skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm. I've spent more time thinking about the ethics of recurring billing than the effectiveness of recurring billing; The big problem I have with recurring billing is that recurring billing tends to capture money from the 'I forgot about it' customers... users have to take an action to cancel the account. Especially for small-dollar items, a recurring charge can go for months unnoticed.

I don't feel good about 'capturing value' from users who forgot to cancel... but the alternative (what I'm doing) is to make them take a positive action every renewal. (In my case, the account auto-renews, but it sends the user a bill that they have to actively pay; if they don't pay, the account goes away.)

Now, some people do prefer the 'bill me every month without asking' model... but I think the right thing to do is to make this an option; one option where the account will expire if the user doesn't take positive action to renew the account, and another option to automatically continue billing until the user asks to stop.

I don't know if many others feel this way, but as a user of subscription services, this is something I think about. I know that I'm probably going to forget to cancel, and that canceling is often difficult, so generally I consider services that don't autorenew to be much 'cheaper' even if they are the same price in terms of dollars.
Is it even a warrant? A warrant authorizes law enforcement to search a person/place/thing for evidence. A discovery order is a demand for a specific piece of evidence. Nobody is "searching"; the court knows exactly what it wants --- the whole hard drive image.

Remember in the Netscape vs. Microsoft case, when the contents of Jamie Zawinsky's "Really Bad Ideas" mailing list were released? That was because of a discovery order demanding Netscape's email spools.

It's for exactly this reason that large companies have specific policies about document retention.
Interesting, was going to say basically the same thing. At what point do we start designing RNA with a delivery mechanism that attaches itself to a specific bacterial type and eliminates it?
Yahoo acquires enhanced image recognition company
Yahoo Acquires LookFlow, an image recognition company to Improve Flickr Discovery

mashable.com/2013/10/23/yahoo-acquires-lookflow-flickr/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-bus-link
Pixelmator is great (and I've bought it long ago), but I still have just one simple feature request:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GwKIsQX...
Anecdotally I've seen more well established companies looking for investment move entire floors of people into another floor for 6-7 hours to give the appearance of busy hardworking w/e

I remember that we didn't even plug the phones in.

these people were being paid £55k (a lot) each, to basically look pretty.

seems like a massive waste of man hours to me- but, I suppose I'm a sysadmin not a sales/CEO
I am trying to find a way to reconcile two realities. On one hand, whenever I encounter books or articles on language legalese (particularly in C and C++), it is always immediately apparent that I'm somewhat out of my depth, despite programming in C and C++ for 20 years. I can follow the reasoning, but I almost never spot the finer problems myself.

On the other hand, I can and have written large, complex games that run well and appear to be just fine from the user's point of view. I can seemingly write reams of code without ever thinking of such issues, except when they trip up the compiler or cause detectable bugs. I find I very, very seldom need to think of the lawyerly issues at work, or in personal projects, and to my knowledge, nobody has suffered materially for it. (Granted, I am writing games and not NASA software.)

Whenever these types of issues come up, I always think: "Wow, I know less than I thought. This seems serious?" And yet I never seem to see real-world consequences. This seems strange to me.
Comparing sales/marketing spending and product dev cost of public SaaS companies
It seems serf and etcd are both trying to solve service discovery but are attacking it using different approaches. Which is pretty cool!

Serf looks to be eventually consistent and event driven. So you can figure out who is up and send events to members. This gives you a lot of utility for the use cases of propagating information to DNS, load balancers, etc.

But, you couldn't use serf for something like master election or locks and would need etcd or Zookeeper for that. Serf and etcd aren't mutually exclusive systems in any sense just solving different problems in different ways.

They have a nice write-up on the page here: http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-zookeeper.html
Flat progress bar (pie chart)
Me too reply...

Don't get cute and always prefer to explicitly state in code what you get for free implicitly. The maintenance guy that follows behind you will be the one to espouse how clever you actually are. That's how I mentor junior engineers as a general rule.
Looks nice, but no thanks. I think I will stick with GIMP (it's free!)
Exactly. Those are two specific things that needed to be eliminated. Climate change deals with a lot of bad actors, and a very broad category of changes.
This might be a little unclear, but if you check the documentation for agent configuration (http://www.serfdom.io/docs/agent/options.html), there is an option to provide a role. The role is the metadata support currently
Tesla's supercharging stations charge at 135kW 400V DC, recharging >50% of a 85kWH battery in 30 minutes. The power is delivered from a large (>300kWH) battery pack installed in the charging station, which is continously trickle-charged from the grid. There will also be swap stations implemented, swapping out the entire 85kWH battery pack in 2 minutes.

This is largely a solved problem, both from the sides of technology and deployment. It's just that public perception hasn't caught up yet. Give it 5 years and just about everyone will want one of these cars. For everyday use you won't even need the quick-charge capability.
Could we not move forward without changing the namespace. Serious question.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the obvious thing, which is that you'd end up in prison. The DEA might ignore small shops in CO and WA but not a nationally known internet startup.
It's pretty much free, if you don't mind the nag dialogs. And it's well worth the money - finally, who cares if it's open source? You can build anything you need on top of it. Maybe it doesn't satisfy some lofty "open-source" philosophy, but for practical purposes, who cares?
Wayfair - One of the Quietest Companies in Boston Also Potentially Its Biggest?
"straight to the Apple Mail app on your iPhone."
"all in the iPhone Mail app you already use everyday."

My iPhone? The wording is a tad presumptuous, especially considering that the majority of smart phones do not use an iPhone.
Maybe if there's a process for a pull-request like feature, similar to github, but what a company thinks is newsworthy may not be, or it may be newsworthy for a different reason than the company thinks it is, like a product that exploded on the launch day.
Yeah, it's still a superiority insult.

I think I've been prescribed antibiotics for an obviously viral infection one time in my adult life. I can count the number of times (in my late 30s) that I've been prescribed antibiotics as an adult on one hand.

When you factor in that people just don't go to Dr's all that often in the US, especially the poor, I'd need to see some actual data before I believe this is a grossly American problem. Because given other factors, you'd be forgiven for thinking something doesn't add up with that characterization.

I would for example, imagine it's much more of an issue in the UK with people having cheap convenient access to the NHS.

In the US I'd have to find a Dr, and if I'm uninsured that means spending a half-day at the ER, and then I'd have to take that Rx to a Pharmacy, who's going to offer me a generic at an uninsured price that's probably somewhere around my grocery budget.

If it's an issue at all (comparable to countries with socialized medicine) in the US it would almost have to be an exclusively middle to upper class behavior.

That's a good deal of the population that just doesn't play the game.

Honestly, framing this as a Stupid Fat American problem reads like "Are Antibiotics Going to Kill Your Children?!? Find out tonight on XYZ News at 6PM!!!". Those stories are definitely out there and pretty pervasive. It would be pretty ironic if Geeks with Superiority Complexes were being feed their dogma by "common knowledge" based on soundbites from the nightly news...

Not to dismiss this as a problem. But insulting people (even comparably low quality-of-life Americans) doesn't get us any closer to a solution. And blaming those people, already stretched thin by work hours, insurance costs (if they even have it), day care, trying to ensure they get to sit down for a family dinner, go to work sick so they can afford the time off for a family vacation that they're the problem because they're just dumb Americans is... It's to express in words how petty and mean spirited that comes off as.
I very rarely have much trouble finding bugs that I made myself. The hardest bugs are the ones somebody else had a hand in. I'm sure everyone wishes they could force their coworkers to be more careful. :)
Yeah, this sentence jumped out at me: (Conveniently, lots of people seem to miss/ignore the “Your trial is expiring and credit card will be billed” emails, but no one ever misses the “Billing receipt” emails that come a few days later!)

But of course, people are missing the billing receipt emails!
Oh...

I'm much more of a LinkedIn fan than most here, and this sounded cool based on the blog post, but there's no way I'm going to let them have my email account credentials (or all of my email).
Spartan (or leather) have a place. User Experience is what matters and flat design often increases the cognitive load as we try to figure things out. There's a lot of figuring out in Mavericks's UI, but I believe those things will get fixed over time. Maverick's is not flat (yet) but as long as it's not, I'm a user.
Sounds boring unless you're prepared to do the illegal stuff, and then that introduces its own problems.
Regulation. In a true "free-market" system, like we would have if the HN Libertarians were in charge, running a business of this type would be much easier and more profitable. In Colorado, for example, the only reason they have recently "legalized it" is to tax the hell out of the sale of marijuana. The licenses to run a weed-selling business are expensive and almost impossible to get, the taxes you pay on each sale are the highest of anything in the state (more than gas, cigarettes, ect...), and they have crazy regulations regarding the way you are allowed to acquire inventory (the majority of your inventory must be home-grown, all your workers documented and screened, grow-space must be separate from retail space, ect...)

Selling weed legally is a logistical nightmare. Not worth it, in my opinion.
Upgraded Raspberry Pi cluster
Merkel Calls Obama After Finding out US May Have Spied on Her Mobile Phone
Brazil's Vivo launches phones with Firefox OS
Show HN: We created an Android app to find parking spots easily
I believe you’re confusing updates and upgrades. Apple OS updates have always been free. Also, the Mac OS X 10.1 upgrade was free.
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I don't know why it is. A spark-like graph is useful for many use-cases (graph or bars? plot this, draw lines), and even more a thermometer-like icon (weather, medicine.) The thermometer has been hanging around the issues for a while also (or so I think from last time I checked.) I'd like to have all my icons in one basket, and I like the look of Font Awesome's. So missing these 2 is a little aesthetic pain.
Reminds me of older people who aren't keen on modern technology, coming up to me and asking if my Windows Phone or Android phone is "one of dem new eye-phones!?".

Edit: It's been a couple years.
For anyone who is curious, here's a link to the (585 page!) PDF of the SEC's proposed rules: http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2013/33-9470.pdf
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Is it worth moving from AWS to Azure cloud?
We have got good discounts on Azure cloud, wanted to check is it worth moving away from AWS. We are very happy with AWS but it is definitely expensive.

If anyone has used Azure cloud, pl suggest if it is worth moving to Azure. Hope for saving few pennies we jeopardize our running business.

Any suggestions, pl share your experience
Sweet. I actually just arrived in Berlin today, starting as a product designer for EyeQuant tomorrow. Looking forward to this. Any designers in Berlin here that wants to grab a coffee?
I've found it in their forum. We'll have more to say about 16-bit support later this year when the new Mac Pro is out.
That number is a little bit misleading. First, because it's a rather concise guide (there's only 120 pages), and second, because that time was actually spread out across about double that number of weeks, including weekends. Additionally, it's a topic that's near and dear to my heart so I was pretty familiar with what I wanted to cover.

I tried to stick with 500 words per day when I was actively writing and a chapter a day when I was actively editing, but that 150 hours also includes quite a bit of time working on the example application.
Elon Musk in München
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Hmm. But then, as an American, does that mean I shouldn't let the bad things my government does bother me except inasmuch as it affects myself?
The shower epiphany
It was cloudbees, pre-acquisition by CollabNet. They hosted the subversion repository and provided file space, paid for by his credit card.
Could New York City Subways Survive Another Hurricane?
T-Mobile makes free tablet data offer: 200MB monthly for the life of your device
Frankly, this is how command line interfaces should be created: https://github.com/docopt/docopt

If only it would be ported to more languages...
Thanks for the link. I've always suspected that energy density was a problem, but never investigated it.
The Agony and Ecstasy of Building with Data
Wait, how did one even use Keynote at all if it didn't support full screen presentations?
Can I use the SMS API with this free trial?
Just a nit pick on the word experience. Experience is ephemeral. It has no link to the tangible thing that we're buying. The experience is the result, but I disagree that we can take the abstraction that far. A movie theater sells an experience. An app developer sells an experience. Apple sells devices.

When I say device, I mean the totality of the hardware, the operating system, and the core apps. This, to me, is the atomic unit of a product that Apple has packaged. To go the step further to "experience" is too broad.
No, they were changed for performance reasons which is a needed and important improvement:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568
You just made one. An unfounded one because you pulled the numbers out of your ass, but you're making the claim that the utility provided by security theater is outweighed by the disutility it creates. So, less ass-pull, more numbers.
Built a custom analytics tool around Keen.io. Fast and reliable. Good docs. Good support. Looks to be steadily improving too.

Glad to hear they are being rewarded for the good work!
I was so excited about this until I realized that. Not sure if I want to give them all my credentials...
Either I'm misreading your comment (entirely plausible), or you're misreading the article. I read that as a snarky way of saying that people aren't really missing the "expiration" emails, they're just too lazy to do anything about it.
Short term: Assuming it can scale, and that many of the problems result from various timeouts (e.g. I recall one report on a 5 - 7 second timeout for a IRS data request), then throw hardware at it. Get out the checkbook, call up Amazon, or whomever, get them to physically segregate a collection of machines, and ramp up.

Long term: Take it in-house. Enough of this contractor bullshit. The Government is known to have some effective auditing agencies. Turn them loose on the resulting program.

Also: First make it work. Then make it pretty. What are the American people most going to notice? Whether it fucking works.
that was my headline:

"T-Mobile to Offer Free Data Service for Tablets with LTE"

or

"Buy the new iPad Mini retina or iPad Air from T-Mobile, get 200MB of free data every month"
This is a competitor to Twilio, yes?
I mean...Mailbox has done just fine, and that is siloed to both iPhone and Gmail.

Now, Mailbox <-> LinkedIn Intro integration would be fantastic...and they wouldn't even (hopefully) have to go through an email proxy (in lieu of true integration w Mailbox)
This may cause confusion with the Snap Framework [1].

[1] http://snapframework.com/
> Bacteria don't desire anything, and they don't seek out anything or plan anything.

Bacteria are not fully understood and there are things such as Quorum Sensing which implies some method to the chaos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing
Great post. Did you do this in tandem with a full time job?

Also did you just stumble on the guy's request? Or were you looking.
Since the main goal seems to be node discovery, can you compare why I might want to use this in addition to Salt? I've found salt's node discovery and targeting tools fast and powerful.
Some services don't send invoices (which really, really bothers me. I don't want to remember that I'm paying for a service after looking through my AMEX statements.)

Others, like KissMetrics, sends you an email a few days before billing you... but their price points start in the 3-figures.

I think a policy of "We will bill you monthly and send you an invoice every time we bill you, and we'll always refund your last month's payment if you'd like" is best.
So if I'm reading you right, they are in full compliance of the improved GPL terms that don't apply in this case.

Meaning their noncompliance is an accident of history, not a violation of the spirit of the license.

In that case, I don't see why anyone should care.
I had the same experience. I have utmost respect for 42Floors and their mission to disrupt Commercial Real Estate, I work in commercial real estate development, and love the startup mentality.

That sounds to me like what they wanted, but got the big "Thanks but no thanks."

What are do you think they are looking for if not somebody who already works in commercial real estate and knows what they are signing up for? Any ideas? I would love to work for 42Floors but need some advice for getting in the door...
Yes, you can definitely do that. However, the your caller ID will be that of the phone number assigned to you. Upgraded accounts will have the ability to customize their caller ID.
> So is HN basically becoming Slashdot where Microsoft hate occurs by default?

Like Slashdot, HN is a diverse community of people who tend to have strong feelings about technology and tech companies, and negative views are naturally highly visible. So, yes, there's a subgroup from whom consistent Microsoft hate is to be expected, a subgroup from which consistent Google hate is to be expected (including at least two distinct smaller, overlapping subgroups -- one which will refer to NSA collaboration in every Google story, and one which will dismiss every Google story with a reference to the Reader shutdown), and on and on and on.
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The price difference between those two is massive though, if this is accurate: http://news.cnet.com/t-mobile-g1-details-price-and-launch-da...

$80 no contract vs $179 with two year contract.
OK, this belies my ignorant American self, but for some reason I got the idea in my head they were Greek and were based in Philadelphia....

Awesome to see indy Mac development in Lithuania...here's to them keeping it up. I haven't launched an Adobe product in years, in part thanks to them.
It seems to choke on this mess of a regex:

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
Show HN : A sequel for my weather app
The package documentation for the `serf` library[1] looks really exciting. I've been wanting to make a distributed file synchronization tool, and perhaps this would be an excellent library to build it on.

Question: as a relative networking idiot, how does NAT traversal fit into all of this?

[1] - http://godoc.org/github.com/hashicorp/serf/serf
OK, is pricing the same for sending SMS with the trial? Sorry I'm having a hard time figuring out what is free.
Yes. I should say that the law is specific for users of an interactive computer.

"arguing that only the originator of a defamatory statement published on the internet could be held liable.[4][9][10][11]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_v._Rosenthal
These two products are far from the only ones to use the name "Snap."
It's an interesting idea. I definitely like it -- excited to see if it works.
I always had the feeling that 9 out of 10 startups in Berlin are founded by business students from private universities like WHU.
Is this a misperception or is the hacker-businesspeople-ratio really better elsewhere?
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Thanks for the clarification. My experience with system level IO calls is limited. I formed my answer from my experience and the Bert Belder talk I linked to above. He actually describes libev as a wrapper around select, and says that select is slow but he does clarify in his slides that libev also uses epoll/kqueue, which I didn't notice until returning to the talk after your comment.
I'm not sure how prevalent your example is these days.

I have plenty of recent experience bringing kids to pediatricians, and they do not hand out antibiotics like popcorn.

They do lots of rapid in-office tests that detect strep, flu, swine flu, fungus etc. within minutes - so the diagnoses are much more accurate than in the past.
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Just make some types more expensive. Here's a study that was showing "You get what you pay for" essentially saying that when you pay more for a wine, you get more pleasure (than if you bought that same wine for cheaper).

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9849949-39.html
The Amazing Pokemon Mod for Minecraft
We have a comparison against Chef and Puppet, which may be relevant to Salt here: http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-chef-puppet.html. Not sure about Salt's search, but Serf is designed to run much more often than config management tools, and is able to handle topology changes in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Serf is also designed ground up to be fault tolerant, which is not usually a design goal of config management tools.
I don't know much about this type of software but one of the big new features they talk about on the linked page is Layer Styles.
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