skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I've got a little personal mantra of my own that goes "Don't worry about the big problems, they're just lots of little problems to be done later"
Disconnect blocks stuff, too. But if you unblock something (e.g., to see comments on TechCrunch), you shouldn't have to be exposed to session hijacking. That's why we added this feature.
That's the interesting thing about a post like this; it starts to form an argument about a principle like "no dynamic native code generation in the kernel", which clearly isn't an accepted principle today.

I'm not sure what I think about that principle, because native code generation is exotic today, but probably won't be 10 years from now.

But either way: your statement is exactly the point the post is trying to make. It's not "Linux is insecure", or "SMEP is worthless". It's "how does native code generation interact with the roadmap of security features OS developers and hardware manufacturers are planning"? Also, of course, it's "JIT spraying is cool and fun to implement, and here's a new place to try it."
My point related to the title of the HN item, which is "Intel CEO Paul Otellini retiring in May after 40 years with company". This is different to the title of the original article, which doesn't mention the duration.
This is actually my biggest concern, so no offense taken:

Despite Google's privacy policy and ad behaviour (yadda yadda), they ARE still a trustworthy company, regarding uptime , backups and everything technical. Though I remember them losing quite a few accounts about a year back. But still, your point is very valid. Why would anyone trust a small company (or even single hacker) to maintain your precious emails.
To me, this looks like a reskinned Gmail. If it were that, then yes I would use it as it's an improvement over the current layout, albeit marginal. However, there are no ads which Gmail needs and imagine if Gmail didn't need adds they would use their real estate more wisely as in your design.

I use Chrome, which allows you to add styles to custom.css to override the look of any website. As such I'm able to add my own styles to customize the look of Gmail to look cleaner, hide ads and customize like in your mockup. If you package the new look as a Browser Plugin to restyle Gmail, then yes I would use it, but now I would not pay for it.

If you are attempting to recreate gmail itself, then also no I would never use it. Because once again this only offers an improvement in design. Gmail is great compared because of Google. Aka, best spam prevention, far better than Apple, Yahoo and Outlook and scaleability and up-time. There is simply no way you can compete with the resources Google has. Which is why even Apple who has incredible resources and Money and amazing design sense still can't compete with Gmail's infrastructure and servers.

There is a market for retheming however, whether in the web interface or through Apps such as with Sparrow.

So in reality stick with theming Gmail and be aware that Gmail can change their look at any time and that you won't get any direct money out of it but will get your name out there. Good luck.
Is market leader defined in terms of quality/features? Or number of users?
when i looked for a replacement for gmail, http://www.runbox.com seemed best, but that was a couple of years ago (instead i use procmail, mutt and mairix, but i imagine that's not for everyone...)

huh. has hn always inlined links? maybe i have never added the http: prefix before...?
The problem is many of them take it as a personal attack, as evident by the comments here, and they can't even see how that is the problem.

I'm really proud of some of the comments like yours, danilocampos', and msbarnett's. It's just a shame you're being met with the same crap most of these conversations have in the programming community.
Actually, you're not paying for e-mail. Every common OS nowadays is equipped to be able to send mail, so paying someone else for that would indeed be not-so-great.

You are paying for the interface. He wrote software and probably devoted many hours, and that's what you are using. I can imagine you still say it's not worth paying for, especially since there are even entire operating systems that are free (of cost), but I think it's reasonable to ask. If it works better than Gmail, I can see why many would pay and switch. You may not, that's your decision of course :)
My understanding is that one of the key advantages that Ariane has over it's rivals is it's launch site near the equator (http://www.arianespace.com/spaceport-intro/overview.asp). Is this saving negated by other factors, when compared to SpaceX?
No, still a misconception. You're not running Android, you're running a version of Android adulterated by Samsung. The latest release of stock Android has unified search built in.
Responsive Menu Concepts
I don't disagree. Christmas occupies a peculiar place in British culture because it is part religious festival, part cultural tradition.

Rather like the monarchy, people tend to go along with it, despite the fact it's an anachronistic and unjust system, because it gives people a warm fuzzy feeling.

I think that's part of the reason so much vitriol is aimed at "politically correct" attitudes towards Christmas. It angers both religious and non-religious people because they see it, more than anything else, as an attack on a national pastime.
"If you're not paying for it, you're the product" - yep.
Here is a link:http://lifescivc.com/2011/05/structuring-a-biotech-liquidity...

Go down the page to "Standalone LLC model". Basically the LLC is used to "pass through" revenue from licensing deals and such to the LPs.
Gmail may be a leader in the US, but Hotmail does have a much larger market penetration in Asian countries. And in the UK, form what I recall.
Making a mockup (preview screens) helps to put all your thoughts together. Your future developer will appreciate that. Paper&pencil is good, mockups by Balsamiq/mockupbird/etc allows to add some interaction.

Mockups will allow you to realise what exactly has to happen between the screens. Maybe you'll want more functionality after that, maybe you'll see that parts of it are not necessary.

I saw a webapp targeted for mobile apps content delivery on HN some time ago. Google should find it. It may be faster/cheaper to build a custom solution for simple delivery. But extending it may cost a lot and reusing out-of-box solution may be cheaper in the long run. I'm not familiar with NewsStand API so I can't comment more in this front.
I read Oliver Sachs Musicophilia:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Oliver-Sack...

In it he points out how some people with Alzheimers or other degenerative brain damage can use familiar music to co-ordinate a sort of 'flow' a rhythm of activity.

When I am coding it is like this. I can put on a familiar record that know back to front and then suddenly it is over and I haven't heard any of it but it has marshalled my flow for me.

Put on an unfamiliar playlist or a 'radio' style thing from last.fm (or the radio even) where I don't know what is going to be played next) and it trashes my flow.

So to get stuff out of Spotify I have to make and learn playlists (as it trashes the order of all the LP's which I have burnt into my head from years of listening to them on vinyl....)
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Can anybody please post the languages that are accepted? From what I have seen in some examples its only c++ ?
For simple lexing/parsing it likely is overkill, that said for more complex things it can be nice. I have a lexer for Erlang written with Boost.Spirit on my Github. I found debugging no worse than the general Chutulu-horror that are C++ template errors, something you get used to, looking at the root of the spew is generally your best bet. Also they have built in debug nodes you can trivially add to your grammar that will spew every step of the lexing/parsing process so you can easily see where things are going off the rails if your grammar is wrong. Compile times are definitely increased in my experience, don't recall the binary bloat though it has been awhile since I played around with it, a good compiler should be able to fairly aggressively trim it down. Will it be as optimal as a hand written system (assuming you know what you are doing)? Unlikely, but it will be much quicker to get up and running if you know Boost.Spirit.
Mark, David, respect for you both.

Mark, the method David says, purely bootstrapped, keep your day job until its profitable, no outside investors even family.... is the safer road and avoids many of the pitfalls you outline. Of course, you still have to worry about the market changing, losing a client, your cost structure vs your competitors, and the like. All the things that your current boss worries about, you get to inherit.

But also the VC, angel, or other investor method gives you cash up front to put off some worries on day 1, but as Mark says, when you hire someone, you have to look them in the face knowing you only have 6 months cash in the bank.

With the bootstrap method, you only have 1 week cash in the bank.

Both can be stressful. I guess having other people depending on you besides yourself is less stressful in some ways, but also less (0) chance of a home run exit.
IIRC, parts of the shuttle were manufactured in about 400 different electoral districts of the USA. It's extremely unlikely all the best prices were that evenly distributed.
I have tinnitus and needs background noise - but to be non interuptive it has to be background - a coffee bar, or the telly on low - what it can't require is any processing like music or something that is designed to be 'listened to'.
From a practical perspective, I'd say the open formats have, at least, improved the situation. I don't have much experience with the word processing document formats, but every tool I've used that worked with the old Excel BIFF8 format failed hard. BIFF8 was never officially released as a standard, so everyone's work was the result of reverse engineering. The results were really bad.

We recently started the transition from the old Spreadsheet (Ruby) gem, which targeted BIFF8 format, to the Axlsx gem, which targets OOXML format. The results are so, so much better. Spreadsheets generated with the old Spreadsheet gem work presentationally, but features of Excel are broken when you open the resulting documents. We also ran in to issues when generating very large documents with lots of formatting. All of these problems are gone with Axlsx.
Spectragram, jQuery plugin to access the Instagram API
I like your idea as it would eliminate a few of my "bottlenecks". I will check out if a chrome plugin might just do that, OR even see how http://www.streak.com/ accomplished their goals. Haven't looked into that, yet.
I hate to hijack the comments with a response that doesn't address the OPs question at all, but I felt like that wasn't necessarily a fair comparison.

ASP.NET Webforms? Yes, huge mistake you'll regret

ASP.NET MVC? Fantastic choice, you will not regret it so long as you're a microsoft based shop

You can't make a blanket statement like that about ASP.NET, since it's effectively a bifurcated ecosystem at this point (and we're all hoping the WebForms fork dies a quick death).
> "but, why the hell didn't Microsoft make use of .NET for cross-platform compatibility?"

But they did. .NET is the platform of choice when it comes to Win8/ARM development. Any standards-compliant .NET code (more on this later) will with very little work build on ARM.

> "Have developers write applications in C# or any other language supported by the CLR and let .NET work out the x86/ARM differences."

This is exactly what's happening, though with a few caveats.

Note that all of this is from about a week of playing with the Win8/Windows Store SDK, so it may not be entirely accurate or complete.

The main problem with developing for the Windows Store (and, consequently, Windows RT) is that it badly fragments .NET. Very basic classes (like System.Collections.Hashtable) are not available for inexplicable reasons, even though they are in full-fledged .NET.

So sure, theoretically if you wrote your app in C# it will still build - unless you were calling parts of the API that are for some unknown reason unavailable in WinRT. Lots of the API has disappeared, and many, many parts of the System namespace have been replaced with equivalent-but-not-quite classes in the Windows namespace. All of this is very confusing and creates a huge fragmentation problem that will make even the most hardcore Android developer blush.

So yeah, conceptually MS is right there with you, but execution-wise that remains to be seen.
https://www.hackerrank.com/environment lists all of the languages.
We support a variety of languages (https://www.hackerrank.com/environment) Can you tell me which examples you're talking about?
left one is login in by google
right one is login in by tencent(aka china facebook)
How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
Node.js: Returning 500s w/ Asynchronous try/catch
I just want to say that things like this have instantly added to the respect I have for Mailgun as a company. I know that's unrelated to the OP, and I may get down voted for this, but I feel as though for as much as a complain about an absence of good customer service - I would be remiss not to acknowledge it when I see it.

Thank you.
The dropdown has C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Haskell, Clojure and Scala
> I don't think we should continue to talk like our (western) way of thinking is the 'right' way, and everyone else is 'wrong'.

Yes, there are arguments in the Western canon, but when Milton argues for freedom of expression in the Areopagitica, or Mill in On Liberty, they don't argue that you should support free speech because you're a Westerner. They don't make any special appeals to anyone's cultural situation. They make arguments that have universal application.

When you employ reasoning to advocate a principle, it does not become a territorial principle. It becomes applicable pending counterargument from anyone.

The argument that reasoning itself is a uniquely Western idea quickly becomes self-defeating. Anyone asserting anything has volunteered to follow certain logical rules of coherency, which have been derived in the West through observation, not proscription.

Demanding that others be silent, while you alone can speak, tends towards absurdity regardless of the continent upon which you happen to stand.
I made a mockup for a certain news website on which users submit links and 'upvote' the others' submissions that they like [1]. I wonder if there would be any way to base64 encode the mockup data so that it could be passed in a 'Share' URL instead of with the JavaScript hack I'm using. I would think it'd be too long (my JSON data is 2235 characters), but since the hash is client-side I don't think it matters. Hashify is doing something similar.[1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/4111659

[1] http://hashify.me/
It is a nice attempt, but I wouldn't pay for it. Used to gmail :p
Patching Pidgin: itch-scratching with Pidgin's D-Bus API
Indeed. I find that these studies really assess learnability more than usability. Of course, learnability is one aspect of usability, but I'm more interested in how users fare after spending some time with it. Personally, I've found Windows 8 to be pretty enjoyable to use, after a bit of a learning curve.
Sometimes, the noise of life is silence.

I really enjoy hiking in the redwoods after a rainy day, preferably mid-week when nobody is there. The silence is kind of amazing.

That's nature, but there's also something kind of profound in the deep silence of old libraries, late at night.

Don't get me wrong, I love the noise of life. I love the way you can walk along the street in the Faubourg Marigny near Frenchman's street and hear amazing trumpets. I like the bustle. But I also deliberately wakes up early to walk around the French quarter and experience these old buildings in silence.

I prefer the noise and silence of life to the noise and silence of a life wasted. Sound is something something that you give to people, but silence is also something that you take away. And it can be taken from everyone from just one person. Usually, it is just inconsiderate, but from your comment, I'm almost starting to wonder if you feel that you have a moral justification in making sure that nobody ever enjoys a quiet library, forest, or sunrise. You really don't see that these things can be some of the most uplifting and serene parts of life?
Intrusion detected on two FreeBSD Project app dev servers - Hacker News
Oh the vitriol.

I would have happily helped(except I didn't know any criminal lawyers in Delhi). All it would have cost me was a couple of phone calls. What exactly would I have lost if it were an elaborate con, and what does the conman get?

I have been let down in past by people I have trusted/helped, and it did make me irrationally bitter for some time. But ultimately, I got duped in the past doesn't mean I refuse to help anyone ever.

> This might only be a consolation if you value your coin more than having your trust violated.

Listen you piece of shit. I value helping someone in need over my ego being violated when I realize I was duped.

> At least don't be derisive of those who want to use their dose of circumspection.

Let me explain it to you again. People cry wolf all the time. That alone is not reason enough to avoid any and everyone who cries wolf. You aren't the first person to have figured it out. As I said before, worst case scenario for someone helping if the story were made-up would have been a few wasted calls. The worst case scenario for not helping when the story isn't made up is letting an innocent(yeah, I don't know it. I would rather the court be the judge) suffer consequences. Making the choice is a no-brainer.

Stop flattering yourself. You haven't unearthed something everyone else couldn't see. The difference is you are just a bitter asshole pretending to be smarter than the naive people who jumped to help.
Your github account doesn't share enough information, please use legacy account.

What does that mean?
I would use it if I could host it on my own server and run it on top of Gmail using IMAP and Postgres as a cache.

I could pay 30-50$ for it, but I think this would be even more awesome as an OpenSource solution, your product rocks compared to other alternatives as SquirrelMail, and you can always offer a hosted plan as a way to make money from it.
You are right, it's not an easy life, but keep in mind there are an estimate 12 million illegal immigrants in the US at this point. I would assume most of them are working cash-only jobs or have fake documents that nobody checks.

Could you live in the US illegally and be working at a Fortune 500 company? Probably not. Could you come to the US and work at a mom and pop grocery store? Probably.

And the USCIS has a minuscule enforcement arm. They prioritize criminals for deportation. If you're a law abiding immigrant (excluding the immigration violation), you are very low priority for deportation.
IIS/ASP.net v LAMP/Drupal discussion for Local Gov't Merger of City and County
So our local city / county governments are about to consolidate and an interesting situation has arisen.

The County is a full ISS / ASP.net shop while The City is a full L.A.M.P. / Drupal organization. The County has hundreds of custom built asp pages and does not want to use a CMS as they prefer to build their own and keep their code in-house. The City on the other hand uses a LAMP / Drupal CMS setup as they prefer to build and develop in an OSS model.

Neither of the two want to budge or give with regards to their platform.

I've done some research in seeing what is better and you can always find experts from both sides citing examples of their benchmarks and how what they use is better.

I have been a long-time lurker here and figured this might be a great place to discuss such an issue.

Has anyone been involved in a merger such as this? What solution did you go with? What reasons were given for adopting said solution.

edit: Formatting
Which is why the charter school "revolutionaries" are absolutely unconvincing to anyone who looks for reform.
Most Important Offseason Acquisition For The Giants Could Be Hadoop
It's good to hear I'm not the only one out there with this condition in its more severe forms. (Not that I ever considered myself original in this regard.)

It's so difficult to communicate to others the level of my sensitivity to repeated noises (esp. oral/eating) - and the level of my sensitivity seems so flat out absurd, unjustifiable and irrational - that I've basically suppressed and internalized it as far as humanly possible and have come to consider it a best-to-be-kept secret, dogged malady.

There are very few things I wouldn't give to see myself freed of the condition. It turns what would normally be sitting down and eating dinner with my lovely significant other into a quotidian session of repressed frustration and anger at having to listen to her (oh, the humanity) chew food and handle utensils.
Huh, when someone says nearly forty years (in connection with human lifetimes) I assume the margin of error is at most a year. Human lives are too short and years too long.
Github comments are getting closer to YouTube in terms of quality— especially when an issue or gist is linked on reddit. You'll see a flood of image macros and memespeak derailing any meaningful conversation.

It doesn't surprise me to read such comments. It just saddens me.
I had the same problems with GMail's UX until I (1) turned on button labels so that buttons displayed the action word instead of symbol and (2) learned GMail's keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts were the biggest help because now I barely ever need to take my hands off the keyboard to perform standard actions.
I would consider using the app and I would pay for it.

The primary motivator for me to change from Gmail is the privacy, security issues. So long as you make for sure everything is encrypted and I only have the key to unlocking that, I would switch in a heartbeat.
Ask HN: VC all over me pre-product 
A VC contacted me about a few weeks ago and he has been wanting to speak just about every week to talk about my business idea.

The idea is still pre-product,and very early on.

What are the potential intentions of VC's like this?
Why should I be aware of everybody's likes and dislikes?

Because empathy towards your fellow human beings is a virtue and not giving two flying fucks about anyone except number one is not very nice. You may choose to live your life that way, but plenty of people in the world actually care about people aside from themselves.

Are we going to call meat "animal-sourced food" next?

Apples and Oranges. A more apt analogy is like a company having a meal outing and having no vegetarian options. It sends the signal to the veggies that they aren't fully welcome.
In terms of users they obviously are the market leader. I use Outlook.com personally and consider it to be overall better than Gmail. I'd gladly debate this if you'd like.

Never the less, my original point was that all of these Gmail strengths that you think are very important are obviously not very important to people using Yahoo or their ISP webmail. The idea that everyone uses Gmail and any competitor must compete feature-by-feature is just incorrect.
Free Textbooks Spell Disruption for College Publishers
Firefox 16 and Opera 12.10 both support HDPI simplified media queries
What about dealing with customers? What about having to go visit big $500K/year customers to make sure they sign the contract like you are hoping they will?

Or the entrepreneur you can relate to doesn't have any customers?
If you're gambling with other people's money, it's in your interest to keep complaining about how hard you're working, and how stressed out you are : It's a positive signal to the people funding you.

If it's all your own money you're gambling with, complaining about the stress might be taken as indicating you bit off more than you can chew : A negative signal for employees.
Netflix's suggestions for you: Go outside