skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do wonder what is going on with Amazon shipping. For my orders over the last year, by far the longest time is spent not shipping. The status will say "shipping now" for several days. Once actually in package service it is quick. I use the "free" shipping.

I'd guess that they process Prime members shipping before the free shipping. And I'd suspect some of the waiting is time to ship from the manufacturers to Amazon's warehouses. I also wonder if they transfer long tail items between warehouses to consolidate orders. There is speculation that Amazon intentionally delays free shipping orders to push people towards Prime. Maybe they just have capacity problems?

By comparison with other vendors like Walmart I usually see shipping in less than 24 hours.

Amazon forum complaining about slow shipping, people getting Prime stuff a lot faster, no response from Amazon people:

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Slow-Shipping/forum/Fx4HQD057HT5...

Giving credit to Prime members to accept slower shipping:

http://www.geek.com/news/amazon-prime-customers-receiving-cr...

Another random example complaint:

http://www.pissedconsumer.com/reviews-by-company/amazon/very...
> Every thing I wrote there is actual history.

The one thing I see that is an easily verifiable fact claim in your post, to wit, "the DHS was built to encapsulate all intel services under one branch, and under one puppet of the CIA cabal," is clearly false, since:

* At the time DHS was formed in 2002, all intel services were (as members of the "US intelligence community"), already had a single head, the Director of Central Intelligence. This did not change with the formation of DHS.

* Both before and after the formation of DHS, the agencies making up the US intelligence community were scattered among numerous cabinet level departments (in the post-DHS-formation period, this includes the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Energy, Justice, and Treasury), plus the CIA (which is not part of any department.)

* After the formation of DHS, in 2005, the DCI's role as head of the Intelligence Community was shifted to the newly created positon of the Direct of National Intelligence (DNI), a position separate from the leadership of any particular Intelligence Community member like the CIA.
This article is totally off base. The best Android experience you will can currently have is using a Samsung Galaxy S4 (Google Play OR Samsung Edition). I know this is just an opinion but it is widely held in the Android community. I haven't had personal experience but I believe the HTC One and the Note 2 are also generally considered better experiences than the N4 as well. Another issue is that Verizon has essentially made it impossible to have a true "Nexus" experience with a phone on their network. So this article doesn't even apply to the largest US carrier. And finally, I believe the Android market share is around 80%.
1)Yep, they have a key partnership with 7/11 among others.

2) They bought Kiva robotics a while back

3) I've seen those lending offers for some time now, they are pushing them to sellers based on business internals as you've mentioned.
The all day (perhaps even multi-day) technical screening, covering data structures and algorithms, threading, sql, database transactions and locking, and often a few branches of math, getting shuttled from interviewer to interviewer for a fresh grilling.

I don't like this, and I don't consider it a good use of anyone's time, but the deal killer is the "homework assignment", which forces me to spend 4-8 hours but allows them to screen me out in 15 minutes if they don't like my code.

As my high school history teacher said to a class of unmotivated late second semester seniors - "I'm not going to waste my time on you if you won't waste your time on me."
No more that dealing with recruiters who don't know how and who really recruit (aka without any modern technology knowledge)
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Do you not beleive the Germans are in on it?
US targets lie-detector coaches following Edward Snowden affair
And the moment you enter the world of main stream media.
This topic vanish into thin air and does not exist at all.

As many respectable people said so far all western countries are in a post democratic state.
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You get a progress meter when you're pushing data, like uploading a file. And that makes perfect sense. Use a progress meter here, it makes sense.

This is totally different. It's explicitly saying that it might be used with pjax or turbolinks. I don't think there's a way to accurately determine progress information for one of these, the best you can do is use historical data and guess. In this case I think using a progress meter is a bad pattern.
It seems strange to estimate when you could download Wikipedia's database dump, reformat the content in the same style as the Encyclopedia Britannica, and count how many pages/volumes you end up with.
We don't operate out of big warehouses, so we don't have these costs. It's a totally different model.
Regalli's not a bad idea - you go into any of the hispanic neighborhoods in New York and there are wire transfer locations all over the place. They're something like 2% of Mexico's GDP. Major, major demand.
Dropbox contact info
Hi,

I'm trying to get in touch with an account manager or the billing dept at dropbox.

We've had a former employee lock us out of a dropbox for business account.

I've had no luck getting anyone there to help at all. the only phone number I found was sales, and they had no idea how to contact any account managers or the billing dept.

The only response i've gotten via email are canned responses.

Anyone have any ideas?
The model S starts at $62,400 USD [2] (64814.88 CAD right now) [3]

I can count 18 BWM models more expensive than the model S and 14 that are less expensive [1].

1. http://www.bmw.ca/ca/en/newvehicles/configurator/configurato...
2. https://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/own#/model-x
3. https://www.google.ca/search?q=62,400+USD+to+CAD
David Miranda lawyers’ letter to the Home Office
The introduction in the documentation implicitly answers this question: http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.1-0/manual/introducti...

In short, they are looking to be the go-to language for scientific and high performance computing. Programmers in that domain will have some expectations, and S-expressions are not it. They also consciously mimicked Matlab's syntax.
Well, a wide adoption of this pattern would be quite a big change. And all the big changes are met with negativity/criticism, usually.

While negativity might be discouraging and sometimes might cross the line of a constructive discussion, at the same time it gives some food for thoughts. In this particular case, it gave me more to think about rather than 'looks nice'. So did this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6143604
And who enforces the value of Gold, or Silver, or Bitcoin? And why is it impossible to enforce property rights without a monopolistic protection service, which is government police force?

>Why do you believe the entire society you know and like will run with government cut out?

Why do you believe the demand for safety, property rights and anything else government currently provides, would vanish in the absence of government? And why do you believe the market cannot satisfy this demand?
Ach, go on, a quick elevator pitch won't hurt! I had the same question.
Similarly, there might be a good reason YouTube is still using them? As with all things, the pattern may or may not apply to any particular app or implementation.

That said, I'm not in love with them on YouTube. They always catch my eye for just a moment after they're done loading about halfway, and makes me crazy.
I'm long on Chile and Peru as well. Argentina, not so much.
Agreed. Not to put to fine a point on it, but if your user is on iOS or OS X, they are accustomed to losing sight of their progress because, as the article says, "Apple knows best."

Going out of your way as a content author to correct for the user interface quirks of the reader's preferred reading environment seems extraordinary and unnecessary.

Presumably a non-trivial number of iOS and OS X users actually like the fact that scrollbars are hidden from view while reading and it may have been a factor (a small one, admittedly) in their decision process.

I agree with the OP in large measure.
> a battery management system that surpasses just about everything else on the current market

In what way is it better?
Most people aren't aware that police are already surreptitiously downloading the entire contents of smartphones during routine traffic stops.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/michigan-state-po...
I love that every app is labeled "It's (insert other app) for (insert what is does)." Example: YAMMER FOR MOBILE WORKFORCE, Mint.com for legal spend, CLICKTALE FOR MOBILE, YELP FOR LATIN AMERICA.

UGH!!
I don't know that cars in the US necessarily have softer suspension than their European counterparts, but I can attest to the fact that it is not due to the rural population. Much of the rural population will be driving pickup trucks or truck-based SUVs, which have much stiffer suspension than a normal car.

I know that older Cadillac models would have very soft suspension (that's why people refer to them as boats, they take bumps like they were riding waves). I can't attest to that being a factor in any higher incidence of rollovers. If there was in fact a higher percentage of rollover accidents in the US, I would put more money on this being due to the fact that the US really likes truck-based SUVs (Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Wrangler, Chevy Blazer/Tahoe, Toyota 4Runner, etc) with lots of weight really high up. My 1998 4Runner even had a warning sticker saying you can't corner like you would in a car without risk of rollover.

In short, people buy cars they don't know how to drive.
Yeah, it's becoming really hard to use other places, even my use of Newegg has started to be pared back due to how great Amazon is.

For instance, I ordered a new monitor a couple of weeks ago. On the day it was delivered I noticed that Amazon had the monitor for $20 cheaper. So, I opened a chat window with a service rep basically saying "Hey, can I get that $20 back?" and a few minutes later I get "Sure, you should see the credit show up in a couple of days."

I mean, it's that type of interaction that makes it really hard to use other retailers.
Man who hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook account gets cash reward
Why would you need a PHP version? If you like this idea, just use this and consume the services with your PHP front end.
Property rights are enforced through violence, ultimately. Whatever group provides the property rights is a government. To govern is to create rights, to create rights is to govern. Even if it's you with a shotgun next to your nation state of a cabin in the woods.
Terminology correction:

This person is a JV Broker, not an Affiliate Manager. An affiliate manager recruits new affiliates, communicates and motivates your current ones, etc. A broker connects you with their network.

Another question to ask, is if they have any success stories that would merit a 50% cut. If they are cutting their teeth on you, you shouldn't be paying premium rates.
I absolutely hate this shitty type of journalism. Not only is the implication that this would directly kill a young man absolutely false - it is also disrespectful both to the deceased and to his family to turn what would otherwise be a normal death (most likely caused by a seizure) into a political spectacle just to deplore banks.

The lengths we go to promote our own political agendas is sickening.

My condolences to the family.
One of the problems with your business appears to be your belief that information asymmetry is a problem for investors. It is not. In fact, information asymmetry creates opportunity for venture firms. If all firms had the same information about the same startups at roughly the same time, it would be much harder to identify attractive investments before competing firms, and competition for deals would be even fiercer than it already is.

There's a reason that so many tech-focused venture firms are located in Silicon Valley. It makes it easier for partners, associates and analysts to hit the pavement and keep their ears to the ground. Why do they want to do this? One of the big reasons: to obtain meaningful information about potential investment opportunities before (hopefully) it becomes widely known. This is particularly valuable in the context of early-stage investments.

If, for the sake of argument, we assume that Mattermark has actually developed a model that can identify promising startups that aren't getting the attention they deserve, you're destroying the value of that model by selling its output to anybody willing to shell out a paltry $6,000/year for your pro service.
There are step functions that allow you to approximate it or increment it gradually. I might not know how long an individual step in a process will take, but if I know how many steps there are, I can know approximately how much to increment on the completion of each.

This doesn't suit all usage patterns (like file downloading where you don't know the file size), but I can think of at least a dozen scenarios in which this is perfectly suitable (even if I don't personally love the effect).
Agreed! OS X users can choose when to show a scrollbar: it's one of the 'General' system preferences.

Reimplementing the scrollbar for users who have not taken the option to show the scrollbar is deliberately going against their stated preference.
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Crowd-funding campaign offers all of its customized source code for a fraction of the build cost. The Recovery Pledge team is out of Pasadena building a social enterprise platform to facilitate disaster recovery.
Seniors as an emerging market? Interesting that there's companies intentionally targeting seniors - Amulyte, True Link and even arguably Soundfocus.
Ironically, Microsoft eventually got sued by employees a couple of times, cleaned up their "HR initiatives", and are now generally known as a fairly nice place to work, even when they're not cutting-edge.
And you have no control over ClickBank affiliates. Everyone is in. If he has contacts, you might want to run your own program where you can let only the selected contacts in.
Well damn, nothing on my Bitbucket profile can be weaponized!
Sigh.

My office plays League of Legends regularly. It's quite a fun game. This, however, isn't fun at all.

Is it just a fact of doing business in the modern internet age that everyone can and will eventually be pwned?

The best part of this is that it's obviously some legacy system that wasn't properly decommissioned. Think about it, the records haven't been in use for 2+ years? Sounds weird, right?

Remember, if it's on the network somebody can get to it and just because you don't use it anymore doesn't mean you can just stop patching the boxen :(.
It seems to be the best way to get new ideas across to people. How would you describe them in a clearer way that as many people would understand?
The market doesn't exist without property titles.
You're dead on with both points, though I think it's the second one that's just way too important to forget.

Many years ago, my grandfather started selling cemetery property and later worked his way up to the point where he was able to buy a small cemetery himself and grow a company from there slaving away with his brother. Until the day he died, he never really stopped. The company's still in the family, and I love to talk to my dad and one of my uncles in particular about some of the stories from back when.

The really impressive part (IMO), and the one you made me think of, is how they all grew up working outside in the heat and the rain and the cold and everything in maintenance. Some of the stories are really just amazing to hear, and absolutely helped them better understand every facet of the business. But when I hear them the talk, there's a fondness of those memories and the sweat that made them that's just really hard to not be a little in awe of. In some ways, I think they enjoy them more than even things like a road trip to Disneyland. It's no wonder I got to do the same thing as a teenager :D.

Anyhow, who knows, when you find yourself sweeping the floor you might just find you enjoy it more than you'd think when it's all said and done.
I can't help to feel quite disappointed about the lack of integrity in modern media.
It used to be the tool with which governments were torn down with, and ruthlessly skinning the politics to the bone.

Nowadays, it's more of a indirectly controlled propaganda machine, only with an interest in bottom-line profit, and pleasing the people above you.

The HBO tv-series 'The Newsroom' seems incredibly accurate, and relevant to the lacking quality of the media. To the point where i'd wish Will McAvoy was real.
It was a coup. Who was the first head of DHS? Where did he come from? Who put him there? Why?

It goes all the way back to his role in 'Nam and who he worked for there...

Once they setup the structure, with the DHS, then later creating the DNI - they created a separate entity that serves the goals of the cabal, Carlye is just a main face of that.

It was all about creating a structure that put true power in the hands of something outside the previous branches.
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The point is, that when it's me with a shotgun or a hired private protection agency, we enforce property rights at the expense of property owners. When it's government, it takes someone else's money by force to provide this service. Thus, with government, you have double violence and a lot less accountability, because you simply can't stop paying if you dislike the service.
Amusingly enough I read something not too long about about how if someone falls asleep during a meeting or at work (in Japan) it is respected because it is assumed they fell asleep through overworking.
I hate the Google News custom scrollbar also, but I don't want my scrollbar to hide, let my browser present the scrollbar, or better yet, my OS. Don't give me something new just because you don't like the look of the scrollbars on your page. Deal with it.
Especially since NiceScroll isn't very nice. The scrolling is jerky. Leave the OS defaults for scrolling. On OS X, there is an option to keep the scrollbar always visible, and the OS itself decides to do this if you don't have an input device capable of scrolling. Some janky 3rd party scroll library isn't going to know any of this information.
I ran a Postfix/Dovecot setup for years and they were both fast, reliable, lightweight, and very flexible. The #dovecot and #postfix channels on Freenode are also tremendously helpful if you are in a pickle. (Full disclosure, I don't run my own mail server anymore except for a few virtual aliases; a good webmail client was the weak link in the chain and Fastmail provides a reliable service with a phenomenal web client at a fair price).
Lavabit had a similar architecture, only with the password could the server-side email be unencrypted. Although we don't know for sure, it appears that the government insisted that they trojan their client side code to retrieve the password.

Your secret sauce, if I understand it correctly, is open sourcing the client side code and providing some mechanisms to assure end users that what they are executing matches the publically published code.

That makes sense to me, but I don't see why you wouldn't go one step further and store the secret key in the browser plug-in. Is it an multiple-installation issue?
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His point seems to be that Google engineers are not getting the same experience as their customers, and that could mislead them.

The same thing occurs in general software development. The developers will often have more and larger screens, faster computers, more memory, storage, faster networking etc than their average customer. And that can lead to a worse than expected experience for their customers.

The poster could explore what Google can do about it. One obvious thing is to make stock Android that much "better" so that consumers seek it out, or at least prod vendors to keep up. The other is to make Android upgradable to the current/best version - a choice Google did not make except for very limited areas (play store and services).
The augmented reality glasses (Meta) sound very interesting - picking up where Google fell flat.
Ask HN: Fully managed blogging platform w/ support for SSL/TLS & custom domain?
Hello dear HN fellows. I'm looking for a blogging platform that lets me use a custom domain and serve the blog over SSL/TLS. As far as I understand none of the major platforms support this :/

* Wordpress.com (custom domain, no SSL)
* Tumblr (custom domain, no SSL)
* SquareSpace (custom domain, SSL only on store/checkout pages)
* Blogger (custom domain, no SSL)
* Medium (no custom domain, SSL)

Did I miss something? Is DIY the only way right now? I'm willing to pay, but there is no one to take my money?
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> First off, I wouldn't call that "Easy" code, or an "Easy" solution if that it is untested? More like a hypotheses. Secondly, I don't think that is a good alternative solution at all. That seems like a very messy way to handle the indication by changing the size of the scrollbar based on user triggered events.

It's not exactly untested, there are lots of sites that wait to load in comments via AJAX until the user has scrolled down to the comment section. Many simply hide comments until the user clicks "show comments". Both are valid alternate solutions to the initial counterpoint ("what about the comments section!!!").
I've thought about the idea Butter Systems does countless times while eating out. Very cool if it works out. If flexible WIFI-enabled electronic-paper ever comes to fruition, you could make authentic paper-like menus that are interactive. I think that's still 10-20 years out there.
I find these fake progress bars a borderline-dark pattern: in general, the goal is to deceive users into waiting for progress that isn't truly happening, with the goal of holding their eyeballs.
It's that time of the year again, where you have several minor heart attacks reading through the list of start-ups that might just be one you're about to launch.

On a another note, I have to say one that really stands out to me is True Link. The old-people credit card, my grandad has almost fallen for online scams before and I think all would happily get our grandparents this peace of mind. Brilliant idea that one.
A first cut to the About section has been added, FYI!

http://notezilla.io/about

Cheers
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You seem to be conflating two different discussions.

The OP is not talking about the progress bar as an indicator of page loading, like the other discussions on HN recently. Instead, he was mentioning someone's suggestion that it be used like a scroll bar to mimic the progress of scrolling down the page.
Yes, indeed. Discussing what I was doing with rust-http in #rust is what got erickt to update that to the current state of Rust development.

I would not be using the Mongrel spec directly for licensing reasons. I want the entire thing to be MIT + AL2. I don't know if it ends up the most efficient. I'll see when I get to experimenting around that.