skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah if IMAP access goes on Gmail that would be it for me.

I'd probably bounce back to hosting my own IMAP and using some utility to download my Gmail to it with Push or whatever protocol (HTTP?) that Gmail uses for push.

It would be nice to have Sieve scripts again to filter my mail (Gmail's filtering leaves much to be desired).
at least for google apps for bussiness, IMAP is a must.
So Author is not sure what to conclude but add's a link bait title "Flappy Fraud?".

Its just sad to see people like this.
Most interesting. I recently did some work on a new, version-control-inspired layout for programs, but from a different angle than you suggest: http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers. I'd love to chat more about the details of what you're trying (email in profile).
While his comments are rather insensitive they do serve to illustrate the madness of the current employer paid health insurance system in the USA. We need to get employers out of the system. Require everyone to purchase individual policies on the private market and provide government subsidies to those who can't afford it.
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agreed...but I am an optimist :)
Seems like the NYT is trying to create a dangerous, terrorist aura around tools that access the internet through any means but an 'standard' browser.

And by referring to whatever it is as a "low-cost tool", they're probably just making up facts. It's far more likely that Snowden used one of the many no-cost tools that are used every day by people who work with and on computers.

This article is pretty much a no-op other than creating a dangerous mystique around people who access the internet through obscure tools that don't have an icon on the Mac or Windows stock desktop.
I always thought the point of he story was to call attention to that fact and plead for empathy and compassion.
I started http://kurikku.com dubbed Rap Genius for code. It was at the top of HN a little bit under a week ago.

I'm thinking about turning it into a tool for code reviews for software teams. If you're interested in that, let's talk. Email is in profile.
This would not reduce costs if there are enough people like me. Let me explain:

I assign a utility score of negative infinity to my own death. If the outcome for no treatment is zero percent chance of survival, but the outcome for a treatment that costs some large finite amount C [1] and raises survival chance to epsilon percent chance of survival for some epsilon (nonzero but potentially small), then I would opt for C every time.

This means if there's a way I can convince people to spend a billion dollars to try to cure me, I'd do it. Even if there's a 99% chance I die anyway and it means all that money couldn't be used on a better project, even if successful treatment meant I was in debt to a billion dollars which I could never repay, so I became bankrupt and my entire family would go to debtors' prison for life [2], that's still better than being dead.

Even if I had to kill a healthy child with my bare hands and drink their blood for the treatment [3], I'd still do it even though this scenario results in net negative utility for the human race (one for-sure dead child and one living adult with a 99% chance of dying is clearly a worse outcome than one living child and one dead adult.) Because I'm not interested in the utility of the human race; I'm interested in maximizing my own utility (one percent chance of being alive is still infinitely better than zero percent chance of being alive).

So my advance directive would be "hold at all costs: Liquidate everything, put me through prolonged medical torture if you have to, but the top priority is to keep me alive at any price."

[1] In "costs," I include not just money but my own prolonged pain and suffering; emotional distress of family members; violation of ethical standards; etc.

[2] This hasn't been a real thing for over a hundred years. I guess the modern equivalent is spending your childrens' college fund.

[3] If you believe that life begins at conception, this is basically what stem cell treatment entails.
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CAUTION, THIS IS NOT TRUE.
Google is appealing the sanction, and in the mean time they asked an emergency injunction ("référé") for not having to do the message part of the sanction waiting for the appeal (on the ground that if they win the appeal, their reputation would already be damaged by the message). The appeal has absolutely not been ruled.

The "emergency" judge simply declared that what they asked for was not following the specific emergency criterion (basically they didn't believe the irremediable damage part), and he simply let go the sanction for now. Another Court will actually judge the appeal itself. If they win the appeal, they get their money back, and some bragging rights.

here is the PR from the actual court: http://www.conseil-etat.fr/fr/communiques-de-presse/sanction...
I wrote a couple of articles about Turkey in 2007. I never expected Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to deteriorate so much, of course I'm not referring to this specific law, but to his reactions and his unwillingness to step down after pretty much the most successful decade a politician could reach for (2000-2010).

Regarding the law, with all these new technologies floating around, I think censorship will become more and more difficult for the government to enforce it on geeks but I firmly believe that people of Turkey should rely mostly on overturning the part where the ISP blocks whatever website without court order and not on tech to circumvent it. That might turn nasty and jails in Turkey are not fancy.

Given recent events, I think the law is going to be used in order to fight anti-establishment (as in anti-current-government) websites mostly and not pedophilia (surprised no one mentioned pedophilia yet...), copyright, etc.
Great story.

Here's an obligatory XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/505/
Yes,thank you.
It has to sound narcissistic because he's using himself as a successful example.
IMO, this was built to demonstrate one of the unique characteristics of Bitcoin. The ability to track transactions linked to addresses not owned by you, in this case, lets all participants see in realtime whether the owners are living up to their promises. Had Bernie Madoff used Bitcoin, his reign would have been over in a few minutes.
So you're upset that they call it "Android" ?

You know you can change what's installed on your handset? Cyanogenmod supports a ton of phones... maybe next time you buy a handset, check they support it.
-1. Did you read his last sentence? Or Wiki you citing:

A permission to access the information will be granted only by a court.
What are you talking about? CoreOS uses docker + systemd extensively and docker is just a pretty wrapper ontop of lxc.

https://coreos.com/docs/launching-containers/launching/getti...
The writing is on the wall for me. I am sure that they created enough reviews to get it internally ranked on iTunes/GP & gained organic momentum (in addition the press it generated) but definitely some foul play involved here IMO.
Has Microsoft, Nokia, etc considered some kind of app api bridge or outright code converter tool for Android/Java apps into their own native SDKs?

Seems that if a lack of apps is your main problem then easing the time to port an app to your ecosystem should be a high priority. Sure you'd have to re-implement some proprietary api features, but they likely already have equivalents in the Windows phone SDK (location services, in-app purchasing, etc).
I would be hesitant to rely on mouse input, or even touch input. Think about things like screen readers and accessibility and you'll quickly learn there are many ways people browse the internet.
Honestly I have read this before too but it was in a 4chan screenshot, know I know it's just copypasta
> (I believe commercial Unixes like Solaris also moved to dependency-based init in the 2000s).

You are correct. Solaris 10 introduced SMF (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1451/dzhid.html...), which kicks quite a bit of ass.

Services are defined in XML files called manifests, which specify dependencies (including filesystems and network connectivity), the user and group to run as, timeouts for start/stop, and a bunch of other stuff.

The cool part is that, while the manifest files are static, SMF doesn't actually use them directly. The service definitions get slurped into a DB, and you can change properties (such as the whether or not the service is enabled, the user to run as, and pretty much anything else the manifest author thought of) on the fly, without editing a manifest or mucking with symlinks.

SMF also starts services in parallel (Solaris/OpenSolaris boot really, really quickly), and services that die are automatically restarted (so long as they're dying again too quickly).
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Well, TCP certainly doesn't throw a fit if a single packet is lost, and this is a note taking app, right? Well, if I need a constant internet connection just to take notes then your app is far less useful to me and I probably won't use it.
Edward Snowden used automated web search tools to collect NSA data
Do souls have @mixins?
It's not the money. That doesn't matter. It's that people find out about the money. Once people know you are capable of making the money, they will never stop stalking you, following you, pretending to be your friend, etc. No amount of charity donation, hell, even burning all of your money won't fix it.

There is literally nothing coming back from it other than waiting for the hype to die out. And that's what Nguyen is trying to do. Trust me, I'm talking from experience here.
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Hello!

I'm a software developer new to the bay. I'm starting to feel like my overly generalist skill set is holding me back at this point and I would like to spend a year or so extremely focused on learning one technology. I'm pretty sure that technology would come down to Ruby on Rails or Angular.

I have about 6 months experience in each. I enjoy angular.js more, but I'm okay with Rails. My perception is that the job market is hotter for Rails. I also perceive that angular.js has more potential for growth in a year, but also potential to shrivel up.

I don't really care much about making more than 90k or so, so higher income potential doesn't matter much to me. I'd really like to land in a start up in the SF, but I'm open to other locations + types of work.
And why would Reshat want to move to a clearly inferior solution? Next you'll say they want to replace the super simple kickstart with preseed. Blasphemy I say!
10-year veteran of the CGI trenches here. The issue isn't really technology at all - it's the people. Blockbuster films would fly out the door at 1/10th the cost if directors/writers/executives/etc could make up their minds about nearly anything. That's not bitterness talking - I'm currently exiting the industry, as pretty much all senior-level people are - it's just reality. Truth is that film is first and foremost a subjective medium and adding more tools to the toolbox only creates more decisions that can be made later and later in production. Truly, the problems created by this process massively, massively dwarf any technical hurdles.

And peripherally, the business side is an issue too. Hollywood is in effect a massive ponzi scheme, taking outside money and shifting it around from one company to another inside the hollywood bubble. Lately that money has come in the form of state and municipal tax credits, but it could come from somewhere else tomorrow. Fact is that the game is owned by 6 giant studios who have no vested interest in changing things.

It will take another major innovation from an outside force - like pixar, for example - to really shake things up. But keep your eyes peeled, because the time is very very ripe for that to happen and it will happen fast.
No. It is, however, a very profitable asset to make markets in,. That implies huge market inefficiencies and a large population of low-infomration market participants. The problem is the low size and liquidity make other markets more profitable to think about, since 10% of ten or twenty billion is less than a few basis points [1] of trillions.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basispoint.asp
"Hence, since Magical Tux (the owner) is motivated not to go to jail, he will not run off with people's BTC."

Weird, I wonder what all of those bank robbers are motivated by... money, sure, but I'm pretty sure they aren't itching to go to jail either.
[EDIT] I had a rant here, but I'm going to replace it with the blatantly obvious counterexample: working mothers.

Consider working mothers in two-income families. Consider those who quit work to spend more time with the kids. Do you think that maybe there's one of these women who, if she were granted immunity from taxes and made an extra 50% in take-home pay, would choose differently?

The rest of the reductio-ad-absurdam is left as an exercise to the reader. I'll remind the reader we seem to be dealing with a hypothetical redistribution of such a scope that we must lift the third world out of poverty before we can spend money on our own kid's cancer treatment or whatever.
Gmail can get mail from other accounts via pop or imap.
Actually French law has specific provisions for media companies. Like if there is a defamation, generally one of the sanction is a message taking the same size and spot as the defamation. In other cases, the sanction if to buy some ad space in the press to put the specific sanction message (for example, after defrauding the shareholders in a publicly traded company). In local nasty cases of defamation, it can just be a message in a local newspapers (like a shop defaming another through a sign or a nasty political fight).

edit: to really answer, there is what we call "individualization of the sanction", where the court decide what would make sense as a sanction inside a palette (and to answer by advance: if a court decides something, yes it's appealable).
in my opinion, no order to deploy nuclear weapons can ever possible come from a sane commander. any such order should be refused.
I thinks a nice idea. This is great for programmers, most of whom already understand markdown.

However, based on my experience, if you need to get wide spread adoption, it has to be simpler that MS Word. Why? Because most authors are used to that. It will be the first point of comparison.

My $0.02
This is why I decided against becoming a politician. No one would vote for me (like how I managed to hand myself a compliment there?)
> Mostly, it means using HTTP verbs on URLs to represent create/update/read/delete. (IE, POST/PUT/GET/DELETE)

Actually, REST has nothing to do with "using HTTP verbs". HTTP is a key part of the Web architecture by which REST was inspired (and HTTP/1.1 was itself designed to make the web more RESTful), but REST isn't dependent on a communication protocol -- indeed, REST used as defined is largely protocol neutral, and can even freely mix communications protocols.

> There are other intricacies like HATEOAS (which sounds like a horrible breakfast cereal), but it basically mostly comes down to updating resources using http verbs.

Using hypertext representations to transfer state is not just a peripheral "intricacy" of REST, it is central to it. That's why its called "representational state tranfer".

> (Personally I don't get the reverence it gets since it's basically just about verbs and locations, but whatever, it works well enough).

If you are going to reduce REST to a simple "its all about" statement, then "verbs and locations" are the wrong thing -- on that level, REST is all about resources and their representations. That's, again, why its called "representational state tranfer".

Insofar as it is about communications protocols at all, its about using them in a standardized manner not specific to the particular resources.
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That's... Not really what an addiction is. And someone hiding my computer from me because they've decided they don't like me programming? Well, that's just odd...

All in all though, a decent motivational story -- although I wonder whether it's a good thing for everyone to know enough programming to be dangerous: I certainly wrecked our home computer a number of times while learning as a kid ;)
"I often see the effects of coding manifest in his daily habits and tasks: the way he meticulously organizes his sock drawer and how he does the dishes using the least amount of water and soap yet somehow achieves the highest level of cleanliness."

"I commiserated with other women -- girlfriends and wives of computer programmers who told me how their partners often forgot to eat, drink or go to the bathroom."

I'm sorry lady, you're not married to a programmer, you're married to a robot.

"The task was to build a website in six hours. We were guided through the basic concepts of HTML and CSS during two morning lectures led by teachers from Vancouver's Lighthouse Labs, then we were let loose to start creating our own projects."

"Organizers told me 60 per cent of the participants at the HTML500 were women. Everyone had different reasons for choosing to spend their Saturday learning computer science:"

Ah yes, the well-known computer science fields of HTML and CSS. Those aren't even programming languages!
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It's taller than my fucking screen!

http://i.imgur.com/UrS04Xw.png
'been in France for 35 years, I have never heard of them.
It's not the money itself. It's what comes with the money. Once people know you are capable of making the money, they will never stop stalking you, following you, pretending to be your friend, fervently hating you (this happens SO OFTEN), stalking you, harassing you, etc. No amount of charity donation, hell, even burning all of your money won't fix it.

There is literally nothing coming back from it other than waiting for the hype to die out. And that's what Nguyen is trying to do. Trust me, I'm talking from experience here.

I guess I might be in the minority here, since most people on HN are trying to become the next Mark Zuckerberg with their startups. Maybe they like that kind of attention. However, I, Dong Nguyen, and many people like us do not like that kind of attention. You don't know who your real friends are, and as he put it, it "interrupts my quiet life".
Karrie is married to my cousin Kyle. In 2005 their first child, Kathleen was born. Kathleen's birth was covered by insurance via Karrie's employer. Her employer was AOL.

Kathleen was named after Kyle's mother [my aunt]. She was killed in an automobile accident. At her funeral, I was ten. Kyle was in second grade.

Kathleen was what Mr. Armstrong would call a distressed baby. Medical costs associated with her treatment exceeded a million dollars. Insurance paid. She died from cancer anyway.

Logically I admit that there could be worse events to befall a human than the death of a child, but I am certain Mr Armstrong's abstraction doesn't capture the tears and pain and sadness of the events it references.

Imagine being the parent of one of the infants who Mr. Armstrong held responsible.
What about pre-human hominids? Was he also all the Homo Ergasters? Homo Habilis? Australopithecus Afarensis? The great apes? All the mammals? All multi-celled life?

I don't get what's interesting about this story. It's pretty silly and not very enlightening.
> Because people made it work.

Right, and they haven't made all these other Android devices work. So, "Android is open source" statement is only true with some major fine print attached to the bottom. That was my point and I was trying to clarify the misconception.
fascinating. wish this were a movie! just one question: why exactly do you believe intercontinental travel will become more expensive?
> I'm saying that for anything recent, you often end up having to compile software from source...

With regards to OpenBSD, your statement is factually incorrect. Most packages are up to date with OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not OpenBSD. Users of OpenBSD are discouaraged from compiling direclty from ports unless they have a good reason (and 99% of the time there is not a good reason.)
I wish I had more than one upvote to give to this talk. I was giddy half way through it and my jaw was hanging open by the end of it. What an inspiring look at the design process. I'm an interaction designer and this REALLY spoke to me.
I wish they'd port some form of the sync to iOS. Syncing between my phone and my laptop is the only reason I'm still on Chrome
You keep using that word, "always". You understand this has a meaning only in temporal context, right? The narrator sequentializes the events in order to make them comprehensible, but that doesn't mean the Egg actually lived these lives sequentially on by one. Once you realize that, your argument about "always" disappears. Also the question of free will becomes much stranger than you put it. Imagine you filmed somebody and watching it later. Does the person on film lack free will because you can just jump to any place on the film and "predict" his actions? I think you won't make this conclusion. Imagine now somebody who does not perceive time linearly (we're in SF territory so we're allowed to). Would his existence mean free will does not exist?
So you are completely fine with scam charities and sending money to Al Qaeda?
I've had 4 "Failed - Network error" messages in a row.
> I am a little critical of people declaring Android great because it's open

I am in the same boat (I made the original comment referring to the drivers). Now it is partly through my own ignorance. I assumed if I just followed the steps to built and install AOSP (plus some patches I was trying out), I would have gotten a functional Nexus 7, minus all the google apps of course. Well rotation sensor, and other wasn't working, GPU was slow, other stuff was crippled. The device was basically not usable very much.

Now yes, Android on a scale is a lot more open than say Apple products for kudos for them. But at the same time the fine print associated with AOSP is a little too much for the project to be proclaimed completely "open".
You got it. For me, I like getting my personal and work emails pushed to my iPhone in the same place (the Mail app). Though I have the Gmail app I don't use it.
No, not the same. Some of my least technical friends use imap without knowing they're using imap. Ask them about Jabber and their response would be "What??" which is why it got axed.

Killing imap would cause 60-year-olds I know to complain at the same time that we would complain. You can't have that broad spectrum complaint. As much fuss as there was over whatever that RSS thing was, I signed up and used it for 6 months and then forgot it existed.

In short: Let's put to bed the idea that Google is arbitrary, they're not. If they look at the numbers and see people not really using the product, they take it out back and put a hollow point through its head. (This is also why I'm bullish about Google Plus...they would have killed it otherwise.)
Not sure, but at least one very large scale, convicted drug smuggler from the glory days of California does, and they seem to leave him alone.
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A net loss of 1500 individuals spread out over four years: in other words, almost nothing.
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That's part of what makes us human and not computers or animals. Some things are not rational yet we do them anyway.
I agree with that vote. Since Debian is still committed to BSD, they aren't going to drop sysvint once the next-gen init system is in place.
Used to be able to use FF Sync with Mercury but they've gone and ruined it with their own sync service.
Flappy Bird Creator Promises to Remove Game From App Store
I was always afraid that we'd have to choose a place to settle down permanently as a kid.

It's the oil price (current combustion systems) that I think will render traveling economically infeasible—temporarily, until new energy source gets implemented.