skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely it depends on the extent to which the time the work will take will change depending on external factors. A fixed fee for a first draft of terms and conditions is very different to a fixed fee for litigating a dispute to trial. I obviously use an exaggerated example to illustrate here but it is fair to say that a fixed fee can simply be a solid estimate of the time a matter will take multiplied by hourly rate (at least that's how we arrived at fixed fee estimates at my old firm).
In Sweden I've had pins without duplicated digits.
You could try TripCase, I think it has much the same functionality but different design. It might suit you better.
It appears they are still clueless about how the internet works. https://twitter.com/VirginMobileAus/status/24795811996620800...
Is it possible to make coffeescript code auto formatting tool?

Does the lack of such tool make working with cs code harder? Specifically I mean maintaining and refactoring such code.
cool, but how about making it context (page) aware, so you could write just "@watch" on a repo's page?
Here? http://www.adobe.com/misc/trade.html#section-4
> The actual study concludes with this [...] Seems to match the title pretty well.

Except for an uneducated or insufficiently skeptical reader -- and the title ought to be "Tax Cuts Don't Necessarily Lead to Economic Growth". To say that tax cuts don't lead to economic growth is to make an unsupported, absolute claim and tell a half-truth.

My problem is with the superficial impression created by the first few lines and the graph. Remember that most readers don't read beyond the abstract. This is a fact that, instead of being accommodated by science writers, is exploited.

Not to broaden the topic unduly, but I often see articles that say some cause A is "linked" to some effect B. "Linked" is a tricky word because, strictly speaking, it doesn't mean A and B are really linked in the cause-effect sense, but many people understand it that way.

A recent article said, in effect, "Marijuana use linked to IQ decrease". It's obvious what typical parents will make of that. But the actual study didn't "link" the two in the way the title and introduction did.
Agreed. Best car I ever had (and totalled).
It does seem trivial that taxes stifle economic growth, however, isn't this under the assumption that people will spend the money they garner on tax breaks rather than sit on it? Although the government is laughably inefficient, wouldn't it be more productive to increase taxes and then have the government spend because the government is guaranteed to spend all of it?
Yeah, so clearly they weren't trying to optimize for KB size.
sorry, maybe I was not clear. Some devices running Android you have to "jailbreak" (this depends on the carrier/ manufacturer). I bought the google nexus galaxy exactly, because I just need to unlock the boot loader and can get root on it.

I just have the feeling that Google gets too much praise for their "open" Android. It's not my definition of "open" (especially in the light of their current threat towards acer http://marketingland.com/google-acer-android-aliyun-21631 )

I think I agree with you it's a computing platform (if talking about the Nexus brand). Yet, the kindle fire for example is not a computing platform (also running Android). iOS feels more like an appliance (although with the $70 developer program bonus you can do mostly anything you want with it... until Apple revokes your dev certificate :). Yet, I would love to have a really open computing platform (like Maemo was) for my phone.

edit: clarifying that I mean the nexus brand concering the computing platform.
It sure seems like by paying a little more technical due diligence up front and finding a proper search library [1] that could fit in their stack, they could have saved a lot of operational burden here.

Growing their main database indexes for this one feature seems like a loser.

1. Whoosh, Xapian, Lucene, etc?
I can't find any public reports topping ~100 Gbps. For example, here's a recent article that interviewed an Arbor employee and mentions a ~100 Gbps plateau:

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/ddos-attacks-power2012-...
DeBeers advantages: they do this for a living, and they've got a wee bit of a marketing edge on you.

Your advantages: you actually know the girl, you apparently know what makes her tick well enough to make her fall in love with you, you know everyone in her Circle of Girlfriends reference set (or would if you cared to), you're not a sclerotic megacorp, you've got copious permission marketing assets to her and her CoGs, and you've actually got a soul, which should count for something.

Besides, this is HN. Scrappy startup versus megacorp which hasn't innovated since the first world war? Oooooh, bring it, this should be fun.
Building a WiFi Twitter Display: Scrolling Tweets
It could be a coincidence. About half of all 4-digit numbers contain at least one repeated digit. (Of 10000 possible numbers, 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 == 5040 contain four distinct digits.)
Why, what are the Yahoos going to do if I don't follow their "style guide"? Threaten me with their little ®? Not anymore, they won't.
I judge a CEO by what he or she instagrams about the company and how the employees contribute their 2 cents to the company logo.

Ok, excuse the sarcasm. But I don't see what this tells us about Yahoo! or Meyers performance as a CEO. I'd like to hear more about how she's managing Yahoo!, augmenting its products and services, and above all how that this performance translates to better earnings.
Agreed. Lets cut defense and military spending substantially.
How so? We aren't even looking out for ourselves let alone platypuses! :-)
Electric Imp: An SD card to Make: the Internet of Things
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Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.

Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
The press has been making fun of "phablets", but people sure seem to be buying them:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/16/3246378/samsung-galaxy-not...

http://thedroidguy.com/2012/09/samsung-predicts-galaxy-note-...
I, for one, welcome our new artificial intelligence overlords.
I know one you have paid for: OS. If it is Windows or Mac OS X, you have paid for it. If it is Linux you have either paid for it with your time spent for configuring it or by buying more expensive hardware that just work with Linux. If your time is cheap that's OK. If you got lucky with configuration - many people don't.
I am not talking about government-sponsored innovation (all countries with enough cash are capable of doing that), I was referring to spontaneous innovation (people setting up businesses by themselves to create new products/services and add value to society). Obviously when you are in a fully state-controlled economy, none of that stuff can be allowed to happen.
A Letter from a Scared Actress
XKCD What If - Raindrop
That's all pretty interesting, but I still don't see what you get with postgres that you don't get with mongodb. Your database won't enforce your schema for you, but I don't see how that means "ad hoc reporting is impossible".
IMO your key comment is "not all tax cuts are made equal".

What we need to consider is, from a fiscal stimulous POV, the objective of raising or lowing taxes is to get money moving around the economy at all levels. This can happen with either tax cuts or tax increases. For example tax cuts on home building is a classic way of freeing and encouraging investment in a sector that tends to flow across the wider economy. Whereas giving some kind of tax cut to a person or entity that will just hoard that gain will not help the economy. Also increasing taxes is fine, but then the pending needs to be more useful to the economy than leaving the money in the hands of private citizens. For example if you are taking that amount from where it will be hoarded or invested away from the wider economy it can be a good thing for the economy. So if Obama increases tax on the wealthy people (of which a proportion will hoard) and puts it into infrastructure type projects it should benefit the economy. Whereas if the money gets spent on supporting Afghanistan, that same tax cut would hurt the economy as the proportion of funds that would have been invested in the local economy are removed to another location.

For my limited understanding this data may just be a sign that wealth is being hoarded from the wider economy currently, not that high or low tax rates are better. Unfortunately when it comes to economics there are so many variables in play it is very limiting to take a this side or that side stance.
Tax cuts for those who save money (i.e the rich) will stimulate growth only if others want to borrow that money in order to do something productive. That is, if growth is held back by lack of investment capital.

If growth is held back by lack of demand, cutting taxes of savers and financing it by cutting public services for consumers will be a drag on the economy.

Right now, capacity utilization is low and therefore we don't need investment in new capacity. What we need is demand and we won't get it as long as disposable incomes keep going down as they have been for over a decade.
Fox Reports On New iPhone Features
The 5th Avenue Apple store has people camped outside for the iPhone 5. Fox mistakenly reports "holographic images" and "laser keyboard" as confirmed features which were actually part of an early fan concept video.
A nitpick: you can use semicolons in Python.

x = 3;
Well, we do have an obesity epidemic.
Concepts and Techniques of Concurrency Inside Web Architectures
There you go: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/165126/65434
I don't know about you, but my ancestors have been evolving for a lot longer than 4 million years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_descent
Good luck with Legit Teams - one thing I'd highly suggest is introducing annual prices, at least as an option.

There's no way I'm going through the hassle of expensing $5 a month, but $60 for a years service isn't going to raise any queries with finance.
The screen size of the S4 is expected to reach 5-inch from the current 4.8

Bigger isn't necessarily better. The iPhone 5 went with decreased volume and weight. I own neither, but it's an interesting case-study of features vs. benefits - and sales.
> they're probably upgrading from a feature phone. And even the worst Android phone is much nicer than that.

I would disagree - I've heard quite a few non-technical people say they are never getting another android because they are so frustrated by their gingerbread/froyo handsets. They envy the iPhone simply because they never hear people swearing at them (whereas their phones prompt a tirade of profanity)
I'm looking for a co-founder, how can I start?
Hi guys,

I'm looking for a co-founder for a startup I've been working on for the past 3 months or so. I built a complete prototype to make sure everything works and now I'm looking to apply for seed fund to take it further through YC or 500co.

The idea is in the realm of cloud bookmarking and I'm confident of its success with the proper circumstances.

The first step is to get myself a developer-cofounder guy.

Any pointers on how to get started with this? Anyone interested in hearing more about it?
I stopped worrying about the OS a long time ago.

I happened to have purchased Lenovo laptops because I like the keyboards and generally believe that the reason Apple laptops are better than the majority of Windows laptops is because people are willing to spend more on quality hardware. I prefer the industrial design of Richard Sapper to Jonathan Ives so it was a no-brainer.

After running Windows for a while and getting bored of using KiTTY for SSH I switched to Linux Mint.

I honestly have configured nothing. It all just worked, and installation was less than 10 minutes end-to-end.

I know you will say I got lucky, or that I spent more money... but luck didn't come into it and I spent not a penny more than I did for the Windows machine and good industrial design.

If you just use the system, it just works. I've had zero pain in my personal computing for a long time now. I don't understand the "Linux costs you time" mantra.
How Google fine tunes its search engine [video]
By converting to indexed color first (in Gimp: Image > Mode > Indexed) we can turn off the dithering. I would be interested to know if this looks bad on anyone's screen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/asf1q9Da0w0PwN8PoadpVtM...
Add on (or take off I guess) the exhaust system, gearbox and fuel tank and he's probably shaved a bit more off as well.
Inflation is not a tax for everyone. It's actually a tax cut for debtors. The U.S as a whole is a country of debtors. The balance of payments is negative as well so it's getting worse. The worst thing that could happen is deflation. Inflation is a net positive in this situation.

The effect of inflation on working income depends on whether or not wage inflation is above or below CPI.
best way to get a cofounder is to make traction without one:

* build a landing page and start amassing users

* hire a contractor and finish that prototype

* start blogging and building an online following

"I'm confident of its success with the proper circumstances"

_you_ make those circumstances
Automatically freezing an account makes it easy for an attacker to denial-of-service an account. Just try to login as many times as it takes to freeze the account, and then it's not available anymore to the legitimate user.
Paying to promote your personal posts on Facebook?
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/76256_10101702133327986_1651037821_n.jpg

This is a screenshot from a friend's Facebook account. I realise Facebook offers paid post promotion for Pages, but I hadn't noticed it being rolled out for individual users as well. Has this been going on for some time? Will we see people paying to out-influence their peer groups?
Excluding Files From GitHub Diff
Yeah http://www.makeyourownsoftware.com/ this is a very famous one; and he sold a lot of copies (the original developer). What it does is it allows you to make a doc with variables; you 'save an .exe' which you give/sell to clients; when the client starts the application they get a form with those variables to enter and then the doc appears with those variables in it.

I have seen those 'apps' on download sites, like 'unique recipe printing application' and such. It doesn't even store the result. Another, more modern, 'no coding software creator' is ; http://www.profittigersystems.com/vbforum/ which also sold quite well and at least can do a bit more. But from this 'codeless' stuff comes mostly garbage which you can find for sale on eBay and such.
Yes, there are various types of thresholds and heuristics employed
just about everywhere on HN, but the details are not public, and they
are not included in the news.arc open source code.

When it comes to flags, it is not a simple count threshold, instead,
it's a matter of the quality of your flagging. If you flag in an
abusive manner, the automation removes your ability to flag. If you
flag in a beneficial manner, the automation also notices your attempt
to help control spam and abuse. Since the goal of the automation is
to prevent abuse, I won't go into any more details. A few vague details
were mentioned publicly a few years ago, but the system is constantly
evolving, so things have undoubtedly changed.

I do a significant amount of flagging of spam/bad submissions on
the 'new' page, and occasionally, I'll flag comments. I'm certainly
not perfect, and occasionally, I get it wrong, but I just do my best.
Since I've done this for a long time and have a history of flagging
appropriately, the automation has never removed my ability to flag,
The same is true for the humans involved; none of the mods or pg
himself have asked me to stop, or removed my ability to flag.

If you made some bad flags and the automation kicked in to prevent
abuse by removing your ability to flag, then don't take it personally.
Also, pg has an interesting habit of leveraging time in interesting
ways. The only publicly known examples are in the news.arc source and
in the Guidelines/FAQ (at the bottom of the page) regarding how rank
is calculated. This hints at possible good news; the removal of your
ability to flag might be temporary. If it doesn't show up again after
six months of "good behavior" then you're probably stuffed or you've
hit a glitch.
LastPass Sentry
As 'finnw has mentioned, almost 50% of 4-digit numbers have at least one repeated digit, so there is high chance of ending up with such a number. FWIW I have 2 UK cards from different banks where the PIN has no repeated digits. I suspect you're seeing a pattern where there is none.

Incidentally, codes with repeated digits make it harder to guess your code based on fingerprints, as there are more possible combinations.
The organ failure scenarios you describe are the ideal case. If you look at the more common ailments like heart disease, diabetes, gout, or tooth decay. The equation changes in favor of the current treatments. You would be hard pressed to convence me that the cost of growing, and implanting, a new tooth would be lower than a conventional dental crown or implant.

I would love to be wrong. I would love to see the growth of spare parts reach mainstream use. But, I still believe their use will be artificially restricted, because of the cost of the skilled professionals involved and availability of proven alternatives.
It's called the birthday paradox :)
4960 of 10000 4-digit numbers contain at least one duplicate. Also, the probability of getting a number that has an unusual property is, counterintuitively, as an old math joke states, 1.
Right, and about a quarter contain the same digit at least twice in a row, which may be the "double digit" the grandparent referred to.

$ pins() { seq -f '%04.0f' 0 9999; }
$ pins | egrep -c '(.)\1'
2710
$ pins | egrep -c '(.).*\1'
4960
$
And now we have science which indicates the bet might have been incorrect so we should reevaluate the bet.
> Don't sell cheap. Sell authentic, sell natural, sell one-of-a-kind, sell meaning, sell status, sell a story, etc.

I have been thinking recently of an anniversary gift that would represent my personality. I'd like to get a ring of iridium. It's one of the most noble metals (platinum group), being the most corrosion resistant of all. It's very lustrous, with a dark gray color. It's very hard, thus scratch resistant. And it comes from SPACE!
> Sync is a fundamentally broken.

It's for this reason I've been keeping my eye on Rich Hickey's Datomic. It's not open source or free, but the idea of immutable data (everything is attached to a timestamp--yes, everything), seems intriguing.
Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment of Colon Cancer
Early on with kindles before they had the rest of world kindle store you had to buy from the US store (As an early international kindle buyer I had a US account)

I migrated to the UK store as some books I wanted were in the UK store but not the US. So far I've not regretted this (some books are earlier in the US but some are earlier in the UK) I'm pretty sure you can migrate back but last time I looked I needed US address (easy as my sister lives in CT) and it wasn't obvious if my lack of US credit card would cause me problems later (since credit card auth checks often use addresses).
1/3 of mine have duplicated digits.
Worth re-stating that they still had a severe outage due to other speculative corrective measures they took.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-what-todays-network-o...

Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had
Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly
aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while
battling a determined DDoS attacker

Kudos for documenting what you did and what worked.
I'm curious about the observed PPS rate. 65 Gb/s is annoyingly large, but network interfaces generally hit pps limits first.
The bandwidth graph in this post and post mortem entry is quite interesting. A lot of incoming bytes from customer origins. I'd guess the system cache hit ratio is only 60-70% at peak, dropping to maybe 20-30% during trough. From that I would assume the cache width is quite small, maybe 8-12 hours LRU?
I could be misreading that if the average object size is closer to 5kb than 50kb, or if a large number of customers are using it a proxy only fashion.
I Know WHY | Scienceray
Just a reminder that since there's actual power at stake here (votes) it takes extra work to write a quality comment on this kind of article. The difficulty is equivalent to trying to have a discussion where some unknown but real amount of money will go to the political party whose policies are closest to those advocated in the top rated comments. This makes it genuinely hard to think clearly on this kind of topic.

Because of this it's extra important to be non-partisan, which is hard. Try it though, it's a fun exercise!

My comments: I strongly agree with one of the conclusions of the article, that we should be "humble about taxes as a tool for growing the economy." However, I'm suspicious about their reasoning. I'm not a statistician, but doesn't a sample size of one seem a little . . . low to anyone else? It seems fairly likely to me that if you examined more situations, you would find that taxes are generally not a tool for growing the economy, are sometimes beneficial, and are sometimes strongly detrimental.

For instance, say you're running a city-state in East Asia. Given that you're competing against Hong Kong and Singapore, I'd guess that low taxes would be essential to economic growth. On the other hand, say you find yourself in charge of Somalia now, or Poland in 1938. I don't know about you, but personally I'd really be digging the infrastructure/tanks respectively.

This makes me pessimistic that accurate conclusions can be drawn from a study like this. For instance, say you're rich in 1960s America but you don't like the high taxes. Where else would you go? Now there are lots more options.
What happens when someone buys one in the real dns and someone else is using it in your parallel dns? Who really owns it?
> If you force people to jailbreak or hardware mod their equipment it drops the rate dramatically.

this is a very key quote - it indeed drops the rate of piracy. But does it increase the profits earned correspondingly? that is, did the anti-piracy measures contribute positively to profit?

I am unsure what the case is in reality, since its so hard to compare. Most pirate's intuition is that anti-piracy measures don't increase the profits (or unit sold, so as not to complicate currency+accounting issues). Companies that use anti-piracy measures seem to think the exact opposite.
This is perhaps the best false promise corp-speak I've heard in relation to an exploit:

> any word on supporting longer passwords eventually?

> Nothing as of right now but it's something we may definitely look into in the future. Thanks, Shane.

"May definitely"?
I believe you are referring to the nonlocal keyword, which means that unlike the regular case (assignment binds as locally as possible), assignment will bind where the name is bound now. (There's a third case for globals, but let's not talk about those.)
The title is wrong and very misleading. There is no single mention of "bank" in the linked post. Hell, it even says that it was collected from random password leaks. It says

Given that users have a free choice for their password, ifusers select a four digit password to their online account, it’s not a stretch to use this as a proxy for four digit PIN codes.

but I highly disagree with that extrapolation.
One person accessing data from "origin" is faster then getting it from the "cdn" but the cacheing lets you leverage bandwidth. Instead of building 100gbps of capacity I can instead build a origin server with 5gbps of capacity and let the CDN do the heavy lifting.

If every user where to go around the cdn then the site would break.
Stop trying to disrupt and start innovating
Those were before most of the industry standardized on Micro-USB (2010 timeframe).