skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please do not order a suit off the internet. That is the worst idea ever.

I own eight suits and half dozen blazers. My first suits and blazers were all off the rack, including the high end brooks brothers. And they all fit me horribly. I never wear them now.

I didn't realize how horrible they fit until I went to bespoke suits and shirts. So from someone who wasted a lot of money do yourself a favor, go to the best shirt maker in your city and have a custom shirt made. Be prepared to spend up to $300 for the shirt (though $200 is more reasonable). Then use that as your template and send it to a tailor in hong kong who will make duplicates of the shirt with the same measurement for $30 each in the fabric selection of your choice. Best investment ever. I recommend http://www.jantzentailor.com/

For suits, I can't help you if you are in America. But if you are going to order a suit in the USA try to get a british cut, the style that Frew uses. Just don't order something off the internet. Lots of factors that go into what makes a quality suit that can't be expressed online.
We're talking with a few people who have more experience than us in managing open source projects, they'll be able to help us optimize it. Since it's a web API, we're venturing through unknown territory.

I think it's probably going to look similar to something like Automattic as far as business model, where the techno-elite are always able to run their own install for free while those looking for more of a seamless 'hosted' experience, will pay.
Well when you consider that a traditional bank has teams of security experts, spend millions of dollars on security infrastructure and STILL have the occasional lapse in security; how do you think a couple of guys in their spare time will fare?
Yes to the first; you have to decide the second.
I find that an easier way to think about the the retrieval pricing is "bandwidth overage times peakiness", where "bandwidth overage" is the amount of data retrieved in the day minus [5% of data stored]/[length of month], and "peakiness" is the proportion of the day's data which was retrieved in the peak hour (somewhere between 1/24 and 1).
Schools have also managed to more or less solve the problem for centuries already without cameras or RFID tracking.

House cameras do sound expensive. They also sound ridiculous. But just a few years ago, mandatory naked pictures of your body before boarding a plane also sounded ridiculous. And they cost $170,000 each[1], which I imagine doesn't include maintenance and salaries for the operators. That sounds expensive.

[1] http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/20/a-few-facts-about-tsas-ful...
Yes, in the common case there's an arbitrage potential here -- but as the story of Alice and Bob illustrates, it's possible for the arbitrage to backfire.
Ummm... it works in Chrome, but not in Firefox.

Firebug shows this error:

TypeError: e.srcElement is undefined

http://david-bieber.tumblr.com/post/30907535147/collapsible-...

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If your gmail is slow there is a simple and effective solution. I've had gmail for years and actually pay for my google apps account. Like the author I assumed my growing mailbox size and filters were the reason for the increasing slowness. So I contacted support and after some investigation they noticed that I had tons of polling requests that were slowing down my account from connected apps (think greplin). They suggested I remove them. I was skeptical, but I did. Immediately gmail was BLAZING fast again. If your gmail or google apps is slow I highly recommend removing all connected apps ASAP:

https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens
(Matt, CEO of Inkling here.)

Humans did not manually reformat these titles. The source was EPUB, and there was some clever automation to start. The semantic structure, internal content links, remarks and glossary entries were done essentially algorithmically. Enhancements and the ability to see code in the book were done systematically, and sometimes manually.

All of this was done using Inkling Habitat, our (as-yet unreleased) integrated content development environment. It makes this stuff much more scalable, and as we continue to roll out cool brands like O'Reilly, you'll see increasing amounts of media and interactivity where stuff like that makes sense.
The RFID tag IDs are explicitly being used for tracking student location by faculty and are mandatory. Smart phones are neither mandatory nor is location information available to school faculty. It isn't really the same thing.

The school system is doing this because they think it will improve attendance and earn them more funding from the state. They obviously didn't educate people very well (a lot of misconceptions were apparent in the video) and I don't think this is going to necessarily improve attendance, either.
Coding widgets are in the JavaScript titles to start. More to come.
Microwave oven radio waves are non-ionizing 2.4 Ghz and I suspect they cause several health issues to any living organism exposed to them, even for a short time.
Here's where I stopped:

"Another route is to consider sponsoring a bright foreign developer. Transferring a student visa or an existing work visa isn’t as difficult as starting from scratch, but certainty is a cumbersome and expensive process. On the flip side you will end up paying a lower salary and receiving a higher level of commitment (switching jobs is more difficult when you require sponsorship)."

No. No. No.

If they realize you've put them into a corner they'll either slack off and you'll be back where you were before, or stuck with someone who doesn't work.
I'm not sure if the reasoning holds beyond, "For the way we designed tarsnap it doesn't make sense."

I agree -- that's exactly what I was saying. The title of the blog post was "Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier", not "Why you shouldn't use Glacier".

I think Glacier is a great service, just not a particularly good fit to Tarsnap.
> something is amiss

I'm not arguing that point. All I'm saying is, whatever is going on, I don't think I'm going to get called back over for contingency operations. The joint task force never disbanded, we're all theoretically still on call for this. As far as TEPCO's relationship with the Japanese people, that is a situation for them to resolve internally. My brother's wife is from Ibaraki prefecture (between Tokyo and Fukushima). He plans to make a career of law in Japan. But I seriously doubt we will see any new catastrophic developments or American tax dollars spent on the problem.
Tried that for a while when attempting to do the same thing, and it would effectively kill their interest. Perhaps it's market or location dependant?
I think people are misunderstanding what RIM is doing here. To be frank, RIM's promotion of this isn't doing them favours here either.

The $10k revenue guarantee is a hedge. They're betting that if you make an app that satisfies their Built for BlackBerry criteria (see: https://developer.blackberry.com/builtforblackberry/document...), it's good enough to sell 100 copies, and make at least $1k in revenue, then it's good enough to make $10k in revenue.

They're hoping that your app will be so awesome that they won't have to pay you anything. Bear in mind, this guarantee is over a 12-month period, so there's plenty of time to make that $10k on your own. Furthermore, by being Built for BlackBerry, you get special exposure in the App World storefront.

Personally, I think it's a fantastic idea, and I'm definitely going to be submitting an app or two. But I think a lot of people are taking it as "RIM is paying devs $10k to make an app." That simply isn't true. They're making you work for it, and then saying, "If after all of this work, you still don't make $10k, we'll front you the rest."

So the incentive to promote your app past $1,000 in revenue is that if you're putting in this much work, you should really try to maximize your return.
Computer science education should start in high school.
Congratulations Nathan. Great article, great landing page for your book too.
Recurly down "for days"
Copy-pasted from an email sent to us today:

On Monday September 3rd, at approximately 3:30a.m. (PDT), Recurly experienced a hardware failure which impacted our stored credit card service. The original outage (in which all transactions were impaired) lasted just under 2 hours, and was attended to quickly by our team to restore transaction functionality for new sign-ups on our customers’ sites.

At this time, Recurly’s recurring invoicing was paused to resolve the hardware related issues impacting our ability to process invoices from stored customer card details. This means that transactions resulting from new customer sign-ups are currently functional, but recurring invoices are paused.<p>We are still working with several vendors and partners to resolve this issue.

Many of you have been appropriately asking for updates on timing until full restoration of the service. At this point, we don’t have an estimate on the time required for full restoration of the service. However, we do now anticipate that it will require days rather than hours to fully restore recurring invoice operations.

During this period, while Recurly’s recurring invoicing is paused, you can expect the following:

• Any credit card information added after 11:30AM PDT on September 3rd will not be affected by this outage

• New customer sign-ups are not impacted

• All recurring invoice jobs are paused and queuing

• While transactions are paused, you will experience an interruption in your daily recurring collections

• Charges applied to any account will continue to accrue on the account, but cannot be invoiced until access to card data is restored

• Any one time transaction added via the API will fail to collect

• The ability to process refunds may be impacted
That's why you should never test in production. Fixed.
Not all pain is the same. There's the "I'm pushing myself hard" pain and then there's "I'm in injury territory" pain. Clearly the author is talking about one and not the other.
Today was the official announcement of the details, guidelines, and dates. No difference, just that it's more solid now.
> Not sure what is meant by a "default router".

Default settings. Many wifi routers work just by plugging in ethernet.

> I simply think that saying "open up your wifi

I'm not suggesting anything besides grandma isn't her IP. I don't see why that's confusing.
I don't know if only sending the changes is considered "De-Duping" (though it is related) - That's more equivalent to doing differential (or block level differential) backups.

The way Tarsnap does things, it's the same thing; Tarsnap splits data into blocks and deduplicates those blocks without caring whether each block is a whole file or part of a file or several small files stuck together.
Another strange part is that when looking at attendance, this seems even easier to hack - just give your tag to someone else so they can scan it.

Well they get more funds from the state if they are able to show higher attendance rates so maybe that is by design. ;)
Chinese Clone Company Will Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 Design
Perhaps a better word for it would be results. I think it is valid to point out what percentage of the page is results, because really that's what you are looking at.

In reference to #2, I've never found the result count or time the search took to be of much use.

I'm also not convinced that ads are actually ever useful. I'd love to see an example of one that you think is useful for the search.

You do make a good point on white space. Does that only apply to whitespace near the results, or is that for the entire page?
Great, great read! Uncomfortable truth...
Total recall is more than 20 years old, and they had full body scanners entering mass transit. Granted, that's a movie. It never really happened. But people were exposed to the idea a long time ago.

I don't think the idea was as far fetched as you're making it out to be.

edit (sorry)

There's also the whole issue of schools having the issue solved. I don't think that's true. Schools and classes are getting bigger. I'm not sure how trustworthy a roll call is in a class of 40. There are ways to mitigate that, of course, but why waste minutes a day when you can just slap on a cheap technical fix. The old way literally wastes days of instruction by saying 'here'.

edit, again, because i'm an ass (sorry)

If you're putting your kids in the hands of the state, it seems odd worrying that the state is monitoring their behavior closely. It's not like kids have rights. The state is charged with care of those kids, maybe it's a bizzaro solution, but it's a strictly audited and accountable solution.
I've seen some speculation that Gmail slows down because your account is assigned to a server with other older accounts which are also growing and straining server capacity. Is it possible that the speed increase comes from being assigned to a new server more than the decrease in mailbox size? It would interesting to see someone test this by fully restoring their old account in a new account and comparing performance.
And if they incorporated in-app purchases or in-app advertising, they'd be eligible for this.
The deduplication is done on the client side; and yes, it is done by comparing HMACs of blocks.
"The service checks to see if the hashed value exists and then lets you know if your udid is among the ones compromised. Only hashed values are stored in the service, not any of the raw udid values."

So all the site owner has to do is hash the udids to know who you are?
I would think so too, except I didn't enter it anywhere, so I'm not sure how the association is made. Oh well, no sense worrying about such mundane details.
Related, "The importance of stupidity in scientific research": http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771.full
There is no need to compare - ORing the register with itself will suffice to set the Z flag. This is more concise on x86 - i think it's 2 bytes to OR a 32-bit register with itself, vs 3 for a compare with a (sign-extended) 8-bit immediate zero.
Yeah, he avoided the killer question which busts his logic.
Indeed, nothing against Ruby or Rails. Actually, I think we used Ruby in the process of building these titles with the following library: http://nokogiri.org

Sometimes editioning and other considerations prevent us from doing a certain title immediately, but we do plan to bring the whole O'Reilly library to the platform over the next few months, including Ruby and Rails content.

(In the meantime, maybe you can learn a real language? Tee hee. Kidding. omg.)

(p.s., we're hiring. Just not Ruby engineers.)
http://www.inkling.com/careers
A Word About CSS4
If listening to music necessarily required that you download a new 'app' for every play, then the RIAA could shut down piracy pretty easily.
The tool that I like to use for Gmail backups is a Python script called BaGoMa: http://sourceforge.net/p/bagoma/home/BaGoMa/
Can we please stop picking on the foreman? It's not like this person forced their way into the trial--they were picked by the state at random, and oh by the way, jury duty is not optional. Attorneys for both sides had their chance to dismiss the guy and they did not. He's talking about his thought processes which is a hell of a lot more "closure" than you typically get in a trial. So the plan is to make him the villain?

I get that people do not like the verdict, but save the vitriol for the lawyers and the law. Let's not hate on an American citizen who did his best when duty called.
How much of this marketing for an ebook do you think applies for a conventional book launch through a publisher? I guess that question also applies to any other tangible product for that matter?
High school student myself here! There will be a live stream so you wont miss out (in terms of content) whether you decide to come or not.
The phone is continously broadcasting wifi and bluetooth MAC addresses, it's as good as any other radio beacon for tracking.
'hacked' ... Anyways, here's my question - why aren't private keys for these centralized wallets encrypted with a password the user has to put in when they do a transaction. That way private keys aren't stored on disk, but only temporarily in memory. Also if the encrypted keys get stolen, there's time for people to move their money to new wallets before the encryption is broken.
Sounds like setting up a Glaciated Tarsnap machine would do what you want, then? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.
EdGrapeNutZimm: Pause Points for Diligence in Venture Deals
It hurts, but it feels good.

I believe that there are physical and/or neurochemical properties that make this either true or false for specific individuals. I'm just like your friend: exercise doesn't make me feel good or give me any sort of endorphin high; it just makes me tired and sore. I do the minimum that I figure will keep me in reasonable shape (and yes, I've done more in the past), but I'd much rather spend my time either being productive or relaxing.
On the iPhone naming
B/c this is not a thread on politics..
The title is perhaps a bit misleading, but the article itself speaks of results instead of search/non-search. His claim is technically true.

To be fair, he should have also calculated the space the ads take up. However, one can tell by eye (from those screenshots at least) that that space has increased.

The conclusion he draws (neglecting ease of use) doesn't logically follow from the data, though.
No worries, thanks for that.

I have bought a book or two, and noticed that the site remembers both my CC details (this is alright) and also my 3 digit CVV. Isn't there a law against storing both for the purpose of future purchases?

I'd feel a little more comfortable if I was asked to enter the CVV every time. This is not inconvenient for the user as far as I can see.
Except that then we're trying to store two different blocks in Glacier with the same hash ID.
The "Angry Birds" don't even get an extra 10k - if your app makes more than 10k you don't get the payout. I think this is an easy win for RIM for sure.
This article is wrong in several places. E.g.

"Demon-Xanth:
Did you have the opportunity to ask 'Is this something that should be patentable?' during the trial?

Velvin Hogan:
No, however it was not the function of this jury to ask that. We were bound to use the law as it is today. The patents were issued the judge instructed us not to second guess the current patent system.

Groklaw Commentary: The law is that the jurors are supposed to decide whether or not a patent is infringed, which includes whether or not the patent is valid, because if it is not valid, it can't be infringed."

Whoever wrote the commentary doesn't understand the patent law. The question of "is the patent valid" actually encompasses several different questions, some of which are for the judge to decide and some of which are for the jury to decide. The jury foreman's characterization of "is this something that should be patentable?" is correct. This is the "subject matter" question. It asks: "in general, is this kind of thing the kind of thing that should be patentable?" This is a legal question that is in the judge's province, not the jury's.

The jury decides patent validity, which encompasses a separate set of questions. If a particular "kind of thing" is patentable, then the jury looks at whether a particular thing that is of that "kind of thing" has been validly patented.
I think no one has issues with say, the German subsidiary holding onto profits generated in Germany.

The primary observation now is large corporations channeling their reserves and holding them in various locations that is friendly to capital - i.e. no taxes or other costs in simply holding large amounts of cash in reserve.

I think at this stage of global economic development, it is an issue the world has to face. How in the world are you going to incentivise these entities holding all these vast amounts of capital to put this capital to real wealth generating activities instead of sitting on it or leaving it to the financial sector to push it around?
Sorry, if you say dumb things to the media, you are fair game for having those things torn apart. Talking to the media is optional.
The Kickstarter Delusion
Tyler,

I wouldn't read into the O'Reilly prices too much. They must balance a lot of pre-existing agreements with other distribution channels, and as you probably know, Amazon often sells print titles at a loss.

Campbell is a similar situation, but it's available by the chapter for $4, and that's how most students are buying it -- getting just the pieces their profs assign.

As to the middle-click / option-click problem, we're aware, and we consider it a bug. We'll fix it. We are ashamed!
It's possible the person with access to the twitter account is not in the loop, or did not consult with higher ups before posting that.
You clearly don't hang out with a lot of old Windows users. its all 8LETTERS.txt or "Lots of Letters & stuff.doc" but never, ever conforms to a consistent convention. I'm pretty sure an exuberant Anon declared this was "intel".
Actually that leads to visible marks on the RFID.

Much easier to hold the card up to the light and find the chip, then snap the traces by bending it. I did this at summer camp to great effect. I had to get a new card so I could get into the building.
In Japan Yakuza members must register with the police, and the Yakuza families are treated like corporations. Kanto Rengo has more than 3,000 members and operates in alliances with traditional Yakuza.

I guess it depends on the definition of Yakuza, if you mean the officially registered organizations with registered members then no they aren't. But if you mean a large criminal organization of Japanese people, I think its safe to say they are.

Its also not uncommon for Yakuza groups like Yamaguchi-gumi to "acquire" a "gang" like Kanto Rengo and turn them into their regional office.
No, not the lag of seeing the sent messages appear 20 second later in the "Sent" view. But I do notice the slowness when I search for old, archived mails. Searches for new mails are much faster, you can see the result returned almost instantly. This is not the case if you search for, say, a 2-3 year old email.
Then why didn't the judge ask it?
He decided to, and continues to, talk to the media. If he kept his mouth shut, nobody would picking on him. Media whoring has its price.
Agreed. The guilty party, here, is either Samsung's lawyers for failing to convince the foreman of the law and its applicability to their case, the judge for refusing to permit prior art to be presented, or the laws themselves which were incomprehensible to a layperson.
I couldn't find it either but in addition to "Code Complete" this data is also shown in a chart in "The Software Project Survival Guide", also by Steve McConnell (p29).

The attribution is "Researchers have found" but Boehm and Papaccio are listed in the references.
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It seems there is a market for an insurer of Bitcoin exchanges. Carry out extensive physical, procedural and offensive reviews against a set of standards, in exchange for certifying the exchange as "not easy to break", and insure its accounts up to a certain % of reserves.
You make an assertion that the heavy duty antibiotics cost 10-15x what they should? How do you know what they should cost?

- How much money did it take to develop them? (Count the failures in your estimate)
- What is the supply vs demand for them? (demand is probably low since you don't want to use these unless you really need to)
- What's the shelf life for them.
- Do hospitals have to toss them if they don't get used?
- Do they have to keep them on hand or can they be Just In Time manufactured and delivered in an emergency?

As others have said here the real problem is lack of transparency into these issues. Speculating about what the cost of antibiotics should be only adds to the cloud of misinformation around medical billing.

I agree though that demanding more transparency is a good thing.