skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to meticulously sign all my emails with GPG back in the day with mutt. Then, sometime after leaving FreeBSD for the Mac, I decided to move to Mail.app and GPGTools.

Everything worked great, great enough for me to leave mutt behind and painstakingly move my email archives and everything else into a 21st-century gooified mail environment.

And then I upgraded OS X (I think to jag-wire, maybe?) and spent far too long being sad about non-working GPG. Of course to be honest, lagging GPGTools releases were only part of the reason Mail.app eventually came to be the most hated part of my Mac experience. But lagging GPGTools was the thing that stuck in my craw every time.

I used to be really good at email. I was organized and efficient working in it. But now I've totally given up and moved to GMail. My inbox grows like cancer, with a raft of features I don't use like stars and bayesian recommendations.

In anger, I tried mutt a while back. After hours of setup, I found the magic was gone... but at least GPG signing still worked without a hitch.
So...most major musicians, according to their representatives?
Thank you for this.

Lawyers and bankers actually have a sharkish will to negotiate for themselves. They're good at what they do, they're powerful allies and formidable enemies, and they know it. People don't often try to take advantage of them, even when one is senior and the other's a greenhorn. They know better. In 7 years, that junior you tweaked is going to be partner-level somewhere and might end up surprising you how well he does.

Most programmers work for old-style Theory-X companies where you have to be a manager to get a fair shake-- because we, as a group, suck at advocating for ourselves and get taken advantage of in a way that just wouldn't happen to most lawyers or bankers.

The same is true of most of these Silicon Valley "startups". You gotta differentiate between companies that are small because they're elite niche operations (which are some of the best places to work) and companies that are small because they're shitty. Many of these "startups" are the latter.
I must agree that duckduckgo is too long and not cute, a big turn off for people like me, bad naming in my opinion, and it matters a _lot_

plus, duck goes slowly and unstably, again, ugly naming.
When lawyers make demands they often don't have the law backing them. When there's no consequence for making spurious and vague legal threats, the system is going to be abused.

Edit: It's unfortunate, but ... yeah. It might be worth forwarding your story to some legal blogs that specialise in free speech I suppose, but other than that. shrug I'm afraid I'm not sure what you can do if you don't have the money to fight them.
Which is an irrational number. This has to be a joke.

Edit: Okay, you beat me to it :P

Edit 2: Are we the same person?
I was searching for a tool for specific task so I googled some terms that I hoped would be relevant. I clicked on the first 10 links that looked promising into 10 new tabs. Then I looked through these tabs and rapidly closed the ones that at a quick glance didn't give any indication that they might be helpful in solving my problem.

It shouldn't be hard to tell me what problem you are trying to help me to solve, and how you do it differently than everyone else, using a sentence or screenshot or two.

If you can't do that, I suspect that your business model has some more serious problems.
They'll also want to get their production facility cGMP certified, which is going to substantially raise short term prices in addition to those associated with FDA labeling procedures.
I'm not directly associated with Piwik, but your complaints are valid. The Piwik project recently moved to Github, and some of that transition is lagging as most effort goes to the code itself.
Landkreuzer P. 1500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1500_Monster
SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer [video]
Unfortunately CalDAV and CarDAV are not supported natively by Android. In order to utilize a CalDAV or CarDAV server, an android user needs to purchase both a CalDAV adapter [1] and a CarDAV adapter [2]. Both of these products are in beta and last time I checked they were lacking support for much of the protocol. It's really a shame that Google doesn't support open standards for contacts and calendar in Android.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda...
[2]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.cardd...
I was idly thinking that $24 a year is just north of what I think my dad would pay. If the price was slightly lower I think I could talk him into it.

And then it occurred to me that there could be a pricing model that doesn't scale linearly with number of users, but becomes (slightly) cheaper the more people use the service. I guess I've never seen the concept "economy of scale" applied to a web service as a whole.

In other words, "If we get over 10000 paid users by next year, the price will go down to $20 a year. If we get over 20000 by next year, the price will go down to $18 a year." Etc.

The cons: Shiloh gets less money in the short term.

The pros: Everyone has motivation to recommend the product to their friends. This might outweigh the loss of per-unit revenue.

Like I said, this is just idle thoughts, and there might be some way to game the system, but I just thought I'd throw it out there for your consideration.
>Do you think of all the thousands of students who go to University for 4-7 years to learn about one subject - Food - haven't thought "hey? why don't we just mix the basic chemicals together and solve the world's food crisis?".

Surely you are intelligent enough to realize that this is not a serious attempt at fixing anybody's "food crisis", and rather it's a convenience product aimed at affluent Westerners? I mean, disregarding that $65/week is higher than the average income in many parts of the world -- and far more than roughly 50% of the world's population can afford -- they're marketing this through the Internet! It costs nearly as much as my grocery bill, and I'm white and live in America!

This isn't in the category of "feed the world" products, which is why academia has had and will continue to have little interest in something like this. In fact, many people have through the years done similar things in a more ad-hoc fashion: a cousin of mine ate a diet consisting almost entirely of yogurt when he had no cooking equipment beyond a yogurt maker, and there's a rather infamous tale of some dude who lived entirely on raw beef:

http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/testimonials/lex-rooker-usa/

He's still doing it, by the way. It seems to work.

And yet it would take a doctorate in insanity to think that any of these propositions could "feed the world", when we have trouble distributing enough simple dry rice to meet everyone's basic calorie requirements.

As long as Soylent makes up less than 75% of your diet, and you still eat some vegetables, I'd give you a roughly 100% chance of being just fine. Even if you really go whole hog on the stuff, it probably won't be that bad -- people have eaten worse diets. Much worse.

For me, the central discovery here is not that a monotone food product is possible -- that's easy, just take some reasonably healthy foods and stick them in a blender -- but that people actually like to live this way. If you'd asked me before this all began, I'd have bet they'd all get bored in a month.
If you want to use CalDAV instead of the Google Calendar API they're adding an additional step of applying to a whitelist: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gOLSlkTzHi-zub3BkMv7Ot0JML...
How can it be divulging a trade secret when he isn't in on NYT's trade secrets?

I think it's slander because he does not know how many hours NYT spent on making it, he could be totally wrong yet he is stating it as fact.

Anyhow it's an unfair comparison because NYT actually had to come up with this idea, he just had to replicate it.
Killer, killer post. Great job man!
Yes, the Democratic party is not left wing on either a global scale, as you say, or even on a historical scale. The Democrats used to support the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps to put people to work. Massive government projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority and Rural Electrification Administration were instituted.

More recently the Democrats have been about "ending welfare as we know it" as "the era of big government is over". Words said by a Democratic president, not a Republican. Obama has been the same, and the examples of this are too numerous to mention completely - support of school privatization and charters while attacking teacher's unions, or the more recent nomination of Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce.

This essay has some Orwellian doublespeak sentences which are real howlers - 'The movement towards these more egalitarian corporate structures goes by many names: stakeholder or partner or even conscious capitalism.' Barf! Fantastic, I'll be real glad to be part of a stakeholder corporate structure - YOU own the shares, but I get to be a "stakeholder". Terrific. "Egalitarian corporate structure". There's a contradiction. A corporate structure means one thing - control by the majority shareholders, with the purpose to maximize profit to them. Period. This fact is written into the legal code and court decisions ad nauseum.

If anyone is buying into this idea that today's college educated professional in the US is better off than the college educated professional of the 1950s and 1960s, I suggest you read Barbara Ehrenreich's "Fear of Falling" where she shows a mountain of evidence of why this is not the case.

If these startups are so great for everyone, where are the older people? Where do they go, since they don't seem to be around, other than a small percentage, at anywhere from a small startup to somewhere like Google. Did professionals have to work as many hours as they do nowadays? Oncall all the time, e-mails and phone calls at home? And so on.

The system doesn't even work for us, the educated elite doing the wealth and creating the wealth. It works even less for the rest of the world.
To anyone seriously considering doing something like this, you will find that the carbs are challenging to get into a shake.

You can get all the right vitamins and minerals. On that note, don't use calcium carbonate like he does unless you want kidney stones; use calcium citrate.

You can get high quality CFM whey protein assuming you're okay with getting all your protein from whey (grilled chicken is still a better idea for other reasons).

However, the carbs take up a lot of volume. You can use steel cut oats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, white rice... (brown rice has arsenic) You will find that it doesn't fit well in the shake. It's easier to eat it as food. My experience so far anyway...
The biggest problem with moving back to XMPP now is that Google us cut us off from anyone now using Hangouts. Less than a year ago I drank the Google Kool-Aid and started using GApps instead of my personal server running Postfix/Dovecot/EJabberd. Since 87% of my XMPP contacts are on the GSuite, by going back I lose all IM connectivity with them. I almost feel like I'm being held hostage at this point. I've also invested a few grand in services, software, and hardware that ties into the GSuite, providing further disincentive to move away.

In summary: Bah.
Why not? Handfuls of smiley tech nerd kids think they know the web better than professional corporations with decades of experience, and are proven right all of the time.
Just curious, why do you oppose hellbanning? I find it a rather neat solution, but have little experience with it in general.
Let's not forget that our understanding of the world, and of our own biology, is full of holes. When science says "glucids exist", that does not suggest that other molecules don't, but we (scientists and the general public) have a tendency to assume it does.

Think about "junk dna", and the underlying culture that end up creating it as an idea: "this does not appear to do anything, must be junk". The key take away for me is that we simply are underestimating what we do not know about the world, dislike labeling things as unknown, and can financially benefit from applying simplifying assumptions on an industrial scale.

So I'd take these formidable claims with a huge grain of salt.

More importantly, I fail to see what's new with the idea of powder / shake food. This shit has been around.
They have. Soylent Formula: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
Fair Use under US copyright isn't cut and dry, to say the least. Columbia University has released a checklist to determine if a use is 'fair' or not.

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/fair-use/fair-use-ch...

Note: I don't think it's been challenged legally yet, but it's certainly a fair piece of policy and a strong guideline, from a professor who is very respected in the copyright law field.
One of the biggest problems I face is determining when the time is right to shift from free to paid. I originally slapped a subscription page on my app[1] thinking "we'll see how this goes". But after a few weeks of 0 conversions, I had a tough time justifying turning down folks who would have at least signed up if there wasn't a payment required - so I made it free.

The way I look at it is that any feedback with a free plan is better than zero feedback with a subscription. I gain a lot of valuable insight observing how users actually use the service. I'm hesitant to give that up by switching back to a subscription plan and watching new signups die again.

I know there's no magic bullet. I suppose this could be solved quickly if I had more time to devote to selling and marketing - admittedly I've been slacking in that department.

Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated.

[1] https://beanjockey.com
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admirably scientific fashion

Let me point you to a randomly chosen scientific study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856266

Now you point me to something similar for this new wonder food.
I agree that it should stand up to scientific scrutiny before being able to claim that it is safe, but the argument he was making before he deleted all his posts was that Soylent was most definitely unsafe solely because it was made by "some computer kids".
But That’s Impossible  Crazy middleware breaking ipv6
In my opinion, many people who are gifted academically suffer damage in childhood - quite a lot of the time this damage is manifested in unfortunate ways .. the human ego is a very active protagonist.
Sadly enough I agree with this rather bleak assessment to a large degree. I don't believe that we're truly stuck with it though. Why have Agile and DevOps movements gained so much traction (hype)? For me it almost always comes down to the need for better collaboration between silos. Architects shouldn't be constrained unnecessarily by the mindset of devs or ops but if they are making design decisions that can never be implemented then time is being wasted. Wasted design time. Wasted processing time for the people handed it. And wasted time coming up with workarounds. Efforts to eradicate this waste, even in small amounts, are worthwhile and should be undertaken.
1. If I eat a Hot Pocket every day I will shorten my lifespan considerably.

2. Healthy instant food tastes bland or like garbage.

3. Yes. I don't like it, but most of us don't have choices.
It's likely that cities that have substantial tourism and insufficient hotel space in the tourist areas will see an increase in short-term internet-enabled rentals and will have to decide how they want to handle the issue. Austin just put in place a new short-term-rentals policy ~a year ago. It's a pretty fair policy IMO (distinguishes between owner-occupied vs investor/landlord properties, requires collection of hotel tax for the city, etc.). I don't think this'll kill Airbnb & its ilk any more than collection of state sales taxes will kill ecommerce businesses. As business models go mainstream, they inevitably end up getting regulated & taxed. It's only when they're little & marginal that they can fly under the radar.
I use the same username here as in newsblur. Here's the bug I submitted:

https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/feed_doesnt_load...

It got one reply by "Stuart" a month ago asking me if I was a premium member, which I am. All other activity was by me.

Here's the bug about read items coming back:

https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/items_not_stayin...

75 people have marked it as affecting them, it has had 72 replies so far after being opened 2 months ago. Today's upgrade had a bunch of people complaining again with no reply. From what I gather the frontend don't retry the call to mark an item as read when it fails the first time so any problem contacting the backend results in items not being read. Today I had to mark some posts as read 5 or more times.

I may end up using another feed reader anyway since I don't need or want all the newsblur features. That being said getting the "infinite scroll of unread posts" feature right should be a top priority for a feed reader and so far it hasn't been.
There is no doubt this is. The "irrational" improvements to 3.14 (read: pi), the ridiculous name, the complete lack of evidence -- all point to obvious parody.
Oh, for sure. The web still feels so young though, but I suppose there is no reason these companies would not be able to move with technology as it dramatically changes, as the companies you mention have (particularly Nintendo).
Sorry, I was a little unclear - the setup is easy, it's the maintenance that's annoying. (I've run mail servers in one way or another for ~15 years. I use Google Apps for my personal email now but still maintain some servers that do about 10,000 emails a day.)

Even if you have DKM/SPF setup, someone can decide to start spoofing email from your domain to send spam, especially if your domain has been around a while and is relatively clean. Since you don't send a lot of real mail, all of a sudden 99% of the email marked as coming from your domain is spam.

It's not always even obvious that you've been blacklisted; mails may simply be significantly delayed (AOL does this, I guess so they can check for similar messages to other users), etc.

This is an issue for email providers as well, but they have people on staff paid to deal with it.

Even if you only have to deal with this once every 2-3 years, that's still generally going to be worse than simply paying someone $5 a month for a managed email service, not to mention to you have to deal with backups, etc.
It is. Soylent Formula: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
Maybe the issue with infinite scrolling is the same I've previously reported, about stories from another folder showing up when rapidly switching between folders and then loading more stories (which I originally mistakenly assumed to be caused by waiting for some time before loading the next page; maybe you remember our Twitter convo).
Ha, at first I just noticed that he ran exactly 3.14 and thought "well, that number sounds familiar." Then I thought that "irrational" was a strange way to describe running a longer distance than normal and just put the two together...

On his blog [1] he talks about running 3.14 constantly, so it's possible that he chooses to run pi miles on purpose regularly. Who knows.

[1] (cached) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kUt_beW...
Did it really take NYT hundreds of hours to create that story or did he pull that out of his hat?
He's got a point here. You shouldn't have a "we do this and that" tagline displayed in 30pt orange on your home page.

However the HN has a point too, but a part is missing: I should be able to tell what you do in less than 2s if I need to know.

So the tagline needs to be explicit but it can be a small font incrustation beside the logo.
there isnt much info available about other entity...
Would that it were so that simply checking inputs would eliminate 99% of vulnerabilities; the diversity of different "checks" you need for every input reduces that suggestion to the moral equivalent of "just program better".
Imagine being at Instagram, $1bn and only what, 14 employees?
1. The exhibitors come with the purpose of selling their stuff, not buying yours. So it naturally works best to hear what they have to sell first, while you genuinely try to figure how it may be useful to you. Whether or not you know if and how you may use their offering, ask them questions based on what you are trying to achieve, in the process making them also think about how their offering could be suited to help you. They are still trying to win a sale but by this time a rapport is well established and it is easy to get purely to your own work. Even if no potential deal is sensed, I have generally come out with some useful help or advice.

2. You can take notes on the business card itself the moment you are out of the conversation. It is sometimes easy to loose track by the evening even given the number of people you may meet during the day. You should be aware of this [1] though.

3. It is a lot easier for people to remember your face than your name when they first meet with you. So absolutely consider having your picture on your business card. If they understand the core of what you are trying to do, they'll also remember it clearly together with a memory of "some guy" who explained it to them. So include your tagline or pitch on the business card itself, on the rear if needed.

[1] http://www.linguist.com/services-japanese-card.htm
> Also: They've got to be violating some kind of FDA rules.

Its pretty hard to violate FDA rules when soliciting investment, they'd most likely only run that risk when they start actually marketing product. And even then, the incredibly lax FDA rules around supplements have enabled some of the biggest (and most dangerous) health related scams ever to operate within the rules, so they can probably be okay even then. Usually, this seems to involve placing a disclaimer that the product is not intended to prevent or treat any disease or condition on advertising touting its health benefits (often including explicit claims that the product prevents or treats various diagnosable diseases and/or conditions.)

> But I doubt you can say things like "it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition" without having some actual data backing you up.

You'd probably be surprised.
Yes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkuvppi334
If there were non-criminal consequences for making spurious and vague threats, lawyers would just make legal threats involving those consequences as a response to threats made to lawyers.
The biggest thing of all, I believe, is actually testing your design on a device. Text you think looks good when you're in Photoshop has a tendency to be too small or too large, or too gray or not enough saturation on a device. So, if you're designing - and can't get a build to your phone to actually play with - email yourself an exported PNG of correct resolution and open it up on your phone. You should be able to see and "play" with it as best as you can for absolutely no money.

It seems like this was written for the designer, not developer, so I would also like to add one more thing. If you're a designer and tasked on working with a developer to make an app happen (or vice versa really), then work side by side as much as you can with that person and have regular discussions. You'll both drive each other toward a better project than just piecewise doing things in a more waterfall-esque approach.
The 5 feeds limit is now over. You can test the Unlimited Plan as it comes with a 7-day free trial :)