skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your stats refer to smartphones only whereas mine specifically says iPod touches, ipads, and iPhones. Given that the company doing the research is the same in both, but the labels are different, this difference could hold significance. Furthermore, if your table actually means what it's supposed to, it would mean android went from 10% share in February to 42% share in June.

Also, there are many factors at play as any Stats student knows. Simply making assertions that android users are misrepresented could be dangerous.
Yes. That is definitely too complicated for the vast majority of websites.
A smtp client (e.g. something like msmtp or ssmtp) so scripts can send email easily would be a nice addition.
I know people like to complain about the new rapid release cycle, but there's been a definite upswing in the work going on on Mozilla since it started. I wonder if knowing that your code will be on people's desktops in three months rather than two years makes a big difference.
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A way to obtain a summary of any article on the web. A browser plugin will display it once on the page at top left, or else mousing over any link with an adjacent dot or altered colour will pop it up too. I have an idea to build such a site (and have given it much thought)... but no one's been able to pull it off as yet.
Humans are notoriously bad at predicting what will make them happy.
I completely and utterly loathe the security question-answer system. Has there been any study into how effective they are at improving security compared to, say, being forgotten and causing a complete annoyance? I've been unable to get access to fairly important accounts because I couldn't remember which answer I gave to a generic security question 4 years ago; I know full well that I gave a perfectly correct answer at the time, I just have no idea what it was.
Medical care is free, but it too has a limit. There is a finite amount of money available for treatment, and there is an almost infinite amount of new, unproven treatments that might just work.

Lots of people put themselves into debt trying alternative or experimental therapies, even in countries with universal healthcare. The sad truth is that whatever kills you will probably not be something that the doctors can learn much from. It will be some disease that is well known, with lots of data on survivability etc.
BrowserID (https://browserid.org/) does exactly that. Once implemented in a browser, it effectively turns authentication into a key exchange with the browser.
In this context I am just trying to explain that price do not necessarily correlates with performance. As far as racism is concerned it definately exists on both sides of the globe.

Meme against Indian is "Indians are taking our jobs by unfair means like working below sustaintable rates".Meme by Indians is "This guy is here to boss us around and confuse us just because he happens to be on the client's payroll."
Appearances Matter: Inferences of Competence from Faces Predict Election
Paper here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/308/5728/1623.short

Abstract:

"We show that inferences of competence based solely on facial appearance predicted the outcomes of U.S. congressional elections better than chance (e.g., 68.8% of the Senate races in 2004) and also were linearly related to the margin of victory. These inferences were specific to competence and occurred within a 1-second exposure to the faces of the candidates. The findings suggest that rapid, unreflective trait inferences can contribute to voting choices, which are widely assumed to be based primarily on rational and deliberative considerations. "

Original article where I found this study, about first impressions:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/yec/2011/11/02/5-ways-to-make-a-...
> Org mode can do absolutely everything. Ask and you shall learn.

How do you capture different kinds of information — ideas, references to books or websites, events, addresses?

What do you do more often — review agenda or search for specific keywords?
The work you point to has morphed into the BrowserID effort: https://browserid.org/ . Currently alive and well.
Good going! :-)
A lot of the graduate roles are part of what in the UK is called the 'fast track' civil service scheme. Graduates start on a standard level salary (£25k), but progress much faster than people not on the fast-track scheme.
Of course, "do not resuscitate" across the chest is pretty clear of your intentions when you get it. But I don't think you realize how hard it can be to have that power over someone's life and make that call. I think the point about old tattoos is much more relevant than a band named that; if there are former neo-nazis with ultra racist/symbolic tattoos that regret them, there could be people that just got a "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo because they thought it was hardcore when they were younger but now regret it. I know this isn't always the case but when you're deciding whether or not to give someone another shot at life, or to let them die, a RECENT bracelet would be more definitive with all the thoughts racing through your head.

Also, if getting a tattoo is less annoying than wearing a bracelet you probably have some of them already and it can become even less clear.
I should add cultures and languages, too.

CULTURES

Brazil (10 years)
Spain (5 years)
Colombia (5 years)
Argentina (3 years)
Portugal (1 year)

Cuba (months)
Italy (months)
Germany (months)
Australia (months)

LANGUAGES

Brazilian Portuguese (fluent, self-taught)
Spanish (semi-fluent, self-taught)
Italian (intermediate, self-taught)
French (basic, self-taught)

German (attempted)
Swedish (attempted)
Russian (attempted)
Catalan (attempted)
Yes! Inferno can run both native, on the bare hardware, or hosted under Unix, Windows or Plan9. Most people run Inferno hosted because it's easy and you can benefit from the host operating system services as well.

For me, it's the best environment because I can have Acme (the editor), Plan9 name spaces and the Plan9 tools which I am most familiar with on any operating system I use. You can use either full Inferno [1] or Acme SAC [2]. Hosted Inferno runs in a window, which feels awkward to me, so I use Acme SAC which is a native host window and I run the shell inside Acme. Acme is the only graphical Inferno program I care about anyway.

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html

[2] http://www.caerwyn.com/acme/
Instead of:

[person_id,person_name] [team_id,team_name] [person_id, team_id]

You get:

[person_id, person_name, [team_id, team_id, ...]]
[team_id, team_name, [person_id, person_id, ...]]
I live in the Scottish Highlands, It's interesting that there are almost no deaths on the single track roads where the speed limit is 60mph and road alignments often allow for travelling at this speed, assuming you have correctly judged the stopping distance to avoid a head on collision with someone round the next corner at 60mph in the opposite direction. And I can tell you, people do cut it pretty fine. But there are quite a lot of fatal crashes on normal roads in places which I would have thought are reasonably safe. I wonder if a lot of crashes here are caused by risky overtaking caused by frustrated people stuck behind slow moving vehicles. Seems like there is often a goods vehicle involved. I have this theory that people are much more likely to crash if they are bored than if the driving is taxing their abilities a bit.
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How do i value my 'startup'?
Hi. I've got a small web business that i run. It's at the stage where i'm talking to potential investors about financing. I have no formal business training and wondering, How do i put a dollar value on my business? We've been profitable for over a year and growth is steady.. Are there some globally accepted formula for these things or can i cash in on the current .com hype and ask for 64 bizillion? thanks
So what? I don't know about others, but my parents are theater actors and the critics that go to their plays certainly don't pay the ticket price.

Just like the engineer gets paid $1 for the chalk and $49999 for knowing where to put it, he supposedly worked to be a respected blogger and now he's rewarded for that.
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How do you stop reusing passwords? Do you have some scheme for generating sentences of words based on the domain of the site?
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I live in rural Cornwall and see the same pattern, but the reason is probably exposure. So few people drive our roads that even if the risk was much greater you would still see far fewer deaths.
Because certificates cost a lot?
Because IP addresses are hard to get?
Because SSL adds computational overhead?
Because it requires extra staff time to renew certificates?
Because storing keys and even CSRs adds to the security budget and staff training?

Is it just me or is anyone else tired of these blogs on Hacker News? It seems that anyone who has a website and some time can get their opinion to the top of the list.

I should try it.
I don't really understand the thinking behind this one?

"Do we refuse to cover some startups when they don’t want to give a story to us exclusively? Sometimes."

Surely if a startup is worth covering, they're worth covering regardless of the the competition?

To me this is the crux of ArticStartup's post, and I really don't understand why Techcrunch would say to a startup "If you speak to Mashable (or whoever) forget about coverage from us".
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Yes, there are several standard formulas that are taught in MBA Corporate Finances courses, usually via some variant of Discounted Cash Flow.

They're just a starting point, and might not be accepted by the other party, but it helps to put a dollar number on your company :)

The Wikipedia article sounds like a good start for your investigation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_valuation

Edit: agree with both soho and patio - your company is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, and there are a lot of "standard" formulas taught in B-school so you can pick and choose whichever you like.

I still believe that using a formula can help you at least give some anchor to how much it might be worth. (the discounted cash flow will give you a number similar to soho's I think)
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> we're talking about "how to make really good passwords". I feel like this has been answered

But that's not what we're talking about. As you say, that's been answered. But in the real world the answer doesn't work well, and whether or not it's a service problem it's a real problem.
Does Firefox plan to use the same style of forced updates that Chrome does? As a web developer I am very grateful that Chrome is not only updated regularly but that these updates are forced on the end user. IE10 could be the best browser ever, but unfortunately there will still be people using IE7.
Looks great. I think you should put a few screenshots of the autocomplete and show examle of what is the Json generated.

If I can see that we will be using it in Android app of our next social network startup. Bookmarking for now.
In the Uplift universe (David Brin), dolphins are regularly able to build sonic pictures for other dolphins as a way to communicate, or even as a strategy when fighting each other.

Not sure if those ideas came from then current research into dolphins, or if Brin took some artistic liberties and came up with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe
I order all my 'stuff to learn' under a category in my Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow. I use Due Today for Android and Toodledo online (they sync automatically), and a bunch of paper scraps to transfer from whereever it is that I want to record things until I can enter them into the One True repository.
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The Roman Timetable Secret 
This book serves is a manual and historical reference, describing how you can incorporate the Roman timetable into your daily life, increasing your energy and efficiency. The Romans believed that each part of the day had a specific purpose and that certain activities were best suited to those divisions of the day. Now that we understand a great deal more about a human beings' natural body clock, the so-called Circadian rhythms, it is incredible how well-suited the Roman timetable was to make the most of these natural cycles.
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>he supposedly worked to be a respected blogger and now he's rewarded for that

Supply and demand makes that the situation that he can tell people if they want his attention they need to buy him lunch, what it doesn't do is make him any less of a douche for doing so.
Thanks for the links. Can you elaborate more on what you like about Acme? I am not bashing it, I just want to know, never used Acme.
This book serves is a manual and historical reference, describing how you can incorporate the Roman timetable into your daily life, increasing your energy and efficiency. The Romans believed that each part of the day had a specific purpose and that certain activities were best suited to those divisions of the day. Now that we understand a great deal more about a human beings' natural body clock, the so-called Circadian rhythms, it is incredible how well-suited the Roman timetable was to make the most of these natural cycles.
Agreed, I use my Xbox several times a week and I think it has updated 3 times total in the last 2 years.
You could implement your own dictionary (in ELvish!) if you wanted. But, I just make them up. You can re-use the prefix as it's only purpose is to screw up "whole word" algorithms.
It already does I believe, or at least, they are hard to not accept.
But will they do away the stupid points/currency system? I have found myself using the Xbox Zune more than iTunes but hate the stupid points/currency they use. Can I just see what I am buying in dollars?!
I believe automatic, silent updates are coming in Firefox 10.
The valuation is whatever you and an investor mutually agree on.

If you're "fundable" (targeting a large market, growth is accelerating at a rate which looks like it will take you stratospheric, team "looks like winners", in Silicon Valley or NYC, strong social proof from other investors, etc) then in the current environment at least some investors might agree on fairly big numbers. If many of these things are not the case, then it is unlikely investors, if you find them, will agree on valuations that would be obtainable by "fundable" startups.

There is no universal formula for valuing businesses. If there were, markets would be a lot less interesting. (The wonderful thing about the standard formulas they teach in B-school is there are so many to choose from.)

There are also strong regional components to this question. e.g. In Ogaki, a software business with an enterprise value of $100,000 is newsworthy enough to warrant coverage in the paper on that fact alone. In the Valley, two kids with a gleam in their eye are assigned a notional value of $100,000 for an idea that all parties do not necessarily expect to be the idea they are working on four weeks from now.
Experience show that it's sometimes not enough, and if no explicit paperwork can be found medics will perform CPR anyway...
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It already does automatic updates, and work is progressing to make them silent (like Chrome's).
A bit more on pay in as a government employee in Britain.

http://www.civilservant.org.uk/pay.shtml

For fun, here's the GS calculator for the U.S.

http://www.fedsmith.com/pay_rates/

A GS-13 step 7 in SF makes $116240.

But a more entry-level GS-7 step 1 in D.C. makes $42209
Good news, for once french gov shows the way.
+1 I try to reach a middle ground in terms of security vs convenience. I have 5 different passwords and I re-learn one at a time when I want to change them.
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For certain definitions of seamless. Windows has a habit of messing up nix file permissions and sometimes things just don't work at all unless you do it on the Windows side.
I'm willing to be persuaded, but I'm currently using two different machines, each with two different browsers open, and this is a relatively light usage case... It's a remarkably complex problem.
Since you've already admitted you can't be trusted, I see no reason to believe such a slur on your competitors. Not that it would be right even if it were true.
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There is a Pro version in the works.
The idea is to have a fully working open source variant with almost everything included. But if you want to monitor multiple servers, better support for multiple apps ( for example: color filter in the web interface ), email notifications , etc - then you can buy the Pro version.
The Pro version will cost something that everyone can afford and it will be - pay once, use forever :)
Most of them have an SMS option now. Bank of America offers the token or just one-time-use SMS'd security tokens.
Huh? The quote was "you can only control the way you are", not "you have complete control over yourself".

Of course you are influenced by external factors, but you still choose how you respond to them but have only indirect, at best, control over others.
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getting a tattoo isn't less annoying than a bracelet, but having a tattoo is much less annoying.

In any case - where is the rash of young people with 'do not rescusitate' tattoos? Everyone I've seen that is supposed to have had one is a greyhair, well out of the young-and-dumb age. And even if you do 'later regret' the tatt and don't want to stump for tatt removal, just tatt a couple of lines through it or tatt something over it.

And then there's the young people who genuinely do not want to be rescusitated - what about them? Stigma enough carrying a medical bracelet amongst the young to begin with. I just don't see this supposed grey area of young people tattooing themselves with a mythical band name.

EDIT: To put it another way, this mythical youth tattooing himself errantly is such a vanishingly tiny fringe minority. Plenty of laws exist allowing for people to freely express themselves to death. The more stringent US states have a maximum blood alcohol content of .08 for drivers, which is higher than the level at which measurable cognitive effects occur on your co-ordination and attention. If we're really concerned about 'free expression' deaths, bring that number right down. There are tons of laws like it. There is no reason not to make it another social norm to say "tattoo 'do not resus' on your chest, and you won't be resuscitated". There's no need to pander to base idiots.
It was Redis once :)
But Redis is not a good database for storing Rails exceptions, that's why I replaced it with Mongo.
It's really nice see that some banks and sites have good policies. But most of sites and banks got absolutely horribly bad security. Afaik, that's one of the best ones I have seen this far.

It's especially important that part of target account is used to generate authentication verification key. Because using static or non-content sensitive confirmation codes is useless.
Interesting experiment. My experience is that users don't actually know what they want. The changes they want often break the game, or make it less fun.

Also as this is Apple, he can't do what I suspect would get the most votes, which is "porn" ;)
I worked in an office in the centre of Glasgow near the red light district.

One night one of our help desk girls (yes she was 18ish) was going home and a 'punter' asked her if 'she was working...'

'No' she says and he then punched her in the face and knocked her unconscious.

Unleash the white knights? Indeed.
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There's a difference between a quick "he was fine this morning" death and a quick "gone in two months" death. The idea of letting the disease take it's course with only comforting care gives people time to say goodbye - it's mentioned in the main article as even being able to give more quality time with loved ones.
Right but if I have to make up a different one for every site then I'm still stuck using the super-secret text file.
I think the problem (with Hacker News) is that the front page cycles too quickly. There just aren't that many informative bits of news, or blog posts, every day.
That's bad solution. As well as password lists. Because it doesn't verify sum or target of the money transfer. Money can be transferred to anywhere when you give the confirmation code.
I don't see silent updates in FF10 yet.
True silent ones are only possible if you move the install into the Roaming area, otherwise win7 with resonable security settings will ask for confirmation.

From what I know, IT-departments don't like that.
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Some implementations:

Lisp: http://cliki.net/bk-tree

Python: http://hupp.org/adam/weblog/?p=103

Ruby: https://github.com/threedaymonk/bktree

Haskell: http://www.robdickerson.net/?p=346

Java: http://code.google.com/p/java-bk-tree/
w00t! Another Cornishman on HN. Kernow bys vyken! :-D
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Death rates 10 per cent higher at weekends
Patients admitted to NHS hospitals for emergency treatment at weekends are almost 10 per cent more likely to die than during the rest of the week, according to a comprehensive new report.
If I can use China as an example, then in my experience, yes, the cost of the driver makes a huge difference. However, I am not entirely certain if the government is subsidising anything.
Let's see...

* IPv4 addresses are NOT free by any means.

* Having an SSL certificate requires extra configuration on the server.

* Legitimate SSL certificates are not free (VeriSign, etc, if your site uses StartCom then you're doing it wrong)

That's just a few points.
In what way? In the way that most of physics 'existed' back then, yes. But the vast majority of 'knowledge' (actual explanations on how nature works, mathematics, etc. etc.) was 'discovered' or 'described in detail' over the last couple of decades.
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I don't see Cygwin as a file manager but as another (better) interface to Windows. A Linux VM wouldn't let me natively run and debug Windows software, which is the entire point of me being in Windows in the first place.
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There is the inexplicably unadvertised news.ycombinator.com/best for a slower cycle. I prefer it.
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Right, because all the readers of, say, CNN.com care about whatever language that website is written in?
The bracelet is an official state issued thing for people with terminal diseases. Obtaining one requires a doctor's order.

A tattoo (or any other non-official marking) could be anyone, like a depressed person who is going to attempt suicide.

Something related to this actually happened where I live last week. A 30 year old afghanistan vet wrote "do not resuscitate" on his arm with a sharpie and then shot himself in the chest in a hospital parking lot.
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