skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks and good eye (before 'e' except after 'c') - that was a slightly outdated version :)
I used Zoho for a while in the place of Google Apps, and migrated back to Google Apps after about 9 months as I absolutely hated Zoho Mail. Webmail interface was awful, and it didn't play nicely with the POP client on Android.
It would never ship, would be filled with bugs and someone along the lines would switch the programming language AND the OS.
He has posted blood test results corroborating his claim of improved health. His blog is down right now unfortunately.
> The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state

It might be the case that under every moral theory[1] people have an obligation to avoid minimizing their taxes, but as it stands you are begging the question that we should all be utilitarians.

[1]: http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/intro/ethical_theories.html
I've been considering zohomail for gmail alternative.

Does anyone have experience with both that and fastmail and can compare?

From a cursory exploration, you can get quite a bit (including quite a bit of storage) from zohomail at the free tier, compared to what you get from the $5/year (might as well be free) tier at fastmail. But fastmail may have lots of cool features if you do want to pay?

(Definitely interested in getting away from gmail. I've always had my own domain name for email, but it's currently hosted at gmail, using the no-longer-existing free google apps tier).
I couldn't back my way out when I accidentally ended up in the T-shirt editor.

I would really like to use that reservation/tipping point setup for a totally different project without the t-shirt editor. Does anyone have ideas for a starting point?
Very valuable information. Thank you.

I have nine friends that are currently in CS at UTA. All of them talked about Longhorn Startup program with good things to say.

Two said they wished they had gone to Texas A&M.(I have not even looked at their program before hearing this), so I thought I would bring to HN.
The Fascinating Story of Two “Xooglers” Who Built Their Own Winning Startups
Because they're costs in replacing an entire infrastructure that go beyond simply making the choice to switch to something else.

- How knowledgeable your current employees are with it (and willingness to adapt and switch, as well as how long it will take to be as productive after the switch)

- Time taken redo all your servers to support it and pay someone to do it

- Subtle bugs that may appear related to the platform switch and not being as knowledgeable about it at first.

- As someone else mentioned, they may actually like PHP. That may seem hard to understand for some, but heck, there are even people like that like Java. We might not fall under either case, but for the same reasons people like other things that people may find inferior (certain car brands, TVs, PCs components, etc), people apply the same logic to programming languages.
I think it is extremely misleading to summarize this technology as just "exploiting pressure differences for inflation". Technically isn't it impossible to inflate something without exploiting pressure differences?

Back to the OP -- this technology looks like a legitimate advance compared to all the valve technologies I have used previusly for camping. Inflating a mattress is a pretty small part of setting up a campsite, however, and I am not sure inflating a mattress is annoying enough to warrant a new purchase, for me at least.

I am really curious to see where they apply this technology in the future.
Looks like it's working, they are some incredible conversion numbers. 5,714 Premium vs 7,606 Standard.
I assume you mean SNI, not TLS?
Anyone WHO WENT OR IS GOING to Texas A&M...I would love to hear your thoughts.
It's because of zoning.
Well, if in a year, it hasn't gone horribly wrong, then he's produced something people can eat for a year without great ill effect. Someone will eat this for a year, so we will find out.

Most of it's demo will eat it about 50% of the time, eating conventional instant meals and restaurant foods the rest. If it's healthier, or at least different from 'mostly eating microwave lasagne', it should improve their health.

Also, I see it as a great way to control calories. I don't have a weight problem, but most people I do just eat huge portions and snacks. Measuring out powder will help them.

But that's if the guy who eats it all year doesn't lose a kidney month number 9 because they added too much Vitamin A and call his lawyer.
Additive manufacturing method builds objects with 3D curves instead of 2D layers
I've been using Fastmail for about 2 months now. I much prefer it overall, but it is incorrect to say it has all the features of Gmail. It has just about enough of the right features that I want though, so no real issues there. The interface is superior in my opinion, of course the lack of adverts is wonderful, about the only thing which really gets me scratching my head is the way they handle multiple credentials, it is mind-boggling how many options there are yet none of them seem to allow a third party client to send/receive email but not have access to the account settings, a very strange ommission or just very badly documented. So no, it is not perfect, but it is a fantastic Gmail replacement.
Wait, what is this about? Is Google changing _something_ about CAlDAV? Now I'm worried, even though you are assuring us I shouldn't be, heh. What's changing exactly?
Most of the work for the "hacker alternative" is already done, in the form of [iRedmail].

[iRedMail]: http://www.iredmail.org/
Just to be clear, you're embarrassing yourself because multivitamins are the modern equivalent of magical totems of other civilizations that we patronizingly mock.

Or, to reach more into our own history, they're the modern snake oil.
Show HN : Review my startup : Risely – Filtering your social news
Link: www.rise.ly

Hey guys,

We just finished building our site, and would be very grateful if some of you guys could test it out.

Basically, Risely is curation platform that filters the noise from your social stream and only shows you stories on topics you care about. You just need to connect your social networks and select your topics. Trending stories get bigger as they get more popular.

We are in private beta right now, but I have made arrangements and you will receive an invite 5 or 10 minutes after you signup.

Thanks
It's about 10 seconds, and it's saved me when I realize I forgot to attach stuff more than once.
Sigh. It's the same anti-Google post on HN again.
speaking of which, what are some of the oldest web services that are still prominent today? iirc Amazon is approaching 20 years.
"the rest of the 178 employees will each receive $371,000."

Interesting to keep in mind for anyone working for a startup as a metric.

You work and have a chance, if the idea hits (to the tune of 1 billion) of making low to mid 6 figures.

$371k is certainly nice but considering the amount of startups that not only don't succeed but don't succeed to the extent that Tumblr did ...
There's also here.com, based on Nokia/Navteq's map data. It's quite nice, and I've been enjoying the Nokia maps on my Lumia phone a lot.
No. I've demonstrated a simple way to do some due diligence. If people haven't done this themselves, then they are being fools.

You're willing to dismiss everyone as being fools for not taking the time to do what you're proposing, yet you won't do what you're proposing and post the results.
My gut feeling is that you should not reduce the price at all, and instead work on proving the value you provide, just as you have identified too.

If I am working on a project that I need feedback on, and I am convinced that your solution will provide me that feedback, I'll happily pay $100. At $40, I'll be happy to take risk too. At $20, it sounds like the price is so low because the results would not be worth anything.

If the question is how to bootstrap, the best I can think of is to work closely with those 6% people and refine your product to the needed extent, proving value and getting testimonials.
But to be fair, wouldn't you also have to put in the manpower+time to get the experience to learn to do it in another language?

PHP is not all procedural spaghetti code, it does have modern frameworks, some of which are quite nice. And despite it's flaws (yep... someone posted Veekun's thing, everybody take a shot) there are reasons for choosing it, such as low overhead for deployment, and ubiquitous availability.
Is This Why TED Talks Seem So Convincing?
Believe it or not, consuming the toxins contained in whole foods makes us more robust.

This is similar to the phenomenon where children who grow up desperately poor and literally living in dirt have a markedly lower rate of autoimmune diseases than first world kids.
Where are you getting your CFM whey that it is so expensive?

http://www.truenutrition.com/p-1100-whey-protein-isolate-cfm... <-- 11.89/lb

Per gram of protein, this is far cheaper than organic chicken.

http://www.truenutrition.com/p-947-whey-protein-isolate-cold...

If you're willing to try Cold Filtration, you can purchase it for $9.40/lb.

This doesn't include the 5% off coupons that TN has year round. (AND028 is my personal one.)
Gmail has it as an option (labs last I used gmail), that is the best way I think to do it.

I don't ever find a need to undo an email though.

I believe it was only for like 20-30 seconds as well that it offered undo.
Rob has been testing (and modifying) Soylent for mere months. He has a bunch of human Guinea Pigs that have been testing various mixes for mere weeks. How is a Kickstarter-esque campaign the logical next step?

It sounds like the guys behind this are impatient, overconfident and reckless. Worse than that, they're preying on those caught up in how fashionable crowd-funding is these days. I doubt very much that a website like Kickstarter would actually get behind a project like this, which is why they've had to roll their own website.

If these guys had a background in Bromatology and did their due diligence before launching this campaign, I'd be skeptical. Just imagine how confident I am, given the reality.
Patent US20130110731 - Online Dating System - Google Patents
There's less contrast now, and people with any vision trouble will have additional problems. In the before and after of the reading section, the items in the right-hand column aren't even visible at all. It's white on s super-light cream color. Author & designer both need to look at http://contrastrebellion.com/
division of labour is passe. It's a thorn people have forgotten to remove
Actually, reading this, I can see your point. It's all very well to say 'other people can test this out', but the possible consequences are pretty bad. Thanks.

As I say, I'm waiting a year before having anything to do with this. But I hope it is okay. Because I'd like the product, but also because someone will eat it for a year now.
multivitamins are the modern equivalent of snake oil

You'll need to post some sort of citation in order to convince anyone of that.
"Safe to consume along with a regular diet" is different than "safe to consume as your entire diet."
Catchy title, but:

" I used their images/video to make a point. I can see how the video could fall under Fair Use"

Frankly I don't see at all how that would fall under Fair Use, and The Times is absolutely right to C&D him.

Also, "A statement of fact about a company is not a copyright infringement."

No, but a statement of fact about a company that is not backed by public data is slander. NYT doesn't even claim that the reference is copyright infringement, the author just assumes that.

edit: ok, I actually thought he had put a demo website online in which he used the images, so it would look like the NYT's page (but with lorem ipsum for text or something) but he just made an educational video of it, I can see that could be fair use. So I retract my absolute statement. (as should be done with absolute statements in general! (absolutely)) I still think the 'hundreds of hours' remark isn't cool, but perhaps the law is on his side there too.
I enumerated several here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740969. They're all between 14 and 20 years old.
> I've demonstrated a simple way to do some due diligence. If people haven't done this themselves, then they are being fools. It's a harsh word, but that's the correct usage.

Have you eaten any food today? I assume you have or intend to. How many scientists did you consult before you did so? If it was none, then you haven't done your due diligence, and you're a fool. It's harsh to say so, but it's your own fault if you suffer ill-health through your laziness and stupidity.
> What's distressing is that you're being upvoted for it.

Because I'm right, and he's wrong. For fuck's sake, everyone on here needs to educate themselves about the basics of nutrition before commenting on something they don't understand.

What you have here is a bunch of 20-something coders, most of whom don't know jack shit about cooking or biology but wish they didn't have to think about cooking so they could spend more time working on their Rails or iPhone apps, getting excited that one of their own has "disrupted" a new industry.

In reality, it's just another example of the blind leading the blind. But failures in the food industry don't just end with a site shutting down and some commenters on HN complaining about losing their favorite service while some others explain why it didn't survive. They can end with people in the hospital or in the grave.
I was a little surprised to find no mention of "import" or "OPML" on http://www.newsblur.com/faq , even though articles like e.g. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/101011-6-google-reader-... say it's a feature.
AGW panic ending with a whimper
According to USV's blog, there were other investors in the first round:
John Borthwick, Fred Seibert, and Jakob Lodwick

No mention of what they got.

http://www.usv.com/2007/10/tumblr.php
Mate we don't just have access to random experts. Do us a favour and support the shit you are saying.
This is an interesting question, I can see the argument that the NYT has the rights to do what ever they want with the Snow Fall story material but it seems an over-reach to ask Scroll kit to remove a reference to them in their description.

That last bit seems like fair use. If I write a book "in the style of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories'" by what reasoning would the Kipling estate ownership of that style?
XKCD What If - Bowling Ball
Maybe Soylent is okay. Maybe. But there are well established, scientific methods to evaluate these claims.

Why don't you summarize them here, and ask if the people behind Soylent have utilized them?
> If a multivitamin works then this works too.

A multivitamin doesn't work in the role that this is used marketed for, so...
I'm not super familiar with memcached, but either memcached on RAM "is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration", or memcached is talking to a persistent database (i.e., HDD) in the background. Because I can read posts on that blog that are over a year old.
This comment from Zmetta [1] does a good job of explaining the physics without attempting to reduce them to an ad-hominem attack.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5743500

Edit: typos
It's possible. But it's very unlikely. I'm yet to meet a person that don't think this way.
I've never used PGP or GPG before, is this something that I should be using?
Right. And unless the materials were specifically enumerated, even then, it'd be hard to argue that your NDA for software development would apply to "a service manual I obtained from someone who didn't have the right to distribute".
Dude I ate nothing but burgers and pizza and fuckloads of drugs for three years and I'm still here.
Why?

Liquid feeds are already available, and are made by regulated suppliers to a high quality.
I wonder how hellbanning would work on IRC. Seems like it could be brilliant.
"Avaya and many others will also loose interoperability" as opposed to tighten interoperability.
I agree that the flickr redesign is horrible, but I don't think 500px is that much better. Photos are still too close together and have text and UI elements overlayed. It looks messy to me.
https://www.newsblur.com/ or https://theoldreader.com/
Call someone off this list and ask a professional what they think of these people selling Soylent: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/directory/faculty/professors-and-....

Was it really necessary to post this, or a variation of it, five times?
I agree with what you're saying for the most part. I think, though, that people want to get along and social pressure can work for a lot of these situations. Regulations do not always work in your favor, though, and do not always protect people.

For example, where I live in Cleveland, there used to be a rule that policeman (and I think most civil servants) had to live inside the city limits to work there. Once they removed the regulation, these workers sold their homes and left. The property value has dropped considerably as a result.
Those things are all subjective, plenty of reasonable and clueful people will disagree as to whether any of those are good or bad things (or neither). When you say something like...

"the influence of Chrome on Firefox has been universally negative"

...that's saying a whole heck of a lot more than, they made some UI decisions that were personally disagreeable to you but not necessarily to other people.
From what I understand that's all the System Management Mode stuff that's been around for a while, no idea what it's usually like though. I haven't gone that far down the rabbit hole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode
Congrats to Spark Capital as well. They're our lead investor at Quantopian and their intelligence and helpfulness have been everything we could have hoped for.
This is a very good guide. The only part I found odd was the advice to design at 1x rather than 2x. My strategy, is design in 2x, but everything must have even dimensions. For the iPhone I just downsample the assets and don't even bother to check if they look good. For iPad, I will touchup 1x assets if needed.
Outlook.com has an option for using the Gmail keyboard shortcuts.
I was simply looking at products available on bodybuilding.com. You can probably find it cheaper from other sources. You also want to make sure they don't contain Stevia or artificial sweeteners like Acesulfame Potassium. They both can have negative health effects; especially when consumed regularly in large amounts.
It is especially ironic that a NEWS organization would claim that facts are protected by copyright, and one needs someone's permission to report factual claims. Such a legal theory is rather inimical to the business of news.
>It's pure chemicals mixed together!

Your use of the word "chemicals" is naive and on par with those silly chain emails that go around every few years warning of dihydrogen monoxide.
> I don't think your first point is relevant to mine. I don't exactly stay up at night worrying if Coca-Cola is making enough money with their Dasani business model. Likewise, as a consumer I don't care about the viability of Google's business model in terms of Gmail.

This only makes sense if you ignore switching cost. For example, what if it becomes difficult to get your email out of Gmail (e.g. they drop IMAP support or throttle it).

If there is a switching cost, then you do have a vested interest in choosing companies with (a) sustainable business models and (b) business models that align their incentives with users' interests.

Advertising may satisfy (a) but IMO it does not satisfy (b). My reasoning is that if users pay directly for a service, the company is more likely to listen to their comments/needs/suggestions than if advertisers are paying the bills and the users are only there to look at ads (cynically).

I'm sure this doesn't play out this way all the time, but I do think it is generally true. There also may be some selection bias: people running companies who have user-supported services may have different values than people running ad-supported services. Again, definitely not true 100% of the time.

I think the best example of this is Twitter. Because they need ad revenue, they had to change the API and developer rules. Theoretically, this will not happen with App.net because users pay for the service so they don't have to worry about ads.

I think worrying about ad revenue introduces a set of priorities that may be at odds with what's best for users. There are certainly cases where ads work fine (e.g. Google search), but for something like email I prefer to not have to worry about this.
I like cooking too. But sometimes it is a chore, or sometimes I'm busy and don't want to spend time cooking.
More importantly, it would be nice to see the number of blocks a user has right next to their name, everywhere. Think of it as a type of public shaming. If I'm blocked by 10 different people, you see a skull and cross bones with the number 10 next to my name. That might degrade though... Or you can go a little more advanced and put some complex logic in there where I see the number of blocks by users I trust. So if I trust 5 users, and 4 of them block a certain user X, I'd see a skull and crossbones with a number 4 next to their name. The key is not just follow or block, but the combination of those...
Since when do people consult Food Scientists before putting food on the market?

Food Scientists are people who research food that is already on the market.. (or in the best case research food that is about to be put in the market by a high profile food processor with money to spare, but in that case they don't have your best interest in mind, just that you don't die immediately)
Why don't you try the existing liquid feeds?
Our web development workflow is completely broken.
I can't wait till families start having loud arguments about what show they want to watch, each trying to be louder than the other, so it picks up their voice. This was designed for families.
Ask HN: What are good resources for modern web development?
The last time I took a plunge into web development, I was a teenager, it was the early 2000s, and it was still considered cool to design your website in Dreamweaver with Flash and Shockwave plugins. I have a feeling that this is no longer the case.
What are good resources for someone who hasn't written any HTML in 10 years to go to get caught up to speed with the current trends in front-end web development (HTML5, CSS, etc)? The less time it takes to build a decent, modern-looking website, the better. Are most modern sites built by template? I am totally clueless on the matter.
Because I'm right, and he's wrong. For fuck's sake, everyone on here needs to educate themselves about the basics of nutrition before commenting on something they don't understand.

Why not educate people, rather than call them wrong?

The reasons you're not being convincing are:

- you attack based on age.

- you attack based on lack of credentials.

- you attack based on the idea that someone might get hurt, when you don't have any evidence Soylent is dangerous.

- your entire tone is one of talking down to your audience.

If your arguments had substance, you wouldn't need to resort to any of that.
Well that's the thing about food. We can drink about a litre of that shit and a bottle of vodka and feel great for the night, and shitty in the morning.
It worked for Instagram.
For what it's worth, your post made me realize how much of a polite hater I was being in my post above.
No - they claim Snow Fall is protected by copyright and that it us being used to promote a service.
Lots of people could not go to the gym without a gym partner or a personal trainer (a paid gym partner).

Same thing works with projects. Find someone to work with, set a schedule, and don't flake on each other.
According to the guy who made it it tastes fantastic, so empirically yes, of course.