skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a joint patent, if they can agree to cooperate.

Like naughty children, either you share nicely or nobody's having any cake!

:)
I think programmers do in fact create some jobs. Programmers are really self-replicating entities. Think about it, every time you start a project you create a burden of maintenance. For yourself, which means you can't tackle as much work as you could before, work which will go the way of another programmer; or for the lucky dude who will end up maintaining your work. Of course, the project can end up abandonned, but in that case nothing is destroyed either.

The more we create complex systems, the more we need people to grease the cogs at all levels, people to oversee them, people which have non-local view (or even a global view, as far as it is possible) of the system, etc...
http://resinternationalgroup.com/ - Looks to have a live operator that you can talk to and ask questions as well?
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Show HN: Push changes from Chrome Dev Tools directly to GitHub.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2176246

There, opposite results. Feel free to criticize them.
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You need more rigorous inductive reasoning, and randomized trials

This is usually impossible in social science research studying real-world phenomena that can't be reproduced in the laboratory. It's a cargo cult attitude to think all science must look like an FDA drug application. Part of science is making do with the information you can collect.
I believe it. All it takes is one higher up executive to pick a launch date and mandate that it happens, damn the torpedoes. This says nothing about the competence of the engineers and their managers in the trenches.

I mean, you could question their willingness to work at the company. But, working on the latest sim city sounds like a fun project and people like paychecks.
Seeing as the two rip-offs are seemingly the same 'service' and yet have very different addresses, I suspect the addresses are fake.
Poor sound quality mainly - solved by using a headset.
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One thing you'll notice about these non-tech solo-founder businesses you mentioned is they all have what you'd call a 'right hand man' - equity owning or not, these people are key to success and delegation. My fathers contracting company has had the same 'right hand man' since 1979.
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Your comment is pretty dismissive, without any actual content, apart from "trust me, I'm older, I know better". Perhaps you could back it by some actual arguments in favour of your stance, just like the person you were replying to did?
tl;dr

It's difficult, not impossible, to be accepted to a startup accelerator if you're a solo founder.

wtads [What The Article Didn't Say]

* Startups can't make it without an accelerator
* Solo founders can't run successful startups
Well said, sir. The only thing I'd add is that few people/companies want to carry the risk of paying the fixed sum for 36 months.

If this is not an issue, then your own equipment is definitely a better way to go.
You mean their RSS feeds? They only provide the newest/top apps.
There is something fishy here.

The Secure Broker Online company is not registered with Companies House in the UK.

The Kensington Gardens Square street address is that of a hotel and the CA address looks fake too from StreetView.

I would guess somebody's nicked your design to create a fake portfolio for a CV, or it's being used for fraud.
The truth of the conclusions, and the level of rigor in arriving at them would be unaffected by whether or not people would be pointing them out, or looking for issues with the paper.
It appears you're right. The address above is actually the Phoenix Hotel.
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There'll be a booth on every street corner, just like phone boxes. Just swipe your phone to pay, then design a new look, or choose from a list of 'looks you might like'. Minutes later you'll be a new person...
Some of the things he said made sense though. Basically, if this guy wanted such rigid requirements, he should have stuck with a high-end custom publishing house. O'Reilly has never tried to make its name synonymous with a quality publishing house; they are known because they gave a voice to smart people in the tech world. Since then, it has expanded, mostly because techs no longer buy books in print as much as they did, and because to be profitable in a down market, you have to cut corners. The problem that plagued this author is that he associated the O'Reilly name with "high design quality" and that just isn't true. O'Reilly should be used when you want a recognizable publisher for tech books and to be included in their collection. If you are smart, you will also use the standard cover with an animal on it, such as a chinchilla.
I'd stop worrying about it and concentrated your energies elsewhere. By thinking about stuff like this you're focussing less on your own product, which is the important thing. If people are copying you, then you're most likely ahead of the competition anyway.
Why didn't you contract coding out (possibly you did)?
Right now (checks the news) this is technically false.
I'll add that if they're a legitimate site they'll be mortified but if they're an illegitimate site, they'll quickly move to open up shop somewhere else.

That said, if they're costing you money because of your sentry issues or causing you support issues that you can document, you have just cause for a lot of actions.
It appears the phone number they use is also the number for the Phoenix Hotel that uses that address.
It's actually widely used for division, but only in some contexts. (It signifies a ratio, eg. "3:2 odds".)
You are incorrect. Trade Secret laws and prior continuous use protect SpaceX very well if someone were to swoop in and patent a technology they use.

It wouldn't necessarily prevent a patent from being obtained, but it would protect SpaceX from being found in violation. I know this from first hand experience.
It's what permits those two lines to be essentially irreducibly perfect in describing "the same" that fascinates me. Any 'samer' and they would converge and simply be -.

The opposite of something. It's only when we can separate nothing, that we can begin to describe something.

(And is the universe the mathematical manifestation of everything that isn't nothing?) /stoner
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You can prevent hotlinking of your JS and CSS files using your server config (for instance, in .htaccess on Apache). That will make it harder but it won't stop them copying the files locally. Lots of tutorials to prevent this are a quick Google away. You could even serve up an alternate CSS file for offenders that warns them from hotlinking your resources by prepending something to the body tag that is styled like a massive warning box and hiding everything else.
Lawyers benefit. It'll be cheaper to extort. You don't have to be afraid that someone else comes and proves that he invented this first. Owning a patent becomes almost risk free goldmine.

Also more this will lead to more patents because you have to patent to avoid someone else patenting your stuff bit later and extorting money from you.

Also more patents means more cannon fodder for lawyers for use in future extortions.
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If people download something (a movie) for free, they'll also pay for it? How does that make more sense?
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I notice they're using eBay, AutoTrader and Gumtree logos. Don't know about the other two, but have known AutoTrader come down like a ton of bricks on muppets who abuse their brand - dob 'em in!

(Although if they are as shady as they look, there may not be an entity to come down like a ton of bricks on - this looks like fraud to me)
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That's exactly what short selling stock is: you borrow it from someone and sell it, and return it to them later by buying it for (hopefully) cheaper. To sell short without borrowing is called 'naked' short selling, and it's not allowed on US equity exchanges.
The Hindus, like the Greeks, usually had no mark for addition, except that “yu” was used in the Bakhshali manuscript Arithmetic (which probably dates to the third or fourth century).

That's interesting. The Silk Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road) was in full swing at that time. This is pure guesswork, but multiple classical Chinese characters now pronounced yu (予,与,餘,逾,與) meant something close to addition. I wonder if there's a link?

There were a great many languages in operation there, and the Chinese were primarily interested in trade. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were a regional patois language of business utilizing Chinese idiom that the subcontinent and others were able to borrow from.

Likewise, the borrowing may have gone in the other direction.

Note that some of the above symbols are not so dissimilar from the + symbol, allowing some minor scope for simplification.

On further investigation, http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PrintHT/Bakhshali_manusc... claims the Bakshali manuscript yu was "for yuta" (apparently Sanskrit/Devanagari: युत). Apparently yu is a well recognized word root meaning "to mix" or "(equipped) with" within Sanskrit, yuta being some kind of derived or more expanded/standalone form. (Sources: http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/sarasvati/dictionary/9... http://vedabase.net/y/yuta http://dictionary.tamilcube.com/sanskrit-dictionary.aspx?ter... http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/sanskrit_dictionar...)

That yu is apparently the same Sanskrit / proto Indo-European root as yoga, or even the far-western-Barbarian modern derivation in English, yoke. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yoke https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_Proto-Indo-E...

Hrrm... there must be something published on this already. Anyone with academic library access? :) I'm up in the Himalayan foothills, hehehe.
A bit of a misleading title. Ebay is questioning whether an big established, household brand like them still need to pay ads in Google search, because those users would come to them anyway.

In the same vein, google search ads probably have low value for facebook too.
Either today's tea was not strong enough, or you're answering the wrong person.
I wonder if Ebay, Autotrader and Gumtree might also be interested in throwing some weight behind this given how prominently their brands are featured on the landing page.
It's actually quite easy: Find their host and, if they're in the US, issue a DMCA notification:

$ dig resinternationalgroup.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:
resinternationalgroup.com. 18788 IN	A 66.206.15.100

$ dig -x 66.206.15.100

;; ANSWER SECTION:
100.15.206.66.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN PTR cpanel.siteplot.com.

Send the email over to support@siteplot.com. If that doesn't work, go up to their datacenter:

$ whois 66.206.15.100

...
OrgAbuseHandle: NETWO5887-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Network Admin
OrgAbusePhone: +1-509-209-8000
OrgAbuseEmail: network@cyber-world.com
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NETWO5887-ARIN
...

Email it over to network@cyber-world.com or support@cyber-world.com.

Here's a good template from Scribd: http://support.scribd.com/entries/22980-DMCA-copyright-infri...
Well yeah. You can do all sorts of tricks from TCP/IP hacks to streamline HTTP requests through to disabling queuing entirely. But my point is you cannot entirely prevent your site from saturation without adding extra servers to your web farm (and more so, that siavosh's method of taking servers out of service has the inverse effect of what he was trying to achieve).

Thus all you can do is slow the escalation in the hope that the traffic peaks before your resources buckle.

The only method I'd found that is "guaranteed" to prevent such outages is the use of sorry pages (ie a static page stating "We're experiencing high volumes" which users are directed too if the dynamic page connections are maxed out). However even that is just essentially a prettier version of a page time out - and I mean this in terms of usability rather than technicality. ie the site is still unavailable, but you're killing the connection in a user friendly way rather than allowing connections to stack or just flat out disallowing "> n" active TCP/IP connections.
More brand abuse here: http://secure-broker-online.eu/company

The FSA, RBS and Wells Fargo might want to be aware of this, too.
Agreed, but it is still an implementation issue, because one can eventually discover ways to optimize such cases without changing the language.
Callback hell is a design choice.
>because they ought to be able to get by honestly.

You must be joking. I would have a hard time believing anyone at the top got there honestly. I'm sure it happens but it must be vanishingly rare. Take Lance Armstrong: I doubt he set out to be a cheater, but when everyone else is doping the only way to compete is to dope yourself.
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The other comments already indicate it's a fake, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. I myself would have some fun with the Javascript files that they're hotlinking; have it break the website or do something funny (cornify). They have no reason to complain. And I'd ask them if they could stop copying my website (perhaps propose a reasonable time, like a month, but do nothing afterwards). Then I'd let it be.
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I've heard that almost the entire flight can be/is automated now, including the landing and that most commercial pilots have to land the planes by hand just so they can keep their skills up. But I doubt the salary of pilots is really such a significant cost for airlines compared to their other expenses, otherwise we'd probably be seeing a push for autonomous aircraft.

Also: think of how much the TSA would love autonomous aircraft, you never need to worry about them being hijacked because they'll only go where the computer tells them too.
While those are good, they are obviously in the 'Pro' camp on all those things.

For instance the entry on chargebacks basically just says "chargebacks are bad and you need to be careful who you send money to", neglecting to mention that the very point of chargebacks is to enable trusted commerce between parties with no prior trust relationship. The Web-of-Trust is not really a good solution to this as it keeps new players out of the game.
Why I build coding epiphany only to share free quality articles?
Just add this to your JavaScript onload (and replace "yourdomain", of course):

if(window.location.origin.indexOf("yourdomain.com")<0){
window.location.href = "http://yourdomain.com";
};
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Ironically, Google has been pushing brands way up in search for 4-5 years now, and it may come back to bite them. Many said it was due to brands being more profitable for Google, but long term it builds brands to the point of users bypassing Google. Ah the challenges of being both an 'impartial' judge of content and the world's largest ad engine.

Another thing is the price, it has skyrocketed lately. What may have made sense at $0.40 a click, no longer does at $2 a click.
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It's easy to hand wave about "new business models" without being specific. If you know of a better way to create a profitable media business, why not go out and eat the incumbents' lunch?
>What is the difference between instinct and social norms?

Millions of years of natural selection. Social norms are ephemeral, while instinct is backed up by genetic support.

However, lots of stuff in our lives are a mix of both, so the answer is: let's study feral children!
> The only place I've ever seen × or ÷ being used in arithmetics was primary school. No idea why they use them.

Perhaps because the other prominent use is on the buttons of every single calculator in the world.
The iPad app is fully native, just like all our other apps. Hacking together a WebView app that is the same across platforms would have taken less effort but the end result would have been mediocre at best.

I think actually that at this point Trello has much more Obj-C, Java and C# than CoffeeScript.
Disincentivizing air travel? Do we have a viable alternative to get me from New York to London in less than 5 days?
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In a first step you can have a descriptive branch name for your default branch and if you feel you need to go further you can rename your repository.

Isn't this enough?

For really popular forks you can often see that in the members tab many sub forks have forked off them. This is a good hint for a project that has left the original repository behind.
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that does not seem so realistic though :D
We discussed this article in the office and among other things we found that even today the notation for division (when calculating it by hand) varies wildly:

In Czech Republic we would write

453: 12 = 37.75

In Netherlands:

12/453\37.75

In Russia:

453 | 12
| 37.75

all of them are listed on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division
I'd really love an answer to this too. Especially if you've only got small amounts to invest.

What exactly does the management fee buy you?
The next logical question is, "Where did × and ÷ originate?" From there, I've always wondered how multiplication migrated from "×" to "∗"? And recently, I've wondered if we will migrate "-" to something else? (This last derives from having to annotate a range of numbers including positive and negative. When "-" is used for both range and negative, it causes confusion.)

p.s. I tried to post this to the original poster's blog, but was told "...your comment seems a bit spammy." Really? I'd say their blogger spam settings a more than a bit off.
How can the interpreter know, at bytecode compilation time, that x is bound to an int? Surely it generates two code paths, one for the "common case" and another for when x is a general object with an __add__ method?
Chinese write it as 加, if you start making the strokes you get a + in the upper left. Consider this is over 6000 years old, probably the origin. My theory.

Edit (more evidence): "The plus symbol as an abbreviation for the Latin et, though appearing with the downward stroke not quite vertical, was found in a manuscript dated 1417 (Cajori)."

There is an assumption here that it's an abbreviation for the Latin et. But the downward stroke can be seen in the Chinese word.
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What's wrong with using SQL in your program? As long as your database layer is able to perform parameter substitutions to avoid SQL injection, this is a pretty efficient way to get stuff out of the database (and only the stuff you want). Why would using an ORM be a 'requirement' for OO-oriented languages?
Kind of funny, just yesterday someone was having a moan about the difficulty of transferring ANI images from one region to another (and the work-around they have deployed, using the Amazon API and a EC2 instance).

Guess this is good news for them. I'm surprised it took this long for something as core as AMIs across different availability zones to happen. I guess there wasn't a lot of money in it.
But that is my point, if used correctly, the abstraction just makes it easier to do what you want to do quickly. Consider, math is basically abstracting away the tedious nature of some physical process. I mean, if you know it takes 2 eggs to make 4 waffles, and want to make 82 waffles, the abstraction of math makes this much quicker than just doing it to determine how many eggs you need.

Basically, I object to the idea that abstractions slow you down by their nature. I agree that poor or unnecessary ones do so.
Expect the big corporations to file even bigger swaths of patents now.
Salaries are not significant for bus drivers, but would be significant for taxi cab drivers. Automated small planes could really revolutionize the sector, especially if we could figure out how to make them fuel efficient and even electric.
...unless they copied the JS files instead of linking to them directly, of course. Note to self: add remote self-destruct function within any JS I ship.
mmh, I wonder about plastic leaking pseudo-hormones to the capillaries surrounding the brain, or simply about to lean for several hours in a beach over hot sun if you have a "plastic roof"...

The question is what 3d-printed material I suppose... an interesting idea in any case
Looks like it. Antonov An-124.
I could imagine a user using Google just to circumvent the category hierarchy of a site like Ebay, e.g. searching for "Ebay washing machines". If this user clicks an ad on the result page, it is super painful for Ebay.
OT, but I'd like to suggest an improvement in your FAQ:

> Who is GoCardless for?

> Anyone can use GoCardless...

As far as I can tell from the rest of the website, you are a UK startup, and your service is useless to Taifusi in Samoa or Raj in Bangladesh.
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I have an uncomfortable memory of my 1st grade teacher showing this to us and me refusing to go along with what I insisted was an irrational superstition. I didn't understand the context or what her old age meant.

Similarly, I was shocked as a kid when I visited the US and saw apartment buildings skip the 13th floor numbering.

People are weird.
if it became common currency we'd end up with even more extreme division of wealth than we see now

I disagree. Unless BTC becomes the only common currency, you'd end up with more distributed wealth, since the holders of BTC aren't exactly the biggest holders of USD or EUR.

By the way, how does the drop in prices relative to BTC kill lending?

And tech devices are cheaper every year, from that argument, shouldn't it mean there's a great incentive not to buy them? By that logic, we should see a terrible market, with very few buyers.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/boudreaux_on_mo.htm...
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Here's a scripted solution to do apparently the same thing that I ran across earlier this week: https://bitbucket.org/edowd/gentoo_bootstrap/src/045c4dbdb9c...
Very good poiny! I thought I had alluded to this in my original comment but I guess I removed before posting.

I know the browser UI better than I know your app's UI. I know how copy/paste works. I know what enter will do in the context of a form. I know how to open things in new tabs, or go into incognito mode. Shit I even know how to inspect the client-side code of your mobile app. And all the other things that I know because it's standard behaviour across browsers.
Time to slap in in VirtualBox tonight and start to tinker with it.
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Does this actually work? Sounds very suspicious. I can't test, I don't have an iPhone.
It may have to do with search boxes being built in browsers already. Type and search, instead of going to ebay and then type-search. eBay may be bookmarked but it's still not as easy to pull up as searching from a browser's window.