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+1 for mailgun. Their API is awesome and they even offer things click tracking (also in their API).


Another vote for Mailgun. I use them for all my side projects, monitoring, error reports, basically everything gets hooked into my FastMail account with all the right aliases I need, and it works very well.

I've never gone over my free allocation even when I have a dozen or so side projects up and testing.


Wow. Thank you guys for the suggestion. I really like that the first thing I see on the Mailgun landing page is sample code for calling the API, and the second thing I see is a pricing calculator.


Your statement is probably true for the majority of the generation after WWII (with politicians leading the way), but definitely not for "The modern Austrian" (where I count myself in). We are well aware of what happened back then and we definitely know that Austrian people were involved of the cruelties that happened in WWII and before it.

There's also a Wikipedia entry about the Victim theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_theory. As you can read there official Austria confessed the role of Austria during WWII in 1991. That's late, I know. But also, that was nearly 30 years ago. That's what I would call "modern".


1991 is just yesterday to me.


What use do you want us to make of that comment? Be upfront if you actually have something to say. Do you mean that Austria has only just changed its official position, relative to whatever scale matters to you personally, and should not be let off just yet from this long chain of acrid remarks?

Going by your time scale, WWII was still on three days ago. Then again, there are people who might come onto this forum and in all honesty say that 1943 was only yesterday to them, and that you mistakenly said that this morning was yesterday afternoon. Do we revise our comments yet again, in light of this fact?

By many measures, 24 years are scarcely any. Which measure do you want to make use of, and what consequences does it have? You haven't said anything.


It means that to me 1991 is figuratively speaking yesterday. I remember it clear as day and it does not seem long ago at all.

I realize that for lots of people on HN the early 1990's seem like forever ago, and probably quite a few of them weren't even born back then but for me personally it's an eyeblink.

Yes, there are some who remember WWII vividly, I'm not one of them because I was born well after that but I can see how what you determine to be a 'long time' very much depends on your own personal time-line and that was the full extent of the meaning of that comment.

To me it means yes, that they have just changed their official position, and they definitely should not be left off just yet, not because it took them that long but mostly because of developments in Austria since then. The legacy of Haider is alive and well.

Just like NL should not be let off the hook either, we have our own version of that problem to contend with. (And, for that matter, our own version of the Anschluss even though you'll never hear about it outside of NL, we had a very large chunk of the Dutch openly collaborating with the invaders and a political party (NSB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in...) with substantial following.)


Regarding Offline bookmarks:

I'm really surprised that nobody made a product with this idea/concept already. I probably have a few hundred unread items across all ex-popular and now-popular bookmarking services (Pocket, Safari's Reading List, now-dead Google Reader, delicious). For me, the big problem always was that I bookmark interesting reads, but then I don't come back to it. Or I bookmark it, actually read it, but then never come back to it to check out what's new stories of the author.


But that's not a bookmarking product. Don't any of the RSS feed readers cover what you want?


Nice! How about adding a .eslintrc with some default settings for react and es6? I find that most people starting new with these frameworks would benefit a lot from it and it would shorten their feedback cycle.


Yeah, that's a really cool idea! I'll add an issue.


Like the redesign! Is it Bootstrap based?

Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.


No entirely true: A lot of information is transmitted via AIS these days. For example current water depths (St Lawrence Seaway or on the Danube in Europe) are transmitted and used for navigation on these waterways. You also have the possibility to place a distress signal with AIS, which would quite likely lead to a Search and Rescue operation, costing huge amounts of money and taking away resources from real emergencies.

AIS is directly connected to an ECDIS on a ship's bridge, which is the digital replacement for maritime paper charts. AIS targets are displayed in these ECDIS systems and (see above) in some regions of the world the information shown there is also influenced by AIS data.

Also a lot of ports are using AIS (together with radar) to keep an eye on the traffic - spamming those systems, which is easily possible, would quite likely cause severe troubles for larger ports like London or Los Angeles.

I'm honestly surprised that nobody has yet DoS'd a larger port or other infrastructure.


I'm honestly surprised that nobody has yet DoS'd a larger port or other infrastructure.

It's probably because most people don't want to do that. Outside of prisons, a good chunk of human safety relies on the fact that most people would rather preserve their own safety than take away that of others.


All of the ships that I have been on have the overlay feature on the ECDIS turned off. It tends to make the screen too crowded in busy ports. If the mates need to look at someone's name they just compare the reported position from AIS to position on the RADAR/ECDIS of the ship they are trying to contact.

Also, the AIS data is self reporting so if they forget to change the information then it's useless anyways. I've seen 'anchored' ships driving away at 10 knots.


It is fairly short range. 9600bps @ about 162MHz doesn't travel much further than the curvature of the earth. If you started jamming it the FCC and the Coast Guard would become interested fairly quickly since they now use this as part of the port security system.


My MBA 2011 will still not wake up from sleep. Need to hard shutdown it every time. :(


No warranty left? I would return it with such problems.


What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.


The article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days because of "child pornography".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Sexual_content


Thanks for the info!


I'm guessing it's this case he's referring to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wik...



I guess wikileaks, not wikipedia


Nope wikipedia. Over 'Child porn' images


I think this quite reflects the whole evolution theory - something quite good is replaced by something a little bit better, which is again replaced by something a bit better, and so on, and so on, and so on.


It more so to me reflects the knee-jerk reaction of many in the Ruby community to jump to newer projects simply because they are newer. I like rvm a lot and use it all the time. I'm sure rbenv is a good solution as well. I think it's a bit premature to say it's an overall better solution.


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