix trees over text and spgist quad trees over points.
"Sometimes I liked to learn things, but on other days it just had to work, without fiddling too much."

Desktop: CentOS 6, laptop: Ubuntu whatever. I've used Debian Stable on the desktop previously. Good people are finding things that work for them.
I just finished my first integration with MailGun (moving over from PostMark because MailGun has a better feature set imo) ... could not have been easier.

They have webhooks built in that can call your application when mail is delivered, bounced, opened, clicked, etc. That's huge for me. I allow my clients to send out emails to their users — now I can use that information to show my clients who has opened which emails ... I can also alert users if their email has become blocked or had a bounced email.

They give you a ton of functionality out of the box that would take a lot of time and effort to recreate on your own.
As I mention quite often here on HN, I'm an information security professional. I'm not talking out of my ass, I'm talking from direct, first-hand experience. No one is saying you should buy a new computer, you can upgrade an OS on the same hardware. Use Windows 7, use Ubuntu, use Unix if you want to. Just please don't use Windows XP.

For my own sanity, I'm just going to assume you're 13 years old.
Question for all you patent lawyers:

When was this patent filed? Was it filed Jan 24, 2012 and the international patent filed Feb 22, 2001? If so, why does the "Publication Classification" section show a date of (2006.01)?

If this patent was filed in 2006 (which is unlikely but I can't tell), then these might not count as prior art.
Broadband Tax in the Works.
Federal Communications Commission officials are considering a proposed tax to be levied to all broadband internet connections nationwide. The tax would work the same as the Universal Service Fund, a government-imposed fee that appears on all phone bills to ensure ubiquitous access to telephone service.
indeed, it might very well be me, although I've seen enough other stuff to make me think I'm not the worst.

One of my fave WTFs was seeing a user profile table with 180 columns in it, one for each country - "is_us", "is_uk", "is_france", etc - with a y or n (or null) in each, and 180 hand-done queries in the login page to figure out what countries you lived in. I've never even come close to writing something that bad, but mostly because I'm lazy. Had that code even been in a loop, I'd have been less harsh on it.
Small online business owner here, chiming in.

I believe the overuse of the word startup comes from a certain kind of pretentiousness, a want to associate one's own small-business, small-market, technically trivial, mom-and-pop online business with world leaders like Facebook and Google. Making the linguistic link is good for the founder's ego, and even better for convincing naïve investors to fund barely viable visions.

If you're one of the many non-technical teams who cannot build products yourselves and have an idea with dubious money-making prospects then you can have a great adventure on half a million euro of dumb money, and believe me many founders in Berlin are.

I've lived in Berlin since January and during that time I witnessed a rising hipster startup culture. Unskilled and unexperienced college graduates with big egos raise dumb money, hire programmers to build code they don't understand, then spend their days 'networking' at trendy hotels in down-town, throwing minimal techno parties and going on trips across Europe for 'business and pleasure'. It's a great lifestyle, and I've nothing against people enjoying themselves - it's certainly my priority now. But I find this sort of carry on repugnant when an investor's money is at stake.

Viaweb was founded by PHD students at MIT, one who invented the worm and the other who wrote timeless Common Lisp textbooks. The modern waterfall of self-professed 'startups' are run by guys and girls who watched 'How to Build a Blog in 15 minutes using Rails' then decided they were the next Steve Jobs. Let's get realistic here - building a web app or an Iphone app these days is no more high-tech than a mechanic fixing your broken car.

Drop the ego, drop the pretense - the majority of business now labelled as startups are small online businesses and there's nothing wrong with that.
Did you read the patent? This one only applies to web applications and many of its claims are Javascript specific (which is pretty narrow for a patent, but that's how it was written).

Erlang is great, but depending on which claims are accepted, it probably can't count as prior art here.

There's also some secret sauce in here about hot patching JS objects and annotating JS objects with information about which source files they came from.

(IANAL)
Excited to see the native JSON datatype. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9...
Schizophrenics can become aware of some symptoms:
ref: http://www.quora.com/Schizophrenia/What-does-it-feel-like-to...
Yeah not working on Chrome on Linux for me. Gets to "preparing" and then stops doing anything.
> Downloading is when an internet user obtains a digital music file from the internet in filesharing this source is another internet user known as an uploader. Unless this act of downloading is done with the permission of the record label (for example, from a licensed service like iTunes), it is unauthorised copying and is illegal.

Looks like their position is pretty clear to me - even if it's not worth actually prosecuting.
You know, at the cost of $2,500 per year, (although I can't actually find where to purchase the software) you'd probably be better to just YouTube some kid's backtrack tutorial.
You're right, Detroit hasn't avoided bankruptcy yet. Like you said, though, bankruptcy is drastic and has consequences. It could be possible to rebuild without suffering that blow and without a bailout.
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You are not following my initial lament. I mentioned Walmart. Does it give you any clue? The people who buy Microsoft's "upgrades" does not have the word Lynx in their consciousness to begin with.

People here bring out strawman at every opportunity (or they feel gratified clicking a downvote arrow - big deal!).

I have nothing against Firefox and I use it daily. But people on the Internet are better off adopting the diversity of browsers and the one which is providing more innovative and evolutionary services, should be adopted. The ones which are status-quo (Chrome is really a bazaar of products being sold) and the ones trying to maintain their race (Firefox: we-want-to-be-the-only-nice-guys), should get enough pressures to compete. But obviously I can only speak for myself.
How do I raise prices?
I thought I'm getting a new way of doing inverse FFT
Mozilla "soft" releases new versions of Firefox over a couple days to manual updaters, then a few million auto updaters, and finally all auto updaters. This allows them to watch for any major issues ("chemspills") that were not found during beta. The general public often reveals different bugs than self-selected early adopters using the beta versions.

For now, you can manually update from the About Firefox dialog.
How is the dev life over at QL? They keep calling and trying to get me to come in for an interview, but I haven't had the time to really consider it having just gotten in at ciber in Southfield a few months back.
I run a pitch-creation service (pitchremix.com) and have definitely noticed this. Many founders don't know how to communicate what their startup does in clear, concise language. They may be building a super-complex world-changing technology, but no one knows (or cares) because it's hidden behind a wall of stream-of-consciousness gibberish. A little structure goes a long way.
I can agree with that opinion, but I also see the value in "appealing" to science.

People will believe all kinds of stupid things if you can imply that science has made truth of them. For the purposes of getting someone started this is a rather innocuous lie.
thanks. I'll check it out
IT IS AMERICA THAT IS THE POLICE STATE. BIG BROTHER.

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/28/how-police-can-obtain-your-...

http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/27/u-s-government-domestic-survei...
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I used to live in Eastern Market in Downtown and could get fresh food there all the time.

Edit: You can buy fresh everything in Eastern Market every day of the week, not just during the market on Sundays.
You need 501 or more karma:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529
There's some jabber in here about being filed as an international patent, or having a separate international filing, or something like that. Could someone with a patent background clarify this?
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I like the explanation from the release notes: "SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports unbalanced partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees. For suitable problems, SP-GiST can be faster than GiST in both index build time and search time."

Basically operations in SP-GiST are generally faster than in GiST, but due to SP-GiST not being balanced it does not fit all problems.

I would guess SP-GiST is really good at geodata like in PostGIS, since coordinates are relatively evenly distributed in space.
Glad to see you guys take part in GSVC. Really miss this competition, and the social enterprise community at UC Berkeley. Being a non-profit I bet it was pretty tough to survive with competitors who focus on for profit or non/for profit hybrids that scale.
After many trials and tribulations (Apple TV + Airplay, Roku 2, PS3) the ONLY decent (read working) option was XBox 360 + XBox Live Gold + Comcast XFinity* + HBO Go App.

It does feel like I lost my soul signing packs with so many devils, but at long last, I have an HD HBO Go app running the way it ought to.

* Not all cable companies have a deal with HBO for HBO Go
I've been tempted to do just that: Convert all my Amazon kindle books into MOBI and get out of the "walled garden" as you put it. There was one thing stopping me though. I have an inherent need to support authors as much as I can since I not only wanted to be a writer when I was a kid, but I actually ended up writing a few short stories and a couple of novels. All unpublished off course since they where not mature (as in experience and style) enough. I fear that if I get out of the walled garden I'll end up buying a lot less books (and supporting authors less and less) because of how easy it is to get books online, and I don't necessarily mean pirating FYI.

So yeah, I installed Calibre and was amazed by the flexibility it gave me... and I uninstalled it an hour later because I realized that I couldn't support authors if it was that easy not to do so.

In any case this is great information, thanks for the walkthrough. maybe one day I'll go ahead with it and get out of Amazons lawn (get it get it? garden && lawn?)
I'd be keen to hear the difference from someone who has used both in anger. I'm with VWO (because it gets mentioned around here so much - so I went there first) and it's awesome but it's always good to keep your options open.
First, thanks for violating the first rule of Usenet.

Second - I have to take issue with one sentence, "you’re at risk of being sued for a lot of money and maybe even loosing your home internet connection. "

Sure, you're at risk, but far less risk than other methods of violating copyright. Nearly every Usenet provider offers encrypted traffic. Most by default, and many as the only option. Which means that your ISP has no freaking idea what you're downloading.

Many providers also allow payment in bitcoins, or go out of their way to accept other anonymous methods of payment.

And finally, unless you're uploading to Usenet (wich most people aren't) you're participating in a much less volatile and essentially never prosecuted form of copyright violation.

Usenet can be a pain to setup, but once you're up and running with the tools the author listed, you'll be using far-and-away the easiest most user-friendly method of obtaining movies and TV available.
I came here to express my fear of mail gun being not as much awesome anymore. I think it's a legit feeling.

That doesn't mean Rackspace is going to join the club of companies killing great startups but the last few times I saw acquisitions, things were not very sweet.

Hope mailgun will do even better under Racksapce. I wish them all the best.
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> To his chagrin, it took CloudCracker just 89 minutes to crack the 10-character, all-numerical password he used...

> Remarkably, neither CloudCracker nor 12 hours of heavy-duty crunching by Hashcat were able to crack the passphrase. The secret: a lower-case letter, followed two numbers, followed by five more lower-case letters

So an all-number password was easily cracked with this method, but a shorter password with letters was untouchable?

Edit: I get that 10^10 is less than 36^8. I was more wondering how the cracker assumes, without knowing already if it's all-numeric or not, that it should try longer numerics before shorter alphanumerics and when it decides to give up on the numbers. I guess it's just known to be more likely for a good number of characters.
This inspires me to try to write on a notepad while spinning in my office chair. I think I can achieve one rotation per second. :) Maybe not a good idea after lunch though.
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Google does have a campus close to Detroit (Ann Arbor). This is practically on campus for University of Michigan, which is where they do the scanning for Google Books. They employ ~300 people there right now.

http://www.google.com/about/locations/ann-arbor/

There is also a campus they call Google Detroit (it's actually in the suburb of Birmingham). I'm not sure what they do there.

http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/detroit/
Have any other investors posted similarly concrete perspectives/guidelines? I've seen some fluffy PR ones on VC sites, but never anything this clear or honest.

Does anyone have links to good ones? Will any additional angels write up their own?

Thanks for this, Gabriel. Very interesting/helpful.
I just tried the the old spin the office chair, with a buddy counting roughly 1 revolution per second. I was holding my laptop and trying to surf.

I feel sick now.
Surprising considering that the latter has less than 2 bits more entropy.
This is probably a good time to ask about how people handle transactional email generally.

I had a play with Mailgun a while back (and others, Mailgun felt nicest to me) but there was a feature that seemed to be missing from them all.

How do you handle rules between outgoing emails?

For example, say there's an email that gets sent out on a user action, but you only want to send it out once a day. It feels to me like I should be able to set rules within Mailgun to say, only send out this email every x minutes, or, don't allow it to go out if another type of email has gone out before etc.

Is there a way of dealing with that? At the moment we have to put all those rules into our app, and it seems like something the app shouldn't have to deal with.
>2. A referral does not necessarily = spam. We love to hear about cool stuff, especially when it was developed by one of us.

Well said. I've been keeping an eye on Liberwriter for a long time, and I eventually plan to use it.
This is the case, this particular news has been reported and HN frontpaged when it came in Aurora and when it came in Beta, iirc.
Well, I don't disagree. With every passage of time, things expire and new things evolve. But you can already imagine that by the time people like myself get to using the Windows 7, the Microsoft, along with the whole cabal of browser makers and websites, would want me to upgrade to Windows 13, and by then, there will be security professionals not talking from their ass trying to convince that Windows 7 is a security nightmare.
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What's the gain of using one file format over another if it's the structured output of your program?

You just need to use the program if you can't save the file as UTF-8; everyone else doesn't need to.

Also, even if it was mandatory to use a tool, it's still way better to use a simpler, easy to parse format than the bloated mess that is XML.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/

And you'll still have issues, because users will be creating text files on their home computers, and who knows what their home computer's encoding is set to? It's not guaranteed to be Unicode. You'll either wind up bloating your spider by guessing encodings, or you'll have made the format more strict.

It should be strict. Supporting multiple encodings is a bad solution in any case.

If I wait long enough, my point makes itself.

I'm not sure I follow you. Even if this format always required a tool - which it doesn't, only if you can't choose "UTF-8" when saving in your text editor - how would that make XML a better choice?

You don't have to love XML to be able to admit that it sometimes is the right solution.

There may be cases where XML is the right solution. I don't believe this is one. Even if this format is not right either, there are still less bad solutions.

By not using it, you're admitting you'll deal with all these problems yourself instead.

Which is often a trade worth being made.

It may be that you can handle them with less effort than using the solution XML provides, but you'll be making everyone else go to that same effort as well, which isn't the case with XML.

What effort does this solution impose that XML doesn't?

At the end of the day, this is the fifth proposal to solve this problem and it's obviously the worst of the lot. The real world will go on using microformats, RDF and Google's AI.

Certainly, no disagreements there! I'm a fan of both microformats, since they have the big advantage of not duplicating effort and data, and of RDF - I publish mine as Turtle[1], which by the way happens to not support multiple encodings either, it's all UTF-8, thankfully.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)
We been called many names but never a police state.His cry is all about providing id. One 9/11 and the government started stripping people and entering your bed rooms.In India, the average ratio of a police to citizens is around 1:200. This is from major cities. When you go rural, the ratio will shrink further. Considering the number of terrorist attacks we have and population density, ids are the bare minimum preventive measure we have.For Indians, the accepted id can be any one of voter id, driving license, atm card with photo, ration card, passport and college id. Even my son's play school id was accepted in air port. We usually keep photo copies of one of the above.

I am surprised to see crap like this got many points. What's next? something related to Jersey shore?
I think a public stock market is a hard game to "good" at - far more luck based than other things. I mean it's a pretty efficient market with really high incentives to get information, and hence pricing, reflected in your positions.

Whereas - a person opening a construction company just has to beat all the super-flakey contractors that already exist and of course sell like hell. This is far less luck than the stock market is.
Truly entertaining bashfest. I am already looking forward to all the copy-cat blog posts trying to ride on that wave.
great stuff. i think as a standalone app, its is very well done. but as you say, the potential is so much greater and they have punted on almost all of that.
As a programmer you're going to have a hard time convincing me that it's not.
Yes. The event is called `release`: see phoenixfs_release() in fuse.c:374.
aha. thanks for that explanation. makes total sense to me now. but they really shouldn't include the button if they haven't fully implemented the feature