skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value can be small (or nonexistent), but I like to know that everything in my inbox needs to be acted on/processed, rather than having to determine whether I've already done it or not. You can do this while leaving everything in the inbox by toggling the read/unread tags, but I'd rather not.

Similarly, I've never seen the advantage of leaving old emails in my inbox rather than just archiving everything without labeling it.
I concur. I use email for work and "serious" stuff. For everything else, there's Facebook, SMS etc.
> Phone web browsers are just as fast as real computers, and fast LTE connections keep things moving quickly. I remember the early days of the first iPhone era smartphones and would never want to go back to them. The web browsers sucked and overall the phones were too slow to do anything beyond check a simple web page.

This is a result of chip improvement. If you don't do a single thing to improve mobile phones other than use the current generation of chips, you get that. I have seen no other improvements or innovation, and the chips were directly referred to in the comment to which you were replying.
Fake versus Real FTDI USB Serial Chips
Ok, we changed the url to that from http://app.broadsheet.io/#/home.
Thanks for linking the authors site! I loved his youtube videos, but didn't know he also does web comics.
I'm not a PM so I can't speak to the decision itself, but I don't think grafting on the Inbox workflow to the Gmail interface would have worked out. It would have made both of them very muddled, and given the impression Inbox has more flexibility that it really wants to give.

Two apps using the same backend data (you can switch between Gmail and Inbox if you like) seems a better fit.
Same here. Got the error, emailed a second time, it worked.
I agree completely. I drink coffee and tea regularly and haven't had a drop of soda for years.
Some quite delicious Cheeses contain mould :)

(although once, many years ago, I did do a blue cheese sauce to a meal, and gave myself and my wife a spectacular night and next day of... ejecta. Never going to forget that experience :( )
Same here, and I believe that's the norm. I was confused by "we love email" and their choice of showing young people messaging each other as the typical use-case for email.
A friend of mine just ran into this, and after investigation it seems it is quite the thing. Don't buy your chips on Ebay or Alibaba I guess.
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This is sort of the premise of Ethereum. Ethereum is supposed to be a better Bitcoin, with lots of bells and whistles. More scalability, with a not-fully-replicated blockchain, programs which represent contracts stored in the block chain, and other gimmicks.

I think someone should try Etherium in a MMORPG before using it on real money.
Every time they add features to gmail, people on forums like this one scream "OH MY GOD GOOGLE LITERALLY KILLED MY SISTER". It's a lot less irritating to make major changes in a new product.
I assume they wanted a fresh start.
From ethnographic research, this is a good move by Google. People enjoy a blank slate or 'fresh start'. By starting from Inbox 0, people can enjoy that feeling. Contrast this with integrating into Gmail where people have thousands of emails in their inbox.
Does it work across accounts? For instance, I have a personal email and a university email that is gmail-based. I believe they are already linked account-wise, but having to manually swap between both inboxes in gmail is a constant annoyance.

Edit: "Across" in the sense that everything comes in one workflow, and isn't two separate workflows. I dislike having to back out and select a new account to see each set of emails.
Or folders. Didn't Gmail get rid of folders?
Udev is already forked, in the form of eudev. And Poettering is already having fun taunting them in systemd release notes, with lines like "This is your wakeup call".

Frankly i am reminded of the stuff we would see Jobs pull on stage. Like "Redmond, ready your copying machines"...
Is "Follow me on twittter" really part of the article ?

It feels like the whole purpose of this thing is getting followers.
They have a track record of trying to fingerprint and screwing with counterfeits, so it would appear there's evidence the driver doesn't happen to disable counterfeits, but actively disables them. To me there's a fuzzy distinction (possibly not reflected in law) between software that breaks when you make it do stuff you didn't design, versus having it attack things you don't want it to work with.
For the most part you are right. But the mercurial command line interface is phenomenally better and the basics of vcs work with much less cognitive overhead than git.
Good for them. The Telerik .NET controls are an overall a positive experience.
"All they have to say is "We write our drivers to support our chips, if it messes with other chips that incorrectly identify as ours, that's just the way it went, it'd cost us extra to support them and why should we help our competitors"."

Buzz, thanks for playing. :)

That won't get them out of discovery for various torts, and the discovery (emails, code, etc) is likely to show they did this on purpose.

It's not practically impossible, it's trivially easy to disassemble and see if it does this on purpose.
Then you argue it to a jury, and it's going to look really really bad for FTDI.
The site is remarkably clear & comprehensible even without the CSS. Progressive enhancement wins again!
I find Fossil[1] to be best DVCS for individuals and small teams. It's like a complete github on your computer. Some salient features -

a. It has a Wiki

b. It has bug tracking

c. It has it's own server

d. It's got a nice and simple web interface. Especially when it visualizes the different branches[2]

e. It's a single file executable across all different operating systems.

f. The Autosync feature[3], which is on by default is, in my opinion, makes version management dead simple. (no pushing and pulling!). This feature by itself makes starting with DVCS really easy.

[1]http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

[2]http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?y=ci

[3]http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/concepts.wiki#w...
> Why do you think they created a completely new app rather than integrating features into the gmail app one by one?

As I see it, it lets people wanting to try the new thing do so, but has zero effect on people happy with what Gmail does now who don't want to be distracted either by more option clutter or the features themselves.

Further, it lets people wanting to use the new workflow do so without clutter from the regular Gmail interface (and being a more focussed interface is the key "interesting feature".)
This is ignorant beyond all sense and reason. What uses more energy? Printing out a piece of paper and pinning it to your wall, or having a second monitor all the time to display the same content in perpetuity?

Printing things arbitrarily is wasteful, but sometimes printing specific things is the most efficient method. Books don't use electricity when sitting around.
So.. It will be like Cordova/PhoneGap/Ionic? It is so unclear from that page.
In the immortal words of the (quite literally) immortal Treebeard: "Never is too long a word even for me."
Excellent explanation of how Bitcoin works and its shortcomings. Bit of a Bitcoin newb, but how are decisions currently made in regards to implementing new features? Are Alt-Coins similarly hard to change (mostly thinking about Litecoin) ?
Looks nice, but it would be great if there were an easily accessible demo that didn't require registration.
Microsoft put Nokia into the ground with a single speech that obsoleted all of the phones that they had in the wild (and were still trying to get people to buy) for a phone that they hadn't developed yet.

The N900 and N9 were better than the iPhone, although that's not saying much.
There are a variety of laws that would apply here, and doing what they did, if done intentionally, is almost certainly cause for civil liability.

They are not allowed self-help in the form of destroying other pieces of hardware. If they have a problem with counterfeit chips, the solution is customs/legal process/etc

If they aren't happy with what that buys them, they should be pushing for legal change.
It's too different from Gmail to be integrated into it. It coexists with Gmail so that you can choose to use Inbox and its "opinionated" workflow, or not. Users who like their personal Gmail workflow probably wouldn't appreciate having that flexibility taken away if it's not aligned with how Inbox wants you to work.
It's unclear to me why paying individuals with very rare blood types for the blood they provide to the medical industry would in any way alter the landscape of general blood donations. I understand why it's a bad idea to attempt to pay for regular blood donations in general, but rare blood is not a "regular donation" - the individual is in possession of an insanely lucrative product. It just happens to be their blood, instead of something more "normal" like artistic talent.
Uh, I got some of these "wrong" that aren't wrong. As in, in the past I did the advice given in "wrong" answer, in the context of building a startup, and it was wildly successful.

The problem with making startup advice into a right/wrong game is that some of it is actually really important, like building a product that people want, and some of it is much more debatable. This just conflates the two together and is at best misleading.
Oh that should definitely be its own post sometime. Thanks!
I want that re-share feature in every messaging app!
Can you provide some examples of stories with characters whose defining characteristics aren't innate?

It seems like you're trying to say that you want to read stories about people who are 'normal', but that doesn't really mean anything. Are you just looking for books that don't have any element of fantasy to them?
Bracket Computing launches with $85M to rewrite cloud management
You don't have to become a psychopath to be goaded into dropping everything in your life to build an unlikely fortune for a VC, just naive and greedy.
The ceo of the red cross makes $600k, with plenty of the execs making over $400k (form 990 available [1]; page 49). I don't know if I can draw a bright line, but I think that's excessive compensation for running a medical charity.
Not that I agree with the grandparent's sweeping statements about psychopaths, but your comment also makes a sweeping statement that "becoming a psychopath is probably the last thing any aspiring business person should become". No evidence is provided in either case.

It's also pretty insulting to both psychologists and psychopaths alike that you think a psychopath is just something you decide one day to become.

It's also jarring that in one paragraph you bash crazy "one weird secrets" to success, when in the next paragraph you claim that the one weird secret to success is "personal relationships".
I am more entertained by that animation than I should be...
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

inbox@inbox.gmrservice.ext.google.com

...
The error that the other server returned was:
550-5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that
550-5.2.1 prevents additional messages from being delivered. For more
550-5.2.1 information, please visit
550 5.2.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6592 fl6si3394876qcb.0 - gsmtp

Anyone knows what that "rate limit" is?
Redfin buys Walkscore
Why You’d Be Crazy Not to Include Your Customer Service Reps in Product Dev
We changed the url from http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/posting.php?ID=255 because the latter's formatting made the content difficult to read.
Bingo! I came across Progress first time this week in a different context (Indian startup scene) - they portray themselves as incubators here (https://www.progress.com/incubator). Have a fancy application system et al.. even stress how they don't take any equity.

Turns out in lieu of essentially a deskspace and maybe wifi they mandate the incubated startups to use their Cloud platform products - aha lockin! This is how shitty enterprises survive. When they can't find new customers, they come to India and tomtom around as evangelists & incubators and other $100 words in self-description.
Note that I was comparing with Google's methods of testing self-driving cars: idle roads, good weather, precision maps, human monitoring, no accidents. If Google's miles of safe driving mean anything, if means it has 99% more miles left before a level of validation. If you look at it for the effective miles where actual accident recovery happens, it will be much much shorter.

And yes, UMich/Ford's self-driving car project is making a testing field specifically designed for increased hazardous environment. But that environment is always artificial, and the hard part is to catch the last 1% situations, or the last 0.000001% in order to reach a level of billion miles safe record, because you don't even know what those are.

Autonomous navigation is fancy on all side (Yes I do this research), but all field experts know any security audit can probably reveal a bunch of failure modes because nobody has really worked on making it robust again adversaries.
10 Essential Privacy-Friendly Services(Goodbye Google, Facebook, Apple, Dropbox)
It doesn't integrate multiple accounts into a single inbox, if that's what you mean. It works the same as Gmail in that respect.
> I gave GNU Stow a try, but thought it did too much.

Not to argue with your experience, but it's hard to see how it could do less—it literally just creates a bunch of symlinks. (It seems to have grown a bunch of options since I last looked at it, but it seems that they can all be ignored if you want simplicity. (I've only ever used `-d`, `-t`, and `-D`.)
San Francisco moves closer to legalizing Airbnb
That's a good question... I was under the assumption this was for gmail only. I guess I will have to wait for an invite and test it out myself.
upon filing a provisional patent i believe you can then use 'patent pending' wordage - so thats how. esp. given that no patent has been awarded at that time, you can effectively call anything patent pending but the operative word is pending which could be replaced by 'maybe', 'possibly', 'attempted' etc.

I have always wondered why 'patent pending' or 'patented technology' is used to market to consumers, you see it on a lot of commercials. Sure it suggests to the consumers thinking deeply that perhaps they won't be able to get that design anywhere else, but anyone thinking about it that deeply in 2014 might also say to themselves 'screw that, its a plastic clip'.

Patents are for businesses, not consumers, companies shouldn't advertise patents for a device/solution, they should advertise the solution or device.
Lowly DSL poised for gigabit speed boost
You'll still have to go in and out accounts as you do now, but Gmails "Send As" feature came over, so that might help?
Its called aquihire. Its also one seventh tumblr and rounding error of whatsapp.
This is part of Erik Meijer's Functional Programming 101 Course.

https://www.edx.org/course/delftx/delftx-fp101x-introduction...

At 8:43 he briefly goes into async/async/sync support in Dart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQcZL0n6cPg&t=8m43s
They actually did a horrible job at making a balanced game as can be seen in the multiple revisions since.

I loved it and I'm calling it a roaring success in most respects, but balance is not something I would attribute to the first several incarnations.
Microsoft Garage
'Making the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon' at MIT Media Lab
What an excellent game. Please charge me for an ad free version!
same here (latest ff beta). all the 'try before you buy' templates result in a non-interactive grey surface. no errors on the console.
Complaining about being flagged on HN usually invites more flags.
Injuries per billion miles are often unreported, thus it is not a reliable statistic to talk about and compare with.
Note that this was an official use case for Stow for at least a year before the linked post:

This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user installations of software built from source, but can also facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.

(from https://www.gnu.org/software/stow), where "especially …" links to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000....

(There's nothing wrong with re-discovering it, of course!)
Journalist here. This man speaks truth. Pitching is 99% of the job, and I've lost count of the number of major stories my editors turned down, even when I had those stories as much as 3 years before major outlets. This is exactly how it works.
An important remark, but let me remind you that scientists are used to the 90% of the times where the current models are correct but observations/experiments are erroneous, specially when things deviate so much from known models. Of course, the 10% of times the models can't explain the observation are indeed crucial to science.
I had this nasty image of a big metal vat of blood being mixed with a giant wooden spoon Willy-Wonka-style.
I'm also an inbox-zero practitioner and am fully satisfied with my current email workflow with one caveat -- for "waiting on" or "not relevant now" emails, I need a way to bring them back to my inbox at some estimated time in the future to be revisited.

I found Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) a year ago, and it's been amazing for keeping inbox-zero (and my sanity). I average about 300 emails a day and most of them aren't immediately relevant. I then label them with their context(s) and boomerang them when I think they'll be actionable.

It's an amazing workflow, and I honestly think Google could just offer some type of "resend me this email later" (maybe even with a small note to myself) and would solve 90% of people's workflow problems.
Your phone version is in the lowest 12%-tile. No offense to you, but as an Android developer, I'm content making my minimum required version Ice Cream Sandwich if it means avoiding any complexities.
>But going WP7 certainly didn't help. It slowed Nokia's sales to a crawl.

I think it's more accurate to say that it was the fault of that stupid (unless it was intentionally meant to lower the value of Nokia mobile, of course) Elop speech, where he obsoleted Symbian and Maemo, at a time when Nokia hadn't released a Windows phone, and didn't even have a plan to serve the low-end smartphone market that Symbian had locked up.
Nice. Like Firechat but well designed. Like the color signature.

I feel like for these to take off you need to target specific events where it would be really useful. I would join subreddits/forums etc for festivals like burning man and try and get people to use it.
>> the very beginning, I wanted all my friends to be shareholders. If I had a deep, intellectual conversation with someone, I’d give them 10 shares.

Yeah, it probably violates some securities laws... but when everyone makes lots of money on the deal, there's rarely an issue. When investors lose money, they're all too happy to bring up securities law violations and fraud claims. Better to do everything by the book and not give anyone an excuse to sue you later.

I'm not a securities lawyer, but in a nutshell, startup companies should prefer a very small number of professional (and accredited) investors.
From their website:

>The licence only allows use of the Software with, and the Software will only work with Genuine FTDI Components (as defined in the Licence Terms). Use of the Software as a driver for a component that is not a Genuine FTDI Component MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE THAT COMPONENT.

IANAL but I don't believe this disclaimer can possibly be valid. Personal property rights cannot be waived away with a disclaimer.
Only the snoozed mails are stored until they are redelivered, as far as I can tell, but I can see your point. I personally don't care that much about privacy, if the convenience gains are high enough :)

"Mailbox stores a subset of your emails temporarily in order to redeliver snoozed emails, provide fast delivery and provide push notifications. We encrypt all communication to and from the Mailbox app, and all information cached on our servers is stored in an encrypted format." [0]

[0] http://www.mailboxapp.com/help/#/search?query=mailbox%20stor...
I opened Inbox and it crashed within 10 seconds. :-(
And this is....what, exactly? My Gmail account already has an inbox.
Does anyone know of any competing/more established libraries that offer similar features?
OK, I'll have to look into that feature. Thanks for answering!
download it once and copy over the files locally
Ultimately it comes down to every node defining what they consider a bitcoin or Xcoin. Suppose we're the only two nodes on the network and we disagree about what a bitcoin is (we're running different validation code, either intentionally or not). You'll mine some ebel-coins and I'll mine some bdcs-coins. We won't agree that they are bitcoins and so we'll have a blockchain fork.

So yes, changing anything (hard-fork) is very difficult because it requires 100% consensus to be done well. Two-way pegging is technology that allows almost endless permissionless innovation on top of bitcoin WITHOUT requiring consensus. This is killer. I cannot wait to see what comes of this.

There is now a huge space to be filled for dev APIs and useful abstractions for creating, running, and updating side-chains.
>coding sessions that go by like a blur, causing us to lose track of time and everything around us.

I used to engage in sessions like that, but now consider them undesirable, so now I make a point not to get so absorbed in coding for so long that I lose track of time.
Chris Velasco said the exact same thing!
https://twitter.com/chrisvelazco/status/524987169463894017
Thanks!
Inside the Rationality Movement in SV
I remember using the Progress database, 4GL and all, and it was a painful experience.

I remember being very surprised that in mid-2000's, it didn't automatically optimize a query like "A>B and X=Y". It ended up running A>B first, which pulled in most of a huge table, instead of running X=Y, which was much narrower. I thought it was a basic query optimization heuristic to prioritize equality constraints, so I thought it was unacceptable for an enterprise SQL database in mid-2000's to not have that.
How exactly is Russia blackmailing Hungary? Are they preventing Hungary from doing business with the EU or USA? What threats are used?

From what I read (even from your own comment), it's the other way around.

The US doesn't want Hungary to do business with Russia and it even threatens the Hungarian government. For example, the US administration banned Hungarian govt officials from entering the US a few days ago.

But I have yet to read about a single threat the Russians made towards the Hungarians, if they do not stop doing business with the US.
Serious question: Did you read the article, or did you just watch the video? Reading the article along with watching the video made it perfectly clear to me what this product is doing, despite the fluff in the video.
Can you give an example of what low-level algorithm you were asked to implement? Otherwise it's hard to say either way.
There is some information floating around the web, names like Millennium Falcon and Puff the Magic Dragon, but I don't remember Musk saying anything about them.
I think this is an exciting development for apartment dewellers in places like the Netherland and San Francisco, but the DSL problem in America is in rural areas where even 6MBps is possible.
Twitter Fabric, a “modular mobile platform”
No, you are reading that incorrectly. You should email the author and ask him to rephrase it.
OS X ships with an FTDI driver since 10.9. I suspect this one is made by Apple. Maybe because of this kind of issues. Do you still have crashes on 10.9+?