skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of stuff is quite expensive.

Envelope inserters of any decent quality start at about $40k and work their way up. And those small ones will do DLX only.

The biggest issue with inserters though is volume. Unless you are running them pretty much every day, they tend to break down. It sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but a lot of the rollers, etc all push down on each other and unless they are moved regularly, the develop square spots and then have difficulty picking up/moving paper.

As far as I'm aware, there is no integrated printer/inserter available. The best you can find is printers with inline z-folders (fold A4 in 3 to DL).

You wouldn't really want an inline solution anyway because a commercial folder/inserter can process much faster than most sub-$1m printers can print.
I respectfully disagree regarding Fogbugz vs. GitHub issues.

I used FogBugz for about 6 years in a major client project (a successful SaaS product). We used FogCreek's hosted solution and were pretty heavy users: different projects, milestones, feature requests, user communication, etc. However, we were unhappy with FogBugz. The UI always felt clunky and slow to navigate, it felt like we were battling FB rather than getting help from it. In particular, milestone / release management and issue grouping were painful.

Then late last year we moved our repos to GH, and decided to look for another issue management system. We evaluated several: JIRA sucked hard imho, JetBrains YouTrack was my favorite full-featured product.

But then we decided to give GH issue management a try. It is minimalist and surely lacked some features, but hey, if it could handle our needs, the simplicity would be a huge plus.

A few months later, _everyone_ in the team is thrilled: devs, testers, support personnel. Using milestones and labels we have been able to manage more people and more work on GH (we're growing) with less hassle. It feels much friendlier than FogBugz. Now whenever I create / solve / assign / organize issues, I feel happy, whereas before it was a dreaded chore.

YMMV of course, but I wanted to give my 2c since I do have a lot of experience with both issue managers.
I suspect they also can / will be keeping track of the data they mine from all of your incoming mail.. Bills, invoices, preferences, etc. just like Gmail, but for your snail mail - makes more sense that it could work with a lower price point - but still seems awfully cheap.
How to hijack the Visual Studio build process
You paid income tax on the money used to pay for the car. By donating the residual value you are recovering part of the income tax that you already paid.
But who has truly RESTful objectives in mind? Are there any widely used REST APIs that truly adhere? I acknowledge that there may be. It's just the ones I come across always make significant concessions. Sometimes people tell me that "the web as a whole" or RSS are examples, but those seem too fundamentally different from any API I might create.
Very interesting. I'd like to see how this applies in other countries, particularly smaller ones. For example, where I'm from most people wouldn't commute more than 60 mins for a job. However it is possible to commute from one side of the country to a job at the other side in under 3 hours. I would presume therefore that the loss of mobility caused by home ownership wouldn't affect the labour market as much in smaller countries.
I might be wrong, but I don't think those are individual planets. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but all of those represent solar systems, and that means that each one has the possibility to have at least one planet orbiting it with conditions similar to Earth.

Yes, it's a pipe dream, but 150 years ago, so was a metal vehicle (of weight ranging from 50 pounds to hundreds of tons) that can go 100 MPH by filling it up with oil/coal/hydrogen/corn juice/electricity, or bombs that can go to the other side of the planet and detonate with a force destructive enough to melt large cities instantly.

Instant learning requires pretty abstract thinking but it's being done today.

We're just beginning to under the basics of quantum physics, who knows what possibilities that field will open up.

Nanobots and terminator style machines are pretty close to being reality.

Artificial intelligence (and whatever awesome abilities come with that) is almost a reality.

Our current and incomplete understanding of physics (and quantum physics) only SUGGEST that we absolutely can't jump between stars with ease, so it might not be 100% a pipe-dream.
Yeah, but they don't offer free private repos. The only reason I use GitHub now is to host my open source projects. My company and personal stuff is on BitBucket.
You say that using the word "coercion" is repugnant, and then quote a definition that perfectly fits taxation? You've got some nerve. You can see it however you want, but if you don't pay taxes, someone will come and physically haul you off to jail whether you like it or not, someone who is prepared to escalate to deadly force. Sure sounds like coercion to me.

Taxation might make sense as an "entrance fee" if someone asked you whether you wanted to participate, and gave you an honest chance to say no, but we don't really have that. You usually can't even just hide out on your land and not interact with anyone except dealing with trespassers, because of property tax, a form of coercion I find particularly repugnant.

Yes, language matters, which is why "coercion" is the perfect word for taxation.
What historical studies show is that freeloading works. Economies or companies who are capable and willing to violate IP protections can catch up to more established economies or companies by copying their innovations. It helped the U.S. catch and pass the European powers, and it is helping China catch the U.S. today.

But once you max out the return from copying existing innovations, the only way to keep growing is to generate your own innovation. Then you want to protect those innovations. So the U.S., now one of the most innovative economies in the world, has strong IP laws and fights to protect them.

It's true: killing patents would most likely cause an immediate economic burst in the U.S. It would basically be a reduction in cost for many companies, who would realize a benefit in increased profits.

But over time, without patents, there would be reduced incentive to invest in capital-intensive innovations. That is why, despite the studies you cite, every major developed nation has strong protections for IP today. It is why major innovations like broadband, pharmaceuticals, electronics, software, etc. come out of nations with strong IP protections, not nations with weak IP protections
It's not that social games is a failing business model - although I can see it dying out - but that it's a failing business model for Zynga. The barrier to entries is so low, that the market which used to be dominated by Zynga is now getting divided up among a million developers, including Supercell.
Ways to fix whats going to make this fail:

1. Setup a centralized warehouse, where I can forward my mail to. Just send the mail to y'all instead of you coming to get it at my mailbox. Also, makes it available to a wider customer base. That's just silly easy.

2. Make all of the information in my account downloadable for back-up and privacy control reasons. Makes me, the customer, feel more secure and trusting.

3. Up your monthly to $10 or even $14, $4.99 says you're not serious about sticking around long. Especially when you combine that price with the amount of overhead you have taken on. I'd buy it in a heart beat at $10 with you centralizing your workforce to an inexpensive one-location solution.

This is a great idea, just needs efficiency implemented more.

Edit: Just fixed a couple things.
Build your own Brain-Controlled RC Helicopter
Meteor's server side rendering is a hack that uses PhantomJS and is primarily for googlebot
That seems too pat an explanation; I've sen a lot of very nice red rooms, and in other cultures it has more positive associations than in the Anglosphere. Also, how you react to color depends on the saturation as well as the hue.

In any case, this doesn't answer the question of why more people don't (or historically didn't) paint the outside of their houses red.
I haven't seen the video, but here's the article:

http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Turkish police started arresting people for tweeting about the protests
I should have clarified that what I said holds for national or state elections.
Do you put this issue in the same level as the ones github has had?
Zynga to Shutter Offices in New York, Dallas, LA
the actual quote was

>The vast majority of software projects never make it far enough for the name to matter. You don't know which category your project will end up in when you start it.

The "categories" are:

1) Projects where the name will matter because the project is successful

and

2) Projects where the name won't matter because the project dies before reaching critical mass.

EDIT: apologies, this was supposed to be a reply to examancer
Try painting your bedroom (B Moore) Admiral blue. I'm not sure 4 coats is enough, even with the dark primer.
Eh, maybe but I doubt it, they could have used multiple coats of whatever color they liked. But farmers might want to draw attention to their barn and the best way to do that is paint it red so it clashes with the green all around it because they're polar opposites on a color wheel. Half mile away you'd see the red barn but if it were yellow or blue, maybe not.
As someone stated above, their ToS sugests that they intend to subsidize service though ads.
Ah I probably should have written that clearer --

I started off answering his question but then stopped going in that direction when I figured he could get full-stack experience (which was more what he seemed to be looking for), instead of writing C kernel code somewhere.

This... was not my clearest post
A few design related nags: The page has a 1px scroll for me, using Chrome on a 1920x1080 screen, no bookmark bar. Might want to make the site itself 20px smaller, give it some breathing room.

#2, the about page is serving full size photos, and PNGs at that. PNG is awful for photographs size-wise, and it would probably be wise to shrink the served images down to their rendered sizes.

Just some 2 cents that might help, otherwise disregard
I think by "category" he means successful / unsuccessful. As in, not knowing if the project will make it anywhere when first starting it. That's how I understood it at least...
I don't own a home, and don't advocate owning one for anyone who is younger and needs to move to find great employment, but a HUGE potential error jumped out at me right away.

Home ownership accelerates in markets which are more leveraged to housing. Take Florida for example. Many people who live there work in various real estate jobs, when prices start to rise, they rise much more rapidly by percentage, and they fall much more rapidly. If the majority of a state's high paying jobs are in real estate, more people will be jobless following boom and bust cycles. Additionally, more people will be getting raises, high commission checks etc. which leads to greater home ownership in those states.

Without knowing if the author of the paper took this in to account, the research is completely worthless. Cyclicality in finance is a constant major issue and should be examined not only systematically, but also by asset class, area etc.

Cyclicality usually explains a very great degree of issues with research.

[added] A second potential explanation is that the 3 best markets for jobs have the highest prices on houses which prevents people from buying. New York, San Fran, Boston. Obviously California would go against my previous explanation.
Nice post, Evan!
In the UK the seats are usually totally different (e.g. http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13886/wm/pd3295300.j... vs. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3566/3467484793_42379b7d56.jpg) - with the most noticeable aspect being that you will fit less first class seats into one train carriage, due to size.
I've been meaning to cross out the "synchronized" there. It's unnecessary since Queues are already threadsafe.
This is exactly what I meant, congratulations on discerning it haha, I got confused about what I wrote also.

But the point stands, those things will give him full stack experience while staying in web land
Indeed. I feel dumber for having wasted time of this clickbait.
> Why does the article refer to this as a tax loophole?

A "charitable donation" that mostly goes directly to lining the pockets of a for-profit entity shouldn't be tax deductible, but in this case it is deductible -- hence, a tax loophole.

In other words, charities getting into the side business of large-scale car sales to generate revenue bends the law in a direction its authors never intended [1]. In particular, the charities' for-profit partners in this side business end up with most of the revenue from an immediate liquidation of these tax-deductible donations -- and that outcome seems to go against the fundamental concept of tax-deductible charitable giving. This practice is apparently legal and lightly regulated, according to the article -- it's within the letter of the law. But it goes against the spirit of the law, which is that only donations to charities should be tax deductible.

[1] This is according to the article's idea of the law's authors' intent: That charities would use the donated cars for their own operations, or give them to the poor people they serve. Is this picture of the law's authors' intentions correct? That's another discussion entirely.
If you want your barn to stand out against a green field you paint it red because that's the complimentary color of green. If the field were yellow you'd paint it blue. Pretty simple explanation when you think about it, no need for astrophysics.
13. Provide everyone from marketing to sales to engineering with the same "standard" machine. And no, allowing the dev team to put in an extra stick of RAM doesn't cut it.
Which state was cherry-picked for this study?

Did they control for other influences on labour mobility such as working couples, children, pets, race/colour and car ownership?
PNG vs. WebP Image Formats
you experimented with appgratis, trademob, or who? curious to know who didn't work for you. if you don't mind sharing, was it a game, or what kind of app was it? thanks!
Though I'm not a singularitarian, I do think we are probably going to live an order of magnitude longer than our parents.

Given that, buying a house seems too... parochial.
Sure, but it still does it, no? I agree it's architecturally icky, but it gets the job done, I assume?
1) I'm not talking about stripping the budget willy-nilly but relaxing the risk-tolerance that goes into making the calculations for the reliability budget across the board. A trivial example from my own experience is in working on a Cubesat thermal system. There were a lot of trade offs that we had to make like whether to use cheap thermal tape or use some expensive quartz reflective panels or whether to just slap a heat sink on something or use a peltier cooler. Each trade off could drastically change the cost of the final build and the cost of R&D time and equipment. For a Cubesat, the added up differences wouldn't cover the cost of a second launch but I would expect there to be major trade offs to be made that wouldn't totally compromise the mission in larger projects.

2) I fully agree, and there are many missions that are just so important that we should strive for success on the first try (MSL, some extremely better telescope like NuStar, and probably the satellites in this article), but NASA's/ESA's budget is much bigger than just those missions and I would argue many of them could have afforded second launches without drastically compromising reliability (i.e. without becoming half reliable and half not as you say)
Uh, no. Sam is in London, England. Well, somewhere in the UK anyway.
My thought exactly. The whole thing strikes me as a case of: Have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. First with callbacks, and second with channels.
Older iPhones, iPads banned as agency says Apple infringed on Samsung patent
Can we please get rid of the mortgage tax deduction now?
Love reading Hemingway. Love concise code.
In the mythbusters episode where they tried that, Adam "died" the first time he attempted doing it that way. It worked after he gained experience escaping, but most people aren't going to have the training/ability to escape that way.

The best thing to do is to open the door as soon as it hits the water before the pressure is too great, or to break the window if you have the tools.
Those are benefits. A net benefit means it's more economically efficient than the alternative - which might be true for you, but isn't necessarily so.
Finally, Amazon Launches Marketplace in India to take on $400 bn Retail Market
> foofaraw

Ha! I never realized that was actually a word.
Using Reddit as a file sharing service (sort of)
By that logic, every US state could close its borders (if such a thing were possible) and cut down unemployment. Maybe the effect on unemployment from home ownership is smaller in small countries, but the fact that it's a small country has other, worse, effects on its economy.
The GitHub API is pretty damn close these days, and I can tell you that there's a very big company you've heard of with a two-digit person team working on a HAL-based hypermedia API right now. Twilio has been pretty good too.

There are lots of private APIs that operate this way; for example, much of Comcast's internal stuff is pure, hypermedia driven REST. But it's not open source, so you don't hear about it.

A YC-funded company, Balanced Payments, does an excellent job as well.

> those seem too fundamentally different from any API I might create.

Right! That's because you're primarily thinking of RPC styles, so of course it will seem foreign. Try this sentence on for size, from a different time period:

"But who has truly object oriented objectives in mind? Some people tell me that Smalltalk or C++ are examples, but those seem too fundamentally different from any code I might write."

That's not to say RPC is a bad thing: often times, it's just fine. But if you have the problems REST is designed to solve, REST will solve them much better.
Thanks for understanding what I was trying to say.
I'm curious what the cost would be of implementing generics by having an (implicit) parameter for the element size. It would certainly be a bit slower than the fully specialized version, but it avoids boxing and doesn't duplicate code.
The other benefit of defining the endpoint in the resource is that you can send the request somewhere else. Sharding your API, so to speak.
With any deep color get that paint & primer in one stuff at Home Depot. I'm no pitchman but it's saved me a lot of time & money.
This module is intended specially for spiders to be able to see something of what the rendered page would look like. That provides an SEO stop gap, but it does not have any effect on regular users. Server-side rendering the first request greatly decreases the first page load time, which is typically extremely slow for complex client-only web apps.
Microsoft Launches Crowdfunding Method to Help Students Buy PCs
You think we're going to be living into our 800s?
he he... i work in a zoo and while i don't have monkeys updating jobs (yet!) i have got some very non techie people creating and updating jobs in redmine... 'tis a wonderful thing.
I completely agree. I picked BitBucket initially because Mercurial was better supported in Windows.

I was even happier when they ported SourceTree to Windows. All I need now is the Mercurial support for it, so I can finally use a single client for both Git + Hg in Windows.
It is a curious thing that you object to this.

Are you not also being coerced to conform to virtually every other societal norm? Try walking out naked down the street in broad daylight. See if you're not jumped by the police. Try hunting some deer in the non-hunting season for food, -- because afterall you're hungry and the meat would do: you'll meet the heavy side of law.

You're seeing things from a libertarian-lens I think. Human society is built on a social contract, that pretty much basically boils down to an agreement of certain rules and guidelines so the collective fares better in the end. It's a thing to avoid a tragedy of the commons. We recognize that the unprivileged are not given the same opportunities as the privileged ones (their children are not going to schools where their peers are supportive/smart, they don't have the right role models, they don't have access to the same resources), and we decide that it is only fair that they receive a little help from the privileged. You can choose to stop paying taxes and in the end be left with a deteriorating society with unable customers... but you don't want that do you? What is so hard to understand about this?
You might be a social entrepreneur, without even knowing it.
They probably have a lot more money to do OMGPOP2 now. Like how Google bought Dodgeball just to have the founder leave and create Foursquare.
Fake shop fronts used to make towns seem neater for G8
Xnav, eye free input device reimplemented on iphone [video]
The Dishwasher 2 hacked for PC — and the developer’s mostly OK with it
You think we're going to live 10x longer than our parents, but without some kind of singularity/mind-in-a-computer thing? So you think we're biologically going to live to ~800?
Since fusion is a nuclear process and Hydrogen (and all heavier elements) can undergo fusion reactions, probably any nucleus with a massnumber of 0.
This is actually very close to Brisbane, one of Australia's largest cities.

Area info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Stradbroke_Island

Google satellite @ http://goo.gl/maps/k9imm
Hosted CI WWDC meet-up – discuss continuos integration for iOS and Mac
Older iPhones could soon be illegal due to Samsung patent
Wouldn't it better if salaries & years of experience paired? Salaries alone tell only part of the story. Even better, one can add technology stack to get more insight. Thanks.
Are you criticizing a paper you have never read because of its ignoring of a facet of a possible dataset that you are not certain they have used and admittedly have no idea that if they used it, that facet was ignored?
On FreeBSD you are probably better off using geli instead of gdbe. Geli supports both XTS and CBC (similar to ESSIV) modes, features data authentication, and can operate on the root file system. I've used it to encrypt both UFS2 file systems and ZFS pools (see https://web.irtnog.org/~xenophon/blog for my notes on combining ZFS and geli).
Pipe App Finally Brings File Transfer to Facebook
We're open to international candidates who are seriously open to relocating to SF :)
Er, sorry, the old one is called gbde. My fingers must be hardwired for "gdb". ;-)
After looking at their FAQ [1], yes they actually do collect mail. My initial thought was that they way to achieve this at a lower cost would be to redirect all mail direct to this company, who could then receive all customers' mail at one central office/warehouse which would lower staff costs massively.

I don't know if mail redirection is possible or easy to set-up in the US, but it is in the UK - although I just checked prices, and that alone would cost $6.40/month for each customer. [2]

> These people most likely scan mail at their homes using a scanner provided by Outbox.

If their FAQ is truthful, they will bring all mail back with them - as it says you won't get mail delivered unless you specifically request an item. Maybe they have clever machines to speed through the process of opening/scanning/filing? At the very least, this means drivers can just rush round collecting items, and the opening/scanning process can then be streamlined back at HQ.

[1] http://help.outboxmail.com/customer/portal/articles/984656-h...

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZGsrC9z...