skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Design, the art of understanding things.
Intercom.IO Database Accessed
he was using real-time in the context of web applications
Ask HN: How do you decide whats the best use of your time?
planning, todo list, done list, 7 habits, GTD, <insert famous workflow process> ... what gave you a good enough system to decide how should I spend my time ?
>The USD has had zero intrinsic value since the end of the gold standard.

That's not entirely true. As long as it is the only legal tender in the US and taxes are paid in USD, it has intrinsic value.
Promises & named functions are your friends!

So you can do stuff like this:

callToRemoteApi().then(processData)
.then(makeAnotherCallToAnotherApi)
.then(processAllTheData)
Yes. All the differences here are due to employers choosing where they want to advertise their jobs. We have 7 granular advertising regions for employers to choose from. You can see them at the bottom of the post job page.
I quit my job, too.
But "to make apps" is probably a bad idea.

When I studied, everyone was about "oh I be a game dev" or "I'm going in the web-dev bis!!"

At the end all those people where about how they start app-development.

It's trendy and cool and also overrund by people.
fuck these guys, they stole our business model!
And rather unprofessional where where these guys when Eric Schmidt was making his creepy uncle statements.
My sister in law works for Huawei in Kenya. Her job (so far) has largely involved ripping out Siemens made mobile-telephony infrastructure and replacing it with Huawei-made mobile-telephony infrastructure. Such are today's instruments of empire.
SVG data transformations
Until I switched to talking about the hospital administrators my comment was entirely focused on bowel perforations.

And, yeah, I do know the gut has lots 'o bacteria. The first piece of real science I did was in 1977 using E. Coli, and my lab used the "tame" K-12 strain and pipetted with our mouths. On the off chance you screwed up, we just spit it out and washed our mouths out a bit (this horrified a biologist friend I mentioned it to in the late '80s, but our PI was a microbiologist and knew his stuff). All the way to my nowadays taking a probiotic with 5 beneficial bacteria, which along with a few other things seems to keep my gut pretty happy.
Ask HN: Do you know of any good mail hosts with an API?
I'm in the market to find alternatives to GMail and the Google Apps for Business product suite. I'd love to go with Fastmail, but they don't offer an API.

Are there any other up and coming players in the email market that offer an API?

Thanks!
I am not forgetting. Your comparison of Microsoft and Apple is unfair, I have another way to present it: "Apple stole ideas from laboratories and created a market for them. Microsoft copied successful market products to make them better integrated in windows and to sell them better."

The article http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop7.4microsoftmonopolyf... gives irrefutable facts. Do not accuse me of rewriting the history. I was there to see the birth and death of many good products that have been killed by Microsoft tactics (dr dos, stacker, framemaker, borland C++, ...). One of my most usefull book at that time was http://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-Windows-Programmers-Micro.... Many people have lost a lot of time because of the monopoly of Microsoft. How much time lost because of IE6 ? I have lost a lot of time between 1999 and 2002 because visual C++ was not compliant at all with the standard published in 98.

My opinion is that all the time lost because of Microsoft has been detrimental to computer science progress.
I love to wake up 8pm and go to sleep 12am. When I do this I don't loose any social life (friends) and also live the sunset and sunrise.
This schedule prevents meetings with normal people, and it's here when I've to force myself to keep asleep for that specific meeting and then the schedule messes up again. :(
it really, really isn't
I used to work at night when my son was just born but he's 2 now and requires lots of my energy so I'm too tired to do anything but sleep at night.
Zerocoin is not a competing cryptocurrency but a way to anonymize transactions that could be integrated into bitcoin.
That's why you use IRC :)
I, too, have become addicted to HN.

Here are some things I like which some may not: I really like the "general geek interest" articles that usually make their way to the front page on weekends. I like political threads (that mostly concern directly or indirectly big government vs. free market). I like those threads not because they're constructive in any way, but because they provide an insight into the psyche of Silicon Valley. As an amateur historian I think some of those articles and discussions are bona fide historical texts (like that video from Startup School of the guy who suggested Silicon Valley should secede from the US). I also post on these threads occasionally – not because I think I might convince anyone, but because I think many of the readers here are very young, or unfamiliar with non-American culture, and it would do them good to hear other opinions. I also like heated arguments over programming languages. I know they inevitably turn religious, but I don't mind; they're fun if you're in the right mood, and I figure that anyone not in the mood for religious language wars won't read the thread anyway.

This is something I don't like, which some probably do: I wish HN were less biased towards web technologies and tools that are mostly applicable to fast-moving startups. Of course, this is the nature of the community and is to be expected. But I do wish there was more on embedded, enterprise, real time and game development. The problem with this bias is that I am sometimes swayed and mistakingly think that HN represents the "software development community", which, of course, it doesn't in the least. I need to remind myself that web companies are a small minority of software developers, and that IBM, Oracle and SAP employ more people than Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Netflix combined, ten times over. And that's not even counting large organization IT departments and defense. So whenever I get a sense of "so that's what's everyone is doing" on HN, I need to remind myself that the community is far from representative (although it does tend to be composed of early adopters).
Still higher for a company with paltry traction and no hockey stick growth. Weren't the employees (including you) compensated with equity?
Yes, the default Windows code page -- many pieces of software don't realize that registry keys, file paths, etc. are all encoded in a different code page if you are running, for example, Japanese Windows. (Also, it isn't exactly Shift-JIS...)
Here is the dovecot documentation for your "auto-create imap folders" issue: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings
Thanks for the report. Do you think maildir is the way to go for storing email (plus additional indices), or do you think a more custom format (eg in some relation database or something completely different) is better?
Checkout https://github.com/al3x/sovereign , though xmpp hasn't been set up yet.
I made the switch from Rackspace Cloudfiles + CDN to Amazon S3 + Cloudfront a couple months ago. I was regularly getting emails about my app erroring when someone uploaded a file via my app to Rackspace, since Rackspace was down (or responding slowly).

Now I'm happy with Amazon S3 + Cloudfront, it's cheaper and more stable.
That's why it's a surplus. You need a few calories just to stay alive and not slim, and that inclused repairing tissues etc.
For me I like static typing because it adds a sanity check of the data getting passed around. Sure, most of the time it catches nothing, but it is nice when it does. Humans will always make mistakes, so static typing improves the amount of help\tools computers can put forth.
I have noticed that there are superresponders to various diets. I am a person that when cuts the starch and sugar could double the caloric intake and still lose weight.

Seems that we are in multimodal distribution so the search for one size fits all weight loss regimen is doomed.

I have seen people succeed with:

Fasting (my first weight loss was that way)

Extremely low carb

Just training

Shocking life event (divorce etc)

The Pill - a friend of mine was quite fat until she started contraception and she thinned a lot for a year. Without dieting.
Kudos! I think the hardest part will come in trying to maintain and scale this from an interoperability perspective. I used to work at an ISP where 80%+ of the work on the mail product was getting our IPs un-blacklisted and other ISPs from not blocking our traffic anymore, as well as pruning out the bad/bot users.
Yeah. I thought "ok, this is supposed to be user-obvious. Let's see what I can do."

I wonder how that Windows key thing works out for their hypothetical tablet users.
All this svg stuff is getting pretty interesting.
First that comes to mind is Zoho. They have pretty similar offering to Google Apps for Business.
Var Wars
I wonder if the slower car sales have anything to do with the quality of the cars? Modern cars are a triumph of engineering and marketing over fun. Over damped throttles, layers upon layers of "safety" computer systems , auto gearboxes to cheat the emissions tests , wide tyres and a lack of feel and fun.
capriciousness
SIGMOD (a database research conference) has set up a reproducibility committee [1]. Their goal is to ensure that the results can be reproduced by someone from the outside. If they succeed, you get an additional label for your graphs saying "Approved by the SIGMOD reproducibility committee."

Notably, this is easier in computer science as you don't need to wait for hundreds of patients to turn up having a certain condition.

[1] http://www.sigmod.org/2012/reproducibility.shtml
Canaries all the way down?
I was surprised to see a StackExchange job listing, as they have their own job board https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/60

I like that.
It uses X. That itself is outdated before I start talking about out of date design principles.

I personally don't like the black menu bar, I don't like the big childish icons, I don't like the slate gray gradient window box and I don't like the UI design's 2000s take on Finder. It's just not pretty in my opinion. And that does count to me, and probably the majority of end users too.
You said the following two things which are mutually exclusive:

I wrote an export script for the mail system I was using at the time and imported 10 years of mail into gmail.

I don't think so though; people are lazy and if the default status is that you can keep everything you have anyway

The default status is that stuff goes away. I believe you're arguing that "this time it's different" but I see no evidence for that. In fact, there is a post almost every day on HN about Gmail users looking for an alternative. I myself can't wait to get off Gmail. When I do that I'll happily explicitly delete my Gmail account and all the email in it. Because I am lazy and it's easier to do that than it is to write a script to transfer it to what I use next.

You seem to come from the same time as I do ; I had my first modem around '85 and was very active on BBSes.

I got my first modem in 1985, got a phone line as my Christmas present from my parents in 1986 and started my own BBS. Started a consulting company in 1993. Started a small ISP in 1996, sold it in 1998 and started working for corporate America.

In the U.S., I find from a legal perspective that the less documentation you have the better. That's why every large U.S. company has an email retention policy that is very short. Anyone looking to sue you needs proof and often that proof comes from your own records as part of discovery since they don't have any proof. If as part of a standard process you delete everything you're not legally required to retain then you can't be forced into helping their case.
Aww man...I liked that site.
If a person can backup or explain their use of terms like 'the design perspective' with appropriate nuances, it's not bullshit.

If they can't, then sure, they're bullshitting you.

That's not to say the simplified version of the rule isn't useful though. It can save us from forever explaining x years of experience to everyone we encounter, as well as potentially confusing people new to the subject. Teachers do this a lot, intentionally.
http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m608/RedKashira/nope.gif
It worked fine in France, ended up raising the overall productivity of their economy. France now has a higher standard of living than the US, so it might be worth looking at what they're doing right.
I think you're absolutely right. We've actually been thought by Gmail not to remove messages but instead archive them and that's a good philosophy.

I've been on Gmail since 2005 and have about 100,000 messages at 20 GB. There's messages coming in from 25 different addresses at 300/day with 100 being spam.

I don't feel like I'm an email power user though, I imagine people in sales do about 100x more than this.

It's definitely a requirement to be able to do this and I feel even if we would be outliers, in a couple of years we won't be anymore.
looks like you missed a few :)

http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedCheckboxes/

http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeButtons/

http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/AnimatedBorderMenus/

There are more.you can see them at the bottom of each page.
I appreciate the hard work. Nevertheless, IMHO it would be better if open source projects will bring original ideas to the market, instead of copying an existing product.
I wish we could use CloudFront. Unfortunately they charge a bit for custom SSL ($600/zone/mo). Not that fun for a startup. Are you also using that? /R
The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange
I like how you can clearly see shifts in opinion in the small graph at the top of the page. The light grey bars indicating the new releases could be a little easier to see though. I was almost going to suggest that as a feature before noticing.
Very neat, now I'll spend the rest of the day attempting to master Good Vibrations.
How? Voting and protesting haven't worked so far.
Years and Years ago I reverse engineered the weird binary protocol that Yahoo Messenger used with nothing more than Ethereal and an absolute shit load of packet logs.

I did that for fun and I was (and am) a mediocre programmer at best, the NSA/GCHQ has some of the best talent around I doubt they would find it much of a challenge to this on a bigger more complex protocol.

Unencrypted traffic is (relatively) easy to reverse engineer even without a protocol description (examples, the Samba guys, the Asterix folks) as most protocols are designed to be structured (that is kind of the point of having the protocol).
Unfortunately doesn't work with our site: www.peecho.com
Sawaki is a known Zen Master. He didn't write texts on his own; his books are just quotes collected by his students. The internet is full with information on him.

Stephan Uhrenbacher is linked in the original blog post:
http://www.grobmeier.de/the-10-rules-of-a-zen-programmer-030...

The "10 rules" post is the beginning, not the end.
That would be my project Git Pretty Stats https://github.com/modess/git-pretty-stats, self hosted git statistics.
And my AXE would be yours!
Apple is not a person.
I don't know what TFWA or AAP are, but those statements are quite useless.

If you have a child with those problems and you want it to be healed, of course you can just try it for some months. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose? Not eating diary/grains is not that hard.

(And there's clearly a lot of information on the web about this diet and autism, so it must work for someone)
IMAX home theatre to set you back at least $250,000
Previous "crashes" were pretty profitable:

2011: From $1 to $30 and then down to $5. 500% total gain. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5zigDailyzczsg201... (Slow decrease in price was probably due to huge mining inflation rate at that time: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=130619.0)

Summer 2012: From $5 to $15 to $11. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5zigDailyzczsg201...

Spring 2013: From $14 to $266 to around $100-120. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5zigDailyzczsg201...

If this time it crashes from $2000 to $1000, it'd be pretty spectacular and profitable. Those traders who will have bought too high will have to patiently wait another year or two for their profits.
Nice that you want to start a portal focussed on problem-solving design(s). Love your initiative ;-D.
It's still a lot of code being run without real benefit. Use Typescript if you really want static types, write sufficient unit tests either way, and you don't need this.
Google Launched Helpouts
Exactly the same idea and business model as our YC W14 application, this is insane, thank goodness we got rejected.
Who is the best scientist of them all?
Why should the police department fight the lawsuit tooth and nail, assuming they're sufficiently sure of the facts? Do they think this will make it significantly less likely they'll lose? If not, they ought to think about damage mitigation, both to their public image and in what they'll have to pay out, i.e. a jury will presumably award smaller damages against a department that shows contrition.

This sort of non-response just screams "We're guilty and top to bottom corrupt" ... not the sort of thing that will end well.
Blimey! What are the chances of that?
Exactly the same idea and business model as our YC W14 application, this is insane, thank goodness we got rejected.
Yes, but this was not planned ahead. Miners did abandon their rewards even being on a longer chain just to maintain trust in the system. They did not know if they will ever get their money recovered.
Thanks for reporting, we'll look into it.
You can tap fiber in a non-destructive way ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_tapping ) and in ways that increase attenuation only slightly (and that is contingent on you detecting it and having the equipment to even detect it).

If you know the route the fibre takes (which should be public and certainly government knowledge) you can install the tap anywhere along the length of the cable, roll up with a van the equipment and two guys in high viz vests with a fake work order, who the hell is going to check....(think the Ghostbuster's scene where they close half the road).

The crazy thing is that so many smart people at Google and encrypting the data still wasn't done.
Labor unions, to replace the alternative, which was no weekend at all. Just like the 8h day.

The numbers didn’t come from nothing, but certainly didn’t come from any great calculation. It came from how much we (the workers) could wrestle away from industrialists. Google scholar searches (not very extensive, feel free to repeat) weakly suggests that cutting work hours may have a net positive effect on economy, so as long as I’m operating from the worker perspective, it actually makes sense to not settle on the current ratio. It’s like settling on your wage because you once got a raise 105 years ago.
the problem is NOT static typing vs dynamic typing but weak typing vs strong typing and type coercion.

In basic ruby ,unless you mess with classes, [1,2]+1 WILL fail , though ruby is not staticaly typed. Ruby is STRONGLY typed, and that's a great thing.

Javascript will do everything it can not to fail:

String([1,2]) => "1,2"

+ 1 => "1,21"

IMHO

That's madness,because Javascript is basically making a decision for you.That was acceptable in 1995, that is not in 2013.

And that's its biggest flaw.Writing javascript means working against the language.

But there is a reason for that. Javascript is not good at throwing errors or handling them, at all.

So it's not about static vs dynamic typing.

There is no good solution for that problem unless TC39 decides to fix it. Enforcing dependency injection concepts and duck typing might work, but not always. For instance, you could check if a string is a string with

function(x){
x=x.substr(); // will throw a TypeError if I pass an Array.
}

Before doing anything with x, it might help reduce some mistakes. and you might use it on return types. But it's verbose and doesnt work all the time.
San Francisco evictions surge, report finds
The timezone restriction is a much bigger deal than most people probably anticipate. This depends on the company, of course, but unless the work is something that can be performed largely self-sufficiently, it's entirely likely that you'll either end up working overlapping hours at your own inconvenience, or you'll get stuck doing the work no one else in the team/company wants. Even if a large corporation this is a major problem. Speaking personally, I employ about 100 people and the biggest team locations are in Chennai, Guadalajara and Huntsville. Each of these sites has a local senior manager/director and -- with the exception of Chennai -- multiple product owners. I have a few guys working from home remotely (DB supervisor is in New York, architect and one of my senior managers are outside Glasgow, a couple of guys are in SJ, and an architect/lead dev in RTP). I sit in a small sales office in RTP with no one from my team, and I work from home all but a handful of days per year.

I only go into this level of detail because what happens next is potentially of interest. When you have a mix of WFH'ers and office staff, unless they are leaders -- either technical or management -- the WFH'ers get shafted. They are left out of meetings, usually inadvertently and usually ad hoc meetings, but this can have a huge impact on morale and productivity. They are assigned less critical work because the team and leadership often feel less comfortable not having local failover in case of emergency. This may be an organizational failure, but it is a common scenario and one any remote work candidates should be aware of when they interview. By far my highest performing teams are the ones where everyone is co-located, but ymmv.
This is a machine that works on fixed length strings with fixed alphabet, and accepts all strings. Thus it's not a computer. Of course, the side effect of execution is amazing.
It depends strongly on the gas mileage for the car, of course, but my first assumption would be that for most people the cost of public transit is about the same as gas. My daily commute, for example (which I know you don't have, but most people do) is about 50 miles. On days I don't work from home, my choice is between a commuter train which costs $22 round trip, commuting on the long-distance train ($28 round trip), or driving, which costs about $10-15 in gas, depending on the current price of gas. I mostly take the train, because driving into Washington, DC isn't fun; I'm certainly not trying to convince you to run out and buy a car, just responding to the assertion that it would cost $7000 a year extra to keep one.

I lived in the DC metro for two years without a car, before purchasing this one, and having lived both ways, I personally strongly prefer having a car. Without one, I had to structure my life around not having a car. Going to the computer store (Microcenter) to pick up a new video card on a whim was something that would take the bulk of the day without a car (two or three metro lines depending on route). If the store half a mile from my house didn't have something, I had to either plan a trip on a bus to another one (and what if that one didn't, either? So I spent a lot of time trying to figure out in advance online if they did), or just go without. I don't much like shopping for groceries, but I got to do it three or four times a week anyway, because I couldn't carry enough 2L bottles to last longer than a few days, etc... without a car, a lot of my life was concerned with inventory and transportation, in a way that I don't even think about with a car, since I can pop out to any kind of store and be back in 20 minutes.