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This is why Atom is so great. New packages can be quickly hacked up using existing web libraries and technologies.
Is it?

I generally use a graphical debugger in Eclipse. I have used Python and Perl, and can't see too much difference between them. Whats better about the Perl one?
I can tell you from experience, when you run communities this is what happens to your written voice.
No need to use the future tense. For a long time it has been a lot easier and cheaper for a Spaniard to open a business in the UK than in his own country.
Analyzing the copyrighted contents of third party non-Gmail users - who did not consent to such an analysis - for profit.
My objection is that people attempt to publicly share private articles. If you're a member of a private website (which for all intents and purposes, a paywall is), then by sharing it with the public you're assuming they can read it. Which without circumventing the paywall, many won't be able to.

Sure, some people will have subscriptions, others will have found the article unlocked in one form or another, but still I think it's pretty poor form to share something closed source, if you will.

Here, look at this: http://www.checkupdown.com/accounts/grpb/B1394343/
>I have no doubt it's a cultural misunderstanding rather than an attempt at deceit, but then... how the hell do you communicate technical knowledge to people who won't tell you what it is they need to know from you?

Well, I have been in that same boat. My answer? Don't hire them in the first place, and try and avoid projects if that decision is made for you.
Depends on the T&C of the platform. I worked at a platform, and our legals were very clear (and very cleverly constructed) to create a legal dependency from donor to project owner. We were just the marketplace, all liability for carrying out the project was on the project owner, and could (only) be enforced by the donor.
Well, AirBnB is a good example of a startup where the real value - and challenge - was in its novel business model, NOT in the engineering challenges of creating their webpage - which is very nice, but they might have succeeded with a Craigslist-like page for all I know if they solved the problem of creating a marketplace.

So I agree with the general idea behind what AngelList is saying. If the startup value proposition is based on solving a "hard " engineering problem, OTOH, it's not such a good idea... but it seems that most problems startups tackle are NOT engineering problems.
we're going to need that transparent aluminum
How do I get my coins? (I'm icelandic)
> For new SQL stuff, I now use PostgreSQL.

That's so true! Years ago I switched almost all projects to PostgreSQL. I never looked back. I use MySQL only for very legacy applications.

MySQL has so many bugs an inconsistencies, unicode support is only one of many issues. (Unsafe GROUP BY, silently cutting concatenated text fields when the result grows too big, silently converting invalid dates to '0000-00-00', and so on ...)

In the past, MySQL had some performance advantages over PostgreSQL, but only for MyISAM, i.e. without real transaction safety. Nowadays, if you want to trade ACID for speed, you wouldn't use MySQL but some "NoSQL" database instead. So even from a performance point of view, I see no point in using MySQL for anything but legacy stuff.
This doesn't appear to have anything to do with type classes or overloading, but rather with (unconstrained) parametric polymorphism.

Such a function is easy to write in C++, but the function prototype can not provide a strong guarantee that your b value will only be produced by your callback.
also known as feudal security, where the serfs just have to trust their lord knows whats best for them.
I think he means not the internal temperature, but the differential the thermostat sends to the heating, or somethign like that. I kind of get the analogy, but it is a little tortured if people can't pick it up immediately.
It depends what you're doing with it. If, for example, you're collaborating together on an open-source project then I don't see any problem.
What Mr. Lessig is doing, I believe, isn't about "campaign financing".

This is about waking people up to the idea that they can change things. There's a deep apathy an general defeatist attitude in most of the country because people have watched things spiral out of their control far too often.

It doesn't mater what the cause is; campaign finance is just one of problems that, at least in some areas. It'll help, but the goal is to remind people that you can fight back.

This is about giving the a victor, for moral sake, and we need a LOT more people pulling a Howard Beale on corruption in general.

/me walks over to window

(clears thought)

/me sticks head outside, and yells

I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE!!
Tags have an important difference from folders in that messages can have multiple tags and you don't think of messages as being in a folder.

Personally I find this quite useful and it definitely improved the way I use email.
It's very difficult to prove, but easy to disprove (change in one thing does not cause expected change in other).
Sometimes disproving the causation is enough to gain valuable knowledge.
Seriously, why can’t we get a great solution to handle business calls?
Actually - when was conversation threading introduced in GMail? I know the Apple's Mail.app had it in 2011.
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The whole point of this nginx indexer is that it uses "HttpAdditionModule" and HTML/CSS no other javascript ;-) This makes it very secure, because you don't even need php for this to work. Good addition to staticly generated blogs.
I had 2GB mailbox in 2006 and an unlimited a year later. And I was never fan of threaded views, so I guess I didn't notice, heh.
Hmm, this sounds like the sort of regulation that should be considered, and then not applied (i.e. make a law that prohibits these regulations), at an EU level, to protect Europe's collective interest in getting crowdfunding for its projects.
Interactive email Web UI is around since 1997 when Microsoft introduced Outlook Web Access. GMail is not really that special.

I think largest email innovation is right now happening at KDE with integration of KMail into rest of the desktop.
Non trivial statistical analysis of email contents and your interactions with your email to effect decent prioritisation?

That would be my top feature in gmail.
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And I thought my DOMbuffer idea would be new. Did you investigate yourself or did Google publish some technical papers about Wave ?

ps: reminds me of Google Maps tiles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7313277
Seriously, Spain being in an economic crisis since so long, they should work on making it more attractive for people to open and run their business there instead of adding new regulations and complicating things for founders.
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True. But for it to succeed and be widely adopted, it really needs an organization that is able to host it for the masses.
> conversation threading

I believe this existed before gmail

> gigabyte storage

was not a tech problem before

> speed

in what way? the ui was and still is as fast as most lightweight desktop clients

> powerful search

maybe, although some clients supported powerful search with regex before

I think gmail was not that innovative, but it did bring everything together very well, in a very user-friendly way, along with some new-ish stuff like tags and the no need to delete anything.
To a lot of corporations email is more like version control. The attachments are the source code, and the text of the message is like comments in code. The stream of information is a fundamental output of the business, and is definitely not just a communication medium. Managing that stream is not something that can be fully automated; it just needs better tools (like Github achieves for Version control).
It was part of the initial launch in 2004.
What about an UI which mimic a social network in the Facebook style but which uses email as backend? It would be decentralized for free, and entirely interoperable with people using plain email (those who uses this UI would see that you liked there message, others would see a reply that says "I liked your email", for instance). Comments would be responses to email (using the In-reply-to header). The interface could easily creates groups of contact or post to all of them (equivalent to posting on your "wall"), etc. The action of "friending" someone on this UI could optionally be mutual GPG key signing behind the scene which would enable encryption of messages between friends.

I think there is a lot to do with this idea.
Again, if there's enough to go around, I'd love to have one. I'm javiergomezacebo[at]gmail. Thanks in advance!!
You're ignoring enterprise, there is a huge industry around business email hosting which more often than not uses an email client (and more often than not that client is outlook or the iphone mail app).

Google Apps was certainly taking a huge chunk out of enterprise, but I don't know if that's still happening now that you have to pay for it from employee #1.

Outlook usage is so embedded and big enough that Google built a sync app, but moderately funnily, the 'how to integrate google apps with Outlook' video on this page is missing, not sure if that's a reflection of how few people use it?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/33322?hl=en
"capable of circumventing ridiculous laws like this"

Dude, by definition you are arguing that it's great for criminal uses.
Sure, monads come from category theory. IO and interactivity doesn't.

Yes, though futures were always like that when you look at Java for example. Java always suffered from the need to prepare complex design patterns to do simplest things as it was much less flexible than C++. Now C++ is getting there as well.

I personally would stick with some earlier C++ standard and use Haskell for my functional programming needs. Feels much more natural than trying to bend each language to support every thought process imaginable, and doing a poor job at that.
> but most frameworks don't care to inform the caller if a warning has happened (some don't even provide a way to access them).

Then I would consider the framework broken. Warnings about truncated data are the norm in other RDBMSs.
This thread is one discussion where I hardly see any coherence or modality in opinions (not that it's bad). To me, this indicates that email innovation has a lot of latent potential.
For example, email could have evolved to encompass messaging as a first class citizen rather than an add-on widget.
His problem (or his wife's) is solvable, even right now. She could use time machine, dropbox works as well, using a versionning system would also work, she could switch to an editor that supports infinte undos, dozens of other solutions exist.

But all these require preparation, settings and some care. It could get better, even 'magical', but it would be an achievement that should not be taken for granted.

Btw we could make a pan for stew that checks if you are adding eggs to it, but no one would want the tradeoffs IMO.
Here is an idea for something that has been in my head for some time.

All that would be required to jumpstart the innovation process is a developer-friendly API and standardised events for extending email:

onReceive(headers, body);
onOpen(...);
onTagged(...);
...

That would allow developers to do creative things with email. It may even give way to niceties such as:

npm install email-itinerary-parser

These events could be standardised across the board. A plugin ecosystem would allow emails to operate much like blogging platforms do today. You could have a self-hosted email platform with a plugin dashboard where you would pick and choose your plugins. The UI would be the hard part but is a tractable problem given the state of client-side MVC libraries that didn't exist until a few years ago.

A service like Akismet would provide SPAM filtering and other services could be built around it. The trust factor would be an issue but it might be even possible to send these services only extrapolated data instead of the entire contents of the email.

It would even be possible to build atypical interfaces around your email. You could for example build a blogs UI that shows all emails sent to myname+blogs@mydomain.com. The blogs Controller could automatically reply to that email with the published status.

In general, things could move in a progressive direction much faster in the hands of the developer community.
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This in general is one of those things that I thing's been growing in the background of the internet: the utility of fake Internet points as social feedback. This includes karma, likes, +1's, retweets and more.

It's the ability to give pure positive reinforcement without actually using words, and it's one of the most powerful ideas to come out of the Web.
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I've been testing Front and it's very promising.
The innovation was Google Wave. And it was pretty much ignored.
I love it when the Microsoft apologists come out :)

Outlook Web Access... yeah that changed the world, gmail was but a shadow in its glory.
what happens to the BTC in their wallets that they didn't lose? Liquidated to pay creditors 1c in the dollar?

with 63 million in debt, I imagine customers aren't first class debt holders either?
Do you code in comic sans?
Opera Mail had tags quite early on, not sure if it was before Gmail though.
I thought the first webmail was HoTMaiL (notice the original capitalization) in 1996 and that is was only later bought by Microsoft.
I have wondered if you could build a federated social network (or something that is more like an inter-social-network) with email as the underlying transport. You'd need to layer a lot of top of this, of course, but it would be kind of fun.
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>One Japanese small-business owner that accepts bitcoin as payment said Japanese banks had expressed skepticism toward the payment method, and that the business's lenders this week asked that the company wouldn't use bitcoin in the wake of Mt. Gox's stopping all transactions on Tuesday. "They're approaching bitcoin very conservatively," the owner said.

I don't think that the demise of mtgox will destroy the ecosystem. However, I suspect this will be a major setback in mainstream adoption as a method of payment. Bitcoin speculation (and difficulty of shorting) may very well prop up the price for the foreseeable future, but... so what? The interesting thing about the Bitcoin saga is seeing it work its way into mainstream.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.
> 63 million in debt

it is still not clear if it is 63 million + 750k BTC in debt, or in total. If in total it is not clear how btc are valued.
It's good to use precise, specialised language to communicate with other people who are familiar with that specialised language. Using specialised language to "explain" another piece of terminology from the same specialised vocabulary, though, doesn't create the impression of someone who is genuinely interested in communication.
Nothing equivalent to someone who works for a salary, does overtime, but isn't overly passionate about there life... yep that's unique to japan... what was I thinking.

/s
I'd love to see the details of those stats - can you point me to the source where it gives the 70% figure?
Are you implying the government sees funding money as taxable ? If so, on what basis ? Incomes ?
When a law is ridiculous, the term legal is meaningless.
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>The company's lawyer also said at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court that Mt. Gox had outstanding debt of about ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million) with assets worth ¥3.84 billion.

This implies a debt ratio of 170%. Assume: (1) no outside debt (only customer deposits) and (2) only 100% liquid assets (only currency). Even in that case, a depositor would recover no more than 59 cents to the dollar (the maximum recovery rate).

Fifty-nine cents is clearly rose-tinted. Assets include office leases, computers, and other things not easily liquidated at book value. And outside debt is senior to deposits. That is the bite of being unregulated (deposits are at the top of regulated banks' capital structures). After factoring in the cost of chasing bankruptcy claims in Japan I do not see depositors recovering a penny.
I use Linux since 2002 and actually hate M$.

But yes, it introduced Ajax and changed the world. Gmail was revolutionary because it offered 1GB when 10MB was the norm. Not because of UI.
Generally, we do our best to not listen to ourselves. Your mind / body are telling you something when they give up. Instead of being a dictator and trying to trick them further into extracting work, I highly recommend doing WHATEVER pleasant things you feel like, especially of the exercise, hiking, long walk variety! :-) For example, when your kid is out, go for a long walk for an hour in a pleasant park.

More directly, as you forget about the problem and take a walk, something, some spark of insight / revelation comes into the mind by itself because your guard is down and you are not torturing with the usual, "You were SUPPOSED to help me work, but you just want a break, huh?!" self-punishment. This is the realm of the genuine Unknown. Allow it.

Hope this helps.
There is a paginated mode in the settings, which is a total godsend. I dread the day when Yahoo decides to remove it.
I have been told that Spain has a big black market economy, it is part of ordinary life there to pay for say a car with "black money".

However I think even there the idea of setting up a tech company with more than a million euros of illegal currency that can't appear on your books might be a little challenging.
Why it's not feasible to share Stack Overflow algorithms with DDG? they just give them the application to run it locally.
Yes rule 3 should be a bit looser when not in crisis mode.

It can be adapted to what can we actually decide now rather than to discuss possible future paths (the more speculative discursive stuff can happen in other meetings).
I'm born and breed in Spain and I couldn't agree more with im_dario23 talking about the 70% and ArenaSource talking about protecting banks. In my honest opinion, banks get too much protection in Spain (compared to countries of northern Europe, which act in a more ethical way thinking more about the citizen) and this smells like a new way for banks to kind of "take some profit from crowdfounding". It seems that no sooner did the Spanish government realize about the money from crowdfounding, they tried to made up a tax/limitation for it (the thing itself shows how out-of-date Spanish politicians are... that they try to create this limit now when crowfounding it's been out there for some years now). That's so spaniard... but this is just my opinion. I'd like to read more about yours and your regulations all over the world. Great page news.ycombinator. Regards from Spain
For me it was because AWS RDS didn't support Postgres until recently, although that has changed now.
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No it's not

It's meaning is quite clear.

That's not to say you can't argue that it should be ignored but please have a grown-up argument about it rather than resorting to rhetoric.
Personally I don't have a strong opinion either way. It's interesting that manipulating the URL you will get through the paywall anyway. Another submission uses http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...
Falling asleep in an office chair in front of a computer sounds even less healthy
Maybe it's just me, but that background on the left looks like some monitor that had a seizure.
> a depositor could expect to recover no more than fifty-nine cents to the dollar

59% is a wet-dream scenario. Apparently they are trying really hard to value the lost 750K BTC at the closing MtGox price which was around $100. And Bitcoin is actually $566 now. It looks more and more that if anyone gets anything at all it will be under 10 cents to the dollar.
I was wondering the same thing.
Imagine we make a study on programmers and observe that 80% of them like science. Then we have a new programmer than wasn't part of the study, can we say he has a 80% chance of liking science?
Intuitively I would say yes but I think it's wrong, can someone help?
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I haven't used this but if it's comparable to text mate and sublime, you should stop calling it an IDE.
> Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating system OSE.

Great news! I hope Erlang will get more adoption inside Ericsson after this.
> Humans use <todo>.

Indeed.
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Congrats. I've been reading for 10 years! Atwood & Spolsky have always been great reading, and mainly because they push back on fads without being to over the top, don't oversimplify, and don't pretend to have the one-true-answer.
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This phone is for the US military-industrial complex to buy for their employees.
Relevant: http://youtu.be/csyL9EC0S0c?t=56m48s (sorry for bad video quality).

If you want to skip even more: http://youtu.be/csyL9EC0S0c?t=59m17s
but why did they call it bucky? There is a python statsd / collectd -> graphite bridge https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bucky
>Apparently they are trying really hard to value the lost 750K BTC at the closing MtGox price which was around $100.

Comical. The equivalent of a shipper, having sunk its cargo, claiming the damages it owes are diminished by the cargo being worth less for having dropped to the sea floor.
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And is this because it will make you rich with your bitcoin stash, or because somehow "Society Needs This" and you'll just happen to get rich while being so magnanimous. It's a new paradigm, I know.
If there is one thing that a crowdfunding platform will hire lawyers for, it is to make absolutely certain that there is no possibility of them having any sort of legal responsibility after they hand over the money to a project creator.
s/gmail/mutt/

FTFY
I live and work in Iceland as a software developer (C++, python, javascript and related libraries) and havent had a single e-mail from a recruiter for the past two years I've been on linkedIn.

Is this strictly a US problem?
If you're talking about PRNGs, then no - there is a very specific correlation between successive numbers in a PRNG.
It's easy to be angry at them and/or see how stupid they were about accounting, security, etc.

But I guess on the other hand we do have to realize they are victims of massive theft, as far as we know this massive loss was not due to their own profiteering or internal theft, it was an organized outside force targeting them.

It occurs to me it is like blaming someone for getting mugged, although they were stupid enough to walk down a really bad street at a bad time of night with their cash out in their hands, it did take a criminal to make the crime happen, not the victim.
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To be honest, in EU most things are taxable. Most EU countries will tax you on your lottery winnings, which to me is just weird and unacceptable,but this is how things work here.