skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through that system a few times. They had a set of three lines (A,B,C) that fed a bank of cashiers; a screen overhead flashed instructions like "A => cashier 7", then "B => cashier 5" and then "C => cashier 1".

It felt more stressful, efficiency be damned. You spend more time at the "front" of your line (A,B,C) , waiting for the board to change. In a traditional system you can hook in behind someone and "zone out" / chat with your SO until you reach the register. In this system I felt like I had to pay attention the whole time and I was interrupted every time the bell rang, even if it was A's turn and I was in line C.
Yep, and I would describe failing to go back and check that video as downright — wait for it — negligent.

Like I said, I'm not defending any reporter from any accusation but obvious malice.
Understood. You were referring to what is, not stating an opinion on what should be. The term "right" can get very confusing (e.g. "God-given" vs "constitutional").
"Apple need be careful what they insist others do - it may be done, and well, and Apple prohibited from doing it too. Example:"

And then you use an example. From that sentence, quoted above, it sure does sound like you were suggesting that Apple insisted Samsung do this...
a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.

i'm in the process of selling a 4 letter domain name, that stands for a major financial product, that gets 20-30K searches a month, and that's currently ranking #1 for that keyword in Google...and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500(estibot value is at $15K).

And that's for a product, that has a transaction fee based model...to a point where a single customer could be worth 5-10K per month, and a big customer could be worth $100K/mo

BTW the estibot value for the hall.com domain is $294,000
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Here's a nice google search you can do:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=samsung+laptop&tbm=isc...

Notice the color, shape and style of the laptops you see, especially their displays. They nearly all have black bezel, are rectangular with rounded corners. It basically has all the features you mention.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab looks as much like they ripped a display off one of their laptops as it does like an iPad. It is essentially their brand, the style of design they have applied for years across much of their range. That's one reason they happen to look more like the iPad than some of the other tablet makers.
Well done and a great price. (I sold a letter + word .com for more than that.)
There are many good policy ideas implemented in Australia. The superannuation system is pretty good - it has problems but overall is good for the country.

The healthcare system also manages to tread a fine line between having a public safety net (ie, everyone gets free treatment) but also encouraging private health insurance and private healthcare for those who can afford it.

There are many sensible insurance regulations around, such as compulsory third-party-personal insurance that comes attached to vehicle registration, so that if you're a licensed driver driving a licensed vehicle, even if you run over 50 pedestrians you're covered for their losses and they are all covered for medical insurance, compensation payouts and rehabilitation.

The dividend tax system is also quite good, in that, if you're an Australian taxpayer, you can claim a tax rebate on the dividends you receive from revenue arising from an Australian company. So an Australian company pays tax on it's earnings, then pays some of those earnings out to taxpayers via dividends. The dividend recipient can then claim what is called a 'franking credit' on that dividend which is offset against their own earnings. It sounds complicated but what it essentially means is that Australian corporate income is only taxed once - you don't get double taxed for paying out dividends. As a result, Australian companies pay healthy dividends, which underpins investment in Australian companies by individuals requiring income from shareholdings.

Of course, there are some dumb policies as well, but in general things work pretty well, and, as the article says, quality of life and income spread at ranked very highly in world terms.
>everyone uses different variables and judgment to make that prediction. Those variables and those predictions don't show up when your model is based on distributions.

Sorry but that's simply not true.
everyone uses different variables and judgment to make a phone call, yet phone calls follow an exponential distribution!
everyone uses different variables and judgment to hit the internet, yet network traffic follows a Lavalette distribution.
everyone uses different variables and judgment to buy stocks, yet equity prices follow a lognormal distribution.

Individual behavior in aggregate will almost always follow some distribution, regardless of each individual using different variables and judgment for himself.
The whole point of statistics is to uncover the underlying probability distribution given tons of (seemingly random) data. Math does the opposite ( ie. given the distribution, a mathematician can tell you how to derive nice things like the moment generating function & the first & second moments & density functions & related family of distributions & so on, & in general give you n sample variates that fit the distribution.
By saying "everyone uses different variables and judgment" you are in essence saying its just too complicated, but even if that were true, that is just another distribution ( white noise )
Great story, and I appreciate the lessons learned at the end. However... can you put the dates in? When you started working on your original product idea, when you bought the domain name, etc.
Sure I'll contact you no problem.
2006 and 2011 might be massively different in terms of GDP makeup. You also forget to mention that much of those services are underpinned by the money generated from the export industries.
Thanks for your support. Yeah, it was an experience to learn from. Turned out Ok ... see my reply to jbigelow76 on how it turned out.
I don't really consider Stripe a replacement for PayPal. You don't accept PayPal because it can process credit cards, you accept PayPal because millions of people want to pay with it. Don't get me wrong, I hate PayPal just as much as the next guy, but unfortunately it isn't a viable option to stop using it in favor of simply accepting credit cards right now (though Stripe is an awesome product!).
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More positive news about Stripe since the last time they were posted on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883. I will give them a try on the next e-commerce project I work on.
thanks for the feedback. I'll make sure to document it more extensively.

When you create a pthread, it creates an lthread scheduler in it, and any lthread created in this pthread will get associated with the pthread itself. A typical example is to create a global listener socket fd and have several pthreads, each accepting on the same fd and creating lthreads to handle it. the lthreads created in each pthread will stay in their pthread.

It has no limitations to traditional single-thread coroutines btw.
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Here's the Dell Streak's pin configuration:
http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/07/dell-streak-doesnt-use-sa...

That's not the same as either Apple's or Samsung's. Samsung's connection is a mirrored version of Apple's. Here's a comparison of the 3 device connectors:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/324387-docking-port-is-it-pd...

It's pretty hard to say that Samsung is "just following the standard" if it's different than Dell's connector.
Thanks jonah, stop by the startup hall and say hello some time: http://hall.com/startups
The housing and strain relief are both different. It's the same type of connector on both ends so there is no way they won't end up looking similar.
by the way the "if the domain owner held the domain since _____" is wrong.

When you buy a domain on the secondary market, the original creation date gets transferred. So you can have a 1998 registered domain, that was just purchased a week ago
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Well, if you make the mistake of simultaneous closing times, yes.

One other benefit would be that (hopefully) cheaper late night rides would cut down on drink driving.
Which is one reason why I think Apple will have trouble here. Samsung only needs to show that there is a functional basis for their design decisions (rounded corners => more comfortable, black bezel => better contrast, metal band on frame => stronger, more scratch resistant, etc). and the issues of design patents and trade dress fall away.
I write tons of little mostly throwaway scripts in bash/sed/awk/etc. But I never had a bash script that grew to reasonable complexity that I wish I hadn't just started in Python.

Each tool has a purpose -- I don't think mucking around with json is particularly suitable for bash...
Sounds like a great idea! When you mention "time" are you referring to billable time or elapsed time? Also do you discuss a specific rate or a range of rates? I've tried your approach and ended up with clients doing a time x rate calculation and then ended up back in the Y amount debate.
From the consumer's perspective: I don't want to give some random website my credit card info, but I'm OK with them going through PayPal for the checkout step.
WePay doesn't require you to redirect them to their site.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/tutorial/iframe
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Very true. Here's another example:

My wife sells knitting related things (patterns, books, yarn) on ravelry.com. They collect the payment for her and transfer the money to her paypal account. I suspect it will be a while before stripe can do such a thing.
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I had two teachers in high school - a math and a Latin teacher - who started every class with short warmup exercises. They weren't graded, but covered material from the previous couple of days. The exercises would take roughly 5 minutes, and then we'd spend 5 more minutes "grading" them and handling short ?'s before segueing into that day's lesson.

I think it was one of the best teaching techniques I ever saw, and if I ever go back to my old dream of teaching I intend to use it. It kept everybody on a short feedback loop. This ensured that students knew whether they really "got" a subject and that the teachers knew where they needed to spend more time.
Um. What? While, yes, it is more expensive to detect that something is a link than not, it isn't that expensive to do. Neither is drawing an attributed string with Core Text. Yes, its hard. No, it isn't nearly as hard as you're making it out to be.

And making things tappable/highlightable? The tableview isn't scrolling when you're tapping. Detecting a tap and performing some calculations to determine which text run the tap falls on cannot cause scrolling performance to go down.
> These discussions become a lot more valuable when we stop characterizing any organization, especially one as complex as a large corporation, as universally 'good' or 'bad'.

That is true. But it is also foolish to ignore over 20 years of Microsoft's strategy, the mostly successful "embrace, extend and extinguish".

This patch is purely out of self interest: people might install a unix server if they want Redis and can't have it on Windows. There is no "good will" (and no "bad will").

If it harms performance on linux? Well, they are likely not to care at this point, or at least one second after the patch is accepted.

Microsoft has a history of co-operating with the rest of the world only when they are at a disadvantage, and ignoring standards and conventions when they have the advantage.

Excuse me if I'm not enthusiastic about a patch they send to a project I like.
The real problem is the government is afraid to police the markets like they police the people. There are all sorts of things that are legal for people to do absent the harm of others. However, when you throw in harm to others in there, you may become criminally liable for your otherwise legal actions - I'm speaking of negligence. This is what's missing. Without this concept, the government will always be several steps behind the market "innovators".
I agree with your points, except I don't agree with 'irrationally resisted'. If we take it at face value that someone does something (ie, own their own car) with clear alternatives available (ie, using shared cars) the behaviour is rational. It mightn't seem right on a cost-per-mile basis, but then it just shows that people place value in other things above and beyond cost-per-mile.

Wanting to own your own car even though it is more expensive than the alternatives is no different to wanting to buy designer clothes at 10 times the price of wal-mart offerings. You might call them irrational, but clearly the person making the free choice finds value in the proposition, thereby, as far as they are concerned, it is rational. In fact, we hear people rationalising it all the time.
"Hall" has been trademarked. What make you so confident the owners of those trademarks couldn't take action against you, and leave it up to half-chance that it could be taken away from you (even though you may not have infringed against it)?
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Because we filed the trademark
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I suspect there will be lots of these devices on eBay soon, since it doesn't sound like they're making any real effort to make sure people aren't claiming refunds and also reselling the device.
Thanks for explaining it that way, I think I understand better now.

Would you agree, though, that customers wouldn't simply enter the shortest available line?
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I'm pretty shocked you got it for so little. I've been offered more than five times that for my "first name only" domain, and it's just been from other people with the same first name.

Though they're right about the lowballs and not even replying. I routinely get mail either demanding that I give it to somebody because, "I is can start no profit save cancer" or around $150 because somebody thinks a domain name is a neat birthday present for their kid.
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Over the last year, me and my co-founder have been working on a startup that provides a marketplace for what we call "self-guided tour itineraries". The best way to understand it is to have a look, here is an example:

http://www.unanchor.com/itinerary/view/149

We just did our public launch today - it would be great to get your feedback on it. Be blunt, we can handle it :)
When it comes to personal debt Credit Suisse would beg to differ with you, their latest wealth figures have Australians handily richer per capita than every other country in the world bar Switzerland.

As far as shop fronts are concerned; I live in the UK at the moment, the average town centre here has 25% of shop fonts boarded up, in some towns that figure exceeds 55%. In Australia you might get isolated areas where you get lots of boarded up shops due to local economic factors but you don't get a complete country wide phenomenon like the UK.

Property prices in Australia are due to people wanting to live in big properties. Again in some places in Europe I have seen the equivalent of two up two down terrace houses of less than 100m2 in size converted into 4 separate flats.

I think you could easily argue that Australians are spending their wealth on a better lifestyle. A fairly wise decision when you remember that you can't take it with you.
Conversely, a very foolish policy in Australia is negative gearing, which IMO is one of the major reasons behind the property bubble. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_gearing_%28Australia%2... for details.
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You can set a billing address online or with a phone call and use it online. I did that a few times this year, in the US. (This was to get MLB.tv at an alternate out-of-market billing address.)
Correct. There are standards, but the standards are relatively proprietary (at least compared to the RFCs from the IETF) and the standards bodies that certify solutions as "compliant" are controlled by the vendors themselves.

But your point stands.

The last time I got a look at a major wireless data network (3G) I was floored by how damn complicated it was relative to how a similar solution would be implemented if you used "pure" IP technologies rather than the over-engineered versions them implement in order to constrain the number of competitive solutions they'll find in the marketplace. Its WiMax vs LTE.
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Perhaps "redirect" wasn't the best word to use. WePay does interrupt the flow of your site with their own system, however:

"The iframe checkout lets you embed an iframe on your own site that will contain the WePay checkout system."

With Stripe, we have 100% control over presentational stuff during checkout.
If ravelry.com used WePay, each time someone bought one of her amazing works of art, the money would be deposited directly into a FDIC insured account that your wife controls.

From there, your wife could transfer the money directly into her own regular bank account.

If ravelry.com goes out of business before they transfer the money to her paypal account, there is no chance that they can take any of her money with them. (While highly illegal, I've seen this happen elsewhere with a similar setup.)
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So you have a dictionary word that is 3 letters long .com domain and nobody has offered $200k? or is it a colloquialism like "wut"?
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Traffic lights have no purpose except for conventional cars.

Yes, and for the forseeable future there will be conventional cars, as well as bicycles and pedestrians.
Property prices in Australia are a result of Aussies selling each other properties to generate wealth, financed by loans they can't afford. Private debt in Oz has been insane since the mid 2000s and has only gotten worse.

The economy is fine at the moment, but as soon as China steps back in any real way things are going to get ugly.
Yeah but you are lucky. Your first name is so metal.
*ravelry, not raverly
I'm glad to see Jawbone taking customer satisfaction seriously, but I hope this doesn't negatively impact them moving the product category forward.

I've been using an Up for about a week now and really like it. Yes, the battery life is half of what they claim (I only got 5 days on a fresh charge, not 10). Yes, it is annoying that it doesn't use Bluetooth LE for data transfer. Those two negatives aside, it is IMHO a good first generation product.
Maybe not a shell, but for simple scripts you can save your js code with the following at the top:

#!/usr/bin/env node

Then save the file as "myscript" and run it as any other executable. Node already has a repl for experimentation.
I don't recall seeing this on Google+ previously, but automatic recognition with best guess suggestions was certainly a feature added to Picasa Web Albums at some point about 2-ish years ago and I know Google+'s photo system is basically a different front-end to Picasa, so you're at least partially right.
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It's evidence that they don't always get COMSEC right though.
Nope, we're still here :)
So you're defending the outsourced copyright "enforcers" because they can't help but be incompetent, and you're defending the people who hire them because they're too incompetent to do it either?
My only question is why did the drone not self destruct when it noticed it was going to land on enemy territory?

if I were designing these things I would make sure to include a package with enough destructive power to reduce the drone to very small pieces under those circumstances. They could fool GPS, but they shouldn't be able to fool inertial and visual guidance. Landing in one piece on enemy soil is unthinkable.
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I definitely understand the privacy concerns, and myself use PayPal for a lot of things. However, I think the need for it depends a lot on your audience, and the nature and reputation of your site.

We are fortunate enough (being new and in closed beta) in that our audience knows who we are and that we're not a random sketch site. Down the road, we probably will have to support PayPal again (though very differently), but for now our current state (closed beta) and our business model allow Stripe and traditional payment gateway-only checkout.

With that said, I will put a huge "YMMV" here! This is obviously not OK for every site, and the privacy concerns are very valid.
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Well said. I'll add: (5) seems natural if (and we certainly don't have to) we also believe a few other facts:

(6) As this article says, Apple [un]designs things by "creating the simplest shape possible".

(7) This is a good thing. It leads in very many cases to the best products.

(8) Samsung, more than others, recognizes (7) and so follows Apple's lead.

If so, then the only way for Samsung to be legal, if (5) is past the line of acceptability, is to intentionally put effort into making worse products.

Which would, at the very least, make a Samsung designer's job description an interesting one.
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"Better die and spawn a ghost, than die and leave nothing." What's the point of a ghost? How does this make your situation "better"? Your point is based on the assumption that death is inherently "bad".
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As tonfa points out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3331505

You can actually select which Circles show up in your gchat list. Which is really useful!
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Fixed. Thanks. Must be my old school raver roots. Heh.
The ratio between revenue and valuation changes over time, based on your growth. I actually tried to draw a kindergarten explanation here: http://blog.foundrs.com/2011/10/27/how-to-compute-the-valuat...
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So I click "Edit Profile" but don't see any phone number fields.

Even if I did I'd be scared it's going to get published to the universe since Google seems to repeatedly emphasise that my profile is public and there is nothing I can do about it.

Does anyone know how to use this? Is it still rolling out?

Edit: never mind, phone number is hidden under Places Lived / Home, which seems extremely weird to me.