skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't feel bad. I sometimes conduct DD on behalf of third parties for legal cases so I've seen a lot of scams and this one is (assuming it isn't genuine) surprisingly well put together for something on the lower end of the scale.

Reading the listing you can usually get a sense of problems, but there were only a few places that my BS alarm was triggered (one being that the seller claimed he made an average of $9 per day from Adsense ads that he set up just the other day. The screen shot for Adsense shows 19K impressions in three days, which seems a little off based on 2,242 Page Views Per month, with 1 Adsense block in place.)

There's no hard and fast rule to prevent things like this, but if you were to do it again, I'd advise

1) Either asking for access, or a video walkthrough of the adsense and paypal account as this is more difficult to fake.

2) Do a common sense check based on the numbers. Look at the traffic they are likely to receive from Organic Search (SEM Rush), look at the product and see if it's been sold elsewhere and look at the conversion rate you would need to achieve to justify the revenue figures quoted. As a rule of thumb, if product A costs $10 and the adword CPC is $1, I'll know that other advertisers need a conversion rate of 10% to break even. If your calculations shows this site needs more than that to produce the quoted figures approach with extreme caution.

Hope this helps

Justin
It is easy to forget the order of magnitude of all the pictures not shown.
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This post is promoted prematurely, I guess.
But for some people in Australia, it's March already.
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Conflating - yes, hell-yes, I am simplifying as much as possible. I do use steps #4 and #5 within the predictive model including uncertainty estimates. My step frequentist 4 refers to this. The steps aren't completely aligned.

My comment is a description of the difference as it affects me, and not necessarily capturing all of the effects on others. Please do expand...
Good list of emoticons for Facebook chat.
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For me its the typical university project interaction design students create. To which than the whole world (especially those working in UX/UI design) drools.
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Well, they were right about 1 thing: mutton chops will never go out of style!
> Let's please not have political discussions on HN.

It's interesting that you chose to respond to the person who demonstrated "dems good, republicans bad" was wrong instead of the person who just asserted "dems good, republicans bad".
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Fair point indeed.
No, again, there is no "other side". There is no first world country that has anything approaching a "free market" health care system. I'm not aware of anything like that working anywhere in the world at all.

So, yes, someone jumping out and saying "duh, people sure are stupid, of course we should be using <insert something that has never worked anywhere it has been tried>" is not "just an opinion to disagree with", it's propaganda.

EDIT: Misspelling
I do try the fine manual before googling. When working with CPAN modules I'm often rather successful with that approach.
It seems to do a subtly different thing by default, though: the git bundle makes a bundle out of the entire repository. The hg bundle bundles the commits that are 'not known to be in another repository'.
Cool.

Look out for more via github.

Edit: Added clickable link: http://newzupp.com :)

Edit-2: The source code link on About page points to self (instead of github).
I think I could replicate that set up right now. Webcam attached to the wall below my projector. Anybody else with a projector want to make this a reality? ;)
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> If they wanted to move to a full coverage system (single payer?), unions would be happy because everyone has healthcare.

Citation needed.

Yes, the health care employers unions have expressed considerable interest in measures that would increase the demand for their members' services, but you're making a very different claim.
As champion says below, everyone in Massachusetts can get health insurance, regardless of pre-existing conditions. You can go to https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector/ and see what plans are available, and how much they cost, for someone your age. Or you can hang on until 2014, and something similar will be available throughout the US.

If you want to see if you qualify for immigration to Canada as a skilled worker, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/assess/index.... has an online test. (I just took the test for the hell of it, and I qualified, even though I don’t have a Canadian job offer in hand and je parle français comme une vache espagnole.)
That sounds very cost ineffective. I'd be more productive with a personal helicopter with landing pads in various locations with an oncall pilot... but the productivity benefit is probably not worth the cost.

All organizations need to be cost efficient... unless you're a govt agency or contractor. In which case being cost INefficient is actually rational.
An accounting consultant I've worked with in the past is looking for someone to subcontract work to. It mostly involves SQL Server administration, SSRS report writing, and some SSIS work.

You need to be really good at SQL, and stored procedures. Also some background in accounting would be helpful but isn't required.

I don't think this would be full time. I'm guessing it would be between 10-20 hours/week.

Email me if you're interested. If you seem to fit what he's looking for I'll pass your info along.
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My favorite is that they've got some gadget upgrades, but they're all dressed about the same. So comfy!
But do I really need or want to know, remember and understand the nuances of each and every of my problems?

For example, we have a lot of legacy Delphi code. Delphi 7 has a bug in which it gives incorrect compiler warnings for some of it. I don't care one bit about the history, details and nuances of the bug. The 2 hours I don't spend examining that are 2 hours I can spend learning something useful instead.
A cops job is to avoid Type II errors or excessive skepticism when investigating wrongdoing. Juries and judges are around to correct in the other direction. Prosecutors arguably lie somewhere in between. That's how the system works and should work. Everybody errs on the side of caution. Cops don't want to just drop investigations and miss finding evidence on people who might be guilty. Juries should be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, innocence or guilt is their job.
I was specifically referring to XP, but I just checked against the new settings and you're right, it's looking gorgeous.
I love this kind of stuff. Requesting more links if possible.
I love doing this. I often quit for the day and then pull out a notebook and fill up a page with ideas for new features, solving a problem, etc. I normally can't think of ideas like that while I'm in TextMate and I'm thinking of how to translate ideas into Ruby code and not about the big picture. Sometimes the ideas I jot down are worthless because they wouldn't actually be practical if they were implemented, but usually it's very helpful. And you're right in that it gets me excited to program the next morning because I can try to turn some of those ideas into something real.
Implementing a complete application using an FPGA was actually surprisingly pain-free. After a while the fact that the code gets compiled into hardware stopped seeming like a big difference; I just started thinking of the FPGA as a parallel computer. Anyway, I will attempt to answer any questions from HN here. Thanks for looking.
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Yeah I can see RCS useful for a quickly ci a couple of files but CVS is hell of a setup compared to it...
Would that the world were about flipping coins. What's your prior distribution on the volatility parameter of a model of the 3-month implied volatility of the S&P 500 stock index? Now, justify it. What is your prior distribution on the rate at which bugs are found in a software system that runs a nuclear plant? Now, justify it. Personally, my priors are usually crap.
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> The VA hospitals are actually very well run.

Some VA facilities are well run, some aren't. (And some are a mix - Walter Reed, which is where CongressCritters go, had some horrific wards as of a couple of years ago.)

The Indian Health Care service, on the other hand, is a complete horrorshow.
Were there opponents of the current administration who applied for waivers and were turned down, even though they had exactly the same circumstances as supporters who got their waiver applications approved?
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While you can ask a good question or find good keyword for google, I think it be ok to use google or asking at SO, anyway. You need to think what is the best way to express your issue, and if you succeed, you are already 90% solving that. And if you use google, you don't have to bother others so many times...
I can't stand cheap plastic watches, but certainly I'd chose a £100-£500 watch and good scotch over a Rolex and a £30 bottle from the supermarket :)

I've never tried Port Ellen, how is it? Shall add to my list for future bottles. If I can tempt you away from Islay to Speyside, get yourself a bottle of Glenrothes some time, even their cheap stuff is surprisingly nice.
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They have been advertising the same jobs for many months... I suspect they are just collecting resumes.
I suppose to me it's more of a difference of decision-theoretic approaches, which come up with decision rules that make "best" decisions given the data, under certain definitions of "best", versus descriptive-statistics approaches, which aim to summarize the data, test hypotheses, report significant correlations, etc. I can buy many of the arguments for decision-theoretic approaches (especially if you are in fact making decisions), but that doesn't necessarily tell me why I should use a specifically Bayesian decision-theoretic approach.
Always a risk. But so what? Goto N+1
I find the rate you get for 3rd party development to be in excess of the median amount you expect for apps. (There are lots of crap apps and a few hits, so I'm sure the mean is higher).

I definitely do some of both though.
just tried this out, didn't know about it but it really works well. I didn't see any jumping around-ness when I tested it.
And segways.

But at least in the ones I saw, never together.
5. Bayesian analysis is too easy. You don't have to transform the data in any convoluted way, you just describe your model and crank the handle. Publishers will no longer be able to sort the sheep from the goats.
They even got the helicopter and humvee right (sort of).

The people in 1900s have over-estimated the usage of robotic arms. We don't have that kind of arms working on human yet, but we do have them on automotive manufacturing.
> 7a. Write a blog post about the solution or submit a patch

I do this, too, and I think it's very useful, especially if the solution contains esoteric steps that can only be found in the deep archives of mailing lists.
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I'm not so sure about "Google and StackOverflow are kinda the same step". In my experience, Google sometimes points to StackOverflow, sometimes to a copycat (really annoying), and sometimes there is no good result.

I've had better results on average by searching StackOverflow first, and then Google after if there is nothing on StackOverflow.
The really nice thing about deploying with a git push is that you always have a backup.

I'll miss djangy. it quickly became my go-to for a quick django prototype. hopefully zoom/gondor take off.
Amen brother. Drop me a mail if you want... always good to have solidarity in this kind of situation.
Exactly - it's not binary.

It's not yes or no. It's not everything or nothing.

* There are cases where the fastest thing to do is ask your colleagues.

* There are cases where the fastest thing to do is ask your friends (if you have any).

* There are cases where the fastest thing to do is ask Google.

* There are cases where the fastest thing to do is ask StackOverflow.

But there are times when it's best (and not necessarily fastest!) to work on it for a while to see if you can either solve it, or at least get your mind around it enough to understand the solution when it comes.

The very best programmers/engineers/employees/founders/people know when it's which case from the above.
I agree. But with frequentist methods it's not even clear what kind of assumptions you're making. Explicitly stating your assumptions is better than implicitly hiding them in your method.

"We can see that the bayesian approach won't work well here, so lets use frequentist methods because we cannot see that they won't work well."

The problem with the nuclear plant is that we don't have much data on nuclear plant software bugs. However you could still get an idea by using bug rates in other software as your priors, and acknowledge that your priors are not perfect.

OR you could use frequentist methods to make up for the lack of data, and know you will be able to devise your method in such a way that it proves your hypothesis. Or if you use the method correctly (that is don't look at your data, and pick a statistical test beforehand) make no useful predictions at all.
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They weren't so wrong... sure their form factors were way off but they had all the ideas down...

1. Electronic Books
2. High speed aerodynamic trains
3. Computer aided manufacturing
4. Motorized personal transport
6&7. Ok no one is letting a robot cut their hair or do makeup, but we're using robots for surgery
9. Aerodynamic motorcycles
10. Webcams
11. Where's my flying car!
12. Tanks
13. Electronic news
etc. etc.

If you look at the concept alone, for 100 years ago they weren't THAT far off. Personalized flight on the whole was really the only big miss.

Edit: I understand the horse one now. Back then horses were used for everything... but by 2000 they predicted everything would be machines, so seeing a horse would be a curiosity, not the daily norm. You would take your kids to see a horse, petting zoo anyone? Pretty prescient to me.
As somone who lives in Boston, I think it’s just as well that our drivers are limited to two dimensions.
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I like that order. Don't waste your time or anyone else's if it's a simple problem that can be solved with a direct Google search. But definitely think before asking.
Please please let me know when you have this finished. Teaching developers about design is one of the big things that I try to do at my job, and I'm hoping to create some more formalized training in the near future.

And yes, alignment is a big deal, especially in any kind of information design. Look at magazines, newspapers, good newsletters, business cards, etc. Alignment is all over the place, and most are designed on a fairly strict grid, i.e. many newspapers use a 6 or 12 column grid.

The big concepts I want developers understand are: Alignment, repetition, contrast and proximity. If you understand those, you will be a better visual designer.
Hm, for some of them I couldn't even see which part is supposed to be so two-thousandy, e.g. the fifth from the top. (Edit: Got it from paleofuture - it's the "phonographic message")
Is that each or total?
>That's true only if they let their insurance lapse. As long as they don't do that, they can stay with their current, switch, etc, all without waiting periods or a significant premium relative to "well people". (It's been that way for years.)

On individual and even small group (or medium size groups) they up your premiums, often by a lot of you have something big done, possibly beyond the point of payment. So yes, "if you lapse it goes" is true, often the COST of insurance goes up 10x if something happens to you and you don't happen to be able to be kicked out on another technicality.
It allows a stylus... probably!
I love that the one with the room being lit by what appears to be an electric light in the fireplace is captioned "Heating With Radium"

This was obviously in that period after radium was popularised and before all those girls' teeth fell out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
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What's interesting is that they weren't really that far off with a lot of their predictions. They just couldn't get past their current level of technology, their imagination was restricted by what they were familiar with.
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Perpetual public beta is a problem, but there's a huge difference between a public beta from a huge corporation and a small private beta from a startup. I think it's pretty easy to judge based on company size, service momentum, number of competitors, etc. if a service is likely to last.
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Honestly, at this point it's about the asker's urge to learn -- if he blindly looks for an answer, then he won't take anything away from it. If he looks for reasons, then he'll get them.

This is true regardless of which method he'd use to figure out a solution.

I do agree it's not binary -- I'm learning Objective C right now, and spent two hours last night tracking down a crash that was ultimately linked to not understanding retain and release semantics. That is worthwhile, and a situation where just asking someone for a fix wouldn't work.

But I think that's a learning issue. If you already know the majority of what's going on, and the rest is just finding a key, then I think searching/asking is perfectly valid.

And really, wouldn't you argue that a programmer worth being called such would always attempt to be involved with finding the answer?
Is there any modern serious OS that does not provide bash?
I have published a library, but no apps.
Hmm, what purpose would that serve, though?
Well then it's just an issue of efficient time management and outside the scope of this discussion.
Here's mine:

1. rtfm

2. think

3. read the relevant source code

4. put in some print statements or use stepper and inspect variables i am interested in (depending on the system).

goto 1
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I was not saying anything about the relevance of the links. All I pointed was that the id# are sorted (order). You extracted it programmatically makes it clear :)
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The one thing they totally failed to predict was the trend toward much more casual clothing. Partially due to technology becoming available to all the classes but even upper class people would find this level of dress over the top for current times. How long before we end up in the stereotypical white space jump suit?
"Read the source code" should be on the list (if you have access to the code in question).

Among other things, this empowers you to fix problems in the code you are using, rather than just work around them in your own code. Reading the code is the first step toward contributing.

Reading unfamiliar code may be hard at first, but each time you do it, you understand the system better. Eventually you may know the third-party code as well as your own code.
But does any of this equate to a 6x better life? This is extremely subjective, but I'd measure overall happiness, autonomy, and ability to participate in power as key ingredients for a better life. And going by those metrics, I seriously doubt that we are 6x better (or even 2x better).

All of the stats that you provided point to Americans being more productive over a longer period of time. People are becoming better at producing and consuming. However, by only looking at these numbers, you ignore what I feel makes us human. I don't think that the ultimate goal in a person's life is to add to their country's GDP. We are more than a cog in a machine. You can point to improvements centered around work, but what about enjoyment and free time? Surely a better life is one where you have more time to enjoy with family and friends, rather than being able to exceed your company's 3rd quarter sales projections.
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Actually, there should be 12. Write a blogpost about it so the next person can stop at 1.
You are basically right. There are companies specifically set up to allow employers to hire contractors but treat them as employees. Search for "Employer of Portable Record"
> Why should I be forced to pony up for other people's healthcare, too?

This entire argument is predicated on the idea that people who decide not to buy insurance will actually stay home when they get so sick that they feel their life is in danger, instead of going to the hospital.

History has shown that's not the case; they end up in the emergency room with no insurance, and end up being a cost that hospitals have to recoup via higher rates for the people that have paid for their insurance.
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>It's called compassion and it is a cornerstone of our civilization.

compassion does not occur when someone forces you to pay into a system. If you want to be compassionate, pay out of your own pocket. Do not take out of someone else's pocket for charity and pat yourself on the back for being 'compassionate'. That is the opposite of compassion, it is total selfishness.
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The biggest complaint is that things that should be easy and obvious are buried in counter-intuitive places. The second biggest complaint is that it looks really weird on Windows. The whole mutli-window vs singel-window is a minor argument in comparison.
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Show HN: My weekend project for the Boston Globe - Curating Facebook Pages
The is my first "Show HN" ever so it's real exciting to announce this one! I participated in Beta.Boston.com's Hackathon this past weekend, so my team and I (most of whom had not known each other prior to the weekend) developed Urbanite Boston - a curator/filter for information on Facebook pages relating to art and culture. It's a pretty simple application and it's far from complete, but the fact that we were able to index and curate over 300 Facebook pages (and develop a relatively slick interface) in a weekend was remarkable. Would love to hear your comments and thoughts. Again, it's only indexing Boston-centric venues/events/groups, as that was the aim of the weekend, but just wanted to show it off! (Clickable will be available in the comments).