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Can you give me the 3 second overview of mailpile?

Would love a gmail alternative for hosting email on various domains. Look at fastmail - but it's not quite what I want yet.
Except that your culture, job, and home are there largely because of the services your tax dollars support.

So yes if you're not willing to give up those things you just accepted that newfangled thingy we call "The Social Contract."
I totally agree. And I was even more stumped by Eric Schmidt's hypocritical blathering.

This from the guy, who blacklisted CNN for reporting on him based on information found on Google.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/
To be honest, I'm most impressed by the directional lighting simulation in the header. Any hints on how it was done? Mouse position and image opacity?
Thanks for working on this.

I look forward to the day when it will be easy to set up and configure a mail server at home. By all accounts, it is currently a very painful process that is prone to error and interrupted service.
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Fiat currencies (at least those that are the official currency of one or more sovereign states) actually do have intrinsic value beyond people's beliefs.

USD is valuable not only because people trust you'll always be able to buy things with USD, but also because the US. government collects USD-denominated tax. As long as the government continues to have the firepower to enforce the tax code, there will always be a demand for USD, irrespective of how confident people are in its viability.
I've found that long hours are indicators, sometimes of good things and other times not. Long hours over a lengthy duration of time have shown me two things: 1) an individual's work ethic, and 2) bad management.

In the tech industry, specifically with software development, I've had teams I've managed where we needed to pull longer hours in order to meet a deadline. And my teams stepped up, because we all wanted to succeed. The long hours were a known entity, and weren't the negative long hours.

I've also had teams forced into the negative long hours, and those were my fault (or rather, they were my responsibility to manage and I didn't do a good job.) Environments that somehow believe that those of us in the tech industry somehow enjoy acts like the "diving catch" and being "the savior" offer no value, other than learning what not to do.

The biggest thing to be cautious with long-hour situations is burnout. The negative long-hour scenarios can lead to resentment, but those feelings often pass after a while. Burnout, on the other hand, can have very real long-term consequences.
Yeah, where the hell did the Supreme Court get the crazy notion that they're the ones responsible for interpreting the Constitution?
"Apple has gone on record saying they encrypt data and they don't store it in any recognizable form. I tend to believe that, as if it wasn't the truth, they wouldn't lie about it - they just wouldn't mention it."

Until very recently Adobe claimed the same. I'd be very careful about trusting such claims.
On a side note:

Your blog looks fantastic. Clean & simple without looking like it's trying too hard. Nicely done.
Of course it's not impossible just reverse engineering the protocols but we now know that these guys also rightly measure their smartness by taking shortcuts wherever they can. It would be stupid to do unnecessary work to "rediscover" easily accessible information. The right approach is using the internal documents describing the protocols. Shouldn't be so hard, "it's all in the cloud."
You are missing the point. It makes no difference if your website is following best practices if your users enter their passwords on a website that fails to do so. Maybe your users are using the same passwords in many places. Maybe they accidentally entered the password for one website when trying to log in to another because their username is the same.
See if you can do it in the browser.
CrunchFund is actually an investor in Prism Sky Labs (as am I).
> "deserves"

This word always makes me coil. Everytime I hear it - I assume someone is trying to sell me something.
For each next job? So if you started at 20k, and by several you mean 3, and by 3-4x you mean 3, that's still an impressive trajectory (20k to 180k in a decade). Even more so if you started at 40k, changed job 4 times and quadrupled each time..?

I think you're doing more things right than just not mentioning your previous salary...
Fair enough.

All nations have budgets for a multitude of programs and can work simultaneously on different goals.

Obviously, they all draw from a single ressource, money, and therefore priorties have to be weighted carefully.

Overall I'm not getting many good arguments on how to handle this except "Why, things have improved, haven't they? Give me Star Trek" and "Bigots!".

I suspect that this is because Space fans are on average less affected by the above mentioned acute problems, more likely to benefit professionally from investment in space programs, and generally appreciate the nature of space missions: A difficult task, but with a clear solution through engineering.
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That assumes that people are in a position to negotiate & don't work a commodity profession.
If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend watching "An idiot abroad". It's a great travel show with Karl Pilkington. He goes to foreign lands and tells it how it is.
My understanding of this is that the last thing the NSA wants is to actually have to defend these notices in court, in public. Can you imagine Obama, or any president, having to defend forcing people to flat out lie to the public by retaining "No 215 here" notices when one has been received? That's not going to happen. By best guess is that Apple would be able to challenge being put in that situation by the 215 notice's terms effectively forcing them to self-incriminate.

Also Apple's statement that if they get a 215 they will fight it means they are significantly less likely to be served one. 215s work mainly through fear and doubt and picking on people without the resources to defend themselves.

All this skullduggery is very effective when it's in the shadows or off stage, it's still actually a fairly marginal issue, but the more it gets pushed into the faces of ordinary voting Joes, the worse it gets for the spooks.
Most often professional tech startup investments are either (a) purchases of stock in a company; or (b) a 'convertible' loan to the company (that's expected to turn into shares when a full stock-sale round happens).

In both cases, the money enters the company's accounts, not the founders' accounts, and is used over time for business purposes.

If the company fails there's little or no money left to pay anyone back. In an orderly liquidation, there might be a little left over, or picked up from an asset/tech fire-sale. Those amounts go first to pay back creditors, first among them anyone owed salaries, as much as possible. If any is left over, it's split proportionately among shareholders, usually first to 'preferred' shareholders (professional investors). But by this point the liquidated value is likely to be nothing, or pennies on the dollar.

Professional diversified investors understand this: sometimes the shares go to zero, and sometimes debts are uncollectable.

It's not common for the founders to offer personal guarantees of repayment. (In other kinds of going-concern small-business financing, like bank loans or equipment financing, where the founders/officers have the means, they may offer such guarantees to lenders... but not in highly risky tech startups.)

Now, there's a fair chance that the founders themselves depleted savings or ran up personal debts to feed the company – investing/loaning their own funds, working for little or no salary in the expectation of gains later. So it's often still a draining financial hit... but the professional investors aren't expecting a formal debt repayment.

Instead, if the investors think the failure came after a good honest try, and was a learning experience for founders who will succeed at other times and opportunities, they'll favorably consider investing in a future venture, or help place the team elsewhere. So it's never a total loss: everyone learns things to do, things to avoid, and how/when to work together.
Like indiscriminately and illegally sucking up WiFi data with their street view mobiles?

Including account information and passwords on unsecured WiFi connections.

Even if the accusation of "violating laws" may be a tad hyperbolic in the great scheme of things it's not a stretch to deem Google one of the most hypocritical companies around.
This talk by Martin Fowler on NoSQL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_g07C_Q5I and their use cases is a pretty good introduction.
Source?

If true - that's really interesting. I wonder what the other outcomes / configurations were.
Does your company have dedicated, unshared, fibre between those datacenters?
Can anyone comment on Spamassassin's efficacy as compared to Google's spam filters?
Is your statement true? Why should it be a forgone conclusion that our bodies are able to convert all macronutrients into energy with 100% efficiency? If you maintain a stable weight for 1 year does this mean you managed to perfectly balance caloric intake with caloric expenditure? That when you ate that extra cookie or drank an extra soda that you needed those calories to offset some energy expenditure? That seems hard to believe.

One interesting question that I do not know the answer to is the kinetics of metabolism for different macronutrients. How quickly can our bodies metabolize fat, protein, and carbohydrates? Is it possible that our bodies convert carbohydrates into energy very quickly, thus leading to an excess of energy that gets stored as fat? While other nutrients get digested much more slowly and only used if needed?

The basic question is do all ingested calories get used? Does the body have a mechanism for maintaining a certain "ideal" weight that can function across a range of caloric intakes?
Hey, what portable charger are you using?
Great, as far as I know Roundcube is the only decent open source webmail thing, and it could do with some competition.
Dude, I voted for the Socialist and Green Parties last election. The two-party system is not an excuse for throwing away what tiny democratic voice we have.
Support keyboard shortcuts, at the earliest. It is one of the most heavily used features for heavy email users.
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From my experience the actual allowed crawl interval is somewhere between 120 and 180 seconds.
Squirrelmail?
From where i am, it seems exorbitant. Granted here in Africa, $1m is quite a big investment, we have been running on <$10,000 for over 9 months now. Capital is very difficult to get access to. Forces you to be super-lean(and practically starve)

For e.g For our startup we do not have capital for tablets.. so the question becomes how can we get things done without purchasing the tablets. Repurpose the existing devices used by customers or some other way to do things? We came up with hacks that use cloudprint and existing printers, and SMS to cheap handsets (< $10)
> My not-a-lawyer read on the whole warrant canary thing is that it would never fly in front of a judge.

Note that freedom-raping insanity like those gag-orders should not fly in front of a judge either.
I welcome this as I welcome Mailpile and other efforts like it; I look for another mail solution every few years. Not with the idea of replacing gmail (might/might not do), but to see if anyone did anything useful yet. So far, no. All solutions, even considering the changes to gmail everyone seems to hate (I don't), are nothing compared.

Every time some new frontend/backend comes up, I say the same (and have done on HN before); i'm not a typical user; I had email since '95, I have been a heavy user since then and I took my mail with me since. In 2005 I was looking, like I had been then as well, for a better mail solution and stumbled upon gmail. I wrote an export script for the mail system I was using at the time and imported 10 years of mail into gmail.

I now have over a million mails in my mailbox (i'm not sure what is the total); I have over 50 mail addresses coming to my inbox, I receive 1000s (sometimes 10.000s) of spam messages per day which Google filters well. I guess this is due to the fact I have had/have businesses on those 50 mails since 1995. All clients I tried so far just simply hang when I try them, including outlook (exchange or imap), thunderbird and some free and commercial web versions (yahoo and outlook web/live simply don't work; I cannot even read my mail through the amount of spam and the clients are horrible for productivity imho. Slow as well).

I also need a solid spam solution; spamassassin simply doesn't cut it; not only does it run high processor on my server, it doesn't actually filter stuff like google does. Google almost never goes wrong for me; actually; I have had very few mistakes / missing mails. While with spamassassin, I'll be carefully inspecting 5k mails / day while still getting spam in my inbox.

I think my mailbox is a bit weird now, but it'll be quite normal as it'll be normal for people to have a mailbox since birth and taking it with them till they die. If you run a few businesses along the way, getting to 1 million messages is not hard; spam will find you as well. Media messages are getting common; I make a point of using dropbox/sftp for attachments, but not everyone does that, so I do get videos, huge blah megapixel cameras of birthdays of family etc. This is normal and will only grow; the current mail solutions don't handle it well. If you want to deliver a competitor to gmail, you need to make this work imho and it needs to be a test case.
If the court would decide that Apple has not been complying to the secrecy requirements, what would be the consequence? Would they be slapped with significant fine or would some executive end up in jail?
"and people who still have a stack of CDs that they want to get rid of."

Ha! Yeah. I got a stack of 50 CDs several years ago, and the last 10 or so ... just didn't get used for anything. We eventually gave them to the younger teen for music school, 'cos the actual makes-money music industry still works with physical demo CDs. Some sort of proof-of-work thing, I think.
Please shut up. Or - excuse us for not raising up to your standards.
Do you know any medical personnel? They guard their licenses tightly and know exactly how they could be vulnerable. These people aren't stupid and have a culture versed in telling cops to back off. Note that the first doctor(s) they went to said, "no."

Just because you can see how they would comply says more about you than them.
Is it legal to create a false Chinese passport? I'm sure they do it.
Sure, but why? I'm sure they love the search traffic that Google gives them. I'm not so sure they love someone scraping an internal in-store pick up API to analyze their inventory and cause incidents of "What do you mean you don't have the 64 GB Gold iPhone 5S for Verizon!? This website says you have it in stock!"
You are right! Didn't know about MVars. Got some learnin' to do now...
The author is suggesting scraping the world championship in favor of a golf or tennis-like grand slam: have four major tournaments per year. These tournaments would still have champions, upsets, underdogs, and narratives to them. It works well enough in golf and tennis.

There's the Wijk aan Zee tournament every year which should be on the list. It's up for debate what the others would be.

I like the suggestion personally and hope to see it happen. This is coming from a chess player and fan.

Also, up until recently, you used to be able to find chess columns and puzzles in the newspapers. Nowadays they've been cut or replaced by sudoku. But for a long time that was excellent PR. I don't think it's fair to say chess never had great PR, since even in the US it used to be in the newspapers regularly. And it's still popular in Europe.
Doing it at home probably isn't a practical option unless you somehow get an IP that isn't blacklisted, but doing it on a VDS isn't that bad.

I host my email on a VDS. I would kind of like to be able to host other people's too, but I've always been freaked out by having the ability to read my friends' emails.
Consider the recent passwords leak from Adobe: they stored passwords in a dedicated unshared datacenter. Does this make a good security decision to encrypt passwords instead of using a hash because nobody should have been able to access these encrypted passwords? I really don't think so.
Is it possible MtGox is a ponzi-scam style operation, that can't pay out users in a timely manner because they no longer actually have the money they claim to have?
The sad thing is, on average most people could be convinced...

Speak for yourself.
I'm a paying customer. IMO most analysis is useless. I use it to track my own rankings and competitors, as well as some keyword research.
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Wow thanks that was interesting, hadnt thought of that.
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Being convicted of a felony is pretty much the only way a law enforcement officer can lose their cert anymore.
The Xfce forum is helpful, and they do happily answer Xubuntu questions. (Frequently the answer is "yeah, pull that in from GNOME" or "that hasn't been written yet, please do!" but that's fair enough in many cases ;-)
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Ask HN: now that Mavericks broke gmail support, what will you use?
Mail.app does not play well with gmail. Sparrow was bought by Google (and therefore has uncertain future on OS X. Inky seems nice, but it's terribly slow and is a resource monster. So what do you use for your email?
So can the US.
Fair enough on the straw man. I definitely work closer to 70 hrs a week at the moment.
While he did run as a centrist technocrat, Senator Obama had indeed made some nicer mouth-noises about civil liberties.
Funny thing. I commute not that much (1hr) per workday. I use this time, to listen to relaxing music and reading fiction (and sometimes popular science).

After the commute I have to walk 10 minutes, to arrive at my front door. I have to walk through a little park. Really. For me commuting and then walking is my way of coming down. Of letting go of the work, so that I arrive at home free of all the stuff, that happens in front of my two screens.

But that is just anecdotal evidence - and it might just work for me.

But on the topic, I would add one point: Regularly working more than the paid 8 hours might show another thing: You just are not fit for the work you do. You are not good enough, as you cannot get it done in 8 hours.

By the way is that a signal that you send to your boss, if you work longer regularly.
I thought mailpile was a native application rather than a web thing?
Thats a good argument and may be generalized by quoting George Edward Box "Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful."
How is that different from all the other languages out there that transpile to JavaScript?
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I have a laptop. I can't remember ever thinking "I want to rub my grubby fingers all over the screen". If I wanted to do that, I'd grab a tablet or smartphone.

Touch is a compromise. Touch screen devices are useful because they go where proper computers don't. I can look at my smartphone at the bus stop where I wouldn't pull my laptop out. I don't see the point in wasting huge amounts of time and creativity designing these silly hybrid OSes.

It's like adding a horse trap to the front of your horseless carriage.
These doctors may have risked their livelihoods or their freedom by refusing to comply

Yeah, no. The first doctor is home right now, sleeping well, knowing s/he did the right thing by refusing to comply. The cops didn't have shit, the second hospital doctors completely abdicated their responsibilities absent any compelling interest and they went along with it because they wanted to, because they found a good enough reason. How do I know? Because the existence of the first doctor(s) proves they could have said "no."
Judging from the down votes, "shut up" is too strong language for some. They must prefer "dispense us".

My fault - I stirred the hive.
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People werent well positioned to run their own web browser either.

We can make it happen, if this new thing is so attractive people would will do it, just like they put up with Windows for several decades now.

It could be a simple raspberry pi box that has all the stuff ready-made, just enter wifi credentials and whatever and run. The box has to be in white and silver because then who wouldnt want one? To show it off like a status symbol. A sleek little box in a corner, "my own email" people could say.
could you share which technology are you using to encrypt all the traffic?
While clean water is a serious concern I think that ocean acidification and the possibility of it radically altering the biological make-up of the ocean presents us with an even greater problem.

You may not have to give up on sushi, you just might have to acquire a taste for jellyfish.
Can't disagree, but again, some things work for one type of people other things work for other type of people.
I remember when I tried GNOME 3 in Debian wheezy. I could not work out how to do anything at all. Literally, the only button to click on was the one to exit. So I did.
no, YOU thought of China as terribly hostile. We in Europe know the deal for a very long time. It's not like there was no cold war and vietnam war and irak war and....
Why not use something like Hood.ie?

http://blog.hood.ie/2013/11/say-hello-to-offline-first/
> It is even better if it gets bypassed altogether.

That won't happen. With the amount of JavaScript on the Web, JS is immortal. All you can do is to add another language alongside it.

> There were other posts here about JS's warts, so I am not the only one who welcome any other sane, normal, language to replace it.

But it won't be replaced.
or the IPCC's opinion on global warming...
Ah yes, thank you very much! Karma coming your way. I had read that essay and seen pg's comment. However, I didn't notice his implication that he wasn't willing to talk about most criteria because they could be faked/gamed. Kudos to you or whoever spotted that. However, I don't believe he said it was the only one he would discuss.

I am very sympathetic to their need to keep some of their cards private. While I and others might just be looking for a little constructive criticism for its own sake, no doubt there would be some who would try to use the information to portray themselves as something they are not or hide something that would hurt their chances. If this reduces the amount of feedback they could provide to a level where it wouldn't be helpful or makes it a complicated and risky affair, then it's reasonable to just avoid it altogether.

I am not sure why they wouldn't just say that though. Perhaps to avoid catalyzing attempts to identify and game their criteria?