skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thumbtack has an open-source split testing calculator which makes it very easy to see whether or not results like these are significant or not:

http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/#Sunday=47%2C389&Tues...

If we treat "Sunday" as the baseline and use "votes" as the count of a successful email, it appears that you can say with a somewhat high degree of confidence that Sunday is better than Saturday, but nothing else.
Getting kids interested in programming is a good idea. But, this should be done early and in stages. Little kids should do something simple like Logo (maybe with a 3D printer for fun).
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Amazon has enough problems with various governments related how to pay their taxes. I think supporting a dubious currency like Bitcoin is last in their priority list.
There has always been awareness of white collar crime, especially by those who worked on Wall Street.

Look at the Google ngram that I linked to. In 1997, when you were 13 or so (you mentioned that you were 20 in 2004), the phrase "white collar crime" was at a relative low. Since then, the phrase "white collar crime" has grown in popularity in tandem with your maturation, which would account for your perception that the media is become more aware of it. However, the latest data available show that it is still not as popular is it was in 1996.

It may be the case that people are using the term "white collar crime" increasingly to refer to phenomenon which they used to just call "fraud". Another Google ngram search [1] shows that "fraud" is orders of magnitude more popular than "white collar crime".

There are plenty of other subjects where the popularity of equivalent nouns varies. For example, what do you call the people who fight wars? Soldiers? Troops? Warriors? [2].

[1] http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=white+collar+cr...

[2] http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=soldiers%2Ctroo...
Interesting stats, but I'd love to see this with a bigger sample size, and with thursdays and fridays included!
| Do you think there is benefit in using stuff like
| SQLAlchemy or should I write just SQL files/queries?

If you're just in it for the learning, then maybe drop SQLAlchemy to get your hands dirty and learn; otherwise just use SQLAlchemy. If you're getting into really complex queries and optimizations you're going to have to resort to SQL anyways, even with SQLAlchemy. An ORM just allows you to abstract away most of the mundane SQL tasks.
What's your gasoline cost like though? Similarly expensive I'd wager? These number have to be compared together to be worth a damn. Though yes the numbers make more sense in areas with lower per KWh costs. Cars barely make sense in NYC to begin with it seems though, who's that much of a masochist.
I have a gist that I update frequently https://gist.github.com/dideler/1718200. It needs some cleaning up though.
Isn't there a statistic somewhere about facebook, that people go there the most on wednesday 17h?
I do not know what other platform you use for your site but check out this:

http://frug.github.com/AJAX-Chat/
Not necessarily. The issue is that usually there is no roadmap beyond:

1. Explosive Growth

2. ???

3. Profit!
Not exactly the same mistake but this is even worse: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...
What would be interesting about it?
Source: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/you-doom-us-all-to-inhuman-t...
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Right. They're saying they'd like to have them all shipped by June. After crunching the numbers I can't see how the difficulty level will go up that hard within 3 months, but who knows? I'm totally into the idea of helping the cause of cyber security, I'm just broke. Right now these machines theoretically have a ~1 week ROI. But if this takes 3 months to get here, and doesn't maintain a less than 3 week ROI...

I just wanted to poll the crowd and see if anyone else has been doing this math and if they have any insight.
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Anyone has something like for EMACS? I've been through the tutorial already but I'm looking for new ways to learn it.
except chrome was really faster than Firefox when it came out. i think most early adopters will figure out if Google was lying about it being faster.
I don't know why you think I said something derogatory or even controversial. I mean, developers might have passion for programming, but sharepoint? There are many jobs out there whose domains are overtly uninteresting to many of us, but they still need to be done and the work itself can be interesting; but companies will still need to pony up a bit more money in a competitive market to get us in the door.

Now game developers wants to be game developers. They don't need much extra incentive. Its like acting in LA or NYC; it takes talent and training, and you can get paid for it, but maybe not as much as being a claims adjuster. Are those actors being exploited or is it just a supply and demand thing? Now, in contrast, how many kids dream of being claims adjusters?
When done well, critical video game reviews are extremely entertaining. Zero Punctuation, for instance.
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This sounds like a dispute from a failed exit being aired out online. In particular, the unilateral and evidence-free labelling of the offending party as an "organised crime group" smells of vindication (when my phone got hacked it was clearly terrorism, so I'm sympathetic).

If you find yourself in a similar situation contact your lawyer. You, as a stockholder, can sue. The courts are the best place to adjudicate this. Conditional upon advice from the law firm contact the SEC, the state financial regulators, e.g. DFS in New York, and the state DOJs. This is not to elicit enforcement action, simply to put a time-stamp on the complaint.

>The con artist would then “help” the company execute a Reverse Merger...[then dumped his] stock prematurely or used insider information to sell off. This ultimately caused the stock to crash and the public market to be stuck with the loss. Meanwhile you, the unknowing founder, probably end up in jail.

This is not evidence of pump and dump. There was a dump which may have violated lock-up terms, fair disclosure, or insider trading rules. But I don't see a pump, just a reverse merger and liquidation by an investor. The classic pump and dump involves acquiring a position in an illiquid stock, spreading false information to get investors to bid up its price, selling out of the position at a profit, and leaving the market to figure out it overvalued the stock.

Also, you will not go to jail. You can be incredibly stupid, down to hiring a chimpanzee chairman who moonlights as a special advisor to the board to take your company public via a reverse merger (he read about it on StockTwits) who liquidates his investment on the day the lock-up ends, thereby hosing every other stockholder, and still be well within the law, which punishes fraud, not naïveté.

>Here were a few reasons why it didn't get covered: ...b) Too difficult to prove

The threshold for the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, et al to report purported fraud isn't astronomical. They can claim first amendment protection and like to break this kind of information for short sellers.

>The international holding company was actually an organized crime group, with offices in Barbados and the Cayman islands committing fraud in the US.

This line set off alarms because I've experienced, first hand, how difficult it is to get information about a Cayman holding company or trust in person, let alone remotely, let alone before 2008.

>In order to silence the class action lawsuit from Texas, the fraud portfolio company ultimately filed for bankruptcy and settled with the investors.

If this is true, the class action settlement is illegal - you are not allowed to take payouts from a fraudulent scheme. Further, it is unlikely that the victims of a fraud would settle via a class action lawsuit (versus privately and bilaterally), let alone settle at all. The former deputy director of the CIA could probably manage a phone call to a DOJ.
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Wow, I had no idea about IPython Notebooks. Gonna have to proselytize to my friends using MATLAB, Stata, R, etc.
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It also crashes Chrome's current tab on OSX: http://imgur.com/vRn6Qid
I'd say the best 1st language would either be scheme or smalltalk.
We think it is just a calm great spot if you are full inside the development of your product and, like us, you do not need too many amenities, but rather to focus and take a nice walk/run along seaside from time to time. And San Francisco is literally 10 minutes bus, running 24/7. I wouldn't say it is the right place to settle down, but it's in our opinion an environment totally suitable for lean product bootstrap.
I buy much of my meat and eggs now from Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills. Selection is very limited, and their prices are 2x-4x the cost of similar items in a supermarket, but their farm is literally down the street from my house and their livestock is pastured and well cared for. Money doesn't grow on trees, I eat a lot less meat than I used to, but I find that I enjoy my meals a lot more now.
I've heard of them, but you think this commenter wasn't simply a troll? Could be so, but I question how useful it would be here. HN is pretty well known, but enough to have concerted campaigns in place?
Hi Bradley, this has been true for us as well, and this is exactly the spirit through which we are building CoffeeStrap!
firefox 18.0.2 on osx seems to survive...
Also interesting that this new game is called Destiny, and the word 'Destiny' is the last thing you see in the Marathon series (ie. when you complete Marathon Infinity).
I'll take a programmer with a deep understanding of anything over a programmer who cobbled together anything.
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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree completely, on the other, being a 'first language' has really hindered scheme in the minds of programmers. Many (ridiculously) think of it as a ridiculous teaching language they were forced to learn.
> I always thought that making an ASIC was prohibitively expensive except for the largest companies. How much does it really cost?

Full custom is still quite expensive.

But you can go the route I'm talking about (prototype on an FPGA, then get in on one of the standard runs at a chip fab via MOSIS or CMP or a similar service) for ~10,000 USD for a handful of chips.
I think impress.js is pretty cool.

http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/
Ask HN: Restrict users to log in to my site with LinkedIn credentials only?
My website is targeted at MBA students (can't go into much detail beyond this - sorry!). It's very much in the prototype stage as of now.

I'm trying to reduce friction in the sign-up process as much as possible, and would like my users to register painlessly. Given that I'm focusing on a specific niche, would it be a good idea to limit registration through their LinkedIn credentials?

I'm wondering if I will limit my "market" as a result of doing this, and if I should also allow users to log in with the Google/Twitter/Facebook credentials as well.
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Based on the recent horsemeat scandal, it appears there are a lot of "cheaters" when it comes to the EU meat supply. How is the ban enforced?
Doesn't crash Tweetbot or Safari.
Your perspective strikes me as lacking self-awareness. You critique another argument by arguing, essentially, that things are because they are.

It's far more valuable to try and question the assumptions we make, even if it's often fairly futile to do so.

Yes, culture has evolved to where it stands...You imply this means there's no room for improvement. What a sad perspective.

Consider that a first step to cultural change is the realization that things are the way they are for a reason, but that they are not set in stone. This is an important realization for people.
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>In terms of security in depth, VPN provides another layer. If someone gets your VPN credentials, all they've done is given themselves a new endpoint, not gained access to any of your stuff.

One strong layer is better than two weak ones. If you're willing to remember 20 characters, a 20 character ssh password is much safer against these brute force attacks than 10 character VPN password + 10 character ssh password.

(as for non-bruteforce attacks, if someone compromises the VPN software they now have access to your home box without needing a second attack, so it comes down to whether the VPN software is more or less likely than SSH to have bugs - and my impression is that the SSH codebase is possibly the most thoroughly audited in the world)

>VPN also protects web surfing, which ssh does not.

Non-https traffic is going to be unencrypted over the open internet anyway, so I see no harm in it being unencrypted on the cafe network. (And if you're worried about being under surveillance, routing all your traffic via your home internet connection makes that easier than using a variety of public access points).
This reminds me of the Roald Dahl short story The Great Automatic Grammatizator, which, although dated, examines the possible consequences of automatically generating literature.

I also think of the sci-fi short story Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson, which examines how perpetual copyright would negatively impact music (there are only so many novel melodies that are pleasant to listen to): http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
That 10% may not be accurate.

In any case, the EU actually only banned the use of antibiotics as growth promoters, but not as 'preventative medicine'. Furthermore, the level of reporting on actual EU antibiotic use is somewhat spotty - especially given the multinational nature of it all. At best, the ban on growth promotion resulted in an ~10% decrease in antibiotic use. The massive scale on which preventative antibiotic use is applied likely minimized any negative impacts the removal of growth promotion had on actual growth rates.

http://www.ciwf.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2011/a/ant...
You shouldn't ask HN for these kind of questions as this isn't your primary target demographic. Ask MBA students whether they have LinkedIn profiles (and actively using it) and whether they find it easier to use their LinkedIn credentials to log in.
One of the simplest ways I find to manage my work/life balanceis to deactivate incoming emails on my iPhone over weekends.

It would be nice if you could automate it, but removing the inbox on Friday night and reinstating it on Monday morning works like a charm.

Can be done with the flick of a switch in your mail settings in iOS. I am sure there is something similar on android.
It sounds to me like someone trying to get feedback from HN on his script. Is is believable? Sure. Would it make a good movie? Not in my opinion because there are actual stories with hard facts and names that are just as interesting, but more so because they actually happened.
“You can't cheat an honest man. He has to have larceny in his heart in the first place.” -- W.C. Fields

In the US, the investor is supposed to be the first line of defense against stock fraud schemes. Unfortunately, the laws were written to help out the lower and middle classes from unscrupulous stock scams, not the wealthy "sophisticated" investors.

SO here's a tip: if you get scammed, don't count on the government to help you. They've got bigger fish to fry. You need to do your own due diligence, get your own lawyers/accountants/etc to look things over, and verify every claim and every representation that someone makes to you. If anything is even a little bit off DONT INVEST.

I was approached to invest money in two separate projects but ultimately didn't because there wasn't any way to ensure that I was going to see a good use of the money. That's how it is: if your only connection to someone is the use of your money, you better make sure that you understand how and when you make money on the deal. Otherwise, you're as good as robbed.

Note that this applies to ALL INVESTMENTS. If the company goes under for good reasons or fraudulent ones, the result is the same. CAVEAT EMPTOR.
Weird, not for me. No crash with Chrome 24.0.1312.57 on OSX 10.6.8.
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For at least one application, the crash is in:

0 libvDSP.dylib	? + 117458
1 com.apple.CoreText	TRun::TRun(TRun const&, CFRange, TRun::SubrangingStyle) + 850
2 com.apple.CoreText	CTGlyphRun::CloneRange(CTRun const*, CFRange, TRun::SubrangingStyle) + 142
3 com.apple.CoreText	TLine::SetLevelRange(CFRange, unsigned char, bool) + 162
4 com.apple.CoreText	TLine::SetTrailingWhitespaceLevel(unsigned char) + 70
5 com.apple.CoreText	TRunReorder::ReorderRuns(TBidiLevelsProvider const&, TLine&) + 122
6 com.apple.CoreText	TTypesetter::FinishLineFill(TLine&, double, double) const + 142
7 com.apple.CoreText	CTTypesetterCreateLine + 131

I'm not familar enough with CoreText internals to guess what's going wrong, though. :)
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Have you considered (for the time being) moving to e.g. Tent (https://tent.io/) and/or Diaspora (https://joindiaspora.com/)? Of course the whole trouble is migrating your current implementation-dependant social circle (e.g. facebook friends), but I've seen people tweet their last messages along the lines of "I'm not staying in twitter for reasons X,Y; moving to Z (join me if you'd like [to follow me])"; my (very limited) exposure to these cases would seem to show that it might just work (to an extent / YMMV) for (at least) folks on twitter with significant amounts of followers.

In any case, I like Tent as they are developing / have developed a generic distributed social networking protocol (with some sample implementations etc.) [/old news]
No crash on Chromium with Arch Linux
Is this a mountain lion issue or does this affect lion and SL as well?
And unfollowing only solves the problem until someone in your stream retweets it.

So I retweeted it.
Interesting, in the past I worked on a music discovery tool with a similar interface.

I'm not sure this actually works in the app space though. I think what you're showing is apps similar to a starting point. But do I want more apps that are similar to the apps I already like? Or do I want a new app to do something that I don't already have a solution for? I suspect the latter is more important, possibly with the exception of games.

Nice work on the interface though. I think you could find another use for it. Maybe by showing a people who have app x also have app y may be a better model to go with rather than app similarity.
The offending tweet content:

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Edit: I've narrowed it down to the following byte sequence. I can't seem to remove any of the characters without it no longer crashing:

00000000 d9 88 d2 88 cd a5 cd a8 cd aa cd af 20 d2 88 d2 |............ ...|
00000010 88 d2 88 |...|
00000013

Hixie's unicode decoder says this is:

U+0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW character (&#x0648;)
U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
U+0365 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER I character (&#x0365;)
U+0368 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER C character (&#x0368;)
U+036A COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER H character (&#x036A;)
U+036F COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER X character (&#x036F;)
U+0020 SPACE character
U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
U+0488 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN character (&#x0488;)
Not seeing any crashes on 10.6.x ("Snow Lion") here.
VC-istan isn't "technology". It's cutting-edge marketing, and only as technological as it needs to be in order to not look foolish in 2013. It took me a few years to understand that, if only because the disinvestment of our society in R&D, academia, and anything with a focus longer than one quarter has reached such completion as to leave our society too imbecilic to have a square sense of what technology even is.

That doesn't mean a company can't be technological and VC-funded, but the "cool kids" sideshow isn't about true technology. It can't be. The VPs and Product Managers are all imbeciles and the engineers, while smart in an IQ-sense, are too steeped in bad practices to know anything. (The Founders are talented marketers but 80% are sociopaths.)

The VC-istan "It" crowd is not comprised of technologists, but of people who've found it advantageous to incorporate technological fetishism into their vapid marketing. The jokers in the in-crowd don't know anything, and the best technologists only tag along to their projects if they can get something out of it... and those sorts of managerial conditions (hands-off management, high autonomy, interesting projects and self-direction) don't tend to last for long.
Not for me either with the same version. It doesn't even render, but it doesn't crash.
The answer is simple. Read MMM and ERE. Save that big Silicon Valley paycheck and retire at 35 to spend the next 60 years doing whatever the fuck you want all day and laughing at the rats. That's what I'm doing. Already saved $125k in 1.5 years and just got a 20% raise. Should hit $1 million by 32 or so, move to a less costly area and freedom awaits!
I'm using 24.0.1312.57 on OSX 10.8.2. Perhaps it is a Lion/Mountain Lion thing.
Am I the only one who hardly sees any value in window managers? About 99% of the time, I'm wanting only one window visible at a time, with others quickly accessible via cmd-tab and cmd=`.
This looks neat. I'm going to have to play around with it soon. As of now I've been using SizeUp, which is way less configurable, but great at giving you that top/left/right/bottom (and corners) placement you may be looking for.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
How do you type this on a Mac?
It's not the same project. Bobby Kotick said a long time ago that the new Blizzard project is an original IP, and he has also talked about having two separate projects.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/blizzard-mmo-project/1226787p1.html
I use SizeUp for window management. Not perfect, but for most tasks I've found it more than good enough.

Will be giving Slate a trial period to see if I like it more.

(sizeup: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/)
Fiona Apple said it best :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLwYrPbuts
Outside of the UK, almost no one makes the distinction between 'continental' Europe and those islands on the coast of France.

Also, that water between England and France? Most of the world refers to it as 'the Channel', while the British tend to refer to it as 'the Atlantic'. Both are correct, of course, but it does show how significant the British find that 4 mile wide gap.
Back in the Dark Ages, before OS X was truly usable, I rocked ion on my FreeBSD machine and MachTEN (to run Emacs) on my Macs. This experience conditioned me to not fight the platform -- slate, as nice as it looks, seems to me a great deal like fighting the platform. Is it?
In my experience tortoise does not refresh its view as changes are made, so if you forget to push the refresh button, you may checkin too few files. Subjectively, tortoise also feels clunky compared to ST.

I would also much prefer to use the same client on Windows and Mac, as I'm using both.
Any reason you chose RedMine over ChiliProject (https://www.chiliproject.org/)?

Also, I'd support any effort to collate good self-hosted options for startups.