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I think that this sentence needs to be gotten rid of completely.
- Webmail is fundamentally not something that can run on your own computer. The word is "web" mail, not desktop mail, it's just going to confuse users.

In addition to it being confusing, because of dynamic IPs and residential port blocking you may be able to run it on your computer, you just won't be able to do anything with it due to other internet infrastructure...
- Sending mail from home is almost guaranteed to fail sometimes/often, due to dynamic ip ranges which are frequently blocked.
- Port 25 and port 80 are blocked by most major american ISPs these days for residential services. Making this unusable from a home server. Not to mention it's against many ISPs terms of service to run a server from home without paying for a business package. (That's right, it's not just google fibre)
- SPF records and other forms of email authentication? You would also need a third party DDNS service if using a dynamic IP.

So with all of that said, I like the interface pictures. It could be a good competitor to webmail clients like roundcube and friends.
I always listen to grunge.
A reply to both Terretta and voodoo123: you don't suppose putting the former Democratic vice president on your board improves, not to mention leverages, lobbying "power", do you?

At the very least, whatever Al Gore is getting paid should probably get added to the official lobbying expenses.
I agree. And isn't the idea of a test to find the people that are best a doing something. It doesn't really matter how much preparation goes into it.

So maybe someone that works really hard to be better than others at something is more valuable than someone who is naturally bright?

For example - a naturally bright lawyer isn't as good as a 'good' lawyer that tries really hard to be the best. Being good at a test shows that you'll be good at whatever the test is trying to find - no matter how this is achieved.
I don't think that will ever happen; lots of people use background tabs to play music in something like Pandora or Play Music.
Apple, Inc. iPad is obliterating Samsung, Google's Android in tablet profits
Ask for enough money to have say 3-6 months of resources, which would force them to figure out pricing/business economics before the money runs out, and forces them to invest in the idea as much as their backers do.

First reaction for me was: 'Wow, this is awesome, and I'm looking for something like this. How much do they need? Wow, 100k to build a mail app? No thanks.'

I get that this is a free product and is open source, but I'd like to know what they plan to do after the 100k is gone? Instead of a proposal a) pay us to work on it for a year, I'd like to see proposal b) help us bridge between now and phase 2, which is where we'll x.

I'd just like to see a little more thought put into it.
This is like ranting at a beehive. The security community is not the homogenous, closed group this poster seems to assume.
Curious why the submitter rounded off the number :) Anyhow, good news. A small win for the pirates.
You obviously haven't been on HN very long :-)
Some of the criticism that's raised against presidents is about personal attributes, not policy. However, this kind of criticism is not a new phenomenon, and Obama isn't the greatest victim of this. For a recent example, many people were more fond of pointing at GWB's buffoonery than the problems with his policies and the actions of his administration.

Political debate in a de-facto two party system easily turns into a fight between partisan hacks.

Actually, even left and right aren't clear in real life politics. Is "crony capitalism" right or left?
Unfortunately it shows as playing by default, which is obviously not true if you have ’Click to Play’ enabled in Chrome (load plugins on demand).
They can hit unmute :)

I still use WinAmp. Perhaps I'm getting too old for this :)
I don't think that's the link you wanted to share ;)
I've traced the history several times over the past few years here, but suffice to say, Apple wasn't suing anyone until the mobile phone industry realized Apple's little toy was gobbling all the profits.

See this comment from 1,250 days ago, recapping early timeline: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166321

And a comment from a year ago:

Over two [now three] years ago, I argued that patent suits were how the licensing game was played among the existing players. It was considered an everyday cost of doing business by the incumbents, but Apple wasn't well prepared for this. (They've learned fast.)

This wasn't on consumers' radar because none of the fights were as interesting as the juggernauts of Apple v. Android which get framed in almost religious terms and taken personally by users who have chosen a camp.

The argument then was that Apple had not been actively litgating patents, but when Nokia (faced with dwindling profits, most of which appeared to be landing in Apple's pockets) started the fight, and Kodak piled on, Apple had to demonstrate that the patents it was using to counter these suits were patents that it was actively defending. This pushed Apple to file against HTC, and eventually against others who, again, had all been actively (but boringly) suing one another before Apple got to the table.
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I mentioned Crunchbase maps since that was the first site that I was aware of that did this kind of thing. It is certainly possible to do it better.

>This is only for San Francisco.

I just linked to the SF map (notice the URL); maps exist for other areas, too.

>Crunchbase on the other hand, appears to have limited functionality and is sparsely populated.

Functionality-wise, the sites are pretty similar except Crunchbase maps doesn't list jobs (location-based job search engines do exist, though) and to alter information you need to go to another part of the site. Crunchbase maps obviously looks aged and doesn't even include all data points on the same map so this site is better in that regard.

However, if you include the non-SF maps Crunchbase maps has much more data than this does (at least right now and some of that data may be outdated.) They also offer a RESTful API and might (not sure) allow you lots of flexibility for using that data (worth looking into at least).
You must be a reasonable man.

The world does change, even dramatically, sometimes.

(Not that I believe Dart is interesting or useful enough to drive dramatic change, I find your approach overly pessimistic).
Who are we taking it back from?
They tried very hard in the Samsung case to get a large portion of their offerings banned but the judge wouldn't have it.

They also got HTC products banned from the US for relatively minor infringements.
That's not what you did.
I ain't sure if that's directed at me, but assuming it is, CoffeeScript and Typescript and, heck, even asm.js are direct competitors to Dart. It's all transpiled languages competing for mindshare. Dart isn't doing well on that field.

There's nothing regarding fear, uncertainty, or doubt in that assertion.
Washington State withholds Federal education money from schools and instead puts it in the general fund. We don't get a choice to improve the schools with more funding, we get a choice to raise local taxes for school funding, or dissolve the school into another district.
I ended up ending a friendship because they posited that anyone who disagreed with an Obama policy was a racist that was too dumb to admit it.
Entirely incorrect. Evidently, you neglected to read the details of the article. First, Samsung isn't mentioned at all, so there's no context for this specific debate. The fact that Microsoft or IBM gave more money to government officials means absolutely nothing when someone is trying to to decide between Apple and Samsung. Moreover, this article pertains only to a three month period. You can't possibly pretend that this data is conclusive.

I actually looked up the empirics. First, Samsung didn't really lobby at all until last year, whereas Apple has consistently spent millions. Even when Samsung did start expanding their lobbying efforts, Apple has outspent them by more than double every year.

The article to which you linked is in no way pertinent to the discussion, and totally betrays the actual statistics.

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000042406...

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021754...
Thank goodness! I was afraid Best Buy wouldn't be allowed to sell me an iPad 2 come Christmas.
Would be better to have a Google Maps embed tagged with "Areas of Interest".

That'd probably motivate the legal page even more, though.
Dart2JS will run on all browsers. Dart currently will only run in Chrome. This is an important distinction.
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It's not just that expanding support for the DOM memory model to support multiple VMs is a lot of work, it's that it's a lot of work that is totally unnecessary unless you want to add multiple languages to the Web, which is a problem that the other browser manufacturers don't want to solve. In other words: the lack of support for multiple languages in the DOM is not a drawback of browser engines; rather it's a drawback of the Dart VM. This is much of the reason behind the objections that were raised on webkit-dev.

Having suboptimal GC performance in the DOM can be solved in other ways: for example, the cycle collector that Gecko uses. (That said, Servo [full disclosure: I'm a Servo core team member] is pursuing a more Oilpan-like approach, but not to support multiple languages.)
Ask HN: What would you tell your 16-year-old self?
Hi. I turn 16 this month.

I'm not any kind of wünderkind, young entrepreneur, anything like that. I know a few programming languages (but I'm not sure if I know how to program yet, if you know what I mean). There are a lot of questions that one has to ask themselves when they're at this age about their future: where they're going to go for university/college, what to do after education, things like that. I'm currently uncertain of any of the answers. After reading HN for a while, I've become interested in startups and startup culture, though I'm unsure if I want to be an entrepreneur myself, or if I do, what kind.

Being uncertain, it helps if someone who's been through it all could offer even the fewest words of wisdom. Since I find some similarities between myself and the people in the community that I observe here, I figured that I could get something out of answers to the question: if you had a conversation with your 16-year-old self, what'd you say?
Although not a drone, it is pretty cool to see this tech being open sourced, getting miniaturized, and at a price point where many people can afford them. Take the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter [1] for example, open source and fairly cheap, there is even a really cool demo video [2], I guess you could use the DIY drone software on your laptop to control this thing. I generally think of open source as software, but it's very cool to see hardware project too, there are even wikis for the copter [3] and radio [4], which explain the projects and the hacks. To help get a sense for how small this thing is check out this assembly video [5].

[1] http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-k...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBUVYZkODI

[3] http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyflie:index

[4] http://wiki.bitcraze.se/projects:crazyradio:index

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS3qR1IjeGE
I'm curious as to why they took it out, it's a lifesaver when you have 50+ tabs and one of them has a talking ad.
Afraid not.

My suggestion, expanding on what they do, is to not to try to copy anything to the user's clipboard and instead highlight the content (I'd advise against the hidden textarea too though). On mobile devices especially, highlighting is still a bit of a pain with large amounts of text.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11128130/select-text-in-j...

Leave copying to the user. As an added benefit, you're not relying on browser hacks (IE only or otherwise) or flash.
The people who go to the Yahoo homepage maybe want to see photos of Kim Kardashian's baby.

I'm not sure of the demographics of Yahoo's audience, but if memory serves right, in the US, they're big with middle class women in their late 20s/30s in the Midwest.

Of course being a Midwestern 30-something middle-class woman does not mean that you want to consume the kind of content in Yahoo's homepage. However, Yahoo has a different audience to target than Google and many other big web companies.
Without reading the whole article, I'm guessing this is an abridged version of Alex Roy's great book 'The Driver'?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Driver-Dangerous-Pursuit-Outlaw/dp...

Definitely worth a read if you're into that kind of thing.
I'd be just as interested in what my 16-year-old self says to me now. It would be an interesting conversation.
To be fair, he's been busy leading brave soldiers against Washington's pot dispensaries, and running guns for Mexican gangs.
Should this turn out to be true, the legal rationale is likely that a warrant is only need to read a communication, not to collect it. So "they" archive everything and then promise to look at it only when legal to do so. The NSA can even record American citizens if they promise not to read the data if it turns out to be an American they've recorded (unless the FBI wants the data, of course).

Even if this promise holds, though, people may dislike this policy, to put it mildly. If a robot takes a naked picture of me, it's an invasion of privacy even if no human ever looks at it.
How does the browser send that selected text to the clipboard?
or Milton Friedman..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GEiRroLaHc
I'd be nervous about the silicone degrading over time, until one day it snaps and my Android falls into traffic (perhaps causing a crash in the mean time).
Of course people won't ship something that doesn't work cross-browser today. But by that logic, no proprietary feature is worth worrying about. Consider a hypothetical future in which Chrome had 90% market share: as a Web dev, would you bother shipping or testing the JS fallback?

History tells us what will happen.
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> Maybe it's not FUD, maybe it's legitimate criticism.

"If I could take a clean sheet of paper and write [a new language] that retains all the goodness of [JavaScript] ... I would not have come up with anything like Dart." -- Douglas Crockford

How is this legitimate criticism? Especially since Dart has all the goodness of JavaScript except monkey patching (or is that one of the good parts?)
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higher-level templating again use on-the-fly compilation (i.e. grunt-haml + grunt-contrib-watch)
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I agree CSS and various API issues are a high threat. In many cases they are a problem right now.

But I disagree it is 1% for the risks mentioned before regarding the Dart VM in Chrome. It's hard to estimate that. If Chrome continues to increase in market share, it will no longer be a "huge chunk" of the market that they lose if they do not support dart2js, and furthermore, it isn't just a matter of working or not, but also how much focus on bugfixing and performance work they put on the JS fallback. It's easy to imagine many developers (especially smaller ones) developing in chrome and testing in chrome, and just verifying basic stuff works in other browsers.

We are not far from that risk today in other areas, for example important sites like Google Docs already say "For an enhanced and optimized experience, use Chrome". The risk gets that much worse when Chrome is actually running completely separate content in the Dart VM from everyone else.
How did this get to court? Who hired the lawyers to defend the pirates?
Yeah its a pretty old article (2007) so it was probably published in the lead up to that being released.
Yes, I've often read through old notes not recognising who that person is. It would be great to see their point of view on many things.
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English bashing is so easy its tiring. There's a reason English is a "bewildering mashup", because it developed organically taking input from all around the world. It is quite arguable that this is it's greatest strengths as a language.

This is due not only to the British Empire but also the fact that they essentially let language develop on its own. Unlike say, France (which had a similarly expansive empire), which tightly controlled the French language and still does to this day.
Do stuff you like. The rest works itself out.
I'd say don't sweat it. Make sure to not focus too much on computers. Programming/entrepreneurship is great and interesting, but I know that I spent a lot of my early teens as a loner in front of my computer screen.

Also, I'd say finish. Whatever it is that you do, finish it. Don't let abandoning stuff become a habit.
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Check out these guys at ETH Zurich. They have an open source quadrotor control package, though their main product is an optical flow sensor.

https://pixhawk.ethz.ch/
Please explain how this instance of the government choosing winners and losers arbitrarily is pro free market?

Creating arbitrary rules that don't apply to businesses who are serving the 'public interest' (politically connected) is only one step away from a planned economy.
Funny timing. I noticed this first after I updated Chrome and thought it was a part of their new audio indicators feature which might have been a part of the release.

While researching this I discovered that you can see audio indicators right now (even in the stable release) by including "–enable-audible-notifications" in the commandline when running the program.
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Congress seems to have explicitly preferred this approach, however. They could've set up a system with uniform rules and a mandatory process that the president can't overrule, as is commonly done with other areas like environmental rules. The president does have some power over the EPA, but can't arbitrarily instruct the EPA to drop rules simply because he disagrees with the outcome of the rulemaking process. But here Congress said that if the President disagrees with any ruling of the IPC "for policy reasons", he need merely notify the ITC and the ruling will be voided. That seems to indicate Congress wanted case-by-case review of ITC determinations for policy conformance. Why would they write that into the law? My guess is precisely to allow national economic interests to take priority over the rules on a case-by-case basis.
Agreed it seems as though most political reporting, especially on the partisan channels, has been reduced to irrelevant attacks based around embarrassming incidents and off-hand statements. It doesn't even seem as though people want to discus the issues.
It's a good idea... and also already a big thing. Look at all the AdWords for [dental vacation] and similar searches. Amish groups taking train rides to Mexico for dental work paid in cash is also apparently a thing.

It could be much bigger, across more procedures... but often people needing care are, by virtue of both age and their current medical worries (and past experiences with bad providers), less adventurous.

A big breakthrough would be if Congress, as a cost-saving measure, allowed Medicare payments for out-of-country treatment.
added year to the title. I believe the drive took place a couple years prior to that, and publication was delayed while they waited out statutes of limitations
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Everyone I know in Tucson already goes to Nogales for dental work.
They show Double Dutch being down here in Santa Cruz, yet it is in the city. Even on the map, they show the address as:

2601 Mission St, San Francisco, CA,

So, something is goofy.
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I'd tell myself to be a lot more aggressive and to tell anybody who says "good things come to those who wait" to go fuck themselves. I'd give my 16 year old self a copy of The Game as well, along with a stack of Ross Jeffries and David DeAngelo material. I'd tell myself to take the entrepreneurial step a LOT sooner, and I'd hammer on myself to get serious about investing a lot sooner.
Next weeks euromillions numbers. And don't go to uni unless you really really want to. Learn to fly , travel the world or something.
Safari doesn't display a favicon in the tabs.
Say yes to adventure, maybe to danger, no to complacency
It's different for everybody.
Well, this partnership has been known for a while now, certainly before Snowden. The _original_ deal was made during World War II (the 1943 BRUSA [1] agreement) and was then superseded by the UKUSA [2] agreement (or Five Eyes) which also included Canada and Australia/New Zealand. This definitely continued until 1956, by which time the Cold War was the main reason for co-operation.

It's been publicly available since June 2010, which is when the full contents of the original document were released to the UK National Archives in Kew, and simultaneously declassified by NSA [4].

It is generally assumed that the arrangement is still active, and is being updated on an ongoing basis by the participating agencies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_BRUSA_Agreement

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

[3] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukusa/

[4] http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/ukusa.shtml
Hi, any chance you'd be willing to chat a bit about your experience and the PPV/CPV stuff you were seeing? I'm an investment analyst and I've been doing some research into that world, so I'd love to pick your brain a bit, if you're up for it. My email is in my profile (hncommenter13@gmail.com).
There are business models beyond Google's.
Sorry to complain, it was a good post, but those loopy animated gifs seriously distract me from being able to read properly.

Maybe I have some strange attention disorder, but the last part of the post I felt like I just can't concentrate on the text because the moving images kept grabbing my attention.
Well, not that complex, I just tried to show the minimum things possible. My first idea for a service was a twitter search but that implies an explanation of $http and things related with it. Auth request are not that bad, it is certainly not as simple as we want (but that happen in every client side framework) but not bad. I want to cover auth in a future article.
The ITERATE macro is a bit more powerful.
You probably overestimate the things that don't matter and underestimate the things that do.
Get away from the computer screen.
Do not compare yourself to others. Life is not a race. Read as much as you can. Learn about finances. Find a mentor. Pick one or two hobbies and seriously pursue them. Your smarts will take you nowhere. Become disciplined. Stop drinking sugary sodas. Steal money from dad and invest in Apple.
Personal connections matter oh, so much more, than you can conceive of at your age. Never permanently alienate anyone.

And do stuff. Otherwise, unless you are a publicist or salesperson, the knowing people thing creates opportunities but you have no way to capitalize on those opportunities or create your own identity.

Unusual successes is built on emphasizing strengths, not trying to eliminate weakness. People who achieve real success generally do so by being extremely good at at least one thing. If you are truly world class at something useful, you can achieve tremendous success.

The upper limit of a person's success, however, is almost always set by a weakness. This is inevitable, as it is extremely hard to see your true weaknesses, so don't obsess over your failings, therein lies the road to despair. But do keep an eye out for stuff you avoid or are afraid of, and if you get a chance, address it.