skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had any problems with mail delivery and I've never paid anyone a dime. I even violated one of rfc-ignorant's rules (a fake tertiary MX record) and still didn't get blacklisted :)

There are no internet authorities that control mail delivery, either, BTW. Many sites use heuristics to control mail acceptance, however, including third-party whitelists and blacklists. It can suck if you get on a blacklist, but experienced mail administrators only use whitelists and blacklists as one of many metrics regarding mail spamminess. Indicators of good mail like "most of the words in this message are non-spam words" often provide an order of magnitude more ham points than blacklists contribute spam points, so important messages will probably not be dropped even if you're on a blacklist. Of course, many sites have less clever schemes because there is a lot of spam and not a lot of sysadmin time to waste tweaking spam filtering rules.

Mail is hard.
That is the nastiest comment I have ever seen on HN. Why?
Love that one

"When I need to call someone, I ask someone nearby to let me make a call."
Just created an account via this link and it doesn't look like the number of users is limited to 1. Have my own user account and was able to create two additional test accounts.
Amazon Adds A/B Testing For Android Developers
Personally, I would just list the funding provided automatically to each company (complicated in the case of YC since it varies with team size). I'd almost exclude the START and YC VC notes from YC, as they're not mandatory.

A more useful stat is "able to raise follow on funding" or "still in business after a year", I think.
even in the game with Van Riper, you could assume that your intelligence agencies did the right thing at preventing his unorthodox tactics and that's why some of his actions were never carried out. after all, if your army is (obviously) better equipped for fighting a conventional war, as opposed to the enemy, then is the job of your intelligence services to push the war towards a more traditional style war that you can win, so if the controllers assumed such a scenario their actions in such a game could be somewhat justifiable (again, assuming the red didn't have the resources of an intelligence agency backed by a wealthy nation).

now if you were to treat the AR drones competition as some sort of war game, you would have to assume such hacking capabilities on both sides, probably balancing out or interacting in interesting ways...
And the site looks dull. I believe any social networking sites should have bright background color like FB and G+.
Oh I have free time :) and I do have a good bit of experience running servers. I've been managing a few VPS's for PHP, Rails, and Node.js apps for over 3 years now.

Plus, I want to learn, so, I'd like to give this a shot, if you have any pointers / suggestions.
Spread over 4 pages. Thanks CNN.
Interesting comments on the lawsuit - not sure that its quite the same being sued at your own company as it is being sued at Apple though.
Very nice, got me thinking why the heck I never bother looking for something like this for websites.

Found these two:

http://ui-patterns.com/
http://quince.infragistics.com/

A lot of room for improvement.

Does everyone use something like this or am I just over-estimating the importance of a library to browse for UI patterns?
Wonder what other products are like that - I know I became interested in power usage after living in a solar powered house.
I always hate these comparisons because they have no basis in reality. Food, drugs, and sex are basic human drives. You can't compare them to something as ephemeral as email.
This is insanity. The SpaceX launch manifest is just crazy: http://www.spacex.com/launch_manifest.php

How on Earth are they going to go from a single launch in 2012 for the Falcon 9 to SEVEN launches in 2013, 10 in 2014 and 14 in 2015? And on the side they have their first Falcon Heavy launch in 2015. Now add more launches into the mix with this new contract...

Elon Musk is really living right on the edge in terms of potential production problems. He already has a track record of delaying, delivering late and overpromising with Tesla. I simply don't see why he doesn't take it just a little more slowly, and actually delivering on his promises.

On the other hand, if he pulls it off, then the utility maximizing strategy for humanity just might be to make money and give all my capital to Elon Musk to put it to more productive use...
the shootout says

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...
> Microsoft's equivalent offering is free:

Something we should all be learning from this is that it's free for now.
Fair enough and that's how it usually ends up, the subject changes and everyone goes about their lives. That's not really why they are asking me though... they are hoping I can give them some secret sauce to making it actually happen. The reality is that sauce is simply their not changing the subject and to keep asking questions. I'll keep talking, its more exciting then the sisters wedding at the end of the day and maybe together will figure some way forward rather than accepting the "fair enough" copout.
This is good news, because I feel that Google has always ignored a very legitimate use case of Google Apps -- wanting your own personal Google Account with your own email address.

Many people, myself included, want to use all of the personal services that Google provides backed by their own domain, not Gmail. You used to be able to do this sans hosted email, but that feature got removed a year or two back. If you wanted to use your own domain, you had to sign up for an entire Apps account, when it really should have been the same as before + some MX records for hosted email.

Perhaps using your own domain for a Google Account should be a paid service anyway, and $50/year isn't incredibly pricey. But a 99.9% uptime SLA and phone support aren't necessary for what can really be just a vanity. (That said, phone support in Google's ecosystem is kind of nice...)
Well, considering that you legally own the titles you could look into emulating them. Homebrew on the Wii is pretty advanced right now and you could use that to retrieve ROMs for all your titles and still play them.

Obviously, that doesn't say anything good about Nintendo but I'm just trying to solve a pain point for you.

Also, 3DS games on the eShop in Europe have ridiculous prices. A game in the US costs $39.99 (in the eShop) whereas the UK price is GBP 39.99 ~ $64! UK 3DS users can use the Ireland eShop (same language games but Euro prices) to get their games for around $57. Still VERY abusive of Nintendo! :(
Hate it. A decent developer based out of United States will not be able to work out the prototype for anywhere near $500. That means you open doors for off-shore devs/companies to bid and try winning the project, acting exactly like other hundreds of freelance sites. No one will up-vote proposals of the competition.
I don't see how this is different from any other freelance marketplace sites out there other than putting a hard limit of $500 max. The poster still has to work hard in preparing the requirement of the prototype, answering questions and managing deliverables. Prototype also has expectations, designs, creatives, tests and what not. It's better to just hire a local person/friend.
In general I feel freelance market places are hurting the economy of the country.
Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
Why not: http://checkip.dyndns.org - About as plain as you can get.
If you rely on people making the same precise distinction between "percent" and "percentage point" that you do, then you'll have more misunderstandings rather than fewer. It's like "next Friday." If today is Monday the 3rd and I say "next Friday," I don't rely on anyone outside my immediate family understanding that I mean Friday the 14th, since many people understand it to mean Friday the 7th.
I do this. It's not easy, but it's not as bad as most of the comments here would lead you to believe. If you have the wherewithal to run things on a server it's definitely within reach, albeit probably not a cost-effective way to spend your time.

Let me make a few recommendations. I'm not a sysadmin by trade but I know a few things you can do that will improve your lot in life running mail.

- Postfix and Dovecot. They have the right combination of ease of use, power and security. Don't overconfigure; try to get it working with basic settings first and then evolve it towards what you dream of rather than setting out to configure it that way first.

- SPF and DKIM. I have no trouble getting messages to Gmail and I think this is part of why.

- Make sure your hosting provider is not huge and very high quality. I chose RootBSD because they're small but highly technical. If you have a lot of spare cash, iNetU are quite good and sometimes help with FreeBSD. The larger or crappier the host is, the more likely you'll wind up in blacklisted IP space. (BSD hosting companies tend to be smaller and more technical, and BSD is great software, so I'd recommend that if you're interested.) Getting off a blacklist isn't a lot of fun and it's not hard to wind up on one, but I find being on a discriminating host is a good preventative measure.

- Rely on IMAP. If you want webmail, try and find one that is really just an IMAP frontend. I tried and liked Roundcube a while back; these days I have IMAP clients everywhere so I don't know what the new hot stuff is, but IMAP is fantastic.

- I strongly recommend you get an account with DNSReport.com. Their software can detect most of the DNS problems you can get yourself into that wreak havoc with mail. Odds are good you'll be doing a lot more DNS than before, it's a great tool to have in the toolbox.

- Stay on top of your security updates. I recommend running sshguard and whatever other security software/IDS/firewall type stuff you can stand. Make sure you're not giving out a bunch of shell accounts with root on this server. Seems obvious, but people forget or get lazy. FreeBSD will email you a security message every day; if something like that isn't coming your way, consider trying to set it up. It tells me, among other things, who tried to log into the server, how many times they failed, what their IP was, and lots of other stuff.

There are a number of nice upsides to running your own mail server.

- Email can be hooked up to the database various ways.

- Automatic emailing for free (keep an eye on it).

- Scripted email handling for free (Procmail etc).

- Get system-generated messages emailed (Nagios/monit etc., login/sudo failures, etc.)

- Advanced forwarding/wildcard accounts.

Anyway, I hope you do give it a shot despite the nay-saying. Cost-effective? No, but it's a blast, and many of the upsides would be hard to replicate with Gmail. Of course the web mail UI will be worse. Tradeoffs.
I have the same setup. I do all my long phone calls at my computer anyway --- with GVoice + GMail, you can intercept your phone calls from your computer. And my family prefer skype as they can see me. I only use actual talktime when traveling, which is rare. Almost all coordination is now over text.
http://whatismyip.akamai.com - slightly plainer :)
A lot of pretty userflows. Excellently detailed, really.

But haven't you already failed to a large degree if you have to explain how the system works?
For one thing, the one submitted is instantly readable on mobile – the one from dyndns isn't.
Postgres tuning - the most important stuff
Qyuki is hindi for "because" (usually spelled Kyunki and pronounced "Q"-"key").

The site is obviously a pinterest clone for India. However, I don't think the startup aspires to be anything more than that. There are lots of clone startups in India, a lot of them are successful and even gets acquired by the startup they are cloning (Groupon for example acquired SoSasta).

Having said that, the purpose of the site is actually a bit different. Its less about sharing things you find and more about sharing your own creations. A photo you took, a song you sang, a picture you drew. I think that's a really nice concept.
This is going to revolutionize HTML 5 gaming. Although Im curious as if there would be any changes to how copyright and media ownership get handled.
Very curious to see how well this works in practice.

An excellent example of a usable predictive interface is DataWrangler from the Stanford Vis group - http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/app/. Bit of a learning curve, but well worth it if you're working with semi-structured text data.

The paper describing their philosophy and the predictive interface is here: http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2011-Wrangler-CHI.pdf
> I don't see why this is HN worthy.

A 1027 day-old account really should know better than to post this sort of comment.
You should collect the useragent and whatever else you can grab. A url to share just a IP seems useless.
Actually they forcing small business to move towards hotmail. Spending $500/year for e-mail service is not worth for small (offline) business.
Seems pretty reasonable...
I'm not sure what you're looking for here.

I import each company's funding data from Crunchbase, whether that's a convertible note or an equity round. My comment above was just regarding the algorithm for calculating median funding.

I've been thinking about ways to figure out if a company is still in business, and will be implementing them over the next few months. (This is still a nights/weekends project for me.) One of the easiest ways is just to display a company's twitter/blog feeds on their Seed-DB entry. If they haven't been updated in a long time, that implies they're no longer in business.
It's good as far as it is Ad free or displaying ads not facebook way.

Another irritating thing about facebook groups is that anyone can add you and spam your timeline.
There is one line in this article which makes it completely worth the read.
I happen to think that people that say "ruby and python are really similar languages, I don't understand what the arguing is about" almost willfully ignore the fact that in modern (aka Lego) programming, a language doesn't exist on its own, but it is surrounded by a huge community, and in case of Ruby vs Python, the communities couldn't be more different.
There's a CSS issue that made me a bit irritated. The <body> element has a margin of 8px, change that to auto so you won't get an annoying horizontal scroll on webkit browsers.
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Cool for motivation but it's also really nice to have conversations about features before implementing them so you can flesh out the idea and bounce it off someone else.
You mad, bro? I don't understand why everyone gets so angry at the idea that Google plus might actually succeeded in some way.
None of those guys are American citizens and they are all wanted for breaking US laws - very different than a US citizen being wanted in Belize. The US loves to have foreign nationals who have violated US laws extradited to the United States, as well as having US citizens who have broken US laws extradited to the US - but it rarely honors extradition requests of its own citizens to other countries. So if you are an American wanted abroad, the safest place you can be is in the United States - assuming of course that you are not also wanted in the US.
Lots of people use it a lot, here are 4 interesting streams, note the number of comments for posts:
https://plus.google.com/+nicolesy/posts
https://plus.google.com/+GuyKawasaki/posts
https://plus.google.com/117176908342196183611/posts
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MikeElgan/posts

Lots of g+ is hidden of course because people don't post everything publicly. I like g+ much better than facebook and wish my non geeky friends and family would come over to it.
Lambda calculus: Why true and false are functions
A new look to help you to subscribe and watch channels on YouTube
I wonder how many of those are, like me, people who accidentally switch to Google+ while trying to tap the tiny links atop other Google properties on their mobile phones.
Seriously, they are actually using CSS to resize images rather then creating small sized thumbnails.
The biggest Response object i got was 7.8 MB uncompressed image which was css resized to 24x24 pixels ,(So basically i am downloading a 3282 x 3282 image which is 7.8 mb , when i should be downloading a 24 x 24 px image which should be around 1.7 KB.
Just goes on to strengthen the belief that Indians do not focus enough on usability.
Virginia woman is sued over her Yelp review
I think this app is excellent, both in its idea, its (brief) presentation and what it promises to become, but the execution could use some work for now...

Random concerns that I have, assuming you want this to grow into a big, comprehensive UX flow database:

- There shouldn't be a search if I can only select from existing content and can't actually search, a dropdown would do fine for now.

- If you're to keep the search bar, at least add a friendly fail message when I search for something that isn't listed, like "No results, but take a look at what we have here instead!"

- How do you plan to scale? User submitted screenshots? Scraping the app store and providing a means for users to tag flows themselves? Ideally this needs a clever system that scales independently of the work you put into maintaining it...

- Speaking of tags, you should add a tagging system for each flow anyways since there's a variety of names people will use to refer to those things, and this would help with the search a lot.

Anyways, don't get me wrong, I like the idea and I want to see it grow beyond just a demo into something really useful. I merely think that, as a UX person, this has room for improvement, so keep up the good work and keep on iterating!
People at the "front-end" jobs (e.g. sales, marketing) tend to have the advantage here. Most tend to have wide interests, helping them bring a more balanced perspective to the table. All else being equal, education also counts.
Thanks!
Well it's not about explaining user flows but visualizing them so that you can compare them. It's really useful to do so before starting a project to see patterns, interesting ideas ets. I found it also really helpful to discuss with your colleagues...
Thanks! And thanks for the links. I'll try to list them into the about section. I have listed a couple of them already, you should have a look!
OK, that's enough of that.

I was an intern during this bullshit. To anyone not "in the know" on this: there's nothing to know. There was a big pointless flame war on an internal listserv at Google over some objections that Michael had to how Google runs certain things. Googlers disagreed. I'll say that I disagreed with Michael, but the people on the other side are almost as responsible for letting themselves be sucked into such a stupid flame war.

There is nothing interesting here. This is a Google soap opera. The rest of HN can comfortably go on with their lives without worrying.
Well this article is pretty bad...

Stock brokerages: There are so many stories of Japanese bank salesmen pushing really bad investment products / investment advice to elderly people who have no idea about securities, that the industry somewhat rightfully has a reputation for defrauding people. People are absolutely right to stay away from such salesmen.

Sporting world: Bunting and such is actually a pretty good strategy -- actually, it's numerically the riskier strategy since the moneyball style "don't steal bases, take walks, work the count" type game is statistically safer.

Politics: The LDP is returning to power b/c the Democratic party is incompetent. These people make George W. look like a genius.

That being said, JASRAC (Japan's RIAA-like copyright enforcing agency) might just be worse than its western counterparts w.r.t. getting backwards legislation passed (illegal downloading is now a crime in Japan, not just uploading)
Public in general is indifferent or worse, supportive, when it is being literally grabbed by their balls and photographed literally without their clothes - if only this is done under the guise of more security. And you want to talk about couple of emails? Forget about the public in general.

However this still does not justify mixing up signal with noise. If you want to talk about NSA surveillance - fine. But then don't start with Petreus who has nothing to do with it.
24-bit color sucks
Thanks man! What user flows should I add?
So this is the reason Apple stock plunged 7% yesterday...
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I can understand some people being fatigued from companies defining their own metrics to justify success. In some cases, its comical.

Google is more susceptible than many to this reaction because of their industry position, and their attempts to reign users of traditionally heterogeneous apps into a more monolithic service. We'll see this again when they finally bring Youtube into G+.
Thanks! We will be adding more user flows from Feedly so stay tuned!
Funded by cisco, and Rs. 27cr/$5million. (http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-15/news...)
Wow thanks! This is the best compliment!
Any user flow I should add?
Great resource. Two other amazing resources for mobile patterns are http://pttrns.com/ and http://www.mobile-patterns.com/
nope, the premium version is ad-free.
If I read the article correctly, the June blog entry is "okay" while the July facebook post is not? (please correct me if I'm reading this wrong)

If disclosure via Facebook is unfair because it's not reaching everyone at once, then isn't a disclosure via blogpost bad as well, since not everyone has internet?
Mapping Twitter’s Python and Data Science Communities
This "natural rights" talk sounds like theology to me.

As does the idea that governments are a magical prerequisite for property rights.

... just as humans invented land ownership around the time that became useful.

Try taking a bone away from a dog, and my point might seem clearer.
If they or anyone wants a Bitcoin bank domain name -- http://bitcoinbanker.com -- contact me. I registered it for a project that got de-prioritized.
Being a Google Apps user so that I could have it all at my own domain really made me feel like a forgotten stepchild. When the G1 came out I couldn't properly use it as you couldn't make purchases using a GAFYD account. I forget all of the things I ran into where Google wasn't compatible with itself due to me being a GAFYD user.
Reminds me of pttrns (http://pttrns.com/). Being able to look at a lot of apps can be a source of great motivation if you're having designer's block.