skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google (and to a lesser extent) Apple, Facebook and Twitter, have little interest in allowing their products to inter-operate in a meaningful way.

Having had to deal with Google's somewhat non-compliant implementation of IMAP recently, I'm not going to say that they're big on having their products interoperate.

However, I would be hard-pressed to make a case that Google is less interested than Apple, Facebook, and Twitter in having their products inter-operate, either with their own or with other companies'.

Google's entire business model requires a far more open web than the other three properties, in order to function. They still don't favor a truly open web, but they're far less siloed than Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, whose business models all require[0] siloes in order to function (though for completely different reasons, hence why Apple and Facebook aren't competitive the way Google/Apple or Google/Facebook are).

[0] Twitter is arguably the only exception here.
I'm not outraged, either, but curious. What if this had happened with physical mail? Does it make any difference whether it was read or not? Can the destination account argue and keep it?

There are many interesting questions raised here. It could be interesting to see how it plays out in the end.
I miss my days on Ubuntu with i3 tiling window manager. I currently use an app called Amethyst[1] but find it to be a bit buggy at times and just doesn't live up to i3 or awesome. I wonder if hydra can be used as a launch point to create a better tiling window manager for OSX. I'm not familiar with the APIs that OSX exposes, if any, to do things like window management but it would be awesome to see some more control over workspaces and not just the windows within a workspace.

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
"it was up when i went to bed!"
Firms advertizing their presence on Facebook and Twitter took a while to catch on. It's an interesting way to stay connected since websites don't do that (and RSS never caught on with non-techies outside of certain applications like podcasts and people are loath to give out their emails for monthly newsletters). Unfortunately, you have to pay for every posting on Facebook for your 'subscribers' to be able to see it.
Yes, I think another way to think of the 'between-taker' idea is that an entrepreneur find ways to use existing resources in a new way that creates more value than those resources could previously create. Sometimes those resources are physical (machines, buildings, etc), but they can also be human beings.

I think it is reasonable for YC to have an investment theory that is something like 'productivity enhancements are making many talented human resources available more cheaply, a business that finds a way to use them could do well.'

But, I think the Uber example is a little unclear. It seems likely to me that driving is going to be automated away in 10-20 years. And, since so many adults drive (even those with other jobs), there is a massive incentive to find a way to automate that activity and make it safer.

I think there is a bit of a paradox - as the number of people employed in a task increases, the incentive to automate that task increases as well. I am not too optimistic that creating large numbers of long-term sustainable jobs is easy, but I think the attempt to find uses for undervalued resources makes as much sense for humans as it does for any other resource.
That comment really made me laugh.
I'm Sorry Amazon...I Want an Open Relationship
If you're using Skype on Linux, it's the number of seconds of the call. Skype on Linux hasn't been updated in so long that the client doesn't always know what to do with what it's sent; if you're using Skype on Mac, that's when it tells you that you just got off a call with so-and-so for such-and-such time, but on Linux, it just prints out the literal number of seconds and it's done.
tree on ubuntu
"The bug must come from changes colleague XY has made after me! pointingfingers"
Any system that has a property of "people could run away from it, so let's expand it so they can't escape" is very suspicious to me.
Android documentation of the wearable UI library (.zip)
Indeed, but my proposition is that they already did that, some time ago. It's just such a small amount of money that it seems unlikely that they _didn't_ do this.
Fair enough. Thanks for the link.
they could use WebGL and an engine that supports ASMjs.
But it wouldnt make sense since it's not a web app.

IMHO,it's a mistake to use webtechs to code a serious text editor. TextEds require great performances,if I cant open a 3MB with it,it's just not worth it.

They could have kept javascript/coffeescript for plugins and write the UI in C/C++.Javascript is fast with engines like V8,the DOM is absolutely not fast at all.
Why a gov't watchdog says your phone calls are private, but your e-mails are not
Me too.The text was too long and I think I may have missed the point.

And all this despite the fact that I love reading.
They're already on the list of boat-rockers to harass at airports.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Detention_and_i...
Wouldn't F-Script[1] achieve the same? I'm not sure how much love it's received for Mavericks but it's a great way to peek into any Cocoa app and call methods.

[1] http://www.fscript.org
Any idea what his require grid is referring to in his own config file?

link - https://github.com/sdegutis/dotfiles/blob/osx/home/.hydra/in...
I'm sorry, but I work in banking and if 2008-2012 showed us anything, is that we can "disrupt" pretty much the whole economy.
"the segregation was in accordance with IeSF tournament regulations and was to 'avoid possible conflicts (e.g. a female player eliminating a male player during RO8 [round of eight]) among other things.'"

What makes that a 'possible conflict'?
Sheryl Sandberg praised this company on national television.
I Quickly had a look on all the window manager alternatives mentioned here. Currently I use flexiglass, but I use it for one reason only. It allows me to move windows like in linux.

When holding Mouse button 1 + alt anywhere in the window I can move it. I really like this feature, I never use the titlebar to move windows.

Do any of the alternatives (or hydra it self) allow me to do this? I'd like to try them out. See if it has advantages over flexiglass.
How witty.

(Apologies to anyone with a sarcasm-detecting extension that I just broke).
If they are still using the same R7 design since 2010, it seems like they've decided that the current hardware and image quality is good enough, and that they would rather focus on expanding the data set.
Microsoft, Google et al form club to push 25/50 Gbps Ethernet
Where is "It works on my box"? I'm guilty of using that one a few times.

Edit: "It's user error" is another popular one.
from ~11 hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7981002
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Makes sense to me. There's nothing intrinsically making either gender better at computer games.

It's not like running the 100m or a marathon, where women aren't capable of competing, so there's no reason to keep them segregated.

Also - it's fascinating how fast changes happen nowadays. A bunch of people point out how stupid something is and it changes within days.
This is off topic but I found out the hard way that then you delete a google docs account all documents you shared with others are deleted from their list of documents.

I suppose on the one hand something like that is a solution for gs.

On the other hand, while I understand the model, I'm not 100% it's the right one.
I want to live until I decide that I no longer wish to.
UI / UX Design Interviews, Murat Mutlu
This fetishizes bullshit.

Tell me when you next launch bullshit product, bro.
The VA's internal system also had "email" like this (before email was widely used), where we could unsend messages.

Fun fact: The VA's system was called Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP). When that acronym was overloaded by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, they changed it - to VistA. Either they had really bad luck picking names, or were very prescient.
strictly speaking, the pronunciation he was going for was must've.
If the tricky part is that comments are a picture of PR comments and diff comments, it seems like that would be more of a problem for import than export.
Frank : When your friends or parents ask to you what job do you do, how do you answer?

Murat : I use to say I work in the mobile design industry but that just meant my friends kept asking if I could get them discounts on iPhones!

It’s easier to tell people ‘I design websites’, I leave any mention of UX or product design out of conversations.
Last I checked google was able to discern my real ip even while behind tor... I used tor for scraping google but now that no longer works
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If you don't realize you did it in a few seconds you're still shit out of luck, though. I imagine most people won't realize they sent it to the wrong person until they're notified of the other party not receiving it, or there's an unusual length of reply time. I wonder how people would feel about emails being undoable until the other party opens it.
Been using Slate as well but it's not maintained anymore. I wanted to switch to Phoenix - https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix/ which is from the same guy that this Hydra. I think the idea of Hydra was the rewrite it in Lua but I can't speak for him. Will definitely try it out asap!
I wonder how many of these "Job Creators" really believes that the wealthy create jobs, or if they are fully aware it's BS?
The previous IeSF regulations had separate male and female tournaments, and there wasn't a female one for Hearthstone, so allowing a women to knock a man out when she couldn't go forward herself made no sense.

Fixing it by allowing women to go forward was what made the most sense.
That is one disruptive plugin.
Silly, but I think still generally more useful that the people who seriously use the term "disrupt" when talking about their big ideas.
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Welp, my sample config's REPL command was broken in the beta that everyone downloaded. And my first attempt at fixing it didn't actually work. It works on Beta 6. Nothing like my project being #2 on HN to make me rush enough to need two tries to fix a 1-line bug, heh.
IMAP was created in 1986.

You'll have to excuse app authors for not turning a blind eye towards the modern APIs that vendors expose.

To have a great standard, you need to have a non-standard predecessor that sets the tone, approach and philosophy and has proven itself out in the wild without the crutch of a standards body mandating its use. In this way "closed" and "open" work hand in hand to form a healthy ecosystem.

Good standards can't materialize in vacuum. "Non-standard" APIs are the fertile soil they grow in. Most of HTML5 was proprietary extensions before they were standardized. In fact, most of HTML has been "vendor specific" before it was standardized (including the <img> tag).

What is the alternative anyway? To "stop re-AOLizing the web" means to stop progress and stick with a horrible email protocol that has seen little improvement since it was created 30 years ago.

EDIT: All right, people are angry because I'm not acknowledging the current version, IMAP4, which was coined in 1993. Sorry, sorry. That makes it a very modern standard. It completely changes everything I said.
If any industry is to call itself disruptive surely it should be ours.

If any industry is arrogant enough to make the locals of the city we move to for work hate us, surely it is ours.
Wait instead of men's and women's, it's now women+men and women-men? How is that equal?
Do you understand how PGP encryption functions?
I guess the answer is yes... breaking (or by-passing) SSL must be a joke for a gazillion dollars funded agency (think "heartbleed" zero-day).
Its implied on the list but not mentioned specifically.

!!

will be substituted with the last command you typed. So if your somebody like me who frequently types

$ apt-get update
Could not lock yada yada are you root?
$ sudo apt-get update

instead you can type

$ apt-get update
$ sudo !!
Did you try changing the runtime to libgreen? It uses a thread pool and dispatches jobs to them instead of spawning a new thread for each job.
Hydra is indeed my successor to Phoenix. Phoenix and Zephyros (and AppGrid if you can find it) are deprecated in favor of Hydra. But I can't just delete those projects, as existing users may not want to port their configs to Lua. Oh how I wish I could though.
> I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it?

Can't beat this.
Frankly I've never understood why email doesn't work this way, it looks backwards to me. As long as the recipient hasn't read the email the sender should have the right to delete it. Even if the client has already delivered the email in the recipient's inbox there should be a way for the SMTP/IMAP server to notify the client and remove it.

Even Whatsapp works this way: once you've sent a message, you can't unsend it. The message is first relayed to their servers and then relayed to the client, but even if the recipient isn't online and the message is only on the server, deleting it only removes it from your conversation. You'd think that in 2014 we would have addressed these kinds of flaws.
I've never been sold on the bottom-reply. Sure, if you're new to the thread it becomes easier to follow from the last, but if you're following from the first message it's a pain to scroll down to the bottom of every message to get what's new.

I would say I haven't seen an argument to convince me bottom-replys are better, but I honestly have never really discussed this with someone who cared.
I've read that habits are stored in the memory in different ways than regular memories, and habits are more durable to incidents such as amnesia. (citation needed)

Perhaps by practicing typing the encryption key day after day, you could record it in muscle memory and it would be amnesia proof.

Or perhaps you could invent a unique hand-dance (think hand-jive) and practice it daily, and you could write a program that could decode the sequence into a key.
It's been a very long time since I last used them so others may have better advice than me.

Option 1: Go to high traffic bus stations along major North-South roads (roads #20,#4,#2 are good choices) or the Jerusalem-TV highway on Friday evening or Saturday before sestet.

Option 2: Go to central stations (eg 'New Tel Aviv Bus Station') area and ask around.

Option 3: Find backpackers/teenagers with bags (it's summer break) & at regional central stations.

Option 4: WB or eat jerusalem settlements (it's a bad week for these). I think many of the smaller settlements have semi-private or informal bus networks on some different informal system.

Option 5: is transport to and around Arab towns int the Sharon/triangle region. There are spots in Raanana, Kfar Saba, Netanya and the rest of the big towns in the area that serve as Terminals for Sherut Taxis to nearby arab towns. These will usually have a station master type of guy. He will most likely be smoking a nargilla.

Watch for Taxi vans with route numbers. These are the Sherut taxis
If you want people to read your email, recall it:

"fred@example.com would like to recall the email 'Foo bar'"

[OK] [Cancel]
If you're trying to distinguish between a "classic" torus (volume of revolution created by sweeping a circle around an axis coplanar with said circle) and a sphere, there's a fairly easy way.

Measure the curvature at your current point. (Say, by drawing a triangle and measuring angles). Walk in an arbitrary direction in a straight line until you come back to your starting point, measuring curvature at at least two points along the way. Then do the same at 90 degrees from your previous walk.

If you're on a torus, at least one of your measurements of the curvature will be different. If you're on a sphere, the curvature will be constant and positive.
A public-private key that is derived the same way from a passphrase is not public key encryption. It is effectively a symmetric key: shared secret.

There are simple symmetric key programs for file encryption with symmetric keys, like AESCrypt, which integrates into the Explorer shell on Windows.
Not a bad idea, will do. Thanks.
I was so confused on what type of license would prevent me seeking a track. Luckily I can just google "download from mixcloud" and problem goes away.
A modified version of the Cyc inference engine was used in the initial development of LarKC[1].

[1] http://videolectures.net/coinactivess2010_witbrock_lkc/
I wrote my own window manager a few weeks ago: http://zonesformac.com

Emphasis is on support for multiple screens, ease of use and snappiness. (which doesn't come across in my video I guess...)

I know my download page sucks, but if anyone wants to try and give me feedback, I'd be happy to read it. Send an email.
I was wondering why they didn't use jquery/JS to load data from a list rather than reload the page and create more web server hits. This would explain why.
I agree that it was most likely a coincidence, other than server access any intelligence agency would have no reason to monitor me.

Even if you were near the president and said on the phone or over a radio "Shoot the president's head" it could be completely justified depending on context (if you were a production crew talking to a camera operator for instance). It would be nearly impossible to sort out the false positives and even if you could it wouldn't prevent much because of code-words that could be used.

Then again, we all know that bugs happen, there might have been a new system in place. It would be conceivable that the phone/tower/something received a bad command when the "recording" started and it caused the call to drop.

I say "hacked" and "stolen" on the phone all the time, but those would likely be on the list of "calls to record".
Dutch Surgeon Successfully Implants 3D-Printed Skull
petition to add word 'pivot'.

countdown until an addon with 'cloud', 'disrupt' , and 'pivot' functionality initiated.
I'd hate to be one of those people, but I'd enjoy some kind of citation on that claim that the majority of Tor users are using it for nefarious purposes.

I may be stretching here, but I think most of us would probably agree that monitoring or outright shutting down Tor would be OK if the nefarious usage was 100%. More interesting is, at which point do we consider monitoring morally wrong as that percentage approaches zero?
Yes, I understand (on a superficial "don't actually use it on a day-to-day basis, but have encrypted e-mails before" level)

I am imagining this program that looks through your To: field for recipients in your address book that have shared their public key with you. If it finds any, those people get a copy sent to them which is encrypted and only they can read...

Now what happens if you accidentally try to send mail to someone not in your address book?

I guess hopefully you get a big popup that says "Warning: mail will not be encrypted!" Maybe not?

I've used the command-line tools to encrypt files and send encrypted attachments. It's nothing like "automatic" and it's certainly not an envelope for the whole message.
Even 1 byte every 42 seconds would be very useful for many types of sensors.
In ES6 "typeof null" will give you "null" rather than "object". There were also some talks on making "__proto__" non-mutable, but I'm not sure whether this breaking change made it into the spec.
What sort of IP do you have? If it is some residential IP where the PTR does not match the mailserver’s advertised hostname or the PTR does not resolve to the IP, I can fully understand blocking that IP (and do so myself).

On the other hand, I don’t quite see how a fixed IP could get detected as spammy by AOL without there being any spam sent from it.
I just learned about both projects and didn't dig deep into it, but it seems to me that minicart.js buttons will still work for users without JavaScript because they are "real" Paypal buttons. That might be an advantage over simplecart which seems to have no fallback for noscript users.
'yield' was a reserved word in the ES4 spec, and a 'FutureReservedWord' in ES5 so if there is code that uses it as an identifier, it has been technically broken since 2008...
Update: Google has apparently blocked access to the email.

source - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/google-goldman-lea...
Looks promising but how is multi monitor support? And how easy would it be to detect whether I am on my 1 screen laptop or 3 screen desktop, and use different setups accordingly?
Progress for the sake of progress is not progress.

The question that should be asked is if not using IMAP gives for this app any edge over not using it? It seems that the answer is no.
This article is a good example of the arrogance around nutrition. A third possibility is that we don't know enough to be able to manufacture vitamins in a factory.

When one eats un-manufactured food

* for a given nutrient there are many different forms of it

* there are many inter-related nutrients that effect each other (nutrient synergy)

Take a look at how many forms of Vitamin A there are on the Wikipedia entry. The idea that we can pick one and load up on it may not be correct. This is true of many minerals also because they need to be bound with something else (magnesium malate, etc).

The odd thing about nutrient synergy is that it is very well established scientific phenomenon. But it just doesn't fit well with our reductionist approach to science.
Steve Yegge. Classic.
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good fast work!

REPL is working for me now :-)
It is so unfortunate that bullshitive is not a word...
I'm not sure its hidden on purpose. There doesn't appear to be any styling to hide it, and when I went to the URL that the inner iframe was linking to (the iframe inside of the iframe), it gave a blank page.
Hey I'm checking out your config file now, Where can I get the grid package you are using?
What is Glycine?
It's perfectly logical for this cycle to be occurring.

It's nothing more than technology inflection points in action. It will continue to repeat and there is nothing that can stop that.

Seeking to stop the so-called AOL'izing is like asking nature to stop making wild fires. These things happen for a reason, it's not a fluke, it's not bad. It will cycle. Prepare for the next cycle shift, don't lament today, build tomorrow, it's that simple.

It's no different than being upset about Android becoming the latest operating system monopoly, replicating what Windows accomplished 20 years prior. Stop operating system monopolies! Well, it's perfectly natural and will continue to happen. If someone has been around tech for more than a few years and hasn't figured out how these cycles and networks function, they must really not be paying attention.
I'd stick to Firefox and Chrome. They're both widely used and fully cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux). Desktop Safari is kind of the modern-day IE in that it's artificially tied to a single OS (Apple dumped the Windows version of Safari a couple years ago with no notice leaving users in a lurch).
You don't think that's always been the case with immigrants? At least since the Civil War.
Yeah, looks like it
Although it advertises persistence, it doesn't look like it works. Everything I put in there is gone upon restart.

Interesting idea though. Thanks for pointing it out.
You can set up the encryption so that it requires a verified public key. If you mistype an address, you won't have their public key, and can't encrypt the message to them.