skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something to help format and present specifications to a client would likely be something I would be interested in trying.

However basing estimates on "industry averages" is probably about as bad an idea as letting your manager estimate your work for you.

As Joel Spolsky has said in at least one article[1]: Only the programmer who is going to do the work can figure out what steps they will need to take to implement that feature. And only the programmer can estimate how long each one will take.

Industry averages might be usable at some level as a sanity check, but honestly most software that is more complex than very basic CRUD is not going to conform to any "averages" for purposes of estimating.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html
Tampon ? Is the service also disposable ?
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I see 1.2.3.4 all the time. It is clearly Sprint (in the U.S., mobile connection) doing it.

The urls have the same 'bmi' stuff mentioned above, apparently they are using a similar implementation.
They're rebuilding everything native :

> So we decided to rebuild Wunderlist for all major platforms (Web, iOS, Android Mac & Windows).
Appears to be broken in Chrome on OS X. After my 5th choice I'm stuck on a gray screen.
Well, it's an open source project, not a whole company, right?
> As we are now a developed civilization and spend a good deal of our time indoors, a camera that excels at low light has enormous appeal, particularly for night owls, barflies, and party-goers. It may not grab the same headlines, but it could well be more useful.

So true.
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Or not? I'm confused. Why did they tweet this?
And "Douche" is French for shower. Both are, as far as humor attempts go, pretty lame.
There is nothing wrong with either of those two lines of code provided that they are not the only layers of security.

Checking to see if an ID is of the right length is a good way to filter out miss formated ID's early. And the JSON decoding statement is a pretty standard way to get the JSON body out of the request and into an associative array. Of course you will need to validate that it has the right format now, probably using JSON Schema or something similar.
"HN completely bans his name being mentioned in topic titles apparently."

Is this actually true?
I think at some point they've said that there are some import taxes for components but none for assembled devices.
FTA, "passengers cannot refuse screening once they have proceeded beyond the screening checkpoint entrance."

More likely, you can refuse, but you'll be escorted out of the terminal (and refused reentry).

I doubt you'll "go to jail" unless you assault the TSA agent, become disorderly, etc.
>Consider: Starbucks will make your coffee to their specifications (extra-hot triple venti soy latte with caramel!). That's just the same car, with a different color scheme. What James made for me at Kaffeine was a coffee deftly, expertly created to make a tiny, slight, yet very real difference to my life, on the spot. Now that's singularity.

Both are customized (personalized) products. In that regard they are the same. The difference is in the social layer and the transaction details. Instead of James giving the barista the exact specifications of his coffee ("I want a smaller one"), he told the barista what his problem was ("This coffee is too big"), and the barista customized the product for him.

Could James have figured out on his own that he needed a smaller coffee and just told the barista that's what he wanted? Sure. But it's more fulfilling for both parties to share a problem and get back a solution rather than just delivering on a spec sheet.

Most of us can relate in our work. Rather than a project like: "Here are the specs, when will it be done?" we tend to prefer: "Here is an idea, do you think it can be done?"
I did a mixture. Google won technical searches easily. Bing marginally better on the others
Actually Bitcoin's killer features indeed includes removing banks/other intermediaries from the transaction process, in addition to making state-sponsored inflation impossible.

Bankers hate BTC because it removes them from inter-mediating people and their money, statists hate BTC because it nullifies their socialist dreams of gathering funds at will (printing money). Anonymity is just a nice bonus.
I'm a woman, and I think this needs to be renamed (and given a new logo, stat). Not because tampons make me uncomfortable, but because it seems like a cheap ploy to get attention, and it makes it more difficult for me to take the app seriously on its own merits.
My employer manufactures high-end electronic goods in the US with a full manufacturing floor. We succeed in part because of aggressive attention to detail, exacting automation and constant improvement.

It also helps that we're not in a price race to the bottom.
I think it's more for people with a sense of humor

More accurately: "for tone-deaf people with a seventh-grade sense of humor"
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The logo makes it clear that the connotations are no accident...
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So he's weighing two bad things against eachother:

- collusive price-fixing

- predatory pricing

These are both definitely bad things, and using one to justify the other is itself problematic.

But there's another dimension - are these allegations true? As I understand it, predatory pricing is when a large player throws its weight around, offering goods at below cost to edge out competitors.

But there's nothing stopping other retailers from offering similarly low prices. Ebooks have almost no marginal price. Just because someone else wants to sell ebooks for a higher price doesn't make prices lower than that predatory.
I have worked with about 6 to 8 payment providers and from my anecdotal experience Paypal was the worst to work with.
Of course, you're using a paypal instead of a bank for this very reason, mostly.
True. Though being acquired is essentially someone investing in your company by purchasing a majority stake. This investment could soar your company or product to greater heights than you could ever accomplish behind the helm.
Is http://www.tunnelr.com/ the same as any of these external VPN's? I'm not clear on the differences between OpenVPN type stuff and OpenSSH. Is this going to mask my identity online?
"The Aristocrats" is a very funny joke. But that doesn't mean it's appropriate to tell in every circumstance. Tampon may or may not be funny, but being funny is not, in and of itself, the measure of whether a name is appropriate.
This is obviously true, and ultimately meaningless. All organizations are composed of people, and I guarantee you that within even the most 'evil' organization is quite a few 'good people'. It doesn't make the organization any less 'evil'.
Sure, sure. But the logo is of a Tampon, the feminine hygiene product, so the connotation is in English.
What evidence do we have that this camera is "remarkable"? Can any company just take photos with an SLR, claim it's their phone's camera, and get the press to call the camera "remarkable" from that point on? I'd say if a company get's caught in a fraud like this, the responsible action is to assume the camera is crap until proven otherwise.
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"seventh-grade sense of humor"
Even if this would be the case: is this a bad thing?
Why so serious?
I emailed FreshBooks and asked why they do it. I got the following reply:

Hey Matt,

I can't really speak to why everyone does it, but Rackspace has provided
us with amazing service so I think its something of a hat tip in
recognition.

Have a great day Matt,

- John
Twitter.com stopped showing the user-agent last week. This project turns that into a positive.
I feel like your counter examples were fairly over the top.

He didn't name it "Labia" or "Clitoris", he named it after a product that females use for hygienic purposes. I can't really think of a particular brand of male-genital-hygiene products off the top of my head (that aren't also used in other areas, ie: hair trimmers or washes), so I went with something as similar as I could that served a single unique purpose.

I'm not saying I'd see a product named Jock Strap and say "Wow, that's a great name!". My point was, the initial shock value of the name wore off once I realized I wasn't in the third grade anymore and it was just the name of a product that ~50% of the worlds population makes use of on a regular basis. A shock value that would not have been there for me had the name been something like Jock Strap, which would be a product that I'd be more comfortable making quips and jokes about.

Also, "Flower" and "Butterfly" are feminine words now?
At best, that would start a bidding war.

But realistically, politicians want the largest amount of money over time - crowdsourcing couldn't affors to pay off a politician every year. Not to mention, they'd likely just ignore the crowd sourced payoffs - there's money, and then there's money + power.
Looks to me like they just insert the JSON body directly into Mongo without any sort of further validation:

$m->tampon->queue->insert($post);
The first thing I thought when I saw this was "Great, another silly project name, but now everyone's going to feel awkward saying it." I'm the first to crack jokes on the team, but I don't need my co-workers giggling my direction every time they need to mention it. Not to mention that some [dev] environments aren't very considerate of women/women's issues, and it has the potential (if referenced in/as a joke) to make some people really uncomfortable. Just not worth it.
They don't need arrest powers. They have the phone number for the FBI.
state-sponsored inflation

..which is just replaced with built-in inflation. At least the rate is predictable and static.
Having lived in the SBC and industrial space my entire career I'd probably take issue with that statement if I could be bothered to.

I'll amend it to "cheap credit-card sized computers" if it makes you feel better.

Gumstix have been around for what, about 10 years IIRC? They are more expensive than what I'm talking about. The point I'm making is that CPU boards on the level to run flavors of Linux easily are approaching "jellybean" component status and that will enable applications that simply weren't feasible before.
Am I the only one that checked to see if analprobe.com was registered?
Terrible name, you should definitely change it. It might get you attention and have some shock value at the start but it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't already). Same goes for the logo. I understand it's 'buffer' in French but major companies go out of their way to ensure their product name translates well in the major languages. You should too.

Apart from that, it seems like a good product.

EDIT: Another reason to rename - If I'm on a shared computer I don't want 'tampon' all over the internet history.
This, more than anything else in the history of startups, indicates that we are in a bubble. The heat and moisture in a sauna would play havok on computers and laptops.

Joking aside, they could probably choose a better name for their incubator. Startup Sauna is not a sauna. Rather, it is used in the same context as Silicon Valley or Silicon Beach. Maybe they should have gone with Silicon Fjord instead?
Tweets are now menstrual blood. Tampon helps you stock up on them.
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I also agree it makes it harder to take the app on its own merits with a name that seems like such an obvious attention grab.

My point was mainly one of self reflection
Also, if more than one of the companies failed, it would have sunk the PBGC (pension benefit guarantee corporation) which is the insurance policy that protects worker pensions.

The PBGC has been under-funded for a long time (due to crony capitalism and corruption benefiting both parties and the firms, at the expense of workers' security) and the result was that the automakers had a lot of extra leverage in bailout negotiations b/c the alternative for the government was the dissolution of the PBGC and the public realization of the fraud that had been going on.
I did L2TP/IPsec for mine since they are supported by default on iphone and android devices. Getting OpenVPN working on the iPhone requires jailbreaking, and android requires your phone to be rooted.

Plus, windows and OSX have native L2TP/IPsec support.
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Ask HN: My Google Play App Removed on Bogus Copyright Claims - Advice?
Hi Everyone,

I'm a sophomore at UC Irvine and recently created my first 'product' (www.TagsForLikes.com). TagsForLikes essentially curates Instagram tags and compiles them to copy and paste into your pictures easily. I recently created an App for the sites content and this morning got served with the following email from Google (edited for brevity):

"This is a notification that your application, TagsForLikes - Instagram Tags, with package ID com.tagsforlikes.tagsforlikes, has been removed from the Google Play Store.

REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy."

...

"If you feel we have made this determination in error, you can visit the Google Play Help Center article for additional information regarding this removal."

I am preparing an appeal letter and would love some advice or tips to deal with this. Some points:

1. Google does not even tell me who's intellectual property I am infringing upon or what the claim is against in my app. This makes it very difficult for me to defend my app given I don't know what exactly I'm supposed to be defending against! I am near certain though it is from a competitor who recently was very vocally angry at my success and lack of his.

2. The free version of my app has been removed yet the Pro, paid version, remains available. Maybe just a delay on Google's part?

3. All the tags I have curated were curated originally from me by scanning through manually Instagram pictures and seeing which tags were used the most. Surely the tags are public information because they are available to see by anyone on Instagram?

Thanks for reading thus far and again would love any advice or tips anyone has for responding to this.
What is sad is the fact that this is a pretty useful app, yet most of the discussion is about the name. I would like to see more discussion about the app itself, but that could be just me.
Terrible name, and a service built on Twitter, which has already come out and said they're going to squash essentially any service that infringes on their trademarks.
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It has always been my theory that WP7 hardware can't suitably run WP8 OS with good performance, which is why WP7 phones aren't being upgraded to WP8.
He knows people, you know people .. do either one of you have actual data?
You need a citation that idiots are asking engineers to design complex CPU boards for $499? Just head over to vWorker and search.

In case it's not clear, the $499 is the price they are offering to pay an engineer to do the design, not the price they want the end product to sell for. Hence the reason they are off by close to two orders of magnitude.
Yeah. It's pretty unambiguous, and the pun isn't really that funny IMHO. Maybe it's because I do this stuff for a living now, but I don't like the idea of using either "Tampon", "Douche" or "Suppository" in my products.

On the flipside, I'm sure opting for a potentially inflammatory name has attracted attention that they otherwise wouldn't have received.
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One can extrapolate based on two things. Firstly the would-be competitors who have been utterly murdered by various kinds of fraud. Secondly the assumption that the amount of fraud in the world isn't going down.

There are people (individuals, and entire enterprises) dedicated to financial shenanigans of the black hat variety. If Paypal didn't have a robust risk prevention system, they'd have been annihilated a long time ago.
> It means every program has to do globbing

So what? If the primary API used by command-line applications to open files does the globbing, then programs will have to go out of their way to not glob. And you'll get the added benefit that globs will only be applied to arguments that are actually meant to specify filenames. There would be none of this escaping "*" when you pass it to "find."

> In any case, bash does get this right: ls will pass the correct filenames to the ls program no matter what the filenames contain.

That doesn't solve the problem; your filename could be called "--help."
Have you read the article? They're moving away from titanium to native apps:

> So we decided to rebuild Wunderlist for all major platforms (Web, iOS, Android Mac & Windows)

The android client hasn't been a wrapper for a long time, and the new iOS version we don't know, since it's not yet released.
I'm a Wikitravel admin and a potential target of this lawsuit. As far as I know, the admin being sued did nothing that was against the stated policies of Wikitravel; the lawsuit is harassment plain and simple. Kudos to Wikimedia for stepping up on this.

When IB claims "conspiracy", it seems to me they are referring to the mailing list discussion to fork taken by the majority of existing admins. Imagine a world where forking Free Software or Free Content is subject to conspiracy charges!

When Internet Brands bought the right to host Wikitravel, they promised to obey community policies. They are now interpreting the community policies to mean whatever would be convenient for IB on a particular day.
I believe it's a classic business mistake to think that you must turn a profit on every single customer. It's much better to think like a casino: as long as you're in the black for a service and segment of customers, it's a win.

That's especially true for PayPal now. Before merchants didn't have much choice. If PayPal continues to be seen as difficult and risky, the better-qualified merchants will be the first to shift to other services. That will leave PayPal with a much more risky customer base than they have now.
It would if guns have slipped by the metal detector. Which they have.
I did a bit of searching and it seems a few different mobile carriers
are doing this with the 1.2.3.0/24 range, but the important thing is
they should not be doing it at all. It would break the Internet if
everyone just used whatever address they felt like using.
As stated some place else: it's an open source project, so let's just have fun with names! :)
The ads are just another cost to the business, so that flows on through to the buyer, either through:

- higher prices

- worse customer service

- fewer features

- the company eventually going under as they get priced out of the ecosystem

You won't find many subjective comparisons & reviews of players in the ads (it will all be companies selling themselves) and you probably won't typically find any free or open source software either.
Going to send this around to my nieces and nephews!
How do you propose one come up with valid statistical data on something which is inherently an opinion? Need every single bloody point be scientifically rigorous?
The TSA stops guns getting onto planes every week.

We have no idea if they miss any guns, nor if the guns they stopped were going to be used on the plane.

But TSA will point to the 20 or so guns they fund each week as evidence of effectiveness.

EDIT (after a bunch of comments): I should make it clear that I'm not defending TSA, I think they're mostly lousy and pointless security theatre.
>>it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't already)

It already does.

>>I understand it's 'buffer' in French but major companies go out of their way to ensure their product name translates well in the major languages. You should too.

This product was clearly named with the intention of being provocative. The logo is clear evidence of that.
Wow, that's a pretty serious burn rate.

Isn't Wunderlist/Wunderkit essentially a free todo-list app? How are you planning to monetize into a sustainable business?
A better, and universal, solution to the problem of filenames starting with - is to prefix all relative paths with ./. A path like ./-blah will never be misinterpreted as a command line option, regardless of the tool, and doesn't depend on the -- convention which is only inconsistently present.
I completely agree but it's not just wages and taxes.

China has everything they need to bleem out consumer electronics indefinitely. They source the materials within China and they produce [most of] the components in China. It's all there under one currency.

I love England but we don't really have the rare earth metals required to do this stuff. We need to import them and that means paying China more money. Often more money than it would be to have them fab the whole thing in the first place.

I agree that this is something that needs to happen eventually. If the world keeps paying China to make everything they will end up owning us all. On paper they probably already do.
but it'd be much more effective to spend that money on lobbyists

Maybe, maybe not.

Lobbying is very expensive, I suspect some times it would be cheaper to lobby, other times it would be cheaper to sabotage the system.

Which is cheaper could depend on many things, like is anyone lobbying against you, vs. is the system designed in such a way that it could potentially adjust itself to defends itself or not.
Apple showed the iPad displaying Flash content as a way of showcasing the browsing experience consumers could expect. In addition they manipulated a still image to sell the iPad as a device for watching movies. The choice of a still image was based upon an intent to deceive potential customers about the shortcomings of the 4:3 format of the iPad.

In the case of the iPad watching feature films is probably about equivalent to using the camera on a smartphone. On the other hand, browsing the web is a primary function of the device, and there was no way the iPad was getting Flash.
I don't understand why they need this.

They made a gorgeous and great device. It probably has one of the best smartphone cameras ever. Because of what they did, now everyone is talking about how they faked the photos instead of talking about the phone. A friend of mine even emailed Nokia and asked "Will﻿ the Lumia 920 also have the built-in CIV (cameraman in van) feature?"

Apologizing isn't going to change anything. People are going to keep making fun of Nokia for a long time about this.
I totally see your point. There aren't any, that I know of, male-specific genital hygiene products.

Flowers and butterflies, as cultural concepts, tend to correlate with femininity more than rocketships and monster trucks. I was trying to think of a non-biological example of something that's perfectly OK to use.
I personally couldn't care less what people name the projects that they work on during their free time. However, when you choose to name your project something ridiculous like Tampon, then there should be little surprise when people focus on the ridiculous name. That's how people are.

There's always the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the name is the most interesting part about the project.
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Yes, I know. I have a drawer full of evaluation boards stretching back 15+ years.

The point of the pi and its copies/lookalikes, etc is that they are made in production quantities not just test & evaluation quantities.

Go ask Atmel for 10,000 of a random AVR evaluation board. That's probably half of all the boards they ever intended to make.