skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, this discussion is a huge tangent about e-mail protocols. So both definitions of plain text could be contextually valid.
How a price change can define your companies philosophy
Here's a great post summarizing that paper:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400
Email as a platform
They built their project on sand: public media.
Price changes for your service can be a very delicate ordeal. What's the right price, what about your existing users?

At Graphdat we rolled out a new pricing scheme and decided to reward our early adopters, to give back to the community that helped us grow and give our product away for free.

Every agent they had running, we zero rated it and will not charge them for it. Not now, not ever. It's theirs to keep as long was they keep using Graphdat.

What is your company philosophy?
Indeed, dollars are votes.
This is why it's so difficult to motivate the public about important issues outside the typical emotional hotbuttons: people get bored before the issue is resolved, the media can overload an issue with coverage to induce this boredom, or the issue is buried by overloading something completely irrelevant to societal wellbeing.
My fav,

""Shareholders of public companies that engage in patent trolling should ask themselves if they're really well-served by their management teams," Cheng added. "Are they properly monetizing their R&D? Surely there are better ways to make money than to just rely on litigating patents. If I was a shareholder, I would take a hard look as to whether their management was competent."
I had to look that up. Massively Parallel Processing.
Thanks for the reply. Do you have any resources you could share regarding the pitfalls of query optimizers?

My experience with them comes primarily from studying the System R optimizer where the literature presented query optimization as a boon to performance without mentioning such drawbacks.

Congratulations on the release by the way.
I'm reading Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century by James R. Flynn,

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1107609178

the latest nonfiction book by an expert author, and I'm really liking it a lot. I highly recommend at least one book by Flynn for your summer reading.
I applied for a job in industry (with http://www.crunchbase.com/company/draths-corporation). Cold emailed the CEO (in 1/08). Got an interview with the CEO, in 7/08, was told to "call back in a month and I'll see if I can allocate money for you" - he'd been demoted to CSO by the VC. It was a really fun trip, he was great to me, but I could tell he was an a-hole, and he said, you know, you should really consider being an executive of your own. I thought he was crazy, but now that's exactly what I'm trying to do (but of a nonprofit, which might be even crazier). Again, this was in 7/08, and I'd been watching the Chris Martenson "crash course" videos and following the Ron Paul presidential campaign and knew that the market was about to crash. By 8/08, the market had begun its topspin downward, and I never got a response. Ultimately, draths went out of business, so it was probably for the better.

More recently, I applied for a job in industry with these guys (http://www.genomatica.com/) and actually got a job offer that I had to decline because they wanted me to start immediately, and I (perhaps stupidly) felt I had an obligation to finish my project where I work now. OTOH, I seem to have enough freedom to try to do my own thing.

So, yes there are prospects in industry. One caveat is that although my publication record is not terribly impressive by the conventional "impact factor metric" (I personally like that I've made innovations in three wildly different aspects of biology - difficult protein expression, small molecule drug development, and bioorganometallic chemistry), I have an extremely good academic pedigree, that gets my foot in the door to interviews and lets me at least try to justify my existence based on the merit that I value and the skillset that I've developed. Inasmuch as I hate that the title is being devalued, I feel sorry for PhDs that have their degrees rubber-stamped, because it's gotta be really tough for them.
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The Erfworld Kickstarter pretty much bankrupted its author. FYI. He started a new Kickstarter with blessing from the KS people, which... I can't say I am happy with. Especially since he's already promising stretch goals again.
The benefit for the company is they don't have to pay. He is a legal representative of the company who has lead a winning strategy of vigourously defending against patent lawsuits instead of by default paying a licensing fee.

Since some of the fees are between 2-12 million from the article this has real impact on the bottomline of the company.

Overall the strategy seems to have a direct monetary benefit for the company. now the question can be asked if the amount of money they are saving in licenses make up for the legal fees. apparently through these actions overall patent litigators are declining to pursue newegg for these licensing fees and going after easier targets.
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I like this idea of a classical quantum computer. Do we also have CC, QC, and QQ computers?
Other than "be friends with a VP at Google"?
If you're standing, please do yourself a favor and get a standing mat. My ex runs a video store and spends ~8-12 hours per shift on her feet; until they bought and installed standing mats, she had terrible plantar fasciitis.
A couple of the major reasons the article puts forward also apply to New Hampshire. First, we have lots of guns here. In fact our state's constitution requires the state to give a concealed carry permit to anyone who passes a background check and sends in the form with $10.

Since gun ownership has a controversial effect on crime, perhaps a more compelling reason is that we only have 2 major cities in NH. And neither of them are really big enough to have an "inner city". We have one of the lowest GINI coefficients (a measure of income inequality) in the nation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_co...
Enjoy Python requests? Implement all your data providers with this abstraction.
Aand, while where at it, minimize the side effects. Avoid methods that modify objects, replace them by equivalent methods that create new objects. Likewise, expunge init() methods. Their code belong to constructors, factories, or curried functions. Basically, avoid the assignment statement: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/avoid-assignment

This is especially crucial when you break up your code in a myriad of small functions/methods: the whole point of refactoring was to make them readable, which means small and self contained —you don't want to keep a gazillion dependencies in mind while reading and testing a given method. Avoiding side effects is a big help there, because it will make your interfaces more explicit, and your dependencies more visible.
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Oh yeah, bait and switch. If Google abused an API and went against the terms would you complain about bait and switch when the access was disabled?
KnockoutJS (KO) does essentially the same thing:

What KO calls observable, Reactor calls signal.
What KO calls computed, Reactor calls observer.

The ReactiveExtensions library (including Rx.js) has been doing this thing for several years now, only more sophisticated than either KO or Reactor: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS
I am posting this from Tor, since we are still dependent on Google in many ways. We had a similar situation, where a growing startup that many people here may know about (getting 15000+ signups per day at the time, now more) was getting threats from AdSense that some of our pages violated some vague and amorphous content policies that are actually written to be violated (and 99% of AdSense publishers that do not 100% control their content violate them- think of Myspace.com for example- but they were too big to violate AdSense policies). Our account bringing over $10,000/mo was shut down.

We have documented everything and we are now in a much stronger position, thanks to our users. We have access to Techcrunch/Techdirt, and we have considered publishing a comprehensive documented story of our experience with AdSense, but decided to put it on hold, since we do not want to associate our name with any controversy. When our start-up successfully exits or if it fails, the situation may change.

I just want to add a couple of things to jholman:

You start from the presumption of guilt. An old adage is that your customer is always right, but your starting point is the opposite. This is probably driven by hubris, that's embedded in Google's DNA: you KNOW BEFORE your customer that your customer wants to commit fraud, BEFORE they have actually committed it.

My point is simple: when you threaten to turn off a $5,000+/mo client, provide knowledgeable PHONE SUPPORT. Have your specialist CALL the victim business. These amounts are not a small change to many people, they will lead to bad PR, like was linked in this thread earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568.

And do not worry, you will not get fired for defending Google!
Son, we don't take kindly to folks who ask 'why?' around these parts. You best mosey on before you accidentally fall down a well.
People seem to misunderstand that the point I am making (sorry if this is not clear) has nothing to do with whether they should or should not have settled this case. Only the attitude of the legal officer and the statement that he made.
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I get the same feeling. That's why I always have this idea in the back of my head that I should learn to make a computer from the sand on a beach in case I'm ever marooned on an island on an alien planet.

But I recognize that it's entirely impractical to start from literally nothing.

I also keep around my old computers and/or make sure I have emulators that can run my old stuff. E.g. a TRS-80 emulator for the Basic II programs I first learned to write. Or a Mac OS 9 emulator to open Claris Works 4 files I wrote in high school. I rarely use such things, but I feel better knowing my data is not truly lost.
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Good thing all my drones self-destruct when captured and release clouds of toxic gas. /s

Wouldn't this be considered theft?
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We've updated our demo to 1.5 as well:
http://rethinkdb-demo.pogoapp.com/
To me this is unpractical example of use of CSS. Yes, you can do an image using tables and other elements or techniques but I think these things are just a waste of time. If you want to drool on something why not seeing this made on SVG AND using all the CSS, JS capabilities instead of showing something made in CSS with fewer uses.
Well, this API has been submitted to WHATWG: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete
>> "I find it supremely annoying to update things manually"

What's annoying about it? It only takes two/three taps:

1. App Store

2. Updates tab

3. 'Update all'

A password isn't even required anymore. Personally I don't see how anyone could find that annoying but even if they did most app updates come with new features and the benefits of those far outweigh the 10 seconds of time it took to update.
I don't see any connection
Facebook is the biggest surprise. They seem very friendly with Microsoft.
Sabu's sentencing has been delayed, but last August he pleaded guilty to ten counts of hacking, one of bank fraud, and one of identity theft, carrying a potential maximum jail sentence of 124 years.
This terrifies me on a security level... I understand there is a permission dialog, but I very much would not like me credit card information available unless I type it in...
Are you mocking the idea of one single person being undercover by calling it a 'conspiracy'?
This has to be the oddest and most ridiculous attempt I've seen to form a social life.

The comments above have advised to go after interests, and whatnot. Do that, but also seek out people you already know and start doing real things with them. Push the boundaries, get to know what they really like doing with their time, form a network.

Also, "real jobs" are for suckers who aren't passionate enough to follow their interests.
Is there one can't just use Bluetooth instead of NFC? Does the power consumption get bad?
Ok, we've got a fix for this. We'll release 1.5.1 shortly.
>Based on Nintendo’s statement to Game Front (below), it would appear they are not opting to block videos from playing outright, but rather monetize videos over a certain length with their own ads.

How does this work? Does YouTube just starting cutting Nintendo the ad check that the creator would have received, does it give Nintendo the option to run their own ads or something else?

In any case, this seems awfully short-sighted on Nintendo's part. I don't buy many games anymore, but when do I always watch an LP video beforehand. If I can't find a solid video, the chance I'll buy the game goes down dramatically.
No, but I have my own mental model of how it works, and if I were trying to preserve my own Perl code I'd only need the subset of Perl that I understand and use. I could reconstruct that from scratch with no reference other than my own Perl source code.
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Yes. While you hold the reset button down the power light should be off.
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I feel like a kid who got a SNES for Christmas and found out no one bought any games.
Unfortunate choice of name: http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php
Those numbers are close to my app's update rates as well. I found it surprising that it happened so quickly too, but then noticed how my wife updates her apps: she hates those little red numbers, so will update almost immediately to make them go away.
I feel like the Bay Area is epitome of this dilemma. I sometimes wonder if we are actually making up more stuff to do, or if there is actually more stuff to do than before. Always being connected to work through your device doesn't help either. Attention spans are now limited. I agree, I will need to consciously shift my priorities and stick with it, but most likely will take time to adjust and feel out what works best.
If you're feeling stiff, get a lacrosse ball and smash it out. http://www.mobilitywod.com/2010/11/episode-77-plantar-fascii...
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this is a good update and not to rain on their parade, but doesn't this seem market redundant and reinvent-the-wheel?
They're both related to NES.
Along these lines, it was surprising to me that many non-techies never close out their apps. They leave them running in the background and are not even aware it was possible to close an app.

As a developer, this means the only time many users will "restart" the app is when they update, and the restart is forced upon them. So make sure your apps are stable!
Do you mean he's not entertaining you anymore ?
Or property damage
One of the best use cases for this is on mobile. Conversion rates on mobile are really low because users usually don't want to dig out their credit cards when on their smartphone, let alone fill in all their details on a tiny screen. The ability to just tap a couple of times and use their existing billing information (which is synced from their desktop browser) is a huge win. And as mobile becomes the more popular way to browse the web, I think this could be a pretty big deal for online sellers.
That will have to be addressed by the Chrome permissions dialog ... Agreed though, I think it would be wise to make the user type-in their CVC or something before transmitting the payment info.
Yep, if you can't mingle in your home town, you won't mingle in a foreign town.
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The CSS for the NES console itself could be used in a rich graphical user interface for emulating NES ROMS.

Hope that clears up the connection for you.
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Who cares about "annoying?"
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Yeah the startup time is now instant for me which I love. Those few ms saved doesn't seem like much but for me it just makes things that little bit quicker.
> Newegg's business isn't fighting lawsuits.

Correct. Which is why "it's a great quote." By sending the credible signal that they will fight patent trolls to the bitter end, and probably win, they avoid fights.

In terms of game theory, by making public statements of this kind, they make it harder for their future selves to settle with future trolls instead of fight. Future trolls, knowing this, will be less likely to target them. Trolls want settlements, not fights they'll probably lose.
Fight for your rights like a friendly puppy, or else.
Then I'll just quote the first paragraph:

> Mary Sue is a derogatory term primarily used in Fan Fic circles to describe a particular type of character. This much everyone can agree on. What that character type is, exactly, differs wildly from circle to circle, and often from person to person.

Also, http://adventuresofcomicbookgirl.tumblr.com/post/13913540194...
Excuse the common FUD trope:

1. Embrace

2. Extend <-- Google Chrome just went here.

3. Extinguish

What would people say if Microsoft implemented a new JavaScript API in their browser that only they had access to the spec for?
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A.k.a. "worse is better" approach. Seems like a good call to me.
If airspace is free for you, it's also free for me.

So I can fly my own drone, with a small curtain hanging down from it, programmed to keep directly between your drone's video camera and me/my house.
There's simply not enough information in this story to tell what really happened. It could be a peeping tom who got busted. Or it could be a guy flying his new radio-controlled toy at the local park (they mention being next to Miller Playfield).

And there's conflicting information -- the guy refused to stop flying, but the police wouldn't come because he left? That kinda sounds like he stopped flying. These things have a max battery time of 20 minutes, and 10-12 minutes is more typical. It doesn't sound like it was an extended confrontation.
While the vast majority of my correspondence is plain text formatted. I do think there's a place for markup. Something that can embed images, provide different formatting styling (bold, italics, underline, colours and perhaps even sizes). It's also nice having an option between serif, sans serif and monospaced typefaces.

Then there's hyperlinks. If not like HTML anchor tags were the hypertext is independent to the destination, but still some method to follow links in e-mails as a lot of online registration requires email activation that way.

So do think there is a benefit for some level of markup in e-mails.
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I'm getting tired of the compete 'redesigns' of iTunes. It used to work fine pre version 11. Now everything is that little bit more separated, more iPad-esque and slower. I don't want to say it, but, to me, this is un-Apple. The intuitive-ness of the UI is going...
I think the screenshot in the article is of Chrome's permissions dialog. It shows very clearly what information is being requested.
Wow, I thought this was a joke press release making fun of "web scale" fad craziness. They seriously gave a 1.0 release number to a "database" that you couldn't search?
If you want schemas and transactions, just use NewSQL.
Ever as a techie I don't close apps very often. Is there a reason you do?
Somehow I actually think this is an okey thing to do. Maybe it 's the child in me that likes the idea of controlling an aircraft remotely and spying on people/exploring the world.
If a neighbor asks politely you should of course spy from further distance or get a more silent motor.
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The stretch from Rock Island, IL to Memphis I get --- Rock Island houses a huge arsenal, southern Illinois has a large munitions plant, the Mississipi is an important shipping lane, and the area around Memphis gets you Oak Ridge Labs.

I think I understand Oklahoma --- you have Tinker AFB and another munitions plant.

I know there are a lot of military installations in Michigan and presumably Indiana, but is the primary reason they're blacked out just that it's the industrial corridor for the country? Just black out the rust belt?

Any other areas people can explain?
http://foundationdb.com/ supports multiple doc transactions.
For me it's the Peter Principle - update until the app becomes worse than it was before. I don't trust them not to ruin more things in the future and I can't really revert, so that's where things stay.
The power consumption of Bluetooth is so minimal that turning off Bluetooth on an iPhone only hides the icon, it doesn't actually turn Bluetooth off.
my thougts on this:

- Glass is new and sexy - and it has a lot of limitations that you need to work around.

- Windows 8 (both ARM and x86) has a decent browser you can use to access cloud-based systems, there is not really a need to have a separate app (at least I prefer browseraccess to app)

- Winodws 8 (x86) supports (nearly) every Windows program out there. that is a lot more than any app store offers.
Let's just solve this technical problem with technology. Drones can be blinded by bright lights or low-power lasers; we need a device that attempts to blind drones when they are over a person's property. Of course, it is more likely that such a device will be made illegal than that flying a drone will be made illegal -- after all, what ever will the police do if drug dealers are blinding surveillance drones?!
No, you've always been able to execute queries. They just weren't indexed before.
It's still pretty annoying. I'm assuming auto-update will be an option in the next major OS update, because it is sorely needed.
I wish this were true, but unfortunately not. Object.observe doesn't provide any 'read' notifications, so you wouldn't be able to detect dependencies like this does.
Is the app available?
We were one of the companies to support this during the launch announcement today, and we've been playing with it for the past month or so. It's an awesome feature for transactional emails that require a quick action to be performed - we use it for task notification emails where you can check off a task as complete right within the email client. It's based on an open standard, and plain old HTTP POST so not specifically tied to Gmail.
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The primary problem is that picking indexes and execution algorithms essentially involves traversing an exponential space (and taking guesses about costs of things). Modern DB optimizers have hundreds (or thousands) of heuristics to do this well, but every once in a while they pick the wrong path and run a suboptimal query. This might be ok for offline analytics, but can be disastrous for production OLTP environments because a small change in statistical information can trip up such an edge case and the live system will crawl to a halt. For example, Postgres optimizer has been around for a long time and is very mature, but they still fix these bugs quite often AFAIK.

In many production environments admins end up having to hack the queries to "trick" the optimizer into doing what they want, which of course defeats the whole purpose. So, for real-time systems, being able to specify indexes manually is actually a productivity boost, because you often know exactly how you want the query executed.

I'll try to dig up some info on this, I don't have any links off the top of my head.