skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run roundcube on my server for webmail access. It's a web-based IMAP client. I'm not sure what you want from a server that isn't already available in the existing open source IMAP servers.
Greasemonkey script + optional server:

https://github.com/benlowry/hnsubmitterstats
I like the idea and all. What are you asking us to do to help though?
By the way there are plenty of 3 letter .com's that you can
buy in the 20k to 40k range. Anyone who is interested can email me and I will point you in the right direction of people that I know that are selling in that price range. Below 20k gets a bit more difficult. But possible sometimes.

Wholesale price for people buying crappy 3 letter .com's (that you probably don't want) is perhaps in the 5k level (but they are not a good set of letters generally). These people will buy any 3 letter .com for 5 to 7k since they know that if a law firm needs those initials (one that has not opened yet) they can triple or quadruple the money.
Quite a few of them have "Source: Hakim El Hattab" linking to http://lab.hakim.se/effeckt/ (which is dead, I filed https://github.com/h5bp/Effeckt.css/issues/93).
or, in "explosive tabloid headline style":

Go: Stop!
I think that's a good point. It's often said that garbage collection helps prevent memory leaks, and it's also said often that memory isn't the only kind of resource which could be leaked.

Here is another case where weak- and dynamic-typing language features have come up in the context of resource management.

I'm not saying this one example proves anything, just that it might be interesting to be on the lookout for other events of this pattern.
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I've been using this for a while, one of the guys in the studio said I should share. :)

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Oh, I actually had not seen your post as it was a little farther down. Sometimes I don't make it all the way through ;-).

I had responded to shivetya just to say what I believed.

Your post seems exactly in line with what I was trying to say though in a lot of ways.

Rules of use are exactly what are important and the fact is that most communities have not held votes to decide upon them despite the implementation of these scanners and the holding of the data.

We need to decide as a people whether this is a national, state, or even county by county issue as well.

It is public. You are on a public roadway. But what rights does that give to law enforcement to retain your driving records for an indefinite amount of time?
How about giving the deer the vaccine?
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Talk about serendipity, I literally discovered Chart.js about an hour ago, searched for Angular directives for it on the off chance someone already made it, didn't find anything, then came to Hacker News and here is Angles.js.

Looks great, nice and easy to use. Excited to try it out!
I've never seen a Hacker News thread get so off track...
Well if you believe in conspiracy theories, Netflix subtly alters the film so that if it shows up on Bittorrent they know where it came from :-)

But I suspect that Netflix isn't doing the altering, rather their source material comes that way. Either because the distribution channel gets it that way or because the content providers want it that way. Like the author I suspect that if it wasn't being done by the media companies there would be a big stink about it.
If anyone's looking for a non-US alternative to Gmail due to PRISM, according to Fastmail's company info page [1] their servers are run by NYI [2], a hosting company based in New York.

That puts them out of the running for me.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_company_info.html

[2]: http://www.nyi.net/
We've got hookups for housing if you want to head down! :) I'll be in Seattle in a couple weeks to chat with the CodeFellows guys. They have a sweet course too if you're interested in Ruby.
Did pg ever make good on his promise to embiggen the fonts of those responders who claimed they were over 80?
There is plenty of exploration in modern MMO's if you sit at the top of the player curve. Unlike single player games they often have vary little documentation or handholding it's only the shear number of players that makes most secrets leak so fast and more importantly you dont't need to read all that player documentation of you don't want to.

A great example of this might be haste vs crit vs power. There are generally trade offs between them and the game in no way says which is more useful per point. In large part because the math depends on play stile, spec, and the dynamics of a specific fight. Still players often spend a lot of time trying different optomizations and building different simulations based on different assumptions. End result tens even hundreds of thousands of hours of experementation that ofen gets tossed out after each patch.

And because players will find this crap out on there own games have become vary vague with exactly how things work or what they changed. Aka "spell power less useful for ability X" which says vary little overall.
Is the modal text really blurry for anyone else, or am I going insane?
Does the dog vaccine work in humans?
C is not a simple language. It is confoundingly difficult for a machine to parse. Add in the fact that it pretty much requires a preprocessor to be useful and it get's even more difficult. Clearly the article is not about whether the C paradigm is complex. It obviously isn't, because it doesn't come with a whole lot of pre-baked abstractions. But for parsing reliably, it's an absolute nightmare.
yes. it definitely is.
What's the application for extremely black nano tubes, and what does it have to do with the payment platform mentioned in the article?
What information are you looking for?

Geographic location, age, gender, education?
Would using Google Analytics work? I know it's not as easy as Mixpanel but they have a lot of tools. They also have an Objective C SDK.

There's a YC company called Heap Analytics that offers pricing based on monthly unique users. I've never used it but it's the only other thing I can think of.
We have a platform that is similar to what you need, but geared to the web. The advantage is adapting to your use case would not be a huge issue and I've been intending to go that direction anyway.

Hit me up if you would like, my email is in my profile.
Won't they be a target for litigation for using the name GlassUp?
Huh? Much easier to audit a Broadcom SOC? Than what, auditing deliberately obfuscated hardware designs like the modern DirecTV smartcards?

The idea that it's in any sense easy to "audit" the Raspberry Pi's hardware is head-explodey. No you can't.

This is pure back-rationalization. You like the Raspberry Pi. You don't like Intel Corporation. So you come up with a reason why the R-Pi's hardware RNG might be more trustworthy than than the hardware RNG in a modern Intel computer. It's a crazy reason, not least because the R-Pi's core is produced by another giant semiconductor company.
I love backbone, and it works well for us. We hacked in support for full paths and query parameters and will likely end doing full page reloads for IE8/IE9 (IE10 will support push state anyway)

It seems mighty unfair that we can't have nice things because Microsoft took so long to roll out push state.
Well, first of all, I'm not arguing for equal pay for everyone, I'm in favor of a guarenteed minimum income.
Secondly, money doesn't work as a motivator for non menial tasks.[1] And you know, a task that seems boring and uninteresting to you might not for someone else. As for how many of us would even develop software at all, I need only point to the open source community. Extrinsic notivation has its place, but it is no substitute for that internal drive.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Group of tech giants to demand greater NSA transparency
Vert.x 2.0 is released
No. It's inane to create conditions under which "mere ability" is so powerful and accessible, then rely on hope and faith that there are no bad actors with "intent" to "do something [evil]". It's not as if we haven't been there before.

OTOH, it's perfectly reasonable to be concerned about the capabilities that we give our government. That is exactly what distinguishes various forms of government and exactly why we have a Constitution that defines ours as it does.
>Could you move to a part time employment model without legally imposing a maximum on the number of hours each person can work?

I think the taxman's bludgeon would be the weapon of choice here.

>I know I would certainly not willingly give up half my hours and income and have to put all of my work in a state where someone else can take over every few days.

What do you propose as an alternative? A worker-class and a loafer-class? Prisons? Eugenics? Population control isn't very warm and fuzzy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58&list=PL381A1925D...
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We've had good luck with omniture
Xamarin raises $16 million to help you go mobile
Impossible material with world record breaking surface area made by researchers
Is React compatible with Web Components (shadow dom and custom elements)?
It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.
Monads are easy. Do bother.

=D. Just need to be the discord to the Internet's harmony.
I remember seeing stuff about threadless headsets on the site a few years ago, but yes apparently the site is being updated
Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names
I remember the snipers... cursed them because I had a low resolution screen, so I couldn't see them from afar.

The star wars one was great too (is it still alive?)
>> where you're being compensated with equity the same way that an investor would

After having conversations with a few startups, this is what I figured too. Unfortunately though, the other side would not agree to the numbers that result for my salary-equity if my contributions were to be treated the same way as theirs. They correctly cite what the numbers typically look like at startups (covered by the OP too) which happen to be sub par to what I would propose based on such analysis.

I had found this post very helpful: http://jacquesmattheij.com/first-employee-or-cofounder
Countly is an open source, realtime mobile analytics solution with an enterprise plan. Funnels and segmentation are currently being developed and planned to get ready for mainstream due 1-2 months (advanced segmentations being quite earlier). Check http://count.ly for a list of features and benefits.
You can use Google Apps' "groups" feature to get forwarding. You can also set a catch-all address that gets email sent to any valid address at your domain.
> Travel times between the US and China, or between Australia and Europe, are now comparable to those of the great age of sail in the 19th century.

If this is true, why don't we all just use sailing ships, which require no fuel and produce no emissions?
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> People in the business can be jerks and unreasonable for sure but it would be more likely for someone to "ask" for 100k or simply say "domain is not for sale" than to say "7 figures" (2 letter, possible, 3 letter, specifically "all of the responses", no.

FWIW, here's an email I received when enquiring about a 3-letter domain name:

Thank you for your interest in this domain name

This domain name is among our most prized and sought-after domains. It is the online equivalent of prime, downtown real estate, and we get purchase inquiries about this domain every week.

Based on what comparable domain names are selling for, this domain name commands a premium price tag in the five-figure and higher price range.

This may come as a surprise to you since not everyone is aware that domain names of this quality regularly sell in this price range (and higher). Please visit the Domain Name Journal website below to see a current summary of recently sold domains and their selling prices:

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After you’ve viewed the Domain Name Journal Sales Chart (above) and seen the current selling prices, we’d be delighted to discuss your interest in purchasing this domain name from us. Also, to avoid giving you ‘sticker shock’, we want to make sure your domain acquisition budget will support this domain’s five-figure and higher price range. We’re always respectful of our customers’ time and try very hard not to waste it with negotiations that can never get off the ground.

If your budget will support the five-figure and higher price range, please reply with a serious offer to begin the negotiation process with us. Any offer of less than five-figures won’t be taken seriously by us, and due to the volume of email we receive, will not be replied to at all. Thank you.
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Whats even more confusing, is when I double-click on users I used to use to g-chat to, it pulls up the message and I end up e-mailing them instead of messaging them. This is easier to do now that the e-mail window looks like a chat window.

I've noticed others doing this as well. They e-mail me without a subject and its context is from a recent chat.
You're right. I misread etler's wording. (As usual, if there's two ways to interpret something, one obvious and one obscure, my brain will seize the obscure.) Must...sleep...
Kids in high schools moved in phases from vinyl to cassette tapes (many of which were purchased with music on them) to CDs to mp3s and they're the largest music-buying demographic. Few people bought pop songs on vinyl once they were available on cassette. But I think you're right from the perspective of a recording engineer, or anybody who used reel-to-reel at home, or someone who bought underground punk records all through the 80s, etc.
One of the nice things about not having documentation is that only those that take the time to explore and learn can exploit the feature. On the contrary, when documentation exists, not reading it would put you at a disadvantage.
Yup! Here's a post showing an example of how to do it:

http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/custom-components-reac...
That's what Filters and Labels are for.
You are correct, but not forgiven. Sometimes I wonder why no mistake may go uncorrected on the internet...
Ha, I had the same experience.

I also loved imagining people's left pedals falling out, until it happened to me (well, it was the right). Make sure you screw your pedals in tight!
Yeah, a reasonable attitude like yours is what I need. I skipped blu-ray and went straight to digital. Discs in the bin etc. I think I jumped too soon. Meta data accuracy, library software, media servers etc have all changes vastly in the time I've been purely digital and every change is awful. My last change over was so awful that I said never again. I'll see if that holds, but having a third part sort it for me seems ideal.
While I have no data in support of this, and thereby could be totally fooling myself, it does not look hard to spot irrationality in human behavior, which happens to be a lot more common than what most people think. I am assuming that such irrational thinking on part of the founders and key executives would correlate at least somewhat with a startup's success or failure.
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Ask HN: OSX Screen Capture Software
Question - OSX Screen Capture Software - any recommendation ??? (Other than Evernote Skitch.)

This is what I want to replace, mainly because the mutitasking capture keys are mapped to other shortcuts and it (Skitch) isn't able to have shortcut keys remapped, and the Evernote vesion is worse than the original Ver 1 they bought, and - It forces me to login to Evernote when I don't want to, and then it cloud stores all my screencaptures, when I don't want it to either.

So basically want something like Skitch used to be.. But not abandoned-ware.. an active / current application for the job.
When I receive "unimportant crap," I either unsubscribe to the list that sent it, or mark it as spam.

I do not leave crap lying around and then add another management dimension to my Inbox to deal with it.
I don't get it. The value prop: "Easily Deploy your Code to Any Server."

I don't want to deploy my code/application to "any" server. In fact, I want to deploy it to the smallest number of servers possible and then change that infrastructure as infrequently as possible. Time spent futzing with infrastructure that's not essential to my customer's experience is time wasted, after all.

And from your copy it seems like you're selling "portability." Once I settle on EC2, though, I'm going to be pretty-well settled on EC2, so portability does very little to benefit me.

Moreover, once I've settled on EC2 I'm quickly going to set up a deployment process. Let's say I'm using Rails + Capistrano for deployment. In a world where I need to switch urgently to another infrastructure service, I know I'll be able to do so with only minimal modifications to my Capistrano script. In any case, necessary changes to the deploy script will be about the same amount of work as necessary changes to the application code and I'm going to have to make those, regardless.

So, overall, the value this provides seems very minimal relative to the likely complexity it would add in other places.

Edit: Reading other comments, this is more like Capistrano-as-a-service it seems? That might be interesting, especially if it comes with process monitoring tools. The page really screams "portability" to me, though.

A tag line like "Deploy your application like the professionals" might do better to get that point across.
Function/method/class docstrings (sorry, my comment may have been misleading) to document the purpose/contract/API, terse inline comments for the implementation only when something is not obvious to a skilled developer. And of course carefully-chosen variable names. I'm not at all a fan of heavily commented code. It just adds more bytes to comprehend, more bytes to maintain, and worst of all a high probability than the code doesn't exactly match the documentation, which causes a significant mental load. Also sometimes leads to people showing off in their natural language descriptions of their code. Same for literate programming: I want as few characters as possible that I have to understand, with that statement appropriately qualified :)
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The Drone that Killed my Grandson
Awesome. I just whipped it up today to help with some dashboards at work. Will probably make it more full-featured. Let me know if you have suggestions.
Since I met Dennis Rodman on his way back from North Korea, does that make everybody on HN 3 hops from Kim Jong Un?
Hacker News has a low tolerance for this kind of humor. You just couldn't resist, could you?
The most interesting feature of Glass for me is having the camera which would leave my hands free. GlassUp doesn't have that. Plus it's ugly as f*.

Let's see but I would predict this will be a huge flop.
nope.. same here. chromebox.
I'm not a heavy C# dev, but I don't understand why your first paragraph would be so: isn't that the point of implementing an interface like IEnumerable<T> -- so that you can implement Count() in an optimized, specialized way that "gets the count directly"?
C is a tool. A powerful and flexible tool.

If a programmer wants to write obfuscated code (as in the examples), C allows that.

If a programmer wants to write clean, maintainable and documented code, C allows that too.
C# like properties in C++
I always liked his shoutouts to the other Sheldon Browns of the world at the bottom of his personal page: http://sheldonbrown.com/home.html
You're wrong. This is not a 4:3 pan & scan, it's a 16:9 crop (or custom pan & scan), which is something quite rare - anamorphic widescreen is the norm.
Why would they bother? There is a local version of PRISM named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM">SORM</a> deployed at every provider.
Years ago I made a similar rant [1]. Last year it made the rounds on HN and because of that I heard from one company [2] that seems to be trying a different approach. (I have no affiliation with them). I don't know if that model is working for them or not. I haven't stayed in touch and I haven't seen anyone else trying it.

[1] http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=8

[2] http://www.10xmanagement.com/
Elastic electronics: Stretchable gold conductor grows its own wires
HBO and the other "premium" cable channels also do this. Not every single time, but much of the time. Try watching any of the Lord of the Rings movies on HBO or Cinemax for example. They're all 16:9, even though they were 2.39:1 "scope" in the theater.[1]

Forcing everything to be 16:9 has become the new "pan and scan", and it's actually been around for a while.

[1] Some of the time a movie has been filmed in a format which contained extra space on the negative, such as "Super 35", and in some cases the 16:9 might actually be showing more of the image rather than less, but it's very hit-and-miss and requires a custom transfer and master of the movie (which HBO has been known to do in at least some cases).
The placeholder images you use for captions are getting scaled up so they look very blurry for me. Might be better to get bigger images and have them scale down? placehold.it also allows you to specify your own text there by passing in the `text` parameter.

This library looks great!
I've been using Yahoo mail for many, many years. I've always been happy with it. I've tweaked some of it with my own custom CSS here and there and it's great. At some level it feels very much like running Outlook on the desktop, which is what I run for my businesses (I run multiple simultaneous instances of Outlook accessing a separate database per business).

I tried Gmail a few years ago and it simply did not hold a candle to the speed and convenience of Yahoo's offering. They've done a few things I am not thrilled about on the last major update but they seem to be tweaking it behind the scenes.

Beyond that, I've been very much against relying on Google for anything that is critical to my business. Why? They can shut down your entire account and every single Google service you use in a microsecond. When they do you will not know why and you will have no sensible path to addressing or even discovering the problem. That, to me, is the deal breaker. Why cares about the minutiae of their UI, setup, lists, tabs, spam filtering, etc. Your email account can evaporate overnight and you will not be able to do a thing about it. I, frankly, don't cannot comprehend why any business person would even consider using them.
The Rise of UX Leadership
That SHODAN search link doesn't return any results...
Anonymity != Privacy.

If you're in a crowd, by definition, you're not expected to have privacy, however you are allowed anonymity by virtue of being in a crowd. If you're in a cafe, you're naturally not afforded privacy, however you are still anonymous unless spotted by someone who recognizes you. If you lean over to tell something to this person, that conversation (despite being in public) is still private.

Your public information still afforded you anonymity in a sea of data however since we now know it can conveniently be assembled into a dossier, it's being used to destroy your anonymity which, believe it or not, used to be taken for granted.
VLC most likely has some filters (look for one called "expand" maybe) that will do this.
Interesting- do you guys have a mobile SDK already? We'd need both iOS and Android.