skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two things that I immediately think while looking at this language:

1. If languages were syntactically easier to read, then we wouldn't need one that's made just for young children.
2. This confirms my suspicion that "=" and "==" are damn harmful stupid syntax for assignment and equality.
This might be the original ... http://www.quokka.com.au/ classifieds ads, based in Perth. Started as a newspaper.
Seems like you have a similar use-case as me. How do you deal with sent messages between the POP client and the IMAP clients? How and where do you store the authorative copies of the sent mail?
> MailMate and it's interesting thread hierarchy view.

How is it different from the threaded view that has been present since at least Netscape days?
As a rule of thumb, conservatives base their public policy agenda on theories that have no basis in reality, whereas liberals base their public policy agenda on statistics that have no basis in reality. This is a good example of the latter.
Except that's the very anti-definition of "just works".
Thank you! I try very hard to make it worth the reader's time to read it. Humor and interesting phrasing is a big part of that.
I've come to Gmail with an invite too, and I fully agree with you. But I don't know yet where I would jump to. I would prefer it to be a European company.
If Linus is too abusive, perhaps this developer should consider joining the OpenBSD project. I hear Theo is a really nice guy to work with.
> their servers are in New York

For us as a European business, that's a dealbreaker. It's not that we are completely paranoid and migrating off of American systems in a big hurry, but moving forward, not in the US and not owned by an American company is a requirement for any new service we use.

Even if we didn't care, we have to take into account our clients, and "no data under US control" has become not just a selling point, but a strict condition for many projects.

This was already very much the case before the PRISM scandal, and it's only going to get worse now.
This comment assumes that Ruby, Python, and Scheme are easy enough for children to get started with, and I disagree with that assumption.

This is clearly, in my mind, better than the languages out there and I've only seen 3 lines.
I just tried to work that out using a basic app on my phone. My 'calculations' say that Saturn will be to the north east of the moon if you're in the UK? I spent about 3 seconds on this. Can anyone confirm/correct this?

Edit: by north east I mean if you imagine that the moon is on the centre of the map and you look up and to the right from it.

Edit 2: Looks like Saturn will be in the bottom of the constellation Virgo.
That I can understand. If the comment was on a thread about github outage that was not DDOS related.
My point is that if you don't like Gmail ads, you should investigate switching to something else. I feel like many people are uncomfortable with the ads but might feel locked in.

I actually don't care that Google is machine-reading email to serve ads (see http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/), but I do care about polluting the interface with ads that look like email for the same reason I don't like the new compose interface. Both make the interface worse, and email is bad enough as it is without bad UI.
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>How is it going to image the Earth?

The sun is being blocked by saturn itself, so the earth will be visible to the camera. The real purpose is to image the rings. Actual info is here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/waveatsaturn/

> Why are we waving?

To ensure NASA's continued funding/for a bit of innocent amusement. Take your pick.
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All the UIs I've seen in the last several years present threads flat (without any hierarchy). If there are other modern mail clients that have this kind of UI, I'd love to see them.
Probably should have mentioned free alternatives as I've signed up with Google Apps for business prior to December 2012. Also, it's still free if you use Google Education.

So, any free alternatives to Google Apps for my domain?
Axis and Vortex are interesting stories, but very different from the first one. They become maybe a little bit less interesting with each iteration, but are still entertaining. The first book is full of mystery and the personal dynamics of a few people over a large section of their lives and none of the other books are like that, although some amount of mystery is a piece of each. I definitely didn't regret reading Vortex or Axis.
ah, so I will be in the field of view, if still too small for the horizontal resolution? cool! thanks :)
The Soviets had missiles based on MiG-15 fighter - a nuclear armed version of one of these missiles was aimed at the Guantanamo Bay base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. See:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev...

Probably a SSC-2B "Samlet":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS-1_Komet
Is it really such a great idea to make languages that look more like English? From my experience, newcomers to programming pick up a lot of misconceptions about general programming from English-like syntax.
What's the point of switching to an inferior email service if their servers are still under US jurisdiction? Might as well stick with Gmail and suffer the adds and NSA spying.
For me, it's not that I'm afraid of GMail removing IMAP, it's that Gmail IMAP works really, really bad. For an email-client to work well with Gmail, it has to be tailored to Gmail, and that has given me some issues lately.

For instance, most of my mail is sorted into labels, skipping the inbox. When using a mail client with IMAP, these labels shows as folders. Deleting the mail from my client, doesn't delete it from Gmail, only removes the label. Useless.
Thanks very much, will retry the service.
Or just, you know, block the ads for a fraction of the effort.
I'm comparing ad formats. And I'm illustrating that in the case of these new gmail ads not only are they restricted to a designated area, they can also be disabled altogether.
I love how we put this on HN. Most likely everybody who sees this already knows about it - that's why their here (they can't work)
That's how easy it is to fool us, that doesn't mean the standard would hold true for other potential civilizations.
I love FastMail's interface and used it for couple of months. Recently, I let my free trial expire and allowed my account to be deleted. Why? Because it's not just about email. Everything, I mean everything, is in my Google account...docs in Drive, 10s of thousands of photos in G+...and it's all integrated so well. Bailing on the email part of the Google suite just adds a layer of disconnect and complexity...it's unfortunately just not worth it to me at this point.
Did you see recently any virus that is able to propel itself through interstellar space or replicate there? Viruses are just tiny chemical programs that hijack replication system existing in their environment. But there has to be some replication system to hijack.
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I wonder how many more articles on the internet are going to be wasted on this topic.
Hate to say "I told you so," but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787363, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787398
Google sure is getting bad press lately !
They're not "sneaking ads as email": http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...
Feature request

/chainsaw/:name/:from

returns 'F*ck me gently with a chainsaw, :name. Do I look like Mother Teresa?' - :from
Abuse? Important lesson that most people of my generation and prior learned at about age 4:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Is the self-esteem movement of subsequent generations really putting words on the same level as fists, knives, etc?
You're naive if you think hosting in Europe means you're necessarily any safer.
Considering they have no marketable skills or education, how could their situation get any better? There are tons of poor people in the world who die from easily preventable diseases that you could help instead if that's your true motivation.

They are a self-sufficient people that don't seem to be screwing up the world nearly as much as we are... why would we even assume we're superior? Maybe we're just jealous?
I think your'e right.

The rule of thumb when it comes to "designed for children" goes something like this - if it does not offer progression toward the "adult" version then it is a toy.
Ok, now I don't want to make this a gender issue, but this article really can't decide, at one point they say:

>I also got some really awful hate mail that tried to drag my gender in. But I don’t think this is a gendered topic

then a couple of responses later they say:

> I think that my perspective is somewhat colored by both my gender and my age

Which is it?
So does this also mean that they won't show up in IMAP clients?
I understand her viewpoint...

But I read Linus e-mail explaining his attitude, and I am more inclined to agree with him instead.

I am one that sometimes people called caustic or whatnot, including in my current startup, no matter how much I made a great effort to be polite and make clear I was not attacking anyone, every time I said the artist did something wrong, he would get pissed off and offended.

After a while I gave up, and started to write in my usual "caustic looking" style, and the artist started to understand me more, make less mistakes, and now we can make jokes and work with other without issues.

I personally hate the "corporate" style culture of being passive agressive, avoiding confrontations, being polite all the times and whatnot.

If you annoys me, I will tell you that you annoy me, and if you insist, I will throw a "fuck you".

I remember how much I hated every environment that I was, where "verbal abuse" was curtailed, because I never knew if someone was saying the truth or not, and in the end I started to behave like if everyone was a serial liar, and when you cannot trust anyone, it is hard to get anything done.
Linus swears a lot is basically a "dog bites man" story.
What is "Top Secret" is what went into those hot dogs...
Fun tidbit I read while searching for more info about these people. Evidently, some explorers sat in their boat just offshore in 1970 as some of the male warriors were on the beach. The explorers threw the men some gifts but refused to leave. How did the natives respond? Why, the women emerged from the jungle and immediately engaged in a giant orgy with the warriors, of course.

Dont mess with a good thing.
Switch back to Priority Inbox while you can!

(until, of course, they sunset it.)
Ask HN: How could I automate the process of cleaning up my folder structure?
One of my key "Documents" folders has numerous files and subfolders several layers deep that do not adhere to a standard naming convention. Is there a way to quickly renaming all the files/folders without having to do so one by one?
When I was in high school, I worked for a farmer whose primary product was hay, as he was getting old for dairy. He was able to correlate the value of $1 investment in advertising (mostly weekly newspapers and ads at horse facilities) to sales. He used a pencil, penknife (for sharpening) and a bound marble notebook from the drugstore to do this.

At the end of the day, there may be businesses blowing useless dollars on advertising, but businesses that don't watch their dollars don't tend to last very long.
Hi!

I am the author of Quokka CMS, Thank you @suhair for posting.

Quokka is a work in progress, it is in early stage of development but already works for the basic which is user authentication/authorization, article posting ans extending with blueprints.

This is not my first CMS project, I am also one of the developers of another CMS made in Django http://github.com/opps, Opps is a big project ready for production and running on large audience websites.

So I started Quokka as an experiment to implement all the CMS features in a non-relational database, that's why I choose Flask and MongoDB.

I think this project will get really serious because I am realizing that MongoDB fits perfectly for dynamic CMS.

I am really open for suggestions and contributions.

Quokka - The happiest animal in the world and maybe the happiest CMS in the internets. :)
Yep. If the servers are in the US, or any of the NSA-tained countries like Australia, somebody is reading it.
It's a totally bullshit saying. A kid who's constantly told they're a worthless piece of shit by their parents is far more likely than average to wind up with psychological problems. Words have power. We can read great writing and be deeply moved by it. Why would you think they don't have the power to harm?
I agree that IMAP will probably stick around in some form. My big concern is if they start doing some kind of rate limiting, it could make it very difficult to get all your email out.

However, along these lines the removal of Jabber support from Gmail is a little bit scary (first they removed federation support, then they killed it altogether). Limiting or removing IMAP is not outside the realm of possibilities.
First you ghettoize the content, then you eliminate it.
With what? I _do_ care about running random plugins in my browser that update in the background. There's nothing stopping a malicious plugin from scraping stuff out of your email, and I feel like _that_ is a legitimate security concern!
I've heard multiple references of the world wide poverty rate dropping by half in the last 20 years, here's a summary.

http://finallygoodnews.net/2013/06/20/half-way-there-world-w...

and the original article

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-bill...
As someone who (I don't think) has any form of autism, or asbergers I still find it difficult to parse the intent behind overly polite messages, or those that try and avoid confrontation. I'd very much prefer to have messages that were particularly vicious, as it'd make the intent far clearer to me.
That's sad. I was never a regular reader of the H, but when I did come across their articles, I found them very well written and informative.

I'm surprised they haven't tried a subscription model like LWN. LWN has encountered similar problems, and been on the brink of shutdown before, but every time they have announced this they have subsequently managed to increase subscriptions enough to stay afloat. The nice thing about subscriptions as opposed to a one-time donation drive is that it becomes a sustainable revenue stream that they can depend on, rather than a one-time injection of cash that dries up quickly.

LWN's subscription model seems to work really well. A subscription just means you get access to subscriber's only articles a week before everyone else; so if you don't need to stay absolutely on top of every development, you can read for free. There are different levels of subscriptions, ranging from $3.50/month to $50/month, so it's close to a "pay what you want" model (there are some slight differences in features you get at the different levels, but they are mostly equivalent). And subscribers are allowed to generate links that they can share with other people to content that is still subscriber-only, so you can still discuss an article if you feel like, submit it to HN, or the like; they just ask that people don't abuse it by providing a feed of all subscriber-only articles or something of the sort.
How to create an image hosting service?
I'm shocked by your arrogance.
Right, so it's going to be far from the street-level imaging Google does, as I suspected.
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My grandfather designed and flew drones for Northrop in the 70s and 80s. They were used for target practice (US or foreign military would shoot at them). He flew them by adjusting oscilloscopes and he had a plotter on a map to show where the plane was.
Because we're in control of our emotions and our reactions. We are not entirely in control of the laws of physics. Ergo, physical abuse is not even remotely in the same category as verbal "abuse".
Yup. Here's another article with a less confusing title:

http://www.dw.de/german-spy-spotter-attracts-unwanted-attent...
They're not jumping off a cliff. They've been doing fine (insofar as they're surviving with a small population) for some 60 thousand years. First contact alone will probably kill them with diseases (a well-documented phenomenon).

More akin to a guy standing on a ledge of a cliff, albeit precarious but doing fine; if you try to help him, he'll probably fall and die fast. He knows this, and he's telling you to stay the he11 away.

That said, I am sympathetic with your basic view. Les Stroud's Beyond Survival was fascinating, but the recurring theme of "and this ancient people is about to die out or lose their culture" struck me as "well, if doing stupid things[1] isn't survivable then maybe those ways should change, and the consequences of sticking to them are natural." The Sentinese however seem to be holding it together pretty well; not advancing, but living on what is otherwise a stereotypical tropical paradise island (food growing on trees, good climate, water), methinks they've achieved some form of comfortable equilibrium and are doing pretty well (I'm sure some here on HN are thinking "I'd like to join them").

Someone mentioned above "your 100 kids will leave the island, move to India, and become call center employees". That vs. where & how they're living now, I'm not so sure "bring[ing] them to our society in a humane manner" really is. Someday it will happen, someday modern life will crash into their ancient and stable culture, someday they will have to deal with new diseases and cell phones and high-speed transport, and "someday" probably isn't very long from now.

"But the kids need to do X and Y and Z!" my wife declares. "They're content and playing nicely with their toys and crayons," I'll reply. "Let them enjoy it a little longer."

[1] - the clincher was a tribe that fishes by dangling bare hooks in the ocean for hours while sitting on poles. I'm amazed that culture lasted so long. Yeah, they need some help.
I'm suitably impressed that Fastmail has been around since 1999. At first glance I would have dismissed it as a service which I wouldn't expect to outlive Gmail (and thus be leery about moving to it). It still may not outlive Gmail, but its history seems that its been pretty solid so far.
I totally agree. I believe if I can throw a "fuck you" at you and you can take it without creating much of a fuss, it'll just be easier for me to pick out your mistakes right up without resorting to fake politeness. And you could do the same. This would only make it easier to get things done. Also who doesn't like to get things done their way, when its their own project?

Also I can't help but agree to Linus' response mail.
I think the idea is to recreate something like the famous Pale Blue Dot [1] image taken by Voyager 1. Here's a thought from Carl Sagan about that:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
I don't really understand why this is that big of a deal. Okay, I pay for github and they have downtime, that sucks. But git is designed to be distributed and your workflow can be partition tolerant. I honestly don't care if github goes down for a few hours; it doesn't stop anyone on my team from continuing to work. Now if they have days of downtime... that could be an issue and I would probably look to host repositories elsewhere.
>dying as the inevitable result of having been born

Dying is not the inevitable result of having been born (or rather, dying before the heat death of the universe is not).

>As outsiders who know nothing of the society of the people living on this island, we cannot and should not attempt to change their society to a way we feel more appropriate, that is literally genocide.

Genocide: ..any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

It's definitely not literally genocide.
I can't disagree with what Linus said in his mail and the rest of the media reaction seems like unwanted unnecessary attention towards this issue.
This was my reaction to the tabs as well - now I have three inboxes to keep clean instead of one! I disabled them as soon as I could figure out how to.
You make some pretty shitty and arrogant assumptions. Don't judge other cultures by your own horrible standards.

And thank you for illustrating my point better than me.
That was inspired by this Great Santini quote:

That was the man who dandled me on his knee when I was a young boy—the Great Santini. I once introduced my father when I was giving a talk like this, and I said, "My father decided to go in the Marine Corps when he found out that his IQ was the temperature of this room."

My father got up right behind me. He stared down at the audience and he said, "My God, it's hot in here. . . it must be at least 165 degrees."
Canada was a toughie that I meant to get around to later. I was working from the reference at http://wikitravel.org/en/English_language_varieties which has three categories of English; "Commonwealth English", "US English" and "Canada".

It didn't really give me enough detail on Canadian English to create a new category there and then though so I left it as a "I should get around to looking this up soon".

My apologies to the fine people of Canada. I'll look at rectifying it shortly.
Ignoring the actual assessment of "Is Linus too abusive?"...do those who defend Linus think there's no middle ground between harsh and benevolent forms of dictatorship (let's also ignore evaluating the goodness of dictatorships in general)?

In other words, does harshness positively correlate with success? Sure, you can cite Steve Jobs. But others could cite Woz, who while delivered plenty of harsh technical criticisms of his own, still seems to have avoided doing it in a way that denigrated both the person and the work.
Earth will be a few pixels at best. The pale blue dot photo has basically a single pixel of Earth, though Voyager was farther away than Cassini at the time (past the orbit of Saturn) and its cameras weren't as good.
Hi, The project is really new, I started some weeks ago. There is no website running yet.

In few days I will have a demo running.
We don't see how many were founded and failed. So maybe not.
Also, Forge of God / Anvil of the Stars, by Greg Bear.
Actually I was planning on writing something of an arbitrage bot. It's hard though, I don't have any technical analysis knowledge. However, I did make over a grand on BTCe just buying and trading between LTC, BTC, and USD, and other small numbers that used to get "pumped". Quite fun.
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Is he actually nice or are you being sarcastic?
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It is a very valuable member of the Commonwealth, but as I understand it it uses a mix of Commonwealth English and US English and I didn't get round to including it as an option.
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